The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1856-04-19
DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
,voLUME xviII-No. sol.
sweet Potatoes.
PLANTING IN 1erct Gyeumd,

The old method Of planting Sweet Potatoes
in hill aud ridges, in this dry climate aud
on our hard upper country lands, is.all wrong
Potatoes must have moisture and soft earth to
do we'll Bat they lack both i'll common culture.
Hills and ridges are the tlrest forms in which
yon can put the soil. Flat culture is the oa1y
right kind for Potatoes, or anything else, in
burning cliiAatc and on our clay upland. PO-
tatoes should be planted fiat, and may, in
that way be planted as easily, us corn.
First break up the land we'll; then lay off
rows feet wide with shovel plow; run deep
i'll the same tract with rooter, and then if you
want it perfect, deeper still in the same furrow
with common new ground coulter Next,
list upon both sides of this IN the same way;
that is, with shovel, rnotcr and couiter-one
right in the other. This makes deep work, and
thc deeper the better. 1t is soon done Your
ground is-alow ready-dccp loose and moist, and
will keep all simmer.
Now for planting and culture. With root
er draw shallow fnrrow Oh the top of the list
just over the first shovel tract, to guide you in
dropping In this drop tire seed cut the roots,
sprouts vine cuttings II or IS inches apart,
and cover lightly. Pow them a few times,
just like corn, running close to the potatoes,
with a rootcr, and finish off each working with
Il cultivator, or some other plOw to keep the
middies fiat
This mode of culture is not one fourth as
troublesome as hills; the crop is wonderful.
Dy this mode the vines never turn yellow; the
crop comes forward early in August, and the
owner has chance to talk about "small
potatoes - S""fhern C"Hirotof:
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THE WAY DENNIS McCAHx PRorosED TO
SATISFY WIpow JoHNsoN.-A son Of tho
Emerald Isle, whom We shall call Dennis Nc
Cam, had long abscnted himself from the con.
fcssonal but IL few days since he appeared
before the Priest and confessed to sundry trans
grrssions. Bnt the Priest was not satisfied,
and something like the following dialogue
passed between them:
Friest-"Now, Dennis l fear you have not
confessed all, so You had better not Keep any:
thing back. but make clean breast of it, and
tell me ALL Come, out with it,"
De"ns-"WeII, then, yer worship, if must
he after tellin' yc all about it, | sthoIe the
w 'ddcr Johnson's pig-an that's fact, yer
Worship"
Pricst-"lhat's a mighty sin, Dennis, and
you must make satisfaction TO the widows
Dennis-"Am phase yer worship, l don't
know him at allan that's fact, don't"
Priest-"M Make restitution, satisfy the widow
J ohnson."
Dcnnis-"-\n faith l don't know him; it's
meslf that don't know him bit, now, and
! that's true what I'm teIl:n' We, yer worship"
Priest-"Make her recompense; pay for the
pig, Dennis; pay Mrs johnson for the pig"
Dennis-"Och! by me sowl, an is ii That you
him, and / have not u haportb for mcsilf and
the chiIder; so what'I be the throuoc about it,
yer Reverence, if don't pay herr"
Priest-''I on will be before the iudyment
DeHnis-I shall be there, too, to accuse you
the widow Jeiiison will also bc there
DeEnis-"-tn' what will do? will the pig be
there too?'
Priest-"Yes, Dennis. the pig will be there
surely"
Dcnnis-"Och, murther! what will do thin
yer worship? Faix, and have it, Ser River
ence. III give her mp the pig thin an there,
yer worship, an SO will, am troth that sam'lI
lie after satisfying her intireI;"
TIE Coon Fellow have been
called "tffc current coin of wisdom 'mong man
kind" and one of these saying, which has been
coined i'll the mint of modern every-da society,
runs as follows: "a good fellow means good
for nothing" Who is the good fellow? By
observing a number of the individuals who
have received this label in their daily inter-
course, we have concluded that he may be
characterized follows: He is very demo-
cratic in his tastes and habits. He never re-
fuses to make an acquaintance, however un-
worthy the proposed acquaintance may be- He
is hand and gIovc-jokc and laugh with loafcr
and knave, equally with those persons Of posi-
ton who will condcscend to accept him in spite
OF his associations. He will spend his last cent
with Il pot companion of the meahest stamp,
"hlIe MS family may lack some ordinary COM
forts at home. The idea of allowing a group
of his associates to want for anything while he
can command sixpence, would be prepos-
terous But to deny his children some little
trlc for their amusement is simply a matter
of economy. He can't afford it, He would
be ii mean fellow to leave his associates before
two and three o'clock in the morning--s
straight land, sober sided home sick ninny
But to keep wife waiting mp till those hours
to rob her of her natural rest, is an affair to
joke over when the next bottle is upcorkcd.
TO squantlcr hundreds in dissipation among
the low and vile is liberal and generous To
cheat the baker the tailor and the shoemaker
out of their hard earnings is simply smart--a
standing joke with the good fellow. In short,
the good fellow is rendered nuisance TO socie-
ty by being always generous before he is just
always liberal in dissipation and miserly where
money is really wanted always attentive to
pot companions to the neglect of his family; and
finally, because his career generally ends by his
going to the almshouse to be supported at the
public expense.
Hsy-Wc heard pretty good story once Of a
stage driver who had a horribly slow team
npon which the whip made no impression. A
passenger who riding. on the box took the