The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-06-13

A Coon METHOD OF TRAINING LIMA Beans.
At distances of about % feet along the rows put
out some strong posts, at least two and halt
inches in diameter and rising six feet from the
ground. Along the tops OF these posts stretch a
siuglc wire, firmly fastened. To this wire at
tach two cords from each hill of beans beneath,
which diverge as they leave the hill and approach
the vine The extent Of divergence need not
| exceed two feet. This mode gives more com
pleto exposure to the air and sun, affords larger
| crops, aud has neater and mole finished ap-
pearance than the usual way of training.
"A number of our Maryland Democratic
exchanges come to us almost entirely filed
| with the laws of the State some of them
publish supplements. The cost of printing
| of this kind authorized by the last Demo,
cratic Legislature will not be less than forty
or fifty thousand dollars, which is about four
times the amount the Republicans spent for
the same purpose when in power.
Crumptonian.
The newspapers of town are its life
blood. Without them it cannot prosper
The better they are supported at home, the
To the merchants they are indispensable, as
those who have made use Of them as a me-
dunn through which to reach the public,
we'll know. And they contribute largely to
the prosperity of every citizen, for their in
tluence is felt in thousand different WAYS,
and exerted in thousand different direc.
tons.
Colonel Chartres, who was the most no.
torious rascal in the world and who had, by
all sorts of crimes, amassed immense wealth.
sensible of the disadvantages of bad char
acter, was once heard to say, that he wonld
give ten thousand pounds for character
because he should get hundred thousand
pounds by it. This is rogue's estimate of
the value of character.
There is a wealthy gentleman in New York
city who is so enainoled of buying books, that
he devotes the greater portion Of his time to the
businessmen for profit, but for the entertain
nlent that the occupation affords him.
-Pittsburg has, among other factories, ten
nail factories, which run AGO nail machines,
employ $500 hands, and turn out over 400, 900
kegs Of nails yearly.
Brazil supplies almost half the coffee con-
sumed in the world The peas consumed in
extending " it are not imported
Twenty courses. twelve varieties of wine
and brass band are now necessary for q
nobby dinner party in Now York.
France in the past two years has built
! 200 new school-honses, and added 136, Ola
pupils to her school population.
Cashmere Goat breeding succeeds well in
Illinois, and they will be generally introduced
Large quantities of old worn-out iron rails
from the Southern roads are being shipped to the
North to he rcrollcd.
There is lady in New York who specu-
latcs through Wall street firm to the amount
of $4,000 per day.
Recent letters from Southern Africa report
the discovery Of two very large and rich gold
regions.
The whisky ring in ST. Louis has been badly
cracked, if not entirely broken, by the recent
operations of detectives.
The st. Lonis brewers pay 100000 q
year for hops alone, and considerably more for
barley.
There are forty wooden mills capable of
manufacturing 100000 yards Of cloth an
nually.
An immense quantity Of wheat has been
sowed this spring by farmers in Maine.
Catalonia grape growers are studying
brandy manufacture.
Ten thousand men are digging away to
finish the Suez Canal mex year.