Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-19
LITCHFIELD.

been nominated Minister to Hayti. It is supposed the nomination will be confirmed unless resolution lately offered should Ipass the House, confining that and several other appointments to persons of African descent.
 1 What with special services on three or four Ember Days, the regular Friday even- ing lecture, service on the Festival of St. Thomas, and the preparation of wreaths, &c. for trimming the church at Christmas, every evening. St. Michael's Chapel is kept running rather steadily this week.
 The Superior Court adjourned without day on Friday, having accomplished large amount of business. The following cases were decided last week:
 Fanton and Segur vs Hiram Edwards. s.-Plfs. re- cover s4.72 and costs.
 ] Glover Sanford vs. Edward o. Peck-Plf. recoy- | CTS s122.98 cents and costs.
 l Thomas Cowles vs. William Couch -plf recoy- CTS S18 and costs
 The cases of John B. Calkns vs. John Fry Sim con M. Walling vs. George Potter, Lucius M Ter Till vs. Town of Colebrook, and Sophronia Coe vs. Mocottville Manufacturing Co.,, were reserved for advice Of the Supreme Court of Errors. In B. F. Smith vs. P. c. Cummings; Auditors report set aside, and new auditor to be appointed. - In the last Seatinel we find thrilling account of the accident which happened to the party who started from this place in 8 close carriage, on Wednesday last, to at tend the funeral of Judge Hall. It is cer- talnly very effective piece of literary work, wrought up with wonderful art to that point of intensest interest we generally find ln the sensation novel when the pro- voking, ''To be continued in our Next, ," is reached. As 8 news item, however, it seems to us to want completeness: Mir. Sheldon Munger is deposited ''twenty feet down side hill,' on "a pine staddle," ," and then left under circumstances q little distressing to his wife and family. Then, after the forward axletree of the carriage had broken, the driver had been thrown overheard, and the horses were Oil the wild run, dragging the wreck with the speed of lightning over the frozen ground, we are told that Solon B. Johnson Esq, l gathering up the skirts of his coat, stepped doacn." That the words and actions of this gentleman should have been under such circumstances in strict accordance with ancient Roman precedent, it was hardly necessary to inform his friends; but it was piece of wicked heartlessness on the part of the Sentinel reporter to subject Deacon Pratt and the rest of MT. Us late Corn wall constituency to the suspense and ago. ny they must endured before later and happier news reached them. To such case hardened old veterans of the war of the rebellion as Col Belden and Capt. Peck, who leap from the vehicle into space, where the Sentinel leaves them, this adventure might seem q trifle, but not so to the many loyal hearts throughout the country who have suffered in their peril. The report does not indicate so serious ground of ap prehension for the safety of the legal gen. tleman who was the last to ''get out and walk" He seems to have taken strictly professional view of the matter and is evil dently not the individual to have endanger- hope to leave to his "executors and admin istrators." by jumping out prematurely. 1 The Ssatiael narrative closes where the ] tragic Interest of the adventure ceases. Upon us falls the prosaic duty of amour cing that as sad calamity" the affair was failure Mir. Hotchkiss of Wolcott- vile, passing over the road shortly after the accident, rescued Mir. Munger from the "pine staddle," and picked up MT. John son, who had been engaged in a short but very sharp scrimmage with the old ''Water- bury Turnpike" during which, several rods of that thoroughfare were pretty thorough | ly cleared of snow. The other gentlemen were found unhurt. They had performed, however, good deal of ''ground and lofty tumbling, (which, with their limited experi- ence in tue acrobatic line, they would hardly have attempted under other circum- stances. We doubt, in fact, whether this remarkable succession of escapes, have been considered in their true and serious light, by any one, except perhaps Mir. Rufus Smith, the owner of the carriage. 1 P. $. There is rumor that after the ve- hicle was finally brought to a stand-still, a pair of rubbers, too large to have been got over the back seat, were taken out through the door.
 CORNWALL.
 Last Friday night, the wheel-house to the Cornwall Bridge Iron Furnace took