Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-12
News Here and There.

of Foote, in Woodbmy, one year ago. is ts take place carly in April. s.,''& Sharp boys in New York. have contrfyed ; new way to raise the wild. They bring telegraph dis. patch to the keeper of hotel notifying hin, that the morrow, Mr. John Smith, with his fannly,r will arivefrom Boston, and asuitc of rooms are required for Mr.:nd Mrs. Smith and the little slnitLs The honest Bnifscs is of Course ple,sed with the intcll gcncc, and the boy who brought the dispatch tena1 ding dollar, is paid it. without hest,tion never dreaming but that it is all right, and consoles him self for the loss by the reflection that Smith will re imourse him ny an item in his bill under tn. head ot extras. But Smith never comes, of course nor the dollar either. -.- <: =
 There has sufficient snow fallen since the com mencement of this month to permit of sledding wood ] into the village. .
 A turkey weighing s4 pounds was in Ne.. York City en Saturday, intended present for President Blchan5n On the day of his inauguration. :-. zA pickerel. weighing Abs, together with sever at others falling but little below the same notch, was taken from the pond on Mount Tom, a few days since. Exceedingly fine sport may be Lad any day .upo'l Cei ldAsS. - i-*''''-
 It is said that the Klamath, California; jail con- sists of live oak tree. with staple and chain at taehed. It is we'll ventilated. and affords asnod op portunfy for the study of astronomy and thu, ther mcmetric variations especially when bIankets are scarce. The Emperor of France has done a handsome thing in bcstowing gift of sl 900, upon the widow of the unfortunate Mir. Mercy. who shot by ,ns. take in the debtors prison at Clinchy. Mrs. Moroy is the daughter of Dr. Thomas Chadborn of Concord; New Hampshire. s- The New York correspondent of the Boston Tran script says; -: |" You will De relieved and glad to know that Dr, Burdcl has been called up in circle in this city, under the direction of the most distinguished 1neia and distinctly and unequivocaly pronounces that he was murdered by Eckel and Mrs Cunningham He says they threw handkerchief over lis face and killed him with dagger And further this deponent knoweth not for where they have concealed the dag ger or how they have removed from themselves all traces of the decd, he cannot tell as indeed how ! could he? At that particular time, his spirit may be supposed to have had as much to do as it could attend to in getting out of such unpleasant body 1 A Jewish Rabbi write, to the New York Com mcrcial that the marriage ceremony among the He bies is never clandesine. but always witnessed by at least ten persons. and that the marriage docu. ment must be signed by two persons of character and unconnceted with the parties by marriage Moreover the priest satisfies himself of their right to contract matrimony.
 1 An Irishman, named Barney Gray, who was cm- ployed in cutting WOO! in Merlen, was killed few days since, by the falling of a tree upon him.
 The Connecticut river, during the late freshet cut channel just above the mouth of ths Farm. ington river, at Windsor, through some of the
 finest farming lands in that section the channel run
 for distance of two miles, and during tho contin,i- ahee of tho high water the river was pleased to flow there, but has sine, returned to it's old course.
 The Home Bank of West Meridsn has declared a dividend of five PCT cent. -
 A novel, but rather perious expedient, was re- .orted to at Dordentown, N J., the other night, to prevent the railroad bridge from being carried away by the pressure of the ice. Five locomotives were run upon the bridge to keep it in its place. It is
 thought that had it not been for this great weight it would have been lifted by the ice and carried of.
 Had tho pressure of ice been too great for this weight the loss of property and life would have been great as many of the employees of the road were on the bridge in attendance on the engines. ] A State Temperance Convention commenced at South Norwslk, Conn, on the Nth inst.
 oyY Y,ys I:ol: :,, that city on Sunday last at the age of no. He it was that Mrs. Stowe had in mind in writing her great novel.
 1 Michigan has passed law dinsinislng the term of the State Prison convicts imprisonment one day for each month in which his conduct is fully ap- proved. A very good idea.
 --Thc draft of the Farewell Address of Washing. ton has been stolen from the library. Gov. Marcy, or. learning the misfortune. immediately caused the most rigid investigation to be made of the affair, and afidavs have been fled of all concerned in its custody showing who had it on the last occasion on which it was scen and what they know of its prob able abduction. The loss is greatly to be regretted, insomuch as the existence of the document. in the handwriting of Washington, relied upon to show that he alone the author of that precious legacy to his countrymen.
 Whether Mir. Buchanan's melancholy state as a poor old bachelor suggested the idea of selecting the nine-wivcd Morn.an delegate from Utah, VIC know not He was there, however, together with General the Honorable John NJ. Whitaesd, of Kan sas invasion notoricty.
 The Mill of the Manchester Centre Mannfac- turing Company, says the Winsta5 Herald, manufac lures annually 50 GOO lbs. of Woolen Hosiery Yarn five pair of stockings to the lb-l5O, ,oo6 pair of 1 stockings yearly Tho Company has been going two