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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-03
FLUE FISH.
Ma. G..

Maj. u. A. Gillian, writing to
the Department III answer TO lnqul-
rles, gives some particulars OF the
habits and characteristics of tins
highly priced fish though he dad
not write for publication
"BuL few blue fish have been
taken Oh our coast thus winter.
They are taken only between New
York and Hatteras, not above or
below, until last fall, when a few
were taken on the coast between
Ocracoke and Beaufort. Their
movement is southwark. They
come south for food, which they
find in November and December III
immense shoals OF fat-backs, which
school near shore. Fat-backs are
known north as nloss-bunkers, and
arrives south as bug fish and fat
backs. They are generally IN great
dDlIiudIlCC III NONcuiDCl dIU IL
cember on the Virginia and North
Carolina coast.
The blue fish are about thirty
inches long and average about eight
pounds to the fish, and are of a
uniformity IN size that is wonder
full. They swim among the break
ers near shore, where fat-backs,
shad Or other small fish abound.
They live on fl alone, and are
rapaelous.
Many small vessels come south
to hsh on u coast every season,
bringing boats and nets and a sup
ply OF ice for packing. The fish
are gllled while pursuing their bait
or prey; the meshes (six inchcs)
let the small fish through and gill
the blue fish. This season there
are no fat-backs OF our coast.
The water has been clear and not
beng tempted by pursuit of food,
the blue fish go u7eder the net, or
otherwise evade it. There have
been and are still great quantities
OF blue fish but no fat backS-and
none OF any consequence have been
caught-not a tenth Of the average
quantity.
In the months Of March and
April, blue fish, porpoises and
sharks collect in great numbers at
u lnlets-Ocracoke, Hatteras,
New Inlet and Oregon, and play
sad havoc with the shad and her
rings that are making their way to
u waters.
1t is said by the natives that the
water IS blooded for msles BY the
havoc. have told you what |
know about the blue fish. We can
not hatch It If we could prevent
SIS reproduction, it would add very
greatly to the quantity Of fish that
come into Il sounds.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-03

old field. thrown ont TO wash and
gully, or to be meagerly coated with
a scantv heritage of broom sedge,
the miserable compromise between
vegetable life and death and SO the
| negro and the great staples have
branded upon the features of the
landscape It's Intellectually character
istics. If the landscape were the
only sufferer, painful as Is the PIC
ture it presents, 1t might be en-
dured. because kindly nature has a
tender "A of gently tending the
wounds on the bosom of mother
earth. and wreathing around her
SCARED yisage a graceful mantllng
Of newer forms Of life TO conceal
deformitv. But We use the word
"ineffaceablv" seriously and sadly
when We have IN view SO much that
is beyond the power OF natures
healing art. Whoever has seen the
country along Hyco creek, IN the
counties of Person and Caswell,
and along County Line creek IN the
latter county, will realize at a glance
the utter hopelessness of any reno
walton throughout time. Steep,
sharp hills, once covered with forest,
recklessly cleared and cultivated to
the very water side, 10Y present the
appearance of the hills bounding
the great western plains, torn, gull
lied, washed, wasted and verdure-
less. never more to be enlivened by
n green thing, but cursed to end
less barrenness, because there is no
foothold for vegetation. And all
over the State-all over the South.
-Hyco and County Line are repro
duced in m%ournful frequency.
Increase of population may give
increased value to land, aud make
the work of reclamation to some
extent practicable and profitable.
There are vast quantities of old
field that may, in the course Of a
generation or two, be reclOthed with
trees: there are other tracts that
skill and industry may even now
restore to fertility ; there are many
that are absolutely past human
skill. But, at least, an end can be
put to the farther growth of old
field territory by more careful at
tention to the area of cultivation
now in use. There is growing skill
in agricultural practices, there IS
growing population which cannot
find new lands to clear up, and bet
ter still, there is a growing scarcity
of forest land and increasing value
attached to what remains, and
therefore an end approaches to the
creation, on an extended scale, of
any more cold fields"
j. ID. G..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-03
JANUARY 3, ISIS.

five gallons Of oil, worth l. cau..
per gallon.
The seed, when kept in bulk, a-.
very liable to heat, aud great loss IS
sometimes sustained toy not taaru-
care % prevent heating, rs the $3.50.
are thus rendered useless for .
making.
The above facts were obtaus.
from Mr.. y. NJ. Mcphee.er.. ..
Raleigh.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-03
To the People of North CAROLYN

To the People of North Carolina
1t Is known 10 Won that III U..-
dlence TO a provision Of tine uew
constitution Of our State. the r,.e..
session q the Legislature pa,,e.
bill establishing a Department 81.
Agriculture. Immigration aud >..-
t~IstIcs, and Tor tine protection
sheep liu>baudry. Early after ...
adjournment of the General A>~.r-
bly, the Board Of Agrlcul,aa. a.
organized. They elected "a Conn
missioner, Secretary ana treasure.
opened an office and museum Il.
thus city and went earnestly .o
work to carry out that wise pro>.--
ION Of ~ organic law. Iunumer-
able difficulties bc,et our effort ts
reason of u lucAperIcncc and tau
absence of a hearty and "apprec.ats.
cooperation OH the part Of many ST..
th, ,.,, -,
and vel We have mel with q .l...-
| SO far. which J. most cncouraa.n.
Ia thu first place the Commission
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

STRANGE HISTORY OF a FOUNDLING.-
Near the line of the San JaciutO street
railway, in this city, there lives a white
girl with a coloIed family whose history is
remarkably romantic. According to the
Story told by her sable fOsterfdther, and
the writings he produces to prove the same,
the Girl is the offspring of persons OF the
highest social standing near Hickman, KY,
each of whom was wealthy. One night,
after he and his family had retired to rest,
he was awakened by the cry of an infant
and A knocking at the door, aud on opening
il found white baby in a basI ct on the
sep with note pinned to it, telling him
to care for it, and that he in turn would be
cared for pecuniariy. Through com
miseration he took the Guild in and cared
for it. He had children of his own, but
the heart of the black man was touched,
aud he determined to rear the child as his
OVID The parents of the child never IN
auy way made themselves known other
wise than in the note above mentioned,
aud the negro had come to regard 1t as one
of his own children. On the fifth birthday
of the adopted child woman appeared and
demanded it, saying that she bad paid
promptly for the maintenance, having mar
ried in the meantime. The negro man
refused to deliver up the child, 20 which be
has become very much attached, and SUIT
was instituted by the parties to regain pos
session of it, bu:, after bearing the trial,
the Judge decided in favor of the negro.
The case was taken to the Supreme Court,
where l. was decided in the same manner.
At thirteen years of age, the girl who
had already an English education, was
sent to a female college in Millersburg,
Kentucky. Here she met with man
named FoIsome, who was attending college
at that place, and they became engaged
While they were engaged young Folsome
was shot and killed in difficulty with a
fellow student This sad episode caused
her TO abandon her studies aud return home
with a longing to see the country of which
her dead lover had so often spoken. She
persuaded the negro man to move TO the
Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory,
where she lived over the dreams of her
suddeBed anticipatious. After passing a
part of the time here they came To this
place, where they have lived ever since,
the girl being a source Of cur IioSity to the
denizeus of the ci y.-Dal!as J. Ieras} Her
aid.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

THE Man FLUTE.-Signor Don a. Fer
reyIs. who calls himself the man flute, ap-
peared at the dime cor cert at Copper In
stitute last night. Without the aid Of any
thing but mis- hands he produces the sound
of a flute and performs the most fficult
operatic airs. Parting the middle aud
fourth fingers Of his left hand. he fastens
his lips between them and then with his
right hand plays on the back of the other
The hollow ground of the TOP of one thumb
leaning against the thick of the O her re
ceives the air, which is let out OF compress
I'd according to the movement Of his fin
gers. Last nigh: he played selections
from "Lucia di La'nmermopr," and Nor
ma" aud in response to encOres, Home
Sweet Home and the Carnival Of Ven
ice' with variations, performing the most
difficult cadeuzas and trills i'll really aston
iShing fashion, to the deligh- aud enthuSi-
asm Of large audience. e.-N. 7. World,
eth.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07
Il PREMONITORY DREAM.

Many years ago Rev. Mr.. n. held a
small living in the widest part of West
SomerSet. The parish church stood on a
bleak hillside, and Mr.. N. who was a
bachelor, lodged in the farm house close to
it. Among his small flock there was no
one in whom the Clergyman took more in
terest than in Mary. the pretty daughter
of the farmer his landlord When Mary
was about twenty Mr. n. was much tIou-
blcd by rinding that she had formed an at
tachment with Jack Townsend, the clever
est workman and most worthless fellow on
the farm.
One autumn night the clergyman dream
ed that Mary stood at his bedside and
cried out in an impluring voice, Come
out on the hillside' The impression left
OH his mind on waking was so distinct
that if he had not known that the door
was locked SO that no one could enter the
room he would have thought Mary must
in reality have been there. Feeling how
ever, sure that it was only dream, lie
composed himself once more to sleep.
But scarcely had he closed his ewes when
Mary was again there, calling to him to
come out on the hillside. Seven times lie
tried TO sleep, and seven time the phantom
came back, always with the same cry
At length mastered by an almost ire
sistible impulse, he rose, dressed himself
and went out on the hill. He walked
some distance, but could see nothing ex
cept the heather bells waving i'm the moon
light could hear nothing bat a distant
sheep bell tinkling softly, and the stream
warbling below in the valley. Tie was
just going back, when suddenly shrIl,
cry reached him, seeming to come from a
neighboring combe. Hurrying IN that di-
rection, be saw at the bottom Of the combe
two figures, those of man anG woman,
apparently struggling with each other.
As lie drew nearer the man ran away, and
tie woman fell to the ground. When he
came up he found that it was Mary. She
had only tainted, aud he soon brought her
to herself. Then by degrees she confessed
to him that her lover had persuaded her to
meet him that night in the combe, brings
ing with Ter small sum of money which
she had saved from early childhood by lay
ing by little gifts of friends and relations,
and which according to custom common
among her class in that day, she had kept
in an old stocking instead of in the bank.
Townsend had promised to elope with her,
and marry her, and as she loved him, and
her father would not allow the match, she
consented to go. But when he met her,
Townsend, instead of going away with her,
had tried to rob her of her money. She
had resisted, and struggled with him, and
just then the clergyman bad come up aud
the villain had run away. After that Mr.
N was a believer in providential nature of
dreams.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07
VOLUME XII.


Il Hrran in the morning at six,
To blow with a terrible force;
II went back to the end of the world,
To get a good start in its course.
u came down like the wolves on the fold.
win incredible speed. declare
Stone columns of buildings were bent,
And corner lots blown out of square.
I'm sure that there never was seen
- much wiud in the weather before
IL warped every we'll in the town,
Ami blew out your teeth by the score.
I'm king down street YOU would go
AZ the rate OF some miles in minute;
Twas the thiCkeSt wind ever was known.
with never a shower TO thin IL.
II blew the land of of the fields,
Aud the country il filled with alarms
And the farmers next day with sad hearts
Went hunting around for their farms.
Ir blew the dirt clean from your face,
But 10 suOveIed il into your eyes;
In a minute 10 took of your treckies,
Iu Il way that 0ccasiOued surprise.
The sunshine was blown from the streets,
The SmalI-nON was blown out of town.
Mems words were carried much farther
Than ever their words had been known,
II blew the ears clean off your head,
And your buttons clean OF your vest:
The frmament darkened with hats,
Aud the point Of the compass stood west.
1t blew the day back quite week,
DiSarrauging all business affairs,
Ard people grew mad AT the way
The. weather was putting on airs.
Tf blew your boots of your feet,
Aud e whistle II made OF your nose
II blew your debts out of your mind,
And the .gTeusespOts clean out oil your clothes
You couldn't walk out without taking
A club to keep the wind or,
and you had 90 mold fast To your head,
OR would have gone, sure enough.
IT'S surely an so wind that blows
Nobody good fortune, they say
Five men ate at work on my roof,
Aud are making four dollars day.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

When Captain wilkins stopped she could
hear the boarding party talk and walk on
the vessel, ana although she used her voice
to the utmost to attract attention she could
not make them hear. She saw the pole
thrust into the cabin door by Captain Hem
ton and asked If she should hold on TO il and
be pulled out, but no answer came, the Cap
tain hearing no noise other than the splash
irg of the water, aud having not the reno
test idea that the woman was there. alive or
dead This event occurred forty-five years
ago, and have never heard of parallel
case either on The lake or other waters, and
her salvation from drowning may Ue regard
ed as little less than miracle.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

Too MUCH MARRYING. The ST. Lou :
Republican says there Is a young lady ia
that city who says she has mpre paiet.s
and Step-parents living than amy one sire
ever heard Of. This Is the way she tells
the story:
You know papa anG mamma never cou'd
agree, and 81 finally they goi divorced
.iOn't say whose fault % was but mamma
really did behave ugly sometimes, and eve
| could NOT get along with her. s. wh-u
the separation came I went To live with
papa. Shortly afisrwaId mamma married
again and papa was not long iu following
suit. did not ike ii very well at first hut
my step-mother turned ont 10 be rrst rar,s
and goi 10 like her splendid. Then papa
seemed 20 get lufaf u-ttru with another wli-
man that lac got acqua uted with aud sire
wheetlied around him until she ulti. irugt-
ble, aud the result was mot her diNurtt-, az 4
papa soon married the woman thar luau..
the trouble. When the sscund separation
took place 1 went with my sep mother i.--
cause / irvsd her and b,-rauSe my S.rNi,, :
were nee ssSary 10 help take care. uf tfe isi.,
Then what docs She do hut 90 aud get ma. -
rird. ] declare l never saw 80 uut o. u.t rrA To-
ing IN MY life l. 1uly happened a lt e
whl-e ago, and my new s1epfather-I si.l 70
ppsr lac is treats nie in "A very kindly sat
/ cf way, a. 4 he friI he cuuldn'' hpln hi 49,
/ self, but dslu'i eNac, y like IT, and l,. 9
/ like ]; bit. l cant 20 hack 10 mamma t--
CtuSt- she ~ mad with ule for guiug with "a
/ ia the Ii ~ instance, aud can'I Eu t. Val .
/ N .rau>e pf the Nheedliug woman. amt I
! c,u'i i,.aT fo STAY where I am. H. ii,o iitd
/ hat girl ~huI.ld have a father a'isi q mo- d.
'.r and Two >'epla'hrr> aid ~" >.-,,rn i-rs
] tli living at s',iv-. aiid uui IL hume Iha, sue
| ..,u ieel a. honv ia.
WHEN a MN has ~ bills sainSt him
1. ! 80 he
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

ENGLISH PmIOLOGY.-That there is un-
derstood to be a difference here between
the two languages Is shown by the fact
that, last Saturday, ful- blonded, intel
ligenl appear iiE, Well drts~ed Englishinan
came into Bowies' studio, 449 Strand.
. Ave YOU American papers, On file ere p
''Yes. sir, / have. l.',tS ut 'em, was
the answer nf the genial Bowlfs.
Jaw, thanks beg pardon. bRt are
any of them printed ia English
This actually occurred ia>t As related
and serves To Illus;i.te ih. cuudition OF III.
information lrSS,~>ed Oy larre Gloss o..
Eush>h va reference co Amei Icau ni.sti a. -
- London letter.
i A ....v,rs, III, nf,.~tf.tHer
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

THIS man was seated in front Of the old
fashioned fireplace, warming the sole Of
his left foot. An old daIkey went to warm,
and as he turned 20 go out he met another
shivering mig coming in. "Needn't go dar
to warm, Jim why sop ''Kase dat
man from Cincinnati done histed his fn.'t
an kivered up The fire. 'SIdes dat, il 5
gwine to take de mos o. de day for him to
CIT dat one foot warm ens ugh to sot it ON
de ground" And they went of.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07
Il FEARFUL TRAGEDY.

Among the numerous moss grown old
:ombstoncs in the graveyard of Williams
burg, Va, is one which bears .he inscrip-
tiuu
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

Silks
Dress Goods
Mourning Goods
C2OdkinOs
F2GnneLs
Linens
HuSLins
White Goods
Lnces
Ribbons
Trimmings
ERlbrOideries
PRINCES
Z1phyrs and WOrsteds
NecEICcdr
GIOCes
Toilet articles
Stationery
FyOICerS &c Feathers
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

WHEN a mpn has m bills AGAINST him
"c o. 80 .--dsI lac UelDhgcd 10 the uO-
bIIty.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

Sacred to the Memory Of
SA H SENPHIII.
Who died at the age of twenty five slain with
her two infant daughters toy her own husband.
she was tair TO look upon. pure as snow and be-
loved by all who knew her. Divine PrOvi-
dence alone knows why she had TO
npriSh rufsarabIr
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07

\ CANDID man-The confectiouer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-02
AN EVENING AT sCHwABs SALOON.

A single gas-let nlckered dlmly In the Dase-
ment saloon OF Citizen schwab last night and lit up the
faces OF dozen who were earnestly discussing tho
political situation. One man. who evidently alb
sorbed with his subject sat with head bent low
mass Of papers, writing rapidly and drying
his writing with ashes knocked from his pipe.
He looked up only when his glass was empty,
and then Ito order beer. Citizen Scnwab,
with his sleeves rolled up. waited upon his guests C
McGregor, another prominent Socialist, sat on a
billiard table, glass in hand.
owe do not think that Kearney will arrive here be-
fore a week or ten DAYS" McGregor said 1--WE shall
not give him any formal reception, lest that might
ipure the cause. or shall receive him IN a
very friendly manner. and do That TO help him.
Whenever be may want TO address the public, we can
guarantee him, any night, an audience Of three
thousand It Is uncertain whether he viii be sue
cessul IN agitatlng the workngmen in the Eas; he
has been in California. His object IN California was to
unite the wOrkingmen Of different shades OF
thought, and his principal Tallying-point was
the expulsion OF the Chinese. In this he
has succeeded OF course California belongs TO the
union, and the Chinese may ultimately OyecrOwd the
Eastern States, but II Is not yet the question AT issue
here and doubt whether he can interest the Eastern
whether Keamey will follow the method Ia ad-
dressing the Eastern workmen as those m the West"
You mean," interrupted Mr. Schwab whether he
will be polite. We have been trying here for many
years TO bring the workmen together and have not been
able and We do not think koarney can make them think
as he does" Then," added Citizen McGregOr, n he
allied himself With General Butter ana Greeu-
hackers Il viii not help him along much"
Did you read how the Socialists gaining at the
elections la Berlin 2" asked Citizen sehwab. Berlin
WAS one OF the cities where Socialist doctrines took
root aud that shows what We may expect IN other
places At the elections shall sweep the whole
country"
.'You do not believe I'm General Butler o. some one
said mo, SIR" said several voices simultaneously !;
we will have nothing 20 do with him; he thinks only OF
himself" "Sehwab, said one OF The men SANDING near
him. what do you believe IN, anylOw T. " believe M
being happy, and making the most money with the
smallest amount OF manual labor possible" was tue
ready reply.
Mr. McGfegOr again led the conversation "The So
cass 40 not intend 10 work with the National Green
back party the coming elections any other. We
do not believe In the Issue OF paper dollars that do not
represent anything. What Will prevent tho Govern
ment from continuing 10 them until they fall 90
per and lower Labor Is the standard OF values.
aud not Government paper. Gold and silver are both
valuable aud indestrucuble, and would rather have
something tangible ana valuable for our work"