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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-06-03

CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT Nv ArER.-The
extent to which water mingles with bodies
apparently the most solid is-vefy wonder
full. The glittering opal which beauty
wears as an ornament is only flint and
water. Of every twelve hundred tons Of
earth which landlord has in his estate
four hundred are water. The snow-cap-
ped SUBMITS OF our highest mountains
have many million tons of water in SOL
id form. In every plaster.ofParis statue
which an Italian carries through our
streets for sale there is one pound Of wa
ter to four pounds of chalk. The air we
breathe contains FIVE grains of water to
each cubic foot of its bulk. The potatoes
and turnips which are boiled for our din
ner have, in their raw state, the one sew
enty.fve per cent, and the other ninety
per cent of water.
If a man weighing one hundred and
forty pounds were squeezed in hydraul-
ic press, seventy pounds of water would
run out, the balance being solid matter.
A man is, chemically speaking, ;torty-fve
pounds of carbon and other elements, with
nitrogen diffused through five and half
pailfals OF water. In plants we find wa
ter thus mingling no less wonderfully. A
sunfower evaporates one and quarter
pints of water day, and cabbage about
the same quantity. A wheat plant ex-
hales in one hundred and seventy-fves
days about one hundred thousand grains
of water.
The sap of plants is the medium through
which this mass OF fluid is conveyed. 1t
forms delicate pump, up which the wa
terry particles run with the rapiaity OF o
swift stream. By the action of the sap,
various properties may. BE communicated
to the growing plant. Timber in France
is, for instance, dyed with the various
colors mixed with water, and sprinkled
over the roots Of the tree. Dahlias are
also colored by similar process.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-06-03

United States by a committee of one
member fromeach State here represented,
appointed by. the President of this Con-
rention.
Of the Committees appointed tho Hon.
VIM. Sprague, of Rhode Island was ap-
pointed the chairman to memorabilia the
Cotton Supply Association and the Asso-
citation of Manufacturers and Planters,
with regard to production of cotton.
The next Convention will be held at
Louisville, Kentucky, on the 18th of o.
tober, ensuing.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-06-03
What Use have we for Crows.

Farmers regard crows as their natural
enemies This is wrong view to take,
for the question may we'll be discussed
whether crows do more harm than good.
They do great deal of good, but this is
very nearly balanced, at any rate, if not
overbalaaced, by their destruction of
grain and useful birds. 1t becomes, there
fore, an interesting problem, if we cannot
prevent the harm, and make the most of
their good Offices. A flock of crows on
newly-plowed field will destroy more
white grubs and cutworms than are seen
by the farmer and bis men in the course
of an entire season and where these pests
are abundant in corn field, The crows
will, as the writer has repeatedly seen, go
from hill to hill, stopping only at those
where wilted spear shows that grubs or
cut-worms are at work. At these points
they persevere until they find the little
marauders, being guided apparently by
the sense of smell as we'll as by sight.
Now, it may be all very we'll to say a
good word for the crows when they de-
serve it, but few are inclined to do so
when they find hill after hill of corn pull
ed up, or see the rascal at work pulling
the young wheat, or tearing open the
husks of the roasting ears.
A crow is very shy animal, and if by
any means one can be trapped upon a
field, or be exposed a few days while liv-
ing, as if caught in snare or trap, it III
safeguard for the season. 1t is no easy
matter to trap crow, and yet it may be
done. A steel trap is laid in the shallow
water of pond, and tuft of grass is
placed upon the pan, and partly conceals
the trap. Then the crows natural fond
ness tor eggs is taken advantage of in Sc
lecting the bait, and blown egg-shell
put upon a stick, which is stuck in the
bottom of the pool at distance from the
trap that to get it the crow must light up
on the tutt Of grass. The egg is half fill
ed with water, and seems to float only
little out of water. The jaws of the trap
should be bound with tow or wrapped
with cloth. to prevent them from break
ing the birds legs. The trap must be
frequently looked to, lest crow being
caught become exhausted, and falling
over into the water, be drowned. When
one is taken it may be brought to the
corn-feld, its wings bound fast to stick,
or in some way pinioned SO that it cannot
fly, and then tied. Its cries will attract
all the crows in the vicinity, who will
come down close to it, but do no damage
to the corn. If a crow is pinioned on its
back it is said that it Will clutch and hold
any crow that comes near enough. (This
we have heard called Maryland crow
trap.) We are assured by Mr.. J. Fl. Nab
bet, who gives us this plan of catching
crows, and who has practiced it with sue
cess, that during the rest of the season no
crow of the nei eighborheod will light upon
field where crow has been So display
ed.-American Agricultarist.
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THE FAMOUS GAINES Su1T.-In New
Orleans on the lst of juno, Justice Wayne
is to sit and TO order the enforcement of
the mandate of the Supreme Court affirm
ing Mrs. Gainess right to her immense
and noted estatc-a mandate which
Judge Durell has refused to obey and the
order to execute which being final. will,
in the opinion of the lady's attorneys, re-
suit in such offers of liberal compromise
by the defendants as the plaintiff will ac.
cept; it being, she says, merely her wish
to have her rights recognized, and to o7er'
turn the millions Of interest which have
accrued from tho general though illegal
appropriation of her property The Su,
prcme Court, at it's last sitting, directed
Judge Wayne to enforce its decree as he
proposes to do in June, and the end OF
the celebrated cause is probable.
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The COMING CoT1oN CRoP.-The Jack
son (N1iss) Clarion, noticing the specula-
tions of Northern papers in regard to the
coming cotton crop, says:
"It will be observed that spectators,
or writers in their interest, have commen-
ced the old game of predicting a large in
crease in the supply of the staple. We
are told that the price is stimulating pro-
duction, and that considerable addition
will be made to the average heretofore
(since the wary employed in its culture.
Consequently wiseacres are already pre-
dieting that the next crop will reach 8,
ooo, 900 5ales-probably 3,5Oo,OOO! This
originates solely in the imaginations of the
writers. The breadth OF land devoted
to cotton this season will not exceed that
of last year. We are certain that it will
not equal it. 1t is the experience of al
most every planter that fewer laborers
are engaged in it's production than were
thus employed last year. The remnnera-
tive prices of cotton last season left
large number of freedmen with means at
its close to set up for themselves after
fashion. This they have done with in
sufficient teams and tools, and under Cir
oumstances generally not favorable to
large crops of cotton, which, moreover,
they are not ambitious to raise. Besides,
since 1865, the crop prospects at this pc
rod of the season, have not been so unfa-
vorable as at the present season, in this
section whence the supply is mainly
drawn The excessive rains have damag-
ed them immensely. When they COM
menced falling, two weeks ago, in conse-
quence of the previous incement weather,
many planters had not put thei: seed IN
tine ground. And in the instances where
they had come up, the young plant has
heen killed or washed away by the flood.
Consequently it may be said that now, in
the early part of May, the time when or
dinary cotton receives its first workings,
it has vet to be planted. Owing to the
wet weather two weeks of the most valu
able time to planters have been entirely
lost. The crop has been thrown back at
least three weeks. And everybody knows
how important time is in saving the crop
from the ravagcs of the insect. 10 make
matters worse, there is great scarcity of
seed in the country, and many planters
who have lost their stands will find it
difficult to obtain another supply. From
this date it will be seen how stupldly alb
surd and unreasonable is the prediction
that the next crop will exceed the produc'
tion of last year. The present prospects
compel the belief that it will be vastly di-
minished.
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The suntlower is very useful. Its

- The suntlower is very useful. Its
leaves soon become large enough to be
used as a covering for young cabbage and
tomato plants. Its stem affords an excel
lent hop or bean pole, and when dead in
the fall, if cut up and kept dry, it answers
we'll for kindling wood. The leaves can
be plucked off through the Summer with
out injury to the plant, and dried 1or 1oa-
der, or fed green to milk COWS or horses
lis seeds make fine oil, or chicken feed.
1t is said to be an absorbent of malaria,
and is often cultivated as a preventative OF
fevers near dwellings that occupy low
places.
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The editor of New Haven paper is

= The editor Of New Haven paper is
called bv cotelnporary ''moral hyena,
who would unhearse the dead for means
to vilify the living, and whose foul and
fostering tongue drlps with gall ana aqua
fortis." The excuse for this compliment
ary outpouring is that cit is part of the
economy of nature to castigate moral
monsters"
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"A Western contemporary calls strong
minded women "knights Of tie garter"
The Van Buren press., 1869-07-13
UNDERSOLD IN THIS MARKET!

Our0oods were bought for cash, In Eastern
markets. when they were at the lowest figure,
and we can safely guarantee to purchasers
our ability To successfully compete with
The Van Buren press., 1869-07-13
MINERALS.
TO tho People of Arkansas

A Ill persons having (or knowing Of land
"A containing Minerals of any Kind, by send
ing the locality, extent, and price Of thci'
land, and the description always accomps'
MED by specimens) Of the mineral thereon
can, at The expense Of The subscriber. have w.
same scientifically analysed, and If 1t Is found
to be valuable. mutual satisfactory arrange
ment for its introduction w market VIII Ds
made.
This is most important subject Of interts'
and welfare to Arkansas--tAe extensive beo'
and mines of minerals In Arkansas are now
lying idle, and useless, and undeveloped-
Is chance for owners to put their hidden
treasures to value. All letters or communl'
cations or information received and rcped'9
with pleasure by addressing,
JOSEPH MOGRlDGE. Fl Smith.
Care of Messrs. CABELL d GLASS. ATM
N. bail parties having Coal Lanos
whose beds of Coal range from to el
more) feet in thickness, will find II to thel,
advantage to reply to the above; and person.
having (or knowing on beds or mines y. =.
MINERALS, whose kind or sort is unknown '.
them, can get true solution of their val"'
by sending specimens to the above. I'M
The Van Buren press., 1869-07-13

SING AWAY YoUR GRIEF, I'VE can sir &
away our cares easier than We can reason
them away. Sing in the morning. The
birds are the earliest to sing; the birds
are more without care than anything else
know OF. Sing in the evening, Sing
ing is tie last thing that robins d.
When they have done their daily work,
when they have hown their last iight and
picked up their last morsel Of food, and
cleansed their bills Oh napkin Of \
bough, then on top twig, they sing one
song of praise. | know they sleep sweet
cr for it They dream music for some
times in the night they break forth in
singing, and stop suddenly after the first
note, startled by their own voice. Oh
that we might sing evening and morning,
and let song touch song ell the way
through. As was returning from the
country the other evening, between six
and seven o'clock, bearing II basket of
howers, l met a man that was apparent
ly the tender Of mason. lie looked
brick and mortar all over. He had work
ed the entire day, and he had the appear
ance Of a man that would not be afraid Of
work. He was walking on with light
step, and singing to himself as he passed
down tho street, though be had been
working the whole day, and nearly the
whole week Were it not that my good
thoughts always come too late | should
have given him a large allotment Of my
flowers. If he had not been out of sight
when the idea occurred to me, | should
have hailed him and said, "Have yod
worked all day." "Of course have"
he would have saiv. "Are you singing 7"
"Of course | am Then take the
lowers home and give them to your wife,
and tell her what blessing she has in
you"
"Oh that We could put songs under
our burdens. Oh ! that we could extract
the sense Of sorrow by song, Then these
things would not poison much, Sing in
the house. Teach your children to sing.
When troubles come 20 at them with
songs. When griefs arise, sing them
down. Lift the voice Of praise against
cares. Praise God by singing; that will
lift you above trials of every sort. At.
tempt it. They sing in heaven; and
among Gods people upon earth song is
the appropriate language Of Christian
feeling.-Beecher.
The Van Buren press., 1869-07-13
Budget Of ScisSOringS.
What Trottv Thought Of the Baby.
BY MISS F. STUART pTlrLrS.

II don't think ! i!ae the looks oi il,
said Trot,y, very distinctly.
He meant the baby. 1t was Aunt Mat
thews' baby. Aunt Matthews and Cousil
Geneva. and the bsby's nurse and tn
baby's trunks, and the baby's carriage. an,
ths babys crib, and the baby were making
visit u, lrotty's house,
They hsd just gone into the spare cham
Der to take off their things, and Tro,ty hat
hoped mp stairs on one foot after them
with an interested air 1t struck him thai
people were making great fuss over that
pink bundle in tn freckled womsn's lap
kissing it, and squeezing it. and feeling o.
its fingers. aud chucking it under the chin
saying how il had grown! and how much
it looked like papa and what little dear
it was aud see it laughing at you lie
wondered whether, if he were pink bundle
in freckled woman's lap. they would pay
50 much attention to him.
:" Pm four years old, and I'm going 10 bu
FIVE, bime by" he said. feeling that he had
been neglected long enough. Gu, nobody
listened.
"Tm four years old I've got tip cart
and some rubber boots" he continued, So
verely. ~ have free griddle cakes for
breakfast, and eat my supper down stairs.
But nobody heard that either. However
painful it may be to inilict reproof upon
ones interiors, it is sometimes undoubted'
ly necessity. Ttotty. with a quiet digni
ty, crept up behind Amt Matthews and
jerked her by her waterfall.
"O.' said every body talking at once,
"do let Trotty see the laby. don't be-
liuve he ever saw baby near enough to
touch it in his life"
SO they made room for Tiotty beside the
ireckled woman. and examined the little
pink bundle. 1t was pink bundle. Its
flannel cloak was pink It's crotcheted sack
was pink its little knit shoes were pink !;
lis ribbons were pink its hands were pink,
and its face was very pink. 1t had two
great black eyes, funny little. fiat nose
no hair to speak Of, no teeth, whether you
spoke Of them or not 1t stared at Trotty
for minute doultfully; then scowled "a
little. scowled a little more, scowled very
much. wrinkled. wri.hed, twisted, grew
purple. opened its mouth wide. screamed
at him, then doubled its fists close, and
punched him in the face.
You frighten her, the blessed little
dearv said Aunt Matthews.
II don't wonder" said Lii. "you have
been to the syrup pitcher. and the ounce
jar, and the sugar bowl, and the apple har
rel. since you washed your face last. to say
nothing Of the red crayon on your nose.
You've been at my paint box, too | know
from the gambogo streak on your forehead
and the pea green on that front cull.'
mo" repeated Trotty, with decision, as
he was marched off the wash bowl, 81
don't like the looks Of it, and if God cam
tnd better looking baby than that for me,
when I'm q man, he needn't throw me
down any Young Folks
The Van Buren press., 1869-07-13

Having associated myself with a wholesale
Stove and Tin Ware establishment in Saint
Louis. for the sale of Stoves and Tin Ware,
can always furnish everything in this line at
st. Louis wholesale prices with the freight
AIDED. To merchants dealing in the above, a
liberal discount will be made of the above
prices. Very Respectfully,
N. +. CORNELIUS.
The Van Buren press., 1869-07-13

For collie in horses correspondent
takes soft water, adds more salt than it will
dissolve and with a woolcn rag ba,hes the
horse on the small of the back with the
brine, rubbing it in hard. He has never
known it to fail in relieving the animal.
The Van Buren press., 1869-07-13
Wanted ---- Saw Logs.
AT THE
Van Burcn Agricultural Works.

TNlE Van Buren, Agricultural Works wan
J. an unlimited number of saw stock,
They will contract forany quantity deliverct
at the river bank in rafts.or delivered by was
on at their. Steam Saw Mill, upper end Oft
City Wharf. Stocks offs any Kind Of Lumh~r
such as Pine Cedar, Oak, Cherry, Walnut
Gum. Cottonwood. &c.. wanted. Persou
wishing to contract will address Van Burer
Agricultural Works" or apply in person d
the office Of the works.
UAYMAN 4 SCOTT
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
Correspondence of the Journal
Meeting nr the Grand Lodge L. %. a. f.. Of
North Carolina.

TARBoRo'. N. c., july %, 1869
The installation came off yesterday
morning as por appointment, after which
the death of H. d. Pender, of Edgecombc
Lodge, and member of tho Grand Lodge
was announced. A COMMITTEES was ap-
pointed who presented suitable resolutions
in commemoration OF his many virtues
and of coincidence with his family.
At the afternoon session {. Rep. Clark
exemplitied the nnwritten work Of the
Order.
A resolution permitting Subordinate
Lodges to install their officers in public was
adopted.
The lsnal resolutions were passed, when
tho Grand Lodge closed its session with a
benedction by the Grand Chaplain.
At night the Grand Lodge, together
with Edgecombe Lodge and several visit
ing brothers, assembled at tho Edgccombe
House to partake of supper given in
honor of tho Grand Lodge
When we entered the large dining room
of the hotel We found several tables groan-
ing under tho most choice viands that
could tempt the epicure. We noticed
Grand Master Smith, Grand Chaplain
Repiton, N. G.. Zoeller. and ex-Gov.
Clark ut the heads of the different tables.
Soon the work commenced in earnest, and
naught but the rattling of dishes and the
clatter of knives and forks could be heard.
Presently the confusion ceased. the wreck
was cleared away, and toasts, song and
sentiment ruled the hour. Speeches were
made-some of advice, some humorous
wit and repartee was indulged until a late
hour, when IN Odd Fellows ode was sung
with vim The Grand Chaplain pro-
nounced benediction, and we all sepa-
rated for our various stopping places.
forgot to mention that on Wednesday
night there was grand ball given, to
which, as I did not participate, I can
merely refer.
On Friday morning we were escorted to
tho depot by various members of Edge
combe Lodge, some of them going with
us as far as Rocky Mount
Thus ended one Of the most PLEASANT ses
sions of the Grand Lodge that it was ever
nv privilege to attend Our entire sojourn
in Tarboro' was one grand ovation, and I
know that tho members of the Grand
Lodge will long remember the many kind
nesscs extended to them by the Odd Eel
lows of Edgecombo Lodge. | would like
to mention some of them, but where all
seemed to vie with each other it would be
invidions to particularlze. The whole oc-
casiOn will be green spot III our memory,
like an oasis in the desert to the weary
traveller, to which we will often turn IN
our weary pilgrimage through life. Y.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
Pruning Tomatoes.

1t is stated that gardeners in Franco cut
off the stem of the tomato plants down to
the first cluster OF flowers which appears
on them, thus impeiling the sap into the
buds below the cluster, which pushes up
vigorously. producing another cluster of
flowers. "When these are visible, the
branch TO which they belong is also topped
down to their level !; and this is done five
times successively. By this means the
plants become stout dwarf bushes, not over
eighteen inches high. LIN order to prevent
them from falling over, sticks or strings
are stretched horizontally along the rows,
40 as to keep the plants erect. In addi-
tion to this, all the laterals that have no
flowers whatsoever, are nipped off. In
this way the ripe sap is directed into the
fruit, which acquires beauty, aize, and exa
cellenca. unattainable by other meaDs.' =
Hertice.kHrist,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
WILMINGTON. JnlY DIST.

The New Hanover County Medical So
'ciety met in tho Special Court room ut 81
o'clock p. N. Tho minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved.
After reports of the committees and tho
transactions of ordinary business, tho sub
at the last meeting, was brought up and
considered at some longth by the large
number of physicians present The ex.
perience of the physicians in tho use of
this new agent being somewhat limited, a
decision as to its efficacy and potency in
the treatment of disease has not yet been
made.
Upon motion, committee of three were
appointed to prepare memorial to be
presented to the Board of Aldermen. urg-
ing in strong appeal to devise some means
to improve the sanitary condition of GER
tain portions of the city. The committee
consists of Drs. King, Potter and Wood
1t now boing the regular time for the
reading of an essay, DR.. W. Geo Thomas,
the President, arose and read an able,
original and truly practical essay on the
Diarrhoa of Children. The thanks of the
Society were rendered to DR.. T.. and, upon
motion, he was requested to furnish two
copies of his essay, one to be filed in the
archives of this Society and one to bo sent
up to tho State Medical Society.
DR.. /. w. Potter was appointed to nre.
pare an essay on "Malignant Diseases"
to be read at the meeting i'll September
next.
No further business being transacted,
the Society adjourned to meet the third
"Wednesday night in August
w, j, II. BELLAMY, Nj. D., ,.l
Secretary.
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Court has nothing to do. Ii they are
within the power ot the Legislature then
it is sufficient for Ms that, ''thns it is
written.'
We nave not thought it necessary to no.
tice the suggestion, that innsmuch as the
sale of lands under execution is by Statute,
So 1t may be exempted by Statute.
No question arises in this case to the in
reference with. vested rights under orr
State Constitution, becausc the exemption
is provision in the Constitution itself
The only question is, whether it impairs
the obligation of contracts under the Con,
stitntion of the United States. We think
it does not. Jacob rs. Smallwood, CD, N,
Q. Il. This will be certified, &c. Judg-
mcnt reversed. -
READE, j. =