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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[Sept. 16, 



MISCEXiIiANXES. 



From the Rockingham Gazette. 



THE AUTUMN EVENING. 

 Behold the western evening light, 



It melts in deepening gloom ! 

 So calmly Christians sink away 



Descending to the tomb. 



The winds breathe low — the withering leaf 

 Scarce whispers from the tree 1 



9o gently flows the parting breath 

 When good men cease to be. 



How beautiful on all the hills 



The crimson light is shed .' 

 'Tis like the peace the Christian give? 



To mourners round his bed. 



"How mildly on the wandering cloud 



The sunset beam is cast ! 

 'Tis like the memory left behind 



When loved ones breathe their last. 



And now above the dews of night 



The yellow star appears 1 

 So faith springs in the heart of those 



Whose eyes are bathed in tears. 



_But soon the morning's happier light 



Its glories shall restore ; 

 And eyelids that are closed in death 



Shall wake to close no more '. 



Ancient Living. — The following is an extract 

 from the journal of the celeliraled Elizal)elli 

 Woodville, previous to her marriage with Lord 

 Grey. She was afterwards Queen to Edward 

 IV, and died in confinement at Southwark, under 

 Henry VII. in 1486. It is taken from an ancient 

 manuscript, preserved in Drummond castle, and 

 communicated to the public by Lady Brother 

 ham :— 



Monday, A. l\\. — Rose at 4 o'clock, and milk- 

 ed the cows with Catharine. Rachel, the other 

 dairy maiil, having scalded her hand in so had a 

 manner the day before. Made a poultice for 

 Rachel, and gave Roliin a penny to get some- 

 thing from the apothecary- 



Six o'clock. — The buttock of heef too much 

 boiled, and heef a little nf ihe saltesl. 



/ Seven o^lock. — Went into the paddock, behind 

 my house, with my maid Dorothy ; caught 

 Thump, the little pony, myself, and rode a mat- 

 ter of six miles without saddle or bridle. 



Eight o'clock. — Went to walk with the lady, 

 my mother, into Ihe court yard ; fed 'ib men and 

 women; chid Roger severely for expressing some 

 ill-will for attending us with some broken meat. 



Ten o'c/oc/.'. — Went to dinner. John Grey a 

 most comely youth ; but what is that to me ? a 

 virtuous maiden should be entirely under the di- 

 rection of her parents. John ate but little, and 



Eleven o''clock. — Rose from the table — the 

 company all desirous of walking in the fields. 

 John Grey would lift me over every stile, and 

 twice squeezed my hand with great vehemence. 



I cannot say that I should have any objection 

 to John Grey; he plavs at prisonbars as well as 

 .iny of Ihe countrymen ; is remarkably dulilulto 

 his parents, my lord and lady ; and never misses 

 church on Sunday. 



Three o''clock. — Poor farmer Robinson's house 

 burnt down by accidental lire. John Grey pro- 

 l)osed a subscription among the company, for the 

 relief of the farmer, and gave no less than four 

 pounds with this benevolent intent. 



Mem. — Never saw him look so comely as at 

 this moment. 



Foxir 0'' clock. — Went to prayers. 



Six o'c/oc/r. — Fed Ihe hogs and poultry. 



Seven o^clock. — Supper on the table, delayed 

 till that hour on account of farmer Robinson's 

 misfortune. 



' Mem. — The goose pie loo much baked, and 

 pork roasted to rags. 



.ViHco"c/oc/.-.--The company fist asleep: these 

 late hours disagreeable. Said my prayers a se- 

 cond time — John Gray disturbed my thoughts 

 too much the first time. Fell asleep and dream- 

 ed of John Gi'ey. — London paper. 



stole manytender looks at me— said women would vault two hundred 



Singular property/ of a Cellar. — The following 

 curious article is extracted from a volume of 

 travels in Russia and Sweden, by Mr. llolman, 

 the blind traveller, and just published in Lon- 

 don : — 



" I went over tlie colehrated Wine Cellar 

 and the Lead Cell, so called <5n account of the 

 lead used for the Cathedral having formerly 

 been placed in it. It has the singular property 

 ol preserving from decav, or <lecomposition, 

 any animal matter that is deposited in it ; and 

 from the many bodies that are consequently to 

 he found here it might net una|iily be termed 

 the " Dead Cellar." This property is said to 

 have been accidentally discovered from some 

 poultry having been left in it, and forgotten, 

 and which were afterwards found in an uncor- 

 rupted state, with the jiiices dricil up. A Swe- 

 dish princess happening to die about this lime. 

 It was delern)ine(l to place ihe body in the 

 vault, wilh a view of |ireserving- it until the 

 directions of her family could be received as to 

 its lin.il disposition. It [)roved that her rela- 

 t'\es <lid Tiot think her worth a funeral, nor did 

 the senate feel desirous to incur the expense 

 of one suitable to her rank; and therefore it 

 was determined to let her remain in statu qvo, 

 and which she has now done for three hundred 

 years. Since this time oilier corpses have 

 been defjosited in this cellar. Amongst the 

 rest, a pli.tmber, fifty years of age, who fell from 

 ofl" the ste.^ple, and severed his head fmni his 

 body ; this is said to have lain three hundred 

 years ; an .English countess, eighty years of 

 age, belonging to the Stanhope family, who 

 lied of a canoftr, and which has been in the 



are also various other bodies preserved here. 

 The whole formerly lay carelessly on the 

 ground, but of late more decency has been ob- 

 served, each body having been placed in sepa- 

 rate chesls. I examined some of them with great 

 attention, and found the skm resembling coarse 

 hard leather, under which, on making pressure, 

 might be perceived Ihe vacancies left by the 

 drying-up or evaporation of the liuid parts. — 

 The hair was firm on the scalp, and the teeth 

 and nails in a perfect state, (he eyes dried up 

 and deeply sunk into the orbits, and the nose 

 like a double nose, from the cartilage, at its con- 

 nection with Ihe ossa nasi, having sunk doivn to 

 a level with the face. There was ;i Muscovy 

 duck in full plumage, which retained all its origi- 

 nal beauty; and also a cat, that WflS supposed 

 to have got in accidentally, and which lies coil- 

 ed up as if asleep ?" 



The Canal. The excavation of (he canal goes 

 briskly on. F.very thing is bustle and activity a- 

 long the route, and all is as it should be. A large 

 s(mi will be expended on the work this season, 

 which no doubt will gladden the hearts and fill 

 the pockets of ihe farmers of the county of Hart- 

 ford, where the first section is to he completed. 

 Ami even our rival-sister, the city of Hartford, 

 on»ht to put on a smile of satlsfaciion, for much 

 1 of the money expended will no doubt find its way 

 into the coffers of her merchants, mechanics and 

 lave rn-k e e pe rs. — .\ew-Haven Register. 



A countryman going into Ihe office in Doctor's 

 Commons where all the wills are kept, surprised 

 to see such a number of large volume*, and in- 

 quired if they were Biblesi "No, sir,"' replied 

 one of the clerks, "they are Testaments.''' 



The trne vse of learning, .\rislippus said, that 

 the only fruit he had received from his philoso- 

 phy, was to speak jdainly to all the world, and 

 j to tell freely his thoughts of things. 



A petulant old lady having refused a suitor to 

 her neice, he expostulated wilh her, plainly to 

 divulge her reasons. '1 see the villain in vour 

 face,' said she. 'That is a personal rejleclion, mad- 

 am,' answered the lover. 



never be handsome in his opinion who were not 

 good tempered. I hojie my temper is not bad.'no- 

 body finds fault with it but Uoger, and lie is the 

 most disorderly nian in the whole familv. John 

 Grey likes white teolh — my teeth are of a pret- 

 ty good color. 1 think my hair is black as Jet ; 

 and John, if 1 mistake not, is of the same opin- 

 i»n. 



years ; a Swedish genera! 



and his adjutant, who were killed near Bremen 

 during (he seven years' war ; a cannon shot 

 wound in the side o.t'the latter is yet visible ; — 

 also a student who fell in a iluel about the same 

 time ; the wound of the sabre is still percep- 

 tible on (he lef( shoii.Uler, and (he silken b.uid 

 of the garland made by his (air friend.'*, in token 

 of his unfortun.ate fate, yet remains. — Tiiere 



The London European Magazine contains an 

 article contrasting "The English labourer and 

 American Slave," and giving a preference to the 

 condition of the latter ! 



Want of Employment. — The Jews have a pro- 

 verb, "that be who breeds not up his son to some 

 occupation, makes him a thief," — and the Arab- 

 ians say, " that an idle person is the devil's play- 

 fellow." 



The following toast was drank at Harkensack 

 on the 4th of July ; — " Old Bachelors — May ihey 

 be compelled to cut out (heir own clothes with 

 a half pair of scissors, all the days nf llieir lives.'' 



g71 fAliSO.\S & CO. city Furniture waithouse, 

 .M^J^ Union Street, near the Union Stone, keep con- 

 staiiliy on liand for sale, a general assorln'cnt of furni- 

 ture, chairs, looking glasses, feathers of all kinds, (Ire 

 sets, brushrs, litllows, &c. &c. 



(j^' .'ublished every Friday, at '1 hrj-.e Uoi.i.ars„ 

 |i( r annum, payable at the end of the year — but those 

 wlio pay within tirfi/ dni/s from the time of subsciibinf 

 will be entitled to a deduction of !• iiTV Cknts. 



