Litchfield enquirer., 1830-01-14
GENERAL SUMMARY.
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GENERAL SUMMARY.
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Az act 70 suppress DUelling has recently passed the
Legislative Council Of Florida, by which oil persons
concerned in fighting duels sending or bearing chat
lengeS, &c. are declared incapable Of holding Office
In the Territory-t 10 further enacted that in case
any person shall kill his anags mis-, in duel or so
wound him that he shall die theretrom In three months
after, such persons so killing or woundiMg shall, on
conviction, "sufer death by being hanged Nv che
neck, any law, custom, usage to the contrary not,
with"anding." Persons who attempt 10 evade this
statute by leaving the Territory are made alike sub
Zee, to the penalties, a. ir the offence had becn COM
miued within lie limi,s.-Aier. Gas.
Mississippi RiUev.-T0 coMiuo, the operations G,r
removing the obs.ruc,'ons in the navigation Of ,h;s
river with more effect, the superintendent, Cant.
Henry Shreve, WINS authorized to construct steam.
boat Of such strength, and furnished with such m.
parn,us as can he applied to the removal Of snaRa.
This hont having been completed and nut in operation,
has according to the Supernenen,s report fully an.
swcrod the purpose. by means Of It's machinery, a
snag sawyer OF the largest dimensions 10 removed
in n few minutes.
Erie and Northern CGaais.-ThC whole number Of
boats that arrived ut and depHsted fo1, Albany the
las, season, ttOeirs thousand three hundred and
tcenty-miss. Such are the encouraging and wonder.
I results Of enterprise, and such the substantial 10.
wards Of fostering spiri, Of internal Improvement.
When will old Massachusetts awake p 7'rau.
We have received u letter from friend, says the
Ncw.York Gazette, dated Ncw.Orleans, Dec. 7,h,
1890 stating that there were, Mt that time hundreds Of
young men, mechanics and clerks, from the North,
seeking for employment and wages were very low,
and sheir distresses heart-rending.
Gong the "~hoIs hog."-A gentleman In tho
neighborhood OF Poughkeepsie who 10 stated to be
Justice Of the Peace, Inns named son Prcsi,ien,
General Andrew Jackson. We presume he will be
called for shor,ncsp the President.
The Poughkecpsie Duchess Enquirer, says" The
carrier Of the land mail between this village and Fish.
Kill, last week assaulted by tail rufan (oot.pad.
The high temper and frousncss Of the horse ,rried
all clear wi,hou, the Of the pistol and sword, with
which the mail carrier was provided"
The Duke OF Northumberland the present Lord
Lcu,enan, of Ireland is in his 44h year. He has M
iUcome Of 100000 pounds sterling per annum, which
in United States currency amounts to twelve hundred
thousand dollars per annun.
TO make Pencit-WrisiRg permanent. Rub milk and
waer carefully over IT, and il will last as long
though written with ink.
Wieighy Charge against Printers.-The Grand
Jurors Of Richmond County, Georgia, Charles Lam.
xan, foreman, havomadc presenlment 40 an evil and
one which they understand prevails too generally,
the practice Of printers and publishers Of newspapers
throughout the State, but particularly in the city Of
Augusta, Of employing Negroes in the different de.
partments Of their establishments; thereby alordinR
them The best possible OF learning 10 read wri-
ting, and aTOrdng a source Of information 70 tina,
class Of our population, which sound policy Iorbds"
Fatal Effects Of Passion. Recently, a woman In
Norwich, displcased with little girl, her step-da"gh
ter, attempted to strike her with brush which she
had in her hand, but instead Of the meditated blow
falling the object Of her vengeance, alighsed up
on the head Of her own baby, which she carried on
her arm, and that with such violence 10 al
mos, instantaneous death.
RobbinE the MGI.-The Lancas Ter Gazette states
that on Sunday night the Goth uIt. two attempts were
made to stop the western mail stage between that
place and Harrisburgh. The first attempts was made
east u Moun,oy, and the second about one mile east
Of ElizabethiOwn. The first attempt was made by
three men, and the second, by four. Each time the
driver WIN was armed with pistols, fred upon them,
which So alarmed the horses, that they ran OF andet
the robbers behind.
An estate was lately sold NJ Jamaica for El2,4OO,
upon which the lawyers and other legal charges were
eli, 400!
The Legislature Of Tennessee persevere In going
forward with the new law for furnishing, with great
severity, every person concerned 10 9 dael.
Mr. Reed lately said in the Select Council Of Phil.
adelpha that Boston the hest cleansed city 10 the
Union; that Philadelphia had been defcient in her
system ill 1896, when she framed one on that Of Boz
ton, and n worked admirably.