Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-09-24
EVERY Mas ms oYN MiLLER.

EVERY MAN HIS OWN MILLER.
We spent an hour on Saturday il q visit 70
the mandatory OF Fiizgerald's Portable Mill
for grinding Grain, Cotlee, Spices, Salt SC. Of
which we have hitherto spoken. II is ~
Eighth street, near Sixth Avenue; Messfs.
Ross, Gum s Green, propnelors Several
OF the mills were put ID operation By hand and
steam power. converting wheat and corn INTO
good flour and meal with satisfactory rapdity.
LIS rate Of grinding IS certified 10 be-
Corn, pei hour FIVE bushels,
Coffee per hour twelve bushels.
Wheat 90 four six do.
Black Pepper. s do.
Allspice bushels per hour.
We presume il is is not intended thai this
mill SHAH ever supersede entirely, the great
FIGURING establishments now in being. but ior
any new Settlements-ior band of enigranis
10 the Far West Tor plantation or neighbor-
hood distant iron mdls---li seems almost lndis-
pensable. One Of these mills costs from $40
10 Sl00, weighs three TO Eve hundred pounds.
hardly occupies more room than a chest Of
drawers, may be pat up hy any ordinary me
ehanic, 10 any spare room, barn or woodshed,
and will grind (by horse poweF) almost any
farmers grain with far less expense of time
and team than would be required to take II TO
a mill two miles of. Ii may be propelled by
water, steam. horse or hand power, and few
farms are without a brook that would suffice
to turn il at iriiiing cost. Those who have
experienced the delights Of going ten or TWEEN
ty miles TO mill over bad roads, and then ind
inc the mill out OF order. CT cbo1ked with Gus
tom, 50 chat another day must be spent IN
coming after the meal, viii know how 10 APP.
preeiate this invention. The grinding surfaces
are made OF the best French Bun Stone, read
lily picked and put in order by almost any one.
The FIRST one put up IN this city, about two
years ago, is now ia daily operation, as good
as ever, and grnds 300 lbs OF Coffeepef hour.
There are many neghborboods in which i
would be richly worth GOO 10 have one Of
them. We saw Two oi them put up Tor The
California expedilion.--,N Z. Tribune.
FREScn Knees SpEEcH.-- The Guizot
ministry have greatly enlarged their majority
bv the fate elections. On the l7th of AUGUST,
the Chambers were opened BY the King III
person, with the following Speech to the Peers
and Deputies assembled:
"Gentemen--I feel lively satisfaction to
see you meet around me with so much zeal.
At the usual period Of your lahos, viii euter-
tam vou with the Internal and external affairs OF
the State For the present. ii eosRoking in.
u,ediately the two Chambers. as prescribed By
the Charter, IL ealing the Peers nominated
since the las session, and the Deputies that
France has Just honorod with her votes, 70
take The cath before me. am happy to give
YOU AZ the saline time assurance Of my active
and Interchangeable Devotion 70 our country,
and OF my confidence IN Your sentiments 10
wards ne and my family.
81 have learned, from my earliest youth, to
love and serve France. Caledtv the throne
by her voice, FOR tie safety OF her liberties,
have devoted nay existence 70 the regular sup
port of her Institutions, and the peaceful dcyel-
opement Of her prosperity and her greatness.
There is no trial 10 which ! am not ready 10
submit aud 10 endure, 10 obtain a result so
dear 10 gny heart Providence wiIlpennit me,
hope, to to insrfe, with the co cpperation Of
the Chambers and the appreciation OF the ma
ton. the success OF this patriotic labor.
'My children and yoan viii reap It's fruits,
and Il France, free and happy, preserves an
adcctOuate remembrance Of our common Ell
forts, il viii be, gentlemen, the finest and NO.
best reward. ~ y. Com jour.
DIsrRmrER AMONG HoRsEs.-A great mum
Der 81 very Gue animals have been taken oil
very suddenly in this neighbo.hood, within a
few weeks The disease unhl wihin the last
ten days, has been confined principally 10
Kings county, Long Island The complaint
IS in the head, and generally proves fatal N a
day or two. Ii has now spread to staten is
land Ga Saturday and Sunday, about fl
teen horses were srizad all within the circle Of
a lew mes-eyeiy one ofwbieh died, in ey-
cry instance. DIE horses had been turned out Of
pasture. Whether the cause is auribulahle TO
the excessive heat OF the weather. or 70 some
foul weed dlat may nave been eaten is not
known. Ia those horses that have been open
ed. The stomach and every part OF the animal
except the head. appeared 70 be sound. The
disease is evidently in the head, although iheIe
IS no running al the nose. But, on dlssecdng
the BRAIN. there appears 10 be collection o!
cl0i;ed blood. Bleeding and blisprng have
been the remedies trird. The disease does
not appear to be contagious, as in many sta
bies but one horst has died, and those sIand-
ing by his SIDE have remained perfectly We'll
From lie iaci that horses which have been
kept up have been iree from the complaint.
and that the body Of the animal is in a sound
condition, would appear thai ihe cause can
not bc IN the hay or grass eaten. II II has
been produced BY The sun, It's TO be hoped, as
the weather moderates, the disease may soon
disappear. The safest course to be pursued,
Is 10 Keep the horses up, and subject them on
ly 10 moderate exposure.
A BEAuurUL PicrURE-Lfei is beautifully
compared 10 a fountain fed by a thousand
streams, that perish If one be dIled. ii IS a
silver chord twisted with a thousand strings,
that part asunder il one be broken. FFali and
thoughtless nortals are surrounded by innu-
merlble dangers. which make il more strange