Litchfield enquirer., 1832-11-08

c0blccteu some IndiAn DoneS naVsns "ecu uu6 up about that time, hut they were only fhe largest bones of the frame, and even then much decayed; while the skeleton found un- der the floor was entiTe-each bone being not only well preserved, but placed in its proper position; circumstance hardly tO be expect ed from A's limited knowledge of anatomy.
 But srtting this aside. enough came to light before the jury, to show beyond a doubt that a human body must have been deposited there since the building of the house. For exam pie. the floor was originally fastened down with long brought nails. and the part direct ly over the skeleton has evidently been fore ed up since. The nails remaining in lhr sleepers, the heads were drawn through the boards. These appear to have been bent down and driven into the wood; and the boards when laid down again were lasted
 with cat nails. Again: q witness remember
 ed conversation he had formerly bad with
 clerk in As store concerning the situation
 of the house: and to have expressed his sur
 prise that cellar had not been dug under 1t.
 The reason given was, that the earth under
 the house seemed to be imprtgnated with something with gave it a strong smell Of car riou. A physician of the first responsibility, who had attended a sick person in the house about the same period, recollected the ofien- 
 family actually quilted the house for many months on the same account, and resided in a shop in the rear. In short, when our in- formant left the place, facts were daily com ing to light through the excited recollections of the older inhabitants, ali contributing to the belief that foul murder had been com
 mitted, and tending to fix the guilt on the el- der A., with the priyity, if not the particiPa- ton of his brother. The most probable con- lecture m regard to the victim is, that it was either w. or the the pediar above spoken of, both of whose fates are involved m SO much
 uncertainty.-N. Y. Com.
 ZHe Migration of Btrds.-One of the mos: special appointments of the Creator, as to birds, and which nothing but His chosen de- sign and corresponding ordainment can ex- plain, :s the law, that so many kinds shall mi- Crate from ore country to another, and most commonly at vast distances from each other. They might have been all framed to breed. be born, live and die in the same region, as oc- CUTS to some, and as quadrupeds and insects do. But He has chosen to make them travel from one climate to another, with such unerring precision that makes our most exhausting la bors comparative amusement. Philosophy in vain endeavors to account for the extraOr- dinary phenomenon. It cannot discover any adequate physical reason. Warmer tempe ratures are not essentially necessary to in- cubation, nor always the object of the emi- grafton; for the snow bunting, though bird Df song, goes into the frozen zone to breed. ay and nurture it's young. The snow bird las the same taste, or constitution for the shilling weather, which the majority recedc rom. We can only resolve all these aston cl: inf hsan infe 6SrH Hhkal who. has assigned to every bird the habits, as well as the form, which it was his good pleasure to iinagine and to attach to it. The watchful naturalist may hear if not see, everal migratiOns of those which frequent 1 ur island, both to and fro, as spring advan- es and as autumn declines; but as they take | ,lace chiefly at night or at early dawn, and l n the higher regions of the atmosphere, they | ,re much oftcner audible than visible t0 us Dn the surface of the earth.-I Turner s History.
 Reason 7riumphdnt. We have occasional lv introduced into the Observer, ihe subject of Apparel, and have assigned our .eason for it's disuse. We have never expect d that the proposed change would be effect d at once--that the whole community would ,e induced to lay aside a long established cus- om-that the y0taries of fashion would fore 70 the pleasure of gratifying their vanity by l putting 0n new, and generally considered, 1 becoming suit, on the death of relative But to our surprise on this subject, as on ,na- 1 ny others. when brought before the people, it's svils and it's disadvantages having been pret- l ty thoroughly examined, reason has triumph ed far beyond our most sangaine anticipations.
 In the affective dispensation of Providence with which this village has recently been .is- ited, which has called SO many families to mourn the loss of some of their members. we should, had the former custom continued of wearing black as indicative of the severity of she bereavement and the sincerity of the grief, have seen very large proportion of our citi-
 zens with an entire change of dress, and the
 dark habiments of mourning would tell, as
 we passed the streets, that the destroying an
 gel had been ri0ting among us.--Thoss who
 have witnessed the scenes of distress which every day presented in many of our streets during the prevalence of the cholera, who
 have seen how lilly prepared most families
 were to make the alteration in dress which the former custom imposed, tO say nothing ol their expenses which must have been incur l red, will be able to appreciate the benefits ol the change that has taken place. We say change, for there has been change, and ar
 astonishing one. We have taken particular
 |,nOtice, not only in our streets but in large as .| scmblies, aud ave have not seen m instance ir
 which bereayed family has put on mourn ing apparel.
 In one or two families we havenoticed som, little badge of mourning, such as black ribhol
 nr a t,tls. trnnO. and this inn sconlfne,l t. fta