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A]>ril21st 1873?ly. ^I'lLLETTS ALMANAC For tlio Year 1874 rUJlMBUKl) FOR 1 TORJtY COUNTY'l j^or sale at 10 cents each by JP M. l; BEAT Yi Dec 0 1873 "toSAY;7-" THE PTTV.M.E'S; II.I.ITSTRATRI) pavrr it is a thoroughly American enterprise, illus tritcd by t lie leading artist and teeming with the best ellbrts of the most able writers of our country. It is a paper that, once introduced on the family circle, is sure to be eagerly1 watched lor and carefully preserved. The voice of I TIIKEK OF T1IK MOST HE AUTIPUL c ia k o ji o s ever issued is given to each subscribor, viz ".JrsT So Jlion" and "Little Sinkiiink,': two beautiful Child Pictures, by Mrs Andkk son, and "Amono thk Dicwduops," a beauti I'ul landscape in water-color by the celebrated 13JKKET FOJSTElt. All our agents have eppios of each, and are prepared to delivei them together with a (Subscription Certiticatcsigned by the publish* ers, at the time the money is paid. Agents iwanlcil everywhere, and liberal inducements ollered? Sample copies wi?h full pa1 Oculars and descriptions of the Chrotuos, s;Mit on receipt of six cents. Only two dollars and a hall' a year. ADDRESS, To-Day Printing & Publishing Co., 7^:3 Sanson) St., iVi/ladclpAici. J Broadway. X. V. 3 School St., Boston Ui>, 110 & i!7 iS, Aludbou fct, Chicago. T-T or Jl_ _iL V..>'JL VOL. C?. COXWA iwiaii i mmmm * mttm 11 w i i llow lied Oats Pay in South Carolina, The following is a statement of the account ot eighty-live acres of real nun proof oats, which 1 planted trom lstTb'lOth October, 1873. The oats were planted after corn. The corn had li.vll abushel j?c?:is pel* aero broad- ; easti'd and ploughed in wit 11 Dickson's Swoop. The corn made twelve bushels per acre. The corn stalks, peas, etc., wore turned under with a two-horse Watt plough. The oats wore sowed on the turrow, at the average of one i and a half bushels per acre, with the J exception ot two acres, on which two bushels were sowed, and which proved ! to be better. The oats were harrowed j | in with revolving harrows. The I water furrows were opened and let remain. On the first of June, I cut the oats with cradles, tied in shoves, and put them in shocks ot ten each. From .Vere 1 took the oats direct to the rasher. I Highly-live acres oats, debits: | Preparing the land, Oxen 20 j days, at 50 cents $13 00 Preparing the hind, Dorses and nudes, 105 days, at 00 I centos 03 00 Preparing the land, Laborers, [ 88 A day, at 40 cents 35 4 0 I Seed, 120 bushels oats, $1.00 120 00 | Cradling, 31 ^ days, at $1.15 35 03 | Tying ami shocking, 55{ | days, at 40 cents 22 10 Hauling to thrasher?work animals, 10A days at 00 cents 0 90 Hauling to thrasher?laborers, 2 11 days, at 40 cents. . . 8 50 I hraslung, laborers, 31 days at 40 cents 1 2 1 o Use ol steam, 6 days, at $5. . 'Jo 00 $35 1 J 3 Credit. 1,780 bushels oats at $1 $1,780 00 78,440 lbs. straw at ^c 580 80 $2,300 80 Profits $2,005 5 7 P. W. Ol.M SSKN, 1 in liural (Jarolinian for /Scj>t. Mam' iUuj}\ S. O. TNSKUIINO Uomi KN'DS OK A CI Tri.N(i. ? Professor Delacroix, ol Hesaneon, France, 'discovered* i mode ol propagating IVom cuttings, which is not only successful in ease of roses and other plants easy l<> live,, but apples pears, plums, apricots, etc. 11 is method is to put whole cutting in t he ground, bent in the form of a bow, with the centre part up and just on a leavel with the surlaee, at which point there must be a good bud or shoot, which is the only part exposed to the i. ~ ... i i . i i -- -1 hi, liiu mini >ing jU'iHUUH'i 1 oy I lie earth from drj'ing up, supports and gives vigor to tin* bud, wlniioh st iris directly into leaf, and in its turn helps the cutting to form roots, and the whole even form a thriving tree. The method of setting them is to lorin two drills about three inches apart, with a sharp ridge between, over which bend the cutting, and stick an end in each drill, and cover up and press the earth firmly and water lrecly. M. Delacroix has discovered only what had long been known to any misery men and gardeners in this and other countries. The mode lias some advantages where cuttings arc difficult to strike. Hurt11 (larolhrian for September. 'P.M.. ..... < i ' ^ i I.1IC ur >. jv t \> l>U VIKA99C1 1'J K I )s ('x ' >c" i iance ha* prove 1, so lar as tin- observation of t le writer goes, that Au ^ust or early in Soptcuiber is the best to sowgrass seed, or about the same time with Rowing turnuip. 'There is usually suflioicnl rain at that season to cause the seeds to germinate. 'The young plants will have time to make sutlieient root stand the seveiest cold ot winter When sow no at this time there is a gain ol season, as clover, lucerne ami several of the grasses, it sowed without grain in August, will give a cutting in the following spring. Should there be a failure ol the seed, an opportunity to re-sow will occur, in the South, in the following February. Howard JSIanual A IIkn that was a Roosts:it.?1\ A. Cushion, of Dresden, Tenn., bad a ohiken hatched about eighteen months ago, that was a gray on one side running from the comb back to the tail. I on the oppsij.e side a deep blank, it. had a very heavy comb, and a large wattle on the black side, and as small one on the gray, a heavy spur on t ho left leg, and a light one on the right. It laid a dozen or more eggs, set on them, hatched and raised a brood ol chickens, as any good hen Would. After the chicks were weaned, it went into the rooster business?crowed regulatly, fought the other roosters, got it a number ol wives, and proceeded to assist them in their domestic affairs as a good rooster should. By-and-by?that is a week or two ago?it laid down and died with cholera. A l'ost-mortem examination disdovcrcd the fact that on the gray it was a pefectly developed lien, 011 the black bide a perfectly developed male. ?? mm f ?? i???? ? + "~^p> fry >-v ?ffe?"? ? h3 %7^ ^v'jl _jl An I ii<lepei YBOKO, S. C., SATl'I 'I iic Transfusion oi Blood. MM,.. M.w. O' ? . ' iiv im ?i >m i v.;i it; mug h> ;ui aniUKll blood which has been lost, or, rather, of replacing tlie vital tinul which has disappeared through the ottects of increasing age or the ravages of illness, by transfusion lroin the veins of an-i oilier animal in full health, was known to the ancients. It is described m the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid, and repeatedly alluded to in the works of the old alchemists, who believed that, by such means, perpetual rogem ration ot the body might be accomplished. Toward the middle ot the seventeenth century, the subject appears to have enlisted the attention ot French physicians and philosophers; and in the month of June, 1GG7, experiments which previously had been frequently practiced successfully upon the lowei animals, were for the first time tried upon man. blight ounces ot the arterial blood of a lamb were injected, by Dennis, into the veins of a child. Subsequently call's blood was transfused into the blood vessels of a maniac, who shortly thereafter tcgaincd his reason. While, starting from these attempts, the operation was again ami again repeated, sometimes successful, sometimes the reve rse, until it became continon in the practice of ahnosl every French physician. Too common, however, ? whether through the rmle means employed lor forcing the fluid into the veins of the patients, or whclhor Irom the lack of skill on the pari of the operators, or, more prohahly, a lack of caution on the part <>1 the latter, due to supposed familiarity with all the consequences of the operation ? for accident soon became more frequent than successes. In the course ot a lew months, failures became the rule and curses the expectation; the people became alarmed, and linaly, in the beginning of 1GGS, the Parliament ot Paris proscribed the practice, and the fulminations of Koine, close ly following, effectually arrested any further investigation and experiment. The physicians, however, carefully observed and printed their record*; and from nn old treatise, called the P/,'/*. 'j ' .. A r ! . 1 # * ? ? 1 jMtvu, printed in l ir:\i??ii'i*i?ni'g in 1(507, we produce :iii engraving showing 1k?\v in those days the operation was performed. Opening a vein and inserting the end ot a common syringe constituted the whole process, in marked contrast to the delicately adjusted instruments and carelul measurements now employed. For a century the subject was abandoned, to be taken up again, however, at the lapse of that period, by Warwood, whose researches showed that blood could not be transfused from one animal to another ol difli rent families without killing the latter within a lew days after the operation. From t Lis disco\ cry date t he modern in vest igations, which have culminated it: the acquisition of knowledge sullicicnt, to admit of the sale practice of transfusion of blood from man to man. The early experiments of Dennis, and of others subsequently, would seem to negative the above mentioned truth, but the details of the operations, as hande.l down, are very defective, and in some instances it is known that individuals, at first benefitted by the transfusion, subsequently died from its effects. There is certain evidence, however, that death was repeatedly caused by transfusion between widely differing animals, More modern experiments, especially those of Provost and Dumas, prove that the blood of calves or sheep, injected into the veins of a cat or rabit, is fatal, and mammifers inoculated with the blood of birds i j rapidly succumb. On tlic other hand, | Lower has shown that the fluid from ! the veins of one variety ot dog act* : beneficially upon another dog 0f difj lerent oharaetori.jtios; and from tin ! cxptTimenlH of Milene-Ed wards and Lafond, of still later date, it appear* that it suffices for the two animals tc be of the same natural group, although i belonging to distinct species. An ass, i for example, whose blood was marly i exhausted, was reanimated perfectly by the blood of a horse. If i'. is true, then, as facts demonj strate, that in the case of man or oth : er animal whose life is almost- extinct : through abundant hemorrhage, revivi fioation may bo gained by transfus yr> I ^ J -JUL.- Ji ident ?Iournrvl. IDA Y, SETT KM I5EU i in<j; .'V quantity of blood much less titan that lost, it becomes an interesting j manor to u 'terminc u> wniii iMi'incnis the lif|uHl owes its reanimating proprieties. Provost ami Dumas sliow that ail injection of serum?that is blood deprived of fibrin ami globulus ? is lit tori ,y without Hlect. t >n the other hand, blood eontaiuieg tho globules, but in which the fibrin h:\s been destroys "1 by agitation, givt s strong reviviliing results, and hence, a** extended investigation l as abumlau'lv shown, the perfect globule is nbsolutc!y indispensable. The results ol biter investigations prove 'hat the Idooil ol mamili rs niav j 1 be injected into man without producing hurt till eil'ccts, s<> long as the red globules ot the animal do not dillcr | greatly in lorni and dimension from j : I hose in human blood. 11 the globules J become dissolved ami soon disappear in tlie organism into which they are transmitted, they nevertheless ptodttce advantageous though not permanent results. It would seem, tln n, that when human Mood is unattaina Mr, that <>l animals may be use*!. A young woman servant, twentytwo years ol" :i^c, who ha*! become extremely exhausted through hemorrhage and overwork was received into i the 11' sjiital de la Pitie, in Paiis, and | the transfusion was accomplished by j Dr. Uehicr Irom the arm of Dr. Strauss. The aspirator used was sp arranged thai by no possibility could any air enter with the ldood. The latter was sent into a cup from the veins ol the donor and collected in the inferior part of the instrument, whence it, was pumped by a small piston worked by a handled. It was then forced through a canuhi into the \ ions ol the patient. The instrument, in order to prevent coagulation of the fluid, was first immersed in tepid water, and the tuhes used were of <r<?ld. Jlofore einnlov * ' 1 ment the apparatus was tilled it!i I blood, so that eonselerablo ol that obtained from the healty veins was lost, In all about one ounce, out ol three, was administered, but this was sullieieiit to secure restoration to the patient, and to enable her, alter a lapse ol seven weeks, to resume her ordinary occupation. The New York Medical 1'eeord, of a recent date, contains an interesting ! paper on this subject,, by Dr. .1. \Y. Howe, visiting surgeon to a charity hospital in this city, lie gives an account of his treat hum: i on an invalid woman, forty years of age, whose pulse was weak and irregular, and at times imperceptible, lie says: "I abstracted, by means of the aspirator, four ounces of blood from the maiden [ basilic of a health v man. The blood thus obtained was injected into the cephalic vein ol the patient. In a tew inotnentH she expressed herself as feeling hotter. There was an inline-1 diate and marked improvement in the volume and force ol the pulse. This was so perceptible as not to bo noticed 1?y idl present, and prevented me Irom transferring anymore blood. ; The next morning 1 lound her pulse I siiil improving and her general condition excellent." The patient subsequently regained her health and reeovered. A Farce. The treaty of peace which How-ley and Jones, the leaders in the (ieorgetown riots, signed, is a farcial termination to a tragical allair. Georgetown was, tor days, in possession ol a negro mob, blood was freely shed, the white citizens were in imminent danger, and h>! the two demagogues who caused the trouble quietly came together and announced that every ditlerence between them has disappeared, and that ' they will refrain herealter from <lis! . ...a.:.. .. i ..i f. vr mi iiiu ;muuc peace. iNoi a word > as to their responsibility tor the damage that has been done! Not a , word a* to their punishment lor the crimes they committed. They have buried the hatchet, and there is an ? end to the matter. And the two Jle> publicans who have persuaded the rii oti is to do this are officers ot the law, viz: Solicitor IJuttz, of the Charleston 1 i Circuit, and .fudge Allen, of the Charleston Criminal Court. In other words, Howlcy and Jones have the assurance. that they may maim and kill . as much as they please, and will certainly go lree it they promise to sin no more. The pact they ha\e signed ' will hold good until either IJowley or Jones obtains some ad vantage over . i the other, and then the quarreling will \C 'sT TC"^i \ / v%/ V v K. Ji 2.1871. NO. 37. be^in a^aiti, \\ illi fresh fighting in lii'in'^'town or el so win*re. Hoth Howley and Jones are Chainbcrluin men! .V< if\* find ( <>nri r. a no\ or tiii: n:i:ioi>. \ Ymmir Creole In the lone Stnr Shite \> riles a to one of IIis < hums, ! forsn no, I lino - l, 1 SV I. Mv/r Huh ? l'v writ.i! you thrie letters since 1 ci'inc down lnwo, and you've ondly write me oiu?that amt ' fair? pay up as you ;nfo, 1 tell you Huh, this hero town of Iloustinc doi:'td>elon^ to the one horse kind hy no means. 'The houses are as ikiok as ]>;o tracks routul a com erih, > and candy shops are jest as common I us cotlee for lueakfast, and it would ' tnuke your mouth water to look into j some o! Vm? Harbor pole stick can I dy and all sorts o! nusiarvIiits. The hoys down here ha 1 a "rami shorn- I octree last iM"hl. Souie old chap I had married a ri.dit yottn^ <od that morion' and we had to s< rum do him. 1 here was twenty live o? ns, and every man had his tin pan ot cow horn, or ox hell, and played his own tune. You hot we had a jolly old time of it! Alter wo had Mowed and tooted and thumped ah<>ut half an In or, the old (ient come out in his tin. ht cap, and asked us in the house, where he e;i\e us just as much cake an sider as we eoiild worry down. lie treated so well that we thought we would let him sleep a little, hut I'm sorry now we did it, 1??r he had put something in that sider that made us all so.i sick. I hivetuk a dos of castor ile since and in draps of parryjjorie, lmt 1 aint ahle to play bondy yet. As soon as we all get well, you 1 ?i>l he'll hear another Si reiiade, that '11 run all the loin cats oul'n that <|uartei'. l?ob you ort just to see the stalls walkin the streets of this here city. They ain't like home <ji;:?!s a< all, and they've got all sorts ol gaits?-one of'em pact's, another goes it Mialt haminon'laciiion, another gits overground with soit of a dog trot, hut the funniest ol all is the propeller motion. You see a gal comiu' lords you, and you can't, tell to save your lile what keeps her goin, t ill she passes you, and then you see the inercheiiery is all aft (as the sailors say). They tries to hide this all they can by <m)\viii on big flounea s and hundles ol ruinjdcd clothes behind, They does this, too, lor another reason.? Thev nil have to walk with the (Ireshaiu llend, 1 believe they call it, and it' they hadn't .a heavy weight behind they'd tip over the first time they stumped their toes. 1 went to a picnic last Tewsdny with Miss I'almvra. She's a knee-weal;enor, Hob, and as pretty as a pink?I mean when we started out; hut it was tnity hot, and she kept wipin her face with her white j pocket handkereher, and purty soon I lioiKM-d the pink was all oil" her lao.o, ami 1 km* Iiiitilvt*i'cjIi* i" lookod like she'd just come from tlio dentist to git a tooth out. What, you reeon was tho matter? The perlieo hero intcfcars mitely with the hoys. I hates 'em worse than I do school keepers. You can't git up a nice little row anywhere hut two or three of 'em comes along to hreak tin your sport, and every one ot 'em totes a small oluh to knock hoys down with. Dad used to tell mo that everything was made for some use, hut I can't see what use the perlii e is, nor muskreters cither for that matter. You ort to be here some nb.^ht when the wind don't, blow. 1 don't care it you was a member of 0 churches and a Sunday school to boot, you'd be bound to cuss. You couldn't help it any more'n you'd help groanin' when 41 tooth doctor was hanging n d on to one eand ol the pulls kens and your grinder was fast to the tother. Two hands don't begin to he en nil to keep '?mii off with! While you're llapping your lace with the right and iunmn your ears with the lelt, t hey arc prohin you everywhere) else through your tliiu summer pants. Itf it want for the musketocs ano tho perliee U ustmg would be a jolly place to live ?such piles o{ banannas, oranges and peaches on the streets. For a dime you can git just as many peaches as you kin cat, hut thev aiut unite rim yet, and you'll have to pay about $o to a doctor niter you cat 'em. 1 know this is 8p lor I've tried it. Houston; is named alter < loneral Houston;, win was President or >omethii?g else when Texas belonged to Mexico, but In wouldn't let Mexico have a word t( say, but run the mcrohean on his own hook, lie got along mity well till he took to ti'olbkmg, hut then you set when he was purty well how coiut you so one day, and didn't adzactlv know what ho was doin, lie signed the declaration of annexation and after that he wan't the big dog in tin. ring any more. Twont do l>oh, to fool around lick cr unless its got plenty of icc in it, and plenty ol mint too. Hut m them days you see they didn't havo any, To bo perfectly sate it ort to havo a slice ot pineapple in it too. Von say Al. Jenkins says he will give me a l hi ashing just <as soon as lu sees me. Oh, yes! lie kin talk inity # at mmmmr \ - mmt mtm* iwom^| i;im ini;tii:.\th i ted .f SI.00 j>or s<|tiflro for first an> i. N :.?r eaoli subsequent Insertion. ? Mm* :>i>.|co ilI conr.titMto a square, wlirtli. in in viei* or display type; less thai* an inch will l?" charged lor as a square. Mar notices frco. ' a:' and Funeral notices freo. 0!|> 1 ' ! - (.<?' oiio square t'rni;J ovOr Ollrt stinffi charged ai advorUcing rates, ileli.' 'i ' i>: i'-'/s of one wiiiaro free. A lit ' ' de mint will bo iuad?' to those whoso advcrtis' iiMMits aro t<; bo kept In for erin of tliiM' months or longer. ? ? ~ when lie known Tim a hundred miles oil, 'out you toll liiin tho liitft limo you see iiim not to i^et out of jtalieiu e. I'll hurry up on his account, ami you tell him ho had better lay in a up!>!\ of stiekin plaster. I l-c's a (<> )', iii111 never had .as much brains in lliat chuckle head ol liis'n as a seel tit k, but I'll put a head on bin) win* 14 i got back that'll bo worth soine11111? 1 won't forget tho fish books nor tin- six b!iub'?l knife. 1 can't lind a 'nigger kilhr' in town, but I've got tin* hummin' top tor you ami inc. marvels. (live my love to Aunt .lane. Tell the old soul I g<> i<? church regular every Sunday?it Mill do her good?and so I do, but 1 don't * stop there nor nowhere elso til! 1 g'.1? to the beer garden, (*ivo my nspects to your mar and par, Tell 'em 1 haven't forgot what they told me. about reading good books and history. I've just got through the history I of "Three I''in go rod .lack' and I've most finished the '1)csporadoos ol the Southwest,' and that I teach a class I in Sunday school. You'd hotter follow my example and I hen when we rob old June's Orchard or fasten a bunch ol tiro crackers to the tail of Molly's soreeyed lap dog, we'll bo the last ones they'll suspicion. Write soon and tell mo all you know; 'twont't take I you long. V our oM friend, Diriv I.OONKV. Set vsnit> in lli?' Last Onlut)'. At tlic beginning of tha' century wages in 1 Miilndclphia were said In be throe limes w hat they wero in Kn land. Slaves, convicts, ami apprentices from the mother country sn| plied in a great measure the market lor unskilled labor, and degraded it In 1701 there wero seventy thousand slaves in South Carolina, ot an n,er age value of llo each. The annua' value of a working slave was to be about Tin. Thirty slaves, superintended by an overseer, wore a sail ible number for a lice plantation, raising lour and a hall barrels apice, besides their own prov s, consisting chiefly ot Indian corn. Kicr, which was introduced about 1700, wan exported in 1 747 to tlie amount ot fill live thousand barrels. It indigo was raised a slave could produce one handled and sixty pounds, worth two or three shillings a pound, from two acres, in addition to his own food. I lis winters were available lor sawing lumber, it was regarded at that time 'a very lucky circumstance' that au antipathy existed between Indians and negroes, slaves were 'very dangerous domestics.' In 17 15 Massachusetts had twenty-seven hundred slaves over lilteen years of age, about a thousand of them living in lloston. When emancipation took place there at the close of the Involution, the number of slaves was 1,577. As early as 1709 a (1 . i i . i. - ? ~ > " i ' - < <i uvvjinwii i>i lih: voill'lH llCOU.ll'Ot.1 that ii person burn in Massachusetts could not be kept in slavery. Crimes commilled by bondmen \ were severely punished. About the middle ot the century a heiress was burned for minder and arson near Boston, and a negro at lMnladelphia for a similar crime. The whipping post and llm stocks were common instruments ot punishment lor ihe freemen as well as the slave.? | The Calaxy. 1 Don't Care if i Do. In olden time, before the Maine law was invented, Wing kept the hotel at Middle < irauville, and from his wellstocked bar furnished "accommodations for man and beast." lie was a good landlord, but terribly deaf. Fish, the village, painter, was atllioted in the same way. One day they were sitting by themselves in the barroom. \\ ing was behind the counter, waiting for the next customer, while Fish was lounging before the fire, with a thirsty look, wishing that some one would come in and treat. A traveler from the South on his way to Brandon stepped in to impure ' ihe distance. Going up to the couni ter, he said: 'Can you tell tne, sir, how .far.it is i to Brandon?' 4Brandy.?' says the ready landlord, jumping up; 4yes, sir, I have some,' at > the same time handing down a decini ter ot the precious liquor. > 4You misunderstand mo,' sail the > stranger; '1 asked how far it was to i Brandon.' I 'They call it pretty good brandy,** \i" / t rr ? ? v ? says v? in. "vvni you iuko rtugu* i witli it?' reaching as 110 spoke tor the ' bowl and the toddy stick. I The despairing traveler turned to I Fish. i 'The landlord/?aicl he, 'serins to lx? deaf;' will you tell mo how far it js to iSrandon?' , 4 Thank you/ said Fish, 'I don't care i it I do take a drink with you.' The stranger treated and lied. "Had you, sir," aaid lleury Krskine [ to a dilatory carpenter "been there to ) build the ark wo should not have had ' the tlood yet"