Litchfield enquirer., 1856-03-20
News Items.

Geora Risllssa Germau 45 years old. and a workman at the Pontoosuc factory. Pittsfeld feilinto | steamiSs sAbox while removing its cov- CT, Hast Saturday, and was so badly scalded that he survived only six hours. About $l2oo worth ofcotton consigned to the Greenwood Company, New Hartford, was burned in the cars of the freight train from New York, ct New Haven, Thursday morning. The Provi- denee Journal apprehcnds that the Right Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Rhode Island and Connecticut, is among the passengers in tho missing steamer Pacific. A laborcr at Kinderkook by the aid of an emctic. was relieved of a 50 foot tapc-worm, paid out in two casts of 30 and 20 feet. About thirty citizens of Norwich, have founded Free Hish School in that city. and endowed it with .$S4,- 900, of which s5o, 900, is permanent fund. the rest being in land and school buildings 1; the same generous citizens propose to endow it still farther so that every school district in New London County may send one scholar to tho school free of charge. The latest trick of the Rolnish Bishop of N. T. is the extort;on of hundred thousand dollars in small sums, from the poor Catholic Irish, for the ostensible pur- pose of building college at Roms.--whilc thou sands of the same class are either supported by public charity, or left to the tender mercics of starvation. The number of fires during the past year, at Poughkeepsie. was thirty-two. by which property to the amount of $2O,500 was destroyed, on which there was an insurance Of SIS, ,1c0. Disturbances still continue in I.iber- ia. Africa, and large forces under Gen. Lewis, had been despatched against the insurgents--- The St. Nicholas hotel, N. Y City, is to be en-
 arged by taking in all the rear on Mercer street; it will then contain 600 rooms and have accom- modat;en for HOO guests \ telegraphic dis patch from Weston to Louisville says that tho Free State officers of Kansas were sworn into office at Topeka. on the 4th. X great excite nicnt has been produced in New Kent county.
 (Fa.) by some eighty persons having been ino- culascd with the small pox, by mistake, instead of being yaceinated the mistake is laid upon the vaccine agent of the State, by whom tho
 matter was furnished. On the Railroad be- tween Albany and Springfield, there were last week, drifts in Berkshire County + feet high. coseFing the telegraph poles. It is asserted that the bill creating the new Manhattan Park in the City of New York, gives to the Demo crat Council of that City the power of leasing certain porti6ns Of the property for the exclusive uses of Romaliistr r 1t is now reported that F.. k. Collins has become convert to Spiritual
 ism, The Galveston News says it appears to be pretty well ascertained now, that the late severe cold'wcather has killed the lemon trees down to the roots, ai.d a'ss many of the orange trees, though some of the latter do not appear to be much injured The yellow fever is raging badly among the crews If tie vessels in the harbor of Port Au Prince. Miss Clara Darl- ing is speaking the legend of Longfcllow's To. mantic poem, Hiawatha, dressed in the original Indian costume. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company have been very prosperous tfiiler the Stio VI -'it eois. AAo"iduu unu sssFu"uu Sucy have paid all their debts, and have a large surs plus on hand {; they have never missed trip. and have carried, in seven years, l50, 900 pas scngers, without the loss of man by any ma rinc disaster The Hudson River R. k. Go. have discontinued all their Sunday trains. Mrs. Joanna Graham died on Monday in Boston. aged no years, in the same house Where her husband died 40 years ago In New Hartford,
 Tuesday morning March ifth fs5s, the thes. mo:aeter ranging from f2 to l6 below 5efo-- The Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the 5th inst, by vote of l03 to 40, re- fused to repeal the act which cofifers upon ja. TOTS tlc right of judging Or deciding. the ddek ton of tue constitutionality of any law this b important to the people of that State, cspecial. ly so fur as il bears upon the enforcement or
 non--enforcement Of the Maine Liquor Law The Louisiana Legislature are about to pei.
 ton Congressifor Qualifications at the mouth of the Mississippi. and in the Atchafalaya Bay There is a family by the name of Benham, na-
 tives of Middlebury in this State whose united
 ages amount to 425 years. Giles Fl, Robin son, convicted of setting a barn Oh Ere in Nau- gatuck, has been sentenced to two yeafs in the
 State Prison. A meeting .has been held in