Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-06-28

Stale, IN the place OF John NJ. Dooly,
deceased.
Poison. DIR. Barry, in England, has
discovered an excellent aud immediate
cure for the bite OF snake or mad dog,
vis. applying a cuPPing glass oper ths
trOaHdsd part The principle is the
same as extracting poison by sucking
the wound.
Feather Beds-The want OF feathers
is altogether artificial. arising from a
disregard of the physical and moral well
being of infants and children; and he
who has had the good fortune never TO
have been accustomed to feather bed,
will never in health need or desire one,
nor in sickness, exceptin cases Of great
morbid irritation, or excessive sensibili-
ty, or some disease in which the pressure
OF firm or elastic substance might oc-
casion pain. But when rational regard
to the preservation of health shall per-
wade the community, feathers will no
more be used without necessity or medi-
cal advice, than ardent spirits viii be
swallowed without the same necessity
or advice. The physicians have frequent
occasions TO see persons who are heated,
sweated, and enfeebled by sleeping on
feathers, as if from a fit of sickness,
eneryated, dispirite1, relaxed and mise
rable Medical hieil,gsneer.
TEASEL--Some OF the farmers of
Williamsburgh. Massachusetts,, have un.
dertaken the culture of the Teasel, or
fuller's thistle--and II is estimated, that
this plant now occupies about so acres,
in that town. |: is gratifyingt to see the
attention of farmers turned to new artl-
cles of agriculture, which promise to
reward their iabors.
The teaseli is cultivated in England
France, Holland. Germany, sc. for
the purpose of raising the nap upon
wooIlen cloths. The following remarks
upon its culture are distracted from
Loudon's Encyclopedia.
The teasel grows stronger on deep,
loamy clsys, not over rich The soil
should be ploughed deep, and well pull
verized. In England, il is frequently
sown broad cas,,but it is better to sow il
in rows, with intervals of Is to "a inch
es, between them; the plants in the
rows may be 6 inches apart. The ground
should be kept clean and mellow by
ploughing and hoeing. The heads are
cut at three different times as they be-
come ripe, by means of knife with a
short blade. A pair Of strong gloves is
necessary in this operation.
The heads, attached to few inches
of the stem, are tied in handfulls and
put in dry sheds, whence they are taken
out, and exposed to the sun daily, till
they become perfectly dry. No rain
should fall upon them. In England they
are sorted into three kinds, according
to quality, and then made into packs -
The produce varies from 10000 to
100000 heads of the first and second sort
on an acre. The crop often fails. Park
inson observes that by burning the straw
and refuse stuff after the crop is gather.
ed, the teazel will be found not to i'm.
poverish, but TO improve the land. To
save seed, leave few of the best heads,
and when ripe, the seed may be separa.
ted by fails.--Hampshirs Gazette.
The summer session Of the Carlisle
College, has commenced under the
most favorable circumstances, more
than one hundred scholars now pursue
their studies in this institution, indie.
pendent of those engaged in the gram.
mer school connected with the college.
A most distressing circu instance oe-
Cured on Sunday evening last, at Mrs
Guffin's about six miles above Green
vile, in this county, (Fayette, Pal
AS Mir. Mclaughlin, 1.-THE daughter OF
Mrs. M'Guffin,) and two of her children
one boy FIVE years old, the other girl
aged about two years-were sitting UNI
der the shade of an oak, with her bro
Their Mr.. Charles Moulin, small cloud
came up, from which no rain was OBJ
served to fall, but which emitted fla sh
of lightning that struck the tree, killed
the little boy, and severely shocked
herself and brother, Mrs. NIL. and Mr..
MIG. had not recovered on the succeed
ing morning. -
William Courtney, Esq. of Allegheny
county, Pa. has been appointed by the
Secretary at War, to be practical A
gent, +" authorized by late act of Con-
gress for the expenditure ofthirty thous-
and dollars in improving the Steam Boat
Navigation of the Ohio river.