Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-03

following article, will apply the picture drawn of Lowell to a great many other pla- ces beside that: Land speculation in LOsceU in 1832.- Lowell was one of tho first busy theatres of land speculation in New England late years. A high protective tariff was on, and people seemed to regard it us fixed for ever. Manufacturing stock was at 0n ad- vance; new factories were in progress of erection; and the town wore busy air. Mechanics and traders were crowding iD, and the necessary buildings were growing up for the accommodation of the increas- ing population. The original purchasers of the land offered it, through their agents, at reasonable and safe rate-as much, in fact, however, as it was worth and upon uncommonly easy terms. The ball conl- menced rolling. Some. persons who had purchased land of the company found pur- l chascrs at bonus. In a trice, Lowell was one grand land office or exchange. All other business was neglected. Speculation was ripest in the summer aud fall of 1882. Strangers flocked in to speculate. Citi- zens left their occupations to speculate.- Ministers of the gospel, lawyers, doctors, women, minors, and gray -headed men, had all Speculation in their eyes, People who never dreamed of holding real estate paid their fen per cent. to the company, became nominal owners, sold out and real ized profit in one day. The sun which 1 rose on them landless, with small sums of money, hardly set before they had been landholders, spectators, and landless a- gain, with profit realized by two hours proprietorship. Those who, like wary gamblers, crept out early, content with rea- sonabIe winnings, made money. Those ! who invested largely, and bought third or l fourth rate hands, got scorched wofully.- What might have operated as caution on some people failed on them. 1hc compG- ny did not odvdnce their prices hair. ex- cept, perhaps, on some decidedly eligible situations. But on the people went. The oftener piece of land could be transferred the more valuable it became, as ifeach pos sessor's name affixed hundred per cent. value to the tract. Houses were built, stores finished, Improvements were made, people lived up 10 their nominal property, till by-and-by, the tide turned. Land be- came a drug. It stuck to it's holders, till the sheriff obligingly negotiated for them. Men, who rated themselves as worth thou sands, failed. And now Lowell is like a sturdy boy,-healthy, but lank and weak with his fast growth; his brooches and coat hanging loose, being made in anticipation of his growing up to them. There are stores and houses waiting for tenants. Rents have fallen near their proper level-a rea- sonable per centage on the actual value of their property.'
 Elopement E1tra.-The last Barre Ga zette contains singular account of crim. con. case, which we present to our readers without comments. The facts as publish ed in the Gazette, are as follows "A young, handsome and intelligent female named Harriet D. Rabbit, who had been married about eighteen months, and has lived very happily with her husband in the town of Barre, until week since, when her husband learned that there had been a secret correspondence going on between his wife and some one in Boston, which, however did not excite his suspicious of an evil design on her part, as he knew she had respectable relations and friends there.- Subsequently she visited the metropolis with the knowledge and appreciation of her husband, but was absent much longer than she ntimated. In the meantime some of his friends here intimated to him, not with out cause, that her fidelity was questiona- ble. He immediately went in pursuit of her, and finally traced her to the Frank lin House, in Brighton, where, as the Ga ze,le says, she had been conveyed by one Mir. Gannett of Boston, who had taken rooms there for the summer, for himself and Mrs. Gannett alias Mrs. Babbit. MT. Rabbit asked permission to visit the apart ment of his adultress spouse ,but was denied admission by her and by the landlord, who had been made acquainted wiih the cir cumstances connected with this unhappy affair. Rabbit, however, forced his way into her room, and was received by her with coldness and contumely, paths and imprecations. He entreated her, with all the affectionate exhortatioDs of which he was capable, and such as would naturally emanate from all injured, but fond husband, to return to her home, repent and reform, and receive his cheerful forgiveness, but all to no purpose. He then took from her a trunk containing all her clothing, except 1 ing what she wore, linen false bosom marked, e. K. Gannett, Boston, and some other minor articles of wearing ap- par ell, bearing similar initials. The owner, it is said, is a Wholesale Merchant, in Bos- ton.
 FEMALE SOCIETY.
 We have often remarked in our inter-