Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-24

have "o doubt the might be said of every State !" 'he Union. not even excepting the Empire State.
 F"e.-Ihe house Of the widow Patty Perry, in uree"held, Conn. burMt down, Thursday last, and we regret to add, she persie.L in the flames.
 More Banks m Neu- York.-The- N-w-Yo,k Leg slaure, all patent Democrats L" the back bone, are coming "p 'o the mark handsomely. On Monday the committee O" banks, in the Assembly, rrpored bills 'O incorporate the Bank of the State of Nrw-York and the Book Makers Bank--,he former with a cap tai Of g O00000, and the latter OE 0O0 000. Also. to increase the capital of the Merchan's' Bank $51O 900, the Union Bank $5OO,O00, and the Merchants Exchange Bank $l5O. .000; all in the city oiNew York
 Church choirs.-These little c"tamun'es may well be compared 10 beehves: once properly ordered and then undis,urhed, their several members do their work diligently, quietly and successfully bu, aga,e them in any way, and there exists not living person company of persons irritable aud impossible 10 manage.
 Cold Veather in Virginia.-The mercury a, Lew 1 isburg, nine miles from the White Sulphur Springs has, we learn from the Aleshanian, published there, been al one time this low as 29o below zero. This IS unprecedented cold for Virginia.
 A sau,e of 100 guns fire! at Buffalo on the re. ceipr of the of the rechnrter of,he Bank of the United States hy the State of Pennsylvania. The in- habiians know the difference between paying six and seve" per cent.
 We learn, says the Baltimore Patriot, from Wash "gton, tha, Mr. Kendall, the Post Master General continues confined 10 his bed, with severe and dan gerous illness, from which, it is feared, he will not soon, if ever, recover.
 Three simultaneous attempts were made last week to fire Ihe offices of the Centinel Daily Advertiser aud Courier, |" Boston. by iuce ndarcs The editors of those papers have offered five hundred dollars re- ward for their apprche ension.
 Chof as q manure for strawberries Among the selected articles of this No. will toe found , very interesting essay on the various kinds of Straw h"rr-s, and the different m"des of c"i'atirg them. We wish that this most d"Ightfnl fruit were more a;trndrd to. The general impression has been, that ours is not the most proper climate or s"i! for its success f"l cultivation; but this is evidently an error. We have seen as fine favored and as large fruit of this kind. grow ing in our gardens. as any that we have ever met with ip a more Northern latitude. When properly attended, we know "f n" frni, which is more profitable. Last season, we planted a half acre of these berries. We picked fro n, the land thus plan trd U"r l'"ri'ri aud t"'r. "----s-, ,.-r day. The season for picking lasted six weeks. allowing five days to the week, was equal |" thirty days. The amount picked. therefore, was f"rty.right hnshrs f"r the entire srasnn. These were readily sold at 25 cents per quart. which yielded us the aggregate sum of SS6O. This estimate is far from being exag- grrat+d: "n the contrary. it will appear much below the mark, when it is taken iu consider alton, that we used literally of the fruit for our table. and sent out to our friends. Our mode of cullivating the plant is this- early in December or January, and io s"rne cases, even as late as February or March, we cover our Straw berries with pine or other straw. This we first set fire t". and thus con- s"m" all the drcayrd leaves and suckers "fihe plant, which may have been left from the last season. Immediately after this operation we cover the bed with a moderate portion of c0wprn manure, or oak ashes. (wp prefer the latter if we have i,) and oyer this lay rice chaf tw" or three inches thick.
 The chaff. tngrther with the manure. i'm. part warmth tO the land. and cause the plants to spring up much earlier than they other" ise would. The berries are sooner in market, bear larger and l"nger in the season. and are in every other respect superior to those cuIti-
 
 chaf prevents the suckers from taking root keeps the rain from filling inc fruit with dirt, and throws off the too great operation of the sun from the berries while ripen:ng. In our next number, we will enter more largely On the suhject.-Souihern Agriculturist. HE YANKEE AND THE JEw.-He told me l a trick of his the other day. Said he. "l ] once took out an adventure of glOv es to -, where ! thought they would srll to charm. We'll. I got there, hut the devil Of a glove ] could get any body to take. At last came s"~aky. iDUs O-nUuru sUi. H;''s J, '''',a "f 1 frrpd me a sum below cost, and rather than carry the gloves back again. let him have 'rm but I thought it pla"gy strange that l nobody else would buy. Bcfnrp lrft tho, ! smrDt the rat. That Aminadab had gone round tO all the merchants. arranged it with them io let him buy at discount, and share the goods. "N"t as you knows on boys {; thinks to myseIf"-here the Captain put his finger on his nose and winked-" you don't fleece me, Jew or no J-w.' The next month l went back to the same place on the same errand nobody would buy the gloves, as hoped-excrpt that son of "a gun of an Amin 1 adab, and he took 'em as hsfore. below cost, and was of. "Yon're trapped my old rat." says to myself. It wasn't half an hour be. fore he came down to the ship. "Yon-you -you've cheated me- says he. "I bavn't says l." " You have," says he, ." those gloves are all of one hand" II know it." says l, and I could have told you sfore you took [ 'em if you'd thought to ask" "You must take .sm back" cried he. I'll he e-ifl do. answered I. "It'Il ruin me- snivell-d he. ! auS1 knN