Litchfield enquirer., 1830-04-15

son, who entered the lower part Of hls muse at one of the back windows, and committed | the horrid deed by first striking him on the head with some heavy instrument, and then inflicting ten stabs near the heart, with dirk | or knife, either of which injuries would have accustomed death. There were hut two per- l sons in the house besides Mir. White these 1 were domestics, and slept in distant apart | ments, and heard nothing of the assassin.-l The first discovery was made at about o. l clock this morning, when the young man who resides m the family. on getting up. perceiv- ed window open. and suspecting the house had been entered by robbers, went to apprIZe the old gentleman, aud found him dead, and his clothes and the bedding drenched in blood! 1'he sensation created in town by this most atrUciOus deed, surpasses any thing l have ever witnessed here. The whole pop -ulatiOn were amazed and horror stricken.- There is no way of accounting for the act nothing was stolen from the house, although there was money, and other valuable prop erty in the room where Mr. w. slept. The heirs have offered reward of SlOOO, and the seclectmen $500 in addition, for the detection of the murderer.
 P.S. A person has been arrested on suspi cion of being the assassin, and is undergoing an examination.
 It is currently reported that the young man is son to the housekeeper-that he was ar rested at Marblehead, and said he had not been in Salem for 5 or days, which was dis proved. He was committed for farther ex- animation.
 Later accounts state that the innocence Ofthe young man who had been suspected and arrested was made manifest without doubt; that no trace Of the mur- derer had been discovered; and that Gov. Lincoln, on hearing of tho murder at Worcester, immediately proceeded to Salem, and has offered $lOOO reward for the apprehension of the murderer. There was much rich property and plate, and considerable a. mount of gold in the chamber where the murder was perpetrated, none of which was dislurbed]
 Good Aduice, (sphether trse or dubious. J. preacher in the western country, says the Illinois Gazette. applied to Gen. Jackson for an office. At the tune he applied. the Gen eral did not know the applicant was preach CT, and he very politely observed to him that he would think ofhis claims and weigh the n. The preacher saw the General few days af- ter. and renewed his application. ('Ths Gen eral in the mean time got information that he was preacher of the Gospel.) The Gener- al asked him if he was not preacher Of the Gospel. He answered he was. We'll. says the General, if you discharge the duties of that office, which is better than any can con. fer, you will have no time to discharge the duties of any that can give. You will there fore excuse me for advising you tO return home, and attend to that without being bur dened with any other, that you may be ena- bled to account hereafter for your steward ship in this world.
 A case of islander was decided the 14th ult. in the court of Washington county. Md. in which Catharine Burckhart was plaintiff, and Isaac Shockcy defendant. The jury found for the plaintiff, and awarded $isS0. Life ofPaul Jones.-Wc understand that biographical account of that celebrated com mander is preparing for the press. The ori. ginal letters, journals and other documents relating to his life have been placed in the hands of an accomplished literary gentleman, and far more complete history of his ad- ventures and actions may be expected than has ever heretofore been given to the world. The publication is to be made for the benefit of Miss Taylor, niece of the great admiral. and legatee of his papers.-Eve. Post.
 A watchman in New-York lately saw something moving in the grass near Bridewell which he supposed to be rat, and according ly placed his foot upon it, when he found it was package containing files, Szc. which the prisoners by means Of a string were drawing into their apartment. sN seems the prisOne rs had conveyed the string over the wall a con. siderable distance from their grate, by means of an arrow.
 MT. Carey, of Philadelphia. has published another pamphlet on the inadequacy of the wages paid to females. He states that there are in the four northern cities. probably from l8. 1000 to 90. 900 women. who when constant ly employed for sixteen hours out of the twenty y-fOur. cannot on an average. earn more than dollar and a quarter per week.
 The matron employed by the Provident Society of Philadelphia. testiaes, that of the eleven hundred women aided in the winter of lS98-9. at least six hundred were widows, and at least two thirds had children to sup port. and that their average wages was about fifty cents per week.
 R0ts.-The Baltimore American Farmer gives the following plan to destroy rats infest- ing granaries: A copper kettle is placed in the barn, filled with water to certain height -the surface of the water is spriDkled over with white chatF-and the rats mistaking it for bed to play in or food to eat. walk up on the blanks which are prepared for the pur- pose. and throw themselves into the water. where they are drowned. A gentleman, near Richmond, Va. tried this trap. In few nights he caught more than 400. In one nswkaf kfkw .A RaL-