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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

New STEAMBOAT LINE.-The
GAINESVILLE and Washington, North
Carolina, Railroad and Lumber
Company, have purchased the side
wheel steamboat Oriole, formerly
Boston ferry boat, and have had
her fitted up for freight and pas
sengers, to run from GAINESVILLE on
the Roanoke river to Franklin, IN
connection with the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad. The Oriole is
10 feet long and SO feet extreme
beam, and measures 26S tons. She
commenced on the line Monday,
and will run on alternate days with
the Chowan, now on that route.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

WATERMELoNS.-.We learn that
w. b. Coleburn of Coleburnyllle,
\. c., is the largest raiser OF fine
watermelons in the United States.
1t has taken him two months to sell
this summers crop, selling steadily
1000 to $500 daily. lie is not yet
exhausted, and we learn that some
of his vessels have Melted him clear
Of all expenses, e $1,000. lie
not only leaves his melons here, but
also his money to a large amount,
in the purchase of fertilizers, i'm
plements and other articles neces-
sary for the extensive enlargement
of his business, which he has in con-
templation." ". I. Herald.
Besides lading fifteen vessels with
watermelons for the New York
market this season, Mr.. Coleburn
has shipped to Baltimore hundreds
of bushels of beets, tomatoes and
other vegetables Of his Owl produc-
ton, from which he has realized
very handsome returns.-Newber-
man.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

James Gordon Bennett, while IN
France a few months ago, bought a
large French steeple-chaser that is
said to have made extraordinary
time in private, although he has
never yet been run in public. The
price paid was $40, 600, with the
understanding that he should not
be run in France, where he might
come in competition with his for
mel owners other horses. The
horse has been brought to this coun-
try and is summering on a Rhode
Island farm.
The citizens Of Greenville have
organized company, to which has
been given the name "Jarvis Light
Infantry The officers are-Cap-
tain, Louis G. Latham; 1st. Lieu
tenant, A. L. Blow; End, 1t. B.
II. PEBBLES; Jr., End, 1t. w. H..
Harrington.
TURNIPs sown early in the month
may make a crop with a favorable
eason.-American Farmer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

or whiskey, and the syrup when
properly made is more pa1a'apls
and wholesome than the mcdicated
stuff that graces our tables or the
inky fluid we buy for our farm
hands, and call molasses. NO far
mel in south Carolina should buy
s.long sweetening.' On more han
n occasion we have heard men
compare sour F'lortoM SyrNp to
the vile sorghum juice, when they
were eating home made syrup at
our own table.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19
The Land Of Extremes.

The genius of New England is
a queer mixture of froth and
frmness !; the firmness has made
its power, the froth has dis
graced its name. Every ism finds
there a home at least, if not a
hot-bed. The witchcraft delusion
flourished there. There spiritual
ism was born. There Know Moth
ingism arose. There liberty has
ever tended to license, and there
the restless activities of hardy race
are ever leading them into extremes,
from an iron Calvinism to the
widest Universalism, from regicide
and rebellion to the erection of
petty despots in every township,
from misery saving to princely be-
neyolence, from creation Of consti-
tutions, to the denial of all law.
The genius of New England may
indeed be taken as a maximum and
minimum thermometer-its mercu-
ry rushes from cold to hot and holds
no temperate station. 1t has been
the creator of many Of the most
useful ideas which the country has
adopted, and it has produced many
most noXious notions which the
country has generally rejected. The
witch folly got no farther South
than New York. Spiritualism got
no real foothold south of Hudson
river. Know Nothingism persisted
in crossing the Potomac. Commun-
ism in several shapes penetrated so
far only as Pennsylvania. The
Maine Liquorism, yegetarianism,
and a variety Of like fantastic
freaks died before they got out OF
New England.-Richmond State.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19
A Farm Chat.

Hon. ID. Wyatt Aiken, the
Granger congressman, and agri-
cultural Editor of the Charleston
News, thus writes in a recent num-
Der:
The time has arrived when every
farmer should take a retrospect Of
his labors on the farm, and con-
slider whether or not he has acted
wisely or unwisely as a cultivator
of the soil. He should now begin
to take an inventory too of the farm
in this wise Have | planted too
much cotton this year? Did corn
pay me ? Have | any peas to plough
under ? Have l bought molasses
when | could more easily have
grown the cane and boiled the
syrup? Is my barn full of oats, or
am | still dependent upon corn
hauled from the depot and bought
on u credit ? Have | on hand pro-
vender and other homemade sup
plies for the winter ? Does my cot
ton crop bid fair to pay all expenses
and have something laid up for a
rainy day ? Do | owe a store &C
count which / cannot say certainly
l will be able to pay when my cot
ton is ready for market :? Have /
utilized the labor on my farm to
the best advantage ? And last, but
by no means least, have l spent my
own time as profitably as l should
during the past eight months )?
If he can answer all such in
quires satisfactorily, he may with
heart and hope begin now to pre-
pare for another crop, for now is
the beginning Of seed time with
the South Carolina farmer. If,
however, he had cause to be dis
heartened because of sundry failures
during the past year, let him take
courage, and with renewed energy
buckle to it with a determination
that he shall not have a recurrence
of such a condition if his efforts
can avert it.
The cotton picking season is here.
and should if practicable not bt
allowed to crowd the farmer. Keel
the field clear of open bolls, should
now be the farmers effort. No
should he fail to gin as rapidly a
possible after picking, pack as fas
as ginned, and sell as soon a
packed. This rule may not bt
without exception, but uniforml,
it will prove the most advisable
Cotton should be prepared fo
market with much care; trash vii
reduce its price, but not its valu
to the manufacturer. Dirt, san,
and stains will always be in cottoI
to the disadvantage of The farmer
AS soon as the cotton field
picked over run two sweep furrow
to the row, SOW one and a half @
two bushels of red oats to the acre
and cover with one or two swee
burrows in the middle of the waite
furrow. This will be the cheapes
horse or mule or COW or hog G
sheep food you ever produced
Trampling over the oats rs the co
ton is picked in the fall and wintt
does them good.
We are simply astonished at tt
Ignorance of our farmers at tn
day concerning the red oats. W
very frequently get letters of il
qulry asking if We have any "pul
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

Mrs. Martha j. Lamb, a lady Of
some celebrity as the author of a
history of New York. in writing
from White Sulphur, to Andrews
Bazar, alludes in pleasant phrases
to Col. Wharton J. Green of War
renton: also to the singing of James
Brown of Wilmington: also as fol-
lows:
"There is Judge John Bacon. of
Columbia, South Carolina, in close
proximity with Judge Robert Guild,
of Richmond, one of the handso-
NEST men in the room. The tall,
d~ark-eyed, intelligent looking
young man with the pretty, FAIR
haired lady on his arm is Wade
Hampton, Jr., from Mississippi.
You will notice n gentleman who
is everywhere omnipresent, tall,
1.-the, elegant, with fair complexion,
high forehead, and intellect
stamped upon every feature; it is
the genial, gallant Colonel Peter
DOMAIN, from Arkansas, who is the
light OF society, with a pleasant
greeting for ala coiner of words
indeed. He is promenading now
with one Of the brightest bellies of
the White Sulphur-Miss Green, of
North Carolina"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

CONVENTION CALLED. The
Democratic Executive Committee
for the 2nd Congressional District
met at Goldsboro on Tuesday 1t
was decided to call a convention
to meet at Goldsboro, Oct. 1st. and
all counties of the District are re-
quested to hold meetings, and send
delegates. This is official.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19
EXPLANAToRY.-The numerous

EXPLANAToRY.-The numerous
typographical errors in the last,
and some former numbers of this
D were not due to Mr.. Shot
we'll. In Justice to himself he must
state that in addition to his other
duties, he carefully corrects every
column of proof each week. Edi-
torial for this week was also fur
nished, but was not set.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

Crops in Northampton county
are frst-class, except that along the
Roanoke they / not SO promising.
In Gates, the farmers are worried
about the continual rains, but cot
ton is improving and many farmers
have begun to pick. SO states the
Murfreesboro Enquirer. Much
damage to low ground corn was
done last week by a frcshet in the
Catawba.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

From the above it will be seen
that to the quantity in pounds or
bushels of any the products named,
the exhausted or extracted quanti-
ty Of the minerals named should be
returned to the earth.
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13

Wanted a Man to Sit With Sal
From the virginia City nhrnnio,la


Yesterday afternoon a green
looking couple, evidently newly
married, called at the Photographic
gallery of Beals & Waterhoase and
wanted their pictures taken. Just
- Mr.. Beals had got his plates ready
the man called him aside and said be
wanted to ask a favor. Il was told
in Carson you took tbs best pictures
in tho state. Now, you see, Sal and
| got bitched down there last Monday
now her folks go good deal on styie
snd they live in Chicago. They
never saw me and if | send my mug
back east they'll be dead agin me
sure. I'm darned sight better than
| look, and when people come to
know me, they vote me a brick. Now
what | want is to get some good
looking man to sit with Sal for q
picture. Will you stand in? She's
willing. Them big whiskers of
yours'll catch 'em sure and create
harmony. You look like a solid cap
italist, and they'd take me for a
petty larceny thief. Mr.. Beals en-.
i1yed the idea immensely, and sat
with Sal for tho picture, which will
doubtless carry JOY into the house
hold of those relatives in week or
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
The Red. Spider.

Amateurs who are troubled with
the red spider upon their tuchias and
wonder, without satisfaction, as to
the falling Of the leaves,will find some
consolation in this advice of the
American Farmer: "If they look on
the outside of the leaves carefully,
when the first signs of distress are
noticed, they might discover tho cause
in the shape of almost infiuitessimal
insects, called red spiders, which
suck the juices entirely out of the
leaves of plants upon which they are
allowed to remain. They increase
very fast in high temperature and
dry atmosphere. The remedy is clear
water forcibly applied to the foliage,
none particularly to the under side,
as often as necessary. Syringe plants
freely in the morning before the sun
shines upon them, and in the evening
after the sun has gone off them. Clear
water and the syringe are great aids
in Horticulture" Some recommend
tobacco smoke, but unless great care is
exercised its use involves danger, and
those not accustomed to its use are
almost certain to injure the plants at
the first trial. A small amount Of car
bolic soap IN the winter will help
very much. but too much should not
be allowed to fall upon the earth in
the pot.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
Poisoned Spears.

In an interesting series OF letters
to the London Field from the New
Hebridea. = group of islands north Of
Australia belonging to the Graguan
group wa0se inhabitants are ex-
tremely savage and think nothing of
making meal of missionary. Mr..
L. Lanyard describes the dreadful
poisoned spears of these islanders,
made with long carved points of
human bones. These points are
formed from the leg bones of
either friends or enemies. a thigh
bono being split into four points,
while shin bone sufices for only
I've. Themselves are very pariicu-
lai about the eelection of them.
they say thai the bono of person
under 20 is too weak and spongy !;
from 20 to 40 they are Z. their best.
After that age they beoom too brittle.
Some spears have as many as 200 or
$50 points, and splintors fastened on
them three or four vastly exceeding
others in size, being in fact the main
points. A fragment OF one OF these
remaining in the wound is almost
sure TO produce fatal results, as the
cellular structure Of the bone is. of
course, impregnated with tho virus
of the body that has decayed around
it. They are used for arrows also,
and barbed for the purpose of being
fixed 10 the wound long enough for
the poison to mingle with the blood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13


WE were shown package of notes
sent to the First National Bank for
collection amounting to over 50 900.
They were given for shoddy cloth to
irresponsible peddlers and signed by
some OF the best farmers in Marshall
county. These men deserve little or
no sympathy for their loss. They
should have known better than to
have even admitted these swindlers
on their premises, for they have had
the advantage of their neighbors' SIM
liar misfortunes, and the teaching of
the Times for years past, but still they
bit like gudgeons at bare hook.
They have succeeded in beating our
merchants out of few dollars, and
tor reward can spend their spare
time in cussiDg the peddlers for their
rascality, and themselves for their stu
pidity. We trust that this expensive
lesson will not be thrown away, and
that our farmers will learn at last, that
it is cheaper to pay little more for
good goods, TO responsible merchants
than TO make cents and lose dollars
by cloth swindlers. -Marshalfolcn
Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
The Little Wager.


A Gratiot avenue saloonkeeper
was sorting cut the lead nickess from
his ILL yesterday morning, prepare
tory to the honest labola of q rainy
! day, when milling stranger came
in and said
sOld fellow, I've got a bet Of ten
dollars on your headl
The saloonist felt all over the top
of his head, fouEd 10 bet there, and
looked fora irrsaer explanation from
the stranger whose coat at tbs elbow
seemed bound to secure ventilation.
fnhe case ID thip,' continued tbs
mar, i bet IT, friend B. that you
were i. well raad man To prove IL
j nave come to ask you if you know
what Damon did when there was
every reason to doubt that Pythias
would return While / am slipping
my lager You cen jog your memory
a little
He puzzled the glass across the
counter, bus the saloonkeeper SEEM
ed TO be bunting for something own
among the kegs.
IL is only trife--small wager
but the principle is that | want to
establish said the man as he anx.
iously showed the glass around.
i expect so, came from down
among The kegs.
Damon and Pythlas were chums
You know. When Damon wiped off
bis chin Pythias pulled down his
vest, and vice versa. While / am
drinking you can ponder over my
query
sShust So replied voice as the
kegs were rolled about.
IF Damon had the headache con-
tinued the man, trying to work the
pump projecting above the bar, sPy>
thias had sore eye as an offset. If
Pythias said he would take sugar in
his, Damon sweetened up with New
Orleans molasses. All this you
know of course, but what did Da-
mon do when pythias did not re-
turn ?
4 shall now show you what he
uio, salu tne salOoniSt as ne rose up
with a metallic spiggot in bis hand.
when dot Piddeus did not hurry up
Damon vhaks arount der bar shust
so, und---'
The stranger got out, and holding
the door from the outside he looked
through the glass and said
Il am now convinced that you
never read burned line of Shakes.
peare While Damon was search
ing under the bar, Pythias drew and
drank three glasses of beer
The saloonkesper smiled, laid
away hia spiggot, and good natured-
ly pulling open the door no called to
the stranger at the curb stone.
when Damon vhas drawing dot
peer Piddeus vhas moofng der
pump into der schlop keep
A tremor passed over the wag. lie
turned pale, showed his teeth, and
as he started for the wood yard OPP
posite he replied
Hanged if he didn't = Damon
wan is rest l'--Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
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r. NOrwaoian lam mipr ia .

The Norwegian lemming is an ami.
NAL about the size of mouse. II
lives under stones in the Summer, and
under snow in Winter Il Kisses and
bites About once in ten years they
emigrate in the autumn, in large ar
mics. They march in straight line,
and cross lakes and rivers. They 60
through haystacks rather than 90
around. Nothing stops them, not fire,
cascades, nor swamps. If man
stands in the way they will jump at
him as high as his knee, II struck,
they will turn around and bark and
bite like a dog Foxes, lynxes, owls,
hawks and weasels will follow and
destroy large numbers of them, but it
does not check them. They continue
their course until they reach the sea,
into which they plunge, as persistent
and progressive as ever, until the
waves drown and exterminate them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13

The other morning the head of the
family, who is deaf and uses an ear
trumpet, thought he heard a terrible
clatter in the street, and, running to
the tight-board fence, hastily put the
little end of the trumpet in his ear,
resting the big end on the fence.
The belted vender oflacteal fluid had
just driven up, mistook the wind in
strument for the regular dipper,
poured a quart of milk into it and
droye rapidly away, which accounts
tor the milk in the deaf mans cocoa
nut He didn't hear anything much,
but the nilkman would if he had
waited moment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
SaNFORD'S RADICAL. CUR
SURPRISING CURE,

Gentlemen. About twelve years ago. while travel.
ling with Father Kemp's Old Folks Concert Troupe as
tenor singer, took severe cold and laid up It
Newark, N. j. This cold brought severe attack OF
Catarrh which batted with every known remedy for
four weeks without avail, and was finally obliged to
give up most desirable posit'on and return home
unable to sing note. For three years aiterwards |
was unable to sing all. The first attack OF Catarrh
hadeft my nasal organs and thIoa so sensitive that the
slightest cold would bring on 5rcsh attack, leaving
Frustrated. In this way continued to utter. The
last attack the severest ever had, was terrible
fercd the most excruciatng pain in my head was 50
hoarse TO be scarcely able to speak, and comgDed
necessarily. I thought was going into quick con-
sumption, and firmly believe that had these symp-
toms continued without relief they would have rem.
dered me an easy victim. When In this distressing
condition, commenced the use of SANFoED's RADICAL
CURE CATARRH very reluctantly. confess as bad
tried all the advertised remedies without benefit. The
first dose of this wonderful medicine gave me the
greatestrecf 1t hardly possible for one whose head
aches eyes ache, who scarcely arculGte distinctly
account of the choking Accommodations in his throat
plication OF SASFoRDs RADICAL CURE. Under its IN
uence both Internal and external rapidly
and By occasional of the remedy SINCE have
been entirely free from Catarrh, for the first time in
Respectfully you're.
GEO. W. IEOLBRO0K.
wALTHAM. MASS, Jan. 8, 1876.
l.. 81 purchased the RADICAL CURE OF GEO. II.
ROGERS, Druggist, Rumford Building.
Each package contains DR. Sanfords Improved Inhal.
ing Tube. with iu directions for in all cases.
Price, $780, For sale by all Wholesale and Retail Drug
glsts throughout the United States and Canadas.
WEEKS & POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale
Druggists, Boston, Mass
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
The Laboratory of the system

The stomach is the laboratory of the system in
which certain mysterious processes are constantly
going on. These result in the production of that
wonderful yiyifyirg agent the blood, which in tate
OF heathrusf laden with the elements of vitality
to the renotest parts of the system But when the
stomach is semi paralyzed by dyspepsia blood manu-
1acture is carried imperfectly the circulation
grows thin and sluggish, and the system suffers in
consequences. Moreover, indigestion reacts upon the
liver ahd bowels rendering the first sluggish and the
latter censtipated The brain also suffers by sym.
pathy, and sick headaches, seepess ness and merry.
Gus symptoms are engendered. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters reforms that state of things gives
organs the bowels and liver. and ensures complete
nourishment and increased vigor the system 1t
the most popular as the most efficient anti-dyspeptic
and tonic in America.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13

CONGRESSMAN OLIVER, in his letter
declining the nomination of the Green,
hackers of the Ninth Iowa District,
gives the Greenbackers to understand
that he is Republican, and that be
thinks the Greenback movement out
of place. He is in favor of more cur
rency and therefore wants resumption
tor he says that resumption will un-
lock vast quantities of gold and green
backs now boarded, aud make money
plentiful and revive business prosper
ity and good times.n