Litchfield enquirer., 1842-03-24

from all SIDES, the cry of distress reaches
.s-Labor seeking employment, Produce
allIng, debts pressing, and the Currency
deprecated and useless. PRoTEeT,oN 10
HOME INDUSTRY is the cure for this aggre-
CATION of evils, and it cannot be too quickly
Jr efficiently afiorded.-N. Y. Tribune.
THE DAUGHTER OF Col. BURR. Every
one who knows aught of the history of Aa-
ION Burr must recollec: the mysterious
death Of his only daughter, the wife of q
former Governor of South Carolina. She
eft Charleston in a brig for this city, as was
said, with a large amount of money and
plate; but the brig never reached the port,
nor was ever heard Of after. Years passed
way, when sailor in Maine, on his DEATH
bed, confessed to have been one ofthe crew
murdered for their money. Some few
years since Il sailor died at Mobile with a
similar confession, and we find in the N.
.. Crescent City of the I'd inst the follow
| 'ng paragraph concerning the same matter:
"a gentleman from TeXas-an old and
valued friend, and one whose veracity is un-
observation-disclosures us that an old sailor
,'ncently died at Matagorda, who made full
confession of a number of piraces in which
ne had been engaged, and stated that he
was one Of the crew of the vessel which
ailed from Charleston. with Mrs Aston ON
board. When three days out, consulta.
ion was held, and it was determined that
he passengers should be robbed and MUIR
Tered. The work of death commenced.
md all were killed, Mrs. Aston being the
asst victim who was made to walk the plank.
Her image, he said, was always before him,
and he could not die without confessing the
aorrid decd. The closing scene of his life
was horrible in the cXtreme-he raved with
madness, eXclaiming, There there she is
now II see her standing before me -
lway-away y
"Many witnesses were present who can
bear testimony to the confession, and we
'hink there can no longer exist any doubt
IN subject which was long yelled in mys-
tery."-N. Y. Tribune.
Con MEAL.-On a late visit to friend,
saw in his barn about two hundred bushels
Of cobs OF corn! How long will it be be-
ore we are brought to understand the ma
iure of things, and perceive their fitness!
Here we are, giving our stock clean corn
meal mixed with wheat bran, and throwing
aside the cobs for fuel, or for nothing, al
though they have been found of three or
four times the value of bran, for the purpose
OF mixing with the meal; perfectly natu-
al mixture, made without extra labor, or
expense, adding about one half to the guam
tity Of our means Of feeding, saving the la
Dor of Smelling, and cost OF bran! the cob
being suitable as food for hogs, as for any
other species Of stock, and even for poultry.
And when the Importance of cooking food
for our animals is so we'll understC cd, and
rs universally practised, as cooking for our
selves, we shall find that there are many
ways in WHICH q farmer can make up for a
| deficiency in the state Of the market-which
all at present so feelingly deplore-without
going back to the burning of pine knots to
save candles! Suppose each bushet Of
| ground corn-cobs to be worth but IL IL
cents, what an addition will they prove to
the fodder of our corn-crop, and our resour-
ccs in long and trying winter! Many
farmers gov six or eight hundred bushels Of
corn, and suppose the cob is equal in bulk to
half that quantity, here are no less than
three or four hundred bushels of fodder adj
ditional, procured without labor or expense
of any kind, save only the very small charge
for grinding. Every mill should be furnish
cd with the means Vi grinding the cob with
the corn. and the addition to the dung hill,
would form an item in our accounts OF con-
siderable moment in these hard times. Islt
not Il little strange that so sma Account Is
taken of the means which are so Immediate
ly in your power to add to Your resources!
Formers Cabinet.
KEEPING OF Cows.-A writer in the Maine
Farmer recommends that farmers should
not keep too many COWS, and cites we'll.
attested instance in which tuo COWS, Ivy hav.
ing the same quantity Of food given them as
had been previously given 10 four, had yield"
ed considerably more butter, cheese. &c,
than had been before obtained from double
the number-that is that the tioO upon extra
feed had produced more than four. We can
believe this statement, and believe with the
writer Also that farmers should not keep
more cows, or stock Of any kind, than they
can keep wel, both as TO food and shelter. 1t
should he rs much the business of farmer
to grow IL tull supply Ot winter provinder for
his stock, as it is TO furnish them with sum-
mcr pasture and yet how many there are
who never dream OF such thing as setting
Il field with clover, or any OF the artificial
grasses, relying altogether upon the preca.
rious resource Of their corntields TO carry
their stock through the winter and curly
spring months? Nor do many of them pay
proper attention 10 saving the provender
from those quarters.
How fguratively true is il, that some are
born with gold spoon in their mouth The
income Ofthe recently born heir apparent OF
England, as Duke OF Cornwall, dating from
the time he was born. is G7O,OOO per annum!
And while the law of England is evoked in
favor of the right of this tooihless sucking 10
this enormous sum, the family of the hard
working Manchester weaver, or Birming-
ham arlizan. is pining away in poverty, their
utmost industry being insufficient to procure
for them the common neceSsaries of life?
And this is English monarchy-this is
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