Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-07
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but when the rope began to choke him, he yelled smurther,' and was rescued. .
 Col. A. D. streight, of Libby Prison fame ;s going to take hold of the Indianapolis Sen tinel. played out democratic sheet. and make it respectable.
 The Hudson River Railroad quietly laid a complete track through Warren street to Broadway, New York, few nights since, thus surprising the people thereabOuts and avoid ing numerous injunctions. sF
 = The Tribune's Washington special says up to this date twenty-five thousand applica- tions for pardon have been received, but it is stated that the President has only as yet signed but one hundred.
 = The reporter of the New York Sun picked up a svaterfalp in the street and dissected it. It contained two curled hair puffs, one piece of mourning crape, two dark colored pincush- ions. and one black worsted stocking.
 A Boston man was made so drunk by a pretty waiter girl in New York the other day that she compelled him to marry her. He woke I'D next morning and was confronted with marriage certificate. Having wife and four children at home, he settled for $2,5OO.
 = The Montpelier Freeman mentions the appearance of large and brilliant meteor at that place. few nights ago, and says mass of soft, jely-like matter, some half peck in bulk, and sulphurous in smell, was found the next morning, which had evid ently fallen from it at the time. 2G. s-. Among the celebrities at Saratoga is Mrs. Perrine, the Baltimore female who was arrest ed and imprisoned for sending sword to liar " Gilmore Harry, the jaunty rebel raider, has also been at the Springs, and many young ladies were dying to get acquainted with the buckram hero. .sl .,,-,. ,s...s ss..- E1
 It is estimated that property amounting te between three and four hundred thousand dollars is daily stolen by professional thieves and pickpockets in the city of New York. The metropolis swarms with this class of villains, to say nothing of the huge embezzlers and de- faulters in Wall street.
 An anaconda thirty-two feet long, whose tail digs trench in the road eight inches deep, is being hunted in the northern part of Ohio, by an immense concourse of people. He escaped ten years ago from managerie when quite small, and has just go. his growth. He milks all the COWS he meets. ss,t. .sr
 - It was stated at the temperance % conven- tion at Saratoga, that the names of thirteen hundred rich mems daughters, in New York, are on the list of applicants for admission to the Asylum for Inebriates at Binghampton, in that state. Rather Q startling statement, if true. z, @
 -- The Sierra (Cal) Messenger is responsi- ble for this tough bee story Some time last fall, the Kleeker Brothers had one swarm of only two honey bees, which have swarmed sev- eral times since and increased to eight hives. from which only a few days since. "A pounds of beautiful honey was taken G
 - Thet midnight meeting movementin Lon. don, for the purpose of retaining unfortun- ates,' is proving highly successful. At one meeting nearly 80 poor nnfortunates were present, and seemed deeply. aasoted by the ad- dresses given. Fourteen girls were sent to homes from meeting the same night. a
 A few days since near Prescott, 0. w., a COW attempted to butt railway train off the track, and succeeded. The locomotive and all the cars were thrown of, and some of them, with the engine fell down the embankment.- . There was plenty of beef after the collision, but not much COW.
 An accident, fortunately not very serious occurred on Monday on the Hudson River Rail road, near Tarrytown. By the breaking of ar axle five or six cars were thrown from the track, and the engine was badly smashed. One man, who it is said, was catching ride,' had leg and an arm broken. None others were injured. e9s' '.s ,'.s
 A new kind of coercion is recorded O. the colored people of Kentucky, on election opposite Newberg, Indiana. They threatened to leave, unless their masters or employers would vote the straight out Union ticket; and as the Conservative chaps would not comply the negroes were as good as their word. and left them to hoe their own corn and potatoes
 - Joseph Crockett, of Danville, Maine, has hen which recently laid very large egg On breaking it open, another small egg was found within, fully formed and enclosed in 6 shell. On breaking this small egg still m other was found, and so on, till it appeared that in laying this egg, biddy had laid five eggs of retreating dimensions.
 -Atsa. dIhner recently at Preston, England a speech was made by MT. Hsdgson, the first builder of iron ships in England, in which ht said that it was twenty -one years since he buil the Richard Golden, an iron vessel and believe he said, she has not cost . shilling in repairs from that day to this, and feel sur' she will not do so for 9 thousand years
 = England has 1l6, ,749 known criminals ou of jail, 2s,o0O of whom are thieves, and 2s,0Ot prostitutes; q, ,7s4 bad houses; lle, 700 tramp' and vagrants, and 22,849 police. This is a the rate of one policeman to every 9O6 inhabi- tants. One.third of the entire number are sta toned in London, and the total annual expen allure for the police is sl, 100000.