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Year: 1869




Somo day in tho future tho
art and practice Of vino making
will be ns familiar and universal
among us rs tho manufacture Of
cider is now. And tho juice Of
oftho grape, properly prepared, is
greatly superior to that Of tho ap-
ple in health and strength giving
elements. 1t is an easy matter
for majority Of farmers to provide
ample supplies Of vino for their
household use, at q comparatively
trifling cost. A half acre in each
hundred ofcultivatod land sct with
vines ofhardy varieties would be
sufficient, if vol carod for, to fur
nish both fruit and vino for the
numbcr of people occupying, on
tho average, that area. Doubtless
there arc limited regions in our
country where grapes would not
succeed: but The area is vast where
they would thrive to II sufficient
degree to make tho growing OF
them for family usc satisfactory !;
although it might be far from pro
litablc to raise them for market.
In any nci ishborhood or lacality
whore solitary vine does well, i,
is certain that enough others will
thrive to supply tho wants Of the
population. BY such universal
planting only can We hope to sec
tho rural population Of our land
supplied with fruit and wine; for
the products Of tho favored grape
regions, whore tho culture is car
'ricd on extensively, will ho mostly
absorbed by citios. Let cvcry
farmer havo his vineyard as well as
his orchard, not planted with a
view to selling it's products, but
to consuming them in his own
family. 1t is pretty safe to assert
that whore apple trees will flourish,
somo variety Of grapes will do
tolorabIy well alongside Of them.
Tho manufacture Of vino for homo
uso should be conducted almost
precisely like that Of cider. Have
tho fruit ripo and clean mash it
and press out tho juice with care,
lot it fermcnt fow days, like good
cidcr. thon rack it, and cloanso the
casks and rofll them bung tight
and rack again carly in the Spring,
and tho third time on tho approach
Of hot wcathor, have sound, sweet
casks, keep thcm full, and storo in
clean, cool cellar, and your bov-
crago will oxoel in grateful flavor
and hoalthful, oxhilarating effects,
whom tho hard labor and hot suns
Of Summon tempt it's trial. It is
as oasy and simple to mako good
wine as good cider Tho yield Of
wine will probably average four
Year: 1869

The following account of another Arkan-
sas horror was telegraphed from Little Rock
a few days ago and published in the Louis
vile Courier Journal:


intelligence of frightful outrage, per
petrated near Pine Knob, in johnson county,
has just reached this city Invitations have
been out for several days to p wedding,
which was to take place on Friday night
last The parties were highly respectable,
the bride being young and beautiful girl,
niece of one Of the former Judges of the
Supreme Court of Arkansas. just after the
company had assembled, and before the
marriage ceremony was performed, com
pany of negro militia, commanded by a
white man, surrounded the place, and, put
ting out the lights, laid violent hands on the
ladies' The gentlemen present were for
tQnately not without arms, and, after a sharp
fight drove the marauders off sister Of
the bride was seriously and perhaps NOR
tally wounded Four of the militia were
shot in the melee. The affair created great
excitement, and the people turned out IN
pursuit The radicals say the object of the
negroes was not rapine. hut that they went
to arrest man. Gov. Clay ton continues to
declare that he will do nothins' saying that
the negroes may do as they please His OBJ
Ject seems to be to provoke disturba7 : ce, "a
an excuse for his acts of executive Violence.


In the name of common sense, how can
the people of any State submit to such
fendish deeds @
Year: 1869

The work of organizing the militia goes
forward We heard yesterday that com
pany at Liberty was ready to he mustered
into service Here in Nashville about TWEEN
ty-five men have been enlisted, and we doubt
not full company wlll be ready by the close
of the week. Yesterday a committee of citi-
zens from Rutherford county called at the
Executive Office, and also had an interview
with Gen. Cooper in regard to the question
of sending force to their section of the
State. Ofcourse the delegation is opposed
to having State Guards sent TO their midst.
They represent matters as extremely quiet
there, and the people as all anti-Kuklux."
Of course the people of Rutherford are de
tcrmined to put stop to Kukluxiug, and
all that sort of thing


We would gently hint to the people OF
Rutherford, and any other couty, that some
thing besides holding public meetings and
passing resolutions win be necessary to pass
with Gen. Cooper a plausible reason why
the militia should not be sent among them to
stop the Kuklux-NaShUitle Press and
Times
Year: 1869

We learn from the Morristown Gazctte Of
the 9th that white woman who had been
living ia open adultery with a negro in that
place was taken from her room a few nights
ago by patty of unknown men and treated
to coat of sar and feathers. Two of the
party were afterwards arrested, identified
and fined SIS each.
Year: 1869

Could anything be nicer than the reply
made by the negro who offered to lift a
young lady across the mud, and who said
that she was too heavy: Lors rnissis. Use
use to liftin' barrels OBJ sugar
Year: 1869

In New York, it is proposed to construct
wheels for railway cars of wood, and it is
asserted that they will, although costing
more than the cast iron wheel now in in use,
last three times longer than any wheel ever
before invented.
Year: 1869

4 CURIOUS TREE.-A gentleman residing
north of Port Byron, Cayuga county, has 4
large and fourishing pear tree which Is
curiosity that attracts numerous spectators.
Some years since he covered the roots of the
tree with straw as protection against cold
weather. When the straw was removed II
was found that family Of moles had made
it their. .habitation, and, in the natural de-
pravity of their instincts, had passed their
time in gnawing the bark from the tree,
stripping it clean below the straw with the
exception of few inches on one side. The
owner, being possessed of an inventive turn
of mind, determined TO save the tree if pos
sible, and he has succeeded. lie cut from
the tree several healthy and promising
sprouts, and bending them in the form of a
crescent, grated on end of each in the body
of the tree above and below this girdle
Now the tree is healthy above and below
the spot, whilst beneath the sprouts the
trunk is dead and decaying. The sprouts
have, of course, increased in size, and the
owner confidently expects they will be able
to sustain the weight of the tree by the time
the trunk has decaycd through to the
healthy side. The top is filed with an un,
usually large quantity of fruit, and the
yield this season will be greater than ever
before,
Year: 1869

A YoUNG Man TAXES Two YEARS NAP,
AwAKENs, AND ASKS, ais BREAKFAST
READY ?''-Wc are informed that q young
man living in the lower part of this county
was taken sic': about two years ago, and
fell into a deep sleep, from which he only
awoke about two weeks since. The first cx-
preston he made use of on coming to was
Is breakfast ready p just as though he
had been asleep but one night. A physician
had been attending on him all the time, and
happened in just after he awoke. On walk


ing up to the bed, he called the patient by
name, remarking that d" You must feel bet
ter, as your checks have more color -; to
which he replied by asking, Who are
your On being informed that he was a
physician who had been attending him con-
stantly for two years, he could hardly be-
licve his senses. During his sleep he was
fed regularly with spoon victuals, as though
he was conscious. He is now up, enjoying
good health, and busily engaged in trying
to get the events of the last two years post
ed up in his mind, that he may unite them
with the past and present. He has dis
tinct recollection Of everything up to the
time of his going to sleep. We have heard
no explanation of this case of Rip Van
Winkleism.--NadiSon (lndi0na) Courier
1Sh
Year: 1869

WHY SIZE TOLD THE TRUTH.-A little girl
who was put upon the witness stand in JUS
tice Stephens Office few days ago gave q
very unexpected and good reason why the
truth should be told. After taking the oath,
the attorney for the party in whose interest
she had been summoned asked her if she
knew the nature of the obligation she had
just takcn-what she was obliged to do.
Yes, SIR" was the reply, " l must tell the
truth. F." Answer: "Because if | don't
this case won't be won." The reply pro-
duccd n sensation, and the girl was per-
mittcd to testify without further question
nc.-CIeuclund Piuindcnlcr.
Year: 1869

TIE WHITE SULPHUR BALL.-Thc grand
mask ball Of Wednesday night at the
White Sulphur is the talk Of our town, and
there will be an immense crowd present.
Such an affair as this will be one TO be wit
messed but once III lifetime, and we would
advise all who would wish 10 go to make
their arrangements at once. Excursion
tickets for the round trip are sold ct fifteen
hnllnrs
Year: 1869

Freight BUSINESS OF THE RICHMOND AND
DANvILLE RAILRoAD.-Two hundred and
seven cars Of inward freight were received
at the Danville depot during the week end
ing Saturday (mostly wheat) exclusive OF
ffty-nine car loads Of coal. The outward
freight for the same period was LOG car
loads. All the freight-houses at this depot
are full Of wheat, and some fifty cars yet
unloadcd for want Of room.
Year: 1869

INTERNAL REVENUE on ToBACCO.-Thc
collection of revenue on tobacco in three dis
tricts of this State from February lst to
August 1st is 81, ,5S9 in excess Of the
amount collected in the same period last
wear. So says the State Journal.
Year: 1869

| hav finally cum tew the conclu
shun that lager beer as a beverage i
not intoxicating. / hav been told by
german who said that he had drunk i
all mite long, just to try the expert
ment, and was obliged to 60 home en-
tirely Sober in the morning. | hav seer
this same man drink eighteen glasses
and if he WAS drunk he was drunk ir
german, and nobody could understand
it. 1t is proper enuf' to state that this
man kept a lager beer saloon, and
could hav no object in stating what
was not strictly thus. ] believed him
to the full extent of my ability.
never drunk but three glasses Of law
ger in my life, and that made mi he'd
ontwist as tho it was hung on the end
of string, but l was told that it was
OWN to my bile being out ov place
and guess that it was 80, for | never
billed over wus than / did when I got
hum that mite. My wife thot | was
going tew die, and [ was afraid that
shouldn't, for it seemed as tho every
thing that / bad ever eaton in nv
life was cummin tew the surface; and
| believe that if my wife hadn't pull
led off my boots just as she did they
wud hav cum thunderin up tow.


Olhow sick | wuz IA years ago,
and | can taste it now.


never had so much experience in
80 short time.


If emmy man shuld tell me that
lager beer wuz not Intoxicating,
shud believe him; but if he should
tell me thatI wuzn't drunk that mite,
but that my stummick was out Of
order, l shud ask him to state over
in few words Jest how man felt
and acted when he wuz set up.


If wasn't drunk that mite, / had
some of the most natural simtums
that man ever had and kept sober.


In the first place it was about 80
rods from where / drunk the lager
beer to mi house, and was over two
hours on the road, and had hole bust
ed through each one of my pantaloon
noez, and didn't have any hat, and
tried to open the door by the bell
pull, and hiecupped awfully, and saw
everything in the room trying to get
on the back side Of me; and in set
tin down on a chair, didn't wait
long. enough for it to get exactly
under me, when il was goin round
and set down a little too soon and
missed the chair about Il inches,
and couldn't get up soon enuft to
take the next one that come. along !;
and that aint awl, my wife sed wuz
drunk az beast, aud All said before
| began to spin up things freely.


If lager beer is not Intoxicating
it used me mean, that know.


Still hardly think that lager beer
is Intoxicating, for i have been told
so, and | am probably the only man
living who ever drunk emmy when
his liver was not plump.


1 don't want to say anything agin a
harmless temperance beviridge, but if
ever drink any moro, it will be with
my hands tied behind me, and my
mouth pried open.


/ don't think lager beer is intoxi-
eating, but if i remember right, i
think it tastes to me like a glass of
soap-suds, that pickle had been put
tew soak in.
Year: 1869

a Connecticut legislator, having become
ssnshed that the majority of married people
oes're separation proposes to annull all exist
ing marriages. The small minority who are
with their present condition NAV get
married again. which will be cheaper than to
compel the majority to sue for divorce.
Year: 1869

1t is a pleasure to tell the same story over
and over again, if it is a good story. Our
story now is, OF the satisfaction we enjoy in
wearing the clothes which they make at the
great Brown Hall, Philadelphia. The fact
is, there are no other clothes, made else
where, that look half as well, or wear halt
as long as the RocKH1II. o. WILSON clothes.
The immense and varied assortment Of fine
clothes for Fall which RocKHILL g. WILSON
now display is worthy the attention Of all
who 60 to the city. See RocEHrLL q Will
SONS advertisement in another column.
Year: 1869

Instead of two millions, the loss by the
September gale on tue New England coast
will amount to over four millions. The loss
of life is not yet fully knowu-nol less than
fourteen or fifteen, and possibly double that
number as the crews of one or two coptizet
vessals are feared to be lost.
Year: 1869

Twenty one persons belonging TO Rock
port, Mass, were probably lost during the
gale on the slh instant Seven bodies have
been recovered and brought home and have
received Christian burial. All the parties
were Engaged in the fishing business,
Year: 1869

Three negroes were burned to death in the
Dismal Swamp recently. A great fire is
raging there, and these negroes were EN-
ployed in getting out timber, but while tax
inc a nan in their hut were walled in by the
fire
Year: 1869

About year ago. somebody asked the editor
OF an exchange, What shall the children do
on rainy days p ha4 ayl i711J 7F = -
s The editor lives in country where it rains
sometimes, and dare say, had been soreIy
puzzled TO answer that question to the sati fac
ton OF his own little people At any rate. he
caiied on all the fathers and mothers to help
him answer 1t, and good many things were
suggested by some OF them. View tried some
OF them at our house, and though they worked
very well, yet we have come to the conclusion.
that on the whole, the best thing to do for our
children at such times is to let them alone
None but those who have had good deal of
experience with children, can have anv idea of
their wonderful aarenttve powers, and when left
to their own resources for amusement there Is
almost no limit to their contrivances.


Give the little folks, where it is possible. a
room to themselves, and leave them to their
own resources. Suppose they do educe your
dining room to utter confusion. You can re-
arrange it In fifteen minutes, and Won have saw.
ed two hours by the operation. [ know of n
family where two little boys of five and seven
amuse themselves from daylight till dusk. with
only a short Interval for lessons and meals
They have few playthings-a box of building
blocks, an old clothes line, pair of scissors. q
carpet hammer, paper of tacks, and a boz
where all the bright bits of paper that come in
to the house are deposited That is pretty
much all, but on rainy day, or cold one they
take possession OF the dining-room, and invent
an unceaslng round of amusement. -


Suppose we peep in at them. They have
been busy for an hour, and very quiet, only the
constant chatter of their merry voices and now
and then an exclamation What a litterl You
teel as IT you wanted to run for the broom, but
it is only your stupidity. What you take to be
bits OF white and yellow paper scattered over
the floor are beautiful lilies, in a green meadow.
that rope zigzaging around is little brook, and
those clothes pin grouped about the dust brush
are children having picnic under tall elm
tree The oldest boy explains it all with sparkl-
ing eyes and that shows how real it all is to
him. Perhaps, in few minutes, box ofbut-
tons will be emptied on the table, and the but.
tons arranged In companies of soldiers, or the
blocks will be built into cages, and you will
hear the young exhibitor showing off his animals
and describing the elephant as be marches along
with long ears severely shaking


just as quick as you try to help them by any
suggestion, you do mischief, and too many TOYS
are only an evil. A child's Imagination is vivid
enough to help him out of any difficulties in
this line, if you will only give it play. n.


Said busy mother; II have spent many
hours In reading tony children many in try-
ing to teach them, but never one, unless they
were sick, in tryinn to anause them They have
been taught from babyhood to amuse them
selves"


So | feel like saying to the hundreds and
thousands of busy mothers, teach your children
to amuse themselves, and to do this, you need
only to give them the opportunity and then let
them alone. a..o, t-
Year: 1869

How large are the stars, and are they alike.
or do they differ in size Pit used to be con,
jectured, that they are of somewhat similar
magnitude. presumably about as great as our
sun, and that the differences of apparent size
are due to differences OF distance; but when
astronomers came to discover that some of the
smaller stars are the nearest to our system, this
has now, however, calculated the actual dimen-
sions of one particular star, and finds it's mass
is rather more than three times that of the SUM-
The star in question, is less than the fourth
magnitude-a comparatively small one What
then must be the size Of the Sirius and Aide
baran class? The reason of its selection for
this determination, was that it is one of the
components of what is called binary system
two stars revolving about each other ike the
sun and planet-and the motions of the mem
bers of such a system afford data for the COM
putation. The stars distance from US is a
million and a quarter of times of the earth from
the sun, SO that light takes twenty years to
travel hither from it Once Week. @
Year: 1869

AT no period in the history of the country
has there been such a general and utter de-
pravation of public morals as now exists The
rights of property and of person, the obligations
of truth and the sacredness of social virtue, ap-
pear to be losing their wonted hold upon the
public mind; and as people we are rushing
into a condition Of social anarchy, and casting
away all the bonds that hold society in healthy
cohesion. The evidences of this deplorable ten
dency are apparent on every hand. Crime
abounds everywhere. Shooting has become a
common method Of avenging the most trivial
wrongs; and every day brings its lists of brutal
murders, committed for the sordid objects of &C.
quiring paltry amount of pelf Or to satisfy an
unbrldled passion for revenge. rsgacI 3
This deplorable condition of things is to be
regarded as one of the natural consequences OF
the late war The true remedy is to be found
in those who have specially to deal with the
morals of the people appealing in thunder tones
to the conscience of the nation, and In this way
effecting reascendancy of the moral over the
brute forces Of society. Ministers of religion,
judges, lecturers, authors, editors, your special
present mission is to renovate the public con
science and call the people back to the old
paths. Rich. Neacs. gsue s
Year: 1869

Coop ADVICE. AT the installation Of
Baptist minister, in Lower Canada, recently
the 0TTng @ adTs9 ss was the eGhngrega
suggest that you pray for your minister daily
guard his reputation carefully hear him preach
weekly; hsten to the Word wakefully treasure
it up joyfnlly labor with him pathetically, both
individually and collectively; attend the pray
er and conference meeting constantly support
the Sabbath School promptly give him a bit
of meat and ball Of butter occasionally; call
on him frequently to tarry briefly greet him
cordially but not rudely-and may the God of
all graces bless you abundantly, and add unto
you daily such as shall be saved eternally"
Year: 1869

After war of the most bloody and destruc-
tive character, followed by four years of steadi-
ly increasing poverty and embarrassment, it is
most assuredly time that we had settled down
to the only practical conclusions that there is no
way but to make the best of our situation, and
bring the State into the Union under the direc-
ton of that Federal power which there is no
escaping For the first time in the four years
the Executive and Congress are agreed in the
policy of reconstruction and for the first time
iu those years that policy has been somewhat
relaxed in behalf of this State of Virginia Not
to seize the opportunity thus offered to bring in
the State would be folly aggravated by mad


ness What hope beyond this is there? We
have an administration that has four years to
run /; House of Representatives, the political
complexion of which cannot possible be chang
ed in less than three years; and Senate which
is alike interchangeable for at least ten. Forwhat
shall we pause, and on what shall we fix our
hopes but in immediate reconstruction under
the modified measure now offered to Virginia?
Indeed if anybody harbors the hope that the
people who now control this nation will ever
change their views of the measures now pre-


vailing tits beyond question that that change
cannot take place while those measures are re-
ssted.-Rich. Dispatch s Es.s iz
Year: 1869

A writer speaks of hut so miserable that it
ddn't t know which way to fall, and SO kept
standing This is like man that had such a
complication Of diseases that he didn't know
which to die of, and so lived on.
Year: 1869

SAYING GRAcE-A good story is told of an
eccentric old gentleman, who, although oc-
casionally addicted to the habit of swearing, was
still punctilious in regard to saying grace at his
table. and this he never omitted On any occasion.
The story runs, that, on holiday, the old gen
tleman invited sea captain, a jolly old weather
beaten tar of his acquaintance, to dine with
him. They sat down to dinner, and the old
gentleman, according to custom, commenced
saving grace but the captain, whose attention
had been diverted for the moment, hearing the
old gentleman speak, thought he was address
ing him, and turned to him with, What did
YOU say, squire ?" why, dit. man I'm say
iug grace