Litchfield enquirer., 1831-07-07
DEFERRED ITENis.

| Herald contains narrative of desperate act con. mitted at Exeter, N. H. on Sunday night by black man named Charles Fash. He had visited young woman Aamed Sarah Moore, whom lie had beCofe been in the habit of visiting The mother forbade hid visits, and requested the girl go bed. As she was ascending the stairs, he discharged horse pistol loaded with two balls, and wounded her. it supposed mCrtally. He immediately discharged another pistol at his own breast, but missed his aim, and the ball passed through his left arm. The young woman was living on the following day, but there was hope of her recoVery. The black man had previously sustain good character; and had accumulated handsome property:
 Sale cf PMbtic Lands-The sales of public lands the last week, up to o'clock yesterday, amounted to twenty thousand seven hundred dollars! On two sev- era days they exceeded 900; one day $5, 500. The total amount, in this district aone since the first of March. is forty-eight thousand, seven hundred and twehty-seven doIlars--Detroit Cow.
 Cos'tesy.-THe editor of ftheN. Y. Standard, zeal: Jac ksom man, thus speaks of his brother of the N Y. Enquirer :-" M0rdecai Molasses Manassail Noah is mercenary ,urncoat perured villain, base cow. ard, and an itreclamabe liar"
 We learn from the Providsnce Journal ,has the wreckers employed to raise the Washington have sue: ceeded in getting her into four fathoms of water and Captain Tomlinson has no doubt that they will ge. her into New-Haven. The ownet of the Wss6ing.on contracted 10 give the wreckers third of the val uo of the boat, and one quartet of the boiler ifthey succeeded in raising her:
 The tcoincidence of the deaths of JefeFson and Adams, the 4th of JGly 1a26 was one of the most singular circumstances of the times and elieed many an exclamation of wonder, and, indeed, cannot now be regarded without astonishment. 4 writer insshs University Chameleon, proves from certain data, ta- ken in cOnnexioG with the most accurate tables of mortality, tha. the odds were more than 172l millions agains. ,hs concurrence of the deaths of these usrious men that day and that bet against tt, to correspdnd with the chances, should have beea more than seventeen millions of dollars to a cent.
 ". r. Arena. M. Fischer, of Vienna, has discovered new bro cess of Bleaching Straw. Instead of smoking i, with sulphur, aS heretofore he stee2s in the arat ic acid saturated sOh potash. The straw beaciedhy this process never grows yellow. and is equally whi.s besides that a acquires great RsxibiIity.
 The Journeynen Printers of.he city of New-York; have turned ou, for higher wages. They demand $l2 per week, on the Morning Daily papers, and $9 on the Evening papers. The former prices, were $lO
 
 Book and Job Printing:
 Supposed Mur6er.-An IrishmaH was found last Thursday near wall on the Salem Turnpike lin Iynt so badly wounded that lie expired while being remov- ed. He had two severe wounds on tho head and the skull was fractured He had bottle by him abd the day before he to fall do~A several dimes ap- parsntIy intoxicated. Some thought his wounds were inflicted by weapon others were of opinion that khavvv rAIA l,uf fu.l I,R While drunk. The jury of inquest ts.utned verdict that he came to his death by means of blows urod his head by some sharp ns,turent and the next day an: Othet ltshHian who had been seen i1 coinpany with him several times wasapprehended, and committed to prison. He confessed that he was with the dsceassd few hours before he died and set him against the wall where he was discovered, but denied s knowl- edge o fhs wounds. fthe mao was murdered, 1t was probably in drunken brawl wi.h his companion. 40mpswirs Gasesss. the seamboa, Daniel Boon, while on her way up tl,s Mississippi, about l5o miles below the mouth of the Ohio, struck oh snag. The passengers and crew sae bu, the boat and Inc perishabs pat. of the cargo will be lost.
 His Honor the Mayor of Albany, on Tuesday; was cited to appear tthe PolicS Ofice on complain. of violation of the la& for sweeping the strsss i'd front of lot belonging him in Gs upper part of Washington street. His Honor, like good citizen, paid his fine wiiliou, hesaiiod
 The :danger of sudden tcrafh.--The other day, at Middleport, on the Erie Canal, in changing horses for the Pilot Line, them broke into the ehclo- sure Oi iavernkeeper by the name of Cole. Words grew high between him and ihs driver, and the for: mer struck the hitter several blows with the butt of large wagon whip, which killed him. Coleis in cus- tody. -----.--77
 Lead Ors.-The Journal of Commerce. munitions; specimens oflead ore obtained ir6tn mine in Brook. field, Conn: which on being analysed, are found 10 yield 65 parts lead, oflOO pre- Specimens ofzinc from the same mine yield GA parts of zine out of 100 ore. Appearances indicate, that the rins is exten. | sive, and the ore abundant
 GoOseberry Bushes A gentleman who has for sev: years protected his gOoseberry bushes from the dis ease insect which is 50 esructivs to this fine ruit informs us that the disease (which he thinks s an sect originates in kind of moss which s observable in spots the stock and branches of the bush and that whenever he finds h them, he immediately eGi6 off the limb He has left with us several piecei of the bush with the ioss on the 6 which he enter .ains no doubt the egg of the insect i deposssd.- Since he began cutting of these infected limbs he has had abundance of iue gcoseberries, which he could seldom obtain before. IL would De well to try the ex: