Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-07-19

l. AS->NAA sSA ~oNisiy ot'PstSohtSs
fouoR SKi2uRE-John White Of West
Cornwall had some fifteen. or twenty gal
! Ions of liquor seized ON the Sd inst. lie
was tried for selling before Justice Robert
T. Minor, and fined $40 and costs, from
which judgment he appealed to the superior
court. The seizure part of the business is
to be tried to-day, he claims that as the IL
qnor was kept in the house and not sold un-
til carried elsewhere 1t cannot be forfeited.
SLAVE TRADE.-Capt. Smith, late of the
brig Julia Moulton, who pleaded guilty on
an indictment charging him with having
served on board vessel engaged ia the
transportation of slaves. &C., was sentenced
BY Judge lngersoll, on Tuesday, to fine Of
$1,000 and Imprisonment for two years.
% We have had sweltering weather the
past week, the thermometer ranging from
s. to IS degrees. The frequent showers
accompanying cause the crops to grow fne-
~. and the prospect never was better.
u Among the arrivals at the Mansion
House last week we notice the name of
Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour of New York.
Also the family of Rev. Walter Clarke,
of Hartford. We understand that Dr..
Clarke is expected to fill the pulpit Of the
Congregational Church next Sabbath,
u At the meeting of the Judges Of the
Superior Court held at Hartford, Frederick
d. Beeman, ESQ.,, was appointed Clerk of
said Court for Litch6eld County, and Chas.
Adams, Esq, Assistant Clerk.
~ The last number Of the Winsted Her.
aid announces that Mr.. Hubbard retires from
the business. The paper will henceforh be
conducted by T. M. Clarke alone.
w Alfred Sawyer was bouad over to the
Superior Court in the sum Of $500 by Jus
tice Graves, on Tuesday, for having been
engaged in family disturbance the day
before.
U Charles Atkins, his wife and two
ladies', all OF Plymouth, were upse, while
returning from Waterbury, on the night Of
the 4th, by their horse backing the wagon
off bank twelve feet high into the river.
The wagon fell on them and tho horse on
the wagon, and yet none of the party were
seriously injured. So says correspondent
Of the Waterbury American.
ty An exciting case, relative to the iden-
tity of dog. is going on in Cincinnati
About fifty witnesses have been before the
Court, and there are FIVE lawyers employed.
The animal is worth SIS. What will she
costs be /!
EY Lieut.. Lyman Bissell, who has re-
ceived kiscommission from President Pierce
as LIST Lieutenant in one Of the four new re-
gimenis organized by a recent act Of Con-
frontier, has been ordered ON duty to-. Fort
Monroe, Point Comfort, Va.
II The Danbury Times is justly Offend
ed at Mrs. Sprague Of that place for exhib-
fling her five premium babies a Waterbury
on the Foursh-admittsnc one shilling
head. The Museum exhibition of her sue
cess was pardonable affair but the toating
OF her progeny around as silowmen do
double-headed calves, and similar enormi-
ties, is evidence of a most initiated taste,
and will make other mothers blush for her
lack Of modesty.
4 fB The know-Somethings Of Massachu-
setts held "a Convention at Springfield, on
Tuesday. They endorsed the action OF
.he late National Convention Of the same
party at Cleveland, and appointed large
Committee with power 10 unite with men Of
other parties in calling Fusion Anii-Slave-
ny Conyentionsin September, for the nomi-
nation Of sicket for State officers. The
Know Nothing Council lit will be remem.
bered, refused 10 sanction a movement of
this kind. thereby defeating the plans Of
Senator Wilson and Governor Gardner.
~ A delightful cross-fre is going on in,
the Waterbury and Bridgeport papers be-
tween tine common councileof the former
place and Messrs. Bartramsand Thayer, in
regard to tie cause of the balloon failure on
The 4th II seems the committee Of arrange
ments advertised the balloon as promi-
nent feature in ihe.programme, and appear
ed very willing TO share in the anticipated
glory Of its shccess-but its ascent was too
long delayed and proved a total failure, up
on which said coInmittee grayelv wash their
hands and pnt the matter entirely upon the
shoulders of Bartiam and Thayer, as pri-
waite enterprise. We think the latter have
the best of il.
~ The military encampment Of the Ma
iional Guards, near Kingston, N. Y, was
brought to close on Friday, by painful
accident which occurred about 10 A. NJ
The regiment was firing blank cartridges,
when by some accident one Of the guns was
loaded with ball cartridge, which on being
fred, passed through the left breast OF a
woman,t hence through the head of her child,
which she held in her arms,and then through
the arm Of the woman, breaking the bone.
The child which wac. q houf 10 n m. 0uf hs old.