Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-09

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE ELEc11oNs.-Tho scattering returns from the Kentucky election indicate the choice of Mir. Coombs, the Opposition candidate for Clerk of the Dourt of Appeals, by large major 1 ity. The Douglas men helped him. The returns from the Missouri election are so on the State ticket or to Congress. No returns from Arkansas and Texas, or Ala bama.
 THE Prince of Wales is at Frederickten, N B., where, on Monday, he was addressed by the provincial government, the city and the clergy. In the afternoon he visited and inaugurated a new park, and in the evening attended grand ball.
 PRINA DONNA in New fork the other day preferred charge in Police Court against an lrshman for selling her poor article of gin. What pity they drink!
 A FORMAL REQUEST, says tho Washington Cor respondent of tho Tribune, very numerously signed by leading Douglas politicians of Georgia, has been sent to Judge Douglas, urging him to visit that state. They promise hearty reception.
 A daring feat was done about week ago. on the Erie and Canandaigua branch of the New gineer of a train. He was coming down 53- foot grade, near Millport, when he observed a child playing on the track ahead of his train. He immediately wkistlcd for the brakes, hut on such heavy grade and in so short distance it was of no use. He made up his mind in sec ond how to proceed. He ran along to the front of his engine, got down on the pilot, ard when within six feet of the unconscious child, bound ed from the engine, seized the child from cer- tain death, and rolled with it over an embark ment, safe and unhurt, barely clearing the engine in his descent as it cnt laundering past. ing to John w. B. Smith, together with the con- tents, including his hay, grain sleigh and a quan- tity of farming tools was destroyed ly fire on Sunday night, Aug.5 5. So rapidly did the flames extend that it was impossible to save anything. There were tlrec COWS in the yard ct the time of the fire and one of them was burned 10 death another badly roasted on one side but will proba ply recover, while the third jumped over a high fence and escaped. Tho loss is estimated at $500, partly covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is not known, but it is supposed to be the work of an incendary.-Press.
 VAN VERT, president of the Winsted Still River Bank, (bogusJ WAS sentenced at Lcnox last week to six years imprisonment in the Mas sachusetts State Prison, for passing counterfeit money.
 THE GREAT EASTERN IN Her WHEREOF Saturday suit was brought in he L. s. circuit court, in Now York, against the owners and di- rectors of the Great Eastern, for infringement of tho American patent combining the use of the side wheel and stern screw, which principles were patented by James E. Smith of Glcenport L. l., in l84s, the patent being TOW owned by Charles J. Gilbert and Samuel T. Armstrong of New York city. While our laws concede to foreign vessels the privilege of using an Ameri- can patent, they restrict such use to the arrival and departure from our ports, and do not permit traffic in American waters. The excursons te Cape May, Old Point Comfort etc., are, there fore, illegal under this construction of this law, rendering the owners liable for the infringement which else would pass untouched. The paten- tees sue, therefore, for $5O,oO0 damages arising from these excursions, and have served the prop CT papers upon the officers at New York.