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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. V: 



Singular Disturbance of a School. 



In the town of St. Antoinc, department 

 Daubs, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of 

 July 27th, three bulls had been fighting in 

 their pasture. One of them finding himself 

 growing tired, took flight, and being pur- 

 sued by the other two, took refuge in the 

 village school room, at a time when the 

 scholars were all assembled there. Mr. 

 Lepine, the teacher, made vain efforts to 

 drive him out : the bull, pursued by his two 

 conquerors, knocked down the master. A 

 frightful scene then commenced, the furious 

 animals continued the contest with each 

 other in the room where there were forty 

 pupils, upset and broke benches and tables, 

 and even the master's desk. 



The master, though at first terrified by 

 the unexpected scene and the tears and cries 

 of the children, soon succeeded in recover- 

 inc his presence of mind, and selected the 

 only means of safety which was possible. 

 He saved all the children, by taking them 

 from under the feet of the combatants, and 

 putting them through the windows into a 

 garden. For more than two minutes, most 

 of the scholars were prostrated and trodden 

 on by the bulls ; yet they escaped with no 

 injury but bruises. 



The school room, after the bulls left it, 

 exhibited marks of entire devastation, the 

 windows broken, as well as the benches and 

 tables, the teacher's desk, and every thing 

 in it forii ling one heap of ruins. Every 

 one does justice to the devotedness, courage 

 and presence of mind of the teacher. If he 

 had become bewildered and left his charge, 

 many would doubtless have been killed or 

 crippled. — These boys will probably long 

 remember the difference between a B and a 

 bull's foot. — Paris paper. 



Plain Corn Bread. — Six pints meal, one 

 table spoonful of salt, four pints water, tho- 

 roughly mixed with the hand, and baked in 

 oblong rolls, about two inches thick ; use as 

 much dough for each roll as can be conve- 

 niently shaped in the hand. Many use hot 

 water, which in winter, is certainly best, 

 The bread is better to be made half an hour 

 or more, before it is baked ; the oven must 

 be tolerably hot when the dough is put m 

 All kinds of corn bread require a hotter 

 oven, and to be baked quicker than flour. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



AMERICAN HERD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Twelfth Month, 1842. 



It is announced in the last number of the Farmers' 

 Register, published at Petersburg, Va., that at the close 



of the present year, it will pass into the hands 

 Thomas S. Pleasants, Esq., who we have reason 

 believe, is well qualified to sustain the high charac 

 which it has long, and deservedly maintained uri 

 the supervision of the present Editor. Ten of the 1 

 years of his life, have been industriously and laboric 

 ly given to the Register, by our friend, Edmund E 

 fin, and we shall part with him from the edito 

 corps, with sincere regret. He will, we trust, howe 

 carry into private life, the satisfaction of believ 

 that the effects of his labours, will remain to his cc 

 try, long after himself shall have gone the way of 

 the earth. A distinguished Senator of Virginia 

 lately assigned to the " Essay on calcareous manur 

 a high place among the " Agricultural classics" of 

 language, and has publicly declared, that under 

 awakening influence of the able writings, and exp 

 mental demonstrations of Edmund Ruffin, "lower 1 

 ginia is now undergoing one of the most remark! 

 transformations of this age of improvement." Te 

 monials of this nature should not fail to prove a so! 

 in the midst of whatever of disappointment, may n 

 gle in our course, and encourage us to still furthei 

 bor in a good cause. To our friend, T. S. Pleasa 

 we tender a hearty welcome into the Editorial ch 

 and ask leave to express a hope, he may find iteasj 

 well as profitable. 



Through the courtesy of Hon. Wm. C. Rives, Pi 

 dent of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 1 

 we have been furnished with a copy of his " Add 

 at their annual Fair, on the 29th of Oct., 1842." 



There must be something particularly eheering,- 

 calculated to incite to every possible exertion, in 

 reflections of the man who is conscious that hin 

 now occupies the position, which such men as Ja 

 Madison and Gov. Barbour have occupied before 1 

 Men, "who have held the scale of empire," and sei 

 their country in "its highest, and most difficult 

 tions," and have afterwards given the evening oft 

 days to the noble task of elevating their country's 

 riculture, cannot fail to have left behind them, ex 

 pies which it may well become the ambition of t 

 successors, to follow. With the ability to place s 

 men, at its head, we have a right to expect the Soc 

 of Albemarle will not be behind the foremost in 

 vancing those great interests, which it has associi 

 to promote. 



The wholesome influence of this Society is obvi 

 in the general improvement of the county. Instai 

 are given of farms over which the wand of the m 

 cian has passed, and so changed their ruinous, exha 

 ed and delapidated condition, that a person who < 

 knew th,cm five and twenty years ago, would not ] 

 recognize them as the same places, except by their 

 changed geographical position. "No man," it is ju 

 observed, " should be content simply to preserve 

 lands in the condition in which they are. The I 

 should be made rich, and the rich, richer." The pi 

 dent declares he has always found the best applica: 

 he could make of money derived from land, was to 

 turn it back ajain in the shape of improvement, 

 investment of capital, he thinks, can be more safe, 

 generally, none more profitable. But then, money n 

 be expended on land, as on every thing else, judicii 



