Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1860-01-19
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Between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars
have already been subscribed in aid of the suf-
ferers by the disaster.
The news from Europe is unimportant, except
as announcing the death of Lord T. B. Macau-
lay, the Statesman, Poet and Historian of Eng
land.
Lord Macaulay died on the 2sth ult., at Lon
don. He had been unwell about fortnight
from disease of the heart, but had rallied to
such an extent that medical men did not appre-
bend danger. The result was therefore sudden
and unexpected. He was only SO years old,
and as he was never married, his title becomes
extinct
He was born in 1900, was educated at Cam
bridge, was admitted to the Bar in 1926, but
soon after commenced his brilliant literary ca
reer, by his articles upon Milton contributed to
the Edinburgh Review. He was for some years
member of Parliament and held at one time
seat in the British Cabinet under Lord John
Russell. In 1857, he was raised to the peerage
:" in acknowledgement of great literary services,
the first precedent OF the kind in English His
tory.
His History of England" which he leaves
unfinished, is probably one of the greatest spe-
cimens of literary art the world Or the age has
seen. His death adds another and the last to
the long list of bright luminaries of the world,
who have been extinguished by death in 1859.
NEAL Dow, at Portland, Maine, had a narrow
escape from terrible death ON Wednesday,
While walking across rafter in his steam tam
merry, he fell distance of sixteen feet and struck
upon boiler, narrowly escaping vat of scald-
ing hot water He was picked up insensible, but
is now in fair way of recovery.
The Pameacha mill at Middletown, occupied
by several different companies for manufacturing
sewing machines, britannia ware, &C., was DESTROY
ed by fire on Saturday loss $4,000, partially
insured.
OK Thursday week, by accident on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, near
Elon, Ohio, two cars, one of them the sleeping
car, were precipitated thirty feet down an en-
bankment rolling over and over. Strange to say
no lives were lost, although several persons re-
ceived severe injuries; among them Mrs. Linn,
widow of the late Senator Linn of Missouri, and
Miss Lonsdell, an actress.
The Newport House, at the foot of Lake
Memphremagog, in Vermont, was burnt on the
9Th of January. Loss $4,000. Insurance $500.
THERE has been quite deep snow. in the nor
thern part Of Mississippi.
The widow of General ST. Clair of revolu-
tiona-y times, died in Ohio lately, at very ad-
vanced age.
A COPY ofthe Springfield Republican has been
publicly burnt by order of the court, in one of
the counties of Virginia.
The N. Y. Court of Appeals has, at its pres
ent term, made somewhat important decision.
The case grew out of the great strike upon the
Erie Railroad, IN which the employees suddenly
quit work and left large quantity of freight up
on the line of the road to be forwarded as best
it might. The Court held tina. railroad COM
pany is responsible for damages resulting from
delay to transport freight in the usual time which
was caused by great number of its servants
suddenly and wrongfully refusing-to work.