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Day
30
Month
October
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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Plank Roads. - In coupany with George öeddes Esq., we Inlely enjoyed a ride on the Salem1 and Oentfal Square plank road. This road, in construcling which Mr. Geddes was engineer, was completed during the past year. lts length is filteen miles. - It isdecidedly the most agreeable road to ride over, that we ever saw. The cam'age glides along as smoothly as on the frozen surfuce of a lake or river. The plank are hemlock, eight feet long and three inclies thick ; laid irrrmediateïy on the earlh, which is made perfectly smooth to receive tliem. - Tiiey keep their places without any fastening. On one side of the road tliere is a good ground track, twelve feet wide, exactly level wlil the plank, on which carriages turn out, nnd which in dry weather is a good road. The cost of this rond fincluding bolh the cartli and plank tracks,) was $1500 per mile, ami t is expected the plank will last eight years. A tenm will carry about doublé the we'glit on this road thal it will on the common roads, and a ho-se in a carriage will go aiong at the rateofsixty or seventy miles a dar. In a section where planks can be cheaply rocured, we have no doubt thal these roads will be found profitable. - Albany Culi valor. Cranberreis. - The atter.tiof) of the public having been called to the culture of this delicious fruit, and Mr. Gardincr of Massachusetts, having produced three hundred and twenly bushels to the acre on upland soil, I proceed to give iiis mode of cultivation as foliows: - "I select a piece of cold wet land tliat will keep moist througli the j-ear - remove the top soil to the depth of two inches; this preventsall grasa or weeds f rom growing, and the pían: will require no cuhivation aflcr it is set out. Af;er the top was removed, I harrowed the ground smooth, and marked it out in dïills eighteen inches apart. Sorne I set out on sods fourteen inclies square, placed ín holes a little below the surface. Tliey all flourished far beyond my cxpectalion; the first year they put forth runners three feet long, and evary vino was Ioaded with fruit. The plants can be set out from September to December, and from April to the last of June. - Farmcr's Cabinet. Piiice ot AtTendance on the Sick at Vera Cruz.- The difliculty ofprocuring allendance for the sick at Vera Cruz and elsewhere in Mexico is very great. Lieut. James H. Jones, of Wilmington, Del., slates in a letter, that he was charged by a nurse, for attending on him whlle sick, &6 a day, and by a barber for shaving him, $2. Church Struck by Lküitning. - The church at Walton, near Lincoln, Eng!and, was struck by lightning on Sundav; oneperson was killed and 8 otbers-sliockj ingly woundi?d. The fluid entered by the belfry, and exloded in the body of the building, knocked down a s reat many of the worshippers. Tre Votehs of Connecticut ballotted on Monday, Yes or No, en a proposed nmendment to their Consiilution, which would ei title the colored inlinbitants to equal privileges of citizenship with the white. The returns roceived indícate that the amendment is rejected by a large miijority. We are likelv to have anoiher Mormon agit.ition in tiiis country, 'An el der of isrnel' is demonstraíing to the people of Cincinnati that Joe Smith will rise ogain in three years and a half from tne time of his dealli ; find other

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