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VOLUME VIII.
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CHARLOTTE, N." Cm FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1879.
NUMBER 40
jrknltrwe.
Hints cn Cotton Culture.
doced, at the same time, oar fatnre op
erations, in this direction, need be of no
uncertain character. Oar Home Jour
nal. ;. ;
For the Southern Home.
Seme Queries About Our
Eoad System
the
The cotton planter will Boon begin his
,PDarfttioDS for the crop of 1879, and, in
- Kfl jgCe of low prices short crops, onre
v hie labor, and numberless other petty
i !D0Tftuce8, he will plant the. regulation
Inmber of acres, hoping that some lucky
tnro of ionuuo a ..... v.vnu u.o
hors with success.
Orators at agricultural fairs, and wri-
rsfor agricultural journals would nake
s believe tbat cotton planting must be
!b&odoued; that the markets of the
v0rld are overstocked, and wll be, 'for
veara to comer and finally, they assure
3 with eloquently rounded periods, that
we poor devils, cannot ' grow the staple
.uln enoueh : that the semi civilized
habiunt'of India and Egypt w'ill hereaf
ter hold the winning card in the great
ame of cheap cotton production.
AH of this, we respectfally submit is
. bTbe South can and will produce the
bulk of cotton to De consumed by
The Field Pea-
great
millions of the world for 'all
hn teeming
jg to come. No where else can so fine
. amnio be produced, and. in no other
couutry are all the requisites of the soil,
climate and transportation so happily
combined as here. We can produce
enormous crops, if we will ; we can pro
dace them cheaper than any other coun
try if we so determine. There is no
.dttDger of glutting the market with a
good article at a low figure, and this
tbeapnesB of production is now the great
problem to be solved.
Certainly it will not pay to grow cot
ton as the only crop. It is suicide to do
go and the same may be said of nearly
every product of the soil. A diversity of
crop renders the farm prosperous ; the
reverse produces disaster. Shall we
cot then consider, as an initial point well
taken, that cotton must be planted as a
diversity and not as a sole crop? Let
the farmer provide for his corn, hay, oats
and other grains at home. Let his ba
con be procured from his own yards, his
beef a&d mutton from his own pastures.
Let his garden be ample in area and pro
lific by liberal manuring, and perfect
culture. If these measures are adopted
and rudiciously carried out, the future of
the farmer is divested of some of its
f present discouragements.
Now it baB been too much the practice
to plant a given number of acres, regard
less of means to fertilize properly, of la
bor to cultivate thoroughly, and of extra
help to pick the crop in season when
made. These errors should be avoided.
Cotton land should be made ' rich: It
will pay to make it so, hot perhaps by
the purchase of expensive fertilizers, ot
doubtful value, but by the liberal appli
cation of manures made by home labor,
at leisure hours, and from materials
which cost nothing but the time required
to get them together and compost, them.
You have nothing ottbe kind? Tnen,
my dear sir, you will not make your pile
this year be assured.. Begin right now
to prtp&re food for future crops and do
not be penurious about the time so ex
pended or the amount so collected.
Far too little attention is given to the
cultivation of the cotton crop. Consid
ering its importance, this slack, culture is
a matter of astonishment to every think
ing farmer. Old habits and old customs
seem to have such a firm bold that any
deviation lrom the long traveled path is
next to impossible. , The necessity for
more thorough culture will doabtlesaretim
, date our more progessive farnvers to in
augurate radical cnanges.'
A ball tongue, scooter, nigger and a
mule, turned into a cotton field to work
as their inclinations dictate, is not the
kind of cultivation the crop deserves. It
will amply repay generoufc, intelligent
and continued attention.
- Scarcely any attention is paid by the
great mass of our farmers, to the seed
they plant. They seem' to think that if it
germinates if a good stand is obtained,
that is all that can be desired in this di
rection. A greater mistake never was
made. The difference in quality of seed
is as much as a bale per acre, or a liberal
profit. Everybody who reads, ' knows
bow every kind of ifraia, rootsetc, have
been improved during. the last . ten years
And cotton has received a
of attention. We have on our table be
fore ub three varieties of samples, in the
production of which, the originator ha&
Deut roans of wlnahl tim. and
lie richly deserve to be ranked as a ben
efactor of tne South for bis efforts and
- In another place will be found the re
sult of an experiment with the black field
pea, and oolnmns of testimony of the same
sort eould be given, did wet not know tbat
farmers generally are aware of , the high
value and utility of this legume, either as
a provender for stock or as an improver
of the soil. The trouble is, farmers will
not diversify their cropB enough they
won't have but one . egg-basket,, and every
ovum they get they, put into thaW Now,
the field pea, qf cow "pea a some call it,
has been grown in these parts to some ex
tent time out of mind, and farmers know
their value, but . somehow they always
manage to get in so much wheat, cotton,
tobacco, &c., that they don't have time to
look after small things, and hence the
pea is neglected. This is a serious mis
take There is no crop that will succeed
with so little cultivation and care, and on
such thin land; and when we count the
many uses to which it can be put on tne
farm, together with the fact tbat it (the
pea) always commands ready sale in the
market at a fair price, it will be seen that
it fairly challenges a place among the sta
ple productions of our section. It cer
tainly should receive more attention from
farmers than it appears to be doing at
the present time. We name some of its
advantages :
It will thrive on any kind of soil with
lesB cultivation than any other crop, oats
not excepted. By Bowing early and late,
two crops can be made on the same land
the same year. The entire plant (stem,
leaves, pod hull, and seed,) makes excel
lent feed for oattle and sheep; the plant
without the seed is good for horses and
moles; and the peas are first-rate for
hogs, tuikeys, and poultry generally, and
also good and accepted food for man. The
entire plant is- good to feed something,
and the amount that an acre yields makeu
if a very profitable crop. Again, the crop
may be sown broadcast, or cultivated as
corn, or grown between the corn without
any cultivation except that given to the
corn. From two to four tons of a good
hay can be grown to the acre when sowed
broadcast, and the method ot caring it is
quite simple.
Bat it is as a cheap and rapid improver
of worn soils that it is most useful per
haps. A single crop of it, turned under
in the green state, followed by marl or
lima in the fall will render almost any
field profitably productive the next sea
son, and fit to grow anything yoa may
deeire to raise. Considering the heavy
expense and labor of making and hauling
compost or farm pen manures, it is real
ly surprising that farmers do not make a
mnch larger use of it as a fertilizer tnan
they do." We know of no method by
which a farm may be made fairly pro
ductive at so little cost in money, time, or
labor as by utilizing the field pea for ma
nure. At a time when the means of the
farmer for purchasing the commercial
fertilizers are so limited, it would be
greatly to his advantage, we think, to
grow this crop somewhat largely the
present year. Whether yoa grow it as
an improver- of land, a provender for
Stock, or for the market it will pay yon
almost as well as anything' else. Rural
Messenger.
That oar roads are, and for a long time
have been in a tad condition, all admit,
and many lament. Why does this con
tinue to be so 7 Is our system, if sys
tem it may be called, the best whiih
could tee adopted? Is it jast and equal.?;
For the defense of the ootantty'aT
military system requires, if needed, the
service of every able boiied man', from i
to 45 years of age. For making a way for
travelling and for the transportation yt
orodnee from farms and factories, our
road evstem rea aires the
blows, herself up while encouraging t
fire with kerosene, keep right On eati
just m f Wo" had never fkeroi sene it.'
, in ever help you rseu to articles of food
with your knife or fork. Use a" harpoon
or a lasso.
Ji Facts and Ftm. "
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Our greatest glory consists not in nev
er railing, nut in rising--every time we
fall. r ' s-. :
,. . . lit,- llni. it.r . . , . Vi-
.When Tyoi have finished your meal, lay "lT?
into. ' - v
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he same mf".UUb slush.-WWnft aint freeain, it's
holds-them in service five jerir -iw 2! trfnTriS-Hldr eTahd d(
POTATO GROWING.
We desire particularly to impress po
tato raisers whh the importance of mel
low soil, abundant fertilizers and a good
cultivation for this crop. They luxuri
ate in a virgin soil- ju6t redeemed from
the forest and abounding in light half
mold. A friend in a neighboring moun
tain town, who has a large forest farm,
as be clears up his woodland puts in po
tatoes as the first crop, and secures im
mense crops' of the -best quality. Few,
however; are situated as he id, and the
next best thing is to mace tne poi.aw
patch as much like virgin soil as possible.
This can be done by the liberal applica
tion of muck or leaf-mold, with a liberal
sprinkling of wood ashes. Neither is
barn-yard manure such a damage to po
tatoes as during the prevalence of the rot
was apprehended, and pernaps justly a
tbat time. Of late years we have drawn
Rat! m.rk th diftarefceef b$lt6
systems I "Who goeth a warfare" "at his
own charges ?" The' property of the
country to be defended, has to feed and
clothe and arm and pay the soldiers, and,
when necessary, to doctor and nurse and
bury them. But, aocording to the other
system, every able-bodied man goes a
road-working at his own charges must
find his own implements and rations, and
receive no pay, as-if every" man alike-was
interested in having good roads. But
that everv man is not alike interested,
may be made very evident by illustrations:
One man has land and plows and mules
and feed, and he hires ten hands. If he
farms reasonably well, one-third of the
produce will pay his hands liberally. Now
for what does he and they need good
roads? Is it not that they may haul
their surplus produce to market, and haul
back such supplies as they cannot pro
duce ? Then is it not obvious tbat be
has twice the Interest in having a good
road that all his ten hands together
have? or twenty times the interest that
any one of them has? Yet he may be
over age, or technically, not an able
bodied man. and therefore do no work at
All.
Another man has a store, distant from
Charlotte three days drive. There is
very little money around he does a bar
ter business. Every week his wagon
makes a trip to the city with produce, and
hauls bav,k a little stock of such goods
as are in demand. At . the end of the
year the little business " nets up a clear
gain of $800. He paid the driver $10 per
month, oat of which' be saves $80. The
driver, being an able-bodied man, must
wora on some roaa nui u eujpiujo,
having a ballet in his leg, or a crooked,
rheumatic arm, neither of which in the
least disqualifies him for his business,
works no road at all, though his wagon
passed over a long one, one, hundred
times in the year.
It may be said thafc . oars is the system
of oar forefathers, and that it worked
pretty well. But, look here I is it the eys
tern of oar latners i a. s uwuu
acres which he and his children worked,
and he worked on the road. His neigh
bor, C D-, owned 500 acres which he
worked with ten male slaves and Borne
women and children. He and his ten
men servants an penurmou
be did have ten or twelve times the pro
dace to haul over the road, he contribu
ted labor in about the same ratio, lhe
working was distributed to the produce
which demanded the road far more
equitably than now. Capital and labor
then had the same owner. But now they
are divorced, yet the forms of law impose
the road duty on the labor and let the
capital go free. Are the people ready
for a change ? to abolish the existing laws
and to impose on both capital and labor
an equitable road tax ? The commis
sioners should have power to prescribe
how the roads should be worked; to ai
vide them into sections; to let them out to
the lowest bidder, who would be required
to give bond and security that he would,
for a given time, put and keep his section
in ih nonaition prescribed. It' would be
convenient for many farmers to take con
tracts; and under them many laborers
could work out their road tax. When
the ground would be too wet to plow at
home, the contracting farmers could put
their plows and males on the roads, and
with the same labor do far more work
than can be done on the hard roads in
Ausust, the usual timeof working.
Let the people inma uu ti. uu
your knife and fork and your " plate side
Dy siae, wun tne nanates towaras tne
right, jt little js&uth by sou west, bearing
northerly, when VbV wind is off., the side
board jqqarter .-Cincin'ti Slnrd ay Night .
vn&U ir$ and; his Children-
: -i :'Ailt Constitution
Every'wherA.jti mud and -mire, and
tbawin
.W.o?SKi3drai4 ags track
iuud all over the. house. We can't keep
em in and we can't keep em out. The boys
have got traps set in the swamp, and are
A man was taken up lately for robbing
his fellow lodger. , , said be commenc
ea oy cbeatin utbe, printer, andi;after
thfr ,everJfJ'biing ,. rasoallyVcjams tasy Jtd
him. J ' .. i
During the examination of a witness as
to the locality of the stairs in a house,
.ine counsel asaea bim; " Woich way did
in jBiairs rin-r;: iho 'witness, .a toted
wag, replied that, " One way they "run
up stairs, but the other way they rnn
down stairs." The learned counsel wink-
OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE.
- otJR ASSORTMENT LARGER THAN EVER.;; . 7. i i l ,'i
OUR PRICES iLESS THAN ANY
A fine
and well
assorted stock of
IMff
obliged to go t em every fifteen minutes, I ed his eyes, and then took a look, at the
and it they catdh a bird, It s as big a ceiling.
Table Etiquette-
a rotten potato is now a curiosity.
The potato is emphatically a potash
nlant. as is plainly indicated by its ash,
cent, potash." Wood ashes are therefore,
a specific in their cultivation. Regard
success in the improvement of our staple I should always be had to the character of
product. We have submitted these earn- I the soil. A No. 1 article must not be ex-
ples to several of our most expert classi- I pected on cold clay sou. A good formula
'.vers, and thev are unanimous in aeciar
lug that tbey are. exce'ptipnably fine and
wprthyof attention. , There are may va
rieties of improved seed, some one oi
which should be planted by every farm
er who really desires to increase produo
tion'and lessen cost.
When the cotton crop is fairly made
and the picking the harvest begins,
b&t a world of waste there is, even on
our best regulated" plantations. Nor is
this waste the only misfortune. Irres
ponsible and shiftless bands pick a great
deal of trash which cannot be separated
from the staple, and becoming more and
tooreymixed at every handling. A care
lens worker lessens the value of the lint
he picks in a day, more tbau his services
re worth in a month. Everybody knows
that a good, clean, bright bale of cotton
is worth more than a stained, trashy one
from the Bame field.
We do' not nronose that , we can ex
haust this subject in the restricted spaoe
allowed a newspaper article. We can
only hint at reforms. Every thinking
farmer can manage the details to suit
his own : particular case. Everybody
will agree tbat something must be. done,
r cotton culture will have to be aban
doned. There are as many opinions as to
what should be done as there are persons
engaged in cotton production. We res
pectfully submit -that any' .'and all at
- tempts to force the world to purchase
the staple at our figures, will result in a
disastrous failure. We also submit that,
as it is in our nower to lessen the cost of
ptoduction and inoease the amount pro-
RrAad ahnnld be broken, not cut ; but
merited share freely on the barn-yard for this crop, and jf u ont ie bread "cut," break it. In
"breaking breaa use a euro uiu.
Do not fill your mouth too full ; rather
allow some to get into jour moustache.
Split a biscuit with your fingers, in
stead of opening it with your knife .U"'
an oyster. If the biscuit bo nard, a
beetle and wedge are admissible in the
best society.
Do not pick your teeth at the table.
Pick them at the dentist's, if he has a
good assortment to pick from.
Salt should never be put on the table
cloth, but on the side of your plate. If,
however, you want to pickle the table
cloth in brine, you must put salt on it, of
course. A barrel of salt table cloth
would come in play, should your pork
atve out during tne winter.
Do not rattle your knife and fork. The
knife and spoon will be found more musi
cal.
Eat your soup from the side of yoer
spoon, either inside or outside.
Do not take game in your fingers.
This, however, does not apply to a game
of cards. . , , ' ,t
Do not rest your arms on the table
cloth. Stack your arms in a corner of
the room before beginning dinner. '
When asked what part' of the fowl y oa
nrefer. answer promptly.' If yoa want
the whole oi it, dou t hesitate to say
so.
" Do not drink with the spoon in'J yonr
cup, put it in your pocket. Forgetting
it, you will be so much ahead.
' It is bad taste for the host and hostess
to finish eating before their guests. It
is better to move their chairs so as to fin
ish behind them. ''""".
Never leave the table until yori 'are
through, without sufficient excuse. 1 The
sudden en tranoe of a policeman with 'a
warrant for your arrest is generally 'con
sidered sufficient excuse in poiUe . cir
cles. Pay no attention to accidents or blun
ders on the part of servants. If Bridget
thinz as ketchine an elefant. They built
a brick furnace in the back yard, and
have been cooking on it for two days,
bakih hoecakes and frying eggs, and boil
in coffee, and their ttfflicted mother has
mighty near surrendered ; for she can't
keep a skillet, nor a epooo, nor a knife
nor a plate in the kitchen, and so she
tried to kick the furnace over, and now
she goes about limpin with a sore toe.
Some of the older ones have found ' a
chalk quarry in a ditch, and have taken
a notion to drawin aud sculpture, and
made pictures of dogs and chickens and
snakes all around the house on the out
side ; and while the good mother was a
cookin, the two younger ones chalked over
the inside as good as tbey could. Tne
mantel piece and jams and doors and
oedsteads and sewin machine and winder
glass, were all ring streaked and striked,
and as I couldent do justice to the sub
iect myself, I waited for reinforoements.
When the materbal ancestor appeared, l
was peepin through a crack in the dool
She paused upon the threshold like an
actor playing a bigb tragedy in a theatre.
"Merciful fathers 1" Then a long and sol
emu pause. "Was there ever such a set
upon the face of the earth ? What shall
1 ao? Aint it enough to rnn anybody
distracted? Here I've worked and work
ed to make this bouse look decent, and
now look at it 1 I've a good mind to
ring your little necks for you 1 Did ever
a mother have such a time us I have.
Can't leave one pinute, but what they
are in to some misohief, and it's been the
same thing over and over with all of em
for the last 29 years. I'd rather been an
old maid a thousand times over. I wish
there wasent a child in the world yes I
dot" LookB at era .mournfully tor a mo
ment. Codb hevJessie, you little-pale
faced darling." tamma ain't mad with
you ; no yoar'e jesft the sweetest thing in
the world ; and poor little Carl's broken
finger, it makes; my heart ache, every
time 1 look at it. He did have the sweet
est little hand before that boy mashed it
all to pieces with his maul ; and there's
tbat great scar on his head where the
brick tell on him; and another over the
eye where he fell on the hatchet. I
wonder if I ever will raise you poor little
things ; yoa look like jittie orpans ; take
your chalk and mark some more if you
want to. When I. came in, she was help
in em make a boo tail dog on the closet
door, "I've found your old torn cat.,"
aid I, "Carl had him fastened up in thai
uail keg that's got a hen's nest in it."
Why, Carl, what upon earth did you put
the cat in there for ?" "Why mamma be
is a setting, and I wanted him to lay
some little kittens. Ale aud Jessie wants
bom little kitteoa."
"Well, it does look as if everything was
born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
The old spotted sow has eat up bait of her
pigs, and the potatoes are rotting, and
Daisy has gone dry, and we will have no
m,.r hnttnr till onriDc. "William had
eu't you better buy a lottery ticket ? who
knows but what we might draw the cap
Hal pnae? I tell you, I'm getting awful
tired of bemg poor. " "iJieesea are m
meek," said I, "lor they shall inherit the
earth.'' 240 acres of this earth is as
much as 1 want," Baid Mrs Arp, and more
too. I'd ratner have a few carpets, and
some nice clothes, and a oarriage and
horses, and two or three old fashioned
darkies to do the work and look after the
children that's what I want." "Blessed
are the poor in spirit," said I, for theirs
ia the kinedom of heaven." "Well, I'm
poor enough in spirit, goodness knows, '
naid she : "and when everything is quiet
nrf t ne children asleep, there's a comfort
in raadinir about d'staut blessing
sw werrreach Berenity to
iian going over Niagara falls as to
nf meekness to a mother tbat s raising
thBA kind of children." "It's in the
t "Twenty years ago," said a colored
philosopher, "niggers was wuf a thou
sand dollars . apieoe. Now dey would be
dear at two dollars a dozen. It's ' ston
ishin ' how de race am runin down."
A man can fasten-skates on his sister
in much less than half the time he can fix
a pair on some other fellow's sister;." Why
is inis t tf igare it out and send ub the an
swer on ice. Brunswick News, i That's
easy enough, it's because he would let
is siBter slide before ' the other gifL
Tulare (Cal) Times.
A meddlesome old woman was sneer
ing at a' young mother's aw'kwaidnesn
with her infant, and said: I declare a
woman ought" never to have a baby un
less she knows how to hold it!" " Nor
'a tongue either,' quietly responded the
young mother. .
The father of a St Louis bride present
ed his son-in-law with 80t000 bead,.of
cattle; "Papa, dear," exclaimed his
daughter when she heard of it, " that
was so kind in you; Charley 's awfully
fond of ox-tail soup."
- When a Chicago baby gets the croup,
and is held up to the telephone in the
wall that the doctor, a mile or two ac
ross the city, can listen to its breathing
through his telephone and ask what its
pulse is, and hear its shrill cough from
minute to minute, and prescribe for it
finally, without ever budging out of his
slippers at home, the Paradise of doctors
will seem to be reached.
At a wedding party at a restaurant, a
maladroit waiter contrives to upset a tu
reen full of rich soup on the satin-dress
of a lady guest, who takes on terribly and
threatens hysterics.
" Do notwerry, mad ame," says the,
waiter kindly" there's lots more soup in
the kitchen." ;
A gentleman who Is no longer young
and who never was handsome, says to a
child in the presence of its parents:
Well, my child, what do you think of
me, eh ?" -
The little one makes no reply, and the
gentleman continues:
Well, so you won't tell me what you
think of me. Why won't you ?"
" 'Cause I don't want to get licked."
. Actual occurrence in a Chicago street
car: Stylish lady holding a lap dog is
about ready to leave the car. Dog mani
fests impatience. Lady says, in her sweet
est tones:." Wait, darling, till mamma
puts on her glove." Milwaukee Sun.
Miss Helene is just six years old.. Her
uncle brought her some New Year's pre
sents. " Embrace me, at least," he said.
Toe child kissed him and then said :
"Gracious, how I spoil you 1" Paris pa
per.
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a
talk
stock," says 1,
lor a fertilizer for this crop is the follow
ing, which any farmer ; can mix for him
self : 30 pounds wood asheb, 30 pounds
air -slacked lime, 20 pounds fine jalt, 15
pounds bjone-dust, 15 pounds plaster; the
whole to be thorongh4y pulverized and
mixed. An ounce of ' this compound in
each hill of potatoes will tell a good story
at harvest time. Ex.
A Rkmabkablk Man. At a temper
ance meeting . recently held in Alabama,
Colonel Lehmanousky, who had been
22 years a soldier in the armies of
Napoleon Bonaparte, addressed the meet
ing. He arose before the audience, tall
erect, and vigorous with the glow of
health in his face, and said: "You see
before you a man seventy years old. I
bave fought two hundred battles, have
fourteen wounds" on my body, have lived
thirty days on horseflesh, with the bark
of trees for my bread, snow and ice for
mv drink, the" canopy of heaven for my
covering, witnom ww.iu(jb ur
my feet, andT with only a few rags for my
j clothing. In the desert of Egypt I have
marched for days wun a corning buu up
on my naked bead; feet blistered in the
scorching sand, with my eyes, nostrils,
and mouth filled with dust, and thirst so
tormenting tbat I tore open the veins of
my arms and sucked my own blood 1 Do
you ask bow could I survive all these
horrors ? I answer that, next to the kind
Providence of God, I owe my preserva
tion, my health "and vigor to this fact,
that I . never drank a drop of spirituous
liquor in my life." -
"the Arps
miohtv hard to raise, and
o
alonsr with em so
far
Eorses and Moles Wanted.
T7E wish to buy several Horses and
VV Mules for farm use. Also, one good
Saddle and Harness animal, and a good
one horse wagon.
Will attend in Charlotte 22d inst. (Feb
ruary) for that purpose.
TJUUa. W. liUINli,
Davidson College.
R. BARRINGER,
feb7 2w Charlotte.
TRADE STREET NEAR THE POS1 bEIC. . ..
I have opened a full stock of Furniture, comprising all grades, Commoi, ,
iieidittim: A:isr:D iFinsnE--
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This stock is entirely new, and bought at bottom prices. I will sell low, and
all goods will be found as represented. Special care will be taken in packing. IL
connection with the Furniture Business a full stock of Coffins, Caskets and Metal
ic Cases, constantly on hand. "sept20
JNO. R. EDDINS,
TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C...
KEEPS constantly on hand a large and
well selected stock of -
Blank Books, fancy, and Staple
STATIONERY.
For anything, in faialinfl.it; lgill ho to yowr
advantage to give aim a call. jandi
FIRE liTSTJRLIsrGE!:
Bv Enqlish and American Co'vs
A
always was
you've cot
amaxinly well
nu. B;n another woman in the world
culd have done it." . Bill Abp.
Somithiso About Shiep akd Docs. All
h nonntis of this . State have made re
turns to the Agricultural Department as
tn thfiir Bheen. and in all, save two, they
AhTntv-four counties made
.r.,n unA these , aggregate 375,439
These are for most part native stock. It
;mJ that aeood dog law and the
use of improved breeds of sheep would
run the number up to 2,090,000 in a few
years, 8eventy eight counties report uon
the number at tli.Uoy, aooat
one dog for every three sheep. In several
of the counties the number of dogs ac
tually exceeds tbat of sheep. The num
ber of sheep destroyed by dogs in these
counties for the year past, was 28,081
about 8,000 more thaa were destroyed by
disease. .These are,: eome iww ,iu.u
may be interesting to other peopie,; than
sheep raisers, for such desUuction de
mands some consideration. Eat. Jxews.
4 Bloody Milk It is the" case that
cows sometimes give bloody milk. Ad
minister k dose of laxatine - medidine,
nnmnnMrl nf Waif a TJOUOd of epSQm BaltS,
r.rH fMfll. and a : piht; of"beer,
mixed togetherexternallf to ,e affect
ed quarter V maye appKe;4; ..twjee daily.
Ifttii.-.i-i-'ii.:. '.'onnlinff and astrm-
ieht IndftS " The udder should , be care
fully etfipped clean at each, milking, and
t W4t -AXnld not be exposed to inclem
An ...ik. WAnid drafts of air. Give
sloppy or strained food for awhile.
PLOWS I PLOWS 11 PLOWS 1 1 1
THE celebrated Oliver chilled Plow ; the
Gale Plow, the Meihle Plow, the Tate
Plow (reversible), for hillside and for sub
soiline. A large stock of Steel Plows.
Hege's Feed Cutters. I expect to keep a
full stock of agricultural implements. My
stock of plows cannot be beaten by any one.
I have the best in the world, and will 'sell
them at low prices. Call and examine them
before purchasing elsewhere.
dec2(f WALTER BREM, Ag't.
THE ACME TOMATO,1 '
AND all of Buist's Calebrated and relia
ble Garden Heeds, at lowest market
rates. Call at Dr. T. C. SMITH'S Drug
Store. ... feb7
BIS OI1ITIOX,
SS.PBQBAM nas witnarawn rrom. tne
. firm of PEGRAM 4 CO. All persons
who owe tne late nrm, prior w r eoruapy
1st; J 879, must call ana setue witn regranx
We will continue tne a oot ana snoe du-
sinessat the same st-and as Deiore, first
National Bank building, Charlotte, N C.
feb7" " i'liUKAM. a. w.
dec!3
E. NYE HUTCHINSON-& SON,-
AGENTS, COLLEGE STRE KT.
Law's NEW CROCKERY STORE,,:
REMOVED TO THE STORE FORMERLY OCCUPIED BtfatlbrY & BRO.,
IS NOW OFFERING T4E LARGEST 8TOCK OF CROCKERY,
GLASS, FINE CHINA, CUTLERY, SILVERWARE,
LAMPS, Etc., that has ever been
oct 25
exhibited in this city. .. ,v
,-. . J. ' Hi LAW, Aot.
For Sale, ,
THE pure bred Berkshire Sow, Clara, two!
, years pW, a good breeder, and in, far
row to the imported. Berkshire Boar Velo-'
cibede ll. "This Is a rare "opportunity for
inVfarmewlshittg t& stock up ik'tnis pop
lal breed or stneH ant bc -
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HATING purchased Trom Captain J. F. Johnston, his slock of AgncalturaHmpIe
ments.jseeds.'&c. I will keep on hand an assortment of Avery's celebrated cast
and1 steel plows, and will make a "specialty of Avery's Fremium iron JJ oot now,'
which toot the premium at our Fair over all others. Also, keep a full line Df steel
turning 'hovieIs1. telegraph' and lever feed, cutters, corn sbeUers, cider mills sad
castings for YVortns plows. A inn una ox . eeeuo wu uwim, vuy, , a.iv; ,
Kentucky Blue. Bed Top and all the leading grasses. : ;. ,
GROCERIES Sugars, coffees', iteas, spices, iyrnps, salt, ootton ties, &c A lot or
boots and shoes that will be sold low. On consignment 20 bus; mammoth boll Cot
ton peed. .'' ; -. ' ' - -, h . ;;w.;'V- i-r- '-r
FERTILIZERS The . Southern Standard, Navassa Acid. aBdiSupertPhpsphate,
guaranteed to be of higher grade than any Fertilieer soid on this market.iWe sell
it as agent, but will promise the cheapest Fertiliser for the money or cotton.
feb!4 I J- Q. SHANNONHOUSE. Ag't.
feb!4 2w
Charlotte. .
S'afiners'of t Mecklenburg.
f AM' now selling the ETIWAN ACID,
I. at cost for cash. Also, a large stock of
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
SW RM WHITE.
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