Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-14
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 HAvHs DE GRACE, July 12-11.40 A. M.
 Parties from Bellair, sixteen miles frou nere, report thousand rebel cavalry at tha Peint last evening. A farmer shot a rebel fr retallatlon for burning his house and destroy ing ms farming utensils. There is no doubt or the immediate necessity for heavy reinforce. ments at Washington
 | fHILADELPHIA, July 12, A town meeting has been called to meet to. morrow noon, to promote volunteering for inc emergency.
 The Baltimore American of last eyep;no states that Gen. Tyler escaped from the rebels and had reached Elliol's Mills.
 I NEW YORK, July l2. Sunday night orders were received at the navy yard to dispatch to Baltimore a large force of sailors who could be mustered to mau imporian, batteries. in the neighborliood of that city. Admiral Paulding immediately sent l quite number from the school ship.
 A fearful accident occurred on Wednesday, 9th inst, on the Chattanooga railroad, near the tunnel. Three hospital trains were com ing up, loaded with sick and wounded soldiers. Two of the trains, which were, some distance ahead of the other, stopped this side of the tunnel, The rear train, by the extraordinary negligence, or something worse, of the engine CT, ran into the train of seven cars before it.. containing three hundred soldiers, and pitched them down an embarkment about forty feet high, making total wreck of three cars killing three persons outright, and mortally injuring four others. The enraged soldiers would have murdered the guilty engineer but | e pd no nd | The other day our pickets at Petersburg were boosting of some ne " issues of soft bread, !, sour krout and potatoes One of the rebels was curious to see if it was true, and at nj ght trept into our lines where he was regaled with the best the market afforded and better than he had seen for many day. After supper he returned to his greybacked colleagues.
 Pennsylvania coal merchants, always watch ing for reason for advancing the price oi coal, are making the rebel raid the excuse now. It is suggested that coal speculators originated the report that the rsiding party numbers 30,000.
 A mischievous boy. at Portland lately tied Q couple of cats together by the tails and hung them on clothes dryer, in order that. ht might have the satisfaction of seeing them 'fght it out on that line" It did not "takt
 
 the survivor sadly denioralized.
 A recent trial in England has developed tn, fact that Q man may lawfully have a separate wife, in each of the three countries of England Scotland and Ireland, whom he may respect fully repudiate in each of the others, lega marriage ill one country not being legal il another.
 Charles Palmer, baggage master, on the N London Northern Railroad Was knocked iron The top of car while passing through bridge in South Coventry last Saturday anc seriously injured.
 Mir. Sturgis Cowles, of Southngton, wa! killed very suddenly on Tuesday afternoon while entering the barn of Mir. D. R. Sloper or load of hay. His injury was occasio6ed b, being hit on the head by the cross beam oye the door way.
 Mr. Stanley G. sr1itll picked up day O. two since, at Neck Roint, West Havene, al English half pshny of the reign of George l dated 172l.. It must have becn nearly new when lost, for the inscriptions are quite legi- ble.
 A young man named Albert Cargill, Is yrs of age, fatally shot himselr at Manchester, N H., while toying with loaded pistol on the 4tt of July. His father was suddenly killed six years since at the Manchester mills
 The American Emigrant Company has beer l organized with capital of S1 ,GeO, ,O00, ant with A. G. Hammond of Hart ford, for prosi- dent; s. P. Lyman of New York, secretary and Johu Williams of New York, g g,ncral a gen l for emigration. Tha object of the company il to look out fer and obtain workmen in foreigl countries, in order and 10 assist emigrant who arrive ill this country to find good place without delay.
 /; A pair of fine working oxen, owned by Ed win Welles, in Stratford were killed by passing train on the New York railroad, ol Monday night. They were worth $150.
 The house of Mr. Daniel c. Augur, in Wood bridge took fire on the 4th and was badly in jur red-the roof nearly destroyed, before th T flames wore arrested.
 Water is to be introduced into the Fai ; Haven, and $500 was raised at late fai given by the ladies to be applied toward car rying out the project.
 , A half demented person, named eaniel Me :, Carthy, was locked up in a cell in the station house, New Haven, oa Tuesday eTening, ane managed to get his head through tho apertar' through which food, &c, is passed and tn, officers were obliged to cut away an iron bal to release him.
 On Friday last the milling shop" connect ed with the Springfield (Massachusetts) Arr mory was destroyed by fire, with all the ma chinery it contained. At one time there was some fear of the oonfagration extending to other portions of the armory. The building destroyed was about fifty years old, and was so saturated with oil used in the works that it burned with fearful rapidity. The loss, oi course, falls on the United States government Hon. D. s. Dickinson has written a letter te Secretary Seward, declining the position of fered him, as Commissioner on the part of th' Government of the United States for the set clement of the claims of the Hudson's Bay ant Pugets Sound Agricultural Companies, on tn f ground that it's acceptance would conflict ,witl his established present and future purposes Capt. J. A. Winslow, of the gunboat Kcar- sarge, who distinguished himself by destroy ], ing the rebel steamer Alabama, was born il Wilmingto N. C., in 18l1., His father wa