Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-24
A LITTLE Too PIoUs.-The Greensboro
On. CO Times says;

A man by the name of Story, purporting
to be drummer from respectable house
in Philadelphia, came to our town last week.
He attended the meeting of our Young Mems
Christian Association Friday night, talked
largel, of tho working Of the Association in
Philade1 phia, delivered quite a feeling ex-
hortation, &c. Sunday morning he visited
both Of our Sunday Schools and madespeeehea
to the children; Monday night he visited
the divisions of the Sons of Temperance,
and made another speech. He had it seems,
turn for anything, but his general conduct
not justifying SO much pretension to moral,
ity, be was judged an imposter, and as such
was conducted. on Tuesday, by about one
hundred of our citizens, amid the melody of
tin horns, bells, drum. yells and groans,
and seen safely on the train going West
Where next he will turn TIP, it is not posi-
bic to tell. He was after no good, and will
bear watching.
The High Point IN. c. Reporter adds:
The above chap came to High Point on
the 2 P. NJ, train, but as report Of his
misfortunes came with Elm, he found his SOC
iourn here uncomfortable and left in the
Express train the same evening.
R1pEN1Na ToxATcEs tn WfNfER. AT a
meeting Of the Rockford (Ill.) Hortioultu-
raj Society last winter, Mr.. Ordway brought
specimen of tomatoes, red and yellow,
small and large, but all perfect, which had
been ripened in his cellar according to the
following method:
| If any one wishes to know how to keep
them fresh and good all winter, read the
following recipe: ''Plant late in the sea-
son and ptll up the vines in fall before they
are injured by the frost fasten bag about
the stock, two inches above the root, then
hang them up in the cellar By cord, tied
arouhd the vine above the bag, and fill the
bag with moist 1irt. When the bag is
tied over the root, leave small hole at the
top for the admission Of water, which should
be used occasionally to prevent the roots
Ebecoming dry. The more light In the eel
lar the better. They should be hung up
clear from the wall on every side, and
where the sun will strike them from win
dow, if possible, and swing the vines up,
with the roots uppermost.
THE Sound OF GRow1Ns CoEN. you
ever hear corn grow? You have probably
heard the remark, tour corn grows SO fast
that you can hear it." That is supposed, by
people who don't know, to be figure of
speech only; but the remark out here is a
literal fact Go into one of these "bottom"
corn fields forty Or fifty rods on warm Ju-
lily day, or August night, when q bright moon
is up, (for vegetation grows faster in moon
light than in darkness, and few hours af-
ter a heavy shower that has fairly wet the
earth, and walked up the drowsy corn to its
influences, and as the main stalk stretches
and swells in its new strength, up through
the contracted lips of the upper blades they
crack and burst around you like, the stifed
reports Of ten thousand rifles !! That corn
field will be some inches higher at sunrise
Che next morning than at the last shutdown.
There is no mistake about it. We hare
heard corn gro,o many time, and SO every
farmer along. in the Scotia valley will tell
I you.-The World