Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-29

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he fell In with a stranger going the same
road, who appeared very anxious to know
where the gentle an lived, where he was
going. how far, &c. to which questions the
gentleman returned evasive answers. lie
then asked him for work aud finally tor the
loanof money !; both of which were refused.
The gentleman became alarmed, and CALI
ed at house on the road. but found the
people absent and had to continue on. A
few minutes after he left the house, ne re-
ceived blow on the back of his head from
a club which the stranger had in his hand,
which stunned him Immediately the man
jumped upon him, and demanded his mo-
ney, or he would shoot him. The gentle.
man had by this time recovered the use OF
his intellects. and endeavored to release
himself from the grippe of the villain, which
he did, but the fellow still persisted In de-
| manding bis money, and again caught hun,
but was thrown down by the gentleman,
when violent struggle ensued, and the gen.
tleman was on the point OF yielding, when
hearing the noise of horses feet near him
on the road, he cried out Robbery, Murder J!
on hearing which, and the horseman being
near, the fellow jumped up, babe him good
night, leaped over the fence, and made OFT.
The gentleman knew him by his size and
dialect, to be person whom he had seen in
the afternoon, at the door OF store in this
place, where he was getting a bank note
changed.
RURAL ECONOMY.
To the lovers of good .fru,t.--Now is the
time to examine the roots and the lower par!
OF the stems of your fruit trees, where you
will find the worms full grown and ready to
turn into the chrysalis state. You will also
find the chrysalis in case or covering, form
ed with earth ana gum, or gluten, lying in
numbers round the stems OF the trees, just
under the surface of the ground or at the pla
ces where the gum has issued from the trees
| by the perforation of the rgrubs They lie
| in the chrysalis state about three weeks, when
they take wing, and from one female count
ed 678 eggs! Judge, then, il suffered to es-
cape, what destruction is preparing for your
young trees and fruit for some lay their
eggs on the bark of the trees, and some on
the fruit. The young worms pierce in and
destroy both. There is not day to be lost.
for now is the time to destroy them, or they
will destroy your future prospects.
70 destroy insects zUhtch snfsst .frust trees.
Take small quantity of unsiacked lime,
mix il with soft water, to The consistency of
very tim white wash--apply this mixture
with brush, 10 the trees, as soon as the sap
begins to rise, and wash the stems and large
! boughs with ii, taking care to have it done in
dry weather, thatit may sdhere, and with
stand rain In the course of the ensuing
summer, this will be found to have removed
all the mess and insects, and give to the bark
fresh ndgreen appearance The trial is
simple, and not attended with much trouble,
expense, or danger.
Recipe for making 6utter.-Churnthe milk
or cream, while ii is sweet; work out all the
butternllk, use salt that is clean and fine ;
immediate use. Should ii now be sent away
to sell, let il be done in the cool of the NOR
ming. that it may not be heated. Those who
receive it, may put it into strong pickle for
one or two days. The kegs, into which it
is packed, must be tagged, and water tight
to contain 20 or 25 pounds of butter Soak
them thoroughly in strong pickle "a hours,
! then tare then strew little fine salt on the
inside, carefully pack each colour and quail
ty OF butter by itself Fill the keg within
| one inch of the top, take thin slice and Sc
parate the wood from the butter around the
inside of the keg, head it, make small hole
in the top, and fill it solid with pickle, in
which is little salt petre dissolved.
In this way, if the kegs are tight and well
made, of thick slaves, so as not to stain thro
the butter will keep as sweet as rosefor
years, and every keg would inspect Ist sort ;
for hot climate il would command an extra
price, and be superior to any put up in any
other common way.
| The pickle used to put butter into where
| first taken in, should be boiled once in 9
months and it will become as clear as wine,
the older the better
| WASHINGTON. .Aprsl %.
| The bill for increasing certain of the du-
ties on goods imported from foreign eoun-
tries, ommonly called the Tariff Bill, oc-
cupies the attention of the house of repre-
sentatives the bill for regulating the mode
of paying these duties, (tha. is requiring the
duties on considerable portion of the I'M
ported articles henceforth to be paid in cash)
having been put aside for the present, in or
der to allow of final decision in that house
on the Tariff Bill.
1t is yet our impression that the Tariff
Bill will pass the House of Representatives
at the present session. Its fate in the Sc
nate, however, is entirely matter Of conjec-
ture We begin TO doubt whether the other
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