The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-03-09


all the corn ground in the United States,
and according to the latest advices the
crop of 1850 will bear about the same
proportion. During the last twentv-one
years, after receiving q fair remunera-
ton for the cost of the production of
their corn, the farmers Of the State have
made a net profit Of s 1000, 600.
4 contributor to the Christina Iniom
SAYS that a physician was recently called
to prescribe for the inccssant headache
Of Il Young woman. Unable to assist
her. he at last requested to see her bed
room. He WAS shown into q pretty
little nest, we'll ventilated, but on ac-
count of the furniture, having no place
for the bed except in the corner. On
learning that she slept next to the wall
with her face toward it, he ordered her
to wheel the bed into the middle OF the
room where it would get air from both
sides. She did so and her headache
disappeared.
4 cablc-laying ship possibly repre-
sents the highest development Of marine
engineering. for q hitch in the machinery
may mean the failure Of the expedition.
An instance of the perfection to which
we have reached is furnished by the ca
BILE ship Kangaroo, which ran recently
from New Zealand to ST. Vincent without
once stopping the engines. The distance
of $500 miles, supposing about sixteen
miles to be run every hour, represents
continuous work for twenty-five lavs-a
fairly sufficient testimonial to the excel
lcnce of the machinery.
Considerable attention is being paid
by Western shippers to the scheme Of a
canal through the Delaware peninsula,
to let ont the grain, coal, provisions,
cattle and other freight that now, when
transshipped at Baltimore, has to be sent
around the capes to the Chesapeake,
making a j0urneH-of about forty hours;
whereas a ship cana1through the PENN
sula makes Baltimore nearer New York
bv water than Philadelphia. The object
is not to shorten the distance to Europe,
as wa at first proposed, but to shorten it
to New York, which has, becomcthe head
center of all the other commercial cities.
The Detroit Free Press urges the
necessity of teaching the school chill
dren more of the current history OF the
world. 1t claims that they "know in
fnitelv more of the wars Of the Roses
and the American Revolution than OF
the Afghan war. or the Franco-Prussian
war, or even the war of the rebellion.
Of the threatened war in the East they
know nothing, and it is 4 part of the
present system that they shall know
nothing. Yet, with a liberal use of the
newspaper, in place of the reading
books 10 in vogue, both boys and girls
could get q better idea Of the science OF
government, especially as il is to-day,
and would be better informed"
People who are in a hurry to order
their paper stopped when the editor says
something which displeases them will
do we'll to ponder over these words
from the Christian ut Work: An honest,
Straightforward, manly man, seeing
something in his newspaper that he does
not like, writes to the editor expressing
his dissent-as it is his privilege to dc
aud as he would do to q friend. No true
man rives up q friend because Of q dlf'
ference of opinion; neither does he, fol
q like reason. part with one of the best
of friends, o good newspaper. On the
other hand, no editor WHO is half al
editor ~resents, but rather welcomes and
respects the hearty, pronounced express
sion of contrary opinion from a manly
dissentient. But for the one who reads,
dissents and flashes back an angry
".Stop my paper"-well, we are sorr,y
TOr sTeF3~tnren. 1t is. always n dis
appointment to meet with the weakness
of childhood where You naturally look
for the strength of maturity. The in
frequency of the occurrence makes it q
matter of less consequence than il other,
wise might be.
Grass is king of Dakota, the proposed
new Safe. The territory lies in the
broad valley OF the Missouri and that OF
the Red River Of the North. The Black
Hills, with untold wealth, are partly
within her western borders. while on the
east are Iowa and Minnesota, with THEN
railroads reaching after her abundant
grain crops. Besides gold and silver,
coal is found in the northern and west,
ern districts, and petroleum springs
from the rocks in many places. The
climate presents less that is objection
able TO the Eastern emigrant than
either Of the adjoining States. Its
winters are miller and its atmosphere
is of the most remarkable salubritv.
The soil is q rich vegetable mound,
ranging from thu most fertile alluvium
in the bottom lands-of which there are
many thousands of acres along the
Missouri and its tlibutarics-to the more
compact upland prairie, thoroughly we'll
ado pied to the production of wheat and
other grains. Oats, peas, barley, and
such small grains attain the ripest per
fiction; bu. the great and browning
wealth of Dakota, outranking gold,
wheat, corn, and all else, is her incom-
parable crop of grass. Thousands of
square miles Of her bottom lands yield
two tons or more per acre per year at q
single cutting, while away north, in the
Red River valley, four tons per year are
secured by two cuttings. For stock
raising, wool growing, dairying, grain
growing, and the production of root
crops, Dakota possesses unsurpassed
advantages.