Litchfield enquirer., 1856-05-08
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bslcngng to the Mendclssohn Society. Voter
Curry; gave concert Of Sacred and Secular
Music, at Wadhamss Hall Wolcottyille, soa
"Wednesday evening last. DIR Bushnell writes
to his friends that his health is much improved
since his arrival in California, and that he ex-
poets to. be at home in season to preaehth the
next Thanksgiving Sermon. Rev. james Beech
err wife and child, are to sail from Boston, on
the a5th1 inst, in the ship Wild Pigeon, for
Canton, China, where Mr., Beeeher viii enter.
upon rs labours as a missionary he is a son
of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher The vihsge Of
Gowanda, -Cattarausus County, \. Y. Was. al.
most entirely destroyed by fire, April s0th.
Hon. Ogden Hoffman, Attorney general of n.
=. State, died Thursday afternoon, after short
Illness The charter for the extension of the
Canal Road to Springfield has passed both
houses of the Massachusetts Legislature A
slave, a carpenter by trade, was lately sold III.
Adams County, Mss, for three thousand seven
hundred dollars. Mr. John G.. Palfrey is now
in England, employed in tho collection of mate
rails for a History of New England, which he,
is about to write. Green peas from the South
have been in the New York markets some time !;
Strawberries, very large and fine, made their de-
but on Tuesday morning London now covers
space of log square miles it contains 327 1871
houses and 1862, 236 inhab:tants--it covers n
space aSiarge as the towns of Sufield, Wind
sor Locks, Bloomfield, Windsor, Hartford, West
Hartford, Wethersfeld, and New Britain. The
negro Wilson, of the " Eudoran tragedy. has
been committed for mutiny aud murder by the
US. Commissioner The latest intelligence
from Kansas shows that the Investigating COM
mittee have not commenced labors, Mr.. Oliver
being employed in stamping his own district in
Missouri, in opposition to freedom in Kansas
We have frequently chroniclcd the birth of in
tants on railway trains, Sc, but the Cleveland
Herald goes ahead of anything heard of yet :;
it SAYS that child was born in an omnibus one
lday last week while the vehicle was passing
from one railroad depot to another. The straits
Of Mackinaw are clear of ice, and propcllers
have reached Detroit from Chicago A dis
patch from Montreal states that new suspen-
sion bridge over the falls of Montmorenci, gave
way Wednesday morning, and the whole struc-
ture, with a man, woman, horse and cart, were
carried over the falls. Through carelessncss
Land haste in writing, says the Bath Tribune
We made, in a paragraph published on Tuesday
Old Mr.. Harrington play the fife at his own flu
neral, instead of at the Battle of Lexington.
Lord Clarendon has sent one thousand dollars
to G 2. L. James, English Consul at Norfolk,
Va. to be distributed among the sufferers by
the late yellow fever. Great frauds have been
discovered in the issue of Land Warrants ::
forged Warrants to the amount Of million of
acres have already been brought to light The
Benton and Atchison democracy in Missouri have
each elected full delegation to the Cincinnati
Convention, to be held .Juue 5th. Romanists
boasts of thrty-onc Colleges, thirty-scven Sem
naries, and one hundred and seventeen Female
Academies i'll the United States-all founded
and controlled by JcSuits. The Cleveland
Plaindcaler says it has yet to hear of the first
failure of a field of wheat in those parts the
season Systematically promising, and the farmers
and gardeners are busy