Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-23
News Here and There.

early on Monday morning, and has continued with unabated violence up to the present time Snow and water TOW hardened to consistency, which will admit of fair sleighing. widely reposes upon the entire county, to depth of six inches. Some sleghs arc out and should the wind subsde. and cold nights follow, must have good slipping for some time to come. The ground has been for some time nearly free of frost-thc wheeling good, and the grass quite green in spots. The Spring was nevertheless very backward, previous to the storm. and we have seen little, save a few hardy arbutus buds by the side of SHOW drift, to remind us of warmer weather. Dog days, We trust, will give us d thaw.
 -TEc trial of Bradley, which has been rapidly progressing fir the last week, will close to-day Mr. Holliser made the concluding argument last even- ing, No new evidence has been received-and to the community the case seems to have lost its en- tire Interest. Very few persons arc in attendance and owing to the nclemency of the storm the pris- oner's family. who were with him last week, have been prevented from returning.
 We have been informed that suspicious of mur- der arc at at in the town of Warren and that the pond in that vicinity has becn searched for the body of missing man whom it is feared destroyed and thrown iatd it.
 We understand that couple of spectators have bought up all the butter they could obtain in this vicinity, and now govern the market This accounts for the txravs chht prices asked for the article. TiIerc seems to be at present a eombina- ton among nearly all who deal in the necessares of lifc to make the prices high that poor people cannot afford to buy more than half of what they require. If speculators continue in the they have pursucd during the past two years, they will reduce the poor to live on bread and water
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 Or. perhaps inc "roor' may take the matter into their own hands, and make those speculators live upon bread and water inside the walls of pris on If ever men deserved halter it is speculators in the nccessanies of life.-B.aon Ledger.
 Parties recently from Florida do not give very tatelns picture of the operations of our troops in the Billy BoweS It is said that there are on- ly a small number of Indians in the country but that these few will not be caught for long time, if ever. under the present system. The troops shoot and cat vast quantities of game anl deer but kill no ln1 ns while the expenses premise to rival those of MT. Van Buren's Florida war. which is said to have been kept up pet tcat for the furnishing babes of the treasury crib The Florilians say that if the government will offer reward for every live Ind- an with d pr6portionatc less sum for the scalps of those who may be killed. that tho Crackers of that region will bring them in sixty d,ys
 At one o'clock to-day, as Mr. James Cartmill a ot W,rJr,F H
 walking in Elm street, in company with his wife. the latter suddenly buTst blood vessel, probably in her lungs, and the blood guShed from her mouth in stream. She was immediately supported by her husband, but died in few minutes in his arms crowd collected and the body was conve, ed into NO. l6 Elm street, and placed ill a chair Mir Wi ley (penny post man. seeing the occurrence step ped "p just as Mrs. C. b,eathed her last, and re- marked to Mir. C.; ''shc is dead''-at which Mi. C. fantcd. very large quantity of blood was tlrowt, out of Mrs. Cs mouth. She hadlieer in delicate health for some time past.-Raryord 7smes.>
 Mt John Oxnard, ofNcw Orleans left his cre,l- ltors in the lurch. ana wont to Havana, few days taking $50 GOO with him in exchange and prom issory notes, obtained from various parties: and furnishing ii exchange worthless checks. He left behind him consolatory letter for the swindlcd parties, suring them of ultimate payment the matter being mere question of timc and that they could better lie out of the money than his personal friends to whom he was indebted, and whom he felt it a matter of honor to pay. He is said to have kept fine and fast horses. splendid and fashionable women, lived high, and played hisk at the clubs and
 
 the word, a fast man.
 -Mrs. Cunningham's application for letters of administration upon the estate of Dr. Burdcll, in volving the question of her mTriage with the de- ceased was brought up in the Sarrogates Co;irt at New York on Monday morning. The matter had been been kept very private, so there wIs only d few lockers on. Misses Helen and Augusta Cunning ham were the only witnesses called upon the stand their testimony occupied the entire day. Their self pcs cs> and coolncss during their cross exam nation was wonderful their answers occasionally ttcre both curt and tart With faces unveiled and countenances u1imoved, they seemed pre pared to withstand and b'ldly respond to the most trying and searching cross-examinations The ans srs of Helen were all given in bold untalt, ring voice. The passion for perfume increases, both in Eng
 s','l, and France. British India, and Europe con; sumc JC,ooc handkerchief odors yearly; and the English rereiue from Fan de Cologne is about ssOO0 la year. The total revenue from imported perfumes in England is estimated at about $40 GOO per annum The revenues of the estates on the borders of the Medtcr ancan those which proceed from the sale of orange blossoms and Parma violets The house of Faguer, s3 Rue de Richeleu, and those of other pcrfu,ncrs of Paris, pay yearly sum- varying from 10 to 30 GOO francs to the propretors for thcr whole crop of orange blossoms or violets.
 Eli Thayer says the New Emigration Aid Con- pany has been offered five millions of acres of land in Virginia at from fifty cents to dollar nar