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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-16
AGRICULTURAL.
From the North Carolina Farmer.
THE CULTIVATION OF THE
GRASSES

Mr.. Editor: Why do not the farmers
of North Carolina pay more attention to
raising the grasses for their stock Not
one in twenty in my section Of the State
has a single meadow or grass lot. You
may depend upon it, we greatly miss the
figure in neglecting this part of good hus-
bandry. If we made pleanty of good hay,
we could keep more cattle well, should
have finer beeves, could make all our own
leather, save much of our bacon, increase
the quantity and quality of our manure,
improve our lands, get along more smooth
ly, and live more comfortably. Plenty Of
hay would relieve us when fodder fails,
and supply our animals more abundant
food whenever that turns out an average
crop. It would save corn and other grains,
and enable us to sell more of our portable
cattle, more flour, more corn, more cotton.
This is a fac. that cannot be contradicted.
Will not our farmers awake awake from
their slumbers | entreat the believing.
but indolent, 10 cut off their Incidence and
apply themselves with energy to this bu-
siness and | would urge upon the doubt
ing, if there be any, to read the results Of
the tens of thousands of successful expert
ments that have been made, and venture
at least on small experiment, to satisfy
themselves. Let them put few acres in
good order-make them rich and mellon,
and have them we'll set in grass. By good
management. it need not interfere at all
with their other crops. They need rot
cultivate an inch of ground less in other
produce, nor make one seed less. Should
any of them fail in benefting themselves,
it will be because they did not do the thing
right, and should by all means try again.
Perseverance, like truth, is mighty, and
| WILL SUCCEED.
II is little difficult, | admit, to fix upon
the most suitable grass for the South. But
the Orchard and the Herds grass succeed
very well, asI does the Clover in many pla-
ces, even in North Carolina. MiIIet, |
doubt not. would succeed admirably but,
after all, it is probable the Guinea grass
will prove to be emphatically THE grass
for the South. am enclined to this opin-
ion from what learn from other sources,
as we'll as from the following extracts from
agricultural papers
1t is said in the American Farmer, Of 1923,
vol. 5, page SO: -" In Jamaica. it is consider
ed next in importance to the. sugar cane
Most of the grazing farms throughout the IS
land were originally created, and are still sup.
ported by this valuable heritage. Hence the
plenty Of horned cattle for the planter and The
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-16
proved, July 30, 1916.
CHAP. 65.-AN ACT

Giving the assent OF Congress to change of
the compact entered into between the Uni
ted States and the State of Arkansas, on her
admission into the Union.
Whereas the Congress of the United States.
by an act supplementary to an act for the ad-
mission of the Stale of Arkansas into the I'm
ion, and to provide for the due execution of
the laws of the United States within the same,
and for other purposes, approved June TWEEN
ty-thrd, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in
the fifth proposition made to the State of Ar
kansas. and which was subsequently accepted
by the General Assembly of the State of Ar
kansas, provided that the two entire townships
of land located by virtue of an act Of Congress
entitled IAN act concerning a seminary OF
learning in the Territory of Arkansas" appro-
we'd the second dty of March, eighteen hun
bred and twenty-seven, which, by she first re-
cited act of Congress, were vested in and con-
irmed to the General Assembly of the State
of Arkansas, to be appropriated solely to the
use and support of university in said State :
And whereas the General Assembly of the
State of Arkansas have, by their resolution,
approved December eighteen. eighteen hun
dred and forty-four, asked for modification
of said compact to authorize said General AS
sembly to appropriate said seventy-two sec
tons of land to common schoo! purposes
Therefore,
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butcher. which is such that few markets in
Europe can furnish beef at cheaper rate, or
of better quality than in Jamaica.
ut yields a quantity of grass almost ex-
ceeding belief.
= No kind of grass supports the heat of the
sun better and from the first of July till kill
ed by the frost, it will afford constant and
abundant supply of green food.
"One hundred plants would enable poor
family to keep cow in town, or supply dray
horse with green food all the SUMNER
Holiness Southern Farmer and Market
Gardner, page 81, paragraph 1S9 This
highly cultivated grass is cultivated as green
food for horses and cattle. No grass that is
grown at the South can compete with it in
quality, yield, or Fapidity of growth. Horses
and COWS are particularly fond OF it, and the
latter will give an increased quantity of rich
milk when freely supplied with it.
"The Agricultural books will tell how 10
cultivate it, but there is one thing that must
be attended to, which is, il must have rich land :,
and be securely protected from stock, and not
graZed, but cut and fed. l, must be cut eight
or ten times year; indeed, if the ground
you plant be fair quantity for the cattle you
feed, you may cut all the time, for by the time
you are over regularly, the patch you COM
menced will be ready for the knife"
Let our farmers get themselves in stock
of this grass, and arouse themselves TO me-
thodical and improved system of farming,
and they will find themselves on the road
to PROSPERITY.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-16
,proved. July 90, 1916.
CHAP. CLAN ACT

Making appropriations for the support Of VOL
unteers and other troops authorized to be
employed in the prosecution of the war
with Mexico, during the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and for
ty-seven.
[SEc. L. Be IL enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United States Of
.4merica IN Congress assembled, That the fol-
lowing sums be, and the same are hereby ap-
propriated to paid out Of any money in the
treasury, for the support of volunteers and
other troops authorized to be employed for
the prosecution of the war with Mexico, du-
ring the year ending the thirtieth June, elgh-
teen hundred and forty-seven.
For the regular army, viz:
For the pay of officers and men, provided
for by the act of eighteenth June, eighteen
hundred and forty forty five thousand nine
hundred and forty-four dollars;
For subsistence Ct said officers, three thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars;
For forage for said officers horses, three
thousand seven hundred and forty -four dollars;
For clothing for said officers servants, three
hundred and sixty dollars;
For recruiting the rifle regiment, nine thou
sand one hundred and eighty dollars;
For clothing and camp equipage for same,
twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and nine
ty-three dollars;
For forage for same, ftty-two thousand tw o
hundred and fifty four dollars;
For volunteers Gncludng officers, &c. an-
thorlzed by acts passed the present SESSION.
and their operations, and those of the regular
army, in the field, viz:
For pay of officers, two hundred and twelve
thousand and ninety-six dollars
For subsistence of officers, &c. one hundred
and fifty-two thousand seven hundred and
sixteen dollars;
For forage for officers horses, 6fty-three
thousand three huL-fed and seventy six dol
lars;
For clothing of officers servants, thirteen
thousand eight hundred dollars;
For pay, &c. sc. Of volunteers, authorized
by the act of thirteenth May, eighteen hnn"
dred and forty-six. three million four hundred
and ninety-seven thousand dollars;
For subsistence in kind, one million fifty
four thousand and five hundred dollars;
For camp equipage, &c. one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars;
For medical and hospital supplies, forty-fve
thousand five hundred dollars;
For ordnance, arms, &c. three hundred and
forty-four thousand dollars;
For supplies, transportation, &c. of the
quartermaster's department, six million three
hundred and nine thousand and twenty-seven
dollars.
Approved, July 90, 1916.
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.Pproved, July 80, 1916.
CHAP. JOAN ACT

For the relief Of Amos Kendall.
Sec. u Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United States Of
.4merica in Congress assembled. That the First
Auditor and Comptroller of the Treasury be,
and they are hereby, authorized and directed
to settle the account of Amos Kendall, late
Post Master General Of the United States, for
such counsel fees as said Amos Kendall has
paid, or bound himself to pay, and all other
necessary and usual expenses incurred, and
not repaid by the plaintiffs, by reason of the
suit instituted against him by William B.
Stokes and others, in the circuit court Of the
District of Columbia, and decided in his favor
by the Supreme Court of the United States at
January term, eighteen hundred and forty five;
and that the Secretary of the Treasury be-, and
he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay,
out of any moneys in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated, whatever sums Of money
may be allowed to him by said accounting Of
fcers pursuant to the provisions of this act.
Approved, July 30, 1916.
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CHAP. 65.-AN ACT

Making appropriations for certain objects of
expenditure therein specified.
[SEc. IL Be 1T enacted By the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of tie United States Of
america in Congress assembled, That the fol.
lowing sums of money be, and the same are
hereby. appropriated for the several objects of
expenditure hereafter speci6ed-viz: For the
pay and mileage of members of Congress and
delegates, one hundred and seventysIx thou
sand five hundred and forty EIGHT dollars. For
the expenses of the mission to the wild In
dams of the prairie, including the expenses Of
a delegation of these Indians to the city of
Washington and back to their homes, and al
so some presents to them, fifty thousand dol
lars: PrOUided, That no other or higher com
pensation shall be paid to the commissioners
appointed to negotiate with said Indians than
is authorized by the act approved seventeeth
July, eighteen hundred and torty-two, nor
shall any expenditure be allowed by the &C.
counting officers but what shall appear to
have been proper and reasonable, and which
shall, in all respects, be supported by the
most satisfactory vouchers: Preceded. further,
That no account shall be allowed, except for
objects authorized in the instructions to the
commissioners Prooided hoaUeuer, That bills
or drafts, heretofore drawn and negotiated by
said commissioners, or either of them. on the
commissioner of Indian affairs, in pursuance
of instructions and authority given to them.
shall be paid out of said appropriation, hold
ing said commissioners to due accountable
ty fof the amount or proceeds of said bills or
drafts. For fulfilling treaty with the Kansas
lndians-viz interest on two hundred thou
sand dollars at five per cent, in lieu of invest
ment per second article of treaty of fourteenth
July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, ten
thousand dollars for defraying the necessary
expenses of negotiating the treaty, payment
to the missionary society of the Methodist E.
piscopal Church, for improvements, erection
of mill, and for provisions per same article
and treaty. two thousand dollars for expen-
ses of surveying the western line of lands ce-
ded, and marking the same, per third article
of the same treaty, one thousand dollars.
Approved, July %, 1916.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-16
OCTOBER.

SOLEMN, yet beautiful to view
Month Of my heart thou dawnest here,
With sad and faded leaves to strew
The Summers melancholy bier.
The moaning of the winds hear,
As the red sunset dies afar,
And barof purple clouds appear,
Obscuring every western star.
Thou solemn month l hear thy voice,
1t tells my soul of other days,
When but to live was to rejoice,
When earth was lovely to my gaze
Oh visions brighton, blessed hours,
Where are their living raptures now
| ask my spirits wearied powers-
ask my pale and fevered brow!
| look to Nature, and behold
My life's dim cmbems, rustling round,
In hues of crimson and gold
The years dead honors on the ground:
And signing with the winds, I feel,
While their low pinons murmur by,
How much their sweeping tones reveal
OF life and human destiny.
When Springs delightsome moments shone,
They came in zephyrs from the West:
They bore the WOODLANDS melting tone,
They stirred the blue lakes CLASSY breast;
Though Summer, fainting in the heat,
They fingered in the forest shade;
But changed and strengthened now: they beat
In storm, DER mountain, glen, and glade.
How like those transports of the breast
When life is fresh and joy is new;
Soft as the halcyon's downy nest!
And transient all as they are true
They stir the leaves in that bright wreath,
Which Hope about her forehead twines,
Till Grief's hot signs around it breathe,
Then Pleasures lip its smile resigns.
Alas, for Time, and Death, and care,
What gloom about our way they fling!
Like clouds in Autumd's gus,y air,
The burial-pageant of the Spring,
The dreams that each successive year
Seemed bathed in hues of brighter pride,
At last like withered leaves appear,
And sleep in darkness side by side.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-16
CHAP. 6O.-AN ACT
To exempt canal boats from the payment Of
fees and hospital money.

[SEc. IL Be 1T enacted By the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United States Of
.Americn in Congress assembled, That the own
er or owners. master or captain, or other per-
sons employed in navigating canal boats with
out masts or steam power, now by law re-
CURED to be registered, licensed, or enrolled
and licensed, shall not be required to pay any
marine hospital tax or money; nor shall the
persons employed to navigate such boats re-
ceive any benefit or advantage from the ma
rine hospital fund nor shall such owner or
owners, master or captain, or other persons
be required to pay fees, or make any compen-
sation for such register. license, or enrolment
and license, nor shall any such boat be sub
ect to be Iibelled in any Of the United States
courts for the wages of any person or persons
who may be employed on board thereof, or in
navigating the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all
acts and parts of acts repugnant to the provi-
sons of this act, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.
I'll, 1oAr
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VOL. 3.---NO. ).

dent of the United States shall appoint FIVE
commissioners, (any three ofwhom may act,)
citizens of the said town or county of Alex
andrla. and freeholders within the same, who
shall be sworn before some justice of the peace
In and tor the said town or county, TO dis
charge the duties hereby imposed upon them
faithfully, lmpartially, and TO the best of their
ability. The commissioners, or any of them,
shall proceed, within ten days after they are
notified of their appointment, to fix upon the
time, place, and manner Of taking the vote
within the town or county Of Alexandra, and
shall give notice of the same by advertisement
in the newspapers of the said town. And on
the day and at the place so appointed. every
free white male citizen Of the United States,
who shall have resided in said county of A
lexandria for six months preceding the time
when he offers his vote, insane persons and
paupers excepted, shall vote viva voce upon
the question of accepting or rejecting the pro-
visions of this act. The said commissioners
shall preside when this vote is taken, and dee
eide all questions arising in relation 10 the
right of voting under this act- Within three
days after this vote is takeh , aforesaid, the
said commissioners shall make out three stale
ments of the result of this poll, upon oath, and
under their seals. Of these, on shall be
transmitted 10 the President Of the United
States, one to the Governor of the Common
wealth of Virginia, and one shall be deposited
in the clerks Office of the county court of
Alexandra. If a majority Of the votes so Civ
en- shall be cast against accepting the provl-
slons of this act, then it SHALL be void and of
no effect; but if majority of the said votes
should be in favor of accepting the provisions
of this act, then this act shall be in full force
and it shall be the duty of the President of the
United States to inform the Governor of Vir-
GINA that this act is in full force and effect,
and to make proclamation of the fact.
Sec. 5. find be 1t further enacted, That, in
such case, the right of property in the half
square in Alexandra on which stands the
courthouse, bounded by Columbus, Queen,
and Princess streets, and the half square on
which stands the Jail, bounded by Princess,
st. Asaph, and Pitt streets, shall be convey
ed to the Governor Of Virginia, and his sue
cessors, for the use Of the county and corpo-
ration Of Alexandria forever; and the Solicit
tor of the Treasury Of the United States is
hereby authorized and required, in the name
and on the behalf of the United States. TO
make all the proper and necessary convey
ances for that purpose.
Sec. 6. And be 1T further enacted, That
Congress will in no event assume and pay the
debt, or any part thereof, now due by tbs cor
poration of the city Of Alexandria.
Approved, July 8, 1916.
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A GOOD JOKE =!

Not many months ago, 'green 'un,'
DESTROYS of showing the length and breadth
of his affections for lovely lassie. for
whom he protested more than an ordinary
attachment, falling upon his Bonded knees
and calling Cupid to witness his alteration
of his heert's idol, he begged her, in mer-
cy, to receive small present from him as
a token Of his plighted vows. The lady
having no particular love for her passion
ate swain. rejected his offers. Nothing
daunted, he continued to urge upon her
his greatest desire, until she finally con-
sented TO accept from him anything which
might please his fancy. With this, he
impressed upon her soft, delicate hand a
fervent kiss, and bidding adieu for while
to his souls brightest treasure, he boun-
ded off at the speed Of an antelope, to the
centre Of the city, when he began to tax
his Imagination to its fullest extent as to
what his present should be. Being near
a Restaurant, and perceiving the bill Of
fare, thought struck him that few fine
oysters and savory beef steak, would
more than delight his faslidious and charm
ing dulcina. The idea was barely con-
ceived, when he rushed into the tavern,
ordered peck of shell oysters, which he
encased in red bandanna: a beef steak.
which he crammed into his hat, and in a
few moments was again at the door of his
lady-love's residence, rappng loudly for
admission into her lovely and divine pres
ence. II an instant the lady made her ap-
pearance at the door, and to her great con-
sternation, there stood her admiring sutton,
with large drops of sweat clustered around
his brow, almost breathess, bearing in his
'kerchief a quantity Of huge shell fish, in
his hat piping hot steak, highly season.
ed, while under his arm penny loaf stuck
forth its browny end, to show its eager
ness for the fray. The effect was electro
cal. In an instant the lady became con-
vulsed with laughler-the inmates of the
house ere aroused-and the whole family
circle, after Witnessing the scene, became
one of merrinen The chagrined lover,
feeling mortified at the mirlhful reception
of his gifts, grew indignant, dropped them
at the door, made his exit. and has not
since been heard Of; but the bare mention
of oysters and beefsteak' in that neigh
oorhood, is ever heralded with burst of
laughter. PAUL Pay.
A proverb sayeth, :. Labor while the
day lasts, for the time cometh when no man
can work. There were no Printers
when that was written.
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CHAP. 35.-AN ACT

To retrocede the county of Alexandra, in the
District of Columbia, to the State ofVirglna.
Whereas, no more territory ought to be held
under the exclusive legislation'given to Con-
gress over the District which is the Seat of
the Gen. Government than may be necessary
and proper tor the purposes OF such seat;
and whereas, experience hath shown that
the portion of the District of Columbia &C.
ded to the United States by the State of
Virginia has not been, nor is ever likely to
be, necessary for that purpose; and where
as, the State of Virginia, by an act passed
on the third day of February, eighteen hun
dred and forty-six, entitled An act accep-
ting by the State of Virginia the county of
Alexandria, in the District of Columbia,
when the same shall be receded by the
Congress of the United States" hath sig
nifed her willingness to take back the said
territory ceded as aforesaid Therefore
SEC. |. Be At enacted by The Senate and
}iotSe Of Representatives Of the United States Of
america in Congress assembled, That, with
she assent Of the people of the county and
Sown of Alexandra, to be asceT:ained as here
inafter prescribed, all of that portion OF the
Distrc: of Columbia ceded to the United
States by the State Of Virginia, and all the
flights and jurisdiction Herewith ceded over
Ehe same, be, and the same are hereby, ceded
and fo0eVev reiinquished to the State of Vir-
GINA, IN full and absolute right and jurisdlc-
'ion, as we'll of soil as of persons residing or
to reside thereon.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
nothing herein contained shall be construed
to vest in the State of Virginia any right of
property in the custom-house and post-office
of the United States within the town of Alex
andra, or in the soil Of the territory hereby
recedcd, so as to affect the rights OF individ-
uaIS or corporations therein, otherwise than as
3 the same shall or may be transferred by such
individuals or corporations to the State OF VIr"
4 GINA.
8 SEC. }. And 1T further enacted, That the Ju-
hSdlctIon and laws now existing in the said
territory, coded to the United States by the
N'ate OF Virginia, as aforesaid, over the per-
sons and property Of individuals therein resi-
Glng, shall not cease or determine until the
S'ate of Virginia shall hereafter provide, by
idW' for the extension of her jurisdiction and
!uo'cial system over the said territory hereby
Sec. 4. And be IL further enacted, That this
oS s. shall not be in force until after the assent
=. S ne people of the county and town of Alex
s% suna shall be given to it IN the mode herein
oS provided. Immediately after the close
'"e PFesen; session Of Congress, the Presi-
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[SEc. IL Be 1t enacted By the Senate and
House Of Representatives. 9fhe United States Of
.4naerica an Congress assembled, That the as
sent of Congress be, and is hereby, given to
the change in said compact asked for by the
said General Assembly, SO as to authorize and
empower the General Assembly of the State
of Arkansas, and they are hereby authorized
and empowered. to appropriate said seventy
two sections of land for the use and benefit Of
common schools in said State, or in any other
mode the said General Assembly may deem
proper, for the promotion of education in said
State.
Annrnrod Inlu 90 1919