Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-10-25

andeT Thompson, Esq. Of C0tskIlI, the SUD-
scfIber received q few small tubers OF this
variety Of the potatoe, the average weight of
which was fraction less than five ounces
each. carefully divided twenty of them
by cutting them into pieces so as to leave two
sets or eyes, on each piece, amounting inthe
whole to 270 pieces, and weighing little
less than half an ounce each.
These | planted on the 9th of April in
hills, four feet asnnder, each way. placing
one piece only in each hill.
Onthe 9th inst. the crop was gathered. The
product as measured in a half bushel, being a
fraction over bushel to each tuber planted.
The average weight of few of the most
productive hills was eight pounds ten oun-
ces-the largest single tuber which weigh
ed, 2 lbs. IL OF. During the past season the
extremely hot weather and severity of the
drought in this section of the county, have,
in the opinion of the farmers in my neigh
borhood, lcssened the potatoe crop from one
third to one half, on the product in ordinary
seasons. 1t is reasonable to suppose that the
same causes have had a like operation upon
the Rohan potatoe. =
From the small practical acquaintance !
have yet had with the cultivation of this va
riety, feel diffidence in expressing an
opinion on the best mode of its cultivation.
will therefore only state briefly the method
in which proceeded in this small expert
ment.. Long or barn-yard manure was
spread upon the surface of the ground and
turned in with the. plow-furrows 10 or IL
inches deep-seed planted deep, covered
accumulation of earth upon the hill.
On opening the hills found the tubers
'thickly clustered together-occupying little
if any more space than if placed in half
bushel measure. This circumstance has in
duced me to believe that space of three
feet between the hills would be amply sufli-
cient, and would secure as great q growth in
each, as if planted four feet apart. should
also think it advisable to plant in each hill
two pieces with two sets on each piece, pla-
cling them six inches apart from each other
SAMUEL WOODRUFF.
Windsor, October ID, 1883. p.
The B1TTER Blr.-On Sunday evening a
rail road man named Jim, went into the inn
at West Haddon, and leaving his. basket in
the kitchen, went. into the tap. to drink a pint
of beer. The landlord. being tempted by
curiosity, opened the basket, in which he
found a leveret, and doubling Jim's either be-
ing licensed or allowed to shoot, he thought
he ran no risk of being publicly complained
of if he rung the changes upon his guest,
which he did by abstracting the hare and
putting dead cat in its place. On getting
home, Jim soon discovered the fraud practis-
ed upon him, and returning with his basket
to the inn he found mine host had gone to
church. and it being past IL the servant refus-
cd to draw him any ale. After nuch persua-
sion he induced her to leave the kitchen to
get him some spring water, and in her ab-
sence he opened a large pot on the fire, in
which was a leg of mutton, and very ingen-
iously exchanged their tabby for it, carrying
home the prize. Jim sent his brother there
after church time, making him fully nc
quainted with the facts, and. the landlord.
wanting some broth, ordered a basin out OF
the pot not liking color or flavor, he caused
an examination; and instantly detected the
joke and its author, on witnessing the cats
mortal remains. "Oh," said Jim's brother,
az dares for to say that there cat first eat the
mutton, and then committed suicide to avoid
detection. Northampton Herald. aa.
EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OF HU-
MAN BoDY.-On the 18th of June, 1884, Capt.
Mead, and his clerk, of the steamboat Hun.
ter, both died of Cholera, and both were hu-
ried side by side in Louisiana, fifteen miles
below Natchez. By the caving in of the
bank 8 years and 8 months afterwards, the
coffins became exposed, and the gentleman
who owned the plantation had them removed.
The great disparity in the weight of the cot
fms suggested the curiosity of opening them
The one known to contain the clerk, contain-
ed little else than bones and grave clothes,
&c. being in "a state Of most perfect decay
But the body of Capt. Mead was found in
every respect as full and sound and undecay-
ed, as when buried: 1t had every appear
ance as well to the eye as by handling the
limbs, of body recently deceased. The
grave clothes, winding sheet, &c. were as !
sound as ever. His coffin was of cypress
plank, and both bodies were inferred about
three feet below the surface. The circum-
stance is unaccounted for by our informant,
but no fact can be better authenticated than |
this is, in every particular as we have here |
stated it.-NatcheS Courier.
From The Washington Mat1;sonian.
Maryland Election.-The Baltimore papers
furnish the complete returns of the Mary
land election. The administration Sub-treas-
ury party have very little reason to boast
They have elected their Governor by virtue
of dissentions in the opposition ranks, bv
the meagre majority of two hundred and fif- !
y -four votes out Of .fly:tre thousand, and the
Wings have carried both branches of the
Legislature. None of the elections of this
fall can be counted as favorable to the Sub
treasuryites, unless they effect the Congress
sional representation II is obvious that the
cannot succeed with the pres
ent Congress, and the current elections are
to determine its fate in the next. If the next
Congress should have an increased majority.
against the policy of the administration, then,
OF course, its measures must be framed to
meet their concurrence, or be defeated. If
its policy be not approved either by the pres
cnt or the next Congress, the probability is.
that Congress will itself provide such substi-
tute as will be established, and 60 into prac-
teal operation before Mr.. Van Buren, can,
by any possibility, recover his ground and