Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-10


 part of New Hampshire, has prophesied con. corning tbe month of August, as follows There will be five days noted for heat--th
 7th, mild heat l1th, burning heat 14fh 2 very hot; 18th. flies very troublesome 25th
 scorchiDg hot. He advises suspension o
 severe labor, and 10 drlnk but little cold wa
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 At Randolph, Wis.,. on Monday. Farme
 Windsor took pretty "gal" with him to th circus. Straightway walked his wife to th } druggist, of whom she bought some arsenic- This she inserted into pie of which her hus band was very fond. He ate it next day dinner. and that night was past the region o filtration. sfef
 = It was curious freak of the late torn ado in Minnesota that it stretched the telegraph wires sixty feet. When found by the repairer the wire, though disconnected from any main battery. was so charged with electricity that il communicated severe shock nineteen hours after the storm had passed. It is supposed that the wire was so overcharged as to become red hot, and in that condition stretched by sheer force of the wind. as,. t s
 - Mrs Morris who has been eight months captive among the Cheyenne Indians, has es caped and returned to her home in Muncie Delaware County; Indiana. The Indians mur- dered Mrs. Morris's husband, and one of the chiefs took her as his wife, in which capacity she lived until she mstle her escape. Mrs Morris bears the marks of her long residence among the savages. and is sun-burned to acop- per color. She kepta journal of her capture, and it is understood she will publish a book.
 Previous to March, 1863. all letters were required to be prepaid and the people had be- come so accustomed to the law that not more than fifty thousand unpaid letters were annu- ally returned to the Dead Letter Office. But at that date Congress passed a law permitting all unpaid letters to pass through the mails, the arrangement resulted disastrously 10 the pos tai revenues, and so at the late Congress the law absolutely requiring prepayment was re- stored. The people. generally, however, are not aware of this fact. for the number of ull- paid letters returned to the Dead Letter Of ice averages l4O00 per day.
 The Oneida Dispatch states that on Mon day of last week, Abram McGuirc, who re- sides short distance northeast of Canesota, Was cutting grass with his machine few rods from his house, when he suddenly came upon his little daughter, between three and four years of age, who had hid herself and gone 10 sleep in the grass, and before he could stop the machine, it completely severed one of her legs a little above the ankle joint, and inflicted bad wound upon the thigh of the other leg. Drs. Mason and Jarvis amputated the leg and dressed the wound, and she is now doing we'll. The agony of the father, upon beholding what he had done, can be better imagined than des- cribed .. ..r8t9l. aE-arr. .. ...5 "A most important discovery, far more so than that of the alleged source of the Nile has just been made in South America. It is that the great river amazon has been found 10 be navigable from one end to the other that Tn fact, a now roato has boon openad between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Morona, Peruvian steamer. which was sent to explore the Amazon, has arrived at Maoro, about 800 miles from Lima. The Marona navigated more that 2,OO0 miles of the Amazon proper, and 800 miles of'the' Yeayeali and the Pachitea flyers, which, until then, had only seen In dian canoes Tue country is, of course, in habited only by savages, but it is of wonder full fertility. D, .g3.sl8
 All the States in the Union are now pro- vided with civil executives. either elected or appointed. The following shows the seven States which have Provisional Governors, ap. pointed by tho President, with the names of the incumbents and the date of appointment .Sate. Provisional Governor .. 4pno;ufr5 N. Carolina. w W H Holden, May 29. 1865 Mississippi, w l. starkey, June IS, 1865 Georgia, .... James Johnson, June l7, 1865 Texas, A Hamilton, June r. 1865 Alabama, IL E Parsons, June 2l. 1865 8. Carolina, ;, Perry, A June 30, 1865 Florida. .Wm Marvin, July Is, 1865
 Elections have been ordered in the following of these States for the purpose of reorgani- zing, according to the proclamation of the President ,.seI Aaaf Jits ga4 3- Stats. Time of Election Time of C5nveat,on Mississippi, Aug. 8, 1865. Aug. IA, 1865 Alabama, Aug, 3l, 1865. Sept. 10, 1865 Georgia, Oct. 4, 1865, Oct. 25, 1865. g. Carolina, Nov. 20, 1865 ia
 '-- So many partial and incorrect statements nave been made respecting the distribution of the rewards offered for the capture of Booth aud his associates, that i, becomes proper to say that no money has yet been paid to any one. either by the general or city authorities. The Secretary of the War being unable to give the matter his personal attention, designated Judge Holt, Adjt Gen. Townsend and Assist. ant Secretary Eckhcrt as a board to hear and decide the claims of thef multitude of persons who demand shara of the govern ment reward Those officers have bad the matter in progress for two months. but have not yet found time to hear all the pplicAnts. and of course have not made any decisions among them. It is
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