Litchfield enquirer., 1831-12-08

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 Abstraction or Absence of Mind.-Ma- ny curious anecdotes on this subject are re- lated of the Rev. Dr.. George Harvest, one of the ministers of Thomas Dutton. So confused on some occasions were the ideas of this singular man, that he has been known to write letter to one person, ad- dress it to second, and send it to third. He was once on the eve of being married to the Bishops daughter, when, having gone gudgeon fishing, ho forgot the cir- cnmstances, and over-staid the canonical hour, which so offended the lady, tSat she indignantly broke ofTth match. If beg gar happened to take off his hat to him in the street, in hopes of receiving aims, he would make him bow, tell him he was his humble servant, and walk on. He has been known on Sunday to forget the days on which he was to officiate, and would walk into church with his gun under his arm, to ascertain what the people wanted there. Once when he was playing at backgammon, he poured out a glass of wine, and it being his turn to throw, having the box in one hand and the glass in the other, and being extremely dry, and un- willing to lose any time, he swallowed down both the dice, and discharged the wine upon the dice board. Another time," says the amusing narrative which has been published of his peculiarilies, Gin one of his absent fits, he mistook his friends house, and went into another, the door of which happened to stand open, and no servant being in the way, he rambled all over the house, till coming into a middle room, where there was an old lady in bed of quinsy, he stumbled over the night stool, threw a clothes horse down, and might not have ended there, had not the affrighted patient made noise at his in- trusion, which brought up the servants, who finding Dr.. Harvest in the room, in- stead of the apolhecary that was momen- tarily expected, quie,ed the old lady's fears, who by this time was taken with such an immoderate fit of laughter at his confusion, that it broke the quinsy in her throat, and she lived many years afterwards to thank
 Dr. Harvest for his unlucky mistake. " His notorious heedessness was SO appar- ent that no one would lend him horse, as he frequently lost his beast from under him, or, at least from out of his hands it being his frequent practice to dismount and lead the horse, putting the bridal under his arm, which the horse sometimes shook off, or the intervention of post occasioned it to fall 1; sometimes it was taken off by the boys, when the parson was seen drawing the br- dle after him and if any one asked him after the animal, he could not give the least account of it, or how he had lost it." In short, the blunders which he committed were endless, and would be considered iu- credible, were they not authenticated by incontestible evidence. Yet notwith- standing all this, Harvest was man of un- common abilities, and an excellent scholar.
 4 cure for hard tiases.-The following paragraph closes communication to the Charleston City Gazette.
 Talking about chick-wceds and all that sort of thing growing in our gardens--they can only be found in those who are too la- zy to pull them up. Where was the Tivo- Ii, the Botanical garden, the cattle farm, the agricultural fairs and societies, and ma ny elegant private gardens-in a word, where werc the fine vegetables and fruits, fifteen years ago, that our market is now supplied withi If these people who are constantly whining about the decaydence of Charleston, and how much they have to pay for their shoes, hats, butter, cabbages and onions, &c. would off their jackets and 90 to work like men, and Eiake them for themselves, and live within their means, then they would have more money in their
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