The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-05-06


RAISING STRAwBERRIEs.-AM Mr.. Rivers,
in London, says that about the second week
in July, he filled number Of six-inch pots
"with a compost of two-thirds loan and one
third rotten dung, as follows three stout
pieces of broken pots were placed in the bot
tom, and full handful of the compost put in;
a stout wooden pestle was then used with all
the force of mans arm to poundit, and then
another handful and pounding, ,and another,
till the pot was brimful, and the compressed
mould as hard as a barn-foor. The pots
were then taken to strawberry-bed, and
runner placed in the centre of each, with
small stone to keep it steady. They were
watered in dry weather, and have had no
other care or culture. For two or three years
says he, have had the very finest crops from
plants after this method, and those under no.
tce promise well. If the pots are lifted, it
will be apparent that large quantity food
is in a small space. l may add that, from
some recent experiments with compressed
earth to potted fruit trees, have a high o.
pinion its effect, and fully believe that We
have yet much to learn on the subject"
I DEATH OF PRoF. EDwARDs.-The religious
public, as we'll as scholars generally through
out the country, will hear with deep regret
of the death of this excellent man and thor
ough scholar, which took place during the
| past week at Athens, Ga, where he had
spent the winter in the hope of fregaining his
health. DR.. Edwards was Associate Pro-
fessor of Sacred Literature in the Theologi-
cal Seminary at Andover, where, for series
r l. l.. IN,
holding, and even advancing, the reputation
of an institution which has ever stood promi-
nent in imparting severe and genuine
scholarship to the American Clergy, His
death will be the more profoundly regretted,
as he had but just attained the meridian of
life, and is understood to have had in the
course of preparation several Biblical criti-
cisms, one of which, Commentary on the
Book of Corinthians, was so far advanced, as
to have needed but few weeks more of la
Dor to complete it for publication. Asin the
case OF his colleague, DR.. Stuart, whose re-
cent demise Andover and Christian Theology
alike deplore, his character was honored be-
yond the bounds ofhis native land; and these
gloomy tidings will strike deep chord of
sympathy in remote regions, wherever the
cultivators OF sacred and classical literature
are found His remains passed through this
city on Saturday, accompanied by his afflicted
family and brother, Col. Edwards, of South-
ampton.- Charleston Courier, April26.
0AFQuakerism is favorable to longevity
it seems. According to late English census
returns, the average age attained by mem-'
bers of this peaceful sect in Great Britain,
is ffty-one years, two months and twenty
one days. Half of the population of the
country, as is seen by the same returns, die
before reaching the age of twenty-one, and
the average duration of human life che world
over, is but thirty-three years; Quakers,
are temperate and prudent, are seldom in a
hurry, and never in passion. Quakers in
the very midst of the weeks business, (on
Wednesday morning,) retire from the world,
and spend an hour or two in silent medita-
ton at the Westinghouse. Quakers are dill
igent; they help one another, and the fear of
want does not corrode their mirds. The
: Journey of life to them is a walk of peaceful
meditation. They neither suffer nor enjoy
intensely, but preserve composed demeanor
always. Is it surprising that their days
should be long in the land.