Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-02-05
THE HARTFORD FORGERY.

a correSpo ndent OF the Boston bee,
thus describes the fashionable copyist'
alluded to in our last:
The great topic If conversation here
just now, is, the sudden departure of s. B.
Grant, on Friday evening last, and the
discovery that he had practised a series
Of forgeries upon the Hon. Mr.. Niles, "a
mounting to several thousand dollars
He married a very accomplished lady Of
that city about three years since, when
his levee is said 10 have been the most
recherche affair ever known in this State
Of wooden nutmegs, and since thai peri
I'd he has enjoyed the reputation of liv-
ing faster than any other HartfOrdite.
His cottage ornee passed this morning
and friend informed me that the splen.
did exterior falls into oblivion when the
eve once gets peep at the itch interior.
His copying propensity was partially dis
covered about week since, when his
father. a farmer, in comfortable circum.
stances, settled up one fraud upon his as.
surance that it had no fellow, since when
other similar operations have come to
light. On Friday evening he left home
prOfessediy for a short sleigh-ride, but
made tracks tor MerEden, and there took
the steamboat train for New. York. He
was candidate for the Postmasters hip
last spring, and was very nearly success.
full.
Reu. DR.. Cooley of Granpille.-Thi
venerable clergyman is now, since the de-
cease Of DR.. Shepard Of l.enox, the only pas
tor in this region who has ministered to the
same flock for more than half century,
We regret to learn that as he was returning
from solemnizing a marriage on New
Years eve, his carriage was upset, and one
Of his arms so badly injured, that he has
since used it with great difficulty. In let
ter from him that we have seen, he says
81 am almost through with my trials in this
world: r .tS !,
swell if my days must fly, xss.
Tli keep my and in sight
Springfield Gazette
Dancing Party routed out Of a Coffin
Ware hoWse.-Somc thirty or forty slaves of
both sexes, were arrested and carried of to the
Calaboose in New Orleanson New Years night
for being assembled in violation Of the law
The ladies and gentlemen were dancing with
great energy to banjo, bones, violin; tambo-
rine. Sc, when the officers bounced upon
them, The place chosen for the soriee was not
one very likely to be suspected as the scene for
such advertisement, being in the rear Of
coffin shop. and two OF the dark colored dan.
GERS remarked on their way to the lock up that
they were great fools for forgetting to hide
themselves in ''dose last jackets in de room oh
de saloon, for coffin was de last place to look
for any gemman, white or colored, dis side d.
grabe." The Recorder the next day imposed
a fine Of SIS on each ofthe offenders.
Success to the Craf.-The present May
or Of Middletown, Horace Clark, Esq, is a
practical printer, and was formerly one ofth
proprietors of the Middlesex Gazette. Mr..
Clark was good printer, but could never
quite match the editor of the Senti3 ell and
Witness; nor was there, probably, in the
State of Connecticut, a compositor or press
man that could do that. Mr. Starr, in his
younger days, found it no difficult task to
work twelve tokens day, on an old Ramage
press, week after week, and month after
month nor did he think he had overtasked
himself when $4,000 ems per week had been
composed, distributed, and corrected by him.
Mr.. Starr has been most industrious and
most successful printer that Middletown ev-
er afforded; and reaps in present compe-
tence the advantages Of early application.
N0r0ieh Necs.