Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-30

aSJOnlShTIlGnt great when, with the returning plough, he came again to the spot and saw the nest but found that the bird ana all the eggs were gone. Under animpresson that before he left the field, he found her sitting under the neuge' upon twenty-one eggs and she afterwards, from that hatcnng, brought up nineteen birds. The round or me plough had occupied about twenty minutes in which time, probaby assisted by the cock bird) she 40 yards.
 Gen. Jackson was born in Waxhaw settlement, South Carolina, the 18th March, l767-consequent- ly is now 70 years of age.
 MT. Dutee J. Pearce, of R. I. says, in one of his Congressional speeches; Rhode Island has dis charged her duty" Not quite. She hasn't discharg- ed her Dutee yet but shewill discharge him at the next election-Preatice.
 I From an examination of 975 convicts in Auburn State Prison, it appears that had been educated at College, II had an acadelncal education, 26O could read, write and cypher 2s could read and write 2l3 | could read, 262 could not read. Five hundred and eightynine committed their crimes under the inf1u ence of strong drink.
 Wool in Ne,c-EagLand-Tot number of sheen bv estimation is 6,77509O, of which Vermont has l,oo9 9ll, New-Hampshre 465,l Connecticut Soo,oOo- The value of the annual product their wool is about $12, l95, l62.
 Maria Monk again !-CoI. Stone, of the N. Y. Com, Advertiser, in behalf of his Montreal friends chalen ges Maria Monk and any number of persons she may select, to visit the Montreal Nunnery and point out the localities described in her lawful disclosures"- Col Stone, it will be recollected has visited that Nun nery, and after thorough examination he was sats- fled Maria Monks disclosures were downright fabri cations He is Protestant; and has had animated controversy with several Protestant Clergymen in New York, on the subject. PoUell, the Seminole Chietiain-An officer of the army in Florida writes to the Savannah Georgian that the name of this parsonage is Oseo but Osse Yo hoo, meaning the "Black-Drink Ca," sort of gurg. ling noise made by the individual who hands around that medicinal beverage, (said be an emetic which they take before the Green Corn Feast''
 l Lost 'n q Fog.-Our worthy Senator, Mr. Niles of Poquonock, arrived in town from Washington, on Tusday night few hours behind the stage, in wag- gon! He had started in the stage from New Haven, but the road being bad, he got exercise his n derstadtng by footing 1t short distance, By some means or other, probably being engaged in cegta. tions deeper than the in the road and of rnoen- tous importance to the State and nation he went a. stray, and the Stage came on without him. He was obliged to hire wagon to bring him on It is suris ed that the honorable gentleman got lost in his own fog.-Hartford Courier.
 Another NetO State.-The legislature of Florida at Tallahassee, before adjournment passed as-a-eos- ing the necessary steps for census and application for state government .-.'-. sl
 Itis said that the oil ot laecnder is excellent terminator of moths. single drop is put into box with living insect, the latter almost immediately dies. ~.r.+ -..
 The ignorant are the most decisive and dognati- cal because they do not any reason for doubtng
 A lady in New York, who was run over by wag- on in Broadway nearly year ago, has recently re- covered $500 damages.
 A suit was recently decided in N. Hampshire, in which the dispute about small calf and the e gal costs amounted to upwards of $2O00 '...
 It is hard to be civil to an unthankul person it is like feeding an ill natured dog that snars, while he takes food from your own hands. f.s... . Heavy Charges.-We have been looking over some of the Tory papers, to ascertain what were the prnc- pal objections to the candidates nominated upon the Whig ticket for State officers, and the most serious charges seem to be- that one of them is "man of the bush pasture order" meaning suppose, that he is farmer, and all the rest old Jederalists meaning -honest men. We hope the Tory guns will keep up good sharp fire of such charges-the people by this time well understand the signfcaon of "od fed eralisn," as used by the Hartford Times and its brethren.-N. Haren Pal. ,t-
 Not Bad.-Dr. Hoadley Ashe, lately dead, was nephew of Dr. Hoadley, who wrote the Suspicious Husband" had the pleasure of sitting next to Dr. Ashe day at dinner when he began a story with. as eleven of my daughters and crossing Pic cadlly-" Eleven of your daughters doctor 2" rath- CT rudey interrupted. "Yes sir'' rejoined the doc tor. q have nineteen daughters, all hving never had son Mrs. Ashe, myself, and nineteen female Ashe Lants one and twenty, sit down to dinner every day Sir, lam smothered with petticoats' He prob ably meant Gshes. .-., DisGinguished L0dies-The Lexington Observer says that in the town of Columbia, Tennessee, Ra- chei Dickson is Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. The same paper states that Mary Potter is nomi- mated as a candidate for the Legislature of Kentucky. We wish these ladies all manner of success in their public career, as well in courts as in courng. They may yet become influential members of the Kitchen Cabinet-Haryord Courier.
 Amammoth bank of Fiue Millions has been incor- porated by Missouri-the State of the great Specie Humbug, Senator Benton. The State is to subscribe one half the capital.
 , Rev. Isaiah Harris of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was recently shot while approaching his resi- dence in gig in Sury county, Virginia, The assas- } sin has not been discovered. ExrUNcNc QUESTIONS. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal asks the following questions -, Are the jour- nals of the Senate actually only typicaly expung ed7 Is thing really expunged, by being merely en- circled with black lines Is Col. Johnson expunged, whenever his wife throws her arms around him f"- Will sone one of the Van BuTen pundits answer these