Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-06-11

.t,ers on parole, and they will no doubt,
lake their quarters at the St. Charles Hotel.
". o. Bee, Of the IS.
CLERICAL LoNeEv1rY.-In the Parish Of
: -;iht rnie, N. S., there has been oniy'one
hurch presentation during the last 100
y ars. The charge is now vacant 10y the
fsa;h of the late Rev. Mr.. Urquhart. who
WIS above ninety years CT age, and up
v:nds of fifty years minister of the par
! h while his predecessor livel till he
WIS above hundred wears of age, and
; hove eighty years the incumbent
There will doubtless be many candi-
dates for this vacancy which seem to
unite length of years to good living.
PRICES OF Books AMONG THE ANClENTs.
1T is recorded Of Cato. that notwi,h-
standing he had very small patcrnaI in
hcrtance, he bought the books Phiiolaus
he pvlhagorean, at the price often thou
SIND denarii. about G3OO sterling. II is
aso said that Aristotle bought a few hooks
belonging to Spensippus, the philosopher,
after his decease, for three Attic talents,
..tout G5Sl 5s. St. Jerome almost ruiz
I'd himself in order to purchase the works
.. Origen -HartweU Horne.
The DESCENDANTS OF MILES SrANDrsH.
We learn that Amasa For bes, Esq, of
Nestbrook, is direct descendant of the
renowned Standish.-His grandtather's
lame was Miles Standish, and he lived
N the homestead farm in DuXburv, (Cap-
ANS Hil), ofthe original MiIesStandish
that came over in the Mayflower, in 1920.
Jr. F.'s mother was born on the farm in
D,xbury, and afterwards the family NOV
I'd to Bridgewater, Mass, about 1850.
The family consisted of five-four daugh-
tcrs and one son. The sons name was
Miles Standish-and he has son of the
same name.who, it is thought is now liv-
ing in Genesee county, state Of New
York.
THE BORDER MEx1cANs.-The New Or
eans Jeffersonian gives the following
crap, which will interest such volunteers
rs propose visiting the Rio Grande this
summer -
The border Mexicans know how to
strike and retreat. They are accustomed
to partisan war. They are active and
arttul. They know the country. its fords,
its defiIes, and its ambuscadcs. Their
spies are in every thicket. They will
fight without pay-without expense to
the Government, with the nope OF plum
der. As abstemiouS as ldnians, they re
quire no military stores, no hospital, no
baggage wagons. They will gladly at
tack small detachment, to strip the
dead and wounded. An old pair of
brooches is 20 them quite prize. They
are the Ishmaelites of the new world. a
guerilla war with such people may be
protracted for years, with dishor ov 10
our arms, and at an enormous eXpe nse to
the United States.
THE Wrsr-TEE CITY OF ST. LOUIS.
The population of st. Louis IN 1914
was lOOOO-no inconsidcrable village for
the far West And it has the usual guam
tity of churches, theatres, colleges, lyce-
u,ns, and colfee-houses, and also, what is
more important than all in this dollar-and-
cent age, it is the centre of large and in
creasing business-l7O0 houses have been
built during the last year the registered
is 20, APO tons-beinSa an increase OF
40 per cent, in three years and the annual
trade is now estimated 10 be of the value OF
SJO00OO00. The real estate Of the city is
set down as worth $4,000 OO0-being an in
crease since 1920 of $l2,OOO,OOO.
Mr. Silss Howell died in Portland last
week. He was the oldest man in the
city, being one hundred years and ten
months old. He was born the 4lh day Of
July, l745.
One Hundred and Fifiy-nine Lawyers
Admitted 10 Practically the Supreme
Cour, in New York city, 10th inst. sew,
epty,hree counselors and eigh,y-six at
torncys were admitted 10 practice.
TDavid Baker, of Johannesburg, N.
Y. cut his throa, and then hung himself
u few day since.
nz-The Harrisburg (Penn.,) Tele-
graph says -" We learn that the Hon
VIM. Simonton, late Representative in
Congress from that district, died ut his
residence in South Hanover township, in
that county. on Monday last. He was u
most worthy, exemplary, and esteemed
citizen"
TThe steam ship Cambria, left Bos-
ton for Halifax and Liverpool, on Satur-
day last, with 90 passengers. Edw,rd
Peasants Of Philadelphia. went out as q
bearer of Government dispatches.
PROPRIETOR OF CONGRESS SpRrNc.-Dr.
John Clarke, much respected citizen
OF Sarntoga. and the proprietor of the
Congress Spring. died at his residences
in that village on the 10Th inst. aged "a
years.
Among the British military officers a
present at Howard's Hotel, from Canad,
is Arthur Lennox Peel. Esq. Of the So
regiment, second son of the Right Hon
Sir Robert Peel, Baronet.