Litchfield enquirer., 1829-06-11
GENERAL SUMMARY.

druggtst m NeW-EoFk of the name Of F. E. Par melee has committed fOrgeries to large amOun,-.C5 or &SO,OOO---and cleared out. The affair has prOdu- ced considerable excitement in the city. It is said, that previous to Gov. Houston leaving Nashville. he equipped himself in an LndiGn dress, and went away with the determination Ot assOca,inr 1 with and residing among the Iadians.
 One hundred and ten boats and IO6 rafs arrived .t EddysviIIe, by way of the Delaware and Hudson ca- nal, in the week ending May lS'h and large quanti- ties of coal are expected.
 AmiabLe LegisLGtiOn.--Att the last session of the A. labama Legislature eleven acts were passed granting divorces to married people who were too amiabe to live longer together. They ought to have made up the round dozen, and thus beat Rhode.Island a, this species of Legislation, which, believe at some of her late sessions only passed the meagre number of seven divorce laws. Quite triae.) As is, how. ever, these two states carry of all ,e honors O. mat, rimOnial legislation. They turn up clubs for .rumpu every hand. How delightful occupation it mus. be to listen to all the facts and handkerchief Gcc. which must be- detailed n supper, of the passage of such bills Thecost of this legisa- tion to the state of Alabama, is estimated at $l000 divorce. Probably few of the parties would consen, to marry again, if they received the thousand instead of the legislators.-C -COwr.
 An article in the last Nashville Republican, illus. trates in remarkable manner, dle progressive jun. provement and prosperity of that town. In 1909, a solitary barge of 60 tons and thirty five men, wound its "aboriOus way" up the Cumberland river, and arri. we'd at that place, to the joy and asonishment of che inhabitants. The people Aocked from all the adacen. parts of the country to "the barge." The impor tant event was formally announced in the newspapers and the whole country rang with the insegence..-. There are now ten steam boats, of them of ste largest class, employed in the Nashville trade In 1909, there but dray in the town. They have now sixty.-Nikes.
 R. H. Mahon, postmaster of Tennessee, who was sentenced to ten years imprisonment some time since, for puroining the contents of letter which passed through his hands, has been pardoned by presden, Jackson.
 "A second edition" of Rowland Stephenson, an ab- sconding creditor an English spcculator in corn, is thought to have arrived tn the United States. We wish ha, Mr. Bull would keep all such folks at hsc
 Aman i" Plymouth Mass. lately obtained five dol. lars damages from another for sander the defen dan. having accused him offorgery and the same term of the court, the sIanderer obtained four hundred dollars of the slandered for an assault.
 Lieut.. Buford, of the United States typographical engineers. has arrived St. Louis from survey of the Rock River, and Des MonteS rapids and reports favOuraby of the practcablty of removing these ol sracons to the navigation of the Upper Mississippi
 During a shower on Sunday morning, several eels fell to the earth few rods north of Capital Hl ma. king impression in the mud where they lighted which very plainly indicated the great degree of momentum they had accquired m their descehs. They were oi various sizes. generally from foot to foot and hall in length and when we saw them few minutes after they had fallen, were lively, and twisted theseyes into as many different pastures, # they had jus, been taken from the water. {. Maine Pasrios.
 The steam boat Independence lately made the pas. sage from Frenchtown to Baltimore, computed as 70 miles, in three hours and halE
 At ladies fair, lately held in Roxbury, Mass five hundred tickets were sold at one shilling each. A. mong the wonders which the bright eyes accomplish ed. they induced one to pay ten dollars for slice ofcake, and another five for gingerbread heart
 The Apprentices library in N. Y. has 200O regular visitors, not of whom has been before the DO. lice for improper conduct.
 The Uleaveland paper states: that sl,a southern shore of Lake Erie has been continually wearing way for the last three years. The banks many pla ces including from five to ten twenty acrcs some times in the space of moment, break and slip, Ek, an avalanche, almost quite to level with the bes of the Lake. Fine farms are often materially dmin ished, and even towns situate directly on the lake ar, l endangered.
 Letters from Ireland state that she passage Of th, Emancipation bil would tend materially to checl emigration from that country.
 The hGt-trade, at New.York is said to amount (. about million and half of dollars year-a million of which is sent out of the city, and fairly sents 75OOOO dollars annually crsatsd though st great value in gold were digged out of mines ir Manhattan Island-f the hats are made thereon; and yields profit to the community than the whole trade oi that city to half the nations of Europe scich Courier.
 There are sirty Nans in the Georgetown Convent near Washington. They are schoolsd two da, ,s in the week m the art of making pits iarts puddings, Gc. besides French, music the guitar, and tO dance gracefully.
 Mr. GiImer of Georgia has resigned hisseat in Con. gress. It grew out of contest between him and the Governor as to the validity of hi. election. Ms. Gil- mer does not say he w again, but it seems prob l able he will.
 Touch of ahe Enblime. .-The following is literal copy oi a speech delivered at debating society, in one of the western towns of Pennsylvania. Corporal Tr;ss eloouence xaa m touch 10 ehie masferu;eee