The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-05-26
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, MAY 10.

this vicinity complain that their plant
ing, &c, are all behind hand, but the face
of nature looks as smiling asifit regarded
it as a good joke. My family rode out
as far as High Bridge" ria Blooming
dale, and came home in ecstasies with
the appearance Of the country. The
grass is luxurant, and cows crop it with
gusto, and huge promises of sweet but
ter and milk without chalk in it. The )
pasturage never was better in this Vi
entity. and the yield in hay will be very
large
The apple-trees have blossomed on the
most extensive scale, and evidently in
tend to do something worthy of mention
Last years apples are selling all the way
from $500 to SIS 90 per Dbl Pears are
not to be had in this market at any price;
Curtiss invention for preserving fruit
not having got into use here. This en-
icnt hortculturist ought to remove from
Boston and locate in New York, in or
der to be properly appreciated and OBJ
tain the largest compensation for his in
valuable discovery. BY recent report
of the Mass. Horticultural Society, |
learn that the new model Fruit House of
D. Z. Curtis will keep even so perisha-
bic production as peaches and Cherries
fresh and sound from thrSe to four weeks;
pears for several months. ard grapes
gathered in Fail until the following
spring.
1t is said to have been asccrtaincd,
that to prevent tie disease from
doing much injury, care should be taken
to promote the rapid growth of the IT,
berS, or knobs in the root of the plant 50
that they may be matured before the
vines are smittcn by the atmospheric
blast lin the latter part of July and Au-
gust) which is the true cause Of their
ruin
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt gave immense
pleasure to large audience at the Met
ropolitan Hall last night The receipts
presume. were not less than $1,000.
/ The man Of all men to whom she has
done the most honor, in merging her own
t name in his, accompanied some Of her
songs on the piano and gave general sat
isfactom On Friday LeXt she will give
another concert. and on the 2ith inst Il
S grand farewell at Castle Garden which
:, will contain 600 people She is assist
ed by 10 less than 20 musicians
A great crowd was collected at tho
c Brooklyn ferries yesterday by the sus
pension of the running, occasioncd by {
strike of the u pilots, who wanted 81
II a month. After an hour or two, Other
l. pilots were substituted. and the boats re
Il sumed their trips.
When any of your friends are comm;
) to New York for the first time, advs'
" them to visit the Governors Room" (s'
= callcd) in the City Hall 1t contains
" 49, -,.--;. .c.H4-- nn.pnG,. Which 9S
rocs distinguished in the war of 1912
The city prison known as the Tombs, i
worth seeing. The most recent murder
> cr confined there is John Doyle, VIII,
was conveyed thither yesterday, hall
dead, having cut his own throat, afte
having Gu; that Of his landlady Mrs Cor
merry. After DR. Covel left him in pris
on (haying dressed his wounds) the DIES
> pcrado tore off the bandages, and woul,
soon have bled to death had not the doc
tor returned in time lie now lies strap
ped down to bed to prevent his open
ing the cash again.
| have established an Office at Adams
x Co.'S Express to execute any littl
commissions which persons at distance
may desire to have attended to in thi
p city. | think it will prove public &C
commodation
At the meeting of the Farmers Clul
at the American Institute yesterday
! Prof Mapes stated that there were NOR,
: than AZ varieties Of trefoil, thrceleavcC
grass
The Clubs subject, at the june meet
! ing, is the uses Of mules in Agriculture
= New YoRK, May 49,
Nh. EDITOR
] went to hear, or rather to sec