... to-day account of the funeril of bis mother. A farmer in the State of New York attacked wild cat when returning home from blackberry He had no other weapon bat the pail of berries, but with it he suoceesfolly beat off and killed the animal. He was bitten ...

... to 16s. per case, 9s. 4s. per half bushel; plums, coloured 18s. to 2Ss. per pot, German switchen Ba. to 12e. per cwt.; blackberries. 2s. fid. to 9s. fid. per 121b.; melons, Bs. to 10s. per case; grapes, 6s. to 10s- per barrel, hothouse fid. to Is. fid ...

... be a run upon the blackberry. It makes the nicest jam or jelly, and when eaten in this form, in peculiar manner, seems to bring to memory, even in the deepest winter, the rural conditions under which it best flourishes. The blackberry is being diligently ...

... has arrived, and visit to the woods in the Coventry district reveals that wild nuts this year are almost as plentiful a« blackberries. We do not turn them so readily to account as the foreign peasants do. They ship them to England in quantities and at the ...

... 10e. to 18s. per pot, French 10s. 6d. to 14s. per case; plums, 4s. to 4s. 6d. per sieve; damsons. 365. to 425. per pot; blackberries, Bs. to 3s. 6d. per 121b.; melons, ss. to Bs, 6d. per case; grapes. 9s. to 10s. 6d. per barrel, hothouse 6d. to Is. per ...

... per pot, French 10s. 14s. per case, Californian Bs. to 10s. per box; melons, 7s. to 9s. per case, Guernsey 4d. to per lb. blackberries, 2s. to 2s. 6d. per 121b.; grapes, Almeria Be. to 11s. per barrel, hothouse sd. to Is. per lb., Murcia 2s. 6d. to 3s. per ...

... cooking Bs. to 12s. 6d. per pot; pears, 7s. to 12s. 6d. per pot, French Bs. -to 14a. per case; melons, 7s. to Bs. per case; blackberries, 6d. Bs. per 121b. ; grapes. Gs. to 12*. per barrel, hothouse fid. to lOd. per lb. ; Murcia. 2s. 3d. to 6d. per box; Bt ...

... footpaths should be peremptorily ordered off the land, as; was the other day under similar circum-i stances when searching for blackberries inanother field. The entrance the field to which I now refer was by gate, bnt no footpath could be discovered, except one ...

... their clothes. They both died from their burns. Cornwall has discovered a new industry, and is sending huge quantities of blackberries to London. Manchester, and Birmingham. The pickers are paid- lid. per lb. In twelve months Yarmouth derived' rever.ne of ...

... months have been fed by the proceeds of blackberry ing, and. perhaps still more, of mushroom gathering, but neither blackberries nor mushrooms are easy to find this autnmn. There is still a chance of the blackberries coming to fullness with occasional warm ...

... themselves readily the very differently constructed English boot. new industry has arisen in Cornwall this antnwn—that of blackberry picking for the markets and jam factories. Tho hedgerows have yielded substantial harvest. From one village alone—Goldsithuey ...

... brought down the acorns, and farmers are turning their pigs into the lanes to feed upon them to the animals' delight. The blackberries are now of coarse quite done with. How it came about it is difficult to say, but in spite of rain and fog and snnless days ...