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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-09-06

Inspectors monthly report of the
Hopkinsyilie tobacco market, Sept.
LIST.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-09-06
TOBACCO NEWS.


Inspectors weekly report Hopkins
vile tobacco market, week ending
Sept. 2nd, 1881.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-09-06
Advertised Letters.

When called for please say '.advertised
s.h. Burbridgc.P 7. NJ, li1ptiSvllc, Ciiris-
tian 20. ky.. sept. Q. 1881.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20

TO show it, vast proportions as shearine
and shipping progresses. The former
on some ranches, is finished; on Others,
just fairly begun. Large trains laden
with wool line the road between Fort
Clark and San Antonio, while great
quantities have been stored at various
places. The warehouses Of our mer-
chants used for this purpose, are kept
full. As fast as one lot is shipped an
other takes its place to await transpor-
tation, or a rise in the market, as the
owner may prefer. The wool is gener-
ally in first-class condition, though light
in weight, owing to the long, hot sum-
mer and prevalent dry winds. 1t is
clean, and free from burrs and grease,
and would command good prices If
shipped to the northern markets. The
flocks are in good condition generally,
and with proper care will doubtless pass
the winter without an unusual amount
of mortality.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
The Art Of Swinging q Scyt the.

A young man from the city, while
visiting friends in the country, became
interested in the invigorating specta'
Gle of the farmers hired man cutting
weeds with scythe. 1t suggested to
his inexperienced mind the poetry of
motion" When the hired man laid
down the scythe and went into the barn
few minutes, the city youth picked
up the utensil and made punge at q
group of weeds. The point of the
scythe struck the earth with such unex-
pectedness that the youth fell over the
handle and plowed up the earth with
his head. He was little discouraged,
but it looked so easy that he got up and
essayed another stroke. This was disas-
trous. The blade appeared to coil
around his legs like serpent, cutting
through his hip pocket about an inch,
amputating his coat-tail, and then
cut slices of flesh out of his calves.
He is now convinced that il is easier to
fall over a vheelbarrow than to swing
a scythe without any previous instruc-
tions.-NorTistoicn Herald.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20

ers, one .tenth rented and nearly one
fifth worked on shares. In Florida
two-thirds are worked by hands OF
their owners, one.sixth worked on
shares and one.sixth rented. In deor'
gia, half are run by the owner, a third
on shares, and a sixth rented. In
South Carolina, half by the owner a
fourth rented and q fourth cultivated
ON shares. The advantages OF these
three modes Of cultivation, have been
made the subject Of a special inventiga'
ton by the census department that will
prove highly interestingly the southern
farmers. This matter has been discuss
cd at length for years, whether the
shares or wages system are the best
and vet both sides remain as undi'
cided as ever. The result Of the in
quiries into the matter in Louisiana has
already been published in Professor
Hilgard's report on cotton production,
but it is very difficult to arrive at any
certain conclusion from this, as the re-
ports are about equally divided-half
of them declaring the share system the
best, producing larger crops, but OF the
same time somewhat deteriorating the
soil, while the other half protested
against it as both injurious to the farm
and demoralizing to the laborers. 1t
was generally admitted, however, that
the negro preferred the share system as
it gave him independence and prevent
ed him from spending his wages as
soon as he obtained them. The weight
of evidence, however, leans slightly to-
ward the share system. The returns
from nineteen parishes, the heaviest
cotton producers in tho state, favor it,
while only eight, mainly white parishes,
the country of small farms, pronounce
in favor of wages.-N. o. Democrat.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
A Large Blast.

About the middle of June big blast
was fired on the line of a new railway
at the upper end of Shell Rock, twelve
miles above the Cascades, Columbia
River, Oregon. Chambers had been
run into the cliff from nearly opposite
sides, and charged with 14,OO0 pounds
OF powder. The cliff was of basalt,
projecting into the river, above which
it stood at the height of about $50 feet.
The extent of its base was about 200
feet, and tine lateral depth of rock which
1T was desired to move was 20 feet to 50
feet. About 10000 cubic yards of rock
was blown off into the river.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
aSHUDGE," said a Dutcbman who

@SHUDGE," said a Dutchman who was
pleading his own case in a court where
he was arraigned on a charge of SLAM
der, "Shudge, when man make up dot
he Will be schoundrel undt def undt
a shideboke, undt efery day de way dot
he behaves himself was der way dot ad-
vertize he was a schoundrel undt a
def undt a shideboke. vot is der matter
NIT der man dot dells him he was a
schoundrel undt a def undt q shide-
boke. Ish dere some vrone1 ess about
dot? Undt If it ish, where ish, it by
shininy - Ronkers Gazette
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
The Southern System Of Cultivation.

The Southern System OF Cultivation.
A late bulletin of the Census Depart
ment is devoted to statistics on a most
interesting matter-the size and num-
Der of farms in several states, and the
manner in which they are cultivated
whether by paid laborers, by renting,
or under the share system. Unfortuna-
tely, Louisisna, is not one of the states,
concerning which this information is
given; but there are statistics from
Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama and others
of our neighbors, which furnish .us
with fair idea of the present condi-
ton of agriculture in the south, and
the changes that have taken place since
the war. All of the states returned
show large increase in the number
and consequent decrease in the size
of farms. Evidently. the era of big
plantations is rapidly passing away,
and we are trying the small farm sys-
tenn which, it has been found, produces
more to the hand and to the acre than
any other. Thus, in Alabama, the
number of farms has doubled in
the past decade, although there has
been but slight increase in the popu-
lation Of the state during this period.
The number of farms in Arkansas has
doubled during these Cen years, while
in Florida, they have sprung from TO-
241 to 23,43s. In Alabama, there is
now one farm to every nine people,
men, women and children, and in Ar
kansas, one to skin other words,
two out of three adult males in that
State have farms to cultivate. There
is considerable diversity in the several
States, as to the manner in which the
land is cultivated. In Alabama, for
instance, half the farms are worked by
their owners, one-sixth rented and one
third cultivated on shares. In Arkansas,
tvo-thirds are cultivated by their own
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
Cattle and Meat Trade.
From the Montreal Gazette.

A few days ago we alluded to the
frozen. meat business now springing up
between Australia and England, steam
ships in that trade having been provid-
ed with refrigerator rooms, cooled by
cold-air machinery. This new mode Of
cooling seems to meet with great favor,
and we learn that another Australian
steamship is now being fitted out in
England by Messrs. Kick, Hargraves &
Co., engineers, Bolton, Lancashire, the
patentees of the cold dry-air machinery.
The steamer is to have cold-room space
to carry about $50 tons of meat at a
time. This new mode of carrying fresh
meats preserved in cold dry air-ap-
pears to have great advantages over the
old plan of cool damp air, obtained
simply by passing air over a supply of
ice, as hitherto in practice on steam
ships in the Atlantic trade. The i'm
proved mode should receive the careful
consideration of all interested in the
cattle trade of Canada. The principle
of these machines is that Of producing
cold air by the well-known method of
COMPRISING air in closed cylinder,
absorbing the heat by cooling water act
ing on the compressed air. and the SUBJ
expansion of the compressed
air in asecond cylinder, by which means
a great degree ofcold can readily be OBJ
tanned. At this stage, and before the
cool air is allowed to pass to the room to
be cooled, peculiarly arranged patent
snow box is attached to the delivery
pipe of the expansion cylinder, and by
this means allmoisture contained in the
air is effectually condensed in the form
Of snow and deposited in the snow-box;
the cooled and dried air is then allowed
TO pass into ice room required to be
cooled. Montreal has now two we'll
equipped public abattoirs, and is there
fore well able to turn out any quantity
Of slaughtered animals for export, and
we believe by the adoption of these pat
emit cold dry air machines Canadian
meat could be delivered in England in
much finer condition, owing to the short
Atlantic voyage, then Australian ship
nents. Besides the employment that
would be given to very large staff of
,ur abattoir companies, the hides and
oflal of the slaughtered animals would
be retained in the country, manufactur-
ID into leather, ETC., and help to build
Up other important industries in the
Dominion.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
A Large Paving Stone.
Scientific American,

| bCeuuuC hhcAaS"h'
The largest stone slab ever quarried
in the United States has recently been
placed before the new residence OF Mr.
W. H. Vanderbilt, ON Fifth avenue.
The stone measures 25 feet 2 inches by
! Is feet, and 8 inches thick. 1t weighs
about $4,000 pounds. It was quarried
at Barreville, Sullivan county, N. Y,
and the block from which it was cut is
described as perfectly level, and about
90 feet long 10 feet in width. From
this surface the block was cut out and
then raised by wedges. In this instance
the seam was so open that the stone
was raised without difficulty, and what
was unusually gratifying to the con-
tractors was the perfectly clean and
level bed below, which required COM
paratively little dressing. The block
could have been made IS feet in length,
but the great weight would have made
its transportation very risky. As it was,
gerat deal of difficulty was met in
bringing it to this city. 1t was first
rolled down a hill distance of half o
mile to the river bank, and then placed
edgewise in boat especially arranged
to receive it. The canal boat brought
it to the foot of West 18th street, in
this city, when it was taken out by one
of Delamater's floating derricks and
placed upon the deck of the derrick.
From 18th street the derrick was
lowed to the foot of West 51st street,
where the stone was lifted out and
placed upon. two trucks built for the
occasion, and capable of carrying 70 or
40 tons. Six teams of horses hauled
it to it's present resting place. The
risk in hauling such block of stone is
very great, as sudden jar or fall would
be ant to break it. It was estimated
that it would cost from ST, 1000 to 900
to duplicate it.
Aside from this monster stone, the
others that have already been placed
in position are of no ordinary size.
Nineteen blocks, including the one al
ready described, serve to make up the
entire front on Fifth avenue, between
5lst and SD streets. The. others aver
age from II to 10 feet in length and
Is feet in width. These large pavements
are all laid upon three parallel walls
of solid rock, which is something OF an
in its way. It has usually
been the custom to rest them upon
beds of sand, but it is frequently the
case that the sand falls away and the
stone falls with it, or, failing to do so,
is very apt to. break. The present
method was expected to do away with
any possibility Of breaking. Other
large stones have been employed in
this building, among them the step
from the sidewalk at the entrance on
Fifth avenue, one of the largest of its
kind; it is fine blue stone, "a feet
inches in length, 81 feet wide, and ID
inches deep.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
Red RIyer...It. Early Navigation.

McU hivuHAtS larry ~sVe~
A correspondent Of the New Or
leans Democrat over the nom dc plume
OF Old Times says:
As early as l719 Bernard dc 10 Harp
received q grant from the French
government, and established a colony
on Red river, near the present site OF
Natchitoches. The French kept up
communication with the city until
France rilinquished the whole territory
Of Louisiana to the Spaniards in l764.
The Natchitoches country at this time
contained population Of Sll people,
white and black. The Spaniards held
possession until 1903, when the French
again took possession and sold the ter
ritory to the United States government
in 1904. During oil these years trade
was kept up with the Natchitoches
country via Red river. In 1906 the
Spaniards were assuming q hostile atti-
tude; General Wilkinson, Of the United
States army, concentrated large force
of troops ct Fort Adams, and with
feet of nine gun-boats and bargts, as
cended Red river to Natchitoches, and
compelled the Spaniards to evacute
the country and fall back into Mexican
territory. The Red river country soon
after began to fill up rapidly with
American emigrants, who kept up com
with this city by means OF
barges. This continued until 1915,
when the steamboat-the Enterprise
made two trips to the falls. In 1917
steamboats, commenced making trips
to Natchitoches. This place for many
years continued to be the head of navi-
cation, as the foot of the great raft was
only short distance above this place.
Between the years 1882 and 1888 this
raft was removed, and navigation open
ed the whole length of the river. The
time of the first forming of this raft is
beyond the memory of man, nor is
there any evidence on record in regard
to it, but judging from the fact that it
was ITO miles in length, it must have
taken over hundred years to form it.
As it formed, the raft forced the water
from the main channel and formed
lakes covering large areas of land,
80 miles square in surface.
It was not till 1S4S that the head
waters of this river we're explored by
Captain Marcy, of the United States
Army, who found that the source OF
The river began in the Llano Estacado
Or great plains of New Mexico. The
ength of the river from source to
mouth is 1900 miles. The upper por'
ion for about 700 miles is about half
! mile in width. At food time it is
grand looking stream, but when the
waters subside, there is but little OF
he river left, which is caused from the
act that springing from the plains as
does, where it is hot and dry nearly
Of the year, the supply is
United; and further that there are few
any tributaries emptying into it
worthy of mention.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-06-17

by United States and by all the governments
in BE proplious seasons. Provision for such
actn WAS made by the act Of 1880. chapter
% Under that act the luHn OF 81 go 751, &c
DUN 1853, can lie funded at per cent, and
in lleen ears The saving in interest alone
tlT effected would be an amount greater than
OF third of the whole debt
he reason why the treasury officers have
n invested annually the sum of Sl00, 90 in the
sick or bonds of the State in augmentation of
Il sinking fuad, under the provisions of the
y OF 1872, chapter 216, as simply that, when
tere Was money in the treasury available for
Is purposes, such bonds or stocks were at a
rlce too high TO permit a proper exercise of
ne discretion lodged by the act in the treasury
Ulcers. 1t became, therefore, their dnty to
Ipply the designated fund as the same became
valuable out of money rot otherwise appro-
rlated to the payment ofother existing debts
{ the State in the manner and to the extent
lready shown.
We will take up the thread of this discussion
AGAIN Whenever II may appear proper to do so.
We think, however, that enough has been said
% inform you fully as to those State matters
y hich are within our province, and concerning
which it behoovcd us to speak in our turn,
THos. J. HEATING,
Comptroller of the Treasury.
BARNES CoNPToN,
Treasurer.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-06-17
IN MEM0RIAM.

la the death of the venerable Thomas Carti-
co, the coIGmunity HIS lost one Of its oldest
most respected aud most worthy citizens Bul
few live 10 the age lie attained, being in his
ssih year. II was the pleasure OF the ritter o,
this feeGls tribute TO have met him short time
before his death. lie looked remarkably wei
aud as usual, pleasant, cheerful and happy
Little did | then think that he, tho old would
be so soon summoned from all earthly scenes
but so it is, and now lay on his grave Il flower
of atfect ton, drop ii tear with the Borrowing
and breathe for the Christian dead, the PRAYER
'tReQuiescat in Pace" His Lille Was ma IKE d by
many Christian virtues, and ii can be truly
said of him, he was II good man. lie was =
consistent member OF the Roman Catholic
Churen, scrupulously observing its precepts -
A man OF true pieiy, in sunshine and storm.
the same cheerful aud devoted Christian and
never suffered anything to divert him from the
punctusl practice of all his religions duties lie
had no uukind word for anyone, nevsrunchar-
table for u spirit OF Christian charity ALWAYS
acluated him. If msfortu. 9 should befall him
accomplishing he would bow in submission
10 the Divine will and ever trust in his God.
As he lived, he died-s true Christian leaving
a bright example worthy OF imitation. lie low
ed honor, truth and justice in all The excel.
lent qualities that adorned his character. gain
ed for him the respect and esteem OF all who
knew him. He Was courteous and o pitable
a kind neghbor and friend n dc-oted hus-
band and father, an honest man and true
Christian After long, well spent and pious
life, he is gone TO receive his reward, aud his
bereayed widow aud children, sUrrowing rela-
tises and friends aud all who knew him will
have the consoling thought that he met with
the happy salutation well done good and
faithful servant, enter thou into the Joy of The
Lord"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-06-17

not required to make any investigation
whatever of the financial standing of the
companies represented by the agent, his
only duty being not to allow an agent to
act for more than one company under his
license, and to see that the State derived
her due proportion Of revenue from those
companies. The duties of the present In
surance Commissioner, however, requires
him to make careful examination into
the financial standing of the different
companies applying to do business in this
State, and to keep them az all times under
his supervision. Whenever he shall have
reason to doubt the solvcncy or fair
conduct of any of them, he is required
promptly to make such a thorough inves-
Itigation as will definitely ascertain the
extent of their responsibility and their
mode of doing business, and. when neces-
sary, to take steps to suspend the business
of such company in this State. The per-
Torrance of these duties sometimes re-
cures the Commissioner to visit the Of
fees of he companies in other States, and
every one can readily see that it would be
impossible for the Comptroller of the
Treasury to perform THESE duties in addi-
ton to the proper functions of his own i'm
portant office, and that it would be highly
improper for him to undertake them.
The salary of the Insurance Commissioner
is $4,000, payable out of the money re-
ceived from the insurance companies for
licenses. The Centreville Observer, COM
menting on this subject, says:
zone of the offices which the Governor
desires to have abolished is the office of
Insurance Commissioner, but as yet we
have seen no satisfactory reason given
why the Office should not continue in ex
istence. Frequent examinations into the
condition of the companies that do bust
ness in this State, and the publication of
reports showing their condition, adds very
much to the feeling of security which one
feels NOWADAYS who is insured. II also
prevents fraudulent concerns from opening
shops here to gull people of their money.
and renders reasonably secure the risks
our people entrust to them. The Office is
more than self-supportiag. turning into
the Treasury some thousands Of dollars
annually, and it is therefore, not tax
upon the people but on the contrary, from
all the light we have seen thrown upon it,
is a positive advantage to the people oil
the State, and being an advantage to the
people, i. should be continued"