Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-19
S242 ,404.33 $222.27O.c

The oil prospects in Pennsylvania are stil 1 brilliant. Ihere are now some 200 wells com pleted or in progress. and there will be towar, l thousand ill the course of the summer. Quite a sensation was created on Broadway New York, a few evenings since by a meetin. between brother and sister, The sister h, ( been seduced, abandoned, and forced to & life 0
 shame. in walking the streets she met Etl brother, who with their father, was in quest ui her. She fell sobbiiiy ill his arms and was tu ken care Of at once. She belongs in iittlt Falls, New York, anl it was with city bank clerk that she departed from the path of lect tude
 Mrs. swis*hclm says that the popularity o, her paper ill Minnesota is due to the fact thai "peoa are always expecting that she will say something she had not ought to- We'll they are hot often disappointed.
 Dr. Mclean, from the New York Custom
 House, visited Andover, tt.. a few days bofUrl 1 she election, supplied with money for missionary purposes. But the Republicans of the town n5t only overcame last years Democratic majority of i9, hut obtained 8 Republican majority ol !, :. nr. Mclean WAS much cha2rincd, aud when he took the cars. Tuesday n.oiuiug, for New i fork and the Custom House, lis un lessal' state of mind was not at all relieved by reading on 8 banner erected ty soma "wiie aWakes' al the depot, the inscription
 "Oh. Dr Mclean. please call again. And give us another boost For with your aid alli the money you paid, We've put the sIlanls 10 luost.' As a young seamstress was crossing the Park in New York on "Wednesday, she waa oyertakel! by Daniel Mckay who in passing her made a spring to avoid a puddle, in doing which a Dis tol fell from his pocket, exploded, and sent d ball into inc girl s right forefn CT, which tray ersed her wrist and lodged in her arm.
 The maple sugar crop of Vermont this ses son is estimated at near fifteen thousand tons.
 Breath fresh air if you would live long, IT New England farmers, who pa a,s their time ou of doo's live to an average age of GA years The average age of persons who have indo"l occupations at death is. in Massachusetts ant Rhode Island Shoemakers. 43 taors 42'. editors 4 ; druggists jewellers and teachers from go to 40 machnists, 39t, printers. 3t <. Fresh air therefore almost doubles mans life while it more than doubles his capacity for ell joyment.
 Daniel Webster penncd the sentiment " l we work upon marble, it will perish if wt work upon brass time will efface it; if we real temples, they will crumble into dust but if W, work upon immortal minds, if We imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God ana our tellow-men, we engrare on those tablets something that will brighten through all eter nity.'
 A revival of uncommon power is going on at Grlnnell, Iowa, q New England settlement There have been over one hundred conversions in village of seven hundred inhabitants.
 The small pox is spreading with fearful ra- pidity in South Amesburg, Mass. The church es are closed, and business is suspended.
 The ladies of the Mount Vernon Association now call upon the public for contributions 'o the amount of SilO,On0. the interest of which is to be employed in keeping the place i'll order
 If people when transplanting trees would mark the north side before they are taken up, and when set have the tree put m the ground with the north side to the north, m Its natural position. a larger proportion would live. lghor inr this law of nature is the cause oi so many trees dying. If the north side IS eyposed to the south the heat of the sun is too
  fore it dries up and decays, a.l
 SHORT BUT EMpHATIc.-Jo ohn Short, a burglar whose shortcomings placed him in the jail at Newport Rhode Island and who broke out ,bout a week since, has written letter to the Mayor of that city, which is decidedly cool The etter is dated Newport, and says:
 '.Mr. Mayor: 1 have taken the job of rebuild, ng the Peinberton Mills at Lawrence, and will De obliged to absent myself from the city, TOT TOT some time in consequence. On my return |; "n aa ake contract for repairing the Newpor. " fnr n my opinion, it is not in sufficient Se'"'''' :Le incarceration of prisoners
 The City Government of New ser odvartiFna 0.a % dur, sum of s94474 64 TOT auvtt..l"s ah rhs n~ +ha Tear ending on the lst Of March ms ms n .ns . J;Itributed among numerous papers the sum was .an a,s of some of which are but little names efe hevond limited circle. The largest Snowm .s,nt was paid to the New York Duly Ne~s no,er of very small circulation, bantling of upvpr p Woods. To this paper $l6.728 was aid, while only $3496,98 was paid to the He''ald nd sl99O,59 to the Times s-papers having irculation twenty times as large. More than fsv tzousand dollars was paid for advertising n newspapers whose aggregate circulation does ot exceed 12,O00