Litchfield enquirer., 1835-09-17
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Sharon, Sept. 7, 1885.

The Cincinnati Whig of tue 28ih ul.. says-" We lenrn froman authentic source, that Thomas Morris the Van Bnren Senator |" Congress fro'n this State. and who shamelessly misrepresenis the wl of the majority of the people of the State of Ohio, got were and we'll deserved Aogging short time ago, tn the town of Bethel, the place of his residence"
 Col. Srotber lately sent challenge to Col. Benton. which was no, accepted, when the former publicly denounced Benton a coward and scoandrel, and announced his intention 10 shoot him at sight. The Cincinnati Whig says Sirothes's purpose had been communicated 10 Benton, who, i, is said. had prepar ed himself for the assault. We should not. therefore, he surprised o learn that one or both of them has been killed.--N. Y.4 4[Sas. 'ir sfl 4ss
 August Fross.--The Advertiser informs the public, by an extract from inc Providence, (R. I.) Journa that frost had occurred in that northern region, tn this month"; and that winter clothes necessary 10 comfort. The readers of the Advertiser may proLa- bty deem it more extraordinary when they learn that White frost has, this same onth, visited Tennessee, Alabama, and large portion of North Carolina, States which the Humbuggers thought secured from such accident, by the mantle of JackaoDsm. Ii has npt the buds of Van Burens hopes and blasted all ex pectaliOn, thai his blooming honors will bear fruii Van's occupation may be gone, but his Presiden- tial aspirations passing away-his prospects are fading from the sight, they will be but the baseess fa- uric of a dream. -~.a
 Ercitemen.-The Alexandria Gazette of the 2d says-Mr. James F. Otis, lawyer Of Portland tMe.) and assistant editor of paper in that place being his return from the White Sulpher Springs, Va. on the 22d ut. arrested suspicion of being Ab- oliIionis, incendary. Mir. o. vehcmenily protested
 
 being Lynched. IL is eaid his conversations in the stage the subjec. o Slavery exasperated some of the passengers who, upon their arrival al Lexington (Va.) made the public, and thus caused the l citement. .'. The Memphis Gazette of the 9th inst. states, the authority of gentleman just from Vcksburgh, that two men, one named Urley, notorious negro thief and counierfeter, summariIy executed few days before by the ci,izens. The other man, whose name he had forgotten, belonged % gang which has for some time infested the neighborhool. :. .--'.. LorisviXe Journal. A letter from Vicksbnrg states, that the chief man of the gamblers had returned there few days before, for the purpose ol removing his family; but that aier having entered his house, beautiful building, he be- came 70 much alarmed, that in short time he abso- Iu,ey died Of the frigh'.-N. Y. Jour. of Comm. ] Accident and Warning.-An accident happened in 1 Upper Canada few days since, which ought to he viewed in the light of warning to young ladies, and old ones too if they corsets. young lady was thrown from carriage and severely injured by the steel in her corset, which catered her siomach that she died few m nuies after the fall.
 More pinin fhan pisasant.-A lady playing on ihe piano-orie, being called for dead march, ask ed Mir. H. a celebrated professor of music. what dead march she should play: io which he replied "Any
 march tha, you will play will be dead one, for you are sure 10 nnrder it."
 The number oI passengers carried on the Rail Road between New-York and Harlem, from Sept. 15, 1894, 10 Aug. l. 1885. was lO2, ,O49.-N. F. Daily Ado. 1 We lcarn, says the Bali. Americas, that the real :" Black Hawk" who was 70 cOnsPicaous in the late riots a this ely, arrested Saturday afternoon by deputy sheriff, who recognised him as he laaded from the Philadelphia steamboat. He is a painter by trade-B.
 A singular accident occurred On board the Steamer Black Hawk on the Mississippi on ihe 12,h Juy.- While running rapidly close along shore to avoid the curreai, large cotton ninety feet in height and four feet through. suddenly swayed 10 and fro as we approached and just the bow Of the boat came op- posite to t. fell heavily and with tremendous crash the deck Sreaking through ths boiler deck to the lower, on which dozen men were sleeping, all of whom had lime to leap out Of danger before the huge trunk suSk deep into the deck, nearly severDg poor fellow in two, and crushing the head of an- oiher. and slightly woundng one or two others The alarm was very great on board. Afer an hours hard labor, the tree which held the beat tastIo the hank like vice, waS cat away--a grave dag, aId ihe man. glsd corse placed ia h cOf6nless, and ws were once more under weigh again. Westeyn pa.