Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-05

CuUVu8B tation was irresistible; up went his shillslagh- down went the man. Forth rushed from ths tent host of angry fellows to avenge the on~ slaught Judge of their astonishment when they found the assailant to be one of their own faction. "Och Nicholas" said they, "did ye not know that it was Nicholas O'Brien ye hitr " Truth, did not '" says he l; bad luck to nc for that same but sure ifmy own father had been taere, and his head looking so nice and eonSa@ niant could not have helped myself
 doting mother of a waggish boy in New raven, having bottled a lot of nice preserves, iaoelled them, put up by Mrs. D." Johnny, aaslng discovered the goodies, soon ate the con tents of one bottle, and wrote on the bottom of the iaoe put down by Johnny D." A married woman was telling q staid single lady, somewhat on the wrong side of iity, of some uonestic troubles, which she in great part attrlouteo to the irregularities of her husband. Well, said the old maid, YOU have broueht those troubles on yourself i told veu not to marry him. l was sure he would not make xon good husband" He is not a good one tc bs sure. madam" replied the woman, "but he is bet ter Hdn none."
 A large bed of Tripoli, a marine deposit, val. uable for polishing, has been found near Port Hope Canada. A company has purchased the ground and have forty men engaged in taking t out and preparing it for sale.
 The legislature of Pennsylvania is moving for a consultation with New York, Ohio, Maryland. and other states through which the great lines Of railroad pass, with view to bring about an equal and pro rata system of freight charges on them all. At present, one state is afraid of the roads of others, and all are afraid of the Cans da lines.
 Three hundred women of the town of ASe9, bury, England, have forwarded a petition to the House of Lords against the legalization Of mar riage with a deceased wife's sister, on the ground that such marriages are calculated to destroy the freedom of family intercourse. On the other hand, four hundred and twsnty-eight have signed petition in favor of the measure.
 The meanest man This notorious individuai lives in Cleveland. He applied to justice re- gently for an execution to levy upon the wooden leg of man who owed him four dollafsl No constable could be found to serve the execu- tion.
 James Hall has been arrested in New York for the murder of Alvin Curtis at Oswego, i've years ago. Hall has since been a vagrant and general swindler, under various aliases, and has made the marriage and robbery of weak women. one of his specialties.
 In hurricane, on the 27th ult., in the south of France, railway train which left Perpignan F. for Narbonne, was upset by the violence oT the wind near Salce. The passenger carriages with the exception of one, were thrown into q deep ravine, but nobody was killed. Twenty persons were wounded
 The Mrs. Brennan, who disappeared mysteri- ously from New York more than a year ago, and was believed to have been murdered, has been seen at Florence, Italy, quite recently, and it is pretty well determined that guilty love is responsible for the deep damnation of her taking off,
 It is fact, perhaps not generally known. that the Springfield people are indebted to the orig inal F. T. Barnum for the parlor operas which were given in Springfield Inst week by Mir. and Mrs. Drayton. He hired them in England and brought them over here, and ever since they have been in this country they have been in his employ though he has been behind the scene. To Barnum's shrewdness may be attributed in part their success, and to that in part his own recovery from his late financial prostration.
 Republican.
 Dr. Smith of Newburyport, who believes in river and ocean bathing through the year, on Thursday ran six miles, and then jumped into . river. while still in glow of precipitation. This he followed by another run; after which ho went to breakfast. Notwithstanding practices
 
 is enabled to keep Of sick bed.
 Tho oil excitement has extended from Penu- sylvania into Virginia. Two thousand acres of land ill Wood Wirt and Ritchie counties have been bought and leased, and oil wells have been opened that yield 30 barrels per day Near Cairo bltumen has been found which yields 65 gallons of oil per ton.
 There is a society of Mormons at Wheeling. l a fin wi hoyo Ioa loL L.. conversion within year. They are of the Joe Smith sort do not believe in Brigham Young, and have but one wife apiece
 It is reported that lease granted 99 years ago, of 70 acres of land in Virginia, on part of which Vincennes stands, expired on the lst of January. The Vincennes, Indiana, ISun, under stands that Mr. Welton, resident of that coun- ty the next heir to this valuable property, is preparing to take the city the latter part of this month
 In recent case of insolvency before the pro- bate judge of Franklin county, Ohio, the credit. or claimed the spectacles worn by defendant. The judge very properly refused the claim on the ground that the spcctacles were essential to the personal comfort of the debtor. This cred itor is probably the same man who applied for an execution to attach his debtors wooden leg
 The Hartford Courant states that the manu- facture of odometers, for measuring the distance travelled by any vehicle, is now carried on some- what extensively in that city. Livery keepers use them considerably, and in many cases the in- dividuals who go off for drive of five or ten miles and take twenty, are brought up with . round turn by this contrivance, and often to their great astonishment.
 The other day passenger on board one of the canal boats missed his handkerchief, and suspecting the honesty of genuine son of tho Emerald Isle who sat next to him, he bluntly 70. quested him to submit himself to be searched. This was consented to with the greatest good wil-but most awkwardly for Paddys accuser, the missing article was found in his own hat. The latter at once proceeded to apologize, but was interrupted by Paddy, who replied not in . lady's whisper, 70, never mind, there is no harm at all you took me for a rogue, and took you for gentleman, and now you see we were both mistaken.
 The London papers report that NJ, Julien, the celebrated musical conductor, attempted to com init suicide in Paris, by stabbing himseK His concerts have been postponed, and he has been placed under restraint.
 Bishop Brownell, the presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, has pub lished a letter announcing the canonical admis- sion of the Episcopal Church in Paris into un- | ion with the Episconal Church of the Uuffad