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KINSTON, N. C. . I - - -v- ,. . .jLi:i-:,.,.JJ :- .... - i ' ' . Q Hp . 1 amili), .faffll, oali 5aHfpcnknt: Journal pfootfli to ttfrotare, grimHnrr, rolit tlje juts on5 ' -Srienrfs, '(Eo'mntfnittl.'anb (Sfncral - Ifcios. ' Chained lb no Pa.rly's Arbitrary Sway, Wc cleave to Truth uherc e'er she leads the way." VOLUME 2. ! .yjUNTON INDtl'E.NBE.NT, PUBUSIIKD KTEKT TUESDAY. BT ; E03AB L. PESKIiJ3, - - Editor Proprietor $2 per Annam, if ptl ia" adta.sce; S2J if not pll wjthln Ttfaee VVwrua if.er ttTsaWrip- tloa year begins j If not paid until the enJ of the year. ' XT All Subscrip.ions out of Sampson or the ftdjoining Counties have to be paid ixvaiiia- Terms of Al ertisiii. -For 1 square of 1 2 lines, for tlie first insertion and etch subsequent insertion 2.') cts:; 1 , v quare for 3 montlia ?3 ; 0 months, 6 ; 12 aonh Longer ones in proportion. xAdtjerthemexts not paid within !0 days after the laat iuaertion will be charged ove fourth more. 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The Courts have decided that refus fnjjflo take newspapers from the onice, or removing and leaving tlMm uncalled for,, is primafucie eyhjence.of intentional fraud. 0. Tlio United "States Courts Jtave also repeatedly decided that a Postunaster.who neglct to perform his duty of -giving re sonable notice, as required by the O'ost OlBc Department, of the neglect of si per son to take from the office newspapers .ad dressed to him.' rentiers the. Postmaster li able to the publisher for the subscription price. UOtTV..t COURTS The Superior Court for; this county is field jii the sixth Mondnv after the fourth Munday in M;ircli and September of each Wm. McKoy, Clerk of the court oflaw. - Patrick Murphy, Clerk fl the Court of JJouity. - - - r' li'ibt. '.'Strange Solicitor for the 5th Judicial District., Tlio Court of Pleas anV qitarter sessions it held on thei third Monilay in February nd May, Augu-t and .Noveiiiber. J. 11, Beeman, -Clerk.; R.C Itolmes, Cluxirman of the General Court - - - - ' Wm. S. Devane, Solicitor. O. W. Crumpler, Sneritf. James S. Ilines, Corouer. Whitnv Rival. Uen-ister. J. B. Cox, Truste Jacob NTewman, ''Entry Taker. Joseph ilerring, ' Ranger. - Lewis Johnson, Standard Keeper. J. R. Maxwell and Jo.iah Robinsbu Coun ty Surveyors. . j COMMON SCHOOLS. A. Monk, Chairman. L. C. Graves, Curtis Lee, J. A. Darden rind William SDevane, Examining Com mittee. CLINTON. Town Commissioners. r T. IL Holmes, Intendent of Police. Ja. S. Ilines, Clerk. J. B. Cox, Treasurer. JR." .A. Moseley, Cdector, T. L. Pugh. . 2Wn. Constable , Ijtaae Boykih. Past Master G. Atkins. The Northern and Southern mail, from Warsaw on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, arrives at Clinton every evening at TO o'clock. Saturday evenings excepted The Western Mail, from Fayetville ar rives at 11 P. M. Saturdays excepted. . " sThe mail trt supplj the County Post PfiSces, leaves Ctioton every9 Wednesday morning, and returns Tl ursday evtrjing. The Agricultural Society meets in the Court llousa oft the, first Satard ay in each month, at 11 o'clock. ; ' , The mail from Clinton to Elizabetbtown leaves Clinton eveisy Wednesday mornintr and re&rnes the following Tuesday even. ing. ; , . .The mail D3lvren Clinton and Dob Viosrille leaves Clinton every. Saturday ramie? and rtarns the same evening. j. 3liGffllnnfoit0. BUTTER-MAKING. V foipfro the pleasure of varietv in r -r 4.iT...r..t T..r.v-iL-i:.J)TTrrs. rGras-fed kiae yield mdk from. week, to make Room for the following ar ticle; interesting to the inquisitive mind, and capable of being useful to the mind of practical application. We find the ar ticle in the Scientific American in reply to enquiries from a lady coniributor. ' One of our lady correspondents requests us to give ome account of "butter-making" -. how and when butter was invented stating that such information would be interesting to many of our readers. The origin of butter making is unknown. From timcj immemorial butter has been made and used by the natives of Western Europp. Little is said about; it by ancient writeiSj Galen- ahl others do not mention it as an article of diet, and it is probable that neither the Greeks nor Romans em ployed it in cookery, nor j set it up on their, tables as food, in the same manner as it is enjoyed by us. As butte4mellswwlbe- comes nq;iid at vu cleg, iai)., tnis may account for the ignorance of ancient au thors as to its use in cold cotin tries in their day, because the seats of aricient learning were confined to warm climates, and geographical knowledge was then very limited. Through the indomitable cour age and enterprise of modern travelers vve have been made acquainted with the customs and habits of almost all tribes and nations civdized and savage so that we know of butter being used among many of the barbarous Arab and Tartar tribes inhwbitirrg: mountainous regions; and no doubt it has been krfown to them for many centuries. The Tartar, carry ing milk for his frugal meal in a leath ern pitcher slung over the crupper of his saddle, would perceive, after a hard ride1, that there had gathered on its surface a rich yellow substance, unknown to him be fore, and which could have been produce.! from the milk, alone. The cause' of is development would readily suggest itself," and its pleasant flavor would incite him to reproduce it in the same manner. This is' the way butter is now churned, by some of these nomadic tribes. The 'milk is placed in a bag made of skin; the Tartar slings it across his saddle, mounts his, sieed, and trots up his butter; This we believe could riot have been the way, but ter was first di-cnve'ed by the inhabitants of Western Europe, as their most ancient practice of churning consisted in agitating a 1 ' ... Ml 1 . 1.1 .1 me miiK in woouen vessels; dim now or when they discovered the art, we shall never ktnw. Iri Palestine, and other warm countries. ! olive oil holds the same place that butt'er does with us. As ah article of diet, we are only acquainted with the hutter made from cows' milk; but butter made from tiej milk of the sheep, goat, buffalo, and ajfij are known and used in various, countries . . ' - - - i especially in.'Asia. Some tribes nf Arabs use the butter (called ghee) of the buffalo which they drink clarified in a liquid state. T .1.. - -l-'-.t : . 1. in ine ivasi indies there are breeds of goats ! t which give a large quant-.ty of milk; and j among the hill tribes of the Himalaya j mountains they tal;e the same place as the kine tribes wi'h us., One of these goats, latoti FirrkiifrKf tr tta Un A-!rm 0t.Tf I i. (and by a Mormon family, strange to tell !) yielded on shipboard from six. to eight quirts of milk daily. ' We really hope that some of our enterprising "agriculturists, who have devoted so much attention i improving live stock, will endeavor to in-! Iroduce and acclimatize such a valuable ' breed of animals. Thev can be raised 1 and fed in mountainous regions wher cows wouldMarve. Their milk is gootl their flesh excellent and their hair make strong and durable fabrics for cold weather. Goats' milk and butter are also common in some parts of Europe. ri Butter W the oil of milk, separated by the mechanical action of churning from its other constituents casein, sugar, and some salts. It exists ready formed in the milk, as oil does in various seeds, and it can be churned from sweet (but' not so quick) as well as from our milk. It is called by chemists butvrine and 'butyrie acid. In some dairies the whole milk is churned to obtain the butter; in others, CLINTON, NORTH CAROLINA; F EB- 2, 1858. , only the cream. By the formpr melhotl it Iras been averted that more, but by, the U.ter superior; butter is produced. It is our opinion that with proper care ttiefe little difference in the result- of the two which beautiful yellow botfer is gathered; on the contrary stall-fed cows give milk which yields a tallowy-looking butter. This latter kind of butter is oftentimes col ored to deceive the buyer, by annatto, the juice of carrot-, and the flowers of the mari gold. The color, therefore, is not always the test of grass-fed milk. Some kinds of feed 'mpart their strong and peculiar fla vor to milk. This is the case with turnips, which should never be given to milch cows, except iti veryltmited quantities. In win ter, when grass cannot be obtained, the best kind of food is a question of no small importance, AlilclKkine should receive at least onej meal per day of steamed or boil ed food. The cheapest and best for this purpose are indian meal, a few pumpkins deprived of their seeds, carrot', hay, and cornstalks; potatoes are excellent, and when cheap should be given freely. Cows which receive one meal per day of boiled or steamed food, during winter, yield at least1 one-third more milk thanhose which I received only dry food, the condition of the former at the same time being much superior. .' ! The above embraces the history of But ter and the correct manner of, treating cows; at another time we will give direc tions for treating the Butter, to preserve it sweet. G recmboro' Times.. ORIGIN OF ODD FELLOWS. It has been supposed by many, that the origin of the society of Odd Fellows, or rather the organization of thaf association, was of comparatively modern date. They will be? somewhat surprised, however, says the Cincinnati Times, "to learn that its origin dates as far back as the time of Ne ro, and was etab'ished by the Roman soldiers in the year '55. At that time they were called 'Fellow Citizens.' The present na ne was given them by Titus sesar, twenty-four years afterwards, and they were so Called from their knowing ach other by night or by day by means of mystical signs and language. At the lame time he presented them with a dispensa'ion, engraved on a plate of gold, : eaiing diffen nt emblems of moitalitv7. n the .fifth centuy the order was establish ed inlhe Spanish dominions, and in ortugal in iheixth century. It did not each Fiance and England until the Eleventh century. It was then establi-"hed n th j latter country by John De Neville, iv ho, assisted by five knights from France, mned a grand lodge in London. This aricient fraternily has now its lodge in Wery quarter of the globe, and by its use- utness and benevoleut character, com- pnartds,: the respect and countenance of all jwho are acquainted with its nature and urposes. Those upon whose informa tion' reliance may be placed giv credit to (Baltimore for fir.t introducing Odd fellow ship into the United States, and to. Grand Sir Thomas Widey, still living among us, observer the Baltimore Patriot, belongs j the honor. Thomas Jefferson s Fathers Strength. Peter Jifftroii is desenbed by Mr. Ran- dill as "a jman of gigantic stature plaio, and averse to display he was grave, taci turn, slow to make, and not over prompt to accept advances. He was one of these calmly ani almost sternly self-relying men, 'who lean on none who deire help from hone.' And he certainly had both muscles and mind wliich could be trusted. He could simultaneously "bead up" praise from their sides to an upright position) two hogsheads of tobacco, weigliing nearly a j thousand pounds apiece ! He once direct- Ud three able-bodwd slaves to pull down j a ruinou' shed by moans of a rope. j After, they had again and again made the i effort, be bade ihem stand aside, seized the j rope, and dragged down the structure in an instant. Traditions have come down of bin continuing his line3 as! a surveyor through savage wildernesses after his assis tants had given out from famine and fati gue, subsisting on the raw flesh of game, and even of his carrying mules, when othei food failed." T," THE SUN. The above (ays the Philadelphia Press) is a somewhat grave caption, but if any of our readers desire in these times of money pressure and lugubrious 'counte nances to enjoy a real heirty-iide-sliaktng laugh, we advise them to read the follow ing, which we find iu the FayeiteviJJe North Carolinian, of Saturday last, under the heading givefff at the. top of this para- graPh : Some of our readers may never have seen Dr. Dick's illustration of the imppssi bility of the sun's rinng and etiintr daily. We condense it as follows : In the morning the sun as he irises abovi the Eastern horizon'is 95,000,000 of miles from the rarth. In the evening when i sets beneath the Western hbrizen he is at the same distance from the earth in an opposite direction, as he as in the morn ing. In round numbers, then, he bas traveled in twelve hours 85,0000,000 of miles, or at the rate of 23,750,000 miles per hour, 395,833 per minute, and 6.587 miles per second at which rate the velocity would be too great for mortal eye to note the passage of the sun. .We reccollect trying to pin a jdog-maVicarold customer down with 'that i argument once, and we shall never forget how he knoeked the whole column of figures into pi by denying the premises. j We were teaching an "academary" down in the wire grass country of South Georgia, soon after we left college and among the ''higher branches'r taught in that "institootion" were the Rudiments of Astronorav, to which advanced text book j we had introduced a cIasofsand hill boys j and gopher-trapping girls,: ranging in age from fourteen to twenty years. A few recitations, confined principally, to correc- tions of mutilated pronunciation; "stairs," "hevingh buddies," 'the yeath," "comics," 'planics," &c and we made to "the ad- i ' vanced class" the startling and incredible i . v announcement that the sun did not rise and set daily; that the revolution of the earth on its axis made night and day, etc., &c. There were a few "open coun tenances" in that gaping, wonder-stricken class about then. Next morning we were waited on by a grave,: sage looking patron of ours, who, with some a-perity of countenance and, as we imagined, contemptuous severity of expression, thus delivered himself. "We've emply'd ye here to lain our4 young 'uns, haint we ?" We assented to the proposition. . S "Well.". continued he, "what's all this rigtrvmarole and stronamy and stiiff abUt the sun not settin and risiri, and the yeath turnin upide down of a night, and sich infiJe' talk ye've leen foolm the skollard with ?" Now thought we for a triumph of science, a lighting up of thie benighted un derstanding. Invjting him. into th"acad- eiy," we proceeded to draw a diagram jupon the black-board, for iHu-tratipn. ''Now," said the purpose of we, "the sun is ninety-five millions of miles from the earth, and" "stop cried "yu know that 1 Who's he how ben thar do to measure it? What survaver's ever drug hi3 chain over that route? Tain't so. In vain we assured him that scientific men had demonstrated it, philosophers proved it beyond a doubt, Jand that all the learned anf! eminent men in the world ad mittel and believed it IT "They don't know nothift;about it," was his dogmatic response; "not a bitmore'n I i do, and they've never been any closter to the sun than; I hev. It's agin reaon, sense and scripter, to gay that the sun dont rise and et for thar's a text, which mabbe you've seel if yoo ever read the bi ble, which I kaint t scacely believe you ever did read itsayin 'from the risin of the gun to the going down tharof and see here, young man, if you kaint teecb the children somethin better n sich fool. talk and inQdel argyraent you rnout as well J0ok out for a Dooly settlement what thar a;nt no churches and the folks never heard o' the bible." We caved, wiped out the diagram with our left coat tail; bowed out our incignant patron, and the next rdorn inr the "stronamy class was advanced to Peter Parley' Geography, and the son permitted to rise and set as usual. There's everything in admitting and denying the premises. i JAMES SIMPSON. Among the recollections of my youth there are none-more vivid than those of one whom I will call James Simpson,' a Jour, and now an eljerly rpanwltosti years are not far from my own. lie had been taught in hi childhood by pious parents, and knew his duty as well as any, boy in the school to which he and I were sent when we were about a dozen years old. James had a tender conscience. He would nfot do the wrong thing when he knew what was right, and though the other boys sometimes laughed at his sq.ieamishness, a they c ill it, he said that if the bovs laughed at him Godwas pleased with him, and he thought that of more consequence. 'j I recollect a Saturday j afternoon, 1 when we were all off In the woods gathering chestnuts, and hajd received permission to get as many as we wanted in the woodls of Mr. Richards, but not finding, them as abundant there as we expected, wef were quite disposed to cross the hill and try the. farm of another man, tp whom we had made no application. The whole party, agreed to it except James and one other. They stood out decidedly, and when it i - was urged that the owner would have no objection to our getting them, James who was always ready with a reason, said that was an argument against stealing them. It would be wrong to take them, he said, from a man who was stingy, and surely it would be rwrohg and very mean to take them without leave from a man who .would give them fo us if we should ask him. j 1 "Yes," the rest said, "but who i "going to asJc him ? It is more than a mile down " t to his house, and nobody will go that far to ask for chestnuts.", j "I will go," said James, "if you will all promise to stay, here tril I come bnck; or if you are in such a' hurry j to get the nuts just look out for me, and when I come out of the lane down there at the foot of the hill, if I swing ray cap you may start, and I will come on and get as many as I want." f '".';' .' ' "Agreed! agreed !" they all cried, and away went James on the full ,run doin hid. Hd was not long oti the way; he did not let the grass grow under his feet, and it was not more than twenty minutes be fore .lie made his appearance, swinging his hat with all his might. The bovs net up a shout that he might have heard, and were just starting off for the woods, when one of them said he thought it too bau to leave Jimmj'to corne on al ne, when he had taken 60 much trouble for them. This was receied with general applause, and we all ran down toi meet , him,, and when we overtook him he met' us with a face beaming with smiles," and iaid the old farmer said we might getl as many as we liked, only we must not break our neck. This we had ho notion of dojng, anl after we had picked as many as we coul J well carry home, we left, aBd tired with our afternoon's work, trudgextback to school. As we were walking homeward, w;tb; less excitement than we came up, one of thf boys said the chestnuts were very heavy-. . But they are not heavy," said James Simpson, "as they would have been if we bad booked thera." "Right for you, and i you are -al way right, or about right," tire other answered, and by comraon consent it ? wa3 agreed, that in all future- expeditions we- would respect the rights of prpperty, and never enter even the woods of a man to get his fruit without first gaining his permission Now this incident was a very simple one, but it had a very strong and a very lasting effect upon the Whole school. Not one of tho- boys but thought more of James Simpson than they dd before, and all of them felt that the way to te happy and take! real comfort in the parsuits of pleakure, was to do right.. BauM&i itahits of Aaron Burrx. Parto"! cew work on j Bar r gives tli following sketch of bis daily babiu in the latter part of bis life, as related to the author by a gentleman who spent some time in Burr' office : j "He rose at the dawn.; A breakfast c.f an egg and a cap of coffee sufficed for the most abstembas of men; after which he NUMBER 4"J. worktnl among his piper" for some hours lefore htsclerk and assistant. arrived. Hd ' was a bard task master; he kept us all on the jump. All day' he was .despatching and receiving mgea, sendincf for book, if jcrsons and papr;xpecting every com mand to be obeyed with next to impossible celerity, 'inspiring every one with hi$Qwn zeal,' said my informant. About ten. in the evening he would give over, invite his companions to the sideboard, and take a . single gla?s of iwiue. Then, his rpirils . would rise, and he would tit for hours telling stories of his pa&t life, and drawing brief and graphic sketches of celebrated characters with whom he had acted. ' Of? ten te was full of wit and g'cty and such time; 'the liveliest fellow in the world; as merry as a boy;' never melancholy, never denatured.1 About midnight he would lie down upon a h.rd couehln the corner of the otlicp, and eloep Mike a child,' until the morning. In bis personal habits ho was a thorough-going Spartan; eating lit tie, drinking little, sleeping little, working hard. He was fond of calculating upon how small a sum life could be supported, and used to think "he could live well enough upon seventy-five cents a week." Bold Language of Patricfi Hcnri. When Patrick Henry, who gave ' tho first impulse to ihT; bull of the American revolution, iiitroduced his celebrated, reso lution on the Stamp Act in the Houses of Burgcse, of Virginia, May, 170o, while de-canting on the hrvteful actr he exclaim ed, "Caesar had his . BruttiS Charles" the First. had his Cromwell; aud George the - - ' rn.:.i' - ..iv. u ''! .i . ... "' k mru i i reason crieu mo spcufc er. ' "Treason I Treason f echoed from cv- ery pnrt of the house.) it was one ct line! mftmonli -ivhieh n 1 1 Atc"Vi' of rliir. acter.! Hertry faltere'l not for an instant hut rising ua loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye flashing with fire, he continued, "and GeOige the Third mag . pr-'jit og their example, u mere De trea son in .this, make the r.iost of it." , - . . 1 Mamriioth Porkers We recentr)pub lished a notice of the slaughtering of eight- j een hog?, in HHhfax county, the aggie-" gate weight of which was 17,088 pounds.. ' 1 A correspondent, writing from Eden ton," v r' ..... . ' "This may do firetty well for Halifax, ' but Will not compare with our raising. On Monday, the 14th inst, 100 hogn were slaughtered at the farm of Br i Thomas I). Warren, three miles from thia place, weight 28,000 pounds, or an aver age of 289 pounds. A fw days w'rco another , lot (A 100, slaughtered at the same, farm, weighed 24,100 jounds. The Img were 11 to 18 months old. , This is not a very extraordinary business for ' ni . i ..i il . . i i inowau county, aim wouiu not navo ueen chronicled but for seeing the Ilalifak kfll- ltlerkburg Kxpreat. . Farm Wftste. One of the greatest watest of many, an 1 perbapi mot farms, . la the exttmentitious matter of the family and also of the domestic fowls. The first U hurried upon some farm, generation -after generation in deep vaults below the . surface. Fowls are allowed to roost hero , and there and everywhere; on trees, to lb barn, over the wagon, or on top of some of the farm building. The manure, if carefully aved and well applied, that a large stock of poultry would make in a single season, would nearly pay for the erection ,of a plain piultry-hoasc. The carcaetof dad anira! is anorjer of the foolish waste of some fs riser's, f The body i . 1 . . 1 I ; i . ' L Lj. .1 Oi a usu riorn? is worm uiore u.i ' ....' - . ,J- ordinary suckingcoJt; and the toffy era " cow is wortbnore than a vtrm'tn-corerM J Syrirg calf, wuh allldUife. - nf ' PLJge.r-"Yoi c-m plain of my taking the pledge, fad & reclaimed man in Kent, to an aailicetotal acquaintance, t "Strong drink 'occaioned tr.e I to bare more t do with pledging than ever teetotalU'm bp.' f When t was a coniumer of strong driok, I pledged ray coat, I-pled.ie.l ray bed, t ( pledged in short every , tJng tli at was , pleIgeable, and was losing every hope and . blsio"g, when teetotal truth met inc and convinced me of uiy tUly. ; Then I pledg my self, aod by o doi u g, oon got my . oth er things out of pltdge, ind got mote', than my former; property around me. Tea total Times .
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