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Monthly Chronicle.
in , and ho joined tlie regiment accordingly . It afterwards , however , appeared , that tlie man thus enrolled had four living children , and that he purposely sent three of them into the church-yard to play whilst lie was attested . The point in dispute is , whether the parish of Horningsheath have a right to reimburse the guardians of the poor of Bury for the maintenance of more than the wife and one child ( for which we hear they have tendered payment ) , or whether they are liable to pay for the whole family of the substitute accepted by means of this evasive oath .
At fast Hereford assizes , in an ejectment cause , after along trial , John Thomas , a poor labouring man , recov ered an estate of upwards of 300 I . a year , situate in that county , which he had been kept out of near 20 years by an opulent gentleman . At Warwick assizes , a cause of seduction was tried , Aynge versus Dyer . The defendant was taken into the plaintiff ' s house in a state next to dissolution . With great care and nursing he was recovered ; and in return , he debauched the plaintiff's daughter , a young- girl of sixteen . The Jury gave a verdict , 400 I . damages ,- highly to the satisfaction of the judge and a crowded court . The duty on glove labels has ceased , but all dealers in gloves are to continue to take out licences , or be subjected to the penally ofthe late act .
A r £ \ v SPECIMENS ov SwvHiH . VKG . — Money Lent . — " Persons in want of . money may have the same to any amount , on bond , note , or by way of annuity , at an hour ' s notice . " The parties are not to expect more than one twentieth part ofthe value of their deposit ; and in certain cases may probably be plundered of the whole . Partner Wanted . — " Any person having four or five thousand pounds at his disposal , will be taken into partnership in a lucrative business , where he may , with very little trouble , make 20 per cent , of his capital . " The advertiser , when
he procures the new partner ' s money , becomes a bankrupt : and by fictitious books and fictitious creditors gets his certificate , and sets up in business on the deluded man who sought for 20 per cent . A Wife . — " A gentleman of property may be introduced to a young lady , with a capital fortune at her own disposal . A handsome premium is expected , byway of bond to the advertiser , payable on the day of marriage . " The young lady to be married is a jilt , not worth sixpence , at a boarding-school , where she passes for an immense fortune . The ceremony takes placeand the bridegroom
, is made to pay perhaps roool . for a wife not worth a groat . —Such things are ! : Five Thousand Pounds Wanted — " On landed property , in a registered county . None but principals will be treated with . " The estate is mortgaged for the sum , and the money paid ; but when application is made for the interest , it is discovered that the party who borrowed was not the owner of the estate ; that the whole was a fraud , and that the swindler and money are gone to America .
Aoriictir . TUEE . •—Among Agriculturists it has been a subject of dispute , which ofthe two methods of setting wheat could claim the pre-eminence , whether that of setting the corn in two rows on a Hag , or that in one row only . A Gentleman of Norfolk has given the following statement of an experiment he made to decide the point in question : He set two ridges of land , lying parallel with each other , and cultivated precisely alike , the one with two rows of holes on a flag , the other with one row only ; he then reaped parts of these ridges , each part forty yards in length , and ten in width ; when the produce of the former
was three bushels within half a peck , and of tlie latter three bushels and a quarter of a peck , weighing nine pounds more . Besides the greater quantity of wheat produced , there is asavingof ios . anacre in the expence of seed andsetting . Mr . Foote in his survey ofthe County of Middlesex , made for the Board of Agriculture , represents , that there are kept for supplying-the metropolis and its environs with milk , S 500 cows . Each producing eight quarts daily , is 24 , 820 , 000 quarts in the year . This quantity when retailed at three-pence per quart , amounts to 310 , 250 ! . per annum . It may be mentioned as a remarkable instance of the breed of sheep , that Mr . John Brent , of Binworthy , in Shebcar , Devon , wintered fast year 60
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Monthly Chronicle.
in , and ho joined tlie regiment accordingly . It afterwards , however , appeared , that tlie man thus enrolled had four living children , and that he purposely sent three of them into the church-yard to play whilst lie was attested . The point in dispute is , whether the parish of Horningsheath have a right to reimburse the guardians of the poor of Bury for the maintenance of more than the wife and one child ( for which we hear they have tendered payment ) , or whether they are liable to pay for the whole family of the substitute accepted by means of this evasive oath .
At fast Hereford assizes , in an ejectment cause , after along trial , John Thomas , a poor labouring man , recov ered an estate of upwards of 300 I . a year , situate in that county , which he had been kept out of near 20 years by an opulent gentleman . At Warwick assizes , a cause of seduction was tried , Aynge versus Dyer . The defendant was taken into the plaintiff ' s house in a state next to dissolution . With great care and nursing he was recovered ; and in return , he debauched the plaintiff's daughter , a young- girl of sixteen . The Jury gave a verdict , 400 I . damages ,- highly to the satisfaction of the judge and a crowded court . The duty on glove labels has ceased , but all dealers in gloves are to continue to take out licences , or be subjected to the penally ofthe late act .
A r £ \ v SPECIMENS ov SwvHiH . VKG . — Money Lent . — " Persons in want of . money may have the same to any amount , on bond , note , or by way of annuity , at an hour ' s notice . " The parties are not to expect more than one twentieth part ofthe value of their deposit ; and in certain cases may probably be plundered of the whole . Partner Wanted . — " Any person having four or five thousand pounds at his disposal , will be taken into partnership in a lucrative business , where he may , with very little trouble , make 20 per cent , of his capital . " The advertiser , when
he procures the new partner ' s money , becomes a bankrupt : and by fictitious books and fictitious creditors gets his certificate , and sets up in business on the deluded man who sought for 20 per cent . A Wife . — " A gentleman of property may be introduced to a young lady , with a capital fortune at her own disposal . A handsome premium is expected , byway of bond to the advertiser , payable on the day of marriage . " The young lady to be married is a jilt , not worth sixpence , at a boarding-school , where she passes for an immense fortune . The ceremony takes placeand the bridegroom
, is made to pay perhaps roool . for a wife not worth a groat . —Such things are ! : Five Thousand Pounds Wanted — " On landed property , in a registered county . None but principals will be treated with . " The estate is mortgaged for the sum , and the money paid ; but when application is made for the interest , it is discovered that the party who borrowed was not the owner of the estate ; that the whole was a fraud , and that the swindler and money are gone to America .
Aoriictir . TUEE . •—Among Agriculturists it has been a subject of dispute , which ofthe two methods of setting wheat could claim the pre-eminence , whether that of setting the corn in two rows on a Hag , or that in one row only . A Gentleman of Norfolk has given the following statement of an experiment he made to decide the point in question : He set two ridges of land , lying parallel with each other , and cultivated precisely alike , the one with two rows of holes on a flag , the other with one row only ; he then reaped parts of these ridges , each part forty yards in length , and ten in width ; when the produce of the former
was three bushels within half a peck , and of tlie latter three bushels and a quarter of a peck , weighing nine pounds more . Besides the greater quantity of wheat produced , there is asavingof ios . anacre in the expence of seed andsetting . Mr . Foote in his survey ofthe County of Middlesex , made for the Board of Agriculture , represents , that there are kept for supplying-the metropolis and its environs with milk , S 500 cows . Each producing eight quarts daily , is 24 , 820 , 000 quarts in the year . This quantity when retailed at three-pence per quart , amounts to 310 , 250 ! . per annum . It may be mentioned as a remarkable instance of the breed of sheep , that Mr . John Brent , of Binworthy , in Shebcar , Devon , wintered fast year 60