Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1848-05-04
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=, : 'y 0bs-The Hon. David Baldwin, Senator
elect from the 9Th District, in this State,
: died in Preston, on the 18th inst aged 40.
p IL. The Missouri loco convention de-
$ cares Gen. Cass as its first choice, and
t Levi Woodbury. its second choice, for the
> Presidency.
UWlsCoNsIN.-Wm. P. Lynde, of Nils
fswaukie, is the loco candidate for Congress
in the lst District, and Mason C. Darling,
of Fondulac, in the I'd District -
UOn Thursday last, Frenchman nam
ed Dutee, in Boston, shot a girl named Ell
len Cakes through the neck, and then shot
\ himself. Reason - she released to marry
, him. 1t is thought that both ale fatally
! wounded. ~
% The article on our first page relative
to the "Capture of.Runaway Slaves,''
should have been credited to the Washing
ton Union.
95>The ocean steamers now on the stocks
n New York, will cost upwards of FIVE
ilions Of Dollars. r
z. EThe Hon Daniel S. D;ckinson b, 6
be2s invited to deliver the ANNUAL ad,
dreS US before the Hermean Society Of
GentSsya College, and has accepted the
invitatsion.
nEcGov. Dodge, of Wisconsin, has is.
sued his pEgoclamation, declaring that the
Constitution has been adopted by MAORI.
ty of lO.293, put of22, 500 votes cast.
LFFour fls were recently arrested in
oaeii' hhs'ane& iof sticking Cat fall of pins
and then ournIkns her alive. The cruel deed
was aone as 3charm, to!asceuain the con-
stancy OF thedoxVef OF one of the girls The
superstition was1 thal if The lover was faith
lul ne would appear to the girl in her
dreams Inc paFtIes had topay Is cd each,
unfortunately we further result of the
charm has not been made known.
MISSING SHIP f-The British. barque Tba
lila, sailed from York, Ireland, for Boston, |
on the 81 OF Noyemher last, with20O emf
grant passengers Nothing has since been
heard other, any there is no dnnht Sha1.-s
gone down atsse;s with her living cargo.
- Boston Post.
[The Boston papers of later date, an
nounce the arrival of the Thala at Quar-
antine. She had put into Antigua for res
pairs, where she was detained for about two
months
A LAKE or Blood DR.. Dick estimates
the number Of those who have persisted ia
war, either directly or indirectly, at $4,000,
/ 100000. Eihu Rurritl has taken the es>
Inmates of DR.. Dick, and the average
quantity otsblood in common sized person,
and states as the result, that the blood of
.Isthese fourteen Thousand millions would fill
i a fake more than seventeen miles in circum
ference and ten feet deep in which all the
4 navies of the world might float.
\ nysMr. solomon Shailer of Haddam, aged
40, was drowned in the Connecticut a few days
| since.
MoRE OF THE GHosr,--The wonderful spec
tire which created sach sensation in Hydes-
, vile, Wayne county, about two weeks ago, still
ontinues his habits of knocking in reply to
questions, and the people have learned 10 this
manner that it was the spirit of murdered
. man-thatit was buried in the earth-and fur.
r thermore, that Methodism is the only true
. faith His ghostship enters also other rooms
4 in the house, and terrifes the inhabitants.-
: The place is visited by hundreds OF people
N Y, Tribune
nj A soa Of the Fon. David WilmOt, some Is
: wears of age, died ON Monday. at Athens, Pa.
D fthe poisonous effects of eating wild parsnip.
"a The melancholy intelligence was seal to Mr..
w. at Washington the next morning, by tele-
. graph - Oscego GGsefte. ssf
' GS-The Maulmien Free Press of'December
"a, announces that daughter was born to
e Mrs Judson Qate Fanny Forrester.) on the
d morning of that day.
Is The Field Of GiOry.-The Chaplain of the
II Kentucky Volunteers, Rev. Mr.. Gass. in
r letter from Mexico, to Rev Mr. Malcolm, O
n, Philadelphia, as stated in the Christian Chron.
lie icle, says
ut 81 arrived in this city on the 10th of Deem
-, Der last. The mortality Of the troops has beer
~ very creative have about $500 troops II
hospitals and bury nearly $50 per month";