Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21
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 I'd not reminded of a geneyai -suyiay in business The manufac- smterest of our city was never In more 10urishing condition than at present, and onefs ey gery encouragementt those engaged m all mechan- ical pursuits We learn that Mcssn. Cook & Co, extensixe carriage manufactursrs, now con1ple- ting an unusual quantity of work and for Q feM weeks past have fnished snd shipped at the rate of one carriage an hour. or twentysfour per day. On the 80tlf Jilt tey shipped fFty three to go to di- fersnt sections of the South ana West. aas NJ
 Rev. H. w. Beecher on Saturday received dis patch from Fredericksburg, Va, announcing that efhs white slave woman Ellen. who, afew days ago, solicited aid from his congregation and that of Rev Dr. Cheever. had been nanumtted with her five children The amount required to secure their freedom was $1, 600, and $1. 800 having been obs tained, the surplus will to procure the neces- sTes of life for the family until they can find some way Of helping themselves. They propose to set Ne ID Cancinnalt. ri s5F .ss F zsgstgstA h Wiohzs&bRs POISONING IN Ernors1a.-A letter from Lexington, Va., March Slst, to the Richmond s(Va.l Despatch, says: 'sThis community has been thrown into a state of extreme excitement by the poisoning of Dr.. Junkin, President of Washington College, and his entire family on the night of the 20th of. this month The poison used Was arsenic, and was put into cream used at supper, by negro Of the Doctors, named Billy All the family. in- cluding pr. Jnnkin, Mrs. Fishburn and her child Miss Fishburn. George Junkin, Jr.. and a young
 
 dose administered was so large that 1t acted as an emetc, thus saving their ives.N
 MT Ely has introduced bill into the New York Legislature which provides that the officers of the New Haven Railroad shall. at stated periods furnish a sworn statement as to the number of passengers brought from the State of Connecticut into the city of New York, and pay . per eapia taxof one dollar on each passenger into the State Treasury to he by the State appropriated to the liquidation of the re rudiated stock and bonds of said Company. which were issued by the late President. Mfr Schuyler It b not generally supposed that the bill will pass.
 x A remarkable story is told in the Providence Press about man in Mapleyille. thewheel of whose wagon, containing load of 5000 pounds, is said to ousiy harming him! Aman with such a head may consider himself tolerably safe. There was m dnubtedly bridge between his head and the wagon wheel. }sar Tg& ssstyF < Ta#Es < Y1N . Mr Ives, who has had tho management Of the Now Haven House for number of years. has re- tired therefrom, and is succeeded by B.. w.. Ellis EsQ. 44{kl.a aa fl oa T s A number of citizens of Montreal have given Sir William Logan, Provincial Geologst, an elegant sil- ver fountan the basins of which carved to re- present the coal formations The testimonial is of London manufacture, costing 5000. ..te@ 34 An edition of the Bible, brought from tbe E1st in the sixth century, and found in the archives of the Vatican by the late Cardinal Mai the discoverer of Ciceros Republic Is attracting the attention of the Press in Europe. 2 AAa sekaEs7 &
 An Ecclesiastical Council met at Manchester sta- tion on the 30th nlt. and dissolved the Pastoral lation of Rev. Hiram Day to the Congregational ~ sCh,Irch in that place. 'if @-7*@'
 Bono of the papers say that Rev. MT. Sturgeon has finally concluded to visit this country, and will leave for New York on the 10th of May.
 ExJudgs Lecompte of Kansas, takes his removal hard, declares that he has boTne the heat and bur den of the day in the democratic battle of Kansas, and that all the pretensons to virtue on the part Of party to live oak contracts is all folderol.
 Springfield. .lrhe capital of Illinois. elected Repnb lican officers last Monday week by 100 to 200 ma 1ority. P ssf@' r