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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.
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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.
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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>
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ident ?Iournrvl.
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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
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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"