Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1830-01-21


est said I, our fathers often make love
going home from church, and if you will
give me leave to ask your mothers appro-
6ation'--here I StaInnered in spite
of nv motto. 20, as to that said the
smiling girl, 'yOu may say any thing to my
mother you please
The same evening, returning from bath
ing in the Delaware, for the day had been
sulrry, sudden hustle and cry Of distress,
arrested my attention in, at that hour, an
unfrequemted place. The cry Of a fellow
man in trouble is always, yon know, a
command to true Irishmen to Push. My
cane was my shellahlah; one villain reel-
ed in an instant with a broken head, and
The other, though twice nay size, sunk be-
meath the arm nerved with humanity and
duty. Assistance soon gathered, and on
placing my prisoner in the hands Of an
officer, who should lie wounded and bleed
ing before me but the hODored father Of
--'s Hah your sweetheart-the pref
~ damsel you had half conrted coming
from meeting? The very same. took
him home, where he introduced me as the
savior of his life from robbers and murder
ers. In less time than ship could sail to
| Cork and home again, ] was Junior part
ner in the wholesale store, and the lowell
est girl that has lived for a thousand years
blessed me with her heart and hand. Thank
God have been prosperous in my basket
and my store. Our children are blessings
to us, as hope they may be an honor TO
their country, and we have enough for
them and ourselves, and some for the
poor"
The stars that guide the wanderer right,
Are virtue fair, and honor bright,
BE temperate, steady, JUST and kind,
Then PUSH, and fortune you shall ind.
SO far as tho story is long one, pray
you, Messrs. Printers, to remember it is
an IrisIln,an' story. So far as have any
thing to say, preserve the character of
yours to Village Record.
american Temperance Society.-The
third annual meeting OF the American
Temperance Society, was held Oh We'd
nesday evening, at the Masonic Hall. The
President being absent, S. V. S. Wilder,
ESQ.,, of Bolton, Mass. was called to the
chair, and the meeting was opened with
prayer by the Rev. DR.. M'Murry, after
which the report was read by Mr. Hooker,
Assistant SecretarynDfaile Society. ssaa4-y-,-
From this document, il appears, that the
Whole number Of Temperance Societies In
the United States known TO the Directors,
is l,OI5, of which 500 are in New York,
160 in Massachusetts, and 1873 in COnnec-
ticut. The whole number of members OF
Temperance Societies, in the United
States, nearly all of whom are pledged to
entire abstinence, is supposed to be not
less than 100000. The Directors have
learnt Of more than 700 cases Of ha-
bitual drunkards reformed during the past
year; of more than so disiilleries stopped,
some Of them from principle and some be-
cause the business had become unprotita-
BILE and Of more than so military bodies,
including some military regiments, who
have resolved to use no ardent spirits, or
their days Of parade. More than 4O(
dealers in spirits have relinquished the bu'
siness from conviction that it is wrong.
After the report, addresses, Astounding
with interesting facts, were made by the
Rev. Drs. Cox and Minor, Rev. J. Leav
lit, and the Rev. Justin Edwards, one o
the General Agents ofthe society. A col
lection was taken up, amounting to abou
$50. -
Outrageous Act.-The Raleigh Regis
ter of the 31st ult. contains the particular
Of tragical affair which recently occurred
at Beaufort, North Carolina. A certain
captain Thomss Thompson, of Elizabetl
city, two or three years ago, succeeded il
obtaining the hand of an amiable and re.
spectacle young lady Of Beaufort, Cartcre
county. In short time after their mar
rage, his conduct towards her became q
brutal, that her friends separated her from
him. lie had protested to feel extremely
unhappy in consequence, and has endeav.
ored TO prevail on her TO return TO him
but Without efiecr. For nearly or quite
two years this has been his course, Onti
within the last few months, when he ha,
been less heard of. 1t seems, however
that he was only slumbcring to make q
more deadly spring.
On Saturday tho 10Th inst. he arrived
at Beaufort, armed with pistols and dirk
and entering the dwelling Of his unfortu.
nate wife, caught her in his arms and on.
deavored to persuade her TO 60 with him
The family became alarmed, and despatch.
ed messenger for the brother Of tho wife
who was at Fort Macon 1.-TWO miles OF. -
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