Litchfield enquirer., 1836-09-01

OCc1fTrenCa, Ot one nv. - - - z [, - V In~r Ssf livc1. than it has become our snd duty tc n, tn.sav. At about half past o'clock
 V -. - .ss,'.u,.sv,, ng tho NicnmbOuk Duwfuni -, ,,ss-Ing down fhe East River, she ran in- .n tl,6 ,-ss.aSn Ferry boot Jacks0ns plying be- ssveer, Brooklyn and Walnut street dock, and 1ca,,eed her to sink in les than three minutes SsifI, hi oIs board l By this dreadful accident s;T ;ndividuaIs, , Eilas Wright, milknnan, of Long Island, Edward Alexander, James Con- nelly, Christopher Flanagan, and two black boys, chimney sweeps, whose names are un- known, sunk, and their bodies have not vet been recovered. Others were probably lCst, but it has not vet been ascertafned with cer- tainty. There were about twenty-five per- sons on board the boat at the time of the dis aster, the largest portion of whom were saved by clinging to the sides and bow of the Bos- ton. Mrs. Wright, wife of Silas Wright, one of those who were drowned, was the only fe- male on board, and was saved by some one on board the steamboat, who grasped her as she was sinking. Her son was also saved. There were on board the ferry boat fourteen milk carts with their horses, all of which sunk with the boat. The accident occurred we are informed in consequence of an endeavor on the part of the Boston to avoid some small boats which lay in her way in shearing to do which she careened in such way as to render her partially unmanageable for mo- ment, while the ferry boat so sheared as to come in violent contact with her, and to pro- duce the melancholy result. The Boston, we are assured, was under very moderate steam, and the card from the passengers seems to exonerate the officers from any share of blame in the fatal collision. s4I
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 Appohing. We learn from the Baltimore Gazette that a valuable hand belonging to MT. Anon Bosley, of Baltimore county, came to his death in most 4afflicting manner. It appears the man was engaged coating the kiln, thatis, taking the upper stratum of lime stone from the top of the kiln, when the whole sunk in and buried him in the burning mass up to the shoulders. He suffered in this ag- onizing situation upwards of an hour, and spoke to those endeavoring to rescue him with calmness, and urged them to make speedy exertions for his release. But their efforts were unavailing, and by the time they suc- ceeded in digging him from the burning stones, nearly the whole of the lower part of his body was consumed: e-sa ..l., x 4, NOyJolk, Va. Aug MA white man, whose name we withhold for the present, arrived here a few days ago in small craft from Richmond, having with him negro man and ] two boys. He offered the boys for sale to | being thought too high, he lowered it to 45O dollars, which induced a suspicion that he l had not come honestly by them but to this suspicion was opposed the ready declaration of the negro man, that Mr.a--- had bought him and the two boys, who were his children, in Petersburg. Still however, it was thought proper toinvestigate the matter, and the white man with the negroes were taken to the May- or's office, when the truth came out that the negro was free man, belonging to Peters burg that the boys, also free, were his own children, and that he had entered into com pact with the white monster to carry the chil- dren abroad and sell them and divide the mo- ney All the parties are in custody Herald.
 Large Sale.-We learn from the Detroit Free Press, that all that part of the Cass farm lying next to Fort street, amounting to about 400 acres, was purchased few days since by Messrs. o. Newberry, Benjamin B. Kerche- l val, F. P. Hastings, and C.. c. Towbridge, Esqrs. for three hundred ard tty tho'tsand dot lGrs. ;. Az, s, fi | Milicaukie.- Twelve months ago and this place had no existence, the land being own cd by government. Now there arc in the place from 60 to 70 frame buildings finished, besides from 60 to 70 under contract, and a population of from 800 to 600 inhabitants This place is but little more than eight months old, and already contracts amounting to for- ty-seyen thousand dollars are entered into, I for grading the streets on both sides of the river, and constructing bridge over the Me- nonaonee. A steamboat is also being built by the inhabitants, to run on the Milwaukie river.-Detroit Journal.
 l Eggology--We have had the pleasure of seeing very fair and plentiful specimen of the Labrador egg-manufactory. vessel en- tered our harbor yesterday, having on board about eight hogsheads, perhaps 15 or l6 hun. dred dozen eggs, made bya a species of bird called the Mu,rh or sea duck, (wc don't know how to spell the bird,) that has, from time immemorial, nonopolized the business of g-making on the Labrador coast. The eggs are ofthe size of a large turkey or goose egg, in the shape ofa bell-pear, and of all the colors that can be found among the latest pat terms of calicoes. They are slowed in the hold of the vessel like common stone ballast, and are selling off rapidly at a moderate price. The. liberality in the size of eggs re- minded us of the following conversation which took place short time since with a seller of hen's-eggS:- h@ ss& Mister, it scsalls ID sIie yuur gggsare small CT than they usedsto be. SmalL darn it--ev- cry thing is small nowadays We must cut the coat according to the cloth. My wife says her hens cannot afford to discounf large l eggs under the present administration, and has accordingly ordered them to put thesame material into two, which under previous ad- ministrations they saellad-ap in one.
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