the carolina watchman ol vii.--.third series salisbury n c january 27 1876 no 16 published weekly : j j bruner proprietor and bditoi . thos k br uner iie editor bates of scbcbirtlow weekly watchman ii ybari payable in ad van«t 2.(0 x mos nis •' '• ". 1.25 copies to nny addresa h'.o tdvertisi rates ite square 1 mcl ) one insertion 100 " two " 1.50 ate<s for a greater nnmber of insertiona operate special notices 23 per cent more i regular dvertinementi reading notice cent per line jbreaehand even insertion xew firm new lsiunij new goods julian & heilig ave associated in the gr eery busini ss on ivmer of main and fisher streets rhere ihej ai keeping .. i':,.i line of first ila.ss groceries ing sugars lotfres had n lard domestics yarn maids teas butter eggs chickens meal i i alined goods f ail kind . i ireign iknd dliim 7u : peppers spices flavorings fee also pork und beef of excel lent qual ity i li'dcrx solicit d for any < 1 1 - in their line wliich will receive careful atti ntion at ijo-v%rog.t c.isli pricos hghhighes i ish prici s paid foi beef and p duce d r in ian i5:tfj j ii heilig new advertisements more beautiful than ever is the new jewerly just received at bell & br i's consisl ing of gold and silver watches gold atto plated chains bracelets ladh2s sets cents buttons pins and studs 18 z engagement kings c we have made in the handsomest manner hair chains hair jewelry diamond and weedding e,in&s special attention riving to the repairing ami timing of fine watches and regulators all watches repaired by us nre warranted 12 month office 2 doors above national hotel see sign of large watch and pen salutary dee ~, 1876 tf 11 vll i war r when nu want hardware at low figures call on the undersigned at xo 2 sj-rauiie row i a at well salisbury xc may 13-tf cedar cove nursery pri it trees vines £ plants i jl large stock at rea*on&mc rates new catalogue for l£75aud 76 with full do bcripliniis of fruit nenl free address craft a sailor r.vi plaikc yadkin ounty n c nov 1 1875 3mop the lynchburg insurance ai mm coiupaij , capital aud assets over 600.000 state deposit io.ooo property insured against loss by fire at lhc lowest current rales take a policy iu the lynchburg and sleep soundly i am also agent for ihe north carolina statn life insurance company if yon hnve the good of-ynur country at heart keep your money in the south and help ouild up houi instil nt ions 1 i mcffjeikly agpot oft 21 lp7 stms i hang him or not gov brog j den expressed himself vesterday as j being again in trouble the iiegro | randolph sutton who was convicted j in cabarrus court of burglary is sentenced to be hung at concord the 1 21st instant rut a large # petition has been sent the governor irom con cord praying to commutate sutton's : sentence to imprisonment for life in j the penitentiary as it states the neg o i hail taken no life or even att mpted j it and that he committed no larceny and was badly wounded in the at tempt this petition is signed by all the town commissioners of con cord the county commissioners the sheriff superior court clerk regis ter of deeds editors of both the pa | pers and all tlie preachers and seven of the jurors that convicted the negro on the other hand is a counter peti tion from citizens in and about char lotte endorsed by judge scheuck asking that the negro be hung and stating they heard he was a desper ate characier and had served for bur glary in the south carolina peniten tiary and was strongly suspected ofa burglary in mecklenburg county — so the governor is in a in-own study — news indicting thk merchants — on the first day of every year the mer chants are required to take out a priv ilege tax of one-eighth of one per cent on the total amount of purcha ses in or out ofthe state for cash or on credit except the products of man ufactures and agricultural products ofthe state it is a little matter a seventy-five cent affair our merchants lever think of right off and the wild esl man never dreamed ol being in dieted for stepping a dav or so over the time butwelcam that on yes terday solicitor harris procured the book from the register of deeds and hunting it carefully drew up indict ments against all those merchants who had not paid the tax ont of four hundred merchants it is said he has indicted three hundred onlv a fourth of them having taken out the tax — wc must believe this is onlv a tragic way the solicitior has in reminding men of their duty though many talk of a four dollar fee on each indict ment and hint that four limes thrte hundred is twelve hundred dollars into the pocket of the solicitor don't mention such a thing — news it wa a shrewd saying of old dr samuel johnson that when he found tow at one end of a line he never looked for silk at the other end the republican national com mittee heads its call for a convention to nominate a president ofthe united states with the name of"george e spencer of alabama a notorious political rogue sitting dishonestly in the senate of the united states we hazard nothing in saying that there is not a respectable republican citizen ofthis country out of politics i who would deliberately invite this man spencer to his own house but he leads the list of ti.o republi can statesmen wdio are to be con ciliated and made much of by any man who expects the presidential nomination of the republican parly in this centennial year 1870 and his followers are like unto him clay ton of arkansas p'ckard of louisiana ; addition division and silence kemble of pennsylvania ! these be thy leaders o lsreal of the dead sumners and wilson and lin coln's and chase these are the men who have secured the absolute control of the republican party in the united states nnd the or gans of the administration are not ashamed to proclaim that the choice of cincinnati as thc place of meeting for the republican convention is thought to favor the renomination of grant because it will secure thc preponderance of these particular vaga bonds in the councils ofthe party of great moral ideas !" — n y world the present prolongation of last summer is very discouraging in the region along the hudson river where ice is wont to he harvested annually in january the secretary of the knickerbocker ice company says that the company has not gathered a pound yet as the ice in the upper hudson has not been of sufficient thickness thc thickest being but nine inches and that dirty ten to twenty thousand men are in readiness to gather as soon as the ice is ready and meanwhile many o them are suffer ing from lack of .. ork the crop last year was unusually large and there still remains in store a quantity of ice huf the prospect this season i of a dearth of ice with high prices next summer — new york world 18th an old man "" l8 dead the other day in this county mr joseph marshall started to feed his hogs when he fell out ofthe door and his wife caught him — but life had gone — he was dead it is thought he died of heart disease mr marshall was sixty-five — ral news ! respect to the memory oe the hon w a graham tne legislature of virginia now in session lias unanimously adopted j thc following resolutions which form j an appropriate tribute to one who at i the very time of his death was en gaged in the public service of the , state of virginia a service imposed '. upon him through the influence of : the talent learning and weight of cliaracter of the distinguished gen tleman : j ■• whereas the general assembly i has been informed oflhe death ofthe hon william a graham a citizen of the state of xorth carolina one of the arbitrators selected to determine the boundary line between this state i and the state of maryland whilst in ; the discharge of his duties in that be half therefore be it resolved that the general assem bly of virginia takes the occasion to express its profound sensibility at the death of this distinguished citizen i f our sister state mr graham was universally respected for his vir tues and distinguished by great abili ties high culture and long and emi nent services in numerous high sta tions state and national virginia feels that a character so pure anil il lustrious deserves such a tribute as is only rendered to the good and the great resolved that this action of the general assembly be communicated to the family of the deceased and to the governor of the state of xorth carolina degradation of swear ing it is no mark of a gentleman to swear the most worthless and vile the refuse of mankind the drunkard and the prostitute swear as well as the best dressed and educated gentle men no particular endowment is requisite to give a finish to the art of swearing thc basest and meanest of mankind swear with as much tact and skill as the most refined and he who wishes to degrade himself to the lowest level of pollution and shame should learn to be a swearer any man has i talents enough to learn to curse god j and imprecate perdition on themselves 1 and their fellow men profane swear ing never did any man any good — no man is richer or wiser or happier for it it helps no man's education or manners it commends no one to society it is disgusting to thc re fined abominable to the good insul ting to those with whom we associate degrading to the mind unprofitable needless and inqurious to society and wantonly to profane his name to call his vengeance down to curse him and invoke his vengeance is perhaps ofall offences the most awful in the sight of god louth john quincy adams mother a north carolinian in an old stager's reminiscences of distinguished americans we find lhe following sketch which shows that the mother of john quincy adams was a north carolinian : i doubt if there are fifty persons in the united states who know that john quincy adams and robert barnwell rhett were cousins these two men representing the extreme northern and the extreme southern doctrines and who hated each other wilh intense bitterness were near relatives as i shall now show the rhetts of south carolina having become extinct their relations the smiths of beaufort souih carolina took the name of rhett in the year 1s3g these smiths were from north carolina the brothers james llenry robert barn well and alber changed the name to rhett as 1 have stated the cousin abigil smith of north carolina married john adams and was the mother ol john quincy adams the partisan accrimony ot these two men was so intensely bitter that in 1s33 when the south carolina nullifying convention was debating the policy of accepting the compromise bill just passed by congress and favored by calhoun robert bain well rhett said that before accepting that compromise he would be shattered into bloody fragments on the battlefield and john quincy adams in a letter to some old woman in massachusetts named thaxter iu 1s44 asserted that slavery should be abolished if it cost the lives of five hundred thousand men !" in fact it may have heen suid of john quincy adams in the last years of his life as autipater said of some old orator that he was like a snciifice there being noth ing left of him but his tongue and his paunch gov brogden o^blaixe the govenor was very cautious iu bis response as the reporter yesterday asked him what he thought of the policy of blaine's speech he would rather not go on rec ord but the answer at last came in these words : i think it would have been better for some other man to have made that speech thau one in blaine's position the govenor's views may be taken as a pretty fair exponent of the mind of tbe republican party in ibis state they don't like the speech — ral net'as humors of the campaign the bloody and the vinegary elements of lhe congressional wrangle of last week have been made sufficiently conspicuous by lhe newspapers ours to-day is a more pleasant task we simply wish to place on what cary the negro orator of the ever-memorable north carolina reconstruction convention term the archives of gravity a few choice mor meaux of pleasantry indulged in by jouiu alistic wits and wags and politicians mr morrison chairman of the ways meaj.a commitiee described blaine's victory in these graphic terms : when ever they speak we ge lhe best of lliem whenever we speak they get the best of us ' the philosophy of whicli is least said soonest mended a philosophy that is not bad though we approve of the course pursued by our l.ids iu con gress the chicago times thinks we may forgive ieff davis his responsibility for andei son viile but let us not forget thai he has been an insurance man and that inveterate joker of lhe brook ly.n argus casually remaiks : jeff davis is by no means a revengeful man when blaine wants to borrow fifiy cents he knows whom to apply to there is likewise a germ of philosophy iu this observation which lies in the ap plication if our rabid fellow-citizens [' would fold up the bloody shirt and i quit digging in tiie soldiers graveyards they could easily find something to like in dixie's land besides official pickings and ready-made voters now that we have gotten tlyough with brickbats aud bloody noses suppose all bands laugh over the late fooler and go into the centennial and ihe fall campaign wiih a jolly spirit according to the new york sun our friends the enemy should not feed sanguine of the result therefore ihey are not expected lo laugh much speaking of lhe choice of cincin ! nali as the place ot meeting of fhe ue publican national convention that p;i | pers says : in lhe debates upon thei election ofa place a great deal was said about getting railroads lickets at half price the speaker evidently being for getful of the fact ihat ihey will all be deadheads after lhe next election " when we remember all the late unpleas antness we nre disposed to desire the reifying of the sans prophecy wil mint/ton star burlington jin rice : a sw et young girl went imo ;\ < cai u rapid music store aod asked the clerk inqnii iugiy if he had " a hi-art that loves me only ?" no he sail lull lore's a health to thee mary that wouldn't do but bef-ire she turned lo go she asked have you one sweet kiss before we part !'" that cedar rapids clerk looked up and down the store ; lie book keeper was out ihe boss was up siairs irving lo sell a a granger a wheezy old melodian and so he leaned over lhe counter and turned j out about hall a dozen of the best and ; most artistically finished articles that the astonished young ladv had ever seen of fered in a job lot she didn'l say much but she went out of the store in a step aud a half and rubbed her cheeks thoughtfully ail the way home the tredegar works it will lift a burden irom tins community to learn that gen joseph r anderson has been appointed receiver of the tredegar coin pan and that he will in his new capaci ty be enabled to resume work almcst immediately gen anderson is as we have said somewhere of mr mccance one of the most public-spirited men in virginia " his eyes are not always bent towards the earth or towards his own af fairs he consults the welfare of tlie city and the state as well s bis own in i tercsts and those of his employees his anxiety lo benefit r'chmo id and virgin ia uo doubt contributed somewhat to the present embarrassments of the company with whose name his own has been inti mately associated for thirty years or more we congratulate our people upon lhe fact that general anderson is sliil to manage the tredegar works aud we can also congratulate the company ihat it is to continue to have the benefit of bis ex perience ability and reputation — rich mond dispatch immmfam«iji^ms»slsm —■— agricultural preserve the fertility of the soil a man who deposits all his capital in a savings bank and then adopts the pol icy of drawing the inlereo and a portion ot the principal annually to meet current expenses would certainly be considered on the road to hopeless bankruptcy but this is an exact counterpart of the policy pursued by nine-tenths of the farmers who commence operations npon our most fertile virgin so'ls the effect is seen iu all our older states and lany of the new and lhe cry comes from thousands of owners of worn-out farms what shall we do to restore the fertility of our land ?" when we or our fatheir settled here lhe soil gave abundant returns for the labor bestowed in cultivating the various kinds of crops but all this is changed and while there is a seed time the harvest comes not there is not a day in th yee.r in x hich we could not find men who will recount their troubles in strains similar to the above and it is evident that they have been drawing upon the principal as well as interest of their bank stock it is true that men are constantly taking up those old charters of once sound banks and by putting in new capital in the form of good fertilizers are enabled to place them again npon a paying basis and occasionally to make a few declare large dividends upon the investment no syelcro of husbandry can ever sue ceed which does not recognize the fertili ty of the soil as its basis or capital and the crops taken from the land as the in terest thereon now in proportion as the farmer permits his land lo deteriorate he diminishes his capital and lessens his annual dividends but this gradual les sening of one's income might be borne wiih better grace if the labor necessary for its production decreases in the same rati i ; this however is not the case for it costs inst as much to plough and pre pare an acre of land which will yield only ten bushels of corn as one that gives fifty nr a hundred this same principle per the entire routine of agricultural npe iii ns : hence it is very easy to see how a farmer may labor incessantly and cbtain only small returns whenever a fanner finds his crops growing gradually less per acre he may at once conclude that his capital stock is being impaired and measures should be immediately taken to lestoie its original strength how to do this is a question depending upon local circumstances and surroundings sometimes the swamps may be drawn upon for their rich depos its of peat which can be profirablj used s a direct application to the land oj composted with barnyard manure or with lime ashes and waste from some manu actory gypsum beds and marl depoits tie made available in such cases but generally the best source for obtaining fertilizers is in the farmer's own stock raids or in turning under green crops raising root crops to feed lo stock and keeping sheep is lhe system most general y pursued in old and long settled coun ties not only to restore fertility to worn ut soils but to improve that which has emained fertile our western farmers is well as those of the older states • hoiild heed this warning for inexhausti ble soils have never 3'et been found al hough their discovery is frequently am louueed it is much easier to keep land rich than o make it so after it has once become poor besides the well-known fact that he o'der a conntry grows and tin more hickly settled it becomes he more val table an the products of the soil and his should be in itself a sufficient incen ive for keeping up iis fertility to the liighcst possible btandaid probably ibout one in every ten of our eastern farmers has fully understood the value of unimpaired fertility of the soil and pur sued a system of cultivation correspond ing therewith and il is only just to say llml ihey are not anxious to sell out and jo west or elsewhere a man who can rely — year iu aud year out - upon two tons oi hay per acre and cau sell it for fifty to sixty dollars or upon seventy five bushels of corn and get sl per bushel for the same is far from being extrava gant at valuing his laud at two or three hundred dollars per acre while he also lakes inlo consideration the i*ct that the price is more likely lo go up than down in lhe future circumstances identical with those which have enhanced the value of the best farming land in the eastern states nre affecting those of the western and their owners should guard against the fatal error of permitting a decrease of fertility while endeavoring to make the most of high prices and a ready market there are farms in the vicinity ofour ol der cities which readily command five bin died to a thousand dollars per acre for cultivation onlv while there1 aie others in ihu same neighborhood not worth fifty the difference being mainly iu the fertility of the soil the owners of the one have drawn upon the fertility of the soil until il is exhausted while the others have been adding o it for yeais and the re sults of the iwo systems are shown in present values — n y san the following extract from an article in he mobile register may offer some valuable hints to those who are earnest in finding an answer to ihe question : ho vv shall w e f e rt liz e o j r worn out lands i having shown the urgent necessity fir a change to a heller system ot farming we are confronted by a question of vital importance to wil : how sliall we fur tilize our worn lands seeing we have no manures and are too poor to buy ? in answer to this questioning permit us to offer the following hints : you have more land under fence lhan you can profitably cultivate perhaps ; then after you have pitched your crop iti spring turn under five or ten acres drilling in common cow peas two and a half feet between drils when tbeyare well up give them one good working after which they will cover the ground with dense foliage this at ihe proper time you should turn under and in october following sow oats at a small cost if you desire to put your land to cotton the ensuing spi ing turn the green crop under in april plant cotton in may aud you will most likely see a decided improvement in ihe product in this way you may each succeeding season gradual ly increase the productive capacity ol your farms until finally you reach the standard of fertility in evidence of what may be done by persistent green manuring lake the fid lowing extract from the agricultural reports for 1870 : mr f stephenson of gainesville ga , reports the example ot a farmer who iu js60 set apart ten acres of an old sedge field turned it under in june arid sowed wheat in september h 11 vesting tlie next year four bushels of wheat per acre when the land got a good growth of weeds he again turned it under one inch deeper than before and in september sowed wheat making a crop of nine bnsheis per acre the next year he turned the green growth still deeper making 17 bushel of wheat per acre and the following year 1869 hia crop was 27 bushels per acre this is a very strong exhibit in favor of green manuring and shows what a progressive practical fanner may accom plish with a smill outlay of capital and labor u'e are free to eonfess for our selves that only four bushels per acre for the first year would have slavered our , faith in preen manuring and perhaps most farmers would have abandoned the plan before any conclusive results were j reached i'he truly progressive farmer discovers in the foregoing extract another very important element in the work of renova ting our tired lands : we mean deeper ploughing each successive year which added more perhaps to the attainment of the astonishing results reported by this georgia farmer than we at first thought are prepared lo admit it is pertinent in this connection to remark that poor far ming is largely due to poor ploughing and that large bodies of land grown tired under a system of shallow ploughing only needs to have a few inches of fresh soil brought lo the surface to restore their productive capacity to almost pristine vigor american scientific a worm in a horsk's corn not long since a horse wa brought io me to be cured ofa corn in the foot in pairing the corn i found a worm about three fourths of an inch long one-half inch thich and sharp at each each end as a needlepoint one end was black lhe other while the black end was next to the sole of the foot and the white end iv the flesh after removing the worm and burning wiih nitric acid the corn was entirely removed and lhe horse perma nently cured of lameness points in a pig agricultural writers often give what they term points by which to judge good horses or cattle bur although a reader of many leading farm papers i have never yet seen anything about the points in a good hog it is certainly important that we should be able to recognize a good hog when we see it tnd then fore i make hold o ask you io favor us with a few rules governing in the cise if there arc any established rules in that direction farmer wayne co tmiss lending wi iters on the pig are agreed that the following points indicate a good animal : 1 head wide in front ; ears erect and pointed forward ; chops rounded and well filler up to the brisket 2 shoulders broad and shoulderblades well sloped backwards 3 uibs well rounded ; loins wide and slightly arched 4 hind quarters but little sloped 5 hams rounded outwards well let down nnd full towards the twist g best wide with elbows well out 7 fori1 rib wide underneath link well let down straight and well filled s l gs straight and small in the bone feet small and compact 0 hair abundant bright and oily 10 tall l hick at base and rapidly tapering — jlibilc register fattening chicken it is hopeless to attempt tn fatten chickens while they are at liberty they must be put up in a proper coop and this like most other appurtenances deed not be expensive to fatten twelve fowls a coop may be three feet long eighteen inches high and eighteen iuches deep made entiiely of bars xo part solid neither lop f-ides nor bottom discre tion must be used according to the size of the chickens put np they do not want any room indeed the closer they are the better provided they can all stand up at the same time care must be laken to put u such as have been accustomed to be together or they will fight if one i is quarrelsome it is better to remove it at once as like other bad examples it soon finds imitators diseased chickens should never be put up the food should be ground oats and either be put in a trough or on a flat , board running along the front of the coop it may be mixed with water or milk the [ latter is the better it should be well soaked forming a pulp as loose as can be provided it does not run off the board they must be well fed th>ee or four lime a day the first as soon afier daybreak as may be possible or convenient and then at intervals of four hours each meal should be as much as they can eat up clean and no more ; when they have done feeding the board should be wiped up and some gravel spread it causes them to feed and thrive after a fortnight after this treatment you will have good fat fowls if how ever there are but five or six fowls to be fatted ihey must not have as much room as though there were a dozen nothing is easier than to allow them the proper space as it is only iie:essary to have two or three pieces of wood to pass between the bars and form a partition this in iy also serve when fowls are up at different degrees of fatness this requires atten tion or fowls will rot keen fit and healthy as soon as the fowl is suffi cienllv fattened it must be killed other wise it will not get fatier but will lose flesh if fowls are intended for the mark ct of course they are or may be fattened nt onc-e ; but if for home consumption it is better to put them up at such intervals as will suit the time when they will be re quired fur the table when ihe time arrives for killing whether they are meant for market or otherwise they should be fisted without food or water for twelve or fifteen hours tbis enables them to keep for some time alter being killed even in hot weather — journal of chemistry - - - _ jl gleanings | some peoplo never look up to heaven till god in his providence lays them on tiieir hacks if you see a man with a big dia moml on his shirt-front have him ar rested ft may not be tweed but it will serve him right anyway — alta california detroit policemen don't seem to be very good narksmen i want you either to int me or stop making such a blamed racket said a thief in that eity at whom a policeman was shoot ing rev h ii murray has an article in the golden rule advocating lying in bed in thc morning but there seems to be no particular necessity for us to paste it in onr hat — bridgeport stand ird xed and zack arc snd topers — been sad since 4th o1 july last ned told z his nose was the last rose of sum mer z retorted " taint blooming alone they left a deal of ground plowed no and both noses arc poul ticed a few days since a man convicted of drunkenness stood up before his honor at the police court and his honor said in his slow solemn way i'll give vou 10 or thirty davs weil i'ii take the 10 squire said thc fellow an americanized citizen was called on as a witness in a case before one of the justices lately and when thc oath was administered he raised both hands and said i shall spoke nod dings what ain't drew if ever i hopo to iie so quick as a minute a rural editor wishing to be se vere upon an exchange remarks — the subscriber of the in this place tried a few days ago to carry home some lard in a copy of that paper bui on reaehing home found that the concentrated lie had changed it to soap a rustic couple newly married man-lied into a drujr store and called for soda water the obliging clerk inquired what syrup they would have in it when the swain deliberately leaning over the counter replied : — stranger money is no object to me put sugar in it children said a country minis ter addressing a sunday school why are we like flowers what do wo have that flowers have anda small boy in the infant class whose breath smelled of vermifuge rose up and made reply worms and tl.e minister crept under the pulpit chair to hide his emotion a stokes county girl danbury reporier a young single healthy looking girl was in town on last tues day who had raised fattened and killed a hoc which weighed 592 ft when dressed — and she hadn't on a pin-back dress neither she wonld make a useful helpmate to some o our bacon loving young men to spkak — dr walter dedman ar •'. richard durham ot johnston count were in the city to-day and invited m turner to address the people of thei region at karppbero the 29th of thi month the invitation wa accepted these gentleman report that there is no a single man out nf al their acquaintance i who is in favor of paying the special ta . i bonds — ral sentinel mr lincoln used to tell in hu i mitable wav a story of a winches converted confederate who was s overjoyed at receiving his pardon th ; he exclaimed : thank you mr pre | ident thank you ! now i'm pardons i s'pose i'm as good a union man • anv of you — emphatically one of yr aeain but didn't stonewall jacks ." give us hell in the valley a voung gentleman got neatly out ofa fine scrape with his intended — : she taxed him with having kissed ; two young ladies at some party which she was not present he own ed up to it but said that their un i i agos only made twenty-one j simple-minded girl thought often z . eleven so laughed off her pout did not explain that one was ninctf and the other two vears of age — wasn't it artful ? scene at a brooklyn wedding break i fast company all seated about t table a pause in the general con versation happy husband to his wife's seven-year-old sister at the other end of tiie room : well juli vou have a newbrothernow jnlir yes but mother said to papa the other day that she was afraid ye : would never amount to much but that it seems to be sarah's lastchanov iutense silence for a moment fol lowed by a rapid play of vcn.iv tir«*i forks