Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1806-06-20

meddle with the grain, a. long as any
worms can be found. Lime is also said
T. hAve/been made use of. And expert
meEsyhave been made with powdered
plaster of Paris but to no effect.
Il is hoped, that from its nature, this
insect cannot long remain in its present
destructive shape but will undergo the
Transformation to which all that race Of
worms appear to be destined. 1t is as:
serted in the Richmond Enquirer, that
it has already been found in some places
in the chrysalis or aurelian state. From
this state it changes into Ay, when it
is supposed to deposit its eggs for the
Continuance Of its species. 1t would be
worthy the attention OF some ingenious
farmer to preserve some Of them in earth
70 ascertain wha, kind OF fly it is, that is
the parent of this most mischievous of
all the caterpillar kind. Some have con-
iectured, that it is the same species OF
insect, that for soma years past commit
ted 50 muaa in; 4ry' On the crops of cotton
in Georgia anu South Carolina.
One cold stormy day last February, a
femal.sstranger made her appearance in
thc RsachWood', settlement on the Lack
arana. She appc AIRED to be about thirty i;
al and dtlicIt,iy formed but the rose
tisat~art- had !,ioomcd ON her check was
with~red BY the canker worm OF care !;
and reason no longer swaved his sceptre
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mother, O. how she screams there!
there! she sinks, help her, help her !"
was the burden Of her song. But she
would occasionally cashier eyes on the
men, and with wild and fearful look,
exclainn, "No! MOI Ihatc you, you've
ruined me. Poor Poll would drown
herself but the waters cold" NJ en-.
treaties could induce her to take shelter
from the ravages Of the storm: Butshe
Asw from house to house, most me.
lancholy picture ofsorrow and woe. AT.
ter having been absent a day or two, she
returned with an infant naked on her bo-
som. "Poor thing" she would cry,
when the hospitable cottager begged it Of
her, "psor thing, I know you'll starve
it." Nature remained true to her duty,
although reason had Aed from her seat.
A tear, the first she had shed, fell and
mingled with the snow on its neck. The
soul of the little sufferer was just wing
ing its way to a kinder Parent, when the
unfortunate maniac entered cottage
where the woman had but the week be.
fore buried a new born infant. She
kindly begged that the child might
at least be put in her arms. The mother
consented, aud Mrs. BHeklin, (fer that
is the name of the humane woman wip-
ed the snow from its neck, wrapped itin
warm flannel aud gave it the breast. A
CLEAN Of wandering reason seemed to
shoot across the mind Of the distressed
mother. She was delighted to see her
offspring on the breast of its humane
nurse, and expressed no wish to take it
again, but soon wandered of !; eeelat-
ing she had drowned her child. She
passed the village, and it is not known
whence she came or whittier she has
gone. Mrs. Bucklin still keeps the child
and nurses it as her own. Col. Stanton
of Wayne county, has sent it some
clothes, and the name Of Polly Snow,
expressive of the place of its birth. In
the name Of humanity thank them for
their kindness.
fIuzerne FedkrnEsf,1