Litchfield enquirer., 1856-03-06
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During tlhe year l665 etAere were S mar riages, q births snd4o deatlss in this town. - TAe Woodbury Academy gsse n ezhihition as ther Town Han hat evening the Water
 bary Brsss Band furnished the enusic, ssnd made it n agreeable entertainment. The number of hands employed in the hating basinsss at Dan. bury and Bethel is about two thousAnd Joshus R. Gddings has given notice to his constituents that. It thu close Of the present Congress, he shaa retire from public life. Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, the authoress, died on the 11th ut. It is reported from Kansas that the fighting has recommended at Easton. An Irish family named Cassida. were poisoned at Bridgeport, last Wednesday week, by using arsenic instead of cream-oftartar, in making biscuit !; two table spoons full of mustard were administered to each person, which saved their lives, by acting as an emetic The religious world of England is just now excited by rumors that Prince Albert has embraced Unitarianisrn, and the Queen sympa
 thises with him in sentiment. The New York Agricultural Sosiety have offered premium of one hundred dollars for the best work on edible fishes of that State which are susceptible of do- mestication. Dr. Beale, the Philadelphia Den tist, recently pardoned by Gov. Pollock, is ill New York the New York Dentists gave him a public reception Several families have left New York lately for New Grenada, to make permanent settlement near Carthagena. Mani fest Destiny" One of the religious societies of Waltbam Mass, lately held a society meet ing and appointed committee to wait upon their pastor, and request him to remove from his shirt bosom two handsome studs he wore A Winsted man who never backs down." offers to provide the first ten reliable men who shall each and accoutrcments to match the weap- ons are not given with any special object, but it is well known such tools are death on bears and border rufians. A Bridgeport medium
 says the steamer Pacific struck all iceberg on the 9th day ont, and all on board are lost sad ucws but it reqnires confirmation. It has long been forbidden by law in Georgia. to manumit slaves and to avoid the law, masters have talk en their slaves into other States and freed them there this evasion of the law is now expressly forbidden by statute. Hon. Thomas Corwin is still confined to his bed from the effects of his fall A Russian agent was in Worcester, Mass, . few days since, and made N contract with manufscturcr there, for several thousand rifles :; they are to be. of the Sharp pattern, Four hun dred Mornons from Sweden and Norway passed through Clevelaad last Monday, on their way to Salt Lake City. T. NJ. Ncwson, formerly of the Der y Journal, addressed the Convention at Pittsburg he offers to go to Kansas and aid the cause of freedom. It has been decided both in England and in this country, that if bank pays forged cheek, it cannot aftcrward recover the amount the Bank is bound to know the signatures of its own customers. In the case of Randolph (the co.orcd man convicted of mur- der at New Haven,) tho Court cf Errors have refused to grant new trial he must he hung unless the next legislature shall order otherwise
 A convention of about 200 of the veterans of 1872, met at Albany, N. Y., Friday several Indian chiefs made speeches, and at the adjourn ment the eight Indian delegates gave the war whoor. A salute was fired in Washington in honor of Mfr Fillmorc's nomination the Y. I
 Commercial, the N Y. Express, and the Alba
 ny Express, go for the nomination. The idea Of serious difficulties with England has ceased to have any influence on the money or stock market in Wall Street. Twenty dollar bills cn the Bridgeport Bank, altered from ones. are iu cir culaton at the west they can Dc easily detec- ted. as the work Is done in bsngling manner. There were in the United States Navy. during the past year. forty-eight resignations, fortyhvc deaths, twelve dismissals ;forty-cight were drop ped, and one hundred and tweaty-cight rhaced on the retired or reserved list A California paper, ,ia chroniclirg the return cf Gen. Wool to that place from Oregon observes that he says that tho evils of the war and the force of the Indians were much exaggerated. Mir. Dallas isnow ill at Washington, but will probably leave @ for Englapd, on Saturday., Live Oak clubs are expiring in tho City of New York, and Fillmore clubs taking their place. The ten thousand dollars required to be raised by the city of Phil sdelphia to secure tho next National cfgricul
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