Litchfield enquirer., 1864-11-03
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 An .Anecaote Of Ethan Allen.

T-H-l- | V building in moment" The time came i; the tackles were hi,ched to the arm chair. :" Boys itieo Boyser, up goes mastee Dssnl' Heo Bowser r says Ethan. and their teacher wakes mp and thrsateI. h;s scholars with iimmsdiate punishment if they did not lot him down. 1" Heo. boysl up with him !'' and away he goes to the top of ibs builjing. ls' You little rebels, let me down or will fog every son of you" !" No, tsachers says Ethan, "you can mt come down uutii you can behave yourself, and promise that you will not whip one of us . '' .Ls; uae down, ouraacals l" !" We won't do it until you will promise us." Well,7 boys if you never do So again, will promise not to punish you." s"ayery weli," said Eathan, ' but the moment you break your word, we shall send you to the ridge-pole ]" Cornwall people say this is veritable anecdote.
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 The St. Louis Republican states that at a certain point on the Tennessee River are the head quarters of an old man who has become a terror to steamboat men. He is over si xty years old, has . long, heavy barrslled gun, aud is continually ou the watch for Q shot at per sons employed on the government transports. He seldom misses his aim. and is said to have killed as many as sixty men. Futile efforts have been made to catch him the country whereabouts is wilderness, composed of dense forests, impenetrable swamps, and deep ra- vines, and in these he makes his home.
 An immense Union mass meeting was held on New Haven Green, ou Thursday. Over l5,000 persons were present. There was speaking from several stands. Hon W.lW. Boardman presided, and addresses were de. livered by Hon, Henry J. Raymond, and Rev Dr. Patten of New York; R.. H. Dana oi Boston Co.'s. W. H. Noble, l7th c. w., and Wm. B. Wooster, 18th c. v.; Hon. s. W. Kellogg of Waterbury, and others. In the evening. Hon. E. c. Scranton presided at Q crowded meeting at Music Hall, where Col. H. c. Deming, H. B. Harrison and others spoke. .@r 7,. '3's
 E. B. Rolfe, while at work in lumber yard at Derby, on the 18th, met his death by means of piece of board thrown from a circular saw, and striking him in the bowels. .'
 James Williamson has been arrested at New Haven. for passing counterfeit postal cur. rency. ....
 
 The South Church bell at New Haven which was silenced by the pastor of the churcl when all the other bells in the city were runs in honor of the capture of Vicksbnrg, wa rung to raise the alarm of fire on "Wednesday evening to break up the great UAiou meosinG in Music Hall. 1-F 4s sag 6 t' St. Peters church in Rome will contain 54.oO0 people Cathedral of Milan, s7,Oooi St. Pasls in London, 25,eoo Ss. Sophia iu OonstastiaopIe, 2s,0o0; Notse Dame of Pa ris, 2l,oOo; Cathedral of Pssis, ls,o00; sa Mark sf Vsuics, 1000. -'.+.'. 3. 't, t,
 Sheriden's yictsry was even more thoroush than the first rspor indicated. Ths uanbss of cannon captuesd will probably sxsssd 6ftY. Con. Grant showed his appreciation of it by ordering salute of ono hundred guns to be fired. g kse 5ar1at.eaeat a,s.lo asse ,a.aiia1 Fifteea U. s. battle flags and regimental colors taken by the rebels, were recaptdred near St, Joseph, Miss, on the Sth, and . vala- able rebel mail captured. The rebel major in charge shed asaas. "' '' ?, Four rebel generals-Jones of Virginia Beals of Arkansas, Trinble of Maryland, and Frazier arrived in Boston, Wednesday, from Johnson's lsland ,en route to Fort Warren, Gen. Trimble was the instigator of the riot in Baltomore at the commencement of the war, when the Massachusetts 9th went through.
 The California papers tell of woman whose husband was killed after shs had beer married four weeks; in three weeks more shs married again, that husband lived two weeks in two weeks after he died she married hii brothss, and in six mouths after her marriage the last time she ggays birth to . child by hei first husband. sidgs sl4s > em a2 8. Six of the Firrss Battalion Connecticut Ar tiilery, veterans of the war, of 1872, me. il New Haven the other day. They ase all ths remain of lls men who did duty in that war
 James F. Bulkley, of Southport, . graduat' ! of Yale, it the class of 1863, died Tuesday, Q injuries received at an accident on the New York and New Haven Railroad :nots yss,
 Ben. Wood, in a letter declining ars-nomi- nation for Congress, thus boldly and de6antl, tells the truth. yitnsg.ss aq tss'} ,issH sf My record is before the world, traced ii charactsrs that all can read and understand Issembraccss hostility under all circumstancsi b the doctrine of armed coertiou of th
 the states, and it attests that have never vc
 ted dollar or man to assist in the prosscu
 ton of this unholy var