Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1858-04-29
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Col Sam Colt in going. the other day, from New
Haven to Hartford left his portmonnaie, containing
memoranda. some OF his cards, and a one hundred
dollar treasury note payable to bearer, on his seat
IN the cars. A poor man employed on the train
found the portmonaie. and seeing from the cars
that it belonged to Col Colt, Immediately enclosed
it to him in a blank envelope The Colonel ascer.
tained his name, and promptly sent him one of s
most elegant pistols in handsome case.
The Detroit Advertiser Of April 18th. saws tba, :,
thas learned confdentiaily of new aeve,opments
which warrant the suppositon that the perpetrator
of the Burdell murder will soon be disclosed.
At Bridgeport a few days since, the desks and
furniture of the Merchants Exchange Bank were
sold at auction by the Receiver. A couple of gen
tlemen hid off one of the large desks On exsn,n-
ing their purchase they found slowed away in one
Of the drawers. s22G0 in bills of the bank, signed
and ready for circulation.
We learn s,ys the Beston Journal from reliable
ce, that Mr. Hill, owner of the late famous
- Vermont Black Hawk" has seld within a few
days. two promising sons Of his horse. as fellows
+" Osceola dark chestnut in color, to G. A. Austin,
OF Orwell. vt. for $1,000: Kossuth." black in
color. to L Il. Church, Esq. Of West Faillee, Vt
for 81 74O.
Bya resolution adopted BY the Canal Commission
ers the 18th inst. the Ghamplain Canal is to be
opened on the Goth inst and the Eric and other
Canals in the State on.the 2sthr
Milwaukee, where ant-Lcco,rpton municipal off
GERS have been elected by majorities ranging from
one thousand to thirteen hundred gave Buchanan a
majority Fremont of three thousand four h,,9red
The supporters of Iecompton in the West are hardly
worth reckoning
private letter, dated Stock ton California March
81, says A Mr.. Comstock in San Joaquin County,
says that the seed sown by bin this year. cost ff-
teen thousand aollurs. The writer adds "tell that to
Connecticut farmers, and they will think you drunk
or crazy, doubt nevertheless it is true"
The S. steam frigate Susluehanna, Capt J. r.
! Sands, arrived at New York on the 18th inst. from
Nicaragua via Port Royal, jam. where officers
and 81 men were landed, sick with yellow fever.
She has had 155 cases in all. and II deaths are
known. She is now detained at Quarantine.
c. lorofcrm has been recently applied to new
purpose quite successfully. The hog thieves now
go armed with a vial of this article, and administer
it to the unsusprctirg grunter while asleep and
carry him off without creating disturbance Ono
Pat Pagan. a green thief tried the experiment in
Brooklyn but before he got home the police lodged
him in the cells.
An unsuccessful att mrt was naGe to cap
nre fugitive slave. in Rlairsvil'c. Pa last
week. The negro hal ran away from his master in
Viry;,, Nd n;
IN agent # the master, but til" black population
rescued him after his cartors had secured him.
There was an intense excitement in the town
A HrAvY CLAIM The late Vice President # tie
I'll nos Central Railroad. whose salary was SO 900
ner annnn,. clams sl60, 900 in addition, for
his services in England in u chasing iron and SELL
ing bonds
ssnIra Start has been found guilty of the murder
Of Littes ut Rochester. The Jury were not ont long
Nm Saturday. Stout was sentenced to be hung on the
18th of June.
A beautiful insc intion lis sail may be found in
an italian 10 rsiiss Eesa... si.a trans
ported large fortune to heaven in acts of charity
and has gone thither to enjoy it,"
The Consolation ofFairfeld West met in Bridge
WI avn, III vi nettllilS heS
Benjamin r. Swan, pastor Of the south congregation
al society if they thought advisable. There was a
sent i'll against such course by sevcra'
members of the church and society, with request
that the Consolation would enquire into the facts
in the learn the state OF feeling that exist
ed at present The session was secret one and the
proceedings have not been male pu'lc. The result,
4 m
ment
Bishop NIcIivainc Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church Of OHIO attende the Union Prayer Meeting
in Fulton street. New York, the other day and took
part IN the exercises of exhorting and praying with
tie brethren
! Mr., and Mrs Elijah Newton. of Letlvnrd celerra-
ted the 10th anniversary of their wedding day on
the p tliof March last They will be so years old
in May. 80: j
DIR. John S. Bntlcr of the H,rtforl Insane Retreat,
is to leave for Europe on Monday DR.. P, rter, who
has long acted assistant physician, viii I've the
rcspon ible and thoroughly compel mt physician
during the four months that Dr. Butler expects 10
he absent
The ,chester Uuion exposes extensive scheme
Of frauds upon the school fund Of Eew.York by
means of forged notes. rurpcrting to he signed by
trustees OF various SCH ols and academies. Henry
Norton, of Bergen. indicted fer completely in these
frauds, had forged notes ii, his eSs on to the
amount of about 100000. The system has been
operated to extent in every county in the State
Bishop Mcfarland tRoman Catholic) confirmed !
2s0 persons in st. Patrick's church. New Haven,
Sunday morning last and 800 in st. Mary's church,
New Haven, in the afternoon of the same day
An ilustra ion of the fury Of the gale Which visit
ID the eastern coultics last week, is supplied by the
act that two empty bullock trucks were blown
.leng the rails from the March railway station to
sly-a distance of seventeen miles Eng pape.
THE Virginia and Tennessee railroad is 204
niles III lengtl md cost about 81. 900, 600. In
$50, the tax; be value Of land in the counties
trough which it passes, as taken from the
ensus, was s2s,942,G47--and in 1856 the /
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