The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-06-13

, "o"i WIN bcf0lu uuI lDat Sdmi
Julia D. smiling as gay and bright and love
ly as the Towering spring, leaning on tn,
arm of her young, accomplished anil ador
ing husband, who was now the principu
proprietor of Burling Ford, and surrounde,
by her little band of brothers and sisters. a,
mirthful and as happy as herself.
From the Salem Mcrcuru
WANTON DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS
MEssRs. EDtroRs. At this season. dur
ing the vacation of the different schools
there is class of boys who are in the habit
OF reading down the grass of our fields and
pastures, and injuring the branches of The
fruit trees, in the wicked and wanton habit
OF shooting birds. The ipsectisorous Kinds
W., the swallows, martins, re lsta.ts king
birds, &c. which, previous TO the wet wealth
er OF the last fortnight were abundant, have
many Of them persisted. The few that now
remain are of infinitely more use than we
have opportunity to discover, by the des-
trnction of gruhs, worms, and eggs of ver-
mn. The black-birds, or grakles. will at
this season follow in the burrows of the
plough and catch I'D large quantities of the
yellow headed grub worm; and of those
BIRDS complained of by the Industrious far
mer, Tor the mischief committed on his corn.
one OF the most correct observers of nature
remarks, that "were he placed in his situa-
ton he should hesitate whether TO consider
these birds most as friends or enemies az
they are particularly destructive to almost
all the noxiOus worms, grubs and caterpil-
lars that invest his fields, which, were thew
allowed to multiply unmolested, would soon
consume nine tenths of al the production
of his labor, and desola.e the country with
the miseries of famine" But with regard
to great proportion Of our summer birds,
they are insectivorous, destroying countless
multitudes of destructive bugs and caterpi-
lars, that infest the fruit trees in spring and
summer, preying ON the leaves, blossoms
and embryo of the fruit The oriole. or
golden robin, destroys hundreds of them
without offering the slightest injury to the
fruit that may encompass his nest
would therefore caution every hoy
against trespassng upon our fields and pas
lures with this murderous intent particu-
larly, as at this season birds are engaged in
the business of incubation, and by cruelty
taking away the parent, they destroy a
helpless brood of young
trust, therefore, that every honest far
mer and horticulturst will avail himself of
the law of trespass, should he find young
men shooting upon his lands. and thus put
a stop 10 the indiscriminate slaughter of
this beautiful part OF animated nature, par
ticuarly this spring, as their services are
much needed in destroying the small trav-
cling caterpillar, which is now in great
abundance.
The last Blackwood's Magazine in an article
entitled Chateaubriand, contains among other ex.
tracts from his works. the following description of
the
VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT.
"The valley of Jehoshaphat has in all
ages served as the burying place of Jeru-
salem; you meet there, monuments of the
most distant times and of the present GEN.
fury. The Jews still come there to die
from the cornets of the earth. A stranger
sells TO them, for almost its weight in gold,
the land which contains the bones of their
fathers. Solomon planted the valley the
shadow of the Temple by which it was
overhung-the torrent, called after grief
which traversed 1.-THE Pslams which Da-
vid there composed-the Lamentations of
Jeremiah, which its rocks re-echoed, render
it the fitting abode of the tomb. Christ
commenced his Passion in the same place
that innocent David there shed for the ex-
piation Of our sins, tears which the guilty
David let fall for his own transgressioHs.-
Few names awaken in our mind recollec-
tons so solemn as the Valley of Jehosha-
plat. lis so full of mysteries, that accord
ing to the Prophet Joel, all mankind will be
assembled there before the Eternal Judge.
The aspect of this celebrated valley is
desoate the western side is bounded by a
ridge of lofty rocks which support the walls
of Jerusalem, above which the towers oil
the city appear. The eastern side is form
by the Mount of Olives, and another emf
hence called the Mount of Scandal, from
the idolatry Of Solomon. These two noun
tains, which adjoin each other, are almost
bare, and Of a red and sombre hue; or
their desert side you see here and there some
black and withered vineyards, some wild oil
ives,some ploughedland, covered with hyssoE
and few ruined chapels. At the bottom o.
the valley, you perceive a torrent, traverset
by single arch, which appears of great an
tlquity. The stones OF the Jewish cemete
| y oPpcui hhC u HldSS vi ruins Ut tliC iool vi
the mountain of Scandal, under the village
of Sloan. You can hardly distinguish thu
buildings Of the village from the ruins witt
which they are surrounded. Three ancen
monuments are particularly conspicuous
those of Zachariah, Jehoshaphat and Absa
lem. The sadness of Jerusalem from which
no smoke ascends, and in which no soune
is to lie heard: the solitude Of the sur
rounding mountains, where not living
creature is to be seen; the disorder o.
these tombs, ruined, ransacked, and hal
exposed to view, would almost induce one
to believe that the last trump had beeI
heard, and that the dead were about to ris'
in the valley of Jehoshaphat."
SULPHUR AS A PREVENTATIVE AGAINST MrA
SIZES DR.. Tourtual, a Dutch physician, state
that at n period when me ases were epidemic
all the children who were under treaimen
with sulphur for itch escaped the disease; an
that those who were taking sulphur for tn
cure of hopping cough enjoyed the same i'm
munty. Finally, he says that many childre
who were given a mixture Of sulphur and can
phor, and to whom these me6icaments were az
piled by frictions, were not attacked with met
sles, whilst those who were not subjected I
that medication were Observation-Disclosures RI
pertoriun, and Gazette Medicaie.
observation-disclosures" Many parents in III
United States are now paying masters emo
nous prices for giving their children, viii
fashion is pleased TO miscall, Accomplishments
that is, filings which are not learnt, and won
f be Of no use ifthey were. Many poor youl
at the same time, is laboring up the steep
practical kno,oiedge, unaided and in his oN
way. In the next generation, how many of Il