Litchfield enquirer., 1857-08-27

ton Lazars near Melton Mowbray, had COW which | broke its leg, and which they attempted to set themselves but inding they could not succeed, they sent for Mir. Reynolds, veterinary surgeon ot Melton Mowbray who found it in so bad state as to render amputation necessary, and he has affixed one of timber in its place. which is likely to answer every purpose. It is fastened round the knee joint by of leather straps, and the beast CIR use it.
 An adjustment has just been made in the de. partment of the Interior, of the Branch Railroad l from Little Rock to Memphis, whereby 200 acres of land have been certified to the State of Arkansas under the act of Congress of the 9th of February, l 1S53 A previous adjustment, last month tor the main trunk of Cairo and Fulton road, under the act above mentioned. embraces total of l, l,l2o,OOO acres. The main trunk traverses the state from North West to South East diagonally and IS Sel miles long in Arkansas.
 -Consilerable stir has been occasioned in the vil- lage Of Port Chester and vicinity in consequence of i the Rev. Mir Proteus of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Stauwch, Conn.,, having eloped with a Miss Pine daughter of James Pine of King street, Westchester County, young lady of about nineteen years of age and of preposSesSng appearance: They married in New York without the girls father be- ing consulted in the matter.
 The Church of the Epiphany at Philadelphia has procured new Pastor, Rev w. o. Prenss, of South Carolina in the room of Dr. Tyng Nho dis missed last Fall, for preaching against slavery The Rev. gentleman who takes the place of Dr Tyng, ac cordng to-one of our exchanges is aklaveholder, from district which. hy.the censs>Sf lSc0, con- tainS white population of .4o3, and slave popu
 ation of 5l 711. Among the whites there 72S who cannot read or write
 On Monday afternoon last a man named H Fisher agent for numbering house, received S200O from the Bank of Montreal to pay his men. The money placed in valise, beside which Fisher sat down at an eating house. When he arose to leave, the vase gone Next morning it was found in a vegetable market, cut open and all but
 SlO JO abstracScd from it.
 The American Home Missionary Society has just appointed five missionaries for Kansas, in addition
 to those already in the field four of them from the last senior class at Andovcr, and one German, to labor among his countrymen, around Humboldt. 75 miles south of Lawrence. It is said that the Ger
 mans fast occupying this part of the Territory, the-e being nearly ten thousand already there.
 Tine Jews in New York are getting divided
 The progressive lsraelites have pews, organ choir and ladies i'll the synagogue after the Christ ian fashon--while the old school chants as of old
 with their hats on, and keep the women-kind isola-
 ted in the gallery.
 Rev Francis J. Clerc son of Laurent Clerc, Esq. of Hartford has resigned the charge of St. Johns Church in St. Louis m order to accept the Rector ship of St. Pauls Church, and the Presidency of St.
 Pluls College, at Palmyra, where he will enter upon / his duties before the lst of October next
 ) A correspondent of the Congregational Journal says that the Congregational Church in Shelburue \. H., is reduced to three female members. He also gives list of about 20 churches in other places l which are not much better off.
 The Dartmouth boys lost all their race boats except one. by sudden rise in the Connecticut on l Friday. The boat house and seven boats were
 swept away and dashed the falls. So states the : Journal
 A donation of 2.400 made Sunday last by the parshioners of the Catholic Church at Wa terbury, toward the building of house of worship in that city.
 A man with rum bottle in one hand and !
 cDdish in the other, was thrown off the Naugatucl Railroad track the other day, by the ccwcatcher | Bottle and man both unhurt.
 N P Willis describes sheet of plotting pa
 per from Washington lrvng's desk, the door ) mat which the thoughts of Irvings last book
 had wiped their sandals as they went in
 , Tine Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune, in of his last published letters, re-
 Iaes the following singular case:
 In Paris young man who had become deeply in love with interesting lady, Mile Julie R.
 asked her hand in marriage, but Was rejected. He
 made several unsuccessful attempts to engage her to reconsider this declSion At last he became l convinced that there hope for him. He repaired to her house, and after hearing from her l lips firm rejection of his oft r. he drew pistol from his breast. and shot himself through the
 head He fell at her feet mang led corpse. Ter
 TOT had so completely taken possession of her
 soul at the sight of this unexpected and hideous f tragedy, she remained transhXed 10 the spot like
 a statue, utterly insensibe, and her body perfect 7 ly rigid. Her family, attracted by the report Of the pistol, hastened to the drawing-room, and at-
 tempted 10 recall her; physicians came. but care F and science could do nothing the poor girl was | an eriIeptic, and their only hope lay in those s mysterious forces of nature which seem able to f repair almost every havoc made in the cons,tu-
 ton. This hope not disappointed in half F an hour an unconroabIe, violent paroxysm of tears and sobs relieved the poor girl. The next r day, while Mile Julie R :, surrounded by her fam l fly was working quietly Tn another par!or. she : Was seized at the very same moment of time the c first fit feel upon her, with second fit, and she
 assumed lnyoluntarlly and unconscious!y the pos- s ture and rigidity of a statue of Terror Every day this di>agreeable phenomenon Was renewed, D and the physicians declared that their art could
 do nothing for its relief, time being the only phy- sician which could alleviate it. The fan fly took every 10 avoid any dangerous consequence to this sta'e and determined to appeal to time. Mile
 Julie k. was very fond of birds, and she had d large cage full of them hung above the window , in the court-ya:d She was so busly engaged in , feeding them last Saturday, that she forgot all
 about her daily par"xysm, which overlook her
 while she in chair feeding her birds, and
 necessarily leaned out of the window good deal.
 She fell out of the window, the height of several
 stories. on the stone pavement of the courtyard, and when taken up found to be fatally man. gIed She possessed sufficient consciousness to
 relate the cause of the accident. but so numerous
 and so were the injuries she received, that she expired in the course of the afternoon.
 The anniversary exercises of the Bangor Theological Seminary were held the last week in
 Jny. The graduates numbered l2. one of whom,
 Mir. E. P. Roberts, of Dorset, Maine, and grad uate of Williams College, Mass, ordained missionary to Micronesia, under the auspices of the American Board. The address before the Rhetorical Society was by the Rev. Dr. Hckok, of Schenectady, N Y. His object to swer the question, What is the Kind of interest under the mnstrations of the gospel. that ca be trusted as lasting A, the close of the exercises d beautifully wrought pitcher and salver were tnd in ali ceremnnieS. tn the Rev