Litchfield enquirer., 1856-09-25

SncIuuiles Cume In cOiilSiOh on Frlday morning o6 the Lizard. The former sunk in twenty minutes. taking down IT passengers. She was from Rotterdam bound to New York. with emigrants. The captain of the sOceal, Home. with Fl Of the passengers and crew hadiandcd at Plymouth. The Cherubine was bnt slightly. damaged and proceeded to London. The sec ond Tnete, steward and four seamen of the Ocean Home gDt into the long boat, bat their fate is doubtful -s.ss- e.s' as
 There is rumor (but little credited. |, that Sir Henry Holland, Queen Victotia's physician. who was passenger to Halifax by the Cam bria, is deputed to observe if the. climate be such as her Maiesty might trust her sacred per son within. in the event of her consenting to visit Canaaia. @ s-l sz@94 sssg sas '
 PARIs.-M. Goddard, the weILknown aerou- aut, brought an action before the civil tribunal against the municipality. of Paris, to obtain payment to the sum of fifteen hundred francs. which it had contracted to pay him for 8 bal. loon ascent on the day of the Emperor's fte. the 18th of August, 1854, but which it had subsequently, wanted t0 reGuc t00ae thousand fraucs, on the pretekt that he had not fulfilled the conditions imposed on him. These condi. tions were, he said, that on account of the East ern war he should carry up four females, dress ed to personify France, England, Turkey, and Germany, the first three of which powers were then allied in war against Russia, and the last of which was considered likely to join them :: but the wind was 50 tempestuous that he fear. ed that to put so many people in the car: would endanger their lives. Whist he was consider ing what to do, orders came from government. that on account of the doubtful attitude of the German powers, Germany should not have the honor ot belng pcrsonated in the car This di- m'nished the weight some what but still the high wind rendered it dangerous to take up the three allies. At last, after much cogitation, Goddard took on himself to leave Turkey, and and he affected his ascent with England and France alone. This constituted the breach of conditions of which the city of Paris complain cd :; but M. Goddard maintained that it was un- reasonable for it to bind him to the very letter of an engagement at the risk not only of his own life, but of those of other persons and he produced certificates from scientific gentle men and others to show that on. the day in Iqnestion the wind was so high as to render a balloon ascent wlth 50 many people dangerous
 The city of Paris contended that Goddard was clearly bound to fulfil the conditions he had ae- cepted and that, besides, the wind was not SC high as he alleged. The tribunal said, under the circumstances, Goddard had done all that could be expected, but that, as he had not fu. filled tue exact condition lie had accepted, he must submit to reduction of his demand. It. therefore condemned the municipality to pay him i,50o francs. and the costs.
 A TRAGEDY or THE Doa PouSD.-Among
 the celebrities of the Dog Poand is an old fel- low named Jemmy O'Sullivsn. For twenty. five years or more Jemmy hes been known in
 this city as dog iancier, and during his time has made considerable money by speculating in dog flesh. Ever since the establishment of the pound he has ofliciated as canine execntioner at that instition. When it was the custom to go through the streets and knock all "vagrant CUTS" on the head, Jemmy was foremost in the fray and since the more humaue policy of im- poutiding has prevailed, all dogs not reclaimed or redeemed have been dispatched by him. When 1t was the custom to kill them with the bludgeon, Jenny fairly gloried in the "sport." But when strychnine was administered, he thought "the business was getting pretty inean." This year it was decrecd that all cap tured and unclaimed dogs should be drowned. andsJemuy felt that his glory as executioner had departed. To him this more humane ,nc- thod of killing the roor creatures was not only distastefat but absolutely degrading. He more than once i1timatcd that he would retire from office in disgust. But his vocation was ldoubtless too lucrative to allow him to serious y contemplate such step. It was his custom during the dog days to hire gang of boys to hunt dogs during the night and bring them Ito his cellar, where he bought then, fof twenty five cents apiece, aud asked no qdcstious. in the morlug, when going to his work at the ponnd, he would ihvarfAbly bting tiung string |of 6fteen to twenty-five dogs, for which he ob- tained fifty cents each from the city. In this |way-he made a handsome profit ont of the tor poration. At length by | sort Of poetic retrii- button, his brutality to the canine race has ter minated disastrously. Some two or three weeks ago, while throwing the dogs ilto the drowning tank, bitch inflicted n slight wound with her teeth upon his leg 50 slight, in fact, that the skin was scarcely broken He took no notice of the wound for q day or two, until sharp shooting pains in his leg warned him of his dan. \ ger. Physicians were consulted but late. to stay the progress of the disease, and now he is lying at the point of death, suffering from all
 the agonies of hydrophcpia in it's most dreadful manifestations. Tho appropriation set npart for the Dog Pound having been exhausted, that institution was closed . few days since, after having received during the season total of I ,345 unfortunate CUTS, .801 of which were drowned, .and 544 redeemed a Tray, Blanche asc Sxeethealts are out of danger once more, for the time being. 1ak es ssas %ef -