The Litchfield County post., 1827-10-18

claim "a \ large share Of piety and religion, |
and vet no where is life and property more
iusec,,re dishonesty is the Characteristic Of
the man. and frailty of the woman. II is
most Ian,entable and certainly true, that the
religion Of Spain at the present moment ex-
lists more in show and ceremony, than in re-
alty-----in the churches, instead Of that
heartfelt devotion to the Creator, which by
the scripture we are taught to feel, and
instead Of a sermon teelning with moral
and religious precepts, all seems intended for
the purpose Of showing off priestlY power {"
the most advantage. Though hundreds are
seen to kneeI and to smite their breasts nthe
most fervent attitude when the ceremony is
finished they go off either to the tavern, or
seek some other amusement and their minds
are instantly abs|racted from all religious
thoughts. "a
The rich in Spain are almost ignorant Of
comforts. Injuries, and even Of what we call
necessities. The poor are miserable in the
extreme. Judge from the villages in the
interior you would suppose the people little
removed from the state Of savages. FIRE.
ouently upon the road where an isolated inn
is situated, Que bed serves for all the travellers
who may want to stay, and eating is accom-
plIshed much after the same manner, one
plate being all that is allowed for the whole
society. Such filth and uncleanliness prevail
as would rarely be found elsewhere; and as
this statement may be general. it is need
less to particulariZe- beds, rooms. passages
staircases, wearing apparel, and linen; among
the better sort of people alone does any
cleanliness exist in these respects. In a re-
ligious point Of view. all seems bigOtry and
Eanaticism---the treasury exhausted, the peO-
pie ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS commerce, ruin
ed cities and declining population; nation
which prides itself upon its chiyalrc feeling
and morality, is gradually becoming horde
of bigots, the chosen abiding place for the
robber and assassin, and the receptacle for
crime 10 all its varied form.
Repard of Ingenuty.--Mr. Thornton, of
the Patent Office Washington, relates the fol-
lowing anecdOte:
Mr. Gilbert Brewster a very ingenious artist
from Connecticut came to the patent office
about the middle of October, 1928, and re-
quested permission to examine the models
informed him they were deposited for public
inspection, and that he was at liberty to see
and examine them as often and as long as he
pleased. Instead Of spending few hours.
he visited them daily for about six weeks :;
then thanked me for the qualification he had
enjoyed, declaring them worth millions of dol
lars, or that they were of incalculable value to
real mechanic. He said he saw move
ments and combinations Of which before he
had no idea, and that he was now enabled so
to improve the spinning of wool, as to re-
duce the price of spinning from eight cents
to one cent per ID. He went away and re-
turned in about three months with two mo-
deIs, declaring on his return, that he had per-
fected what he had contemplated, and that
. he could then spin wool at lower price than
the English, who could not effect it less than
four cents per III. issued three patents
for his machines, and a gentleman who ac-
companed him from New York and ;Tho en-
gagged to buy these machines for manufac-
turing company in Connecticut, laid him
down ten thousand dollars in my presence
PGictucket Chron.
One of the most atrocous brutes we have
ever read of was Capt. James Burton, who
lately murdered his wife, and afterwards
himself, in Oldham county Kentucky. 1t is
stated that on the day in question. Mrs. Bur
ton, wished to go to Methodist meeting in
the neighborhood, when the captain forbade
il, drew "A knife g. threatened to DESTROY her
She retreated up stairs and he pursued, when
as an only resource, she jumped from a win.
dow-but most unfortunately broke her leg
and was unable further to retreat. The ruff.
fan then came down stairs and carried her
into the house, placed her upon bed, and
tied pocket handkerchief around the fiac-
tured leg. She begged him to go for ply
stefan declaring that ifhe did she would not tell
that he had been the cause of the misfortune.
He said he would "soon be doctor enough
for her;" and took his rifle and deliberately
shot her through the head Just above the
right eye. He then reloaded his gun and IT,
ed the trigger to the latch of the door and
fred with view of killing himself, but in
this he failed. He took another drink of
grog loaded his gun again, sat down on the
side of the bed where his bleeding wife was
gasping her lastplaced his gun between his
legs. and holding the muzzle little above his
left eye, he fred it off by placing one his toes
upon the trigger. All this was done in the
presence of several small children, both white
and black, the eldest of whom is about 10
or IL years of age, and the daughter of this
unfortunate man and woman, who is said to
relate the foregoing particulars of the affair.
NetC- York Statesman.
The editer of Rochester paper represents
Judge as "unboSoming his luminous and ca
pacious mind to jury" Verify, the learned
editor must suppose that his HOnOur's brains
lie very near his--st0mach. The editor
unquestionabiy had his minds eve llpOn the