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BERMUDA GRABR. fixtraet Frtm An Addjreu brf»rr the fletrgi* Agricultural Society bf "• D. I- ii mnde ii , of Bibb Ccanlf. This pest, or curse, as it is called by some in Georgia and by Northern writers, a noxious weed, is too well * known to be described. "We join issue with the above parlies, and-call it a blessing to our section. First. It is the best grass we have for pasturage and hay, Second. It is one tin best reno vators of Qur soil, which is proven up on all lands that were set in it, that hive been put in cultivation. A recent analysis, made by Dr. St. Julicn Ravcnel, of Charleston, S. C., makes Bermuda grass nearly equal to timothy/ which is universally consid ered! he best grass grown. Stock or cattle that run 011 Bermuda grass fields keep in better condition than on any other pastures. We kucw a tanner in Tutnan county, Ga., that raises annual ly a number of colts, aud he told me that he never led thcin even in winter, lie has nearly his whole place set in Bermuda grass. He #ys his colts get very poor in winter. lie has never saved any hay, but as his neighbors have saved a quantify of it for liny, lie intends this year to keep the stock from some of his bottoms, and save enough to winter them. Maying hay of Bermuda grass is of recent date with us. About twelve years ago a small quantity was brought to Macon for sale; year before last the demand and supply increased, and last season there was sold in our city, Ma con about 100 tons, bringing from $lB to S2O per ton on the wagons. "We cut upon the bottom lands below the city one and a half acres, from which we, got, at the first cutting, over 7,000 pounds of hay; at tho second cutting wo got 8,000 poundt. A gentleman, three miles above Macon, cut on thirteen acres, $399 worth of Bermuda grass hay. In Greene county, we learn, one gentleman cut, last season GJ tons Dr. Moody, in Geeneconnty (see report of Mtate Fair, 1874), cut 18,893 pounds Irom one acre, at a cost of not more than iilno cents per cwt. This hay to-day is worth in the market, $1.60 to ft .75 pc cwt. Dr. St. Julien llavenel of Charleston, with the aiu of super phosphates, produced this day at the rate of eight or more tons per acre. It cau be cut, in a good season, three or tour times. Its origin in our Stute is not accu rately known. It cannot be propa gated by its 6eeds such it it produces with us, bnt is done by its roots. We have heard that in the Bermude Islands it has seed like the Irish potato. To set a field with this grass we would suggest this plan: Break the land up in Spring, then collect a quantity of the grass and pull it in small pieces (each joint will take root,) and scatter it over the plow ed land, tben roll it iu so that it will take root. The next Spring plow it up as if to kill it, and then roll again, and we tbiuk it will be well set. We are glad to see prejudice against this grass giving way. It can be killed, but as we are not advocating its destruction, wc will not give our plan., Ono of the best farmers in Putnam conuty told me he could kill it iu two years by putting the land iu cotton. When a negro woman on Levce-st was informed the otlier day, by a me andering reporter, that the price of sea liom had increased 15 per cent, during the present month, she elevated her hands aad exclaimed: "De Land only knows what is to become of poor folks I Seems zif de more we worked de often er do white folks go and riz de price on de nessumsaries of lite.'—[Vicksbnrg Herald. The words " treason" and "rebeiion' have nearly passed out of northern months, and Massachusetts and Penn sylvauia, in their present glorification of a successful treason,. aTc suggesting to themselves that, after all, perhaps, the supreme fault of the South is that it did not succeed,— St. Lout* Republi can. 7". They fed the snakes in the Garden o Plants at Paris on live rats until recent ly,when a rat killed a snake worth 2,000 francs. The snakes now take their rats dead. Gen. Braxton Bragg has accepted the position of chief engineer of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fee Railroad -which grouud was broken Hay Ist at Galves ton. , A Phlladelphian named Keeley, claims to have discovered a vapor which la far more powerful than steam as a moter, cost nothing, occupies but little ■pace, and will move steamers around the world as cheaply as saling vessels, aud will reduce freight to one-half rates. * * jfKge John Kerr will deliver the an neal address before the young ladies ol lhe Thomasrillo Female School at the close of the session, on the 27th of June. It Is rumored, says the Southerner, that Hon. George Howard has offered - the stockholders (80,000 for their inter est in the uncompleted Williamson & * AN INTERVIEW WlYll A FORTUNE TELLKK. Jay Charlton, of the Dan bury News, re ports an interview witliaNew York fortune teller as follows: The other) day I saw on the sign of a small brick house in one of the unpreten tious avenues, these words : "Madame Le Blanc, Clairavoyant and Astrologist." In the fun of the moment I went in, and was ushered into aback sitting-room. A young countryman was soon my companion, and I cheekily asked him what ho was after. Said he: "I want to find out whether I'm goin' to win in a lawsuit in a justice's court, about a black mare with a docked tail. I come from Goshen; where do you come from ? This here woman kin see right through an oak plank." Presently tho door opened, and a t.tll, distinguished woman, with silver-gray hair, threw open wide the door. "You know how Poe did it when he wanted to see out where old Nev ermore was. That's the way .she did it. She looked as dignified as a big sun-flower. I stammered "Missis ?" You see I wasn't going to give myself away by being too sharp. Said she, as her head followed my movements as the aforesaid sunflower fol 'owß the sun (if it does), "Madame, if you please." What little human pride was in tne waltzed out of my being as I gazed upon this elegant female woman. I 'umbly bega&T ' 7-11 " 'Prophet!' " said I, '"thing of*—whom the angels call Lcnore." Here I aawl'd pat,my foot into it, and I broke down. But I had t& go it madly be cause I didn't want to burst out laughing it my learned colleague from Goshen, with the dock-tailed mare. She saved me, by sweeping grandly into the parlor, putting up her long finger, as Everts puts his up in the Beecker case. So I walked, some .vhat between laughter and timidity, into the Night's Plutonian Shore. She motioned me to a chair which stood before i small table. She grandly sat in one op posite. Then drawing six thicknesses of »omethiug like a black crape iron-holder jver her eyes, all.; said in a grandly sepul jhral monotone: "Your life will be long— ivith some cares. An enemy besets your [ja' .1. Beware of. a false friend who will try to do you a wrong. You will come out )f it allfjght, one dollar is my charge." I jut one dollar upon the table, thinking ,hat there were ten sodas gone. But I laid, "Madame, I would like to know what cind of a girl I'm goiqg to have?" "Here the rose, went behind my back to a side joard, and brought back one empty tum jlor. Holding it before my eyes, she jrandly said, "You are satisfied, I hope, shat there is nothing in it." I said I was latisfied. Whereupon she went behind me igain, and brought the tumbler past me rith a parallelogram of paper in it. I saw he paper was dpnly white. With a little yel ow smearing on it. From a half-pint bot lo she poured a reddish liquid into a little rater, and then poured the mixture into he tumbler. After a moment, lier fingers rent into the tumbler, drew out the paper nd tore it up. I had it on the end of my ongue to say, "The acid didn't bring the he photograph out but that would have poileJ everything. So I meekly bowed /hen she said, "The face is not perfect yet, mt it Is very, very beautiful. I congratu ite you." she tried again, and waved a stick over the mixture. This time the icture came out, and she laid my wet and ellow lover upon the table with an air of '.•rsian triumph. Her austere magnani mity lowered itself to the earth as she said. It is very, very beautiful. One dollar for he picture." I laid one dollar in my sad icss beside my blonde, but drying, lover, Linking, "Ten more sodas gone." "Two," he said. "Two?" I repeated meekly. Yes*' said she, "two." "But you taid me." "Oh! ono was for the picture, last no for the condition I was in. It hurts me o produce so beautiful a picture of the girl ou ore to love." "But, rnadame, you don't ell me about her." Then she spoke up, in tor wrinkled grandeur, with a tone of Tine pur gurgling out of a bung hole. "Yon arill marry her within a month. She will »nit to you." I rose to leave, and she laid, "A dollar!" "What for?" "The ortuno." "But that goes with the pic ture." "For theflret advice. 1 ' "I paid a iollar for that." "I meant two dollars* Let that go. I hope you two will be happy together. The first one will be a little jirL" I left her to my friend from Goshen, fho process by which she produced the picture is a simple one. The prints are those of photographs, unvarnished, and bought by the do*en. A little chemical mixture brings out the features. One face will serve for a dosen lovers. The one 1- *V" got was that of a prominent actress, mar ried, as I am, to "another." I have a pho tograph of the lady exactly like that pro duced by the incantation of the grind gam toner. Yet this woman probably makes'* plenty of money. # . APPLIES. The Parisians devour 100,000,000 of ap ples every Winter. An eminent French physician thinks that the decrease of dys pepsia and bilious affections in P*i. is owing to the increased onn—iptinn of this fruit, which he maintains, is an admirahk prophylactic and tonic, as well as a r«cj nourishing and easily digested article of food. Ths Russian government is shoot to oommenoe work on a Government railroad to extend from Puna, near the Eastern border of European Bnssia, about I.OOC miles into Siberia, the general eonras being near that of the fifty-sixth parallel of Nortl latitude. The Kmit of tine for completing the work is fixed at five yean. CnOICE IN" I.ITEEATCBE, It lias been truly observed that as a man may be judged by the company he keeps, so he may be by tlie books he reads. - Ev ery book carries with it its own peculiar atmosphere, just as docs every person, and it is no more possible for one to take equal pleasure in all books than it is to enjoy the society of every person There are some authors whom, by a law of selec tion that is its commanding as instinct, we take at once to our hearts, and delight in their companionship. There are. others whom we find it pleasant to read occasion ally, just as we have a good many acquain tances who are agreeable, but with whom intimacy is neither possible nor desirable; and there are still others whom we would always pass by on the other sidfe. There is no one so peculiar in his mental constitu tion that he may not by searching find just the author to sympathize with him; to go with him in those trains of thought and of feeling thit predominate in his mind. Not only have we authors for our prevailing moods, but for every varying phase of sen timent and thought and aspiration we may, il we know where to seek it, find an inter preter. The fact that an author is the fashion is no reason why one shouldieep his company if it is found uncongenial, rhere are great numbers of people who think Dickens tedious and have little relish for Thackeray, yet who are by no means destitute of literary culture. To sonle Ruskin is severe and harsh in his style, while others delight in every syllable he utters. Any one who indorses heartily the morality of the New Testament may be trusted to read what he enjoys, and rest in the conviction that this course will educate him up continually to higher stand irds. The fact that we do not enjoy an author is no reason why we should never read his works, any more than the fact that we do not fancy certain individuals should pre vent us from availing ourselves of the knowledge, useful to us, that they may possess. As the bee seeks honey in every opening flower far and near, so should we gather from near and far whatever may be of use to us. MECHANICAL GENIUS. ~ j I know at least a score of men who, * though intelligent enough in other respects, j lo not know how to drive a nail in a work- g nanlike manner. As boys, they were.edu- I »ted with a view to practicing certain vo- a lations or professions, and mechanical arts t yere completely ignored by their unwise c parents or guardians. Now it is essential io every man—lawyer, preacher, physician, j merchant —to know some of the principles j )f mechanical art, and how to apply them, r 'or no man leads in industrious life with- t >ut very frequently seeing the use of such e knowledge. There are certain mechanical j •ules apply to almost every piece of j vork that man attempts to perform, from ~■ he folding of a paper to the matching to- c ;ether of two boards, aud the bungling I nanner in which these things are generally E lone, show how little idea men have of j nechanism. Then, fathers, 'whether city aen or country men, fit up a workshop for ] •our boys. A small set of tools, of the ] >est material, will not Co3t much —not oore than ten or twelve dollars at most— .nd they'll soon return to you thr'cs their « alue in the good accomplished. Where here is a comfortable workshop supplied • nth good tools, the boys are seldom known i 0 leave it upon leisure days to loaf in the treets. If nothing else is given them to l 10, they will bo "manufacturing wind-mills, leds, weather-cocks, hand-carts, etc., and 1 very hour thus employed adds to their ' kill as workmen. Very soon they will be ,ble to make rainy days as profitable as there, repairing or making very many mportaut fixtures about the ! house. We now boy mechanics who have supplied heir homes with brackets, flower-stands, tep-laddcrs, and a hundred and one other hinge convenient and valuable. f" " ' THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. An interviewer recently visited the Em ircss Eugenie for the purpose of learning omething of her ideas concerning the stat ib of Imperialism in France. Her Majesty, t appears, was slightly indisposed when he interviewer called. Her Majesty re fined among pillows, dscked with a dainty ittle white lace cap, with blu9 ribbons, and 1 handsome white dress rich with lace and ind embroidery and tied at the tliroifc with i bine tie. A tiny table held a cup of choc date and a silver tray of bonbons, while mother little tablo held a draught board, prith the men in position, which showed that she had been playing. Her Majesty, ■re are told, smiled on seeing the interview bt, and after a talk about the political sit uation, the interviewer "was permitted to retire." "On going out," concludes the writer, "I turned to take a last look of the beautiful empress, who had carried all hearts by storm, be they of kings or peas tats. She lay back there, her rich golden hair loosely caught under the tiny, coquet tish bit at lace and ribbon, the fair fulness of shoulders and bast half revealed through the embroidery on her dress, and the tow. srJike strength of her round, white neck, made more marked by the blue tie. The soft, white hands, are as plump and dim* pled as those ot a baby, and her complexion is still delightfully clear and fine. The profile is clear cut arid ot a high cast of beauty, and her month is a marvel of sweet ness—and sadness, exoeptwhen she smiles. She bade me a» rerotr instead of "good bye," and some day I hope to pus another hour with the qneenliest queen of all, the ex-Empress of France. Fonruirs dreads the brave, and is oolj terrible to the coward. ADVERTISEMENTS l)r. J. Walker's California Vin egar Hitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from tlie na tivo herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, the medicinal properties of which avo extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily aslced, " What is the cause of the unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT TERS?" Our answer is, that tliey remove the cause of disease, and the patient re covers his health. They arc the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Kenovator and Invigorator of tlie system. Never beforo in the history of the world has,a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable, qualities of VINEGAR BITTERS in healing.the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a geutle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of DR. WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTKRS are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative; Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-irritant, Sudorific, Altera tive, and Anti-Bilious. Grateful Thousands proclaim VIN EGAR BITTERS the most wonderful In vigorant that ever sustaiiied the sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not de stroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious, Remittent and Inter mittent Fevers, which are so preva lent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan sas, lied, Colorado, Brazos, Ilio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Ro anoke, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during sea sons of unusual beat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive de rangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a pow erful influence upon these various or gans, is necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to DR. J. WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTERS, •as they will speedily remove the dark colored viscid matter with which tho bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of tho liver, aud generally restoring tho healthy functions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying all its fluids with VINEGAR BITTERS. NO epidemic cau tako hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head ache, Pain ill the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpita tation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of tho Kid neys, and a hundred other painful symp toms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertise ment. - Scrofula, or King's Evil, Whito Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial A (lections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as iu all other constitutional Dis eases, WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTERS have shown their great curative powers iu tho most obstinate and intractable caSes. . For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remit tent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, theso Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.— Persons en gaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advanco in life, are subject to paralysis of the Bewels. To guard against this, tako a dose of WALKER'S VIX EUAR BITTKRS occasionally. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tet ter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, CaVbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, ScurfSj Discoloration.-) of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dug tip and carried out of the system in a short tuno by the use of these Bitters. _ Pin, Tape,* and other Worms, lurking in the svstem of so many thousand*, are effectually destroyed and remoVed. Ko system of medicine, no vermifuges, no. an thelmintics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. , For Female Complaints, in yonng or old, married or single, at the dawn of wo manhood. or the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood when ever yon find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it wheu yon find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; your feelings will" tell voa when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. It. H. KcDOWI.n CO., Drue£lsta and Gen. Apts.. Snn Fmncison, CalifnniflL ■ail cor. of Washington and Charlton SU.. S. Sold by all tmd Draljpt*. E. S. PARKER, Attorney at Law. GRAHAM, N. C. OFFICE OF THE Alamance Gleaner, vf We call the attention of the public to the appearance of «-■ THE GLEANER, > ■jafe;.:' be fnrnished to subsdeibers, until further notice, at the low rate of ' :^K --4* •• r^lSfe s#.#o Ptr Anaam r f • THE PUBLISHEHS PAYING ALL POST AGE. C, ,f Payable in Advance. Our aim will be to make the GLEANER L • A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY PAPER in nirr renpecl. Itwil. contain all the Local News of the County, State News, the most Important Tele graphic News of the week and Carefully Se eded Miscellaneous Matter. ; It will be a paper which no family in Ala mance County can afford to be without. THE GLEANER will also prove of particular interest to former residents in this section, now living in other parts of the coun try, and to all such it will be • mailed to any address upon receipt - of nnbscription price. We would call especial attention to the value of the . J|«; GLEANEE —AS— V: • " *,J . r'*: . • . V-- mk - . mSm fi AH Airerliiißf UlediaM. ... • JH . ' " \ ■JmgZi--- • THE GLEANER hu a rapidly growing circu atlon in the finest Tobacco andjgrain growing .jf :: SECTION OF TBI STATE. ' . ■ PUT your money where it mil do the most good and subscribe at once to the GLEANER. - > - PARKER & JOHNSON, Publishers. SUPERIOR COVRI 1 ! ' Alamance County. GABRIEL M. LEA, WILLIAM) A. LEA, MARIA L. MOOBE, I GEORGIA LEA, AND JAMES Snmmons W. LEA, Plaintiffs 'For Relief. Against NORA LEA, Special Proceed- , Defendant.) in 9 s - STATE OF NORTH. CAROLINA, To the Sheriff of AlamaDce County—Greet ing: You are hereby commanded to summon Nora Lea,the defendant above named if she be found within your County to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County Alamance within twenty-six days after the service of this summons on her exclusive of the day of service, and answer the complaint which will be deposited in the office of said Clerk within ten days from the dale of this summons : And let said defendant take notice that if she fail to answer the complaint within that time the plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint.'^' Herein fail not and of this summons make due return. Given under my hand and seal of said Court. This Ist day of May. 18:5 W. A. ALBRIGHT, Clerk of the Superior Court Alamance County. JAMES E.BOYD, Attorney for Plaintiffs. In the above entitled action it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defend ant is a non-resident of this State ; It is order ed that service of suiiamons be had upon her by publication In the ALAMANCE GLEANER a newspaper published weekly in this County, once a week for six successive weeks. Done in office at Graham,) on the Bth day ot May, >■ —; — 1875. j W. A. ALBKIGnT, C. S. C. . Alamance County. JgA R AND FIXTURES TOR SALK I wish to change my business, and will sell cheap, my Bar and Fixtures, consisting of all necessary furniture for a complete Bar. Also One Bagatelle Table, one set of oyster plates, with alcohol lamps. My license will be out the Ist of April. I wish to sell before then. I will also sell "cheap a pair of fine heavy Wagon Horses^ together with an excellent two-horse wagon and good harness. Until I effect a sale I may be found at my old stand, on the Court House square, just the same. '■ . JOHN HUTCHISON, Graham, N. C. i nimi R. FORBIS & BROTHER, (under the 3cDbow Hall,) GREENSBORO, N. C„ keep coust.'.ntly on hand a completo assort ment of FURNITURE. Repairing of every description, including Upholstering neatly done. Their stock consists of CHAMBER SETS, ranging in price from $25.00, to $500.00 ; Office, Dininx-Roam, Parlor and Rock ing Chnirs, Bureaus, Wardrobes, Business Desks, Safes, Cribs, Cra dles and Trundle-Beds Tor the little folks, ninltresses ana Spring Beds ot every va riety and style, Hat-racks and any and everything in the furniture line. Their stock is the largest and most complete ever offered in this portion of the State. They defy competition in quality or price. apr2o.3m Valuable Book. I ain the authorized agent for the Counties of Alamance and Orange, for the.sale of the life, travels, adventures, experiences and achievements, of BR. DAVID 1.1 VIIVC STONE, in the interior of Africa. This work contains over eight hundred pages bnd is illustrated with over one hundred en gravings. The price of the Book is exceeding ly low. I will visit each family in the two counties as nearly as I can. J. T. ROSEMOND. Apr 20,2 m Company Shops, N. C. g cT. ROBERTSON, DEALER IN Grave Stones AND MONUMENTS. GREENBBORO N. C. T L. SCOTT, 11 « . Graham, JV. C Agent far the Celebrated STIEFF PIANOS AND OIiOANS Send for illustrated catalogue and price list. iapr27-tf DIBTILLEY FOR SALE. Capaeity eighty gallons pey day. Also twenty-five barrels pure Com Whiskey, made from corn malt. "HUTCHISON & CO. Address W. R. ALBRIGHT, feb 23 Graham, N. C. JUST RECEIVED. Two Hogsheads old fashioned Cuban Mo lasses. New crop. W. R. ALBRIGHT. QDELL, RAGAN & CO., WHOLESALE EALERS IN General Merchandise, KD AGENTS FOR Cedar Valla and Deep River Bheetlajsi Yarns, and Seamless Bogs, Holt's and Randleman's Plaids, Pries' " Salons" Jens*. Charlottes ville Cassimers and Erken breecher'n Stareh. GREENSBORO, N. C. apr2o-ly
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