Litchfield enquirer., 1834-12-25

port, which cirt umstanCe induced him to adopt different cOgnOmen from that by which he had been known. He has since been man of property, lived respectfully d.
 nOng us, and has brought np a numerous and industrious family Hauen Herald. 1 Conscientious MiSer.-An old Dutchman, 1 named Shumm, who lived in one of the wretched novels that stand in the rear of Sheriff street. and whose apparent poverty and manifest sufferings from a dreadful case of hernia had long excited the sympathy of his humane neighhOrs; died on Friday last of asthma and a complication of other diseases. He was well known to be of a very obstinate and eccentric disposition; and although he had been confined to his bed several weeks, he not nnly rejected all medical aid, bun per- sisted to the last in his singular habit of sleep ing in the whole of his wardrobe. which con sisted chiefly of pair of brooches, that at some remote era had been constructed of blue velvet, a sailors jacket, and frieze over coat which all exhibited accumulated proofs ofthe old mans attachment. On Wednesday he sent for Mr. M. Van Duersen, a respecta- bIe codntryman of his, residing in the neigh boi hood, W hO had often given him charitable relief. and privately requested him to make his will. To this gentleman's great surprise he beQueathed various sums of money, amour. ting altogether to S5.7OO, tn children and grand children residing at Newark and Alba ny; and confideniially informed him where this property was deposited. He then narra- ted tO MT. Van Duersen the following remark able facts in his hisiory:-
 He stated that 20 years ago he was a porter to mercantile house in Hamburgh, and, hav- ing been long in it's employ, was frequently entrusted with considerable sums of money for conveyance to other establishments. In an hour of evil influence he was induced to violate his trust, and to abscOnd to this coun- try with large sum. Having arrived, he in- vested the greater part of it in the purchase of two houses, which adioined each other, and which, before he had effected an insurance on them. burned fo the ground. Considering this judgment of heaven upon his dishonesty, he determined to devote the remainder of his life to q severe course of industry and parsi- mony, with the single object in view of mak-
 ing full restitution to the persons whom he had injured, or to their descendants
 He adopted another name, and, with the means he had left, commenced business in this city as a tObaccOnist; and although his trade was retail one, and he had again suffer ed heavy loss from fire, he had succeeded five years since, in acquiring sufficient proper ty to accomplish his just and elevated purpose. He then, accordingly, sold his stock in trade. and was preparing to transmit the necessary amount tO Hamburgh, where the mercantile firm he had defrauded still continues, when he ascertained that it had branch establish ment. or agency counting house. at Philadel- phia. Thither he went, and paid the sum of Sl4. .00O: being equivalent 10 inc original sum he had pnbczzled. with a certain rate ofinter- P9 laRf hnV returned to him by s"n of one "C the part ners, and this. together with some surplus money, he has bequeaihed as above stated. For the last five years he has lived in utter "b scurity, and in severe accordance with his long formed habits of parsimony.
 His executor, MT. Van Duersen, found the above named sum of $37O0. principally in loubloons, curiously concealed in a certain private department of the tenacious brooches before specified; and it was asce, taned that the old mans dreadful case of hernia. was a case of ofsomethng far less objectionable. l The remainder of his money was found under the patches of his jacket, with the ex- cepiion of a small sum in shings and sixpen. ces discovered in an old snuff jar, which seems to have been the depository of his current funds.-Cour. s Eng.
 EddScGtion's Rix."-A precious youth in a coun try town in Massachusetts, had arrived to the age O mine years, when his father him to school. H, stood beside his teacher repeat the letters of h. alpliaBet. "Whats that2" asked the master.- |" Harrow" voc;ferated inc srchis. "No that's A. F"A!" "Wel, what's the next7" "Ox yoke."- No. that's B." "'Taint B, neither ii's an yoke crotch all hemIock! Gosh ninety! think l don' | know :"
 1 The Rev. Joel Parker has been hung in efigy, al New Orleans. The Louisiana Advertiser says :- "Wl his elders still persist in bringing him back io this ciy7 IT they do, the consequences be upon he' heads, for they longer doubt that disorders riois and perhaps boodshed, will be the consequence It will be recollected that during visit to the North, Mr. P. slandered the good people of N. Or. leans. Even his own congregation now cat bim and censure his conduct"
 Great Fishing-On Monday of ,he present week Mir. Ansel Wright and three others from ihs town caught at hasl, with only g feet of net, seye, thousand and t,cO hundred perch and the fish whcl
 they took five hauIs measured ttirtythre bushels The weight of those caught al the three first haus wa 1925 pounds-almos, ton. Nearly all the fish wer' perch only small number of pickerel were found GOO perch filled boshe basket, and they retail ed at iRe rate of 2 to 3 dollars busbe. Some were sold for less. They taken in the outlet of Hul berts Pond near Pynchon's meadow short disia