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LITCHFIELD, (CONN.,) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1850.
Whole N». 1279. No. 27.
LITCHFIELD ENQUIRER
9
PUBLISHED EVERT THVIIDAT MORNING
By PAYNE KENYON KILBOORNE,
One Door East of the Court Hum
LITCHFIELD, CONN.
M » •
Village and Single ..mi I Subscribers, $150
In Bundles of SO and upwards, $1,25; or if
to strictly ir ADVANCE. $1.00 per annum
—ADVERTIZING.—
Administrators’ Notices, $1 00
Commissioners' Notices, 1-25
Estray Notices, ^
Other adv’ts, per square, (3 weeks,) 1°°
Each subsequent insertion, 20
Edward W. Blake.
MtESIBEJYT BEJYTMST,
Office a lew doors west of Court House.
Litchfield, June 27th, 1349.
OBADIAH BIERCE,
COUNTYSURVEYOR,
CORJ\ WALL BH1D9E, CT.
Jonathan T. xv orton,
Attoraey aadCouniellorat Law
West Cornwall, Cenn.
January 17. 1859. 3ft f
Attorney ani Counsellor at Law
Litchfield, Conn.
Office over Dr. Buel's Store, re.
cently occupied by the late Oen. Bacon.
Arvid Dayton,
MANUFACTURER OF
Seraphitieg Sr Jflelodeong
Wolcottville, Conn.
—^ HATS.
<W v> Fashionable Fine Noire and
Silk HATS, tor sale «>n reasonable
,er,RILBOURN &• BRAMAN.
Litchfield. May 8ih, IS'iU- _ 52
D. E Bostwick M. D-.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Office over Sam’l P B .lW More, in rooms tor
taeilv occupied bv Dr J S Wolcott.
June, 3ih. 1849 _ j
The Hope Mutual Life Insu
rance Go. of Stamford Gt.
THIS Company ore takins risks upon
LiTe upon ns lavorable terms as an.* com
,)a.i» in this Smeor a smilar nature.
1 y JOHN VV IEEDS, Pres’t.
Wm. H. Babbitt, Secretary.
HENRY B. GRAVES, Aoknt
for Litchfield, and vicinity.
eowOin. ___
- Kis Jl,
d rnsT,
M\Y be consulted at all limes, (unless
professionally absent,) at bis offiec, third
door nb ive the Bank.
Litchfield, Jan. 1st
' J. G. BAITERSON’S
K&RBLa wjaas,
Hartford, Conn.
Monuments and Tombs of Ameiican and
Italian Marble, Baptismal Font*. Mu
ral Tablets, Urns, Vases. Mantles
Table Tops, Italian Ti*e for
Floors, ter , constantly
nn hand or furnished to order.
Hartford, June 1st. ty4
NEW GOODS
Fir the Fall ul Winter Trade.
Next door to J. O. Beckwith’s Drug store
in South street.
WE are now receiving a Urge and com
manding stock of
E&Ui AM® W3HTIER
tf K 1* ft O O ft S
to which we won Id call the attention of pur
chasers Without enumriating articles, sui
fice it to say that everything new and desirable
in^lhe wav of Ladies and Gentleman’s wear,
an dOry G mds gen-rally, will, be added to our
stock 'hronxhnut the seajMi, aa they appear in
the New York Market*; and our alack at no
time will be excelled by any other in this
county.
We ahall endeavor, by slrict integrity and
dose attention to the wants of our customers
to meet a continuance of those favors so lib
•rally bestowed for the last three vcarv.
F. D, McNIEL.
Litchfield. Get 22, 1*5).
Notice.
To whom it may concern. All persons are
hereby cautioned and notified, tinder |iciialt)
of the law, not to harbor or entertain Zacha
riah T. Atwood the son of the subscriber,
who has beert taken from the house sad cu»lo
dy of the subscriber.
SAMUEL ATWOOD.
Bethlem, Oct. 21,1850.
N. B. Any parson giving information in
regard to the child, nr returning the sain*
•hall be liberally rewaidal. 3w24*
Prepare for Fire by Insu
rance ! !
T'4E Subscriber o.-ingan authorized Agent
of tbe •* deicnaotsaod Farmers Mutual
Fire Iusuranee Company” of Worcester Mass,
effort to riiwi*
“ Buildings and Merchandise**
not extra hazardous—at very low rates, for
U* term of from one to five years
S N. BRONSON. Amt
Litchfield, Dec, 1949.
OTB IPtDSTO (BDIRHTO.
For the Enquirer.
Secret Sorrow.
• BY JUMNA J. NORTON.
Yes. hearts there io this bright world.
Bleeding with hidden grief;
The proud though sorrow stricken soul,
In word ne’er finds reliet
\ By chance • tear may sometimes start.
And suddenly reveal.
The smothered anguish ot a heart
That pride would fain conceal.
When all around is smiling bright,
And gtows with gladsome ray.
None seem to bear a heart so light,
Or half so blithe as they ;
But ah ! a deep and bitter sigh.
Will sometimes heave the breast,
Where every thought had seemed to lie
So^pppily at rest.
Ah! none may know.tho* the heart break,
That sorrow’s seat is there—
For the proud lip disdains to speak
Ot the heart’s wild despair.
Smiling they pass down life’s quick stream
With eye that mocks at grief—
O 1 who can view that eye and dream
Death tfould be sweet lelief.
Yes, haughty sonl—boast proudly still
That all thy griefs are kept,
That in thy heait they long have lain—
Alas ! they have not slept!
Ah no! nor never will they sleep,
Till ’nealh the coffin’s lid,
V« hen death’s long sleep has conquered
them.
Thy suffering form is hid.
Ot love there is with ut below,
To soot he the sorrowing soul;
Anil love there is in heaven above
To make the •* wounded whole
But thy proud heart defies the aid,
That mortal love can lend;
O, who can love and trust a God,
And cannot trust a friend !
How can you love a God all veil'd
And hidden from the view—
And scorn so proudly mortal love,
That turns to thee so true ?
How can you love the joys unseen,
And sigh for Life’s calm river,
If earth’s most pure and holy joys
Are loved and tasted ne»’er 7
Why will you turn from earth away.
Its calm and truthful things ?
O, who can mount (he Heavenly way
With such misguided wings !
But love the lovely things of earth,
Anil brighter, sweeter still
Will he the love of heavenly birth,
The light of Zion's Hill
.fHtomlang.
The two Apprentices.
In early years I had two friends, whom
I shall cal] James and Charles. At the
age of sixteen, and during the same year,
each commenced to learn the trade of
shoemaking. Three years nfterwards, at
the age of 19, they were allowed their
time to act for themselves, and appro
priate all their earnings to their own pur
poses. They felt they were, or soon
should be, men. This eventful period
was to each of them a subject of serious
reflection, which resulted in the formation
of various plans for future execution.—
Both were agreed as to the importance
and necessity of earning as much money
as they could, having in view the same
end—their best enjoyment. They dif
fered greatly, though, as to the surest
means of its attainment. Charles lelt
convinced of the wisdom of making sure
of bis enjoyment in season, “ of taking
the good of his money ns he earned it.
James likewise felt that it was w;se to
secure immediate and continual enjoy
ment, but not as did Charles, that to se
cure this they must spend all their earn
ings. Jamea'felt certain of securing pres
ent enjoyment by endeavoring to save
something for the future. Charles saw
no promise of present happiness, but in
immediately Spending, for personal grat>
ifieation, all his earaings, trusting that the
future would always be as propitious to
his pleasure as he fancied he could then
make the present.
Thus they set out together n life, alike
in circumstances and ability, each deter
mined to secure of this life’s enjoyments
his full share, differing, however, gieatlv
as to the means of obtaining it. Both
were industrious; Charles could earn
more in a given time than James, and
yet the balance of their reckonings with
their employers, at different periods, al
ways told the most favorably to the Ut
ter.
Eight yean passed away, and they
were still shopmates and unmarried.—
Charles was esteemed moral and respect
able. and as a gay, good follow, who
"enjoyed life,’’ and as a desii able com
panion, especially by tbe ladies. If a
pleasure party was in contemplation, or
a “ good time ” of any sort to be had,
none was more welcomed, more solicited
or more ready to participate in its enjoy
ments, than he.
Many days and evenings has James
contentedly sat, and drawn the tiresome
thread, and plied tbe weary hammer,
while Charles was riding, daneing, and
mingling in social parties. But more
were the days afterwards that Charles
rfi's-contentedly sat down and drew the
tiresome thiead, and plied the weary
hammer, deploring his poverty and hard
fortune.
Another year, and both were married
—James living in a small, neatly finished
house of his own. simply furnished, and
nearly paid for—his friend occupying a
larger and more costly house, more ele
gantly furnished ; the house, though, is
a hired one, and the costly furniture mort
gaged.
Other years are gone. James lias
paid for his house and has money be
sides. Chailcs has been unfortunate;
got into debt; had interest money and
high rent to pay; became disheartened
and discouraged, and to avoid the disa-.
greeable importunities of numerous cred
itors, left the home of his youth and fled
| under the protecting shades of night,
jdiiven away, through the follies and er
rors of his youth. His early years had
all been spent in giddy chases after shad
ows that vanished ere he gnuped them.
He now in despair perceived that he had
departed from, instead of approached,
what he had so long and eagerly sought
—Happiness.
Many there are in this city, who like
Charles, have earned and foolishly spent
money enough to purchase them a home,
but are now without any fixed place of
residence—no place to call their own;
and hundreds more of young men are
thoughtlessly plunging themselves into
the same ruin.
Young man, reflect! and in your early
days consult your future good .--Lynn
Bay State.
UTAH.
The whole character of the great
territory of Utah is singular. Its situa~
tion is unlike that of any other section of
North America- Its origin and the man
ner of its settlement no less strange.—
The name Utah is given now to a large
extent of territory bounded by California
Oregon, New Mexico, and what was
formerly termed the great Western terri
tory. It is of sufficient dimensions to be
separated into several States, provided
in future ages, its population shall war
rant it. But many parts of it so partake
of a peculiar construction as to render it
for the present at least uninhabitable.—
Passes, through precipitous mountains
whose tops are covered with snow and
whose sides are buttocks, exist it is true,
but they are mostly narrow valleys of
the most arid and sterile kind, their sur
faces covered with incrustations of bitter
salt, and their whole vegetation a giant
species of sage, of no earthly use but to
be consumed af fuel. In the midst of
these icy mountains, through which there
is no access but by these passes, arid in
summer and choked with snow for five
months of the year, lies a tract of land,
elevated some four or five thousand feet
above the level of the sea, called the
Great Basin, which furnishes the habita
ble part of the territory. In different
parts of this Basin, the Mormons have
established their home, probably, at first,
with the idea that they would be cut off
from all the rest of the world, by the
natural difficulties of the contiguous ter
ritory, and the peculiarity of their situa
tion. Here they expected to form in se
crecy and in silence, the germs of a great
peculiar, religious Empire; but the stream
of California emigration discovered their
trail and inundated their principality, and
they'are now the open, exposed, “ Half
way House ” to the Pacific.
ma <i • ••
inis basin is some 06O miles in diam
eter, lias its own system of lakes and riv
ers, and has no known communication
whatever with the sea. unless the exis
tence of the whirlpools in the Salt Lake,
which are rt ported to be lately discover
ed, should prove an internal communica
tion with the Pacific, or with some spring
or lake in the lower country. In the
Northern part of this basin lies the Great
Salt Lake. The waters of this sheet are
shallow, so far as explored ; though
probably its central parts will be found
very deep. Its waters are intensely salt,
more so than the ocean—three gallons
making one gallon of the purest whitest
and finest salt. South East of this Lake
shut in by the mountain lies, the Mormon
Valley that oontains their capital city,
by some called the Great Salt Lake
City; by others Mormon City. This
valley is thirty miles by twenty-two, con
nected to another valley which is about
50 miles by 8. These two valleys con
tain the principal body of the settlers, to
the number of twenty thousand. Ex
plorers think that they are capable ol
supporting a population of a million.
Fifty miles south of the City, is the
Utah Lake and Valley. Here lies the
city of Provo, on the Provo River. The
lake is pure water, eight miles by four,
and abounds in fish. There is »till an
other valley one hundred miles farther
south, called San Pete, where there is
another settlement; and here we find the
hieroglyphic ruins, the remairg of glazed
pottery, dee. that indie ties the former
existence of the oat-lying cities of the
Aztee Empire.
The soil of all these valleys is astonish
ingly productive, though requiring, con
stanlly, artificial irrigation from the
mountain streams. The climate is one
of the healthiest and the air the purest
on the Continent. The neighboring
mountains rise to the height of a m«l°
and a half above the valley, and are cov
ered with perpetual snow.
The City » laid out in blocks of too
scree each ; sight iota to the block; aft
I
acre and a quarter to the lot; the street*
eight rods wide; each ten acre block to
be surrounded by astieam brought down
from the mountains- No two houses
front each other ; so that, standing in his
own door, every man looks into his neigh
bor’s garden. In the city, are four pub
lie squares, to be surrounded with shade
tiees. and supplied with fountain*.
Such is the delightful place chosen by
on# of the most peculiar religious sects
wl^ch Christendom contains. Remote
from the world, from the exercise of ex
ternal tyranny; and yet connected to out
great empire. Its peculiar locality will
prove of immense service as a stopping
place fof rest, refreshment, and provis
! ions fortlhe army of emigrants that will
year after year, seek Califot ilia, or Ore
gon, by'the Southern Pass; aud when
the great railway is established it will
prove of incalculable benefit as a great
Station House on the route.
Hartford Courant.
Search for Wives.— Where do men
usually discover the women who after
wards become their wives ? is a question
we have occasionally heard discussed ;
and the result which invariably comes is
worth mentioning to our young lady
readers. Chance has much to do in this
affair; but then there are important
governing circumstances. It is certain
that few men make a selection from ball
rooms, or any other place of public gai
ety ; and nearly as few are influenced by
what may be called showing off in the
streets, or by any allurements of dress.
Our conviction is, that ninety-nine hun
dreths of all tne finery with which wo
men decorate, or load their persons, go
for nothing, as far ns husband-catching
is concerned. Where and how, then, do
men find their wives? In the quiet
homes of their parents or guardians—
at the fireside, where the domestic graces
and feelings are alone demonstrated.—
These are the charms which most surely
attract the high as well as the humble.
Against these, all the finery and airs in
the world sink into insignificance. We
shall illustrate this by an anecdote, which
though not new, will not be the worse
for being again told. In the year 1778,
Peter Burrell, Esq. of Buckcnham, in
Kent, whose health was rapidly declining
was advised by his physician to go to Spa,
for the recovtry of his htalih. His
daughters feared that those who had on
ly motives entirely mercenary, would not
pay him that attention which he might
expect, that duty and affection united
would feel the greatest pleasure in minis
tering to his comfort; they therefore re
solved to accompany him. They proved
that it was not a spitit of dissipation and
gaiety that led them to Spa, for they
were not to be seen in any of the gay
and fashionable circles; they were nev
er out of their father’s cimpany, and
never stirred from home except to attend
him, either to take the air, or drink the
waters ; in a word they lived a most re
cluse life in the midst of a town then the
resort of Lhe most illustrious and fashion
able personages of Europe. This exem
plary attention to their father procured
these three amiable sisters theadmiiaiion
of all the English at Spa, and was the
cause of their elevation to that rank in
life to which their merits gave them so
just a ti^Je. They were all married to
noblemen—one to the Earl of Beverly,
another to the Duke of Hamilton, and
afterwards to the Marquis of Exeter, and
a third to the Duke of Northumberland.
And it is but justice to them to say that
they reflected honor on their rank rather
than derived any from it.
| A Reverse or Fortune.—The Mil
ivaukie Advertiser, furnishes the follow
ing remarkable instance of the cl anges
which sometimes occur in a man’s life
time. Congress, at its late session, cre
ated a new office in the Attorney Gene
rals Bureau—that of “ Copying Clerk,”
with a salary of £2000, which has been
given by Mr. Crittenden to Ex-Chancel
lor George M. Bibb, formerly a Senator
of the United States from Kentucky and
for a short time Secretary of the Treasu
ry under President Tyler.
How strange are the vicissitudes of
life and the vascillations <>f fortune. Mr.
Crittenden was a law student in the office
of Judge Bibb, at a time when the latter
had acquired high professional and po
litical distinction. Judge Bibb, having
served with eminent credit in many of the
highest offices of the 8u»H and Nation,
at an age, if we are not mistakeu, above
fourscore, finds himself in the humble
office of Clerk to his former pupil.
Mas. Gaines and her Suit in New
Orleans.—Mrs. Gaines, widow of the
late gallant Gen. Gain* s, will spend the
next winter at Washington, in attend
ance on the U. S. Supreme Court, before
whose jurisdiction he* famous land case
will be brought up for final adjudication.
Some months ago, rumors were in circu
lation, that the ease had been, to a cur
tain extent, decided against Mis. Gaines,
but aach is not the ease. Her claims
and titles will come before the Supreme
Court next winter, at Washington, and
in the opinion of intelligent lawyers, she
has every prospect of having the decision
in her favor. If such should be the case,
s vast amount of real estate, to the ex
tent of several millions of dollars, will
become ber property—all of whieh is
situated in the city of New Orleans.—
Phil 3va.
Awful Disclosures asd r-UBORSA*
tion of Perjury.—On Saturday last,
some very alarming disclosures look place
in reference to a concocted plan about to
be cat ned into effect by tiring a manu
factory situated uptown, on wiii'h there
was an insurance effected to the amouut
of $45,000; in fact, Ihu stoek on the
premises would not amount to over
$3000. The owner of the premises has
heretofore borne an unexceptionable
diameter, which gives this ca-e a consid
erable more importance.
It seems that, a, far as we are able to
ascertain, the proprietor of the factory,
after effecting the insurance, proposed to
a certain man the plan of tiring the prem
ises, for which he was to have $1000 ;
to swear, after the property was burned,
that the amount as represented on the
polices of insurance was correct. How
ever, it was necessary to have a second
witness corroborative of the same facts,
and for that purpose or in order to obtain
a witness suitable to their wishes, a bill of
goods was purchased at a store in Maiden
Lane, and the clerk, on cajling up for the
payment of said bill, was exhibited the
premises, and finally the proposition was
submitted to him, telling him that, in the
event ot a fire, he would be warned to
swear that, oil that day, lie saw some 800
barrels of valuable material amounting to
over nod above the amount of insurance;
for which service he was to receive
$2000.
“ Well, but,” said the clerk, “there
appears to be a number of families resi
ding all around, and lives may be lost
when this inflammable stuff is in flames.
“ No matter for that,” raid the proprie
tor, “ so much the better. Suppose 30
or 40 lives are lost; they will lose sight
of all the motive of the tire." These
last cool, calculating remarks, appeared
absolutely to chill the clerk's veins with
horror, and after a short period of con
versation on the matter the clerk left,
remarking that he w^uld think on the
proposition, and let him know. He did
think of the infamous design, but instead
of entering into the wicked compact, he
at once laid the whole facts before the
insurance Company, who, we understand
are now investigating the whole matter.
The evidence in this case has been placed
before one of our energetic magistrates
and should the testimony make out a cast
of felony, coming within the meaning ot
the statute law, a warrant will certainly
be issued for the arrest of the guilty pat
; ty.—New York Herald.
Magnificent Bequest.—We learn
through a telegraphic communication to
the Rev. Wm. McLain, Secretary of tin
American Colonization Society, that Mr.
| John McDonough, of New Orleans,
(whose death we mentioned in yester,
day’s paper,) has bequuatlied to the Col
onization Society “ one eighth of the nett
revenues of his estate during 40 years,
but not to exceed 45 thousand dollars a
year.” It is added that the will is com
plicated and its validity doubtful.
Mr. McDonough was a native of B.il
timore. He was a merchant and settled
in New Orleans while Louisiana was a
colony of Spain. During some forty
years of successful business lie nmassed
an immense fortune, estimated at several
millions of dollars. Like all men who
have become rich by industry, from
small beginnings, he was frugal, exact
and what the world calls parsimonious;
but with these qualities he blendud the
apparently contradictory one of liberali
ty ; for he subscribed munificently to the
benevolent institutions of the country.—
He employed a clergyman for regular
religious services for his numerous slaves,
to all he gave some education, and at one
time liberated and vent to Libeiia eighty -
five of them making ample provision for
their transportation and settlement. Yet
this man was announced in tho tele*
I graphic note which we published vaster*
day as a “a miser.”—National Intclli*
yencer.
Shocking Mukdeu at Meredith
Bridge, N. H.—A slip from the Demo
crat contains the following particulars of
a deed of blood :
It becomes jur painful duty to an
nounce a cold blooded murder that was
perpetrated just out of the limits of our
village and within 6iglit and hearing of
many dwelling-houses, some lime last
night, (Oct. 24.) The body of Edward
L. Davis, 22 years of age, wnose parents
reside in this village, was found in the
river, ju»t below the railroad bridge,
where it had evidently been thrown ufier
life had become extinct, or the person
insensible. On the bridge, near the
middle of the river, was found the coat of
the deceased. The collar was torn off
and hung only by a few threads, while j
the right sleeve, from tho elbow to the
wrist, was covered with blood, as was
also the left skirt. Tho lining of the
right sleeve was covered with thics, dark
blood. Blood was found from tho bridge
three or four rods along the the railroad
track to a pair of bars, that opened into
a small patch of woods. About two or
ihrt-c rods from tho bars, wiiitiu the ti< Id
sad by the side of the woods, was found
me spot of blood. It is supposed, from
the quantity of blood, that he must have
been made insensible by a blow some
distance ft ora this place, and his coat
taken off and wrapped round his bead,
while ho was earned to the bridge.—
The deceased was a thick set person,
•bout live feet four inches io height, and
was eofrfoped «a the taibohd.
on of tho minder full.sKtrongly on a Mr,
Rufus Flanders, with whoso x ife it 19
said the deceased has been for some uma
carry ing on illicit intercourse. Mr. Flan
ders Jett his wile and the village about a
week since, on this account, bat 1 etureii
yesterday moin.ng. He was present
when liie body was found, but betrayed
no symptoms of guilt. Yesterday he
was hear.) to threaten the deceased several
times, and we learn that he called at hi»
boarding place and inquired for him about
U> o dock, last evening. Flanders wasar
tested belore leaving the scene of death.—
Itm i» a most siiiriling affair to the citizen*
otonr usually quiet village, and is certain
ly a deed ol darkness equal, or nearly so. to ,
the Father murder oll845,
Pennsylvania Congressional Delega
tion.
1st District, Thomas B. Florence.
2d •• Joseph It. Chandler*
3d “ Henry D. Moore.*
4th “ John Robbins, Jr,
5th “ John McNair.
6 th “ Thomas Ross.
7th “ John A. Morrison.
8th “ Thaddeus Stevens.*
Uih “ J. GUncy Jones.
10th 11 Milo M. Dimmick.
Hth “ Henry M. Fuller.*
12th “ Galusha A. Grow.
13th •' James Gamble.
14th “ Thomas M. Bibighaus.*
15th “ William H. Kurtz.
For vacancy—Joel B. Danner.
16th District, James X. McLanahau.
17th “ Andrew Parker.
18 th “ John L. Dawson.
19th “ Joseph H. Kuhns.*
20th " John Allison*
21st “ Thomas M. Howe.*
22d “ John W. Howe.*
23d “ Carleton B. Curtis,
24th “ Alfred Gilmore.
Those marked with u star are Whig*.
The delegation stand, politically, 9 Ad
j ministration, 15 Opposition.
The World’s Fair.—The building for
the exhibition of the industry of nil na
tions in London, in May next, is to cover
18 acres, be 100 feet high, will contain
sight miles of tables, 1,200,000 square
reel ol glass, 24 miles of one description
<1 gutter, and 218 miles of sash bar ;-and
n the construction, 4,500 tons of iron
vill be expended. Two thousand men
will soon be at work upon it. The roofs
ind sides of the structure will be of glass,
t'he cost of the building will be abmt
.■>500,000, upwards of *300,000 of which
>»as already been obtained by subscrip
tion. The exhibition is to be kept open
six months, and it is estimated that *120
000 will be derived from the sale of tick
ets of admission. E giity thousand square
fuel of the building arc allotted to tho U.
Slates.
Divine Retribution.—On hearing of
the horrid and treacherous massacre of
Protestants on St. fiartholemew’s day,
John Knox boldly declared, that tiio
name of the French King would remain
an execration to posterity, and none pro
ceeding from his loins would enjoy his
kingdom in peace. The Edinburg Wit
ness says, “ Charles IX, by whom tho
dreadful tragedy was enacted, died soon
after in awful horrors, the blood flowing
from every pore of his body. Henry
111., his successor, fell by the hand of nn
assassin. Henry 1V\, after a reign of
twenty years distracted by civil wars,
died by the dagger of Ravtlliac. His
successor, Louis XIII., after a reign of
thirty-three years, spent mostly in war
ring with his subjects, died on his bed.
Of Louis XIV., it is impossible to say
whether tho opening of his career was
the mere brilliant, or its close the more
disastrous and unhappy. The reign of
Louis XV. was marked by private profli
gacy, public profusion, increasing finan
cial embarrassment, and growing discon
! tent. The king expired of a mortal dis
temper, caught in the pursuit of his plea
sures. lathe next reign the Revolution
appeared upon the scene, and Louis XVI.
perished on the scaffold. The troubled
lives and unhonored ends of the French
kings since that period are tx> well known
to require that we should dwell upon
them. And now the death of Louis Phil
ippe adds another to the list of discrowned
hea Is which have gone down in exile to
the tomb.
Sagacitt and Fideutt or a Dog —A
friend from Ipswich rciaieii to us I he follow.
ing incident. One day last week, the wife
of Mr. Dickinson, a worthy farmer of that
town—all the members being absent hat
herself—had occasion to Step oat of thj
house on an errand, and on her nttirn she
loumt a man on the fl sir, and a large Mew*
fotimllaiid dog, a favorite ir. the family,
was upon him, holding- him down. Airs.
Dickiusun told the man he had Oeea sistl.
ing. lie promptly denied it. She tried t:>
call the dog oil, hut c mid not; she thiu
'old him that if he had stolen any thing,
the dog would not let him go till he gave
H up. Alter some further pailey, the dog
holding ou with a A m grip, the man took
a silver spoon from bis pocket which he butt
taken from the bouse. At the eight of the
spoon, ‘•Tiger" made tome positive dem»
oiiKiriiions of displeasure, uad waa w
-lilA uliy kept from injuring the thief
However, as soon as the spoon eras throwa
upoa the Sot r, thp-dog let go, and the few
low waa adosmd to leave the premsie*.
dneha dog la worth h tvfag-^Vyua Jay
State.]
Jar As Iris It mia inquired at the Pag* ‘
too Post Oifioo, if there were any Ittturt
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