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1A PRnCTEP BY H. B. NOBL SALEM; STOKES CO. WORTg-CAIlOLINA.... JOHN C.BLUM, PROPRIETOR. VOL. I. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1829. NO. 23je k&Ml& (Sltarnr U FBUTTZD AHO PUBLISHED KTIKT TDI8DAT KOKHMQ. TERBIS On Dollar per annum, ifpaid in advance ;0.n , Dollar and 25 Czkts, at the end or ux months ; but if not paid within the year, the price will be On Dollar and FlfTT Cl-ITS. ADVERTISE3IENTS will be inserted at fifty cents per 1 square fo the first insertiop, and twenty-five cents for each succeeding, week. All letters on business must be post paid, or they will not be attended to. MISCELLANY. From the New-York Journal of Commerce. Of all the Christmas custom sthat we have ever witnessed or read of save that of public worship one that Coleridge mentions as pre vailing in the north of Germany, pleases us most. The children, he says, make little presents to their parents and to each other, and parents to their children. For three or four months before Christmas the girls are all busy, and the boys save up their pocket money, to make or purchase these presents. What the present is to be is cautiously kept secret, and the girls have a world of contrivances to conceal it. The evening before Christmas day, one of the parlors is lighted up .by the children, into whicfy the parents must not go, and here the presents intended for them, are laid out in great order the children still concealing in their pockets what they intend for each other. Here the parents are introduced, and each presents his little gift after which they bring out the rest, one by one from their pockets, and present them with kisses and embraces. WhenI wit nessed this scene, says Coleridge, there were eight or nine children, and the eldest daughter and the mother wept aloud for joy, and tears ran down the face of the father, and he clasped all his children so tight to his breast, it seemed as if he did it to stifle the sob that was rising within him I was very much affected. On the next day, in the great parlor, the parents lay out on the table the presents for the chil dren ; and a scene of more sober joy succeeds, as on this day after an old custom, the mother says privately to each of her daughters, and the. father to his sons, that which he has ob served most praise-worthy and that which was most faulty in their conduct during the year. Effects of hy on Trees. M appears to be a vulgar prejudice that ivy kills the trees it clings to. If it rooted itself, as is erroneously sup posed, in their bark, and fed on their juices, it might merit the accusation of a destroyer ; but it derives its nourishment wholly from the ground where it is rooted; and the supposed roots are only tendrils or holdfasts to enable it to climb. The opinion of its, injuring trees seems to have arisen (and very naturally too) from the fact that it prefers to climb up a dead or dying branch, and will not attach itself to very young wood at all. Mr. Repton, the Landscape gardener, gives numerous facts to show that trees overrun with, ivy, so far from being injured by it, grow most luxuriantly. Evelyn says, that when ivy is stripped from trees, they are often killed by cold in the en suing winter. A day well spent secures repose. From the Geneva (N. Y. Gaxette. Dec 31 A curiosity. A man in Hector, Tompkins county, while hewing a stick of timber, a few days since, discovered in the centre of the tree, and enveloped in the solid wood, several dis tinct marks of an axe or hatchet, and several of the chips, which had not been entirely sev ered from the body, perfectly sound. The dead bark above the wound extended about, half way round the tree ; which leads to the determination on its size at the time it receiv ed the wound, indicating that the tree must have been a sapling of not more than three or four inches . through. When the marks were discovered it was from three to four feet through, and the marks and chips in the cen tre. The tree was a white oak, which is of comparatively slow growth. Judging from its size, and the depth of the wood over the wound, the marks could not have been made less than two hundred or two hundred and fifty years ago. The incision has all the appear ance of having been madewith a sharp instru ment of either iron or steel. Each blow pene- j trated an inch or more into the wood ; which forbids the idea that it could have been done with a stone hatchet, which were in use among the Indians before the introduction of the arts into this country. If the incisions were made by steel or iron, which is undoubtedly the case, then either the arts and civilization were par tially introduced among the nations which in habit the borders of the Seneca Lake ; or, which is much the most probable, the blows in this tree were inflicted much longer ago than two hundred and fifty years. This may perhaps add another to the in numerable evidences already known, that this country was formerly inhabited by a people far advanced in civilization and the arts. Sagacity of the Horse. Having recently no ticed, in a foreign paper, that a man falling from his horse into a river was seized by the animal and safely brought ashore, reminds us of a letter received from Steubenville, Ohio, in June last, addressed to a son of the .editor, then in the village : tt Joseph h. returned home last evening, and this morning related to me, with tears in his eyes, a most remarka ble and almost incredible circumstance. Ar riving at a creek, which the late heavy rains had rendered it hazardous to swim, he dis mounted from his horse, and attempted to cros3 the creek on a tree which had fallen a cross, it holding the bridle in his hand, and com pelling the horse to swim alongside. After he arrived about midway the current became so rapid that Natty could not keep his course, but broke from him, and Joseph fell from the tree into the creek. He caught by a limb and the horse swam to the shore, and then halted and turned round to see what had become of his rider. His situation, consequently, was of great danger, as he found it impossible to re gain the tree. At this critical moment Natty plunged into the creek on the opposite side ol the tree, swam round it to where Joseph was, stopped quietly until he" mounted him, and then swam to the shore with Joseph on his back ! This story, incredible as it may seem, you will believe to be true. What a noble an imal, and how much the more must you now prize him. Broome Republican From the Schoharie (N. Y.) Republican. Reader, perhaps you never heard of the boy who took a stent, (as the phrase is down east,) to mow three acres of grass, in as many days T Presuming you have not, we will relate it On the first morning he views the field : Pooh ! (said he) I can mow it in two days, so he play ed that day. The next morning he looked at it again, and after scratching his head and ru minating a short time on the subject, he came to the conclusion that if he worked right smart," he could accomplish his task in one day so he spent that day as the day before. On the morning of the third and last day, he arose late, and it was near 10 o'clock before hereached tho field. After casting his eyes over it, he began to doubt whether he could accomplish the task in one day ; the field look ed considerable larger than it did the day pre vious. He stretched himself under a shade tree, to reflect upon the subject ; presently he heard the dinner horn it was noon ! He jumped up swung his scythe over his shoul der, and turned his face homeward, muttering to himself that he " wan't-going to kill himself, if the grass never got mowed ;" and that he'd " be darn'd to darnation, if there was a man in the six countries, that could mow that con founded big piece of meadow in one day," and for his part, "he should'ent try it." So, after eating his dinner, he went to play as usual. As a specimen of nonsense too abundantly conveyed in letters from Washington, we quote the following sentence from an account pub lished in New York, of a ball which the Brit ish Ambassador recently gave at Washington: u Mr. V. is a bachelor, of forty-six or eight good look ing, plain, and affable. The ladies are all dying in lore with fiim."'' The British tourist, who reads this, will note on his tablets " The American ladies all fall desperately in love with plain British bachelors beyond the grand climacteric, especially if they happen to be his Majesty's representatives and give balls and suppers." Nat. Go. v The Sex in Virginia. Gov. Giles, in his mcs sage to the Legislature on the 2d inst. makes honorable mention of the fact, 4t that, for the last four years, but one white woman had been convicted of a penitentiary offence within tho Commonwealth of Virginia, and that only two white women have been confined in the peni tentiary for the last two years." The free white population of the State exceeds 660,000 souls. u How wonderful the fact," continues the Governor, " that only one white woman has been convicted of a penitentiary offence within the last four years !" Recipe for Salting Beef. Salt and water hare a won derful penchant chemically ycleped affinity, for each other. Get therefore a tub of pure water, rain or rirer water in the best, let it be nearly full, and put the tonga or two pic ces of thin wood across it, and set your beef on them, distant about an inch from the water, heap as much salt as it will hold on your beef, let it stand for four and twenty hour,. you may take it on and boil it, ana yoa wiu nod it as salt as if it had been in pickle six weeks. A miser was lately found dead in Paris, eo-w filthy bed. still grasping the key of hi coffers ; he had hoarded about 000,000 francs, 100,000 of which were concealed in differ ent kitchen utensils. Human nature, like a kaleidoscope, presents a new coav binatioa every look you take at ix.
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