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T3I J YATESfl Editor and Proprietor.
firm of SbcTiptio-ln Dollar, in advance.; j
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Western Democrat
- rCBLISIID BT
WILLIAM J. YATES, lEditor . nd Proprietor.;
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jt9 Three Dollar pjer annum in adyance.
Jrertisenients will be inserted at reasonable
or in accordance with contract. , j
Obituary notices or orer; ne lines m lengin win
be eharged for at aUTenismg rates.
Dr.
W. !HJ jHofl&nan,
DENTIST,
i (Late of LtncUnloni N.
't....tfiil!T informs the citixens of Charlotte and
iH public renerallj. that h has permanently loca-
to all calls reUting to his profession,
i .iirrM&ful nractice for more than 10 years
in
this seqtion of country and in the Confederate army
cf Virginia during ihe latei war, warrants him in
promising entire satisfaction to all parties who may
drtire his services.- I I i
paOffice over Smith llammond's Drag Store.
Office hours from 8 A. M. tO;5 P. M.
RtfIKNCt M. P. Pegram. Cashier 1st National
Rank of Charlotte: Dr. Wm! 4loan, Dr. J. H. Mc-AJ-n
and W. J. Yates, Editor Charlotte Democrat.
jn31.18TO Ij
DENTISTRY.
TheoMfirm of ALEXANDER & BLAND is ht
b revive!, at the former stand in Brown's buildi
here-
.;t-the Charlotte. Hotel: Entire satisfaction is
J,.nrrl. anl teeth can be extracted without pain.
The utron.jr of our ld customers is respectfully
olici'ed " f
June t". 170. ,
Robert Gibbon, M.D., i
PHVSIL'IAN ! AND SURGEON. '
fv Office orer Smith A Hammond's Drug Store
.i lnce on College Street.! S
Reiince
Jan 24.: 70.
J. P. McCombs, M. D.,
n. ki nrife!ional sertices to the citizens of
rkrlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both
;rht nJ Jar. rrouiitly attended to.
ijSee ia Urown's building, up stairs, opposite the
Charlotte Hotel. I !
UcfJC, iMiS. ; i '
" Dr. JOHN Hi McADEN,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
i CUARLOTTJS, A. CI,
JI on hand a Urge and well selected stock of PURE
IRC(;S. Chemical. Patent Medicines, family Medi
cine, Paint. Oils. Varnislre's, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and
TmM Article!", which he is determined to sell at the
very lowest prices. j "j
J 1. 1S7Q. j ' -.
W. F. 1 DAVIDSON,
ATTOnCY; AT L. A tV
I Charlotte, N. C,
Office over B. Koopmajis's Store.
Pee 11. lfG'. ' . ly
DR. E. CJ AliEXANDER, I
Charlotte, N. C ,
Of..rlii services as Physician to the citiiens of
Charlrttte and surrounding country.
oee nearly oroosite Charlotte Hotel.
JO- Dr. Alexander) makes a good Cough Mixture,
ieter than any Patent Medicine. Try it.
Watch and Clock Mxkar,
AXI UBALEfe IX
JEWELRY, FIXE. WTCIIES, CLOCKS,
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'. WattA Materials, $prtieht, Jr.
Aug. 19, 18C7. ; CHARLOTTE, N. C.
MANSION
HOUSE,
Charlotte, N. C.
This wril-knowa House having been newly fur
ihfd and refitted in every (department, is now open
for the accommodation of the
77U YKLING PUBLIC. ,
tf?i.Omnihu!es at the Depot on arrival of Trains.
Jn21. 1870. j j II. C. ECCLES.!
B R. SMITH: & CO, j
General 'commission Merchants,
6(J A7 Street, Dostov, Mass., j
For tbe sale of Cotton, Cotton Yarn. Naval Stores,
&c, and tbe purchase of Gunny Cloths and Merchan
dise generally. I
Liberal Cah advances made on consignments to
us. and all usual facilities offered.
W hope by fair and honest dealing, and our best
efforts to please, to receive from our friends that en
eourarement which it shall be our aim to merit. J
Orders solicited and promptly filled for Gunny
Bapging, Fish, Boots and Shoes. &e., Ac.
i IUriK BT pEJlt8IO TO
Jshn Demerritt. Esq.'. PresJ Eliot Nat. Bank, Boston.
Loringi Reynolds, 110 Pearl St., Boston.
Murchisen & Co., '207 Pearl St.. New York.
J V Bryee & Co., Charlotte, SC. !
R Y McAdeo. Esq., Pres. Ut Nat. Bank! Charlotte.
T W Dewey & Co., Bankers, Charlotte, N C.
R M OatVs i Co.. Charlotte N C.
WiUiamWA Murchison. Wilmington. X C. I
Col Wm Johnston. Pres. Charlotte and Augusta Rail
road. Charlotte, N C.
Sept G, 1869. j
j LARGE 'STOCK.
Wittkowsky & Rintels
nve received one of the largest Stocks of Goods
ever offered in this market,! and are receiving week
ly a Uitions, so that they are prepared to supply any
amount f patronage they may be favored with du
ring the Fall and Winter, j j
1 Country Merchants are especially invited to
'1 n 1 examine this Stock of Goods, as they can
1 anything wanted for sticking a country Store
ai ai t'frj reasonable wholesale prices. I
G"euaeall and see our Goods and hear our
Prices before making your purchases. I
WITTKOWSKY & RINTELS.!
JIn 187a , i I
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Stoves. Tin & Sheeting Iron Ware.
Aiway8 on h(lnii th best Stoves in the maTket.
-Pr t Cblorifie, Eicelsior,' Columbia and Live-Oak
booking Stoves. i j I
Cos and Parlor Stoves' .
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware. !
Uollow Wre, Japanese Ware, and various
Housekeeping Articles.1
1 wreand work warranted as represented.
Hh.?'''.1 rMpeetfully solicited, i
FtlfT. 1870. ; , j
i rtACTICAt i
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Surveyors of Distillerhs;? DeuutT
Commissioner Douglas has appointed about one
thousand burreyors of Distilleries, For the van
ous Revenue Districts ; the larger number of
whom are for the Southern States. Their duties
are to survey the whisky and other distilleries
and draft a plan of them all, and forward the
plans to the department. These surveyors work
iu cunjuncuon wun me assessors oi iue aistricrs
to which they are appointed.
Susan Campbell, of St. Louis, has filed a peti
tion for divorce because her husband
whinned
the baby. ; f ' t
,
Mrs. HuWs of Chicago, desires
escape
Huggs's embrace by divorce. !
iriiUJrJbjiiXx rOK BALE.
By order of the Superior Court I will 'proceed to
resell tnat valuable Property Adjoining the large
uncs. iore oi wurroueus a. ounnes ana i iiacs:
on College street, and the residence in rear of and
adioinine the nroDertv of R. M. Miller. II i
w a r 1
This property will be offered on the loth day of
AuguBl at tne Court House door in Charlotte.
M. L. WRISTON,
July 11, 1870. Commissioner,
Turnip Seed. !
Fresh Turnip Seeds of the crop of July, 1870, con
sisting of the following varieties: I
Flat Top White, Ruta Baga,
Flat Top Purple, Golden Ball,
Large White Globe, Yellow Aberdeen,
For sale at SCARR'S DRUG STORE.
July 18, 1870. j M
Landreth's Turnip Seed-
White Flat Dutch,
Large Norfolk,
White Flat Red Top,
Seven Top. 1 J i
KILGORE & CURETON'S,
i
Just received at
July 18, 187a
Springs' Corner.
Turnip Seed.
Received this day, a supply of fresh Turnip Seed
; Large White ftorfolk, j Red Top,
White Globe, Ruta Baga,
Golden Ball, ) i
At " WILSON & BLACK'S,
June 27, 1870. Drug Store.
j j Come to the Springs.
Sariitfgf Water on Draught at Afc Aden's
Vomer Drug Store, freh from the Springs
ticice a week. j ; I
This water is brought from the Springs in g&B-
t'ght Reservoirs, lined with pure block tin, and is
forced out at our counter precisely as it flows from
the Spring. It is invaluable, removing and prevent
ing, by its aperient and alterative effects, the in
cipient forms of disease. - It is used with 'great suc
cess in Dv?ieDsia. Constipation, affection of the
Liver and Kidneys, Scrofula and cutaneous affections.
r or sale on draught and by the bottle at )
! i Mc ADEN'S CORNER DRUG STORE,
Julv 11. 1870. ! Charlotte, N. C.
. H. C. ECCLE8, .
T. H.
GAITHKB,
of Iredell county, N,
C.
of MocksviHe,
N.
! ECCLES & GAITHERJ
Auctioneers and Commission Merchants,
I i Charlotte. N- C, t il
For the. sale and purchase of Cotton, Tobacco, Grain,
Flour, Produce and Merchandize of all kinds, Mansion
House Building, Charlotte. N. C.
RcrKRKNCES T. W. Dewey & Co., Bankers
M.
P. Pegram, Cashier, First National Bank;
w.
N.
J.
Yates, Editor "Western Democrat,' Charlotte,
C.
March 28, 1870.
New Hardware Store.
Mclaughlin & walterjbrem,
', ' i Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY,
-j Corner Trade and Try on Streets,
;! j Under Mansion House, j '
! G II A KLOTTE, IV . C.
; ' joe Mclaughlin,
April 18, 1870. y WALTER BREM
! 1 BINGHAM SCHOOL,
j MEBANEV1LLE, N. C.
Th Spion of 1870-'71 opens Aueust 24th. it For
Catalozue address Col. .WM. BINGHAM,
June 20, 1870 6w
Mebaneville, N. C
I Dress "Goods.
Fresh arrival of Ladies' Dress Goods ofj
all .kinds,
Much as Silk Poplins. Colored Silks, &c.
A lane stock of Gents' Cassimeres, fine cioms,
Vmtintrn. Ac. I
Ladies' Tucked Skirts, new style iioop oains, anu
Hoftierv. Gloves. &c. received at
I 1 . Hardware.
Corn Shellers, Straw Cutters,
Scvthe Blades of the best aualitr.
Grain Cradles,
Ames' Shovels,
Ames Steel Spades, and many other articles in the
- - r-
Hardware line, at
May 16. 1870.
BARRINGER & WOLFE'S
i ! COTTON GINS.
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HI; CHARLOTTE, N. C, June 18, 1870.
Messrs.' Brkx. Broww & Co : Gentlemen: We,
the undersigned. Cotton buyers and Grocery dealers
of this City, have bought cotton ginned on the Gul-
lett Steel Brush Gin, and have found it to be free
from trash and dirt, and of superior lintj (fibre unl
broken and free from nap.) and good cotton sold for
half a cent per pound and poor and stained cotton
from one to two-cents per pound over cotton of the
same classification ginned on other Gins. I
Oatks, Sakdsrs & Qatrs,
Steshousk, Uacaclat k Co.
j E. M. Holt k Son,
r J. Y. Brtcr k Co.
Xgy- We are Agents, and keep on hand a supply
of the above Gins. Any one in want of a Gin should
call and examine them before buying.
Call or send for Circular ! I ;
I I BREM, BROWN i CO.
Jane 20, 1870 4m
I MERCHANTS
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK.
WM. T. PHIPPS. IA. D. HOLLY,
S : President. j . Sctary.
i T. C. DrLEON, Superintendent of Agencies.
On the Mutual- Plan.
All Policies NbN-FORFElTABLK
No restrictions on TRAVEL, nor on RESIDENCE.
Charlottr Aorxct, Tryon Street, neit
I h National. Bank.
oor to the
Rorzrt Gibro.v, il. D., Medical Examiner.
JAMES G. HARRIS,
CHARLOpTTEy T. G;j TUESDAY, ! AUGUST I
Honorary. Degrees
The Evident Beauties of the System,
You part with your friend Tompkins at night
in excellent bumor. , Tompkins has been
member of Congress, or has published a treatise
I on the Digamma. or has read essays before th
I Social Science Association. It is not j for these
i 'ug' vuai, juu ji.c xuiupius, uyt uecause ne
is a pretty good fellow. Next morning you meet
yuur ineuu uu iue street, xiis lace oeams wun
Jt it.' i i IT!. 1 j . "
some nnwontea Dieasure. x ou Droner vour
hand, and say "How are you, Tomkins V Sud
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ueoiy you ooserve inai ine warm pressure or
your paim is nos returnea. uis countenance
becomes grim. You don't understand his
change of manner, bat, as you are1 hurrying to
1 : l : i 1 i '
W bat is the matter I Simply this. Tompkins
made L.D. by the Frogtown TJiiiver-
I Bll,j -aue iacb was puoiisnea dv me morning
i paucro, wmcu you saimmea over nurrieaiv i mer-
enrv at 96 WrePsY and vnn liln'i: diSpnifi.
Li.I i:
that bit of intelligence the important item of
the day, as JLoropkins thinks. You did not call
him doctor. Without suspecting the cause.
you alienated your old friend, and, the cord of
amity that bound you will stay broken until you
mend it by addressing him as Doctor Tompkins,
and congratulating him on the honor to which
he has arrived. But the mischief caused by
the title is not all repaired even then! Tomp
kins being an LL.D., is constrained to appear
"as sich." His new dignity must be
properly
worn. His jolly lauuh must be toned
down to
a decorous smile. tie becomes distressingly
circumspect of speech. You no longer hear
from him the old jokes for which he was famous.
Gravity and its companion, dullness, j have pos
sessed the man. You can no longer poke him
in the ribs, or playfully tip his hat over his eyes.
The consciousness that your friend is an LL.D.
stays the point of your cane oryour hand in mid
air. x ou teei that a great gull now separates
you from the Tompkins of your youth I and ma-
turer years.
j I
The Secretary of the Treasury at Washington
has appointed three female clerks to first-class
clerkships at a salary of SI, 200 a year instead of
$900. These are the first females who! have ever
been regularly commissioned as clerks at a salary
of 81,200. j j
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JST" The Hillsboro' Recorder says there is
a lady living in that vicinity who has seen 111
summers, and that she has livinsr with her a
daughter who is 80.
The roan who ate his dinner with the fork of
a! river has been trying to spin a mountain top.
Just Received ,! j
Apple Parers to core and slice, at the
Hardware
Store of
BREM, BROWN & CO.
July 25, 1870
8w
LAND FOR SALE.-
jA Tract of LAND containing One Hundred and
Sixty-five Acres, five miles from Charlotte on the
Statesville Railroad a fair proportion of wood lanu,
good meadow and branch bottom good, grain and
cotton lands. t
Also. One Thousand Acres of first-rate Cotton
Lands in Fairfield county, South Carolina, can be
divided into several tracts. ' i -
, a ;vr be i lu o iuu dibibuiaio .uui ens,
i J. C. CALDWELL,
Oladden's Grove, Fairfield county, S. C.
July 25, 1870 2m
Griswold's Improved Cotton Gins
for sale. J j
Manufactured at Macon, Ua. JKvery one war-
raniea.
Call and examine before buying.
We warrant them equal to any Gin made in the
United States. One always on "hand for inspection
July 25, 187TK2m E. M. HOLTi & SON.
Elk Mountain Cheese
-If Ifk ELK MOUNTAIN CHEESE, just received
JLW at ' -. ' v,. ,.
I July 25, 1870. D. G. MAXWELL'S
Turnip Seed.
. i
A fresh supply of Turnip Seed just ! received-at
McADEN'S CORNER DRUG STORE, consisting of
the following varieties : i !
Flat Dutch,- - , unite Nortoilt,
Red or Purple Top, ' White Globe,
Yellow Globe and Ruta Baga.
June 18, 1870.
Jt H. McADEN.
DAVIDSON COLLEGER
Its Collegiate year will begin September 8th, 1870.
Annual Tnnapa fnr Tuition. Board J&C. 2145
to' $200. ' ij ;
Foa "Bachklok or Senses there! will be a
three years course independent of the Ancient Lan
guages. . . . .. IH.,.,
I A catalogue, or particular information win do sent
by tbe Rev. G. W. McPuail, D. D , LL. D.j President.
Post Office Davidson College, JX.,U. m
July 25, 1870 4w !
Ei
M. HOLT.
E. M- HOLT
LJ! S.
& SON.
HOLT.
(Successors to -E. M. Holt & Co.,)
Grocers & Commission Merchants,
I CHARLOTTE, N C
0ar stock of Groceries is complete in every de
partment, and we hope by strict attention to tbe
want of onr customers to merit the continuance of
the liberal patronage bestowed On us during the past
Wanted. I
Cotton, Corn, Bacon, Ac, Ac, tor w men we pay tne
: - - m I .
highest cash prices.
A mti for 1011 s I arn, coeeiinz. ir lams, o-c
Also, for tbe unrivalled Brands of i lour made at
our own Mills. , i ,i
It will be to your interest to see us before buying
or selling. i
I June 20, 1870.
State ! of North Carolina, Catawba county-
Superior Court CUrk a Omce.
Alfred K. Finger, Administrator oi iienry rmger,
dee'd, vs. J. F. Finger, D. F. Finger eU aU
Petition to sell Land to make Assetta M. L. Mc-
Corkle, Attorney for Petitioner. (! J
It annearinz to the satisfaction of the undersigned
Clerk, that D-i F. Finger, one of the abovjs named
defendants, is 'a non-resident of this State and can
not be reached by the ordinary process of law, it is
therefore ordered that publication be made for six
successive weeks m the "Western Democrat," a
weekly newspaper published in the City of Charlotte,
N C. for said Defendant to be and appear before
th Tlerk of this Court; at office in the Town of
Newton, on the 1st Monday in September next, and
answer Plaintiff's petition, otherwise judgment will
betaken i gainst him according to prayer of peti
tioner. '.!' i l
"1----
Boys
and Girls.
Boys and girls are 'not the same, j They are
born different and snow it while they are infants,
The boy-baby is restless and uneasy in his
mother's arms. lie is never still except when
asleep and even then tumbles from side to side
in his crib with sudden flinjrs of arms and less.
When' he grows beyond babyhood he plays dif
ferently, i N Uhout ever being told oi it he in
stinctively (turns 'away from dolls; lays them
aside in indifference, and freely donates them to
whatever little girl will have them. I He de
mands balls and bats and drums; hi turns down
for horses,' lays hold on all the strings in the
house for lines: wants all the little sticks made
into wnips, mounts lounges ana drives lour in
hand; he asks for guns, and wants you to tell
him stories of bears and lions and tigers, and is
amused : beyond measure at their leaping upon
and eating: up cows and oxen. The eirl-babv is
gentle.leven from the first, and looks quietly out
of the blue eyes, or laughingly out of the dark
ones. I fohe takes naturally to her dolls, and
never wearies of dressing them and I arranging:
the baby-house; she is gentle in her I plays, and
would be frightened with ythat would fill her
brothei' with a paroxysm of delight; she loves
fairy tales and will not laugh and ask some ab
surd question about the babes in the wood, but
rather cries'over their sorrows. The sister will
smooth pussy and hold lovingly in her lap, while
the brother wants to see if the cat can jump, and
when she tries to get out of his undesirable com
pany Will detain her by the leg or tail. And
these same divergencies or disposition and char
acter perpetuate themselves as the boy or girl
grows older.' "There are exceptions, it is true ;
some boys have all the tastes and gentleness of
a feminine nature, and some girls have much
that is masculine. ! I do not regret seeing it in
each.. The! gentle boy will not make any the
less'nople man because ther'e wasso much that
was' girl-like! in his childhood, nor will the girl
that was, in, her rudeness, often called a boy, be
any I the less but perhaps all the more, a true and
lovely woman. I. :i : ;- - i ; ji
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An Old Newspaper.
very old newspaper is in the possession jof
fDr. j H
Besse, of Delaware, Ohio. It is a
copy of the. New" England Courant, and bears
date "from
Monday, Feb. 4, to Monday, Feb
11,11723"
1 he paper is therefore over one
hundred and forty-seven years old. . It is print
ed on coarse material, jvery much resembling in
texture andi! appearance' thatj on which Confed
erate newspapers were printed in the stress of
war-time. The type is of the real antique style,
and looks odd enough; to the eye familiar with
the! modern 'clear-cut Roman'. Hut that which
gives most Interest to! this strange relic of the
past, says a Delaware paper, is the fact stated in
the fallowing imprint: "Printed and sold by
Beniamin Franklin in Queen street, where ad
vertisements are taken in." Franklin was tfbrn
in 1706. He was, therefore, at the time of the
publication of this sheet,' seventeen years of age;
In the course if a short introductory article the
editor says! ; VThe main design of this weekly
paper j will be to! entertain, the town with the
most comical and; diverting incidents of human
life, which,!in so: large a place as Boston, will
not fail of a universal exemplification.' Nor
shall we be wanting to fill up these papers with
a grateful interpersioh of . most serious morals,
which may be drawn from the most ludicrous
and odd parts oi me. t 'Ine advertisements are
cuHous. Here is a specimen: x f . !
'A Servant Boy s . 'tim for 4 years to be dis
posed ol. lie is about 1U years oi Age, and can
keep Accounts. Enquire &t the Blue Ball in
Union otreet and; known iurtner.
The editor makes the following gratifying an-
nouncement : I j -H ; . ;
f'Tbis Paper , having ntet with so generalxin
Acceptance in Town and Country as to require
a tar greater nuniDer oi iqem j ue priuieu, mau
thre (is of other public j Papers jand it being
besides more generally readily a vast number of
Borrowers, who do notUake it in, the Publisher
thinks proper to give this' public Notice for the
ouragement ot tnose wuo would nave Aaver-
tiseniBntainserted in tne dudiic I'nnts, wnicn
they mayNhive punted in this Paper at a moder-
ate Price." '
:h X. ", -r !-.;
A Cry For Mkn. A loud cry comes up
from the great fashiotiable resorts of the North.
Though these places areKdaily filled up" with
women, adorned with the mbat costly trappings
and armed with all the inplementsof matrimonial
warfare, yet the number of men coming in is
comparatively small. The cry is forvVbeaux,"
but the "beaux" adopting jthe more sensible plan
of going off Histicating in the country aniHhe
mountains instead of going through the convepvl
tional routine of life at Long Branch j and Cape
May, permit the cry to go unheeded. The
Flora McFleinseys are mcpnsolable, for what M
life at a watering place without the biped with
breeches? , . J . ' - i
Penple are advised' not to go to boarding
houses in the countrV kept bv old maids, ii
thev do. thev will find t
mf; I mf
tie accommodatiOBS oi
the plainest, ant the food
itvJ The kerosene in the
of the cheapest qaal-
lamps will be watered,
and warranted to go out before you have looked
under the bed. and if vou should make any com
plaint,' you will be told to leave immediately, as
there are parties waiting for your rooms. j
A fashion' paper speaks of The coming bon
net" j Well, let it come, lof tnere nave Deen po
bonnets to speak of foyeas. ;
The greatest pleasurefin life is love; tbe
oreatest treasure contentrient ; the greatest ease
sound sleep ; and the best medicine, a true friend.
Lightning Peach Parers,
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Just received at the Hardware Store of
BREM, BROWN CO.
Moveable Tooth Saw.
One 46 inch Moveable Tooth Saw for sale at the
Hardware Store of j ! H : ,
4!
ug. 1, 1870 2w 1 j BREM, BROWN & CO. ,
Wool! Wool!!
We want to purchase a large amount of WOOL,
for which we will pay the highest market price.
I McMCRRAY. DAVIS k CO
June 27L ?870, . X. ' ! . ; I
9, 1870;
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The Phenomena of i Heat
We copy the following am using article from
the New York World.
It may urnish some
perspiring reader with a cooling suggestion:
When the greatest consolation one can hare
in July is that it may be cooler in August, one
may ue saia to. De in anything but a hopeful
frame of mind ; and it may fairly be said that
the anchor of the soul is! pulling him down by
iue .iccia ium; uespair. ij j jj t -j
There are several little pecnliarities of heat
which are worth noticing as being of value, not
only to the scientist, but also to him who Buffers
from them. It is, for instance,! taste in feeling
as well as in science; that heat is the repulsive
principle of matter none more repulsive in such
weather as this but how it comes to pass that
scientifio men, proverbially audacious persons,
dare to say that heat is directly opposed to co
hesion is the wonder. ; j j .
j Heat is said to expand all bodies, and, to, be
sure, it does expand sonie. Faces grow long,
the days! lengthen, and jte incomes of the ven
dors of lager beer expand directly as the heat
and inversely as the square of the cold. But
the heat contracts, and the feelings of humanity
diminish with woeful j velocity. Diseases 'are
readily contracted, as are .debts for Chinese fans
and saloon bills. But then all siffns fail in drv
weather; and something must be Granted to the
perversity of things which will not always per
mit themselves to be explained and classified.
Heat seeks an equilil rium ,in three modes,
viz: 'conduction, as when you swelter frightfully
in a horse-car; conviction which takes place
only with liquids and gnses, as; when you put ice
in your sherry cobbler; j abd radiation, as when
you sit near a large fat woman' dressed in black
suk ana carrying apoodiej in Her arms. Bodiea
differ in conducting powel" ; f thus one can hardlv
hold a brass pin for a moment in the flame of a
lamp without burning his finger, while a piece
of glass tubing may thus jbe held for some time
without great inconvenience. This is the reason
why, when a bar tender puts a 'glass straw" in
your jnlep, he first sticks the end which is to
enter your mouth. in theUiquid. The densest
bodies are generally the bjest Conductors, which
accounts for horse railway companies putting the
most densely stupid people in pat office ; also
it is the reason why phlegmatic Teutons don't
curse the heat as much as the nervous Ameri
cans do. . It would thus i appear that porous
bodies are bad conductors of heat, as the persons
: i : ' i ' ..i bin
wno pour us oui, our cooi poooiers.
An. excellent non conductor of heat is class.
It will therefore be found convenient immedi
ately after having emerged from a refrigerator,
or having taken a lemonade, to I stand on glass
tumblers for two or three hours, and wear a glass
hat, which may be dbtained of any good glass
blower at a trifling expense, j This fact explains
also the reason why- energetic radicals lire Bar
much in glass houses. 4 ','; - x
! ' The absorption of heat is much affected by
Color. Dr. Franklin was the first to call atten
tion to the fact that black absorbs the most and
white the least, and, with (hat practical way in
which the author of " Poor j Richard" looked up
on everythingjthe doctor instantly Wrote to the
Academy of Sciences, at Pris, urging the pro
priety of having black waiters instead of white
ones at large hotels in summer, r It was fecund
that the blacks absorbed so- much heat that the
guests were actually left out in the - cold, which
was so great aj discovery that the hotel-keepers
nz, watering piaces sun Keep up tne practice in
itiated by it. j p j :- : ' V ':i '
1 1 Liquors are the worst co iductors of heat, and
in some countries, when he weather is very
warm? girls returning fromjthe well where they
have drawn water.- frequently carry their buck
ets , on their heads, which' jis " said to prevent
many cases of sunstroke., pi ilk is also used for
the same purpose in many 'spctions of the coun
try Alnm is also an excellent non-conducforr
and might be convenient!
f
used for umbrellas
and parasols.
I
He Parts His Hair jin the Middle.
j At last wenow the 'real! cause of the removal
of Mr Motley, Minister' to England, and we feel
relieved to be assured that he is not withdrawn
tor navmg written nis own
instructions. It
seems he parts his hair iajhe (middle ; and old
Zach Chandler, who wept all ihe way to London
to make this discovery, had bo sooner become
aware of this astounding weakness on the part
of our Minister than he rushed to Washington
from London, brimful of good old Michigan in
dignation and depanded the head whose cover
ing was thus divided in defiance of every Amer
ican sentiment of manhood and propriety. What
could the President say f j Gould he hope1, to
make anybody believe that a man who parted his
hair in the middle could correctly represent the
merican people in an argument on tne Ala
bama claims? Did not. this very fashion of
partinthe hairjat once and forever acknowledge
the supmnacy of England n matters great and
little, and hylinference yield tbe point in dis
pute 1 ' No maucould soberly argue against this
view, and the President, gate way, and Motley s
head falls to the
proi
of old Zach. But if a
man who parts bis hai
n the middle is preju-
diced toward 'Xinglish
thought, is not one who
parts his hair
against them ?
in any .owe way prejudiced
And will not England make this
objection 1 Then we shall have tossend a bald
headed man, and Ben Butler will come in the
foreground as probably the baldest beaded man
in ine repuDiicau party. jiv. jj. uertMu.
Let the Bots have Tools. We heartily
endorse the following, which we extract from an
article on iiiecnanicai xxecreanons id tne
Scientific American : I ( j ' j .
"Every man who can afford it should supply
his boys with tools, and a room where they may
be used and cared fori A boy takes to tools as
naturally as to green apples, or surreptitious and
forbidden amusements i and ten to one if he has
4 chance to develope pis mechanical tastes and
gratify thenrto their full extent, his tendencies
to vicious courses win remain unaeveiopea.
Such a result is enough to compensate, for all
the expense and trpuble the indulgence we re
commend would entail!; while the chances that
the early development of his constructive facul-
ties may in this mechanical age be the means
by which he may ultimately
. I . . . . hi i
climb to fame and
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lorvuue are nub Buiau.
NINETEENTH VOLUME N U II BE II 934.
Agricultural
Keep Plowing Under. ,
A Georgia farmer, in 18G5, fenced in a field
of ten acres of land worn out, and plowed It in
Jane and sowed it to wheat in September, and
at harvest time got four,, bushels to the acre.
The next season there was a fair crop of weeds.
These were plowed under ani wheat tried again.
Thi yield, per acre, was nine bushels. The same
process the succeeding year produced seventeen
bushels per acre, and the last year twenty-seven
bushels. As no mention is made about the use
of clover, these successive croppings and con
stantly increasing yields are somewhat remark
able. It is assured that had the cround teen
subsoiled twenty inches deep, the last yield
would have been doubled. Rochester American
Farmer. ' . . -
" Mulching Bearing Fruit Trees.
There is no doubt now by our most intelligent
horticulturists about the practical advantages to
be gained by mulching the surface of the orchard
and fruit garden. This should be more generally
practiced in fruit-producing districts, for it is
the least expensive and most effective method ol
protecting the fruit trees against the bad results
often following the frequent and sudden changes
of temperature during the Summer and Fall
months, when the surface of ground is left e
posed to the direct rays of the sun. Again, '
when the mulch is put two or three inches in
thickness, the surface soil is constantly moist and
loose, even when no rain falls for a terra of sev
eral weeks, and the trees or fruit receive no
check for want of moisture and food under such
circumstances.
My method is to cultivate the spaces between
the rows of trees in the orchard, using a small
one horse plow and cultivator, running not moro
than two inches deep, during the early part of
the, season. From the 1st of July I havo put
on a heavy coating of salt hay, covering the sur
face as far as tbe branches extend. After this
there is no mote trouble with weeds and grass.
There may a few scattered opes start up, but
they are easily destroyed.
Hi very lruit-grower knows that two or three
weeks before the time of gathering the main
crop of fruit, fine specimens are constantly fall
ing ott or blown off by strong winds. When the
ground is mulched the mnjority of species are
not bruised Or injured for sale. This saving
alone. I consider, pays me for the trouble of
mulching the orchard.
There is only one serious drawback to the ap
plication of mulch, that is the danger of the hay
or straw getting on fire when rendered dry by
continual warm weather. P. T. Qui NN, in N.
Y. Tiibune. '
To Keep Milk Sweet
A teaspoon ful of fine salt, or of horse radish,
in a pan of milk will keep it sweet for several
d.ijB. Milk can be kept a year or more as sweet
as when taken from the cow by the following
method: Procure bottles, which must bo per
fectly clean, sweet and dry ; draw the milk from
the' cow into the bottles, and as they arc filled
immediately "cork them well, and fasten the corks
with pack thread or wirer Then spread a little
straw in the bottom of a boiler, on which pluce
the bottles, with straw between them, until tho
boiler contains a sufficient auantitv. ' Fill it nn
with cold water, heat the water, and as soon as
it begins to boil draw the fire and let tho whole,
gradually cool. .When quite cold, take out the
bottles and pack them iu sawdust, in hampers,
and stow them away in the coolest part of the
house, Southern Fumier. .
Profitable Business for Women.
One of the most profitable as well as interest
ing kinds of business for a woman is the care of
bees. In a recent agricultural report it is stat
ed that one lady-bought four hives for ten dol
lars, and in five years she was offered ooo thou
sand five hundred dollars for her stock, , and re
fused it as not: enough. In addition to this in
crease of her capital, in one of these five years
she sold twenty-two hires and four hundred and
twenty pounds of houey. It is also stated that
in five years one man from six colonies of bees
to start with cleared eight thousand pounds of
honey and one hundred and fifty-four colonies of
bees. ,
The raising of bees and their management
ig so curious and yet so unknown an art in most
parts of our country, that any directions or ad
vice will be omitted in this, as requiring too
much space, and largely set forth and illustrated
in the second part. When properly instructed.
almost any woman in the city, as easily as in the
country, can manage bees, and make more profit
than iu any, other method demanding so little
time and labor. But in the modes ordinarily
practiced, few can make any great profit in this
employment. -
It is hoped a time is at hand when every wo
man will be trainedxto some, employment ' by
which she can secure tox herxelf an independent
home and means to support a family in case nho
does not marry, or is left a widow with herself
and family to Support. Harriet Beecurr btowe.
By all means let the girls learn to work.
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The Rose of Siiaro!. The rose of Sharon
is one of the most exquisite flowers in shape and
hue. Iu blossoms are bell-shaped, and of many
mingled hues and dyes. But it history is legen
dary and romantic in the highest degree. In
tbe East throughout Syria. Judea, and Arabia,
it is regarded with the profonodest reverence.
The leaves that encircle the round blossoms dry
and close tight together when the season of blne
sem is over, and tbe stalk withering completely
away from the stem, the flower is blown away at.'
last, from the bush on which it grew, having
dried' up in shape of a ball, which is carried by
the sport of the breeze to great distances. In
this way it is boroeqyer. the sandy wastes apd
deserts, until at last, touching some moist place,
it clings to the soil, where it immediately takes
fresh' root and springs to lifeand beauty again.
For this very reason the Orientals nave adopted
it as the emblem of the resurrection. The dried
flower is placed in a vase of watetbeside the
beds of women in labor, by the Judeans, and if
it expands by moisture the omen is considered
favorable.' If it does not, the worst is at all
times feared.
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July 11, 1870 3m
Agent.
!31-wpd MILES O. SHtUKlLLi U. . U.