The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-06-04
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ton and oppression in that parish that is. he
absolutely denied to baptise any of their chill
dren, unless they would also at the same time
jpay him the funeral fees; and what was worse
he would give them no reason for this ateras
ton, but only promised to enter bond for him
self and his successors, that hereafter all persons
paying it at their christening, should be buried
gratis. What think ye the poor people did in
this case? They did not pull his surplice over
his cars, tear his mass book, nor throw
crickets at his head. No, they humbly desired
him to alter his resolution, and amicably reasons
ed it with him /; but he being capricious fel-
| low, gave them answer, but, =" What have
done, have done, take your'remedy where you
can find it; It's not for men Of my coat to give
an account of their actions to their laity.''
Which was a surly and quarrelsome answer;
and unbeftting priest, but this did not pro-
woke his parishioners to speak one i'll word
against his person or function, or to do any ile-
4 gal act. They only took the regular way of
complaining of him to his ordinary the Arch
bishop of Rouen Upon summons he appears.
The Archbishop takes him up roundly, tells him
he deserves deprivation, if that can be proved
which is objected against him, and asked him
what he had to say for himself. After due rev.
erence be answers that be acknowledges the
fact, to save the time of examining witnesses
1 but desires his Grace to hear his reasons and
then to do unto him as he shall see cause I
HdNS DS6Il, says l6, 0uIdtt vi LHIS parish THESE
seven years. In that time, | have, one wear
with another, baptised hundred children and
! buried not one. At first, reioiced at my good
fortune, TO be placed in good an air but
looking into the register book, | found for 4
hundred years back, nearly the same number
yearly baptsed, and not tone above five years
old buried And, which did more amaze me, I
find the number of commandments to be no
greater now than it was then This seemed to
me lint an =
found out the true cause ofit for all that are
born at Domfront, are hanged at Rouen did
this to keep my Pensioners from hanging, en-
couraging them to die at home, the burial dues
being all paid"
The Archbishop demanded Of The parishioni
ers, whether this was true or not. They ans
I sweFed that too many Of them came to that ur,i
lucky end at Rouen. "Well, them" said he,
approve of what the CuTate has done, and
will cause my secretary in Perpetaana rel me-
9aOriam to make an act of it ;" which act the
Curate carried home with him, and the parish
cheeriully submitted to it, for, within less than
twenty years, there died fifteen of natural
deaths, and now there die three or four yearly,
| sALr. The London Quarterly Journal of
Science contains valuable paper on the use of
salt as manure 1t has been found to answer
the most sanguine expectations for barley, oats
potatoes, and tnrnips. slr. Johnson has given
the result Of several trials of it liz kitchen gar
den, which are as follows:
Wtndsor Beans. Soil with any manure pros
duced 1893 bushels. aer acre. Soil dressed with
" bushels OF salt per acre Week GcsoTe sow
produced 2l7 bushels per acre.
| Onions. Soil MANFRED with
20 bushels Of salt and 10 tons ton. cat. or. lbs.
farm yard manure. 3 IL 5 II
| Soil with u tons yard manure, 2 10 2 10
urfsf De- q Il
produced 208 bushels. Soil with 20 bushels OF
@salt, produced 554 bushels
i Nlr. Hogg finds salt to increase the beauty
and size of the flowers of all bulbous plants and
carnations-yFsac England Farmer.
DANDELIoks. Gen. II. A. S. Dearborn, in 4
letter to the editor of the New England Farmer,
relates the result of an experiment toacultivats
this valuable vegetable. In May 1927, he causs
4 ed number of the plants to be set out one foot
apart, III two rows two feet asunder, and about
! 100 feet long. They grew luxuriantly until
autumn covering the ground between. Jnst
before the ground troZe straw was spread upon
them. Since February he has had "a ALBUMS
dance of green's and salad from them. Some
OF them have been cut ave, others four times
and the leaves shot out again very soon after
cutting. Some of them were covered with
flower pots, after the fourth cutting, to blanch
the leaves for salad, and were nearly or quite
equal to endive. In FIVE days after the pots
were put over, the leaves, which previously had
been cut close to the crown of the root, shot up
five inches in height. The ground which was
very rich, was kept hoed and raked during both
seasons. Gen. ID. recommends the rows to be
three feet apart, and each plant two feet apart
and that the plants be set out early. Care ID
also to be taken not to injure the flower buds III
cutting Boston Patriot.
EAST INDIAN MART FOR YOU'VE LADIES
Calcutta has long been regarded by the Eng
fish natrons marriage mart for their daughs
ters, when they were not marketable at home
A young lady is usually consigned to some
friend or relative, who undertakes to dispose OF
her to the best advantage. Immediately on her
arrival grand dinner is given, to which as
many bachelors possible formally invits
ed. liza person OF rank or property is satisfied
with her appearance, and is in want OF what is
called soifs, though he himself be as old as
the hills and as ugly as SIM he feels assured that
he has only to refer her friends to the East India
register, or his bankers books, and bargaili
win be speedily concluded. Should the young
lady, however. decline the proposal, and prefer
the addresses of youthful swain, who has neiths
or rank nor riches to recommend him, it is cons
) sidered misfortune of SO serious nature that
her guardians bitterly regret their unskilful
management, and dissolve all connection with
the "ronsantic fool ssh0 as silly enOagh to sacrS
flee her prospects" AS it is considered fair and
proper to give early information to the actual
bidders, or those likely to have become such, il
the commodity had remained on hand, immedis
, ately after the terms are mutually agreed upon,
the Young lady is driven on the crowded course OF
Calcutta, in the gig Of the accepted lover. She
:, is then said to have been " carted 2 and her
Q unsuccessful admirers lament in silence theg
g rejected addresses ~ aglish paper.
/. CHEAP AND EFFIcAcIoUs MAEURE. Raise a
! platform of earth on the head. land of a field