Litchfield enquirer., 1831-11-03
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coffee in which seods Of the Jamestown weed, oI aramoninm, had been mixed. Medical aid was promptly afforded, and we are happy to state taat the persons poisoned consisting of Mr. Philips, his wife, son, daughter and niece, are rapidly recovering. ! negro woman and two men, the property of Mr. F., have been committed 70 prison, the charge of be. ing concerned in the dabolical act
 Distressing Accidsne.--O Sunday, let instant Da. vd Howe, of fCaetine, Maine, let that place for Lin. conville, distance of about twelve miles, tn small sailbOat; taking with him his sister, young girl and Charles Whitney, aged "A years son oi Capt. Henry Whitney-Hnd when otr Turtle Head, the boa. was struck by flaw and upset-the three got in the bo,
 tom and remained in that situation until she rgh,ed full of water. Mr. Howe goti the ehidren in the boat and kept them tn ha with their heads out ofwa- ter until they died, which was between two aud three hours-The girl died about ten minutes before the boy. He then secured the bodies and succeeded in setting small sai-ahe boat driaea on Brigadier's Island time in the nights he thinks about five hours after the accident during the whole of which
 time he was in the water 10 his shoulders The bodies were conveyed to Casiine on the following day.
 It is stated tn the Albany Argus, tha, from the 10th to the 9Oh August. there were 936 passengers pass ed over the Mohawk and Hudsonn nrai-road, or av- craze of la0 f-2 per day. From ihe 20lh August to the l7ih September, four weeks the aggregate mum, Der Of passengers on that road was 9,020; or aMMv. craze, daily of322 l-2 This is a revenue equal to 58706 25 per annum. The expenses ofihe road are estimated at $40 per day, or $l4,60O per annum.- Leaving net revenue on $44 l66 25 nearly l5per cent. per annum, $3O0,Oo0, for single track. The passengers by the canal and turnpike are estimated to etA n1AanM nn;1. .hs .hn the actual number of passengers to and from A- bany in one direction, may be estimated a not less than 600 per day. The above returns, will be per. ceived, do not include any part of the inA"x a the Springs. Including that season, with the Saratoga railrond in operation, and that work is rapidly pro gressi"g,) and with the general abandonment of other modes of travel and transportation which may be ex. pecied when the rail.road shall be completed from one city to the other and the number that will pass on the road will average 800 per day.
 A Liverpool "suherer,'' under date ofAugus, 3,h, writes ieelingy on the subject of .hn late ra-road mania in England. Companies for these purposes have within two years asked Parliament for charters which constitute stock of about 4O 900 900 dOlars. Fifteen or twenty millions of dollars have been ex. pended these projects within . few years. Hap. piy the bubble has barst; they will make little or no dividends t0 the stockholders the stock s worth It. tie; the roads great amount Of repair; irans- porta,ion on them is enormously high and tho only valuable account to which these roads bc lurned ha, of transporting passengers with grea. rapidi'y The editors of the New.Y York Gazette express the pinion thats msy ho well or ardent friends of enier- prise on this side ol the water, to engage with cau.s" in new projects. ~t .'.
 t r.n nas Ia hmsM kae an hm Ak Barnstabs, tass. The Journal states that the town authorities had forbidden this valuable berry to be talk GU from the bogs Sandy Neck until ripe, and the" to pay stipulated par. to the town. Sept. 2Oh was tic day appointed, and 300 men. women, and children had 6ne frolie. Wstwsa,her has probably reduced tho crop half; but from l6O to 200 bushels were picked.
 A southern paper states. that the whole number of lives sacrificed in the Southampton tragedy is about f1Oerll2. The whites massacred were GA, and about 90 or 35 blacks are estimated 10 have been shot down by the troops called out qne the nsurrecicn. One militia man was killed in rsncontre, & 12 blacks have aow been probably executed. 1e
 The Alhany rgus contains notices of intended ap' plicaons to the Legslatufscf this State, at the sss sion of the ensuing winter, for Raroads the agsre gate capitals of which amount to tOenty tco millions doiisrs. Surely we must bs wealthy, or wild com manty. All of these projects for roads betwee' Albany and Boifalo--two ofthemio run through ths third from Buffalo to the Casuga Lake, and fonr.i from Utica to the Cayaga L&Ass
 A meeting of the members of the Philadelphia bal was held on Saturday IaS without regard to party, te appoint a committee to wait upon Chef Justice Mar shall and request the honor of his company to apublis dinner The state of his health, did not permi. him to accept the invitation. h his reply to the committed he says, !" might be permitted to claim for myself al well as for my associated, any portion Of the hhera consideration your partial favor bssowp, would be- that we "havs never sought to enlarge the jud'eia power beyond iis proper bounds nor feared to carry
 so the 6uIl extent that duiy required" | 4 Free Comfry.-At the September term ofth' Supreme Court ia Providence, last week, one Cush nsan from the Emerald Isle, wss found guilty oran as sauls with an intent to commit murder and sentenced to two years Imprisonment, and no of 500 dollars It was proved that having aken offence, he po'n'ed
 loaded gun a, passengers in the street, ihreaseaag shoo. them, aad actually snapped bs gua aii ihe breas efone, bu, fortunately Aashcd h the LaP. He ihs prevented travellers from passing ter some time. H' vas at length seized from bshied deprivsd of hs gun asd taken into custody. On being exposlulaied wiil
 or such outrageous cesducs, hs said As sosgs s has ayised is sss csustvy, suhss sss1 mighs ds e h pieGsed.
 .A@tni e6sess sf xstsngsraRes.--A ssmals, named Kerr residine Ia se town of Warwick, was bsrns a \ fN- eAn ..f emnualss