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VOL. XXI. WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1891. NO. 52. PEANUT CULTURE. NEGROES OF THE SOUTH. ( THE FIRST REBEL CUN. NO NEED FOR ALARM. RACE INCREASE. A DIMPLED STORY. WHAT A VIRGINIA MAS SAYS ABOUT IT. It is nearly time to select hind and seed for the coming crop. A light, san dy loam with sufficient lime applied will grow peanuts. The ground should not be plowed deep, but shallow and well. The hill rows should he slightly elevated, and about two and a half or three feet apart. About May 1 is the proper time with us to plant the crop. In Virginia we make a ridge of two-foot rows, and upon that ridge we run a newly invented planter which levels the same and plants the kernels of the peanuts about ten or twelve inches apart or as may be pre ferred. Not having a planter u good way to put the seed in would be to make the ridgo the distance apart and size as be fore iutimated, and then take the mold board off a single turn plow, run it down the center of the ridge, thus bursting; it open and sufficiently leveling it, and leaviug a furrow of sufficient depth in which the seed may be planted and cov ered with foot. And as to the sufficient amount of lime to grow a crop I would say that a half tou of good shell or rock limo to the acre applied in the drill is usually all sufficient to grow peamiis even on fresh land. Less quantities may be applied to lands having been limited previously. Another important thing is receiving good seed. It is often true that good looking peanuts are very pour seed, be cause the germ may have been effected by heat or some other cause in the im proper curing or haudliug of them With good seed a good stand may be hadeveu uuder unfavorable circumstances, but it may be hard to secure even an or dinary good stand with injured seed, even under the most favorable conditions, Good seed may be had by curing them perteetly diy, alter digging, in open air 'fore bulking ihcni, and afterward keoj I them in a perfectly dry place. Some the idea where the peanut is not gn. 'hat the peanut should he planted with 'lull or shell upon it. This is a mistakes 'idea; always shell before if'. plant COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. "Bill Arp," recently gave utterance to the following views upon unequal matelns iu the matrimonial race: When a young man begins to loo ound und hanker after a wife be ha etter consider whether bo can keep her to her raising or not. If he thinks hoi can, then he is safe to invite her to put her flothcr in his chest, but if she is rie and lib is "only tolerable, thauk you, be tad better be careful and go slow, for riches take wings and fly away, and if ho can't keep up the old standard its a re flection upon his capacity. A good, sen sible wife won't say anything on that line, but most every woman has an idea that f she was a man she would make life a uccess and so, it tier husband proves 'ailure, she don't strain her eyes in look j ffig up to liiiu. J 'lo the old lasl 4 m-d for love, I tshioned times when folks they bunched everything thpir hint nml ior in nne honi, and sal cd down the Btream together, but now a days it is not uncommon to hear a married woman talk about her house, and her farm, and her bank account. It is all well enough to keep what she inherits, but I wouldn't play second fiddle to uo woman upon earth, if she ever said "this is mine ' to me. It dwa. fs a man in the estimation of hi ehi Iren for their moth er to have the big: t pile, l'a is of no couserjUKnoe if ma li n got the money. Don't l ei i U, And yet).u are .-it-k - doctor, or you r.-f'i . fear you will -.ihinn y,.. we will tell you just w is Hood's fcarsapnrilU . r .i . oiigh to consult rout so doing for lf and fiiends it you need. It which will lift ii uncomfortable ju nut ui Mini uneet.un dangerous condition, int a state of pood health, confidence ami rh. er''ilness. You have uo idea how poteut this peculiar u in cases like yours. DECIDED IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR MA TERIAL AND MORAL CONDITION. ' A colored preacher iu Brooklyn, who watches the movements of his race, holds that there is no like'ihood of any exten sive migrations of the colored people of the Southern States to the Northern. A few thousand come every year to this State from the cities of the Southern seaboard; some go from Virginia and Keutueky to the States lying north of them, and a considerable number in the ulf States have been anxious to settle upon the lands newly opened in Oklaho ma. But it is doubtful whether the an nual migration from all the Southern States is as high as 100,000. The reports received by the preacher us to the progress of the colored people of the Southern States at this time are encouraging. The majority of them, who have been born in freedom sinue the close of the war or were emancipated in early life, have acquired habi's of self- reliance which their enslaved ancestors did not possess, and in several States are as well educated as the whites. The new census shows that in North Carolina the proportion of colored children who attend school is as large as that of white till lreu,and in Virginia it is but little less, while the reports from most of the other States lire good. The preacher argues from the growth of prosperity in the Southern States that time lias now fully proved that the col ored people are possessed of industrious uibi'ts, and that the notion prevalent iu slaveiy tune, Unit they would never work under freedom, has been disproved by the experience of a quarter of century. They raise the crops of citton, sugar, tobacco and cere als as they did before the war. Colored mechanics were few in number under slavery, but there are now tens of thou sands of colored workers in skilled indus tries. The colored preacher iilno speaks with pride of the fact that among the colored people of the South there is now a body of excellent scholars, who have gradua ted from various institntions of learning. They exercise an elevating influence, and are very useful as teachers. Finally, the colored preacher refers to the interesting fact that there has been a change in the speech of the colored peo ple of the South, and that the ''Sambo dialect" is going out of existence. A large proportion of them speak the Eng liftli language as well as it is spoken by other people, though there are parts of South Carolina and the Gulf States where the plantation lingo still hold its ground The change has been brought about by the schooling of the new generation. N. Y. Sun. THE EARTH WILL FLOP- Marshall Wheeler begaD a mighty se ries of lectures on "Science vs. Supernat uralism, in Irving Hall last evening even ing. He claims to have discovered a third principal motion of the earth and the other planets, which, he says is more important than the discoveries of New ton or Galileo. After a study of fifty years be lias learned that every 20,1)03 years the earth exchanges its north and south poles on ac count of the magnetism of the earth. The sun so strongly attracts one of the poles and repels the other that iu every 20,00'! years the earth becomes so heavi ly charged it turns 00 degrees. The speaker said that about 6,000 years ago the world made this turn. Merit Wins. We desire to say to our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption, Dr. King's New Life Pills, Bueklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have nev er handled remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universal satisfac tion. VVe do not hesitate to guarantee them every tiiu e, and we stand ready to refund the pi ice, if satisfactory results do not follow their use. These remedies have won their ruat popularly purely on I their merits. V. M. Cohen, druggist. IT IS OWNED BY THE DAUdUTER OF THE MAN WHO MANUFACTURED IT. The first gun made for the Confeder ate Government is owned by Mrs. II. T. Miller, of Chattanooga. The owners ef Libby prison, now in Chicago, are in correspondence with Mrs. Miller for the purchase of the historic relic. The gun was made by Mrs. Miller's father, W. S. McElwaine, at Holly Springs, Miss., in the summer of IStJI. It was carried through part of the war by a young man of Holly Springs, a friend of Mr. McEl waine. Originally it had a rifled barrel. About the middle of the war the barrel was injured by a ball, and the gun was returued to Mr. McKlwainc, who cut it off at the injured point and bored it for a shot-gun. Mr. McKlwainc was a native of Pitte field, Mass., where he learned the trade of a machinist. Afterward ho worked in a gun factory in New York, and thin moved to Sandusky, Ohio, where he en gaged in the foundry business. In 1S5! he went on a prospecting trip to Missis sippi. He settled at Holly Springs, and in a crude way began the foundry busi ness with two partners. When the war began the company had a well equipped establishmei.t, which Jefferson Davis in duced the owners to convert into an ar mory. Small arms were badly needed and Mr. McKlwainc planned and mad the necessary machinery for tuanufactur ing them. With his own hands he made the first gun, which his daughter now preserves. When the battle of Shiloh was fought in 18ti2 the plant wasturuing out tweuty five stands of arms a day and employing 500 hands. The armory was afterward s Id to the Confederate Government f 81511,000 iu addition to the $00,000 paid for converting it into an armory The plant was shortly afterward removei to Macon, tia. After the evacuation of Carinth bv the Confederates a raid was made on Holly Springs and the buildings werj burned. Alter an eventful caret the maker of the first gun of the Con federacy died in Chattanooga in 1382. NEW LAW IN REGARO TO DEEDS. The new laws passed by the last Leg islature in regard to the registration of deeds is as follows: Section 1. That section 1210, sub-division 1, of the Code of North Carolina, be amended by inserting after the word "county," in the 8th line of said divi.-ion and before the word "who" in said line, the following words "or of any other county to this State, whether said grant or, making or subscribing witness resides therein or not." Section 2. That all deeds heretofore acknowledged by the grantor, making or subscribing witness before any clerk of tie Superior Court or of the Inferior or Criminal Court, or before a notary public or justice of the peace of a county within the State wherein the land conveyed did not reside, shall bo and are hereby de clared sufficiently proven, and the regis tration of the said deeds shall be good and valid in the law. Sectiou 1. That the probate and reg istration of all deeds, mortgages and oth er instruments requiring registration, to which tho clerks of the Superior Court arc parties, and which have been rgi tered on the order of such clerks on proof or acknowledgement taken before justices of tho peace prior to the 1st day of Jan uary 1801, be and the same are hereby declared valid and binding to all iutcnts and purports, as if the same had been taken before or ordered by the proper clerk or other proper ulheers having ju risdic'ioii thereof. Section 2. That all deeds, mortgages or othei instruments requiring registra tion to which clerks of the Superior court are partus, or in which the said clerk are mteroted, may he provtn or acknowl edged aud the privy examination of any married woman, when necessary, taken bef'oie any Judge of the Superior (Vitro or Justice of the Supreme Court, and the said deed, m-Ttg ige or other instru ment ordered to lie registered by such judge or justice in like tnunn-r as is pro vided bv law. rliatiier 117, v . 1 1 1 of the I code, lur piuontes tiy cl -iks of the S ip"- I rior court iu other eases. THE TAXES WILL HE SUFFICIENT FOR ALL PURPOSES. The iSVe Chronicle, early after the djournment of tho Legislature, expressed the opinion that the appropriations fur the two years would not exceed the re ceipts. Afterwards we saw it stated that the Legislature ought to have increased the taxation, and that the failure to do so would result in a uenciency wnen the jegislatute assembled in 18015. The editor of the Chronicle yesterday had a conference with State Treasurer Bain, with him went over the appropri ations made and the receipts from all sources that can be relied upon. With a full knowledge of all the financial op erations of the State Mr. Bain stated to us: "There will be a deficit for the first year, but I am confident that the receipts for the two years will equal the expendi tures." Mr. Bain stated his reasons for this faith, among which we may mention: 1. There will be no General Assem bly for 18U2. This usually costs from 300,000 to $02,000. 2. It is reasonable to suppose that there will be some increase from the new assessment of propeity this year. 3. A number of the appropriations made are specific aud not perpetual, aud are not to be calculated in the annual ex penditures. 4. It is uot anticipated that the whole of the appropriation for the en forcement of the oyster law will be nec essary. It is not expected by the friends of the oyster law, from present indications that more than one-third of the appropri ation will be called for to carry out the provisions of that law. Mr. Bain is a very accurate and pains taking officer and does not make mistakes. No man understands the condition of the Treasury or the financial operations of the State so well as lie, and no man in the State is more careful to keep within bounds. His statement, therefore, is full answer to all the statements of alarmists. There was no need to increase the State tax, and the receipts will equal the expenditures for the succeeding two years. I Ins is very gratuying panicu- arly when we recall the fact that this Legislature made many progressive move ments, aud gave a fresh impetus to edu cational and material progress. Slate Chronicle, FROM A TO IZZARD- HOW THE VARIOUS PEOPLE EXPRESS IDEAS OF I.ON'I DISTANCE. The measures for long distances have varied widely at different times aud with different nations, to say nothing of the comparisons used in different sections of our own country. For instance: The Jews said "from Dan to Beer- shaba." The Persians say "from Medina to Mecca." The English say "from Land's End to John O'Groat's." The Yankee says "from Maine to Tex as." Tho Southerner says "from Florida to Alaska." The Sucker and Iloosier say "from the Great Lakes to the Gulf." The South American says "from the Isthmus to the Horn." Iu Louisiana they say "from New Orleans to Pittsburg." Iu California the common expression is "from Altaville to Pilot Knob." An Attractive tomblnr.1 POCKFT ALMANAC unit MKMOUANOUM HOOK rtvertlslnir HIMAV.VS IKON HITTKIIS tho host Tonic, j iveu awuy lit DniK aud geut-rul stores. Apply at ouoe. " Catarrh cured, health and sweet breath secured, by Sliiloh's Catarrh Uemedy. Price f0 cents. Nasal Injector free. At H'. M. ('obeli's drugstore. Sleepless nights, made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the r in. 1 1 -. for uui. For sale at 11'. M, Co hen's drugstore. THE COLORED RACE NOT OWN. HOLDING ITS The population of the South Atlantic and South Central States, Missouri and Kansas by races, is given as 23,87",2"'J, of which lli,SIJ8,203 were white, 6,'JlH'y Kit! colored and 10,888 Chinese, Japa nese and Indians. The facts as ascertained sustain the theory that the high rate of increase in the growth of the co'ored population as shown in 1880 was apparent, not real, and that it was due to the impcifect enu meration iu the Southern States in 1870 During the past decade the colored race has not held iu nn niirwr tl,e whites in a region where the climate and conditions are, of all those which the country affords, the best suited to its de- vclopmcut. It is seen that in but three decades that is, from 1800 to 1830 during a part of which time the slave trade was in progress, has the race in creased more rapidly than the white. Since 1830 the whites have Eteadily in- creased at a more rapid rate than the colored people. This increase has not been effected by the aid of immigration for with the exception of Kansas and Missouri these States have received com- paratively few immigrants either from foreign countries or from the Northern States. Similarly tHe proportion of the colored inhabitants to the white increased some- what between 1S00 and 1830. but since that tine it has steadily diminished. In 1830, when this proportion was at its maximum, there were nearly six colored inhabitants to ten white, but this proper lion nas neen reauced to a trine more than four at the present date, or by near ly otic-third of its amount .Several tables aro given by the Census Bureau wn ch the movements of the co - ored element of the population during the last half century. An inspection of the tables makes it evident that there has been no extended movement of this l..nnt ainno ha tin,,, f tl,n Tn. VlV-UIVUb UIIIW lll llllili J k tltll. .Ill deed, with the exception of the District of Columbia, the border States appear to have lost rather than gained, and dur ing the last decade there becomes percep tibly a southward movement of the col ored element from the border States iuto those bordering the Guit, particularly in to Mississippi aud Arkansas, where they have increased proportionately to the whites. N. Y. JbrtrfJ. UN V K L(' ) M E P KOPLE. HUMAN FRAILTIES PERTINENTLY PES- CRIUED.liV THE EDITORIAL PARSON. Those who point out to us our own faults. Those who always take their troubles along and leave their joys behind. Those who neglect their own business to attend to that of other people. Those who stay too long when we arc busy. Those who have a hobby that they ride to death, Those who always want to talk about things iu which we take no interest. Those who never have anything to talk about but themselves and the weather. Those who ask so many questions that they discover our ignoiunce. Those who are overly positive about things of small importance. Those who come at the very time when we wish they had stayed at home. Those who agree to everything we say, and never have any opinion of their own on any subject. Many Persons arc broken down from overwork or household cures. Hrown's Iron Hitters rcrmiiiMhe ysli'in, Kids digestion, removes execs ol bilo, aud luiys umluna. Get the Kcnaiuu. Shili.h's Cough and Consumption Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. It cures Consumption. Kor sale by V. M. Co hen. Sliiloh's Vit;n.er is what you need for Constipation, Los of Appetite, Diz ziness and all svnip i,s til" Dyspepsia Price in und To eems per bottle. . 1 Pi sale by W. M. Cohen. THE PLEASANT RESULTS OF A TEN CENT INVESTMENT ON THE STREET. A young Brooklyn Benedict sauntered down Nassau street several months ago in a reverie. He was thinking of his home across the bridge. An interesting event was soon to happen there, and he was on his way to a fruit store to buy some dainties fur his young wife. His face beamed with happy anticipation of the thanks of the little woman whoawait- ad his return. He pushed through the crowd of pedestrians without heeding any thing or having the train of pleasant fancies diverted until he passed a young Italian image pcdler. The Italian's stock of l)laster wolk Wils displayed in a high doorway out of the way of the busy throng. The sunbeam lighted up the statuettes. The Benedict looked down at them Willked on a few stePs'' tbett turned back. Two tiny busts had at tracted bis attention, Ouo represented a boy crying, with his cap pulled away over his right eve. The other was a dimpled check girl laughing. They cap tivated PUDS Benedict s fancy "How much are they?" he asked the Italian "Tena eenta," replied the pedler, his lighting up gayly at the prospect of a purchase. "All right; I'll take 'em," the Brook- tynite sai(1 and wnen the Pedd!er baJ wrapped them in an old newspaper he tU(;ked t,lcm '" llis overcoat pocket and continued on his way to the fruit store Ho hid the images when he got home. and without his wifes knowledge, placed them upon the mantel in the din- ingroom where she would see them the first thing in the morning. "It will le a little surprise," ho thought, The plan worked to Paction. The mistress of luu oueuoiu K.,vU muu t.j ui u6uu I 1 1 . 1 . ! . 1 1 1 1 fls 1,1,0 CttUS"t 11 01 lno Km 8 ncau' " nat pretty dimples, she said, wnen lhc yoUDS luedict came down to break- 'Ust "Yes; rather pretty for the trice. I I ' v a. thought you'd like 'em," the husband re- plied. Iu two months time tho happy event that the household had been looking for ward to anxiously had happened. A ood natured girl baby had come to fur ther distract the Benedict's mind from the dry details of business. lie had weeks before forgotten the trifling pur chase from the humble Nassau street art purveyor. week later the healthy infant looked up at the ceiling and smiled. Her fat checks creased into two unmistakable dimples. The Benedict laughed. He was immensely tickled. The dimples w,ei M prt,tty as couitj De and ho was proud of the fact. 'But where on eaith did the dimples come from?" he sai l. "There haven't been any in ojir families." "A happy whim of nature, I suppose," said the young mother, and she kissed each dimple several times. Tho Benedict went down to dinner alone half au hour later, llis eyes chanced to scan the mantel and rested on the five cent bust of the laughing girl. "By George!" he fairly shouted," Chere are those dimples now the very ones. Well I call that about the best in vestment of a ilium I ever made." It was another illustration of the whims of nature. The dimples had cap tivated the young wife. She saw them daily. They had made a lasting and pleasing impression upon her mind, aud, as of'ien happens, what the mother most admired had been reproduced in her child. "It's lucky it wasn't a boy," said Benedict, philosophically. "It might have been a crier of tho wor.-t desciip ti. m New York Suu. That Hacking t'ough can be so quick ly cured by Shiloh's ure. We guarau tee it. Formic by W. M. Cohen. Will you suffer with Dyspepsia in Liver Complain'? Sliiloh's utk r nn.i i I guaranteed to cure you. Fur sale by W. I M CoL,,,, '
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