Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Finnegans are great family. When the Finnegans are from home the community ia sad iy thinned. In town in New London County, on Monday last, Patrick Finnegan, who had been. dead, and walked and buried more than six months ago, came forward and voted for Sey- mour x Co.,, against protest that said Patrick was blessed defanct. Before the polls closed no fewer than t,renty-one other Patrick Fin negans, all of them with their hair dressed in tho standard Five Points fashion, came forward and claimed to be, each the true representative of the dead, yet alive, Patrick Finnegan.
 Scott and Dickens seem to have had the e pecial mission of disabusing people of the idea that highly seasoned love descriptions were what gave their interest to works of fiction never had two writers less of this, never wsro two writers more popular
 GENERAL JACKSON AND THE BrLLY-On his return from legislating, Jackson was elected
 judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and his
 conduct in that capacity gave rise to various
 myths, one of which, known apparently in the
 States as "RusselI Bean anecdote" under the
 name of the hero). has assumed, after many va riations, the following shape, which is amusing enough to deserve to be authentic One day during court great hulking fellow, armed with pistol and bowie-knife, took it upon himself to
 parade before the shanty court house. and cursed the judge, jury, and all there assembled, in set terms. "Sherf,' sang out the judge, "arrest that man for contempt of court, and conine him. The Sheriff found it impossible" Summon . posse" said the judge The posse did not like the job, as the fellow threatened "to shoot the. first skunk that came within ten feet of him. '' "Mr. Sheriff." said the judge "summon me" "Very well, judge" said the sheriff, I suppose must" Jackson walked up with his pistols, and said, "Now. surrender, you internal villain, this very instant, or I'll blow you through" The man put up his pistols, with the words, "There. judge, it's no use I give in" A few days after. wards. being asked his reason, he said, :" Why, when he came up looked him in the eye, and I saw shoot and there wasn't shoot in nary other eye in the crowd and so says to myself, says 1, hoss, it's about time to sing small, and 90 l id.'-Parton's Ltfe of Jackson.
 One of the nuisances of navigation in the Hudson River is the shdd poles placed but lit tie out of the channel. These poles are stuck down deep in the mud often within fifty feet of the fishing. A few days ago, strong body of New York police made an attack upon them in steamtugs 4 chain was attached to each pole, and the boat moved down the stream and the pole loosened In one day about a hundred no resistance, though they swore some Each noIe cost them some six dollars.
 HoosIER OBrruARY.-Mistur Edatur: Jem banks we are sorry tu stait, has desized. He departed this Life last mundy. Jem was rene rally considered gud feller. He went 4th without airy struggle and such is Life. Tu Da we are as pepper grass-mighty smart-To nor. Ter we gut down like cowcumber of the ground. Jem kept nice store, which his wife now wates on. His vurchews wos numerous. Mennv ia things we bought at his growcerv and vva .r. happy to stait that he never cheeted, speshullv in the wate of mackrel, which wos mise and smelt sweet and his survivin wife is the came wa. We never new him to put sand in his shu- gar, tho he had blg sand bar in front of his house; nur water in his Lckers, tho the ohio River run past his dors. Piece to his remains'. --hd,ona Paper.