Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-05-31

ca out IN time to see the negro float Nv Tha;
engine was stopped Immediately. This a..
CURED opposite the town of Liberty. Sever
a. men on shore seeing the negro thrown.
overheard, pushed from shore in a yawl and
arrived nearly in reaching distance Of the
negro as he sunk for the last time. The
whole scene Of tying and throwing him over
was so precipitate, that the officers were ana,
BILE to interfere in time to save him.
SCENE IN A SCHOOL ROOM
Master.-Class in history. step I'M. Are
you ready on the question? Yeth 'ir! Billv.
who was the first hunter? Noah! WHY?
Cause he collected all the beasts of the field
and the birds of the air and the fishes oftle
sea into the ark, and saved 'eln from being
drowned. Not exactly but that will do.
Dick, will ask you some questions about
government. All American boys should UNI.
derstand it. What do you call that in which
one man rules? Donno sir! Next. That's
an empire! Not precisely it is d fiiofiEr-
chy. Coup. Tell me, Jake, what's that in
which many men rule? That's a-a. Next.
That's loco-foco. Come here sir what do
you mean? Well sir, seed it. You saw
what! Why, at the meeting t'other night
where they was all presidents and vice-pres-
identss and hardly nobody else, 'cept me and
our black Sam. Sit down sir. Next
What government is that in which the peo-
pie rule themselves? Why that's federal4
isms Next. That's a-a--Congress! Next.
know it. That's an anarchy! Go to your
places and look over that again. Harvey
Diggs! Yeth 'ir. Bring up your compost.
ton: What subject did / give you? Here
it 18th ir. "Composition on wales and whale
Fisheries wales are mountainous Coun-
try in the Continent of England. Whale
fisheries principally goes out from new bed
ford and nantucket, round Cape Horn, which
is very crooked and hard to navigate; the
people of wales is called welshmen and toast-
ed Cheese is called welsh Rabbit. Permici-
~ candles is got from whales. There 10 no
more about wales except Wailbone-"
Sir! 60 to your seat or I'll whale you. ST.
lence! Begin, writing class. May get .
cause my mouths so dry. silence!
Cincinnati Daily Esp.
Bouquet sent to Queen Nictoria.--Mr. Thor.
burn, the Florist, has sent out as present to
the Queen of England, through the hands of
Lieutenant Carpenter, U. 8. Navy, passenger
in the Great Western, a splendid bouquet Of
Flowers from his gardens and lighthouses. II
was placed in damp sand in a tin box seal.
ed tight. with glass cover. and it is hoped
will reach the young Queens hands as fresh
and blooming as though just plucked, that
she may wear it at her next levee, if not the
coronation, in proof how closely brought to-
gethcr the two countries are.-Epening Star.
The richest heiress in England Is said to be
Miss Angela Georgiana Burdett, to whom the
Duchess of st. Adams bequeathed her splen-
did house in Pickadilly, and two millions ard
half dollars to support #. Miss Burdett is
twenty.four years ofage, and It is said by the
London gossips that the favorite suffer is the
Marquis of Douro, the eldest son Of the Duke
of Wellington. The mother of Miss Burdett,
is daughter, by former marriage, of the,
banker Coutts, who was the first husband Of
the Duchess of st. Adams, and gave her the
wealth which purchased second husband
and title. The Duchess left legacy Of
100000 to the mother, which, it is stated
added to previous gifts, makes over half
at different times after the death of her ia
Their. TE
The Ten Million Treasury Note Bill Ca
mended, however, SO az to take away some
of its obnoxious features) has passed the
House of Representatives and gone to the
Senate, and will of course pass that body with
no less alacrity for the narrow escape it has
had in the other House.
In all the annals of Legislation, we pre-
sumo, no parallel can be found, ia all its cir
cumstances, to the history of this bill. II
passed its third reading by the casting vote Of
the Speaker, the body Of the House being
equally divided for and against il; and on
the motion to reconsider the vote, the cues
ton had been decided affirmatiyely by ITO
votes to lO9, had not the Speakers vote added
to the lesser number, tied the votes, and thus
negatived the proposition. So the bill actual
ly passed, or rather escaped. by the vote Of
a minority s--Nat. Intelligencer, May 1s.
Fatal Bridal To,y.-The Chilicofhe Advert
tiser relates most heart rending occurrence
that happened to q mother and her only
daughter, while on a bridal excursion in the
country adjacent TO the Allegheny noun
tains. The younger of the two ladies' had
been married two days previous to the acci-
dent, and she with her husband and mother
set off in wagon for weeks jaunt all the
party being very fond of angling, they deter
mined 10 pass day or two on q very roman.
tic strearns famed for its excellent Trout
While the gentleman had gone into an adj.
joining wood TO search for bait, the eldor.of
the two ladies fell into the stream, and In her
filial anxiety TO rescue her mother, the wife
Of two days, unfortunately got beyond her
depth, and both were swept Down BY thecur.
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