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Year: 1875

The English colliers think bathing
tends to weaken the system. AT re-
cent meeting to discuss the question
of providing public baths one of this
class made the statement that he had
heard of collier who had not washed
for forty years and boasted of the fact.
Year: 1875

The following auecdote, which is
said to have appeared in the news
papers many years ago, is said to
have been founded on an actual oc-
currence Although it may not illus
trate the democratic simplicity of the
people of Vermont to-day, it is new
ertbeless a good story, and good also
for many years longer life in the
newspapers:


Halo, you man with the pail and
frock, can you inform ME whether
his honor the Governor of Vermont
lives here ?" said British officer,
as be brought his fiery horse to a
stand in front of Governor Chitten-
den's dwelling.


He does" was the response of
the man, still vending his way to the
pig-sty


Is his honor ct home ?" continued
the man Of spurs.


Most certainly, i" replied frock.


Take my horse by the bit, then, :"
said the officer. 81 have business to
transact with your master"


Without a second bidding, tae
man did as he was told, and the Of
fcer alighted and made his way to
the door, and gave the panel several
hearty rops with the butt of his whip
for be it known that in those days
of republican simplicity, knockers and
bells, like servants. were in but little
use. The good dame answered the
summons in person; and having
seated the officer and ascertained his
desire to see the Governor, departed
TO inform her husband of the guests
arrival bat on ascertaining that the
0 fficer had made a hitchiDg-post Ct
her husband, she Immediately in
formed him that her husband was en-
gagged in the yard, and could not very
well wait upon him and big horse at
the same time The predicament Of
the officer can be better imagined
than described.
Year: 1875

Most men and women keep il the
traces and keep pulling, the year
round. All the more, therefore, is it
thei- duty to take things easier as the
hot weather comes on. Take longer
rests at noon. Put on less steam
when YOU are at work. Snatch a
Sunday now and then from the mid
die Of the week. You can't? You
can. People fnd time to be sick and
die. They can just as easily end
time to rest and keep well. Every
thing does not depend on finishing
that dress or fencing that field; or
putting upn so much fruit or catch
ing SO many customers. Better that
the children should wear old clothes
than that their mother should be laid
aside bv a fever. Better tkat the
corn crop be little lighter than that
there be no one to harvest it. Let US
have shorter sermons and fewer Of
them on Sunday; longer reeesses for
the children at school on week days.
Put up the store shutters earlier at
night; prepare palmer meals in the
kitchen. Take q noon-day nap your
self, and give your employees chance
10 go a fishing of an afternoon now
and then. That only is due which
the Lord lays upon US and be IS not
so hard a master as we sometimes
suppose.
Year: 1875

Il correspondent writes: How to
keep water in the barn-yard from
freezing in the trough is a problem
which 1 wish some one would solve.
1t is quite a trouble to have to cut
out two or three inches of ice every
morning, in cold weather, besides
wasting a great deal of water. /
have been experimenting little, and
have found a way TO somewhat mod
fly the evil When | go to the barn
at nine o'clock in the evening there
is generally quite a crust Of ice in the
trough. Through this | break at one
end of the trough q small hole, and
dip cut three or four quarts Of water,
This leaves an open space betweer
the ice and the top of the water, and
the whole process Of freezing has to
be repeated. In the morning there
will be two coats Of ice, both quite
thin, and it is not half the work to
get them out that it is to cut out
what will be produced if it is left IN
disturbed 1t may be worth while
for other farmers to try this method


1t costs but little to do it, and with
me it saves a good deal of work.
Year: 1875

4 West Hill minister picked up a
frozen wasp on the sidewalk, with q
view to advancing the interest OF
science, he carried it into the house
and held it by the tail while be
warmed its ears over & lamp chin
ney. His object was to see if wasps
froze to death, or merely lay dor
mant during the winter He is of
the opinion that they merely lie DOR
mant, and Of the dormantest kind at
that. When they revive, he says the
tail tbaw5 out frst, for while this
one's head, right over the lamp, was
so stiff and cold that it could not
wink, its probe worked with such in
conceivable rapidity that the minis


ter couldn't grasp fast enough to keep


up with it. He threw the vicious


thing down he lamp chimney, and


said he didn't want any more truck
with q dormant wasp, at which his
wife burst into tears and asked how
he, minister of the gospel, could
use such language, right before the
children, too.-BurliHgt0n HarLeye.
Year: 1875

How did people get in the habit
of shaking hands? The answer is
not far to seek. In early and barbar-
Gus times, when every savage or
semi-savage was bis own law-giver,
judge, soldier and policeman, and
had to watch over bis own safety, in
default of other protection, two
friends and acquaintance, or two
strangers desiring to be friends and
acquaintance, when they cbanced to
meet, offered each to the other the
right hand, the hand alike of defense
and oGense, the hand that wields the
sword, the dagger, the club, the tom
ahawk, or other weapon of war.
Each did this to show that the hand
was empty, and neither war nor
treacbery was intended A man can
not we'll stab another while be is iD
the act of shaking hands with him
unless he is a double-dyed traitor
and villain, and strives to aim cow
ardly blow with the left " while giving
the right and pretending to be on
good terms with his victim.


The custom of hand shaking pre-
walls more or less among all civilized
nations, and is the tscit avowal of
friendship and good will, just as a
kiss is of warmer passion. Ladies,
as every one must have remarked,
seldom or never shake hands With
the cordiality of gentlemen, unless it
be with each other. The reason is
obvious. They cannot be expected
to show to persons of the other sex q
warmth of greeting which might be
misinterpreted, unless such persons
are very closely related 20 them by
family or affection, in which case
hand shaking is not needed, and the
lips do more agreeable duty.
Year: 1875

Sheep are the only farm stock that
have retained or advanced their act
ual value in the market during tie
past year 1t is, therefore, for the
farmers interest that be carefully
watch his ewes and lambs at this sea
son. Ewes need better care than
weathsrs, and should be removed TO
pens where they can be looked after
daily. As they near the hour Of
lambing, they should again be re-
moved to a warm, dry pen, and
watched closely If the lamb comes
weakly, it should have a moutbful or
two Of warm milk until it is active
enough to suck. If it should become
chilled, let it be removed at once,
and warmed and fed until restored.
But there will be few weak lambs If
the ewes are fed previously with good
clover hay, and few roots and
handful Of oats daily. No hogs
should be permitted near pen Of
lambs; and lne tanner and more gen
tie the sheep have beea made, the
less danger there viii be Of the ewo
reseuting any Interference, either
with herself or she lamb, and disowD-
inc IL in consequence.
Year: 1875

The Maryland Farmer gives the
following useful receipt for extermi-
mating aeas


The oil of pennyroyal will GER
tainly drive these pests off but a
cheaper method, where the herb
flourishes, is to throw your dogs and
cats into a decoction Of it once a
week. Now the herb and scatter it
in the beds Of the pigs once q month.
Where the herb cannot be got the oil
may be procured. In this case satu-
rate strings with it aud tie them
around the necks Of dogs and cats,
pour a little on the back and about
the ears Of hogs, which you can do
while they are feeding without touch
ing them. By repeating these ap-
plications every twelve or fifteen
days the aeas will fee from your
quadrupeds, to their relief and i'm
provement and to your relief end
comfort in the house. Strings satu-
rated with the oil Of peunyroYal and
tied around the neck and tail OF
horses will drive off lice. The strings
should be saturated once a day
Year: 1875

/ A very sensible article appears in


the Chicago Inter Ocean under the
head Of rural discomfort" 1t ap-
( plies to young men who are not sat.
listed with country life and entertain


desire to drift cityward. To these


the writer drops few words OF
kindly advice, which are so true that


we reproduce them: "In the city
everything is oycrstocked. Clergy


men, all but a favored few, are poor
ly paid, many lawyers and doctors


cannot keep soul aud body together;


for every mercantile situation vacant
there are hundreds of hungry appli-
cants, ready to work on half salary ;
ready writers, Conversant with the


city and its labyrinths, can be bad at
a moments notice. There is scarce
ly an establishment Of any kind in
The great city which could not be
emptied and filled again three times
in one day, and vet this discount is
on the Increase. While there is room
for every taIen; in every city, there
Is no room for mediocritv. If the
country youth finds his brain afame
with great thoughts, his opportunity
will come; be need not fear. If be
has the soul Of an artist, his pencil
will speak, and the world will not be
slow to notice. If be he a poet, or a
writer Of dawning genius, his works
viii not long remain beneath a bush
el in his local paper But if he be
simply young man Of ordinary abil-
ity, smart enough to keep his place,
aud to gain the respect Of bis fellow
men, let him avoid the city as be
would the plague; let him follow the
path which is smooth before him, be-
cause be has not the trials and the sor-
rows which await him at the city
gates.
Year: 1875

Edward Everett's definition of a
good education was Read the
English language well, write with
dispatch, a neat, legible hand, and be
master Of the first four rules of arlth-
metic, so as TO dispose Of at once,
with accuracy, every question Of fig
ures which comes up in practice, and
if you add the ability to write pure,
grammatical English, you have an
excellent education. These are the
tools You can do much with them,
but you are hopeless without them.
They are the foundation; unless you
begin with these, all your dashy at
tainments, e little geology, and all
other ologies and osophies are osten-
tatious rubbish
Year: 1875

The demand for immediate specie
payments is something Of the same
character IS the old Frencbmau's de-
mand for bis money Of q savings-bank
If you no got him 1 must have
him, but if you got bim plenty l no
want him.
Year: 1875




Judge Greasy Sam Watts fulfilled
his appointment to speak in Morgan
ton Tuesday. Liet. Gov. Armtield was
present to meet + m. Col. Armfield
made very able and convincing ar
gumenI for cOnV -ntiOn but the fun
came when Gen raj Cox appeared un-;
expectedly on the scene. Before the
General had spoken many minutes,
HIS Greasiness arose in quite an excit-
ed way and desired to known if he
meant to be personal To which
General Cox replied that he most
certainly did, that he did not refer to
Sam Watts the anti-conventiOn speaker
exactly, but he did propose to
hold up to execration, ,Jtdge Watts
our present constitution. A gentleman
from Morganton writes us that
the General has opened on Watts
along the whole line and gave him
such a skinLing as has seldom been
witnessed i'll this or any other State.
He told about the Judge granting an
injunction against the negro commits
sioners of Halifax county who were
stealing all the county funds, and a
few days after dissolving the injunc-
ton without assigning any reason for
his conduct, then adjourning court in
the midst of a trial of a capital case
and going over to run for the negro
nomination in this same Halifax coun-
ty, AMI of his being beaten for the
nomination by another negro. This
and many other statements of SINH
lar character made General Cox about
this 'buffoon Judge" as he calls
Watts.


Greasy Sam was to speak in Marion
Yesterday and General Leach went up
to meet him. If General Leach leaves
a greasy spot of him, we shall he sur
prised.
Year: 1875

There IS one class of persons, and
that, too, without regard to race, col
or or previous condition of servitude
whom 1t would be blind folly to expect
to vote for Democratic candidates for
the Convention. The class We refer to
consists Of men who have already
been convicted of stealing another
man s property, of forging another
man s name, or of false swearing, or
who know in their hearts, that If the
law had It's course, they would he con-
yicted Of one of these offences No
rogue, no thief. nor forger, nor per
jurer, will vote for the white mans
candidate. When they vote, they vote
for the negro party candidate. And
| what an lnroad it will make into
the ranks of the negro party if every
man guilty of larceny and forgery and
perjury, shall be deprived of the right
to vote Verify there Will be grand and
lofty tumbhng in present Radical ma
lOrltics If the law shall be changed.





rer to have the right of suffrage Is a
man whom the laws of his country
have declared to be guilty of an infa-
nous crime, a fit person to direct the
affairs of State in which honest men
| live That does, indeed seem u sim
| gular sort of law that pronounces GER
tain acts to be Infamous ard yet gives
! to the perpetrators of them the right of
suffrage, the highest of all civil rights,
in equal degree with the best and purest
and wisest citizens in the State. The
Candy Constitution, however, is no re
specter of persons as to the matter o1
suffrage, not even between the thie1
and the Judge who tried him.


Ought this to be SO? We think not
and we believe the people of NORTH
Carolina think not. Let them send
men to the Convention, therefore, who
will amend the Constitution, so thai
neither thieves nor perjurers, nor forg
ers shall vote The white mans can
didates can alone be trusted to make
this change. The negro party candl
dates certainly will not make it, fo
the simple reason, if no other, that i
will reduce their party strength so m'
ter1aI!y. Vote then for the Democratic
candidates.
Year: 1875

Unless the Constitution shall be
changed it is almost certain that two
negro Judges will go upon the bench
ia North Carolina in 1876. and anoth-
or four years from then. In the second
or the Newbern District, in the third
or the Tarboro District, and I'D
the sixth or the Raleigh Districts the
negroes are in the majority.


Elected by District as the
Judges now are it is clear that the ne
eroes have the power, if they choose
to exercise it, to place men of their
own color on the bench whenever the
elections h4ll occur in those Districts.
The power being thus clearly
in the hands of the negroes the
only remaining question for white
men to consider is whether they vii
Year: 1875




23d July, 1875.
To Hnl. Il. DeROSSet, President Of
the Chamber Of Commerce.:


SIR: On the 18th instant partial ex-
animation of the harbOr and it's sur
roundings, with the public works for
improvement was made, the inclem
ency of the weather and other circum-
stances preventing thorough 1nspec-
ton of the same.


Since our visit on the 26th of March
last (reported on the 29th), no impor
tant change is perceptible in


BALD HEAD CHANNEL.
About the same draught of water Is
reported available, say 15I feet.
BALD HEAD POINT AND SMITHS ISLAND
are wearing away rapidly. The point
is almost gone, and the outer face of
the island is perceptibly wasting; also
the inner face of the island toward the
light house appears to be wearing oil
rapidly. On the opposite side, the
point of beach and shoal at Oak Island
Point are growing and extending into
the harbor.


THE TWO OPENINGS
across the line of narrow beach alluded
W al q 1SpOAI, dlC NC-A5
the lower one is entirely closed and
filled up to high-water line, the upper
one is nearly closed and filed up to, or
near low-water line. The powerful
| pressure of the river ebh IN its exit out
of


THE INLET


has had the effect of wearing some
what the north face of Z=Aos island
and pushing back the line of shoals
making seaward from the island on
the southern edge of the inlet, thus
enlarging the inlet somewhat at this
point. The same influence no doubt
has had the effect of producing Ell
croachments upon the point of beach
Just beyond the old break water, ne
cessitating the erection Of line OF
crib work about !, 100 feet in length,
(besides about 200 feet of rght-angie
abntments) from the old work to the
point of beach for its protection, which
thus far appears efficient.
| THE OLD BREAKwATER


is being constantly strengthened by ac-
cumulations of sand although the beach
has not entirely closed up against it,
owing to some leaks still remaining
A line of shoals however, appear to
be en- circling its entire front from
iZeke's Island to the point OF beach
Year: 1875

exercise 1t. In other words, will ne


gro majorities put negro men in office


One of the surest ways of finding on


what negroes will do, is to find on


what they have done. Have negro


majorities ever put negro candidates
into office Have they ever put them


upon the bench ?


In answer to those questions we re-
ply. that they have done that very
thing.


In North Carolina they have already
| sent negro to Congress. There are
negroes in both Hou ses of the Legis-
lature, and in the days of Holden there
Was negro Assistant superintendent
OF Public Instruction, aud negro Mag
lstrates and negro Commissioners are
as common as black berries.


La South Carolina there are three
negro Congressman, negro Lieuten-
ant Governor, negro Judge of
the Supreme Court. n negro
Secretary of State and negro Super
intendent of Public Instruction.


In Florida there is a negro Congress-
man and there was negro Secretary of
State. The latter is now dead however.
In Alabama also there is one negro
Congressman.


In Mississ ippi two negroes have
been elected to the United States Sen
ate. aad there is now a negro Lieuten
ant Governor and a negro Superinte IL
dent of Public Schools.


In Louisiana the negro Pinchback,
the former Lieutenant Governor,
claims to be United States Senator.
The present Lieutenant Governor is
also negro, and SO is the Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction.


With this exhibit before him, can
any man believe that a negro majority
viii refuse to put negro men into Of
fees In all the districts, therefore,
that we have named, unless there be
change in the Constitution, the people
may expect to see negroes made Judg-
es as soon as the successors of the pres
ent incumbents shall be chosen by
popular suffrage DO the people, the
white people of the Newbern aud Tar
have negro Judge over them If
they;do not desire it, let them send the
candidates of the white mans party to
the Convention. This is their only
hope for relief.


We warn the white men in
those Districts not to rely upon
any hope of relief that might
come from an amendment to the Con
stitution by Legislative enactm ant re-
quiring the Judges to ''rotat." as it is
called i'll riding the Circuits. We
warn them also not to rely upon any
hope of relief from the Legislature
that might come from electing the
Judges upon general ticket instead
of by Districts as at present elected.
The people of the West will never con-
sent to the last of these propositions.
Nor will they consent to the first If
thereby negroes will hold their courts.
The people Of the West however will
consent for the Convention to change
the Constitution so that the Judges
may be elected by the Legislature,
and this ought to be done, and then
they will consent to rotation and this
ought to be doue white mans
Conven ion then is the only hope for
escape from negro judicial rule, in the
Newbern, Tarboro and Raleigh Dis
tricts.
Year: 1875




five different lines.


The only change made since the great con.
troyersy between Malone and the Express
Company is that we are not obliged to pre-
pay freight to Mahone's road; but it appears
we are made to pay for this privilege by 10.
creased express rates on the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad. Whenever we receive
parcel from that road we always expect a
shock at the announcement OF the charge,
and we are not often mistaken. To-day we
received a small, light parcel, less than six
inches square, from Big Lick. and the charge
was sixty.6Ve ceats. 10 our opinion the mer-
cantie community is no better of regarding
the above road than it was before it was an.
noupced that all difficulties were removed,
aud that we were to have uninterrupted in
tercourse with our friends in Southwestern
Virginia. ..@


AS the trade of Richmond has greatly In
creased with that section Of the State, it is
very important that this impediment of ex-
cesslve express charges should be removed,
and We hope our Chamber of Commerce will
endeavor to remove it.
WHOLESALE MERCHANT.
Year: 1875

attempts to place himself in a favorable ligh:
by referring to Gen. Sherman as the monster
who fired Atlanta and. spread desolation
through Georgia, he will find few sympathis-
ers outside of the circle of those who yet be-
lieve in the 'Gost cause" and are now labor
ing to regain it by following the fortunes of
the Democratic party.


If any of the gentlemen above named are
inspiring such puerile attacks upon General
Sherman as that he was month in the Con-
federate service, was Indifferent to the result
at the beginning of the war, they will find that
they are laboring in VAN. The American
people are too well acquainted with the his
tory of the war to accept such nonsense.
They generally hold the opinion that there
were four great leaders in the field who
brought the war to an end so far as general
ship can conduce to that result, viz, Grant,
Sherman, Thomas and Sheridan. They un-
derstand, too, that Gen. Sherman's campaign
of 1864 and 1865 were among the most bril-
liant and effective to be found in the history
of modern wars. They know that the man
who has led an army from Atlanta, Geor-
gia, three miles through the enemy's country
to Savannah, and then turned about and
fought and p1shed the foe, with large force,
nearly five hundred miles further, in the rainy
season, and at the end of that time find his
army and transportation in more effective
condition than when he started, is one of the
first military men of modern times. Such is
Gen. Sherman's record. No man can assail
it; and any attempt to do SO will rebound
upon those who undertake it,


But if Gen. Sherman has been free in his
censures he has been equally generous TO-
ward those who were his real competitors for
military honors. Gems. Grant, Thomas and
others receive the fullest credit for their
achievements. As subordinate he did his
utmost to obey the orders OF his superiors.
In every respect he was a conspicuous exam
pie of good soldier. He taught his men TO
endure privation by his own self-denial. He
inspired them by the high example of his
own devotion and-zeal. He has fairly won
the high position he holds, and it is too late
to attempt to detract from his well earned
honors.
Year: 1875

THE investigation made in the New York
custom house by the officials of the Treasury
Department fixes the responsibility for the
smuggling through that bort by tray
elers, upon the employees in subordinate
positions. The whole matter is virtually in
their hands, and if they choose they can pass
any baggage upon the verbal declaration of
the owner that the contents are ordinary
wearing apparel. 1t is thought that bribes
have sometimes led them to make little if any
examination.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.