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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-25
EoR SALE.
SALE.

H'Vh oALE.
A dcllfable property on the river side Of Main
street, tho iav0ritG plTt OF the city for private ,r NJ
dellces. having a splenttd view Of the sIfr0undiSr
county, a porton OF the city en- The Island ana
miles along the liver. "W
Also twOS story Brick Dwelling, full lo., on FINN,
Ettcet, south, Immediately on liver bank,
Also one full lot and Wu pAr.S Of lots OIL scn,L
Penn street. on high ground with ma unlutninsvss
lSAAuIR%lN, Agent nv
ly2D once on Twelfth stretI. Nn b
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-25
MANUFACTURERS wANrTsE STREETS.


The next thing that came up In reference
10 natural gas presented itself when the fol-
lowing petitions were taken up:
To the Honorable Council Of The CTty0f Wheeling:
GESrLINES:-We have in contemplation
the sinking OF a well for the purpOse'o OF pro-
curing natural gas for use In aud about our
manufacturing Establishments aud dwellings,
aud prey your honorable body to grant us
permiss on TO cress such OF the streets and
alleys OF the city for the purpose Of leading
said gas to our 6Uildings, should We be fortu.
n tie enough IL our venture to secure the
gas. TRUSTING that you will give the matter
your favorable consideration, we remain
Yours with profound respect,
.... LABELLE IRON WORKS.
This was referred to the Committee on
Lights without a word.
The next paper read was as follows:
To His Honor, The Mayor aud Council Of Me City
Of Wheeling:
WHEREAS, The Belmont Nail Company
contemplates sinking a we'll for gas on its
own or contiguous property for the purpose
OF supplying natural gas 10 Its works for
manu- lcturing purposes, and
WHEREAS, In case gas is obtained 1t may
become necessary to convey pipes through
the city's streets d alleys TO properly dis.
tribute the gas, therefore It most respectfully
petitions your honorable body to grant the
privilege Of conveying or laying gas mains
and pipes through aud across the streets and
alleys Of the city, where it may became
necessary for the purpose herein expressed
and indicated.
By order OF the Board OF Directors,
]. j. Dubois, Secretary.
Colonel Wilkinson moved again that this
be referred TO the CoUmittee on Lights. Mr..
Rosenberg thought that the CJmmiltse on
Streets, Alleys and Grades would be the
proper one TO refer the papers 10, as the peii.
lions referred directly TO the use OF the streets.
Colonel Wilkinson stated that his idea in re.
ferrirg to the Committee on Lights WAS 10
have that Committee investigate as to what
effect would be had on the present gas rsve.
nues, provided these large manufactures
should stop using the city supply. Shortly
after this the following Was read and referred
to the Light Committee:
To the Honorable Mayor aud Council of the City
Of Weeiing:
The undersigned manufacturers respect
fully petition our honorable body for the
privilege OF laying pipe In the streets and
alleys 10 convey natural gas. We desire 10
say we do not ask an exclusive privilege.
We have not determined upon any exact
location for the well, but in any event we
will have 10 traverse and cross some streets
aud alleys. As the expense OF boring will
be large we desire 10 secure the necessary
privilege Of lSying pipes In the streetsbe!ore
commencing work.
Nnn
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-01

Americus Recorder "rwo thou
sand dollars clear cash is what was
made last year by a plucky young man
of this county ON a rented plantation.
If more of our young men would sx-
hibit the same pluck and energy this
would be better country Just 80
but will our brother of the Recorder
please tell us how much clear profit
merchant makes 10 the course Of year
upon the same amount Of capital that
this young man had invested. We
would suppose that the merchants
clear profit would be about ten times
as great that of the farmer andif this be
true, then we are not astonished at the
deplorable condition of the country
Dutler Herald.
The young man in question had,
possibly, the sum of $4,000 invested
in bis experiment. Out of that he
paid his rent note and running ex.
penses. and at The end of the season he
had realized clear profit of about
$4,000. If there is any mercantile
business in Georgia thar will pay the
same percent. We would like to know
what it is. The editor of the Herald
was rather hasty in his questioning
There is no business that will paw as
well as farming, taking the amaunt of
money invested into consideration.
The supposition that "the merchants
clear profits would be about ten times
as great as that of the farmer" is a
very hazardous one, to say the least
Merchants may make big profit on
their sales, - if that is what the Herald
means-hut the eanDot make $4,000
clear profit off of $1,000 or So, ,00).
Farmers can make more clear money
than any other class of people. If
they could not, they would never be
able to pay the enormous rates of in
terest that is required of them, nor
the large per cent. on their provisions
bills when they buy on it,-Amer-
icus Recorder.
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-01
Il only plant Irish potatoes and

Il only plant Irish potatoes and
onions. These crops pay largely,
and I would plant more of them than
do, if they were not so expensive
and troublesome 1t requires great
deal of time and hard work TO plant
either crop, and very heavy cost TO
fertillze them. The potatoes have
to be cut up and carefully dropped
AZ to Is inches apart in the drill.
used this year over 5000 pounds of
compost psr acre on my potatoes.
The yield is from rs to 100 barrels
per acre. The onion crop is still
more troublesome andcostly. Ihave
only planted one acre of onions, and
the sets, fertilizers and labor expend-
cd on this one acre cost me over
500. | used six bushels Eof sets or
almost 10000. / expect to make
$50 barrels of onions on this acre,
and viii clear at least $4O0 over aud
above all expenses"
"Your farming is decidedly di-
versifed?"
"Oh, yes; I plant a little Of every
thing; some cotton, and make
more corn and oats than l can use.
Plant largely of sweet potatoes,
and about one acre of sugar cane
l make all pay good profits. I
fertilize heavily everything | plant
l sell more sweet potatoes and su-
gar cane in the Eufaula market
than any farmer in my county.
My oat crop last year averaged
sixty bushels per acre and my
corn twenty-five bushels. But I
can't tell you half. Come to see
me this spring in May or June.
and you will go bgsk home very
much in love with truck farm
ing"
In bidding the captain adieu we
accept the cordial invitation ex-
tended. and left him almost as en-
thusiastic as we found him.
Now is the time to prepare and
plant for early vegetables and
melons, and if these figures can't
impress the reader, it is useless to
say anyt hing mors on the subject. +"
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-01
The Floods in the West.

During the past two weeks the Ohio
river and its tributaries have over
flowed their banks and done incalcua-
Bile damage. At CINCINNATI the water
rose over thirty. five feet and it was the
same way at the other cities. 1t is
impossible at this writing 10 tell the
amount Of damage that was done; it
is simply incalculable. The numbcr
of houses that have been washed away
will run up into thousands; as at New
Albany alone there were over 1900.
Iu Cincinnati over a thousand business
firms have suspended, and thirty or
forty thousand workmen are out of en-
ployment The SAME proportion Of
damage or disaster prevails elsewhere,
and hence We say that at present ii
cannot be calculated There has nee
essarily been great loss of life, though
we have seen no satisfactory estimate
of it. Great fears are felt by the resi-,
dents on the lower Mississippi but as
the foods in the Ohio have snbsided
considerably we hope the channel Of
the Mississippi will be sufoisptly
large to carry OFF sai tbs wsssstt.
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-01
Largest Yield of Cotton Ever
Gathered From One Acre.
Southern Cultiyator.

COutiAClil OulblFhbOT.
BY request we have gone through
through the files of the Cultivator and
republish for the benefit of our readers
the particulars Of the experiments of Mr.
Warthen in making FIVE bales of cot
ton on one acre. This yield was OBJ
tsihed in Washington County, Ga, in
the year 1874. The lot was planted
with view of a premium offered By
the Georgia State Agricultural Socie-
ty. 1t embraced dne and one-fourth
acres, and the yield of seed cotton was
6,S9l pounds; of lint 1882 pounds.
The lapd according to the journal re-
ferred to, had been planted continuous
ly In cotton from tho close of the war
to the date of experiment (l9S3) The
soil was sandy, with clay subsoil, in
cultivation sixty or more years, about
half OF it an old dung-hill, the other
half very poor, The manure applied
was l,400 pounds of Peruvian phos-
phate, 60 ox-cart loads of raw pine
straw from the woods so bushels green
cotton seed and 400 bushels of well
rotted stable msnure-.the last three
hauled out in January and strewn
broadcast and turned under with a
two-horse plough running eight in
ches deep, followed by, a sixteen inch
scooter IN same furrow breaking in all
from thirteen to fifteen inches deep.
Put the guano in the furrow behind
the scooter, which was therefore cover,
ell by the next furrow. In February
repeated the breaking in same manner
but not applying any manure. In
March repeated plOughing in same
manner, crossing the last ploughing
each time. In April narrowed land
twice. On 18th day of May checked
land three feet each way with small
bulltongue and dropped six. or eight
seed in each check and covered with
foot variety, Dickson's cluster cotton
1t was thinned to one stalk to- the hill
in June two to the bill being left i,
the outside rowa-Then ploughe |
very shallow, just enough to kill weeds
with tTenty-two-iDch Dickson sweel
one forrow to the row. bid not us,
the hoe, Bad no need for II, the cotton
growing so rapidly as to prevent al
! uf,denabMki.gg.::
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-01
VOL. 18NO. /.


long as it is kept up just SO long will
those who practice it be kept behind
and ground, down with. debt. 1t is
better to live on half ratiops than to
run in debt to buy, what you may not
be able tq pay for; and remember that
every article you buy at credit prices
is sold with such a rate per cent added
as to bresk almost any man in the
world who holds to it for any length Of
time. Ifneeds be, live on bread and
syrup for whole year rather than run
headlong inte debt
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-01
The Credit System.

Townsville Times.
For years after the war-indeed
until the past year-the flrmers
throughout the South, as a rule. adop-
ted the 81 cotton policy; that is, they
believed in raising cotton entirely aud
trusting to supplying their household
and farm necessities from the West
with the money obtained from the sale
of Che great staple. This policy was
kept up until 'sned univer sal
bankruptcy opened their eyes TO the
danger in which they stood, and at
length they have begun to guard them
selves against all contingencies likely
to arise by providing first for home
wants, and, after this producing cotton
as a surplus crop. The experience of
the present time has fully dernonstra-
ted the wisdom of this policy. for with
the present large crop and low prices
it is evident that had the all cotton
plan been adhered to in 1882, every
farmer in the South. with scarcely an
exception, would now be hopeless
bankrupt.
In abandoning the all cotton poll
cy our farmers have taken an important
step in the right direction, but it is
only one step. They must now, if
they ever hope for Substantial prosper
ity, abandon tho credit system.
1t is this which steadily and renorse-
lessly gnaws at the very vitals of our
agricultural classes, and literally and
emphatically keeps their noses square
to the grindstone. No man in any
business in he world can successfully
borrow money at as high rate of inter
est as even ten per cent. Yet our far
mers not only by tho credit system
borrow money on their crops at rates
two or three times greater than that,
but whenever they make it rule to
purchase what shey need or desire on
credit, they actually do not know What
interest they DO have to pay. 1t is
estimated at every where from soto so
per cent. Such rates are simply ruin
Gus, aud it is TO wonder that so long as
that system of doing business contin.
sues we constantly hear farmers COM
planning Of hard times aud embarrass-
meuts. Hard times and endorsements
must perforce continue until at length
all is gone, and gauut poverty staros
them in the face.
1t IS encouraging to notice the gen
eral growth of disposition to do away
with this unfortunate credit system and
to come down to cash basis. The
evils of living on credit are beginning
to be as fully realized as are the evil,
of the cotton alone policy. As one o.
our exchanges, in recent issue, yer,
trutaifully and concisely remarked Of
the subject of the credit system "It
ikHsfa6usin'i's Eeshlts, and Just q
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-01
HOW IT ACTS ON FLOWERS.


"My mother" said Mr.. Hart,
"was once bitterly opposed to this
Bermuda grass. and would not al
low bunch of it to take root in
her flower yard. managed, how
ever, to induce her to use it around
the edges of the flower beds. She
thought OF course that it would
spread and choke out the flowers.
But working the beds prevented
this. and she is nov as warm an
advocate of the grass as / am my
self"
"Well, Mr.. Hart, what good is it
to the fo~ers?"
mo particular good save in this.
II the grass is planted around a
lot it prevents the substance from
washing into the walks. This OF
course is material benefit tc the
flowers, the Same ss in the case of
farm terracing. When the grass
is green in summer it adds great
ly to the beauty Of a flower yard ="
you believe, then, that used in
the manner you have stated, it
would be of profit to all plantersY p
II most assuredly do. / think
that it should be used as a protec-
ton to lands that are washing and
washing; it should be used on lands
that are worn out to recuperate
them; it should be used as a forage
for stock, and as hay for market
or home consumption. 1t is of
more benefit than most people
imagine. 1 am firm believer in
it, because [ have tried it, and
have been benefited by it."
This experiment of Mr.. Hart,
and which I have given as a por-
ton of his methods for successful
farming, are worthy of considera-
ton. In middle Georgia, and I
presume it will apply to the state
at large, but little attention has
been given by the planters at
large to the raising of stock. And
yet it is somthing which should
receive it. There is no doubt as
to the adaptability of the climate,
to the raising of sheep,hogs, mules
and horses. On this point Mr..
Hart remarked:
81 am SO deeply impressed with
the inestimable value of Bermu-
da grass that l shall-and have
already done SO to certain ex-
tent-begin raising horses. The
plowing of land for grain is not
hard on stock, and l am now buy
ing up mares and propose to make
each foal me colt yearly. These
colts / can turn in on nv pasture
Of Bermuda grass, and they raise
themselves at but small cost to
me. The mares can do all my
farm work and without any detri-
ment to them. / look for large
results from this Source"
There is every reason to believe
that these plans are practical.
The one road to any success or
wealth lies in living AMONG our
selves. We must cease to be
mere consumers. We must be in
dependent. Our horses, and our
sheep. and our hogs, and, our
bread must be raised at home, and
each succeeding year will add to
our wealth. This idea has been
written and rewritten, but, how
ever dull the continual croaking
Of it may be, the fact still remains
a fact, and not only that, necessi-
ty. [ hope to see the day when
our farmers bins will be stocked
with golden grain; their smoke
houses, as of old, stored with meat;
their pastures grazing fiocks of
sheep, and horses, and COWS; their
homes free from the awful weight
of mortgages or supplies; their
families happy. and they content
with their noble calling as sue
cessful tillers of the soil. May
the day shortly be! e. Y.
The FIO0dS I'm the Wast
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- . -
Poor Girls.

The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands OF them.
Rich parents have petted them; they
have taught them to despse labor and
depend on others for living, and are
perfectly helpless. Ifmisfortune comes
upon their friends. as 1t often does, their
case is hopeless. The most forlorn and
miserable women upon earth belong to
this class. 1t belongs to parents to
protec. their daughters from this de-
plorable condition. They do them a
great wrong to neglect it Every daugh-
ter should be taught to earn her own
living. The rich as well as poor re-
quire this training. The wheel of for
,une turns swiftly around-.he rich are
likely TO become poor and the poor
rich. Skill to labor is no disadvantage
10 the rlcn, and IS Indispensable to the
poor. Well-to-do pa' ents must educate
their daughters TO work no reform
is more imperative .han this.--Ame,1-
can Farmer.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-02-16
Teachers of Grammar.

y scholarly knowledge of the science
of grammar. for instance. is not special
ly advantages 10 the te acher whose sole
business, as an instructor in grammar,
is to impart TO the young an understand.
ing knowledge of first principles. What
is the object of grammatical Instruction
in Common school9 Certainly to in
form the young man that language has
certain laws of construction to teach
the correct use of proper disposition of
sentences to prepare the pupil for the
higher departments of training, whose
province it is to teach the forms of cor
rectly worded a ID composed writing.
The object of grammatical instruction
Is certainly not to inform the plp.l that
there Is science of grammar; in a
word, ii is not to teach him grammar,
but to teach him English--to make
him intelligent as far as elementary
grammar instruction can do SO.
Who IS the best teacher in any gi, en-
branch-for example, grammar? Ii is
not necessarily he who has every gram
maiical rule stored in his memory. \
teacher may be thoroughly skilled IN
the science OF grammar, bit lack every
pedagoglc ability to impart his informa-
ton. In this case he will be good
grammarian but a very poor grsmmati-
ical instructor.
The b-st teacher OF grammar must,
in the first place, know what he is to
teach. why he teaches it and what is the
Obi C, OF teaching it, Ia the secont
place, he must have good plan of
teaching grammar; he must know how
to teach it in order that his pupils may
learn and profit by what he knows. In
the third place, he must be able to
teach it; he must have the pedagogic
ability to instruct his pupils in gram
mar so that knowledge Of grammar
will be useful to them.-Cinf11nah
Commercial Gazette
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know the uses Of the signs, The odd
and even numbers all the squares up
to twelve. and can tell the square roots
of LA. etc. They can tell at a glance
whether number is exactly divlsible
BY two or five, and, with all this, their
lesson has been like play TO them.
They have revtr been worried bv eX-
plantations which don't concern them.
They are intensei, amused when they
see that nausht is contained IN five anv
number of tmts you please, and de
Ii GIFTED beyond measure when ttey
prove their examples and find the ,irst
number coming back again
| might have t ugh, them TO repeat
n long explanation. One might teach
a parro, to do that, but they would not
have comprehcndsd It, and it would
have done them no good. They are
growing accurate and careful. and are
gaining facility every day. The scope
of their work being so broad, their les
sons can be ndlesslv varied. Ii is ex-
amples III addluon one day and in di-
vision another
They love then work. take pride in
neat states, and are gaming in rapiditv.
Now ! know that this is Heterodoxy
of the worst kind. But I submit that it
is common sense. The children look
upon me as careful critic but most
of all as resource. when any un;ore-
seen difficulty presents Itself. They
are never found fault with except for
inattention. want of neatness or care
lesSness
! offer this account to practical teach
ers. l expect, of course, to be expell-
ed from all regular Organizations of
teachers and to be considered here
tic of the worst type.
But l believe in this kind of work.
| believe in an ad0anfe along the 7vl0le
line at enc.
And do not believe in forcing chill
dren to repeat logical formula of which
they can get only the word; neither do
believe in oral arithmetic divorced
from written arithmetic Neither do
consider that 1t makes any difference
it was Peter who had the five
cherries and Robert who had the three
or whether Robert had the five and Pc
ter the three. The main thing is that
Sx5=S, and the world will be Just as
rich In which ever way the division is
made.-.& Louis Journal Of Eduto-
ton.
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BALM Of Life on the Brai,'.

I'm the Balm of life man you rcat.
abont
Com. listen awhile TO me,
iii rurr ten thousand eases
Oi rheumatism tree
Headache and neuralgia,
With every kind of pain.
II leave my friend all weliand ssroug
With Balm o Lift. on the BRAIN.
CHORUS
rs just so everywhere
lis inst so -vprvw here
The old. the young, the rich. the poor,
Have Balm of Life on the brain
The BALM Of Life mans Jolly one,
He talks and sings all day.
He cures the old. the rich, the poor,
AND drives oil pam away.
Ny ftierds all smile to see me come
But when leave again.
! leave them al. both great and small
With Balm o Life on the brain.
CHORUS.
And when 90 the ladies' sigh,
And the children all do shout
The Balm o Lite and Balm Life han
Are the creates. things that out
Ny friends all whisper in my eur
Nov Doc come soon again,
An" find thew are all troubled then
With Balm:o Life on the BRAN.
CHORUS.
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ToMAToEs.-The old way of start
ing the tomato plant indoors early in
February, then transplanting two OF
three times, has been abandoned. and
now the plants are started about the
middle of March and forced little. 1t
will not do to check the plants, as it is
apt to blight them, and a small crop is
the result. These checks are caused
by chill, by transplanting too often, or
by letting the plants get dry. Former
ly the seed Of tomatoes was sown from
the middle to the goth ofFebruary. and
they were picked out month later, and
tansplanted two or three times after
ward. a very laborious method. 1t is
useless for New England farmers to at
tempt to compete with southern produ-
GERS as far as early tomatoes are con-
cerned. but to rest contented with pro-
ducing a later supply far superior in
quality to the southern tomato from the
fact thar the latter variety has to be
picked green to preserve it through
shipment.