Litchfield enquirer., 1842-06-30
A RAT CAUGHT IN A PRINTING OFFICE.

II A RAT CAUGHT IN A PRINTING OFFICE
, Thou long.tailedy ebOn-eyed, nocturnal ranger!
What led thee h1lilee among the types and cases
Z Dost thou not know that running midnight races
Esr standing types Is traEgs T,, INN danger
Some cheese Parmesan to delight thy maw7
Vain hope none but literary jaw
Gan masticate Onr cookery Tor the mind.
Perchance thou hast a literary TASTE
A love for letters, and that eort Of thing:
But why, thou wire.taied imp-thou vermin-king
DIdst thou but yesternight devOur our paste,
And throw our types in pyramids Of pr!
Thy doom's decreed !-cOme, TOwser. at him fiy
". o. PicOyWne.
The Episcopal Church in this country appears Il
be prospering. There are now 90 bishops 200 cIer
gymen, lo0o churches, and over 10000 members
1t is singular fact that the first Episcopal mnste
ordained III this country still survives.
| Blessings on the man who invented Teetotalism =
exclaimed veto onrsef-a day or two since, as we
met man who, not many months ago was one Of The
most hioa,ed, ragged inve,erate and oathsou1e wor
shippers ", the shrine of Bscchas. that ever encour
aged the "rum trade" or was curse to himself and
to wife and children who looked up-or down-to
him for support and protection He lie now thorough.
! going Washingtonian and better husband and "a
Their, or more tidy and tresh-ookng man cannot be
| found. How indefinitely better i, is for man to
quaff the contents Of the "od oaken bucket" than
! those of the rum jug -Boston Transcript
A Veteran Edisor.-Mr. George Goodwin, Of Hart.
tord, FORMERLY one ofthe firm of Hudson & Goodwin.
many years proprietors and publishers Of the Conn.
Courant) now eiehy.four years Of age walks to the
printing Office daily and sets his paragraphs in type,
IN crafty long established habits
THAT BLOOD STAINED Sword. Mr..
Dorr made great flourish, on Monday, says
the Journal, about his sword, which he drew
and brandiShed aboutin a most fearful man.
ner, and hold great story about its having
belonged to an officer who fell fighting for
his country The sword belonged to a 1t.
named Riell, who died of the dvsentery on
tho passage from st. Marks to Providence,
and all the blood that was ever on it would
not wet the point.
70 which the Boston Transcript adds:
aGov. Dorr then drew the sword he had
on, from its scabbard, and added that it be-
longed to an officer who had fallen in Flori-
fda-that it had been presented to him by a
brother of the fallen man while he was in
New. York. It had already been dyed in
blood, and If necessary would again be dyed
in blood should the suffrage cause demand
it,"
Then up arose the man Of might, r- .~.
The valiant Governor Dorr,
And said, l am resolved to fight
My voice is still for war;"
"Behold this sword!'-a at the word,
Il from the scabbard flew"
"Khas drawn blood in Florida,
draw TT now for you"
The following from Providence paper is
the official of killed aud wounded
Killed, o
Wounded,
Missingr s4S1
Scared, $50
Horribly frightened. 769
Tainted on the battle ground, 70
Women in Mysteries. %
Powder burned, (said to be, but
| doubted) ~ Ia o.
Shot expended. o
Temperance pledges broke," $50
/ Governors missing,
EPlGRAM..
| III will permit no more arrests ~
Cried Dorr with eloquent appeals,
He safely spoke, for he was best o. #
With rapid and trustworthy heels