Litchfield enquirer., 1830-07-01
GENFRAL snMAlARYi

GENERAL SUMMARY
 .Crackers.-Two houses were burned in New York afew days agO, caused by boys carelessly firing Chi nese crackers.
 The Grand Jury at Portland have 6ound bills a. gainst seven eight vendors of Foreign Lottery Tick cts. .f ..
 The law of Louisiana imposes the penalty of im- pFisOnent or deal at the discretion of the Court persons using language, from the bar, bench, stage, pulpit, or elsewhere, tending produce dscOntent among free blacks. or introducing papers, Sc. of similar tendency. sa
 The BaIlstOn Spa Gazette boasts that Mir. Hurling has " raised barn without the of spiritOus liquor or ccfse." Wewere nOtaware, says the National Ga zette, that coffee was placed in the Epder Espwga- t6rins of the temperance tribunals.
 Mrs. Adams, whose death at Washington has been recently announced was not the wife of J. Adams Jr. son of the ExPresident, stated in several parers but the wife of respectable mechanic of that
 Kentucky BacOn.-A 'moeiOn'' has been invented in Kentucky as an offset for Yankee nutmegs It is called choice Ham, A Yankee recently pur- chased quantity of these hams, which, when open ed proved to be wood neatly turned in the shape of hogs hind legs!
 The following is given Talleyrand's latest dictm on the present political aspect of affairs in France
 In the morning believe in the dissOInsion of the Chambers; in the afternoon I change my opinion and in tho evening have opinion atall.'
 Su,sGay School Meeting at Masonic Hai.-Last eveuing second meeting on the subject of establish ing Gaaday Schools throughout the Valley of the Mississippi took place at Masonic Hall, and was nu nerously and respectfully attended. The Hon. Judge Plat, sas called to the chair, and the meeting addressed, among others, by the Hon. Theodore Fre li6gbuysen, and Rev. Messrs Cone, Peters. M'Clay, Spring. AFCMsy and Baird. A letter from the Hon. Richard varick, enclosing donation of $500, was read The subscription and collection of the evening amodatedto s2429, making in all $15,22s subscribed in this city. The amount subscribed in Philadelphia is said to be about $25,0Oo.- Epening Post.
 The Albany Daily Advertiser states, that Col Eze- kiel Jewett, commander of Fort Niagara, had been tried at Lockport, and acquitted. He tried as being concerning with the abduction of Morgan.
 At Macon, Geo. on the 18th ut. Major John Loving, of the Commercial Horel was dirked by Dr. E. E. slade These gentleman having qaarreled about a game of backgammon. @
 Marder.-Thomas Griffin Thornton, Sheriff of Carolina county, Va. was murdered on the 18th inst by receiving two gun-shot wounds in the abdo- men, and the other in the back. His horse led about y yards from the scene of the murder and also shot. man was arrested in Fredericksburg on Sun day suspicion of being concerned in the murder.
 Prise-scovshy compes;t;cn.- following challenge recently appeared in the Troy Budget:-
 Beat ttis srho can.--One of the composors in our office, (Cyrenins s. Newcomb,) on Wednesday last, up efevea fb0Hs0nd hundred and Efit Cs of solid brievier type n ten hours ad hai if any onecan do more let him do so, and then tell of
 One of the apprentices of this office, James B. Ans.0S % ss ;ssaSg sss ssSs same space of time, and yeserday alt,oie, the hers mometer rose above s4 degrees, he ap, in exacII ten hours and halt twelve distinct areses, sol'd nat; type. ffteen taousond eiglt hundred and een ems, fraction ess than ieen Hundred Gad sir ems ap hour, fur ten and half successive hours In the rst sixty. one and half minutes, he set up eighteen ha0dyed ems. The whole was executed in wOrkman-lke manner, with fair proof. This statement is lr9e: ss *'iS J. w. WALKER.
 N.B. Anderson challenges any Jonrneyman or Apnrent;ce in the Unted States to heat this days work and promises give the rs, person who shall accomplish ii, a new Beaver Hat, on hs furnishing him. postage free, with evidence of the fact, autheD- iicated in a satisfactory rnanncr. =
 That persons who are printers may have an idea of the above lads work, it is only necessary state that half the number of ems which he set up s M F. Duly Ado.
 A writer in the Marbiehead Register threatens to prosecute .' fan,aslcal Company called Military" for irespassng the farms. throwing down fences, and treading down thesgrass in that town.
 Small Por.-The British ship Brunswick, Blake.
 master, from London, arrived a. quarantine on Sa,ur day, with 209 passengers; l12 of whom were theD hadbe sick with the smallpox. Three others have sickened since. Five Ofthc terminated fatally on the passage. Of the whole number who have sicened nos one had been inoculated for either kine or smaIpox there were on board six ty.eght persons, men, women and children, who had been yaccinated, and iweniy-nine who had been in- oculated for the small-pox, who had taken it by contag;on. Not case of saroloid even occurred a. long all these. The physician al tquarantne thinks all those now the sick list likely to recover, al- tfeugh some of ,he cases are now bad-I. ef Com.
 Ayoung lady has been bound over at Philadelphia in the sn of $500 to keep the peace towards young gentleman whom she had twice attempted to stab with knifs, for discoFiipaing his visits 10 her. The young gentleman had been in the habit of paying her friendly sisiss but in shs character of ssitor.- The above lady, independent ofthe above charge, is sAid to have sustained an unimpeachabie character.
 The town of Leyden and vicinity. Lewis Coupy, N. Y. was visited hy destructive thunder storm on ,AA 1A,h ;nsf aceo,nnanied by hail which broke all