Litchfield enquirer., 1841-06-17

Hymen among the Dutch.-The Catskill Recorder, m its hrmenia record, chronicles the marriage at West Camp by the Rev. Mr. Rumpf, of Caspar Schelzoen. to Magdulcna Fo!kl,main--Nicholas Weekel to Margaret Newbaver-and Andreas By. gerstoffto Dorohea lldens,ein Dunder!
 Greenhorn.-Samuel Oaks, of West Hamburg, N. Y', hung himself, on the 18th inst, because he could not marry woman whom he had " fallen in love" with. The old "lover'' was aged 73 years
 A woman may be of great assistance to her hus. band m business by wearing cheerful smile con tin ually npnn hos on""to~a"a.-A. .-..n's rarrlax i.as anu giooniness are increased hundred fold, when his better half moves about with continual scow upon her brow. pleasant cheerful wife is as a ran how setin the sky when her husba nd mind is tossed with storms and tempests but dissatisfied and fret ful wife, in the hour of ,rouble is like one of those fends which are appointed to torture lost spirits.
 4 Circumstdmcs Worth, Recording g.-Dr. JOHN R. WATRous. of Colchester called at our office on Tues. day. and paid for the Connecticut Courant to January l, lS13 He remarked that he had taken the paper, with the exception of about six months, for 57 years and had generally paid his subscription in aduanee-- The Doctor was surgeon in the army of the revolu tion; although he is now in the S9th year of his nge he has the appearance of person of6O and bids fair to live many years. We have somewhere seen it stated, that those persons who take a newspaper and pay for it puncually, generally live 10 good old age. The originator of this saying has in the above verifcation of his assertion. -Hartford CmranL
 NEw-I1AvEN.-At the annual election in New.II ven for city oficeTs on Monday last, of poll
 little short of 800, the regular whg ticket was elected | by about 36o majority.
 Almost every officer of the General Government if not every one-beore the Presidential election ex- pressed their contempt for Gen. Harrson and deca- red that they would not hold office under him. Ever since the election they have been con:rving exped ents to retain their offices.
 By the Galena Gazette, of May H. we learn that Keokuk, chief of the Sauks and Fox Indians, was vious. The difficulty originated relative to the dis. tributon of the monies paid the Indians by the Ge. neral Government.
 TEMPERANcE.-The Baltimore Transcript says that no idea can be formed of the enthusiasm which per vades that city the subject of Temperance. It is the a-pervadng topic, and the moral revolution which has been effected mainly by the drunkards | themselves, is almost past belief.
 DEBr.-Dow Junior says, one debt begets another I have always observed that he who owes a man dollar is sure to him also grudge and he is al ways more ready to pay compound interest on the l latter than the former"
 | II say, Mister how came your eyes so all fired crooked?" My eycs?" "Yes." "That came b, sitting between two gr!s and trying to look love tt | both at a time." - | widow said once to her daughter" When you are of my age. you will be dreaming of husbond.' . "Yes, mamma replied the pert hussey, "for the second time"
 i TAKE THEM oUT.-The editor of the Boston Tran script says there evils-au aching tooth in a jaw, and squaling baby in church-for which there is but remedy, and that is, take Mem oGt. In re- gard the latter evil the editor (who, by the wny s bachelor, and can't be expected to have any great fancy for children any way,I remarks: "'Tis vile practice more honored in the breach than in the Ob- servance, and tIa, it is much more appropriate to hear the voice of crying in the wilderness than the voice of one crying in the church"
 BRAVO WE'LL LONE IA small boy only B years old, caught catfish yesterday, which weighed i52 pounds Afer he gOt him fairly hooked, ihe fish
 made plunge and drew ihe little fellow under the water; nothing daunied, however, he scrambled out again. line in hand. and after hard contest, succeed ed m drawing his prize the edge oi the wateE where boaman sIaddled him and rode him ashore. | Sr. Louis PenaHf | The Message was brought from Washington iO N. York n Ihe unpFe cedenied shorI tune oi HiHe AoaFs ! aRd hfiy minutes