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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER,
Atkineon & Shepperson,
vs. Before E. n. McQuigg.
ueo. u. Moore. J J. i.
PLAINTIFF claims judgment in the sum of
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nd for the cost of the suit, on the 3d day of June,
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ucreby nofihca to appear and answer,
may 7 187 dltw3t
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VOL. 25.
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
IT H E ADVERTISER, HAVING BEEN BE
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Williamsburg, Kings County, New York,
feb 5 52-3m
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From the Raleigh Sentinel.
Pen and Ink Sketches of the Universi
ty of North Carolina, as it lias Been.
DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE, AND
TO THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY.
NO. 6.
DR. PHILLIPS.
If thoroughness was a characteristic of
the teaching at Chapel Hill, it follows that
fidelity to duty was a strorgly marked trait
iu the Teachers. Of none could this be
paid more truly than of the staunch old
Englishman, Dr. James Phillips. He was
a man who, above all others I ever knew,
never allowed a question of expediency to
interfere with his notions of right.
HIS AIMS.
He came to North Carolina in 182G, and
his first impressions of the University re
sulted rather in disappointment. I have
heard him say that for several years he
would have been glad to get away at any
time, and nothing but bis attachment to
Dr. Caldwell, and the influence which the
President exerted on him, kept him at the
place. He was an ardent and enthusiastic
Mathematician, and ho wanted to intro
duce new methods of study, and more of if,
than young North Carolinians, as a body
(either then or since) was willing to accept.
He believed then, and to the last of his
life, in the discipline of the mind resulting
from the study of the exact sciences, as the
most important of all aids in its cultiva
tion. He gave hini6elf to hard study, to close
and patient investigation of the great
Problems whose solution the higher Math
ematics holds out to its enthusiastic vota
ries as its most splendid rewards. His li
brary showed that the books which he
gathered around him forty years ago were
the great folios of the Masters, La Place,
La Lande, and Delambre, of Newton, and
Ferguson, andHutton. He went to the well
heads always. Among his MSS. are many
translations of the French Mathematical
works written with an elegance and pre
cision that defy criticism. His elaborate
lectures on Natural Philosophy for his
classes were written in the same style, and
of the hundred of his MSS. sermons, not
one showed a blot, or an erasure, or an
interlineation.
HIS WAY.
In his early years he was very active in
person, gay and curt in his address, and
fond of good society and of good cheer.
Hut as his concentration upon the absorb
ing studies which he loved increased, and
as years came on, he gradually gave up
one by one his out door exercises and set
tled himself to hia work and his study.
For many years the steady light in his
library window was the iast seen at night
in the village.
Whatever Dr. Phillips undertook to do,
he would do conscientiously. He prepared
and thought over every recitation he was
to hear in College as carefully to the very
last day of his life as if he were himself to
recite it to a higher master. He studied
every sermon he was to preach to a coun
try congregation as if it were to be his
last. And it was owing to this that exact
and unvarying as the routine oi hia life
was for many years, he never fell into
formality. His daily .prayers at the family
altar and in the College Chapel were al
ways fresh and ardent.
If he read a book it was done exhaus
tively and he seldom needed to read it
twice. If he wrote to a neighbor, or a let
ter to a friend, the same deliberate ele
gance marked every line and letter. His
punctuality in the performance of his Col
lege duties was proverbial. He invariably
left his study at a quarter before the reci
tation hour, and cane in hand, might be
seen crossing the campus at precisely ten
minutes. Very unlike hia forty years col
league, Dr. Mitchell, he did not like to
have many irons in the fire at once. He
wanted his work well defined and nncrowd
ed. He liked not to give advice, or to med
dle in other men's business. He preferred
a quiet smoke and talk with a friend, by
way of recreation, to a ten mile breezy
walk over hill and dale.
HIS LIBRARY.
His reading was not so miscellaneous as
Dr. Mitchell's, nor was his library so ex
tensive. Dr. Mitchell bought many books
merely from curiosity bocks that he found
were worth only " a dip " into. Dr. Phil
lips accumulated books more slowly, but
there were very few among the two thou
sand that he left behind whose value was
not standard. And few that he had not as
Lord Bacon advises, " thoroughly chewed
and digested."
THE EXAMINATION PAPERS.
That library has been broken up only
this past winter. Passing by the house
one day when the debris and litter of forty
years' accumulation were being swept out.
I picked np a paper which proved to be
one of the Examination Papers prepared
for the classes fif teen or twenty years ago,
the questions in Dr. Phillips' own enmis
takable handwriting. With a sigh and a
smile one looks over such a reminder of a
day that is dead. How many of the Alnm-
' ni to whom these sketches are dedicated
tfiU noire these qttestto&s now I v A cone,
the radius of whose base is 5 feet, and its
height 10 feet, is filled with water. Re
quired the pressure on its base." "A
luminous point is placed 3 feet from the
surface of a concave mirror of one inch
radius. Find the point to which the rays
converge."
On another loose scrap were what the
Doctor called " choice extracts " from the
papers received from the classes, with the
names of the perpetrators annexed. As
thus :
"A fluid is property of particles xcldch
flown easily along." S.
" Watt invented steam." T.
Jf apiece of tape has the shorter end im
merred in a tumbler of water, and the longer
end to extend below the surface of the water,
it will be observed to drip." N.
"Coulcomb discovered an hydrometer." P.
"This engine worked by steam produced by
the pressure of air. Watt raised water to
create steam, which was much less expen
sive." W.
This, I am persuaded, is what the Doctor
meant, when he so often charged his clas
ses against " orerstepping the modesty of
nature."
OUT Oi" COLLEOE.
Dr. Phillips, like all his colleagues, was
a social genial man, although a student.
A rigid task-master and disciplinarian in
the recitation room, he unbent as soon as
he came out of it. He tolerated young
folks, and he loved a joke. True English
man as he was in his out-spoken honesty
and bluntness, and independence, yet he
never made an enemy. Littlo children
pulled at his gown, and chained him for a
play-fellow. Our iast recollections of this
simple minded scholar and true gentle
man, are as he sat in his study chair, with
a large old fashioned black leather-bound
Bible open before him, and one of his lit
tle grand-daughters asleep on his breast.
Why Cut Feed is Best.
Among our farmers generally tcr littlo at
tention is given to the method of feeding
their animals. Although it may be a little
more trouble, we have found that Jit pays
us in the long run. We know that there
are many who will disagree with us, yef,
upon a little investigation into the truth in
this question and its natural effects upon
the animals fed, it cannot but seem very
apparent.
Cutting fodder doe3 not add any more
nutriment, we admit; but it changes its
mechanical condition and enables stock to
consume it in leas time, and thus have
more time for rest and digestion.
It i3 a well-known fact, admitted by all,
that a man who eats regularly say three
times a day is far more healthy than he
who is constantly eating ; for by so doing
the digestive organs nro required to act
three times daily, and then they rest ;
whereas, if kept in a constant state of ac
tion, and without rest, produces weakness,
which, if continued iu, will ultimately
throw one into dyspepsia.
The digestive orgens require as much
rest as the body. Although every one
would think it preposterous if any one
were to go without Bleep for days aod
weeks, jet we seem to have no regard for
our digestive organs. The same facts hold
good for our domestic animals, for are
they not classed among the mammalian or
der of the animal kingdom the same as
man, and their composition relatively the
same ? Therefore should we not resp ct
them as well as our own organism ? Es
pecially is this a valuable consideration for
hard-horses.
Again, cut hay or straw, slightly moist
ened and sprinkled with ground grain is
much more palatable, and preferred by
stock to unmixed food, and tends to main
tain a more vigorous appetite than when
confined to unprepared food.
Again, it is the faculty of mixing food
right that pleases the palato, and though
there is no more nutriment in it. opportu
nity is given to get more from it, and a
less amount is paeed off in excrement.
A dish of potatoes well seasoned with
butter, salt, and pepper, would not be
turned from by the most fastidious ; but if
a person were required to eat each separ
ately it would be turned from, in disgust.
The question of economy in this matter
of course depends upon the value of labor
and of food in different localities, and
under various circumstances. But we have
found on our farm that it is profitable,
notwithstanding the seeming high price
of labor.
The superintendents of several city
horse railroads in cities where hotses are
very much worked have told us that they
were obliged to give cut food to keep their
horses in good order.
Nothing can be gained, however, by
preparing food that wai not good before.
Many think that by adding meal to cut
straw, butts of cornstalk, cabbages, and
the like, and inducing their slock to eat it,
that they have made a gain ; but it is im
possible for something to come out of
nothing.
Wherever digestion can be helped, a
point is gained ; and if a less amount of
food cut will go further, another point is
gained. If better digestion secures more
nutriment from tho food administered, and
a less amount is wasted in excrement, a
less amount of food will be required. Sev
eral of our neighbors will join us in the
statement that nearly fifty per cent, is
saved by preparing food; and if it could be
steamed, it is still better.
We should like to hear the opinion of
some of our readers, who undoubtedly
have given the matter a thorough practical
tost. Stock Journal.
Disease ainofog Slieep.
The sheep in Lyme and Warren, N. H.
are dying largely. In Warren some hun
dred and fifty have died of a disease called
"grub in the head." Calvin May, of War
ren, has lost twenty-five. Ira M. Weeks
fifty-five, and Henry Kimball seventy-five.
Miss Cairnes.
Belair, Harford Co., Md., May 10.
The absorbing Cairnes trial being over,
our community is likely to settle down into
a rational state once more. After the
verdict of acquittal on Saturday, the crowd
having gathered about the hotels and in
the street, the greatest excitement pre
vailed. Persons expressing an opinion
against the verdict were in danger of being
pounced upon ; so caution was indulged
in. About 7 o'clock the acquitted left for
her home in the upper part of the county.
Immediately after her departure the
'Belair Band" appeared in front of her
late quarters to serenade her, but, disap
pointed, marched away. A purse is being
raised for her which is expected to amount
to a neat little .,am many having given
liberally. The public generally maintain
the verdict. Baltimore sun.
Interesting Decision.
The Secretary of the Treasury has deci
ded that the tariff, as well as commercial
usage, recognizes a distinction between
wrought iron tubes and wrought iron flues,
and that the former are liable on importa
tion into the United States to a duty of
3 cents per pound, and the latter at 2
ce&te per pvund, nfidec esistisg laws.
WILMINGTON, N. 0., FBIUAY M0EN1NG,
The Pacific Railroad.
How the Knit Snubbed Kaeh Other, and
Would'nt Meet.
A correspondent of the New York Sun,
writing from Premonitory Point, Pacific
Railroad, May 1st, says :
Everybody supposes the two roads have
been doing their level best to meet each
other, and so they have, but not at this
end. If nobody had said anything we
should have had a double track across the
continent before long. The two compa
nnies the Central and Union don't love
each other, and the idea of meeting wasn't
agreeable. tell you, Mr. Editor, these two
roads 7iave been built parallel to each other for
a distance of fifty-three miles, and they
haven't met yet, except to have a jolly roio !
One road followed its surveys, so did the
other. The surveys ran into each other,
so did the roads, so did the companies, so
did the men, so did clubs and stones. The
roads have often been in sight of each
other, sometimes only a few yards apart,
and once they crossed. But they haven't
met.
The Central dug from the Union's em
bankment, aud the Union repaired its
breach by making one in the Central. The
Unions cursed tne Centrals and the latter
damned the Unions. Words were found
too weak, so they talked with fists and
clubs, and had some glorious scrimmages.
Then they came to blasting. One side
would touch off a young earthquake with
out giving notice to the other, and a show
er of stones among them would bo the
first sign of it.
The other party, in acknowledgment of
the salute, at once blasted out a mine with
nitro-glycerine, aiming it at the other
camp, killing several mules, but fortunate
ly no men. Things now look serious, and
war was declared. Both parties armed for
the fray. The Central clique sent to San
Francisco for revolvers and the Uniou to
St. Louis. Fists and blasts were getting
tame and the combatants called for powder
and blood. The road was to be finished
with a magnificent display of fireworks,
when at the very critical moment came
word that tho two companies had shaken
hands at Washington I
The men dropped their arms, aud now
we are told tho road is to be smced.
The compromise was that the Central
Pacific Kailroad Company abandons its
own grading and takes the Union Com
pany's line, which the latter pays for. The
Union thus geta the bonds of Government
for the 53 miles.
Bonds wero at the bottom of the whole
trouble !
A HopsUss Radical.
Mr. Trumbull goes io Illinois to-day a
man thoroughly hopeless of the present
Administration. He has made the appoint
ment of a friend or two to consulates as a
personal favor to himself. His requests
have been refused by General Grant, al
though they were favored by Mr. Fisli.
Mr. Trumbull declares ho is slaughtered
because, and only because, he voted against
impeachment ; and he declares to those
wheso claims he has been vainly pressing
that he has no influence left, and he grim
ly advises them to be as independent of the
Administration aa he is. Washington tel
egram New York World.
Festive ccom.t of a
Kloi Ida.
Male Hide in
We have had a hearty laugh over the fol
io wing artioie of an epistolary nature, writ
ten by a New Yorker sojourning in Fer
nandina, Fla. It i decidedly rich :
" Well, I'm dowu here in Florida, perco
lating through the sand. This State is a
heap of sand all sand much of it as
white as snow. A veryquiet State is Florida.
No bistle. No confusion. Nobody in a
hurry. To-morrow is just as good as to
day to do anything, and better. Time is
of no account. Tho climate is glorious ;
just one beautiful day after another till you
fail to appreciate them.
-x- -X- - -
The boys insisted that I needed relaxa
tion. My health required it. I had a
pretty fair article of health, I thought ;
enough to last me as long as I lived. But
I muBt accumulate a stock for future use.
Tho South was the place to get it. And
riding was healthy. Tho sand is too deep
to ride, except on horeeback, so I thought
I would take a ride. I applied to the
livery man for a horse. He had one. He
sadly looked at me, as though he pitied
me." Did lever ride a mule? I never
had. He had es good riding horses as
were ever saddled, but I wanted a "liock
me to sleep, Mother," style of rido, I
would take a mule. I don't consider my
self a first-class judge of mules. I had
some vagae notions in regard to them ;
supposed they would do a large amount of
work with very little food, and were im
mortal. I had read of one being driven
over the same route by the same boy for
eighty-seven years, and he was a young
mule yet.
Bring forth tho mule. The mule was
brought. He was a meek looking cuss a
perfect " Uriah Heep " of a mule, so far as
"Umbleness" was concerned; at least,
that was the view I took of him. He was
saddled, and I mounted. For a mile or
two he paced beautifully. I thought those
old monks I had read about, knew what
they were doing when they traveled on
mules. I had a great respect for their
judgment. Just then my mule began to
shov,' symptoms symptoms oi wnat, 1 aid
not know. I found out. Dropping his
head between his legs, his heels described
a parabolic curve4 or a diabolic curve, or
some other infernal curve, in the air, and
I got off and sat on the ground. I got
over his head, and I did it quick. I'm
t off
quics. 1 m not
so old but I can get off an animal of that
kind as quick as a boy. Then I looked at
the mule to see if he was hurt. He
didn't appear to be. Then I inquired
around to see how I was. I reported
- mi let 1 1
an abr.isicn on ine ien nip, anu
contusion on the lower end of ray
back. Then I thought I would pro
nounce a left-handed blessirg on that mule,
and on his forefathers and foremothers be
fore him. and on his children after him.
But I didn't. I wondered if he would
stand fire. If I had had a pistol I would
have put the muzzle to bis ear and tried
him. Not that I was hostile towards him,
but I was afraid somebody might take a
ride on him some day and ge; hurt. Bat
I had no pistol, and so that benevolent and
saneruinarv idea was frustrated. Then I
trot up and shook the dust off my fest, and
brushed the sand off my trousers, as a tes
timcnv against that place. Then I led the
mule carefully home, and stated my case
to the livery man. But when I looked that
he Bhould offer to send for a doctor, ox a
Samaritan, to do me up in a rag, and pour
olive oil and champagne on my bruises, he
only laughed. And his man he had to
help him laid down on a bench and laugh
edtben he rolled off the bench and
laughed and I stood holding the mule
then, I laughed. It was ridiculous. - But
I've learned a little wisdom. Next time I
ride on horseback, it will bo on . a differ
ent U&d of ft toast from & bogus jackass,
n
MAY 21, 18G9.
STATEjreWS
BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.
Theft. Some rogues entered the cellar
of Mr. S. J. Freeman, on Hargett street,
within twenty .;feps of Fayetteville street,
and carried of 300 pounds of rags. They
must have had a wagon to have carried off
their plunder ?4 Where were the fifteen po
licemen ? Hal. Sentinel.
Turning an Honest Penny. Downing,
of the Penitentiary swindle, though a man
of more than three score and ten, is a mov
ing carpet-bagger. On Friday he left New
York and reached the city Saturday. On
Monday he left, and reached New York
Tuesday afternoon. Now this is rapid-and
healthy motion far an old man. When
the Penitentiary swindle was about to be
exposed. Downing ro3e in the Houso and
said he would take the 8,000 acres at the
price the State paid for it. He wanted it
on speculation ; it was worth thy money
paid for it, andhe was buying it only to
sell again. Downing pays no tax in North
Carolina, except on a gold watch.
The sale of the publio lands in Hyde has
not been heard from since the Legislature
headed off its fraud by requiring the sale
to be approved by the General Assembly.
It may be this old penny turner is arrang
ing the salo of our public lands.
There is a secret in his mission which,
perhaps, the Governor might explain. It
is said by some tht the Governor will be
the richest man in the Sate at the close of
his term. Raleigh Sentinel.
We aro informed, says the Warrenton
Living Age, by Thomas A. Montgomery,
Esq., of the particulars of a very sad affair
which transpired in Warren county last
Monday : It seems that for some time
past Hon. Francis A. Thornton has been
suffering from great pecuniary embarrass
meutti, and had finally, in a fit of despair,
made up his mind to take his life with his
own hands. Monday evening while his
family were atttending a funeral in the
neighborhood, he carried out his deter
mination by cuttiug his throat with a razor,
severing the windpipe. A servant happen
ed to come into the room about the timo
and snatcned the razor from his hand. A
physician was summoned and has been in
attendance since the sad occurranco, but
no hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Mr. Thornton is one of the most prom
inent citizens of Warren county and be
fore tho war was possessed of considera
ble wealth. He represented this district
we think in Congress in 1821 and was in
the Legislature for several years.
Tho tobacco barn of Mr. James Hunt, of
thi.j county, says tho Milton Chronicle, was
broken into a few nights ago and relieved
of 1,400 pounds of leaf tobacco.
His Excellency Gov. Holden has ap
pointed Wm. H. Sikes a Justice of the
Peace for Biadea county. Ral. Standard.
Seizures. The tobacco factories of
Morris fcSons and A. J. Green & Co., at
Durhams, were seized on Thursday last by
I. J. Young, Collector of the 4th district,
for alleged violations of the internal reve
nue law. The factories were closed and
turned over to the custody of J. W. Bucks,
deputy U. S Marshal.
Mr. I. J. Young, Collector for the 4th
District, has recently seized the tobacco
factories of John L. Jones, at Tally Ho; D.
C. Pool of Fairpoint; John G. Yancey, at
Henderson, Granville county; and Duggan
Allen, at Hayesville, Franklin county, for
alleged violations of the revenue law. All
these factories are closed and in the custody
of the United States Marshal. Mr. Young
has also seized two horses, a wagon and
nine boxes of illicit tobacco, said to bo the
property of Howard ' Owen of Oxford;
also about 1200 bales of snuff, belonging
to different parties at Henderson. These
seizures and the activity' of Mr. Y'oung and
his assistants are making a panic among
the men who have been getting wealthy
out of tho frauds upon the Government.
Ral. Standard.
Positively Injured. There is but little
doubt but that the Cotton prospects
through this section have been seriously
injured by the late cold snap. The cotton
planted three weeks since has not yet come
up, and positive fears are entertained of
anything like a stand of cotton being had,
many of the farmers being engaged in
plowing up their fields and replanting. A
great scarcity of seed now prevails, and
if it be true that tbo seed in the gaouud
fails to come up, the loss will be very
heavy and general. We met an experienc
ed farmer yesterday, however, who asserts
tho belief that the damage to the seed now
planted will be nothing like as great as it
is estimated, and we sincerely hope he
may be right in his views, for upon the
cotton crop of tho present year through
thia section, as well as elsewhere in the
South, depends the prosperity of our peo
ple for the next couple of years. Weld on
Neics.
Friends of Temperance. R. H. Whit
aker, the able and eflicent Secretary of the
State Council, visited our place on Friday
addressed the citizens and organized a
council of the order under the style of
Greensboro' Council, No. G6, Friends of
Temperance. The following gentlemen
were chosen to fill the various offices :
President R. P. Troy.
Associate W. H. Hill.
Chaplain Rev. Wm. Barringer.
Secretary E. B- Allev.
Fi. Secretary E. H. Scott.
Treasurer Jno. A. Melviu.
Conductor G. T. Glasscock.
Ast. Conductor Jno. Long.
In. Sentinel J. L. Hall.
Out. Sentinel Wat. Mebane.
Ex-President J. W. S, Parker.
Greensboro' Patriot.
Sesgular. A spring on the farm of
Abraham Styers, in this county, which has
for nearly forty years furnished good
wholesome water, has recently become
very poisonous in consequence of a
stream of water stronly impregnated with
lead breaking tinto it. All of the mem
bers of the family who drank of the water
after tho lead stream broke into the spring
wero taken violently ill. The physician
called to attend the family, analyzed the
water, and drank of it was also made eick.
Winston Sentinel.
Shocking Accident at a Revival Meeting
At the Victoria Theatre, London, on the
evening of April 25th, tho well known
Richard Weaver, the "converted coal
heaver," was to deliver a farewell sermon,
and an immense crowd attended. The
rush was so great that, among other acci
dents, a child of about three months old
was dragged out of its mother's arms and
trampled under foot, and it was quite dead
when nicked up. There was, as is usual
at such meetings, an inordinate proportion
oi women, ana tne wreanung auu iamung
that ensued npon the rash to obtain ad
, Btttaace created, conriuerable. alarm.
NO. 15
Mozis Addurns Objections to the
Wimmin.
Ill Objections to Them.
I has known and luved 'em well those
many a year ; but I has my objeckshun to
wimmin. It ar this everything about 'era
is too long. Thar cote-tail is too long ; it
riffles on the ground like running water
and gethers up dert and trash like aharry
kane doz9 going ronn a fodder stak. But
a 8hipp under full sail ought to have a
wake, and I wooden hav wimmin's frocks
cut off to thar waste like a jemp-jackit for
a pretty.
Thar shoe strings is too long. A man
kin war boots 'thout no strings a tall, ex
ceptin of the strop, but wnmmun is bleest
to have cossets round her ankles and lace
'em up like 2 par of stays. May be it
makes 'm walk no prettier. I dunno.
Thar heels uv thar shoes is alsoe too long,
aud thar sox is too long takes all day to
draw them on.
Thar extremmytis is too long. They kin
set in a chair low doun, and kick a man
that is a set tin in a high chair, 12 foot off
in elcar, clean outen tho hous. Now Jon
Ekkles nor the Belgin jiunt, nor nar nuth
ner man, can't do that standin. This
gives 'em an oniew idvantidge over thar
master, Man, in the urly stage uv the
gaime. Arfter marridge, tho gaim ov
kicking is more evener.
I shall not say thar waste is to long, on
lest they dunno how to war thar clothes
good, and are pedustriated to be ola mades.
A long barrel woman are an utter abomi
nashun. I pr6fears a Durrinarer.
Thar necks is too long. A neck uv a
wummun are like untoo the moon in the
Almenack when the rrs "Tjnnfirrntis lnw '
and like the brees of a goose it embraces a
-i n . . ... .
gooa deal uv the back. Ef the neck uv a
man were like the neck of a wnmmnn. the
knott of his cravatt wood rest on the pit
uv nis stummuck. When a wummun runs
to neck, she outruns enny thing except an
ostrich or a kamme leppud, and her hed
hangs away out yonder like an appel on
the cend uv a stick that a boy is a gointer
to sling green appels with. And in them
casts I have observed that whar the head
are at such a distunce from the hart, the
wummun is a onfeelin wummun. And the
neck is rinkedly.
why they love long things.
Ef evrything about 'em is too long, as I
havathewd, nobody needn't wondur that
wimmin shood have a great ponshont
(French) for long things, which, ef you
stop to think about it a minnit, a wonder
fool teecher uv femail karrieture. Long
kerls, long brades, long ribbens, long har
pins, long nitten-needils, long gluvs, gant
lits and mitts, long list wuckquaintunsis,
long akounts at the drv-uds stos. loner
shoppins, long walks with their luvers
(which they luv 'em long hard, with long
beerds and long mustachers), long, all-day
preechings, long buggy rides, long tiem
gitting rediiy to start, and then, wust uv
all by a long shot, long leave-takins, that
urritates a man wuesern a plarster uv ken
therridees. And then, so divvoatid they
is to everything long, they'll set doun, with
a long pen pint in a long pen handil, and
write a long letter, crost up one side and
doun tho uther. and then n,dd twn nr tlirPA
long p-is-skrips (like tackin uv severial
A - 1 It 1 it
nounsis xo a Jong sneeri, ioia it up lengtn
wise, and put it in a long envellup and
seal it with a long stick uv sealing waxx.
In fact so great is thar horro uv short
things, that they wouldn't make a peeriud
or short stop to save yo soul, but makes a
long dash in plais uv peeriuds, commers
and everything, so that it ruin yo eyesite
and talk away your breth to rede thar let
ters, which is like creashun, broke loose
and lonjytude skatterd every whicha way in
fragments uv latty tude. Why evin " the
tops uv thar "tVis long like the mast
uv a shipp, crost with long crosses like
yard arms, and the bottom uv thar " g's "
is so long that they look like stirrup leth
ers hangin doun 'thout enny stirrups to
'em.
In cunclcwshun, they livs too long, givin
uv a man (preechurs is diffrnnt), no chanse
to marry but one in a lifetiem, wharas a
avvridge uv about seven to a man would
be about right, I jedge.
Blight of Fruit Trees.
Mr. W. B. Wilkes, an intelligent and
successful fruit grower of Aberdeen, Miss.,
contributes to the Dixie Farmer the results
of his observation and experience, as fol
lows :
Mr. Editor: On the blight of the apple
and pear, much was written, a few years
ago, throughout the Northern States. It
was contended thero wero tcveral kinds of
blight, or if only one, several causes were
assigned for it. During tho last twelve
years my orchard has been greatly injured
by blight during some seasons, and con
fined to certain kinds.
I only propose to give my observations,
and the course pursued to prevent it as far
as possible, and for several years very lit
tle blight has affected. During thirty-five
years cur climato has undergone a very
perceptible change. Formerly our winters
were more mild, or if cold, the spells were
if long duration. Now, since the timber
nas partly disappeared wo have very sud
den changes ; a few very cold windy days
with rain or snow, succeeded by a few of
mild spring weather, and this through the
winter, and very changeable during March
and part of April. Now when we
have an early warm spring, leaves
putting out early, then a day or two of
rain and north winds, there follows blight
on those rapid growing pears, such as
Madeline, Osburn's, Sumner, Bartlett,
etc., and the Penn Cider apple is seriously
affected. These are the most rapidly de
veloped in tender growth. The Seckel,
Flemish, etc., slow growers, aro never af
fected with blight. A few days after the
cold spell, even when there is no frost, the
tender growth wills, as if tcorched, and
the blight extends downwards. Some
years ago a pile of manure was left through
the summer near a fine Dwarf Bartlett
Pear, having been placed there during the
winter ; the Bartlett wa3 forced into a
vigorou.s growth, blighted aud died to the
ground. Now, to what does this observa
tion lead ? It is my practice to put no
manure in the orchard until the trees
show a want of vigor to perfect the fruit
and make sufficient wood growth too.
This should be applied in just sufficient
quantity to effect that object, each year
after the crop of fruitshows what is needed,
or you run the risk, by over-itimulant, to
blight some of the most valuable fruits. I
hope others will give their observations on
this and kindred subjects. With our soil
and climate, we mnst, (to be successful,)
observe at home, disseminate our observa
tions, and quit patterning after a soil and
climate entirely dissimilar. The frait
shipments North are destined, at no dis
tant day, to pay far more than our meat
aud flour, which wo ought to raise at home
Onr.roads are now. running .fruit .trains,
arid :?oori 'will :'run refrigerator cars, when
needed, and fruit culture will remunerate
talent and. capital -
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ingeition, $1.
Special Xoticeu will bo charged $200 per square
f reachand every insertion.
All Obituaries and private publication of 6TtW
cbarac tar, are charged as advertisements.
a- No ad ertiaement, reflecting upon private
character, can, under ast ciBCtntaTAKCES, tt
admitted.
Cultivation of Broom Corn in tho Soutb
Interesting to Farmers.
The following letter, addressed to a well
known citizen of Petersburg, says the
Petersburg Index, contains some valuable
suggestions to the farmers of Virginia and
North Carolina, relative to the cultivation
of broom corn. This is one of the most
profitable crops we can raise and as re
muneration is the object of the farmer's
labors, we commend the letter to a careful
perusal. If it is to tho farmers' benefit
that thov should cnltivntA
preference to another, let them seek to
raise the most profitable, and give their
best attention to it. If onions, pea nuts.
broom corn, or nnvthinc elan, will ra.-w
r 0 w - Mr J
better than the old crops of wheat, corn,
tobacco, &c, why let them cultivate them.
But to the letter, which we would premise
bv Eavinrr that nnn n f tlm f! -tv ia
y o w-tvs uiua ao uvia
North Carolina, and the other from Peters-
Durg :
iViT-TTMivfiv M BtV. laen
wtu, VVit
Mr. John P. Branch, Petersburg, Va.:
.wear eu-: jfeeung interested in the pros
perity of the Bouth our recent borne sd
having exerted ouraelvea to encourage thiculture
ofbrooincorn iu southwest .and northwest Vir-
uu rtu u4roiin, we write this, hoping
you may mdnco the farmers of your section to
Kive it eomo attention.
It is a most profitable crop, easily cuUioaied,
and commands cash on delivery, and often before
it reaches market. The farmers of Illinois and
Ohio Lave grown rich from its culture, and
there is no reason why Virginia and North Caro
lina should not lind it equally profitable.
It is safe to calculate on $200 to $300 per ton of
2,000 lbs. next fall. Western river bottom lands
produce 1,000 to 15,000 lbs. per acre, and it will
grow as well in Virginia and North Carolina, on
lauds of same strength, as in the Weit and nearer
to market.
It ia cultivated about same as our "sorgum
cane" in the South, only that it, stands thicker in
the drills one to two inches apart and if the
land is quite strong it will bear touching in drills
3 feet apart.
It should be cut in September, and before ripe.
while yet green, with some fix inches of stalk to
the brush, the eeed cleaned off at onoe, and the
brush corn dried, cured in the shade, which ren
ders it green when cured. If cured in the sun it
turns red and ia not worth so much as the green
corn.
It is baled similar to hay or cotton with wire or
rope, only that the brush part id kept inside and
the stalk end turned out. An acre should jield
some 40 or 50 bushels seed, which for stock are as
good aa oats, and command about same price In
Eastern and Northern markets CO to 80 cents.
Suppose each farmer in your county planted
but one acre, and it yielded him only 800 lbs. clear
brush corn at $250 ton 12J JbatlOO; and the 40
bushels aced, which at 50 cents a buehel, would
more than tiav frmVht. tr mirknk nn (ha Hh tt.n
r - -O ' ww V VMW WVU AJk4
broom corn, and the labor of growing and hand
ling, leaving $100 profit to the acre, which would
more than purchase his year's supply of sugar
and coffee, and enable him to p7 the casli for it.
Would not thin add to tho prosperity of your sec
tion by increasing its currency. We expect to
manufacture, use up, 40 to 60 tons per annum,
and a thOUSU7ld (l.OilM tnnn nf hrnnm mm wnnhl
find sale in our market at good remunerative
pncea; u 13 aiao an article or export.
Hoping that many of your farmers will try it,
SLtod promising them a market, we aro
1 ours, very respectfully, Ac,
RliTIlfU'ii. TfirmtTVri A Cn
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Wooden
nare, isrooni uorn brooms, Ac.
LATEST KEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
lom Washington.
Wasiiimito, P. C, May 15 PM.
Special mail agcut lit iggs departs to-night to
establish the l'reo loiter carrier system in the
southern cities.
Secretary Boutwoll cow seems determined to
stamp the bonds purchased and returned to the
department as the property of the United States
held as a sinking fund under the law of 18G2.
It ia stated that Gen. Terry has been ordered
to investigate the Adkins murder case.
A. It. Corbin, a reputed New York millionaire,
married President Grant's sister Jennie Grant to
day. The commissioner of iev6nue decides that
railroad refreshment cars are as liable for taxes
as hotels, liquor dealers and tobacco sellers. The
roads are liable for these three taxes on each re
freshment. riiOCIiAMATION.
By the President of the United States of Amer
icaA Proclamation:
In pursuance of the provisions of the act of
Congress, approved April 10th, 1869, 1 hereby de
signate the sixth day of July, 1839, aa the time
for submitting the reconstruction constitution,
passed by the convention whicb met in Richmond,
Va., on Tuesday, the third day of December,
18S7, to the voters of said State, registered at the
date of such submission, viz: July sixth, 1809, for
ratification or rejection ; and I submit to a sepa
rate vote the fourth clause of section one, article
third, of said constitution, which is in tho fol
lowing word: (insert the qualification clauee),
and I also submit to a separato vote the seventh
section of article third of tho said constitution,
which is in the words following: (insert the test
oath clause). I direct the vote to be taken upon
each of the above cited provisions alone, and up
on the other provisions of the said constitution in
the following manner, viz: Each voter favoring
the ratification of tho reconstruction, excluding
tho provisions above quoted, as framed by the
oonvention of December 3d, 18C7, shall express
hie judgment by votingor the constitution; each
voter favoring tho rejoct ion of tho constitution
excluding tho provisions above quoted, shall
express his judgment by voting agxrinst the con
stitution. Each voter will bo allowed to cast a
a separate ballot tor or agai 3t either or both of
the provisions above quoted.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused tho seal of tho United States to
ba affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this
fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and
of the independence of the United States of
America the ninety-third.
U. 8. GttAKT.
By the President:
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
Validity or an Illinois Divorce.
A curious case, involving the validity of
the Illinois divorce laws, was before the
New York Supremo Court, general term,
lately. The plaintiff, a Mrs. Kinnier, al
leges that she obtained a divorce from her
huHband, a Mr. Pomeroy, by collusion,
and while both parties were residents of
Massachusetts. She then married a second
time, and she now seeks a divorce from
husband No. 2, on the ground that the
first divorce was invalid, and that she is
still the lawful wife of Pomeroy. The
court gave judgment for the defendant,
holding that the divorce was valid, both
parties having submitted to tho judgment
of the Illinois tribunal.
MAUllIED.
At Wtlnut Hill, Bladen County, on the 28th
April, by Itov. A. McFadyen, Mr. W. J. LOVE to
Mis EMMA 8 , daughter of the late James Eob
eaon, dee'd.
At St. Paul's Church, Edenton.oa the f th inet.,
by the Rev. Francis W. Uilli&rd, Col. D. M. CAR
TER, of Washington, to Mrs. HARRIOT A. BEN.
BUBF.
In Raleigh, in Christ Church, on the morning
of the 13th inst., by Rev. Dr. Mason, Mr. JOHm
G4TLING, of Gates County, to Miss BALL1E,
daughter of the Hon. B. Jr. Moore, of Raleigh.
No cards.
At the residence of Mrs. M. Clark, Lafayette
Square, Baltimore, by the Rev. Mr. Calloway, on
the evening of the 12th of May, 18C9. Dr. W. J.
HAWKINS, o! North Carolina, to Mias MOLLIS
U, WHITE.