Litchfield enquirer., 1834-11-06

and trembIes at every puff of wind. Butler does the preaching and praying. WoOdbury, the working and laughing at others troubles, -DickersOn. the calculating and fSuring,- but Amos Kendall Is the actor, the mover Of the wires, the thinker, the cOntriver. the de- rector. The Cabinet Proper is his manufac- tory, and he goes into it as the foreman Of a cotton factory, after lifting his water wheels. goes amOng his looms and spinning jeOnies. making them weave whatsoever web he pleas es.-Port. Adv.
 Sudden Deoth.-Capiain Chew, nn old and valuable shipmaster of New Haven, died very suddenly in that city last week. While pass ing the house of Mr. Blake, in Elm street, he was suddenly stricken to the ground, hut sue ceeded u raising and supporting himself by the railing outside the side walk, and calling for help. Mir. Blake assisted him into the house, placed him iD an easy chair, and be- slowed every possible attention, but before a physician could arrive the vital spark had fed. The whole periud from the alarrs tO the exit did not exceed ten minutes. No Ostensibe cause appeared for this fatality; no indica- tiOns of the rupture of blood, and nothing ap- oplectic, from the fact that he was enabIed to rise and walk after the shock.
 Melancholy Suicide.-The lifelrss body of Mr. EbeneZer Gage, of Charlestown, house carpenter. was found on the Common, in the old dyke where a willow tree grows, on the hill near the Great Tree, with his throat cut and the lugular vein severed. An inquest was held by Coroner Snow, and the jury return ed, as their verdict, that he came to his death by cutting his throat with knife, on the Common, between two o'clock yesterday af- .1o o~R- in state of mental Arrangement. MT. Gage, we understand, was an industrious man, of temperate habits, and possessed a property in real estate, of nearly S6OOO. Hewas married six months since to a Portsmouth lady, who is at present absent on visit to her friends. He has been for several years past at times insane, and came over from Charlest"wn yes terday, with his brother, who left him at a Thompsoniau Infrmary in Harvard -street.- He left the house after being there about an hour, but did not return, and was not heard of until discovered this morning. There were SEQ in bank bills, guinea, and some notes of hand found in his pocket. together with a will, in which he disposes of his property, and declares that he dies "moraI and honest man."-Bostoa Tsans.
 Oetagon Phials for Erternals.-An English writer, after commenting on the numerous ac cidents that occur from the swallowing of medicines by mistake that were designed for external use. or for other purposes, and par ticuiarly on the recent narrow escape of the Earl of WestmOreland from the consequences of such an error, recommends that physicians amt apothecaries use OctagOn phials to send out laudanun,, liniments, embrOcatiOns, and other articles prescribed for outward applica- ton. Some of these phiaIs might be cast with the word laudanum'' on them, and others with the words "only for outward use."- Thus would all danger of mistake be rcmoy- ed, since the bare feel of inc phiai in a dark room would show that it, did not contain a draught or mixture intended to be swallow ed. This suggestion is an excellent one, and we hope it may be adopted in this country. Its adoption. to be effrctnal. must be general, and it can only be general when done under the sanction and authority of medical and pharmaceutical societies.
 The London Morning Herald'' contains paragraph which conveys but an indifferent notion "f the state of morality in the metro polls of England. It appears on a careful and minute inquiry into the condition of the female sex in London, that the number of fe- males of certain class exceed 8O,O0O-that there are al present l5,OOO girls. children of the poor, whv have no visible means of sub. slstence, the greater part of whom are trained to every variety of vice, and are without shel- ter at home. It is also ascertained that the number of female servants in London is l6S,. 752 that the time each servant remains in one situation, by an average taken at several different periods, is 46g days, consequently on an average 358 leave their stations every day. Seven out of every ten are young wo- men from the country.
 Force of the Imagination.-A few years ago a celebrated physician, author of an excellent work of imagination, being GesirOus to add experimental tU his theoretical knowledge, made application iO the Minister of Justice to be allow ed an opportunity Ofproving what he asserted. by an experiment on criminal con- demnrd to death. The Minister complied with his request, and delivered over to him an assassin, man win" had been born of dstn- guished parents. The physician told him that several persons who had taken an interest in his family had obtained leave of the Minister that he should suffer death in some other way than On the scatoid, to avoid the disgrace ol public execution and that the easiest death he could die would be by blood, letting. The criminal agreed to the proposal. and counted himself happy in being freed from tte painful exhibition which he would otherwise have been made of, and rejoicing al thus being able to spare the feelings of his friends and family, At the time appointed the physician repaired to the prison, and the patient ha. ing been rx- tended on table, his eyes bound, and every