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T 1.115 FA15MER AND -AlECHAXrC
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department of grirnlhirc
Slate ISiartl of Agriculture, Immigra
tion and Statistics.
Z. J. Yanck, ;.-venior and ex oftU.o Chair
in :i.
Km:i:. state Ciolojrht an 1 cx onicio
:.i r f i l; ..tr l .
K. I'. I'atim:, I'n-M.'.nt Slate Agricultural
'..;. g-aii'l e. o!li-,f iiii-mh -r of the l':ir1.
I . M. H ir, Pre-udfi-t N;iti: Agricultural
s. i.-ry .in. I e or'.Icio na-mt er of th Hoard.
.s. i;. aixx amc .Master iate linine, 1.
of II ., and x o:ici me in her of the ll ard.
.). K. I'inorKN, f I :di- c mhe county.
.: -atiian I.va.vs, o! Cum :er land county.
I.KtiN.i'Ai I 1'Ol.K. rill)!Ss'OHer.
'i no-. J. Koijins n, becre'ary an 1 Treas-
Ul'l'-
o.lae, se-ond foor of laics' LulUliug
K.u igi, N. C
List of Correspondents of the
Board of Agriculture.
N: r.: 7V.? rcyidar corresulent.-i of
If, i' if'-jnirtim lit arc n om stcl to (tct as
"J'ltts ft)!' the Faumku AM) Ml'liCHAN
i ' will Iin't ajter lm the ojjiciul
oryau f the Jh jxtriuetit. They tire
sordidly re-nested to e.rtend the eir
i niittim if the fn-r in their tutudie
as for as ''.
Alamance I). W. Kerr, I). A. Mont
tnui'i y.
A I .ander W. Vv'. Gryder, J. 1.
M : Iich M.
Alleghany 1). C. Jones.
Ai.ia-Alfred Baueum, II. W. Led-lc:i-r.
Ashe (ien. II. Hamilton.
Beaufort Thos. JI. Blount, W. H.
Cunningham.
f it -n It Duncan C. Winston, John C.
rr
1 HH-.-i.
liia l'-n J. Stuart Do vane, J. W.
Purdie.
li -iii;.vv u k O. McR. Holmes, John
N. Bennett.
I 'uneombe Samuel C. Shelton,
Sa.ii'it l B. iudgi r.
Burk J. T. Patterson, Chas. F.
McKes.s. n.
(aba.: us Dr. Columbus Mills,
i .i in i larris.
Caldwell J. M. Houck, J. C. Har
per. A. .V. Scroggs.
' u.:.! u ('.. D. B. Pritchard.
v'lU'iuvt W. F. How kind.
v ":, cli Azariah (.J raves, Dr. N. M.
Vatuwla W. P. lJoiiiliar.lt.
Chatham R. James Powell, Henry
A. London.
( '!'!: U-v Win. Beah
Chowan Win. J. VYbb.
Cav
il. M Cluro
( It land J. W. Carrett, Thomas
Knd rick.
('ohiiiibiis D. S. Cowan.
Craven Enoch Valsworth, Geo.
A!l.-n.
Caml.i -rlaml AVm. Ahlerman, W
W. CIe, J. A. Worth.
Curritm-k Vm. II. Shaw.
Daif vivo. L. Fuleher, Isaac C.
Mi-tkins,
Davil.-on J. A. Leach.
Davi; W. A. Clement.
Dunlin W. M. Kennedy.
IMeeombe W. T. Cobb.
Forsytlie (Jeo. W. Hinshaw, It. S.
I.invillo.
Franklin A. S. Terry, Lr. O. L. El
lis.
(ia.ton (I. F. Bason, James H.
White.
Gates Bi nee Smith.
Graham G. B. Walker.
Granville X. A. Gregory, S. A.
Cannady.
Greene W. P. Onuoml, W. A. Dar
clen. Guilford J. W. Albright.
Halifax F. M. Garrett, Jno. B.
N al, T. W. Harris.
liarnett DaTiiel MeN". MeKav.
Uaywoo.l E. H. Hyatt, A. J. Her
ivn. Henderson H. J. Farmer, W. G. B.
Morris.
Hertford J. E. Xewsom.
Hvde W. S. Carter.
I red -II J. D. Click, John Y. Tem-
pletoU.
Jackson D. D. Davies
Johnston E. W. Foil, A. J. Heath.
Join s Jas. B. Stanley, Isaac Brown.
Lenoir John C. Wooten, N. B.
Whitfield.
Lincoln W. A. Graham.
Ma.-on C. D. Smith, Silas Mc
Do'wll. Madison. J. J. Gudger.
M.vitin l. D. liobeison.
i:ciA)well John S. Brown, S. J.
Seal.
3 1 eck I e nb a rg J. F. Jol i nson.
Mitchell S. W. Blalock.
Montgomery II. M. Scarborough,
C. Vv . Wole.
M.ore Win Arnold, S. M. Edwards.
Nash J. A. Harrison, W. II. Hil
li.irl, Jr., Thomas Westray, N. W.
Ho'i die.
New Hanover J. N. Maflit, J. L.
Cant well.
Northampton Wm. Grant, W. P.
Viek. Wm. T. Peele.
Onsh.w Hill E. King, J. B. Tavlor.
Grange Jas. H. ltrish, J. Knox
liighes.
l'amlico W. T. t'aho, James
ane.
Va ;.iU:a!ik C. W. Hollowell.
! -nder G. Z. French. Daniel Shaw.
I ''-Ti mi mans James N'ewbold.
I'v .. in James M. Barnett.
l it: JiAm King. James Joviu r.
Polk Dr. L. K. McAbov.
n.t.;d;lnh M. S. Kobins.
f ii 'am ond Jas. L. Cooler, T. W.
Guthrie.
Ij.ib, son D. I. McEachern.
.i' kingliain John W. Hutcherson,
T'-'-. W. Field.
i: owan Luke Blackmer, S. R. liar-
hui'u rford T. D. Twittv.
r---I--u John Ashford, N. II.
'"s. L. Gash.
-- 4 it - - I . 'it..i. in n
ju h. l T. Clears. 1
Wa
Wm. "Wal-
t
C h:!lri,il0VT- J- rrnan, Arthur
Urn. It. Chesson.
atauga-A. J. McBri.le.
v;n U"f "adsi.y, T. B. Hyman.
v .Ues-L. Harrel, J. T. Finley.
WiLon-li. W. King, Frank W
Va Ikin-Dr. T. L.n-, II. C. Wilson
luacy-j. . N. M. Wilson.
.a,d.-y ,T. E. Hartsell. W. J. Ross,
.ok.-s v. w. King. Ben. Bailev.
urrv m. jj. Wohf, 11. R. Gwvn.
."am John . imlev, Daniel Les-
A. Hint for Railroad OfUcers and
Our People Generally.
Fi:t Wayne. Im . i
Feb. 'JUtli (
iltts. Z. B. Vanck.
(JoV. Xtsrth Carolina. AVi ', A". C
Dkak Sii:: A sleu t time ago. 1 threw
out, a1 it wt-re, lik 'bn al ujvon the
waters" a few lines written on ajo-,tal
-ar-l (many, many thanks to our gov
ernment for the great favor of lu a
ostago) and it returned t me in the
form of a c-ry kind letter from Rev.
Mark S. Gross, of St. Thomas' church,
Wilmington, in which he says anion;
other interesting things that he had
honored me bv sending mv card to
votir Excellency. This again teem l
to have led vou to forward me several
numbers of your excellent paper, the
r a km Kit am Mechanic, in which I
found reading matter that interested
me very much indeed. Please accept
my sincere thanks for the anie and be
assured that the favor is not only duly
appreciated but I trust in the not dis
tant future to make some returns for
your kindness. All this shows what
a simple little postal card may do in
the way of advertising and there is in
it too, a very u&eful lesson. In fact
advertising, wisely and judiciously
managed, has now become essential
to the success of any enterprise. No,
not even a Stato or nation can keep up
with the mighty progress of the age
without it, and I have always been of
the opinion that if the North and South
had been brought closer together br
direct communication had knoica cavJi
other L-tttw there would have been no
war. Even now I see by the map that
there is no wav to visit vour .tale ex
cept by a very circuitous route. There
is only about 00 mites of road to make
from Morganton in vour State to the
it. jl . w . iv. At. auu invii tiij i.oiupie
I ' 'I' V- r I I I. !
lion of the Cincinnati Southern would
make a direct line from here. I real'v
wish it were now completed and 1
would get up an excursion to your line
genial climate. Our people here are
getting very tired of our loii' tedious
winters and are talking seriously of
going South. A very largo emigration
is pouring into Kansas, Arkansas and
Texas, but I tell them that southeast
is a far better country to go to than
Hie southwest. No bonier ruiliaus, no
long continued droughts, no northern
blizzards, no grasshoppers, no scarcity
of fuel, timber, coal x.c. &c. &.c.
The main tiling which has given tu
the southwest the stait and contioi of
emigration is the yaukee ijciiius of ud-
fcrtmii.tj and their cheap i ales of travel.
It makes a big ditlerence to a man when
he looks about him for atrip of inspec
tion whether lie pays 2 cts a mile or
0 cts a mile. In fact there are half a
dozen agents here who haw free pauses
on ail the roads, southwest and besides
they always deduct the it. It. lair when
a sale is eifevted. Nothing would tend
so much to draw immigration to your
State as a liberal spirit on the part of
tiie railroads and 1 make free to sug
gest lurtiier that if some inducement
could be held out to our people here
in lhut direction (namely cheap fares)
1 beiie e I could send you some first
class citizens to buy your lauds
or invest in some other' pursuits.
More especially because you have
adopted a most excellent plan of con
trolling the sale thereof and thus
preventing imposition as to title and
representations.
i had not intended to write you so
long a a letter but 1 take such a deep
interest in this subject that when I get
started it is hard to tell when I will
stop. 1 hope 1 have not fatigued you
and would feel myself very highly
honored to write you or your dislin-
few lines from time to time. Your peo
ple, I see, must have reached ' bed
rock"' long ago, while up North here
we have not yet touched hard pan."
I judge this by the fact that your taxes
are a fraction less than oSJ cents on the
100 valuation, while ours are $1.27.
Besides this we have a city tax of
?1.05 on the $100 valuation and a debt
besides of over $000,000.
With the most profound respect I
beg leava to jign myself your Excel
lency's humble servant.
Wm. B. Walter.
Persons wishing new seed, for ex
perimenting must apply to Hon. W. G.
Le Due, U. S. Commissioner, Washing
ton D. C. Our Commissioner has none
for distribution.
Turf. Field and Farm has a compli
ment for Mr. L. M. Biakoleys "Black
Ethan Allen.' A writer in same pa
per shows that nearly all the fast
horses in the country are of southern
blood.
North Carolina farmers, read a les
son: Mr. Jacob Faw, of Forsytlie county
now 78 years old lias raised seven chil
dren on a farm of TS acres. Has given
each of them a fair English education,
and to each a farm worth more than
the old homestead. He hires all the
labor on his farm (being too eld to
work himself) and clears $400 per an
num on his little farm; but he has im
proved and enriched his land from
year to year. Yo men who are trying
to run large farms, do you see a lesson
in this?
A SOUTHERNER'S INVENTION.
Exclusively for Southern Ueo
W- p-ei,t herewith a !- ;!.
prepared by Mr. Eugene Harri -, of thi
city, representing the Cotton Picker,
patent, d May loth. 177. by Mr. O. E.
Smith, a gentleman !1 known in the
State for hi int re.-t in mechanical in
iustri's and laUr-saving middies.
He lias built only two or three of hi?
"Cotton Piekers." but we ur.d rstr.n.i
will engage m,re exten-i vejy in their
manufacture In n after. Theinachiae
will pay for its.-IP he. -ays "together
with the cost of running, in every hun
dred bales of cotton, at presf-nt price
for picking."
As Hon. D. Wvatt Aiken, of South
worked the machinery,are high enough
to carry everything above the cotton.
The front wheel is about half the height
ami works under the machine on a pivot
joint, to which are attached the horses,
that also walk between the rows. The
arrangement of three wheels adapts it
to turning in the smallest possible
space, the uaevjimess of the land,
backing in the corners, etc.
The picking machinery consists oi a
series of linger-shaped cards on india
rubber the size of an ordinary walking
cane, working alternately up ami
down through the stalks as the ma"
chine advances. These cards, of which
there are tv o hundred, are fastened to
levers, worked by cams, and are each
independent of the other. In passing
over stumps, only those stop Ciat
strike it, and they no longer than upon
it. These cards or pickers are flexible
to a degree that just adapts them to
the business for which they are in
tended, and so arranged that in going
over the field, once in a row, and the
machine covering two rows, it would
have been picked over twice, and every
square inch in the iield would have had
its picker, not all at once, but part at
the time, and if there were only one
boll opened it would get it ; if it was
all opened it would get it, whether it
was upon the ground or the top of the
stalk. These cards are very line, with
the teeth all ranging upwards, and
will not take hold of anything but the
O
Sff jm
1-v , v4sT
lmt of the opened cotton. Leaves, of merlt throughout, and will bear in
twigs and hulls will not stick to them, vestigation, for it sneaks for itself.
Man's Inhumanity.
Talk about Southern outrages ! Harp
on Andersonvilie horrors ! And then
compare the chapter with the sworn
evidence of tortures inflicted daily upon
the wretched convicts in New Jersey
State's prison. Reports of horrible cruel
ties have been alloat for several years,
and a resolution was introduced in the
Democratic Convention one vear ao
calling for investigation, but nothing
came of it. Prisoners usually are afraid
to complain where they know it will
result in only the doubling of their
suffering. The New York Sun, how
ever, recently published some facts
which forced the New Jersey Legisla
ture to investigate the rumors. A fear
ful system of torture was brought to
light. Men were whipped on their
naked backs with broad paddles, in
which were many holes, so that each I
stroke of the paddle caused dozens of !
blisters to rise on the skin. Other
men were stripped naked in winter,
and deluged with ice cold water from
a force pump. Others were held down,
while alcohol was poured on their
skin, and lighted. "It made .a sore,
generally about six inches long, and
three inches wide, "but the man got
over it in a few weeks" coollv testi
fied one of the turnkeys. Another
punishment was "gagging with the
boot heel;" a concern like the high heel
of a lady's boot, which being strapped
in the man's mouth almost suifocated
him, besides sickening him with the
taste of the dirty leather. "Have seen
men vomit, when relieved of tiie gag"
said one turnkev.
But worse than ail was the "sti etch
er," an iron apparatus by which the
man was hauded up, by the wrists,
until his toes barely touched the tloor,
and sustained the weight of ids body.
A chain kept him from drawing up
his feet even to swing. This devilish
machine usually forced the victim to
beg freedom at the end of three min
utes, but generally they were kept
swinging until they fainted. Physi
cians say tiiis torture in many cases
will produce death in ten minutes.
Once they were justilied by the death j
of the victim. A witness, one f i
the turnkeys; testified about as fol
lows: "After Snook was strung up J
the marshal looked in upon him. "Do ,
you mean to kill me V" was the piti
ful cry of tiie suifering man. He was
told he would be treated the same as
tho rest if he would behave himself.
Looking in upon the victim shortly j States, where it grows wild in the ut
after the marshal saw that he most luxuriance, and from thence into
a rob a i. remark in t h-art s- hv!J
... i . . i - ....
N'Tv n- --n:g e ra rrm pi
k : : .
H-ei ;;r tw.. tj,:; r- h .
do i: j..
'lit f it."
H- :. .-. if Mr. Smith" n.a hi:.,
that i-, i. pr- a: ed. we d not ,
1.
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hv
it ..uM n t v.-orl
w.-rj!. r 1.. .ip-
film.' c. tor' en 'f . 't
i. . i s u r
-a re for
low. I, -, el . rr:
land
Jo;,, - t!i-i - j ,.f;,
iih-r -tmijp.
r";.-k. nor
r oolrUCl".o!i to o.'.r-
b
i . . i i . i
k.
" W,
:;d a
Ie-criptl'
n ef th- machine fr.-.i.i rr;
exclc.ng-: t whs h we will all that
a ntent numb -f the Miom , , t.
7. . ;( .o.;.. a-.d '' Viral Northern pnp.-.-r
have eok n very highh .f Mr. Smi:J,
invention. . heartily wi-h it ui:i
p: a sticce--:.
Tic.- .:rc i.:-:e
is ai.i:t th.
s i 7. e a n d
weight f a
t v i Mify wa
gon, upon
t hree w ,. t j .
spanning o
rov with on-
W b e e 1 J, -tw-
n eueh.
The two driv
ing win ,-is.
1a5'' " lnm w hi h is
but the cotton to i -bed in ever so small
a degree instantly adheres, and will
not let go i-ntil brushed oir at th- top
by brasher, th -a:ue as from the saw
of agin, and fiom the brushes it it
taken on an apron of bands and depos-
:....: . . i
Hi . iec .-piacie i me rear in
iignt str.iigoi form entiiely five from
dirt. The whole machine is reduced
to us lowest simplicity, very durable,
easily managed, and under perfect
control of tiie driver. It is automatic
in all its operations, taking care of it
self and performing its work without
assistance. To stop the pic-king while
going along, the driver has inerelv to
lean back against the seat, which is
hinged with spring catcher, ami the
picking arrangement stops up in the
body and can be driven to the place of
deposit unloaded and return without
tho throwing of wheels in or out of
gear. The machine costs three hun
dred d iiurs, and will Iat as long as
farming implements generally, every
piece of which is duplicated with the
facility of adjusting a plow point. It
is estimated to pick out the cotton at
a cost of one dollar pir lt.de, and will
gatiier all that can be gone over in a
di.y at plow horse gait, once in a row,
and without perceptible damage to the
stalks, and what heretofore seemed an
impossibility, is just as simple and cer-
tain as a sheep catching cuckle burrs
j and not the leaves, with the order re-
! v,crstjai UliS catches the sneep or ratner
1 thn i.tr.oi vi'ool ..nlo w.
was still and motionless. Examina
tion showed that he was death &aw
a female after she had been strung up
and saw black-and-blue marks from
the hand cull's on the woman's arms."'
Josv-ph R. Bergg, a deputy keeper,
testilied: There are live dungeons;
three have stretchers and two of them
bolts and chains; nearly every day
men are put in dungeons, sometimes
live at a time; some make a great deal
of noise; saw men chained down so
that they could not get up; saw a man
named Lynch chained up; he had come
out of the asylum; he was a very bad
and a dangerous man; have heard men
beg and pray to be taken out from the
stretcher ; was present when men
were stretched ; helped to carry Snook
out; his ces were partially open;
Snook died about half-past six in the
uiorning ; the day before the man
icd well.'
Suplementing this appalling story
are minor brutaluies, sucii as tiie booi
heel gag, an immense block inserted
in the mouth and kept ia place by a
string fastened to the heel ; lite douche
of icy water upon the naked shivering
body ; tiie wrists worn to the bone ;
the sick man, trembling with weak
ness, and punished for his inability to
do work, with other species of torture
that scarcely would have suggested
themselves to a Sioux Indian or tiu
Old Man of the Mountain" himself."
And -so, the testimony proceeds
through column alter column of
shocking details.
Wekiiow, from unhappy experience,
that the fouiesi cruelties are practiced
by understrappers usally selected for
their cold blooded ferocity; even in
prisons, whose Superintendents are
kindly and humanely disposed. Of
course, tii ere are vile wretches for
whom no punishment can seem too
t'cvere. But if the establishment of
penitentiaries is to reform tho crimi
nal he ought not to be subjected to a
system of daily badgering that must
keep alive his woiot passions.
Alfalfa.
L. J. M., Newborn, N. C. I have
rich permeable soil and would be glad
to plant a little alfalfa seed. Piease
tell me something of its historv, dec,
and give me instructions as to plant- i
ing, culture and harvesting.
Answer. This plant -known in Eu- ,
rope as Lucerne) it is claimed v;is cul-
rivaled in Greece oW years before
Christ, and bv the Romans at a later i
period. It was introduced into France, !
l'roui theuce into tiie South American
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seed." Dir; ving n...t of it. nutnti i:
from the at na sp!u re. ;iT do mo-,: Icu.t 1
Laved plants, and h;w;; such mai;
lities of loots, it i sa:d to be aa cct 1-h-nt
fertilizing plant. It may 1h
e.vteriiiinatt d at an t ime 1 y : hoi ng L
plowing it ovt r and cult i vat io;i of t her
ciops. 1 1 : i o . ; g ; o '!- cnabi, it to v. it h
slai.d heat and odo aoi.c.
STATE SCRAPS
The L..
ne louio urg i uiii it v ha c rm d
its name to Tinus, published c.a ry
Friday, by Hall Thomas, at a
year. Success, gentlemen I (b o.
S. Bak.r has been appointed public
administrator of Franklin coui.tv.
Dr. Babeoek has settled in Louifburg.
aai Dr. .1. Buxton Williams, in Ox
lord. Oxford Fjee Line", J. T.
Britt, proprietor, Capt. Wm. Bigg,
elilor;Friday; $l..i a year. Too ch ap,
friend; We lirnily b liev.' that no
paper, with less than b.uuo subscribers,
can sustain it... If, in North Carolina,
at less than s'J n year The Snlh-
erter's pig weighed TIT lbs, net, and
was owned by J. R. Miz.el. of Martin
county Maj. Harvey Cabiness has
been appointed C. S. Commissioner
for Ch'uvcland Messrs. F.nrruw and
Rss, anl 11. Wiswall, nieicl-a'.ts of
Vashington. N. C. have been forced
to succumb under the financial ju s-
sure Some scamps tid the horse of
Wm. Bowen, f Cleaveland; to a tnv,
and killed it D. D. Suttle, of Shelby
will open a tobacco factory in the
pring Several negroes have been
jailed in Cleaveland for murdering,
and placing on the tra-k,the negro,who
was suppose! to have been run over
at Kings Mountain A "farmer" (we
suspect the initials are A. (J. Person,)
writes to the Wilson Advance making
the following suggestion: Let the
next Legislature pass an act compell
ing the owner of every dog in the
State to keep him muzzled, the muz
zles to be manufactured by the State
and to cost not more than $1. The
money to be paid in the treasury for
the benefit of public schools or any
other object tho Legislature may di
rect." An old man named Nathan
Rue committed suicide by drowning
himself in Flat River near Crabtree s
mill, Orange county, Feb. the lSth
RandolphA'tvn7(or; J. T. Crocker, edi
tor; $1.50 per annum; Wednesday
13. B. Marloy, of Randolph, while run
ning a fat horse, struck his knee
against a tence, ana received a pain
ful wound J. M. C. Russel, of New
Hope Academy, killed a pig, less than
a year old, weighing 131 lbs Rev-
enuers captured -1 stills and 1 prison
er, on Sandy creek Deputy marshal
Crowson, arrested Aleck Conner, but
he leg bailed himself to the woods
Col. J. M. McCorkle will start a law
school in Salisbury U. S. Marshall
Douglass presented a petition, says
Washington Star, signed by nearly all
the Democratic lawyers in his district
asking for his retention Alamance
Court is in suasion J. D. Coibinand
W. F. Ireland are manufacturing plug
tobacco at Company Shops, arid J. II.
Turpley tz Co. at the same place are
manufacturing the Alamance Bell
smoking tobacco. T. H Fowler L "o.,
at Mebanesvilie, will in a few days
commence the manufacture of smok
ing tobacco Ex. Siieritf Murray, of
j Aiamanct , died of jiaralysis m Satur.
I dav last Dr. J. S. Murphvs of Com-
j
j pany Shops, recently Io,t a son and a
laughter by diphtheria Dr. D. A.
Montgomery addressed the citi.ens of
Alamance, on grange t pic on Satur
day Concord iUj'stfr. Capt. John
W ood house, editor: printed Satuniav:
price 1.50. From its Columns, we boil
down the following: Storm blew the
roofs o:f Mrs. Marr Ulackwel I-rs
house, Iv.rn, etc J. C. Dell i rigor, of
iron Station, lost three children bv
diplitliena Israel Ne.wll, i
found dead in bed Wm. M. Colo-
man aiverti-es that he has room for
a lew articles at Paris Exhibition
A tram) stopped Hall Call we 11 near
the Means place the other night, but
when Hall called a halt with a big
khooting-iron, the would bo highw-ay-
p. t i:..;
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as late a Mar h the ."d lhui;i k
CoUrt beg.m nil iloi. I !; .III le Eiile,
pi riding Ibsho i. u;. u eonlirmcd
six persons at Wilson.
Stato Prido.
'Ihe Wa h-sboro Arjus, in uigmg
Chuilcsttm men to help build tlit- ..!.
niv tin between Ch. raw aid W.cle,
ixii'o sys:
JjJ'et think of it: not more than
T5,co or SiO.ooo n.-uu,,! ,,,it
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me ;us iunni!ig an ine a!
anl a verv tew nn-n of
i ulnar", m .n
m uuii cny, ejntribut' inoi e tn.m tin.
for objects of muioi inip.iitance. 1 l.e.e
is a univt ial h-;rc, ail thmuh U,u
country to trade in ( harl.Mon. it
l.referre t to lbniugton or anv oth.-r
;ice sihh. market. IN en as it i r.
large number of mercji.ints u.ud iarm
ersar.' anxi..u io rstabh.. ;t iii()lln
line to ffa raw lo haul their goods,
rather than go in an other dm tnu,
but tiie roais are .sometime in .i bur
riblo condition and tli! expense w,u!d
be enormous, rso they air .but od
friiin their h;vorit market.
This roau will .li.i'.v ;.e em,,,
tra.le of Anson, Cni-ui, Manly, Munt
gomery ami Richmouil . ounties, ani
open the way to the mot abundant
gram country in tin Mate. The
Heights paid n the t.-.vli9 0f AfWou
alone aggregate 1h.ouo. i Voiu .o.m,
to 10,0-ju bai. s ol coll., i .,r,. hi,ipj.0.j
fnm the leots in the -ountrv, .mi
the trade I ihis s. etion w iil put into
tiie lap of Charleston at ie.it holj a
iinllto.t i f dollars. It i worth pavmg
a small sum to cure. War ago
Ciieraw alone rt eied '.U).(u bah s :
cott.ui and it eauie chiefly from tht
country w jiich is now ut Jl from iti
supj)ort. More cotton is mad- uuvs
and it will go in the old direction. '
Fahmi:h am Md iia.nic We r ui.
a copy of this journal r- gular, and
In-sitat n t to say in. if, tor a com
pendium of '. .-rvthing, Mich a fann-
m,
inteliigeine, grange
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a;i-i
geo. lai li'-'As, It is o,i..- ijl the n. t pi
pers ill e.l-t-nce. .llotWeJl 1 , jo 11-
nahstie pi nice. ---Concord Ji' jtn(t , .
"Ciunt me a lifelong sub.-nb'r
so long a., th- paper is continued as at
Jires'-nt." "But .vhy don't s.m. -body
advertise millet and chufa; 1 want
some" F. H. Pendl-ior:. E-j., of ire-
dell.
Col. rn. W. Allison writing tioin
Mi 111 ml own, P nn-i, under date of 1 ,b.
1'Jth, say:
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e ill. e uis.i t.rii i 'm.
a nu;u -
1'ai i
ler of copi
of ih
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t.'e
Kit AN! MKCilA!; of ioe 17?h of.Ji.'i
uary, f...r ine purjose o: uhhteiu.ug
iiiOse ties. r c.is ol em. grating
South or We,: hh to t;i - i'elu
it lie;
'm ;.: -s
Slat" to
pre nte 1 by tie 'id N'.rin
nou'st, ober and in bistriou imau
."ant. Ail se-'ui t ix; imtr---i
Wilh tU.-s
n'uc;.n:iil., and it w u;iid
not .vnpri -e u b -Tor- very loag.to
hc- p. lite a uumh-r fro.u in- old K v
stone -late following i fi. our f l t'-p'.
Vou know how the Northern nr.-
ued to sneer at th ? b arrrt:irie- A
Southern inventive g. uius. We w o-beli.-vel
to b-.- stili plowing with a
crooked limb, and earrying a big r k
"in one end of th- hag to lahrr:
jug. But now the Ojaiiii i"n-r of
Pat-nti declares that the majority of
rc--ent in. 'ent'or.s ha.' f-r a patented
by Southerner.
Li rejdy to a .--.uate res Iu.n, tin
Secretary f War reports Uiat but tkr.-e
p.rons wj.. were in the .- ri e
now hold cniUiiiion- in. the arm;-.
This may i true a., i j ,,.u . r-, but it
would !. l:.ud to t Ii the numS-r of
"ex-n-bs," and "gal vauize-i" in the
rank.. When w ? w re gu.irb.d b
Fe.l era I, soldier, fully two-thirds of
them e.xpre.-d warm 5V m,ithy, an '.
intimated that they wa re much mre
of our way of thinking than we were
ourself.