Litchfield enquirer., 1839-06-27

 ship FIoFidinn, which smiled yesterday, is Miss Anna Wheeler, the interesting eleTe or the Mobile Rife Company. twill be m the recollection of many of our readers, tnat some years since, on the sudden death Ot Morris Wheeler, a popular member of that volunteer corps, his brother soldiers united in having every public tribute of respect tO his memory and as a further substantial and abiding testimony of their esteem, un- dertook the charge of raising and educating his daughter, then little child. That trust they have faithfully executed, and have pro- vided ample funds for the increased expendi- ture required by advancing growth. The child, now an intelligent girl of ten or eleven years of age, has been sent to the north to re- ceive at the best schools there, every advan- tage of mental and moral cultivation, such as her liberal benefactors desire to bestow upon the orphan of their deceased friend.- We are glad to be assured that this act of mo- blc sensibility has been worthily bestowed. and that their protege exhibits all the signs of gentle and docile disposition, and the proofs of a superior capacity, which must gratify the hearts of her young protectors Mobile Cour.
 Shocking Accidem.-On Friday afternoon last, shocking accident happened on board sloop Belvidere, Capt. l.. Persey, while in the harbor of Annis Squam. The sloop had got ashore-and had carried out a kedge anchor and towline, for the purpose of heaving off, The tide ran with great rapidity-and when the vessel got afloat, she passed over the an- chor before the hands could take in the slack of the towline. A turn was taken with the rope round the windlass-but the cook being busy in assisting on the forecastle, unfortu- natcly got his head in the blight of the rope, which by some means got round turn around his neck. Before he could disengage himsel6 the slack of the hawser had run out, and the poor fellow was dragged to the bows of the sloop sChere has head a1Gs taken of tn Gn instant, and teN orerboGrd! His name was Wm. Delaney, he was aged 4S years, and has wife and two children in New York.
 Boston Mercantile Journal
 Deaih from Hydrophobia-W learn from Hudson, that respectable man named Aus tin died there on Monday, ot thydrophobia.- He was bitten in the hand about six months ago, while attempting to separate two dogs which were fighting. The wound soon heal. ed up, and nothing more was thought of it, until two days before his death, when, feeling indisposed, he went home, and some medical drink was prepared for him by Mrs. Austin. As the liquid was presented to him he revolt ed at it with shudder. Afterward, at every proffer of liquids, the sensation returned, with much greater shuddering, and ultimate spasms. The facts becoming known, it was ascertained that the dog that had bitten him went mad and was killed, after having bitten several animals, which died. The spasms of MT. Austin increased to convulsions, and he died in great agony. During his paroxysms. he bit the bed clothes violently. The case of 1vp yoA hnSn 4ol drophobia.-N. Y. Com. Ado.
 A Lynch affair in West Jersey is reported by the Bridgeton Chronicle of Saturday. On Sunday morning week, the suburbs of that village were somewhat surprised by the ap- pearance of creature in human shape, full clad ir feathers. It appeared that one Rich- ard Hand, with two associates, proceeded, the evening previous, 10 the house of James Brown, with keg ftar and pillow of fea- thers to tar and feather him. Brown was prepared for them, and with some friends, seized Hand as he entered, his two associates taking to their heels. They stripped him, tied him hand and foot, clothed him with the dress he had brought for Brown, kept him till sunrise the next morning, and then turned cry garb, the Lyncher being Lynched. It is
 
 Romance in Deaih.-The last Natchez Free Trader tells the following story :-" On the Eth of the present month, Miss Mary Ann l.. Borber, aged 17, and MT. L. B. Young, aged 23, both of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, were buried in one grave, after having departed this life under the following circumstances Mir. Y. was high minded, honorable young gentle man, most ardently and devotedly attached to Miss Barber, between whom and himself those promises and attentions had been inter- changed which pledged them to the marriage union at no distant day. One in very sen- timent as we'll as in sympathy, they both, few months since, made profession of re- ligion at the same altar and at the same time. On the day of their death, they had gone on water excursion, with uncommon buoyan- cy and animation of spirits, along with four others in skiff, which was suddenly overset and plunged them all in the water. The low CT seized one whom, of all others, he would save, and they both perished!
 They were found at the bottom, locked fast in each others arms. With solemn propri- ety. that embrace was never broken, and their bodies thus rest in one grave together. even as their spirits together passed into one heav. ca. ,7i. ..... ..f.-.... t..
 Remarkable Longepity-Mr. Adam Rogers of Bangor, has published an account of the longevity of his fathers family, which shows the following remarkable result. They were all born and brought up in Marshfield, Mas sachuseits, and consisted of six brothers and sisters. who died at the ages set against their respective names:-Timothy Rogers, 100 years. Israel Rogers. 105; Peleg Rogers lO7 {; Amos Rogers, 65; Zacheus Rogers, 97; Ad.. am Rogers, lO4; Lydia Lewis, 95; Betsey Talman, 100; Eunice Ford, 100; and Jane Oldham, 100.
 Unkind-We see it announced in the Hartford Times, that at meeting of the Lo- co-Foco members of the Legislature in this