The Greensboro patriot [May 9, 1877]

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. Mfvim.Mi.in. JOHN N.STAI-LKS.
HENDENHALL & STAPLES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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The Long Ago-
IIV 1)1.1,11 BKI.I. SISCIJklR.
There's a beautiful isle in the long ago,
All Hooded with golden light,
And a river that flows by the margin
green,
Whose waters are wor.drons blight!
There's a bark that glides with snowy
sail,
Aud the music of hiker oar.
That carries us back to the shining gates
Of that beautiful past once more.
Ah ! every heart holds some sweet dream
Of a beautiful long ago.
There wero bright hopes nursed in the
long ago,
Sweet tb.wers we gathered there,
And the walls of this beautilul past is
hung
With many au imago fair !
And oh t there is ruom for the feet to tread
Tho path of the by-gone years;
And that fount holds many a hallowed
(ear
We'vo wept in the long ago.
There are happy dreams that the heart
holds dear,
Hrigbt dreams of the long ago ;
Aud sacred tsars for perished hopes
Th:i: will return no more.
Aud thus in the tangled web of life
We weave our smiles and tears,
>w the sou! has holy mnuuries
That cliug to departed years.
All ! clrop the -.liken curtains now
Of the lieautiful iong ago.
Shut out the light of those perished .war-,
Cln.ic the door of the past again,
And hush the yearning thoughts thai lill
I"li v annl with so much pain.
Then roll the heavy stone against
Thai sepulchre—the heart!
Why should those buried forms again
To life and beauty start !
The future may hold BOOM dream as
bright
As tlmse for long ago .'
(■leL'or)
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•'EL DIAVOLA."
BY A. I. W.
Venetian story-tellers have auial
gamated " Bine Beard" with one of
«inmm'.N " Hausniarchen"— (one
wonders how it got auiougst the
lagoons) and changed his cerulean
hue to that ot the foul fiend him-self.
Thus the story is entitled
" El Diavola."
Once upon a time there was a
husbaud aud wife, aud their three
daughters all grown up, and they
took in washing. As it happeued,
a gentleman passed by their house
. one day, aud fell in love with the
' eldest girl. lie went to her parents
! to him for his wife. They saw that
l in bishandi will he j he was a handsome gentleman and
prom] led to.
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they said yes. Aud be married her,
aud took her away. And he took
her to the tinest palace that eyes
1 could see.
When they got there be gave her
the keys of all the rooms; but he
1 said : l; Go wherever you like, ex-cept
into that room there. If you
do go into it, it will be worse for
you."
And he gave her a beautiful fresh
rose to put in her hair, aud theu he
j got up and went away.
This woman was curious to know
what was in that chamber, that
she was not to go into, so she went
aud opeued the door, and she saw
so many souls inside, all on lire,
and she knew that it was hell.
" Oh! cried she, what have I
done I what have I done f For sure
he'll put me in there too!"
Then she looked at the rose in
hor hair and saw that it was quite
tailed.
By-and-by back comes the hus-band,
and says he—"Good morn
log."
He noticed *hat the rose was
laded, and he knew well enough |
thai she Imd been iuto that room ;
11 he said—•' Did you go iuto that
loom where I told you not to go ,"
Ami .-.he answered him—1; Not 1
indeed. Once you told me not to
go; that was enough."
"Very well; now I'll take you
myself to see it/
With that he opeued chamber aud
pushed her in. Theu be locked the
door; and what did he do bat set
off to her mother, and told her that
her daughter had been so ill, until
at last she was oead ; aud that he
should like to have the second
daughter. And the mother gave
her to him.
The same story is of course re-peated
with the second daughter,
and, after she is disposed ot iu the
same manner as her sister, the de\ il
—who is represented as an eminent-ly
domestic character—not being
able to do without a wife, returns a
third time to the house of the wash-erwoman
aud demands her last re-maining
daughter in marriage.
He obtains her from her confid-ing
patents, takes her home, gives
her the keys and the fresh-blown
rose, and absents himself as before.
But this third young lady is at
least a match for her husband.—
She is no whit less cut ions thau hor
; sisters, but she takes the precaution
I of removing the rose from her hair
before peeping into the forbidden
chamber.
Of course she sees there what her
sisters saw, and sees them into the
bargain. They cry to her to hasten
away, for otherwise her husbaud
will throw her in there too.
But, nothing daunted, she au-swers:
"Wait a bit. Don't be
afraid. Only leave it to me 1"
The master of the house on his
return finds his wife with the Hower
iu her hair still tresh and blooming.
He accepts her assurance that she
bat* obeyed him, and professes au
unbounded affection for her.
" Well, now, hark ye, old man,"'
said she ; " we must think of send-ing
a few things to wash, for all
the house linen is dirty. To-mor-row
I will put it all into a chest,
aud you must carry it to mother's
and she'll wash it for us."
She waited until her husband
went out, aud then she put a few
soiled things into the chest, and
went and fetched her oldest sister,
put her into the chest, too, and
some money besides. And she said
to her—
" Remember, when you are on
the way, if you feel him setting the
chest down to peep into it, you
miust cry out—" Mind, I'm looking
at you T
When her husband returned she
said to him.
" Take this chest and carry it to
:ny mother's. But mind you don't
jieep into it—d'ye heart Becanse
if you do peep I shall see you."
With that he took up the chest
on bis shoulder.
" Oh," cried he, " what a weight
it is !"
" Well, just think," answered his
wife—" it is such a long time since
we had a wash that everything was
dirty."
When he was on the load, he be-gan
to think—" What a weight this
chest is ! I should like to kuow
what's iuside it."
He was just beginning to set it
down, wheu be heard a voice cry-ing—"
Mind I'm looking at you !"
" Oh," says he, "she can see me.
No, no; I won't touch it."
The chest with its contents, is
safely carried to the washerwoman's
house and left there—the husbaud
answering his wile's inquiries, ou
his lei urn borne, with the assurance
that, he has not peeped into it.—
The same thing bappeus again wheu
the second sister is put into the
chest, like FaUtaff into the buck-basket,
aud carried to ber mother's
house.
In order to effect her own escape,
the cuuuiug third sister feigns ill-ness.
She desires to be left undisturbed,
because she wants to sleep, aud
tells her husband that be will find
another chest full of soiled lineu at
her bedroom door, which he must
carry to the wash as before.
Meanwhile she makes a huge rag
doll, dresses it in her own clotbes,
places it in her bed, and gets into
the chest herself, not forgetting to
take with her a provision of money
and fine lineu this time.
By-and-by the devil came home,
and went to tiptoe iuto the bed-room.
He looked at the bed, aud
saw her there all covered up, and
he said—" Oh, bless her heart! I
won't wake her ; I'll leave her quiet.
Now I'll carry the chest away.
He look, up the chest, but said
he—" My stars and garters {corpo
1I1 bacvo .') what a weight this one
is I Aud he put it on bis shoulder
and set off But when he bad got
half-way, he began to set dowu the
chest, and he heard a voice crying
—" Miud, I'm looking at you !"
" Why, bless her heart,"' says he,
'• although she's ill iu bed, she sees
me all the same!''
He went to ber mother's house,
and siinl he—" Make haste and get
all these things washed, I must be
off home to my wife, for she's not
at all well."
"Mercy ou me!" cried the mother;
" I hope she's uot going to die, like
those two others."
" No, no; I'm going home at
once to look after her."
He went home, and went on tip-toe
into the bedroom, and went up
to the bed—" Wife, how goes it!—
Ah ! she don't answer me. Poor
dear! why, can she be dead V
With that be pulled the cover off
the bed, and found the rag-doll
there.
"Ah, the busy, she has tiicked
me ! Oh, dear ! Oh, dear! What
will become of me 1"
He PHI into the other room to
see if the two sisters were there
still, aud found them gone, too.
Lpou this the devil tell into such
a passion that he got a lit ot the
line, aud that killed him. Aud so,
you see, as tho saying is, women
are a match lor the devil himself.
From the Raleigh News.
REVENUE OUTRAGE.
Conflict Between the State and
Federal Authorities.
■Judge Svhenek's Return to
DieVs Ceriiorari,
Judge
He Knew what he Wanted.
The most casual observer could
not help noticing the twiukle iu his
eye wheu he arrived in a California
town, one day last week. When he
walked up the sidewalk he stepped
as high as a blind horse, aud some
were uukiud euough to say he had
been partaking of his own vintage.
If was with this kiud of lefty
pride that he marched into one of
the drygoods stores. The obliging
and affable clerk extended the salu-tation
of tbe day aud asked if he
could do anything for him.
"Veil, yes, I tink so, "he replied.
"What is it 1' quoth the clerk.
"You got some poots t" .
"Yes; here is an excellent assort-ment."
"Oh. no, not dese."
"Why t"
"Dem vns too pig"
"Too big I—what do you meau 1"
"Don'd you got some leedle vons
—baby poots V
"You've got no babies. What do
you want with baby boots f
"Yes, I haf. One vast come lasd
nighd, und mit his mndder he vas
doiug as veil as could be. I vas
come to town for der sucking bottle
und I dinks mit myself I vill get
him von pair of poots."
He got his bottle, but had to re-turn
home, probably for the exact
measurement of the boots.
Tobacco in Pennsylvania.—It is
stated in the report of Lancaster
county Tobacco Growers' Associa-tion
that the annual crop of tobac-co
iu that county alone amounts to
between $'-',000,000 and $3,000,000,
and it is alleged that in the tobacco
areas of that county are no poor
people; all make money and are
happy.
On two acres of ground Benj.
Gotwalt, o f York county, Pa.,
raised last year 4,000 pounds of to-bacco.
Biickmakers die very young, not
becausp tbe gods love them particu-larly,
but because theirs is such a
kiln business.
A friend sends us the following
copy of a return made by Judge
Schenck to a writ of certioraii
issned by Judge Dick last fall:
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, (
Polk County, j
SUPERIOR COURT,
Fall Term, 1876.
STATE i
vs. £ Assault & Battery
Lynch Young. )
A certiorari having been sent to
this court from the Citcnit Court of
the United States for the Western
District of North Carolina, based
on tbe CTth Section of the Act of
March 13th, 18CC, commonly knowu
as tho Internal Revenue Law of
the United States, commanding
that the proceedings in this court
be certified to the said Circuit Court
of the United States, the Judge of
this court has given to the proceed
ings the careful and respectful con-sideration
which the importance of
the question involved required, and
after mature deliberation this court
respectfully declines to obey the
certiorari or allow its olerfc to obey
the same
The reasons upou which this de-cision
are based areas follows:
1. Because the petition of the
said Lynch Young 'a copy of which
is filed with the clerk of this court}
does not allege that the defendant
is indicted on account ot auy act
done mi.let color of his oflice as
said act requires.
2. Because this court is of the
opiuion the provisions of said Act
which assume to deprive the State of
North Carolina oj the jurisdiction
to try one of her oien citizens for an
assault and battery committed on her
oicn territory which has never been
ceded to the United States, to xcit: in
the county of I'olk, is unconstitution-al
and void.
Tbe power claimed cannot be de-rived
from the special grants, in
the constitution. To wit: To pro-vide
for the punishment of counter-feiting
the securities and curreut
coiu of the United States, Art. 1,
Sec. S, chap. 6.
2. To defiue and punish piracies,
felonies committed ou the high seas
and offences against tbe law ot
nations, Art. 1, Sec. S, Chap. 10.
3. To make rules for the govern-ment
of tbe laud and naval forces,
ib. eta. u.
4. To provide for organizing,
arming aud disciplining tbe militia,
&c, ib ch. IC.
Nor from tbe 17th clause of the
same Art aud Sectiou wh.ch em
powers Congress " to exercise ex-clusive
legislation" over such dis
trict as may be ceded by tbe States
for a " seat of Government" on
places " purchased by consent of
the States for forts, magazines,
arsenals and dockyards," &c. Tbe
power, ii it exists at all, can only
be derived from the 3rd Article of
the coustitutiou which defines the
judicial power of the United States.
The com. is of the opinion that
neither tbe words of that article
nor the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States upou it
warraut the exercise of auy such
power.
Tbe judicial power of the United
States is vested by this article in a
" Supreme Couit and such inferior
courts as Congress may from time
to time ordaiu and establish," and
this power shall extend to all cases
in la* and equity arising under
this Coustitutiou, the laws ot the
United States and treaties made
under it, &c. By the 2d sectiou of
that article tbe Supreme Court has
only oiiginal jurisdiction of cases
affecting ambassadors, other public
minisister and consuls, and those
in which a State shall be a party —
In all other cases the jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court is only appellate.
It will be observed then, that no
original or appellate jurisdiction it
conferred by the Constitution upon
the inferior courts. They depend
upon legislative enactment alone.—
Now the District and Circuit Courts
are these inferior courts, ordained
and established under this article.
What powers can they exercise 1—
They have no jurisdiction of auy
common law offence. The Circuit
Court of the United States can not
exercise a common law jurisdiction.
• • The legislative authority of
the Union must first male an act a
crime, affix a punishment to it and
declare thecourt that shall have juris
diction of the offence."— United
Slates vs. Hudson. 7 Cranch U. 8.
Rep., p. 32.
Now au assault and battery is a
common laic offence, and the United
States has never made it a crime
by statute, (even if it had the pow-er
to do so,) nor affixed a punish-ment
to it. The Circuit Court,
therefore, caunot have jurisdiction
to try it or any similar offence which
is only a violation of the peace of
the State. Hudson's case has been
cited aud approved very often, and
is the leading case on this point.—
See Whartou's American Criminal
Law, vol 1, Sec. 173. But this
whole question is set at rest by the
•' Slaughter House case" aud the
more recent case of the United
States vs. Cruikshank, decided at
October term, W5, of the Supreme
Court of the United States. It is
there said : " No right can be ac-quired
under the Constitution or
laws of the United States except
such as the government of tbe
United States have the authority
to grant or.se/yire. All that cannot
be to granted or secured are left un
der the protection of the Statet. •
• • ft is no more the duty of
the United States topunish for a con
spiracy to falsely imprison or murder
within a State than it would be to
punish for false imprisoninent or
murder itself. * *
it nothing more than a conspiracy to
commit a breach of the peace mthin
a State. Certainly it will not be
claimed that the United Slates have
the power or are required to do mere
police duty in the streets. If a State
cannot protect itself agahist'do-mestic
violence the United 8tate«-
niay. upon the call of the Execu
tive, when the linginlmme cannot
be couvened, lend them sftsMtauice
for that purpose." It is therefore
settled by this opinion that Con
gress has no power to make murder
conspiracy, or false imprisonment
in a State crimes to be punished in
the federal courts. It may be ask-ed
then how the officer of the L'uited
States, "acting under color of his
office," may have the protection
which the Internal Revenue law af
fords him ? The answer is simple.
He may justify under the Internal
Revenue law in the State courts,
and it he is dissatisfied ho may in-voke
the "appellate power of the
Supreme Court 0 f the Uuited
States," granted iu the 3d article of
the United States Constitution, by
appealing from the Snpreme Court
of the State. This is clearly set
out, explained and decided l\v
Chief Justice Marshall in perhaps
the most elaboiate and able opinion
of his whole judicial life. See Co-hens
vs Virginia. 0 Whcaton United
Statet Hep., p. 254.
The clerk will file this order in
the papers iu this case, and send a
certified copy of the same to the
clerk of the Circuit Court for the
Western District of North Carolina.
(Signed) 1). SCHENCK,
Judge 9th District.
Eastern Juggerly.
Interview icilh Mme. Blevet.ihj> in the
New York World.
I have seen a man throw a large
ball of cord in the air, which un-wound
as it ascended, one end be-ing
fastened to the grouud. As the
ball unwound it disappeared iu the
clouds and the cord remaiued sta-tiouary.
Iu a lew moments the
man sent a little boy up this cord,
pretending that it was to find out
what held the other end up. Tbe
boy went np and up, till he was
lost to sight.—And he stayed up so
loug that tbe man pretended to be-come
enraged, aud climbed up after
him, with a drawn sword in his
hand, and be, too, disappeared from
sight. And presently down fell a
bloody foot, and then another, and
then a leg, and then different pieces
of the boy, all bleeding. We dip-ped
our handkerchief in the blood,
to see it it was really blood, and it
was. At last the boy's head fell
down, aud preseutly tho man climb-ed
dowu, all bloody, and still simu-lating
rage. He collected the frag-ments
of the boy that lay around
and threw them in a heap on the
ground. Then he threw a cloth
over the pieces, and the boy instant-ly
jumped up, alive and well. The
mau and the boy were entirely liaaV
ed, aud the lrici|, if it was a trick
as you will say it was, was done on
au open plain, out of doors. I say
it was actually doue. There were
hundred of spectators. That is the
kind of thiugs that Eastern magi-cians
do.
"But why is it, if such things are
true, and not tricks, that we of the
Western couutiies do not kuow
more of them T Are we not as in-telligent
as those of the East!"
"Oar Western civilization is
young yet," replied tho occult, "an d
as I have said, the mind of the Cau-casian
is not as well adapted to the
perception of subtle truths. Bat
there are many Europeans who are
real adapts, and there are quite a
number of persons in New York who
are studying occultism.—Some of
them only study it philosophically,
but some are practicing it.—There
is one who has several tiu.es accom-plished
the 8Pperation of his asttal
body from his physical body,
though only for a few moments."
The Quantity of Guano in
the State.
There are at present 27 brands of
regularly licensed gnanos for sale
upon the markets of this State. At
this time last year 107 brands were
offered upon our markets without
any privilege tax or analysis being
required. Thus it is seen that the
effect of the bill establishing the de-partment
of agriculture has lieen to
banish from this State 80 brands of
fertilizers (T) which cannot stand
the analy. is. Let us suppose that
tbe extra 91 per ton which the gn
ano men have placed npdn their
manufactures does come out ot the
farmer who buys them ; cau he Dot
better afford to pay $41 tor a ton of
guano thau to pay *40 for 100
pounds ot guatio aud P.iiK) pounds
of sand 1 He can see foi himself
next fall when his crop matures.—
Raleigh A'ews.
The effect of the European war
on the grain product of the United
States has beeu investigated by the
Bureau of Statistics, and the result
is, in the opinion of the New York
World, altogether encouraging. It
appears that from September 1,
1S76, to April 1, of this year, the
period since the harvest, there have
been placed in the English market
from this country 19,751,000 bush
els of wheat, against G2,S40j600 for
tbe corresponding period of the
year before, showing a decrease of
over thirteen millious of bushels in
our exporratious of wheat to Eng
laud. For the same date the im-portation
iuto Great Britain from
other sources has been nearly thir
ty four millions for the correspond-ing
period of the previous year.
This shows that there is quite a de
licit in England as compared with
former years, and, with the supply
cut off from Russia, the effect will
be to stimulate American exports-tions
of grain very largely, in the
The charge opinion of the bureau.
I>egal Rate of Interest.
Maine. Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, Tes-s, California and South
Carolina h ire abolished all usury
laws, a*d _ive tbe people tbe right
to conti aci. for money as fully as for
food.
The l.'g.il rate of interest in Ala-bama
is chilli I,HT cent. On usu
rious eontracta- the principal can
ouly be'recoYered.
Arkansas—Hate of interest six per
cent., but parties may contract for
any rate uot exceediug ten. Usury
forfeits both principal and interest.
California—Ten per cent, after a
debt becomes due, but parties may
agree upou any rate of interest
whatever, simple to compound.
Connecticut—sever per cent. Us
ury forfeits interest taken in excess
of legal rate.
Colorado—Ten per cent on money
loaned.
Dakota—Seven per cent. Par
ties may contract for a rate not ex-ceeding
twelve. Usury forfeits all
interest takeu.
Delaware—Six per cent. Penal
ty for usury—forfeits a sum equal
to the amount lent.
District of Columbia—Six per
cent. Parties may stipulate in wri
ting for ten. Usury forfeits all the
interest.
I-'lorida—Eight per cent. Usury-laws
repealed. Money may be loan-ed
at any rate.
Georgia—Seven per cent. Par-ties
may contract for twelve. A
higher rate thau twelve forfeits in-terest
in excess.
Illinois—Six percent., but parties
may agree in writing for ten. Pan-alty
for Usury—forfeits the entire
interest.
Indiana—Six per cent. Parties
may agree in writing for any rate
not exceediug ten. Beyond that
rate is illegal as to excess only.
Iowa—Six percent. Parties may
agree in writing for ten. A higher
rate works a forfeiture of ten per
cent.
Kansas—Seven percent. Parties
may agree for twelve. Usury for-feits
the excess.
Kentucky—Six per cent., but con-tracts
may be made in writing for
ten. Usury forfeits the whole in-terest
charged.
Maine—Six per cent. Parties
may agree in writing for any rate.
>Iar.\ land—Six per cent Usu-rious
contracts cannot be enforced
for 1 he excess above the legal rate.
Massachusetts—Six per cent, but
patties may agree for anything in
writing.
Michigan—Seven per cent. Par-ties
may contract for any rate not
exceeding ten.
.Minnesota—Seven percent. Par-ties
may contract in writing to pay
as high as twelve; but contract for
a higher rate is vain, as to excess.
Missiouii—Six per cent. Con-tract
in writing may be made for
ten. The penalty for usury is for-feiture
of the interest at ten per
cent.
Nebraska—Ten per cent., or any
rate on express contract not greater
than twelve. Usury prohibits the
recovery of any interest ou the prin-cipal.
North Carolina—Six per cent.,by
special agreement in writing eight.
Usury forfeits double the amount
of interest.
New Hampshire—Six per cent.
A higher rate forfeits three times
the excess to the person aggrieved
suing therefor.
New .Jersey—Seven per cent.
Usury forfeits all the interest and
costs.
New Y'ork—Seven per cent, Usu-ry
is a misdemeanor, punishable by
a line of one thousand dollars or
six months imprisonment, or both ;
and forfeits the principal,, even iu
the bands of third parties.
Ohio—Six per cent. In all cases
where there is no coutract. Eight
per cent on written contract.
Oregon—Ten per cent. Parties
may agree in writing for twelve.
Pennyslvania—Six per ceut.
Usurious interest cannot be collect-ed.
If paid, it may be recovered
by suit therefor within six months.
' Rhode Island—Six per ceut.
Any rate may be agreed upon in
writing.
South Carolina—Seven per cent.
Usury laws are abolished and par-ties
may contract without limit.
Contracts must be made in writing.
Tennessee—Six per cent. Par
ties may contract iu writing for any
rate not exceeding ten per cent.
Texas—Light per cent. All Us-ury
laws abolished by tbe new con-stitution.
Vermont—Six per cent. Usury-forfeits
only the excess.
Utah Territory—Ten per cent.
No Usury laws. Any rate may be
agreed upon.
Virginia—Six per cent. Lenders
forfeit all interest in case of usury.
West Virginia—Six per cent.
Excess can not be recovered if usury
is pleaded.
Washington Territory—Ten per
cent. Any rate agreed upon in
writing is valid.
Wisconsin—Seven percent. Par
ties may contract iu writing for ten.
No interest cau be computed on in-terest.
Usury forfeits all interest
paid.
Wyoming Ter.—Twelve per cent;
but any rate may be agreed upon
in writing.
Dominion o f Canada—Six per
cent; but parties may agree upon
any rate.
A Horned Segro.—A. colored
mau who had two genuine horns ou
his face, from Martin county, N. C.
passed through here on his way to
New York, where he intends to go
ou exhibition. The sight was truly
novel and excited th^ curiosity of
j ail of our citizens, both the learned
, and the unlearned. Some of them
I were like the doubting Tbotnas, and
j could not believe until they had
put their hands ou them and felt
lor themselves.—Franklin (Va.)
Tribune.
Animile Statistix.
Cats are affectionate—they luv
young chickens, sweet kreain, and
tbe best place in front of the fire
place.
Dogs are faithful—they will stick
to a bone after everybody else haz
deserted it.
Parrots are easily educated, but
they will learn to swear well in hafV
the time they will learn anything
else.
The birds eat bags and worms for
plain vittles, but their desert kon-sists
ov tbe best cherrys and goose-berries
iu the gardeu
The owl is ouly a picture ov wis
dum by dalite, wheu he kan't see
enny thing. When it enms nitel is
wisdum wholly kousists in ketcbiug
a field mouse, if he can.
Tbe donkey iz au emb'em ov pa
chunce, but it yon studdy them
kloseryou will find that lazyness
iz what'z tbe matter ov them.
The eaglt is the monark ov tin-skies,
bat the little kiuK bird will
chase him tu hiz hiding place.
The ox kuoweth hiz master's krili
and that iz all he dnz kuo or care
about his master.
Munkeys are imitatifl', but il they
kan't imitate snm deviltry they ain't
happy.
The goose is like other phools—
allwuss seems anxious to prove it.
If mules are ever meek it Iz sim-ply
because they are ashamed ov
themselves, but mules are hibrid,
and ain't ackountable for enuey .
thing.
The bees are a biz/.y people; rath
er than bo idle they will rob each
other ov their honuy.
The kockroach is a loafer, and :
don't seem tu live so mutch ou what
they eat as what they kan git iuto.
Ducks are ouly cuuuiug about
one thing; they lay their eggs in
such shy places that sumtimes they
kan't find them again themselves.
Tbe muskrat kan foresee a hard
winter aud provided for it, but he
kan't keep from gittin' ketched in j
the sylliest kind ot a trap.
Hens kno when it is going to lain
and shelter themselves, but they
will try to hatch out a glass egg
just az honest az they will one ov
their own.
Mudtnrtles ate the slowest ov en-ny
four legged kritters, and they
are alwus on the move, trieing to
git samwhare else.
Hornets have more fight iu them
than ennything ov their size, but
there iz no method in their mad-ness.
They will pitch into a meet
iug house when they are furious
just az anxious az they will into a
sleeping baby in its kradle.
The crow iz the most nat'ral ov
all thiefs—they will steal and hide
what iz ov no use to them* nor loss
to ennybody else.
Ants are the bizzyest ov all the
little or big bugs; lint a large share
ov there time iz spent in repairing .
their houses, which are bilt when'
folks kau't help but step on them.
Flies toil not, neither do they
spin, yet they hav the first taste ov
all the best gravys in the land.
The cuckcoo is tbe gratest ekone-mist
amung the birds ; she lays her
eggs in other birds nests, and lets
them hatch them out at their leiz
ure.
Rats have fewer friends and
more enemys than any of tbe four
legged piiiswashun on the face 0
the earth, and yet rats are as plen-ty
OOW as in the palmiest days ov
the Unman empire.
Ov all things lazy, the sloth wears
the belt, and yet hiz lazyness iz all
thare iz interesting about, him.
The frog dodgeth when it light
ens, aud the tad gaps when the
thunder follows.
Thekrobilds her nest ov stix.
the swallo ov mud, the squirrell ov
leaves, the wren ov feathers
and wool, and tne woodpecker digs
a hole for his eggs in the rotten
trees.
Tbe sarpent and the krab change
their clothing each year, and the
rackcoon lives all winter long on
the memory of what he t-t in the
summer.
The horse allwnz gets np from
tho grouud on his fore legs first,
and tbe cow on her hind ones, ami
the dog turns atound three times
before he lies down.
The kangaroo he jumps when he
walks, tbe coon paces when he trots
and tbe lobster travels backwards
az fast az be does forwards.
Tho elphant haz the hast and the
rabbit the most eye for their size,
and a rat's tail is just the length ol
bis body.
The spider is the only critter that
ketches its food in a trap, anil she B|
will live without water longer than
enny domestick animal.
Tbe fox iz the hardest fo ketch in
a trap, and a muskrat is the easiest
and the meddo lark iz the sbyesl
ov all the birds ov the air.
The crow flies 0 miles, and the
wild pigeon CO an hour, but the
bumming bird beats all thing on the
wing.
The horse will eat 10 hours out ov
every 12; the ox lays down and
chews hiz kud baffthe time; and
the dog never kuows what it iz nol
to be huugry.
Tbe wild turkey kan rnn faster
than he kan fly, and enny man who
is a good walker can tire a dear out
in 24 hours.
I kau't think, in konklusioo, ov
enuy thing jnst now in ait, scienci
or morality that mankind excel in.
but what kan be found more or less
developed, iu the bugs, beasts, buds
anil fishes.—Josh Hillings.
FARMER'S COLUMN.
Compost.
"I have four head of mules and
six head of cattle, with any quanti-ty
of old leaves near at hand, with
lime and plaster cheap, and cotton
seed at fifteen cents per bashel;
bow shall I make a compost heap,
with these advantages that will pay
me best V
Tbe question is more easily asked,
than answered. We advise, howev-er,
if you have shelter, (and if you
have not, you should have,) stall
your rows as well as your mules,
aud litter tbe stall once a week,
turning the litter, as far as practi-cable,
every day, so as to thorough-ly
incorporate it with the droppings
of the animals. Once a week emp-ty
or clean out the stable and
compost the manure under shelter.
Use neither lime nor plaster on the
heap until it is to be carted to the
laud, then sprinkle each load with
plaster.
Spriukle the lime broadcast on
the laud ; it should never be used
on the compost heap. TbeeDect of
tbe lime will be to set free from tbe
heap many elements that are con-tained
in and retained by the com-postj
Tffe plaster has an opposite
tendency. When it is sprinkled tip-on
the cartload of manure it absorbs
tbe escaping gases and carries them
with tho cart to the field. Tbe lime
will disengage them, and let them
loose in the air.
Leaves spread broadcast over tho
laud and sprinkled with lime, and
theu ploughed under, will add veg-etable
mould to the earth, but, it is
a very slow and almost impercepti-ble
manure. Tbe lime in this in-stance
hastens the decay of the
leaves, aud sets free the gases creat-ed
iu the process of decomposition,
which are in turn again readily ab-sorbed
by mother earth and held in
that peculiar state that makes tbem
tit for plaut food.
We question the economy of try
ing cotton seed at fifteen cents per
bushel, when cotton is only worth
nine cents per pound. In practice^
we have usually found thirty
pounds of cotton seed to be worth
about as much as a pound of cot.
ton. And yet, we have often found
them remunerative at twenty five'
cents jier bushel.
We would uot recommend con>
posting cotton seed with stable ma-nure,
simply because they like the
stable manure, contain a sufficiency
of one ingredient and not enough of
tbe other to constitute perfect plaut
food Cotton seed applied alono
will furnish all the ammonia neces-sary
for any crop, but the phospho-ric
acid is lacking. Heuce, we pre-fer
to compost seed with acid phos-phate
iu about equal weight, and iu
doing so we have never failed to get
a plant food that would produce a
good crop, other things needed are
dry. well drained soil, frequently
showers at the proper tune, and el
bow grease enough to keep the
crops clear. — Charleston Xeici and
Courier,
The Angora in North Carolina.
I Correspondent of tho -South.)
GLRNOOR, NBAS ASHKV1LI.K, I
BUNCOMBE CO., N C, '•
March 20, 1S77.
Having read with much inte
your article on the Angora goat, I
hasten to correct one error which it
would be fatal to have any of your
readers tall iuto : "Yet tbe Ango-ra
goat, unlike tbe sheep, will live
upon next to nothing." Such ban
not been my experience with a
small flock which I have labored to
increase for one year. I have comet
to regard as the most important
point to be attended to, the condi-tion
of the mother, that she may be
tin" to have milk for her young. I
have lost nineteen out of twenty be-t
ue 1 found out the trouble, misled
by SUCh sentences as the above. If
the Angora goal will live on next
to nothing, it will die on it. ■
So fed, the kids are.sure to get
nothing, and for the first month
they are more delicate than lambs.
They cannot be BO raised j they will
die iii their first month.
Now the goats will eat four hun-dred
different things to the cows'
two hundred. They will eat bark,
twigs, shrubs, etc., and so many
thrive where a sheep could not
stand it. If any are kept up by
rain or snow fol a lew days, iu win-ter,
such is their desire for green
food that they will poison them-selves
on the hemlock, etc. With
these things cleared np out of our
mountain pasture, we have as true
a liome for the Augora goat as it is
for man. By the way, you will do
the invalids in Florida a great good,
those at least who can benefit by
exercise, stage-coach or carriage
riding through our mountains, if
you will advise them lo return
North in eailvsommer via Green-ville,
S. C. Asheville, N. C. the
Warm Springs, down tbe valley of
the French Broad, to Greenville,
Term., aud the Bast Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad, through Rich-mond,
etc.
Few Americans, in spite of that
has been told them by the Apple
tons and Scrihners, and a host of
articles and writers, very few have
auy idea ot what a beautiful lagion
they pass by on going North or
South. These invalids have to loft
on the way home and they "had bet-ter
do it as I suggest, than in cities.
It will cost no more.
LKWIS M. Il.urn.
Horse ought never to be hungry,
for the most of the time he has a
bit in his mouth.
A young lad, whose teacher is
rather free with tbe rod, remarked
tbe other_djjv. that "they had too
many hollerdays at their school."
An Irishman was once asked why
he wore his stockings iuside out.
"Because there is a bole iu tbe oth-er
side," he replied.
Improved Berkshire Hogs-
Within the past few years 1
improvements have been mad
England in the breeding ot i
sbire bogs, both in tbe weight aud
the aptitude to fatten. Among tho
black breeds, by universal consent
the improved Berkshire stanos at
the head of the list, either to breed
pure or ts cross with inferior hi.
The Uerkshiie was originally a
smaller breed, but it has very re-cently
carried off prizes in the large
classes at the Koyal Agricultural
and other shows. They have been
improved by judicious selectiou aud
distant crosses with the Neapolitan,
which have added totheir fattening
qualities. They are much esteemed
by butchers for evenness ol flesh
(that is, more lean to the portion of
fat) thau other breeds—mil this is
a good reoonimendatiou.—Sidney.