The Greensboro patriot [February 25, 1869]

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Established in 1824. | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1869. {New Series No. 55.
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How FARMERS SAAT. MONEV.—
They takeyooil papoa, amlrciid them.
They kc«'|> account of lann operations.
They do dot leave tlieir implements
Mattered over the farm, exposed to
rain, snow or heat.
They repair tools and buildings at
the proper time, and do not suffer a
subsequent three fold expenditure of
time and money.
They use tlieir money judiciously,
and do m>t attend auction sales to pur-chase
all kinds of trumpery that is
"cheap.''
They sec that their fences are well
repaired, and their cattle are not found
gHUdng in the meadows or grain-fields
or orchards.
They do not refuse to make experi-ments
in n small way of many new
things.
They plant fruit trees will, care for
them, and of course get good crops.
They practice economy by giving
their stock good shelter during the
winter, also good food, taking out all
that is unsound, half rotten or mouldy.
They do not keep tribes of cats and
snarling dogs around tlieir premises,
who cat more in a month than they
are worth in a lifetime.
Lastly, they read theailvertisements
know what is going mi, and frequent-ly
save money by it.
At HOOK STORE.
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It is claimed that tbn following poem was
discovered during the past year, in the hand-writing
of MII.TON, and was never previously
published or known. Some critics, however,
doubt its claim to so high authorship. It
eeouis, nc vcrthcleas, worthy the muse of the
immortal bard:
ax EriTAPH.
He whom Heaven did call away
Out of this Hermitage of clay
Has left some reliquos in this Urn
As a pledge of his rutnrn.
Meanwhile the Muses do deplore
The loos of this their.*paramour,
With whom ho sported ere the day
Budded forth its tender ray.
And now Apollo leaves his lays
Aud puts ou cypress for his haya:
Thc sacred sisters tune their quills
Only to the blubbering rills,
And while bis doom they think upon
Make their own teats their Helicon ;
Leaving the two-topt Mount divine
To turu votaries to his shriue.
Think not, reader, me leas blast,
Sleeping in this narrow cheat
Thau if my ashes did lie hid
Under some stately pyramid.
If a rich tomb makes happy, then
That Boo was happier far than men,
Who, busy iu the thymy wood,
Was fettered by the golden flood
Which from the Amber-weepiog trae
Distillcth down so plenteously:
for so this little wanton elf
Moat gloriously enshrined itself.
A tomb whose beauty might compare
With Cleopatra's sepulchre.
'pallor, 'lai'liii A 4 o..
I, i aim ' IttaUr, I,.
Hardware. Callery, iron, steel.
Helling. I'a< king. Wagon Hu-ll
Hal. *.«'..
(' raer Main Street and Market Square,
Norfolk, Vn.
A i. ..I at Kaw Vork Prices. :U:llm
W. B. FARRER,
w*ATCIl MAKKR 4 JKWKUm
Oreensl N. C,
lli>- constantly on lunid a
splendid assortment of
Fatk ionablt ■Inrrliji.
and ...me splendid " aleht$
AM) CLOCKS,
Wkieh Kill be sold
A I" for (ASH!
M:, limes. Watches, (links and
. Ii. n; ami on short notice,
site the Old Albright Hotel, Earl
Street ln-ly
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J ) :.|i Mam M RU-IIMUND, VA.
I and "tt holrsale dealers in Paper,
I ' '.'. it wrapping and
r [■ Kuvel..|ies, Twins. Blank Books, ,\
11 ■ ■ i\- ■. - |III ■: in ( ,.-li foi Rugs.
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ii the past three years.
I owei Seeds are sent by
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d ;.-..' i I- doguea will be sent
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BOXKS f.-.':|i'w
The Farmer.
hi the stetat of Ay face ihall UoM Ml OrtwI.
THE USES OF CSLOVEB.
It would be very difficult to over-es
timatc the importance of this crop to
all farmers engaged in mi veil husband
ry. Its introduction into Englandpro-duced
an entire revolution in the agii
culture of thai country. Clover laid
the foundation of all those wisesystems
of rotation thai have since made the
agriculture of England a model, and a
marvel to the world. Sor is its impor-tance
much less in those, sections of
America where its values are appreci-ated
and rightly applied.
Clover is valued:
1. As a forage plant.
2. As a fertilizer.
As a forage crop, its special value i*
in the quantity and quality of the bay
that it produces, and the rapidity with
which it comes to maturity afterbeing
sown. Clover properly cured, isalmost
equal togood Timothy, for beef cattle,
and much superior to allotherhay, for
milch stock. In pasture, the same re-lative
values hold, with the addition
that, for hogs, clover is a grand specif-ic,
superior, perhaps, to allothergrass-es.
The specific value of clover, howev-er,
lies in its wonderful (lowers as a
fertilizer. In this respect it isuneqnal
ill by any crop grown on the farm.—
The different ways in which it adds to
the fertility of lauds are chiefly:
l*f. Shutting the xttrfacc tif-thc toil.—
Owing to its rapid aud luxuriant
growth it soon forms a close and heavy
covering over the soil, that acts as a
mulch in protecting it from the scorch-ing
rays of the summer sun. At the
same time that the soil is protected
the weeds are smothered out, and the
land cleaned up.
•2nd. liy aerifying and disintegrating
the soil, (.'lover possesses peculiarly
long and powerful tap-roots, that pen-etrate
deep, loosening the soil and ad-milting
the air. Thus rapidly chang-ing
the physical condition not only of
the soil, but of the subsoil also.
3rd. Ly effecting important chemical
chtnyes, necessary to enrich the earth
irith plant food. Its abundance of fo
liage enables clover to gather from the
tmos phere immense stores of gases
ihat give life to the plants, which its
far-reaching roots send deepdown into
the earth. Thus a clover field be
MAN-CUE.
Iu reply .1. U. I.yman cited the au-thority
of a lecture 1sit"-ly read before j
the Illinois Industrial University for
the statement" that rich and fresh as
the soil of that State is snpposedtobe,
the average crop .if com per acre is'
less by nearly one third than in poor, |
despised Ken Jerw.\. The average for
the riiitm! States i> '.'."• hushels an acre.!
In Illinois, with :• soil and climate pre- '
eisely adapted to corn, the acre-age is
m> higher. In Jersey it i- I3,in South
Carolina '•■ Illinois "itu'lii t«i give
from ti'- inosl of those deep, rich loams
of hers 73 bushels of corn" per acre.
Salem County. New-Jersey, does i
parts of Monntouth, ii' the farms of
Eastern Pennsylvania often yield that
latteli. it is lteeanse those fat mers are
awoke t» the importance ofsaving and
applying all the-manure they can.—
When llUn.iis takes the lead ofeastem
Statesasn eorn-growingsnrface—when
she heals Jersey on her sands and
Connecticut amid her stones—she will
cease to wondci .>hv iliK Club is so
mncfa in earnest about fertilizers.
persons who, by inclination and expe-rience,
were utterly unsuitable for the
posts they pretended to occupy. Tarty
politics has well nigh ruined many a
better institution than a railway, and
yet the system has been prevalent at
the South of appointing presidents and
directors purely on account of their
politics, their degree of ability being
usually ascertained in proportion to
their partisanship. The clerks also,
and underlings, have had their merit
determined by the closeness of their
kinship to the politically selected offi
cers of the corporation; and a few
others have sometimes been appointed
from injudicious feelings of charity."
The Trade Journal designates railroads
thus managed as close corporations,"
operated for the benefit of a few with-out
regard to the interests of the stock-holders
or the public, and charges that
the narrow, selfish policy pursued by
such lines has impeded transportation,
and thus given rise to " the express
business,"—a bnsincss which the rail-road
companies should do, and would
do, if the consolidation principle pre-vailed.
It sayc their contracts with
express companies amount to " selling
out the public" to those companies.
The IVa*?e Journal sums up the advan-tages
of consolidation as follows:
The economy of consolidation will
always recommend it to the railroading
financier. The rolling stock can al-ways
be worked to greater advantage
when held and ruled in quantity than
when of limited amount. The machine
shops can lie worked upon a larger and
more profitable scale. The salaried
officials will of necessity be less numer-ous
under one administration, eontrol-ing
a thousand miles of road, than they
could possibly be under ten different
administrations, each governing one
hundred miles. The Pennsylvania Cen-tral
road, continuing live different lines
between Philadelphia and Chicago—
the Atlantic and Great Western—the
Consolflatton—its i>enrnts.—tuvcn.n,c,.ii combin™ a t i,o..n o. f. three, r.o.a.ds~ bet„w„e,e„n„
• Norfolk, Virginia, and the Tennessee
t. it in the March and September numbers |in0 t|10 Chicago and Northwestern.
of /'< lioir'x Jteiiiic several instructive iw/ifh.eight connections covering 1380
and interesting articles on the subject miles, are each the instance of success-
„l railroads, the chid aim of which is fol «.ii*oliihition. Passenp.rsnowt.av-
, el from the Potomac to the Koanoke
to show how transportation may be wi(|)ont phm„(, ofm The same ar-cheapened
and how the roads may be mngement is being made with the
most successfully operated. These ar-' whole line of coastwise and gulf State
tides abound ill details not suited to ™<'s. through Georgia and Alabama.
In this little bod dust
Incurtaiucd roun
my i
d I here intrust;
While my pure aud uobler part
Lies eutomb'd in every heart.
Then pass on gently, ye that mourn,
Touch not this mine hallowed Urn;
These Ashes which do here remain
A vital tincture still retain :
A seminal form within the deeps
Of this little chaos sleeps;
The thread of life untwisted is
Into its first existeticies;
Infant nature cradled here
in its principles sppeew;
This plant though entered into dust
In its Ashes rest it must
Tutil sweet Psyche shall inspire
A sofieiiing and M-tilic lire,
And in her fostering arms enfold
This heavy anil this earthly mold.
Then as 1 am 1'il IH* no more
Itut bloom and l.lossoiu [as] [before]
When tins cold numbness, shall retreat
li\ a more than ekjiaiefc heut.
J. M„ Oct., PUT.-'
RAILROAD POLICY.
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are.
There
■ The New Orleans. Jackson and Great
columns „f a newspaper, mere Xnl.t]uipri nrthoad has effected a simi
however, same important general j jar arrangement in the direction of
trees.
W. S. Carpenter—Theyliaveaprac- principles laid down which are inter ; Lonisville and Memphis,
ti.e in th.se iiiaitie Stales,,,i,,H.,1vcal- ),Mill;,t„,,v,.I.viMt,.1liKentn-ader. One1 J* »«<, so many advantages does
led "hogging. rliey tnrn a big drove B • .., .. . ... this svstem afford, that with gradual
ofhngsiiitoa cornfield ai|d allow ihem relates to consolidation. In an edito- j ,,oathof oldfogyism.we may eonfldent-toeat.
and I rumple, and waste, amide- rial preface to a paper from the pen \ ]v \e*fc forward to its universal adop-
Hle all the grain they can. No usage 0f Professor Forsebey, of Galveston, • tion. The effect of the adoption in the
can be ujore at war with a sound and - -Tocheapen ' *•* *™ P"*** a «"£ CTn
sung svstem. No wonder their corn ™ "' ' ' ' «be business men of the North. It
and wheat crops grow smaller. One freights on railroads we mnst cheapen ,^^ m fhat ,,„,„,,,„*,. ;„ as prPva-idea
casually mentioned in this letter I the roads themselves," the editor says: ■ \onf South as North, and it will tend
like, lie does not sow clover in his "That the railroad svstem of the ' to prodnde such a fellow feeling be-prchard*
Thatisright. Cloverdraws UllitodStoteB umsC uuderg0 ntuum tw^tfce^a^ct^aswrarrfemW
its food from the subsoil, and its effect j . . , „.;„_ ..„;,„ | to tlieir mutual advantage, both politic-ally
and commercially.
In the consolidated Unes reaching
from Norfolk to Bristol, we have a shin-ing
example of the valuoof the consoli-dation
principle. One spring moves
the whole machinery. There is no con.
fliet of interest or management; no
jealousy; no division of power. These
roads move in harmony between the
seaboard and the Southwest. They
connect the fields of production with
the ocean, and are building up a direct
trade in which all the tributary regions
lying beyond may participate, if tlieir
railroads will adopt the same principles
of management. We invite attention
to the above extracts, for they relate
to a subject of the first importance to
ns all.—Richmond Whig.
isdryiny in its nature, and will spoil |«"»d iinpr.vemcut is becoming daily
the productiveness of an orchard. I! more obvious. The first reform must
never put timothy among my apple ! ,.0,lsjst j„ consolidating all radical line*
'■ under the largest possible schedule. There
' must In* no transfer from read to road,
drapes in Los Angela Comity, CaU-P^ no cniir(je f„r transfer from road
fornia.-H is stated on go.nl authority ^ watcf The rai.roa,i niust be^imi.
that the village of Los Angeles conn ; )atc(, as m>.u.,y m ](0Ssible to water
ty will this year produce one million'
and a half gallons of wine, to make ac-
>EAI i i;s
i Street, Rich- ;
• l-'i.-sh and comes, as it were, i\ great reservoir foi
all kind- of1
art. and ... e,
selects .. i I
s;sTEELE,
DEALER is DRY GOODS,
. - . iment of all O-MKIS
M .
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COOKING STOVES.
A ' ■•! u ■ soldebeap for CASH or
I:\KII ic. afttf
I MI i: 1.1.1 it 1.1:.
■ In receipt ..f SOeawta, I
. :. |.lat< v.i:hvotiriiniiieBieelycut,
with nit. aud brush lor marking all kinds of eloth-
W;3m J. E. O'SUUUYAHi
il
plant food. And clover itselfhei omes
a great commissary, collecting food
from the earth and air for whatever
crop that may follow.
ith. By preventing leashing. The
clover mulch breaks the force of the
hard beating rains, while the roots
hold the soil in a mat as it were, thus
preventing it from washing
~ith. At a grten manure. Perltapsno
crop is so valuable for turning under
in a green stage, as clover. In addi
tion to theimineusoauiouuiofrich veg-etable
matter in its abundant roots,
the plant itself is extremely rich in all
the materials necessary to the health-ful
growth of succeeding crops.—.Di-rtf
Farmer.
trans]>ortatioii. That is, it must carry
long distauces without delay, or charge
count of the value of table crapes ship-jof tr.uisfer) am, it mrxst transport in
ped from there to San Francisco and one direction with the same cheapness
other markets. This wine will aver-age
at least half a dollar per gallon.—
Los Angeles will, therefore, realize i*7.~>0,
(100 from her wine product. Half of
this is said to be from the Anaheim
vineyards. Probably the entire area
of land from which this wine has been
made does not exceed 8.000 acres.—
The county of San Joaquin, from 100,
0011 acres of the best average wheat
land in the State will aggregate 2,000,
000 bushels of wheat, worth, at #1.07
per cciifal, (the average price this
year.) just about 81 per bushel, or an
aggregate of $2 000 000. From these
figures it appears that about 21 000 a-eii-
s in grapes will yield as much in
value, iu wine alone, at fifty cents per
gallon, making no account of table
grapes or brandy, as 1 000 OOOacres of
the best wheat landenltivatodinwheat.
Acre lor acre, the advantage is near-
1\ tiive to one in favor of grape cul-ture.—
Vnion.
1,'rsi i ding t 'loti r—tiuano.—J. IL Cox,
Cedarvtlle, N..I: Can a clover sod be
turned and re seeded to clover? Will it
pay to top dress clover when it is nn-dera
saline iufluebect Hoes it make
any difference whether guano is plow
ed in ?
Reply.—Clover will grow so long as
thereaife clover elementsin the soil, bat
all crops do best in rotation. A top
dressing is useful wherever clover
will grow at all. All late experiments
concur in recommending the applica-tion
of manure to the surface.
and rapidity that it docs in another."
Again, says the editor of the Review
in the September number:
" The larger the extent of roads con-ducted
under a single administration
and upon a common gauge, the more the
iuterests of commerce will be promo-ted.
According to our ides, the rail-roads
are to lie managed for the benefit
of the country, and not the country for
the benefit Of the railroads. We con-cur
generally with Professor Forsebey
that ' in some portions of the South'
the railroads are almost' an incubus on
transportation.'' This we attribute to
the fact that the direction of these roads
is so often entrusted to men who know
nothing of railroad policy or manage-ment.
Hence we have seen much diffi-culty
in connecting the rail with the
shipi ling, in makinga coin inuous gauge,
in consolidating long lines under such
administrations, in delivering the pro-fits
over to express companies, in re-fusing
to make through bills and to
pro-rate freights with connecting roads,
ml generally the opposition made by
r.
AN EXTLODED THEORY.—Anobserv-ant
friend writes us that the medical
faculty have taken some interest in a
published report of the singular case
of Mr. Daniel Harrison, of Fauqnier.
This gallant soldier of the Confederate
army was so unfortunate while man-ning
an entrenchment in the Slienan-doah
Valley as to receive a gunshot
wound which carried away the lelt an-terior
lobe of the cerebrum, which
French and a few American physiolo
gists have affirmed to 1M- the seat of
reason. His couval.-cencc has been
slow; but after the lapse of fhe years
his Nearer* is pronounced almost en-tire,
and truly wonderful. lie is per-fectly
rational, and his intellect is not
in the least impaired by the loss he has
MUSIC 01 FARMER'S FAMILIES
Mrs. , West AvOn, Ct: Can any
of your Club recommend to a farmer's
family of girls some choice instrument
of music which it will not require one's
lifetime to master! We believe in
the Fine Arts generally; in music,
both vocal and instrumental. Bat oar
girls mnst " play on the gridiron, with
the accompaniment of the rrying-pan;"
they must keep vigorous in the use
of the trowel and spade, as also of
their nimble fingers when onr berries
ripen for market. I am in a great
quandary. Can't you tell me of some
good instrument besides a piano or
cabinet organ, that would be an ac-companiment
to our children's voices
and yet give them time for the various
duties and pleasures of their school,
home, and the farm!
Reply.—A melodeon is the best in-strument
to accompany the voices of
a family, because the sounds made by
the reeds harmonize with the human
voice lietter than do those made by
striking upon wires. But itisnoeaiser
to learn on one instrument than on an-other,
for the natural scale, the inter
vals, and the details cannot becbanged.
Music is a science of sounds, not of
instruments, aud to acquire it time,
patience, and perseverance are ab-solutely
necessary. Some persons will
loam sooner than others, because they
have a natural perception to catch and
to remember nice distinctions in sounds;
others, having more decided taste than
gift, supply the deficiency by diligence;
while others, naturally dull, will, by
constant practice, and with the help
of good instructors, come to perform
very well. Music gives great pleasure
in a family, and in farm-houses where
visitors arc few, it ought to be a neces-sity.
Everywhere, from New-England
to the Missouri, families hunger for
music, and in most cases the children
grow up with little or no knowledge of
it, while for the few who are taught, Im-mense
sums, in the aggiegate, an ex-pended.
The groat obstacle lies in the
want of teachers for neighborhoods of
common families, and so great has been
this need for the last generation, that
immense numbers of people are now
growing old without having even cul-tivated
their voices. From 30 to 40
years ago, singing schools were com-mon,
and a vastly greater number of
young persons in country places could
sing passably well than now. Vocal
music is sweeter, and much more ad-mired
than instrumental, and of this
it is the foundation, hence the true way
to revive the study of music is in the
cultivation of the voice. This must
commence iu the family, just as salva-tion
commenced at Jernsalcm. Those
of us with hair turning to irou gray,
and to whom the sweetest moments of
life come, when we bring up from the
past strains of almost forgotten me-lodies,
rememlier sadly and well that
time in onr youth when what was call
ed a reform in church music was com-menced,
and how rapidly the old fash-ioned
airs and methods were supersed-ed,
until, in a brief time, the crowded
church choir dwindled to a weak half-dozen,
andthcsingingwasthe dreariest,
most discordant squall that ever issued
from mortal lips. To this day it has
not recovered from the deadly blow.—
However, the. reform did not extend
to the Methodist Church, and to their
music they owe much of their power in
these modem days. Following close
lv came the complicated music for the
parlor, and now the greater part of
that which is thought necessary for
vou:ig ladies to learn is in itself so
worthless and so difficult to execute
that they might as well undertake the
study of Greek. The advice to com
men people, then, is, that the girls first
learn to sing well. No grand pianos
with carved legs, and a-olian or other
attachments, can give such sweet notes
as tlieir voices, and let the house re
sound with their melody, even though
many of tlieir songs are abeut love.—
Farmer's In*titutc Club.
POSITION nr BLBEPnro.
It is better to tx) to ateep on the right
aide, for Aen the stomach is very much
in the position of a bottle turned up-side
down, and the contents of it are
passing oat by gravitation. If one
goes to sleep on the left side, the oper-ation
of emptying the stomach of its
contents is more like drawing from a
well. After going to sleep, let the body
take its own position.
If you sleep on your back, eapecially
soon after a heart}- meal, the weight of
the disgestive organ and that of the
food resting on the great vein of the
body, near the backbone, compresses
it and arrests the flow of the blood
more or less. If the arrest is partial,
the sleep is disturbed, and there are
unpleasant dreams. If the meal has
been recent and hearty, Hie arrest is
more decided; and the various sensa-tions,
such as falling over a precipice,
or the pursuit of a wild beast, or other
impending dangers, and the desperate
effort to get rid of it, arouses us, and
seuds on the stagnating blood: and
we wake in a fright, or trembling, or
in a perspiration, or feeling exhausted,
according to the degree of stagnation,
and the length and strength of the ef-forts
made to escape the danger.
Bnt when we are unable to escape
the danger—when we do fall over the
precipice, when the trembling build'
ing crashes ns—what then f That is
death! That is the death those of
of whom it is said, when found life-less
in the morning, "That they
were as well as ever they were the day
before," nnd often it is added, " and
ate heartier than common." This last,
as a frequent cause of death to those
who have gone to bed to wake no more,
we give merely as a private opinion.^
The possibility of its truth is enough to
deter any rational man from a late and
hearty meal. This we do know with
certainty, that waking up iu the night
with painful diarrhea, or cholera, or
billions cholic, ending in death in a
very short time, is probably traceable
to a late large meal. The truly wise
will take the safe side. For persons to
eat three times a day, it is amply suf-ficient
to make the last meal of cold
bread and butter, and a cup of some
warm drink. No one can starve on
it; while a perseverance soon begets a
vigorous appetite for bieakfast, so
promising of a day of comfort.—Haiti
Journal Health.
Ai; i-:.-l'.ut few men die ofage. Alnlost
all die of disappointment, passional,
mental, orbodily toil, or accident. Tho
passions kill men sometimes, even sud-denly.
The common expression, chok-ed
with passion, has little exaggeration
in it; for even though not suddenly
fatal, strong passions sliorten life.
Strong bodied men often die young—
weak men live longer than tho strong,
for tho strong use their strength, and
the weak have none to use. The latter
take care of themselves, the former do
not. As it is with the body, so it is
with the mind and the temper. The
strong are apt to break, or like tho
candle, to run; the weak bum out.
The inferior animals, which live, in
general, regular nnd temperate lives,
have generally their prescribed term of
years. The horse lives twenty-five
years; the ox fifteen or twenty; the
lion alwut twenty; the dog ten of
twelve, the rabbit eight; the guinea-pig
six or seven years. These numbers
all hear a similar proportion to the
time the animal takes to grow to its
full size. But man, of all animals, is
the one that seldom comes up to his
average. lie ought to live a hundred
years, according to this physiological
law, for five times twenty are one hun-dred
; but instead of that, he scarcely
reaches, on the average, four times his
growing period; the cat six times; and
the rabbit even eight times the stan-dard
of measurement. The reason is
obvious—man is not only the most
irregular and the most intemperate, but
the most laborious and hard-worked ef
all animals. He is also the most irrita-ble
of all animals; and there is reason^
to lielie.ve, though we cannot tell what
an animal secretly feels, that, more
thsn any other animal, man cherishes
wrath to keep it warm, and consumes
himself with the fire of his own secret
reflections.
ailioad directors to adopt measures of I sustained. The results attending his
modern improvement essential to give
the public the full benefit of the rail-roads
for which they have paid so
dearly.""
The Trade Journal, of Philadelphia,
has an article ou •• Southern Railroad
Policy." which wo find copied into the
September number of De Bow. It says
that, "unfortunately for the stockhold-ers
in Southern railroads, the latter
have very generally been managed by
ease furnish additional evidence of the
fallacy of tho French theory, and aflord
another illustration of the truth of the
trite adage, " While there is life there
is hope."— Warrenlon Index.
Many a MicMe makes a Mucklc.—It
has been estimated, by careful calcu-lation,
that if, during the last postal
year, stamped envelopes had had been
used in every instance where postage
stamps were put on the letters aud
packages mailed in these United States,
the mere omission of those tiny squares
of paper would have lessened the
weight of the mail bags by more than
forty thousand ; winds, aud have saved
in paper alone fifteen or twenty thous-and
dollars.
The latest advertisement of an air
tight coffin is, that it protects the form
from decomposition, "and can be re-tained
in the parlor as au elegant piece Fifty thousand miners are expected
of furniture, without any anoyauce I in the White Pine district of Nevada,
whatever." I to begin operations in the spring.
RiCTEBrr BOOK m THE WORLD.—
Nothing need be said in praise of Web-ster's
Unabridged Dictionary. Its
Completeness surpasses the thought of
any one who has not examined it. Add
to this a vast variety ofclassified Pic-torial
Illustrations, of almost every
physical science embraced in the stud-ies'of
the age, with various other de-partments,
and the work is the richest
'".■.A- of information in the trolld. There-is
probably more real sawnefftm in it
than can be bought for the same a-minint
of money in any language. Ev-ery
parsonage should have a copy at
the expense, of the parish. It would
improve many pulpits more than atrip
to Funipe, and at a much less cost.—
Coriitian Adroeate.
King'n Mountain Qold Mine.—We
saw at the National Bank, last week,
about $5,000 worth of gold bullion, the
product of six day's work at the King's
Mountain gold mine-—CkarU>tte(lf. C.)
Democrat,H