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WJIi J YATES CniTOR and Proprietor.
Terms of Subscription Tfltu DoILaks, in advance.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1868. ) sefEiVteestb' volihe-a ens b r mi.
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PCBLISHED BY
'iVILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor.
Teems Three Dollar per annum in adrance.
A'irrrtircmetits will be inserted at reasonable
rates, or in accordance with contract.
Obituary notices of over fire lines in length will
be cargl for at advertising ratea.
Robert Gibbon, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Tryo,, Street, Chculotte, N. C,
Office and Residence, one door south old State Bank,
(formerly Vm. Johnston's redence).
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J. P. McCombs, M. D.,
: ;-. .. i;'.s ji'..!.4idual seiriccB to the citizens of
;..! . -urt ouii'llr.g country. All culls, t.oth
v, J my. . lly atcen:!ei io
I'.nwu'y jui!-i:rjf, up i-tvirs, orrteitc the
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Dr. JOHN II. McADIJN,
Wholesale ana jiet&u irueist
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':, cn hand u '' '.: . . :i.u &i.!:.o." 1'i Hi
l)Rl'GS. !i-ii. fiis i ut' if : J'-iacs. I'aai.iv Mv.:i
ciiff. Quints, (his, arn.iin. s;u!i8, l'ancyu-J
Toi'i t r'-:clc, !i:.h he it? ':;eni'uied to st-11 at tht
TiTV iniVi r-l r!Cl:a.
M;iy -iU, ftiT.
DENTISTRY.
Tray wick & Bland,
Having formed a co-partnership, tender their profes
sional services to the public at large Their qtlice will
i. opeij from 8 a ni. to 0 p. m., and either Af them
.Till visit patients at their .residences when called.
OtScc near the Court House, Trade Street.
August 10, IMS.
New Firm and
NEW GOODS
llic unJerstignod h'ing formed a Partnership
uuior the style of
J. S. PniLI,IP8 A: CO.,
for the purpose of conducting the
.1tercliaii4 Tailoring
And Gents Furnishing; Goods Business,
Would ref pectfully inform their friends and the pub
lic centrally. th-Uthoy are now rooeivin? their stock
of F.tll "J ":-'ier ,ooa,,' """""- -' " .j
ji rlencU, Kfclih and American
( loth, Cassimci'c VelinSN,
la great variety of mates and colors.
(Gents' Furnishing Goods :
SLir,?. Collars. Cravats, Hosiery, Merino Under
wear, iw, of all kinds, Umbrellas.
In fact everything usually found in a FIKST
CLASS Merchant Tailoring Kstablialuuent, all of
which were selected with great care, and warranted
to give sat isf'action.
Special attention will be given to the
TAILORING DEPARTMENT,
and all goods sold will be made lip iu the very best
utyle. and a fit guaranteed.
TAILORS' TKIMMIMGS, of a'l kinds, kept con
stantly on hand, and sold to the Trade at wholesale
prices.
jkay- CUTTING AND REPAIRING of all kinds,
promptly attended to and satisfaction given.
We will be found at present in the room over the
press Office, where our friends arcinvi to give
us a call.
We will occupy the Store at present occupied by
First National jtank, as soon as their Ranking Houte
n completed. J. S. PHILLIPS,
-wet. ;", 1C&. JAS. II. OUR.
3 cr
rn ACTiCAL
W.itfih and Clock Mikr.
AND KEALEJl IS
JEWELRY, FiyK WATCHES, CLOCKS,
Watch Materials, Spectacle, .J-c.
Vu?. 10, 1JS07. CHARLOTTK, N. C.
WHOLESALE AJJD RETAIL.
V.illhon!4y &l Kintct
JI;iv now in store on e ot'the larg v-t S:ocks of Goods
cv-r brought to this market.
Th y ke-p a full jis-nvna 'D' ill ki;i''. of Good?,
a:i 1 will sell at ret:nrkal!y low ra'es.
i'ousury Mt i cL.is.u fr-' v!.,;?:' ' n ycr---"''ilH'
- u'e'l .is Vfiull puri-titMi-i-. urc rrmie.M--i
i" '-r. ;h'r Ui.-ig.iticen; st. ! v-: (soo.l.
Miiiinery and Dreofi-Making:.
A sepurate depart mont is uovot 1 ut Miiliu 'iy and
i)rc-making. where the Ladies can have work done
jTonipily and in the latest stylea.
WITTKOWSKV& HiNTELS,
'ct. 5, 1808. Beiween the (.wo Drug Stores.
QUERY
Is receiving, daily, his Fall Stock cf
Millinery, Trimmings, A:c. &c, j
to call and examine.
p'f MRS. QUERY is prepared to serve her
frauds with the
LATEST STYLES
in Bonnets, Hats, Dressmaking, &.C.
oct 5,
CITY BANK OF CHARLOTTE,
TRADE ST., SPitXGSr BUILPIXG,
CII A RLOTTh', N. C.
W. A. WILLIAMS. Casjuier.
C. N. G. BUTT, Telleii.
Ojflcc Hours from 8 a. m. till 6 p. m.
This Bank has enlarged and refitted its Banking '
House, and with a large, modern improved Fire and
"uigiiir i root bate, offers superior inducement to
I poaitors. Receives Deposits on Iaterest or other-
fcuys an t e'U Coin, Bullion, Exchange an
liank Notes, and draws directly on all priu
places in the world at Naw York rate
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ucipal
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Gen. Forrest Challenges Kilpatrick.
In a letter to E. H. Shackleford, of New
Haven, Conn., just published, Gen. Forrest de
nounces Gen. Judson Kilpatrick in unmeasured
terms, and refers him to General Basil Duke, of
Louisville, who will receive any communication
which Kilpatrick may deem proper. The letter
refers to remarks made by Gen. Kilpatrick.
A Fat Baby. A fat baby arrived hero on
the commutation train this morning, which at
tracted the attention of all at the depot. The
child is accompanied by its parents, and weighs
from one hundred and seventy to two hundred
pounds. It is a. boy, aged five years, and is
about three feet in height, and fully two feet in
diameter, rith a small head and child-like face,
"and walks with some difficulty his leg9 although
very large, having apparently too much to carry
WatJiingtim Star.
Confectioneries, Fruits, &c.
Confectioneries, Fruits, C'unned Goods of ali kinds
juat received at D. M. UIGLKK'S.
CKAaKEBS.
.iv nutti'i-, Kg, Hu.-ivocu, Lemon, Cream and
. : lonebi .c C'gars, cheap
it 1UGIA.1VS
Tr.v : f ul 1
;.:uae a"
UIGLKU'S.
! 1.r .-.nl- h tVj -:, ?cn or at RIGLLU'S
St
i-IGLLlfS.
1DKIBD JfcJt:KI-',
i i ' i , 1'. It
ManufactuYes Plaia uud I'ancy Candies, ajid sells
cheap by the box.
CITRON,
Currants, Raiuius, Prunes, Nuts, Jellies, Preserves,
&c, at DALLAS M. RIGLER ii,
Granire Row, opposite the Mansion House.
Oct 10, 18i8.
CHARLOTTE DRUG STORE.
f . SCARR,
Druggist and Chemist,
Keeps for sale pure Drugs and Chemicals,
Patent Medicines of all kinds.
Varnishes, Paints, Oils, Window Glass, Sic, of the
first fjuality.
Kerosene Oil No. 1, Lamps, Rurners, Ac.
Fbysicians prescriptions and Family Recipes
prepared with great accuracy.
Country Merchants supplied .with Drugs, Essen
ces, &c. f. SCARR.
Blue Stone.
A fresh .supply of Pure BlucStone, RstreeWed.
Important to Planters and Country Merchants,.
JULIUS T. COIT,
fJotton Factor, Conimission
S II I P P I X G M E R C II A X T ,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office next door to Brem, Brown d- Co' t Hardware Store,
Up Stair.
Having effected my arrangements with responsi
ble parties in New York. I am now prepared to make
liberal CASH ADVANCES on Cotton .which .will .be
promptly forwarded, free of charge, .or it twill be
held or sold in this market if so desired. I will re
ceive Cotton at any of the Depots between this point
and Columbia, and the money will be forwarded from
Charlotte by Express, thereby saving time and ex
pense. Consignments ef all kinds solicited, either for sale
here or for shipment. I shall give the business my
closest personal attention, and shall try to promote
the interest of the Planters.
I refer by permission to Hob. J. W. Osborne, Got
Z. B. Vance; T. W. Dewey & Co., Rankers; First
National Bank; Brem, Brown&Co.; Hutchison, Bur
roughs iCo., Charlotte, N. C.
Sept. 28, 18G8 3m
THOS. W. pewey & CO.,
Bankers and Brokers,
CHARLOTTE, X. C.
We enter upon our second year of business on the
first day of October, and return our thanks to
our old friends and new friends for their custom and
patronage during the year now closing.
We are now prepared with
Increased Means & Ample Capital
To transact any safe and desirable Banking Business
which may be offered us.
We will receive deposits and pay same on call, and
when left .on time will pay interest on same accord
ing to agreement. W.e iuy and seR Gold and Silver
Coin and Bullion, Bank 'N.pte. &c. Witl discount
for customer good business paper. Purchase and
on commission Stocks and Bonds, and give our
: attention to any other matter in the Banking or
l;
A-r.HjM :!! ci.trv.sicu to us.
Revenue Stanip(s
; b : :n :. to suit dealers and customers.
T1IOS W. DEW EV & CO.,
.W.
Iu:.M:iig ;i.iut;r!y Branch Bf.nk.')
.i. ; jor i-clo-.v CMuiiii s rfhoe Store, Tryon St.
Charlotte. 8ept. 28, 1SC8.
Charlotte Female Institute,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
The next Session will commence on the 1st October,
JS6S, and continue until ?0th ,of June, lSt".
The yession is divided into t.w.o tenns of 20 weeks
each, and pupils can bo entered for either the whole
tendon or for one term.
OFFICERS AND INSTRUCTORS:
Rev. R. Drr.wii.i-, Principal, and Instructor in Mental
and Moral Philosophy aud Mathematics
John B. BikU. A. Natural Philosophy, i
Chemistry and Aucicct Languages.
Mrs. M. A. Bcrweli.. English Branches and Super
intendent of Social Duties.
Mas. Sally C. White. English Branches.
Mtss Makq.iket T. Lon, English Branches and
French.
Piano-
Trof. A. Bacmakn. Vocal and Instru.men.tal Music.
Mrs. Ji lia C. P.atton, Musie xx Piano.
Prop. R. E. Piqikt, Drawing, Painting and Modern
Languages.
Expenses per Term of 20 Wteks:
Board (with every expense, fuel, lights, wash
ing, &c.,) with tuition in English Branches, $130.00
Tuition, daj scholars, Primary Department, 20.00
" " Collegiate " 25.00
Music, Aeient and Modern Languages, Drawing and
Painting, extra, at usual charges.
For Circular and Catalogue cotayiing full partic
ulars as to 'eruis, &c , addrcaa
Rbv. R. BURWELL & SON,
July 27, Charlott. N. C
Washington Items.
In the case of Tyler versus Defrees. to recover
possession of property sold under confiscation,
the Court confirmed Defrees in possession daring
Tyler's life. The opinion was delivered by
J udge Carter.The case was heird by t full
Bench.
Gen. Butler's motion to dismiss the suit
against him in Baltimore, as a breach of his
Congressional privileges, has been denied and
the trials will proceed.
The Bank returns from the Southern States
show the following resources : North Carolina,
82,225,000, including $26,000 in specie ; Soutn
Carolina. 52,225.000, including$26.000 isspecie;
Georgia, $5,750,000. including $37,000 in specie;
Alabama, $1,114,000. including $37,000 in
Hpecie; Mississippi, $148,000 no specie; Louis
iana, $3,750,000, including $100,000 Jn specie;
Texas, nearly $2,000,000." specie $18,000; Ar
kansas, $1,029,000, specie $2,500; Virginia.
89.000,000, specie $83,000. Total United States
bonds to secure circulation, $6,552,000 ; and
coil) pound interest notes, $42,000.
Gen. Howard has jut sent in his annual re
port. He asks a continuance of the Bureau,
which amazes us after hearing from him some
little time ago that it wnuld wind up in January.
Why this change ? Are the negroes more in
capable of taking care of themselves since the
late elections, or is there a better chance of con
tinuing the Great National Clothing Store and
Grocery with a profit to the keeper?
The Prussian Legation here is engaged in
Nuking arrangements with the general govern
iiient, and with some of the Southern and West
ern States, regarding emigrants from that coun
try. A treaty is proposed as the basis.
LAND FOR SALE.
I will sell at the Court House in Charlotte, on the
23th of November, a good tract of LAND of 223 acres,
subject to the widow's dower, situated 1 j miles East
of Morrow's Turn Out (C. & S C. Railroad.) ad
joining the lands of Jas. G. Johnston, W. P. Robin
son and others.
Also, at the same time and place, one-fourth in
terest in two other tracts, each containing over 300
acres, and in the same neighborhood.
Any person wishing to see said lands will call on
Jas. .(J!. Johnston or the undersigned. Terms made
known .pn the day of sale.
J. W. MORROW,
Oct 26, 1SC8 3w Adm'r of J. W. Barnett.
Housekeeper Wanted.
I wish to employ a housekeeper a lady of indus
trious habits and energy. References required.
Oct 26, 1808. J. Y. BRYCE
SEED WHEAT..
A lot of fine Seed Wheat from Maryland, for pale
by HAMMOND &. McLAUGHLIN.
Blue Fish,
A fine article, just received and for sale by
Hammond & Mclaughlin.
Oct 26, 1868.
McMURRAY, DAVIS & CO.,
(In Jirycts Acjo Building,')
Have just received a full Stock of Goods, consisting of
(groceries, Dry Goods,
3ET r d tot are, cfe o
In their general assortment can be found
Coffee, Sugar, Mlasces and Syrups,
Bacon, Lard, Rice, Cheese,
Cotton Ties, Bagging, Rope and Twine,
Salt, Leather, Candles, .Cracker, Pickles,
Soda, Soaps, and Wooden-Ware.
Hardware..
Axes, Nails, Shovels, Spades,
Hoes, Trace Chains,
Table Cutlery, &c., &c.
Boots and Shoes,
Hats, Ready-made Clothing, Notions, Confection
eries, &c.
Thankful for past patronage, they iavite their
former customers and all others who want to pur
chase on fair terms, to give them a call and examine
Goods and prices
B&J Produce and Cash taken in exchange for
Goods. McMURRAY, DAVJS & CO.
Oct 26, 1868.
Almanacs ! Almanacs 1 1
1,000 BLUM'S 4XMAXACS to supply the de
mand, just received at the Citv Boot Store.
Oct 26, 1808. S. R. JOHNSTON.
State Debt of Nortli Carolina.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
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Treasi-ry Department,
Raleigh, October 13th, 1868.
To Holders op North Carolina Bonds:
The State of North Carolina has resumed the reg
ular payment of interest on her dbt.
Holders may receive paysnent of their Interest
falling due October 1st, 18G8, at the National Bank
of the Republic, New York, or at this oflQce
The interest authorized to be paid is as follows:
1. Interest due October 1st, 1868, and afterwards,
on Uonds dated prior to May 20th, 1861.
2. Interest due October 1st, 1868, and afterwards.
On Bonds dated since JJay 20th, 1865, w hether issued
under authority ' the late provisional or present
permanent government.
Past-Dce Boxds and Interest.
Interest becoming due on 1st of July, 1868, and
prior to that date, on Bonds dated before May 20th,
i861, and since May 20th, 1865, will not be paid in
money, but wi.U ho funded into new six per cent
coupon Bond 8, .dated October 1, 1868, and running
thirty years, either at this office or at the office ot
Messrs. Soutter & Co., New York.
Mutilated or scratched Bonds may be exchanged
for auy of the aforesaid, October 1, l8t8, Bouds ;
but this docs not apply to those co.upon Bonds whih
have been registered .on the books of the Treasury
Department, duly witnessed by the Public Treasurer,
unless regularly transferred to the bearer or to the
holder.
Past due Bonds, with interest until October 1.
18H8, may be exchanged for New Bonds of the same
Oet. 1, 1868.) date.
'Certificates for balances (Lie holders .OA ajuch exchan
ges will be given, exchangeable for Bonds asaforesaid.
The privileges of the exchanges above mentioned
will expire on the 1st OctoSer. 1869.
D. A. JENKINS, Public Treasurer.
October 19, 1868 3w
CHAS. F. HARRIS,
Of Concord, with ELIAS & COHEN,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Will be pleased to see bis friends from Cabarrus and
the aurrouadisg country.
The bet, cheapest and largest stock of Dry Goods.
Clothing, Boots, Hats aud Miscellaneous Goods to be
found in the City of Charlotte.
House open at all hours and efforts made to please.
Oct. 28, I8W
North Carolina News.
The N. C. Baptist Stati Convention.
The thirty-eighth session of this body ss held
in Hilbboro, week before last. In the absence
of Rev. James McDaniel, of Fayatteville, who
has presided over its deliberations for so many
years, Rev. S. G. Mason, of Yanceyville, Cas
well county, was elected President of the Con
vention. Rev. J. L. Carroll, of Oxford, was
elected Secretary. Quite a large and respecta
ble delegation, representing the different sections
of the State, was present. Rev. J. B. Jeter. D.
P.. of Richmond. Va.. Rev. John A. Broadus.
D. D.. of S. C, and Rev. T. B. Kingsbury, of
Tennessee, wore present. We learn that liberal
contributions have been made to several benevo
lent enterprises uuder the control of the denomi
nation. The next session of the Convention will
be helcHn Newbern. in November, 1869.
The dedication services of the new Baptist
Church building just completed took place on
Tuesday night, and the sermon preached on that
occasion by Rev. T. II. Pritchard, D. D.. of this
city, was very highly spoken of. The church
edifice is said to be one of the finest of its size
in the State, and its completion at this time re
flects great credit upon the Baptists of Hillsboro.
We learn from a delegate that the citizens of
Hillsboro sustained their time honored reputa
tion for hospitality, and that they had made am
ple preparations for the accommodation of a much
larger number of delegates than was present.
Raleigh Sentinel.
Ann M<on Acquitted. The trial of Ann
Melton, charged as an accomplice to the murder
of Laura Foster took place at Wilkesboro. at
the late term of the Superior Court, and she was
tcquitted. The unfortunate woman had suffered
ibout two years imprisonment, and if guilty, she
las been severely punished, and the gallows
vould have added little to her punishment.
Thus ends this wofnl tragedy. Statesvillc Amer
ican. fi- The Conference of the Methodist Protes
tant Church of the District of North Carolina,
will be held with the Church at Mount Pleasant,
Guilford county, on the 2d day of December,
1868.
A Great Mill Suit. Judge Buxton was
engaged one whole week in trj'ing a dispute be
tween John P. Little aud P. N. Stanback, of
Richmond county, removed to this county, where
plaiutiff alleges damage from the erection or en
largement of a dam by defendant, both having
mills on the name stream. Some seventy wit
nesses altogether have been summoned and arc
in attendance. IVadesboro Argus.
Mr Nicholas N. Nixon, an old and valued
citizen of Wilmington, died in that city week
before last. lie has been suffering for years
past vitL Mn(i, v h Iuu Una Anally caused his
death.
J5- The Cuban insurrection turns out no
suiaLl maitar. The revolutionists appear to ex
ist in large numbers, and they have made their
recklessness sufficiently apparent in the destruc
tion of a town by fire, aud in maintaining one or
two fights with the Captain Geueral'9 troops.
MILLER WANTED.
I want to employ a good Miller one who can run
a Flour, Grist or Saw Mill. Reference a3 to good
character must be furnished by applicants.
Apply to me at my residence.
Oct 'J6, 1868. A. B. DAVIDSON.
GROCERIES, &c.
W. H. II. GREGORY,
At J. Y. Brycc Co Old Stand, Charlotte, JV. C.,)
Is now receiving a large and general assortment of
Groceries and other Goods, which he offers to the
public at low rates for cash or in exchango for Pro
duce. Iron Cotton Ties and Ropo,
Bagging, Iron and Nails,
Sugar, Coffee, Molasses and Salt,
Leather, Hardware aud Crockery,
Liquors of all sorts best qualities,
Champaigne Wines extra brands,
Spiced Oysters, Sardines, &c.
He keeps everything usually found in a Grocery and
Provision Store; ajsid .as his stock was selected by
himself in person, he can recommend it to be of the
first quality.
Oct 12, 18C8. W. II. H. GREGORY.
Buckwheat Flour.
A supply. of a first-rate article just received by
W. II. H. GREGORY,
Oct 19, 1868. at J. Y. Brye & Co's old stand.
G. D. Broom,
Of Union County, with J. Kuck & Co.
NEW STOCK.
J. Kuck & Co.,
Have on hand a large assortmtnt of GROCERIES,
which they will sell low for cash, consisting of
5,000 Pounds Iron Ties,
2 Bales Bagging,
3,000 rounds Bacon, clear rib,
50 Boxes Candles,
A large lot of Fish in barrels, half-barrels
and kits.
Fine lot of Crockery Wre,
Cheese, Sugar and Coffee all grades,
Molasses all kinds.
Bunch Yarn, Sheeting and Shirting.
They have all kinds of goods generally kept in a first
class Grocery Store.
Oct 20, 1868. J. KUCK & CO
READ THIS.
We ask the farmers to call at our place in the Navy
Yard, and examine our stock of
PLOWS, HARROWS, WHEAT FANS,
Corn Shellers, Feed Cutters, and Cider Mills. Ye
call especial attention to our COTTON SCRAPER.
Also, to th best Farm and Road Wagons all made
in Charlotte, N.
COOK 4 ELLYSON,
Manufacturers and dealer in all kinds of farming
tools, Charlotte, N. C.
Oct 26, 1868.
AGENTS WANTED.
Send 15 cents for a specimen number of the CARO
LINA FARMER, containing splendid List of Pre
miums for new subscribers. Active Areata are
making $5 to $10 per day. Addi-ess,
WM. U. BERNARD, Proprietor,
Oct. 26, 1868. Wilmington, N. C.
Mackerel
1 PACKAGES BOSTON NEW MACK
EREL. received and for sale by
STENHOCBE, MAC A CLAY CO.
Oct. 19, J 868.
Slurs 021 Women.
At a recent meeting in this city, at which no
ladies were present, a man, ia responding to the
toast on "woman," dwelt almost aulely on the
frailty of the sex, claiming that the. best among
them were little better than the wof the'ehitf
difference being in the surroundings.
At the conclusion of the speech a gentleman
present rose to his feet, and said :
'I trust the gentleman in the application of
his remark, refers to his own mother and sisters,
and not to ours."
The effect of this most just and timely Tebuke
was overwhelming, the maligner of women was
covered with coaluaion and aharae.
1 his incident serves ao .excellent purpose in
prefacing a few words which we have for a long
time had it in our mind to say.
Of all the evils prevalent among men, we know
of oae more blighting in its moral effects than
the tendency to Bp'eak slightly of the virtue of
women. Nor is there anything in which young
men are so thoroughly mistaken as the low esti
mate they form of the integrity of woman not
of their own mothers and sisters, thank God. but
of others, who, they forget, are somebody else's
mothers and sisters.
As a rule, no person who surrenders to this
debasing habit is safe to be trusted with any en
terprise requiring integrity of character.
Plain wnids should be spoken on this point
for the evil is a general one, aud deep rooted.
If young men are sometimes thrown into the
society of thoughtless or lewd women they have
no more right to measure all other women by
what they see of these than they would have to
estimate the character of honest and respcctablo
citizens by the developments of crime iu our po
lice jconrt.
Let young men remember that their chief hap
piness of life depends upon their utter faith in
women. No worldly wisdom, no misanthropic
philosophy, no generalization, can cover or weak
en this fundamental truth. It stands like the
record of God itself for it is nothing less than
this aud t-hould put an veduating seal upon
lips that arc wont to speak slightly of woman.
1'ackard's M"nth'y.
The Antiquity of Man.
At a recent meeting of the Chicago Academy
of Science, some interesting facts were intro
duced to prove the great antiquity of the human
race. Deep down in the Nile, in Egypt, it was
stated that the remains of men had been found,
to which the Pyramids were young. In 1854
borings were made between Ileliopolis and Mem
phis. They were carried to the depth of 72
feet, and did not pierce through the Nile mud.
At every foot fragments of pottery were found.
The deposits of mud is calculated to have been
two and a half inches in a century. The pieces
of pottery found at the lowest depths would thus
be 38.000 years old. Compare! wi h it the
'J hobos of Homer weie modern. During the
past season in California, iu the gold drift h.-s
been found a skeleton of a man covered with
three overflows of lava. If true, it carried back
the epoch of the introduction of man to a remoter
time than any European observations. While
there are abundant evidences of glacitatiou of
great parts of this continent these phenomena
were wanting in California as though the Rocky
mountains acted as a barrier Dut glaciers
covered vast areas of the Sierra Nevada and
crusneu up ioe goia strata ana carried tncni
down. The -grinding up might be referred to
the glacial period. It was probable that com
parative tranquility followed thfie violent phe
nomena. The valleys were filled with mortified
drift. Those deposits served mainly as the grave
of the fossil elephant, while the mastcdon was
Ioudu in swamps. At Natchez there was a ter
race of sixty feet, where Dr. Nixon obtained the
pelvic bone of a man intermingled with bones of
the mastedon and meeatnnx.
Married Without Gloved. A few days
since, a young gentleman and young lady ap
pcarcd at the parsonage of an eminent clergyman
of this city, for the purpose of having iheir re
spective destinies united in the holy bonds cf
matrimony. Everything being ready, the clergy
man aforesaid was about- to proceed with the
ceremony, when the young lady discovered that
she was minus the kid gloves so necessary on
such an occasion, whereupon she requested her
affianced to hasten to a store and procure (he in
dispeusable kids, telling him to "be in a hurry
or she might change her mind." The clergy
man, witnesses, and intended bride, waited some
time for the return of the youth with theglovet-;
he didn't come. They waited longer, and stili
he failed to put in ao appearance. The mattei
at last becoming really serious and alarming, the
clergyman took his hat and proceeded, poM
h-iste, in search of the truant lover, whom he
found aftr a diligent search and many inquiries,
quietly seated on the veranda of the Park House,
with his feet elevated on the back of a chj-.ir.
and very deliberately puffing a cigar. On beinj:
asked to explain his singular conduct, he care
lesfily remarked that he "was waiting to see if
she was going to change her mind." Thry were
married, however, at last, after two hours' delay.
Otloica (IU.) Republican.
A Lion at Large. Considerable alarm was
caused a few days ago at Nottingham, England,
by the escape of a lion from Mr Whittington's
menagerie, which is exhibiting in the heingt n
New Market during the Goowj-fair holidays It
appears thut early iu the afternoon, Metaui, the
African lion hunter, was parading a fall grown
puma, or South American lion (which is con
sidered harmiess) on the stage outside the es
tablishment, when the animal caught sirrbt of a
dog held by a lad in the crowd- .Breaking away
from Metani it sprang off the st3ge oa the dog
and killed it almost instantly. The people tied
in all directions, and the puma, teeing another
dog at a short distance off, rubbed at it and dis
patched it as" quickly as it had done the first.
Metaui here succeeded in securing the animal,
which was led back to the menagerie with the
dead dog in its mouth. Some difficulty was ex
perienced in opening the animal's jaws to get
the dog away. Strange to say. the lad who held
the dog first killed escaped unhurt, nor did any
other person receive injury.
The past Spring, Summer and Fall has been
more favorable to agricultural operations than
for ten years previous.
Agricultural.
Deep Pall Ploughing.
At the meeting of th Massachusetts State
Board of Agriculture, last winter, the matter of
fall ploughing waa fully discussed, and . the
weight of upinn-n decidedly teemed in favor of
deep ploughing of heavy land. Mr Hubbard,
Of liriUificld, found in hit experience in the cul
tivation of certain crops, that the fall ia the best
time to plough the ground; he thought that all
will concede the fact that the land, if it is heavy,
clayey soil, can be worked much earlier in the
pnoby putting the manure oa and ploughing
it in the tall. IJ c did not car How soon it is
put on after t&e rop is taken of; hit advice was
to "spread it -on aud plough it in; and so far as
my experience goes, 1 have got a better crop in
that way than by allowing the land to remain
until spring, and then putting the manure on and
ploughing it in."
Mr Ward, of Monsoo, thought that much de
pends upon the ground to be ploughed, whether
it ia ploughed in the fall. "If you have a tough,
hard piece of ground that you desire to break up
it ia belter to plough ia the fall; the f rost has
cousidcrable eilect upon the hard soil, and I do
not think there is any very great loss by the
wind blowing over the suriace soil. I think a
light soil may as well be ploughed ia the spring
as iu the full."
Mr Thatcher of Lee, ia speaking of deep
ploughing, in describing a subsoil attachment for
a plough said: "We are now using io southern
Berkshire a plough which turns over the sod
from six to seveu inches, with a subsoil attach
ment running from two to four inches, which
docs not lift the virgin soil the first year to the
fcuilace. This attachment, running behind the
mould-board to the depth of four inches, usually
btiiu the wholo width of the furrow to that depth
after we have turned over the sod. Our idea is.
that by loose niug the subsoil by this attachment
we enable the raiu to soak down through, which
they would not do, our subsoil being clay, (which
will not take in water unices the earth was loos
ened.) and our com roots ruu dowu there to get
their moisture. The effect of manure is felt
there; aud the second year, when we come to
plough up again after this stirring of the subsoil,
we drop our plows down and throw up a part of
it. I think we certainly in our northern coun
try derive a benefit by stirring the soil the first
year, aud very great benefit without lifting it to
the surface, and then lifting it to the surface and
mixing it in the succeeding plowing. I havo
in my mind now a six acre piece, which would
not half-feed a cow through the season. Wa
could not get nioro than four or five inches of the
soil before we came to hard clay soil, that re
tained the water upou it, making tho land cold,
backward and sour. A tier ditching, that land,
aud putting in s.jmic under drains, (which, of
course, benefitted it without ploughing, we com
tueuced ploughing this land in this way to get
a deeper soil, not using the subsoil atUubmeut
that time, because we did not have it, but using
a common plough, following the furrow after
ward, and lifting one or two inches at a time.
I am speaking within bouuds when 1 say that
tho second year the crop of corn paid twice ovtr
for the labor of ditehiug and double ploughing,
it is as good a piece of land now, I think as can
be found in the town of Lee."
Deep ploughing of bcary lauds, then, with
clayey MtbsoiU, is to be recommended iu autumn,
and u plough which turns tho sod and lifts and
breaks the subsoil, permitting it to fall back into
its place without bringing itto the surface, is the
implement which seems most desirable.- JJasso
thutetts 2JoU'jhmnK,
Salt for Grass,
A coircrtpondent writes tho American Insti
tute Farmers' Club oil the subject, as follows:
"When I was in Australia I noticed that the
trucks made by the drags loaded with salt hides
were always green, even in the severest times of
the long buckficlder8," or hot winds, charged
with dust, that destroy evcrythingthey passover.
lhis led one to think that here was a solution of
the question as to the -b'St dressing for grass
lauds, and it was here I found it. For twelve
beabons 1 have seen it tried upou a variety of land
and grasses, and always with the same results.
From the absorbent qualities of the salt moisture
is attracted aud retained."
How to Graft Grape Vines.
A North Carolina farmer gives, under the
head of -Something Worth Knowing," the fol
;owiug: Cut the grafts sometime between the
1st of December aud the last of January; pack
them .away in a box, bedded in wet sand, and
keep t hem iu a cellar until the leaves of the vine
to be grafted are half growo any how, until the
sap has ceased to flow. Then dig down below
tho collar, or the point where the roots of the
vine radiate, and hunt for the largest and most
thrifty;-cut them looso from the collar and with
peps bring them to a perpondicular position.
Cut off the end smoothly aud graft just as you
would an apple tree, leaving at Yeast two buds or
eyes, and then place a Jarge hill around it, reach
ing to the top of the graft, covering the upper
buds an inch with loope dirt, free from clods; and
then, if the graft fails to grow, it is because the
grafts had lost their vitality before the work was
done. You may have a vine for each runner of
the vine grafted sometimes half a dozen. If
ihe roots are thrifty, they will grow the first
auuitiier from & to 16 feet in length, and yoa
cau thus have a crop of grapes the Becond year.
Wi;d vines are the best to graft in, because in
digenous to tho soil in which they grow, and
know better than a tamo vari-jty at what depth
to strike tneir roots.
Work hard and plough deep w tho -way to
overcome poverty.
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There was a quadruple marriage in ludi.ini
the other day. A mau married his third 6t"v
mother, who had three children by his fcther,
and three of his cousins, brothers, married three
of his wife's sisters. Number one i half brother
to his wife's children.
, i I.
"Yen you're a married man, gammy, yoa'li
understand a great many things you don't un
derstand now; but; vethcr its vorth vile going
through so much to learn so li'tlo, ui thecharTty
boy said ven he got to the jepd of the alphabu t
w a matter of tatc.