The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-05-19

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asfon that would save her. The owner oil
the animal consented--and Jack Gu, with
MS knife and cut off about three inches oil
her tail II produced struggle--the tur-
MP went down, and in few minutes the
sow recovered, got up, and returned to her
repast.
BY law which passed at lat e session oil
Congress, II is provided that after the first
day OF June next, the bonds for duties on
imports consisting Of the 6 produce of for.
eign places or islands, situated on the cas-
Vtern shores of America, north of the eoua-
tor or Its, adjacent seas. bays and CULTS. salt
excepted, !" shall be made payable in six and
nine months ; and bonds for duties on goods,
wares and merchandise, except wine, salt
and that, /" imported from any other place
than Europe and the West Indies, shall
be made payable in equal instalments in
eight, ten, and eighteen months.
The Merrimack River has been swelled
to greater height than has been before
known for 80 years from some houses
the Inhabitants were obliged to remove.
The damage has been great TO small brid-
ges, SC,
The Connecticut River. has also rose
higher than has. been known for many
years. On the 9Th inst the inhabitants at
Bellows Falls, we're for some hours. ap-
pTehensiye that the locks, mills and manu-
factories in that vicinity, would be swept a.
way.-DurIng the height Of the food the
water dashed in large Quantities over the
railing of Mr.. Geyer's bridge, which is said
TO be nearly GO feet above low water mark.
The water subsidized on the 5th, with not so
much damage as was apprehended.
The venerable Timothy Pick ring has
recently delivered an address to the Essex
Agricultural Society, the subjects of which
were" Domestick Animals, or The live
stock of farm: Green food compret eading
Carols. the Great Beet or Mangel Wurt
eel, the Swedish Turnip, and Indian Corn
plants while Astounding in sweet juices !;
Ripened Indian Corn, and Wheat which
he treated in the manner of a scienlfck and
prac teal farmer, and greatly 10 the salts
faction of the members who attended The
meeting.
There IS certainly something interesting
in the spectacle Of a man who, after having
spent a long life in the first offices of the
nation, retires in his old age, poor and un-
ambitious, 10 the cultivation of little farm,
and is now filing up the measure Of his
usefulness by pubHokly disseminating the
results OF his agricultural experience. An
old age SO employed after life so spent will
De honoured by every man who veuera,es
the genuine simplicity Of republcanism,
and the true dignity of the human charac-
ter.
10 i1cyease @ Barlet croh.-Dissolye
thee lbs. OF copperas in a pail full of boiling
water, and to this add as much dung puddle
wafer as Will cover three or four bushels of
barley, stir 1t, and lie, it steep four and twen-
'ty hours when the seed is spread and
drained, sift on fine lime, which fits i, for
sowing. Barley grows wen on almost all
kinds OF soil, if properly managed, bn, that
which is moderately light is perhaps the
most suitable. The land should be we'll
subdued by previous ,illage and we'll heated
with dung, lime, ashes, or other hot man.
ures, it you have an abundant crop.-Pins-
field saa!s.
The Austrina Archduchess Leopoldina.
who was lately married TO The Prince Of
Eeria, eldest son of the King, is "a her older