Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

About 100000 young men will cast
their first vote for President in No
vcmber.
There is a lady at Saratoga this
season who is wearing 100000 worth
of diamonds.
. III 1916 there waba heavy frost in
July all through the New England
States, and the corn crop failed.
Make but few explanations; the
character that cannot otherwise de-
fend itself is NOT worth vindicating.
The wise man applauds Rim whom
he thinks most yirtuous iEthe rest of
the world him who is most wealthy,
Modesty promotes worths but con-
ceals it, Just as leaves aid in the
growth of fruit and hides it from
view
God's1aws were never designed to
be like cobwebs, which catch the little
flies, but suffer the large ones to break
through.
The silent usually accomplish more
than the clamorous. The tail of the
rattlesnake makes all the noise, but
the head does the execution.
The largest cotton seed oil-mill in
the world is building at little Rock
Arkansas, and is HsemploS $50 men,
using 300 tons of cotton seed daily.
Better be right than conquer in an
argument. Better bear the assump-
tons of ignorant men than waste
your dearly bought experience on
fools.
Accidents more or less fatal to life
and property are Of daily occurrence
on the New York City elevated rail-
roads. They are of the most danger
Gus and Objectionable character.
It is thought that Ireland will be
rapidly depopulated by emigration.
No less than 100000 young Irishmen
are expected to arrive in America and
90 westward before the next snow
fall.
Money still remains abundant and
cheap in the New England States, the
city banks discounting at four to four
and half per cent, with only moder-
ate offerings Of paper at those easy
rates,
The Commissioners Of the Freed
mems Savings and Trust Company
have declared a dividend of 10 per
cent. and began paying it Oh Sept. l.
The amount required to pay this divi-
dend is $296,366,
The locust tree is one Of the most
valuable timber trees grown. Under
favorable circumstances it will attain
in the short space of ten years sufi-
cient height and diameter to furnish
timber for fence stakes, posts and rail-
road ties.
Great Britain, including England
proper, Scotland and Wales, contains
55,S33,330 acres. In the whole of
these 340l4,000 acres are cultivated,
9,934000 are capable of cultivation
and 12,SS5,330 acres are incapable Of
cultivation.
The marriage of Carl Schurz with
Miss Irish. a clerk in the Interior De-
partment is announced to take place
some time this fall Mutual admira-
ton of each others piano forte per-
formances is said to be the bond that
draws them together.
A blackberry farm near Dallas,
Texas, has yielded 5000 quart-boxes
on two acres, and the crop, selling at
twenty cents per box, has brought to
the owner $1,000. The berries are
large, nearly round in shape, coal
black, and of delicious flavor.
The increase of two bushels OF
wheat per acre on forty million acres,
the area now in wheat, would be a
gain to the country of eighty million
dollars, and if by improved seed we
could increase the production one
bushel per acre this would amount tc
forty million dollars.
A gentleman who has over $4,000
tea plants growing on a farm neal
Savannah, Ga, a short time ago sent
samples of the tea to the Commission
er of Agriculture, at Washington
who took some of the samples to some
of the largest tea establishments il
New York, when al expert pronounc
cd them India tea worth fifty cents
per pound.
Col. II. G.. Henderson, of Atlanta
Ga. Commissioner Of Agriculture
urges farmers to give more attention
to the improvement Of seeds, and re
cites the wonderful success that ha'
been attained. Fifteen years ago he
says the earliest peaches ripened abou
the Oath of June. Now a number oi
varieties ripcn by the Oath Of May
The tomato, formerly no larger than
plum, has been 50 improved by cul
ture that it is not uncommon now tC
obtain single specimens which weigh