Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-10
MOVING.

me of my friends, what \ tnougH to De ""
 ;mDroved practice. He usually pays about twenty five cents an acre moro than any ol h;s neiphbors, for moving grass for hay He is very particular in laying down hi' lands to grass. to have them evenly plough ed. narrowed and roIled-and every spring hc rolls his moving ground with beavy ir"r rollers, of large diamater-and stones "nt other Instructions to the scylhe are rernov' cd. Tn moving he insists on narrow swar.hs being taken, and the scythe being kept close to the ground, and well pointed in and out; you will think this not the way for the mowers to make fast work. Hence fhe necessity of the extra twenty five cents
 Nv friend thinks that for every cent extra he pays for moving, he receives about 's'n
 cents value in the increased weight O' nay He contends that the lowest inch ot grass U" his field. yields as great weight of nay as 6va ar six inches of the top-and no mas che satisfaction of having his work well done. I have seen on his farm a heIo o' forty acres SO neatly moved, that U was Axceedingly difficult to find winch way tne .,.nwers had worked. Now this l think an ;mnrovement on the practice so almost un'- versal. of moving in such manner as to leave each swarth, and each stroke ot the scvthe visible-I had almost said to pas sengers on a railroad car. going at the rate of fiftaen miles an hour.-FQrmer's Reg.
 Ruyld;no or Inoculation.-The season IS near when this operation may be performed to ad- vantage. and where an orchard or nursery IS young, this method of propagating cnoice fruits is preferable to grating. Pears, apples plums, cherries, peaches and quinces, can De fnoculated with success indeed the process is applicable to most trees whether fruit or forest. Where pears are gratted or lnocuia- ted into apple, quince or thorn trees, the ln- sertion should be made as near the root as possible, so that when earth is heaped around the stock, roots may spring out and insure the growth of the shoot. Inoculated into the tops of apple trees, pears grow rapidly, ana produce fruit early but they are short lived, and require succession of gratis or inocula- tions to insure supply of fruit, for term ot years. It is we'll known that the seeds of apples, peaches, &c. rarely produce fruit re- sembling the parent, hence in nurseries or orchards, budding or grating is the only method of securing trees or fruit ot a certain kind, and this operation will not be neglected by the lover of good fruit.
 C1EARspR1Ne, Md. 27th July.
 Three Irishmen have just been committed fo the Hagerstown jail. on charge of homl- eide. One is named John Byrnes, and the others McAyoy. The following are the facts: A MT. Wm. Cation, of Montgomery county, who was superintendent for contractor on the line of canal near Licking creek, had been paying some polite attention to an in- 1 teresting girl in that vicinity. Last Sunday night he visited her at her mothers, where the prisoner, Byrnes, who is likewise su- perintendent, presented himself, and who, it is supposed, became jealous of Cations at- l tentions. While Cation was at supper, Byrnes left the house, and about nine o'clock Cation started ho.,aosvards- At day light l next morning he was found near two hund- rcd paces from the house, with his skull fractured, but life not extlnct.-l He fingered in senseless state until Tues l dav morning last, when he died ; and an in- l quest was held, which has resulted in the ] committal of the three prisoners.
 Attempt to Poison a Family.-We learn from the Albany Argus, that an attempt was made on Tuesday, the 25th ult. by black girl, to poison the family of MT. Gilbert Hitchcock of schodack. Eleven persons had been seriously affected by partaking of butter with which arsenic had been mixed 1 by black girl, who was brought up from a ! child in the family. The mother of MT. H. l an aged woman, it was thought, could not l serious apprehensions were en- 1 tertained for several others. The arsenic l had been obtained for the purpose of killing rats, and what was left was taken by the girl, l for the diabolical purpose of destroying an amiable and respectable family. No further particulars had transpired, nor was it known what could have induced the attempt.
 RiA at Lockport.--A disgraceful riot, we learn, occurred at Lockport, on Saturday af- ternoon, on account of company of circus riders. The village authorities, it seems, had forbidden the performance, and refused a license but a number of the inhabitants were determined that the play should go on. Accordingly, the company were invited in, and marshalled to their ground, where an ef- fort was made to stop their performance by the constables, &c. This brought on gen eral melee between the champions of the cir GUS, and the officers and citizens who were for sustaining the village authorities, in which many coats, we learn, were rent, and some bloody noses obtained. The perform ance, however, proceeded nearly to its close, when the chief was arrested and carried be- fore justice of the peace, to answer for a violation of the charter regulations. Wheth- CT he was fined or not we did not learn.
 The most disgraceful part of the whole af- fair, however, was the .fnale-to wit, the plastering with tar of the doors of the Meth odist and Presbyterian Churches, and the house of the President of the Board of Trus-
 tees, by some one or more evil.minded per-
 son or persons.-Bufalo Journal.