Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-05
News Here and There.
The whole countryweeps the death of Dr. Kan,

they sing upon the fences and fly above the heads of the boys who, for many days have played foot ball on She green The oldest citizens scarcely remembers the time when ball playing enlivened the days of February; and shaking their heads prognosticste a dreary spring. On Friday night fell slight anrrv of snow, Saturday few seighs were ont and few sleds ventured into town with loads of wood hn they had to hurry up, and evening found them re- turning through the mud
 The above was written for the There mart of this column. Here we have young winter M,,cb;no quick to the music of winds that howl like starved wolves on the prairies, Over the houses and far across the common, snow flies like sand before sirocco shaking the old buildings and breaking the old trees, and keeping up regular Irish wake over the death of winter. ssee
 "A codfsh was sold in the Boston market the first week in January last that weighed one hundred and one pounds. This is probably the largest codish of which we have any account
 There is verse of old sternhold& Hopkins which runs like this
 C Ye monsters of the briny deep,
 Your Makers praises spout,
 And from the deep ye codlings peep,
 And wag your tails about"
 The poet probably had this fellow in view when he penned this stanza He undoubtedly codng of extraordinary promise at that time and has been growing ever since.
 The Nantucket Mirror says that when the ice broke up last week the whole Eastern shore of Long Pond, from Jeremy't Cove to the bridge at the Mar rows, found filled with eels to the depth of two or three inches, thick that spear thrust in at random by way of experiment took out ten. Where such enormous body Of cells came from is great mystery.
 There was an old Indian, as the story goes, that patiently listened to missionary he detailed the narrative of Jonah and the whale, but when a few days after he called upon to listen to the story of the frebrands which Sampson used he in in dignation, excaiming five hunted some myself old fellow, anl know this lie andw hats more, don't believe the fish story now. We know that ees in the habit of coming to the market to be skinned, but this spearing them by half score at time, one is inclined to question
 On the Chicago and Rock Island Road as it crosses the Du Page river five miles from Joliet the heavy rains of Friday had swollen the river till it overt1owed its banks covered the bottom and sub- merged the track on both sides of the bridge A freight train, consisting of locomotive tender and seven cars loaded with horses, approached this river on Saturday. The eng ineer ignorant of any obstruc tion. and confident in the irmness and safety of the road, though covered with water, held on his way ploughing through stream two feet deep guided by the iron track until he reached the bridge when the appalling fact was revealed that the swollen river had not only submerged the bridge but swept 1t away! Locomotive, tender seven cars with their freight of horses, after another disappeared be- heath the surface of the stream, deep enough. tv reason of the reshet to hide from view every vestice of the train Down with it went all in charge of it. and three of them were lost One human life de- stroyed overbalances the destruction of a thousand horses. But who can think, without shudder. of those seven cars, closely confining, beyond all hope of escape, their noble freight of horses-St Louis Rtpublicaa, Feb. 10th.
 Tho population of New York is dying at the rate of one in every Y minutes, day and night all the year round
 Forty young Vcrmonters of both sexes, had party and supper at the hotel in Bethel and became so eiated that 8 clergyman sent for and four couples were married right off the reel"
 They probably reeled when they came to realize their condition and some folks would say twas dear supper.
 Four convicts escaped from Sing Sing prison on Thursday, over the ice,-taking advantage of the fog to conceal their attempt Two keepers who fol- lowed them, broke through the ice and narrowly escaped drowning.
 Eight persons on the stage route from Dubuoi,e to Iowa City, were frozen to death on the night of the l1th ult All the men who have been elected Governors of New Hampshire since 1888 are alive and all before that period are dead.
 China has population of 400, ,0O0, ,OOo. The Rev John Pierpont was recently injured on the oswcso and Syracuse Railroad 80 that he is de- taincd for recovery. He severely bruised on the shoulders and left side
 | The papers are full of accounts of attempts to garrote people, and weak-minded young men have their pockets full of revolvers One of them nearly shot himself in dshonorable place by sitting on his revolver at tue opera the other night,
 Another ofthese horrible of garrotinc. which so alarm community, lately took place in Hartford all the papers were out with the particulars inform ing how woman seized on one of the most public thoronghares, and choked and robbed of her watch. The marks of the sticking plaster which was whaeked on to her mouth plainly percepti- be, and her throat looked like pullets the night before thanksgiving. It turned out, however, day or two after, that the woman who had been for a long time grass widow, suddenly met her former spouse, and couldn't keep from falling into his arms and that he after kissing her once twice, remem- bercd that it wasn't quite proper to do such things in the street, and so run of. t
 An extraordinary skeleton of man 23 feet