Cut tho Oat Might i'oiiio llark- Ucforring to
| oiio of your very interesting articles, ontitlod:
I "Try Killing tho ("at." 1 also know of a child
[ who lia<l an attack of asthma every time she
played with a eat. liauish the cat! As for
nose blood, a friend suggested tying u |>leec of
red silk ahout tho neck of my daughter and lot
ting it remain till it wore off. It stopped her
nosebleeds! If any reader tries this. T hope
sh? will write and toll whether it succeeds.
Answer?The eat dandruff is a physical fact.
The red silk effort was coincidence, nothing
inoi e.
News of Fifty Years Ago
(.From the Richmond Dispatch, Aug. "S, 1SG0.)
, It has been observed that the negroes are
I imitators of the white folks. The latest evi
dence of this fact is that they are learning, or
trying to learn, the a'rt'' of dueling. We have*
a . report of a duel on the hanks of tho Pa
munkey IJiver between two very black negroes,
in wiiioh one of the participants, t.oorge Thorn
ton. was hadly wounded in the arm, and the
other. Tom Kilwards, was slightly hurt. A wom
an. whom both of the "duelists" claimed as
wife, was tho eauso of tho light.
In Petersburg yesterday cotton sold for
cents per pound, and there was more than the
usual ,-ii tivity on the tobacco market. Peters
burg is getting to he the greatest of tlio mar
kets for the farmers of Southsido Virginia and
North Carolina.
