Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-06-08

uLrUaE OF coaN AND Pas. DR.. Philips, Of.
Mississippi. gives the following directions for the
cultivation Of Com and Peas, on pages S36-7-S Of
Patent Office Report for 1851
Coax The mode of culture prefer, and therefore.
deem best. is to break up land deep-6 inches.
and through, in large beds. say OF 80 feel run on
rows with shovel plow, feet distance this IS In
variable with me. giving fewer or more stalks in the
row. according to poverty richness of land. Drill
rate of about half bnshel per acre cover
with an iron-tooth harrow. When corn Is fully up,
run round with narrow shovel pillow, (the bull
tongue, also called scooter plow clean with the hoe
very nicely, leaving grass or weeds /; thin out
either at this working, or wait Tor wet spell OF
weather. In few days, run round again with SIX
inch shovel pIOw. prefer these plowIngs to be deep
and near 10 corn. The latter blowing should mould
the plant well. IT, by this tine grass has begun 10
appear in the middles, would an ron-tooth har-
row to tear up clods and destroy all grass, If 1t re-
quireG running the harrow twice. In the course OF
some weeks after last blowing if time permitted,
would hoe the corn. leveling the ridge, cutting up
grass, and cleansing around stumps and trees; and
two weeks, it, after second blowing, would
another furrow with the largest shovel or use the
sweep, which breaks out the 1t not broken out
would do early enough TO keep the rows clean.
When my corn is in bunch, sow peas, and either
use the harrow, or sweep, shovel pow, TO cover.
which cleans the cow and lays by the corn; though
if not hoed previously, now give hoeing. so as TO
leave the corn-6ed clean for peas and corn.
Peas. ! use the pea of the long variety up
on all land, principally as renovator, using 10
Is quarts per acre, being scattered regularly
possible the entire surface before the last ploW-
ing. This has been practice of some Is or lS years
standing and SO thoroughly am convinced OF the
value OF this pea a Tenovator that intend TO ave-
rage hereafter bushel per even If have to
plant and cultivate merely for seed. am now salts
fed that sow not enough.
find that where the shade is most dense, and
earliest the land, has improved most. | have corn
lar olo areh nd cultivated in in 1870
which will this year give 40 bushels per acre, to
which there never has been applied anv manure; no
other aid used, saved rotation OF two years in cot
ton, and one in and peas. The land being good,
did not deem it needful to make any greater change
this year in and to give better growth OF vine,
&c., under ! shall next year continue in
corn, and thus bring it under my usual rotation
two wears in and peas, and in cotton, tor all
ordinary land. S9uthern CuHiUatOr.
Nor SupERsTIrIous. Not at all superstitious, is
the cry. "Oh I'm not snperstitious {! " and yet
who likes to take an unsolicited look the left
shoulder at the moon. How few do we find willing
begin any enterprises on Friday, that poor unncky
child of The CALENDER, full of mists and omens.
'rhere. " cries the good lady with serious face
when the salt cellar tips over, there will be our
rel Just sarlin you live, before twelve hours,
with sOmebOdy,'-a shrewd prediction! ''And, {"
says another, when the dog bowls under my win
dow, and the lamp goes out three times, and hear
pistol in the middle of the night, and dream that
my hest teeth fall out, or that see empty coffin,
somebody's got to die.'' Alas for that unfortunate
somebody! Ills shroud is making his grave is
digging; his last narrow home sounds under the
- atlap-plan" of the hammer-if it is stormy, for
it is not true that all signs fail in dry weather.
The fact is just this. The sioutest heart has its
moments Of credulous belief. ask any aged man of
your acquaintance if he ever dreamed dream
sight that forehoded coming trouble, and he will
tell you yes. Ask old lady-heaven bless the
venerable name-tf she ever wound yarn over the
cellar stairs at midnight, went TO bed backward,
ll,, g
foolish sort of rhyme about rne loves, hearts, DARTS
eyes, complexion etc. Nine out Of will say yes
though to be they had no faith in it; a whit
not particle; they only tried it ust-wsll, just be-
cause.
Now with regard to dreams, we have had all sorts
we haS like say all sizes. We have burie d our
best friendsand wept over them with grief as hearty
real bereavement might call forth and We have
walked up half laughing, half crying over the deu-
sion-yet happy to ind our household unbroken. We
have heard Trays ominous howl, when he was bay
ing the poor innoce mt moon, without even taking the
plecauton of turning our left shoe three times,
and, astonishing to relate, nobody we knew of
died after it. We have broken looking glasses, and
they have served for a twelvemonth after, 10 make
- nature hideous," by dividing the human face di
vine into squares and triang and patching the eyes
the nose and the mouth upon forehead, without
doing further injury. AMI yet for all that, shall
say that entirely free from superstition, if
it may be called for we have yet found any
living mortal that was. OHre Branch.
The ORIGIN OF " HAIL COLUMBIA In the year
1898, when patriotic feeling pervaded the country,
and when there several parties in the field, Mr.
Fox, young player, who was more admired for his
vocal than hisrionc powers, called one morning. up
his friend, Mr.. Hopkinson, and after stating that
the following evening had been appointed for his
benefit and expressing great fear for the result,
not single box had been taken, begged his friend
to do something in his behalf "If," said Fox,
"you will write patriotic 10 the tune
Of the Presidents March,, feel sure of full house.
Several ofthe people about the theatre have attempt
ed it, but they haye to the conclusion that it
cannot be done; yet think you may succeed" Mr..
Hopkinson retired to his study, and in short time
wrote the first verse and chorus, which submit
ted TO Mrs. Hopkinson, who sang then, at piano
and proved the to be COM
patibIe and In keeping. In this way the second and
other were written, and when Mr.. Fox retur-
ned in the evening, he received with delight the song
as it now stands.