Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-08-20

A newly made constable IN Nashville, Tenn. re.
Gently procured an entrance into a mans "caste,
to levy an execution by getting friend to rap at the
door just before the dawn, andwhen it was opened
gliding slightly in. An officer! shouted the old man
an officer responded the old woman and three strap
ping daughters, who bounced out Of bed, and Selling
each 6rebrand Rourished them about his whiskers.
Finding there was but one officer, they laid their
weapons aside and tumbled him out Of doors, neck
! and heels. The constable had them all up before the
Circuit Court after, when the judge decided that
an officer is authorized 10 enter house ut such
time, and in that manner, and IL he does, the inmates
may gently eject him.-Whg.
The Editors of the New-York Commercial Advert.
ser, call on their brethren, in Pennsylvania to aid in
reforming the name Mdnch Chunk. They state, on
the authority ola gentleman familiar with the subject,
that there such words or sounds as Mauch
Chunk, nor any analogous to them, in the Delaware,
any other Indian language. He believes the name
to have been originally AfoHg Chung, or the Bear
Mountain.
Goblet says that all North America does not con.
tain two hundred such unmannerly, greedy, and in-
decent brutes were assembled at the late dinner Of
the Westminster electors, where he pretty rough
" treated. He says-"T saw one fellow endeavorinr
to cut roast fowl asunder crosssoays, while another
had his fork stuck in his end ready take one o: the
halvcs.'
A wicked wag in the Boston Courier has anagram.
matized the name Of Anne Royal as follows" all
annoyer.'
The N. Y. Advertiser says-A splendid English
Coach, drawn by six horses, came into New Bruns-
wick on Monday afternoon, with twenty-three Of the
Philadelphia passengers.
The building near Troy, N. Y. formerly occupied
by the Rensselaer, Agricultural School, has been con-
verted to theatre.
A would-be modest lady pulled the sleeve of her
garment over her wrist when physician was about
feeling her pulse. The doctor took the corner Of his
coat and laid il upon the patients arm, saying that
linen pulse should have woollcn physician.-Noah.
Important La.o Case.-An action was tried in the
Superior Court Of NewYork on Tuesday last, the re-
suit Of which may have little influence in preventing
fraudulent purchases in anticipation Of bankruptcy.
1t appeared that goods purchased upon credit
and sent TO the store Of the purchaser, who on the
ensuing day assigned them with others for the pay
ment in the first instance, Of sundry confidential
creditors and the balance in payment of his creditors
generally. The action was brought by the vender
against the assignees to recover back his goods. A
verdict rendered in his favor for the value, subject
to review of the case by the court Little doubt is
entertained that the verdict Of the jury will be sustain
ed.-N. Y. Herald.
The Height Of EWoyment.-A gentleman near
Costleton, Eng. asked country BOBBY what he con.
sidered the greatest enjoyment. His reply was, "i
was king, I'd live tharkik, (stir pudding] and
treacIe, and swing all day on gate"
"Let not ambition mock their homely joys''
Bqndbores.-No lady is allowed to carry more thar
seren misunderstanding one having more can't 20
cried one Of stage drivers the other day. when re-
ceving his female passenger. Gas.
A young metGphysiciGn.-"T the truth, Ben, ;
said mother to her hopeful son Of ten or eleven
How can l, mother, when don't know wha. truth
isr
Afiddit District Money.-Last week $1,000 Of the
notes Of this bank, were sold in Poughkeepsie for 50
cents the dolar.-N Y. Gas.
An oration delivered at Albany on the 4th OF July,
1917, by the late eloquent Rev. Hooper Cumming,
was delivered word for word at Syracuse, N. Y. on
the 9TH inst To repeat good Grafton 10 much better
than to frame adull commonplace one but the ora
tor should have the grace to acknowledge the author
Afid Sem
John M. Jones had his trial. few days since, at
Lynchburg, Va, for the murder Of George Hamilton.
In making up the panel upwards Of 200 persons were
challenged for cause, or peremptorily. The jury,
after being out about an hour returned with verdict
Of Equity Of murder in the first degree"