Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-07-19

MISUNDERSTANDING should be attended
TO early. The young trees set out this spring
nre now nicely started, aud tho sol is tho
roughly warmed. The danger now is. thut
the hot sun and drying winds Of summer will
either stop their growth or Kill them outright.
Give them n good mulch Of hay. shavings saw
dust or fine brush. Any thing thnt will re-
tain moisture and shield their roots from the
! hot s1n will answer. Many fine tree Is lost
for want Of this protection. The Raspberry
| plants will also be greatly benefited by this
/ treatment. This shrub loves a deep. moist
soil, and mulch facilitates both the formn-
ton of Young pinnts aud the perfecting Of the
/ fruit. The berries ripen in succession for sew
| eral weeks, and it often happens that the
/ later berries are very small for want OF suf-
| cient moisture.
TO MEASURE AN AcRR or GROUND In
measuring land, thirty and onc-quartcr
square yards make one square rod. and 40
square rods make one square rood four Of
which. or lG0 rods, make one acre. 1t is
evident, therefore, that 40 rods long by 4
| rods wide, will make an acre. The same
result may he arrived ut by measuring 229
! feet III length, and 1853 feet in width, or by
measuring 73A yards in length, by &C yards
| in breadth. To lay out an acre. square
! 200 feet Oh each side, is the nearest foot that
will make an acre, being less than on inch
each way over the exact distance. 43.560
I superficial feet, or 20S 95-l00 feet on each
| side, constitutes an acre OF ground.
! ASECporE OF PATRICK HEHRY-When the
celebrated Patrick Henry. of Virginia, was
near the close of his life and in feeble health.
he laid his hand on the Bible, and addressing
an old friend who was with him-"llere is Il
book" said he worth more than all others
ever printed; yet it is nay misfortune never
to have read it with proper attention nnd
feeling till lately"
| About the same time he wrote his daugh-
teri hear it said that the neists have
/ claimed me. The thought gives mo more
| pain than the appellatiOn Of tory; ftr con.
der religion Of infinitely more importance
/ than politics and fnd much cause to re-
proach myself that have lived So long and
given no decided and public proof Of my be-
! ing Christian.
! UP AND DowH-A Virginia paper has
! .cly blown a very noisy blast in udulalion
OF Senator Douglas. 1t compares him to
Mount Chmborazo--a and thinks he towers
above other men MS that mountain does above
| inferior hills. Whereupon John Wentworth.
| Of the Chicago Democrat, who knows Don.
| glas like book" says the Little Giant
does resemble Chimborazo or some Of its
neighborng peaks. But with this difference,
howcvcr--whilc they are pouring lava ".
| Douglas is pouring It dorm
APnEr1y Wlpow.--Tle Springfield Mass
! Republican says :-!n this place pretty lIt-
! tie widow dwCileth in II little street, and she
/ has pair Of pretty eyes and two pretty IL
| lie feet No matter what her name is, nr the
number Of the house. she's II mighty pretty
widow-a perfect mouse. The rose and lilly
| blended live on her dimpled cheek, md her
! lips give them cXpresSion--oh gracious ! oh.
50 meek Her hands are white and tender,
| b It her lovers sadly fear that she'll get them
stained and tainted up by handing lager bier.
Mary Burk, of Kalamazoo. Michigan. has
! been convicted Of the murder Of her husband
/ by poison, aud has been sentenced 10 solitary
! Imprisonment with hard labor for life.
During a thunder storm On Monday evening
/ last, the lightning struck house in Essex.
! Mass, occupied hy Daniel w. Bartlett, and
! instantly killed the wife Of Mr.. b. She was
| 25 wears of age. The house was badly torn
! to pisceS, aud the woman was horribly dis
fgmed.
There we're III deaths, Including three Of
cholera, at St. Louis, for the week ending the
lst instant.
Over 100000 bushels Of wheat and corn
we're shipped from the upper lake ports ol
| Oswego, \. Y, the week ending June II.
SLAVERY. Massachusetts General AS
soriation of Congregational Ministers have
unanimously referred TO the District Assoela-
tions the question of disseminating cores
popdence with the Old Schonl Presbyterian
!. Church on account Of its alleged pro slavery
! tendsueies.