Litchfield enquirer., 1860-11-08
Brother, these are refreshing seasous.'' ;

<, Brother, these are refreshing seasons."
 Squlggle gazed vacantly at the speaker, and groaned inwardly. The brother pursued:
 IL IS good to be here."
 squiggle still absorbed in reverie, grOansd state?"
 At the word state" the eyes of our Demo cratic friend lost their dreamy look, and bis jaw clashed into place like . rat trap.
 State" he exclaimed, bringing down his cieDched fst on the back of his auestioner,s bench with an emphasis that startled the wor- thy brother greatly. Thunder it's gone Black Republican by l5,O0O mAjorityv
 The attempt to whip the Republicans, and particularly the last effort at panic producing, remlnd cotemporary of the Irishmans de- scriptlon Of :" how he whipped the naxur" |" In the first place." said Pat "I hit him an internal Wallop on the side of ths head, which missed 1, thln glv him another with t'ethsr hand in the same spot precisely; and lastly, let me fut- ioliow me nsts, snd by me sowl, while was do- ing it, the ugly haste hutted me claue acrosa the canal. Och, but for that blow how I would have whaled the divilv' The panc.makers, like the Paddy, even while they are whaling the enemy, find themselves in the ditch.
 A REAL RELIsHER OF JoKs-A man lately received twenty lashes, well laid on, at the whip ping post, in sn English town. The culprit, in- stead of believing when the constable applied the lash laughed immoderstely, which made the angry officer lay on with harder force. On giv- ing him the twentieth blow, the angry officer could stand it no longer. "Well, here, mister" said he, five done my duty, and can lick you no more, but I'd like to know what it is that's so funny?" Funny P roared the other: :" why it's excelent-glorious !-You're got Nte acrong Smih ain't the man that was to be whipped! It's the other one! And now you'll have to go it all over again Really, it's bo good! You must lick the other man! Ha, ha, ha!'
 An exchange states that at the breaking of ground for the commencement of the Lynch burg and Tennessee Railroad, at Lynchburg, 6 clergyman slowly and solemnly read mana. script prayer-at the conclusion of which an old negro man, who had been resting with one foot on his spade and his arms on the handle looking intsntly in the chaplains face, straightened him self up, and remarked very audibly, "Wsll, I reckon dat's de fust tune de Lords eber bin writ to on de subjic ob railroads P TIE RULING PAssIoN.-In order to amuss the children On Sabbath, lady was engaged in reading from ths Bible the story of David and Goliath, and coming to that passage in which Goliath so boastingly and defantly dared the young stripling, little chap almost in the first troWsers. said,-
 Sister, skip that, he's blowing want to know who licked
 stranger having passed counterfeit dollar bill on one of the New Haven hackmen and re- fused to redeem the same they gathered togeth- CT as he was about leaving on the cars, and gave him rail-rding through the depot, much to tho amusement of the spectators and mortifca on of the modest subject.
 At the time of the late meeting of the Ameri- can Scientific Association, in Rhode Island, the friends of Rev. Dr. Wayland were surprised to read an account in the papers that. after one of the evening sessions, the doctor gavca billiard party The types should have made it bril- | iant party
 CoNNA-cAL. BIUNDER.-A Columbus (Ohio) paper, in it's account of the Perry celebration at Cie"alard, says The procession was very fine, and nearly two miles in length, gs was also the prayer of Dr. Perry, the chaplain
 < mn in Utica, who was requested to act as pail bearer at the funeral of friends wife. pre- sen;ed tue bereavcd husband with bill of 56 cents for his services in that capacity, and re- ceived his pay. Utica bears of the honor of the mranest man.
 ACCIDENT TO SENATOR DorGrAs-N N3ntgon,- erq, Al.. Nov. 3-'i'he deck of the steamer Fir@!,Sia gave way last night, while Mr. Doug Is vas making his farewell speech. lie with the crowd was precirituted below. Fortunate ; no one was hurt Air. Douglas held on to tho railing of the steamer, and was rescued uninjur- ed. Both returned immediately to tho hctd here
 The Kansas land sales are not to hs postpon- ed t'i5s interference of the Secretary of the In- terlor having been refuaed So, in addition to the horrers of famine, the people of Kansas arc to be exposed to the loss of their home steads, from lack of means to bid in their claims.
 Two Irish gintiemen' were overheard dis cuaaing politics, at Chesire, Mass. the other day az foows
 Mind ye. Mike, Douglas will kape his eye on the big choir." "And he jabers, if hc does, he'll be sitter seeing Lincoln sitting in it on tho fourth of March
 The population of Canaan is 1,40s; North Canaan 1.429 Cornwall, 1954 Goshen, l ,3el {; ent, ,085; Norfolk, l. 303 Salisbury, 3,103; Sharon. 2,5ss. Total. 14,749 in tho seventeenth Senatorial District.
 Old Bachelor Sheer would like to know what kind of s broom the young woman in the last new novel used when she swept back the raven ringlets from her classic brow.
 The eldest postmaster in the United States who has never been out of office since the date of his appointment. is John Billings, at Trenton. Oneida county NJ His appointment was made on the 18th of June, 1865.
 Figures won't lie," is an old and homsly eI- pression but few men can look on fashionable womans figure nowadays, and say as much.