Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1860-07-12

his squibs, all from one issue. a..
WELLINGTON is said to have exclaimed in the
,o;,st If he battle of Waterloo, Up guards and
A. them" Somebody says that after the Balti-
more Convention the Democratic party's cry to
fts organs will be, "Up blackguards and at them"
MONTGOMERY, of Pennsylvania, who made
sucb disgracefu exhibition Of himself at Bal
4imore, is the man who supplies the President
with .old rye" Things evidently have gone
81 awry with him politically.
A Southern editor thinks that Mr.. Lincoln
1.must be crazy" Unquestionably if the pictur
of him in Harper is correct, he is phizically de-
ranged
For great many years the Democracy have
been agitating the slavery question, and now, by
way Of reciprocity of compliment, it agitates
them dreadfully.
Somebody sent us, on Monday, a Douglas and
Fitzpatrick flag. We tossed it out of our win
dow We suppose this is what might be called
finging it to the breeze.
Mr. Douglas immediate organ says that the
Democratic party was foundered by him!
An Alabama editor tries to be very severe
upon an odd volume of the Louisville Journal
that he has found. Cease, viper, you bite a
.fle."
The newly invented rifle cannon which is now
being tried at Watch Hill, has been fred six
times. The target-which is board fence
twenty feet long and ten feet high is six miles
distant. The worst shot which has been made
came within six feet of the centre of the target.
The cannon was invented by Gen. James, of Il.
]. 1t uses but twelve pounds Of powder each
shot.
The new comet, north of Ursa Major, is Wis
ible to the naked eve, although SO thickly Ell
veloped in its mantle of mist as to be hardly
dstinguishabc. The Cambridge observatory
decides that it is not the comet of Charles ",
and its elements bear no resemblance to those
of any recorded comet. The new visitor is
somewhat remarkable for its near approach to
the sun, when in perheIion, on the 18th inst,
being less than 2I,0G0,0G0 of miles. Its future
course through the evening sky will be very
much the same as that of the celebrated comet
Of DOnati.
The residence Of an absent sea-captain in
Saybrook was visited one evening last week by
a couple of burglars, who demanded entrance,
knowing there vas no man in the house. The
Captain wife inquired who they were, and re-
fused TO admit them. They forced the door,
and were about to enter, when the heroic wo-
man met them, revolver in hand, and warned
them that to advance would be death. They
caved and cleared The Courant, which tells
the story, says Such a woman as that is worth
having in the house, and we regret being unable
to give her NAME
"Oh, Iacob,' said master to his apprentice
i" it is wonderful what a quantity You can eat"
e Yes, sir, said the boy, Il have been prac-
ticing since ! was child
Il thousand dollar carriage, made thirty years !
ago at Mi .dletown, for General jackson to ride |
in, has recently been sold for sixteen dollars and
fifty cents. 1t is proposed to send II to Sach
ein head for Stephen A. Douglas, the second
jackson = TO take his airings in.
man by the name of Bum, whose bloody
carpet-bag was found at Jersey City, and who,
II was supposed, had been robbed of large
amount OF money and murdered, has returned to
his home. He says that after taking dinner at
O"ego, he became unconscious, and when he
calne to, found himself at sea on board u small
schooner, aud robbed of all his money ($lGUU) |
The captain refused to answer any questions, |
and landed him Oh the coast of FLORIDA. lie |
fortunately fell into the hands of those who
kindly cared for him, and furnished funds for
him to return home. Mr. Dunn is quite sure
that lie was drugged at the hotel. He is quite
III iron rough usage and exposure.
Gershom Twitchell, the last member Of sim
2u!ar family, died at Milford, Mass, on the 26th
ut, POSSESSED OF much wealth, but living d
life of deprivation and affect poverty. Alter
his death, stores Of gold aid silver were found
s'crcted, nicely adjusted in layers OF dollars
halves aud quarters, and small CONS. His farm
one of the most beautiful in Milford suffered
from neglect, and his wife was compelled to leave
illm many years ago, and recently, for stipula-
ted sum, gave bonds that she could make no
claim upon his property. The Overseers of the
Poor took charge OF the specie, and depostedit
iii the bank Tor safe keeping.
The French Courts have decided that q Young |
man who emgrated to this country, while liable |
10 CONSUMPTION, but before his time comm |
Sas thereby released from it, This is more
distinct recognition of our naturalization laws
than has before been given.
An Iri.hman tooa off his coat to show q ter
rible wound which he said he had received
few years before. Not being able to find tn.
wound, he suddenly remembered that it was his
." brother Bills arm"
blondin did new thing on his tight rope at
Niagara, a few days since. He stood on his head,
midway of the stream, while lady operator
photographed him from the Canadian side. The |
The expression of his feet is said to he accur-
atciy preserved. After this contribution to the
high art, Blondn put on a sack, tied slightly |
bandage over bis eyes, and thus hampered trav-
ersed his cord, again standing on his head when |
half way over.
\ billiard match for FIVE hundred dollars came
off in Havana on the 7th, between Mr.. Judd |
Hastings and young man from Venezuela,
1000 points to be scored, four ball carom game
Mr.. Hastings~was the victor by SO points |
There were average runs of 10, SO, and 90.
Some scoundrels removed rail from the rail- |
road track between Fairvlle and Stanville, near
Cleveland, Ohio, few days since, and an ex-
press train went over the gap 1t caused con-
siderable humping of course, but by chance
little less than miracle, every car passed in
safety. 1t must be a black-hearted villain who
can thus deliberately jeopardize the lives of
hundreds of persons he has never seen, and
against whom be can have no ill-will.
p. I. Barnum says that the managers of the
Great Eastern will make five times more money |
by exhibiting that vessel at twenty-five cents a
head. than they will at one dollar. He recon-
mends them to enter into arrangements to get
up excursion trains.
~ ASK ANY ONE WHO HAS EVER USED Dr. |
LANES CELEBRATED LIVER Pill, prepared by
Fieming Bros what they think of them Ninety
nine IN hundred will tell you they are the best
Pills for Livei Complaint, sick headache and dys-
pepsia that they haye ever used Read the fol- |
lowing from one OF our most respected citizens
do hereby certify that have Iaor