Litchfield enquirer., 1833-08-15
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The Reat Major DO,caiag. --The Wnchesler Re publcan says that Zeha Smi,R, Esq the Editor of the Portland thle) Courier is the author ot the aa- then.ic Jack Downing letters It was iD that paper ,ha, they originally appeared. ~
 Ertensire Fire is St. John's N F-The Miramichi Cleaner of Tuesday, July 23 faraishes the following information reeeiSedthepe by vessel iro S, yohns: "We were kindly banded yesterday evening by atner- cane house in Newcastle tke following note :. We have jus, received letter from our friends 1t St. John's. Newfoundland who state that they have had most deStractive fire. l. commenced on Sunday morning, about o'clock, and in very short time, considerable portion of the town destroyed. Be- tween forty and fifty buildings were consumed. The IsahelIn brought pnpers."-Standard.
 Rhe Nsw-Orleaas Mercantile Ad1er,iser of the 25sh ut. has this cool paragraph :oOd for oar Northern Sophists.-There were three duels fought yesterday, of which proved fatal to of the parties, and tho others but slightly wounded. Strange io re- mark that in all three instances the parties werc n- mate friends.
 Death of Bajnabas BidsceN- --Priyats letters from Kingston announce the death of Barnahas fSidMell. Esq. ofthat town, the father of Marshall $. BidweIl, Esq., barrs.er York and late speaker of the proyin cial assembly. Mr. Bidwell, i. will be recollecied, was Attorney General of Massachusetts, and left that state in consequence of sone pecuniary defaica.ions. He was graduate of Yale College, New-HaveR. During his residence in Canada, how ever, he has maintained the character of a. man oT sound judgment, of christian bcReyoence, and oG do- mesiic affec,ion.-SN. r. Com. Adv.
 The Baltimore Patriot eays-z't Oar city, lor pome
 time past, has been graced with the pfcse"ce of Amos Kendall, Esq. who is his tour of Bank reco nnois- >ance, make arraneenents, if practicable. pave ,ho way for the removal of the Govefnfn Depostes from the U..S. Baak. He had left Baltimore for Phil adelpha and the oti'or eastern cities, on the same rand. bir. Blair, the Editor of the Globe, s Southern tonr, and is reported to have the ob- ject in view, while Major Barry is performing smi- lar service ia the West. President Jackson will be ndyise oi their praeeediugs before he leaves the Rip Raps. I, is intended. n possible, to make the trans fer of the Dep6stes beiore the meeting Of Con. grasslhe Agents, therefore, are required to be expe diiiou6 in their moSemeRts.
 Unp,scsdemeda and AAets7 f.Gscts e Electric Fy,iid A genlleman in whose veraciiy we have no abatow of doub. just arrived from the coaniry, ieforns that on "Wednesday afternoon, durDg H severe thnn- der g1s, twe men aAd four horses. wllo had found shelter undsr . iarge tree iho farm of Mr. Van Wyck, near Fskil Hook, were all insiany killed by stroke of lightaag; and wln is most remarkable, l. that the leg of one of tle men was hiown of, and found sessrai feet from the body.-N. r. Gas.
 . MARRIED.
 Im this iowa, (North6eld Socieiy,l m Sunday the 23li uIl. Mir. Lncius Sherman Turner, Miss Nan cy Fox,i iSnth of Nor,hficld.
 Ia Shatoa. Mr. Milton Si. John, of New. York, to lies Sarah Parlee, of tho iorinor PIace. se9#a .s DIED,
 ln North Guiifnrd, Mrs. Arena Benton, aged 27 |, wife ofMr Timothy BentoD.
 ia Cinciana:i, af clspera, Mfr Nilnot Stone, form. erly of Gnillord, in this Siate. .#@A sf@ tM&s
 fn6;soioo, hr. Darius Perkins. Under a religions excie6aeni ni he hang himself. s ,
 In Bnshwick, ,NewtoN6. N, Y. Col. George Gibbs, in the 57th year of his age, of Newport, R. In Hartford, Miss Rafh Wells, N.
 In Torringoa, the 3lst uit Miss Iieisy Gille GO.