Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1858-06-03


IowA.-Letters received here from Muscatine Iowa,
give the particulars of brutal outrage committed
upon theperson of John T. Brown, a young man Le-
longing to Newburyport, who emigrated to Iowa
ABOUT year and half since While at Newbury-
port he was in the grocery business and at Musxs-
tine had established a store of somewhat similar
character, containing goods of the value of S6tUO
or ~ O0O. On Tu sday of last week. at 8 p. m, he
went to his store to put in his dog. As he opened
the stsre, two individuals near by sprang upon him.
Knocked him down, gagged him, bound him hand
and foot took him into the store robbed him OF all
the money and valuables upon his person (his watch
being at home), took what they wanted from the
store left him bound and set fire to the store Tho
alarm of fire called out the inhabitants who succee-
ed in saving him from being burnt to death.-Bos..
ton Troveller
A gang of female thieves have been discovered in
Midtletown, who have made extensive dcpredn-
tons The merchants, last Friday, made a descent .
on the depredators and recovered some two hundred
dollars worth of clothing. hats dry goods, &C &c.
Their depot was in Higganum, end the women are,
many of them, heads of families in that-town. ~
Buffalo paper says that party of Rochester
gentlemen were dining at one CT the hotels in that
city, the other evening, when Bufalonian was ui,-
feeling enough to reproaeh one of them with ts
tact that Canandaigua had got murder of its OWL
and was rather taking the wind out of the Rochcs-
ter sail The Major fared up Indignantly. :. That
Gan gan murder +, said he "it was nothing
but dirty, drunken bar room, fighting homicide!
Our murders, SIR, are all prenedtated r
May is considered an unfortunate marrying month,
down east editor says girl was asked not long
since to unite herself in the silken tie to brirE
lad, who canned May in his proposals The la.y.
tenderly intimated that May was unlucky month
for marrying. -
"Well, make it June, them" honestly replied
the swain, anxious to accommodate. - - =.
The damsel paused moment, hesitated, cast
down her eyes, and said, with blush, +" Wouldnt
April do as well?''
TAKE CARE OF Your HoRsEs-Wash the limbs
of your horses with cold water after work, wasi
thoroughly and rubdry with a cloth or some other
soft substance. If horse is cared for properly lc
will not have the scratches
LIFE IN THE FAMrLY.-If ever the stream should
flow like crystal water shining stones itslouid
be the stream Of daily life in the family. Ii God
has taught all truth in teaching us to love t.n.
He has given Interpretation of our whole sIl-
ty in our own households. We thank Him that We
are not born the partridge of the wood, or ti.e
ostrich of the desert to be scattered everywhere
but that we are grouped together and brooded "
love- and reared day by day. in that first of ehurel
es, the family. '--~
We observe in the N. Y. papers of last evening,
the death of Com. Thomas Ap Catesby Jones !.
the U. S. Navy. aged SO. He died at GEORGETOWN
Also, the death of VIM Alexander Duer, aged7s--
Judge Duer noted politician Of the old FEEDER
al party had been member of Congress and Circuit
Judge and President of Columbia College. He was
grandson of Lord Sterling and claimed the title
Also of a Mr. Seabury at Mobile, "a native of Con-
hecticut land nephew of Bishop Seabury, aged ST.
He was prominent citizen of Mobile. s