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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-11-27

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on the dry land are very small.
These vineyards are not planted in
such regular rows as we find in Cal,
ifornia, but are often very much out
of line. When vine dies cut it is
the custom to layer in its place, and
if it is a foot or so out OF the row it
is not noticed; it is not of so much
importance as they work the ground
wholly by hand, giving 1t two work
ings in the year.
THE ARyEsT-PRUN1NG.
The harvest commences in dry
seasons like this about the fifth OF
August, and continues about a month
Upon the richer lands they are later.
The reason of their being a month
earlier than California l attribute
to the climate being miider in
April and May, and the nights be-
ing warmer throughout the year. 1t
may be that their maturity is hast
ened by the manner of planting.
The crowns of the vines only are
level with the surface, the dirt being
drawn away from them and hilled
up between the rows, leaving the
vines in little hollows. The manner
of pruning is like ours, by the short
spur system, leaving from three to
five spurs, which are cut back to one
eye. Sometimes, when the vine is
quite thrifty; shoot is left some
three feet long, but this is not con-
sidered good culture, and when vine
yards are let out they have it under
stood that not more than one eye
shall be left.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-11-27
KIND OF GRAPES.

The only grape they plant here is
the Muscatella. No one would think
of using any other for raisins. A few
other varieties are still among the
vineyards for eating, but no other
raisin grape is countenanced. The
IVA Larga 1 have seen and taken
pains to enquire about, and find that,
although cultivated in some places, ii
is not favorite here, where the Mus
catel can be produced. The price of
raisins is unusually low, and the pro-
duction of MuscatelIas in excess of
the demand, so that nothing but first
class raisins are wanted. The Iva
Larga is smaller than the Muscatella,
tender and transparent The raisins
lock well, but shrivel more than the
Muscatella. 1t has three good sized
seeds, and is very abundant bearer.
I will now speak of the character OF
the grape known here as the Musca-
tella. l find no one who grows the
Muscat of Alexandria, so that they
cannot be compared upon the spot.
1t is above the average size of the
Muscat of Alexandria as it is pro-
duced in California although this is
a year OF unusual drought, it is of a
much more delicate character. The
skin is thinner, and the seeds much
smaller and more tender. 1t does
not have so strong musk flavor.
That it is not the Muscat Of Alexan-
dria, / think any one of experience
will see directly.
The climate seems perfectly adapt
ed to this grape. Their mode of cul.
ture, working all by hand, and the
exceedingly small amount produced
per vine, tends to the production Of
large fruit. Ihave bearing vines on
my ranch at Stockton from a vine
yard near Malaga. The grapes are
not so delicate as those Produced
here, the skin is tougher and the
seeds larger. Still they are superior
to the Muscat of Alexandria, My
vineyard is not favorable to the Mus
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02
For the Koowee Courier.
DG Wisdom.

30 Wisdom, how amiablc thou art! how
lovely and how much to bo desired art thou!
and who viii seek unto thee? How much
are thy ways to be desired! before the osrth
was, thou hast boon with God" And yot
it is said, "The fear Of the Lord is tho
beginning of wisdom" 1t is the beginning
Of wisdom with those who arc just learning
to know themselves. And the Psalmist
says, "Lord teach mo to know myself how
frail I an,." And in Eccl ILL, it is
written, "My son, if thou come to serve tho
Lord, prepare thy heart to endure tompta-
ton" And the first duty of man is TO obey
God, who says, "Searoh the Scriptures, for
in them 20 think 20 have eternal life, and
they arc they which testify Of me-"
Aud it is most remarkable how few tloro
arc who road the, Scriptures with careful,
prayorful thought, and pondor ovor their
import, that thoy may understand tho great
lessons which they rovoal. lord, toaoh me
to understand tho truth. "Thy word is
truth" We may we'll proparotho hoart for
temptation, and constantly endure, and bo
not in haste in time Of trouble. DR..
Young, worry pious aud earnest poot, has
well said, "rhat tho greatest study of man
is man. This is poetic expression. Yot
one Of great truth. If We have not a
correct idea Of ourselves, and feel our de-
pendonce upon God who hath oroated us
aud put Us horo for a purpose, wo aro not
apt to seek ofter that wisdom which comes.
ffom God, aud leadeth to repcntanco--to
godly sorrow for sin, that wo by grace,
Through faithtin tho atonen,ent made by
Christ, inaySinherit eternal life 81 s .sS
ne Ia we'll thnt you'll ahonld bo tangkt
Srdeokaeas, gcnsleosss and truth s''r rllS meek
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02
[From the Anderson Intelligencer
Cows and their Tre:, ,tnaenas.

The success of Mr.. j. @. Keys in the
management of his cow, and the results,
are truly remarkable, aud proves beyond d
doubt that our county has what might be
callad strictly fine cows this being a
native, and suited exactly for that partica-
lar purpose-milk npd butter! This COW
only weighs 640 pounds gross; and yet We
find that she is actually giving 8S3 pounds
Of milk for 81 consecutive days, or 1,103
pounds, nearly double her weight 10 milk
10 one month. From this milk was made
493 pounds of rich butter, which was sold
for IS cents per pound. Supposing her to
milk for IL months in this way, she would
yield in butter alone about Sl48, leaving
out of the count the milk, which is well
worth s cents por gallon to feed to Pigs.
These results compare very favorable with
the very best results Of large dairies North,
where they have made buttor and milk a
speciality for years, and where they have
bccn eminently successful in their business;
and, what is still more; where the real value
Of good milk COW is roally appreciated, ond
when sold, even at public outory, bring
from one hundred to one thousand dollars.
The recent changes in the fenoe system
has been the means Of this development in
Mr.. Keys COW, for no cow, however we'll
attended, could produce that amount of
milk and butter and be allowed to roam at
will. But tho main point about this COW is
her great capacity to consume food, and at
the samo timo to convert tho samo into milk
and butter. Very many COWS would eat tho
samo amount, but inetoad Of butter and
milk would produce fat. This tonohes a
lesson that all must learn, who propose to
keep COWS even for family use--that certain
COWS are intended for milk and butter,
others for beef, and stil others for work
steers. Like men, all woro oreatod for a
purpose, aud should you undertake to
practice law, when called for something else,
failure is oortsin. Hence, the same rulo
upplios to COWS. Make yourself acquainted
with the marks Of a COW intended for milk
and butter; sell all OF those to the butcher
that arc intended for beef, and learn to
feed, milk and treat your COW as Mr.. Keys
has done, and ono cow will do you moro
good than one half dozen half-fed, badly
treated COWS, that are not suited for tho
purpose. ~. ~ ras.
Two or three COWS under tho present
system arc sufficient to supply oil the time
the largest family in the county with all the
good, rich milk and butter they Snse. No
iuses keeping ak, or lnoroi to got tho pso Of
three, for now every map on tho firm, or
||selsewhero in the county oan reg late tho
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02
VOLUME XIII.-NO. "a.

titno of breeding to suit himself, aud il this
be attended to heneed ncvor have any adry,
COWS on his hands longer than six weeks at
time. AS for breeds, you will find good
mixers in all breeds; but / believe the
jersey COWS stand first on the roll. My
notion Is that our native cattle should be
CROSSED with tho JoEsoy, if milk is wanted,
and If milk, butter and Beef all is tho
object, then I would use the Holstein
oattlej which is noted for ;eaoh of. these
qualities. There is some objection against
puro bred COW here at present, but b.
getting good bull Of somo good stock, il
will be but short while until we will have
Thoroughbred cattle that are already accli--
mated. Each neigbborhood should now
combine and import thoroughbred animal
for some breed of its choice. A small
Outlay from only few of every neighbor-
hood can easily accomplish this, and it will
be but few years until our county will
abound in good stock for all purposes. Ii
this plan is not acceptable, then select
good animal Of native stock, and keep him
for sorvice, for these services will be called
for more and more until our people become
habituated to the plan; and once it is tried
it will commend itself. Some may say that
oil Of this will do for other than our
country, where wo grow cotton, and where
the grasses will not grow successfully, but
that is all stuff. There is to day in Ander!
son County probably as good clover, (red
top) orchard and other grasses as will grow
iu the great butter and milk regions Of
Pennsylvania. The truth is, cotton is our
theme, and where we put our lands down in
any of the grasses it ia expected to take
care of ITSELF Should our "pot," cotton,
DC subjected to these hardships worse
failure would inevitably follow.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02
Tho Beautiful In Nature.
DY E. Il. STANTON.

! thank God for this good, green enrtl,
For every fair and pleasant bower,
That smiles upon tho modest birth
Of every dew-bespaugled howor.
l thank God for these little birds,
That soar aloft on joyous wing,
Moro eloquent than human words, :.
Aud sWetcr arc the songs they sing.
I thank Him for the little stream,
That mnrmurs softly as it flows,
And trcnbles meath tho golden beam
That on it's crystal surface glows.
| thank Him for the gentle breeze,
That comes from o'er the lilicd Lea,
And wantous with tho noddiug trees
Whose gracious branches shelter me-!
I thank him for tho lovely face
Of Nature,--for the works Of art,
And these, and oil, have each place
Within my sad, forsaken heart.
And though of every hope bereft--
Though lost to all loved the best,
I feel that here is something loft
Whom I can fly to natures breast!
All! mine has been lonely lot
And full of thorns my path appears;
The world l loved has loved me not,
Though have stained it's dust with tears
If l have no'cr deserved its love,
. Then, with heart, oil love aud riven,
| lift these streaming eyes above
And humbly ask to be forgiven.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02

shall inherit the earth; aud shall delight
themselves iu the abundance of peace"
Ps. 81. And let US turn away our eyes,
and our thoughts from tho very appearance
of evil that we may avoid transgression and
sin.
1.-Two desire wisdom we must seek after
it; if wo desire auy good the mind aud en-
ergies of thought must bo applied with
earncstness and patience for the attainment
Of the end.
These aro very plain facts and need no
example to illustrate them, although in
tended ohioay for tho young and unframed
mind.
1t Is inject and proper that oil young
persons should have some object fixed in
thoir minds, to which they wish to attain
for laudablo purpose. Aud without such
object they never will develop their proper
energies and rarely ever attain to any
notable distinction. Aud after, when smbi.
ton would stimulate them to deeds of
aotive exortion the way scoms dark and
doubtful, and they lag by tho want of tho
force of will until they fall into idloness
and runin. For in most cases to daily is
to fail, and ever so, where great results arc
to be realized. IH ,
And really the devil has moro to do with
tho purposes and actions of men than VIC
generally suppose, for before he was Gust
out Of heaven ho was ranked as on angel of
light; and in Rev. XII it is said, "The
accuser Of our brethren is oast down, which
accused then, before our God day and
night" And it seems evident that prido
aud envy and malice must have filled the
mind Of Satan from tho beginning, and tho
indulgence Of these unholy feelings was the
cause of his being cast into outer darkness
With all his angels.
God workoth all things in wisdom, by
his almighty power, aud we see his ven-
goance against sin. This anger how terri
bio it is! Therefore he did cast tho DR. ,,on,
tho old Satan, with all his rebelious angels
out of heaven, Without any provision for
thoir redemption into tho earth whom it was
envelopcd 10 darkness and perpetual night,
before the aun, moon and stars wore mude
to appear in the frlnament to shine forth
upon this earth then without inhabitants
aud shrouded in thick darkness. "And
there WAS war in heaven: Michael and his
angels fought against the dragon, and the
dragon fought aud his angels, and prevailed
not; neither was their place found any
more in heaven" Rev. XIII, 8. And
thus was Satan cast down with the certain
doom that at the great day Of tho judgment
he and oil his angels are to be cast into the
lake that burns with Gre and birthstone,
there to endure the punishment Of the
wicked to all eternity. sse4a.
A Bible student Of England has said with
good reasons, and Scripture supports, that
men are angels in embryo. And according
as We live in this worla we will become
angels of light, or angels of darkness, angels
Of Jesus Christ or angels Of the Devil.
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02
Managing of nIcEvoy.

AIKEN, April l9.-The curtain at last has
fallen on the earthly career of Robert McEvoy,
and his case isnow before tho Supreme Tri-
bunal Of tho universe. NlcEvoy was hung to.
day ut ten minutes before o'clock, in ono Of
the up stair cells in the Jail, in presence of
the Sheriff and ASSISTANTS the priest and the
ten spectators allowed by law, several of these
being prominent colored mon. Tho fall was
over six feet. aud NlcEvoy, without tho slight.
est struggle, died in fifteen minutes. In half
an hour the body was taken down, placed in
the coffin and giren to his father, who has
carried it in wagon to Granitoyille, where
it will be inferred.
The arrangements for the execution wore
very simple, tho fatal rope being suspended
from rnfter, and double trap doors cut in,
the floor and supported by bars extending
from rolling beams in tho cell below. The
Shoriff, by pulling o string aboYo, turned tho
beam, and. tho prop falling, the trap door
opened and tho body foil through to tho lower
cell! g. (
Father I1eidnkalp was with McEyoy from
this morning, and came out with him from,
his cell to the ono where the trap was fixed,
and remained by his side to the last. |t
/ am informed that McEyoy's manner was
oalm and grave, and the only words he ut-
tered were, slot me straighten myself" when
the pinions were placed unoomfortably around
him: About fifty persons gatherod outside
the Jail.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02

NO NllsCEGENATIoS IN ALABAAA.--Thc.
Supreme Court of Alabama has reversed tho
the following PROVISIONS Of tho State law
against miscegenation are valid:
III any white person and anY negro, or tho
descendant Of any negro to the third gcnoras
ton inclusive. though one ancestor oft.eaclI
generation was q white. person, intermarry or
live in adultery or fornication with each other
each Of them must on conviction be impris-
oned in the penitontiary, or sentenced to hard
labor tor the county, for not loss than two
nor moro than seven years."
Tie court say But it is not necessary to
inquire into, the cause of tho antipatliy to
such intermarriagos. Acts of Legislatures
and customs testify to it's prevalence in all
quarters of the republic. In Massachusetts,
the law prohibited such intermarriages until
1913, when there were few negroes in that
Commonwealth, and politically inlamod
anto-slavery. sentiment was gratiflod by its
repeal 1t depends very much, of c0nrsol
upon the relative proportions and condition
Of tho two races in any State, whether legis,,
lation Of tho kind in question is necessary
there or not It's also fact. not suiiciontly,
felt, that tho more humble and helpless flmi..
lies ore, the more they need this sort, Of
protection. Their spirite are crushed or
become roDellious when other ills, besides
those of.poverty are heaped upon thum. And
there are, we preoume. but few localities
anywhere IN the United States in which the
conviction has not obtained and been approved
by,minds tho most sedato, that the law
shotild absolutely frastrate and prevent tho
growth of any desire or idea Of such an
alliance, and all tho secret arts, practices and
porsuasions OF servants and othors upon tho
Weakmindod or forward to bring it about, by'
making marriage between tho two races
legally, impossible, and severely punishins
those; who perform and those who intend to
DO married, 60 through the ceremonies thore
Of. : I. ~ - i,>
Manifestly, it is for the peace and happi-s
ness OF tho black race as we'll rs tho white,
that such laws should exist. Aud surely. 10
cannot be tyranny or injustice to forbid both
alike from entering into the marriage relation
exoopt with those Of their own race, whom
God hath Joined together by tho indellibla
peouliarities which declare that IIo has k,ado
the two raoes distinct.
tESfstSs .-1---+S-s s--------- ~ K -
INvALUAphE REMEDY For RHEuMSs
TlsM, Take apint of spirits of turpentine, !,
to which add an ounce Of oampfor. Let IL
stand until the osmphor is dissolyed; then
rub II on the part affected, and il Mill mover
fall Of removing the complaint. Flannel
ehoald ho appiioa after the part is woll.
fonented with turpentine. Repeat tho.
application morning sand evening, Ii ID:
said 70 be equally available fors bntns,l
sosllass bruises and spraias, mover failing ofl
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1878-10-11

THAT DEMOCRATIC RESOLUTION Two
weeks ago correspondent to the Benton
Democrat noticed the fact that the Oregon
Legislature had ordered the saloon removed
from the capitol, and then proceeded to con-
tend that the whisky was removed, beeanaa
Che Legislature was Democratic that had
the political complexion of that body been
different, the action would have been differ
ent- Well, it may be the case, at all events,
we hope so, for the credit of the Republi-
cans, for the Democrats have made terri
BILE botch Of it. When the resolution pass
ed, the press praised the action. Temper
ance people thought that at least our law
makers had taken step in the right direc-
tion. The proper officers were ordered to
remove the saloon from the building, and
with flourish of trumpits, the world is
informed that it has been done but still
the Democratic members of the Legislature
procure their whisky streight at the same
place-for 10 centsa drink There is still
. saloon in ..full blast in Oregon Capitol
building Shame, whore are thy hlnshess,,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1878-10-11
WEEKLY CORVALLIS GAZETTE.
Corvallis, Oct. II, 1873.
THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE.

Indications are that the worst of the yell
low fever scourge has passed, and that the
funds in the hands of the various relief COM
mittees will be amply sufficient to meet the
present demands. We have just received,
through the politeness of l. q. Kline Co.,
agents in this city, circular and report OF
Aaron Stein, treasure of Wells, Fargo Il Co.
relief committee of San Francisco, bearing
date of Sept. 2lst, from which we learn the
following in relation to the receipts and dis
bursements of the funds passing through the
hands of that company, all of which have
been forwarded free of charge. throughout
the Pacific Coast: Total receipts, S36, ,957. 35;
amount disbursed, S34, ,395.l0 The various
localities relieved are as follows: New Or
leans, 81, $50; Memphis, SIS, ,45S. so; Vicks-
burg, 81, ,S25; Grenada, 81 700; Port Gibson,
$500; jackson, $3.50; sundry, $3,9ll 60;
leaving balance of cash on hand Of 81,
562 25 Since the above report was made,
circulars have been sent, bearing date OF
Sept, 30th, to the various agents of the COM
pany, stating that the grand total of receipts
amount to $43, 500; that the wants OF the
sufferers are ali supplied; that the funds on
hand are amply sufficient, and that agents
will desist taking further contributions.
As indicative Of the feeling pervading the
heart of the Southern people, we clip the
following from the New Orleans Ptchas sune
of September 22d: 1.-The relief which comes
daily to this stricken section from all parts
of the country reaches furthe- than Is COM
monty supposed, and further, perhaps than
it's authors intend. 1t relieves the Southern
heart of its bitterness and memory of its
wrongs. In the name of that philanthropy
which has overswept all geographical and
party lines, we declare that the war is over
now, at last and forever. That good we can
see the All-wise Ruler of nations is working
out of this far-spread and desoiating pesti-
Ience Conflicts there may be, differences
of opinion there always will be; bat for the
future these things must be settled upon
passion"