Litchfield enquirer., 1853-06-09

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country she has realized about &C., 900
from her professional services, and has dis
iributed over six thousand dOllars in private
charities.
Henry Babcock Of MiddIeiown, has been
appointed Mail Agent on the New York g.
New Haven Railroad, in place Of John A.
Alvord, removed.
The jury in the case Of Mary Ann
| Wheeler, recently tried al Milwaukee, on
charge Of numbering her seducer, John W.
Lace, were. una bic To agree, and aCter being
out two days and three nights, were dis
charged. A new trial is in progress.
II does not appear that The Wings have
carried Representative iO Congress in
Virginia. The Democrats SO districled the
State as not 10 allow them one.
! Two little girls at Lancaster, Pa. on
! Wednesday morning Of last week, alter
getting out Of bed, and while in The act Of
| dressing themselves, discovered a snake in
their bed. Their bed was in the second
story Of the house, and The snake was OF
the black water species, measuring ai'er
being killed, twenty inches.
The Government Of Mexico has prohib
tied the circulation Of foreign coin in tina,
country. All such money is to be taken to
the mint and recoined.
The largest lump of the precious metal
ever found in California, was recently taken
! from claim some five miles from CoOma.
The lump weighs one hundred pounds, of
which il IS supposed that al least one-ihird
is gold.
VIM. b. McCray, aged Is years, left the
Suffied Institute, at Suffield in this State,
! on The 9th nf \ prii, nd hno "UI snce been
heard from. He is a son IF DR.. Edwin
McCray Of Agawam, Yves, Springfield
Ii is feared that the young man may be
labOrng under a mental ALTERATION
Maj. Gen. Riley, of the U. s. Army, lies
dangerously sick at Buffalo. There is said
TO be no hope Of his recovery.
A private letter received by gentleman
| ofN Y. from Rev. Charles Beecher, states
that his sister, Mrs. II b. Stowe, has re-
ceived from Cons,abIe & Co., publishers at
Edinburgh, an offer for Temperance
Tale, like Uncle Toms Cabin, of $4,000
in hand, and hall the proceeds of the work
alter that sum is realized. The letter also
says " il she has strength to do this, it will
certainly contribute 10 hasten The adoption
OF this great measure by Grea. Britain"
REMARKABLE EscApE.-The Montreal
Gazette of the LIST, in a postscript, makes
simple mention Of a very rema rka Bile escape
Of three hundred passengers from the con.
sequences of steamboat explosion. Tia,
number OF persons had just landed from
| the steamer 81. Pierre, when the boilers
exploded, killing eight persons, all that re-
NAMED on board al the boat The desiruc,
lion of the vessel was SD complete that very
few Of the three hundred could have escap-
ed if the explosion had occurred five min.
utes sooner.
The PoTATo.-I II is a fact not generally
known 10 farmers, that there two parts in
the Potato, which, ir separated and planted
at the same time, one will produce tubers
I'll for The table eight or ten days sooner
| llan Ale other. sH:a1I end Of The pC,>
talo, which is generally full of eyes, is that
which produces the earliest: the middle or
body of the potato produces late, and al
ways larger ones.
A man named d. H. Sheldon, late head
clerk of the shawl department in Stewards
dry goods es,a Adjustment, N. Y, Jumped
overheard from the Steamer Ara bs, on her
recent trip from New York to Liverpool.
He was going TO India to purchase shawls,
silks, &c. having recently gone into busi>
ness on his own account. His BODY was
recovered and taken 10 Liverpool, and bills
at exchange to the amount of $40, 900 were
found upon his person. tie had been sick
for several days previous to the sad occur
renee, and il is supposed that he was suffer.
ing from mental alienation at the time
The news from Washington is still of
the same old tenor, that the President is
fulfilling his dates as Democrat, in re-
moving Wings from Office.
A planter from the northern part Of
Georgia has come north to engage men to
work on his plantation. The enhanced
value Of Slaves, makes hirci white labor
the cheapest.
Fifteen Slaves recently ran away from
Ray County, Mo-, and made tracks for
Iowa. A portion OF them were arrested,
but the majority Of them made good their
escape.
The members of The New York Legis-
lature made an excursion to Niagara Falls
on Saturday and had good time
Speeches were made by Ex.Gov. Hunt,
Speaker Ludlow, Hon. w. H. Seward,
Senator Bristol, and Parker Goodwin.
A Western editor, in replying to co..
temporary, says" II is impossible that he
can have given Ia the subject much sober
reflection, as he claims 10 have done, for
to our certain knowledge, he has been in
'oxIcalcd during the entire campaign"
The body of white man, late Deputy
Sheriff in Virginia, was !ound dead short
distance from Washington. The body
was shockinsly mangej. Three slaves
are arrested, charged with the murder.
Seth Belden has been appointed Pension
Agent, at Hartford, in place Of Charles
Boswell
A locomotive dispatched from Laporte TO
Chicago for physicians to attend Mr.. D0x-
IatOr. President Of the Michigan Southern