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Year: 1870

That honest, that able, that upright, that
grand old man, Chief Justice Pearson !
North Carolina has had many men of his
toric distinction, many men of eminence
who have worn the ermine. She has scarcely
had a greater, and she has had none more
unimpeachable than her present Chief
Justice. 80 s..- ai s


a A mere lawyer rarely looks beyond the
letter OF the law. He lives in authorities.
He abounds in citations. He delights in de-
cisiOns He entrenches himself in prece-
dents. But there are some principles which
transcend formal law There are some exi-
gencies for which no legislation can make
provision. Something is therefore left to
judicial discretion. sa. it,.r


Peculiarly do the duties of the Executive
in dangerous and troublesome times tran
scend formal legislation. To a certain ex-
tent the Executive is left free and must be
left free from formal legal restraint. Such
an exigency recently occurred in this State.
The Governor knew his duty. He did it.
He did it nobly. He did it faithfully. He
did it firmly. He did it conscientiously.
But at this point his conduct passed un.
der the review of the judiciary, and in par
ticular of the Chief Justice. Then shone
out the character of that great and good
man. He recognized that spirit Of law,
which is immeasurably beyond the letter
and lie decided that he had no legal power
to contravene executive action except SO
tar as the law gave him power, and that in
certain spheres of action the Executive
must be independent. ,rqf /


Certain police court shysters would have
US believe that such decision is not good
Year: 1870

Fine weather for cotton picking in Louis
lana; dry in the day time, cool at night.
No rain for four or five weeks. There never
before was so much cotton picked and
ready to be picked. How this abundance
of cotton gives the lie to those statements
that if the negroes were freed the produc-
tion of this staple would cease. l5
Year: 1870

We aver, finally, that this crime can find
precedent only in the annals OF monarchy
and the archives of ignorance, that it is
pitilul imitation of the European passport
system and an infringement on the patent
for the Chinese wall
Year: 1870

Brigham Young stands fourth among The
depositors in the Bank Of England. He
holds all this money in his own name,
although it was passed into his hands as
tithing, and received by him in his capacity
as President Of the Church Of the Latter
Day Saints. He rendered Ills resignation as
trustee the other day, but there is no init


nation that he intends to give up The
money. The point of the joke is, tiatswhen
he resigned, he got Tie people to pass ayote
endorsing his action as trustee, and then to
accept his resignation. '
Year: 1870

II 'lc ground is not frozen blowing may be all-
mta%e1usiy done this month. The teams are
sturdy and strong, and much will be done to
help aonS the work in the hurry of spring. The
turtS Will be rotting in some degree so that they
Will more readily impalt their fertilizing properties
to the corn plants growing upon them


Sec that tie asparagus bed is lnanured and that
il j. protected a little.


Protect such plants i'll the garden as need it,


Instead oi earth against the house for banking
up, rotting away the wood work use evergreen
branches, hcinlOck, or White or yellow pine After
the snow has been blown in among them they will
Keep out frost far pcttcr than banks of earth The
labor OF banking with brush Will not be hat that II
usin" earth, III most cases, and they altogether
cleaner while being more eiectual.


The season has been 50 damp that some fields OF
corn have not thoroughly ripened. Ii will be nee
essafy TO STIR ii occasionally if spread upon the floor
II il is III airy bins it may be safe.


Feed all faltenine auimals literally and keep
them dry and warm


DO not allow the cattle to remain too late in the
moving fields, and fec ding them until the grass
roots are laid bare, and made liable to be winter
killed. This practice is exceedingly injurious
one. IT less feeding and poaching our moving
fields to take place, there would be les. com
plant OF winter killed grass in the spring


store away muck for Use on the manure hraps
through the winter. Every cord used will he a
cord Of the best manure in the spring, and will ill.,
crease the crops wonderfully.


Ditch and drain the Old meadow near the house.
There is only single acre of it, which when well
drained. will yield 5000 pound, of the best hay an
nualy. instead Of the crop of frogs and skunk cab
bage it has produced for the last forty wears. EN
f. Farmer
Year: 1870

And thou vert once maiden fair,


A blushing virgin warm and young,
With myrtles wreathed in golden hair,
And glossy brow that knew no care


Upon bridegroom's arm you hung.
The golden locks are silvered now,


The blushing cheek is pale and wan;
The spring may bloom, the autumn glow
Alrs one-in chimney corner thou


Sitt'st shivering on.


A moment-and thou sink'st to rest!
To wake, perhaps an angel blest:


In thy bright presence of thy Lord,
., weary is life's path to all!
Hard is the strife, and light the fall,


But wondrous the reward!
Year: 1870

PLANT Plum TREES. There is no farmer but
can spend half an hour IN planting the seed or
stones of some of the plums which palatable,
and IN few years reap their reward by so doing
Three years since, was in the country at the time
the cldcrberrcs were ripe, and two of lis picked
enough to make ten gallons of wine in one hour


and after expressing the juice from the berries,
sowed all the seeds along side of a railroad that
had no thought of ever seeing again, but this year
chance led me that way again, and found enough
had sprung up from which 10 make ten barrels of
wine s. p. MAYBERRY.
Year: 1870

Those heather Cherokces have perpetrated
joke on Uncle Sam by appointing day of
fasting and prayer for protection against the
United States The red mems accustomed
stolidity is at last relieved by this freak of
grim humor
Year: 1870

A young lady having read about a man
having invented a stove which will consume
its own smoke, hopes he will next devise a
method whereby tobarco-smokcrs can be run
on the same economical principle.
Year: 1870

A man in Irasburg, VT, while repairing
the water works on his farm, put his mouth
to the end of led pipe to drink. As he was
drinking he felt something come into his
mouth besides water; he spit it out, and it
proved to be an adder about three inches lono
Year: 1870

BEST WAY TO CULTIVATE. For the last three
wears we haye watched farmer who always raises
good crops and still has time to drive good team
His mode is to break up and plant his seed on new
land every year. He then has no weeds to contend
with. The next year he sows down to grain and
grass seed. top dressing well, taking care to Law it
down nicely. Ills success proves the excellence of
his system.
Year: 1870

Most of the city journals published yesterday tele
graphic accounts of the latest disaster in Japanese
waters As these journals have lately been disposed
70 practice economy perhaps it would have been
wiser for them to cut it from THE TRIBUNE Of the
day before. On Asiatic as well European matters
it has been regularly furnishing them news twenty
four hours in advance of the time when it can be-
obtained from any other source.
Year: 1870

PAsTIMEs VS.. ExCELsIoR-TEN INNINGs-A TIE


GAME.


The first match this season between the amateur
clubs took place the CapitOne Grounds yesterday
very hnehedng marked both mines To-day the Pas
times play their home game with the Stars
the Union Grounds The OF the game yesterday s
Year: 1870

To illustrate the importance of high


culture and thoroughbred seed, will


mention an instance that has come un-


der my notice the present season. Mr.
David Wentzell, Of Salem, has two


acres of onions, to which he applied
| fifteen cords of muscle-mud of the
first quality, and twenty-five cords Of


wellrotted stable manure, measured rs


thrown lightly into cart without


treading, and probably equal to eigh-
teen cords trodden. He sowed the


very best quality of known thorough


bred seed ON an acre and three-quar-


ters, then sowed seed grown by q


neighbor, of as good quality as the


average used ; not having quite enough


he bought more at seed store to fin
ish the field. All come equally we'll


On the part sown with thoroughbred


seed there is scarcely an imperfect


onion, and the crop is the largest in


the vicinity. On the part sown with /,
good seed, the onions are ten days Ia


ter, of inferior quality, and less guam,
tity, and valued at less than twenty
five per cent. less than the frst.ss On


the part sown with seed from the
store, (Which probably was of about


the quality usually in the market },


the onions were still later, of much,


worse quality, and less quantity, and
valued at fifty per cent less than the


first. Any one walking across the
field could tell at glance, and a row,


where the different qualities of seed
were sown. 81


Here, then, is an instance where a
field of onions, under very high culti-
walton. was treated every part exactly
alike, except in the quality of seed
sown. The thoroughbred seed yield
ed the value of one hundred and fifty r,
bushels per acre, more than the aver = =.
age quality of seed generally used by
farmers who grow their own, and three
hundred bushels per acre more than
the average quality of seed sold in the
market. This estimate is made while
the crop is yet in the field, and six =
hundred bushels of onions, of the first
quality, is not an over estimate of tho:
product per acre fromthe thoroughbred.
seed


[ have ne doubt that the carful selec-
ton of seed, year after year, is just as,
and profitable in all other.
and grain crops as it has been
shown to be IN the onion crop just
cited. The raising of seed may be
made profitable, provided the grower
offers none for sale
that is not true to description, and Of
the best thoroughbred quality, grown
rom selected stock, years in succession. .


A few years of such business would
secure a reputation worth fortune,
sor seed will always sell at very high =
Warets address at Esserac
Co. Fair. r.. a n,
Year: 1870

The stars and the singing of the gar


den insects seemed company. She
was familiar with both. But at lengl
"a great bat flew into the room, an6
fSeat about her head until she scream
ed, and when he fitted out, was glad


to close the door on him.


She sat on the hearth and fed the


fire, and wondered where she was, and


who the the old man was, and what


her poor old grandfather would think,
crying over her troubles, for a long
time. But she was very weary, and


became sleepy. She looked wistfully
at the pallet, covered with warm


blankets, but she feared to go to sleep.
The horrible old man, the dogs, the


house. inspired her with vague suspi-
cions Of evil. OF the two, she had
rather have slept unsheltered in the
forest but at length fear gave way


before exhaustion, and throwing her
sell upon the low bed, the girl fell in
to heavy slumber.


When she awoke in the morning,
she saw upon the table a tray laden
with steaming food. The service which
contained the viands was Of fine por-
'cehin; the cups were of gold and sill
yer. A fire was also burning upon
the earth. ~


!. Approaching the table, the half
furnished, girl drauk of the chocolate,
and ate of the fine wheaton rolls.


''The old man has come back" she
thoupht, ''but if he does not appear,
when l have finished my breakfast, I
will go forth alone. / had far rather
be in the woods than to be confined
here" 1"e'5-"'-f r
1 But when she had eaten her break
fast, the old man did not come, and
she opened the great door, ana as
cended the stone steps in the garden.
All was fresh, dewy and sparkling in
the morning sun. But the spot was
very still the songs of the birds |
seemed distant.


Half fearfully Salome passed down
the path before her. 1t was choked |
with rank cypress vines and she had |
not gone far before rabbit ran be-
fore her feet. The path grew narrow
er, for the thickest of shrubbery on
either side met and tangled and block
ed the way. At last it grew so dense
that she was forced to pause and turn I
back to find another path.


CONCLUDED NEXT wEEK.)
Year: 1870




[Frem the Alta aCalifornian.llector


The letter of Fitzhugh Lee


Richmond Dispach, which appears
your columns to-day, is but re epetitiol
of the oft-repeated ISLANDERS upon Gem
eral Thomas that was favorite article
during the war. After the close of the
war, and Southern papers became ac-
cessable to the people of the whole coun-
try, these ISLANDERS ceased, as General
Thomas could too easily refute them; but
now that the great man is dead, it is
thought safe to renew them.


1t is known to all who knew General
Thomas, that one of his great charac-
teristics was truthfulness, entire truth
fulness, without reservation, and i. is
for the people of the United States to
Judge between what hesaid OH this sub
ject while living, and what the enemies
of our country say, now that he is dead.


AS confidential staff officer, one of
his Aids-de-camp, had the privilege of
having many conversations with Gem
eral Thomas upon matters relating to
the rebellion. The more important of
these conversations l made note of at
the time, with his knowledge and con-
sent. Among them is one on the sub





here copy from my note book:


"A slander upon the General was Of
ten repeated in the Southern papers dur
ing and Immediately subsequent to the
rebellion. 1t was given upon the au-
thority of prominent rebel officers, and
not denied by them; it was to the effect
that he was disappointed in not getting
a high command III the rebel army he
had sought for, hence his refusal to join
in the rebellion. In a conversation with
him on the subject, the General said this
was an entire fabrication, not having an
atom of foundation not line ever PASS
ed between him and the rebel authori-
ties they had no genuine letters of his,
nor was word spoken by him TO any
one that could even lead to such an in
ference. He defied any one to produce
any testimony, written or oral, to sus-
tain such an allegation; he never enter
tanned such an idea for his duty was
clear to him from the beginning. He
said these ISLANDERS were caused by men
who knew they had done wrong, but
were endeavering to justify themselves
by claiming their actions to be virtue
which all true men would have followed,
and by blackening the character of those
who nod done ri~ht II was nvidaut
Year: 1870

Ifyou are out of work, boy or man,
don't hang around the cities; go to the
country at once. BY staying in the
cities you crowd labor and starve each
other to death. In the country you may
find something to do on nearly every
farm this time of year. Go out and
astonish your lungs with fresh country
air; lend your muscular energies to the
coming crops; find health and wealth in
honest employment US a yeoman. Don't
hang about grog shops. Don't beg OH
the streets for situation in some street
railway, or bore all your friends for an
Endorsement for Indian agent or foreign
minister. Above ALL don't stand on the
corner with q ragged slouch hat on
your head and nasty stub pipe in
your mouth, smoking and sinking,
waiting for something to turn up. 1t
never turns up. You must turn itup
for yourself, man II Columbus Journal.
Year: 1870

at is said that figures do not lie, and
to illustrate the sentiment, we give the
comparative figures to show what the
debt was, to use the language Of Mr..
McCulloch, at the time the war was
drawing to y close, and what it is now.
Year: 1870

If our lady readers wish to keep bo-
quet fresh, let them drop tablespoon
sui of powdered charcoal into the water
intended for the flower stalks, and they
will keep their freshness and prefume
for several days, and look and smell
the same as those just gathered. The
charcoal settles at the bottom of the
vaso, the water remaining clear.
Year: 1870

after five years of peace, the Radi-
cal party having full control over the
of the Government, the
stubborn fact appears, and from Radical
testimony, that the audited debt of the
United States is nearly sixty millions
Year: 1870

On Sunday evening last, in company
with Mayor Sauner and DIR. Brooks, we
visited the house of Mrs. Lewis, who
lives in one Of the Stovall cottages, on
Clay street. We there found the wife Of
Mr.. Pell in singular condition. She is
about twenty-five years old, full medium
size, was married about eighteen months
ago in an adjacent State, and came to
Paducah some eight months ago to re.
side. She has child three months old.
-Four weeks ago she was indisposed, and
continued so. Nothing serious was ap-
pretended until last Wednesday night,
when she was taken with commissions,
each one lasting from five to ten minutes.
She would then have an interval of quiet
| for fifteen or twenty minntes, and then
another convulsion. This condition con-
tinued for about twelve hours, and left
her in singular state, being apparently
unconscious of every thing and every
one around her She has had lucid in
tervals at about one o clock, both in the
day and night, which lasts but few
minutes. In the meantime she has slept
but very little. She talks, rubs her
hands, and at times looks pleased; at
other times she has sorrowful, woe
begone expression, and will burst into
| tears.


Mayor Sauner had friend, Mr..
Lewis, who died in this city about eleven
years ago with consumption. On Sun
day evening he sat down by this Mrs.
Pell and took hold of her hand, when
she Immediately commenced acting the
4 - r.. ha t.l aI
just as he did, using the same actions
and identically the same language,
which it was impossible for her to have
heard from any source, as Mr.. Lewis
could only talk in whisper, and Mayor
Sauner had to put his ear close to his
mouth to hear what he said; and he de-
clares positively that she repeated the
expressions of the dying man, whichno
person heard but himself, and which he
has never repeated. But what adds to
the singularity of the case is the fact
that she acts in every respect, with the
positions of head, hand and body, as the
dying Lewis did, and in appearance dies
away as he did, her eyes becoming set
and her pulse becoming almost extinct;
but in moment afterward she arouses
herself up, the color returns to her face
and the pulse becomes strong and nat
ural again.


Another case. A woman visited her a
few days since who had lost child that
suffered intensely while dying Mrs. Pell
had known nothing of this child, yet
when its mother came into her presence
she screamed, acted like and apparently
died off as the child had done. We were
informed of other instances of the same
kind, and it is certain that she could not
have had any knowledge of any of the
cases, as it is less than year since she
first came TO Paducah.


We can give no satisfactory solution
of this extraordinary case, and if it can
not be accounted for by attributing it to
something like mesmerism, we give it up
as an inexplicable mystery beyond com
prehension
Year: 1870

A Paris correspondent Of one Of the
London papers has adopted an ingenious
dodge to keep himself out of trouble.
He carries about his person a paper on
which is pasted his photograph, with the
following certificate from the War Office
written beneath: This is to certify that
n whose likeness appears above)
is well known TO the writer, and is not a
Prussian spy.


The census has demonstrated Milwau.
kie to be the most populous city Of Wis
oonsin, and Fon-du-Lac the next.
Year: 1870

We are permitted to publish the fol-
lowing portion of letter from a young
lady from this city who has for the last
two years resided in Berlin, and is now
detained there through the sas;
Year: 1870

THE President has endorsed the con-
duct of General TERRY in Georgia. This
was to be expected. The latter was a
mere tool in the hands of politicians,
and did their bidding in an effective
manner. When it was necessary fol
certain men to be removed from the
Legislature in order to give the Radi.
Gals control of that body, General TERRY
finished the job in a short time. This
is the Administration programme, and
for carrying it out the President thanks
his benchman.
Year: 1870

JESSE GRANT, the father of the boy
ULYSSES, has been re- reappointed Pest
master at Covington, Kentucky. The
pointment is not to be wondered at, fol
the President General well knew if he
did not keep the old gentleman tied
down by some official position at home,
that he would be swelling around Wash
iugton, boarding at the White House,
and sticking his nose into thousand
things that did not concern him.
Year: 1870

IT seems General BUTLER is not in
good odor among the Departments at
Washington. Not long since he, as
Chairman of the Board of Managers OF
the Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, made
application to the Treasury Department
for transfer of about four millions OF
dollars of bounty money forfeited by
deserters from the army during the re
bellion. This was refused. BUTLER
appealed to the Attorney General, and
was again refused. Not a stamp would
be turned over to him. An appeal is
now made to the House. 1t is quite
evident General BUFFERS management
of fiscal affairs in New Orleans has not
impressed those having charge of funds
in Washington with highly favorable
opinion of his trustworthiness.
Year: 1870

The Military committee of the House
are engaged in examining into the al
legged sale of cadetships bymembers of
Congress. 1t is runored that more
than one servant of the public will have
his fingers pinched by the facts put
upon record.
Year: 1870

A writer in the editorial columns of the New
YORK Commercial, and who appears TO have given
intelligent atten ton to various Washington
matters, suggests, i'm view of the fact that the
whole OF the present Patent ONCE building will
ultimately be wanted for the other bureaux of
the Department Of the Interior, that the Patent
Ofsice should have a separate building CON
structed with reference to its articuar REQUIRE
ments. Extensive halls fas ezhibsAio. niehs he
PROVIDED but, except on the first floor for oices
there would be no necessity for architectural
adornments or high ceilings-so there would be
many floors, and every model 30 near the visitor
as to be readily inspected without straining the
eye to look at the top of tall case The writer
recommends as An excellent site for such a
building the space on the line of the Smith
sonian Institution and the Agricultural Depart
nent building; and the Patent ONCE he saws
90 can erect this building out Of its own funds,
If repaid the amount 1t has contributed toward
the present building, and there Ii no reason
why II should not be commenced at once. Before
1t was occupied 1t would serve Q good purpose
tor an International Exhibition"
Year: 1870

THn CITY OF BoeToN.-A dispatch from Bos


ton says that from further infOrmssson reoard-
ing the steamer seen from and by the bark Ken
watch ut that time, states that the steamer h sd
on some sail and was moving at about eight
knots, and the steam was blowing a. though an
accident had occurred to the machinery. The
agent Of the Inman line is confident that she
was the steamer City Of Boston,
Year: 1870

From the Troy Times, August 81


An UNUSUAL fatality incident TO the late extreme
heat and the diseases peculiar to young children,
has for o few days past existed among the infan-
tile population Of this section In connection
with this fact somewhat singular circumstance
is related to us of the supposed death Of a child
in Lansngburg. The child, whose parents reside
in the lower part Of the village, became i'll and
rapidly grew worse until it sank into what was
supposed to be DEATH The body was prepared
for the grave, and the parents were prostratcd
with the deepest grief the loss of their little
one. Among those who visited the corpse was
woman whose acute percep6ve faculties dis
covered to her certain appearances which indi-
Gated life. She applied cold water to the lips,
which, after a time feebly answered to the re-
vivng draught, and the proper restoratves being
used the child was subsequently brought to con-
scousness, and is now almost restored to new
life. The JOY of the parents can be imagined
whilo those who saw the circumstance were left
to speculate on those mysterious thinga which
arc constantly brought 10 our notice, but which
before were little dreamed of ia our philcso-
pby."