Litchfield enquirer., 1859-11-10


And thus they get a blow out free
At every party feed !;
The reason is because they write
And other people read.
PRESIDENCY OF HARVARD CoLLEGE.-It is announ-
ccd that Rev DR.. Walker has resigned his Office as
President of Harvard College. Among the pron,i
ne,t names mentioned tor the succession is that of
Professor C. c. FELTON,. DIR. Walker has held his
Office above nine years.
john Brown is the father of twenty two chill
rcn- force sufficient itself, to take Virginia and
brighten the shareholders everywhere. We sup
pose some Of these children were girls but VIC don't
think that would make any difference, Women
would the Virginians-'' baIs, in arms
| would do ito 10 State Journal
The Massachusetts Senate and House lately got
into a'dispnte, whether he-goat should be called
'he" or She" After long dispute, the House
gave in. that hereafter by the Massachusetts
laws hc:goat must be called it,
| fB A large tract of woods, embracing some ff-
| teen or twenty acres, upon Mount Washington,
near Sheffield, Mass . is on fire, and presents
most gorgeous sight each evening, to wondering
| and delighted spectators throughout the northern
part of the County.
| e. Friday the goth day of October, was the an
niversary Of the execution of the celebrated English
navigator, and adventurcr, Sir Walter Raleigh. He
was born at Budeigh, Devonshirc. did good service
to the State during the reign of Qneen Elizabeth,
but the ascension of James l. he lost his interest
at Court and after a long imprisonment in the
Tower of London was uni Justly accused of treason
and hehea,lcd upon Tower Hill, two hundred and
fifty-one years ago-the 29th October, 1918.
LOVE VS.. ROASTED CnEssurs. old gentleman
past the age of sixty, but still retaining decided
passion for dignity and good looking girls, while
promcnaling tho streets Of. Philadelphia, a few
weeks ago. fell. inEwith a pretty italian girl. who
had stand OH the corner of one of the streets,
where she roasted and sold chesnuts. The old
gent was at struck by the beauty of the taugh
ter of sunny Italy, and to introduce himself, bought
n pint of the roasted merchandise. Had he stop
ned here all would have been we'll. But the heat
Of the chesnuts impaired such q warmth to his
feelings that he COMMANDED ogling the merchantcss,
when she seized the pan of chesnuts from off the
f,ra,ce and dashed them at the bending form of
the gray Lethario.- One chestnut fell beneath his
slfrt collar. and kissing hot traversed down his
spinal column until he seized it by his coat tails.
anil rushed from the evidently laoring
der the effects Of secret sorrow and roasted ches-
nuts.
The following advertisement apr ears in the Rich
mond Wig
$4,000 d HE%AE1 G 1s3,Sg s1tn +;
DECLARED himself TRAIroR in lecture at Philadel-
phia on the 2Sth of October. and there being no
process strange osay, by which he can be brought
to JUS. lee propose to be one of one hundred to
raise 5 G, 900 for his safe delivery in Richmond.
SIS 600 for the production of his head ! do not
regard this proposition, extraordinary it may at
first seem, either unjust or unmereiful. Tho law of
God and the Constitution of his country both
denim him to death.
For satisfactory reasons, withhold my name
from the rulic but it is in the hands of the editor
IF the Richmond Wing. There will he difficulty
I am sure in raising the $4,000 upon reasonable
prospect of getting the said Gddings to this city
/ Richmond, Nov. l, 1850.
! GB young man and woman wore counting last
Saturday evening at the house of MIR. Blackwell in
Sopewell Township. N. J +, and both fell asleep
while sitting beside warm stove. During their
nap the dress IF the young lady took fire. and when
they awoke her clothes were all in flames. She
so shockingly burned that she lived but few hours.
The Young man was also seriously injured by the
fire in his efforts to save his companion. The parties
were engaged to be married, and the young woman
had made her wedding purchases the day Of the
accident.
It is reported that Wendell Phillips. receiving
one hundred dollars for his recent lecture at Ply
mouth Church. upon the Harper's Ferry INVASION
Immediately paid over the whole sum as a contri
bution to John Brown, to procure for him such
comforts as he may need in the few remaining days
Of his life.
j. John Browns wife recently passed through Wor-
ccster. Mass on hel way to the prison Of her hus-
hand in Virginia.
The first steamship which made the voyage, I'M
der steam throughout across the Atlantic, was the
I,oyal william. in 1883 This vessel was of 1870
Mt place called Three Rivers, on the River St
Lawrence in Canada. The voyage was made from
rictod in Nova Scotia, to Cowes, Isle CT Wight
Rain nev1r falls in Perm The trade winds blow
;p, across Brazil condense all their moisture upon
the Andes.
Nh. how of the Great Eastern is $50 feet long,
the middle body 40 feet, and the stern 20 feet
long.
! The Harlem Road is doing very good business.
The increase to the 10Th over the same period Oh
October last year is 81, SUI.
| of the three thousand voters of Washington
ETerritory, two thousand are DESTROYS of entering
THE matrimonial state but there arc no marriagea-
lle girls there. The Puget's Sound Herald plain
treiy c.Is for New England damsels to satisfy the
ltleiuand for g a good article.
| Rochester woman stole a horse, and being over
taken in her efforts to make away with it, was
ked up in the third story of hotel for the night
EEscanng then by means of the bed cord. sbe pre-
fferred the officers horse to the already stolen,
and made good her fight
Rev Henry Ward Beecher delivered dis
course on the Harper's Ferry rebellion Sunday
| night. in his own church. He condemned the fol-
/ y Of Brown, but declared that, even out at his
senses, he morally, head and shoulders above
his captors, Gov. Wise, the militia of Maryland
aud Virginia, the executive, and tho federal for
ces. !"