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UUCNER, Ed. and fW- t.ipHrpiPTio- rates; payable in ftU vance,. ......... is,.-.- . 1 ''And nnbilcattbn, . . ; . . . . 04 ' . u-uubficaUbns, ........ : .$3 00 . 1 i5 1 U From the Scientific American. AMERICAN PROOUESS l.FROlt 177C TO 1620. v T , -I .- i 1 1 . ) t There are few! darker pages io i?tory than thoati nrhicli recount tlie coudiiion of ihe thirteen colonies i of North America during the months jiwt previous tu the adopuoo of the Dt cturatioii of Inlepn dence. A year had ieiap8ed since arms jhad been taken up against, the mother country; and alt hoitli the colonist hM s0ns wishing to purchase restated 8uccePfully,;the very factcarrid 7 Wio orlwHlU'W most jwrl?ci pnven- i t,tph terror to the rioubll i . f..iiwltW Cuunties. win call jl flic -' - c on n;. Cabrrw, Stanly, Da fJBrf pui:v YT a vie, uwwua, Linculn, Cleave- I have in to So, 'I have-j Ttdtxxt the price on farm right from aliio determined t. oflyr County and N. C. h;nky cal'bl 1 Salisbury ktteotaon EA3MEHS' GRASS SEED. 15 CI Ui. OrcHaFi Grass, Uh Irninuthy.; whteh l wi frefeli- Hipply of Plover Blue Grasp. Kl Tup ill sell cliHHjt at EXXISS' oblini, for it uured iuvwsion, not by a few battalions eent to quell a rebellious tuob, but by ihe grand arroiea of England victors in a century pi wars. If not extif pation, then reduction beneath a tyranny, more grinding than that againit which they had revolted, now menaced the rebehy. i Congress eat; doubt ing, distrustful, divided in thought! seeing no glirntner of light in the prevailing dai k neee, thinking, as Jolin Adams moved on tho 10th of May, 1776, that the colouies should tljerapelvea eiStablish separate gov eniinentf,. "adequite; to the exigencies." But the stirring eloquence -of Thomas Paine wag rinjcitisr! through the laud, re- conflict is discoveries Will .nv jirif S; ' r"j . Lyt at Box uf Coneentated MH1-OLD aafl RELIABLE Salisbury; Marble Yard. Xttain Street, rFextdoorto tbe COUUT-UOUE llBcheapcstandrbest laoe in North Car olina to Ijhv lfst elas ilumimenfs, Tombs, I m I J ' t lUadStoaes, Ae vtCn-Aoiie nuv me uusi m- tefiiu neu, and ailw oi K none iu me uc h au iu . i;r rii ...: I . . ...... ..i . i-. ..nti TUB ail. A lairum 1.711 '. ...v . 1 ,v . .1 1 .,tl.. f rire-a')ve. tiruers whihu'u .mu "inini) tki. batilaction guarant.eu or no cnurt? 1 I T IIITI" ll.... l:orus 0 N and OF F Slick as Grease! WM. A EAGLE 1 'respt'otfullr announces liis coutinuanee at. bin old- anil lu uin ifitt nut:, t'ti iuani ni ivv-i. i' l'vv 1 1 V 'Kniii Urnir rittiircn Uffe is ahvavs reitily antl ftdfihoc buiiitsrt in the best manner possible. llisM nrenaml to do first class work and can eomtHitii wttivan nurtnem uliop on nana maae H)M. ills in;ii'ii 1-11 H. IIiLS. tVI -tilt III LI m tan:.-!, ia oi-i Tiaiems. lie Keens on uanu rcauv ntulevork. and stock eoual- to -anv. succial or- I . . ' T i A - J- ' der.;' Fotifimr r.ootsSn hpst stvle. SL ew ""111", UtNl tl U.lll t y , L I . UC 111 1 I I II ji I l .ilM ptmnimv done at reasofiable prices. Qatislac- lion iruaraiiu'cd or no fhartro , i Cash orderi by ! uarV)rmp'tlj filled.! WM. A. K. VUI-.fi. Jan. gO, 1876. I5:finiO pleHe-wiih the tuggelion of a hope' which none had dared to cherish. The war against England? blind uid hea long op pression was fast becoming, through pop ular penliment alone, a war against En gland herself; and it needed but the for inal declaration of:CJo.ngress to elevate the conflict from a mere rebellion to that grandest of wars, which finds its parallel iu all animate n a lure, the struggltj for ua- tional existence. .;; To turn from tUej political to the indus trial condition of the colonies is -v but to bri; to view fresh -evidences to show the fragility of the foundation on which the fabiic of our-countiy was reared. Iron and steel works 'there were noaie, nor woolen nor flax manufactories; all were suppressed by England. Iron fonnderies had been started, and in New England hats had been made; but Parliament de clared American factories a nuisance,' and crushed them ruthlessly: It allowed the production of pig iron; but the colonist was forced to have the material manufac- lured in England, and pay an enoimous j profit to the Lugltsu founder. Agricul Hue, hunting, fishing, and cutting lumber England could not :. check ; -hence these furnished-occupations to those who were sueu: tew trades as ress up to the j close of the meager in the extreme. The of Franklin, the first great contributions nt the iNew Wpiid to science, had i all been made; it was in 1752 that he deajon stated the identity of lightning with the electric spark, and drew electricity from the clouds. Early in 1775 he left En gland, where he bad been honored land courted,. and returned to bide his fortunes with his native country ; but even j the engrossing labors imposed upon him as a member of the Continental Congress and a,framer of the Declaration were not suffi cient to distract his attention from Science; and when sent as Commissioner to Paris, he took advantage of the voyage to make observations of the Gulf Stream and to plot a chart of that great current, which still forms the basis of our maps. One other man, that of David Ritten house, of Philadelphia, may be noted besides that of Franklin, whom he suc ceeded as Pres'dent of the American Phi losophical Society. Rittenhouse was a clockmaker, and carried the perfectioq of his art into the manufacture of orreries, which still exist, and which show ihe movements of tbe heavenly bodies for a period of 5,000 years, and their positions for each year, month, day, and hour with marvelous accuracy, lie. made a success ful observation of the transit "of Venus in 1769, and on account of his great math ematical attainments was elected a Fel low of the British Royal jSociety. After peace had been declared, the country found itself exhausted in resour ces and in men as well, and saddled with a debt of forty million dollar?, with no system of public revenue wherewith to provide for it. r manual disaster, follow ed, and private confidence tell iu the wreck of public faith. It was no lime to await, the slow development of events, and the people recognized the fact. It seemed as. if every one worked with a will. The whir of the spinning wheel and creak of the loom were heard all over the land Every family became, a manufacturing society. In l781vNew Jersey alone bail forty-one fulling mills for woolen fabrics aiwl not a woolen factory ir the S'afe. not engaged in were Long ago the world was convinced that sew- in? OM.ll Iui rli.twi Ytir uvirh i nnrv .tlw iimlr nniw. tlB llfiW ii. n hiif. imiphinf- emftliiliis in itself t ie preatest number of imbortant advauta-res. Just here the i . FLORENCE CftlTfRfin With ifa cilf.rAnrn1?itin(T tnsiin Sl. IG? mjin miultn lnthiiP ivilhriit 'hnnrn f Vhrca(Ur lifcdlei then from riiit to left and left riirUt while one stvle of the machine s'ews t worjtom the operator, as may he desired and Huh sh teh nlit-A'i.n 1 11 tu v'irfini Ti-pleratif'e of pish land sniaiihra ff nnerntinn. varietl of Folk inrt ro iiinKI J i - ' ill. Ill I ' I 1 ' ' v ..... - BM Win t.h.t:.fii.rli..:f JUim..ii.in Ti il-.l i rtln Vil Preeujb)io, C., is the A rent. lie is alt Bickford Knitting Machine pon Jrhtch 30 ,'pair?. bf socks have been knit P"Mtii(iatrseani, aud with nerifeet heel n8,t. Hoods. ShawU. .ScaitV. Gloves. Ac., Py hs knit upon this Woman's Friend, which 1res5HtlrtenGe in relation t either Knitter frSejririg liaefcine is invited, and samples d' cw;sectupfn application. All orders by mail fwetvepfonipt Attention. Machines hhip 1f4 tfe any putt ht the State, and saiifuetion parnteet. Agon U ira n lt d in every Von n iy. Address all eounuunicatioits fo ! . J, E. OA R.TL A N D, SalishnTV. i U, Qr, F. G. CAKTLAXl), Gen'l Apt. - j ! Gree nVboro, X. C lCj tlvpi abseaeer of Salisbury' aprpt. call o Mr-.:?cni.oss. at the National' llolel. (23:1 carried on. Probably the .most extensive factory in the country was Baron tiegel's glass house, in Mannheim, near Lancas ter, Pa Operations were Conducted iu a union manner, for the owner's ideas were of the feudal ages. Tie built castles and mounted cannon wherewith to salute him self on arriving and departing; and when a guest was received, the workmen were summoned froib furnace and foundery to attend the new ccmitr with i music and re joii-ing. The war cut off the Baron's funds from Kurope and ihe works were sofoi after discontinued." Shipbuilding existed in New England, and brick-making in nearly all the colo nies. There were but two steam engines in the territory; 0ne built, in 1772, for use in a distillery in Philadelphia ; the other had been imported in 1736, for the Schuy ler copper mines,' at Passaic, N. J. . Both were of the NewCoiaen type. No agri cultural machint 8 were known, except, perhaps,! the grain drill, uo cotton mills existed, 'and the green seed or staple cot-' tn alone was cultivated. Not a printing press existed west of the Alleghaiiies; and there we're -only forty, all hand machines of the crudest typey;in the colonies. Thir ty-seven newspapers sufficed to spread in telligence, r mm Boston to New lork coach, sloops and Albany : In two counties in Virgin i:, 315 000 i'ards of flaxen cloth, 45,000 yards of sfeoolen, 30,000 'ards of cotton, and 45,- 000 of linsey woolsey were made in one year by household labor. One family completed 1,355 pair of shoes in a year. The inventor's skill was quickly called into action. . In 1785 Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, first applied steam michiueiy to the grind ing of plaster and sawing of stone, and to tury the signs of remarkable progress wWe everywhere discernible. In ten years thti population had increased by nearly two millions. Th? exports for 1799 were $78,665522 against $79,069, 14S imports, and ! during j the previous decade 306 patents had been granted. In 1801, the oxyhydrogen blowpipe was invented by Ijr. Robert Uare, of Philadelphia, one of ths greatest as well as the earliest of American scientists. It occurred to him that a flame produced by the combustion of oxygen and hydrogen gases ought to be attended with a higher heat than that generated by burning charcoal.1 But the two gases mingled iu certain proportion produced a dangerous explosive mixture,' and Dr. Hare was thus led to adopting the expedient of storing the gases in separate vessels, and bringing them together by tubes which met at the point of ignition. Now followed one of the most impor tant advances in steam navigation, al though the fact was not recognized for years after. It was the practical demon stration of the efficacy of the screw pro peller, by Colonel John Stevens of Hobo ken, who iu 1804 built a boat containing a Watt engine, a tubular boiler of his own invention, and the bladed screw. It was a pirogue some fifty feet long The ma chine itself is still in existence, and was illustrated in these columns some time ago. During : the same year, Oliver Evans ran an amphibious, stern paddle wheel boat on the Delaware and Schuyl kill rivers. This was driven by a double action high pressure engine the first of its kind which rotated .wheels when the cratt was ashore, and operated the stern paddle when afloat. Iu 1S06, Thomas Alanchard, of Massachusetts, in vented a machine which made dUU tacks per minute, with perfectly finished heads and points. Soon after, he devised an apparatus for turning gnu barrels through out their entire length by one self-directing operation. 'This was the initial work which culminated, twenty two years later, in the magnificent invention of tint lathe for turning ii regular forms. Blanch aid's inventions are. now applied to many operations in making musket stocks, and comprise no less than thirteen different machines for making different port'ous of the weapon. The following j year, 1807, witnessed the triumphal voyage of Robert Fulton's stepmer, the Clermont, from New York to Albany. Fulton at that time was al ready an inventor of repute, both in En gland and iii the United S'.ates. He had devised a mill for sawing marble, machines 590. This decline continued to when an extraordinary impulse was given to trade, and1 imports went opto amounts excessive of the wants of the country.- Subsequently, the average of imports and exports remained uniform at about $78r- 000,000. From iSOO to 1810, only 1, 086 patents were allowed; and from 1810 to 1820, 1,743. The population of the country had, however, increased to 9,638,131, and with it the number and extent of manufacturing industries aug mented, thus providing for the season of renewed prosperity which followed. 1 lie rapid growth of this country iu population, wealth, and culture since the year 1820 is now a just cause for pride anji congratulation; and in our next two issues, we shall note the prominent inci dents iu this interesting and important era. Fromthe Southern Planter and Farmer. DOGS AND SHEEP. habit would be. l-i .. . s . imeiy to crave a meat off bis master as he would offone"of his master's sheep. How isjt that our common cars run among the pigs and poultry andj do no harml I should.say, it is because tbey made are fax miliar with them, and are taught not to hurt them. And there IS a not n rnr in all the land, no matter how low in blood, or in respectability from any other source, that may nut be taught to associate with sheep until he coulii beftrufctedt go in and out of the sheep foldsfaccording to his own liking, wiibout the legist danger to the sheep. Then why fnot familiariie our dogs with our sheep ndur sheep with our dogs t and the mjre the better ; and my word for it, there! will be less reason for complaint in the next twelve months against sheep-killingdog8 than we have bad lately, and less; than would be realiz ed from the most stringent dog tax that our Legislature will ver dare to impose Greenwood, FsbruarJ 5, 1876. i. M. Shepherd. flour' mills. Then he invented the eleva-1 for spinning flax and making ropes, an was a week's jodfiiey by plied between New York a an d in winter, coloni.-ls in Virginia were HARD WAKE. :.i1---'-2-. yon want Hardware at low Ufi 1 1 lit . , - -,cu pn me undersigned WaUt.IUw i v nil ir - i f i . j. l a a ill " 1 I.. AIH1'" I .-V I. I D. A. AT WELL. at No. 2 Ufo aur it h n ii Agents wanted. Out f.il e tpitv ir. eo a.. ti,:, i: . -" .,1111115 lice. i iiuiv t,v v-v. w-iii 7. Maine. ; March VT, 76: 1 yr. f e c f ,: f pileap Glial tol Mortgages, toVrio fiber blanks for sale hers practically 'isolated from those in Massa chusetts. Certainly no nation ver em barked in so gigantic a struggle worse prepared ; lor of the material prosperity whence the sinews of war are drawn', the colonies were destitute. Canada, refusing to join them, furnished vantage ground for the invader. i The Spauiaids along the Mississippi looked with no favor on the rebellion, and the English in Florida were actively hostile. Thus on the 10ih day of Maj, 1770, itiftt one hundred years before the opening day of the! Centennial, the few but resolute inhabitants of the thirteen colonies found themselves hemmed around with foes, bankrt-pt in money and iu in dustries wherewith to gain it, menaced by an uprising among the Indians on the" border wildernesses, disunited iu thought and leeung among inemsejves; ana to crowii all, a British army was preparing to attack New lork, while all the sea board cities seemed doomed to certain and swift destruction.; i Yet, in the face of these terriDle odas, lunependence was proclaimed, flnd the nation was born. It i- our purpose to present bete some brief account of what Americans have ac complished in Science and invention since the bell in Philadelphia pealed forth "lib erty throughout ihe laud." Much must necessarily be omitted ; of 'nothing can we take more than a passing glance, so vast and varied are the achievments which beyond all else, have combined to create a giat Hiid powerful nation in the short est period known to history. To 'the same ancestry that asserted, their, rights as freebVrn men, an ancestry gathered from the skillful workers of all countries, are due the frugal and industrious habits, the facility of adopting means, to ends, and the indomitable preservance and en crgy which characterize the American people; and it Is. well to remember that Jn the very restrict ions placed upon their efforts toward progress were found the impelling causes of the war of indepen dence. ' - i 1 .' . ! ' tor or bucket chain to raise grain, the conveyer to take it from place to place, the hopper boy to spread it, the drill to carry it by rakes instead of buckets, and the kiln dryer. Iu 1790 he attempted to build a steam carriage, aiid iu so doing invented and constructed the first hih pressure steam enghie. In 17S5 John Fitch built the first steamboat, and ran it on the Delaware river. It had-reciproca-ting paddles, and steamed at the rate; of eighty miles pfr day. During jhe suc ceeding year James Rumsey propelled a boat on the Potomac by a stream of water driven out through the stern by a steam engine. In 1790 Jacob Perkins, of Mas sachusetts, invented a" machine for cut ting and heading nails, which produced those useful articles at the unprecedented rate of 200,000 a day. , On the 3 1st of July, 1790, the first United States patent was issued, (he patent and copyiightlaws being both first enacted in that year; and thereafter a marked increase in the uum ber of inventions becomes visible. At this period, the growing cotton in dustry of' the country seemed to h ive encountered an obstacle, which bid fair to be a serious one. ILind-cHaning of cotton was -slow and costly jyand unless mechanical means could be devised, the new staple could never become a soarce of wealth. It so happened that there then came to the house f Mrs. General Greene a poor student, from Yale Ccdlege, named Eli Whitney, who, in various Ways showed himself possessed of considerable mechanical skill. While some officers, her guests, were one day regretting the absence of the machine above noted, Mrs. Greene laugliingly suggested that Whit- t ft flXk uey should invent one. J lie young man overheard tho words and remembered them. He bad never seen cotton i'i his life ; but making his way to Savannah, he obtained a small quantity and, shutting himself up in a room, went to tvork. Ii is said that the saw gin was suggested to hint by the accidental use of a toothpick t try the tenacity of the seed. Within ten uays arter he began experimenting. he made a model which was capable of cleaning 50 lbs. of green seed cotton dai ly. Thus was completed ono of the greatest inventions of modern times, and one which the inventor lived to see result in increasing the cotton production from 5,000,000 to 215,000,000 lbs. iu 1796 the great scientific discovery of the non-materiality of heat was made by an tAmerican, Benjamin Thompson, t onnt Rumfor, then, residing in Munich He had deserted his country during the war, and accepted service uuder a1 foreign prince. This discovery lies at the foun dation of the mechanical theory of beat, and directly led to the grandest doctrines of modem Science, the correlation of forces and the Conservation of energy, f- Ue may note the establishment of excavator for canals, and he had success fully tried, probably, the first submarine torpedo boat. 1 1 was in relation to the latter that he returned to this country from England. Here he received a con gressional appropriation, and made some successful experiments in blowing up vessels; but ultimately Commodore Rodger reported the system impractica ble. Liter, he i obtained the exclusive rijrht to navigate the Hudson river iu his steam vessels. Jn IS 14, Fulton built lor the United States government the first steam war vessel, a heavy and unwieldy mass, capable of making about 2k miles per hour. The war of 18 J 2, in which she was designed to be used, terminated be fore her completion. Fulton died during the construction of the vessel. j During the year 18b7, oil cloth for floors was invented and manufactured in Philadelphia, and John Bedford of the satire city devised the first metal-bound boots and shoes.! The first breech-loading military arms ever offered to troops, and likewise the first fire arm made on the interchangeable system, were inven ted by John H. Hall, of Massachusetts, in 1S11. Somei of these old weapons were captured I at Fort Douelsou in 1862 i In 1S12, anthracite coal was for the first time sucessfnlly utilized. It appears that Colonel Geprge Shoemaker, of Potts- ville, took nine wagon loads of the "black stones" to Philadelphia, and there sold two wagon loads In Messrs. White & Hazard, wire manufacturer. White and his firemen iWoiked faithfully for half a i i. .i ' . e . day. tmt i tie stones reiusea io ourn; whereupon at ijoon they slammed the furnace doors stjut in disgust, and went to dinner. On 1 their return the doors were red hot and the furnace in danger of meliinsr. Meanwhile the Colonel had sold his oilier seven loads to less success- n . f 1 1 tul experimenters, ano was by them ar rested as a s windier for selling them rocks for fuel. j , ma. Ik M the War of IS 1 2 but very few military inventions appear. Probably i Viol the most important was the coiumhiad, a long chambered cannon capable of pro jecting shot and shell at high angles and with heavy charges. It was devised by Colonel Bomfoitd. In 1813, Francis C. Lowell invented numerous important im provements in he power loom, notably the stop motion! for winding on the beams for dressing:, and the double speeder to regulate the movements of the lfy frame in filling the spools. The first important American nnr.rovement iu Drintin"r Dresses appeared iu 1817, and was the Columbian press, invented! by George Ulymer of Philadelphia. The power was applied to the platform by a compound lever consisting of three simple levers of tbe second order. The first transatlantic voyage made by a steam vessel was ac complished by the Savannah in 1819.? It is necessary sometimes to bring anfagon isms together in order to bring about recon cili tion. In the minds of some farmers there could scarcely be two things named more antagonistic than the two which head this article. Light and darkness, beat and cold, fire and water, may, in their minds, bear some resemblaucr,t but they only faintly illustrate the antagonism be tween dogs and sheep. I confess it re quires some boldness to step forward and advocate the cause of a class of domestic animals so universally anathematized as the dogs are, when mentioned in connec tion with the sheep. But justice requires that the truth should be known and con- sinered Deiore a sweepi ic: ludsment is pronounced, even against a yelping cur. lucre is a philosophy connected with the chasing of sheep by dogs which it may be well Tor sheep raisers to consider. Every body knows that sheep are timid, and are frightened at the very appearance of a dog and if a dotj makes his appear ance in a field where there are sheep, they will run from him as long as they can see him, and this will they do withoutany show of hostility on his part. And everybody knows that it is the nature of a dog es pecially young dogs to chase all animals that can run from them. Probably ninety-nine of every hundred dogs convicted of sheep-killing were led into it in this way. How then, shall we prevent it? I tell you what I did a month ago. I have a small flock of sheep which I feed and attend to myself I also have a young pointer dog, and be is foud of go ing with me wherever I go. One morn ing, when I went to feed the sheep, the dog went along, and it did not occur to me what a mortal hatred sheep have to ward dogs, until I reached the field where the sheep were and saw them taking to their heels as for life, and the dog just ready to take after them. I scolded the dog and called the sheep, and, though gentle, I coul"d not induce them to come back to their feed until I had put my poiuter the other side of the fence; and even then they eat as though jhey felt un safe, and had a suspicious eye all the time toward the innocent dog thai stood looking through the fence at them and seemed to be wondering what the difficul ty was. The next morning he started with me again, but I bade him go back ; but when 1 had gone some distance I looked back and he was looking after me, and seemed greatly scandalized that 1 had forbid him to go. Suddenly it flashed upon my mind that the reason why sheep are so much afraid of dogs is because we always drive the dog back when we go among the sheep ; and the reasons why the dogs chase the sheep is that they are never allowed to see them except by ac cident, and then sheep run fiora them, and if not under the eye of the master, four dogs out of five will-give -chase. While I thought thus I bade Ponto come along. I have allowed him to go every time since. For the first two or three mornings the sheep were afraid of him, though he did not dare to cross the fence ; but all fear has now subsided, and be goes with me into the field and walks round and looks at the sheep as though he felt that it was his special business to see that they are fed ; and they are about as much afraid him as they are of one another. Is it be cause they know him as a particular dog? or would they not be less frightened at the approach of any other dog, as the re onlt nf ihpir aponaiutance with him ? I ... .... i think there is a lesson here that may be learned with profit. If farmers who raise sheep would often take the dogs with them when they go among the sheep, the dogs would find out that the sheep belong to "the Dlace. and they would as soon think of killing and eating the hogs as the sheep, for do"-s love hog meat just as well as sheep. And the sheep woull soon learn that ihe dog is lust as harmless as any other animal, aud they would learn not to be frightened at his approach, unless he actually phased them. I am in favor of a dog tax as a means of reducing the sur plus dogs ; but taxation will not prevent my pointer or your seiier irmu lumimg after sheep if thpy run from them, fright ened half to death, When they happen io From the Southern plauter and Farmer,! BERKSHIRE HOGS MANAGE MENT, &c. - i I havebeen intending for some time past, to write an article for your invaluable pa per on the subject ofraising hogs, and the best breed to keep. I prefer the large Berkshire breed to any other breed I know of; to the experienced he has the appear ance of indicating brith skin and flesh of a coarse quality. Nothing, however, can be finer than the bacon, and -the animals attain to a very ereajt size (from five bun dred to six hundre pounds being the average weight wheb completely fatten ed). It not utifreq'iently happens that a young sow will eai her young ones, she should therefore be fcaref ully watched and well fed when about to farrow ; which may be known by Ijer carrying straw in her mouth to form Her bed. Care should be taken to seperat.4 ber from other pigs, the boar particularly, or he will infallibly devour them, 'ihe sow, at farrowing time, should be encjosed in a pen, with a shelter at one cprner with a bed of straw or leaves. At' the close of about a week after farrowing the sow should be allowed to leave he- pen for a short time every day, and whm the brood acquire a little strength, theyt may accompany her. If the brood be toojiumerous, they should be lessened as soonf asjmssible, by killing some of them at th age of a fortnight or three weeks, as "sucking pigs" ' or "roae ters." Six or sevep, or at the most nine, are quite as many s should be left. The sow, during the wpale period of nnra ing, should be supplied wiih an abund ance of the most nufritions food, consisting of cooked potatoes Indcorn meal, or some thing equally nutrifive. The young pigs, even while ucking, should not be left wholly to the nourishment afforded by the sow, but shoulcj be furnished two or three times a day with skim-railk made lukewarm, and-hatiug-a little corn meal mixed with it ; in ibout six weeks or two months, they will generally weigh from thirty to-thirty sixpounds, and be strong enough for weaning ; iu doing which, they should be gradual! jgseparated from the sow, only allowing theni to suck at first twice, and then once a d;fy. As regards fatten ing, it is true thlit hogs are very com monly fattened and killed at ages not ex ceeding eight or ton months, but I have found, by experierijee, that the animal is not iu his prime nfitil two years old ; and if kept a year longer the flesh jyy ill have a still higher favor ;f for that substantial consistence of fatjwhich constitutes the main value of bacn, can only be acquired in perfection by aje. Some varieties of pigs, (the Chineselfor instance) arrive to nearly their full growth within a year; but the Berkshire, ancT all the large breeds, increase wih good keeping us much or more iu sze and weight during the second year as! they do in the first. From five to eightl weeks is the average lime renuisite for fattening, but to fatten thoroughly a hog pi the large Berkshiro breed for bacon fo the farm hands, etc, would require tentir twelve weeks. But, for my own use, prefer bacon that is less fat. Whole cru, boiled potatoes and corn meal mixed? wiih slop from the kitchen, I have found to be the best food for fattening hogsj I feed my fattening bogs three times day (as much as they will eat), on .the above articles, and one of my hogs will generally weigliPd more than any two others in the neighborhood. To have a good breed is of vital impor tance, and as I saSd before, I think the Berkshire are .the roost profitable. William Bens. Fauquire counp, Ya. I IV IVTrrrlrnm-m rrTn. Last wek HonrR-AHilL -Jnd r the lUmited States District Court, now ia i r session at Jackson, determined upon? trfl ' ..L . . . r . o ""5 o me ignorant rabble that has so long cumbered the iarv, bench in iW trib unal, by calling upoo all of the aurora summno-ed and discharging every one who coma not read, write and cocapute inter est;; r.; i - - . - Judge Hilt has WW don t.tm.Alf ' - honor iu thus vindicating the curie y of the jory system. That he baa acted wiself uone ean truthfully deny. If Judge Hilll is ristitiri making iMs dsriaunaiioir-forsi the United States Court, thea wltyIioiild ,,ot pr State Courts adopt the same rale. . i It is almost an axiom, that ignorance and 7 v V,UUC 6U n in nana. ignorance. then, be eliminated from the Jury-box, audi mereiy secure a better administration of; both civil and criminal - The J odge above named was horn la thM county, eleven miles North f 3 talcs ville, on tbe Cove Gap road. His father was uaii I juui, uncle of Thomas M. Hill. His mother was Rhoda Andrews, ofStateja ville, from Back Creek in Rowan county.' Judge Hill went to school when small to James L. Hill ; and when 10 to 12 years old, his parents moved to Sumner county Tennessee. 'There he grew? up, got an education, and remove to Missias sippi, where be eoonl acquired a great rep utation as a lawyer and jurist. Iredell has 'sent out many men to -the Wesi ay.bo have honored the place of their nativity American. . Yes, -very many. No county in the State exeells her in intelligent and vir tne. NEWS AND NOTES An album of a Baltimore belle recently sold for $2,000. . ' ! f Lydia Thompson has abandoned her proposed trip to America this summer. -Stanley, the famous English baritone, will retire after the present musical sea son. Nelly Sartoris' baby died od the second anniversary ot that lady's marriage. Spriggins says "If drinking inter feres with a man's business, why, give up the business' The monument of James Fisk, Jr., fa Brattleboro, Vt., which has just been un covered, attracts many visitors. , It is proposed to amend the constitu tion of Conuccticut by adding a section making nine members of a jury competent to render a verdict. Hon. George II. Pendleton was re elected president of the Kentucky Cen tral Railroad at the director's meeting la Covington on Tuesday, i In announcing the marriage of Misa Mary Hoops the Boston Advertiser pre Bunies that "she will still continue to wear her maiden name."' A northern man has pledged two hun dred andfifty dollais toward another cot tan factory in Augusta Ga., provided local subscriptions are made to an equal amount. Au Knglish physician has discovered a Ispecific for cold iu the head: Trisnl-. tratc bismuth, six drachms ; acacia pow der, two drachms; hydro chloraof morphia, two graius.' Smell. ! An Iowa editor, speaking of the line of men who left their native town for tha Black Hills and disappeared behlndtW horizon says : "They seemed to go down into the hatchway of heaven." - : ; ' Rev. Dr. Pierce, believed to be the old est Mo;hodist minister in this country, iiow in the ninety "fourth year of his age and the seventy-second of bis ministry, is a delegate iu the Baltimore conference. Hon, W. H. Ruffner. Superintendent of public Instruction in Virginia, will read a paper on "The moraFEIement in Educa tion" before the National Educational Association soon to meet in Baltimore. broom-making as a new industry, and the invention 01 broom making machinery in The vessel wai of 380 tans burden, and 1797, byrthe Shakers located along the was drfven by baddies. In the year last Miia wjrjver.. ir-iu the same year Amos mentioned, J?b Jerkins invented en- - . . .a mm I m a a a m wnittemore, or iuassacuuseus, i ueviserf graving on steel as a substitute lor cop? the ftrst njaejiiqqjov; thejwanutacture ot per wool and cotton cards; this device pnnctr During the period from 1800 to 1820, u red the leather arftPset the wires This just reviewed, jibe enmmerpe of the conn- Hiruved of great; value tQtthe industry, I try passed through j stagnation, pw v Tin industries of the country being nra otionllv ri.iio1 vkm f li A vir tifran the record of'iu veution and scientific prog-J PtMjnifHhefneUeuth cen- and highly remunerative io the invent tor. During the following year Ilobt. Me- Kean patented the first steam sawmill. cil of England Milan.decrees- to $56,990,000 a season ot terriDUi tig to tbe orders in coqn- and Napoleon's Berlin and t IujTSQS,. iraporU. fell off and ex ports - to 522, 430,- enter the field where tM: sheep are, on i heir return from the hunt, and we are not in sight. Let the dogs and the sheep be come acau; liuted with each other, aud in . . -tl .. t. i . il.i. ntltflul ray opinion li wju result iu profit. How does tt happen mat m couu irien where sheep are raised much more extensively thau they are with us, that the dog is chosen to help mind them and keep them jn proper bonuds ? Do you say he is a different dog ? i admit it; but he does not differ a . whit from our sheep-killing, sheep-chasing dogs iu those particulars that make or dogs such ;j without training, thp famous shepherd's dog would poljar a ihep el Bini ju9 at nuick as w uld A MOlAL. PARTY. There is now ia the hands of the public printer testimony enough concerning the the frauds of radical officials to make one hundred and tweiltv six octavo volumes j of five hundred pages each. And yet flrant' nartv saved the nation. There r- j - I . are now in the hrfnds of the different jn vpatitrtincr rnmnJittees. in the shape of - - - O o. j-tr - - short hand notes j or partially completed transcripts, about forty thousand pages nf m!iniTeHnti And vet the party which va.u- af W js being hivCstigled and stands it so frell brcn all the bonsty and morality in the to such an extent is claimed to em country. f When the work of the twentyawa in vestigating comnfittees is completed and nriuted. the resufc will be a library o, over three hundred octavo volumes. This is the story of frandj crim-, dishonor aud official torpituda furnished lne country bv the highly mral party that has had it .nv of our commoii in keening for this past eight years. They evervminir ma -cpuiu doA. - Bat his-capable of being taagbti have stolen evA aud irtaugbilo bv a moiraluable aid in; transferTed.i-S.) Louis Times. Doni Pedro note paper and envelopes aire the latest thing out in stationary. Th taper measures six anda half inches bf our, and is covered without joloing-- ,, by envelopes of the same size. The list of A T. Stewart's employes whoHiad been for ten years and over io his service, and who consequently take egacies under the dead merchants will. numbers about three hundred, lhey take $205,750. - The sword worn by Gn. Montgomerir when he fell at the battle-of Quebec how on deposit in '-the library uf the Vir ginia Military Institute, at Lexington, Va. It has a steel blade, straight and. long, with an ivory ribbed handle, with hill, Lord Mandeville, heir apparent to - the Duke of Manchesb2r, was wedded on Mpi day last iu Grace fhnrch New York-b Rev. Df. Dix, to Jljiss Consueio,daugnur of Antonio Yznaga del Valli, the v.ejjthjr Cuban merchant .ot se.w Jersey. r Voii Hidlen, thdfanltloe Chicago eolloe.- ' itof.lwjrUesl'ro.m his hidiug phur-e 4o say thajt be'hopvs to get some. copyiug too, and a t squars up to ht $100,000 iifalcation. ! H will thus gradually, but v -surely, pay off ijoi 1' oppressive dli-M " Sarah Bernhardt i a fieuJpUr aSj V.V.1. ksai gt actress. All last wjuter the duV l morning .fVnd;,hifr . in" studio- at " sevew trhjeresh wrkedotif rehearsal. As sh; aW writes wH. thw x French journal eaU- her a'eomWnation f Molir Michael Aagt Jo and Madame d SevigD. i cl - ; - 1 vi - .0 ll H fi ft f I. i ' , i i, ? it 4' t - - r ' r1- i T 5
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