Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-26

seward III Aubnrn were consumer y my VI ~ evening of the 17th inst.,. with their contents Two family houses were burnt. The buildings were insured by a Hartford company.
 THE BuRcH DIVORCE CASE at Chicago IS about to be tried and excites great interest there anu wherever the parties are known, on account oi their high social standing. Mrs. Burch' who IS accused of adultery, is the adopted daughter ol Erastus. Corning of Albany. N. Y., and her friends assume her innocence and Will spare no labor or expense in her defense. Pubic sympa- thy at Chicago takes the side of Mir. Burch, and the newspaper reports set afoat by the o'her party to prejudice his case, are denounced as false by the Chicago Press and Tribune.
 ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HANDS have been recently discharged from Wheeler < Will sons sewing machine manufactory Tn East Bridgeport, in consequence Of falling on III business. The market is stocked with sewing machines of all varieties.
 HARTFORD is as comfortably in debt as some of the Western cities Mayor Deming reports the total indebtedness at no less than $l lOO'O0o . and there is also considerable town debt be- sides. - : =
 STEALING A SAFE !-The agent of Adams Express Company. on arriving at New York on Monday evening last, discovered that the safe ot the Company, containing some sixteen thousand dollars, was missing! It was in the car after l cor Iorc onrtd not be found. On Thursday, it was discovered among some old ties beside the road half a mile below Westport station. A hole had been cut in the bottom, and the contents abstracted. A reward of S5, ,OG0 has been offered for the discov cry of the money and the conviction of the thieves. It is known that one man got of the train at the Westport draw. and another at the Norwalk draw, which are about three miles apart. These men were doubtless engaged in the robbery. 1he messenger having in charge the safe, has been discharged from the service of the Company.
 A VnLAISous SCHEME FRusTRATED.-The old wooden building just north of the Post Of flee, on Church street, is an eye-sore and disfg. urative to the street. On Friday night, some one attempted to get it out of the way, at a sa crifce of the lives of it's inmates. The main story of the building is occupied by Messrs Basserman, (butcher,) Duntze, (blacksmith) and -, (watchmaker) The upper part is oc cupied by John W. Slater and wife, who own it and other tenants and basement room under NIT. Duntze's store is occupied by Gerald Toole as saloon" On Friday, Toole purchased { load of wood, and had it cut up in small pieces At about o'clock on Saturday morning, one o the occupants of the building discovered smoke ascending from Toole's premises, and broke in He discovered that no less than four fires hac been set in as many piles of light wood-thret in the cellar and one above. The wood hae been piled up in chairs and barrels, screens hat } been placed against the windows, and the door. carefully closed, and fire applied to the wood. | 5 was solely owing to the want of draft of a that the'fre had made so little headway, that il was ext;nguished with few buckets of water. Suspicion at once fastened on Toole who wa: arrested on Saturday, and put under $500 bonds for trial. It is known that he was in the saloo, : late at night, and did not reach his boarding house till two or three o'clock on Saturda, morning. His goods were worth only ss0 o 800, and he had an insurance for S25O. and baf recently tried to obtain $4O0 more, but did no succeed. Had the designs of the incen,liar, been carried out, it is quite probable that the lodgers above would have been burned to death as the building is perfect finder box, and some of the occupants at least are very nGrm. Int offence, ifproven against Toole will send him to State Prison for life.-N fl Courier.
 CATTLE D1sEAsE.-'Ihe citizens of Nortl Brookfeld, New Braintree and vicinity, Massa chusetts, have been recently visited with an alarm ing disease among their cattle. The disease i: at present confined to about twelve miles square a territory famous for its cattle, and from which large quantities of butter and cheese have beer heretofore sent to the Boston market Now all trade is suppressed, the cattle are forbidden under heavy penalties to be sold, and the herds are or dered by commissioners appointed by the legis lature to be closely kept on their premises Tn, disorder is considered contagious and is called pneumonia resembling somewhat consumption --the lungs being affected.
 Ten thousand dollars has been appropriated by the legislature for the payment of cattle kill ed, which has been exhausted Some sixty head were killed in one day, and a hundred more COWS [ in day were presented for the inspection of the commissioners and doctors who were alarmed and disheartened. The disease is we'll known in Europe, from whence it has been imported. The history of it in this country, so far as known, is as follows:
 In the month of May, 1859, there arrived in Boston from Holland, four Dutch COWS directed to W. w.. Chsnery of Belmont. These COWS were black, thick skinned. large and said to he great mlkers. On landing they appeared hun gry thirsty and neglected, and one of them, it is said, had not been on her legs for twenty days Two of these cows were so feeble that they had to be carried to Belmont, some six miles from : Boston,. A few days after arrival. on the 3lst of May, one of the COWS died. On the 2nd of June second died and on the Both of June a third. The fourth is now alive and doing well. In all, Mir. Chenery has within year lost twen- tyseven head of cattle of other importations then on his premises. The disease not sup posed contagious till recently. Last June, Cur tiss Stoddard of North Brookfeld bought three grade Dutch calves of Mir Chenerv and brought