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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-20

Two negroes named Leath
and Brown, who were getting
out shingles near Mr.. Macon
Foscue's place, in Jones county,
took a hankering for fresh meat
last week, and went for one of
Mr.. Foscue's fine porkers. Mr..
Foscue missed his hog, tracked
the thieves to Leath and Browns
camp, and, with Sheriff Smith,
made a tour of inspection, when
a portion of the hog was found
concealed under water near the
negroes camp. Other evidences
of their guilt being found, they
were arrested and committed to
Jail to await the next term OF
C~ourt.-Uessenger.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-20
Tobacco Seed.

~ iNotNio tiC ItDIt inter
ested in the growth of tobacco
than any other crop, and what
ever throws light on the culture
OF the weed is of invaluable in
formation to the planter. I'm
the columns of an exchange we
find the following suggestions
as to the selection and sowing
Of seed:
The selection of seed depends
largely upon the soil and the
quality OF tobacco desired. There
are almost as many kinds of
sted-leaf tobacco as there are
varieties of Indian corn. Upon
the whole, the surest and most
profitable variety is that which
rlpens earliest and yields the
largest number of pounds, cured,
to a given number Of hills.
Rich bottom lands grow heavy
strong tobacco, and all farmers
planting on these lands find it
to their interest to make weight
the main object of their crop.
Thinner, poorer lands will pro-
duce tobacco of lighter weight,
bat often of a finer quality, and
one that will bring a correspon-
dinghy higher price. The incli-
nation, when the soil admits,
however, is the cultivation of
the heavier kinds, for the reason
that finer qualities require more
care and experience in handling.
Each variety Of tobacco has also
some popularity in the form of
It's leaves and in the quality and
tenderness or toughness, there
fore the form and texture of the
leaf should be a consideration in
the selection Of a variety. A
narrow leaf, for instance,
cannot be used with profit By
stemmers. A variety should be
selected that will tempt the
number Of buyers. A
broad, long leaf, heavy, dark
and gummy, is always in de
Sprouting seed previous to
sowing, while practiced bysome,
S also CONDEMNED by many plan
;ers. The germ is very delicate,
md therefore liable to become
injured by handling. Pressing
he earth around and against
he seed after sewing, by the
urface of the bed, or bearing it
Town with the back of a spade,
induces seed to terminate more
quickly and certainly than if
to lie loose and exposed
the air. In high ATTITUDES,
eed beds are forced under glass,
nd brought forward at least a
3rtnight earlier; this insures a
ipening of the crop before frost.
sown beds should be
overed lightly with brush, not
hich cough to shut out the sun
.ght, but sufficient to protect
ne plants from the chilling and
ry'ng effects of the winds.
'requent watering with a strong
illusion of refuse tobacco and
alter hastens the growth of the
guano applied in the
anne way will also produce
etfects.-DMrhom Plant.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-20

me Henderson IN. CO. ToJac-
( R"'I V OF the 9Th inst. says: "Mr.
gary, of Manchester, Va,
sent here two carloads of
'i'ufe and factory fixtures,
lie VIII be out next week.
= 1'tacc0nist extends to him
i ~;nyI welcome, hoping that
@'Il be OF as much advantage
trs sie manufacturing interest
arr "S his brother, Mr.. j B.
f. mas been to the leaf mar
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-20
The Last Hour OF NapOleOns
Greatness.

lures of battles more graphic
than Victor Hugo's account o.
the closing Genes at Waterloo.
owe understand the bitter mis-
take of Napoleon Grouchy
hoped for, Butcher arriving
death instead of life.
Destiny has such turnings
Awaiting the worlds throne,
Saint Helena became visible.
If the little cowboy, who acted
as guide to Bulow, Blucher's
lieutenant, had advised him to
debouch from the forest above
Frishemont rather than below
Planchenoit, the shaping Of the
nineteenth century would per-
haps have been different. Ma
poleon would have won the bat
tie of Waterloo. By any other
road than below Planchenoit, the
Prussian army would have
brought up at a ravine impas-
sible for artillery, and Bulow
would not have arrived.
Now, an hour of delay, as the
Prussian General Muffiing de-
clares, and Butcher would not
have found Wellington in posi-
tion "the battle was lost
1t was time, We have seen,
that Bulow should arrive. He
lau by hacked at Dion lie Mont,
AMI started on at dawn. But
the roads we're impracticable,
and his division stuck in the
mire. The cannon sank to the
hubs in the ruts. Furthermore,
he had to cross the Dyle on the
narrow bridge of Wavre !; the
street leading to the bridge had
been used by the French; the
caissons and artillery wagons,
being unable to pass between
two rows of burning houses, had
to wait till the fire was extin-
guished. 1t was noon before
Bulow could reach Chapelle
Saint Lambert.
Had the action commenced
two hours earlier, it would have
been finished at four o'clock, and
Butcher would have fallen upon
a field already wonhy Napoleon.
Such are these immense chances,
proportional to an infinity,
which we cannot grasp.
AS early as midday the En-
peror, first of all, with his field
glass, perceived in the extreme
horizon something which fixeG
his attention. He said Il see
yonder a cloud which appears to
to be troops" Then he
asked the Duke of Dalmatia:
''Soult, what do you e toward
Saint Lambert? The
marshal, turning his glass that
way, answered: -Four or five
thousand men, sire. Grouchy,
of course" Meanwhile it re-
NAMED motionless in the haze.
The glasses of the whole staff
studied the cloud pointed out
by the Emperor. Some said
They are columns halting.'
The most said: 'It is trees"
The fact is tina the cloud did
not stir. The Emperordetached
Domains division oflight cavalry
o reconnoitre this obscure point.
Bulow, in fact, had not moved.
His vanguard was very weak,
and could do nothing. He had
o wait for the bulk of his corps
and he was ordered to
concentrate his force before en-
into line but at five
''clock, seeing Wellington's !
oeril, Butcher ordered Bulow to
and uttered these re-
narkable words : 1--WE must
i've the English army a breath I
SPELL"
Soon after, the divisions of !
20 thin. Hitler, Hacke and Rys- l
ell a,plnyed in front of Lobau's I
.. ps, he cavalry of Prince Will 7
lam .ot Prussia debouched from [
he wood of Paris, Planchenoit $
vas in flames, and the Prussian |
'alls began to rain down even in {
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-20

T'SlIUenlo. the Wiloie LuSilSI
line assuming the offensive and
pushed forward, the gigantic
gap made in the French army.
the English grape and the Prus.
sian grape lending mutual aid
determination, disaster In front.
disaster In flank, the Guard en-.
tering into line amid this terri.
BILE crumbling.
Feeling that they We're going
to their death, they cried out
Vre tEmpereur! There is moth
ing more touching in history
than this death agony bursting
forth in acclamation.
The SKY had been overcast all
day. All at once, at the very
moment was eight o'clock at
nigi.t-the clouds in the horizon
broke, and through the elms on
the NivelIes road, streamed the
sinister red light Of the setting
sun. The rising sun shone upon
Austeriitz.
Each battalion of the Guard,
for this final effort, was comman-
ded by a general. Friant, Mi
chel, Roguet, Harriet, MalIet, Por-
tet de Morvan, Were there. When
the tall caps Of the Grenad .ers of
the Guard with their large eagle
plates appeared, symmetrical,
drawn up in line. calm in the
smoke Of that conflict, the enc
my felt respect for France; they
thought they saw twenty victo-
ries entering upon the field of
battle, with wings extended, and
those who were think
ing they were conquered, recoil-
ed; but Wellington cried up
and at them" The
red regiment Of English Guards,
lying behind the hedges, rose up,
a shower Of grape riddled the
tri-colored flag futtering about
our eagles, all hurled themselves
forward, and the final carnage
The Imperial Guard
the army slipping away
around them in the gloom, and
the vast overthrow of the rout
they heard the sauve qm peut!
which had replaced the rice PEm-
0erem! and, with flight behind
them, they held on their course,
battered more and more, and
faster and faster at every
step. There were no weak souls
Or towards there. The privates
IF that band were as heroic as
heir general. Not a man finch
I'd from the suicide.
Ney, desperate, great in all
he grandeur of accepted death,
pared himself to every blow in
his tempest. He had his horse
under him. Reeking
With sweat, fire in his eyes froth
lpon his lips, his uniform un-
'uttoned, one of his epaulettes
lalf cut away by the sabre stroke
# a horse-guard, his badge of
he grand eagle pierced by a ball
covered with mud, mag
lif ent a broken sword in his
land, he said : "Come and see
a Marshal of France dies
lpon the field Of battle But
vain he did not die. He was
'aggard and exasperated. He
this question at Drouet
)'Erlon. what are you not
ding to die !" He cried out in
he midst Of all this artillery
hitch was moving down a
andful of men "Is there moth
lg then, for me?" Oh !. I would
nat all these English balls were
uried in my body :" Unhappy
Ian F. thou vast reserved for
'rench bullets
The route behind the guard
as dismal.
The army fell back rapidly
all sides at one, from
from La Haze Sainte
Papelotte, from blanche
Dit. The cry; Treachery! was
'lIowed by the cry: Suaue qW
ut! A disbanding army is a (
The whole bends cracks. {
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-20

.onnicts, friends say each other
IN their flight; squadrons and
oattallons are crushed and dis.
persed against each other, el.or-
NOUS ioam of the battle. Lobau
at one extremity, like Relic at
the other, is rolled away in the
flood. In vain does Napoleon
make walls with the remains Of
the Guard in vain does he ex-
pend his reserve squadron in a
last effort. Quot gives way be-
tore Vivian, Killerman before
landeleur, Lobau before Bulow.
Moraud before Pirch; Boman
and Lubervic before Prince Will
ham of Prussia. Guyot, who
had led the Emperor's squad
rons to the charge, falls under
the feet of the English horse.
Napoleon gallops along the flu
gltlves, harrangues them, urges.
threatens, entreats.
The mouths, which in the
morning were crying Tire rEm-
pereur !.'are now agape he is
hardly recognized. The Prusian
cavalry just come up, spring for
ward, fling themselves upon the
enemy, saber, cut hack, kill, *
terminate. Teams rush off. the
guns are left to the care of them
selves; the soldiers of the train
unhltch the ~caissons, and take
the horses to escape, wagons up
set, with their four wheels In the
air, block up the road and are
accessories Of massacre. They
crush and they crowd, they
tlample upon the living and the
dead. Arms are broken. A
multitude fills roads,, paths,
bridges, plains, hills, valleys,
woods, choked up py this flight
Of forty thousand men. Cries,
despair, knapsacks, and muskets
cast into the rye, passages forced
at the point Of the sword, no
more comrades, nc more officers.
no more generals, inexpressible
dismay. Ziethen sabering France
at his ease. Lions become kids.
Such was this flight.
At Genappe there was an eff
fort to turn back, to form a line
to make a stand. Lobau rallied
three hundred men. The en-
trance to the village was barri-
caded, but, at the first volley of
Prussian grape, all took to flight
again, and Lobau was captured.
The marks of that volley of
grape are still to be seen upon
the old gable of a brick ruin at
the right of the road, a short
distance before entering Ge-
nappe. The Prussians rushed
into Genappe, furious, doubtless,
at having conquered so little.
The pursuit was monstrous.
Butcher gave orders to kill all.
Roguet had set this sad example
by threatening with death every
French grenadier who should
bring him a Prussian prisoner.
Butcher surpassed Roguet. The
general Of the Young Guard,
Duhesme, caught at the door of
a tavern in Gepappe, gave up
his sword to a Hussar of Death,
who took the sword and killed
the prisoner. The victory was
completed by the assassination
Of the vanquished. Let us pun
ish, since we are history old
Butcher disgraced himself. This
ferocity filled the disaster to the
Grim. The desperate rout pass
I'd through Genappe, passed
through Quartre Bras, passed
Trough S~ombreffe, passed
through Frasnes, passed through
Thuin, passed through Charlie
'oi, and stopped only at the
ronlier. Alas. who now was
in such wise! The Grand
This madness, this terror, this !
to ruins Of the highest '
bravery which ever astonished !
history, can that be without $
No. The shadow of an l
nOrmOuS riuht hand rests on
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-20
FEBRUARY 20, 1871
9be Grange.

,orr-Communicdtions for has De-
portment solicited from Patrons an
nil sections of the State.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19
EDITH FkEEMAN's MURDER.
The Mother Starving Herself and by ing
OfGrief

1t was announced this morning that Mrs.
Freeman was dying and investigation shows
that the probabilities are that she will live a
short time only. Sue is weeping and stary.
ing herself to death, although she does not
seek to commit suicide Confined alone in a
cell on the upper floor of the barn like building,
she has, since the first Sunday after the kill
ing of Edith, wept constantly day and night.
She has tried to eat, believing that it was her
duty to do so, but in the ten days of her i'm
prisonment she has eaten less than woul !
make an ordinary meal. When the Sunday
passed and her little girl was not resurrected,
as she firmly believed she would be, Mrs
Freeman at once Admitted that she and her
husband had made an awful mistake, and
with this acknowledgment the maternal in
stinct that pleaded so strongly in prayer that
her child might be spared fas returned She
said that she could not have consented to the
sacrifice had she not firmly believed that
Edith would be restored to life on the third
day. She also says that it was revealed to
her husband thirty hours before the sacri-
flee that Edth's immOlation was demanded.
He went to the barn and
PRAYED FOR HOURS
That God would take the cup from him, and
ouC at CuSCA WCut " tuC OoAA e'Ao, AASCiADS
on the hay beside her husband, put her arm
around his neck and both of them prayed to
be spared the necessity of doing the act, but
they got no peace until they determined to do
it. Her sorrowing is most distressing now.
81 e is in entire possession of her reasoning
faculties, and the jailer's wife thinks that it
would be mercy if she could be bereft of
reason She moans, "Oh, my little darling
Edie, my darling child, how could God have
permitted US, who loved us so and tried to
follow Him. to Go such a wrong?' and then
she bursts into the most passionate sobbing
that lasts for hours. The seraphic look that
was on her face when she was brought be-
fore the justice is gone. Her face has vast
ed, leaving her ckeek bones prominent and
both are bright red with hetic flush which
indicates fever Her otherwise white face
and bloodess lips, and her great eyes that are
red with weeping, her tottering step and her
inability to eat or sleep are regarded as indi
cations that very soon the reserve nervous
strength will be exhausted and that she will
rapidly decline. Her love for the baby and
'er remorse have overshadowed her religious
faith.--N Y. Sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19
Who are the Gentry,

The other evening, at little dinner party
up town, one of the guests, the younger
brother of an English nobleman, expressed
with commendable freedom his opinion of
America and its people. Il do not altogether
like the country" said the young gentleman,
''for one reason-because you have no gen.
try here" "What do you mean by gentry p
asked another of the company. ''Well, you
know" replied the Englishman, "Well-oh,
gentry are those who never do any work
themselves and whose fathers before them
never did any," ''Ah!" exclaimed his inter
locutor, 'then we have plenty of gentry in
America, but we don't call them gentry; we
call them 1ramps" A laugh went round the
table, and the young Englishman turned his
conversation into another channel.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19
Morning Mirage.

A characteristic phenomenon in Dakota is
the morning mirage, seen on the prairies just
before sunrise in the clear, cold, still weather.
At such times wide reaches of country ordi-
narily cut off from the view by rising ground
or belts of timber will be raised, as it were,
above these obstacles. Towns and other
prominent objects twenty miles away are no
longer visible, but are clearly revealed, with
all that lies between them and the spectator.
The windows may be counted in houses which
at other times can no more be seen than if
they were at the an,ipodes, and near objects,
usually just within the range Of vision. seem
to be brought much closer. As the suns orb
rises above the horizon the vision sinks be-
low it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19

After the Franco-German war the French
Government was Obliged to borrow $780,
OOO,OOO francs of the Bank of France to
meet the first demands of the Prussians.
The whole of this sum has been returned to
the bank, the last 60,0OO.O00 francs having
been paid within the last two months. In
spite of the Commune, and of all other polit-
ical obstacles, the gigantic operation has
been regularly carried on. The circulation
of bank notes was never disturbed, and the
bank. authorized by law, was enabled to in
crease its paper issue without seeing its notes
suffer any depreciation. The consequence.
says the aa a Maa o%s9e, was, the .h.t to1ceo f
persons were aware that it was legally abol-
ished on the first Of January last. After the
war notes of one, two, three, five, twenty and
a hundred francs were in circulation. Grad
ually the smaller notes disappeared, and now
it is not easy to obtain even 100f. notes, while
the metallic reserve in the bank is larger than
it was at the close of the Empire.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19
Happy Thoughts.

There is no power in the world so magical
in its effects as human sympathy.
No indulgence of passion destroys the
spiritual nature so much as respectable self
ishness.
Human things must be known to be loved;
but Divine things need to be loved to be
known.
Human life defined by line is as uncom-
Portable as would be the human figure defined
by wire.
No more certain is it that the flower was
made to watt perfume than that woman's
destiny is ministry Of love.
Tears are the gift which love bestows upon
the memory of the absent, and they will
avail to keep the heart from suffoca'ion.
Mothers never do part bonds with babes
they have borne; until the day they die each
culver of their life goes back straight to the
heart beside which it began.
Garments that have one rent in them are
subject to be torn on every nail. and glasses
that are once cracked are soon broken; such
is q persons good name once tainted with re-
proach.
Many an unkipd OF sarcastic word dropped
careless}y, az . minute seed often fructihes
into whole garden Of noxious weeds. springs
up, they have forgotten how, but the weeds
are there.
Men and women receive in this world
much of what they deserve. 1t ia like =
leoking-glass s-tlis big world. Grin and
smile to It and il win smile hack; scowl and
il froWn6.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19
Society Of MaiefactOrs.

A secret society of malefactors called
Fratuzzi has recently been broken up at
Palermo. 1t was duly organized under one
chief, with subdivisions of labor, a council
of directors, and its own physician, notary,
councillors and apothecary. An oath bound
the members to mutual defense and succor,
and all infringements of the rules were pun
ished with death. The rites of admission
were horrible. The finger of the candidate
was punctured, and with the blood issuing
from the wound the image of some saint was
sprinkled, and the image was then burned
and the ashes were scattered to the winds.
The neophyte was afterward conducted to
hall wherein was placed a crucifx. The
candidate was stationed opposite. A pistol
was put in his hand and be was required to
fire at the crucifx. 1t is supposed that the
man who shoots at the image of the cruciied
Redeemer will have no scruple in killing his
father, son or brother at the will of the
society, and after this proof of his courage
the candidate is dubbed Fratuzza, and made
a full member of the craft.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19

AMONG the anecdotes told of the late Mrs.
Patterson Bonaparte, it is related that when
Prince jerome was pitchforked into the
throne of Westphalia he offered her an es-
tate. She refused, saying that, handsome
country as Westphalia was, it was not big
enough to hold two Queens. subsequently
she received pension from Napoleon. and
being asked why she proised by bis munifi-
cence after disdaining that of her husband,
replied: II don't mind being sheltered by
an eagles wing, bnt wont hang on to the
pinions of goose
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19

THE Ruyal Neao Yorker says that ten acres
of good clover are worth more than so much
wheat, if the value of what is left in the
ground by the clover is taken into account.
When crop of wheat is taken, the ground
is exhausted of so much fertility and is car
ried off in the wheat; but when crop of
clover is taken, the soil is actually in better
condition than before, and is good enough to
Weld crop of wheat or corn.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19
DISCONTENT.

Two boats rocked on the river,
I'm the shadow of leaf and tree
One was III love with the harbOr,
One was in love with the sea.
The one that loved the harbOr
The winds of fate Outbore,
But held the other, longing,
Forever against the shore.
The one that rests on the river,
Though sailing fair and fl ct,
Looks ack to the pea eful river,
To the harbOr safe and sweet.
one trets against the quiet
OF the moss-grown, shaded shore:
one sighs that it may enter
That harbOr nevermOre.
one wearies of the dangers
Of the tempest's rage ami wall
One dreams, amid the lilies,
OF tar-otf, snowy sail.
OF all that life can teach us
There's naught so true as this
The winds of fate blow ever,
But cv blow amiss.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-19

miles the bright glare is traced nd lost over
the brow of mountains beyond At last we
were watching the beautiful Lights, through
the mazy curtains, from cur pillows, and
soon our tired eyes were closed in Sleep