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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

TAKE AN APPLE A Minnesota editor is
responsible for the following story: Fifteen
years ago when Minnesota voted the State
Railroad bonds, Mr.. John Hart, living in
Rollingstone Valley, after the election was
over, was invited by friend to take glass
of chop soda but instead of taking drink
he took two apples. One he gave to his wife,
and the other he ate himself Both he and
she saved the seeds of those two apples.
which they planted, and from which sprung
eight apple trees. Five of them have lived,
have prospered, and grown to be hardy,
vigorous, bearing trees Latterly each tree
bears from ten to fifteen bushels of apples
yearly. At the fair in Minneapolis, last fall,
he secured two premiums OF $50 each, upon
the apples taken from these trees. Since
they commenced bearing he has gathered
from these trees nearly one thousand dollars
worth of apples, which have all originated
from the simple fact that he took apples in
stead of beer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

While far along the eastern sky
/ saw the flags of Havoc ny,
As if his forces would assault
The sovereign of the starry vault
And hurl Him back the burning rain
That scared the cities of the plain,
read as ON a crimson page
The words of Israel's sceptred sage:
For riches make them ,eings, and they
Do eagiedy asray
o vision of that sleepless night,
What hue shall paint the mocking light
That burned and stained the orient skies
where peaceful morning loves to rise,
AS If the sun had lost his way
And dawned to make a second day
Above how red with fiery glow,
How dark to those II woke below
On roof and wall, on dome aud spire,
Flashed the false jewels Of the fire;
Girt with her belt of glttering panes
And crowned with starry cleaning yanes,
our northern queen in glor shone
With new born splendors not her own,
And stood, transfigured in our eyes,
4 victim decked for Eacrifcci
The cloud, still hovers overhead,
AMI >til the mi might sky Is red
A the lost wanderer strays alone
To seek the place he called hls own,
His devious footprints sadly tell
How changed the pathways known so well.
The scene, how new The tale how old
Ere yet tue ashes have grown cold
Agda I real the words that came
WIN, In the rubuc OF the flame,
HoWeer we trust To mortal things
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

New UsE FOR PAPzR Paper has now been
applied 10 the manufacture of curiasses. and
other projections for soldiers, having better
resisting power TO pistol bullets, spent rife
balls and sword cuts, than iron. It is now
suggested to protect ships with paper ermor
plates, which are claimed to be equal to iron
in resistance and but fraction OF the weight
A recent invention has supplied the long
needed want of waterproof paper, which is
made by dipping paper in an ammoniacal
solution of oxide OF copper, followed by
pressing and drying. Paper moulded into
any form can thus be made waterproof. It's
applications are almost innumberabie.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

THE CONCORD GRAPE-This grape is win
ming it's way into public favor In spite of the
endeavors of the vendors of other grape vines
to disparage it before the public. After
mature deliberation and ample opportunity
TO ascertain the comparative merits of nu-
merous varieties of hardy grapes, the commit
tee who was appointed to examine the speci-
mems exhibited in competition for the Gree.
lev premium awarded It to the Concord. 1t
is more adapted to general cultivation than
any other grape, as the vine is perfectly
hardy, grows rapidly, and comes into bearing
sooner than most kinds Is is the grape for
the million Valley Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

ANTIQUITY OF BUCkwHEAT CAKES. A para
graph has b-en goin1 tue rounds Of the press,
since the buckwheat eade season was inau-
gurated which claims that this deectable but
Itch inducing article Of Diet was hDlly un-
known until sumeIme during the sixteenth
century. In book published IN the twelfth
century. entitled, '.Ye Delights of Ye Break
fast Table" the following oe;urs: -'Ye
corne naymed Buekwheate, Upon whych ye
Deere dlthe much love to fede, ye dened ID
fJrme cakes OF myghte gudeness. Ye boyled
SaPe OF ye Lyuden (maple) Tree DO the much
Improve them. Bade stoma ked one saye
that to eat of these doth cause them muehe
scratchyinge. but this fayles to stop the
eatYnge Of them.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

Do IT Now.-Don't live single hour
of your life without doing exactly what is
to be done in it and going straight through
it, from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is-take hold at once
and fuish it up squarely and cleanly ;
and then to the next thing. without letting
any moments drop out between. 1t is
wonderful to see how many hours these
prompt people contrive to make of day
it is as if they picked up the moments that
the dwadlers lost. And if you find your
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

'.ARE there any Episcopaians in this
vicinity madam p asked tall, thin stran-
ger of Mrs. Artemus. as she stood in the
open door, in answer to his knock.
ANY which :"
Episcopalians."
Now, if Mrs. Artemus had failing, it
was that she never would admit that she
could possibly be ignorant of anything.
She always knew all about any subject
mentioned. So she answered
Z" Episcopalians Wall, we don't ex-
actly know My John-he's my son-he
see somethin' out'n the cornfeld Yesterday
He didn't really know what it was, but |
told him | guessed 1t was a chipmonk.
But now you speak ont I'll bet itwas
Episkerpalium. And my next neighbor,
Farmer Hawkins, he said he shot at some
thin that same day that ohm see his strange
erittur and Farmer Hawkins be thonght it
was some wild critter that had got out of
some managery somewhere. Anyhow, |
think that's Episcopaling, too. Be they
bigger'n a chipmonk p
= You misunderstood me, madam"
Wall, you needn't feel Uneasy. Ef
there's any Piscomaliums in this here
neighborhood, you can jest make up your
mind that they'll git shot! We air too
feelin' community to let things run at
large which mout destroy and devour
somebody. Come in, won't ye? E"
No, a'am. How far is it to the
nearest town ?"
About SIX miles. Have you got any
friends there? Cos if you have, know
a a'most everybody in that town. You're
minister, | take it
e am, madam"
Air you a hardshell Baptist, or what?''
" No, maam; [ am -a-well, one of
the old school. Good-morning, ma'am."-
Churchm1n.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

self where you have so many things prese-
ing upon you that you hardly know I ow
to begin, let me tell you a secret take
hold of the very first one that comes to
band, and you will find the rest all fall
into file and follow after like well-driled
soldiers; and though work may be hard to
meet when it charges in squad, it is easily
vanquished if you can bring it into line,
You may have often seen the anecdote of
the man who was asked how he had accom-
plished so much in his life. My father
taught me-" was the reply, when | had
nything to do to 90 and do a." There is the
secret-the mage word, 7ot0 0-Erchange.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-25

'.ARE there any Episcopalians in this
vicinity madam r. asked a tall, thin stran-
ger of Mrs. Artemus, as she stood in the
open door. in answer to his knock.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17
Erect OBLIGATION upon crime.

The comments of the Northern press
upon the recent assassinations in Cass
county, Missouri, and their startling in
cidents, furnish remarkable commentary
upon the effect location has upon crime,
even in the eyes of staid railroad and min
ing papers.
The history Of the matter, as given by
the United States Railroad and Mining
Register, seems to be that fourteen years
ago Cass county bonds were issued for the
Missouri Pacific railroad. The fulfillment
of the company's part of the contract being
disputed, the bonds remained in the county
treasurer's custody until 1860, when the
federal troops carried them of. They were
recovered during the war, and the railway
waiI ed all rights to them. Then ring
was formed to pocket the proceeds Of their
sale. Judge Stevenson and Judge FoIsyth
surreptitiously convened the court, and
approved a reissue of the bonds. james
Cline, r. b. Higgins and others were in
, this ring. The plumber was carried OIL;
the robbers scattered, pursued by officers
of justice. Higgins was caught and COM
mitted suicide. Two weeks ago Steven
son, Cline and Dutro, being in a railway
train together, mob stopped it, and killed
all three of them. Forsyth was shot and
hung on a tree elsewhere. Pursuit is
kept up after the rest of the ring; and, no
doubt, now that Justice has shaken of
| law, it will 20 hard with some who, being
| innocent of any participation i'll this one
crime, have long been marked as worthy of
! death for other and similar Ottenses against
he common veal. The Tribune says
" This affair is fearful commentary on
frontier lawlessness." The Register con-
sIu0Io - - startling proof of the
sound moral sense of Western men, who
are good and wise enough to know that
when moral epidemics prevail an ounce OF
prevention is worth pound of cure" The
| REGISTER further remarks that " had Cass
county been in North Carolina, or in
Florida, or on Manhattan Island, public
probity, which has long seemed lying on
its death-bed, would feel to-day fresh
streams of healthy blood pouring through
all its veins. Leaders in wickedness of the
financial type can be governed only by
fear; and the terror which an indignant
reasonable mob inspires is wholesome to
tyrants and to thieves alike, beyond all
other kinds Of fear" Yet If the rings
which have sucked Southern blood till the
South is almost lifeless had been treated in
like manner with the corrupt and thievins
officials of Cass county, We should have
had q yell of Ku-hlux from the Northern
press, including, perhaps, this railroad
journal, and the perpetrators, instead OF
being complimented on their " sound moral
sense" would have been sent to the Albany
!
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17
~.,,oDaJ PoIttics-Kcc,, Coo.

A few-a very few-of our Southcih
exchanges arc flashing ther'elFes into a
fury of passion over t}1 nomination OF
GREELEY, while a very lie" "'hefS are
rettipr I'M quite a patriotic fervor in his
behalf. Neither aass eff these papers pro
nerlv represent 1he sturdy Southern people,
and both are calculated to do injury. Tie
nonninaticn Of GREELEY is not acceptable
70 the south, and no amount OF newspaper
assertions to the contrary will render II so.
Onthe other hand, the reelection OF GRANT
is less palatable to our people, and II the
contest IS between the two-GREELET and
GRANT-the Southern whites will vote for
the former, and negroes for the latter.
This is a plain statement OF facts and
might as we'll be accepted as such. Gov
ernor WALKER, of Virginia, probably as
true representative of the Conservative
element of his very Conservative State as
any one from whom we could quote, says !:
" As bet,ceen GREELEY and GRANT, Vir
ginia. will'go for the former" What istrue
of Virginia is tue Of all the other South
CTN 5IdLeS VIII OD6 VI CNO CANSPIAOA4o'
This fact is so we'll settled that we are
surprised that papers which oppose the
election of GREELEY under all circum-
stances, and those which proudly fly his
banner to the breeze, should attempt to
"-ry our people with their denunciations
andsanegyrics Of the white-hatted philo-
soqheI Each is in bad taste, useless and
hnrtful: How ever much interest the South
may have Ye Presidential election, I'M
fortunately her opinion will have as little
consideration as her influence will have
weight in determining the issue. We can
and will support GaEELEY, if that support
is likely to elect him. We cannot afford &c
vote for him as compliment. 1t is SUI
ficiently distasteful for true and pEdd
fSouthron to vote for him in order Mill
our section of the stupid, drunke battal-
tary despot, who is now eondihs ID spies,
ions of soldiers, his marsnals tbousands
throughout our section, arrestjIoore corrunt
of our citizens, to be tried ond nartisan
judges and by prejudic
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17
The Canvass Opened.

Judge MERRIMoN opened his campaign
a: Nashville on Thursday, and Major
HUGHES spoke at Trenton on Tuesday.
Our information is that both addressed
large and enthusiastic crowds. The ut
most good feeling was manifested, and
the most perfect satisfaction with the en-
tire ticket was expressed.
Our candidate for Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor promised to work faith
fully until the polls closed ON the first day
of August, and they have begun in earn
est. Each will publish in short time a
list of appointments embracing nearly
every county in the State. Judge MERRI-
Mon has already appointments 10 speak at
PittsbOro' and Beaufort. Major HUGHES
speaks at Kenansville on Tuesday, MAY
Dist, and at Snow Hill on Thursday, May
Odd, and at Goldsboro' Oh Wednesday,
June 5th, there will be a Grand Mass
Meeting, at which both of these distinguish
ed gentlemen viii be present, as well as
other eminent speakers.
We are glad to see the interest increas-
ing SO rapidly i'll our State election. We
are determined that its importance shall
not be overshadowed by the excitement in
national politics. We ought to turn the at
tention of our people to their home matters.
At best, North Carolina can do little or moth
ing towards influencing the Presidential
canvass. In that we must follow and not
lead.
But we have local canvass not less inn
portant to our own people. We hope that
North Carolinians will make an honest
effort to redeem their own State first, and
then we can with more reason turn eur
attention to national politics. Let lis at
tend to our own affairs first and then help
to ''savc the Union.'
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17

The one rote aohich Northampton casts IN
q Radical Convention represents the potes
oft,Co thousand Radicals, eighteen hundred
of tohom are negroes, and IS Offset by the
one cote of Cdtaacba, achichTeo resents but
one hundred and fifty s0lite Radicals
THE TWO VOTES OF HALIFAX, REPRESENT
ING THE VOTES OF THIRTY-sIx HUNDRED
NEGRO REPUBLICANS IS OFFSET BY THE
TWO VOTES OF IREDELL, REPRESENTING
BUT FOUR HUNDRED WHITE RADICALS.
And so we can go through the list. A few
counties which give large Conservative ma
jorities, and which have barely enough
Radicals to fill the various offices, which
benignant government bestows with
lavish hand, can and do control the few
large negro counties which contain the
real voting strength of the party.
Therefore, in their Convention, under
the organization they have adopted, even if
it is possible for the negroes to have proper
representation from those counties which
they numerically control, they are out-voted
by men who represent counties which
acquire their strength from the large Con-
/ sentative vote which they contain. Of
course, under this system, it is almost i'm
possible for the negroes to be nominated
| The white Radicals understand this, and
It is quite comfortable thing for the
offices to be divided out among few thou
sand "trooly loyal - white men Of the
State. Possibly the negro may yet open
his eyes to this fraud, and claim due pro
portion of the power which his strength in
the party entitles'him to. If they do, such
| ignominious defeats as MADISON and Lyman
have just received, will be the exception
rather than the rule. For the present,
! however, Craven, Halifax, Edgecombe,
| Warren and New Hanover must Go the
voting, while Burke, and Rowan, and Gas
ton, and Cumberland get the offices. The
negroes Of these counties must continue
to be the political hewers Of wood and
drawers Of water for the white Radicals of
] the West. We can stand it.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17

IN 1908 Judge MofrllnOn was OCu1O-
cratic candidate for Judge of the Supreme
Court. His own county, Buncombe, where
he was born and raised, and aChere he 1rds
best kno1cn, gave large majority against
hin.-GeldSb0ro Ne'cS.
Yes, a: the same election Hon. THOMAS
S. AsuE, a pure and upright statesman
aud Christian gentleman, was defeated for
Governor by that arch-fend and criminal,
W. W. Holden, who was convicted Of high
crimes and misdemeanors in office through
the aid of the votes of his political friends.
Yes, at the same election Hon. W. Il.
BATTLE, learned jurist and incorruptible
man, was defeated for Judge of the SUI
pre1ne Court, and Richmond II. Pearson,
who cowardly prosttuted his office at the
behests of Holden, and permitted innocent
men to lie in dungeons and to be hanged
by the neck, was elected.
Yes, at the same election tie drunken
Jones, the ignorant StarbuCk, the vicious
Tourgee. the corrupt Watts, were each
elected over competitors selected for their
ability as lawyers and their characters as
men, as every way worthy successors Of
the purity and learning which had rendered
the North Carolina bench honcred at home
and abroad, and made its decisions au-
thority wherever the English Common
Law prevailed.
Yes, at the same election Latin al
Stevens, and Downing and Estes, ap' Tile
other scoundrels who disgraced or Legs
lative Halls and brought ria" upon our
people, were elected to the legislature
In 1868 in North Carolina there was
carnival of corruption, pofigacy and ras-
cality. The people OF The State stood III
awe at the great moral, social and political
revolution, then in the very height of its
irresistible power, which was sweeping
over the whole country. They quietly
submitted to events which thcJ could not
control Shutting their eyes bo'h to the
danger and the humiliation, they bore
themselves as became proud but helpless
people.
Now things have changed. The time
has come when virtue, and not corruption,
when intelligence, and not ignorance, are
the recommendations W pOoiCiOAi'
Thank God, the people, too, bed
changed. Good men who were 8-seek-
into the support Of these corTrFhe purpose
ers. have abandoned a-rbeen TO promote
of which seemed tsGeal he substance of
soopndrels' aud pssd men, who found out
the State. "NH Intuo the passports
that worth ana the Conservative party,
to es5helter in the congenial ran+a
have 11hsm. eve hope the Editor OF
OF he e,cs, who voted for Judge Merrimon
thtes68, will excuse any PERSONAL applica-
.4on that people might might make to him
SELF
Thank God, there is nov Z better feel
ing among the people. We breathe aPureE
political atmosphere. Reform and he-
trenchment are battling at the doors OF tne
White House, and are forcing an entrance
The very citadel of Radicalisn IS shaking
from foundation to turret stone It's gar
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17
- N~%"~ Voter a.AEA AHica-
ETGIdar.

The ignOmiuiOus defeat, in the Radical
Nominating Convention, Of Lyman, the
negro aspirant for Congress in the Second
Congressional District, is in accordance
with our predictions. We said that there
would be 10 negro nominated upon the
Radical State ticket, and sure enough Nab
son, the most popular, and probably the
most intelligent colored man in the State,
was hardly able to get vote as the candi-
date for the modest position of Secretary of
State against most unworthy aspirant.
Except in the color of his skin, even if in
these DAYS we are justified in making that
exception, MADISON was HGwerton's SUI
perior III every respect.
Following close upon Mabsons disap-
pointment, we see that in a District COM
posed Of ten counties, eight of which
have negro majOrities, and in the District
there is a negro registered 3oUjoTity Of
seren thOuSuud, 4 colOred man of good
character, Of great popularity, Of talents
certainly equal to those Of his white Oppo-
nent, receives the support OF only two
counties, casting four votes. lis success
FIJI competitor was SO much Of a war man
as to sign tho Ordinance Of Secession and
vote men and money" the last man and
the last dollar for the successful prose-
cation Of the war.
We are justified, therefore, in repeating
former statement that it is impossible for the
negro to successfully aspire for political pre-
ferment in North Carolina. If the colored
man ever evinces any talents as a statesman,
or even as politician, he must do so be-
t-~nh tue borders of orr State. Such an
| ''o0' 'ioH "0"r'- 49, ~.,lar when It is
! known that the negroes cast seventy to
! seventy five thousand of the eighty-fve to
ninety thc'1sand votes polled by the Radio Al
party i'll North Carolina, # it could not be
very easily accounted for.
The whole plan Of organization adopted
by the Radical parry of North Carolina is
intended to cheat ana defraud the negroes
A largo majority Of he colored men,
who have sufficient ednation to disco7er
the fraud, are either bribe1 nv the white
officc-holders to keep silent, c. are content
with the paltry plttances- doled ~1tsto them
from the rich treasury Of Offices a the dis
posal of the party.
Let Us look at the facts. TheIe a. in
North Carolina about an equal numbelof
Democrats and Conservatives, and Radl'
calls. Of the one hundred and eight!
thousand votes actually cast in the last I'VE
general elections, each party polled abou
ninety thousand. But very large pro
portion of the Radical vote is confined t.
less than one-fourth of the counties. Fo
instance, BERTHE, Craven, Edgecombe
Halifax, New Hanover, Northampton AM
Warren, eight counties, and, with the ex
ception of New Hanover, only medium
size in population, contain quite one5ourt
, of tie Radical cote Of the State, AM
FULLY TwO-THIRDs OF THE RADICAL
MAJoRITIEs. Yet these counties, wer
they represented in a Convention of tn
= party by negroes, which is rarely or neve
the case, have only THIRTEEN VOTES G
! the one hundred and taoe1aty which max
> up fall State Convention.
4 Let lis look at it from different view
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17

rison already begin to quake with fear, and
many Of its most stalwart defenders are de-
serting. Its entire demolition is only a
matter of time. The handwriting is
plainly visible upon its walls
These are the influences under which
Judge MERRIAloN and Major HUGHES be-
gin their campaign. From all portions OF
the State the people are rising in their
majesty apd power to put down Caldwell
and Brogden, who were part and parcel Of
the bad men who brought bankruptcy and
dishonor upon North Carolina.
The bright sun of promise already gid:
the Eastern sky. On the first day Of Au.
gust it will shine with MONDAY ehugence
upon redeemed and regenerated people.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-17
FRIDAY, MAY IL, 1872.
FOR GOVERNORS:

FOR GOVERNOR:
AUGUSTUS 8. MERRIMON.
OF BUNCOMBE.
For Lieut.. Governor
JOHN HUGHES.
Of Craven.
For Attorney General
WILLIAM NJ. SHIP,
Of Mecklenburg.
For Secretary of State:
JOHN A. WOMACK,
OF Chatham.
For State Treasurer
JOHN w. GRAHAM,
Of Orange.
For auditor
COLLETT LEVENTHORPE,
Of Caldwell;
For Superintendent of Public Instruction
NEREUS MENDENHALL,
OF Guilford.
For Superintendent of Public Works:
JOSEPH 81. SEPARK,
Of Wake.