The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-09-01


view of the short supply, planters and fac
tors can regulate the price
Already large sales for future delivery
have been and are now being made at 81
and 30 cents for September and October,
80 for November, 27t for December and
81 for January, 1870 Grades low, mid
ding, and if the season prove unfavorable,
or an early frost should come, prices would
go very high.
DEATH IN WELL.-A colored man
named Motion, engaged in cleaning out a
well for Mr. Alexander Fuller, at his Hyco
| plantation on the Leasburg road, lost his
life last Friday by descending into well
| after several Intellectual efforts had been
| made to send down lighted candle. Mo-
ton very foolishly concluded to go down
| himself, and had proceeded some distance
| when he called to them to pull him up, but
| when about six feet from the top of the
| well he tell backwards out of the bucket,
supposed to be dead when he fell out
| Milton Chronicle.
PoIsoNED.-We learn from Capt. Oba-
diah Woodson that his wife and two chill,
| dren were poisoned, on Monday morning.
| About 10 o'clock in the day, the children
asked for coffee, when Mrs. Woodson order
| ed the servants in the kitchen to make it.
| Soon the coffee was made. brought in, and
Mrs Woodson and the children drank of it.
! An hour or so afterwards they were all vio-
lently taken sick, vomiting and giving evil
dent signs of being poisoned. Drs. White
head Summerell was called in, and pro-
nounced them poisoned, and it is thought
by the coffee.
We are glad to be able to state, however,
| that Mrs. Woodson and the children are
much better and thought to be out of dan
| ger.-Eraminer.
How FARMERS MAY SUPPLEMENT THE
SHORT Corn CRoP.-A correspondent of the
! Hillsboro Recorder gives the following valu-
able suggestions to farmers in every section
of the State where the crops are cut short by
the drouth:
The corn crop throughout this section OF
the State is failure; not more than one
half, perhaps not one-third the usual crop
can be expected What is the duty OF
farmers under the circumstances Can they
by no hook or crook" Nonest hook mean, }
meet the emergency, and in spite of their
half-flled cribs, still feed their families, their
cattle and horses, sheep and hogs? They
can do much, if they will "pull off their
| coats and roll up their sleeves, cease talking
about the drought and hard times, and go
to work in good earnest, as if they were
just now beginning the years work with the
brightest prospect to cheer them. Let them
| turn over lands on the creeks and branches
that can be plowed where they have har-
vested wheat or oats and SOW in buckwheat
| half bushel or three pecks to the acre, and
| harrow in; and they will make from ten to
forty bushels to the acre according to the
| quality of the land. 1t is not too late to
SOW this week or next week. Should Sep
TENDER be seasonable month the yield Of
buckwheat sowed now will astonish any
farmer who has never sowed it. l have
sowed it and know whereof speak.
Farmers in this section value the turnip
low. Let me assure them that there is no
crop that will pay the farmer better than
the turnip crop. Fed on turnips his cows
Twill yield him abundant milk and butter
I throughout the winter. Boil them for his
fattening hogs and they will fatten with
half the corn. His SOW and pigs will keep
in good condition till spring, fed on boiled
turnips alone. Sheep are very fond of the
turnip mot boiledD and keep fat on them.
To make good yield of turnips the soil
must be rich. Therefore let every farmer go
to scratching and scraping Immediately
there is no time to loose still there is time
enough yet. Let him scrape up every pound
Of manure of every description on his prem
iscs. Turnips feed greedily on any kind of
manure. Don't leave an ounce Of horse or
cow dung in the stables. Saoeep erery dust
| of ashes from the chimneys; bushel OF
SCOT is worth a dollar in gold. Garry all
the manure you have collected to your
turnip patch Break the land up hard OF
soft, break it up don't wait for rain Break
the clods, pulverise thoroughly, and when
it rains you will be ready to SOW. have
seen good turnips raised from sowing
made the 18th of September. Sown the Isl
of September the " Strap-leaved Purple
Top" or " The White Dutch" with good
seasons, will make 400 bushels to the acre
Don't expect to get seed from you
neighbors wien the time to SOW arrives
you may fail to get them, and don't know
but that you ought to fail. Send one dola
to Allison and Addison, Richmond, Va.
and you will get seed enough to SOW al
1 acre.