Litchfield enquirer., 1839-07-25

WI AaA4ANS@Alo 0e Fort Gibson, Arkansas, we are informed that | about week since. the celebrated chief 1 John Ridge and his father. two of tho most | monument persons tn the nation, were most | brutally and savagely murdered, and that | John Ross, the leader of the opposition party | has, in consequence thereof been compelled 1 to take up his quarters at Fort Gibson for personal security.
 From the same source we also learn that a Mr. Wright and four children were inhu- manly murdered, about the l6th June, near Cave Hill, Washington Co, Ark, for money, it was supposed. It was generally believed at Fort Gibson that tho perpetrators of this act have been pursued and taken with many others of notorious character, and that the law will be dispensed with, and they Clispo. scd of very summarily by Judge Lynch.
 .i4o G Natches CoGrier, July 3.
 An inmate of the county poor house, by the name of Barrow, has become suddenly rich, by the decision of the court of chance " giving him title to some of. the best pro- perty on Main street, lying between the Man. sion House and the Little Buffalo creek. An other instance of fortunes vagaries is the fact, that an indigent young man, journey man cabinet maker who died three years ago, was buried at the expense of distant relative in this city. A letter has been re- ceived within day or two inquiring wheth- CT he left a will, as a recent legacy has been left him. or his heirs, fortune of $l00,O00.
 B9Galo Republican.
 Easily Plosed.-The wife of New York CT, one day last week, awoke and found herself with five hundred dollars in her pock- ct travelling West, with a man that did not belong to her, and little girl that did. The
 husband followed and overlook them here he having taken the stage at Pittsburg, while they were fools enough to take steamboat down and get aground, (we could have told them they wolld.) We'll, the husband head- ed them, went on board the boat, after small
 row, got his money, wife and child, and her his beloved wife. That is what we call an indulgent husband. .- Wheeling 1Imes.
 Church BMiR of Mulberry Trees.-Every
 Yankee has heard how the Wethersfield girls erected a church some years since in that vil- lage, from the proceeds of the onion crop.-| The story is traditional and doubtless true one, but we have one to match. Some doz- en individuals in Amherst, (East Village,) en- tered into the mulberry business some two or three years since, with determination, if successful, to erect a new meeting house in that parish. They have been successful, auu Ous ol luo PrOAtS OA uutS Nttac luiut StOCA company, church is now erecting in the east parish in Amherst.- -Norlhampton Cour. s{.s.4r,s,..s t.g ..rvsae, eS s---. Fsn4% 6.e1t SEVERE THUNDER AND HAIL sToRM-DEATH BY
 - <. LIGHTNING, &c. s!e.aH Extract of letter to gentleman in Hartford. dated, s'ss "BRATTLEBORo, July 1S, 1859. @ "We arrived here last evening, and en- countered a severe thunder storm on the road from Westfield to Northampton the rain deluged the earth, and the vivid flashes of lightning immediately succeeded by crashes ceSsion the scene was truly grand and ter l rife. Idonot recollect ever having witness ed a storm more severe.
 The crops in this section of the country 1 were laid prostrate and entirely ruined by | severe hail storm yesterday, which extended 1 for some distance above Brattleboro', in a 1 southwest direction. have just gathered | some of the hail stones-1O o'clock, A. M.
 A man was killed by lightning yesterday while at work on the roof of house in l Keene. the sun shining bright at the time, and sky clear, with the exception of a cloud laying in the southwest. The mans name was Willard. Several trees were struck on the road between this and Hanover. But the most singular occurrence happened be. tween Charleston and Walpole. The chains ! connecting the leading horses of the stage with the pole, were broken by flash of lightning, and the horses detached from the stage-no one injured !; indeed the horses es- capped without injury. y."- CourGnt.
 Wo are informed by gentleman from Chicago, that laborers are in great demand on the public works in Illinois. Ten thou sand laborers are now wanted. Laborers, at the wages allowed, iftemperate and econonn- ical, may realize enough in one season. to buy quarter section of government lands The season is likely to be remarkably heal thy, as all wet seasons are in that country.-l Last year, being an uncommonly dry sum- mer, the natural draining of low grounds caused season ofterrible sickness. Such season will not be likely to occur for years The unhcalthiness of last season, has alarm | cd laborers, so that there is scarcely one mnn | to be hired, where twenty are wanted. No better chance offers, for enterprising and in- dustrious laborers in the Union. 9 2 -.7I .7 Bufalo Repu6lican.
 Deadly Enconnier.-We learn from a pas- senger on board the steamer Rodney, arrived | Moore, editor and proprietor of the Red Riv- CT Whig, was shtf dead in the street in that city on the lst instant. A gentleman named King Holson, connected with the office of fthe Republican, Ut that place, was the author of ] this horrid deed. There had been for some | time a most bitter controversy between these two prints, relative 10 a publication in the Whig, of letter refiecting on MT. Martin Gordon of this city-a controversy which fi- nally led to challenge on the part of Holson. and which Moore refused accepting, on the ground that Holson was not a gentleman .- Holson had sworn revenge, and armed him. self for the purpose of shooting Moore on sight. They met, as it appears. on the lst instant, when Holson first snapped gun at his antagonist. and afterward shot him down with pistol. Moore was also armed. but drew m yvea mn. and died in a few minutes