Litchfield enquirer., 1841-07-22
From the Troy Whig, Extra, July ~.

very extensive.
! From the Troy Whig, ErtrG, July ~.
Destructive FIRE !-wATERFoRD IN RUINS.
We regret to stale that fire broke out on
Sunday afternoon in the village of Water
ford, which ragged with the greatest fury for
three hours, and consumed nearly the whole
of the business part OF the town. including
the Saratoga County Bank, Episcopal church,
Academy, the Mansion House, formerly De-
marest's, nearly every store in the place. and
about fifty dwelling houses-making in ali
from serenity TO eighty buildings, among which
were the most valuable in the town.
The fire caught ut p. M, in small
building used for storing lime, situated on an
alley, about 100 yards southwest of the Man.
sion House. From thence it spread rapidly
South and East, the wind blowing at the
time a fresh breeze from the Northwest, and
continted burning with great fury for three
hours, and was finally arrested by the exer-
| tions OF the Troy and West Troy tremcn,
who arrived on the ground at half past five.
The whole loss is not less probably than
$4,000, a portion Of which is insured.
though we have not learned to what amount.
| The Fireman's Insurance Co. at Albany, the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga, and the Saratoga
Mutual and other companies, are losers.
| We are unable at present to give the
| names of the occupants of the buildings dc.
stroyed, or the owners. We were on the
ground half past S, and remained there until
the fire was extinguished, and can safely say
that we never witnessed such IL scene Of con-
fusion, devastation and distress. The whole
village was covered with furniture, goods
and articles of every description. Every
house appeared to be cmpticd of its COLI
tents, and the inhabitants Of the village and
the adjoining towns, together with many
hundreds from Troy, crowded together in
the neighborhood of the fire. AT one time
the destruction Of the bridge over the Hnd-
son appeared inevitable, and nothing saved
it but the excrtions of the Troy and the West
Troy Waterford having but one
fire.engine, and that being almost useless
The fire was finally arrested at the house OF
John Stewart, brick building "A few rods
west Of the bridge. The books Of the Sara
toga County Bank were saved. The specie
remains in the vault, TO the amount OF
$4,000. Mr.. Titcomb, butcher. fell from
a roof, and is not expected 10 live. With
this exception we heard of no accidents.
By this destructive conflagra,ion, the prop
erty of Waterford must be seriously impair
ed, and it is doubtful whether she ever will
recover from the loss. II is Ivy far the most
serious calamity that has occurred IN this
section of country since the great fire IN this
city in 1890,
UNrR1NcrpLEp WHARF.-The Sangamon
Journal cautions the public, and young Ia
dies ia particular, against man calling his
name A. ID. Young, being between the age Of
Is and 30 years, light hair, high forehead
sandy beard, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high.
tolerably we'll formed, quick spoken, and
pretends to have travelled great deal. and
to know a great deal about Buffalo, N. Y,
where he says he was raised and learned HIS
trade, which is the cabinet making business,
and we are told was married somewhere in
the State Of Ohio; from that place he went to
Indiana and married there, and after living
with respectable lady some six weeks. alb
seconded aud went to Danville, H., where he
engaged himself to a respectable young lady,
but a few days before they were to have BEEN
married, the news came that he had wife
near Terre Haute, which he denied at first.
but it appears it caused hin, 10 leave there in
the night; he then came to this county. AMI
stopped ut a little village near Springfield.
where he worked very atteMtively at his
trade fer six or seven months, part Of which
time ne paid his addresses to a respectable
young lady and engaged to marry her
They were married on the 18th day Of April,
l64l-he lived with her nearly two weeks.
and left on tho night of the I'd May, and it is
more than probable that he is now address
ing some other young lady in this State
The object of the above is TO warn all young
Indies Of the intrigue of this villain. 1t Is
also believed that he has or will change his
NAME.
Dr. DYoTr.-This individual has been dis
charged from debt under the insOlvent laws
of Pennsylvania. The correspondent of the
Journal of Commerce, abiding to the Cir
cumsMnces, thus feclingly speaks OF him:
1.-THE old MAN appears to be lettering on
the very verge Of tho grave. and with his
long snowy locks. infirm step and broken
.lownspirit, is an object to move the compass
sion Of every brholder. / knew him in his
better days, and long before he had imbibed
the mania for banking, which has since
spread throughout the land as pestilence,
and with all its desolating effects; he was
even then deeply marked with age. but his
step had all the elasticity OF youth, and tho
hard featured and stern to overbearing in his
commands. he was generally respected by
the hundred that he employed. and by many
was even beloved. The Doctors life has not
beenaN of evil. He has done much good in
his day-was enterprising and industrious,
and was not surpassed by any large employ
er that ever knew in anxious solicitude for
the mental as well as the moral instruction OF
the youth entrusted to his charge. He es-
published sehea!s and churches within his
works. and did much, all that he could To. to
improve both old and young. When l con.
trazl the rich glass manufacturer OF that day
with TIE poor, broken down mendicant, sue
ing Tor protection from the remorseless fangs
Of q few who vindictively hunt his footsteps.