NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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we sti-spect that the nervous disorder?, so 

 n ntlributcH to tea, are rather owing lo 

 editarv diseases, to ivant of exercise, and to 

 'gularity in food or sleep, than to tea." 

 )r. Leake, an English physician of celebrity, 

 rts that '• weak lea, drank too hot will ou- 

 ile, and if too strong may prove equally 

 nicious by afiecting the head and stomach. 

 when it is drunk in moderation, and not too 

 m, with a large addition of milk, 1 believe 

 ill seldom prove hurtful, but on the contra- 

 ;ilulary. After study or Axtigue it is a most 

 eshing and grateful repast ; it quenches 

 -t and cheers the spirits, without heating 

 blood ; and the pleasing socitly in zi-hich we 

 'jf/i partake of it is no inconsiderable cidjition 

 rulue ; for tckalcvcr affords rational plcas- 

 o the uiiiiJ will always contribute to bodily 

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addition to the foregoing testimonies in fa- 

 of tea, we can, and perhaps ma^' hereafter, 



the opinions of other eminent men, incluil- 

 Drs. Rush and Cooper. We have time and 

 at present only to say that if tea, as the 

 Raynal observes, has any eflect lo coun- 



t a propensity to the inonlinate use of in- 



ating liquors, it is very patriotic to encour- 



ts consumption in the United States, esp<^.- 

 if it be true, (as we believe it is) that 



?n plant may be successfully cultivated in 



wn territories. 



(to be CONTr.VUF.D.) 



kioikf! 

 lews. 



niilkiif 



iMkipr 



PRODIGIOUS OX ! 

 ondon paper of July 19, advertises lh.it there is 

 een in tliat city the " Lincolnshire Ox, fed 



[light Hon. Lord Yarborough," &c. The live 



of this animal is no Uss than 464 stone, which, 

 ?. a stone is 3712 pounds! ! This ox was a de- 

 nt from the famous Bull Comet, and the Cow 

 Countess, of the improved Short Horns. He is 

 same breed with the Bull Admiral^ belonging 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Society, and of Z>™- 

 I Ccehhs, the former owned by Stephen Williams, 



Northborough, and the latter by Col. Jaques, 

 ■lestown, Mass. The London paper says that 

 .incolnshire Ox was allowed by the best judges 

 ear 40 stone heavier than the famous Durham 

 d is considered the largest, and to have the 

 t proportion of meat ujion the least bone, of any 



submitted to the public." 



stWt 

 to ».i 



FOREIGN. 



We are apprehensive that Spanish Freedom 



lobbting " on its last legs," as the phrase is 



part we can only say that we wish it may re- 

 but have nearly given it over. We expect no 

 m to its funeral, but feel inclined to drop a tear 

 lemory of what it might have been. Ignorance 

 erstition, the plagues of nations as well as of 

 lals, have, we fear, smothered in its cradle this 

 r Promise, the Desire of Nations, and the Oar- 

 etery man, who is not a brute. But there is 

 solation left to the friends of humanity, to wit, 

 laniards do not acquire freedom, it must be be- 

 ley are not worthy of it. They have the pow- 



Si' m'^ ^^'^ ""^ "'"' '" ^^"^"'""^ '*^ Idessings to them- 

 '» '•nd their posti-rily. We are tired of and dis- 

 cirtlff^rith details of the treachery of Spanish lead- 



trs, and the marches of French invaders, over a pros- 

 trate and passive population, who appear to have taken 

 a share of the primitive curse denounced against the 

 serpent " upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall 

 thou eat all the days of thy life." If (hey should ever 

 raise their heads as high as a bl.ack snake in pursuit of 

 its jirey, we will take further notice of them ; till then 



—let them go. 



Porlusal has settled down under her resuscitated 

 ilcspotism as quietly as a setting-hen, and dares not 

 even t xercise the privilege of a goose to hiss at those 

 who annoy her. A Lisbon article of .July 20th, says 

 " thi- monarchy is settled on the most lasting l>asis. 

 The heroic queen is adored, and Gen. Amaranthe and 

 his division idolized," &c. The court has no doubt 

 become a very Pantheon of goddesses, gods, i:c. Di- 

 vinities will swarm, and prove as profitable to those 

 nvi r whom they preside as were the frogs on a certain 

 memorable occasion to the inhabitants of Kgypt. So 

 be it — we shall not waste our paragraphs on trumpery 

 oi that description. 



Bad neips from Africa — A brig lately arrived at 

 this port brings information tliat the American colo- 

 nists at Monrnbia, in Africa, wt re nearly all sick of 

 fever. Dr. Ayres, who went out to assume the srov- 

 ernment, was taken sick a few days after his arrival, 

 and left very ill when the Oswego sailed. The Rev. 

 y\r. Ashmun had partially recovered from his late ill- 

 ness. A fort erected by Capt. Spence had disappeared 

 in a tornado. 



DOMESTIC. 



We have very little domestic intelligence this week 

 worth relating, a circumstance we do not regret, for 

 we have as little room as news. 



The annual Callle Shmn for Worcester Connty is an- 

 nounced in the Worcester papers for the 8th of October 

 next. The Committee of Arrangements, appointed by 

 ♦he Trustees of the Agricultural Society, consists of 

 ihe following gentlemen: Levi Lincoln, Theophilu; 

 '■'heeler, Thomas Chamberlain, .'onathan Davis, Na- 

 than Howe, John W. Lincoln, and Edward D. Bangs 



T.ongerilti. — There are now living in (be vicinity of 

 Matanzas, Cuba, a couple of natives of that place, who 

 have lived in wedlock more than one hundred years. 

 The husband is one hundred and Iwenty-eisrhf. and the 

 wife one hundred and lwentt/-six i/ears. They both en- 

 joy great bodily health, but their mental faculties are 

 impaired. — — 



Mr. George B. English, of Boston, who was several 

 years in the service of the Pacha of Egypt, has return- 

 ed to Europe, with a view of taking part in the Penin- 

 sula war. 



It is estimated in the Arkansas paper, that the dam- 

 age sustained by the planters on the Mississippi in con- 

 sequence of the late inundation, is not less than three 

 millions of dollars. 



Cnunterfeils — Four Dollar Bills of New Hampshire 

 Union Bank, are in circulation pretty well executed, 

 except that the paper is rather darker, and the impres- 

 sion bri»hter than the genuine. A close inspection 

 will readily detect them. 



One of our late English papers mentions as a fact, 

 that a poor woman, with an infant at hi r breast, em- 

 ployed in the grounds of F'-r. Pailey, of Swanscombe, 

 Kent, in podding peas, previous to her daily labors. 

 suckled the child, and l-ft it in a h"dge near where 

 she was at work. On her rrturn some time aft> r to 

 look lor her child, she wa« struck with horror at f nd- 

 ing it dead. With the wretched mother's consent, 

 the child wae opened by a surgeon, and a snal'e found 

 in its stomach. It is surpos;-d. that soon after the 

 mother had suckled the infant, the snake, attracted by 

 the milk remainir? on thechi'd's lips, had entered the 

 mouth and suffocated it.^Gfr»f/'e. 



To Correspondenls — We have received a communi- 

 cation on the cultivating and curing of Hops, which 

 we believe lo be valuable, and will with pleasure give 

 it a place in our next. 



The note signed " A Subscriber," is also received, 

 and we will give all the hiforniadon in our power to 

 afford, relative to the subjects of his inquiry, probably 

 in our next number. 



(t5"Subscribers who have not paid for the first vol. 

 of the Farmer, are requested to forward us the amount 

 due immediately ; and those who wish to save 50 cents 

 must pay for the second vol. by the Ut of October. 



0:5=The following nrtmbrrs of the first volume of the 

 N. E. Farmer arc v.-^nted at this Office, for which a 

 generous price w'l '^e given, viz. — No. 14, 5 copies — 

 No. 38, 2 do No. -ij, 2 do. 



NOTICE. 



f¥^ HE subscribers being about making different ar- 

 A rangemenls in their business, feel under the ne- 

 cessity of calling on those indebted to them lo make 

 payment. All those indebted by Notes previous to 

 the first of July, 1(123, are respectfully requested to 

 pay them ; and all indebt(;d by Book Account are de- 

 sired to settle and close their accounts by notes or oth- 

 erwise without delay. 



(til/" Those whose debts have been of some lime 

 standing must consider this as all the notice necessary 

 previous to collection in the course of law. 



STEARNS .t CREHORE. 



Wallham, Sept. 3, 1G23. 



