Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1854-12-28

| Wmk4 r&nns&s htssnr Ds.-one ~
nnF exttau1e rapeF makers, npeakse9 IT
The searctsy nErsgs writes thns . Hour
peurie wonld nhig RAISE hax, instead az
importing slseiF lihseed end oil Cor their
nwn ssse. We sllnuld have paper stock in
abundance. Those farmers III slais eoun-
~ who raised lax this year. have ss.ld
their crops, standing ia she field, al $40
per acre and seine gel more than that"
/ An h0nesi Dutch farmer Oflhe Mohawk
was asked his oD.miun Is 10 WHICH demons
ina.inn Oi' christians were in the right way
20 Heaven. " Vel den = said he, 'svrn re
ride Our wheat 10 A .bamy, some say dis il
de peei way: hu, il dnn'l make much DIFF
ference which read We take, Cor ven We get
land il is none Of their +pusiness-if our
,cheat Is gOod!''
Dubbs says he would have died Ollie
cholera, IN August, if il had moi been Inr
,,ne thing" The DaciOrs gave him up"
T,yn days afterwards he says he was
well man Indulsmg IN succulash.
| A travelling mouniebank lately adver-
tised 10 herf'.rna series of slighl-Ol-hand
tricks, Al Harrisburg, Pa. Among them
the mys.crir ua disappearance. occupied
the nlOtt cOnsp cn1us place upon the hand
bill. aEd was prrIarm,a with The A,r.ciesl
fidelity, for alter large audience had ass
semlIled. each payinglhc req sisi,e "qnar-
Ter, Inc gensleilan suddenly" disappear
ed leaving the rest Of the programme
Ianpsrlorlned.
An agent, soliciting subscribers for .
book, slluwed the prospectus 10 man
WHO, alter read NJ, :. Que dollar ia b0ards,
AMI one du.lar aud twenty five cents IN
sI,cep,p sieciiucd subscribing, as be Nigh,
no. have boards Or sheep on hand, when
called uaD,i for pas ment.
President II icl cock says there are i,
Grea, Brnain, III the prrseu, day. fifteen
thnusand steam engines driven by means
~ coal, with power rQnal 10 that al two
miilinns of men aud thus is PVT in npera-
lion, machinery tqnalng the nnsided
puwer ol 500 600, 600 or 400, 00O, 900 81
men. The ,niinrnre thus emanaiing
reaches the remoles, portions Of The globe.
aud tends n,gh,ly 10 The civilization and
happ ness ii he race.
III Woodbury. there - broad based,
high and shelving rock called /. Be .hei
Rnck," III The shadow 81 which the early
settlers 81 the place used To hold pabic
worship.
| The frs, shad &c The season wss taken
ia The Savannah River, on tie i7lh ms.
- "a
larsi Harl Times! Bull heads don't
cosi near as much.
There has nnt been 80 hard winter
as the present, for ps'r penoie, since the
memorable nle uf 1897 8. Factories stop
ping, biMks ci,,s,l,v, aud a,oney hard 10
get. Worse sihl prices are eln,rH,nus'y
high, for every thin. but labor, in spite al
\ fall in lhc price ni 4 a,r before lang, when
\ lie holders u The Nest have held ON Til,
they have burned ,ssvir fingers.
AN YEA PikpeE.--Ai The recent cleo
item ~ Sullivan ca nre al, The candidates
tor Cuuniy Clerk pledged himself 10 give
one.Laiihe proceeds of The office 10 the
| widow III tile late clrrk, aud the either
Puupt~SH W. 'itV TSNui w utS SsCOtWup "
marry Tie widow.
A mechaBic who had been swindied by
John ii James, The Mukrr" banker" al
Ufbana. O.us broke ,l,at persons head
with q club.
Never attempt 80 drive religion or vir>
'uc into men. Ii they wo,,', take HE in
sil,uiDn in The regular way, depend upon
II that II vii! do ibem iin IN IRE gool Than
10 preach metaphysics 10 = cu,kIn1 .siOve,
or pI.in chimes 10 a girl Who goes in for
the fashions.
THE slip Rochamhe 10, which, arrived
IN New Y,rk on Tuesday iron Antwerp,
! br0nghI twelve Bcig,,n cnnvicis aud one
hundred and Fifty Belgian plupers, whicl,
were shipped here by ,be order al the
Belgian Government. The cnnv;cis were
| al once secured and cnnimi,ied To the
CaAL The Newark Advertiser pre-
diets speedy decline in HE price of that
| article. The stnppage ai' factories, The
laying NJ, Oi steamboats,, the wliidra wal
81 ocean steamships aud bll,e Withholding If
| purchase by tiie c,,imnnniy, have caused
large accu:nulaiinHs an The hands ~ The
mines AMI 10 ,he m,rke:s. Thirty thDu-
sand ,nns d! coal are ilazrn up oii The ca
nal between New Hope aud Elsion, Pa.
WHAT IT CusT =. I'he Utica G .zeiie
| says the late e.ccim,n tuned 10 O,ni.la
| equity, OH silver hinges aud adds:
~ proMneai eli z.H identified with
1 tic qnOr interest, and who We lave res.
| aun 10 believe was tpne ,pf iis chief tisbur-
sing agents, openly admitted 10 Us that
hall nillIus dollars had brcn raised 10
Te-e.rc. Seymour. y 'l,srq ,eniiy we we're
assured il,At Two miIl0ns was nearer the
mark"
Sumo of the county officers in Ca'i!or>
mis- make Laiunea IN sing r term, recet-
wing from KY 10 One ilurtircd thHDsani