Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-31
ENGLISH MAIL COACHES.


 The English stage coach is perfect thing of this kind, and very different in construc- tion from our own. The wheels are small and very strong. The body of the coach is quite small, and seats only four inside, two on the front seat and two behind. Directly behind the body of the coach is an apartment of considerable size for the most valuable baggage, closed with strong door and lock- ed. On the top there arc four seats, two in front and two behind. That on which the coachman sits is for three, the other three seats four each. Between the front seats and the oth~.s are placed the trunks, sc. on the top, directly above the heads of the inside passengers. The price of an inside seat is double that which is paid for one without The guard occupies the end of the hinder most seat on the left side. Allthe much trav- elled roads in England are macadamiZed. There are no hills, at least nothing that an American deems worthy the name; the coach horses are the best, and changed very freduentlv; the stage coaches therefore may almost vie with the rail roads in speed The usual rate is not far from ten miles an hour, and the average speed in ride of a hundred is. scarcely at all affected by the changing of horses or meals on the road.- The coach passing at full speed through a village suddenly draws up, and the traveller sees four fresh horses standing all harnessed and ready to be attached in q twinkling to the vehicle. While he is looking about for the old church or the new chapel, or asking his fellow passenger the name of the place, < Alls right" cries the guide, and away they gallop. The times for departure and arriv- als are fixed to minute. When the coach leaves it's starting place small time piece is locked in small box attached to the coach near the coachmarl's seat, and if he is at all behind the appointed time of arrival, he for feits certain sum proportioned to the de- lay.-Boston Recorder. 4ass,t
 A correspondent of the Ohio Register, wri- ting from Cincinnati, says =
 "On landing, was yesterday astonished by the appearance ofa young man from down the river, who, when caught and meas ured, proved to be seven feet six. inches high. As he stood in the crowd, his shouf- ders high above the heads of the tallest, he looked around him without the least interrup- ton to his prospects, which was doubtless an extended one, while the pigmies of Adam, your common six-footers. were walking a. round him at a suitable distance for the pur- pose of seeing his whole length, as men walk wide of the house to read sign-board, or see the chimney be on fire. afterwards saw him standing on the guards of a steamboat, apparently surveying, over the top of the boat, some object on the other side. Ofcourse, this 1" most delicate monster" was the talk ot Front street for the day. Upon inquiry of the captain who brought him up, found he was a Louisville hackman, named Porter. His age is 9 only. and he has not yet ceased to grow. "He is filling up," said the cap tain e he'll be quite large man yet nees' young fernomenon, ain't he!"
 Ploughing an amusement m IHinots.--A let ter from Illinois says: .The roll of prairies is SO free from stumps and stones that the plough, after the first fnrrow, generally needs no guide prepared with a seat for the driver, graduated by pair of wheels, and drawn by an experienced team, it cuts fur row of equal thickness, and will pursue the even tenor of its way for miles without ob- struction. A gentleman informed me that he had seen drivers seated on plough play ing on their violin, while the oxen and the plough kept their motion through the long furrows, apparently without any attention from him. have often seen them, although having sole charge of the team. so intent up- on book or newspaper, as to appear utterly regardless of the team or the Implement 1t drew, except at the commencement or termi- nation of furrow." .ef 95