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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-06

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL NJ
U1ster.-S. E. Adams, Monticello.
Minn.
0,erseer.-J. J.. Woodtaan, Paw Paw,
Mich.
cinnati.
~!Sterad.-A. J.. Vaughan. Memphis.
assistant SteUdrd.-Wm Sims. of Kan
Trposarer.-F. II. McDcwell, Wayne,
\. Y.
Secretaru-O. II. Kelley. louisville. Ky.
cate keeper.-O. D~inwiddie, Orchard
Grove. lad.
Ceres.-Mrs. Adams.
P0moBa. Mrs, Woodman.
Fora.-Mrs. Moore.
LAZY Asst. Stetcard.-Miss c. A. Hall,
louisville. Ky.
COMMITTEE.
d. Wyatt Aiken. C~okesbury, s. G.
Henley James, Marion. Ind.
S. III. Ellis, Springsboro, Ohio.
officers of North Carolina State
Grange. P. Of II.
Master-W FL Cheek, of Warren.
0verseer-D A Montgomery, of Ala
nance.
Lecturcr-D E Sampson. of Guilford.
Steward-J A Harris. of Iredell.
Assistant Ste ward-H E King, of Ons-
low.
Chaplain-Rev VIM Grant, of North
amptOn.
Treasurer D w G. Benbow of Guilford.
Secretary--Jos + Porter. of EdgecOmhe.
Gate Keeper-L w Reasons, Edges
combe.
Ceres-Mrs A Nj Cheek. of Warren.
Pomona-Mrs j T. Somers. of GuilfOrd.
Flora-Miss Eugenia Robinson, OF Ca
barrus.
Lady Asst. S eward-Mrs Ii Z King, Of
OnslOw.
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Col. WI liam II. Check, Chairman, Of
Warrentnn.
Cap. J. T. Porter. Secretary, Tarborp.
capt s. B Alexander, Charlotte.
John King. Falklnnd. Pitt county.
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RoLeSonian: Wheat and oats are suffering
greatly from the rust. There are at Rock
hSh village So cases of measles, one, how
ever, of a very dangerous type. Those en-
Ployecs at the factory who are up on extra
duty, aud part of the machinery has been
compelled to stop for want of hands.
Shoe Heel has been sorely scourged with
disease this spring. The measles, mumps
and %whooping cough have been raging there,
and several children have died. MIR. Har-
sers 5 family, especially, have been sorely
t1ed, At one time every member of the
lamlly was confined, and one of the children
dled; Dir. A j. Cottingham lost three
sl!dren.-Mr n. Chilean, at Moss Neck,
Is improving and getting everything in
adlness for the season which will soon open
~ Iull. Mr.. Chilean is a very clever man,
anu many friends. Mr. q. s. Hayes at
tate $, IS doing a good business. Red
banks Is rapidly assuming the symmetry
and beauty of a village. Mr.. Paul has
anassed a fortune there already, but IS
nosg hard, and accomplishing much
sooa' tie is a very useful citizen and
good man. Capt. Plummer still continues
Improve Plummersville. He is a gentle
msn OF ,ndomitable energy and richly de-
WIVES wives the success he has achieved. Messrs.
hnAlnson 4 Fore, at Alma (Argyle.l are
"us an enormous business. ere1A
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ube 6rauoe.

Toder this head miU be .tound the %ot,cial pa
uers of the Grand Master, and also. all
Communications from members of the North
ro,olino Patrons Of Hvsb0ndrD.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-26
Sugar-Raet-

The culture of the sugar-b beet appears
to be attracting increased attention in
England. The question is thus pointedlv
dealt with by Mr.. F. B. zncke, in the
Fortnighty RevieV
"Of all the large products of cont.
mental farming, this is the most growing
and it increases rapidly only because,
taking one year with another, it is highly
profitable The continent of Europe now
produces from beet more than one.fourtb
of all the sugar of all kinds made in all
parts Of the world France makes 451 :
600 tons; Germany, 100000; Austria
200 900; Russia, 10000; Belgium. 80
600 Holland and Sweden, 35OO0-in
all, l,2ll,000 tons When we find that
French Flanders, the chief seat of the
manufacture in France, Belgium, Hol-
land, Germany, and even Sweden and
Russia, can pro6tably carry on this
manufacture, it becomes hard to believe
that there can be anything in the soil or
climate of this country that is unsuitable
70 1t indeed, all the southeast of Enc
land, from Norfolk to Dorsetsbiree
would appear to be eminentlv we'll
adapted to it. For right estimate Of
Dne Importance Of the cultivation Of the
'ooO we must add to the value of the
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sugar that is manufactured from it that
of the spirits which are distilled, either
directly from the root, or from molasses
supplied by the manufacture of sugar.
France distils more than 81 100000 gal
Ions of this spirit yearly, which cannot
be unadapted to English tastes; for, as
the French only make yearly about g.
$4,000 gallons of grape brandy, and as
they send us yearly about 100000 gal
Ions of brandy, we must supposeth at no
inconsiderable proportion of the fine
cognac consumed in this country is a
product of beet. 1t is, beside an un-
doubted fact that the cultivation of beet
for sugar and spirits, by the deep and
careful tillage it requires, and by the
amount of pulp itsupplies for the fatten-
ing of cattle-all animals thrive upon it,
and it can be kept any length of time
Invariably brings about largely in
creased production of corn and of meat; ;
in other words, it means high cultivation,
a very profitable crop, investment in
manures, more meat and more corn,
and large field for the employment of
capital and labor. France has about 500
sugar factories, and about as many dis
tilleries for beet and beet-sugar molasses.
Why, then, is this method of turning the
land to account, so advantageous in so
many respects, and so profitable every
where on the continent and for en-
tering on which on large scale prepare
tions are now being made even in the
United States Of America, unknown in
this, country E? believe that the answer
is to be looked for simply in the want of
freedom have been commenting on, and
which is the very backbone on which
our pauper and territorial system has
been constructed. The landlord cannot
afford to go to the expense of setting up
sugar factories and distilleries, because
the rent is what he has torlive by and to
save from for his younger children; and
if he could afford it, he has not sufficient
motive for doing anything of the kind,
because hitherto he has been able to- get
his rents from corn and meat. And as
to the tenant, he could not, for this pur-
pose, sink 10000 or 100000 on another
mans land. These, perhaps, are insu-
perable obstacles at present; and, if so,
they supply us with another instance of
the blight with which our landlord and
tenant system affects the whole field of
ASulIuIO, anu JuG QlluCulGy OF
carrying on high and costly cultivation
under it, with the additional weight of
our dear and inefficient labor. 1t is ter
ritorialism and pauperism, which its
necessary conditions, which together
prevent our so much as attempting what
hourishes among and enriches al our
neighbors, and, in France, where it has
been longest established and most widely
carried out, is revolutionizing the agri-
cultural system of the whole of the
northern part of the country. 1t may
be mentioned, in passing, that an av-
erage crop of sugar-beet is worth to the
French excise about $40 an acre. This
often amounts to, and sometimes is more
than, half the fee-simple of the land it
self About $50 is paid by sugar, and
88 by spirits. This is quite independent
of the heavy land tax levied on every
acre in France"
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FINE DRESS SHIRTS and NIGHT-SHIRTs
MADE TO MEASURE A SPECIALITY.
NO FIT, NO SALE.

a good SHIRT, ready-made (unlaundried, J
S1.0O. We make a good SHIRT to measure
(unlaundried) for $l.25. We make fine SHIRT
to measure (unlaundriedl for $3.50. We make
the BEST SHIRT to measure (unlaundried) for
$1.75; Extra per dozen for laundried $3.50.
Order printed blanks for self measurement.
Will make you one on approval
Our ONE-DOLLAR SHIRT IS THE BEST
SHIRT EVER MADE FOR THE PRICE.
Sent by mail to any address for 81. 10, with
privilege of returning and money refunded if it
does not suit
large stock GENTS FURNISHING al
ways on hand.
HENRY T. MILLER.
e15 Main Street, Richmond.
oc l5-1v
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Jersey Cows.

Three islands in the Euglist
channel - Jersey, Alderney ant
Guernsey-have long been noted
for cows giving very rich milk
The cattle in all these islands came
from the same stock. Their gener
al characteristics are identical, bul
the difference in taste of the people
on the various islands as to size
color and other peculiariti-s in the
cattle they have reared, has shown
itself in the progeny OF one com
mon, original parent stock. The
Jerseys are smaller, as a rule, than
either:Alderucys or Glernseys, the
latter being considerably larger
than either Attorneys or Jerseys.
Between the latter :there is not
much difference. The taste of buy
ers and breeders, however, have
given TO the Jersey island cattle
the preference, mainly because they
have found animals there which
come nearest to an al bitrary stan.
dard set apt not by tue farmers OF
Jeysey so much as by breeders of
these cattle elsewhere, and which
have been shrewdly accepted by
Jersey breeders Oh the island.
The general characteristic of the
Jerseys are, small size compared
with cattle OF ordinary proportions,
clean, deer-hke head, dish face, thin
ewe.neck and withers, broad Ioin,
with breadth aud squareness be-
hind, and well defined esentchion.
Color is entirely u matter of taste.
The Jerseys on the island are OF
various colors. Some are dark
brown, some grey, others tawn of
various shades, while IN many 9th.
ers more or less white occurs III
brown, red or fawn. Some breed.
ers aud dealers in this country
have attempted to set up arbitrary
rules iu regard to solid colors aud
black points, but these are non-es.
seRtials. What u COW can do In
yiekling money to her owner, il of
far more importance than her color.
And here it is pertinent to say that
in adopting n standard of excel.
lence by which domestic animals
are messsred, u has sometimes
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1880-03-05
Lazincss the Foundation Of So
cialism.
Scribner for March.

Scribner for March.
Socialism is "a disease of a state
of civilization in which true sci.
ence of rOciety scarcely exists, IN
which false notions OF life, OF the
relation OF the individual to the
society and the state, are wide
spread, aud IN which all ranks are
honey-combed by sentimental no.
tions of what ought to he, and cun
be, in the world. Sine Rosseau, a
certain set OF doctrines has been
permeating modern society, which
have no truth ia history or tact at
all, but which tiatter human nature
and are sure to be popular, because
they make light OF education, cul.
ture, capital, breeding, and all the
excelleuces which, being all rery
hard to get, raise hlm who has Them
above him who has them not. The
same doctrines teach, per contra,
that the unframed nmn is the norm.
and type, aud standard, 80 that
men, instead OF being urged to seek
tue excelIences are encouraged to
believe themselves superior, with.
out them, to those who have them.
Such is The outcomeo of the doctrine
OF equality, and, AS it has spread,
IL has only grown more popular, has
pi0pagated more and more tallacies,
aud shifted more d more distinct.
~ into u thirst aud demand for
(eQuaD eDj0Nm mrnt OF material luxr.
ry. Socialism is an effort to graft.
~ this thirst in some other way
than by using it as an incentive 10
Industry and economy. Obviously,
there is no other way, unless it con
sists in taking away the means Of
material ENJOYMENT from those who
haye produced and sayed. .theB, aud
giving them to those who have not
produced and saved them. Every
step in that direction, is a step to.
ward universal impoverishment and
barbarism, and every step will have
to be won by war. The socialists
assume that their victory in that
war is certain, but it is certain that
they are entirely mistaken.
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A Texas Jenkins.
st. Louis Republican.

st. Louis Republican.
A Texas reporter who was de.
tailed to write up a cattle show and
a fashionable ball the same day,
looked on the wine when it was red,
and got things mixed up,in the fol.
lowing manner:
Miss A. l., beautiful
young heifer, with red and white
spots on her back and fore. .shoul.
ders, was cbarlningly arrayed in
green silk, trimmed in blue velvet
and Ornamented with a COW bell.
Mr.. b. O., a fashionable
yearling, half-bred, looked very
well IN layendsr colored pants, and
wore cockleburns in his tail. No
ornaments.
Mrs. X. O., a Texas raised
COW, hne mixer, very gentle, look
ing lovely in amber colored silk
with lace trimmings. Wore q new
leather belt on her shapely neck.
Col. f. c., an imported
thoroughbred, looking stunning in
q low neck vest.
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An Episode I'm the Legislature
Net Reported i'm the Onicial
Proceedings.

Jackson Comet.
On Monday night Speaker Johns
was half an hour behind the sched.
ule time Of the house, but aquorum
had gathered, and il there is any.
thing legislator dislikes to waste,
it is time. Accordingly, the house
proceeded to business notwith.
standing the absence of the Speak
er. Mr. X. z. Walker, OF Lander
dale, was unanimously elected
speaker pro tem., and OF taking the
chair delivered himself of an elo.
quent address, full of the profound
est patriotism aud the soundest
sort of horse sense--a broadside of
pronounced aud emphatic views,
drifting into the pathetic and sub
lime--0n the general condition of
the people and the solemn duties
OF their Legislators.
The following resolution was sub
mitted and unanimously adopted:
Resolred, That p. X. Mayors, of the DEM
ocRAT-SrAR. through courtesy to the press,
be requested to come forward aud assist
the Chairman.
Mr.. Lewis, of Claiborne, read a
paragraph from a State paper, as
follows:
"will the member OF the legislature who
lost his hat at Mardi Gras rise and ex-
plainr
A committee Of three were ap.
pointed to investigate the comm.
drum.
Among others, this resolution
was presented and adopted:
Resoled, That the sympathies of the
house are with the Char.
This resolution elected consider.
able emotion, in the midst OF which,
Dir. Moore dropped into poetry,
which boiled over in this strain:
Happy are we tonight, my friends,
Happy, happy, are we;
The hearts that we delight, my friends,
WIN us uiay happiness De,
The friends should laugh with those tn at
laugh,
But weep for them in pain,
The nest of us have met before,
And here we meet again"
Mr.. McGee, OF Clark, got after
congress, thusly:
Resolred, That the congress of the United
States be instructed to amend its laws 80
there shall be no duty on sole leather.
Another member, whose name
we did not catch, moved that rail.
roads be permitted to issue mem.
bers of the legislature passes with
outsiders names thereon.
Pending the motion to adopt the
same the Chairman, on motion of
Mr.. Moore, was laid on the table,
aud the house extended its privi.
leges to Speaker Johns-who had
just entered the hall--and then ad-
iournpd with orant harmouv
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POLITICAL.
Call for National Democratic
Convention-Ratio of Represen-
tatiOn.

Washington, February 24.-The
national democratic executive com.
mittee to-day issued the following
call:
"The national democratic execu.
tive committee having met in the
city OF Washington on the 23d day
of February, 1880, has appointed
Tuesday, the 22d Of June next, as
the time, aud chosen the city of
Cincinnati as the place of holding
the national democratic convention.
Each State is entitled to the repre-.
seutatiou therein, equal to double
the lumber OF its senators and rep.
resentatives in the United States
congress.
"All democratic, conservative,
and other citizens OF the United
States, irrespective of past political
associations or differences, who can
unite with US in AN effort tor pure,
economical aud constitutional gov.
ernmeut, are cordially invited to
join in sending delegates to the
convention. At the last national
democratic convention held in the
city of ST. Louis in 1876, the follow.
ing resolution was adopted:
'Resolred, That the States be re-
quested to instruct their delegates
to the national democratic conven-
ton to be held in 1880, whether it
be desirable to continue the two.
thirds rule longer in force in pa.
tional conventions, aud that the
national committee insert such re.
quest in the call for the next con.
venti0n.'
WIN. Ii. BARNUM. Charm.
"W. o. PRINCE, Sec'y,
National democratic committee"
The committee then adjourned to
meet at the Grand hotel, Cincin.
natl, on Thursday, June 18th.
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Jackson Comet.
JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 25, 1850.
Mr.. S. II. Stackhonse:
DEAR SIR-Could you give me
information in reference to usin 9
the cotton seed meal on vegetables,
and its resultsi | WAS referred to
you by the oil mill man. Can you
tell me how much is safe to use in
hill land for watermelons or cante.
lopesi | am IA Pennsylvania and
would like to have some jntorma.
tion in reference to its use on dit.
fcreut vegetables. Please answer
Immediately, and Oblige,
WILSON ETNIER.
For the benefit of others we take
the privilege of answering your
queries through the Comet. Will
give you the following mode of APP
plying cotton seed meal:
For melons, compost it with well
rOtted stable manure-0ne part of
the meal TO two OF manure, a shov.
elfull to the hill, excavating the hill
so as to have it covered about three
inches. This preparation to be
made a month before planting.
With other vegetables, the
amount to be used is in proportion
to the natural fertility OF the soil,
say from 1000 pounds to ton per
acre. 1t is best to put in the
ground a month before planting.
II you don't bave time to do this,
put it out so as not to come IN con-
tact with the seed. The ground
should be be,lded out thoroughly,
aud run q sub.soil plow M deep as
you can twice, then harrow aud sow
your meal, then run the harrow
again 80 as to incorporate we'll with
the soil, and throw a light farrow
on IL. Let it remain 80 till ready
for planting. When you can wait,
bed out your ground, split your
ridges with turning plow, run u
subsoil plow twice, SOW your meal
and use q harrow only three
teeth then bed on il, run harrow
again aud Liant your seed, open
with y plow fitted for the purpose.
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happened that real meritorious
characteristics have suffered, and
too much prominence given to fan.
cifuf and comparatively useless
points. SO far as Jerseys are con
cerned, results at the pail or in the
churn are the prime factors, and
they should not be sacrificed to
hair, horns, hoofs, OF high.up nos
trils. A sensible. judieious buyer,
will look for characters which indi.
cate milking qualities. It is a
question Of pail rather than of tail.
Performances at the pail in the high
est test. What the COW yields her
owner within a year has more to do
with her value than anything Else
and II breeders of Jerseys expect
10 maintain the prestige of the
breed, the sooner this fact is recog.
nized tue better.
Jersey cattle, aud indeed all the
channel island cattle, are noted for
their docility. The cows are en-
orally MIXED by women. The very
circumscribed area which each
farmer tills, renders il necessary to
keep the cattle tethered or in small
enclosures, and they are fed and at.
tended to mostly by the farmers
wife aud children. Thus they have
become very gentle, aud easily
managed aud handled.
In regard to the quantity OF milk
given by the Jerseys, there are
eases OF wonderful yields. AS u
rule, they are good mixers, giving
a liberal quantity OF milk very rich
in quality.
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For the Demoerat-Star.
TIE BACHELOR or BILOXI
M VALENTINE.

The baehelorOf Biloxi who eats oyster pie,
And washes il down with old sparkling
rye,
Is short and stout, thick as 'dumplin,
With lovely complexion, like ripe pump
kin.
"Chnton's" maid of Handsboro is snehant.
ing,
When summer comes this man will BE-
painting
Painting tor the cool shade Of the green
magnolia,
Where he can sleep, and in dream behold
her
''Bedecked in all her grace, and cheeks Of
soft red,
"With flowing curls all around her (small)
head"
He'd bow at the feet of this maid so com.
plete-
This maid of Handsboro. What's the size
of her feet
For maid so perfect, so near INTO heaven,
To bear her weight, would take No. Elre..
NCorn.dodsAr
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A Return Tide of Faith.
The Recent Reaction I'm Religions
Thought in Germany.

New York Herald.
During the last twenty years,
however, "A very decided Change
has come over the religious con,
vlctions of the German people
We can plainly see the progress OF
a reaction toward belief from this
reaction toward unbelief. The re
action from an extreme consersa
tism, not wholly unmingled with
superstition, drove the nation tO
intdelity; and the reaction from
that inhdelity is gradually leading
them back TO Christian faith, cor
roborsted by scientific investiga
tion. lnddelity, as q dominating
order OF thought, has lost its crown
and its throne, aud q rational ob
servation, freely conceding the su.
pernatural as component part OF
Christianity, is gradually taking
possession of the national mind
and heart. Not only are Strauss
and Bauer dead, but their infiu,
ence. If not quite dead, is so weak
that it need awaken no alarm.
Parker is also dead, aud he left so
little behind him in the way OF
vital doubt that New England is
swinging back to the faith of the
fathers. The authority of all these
men is a thing of the past, and
their arguments against the super.
natural have been buried under a
mass OF still stronger arguments
tor il
In proof of this are innumerable
facts, but we have room for only
one: Twenty years ago the theo.
logical department of those Ger.
man universities |, which rational.
ism was taught were crowded with
students, while the few conserva.
tive universities had little more
than an array of empty seats.
Such, however, is the change ef.
fected in public opinion during the
last twenty years, that to-day the
successors OF the great teachers OF
doubt find II difficult to gather an
audience to lecture to, while the
more conservative professors de.
liver their lectures to scores in.
stead Of tens. The catalogues OF
the renowned seats of learning
show how surely Germany is find.
ing her way back to a belief in
revelation. The tide of intidelity
had its period of flood, years ago
reached its high water mark, and
is now, at the very least, at the
half ebb. On the other hand, the
tide of faith, which reached its
low water mark with the last gen.
GRAFTON, is on the food, and is like
ly to reach higher point than
ever before. 1t is a great satistac.
ton to know that a rational con.
servatism, which accepts the great
dOgmas that have been tested by
centuries OF experience, includes
not alone that class which is gov.
erned by fickle emotion, but the
large body of the worlds best and
profoundest thinkers, who have
dug through the stratum OF doubt,
aud are bnilding on the solid foun-
lati0ns OF faith.
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PAsCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI. FRIDAY, MARCH s. 1880.

the Northern States who nobly led
the way in this work of mercy, We
desire in an especial manner TO ex.
press our gratitude. They have
shown themselves AS nsble in gen
crosby as they were powerful in
war, and they have convinced th'
world that despite the unhappy diff
ierenees of the past We are one
people in heart as well AS in ma
tionality. Be il further
Resoired, That the papers Of the
State aud of the country at large
be requested to publish this pre-
amble aud resolutions.
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1t is understood that the trouble
between the Gar OF Russia aud
bis wife will soon result IN a sepa.
ration, the Czarina lvsuming her
family name, The gossips say that
the Gar objects to the fancy of his
wife for travelling, and thinks she
has been Rom anon long enough.