The Greensboro patriot [March 7, 1889]

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MM Xl.ltll N, Ml. 1.131 GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1889.
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(JOHN B. »':«"». "ll.r«Pr.„l„„.
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
Governor DANIEL (i. f'owi.i:.
(Kx-offlcio) Chairmun.
W. li Williams. Master of the State
ige I'utrons »)f Husbandry.
;;. \V. Wlmrlou, l>t l'un)(raauunal Diet.
V. (i. Brooke, 2d < nngrcssiuniil hist.
II, I,. Grant, »W Congressional l>ist.
tt". V. fjreen, Itii I'ongn-ssiniial l>ist.
.1. S. Murrow, 5th ( niigrerielonal I>isi.
S. I1-. Alexander. <it h CohgrfHiMonal I'ist.
\. I.ca/.ar. TTli ('«»ij^n—siim;il Diet.
I'.. Illiinton, 8th Congressional Dint.
I". I>. Smith, !nli Coiigrnwionul liiet.
KXETI TI\ i: COMSIITTKB:
llov. Danielfl. Ko»le, IV. I'. lirccn.S. il.
.\lexundor.
1 ISAM I. ruVMinK!.:
A. I..a/..r, ft", it. Williams, li. I., linn.I.
Ill I I' Kl -
.loliii Hobinson, Commissioner.
P'. K. llrillHT, Seen ':n> .
II. I'.. i:.iitl.-. I'll. D..( hcmisl iinil Dirre-
..• Stal ion.
,1. T. INitrirk, tii-iuTal Ageni Immigra-lurmrrs'
Nfafe Alliance.
President —S. IS. Alexander. Charlotte.
\ in -l'|v-ii|e|ll —T. Iwv, \.-!|..i.ie.
- I.. I.. I'olk, Ituliigh.
I II \!:. II, I'.ills.
Ux-iun-r—l)r. I'. Heid I'nrki-r, Trinity
Issislilllt I.e. turcl — 11. 1>. M.lll'.vrc.
hnrg.
Itev. I nrr Moore. Tounsville.
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-Innl lloor Keeper—H.T. Ku-li,Ml.
J. S. Holt, i hulk
- Ageut—W. A. I■iiiilt-ii.
I:\I.I l-TIVK I OMMI Mi..
Carr. < >i,| SjHirtn. rhuiruinn; T.
i - .1 ; isl Kllllin.
r:irllli'r«* AsaMicl.itloo.
President—Klin* Carr. i Mil Sparta.
S.i i-. tary — I'.. I'. Hester Oxford.
Assist all I Seen I.ui. ■*—S. (II ho Wilson,
il, W. II IIPUIHIW, Onk Itidgc.
FARMERS' DEPARTMENT.
Market Garden Notee.
—Tlie '"hood crop" that is planted
on thoroughly prepared soil is al-ready
half worked, for the alter
cultivation is easy.
—For a water proof coating for
muslin. Judge Samuel Miller re-commends
boiled oil and eggs.
He uses thin muslin. The eggs
are beaten up with the oil, four to
the quart.
—For market, yellow tomatoes
are unprofitable. Consumers will
not huy them and canncrs refuse
them. For ".he family garden
are nice for a variety. They
..; mild and free from acidity.
-Thorough drainage adds to
the warmth and carlincss of track-land.
To the trucker earlincss is
ol more consequence than the
ity of his product. A day
gained in spring is worth a week
in mid-summer.
sulphate of ammonia on
the rhubarb patch, say at the rate
of 600 tl.s. per acre. First mellow
the ground with an Acme harrow
.i~ a sharp square tooth harrow
would injure the roots. Sow at
once on the moist, mellowed soil.
—The small, ribbed tomatoes
n early and mature the
crop in two or three
- '. lie kind that pays best.
market gardener it is
less rather than quality that
1 i the family garden
: i annin ; the large smooth
are best.
—Those who may have well
s of beets, turnip i or
-bagas can have good seed by
■ ing it themselves. Select the
best shaped roots and plant in
4 feet apart and iS or 2.}
inches apart in the row. Pure
seed of any variety cannot be
n unless separated widely
fi >m all other ki
—If cabbage growers who arc
troubled with the cabbage mag-cast
35 or 400 ll.s
Kainit per acre, immediately
pi iwing and before harrow-thsy
will be pleased with the
esult. I he plowing, sowing and
■wing should be done early
ici that the rains will carry the
Kainit down through the .soil.
-Waldo F. Brown, Ohio, tells
1 Gentleman that he has
-'. success from sowing car-ets
early, as early as the last of
Il some seasons. He manures
and plows carrot ground in the
fiil, selecting clean land and ma-free
from weed seed. He is
ir to have drills straight
irrow as possible for ease
:ultivation. A good drill will
in this way. Sowing early
■ the -oil is moist, the seed is
ry lightly.
of Philadelphia
Iry the Italian onions, the
which are sold by the
Jsmcn. Sow the seed thickly
spring, in rows twelve
irt for wheel hoe cultiva-thirty
inches for horse hoc.
s die, sell those large
: market and store the
place in thin layers
Then plant four
I rt in rows a foot apart'
r them short ma-
I hey furnish bunch oni >ns
than sets of old.
■ planted in spring.
The Poultry Yard.
—March winds and March wet
arc bad for poultry. Shield from
both as much as possible.
—Sell only clean eggs. If soil-ed,
wash in vinegar and water, and
be sure to do this the day they
are laid.
—The flock should now be re-duced
to a business basis. How
many scrubs and useless males do
you own ?
—Darkened nests will do much
toward preventing the egg tating
habit. The use of plenty of China
nest-eggs is an additional aid.
—The coops containing the
spring chickens, if not under a
shed, should be on the sunny side
of a board fence, hedge or some
effective wind break.
—To have a floor in coops in
cold weather is all right, but to
elevate the floors so as to permit
the cold air to get under and
sweep up through the cracks
among the chickens is all wrong.
—We look for eggs to bring a
fair price the season through.
Cold storage is helping to equalize
prices. When the market is over-stocked
thousands of cases go into
cold storage houses in large cities
and are kept until prices advance.
—There is no doubt that the
health and vigor of the chick de-pends
a great deal on the physi-cal
condition of the hen that lays
the egg from which the chick is
hatched, and her condition de-pends
on her food and treatment.
Breeding fowls should have whole-some
food in variety and plenty
of exercise. - .
—There is unusual danger from
fire attending the use of brooders
in very windy weather, and they
need careful watching. There is
also danger of the wind driving
the heat out of and away from the
brooder, and thus allowing the
chicks to become badly chilled.
Beware of this, for a "chilled"
chick might as well be a killed
chick, its he will never amount to
much.
Dairy ami Slock.
—Filth and swine plague dwell
together.
—The wise man rcgardeth the
comfort of his beasts.
—Winter-made good fresh but-ter
is high. There is money in it
—broaden out and get there.
—Give no corn nxal to cows
within six weeks of calving.
Clover hay with bran is best for
them and after calving feed spar-ingly
for ten days.
—A little extra grain to the
horses now. If you are wise you
have wintered them with little
grain. But now their muscles
must be built up. Don't wait till
the animals get to hard work.
—You can't win a heifer with-out
wooing her; and unless she
confides in you there is trouble
ahead. Pet her every day now
and you will gain time and milk
and save vexation when she
calves.
—Many a man loses four months
of feeding by losing his grip in
March. Better buy feed than al-low
the animals to lose flesh; yes,
than to lose a steady gain. Don't
spare the cribs and mows when
Cold winds blow and snow flies.
—A careful person will always
keep his horse from standing fac-ing
the wind. When at liberty, a
horse will always turn its tail to
1 the wind. It does not take but a
jfew minutes for a horse warmed
up to get foundered standing un-protected
in a cold wind. The
heat is driven inward and also tlie
blood, and congestion takes place.
When a horse is thus injured it
' should be steamed at once by
standing its feet in hot water and
covering it, so as to produce an
active perspiration. This should
be kept up for hours.
Sail an Fertilizer.
ICultivator.]
What is the value of refuse or
coarse salt as a fertilizer, especial-ly
on hay land?—W. C. Raleigh,
N. C. Salt, sown on land at the |
rate of six or eight bushels or
; more to the acre, frequently but
I not always affords a moderate
benefit. As soils vary, actual
trial is required to ascertain the
amount of benefit. Strips, a rod
; wide, may be sown with it, and
! the difference between the treated
and untreated strips may be deter-mined
by weighing both, and mak-ing
some allowance for variations
in the soils.
TI in CJa ii...HI It.
IKiemrd Voice]
Let our farmers put forth an ex-tra
effort this year to produce
more than ever before. Clear up
all the waste places, ditch banks,
fence corners, clean out ditches
and drain oil the wet places. By
putting in a little extra work just,
now you can greatly increase your
yield in the fall when gathering |
time comes.
Seeding 011 Rye and Millet.
The Elmira Farmers' club, as
reported in the Husbandman, dis-cussed
the practice of sowing
grass seed with or to follow imme-diately
rye and millet. Mem-bers
differed as to the best time
for the work. Mr. Collins, famili-arly
acquainted with the crop,
said the seed of the millet might
be safely sown as coon as the risk
of spring frost had passed. J.
McCann had found it best to sow
as late as the middle of June.
Others would sow rather earlier,
if grass seed and clover were to be
sown with the millet, but they
would use less seed or about
twelve quarts to the acre, that the
thinner growth with millet might
prevent crowding or smothering
the young grasses.
For rye, a good effect would
follow plowing sod in July or Au-gust,
sowing the rye, and turning
it under the following June, and
then sow Hungarian millet. The
green lye crop should be turned
under a fortnight before sowing
the millet, that the ground might
become suitably settled, and then
thoroughly harrowed. Seeding
with grass and clover on millet
was regarded as practicable, or
quite as sure as with oats, with
the exception of its greater late-ness.
The millet should be taken
off as early as practicable to give
the young grass more room to
grow in early autumn, and to get
the advantage of safe curing in
summer weather.
To these statements we may
add that in seeding to both oats
and millet, it is important to sow
thinly, or about one-half the usual
amount; and to prepare the soil in
the best manner by fine pulveriza-tion.
And afterwards, if the sum-mer
proves a moist one, the grass
and clover will succeed much bet-ter
than in a long drouth. In
seeding on rye and oats at the
same time, we have always found
a great contrast in favor of the
rye.
■'ceding itaw Potato**loI'awe*
|X, V. 1' rre-1- i-.-i. I,,-.- Country Ucntk-mao.]
I wish to corroborate from ex-perience
what Mr. Talcott says
(p. 72) in regard to feeding pota-toes
to live-stock, especially milch
cows. The article is timely and
valuable for many dairy men who
have potatoes on hand and do not
wish to sell them at present
prices. I have repeatedly fed
them without grain and also with,
but the best results for milch cows
were in feeding them cut or crush-ed
in buckets or boxes with meal
on top. Buyers are offering only
25 cents for prime potatoes here
now, and I think the better way
is to feed and plant rather than to
sell at that price. 1 have been
feeding turnips to cows this win-ter,
raised by sowing with a drill
seed of the Yellow Globe variety
between rows of potatoes at the
last hoeing in June, and no further
care except to thin them a little
where too thick. I have gathered
them by the wagon-load and fed
a half bushel apiece at once, tops
and all, without cutting. They
gnaw the large ones as they would
pumpkins, with much benefit to
themselves, and the hay they con-sume
is largely balanced by milk
yield. I have some in the ground
yet, damaged very little by the
moderate winter weather prevail-ing
so far.
Seed Cora and Oat*.
{CouDlry ocnUomun-.f
What variety of corn would you
advise me to plant to secure the
heaviest yield ? Also heaviest
yiekling varieties of oats, and
where I can obtain them?—J. K.
R. Buckland, Va.
As there are some hundreds of
varieties of corn, some of which
are adapted to one locality and
some to others, we could not safe-ly
prescribe what would do best on
your soil and in your latitude.
Your best way would be to ascer-tain
by inquiry what varieties do
best in your region, and test a few
on a small scale. From the ex-periments
which we have made by
procuring seed from different
States, we do not find any advan-tage
in the change of seed corn
from a distance, but rather a loss.
Nevertheless, it may be well, as
opportunity presents, to try a few
of the most highly recommended
varieties which may be procured
from different sources. As a gen-eral
rule, the best corn for any
place is the one which has been
gradually improved by continued
yearl) selections in that locality.
Nearly the same remark, or in
part, will apply to oats.
Hone Talk.
—At noon the feed should be
moderate, and the drink should
always be before eating.
—The chief feed of hay should
be at night, when the horse has
plenty of time to eat and digest it.
—It is evident that when im-properly
fed they will be subject
to colic, and this accords with the
experience of horsemen.
—Linseed meal is one of the
best of foods mixed with oats and
bran. This combined ration is
just the thing for colts, and even
for horses.
—As the horse contains less fat
than other animals it does not
need fat-forming foods, but those
which will repair the waste of
muscle and nerve-power.
—In winter, a quart or two of
corn meal may be added to the
ration of the working horse in
place of part oats, but corn meal
is never a good feed for horses to
be driven fast.
—Growing animals, and especi-ally
colts, do not want fattening
foods. Clover hay is the best for-age
for colts, fed in moderate
quantities, and timothy hay for
horses which arc in use on the
oad.
—It is a bad plan to give either
colts or horses all the hay. of any
kind, they will eat, as they will
extend their stomachs too much,
and this interferes with the lung
action; and when driven or work-ed
there is danger of injury like
heaves.
—A horse has a smaller stom-ach
than an ox, and consequently
it must be fed less at a time. It
has less power to digest coarse
foods. It eats much slower, as it
must do all its chewing before the
food is swallowed. For these
reasons it requires a longer time
to eat, and its food should be more
concentrated. It wants only a
little coarse food at a time.
Advance l» VaUalluM, nf I- . . . , 11 /. r .
Bulletin No. 62 of the Experi-ment
Station will be issued dur-ing
the prestnt week, and will
contain analyses of all fertilizers
sampled by the official inspectors
during January and February,
1889" This list is issued nearly
three weeks earlier than ever be-fore,
and will embrace analyses of
nearly all the licensed brands of
fertilizers as far is as possible to
procure samples.
The valuations for this season
are higher than for last year,
owing to the fact of an advance-ment
in price of all ingredients
composing fertilizers—so far as is
known—independent of each oth-er,
and arc : For available phos-phoric
acid yc per pound against
6c for last year; ammonia 17c
against 15c, and 6c for potash
against 5c for last year. These
valuations are for the raw ingre-dients
composing fertilizers after
cost of mixing, bagging, handling,
&c, is added. The relative com-mercial
values of the fertilizers
therefore represent approximately
the price *t which the fertilizer
can be bought at the ports in
small lots under five tons for
cash. Of course at interior points
freight charges must be added to
seaboard valuations.
liullctin O2 will contain also a
revised and correct list of all
brands of fertilizers for sale in the
State, together with date of ex-piration
of each license; also reg-ulations
in regard to the fertilizer
control, and other matters per-taining
thereto with which the
farmers and dealers should be-come
more fully acquainted.
Write to the Experiment Sta-tion
for Bulletin No. 2.
H. B. BATTLE, Director.
Raleigh, Feb. 25th, 1889.
(■rafting Cherries.
[Country OunUeman.]
I wish to graft some seedling
cherries—will you please inform
me what kind to get, and if seed-lings
from sour cherries will do,
or does it require a seedling from
sweet cherries to graft sweet
cherries on?—G. A. G. Cold
Spring, Ky.
Sweet or heart cherries may be
grafted on sour or morello cher-ries,
if the work is properly done;
but as the heart varieties outgrow
the sour ones, and thus produce a
distorted appearance, handsomer
trees are produced by using stocks
of the same variety.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
"They must upward -till, ami onward,
Who would keep abreast of truth."
Too Many Had Farmers.
[Hocky Mount Pheonil.l
Our idea is that we have too
many men farming, or trying to
farm, who are totally unprepared
and worthlessly incapacitated. In
olden times it took several years
to get prepared to farm.
—The best farm labor is always
the cheapest. Wages and quan-tity
of work are not all; quality of
work, abuse and neglect of ani-mals,
breaking of implements, and
waste of many things, make the
cheap laborer dear.
—Keep the stock in such a com-fortable
condition that their food
will make gain, and then we get a
double benefit, gain in the body
equal to the cost of food, and gain
in the manure pile and gain in
crops.
Norm Carolina and Her Public School*.
LNortb Carolina Teacher. I
Hon. S. M. Finger, State Super-intendent
of Public Instruction,
llias submitted to the Legislature
nis biennial report, which is by far
the best and most complete report
ever issued from that office. From
it we learn that there are in the
State 263,982 white and 216,837
colored children of school age; the
total enrollment in the public
schools for 1888 was 211,498 white
and 125,884 colored children;
average attendance was 133,427
white and 75,230 colored children;
average length of school terms,
12.8 weeks for white children and
12.3 for colored; average salary of
teachers: white males, $25.68 per
month; colored males, $22.67;
white females, $22.82, and colored
females, $20.45, -lc salary of col-ored
male and white female teach-ers
being about the same; number
of white teachers in the summer
Normal Schools of 1888 was 987,
two-thirds of this attendance be-ing
teachers who live in the coun-ties
where the Normals were held,
thus showing that the Normals
have ceased to attract teachers
from other sections; the total
amount of money spent for the
free schools of 18S8 was $691,-
188.20. This admirable report is
highly creditable to the State in
providing so liberally for the
schools, but very discreditable to
the large number of children who
are not attending them.
The table appended to the re-port
giving population, value of
property and amount of school
taxes assessed is totally unfair to
North Carolina, because it makes
our school tax appear smaller than
some other States according to
our valuation. It is well known
that the tax valuation of property
in North Carolina is much higher
than in any other Southern State,
and in most of our larger towns,
even in Raleigh, the assessed value
is much greater than the market
value (as has been recently shown
by the sale of two of the most
desirable buildings and lots in the
best business portion of Fayettc-ville
street), and that accounts for
the high aggregate apparent valu-ation
of $210,035,453 which is
given to our State.
In 1887 the appraised valuation
of property was increased from
$200,765,582 to $210,035,453, for
the purpose of raising more money
from taxes. Even this present
appraisement for the State is very
low in proportion to the actual
value of our property, although
in some localities the valuation is
excessive, and we arc proud to
state that the tax levies in North
Carolina are much less than in a
majority of the other States of the
Union, while at the same time we
arc paying as much for public
schools as any other State on
actual valuation.
We have but four cities in this
State, and not one with 20,000
tax-plying population. In fact,
North Carolina is known as "a
State without a city,'' while in
Tennessee, with its rich mines,
many railroads and many large
cities with population each of IO.-
000 to 50,000 people, the assess-ment
is only $226,844,184. Geor-gia,
with its net-work of rich rail-roads,
its Atlanta, 50,000 popula-tion,
Augusta, 30,000 population,
Savannah, 40,000 population,
Columbus, 15,000 population, and
a dozen or more other cities with
from 5,000 to 15,000 population, is
valued at only $329,489,505. Flor-ida,
having Jacksonville, 15,000
population. Key West, 10,000
population, Pensacola, 10,000 pop-ulation,
and a great deal of other
rich property, is valued at only
$76,611,409. Of other richer
States, Maine is valued at only
$235.599.888. Virginia only $339,-
342,723, and Alabama only $200,-
000,000.
All the largest and wealthiest
Western States, which are full of
great cities and immense factories,
being worth twenty times as much
as North Carolina, and which are
"the homes of the millionaires,"
are valued only from three to four
times as high as our State. There-fore,
if an assessment of property
on the same basis was made in
North Carolina our valuation
would not exceed $iOO,O00,0CD.
On this amount of property we
pay $653,037 for public schools,
or about sixty-five cents on each
$100 of property, while Maine
pays only 45 cents; Vermont, 40
cents; Connecticut, 50 cents; New
York (where reside two men who
are alone each richer than the
whole State of North Carolina),
41 cents; Pennsylvania (with its
many immense cities, coal fields,
and men who possess millions of
1 dollars), 32 cents; Virginia, 46
i cents; South Carolina, 30 cents;
I Georgia, 22 cents; Tennessee, 42
cents; Alabama, 30 cents; and
there arc only ten States in the
Union paying as much and a high-er
ad valurem school tax than
North Carolina, while thirty-six
States and Territories are paying
less. All honor to our noble
State in her devotion to duty, to
herself and to her children in pro-viding
so liberally for her public
schools!
The State of New York, we
must admit, is certainly worth
thirty times as much as North
Carolina, it being the centre for
the wealth and commerce of our
country; if the appraisement was
made on this basis the valuation of
New York would be $6,301,063,-
590. while" the reports make it
only $3,361,128,177. As this arti-cle
is written there are now visit-ing
in this State five persons from
New York whose aggregate of
paying property is over $200,000,-
000, and these people are in only
average circumstances of wealth
when compared with others in the
immensely rich State.
Thus we see that North Caro-lina
is doing her duty nobly, as
she has always done, whether in
times of war or peace, in educa-tional
or charitable affairs, and
North Carolinians should not be
backward to declare this and al-ways
defend our State from every
slur which jealousy may prompt
other States to cast at her. The
more we love North Carolina and
proclaim her merit and faithfulness
the higher the State looms grand-ly
up in our estimation and to the
honorable credit of her sons and
daughters.
They Fnlleo Him.
ICbarlutto Cor. Richie;!) 1 bianatcha
Advices from Richmond county
say there is great excitement and
indignation among the citizens in
Rockingham on account of a
grave outrage' committed by an
old widower in that place last
Thursday. Samuel Hodge, who
lives in the eastern portion of the
county, is not less than seventy-five
years old and is a widower a
second time. Thursday Hodge
induced a little twelve-year-old
daughter of James Norton, a re-spectable
farmer, to go with him
to Rockingham by promising her
that he would buy her pretty
things. The little girl stole away
from her parents and went with
the old man, who, when in town,
applied to the Register of Deeds,
and by representing the girl to be
eighteen years old procured a
marriage license. He then secur-ed
the services of a resident min-is4r,
who made them man and
wrTe. The news of the marriage
soon spread over town and crowds
gathered to see the couple. The
childish-like actions of the girl
led many to believe that she could
not be a full-grown woman, so a
crowd of young men followed
them as they left the town walk-ing,
and it was soon discovered
that the girl was not satisfied.
She. crying, told the young men
the whole story—how she had
been induced to leave home and
how the old man had forced her
by threats to marry him. She
said she was only twelve years
old, and asked to be sent back
home. I'he young men took her
in charge and sent her home ac-cording
to request. Hodge was
allowed to go unmolested. The
girl's father and relatives arc
scouring the woods for old Hodge
with loaded muskets.
Moral l(t->.|>oli»ibtlity.
IMjulifon Lva.ior ]
What had he gained by "mak-ing
whiskey all his life. His finan-cial
condition evidently had not
been bettered, his morals could
not have been benefited, and
mentally he was not a blooming
success. He told us something
else, however, which should have
the blush of shame on his
MOKE IMPROVEMENT*.
Letter* Pound In the -Manofaetnrer'e
Record." Which ttacak for Thrm-oelvee.
Street Railway I* be Bout.
GREENSBORO, N. C. Feb. 22d,
1889.—The Greensboro Street
Railway Co. want the address of
a company who will build their
road and take bonds for payment.
Moneyed companies who want to
invest, address me.
J. W. GRIFFITH.
Purnltiire Parlory at High Point.
HIGH POINT, N. C, Feb. 25th,
1889—We will at once commence
the erection of a factory of consid-erable
capacity at this place, with
latest improved machinery for the
manufacture of all kinds of furni-ture
excepting chairs.
HIGH POINT FURN. CO.
■lie; M aeon Factory.
HICKORY, N. C, Feb. 23, '89—
A movement is on foot to increase
the capital stock of our company
to $200,000, with an improvement
of the plant and adding some new
machinery. We are now corres-ponding
with a view to purchasing
a steam hammer and a wheel-box-ing
machine.
PIEDMONT WAGON CO.
Iliiildliifr Railroad, tVharter, «Vr.
GREENSBORO, N. C, Feb, 25th,
1889—The Cape Fear & Yadkin
Vailey Railway has its extension
from Fayettcville to Wilmington,
N. C, 80 miles, under contract, to
be finished this year, including
two large iron bridges across the
Cape Fear and Hlack rivers, to be
built by the Phcenix Bridge Co.
It has recently bought some large
wharf properties at Wilmington,
and is now erecting thereon ex-tensive
wharves, warehouses,
etc. JULIUS A. GRAY,
President.
put
first utterance. He was mourning
the death of a near relative who
had recently killed himself by
hard drink, and said that "it was
strange to him iiow men would
drink themselves to death," and
Canton Flannel! Machinery.
In this week's Manufacturers'
Record Mr. Amos Greyson, of
Naomi Falls Manufacturing Co.,
Randlcman, N. C, wants to hear
of a machine to raise the fibre'on
cotton cloth. I suppose Mr.
Greyson wants to make Canton
flannel; if he does, Geo. Draper &
Co, of Hopedale, Mass., or the
Whitin Machine Shops, of Whit-insville,
Mass., both make a ma-chine
we call knappers, to raise
the knap on the cloth.
OLD WEAVER.
North I'arnllna Hnlltllng Imp;.»,CIUCIIU-Asheville,
N. C—The Ashe-ville
Opera House Co., lately re-ported
as to build an opera house,
will incorporate with capital stock
of $100,000.
Wcldon, N. C—The Atlantic
Coast Line, (office, Wilmington,
N. C.) is reported as contemplat-ing
building a large warehouse at
Weldon.
Graham, N. C.—The Graham
Land & Improvement Co., previ-ously
reported as organized, are
arranging to build a $12,000 or
$15,000 hotel.
Best. N. C—Philadelphia capi-talists
have purchased 151 acres of
land at Hcst (near Asheville) and
formed a company with capital
stock of $500,000, to build one of
the finest hotels in the South,
with all modern improvements,
lay out parks, &c.
Wilmington, N. C.—Bids for the
wharves, warehouses and depot
lately reported as to be erected by
the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley
Railroad (office, Greensboro, N.
C.j J. A. Gray, president) have
been invited.
Wilmington, N. C, proposes to
secure an amendment to its char-ter,
by which it can vote in March
on subscribing $150,000 to en-courage
new manufacturing enter-prises
to locate there. Wilming-ton
wants to keep up with the
procession.
Canning Pactorlea.
(Manufacluren* Rerard.l
A good many Kentucky towns
are talking of establishing can-ning
factories as a means of gett ing
out of the ruts We suppose it :s
fruits and veg-they
could only
yet according to his own state- \™\m £"VT
ment he -gale that man his first their object to can
drink V and was thus morally re-, etables; |>ut ,f « .
sponsiblc for his death in the first ^«ccd in canning a lo of old
place by learning him to drink. M°S'« who .nfest every town of
and afterward "all his life" mak- importance, hey w.ll make a long
stride toward progress—farmers
ing the poison which sent his
kinsman to a drunkard's grave
A PLEA FORTHE CRAY.
nv mc tiKonfliA III-I.SK MCMOD.
IAdwtad.1
■ To pitr dlMnai ii Human; to ralitrc it i, Ood-
There is no place like home, yet IIUIIIOICHN
to-night
lo many a hero, once foremost in right:
Brave, loyal and true, battlc-scamxl in
the fray.
Only memory and graven arc left to the
Gray.
No braver hands ever war's weapons
could wield
Than those of our own sous in BUM) or
in field.
While all Southern boya in ranks side by
side
Went forth our true knights with patri-ots'
pride.
Long vi'nrs waged the buttle, our loved
cause was lust,
And few now remain of tlie proud Sniilli
era host;
Scarred and maimed by the shot ami the
shell in the fray
Are the soldiers who went forth in battle
array;
Has the memory died out. washed mvn.v
ill tho blood,
Of our brave ones, our dear MMK, our
honored and (rood?
Has it only a name for Memorial Day,
When we lay trihuteflowersonthenruves
of the (irny?
Shall we turn n deaf ear to thehuiigrvainl
cold?
Shall wejrive them no watch care, now
they are old?
Shall we lold our hands idly while tinw-are
ben-ft
Of home and ol kindred, with no comfort
left?
May. women once vnliiuit to dan' and to
do,
Southern matrons, a work then' is still
lefl for you;
Keep the memory green ol your ileiul ii
you will,
Mat the living huvecluimsonyour loving
deds still.
Are there no tender touchi* that wake in
your heart
The scenes that are past in which they
had a part?
The glorious record must never grow old,
The story oni"e lived so hard lo lie told;
We ask you to help the brave veterans
lefl.
Never mind the brave hoys whom so
wildly you wept,
Their dwelling is glorious, but. suffering
to-day ,
Is many a hero who once wore the Cray.
I'.AI. I IMOKI . Mil.
II' gin with the Children.
[ North Carolina PNobflaiiaa*] •
To save the children! To save
the State by saving the children
of the State! Cast a glance for-ward
and think what it means for
North Carolina to take hundreds,
nay thousands of her children.
Home Journal.
When the Times suggested a
j canning establishment for George-town
it had an eye to both branches
I of the business. If at any time
the fruit and vegetable crop failed
the old fogies could be " put up."
—Georgeto'u>nrJfy., Times.
We are afiaid that in some few
towns the "old fogies" who oppose
from the ways of sin and turn'every advance movement for the
jthem into the paths of virtue; to 1 development of their city would
' snatch them from the jaws of the furnish more material than the
i dragon and place them in the ; factory could handle.
i tender, loving arms of our Saviour!'
I This is the reform above all re- 1 —Old
forms, that sweetens the water in'starting
v» l.r Word*.
—Virtue joins man to God.
—He who dies for virtue's sake
docs not die.
—If God be my friend I cannot
be wretched.
—It is better to receive than to
inflict an injury.
—What is most honorable is
ikewise safest.
—A good man doubles the
length of his life.
—The merest trifles often affect
the female mind.
—He is not guilty, who is not
guilty intentionally.
—God looks at hands that arc
pure, not full of offerings.
—The only sure road to a hap-py
life is along the narrow path of
virtue.
—It makes much difference
whether you are good or wish to
seem so.
—The good hate sin, not from
fear of punishment, but from love
of virtue.
—Virtue that cares not for
worldly success shines with stain-ess
glory.
—It is characteristic of human
nature to hate the man we have
wronged.
—There is no sorrier sight than
a bald-headed man who pretends
that he has hair.
—What everlasting punishment
arc the pangs of a guilty con-science,
a soul full of guilt and
afraid of itself 1
—Dost thou think that God has
forgotten thy sin, because when it
thunders, he strikes the oak with
lightning rather than thee and
thy house?
Ilarrlaon and the "diver Uueatlon.
IFrom the Indianapolii Sentinel.]
The admission of four or five
new Territories will probably have
one result that does not seem
to have entered very largely into
the calculations that the politicians
are making on the subject. It
will give the friends of the double
standard a majority in both
Houses of Congress, and will lead
to the early removal of all limita-tion
on the coinage of silver. It
will probably force President
Harrison to cast his lot with the
silver party at the start or break
with Congress. The new States
will probably make other import-ant
changes in existing political
conditions that the statesmen at
Washington are not counting on.
Kaally filed.
First leading Citizen (in South-ern
lynching party)—The sheriff
threatens that if we break in and
get those prisoners he will shoot.
Second leading Citizen—Wall,
reckon we'd better lynch the
sheriff first.
Hot Kvrryeody Itan't Know II.
iKocky Moont I'h.nni.] ,
To get trade, a town must work
tin cans are handy lor [for it. There is too much com-lew
choice plants in. I petition for trade to go where it
1 the fountain that it
■ mankind in its flow.
may bless 1 Provide for drainage by punching j is not sought and worked for with
,1 few holes in the bottom. I energy.
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