Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-16

THK NAucArucK RAnRoAD COMPANY have be- clared semi-annual dividend of four per cent- payable on and after August l5. This road IS now doing as well as'any in the coantry- owing to the good management of its officers. <
 TIE CENSUS of Bridgeport has been complet- ed and shows large increase in the number or inhabitants since 1850. The number of dwell ings is 2.299; number of families, z,774; num- Der of inhabitants, 13,2e9. The population in 1850 was 1858, showing an increase Of o'7Sl or nearly eighty per cent.
 DR. GARDNER SPRING preached on Sunday before last at his Fifth Avenue Church. Tn com memoration of the fiftieth anniversary Of his pastorate. On Tuesday morning his wife died in the seventy-second year of her age Her ftl- neral was attended on Thursday.
 DURING the shower last Saturday evening, tree standing near the track of the Housatonc Road, in Brookfeld, was struck and a large DOT tion of it fell upon the track and was run into by the next train. No one was injured, but the locomotive was somewhat damaged.
 4 LADY was robbed of gold watch in tho cars from Waterbury to Bridgeport last "cd- ncsday.
 TIE Reception Festival to John C. Hcenan the Y" Rcnicia Boy" at Jones Wood, New York, on Monday, was attended by full 26,G00 people and was characterized by no serious disturbance Heenan, Mcdonald, Cusck, Ottignon, Price and Jones engaged in friendly sparring contests in the presence of the multitude, and the champion was presented with check for $lO,OO0-the contributions of his friends and admirers.
 TIE Cincinnati Press of Tuesday says t- For some days past Cincinnati has been suffer ing from an intense and oppressive heat rarely experienced outside of equatorial regions, the thermometer ranging from 97 to 100 and lO2 Q in the shade. and suffering humanity bar'ly to escape sullocation, Tho nights have been as hot as the days, and poor roasted morals who retired to their couchcs even at late hour, lay from their aqueous element. Rest or slocp was cut of the question, and even bathrooms were visited in vain. The water was hot and grew hotter as burning bodies were plunged therein, Accidents from the heat reached us every min ute, as it seemed. Horses fell exhausted, dying and dead on the landing at the railway depots Men grew faint and sick, and reclcd beneath tho fierce sun-beams. speeding like fatal arrows to the earth. Eighteen persons were prostratod Ey gun, stroke, and seven dicd'
 A SINGULAR .nd almost fatal accident occur rcd at Madrid, Me-, few days since. The little sen of J. B. Rlcthen was stung in tho mouth by honey,hce. and in fifteen mnutos he became swollen tn every part of his body. his lungs be came rigid, and in ono honr he was unable to speak at all. Immediate and powerful remedies were adopted, and tho child recovered in few days.
 MEssEs GaiySEI.i., MIsTuES &5 Co. state Una: the Great Eastern will. sail for England, posi- ti'ely. on ! Thursday afternoon, Aug. lG, at l o'clock. Passengers are required to be on board at o'clock. She is destined for Milford Ha- yen. via Halifax, %. $. On her arrival at Mil. ford Haven, tsie will undcran tho onoh repairs ard sIlI ert her bottom scraped. What further disposition will then c made of tho ship is u:l- known to those of the Directors who arc here. Already about 70 hc..is have been secured hy passcngers to Halifax and 1ns and.