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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
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Vol. 1.
OUR FARMERS CLUBS.
Tyro Club, Davidson county,
which was organized about eight
weeks ago, has now a membership
of forty-three. The following are
the officers: John II. Swicegood,
President; vice-President, Alexan
der Swicegood; Secretaiy, A. N.
Koonts; Treasurer, E. S. Shoaf.
NOTICE TO CLUBS.
We are requested to .ask all the
officers of clubs in this county to
meet at our office in Winston on
Monday, the 5th of July, at 2 o'clock
p. m. If impracticable for the officers
to be present in person, let each club
send one or more representatives.
Matters of importance to the farm
ing interests are to be considered.
PRACTICAL. THOUGHTS.
NO. 3.
Editor Progressive Farmer:
You are making a capital paper, and
I am glad to hear it well spoken of
every where. It is a very difficult
field to occupy, because so many
superficial journals have been started
and failed; but the reading part of
our yeomanry know the ring of a
posted, wide-awake paper, and will
sustain it.
The planters now have pretty close
papers ; an unheard of scarcity of
money, irregularity of the seasons,
&c, &c. But we may blame ourselves
for a great deal of the "hard times"
of which we so repeatedly complain.
We buy too many of those chemical
combinations called "fertilizers." In
stead of being of permanent advan
tage to our soil they absorb some of
the most important properties of our
land, and leave it in need of still
greater fertilization the next year.
The fact is, we buy too much of many
things: Goods, sewing machines,
furniture etc. So many persons pre
fer measuring calico to plowing, the
competition makes trade tempting,
and we overbuy ourselves. We ought
to have more eye to our own self
support, as a State. Our own Mechan
ics can make as good wagons, bu
reaus, plows and baby wagons, as
the Yankees. We have every facil
ity required for the work. But in
stead of trying to keep a dollar at
home, we sell our timber and ores at
a low price, and as one train snorts
off, with our incomparable hickory
and walnut, and maple, and moun
tain cherry, another snorts back,
loaded with axe handles and bed
steads, which we can make and save
the transportation, and the profits.
Hundreds and thousands of our peo
ple buy seeds at the north, not
adapted to our climate, because they
are put up in such "beautiful" cases
and papers.
North Carolina has the character
abroad of a plain, staid, ungullable
community ; but we are very rapidly
losing our good character. Just
think how our people jump at a
book written in New York, Chi
cago or even Philadelphia? And
periodicals. "Dont anybody know
that no Southern man could make
such a paper as the Eural New
Yorker?" These whims and fancies,
Mr. Editor, ought to be overcome.
We have been the willing tool of
Yankee "sharpers" long enough.
We ought to appreciate our resour
ces and advantages, and patronize
our own mechanics. The sun does
not look down upon a country that
has as near everything and every
advantage 'as North Carolina. And
while Georgia and other States are
making astonishing strides towards
independence, we are traveling it
the rate of two miles an hour, if in
deed we are moving at all. If your
people would dry up their importu
nity for Northern men to come
down here (to show us how to live)
and go to work and help each other
along, as the Bible suggests,- we
might have a healthful, bountiful
and happy home.
Truly, etc., J. WVV.
There will be no encampment of the
State Guard this year.
Th ere are four hundred and ten
convicts at work upon the Cape
Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad.
License to retail spirituous
liquors at Shoe Heel has been raised
from one hundred and fifty dollars
to two hundred and forty dollars. -
Lumberton Robesonian
Mr. Newton Taylor, of Bun
combe county has shown, the Ashe
ville Citizen a sample of his oats five
feet six inches high, and says he
has a large crop of the same kind.
Mrs. James Weathers has a hen
known to be twenty years old. She
laid well every year until the pres
ent. This year she has laid no eggs,
but is fat and seems to enjoy life.
Franklinton Weekly.
The tobacco farmers in Thomas
ville vicinity are greatly discouraged
by their plants frenching. Mr. S. G.
Morris reports about 8,000 of his
crop in that condition and are worth
less. Lexington Dispatch,
Rufus Lawrence, colored, and
James and C. J. Freeman, white,
convicted in the Federal Court at
Charlotte of passing counterfeit
money, were sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary and to pay a fine
of $200.
A new body of ore has been
struck in the vein of the Catharine
mine, near the city, which it is
thought is sufficiently large to keep
the mining force at work for nearly
three years. Charlotte Chronicle.
The Old North State gains about
seven thousand acres of rich bottom
land by the late correction of the
line between our own Mecklenburg
and the South Carolina county of
Lan caster. Raleigh News- Observer.
Our wheat harvest is over. The
yield is very poor. Corn is looking
well, but the rainy weather has pre
vented its being well worked, but
the farmers are now trying to catch
up with their work. Cotton and
tobacco are said to be doing well.
Chatham Home.
The celebrated India, Pointer
mad stone is no humbug; it is being
applied to a great many cases of
dog bites with perfect success. It
is owned by Samuel Pointer and
George W. Barnett, of Roxboro. This
stone is endorsed by the oldest citi
zens of this county. Person County
Courier.
In Bakersville the Baptists have
erected and covered very substan
tially a new church, and the Metho
dists have done the same at Forest
Home, about six miles from Porce
lain. At the Western Asylum
they will begin taking in the 250 addi
tional patients next month. Lenoir
Topic.
In this immediate section crops
are not as good as last year, except
higland corn, which is probably. bet
ter than formerly. Cotton has been
injured by the cool weather during
the first three weeks in June and
the heavy rains which have been
falling since the last of April. Wheat
and oats tolerably fair crops. Char
lotte Democrat.
We have been having too much
rain of late for tobacco, while corn
is not receiving benfit from it. Intel
ligent farmers tell us tobacco cannot
turn out anything like as well as it
would have done but for the excess
ive rains for the past week or two.
The plants have been growing too
fast and as a consequence cannot
develop and mature as they should.
Henderson Goldleaf.
Mr. T. V. Avent, a prominent
farmer of this county, has eighty
acres of very fine tobacco. Last year
he planted seventy acres and that
he has already received $6,000 from
these seventy acres and still has
10,000 lbs. on hand unsold, from
which he expects to realize $2,000
more. So much for good farming.
Battleboro Headlight.
WINSTON, N. O., JUNE 30, 1886.
A disease commonly called flux
has been rasring in Back Creek Town
ship, and is proving quite fatal with
children. Asheboro Courier.
The crop of wheat, an intelli
gent gentleman from Stoneville tells
us, will be a light crop. He thinks
that much ot it, too, has been injured
by the wet weather while saving it.
He also says that the depredations
of the cut worm has prevented a
good stand of tobacco, and owing to
the continued rains corn is so much
in the grass that it will not make a
good crop. ' Oats are the best he has
seen , since the war, but there is not
a full crop sown. Altogether the
prospect is not at all flattering. The
wheat, too, in a considerable portion
of the county, has been completely
destroyed by the hail. Dan Valley
Echo.
- The cut worm has been doing
bad work throughout this section.
The tobacco crop has suffered terri
bly from its work. The Scottish
Land Company has purchased 30,
000 acres of Haywood county land
from the Love heirs. Mr. McGhee,
of Haywood, has sold this year, from
40 hives, 1,000 pounds of splendid
honey, for 12 J cents per pound.
A son of J. I. Miller, of Highlands,
was bitten on the foot by a rattle
snake about a week ago. The wound
was well wet with turpentine, and
7 drops given internally. The wound
was then kept wet with the juice of
the milk weed. It is now healing,
and the boy is out at play. Asheville
Citizen.
Travel over the Western road is
becoming very heavy every train
from this place towards the west is
loaded. Conflicting accounts are
heard concerning the wheat crop.
Some say it is medium to good,
while others speak less eheeringly.
It is said that there are over 30
criminals awaiting the rope in the
jails of this State, and that most of
them will be hung this year. Mr.
J. A. Boyden, Mr. Breathed, and Mr.
J. F. Ross, are contemplating going
into the canning business here at an
early day. Mr. T. N. Smith, a prac
tical canner, will most likely take
charge of the works, should these
gentlemen conclude to go into the
business on a large scale. Salisbury
Watchman.
Robert Robinson, aged 16 years,
of Wadesboro, died on Monday of
hydrophobia,after twenty-four hours
suffering. He was bitten on the left
arm by a mad dog two years ago
and a few days before his death he
was stung by bees on the same arm.
Mr. J. M. W. Elder, colporteur
of the American Bible society, gives
the Wilmington Star the following
statement of work done by him in
Brunswick county : He visited 2,000
families 1,227 white and 262 col
ored. Of these he found nearly one
fourth without the Bible 297 white
and 262 colored families ; a total of
559 families found destitute of the
word of God. Goldsboro Messenger.
CONVENTIONS.
State convention, Raleigh,Aug. 25.
The following are the times and
places of holding the Congressional
and judicial conventions, so far as
announced:
Third judicial, Wilson, July 28.
Fourth jud icial, Smithfield,July 22.
Fifth judicial, Durham, Aug. 4, 2
p. m.
Fifth Congressional, Greensboro,
July 21.
Sixth judicial, Goldsboro, June 30.
Sixth Congressional, Wadesboro,
July 31, 11 a. m.
Eighth judicial, Lexington, Aug. 4.
Eighth Congressional, Lenoir,
Aug. 5.
Ninth judicial, Yadkinville, July
16. - " - ' " ;
Eleventh judicial, Lincolnton,July
President Cleveland is making a
reputation as a pension bill vetoer. lie
sent back thirty-five in a bunch to the
Senate one day last week.
TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, TEACH
ERS OF FORSYTH COUNTY.
At the last meeting of the County
Board of Education three Teachers'
Institutes were ordered to be held
this year, viz: One at Winston, to
begin on the 6th of July, and con
tinue until the 20th; a second at
Kernersville, from August 2d to the
14th ; and a third at Lewisville, from
August 16th to the 28th. The first
will be conducted jointly with the
State Normal, which opens at the
Graded School in Winston, on the
6th of July, and continues till the
23d of the month. Our Institute,
however, will be limited to a term
of ten days, and has been placed un
der the control of Prof. Tomlinson,
who has courteously consented to
assume the superintendence of it by
request of the County Board; the
next, viz: that at Kernersville, will
be under the control of the County
Superintendent, assisted by Prof.
Ray, of that place; the third and last
one, at Lewisville, will also be under
the direction of the County Superin
tendent, vvho will procure such help
for the occasion as he can then ob
tain. By reference to sec. 2,567 of
the Common School Law, you will
see that all the teachers, both white
and colored, are "required!1 to attend
Institutes. Now, although a teacher
may not attend all these Institutes,
(though at liberty to do so), it is
plainly his duty to attend at least
one, and he may select that which is
most convenient for him, thus com
plying with the law. Arrangements
have been made for holding the
Institute for the white teachers in
the Graded School building and for
the colored teachers in the Court
House, during the Institute at Win
ston. There can be no doubt that
the Institute at Winston will afford
to teachers the finest opportunities
for improvement. The exercises
there being in charge of Prof. Tom
linson, (whose reputation alone is a
sufficient guarantee for good work),
assisted by other eminent instructors
as he will be, cannot fail to come up
to all that can be asked for in this
line. The teachers are, therefore,
all of them, earnestly requested and
advised to attend there and avail
themselves of the freely-offered bene
fits of both Normal and Institute.
Neither of the other Institutes can
reasonably be expected to offer equal
attractions. It is for this reason the
Superintendent so urgently calls
upon you, one and all, to come up
and derive all the advanage you can
from this liberality of the State to
your profession.
I will also add, for the informa
tion of all concerned, that I shall
be at the Court House in Winston
on the 8th, 9th and 10th of July
next, for the purpose of examining
applicants for teachers' certificates.
A. I. Butner,
Co. Supt.
MISSIONARY WORK IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
Sunday morning last the Rev. Dr.
Calvin H. Wiley, agent of the Amer
ican Bible Society for North and
South Carolina, occupied the pulpit
of the First Presbyterian church.
After a very interesting sermon he
gave some astounding figures as to
the work of the Society in these two
States. . The Society has deter
mined on the stupendous work of
visiting every house in the United
States. In North and South Caro
lina 150 counties have been system
atically and thoroughly canvassed.
In North Carolina 210,000 visits
have been made and 27,000 destitute
families have been supplied with the
word of God. Within the past eight
years fifty-seven colporteurs, selected
from all the different churches, have
been engaged and paid by the society
to work in this State: Raleigh Neio s.
The bill raising the salaries of Uni
ted States District Judges from $2,500
to $5,000 a year has passed the United
States Senate by a vote of 32 yeas to 20
nays.
No. 21.
ROUGH ON THE FARMER.
Cedar Grove, June 28, 86.
Mr. Editor. If you will allow me
a little space I will offer a few ran
dom thoughts. To say that every
farmer in this vicinity is down with
the blues would not half express the
situation. Some have been forced
to plow up their tobacco ground and
plant in corn, being unable to get a
stand of tobacco.
The wheat crop is not exceeding a
half yield.
Oats are falling down on good
ground, owing to so much rain.
Corn is drowned out and choked
to death by the grass.
We are still setting tobacco; no
lack for season. Some have set the
same ground, (I think I am. safe in
saying) a dozen times.
Taking all in all it is looking
gloomy in this neighborhood just
now, but if the sun would shine just
one week without any rain it would
be a siirht to see the farmer laugh
and hear him tell how much corn ho
is going to raise and how big tobac
co leaves he can show.
Tell all the farmers to not forget
that convention in August.
J. M. J.
CURE FOR THE MOST DAN
GEROUS WOUNDS.
An intelligent and trustworthy
correspondent has sent us the fol
lowing: The smoke of woolen rags
is a cure for the most dangerous
wounds. A lady of my acquaintance
ran a machine needle through her
finger. She could not be released
till the machine was taken to pieces.
The needle had broken into her fin
ger in three pieces, one of which
was bent almost double. After re
peated trials the pieces were ex-,
tracted by pincers, but they were
very strpjigly imbeded. The pain
reached to the shoulder, and there
wras every danger of laekjaw. The
woolen rags were put over the coals,
and she held her finger over the
smoke, and in a very short time all
the pain was gone and it never re
turned, though it was some little
time before the finger healed. This
is but one of .the many instances of
such cure, some of them taking place
several days from the time of the
wound. Let woolen rags be kept
sacredly and always at hand for
wounds. The smoke and stench will
fill the house, perhaps, but that is
a trifle when the alternative is lock
jaw or even a long, painful sequel to
a wTound. Another instance was the
wound made by an enraged cat, which
tore the flesh from the wrist to the
elbow and bit through the fleshy part
of the hand. One ministration of
the smoke extracted all the pain,
which had been frightful. Boston
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AGES OF ANIMALS.
From critical observations, the
following is stated to be the ages of
animals: Camels live from forty to
fifty years ; horses average twenty
five to thirty ; oxen about twenty ;
sheep eight to nine, and dogs from
twelve to fourteen. Concerning the
ages attained by non-domestic ani
mals, only a few isolated facts; are
known. The Fast Indians believo
that the life period of elephants is
about 300 years instances being re
corded of these animals havir g lived
130 year in confinement, after cap
ture at an unknown age Whales
are estimated to reach the age of
400 years. Some reptiles are very
Inn'sr lived, an instance being fur
nished by a tortoise which was con
fined in 1638 and existed until 1753,
when it perished by accident: Birds
sometimes attain a great age, the
eagle and the swan having 1 een
known to reach 100. The longevity
of fishes is often remarkable carp
haying boen known to reach 200,
common river trout fifty years, and
the pile ninety years. . Gessner, a
Swiss naturalist, relates that a pike
caught in 1497 bore a ring recording
the capture of the 'same 'fish 267
years before. ;, l -
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