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PREPARED EXPRESSLY toR THE “ ENQUIRER,” BY
T.S. tiOLDi West Cornwall, Ct.
9* whom all Communicationi thouldbe addrttttd.
' ' weeds!
Now that the bosy season of haying and
harvest ip past* It is a favorable time to destroy
those weeds that have escaped ns hitherto—
We shall find them easily, for they have at
tained giant proportions. The pig weed and
red root vie in height with the corn while the
climbing buckwheat and smart weed and purs
lain cover many feet otsquare yards of surface.
Those little weeds *o feeble and easily destroy
ed in their infancy, now require a vigorous
hand to pull them np; and what to do with
them when pulled is the question. Though
we may kill the parent there lies concealed in
its branching stems the germs of thousands of
others to be fought with another season. They
may be placed in heaps and burnt when dry, or
thrown in the hog-yard or compost heap- The
first is the only sure method of destroying their
seeds as they will bear much abuse and grow
as freely ae if treated with the tenderest care.
Some of the annual weeds in grain crops
may now be pastured off with cattle, and thus
prevented from seeding, others may be plowed
in for manure, but in some way pains should be
taken that they do not*go to seed. The richer
the land, the better will the weeds grow if un
checked. In the garden clear np all old peas
and beans, and every vacant corner. Roots
and cabbages may still be hoed with manifest
advantage, but by all means destroy the weeds
and their seeds. Bat oar chief object in this
present writing is to'enjoin upon every one the
importance of making clean work with weeds
in the fore part of the season.
Betsey Baker’s Bonnet.—The collection in
the rooms of the Rhode Island Society for the
encouragement of domestic industry has re
ceived an interesting addition—a bonnet braid
ed by Mrs. Betsey Baker, in exact imitation,
braid, shape and trimming, of the first straw
bonnet ever braided in this country. Sixty-one
years ago, when this venerable lady was a
blooming maiden, she determined to have a
straw bonnet. Not knowing any other way to
get it than to braid it herself, Miss Betsey Met
calf—that was her maiden name—saw an im
ported Dunstable straw bonnet in Colonel
• Whipple’s store, and being a true Yankee girl,
she set herself to work to imitate it. With no
instruction and without the opportunity of un
braiding a specimen of the work to see how it
was done, she persevered till she madera bon
net that was the envy of the other girls. Then
sprung up a business which to-day employs
10,000 people, and turns out 6,000,000 bonnots
and hats annually in the single state of Massa
chusetts.
The public attention was first directed to the
subject, and to the service which one young la
dy's ingenuity had rendered to the country, by
the memoir of Judge Staples, the Secretary of
the Society. Her portrait painted by Lincoln,
and presented to the Society by Governor Dy
er, hangs upon the wall of the Secretary’s of
fice. A few days since she presented to the
Society a fac simile of the first bonnet that she
braided, and it will be preserved as a memorial
of a most interesting incident, connected with
a large and important branch of domestic pro
duction. The bonnet, it may be supposed, dif
fers materially from those now in use.—Provi
dence Journal.
... --»«*■-,
Eous—Howto Pack Them.—The Tribune
says the following directions are given, by one
who-has had a good deal of egg packing to do,
as the best method :
‘ Always use clean oats. First put them one
inch deep in the bottom of the barrel; then a
pretty firm sheet of paper ; then a half inch of
oats again, well pressed ; then eggs, ends up,
followed by oats and eggs as before, but work
ing each layer of oats with the hand snugly
down around the eggs next the barrel, as well
as rubbing them effectually in between each of
the eggs in the layer. I use a board some six
or eight inches square, with the loop or staple
in the center, for pressing each layer of oats
firmly down. There will bo something gained
by lifting and dropping the barrel square on
the end, but not by shaking, as it disturbs the
layers. When it gets too heavy to lift, use a
board three-fourths as large as the head, and
get on it, increasing your weight with a spring.
End as you began, with paper and oats, getting
on the bead and driving it in. The secret lies
all in packing the oats. Oats are better worth
sending to market than hay, and just as safe.
I have sent ten barrels at a time without losing
a single egg. You must pack tight. Remem
ber that.
Picking aNd Preserving Pears.—A great
many kinds of pears, in fact by far the greater
number, are much improved by picking before
quite ripe. It is easy to tell when it is time to
make a general picking of any fruit, by watch
ing when the full Bize is attained, and when im
perfect specimens begin to ripen rapidly and
approach perfection of flavor. Then those
pears nearest ripe should be picked at any rate
and perhaps even, it would be best to pick
them all.
Pick carefully not braising one in the least,
and by no means try their tenderness under the
thumb* If a man cannot tell when a nice frail
. is ripe without braising it with his thumb in
various spots, be bad better never eat a pear
When picked lay away in boxes, or on shelve!
in the coolest closet on yonr premises, with j
lock and key on the door, and examine then
yourself daily.
—" 1 ■ ■ .
, Howitt tells us somewhere of a guest o:
his who, seeing a goose and her fourteen gos
lings ona common, thought it must be verj
ones'181'”6 auckle so many youn|
• TS°“!0f tho 8o°lbern visitors to Wash
lagton behave a. if they had an undiaputo
right to the pardon for which they have aP
plied, and are correspondingly importnnab
This retards lather than -facilitates their ol
ject, for the President continues to act in am
a manner as to assure them that pardon iB i
act of clemency and not of right. The larg
number.of applicants are, however, more cc
sident*.
— Newspaper made from Jamaica bamb
Jiasjuetbeew introduced into this country wi
promising remits. The Albany Evening Jot
Ml is printed on it,
ife
“Sub Hoc Sitfno Vic imus.”
WING & SHUMWAY Proprietor.
Litchfield, Conn., Thursday, Aug 31,1865
The Great Trial.
Tbe trial of Capt. Wire, the keeper of the
Andersonville slaughter pen, has at last been
corameneed in Washington before a military
commission, of which Major Gen. Lew. Wal
lace is President and Col. N. P. Chipman is
Judge Advocate. Tho Commission is com
posed of officers of dignity and intelligence, and
the prisoner will undoubtedly have a fair and
impartial trial. When wo consider bow deep
and universal is the popul ar indignation against
this wretched man, and howtltterly impossible
it would have been to empannel an unprejudiced
jury for his trial, the decision of the authorities
to arraign him before a military court seems
really to be an act of mercy towards the pris
oner. Before a civil tribunal, he could only
have escaped the verdict of popular sentiment
by managing to pack the jury with his secret
friends, and by their perfidy slipping tho hand
of justice as well as that of vengence. It has
been unfortunate for him that he seems to have
found it impossible to obtain legal council of
any abillity. His first council was composed
of a respectable Washington law firm, but they
left him early in the trial. He then procured
the services or two men named Sehade and
Baker, who are constantly irritating the Com
mission by their petnlence and stupidity.—
Even these miserable assistants abandoned
bim on Monday, and left (him in the hands of
the Judge Advocato, bnt returned the next
day in answer to his most fervent entreaties.
The charges upon which he is arraigned, are
of conspiring with several other persons in the
employ of tho Confederate Government, to in
jure tho health and destroy the lives of Union
soldiers in rebel and Southern prisons, and also
with ranrder, in violation of the Iuwb and cus
toms of war. The specifications allege the
most cruel practices, such as starvation pur
posely, the vaccination of soldiers with impure
matter, the furnishing of rotten food, the em
ployment of bloodhounds, &c.
The testimony of Col. Gibbs, who command
ed the post of Andersonvillo, has been taken.
He said that Wirz had full control in the pris
on ; that the full army rations were served out
to him by the quartermaster ; that the prison
ere were so crowded as to remind him of an
ant-hill; that dogs wore kept to run down those
who managed to escape ; and that these dogs
were a part of prison appointments, furnished
by the rebel government and kept on confeder
ate rations?
Dr. John C. Bates, who was one of the prison
surgeons, made a thrilling statement of the
condition of the prison. The men, afflicted
with scurvy, lice, gangrene and complaints of
the bowels, were fed on a starving allowance
of corn meal, with occasionally about two ounces
of spoiled meat for a change, and were kept
exposed to the storms and the sun, when an
abundance of timber for'building comfortable
quarters could have been procured in the vicin
ity. He stated, as his opinion, that at loast
seventy-five per cent, of those who died might
have been saved by proper treatment.
Dr. A. W. Burrows, of Amherst, Mass., tes
tified that he was sent a prisoner to Anderson
ville, and was detailed a surgeon while there.
He heard Wirz say that he would starve prison
ers who attempted to escape. He, testified as
to the paucity and unwholesomeness of the
rations, and the want of medical supplies.
Blood hounds were kept to pursue prisoners
attempting to escape ; men were shot on the
slightest pretences ; and many were vaccinated
with poisonous matter, from the effects of which
they died. When the prisoners were being
removed from Andersonvillo, one of them was
unable to keep up with the rest, when Wirz
knocked him down and stamped upon mm.
Other witnesses, among them Boston Cor
bett, who had been prisoners at Andersonville,
testified to the filth, and vermin, and cruelty,
and starvation that prevailed in the stockade.
Some had been robbed, by Wirz, qt money and
valuables ; some had been put in stocks ; one
had seen Wirz shoot a man so that he died,
because he asked the privilege; being sick, ol
being removed where he could get fresh air ;
others had heard him order sentries to shoot
men for the most trifling causes.
Farther horrid details of rebel savagery will
come out in the trial. Their rehearsal will make
the heart sick and yet it is our duty to put these
things npon the record. Indeed, we could nol
suppress this fearfnl tale if we would. In every
hamlet are the . victims of rebel poison and
starvation. As we write, upen the street be
neath our window walks a living witness tc
their attempts at wholesale murder, his form
bent, his eye languishing, bis purple Vein!
swelling with ingrafted poison. Upon the tab
let of history, by the side Of those heroic ey
■ ploits that have filled this epoch of onr nation'i
life with glory and crowned It with triumph
, will be displayed a record of the murderous
. barbarous, infamous deeds, that make up tin
history of the Great Rebellion.
—r—— .- Si
f&'That cold night last week was an.'ey
I opener’ to us. It reminded us that we are Iia
- ble at any time to be overtaken by winter, an
!• be obliged to wade over to town, through
»- foot or so of snow, and to find onr past
h frozen and onr ink stiffened. Of course, i
a such a case, we would need a stove, so we wet
sr to Waterbary and bought us a first-rate coi
n- burner of Albert Burritt. Apd, Withopt tl
least hesitation, we say that we believe that h
has the best assortment of stoves and houa
£ keeping articles in the State, at the cheap®
j. rates, Wo refer our readers to his advertise
meat and to him.
*
Gode%)'^0Mid^t Book |qr S<$>leipber, is ful
<ff fashioji plates, patterns, receipts, and liter
»y. matter of special inleresfetolady readers
^ Cpnla^sa tyU'wojjftDWt yrofresenting tht
‘ Spirit tit ’7G ;*• an eWgaittitflored fashiot
plate and picture of a ‘lounging cap,’ like
which we would have one if wo had time tc
•weM>e».~«qBder<y Biweeggfab’iwprwtneings
lady’s magazine that is valuable as well as en
Harper’» Magazine is almost too weil known
to need an advertisement. It is undoubtedly
the most popular monthly in the country. The
literaturo that it contains is always select in
character and endless in variety. The number
for September contains the usual serial arti
cles, including an interesting chapter of ‘ A
Trip to Bodie’s Bluff,’ ‘Armadale’ and ‘Our
Mutual Friend.’ Some of its other most in
tertistrug articles are ‘ Social Life in China,’
‘Mrs. Fink’s First Season,’ and ‘‘Revelations
ofan oldfogy.’ Price $4,—for sale by Patton,
ofWaterbury, With Enquirer, $5 23.
Peterson's Ladies National is here. It has a
very comical steel engraving ■ Who’s bit my
apple,’ a fine colored fashion plate, several val
uable patterns, fpnr qr five columns of useful
receipts, and the usual quantity of light and
entertaining reading'raatter. It is a very cheap
magazine at $2 00 a year. With Enquirer,
$3.30. ' • ''
Atlantic Monthlic. The following is the ta
ble iOf contents : Coupon Bonds, Welhelm Meis
ter’s Apprenticeship, Twilight, Needle and
Garden, IX, Scientific Farming, Doctor Johns,
VIII, Natural History of the Peacock, Up the
St. John’s River, A New Art Critic, The Luck
of Abel StcaJman, At Bay Ridgo, Long Island,
Running at the Heads, The Chimney Corner,
IX, A Visit to the Edgeworths, 0 i a pair of
Old Shoes, Ode recited at the Harvard Com
memoration, Our Future Militia System, Re
views aud Literary Notices, Recent American
Publications. This is a standard magazine
and a very cheap one at $4 per year. With
EnqnirCr $5.
Out Young Folks for September, is as full as
ever of interesting and high toned reading for
children. The article ‘ Farming for Boys,’
which lias been continued through several
numbers, is really full of valuable hints and
facts which might be instructive to the best
farmeis. ‘ Winning his Way,’ by Carlton, is
a true story and an exciting one. The other
articles are all of a high order of merit. For
sale by Patton of Waterbury. Price $2 50. -
With Enquirer, $3 60.
The Meriden Recorder has just entered
a new volume ‘ enlarged and improved.’ It is
one of the most spicy and enterprising papers
in the state. It has attained a standard litera
ry character that is not possessed by any of its
cotemporaries. Its outside columns are over
flowing with original poetry, romances, essays,
and communications, while its local and edito
rial,departments are well sustained. Our ad
vice to brother Rigg3 is to ‘ go in and win,’
A Sunday School Convention of the
churches of Litchfield North will assemble in
Goshen on Wednesday and Thursday of next
week. The exercises will be very interesting
and the Convention is designed for the special
benefit of S. S. teachers^ "*1 superintendents,
and to promote the generff^Snnilay School in
terests Orthodox churches' of all denomina
tions are invited to participate in the osercises
through the pastors, superintendents aud teach
ers. ; -, i
J86y*Among tho Public Acts published ir
this week’s Enquirer are, chapters 48 and CO
for the protection of sheep culture ; chaptei
61, to prevent injuries upon Railroads ; chaptei
58, to prevent animals from running in the
highway j chapter 51, relating to the manufac
ture and sale of adulterated liquors; and chap
ter G3, for the preservation of fish.
5@*\Ve recommend the outside of this
week’s Enquirer to persons who are fond o
light and entertaining literature,
8f3L.Wre call attention to the advertisement
of a ‘ Farm for sale’ in Robertsville. It is one
of the best farms in the county, and Roberts
ville is a most desirable place of residence*
J8@“Tbe Tenth regiment arrived ill Uartfoid
Tuesday morning. /
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MISCELLIVNEOIIS ITEMS.
—Colchester,the Rochester spiritual median
has been declared to be a juggler, by the jnr^
of the IT. S. Court, before whom he was tried
— Admiral Dahlgren was married on Thurs
day last to Mrs. Goddard, daughter of IlielaG
Samuel Vinton, of Ohio.
. ’ '
— A ten year old boy of Lincoln, Vl., has
been ill a year, and recently he vomited up s
striped snake 18 inches long. lie is getting
better.
—i Atlady in Terre Hantc, Ind., lost her wa
terfall in the street, and a little Scotch terriei
seized it and shook it viciously. Heprobablj
Smelled a * rat’ in it.
The-Rochester Union and other journals
which have cal'ed young Ketchum, the forger
‘a loyal leagner,’ are answered by the statement
of the Chicago Journal that this fast individn
at kept open house in that city, and made i
great splurge, daring the sessions of the con
vention which nominated McClellan.
—New Yorkers are happy in the belief tha
there are 84,090 unimproved Jots in the city
which will give ample room for a population o
4,000,600, The Tribune says, ‘wo could easily
accommodate the population of London, am
half as much more, on the strip of land lyin;
between the North and East rivers.’
— A Saginaw (Mich.) officer started in tb<
cars for Detroit, the other day, with a femal
i prisoner who bad been sentenced to the peni
tenliary.* While he was absent in another on
the conductor came along for the fares—femal
J culprit refused to pay—conductor threatenei
to put jher off the train—female culprit dare'
J. hi*AedftAt—o«*duetor didU ...
i '—That Was shtd to be an awfully funn
s scene atCnpe May last Sunday week, whe
i ibethunder-atorm surprised the ladies whil
t they were bathing, and they were forced t
1 hurry back to their hotels in their bath in
e dresses. !Some, three thousand qneerly da
e beauties ran the gauntlet of the crowded pia:
i- zas amid the jeers and laughter of the bruU
it iu patoot-leaiher boots, who carefully noted th
m feminine disueay and rudely commented npo
‘ »t. It was wicked,
Com! ani bounty Netos.
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LifCHFm.D.—The ‘ locals’ of other state pa
pers are reveling itt fires and robberies and mur
ders, and Sre as busy as bees*doing ‘ horrible
accidents’ for the entertainment of their read
ers ; bnt this old town is as ‘ moral’ and digni
fied as ever—po one has been robbed of any
large amount, (and we don’t believe any one
has spent over five dollars;) no one has been
murdered, (or would be, ‘ if they knew it would
kill them’) ; no one has been born, or married,
or has died, or intends to, (that wo know of);
within the hist week.
— One little episode did occnr on Monday.
Mr. Chas. Pratt of New York, in company with
his sister and little brother Miss Patch ol
Springfield and a lady of this village, was driv
ing around the lake, when the horses took
fright Gear the residence of Sherman Keeler,
threw the whole party upon the ground, and
then ran with the wagon as fur us Amos Bis
sell’s when they were Btopped by Dwight Bis
sell and secured. Misses Pratt nod Patch wero
very badly bruised, and the rest were more or
less injured, but all nro expected to recover
soon.
—The Rev. Mr. Munson of the M. E. Church
stated in his sermon on Sunduy evening, that
be had never walked the streets of this village
since his residence here, without meeting some
person who showed signs of intoxication, und
and there wero six places hero whein ardent
spirits are sold as a beverage. It is an honor
to the Union party to be able to say that only
one of these drinking places is kept by a limn
who votes our ticket.
— Scene, Enquirer Office.
. Enter country gentleman.
1 Are you the editor ?’
* Yes, sir.’
‘ Well 1 wish you would stop my paper. I
never intended to take it, but it commenced to
come to me last spring so I have taken it from
tho office supposing some friend was sending
it. A few days ago I got yonr bill for a year,
but 1 don’t consider your paper worth paying
anything for, so you will oblige me by stopping
it. You played this game on some of my neigh
bors but you can’t come it on me.’
‘I think there must be some mistake, lor wo
never send the Enquirer’—
‘ The Enquirer!' This is not the Enquirer
office, is it? I beg your pardon, I thought this
was where the what-do you-enll-it— conservative
paper is published,’.
— Brevet Brig.-General Hubbard was in
town on Monday, but returned to New Haven
early Tuesday morning, to make preparations
for the distending of the Second Artillery—
They will probably be paid off on Saturday.
Kent.—Even if Kent is a small country
town it is not going to be outdone by any large
or smaller towns of Litchfield couuty. It has
within tba last week organized a Base Ball
Club to be known us the ' Mt. Algo Base Ball
Club’ of Kent. It now has on its list as regu
lar members tweuty-four names, and several
others have expressed a desire to become mein
bers, making a club of three or more nines.—
The club have adopted the rules as amended
by the National Association of Base Ball Play
ers, held in New York December 1864, which
are entirely different, from those of tho old New
England game.
At a meeting held at the Club Room, Mon
day evening the 14th inst., the following offi
cers were elected E 0. Cowles, President;
C. P. Britton, Vice President; C. G. Buck,
Secretary; II. B. Uuggles, Treasurer; L. M.
Woodin, Captain 1st nine; R. A. Britton, Cap
tain 2d nine.
The ‘ Mt. Algo Base Ball Club’ will be ready
within a short time to accept from, or give
challenges to any Base Ball Association in the
neighboring towns. The following is the score
of a game played by tho members of the club
on Saturday the 19th inst., : l
Britton’s Players,
Outs. Rons.
J. F. Gibbs, p 2 4
C. P. Britton, C. 2 6
C. G. Buck, 1st b 3 7
E. C. Page 2d b. 2 4
G. Sterrv, 3d b. 4 3
E. O. Cowles, s s, 1 2
W. Gere, r. f. 4 \ 3
W. Fuller, I f. 4 4
W. Welsh, c. f. 6 3
27 SG
Woodtn’s Players.
Outs. Runs.
L. Northrup, c. 3 3
L. Woodin, p 2' 3
0. Carter, 1st b. 2 3
F. Sterry, 2d b. 2 4
D. Hall, 3d b. 3 3
C. Roraback, r. f. 2 3
V. Hall, 1. f. G 2
E. Bennett, s. s. 1 1
R. Fuller, c. f. G 2
27 24
Inninqs.
1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 6lh 7th 8th 9th
Britton’s 4930 5G009
Wocdin’s 8 4 0 0 3 1 7 1 0
Britton’s Total 36
Woodin’s “ 24
Umpire, W. 8. Edwards; scorer, E. J. Inger
soll. Time of game 3 hours.
Sharon.—The article in the last Enquirer,
1 representing the existence of six graves, in the
cemetery in this town,of as many wives of one
' man, was a fancy sketch. No such fact exists
1 and the imposition was as shallow as it was
contemptible. [The article above referred to
was taken from a New Haven paper. Ed. Enij.]
— A town meeting was holden in this town
, on Monday of this week, called to reverse the
f action of a former town meeting which had
' voted to pay a bounty of one hundred and fifty
1 dollars to certain of the volunteers from the
: town. The former action of the town was con
firmed by a majority of thirty-four in a large
t town meeting.
! — The teachers’ institute far LitchBel^
County is to be bolden in this town next week
• commencing on Tuesday. Prof- Camp of the
* Normal School is expected to be present with
1 otljer gentlemen of celebrity in this department,
l and an interesting meeting is expected. Access
to the town is bad by stage from Cornwall
j Bridge. _
1 Watertown.—A littleson of Geo. P. Skilton,
3 Esq., was lately stung by a bee on one of the
> inner toes, which was soon followed by alarm
5 ing symptoms, as swelling and discoloration of
1 the whole body, especially the head, coldness of
i- the extremities, and pulse nearly suspended,
s but the danger was soon arrested by a prompt
e and timely use of active remedies, and the little
u fellow was in a little while better; and is now
himself again. .
ly of Nerthfleld, new successfully advocating
the claims of the American Union Commission,
spoke with great acd^ptanca last Sabbath, in
the North and South Congregational churches
of this place. Mr. Colton haring been with
our army a year or more, is able to speak from
his own observation, and with telling effect.
— The Greenwoods’ Company, inereasing
the number of their workmen, and the amount
of products at itfeirfaetorlea, are doing a large
business. “ n !♦* ' .■ **£,
— The Smith & Co., cotton factory, at Pine
Meadow, having been idle for repairs, about
a year, is now at work, its greatest want being
a sufficient nnmber of operatives.
— The family of the Rev, Mr. Beadle is spend
ing a few weeks, as usual, of the summer, at
the Yale Parsonage on Town Hill. A son of
Mr. Beadle, Ileber II., has just returned from
Europe having spent four years there ia pur
suing theological studies.
— Dysentery which was unusually prevalent
here of late, has it would seem, disappeared.
Plymouth.—Dr. Charles Jeoett, will speak
in Thoma8ton, on Thursday evening, Aug. 31,
in Plymouth center on Friday evening. Sept.
1st, and in Terry ville on Sunday evening Sept.
3d. He is a noble veteran in the Temperance
work, and the State Association have done
wisely in engaging bis services.
Plymouth —A buw mill owned by Thomas
Ulynn, was destroyed by fire on the 18th iost.
The lire was cuused by the Iriction of the ma
chinery. Insured for 81000 in the Home In
surance Company.
STATIC ITEMS
Watkrbusy has a population of 14,500.
A back for the champion flag of New Haven
harbor, is to come off to-day.
State street New Haven, is to be paved with
tiie Belgian pavement.
The Home Bank of Meriden, had $20,000 on
deposit with the Ketchum’s.
A new manufacturing company in rubber
goods, with a capital of $100,000, is lobe star
ted in West Meriden.
ak receipts ot tue tiousatonic railroad for
July 1864 were $35,665 39, and for July 1865,
$40,954 36. Increase this year $5,188 07.
Harteord barbers, by mutual agreement,
close their shops on Sunday for the coming
year.
Two of the magnificent elms on Temple st.,
New Haven, were killed by a leak in the gas
pipe recently.
Whitcomb Stetson of Plainfield, eighty four
years old, is teething—two little grinders peep
ing through. So they say.
The Waterbury Bank has commenced a suit
against Morris Ketchum, Sons & Co., for $72,
000, the balance of $100,000 deposited with
that firm.
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A blue heron was shot on Friday by George
Norton, near Berlin C'entei. It measures six
feet from tip to tip of wings, and four feet
eleven inches from end of beak to end of toes. 1
A party of seven persons, from the roof of '
the New Haven House, on Tuesday night, in
three hours saw 186 shooting stars or a little
more than one a minute.
Mr Dunlap, a Baltimore merchant, left Nor
wich on Friday, with aerate of Maltese kittens
to supply the demand in Baltimore, where the
feline species are very scarce.
The Hartford and New Haven railroad are
making all their locomotives into coal burners
and aro puttingraised roofs upon all their pas
senger ears.
Mr. S. B. Pritchard of Walerbury, killed a
rattle snake the other day near Jericho Bridge
measuring four feet and ten inches and having
seven rattles.
The Sharps rifle factory at Hartford, was
entirely closed Saturday week—the first time
since it has been in operation. All the gov
ernment contracts have been filled.
Gov. Buckingham has appointed Benjamin
Noyes, Esq., of New Haven, insurance com
missioner, under the law establishing such an
office, passed at the last session of the legisla
Sure.
0. F. Jackson, formerly a printer in Hart
ford, left about a year and a half ago to work
a rebel plantation near Vicksburg, and now
he is not to be found : supposed to have been
killed.
The Second Advent people are to. have a
camp meeting in New Preston, commencing
Sept. 4th, and continuing one week. Elder
Miles Grant of Boston, and other preachers
will be present.
A desperate bounty jumper, named Rise
dorf, is in jail at Hartford, with a young com
panion, whom he induced to join in an attempt
at horse stealing. They took a livery learn at
Hartford, drove to Dover Plains, N. Y., and
tried to sell it, were Buspected and captured.
As a Stonington servant girl was stirring np
a coal fire recently, with an iron which she
found conveniently near, the iron burst and
scattered things generally. On examination
it was found that the girl had used one of
Brand’s bomb lances for a poker.
* Do you know how to cast iron ?’ said the
foreman in a Meriden foundry, to a green ’un,
who last week applied for a situation. * Wal,
yes,’ said the fellow scratching- his head, ‘I
was reckoned good at pitehin’ quotes, down to
hum V—Meriden Recorder, ,
Mbs. Dolly Pendleton, who died recently at !
Norwich, aged 90, was born, married and died ]
in the same house, and never lived in any oth- -
er. She had sixty-two years of happy married
life and leaves an aged husband.
Mb. Sanford our Minister at Berlin, lives j
in a splendid mansion, full of magnificent pic- c
tures and statues, gives grand dinners, drives
fast horses, and has the handsomest wife in ^
Prussia. Mr. S. was from Derby in this State.
A fatheb and son in business near Hart- ^
ford, have on ingenious way of making money j.
seven days in the week. The son is a seventh j
day Baptist, and keeping Saturday, drives the *
business on Sunday, while the father keeps i
Sunday and works Saturday. ,
David Wells, a notorious horse thief and t
burglar, and who has already served out three
terms in the Connecticut State Prison, was on (
Tuesday week arrested at Reading. He has
been concerned in several robberies in that j
section, and had hitherto eluded all attempts j
to capture him. He was tried before the jus* ,
ties court at Redding and bound over iu the (
sum of $500 to appaar before the supreme ,
court for Fairfield county.
S By tbe late census report, tbe manufacture
»f cigars in Conneolicnt Je exhibited as follows: e
Number of establisbmentr/JW ; capital incur- o
sd, §278,800; coat of material, $240,804; em I
ployes, 368 males and 92 remains, oost of labor
$189,088 ; value ef prednot, §682,484: (
Two spans of the new iron railway bridge 2
over tbe Co’ineeticnt River at Warehouse I
Point, ware entirely finished on Saturday last,
»nd the Sunday night mail trains passed over g
them. It is expected that two pore spans will >j
be completed by next Sunday night. Tbe r
spans are lowered by hydraulic pressure. j
Thr Providence, Hartford and Fishkill rail- n
road is doing an unprecedentedly large busl- o
ness this summer, both in passenger and 2
freight traffic The receipts at Hartford for
passenger tickets during July were nearly g
three limes us much ai in July of 1861, and ^
were considerably larger than in July of last n
year.
Thr Danbury Town Clock, the other day
dropped its striking weight (which consisted ,
of about 600 pounds of iron in a large box,)
through two walls into the room below. A
part of the cornice of tbe organ was knocked ^
off. Had it hit the organ squarely it would ^
have done heavy damage. The ceilings were ^
more or less torn off, and a large cross beam j
broken. The damage amounts to about $100.
Mb. Gladding, of East Berlin, has brought (
to tbe Hartford Press office two clusters of rye
One of which has 109 and the other 64 perfeot
stalks, each grown from a single grain. Al- ‘
lowing 60 grains to the head, which is the '
number in one coun'ed, and we have on the 109
stalks a production of 6540 grnins fiom one j
single kernel of rye. ,
A mam calling himself Col. William A Hunt- ,
ley, a graduate of the State Prison, and a great <
bore to the late Mrs. Sigourney, by addressing <
lying letters to her, has recently tried to mar
ry a young lady in New York state by pretend- (
ing to be the son of Mrs. Sigourney. Fortun- l
ately his intended wrote to Mrs. Russell, the
daughter of Mrs. Sigourney, in time to expose |
his villainy.
niusAiu rurresi. was ueiore me ponce coon I
at New London, on Friday, charged with mar. I
rying Ellen Cunningham, in Sag Harbor, on
the 12th day of September, 1862, and of com- ,
mitting the same deed in New Loudon, with ,
Maria Cady, on the 23d day of August, 1363.
The case was adjourned, and he was placed ,
under $500 bonds.
The other day a lady entered a Hartford i
store and began examining the fine shawls end <
cloaks upon the life sise frames. Becoming t
interested she passed along from one to an- i
other till she found a silk cloak that pleased
her very much, and she raised it up, examined g
it earefully and freely, and was at the conolu- j(
lion very much astonished to find that she had |,
>een making free with the dress of a lady cus
omer who very properly stood as still as a stay
igure, till all the trimmings of her dress had 0
>een well examined. a
F
Connecticut Patents for the week ending a
iugust 15th, 1865 :—N. D. Hinman, of Pleas- ,
int Bale, for improvement in horse hay forks,
tohn H. Doolittle, for improvement in fruit
laskets. Joseph L. Joyce, of New Haven, for *
mprovement in shoes. - Joseph Kintx, of West a
Meriden, for improvement ^lanterns. Charles 1
N. LeCount, of Norwich, usr improvement in $
governor valves. Ira C„ and F. W. Flagg, of 1
Middletown, for improved row lock. Lock- 1
wood Sanford, of New Haven, for improvement I
in tree protectors. Henry D. Blake, of New 1
Britain, assignor to Pond F. Corbin, of the 1
same place, for improvement in padlooks.— 1
Henry B. Tyler of Norwioh, assignor to him- I
self and Eugene M. Prevost, of the same place 1
for improvement in locks. William H. Map 1
lory, of Bridgeport, assignor to himself, Nel- <
son H. Downs and Robert N. Bassett, of Der
by, for spring for upholstering purposes. John
R Cook, of Winsted, for curtain fastening.
General News.
— The long expected ordera mustering ent1
unemployed Generals in the volunteer service
is promulgated :
War Department, Adjutant General's >
Office, Washington, Ang. 24. 1866. J
General Orders No. 135.—By the direction
of the President the following mimed general
officers of United States Volnnte »rs are hereby
honorably mustered out of the service of the
United States, their services being no longer
needed:
Maj.-Gens. Nathaniel P. Beaks, Silae Casey,
Samuel P. Heintzleman, Daniel Butterfield,
Abner Douoleday, John J. Peck, George L.
Hartsuff; Brevet Msj.-Geujersle A. Aeboth,
George L. Andrews, Wm. W. Belknap, Charles ,
Craft, Joseph B. Card, Wm. P. Carlin, Joshua
L. Chamberlain, Thomas A. Davis, Elias S.
Dennis, Edward Ferrero, Cnv ier Grover, Bob- ■
ert S. Granger, Chas. K. Graham, Kenner Gar
red, Lewis A. Grant, Simon fit Griffin, George
H. Gorden, Joseph Hayes,N J Jackson, Nathan
Kimball, Jno. B. Ken:y, Jno. McArthur, Jas.
D Morgan, John T Miller, Byron B Pierce,
John Orbineon, Truman Seyn ionr, Frederick
Salomon, George J Stannard, Alexander Sta
ler, Erastus B Tyler, James 0.. Veatoh, Wm.
Vanderver, W T Ward, Walter' A Whittaker ;
Brig.-Gens. Bichard Arnold, Napoleon B Bu
ford, Mason Brayman, Henry ‘^Baxter, William
Birney, Cyrus Bnssy, Edward S Brigg, John
3ook, Henry B Carrington, Claries T Camp
bell, Powell Clayton, Alfred N 1 )uffie, E J, Da* ,
ris, Speeds Fry, Lawrenoe B Gr aham. Edward ;
9 Hobson, Joseph R Hawley, Hi -jury M Judah, j
roseph T Knife, H H Lockwood , Jacob G La- ■
nan, Thomas J McKean, Sullivai»A Meredith,
Villiam H Morris, Geo. P McGi ornis, Thomas
9 Neill, John M Oliver, Williams V Pile, Elliot
V Rice, Samuel D Sturgis, Jam es H Stokes,
fohn P Slouggh, Eleadim P Scam mon, Adams
r Slemmer, Thomas W Sweeney,. Alexander (
Sohemmelfinnig, John W Spragi >0, Stephen j
fhomas, Daniel Ullman, Horatio P Van Cove, j
fits Henry Warren, George D W«| fner, James (
L Williamson.
By order of the Secretary otl War.
E. D. TOWNSEND, As it. .Mj. Gen. I
It will be seen that this list < jmbi aces seven
lajor Generali, thirty-five Br< jvet 3fajor Gen- b
rale, and forty-three Brigadic nr Generate.
— General Lee is offered the* PreeicUnoy of ti
Washington college at Lexing ton, Va.
— In response to the oomjilainte of so ldiers *
ho now demand that they be - muatereo’ out, J
ecause they enlisted for th roe years, or 4ur- a
ig the War, Major Generrd Terry, cotnmaxtd.
lg the Department of Vi rginia, defines tlus I
srm * during the war,’ tea mean * as loag as ?
ay military necessity exi sts in the late inanr- ‘
Mtienary States.’
— The President has requested the Attoraey
leneral to suspend the Issue of warrants for
srdon until farther orders. This action hat
een taken in order bo facilitate a general clear- _
Dg up of the numerous and ooscplicated pefci- 8
ions now before the President, to give him the j
pportunity to adopt some plan whioh will pro- j
rent unnecessary and shameful intervention
>y the pardon broken. v
e
Major General Schofield has boon brevet
I Major General in the regular army, and re
tiTOd a two years* leave of absence to visit
nrope.
— The President has appointed Hannibal
lamlin. Collector, D. W, Gooch Surveyor, and
B. Underwood Naval Officer for the port of
oston.
— Several oounterfeit one dollar Uoited
tales notes were recently presented at the
reasurer’s office for redemption, but were
tadily detected by experts in that bureau —
here were numerous counterfeit fifties, but
one so far as known of the denomination or
nn thousand, five hundred and two dollars —
II others are counterfeited.
— The Constitutional Convention of the
lata of Mississippi— the home of Jeff Davis
es declared in favor of adopting the amend
ent to lbs Constitution of the Uoited States
Polishing slavery.
— The Albany Journal of Tuesday says .—
Three children of Jeff Davis arrived here this
lorning on the St. John, stopped at the Dela -
an House, for a few hours, and left on the
Lensselaer and Saratoga Railroad for Montreal *
'hero were two sons and a daughter younger,
'he names of the sous were Jefferson and Wil.
iam. They were accompanied by the mother
f Mrs. Davis, a white servant girl, and a mao
errant.
-. Tho Ifonflinkw Sonata mill .land •> I t>_
ervativea and 17 Union. The gains iu the
astern part of the State for the Lower Douse
rill seoure a Union minority if the southern
•art of the state has not done worse th&a sup
losed. The Democralie candidate for Slate
treasurer is dead, and the Union candidate is
langarously sick The Union candidates for
Congress in the Seeend and Third Districts
vere defeated by 1,000 each.
— Edward B. Ketcbuui was arrested on Sri
lay, in a bouse in West 20th street. He hsd
tot been out of the city. He has been about
be city frequently during tbe past fortnight,
>ut has avoided his former friends. He ]p>d
•bout $60,000 when arrested. The assets are
ikely to reach sixty cents on a dollar. He has
■een consigned to the Toombs.
— An exoursion train filled with passengers
eturning to Boston, on Wednesday week, from
• pio nic party at Ablngton, on the old Colony
Uilroad, came in collision with a hand car
iu the traek, in which were two men. The en
line, tender, baggage, smoking and four pas
enger oars were thrown from tbe track, three
f the latter being capsized down an embnnk
lent. None of the passenger s received serious
(■juries.
— A collision took place yesterday week on
te Oil Creek Railroad, by which nine persons
■at their lives, and ten to fifteen were serious
' wounded. Tbe disaster was caused by the
■gineer of a freight train running his engine
a the track out of time, and at an hoar when
passenger train was due, coming from an op
osite direction. The trains met near a curve,
ad nearly every car was broken up. It is u
onder that more persons were not killed.
— The steamship ‘ Brother Jonathan' was
recked ou the 31st of July, while on her voy
ge from San Francisco to Portlaud and Vic
aria. The vessel had 109 tegistered paasen
ers, and a crew of 54. It is stated that of
liese only 16 were saved, nut mere is hope that
aany more have been saved. The disaster
lappened by running upon a sunken rock, and
he ship sunk in about an hour. The place was
■bout six miles from Cresceut City, the north
irnmost town in California, and near Ore
gon linn. The rock was four miles from the
toast- The news of this disaster should have
'eached us long since by telegraph, hat tbe
■verland line hus been oat of order for several
weeks. Among the passengers on the 1 Broth
:r Jonathan' were General Wright and family.
>f the United .States Army. It is said that tbs
joat had the engines of the ill-fated steamer
Atlantic, lost in Long Island Sound in 1848,
md that one of the survivors wa9 Capt De
Wolfe, master of tbe vessel, who was one of
;ess than halt a dozen who escaped from the
Lexington, burned off Bridgeport, Long Island
Sound. in February, 1840.
— A terrible accident occurred on the Ten
aessee and Alabama Railroad on Friday. A
passenger train which left Nashville, Tsan.,
for Huntsville, Ala., ran off a long tressle work
aear Reynold's Station. The entire train was
thrown off, and twenty or more persons killed,
md about 50 injured.
— A frightful accident occurred on the Long
[aland Railway, Monday morning, by which
isveral persons were killed, and many were
wonnded. An op train was run in to by a down
rain at a point on the roed not far from Ja
naica. The engine! were amaahed, the care
rrecked, the passengers frightened, mtimed or
tilled, and confusion reigned for hours.
Answer to Conundrum :
1st Samuel, chapter VI, 7-16 verses. *1
MARRIED.
In Ridgefield, An*. 9, bj Rev. J. D. Bouton,
ramee E. Bate* of Ridgefield, to Hannah M.
Jearles of Lewisboro, N. Y.: also on the 17th, «
tufas Fane her of Ridgefield, to Mrs. Lydia
Vhitney, of Lewisboro, N. Y.
— _ .'■■■—• .....
DIED
In Marquette, Michigan, on the 2d inst-, Mra
latherine D. Harvey, wife of Rev. Joeeph
farvey, D. D., formerly, and for many yearn
’astor of the Congregational Cbnrch in Goshen
Iona., in tha 77th year of her age.
In Goshen, on the night of 24th cf Aug.,
ewis C. Wadhams, aged 71.
In this village Aug. 19th, Mary Ann Isdd
,w, aged 7i months, infant daughter of Dr.
[. W. Buei.
In Salisbury, Wednesday, Aug. 16th, Hora
0 G. Van Deuaea, of Lime Rock, aged 67.
He was in usual health and proceeding to de
ver a load of hay when upon mounting the
agun, by the reativeness of one of hia horaee
e was thrown under the wheels and almost iu
lantly killed.
Mr. Van Deusen has been for many yearn
rom'.nent in almost every public movement oc
nrring inhis vicinity, and Salisbury must count
1 him ‘ Another of her tried and true laid low.'
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