Litchfield enquirer., 1860-03-08
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BY HIS ExELLENcY, WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM. ,nuISp MOI, o I, u,rr1 c,.r ,,, z, il, ,,x

| BY HIS ExELLEScY, -"
 WILLIAM A, BUCKINGHAM. GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CoNNECTIcr | A Proclamation.
 Thereby recommend the people of this Com monwealth' to observe FRIDAY, the sir6t d,nv Q, Apra nert, as day of fasting humiliation, and prayer and desire that on that day we may wit ness whole people, turning aside from their usual vacations, and in the light of Gods truth. examining themselves until they shall sec wherein they have violated their obligations to God and to their fellow-men and in the oxer- else of deep humility and true repentance seek the Divine favor. Also, that with unwayerine faith in an over-ruling Providence, they may pray that God will not deal with us according to our sins but in accordance with the benevolence of His own character; that He will crown every lawful enterprise with prosperity; that He will give us the influences of His spirit to enlighten our minds, purify our hearts, and deliver us from the power of indwelling sin; that He will over throw and defeat the counsels of those who de- wise evil against our government, and against such institutions of learning, charity and religion as are based upon principles of love to God and love to man that He xill cause reason to tri- umph over passion, truth dSer error liberty over oppression, and make thisAn nation people to 1 His praise.
 -- Given under my hand and thks seal of
 1s, the state' at the city of Norwich, T.h,;ss.us | ~- our Lord one thousand e;obt L:'t, ., and sixty, and of the indepe.tlencs of r,i ni"nured ted States the eghty-fourth. VI 'no Cui-
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 JOHN BoYn Secretary of State.
 At tho Alms-House in Dartmouth, Mass. on. "wednesday evening, We're united in the bonds of lnolyN Grinnell the united age of the youthful coupls being l69 years, the bridegroom being 90 and the bride 19 years of age. A turkey supper was given in honor of the worthy pair by Adam Ben nett, esq.,, the keeper of the institution in which d large number of invited guests partook, and 1 the evening passed of very agreeaby until a late hour when the party adjourned, wishing the happy pair long life together, and that they might have childrens children elinging around them in their old age.
 A singular lawsuit is going on in London. a gentleman having sued confectioner for putting too many portraits of Mir. Sturgeon upon a sup l ply of bonhons he had ordered He had ordered the lids of the honbons ornamented with DOT traits of celebrated living personages and the confcctioner had put five Spurgeons in each dozen. The plaintiff had no objection to Q fair proportion of Sturgeon in his sweetmeats, but he thought five out of every twelve was mora Sturgeon than he or his guests could sta- ~sn' The case was djourned in order to obtaiy meth formation as to the list of portraits frowwledged, the confectioncr selected. Al,
 They tell funny story of Chas lnli;se. l connection with humbug Jersey champagi 1E,,,s was dining at DemOnicos in New York
 some one gave him bottle of his own wino.n. test his nice taste, when he at once said he rec . ognized the taste, declared smacking his lips. it Nas his own champagne, and came from par ticular building and vat which he named, at Rheims. Great would have been his su:rrire and chagrin to learn that it was nothing but "di- ved" Newark cider, with carbonic acid pumped into it but the friend who has played the joke did not tell him of it..
 As curiously interesting personal item with | titled importance) we announce that at present in England thero are: Dukedoms. 27; marqui- sates, 33 earldoms about 23l vscouhties I7; baronies, 308 baronets, close upon 690. Of tho baronets of James I. we have only 3l remain ing; of King Charles l., 48 of Charles H., T8; of James H., A. William and Mary 6 !; Anne, 8; George l., 9; George H., $40; and of Vic toria. 1O5. Among the very freshest of theso creations of these latter will be found Sir Arch- dale Wilson of Delhi, Sir Henry Havelock, Sir John Lawrence, Cunard and Nicholson besides the Parsee baronet, Sir JamseIee Jeieebhoy. | The Mobile Tribune records the marriage on the lst instant, at the residence of the bride. | (Choctaw County Ala) by the Rev. A. Daugh. erty, in the prime of youth," Mir. Charles W. Pate, aged about cighty-four years, to Mrs. Elir. abeth Conn, aged about pinety-six years.
 E1-President Pierce has offered to take com. mand of the Ancient and Honorable corps of Boston for this year, and that the company in- tend visiting New York some time during tho cOmnU Summar oa ha onasts of tho -1I C:as. Guard, now under the command of Capt. Mans field Lowell, formerly of the Army. The "Hon- orables' elect captain every year.
 The man whose wife caught a package of s2so in money from him and threw it out of the rail- road car window, thinking it was paper of to- bacco which he intended to take out was law yer of Boston and did not find his money again. Rather expensive-that playful" toss.
 The late Prof. J. A. Alexander wrote a great deal and varied the monotony of the slavery of the pen by altering the penmanship. The Rev. Dr. Cuyler.says that some drafts of his Commen. tary were even written in @ circle, over huge sheets of paper! He once said that to avoid the tedium of the recitation room he never taught two consecutive classes by the same methods en- trely, nor did he call the roll two days exactly alike. This love of variety he carried into the preparation of his discOurses {; for we can not now recall any two that were constructed on the same model.
 A wedding took place in Detroit the other day. between an aged female of sixty-fve and young man of twenty-one. They were cousins, and, on uniting themselves in matrimony, be- came possessed of ten thousand dollars by be- quest The donor of this money had, upon his death-bed, willed them five thousand dollars each, under condition they married in the fam lily.
 
 Professor J. S. Lowe, of Atlantic balloon mo- toriety, has turned up in Charleston, S.. C., where he writes to the Quarter of that city that he in. tends to make his voyage to Europe in May or June next, and that he is now on his way to. ward the Equator to see of he can not find a re. turn current, in the upper regions of the atsa<1. phere, from East to West.
 The Boston Transc,ipt of Saturday saysthese has been little if any diminution in the amount of orders for shoes from the South. Southern like sensible men, buy where they can purchase the best and cheapest goods. Tho Trascips it seems. don't know ss much es ths Bridgeport Former, 'e~ h*- = ~'' ''' ''s.. -s.-