Litchfield enquirer., 1836-10-20

" VII - |l- IrAa'-@ uAsAt t|Al Dl8tE v Ht th' sehools d . b6ok i6E exercisine h feadingA Does any other book contain pufef morals T D0es any other book afEora gFeatsr variety for exercising pupil in the aFt of reading Ifnot read at school, will it be 60 likely o 6t read n.after life Ifnot read and studied " youth can it's truths and moral precePts ps c =
 strongly impressed on the mind in af.er ,lIs se z Would it not be better to make the In GD.o =. : class-book for reading lessons a. s .,f tlis schools Ls Has not the banlsnnlen.s .,srod Os book from our schools, for s2 long ..a Ry. sfs b ,,S f the causes operating 70 PuVC,t SlS S for the general Iawlessness ana ,a 1, ,s,cy at prcsefit stalking over the lana Can : f s1 : 56,,6 yenttire to answer tnis quest1On .n Etbe ueeatfvess Ifthis cannot pc ansWeIeo in
 tl,, ,neSatiyc, ought not the friends of 'chFlStl-
 an;.v if,7 have it speedily restored to, our schools .-- IVheeiiag .Iisnes. fsa aa 4gai io.s
 ya,.se Iecutia,,ssiies.- hotel at which
 we, ve !stolpped in LeghorI Was the Euiopa, the landlord of which speak Italian, French and
 English, in d manner remarkable for an tlf-
 educated lanan. He amused ms often by his
 taOwledge of little American pecuiiarities!-+ The oFdinaryS egg cups Of his household, for example, he tIrRed aside for wine glasses, because as, he said, when my English com m
 panion demanded the others, that h., . thought kAC was RkCt1SkIA US <AtktOIlNttlln tOAll1S AHn
 for an Amefican, by giving us inc Wine cups
 that the Aniericafls usually demand! This
 was new piece of peculiarly to me, whiehf
 had never marked in my Jowll land. iNsi Why
 did you think we were Americans Fl asked,
 aforI have not told yol.''' 0ss, ,Oh,'' he replied
 .you see that chair that is, broken. ,n 1 never had an American in my house that did not break chair by sitting in 1t when 1t was sole ly supported by two legs" T acquitted my
 self of this sin, for the Englishniaif broke the chair, and laughed at him In1errily on iac- countvof the mistake. This pecaliarity ye is
 Arnericans t Our first college lesson isgto sit withour feet higher than our heads, in a. mann ner that but few European chairs can stand, stand,
 In our hotels eften, you will see whole rows 9f spots upon wall that gseasy ggs heads Rays
 it's sides by the inde eftati ions they have made
 in the floor. It was funny enough to see q hotel keeper thus far off distinguishing an American, by the, breaking of his chairs.--- The Englishrnan says Taught him the lessons and nothing is more probable, for really do think 1t is one of the most comfortable things in the world to make d bed of chair. I aI- ways envy the happiness of D man whenFI see him sprawling 6sef six chairs. z -ilS as 2 .giisb3l hayd ali h-4--s5eS fRI 4lfsaS bed
 LA, JVhip.-tF-A person who keeps a, grocery
 store in this city, bpsyipg himself yesterday
 lasses, found in the cask a hickory stick, near ly as large as a mans wrist, and something
 like flifee feet long -tieds to one end of this
 was q large lash, 4 feet long, made of braided raw horse, hide < We swung the machine, and came tothe conclusion that half a dozen blows upon the bare back of Q. human beings would entitle him to place in the hospital vf the "incurables." t is not improbable that the "tasker'' had dropped his whip for a tirne and tho poor wretches purchased them selves temporary respite from it's use by dropping 1t into the nnolasses and heading it up. Perhaps too, the artifice was 'discoyer-' a. and the, offending mortal made to, feeLthe, weight otia neic uoJ l.ssiu VqqFA aaols a,it
 asScourgathat wakes,that punishesthe esearsRs bne pda ga5.dmsn bHa ,uaPAad plS Gazette. ie
 A Consnapmate yillain. Evan van McD,oWeIl
 is perhaps one of the most heartless scodnd-
 rels that ever lived in any community He
 lefts sliis wife sf the point of death, and ran away with her sister. On the day following,
 the wife died. and is represented as having
 been found in the most shocking state, alto-, gethert from neglect, {; cDowell is, said to have escaped from justice several times. He | is about 5 feet 10 or II inches high, light hair, about S7 years of age has a large
 mark across his nose, and fiotlief across his lip, and is very fond of wrestling, gambling,
 &c. Safah Weberly, the sister-in4l law, seems
 to have exhibited equal deprayiy +she,pro-
 cured fhe horse and wagon in, which, they absconded and which was sold in Baltimore. She, was to have been married in few days
 to a workman on the Brand yWine, obtained
 money from her lover to purchase her out fit, and then absconded with her sisters hns4
 band . She is about l0 years of age, rather masculine in her appearHnee,s dark hair,
 large mouth, good teeth, and makes pratenl
 sions of being acquainted pmith mineralogys l 'tslasoilf sid hoa .bl;a, WilmaNgfo'ps sGas nLyachiag q Th;efa4lA fellow passine him. sell oH for a dentist, nanAea John G. iFields.
 who had been loungihg on boafdsthe wharf , boats at our landing for seseralsdays. wac caught a day or two sinces having robbed a fiat boat of nearly 2 hundred, dollars,; He
 was asked which he preferred, to- be Lynched, or be taken up town and sept to jail.,, He pre- ferred the jurisdiction of Judge Lynch, when
 he was accordingly taken, over to Arkansas
 and stripped and received b round hundred
 lashes, we'll laid on: he was then put ina
 aug Outs- with etlossf of hnaad and five dOls q lars, and set adrift inthe Mississippi we hope no more to be heard of again in such man ! Iner, He is said obe an admirable Mechaf- ic, and belonged in, Lauderdale county, Ala. where he had been postmaster, as a cofnfnis- s sion in his pocket to thnt effect from Maj Bar ,. ry testified; he reported himself single, al- though papers about him showed him to have q a wife and childfens What aspity that so sI miserable tR wretch should be suffered ito 4 | ...sN