Star.
London, England, 1825-10-21 00:00:00

D UMFR[r. s. OcronEß 18.

TuREE MARRIAGES ALL IN A ROW.-011 the 3d
ult. Mr. Samuel Nodwell, jon. was married to Miss
Ann Pringle, bath of Dumfries. Tim marriage feast
vs..s celebrated at the house rf the bridegroom's father,
where the parties were all as happy as love, friend.
ship, and whisky could make them. Well, fashion or
imitation extends even to ma.rimonial aff sirs, and at
the said feast Mr. Barney M'J.rniter paid his addresses
to, and gained the affections c f his friend Mr. Nodw ell's
eldest sister. Another wedding and another feast, and
that, too, within a week of tl,e other. Mr. Nodwell,
senior, again attended, and as he v, as now lonely from
the want of the society of his son and daughter, he was
greatly in the humz-ur of falling in love himself. Tine
he hid other and younger children, but eterytLing
went Soong when they were left alone; and .‘ Och,"
said tl.e ts:d iaer, there's nowt for roe but another
wife! Only yesterday, and what ch you th:rik the
imps diti ?---latt on a potful of unwashed potatoes,
heaped a whole measure of coals on the fire, boded the
tnurphies all to timers, and made the put itself As red
as the back of a s-Adier's coat." This happened on the

I lth inst. and on the 12th the widower Was ou: of his
widowhood. At his daughter's ueddlng he found a
helpmate, and though he had no coach to call, he set
out on his ma►tiage jaunt to Lochrnaben, snugly
ensconced in his c.wn cart, and retuir.ed in the evening
buckled hard and last.

A Goon Sliur.-111 the beginning of last week, a
county y lad, who ostensibly st.oots noth'ng but crows,
and who never, of coarse, brings home a hare excepting
when tl-e l'ussie jumps into his bag of his own accord,
took d., n his gun, which is a deuced good one, and
went out to treat himself to an luau- or two's sport.
In the course of his ramble he saw a good many crows,
that eat heather, and dwell in the moirs ; but these of
course he let alone. By and b)e, howeter, he beheld
a very tine black cock, so closely pursued by a feathered
poacher which some call a gled, and others a hawk, that
it seemed on the very point of being overtaken. " Well,"
thought our sportsman. ‘4 if I could hit the gled and
miss the montcock, nobody, of cootie, could blame me
for shooting without tither leave or license ;" and with
that be cocked his piece, and only so fir mistook his
aim, that in place of one bird he killed two. Yes, the
pursued and pursuer fell dead at his feet ; the first of
which sr eighed upwards of four pouads, and the second
very nearly three. That, now, was a shot worth brag-
ging of; and the met it of the shooter is greatly enhanced,
when we consider that he was actuated by the humane
motive of preventing a hawk from committing murder.
In the corner of a garden situated in the pretty vil-
lage of Dalbratrie, a a orthy Lady had this year a luxu-
riant crop of peas, the history of which deserves to be
recorded. Some time in spring a friend pre•ented her
with a brace of pigeons—very large birds of the kind.
and moreover so plump, that they could not he said to
have degenerated from their ancestors u born Nlalioniet
emplo>ed to pick peas from his eats, when he wished
his bearded followers to believe that he had received a
special mission from Heaven. On their crops being
opened, they were found to be so well filled with peas
that our blend countermanded her order to the seed-
merchatst, and determined to profit for once by the
wind-fall which chance had thrown in her way. The
peas were accordingly washed and plsnted with very
little regard tr system, and in process of time gave
promise of a crop that had only one fault—that of
being, too LIMA and luxuriant. The summer was as
warm as the suriag had been mild, and beautiful
blcoms were soon followed by goodly pods, on which
many a pilferer preyed, from the urchin at school to
the sparrow that nestles under the eaves ; but the owner,
be it known, was far from imitating those gardeners
who hang a net against every wall, and grudge a
cherry even to the blackbird that every morning cheers
them with a song. Yet notwithstanding such losses,
the crop was so good that 6,000 peas were gathered as
the produce of the bidden treasure above

,ementioned.

The quality, too, is allowed to be superior, and as birds
have very discriminating palates, and grain of all sorts
degenerates last in certain soils, we would recommend
similar experiments to be tried as one sure means of
restoring marrow-fat and other peas to something like
their original excellence.—Duntfries Courier.

PuLICE IN i ELLIGENCE.

DI ANSION-HOUSE.

Thomas Winders was charged with stealing a bag of linen that had
been entrusted to a female named Angele to wash, during the tern.
porary absence of the driver of a cart, in which it was placed. The
prisoner said he was driven to it by distress.—Remanded.