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THE STRONGEST BULWARK X)F OUR COUNTRYTHE POPULAR HEART. CARPENTER & GRAYS C In, Editors. CLENDENIN k CARPENTER, PuiLisnkns, YOi."-i'. NO. 50.' m. ft. tr" - ' 1' II. 5 IK, - fit ft i.'ii to 6 .'.I . 1 1,1 Mi? M m "fc'S m i ll .11 4 I St jftOFESSIONAL UAftDS. . a GAltllEB. iSO. GRAY BYKCM. GAIT HER & BYNUM, ATTORN KYS AT LAW, ' MOROiKTOX, N. C. Frnctice in l,,e Federal Courts, Supreme ' 0( Xo?M Carolina, arxi in ihe Counlieg WU, Caldwell, Rutherford, McDowell, upeisoii,. Mitchell and Yancey. Col!efii"s made io any part of the State. V . 35:1 y " wTil cox, SURGEON . and MECHANIC AL g Dentist. 33: ly PvUTHERFORDTON, N. C 1 1 J. A. HAGUE, phvsieian Surgeon, TiHviiu.' 1'rnu-d t Puitlierfordtci. N, "C, re- i. rl hi 1'niieKSKKiwirvicep 10 i,lllit1V i U ' IK-'If W H.V-I .uwi i a ...... of ftlw.if Ey. J. L. KITKER, r,r . I4 )1 ior itl.o UWal pUonai:e hereto 1r r-eived".; N.-pes. y ; (fnpt ifllwit'mii to ikIIh. tu h it-lit coMuiusuoew u.o wmie. V B.. CARPENTER, -.- ' ; ATTOKlCK.Y AT LAW, IJ UTH EKVOR1 TOX, N, C r.,",lf ' l'ii rvotni-ilv ttnded to. rVujir v-Jf.afiJ.FJ. JIOTELS. CHIMNEY ROCK HOTEL, Chimney Rock, N. C, Wallace & JusHce, Proprietors. Atf evllle nd Tluiher-"ord-. it Surrounded by the r'''nnV-sl niumi .'t lt ..,-n : 1.e- w'i-M. fJuests, will be iie fo'rtJ-k iilrly.rijed iiioderatylr. cn AKiTirnofi Ciiai;tk)TTF, . 0, Y7. ItL' ItlatthcT & Son.f Tlllv Bl-RNETT. HOUE, EUTIIEi:rORrTON,!N. G. : nnn fr ihe -oiriroodattoii of the Irvcllinjr -iMu'i.d lUi co xi;wre. aum live mjv: 1:1-. md V HaMs wxl teod lor TuiimV 'jit ; :t i i it iti aksa .arof tnm J,. C, l;t:UNKTT, ALLEN HOUSE. 1 1 EXT )E 1 1S0.NV TTjLE, v. C T. A. ALLKS, Proprietor. C,yOi T;l.lr, ftlfrnlive Servant, well ven !til!:itjd lfc.( nis ai d emlbit:.hle StableS. I f AS KVII.I K. N. C, Tw :,r. DEAW.Pi, rroprltlor. S2.0O PIK WAY. M Lining -..House, 'Board rf vxv- ' ' H Werk, " t " -Monti.; 21-00 24-if 15. U. 1'HKKMAN, -Proprietor. B USIXESSCA RDS. JMO. L. M00RE, "Produce and Cotton Shipper, AND PE.JLLEK IK GENERAL MERCHANDISE, SIIEI.15Y, N. C. 1 xvi civo ptric t attention .to the forward- 'Sn'fr.and stll.ng Cotton, on flanter's.aycounis, iLrouo'i niy correspondents, in New York. Boston, Ualtimore nd Liverpool, and will epociate lor ad vanct-s on Sliipmen tf, at a jliarjre ot '$1, per bate.' AH persons desirnu "ot Miijpinjr- on Account, euu confer with me hjf littler orotherwiso. ' 8:3di It. M. BtOISIXSOJ, FASH 10 N A B L ETA I LO R, ; Main St., yo$U: tlit Burnett 'ilwc, All work cut nnd nuide warranted to Fit. 'Clenniri: :od repurinjr done at lKrt notice. Lstert Style Fnsl. ion rintes alvvaj on liand. t" Orders lroni a, distance promptly at euded U ' 44-ly. 5lDE3 1 HIDES ! I HIDES ! ! ! The liyUefst fiaikeJ prices' paid fwr Green ;nd Dry Uidw. " 28-tu D. MAY i CO. .ai,ii:tv I)K. WAS TJJJtN STA 71 L OD Gb o. 91, A. F. M. Mf u reprulaiiy ou the lt Monday tifj lit iia each month. 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Agricultural spirulions. I dream of a great Republic Whose people shall all o wcit, Sow plums and reap tomatoes . In tli l&nA that the J love best ; "Where obs of all dimensions Shall blosom on every hill, And chickens low in the barn yard, 1 of f tX vill WiJtJWOi tUU Hill 1. I'm tired of seeing th cabbage Handle the rake and hoe ; I'm tired of waiting and watching For the grasshopper bush to grow; I long for ihe time when f pinach Shpll cope with bread and milk ; When hens shall lay bananas, And Jboxs es spin raw. silk. Oh ! sweet were the vanished hours, When I wandered along, the glen And wreathed my brow with tomatoes, And plucked the ripened ben ; When the donkey climbed on a trellis, And the cucumber chirped in the. grass, And the sweet potato whistled . To its mate in the mouiiiam pass - . - ' How )ii&riig benefits. The phiroophy of drainage is thii-s given . t 1 th fhnrifli htnmtr? Experiments with hsirt dtci 1 A cv, square boxes having a per forated lid covered with a layer 1f earth, tli rough which the rain trickleo1 uAd was colfected in the box -huve sh wn that all the water that trickles through a por tion ofsoiJ in six months does iot contain one quarter of the amount of potash taken irom the soil hv a crop of barley. t A dn k color ed liquid may be reiideretl quite colorless by filtering it through aniuial; cliarcoal. The charcoal has an affinity for the coloring matter and remoyes it from the water. In like manner the soil has an affinity for the soluhle salts i question, and retains them tirnily, so that .water in trickling through -the soil will carry very little away. ; V The u ppcr crust of the soil is richer in plant food than the lowx er nortioti or subsoil. Hence, al though rai n washi ng thesu r face and running off by open channels may and does dissolve and wash away considerable quantity of nutritive matter, the water which sinks into the hmd carries thesenutritive substances deeper down into .-the soil and de posits them in the lower portions where the roots of the plants are to- be fountl, and where these loots can seize and absorb these soluble matters, draining causes the rain to sink through a consid erable thickness of soil before it runs' off", and hence it causes less joss of nutritive matter thau" oc- IT CAROL! casioned by rain , washing: "the soihas it does-in undrained lands carrying off to the streams and rivers irinch of the valuable nutri tive matter that abounds on the surface: ' .-"' " Herc, then, is onc-ay in which drainage proves advantage-, ous. It actually diminishes the loss of plant ' food by washing away. But this is not all. Stag nant water-is, as we have already said, injurious to t the roots of plants. They will not grow in it. Draining removes this, and hence the plants send -down their roots deeper, and consequently their capability of absorbing nourish ment is greatly increased. It is this increased depth of the roots in well-drained soils which ren ders the crops which grow on ihem less liable to suffer, from drouth than those on imperfectly drained land. u Again,' access of air to every ,rtfo mi importance, ihe air assists the various processes of decomposi tion by which dead animal and vegetable matter is made to yield products ol the highest value as elements of the food of plants. If the soil is full of water, ot course the air cannot get into the soil to i rfo i m t h i s ofh cc, bu t d ra i i n g, bv drawinr off the water from beneath, gives the air free adnns- sion to th3 soil,) and each shower J of rain, bv disp aciuf the air a -1 ready present, and then falling through the soil and running away in the drains, ivnews the supply of fresh air. and in this way is of tlie greatest benefit.' Advantages! SuutlJ Librarie Life Is so short 3 o onnut know everything. Tliere are but few things we need to know, but let us know them well. People who know eveiwthing, do nothing; You cannot read .all that conies out. Every book read without digestion is so much dyspepsia. Sixteen apple-dumplings at one meal-are not health v. In our age, when hundreds of looks are launched every day from the press, do not be ashamed to con fess ignorance of the majority of the vol u mes printed. If you have no artistic "apreciatioai, spend neither your dollars nor your time on John Rtiskin. Do not stiy that you , are ; fond of Seak speare if you are not interested in him, and after a year's study wo u 1 d n ot k n ow Ron 1 eo fro m John FalstafK There is an amaz mr amount of lying about Shak- speare. use to tne utmost wnat books yon have, and do not waste your time in, longing aftera graet library. You Wish you could live in the city, and have access to some 'great collection of books. Be not deceived, The book of the library which you WTant will be out the day you want it. I longed to live in town that I might be in proximity to great libraries. Have lived in town thirteen years, and never found in the public library the book I asked lor bdt once, and, getting that home,I dis coveted it was not the one I wan ted. Besides, it is the book you own that 'mostprolits, not that one which you take trom "The Athe na?timr for a,few day?. Except- i tig in rare cases, you might -an vvel 1 seiidto the fo tui dlii g ho.-pital and borrow a baby as to b(rrowr a book with the idea of its being ny great satisfaction. We like auaby inour cradle, but refer' that one which belongs to the household. We like a book, hut want to feekit is ours. We never yet got ,any ail vantag irom a bor rowed book. We. hope those never reaped any profit from the books they borrowed from us but never returned. We must have the right to turn down the leaf, and underscore tho favorite pas sage, and wTrite an observation in the margin in such poor chiro graphy that no one else can read ir,and we ourselves are sometimes confbuned. . v All success to great libraries, and skillful book-bindery, and ex quisite typography and fine-tint- ed plate paper, and bevelled boards, and gilt edges, and Turk ish morocco ! but we are deter mined that frescoed alcoves, shall not lord it over common shelves, and Russia binding shall not overrule sheep-skin, and that 44 full calf" shall not look1 down on pasteboard. We war not against liberties. We only plead for the better use of small ones. Golden Irif Syrup. How t is Made, etc Result of a Chemical Analysis. A recent number of the Herald of Uecdth contains an article on "Golden Drip Syrup," a com modify that is much used, and as the author seems to have given the subject u . careful investiga tion,! we give his conclusions for the benefit of those who love this kind of sweetening. He says that it has long been known to chem ists that a variety of sttear could be made' from common starch, sawdust, cotton, or woody fibers of mi; kind hv trpatmor -ir with - - -rv - J ' .- C " ......i sulphuric acid. The sugar' thus produced is called grape sugar, and two and a half pounds are required to equal one, of cane sugar in sweetness. For some i y ears this kind of sugar has been used in the manufacture of candy and ! of alchohc liquors, and a numuer or manuiacnmes nave been established in this country. He savs the greatest fraud scerns to be in the article known as the golden drip. syrup. The syrup is very, superior 111 appearance, but often con'ains not the slightest trace of cane spgarj being made entirely from sawdust, paper rags, treated wifli sulphuric acid. This eyrup can always be 'distinguish erl from the genuine by its reac tion with an infusion of tannin. As tea leaves cpn tain axlarge amount of tannin, a very conven ient test is to put a small quanti ty of the 5yrttp into a little strong tea, and if the syrup is not: pure the liauid will become black upon being stirred. Tests of this kind have frequent ly been made, and the mixture invariably became . as black as ink, tkus revealing Hhe spurious character of the syrup. Some of it wag also made into molasses cat 1 dy, which , ti po n ei ng ea t en , turned the teeth and tongues oi the eaters very black. To place the matter beyond a doubt, a specimen was sent to Dr. Rose, professor of , the lahoratory de partment of the Michigau XTni versify; at Ann Arbor, who, after a very careful chemical analysis of tlje syrup, reported that the sugar it contained was "hot cane but grape sugar. He stated also, that beside grape sugar the syrup contained a large proportion of sulphuric acid, together with some iron and a little tannin, and must have been made either from old s rags, boiled wit sulphuric acid in iron .vessels, or from savv iust treated 111 the same way. v . Not long si nee, a lady, who be longs on the editorial staff of one of the leading dailies of New York, had been detained by office duties until rather a late hour. Living on, the Heights in Brook lyn! it was not much of a venture to go home withont an escort, so she-started. On the boat a geii'. 1 1 em an (?) said, "Are you alone ?" k4Xo, sir," Haid the lady, and when the bout touched stepped off. I thought you said that you were not aloue,V said the fellow, step ping to her side again. 4 1 am notM replied the lady. " Why,-1 don't see any one; who is with you ' M God Almighty and the angels, sir -I am never alone." " You keep too good company tor me, madam ; good night. School-marm Now, Tommy, what is the meaning of the word fuel !" Tommy, triumphan tly stuff as they puts on handker chiefs !" u Arth quakes and ap-ple-sarce." exclaims the school inarm as she faints. ; Skiuiihed milk. . Good Mrs. Catton oncj&ream ed that a poor man came to her door and begged a drink of milk. Always ready to do a kindly deed, she hastened to the - cellar, but with housewife theft was about to skim the milk before taking it to him, when a voice whispered in her ear : "Give him cream -and all' For a moment there was an inward struggle. "Skimmed milk is good enough for a tramp like him," and selfishness ; but the good angel couquered,and the great bowl covered with golden cram was carried to the thirsty begger. It the good woman craved any. reward for her gener- ous deed, she had it at once in the poor man's grateful look as his brown hands grasped : the tempting boWle, and it was with real regret, that she waked to find it only a dream. But the dream has a moral. How many of our best deeds are spoiled by having the cream taken off! The most princely gift, if given with an unloving heart, is, to the giver at least, nothing but skimmed milk ; and the same is true of all good deeds done only from a sense of duty or for the praise of men. The lady who loads the little beggar at the door with the richest dainties of her table, but gives no loving smile or friendly word, gives, aftvrall, but skimmed milk , to. -.the. .hungry7 child; Love is the golden cream of all good deeds, and without it, they are, at best, oily skimmed milk. v For the Boys. JL!J3 ir-iLsaid-a o vatHr--er-1----,foie a man oh his cart "do you want a boy to work for you V1 " No," answered the man, "I have no such want. ,? The boy looked disappointed ;- at least the man thought so, and he asked : "Don't you succeed in place ?" , getting a " I have asked at a good many places,'' said the boyr "A Woman to hi me you had been after a boy, but it is not so I find." - " Don't be discouragedj" said the man, in a firiendlytone. "Oh! no, sir, said the boy, cheerfully, because this is a "big world, and I feel certain God has 8vjntething for me to do in it. I am only trying to find it.y "Just so, just sor"said a gentle man who overheard the talk. "Come with me, my boy ; I am in want of somebody just like you." It was the - doctor, and the doctor thought any boy so anxious to find his work would le likely to do'it faithfully when he found it. If even' body had the spirit of this utile lad, there would be 110 idlers in the world,, standing at the corners, or sitting in the. hops, waitihg for work to come to them. Work does not often come so. 'Almost everything worth having, like the ore in the mine, must be sought for. : . ' V Alway loo . I.atev " Some people are always too late, and, therefore acoomplish through life nothing worth nam' ing. If tliey promise to meet 3011 at such an hour, they are never present Until thirty miuutcsiifter. No matter hovy important . the buines is either yourself or t him, he is just as tardy. If he takes a passages in thesteamboa he arrives just as the boat hat? left the Wharf, and the train has started a few minutes before In arrives. His dinner ' has been waiting for him so long that the cook is out of patience.- This course the 'character we have de scribed always pursues. 'He is never in season at a church, at a place of business, at his meals, or in his bed. , JPersohs of such hab its we cannot but despise! Al ways start in season, and be ready at the appointed hour. We would not give a fig for a man who is not punctual to his engagements, and who never, makes up his niiud to a certain course till the time is lost. Those who hang -x back, hesitate atid tremble-,wbo !:f are naver at hand for a journeyv a . , trading, a sweet heart, or . any thing else are poor sloths, and are ill-calculated to get a in this stirring world. - living Old;. Billy Mehiggih was an1 Irishman, audthat was all right; ; but he was a drunken irishman, and that was not right. ' With the.,;., money he got for sawing wood " he bought whisk, and his wife, Bridget Mehiggin, drank; and a dulcet chorus it was that came -from their- cabin down by the lake. 1 But Billy joined the society and . took the pledge, placing his name M! with his hard, horny hand where lie ought to place it,when he took '" -the obligation. Not long after Billy went to saw some w ood for a saloon-keeper in town for there -was one an'd as the day was cold, he vent. rM into the saloon to warm his hands and his toes. '"Billy," said the saloon-keep er, "aren't you cold inside ?" " Sure I am," said pilly. " Tnin drrnk, tliey leave you, doii't they, them temperance folks ? " said the salooii keeper. "Tain't very thick jye're right," said Billv." " Now, Billy," 'said the saloon- "wouldn't you like a drop of something warm ? It ehant cost you anything." Billy wiped his mouth with , ( the back of his hand the hand that had figured in the taking his obligation and, sjowjy going- toward tne counter, said,' ... H Wm. H u No," no," said the saloon keeper, rubbing his hands, and smiling through his eyes. " What shall, it be, Billy?" "Cowld water," said Billy, with a wide grin. A " fast '' man undertook the task of teasing an eccentric preacher. "Do you believe," he said, " in the storv of the jProdi-5' gal Son and the Fatted Calf." " Yes," said the preacher. " Well, then, was it a male or a female calf that was killed?" "A fe male," promptly replied the di vine, " How do you know that V " Because (looking the interroga tor in the face) I see the male alive now."' ! Prayer to God.isamoral neces-. sity. It is the instinct of humani ty of the creature toward the Creator. Before reason and with out it, the soul, in its corrscious. inferiority and weakness, eries to the great Creator for help . - u I never shot a bird in mv life," said a friend to an Irishman, wjio replied, ".I never shot anything in the. shape of a bird but a squirrel, which I killed wih a stone, when, it fell into the river and was drown ed." The benefactor always retains some affection for the person whom he has benefited. No ex tent of ingratitude succeeds in ut terly effacing this kindly feeling on 'the part of the benefactor. ' Write it on the heart that every day is the nest day in the year. ' No man has learned anything . rightly till heknows that fcvery, lf dav is do imdav. - n 1 1 A nevy style of boys' trowscrs has been invented in Boston, with-'' a copper seat, sheet iron knees,; riveted down the seams, and water proof pockets to hold brokeu eggs, Tt is with narrow-sou led peo J pie as wjth narrow-necked bottles,--tne less they have in them, the more noise theymakeiu pouring j. it, out. : k'V If all men knew what they say of one another there would not be four friends in the world.; ' Prayer is the path that ? God1 made, on which man travels back to him, u 1 Hi ! f ! , I'