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w»+ ', / < > ." j ' 2 •' THE PATRIOT PUBLISHED WEEKLY ,r GREENSBORO, N. C. IBLISHEI) IX 1-vll'J si LM! In--.! News i Vrm\ rut r i ariably wi elTaucs: - x m.Ml,-'$l.u.".. .: Postage ■ ff~\ , „--...'- i.tiwr- w The Greensboro Patriot. Established In 1821. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1878. UA'ERTISINQ. - paj ■>'■ « ,:: *!' • n . DM i|U»«»nj l« I 4 I I I I HI I I-I : 12 I" bm s- Vi 1- 2.1 - Ij %u li U 30 :u; 5tl ' I 140 . fifty per ,.. 5" Met.' -I »<•-- rtraiora' no- .-,,■, kJTrrtiP""- Professional Cards. \Y »AI II I. I I 11J>« IU. st oil A « \I.I»M ELL. '• i - : . ,, Cuiirl "I Uarid- .. il llx klen- .1 of ltl» i ' ti - ■ UK C1LMER, . i '/; i/ /.[if Qre< iboro. I i ITS. \y IC. K «•■ I'ltorj KKSPECTKITLLY Ills PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ../' Urn nshoro. I I l> llll. SAME »•> THOSE ; I-I Practicing tht ' ''.V ■ OHM V. l!\lllll-l.i:H, ,| .KNKV AT I.AW. N I I I - « be , i 1... ■ ■ _-i»| I. I . tluu**. .1 ■• II '•I-I- IV. I. Ml. & (,i;K(.t»K 1'. ATTORNEYS A T L AW .• i, ■. BOKO, N. < . - . .. i federal w ■ I* a i IT Written fur "The Bsltiniorean Stray Thoughts of a Sad Heart |1V DAISY. Good bye.mj home,'now»ns»l«avsthee, In distant laud, to roam ; y,, I Dar«r can forget thee, M own dear ciltist'" home. M.v home, and childhood', happy hours lUrr flitted by too fust, And with item blossosaed lovslj llowere, Too fair, too bright to laat, Thrre was a time when I wan gay, \Va» thoughlleM and wan wild ; Hut ah I that time has llowu away. And I am not a child. There ia no voice to cheer me now ; No bnille to chitoe away The clouds that hhaduw my young brow And anxious fear- allay. No longer now tin- golden raja Of life's gnat glorious light [llann mv path, make l>nght my days, And chase the gloom of night. I ban is no touch to charm away Thbl tierce and constant pain, Which makes my heart its only prey, That I may he glad again. li it then a shad" of darkest hue Iiims all thai ..nee VM bright; It draws the heavy curtains down, And all is dark as night. iiii memory! crystal glittering wings Comes ever 10 me now A loving fact-, a genial Nulls, A pure and pallid brow. I bee a pail of loving eyes — So gentle auil so mild— When beaming with maternal love, SI..- kisa.;d bar darling child. A v ision eomei again to me, And with it there'll a dread -. li whispers - ftly to my heart ; •' Thai she 1 love is dead." There, lying in the lonely grave, The grief 1 dare not smother : (sod doee aol give —WO canuol have ltus one dear angel mother. in my eorrow, grief, and pain. The proun-o now is given, I u.il n our Falliei's blessed house I- •drrj beau and UtaUrl. I'tlemiilt, Md. D. A. L R. F. ROBERTSON, URliKON DENTISTS, .V. c. I. . - I. -:,l i can ■ :■■ .1.(1 :!,. - in i n.-1 ■ utlance i - Ma r ke t .-• ...■ I : . | ■ • . .- ■tV.\ if sX»oro BOOAV s '^CH&S. D. YATES.- ILOAN", ral Insurance Agent. I! & WILSON'S HANK IRO N «'. w 'I. It. lto«. HIT, ■ Dry Goods, 1 i'-. Notions, and Geuta (ithlll.S, '• tiiontlie il is gitl il I again .. 1 uvite m> ^ 11) * .. ! i N I IKi.l.'i M.W stock ■' . . week to lo ■.I w M. II, KOGAKT. IEK, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS, liiti :<», s. r. i mpanieM: A M ■ g, ■ M I •■ - . i ii I, ; :• .i«m I,.K*;.UOU ■-,--1 n.ouo1 ..i.i '.I l.l.VI .- - -' .1.1"" Va , l»0,00tl CHAS. G. YATES, ■ . Kit IN "l>v GROCERIES 'hjx ,imi Iron. '•-,..■: UanufaGionr il IRON PIPES, AC. ■ ■ uabora -B AO-O - I ali or BarUr. lANd CO., lesale Healers in : -'"VI. MEUCHASDISB, '' boro, .V. c. From the S,.utherner, Hans Kipper. 11\ SliiMA. liana Kipper was a virifable Dn'rimini ot tin- lvi|> \'an Winkle t>pi-. llt>v, he t'ver got here re-niaiiiH a irjHlerv lo thin tlaj, but true it is that one tine morning- he turned up in oue of the little tuwnd mi the banks of the Roxnoke, stolid, ill link, ignorant of English, and Kmoking like a house a tire Alter wandeiini; about (or a lew ,!,;'. s he settled upon a spot on the ii,.nk nl the rivet, but little higher tli.tn the swamp by which it was surrounded, and built hiui a hut from such material as he lound lloating iu the water, where lie sat himself down to meditate and smoke his pipe. His vocation was that of a usher-man ; his occupation smoking, and there ia no doubt that he would have been sitting there to day, at the door of his hut, mending his ■ uets and complacently smokiug his pipe, had he nut, iu a lit of drunken-ueas, fallen into oue of his own Dutch uets and been drowned. To he day of his death he knew i but little more of English than the ; price ol a bunch of fish, aud, to I every Question upon any other sub-ject than that of his wares, bis in- | variable reply was yah, nein, or I nii-litx femtay. Nevertheless Hans had some , most excellent • qualities amoug a lew bad ones. He was not quarrel-some or abusive for the reason, doubtless, that his anger always got cool before he could liud words iu which to vent his spleen. II he ever swore, no one was the w iser t>l it unless soil tausend or duiuur Wizen, invariably uttered . bj him without changing a muscle Of his lace or moving his (at, blue eves from the direction iu which they happened to be gu/.ing at the time, might be construed into a vio-lation oi the third commandment. His wins; quality was a propen-sity lor drinking mean whisky, which lie rilled srlinnji/iK, aud smok-ing bad tobacco. His great weak ness was a susceptibility to the charms nl the fair ses, and it was upon tlnf rock that poor Hans was doomed to split. I:ie unlv thing on earth that ever could move him from his ini-perturbation was the sight of a woman ; and one never passed him without the exclamation "HeinGott in hiuiiuel vat makes deni voomans look so goot !" tailing from his lips. On these occasion" he would thrust his hands to the bottom of his ca paciouB pockets, stare straight ahead and smoke furiously until she was out of sight. Afterwards it seemed that he was ashamed ol having betrayed his feelings in this II inner, lor he would remain for I an hour perfectly impassible, ami not i word could be got out of him concerning his foodoan tot the lair MX beyond nichtx ferttay. There lived, not far from ttao's peHielul abode, another fisherman, aud his wile, as different irom him in every particular, save one. drunk enness, as black is from white.— <'narrclsome as cats, they spent the greater part of their time in hair-pulling aud scratching each oth.-r's faces. Wicked as pirates, they iu- • rlarded their couversation with spicy oaths and choice blasphemies. With not a friend in the world they did not seem to desire to gain one. The man was a deformity ; with tusks protruding from under his up-per lip, his face always wore a most repulsive griu, while his feet, con-torted from their natural position until the toes pointed directly to-wards each other, gave him the ap. I pearance, when he walked, of hav-ing on heavy wooden clogs. The woman, on the other hand, bad some pretentious to beauty. She was tall and well formed, with dark hair and eyes; and straight and lithe as a reed. It is perfect'- a-accountable how she evei to mate with such an abortion ..= old Tom Whitlock Had she found a more highly favored companion,and kinder master, in the man oi her choice her lot in life might have been quite different. Tired of the life she led and anx ions for any change that promised better-treatmeut, she singled out poor Hans, knowing well his infat-uatiou for anything that looked like a woman, as the readiest means of accomplishing her purpose to canape from her brutal lord, and at the same time gaining a protector. Poor Hans ! As many a better man has done before, and since, he fell a victim to the wiles of a wo-man. To her proposition to >come and take her to his bouse in old Tutu's absence, he assented with a ready yah, and a grunt, like that of a hungry pig, intended tor a laugh. " And if Tom comes for me,' said she, " you won't let him take me away V "Tausendtuyfels nein, Ich—'and an expressive gesture demonRtra ted to her entire satisfaction that if he came Hans intended to pummel him soundly. The day on which she was to el'jpe with Hans soon arrived. Two guns fired in quick succession was the signal agreed on between them fhat old Tom was out of the way and the coast clear. Getting into his canoe, he pad-dled up to the bauk in front ot her door and sat there, stupidly g.i/mg at the smoke as it curled gracefully from the top of her mud chimney. How long he would have remained there without making his presence kuowu, he himself, probably, never conjectured, aud he might have :e in.lined there staring at the top ol the chimney till old Tom came back and tlitew him into the river, had she not accidentally spied him, through a chink in the house, and came to the door. To her inquiry if he was ready, the same guttural yah was return ed, without once taking his eyes from the chimney-top, or inteirupt ing the regular pulls ol smoke Irom his mouth. Her preparations to leave being a little delayed for once excited Hans' impatience, and he gave ex-pression to mote consecutive words tuau he had ever beeu known to utter at any one time iu his life. " Tuouer blitzen voman.-.' said he, " vas fur you not coom I 1 gifs you schnapps; you gits tioonk' alery tay mit me ; ve vaah all de essen touu mi', trinken." Whether she was moved by his appeal, or whether she even under-stood it, is not known, but any rate she soon transferred herself and a small feather bed, the only article of comfort she possessed, to the canoe aud they put oft from shore, he utteriug never a word aud only evincing his satisfaction by pufBug huge clouds of smoke Irom his mouth, while she sat facing him and doing all the talking. Swiftly and smoothly the little bark, laden with so many bright anticipations tor the future of both the occupants, glided along the stream, propelled by the powerful strokes of liaus' broad asheu pad-dle, while the little wavelets rippled musically uuder its bow. A gentle breeze fauued their eager faces and wrinkled the surface ol the waters as far as the eye could reach.— Joyously the little birds sang, and the grey squirrels chattered among the green trees on the shore. The rays ol the declining sun sparkled among the wavelets on the bosom of the river, aud marked out a broad shining track lor them to fol-low. Everything was propitious aud all nature conspired to aid them in their dight. They reached the shore in safety But alas lor human expectations ! When Betsy had lauded aud gone up the bank, and Hans had .-iio.il deled the bed preparatory to follow ing her to the house, a rough hail liom the river broke the stillness of the eveuiug air aud caused them both to look hurriedly round. Oue glance was sullicient to re veal to the fleeing pair the injured husband iu hot pursuit of the guilty wife and her abductor. Bitterness was on his tongue, vengeauce iu his eye, murder in his heart and an old I ni'.fd States' musket, well charged with duck-shot, in his hand. Iu the bow of the cauoe, ready to do his master's bidding, stood his faith-ful cur—lauk, lean and hungry, short-tailed aud crop-eared. " Fetch that 'oomau and that bed bate, here, you cussed old Dutch cat fish, or I'll let day light through ye quicker'n h—1 kin scorch a miu ner." The threat was unheeded: the woman had already entered the house aud Hans was doiug his best to drag the bed through the door liter aim. wheu old Tom laid up his gon to his shoulder aud pulled i lie tripg'er. A deafening report followed: a womau's scream awoke the startled echoes in the neighboring woods, and Hans ejaculated Tout und Ha-ijil, asjhe rolled out ot the door aud onto the bed, kicking aud sprawling as if a thousand yellow jackets were inside his ample breeches. The damage to Hans was not very seriou . His legs were pretty well peppered, but the rest of his person was intact, the bed haviug received the most of the charge. Old Tom, however, was pretty bad-ly frightened, t Inn king he had real-ly " put day.light through" Hans, feather-bed and all, he made the best of his way for the swamps ou the other side ol the river, where he remained nntil he received the news that Uans was not only not dead, but was in good health and spirits. In a subsequent attempt on the life of the simple Dutchman, he was captured, imprisoned until coort, and tiied for an assault, with in-tent to kill. Hans was the principal witness and when he was doue testifying the State's Attorney asked him if he thought old Tom shot him with malice. Ob, no ! Mein Gott,' said he, with astonishment depicted iu every feature of bis face, 'he shot me mit a mooskit.' The explosion that ensued from judge, lawyers and spectators was perfectly terrific for a few minutes, and it was with difficulty that order aud quiet was again restored. After the verdict old Tom was asked if he had anything to say.— Kising slowly from his -eat and placing bis hands on the rail in front of him, ' I hev,' said he, with a long nasal drawl. " Now, Jedge, if a feller goes to shoot a hawk what's fiyin' away wid his chicken and he axerdentally hits that taut eyed, Dutch sou of a sea cook in de legs, is he got to be put iu jail fur it T" There was no more order in court that day. Old Tom was not jailed for shooting the hawk and when he left for home Besty sat demurely in front of him with the brown jug iu her lap. How a Newspaper is Made- There are from HUOO to 110,025 pieces ol type iu the column of every large city newspaper, the number varying according to the size of the type used. Agate, non-pat lei, minion and brevier are most frequently used on the principal dailies. Agate, which is the small-est ol the types named, is employed chiefly for advertisements, quota-tions, loug speeches, etc., uonpariel, the next size larger, for news arti-cles, and either minion or brevier for editotial or semi-editorial mat ter. When it is desired to give unusual prominence to certain ar-ticles, l hey an- "leaded,9 that is to sat thin strips ol metal, called '•leads,' are inserted between the lints of type, thereby rendering the matter more open, and theielore more easily legible. Sometime.-, but Very rarely, articles are -'dou-ble I -aded," that is to say, two '•leads" are inserted between each line ut t\ pe ; the mallei is then very striking in appearance. There are from 1,090 to 2,020 words in au average column ol haded type, and trom 1,370 lo 2,7.>o in one of solid type. There are trom loo to 275 lines in an average column, accord iug to the size ol (he type. Every letter, every stop, every note o< in-terrogation, mark of exclamation and quotation mark is a separate piece ot type, and has to be taken up Biogly ill the process of "Compo sit ion." The "composing room," the place where the t\ pe setting is done, is a distinct, very important and inter-esting department ol a newspaper office. It is in charge of a foreman, who has between forty aud sixty "compositors," or printers, under him, each ol whom has a complete cases ol type iu a wooden box; be fore which he stands when at work. This box is divided into little par titions, each containing a letter, Stop or dash of the various types used in llii IWlife. The punters are known, i.if by name, but by numbers. As soon as the manu-script, or "cop\," as they call it, is received from the editorial rooms, it goes to the foreman, who cuts it up into "takes,"' or shares, of about one tenth of a lo'umn each, and distributes it at ig his men. It is on this account that manu-script must be written on one side o t the paper only. Each ••take" i s marked with a letter aud a number; lor example, an article of four pages is received, the first page is cut up into five pieces which are uumheied res-pectively a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4, and a 5, and so on according to the number ot "take." The printers then begin then work, picking out the type with their lingers, piece by piece, and droping it into an iron receptacle known as a 'stick' which they hold iu their hands When they have finished their "lakes." they drop thcui into a brass dish or "galley," which is numbered aud lettered to corres-pond with the "copy," the man hav-ing a 3 drops it ou that part of the ■•gallc.v" marked a 3, aud so on until the ■'galley8 is full. It is then given to the "proof-taker," who takes proofs and hands them to the "proof-readers," who mark any errors the printers may have made. The printers have to correct these errors themselves; different modi-fications of tins rule being made, however, in the various otlices. After the type is set and corrected, it is put into the form and arrang-ed under the direction of the fore-uiau, who receives his instructions Irom the night editor. The columns are then "justified." or made even, the "forms'' are "locked np" and sent down to the press room to lie screwed on to the press, when the printing proper begius.—Illustrated Weekly. ^^^^^^^ A Cure for Drunkenness.—A mixture made up as follows, and t,aken iu quantities equal lo an or dmaiy dram, and as olteu as the desire tor stroug returns, will cure the worst case of drunkenness:— Sulphate of iron, five grains; pep pei miiit water, eleven drachms; spirits of uutmeg, one draebm. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant and partially sup plies the place of the accustomed liquor, aud prevents the absolute physical aud moral prostration that follows from a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks. It is to be takeu in quantities equal to an ordiuary dram, as often as the desire for strong drink re-turns— Botton Journal, | New Series No. 510. The Income Tax. It ia understood that a majority of the Southern and Western Con-gressmen are in favor of a tax on incomes, ud it is not onlikely that a bill bringing this about will be introduced shortly after the holi-days and pass both houses. "The opposition to the proposed law," says the Aogusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist, "comes from the New England and Middle States-sections of the country on which the tax will fall heaviest," and the Chronicle might have added, sec-tions which now escape, in too large measure, the burdens of the gov-ernment of which they enjoy the benefits. The principal argument employed by the friends of the measure is that ita adoption will tend to equalize the burdens of nation which are very nnevenly apportioned under present laws. For instance, it is shown that in 1875 out of a revenue from internal taxes of somewhat over 1103,000,- 000, the North-eastern States paid $4,000,000, while in proportion to population they should have paid #9,250,000, and acordfog to wealth nearly $14,000,000 The Middle States paid $24,000,000. Their contribution according to popula t'oii would have been the same amount, but their proportion ac cording tc wealth would have been •38,500,000. The Northwestern States and the Teritories paid $33,- 500,000. Their proportionate share i . cording to population would have been only $30,333,333, Hi.d accord-ing to wealth only $27,500,000 The Southern Middle States, in •ihich North Carolina Is iqoloded, paid $26,000,000, but tbefr'propor-tion according to population would b-we been only $17,750,000. and a cording to wealth only $11,500,- Ot-0. The Pacific States paid over $3,000,000, bnt according to popn-lf'ion should have paid !, -■- than $2,000,000 and according to wealth less than $2,250,000. A properly graded tax upon incomes would correct these euormous inequalities nnd make each section of the Union bear its proper proportion of the burdens of government. Of (hu enormous amount of United States bonds held in this country, folly seven tenths are owned by citizens ot the Northern and Eas-tern States. Very few are held in the West; scarcely any in the South. The bonds are non taxable and their owners pav nothing on the properly which originally cost thi'si so little and which now pays them so handsomely. A man who or»« a million <•' the bonds, from veliich he derives an annual income of forty or fifty thousand dollars, does not pay a cent for the protec-tion and benefits of government. The contemplated legislation would do away with such unjust discrimi-nation in favor of the wealthy classes. Experience has shown that a wisely regulated income tax is the fairest method of taxation to which a government can resort. A large portion of the revenue ol d fron graphic combinations, made in much simpler shape than in the most primary stages of phono-graphy, are easily made by elec-tric actiou, ai .1 as repidly as the sounds are attered. The main value of this instrument is that it will do awr-y with all necessity lor telegraph ojierators, requiring only one mail in an office, aud abolish iug a vast amount ot intermediate red tapeism in the telegraphy. Its greatest advantage, however, will be to the newspaper press ol the country, for with one ol the simple instruments the composiug room, copy from the instrument can be furnished to the printers, whose only previous preparation will be a day's study of the phonographic alphabet in order to become famil iar with the signs. Once familiar to the pi inter, he'eaaMake a piece of this copy and set it up in type as readily as reprint. A person to whom a message is addressed, un-derstanding the signs, could read it as easily as though printed in Roman type. The instrument is being rapidly perfected, and the inventor has no doubt of fnf great success aud useful ness ii the world's affairs.—Atlanta Constitu-tion. What Did Oeorge Washington Know? We don't like to be irreverent-bat would like to ask. What did our fore-lathers know t What, for instance, did George Washington know t He never saw a steamboat. He never held his car to a telephone. He never sat for his picture in a photograph gallery. He never re ceived a telegraphic dispatch. He never sighted a Krupp gun. He never listened to the "fizz" of au electric pen. He never saw a pret-ty gitl run a sewiug machine. He never saw a sell propelling engine go down the street to a fire. He never beard of evolution. He uev-er took laughing gas. He never had a set of store teeth. He never atteuded an International Exposi-tion. II.' never owned a bonanza mine. He never knew " Old Prob." He—but why go on 1 No; when he took an excursion it was ou a flat boat. Wheu ha went off ou a train it was ,a mule, train. When he wanted to talk with a man in Milwaukee he hud to go there.— When he had his picture taken it was done in profile with a piece of black paper and a pair of shears.— Wheu hu got the returns Irom back counties, they • had to be brought in by a man with an ox cart. When he took aim at the enemy he had io trust to a crooked-barreled old flint lock. When he wrote it was with a goose-quill. When he had anything to mend his grand mother did it with a danm.g needle,— When be went to a lire he stood iu line and passed buckets. When bo looked at a clam he never dieunied it was any relation ot his. When he went to a concert he heard a cracked fiddle and an insane clario-net. When he had a tooth pulled he sat down and never left off yell- When he cot out of teeth he Great Britian is derived from it tax upon incomes, and there is every '"£• reason to believe that it WOOld gammed work well and satisfactorily in the | United States Incomes of $3,000 and under should be exempt, trom taxation and on incomes of mine than $3,000 the tax should In-graded— the rate being made high-er as the income grew larger. Be sides the justice ot such a law the amount ol money derived from it would enable Congress to reduce the rate ou products, etc., now too heavily taxed—for instance on whiskey and tobacco, the duty upon which is found to be very-grievous to our people, particularly those of the mountains, who have little or no other source of ready niouey than their fruit and Corn. and which cannot be niitde availa ble under existing circiimstauces on account of the heavy tax ou brandy and whiskey. The Telephonograph What is Claimed lobe Ih' Most Re-marlcable Instrument Yet Diseor-i ml. But it has been reserved for an Atlanta man 10 discover a possi-bility beyond all these. We are not permitted at this time to state specifically all the points belonging to the invention in question, but we cm say that an examination ol ; the "oiking model leaves no room to doubt of its successful applici-tJon lor the purpose designed. The gentleman of whom we speak has1 carefully watched the progressive movements heretofore mentioned,; and trom them he conceived tbe j combination for thai is what hel wanted an international show be sent tor Lafayette and ordered his friends up from Old Virginia with I the specimens carefully labeled ill bottles, * When he once got hold of I a nngget of gold from au Indian Chiel he felt rich. When he wanted ; to know anything about the weath er he consulted the ground hog or ! goose-bone. When—but why go on f What did such a man kuow ! Who was he, anj way ? A Very Strang Story. Two singular im idents, which will furnish nuts to crack to be-lievers iu the supet natural, have come to light in England in regard to the recent loss ot the Avalanche in the British Channel. A lad, who was a great friend of one of the ap-prentices who was lost, made ar rangements to accompany him down the channel and come ashore with the pilot, but at the last moment before sailing he was seized with such an Indefinable and uugovem able misgiving thai he declined to go, anil thus escaped aim isl certain death. The ippteuti'.- who was lost had a rain, vel dog which was very fond ot him, and which an-swered to a sin nl dog whistle which be carried. On the night ol the shipwreck his mother and aunt were in the sitting room and the dog in the kitclu B. Betwei n !) and in o'clock the ladies were startled by hearing a shrill whistle upstairs, ili sound resembling thai ol the dog whistle nsed bv the young man.— The dog beard it also, gave his IISUHI recognizing bark, and Imoud- claims Inn instrument to bej where | ed up stairs, where he supposed1 hhiiss bv sound could be telephoiiically master was. The whistle w-ts heard transmitted and phonograpbically just a'»on« the time tin:: the Avar registered iu visible sigus capable j anohe went down, and it was heard translation Tui - seems of the points of ceil am and prompt into written language, at first glance an almost inconceiv able achievement, but a slight rei-erence lo tbe method employed should dispel all doubts: telephoiiomaph" is I he name new combination, and i.s are a follows : First. Telepl es. as iu common nse, lor lbs transmission of the sounds of I he speakvi'- voice. Second. A telegraphic instrn ment oi the same nature as the printing telegraph, whereby the sounds may be registered by pho-no graphic signs upon slips of pa-per as in the printing telegraph. Third. A delicate and ingenious | instrument which indicates the slightest or loudest tones, and | produces currents that open the precise key that would indicate them. , Fourth. An alphabet ol rounds arranged upon phonographic priu ciples, bv which every combination of sound's and inflection iu lau-goage can be fully indicated The eutire machine is electric and automatic, and the phono | o\ wo credible witnesses, whose testimony was confirmed by the response made to it by the dog of the lost sailor. Sheep and Dog3- Hr-MtH", I>>e- '-"-'• '*"" To the Editors of tht Dispatch: Farming iu Virginia H up-hill work, resulting maiuly from three i-aii.-es.vi/: Worn oat lands, bad -,ia,i-. and trespasses with dogs Worn out I mils may be 1 and but im und am five of the junliiig. renovated by seeding in grass leedrbgoi grazing with Bheep this process is rendered almoo pos.-ibio by tbe prominenc* protection jiven to dogs. living the experiment on a acre field with » small Sock -lo-ep. and although 1 tak precaution to house them at night they are so worried in the day by hunters with dogs that it makes the experiment impracticble. Sheep ate so timid that the appearance ol yelping hounds and cuts among them sets back the thrift of the bheep so much as to render good aud successful breeding impossible. For the Patriot. Whither Drifting Where do we stand to-day, This -he cloee of 18T7, Are we -till further a way, Or • e we Mam Heaven f O let as exemine oor hee-ru, And see if all ,, well, If nearer the e»leeti»l world. Or bearing down to HeU, Ah ! jee let m atop dear one, And eee whereon we stud. Whether on the solid rock, Or ou the crumbling send. . If uot ajpon that solid rock, The nuly safei, given, We must he farther Mill from God, still further off from Heaven. O, then I warn TOO SOW. Lift np your heart in prayer, To God, our Father, in the akiea, To show you when you are. _ D- L. C. High Point, N. C. HOUEHOLD RECIPES Cur-ant Saucr.—Vat in a small saucepan a pint of Espngnole sauce, a' pinch ot cinnamon on two tablespoontnls of currant jelly ; mix well, boil five minutes, preen through a uapkin into another saucepan, add four ounces of dried currants, boil two minutes longer and serve in a sauce bowl Steued Beef—Boil, peel and cut in slices a sullicient quantity of red beets; try a chopped onion in two ounces of butter, add an ounce of Hour and dilute with a pint of good broth ; mingle well; set on the fire till itboils; then add the beets aud season with salt and pepper ; boil slowly ten minutes longer, and finishing with two parts of butter and a tablespoonful of vinegar, serve. Cold Slaugh.—Shave cabbage fine, scald half pint of vinegar, mix one small teaspoonful ot norn starch in two thirds cap of cream, (or condensed milk a very little • liiiincr.i with oue egg well beaten and a little salt, pour the scalded vinegar ou the mixture very slowly so as not to break the egg, then boil until thick, pour hot on tbe cabbage, a few capers aud olives will improve tbe slaugh for those who are fond of such things. Tbe above is a very nice dish to eat cither with tried or scolloped oys-ters. Sponge Cake.—Take the weight of ten eggs iu the finu white sugar, and the weight of seveu eggs iu .-ilted Hour; beat briskly together to fifteen minutes the sngarand the yolks of twelve eggs: then lutothis stir the grated peel and juice of oue lemon, the white of the twelve eggs beaten to a very stiff troth, anil lastly the Hour. Stir in these in-gredients/ juicklr, and bake imme-diately in a brisk oven. The pro-portions here given will make three !oaves,|imd if skillully compounded, will result iu a superior sponge cake. Pen Soup.—Use half a pint, or •even ounces ol dried peas, tor every two quarts ol soup >ou want. But them iu three quarts ot cold water, after washing them well; bring them slowly to a lioil : add a bone, or a bit of ham, if you have it to spare, one turnip, and one carrot peeled, one onion «!uck with three cloves, and simmer three hours, stirring occasionally to pre-vent burning; theu pass the soup through the sieve with the aid ol a potato masher and it it shows any sign of settling stir into it one tablespoonful each of butter aud Hour mixed together dry, this will prevent settling; meantime fry some dice of stale bread, about two slices, cut half an inch square, in hot lat, drain them on a sieve, and put them in the bottom of tbe soup tureen in which the |>ea soup is served ; or cut some bits ol verj hard stale bread, or dry toast, to use instead of tbe fried bread. By the time the soup is done it will have boiled down to two quarts, aud will be very thick aud good. 1'u.sts Top End Ihncn.—Mr, Bruin ol Newark, N. .1., in a discussion at the American farmers' club, agreed with 1'rolessor Brewer, and said posts should be set top eud down. Mr. Hudson took issue with the New Jersey farmer, and advocated posts butt eud down. Whereupon President Ely and various other members reiterated the first cry oi -top end down," the majority being ou this side. Mr. Curbs briefly gave the theory of placing posts top end down : the wood contains ells through which the sap lines and falls. Seta post butt down—the natural way—and capillary attraction will draw the water from the ground through these pores, hence the jiost is dryer wheu put top end down. As a rule, the older the growth the poor er the timber; what is known a-second growth usually has the pre-ference. Salt water will preserve wood almost indefinitely; hence posts which aie salted wheu put down will last much longer than without this precaution. A farmer having experience with chestnut posts said that he had tound that chestnut poets of young timber lasted much longer than old ; that those set top eud down. Also, that smaller |K>sts, say three to four inches in diameter, outlast larger [tosts. The best size for en-during is Irom lour to eight inches in diameter ; the larger sizes above live inches to be split. FARMER'S COLUMN Study the Soil It is in vegetable as in animal life; a mother crams her child ex-clusively with arrow root—if be-comes fat, but, alas! it is rickety, and gets its teeth very slowly aad with difficulty. Mamma is igno-rant, or never thinks that ber off-spring cannot make bone, or, what is the same thing, phosphate of lime, the principal balk of bone, out of starch. It does its best, and were it not for a little milk and bread, perhaps, now and then a little meat and soup, it wonld have DO bones and teeth at all. Far-mers keep poultry; and what la true of fowls is true of a eafbage, a turnip, or an ear of wheat. If we mix with the food of fowls a sulli-cient quantity of eggshells or chalk, which they eat greedily, they will lay many more eggs than before. A well fed towl is dispos ed to lay a vast number of eggs, but cannot do so without the mate-rials for shells, however nonriasang 'ii other respects her food may be. A fowl with tbe best will in the world, not finding soy lime in the soil, nor mortar fssta walla, no.- calcareous matter in her food, Is in-capaciated from laying eggs at all. Let farmers lay such facts as these, which are matters of common ob-servation, to heart, and tranfer the anrlogy, as they may justly do, to the habits of plants, which are aa truly alive, and answer as closely to evil or jndieious treatment, aa their own horses. A New Foosi ahx Horses. A new kind of mash for horses is now coming into nse. It is thus described by the California Far ner: It is composed of 2 quarts of oats, 1 of bran and a half a pint of flax seed. The oats are first placed in the stable bucket, over which is placed tbe linseed, add boiling water, then the bran, cover the mixture with an old rag and allowing it thus to rest for five hours ; then stir the mass np well. The bran absorbs, while retaining ' the vapor and tbe linseed binds the oats and bran together; a greater quantity of flax seed would make the preparation too oily and less relished. One leed per day is sufilciea4j it is easily digested; and and is especially adapted to young animals, adding to their volume rather than to their height, giving substance to the frame. 1'rol. Sampson reminds us not to over-load food, i-i connection with the amelioration of stock. He consid-ers oats, so generally given sheep, as objectiouab.e and approaching the unprofitable : rams generally received 1 pouud of oats daily; ewes hall the quantity. Oats torm ing an exciting food, are especially suited to rams during the season they are to serve, but for hasten-ing the development ol young sheep they only build up the bones not the flesh. What is High Farming. An American farmer ol note, alter visiting England and cxamin. ing with llu-ciitic.ii eye of a prac-tical and experienced agriculturist the system pursued there, says: "I am thoroughly confirmed iu my old faith that the only good farmer nl our future is to be the "high farmer." Tin re is a widely prevail-ing antipathy among the common farmers ol our country against not only the practice ol high tanning, bill against the us- nl Hie phrase by agricultural wi •. i ■>. Tins is all wrong, and should be at once cor-rected. Through seine misconcep-tion ol the meaning ol (he phrase, and ol Ps application, they have come to believe it synonymous with theoretlical "book laiigled notions,'' boasted progress, followed by dis-appointed and final failure. This is all an error. High [arming sim-ply means thorough cultivation, liberal manuring, bountiful crops, good leed, ami pav ing profits there Irom. li i- n it strange that mis conceptions have arisen in tbe minds of doubting farmers who have been eye witnesses to some of the spread eagle uxperiments of en-thnsiastic larmers, better supplied with money obtained in a business I bey knew how to mauage than With practical experience on the I a i in. Boiiutilul crops and paying profits, oi course, are what larmers who are depending upon tbe farm lor an II.come are striving to ob-lan. ; and every yeai as it passes is reconfirming the opinion that prof-its are small, aud will grow lie^tfiu-full) less where high fanning is not practiced." fioir to Cure Cancer*.—Make a tea ot the common red clovei Drink of it freely ; say as much as a pint a day. Oo this aud yonr canc-r will disappear. I have known of it curing in four cases, one when the doctors had tailed to give any reliof whatever. Waste of Land. If a farm of 100 acres is divided bj fences into lields of tea acres each, there are five mile• of femes. II each ictii— now is one rod wide, no less than 10 acres of the land are occupied bj them. This is equal to six and one fourth per cent, ol the i.ii.a aud the loss of the laud is exactly equal to a ohai |6 ol ix aud oue fourth per cent, on the whole value of the farm. But neatly ever} leuice low in the coun-try is made a nursery for weeds, which stock ih, whole farm, and make an immense amount of labor necessary to keep them from smoth-ering the crops. Much damage always results to the crop from these weed.-, and il thebC i-xpuuses are add.-.l to the til -t oue, the whole will easily sum np to L'o i>er cent, "r a t..\ ol oui li'th the valne ot the taim. To remedy this, we would have lewei Luces, or we would clean ami SOU down the. ler.ee rows to grass or clover, aud mow them twice a year. Ten acres ot clover or uinotli.v would at least supply a farm with .seed aud a few tons of hay every year. We would iu short, consider the fence rows as a valuable part of the farm, and list' them as such.—Amricaa Agri-culturist. ^^^^^^^^^^ The tomato is one of tho most poweiful aperients and in all a lice lions ot tbe liver, where calomel is generally used, it is the most ef-lective and least harmful remedial agent known to thi profession.— Vrof. Bennett. IntMaW
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [January 16, 1878] |
Date | 1878-01-16 |
Editor(s) | Duffy, P.F. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The January 16, 1878, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by P.F. Duffy. |
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Full text | w»+ ', / < > ." j ' 2 •' THE PATRIOT PUBLISHED WEEKLY ,r GREENSBORO, N. C. IBLISHEI) IX 1-vll'J si LM! In--.! News i Vrm\ rut r i ariably wi elTaucs: - x m.Ml,-'$l.u.".. .: Postage ■ ff~\ , „--...'- i.tiwr- w The Greensboro Patriot. Established In 1821. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1878. UA'ERTISINQ. - paj ■>'■ « ,:: *!' • n . DM i|U»«»nj l« I 4 I I I I HI I I-I : 12 I" bm s- Vi 1- 2.1 - Ij %u li U 30 :u; 5tl ' I 140 . fifty per ,.. 5" Met.' -I »<•-- rtraiora' no- .-,,■, kJTrrtiP""- Professional Cards. \Y »AI II I. I I 11J>« IU. st oil A « \I.I»M ELL. '• i - : . ,, Cuiirl "I Uarid- .. il llx klen- .1 of ltl» i ' ti - ■ UK C1LMER, . i '/; i/ /.[if Qre< iboro. I i ITS. \y IC. K «•■ I'ltorj KKSPECTKITLLY Ills PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ../' Urn nshoro. I I l> llll. SAME »•> THOSE ; I-I Practicing tht ' ''.V ■ OHM V. l!\lllll-l.i:H, ,| .KNKV AT I.AW. N I I I - « be , i 1... ■ ■ _-i»| I. I . tluu**. .1 ■• II '•I-I- IV. I. Ml. & (,i;K(.t»K 1'. ATTORNEYS A T L AW .• i, ■. BOKO, N. < . - . .. i federal w ■ I* a i IT Written fur "The Bsltiniorean Stray Thoughts of a Sad Heart |1V DAISY. Good bye.mj home,'now»ns»l«avsthee, In distant laud, to roam ; y,, I Dar«r can forget thee, M own dear ciltist'" home. M.v home, and childhood', happy hours lUrr flitted by too fust, And with item blossosaed lovslj llowere, Too fair, too bright to laat, Thrre was a time when I wan gay, \Va» thoughlleM and wan wild ; Hut ah I that time has llowu away. And I am not a child. There ia no voice to cheer me now ; No bnille to chitoe away The clouds that hhaduw my young brow And anxious fear- allay. No longer now tin- golden raja Of life's gnat glorious light [llann mv path, make l>nght my days, And chase the gloom of night. I ban is no touch to charm away Thbl tierce and constant pain, Which makes my heart its only prey, That I may he glad again. li it then a shad" of darkest hue Iiims all thai ..nee VM bright; It draws the heavy curtains down, And all is dark as night. iiii memory! crystal glittering wings Comes ever 10 me now A loving fact-, a genial Nulls, A pure and pallid brow. I bee a pail of loving eyes — So gentle auil so mild— When beaming with maternal love, SI..- kisa.;d bar darling child. A v ision eomei again to me, And with it there'll a dread -. li whispers - ftly to my heart ; •' Thai she 1 love is dead." There, lying in the lonely grave, The grief 1 dare not smother : (sod doee aol give —WO canuol have ltus one dear angel mother. in my eorrow, grief, and pain. The proun-o now is given, I u.il n our Falliei's blessed house I- •drrj beau and UtaUrl. I'tlemiilt, Md. D. A. L R. F. ROBERTSON, URliKON DENTISTS, .V. c. I. . - I. -:,l i can ■ :■■ .1.(1 :!,. - in i n.-1 ■ utlance i - Ma r ke t .-• ...■ I : . | ■ • . .- ■tV.\ if sX»oro BOOAV s '^CH&S. D. YATES.- ILOAN", ral Insurance Agent. I! & WILSON'S HANK IRO N «'. w 'I. It. lto«. HIT, ■ Dry Goods, 1 i'-. Notions, and Geuta (ithlll.S, '• tiiontlie il is gitl il I again .. 1 uvite m> ^ 11) * .. ! i N I IKi.l.'i M.W stock ■' . . week to lo ■.I w M. II, KOGAKT. IEK, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS, liiti :<», s. r. i mpanieM: A M ■ g, ■ M I •■ - . i ii I, ; :• .i«m I,.K*;.UOU ■-,--1 n.ouo1 ..i.i '.I l.l.VI .- - -' .1.1"" Va , l»0,00tl CHAS. G. YATES, ■ . Kit IN "l>v GROCERIES 'hjx ,imi Iron. '•-,..■: UanufaGionr il IRON PIPES, AC. ■ ■ uabora -B AO-O - I ali or BarUr. lANd CO., lesale Healers in : -'"VI. MEUCHASDISB, '' boro, .V. c. From the S,.utherner, Hans Kipper. 11\ SliiMA. liana Kipper was a virifable Dn'rimini ot tin- lvi|> \'an Winkle t>pi-. llt>v, he t'ver got here re-niaiiiH a irjHlerv lo thin tlaj, but true it is that one tine morning- he turned up in oue of the little tuwnd mi the banks of the Roxnoke, stolid, ill link, ignorant of English, and Kmoking like a house a tire Alter wandeiini; about (or a lew ,!,;'. s he settled upon a spot on the ii,.nk nl the rivet, but little higher tli.tn the swamp by which it was surrounded, and built hiui a hut from such material as he lound lloating iu the water, where lie sat himself down to meditate and smoke his pipe. His vocation was that of a usher-man ; his occupation smoking, and there ia no doubt that he would have been sitting there to day, at the door of his hut, mending his ■ uets and complacently smokiug his pipe, had he nut, iu a lit of drunken-ueas, fallen into oue of his own Dutch uets and been drowned. To he day of his death he knew i but little more of English than the ; price ol a bunch of fish, aud, to I every Question upon any other sub-ject than that of his wares, bis in- | variable reply was yah, nein, or I nii-litx femtay. Nevertheless Hans had some , most excellent • qualities amoug a lew bad ones. He was not quarrel-some or abusive for the reason, doubtless, that his anger always got cool before he could liud words iu which to vent his spleen. II he ever swore, no one was the w iser t>l it unless soil tausend or duiuur Wizen, invariably uttered . bj him without changing a muscle Of his lace or moving his (at, blue eves from the direction iu which they happened to be gu/.ing at the time, might be construed into a vio-lation oi the third commandment. His wins; quality was a propen-sity lor drinking mean whisky, which lie rilled srlinnji/iK, aud smok-ing bad tobacco. His great weak ness was a susceptibility to the charms nl the fair ses, and it was upon tlnf rock that poor Hans was doomed to split. I:ie unlv thing on earth that ever could move him from his ini-perturbation was the sight of a woman ; and one never passed him without the exclamation "HeinGott in hiuiiuel vat makes deni voomans look so goot !" tailing from his lips. On these occasion" he would thrust his hands to the bottom of his ca paciouB pockets, stare straight ahead and smoke furiously until she was out of sight. Afterwards it seemed that he was ashamed ol having betrayed his feelings in this II inner, lor he would remain for I an hour perfectly impassible, ami not i word could be got out of him concerning his foodoan tot the lair MX beyond nichtx ferttay. There lived, not far from ttao's peHielul abode, another fisherman, aud his wile, as different irom him in every particular, save one. drunk enness, as black is from white.— <'narrclsome as cats, they spent the greater part of their time in hair-pulling aud scratching each oth.-r's faces. Wicked as pirates, they iu- • rlarded their couversation with spicy oaths and choice blasphemies. With not a friend in the world they did not seem to desire to gain one. The man was a deformity ; with tusks protruding from under his up-per lip, his face always wore a most repulsive griu, while his feet, con-torted from their natural position until the toes pointed directly to-wards each other, gave him the ap. I pearance, when he walked, of hav-ing on heavy wooden clogs. The woman, on the other hand, bad some pretentious to beauty. She was tall and well formed, with dark hair and eyes; and straight and lithe as a reed. It is perfect'- a-accountable how she evei to mate with such an abortion ..= old Tom Whitlock Had she found a more highly favored companion,and kinder master, in the man oi her choice her lot in life might have been quite different. Tired of the life she led and anx ions for any change that promised better-treatmeut, she singled out poor Hans, knowing well his infat-uatiou for anything that looked like a woman, as the readiest means of accomplishing her purpose to canape from her brutal lord, and at the same time gaining a protector. Poor Hans ! As many a better man has done before, and since, he fell a victim to the wiles of a wo-man. To her proposition to >come and take her to his bouse in old Tutu's absence, he assented with a ready yah, and a grunt, like that of a hungry pig, intended tor a laugh. " And if Tom comes for me,' said she, " you won't let him take me away V "Tausendtuyfels nein, Ich—'and an expressive gesture demonRtra ted to her entire satisfaction that if he came Hans intended to pummel him soundly. The day on which she was to el'jpe with Hans soon arrived. Two guns fired in quick succession was the signal agreed on between them fhat old Tom was out of the way and the coast clear. Getting into his canoe, he pad-dled up to the bauk in front ot her door and sat there, stupidly g.i/mg at the smoke as it curled gracefully from the top of her mud chimney. How long he would have remained there without making his presence kuowu, he himself, probably, never conjectured, aud he might have :e in.lined there staring at the top ol the chimney till old Tom came back and tlitew him into the river, had she not accidentally spied him, through a chink in the house, and came to the door. To her inquiry if he was ready, the same guttural yah was return ed, without once taking his eyes from the chimney-top, or inteirupt ing the regular pulls ol smoke Irom his mouth. Her preparations to leave being a little delayed for once excited Hans' impatience, and he gave ex-pression to mote consecutive words tuau he had ever beeu known to utter at any one time iu his life. " Tuouer blitzen voman.-.' said he, " vas fur you not coom I 1 gifs you schnapps; you gits tioonk' alery tay mit me ; ve vaah all de essen touu mi', trinken." Whether she was moved by his appeal, or whether she even under-stood it, is not known, but any rate she soon transferred herself and a small feather bed, the only article of comfort she possessed, to the canoe aud they put oft from shore, he utteriug never a word aud only evincing his satisfaction by pufBug huge clouds of smoke Irom his mouth, while she sat facing him and doing all the talking. Swiftly and smoothly the little bark, laden with so many bright anticipations tor the future of both the occupants, glided along the stream, propelled by the powerful strokes of liaus' broad asheu pad-dle, while the little wavelets rippled musically uuder its bow. A gentle breeze fauued their eager faces and wrinkled the surface ol the waters as far as the eye could reach.— Joyously the little birds sang, and the grey squirrels chattered among the green trees on the shore. The rays ol the declining sun sparkled among the wavelets on the bosom of the river, aud marked out a broad shining track lor them to fol-low. Everything was propitious aud all nature conspired to aid them in their dight. They reached the shore in safety But alas lor human expectations ! When Betsy had lauded aud gone up the bank, and Hans had .-iio.il deled the bed preparatory to follow ing her to the house, a rough hail liom the river broke the stillness of the eveuiug air aud caused them both to look hurriedly round. Oue glance was sullicient to re veal to the fleeing pair the injured husband iu hot pursuit of the guilty wife and her abductor. Bitterness was on his tongue, vengeauce iu his eye, murder in his heart and an old I ni'.fd States' musket, well charged with duck-shot, in his hand. Iu the bow of the cauoe, ready to do his master's bidding, stood his faith-ful cur—lauk, lean and hungry, short-tailed aud crop-eared. " Fetch that 'oomau and that bed bate, here, you cussed old Dutch cat fish, or I'll let day light through ye quicker'n h—1 kin scorch a miu ner." The threat was unheeded: the woman had already entered the house aud Hans was doiug his best to drag the bed through the door liter aim. wheu old Tom laid up his gon to his shoulder aud pulled i lie tripg'er. A deafening report followed: a womau's scream awoke the startled echoes in the neighboring woods, and Hans ejaculated Tout und Ha-ijil, asjhe rolled out ot the door aud onto the bed, kicking aud sprawling as if a thousand yellow jackets were inside his ample breeches. The damage to Hans was not very seriou . His legs were pretty well peppered, but the rest of his person was intact, the bed haviug received the most of the charge. Old Tom, however, was pretty bad-ly frightened, t Inn king he had real-ly " put day.light through" Hans, feather-bed and all, he made the best of his way for the swamps ou the other side ol the river, where he remained nntil he received the news that Uans was not only not dead, but was in good health and spirits. In a subsequent attempt on the life of the simple Dutchman, he was captured, imprisoned until coort, and tiied for an assault, with in-tent to kill. Hans was the principal witness and when he was doue testifying the State's Attorney asked him if he thought old Tom shot him with malice. Ob, no ! Mein Gott,' said he, with astonishment depicted iu every feature of bis face, 'he shot me mit a mooskit.' The explosion that ensued from judge, lawyers and spectators was perfectly terrific for a few minutes, and it was with difficulty that order aud quiet was again restored. After the verdict old Tom was asked if he had anything to say.— Kising slowly from his -eat and placing bis hands on the rail in front of him, ' I hev,' said he, with a long nasal drawl. " Now, Jedge, if a feller goes to shoot a hawk what's fiyin' away wid his chicken and he axerdentally hits that taut eyed, Dutch sou of a sea cook in de legs, is he got to be put iu jail fur it T" There was no more order in court that day. Old Tom was not jailed for shooting the hawk and when he left for home Besty sat demurely in front of him with the brown jug iu her lap. How a Newspaper is Made- There are from HUOO to 110,025 pieces ol type iu the column of every large city newspaper, the number varying according to the size of the type used. Agate, non-pat lei, minion and brevier are most frequently used on the principal dailies. Agate, which is the small-est ol the types named, is employed chiefly for advertisements, quota-tions, loug speeches, etc., uonpariel, the next size larger, for news arti-cles, and either minion or brevier for editotial or semi-editorial mat ter. When it is desired to give unusual prominence to certain ar-ticles, l hey an- "leaded,9 that is to sat thin strips ol metal, called '•leads,' are inserted between the lints of type, thereby rendering the matter more open, and theielore more easily legible. Sometime.-, but Very rarely, articles are -'dou-ble I -aded," that is to say, two '•leads" are inserted between each line ut t\ pe ; the mallei is then very striking in appearance. There are from 1,090 to 2,020 words in au average column ol haded type, and trom 1,370 lo 2,7.>o in one of solid type. There are trom loo to 275 lines in an average column, accord iug to the size ol (he type. Every letter, every stop, every note o< in-terrogation, mark of exclamation and quotation mark is a separate piece ot type, and has to be taken up Biogly ill the process of "Compo sit ion." The "composing room," the place where the t\ pe setting is done, is a distinct, very important and inter-esting department ol a newspaper office. It is in charge of a foreman, who has between forty aud sixty "compositors," or printers, under him, each ol whom has a complete cases ol type iu a wooden box; be fore which he stands when at work. This box is divided into little par titions, each containing a letter, Stop or dash of the various types used in llii IWlife. The punters are known, i.if by name, but by numbers. As soon as the manu-script, or "cop\," as they call it, is received from the editorial rooms, it goes to the foreman, who cuts it up into "takes,"' or shares, of about one tenth of a lo'umn each, and distributes it at ig his men. It is on this account that manu-script must be written on one side o t the paper only. Each ••take" i s marked with a letter aud a number; lor example, an article of four pages is received, the first page is cut up into five pieces which are uumheied res-pectively a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4, and a 5, and so on according to the number ot "take." The printers then begin then work, picking out the type with their lingers, piece by piece, and droping it into an iron receptacle known as a 'stick' which they hold iu their hands When they have finished their "lakes." they drop thcui into a brass dish or "galley," which is numbered aud lettered to corres-pond with the "copy," the man hav-ing a 3 drops it ou that part of the ■•gallc.v" marked a 3, aud so on until the ■'galley8 is full. It is then given to the "proof-taker," who takes proofs and hands them to the "proof-readers," who mark any errors the printers may have made. The printers have to correct these errors themselves; different modi-fications of tins rule being made, however, in the various otlices. After the type is set and corrected, it is put into the form and arrang-ed under the direction of the fore-uiau, who receives his instructions Irom the night editor. The columns are then "justified." or made even, the "forms'' are "locked np" and sent down to the press room to lie screwed on to the press, when the printing proper begius.—Illustrated Weekly. ^^^^^^^ A Cure for Drunkenness.—A mixture made up as follows, and t,aken iu quantities equal lo an or dmaiy dram, and as olteu as the desire tor stroug returns, will cure the worst case of drunkenness:— Sulphate of iron, five grains; pep pei miiit water, eleven drachms; spirits of uutmeg, one draebm. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant and partially sup plies the place of the accustomed liquor, aud prevents the absolute physical aud moral prostration that follows from a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks. It is to be takeu in quantities equal to an ordiuary dram, as often as the desire for strong drink re-turns— Botton Journal, | New Series No. 510. The Income Tax. It ia understood that a majority of the Southern and Western Con-gressmen are in favor of a tax on incomes, ud it is not onlikely that a bill bringing this about will be introduced shortly after the holi-days and pass both houses. "The opposition to the proposed law," says the Aogusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist, "comes from the New England and Middle States-sections of the country on which the tax will fall heaviest," and the Chronicle might have added, sec-tions which now escape, in too large measure, the burdens of the gov-ernment of which they enjoy the benefits. The principal argument employed by the friends of the measure is that ita adoption will tend to equalize the burdens of nation which are very nnevenly apportioned under present laws. For instance, it is shown that in 1875 out of a revenue from internal taxes of somewhat over 1103,000,- 000, the North-eastern States paid $4,000,000, while in proportion to population they should have paid #9,250,000, and acordfog to wealth nearly $14,000,000 The Middle States paid $24,000,000. Their contribution according to popula t'oii would have been the same amount, but their proportion ac cording tc wealth would have been •38,500,000. The Northwestern States and the Teritories paid $33,- 500,000. Their proportionate share i . cording to population would have been only $30,333,333, Hi.d accord-ing to wealth only $27,500,000 The Southern Middle States, in •ihich North Carolina Is iqoloded, paid $26,000,000, but tbefr'propor-tion according to population would b-we been only $17,750,000. and a cording to wealth only $11,500,- Ot-0. The Pacific States paid over $3,000,000, bnt according to popn-lf'ion should have paid !, -■- than $2,000,000 and according to wealth less than $2,250,000. A properly graded tax upon incomes would correct these euormous inequalities nnd make each section of the Union bear its proper proportion of the burdens of government. Of (hu enormous amount of United States bonds held in this country, folly seven tenths are owned by citizens ot the Northern and Eas-tern States. Very few are held in the West; scarcely any in the South. The bonds are non taxable and their owners pav nothing on the properly which originally cost thi'si so little and which now pays them so handsomely. A man who or»« a million <•' the bonds, from veliich he derives an annual income of forty or fifty thousand dollars, does not pay a cent for the protec-tion and benefits of government. The contemplated legislation would do away with such unjust discrimi-nation in favor of the wealthy classes. Experience has shown that a wisely regulated income tax is the fairest method of taxation to which a government can resort. A large portion of the revenue ol d fron graphic combinations, made in much simpler shape than in the most primary stages of phono-graphy, are easily made by elec-tric actiou, ai .1 as repidly as the sounds are attered. The main value of this instrument is that it will do awr-y with all necessity lor telegraph ojierators, requiring only one mail in an office, aud abolish iug a vast amount ot intermediate red tapeism in the telegraphy. Its greatest advantage, however, will be to the newspaper press ol the country, for with one ol the simple instruments the composiug room, copy from the instrument can be furnished to the printers, whose only previous preparation will be a day's study of the phonographic alphabet in order to become famil iar with the signs. Once familiar to the pi inter, he'eaaMake a piece of this copy and set it up in type as readily as reprint. A person to whom a message is addressed, un-derstanding the signs, could read it as easily as though printed in Roman type. The instrument is being rapidly perfected, and the inventor has no doubt of fnf great success aud useful ness ii the world's affairs.—Atlanta Constitu-tion. What Did Oeorge Washington Know? We don't like to be irreverent-bat would like to ask. What did our fore-lathers know t What, for instance, did George Washington know t He never saw a steamboat. He never held his car to a telephone. He never sat for his picture in a photograph gallery. He never re ceived a telegraphic dispatch. He never sighted a Krupp gun. He never listened to the "fizz" of au electric pen. He never saw a pret-ty gitl run a sewiug machine. He never saw a sell propelling engine go down the street to a fire. He never beard of evolution. He uev-er took laughing gas. He never had a set of store teeth. He never atteuded an International Exposi-tion. II.' never owned a bonanza mine. He never knew " Old Prob." He—but why go on 1 No; when he took an excursion it was ou a flat boat. Wheu ha went off ou a train it was ,a mule, train. When he wanted to talk with a man in Milwaukee he hud to go there.— When he had his picture taken it was done in profile with a piece of black paper and a pair of shears.— Wheu hu got the returns Irom back counties, they • had to be brought in by a man with an ox cart. When he took aim at the enemy he had io trust to a crooked-barreled old flint lock. When he wrote it was with a goose-quill. When he had anything to mend his grand mother did it with a danm.g needle,— When be went to a lire he stood iu line and passed buckets. When bo looked at a clam he never dieunied it was any relation ot his. When he went to a concert he heard a cracked fiddle and an insane clario-net. When he had a tooth pulled he sat down and never left off yell- When he cot out of teeth he Great Britian is derived from it tax upon incomes, and there is every '"£• reason to believe that it WOOld gammed work well and satisfactorily in the | United States Incomes of $3,000 and under should be exempt, trom taxation and on incomes of mine than $3,000 the tax should In-graded— the rate being made high-er as the income grew larger. Be sides the justice ot such a law the amount ol money derived from it would enable Congress to reduce the rate ou products, etc., now too heavily taxed—for instance on whiskey and tobacco, the duty upon which is found to be very-grievous to our people, particularly those of the mountains, who have little or no other source of ready niouey than their fruit and Corn. and which cannot be niitde availa ble under existing circiimstauces on account of the heavy tax ou brandy and whiskey. The Telephonograph What is Claimed lobe Ih' Most Re-marlcable Instrument Yet Diseor-i ml. But it has been reserved for an Atlanta man 10 discover a possi-bility beyond all these. We are not permitted at this time to state specifically all the points belonging to the invention in question, but we cm say that an examination ol ; the "oiking model leaves no room to doubt of its successful applici-tJon lor the purpose designed. The gentleman of whom we speak has1 carefully watched the progressive movements heretofore mentioned,; and trom them he conceived tbe j combination for thai is what hel wanted an international show be sent tor Lafayette and ordered his friends up from Old Virginia with I the specimens carefully labeled ill bottles, * When he once got hold of I a nngget of gold from au Indian Chiel he felt rich. When he wanted ; to know anything about the weath er he consulted the ground hog or ! goose-bone. When—but why go on f What did such a man kuow ! Who was he, anj way ? A Very Strang Story. Two singular im idents, which will furnish nuts to crack to be-lievers iu the supet natural, have come to light in England in regard to the recent loss ot the Avalanche in the British Channel. A lad, who was a great friend of one of the ap-prentices who was lost, made ar rangements to accompany him down the channel and come ashore with the pilot, but at the last moment before sailing he was seized with such an Indefinable and uugovem able misgiving thai he declined to go, anil thus escaped aim isl certain death. The ippteuti'.- who was lost had a rain, vel dog which was very fond ot him, and which an-swered to a sin nl dog whistle which be carried. On the night ol the shipwreck his mother and aunt were in the sitting room and the dog in the kitclu B. Betwei n !) and in o'clock the ladies were startled by hearing a shrill whistle upstairs, ili sound resembling thai ol the dog whistle nsed bv the young man.— The dog beard it also, gave his IISUHI recognizing bark, and Imoud- claims Inn instrument to bej where | ed up stairs, where he supposed1 hhiiss bv sound could be telephoiiically master was. The whistle w-ts heard transmitted and phonograpbically just a'»on« the time tin:: the Avar registered iu visible sigus capable j anohe went down, and it was heard translation Tui - seems of the points of ceil am and prompt into written language, at first glance an almost inconceiv able achievement, but a slight rei-erence lo tbe method employed should dispel all doubts: telephoiiomaph" is I he name new combination, and i.s are a follows : First. Telepl es. as iu common nse, lor lbs transmission of the sounds of I he speakvi'- voice. Second. A telegraphic instrn ment oi the same nature as the printing telegraph, whereby the sounds may be registered by pho-no graphic signs upon slips of pa-per as in the printing telegraph. Third. A delicate and ingenious | instrument which indicates the slightest or loudest tones, and | produces currents that open the precise key that would indicate them. , Fourth. An alphabet ol rounds arranged upon phonographic priu ciples, bv which every combination of sound's and inflection iu lau-goage can be fully indicated The eutire machine is electric and automatic, and the phono | o\ wo credible witnesses, whose testimony was confirmed by the response made to it by the dog of the lost sailor. Sheep and Dog3- Hr-MtH", I>>e- '-"-'• '*"" To the Editors of tht Dispatch: Farming iu Virginia H up-hill work, resulting maiuly from three i-aii.-es.vi/: Worn oat lands, bad -,ia,i-. and trespasses with dogs Worn out I mils may be 1 and but im und am five of the junliiig. renovated by seeding in grass leedrbgoi grazing with Bheep this process is rendered almoo pos.-ibio by tbe prominenc* protection jiven to dogs. living the experiment on a acre field with » small Sock -lo-ep. and although 1 tak precaution to house them at night they are so worried in the day by hunters with dogs that it makes the experiment impracticble. Sheep ate so timid that the appearance ol yelping hounds and cuts among them sets back the thrift of the bheep so much as to render good aud successful breeding impossible. For the Patriot. Whither Drifting Where do we stand to-day, This -he cloee of 18T7, Are we -till further a way, Or • e we Mam Heaven f O let as exemine oor hee-ru, And see if all ,, well, If nearer the e»leeti»l world. Or bearing down to HeU, Ah ! jee let m atop dear one, And eee whereon we stud. Whether on the solid rock, Or ou the crumbling send. . If uot ajpon that solid rock, The nuly safei, given, We must he farther Mill from God, still further off from Heaven. O, then I warn TOO SOW. Lift np your heart in prayer, To God, our Father, in the akiea, To show you when you are. _ D- L. C. High Point, N. C. HOUEHOLD RECIPES Cur-ant Saucr.—Vat in a small saucepan a pint of Espngnole sauce, a' pinch ot cinnamon on two tablespoontnls of currant jelly ; mix well, boil five minutes, preen through a uapkin into another saucepan, add four ounces of dried currants, boil two minutes longer and serve in a sauce bowl Steued Beef—Boil, peel and cut in slices a sullicient quantity of red beets; try a chopped onion in two ounces of butter, add an ounce of Hour and dilute with a pint of good broth ; mingle well; set on the fire till itboils; then add the beets aud season with salt and pepper ; boil slowly ten minutes longer, and finishing with two parts of butter and a tablespoonful of vinegar, serve. Cold Slaugh.—Shave cabbage fine, scald half pint of vinegar, mix one small teaspoonful ot norn starch in two thirds cap of cream, (or condensed milk a very little • liiiincr.i with oue egg well beaten and a little salt, pour the scalded vinegar ou the mixture very slowly so as not to break the egg, then boil until thick, pour hot on tbe cabbage, a few capers aud olives will improve tbe slaugh for those who are fond of such things. Tbe above is a very nice dish to eat cither with tried or scolloped oys-ters. Sponge Cake.—Take the weight of ten eggs iu the finu white sugar, and the weight of seveu eggs iu .-ilted Hour; beat briskly together to fifteen minutes the sngarand the yolks of twelve eggs: then lutothis stir the grated peel and juice of oue lemon, the white of the twelve eggs beaten to a very stiff troth, anil lastly the Hour. Stir in these in-gredients/ juicklr, and bake imme-diately in a brisk oven. The pro-portions here given will make three !oaves,|imd if skillully compounded, will result iu a superior sponge cake. Pen Soup.—Use half a pint, or •even ounces ol dried peas, tor every two quarts ol soup >ou want. But them iu three quarts ot cold water, after washing them well; bring them slowly to a lioil : add a bone, or a bit of ham, if you have it to spare, one turnip, and one carrot peeled, one onion «!uck with three cloves, and simmer three hours, stirring occasionally to pre-vent burning; theu pass the soup through the sieve with the aid ol a potato masher and it it shows any sign of settling stir into it one tablespoonful each of butter aud Hour mixed together dry, this will prevent settling; meantime fry some dice of stale bread, about two slices, cut half an inch square, in hot lat, drain them on a sieve, and put them in the bottom of tbe soup tureen in which the |>ea soup is served ; or cut some bits ol verj hard stale bread, or dry toast, to use instead of tbe fried bread. By the time the soup is done it will have boiled down to two quarts, aud will be very thick aud good. 1'u.sts Top End Ihncn.—Mr, Bruin ol Newark, N. .1., in a discussion at the American farmers' club, agreed with 1'rolessor Brewer, and said posts should be set top eud down. Mr. Hudson took issue with the New Jersey farmer, and advocated posts butt eud down. Whereupon President Ely and various other members reiterated the first cry oi -top end down," the majority being ou this side. Mr. Curbs briefly gave the theory of placing posts top end down : the wood contains ells through which the sap lines and falls. Seta post butt down—the natural way—and capillary attraction will draw the water from the ground through these pores, hence the jiost is dryer wheu put top end down. As a rule, the older the growth the poor er the timber; what is known a-second growth usually has the pre-ference. Salt water will preserve wood almost indefinitely; hence posts which aie salted wheu put down will last much longer than without this precaution. A farmer having experience with chestnut posts said that he had tound that chestnut poets of young timber lasted much longer than old ; that those set top eud down. Also, that smaller |K>sts, say three to four inches in diameter, outlast larger [tosts. The best size for en-during is Irom lour to eight inches in diameter ; the larger sizes above live inches to be split. FARMER'S COLUMN Study the Soil It is in vegetable as in animal life; a mother crams her child ex-clusively with arrow root—if be-comes fat, but, alas! it is rickety, and gets its teeth very slowly aad with difficulty. Mamma is igno-rant, or never thinks that ber off-spring cannot make bone, or, what is the same thing, phosphate of lime, the principal balk of bone, out of starch. It does its best, and were it not for a little milk and bread, perhaps, now and then a little meat and soup, it wonld have DO bones and teeth at all. Far-mers keep poultry; and what la true of fowls is true of a eafbage, a turnip, or an ear of wheat. If we mix with the food of fowls a sulli-cient quantity of eggshells or chalk, which they eat greedily, they will lay many more eggs than before. A well fed towl is dispos ed to lay a vast number of eggs, but cannot do so without the mate-rials for shells, however nonriasang 'ii other respects her food may be. A fowl with tbe best will in the world, not finding soy lime in the soil, nor mortar fssta walla, no.- calcareous matter in her food, Is in-capaciated from laying eggs at all. Let farmers lay such facts as these, which are matters of common ob-servation, to heart, and tranfer the anrlogy, as they may justly do, to the habits of plants, which are aa truly alive, and answer as closely to evil or jndieious treatment, aa their own horses. A New Foosi ahx Horses. A new kind of mash for horses is now coming into nse. It is thus described by the California Far ner: It is composed of 2 quarts of oats, 1 of bran and a half a pint of flax seed. The oats are first placed in the stable bucket, over which is placed tbe linseed, add boiling water, then the bran, cover the mixture with an old rag and allowing it thus to rest for five hours ; then stir the mass np well. The bran absorbs, while retaining ' the vapor and tbe linseed binds the oats and bran together; a greater quantity of flax seed would make the preparation too oily and less relished. One leed per day is sufilciea4j it is easily digested; and and is especially adapted to young animals, adding to their volume rather than to their height, giving substance to the frame. 1'rol. Sampson reminds us not to over-load food, i-i connection with the amelioration of stock. He consid-ers oats, so generally given sheep, as objectiouab.e and approaching the unprofitable : rams generally received 1 pouud of oats daily; ewes hall the quantity. Oats torm ing an exciting food, are especially suited to rams during the season they are to serve, but for hasten-ing the development ol young sheep they only build up the bones not the flesh. What is High Farming. An American farmer ol note, alter visiting England and cxamin. ing with llu-ciitic.ii eye of a prac-tical and experienced agriculturist the system pursued there, says: "I am thoroughly confirmed iu my old faith that the only good farmer nl our future is to be the "high farmer." Tin re is a widely prevail-ing antipathy among the common farmers ol our country against not only the practice ol high tanning, bill against the us- nl Hie phrase by agricultural wi •. i ■>. Tins is all wrong, and should be at once cor-rected. Through seine misconcep-tion ol the meaning ol (he phrase, and ol Ps application, they have come to believe it synonymous with theoretlical "book laiigled notions,'' boasted progress, followed by dis-appointed and final failure. This is all an error. High [arming sim-ply means thorough cultivation, liberal manuring, bountiful crops, good leed, ami pav ing profits there Irom. li i- n it strange that mis conceptions have arisen in tbe minds of doubting farmers who have been eye witnesses to some of the spread eagle uxperiments of en-thnsiastic larmers, better supplied with money obtained in a business I bey knew how to mauage than With practical experience on the I a i in. Boiiutilul crops and paying profits, oi course, are what larmers who are depending upon tbe farm lor an II.come are striving to ob-lan. ; and every yeai as it passes is reconfirming the opinion that prof-its are small, aud will grow lie^tfiu-full) less where high fanning is not practiced." fioir to Cure Cancer*.—Make a tea ot the common red clovei Drink of it freely ; say as much as a pint a day. Oo this aud yonr canc-r will disappear. I have known of it curing in four cases, one when the doctors had tailed to give any reliof whatever. Waste of Land. If a farm of 100 acres is divided bj fences into lields of tea acres each, there are five mile• of femes. II each ictii— now is one rod wide, no less than 10 acres of the land are occupied bj them. This is equal to six and one fourth per cent, ol the i.ii.a aud the loss of the laud is exactly equal to a ohai |6 ol ix aud oue fourth per cent, on the whole value of the farm. But neatly ever} leuice low in the coun-try is made a nursery for weeds, which stock ih, whole farm, and make an immense amount of labor necessary to keep them from smoth-ering the crops. Much damage always results to the crop from these weed.-, and il thebC i-xpuuses are add.-.l to the til -t oue, the whole will easily sum np to L'o i>er cent, "r a t..\ ol oui li'th the valne ot the taim. To remedy this, we would have lewei Luces, or we would clean ami SOU down the. ler.ee rows to grass or clover, aud mow them twice a year. Ten acres ot clover or uinotli.v would at least supply a farm with .seed aud a few tons of hay every year. We would iu short, consider the fence rows as a valuable part of the farm, and list' them as such.—Amricaa Agri-culturist. ^^^^^^^^^^ The tomato is one of tho most poweiful aperients and in all a lice lions ot tbe liver, where calomel is generally used, it is the most ef-lective and least harmful remedial agent known to thi profession.— Vrof. Bennett. IntMaW |