Litchfield enquirer., 1840-01-09

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 LlTCHFIELD, JXN'RY g, as4o. a1r TuE WHIes or LsTcHFlHLD are requested to meet at the Temperance House, tn this Village. on Monday next, immediately after the town meeting, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the State Convention. Per Order of the ToOn Cosnmites. Jansary g, 1889.
 0ar We are requested to mention, that ;he annual meeting of the LiscAfsld County AgrscsI'Hral Society stands adjourned to the second Tuesday Of January instant, tlA,h) at II o'clock A. M at Ltchfeld, at
 which tine is hoped there may be general attend nnce of the members and others who feel an interest in the promotion sf agriculture. #a as-
 TIE MArLs-are begianing to bs little more regu. lar. Not having had any addition of snow for the lac. ten days some of the roads being openedas literary men say For the last three wceks. our mails from all quarters have heen exceedingly irregular in their arrivat sometimes one, two, and three days be- hind their time from Hartford, New-Haven, Albany. and Poughksepsie, and when they did arrive. often came on fool. Indeed no stage sleigh has been from here to Canaan, north. or west to Cornwall, since Thursday the 18th ult, and when the mail has been carried, it has been on hand sled or in the pocket ofsome agent of the "sub,Feasurers." M ..<.
 Osmyn Baker twhig) is chosen .o Congress by about 90 majority in the Franklin district. Mass The votes of one town rejected in consequence of the meet ing no. being legally warned
 Massochuseits Legislasurs. body assembled ., Boston on Wednesday of last week. As the focos claimed the lower house. there was interest felt 70 hear the result. which was. that the whg candidate
 r speaker, ;Win,hrop) chosen the first ballot by c majority over all. Tho vote was
 For Robert c. Wn.hrop. 239
 Nathaniel Wood, (lOco) 29l
 Charles Allen, tiberal whig) 9
 . ~ Scattering, (aA whig) a-2SS
 This pe,,lss the question sOthc loco loco claim so the msjority in the House. In che Senate. the whig candidate was also chosen Prcsiden. by 2majo. rty ont of 2s members present. The remaining l2 will doubtless be filed with whss
 Commithess ef the Hoase These wiI be found on tho preceding page. They are just such as every whg ought 10 be erai6ed with. Instead of the chair man of ai the important committees being given to one party. ss hos been the ease under Polk and his predecessors. they are fairly equalized. The Commit. tee of Ways and Means and Foreign Affairs the chairman Of which ought to be friendly terms with tho administration, are given to tho locos. while cer ,ainly more than majority of the remainder are giv. an tc the whigs. @
 Tho New.ilaven Register classifes particularly she Committee on Elections as dem. tlocos feds (whigs) "Stick pin herc,' and sec whs, 1t will say when that committee comes to make its report upon the subject of the New.Jersey election, and also upou the contested seats of NayEor and Ingersoll of Penn. and Stuart and - of illinois.
 "TRe karrisonisn" is the title nf the first number ofa new paper just issued at Brooklyn Conn, aboat che size of the Enquirer. lis tOleraby well printed and, batting its title. appears very well. We don't ike these names of individuals for paper-wheSs is one called" Var Bursaoran Os Dick JoAasenian 7'' Pasevsrsmcs-er.- ksrd;hood 7-Thursday evening ilss, whsn the mercury was sx or eight degrees be. low sepo. . young man. . merchant, as Wster,own, 6ra wager sf esO uBdessook come to Litch6eid ss aoi the only way conId then be travelled tlOmles) and return he sahs night, ia Ais sAir sisssss, and without any other extra dressing than cap to cover his ears. Accompanied by a companion. his part. net. he started about reached here about midnight procured eeerti6ease Ton ihe keeper of the Mansion House. and returned to Wasenown about o'clock in the morning. If fshe road had beea in good travelling nsder. there had been moon by which they might have selected the road the feat woad mol have been greats bu.. under the circumstances is certainly a very surprising ons-and Ssw individuals would I have risked ii in such night Both the young msn were about lheir ordinary business next day neither sf thsm frozen at all.
 GeiaB sRs wAsis psy q Hegs--bsss t eAe oan !-- Mr. Mark BEsin. Of DsEby, has busehessj two h1ga this ssaeons of which weighed when dFsased. S44 bs and he oshsr ss6 lbs; thsy were ls monshs old
 N. Hagss Register. We can tell q somebody shsi hss "bssasa a." A 1 SOW of 1aF. Benjamin Mason. ef this town. had six pigs the l6h of February lsss-hs raised two of them Asa Bacon of this village two mora, and John Wet. moEe the Ssmaining two-they were buschesed at about ssn monihs old and averaged sos lbs ttrss of them over 4ool l viii thus bs seen ihas whils the Dsvby hses tssking ts largest as e eEseEion gain. a sl s.l hs: mes.h h shsir hi.sh. .shs Iisehisld pigs gained @ k9 lha bath. Tey again. New. Havsn CpnBg! 'enss pacon cnn beat you all hol. | sow.
 METEOROLOGIcAL TABLE.
 KEPr AT LErcBTELD.