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Kn drapaerpoa my knaef ! - Pleajaa ky jrar bleaaed ban' on me, , Kb whisper la my car; , : Fit hiOi ae itKbt so I klu see, Kb apeak ao I kin bear! . j lawd, let m perlnh not dU nlht I ." Ohl pitiful I cry. Plenna wUia my aool fcr glory brlgtit. Wlten I ahail aoBta ter cUe't . FORT AND FLEET. Haafcaato rl a later- Aatrvatawea na Iactdcata Taa Tait EiaaJag laaad Oat afCaajr- c Baataa ' ' ' m ' ' . '.j, jPMMtfPreaVlfl . . ul never expect to se Racfi flnsli times again in my life," said- tl captain of a successful - blockade-runner- ; in,' speaking of Nassau, "iloney was almost as - plenty s dirt. I have seen a man toss nu 30 gold -piece on 'head or taiL' anl it would be followed py a ' score of the - yellow-boys in live seconds. There wera rimes when the bank vault would not hold all the gold, ana ine coins . were dumped down Dy the basshel and guarded by soiaiora. . Men wagered, gambled. drank and seemed crazy to get rid of their money. I once saw two captains put up $500- each on the length of a certain porch, s Again I saw a wager of f oO side as to bow many would be at the dinner table or a certain .hotel. "-'The Confeder ates were pajing the English big prices lor goods, but multiplying the figures by five, seven ; and ten as soon as the goods were landed at Charleston. Ten dollars invested in quinine in Nassan wonld bring from 1400 to $900 in Charleston A pair of 4 boots would bring t!4 to 116. A $2 hat wonld bring $8, ana so ou nil through. .Every suc cessful captain might have made a fortune in a year, but I dp not be lieve that five out of the .whole lot had a thousand dollars . on hand when the war closed. - It was come easy go easy.' , ' ,.THS KAEGAEET AND JESSIE. i The name of this steamer will be found as having run the blockade of twe or three ports, althongh she belonged to Charleston. .She . was anirou-built steamer, double en-, gines and cost C100,000 in ; gold. Her carrying capacity was 800 bales of cotton, and she eould make ; the trip from Charleston to. Nassau in 1 arty -1 our nours. she was .one or the most successful, runners of ' the war and paid her owners ten times over, une night in ilay. lsoa. having a . very , valuable cargo of arms and munitions sadly , needed by the : cjonfederacy, I she laid a straight . course - for Charleston. There were five Federal blockaders off the bar and the night was .line. The steamer ran straight .'in for the a 1 1 1 . , . uecu, iuiii as buui as uer : vnuracier was known every blockader opened fire. It was estimated that 150 shots were fired, some . from a dis tance of less than 200 feet and yet strange to say the steamer got into port without having a man wound ed, j She was struck in five : or six places,' but' with, no serious -results.- . ; v .-....-.---. u On the 11th of November, of . the same year, the Margaret and Jessie attemped the same . bold dodge at Wilmington.' She was here beset by three btockadersBhot. through both wheels and hit in- a dozen other spots, but managed to turn about and get to sea and i lead five i ederal vessels a chase of twenty hours before she surrendered. . It is doubtful if she would have been taken then, but for .the fact that three or four lady, passengers aboard raised such a rumpus when the, Federls began V firing from their bow guns that the captain was quite unerved -. and barkened to their pleading surrender. : THE "HATTIE." The steamer nattie was the- last runner in- or, out of Charleston. She was a small vessel. Clyde-built, furnished with ! powerful engines, and she made more trips than any other, vessel engaged in tbe busi ness. I asked men in . Charleston who knew all about her estimate the value of the cargoes taken out and brought in by this one vessel, and their figures were $50,000,000. On several occasions i she brought such munitions of war as the Con federacy was in : pressing need of, and at least three 1 battles were brought on by the munitions for which the Confederates waited, and which she - landed .. safely in their hands. Plot after plot was formed at Nassau to get hold of the Hattie, but none of them were succesful. She slipped in and out like a phan tom, taking the most desperate risks and being attended by a spirit of good luck quite extraordi nary.' THEE LAST E5TERANCE. The last enterance of the Hattie into Charleston occured one night in FebHary, 1865. The Confeder acy was then on its last legs, and the - Federal fleet off Charleston numbered eighteen or twenty sail. It was a starlight night and Hattie crept forward among the fleet. She had been freshly- painted a blue white, her fires made no smoke and not a light was permitted to shine on board. With her engines mov ing slowlyhe let the wind drive her foward. There were eight or ten vessels outside the bar, and as many within. Those outside were anccessfuily passed without an alarm being raised. The Hattie ran within 300 feet of two blackaders without her presence being detected. To the naked eye of the look-outs she must have seemed a haze or mist moving slowly along. The little steamer was quietly approaching the inner line of block aders when a sudden fire was opened on her from a gnn-loat not 200 feet distant, and the air was at the same time filled with rockets to announce the runner's presence. At that time the Federals had the whole of Morris Island, and Fort Sumter : had been so battered to pieces that monitors took up their stations almost within pistol shot of !(iiwvere1 she was given all steam 1 i i ,-ij. ; ...i - r a i. i nel- She ran terrible ganntlet shot and shell for ten minutes, but escaped untouched. Then came thereat peril. Just below Sumter, in the narrowest part .of the chan nel, the Hattie encountered two barge loads of men stationed there on picket. Her extraordinary speed saved her from being board ed, bnt tbe volleys tired alter her wounded two or three men and cut three Angers offtlio hand of the pilot resting on the snokes of the wheel. Two hundred yards ahead lay a monitor, and she at once opend lire and kept her gnus, going as long as the Hattie could be seen, but not a missile struck. It was wonder ful," too, considering that the steam er ran so close that she could hear the orders given on the mom tor. is GETTING OUT. Charleston was being bombarded, many of the business houses close, and all could see that the end was drawing near. The Hattie was in as much danger lyiug ut the wharf as she would be outside, and cargo was made up for her as quickly as jvossible and she was made ready for her last trip. 'Just before; dark tbe sentinels on Fort Sumter counted twenty-six Federal block aders -off f Charleston harbor, and yet the Hattie coolly made her preparations to run out. Just be fore -J midnight, with Ui starlight night and a smooth sea, the lucky"! utua crait picked Iter way through all that fleet without being hailed or a gun lired, and she was lying at .Nassau when the news ot lice's surrender was received. . if AVAL BliAG. , Every, uowand then after the blockade was fairly organized, this or that Federal- Admiral, was wont to boast of the numberof captures he -had, made and his success in shutting up the port. While some captures were made, there was never a time from first to last that any port was so carefully watched that : blockade-ruaning was not carried -on as t regular busi ness " ' 3 .t i Stonewall Jackson and other Confederates captured from the Federal armies in the first two years of the war enough material to completely' equip 75,000 men, ami up to the spring of 18G4 not a battle was fought in. Virginia in which Federal ammunition was not used .. against Federals. Add to these facts the Confederacy with its best ordnance, best muskets, best ammunition and nearly all its uniforms, and that, tooMn spite of blockades, and we. begin to. see how it was possible for the South to hold out in the manner it did. - 1" - - m m m , Tlicmand Now. .(ew Berne Lodge.) In ante-bellum days the "ni ggers" stood firm in the belief that a poor white man, a free 'nigger," a "yal ler? hounddog and a white mule were four things to be most de spised of anything upon earth. The first named was hated because his class " formed the merciless gangs of patrol, that delighted in inflicting torture upon the back of poor "Sambo," whenever an oppor unity ' presented. The free "nig ger" because of his pretended superiority over the hard working slave, and because he was so heart ily despised and damned by the master of the . slave, who thought that alL "damned niggers"' should work for some landed lord, and the . opinions of the slave were influenced by the likes and dislikes of his owner. The hound, which was petted and-well-eared for becnuse it was a source of amusement to the lazy master, -vais not always used to pursue the trail of the fox or deer, but to hunt the poor ''nigger" who from fear of the -threatened "skin nin" threatened by a brutal over seer., sought, temporary refuge in flight and the hound was in manv eases valned more highly than a "nigger." Hence, the "nigger's dislike for dogs. that especial breed of The white male was hated upon account of his color, his aversion to the curry-comb and his mulish disposition generally; beside, he was so hard to get clean, and if) found otherwise, the curses audi ticks of the .overseer would surely j fall upon the unfortunate one who j had the brute in charge. ' All Over the South. Controller General Wright says Geor gia is gaining in wealth more rapidly than any other State in the South. Mr. Butler, of Monroe county, Ga., aged seventy years, is the happy father of triplets, which arrived a lew days ago. There are 1,700 miles of railroad in operation in Arkansas, all built in the past seventeen years at a cost of $37, 813,000. It is estimated that Virginia will this year make 2,000.000 bushels of peanut. Tennessee 500.000 bushels and Noith Carolina 125,000 bushels. Jefferson is the banner cotton-producing county in Arkansas. It leads the van with 34.000 bales, and Phillips county comes next with 29,000. A Columbus, Ga., boy climbed up on the side of a cage in a ci reus to better see the monkeys, fine of the animals seized his hand and bit two lingers enm pletely off. John Little, an enterprising fourteen-year-old of Sumter county. Ala., has made three bales of cotton, eighty bush els of corn, and one hundred bushels of potatoes, alone and unaided. Newspapers are published in seventy three of the ninety-four counties in Ten nessee, at eighty-seven different towns and cities, of which number sixty-nine are county seats. There m e ISO papers in the State. Atlanta Constitution : The committee in charge of the fund raised for the erec tion of a memorial to the late Senator Hill, find that the cost of a statue will be very much less than v;us at first ex pected. By corresjiondenre they find that a bronze statue, seven or eight feet in height, a perfect portrait and model of Mr. Hill, and done by an artist of world-wide-fame, can be had for a sum varying from $S,000 to 12.000. Nashville Banner: The progress made by the Mormon missionaries with the people in the Hurricane district, iu the southern portion of Wilson county, is becoming alarming. A correspondent writes to say that the new converts there are violating every rule of decen cy. Many of the men are already co habiting with more than one wife, and it is said they claim that God has warned them to leave for Salt Lak'i by the first frost. The Dead Letter Office. If'onn disirp.s to know how maiiv ofiM rAlii itnnlft vri-itft -lotrprs in this land of common schools, let, him visit the museum of the Dead-Letter Office at Washington. Soinebody has called it 'tlie paradise of fools," because it abounds, with evidence that thousands who can write let ters,are too ignorant to address them properly, or too careless to address them at all, or even to stamp them. The schoolmaster is abroad, and yet four hundred thousand persons every month drop letters into the post office with cancelled stamps, or without a stamp, without addresses, or with addresses so illegible or incorrect that they cannot be sent. Some of the inost valuable letters received at the Dead-Letter Oflice, those containing bills or drafts to a huge amount, either lack postage or address, or else have insufficient or cancelled stamps. Every month forty thousand of such letters are examined, and last year $;,00(),0(M) dollars in checks and drafts and $75,000 in cash were found in them. If the persons who thus sent the money can be Jinind, for often there is no signature jto the letter, i is returned to hhn if not, it is turned over to the postoffice fund. Of course there is very little diffi culty in restoring the checks or drafts. Every year hundreds of letters containing money are lost, tht are sent by subscribers to pay for newspapers. 1 TheJ are lost because they are misdirected, or only half directed, or the address is not plainly written, or postage stamps are not put upon them. Of course the money they contain is also lost, tor it rarely linds its way back to the persons who have sent it. What follows! The careless writers blame . the papers because credit is not given them for money they have never received. Some times they call them dishonest, and generally they are so indignant at the very thought ot being obliged 1 to pay twice lor their subscriptions, that they augrily stop their papers, and their friendship is lost as well as their subscriptions. The only sale way to send monev by mail is by drafts, bank-checks, or money orders. It is an easy matter to purchase a money order, and thus prevent all cnances of mvnnderstanding or loss. An Unfortunate llmiiicidc. We have the particulars of an unfortunate occurrence which took place at North Creek, on Monday li3rd October. Henderson Res- pess, a colored man living on the place of Mr, George M. Jordan in that section, was shot and killed by Mr Jordan on that day. The evidence as developed at the Coroner's inquest exonerated Mr. Jordan from any criminal act. They found that the killing was justifiable as in self-defence. At the time the shot was tired Res pess was approaching Jordan with a razor in his hand. At the pre liminary hearing before the magis trate the case was dismissed. The occurrence is very much regretted by all parties. Xortk State Pre. Tbe Most ltenutiful Woman 111 Hie Wt rid. The distinction is claimed for Mme. Gautherot, an American la dy, who, at last accounts, was be wildering the Paris salons with her lov eliness. She is said to be a Cal ifornia!! by birth, about twenty-six years of age, and is a veritable Ve nus de Medici, transmuted into llesh and blood, and adorned by the lest man dress maker in the world. Those who have seen her never tire of dilating upon her splendid beau ty. Jler form is absolutely fault less, and her head is strictly classi cal. She wears her fair wavy tres ses in Grecian bandeaux. Her eyes are large and languishing, and the texture of her skin is of that exqui site kind which the famous painter, Bougucreai!, delights to paint in his pictures. The flesh is as smooth as a rose leaf, and there is a pink shade, which comes through the transparent white surface. Her dress lits like a glove, and her skirts cling about her lovely person ! m antique fashion. Wherever she j appears, she is pronounced the i sweetest object that v er came out j of a Paris Coutvriirc. And then j the lady is said to be as good as she is lieautilnl. Uemorext a Monthly Trad. To jdes It is thought that Atlanta, Geor gia will receive. 150,000 bales of cot ton this season. Stocks of meats are very small at j Chicago. Up to date the summer j packing is estimated at 3,454,000 hogs, a decrease of Si 0,000 hogs as compared with last year. Hendersonville, N. C, shipped in ten weeks, !l,-'il,(i(J worth of cab bage, siKJOjOO worth of apples, and S!).i,n0 worth of potatoes. Katoiiton Georgia, ships about i.i.uuo 1 uiies 0 f cotton and sells ,S5 1,- (MM 1 worth annum. On the fir had iu store nf merchandise per ;1 of )ef ober, ( 'hicago '. ISS..-71 bushels of wheat, 2,(SS,22ii bushels 505,715 bushels of oats bushels of rye. and litl.fiT." of barley. of corn. IS5,!)2! bushels - ( lnircli (Jossi 1 . Cardinal Manning has warned Knglish Roman Catholics against t he Sal vat ion Army. Somebody has discovered that cats are nowhere mentioned in (he I'.ible. Special religious services for po licemen are held in .Manchester, Kngland. The total amount conl ributed an nually for the support of religion in the I'nited States is 1 7, -1!I5. "Alas! that so many people look upon religion simply as a tire es caM !' exclaims a Soul hern preacher. Tnc property owned by the Voting Men's Christian Associa tions in lhe I'nited States and ( 'an ada is valueikat .",:i;iO,000. Their annual expenditures aggregate Our l 'liiblreii at School. Arear-Sightedut;s8H. 1 Writlen ft.r Hie Living ChurchO The .V. Heal Times (Philadelphia) of June (i, 1S7I, has a lecture l:v Wm. F. Norris, M. I)., on "Our Eyes How to Take Care of Them," showing that our near-sighted eyes are usually diseased eyes, and this disease is in a vasj majority of cases acquired or aggravated at school. The conditions leading to it are irequently found, he says, in our schools, where insufficient light or badly constructed desks compel the children to hold their books too near the eyes, thus causing undue, strain and congestion. This con gestion is increased by holding the head bent forward, the blood gravi tating to its dependent parts. The bending of the head also retards the return circulation in the jugular veins, causing fulnesss and pressure in all the delicate tissues of the eyes. Dr. Norris wisely insists that children should be allowed fond light but also good print. Pul ting small print into the hands of our children, Ik says, is poor economy. Dr. Northrop cites these among the .causes of visual weakness among American youth ; a stooping posture which cramps the chest and brings the eye too near the book or paper; reading at twilight and late at night, and studying; by lamo light in the morning; reading in the cars; using kerosene lamps without shade; reading while facing a window or any light, natural or artificial, ami still more while facing the bright sunshine; reading dime novels or books printed iu too fine type (all books printed m diamond, pearl, agat or nonpareil, are unlit for children's eyes); wearing a veil; and neg lecting to cultivate far-sightedness by examining carefully distant ol- jects. Hence myopia is more com mon in cities than in the country, among those working on near minute objects than those laboring in the nelds with a wider range of vision and more objects to invite habits of observation. From these and other facts known to the teachers and physicians, it is apparent that a close student is in peril of losing his eyes, and that the higher the average of educa tion among the peopio the more imperfect is likely to be their vision. It behooves physicians and teachers to consider the situation, and, as far as possible, to avert the calami ty from the rising generation. While it is not possible to pre vent impairment of vision in every case, much can be done to prevent and alleviate it. A few rules, strictly observed, would greatly lessen the danger. I suggest the following as among the most im portant. If they are already well known, they will bear repenting: 1. Never allow a child to use a finely-printed luiok. A great many school-books are trying to young eyes; and nearly all Bibles, prayer books, and song books ; that are used by children are in small type. More eyes have been ruined, in my opinion, by pouring over fine cop-per-plat maps, than by ail other exercises. I have never seen a series of school-maps that was til for children to use. 2. Never allow a pupil to study by an imperfect or insufficient light. There cannot be too mu-.li light, provided it comes in the right di rection and is not the broad glare of the sun. The children who are at all near-sighted should be seated nearest the windows. 1 have known myopia to be arrested by this simple rule. :. Never allow cross-lights that is, lights from both sides of the room. There may be windows in the rear and on one side (the left side is preferable), but none in front. Jf is against the law in Germany and ought to be every where, to put windows in both sides of a school-room. The windows should be large, and not obscured ! by trees or buildings. 4. Have as little study as pos le by artificial light; and when ; this light is used, let if, be steady ; and abundant, ami under a shade, j A flickering gas-lighr is very dam I aging. 5. Require juipMs to hold the j book at the proper angle, so that j rays of light from the page do no! ! enter the eye obliquely. Reading j iu bed, or in a reclining position is i extremely dangerous, and almost ! always results in serious damage j to the, eyes, if persisted in. .Read ing in the (tars or in tin? wind is uso dangerous and siiouh carefully avoided by those who have the slightest weakness of t he eves. G. Require the pupil to hold the head nearly erect in studying and writing, and arrange the desk so as to make this practicable. j 7. Encourage the pupil to look ' off the book frequently, to change ifhe focus of light by regarding some distant object. If is not l enough to look around vaguely:; j the eye must be directed to some ; tiling which is to be clearly seen, i ! like a picture or a motto upon thej wall, or a bit of decoration. The; greatest damage to the eyes of j ! students is the protracted effort to- focus the printed page. j It was simply barbarous the way; we used to be "whacked" i-n school,! when we looked oil' the book. It ! is easy for a teacher to know the; difference between the resting of the eye and the idle gazing around , that cannot be allowed. I regard tins, rule as the most important, and 1 lie j disregard of it the mos! prolilieot. trouble. S. As far as possible, have near-, sighted pupils supplied wilh spec tacles, selected by a competent: oculist. Without these, there is a constant strain to sec elcailv. and a great disadvantage 10 tlx-pupil iu not being able to follow exercises on the black-hoard and iu the :-e of charts. These precautious I have found very helpful, and i trust that others, may use Ihein In advantage. lx Texas cotton picki is are very scarce and in some localities a ceiii a pound is being paid. Hard lurk' when less than ten cents is received for the lint. FUN ANlvFOIBIilU.S. BILL ARP. The circus pictures are a big thing at my house now. It's as tonishing how children .an; carried away with such things, and it takes grown people, a long time to get over their love of the saw-dust riding. I've known old gray headed people who. never missed one when it came within reach. I don't believe that old folks enjoy it much, bnt t hey go because it ' re vives the memory of their happy childhood, and they imagine they be as happy again, but thev 111't. When old aere creens unon a man he must hunt, for pleasure of a different kind, and be reconciled. The ginger cake of his ltoyhood will never more taste like a ginger cake to lillll. It is mighty hard work to make a man out of a boy. Mrs. Arp, she sets 'em down to studying some good, pious verses sometimes but it's an up hill business, but they can learn some other verses by heart-directly and not half try. I slipped upon one the other day wlalc he was shucking corn in the crib allr alone, and I heard him singing a song, and if wasn't that good old rhyme about. "In Adam's fall we s nned all. " But it went thusly: '"Old Eve she did the apple eat And smacked her lips and 'twassweet. Old Eve she did the apple pull, And then she filled her apron full. Old Adam he came bobbing around And spied the peelings on lhe ground, Aud then he laid on Eve the blame. But went to eating all the same. , Old Noah he did billd an ark. And covered it with hickory bnrk. ine animals came in two by two. Big buck rabbit and kangaroo. Aud then come in three by three. Elephant, frog and bumble bee. The waer it kivered all the ground. But the ark kept sailin' around and around." And so forth and so on, and it had a chorus about belonging to Gideon's baud, and it's curious to know where he learned it or the tune to it, for it's not in any book about my house, Mr. Shakspeare says a man litis seven ages, which is so, I reckon, and I think a loy has about the same number before he gets to lie a man. lie goes through abont five of 'em before ho begins to shave the fuzz off his chin and takes a fancy to the looking-glass and wears a highly-colored cravat, parts his hair carefully with a wet brush and looks down at the set of his legs as he gallops a martingaled pony to town. And the girls have their several ages, too, from the time fhey begin to dress their little dolls up to the time that they laugh at everything, whether it is funny or not. It's mighty hard to keep children in the right track, and I'm afraid that most parents try a little too hard, though I know very weli that some don't, try hard enough. I knew a mighty good man who had the worst boys in the town and everybody prophesied that they wonld land in the penitentiary, but he didn't seem much concerned about it, and one day when I told him that his boys were accused of breaking into a store the night be fore, he said he wouldn't be sur prised at all it it was so, tor he himself used to be the biggest devil in the neighborhood where he was raised, but that all of a sudden he came to himself like the prodigal sou did and quit, and he thought his boys had about run their time out and sowed I heir wild oats. And sure enough fhey did quit all of a sudden, and no better citizen can be tound than they are now. Like father like son. Children just as naturally take after their a rents as the young of any animal take after theirs, and the best, teaching a parent can give his child is a good example and rhe contin ual evidences of his love. Not many children will go back on love and example both, especially if there is a little reverential fear of the hickory mixed up with il iu a judicious manner. Mrs. Arp has sorter opened a family school for the children and is trying to enlarge their views of figures, and she makes a first-rate teacher, for she likes figure i put in occasionally, and the last sum 1 gave was: If a cow and a calf is wirth "sl.."i0, what are two cows worth: a while her, am me on t She helped 'cm work at it when suddenly it struck then the hairbrush struck lie side of the head, and I departed these coasts premature Atlanta Constitution. A Farmer tl at Wanted t vCiiu-i-! it Ho". : t.-iyii vTsiior. i the fore part of last! One day in week a wagon drove up to the east i gate of the fair grounds, our in - - formant states we do not vouch j for the story and our energetic j secretary of the State Agricultural i Society was approached by along! legged, red whiskered lanner who : had in a cage one of the lankest, I leanest and long-Ieggest specimen of the razor-back genus ever seen j out ol North Carolina, and informed the secretary that he desired to enter the animal for a premium, j The secretary surveyed the brute j with the interest with which ai modern savant would scrutinize a new found specimen of an extinct species of pre-histoi ie existence, and, evidently unable to classify it, asked. -'What is it ?" With an expression of pity for the ignota ice of lhe questioner, he exclaimed : 'Well, n cockoloruui Fair don't din ned ! he North w a hog The top ( 'arolina w hen he 01 kn se mm. o ye.11 ea i I hat a hog .'" asked i In .cere! arv. You iiet !'" And yon n ium n lii in .' -i'.e; vim:- In answered xiieet 1o the farmer. f ake a pre- tom dollar Milt ( on it. liter i Y ia! :l:i v I-n- iie -Sp. isiied d. ed .'" exela i mod I lie as! on -secretary, "why whoever of a hog being entered for heard -II linn a pint, 'sneei von'd lived in North Cam ; long as I !,av Why, 'round div in the ! '. you'd see t he where 1 live, 1 ok bolt,' we wouldn't give a d 11 Itu couldn't outrun a nigg'.-i a hog that J The" Crops this Fall.. . The rye crop will probably breach. zu,vuu,vw pushed. Of buckwheat, Pennsylvania pro duces nearly one-half the entire rrop. 1 ne total yield will be" over 1 1,000,000 bushels. 1 ne potato crop covers an area approaching 2,000,000 acres, with a yield of about 0 busheis per acre, a short crop is foreshadowed 111 ew Yolk State. Returns to the Department of Agriculture from all the 1,700 coun ties ot the United States indicate a wheat product slightly exceeding ii(K,tJOO,ooo bushels, or an average yield per acre of about 13.5 bushels. In cotton, an unusnal size and vigor of plant, with capacity for a large production, is reported. The general average of (condition is higher than in any October for ten years, with! ''the exception of 1875 and 1878, f; ..' More than one-half of all the bar ley produced in the United States ,"a'se. iu York, California, mm Wisconsin, a ne average yield is 2:1.5 bushels per acre, and the total product will reach 45,000,000 bushels. Oats are au immense crop. The average yield is, higher than that of last year. Kansas ranks among the highest, as it does in wheat. The total product in oats of all the States will probably. be 480,000,000 bushels. ; :;t ; '. .- j-;'. Kansas holds its reputation for large returns to the toiler, with the extraordinary average .yield of 19.3. The country north of the Ohio river, in the great wheat belt, averages nearly 16 bushels. Ken tucky and Missouri promise about 14 bushels, and California 13 bushels. The six principal winter wheat States will aggregate about 244, 000,000 bushels. There is a reduc tion iu the acreage of the spring wheat area of the northwest, but the yield may reach 113,000,000 bushels. The Pacific coast will probably yield 45,000,000 bushels, the Middle States 40,000,000 bush els, and the Southern States a little more than 50,000,000 bushels. The average yield of wheat the country over, has never fallen quite co 10 nusneis, una- it has never quite reached 14 bushels in years ot greatest abundance. This sea son it is unusually high in New York 18.7 bushels. In the New England States, except Vermont, it runs as low as 14 bushels; i In nearly all the Southern States the average is low, ranging from 7 to 10 bushels. Texas aud Arkansas are exceptions. The yield of corn cannot yet be accurately estimated.' Much of it is still standing in shock in the fields. It is believed, however, that there will be at least 1,080,000,000 bushels, or an average yield of 25 bushels to the acre, against, 28 in 1870, and 18 iu 1881. Of this total the States north of Tennessee aud west of Virginia and Penusylvauia produced 1,250,000,000; the South ern States, 340,000,000; the Middle States, 82,000,000, and New Eng land over 7,000,000. The total pro duct will be more than lour hundred millions greater than last year. " . The Pride of the Farmers. (New York Sun.) Stalks of wheat six feet high, with heads six inches long, are the pride of California farmers. A beautiful tube rose, with a stalk six feet high, is the projierty of Mr. A. R. Lutz of Lancaster, Pa, The longest, cucumber ever grown in the" South is now on exhibition in North Carolina. It is 47 inches long. It is said that there arc upward of 3,000 steam ploughing machines now employed in England and Scotland. There are over 000,000 acres of tobacco fields in the United States. The crop is valued at about 45, 000,000. The corn crop of Texas this year is estimated at 140,000,000 bushels. The value of the agricultural pro ducts of that State is $1)4,071,938. The largest tobacco leaf rejKiited this season was grown by John 0. Dougherty of Lancaster county, Pa. it is forty-six inches long and twenty-seven wide. William Pfeiffer of Gunpowder, i Md., exhibits a stalk of corn meas- "rnlg sixteen and a half feet from f'IOi ''f0 t i'e tPl al"l t1'11 '('Ct two inches from the root to the ear. Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach orchard in the South, containing 50,000 trees, and covering nearly 000 acres. 400 grafted apple trees and 5,000 pear trees stand on the same farm. There are 12,000 head of Jersey cattle on the Isle of Jersey, and 6,000 on the Isle of Guernsey. The exportations from both are nearly iead per year. Several linn (lre(1 c0ln0 to tll'e United States. In Mount Pleasant, Pa., Jacob 1). Madeira has a grape vine that produced a second growth ot grapes, . aud Michael Knoll has a pear tree I blossoming for the second time.; j The tree has more blossoms than it ' had in the spring. j A rose bush bearing over one ; thousand buds is the pride of a gar i den in Charlestown, Mass. It is' , thirty-five years old, and it covers ' I over one hundred square feet of j ground. A single stem has sixteen i buds, and stems having twelve, ten ; or less are quite numerous. i A very large and fine cotton plant ' is on exhibition in Levy's shoe i store, in Lancaster, Pa. The plant j is 7 ft feet high, and contains sixty live bolls of cotton, several of them ; in full bloom. If was raised by. Richard Avant on the farm ofj Ilenrv Clark, Marion Court House. S. ('.' ' A maple tree one foot 111 diameter grows out of a solid rock, three feet ; from the ground, 011 the farm of ; Judge IJronson of Seymour, Alio gany county, N. Y. A cedar limb about two inches in diameter juts ; from the trunk of the tree about a foot from the ground. It is as 1 nourishing as any of the other 1 branches. , , - Borne Queer Tblnv 'y V t A. (New York SobJ jT ." " Mrs. Thomas Payne, the bride of of a Monroe, W, V4 clergyman, is only 11 years old. '.. ..'Au Atlauta. Ga., vight thfi "oilier day was a cart drawn by u ten hi cf tame alligtaors. ;"... ,; , ' A shower" of smnll ' jebbles that continued fifteen minutes fell in Watseka, 111., recently. t ' ' A residen t of Ku kniaiisville,' Ky., is cousin to his own. children, hav ing married his aunt. , lie is uncle also to his brothers and sisters aud cousins, and brother in-law; to his father and mother. ; , ! "To the first -widow of LintMiln who shall secure a husband after my death, 1 Itcquenth . 2000." -was a provisions in the will . of,, a Nebraska-widow.' Just 40 minutes alter this became known the claim ant appeared. v v Over the grave of a Springfield, Mass., , -man c in the Methodist grounds, who died from the kick of a horse, is (lie following quaint epitaph cut! in cold marble: . . .' "Blame not the beaut who neat toUieduxt, For the Gixl or unture unlil be timet. " ; , Green pippins and gohleu russets grow ou the same liongu of an apple tree in the garden of Huston Miller, Uardinsbarg,; 4Ky. ,&ine . of the apples are oue-half pippin and the other half russet. The : pippins, being the largest, cup over the russets, giving the fruit the appear auce of great acorns.' A year ago Mike Welch had 1200, 000, but to-day he finds himself a beggar and in Denver He lost tbe greater part of his money iu specu lation, and finally started two . res taurants. Business fell away, and about a ' year ago he - found him self ruined. Then be .went to Denver, and has since fallen lower until ho is now a drunkard and a tramp. In Homer Branson's ' garden,' in Waterbury, Conn.; was bur ied the arm he lost last August. He com plained that the ' arui felt tired and craniied, but he exprienced instant relief when, without his knowledge, Am 1 . 1 , I me arm was exnunieu ana re inter red in a different position. . Three times the servered limb has been moved to give relief to the snfferer, aud each time successfully. "'"A most remarkable. case of ma tured love that oyercameeveryt bing was exhibited in tbatof Mrs. Jennie Council, a handsome and wealthy young : widow of: Columbus, Ind., who took lor a second spouse a Mr, Griffiu an old acquaintance. After a joyous wedding trip the couple returned to the home of the ' bride, but as she entered the parlor the first object that met her gaze was a full-length itortrait . of her former husband. The sight of the familiar and loved features so wrought Umii her as to cause a 'complete revul sion of feeling toward her new hus band. Alter brooding over her trouble for a day or two she con fessed all to her husband, declared she could never , love him, and besought him for the sake of both to leave her. She Insisted in this, aud an attorney was called iu, wlro drew up a statement, signed by both and forming an agrecmeut to separate. ? "' ' , Gun and linlle in Richmond . Comity. (Charlotte Journal.) Richmond county 'removes the dilapidated linen from the shrub bery," so to speak, as a fighting district. Sunday night in Rocking ham two men, employees of the Pee Dee manufacturing company, liad a tight, during which one of .them, an Irishman, cut the other, named Tom Elliott, across the stomach laying open his bowels. liaising his knife to cut again Elliott re ceived the second blow on - his right arm, the. inusele of which were severed. The recovery of the wounded man is doubtful. Only a day or two before this, in Rockingham, u man named T. J. Perdue cut another named Dan! McCaskell half a dozen times with a jKx;ket knife, making some, ugly flesh wounds. Perdue had insulted McCaskell, and the latter making at him threw him down, and while up ou him was cut in tlie mauner de scribed. .,'; , In Laiirinburg, last-Saturday night, a negro named Cummings shot another named Amos Roper in the thigh with a double barreled shot gnn loaded with duck shot. The row was the continuation of another which had occurred a few days liefore Itetween Cummings and a brother of Amos Itoiier while at 1 work in a rock quarry. Ami will j recover. Methodist Conference. The North Carolina Conference I of the M. E. Church, South, will convene iu this .city on the 0th of j December next, aud it is e.H.yted that the session will be one of great interest. Raleigh always and glad-' ly extends her hospitality to relig ions I todies and we hoiie will cbeer- . fully welcome the Methodist Con ference. The committee of arrauge ; incuts, npKinted to provide homes for members, desire to procure en tertainment for about three hun dred, andill le glad to have the assistance of the other religious j denominations of the city. Ral. ' Viiii tor. ' A Man ot Affairs. "What other business do you fob 1 low besides preaching f" was asked I of an old colored man. "I specu lates a little." "How MK'iilatef" I "Sells chickens." " Vhere do you j get the chickens?" "My boys i letch 'em in." Where do they get ithomf" "I don't know, sah, I'se , alters so busy wid my proachin' dat 'I ain't got time to ax. I was ) 'agwine ter inquire de udder day, 1 but a 'vivid come on and tuck up I I all 111 v t i me." 1 Too ' anli'. should st like to have i coin dated the year of my birth," said a maiden lady of uncertain age to a male acquaintance. "Do you think you could get one for inef" "I am afraid not,' he replied "These very old nn are only to lie found iu valuable collections." Andyct he cannot see why, wheti he met the lady next day,shedilnt speak to lii in. Cincinnati Saturday Xiflht. 7 L Or&nsre Iten. !i. ; j. f- t r H. W. Moore ha bocn 'iintJ -fral ,upervior of rl Uona at U.ia place.-e. ' . - '. 1 . - Humor baa ft that Dr. KlrVrli k !- bought A. J. MciDtyro'i tioune ami i in this place. ' Jtnu Polly Lane died at t,T r- i ! a In thia county ou Moii inv. is !, .), t t , of heart diaeaaa. Afrr l J j . ' Mr. Noah Rouae v I 1 ...er 1 .l aurvara ara of opinion that the corn crop ia abort aa trud jmi the rice crop. Noah Bouae hna ll,r-. !,, I 4' 3 I 1 ' ' of rice from his farm of nt mt 17 n. .The yield w&a far below Mr. I. .,.-a expectationa. Hojx to bear from Joke a 1$ inch heada aoon. ' Jere Wartera hna aolj l.ia farm u.r thia place to Ichabod fimnt, of v. ,! county, for the aurn of i'i.n l.u:. . . - i aud twentr-flra dollarc. t.r. (iraiit 1 pecui. mt aome time, to nnke ioa t puichAMe hia home. Mr. Uartrra wt.I probably buy land in Jmea count r. The crowd to hna r the nn.l. at thia place Inet Monday aa i ,..t exooediDg W) or 7-1 perm ma. 1 1 ; - s -ing was a)out of tlx riiid ti-, I but little aaid that tie-1 t. til the LepiHhit I ve pint ei n.-l. 1 ., 1 not hear li r. I'eiry a , Ii but fr m ttlutt ia aalil, an; it. to l e t'. ., hh delivcrcl ,y .,,u a ( w hmt i a. The llepohlu 101 i, I of !. t : torial tiekot ike lnu a., I 1 ' uumeruifully bitter n mnt ti. Crata, and chj.ii-i I , v i miw-i.n r of the Reputi ni , 1 1 i ( ,,.1 to one good thing done, u !.'.-. il.i . the frM-in of tlp t(-r(. Ilia fin- t Mr. Wood and t oi. itentmui, aa l-n j ariKlocrat. wa ttn !ii for and -tircly outof place. Vi eitl t h, if honeat ! j gotUn. ia no trior a ti unr than pv-rt, , and much more dehual . lie rnond ed lh colored j., l- f the (lava In n theywe.e und.-r ti.e I i n. Tina n.y ct Mm HH iiliii i', l,l v i not r tl t Mm reartoct and mmf. Sen.- of . t. pic ilia alluaioiiM to ( ..I. "aide ahoar," wna liuirlmMe to t'.,-.. who did not aee the -i I ,r u.hh, ... ( ..!. Beamnn'a ftpewcli u t-h.nt, ) i... i I and to the int.. It wu ! nr t a i Colonel a fully r-iu.h! ,. ',i I L ( , ,- t. of himself, lliipt. W. A. I i , , , .' Ureene, "OoJ. lie :in, 1 , exhibited bextwoid n. . , , t : Mr. Ltttrden ia a Hpul.ir f ; . l i . . perfectly nt home on t!n ,iu j. i,,. , r Ktandg politic well, ud t , . i , t v a aide Bhow, ia more Hir?i a i Fred the 8uninierHMuitJ-r mil t i former. Sheriff liavi -..!i,- t. ,i Ii 1 during the day, and 1 n .,. from, wan trying to a iq I.oihhh. lll'H 'ii 1 d Stonewall ' Mra. J. II. Oilskin U vo? ao U Mr. Jon. K Ki;- , one of nr I.. cittKens.. , Mr. F. F. Cherrv I. ( t' a lot aa the county boi. m on t ,. in. a.ini,' of the 30th ulu; mirc rH r mum,. Mr. George llnow.t 1 I il,e ,,f.,r. tune to loae hia lnf,o t . ri.-r .i-t tteekt eauxed tiy hiw p , !,. . It ia my and fal to ! , t the l-t,i! of Mra. ltebecca Woodward, the t..,. r otT. F. Woodward, Lh.., i.ed TOyeara. ' Daniel CTonper, one of H, U-ul eoh.re 1 cttixena PatnJioo voi.Uui . !. f. i (;ed on the l!Sth ult. while fas, in t; rue to the llireaher.' V Mr. F. . "Miller died at l.ia re, week before luxt, aged t ! " i t , ideli-e J I'i.l M. tie nnxi been Iihk-' ihk r f.,m i,nn. He waa one of our bent ii m-na. Mra, .Catherine Cahoon. i eoti.it oi Air. JiaUmn ChIioon. (te d ou i !,.: olt., ui(xl Uout . or 'i.'i yi'iira. A food Woutuu btttf paMHod over the river. i. Ton WJI hardly Jeutr from thia iptar ter any luore onltl afu-r the triumph of IndeideuM' mi tint 7th lnt., uhImi atttnetbing. turns' up wottli riiMrtiiiir: UHt- mui.h to ace niter, politic ia ail k-reoU' t i ' Rena, about three or four year old. a twin dan gtiteT of J. . l-nn-r, le on the -Mt.h ult. Mr. Phi ter baa the true aymHtliy of all h knew ln aud. eepecially your oorrexnotiden!, for aha waa a bright, iutureHiing child. I" have jtiat mturnetl from (Iikm CreeU 'lalund. ' The t'-'d weather la cauaing a pleiixant pieHd on the lnit er'a phtc, but the hortiKg of the crop prevent aa much expansion aa it other wiae would have. . The col.um, aa in alt parts of Pamlioo, is very .ahort. and late corn' ia almoat a failure, kioe ia far below lexpectationa, l.nt thpre are three things that hold their own, t. ., 6h. oyateta, and tha whole aouled boa pi tat it of Iter people. 1 will venture the aaMertion that no living human be ing was ever clmrpeil a cent fra night's fcxlgiag and fare throng I tout the Ihiand; and if you wish to ride over the beat roads in the 8tate make one trip there, but you must not count the road pelt in -1 1") a-lUheUlerll h. villa. BtaCr0tT, N. C, OT. let, 1HHJ. DAK JovuNAL: J had no idea when I wrote to you that I should aee my "tuune In print,"" as I am not ambitioua nt notoriety. 1 have, it 'na. a wakened the criticism bt "Nature" and muxt add a few. word' In' my defenae. btnoe writing to you I have examined a re liable and learned work on the "origia of family names. "and this author says Pollock; with a c) is local, and derived from a Pariah in hooUand by name Pollock, which name waa given to the fiunilybywayofdiMtinctn.il. Therefore it belongs not only b a family but aiao to a pariah, and no Individual of that family baa a -fight, through bia own whim or by bia own authority, to mis spell that name because the name does not belong to bin alone, but to a family more or leas extenalve and a'ao to pariah - Again Dr. Kratx ia Hawks not only examined tbe (I will not aay "old" aa that word aee eras to mil up sad re flection" in the mind of Nature) reoord f New Heme, but went so F-nrUnd lo search all the records there which could afford malarial for his liiatory and he ' pells the name of Pollock with a "c;" and any One who waa .acquainted with Dr. Hawks ami knew of his great learn ing and accurate record would not ques tion his authority ia. the (natter. Again. I have in iny noeaeaaum a a old ma pot New Berne, drawn ty Jonathan Prioa, who, I think, was noted for his accuracy and -who bad lha means to ascertain the correct spelling of that name and ha, im a, ia t look, east, mentioning the street called Polkwk, spells it witoa'-c. " An.l laat. Dot l tliere la. 1 believe, a worth r and bv su means ignorant family of that nam ia or about Kinatoa, abd if I mistake not they spell their name with a "o." Now all that I can find againat theae facta ia that there is a neat and 'thriving village in a neighboring county which spells Pollock without a "c,""aiid a deed or m few deeds givefe by Gewge Pollock in which the'V.i tatiittwd while (I think) thia sutne 'yeutlcman kj!U his name; aonietime with -a "o" and sometimes w itliout a "o." belt be buiag only aa individual, bad no, right nor any au thority to c hangs the family ttasna. Yours, etc., t ',o - E. JL FouBf. Supreme Cert Oeelsieae. We copy from tbe JVea-e and Obmrver the following statement t f decision ty the Supreme court: , Stark ey Mc Daniel Vs. O. M. Pollock et als, from 4one; no rror; judgment allirroed. Ardon Wniiama vs. John F. McCoy, from Lenoir; no error; judgment af firmed. . . . Slate vs. Wright Daniel, from Pitt;er ror; venire de novo. - Tbe wfld bluek woman of Clear Creek is still at large and parties renprt having aeen her laUtly The chases after her are not pursued now. however, with the aame diligent interest aa some weeks ago.. People an too busy, talking poli tioe. CTtaWofff Jvnrnal. . .
New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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Nov. 9, 1882, edition 1
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