the carolina watchman vol xxi thirl series salisbukt n c april 14 1881 no 26 the carolina watchman established in the fear 1832 price ?!.:>" in advaxcb contract advertising ratss i'kl'.kl a.uy80 1ss0 i month 2 in*s s ia's r m's is m's j -,.. .-• wi r mi i --■"> 4 ;,.. :, gfi 7 mi 12.00 •• rt-t'-r i "" t '"'" 11 -'" '"'■"" 1.50 9.00 13.5u is.o0 ■ 5:3 us s3 ss ....-'-, " ; ' : ' ! "' :; ' :: '•" ,, mmihtii siisiissii siiiimsi ih wll iii is i siissi thi dead g jqhb s eutcmsos jii-.ai i.i in italian ana american marble monuments tombs and gravestones ; vi ul 1*1 i*h-i !<»*.. . ilii i a i pweiical marble worker it eii-ddes ,„,. , i ,'-.. ilm any piece nf work from llie whines ' ' die nv - elalmrtte in an artistic rtvle and i a f*«aruiit thai | ter feel wui*-i*i tion w jj !„• given t the in wl ex leiina |« it ■*<•«•*. call and examine my stock and prices lu f re iiurcli-uiitig a i will sell l * l '«" *•'■-■■•> low t prices designs nnd estimates for any desired work will be iiiriii-linl mi application at next door („ 1 i mexeely's store salwbiirv n c march !», 1ss1 21:ly e r crawford & lo are selling dflpnutitl l<!i-iiiljkj faiim aud factory siiim eeiffi mm £ in bdllilusra and caps bbmbiflfpoi'isire y/qit-irs'i r . wnnrnno liupfl&,¥api'ndplib . . ■• i •..'. ii a i i n i,-i make ■ and it l shjsls fi i . i le l-'iuesl to lke i . ..;.• si . rufer beltti tap wmi ilorsc rakes c salishury jan '". 1881 ly this wonderful improved saw machine is wsrrs t„l i w r two-foot loff in three mln ios u ntur-r ■ i » i , r loss f anv nize in a dsr twossisis.il ,■!■ p or mw the old way et-er-u t tz'ah ll n"«ii need one c/*ii.kst « tltrd !'■... j i.i riresltr nt ,„„„ t o-j!..i rarkeus v\tik,v<tikimi eier 1 .- « ijjsi mri-et 4 aclna-m os . i/-o.h k rli ' r w.i i ii i i.i mi nt i craige & clement irttorarjjjs at gntr , k i ,., salisbury 1 c | r ~;\ | att01wey at liu 8alisbl t ry n c ''■ l '•■ state a id federal , ! ' :; - 12:cm a85 landreths r l/u4sv^s?n^loul it & !.-■ • i i i states a>iu i.a.miukth jl sons.pailada-.pa slater aii heaiierson at o rieys counselors and solicitors salisbury n c lv ''•>:-'' 1879 tt poetry they all i>o it breathes there a man upon the earth who has not sometimes since his birth exclaimed in accents tar from mirth i've made a fool ol myself p nol that ho died forth aloud or in the centre of life's crowd hut to liininclf it is avowed i've made a fool of myself v it may have been uniting the girls while in the dunce's giddy whirls among the wealth of fashion's peal's i've made a fool of niyseu !'" or in ihe graver walks of life wlni mingling in some greater strife when plans of gain not love were i ile — i've made a fool of uivself '" ! iii jove or gain iu peace or war in musing of life's battle o'er we in ust exclaim with memory sore — i've made a fool of myself 1 the advertisements in a newspaper are more read than the thoughtless iiu agiue they urea map of a class of men's capabilities in life the mail who con templates doing business in a distant ', town takes up the local paper and in its advertising columns sees a true picture of the men lie has to deal with ; a com plete record of the town its commerce i its trade the facilities of storekecping its banks and iu almost every case he can estimate the character of the men who are soliciting the public patronage the advertising pages are a map of the town a record of its municipal character a lui siiil'ss confession ul the citizens and in stead of being un optional production of man it is freighted with the life-thoughts of a hundred anil et thei*e are some respectable men who scout he idea of a newspaper exerting any iuiiucne ou the fortunes of a low ii if you want to dry up your town s arve o it your local paper there i.s no sun r vvav of being overlooked and : forgotten i tiie busy world paris letter regular corn spondt nee paris fiance mar 21st 1831 in the chamber of deputies a day or two since the minister of commerce was i uitcrjielhitcd by m hat/utgeiis who ask ed n q u-stiou relative to the recent pro hibition by the government of head mission of the american pork into the : territory of the republic he ipaititaiu ' ci that ii was a great hardship to the poorer classes to be deprived of the staple of their food and argued lhat if the meat be properly cooked no harm could come from eating it m tirard could only reply backed up by the evi dence of the official analysis that cer tain panics of american pork had been subjected to microscopic examination and that trichinae had been discovered m haciit'.e is interpellation was probab ly suggested by tho conversation about american pork which took place in the j house of commons the other day an i honorable member was asked whether the administration intended to take any measures similar to those adopted by most of governments of the continent to prevent the introduction of infected american pork ho was told from the [ treasury beueh that the government did not belive trichinosis to be general and that it was not in contemplation at least for the present to exclude trans atlantic swincs tlcsli from english ports but that at the sa me time the public at large would be recommended to guard against the apprehended evil by proper ly cooking their pork bbcau scarcely be said as a general rule that english people arc apt to consume poi k in a i in perfectly cooked condition break fast bacon is usualy frizzled until it is deprived of at least half its oleaginous properties the fat bacon which when the agricultural laborer can procure it is his rubstiljie for batcher's meat is rather over than under-boiled and they must be hardy trichinae indeed who could withstand tho tierce action of heat j iu the great cauldrons iu which the mon strous hams dispensed by eatinghous keepers are boiled the french scien tists however continue to asscrtc that ordinary boiling will not destroy trichi na the government sides with science and tlie prohibition of american pork remains in force scientists and officials alike ignoring the fact — that vast quanti ties ofswiues llesh whether salted or fresh which arc so greatly devoured by the middle and laboring classes in france are not american pork at all french pork is a very popular inrat the french hog is a gaunt suubby long-snouted flop eared low-quartered grey-houud harrelled long leg limp-tailed animal although the iuflueuce of enlightenment and agricultural societies may have done much to improve the various breeds of pigs iu france the richest of fat bacon produced never makes its appearance at the table save in the form of the minute spicula with which fricandeat are larded ; but thousands of wands weight of fat bacon are consumed every day iu french kitchens for basting hard and dry meats turkeys and hares for example are covered with a complete envelope of it while they are being roasted while inimc isc quantities of lean bacon arc used for the preparation of sauce as for the french ham it •"-*-. assuredly very good ; but it is deficient in fat it is neverthc | less so admirably cured as to be heth j sweet and tcuder : and a visit to the j annual fairs and jambon at the barriere dn prone will be sufficient to ! prove that at least four fifths of this ham is of french growth and manufacture vance speaks the north carolina debt question iter ve>r cf if — not responsible for the lioli ih ties of carpet-baggers — other matters in the senate washington april 7 — the yice-presi dent laid before the senate a message from the president transmitting in response to a resolution of the senate ofthe 18th ult the report of the secretary of state with ar , companying papers in relation to the capit ulation of the ottoman empire ordered to be printed i the pending business being the resolu tion for the election of senate officers was then taken up and a motion made to go in j to executive session by pendleton was ns usual voted down yeas 29 nays 30 vance addressed the senate on the sub | jeet of the state debt of north carolina ! denying that the debt had ever been repu diated and asserting that one of the first acts passed by the legislature of that stat i after the war had been one providing for i the payment of its indebtedness under the force ofthe reconstruction acts for the first ] time in the history of north carolina she i had found herself compelled to repudiate j her obligations that she had to do at the dictation of the loyal non-repudiating hon est and virtuous republican party of tlie i north it was not a voluntary action of the people of north carolina lie proceeded to criticise and ridicule the acts of the he | publican legisltnre during the years of j is and 1869 instancing the fact among j | others that that legislature had purchased j eight thousand acres of land for a site for the penitentiary it hail authorized tin issue of 22,0^0,000 of bonds for the pur pose of constructing railroads not one ol which had been built and had then pusscd an act repudiating every dollar of debts which it had contracted from the day that the citizens of north carolina had re ceived control ofthe state instead of tr ing i t.i pay the debt created by the carpet-bag gers and placed upon them in n fraudulent manner thev hud resolutely turned their backs upon it they never would try to pay it it was fraud lent vicious not a debt iii any sense ofthe word thcrepul - lii-an shle he said coming down to the question of the election nf senate ofliccis had inquired why the democrats would not v.»te for itiddlcbcrgcr that was shifting the issue the question was how could gentlemen on the other side support him '. lie was a rebel — an unrepentant rebel ; a democrat an unrepentant democrat ; a readjustee — an unrepentant rcadjuster how could they forgive him { what was the object for their supporting him lie vance objected to voting for any man who had a surname before the word demo crat he objected to the manner in which the republican party had undertaken to foist this candidate upon the senate be cause it was in defiance of the whole plan of political salvation riddleberger had been taken up in his sins unrepentant and unshaven and had been translated into the heaven of republicanism without having tasted death laughter the senator from connecticut hawlcy hail stated that this movement was going to break up the gnlid south it reminded him ofthe story of the boy whose dog tag had died and who lief that the angels would be scared when they saw tag trolling thraugh the front gate the s-nliil south was to be broken when tag came trotting through the front gate j laughter j had so great an undertaking ever been inaugurated in such small means ? did anybody ever be fore hear a party announce extremities to which it was reduced when it announced that it relied for success on an alliance with the senator from virginia aud the election of riddleberger to the office of scrgeant-at arms instead ofthe movement being as was stated an alliance to promote the puri ty ofthe ballot-box it was he said attempt ing once more to subject the people of the solid south who had been free long enough to gather a little money to the dominion ol carpet-bag rule in order that their little savings might be swept away kellogg followed on the subject of the north carolina debt asserting that since the state had been under the control ofthe democrats the debt ht*d been scaled dov n from 26,000,000 to f4,0o:j,co0 a repudia tion of 22,0co,000 a long discussion ensued the north car olina senators answering kellogg's charges ami denying that the state had repudiated any of its honest obligations ransom called attention to the fact that the north carolina 4 per cent bonds were quoted at 85 cents and appealing to sher man obtained from him the ntlmisson that that was a fair price for the 4 per cent state bonds ransom then argued that a north carolina bonds sold as high as an other state bonds it would not do to sa her name was discredited hi asserted that the settlement of the state debt was satis factory to the creditors and that it was an honest settlement rollins referring to a remark by vance about carpet-baggers inquired how long it waa necessary for a man to live in a south ren stale before he would be rccegnized as anything but a carpet bagger vance replied tliat if lie came with his trunk twenty-four hours would do but if he came with his carpet-bag and hunted around the purlieus of cities looking for a a colored man to co-operate with him in cheating people twenty-four years would '. not do rollins said that the gentlemen on the other side were shocked at the idea that [ the republicans sht-uld dare to give a vote for a rcadjuster in virginia who was with them on a question ef a free vote and an honest count vance what difference is therebetween counting a man out of his vote and out of his money ? : rollins — yon have tri"ed both and ought to be able to answer that question yourself . laughter vance — i have not tried both i have not tried cither and the senator knows that i have not tried either my state has not tried either the assertion was wit ty but it lacked truth ; a coloquial debate then followed soine : what sharp at times between vance dawes i it-il i ins and saulsbury call challenged ny republican senator | to produce evidence to prove that there had i been either intolerance ostracism or vio lence of any kind on account of political j elections in any southern state he then i went into an exhaustive history ofthe car ; pet baggers dwelling at some length up«n j the corruption's and infamy which he found ! had characterized those governments he i was frequently interrupted by blair who asserted that the carpet-baggers had assisted materially the prosperity of the south he denied that the right of suff i-ege was restricted in the south and criti cised with great earnestness the laws which in massachusetts did restrict that right he also charged that many voters in that state had been deprived of a free ballot by the influence of money and bv the influence of operations a lung discussion ensued the massa chusetts senators maintaining that no man in that state was deprived f his right of suffrage except by his own choice ainl call contending that the elections in the south ern states were fair ami freer than those held in massachusetts at tin end of this discussion on motion of butnside the senate adjourned uniil monda eas 2 nays i'i the negative vote being cast by democrats 31 tides of wnlkiu-j an ingenious contemporary gives the following summary of the different modes of walking adopted by those who go to and fro upon the earth : observing persons move slowly their heads move alternately from side to side while they occasionally stop and turn around careful persons lift their feet hij-li and place them down slowly • pick up some little obstruction and place it down quick ly by the side ofthe road calculating persons generally walk with iheir hands in their pockets and heads slightly inclined modest persons geneaally step softly for fear of being observed timid persons often step off the side walk on meeting another and always go around u stone instead ot stepping over it wide-awake persons toe out and have a long swing ro tlieir arms while their hands move about miscellaneously careless persons are forever stubbing thair toes lazy persons scrape about loosely with their heels and are lirst on tine side of the sidewalk and then on the other very strong-minded persons place their toes directly in front of them and have a kind of stamp movement unstable persons walk fast and slow by turns one idea persons toe in cross persons are apt to knock their knees together fodder corn l'robabi.v among all the new forage plants which have claimed the attention of american farmers during the last few years nothing has yet appeared which for practical value equal what is termed fodder coin — that is any good variety of sweet or common corn sown thickly in drills three feet apart it is also a gootl crop with which to cleanse foul or weedy soil as it will grow thickly cnoug to ef fectually smother even quack grass and canada thistles the land should be plowed deeply and put in gootl order strike furrows three feet apart and scatter tine manure liber ally in hem then scatter the kernels on the manure at least twenty to the foot harrow up your cultivation and riiu it i along the rows thus mixing the manure soil and seed together cultivate once j or twice while the corn is small and it i will soon take entire po«cssion ofthe soil to the exclusion of everything else if ■ planted by the middle of may it will fur iiish profitable food for cows during au gust when pastures are usually scant and dry jut before frost ami cure thorough ly iu shocks befre drawing to the barn lust year north carolina produced ninety-five thousand dollors worth of gold marrying the school master it's too provokin !" exclaimed jo btah potter with a thwack of his fist on the breakfast table that made the desk rattle it is so so it is said aunt rach el dutifully chiming in with her hus band and casting a reproachful glance at their niece patience bethell whose charming eyes shot rebellious flashes through the tears that would come even in spite of her storngest efforts gals don't get such chances every day continued mr potter zekiel sawpells is the forehandedest farmer iu all toboggan aud the gal as turns up her nose at him don't know which side of her bread is buttered that she don't returned aunt rachel ; and to think of throwin over such a man for an unknown adven tur some schol master — ' it's what i call too provokin re peated joshua putter and what is prvokin'er still aunt rachel added there is cynthy goss r.*ady to snap at any offer that zekiel may make and ten to one he will make one for spite and be just mean enough to say as how she cut patience out i'm sure she is welcome o him was all the latter deigned to say as she rose and left the room she's just like her mother was aunt rachel's comment nothing won 111 do sister edith but marry that literary chap richard bethell as was shiftless enough to go and die in a year leaving her with a baby on her bauds then she was silly enough to grieve herself to death ami of course the baby fell to us well one would have thought that that child's early experience would have been a warn ing to her but it does seem as if what is bred in the bone is tolerably sartin for to come out in the flesh leaving uncle joshua and aunt rachel to finish their talk over fami ly matters let us go back a step or two and see what gave rise to it a few months before a genteel looking young man applied to the toboggan school committee for em ployment as a teacher the commit teemen shook their heads at first mr lean payne might be a proper person but then he was a total stranger and brought no recommendation still his terms were so moderate that it was decided to take him a quarter on trial there was a good deal of grumbling at first mr payne gave the boys altogether too much play their par ents thought then he won hi often take a hand in their sport he could toss a ball or handle the bat with the best of them and was not above mar bles even in all of which many saw a woful want of dignity but when it was found that the boys were get ting along faster in their studies than they had ever done before the grum bling abated measu redly and the fa thers of toboggan were less scandal ized when they caught mr payne in u crowd of noisey urchins taw in a crowd knocking down with the rest on terms of complete equality mr payne was a strikingly hand some man he became quite a favor ite with the toboggan btlles and would have excited the ire and jeal ousy of a host of rural swains but for the tact with which he avoided even the appearance of rivalry his attentions to the toboggan fair were so general in tlieir character that the most suspicious lover could find nothing to complain of in particular besides a poor young school master is no great catch and that considera tion set a good many minds at ease in one of his sunday rambles mr i payne had lost his way and stopped to ask it of a young lady who came cantering across his path when she reined up her horse and turned her j face to meet the question the latter was so struck with admiration that for a moment lie forgot to pursue his in quiries and when he resumed them it was in a manner so confused that several minutes were consumed in ob taining the desired information ; after which the two parted exchanging bows ami blushes this was the first but by no means the last meeting of leon payne and patience bethell the young school mister became a pretty constant visi tor at the house of joshua potter pa ; tience's uncle so constant that both uncle joshua ami aunt rachel began j to suspect him of designs not quite j consistent with certain plans of their j about tlieir niece and zekiel saw-spells ! a well-to-do young farmer rich in i lands and goods and fatted calves | i whom they l a l set their hearts on ' having for a nephew-in-law for a season the worthy uncle and | aunt concealed their uneasiness there was nothing in young people mcetin and talking over books to make the ground of direct complaint but things came to another pass when ze kiel sawspells came one day with a smiling offer of his hand and heart to patience and sent away with a very lively fiea in his ear then uncle joshua and aunt rachel held a solemn council it was quite unnatural uncle joshua said that a gal should gin a man like zekiel the mitten unless there was another fellow iu the case aunt rachoi was quite of the same mind and both agreed that the other fellow could be none else than that stuck up school master ; and this is what u'nsle joshua denounced as be ing too provoking as we began by relating aunt rachel's predictions that ze kiel sawpel is would propose to cynthy goss for spite was fulfilled within a week and in less than a month they were married many were the looks of triumph that cynthy cast at patience when they met at church next sunday rut there wasn't much exultation in zekiel's looks as they wandered from her he had won to her he had lost he heaved an audible sigh but that may have been because he ser mon had affected him mr payne's quarter was out and one morning he called on uncle josh ua and aunt rachoi and asked their con ent to a quiet little wedding be tween their niece and himself ef you an patience's fixed it up said uncle joshua it is not much use sayin no but i have no great notion of a gal marrying a schoolmaster it is a low come down for one as might have her pick of all the fellers in to boggan aunt rachel would have pointed the moral by referring to the sad histo ry of patience's mother but since zeki el sawpells was no longer in the case both the illicit and the aunt had lost spirit so the quiet little wedding was suffered to come ofl with but passive opposition uncle joshua and aunt rachel bade their niece and her husband a rather cheerless good by on their wed ding morning as they stepped aboard the train for the city but patience had a brave as well as a loving heart she put the fullest trust in the man of her choise and went without ques tion to share whatever home he had to offer how humble it might be on alighting at tlieir journey's end leon led patience through the crowd to where a handsame carriage was in waiting a coachman stood at the open door and before patience bad time to chide her husbands extra vance he had handed her in and they were driven off at length the carriage stopped the door was again opened leon stepped out and gave his hand to patience who the next moment found herself ascending the steps in front of an elegant mansion before she had time to recover her wonder the door opened iu answer to leon's ring and giving her hand an assurring pre.-s he conducted her into a sumptuous apartment where a state ly white-haired lady arose to meet them mother this is thedaugl ter i have brought you said leon there was that in the white-haired ladx's looks which spoke more plain ly than words her approval of her son's choice ami there was a warmth of welcome in her embrace which drove all the misgivings from pa tience's heart but sai'l pitience after the greet ing was over this cannot be your home dear leon no it is ours now he answered laughingly then you are — ' what the world calls rich but he added oncircling her with his arms j'l feel a hundred timas richer to-day than i ever felt beibre but how was it that you " became a school master vou wotihl ask well it was a freak of mine my main purpose was to seek out if i t could find it a une and guileless j heart that would love me for my owr sake regardless of wealth nr station aud i feel quite certain that i have succeeded uncle joshua and aunt rachel were forced to admit at least that pa tience might have done worse thau marry the school master agriculturnl experiment stalin bulletin xo fi march 26th 1881 chentivals and formulas just at this time the important ques tion with farmers is how can the best manure be made at the least cost all will find it neccessary to supplement their natural home manure with fertilizers or with chemicals in answer to this ques tion 1 must say first a good manure can only be made out of good materials and good materials always cost something the receipts which are hawked about tho country for making manure out of worth less materials are humbugs then the farmer aims to supply the fotir great elements of plant-food phosphoric acid ammonia potash and lime all or in part according to the demands of his soil or the crop if he docs not get these al ready mixed for him iu a fertilizer ho must buy chemicals and mix them for himself using a t the same time all the home materials he has the question is in what form can he buy these things cheapest the best and cheapest sources of these substances now within reach of our farmers are for available phosphoric acid dissolved bones and dissolved s c phosphate for ammonia sulphate of am monia or potential ammonia in lishscraps slaughter-house offal etc for potash muriate of potash for gne tobacco sul phate of potash for lime ground plaster where dissolved bones or s.c phosphate are used it is generally not necessary to buy sulphate of lime in addition as these contain it some of the costly chemicals called for by formulas supplied farmers by dealers are comparatively tm needed the money often put in sulphate of magnesia and sulphate of soda for example had better be put in more ofthe mora valua ble ingredients i do not recommend buying nitrate of soda ordinarily now either at present prices sulphate of am monia affords nitrogen cheaper nitrate of soda at ii cts per lb supplies nitrogen equivolent to only 7 percent of ammon ia while sulphate of ammonia at . r j cts per ih supplies 25 per cent of ammonia the nitrate has the f nether disadvantage too of being so very soluble in water tha it is in large part washed out of the soil and thus lout to the plants lawes anil gilbert established this for iheir clay soil at kothamstead by careful experiments it must be much truer of our soils simi larly i recommend muriate of potash ex cept for line tobacco in preference to the sulphate high grade sulphate of pot ash at 2i cts a pound contain only about 27 percent of potash while the muriate at 3 cts per pound contains fro per cent farmers should write to me and tell me what materials they have at their dis posal or can get and i will make up for mulas for them suited to the crops they want to cultivate i have recommended the following formulas frequently this season : for corn dissolved bone containing 13 jier cent bv phos acid 8lh'h>fl miniate of potash containing 50 per cent of potash kk " mould 1,100 2,000ibs this would cost per ton 800ft>s dis solved bone 13.60 loolbs muriate qf potash 300 16.60 for cotton , acid phos a2 a v phos acid lioflll.ju sul of ammonia 25 ammonia j'k " muriate of potash 50 potash 100 <( 22 bnsh cotton seed sir about ioo " lotted stable manure muck or mould 000 " l'.ikollp the sulphate of ammonia and muriate of potasli to be dissolved in wafer and sprinkled on the heap this will cost 600 0>3 acid phosphate i.00 i kilns of sulphate of ammonia 5.50 hkilbs of muriate of potash 00 22 bush cottou seed about 2.75 20.25 per ton 3001b per acre directions for composting wiu he gladly supplied on application has v dabhet ik direator twenty-eight quarts of strawber ries the first shipment of the peasnu from jacksonville florida sold iu new york at 2j)q per quart bobkins has no hair on his head but his wife makes him wear a wi so whenever an occasion occa sw can snatch him i a\l headed