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"WHAT TI3WK IS IT?'
Time to do well,
Time to live better
To give up that grutge,
To answer that letter, .
To speak the kind word
That may sweeten some sorrow,
To do now the good;
Tou would leave till to-morrow.
Time to try hard j .
In that new sitnation j
Time to build up . j
On a solid foundation ;
To give up needless -
Changing and drifting,
JiCaving the quicksands -
T$at ever are shifting.
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Tima to bo earnest 1
In laying up treasure,
Time to he thoughtful .
In seeking true pleasure ; '
Loving stern justice,
Of truth being fond,
Making your word
Just as good as- your bond.
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Time to be happy , t
In doing your best ;
Time to be trustful, ,
Leaving the restj
Knowing, in whatever
Country or climej
Ne'er can you call back
One moment of time.
; - ON A WEDDING MIGHT.
The Strange History of a Kentucky Habita
tion Known as a Haunted House.
Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
In Boone county, Ky., just below
Petersburg, on; the bank of; the Ohio,
and almost opposite the rolling-mill
at rAurora, Ind., stands a' deserted,
vacant dwelling house, around which
cluster various stories of ghosts, hoI)-
and wide' as the haunted house, or,
as the darkies, in iihe .neighborhood
say, the "hanted house,", and all the
mnnpv in Hnnno Ammtv wnnlri not
inrlnoft a rlnrlrpv mKn Tina wnwn rm I
darkey who has grown up
in that vicinity, or who"' has been
there long enough! to hear' some of
the stories concerning it, to "enter tie
house after night,-and some of them
will not cross tlie threshold alone
even in the day-ttme. They-swear
by Moses, JIain, and all the proph
ets that the house is "hanted that
Btrange noises have been heard there
alight "that a woman's screams
and dying groonsj have floated out
from the house upon the night air ;
that something injwhite has appear
ed at .'.the windo ws and mysterious
lights have floated1 and danced about
the old rookery, for years past. -In
their imaginations they have peopled
the old house with mysterious' mid
night ghostly beings, flittihglabput
from - room, . to" loprn, dancing a with
noiseless feet over the barren, rotten
floors during the dark and silent
hours of .the nighi and vanishing at
the approach of j dawn. j So many
stories :" have - been :. told about the
house that steamboat pilots, when
their boats ae passing at night,
watoh it, as though expecting every
minute to see; a light flash ' from
.some of the windows ; sturdy, weather-beaten
and sun-bronzed fisher
men, while
passing in their skiffs, :
0ok upon it and talk. about it as a
"haatedpkee, and the boys and
girls from Aurora, while rowing for
pleasure upon tile river in the sum-
mer moonlight evenings, cease their
oiugmg anu are mcunea 10 pun away
from the Kentucky shore when -ap
proaching the place, seeming to re-
alize, that there p something which
repels them from; rather than in
vites them in, that direction. This
uninviting, shunned, and mysterious
house is a frame, two stories high,
two rooms oeiow ana iwo apover
It stands abovei the reach of floods,
some fifty feet back from the high
bluff bank. The fence which once
surrounded it has ; long -'siriee'; falleni
down, and' the jyard is full hf higFl
where snakes and lizards live unmo
esiea. i ne hoUse is old and xlilap-
idated, the windows are broken in,
the weather-boarding decayed and
cropping iromthe lrame in many
places, the k doors either - gon6 . of
yvw.uiun;ineir orojsen or
rusty hinges, the roof full of, holes,
letting in both the sunshine and the'
rain; the lower floor all rotten and
crumbling awav" unon the crronnd.
the sides
and ceilings, of the
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rooms' both aboye ancL below, pre-
senting a patch-work of rent and ,
cracked plastering and barren lath,
In the evening hundreds of swallows
fly out of the old brick chimney, cir-
cle around, and settle -back into the
uarx: iunnei , pais ny in ana; oui oi i ana iejt wmcnever siory xoia concern
the broken- windows and nalf4)peh ins it be true or false, the fact " re-
doors,and laterii the night is heard 1
upon the roof, ; The whole premises
present a scene T of utter ruin, decay,
and desolation,'and as one looks up- j
on it, if he : is at all inclined to be-
lieve in spooks, he ean't help saying
that here is their home, where they
can hold their ghostly midnight car
nivals undisturbed, for. no one will
care to invade such a gloomy abode,
Grim, lonely, cheerless, deserted
and forbidding, what has given it
the name of "the haunted house?"
This has been caused by several
stories told concerning it, each of
which is tinged ' w;th enough of
bloody crime to give it its reputation
and cause people to shun it,of which
the following dark and mysterious
tragedy "seems to be the one most
generally believed: ;-,
The .house was built many years I
n M . 1iMkA Jt a A n Aln 4. '
ugu, wuu luiuuei wiu wawHoiB w
ken down the river from Cincinnati,
by a young man named West," whose
family were murdered among the
pioneers of Boone county, all the
members of which were prominent
and respected citizens of the com
munity at that lime, young West be
ing considered a very excellent young
man and not. known to have any
bad habits or vices. -The house was
at the time of its construction was
regarded as the .finest residence in
that neighborhood, nearly all the 1
others hein? loer-cabms of rude con-
stmctinn. The VOlinfr ladv towhom I
hfi was fino-aernil to b niarriGd. and I
whom -he expected to occupy his
new home wittf him as hw wife was
named Reed, and lived upon the op
posite side of the Ohio, on the hills
near Aurora. At that time Aurora
was but a small place, and much of
the surrounding country which is
now divided up into beautiful farms
was covered with dense original for-j
est Miss Reed was a very pretty
young lady, though she would not
be considered beautiful, and was pos
sessed of more than ordinary intelli
gence for those times, highly respect
ed arid popular, and much admired
in the community,' and her friends,
as well as those of , her future hus
band, predicted that their -married
life would be very happy. In due
time the marriage took place at the
home of the young bride, and after
-the ceremony their friends accom
panied the young couple to the riv
er, and West rowed his wife over to
the newly-built and furnished home,
reaching there just at dark. ! Their
friends watched them- from the op
posite shore till they entered the
house, and that was r the last time
either was - seen alive. Late the fol-
lowing morning relatives called, nd,i
failing to receive any reply to their
f repeated knockirigs ,pon the door,
opened it and entered the house.
Upon , the; Sed m her' night-clothes
lay the bride.of a few hours, cold in
death, her lace and throat showing
that she hadneen strangled or smoth
ered to death, and the furniture in
the; room giving proof by its disar
ranged condition .that a. terrible
struggle, had taken ; place ; in the
chamber of " death ; -The husband
could not be found; and has never
oeen- seen or neara .01. . w neiner ne
killed" his wife-' and fled has never
beep, knowubut; his relativeal and
friends asserted mcet pbsitivelyjhat
that could noi' have" been- the case.
airthefe a
3 most reasonable theory
t is " that some
murdered theT
"having some gVudge' against them,
and .then either concealed the hus -
band body m ;the vicinity or car-
fied itdown " with his clothing, and,
wwn rocics 10 noiaxnem aown, suns
I them in the river.'. Why; the: wife's
body was not similarly disposed kof,
gome sav. is because the murderprs
wished to leave it in' the room and
the husband's body and clothes not
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being 5fbundr-the natural inference
woiildbe that he had miirdered her
and had flecVthe country; the perpe-
trators of the double murder taking
this plan to; divert suspicion' from
theraoelves." But be'.that as it may,
mains jhatthW house has stpod va;-
ling (tp decay, covered, with a shadow
I of mystery, shunned,' and avoided
by all, and known as "the haunted
house." . -
How Cluverlus Stands His idfe In JaU.
!Thef Jbalmy
confidence which' Cluverius has gen-
erally maintained remains with him
to this day, and since his' trial he
has implied iri flesh and
though f thejcOTfihement in jail has
taken from him the florid color that
used to distinguish-him. No man
in the prison seems to have a less
troublesome conscience. He talks,
eats and sleeps like one who has a
pleasant future before him. He still
gets his meals from a restaurant;
still receives regular visits from Mrs.
Tunstall ; still refuses to, see visitors
IiVa a nnt nAVOAnnl fm. m tla of,! I I
iiuu "y jajiouium nituuo , duu 1
declines to discuss his case or
plain nis movements on the tnght
er the murder, and stiUsay8 he feels
sure of a new trial. If he gets that
he wiu aat lor a change or uenue,
and alleges several reason therefor
among them, probably, that on the
night of trial, before the verdict was
brought in, and when it was known
what it would be, the Court thought
it judicious, to prevent a popular
demonstration, to, crowd the room
with policemen, about half a doz-
en of whom were placed immediate-
UV aDOUi mm, ana max wnen ine
Verdict WOS read SO me of the Crowd
in the street cheered. . There is lit
tie doubt that Cluverius expeets a
new trial ; c but then his judgment is
not the best Soon after his arrest
he told friends that . he would be
home in a week. He promised to
explain every thing at the trial. Yet
here he is iri jail convicted!
duverius' mother was here three
days. ; She visited the Jail twice
a
day, and was as affectionate as she
could be toward her son. His aun,
Mrs, Tunstall, stays here nearly all
the time, and is constant in her vis
its and unremitting in her attentions
to the prisoner. She has already
expended, and without a murmur, a
I considerable portion of her fortune
in his defence, and has not thought
of witholding her purse as long as it
can possibly avail.
Recently a lady preacher from
Ohio got an interview with the pris
oner and exhorted and prayed with
him. He ; isj however, usually shy
of strange visitors ; people, call to see
hi,m every day, but to all such Ser-
geant Lee of jailor Kerse say : "You
can't see him. He will see nobody
but personal friends." v . -;
"But can't I get a peep at him ?"
"No : he won't see you at all."
Such visitors are hard to, get fid
o They-oftentimes insist ; and in-
8ist up to tne pomi 01 rudeness.
Cluverius is popular . among his
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fellow prisoners. He gives them
portions of his foodr and if one
should want a postage stamp and
asks him for it he is pretty sure to
be supplied. ,The officers all speak
well 01 his behavior, out uiey are
not in the habit of judging of the
guilt or innocence of prisoners by
gafe guide' Richmond Dispatch;
: li. '
notoriously "un-
"What is it 1 keeps you busy writ-
iugl bo . iaw .m. .yuurbtuuy , eveiy
nigntr: asxea Airs, xerger 01 ner
hneKont
j life,1?
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VI suppose you mention me in it ?"
int vmir lifpV" 1
f I refer to you as the sunshine of
"y existence Decause you mase
hot for,me'" ' ' " ' :
War. famine and pestilence all
combined do not produce the evil
consequences to' a nation which re-
a "f'FUiC i veins,
Parson's, Purgative Pills make new
I rich blood and prevent ail manner
"I am writing the-history of myjers have been over to look at. our
fe," - ' v iDrosDects and our lands, and they
MR, PRIMRqSE'S TAIK,
To . the Farmers' of Wake County Some
Things for Richmond Farmers to Think
About Tobacco Growing,
From the Baleigh Begister. ', - .: - -
. Not aJ the speeches "atdajojr Tuck
er's Farmers Dinner yere like the
foam at the (beer) beaker's brim.31
There was fun which sensible folk
like and need, and sense .which , is
needed land liked by sensible, folk
along with their fun. Mr. W. S.
Primrose mixed a good deal of sense
with hisfun, and 'while the fun pass
ed off' with the foam, the sense will
last leastwise it made a lasting im
pression upon the "Register" ; re
porter. :" ' ,
It has been thought, said Mr.
Primrose, by quite a number of good
business men who were raised in a
tobacco country that the culture of
tobacco in any particular sections
undoubtedly built up the towns in
these sections, but was of question
able benefit to the larger number of
tobacco raisers. It has been frank
ly admitted that a limited number
of farmers have made' money from
this staple, but alleged that a much
larger number have lost money and
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lmpoverisneu ineir lanas 10 a con
ex-lgiderable degree.
Now let us take some good testi
mohy on the subject. It is needless
to cite the almost phenomenal growth
of certain towns in this State which
have, undeniably, been built up by
the sale of "leaf tobacco and the va
rious manufactories connected there
with. Durham,' Winston. Rcids-
ville, and laterj Henderson and Ox
ford, are remarkable instances of the
case in point. v
Ten? years ago Oxford, compara-
tively speaking,
WAS A DEAD TOWN J ;
to-day, with the railroad and tobac
co interest,- it is a live town, with a
bank, with good trade, with ware
houses and manufactures, and with
a good future before it. Only a few
days ago I was talking with a prom
inent tobacco grower and curer of
Granville county, and I referred to
the present prosperity of Oxford,
when he said, "If you consider that
Oxford has improved, I can assure
you that the country in the tobacco
section of Granville has improved,
in proportion more than the town
of Oxford. Why," said he, "there
has been as much as
$100,000 LYING IDLE
in the little bank in Oxford, most of
which belongs, not to the store men
of warehouse men, but to the tobac
co growers of Granville county."
Take another witness, this time a
home man.
One of our best- Wake
county
farmers tells me that on a recent trip
j through the tobacco section of Gran
ville he saw improvement on every
side as the order "of the day ; good
dwellings, neatly painted, and evi
dences of thrift abounding on every
side. - ' . " .
: The county ot Granville has a
I great reputation for tproducing the
finest bright tobacco. This reputa-
uon is wortn a greav aeai 10 ner.
I was credibly informed a lfewi months
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since that included in the exhibit of
a neighboring State at the New Or
leans Exposition, as the product of
that State, was some of the best yel
low tobacco of Granville county,
bought in Oxford. - v ,
Only as little as two years ago the
farmers of Granville would have rid
iculed the notion that '"'-.
WAKE COULD RAISE BRIGHT TOBACCO.
Last year's crop in" this county was
hfnilirht ' to the r ' attention:1 This
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I season a number of their best grow
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frankly admit that our chances are
instance, much of the
irn ftmnvillA cAnnnt mnkA the
J best bright tobacco.' Strips here and
"ithere mUst be
- didly admitted
selected, and it is can-
admitted that larger tracts of
suitable land can be found in Wake
than in Granville. - .
Every one knows the value of rep
utation ; ; i t '-frequently; leads to for
tune. If Wake county can be brought
to share the great reputation of Gran-
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SeETEMBKR 3, 1885
ville, then success is assured at an
early day, . ,
Suppose we consider another lead
ing crop for a moment . I have no
ticed that cotton is the one great
Crop, , . . ,
j LIENS AND MORTGAGES ABOUND
iri. that section,; and for the farmers
to.be in debt is the order of the day.
In Foray th, . in i Person, in Guilford,
and in Alamance, liens are excep
tions. 'On the contrary, in some cot-?
ton, counties, to; be free from mort
gages is the exception. Mixed crops,
cotton, tobacco, corn, small grain,
and grasses make the best results.
In this connection, I will venture a
word . -
, ABOUT THE STOCK LAW,
soon to go into effect in this'county.
A few weeks since I was in Mecklen
burg county, and, in the'southern
part, near the South Carolina line,
talked, with some of the best farmers
of the section They maintained
that while there was at first the usu
al opposition to this law, now it was
supported on all sides; that it did
not seem as if farming could be prof
itably carried on under the old sys
tem; in fact, to sum up, that Meck
lenburg: would practicably be
. IN A STATE OP MOURNING ,.
were the old system to beTorced up
on them. In Wake, I am f aware
that for while the carrying out of
the law will bear hard upon the poof
man. bat .its beneficial result will
soon ' be seen. Time,' money; and
fencing material will be saved ; the
planting of grasses for hay and pas
turage will be stimulated J cattle will
appreciate in value as more care is
besto wedjjn stkrakin,d J;h e
whole, occupation of farming will
move a step forward.
NOW TO RETURN TO TOBACCO.
I congratulate the farmers of Wake
that a great future awaits them ;
that our lands are found adaptod to
raising the best bright tobacco, in
the handling and said of which the
farmer has greater possibilities than
in any known, crop -a crop that will
enrich the farmer as well as the city
dealer. Raleigh to-day has the best
opportunity for rapid, substantial
growth of ,any city in the State. A
lew years . since, regarded las outside
of the tobacco - belt, no w it is found
to be ih the midst of a great tobacco
country. , : All hail to . the spirit of
industry in merchant "and 'farmer,
which will lead to the development
of this great resource of this good
section ofNprth Carolina!. ;
7
The
bid General is nearing his
end and
should part in peace with
Mr. Davis, ,who is also close to the
and of shadows. And the people
of the Souths who followed General
Toombs Into secession and its con-;
sequences do not relish his depreci
ation of Gen . Lee "asleep in glory."
It may be that the people of the
South v were not worthy of' their
cause. It may be that "great bat
tles fought beyond the stars" were
noi wisely giuutju. upuii iub eartu.
But on Lee's sword there is no stain,
and." whatever mistakes Jefferson
Davis committed, he at least pre
served thej military honor of his sec
tion, ' -
"Be it so, though Right Trampled be count-
r - ed as wrong, - -
And that be called Right which is Evil
Victorious,
Here, where Virtue is feeble and Villainy
strong,:
Tin the Cause, not the fate of the Cause,
. that is glorious I"
7 AugutUi Chronicle.
A good old Kentucky Democrat,
who has been , waiting twenty-five
years for . a. post-office, owns a fine
dog, which is his constant compan
ion. The other day the dog had
been having a run in the sunshine,
and was resting on the porch, with
his tongue hanging out; ; , '
- "That's a boss dog," said a travel
ing man who had been selling the
old man a bill of goods. f
"You're right, he is," said the old
man, proudly.
"What makes him stick his ton
gue out that way ?"
."Politics." ' - ' .
"Polities! How?" . r
. 'Whv. sir. that dos knows, that
Cleveland is .elected, and he knows
I, want a post-office ; and he s got his
tongue , out ready-to. .begin licking
the stamps'-Argonau?. ;
.50 a Year in, Advance.
No. 36;
Sam Jones' fareweUSermon at High Bridge,
, - Kentucky.
. I When Rev. Bam Jones' preached
his . farewell sermon at the High
Bridge, Ky., camp meeting, there
were fully 8,000 people present" The
txains brought jcrowds Jfom Cincin
hati and elsewhere. Mr. Jones spoke
with unusual earnestness and power.
In his remarks on the liquor evil he
said : ,. . - ,- ." .. . . , " '. -
If I have been charged with any
thing, it is exaggeration. Tey say
Sam Jones speaks in hyperbole, and
Jones exaggerates. They charge me
with that frequently. I will tell y ou
what I will do : I will go, to' some
homes in Kentucky -and. some
grave yards in Kentucky, where the
poor dsunkards are buried, and I
defy earth and hell to exaggerate
the picture. Will words paint any
thing darker and more fearful than
that ? Things have - happened in
Lexington in the last ten; years . that
I ha ve referred to ; are they exagger
ated? Take that ' husband in hip
downward course and see him as he
progf esses to ruin. .'He loses all his
.self-respect, his love for his wife, and
then sec the. wife's feet gradually be
ing brought to tiie grave day by day;
and see the wife's heart, as the blood
trickles from it drop by drop, hour
after hour, 'until its last crimson
drop is exhausted and she sinks in
to the ; grave ; see the little children
brought to shame and desolation
and wantl and see that whole fami
ly, and, Tyheh you have, bring it and
throw its shadow into one picture,
before, your eyes a ruined man, a
ruined . soul, a broken-hearted ; wife
and " beggared children and hope
bksteUrforevek-I
painter in the. universe of God who
can exaggerate that picture ? The
only difference between ; the" man
who has done that and you, brother,
is that he is gone a little further than
vou You have got the same dis-
ease, "and unless it is arrested in its
course you will, reach the ; same
point. ;,' ' : -
I have been very strong in my de
nunciations of some things. I de
nounce a thing in proportion as I
see it is an evil, as I "see it ruin hu
manity. I denounce it in that prc-
portion. I have; said ,in the pulpit
that no one but an infernal scoun
drel would sell and no one but an
infernal fool would drink whiskey.
That is strong language. They say :
You ought not to say if The liquor
dealers at Chattanooga said "damn.
it, he insults a man to! his face," and
have cursed promiscuously about
what ! said in the pulpit, and I have
been cussed about as much as dis
cussed," too. . I told them, too, the
next time they heard me, to meet
me the next morning and go down
a certain street with me until we ar
rived at the desolate home and see
that pallid woman and see . them-
selves what a horrid wreck their
trade has made of a once happy
home. See the wrecked fireplace,
the wretched children on the floor,
and then ask that woman who was
her father and how she was raised,
who she mairied and what has be
come ! of her husband,- and then
place your ear to her heart and hear
the blood dripping, dripping from it
and then see the besotted form and
bleared eyes of the . bloated man ly
iner drunk on the floor in the. back
room and then say if I exaggerate:
c It looks like a fellow is a fool that
will' tamper with such stuff. Things
are happening every: day in Ken
tucky that is a demonstration of the
fict that a fellow who drinks is a
fol of the first water. " Yes, he if.
I'll tell you anotner ining. nine-
tenths of the sin in Kentucky is
made by whiskey. Every one of
your gambling houses is founded on
ybuf I I)ars, l&il your hcentousnessJ
floats upon the nyer that flows irom
the worms of tlie still. - With the
country" debauched. with whiskey,
what do you? Sm, sm. : u
rncver meet a siaggenng arunx
afd but I look liim in the. face and
sav : "Poor fellow, sin has wrecked
you." I never see a woman, a pal
lid wretched woman,-; walking the
streets of a city, but.. I :- "Poor wo
man, poor blighted, ruined creature
JOB PRIWTIIUO
IN THE
BEST OP STYLE
And at Living Prices.
sin has doomed you forever." .
Our conn try is degraded, ;and the ' ;
reason 1 light whiskey is because ;'
whiskey is my enemy, and I am go
ing to fight for those wives, mothers
and children as long' as God will let a."
me stay above ground. - Yes, I am -.
inrfull range of all the gun's of this v
bluegrass region, y Laughter: I i
will tell you,-from the worms of the '
stills - of Kentucky there is hot 'as -V
much ' water floats down yonder '
Kentucky river as you: pour out on
this-world in whiskey, It is not on'
ly throwing its awful: arms around y
your own state but it is trymgto i
grasp other-: states around you and ?
send them to hell and perdition j
with' you. v Yes, it is time you are :
awakened. ; .
Shot TUrogb tlta Heart. '
Lancaster, S. (X, August 24. B,:
F. Welsh; a merchant of this place,,1
with a pistpl shot and killed W. O. -
Moofe another citizen of this town,-
bh Saturday night between 9 and 10'-
o'clock, on Main street, near the Ca-1
tawba House. The parties, it is said,:
were very close1 to each' other when-
the shot was fired. ' The doctor be--
fore the coroner stated that from the'
way in which the garments of Moore
were burned the muzzle of the pistol
must have been touching the cloth- -ing
of Moore when - the shot was"
fired. ' There appears Jo have been -
one witness present only; and - he -
was a colored man named - Mill
Howie. -
The relations between the parties
have been uniformly friendly, and 7
the affair seems to be : somewhat a -surprise
to the friends of eaeh. They
had irx the morning a -falling ou tand
passed some rough words back and -?
forwards. Howie says that Mooro
was' very much under the influence
of whiskey and asked him to take
him home and passed the Catawba
House when Mr. Welsh came up be
side him and called to Moore, say- -
ing that he insulted him in ' the
morning and; he desired him to apol-
ogize ; that Moore refused to do bo ; J
that the shot was soon fired when
they seemed to be together tusselingl
Mr. Welsh claims that Moore was
striking him with a stick at the time
he fired.'' The : ball, it is thought,
passed through the heart and Moore
fell almost instantly and expired .
withini-hree minutes. Moore .leaves
an interesting widow and. two small
children. - 1
A pall of gloom hangs over tho
community: The body of the de-
ceased "was interred here to-day,"
The funeral rites were conducted by
the Rev. J. D. McCollough, of tpo
Episcopal Church of Spartanburg,
and were attended by a very largo ;
concourse of people. , .. , , .
Our First Tobacco Barn.
We had the plaasure on Tuesday
of examining the first tobacco bam,
perhaps that was ever built in Un-
ion county for the purpose of curing
tobacco as a permanent feature of
agricultural industry. . It was ;on
Dr. I. H. Blair's farm, : situated r
about a mile east of town. It was s
full of tobacco just cut, and the fire
had been placed in it in improved :
iron flues, and the work of curing -in
process. An experienced curer:"
from. Rockingham county was in
charge of the tedious and. delicate .
woric ine worK or cutting, .nous-
ing and -curing, is very interesting
and entertaining to any one who has
not seen it, and . a trip out, to the
farm for. inspection, we venture U
say, would prove io such a pleasant
and profitable excursion;.: Only one
barn has yet been cut ou tnree acrea k
of the weed that would not be con-
gidered inferior tobacco in the most '
highly -reputed tobacco sections.
This-departure is an experiment
we 'are sure that enough has been
demonstrated already ? to evince that
i our lands fn Union county are" sut-
ceptible of being rused? successfully.
- i tor the growth ot tobacco. V e hope
to see more of .it planted inthecounil
ty, and a tobacco manufacturing ,es
tablishment . built up in Monroe. ,
Monroe Express. ' ."'
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