Sharp County record., 1890-02-27

"A little son of Joda Mctcdlf is just recover
ing from an attack OF menengitis.
NO voter in the county should
be without the Record thus year
Marriage license issued since last
week for r A Pierce 26, and Phoebe
Rogers, Is.
Only 1916 tax.receipts made to
the hour of going to press. This Is
not half.
The printer needs some more
stove wood. If you owe for the
paper and are convenient, bring IN a
load.
80 Harvey and Seymore Green,
brothers of Mrs. John S. Medley,
were down from Illinois on a visit
this week. They think Arkansas a
grand county.
Lee Stone of the BatesvilIe
Music House passed up last Friday
on a collecting tour. He will plant
a big advertisement in the Record
at no distant day. Watch for it.
When church members make a
practice Of card playing 1t is time
for the non-professor to get asham~
ed and quit. There may be no act
ual harm, as some argue, in simple
game of cards, but it leads to other
vices. 1t is associated with gamb'
ling, drunkenness and all the vices
known to dcprayed humanity. PIay>
ing seven>up and guzzling red Ilq-
uor is certainly poor way to serve
the Lord Baxter Go. Citizen.
"A habit Is a master, though at
most times q pleasant one. lueS>
day evening there was no mail from
Batesville on account of Horns
creek getting unusually horny, and
we got no exchanges to read; but
being in the habit of reading NEWS
papers we had to read one, and our
eyes fell on some back number
RECORDS which we enjoyed hugely.
It's right good paper. Say, reader
do you take it?
Pink Tindel says it rained rocks
and hail stones too during church
services at Maxville last Monday
night. eyes," said our informant,
ethey first rocked our horses, making
one break loose, when Pink Hamll-
ton, who sat in window, yelled at
them to stop. In about a half a
minute the rocks begun to rain down
on the house, making such a racket
that the preacher, Bro. Cypert, had
to quit till two men went out and
drove them away. Finls Doss saw
the parties who threw the stones and
says they were disguised in female
attire, but don't think there masks
were sufficient" Such devils should
be bucked and given nine and thirty
with a raw-hide. The sooner such
ilnps are run out Of the country by
vigilant officers the better it will be
for the country and all law-aoldlng
citizens.
The RECORD man don't farm
very extensively these days, but Is
not without experience in that line
Besides he does a heap of reading
from agricultural journals, whose
columns team with farm hints and
communications from old and ex-
perenced farmers whose opinions
and experiments govern the planting
and cultivation Of the big crops
both north and south, From time
to time this spring we propose to
give our patrons some hints on the
cultivation of cotton, and will begin
right here by saying that the largest
Yields from cotton the past season
were realized where the land was
laid off in checks and plowed both
ways. 1t takes less hoeing, can be
N ore thoroughly cultivated which is
more advantageous to the land and
produces from one third to double
the number of pounds per acre as
that planted in the same soil and In
ridges the old way. All you farm-
ers who depend almost exclusively
on a cotton crop for yearly income
should plant a small patch this year
as an experiment, and next fall re.
port the result to the Record tor
publication.