Litchfield enquirer., 1845-07-24

n0IShPd - The finest razors and best surgical instruments are made in this city. We have examined various specimens of table cutlery, and penknives from the manufactory of Henry lbbotson, of Auburn, and have nothing superior, if equal to them, from Birmingham or Sheffield. Indeed, we un- derstand that Improvements in the style and finish of these articles have beeh recently made at Aus burn, and that it will be difficult for the English manufacturer to compete with our own in the quail ity of the articles, of in the moderate price at which they are sold. In this manufacture ot cut- lery, as we'll in regard to other Articles, Amers ican skill and enterprise have taken such start aS to be independent in most if not all cases oc pro- lection, as they will at no very remote day, defy competition. It is more important that they should advance safely and surely than rapidly. It is truly gratifying to observe thet present success | and more brilliant promise.-Josw. Com.
 fl PefFifed Wom0n.-A Mir. Woodward, of Warren County, Ohio, said to be a man of veraci- ty gives the Eaton Register the following account of petrifed woinah. It occurred near Lebanon. con the 18th day of last month, our venerable and much esteemed friend, John c. Irwin; closed his earthly career in full hope of happier im- mortality. On the following day an appropriate funeral discourse was delivered by Elder W. Clark. His remains were decenty inferred in the grave yard near West Lebanon. Some time previous to his death, he had expressed desire that the body of his first wife should be removed to this grave yard. Accordingly, on the 24th ult., the citizens of Lebanon and the vicinity, undertook to remove the remains of Mrs. Irwin. l went with others in search of her grave. We found it on very high point of white oak ground. near Rock Creek where they had formerly lived. And when we had opened the grave down on the coffin, we found it about one fourth in water and the plank of the coffin very rotten :; however, we got several pies ces of bark under 1t, to bind it together and lift it out. From the great weight of the coffin we were curious to see il opened and to out utter as thoro1 1SV he ho1 was covered with thin scuin of black dirt, which | appeared to be alive with very little worms of yellow color, but they soon disappeared winch ex- posed to the air. When we came to examine more minutely, we found that the body had petri- fled, and become smooth white limestone in ap- pearance. The head and neck had petrifed, and nothing remained but the naked bone, and the hairs of the head, and some feathers which had been in pillow. The arms are petrihed at the elbow joint, and nothing remained of the lower part of the arms and hands but the naked bones.-. The feet had also petrfed. and fell off at the an- cle joint and the stone appeared shelly. At the knee joints the legs appeared to be solid stone - Around each leg, where she wore her garters- being very feshy woman--the garters had made | a very deep impression, and this impression was plainly visible in the stone, except some parts where it appeared solid. The thickness of the stone was about that ot common Spanish sole leath. er."
 | '' 60OeS 02 E0e WOO0S. S.-IneTe was Qult6 an excitement in the south part of Northford, a day or two since, occasioned by the straying away of fine little boy of four years, the child of a MT. Jones of New Haven, while on visit with his mother, to her father, MT. Stephen Kelsey, in Northford. The child begged to accompany its and it remained until about II o'clock-when wishing to go back to the house, the old gentle man saw him well the road, and returned to his work But the little fellow, attracted by colt, or the birds. lost his reckoning, and wandered off, When the grandfather came home. at noon, noth- ing had been seen ot the child. A strict search was then commenced by the family, and continued without success during the day-and as night on, the most intense anxiety began to be felt by the mother and family for the safety of her first born. Every well was examined, every pond was dragged, and every thicket explored in vain; ; and about II o'clock P. M., it was concluded to alarm the village, and institute general search. Ac. cordingy, the church bell was fung, and horns blown till the summons were answered by large number of persons, who with lighted torches, chose each his route, and commenced the search but party after party returned during the night, with no tidngs of the lost one, and its discovery was generally given up. One young man, howev- CT, providentially directed. extended his route to the mountain and in lonely spot, he found the
 little fellow lying on the grass, sleeping soundly- distance of about four miles from where he left the road his clothes were torn nearly off in his ramble through the bnshes It was aboutI sunrise when he was found and the joy of the mother at | the restoration of her child, after much anxe.
 y'0d apprehension may be easily i%'gnss F E.ssi;> 1 Legal Complimcnt-At a late term of the Com- mon Pleas in Norfolk, Va, two of the attorneys having some altercaton, commenced bandying epi. thets, by no means complimentary to each other, (as these good men do occasonally,) when his hon. or, the Presiding Judge interiered, and remarked that sit was presumed the members of the bar were gentlemen, and that they should treat each other as such." Yes. your honor,' said one of them so understand it, but it is one of those le- ga! Actions not dl,cays borne out sn Fractice.'
 The RnickerJocker in its gossip with corresa pondents. speaks rather rreverently of .Mra Cam. de. It says" That unhappy midnight X0iihip. pc has frightened away from the very door of mat rimony countless numbers of old bachelors, who 1 had well nigh screwed up their courage to the sticking place. She has much to answer for
 Temperance T0dst.-The following toast was given at temperance dinner 'The revolution. ary army and the cold water army the one droye the red coats from the land, the other the red | ses"
 The Storm or .Monday-We learn by a gen. tleman from Barkhampsted, that that region was visited on Monday afternoon, by a most destruc- tive storm of wind, hail and rain. It's effects are branches, the standing crops prostrated, and win- dows broken. He informed us that one hundred dollars would not repay him for the damage done | to his crops. In his own house a dozen panes of glass were broken, but some of his neighbors suf- fered to the extent of one of two hundred panes. The violence of the storm exceeds that of any | within the recollection of the oldest inhabi. has1 n:swl.s