The Greensboro patriot [May 30, 1877]

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0DELL, EAOAH A CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
1 • ENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Greensboro, X. C.
A Terrible Story of the Sea-
The cootl ship Americus. engaged
in the East India merchant service,
was on her boniewtinl passage.—
Hit ciew were jubilant at lue pics
peel ol soon I each in I' huinr ; tint
probably no one abroad the jiiiti
•rsa in better spirits than the«kin
peril ptetiy daughter, Mabel iiian
Ford, who had accompanied hei
father on thin voyage.
When, nnddeuly, like a thunder-bolt
from a clear sky, a dark cloud
ol wrongs and suffering, which bad
been bangiug over the ship, broke
upou them iu all its terrible power,
sending broken hearts autl Qeath
into their midst, chilling the hopes
of the crew aud driving the captain
aud his daughter neatly distracted
with griel.
Mabel Stanford was the general
favorite of that ship's company.—
None could help liking and adinir
iug her pleasant ways, aud she, all
unconscious of the fearful web she
was so innocently wearing, diil her
best to make the voyage pleasant
Amoug Miss Stanford's ardent
admirers, and one whom she seemed
especially to favor, was the second
mate, young Frank Nerwood, who
loved her wall ail his heart.
It gas whispered among the crew
that they would make a line match ;
but the skipper did not look upou
the would be union in that light;
aud it was generally kuown lhat
he would pieier the first mate, War
ren Gregg, who was also a suitor
for his daughtei's baud.
Warren Gregg, the first mate,
was a man not far from .'iu, who
had followed the sea from his boy-hood,
and was considered a first-class
seamen. He was a little be-low
medium height, with a stout,
thick set frame, ami frank, open
features, which greatly belied
his true disposition.
This was his second trip as mate
ou the Americus; and though he
had succeeded in winning the good
will of the captain, he was gener
ally disliked by the crew for his
haughty and overbearing ways.—
That he loved Miss Stanford with
a'l the ardor of which his nature
was capable, there was no doubl :
and it is perhaps needless to sa.\
that he looked upon the attention,
the manly, handsome Hey wood
paid her with any thing but pleasure.
In fact he was mad with jealousy,
and the opportunity only was want-ing
for his pent-up passion to break
forth into a torrent of hatred and
vengeauce.
However, he had so managed to
govern his actions that no one
dieamed of the lierce mental con-flict
which was racking his brain.
A flairs were at this state—Hiss
Mabel openly receiving the atten-tions
of Heywood, while In i father
and brother, the supercargo, were
silently workiug to bring about a
different tesult, and Gre^g till try-ing
10 win him her from bis rival,
Ins passion growing fiercer and
fiercer as his case grew mine hope-leas,
till plans for revengeful tri-umph
went flitting through his
brain, ready to be tried iu case fair
means should fail —when au inci-dent
occurred which tended to
bring about au estraugemeut be
tweeu the captaiu aud his daugh-ter's
lover.
It had been the aim of the un-scrupulous
Gregg from the first to
bring about a quarrel between the
captain, or his son Lewis and Hey-wood.
Thus ho was continually
embittering the minds of both
against the young mate, until at
last his object was accomplished.
Ueywootl and young Stanford
had au open quarrel, brought about
by the machinations of the first
mate, who had caused the lint head-ed
supercargo to accuse the other
of stealing a ring he had mysteri-ously
lost, which of course quickly
arroused the temper of the latter,
when a hot discussion followed,
that would have no doubt ended iu
blows it some of the crew had not
interfered.
The sympathies of the captain
;n :1ns HII.II rel were with bis son,
antl those of Mabel with her lover,
whom she did not consider at all
to blame. *
It was not far from the middle
of the night following the quarrel
between Heywood and Stanford,
and, save the gentle moaning of
the wind through the rigging, and
tin rippling of the water as the ship
ploughed on her course, all was
sileut as death, when the helms
man, peering out with straining
eyes into the impenetrable gloom
of the black expanse beyond, was
suddenly aroused from the drowsi-ness
that was Stealing over him, by
hearing a cry for help, and then a
splash in the water lrom off the lee
bow.
He quickly turned to ask the
supercargo, wno but a moment be
lore bad been standing by his side,
the cause of the noise, when he saw
thai the young man was gone.
The the truth instantly flashed
through his mind and he shouted
in a siaitling, excited tone—
'• Man overboard !"
It seemed but an instant from the
giving ot the alarm, before the cap-tain
and crew were on deck—and
the lights tieing quickly brought,
rushed to the place whence the
helmsman bad heard the cry. when
to their surprise they discovered
the second mate, a wild and hag-gard
look upon his face, holding in
Ins hand a heavy, murderous look
iug ciub.
•• What means this ?" thundered
the skipper, as thoughts of foul
play flashed nron his brain
But, amazed and startled, Hey-wood
was silent.
" Who is lost t" cried the captain
in the uext inBtant.
But before anyone had time to
answer him his own eyes told him.
" My God ! 'tis Lewis! and that
red handed villain has murdered
him ! Quick, men ! hoist all the
lights and man the boats! Let
everything be done that can be, as
quickly as possible. He may be
living, and if yon save him this
shall be a good night's job for yon.
Work, work, for your lives V
The orders of the grief-stricken
captain were readily obt-yed. But,
: hough lights were hoisted, and
boats sent out in every direction,
nothing conld be found of the lost
one. So at last it was given up as
a hopeless case; and the men re
turned to the ship, when Frank
Heywood was neized for the mur-der
of Lewis Stanford.
No more sleep visited the ship
that night. The sorrowing fathei
paced the deck till daylight, and in
the cabin below, his daughter was
sobbing for the death of her only
brother and for him accused of that
terrible deed.
In the morning Heywood was ar-raigned
before the crew on charge
of wilful murder. Nothing seemed
lacking to substantiate his guilt.—
His quarrel with young Stanford,
and the circumstances untler which
he had been found after the alarm,
together with his appearance at the
time seemed sufficient to prove his
guilt.
Yet, he stoutly protested his in-nocence,
saying, in explanation of
his conduct, that he bad harbored
no ill-feelings against. Lewis, but
had been ready to forgive and be
forgiven.
As to his being found with that
murderous looking club in his
hands, it was accidental. Feeling
a little anxious about the weather,
he had left his bunk to go upon
deck, and was just iu season to hear
the cry which had caused the
alarm.
Hastening to the spot he stum-bled
over something in his path.—
11 was the club yrhich he had in his
hands when they discovered him a
few moments later, with the wild
look upon his face, caused by the
fear that some horrible crime bad
been committed.
Ileywood's stoty was received
with shouts of derision. The cir-oumstantial
evidence was too over-whelming
against him for any one
to have the least suspicion that his
seemingly iuconsisteut story was
anything but a false fabrication got-ten
up for the occasion.
As soon as order could be restored
the captaiu stepped forward with a
pair ol manacles, and, placing them
upon the doometl man's wrists, said:
" Before God and man, Frank
Heywood, I believe you guilty of
murderiug my son. Therefore, I
secure yon in irons, and order that
you be kept in close confinement un-til
we reach port, when you shall be
delivered over to the proper au
thoritieS to meet the punish incut
you so richly deserve."
" Here," he added, turning to his
crew, •' some of you take Mr. Hey-wood
below."
'• Oh, father, don't!"' cried Mabel,
who had been a silent spectator of
the terrible scene. '• He did not do
it! I know he did not !"
" Tut, tut, girl, no more of this !"
said her father sternly. '-Men, do
yonr duty !"'
A couple of the sailors stepped
up to obey their superior's order,
when, with a low cry, Mabel sprang
forward between them and her
lover, as if to shield him from their
grasp.
Without a word the captain, in
spite of her tearful entreaties, rude-ly
snatched his daughter away.
Heywood, chancing to look up,
caught sight of the male, Warren
Gregg, standing but a short, dis-tance
off, an exultaut look of fiend
ish satisfaction gleaming in his un-usually
expressionless eyes.
It was plainly a look of scornful
triumph ; and as the sailors placed
their hands upon his shoulder, the
the yonng man fully realized the
peril of his situation, and from
what source it was due. But
further thought or action was sud-denly
stayed by a loud cry fiom
the sea, off th" lee bow.
The next instant there was plain-ly
heard iu a strangely familiar
voice, the startling words, thrice
repeated:
"All a lie! All a lie! AH a lie!"
Scarcely had the intonations of
the strange words died away, and
before the surprised and startled
crew had time to recover from the
shock of the unexpected and mys
terions warning, when again the
same voice, sounding so much like
the dead, was heard, giving this
time the surprising expression ;
"Twas Warren Gregg! 'Twas
Warren Gregg! 'Twas Warren
Gregg !'
To attempt to portray the aston-ishment
and startled amazement of
officers and crew, would be a feilure.
Theii actions were beyond descrip-tion.
One aud all stood in blank aston-ishment,
staring unconsciously per-haps,
upon the first mate, who, like
the guilty wretch he was, trembled
from head to loot, a deathly pallor
orer speading his features, until
maddened to desperation by the
terrible accusation of the mysteri
ous, unseen accuser, his pent-up
guilt,which he could hold no longer,
burst forth into a wild, Irenzied
cry—
" Who dares to accuse me !
The quick eye of Heywood, if no
oilier, saw the guilt Gregg so plain-ly
showed, and, prompted by self-interest,
he exclaimed:
•• I do !"
" Liar'." hissed the trembling
wretch, and then, with a horrible
oath, he bounded upon him, murder
plainly written npon his every look
and action. But the sail .rs quickly
interposed, when he turned npon
them, and a fierce struggle ensued.
" Seen re him !" cried the skipper,
as soon as the crew had succeeded
in overpowering him. " We will
keep both in irons, and wait further
developments."
But though everything was done
that could be to ascertain the cause
of those strange cries from the sea,
the day passed without solving the
mystery, and the superstitious
sailors allbelieved that thedead had
spoken. Aud their belief was
strengthened when there was heard
at different intervals the following
night, the same voice, only more
sad and mournful, Baying this time:
'• Warren Grbgg, a murderer! a
murderer ! a murderer V
The nert morning Gregg called
captain below, to whom he made a
full confession of bis crime, saying
be bad killed Lewis mistaking him
tor young Heywood ; and then, up
on bis bended knees, the guilty
wretch begged for mercy.
The only reply he received was
to wait uutil he reached port.
Gregg's confession, clearing Hey-wood
of all guilt, he was freed at
once; and partly to atone tor the
injustice be had done him, the cap-tain
gave him the berth of first
officer.
One morning, a few days later,
Gregg was missing; and as to no
trace of him could be found, it was
supposed that he must hare got up-on
the deck during the night, when
unseen and unheard, he had thrown
himself into the sea. That to es-cape
the pnnlshment of man he had
gone to receive the judgment ot bis
Maker, with another crime npon
his already blackened soul.
The voice from the sea was not
heard after the murderer's conies
sion, and soon the superstitious
mariners ceased to speak of it, hav-ing
solved the mystery to their sat-isfaction,
by deciding that the dead
had already spoken in vindication
ot the character of the innocent
victim.
In the due course of time port
was safely made.
A year later Frank Heywood and
Mabel Stanford were nnited in wed-lock,
amid the congratulations of
all their friends.
But the strangesand best part of
it all was, that among the wedding
guests was Lewis Stanford, the
bride's brother, who, instead of hav-ing
perished on that night, as was
supposed, had, by the aid of a box
which had been thrown overboard
among some other things, managed
to keep afloat till morning, when
an outward-bound ship had picked
him up; and after considerable dit
Acuity, he had succeeded in getting
home in season to attend his sis-tei's
wedding.
The cup of happiness was full to
overflowing, and in their great joy
the crimes and misdoings of the
evil-minded mate were forgiven
and forgotten.
Years afterward a flock of young
Hey woods wonld gather around
her mother and asked her to repeat
to them the story of that fearful
ordeal of a life when their father
saved himself from an ignominous
death by his powers of ventrilo-quism
which, unknown to his ac-cusers,
he possessed, and used with
such a satisfactory result.
Population of the Globe.
The most trustworthy estimate of
the number of people on the earth
for the year 187G, as furnished by
the German statisticians, is 1,423,-
917,000. This is an increase of
over twenty-seven million on the
estimate of I87c>, but the augmenta-tion
is not due entirely to the ex-cess
of births over deaths, but large-ly
to the obtaining of more accurate
information regarding the popula-tion
of regions hitherto little kuown,
aud to more perlect census returns
from other countries.
Asia is still the home of a major-ity
of the human race, after having
supplied shoots from which have
sprung great Western peoples.
About four seventh's of the earth's
population is Asiatic, or 825,548,-
590 ; Europe comes uext with over
a fifth, or :i09,178,;i00; Africa with
about a seventh, or 199,921,000;
America with less than a sixteenth,
or 85,519,800; aud, finally, Austia
lia aud l'olyuesia, with the very-small
fractiou of 4,748,000 people.
Europe is the most deusely popu
lated, haviug 82 persons to the
square mile. Asia comes next with
48 to the square mile ; Africa uext,
with 17i ; and America and Austra
lia bring up the rear with 5£ and
1J respectively.
There are 215 cities on the earth
with a population of orer 100,000 ;
29 of half a million or more, aud
nine cities containing a million or
more inhabitants. Of these last
four are in China. Including
Brooklyu with New York, as we
may rightfully do for purposes of
comparison, the greatest cities of
world staud in this order: London,
3,4S9.428; Paris, 1,851,792; New
York. 1,5.!5,022 ; Vienna, 1,091,999;
Berliu, 1,044,000; Cantou and three
other Chinese cities one million
each. New York, therefore, takes
its place third iu the list of great
cities without counting our New
Jersey overflow.
Though there are not at hand
statistics upon which to base an
accurate statement of the fact, yet
it is theopiuion of the observers of
the condition of civilized people
that the average longevity of the
human race has increased within
a hum)rtd years. Such reports of
the death-rate as we have go to
support that conclusion, and it is
thoroughly proved that the devas
tatioos of epidemic diseases are not
so great now as formerly ; while the
medical art steadily advances iu its
mastery of the disorders of the hu-man
system and in its ability to
ward oil and check maladies which
threaten human life. Iu England,
for instance, the deatb-rate has de
olined considerably during a quar-ter
of a century. There aud else
where in Errope, as also, in this
country, the subject of public hy-giene
has received great attention
of late years, and its difficulties are
being steadily overcome. The
probabilities are that men now, on
the average, live longer than their
anoestors aud in better average
health. _
A branch concern—The limb of a
tree.
General Land and Mining
Registry.
Xorth Carolina Department of
Agricutture.
RALEIGH, May loth, 1877.
The act establishing this Depart
ment, ratified in General Assembly,
March 12th, 1877, provides for'a
General Land Registry, in connec
tiou and under the control of the
Department for the sale or disposi-tion
of real property as follows :
Sec. 17. The said Department is
authorized and directed to estab-lish
and keep in its office, in the
city of Raleigh, a General Land and
Mining Registry, wherein shall be
recorded (if the owners shall so re-quest)
all the farming, mineral ot
other lands ottered tor sa!e in this
Sta'e, with a brief and truthful de
scription of the same. And the De
part ment shall act as agent tor the
sale or disposition of snob property
as may be registered as hereinbe-fore
provided, and shall sell or dis
pose of such property upon the term
and conditions as stated and fixed
by the owner thereof; and the De-partmeut
shall be allowed the sum
of oue dollar for registration, and
two antl one-half |>er cent, coinmis
sion on gross amount of said trans-action.
The said Department shall have
authority to contract tor and hold
bodies ot land, for the settlement ot
colonies, with exclusive control of
the sale of same at such prices, and
for such a period, as may be agreed
upon by the owner thereof.
In accordance with the provi-sions
ot the above section, I have
now prepared and ready for distri-bution,
blank Descriptive Forms,
with explanatory Circulars, to those
desiring to Register their lauds in
this office, for sale. As will be seen
the only charges made are those es-tablished
by the Act, viz : one dol
lar as a Registration lee, and two
and one-half per cent, commission
on gross amount of transaction, and
these were imposed tor the purpose
of covering the expenses incurred
iu effecting the sale.
The Agency thus established by
the Legislature is essentially differ-ent
from any adopted hitherto by
any Southern State, in the impor
tant particular, that it is well
guarded against influences ot spec-ulation,
and this feature must at
once commend the plan to the lavor
and confidence of both the seller
aud buyer.
The great upheaval, which at the
close of the war revolutionized our
whole labor system—the terrible
blow which deadened our energies,
and from which we have only par-tially
recovered—the languishing
condition of our industries, and the
repeated but fruitless efforts of
many of the Southern States (onr
own being among the number) *o
inaugurate some means by which
to quickeu iuto active life and vigor
our dormant aesources by procur-ing
reliable labor, and enterprising
substantial occupants for our idle
lands, forced upou our Legislature
the necessity of adoptiug a more
liberal policy and had fully prepar
ed the public mind to receive aud
endorse it. Aud the wisdom of the
Legislature in recogniziug and
yielding to this demand must com-mend
itself to all, even upou a par-tial
survey of the situation.
The laboring classes of the North
ern States and of Europe had long
been educated to believe that man
nal labor in the South was regard
ed as degrading—that hero they
would be ignorod as components ol
society, and would be socially and
politically ostracised; aud while
these unjust and false teachings
were beiug zealously aud imlus'ii
ously disseminated we of the South
were indifferent to the extent to
which they were received, for it
was our policy to aid rather iu di
rertiug the tide of immigration
from our borders, as we conceived
its introduction wonld be a distuib
ing element in our system of slave
labor, then so well and satisfactori-ly
established. But war bad
wrought a chauge, and to overcome
the false impressions aud other im-pediments,
special legislation only,
had been employed in chartering
and establishing Land Agencies,
whose efforts for the most part
seemed to have been misdirected,
or at Itast to have been barren ol
good results. Many of them, in
fact, were managed solely in the iu
terests of the Ageuts, and in many
instances were nothing more than
mere swindling machines, by which
the unsuspecting immigrant was
filched of his money, and thus they
were actual and formidable barriers
to immigration. Accepting these
lessons of the past, the State
through ber Legislatuie, while pro
posing to foster the interests ol her
citizens, resolved at least to offer
protection to the immigrant by
bringing him face to face with the
land owuer, and guaranteeing, as
far as practicable, protection
against swindling and dishonesty.
The admirable adaptability of
the soil aud climate of our State to
the successtul and profitable cul
tureofall the staple products—the
manifold and superior advantages
she presents foi other aud equally
remunerative pursuits, all declare
that to become reall prosperous, we
must have a gereater diversity of
industries. If we would utilize our
immese and unequaled water pow-ers—
if we would exbume the un-told
tieasures of wealth which now
rest uudistuibed In our hills aud
mouutaius—if we would have our
vast aud magnified forests to con
tribute their values to commerce—
if we would have improved stock—
if we would, by improved culture,
crown onr inviting hills and plains
with rich barrests of cereals, cotton,
tobacco, grasses, fruits, riues, veg-erables
aud flowers—if our millions
of acres of unimproved and now
unprofitable lands must be made to
ooutribute, under the magic touch
of skillful labor, their abundance of
wealth to the growth and power of
this noble old commonwealth—the
laud owners must diride their land*
at fair pncci, aud thus induce capi-tal,
energy, muscle, brain and en
terprise to come and possess them.
Our resources and condition de
maud rather a diversity than a con
centratioo of employment. While
We gladly welcome the capitalist to
this promising field for profitable
investment, yet we must have with
him the mechanic, the artisan, the
miner, the manufacturer, the farmer
the dairymau, the fruit grower and
common laborer, to subdue and oc
enpy onr fruitful domain, if we
would make it, the happy aud boun-tiful
home which the God of Nature
seems to have designed for the
millions who are to follow us. To
procure them we must consent t«
accept a fair price for our broad
acres, and allow them to become the
prosperous homes of these people.
The stream of immigration "has
been checked in its flow to the
Northwest, while our iiorts are still
the goal ol thousands of Europe's
crowded populace, ami a refuge
from the storm which uow threat-ens
to envelop their countries in
the horrors of a gigantic war. To
avail ourselves of this, the most
propitious opportunity in our histo
ry for securing immigrants, would
seem to be the dictate of wisdom,
and to this end it is my pleasure to
announce that the Department of
Agriculture is now ready to lend
all its energies in cooperation with
our people.
Parties desiring to sell, lease, or
rent for a term of years, farming
lands, water powers, mining or oth-er
real property, can obtain blanks
and other necessary information bv
application to this office.
All communieatioos will receive
prompt atteution.
L. L. POLK,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
A Sea Serpent.
A most extraordinary event has
occurred at O'lan, which I give in
detail, having been au eyewitness
to the whole aflair. I allude to the
stranding and capture of the veri-table
sea serpent in front of the Ca-ledonian
Hotel. George street,
Obau. A mint 4 o'clock an animal
or ti-.ii, evidently of gigantic size,
was seen sporting in the bay near
Heather Island. Its appearance
evidently perplexed a large number
ofspectators assembled ou the pier,
and several telescopes were direct-ed
to ward it. A careful look sat-isfied
us that it was of the serpent
species, it carrying its head fully
lully twenty live leet above the wa
ter. A number of boats were soon
launched and proceeded to the bay
the crews armed with such weapons
as could be got handy. Under the
directions of Malcolm Nicholson,
onr boatman, they headed the mon-ster,
and some of the boats were
within thirty yards ol it when it
suddenly sprang half s length out
ol the water antl made for the opeu.
A random lire from several volun-teers
with rifles seemed to have no
effect upon it. Under Mr. Nichol-son's
orders the boats now ranged
across the entrance of the bay, and
by the screams and shouts turned
the monster's course, and it headed
directly for the breast wall of the
Great Western Hotel. One boat,
containing Mr. Douald Campbell,
the Fiscal, had a most narrow es-cape,
the animal actually rubbing
against ii. Mr. Campbell and bis
brother jumped overboard, and
were picked up unhurt by Mr. John
I). liardie, saddler, in his small
yacht, the Flying Scud. The ani-mal
seemed thoroughly frightened,
and as the boats closed in the vol-unteers
were unable to fire more,
owing to the crowds assembled on
the shore. At a little past C toe
monster took the ground ou the
In ,, ii in trout of the Caledonian
Hotel, iu George street, anil his
proportions wore now fully visible.
In his frantic exertions, with his
tail sweeping the beach, no one
dared approach. The stones were
flying in all directions, one serious-ly
injuring a mau called Baldy Bar-row,
aud another breaking the win-dow
of the Commercial Bauk. A
party of volunteers under Lieut Da
vid Menzie now assembled and fir-ed
volley after volley into the neck,
according to the directions of Dr.
Campbell, who did not wish for
scientific reasons, that the configur-ation
of the head should be damag-ed.
As there tras a bright moon,
this continued till nearly 10 o'clock
when Mr. Stevens, of the Commer-cial
liauk, waded in and fixed a
strong rope to the auimal's bead,
and by the exertions of some sev-enty
folks it was securely dragged
above high-water mark. Its exact
appearance as it lies on the beach
is as follows : The extreme length
is one hundred uml oue feet, aud
the thickest part is about 25 feet
from the head, which is 11 leet iu
circumference. At this part is fix-ed
a pair of tius, which are 4 feet
long by nearly 7 leet across at the
sides. Further back is a long dor-sal
tin, extending tor at least 12
teast or 13 feet, and 5 feet high in
trout, tapering to 1 foot The tail
is more of a flattened termination
to the body proper than anything
else. The eyes are very small in
propoitiou and elongated, and gills
of the length ot 24 feet behind.
There are no external ears, as Dr.
Campbell did not wish the animal
handled till he communicated with
some eminent scientific gentlemen
we could not ascertaiu if there were
teeth or not. Great excitement is
created, aud the country people are
docking in to view it. This morn
ing Mr. Duncan Clerk, writer, took
possession ol the monster iu the
lights of Mr. M'Fee, of Appin, and
Mr. James N'icol, writer, in the
name of the crown.—Qlascoic Xeics
•Scotland
Some oue who believes that "bre-vity
is the soul of wit," writes:
•'Don't eat stale Qcumbers, they'll
W up."
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
Buttermilk Cake. —Oue cup sugar
half cup butter, one half piut sour
buttermilk, one pint flour, one half
teaspoon In I soda: bake three quar
ters ol an hour.
Bmtter Beetth fOemeTf.j—Om cap
of molasses, two cups ot sugar, one
and a half teaspoonfuls of soda, one
teaspoonful of flavoring, a little wa
ter, and boil until hard.
Cheese Omelette.—Grate some rich
old cheese, antl having mixed the
omelette as usual, stir in the chees-with
a swift turn or two ot the wrist
and at the same time some chopped
parsley and thyme. If it is beaten
a long time the cheese will separate
the milk from the eggs. Cook at
once.
■Sure Tour Bacon Huring Summer.
—Having received repeated enqni-ries
for a recipe to prevent the en-trance
of worms into bacon during
the spring and summer, a correspon-dent
of The Baltimorean sends the
following very simple but positive
preventive: Take cane molasses
and apply to the flesh parts careful
ly, as much as will adhere, and hang
np in the smoke house, or iu any
place that you wish to keep it. In
order that the above may be etlectu
al, it must be applied immediately
after smoking, for if the germ, or
nit, or egg from which the worm is
hatched, is lodged on the meat be-fore
the application is made it
will not be effectual. With this
applied the meat keeps nice and
sweet.
Rich Wajfles.—Oue cup boiled
rice, one milk, two eggs, lard size of
a walnut, half teaspoonful cream
tartai, one teaspoonful salt. Floor
for a thin batter.
French Uaf—Three and one half
cups Hour, foui eggs, one cup butter
one cup milk, two cups sugar, three
even teospoonsful of yeast powder,
one ha!'' pound currants.
Tea Biscuit.—One quart Hour,
butter size of an egg, two cupo but
termilk, one teaspoonful soda, same
quautity of salt. Instead of butter
milk nse sweet milk, with one-hull
terspoonfnl cream tartar.
Pudding Sauce—Onecopful sugar
one egg, teaspoonful extract vanilla
ealtspoonful of salt beaten to a
froth; stir in one wineglasslul boil
iug water; then set over boiling
water fire to ten minutes, stirring
often.
Jelly Cake.—Two eggs; oue cup
ot sugar, four tablcspoonliils of wa-ter,
one cup of Hour, two teaspoons
of baking powder.
Shirt Buttons.
"Beautiful studs yon hare on,"
we remarked to a young man yes-terday.
"Do you like 'em ! He smiled—
flipped the ashes from his cigar—
and said, "yes they are bloodstone,
very costly. They were given to me
in a barroom."
"How's thatl"
"Well, I never drank any liquor
iu my life, but I was living in New-
Orleans, and used to go round with
the boys, and when they called for
drinks, it was always a cigar for
me. One night 1 mat with a
wealthy planter, finest looking man
I ever saw, and noble and generous
iu heart as he was violent and des-perate
when iu liquor. The bottle
was his d-'vil aud none kuew it
more sadly than his beautiful wife.
One dny h • asked me to his room,
and nf er si ting chatting, wo walk
ed down stairs in the hotel saloon,
and he urged me to drink with him
which i retuswl. He finished his .
ale, ami taking of tblsse buttons, he
8<id, "I only asked yon to drink. I
knew it was useless. Here, take
these buttons. You an; the only
young man I ever saw that would
not drink liquor. Take them, and
wear them, aud as often as you see
them, remember, they were a gift
from a drunkard." He pressed
them ou me, saying he had another
set exactly like them, and so 1 took
them." Only shirt buttons.—Keids-ville
Times.
That Historic Rirer The Danube
—The river Danube has figured
largely in history for 201) years, and
it again becomes the object to which
the eyes of the world have turned.
It furnished a highway for the
Turks in the sixteenth and seven
teentb c. nrnries to penetrate Eu-rope
as i n as Vienna, and in the
days ol i la crusades it became an
outlet l • in- religious enthusiasm
of Europe to flow to the holy land.
Th- Danube, from its sonrce iu Ba-den
to the Black sea, is 1,880miles
long, and It draius, with its tribu-taries,
aud aiea of over .'!(K),O0U
square miles. It pisses through
Bavaria. Austria, Hungary, forms
the boundary between Hungary
and Servia to the Carpathian nioun
tains, where it separates Boumania
and Bulgaria, aud passes into the
Black sea through several mouths,
the principal one being that of Su-lina.
In.- Danube is navigable lor
steamers as far as Ulni, iu Havana.
At Nichopolis, iu the fourteenth
century, 100,000 Christians were
driven by the Turks into the Dan-ube,
and in the fifteenth centuiy
40,000 Turks were slain on its
shores at the siege ot Belgrade.
A lady who bad seven gentlemen
callers one Sunday erening quietly
remarked tbat she was inclined to
appoint a Returning Board and
count some of them out.
Six-year old : "Mamma, what
are twins made for t" Precocions
elder brother, quickly : "So that
cannibals may eat philopenas."
"I have no time to study gram-mar,"
says Mr. Moody. "Men are
drowning aud I must tell them
how to be sared in whatever lan-guage
I can."
FARMER'S COLUMN.
From the North Carolina Farmer.
Clover Cutting. Curing and
Stacking.
MR. EDITOR :—I offer some sug-gestions
respecting the cutting and
stacking of clover.
The proper time for cutting clover
is when about one third of the bios-i
soms have turned brown. Clover
should never be exposed to the sun
like Timothy in the process of cur-ing,
but as soon as the external.-,
moisture is dried off and the stem
becomes slightly wilted, it should
be immediately raked and put into
1 cocks of 50 or 100 pounds each.—
I Clover that is eut in the morning
should be pui into cocks in the af*
iei noon, aud iu uo instance should
' it bo exposed to the sun, until the
leares become so dry as to trumble.'
The curing should proceed accord-ing
to the state of the weather.—
If the air is dry the curing should
1 be completed in one day, but it of-ten
requires two days to bring the
hay into a ii: condition to stack be-fore
it is hauled in. The cocks
should be throwu slightly open uu-til
the moisture caused by the sweet-ening
has escaped. At the usual
period of curing clover, the weath-er
is frequently showery, and no
grass is so liable to injury from rain
as clover. In order to protect the
cocks from rain, caps should be
provided. These caps are cheap
aud simple, and when made with
proper care will last a life time.—
These caps can be made by sewing
together two widths of common
cloth two yards long, and if coated
over with boiled linseed oil. or
liquid glue, will render them rain
proof. The corners should be tnrned
under, which couflnes them and
keeiw them in place.
BTAOKINa rr.ovKR.
The quality of the hay may be
greatly preserved and improved by
a very simple method of ventilat
ing the stack. If it be properly
stacked, the curing process will be
more perfectly completed in the
stack, than otherwise. It is ac-complished
in this way. First, lay
a foundation of rails and iwles for
the stack, to protect it from the
moisture of the ground. Secondly,
take a large sack, say 18 inchoaiu
diameter autl 4 or 0 feet long, aud
fill it with chaff or some light ma-terial.
Place it upright in the
centre of the foundation of the
stack, and build np aronnd it. A#
the .-.tack lises, the sack most be
drawn up leaving a hole in the
centre from the bottom to the top,
which should be properly capped
over with straw to prevent the rain
from get ling iu. This plan will
doubly pay the labor required.
A HALIFAX FARMER
L,arge and Small Fowls as
Layers.
I begin to suspect that big hens
have not all the superiority orer
small ones that we sometimes claim
tor them. The smaller breeds ol
fowl are, I incline to thins, m
frequent layers. Big fowls bSTd
large frames, and a tendency to lay-on
flesh. They consume a great
deal of food, aud, like pigs, the
more we feed them the more lazy do
they become. If we wish fli
then the food makes flesh. If we
wish a large sized egg, then only the
larger fowl can give it to us. 1 like
the larger breeds so well, they are
so easily restrained, they have so
docile a disposition, they shew op
so well on the platter as well as
when following the grassbopimr or»
the mowings, anil their eggs are so
large anil inviting, that I do not
feel like discarding them. Their
merits are of a substantial sort. I
cannot forget, however, that during
this cold season my fowls are tak-ing
a test from laying, that my hens
are eating their fill every day, and
are like people who are liesh from
a thanksgiving dinner, quite con-tent,
in do nothing, while, :ny neigh-bor's
Leghorns are giving him eggs
in e x c Ii S n ge for food and
care He gets small eggs. I get
large ones J but he has more than
I per hen, and has perhaps two
eggs To my one at the season when
they bring the largest price. II. a
feeding in his case seems to start
his Inns to laying. If they rest
over a few daysol a cold spell they
are soon at it again on the return,
of the warm sunshine, and their
Intervals of non-laying: seem not so
prolonged. The smaller breeds are
endowed with a higher vitality, and
the expenditure of it is seen in their
more nervous movement and in egg
production, rather than in laying
on of flesh. 1 am not. sure bnt that
the laying hen is something akin
in ber temperament to the deep
milking i ow. She is of a nervous
make up, can find out a neighbor's
garden, know.-, how to get into it,
antl can run right smartly when
the -mall boy appears on the scene
to remonstrate.— Si-irntific Farmer.
Leaning Trees
Often in a line orchard we find
one or more trees leaning over so
tai Bfl to destroy the beauty of the
whole orchard. It is also much
more difficult to cultivate around a
_■ tree. This may easily be
remedied, while the trees are yonng,-
by partially digging n;> and re-planting
the trees. The roots will,
usuaii.v be found smallest on the
side from which the tree leans, and
then tore these should be loosened
from the earth earth, the tree set in
a perpendicular position and •
fully fastened by stakes tud guys
and the earth replaced aronnd tho
root.-. It would be well to add
some rich compost to promote '
growth. It, as is very probable,
the top ul Lbs tree has become one
sided it should be pruned so us to
restore the balance. In this way
we have •• righted up'' peat trees
six inches through the stem: but
; the best way is to look after the
young trees and not permit 'them
to depart from the way of upright-ness.—
Jo-.irnal of Horticulture.
The farmei must strive to increase
the quality as well as the, quantity
of his crops. It is the quality that
determines the price. In this "Ex-celsior"
should be his uuvaryiug
motto.
Clergymen, like brakemen, do a
great deal ot conpling.