Litchfield enquirer., 1829-02-12
GENERAL SUMMARY.

and <84 free persons of color. The disparity between the number of males and females s not so consdera- ble as in some of the ether western states though there are number of the former than the latte,
 J. Potter, Esq. and Hon. Thomas s. Grimke, have made dOpationstO the Charleston IS. C.) College of 800 dollars each.
 The labor the prisoners in the Maryland pcni-J tentiary has produced sum exceeding the whole cx- penses by $98O4.
 It is stated that McSsre. Carey, Lea & Carey, have disbOrsed to authors and editors upwards of 2O0 600 dollars during the last year.
 At the session of the Supreme Court in New-Hayen last week, seven men and one woman, colored, were sentenced to the state prison, four of them for life.
 Mir. Holland, friend of James Morgomery, the English poet, is preparing, under the general super inlendence of the latter, Memoir of the lamented SummeTield.
 A Savannah paper says-'It is understood that the Anti Duelling Society of this place have requested Gov. Forsyth to demand the person of Mr. Hopkins, who killed Col. Nixon in duel, near Augusta.
 Col. TrumbulI has discovered that oil paintings may be preserved in any situation for an indefinite length of time, by saturating the canvass on which they are painted with melted beeswax and spirits of turpcntinc.
 A boy tn Sunday School, on being asked who killed Abel, promptly replied, Gen. Jackson!
 miser was lately found dead in Paris, on filthy bed, still grasping the key of his coffere; he had boarded about 500 900 rancs 1OO 900 of which were concealed in different kitchen utensils. The editor of the Providence Journal says, thatthe Governor oi Rhode Island receives the enormous sal. ary of of 40O per annum and is better paid than any other officer in that state. 4 Rich Printer.-By the will Of Luke Hausford, of London, printer to the House of Commons it ap- pears that his personal property was estimated at G9O OOO sterIings nearly $4OOO0O besides being pos. sessed of freeholds. An association has been formed tn Boston for the education ofthe blind. "'A @ 4 Hog Story--A hog weighing 1260 pounds, ras- ed in the State of ohio has been exhibited at Gin cnnati, Louisville, &c. man bought it for 66 dol. lars, and after receiving four five hundred dollars from exhibitions. sold it for 36O dollars and was oi fered $2,50O to bring it safely round to New-York.
 Troy.-By late census of the city of Troy, i, ap- pears that the population of that city is 10 849 In 1895 it contained only 1859 inhabitans-a gain oi more than one quarter in three years. Eight or ten houses were burnt in Shawnee :own, Illinois, the 10th ut. Loss estimated at $IO,OOO. The Washington Chronicle says, "We are inform. ed, on good authority, that Lake Jackson in Forda, about 30 miles in length has suddenly sunk ten feet and the Indian cabins and peach trees are plainly dscoverable at the bottom. The foundation of the Iate is said to be limestone and cavernous." IL was mentioned few days since, that steamboat arrived a, Macon, Geo. for the first ,ime on the 18th ult The Savannah Georgian remarks, six years a. go, the site of Macon was a waste; now 1t has moro than 100 stores, or 10 large warehouses, banks, two printing offices, and many handsome dwelling houses, an elegant court house building, two or three public schools in operation, prospect oftree places of public worship, exports 10000 bales of cotton each year, and is healthy wi,hal.
 Siagaiar.-In digging well, few weeks since. in the Beach woods, little east of Worthing,on, Franklin co. Ohio, the operator dug out pine knot abou. foot in length. in perfect state of preserva. ton, about twenty feet below the surace. What is the most singular s, that there is no appearance oi pine timber ever having grown nearer than from 75 to 100 miles of the spot!
 It is said that of the five heads of Departments a, Washington, Gen. Porter is the only one capable ol attending perso naly the duties of his office all the remainder being, in different degrees, disabled by in. disposition.
 The quantity of -four inspected in Albany the last year was 39,450 barrels, being decrease from the previous year of nearly l4,O00.
 An unsuccessful attempt made on Tuesday of last week to elect Mayor ot Albany in the room ol Mr. Dudley, elected U. s. Senaor--.the vote was, for John Townsend l0...Francis Bloodgood 10. An. other day was fixed for the choice.
 There were 99l persons imprisoned in Boston jail the last year, only ssosnsyfoar of whom were dis. charged by the payment of the debt and costs. ot the whole number, 9 were females.
 The cold has been go severe in South Carolina, and the ponds so much frozen, that several gentlemen were able 10 amuse themselves with skating. At husking, Ca kiss all around' is the reward for every red ear of corn sf course there is always a scramble for the passports to favor The good natar- ed girl generally contrves to throw such as she may find into the way of the rustic beau who s nearest 1 to her. ~# Tricks in Trade.-A pair of elegantly matched po- nies, belonging to the South, were visit to this city, and on inspecting of them closely, the ami maj was found to have glass eye, close resem. blance to the natural one, and the animal blink clo. sed tine lid over the artificial well as the real Itseems that nail in the manager had struck out the eye of the horse, which being favOrite with his masses, carried to Dr. Seudder, who soon remc- died the defect by large artificial cne xed in with