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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06
How Henry Ward Beecher Runs q
Earm.

Mr.. Beecher's farm consists of thirty
six acres, and is carried on on scientific
principles. He never puts 10 any part
of crop without consulting bis book.
He plows and reaps and digs and sows
according to the best suthorities-snd
the authorities cost more than the rest Of
! the farming implements do. As soon as
the library is complete the farm will be-
gin to be a prof liable investment. But
book farming has its drawbacks. Upon
one occasion, when it seemed morally
certain the hay ought to be cut, the hay
book could not be found-and before it
was found it was too late and the hay was
spoiled. Mr.. Beecher raises some of he
finest crops of wheat in the country, but
the unfavorable difference between the
cost of producing it and its market
price after producing it has interfered
considerably with its success as a COM
mercial enterprise His special weak
ness is hogs, however. He considers
hogs the best game farm produces. He
buys the original pig for dollar and a
half, and feeds him forty dollars worth
Of corn and then sells him for about nine
dollars. This is the only crop he ever
makes any money on. He loses on the
corn, but he makes seven dollars and q
half on the hog. He does not mind this,
because he does not expect to make any
thing on corn, anyway. And anyway it
turns out, he has the excitement ofraising
the hog, any how, whether he gets the
worth of him or not. His strawberries
would be o comfortable success if the
robins would eat turnips, but they won't,
and hence the difficulty.
One of Mr.. Beecher's most harrsssing
difficulties in his farming operations
comes of the close resemblance of differ
ent seeds and plants to each other. Two
years ago his fsr-sightedness warned him
that there was going to be a great scarcity
of weter-melons, and therefore he put in
crop of twenty-seven acres of that fruit.
But when they came up they turned out
to be pumpkins, and dead loss was the
consequence. Sometimes a portion of
his crop gees into the ground the most
promising sweet potatoes, and comes out
the infernalest carrots-though / have
never heard him express it just in that
way. When he bought his farm be found
hu oBB III CNCfy ucu ucob ou tuS piaCc,
He said that here was just the reason
why so many farmers failed
they scattered their forces too much
- concentration was the idea. So
he gathered these eggs together and
placed them under one experienced old
hen. That hen roasted over that contract
night and day for eleven weeks, under the
anxious personal superyision of Mr..
Beecher himself, but she could not
"phsse" those eggs. Why? Because
they we're those infamous porcelain
things which are used by fraudulent and
ingenious farmers as NEST eggs" But
perhaps Mr.. Beecher's most disastrous
experience was the time he tried to raise
an immonse crop of dried apples. He
planted fifteen hundred dollars worth,
but never one of them sprouted. BE
has never been able to understand to this
day what was the matter with those ap-
ples.-Aark Tpain in Buffalo Express.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06
An Old Actor Dies in the AImshouse.

A fortnight ago, Wm. Anderson, the
veteran comedian, died, in the eighty
second year of his age, at the slmshouse
Although unknown to the present gene
ration, Mr.. Anderson was a veteran in
the theatrical profession, and in his prime
occupied prominent position as an
actor in the line of characters now given
by Adams, Wheatly, and other popular
light comedians. The deceased was
member Of the Richmond corps under
Placide, Green aud Twsits, when the
theatre was destroyed by fire in Decen-
ber, 1911. In 1914 he was attached to
the old South Street Theater, in this city,
and in the following year he appeared at
the Chestnut Street Thester. he was
native Of England, where he received
fne education, and being connected with
a good family, had the entree into fash
ionable society. BE brought to the stage
his natural and acquired talent, and was
considered an actor of great promise.
He married one Of the elder Jefferson's
daughters, much against the wishes of
her father. he had certain peculiarities
that ssiFanged him from friends and rela-
tives, and finally be was compelled to
seek shelter in his declining years in
the almshouse, where be has been an in =
mate for number Of years. After his
death the remains we're privately inter-
red In church cemetery. Philadelphia
AGE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06

Geo. Il. Butler, in answer to an inquiry
by the New Orleans Times as to what
has become of the vast amount of money
alleged to have been made by the late A.
]. Butler in the city Of New Orleans,
states that Chas. A. Weed, the proprietor
Of the Times, was the trusted friend of
the late Mr.. Butler, and that it was Mr..
Buffers money, $4,000. which enabled
him to make the paper success, and that
the family hold Weeds note for the
amount, winch they cannot collect The
Times has quit asking questions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06

A real bearded woman was taken BY
the Russians at the battle Pultows, and
presented to Peter i, liza. Her beard
was one and q half yards long. The
great Margaret, Governess of the Neither
lands, had long, stiff beard. Ma
demoiselle Bois de Chene, born at Gen.
eva, in 1884, was exhibited 10 London
and this county some years since. She
had a strong. black beard. The wife of
Marshal Valiant, who recently died,
shaved regularly every day for some
years. She had q thicker beard than
most men. Daring her last llaess her
beard became 90 bushy that when the
physician, who visited all the dead to see
that they died natural death, examined
her, be asked, "What was this gentle
mans position 2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06
TeIegraph and Press.

7 As = matter of Importance, showing
the relation of the Telegraph and the
press, we give the following extracts
from the annual report Of President
Often to the directors and stockholders
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, with which Col. James Coleman is
connected in this city as Superintendent;
The greater portion of the press dis
patches are tho night,
when the wires are not required for pri-
vate or commercial correspondence, and
we are thus enabled to establish d very
low tariff upon this class of business.
The aggregate amount Of news delivered
to the newspapers of the United States
by our lines during the past year was
369. 500, $50 words, for which we received
$3.50, 500, being at the rate of two and
three-tenths mills per word.
This immense amount of matter was
not transmitted to each paper separately,
but, through combination of wires only
possible to vast system such as ours, it
was sent to large bum Der of places ST.
multaneously with emily one transmission.
Direct wires convey news reports be-
tween New York and Chicago, Cincin-
natl, St. Louis, Washington, New Or.
leans, Plaister Cove, and other important
points. :,
Every press association In the United
States receives its news by our lines-a
conclusive proof that our performance OF
th;a earvine ia aatisfactory
1t is fact worthy of remark that the
amount of news which the company de-
liyered to the press of the United States
during the year 1868, for an aggregate
sum Of $3.50. 500 in currency, largely ex-
ceeded the entire telegraphic corre-
spondence of continental Europe, for
which there was paid 81, ,s3T 23S in gold.
This company was organized in the
year 1851, with capital Of 1850 600, and
constructed line of telegraph from
Buffalo, N. Y, TO Louisville, KY, dis
tance of about six hundred miles. The
cost Of the lines on gold basis was thus
5000 per mile. The present extent OF
our lines, if estimated by the cost of the
original line, would amount to $3l, ,259,-
400, or $78 per share for the stock.
If our property we're estimated on the
basis of the price paid per mile for the
construction OF the Atlantic and Pacific
telegraph lines. it would amount to $685.
1876 .934, or $2l6 per share fer the stock.
The capital of the Franklin Telegraph
Company represents l,750. 900, and the
length Of their lines is e86 miles, making
the cost per mile in stock s2s6l. Upon
this basis our property is worth $l32, eO4,-
549, and the stock 1882 per share.
The Bankers and Brokers Telegraph
Company extends from New York to
Washington, 226 miles, and their capital
is 81, ,050, ,00o, making the cost Of their
lines per mile in stock $464l. Upon
this basis our property is worth S23l,-
79i, ,459, and the stock $579 per share.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06

On Saturday last, q sperm whale was
driven By the surf and grounded on the
beach near the mouth Of the Kennebec
river, in Maize. where, after some diff
Guilty, be was captured by party Of fish
ermeu. The captors are nov engaged in
cutting up the animal, and i is supposed
he viii yield some thirty to kfiy barrels
Of oil. BE vas ebont ffty fesiin length.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06

The travelling confidence men have q
new trick which they are successfully
practioing in Jackson county, Iowa,
They insure one mans property at low
rate, and take bis note for the amount;
then 20 to another, sell him the note at
discount and also insure bis property,
RECEIVING cash therefor; then go to a
third party, insure his property, take bis
note, and in this manner carry out their
progrsmme until the entire neighbor-
hood is 6eeced, when they retire in good
order, With we'll lined pockets.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06

The sale Of liquor hss been stopped in
Calsis, Ne, and, ss result, sn omnibus
has Len pisesd on the route hstvesn
shst ei,y and 81. Stephen N. B. The
Ens claims Q driving business.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06
PUBLIC LEDGER.

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06

1.-THE following letter to friend, from
rising young artist of this city, who is
now pursuing his studies in Europe, has
been kindly handed us for publication:
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
SAVE THE CoRN-FoDDER.

We have long been of the opinion
that there was not chat attention paid
to the curing and saving of the corn
fodder that its value demanded. Eve
ry good farmer must know that cattle
eat it greedily through the winter, and
if cut and steamed il is as good for them
as the best hay and really more milk
producing.
Where is the necessity of allowing
to remain in shocks Until the middle or
end of November? Corn should not
be cut down until the statks'a dying
and the grain is pretty hard, and thcli
i. should remain no longer in the field
than is absolutely necessary for the dry
ing Of the grain. 1t Should be husked
as early as posoible. and the fodder sied
Up in bundles and either carefully
stacked near the cattle stables or put
under shelter in sheds.
1t is well-known, too; that horses pre-
fer it to the best hay; also that the
blades are especially sought for to feed
racing animals, strengthening their
wind and bottom hey ond auv other
food. 1t is, besides, wholesome pro-
vender and helps iitost benefic;alv in
making the winters supply of hay hold
ont till late in the spring, with the adj
dition of chopped roots, which every
farmer, who shrewdiy looks to the main
chance, ought to cultivate for feeding
in the early part Of the winter. - Ger
mantolcn Telegraph.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
THE EDUCATION OF EDITORS.

Under the striking title of smaking
| editors to ORDER" the .arleston News
| publishes some remarks, which are so
appropriate and well tempered that
We subjoin them:
There isa general litter among news
paper men AT the well intended but ut
| teriy visionary proposition of Virgin
IL College to create q ''Chair of Cur
rent Literature" with n view to ena-
bic those who may wish TO become
journalists TO learn the principles and
practices of the Profession. The
Knights of the quill declared with one
voice that the true editor is shorn not
made and that the best possible train.
ing to develop u latent genius for Jour-
nall III is a term of service either as
printers devel or some other equally
practical capacity in connecliun with
the office of Il live newspaper. The
learned faculty. we fancy, will find it
a przzling question to decide, what
special branches, should be taught the
youths whom they would train M as
the lights Of the Fourth Estates. For
the journalists differ from all other
professional men, Ia having no speclaii-
ty on whicn he can afford to coacen-
trate his attention.
There is no department OF human
knowledge from which the newspaper
will not at times need information, and
he':ce the best editers are often those.
who have the Unborn power and tact to
avail themselves with discrimination
and in season of the brains and varied
attachments of other people. Another
obvious object TO the scheme would be
the impossiblity of providing a slita-
ble professor Of Journalism Mani
testify none but a practical and first
class journalist could I'LL the place. and
it is very certain that no such man
could be found who wodld accept it.
On the whole we are much inclined to
concur with a Western paper, which
advises any young man who has aspira-
tions IN the direction of the tripod, to
make up his mind to ten years hard
work in the subordinate stations of
newspaper lifc,. holding out the cheer
ful promise that at the end of thai Pc
rlod lie will be an editor-or dead,
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
THE LARGEST ENGLISH FARM.

The largest farm IN England consists
OF three thousand acres, and belongs to
4 man with the Yankee name of SAM
ueI Jones. In its cultivation he follows
the "iour course" system, the whole ex-
tent oi The iarm being divided into four
great crops $50 acres of wheat. $50 tn
barley and oats. $50 to seeds, beans,
peas, &C., and $50 to roots. His live
stock is valued as follows: Sheep S35.-
900, horses $4,000, bullocks sl2 1000,
pigs $500. The oil cake and corn pur-
chased annually amounts to $4,000,
and artificial fertilizers about SS,O0O.--
The entire cost of manure, in various
forms used, annually costs about sl5.-
600. Sheep are claimed as the mos.
profitable stock he keeps, from which
are realized about 100000 a year. His
income from the whole farm, though
not stated, can be little less than $50
900 per annum.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
SIMPLICITY IS BEAUTY,

The late Fritz Greene Halleck said /:
"a letter tell into my hands which a
Scotch servant girl had written to her
lover. Its style charmed me. 1t was
fairly inimita6le. l wonder how. in
her circumstances in life, she could
have acquired SO elegant style. |
showed the letter to some OF my liter
ary friends in the city of New York
and they unanimously agreed that it
was model OF beauty and elegar ce.
then determined to solve the mystery
and | went to the house where she was
employed, and asked her how it was
that, in her humble circumstances in
life, she had acquired style so beauti-
ful that the most cultivated minds could
rot bat admire it," "Sir." said she 81
came.to this country lour years ago.
Then could net read or write. But
since then l have learned to read and
write,but | have not yet learned to spell;
always when | sit down to write let
ter. select those words which are so
short ami simple that | am sure to-
know how to spell Them" There was
the whole secret. The reply OF that
simple-minded Scotch glrl condensed a
world of rhetoric into nutshell.
Simplicity is beauty, Simplicity is
power.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
COMPROMISING SPIRIT,

Yesterday sable Adouis, ramed Ed
ward Chandler, was up as witness in
a case ofassault and battery. The Yu-
gulists were two females of the same
ebon hue OF Edward himself, aud lit
tie inquiry into the cause OF the distur-
bance, soon revealed the fact that tl'ey
both claimed the dusky LotharIO as
their husband. Both asserted that they
were lawfully married to him, and the
severest cross examination failed to dis
close any flaw Ill the statement of eth
er.
why, you rascal, you must be big
ainist.' said the Judge, turning wrath
fully toward Edward.
'Sar!'
you've married both .hese women
Yes, sar, but needn't fight bout it,,
dough p
Don't you know this is a criminal Of
fence of yours?'
'Sar, replied Edward, the white of
his eye enlarging, and looking earnest
ly into the Judges face.
I'll have to have you arrested for
bigamy.'
Dat sop
Yes
'Den, don't say no mo- about it. md
III Hue acid'em bof,' reioined the compla-
cent Edward, adjusting his hat aud
walking leisurely from the court
IN. 0. Picaynne.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT,

Grand is the wisdom OF Masonry in
her mu!tifarious contrivances, for the
differentiation fthe races, the diffusion
of trn th. the exercise of worldwide
philanthropy, the promotion of love
and good will among men, and the lib :
Grating Of mind from the shackle OF
gross sepsuality and lamentable ignor-
ance. Her fotI ada:ions were laid in
the counsel chambers Of Eternal Good
ness; and from before the time whei.
angels sang the birth song of creation.
until the present, generation after gem
Grafton have been adding to the super
structure IN process of erection on that
base OF ever lasting truth; though null
tiplied thousands of courses have been
laid by good aud true workmcn in the
buried centuries OF the past; yet, as
higher and higher raise her walls, as
more perfectly IS seen the grand out
line of this magnificent temyle, more
and more evident is the wisdom that
devised and the strength that executes
so godlike a mission. Conceive H. Wis
dom. resting in Truth, cemented with
love, and handed with Faith. Hone and
Charity, it stands erect, clear and firm
as the eternal granite. When time
was born, 1t was. Nations have arisen
and fallen, empires have been born.
lived, di"d and are buried; mighty CO.
alitiOns have been formed and broken;
inventions been made and forgotten;
arts have been discovered and lost;
Hoods have fdesolated, fires consumed,
sickness blasted, dea.h devoured; and
yet through all these mighty changes
and these mutations. the principles of
Masonry have survived, resisting all
the elements of disorganization and
decay, unaffective by surrounding
changes or untoward events; she greets
lis II. the afternoon of the nineteenh
century with undimmed eye, with un-
faltering step, and in he completeness
of her perfected majority.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
BOYS RIGHTS BY A BOY.

| Talk about the women and the dar-
kies. and the-the the rest Of 'em;
none of 'em all are half so badly used as
boys are. A SIX any boy. know lot,
and | can give you all their names.-
Ask em all. They'll tell you, to be a
boy is to be somebody without right
il the world.
You're to take all the sass that's given
to you, and give none back, cause
you're boy. You are TO pay full fare
in the cars and omuibuses, cause you're
boy ami not a child; and ne 'er have
seat, cause you're II boy and not a
man. Fat lady gets in after it's full,
and look about her; every body looks at
you. Old gentleman says, INV son."
rcprovingly. Conductor Says, "Come,
now, my boy" You've pail your six
pence. No matter-that is nothing
You've been on yOur legs, with bun
dies, all day. Who Is it that cares?-
you're Il boy. Now horse has such
load given to him as he can carry, and
a man won't take any more than he can
walk under. Ask boys what grown
folks think they can carry. There S no
limit to it. VINO dosen't know boy
who does mans work, and does it
well, for tenth part OF what a man
would get for It ! Who hasn't read an
advertisement for a boy who "writes a
good hand, understands accounts, is
willing to make himself useful; boards
at home; is trustworthy; not anxious
for meals at the regular times; no i'm
pudence about him. The best recon-
merdations required, and two dollars a |
week wages"
Ask boys whether old fellows don't |
make as much fuss about such places, as
if they were doing you a favor that
would set You up for life.
Who wants boy anywhere? Your
sisters don't want you in the parlor.-
Your father don't; he always asks you
whetiieryou are not wanted to do some
thing somewhere. You make your
mothers head ache whenever you go
near her. Old ladies snap YOU up
Young ladies "hate boys" Young mea
tease you, and give it to you if you tease
back. Other felows--t's because they
are aggravated so, l know--always
want to fight, If they don't know you;
ana when you get black eye and
torn Jacket. you hear of it at home.
You look back and wonder if you ever
were that pretty little fellow in petit
coats that everybody stuffed with can
ly; and you wonder whether you'll
ever be man, and be liked by the
girls, and treated politely by the otlfer
fellows, and paid for your work, and
allowed to do as you choose. And YOU
make up your mind every day, not to
be a boy any longer than you can help
It; and hear your grandfather or some.
'ody complaining that there "are no
boys now," and wonder if he remem-
Ders the life thev led, that he don't con-
,ider 1t subject of rejoicing.
There's only one comfort in IL at all:
boys will grow up, and what they do
generally forget all that they went
through in their youth. and make the
ooys o. their day suffer just as they {
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-22
WHAT A FARMER ONCE TOLD Us.

That the success of farming is in ex-
perience.
That to ask mans advice is not
STOPPING, but often of much benefit.
That kindness to stock, like rood
shelter, is saving of fodder.
That to fight weeds is to favor grain,
and do justice to your neighbor.
That in making home agreeable you
keep yonr boys out of the city.
That it is good thing to grow into
farming not to jump into 1t.
That it is y good thing to keep an
eye on experiments, and note al, good
and bad
That it Is good rule to sell your
grain when 1t Is ready.
That the first mellow soil in springis
your mellowest, and should first be put
IN.
That great changes of weather hurt
cattle, rs well AS men.
That all Of farming is summed up In
the manure heap made on the farm.
That 30 keep a place for every thing,
and everything in its place, saves many
a step, and is pretty sure to lead to good
tools, and keep them in order.