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Year: 1868

The Gross MURDER. do the citizens OF Hem
rico county intend to allow the murder OF poor
Gross TO pass without any further effort 70 dis-


cover the perpetrator Of the crimsi we are
urged 10 ask the authorities OF the couny
whether they cannot take some steps in this
Year: 1868

NEWS Boy IsJURED.-A little news boy, cry
ing papers on the street on Saturday evening,
was knocked down by the horses attached to
one OF the street cars and quite painfully In
iured. Prompt action on the part OF tho
little fellow was taken into the Exchange
Bank, and after a short resting spell was able
TO walk out.
Year: 1868

DrREcrIoSs-The leaf is what is wanted, but TO
facilitate the gathering of IT, you can strip or blade
t-thatis take the iite trigs upon which the leaves
grow which will be bought-or YOU may cut the
stock and when dry thresh it and rake out the
stems Care must be taken to have it clear o stems
and dirt of every kind. Don't cid il up.


1t NAV be wilted in the sun, but must be cured
under corer and not allowed to be eb"rWby the sun,
or to get ret or to be in such large quantities as TO
heat in curing any of which destroys its color and
strength and renders il raiueiess.


1t must be thoroughly cured and dry-dH me zap
must be dried out-or it cannot be received, for II
will heat and spoil this must be strictly obserred
Commence taking as soon "a the leaves are fully
grown and continue till they killedby the frost


The Red Berries must be thrown out.


When your Sumac is al ready for delivery, Bags
will be furnished for bringing i; in, but they must
be rreH flied and prompIy returned with egre'-
Apply for Bags to the store or party 10 which you
expect TO deliver your Sumac or attheFACTOKi
On BRADD0CK Street.
Year: 1868

The zone which clung her slender waist
Around, he said, was brighter far
Than that imperial wreath which graced
Aurora, flying like a star
Before the dewy steeds-her ewes


More beautiful than lovers dreams;
Her joyous laughter mixed with sighs
More musical than singing streams
He must have been in love, indeed


For then he did begin 10 pratc
About the little towering weed


She gave him at the garden gatel
Poor fellow twas very plain


His heart had caught fond disease
We laughed but ali We all were fain
To sail upon those golden seas
Year: 1868

An old farmer communicates TO US the fol-
lowing receipt to prevent wheat from moldins
in bins " In piling up your wheat after it has
been cleaned with the fan, to every three bush
els put in a good hard brick, dried by the sun,
and be sure it is perfectly dry at the same timo
you Use it. The brick absorbs the moisture
that naturally accumulates in the grain, and
causes the wheat to become hard and iinty.
Year: 1868

BITTEN BY CoPPERHEAD.-While a lad
some welve years of age, son of Henderson
Jack, living in the Thirteenth civil district of
this county, was at work in the corniield, Fri
day week. he was struck in the foot by large
snake of the species known as the copperhead.
An uncle of the lad, who was close at hand,
Immediately killed the snake, cut open its
body and applied portion Of it to the wound.
Though the foot had begun to swell rapidly,
the eject Of the application was soon apparent,
and the boy was doing very well when VIC
heard from him last. This is the mode OF
treatment which the Indians Of this country
used to adopt in cases Of bite by rattle-snake
to kill the reptile and Immediately apply a
portion of the flesh to the wound. 1t is said
to never fail to effect cure.-AttenS, Tenn.
Post
Year: 1868

have seen a farmer build a house
so large, that the sheriff turned him
out of doors.


have seen young man sell good
farm, turn merchant, and die in an in
sane hospital.


have seen farmer travel about
so much that there was nothing at
home worth looking after.


have seen n rich mans son begin
where his father left of, and end where
his father began-pennyless


/ have seen young girl marry a
young man Of dissolute habits, and re.
pent OF it as long as she lived.


have seen the extravaganza and
folly Of children, bring their parents
TO poverty and want, and themselves
into disgrace.


have seen prudent, industrious
wife retrieve the fortunes Of q family
when her husband pulled at the other
end Of tho rope.


have seen q young man who do
spised the counsel of the wise and ad
vice Of the good, end his career il
poverty and wretchedness.


| have seen man spend moro il
folly than would support his family il
comfort and independence.


| have seen man depart from the
truth, when candor aud veracity
would have served o much better
purpose.


! have seen man engage in law
suit about a triiling affair that cos
him more in the end than would hav,
rooted all the buildings on his farm.
Year: 1868

TnE TEMPLE OF CnLDHooD.-The
temple of childhood has tbreo gates of
entrance First, the hearts second,
Imagination; and third, the reason.
The heart is the first TO open, If you
would ill that temple with light and
Joy. Through the heart u child may
be impressed and taught long before
any other entrance can be made to it's
soul. Through the heart the inspira-
ton must pass which can awaken the
mind, and unfold its leaves OF thought
and understanding. Next, the imag-
nation wakes; and If we do not pass
that gate with light and holiness, and
beautfy il, while we adorn the tenn
pie within, some one else will pass il
and defile the temple. Enlightcn,
nourish, gladden. the imagination OF
childhood with truth and beauty from
the Bible, and from all noble lilo, from
history and story, and the main gates
will be secure, and tho temple shine
with brilliant lights. Afler that, as
childhood advances, open the gate OF
reason, cultivate the mind through
the heart and Imagination, and your
teaching and culture will succeed,
Year: 1868

REcIrE FOR FINDING A HUSBAND
More common sense and less wit.


More useful occupation and less
music.


More study Of the Mysteries Of the
Kitchen and less Of the Mysteries OF
Paris.


More mending of shirts aud stock.
ings and less making of bracelets


Less display Of toilets that appal
the purses of candidates for wedlock
More proof TO men that they will
find in wife helpmate and not an
embarrassment.


This recipe, if thoroughly tried, will
greatly lessen the number Of baoho-
lors and happy homes
Year: 1868

Loss IN STACKING HAY.-A farmer
Of sound Judgment and large expert
ence in cutting and storing hay, esti.
mates his own loss in stacking at 25
per cent. He cuts probably one hun
dred tons year, and stacks fifth
part Of IL for want of barn room. He
has very properly made up his mind
TO build a new barn. We think his
estimate is not wide of the mark.
There is a large loss from moulding
at the bottom of the stack, and old
rails, boards, or straw, will not wholly
prevent it. Then the whole external
surface for three TO six inches, is wealth
er beaten, and loses much of its sweet
ness, and It is not improbable that this
loss Of aroma extends through the
whole stack. The conviction is uni
versal among intelligent men that
barn stored hay is worth much more
thaH that which is taken from the
stack. Why then follow this wasteful
practice Look ut the great loss to
this farmer who cuts one hundred tons
of hay worth $4,000. According TO
his own estimate he pays 500 a year
for the privilege of stacking one.fifth
of bis crop This is but small part
OF the loss where the hay is fed out at
the stack II costs ut least third
more hay to keep cattle without shel.
ter These are strong arguments for
moro barn room.
Year: 1868

A white Radical in Georgia used the
following language in addressing the
negroes 81 tell you not to consider
or treat any man, white or black, who
is Democrat, as gentleman, aud if
any of the white-livered scoundrels
come whining around you on election
day, with suggestions OF advice as TO
how you shall vote, knock their teeth
down their throat
Year: 1868

The Trenton (Tennessee) Ga
zette, a Conservative paper of abil-
Iity, gives place to the following


mutterings:


We can only regard with unmit-
igated loathing and contempt those
knaves and charlatans who hope
to grow rich off the Southern peo-
pie by pandering to their prejudi-
ces and hatreds. Such vile papers
would make a mockery of the
woes and miseries Of the South, if
thereby they could enrich them
selves. Unprincipled, pretended
friends to the Southern people
have done more to bring odium
upon the name than any other
cause. And we will here take oc-
casion to warn the South against
the insidious approaches of that
class of men. They are cancerous
excrescences upon tie body polite
"a pestilential fungus upon the
State. They would degrade the
South and leave her in ruins to
fill their Golfers with filthy lucre.
And we may mention that we have
but little more respect for the La
Crosse Democrat or Metropolitan
Record. They have no circulation
North, and fatten upon the preju-
dices of the South, which they con-
tinually seek to keep alive by
abusing the people among whom
they live. We know best how to
take care of the reputation of our
friends, and look with suspicion
upon Yankees who would be more
Southern than ourselves.
Year: 1868

A correspondent from Decatur,
ILL.,, writing to the Scientific *
meracdn, says:


"For catching rats in a cheap
and effectual manner, allow me to
recommend the following: Cover
common barrel with stiff, stout
paper, tying the edge around the
barrel; place board, so that the
rats may have easy access to the
top; sprinkling cheese parings or
other feed for the rats, until they
begin to believe they have a right
to their daily rations from this
source. Then place in the bottom
of the barrel piece of rock about
six or seven inches high, filling
with water until only enough of it
projects above the water for one
rat to lodge upon. Now replace
the paper first cutting a cross in the
middle, and the first rat that comes
on the barrel top goes through in
to the water and climbs on the rock.
The paper comes back to placesnd
the second rat follows the first.
Then begins a fight for the posses
sion OF the dry place ON the stone,
the noise of which attracts the rest,
who share the same fate"
Year: 1868

A charming damsel applied at
the Montgomery, Ala, soup house
the other day for a soup ticket
"for ten days only" adding naive
ly that at the end of that time
her papa would be Judge, when
she would. have no further use for
a soup ticket. tits needless to add
that her dear papa is a carpet bag
ger.
Year: 1868

OlSGdSCS VI i ulO A4OOS'
A correspondent from Mississip.
pi to the Southern Culti0ator, over
the signature of "RAYMoND," says


/ see in your August number
ali article on Pear blight, from
Mr.. Van Buren. l will not dis.
cuss the subject of blight, or the
many diseases Of our fruit trees;
but will merely state a few facts,
as they have come to my notice.


The apple or pear beings to fail
the next thing we know, it is
turned over by the wind-all the
roots having rotted, save, it may
be, one. Blight also destroys
a large number Of our pear trees.
l have tried every remedy | could
hear or read of, or my mind could
suggest. From some source /
learned, that driving a few ten
penny nails in my trees would
save them. l took my hammer
and nail box and went to work
driving three or four such nails
in each apple and pear tree. |
have never lost any pear and but
two apple trees since. One of
those was on the decline at the
time. l never lost a tree until it
goes into bearing. l have pear
trees now twenty to twenty-five
feet high. l drive nails in my
trees nowadays when they are
two and three inches in diameter.
A friend had a beautiful young Or
chard of pear trees, dwarf. y
Blight attacked, and destroyed
nearly all Of them; but one, which
was thrifty and quite green, drew
his attention. On examination
he found some one had placed a
large iron hook in the fork of the
tree; the wood and bark had grown
around it firmly. 1t was imbed-
ded in the tree; and he supposd
it must have been the iron which
saved that thrifty tree only, out
Of large number.


Do not drive the nail too close
up, or miss the nail and hit the
tree, for that will always cause a
sore place. I often drive nails
through my smaller trees-they
soon grow over them. | believe it
will answer good purpose in the
peach tree against the borer, though
/ never had occasion to try it.


To keep your apple and pear
trees smooth and clean, every
spring wash them with soft soap
and salt, as high as you can reach
say one quart Of salt to. two
gallons of ordinary soap. Apply
with a mop.


once procured some grape
vines from Georgia-they were
diseased; in the spring the young
leaf would turn white or spotted
-crimp up, with excrescences
over them. The vine grew but
did not fruit. This disease spread
over my small vineyard and
destroyed it, except the Scupper-
nong, which has resisted the dis
ease. | tried the nails in the
vines, without any good effect
The rust of iron does not appear
to be a curative, but preventive.
I formerly lost from six to ten
trees yearly, with rotten roots and
turning up. 1t has been years
since l lost any in that way, ex-
cept the two / have mentioned
Trees occasionally die from other
causes. / drive the nails a foot
or so from the ground.
Year: 1868

The statement is made tnat
son,e men in New York carry on a
Te Tog,,Iar trade in little boys, They
seize them in the streets ana trans
,'ort se,s' them to men in the country
aud pOl' sometimes to the far West,
where they are bound out at a
very low price.
Year: 1868

The Matching of fish eggs is said
by. experts in that business to be
easier and more sure than the
Matching of fowls eggs. The
whole expense of putting fifty mil
lion shad in the Connecticut river
did not exceed fifty dollars.
Year: 1868

A plain home, ever so homely, may
be neat. Pictures hung on the walls
tell delightful stories to infancy, and
has influence over those living when
we are gone. Grass, flowers and
shrubbery in the yard, are source of
constant delight. Nests made for
birds near our cottage will repay when
they sing for lis in rich melody. Ev-
cry representation should be given
which will impress a phase of thought
at home. The dark, benighted and
discontented mind is driven away,
and intelligence, refinement, virtue
and happiness are our constant guests.
Year: 1868

The following circular has been ad-
dressed by Charles w. Fitzhugh to
the colored people. He was one Of
the most intelligent, and probably
the best educated of the colored men,
bers of the late so-called Convention,
and one Of the most ardentsupporters
of the Radical party in the body. His
influence over the colored members
was greater, probably than that of
any other member In words. nf fcr-
vid eloquence he sends out this note
of warning to his brethren. May we
not ask the coloed people forgive it
their calm attention
Year: 1868

The following description of Gen
eral Grants behaviour while a cadet
at West Point ia given by Professor
Mahan, who has for many years been
member of the academic staff at that
place;


He was what we termed a first-sec-
ton man in all his scientific studies /;
that is one who accomphshes the full
course. He always showed himself q
clear thinker and a steady worker.
He belonged to the class Of compact
ly strong men, who went to their
task at once, and kept at it until fin
ished, never being seen, like the slack
twisted class, yawning, rolling on
their elbows over their work, and
looking as if just ready to sink down
from mental insanity,
Year: 1868

er The Copperhead pspers abuse
General Grant with a right good win.
They will never forgive that irnmor-
tai General and patriot for having
thrashed their friends, the rebels. The
Copperheads hate him just as intense
ly to-day as they did when be was
driving their confederates through
the wilderness to defeat. a party
that can welcome such rebel Generals
as Forrest and Hampton TO their Ma
tional Convention, and speak Of Lee
as'the best man In the country for
President, is very consistently dea-
perately hostile 10 General Grant
Year: 1868

A Nashville chap who went to
Chattanooga q few days ago to be
married, was sent home again by bis
intended bride for getting tipsy on q
basket Of wine while on the way from
Nashville. He is said TO have since
joined the "Sons."
Year: 1868

The first of our military Presidents was
Washington, who, after securing the inde-
pendence of the country, put its republican
constitution into practical operation He was
the best of all our Presidents. The next sol
dier of the Revolution elected President was
Monroe, whose administration was the era of
good feeling" The next military hero
advanced to the White House was General
Jackson, as the 'sHero of New Orleans" Next
came General Harrison, who was worried to
death-poor old man by the Office seekers,
after a month of Presidential tortures. Next
came General Taylor, whose life was sacrificed
in the White House under the same cruelties.
Now comes General Grant, who, as a speech
maker and letter writer, is as reticent as cold
Zack," while as a soldier he eclipses ''Old
Hickory" and while as citizen he is as un-
pretending as ''Old Tippecanoe." We can
hardly expect that, if elected, he will give us
the perfect administration of Washington, but
we have reason to think that he will avoid the
turbulence of Jackson and will restore to us, to
great extent, the ''era of good feeling of
Monroe" and the obliteration of all the party
lines of the day in the nicely balanced policy
of his administration.
Year: 1868

In the HERALD of yesterday we gave some
details of the meeting of the Old and New
School Presbyterians. 1t is gratifying to no
tice that the promise exists of the healing of
unlovng breaches and that Christian union in
America at last is likely to become fact.
The Old and New Schools ought never to have
existed. Presbytery ought to have been
broad enough name to make Old and New
unnecessary 1t is gratifying also to know
that the Methodist Episcopal and the Protestant
Episcopal Churches are beginning to look to-
wards each other with friendly eyes and to
mediate marriage. How the Wesleys would
rejoice at such consummation How their
spirits must rejoice, if we are to have any
faith in Spiritualsm Why should not this
union go further? Why should not all Pro-
testants come under one banner tits reason
able that they should; it is desirable; it is
possible; it is more--it is duty. Let them
therefore aim at it, A grand Protestant con-
ference, embracing all the sects in America,


would be a glorious consummation. This
achieved, the next step would be meeting
the Protestant and the Catholic chiefs. If
they could only meet we know they would like
each other. II would be found on both sides
that the right good fellows were not confined to
either party, but were common to both. The
United States one in politics and one in reli-
gion would be a spectacle and lesson to the
world. The example could not fail to prove
contagious. II is not even an impossibility,
taking it for granted that we do as we ought to
do that in the city of New York we may have
grand codncil Of the Church which will put
all previous councils completely in the shade
the Holy Father, the Archbishop of Canterbury
and the Patriarchs of Moscow and CONSTANT
| nople gracing the platform with their presence.
| A little more shaking of the hands is desirable.
1t requires only encouragement to lead to mar
| vellous results. The time has come when to
| live and prosper Christianity must adopt some
such course. Union is her strength. Division
| is her weakness.
Year: 1868

feated IF the minister who has fallen under
the popular vote believes that he has a reason
able chance by an appeal to the country OF
upsetting the verdict Of the Commons, he has
the undoubted right of dissolving Parliament; /;
but he must be well assured that he can
by such appeal be able to better his condition
in the next Parliament and go ON regularly
sons limitation to the power of Prime
Minister in this respect he could, If he were an
ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS man, cause much
excitement and infiict great expense and
trouble by plungng the nation into contested
election. We see in England the strange
anomaly of discounted minister holding Office
and limiting, without positively declaring, that
his Sovereign desires to keep him there in dis
regard of the will of the people. The Queen
has too much good sense to commit herself in
tending parties She knows, or ought to know,
that her authority springs from the people, and
that as the people gave it so they may take
it back. A blind mulish, pig-headed ministry
may force such thought into the popular
mind.


And the question comes back, Will Disraeli
resign or dissolve? 1t is on record in the
constitutional history of England that Pitt dis
solved when there was but majority of one
against him. At later period Lord Mel
bourne followed the same example, and other
ministers have resigned where there were even


=. Al -. Il %o
us that the only course left to Mr.. Disraeli is
to resign, for he has not the remotest chance
of altering the condition of affairs at the polls.
Year: 1868

ANOTHER Coop SPEECH FROM GRANT,
Grant and Colfax were seveuaded in Wash
lngton on Friday night and responded"
Grant made good speech, short, crisp and
clear. He told his hearers thst he had no
desire to cultivate the power to talk in public;
and if he be elected this is guarantee
that he will never be caught swinging around
the circle. He said wise, sound and admira-
bly, poised thing when he declared that tho
not from speeches, but by considering his past
career. Let him keep that course. Colfax
delivered himself of some furning trash almost
fit to go with Senator Conkling's celebrated
speech at the Syracuse Convention.
Year: 1868

Wan Street and Oar National Securities


The most notable feature Of business in Wall
street at the present time is the unusually
heavy and excited demand for government Sc
curties both from home Investors and for ship
ment to Europe. The tendency of prices is
consequently strongly upward every day wit
Messing a fresh advance. Previous to the vote
of the Senate on impeachment the market for
our national stocks was dull, and many who had
just received the proceeds of their May coupons
held back from reinvesting them until they saw
what the result of the trial would be. They now
consider impeachment in the light of mere
party measure. which has been ignominiously
defeated, and whenever its ghost appears in
stead of creating alarm it only tends to arouse
ridcule. The mere termination of the sus-
pense with which the verdict was awaited has
been beneficial to trade and the public credit.
Five-twenties advanced one per cent in Lon
don and Frankfort and still more on this side
of the Atlantic during the past week, and the


indications continue to be in favor of further
considerable rise.


The resolutions reIatin g to the finances re-
ported in the Chicago Convention stimulated
the demand for all the gold bearing stocks, as
they denounce Reputation in any form as a
crime, and call for reduction of the public
expenditures and taxation and the foreign
market is especially sensitive to such in6u-
ences. This, moreover, is season of the
year when money accumulates at this centre to
an extent which causes the rate of interest to
rule low and this increases the inducements to
buy governments for the sake of finding tenn
porary employment for capital. The dulness
in the railway share speculation is also favor
able to the unusual activity in national bonds,
which are still mach lower in price, for the in
terest they pay, than any of the railway and
miscellaneous stocks, yielding an equal return,
dealt in on the Stock Exchange. People are
afraid to touch railway stocks on account of
their cliqued and inflated condition, and hence
the rush to invest their money temporarily or
permanently in the bonds of the United States.
AS sign of the tines following the impeach-
ment fasco, this is reassurng and encouraging.
Year: 1868

Mr.. HOME AND THAT SIXTY THOUSAND =
Home has lost his case in England and is Or
dered to pay to Mrs. Lyon the sum of sixty
thousand pounds. That is very good for an
order, but where is the money? If that is not
spirited out of reach Of the court before this
we shall be disappointed in Home No doubt
it is good Judgment but it will likely prove a
difficult one to enforce.