Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-09

Earthquake in FtTW.-A letter from Gen. tleman attached to the Potomac, dated af Li. ma, Sept. 96,and received tn New YOrk, ,says: l" By an English brig, from Africa, we have accounts of the destruction of that place, on the 18th, by an earthquake. Only iS houses are left standing, and from to 700 persons are stated to have perished. The beautiful valley of Zapa is laid waste. The famous White Bluf. (abOUt goo feet high) on the right, as you enter Africa, is nearly on level with the ocean, and two small islands, on the same side, are sunk so that frigate can sail over them. The first sh"ck was about 10 F. M. and three others at intervals of three and five minutes. the last the most severe. The sea was thirty feet higher than usual. "a
 Trask.-Tt is suggested that the being, who nearly butchered the family of Mr. Jones. in Rhode Island, is the maniac, Trask The sug- gestion is very probable. He is now roaming through the country like an unclaimed tiger :. OV rather perhaps proving like the same ani- mat, when led by instinctive cunning to seek opportunities Of slaking his thirst for blood through ambushes and darkness. It is not more than year since he escaped the lunatiC. asylum at Worcester. The manner of his es- cape showed his matchless cunning and his success in cOncealing himself thus far is in fur ther proof of it. A fixed taste or love for
  is the ruling passion of his soul. There is no other human being, now known to exist tn the country, in whom like monom0nio is so stri- kingiy -Ne,cburyport Herald.
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 The Mercantile Advertiser annouBres on the authority of letter from Matanzas, the death there on the 14lh ,rft. of Col DesoiiE Ciihtor, son of the late governor Clinton.
 
 Scarcity cf fMoney.-The Chamber oftrade ih New-York agreed to a memorial to Con- gress on Saturday last, which prays for some mode of relieving the pecnniary embarrass. Dcuts now existing among the merchants, which are thus spoken of in the New. York Daily Advertiser of Monday :-s' Saturday was day of unusual interest in the Money Market, owing tn part, to the failure of two. large and'highIy respectable houses. It is now admitted by all intelligent men, that the pres. sure is unusually sevryc. Great and caiami- tous falls in Stocks :; the fact that good Notes are sold at one and a half p,-r cent. a month: the difficulty in obtaining discoGnts; the i'm possibility fregulatng distant Domestic Bills of Exchange; or to sell Produce for cash together with other causes, are demonstrations of scarcity of money that come home ta the business and wants 0f every ihdividual.'' Some kinds of Stock fell ' per cent.
 Ohio.-ln the Columbus Daily Advertiser the following statement of the population oE Ohio IS given. In 1903 the population was estimated at 60,O00 and the state was divided into " counties. In 1910 it was 23O. .76O and the number of counties S8. In l9I6 the State contained S85.000 souls. and numbered 45i counties. This year (i83S) her inhabitants will count 1, l5o,OOO, and 70 counties are en- braced within her limits. .', ,., .,. ..., Relative Mortality of the !easons-With respect tO sinister influence on human life win- ter takes the lead summer on the contrary, is the season when fewer deaths occur. Yet the seasons vary in their influence at d!ferent periods of life. The rule we have just laid down applies to children less than one month old. Between thcs ages of sone. month and two years, autumn is the most fatal of the four; the other three diminishes their effect on infant life according to the subsequent suc- cessiOn-winter, summer and spring. From, the age of two to that of fifteen, spring is ihe- period most to be dreaded then follow au- tumn, summer and winter. After the age oE fifteen winter regularly exhibits the ma ximum of mortality and summer the minimum; un- tiI the age of eighty, autumn stands next in noxious influence to winter but beyond that period of life, spring snatches away far great CT number of victims than autumn. It is ev- ident. from comparison of these facts that the seasons are not at all ages equally i1fnen- ta with reference to the duration of human life. The data given are the result of four and twenty years observation of the bills of mOr- taty for Genoa as laid befpre the meeting Of the HeIveiic Society of Nstnralisls, in 1882, by Dr. Lombard of that city.
 The Richmond Enquirer bears hard upon Col Crockett. !, calls him such hard names as bufoon "s.upd, coarse vHlgari,y," SEr. &c. The Colonel isreported once to have threatened 10 " pin edit or's ears back. grease him aad swallow him wloe' He may take trip to Richmond one of,hese holidays, and perform the feat there. '.E
 The Cincinnati Gazette states that the number of applicants for dvorces before the Supreme Court oI Ohio, amounts 10 nearly five hundred! Besides these there about fifty applications the Legis- aiure during the first three four days is present session, and others were rapidly comingin This the editor says indicates fearful amount of dsconlenti in the connubial relations of the State.
 HoRRIBiE.-A young man has recently been com. mi'ted to jail in James county, Ill., charged with mar. dering by poison, his father, moiher broher and two sisters. The arsenic put into coffee pot.
 Verify ihe Regency are tn falling condition Th~