VOL. XIII. NO. 34. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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The cek-brated Tronchin recommended " Eaii 

 Sucre " for almost every liialady. Dr Fortliergill 

 was very anxious that the price ol" sugar should 

 he siifticiently moderate to render it accessible to 

 the mass of the people. From experiments made 

 by some eminent French surtrccns, it appears to 

 be an antiscoibutic, aud this is confiniiod by well 

 known ficls.* 



Althmifjii sugar lias for so long a time been 

 used in our alimentary pi-eparations, it is only 

 since it has been analyzed by the French chem- 

 ists, that it has become to be considered in itself 

 an alimentary substance. The base of sugar is a 

 glutinous matter, which, iu its proper combina- 

 tion, is extremely pure and perfectly soluble, and 

 consequently iu the most favorable circumstances 

 for easy digestion. It is therefore extremely 

 wholesome and nutritious. Of this there is 

 abundant proof. Duriiig the crop time in the 

 West Indies, all appear fat aijd flourishing ; the 

 cattle which are fed on the cane tops and the 

 SGummings, become sleek, and in better condition, 

 although more worked at that time than at any 

 other. The negroes drink freely of the juice, 

 and the sickly among them revive and become fat 

 and healthy. In China and in India the same 

 beneficial effects are recorded. We are told by 

 Sir George Staunton, that in the former country, 

 many of the slaves and idle persons are frequently 

 itiissing about tlse time that the canes become 

 ripe, hiding themselves and living entirely in the 

 plaotations, 



A writer from ludia observes, " That comfort 

 and health arising to a poor family from a small 

 patcii of sujpircaue, exclusively of what the jag- 

 gry may sell for, can only be known to such as 

 may have •observed them in the time of cutting 

 the canes, and noted the difference in their looks 

 before the crop begins, and a month or six weeks 

 after." 



Tire Cochin Chinese consume a great quantity 

 of sugar; they eat it generally with their rice, 

 which is the ordinary breakfast of people of all 

 ages and stations. 



There is little else to be obtained in all the inns 

 of the country but rice and sugar ; it is the com- 

 mon nourishment of travellers. The Cochin Chi- 

 nese not only preserve in sugar all their fruits, but 

 even the greater part of their leguminous vegeta- 

 bles, gourds, cucumbers, radishes, artichokes, the 

 grain of the lotus, and the thick fleshy leaves of 

 the aloe. They fancy nothing is so nourishing as 

 sugar.. This opinion of its fattening ]n-operties, 

 has occasioned"a whimsical law. The body guard 

 of the king, selected for the ])urpose of |)omp, are 

 allowed a sum of money with which they must 

 buy sugar canes, ami they are compelled by law 

 to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to preserve 

 the embonpoint and good looks of those soldiers 

 who are liouored by approaching so near to the 

 person of the king ; and they certainly do honor 



* A vessel came from the West Indies heavily laden 

 sugar. A calm that had not been foreseen, prolonged 

 Uie passage till all their provisions were exhausted. 

 The sugar was the only resource left to the crew, and 

 nourished by it, they at lengtli arrived safily in port. 

 Some sailors had died of scurvv during the voyage and 

 many were tlireatened with death fruMi the same cruel 

 malady. The scurvy ceased when its victims were, 

 from necessity, reduced to the sugar diet, and the reme- 

 dy was, at the same time, an agreeable aliment. — 

 Le Gazette De Sante, No. xliv. 178.3. 



to their masters by their handsome appearance. — 

 There are about five hundred of them, all equally 

 sleek and plump, being actually fattened by sui,'ar. 

 Domestic animals, horses, buftalocs, elephants, are 

 all fattened with sugarcane in Cochin China. 



Sugar has been found to be an antidote to the 

 l)oison of verdigris, if taken speedily and in abim- 

 dance ; and, unlike many other organic sidi.stances, 

 its nutritious qualities are not liable to change 

 from the operations of time or seasons. — Porter un 

 the Sufcar Cane. 



ITEMS. 



Fat Cattle in Hatfield. — Last week the 

 following animals were weighed in Hatffeld ])re- 

 vious to starting for Urighton : A pair owned by 

 Silas D. White weighed 4,720. Two pair owned 

 by John Hubbard, one pair 4,145, the other 3,075. 

 One pair owned by Harvey Graves, 4,230. One 

 pair owned by James Warner, 4,090. Two pair 

 owned by Roswell Hubbarfl, one 4,950, the other 

 3,805. One pair owned by Levi Graves, 3,565. — 

 J^orthampton Courier. 



PROFITABLE COW. 



A Cow of the dairy of Mrs Elizabeth Sawyer of 

 Sterling, has for the last four years brought calves, 

 which have been sold at the Quincy market, at tlie age 

 of seven weeks, in the month of February each year, 

 at the following prices : 



1832, weighed 130 lbs. - - $ 13 25 



1833, " 118 lbs. - ■ - - 13 78 

 1S34, ■' 125 lbs. - - 13 88 

 1835, " 115 lbs. - - - 13 95 



$54 86 



During the first three weeks of the present year, 

 ten pounds of butter were made from the same 

 cow, and it is believed, had the same care to pre- 

 serve all the milk m former years been taken as 

 has been ilds, as much butter might have been 

 made. 40 lbs. of butter at Is. - - - (;G7 



$01 53 



Cold in Georgia. — The unprecedented cold weather 

 of the past week has nearly suspended all business. It 

 has produced a good deal of sickness, and several 

 deaths. 



The cold on Sunday was without doubt the intenscst 

 ever experienced in Georgia. As slated by oui corres- 

 pondent, the thermometer at daybreak in tliis place 

 stood at two and a half degrees below zero I In JVlil- 

 ledgeville at sunrise it stood at nine degrees below zero ! 

 In Augusta same time at two below. The weather has 

 since considerably moderated. 



The previous warm weather had called out many 

 flowers, and set several of our neighbors to gardening — 

 some of whom had cabbages, peas, &c. out ol' the 

 ground ! — Georgia Tetegrapli of Feb. 12. 



Stage Drivers. — -There is hardly a class of men 

 whose sobriety of habits and carefulness are of more 

 importance to the community than that of stage drivers. 

 So far as our circumscribed vision extends in regard to 

 this matter, the public, around us, are happily |)rovidcd 

 in this respect; — but it seems not to be the ca.se in iiU 

 places. A drunken artizan may spoil the material which 

 you commit to his hands, without endangering your 

 life ; but the stage-driver has often your life and limb 

 in his own hands, and if either they, or his head.' be- 

 come unsteady by inebriety, results may happen from 

 this cause of the most fatal and irreparable nature. 



The following, is a statement of the-iacts connected 

 with the melancholy circumstances which resulted in 

 the death of Mr Bullard, of Boston, some days since, 

 as related in the Concord Freeman of last week. 



" The driver on taking charge of tlie team at Groton, 

 was observed to be not very well capable of manag- 

 ing his team, which was observed by several persons: 

 one of whom leniarked on his incapacity to drive it. 

 It is not pretended tliat he was drunk at the time, 

 Ijut laboring under the stupifijing effects of iiUozication. 

 Af\er the'arrival of the stage at the stopping place in 



Littleton, he there took his glass of grog. Mr Bullard, 

 a proprietor in this line of stages, rode on the box wifh 

 him, and had occasion to rouse him from sleep twice 

 after leaving Groton. Mr 15. was still on the box with 

 the driver when lliey lef\ Littleton ; on arriving at the 

 summit of the hill where the accident happened, the 

 driver was unable to control his team, four spirited 

 horses, and they ran full speed down the hill, coming 

 in contact wit^ Mr Po\verS''s (who strove in vain to 

 give more roomj six-horse loaded wugon — striking first 

 the fore wlieels then the rigging of the wagon, and 

 then the hind wheels, which upset the coach ; the 

 horses, wifh llie fore, wheels wero providentially dis- 

 engaged from the ^tage, ran a short distance together 

 when the leaders broke loose and went on for a mile or 

 two Mr Bullard, liolding on the railing of the coach 

 as it turned over, swung round and and fell under it 

 upon his side. Another passenger upon the box was 

 thrown several feet beyond the coach, and considerably 

 bruised; tlie driver shared a similar fate. After being 

 extricated, Mr B. was heard to attribute the misfortune 

 to a drvniicn drirr.r ; and afterwards added that he was 

 on the point of taking the reins himself when the horses 

 ran. Previous to expiring, Mr B. communicated to 

 those in attendance the facts above stated — whicli we 

 have gathered from those who have investigated the 

 matter, and are ready to corroborate their statement." 

 — Salem Observer. 



New Isstitutio.v for Euccatisg Females. — We 

 see by an arlicle in the Springfield Gazelle, that a nevr 

 (orthodox) Iiistitulion for Educating Females, is about to 

 be eslablislied al South Hadley, in this Stale, on the 

 same plan as the Female Seminary located at Ipswich, 

 in this county, under the care of Misses Grant and Lyon. 

 The writer of the communication in the Gazelle ob- 

 serves : — "Many individuals from "its conunencement 

 watched the developemcnl and influence of the Ipswich 

 Seminary, have long fell a desire to see other institutions 

 established on similar principles so that the admirable sys- 

 tem of moral, inlellectual, and physical discipline there 

 in operation, may not ti rnunale with the lives of its prin- 

 cipals, but be transmitted to posterity." MissLvoN will 

 take ch.irgfi of the new Institution, when it goes into op- 

 eration. The new Seminary at South H.idley is to be 

 called " Pungynaslican Seininary." As tliis name may 

 sound rather queer (says the Editor of the Springfield 

 Gazette) when unexplained, we vv.ill anticipate the wri- 

 ter a liltle by stating, that it is composed of three Greek 

 words, denoting the entire educalion of woman, moral, in- 

 tellectual, and physical. — Salem, Obs. 



Great Fire at Charleston. — Our city which has 

 fur some considerable lime been exempt from fires of 

 any great m.ngnitude, was visited yesterday morning be- 

 tween one and two o'clock by a destructive conflagration 

 which ragee! for thtte or four hours, laying in ruins up- 

 wards of fifty houses, and ilio most venerable and time- 

 honored of our Churches. The most striking feature in 

 this calamity is the destruction of St Philip's Church, 

 commonly known as the Old Church. Twice before 

 Ind this Church escaped when surrounded by fire. In 

 1700 it was preserved by a negro man, who ascended it, 

 and was rewarded with his freedom, for his perilous ex- 

 ertions ; and again in 1610, it narrrovvly escaped the 

 destructive fire of that year, which commenced in the 

 house adjoining the Church Yard on the north. — diaries- 

 ton Courier, Feb. 17. 



Teaching the Dumb to t-'pF.AK. — A paragrajih has 

 been going the rounds of the newspapers, announcing as 

 an astonishing novelty, that the Abbe Janet, of Korinan- 

 (iy, " has succeeded in leaching a person to speak who 

 has been deaf from his nativity." The novelty is now 

 of 3.50 years slaiuling. I'cdro Ponce instructed four deaf 

 mules in Spain to write and speak in 1570, and John 

 Bonnet published tlic method in 1020. In 1(j.5!), Drs. 

 Holder and Wallace succeeded in the same difiicull task 

 in England ; and it has ever since been a regular branch 

 of instruction in that country. The tones of the voice in 

 such persons have always been "singular," and gener- 

 ally " unpleasant." — Jinnals of Education. 



Ga.mbling is Paris. — The French government draws 

 yearly from the fir.lls of the metropolis, a revenue of 

 atujut £220,000 sterling. The keepers of these dens re- 

 alise at least three limes as much, making in all nearly a 

 million sterling; and yet there arc fools who still go to 

 such places to win money. 



Wealth of a Chukcii. — Trinity Church in the city 

 of New York is said to bo^worlh twenty millions of dol- 

 lars; and its capital i.-i constantly increasing. — Sun. 



