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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



JULY 31, 1833. 



MMBMBMMi 



MISCELLANY. 



for the New England Farmer, 

 LOVE AND MAGNANOIITT. 



I'm in love with a lady, who is fairer than May-day, 

 Bui December storms arc not colder; — 



Am ruin'd forever unless I can have her, 

 And so have I forty times told her. 



She declines, I'm declining, none pities my pining, 

 Though grown so amazingly small. Sir, 



That I am at most, but the shade of a ghost, 

 Quintesccnce of nothing at all, Sir! 



Yet the flint-hearted Fair says she should not care, 



If I were as dead as smoked herring; 

 Willi a heart like a feather she would go any weather, 



And dance all the way to my burying. 



Well, since I can't please her no longer I'll tease her, 



Cut look out for some other pretty one, 

 Who, if not quite so killing, is a little more willing 



To condescend kindly to pity one. 



KNOWLEDGE OP LAW FOR FAMILIES. 



LEGAL RELATION OV MAN AND WIFE. 



The effects produced by marriage on the legal 

 rights of the parties are important to be known in 

 every family. 



In law, husband and wife are considered as one 

 person ; and on this principle, all their civil duties, 

 rights and disabilities rest. 



The wife cannot sue in her own name. 

 If she suffers injury, or wrong, in her person or 

 property, she can with her husband's aid and con- 

 currence prosecute for redress ; but the husband 

 must always be the plaintiff. In criminal cases, 

 however, their relations assume a new form ; the 

 wife may in criminal cases, be prosecuted and pun- 

 ished. 



The wife can make no contract with the husband, 

 nor the husband with the wife ; this disability is 

 involved in the'first principle which makes them le- 

 gally oue. But they may contract through the 

 agency of trustees, the wife being under protec- 

 tion of the husband. 



All contracts made between them before mar- 

 riage, are dissolved upon that event. 



The husband cannot convey lands or rent es- 

 tates to his wife directly, but he may settle them 

 upon her through a trusteeship. The wife may 

 release her dower for his grantee. As it respects 

 the right of bequest, the husbaud can always de- 

 vise real estate to his wife. 



Upon marriage, the husband becomes possess- 

 ed of all right and title to her property, whether 

 personal or real ; and at the same time he becomes 

 liable for all debts, and must fulfil all her contracts 

 made prior to their union. 



If the wife die before the husband, and there be 

 no issue, his heirs succeed to her real estate. 



But in case of issue, the husband remains in 

 possession of her lands during his life time only — 

 and at his demise they go to the heirs of his wife. 

 All debts due to the wife become after marriage 

 the property of the husband, who becomes invest- 

 ed with the power to sue on bond, note or any 

 other obligation, to his own and exclusive use. — 

 The powers of discharge and assignment, and 

 change of securities, are involved in the leading 

 principle. 



If he dies before the recovery of the money, or 

 the change of sureties, the wife becomes entitled 

 to the debts in her own right. 



All personal property of the wife, such as mon- 

 ey, goods moveable, and stocks, become absolute- 



ly the property of the husband upon marriage, and 

 on his death to his heirs. 



Property may be secured to the wife, by deeds 

 or marriage settlement, in order to secure to the 

 wife a comfortable competence against the vicissi- 

 tudes of life, or the extravagance, vices, or cruelty 

 of her husband. 



Property may be settled on the wife, after mar- 

 riage, by the husband, provided he be solvent at 

 the time, and not made with a view to defraud 

 creditors. 



The wife cannot demise lands; but any person- 

 al or real estate settled upon her, in trust, she may 

 bequeath ; or any savings from the property given 

 to her separate use. 



The husband is bound to provide his wife with 

 all necessaries suited to her condition in life ; and 

 becomes liable for debts contracted by her for such 

 necessaries, but not for superfluities or extravagan- 

 ces. 



The husband and wife cannot be witnesses 

 against each other, in civil or criminal cases, where 

 the testimony lias the least tendency to favor or 

 criminate each other. 



One exception to this rule exists, where the 

 law respecting the personal safety and life of the 

 wife, permit her to give testimony against her hus- 

 band for her own protection. 



regardless of the laborers, although at other times 

 a single footstep would have alarmed the whole 

 flock, and put them to flight. — Mr. Henri/ Phillips 

 in a Letter in the Hort. Res. .Vo. 16. 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CASH STORE. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, No. 414, Washington Street, 

 (South end) has received a general assortment ol Spring and 

 Summer Goods, among which are 100 cases English. French and 

 American Prints of all prices and qualities — 20 cases Petticoat 

 Robes — 1 case Cambric Muslins, someofwhich are veryfine — 1 

 oase Cotton Cambrics do. do. — lease White Lilesia for lining 

 ladies dresses — 1 ease Hook Binders' Cambrick for do. do. — 3 

 cases do. — 100 cases bleached and brown Sheeting and Shirting, 

 some extra fine — 1 case Marseilles Quilts, from i> to 10 quarters 

 — 5 cases London Rose Blankets, some of a very superior qual- 

 ity and large size — 1 case Hearth Bugs — 4 cases Chapp's spool 

 fi cord cotton, warranted — 200 yards superior qualitj — 5 cases 

 Clark's do. at very low prices by doz. or case — 2000 fancy 

 boxes — a large variety of colored and black French Silks at 

 very reduced prices — 2 cases col'd Battiste — 1 case blackand 

 colored Barage — !■ cases French and Loudon printed Muslins 

 of new patterns and beautiful colors — 2 cases three corded su- 

 perfine Italianettes, black and fashionable colors — 1 case com- 

 mon do — 1 case Plaid Palmgrim's super quality — 1 case Pou 

 de S«.i a genteel article for ladies' summer dresses, 9d per yd 

 — 20 ps super mix'd, drab, and olive Merino Cassinetts for 

 children's summer dresses — 20 ps Rouen Cassimere with a large 

 variety of superfine and fine Broadcloths and Cassimercs — 

 20 bales Pelisse Wadding — 3 cases superior Ticking — 4 cases 

 cheapdo. — 10 cases improved soft finished 4-4 Irish Linen, man- 

 ufactured for the London market and imported expressly for 

 the subscriber. 



The above goods are offered for cash only at prices so ex- 

 tremely low as will make it an object tor purchasers either by 

 piece or yard to call and see. May 29 



INSTINCT OF WILD DUCKS. 



Being engaged in improving the grounds at 

 Iledgerley Park, Buckinghamshire, during the last 

 winter, I was desirous that the laborers should be 

 kept employed in frosty weather, and therefore took 

 the opportunity of collecting a quantity of large 

 roots and stumps of trees which had been grubbed 

 up at various times in the woods and hedgerows ; 

 these were dragged over the ice to an island in the 

 centre of the lake, for the purpose of forming pic- 

 turesque towers and ruins. During this process I 

 was much amused by the movements of a great 

 number of wild ducks on the opposite side of the 

 lake ; where about fifteen or twenty of these 

 aquatic birds were constantly swimming, diving, 

 and violently agitating the water, so as to prevent 

 its becoming congealed by the frost : this they 

 effectually prevented although the ice on the other 

 parts of the lake was sufficiently strong to bear not 

 only the weight of the large stumps of trees, but 

 also that of ten or twelve men, whose labors were 

 necessary to drag them to the island. When these 

 ducks became weary and retired from the water, 

 they were regularly relieved by about the same 

 number of others, which had been nestling amongst 

 the rushes, on the bank ; and these again after a 

 certain time, relinquished their labors to another 

 party, so that the water was kept in a constant 

 state of agitation both night and day, until the 

 frost was over. — I observed, that whenever the 

 fresh party of ducks entered the water, their first 

 object was to swim close to the ice in a semicircular 

 form, so as to entirely prevent it congealing any 

 where within their boundaries ; but what struck 

 mo as the most extraordinary circumstance was 

 that when the well known whistle of the keeper 

 proclaimed the feeding-time, it bad no effect on 

 the ducks then on duty, although the others flew 

 as usual to the spot with their accustomed clamor; 

 a part, however, soon returned to the lake with a 

 loud call for those then in the water to change sit- 

 uations, which was performed with an alacrity and 

 regularity, that would have been a lesson to well 

 disciplined troops. The ducks appeared nearly 



PEMBROKE BUTTER AND TABLE SALT. 



Just received by Schr. Boston Packet — • 



301 barrels and 360 sacks Butter Salt. GG00 loaves Table 

 Salt. 



Abundant evidence is before the public of the quality of this 

 Salt being superior to any hitherto manufactured in any part of 

 the world. As such we wariant it and offer it for sale. 



June 5 CHAS I. CAZENOVE & CO. 



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 15 cents per volume, by leaving them at the Farmer Office. 



July 17 



PARMER'S OWN BOOK. 



For sale at the New England Farmer office the Farmer's 

 Own Book or Family Receipts. Being a compilation of the 

 very best receipts on agriculture, gardening and cookery, with 

 rules for keeping farmers' accounts, &c. Price 50 mils. 



Also, the FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE, by Mrs. Child, dedi- 

 cated to those who are not ashamed of economy,. — a work 

 which should be in every family. Price 50 cents. 



GENTLEMAN'S POCKET FARRIER. 



For sale at the Farmer Office, showing how to use your 

 Horse on a journey ; and what remedies are piopcr for com- 

 mon accidents which may befal him; by F. Tutfucll, Veter- 

 inary Surgeon. Price 15 cents. 



july 17 



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