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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 7 



Mr. D — , my old clerk, who has converlecl it into 

 a 'grocery.'" And, lo be sure, there it was! 

 and one of" the fjreatest nuisances of the place ; 

 for Mr. D — 's grocery was the rendezvous of all 

 the lazy, drunken vagabonds connected with the 

 town and neighborhood. 1 do not remember how 

 many 3^ears it continued the resort of the disso- 

 lute ; but it was after the temperance societies 

 had made some progress in that part of the coun- 

 try, that happening one day to be in the town, I 

 observed more bustle than ordinary in the vicinity 

 of Mr. D — 's grocery, and upon inquiring what 

 was going on, 1 learned that the grocery was once 

 more on the move; that it had been purchased by 

 a stanch temperance man, a boot and shoemaker; 

 and that he was removing it into the vicinity of 

 his own dwelling-house; not only into another 

 street, but to a distant part of it ; and there 1 left 

 it when 1 removed from that district some years 

 afterwards — one part of it occupied by half a do- 

 zen cobblers' stalls, and the other part a well-sup- 

 plied shoe and leather store. 



i was once present at the removing of a large 

 grisl-mill, containing four pair of mill-stot^es, be- 

 sides all the machinery and apparatus necessa- 

 ry for the purpose of carrying on the manufacture 

 of flour for exportation. It was a stout frame- 

 building, of the dimensions of fifty feet by forty, 

 and lour stories high. After it had been some 

 time in operation, it was ascertained that in dry 

 seasons the situation did not command a sufficient 

 head of water; but as the stream had a considera- 

 ble fall, it was obvious that if the mill were placed 

 100 yards further down, the desired fall would lie 

 obtained. To efH3ct this the owner of the mill 

 agreed with an old Yankee to remove it, just as if 

 stood, to its new site, for the sum of onehundred 

 dollars (a little over £20 sterling,) a small sum 

 apparently for such an undertaking ; for if the 

 building or machinery sustained any'damage, the 

 person undertaking the removal was to make it 

 good. Large frame-buildings, like (he one in 

 question, require stout timbers fiir their posts and 

 beams; the principal timbers in this mill were 

 from twelve to fifteen inches square. Besides the 

 four bottom beams or sills which rested on the 

 stotie foundation, there vvere three others of a 

 similar size mortised into the end ones, and equi- 

 distant from each other; so that there were, in 

 fact, five transverse beams on which the lowest 

 floor rested. The first thing to be done was the 1 

 laying down of wooden ways, upon which the 

 building was to travel upon rollers; to accomplish 

 which, five rails of squared timber, at distances 

 asunder exactly corresponding with the founda- 

 tion-timbers of the mill, were properly placed and 

 secured, in lines extendinjr to where a new foun- 

 dation of stone had been already prepared. After 

 this the building was raised perpendicularly, by 

 the means of wedires of hard timber, about eight 

 inches, in order that eight-inch wooden rollers 

 might be placed under the several lower beams 

 and sills; which having been done the wedges were 

 withdrawn, and the' building then rested upon 

 the rollers. The rollers vvere made of hard tim- 

 ber, each about five feet long, and perforated near 

 each end with suitable holes, for the reception of 

 hand-spikes or levers, to be used by the persons 

 employed in the removal of the building. Under 

 each beam were placed lour rollers, so that under 

 the whole five beams, twenty were employed. I 



should have remarked that it was necessary to re- 

 move the bottom floor-planking, in order that the 

 persons employed at the rollers placed under the 

 middle or inner beams mitrht be enabled to work 

 them. Two persons were appointed to each rol- 

 ler, one to each end; and every thins; having been 

 properly fixed, and all the fiirty men at their re- 

 spective posts, the old Yankee captain gave the 

 word "move," when the ILdiric instantly began to 

 advance on its wooden ways. As soon as the 

 rearmost rollers were set at liberty in the rear of 

 the advancing buildins, they were straightway 

 carried forward and placed under the extreme 

 forepart of the beams they severally belonged to. 

 It was found that the power of the forty men sta- 

 tioned at the rollers with their handspikes or le- 

 vers, was amply sufficient to keep the building in 

 motion without any extraordinary exertion being 

 called for; and as there intervened no obstacle in 

 the distance the mill had to travel, in about three 

 hours it had advanced lo its destined resting- 

 place. Having saiely arrived there, wedges were 

 again employed in order to free the rollers, and to 

 settle it gradually on its new foundation. The 

 whole undertaking was completed without the 

 slightest injury occurring to any part of the build- 

 ing or machinery; not a square of glass was bro- 

 ken or cracked in any of the score of windows 

 that belonged lo the various parts of it; not a pin 

 or a nail was sprung or broken. 



From the American Farmer. 

 HYDROPHOBIA IN SHEEP. 



Spriagdale, Fa. 18th March, 1823. 

 Dear Sir, 



The effects of hydrophobia vvere singularly ex- 

 hibited a few years since, on a flock of sheep be- 

 longing to the plantation of my father, in this 

 county. As the facts were at the time perfectly 

 novel to me, and may still be interesting to others, 

 I have thought them not wholly unworthy of a 

 place in your excellent paper. 



In the month of February, 1810, while it was 

 intensely cold, and a very deep snow covered the 

 ground, the flock of sheep were confined in a 

 small enclosure surrounding a fodder house, which 

 served the double purpose of supplying them with 

 food and protecting them fi-om the inclemency of 

 the weather. In this situation they were visited 

 by a dog belonging to one of my neighbors, 

 which, although there had been something rather 

 extraordinary in his appearance and conduct, had 

 evinced no very marked symptoms of hydropho- 

 bia. About day-light in the morning he was dis- 

 covered by the negroes, in pursuit of the sheep 

 in their inclosure ; but on seeing them, and being 

 menaced with a stick, he ran off; but instead of go- 

 ing immediately home he took the direction to a 

 neighboring village, where he bit two cows, and 

 disclosed other marks of unusual ferocity and ill- 

 nature. These circumstances at length excited 

 suspicion of the true nature of his malady, and 

 on his return home, fie was shot. Upon examin- 

 ing the sheep, it was found that 15 or 20 had 

 been bitten, most of them so slightly, that in one 

 instance, only, was it thought that death would 

 probably ensue, merely from the wounds. The 



