Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-10-18

dent, vice Hon. Gideon Tomlinson, resign
ed. Samuel Simons, Edwin Porter, Stephen
Lounsberry, Charles DeForest, Anan Hine,
Asa Picket, Alpheus Fuller, and Peter Fierce,
Esq'rs. Directors, Jesse Sterling, Esq. Treas
urer, VIM. III. Noble, Esq. Secretary We
understand that the reports of, the Treasurer,
Secretary, and Engineer were highly salts
factory, and presented the Company's work
in full progress, and the financial concerns
in the most tlatterng condition. A full re-
port of the condition of the Company, the
amount of work done, and its prospects and
resources, will be published as soon as prac-
ticable.-Brageport Farmer. e.. h.4,tsal rnal
Romance in CanodG.-A Miss Strange,
niece of the late member Of Parliament of
that name in the u. G. Legislature, was en-
gagged to be married to Mr.. Descent, mer-
| chant, residing at the head of Lake Ontario.
A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat
thus tells how the .enamoured swain sped in
WoOlng -. go ro,. eaG3H51 s.ssr~ . .lsI!
The day was fixed for the union OF the
happy fair. By previous arrangement, they
were to be married early in the morning,
| and Immediately take passage for New
York, OH their way to Scotland, to visit their
| friends. The Scotch Ministersin Kingston
then being absent, Mr.. Ducent brought IA
voritc parson with him, and arrived at the
ing for the dawn Of day, when he was to be-
| come the husband of the fair, the accom-
| plished Isabella Strange. Tho trunks and
bandboxes were all packed and ready, i'm
one OF which was deposited by, the ladv's
uncle, for her especial use, .fve hundred
pounds. ,~,s..e...,s = ga
Being thus arranged, and Just before the
| parties retired to rest, a young gentleman Of
Kingston stepped up to the Intended bride
! and bid her good bye, rcmarking at the same
time that he supposed this was the last
time that he should have the opportunity Of
saluting Miss Stranger" and Immediately
| thing was in readiness. for the solemnizl-
| ton Of the nuptal vows, when it was obser-.
we'd that Miss Strange did not make her APP
peafnnce.; The servan. wis despatched 10
The lady 8 ROOM. and returned with the as
| founding information that she was not there,
and what was still more surprising, d. her'bed
aoas not rn6sed:" A letter was found on the
| table which disclosed the whole mystery
She had been INDUCED by his friends, con-
trary to herFown free will to engage herself
| IN marriage to Mr.. Ducent, but had given
her heart to- the young Inan alluded. TO- Md
they, that night. with the trunks, fire hundred
pounds, and all, fed to Gravelly Point, in-this
State, and by Ave o'clock in the morning. she
who was to have been Mrs, Ducent, had be;
come Mrs. Mclean. ia u.s. .i1:.-,f..s %.
From The Nc,s-Tlapen Herald, Oct. 9. ''
Times in Charleston, s. C-Extract Of let
ter from a true son of Ncw-England, for u
long time residentin Charleston.
| reef 81 .|' Charleston Sept 29, 1888
81 have been all alone this week except
| my Oldest son, who stays while go to get
something to eat. Yesterday we did not
think my Clerk would live through the day,
but good change has taken place, and
strong hopes are now INDUCED of his rect.V-
! cry. Yesterday was fast day; went to the
| City Temporary Hospital forty-fve sick
4 were in it, men and women, the women up
stairs and the men down. 1t is a shocking
| sight to see the poor creatures alfstretched
on cots in one long room, writhing under the
powerful arm of this sIGll disease. Some
have died in "a :hours--somei in as; but they
usually die the sixth, or seventh day. Among
them are Italians, Irishmcn, Spaniards,
Frcnchnlen, Englishmen, Germans, &c. as
we'll rs Americans. Here, poor. fellow
from some town In Massachusetts or Con-
necticut, lying next to swarthy Spaniard,
or q heavy moulded Dutchman--there the
| late polite and agile Frenchman or Italian
receiving support, sympathy, and all that
money, science, and religious corsolation
can provide, from the warm and noble heart
ed Cnrolinians. As a patient convalesces,
he is taken next door, TO the Medical College,
| where they have all The little nice restora-
tivcs and attentions they require Bishop
England (Cathoiic| Has hopitaP in which
there are a. good smany.S T6Erealize what
death and disease are, you must visit sucfga
place; where sblood Is ,ooziDg in streams
from the mouths of some, and the sheets and
bedding saturated with it as it flows from
fhasp hadiac ~ tho slrooI III E,aafa1lsr croan
of the calomel, that peneirates your very
brain and the strong and the weak man
helpless MS infants some calling on their
distant friends whom they never will see
more, crying in their agony---this. this as
dea'h. This is a sight enough to melt the
stoutest heart. {srIGaa
There are people going about all day.
hunting up the sick and the destitute, pour
ing oil'intotheir wounds. in ourvery small
summer population, (this summary most of
our richest citizens are absent. Notwith-
standing which, near -four thousand dollars
have been raised in the different churches in
single Sabbath, out of a white population
not near So large ms your pWh-.sg, N<s6
), The City Guard, out of eighty men, has
already lost twenty -six.o The Citadel Gsptrl
has also lost many Four or five English
Captains have died, and great many Amer
lean seamen,y Captains. and Mates. b These
die in the Marine Hospital
There are seven four story brick stores at
one point n King stree, ERE few wees
since ahdnit cd men wcra rms ioyea. EFBr
ten days past there has been but four or Eve.
The rest have gone away have died, orsare
sick! 1t is the gloomiest fitDo, lever saw IN
Charleston. Only thirteen passengers have
come down on the Railroad from as faraip
as Branchvillr, Akin and Augusta, for foar
sceeks past. The few passengers who, come
here from the North arc Immediately sent
off in extra cars. The fever 10 waning for
want Of, subjects. Almost oil who were sub+