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THE WESTERN VINDICATOR. RUTHERFORDTON, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 28, 1869. VOL. 2. NO. 16. WESTERN VINDICATOR Honda rtlorniii?, June 28, 1G9. AdvertiMiiitf Kate: One Square, ten lines $1 00 jWh suljseijuont iiisertion 60 C3T Liberal rates tu monthly and yearly dTerti.-rs. TUttlS: Two Dollars per year in advance. CMJIi KATES : Ten Subscribers, : : $17 50 Twenty " : : : 30 00 Agents for tho Vindicator. The following gentlemen arc author ised agents for the W.-tekn Vixdi catoii : Capt. W. D. Jones, Patterson, N. C. Tippy & Buotiiek. Charlotte, L. M. Lou an, Shelby, S. S. I Joss, Limestone Springs, S. C. . D. Caimuku, Traveling Agent. II. 1). C. Uoijekts, Stocksville, N. C. A Pandemonium oi" Music iioves. Tho editor of tho Green Lay (Wis.) Advocate, in a letter from Geneva, des cribes the manufacture of music boxes in that ancient city : Tho manufacture of music boxes has reached a wonderful perfection here. At one establishment, where I spont half a day with my party and some American friends who were making eonie purchases, wo saw one instru ment which plays sixty-four tunes, and several which play upwards of forty. And such volume of sound and nicety of expression it is very diilicult to find among professional performers. This almost exceeds tho usual range of piano music. How many of our young ladies, in "whoso musical education time and money have been lavished, can sit down at the piano and play sixty-four tunes, or, indeed, half that number ? But wind up one of these machines, it will give you something novel all day. Many novel attachments are now add ed to them, tho campaniles, or bell ringing, tho drum, the human voice, or as thoy call it here, " celestial voices," tho cymbals, horn and trombones. Chairs were disposed around tho show room, which, if you sat down on them, commenced playing. Photograph al- and it starts olf with a tune. Curious little pagodas there wero which, with tho movement f a knob, swung open half a dozen doors, revealing wiuo de canters, glasses ami cigars, and regal in? vou while von helu yourself. All these instruments are quite cheap, hero, those plyug from forty to sixty airs in tho form of a small bureau or cabi net, and may be had from eighty to one hundred and fifty dollars. The multi plicity of tunes is managed by supply ing them with several portable barrels, w hich may bo put in and taken out in succession. ORIGINAL. rBACHEIM'uRY. A Day on Cherry Moun tain Twenty Years Ag-o. Written expressly for the Yindica tor. The blow which so cruelly wounded my poor friend did not fall lightly upon his mother. Mrs. Howard was an elegant woman, born to grace the highest circles of so ciety. And after saying this, what more need I say of her? But to the accomplishments and wit of a cultiva ted mind, she added those other finer sensibilities of the female heart which so well adorn the character of an af fectionate mother. Paul was her only child, and in her eyes, the embodiment of all that was noble, and brave, and true, lie had grown up under her fostering love as the young oak grows under the dews of Heaven, and the gentle kindness of her own loving na ture was reflected or reproduced in his. Is it any wondor then, that the shock fell suddenly, and the burden weighed heavily, when Paul was borne over the threshold insensible, and a maniac? All that night the agonized mother watched over him. Two days passed and she had not left her post. Then, the gnawing anxiety of mind and the loss of sleep began to tell upon her delicate organization, and the physi cians' skill was as necessary for the mother as for her child. It was while this condition of affairs existed in the Howard cottage that Maude and Lillian made their first viit. When they returned Lillian came into the drawing room and leaned over my shoulder, watching me sketch a chart for the village cemetery we were then laving out. " This is a gloomy business," said I, looking up ; " you see, here are the public walks, here are the flower beds, and here are thn lit.Hr formif nhiK - intend to rent out to the ghosts of the suspected that the quietest member of the household was most affected by it. Who do I mean? (PulT.) Well, Miss Inquisitiveness, (puff) if you had been paying attention to my story, (puff) I fancy you might have guessed who. "By leaving Rutherfordton on Thurs day you will reach Greenville in time to meet me and go down on the New berry train," wrote Col. Lancaster. It was Wednesday noon before the note and family carriage arrived, but Lillian was too dutiful a daughter to disregard her father's directions, and the afternoon was occupied in making preparations for an early departure on the morrow. But I noticed that the lovely girl was very quiet, end seemed sad and thoughtful. Just before tea she took my arm and whispered : " Shall we take a little stroll this evening?' " Most assuredly, ma chcre ami, unless you prefer to ride out to Laurel Hill." " No ; I want to bid our friends good-bye. Come let us start." " Ail right. Heads up ! Shoulders square ! Step off with the right foot ! Forward, march! And here we co." It was a beautiful evening, and we paused on the lawn in front of Mrs. Howard's cottage, to admire the sun set. Lillian gathered -a little boquet of English violets. ' You can arrange these on your friend's table," she said ; " it must be very dismal to lie in that dark room all day, when everything is so fresh and bright out of doors." " Bless you, child, Paul don't know w hether it is raining or shining. How ever, I'll put the violets in the vase." By this time we were at the little cottage door, and without announcing ourselves, passed in Lillian to Mrs. Howard's room, and I to Paul's. Dr. SchiefFelin was just coming out. " How is he, Doctor?" I asked, in an undertone. He shook his head. " Seriously ill, I fear." :u:i: c Io not talk that lVhcrc the "IVewt I. The Chicago Tribune says : Chicago is no longer a western but is an eastern city. It is only JM0 miles to tho Atlan tic coast, while it is 2,:0 miles to the Pacific coast. Dividing tho Union into east, centre, and west, each division is about 1,100 miles wide, iha eastern division will embrace all tho States lying east of tho Mississippi River ; the central, all the States aud Territories between tho Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains ; and tho western, all the States and Jerritories between tho Pocky Mountains and tho Pacific coast Somowhat tho largest of thc30 three groat divisions is tho central. And, astonishing as it may appoar to those t t i . wno nave not examined tho map care fully, tho territory lying west of tho Rocky Mountains contains as many ttquare miles as tho territory east o the Mississippi River, notwithstanding this comprises eleven southern, all of tho so-called 'eastern' and 'central' States, atvl all of tho old 'north-west.' 'The completion of tho Pacific railway has changod tho former west iuto east central, and moved tho west 1,-00 miles toward tho setting sun. Tho actual west consists of California, Oregon, ! Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, and tho major Jiortion of Colorado and New Mexico, t is hard to realize tho truth that Chi cago is aa eastern city, and that Illinois is not even a central, but is an oastern Stato. Omaha, which has always been regarded as 0:1 tho western verge of tho 'Far West,' is in fact 150 miles east of tho center of tho Union ! "We are not surprised, therefore, that the citi zens of that enterprising littlo place resent the imputation of being in the Far West. In short, this a toleral.lv long 4 kentry,' from east to wost, and when the Dominion is 'absorbed,' the distance will bo equally as great from north to south." Large trees, evergreens or deciduous, cau be safely removed and tho most of tho roots preserved, if a moist day is selected. In desperato noed try a moonlight night. It is tho sun that. aoes mo lmscuict. Tree roots stand dear departed." "Oh, shame! way, please." Well, how did you find the widow iToward?" Very low, I fear.v' Her voice trembling with subdued emotion. Did ou see Paul?" " No." And then there was silence again. I continued drawing. Lillian sat down by my side, and began scribbling upon the loose pieces of paper. " o vou think he will ever recover?-' she asked, after a long pause. Doubtful, I think." Oh, I hope not. It would make my life miserable to know I had been the cause of so much unhappincss !" And the gentle girl buried her face in the cushions, in evident agitation. " Pshaw ! Lillic ; that is taking a wrong view of the matter. Paul How ard would have behaved just as gal lantly under any other circumstances." " But I was so unkind to him that morning, and " ' Well, well. I dare say ho forgot it. At any rate, he mentioned your name one night, friendly enough." "Oh! what did he say?" she asked looking up eagerly. " He said dear Lillian V " I replied. " Please don't tease me," and her bright eyes filled with tears ; " Mr. Howard is nothing to me, but, after all that has happened, ought I not to feel very grateful?" " Certainly, little woman, and I like you for it ; because, I have no better friend in the world than Paul Howard, though I fear he will never recognize either of us again. If I were you, and wanted to give the gossips something to talk about, I would manage to pay a good many visits down that way What if you were to call every morning, and leave a tinv boouet vou under w A w stand ?" A beautiful blush spread over her features, but a smile followed, and gently tapping me on the head with a fan, she left the room saying : " I believe I will. You're good boy, after all." covering his mind?" Yes, a possibility," he replied, with an emphasis that forbid proba bility. "What is most likely to effect it? You know how I feePabout his condi tion." He hesitated to reply. " It is difficult to decide I have not much experience in such cases but in the present depletion of his sys tem, I think anything, perhaps, that would startle his mind, and at the same time recall the accident, ni glit have a good result." He stood leaning against the door facing, evidently in profound doubt as to what was best to be done, but soon passed out, without further remark. I entered Paul's room, and sat down by his bedside. He was sleeping quietly. " Something startling that will re call the accident," I repeated to my self. Then I called Lillian, and went with her into the little parlor. " Lillic. have vou ever seen Paul - . v since the accident?" No ; I told you that this morning." Well, then, come with me I am going to try an experiment." She looked at mc with an inquiring look, and continued : ' I want you to go into Paul's room and wake him up." vhv? How absurd! Ut course I shall do no such thing." Her large eyes expressed the utmost astonishment, and she arose from the sofa with an air of surprised indigna tion. But I grasped her hand, and detaining her, explained w hit the Doc tor had remarked, with my own belief on the subject, and then gently led her. hardlv conscious of where she was going, through the half-open door. to Paul's bedside. Never was woman more agitated than she. Her eyes were filled with tears, and her little hand clasped mine convulsively. (Concluded next week.) FRIGHTFUL PICTURE. The Horrors oi" being- 44 In stantly Killed.9' Count Tolsboi's "Sevastopol in May," in course of publication in Hours at Home, gives a very remarkable de scription of the death of a man who is instantly killed as the living say, "instantly killed" by a piece of a shell which strikes him. But to him, the dying man, death seems a differ ent affair: Michailof looked behind him. The shining point of the bomb seemed to stand at the zenith in that position where il is impossible to tell its direc tion. But that lasted only a minute ; the bomb came quicker and quicker, nearer and nearer, so that yota could see the sparks from the tube and hear the fatal whistling and directed its course straight to the middle of the battalion. " Lie down,'5' cried a voice. Michailof and Praskukin lay down on the ground. Praskukin, tightly closing his eyes, heard only how the bomb fell somewhere very near on the hard ground. A second passed it seemed am hour and the bomb did did not burst. Praskukin began to bp afraid that he had done a cowardly act without any reason ; that perhaps the bomb had fallen far away, and that he only thought he heard the fuze fizzing. He opened his eyes, and saw with satisfaction that Michailof lay immovable on the ground near his legs. But his eyes at that moment met the sparkling fuze of the whirling bomb not a yard from him. ' A horror a cold horror, excluding all other thoughts and feelings took possession of him. He covered his face with his hands. Another second passed a second in which a whole world of feelings, thoughts, hopes and recollections pass ed through his mind. " Whom will it kill, me or Michail of! or both together? If it hits me, where will it hit? In the head, then it's all over ; if it hits my leg they will cut it off, and I shall ask them to do it by all means with chloroform and I can still get through alive. But per haps it will only kill "Michailof then I can tell how we were walking togeth er, and he.waJdlleAAit1 nearer to me it will kill me !" Then he recollected the twelve ru bles that he owed Michailof ; he recol lected also another debt at Petersbnrg that he ought to have paid long ago ; a gipsy air that he hid sung in the evening came into his head ; the girl whom he loved appeared to his imagi nation in a cap with lilac ribbons ; he remembered a man whom he had in sulted vears before and who had never paid it back, although at the same time with these and a thousand other remembrances the feelings of his pres ent circumstances the expectation of death never for a moment quitted lim. " However, perhaps it will not burst," he thought, and with despair- decision he wanted to open his "i . a a 1 t ; a 4. a 1 . . . . K a!,a eyes. iut aturai nisiaui, iiumigu mik still shut lids, he saw a red fire, and with a horrible noise something hit lim in the middle of the breast. " Thamk God ! I am' only bruised," was his first thought, and he wanted to feel of his breast, but his hands seem ed to be bound down, and a weight to icep down his head. The soldiers shone in his eyes, and lie unconscious ly counted them : one, two, three soldiers, and that one whose overcoat had slipped down is an officer, he thought. Then he saw flashes, and ho thought, "what are thev firing from, mortars or cannon? Probably cannon. They are firing again, and there arc more soldiers; five, six. seven soldiers, and they all go past." He all at once became afraid that they Would leave him there. He wanted to crv out that he was wounded, but his mouth was so dry mat nis tongue stuck ta his palate and a terrible thirst tormented him. lie felt how wet he was about the breast. " lleally, I fell into some blood when I lay down," he thought ; and, yielding more and more to the fear that the soldiers who were roinr nast would leave him there, he collected all his forces and tried to crv out. " take me along :" but instead of that, he groaned so audibly that it was awful to hear his own voice. Then some red fires danced in his eyes, and it seemed to him that the soldiers were laying stones on him ; the fires danced quicker, the stones which they laid on him oppressed him more ana more. He made an ettort to throw on the stones, stretched out, and then neither saw nor heard nor thought nor TTe was killed on the spot by a frag ment of shell in the middle of his breast. Accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Washington Evening Star, of June 10th, gives the following account of the Railroad accident, occurring on tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on the night of the 9th inst : " The fast express train through to New York, which left the depot in this city at 9 o'clock last 'evening, with a special car containing President Grant and family attached, met with a terri- blo accident near Annapolis Junction. The train, while passing through the deep cut just beyond Annapolis Junc tion, at about 9:40 p. m., ran against a cow, which was killed and thrown from the track by the cow-catcher attached to the locomotive ; but the mangled body rolled down the embankment just after the passage of the engine, tender, and mail car, and fell across the track between the tracks of the baggage car. The sudden shock tipped up the front part of tho baggage car, throwing it off the track, and breaking tho connec tion with tho mail car, (in charge of Colonel Armitage, route agent,) which, with the locomotive, ran for some dis tance before tho speed could be slack ened sufficiently to return to the scene of tho disaster. As soon as the for ward motion of the baggago car was checked by tho obstruction, and it was thrown from the track, the smoking car ran into it and it was completely smash ed. The largest piece of the wreck of this car was a fragment of the floor, which could bo lifted by tho two men. Next to tho smoking car was a passen ger car, which was thrown diagonally across tho track, and rartly up tho embankment, completely" blocking the further progress of the train. The two succeeding passenger cars were somewhat damaged ; but the two sleep ing cars and the special car, with the Presidential party, escaped damage. Tho darkness of the night added to the horror of tho situation, as it prevented the uninjured persons from seeing tho full extent of the disaster, and left it to the imagination to picture, while the cries and groans of the wounded were frightful to hear. The embankment, at the X-ioint where the accident occur red, is about twenty feet high. Later and more reliable accounts show that tho largo majority of the passengers were almost miraculously saved from injury. There w- mound ed. Most of them received slight in juries. Mr. Wall, of Atlanta, Georgia, is the only passenger seriously injured. His head is badly cut, and it is feared his skull is fractured. He was emi grating agent of Georgia, and was on lii3 way to Europe. He is still at tha junction, it not being considered safe to remove him. Mr. C. W. Weeks, of Albany, N. Y., was somewhat injured, but was able to keep on his journey home. Mr. Evans, of Alexandria, was brought on here and carried to his homo in Alex andria, badly injured. Tho train also brought in here this morning ono man from Georgetown, slightly injured ; one colored woman, head badly cut ; and three colored men, bruisod. Mr. G. W. Clapp, of this city, re ceived a scalp wound ; Mr. 11. J. Pig- got, internal revenue officer, New York, was slightly wounded in the head ; Mr H. A. Hall, of Washington, received a a slight scalp wound, and Mrs. Esmer, of Washington, a wound in tho snoul der. The Presidential party went on to Baltimore as soon as the track was cleared, arriving there about five o'clock this morning. Being in the rear car, none of tho party wero injured As soon as the accident occurred much solicitude was felt for the safety of tho Presidential party, and on somo of tho passengers proceeding to tho rear car they found the President piac- dly smoking ou tho plattorm, and not awaro 01 the extent 01 tne aisaster. Mr. McCann, brakeman on the tram had his left leg bruised. REVENUE LAW. Opinions of the Public Treasurer on the Reve nue Law. From the Standaid. David A Jenkins, Esq., Public Treas urer, has delivered tho following opin ion on the new revenue law : STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, ) Treasury Department, Raleigh, June 12th. 1809. S Lewis H. Kittle, Esq.., Chairman, &c.; uxlord, JN. U. Dear' Sir: Yours of the 3d instant received. I have so often published in tho public prints my opinion in regard to tho true construction of the Revenue Law, and these opinions aro so plainly supported by the Constitution and the law that those rofusing to carry out tho law must be wilfully blind. Yon are clearly right on the several matters in which you give your views : 1st. The Constitution says that all real and personal property must bo list ed at its true value in money not at cash price not at what would bo ob tained at a forced sale, but at its true or real value. Seo Article V, S;ec. 3. If tho Constitution had said the assess ment must be at its cash market price, the assessor would bo justified in fixing tho value at what the property would bring if sold for cash ; but when it says they must estimate the truo value they ought to estimate tho property at its real intrinsic worth. 2. Planters pay property tax on all the property on hand 1st April, inclu ding all provisions, tobacco, and every thing else, except 6200 exempted of certain specified articles. The $500 exemption from income tax and $1000 family supplies cannot bo deducted rom the planter s property. Taking $1,500 besides the $200 from tho plan ter's property on hand 1st of April, no matter what the property consists in, is defrauding the State of its just dues, and in all cases where this is done, un less there is good reason for tho omis sion, tho commissioners ought to assess double tax on $1,500 as delinquent iroperty. 3d. Tax-pav'ers have no right to throw out a year's supply of bacon, corn, &c. This is strictly against tho constitution and law. 4th. I make the same remark about tnViaw. - 1 - --- " ouujeci, tu double tax. 5th. You are entirely right that every specie of property real and personal, on hand, 1st April, except $200 of cer tain named, articles, is liable to the property tax. Seo Article Y, Sec. 3 of tho Constitution. Wherever the commissioners find property omitted, let them put it down as delinquent property, and try the ef- 'ect of a double tax. Examine tho assessors and ascertain from them what omissions have been made delinquency or otherwise. If mistakes have been made, you can al low them to be rectified, but if tax-payers intentionally endeavor to cheat the country, gu-e tlum the double tax. Very respectiully, D. A. Jenkins, Public Treasurer. right A correspondent of tho Rural World - r , 1 j 1 1 1 says: lono out tne piowmau. .uuw the advantage of having bright plow. The writer has tried a great manv articles to prevent plows and oth- Just then the rumble of coach wheels or agricultural implements from rust- resounded from the avenue, and, glan cing out, I saw a footman in livery as- mW lim roots eiaud : riMui;n c 4 . currents of hot air about as well as fish CUld,,,g lhe front 8tay- do. Small trees aro better if ono can wait. Tho man who has not yet learned tho pleasuro of watch ing growth has 0110 pleasuro vet i for him, if ho will put himself in tho A message for Miss Lancaster." T 1 1 . - . Ionian came in with an open note in her hand. She seemed greatly agi tated. It was a peremptory demand way of it. A lovo of planting comes ! lro,u ,icr father for her return home. . ' 4 I A I . 1 . O I .... wim me practice ul it like any other ! 1 o intelligence threw a cloud over Virtuo' ' all our little social circle, but no one nil , 1 ' 1 mrr. Jnere is nomine bo iruuu. ouu any as patent axle grease. I have used tallow, paint and Japan varnish, ' but the axle grease is always convenient and easily applied. The South. A colony of Poles pro poses to settle on a tract of 50,000 acros in North Carolina Only three persons in New Orleans The Chinese in California. They retain all their national pecu liarity of dress, cooking, religion, and never Americanize to the slightest ex tent. As a shopkeeper he is mora aristocratic and luxurious ; as a ser vant he is in general demand for his serviceable qualities. .When he dies his dying wish is for his bones to be returned to China, for according to Mongol theologians, it will go hard with him in the future world unless they do repose on native foil. A Chinese funeral Is a curious scene in San Francisco where a special bury ing ground caIed the Yerba Buena Cemetery " is set apart for Celestial repose. When carrying the' body to the grave a solemn-looking individual scat ters little slips of paper with aphorisms from Confucius written on them; at the lintels of the doorways are strips of red paper on which are marked similar wise sayings. - Upon the grave is placed a roast fowl, some rice, and a bottle of " Chi nese wine," after which the mourners depart, never looking behind them. There is, however, another class of gentlemen who are concealed near at hand. No sooner do they see the last pigtail of the retiring mourners disap pear from view than they make a grand rush for the edibles and drinkables left for the benefit of Joss, and tbey very soon make short work of them Joss, no doubt, getting the credit. After lying some months in the grave, the bones are dug up and care fully cleaned and polished with brushes then tied up, "and each put in little bundles, which are nicely labelled and stored away in a small tin coffin in the particular hong or commercial house which is responsible for them. When a sufficient number of these interesting mementoes have accumulated, a ship is chartered, and the coffins despatch ed with their contents back to Canton. Correspondent iY. Y. Mail. French Atlantic Cable. Grave of Crcn. Pender. Near the Church surrounded by shrubbery, the spot designated by a pyramid and border of cannon balls, is tho grave 01 juaior-vjrenerai v. u. Pender, who fell mortally wounded upon the hights of Gettysburg. Ual lant. skillful, energetic General Pender, although the youngest officer of his grado in tho Confederate Army, had won a. reputation surpassed only by the success and ability of his services. This lamented officer," says the noble C!rm federate Commander-in-Chiet, in his report of the battle of Gettysburg, "has homo a distinguished part in every engagement of this army and was wounded on several occasions while leading his command with conspicuous gallantry and ability. The confidence TV. v.vpft. Worms from Horses. In- and admiration inspired by his courage ouiry is made in tho Country Gentleman and capacity as an officer were only f..r ft r;f to destroy worms in horses, eauaiiea oy tuo esieeiu uuu icoii ou- As tho writer has given us so good a tertamed by all, with wnom no was as- horse liniment, I propose to pay him in sociated, for the noble qualities 01 nis -;A iToro ia thn iinfiiHinw receint : modest and unassuming character. Take equal quantities of alum, sulphur No imposing monument marks his last and copperas; pulverize them, and resting piace, out uo u -e-ive one heaping tablespoonful every more enviable one in the hearts of his alternate day lor ten days, it may do surviving aoiuiery nuu m wo fcl A shoved down of his countrymen, and left a rich leg- Ull.a.va. f- ' ..r. ... , n tho throat. acy to his children in nis example oi I christian virtue anu wiuiuuo. xc- Tn,r.u T?rrM ATnsiortTnFa. haps no Confederate officer had more iutation in the army, or fewer who says : " I have tried the following, and nad less out oi it. The London Neves says the French Atlantic Cable has been completed and will be laid from English ships by Eng lishmen, an English company having undertaken the onntrHe gjjQlVll being 'chartered for the work. Tho cable i3 1200 miles longer than its pre decessors, and is divided into several sections. The Great Eastern will carry 2752 miles, and will begin the work about tho 20th of June. Her starting point will bo about five and a half miles from Brest, one of the vessels of the expedition, the Chiltern, having in the meantime laid the heavy shore end. and this will be buoyed out to sea at the distance above named. The Great Eastern will pick it up, and after spli- g and testing, will set about her regular work of cable-laying, under a' ci 1 r i 1 oir oamuei vunmug uuu 11 is bwu. She will be accompanied by the Scan deria, a fine vessel of 1800 tons, and by the Chiltern, both ships being fitted up with grappling irons, buoys, and picking-un machinery. It is expected that eighteen days will be occupied by the Great Eastern in tho voyage from Brest to St. Pierre ; and immediately on the lino being laid between theso two places, the other cable-lying vessels will carry on the re mainder of the work between that point and Boston, a little over 600 miles. After reaching tit. Pierre, the real work will be over. The rest is shallow water, the whole of which has been sounded, and the greatest depth of which is ascertained to be 360 fath oms. Between Brest and St. Pierre the depth of the line in which the ca ble is to lay is less accurately known, and there are variations between the soundings taken at various times, but these aro being verified and connected, and full information will be secured be fore the expedition starts Watts Comstock, New Canaan, I Conn., sets a barrel in a shady nook in his garden, puts in a bushel of hen manure, fills up with water, stirs it oc casionally, and when the vines, appear, wets the hills once a day with the liquid. The bugs keep away, and of course the vines grow. Another cor respondent from Pennsylvania does the same thing, with the same result. Mr. Williams sets small dishes containing a little kerosene near the hills, and the vines are not troubled with bugs. Ho shunned noto KA ; vatVq IiIta a charm. Take of netv. lie aia nis WOTK upon me uat- n,n,t.iinr n nmro ahout one-third tie-field and in the camp, and not in U1U VUU1LUV. - I 1 c m nt an tcra. Ann Avannrate it nv tuu coiumuo v mo oFFa. . . . . .. " I ., . a: re placing it in a tin vessel, and holding tne reports 01 ms couimauuiug it nvpr ft lamn or candle, takincr care and not in the letters of army corres- that it does not ignite, 'lne smoice win ponuenia ia mu iuswi j i v- soon fill the room, and expel the mos- nients written, On a nirrht- T was terriblv an- I "lie founht for hia country and not it bur J 1 il U T 4lrvnrrVif rf anA I rah. lliVAA ll-kV W--'J -" " rw nr heard them that night, and the there was not one to be I The sunflower is very useful. Its fniind in the room, though the window leaves soon become largo enough to be had been left open all night." used as a covering tor young caoDage and tomato plants, .us stem, anorus A correspondent of the Set. vdific an excellent nop or ueu. pu, Ampn'ai rnves an account of an inge- when dead in the tall, it cut up ana The leaves can be plucked otf A new stvle of hat is called the Definition of Bible Terms. A days' journey was thirty-three and one fifth miles. , A Sabbath-days' journey was about an English mile. Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet,nearly A cubit is twenty-two inches, nearly. A hand's breadth is equal to three and five-eighths inches. A finger's breadth is equal to one inch. A shekel of silver was about fifty cents. A shekel of gold was $8 09. A talent of silver was $538 32. A talent of gold was $13,809. A piece of silvef , or penny, was thir teen cents. A farthing was three cents. A garah was a cent. A mite was a cent. An epha, or bath contains seven gallons and five pints. A bin was one gallon and two pints. A firkin was seven pints. An omer was six pints. A cab was three pints. the fall, if cut niously extemporized apparatus for re- kept dry, it ariswers well for kindling from -jpfilla. wood. The leaves can be plucked otf uiviuit; www f-f I - - . . - . . , It was simply an umbrella let aown tnrougu uio mwuuoj "'""r . -"jj and rapidly hauled up a number of the plant, and dried for fodder, or fed times in succession. The ettoct was to green to mus wwi Dca; remove the gas in a few minutes from make a fanft oil, or cnicicen leeu. i a woll so foul as to instantly extinguish said to ue ausorotuu 01 moiia, ou The City Bank of Charlotte, under the direction of H. B. Peters as Presi dent, and Col. W. A. Williams as Cashier, has been closed. We regret to learn that some of our citizens have lost considerably. Carolina Tims. The First Congregational Church in Madison, Conn., has had only six pas tors during its existence of one hun dred and sixty-two years. gentleman struck by a lady's beau- often cultivated as a prevontive of fevers ) ty, determined to follow the injunction
The Western Vindicator (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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June 28, 1869, edition 1
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