Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1833-05-23

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(whO was no less parsonage than our good
| friend Jones, well known as the author of
Haverhill) to attest the truth of the old adage,
&c He who by the plough would thrive,
Must either hold himself or driue.
TObacco.-We wish some of our nubIic
spirited young men would get up a society
for putting down smoking, chewing and
snuffing tobacco. Shutting is indefensible !:
chewing is filthy aud vulgar; smoking-our
vocabulary is too poor to supply an epithet
which can denote its character. A commu.
nicatiOn against drunkenness was handed to
us day or two ago, by gentleman. whose
ruffled bosom was spotted with coagulated
snuff. drops from his nose while he was in
our Office, he made our floor slippery with
the filthy saliva squirted from between his TO-
baccO- chewing jaws; and we know that he
spends more money for cigars than he con-
tributes to the funds for the suppression of in
temperance. Why should man who spits
over his neighbours floor, or puffs the smoke
Of cigarin his neighbours face, be tolerated
in his anathemas against the use of rum -
There is no more wickedness (nor excuse) in
carrying buttle Of rum in ones pocket than
box of the most nauseOus and Intoxicating
weed that ever gTew.-Boston Cour.
Daring Outrage.-This morning. about @
o'clock, master Norman K. Wood, aged about
IA. son and clerk Of J. e. Wood, No. % Wall
street, having opened the office as usual. and
got the trunk of money which was kent in
another building, was proceeding to distri-
butte the bills into the proper drawers, when
person stepped in and inquired the price of
sovereigns. The lad ansW cred the inquiry,
still going on with the distribution of bills,
when suddenly he received blow on the
head from the stranger, who proves to be a
notorious villain by the name of Fosdick,
with an iron bolt 10 or II inches long. Hap
PLY il did not produce the effect intended by
the assaiIant for as he seized some piles of
bills and checks to the amount of $4,000 or
$4,000, the lad jumped over the counter which
brought him directly between the villain and
the floor. Fosdick therefore became alarm
ed for his own safety, and throwing the bills
behind an iron safe, which stood in the office,
took to his heels, and the lad after him, cry
ing stop thief! stop thiefn Twenty or thir-
ty persons instantly started in pursuit, and he
was finally taken.-N. Y. Jour. Comm.
From the N. Y. Cour. & Eng. Mayls.
Horrid Murder.-The bodies of Samuel
Sayre, Esq. and his wife, who resided about
a mile east of Morristown, ". J. were found
about six O'Clock on Sunday morning buried
beneath heap of manure in the barn yard
and upon an examination of the premises, the
colored servant woman was also found dead
in her bed in the attic story ofthe house. Mr..
and Mrs. Sayre had evidently been killed in
the barn, by means of Ratchet, which was
found with considerable blood upon it, there
also being blood upon the barn floor, which
was traced to the manure heap, where their
bodies were found covered up-their heads
being shockingly cut and mangled. The SER
want woman had apparently been stabbed
with some sharp pointed instrument in the
side of the head. about the temple, while ly-
ing asleep. These three constituted all the
inmates OF the house at the time of the MUIR
der, with the exception of Swiss laborer,
since ascertaned to be Frenchman,1 who
had been employed by Mr.. Sayre about s
weeks previously; and not being found about
the premises at the time the bodies were dis
covered, suspicion was Immediately excited
that they had been murdered with view to
plumber the house, and that the Swiss labor
er was the monster who perpctratcd the hor-
rid crime.
Upon an examination of the premises, their
suspicious were more than confirmed, when
they ascertained that the desks and drawers
had been broken open and ri1ed, and favor
Ite horse of Mr.. Sayre missing from the sta
BILE. Information of the murder was imme-
diately conveyed to Morristown. when the
whole Of that peaceful village was immediate
ly thrown into CONSERVATION at the unexpect-
ed intelligence, and hundreds instantly yolun-
teered to scour the country in pursuit of the
erpetrator-handbills were also struck off
and circulated, detailing the murder and de-
scribing the person Of the laborer, several of
which reached this city yesterday forenoon,
and were placed in the hands of the police Of
ficers. He was pursued on the road towards
this city, by Mr.. Ludlow. the sheriff OF Nor
tIs county, and, we are happy to learn, was
arrested about two o'clock in the afternoon,
at small tavern midway between Newark
and Jersey City, sVmetimes called the half
way house, but more generally known as the
Mosquito Tavern" When arrested, a
new suit of wearing apparel belonging to Mr..
Sayre, was found on his person, including his
hat, in which the owners name was written,
together with his gold watch and a conside-
rable quantity of silver, which had been la
ken out of the house.
The person apprehended, (Antonie La
Bianc,) as we are informed by relative OF
Mr.. Sayre, had been in his employ only about
three weeks. He had been seen in Morris
town as late as nine o'clock on Saturday
night, and from the circumstance of Mr..
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