Litchfield enquirer., 1870-12-29
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deserve all the evils which may befaIl tham.5 If women relinquish their short suits. may their. husbands ytyrannize over them and Iabase them fOreyerlszs sss hsaw4o3 i1f4 g, REMARKAHLE OCCURRENCES -The follow. Ing facts concerning certain remarkable oeenFreneess1ins SalishuTys Conn.,, and in Shsmsld, aMass.. were collected by the IConnecticat Historical Society s'These Ioeenrrences commenced November 3d. le6z. at clothiers shop A man and two po5s were in the shop; the boys had req tlEeds It being between ten and ela,s o'clock. A block of wood was thi throughsthe window after that, piecA hard mortar, till the man and bays became
 alarmed. and went to the house to call Mir. Sage. who arose from bed and went to the
 shop, and could hear the glass break often,
 but could not discover from whence it came, notwithstanding the night was very light. He ex.rted himself to discover the
 cause without success. It continued con.
 stauty until day light and then ceased till the U. xt evening at eight o'clock, when it commenced ag in and continued till mid- nfgHt tfeD- e~esed nnIil the npxt evening at dusk, aud oi4tihurd till some rime in r
 the evening, aud then ceased.s The next
 day 1t commenced about an hour before
 snihown, and contiuuei about an heur. aud dfthen 1t left the shop and began at tue
 dwelling house of Mr. Ezekiel Lmndon. ona
 hundred rods north in the town of Shef.
 deido 1t continued several hours and then
 ceased till next morning when the family were seated at breakfast, it began again
 and continued two or three hours, and
 ceased till evening. when it began again md On1Sk all
 ceased altogether. The articles thrown
 into she sh"p were piect of wood. char.
 c"aI, stone but principally pieces of hard
 mortar, sncn as could not be found in the neighborhood. Nothing but stones were
 thrown Into the house of Mir. Landun, the first of which was thrown into the door.
 There were thirty-eight panes of glass bro. ken out of the shop, and eighteen out of the dwelling house. In two or three in- stances, persons were hit by the things that were thrown. What was remarkable. nothing could be seen coming tlll the glass broke, and whatever passed through fell directly down on the window sill, as if it had been put through with persou's fin- gers, and many pieces of mortar and coal were thrown through the same hole in suC- cession. Many hundreds of people assem- bled to witness the scene, among whom were clergyraen and many other gentle. men; but none were able to detect the the source of the mischief"
 THE TEXAS CATTLE TRADE. -The mag. itude of the Texas cattle trade is aston ishings the world. Eastern journals are filled with the marvellous accounts of the vast herds of bovines that swarm over the
 fertile areas of the Lone Star state, and
 more or less doubt as to the truth of, the
 figures given is often expressed. But cor- roborative accounts multiply to such an ex- tent that doubts are no lonref tolerabie.d
 From the Omaha Herald we clip the fol-
 lowing article, which goes to the length of giving the names and addresses of many of the owners of big herds: @i54 af1'1
 Texas is truly the cattle hive of North America. While New York, with her 4, ,O0O.-. 900 inhabitants and her settlements two and a half centuries old, has 648, ,O00 oxen and stock cattee; while Pennsylvania, with while Ohio,' with 8 88o06 0O5 52l p@eeR sas!lei.
 749, ,O0O cattle; while Illinois, with 2,800,- 900 people, has 867 .000 cattle and while
 Iowa, with l,200,000 people, has CSC, 900
 cattle, Texas, not forty years of age, and
 with her 800, 900 people, had 2, 900, GOO head
 of oxen ard other cattle, exclusive of cows,
 in 1867, as shown by the returns of the
 county assessors. In 1870, allowing for
 the difference between the actual number Fof cattle owned, and the number returned for taxation, there must be fully 5000, 900 head of beeVes and stock cattle. '.*"''t4 -.t This is exclusive of COWS, which, at the
 same time, are reported at 600, ,000 head.
 Iu 1872 they must number soc. 900, making l a graud total of $500, 900 head of cattle in Texas. -+ One fourth of these are beeves, one fourth are cows, and the other two fonrths are yearllugs aud two years old. Th+re would, therefole. be 950, 900 beeves, $50, 900 COWS, and l, 100000 young cattle,
 Ihere are annually raised aud branded 76O d O0O calves.s These cattle are raised on the
 great plains of Texas, which contain 152,.
 900 900 acres.
 In tue new region watered by the Rio
 Grande, Neuce>. Gaudaloupe, Sau Anto-
 mo, Colorado, Leon, Braz.,s. Trinity, Sa-
 blnr and Red livtrs, these milllOus Of cat-
 tie graze upon almost tropical growths of veg, tatlon. They are owued by ranchmen
 who own from 1000 to 75, 900 each. ,.:e
 BuRenAR1Es MADE EASY The recent
 manufacture of oxsgen gas on commer-
 cial scale, and the facility with which it can be compr, ssed into cylinders 6. and
 transL orted tIom one place tu another, has suggt sted is use for purpose little antic-a ipai ed. Ihe tt1et ln tEt night Cdn place himself iu front of safe with his two c, IiDders of conn r, ssed hydrogen and OK ygen, and, with au uxyhydtogen blow-pipe eau, in a few seconds burn holes of any ze in the hardest metal that was ever in- vented. The only safety is in keeping the
 burglar out, for this fire drill will in few minutes work nolseiessly away into the strongest sae that was ever constructed.
 The interpretation of solid stone between
 the sheets of metal might occasion some embarfassment, yet the lock can easily be
 burnt off, so as to expose it's mechanism
 and thus enable the burglars to slIde the
 bolts. ''What next?" is lhe pertinent in- quiry of the Scientitlo Amertcan, rom which we take the above. ! fl. f..5si..l..r 4 Joe. Jefferson was the hero of a very funny incident a day or two since in New
 York. He went into a bank for the pur-
 pose of getting check cashed, and was considerably nonplussed by the fact 4hat
 uone of the clerks recognized him in his citizens dress. For some moments he could make no satisfactory answer to the
 demand that he must be identified before the cash wonld he handed ovar Ha u1anc.