the carolina watchman vol xii tillfib series salisbury n c apeil 21 1881 ho 27 the carolina watchman established in toe yea it 1832 price *!.:." in advance contract advertising rates pebruaby i 1980 inches i month 8 m*s imi ours 121 onetor ? : ■'"' *'-•'" &■•>'* *"■'••"" *- "" three nr • "" " b0 11.00 15.00 j p our for ■ ''•■"" '-"'" *- m 13.50 18.00 u column 01 1.59 9.75 i1.s6 10.50 25.00 s j do 1.25 -."..'."> 20.50 25.50 40.00 , f flo do i 18.75 26.26 b3.76 4.7a 7iuj0 ! i h h^03ssaaesacwflbn'li"^9ca(abm0bbbhhhsbxsii"^nss jp-fflembeb the dead lj gv johii s hutchinson ! dealer in italian and american mar lie monuments tombs and gravestones - nl ki bio l kli'tliin | being a practical marble-worker ii enables rile of executing any f > i .-«-.- of work frdiu the . iilairteftt to the moat elaborate in an artistic livle and in a guarant lhat | erf ct satisfaction trill be given t the most exacting patrons call and examine my stock and prices be fore purchasing an i will sell at the very low est prices designs and estimates for any desired work will be iiirni-lu-il i application it next door ii .). i mcneely's tore balisburv n (,'., march 9 1 ssi 21:1 y i r crawford & co are selling pgetaels faeh mil fact0ey steam el-dffi rlflqtiii nr pow partriil iroq jjmmm der uollllumup j v s ;\ in 1 ( japs tie fines rifle mm b il iwfipbfips 1 j 0111 ow a nud 1 a el i 11 ike mid buggies from hi 1 klnesl lo 1 lie •• in up si . r&fer beltiiil tap mowers horse bakes c salisbury jan •'>, 1881 ly this wonderful improved saw machine j w»r r » r ir,i to ntt » two-font ion in three mln jit »:. 1 morp l « 1 nr l«e of niiv aize in a dav lhi.n inn men wn chop or m the old wnv kvery jnrtnrr null i r mbrrninii nrviin nnr c/-»i.ists » otul ill rirrol.t nl r,u free alii rakmek mini i'u-ti'kinu clfc i its 1.1 a trvrt cincinnati o iv im , keuit ' it a id k 1 . n clement ' craige & clement at i'iur ■*- ,.,,.. salisbury s c h.i 88l , v — s i dttohyey at law 8a.1l.xs15 ur y n c practices in the state and federal ,;. " l i 12:6m a undreths 170 i seeds^bktiooi ll ut *•'"'"''■ tl'pini'^niat'rir'ap 1 1 j j i wu anil pri th tv.u.t amln^n extmsire steit 1 .«-';-,.': ''" i'-'l f»atet u v "> 1..vm1kkt11 a koxs.pbjxada-.pa blactor it henderson attorneys counselors and solicitors salisbury n c j«a«ay22 1879-4 poetry how little we know how little we know of each other as wo pass through the journey of life with its struggles its fears its tempta tions its heart breaking cares and its stife ! we can only see things on the surface for few people glory in sin and an minified face is no index to the tumult which rages within how little we know of each other the man who to-day passes by messed with fortune and honor and titles and holding his proud head ou high may carry a dead secret within him which makes iu his bosom a hell and he sooner or later a felon may writhe in the prisoner's cell how little we know of each other that woman of fashion who sneers at the poor gitl betrayed and abandoned and left to her sighs and her tears may ere the sun rises to-morrow have the mask rudely tern from her face ami sink from the height of her glory to the dark shades of shame ami dis grace how little we know of each other of ourselves too little we know we arc all weak when under temptation all subject to error und woe then let blessed charity rule us let us put away envy anil spite — foi the skeleton dim in our closet may some day be brought to the light agricultural k\*>erinient station bullet in no 7 april 2d 1881 field experiments what does my land need to produce a given crop to the best advantage is the living all important question with the intelligent farmer different soils have very different wants varying with their original character anil with the kind of exhaustion to which thev have been sub jected it should be the aim of the far mer to supply exactly what is needed and nothing else it is only iu this way that the highest profits are made if for ex ample the fanner puts phosphoric acid ammonia and potash in one uf the socall ed complete manures ul the cost of 40.00 per ion upon his soil wlu-n really only phosphoric acid is needed for his crop upon that soil and this can he had at 10.00 per ton for his immediate purpo ses a hast , he i throwing away io.uti it is true that very often our worn lauds need nil ihesu elements of plant-lood and tin complete manure very generally does well therefore kit il is not by any means always true thai it is the thing which it will pay tlie farmer best to use i very much doubt lot example whether in the majority of cases he gets any sufficient return for the 2 to 1 per cent of ammon ia in the nitrogenous matter to render it worth the live to ten dollars additional which he has to pay for it the farmer ask then how shall i find exactly what it will pay me best to apply to my soil for a particular crop the laboratory method which has been pro posed gives a very uncertain reply the comparison of the analysis of the soil and the plant teaches us little definitely the analysis ofthe soil can of necessity rep resent only t few ounces of soil at most thousands of tons of soil are within reach of the crop what probability is there that the few ounces will accurately rep resent the thousands of tons ? there are many other reasons why this method is very unreliable the practical test with the crop open the soil is worth more than all the analy ses of soils the chemist can make the answer nature makes to the questions put directly to her in field experiments are far clearer and more reliable than the theories of the chemist such experi ments every farmer should conduct for himself these results would be his sur est guides iu fertilising his land 1 present here a simple scheme for some such experiments having reference to the elements of plant food most often needed upon an inexpensive scale the question to which the experimenter seeks the answer is will it pay me best to use phosphoric acid ammonia or potash upon my soil with this crop will the return be best with any one of these alone any combination of two of them or with all three together ? au acre of partially exhausted soil is selected ol as uniform character and as level as possible it is accurately divid ed into ten parallel strips ihe different substances are applied as illustrated by the diagram three lots being left with no manure to serve as standards of compari son 1 nothing 2 phosphoric acid 1 ammonia i l'otaslu 5~phos acid am and potash i nothing __ 7 phostacid and ammonia s phos factota n d potash 9 ammonia and potash ___ 10 nothing plot 1 receives nothing on 2 put 401os dissolved s c phosphate not containing potash on 3 20lbs of sul phate of ammonia on 4 lolbs muriate of potash plot 5 receives all three viz 40ms dissolved s c phosphate 201hs sulphate of ammonia and umbs muriate of potash 0 has nothing again plot 7 j gets 40ft*s dissolved phosphate aud 201bs sulphate of ammonia 8 401bs phosphate j nnd ioibs muriate of potash 9 2()tbs sulphate of ammonia aud jolbs ninriate of potash while 10 gets nothing again the different plots aro to be cultivated in all respects alike a careful record is to be kept of the appearances of the crop ou the different plots and the produce in eacli is measured separately corn and cotton will be found convenient crops to experiment with though a large va j riety of field or garden crops adapt them ! selves to such experiments if the experiments have been carefully conducted the farmer will see clearly from : the results which element or elements of i plant-food were needed for this crop of i course many more factors come into the problem in practice and must be coiisid ' ered iu drawing the final conclusions ' rut the system of experiments present j here in merest outline will be found to ' be iu any case very instinctive the necessary chemicals will cost un ' der 8 00 i shall be glad to correspond with farmers interested in such experiments and will sttpply them with further direc ' tions if desired ciias w dabxey director ! from the kalelgh news , a prize worth contending for i wo have twice before called attention ! to the star premiums offered by the state agricultural society to the young men and women of our state col polk the secretary hits fanned us with the following particulars and rules in regard i to them which we know will be read with great interest by the enterprising < young people of the state : thi votxi man's stap premium to the unmarried man under xi4 years of age who shall bring to the state fair tho greatest and best variety of the pro ducts of his own hands a premium of $'){) iu gold nn young woman's siau i'i-i-mitm to the uumarried lady under 22 ! years of age who shall bring to the ! state fair the greatest and best variety i of products of her own hands a premium of 50 in gold for the next best display by a young i innn anil young woman us above 2o in ' gold to each parties competing for the above pre ' itiinms will be required to observe the following lilies : 1 each exhibitor must furnish ihe secretary with a full list uf all the arti cles to be exhibited on or before satur day october 8th 2 the displays for this premium must be in position and ready for examination by 12 m on tuesday the 11th a the list of articles famished the secretary under rule 1 must be accom panied by the affidavit of the party mak ing the entry setting forth that the ex hibitor do*ss not exceed the age prescri bed ; that each and every article exhibi ted is the product of his or her own hands and that said articles havo all been made since the 1st day of november 1880 printed forms of affidavit will be furn ished by the secretary on application 4 the names of exhibitors must not appear ou any of the articles ihey will only be made known after the premiums have been awarded 5 each display will bo made as a whole and may be arranged under the personal supervision of the exhibitor 6 persons intending to compete for these premiums must notify the secretary on or before the 1st of august 7 these exhibitions will be subject to the same rules governing entries made for other premiums nnd will not be re moved til the close ofthe general exhibi tion theawardsbe will made by commit tees composed of ladies and gentlemen so chosen as to guard most effectually against injustice aud partiality these judges as well as those for all other departments will be selected and their services seemed as soon as possible all awarding committees for the coming fair will be chosen beforehand anil with au eye single to their peculiar fitness and qualifications for tho work tu which t'.ey may be assigned col polk iis that ail the young men and indies who desire to enter the list for this high honor ami this splendid premium will communicate with him he will answer all letters and inquiries pron.t^ly and cheerfully state papers will please copy on a certain day years ago two men and an indian squaw arrived at a swampy spot with a wagon they went to work and stuck up a rude shanty a man shot a woodchuck and the squaw skinned aud cooked it they ate the woodchuck then they all crawled into the shanty and went to sleep these proceedings ridiculous as it may seem are to be celebrated in great style with much braying of trumpets and beating ot drums much gunpowder is tn be fired and several men blown up to cele brate the slaying of the woodchuck for the proceedings of those two men and that squaw constituted the founding of chicago boston post the velvet loom is the invention of a spaniard named i'eixach * political some days ago senator dawes inflicted the senate with a long yarn about a mas sachusetts man who had been driven out of mississippi his cottou gins etc burut and his family mas-sacred the senator from that state promptly said that they didn't believe a word of it and asked for the name of the martyr but dawes re plied that it was impertinent to ask him such 11 question and he would not give the name or the place where the alleged outrage had been committad and uow the humane papers of new england are anxious about the matter aud are calling for the name of the sufferer the boston herald says that nobody has been smart enough to guess it no uot even mr dawes who iu this emulates the leading characteristics of the traditional jack daws — news d observer the coming fight against mahone 1n viuornia — washington april 11 — ex congressman goode of the norfolk district has been traveling through virginia during the past month in connection with the york town celebr«t»on lie returned hereto-day and says that his inquiries in all parts of the state satisfied him that the result of the coalition between the republicans and ma hone will be to unite under democratic leadership about all the respectability ofthe slate against the rabble that will follow mahone for public plunder mr goode predicts that the democrats will carry the state by an overwhelming majority in the fall election another well known virgin ian from richmond reports the feeling there over the coalition to be quite as intense as mr goode found it elsewhere he says that the democrats have nothing to fear from a union of the republicans and readjnsters in richmond for such a union was igno minionsly beaten in november last air goode is now engaged in soliciting subscrip tions among the original thirtceen states for the 250,000 authorized by the york town centennial association mr goode says all the stock will probably betaken by july telt davis in hi forthcoming book col lates the opinions and utterances of north ern men in 1:*'i to the effect that there should be no effort made tocoerce the south among them is the following the new york tribune the leading organ of the par ty which triumphed in the election of lt-go had said soon after the result of that elec tion was ascertained with reference to se cev-ion ; we hold with jefferson to the inalienable rights of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have be come oppressive or injurious and if tlie cotton states shall decide that ihey can do better out of the l'nion than in it we in sist oil letting them go in peace the right to secede may he a revolutionary right but it exists nevertheless and we do not see how one party can have a right to do what another party has a right to prevent we must ever resist the asserted right of any stale to remain in the l'nion ami nullify or defy the laws thereof to withdraw from the union is quite another matter and whenever a considerable section of our i'nioii sha 1 deliberately resolve to go out we shall resist all coercive measures de signed to keep her in we hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned to the residue by bayonets the new york tribune of tuesday quotes down to this ami then stops that paper reminds us of the little boy who had gotten down in the barrel to the sugar that didn't taste good — news and obescrcer jeremiah s black who knows more law and polities than most men directs public attention through a newspaper interview to the novel fact that president garfield can go into the senate and make speeches if he chooses it seems that number 65 ofthe standing rules of the senate adopted no one knows how long ago provides for a confer ence between the president ami the senate and even stipulates that he shall have a seat on the right of the chair the veil of secrecy which surrounded the meetings of the first congresses leaves it uncertain how generally this rule was practiced by the presidents but judge black aver thai they practiced it upon occasion later the rule became practically abrogated by the adop tion of writing as a means of communication between the white house and the capitol and thus through three-quarters of a centu ry of disuctude has become utterly lost to sight but it is still on the list of rules and the ex-attorney general thinks oar i'ii-id might do well to revive it and use his gift of eloquence to stop the present dis graeefu dead-lock and o't the senate down to business in the interest of pure fun — as a syracuse student would say — we hope the president may think favorably of this pro position and embody it in practice a little discussion on the floor ofthe semite as to the exact terms of the mentor deal between colkliugand garlic-id would make a charm ingly appropriate inaugural for this gentle spring season — l'lica n y daily observer miss hattie duel has at last saccceded in committing suicide by starvation she died at 12:45 monday nfternoon her final de cline began on saturday and from that time she had not strength enough to write her wishes by signs she indicated that she did not wish to see any more strangers she had a high fever but by morning it had abated and she lay quietly until the hour of dissolution at noon she completed the forty-seventh day of her fast it is said that her last meal was eaten on washing ton's birthday miscellaneous 8octheuj ijjdvstriaj prooress the capital stock of hu been subserv ed for a cotton factory at xcw orleans sad a site has been purchase in the bosiuesa portion of the city it is proposed to com mence work on the building at once ami i the meantime the machinery has been order ed work on the new orleans bilging factory is prrogressing rapidly anil is promised that its looms will 1 in motion before mid-summer allu-ling to these and several other manufacturing enterprises now under way in that city the new orleans democrat hopefully remarks that these clearly indicate tlie tendency of capita and portray more progress in the direction '•(' manafacturing industry than has been wit nessed during any season since the war the biblical recorder says : rev ('. g stanley wiites to the central baptist from augusta kansas march 17 and fays the temperance question is the topic here and has been for the last six months already he asserts we don't see one drunk man where we saw twenty one year ago blear-eyed bloated drunk ards begin already to look ruddy aud heal thy it ia a time of rejoicing with god's people he cb-ses thus since tbe strin gent temperance bill that recently passed our legislature and goes on to our stat utes as a law came into existence a ter rible wail has come up from some of oar local papers in behalf of our chnrcbes what can they do without wine in the sacrament i don't know how you do in missouri but we i mean the baptists here iu kansas discard the use of fermen ted wine in the sacrament almost nnani monsly we are glad that we cau say in the future entirely it in said that the first cottonseed mill was erected at the south in 1-iio and that now there arc 51 in operation there are exported to europe annual i about loo.'joo barrels of oil which doubtless comes back to us part at least as olive oil it is alsu used in soap white oils stearine and i'cir hundreds of purposes the cotton seedcake is a capital cattle food and made into prop er shape is a splendid fertilizer its com parative value as attested by the state chem ist ofgeorgia[is$37.o0atonanditcanbesold for 22 to 25 a ton an ordinary fertilizer that has a commercial value of t is sold at 0 to 70 a ton it is admitted that a ton of cotton seed yields 35 gallons of oil at 33 cents 11.50 it yields about 5.50 worth of cake and 1.50 worth of lint it costs about io for the seed and so in for working barreling etc making 16.50 cost on a yield of 18.50 or a net profit of 2 a ton in this section perhaps there may be a difficulty in obtaining a large quantity f the seed but surely enough can be obtain ed to justify running a small mill and mak ing the profit above estimated ii ii ii writing to the charleston neirs and courier from new york says : dr philip schaff oueof the american reviewers ofthe new testament told me to-day that the books will be for sale on the 30th of may all the stories about a stock of books now on hand in new york under lock and key are false the testament will contain a supplement of a dozen pages giving the suggestions of the american committee which are not accepted by tlie english re visers the majority ofthe american sug gestions were however accepted it will surprise many persons to learn that al though almo-j-t every verse in the new tes tament has been altered it will sound very much like the old book many alterations concern the punctuation simply or unim portant words six new york pnblishi rs are now preparing to reprint the testament as revised within twenty-four hours of its appearance upon the market which will be simultaneous in england scotland ireland australia and the united states the mar gin of profit is small however as the edi tion will be sold at retail i r 25 cents for paper covered copies and 40 cents for those bound in cloth i forgot to say that the american suggestions rejected by the en glish revisers relate chiefly to archaic ex pressions which the americans wish to have replaced by modern forms and the english prefer to retain " cheek no my son cheek is not better than wis dom it is not better than honest modesty it is not better than anything don't i to the sirens who till you to blow your own horn or it will never be tooted upon the world is not to be deceived by cheek and it does search for merit and when it find it merit is rewarded cheek never deceives the world my son it appears to do so to the cheeky man but he is the one who is deceived do you know one cheeky man in all your acquaintance win is not reviled for his cheek the moment his back is turn ed i is the worid not continually draw ing distinctions between cheek and merit i al most everybody hates tho cheeky man my on society tires nfthe brassy glare uf his face the howling tinkling of hiscyml tongue tlie noisy assumption of bis for wardness the triumph of cheek areonly apparent he bores liis wayalong thro t-.li the world and frequently betterpeoplc give w.iv to him but so they give way my boy for'a man with a paint pot in each hand not because they respect the man with the paint pots particularly but because they | want to take care of their clothes avoid | cheek my son you can sell goods without it and your customers won't run and hide in the cellar when thev see you coming burlington uaitkeyc prohibition 1 prohibit i here folio-vs the truth from t!:c uoiston meihadtot good point ; if prohibition actually increases the evils rt ia intended to prevent it ia a remark able fact that liquor manufacturers | venders and drinkers are usually ar rayed agai net if while the were so j j ber and virtuous favor ir tlie faet s prohibition does prohibit and tlie friend of whiskey know and feci it put the question of local option or i prohibition in any form before the people and the last doggery keeper in the land will go to the polls and cast his suffrage against it what doe : that mean does it mean that the devil is opposed to the increase of dev iltry that his imps will rote against the enlargement of his dominions nay verily it means that the liquor combination has sense enough o know that prohibitory laws do have a ten dency to place an embargo on the ; liq-or traffic manna loa-thc great volcano ...♦ the occident private advices from the sandwich islands report that the famous volca no manna loa i still in eruption and has been continuously so since the early part of october the in habitants say that the present erup tion exceed in grandeur extent and activity any thai they can remember or of which there is any record the american residents say that the -; taclc is magnificent and well worth a voyage thither the prir.ci]*al cra ter some 16,000 feet long ami 9,000 to 10,000 feet wide i constantly belching forth smoke ska m aud same and occasionally throws up vast nek while the lava pours down the sides of the mountains nearly 1 1,000 feet high in broad stream some of the ernptions have lasted thirteen months and it is thought that the present one will be fully as long for it has steadily augmented from the outset it has been com pared with the action a 1859 when the three new craters wen opened on the side of the mountan the loftiest being fen thousand feet above sea lev el though the two lower were the mo.-t violent from one of these rose a column of liquid fire five hun dred feet high there are now six craters active and it is said that the chief one throws out occasionally a stupendous mas of ll ime six hundred feet in altitude several ofthe rivers of lava are five or six miles wide and these actually form cascades and in some instance are .-■> voluminous as to run up hill the lava has also forced its way through subterranean outlet aud tumbled with a hissing roaring sound into the sen mauna loa ha been far more en ergetic of late years than it used to be and is now distingnishiog itself uni versally sonic ofthe lava beds are enormous the lava streams frequent cool on top and when new lava is added the crust breaks with loud explosion considerable uneasiness is ielt among residents of honolulu lest their dwelling be destroyed and the opinion is generally expressed that i:i no volcano on the globe have finer natural pyrotechnics been seen than now are tin re railroad topics we are pleased with the subjoined criticism of mr best from the char ' loltc observi r we think it just and fair there is with us rind should be i we conceive throughout ihe state i o disposition to laugh at mr best lie ' has unquestionably done the state nine service and his worst enemies have vet been unable to show that his purposes were nol sincere though his \ methods have not been such as to ex empt him from criticism it may ; prove and i indeed now very likely tn prove troe that lie will not be able ; to realize the ardent hop with which ; he closed amid rapturous applause [,; s speech before ti legislature in i * -.''. namely to carry them across ; the blue ridge to paint rock and pirreon river but there is nothing ' to show that his desire to do so was i not genuine and his faith implicit if he has failed tl rough adverse circum i stances of becoming the chief instru j ment in accomplishing this great work ' i for the state he isnevi ««. sential element in the - | t will . accomplish it tbe rich mo vilie company could n ten ihe road from tbe n ; * . count of prej ,; it ,,, lul . idoobtedly existed ..! iot i be analized or crii >•> best - ; i what the richmond v danvij - road could not 1 °.- '•"■• : in turn promise to do what mr best could nut accom plish when r . ym \ } ia b-en compleb brationof the event . ; - a i no li for a r g mr besl for his effi ;:- in helping the stats to build a railroad which she erself able to build and which must in any event prove an a iva ber carrying the war iuto kfrica . flowuu i />,.,„ l i :■ ■■ washis v april ii.—twono ta,j ''' -!" ' made in the sen ate to-day one by mr call of flori da and the other by mr vest of missouri bol re carried tli war into africa mr call took an his text the cry for a n'r ballot and an horn si count impartial suffrage c charges upon which have been nude with iteration and re iteration by it -. .„_ u1 i more especial lybj thosi from new eng land he reviewed the law ami re il lations concerning the elective l'ran iu the tin - tesol massachu setts rhode island riinl connecticut and allowed - - already gener ally known bnl seems somehow or other to have i n lo . that mich a thing ::- impartial suffrag ■ or a air ballot is not in existence in either of those commonwealths by the laws of all these states thousands and thoasan i ...;' men white not black areabsol •• iydisfranchised,and in massachusetts as mr all exhibi ted on the nn - ible evidence a system ol • and terrorism over the voter i < x rcisi d by employ ers which has n i j lei even in the wild romances fabricated by the out rage shriekers about the south asto the disfranchisement of v ter if the 40,000 or more colored voter of the state of maryland who exercise the right to deposit o i every election day their votes without let or hindrance for the republican candidates should emigrate in a body io the republican stat <•■;' mass - t 4,000 of them would be permitted to vote un der its laws as to tl •-• stale of con necticut there never was su h a tr i versty on popular government as it presents mr call in the course of hi speech to-da y i u rhed upon the representation in thc'popular branch i . _ - . and read from tho app irtioumi nl sysl - .\ iiiir that town and cities of from twenty lo forty thousand population were only allowed i ' • same membership as towns of five hundred to one thou sand population mr call omitted to mention that the large towns are rally i >• n . idle the small one ai !■ 1 •'• | "•■''■ ft bout time that the new england senators were reminded that tbey si id take the beam out ol their own eyes before un dertaking to remove the mote from • ' - eves of '>''.' rs it would be much better if llicy would take their new allv mr mai one n in tlieir own .. ■■ :■. and inaugui ate the ci usade where il needed for a i an honest count mr vest made both i i t and an argumentative speech in reply to the i _, ,.| senator sherman a few davsago that no republican commu nity hail < vi r repudiated he gave a ,. ncise but graphic '■' count of the § ; j0 - liberately repudiated by the republican state of minnesota without one shadow of jii-t;ti"atioii and als 1 1 ited llie numer ous instances of repudiation by re publican counties and townships i i the i rthwest mr sherman was un .,:,:.. ;.. make any adt quate reply t » this shewing but lie was much more taken aback when mr vest quoting from the official corn spondence of the treasury department showed that only eighteen months ago mr slier j man had laid down the rule that any federal official in virginia found act i ing with therepudiationists or mahone ! party would be removed