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The Carolina Watchman. - - 01 ST. THIRD SERIES SALISBURY. V. C, FEBRUARY 21, 1884. HO 19 t m Z OiN o 3 E I Y I. aaVstaflL -v 4.. sbW istBLsaWeaf 'liink just a moment! It may be greatly to your profit To Buy Your KAINIT, ACID, PHOSPHATE AND GUANOS ii u a T i i a 1t om One to whom you can sen your coiion, cc. i nave now reauy inn am senium every nay lor casn. or on time to suit my customers, ROYSTER'S 111 which is the best acid sold in the State beyond doubt. Also, the ASHEPOO ACID PHOSPHATE, hich stands so high in Georgia and South Carolina that they pay $1 pT ton more for wa. W I 11 a II x A . a. aL 1 1 than fr other brands, iiui l yyju sen at a smau prom to ineci prices or otner uranus. Also, 1 nave tue best GERMAN KAINIT ON SALE IN THE COUNTRY. hose Goods for Composting, Jfcc., are the very best that can be got anywhere. There none better. Call at once, get prices and pnt fn your orders. J. P. GASKTLL. OBACCO! The Silver Lining. T jf re 's never a day ao sunny But a little cloud appears ; here's never a life ao happy Bat has its time of tears ; et the son shines out the brighter Whenever the tempest clears. There's never a garden growing With roses in every plot; There's never a heart so hardened But it has one tender spot ; We have only to prune the border To find the forget-me-not. There's never a sun that rises Bat we know 'twill set at night ; The tints that gleam in the morning At evening are just as bright, And the hour that is the sweetest Is between the dark and light. There's never a dream so happy But the waking makes us sad ; There's never a dream of sorrow Bat tue waking makes as glad j We shall look some day with wonder At the troubles we have had. In Earth and Heaven. Yon pity me, sitting lonely In the dark of the summer day When home to your happy hearthstone The children come from play. I feel your eyes upon me, As you stroke the curly heads, And get the darlings ready For their cosy little beds, Bat I am not so lonely, For years aud years ago, Before my brow was wrinkled Or my hair was full of snow, A baby lay on my bosom Winsome as those you kiss And I learned in one brief summer, What a mother's Heaven is. Since he died I have not forgotten, Though my arms will ache to hold Again to my heart the baby With hair of morning's gold, 1 hat I am au angers mother, And so, wheu your babes you kiss. I kiss my child who is wating In another world than this. FURMANS FARM. Wonderful Work. 1 ever you had a showing for fine prices, it is in the crop of Tobacco to be planted this year. Wa keep a store, and strive to have in that store everything a farmer would like buy, both tor himself and his family. We want our customer to be a cheerful man, ad if lie has money in his purse he trill be cheerful ; but he can't be if, when he comes sell his crop, k brings him little or nothing. Everybody knows that on the fertilizer 18 uses, allowing the season to be at all favorable, depends the resnlt of his crop, and his being the case, he has no right to risk that crop on anything that has not been ried and proved. The following will show what has been ''tried and proved," in the fertilizer way, on fine tobacco, and Major Ragland, of Halifax county, Va., the great tobasco authority, and grower of pedigree tobacco seed, is the man who tells about it. f anybody luawt what tobacco is he certainly does: "There are several brands of fertilizer manufactured specially for tobacco, differing in composition, price, and merit ; and after repeated experiments with most, if not alt the best, the author gives it as his decided opinion, that for fixe, bright, tilhj tabiecc &0THIHG, EQUALS the ANCHORwRRAND' robaeeo Fertilizer, prepared by the Southern Fertilizing Company, Richmond, Na. Lad this opinion is based upon seventeen years' trial, and often in competition with the it of other brands on the market. It is a tried and proted fertilizer, which the plant can use without the risk of getting something unsuited to his crop; and therefore I can recomnicd it with confidence." Mossra. Mathews & Williamson, of Reidsville, N. C, wrote the following to the Company, and state that they have seen nothing since to change their judgment. "From our own personal experience, and it covers a long time, in watching the re sults from the use of various brands of commercial fertilizers handled in this section, it in a. . e ..a i a eaaasBBi eaaaBB a. am aaaa. aaam 'a'" a t 1 T aw a "uur ""urc judgment mat the 'AUvbOa SAAIVU' stanas at me neaa 01 an nnnmmntm . nvnUaUlv Knolw , for the production ofjfae, ssli, yellow tobacco." The plant seems to receive more fitting HOliriwIim nf 'r,,,, t 1... t.ar. t,a ..;!. .1,., ...... ,.lKn. nrA w a art. f tk.t ;r ... -1 , f.. , ' isu. .1 boldly threaten to burn the jail aud hang "u laiiucis uiaue 11 ineir siaim in, we wuuiu neur less ui nyut iimnv iuuowu, having some color but no body, and that the farmer would realise the result he ought enjoy from hije labor; for low-grade tobacco will not bring big money. Now we want you to have 4big money" for your crop; because we not enly desire you to make go. bills with us, but pay for them when they are made ; hence wc han dle the 'Anchor Brand,' and will supply you, in quantities to suit, direct from the fsctory. We don t want people to abuse us about their fertiliser; we, therelorc, sell aly what time has shown to be the best. So, make no arrangements in this line, until you see or confer with ua. You certainly can't afford to take anv risk this year. J. D. GASKILL. Terrible Tragedy in Arkansas. Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 9. A. terrible tragedy was enacted on the maiu street of this city this morning at about 11 o'clock. Three brothers uamed Frank, Jack, and William Flynn were proceed ing home iu a hack when a party of sev en men, armed with double-barrel led shotguns aud Winchester rifles, stepped out from the door of a saloon and ojtriird fire. The Flyniis were aimed but the attack was totally unexpected. Jack Flynn was shot through the head by a ball from a Winchester rifle and died in a few miuutes. William was shut thro' the breast, aud the wound will probably prove fatal. Frank received a shot thro' the hand inflicting a slight wound. Frauk Hall, the driver of the hack, was shot through the back of the neck, aud died an hour afterward. Robert Hargrave, a bystander, was shot through the breast, and will probably die. J. H. Ciaig, a prominent lumberman, received a charge of buckshot through the back, aud his condition is considered precarious. The difficulty originated some weeks ago in au effort of Frank Flynu to pre vent one Dorun from opening a gambling house. It culminated at the time in Do ran making a cowaidly attempt to assas sinate Frank, failing in which he fled the city. He returned u few nights ago, but Flynn was unaware of his presence in the city until the fatal volley opened on him. The seveu men who did the shoot ing were arrested aud are now in jail. They are S. A. Dorau, two Prnitt broth ers, a man named Howell and three oth ers. Tne most iuteuse excitement pre vails, and strong threats of lynching the prisoners are made. Citizeus are loud in their condemnation of the murderous aud cowardly act. Judge Wood has been telegraphed to by leading citizeus re questing him to adjourn his court at Malvern and return here and hold a spe cial session to try th murderers. If he consents, the law will probably bo allow- to take its coure : if not the citizens When I determined to go to farm ing, five years ago, I saw that it would not do to farm in the old way. I saw farmers around me getting poorer ev ery day, though they worked like slaves. I saw them starving their land so that each year their yield was scantier and their farms less valuable. I saw that it was still the plow fol lowing the axe, and that as fast as the farmer starved out a pi ce of land he cleared out a new piece. Worse than all, I saw that my own land rented to small farmers was 35 PER CENT POORER AND LESS VAL UABLE thau it was a few years ago, and that it would soon cease to pay me rent. I knew that Georgia was blessed with the best conditions of season and soil, and that if properly treated il would yield large results. I therefore selected sixty-five acres of the poorest land I had and went to work. The first thing, of course, was to enrich the soil. To do this there was but one way, to feed it, and give it more food than the crops took from it,, and above all to give it proper food. I knew that certain phosphat ic manures stimulated the soil so that it produced heavy crops for a while and then then fell off. I wanted none of these. I did not believe in soil analysis. That was not exact enough. 'What I wanted was to know ex actly what a perfect cotton plant took from the soil. That ascertained, then restore to the soil exactly those ele ments in larger quantity than the crop had abstracted from it. This is the ba sis of intensive farming, and it will always give land that is richer year after year. I had a cotton plant an alyzed, and found that I needed eight elements in my manure, which com mercial fertilizers furnished only three a . i l t . t n ana tue sou only one. l therefore determined to buy chemicals and mix them with humus, muck, decayed leaves, stable manure and cotton seed till I ha J secured exactly what was needed. I did so, and at last produc ed a perfect compost for cotton. 1 then ascertained that my crop of eight bales had taken out of each acre of my land as much of the constituents of cotton as was held iu 250 pounds of my compost. I therefore nut 500 pounds of compost on each acre, re storing double what the crop of the year before had taken out. The re sult was that I made four bales extra. I then restored double what the twelve bales had taken out and made twenty three hales. I doubled the restora tion the next year and got forty-seveu bales. I doubled again, and this year have at least eighty bales." "The manure cost me $3.60 a thou sand pounds, j he first year I put 500 pounds to the acre cost 1.80 an $3.75 4.50 1.40 $9.65 hundred pounds, take again two hun dred pounds acid phosphate and one hundred pounds kainit, mix and spread over the seed, begin on the manure and keep on in this way, building up your heap layer by layer until yon get it as high as conveni ent, then cover with six inches of rich earth from the fence corners, and leave at least a week ; when ready to haul to the field cut with a spade or pickaxe square down and mix as thoroughly as possible. Now, we have thirty bushels of manure weigh ing nine hundred pounds, and three hundred pounds chemicals in the first layer, and thirty bushels cotton seeds, weighing nine hundred pounds, and three hundred pounds of chemicals in the second layer, and these two layers combined for the perfect compost. You perceive that the weight is 2,400. valued at cost is: 30 bushels cotton seed -400 pounds acid phosphate 200 pounds kainit Stable manure nominal. Total Or for 2,400 pounds a total value of nine dollars and sixty-five cents. This mixture makes practically a perfect manure for cotton and a splen did application for corn. It restores to the soil everything the cotton tosk from it, except silica, which is in the soil in inexhaustible quantity. So that when yon put in a lurger quanti ty of these than the cotton took out, your soil is evidently richer. T have shown you the money profit in man ure. I've shown you the added val ue it gives to laud. There are many other advantages. You make your crop quicker and with less danger. 1 made last year, mark this, forty seven bales on sixty-five acres in three months and five days. It was plant ed June 5th, aud the caterpiler finish ed it on September 10th. I showed the agricultural society a stalk five feet high with 126 bolls by actual count ou it. The seed from which this plant grew was planted just fifty-nine days before. Cotton growu this way can be picked with half the cost and time of ordinary cotton. On my cot tou land this year I raised 100 bush els of oats to the acre, aud after clean ing off the stubble I plamlted the cotton, one stalk of which I showed the convention.1' "One is not to drop the cotton seed in a continuous row. but simply to put a few seed in the hill where you want a plant. By strewing the seed in a sprinkled row tnere is a sreat waste. A cotton seed is like an egg when the chick is bom there is noth ing but the shell left. The fertilizing power of this seed is lost. Worse thau this. It draws from the soil for the elements that make it grow. It is left to deplete the soil iu this way for two weeks at least, and is then chop ped down, leaving: onlv one out of a ' w m twenty plants to grow to fruitage. - , gm w - i ft r I 1 acre, or $111 lor sixty-nve acres, rsui my pian is 10 piani iour or nve seen my crop rose from eight to twelve a bales, the extra tour bales giving me the prisoners. Mysterious and Horrible Suffer ings of a Peunsylvauian. A most remarkable case of human suf fering, says a Philadelphia special to the Baltimore Day, and one which has stead ily baffled medical science, is reported in Springfield, Erie county, Pa. William Xf'JAjK) surplus, or $$6 net on my manure. Next year my manure, (1,000 pounds to the acre) cost $235 ; butmy crop iucreused to twenty-three bales from eight on u.. manured land. These extra bales give me $750 or a net profit on manure of $516. The next year I used 2,000 pounds per acre at a cost $7.25 au acre, or $471 for total. But my crop went from eight to forty-seven bales, giving increased income of $1,500. This year I use 4,000 pounds on an acre, costing $14.50, or $942 for total man ure. But my crop is at least eigiuy bales with this mauure, where it was eight without. This increase of seventy-two bales is worth $3,600. De duct cost of manure $940 and we have $2,650 as the profit on nse of manure." "And then the laud is so much richer." "Certainly. It is worth $100 an acre, where it was formerly worth $5. You must credit the mauure with this." "I shall double my manuring next year, putting 8,000 pounds to the acre. I believe I will get 150 bales from the 65 acres. I hope to push it up to three hales an acre. I have a few acres on which 1 put iu,uuv pounqs sell, no phosphates, no fancy seed, no land. What I have done has been with common seed on poor land, with cheap manure, and any man, without price or purchase, can do what I have done. I am satisfied to make ray money out of the ground, I want none from my fellow-farmers. "The difficulty with us all is that we try to farm too much land. I'm good for $3,000 with two mules and sixty-five acres. Next year I'll beat this. In the meantime, I'm 'bring ing up1 twenty-five new acres. I nev er want over one hundred acres. These I will cultivate with three mules, and I'll make 250 bales of cotton on them besides all the corn and oats I need. "I am anxious," he added, "to see ray plan adopted. If it is done we shall have the best State in the world. Why look at France. Her recupera tive power is the wonder of the world. And what is it based on? Simply that she can raise two crops one of those a lentil crop in oue season. But in middle Georgia I can raise three crops per season ou a piece of land and leave it richer than wheu I started, viz : oj ts, cotton or corn and peas. There is nothing like it. Give me 100 acres of laud like the sixty-five that I own now, and I don't want an orange grove, or a factory, or a truck farm, or anything else. 1 can live on my 100 acres of Georgia scrub land like a king, and lay up money every year. Any Georgian cap in five years if he wants it, 1 have followed will I have this The rule triii? it uist i sure as the sun brings heat and "light." What tde Mcxjcah Pensions will Cost. If the bill recently rrported from the House committee on PenNm, which provides for the payment of peueions to soldiers of the Mexican and Iudiaa warn, becomes a law it is estimated that the T!Uf,L,,e Governraent will be about V J ,370,496, and that the average life of each pensioner will be about fourteea years. There are lieing to-day 11,000 survivors of the Mexican war, and 3276 who fonght in the Florida, Creek and P;8 Hawk wars, making a total of 14,276 soldiers who will receive psasteos if the bill become a law. Canine Itelligenck. The latest stery of canine intelligence comes from San Francisco. A gentleman, fond of whisky punch, on one occasion, after taking his third glas, incautiously trod upon his favorite dog, which usnally lay upon the hearth rug in front of him while he in dulged iu his putations. After that the dog carefully watched bis master after dinner, and the moment the second tum bler was finished gravely left the room. The Item. The skin of a boiled egg is the most ef ficious remedy that can bo applied to a boil. Peel it carefully, wet, and apply it to the part affected. It will draw off the matter and relievo the soreness in a tew hours. ''snaik kBh MJheS e mA? This Space Reserved FOR SHEPPARD, SWINK & MONROE, PROPRIETORS KLLTTTZ'S WAREHOUSE For the Sale of LEAF TOBACCO, Salisbury, N. C. I PURGATIVE f i ' i i . i Fergersou, when 7 years of age, was of compost as an experiment, ana ev seized with severe pains in his right haud ery acre of it will give me three bales aud though he is now 46 years of age, he this year." has been hnnuallv attacked, sineularlv. 1 THE FORMULA- FOR THE COMPOST. though at each time sufferiug more at the preceding. Convulsions and paroxysms now thau Here is my formula : lake thirty bushels of well-rotted stable manure, visit nr well-rotted organic matter, as COTTON1 ! I will have this Season in larger quantity than ever before, the old relia ble SEA FOWL GUANO FOR COTTON. It is $ pleasure to sell this brand because it pleases. And one fact Worthy of notice is, that it has increased in sales the last two years, w hich no other Ku nas done in this market Also, I will have HYMANS & DANOYS PREMIUM GUAJVO, which is one of the favorites of Cabarrus farmers. f 0 othr brand stands any higher with them, and we all know that they are good and ordeal. On being restored he becomes t:nu tvl me bv the tou 814 deliv successful fanners- and especially raise firfc large crops of Cotton. : perfectly well, and is only troubled at "J JL V7 foTlOO youndfl and And to accommodate my friends and customers, I will keep on band a fulUtoek of intervals of a year, but with positive reg- er' Jrfd .J,!... and kainit ""'f This case can only be accounted for bv thorough v. then scatter evenly on KC c, that I will sell for cash of barter Vcr low. Also, will sell on time the fact that Forgersou's mother, shortly tie manure. Then next thirtv btish- HTIIave a small lot of prime CLOVER SEED. his birth, saw the contortions and j cotton seed aud distribute T Tl HJ-AQITTTT evidences of agony in a snake which had c, . t i i,, , U ttAflUAaU beeu t,,rwwu iUloJ,c Bt aild Iie lia8 evenly over the pile, and wet them shall sooa have completed themotf convenjen.',, Guano Warehouse lafown near noUaes' Tan Yard, coine thus birth-marked. thoroughly ; they will WCih uine him at exactly the same period of the leaves, muck, etc., and scatter it about . year, and always at the same hour in the three inches thick upon a piece ot evening. He is now suffering the most ground so situated that water will not acute agony, and is visited by scores of statnd ou it, but shed off iu every di physicians, who iu every case have been ' rection. The thirty bushels will bafhVd. By this peculiar freak of nature weieh abou, nine hundred- pounds ; his body becomes terribly contorted. 1 1 feJ hundred pounds of good Respiration almost ceases, and he be , . ' ,. , ' ' mn a00 rn come, for the time being nnconscioas, phosphates, which cost me per and on awakening shows every evidence ton delivered, making the 200 pounds of having passed through a most terrible cost S2. 25, and 100 pounds kainit, in a hiil. The hills to stand in four feet squares. Of these I would let two plants to the hill grow to perfec tion. It takes from two to lour bushels of seed to plant an acre iu the old way. By my plan a peck to the acre is enough, aud the soil is not drawn to support a multitude of sur plus plants for two or three weeks. Planting in four foot squares is better than the old way. "Cotton is a sun plant and needs room for its roots. Wneu cramped to 12 or 15 inches it cannot attain its perfect growth. My aim is to put the plants two together iu four foot squares, and average 75 to 150 bolls to the plant. This will give me a pound of seed cotton to the plant, or three bales to the acre. "I never touch it with a hoe. The growth of cotton comes from the spreading filaments that reach out from the root and feed it. Il" these are destroyed the growth stops until they are restored. I am satisfied that three hoeings lost me eighteen days of growth or six days each. 1 run a shallow plow along the cotton rows and never go deep enough to cat the roots. But there are more details in which men may diner, lhe main thine is the intensive system of ma- nurine and the husbanding all tue droppings and wastage of the farm for mmnost. I can take 100 acres of land in Georgia, aud at a norniua cost cau bring its productiou from a sixth of a bale to three bales an acre in five years. Any man can do it. "My tenants are adopting the in iPiisive nlan. and are very much en couraged. Some few neighbors are usine mv formula, X have sent out I a.iimose five hundred formulas for composting. The speech I made be fore the agricultural association crea ted more excitement thau anything for vears. The members did not rel ish my statements, I saw plaiuly. They sent E. G. Greer, the secretary, to Milledgeville to see my crops and verifv rov statements. He is to-day the most enthusiastic man in Georgia ver thesvsteiu I am working on. "You understand," added Mr. Fur man, iu conclusion, "that 1 have no possible interest iu the matter outside j of my crop. I have no receipt to fusmi SPILLS r s And will completely change the blood In the entire system in three months. Any person who will take 1 Fill each night from lion weens, may oe restore i . . V . a HI II . If Bach a thine: be possible, t or nemaic uompiunu uwsc run dtb e them for the care of LIVER and KIDNEY diseases. Sold ci nr sont mail for 25c in stamps. Circulars rrce. i. t. juiis.mj & lv . uoxoa, Croup, Asthma. Bronchitis. Wearal afo. Rheumatism. JOHKSOVS ANO DYNE I.1NIMLNT (for Internal end tUtemul Cte) will liKtantaneutitly relieve UMse tanSM diseases, aud will positively care nine eases oat of ten. Infmatlon thai will save assay livr sent free by mail. Don't delay a matirfi Prevention Is better thaa cure. Troabsss, eat DiPHT "leasM of the Spine. Sold everywhere. C ircular, free. 1. a JOnSSOM A CO.. Boston, Mast WE HENS LAY It is swan-known fact thst most of the Bone and Cattle Powder sold in this conn try Is worthless; that Sheridan s Condition Powder U abeolate'y pore snd vetTvalnabto. fuhertdan'sOondltlon Pow- Doee, one leaipooniui 10 nsu pmi m Dec. 80, 1383. lOrly m '3s We ER0NEY & BR0. Have Largest and most Complete Stock of DRY GOODS .AJSTD NOTIONS Trt T-o fo-ixxxd. Ixx tlx Town oT Sa.1 (BdMSBS: A Splendid linMf black and colored CASHMERS, from 12$ to 85 cents pr yard. have the cheapest and largest lot of SILK VLLVL1S, VfcL.Yr.ir..io, anu TRIMMING SILKS, to be found in the citr. We offer as a SPECIAL BARGAIN; All-Wool-Filling Worsted -a-; th l.tMt -hades at 10 tents nor yard. Thu Goods is worth one-third mere cannot be had at this extremely low priee out side of oui House. and Cloaks, Circulars, Dalians ail Mr, Are Pretty and Cheap, from $2 to $18. 4-Also, a nice line of JERSEY JACKETS, SHAWLS, KNIT JACKETS, &c. CARPETS, BUGS, D002 HATS, ALL SELLING CHEAP. BOOTS and SHOES at tow price. A nice line of Ladies' Collars, from 5 cents to 80 et Handkerchiefs from 5 cts. to $2. Wc arc also Aleuts for the Aura, BaYis, & Royal Si Ma, Seiiu ftdira; All of wiiicU we iruaranue lor nve yean . Wc can and will v: chgip. Call and be couviuccd. M. & B.