Litchfield enquirer., 1829-03-05
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was iI;Iterate-having once the honor of serving as foreman of the Jury in the May or's Court. Such things, we believe, do not happen now. Having heard the evi- dence and received the Recorders charge, in the first case that came before them, the foreman and his fellows !laid their heads together in the jury-box, as they had seen others do before them. After reasona- ble interval, Patrick stood Up and looked towards the bench. The clerk inquired they had agreed. S Thesf answered yes. "How say you gentlemen, &c." "Why please your honor, some say one thing and some another. Some say he stole it, and some say not"
 Massachusetts R0l Rood.-The Commis- sioners appointed by the State ofMassachu- setts to survey the route ofa Rail Road, from Boston to the Hudson,i and also of similar road from Boston to Providence, have made a report the Legislature ofthat State. From this report it appears that the distance as sur- veyed, from Boston to the Hudson at Albany is 1894 miles. The route is considered by the Commissioners as practicable, and k is suppO- scd, if completed, that it will afford an ample income on the capital'invested. The expense of double Rail road; is estimated.a at $l4,94O a mile including contingencies and superin- tendance, tho whole expense, fits said, win a. mount to $3,e5S,9Se. The distance of the route surveyed from Boston to Providenceis is 4S miles, and the whole astimated expense of a double route amounts to $949,5lS.
 A most triumphant exhibition ofa rail road car, upon the plan of MT. Wyman's invention took place on Saturday, on a practical scale. A temporary railway, about 50 feet tn length, was laid down, upon which the car travelled. The car itself weighing 1880 pounds tt was laden with IA pigs of iron weighing 1000; In addition thereto, S4 gentlemen placed upon it.. Estimating the weight of each to be ioO pounds, the entire weight of car, iron, and men, amounted to S260 pounds, ,--and this load was readily pushed along.incredible us it may seem, by one man only The experiment was witnessed by a number of the most intel- lgent and respectable citizens, and was ire. quently repeated in the course of the aiter- noon.--Baltimore American.
 Commodores Bainbridge and Morris, and l.. Baldwin, Esq. have recently spent several weeks in New-Ycrk, in surveying the ground upon Governors Island, and the adjacent wa
 
 government to determine upon the establish ing naval station on that island.
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 A resolution was adopted in the Legislature Of New Jersey, to procure the withdrawal of the name of MT. Southard us candidate for the office of Senator Of the United States, hs being ineligible, as having lost his residence in New Jersey by becoming Secretary of the Navy. This is, we confess, one of the most extraordinary decisions that we have ever heard of Is a man to lose his personal and political rights by being distinguished and el- cvated in the service ofhis country Because he does honor to his State,is hc to be outlaw ed by it ?--Ndtional lnteiiigencer.
 Virginid Convemtion.- Convention question is finally at rest--the House of Dele- gates having, on the 10th inst. by vote of ll4 to 9S, accepted the bill as returned from the Senate. It provides for the choice of Representatives to the Convention, on the ha- sis of Senatorial Districts, which were laid ofr according to the ratio of free white population in 1870. "Each of the 94 districts is to have
 four Representative making Conven-
 tion of 9e members. The right 0fvoting is limited to the ffeeholders, and their right of selection is at large, without any limitation.' The election is to be in May, and the Conven- ton is to meet in Richmond on the first Mon day in October. Business--the revision of the State Constitution.
 Pedestrianism. young gentleman of this city, says a correspondent of Boston Dai. ly Advertiser, has walked to Charleston, s. c. ll5O miles, in thirty-six days--from Mag ara falls to Rochester,in two days-ffom SaF- atoga Springs to this city in four successive days--ffom Providence to Cambridee ct. in less than ten hours. including stops besides other excursions Co TicOnderoga, Platts- burgh,N. Y. Burlington, Vtand Mount Wash. ington, N. H.. amounting in all to tsUenty-ses- co hundred miles.
 The Cherokee Phenix relates the circun1. stances of an accident by which a boy was lately killed in that .neighbOrhOod. Three Indians ofthat nation were in pursuit of squir- rels. An arrow from one ofthem, after be- ing shot into the air,descended upon the head of the child, and penetrated the skall three inches.
 In Livingston county, N. '. Scotch gen. tleman had been fined S2S and cOsis e0r kis- sing hts landIOrd's wife at sundry times. He justified himself by saying that in his country it was the usual mode of salutaiion. By this time he has probably learned that a when you are in Turkey you must do as the ZWkies