Litchfield enquirer., 1835-01-08
THE ENQUIRER.
LITCHFIELD. JAN. 8. 1895.

stabbiHg-GOur months Imprisonment in county iail ahd fined $3O aud co.,s.
 . Samuel Grrew, of Warren, assaul. and battery on his wife-fned $l0 and costs, and 10 stand committed !. tilI paid
 Begamin Carpenter, ofKent, for 6gh,ins-3O day. Imprisonment in county ja and costs o( prosecution Mason GaSsOn, OfNew. M iford, ,heGt-,wo years ir state prison.
 Not many civil cases of much importance were tried at this term Of the road case from COebroOk had Winchester, involving question whether . new rOHd of abOu two miles shall be constructed occupied the court from Tuesday ming oi last week to Sat. urtay night, and about 12O witnesses examined The Court we believe decided that par, of the road mah, be opened.
 The foreign news received the pas, week, though generally headed in the New-York papers late and important" and 'highly impor,an, news," and ex- tracts spread four five columns of their large papers, really possesses iile interest. The ex- tracts principally the specula,ons of the London and Liverpool editors to the effect which the late blOw UP and the appointment of tory ministry may have upon the government; whether Lord Wellington or Sir Robert Peel should head the ministry: and whether if they should the English as well as Irish
 
 nish brief sketch ot the news but it is really all that '' efa"y consequence. We might fill our paper with extracts and still readers be imIe the wiser from their Perusa The specna,ions of the Globe or the Albany Argas, or other leading Jackson paper, as to the prospect of Martin Van Buren, or Dick Johnson for the next Presidency, would be equally interesting and probably lead to as profitable resui,s.
 Yhp .Snoap piaieh fe hara o. Mond.v and Tuesday week she depth oi Is 20 inches, was as extensive has been informa,ion. As far south as Washington cly and Baltimore the snow was up. wards of2 feel deep; in NewYork or 10 inches; in POughkeersie and up the river about feet; tn Bos- iO" and around the country the eastward about the same here.
 Cold.-The cold, pince the great snow storm, has bee" very severe. On Saturday and Sunday last it was extreme On Sunday morning, in this village, the mercury in Fahrenheit was down to IA degrees below zero, and to only or above midday. In this village, yesterday morning, the mercury sio"d a, l2 below zero, and the weather s still re- unarkably severe.
 |" Hartford, we have heard it was 24 below whici, 5 we can scarcely cred-Ihough aware Una, the mercury sinks lower in some of our valley towns in extreme weather than on the bills.
 [We since learn by communication in the Couran, from MT. J. P. Brace, that Sunday morning, and also Monday morning, the mercury was duwn to 27 degrees below zero! Tn this village it stood a, al,nu, zero on Monday n:oruins.) Ta Farmins,on, and also in Ne~-fiave". we hear fell more than % below yer" on Monday morning. and in Waterbury 10 al"u, 30! Such extreme cold weather is almost without rrecede" i" 'he annals of 'he presen, generaon.l
 The Aiha"y Argus says that Sunday las, was proba- hy the codesi day for the last half century; ,ha, a, the Academy in 'he highes, part of the city, the mer- eury a' A. M. was g deg. below zern--a 9, 2O-a, l2. S-M l-,ha in the lower part of the city, three different thermometers showed thiuyt,co degrees be- io,c zero!
 EnrtLqMnke.-The Hartford Courant states that a shock Of an earthquake felt in that ely on Sunday evening las ahoat o'clock. It WIS probably merely fhe cracking of,he ,hick ribed ice in Connec,icu, Tiyer: We have sometimes heard of such icequakes in very cold weather when the thick ice upon our ponds was cracking.
 The Lssislatare of New.York met at Albany on , Tuesday last. o" the preceding evening. Chmies Rwmphrey. "f T"mrkins euun,y. was duly chosen Speaker of the House iy the legislative canc"s-o be ofeourse ratified the day.
 Judge DHpaN, of fhe 2. s. Conrf.-So many and snch contradictory stories have put in rrc ula,on respecting the resignation of this Gisir gushe indy dual, that the Ma yiand Republican now states exrli ey, the bsss authority that of the Judge himself probably. that he has not resig"rd. |" Both his health sud hearing had so materially improved io relieve his friends fran appreh~nsi" and assure the con tinuance "f his services to ,he coaniry" for period yet tO come.
 In account of the murder at Sheffield last week, we stated the names incorrectly. The same of the murderer Benjamin Collins, aud Ihe person killed James Besns-ihe former about 2O years old the lat ter about GO. The a6ray originated i" drunken (ro lie abou. the price of hottie of brandy 70 that sh"uli put a" enemy into sher mouths Co steal away sheir brains!"
 The Legislature of Alabama, (remarks the N. York Anerican., have by large ms Aies, ,wo |" each house. requested Mr. Moore to resgo his in the Senate of she United States. 4 solemn responsibility now res's upon Mr. Moore; for I he should yield io temporary ciamour righ, he holds from the Ccns,ilu 'ion- :" osedience the caprice af the h"ur, dig nied Cor the time being with the high title of"'ae voice of the people," hs shall renquish sea. of which the term was considerably srdained by she wise fameTs of the Consultation at six yeass to the very end that there might be one department of the