Litchfield enquirer., 1858-08-12
A SINGuLAR WILL.

A SINGULAR WILL.
 The Journal and Courier copies from the New Ha- ven Probate Records, the following Will:
 2. Il the name of God, sole Governor of all worlds, Jesus Christ, tine Holy Ghost, the twelve Apostles, Saints, Thrones, Powers, Virtues, Angels, Archangel, Cherubims, and Scraphims; Amen. l, David Ogden, of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, being in uncommon good health and spirits, and ill my right mind aud wits, do in the following man. ner make this tDy last will and testament. I'm primis. My body, this mass composed of flesh, blood, arteries, bones, cartileges, flores, and God wot not all besides, I commit, when drest in my best suit of black clothes, to it's deep, dark, silent grave ,tis dismalshousc l am to .dwel in, yea yerily Q mournfu one; therefore, the dress for mourning is the most proper one for me. Thus let this body be dressed for its coffin, which pray to be made of sound ma hoyai,y wood and not ornamented with brass nails and tin plates telling my nanr, age or death-my head will tell these things to the inauisitive in the grave When this mass of corruption is thus equipped, let it be borne OH the shoulders of four sturdy youths 10 it's long hom., the narrow grave, whom would should be rewarded fer their trouble with decent pair of gloves each. By thesway, should Da- vid Edwards the Sunday next after my exit conceive either my death or my life to merit q sermon, short sermon, prayer, or a few hymns to be sent up to the throne of an all pitying and merciful God, prythee, let it be done and for his trouble and good services in this solemn business, give him my best wishes for his wei fare, accompanied with compliment of G3.4,
 
 grant, if have any, or ever had, it may wing it's flight to heaven, be placed conspicuously among the stars, fly on the wings of the wind, feed the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the insects of the carth or the fishes of the aqu;ous deep waters upon the whole, l give my soul to God. Nem.-1t is my will and pleasure that monument worth glO.O.O, be erected in the buryiug ground in New Ha- ven to my memory, the motto and epitaphl for which leave wholly to the discretion of my worthy friend and brother, Pierpont Edwards, Esq. To n,y sister Polly Cozens Ogden, give, grant, bestow and bequeath all my worldly concerns-goods, chattels, lands, tenements and heredtaments which whilst all inhabitant of this planet was in possession of, in fee simple or otherwise, to her and her heirs forever, she first paying satisfying, and cancelling all law ful dues debts, and demands against the same also, paying to Susan Edwards, my lovely niece, the sum of &200O, New York money, to be laid out for a mourning dress for her the said Susan. appoint, constitute, and make Pier New Haven, and Aaron Ogden, Esq. of Eliz abethtown, in New Jersey, Executors of this my last will and testament. Witness my hand n,k nf lov of February, 17o9. DAVID OGDEN.
 
 Gerritt Smith wrote letter to the Dress Reform Convention lately held in Western New York, apologizing for his noa-appearancc as speaker, and adding: 'I am 6l years old-lny life has been full of labors. 1 have felt all the older since my terrible fever. last Fall l trust your meeting will be Q good one. Oh, when will woman have too much selfrespect to indulge in this dress foolery How ashamed would she be of man were he to indulge it? and were he to put on hoops, aud dress his hair and deck his neck and ears with jewels In spite of her vanity, woman holds herself in very low esteem. She docs not tsiak of comparing herself, in dignity, with man. The comparison would put an end to this trifing with herself, and to this sad and shameful selfdegradation.'
 A down town druggist did neat thing the other day. It seems that Q certain lady con. cluded that she had seen quite enough of the trials and tribulations of this world and made up her mind to seek a better, where domestic discord and all worldly affairs were forgotten, "where the wicked cease from troubling" etc., and accordingly sent to Mir. Druggist for a supply of arsenic, to be used, as she averred, in killing rats. The druggist, smelling mice, weighed out forty grains of calomel and label ed it "poison" The woman, without suspi- cion of the real contents of the paper, return ed to her home. The next morning, the time she had appointed for the commission of the act, having arrived, she deliberately went to her drawer, opened tue paper, divided it's con- tents into two equal parts, and swallowed one of tho portions Severe pain began to ensue, .-when the inmates of the neigboriag tenements were startled by piercing screams emanating from her abode, and among the foremost rush. ine to her assistance was her husband. She rave him an account of what she had done, aud pointed to the remaining 90 grains lying upon the table, which he without saying a word. Immediately swallowed, and prepared to die aiso. The scene which followed can be better imagined than described twenty grains of calo,uel being "no joke" We are happy to statc that the following day they were both well, with the exception of being quite pale and weak. But for the shrewdness of tho very worthy druggist, the Coroner would have been plus fifty dollars. more or less, and ourselves the chronicler of Q Shocking Double Suicide" Queer world this
 Philadelphia Gazette.
 
 sv r,erbv. on Thursday evening, a child was rescued from bed where it lay the fire having approached y;tn two inches of it's feet and the bedstcad which was iron, had become too hot to be comfortably han