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V VOL. Vt^yNBf Jbries. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY 10, 1875. NUMBER 28.
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COTTON SPINNING AT HOME.
Mil. Kditou : Herewith allow inetohand
you a copy of a letter received from B. F.
Archer, (a practical mechanic,) Special
Agent of the l'atrons of Husbandry in the
State of Mississippi, also, sonic communications
and reports from Mr. Archer, published
in the Fanners' Vindicator, the official
'organ of the State (1 range of Mississippi ? |
This subject you remember was brought to j
the attention of the iiAj/rintUural Sor.'.fy \
of South Carolina," at its January meeting, |
in a scries of resolutions offered by me and >
whic'u wore adopted by the Society.
Mr. Archer lias kindly forwnrjtal yye a
bat, or sliver, and a sample of tlie yarn,
? nun l uu>u iiuh uuiutu iiiu tiiu j.uu,
though it, as Mr. Archer states, was uisulc
from inferior cotton, is well spun atul strong,
ami is well tubiptctl for export to India tint/
China, ispecial!'/. The Clemens attachment
here alluded to, is adapted to any quality or
number of yarn that would be profitable for
us to spin, and there is no reason why wo
should not supply Europe and Asia with
yarn spun from at least two to two and a
half million of bales of our cotton, thereby
increasing the annual value of our exports
more than one hundred million dollars.?
We have the white labor in tho Southern
States (now almost unemployed) to spin all
the cotton and wool we now raise, without
taking any from the fields, if our rich me:i
I would but realize that there is some higher
i obligation than to loan money to needy borj
rowers at extortionate rates of interest. Labor
(white) for cotton spinning and manufacturing
can bo had ad libitum in the
South, at from three to six dollars per week,
according to the character of the service.
Yours, truly,
WIN HO UN LAWTON.
vxtii act from letter..
Tayi.oii's Depot, Lafayette Co., Miss.
at 1t?i. 1 ?7<"?
v.v..,
Winbnrn Luwton, Esq., Charleston S. C.
?Dear Sir : It affords mo much pleasure
to reply to your letter of the 10th iust., received
some days since, and will do to rather
desultory. '"Mountain Mills," the factory
mentioned, is located iu North Alabama,
four miles south of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, between lluntsvillc and
Corinth, Miss., Post office, Barton Statiou,
Alabama. The proprietor of the Clemens'
Attachment, lives at Corinth, Miss., aud is
erecting a factory upon the new plan, soon
to begin operations, that will turn out eight
^???dred (800 lbs.) pounds of yarn per day.
, "J* the proprietor of said)
'W _ 1'1 "Wovr Vrtetwi -it
demonstrated OJf byword of which has bee) tV
thoruujro, I could jhdt na?? Pur/
pcrForm the labor T have done without coin- .
peosation, but for the great low J have for
our South land. This little machine, if
properly handled and duly appreciated, will
help in a wonderful degree to redeem our
material prosperity. * * * *
1 will also send you a small sample of yarn
spun in my presence from very poor seed
cotton, as a test, also, a bat or sliver. * *
I must be allowed to state that / am in no
way interested in the patent, and respectfully
refer you to Col. E. F. Whitfield, Corinth, I
Mississippi, for any information you desire
about sales, etc. 1 would also state, that it
is practicable to spin and manufacture in
any part of tho world wharc cotton is grown.
Hoping that the printed matter accompanying
this will be satisfactory,
1 remain, very truly, yours,
B. F. ARCHER.
mr. archer's report.
The following is so much ofMr. Archer's
Report to the Lafayette County, (Miss.)
Grange, as is essential to the purpose of this
article, and all fur which we have room:
Bj appointment from this honorable body,
on t ho 13th of July last, I repaired to the
''Mountain Mills," Alabama, in company
with K. F. Whitfield, one of the patentees
of the Clemen's attachment, to examine
and test the quality and benefits of the new
machine. And I must say, after careful experiments
and test, of every kind, that I am
lully satisfied of its great utility, and that
it will perform even more than has been
claimed for it by the.proprietors. This machine,
known by the name given above, is
simply a miniature cotton gin and motor
combined,and attached exacly to that part of
the old iron card stand which accommodates
the part called the "Licker-iu."
The Lickcr-in is taken off and the attachment
put on iu^ts place.
This attachment gins the cotton and delivers
it to the card "untanglcr," clear of
motes and trash, and with the fibers straight
and pariiJIcl with each other, and also with
the machine, which is discharged through
the doOer in a continuous roll or "sliver,"
susceptible at once of gre;.'t attenuation, and
in the most perfect condition to make the
best of tin cad
We know we arc not mistaken, for wc fed ,
<1... o.^.wl 1 ?
l/UU OUVU UUl7.1 (IIJV.I IVUIIl/ Dl^UU Ul L11U nillllU
^^Ktil the thread or yams were completed
handed to us by the boss spinner; samples
of which are hereby transmitted; also, ,
samples of the seed from the cotton, slivers, (
etc., etc., for your inspection. Hence wc ,
conclude many savings and advantages will |
accrue in manufacturing of cotton in the ,
South.
(dinning, baling, compressing, use of the
entire machinery of picker room, and from ]
two-thirds to four-fifths of the machinery of i
the card rooui, together with the motive t
power, buildings, and operatives necessary ]
to run said machinery, all rendered useless, ,
and wholly superseded ; and so great is the r
strength of the slivers, rovings and thread, ;
that they seldom let down or break, thereby 1
enabling a fewer number of operatives to ;
run a given amount of machinery " the 1
carding, spinning, and weaving room ; ah
enabling said machinery to uo more work. >
This amounts in reality to a saving of one- t
third of the buildings, machinery, motive i
power, and operatives, in converting seed t
cotton into yarn. (
Large ?| naiit itics of cotton goods eonsuincd
in the South arc manufactured at the
North, and the expense on theni from the
time of leavingthe cotton iields until they are
in the bauds of the consumer, in the way
of freights, dray age, storage, weighing, insurance,'
commissions, stealage, profits and
damages, cannot he less than twenty-live
per cent., which, of coursfc, is in favor of
Southern mills and the consumer. We can,
then, effectually and surely dispense with
all manner of middle-men, so far as the production
of cotton is concerned. It is conceded,
that gross profits ou the manufacture
ol haled cotton into yhrns.by Northern Mills,
with the present machinery, is one hundred
and twenty live p vjcir-t. ; that b'iug the
ease, we can safely calculate on one hundred
and fifty per cent.
These advantages will soon bo secu by
capitalists, and hence, a revolution in that
especial department will occur.
it requires nothing hut logical reasoning
to deduce the fact, that in ouc decade a
transfer of spinning machinery must take
place lroui the North to the Southern cotton
Ileitis.
\Vc obtained from Col. Whitfield, some
data upon the present factory now in course
of construction at Corinth, Miss. The building,
sixty by one hundred feet, fourteen feet
story, thirteen inch brick wall, he informs
us, is now uudcr contract, at live thousand
dollars, lie also states that the ongino, and
complete outfit to turn out eight hundred
pounds of yarn per day, are under contract
for thirteen thousand dollars. Commercial
capital needed twelve thousand dollars,
which he thinks ample. Making in all, total
cost thirty thousand dollar*. N.
F. Cherry, President of the "Mountain
Mills Manufacturing Company," informs
me, that spinning by the new process would
pay a handsome prolit on a much less investment
than the above quotations. We are
especially indebted in making this investigation
to Messrs. Whitfield, Cherry,and .Iamos
Wright; to all of whom wo would tender
tho thanks of Lafayette County (' range.
Respectfully submitted,
K. F. ARCHER.
Oxford, Miss., August 1 nth,*1874.
IIoo Cholera.?It is evident that the
character of this disease is greatly misunderstood
or but little known. That it is of
a typhoid character and a blood disease, is
a well established fact. It is also certain
that the most marked symptom, the 4MW*
r.1oacQJ ia the thinj_asjl last staue of a disbr
UV? fT !( >? .t?(0 i UilU I I IT < * - , r I * !
Unforturihtolv, foi-t# u,0fE Pnrt> "*nThJ
when thV conclus^ has bocu reached thai
apprehensions arc/^tcrtained, and trcat...
,on jyitfo, is undertaken. I he
disorder are rr\Veij *roach of this
stage of the disease is marked only oy ah
unusual quietness of the animal affected,
and the sleepy appearance and loss of appetite
are frequently considered as evidence
of the well being of the sufferers, when
they arc really signs of the'most critical
stage of the disease, and indications that
something must he done without loss of
time. To ''sleep and grow fat." is considered
the business of a hog, but on the contrary
the ling is an animal much given to
activity, and unusual sleepiness is a certain
signification of something wrong. The
lirst stage soon gives place to more alarming
symptoms. Severe abdominal pains
are indicated by a great unwillingness to
move, a position in which the fore lect are
stretched out and the abdomen is brought
close to the ground. The skin now changes
color, and the blood becomes effused at the
surface, causing a deep rod or purple appearance
of parts of the body. The eyes
and mouth and inside of the cars are red,
and sometimes eruptions take place. Up
to this point treatment is hopctul, but afterward
it is of little avail. A strong purgative
should he administered as soon as
any of the symptoms described have been
noticed. This should consist of three or
four ounces of cpsom salts, half an ounce
of sulphur, with one or two drachms of
ground ginger, given in half a pint of well
sweetened warm oat meal gruel, or linseed
tea.
Observation will almost warrant us in
tU.* i?.. '
I.UV, Iiratniun mill. t-uril ICCUUlg IS till' OiUlSO
of ho?^ cholera. Ami the only preventive
that can safely he recommended is to feed
less corn ami more grasses ami roots.?Exchange.
r .?.
Wanhino Wootf.ns.?Prof. Artus, who
has devoted himself to the discovery of tinreason
why woolen clothing when washed
with soap and water, will insist upon shrinking
and becoming thick, and acquiring that
peculiar odor and feeling which so annoys
housekeepers, says these evil cflects are due |
to the decomposition of soap by the acids
present in the perspiration and other waste
of the skin which the clothing absorbs.? j
1'iiC fat c?f the ioap is then precipitated ,
upon the wool. These effects may be pre- {
rented by steeping the articles in a warm '
solution of washing' soda for several hours,
then adding some warm water and a few
Irops of ammonia. The woolens are then ;
to he washed out, and rinsed in lukewarm .
water.?J'Jxrhiini/r.
o
An Knglish medical journal iias aceom- j
[dished what has always been thought an I
iiipussihlc task ? numbering the hairttTol
lie d i ! ' II I ( i: 1' : li'TQ ftTG frl tll
ICn.OtMMo i:??0.l)t)0 hairs in a ladjfwfcwd.
111d then coinpntes their \alue by relating
in incident which it says happened toMnntme
Nilsson during her residence in New
fork City. She was at a fancy fair, and
in admirer asked her the price of a single 1
iair from her head. She said ten dollars, ,
and in a lew moments the Swedish song- j
tress was surrounded by admirers nxious
o buy a hair at the same rate." The pro:eeds
wore given to the lair. At this rate
lie value of .Madame Nils-soil's hair is ?2,)00.000
ROTATION OF CROPS?THE NEGLECT OF THE
PEA CROP.
K.I!tor Southern C'ultivator:?In tlis
April No. of your paper the following plan
is recommended as a proper rotation of
crops, viz:
Cotton, *Curti, Oats,
Corn, ' Oats, Cotton,
Oats, Cotton, Corn.
'file writer advises the sowing of peas after
the oats couie otf. to he turned under in
j the fall. I like the arrangement of crops
I very much, but would otter the following
! amendment to it. viz:
Oats, Cotton, Corn and peas,
Cotton, Corn and peas, Oats,
Corn ami peas, tints, Cotton.
That is. l>g the all be sown, in poas
(broadcast),'at t lie last plowing.* As soon
as coru is oil" turn all under and put in oats. I
Then when the oats are oil' sow in peas
again, turn these under in the fall, and put
tit 1-ifA t l\.? t lit lit V i\wil on?J KAII
Ill IJVj 111 Mt I 11 I II' * t 111 111 i\J>l 11) UUU JUU
! would have ? rich vegetable mold that
! would make cotton to perfection. There
| could bo enough peas gathered from each
! crop to replace the seed and pay for all ex'
tra labor required to put them in, and the
j rye for a winter pasture would pay a large
per cent, on the cost of the seed.
There is a great deal said in our agricultural
papers about clover, but in my judgment.
the pea is (he clover for our Souther*,
farms. We can grow peas where it would
be perfect folly .to attempt to raise clover,
for it is a conceded fact tlint clover must
have good .-Qil, or it don't amount to anything,
whereas the pea will grow on very
poor land. It is strange that our Southern
planters liavo eo grossly neglected this crop
"and persist in doing so, when it has so many
qualities to recommend it to our confiidenitiun--its
cheapness, requiring very little
labor to raise it?its superiority as a forage
and as a fertilizer. I regard it ahead of
clover lor our old worn-out lands?not because
it is richer in ,the element:: of plant
food, but because it grows so much more
tfeadily on poor land, aud therefore what it
tanks iu quautity is more than made up for
{^quantity. As a proof that this crop has
been most shamefully neglected, peas are
hOWr^&rth in Montgomery 61.75 to 62.0(1
PU* bushel, while corn is selling at 61.10 to
61^20 per bushel, and that too when a bushel
of peas can be raised for less than half
what it costs to raise a bushel of corn.
Will uot the people cense this shameful neg
loxt Of one of tiio i < ? // paying crops
..that they can raise in the South.'' Mr. Editor,
please give your views ou the ah^rc. If
miRT> i {'t point out the crmrs- that;unl
profit jWrr or
lVuttvillc, Ala.
The "ameudtnent" proposed is au execi
, V f irmer should never let an op
t- ... ti,0 fertilising action
<?t a pea crop. 1 Iant corn early, work
it rapidly and lay by curly. This will give
the best yield of corn, and allow the peas
time to mature, (.lather corn as soon as
dry, and he sure in ploughing under pea
vines, to see that the corn stalks are thoroughly
buried also?they arc valuable, especially
for the potash tliev contain. Wc
have found that a t/ood two-horse plough
i will bury corn-stalks, even when not cut
down or chopped in pieces. The double
j tree bonds them down iu front until the
j share, lays hold of the butts. Everything
j should he buried sufficiently deep not to be
disturbed by the harrow, when covering the
| oats. Peas after oats fit exactly?the only
i difficulty is thnt dry weather may defer
j their planting or coming up, until rather
late iu the season. It is good practice also,
to follow this crop ot peas with rye j to get
; tho full benefit of it, however, the j>eas
j ought to be skirted arly, and turned under
' by the first of October?earlier, if prncti;
cable?so as- to admit of the rye being
' ploughed under in its turn earlier than
i April. A field of ryo ploughed under iu
April would not furnish the most favorable
j eonditi ins for securing a stand of cotton,
j and the undecomposed rye would be very
: much in the way iu the early workings.
! In many cases the pea is preferable to
clover?for instance, on light sandy soils,
and in eases where it is desired to run a
: rrnovatifi;/ crop during a short interval, as
1 iu the rotation discussed above?but where
; the si?il is still", or clay subsoil is within 8
; -? ? --? !? .!. i - * -
num.Tin uiusui lace, even ii i iic tana IP pool*,
clover is in our judgment greatly superior to
the pen. <J)n vorwpuur clay lands, ?)00 lbs
per acre i'f a superphosphate ( not nmmonir k
ted) will give it a start, and a little plaster
will keep it flourshiug. It has the great
advantage over the pea, that nw seeding
down suffice, tor if allowed to mature seed
in the fall, the land becomes so full of them,
that a c<//niifrrr crop of clover can be securI
i d at any time by .jowing land in small
grain. Such i.s the testimony of farmers in
clover*growiiii} countries, ami such has
been our own experience iu Georgia. In
tin- m\t place, the main growth and work
of clover, is in the early spring, when the
earth is still wet from the wiutcr rains; it
is seldom therefore cutoff by drought?the
pea often i>. Agaiu, clover has tiro //turn ,
or more in which to do its work?the pea
has a j\ ir months only.
We would not, however, be understood as
uttering one word in disparage rnont of the
pou crop. We have agaiu and again urged
its importance and value, both us a food
{Crop and a renovator, and should consider
that a long step in advance had been made,
if farmers, without valley lands, would
make corn for bread purposes only, and
raise pens ami oats for stock?hhlitor
Southern Cultivator.
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A Minnesota Judge, in pronouncing the
death sentence, tenderlv ohsi-rvi-i 1 "If (Mill- 1
ty, you richly deserve the fate that nwaiu
you ;(if innoceut, it will bo a gratification
lor you to feel that you wore IWigcd without
such a crime on your conscience; in either
case you will he delivered from a world
of care "
WHAT A BIO COTTON CROP WOULD DO.
Cotton factuates and languishes in tho
I foreign nud domestic markets, with a largely (
diminished supply and the certainty that s
the last crui> is three to lour hundred thous- ]
and bales snort. The market has no back j
bone and is not likely to have any. The I
trouble now is apprehension of an increased 1
crop next fall. A half million bales excess j 1
over the incoming crop would undoubtedly 1
diminish (ho money value of the whole t
crop to producers, even below that of the tl
present ei?'p. \
The practical value of propitious wen- I
tlier to the cotton producer,' therefore, will {
uot iuure to him. but to buyers and mnnufucturcrs*"Aud
he is, moreover, in the situ- j
atin*i!fprejudged to be guilty ,
until he has time and opportunity to prove ^
iniwiAAiipn
The world of cotton purchasers a?suuic (
an outside limit of production until it is v
appar ut that, this limit has not been at- (
taiued. Thus the shadow of the big forth- r
coming crop of lti7~>-7(??though the substance
does not exist, and it is as yet only a
creation Of fond imagination?is thrown 1
darkly on the little remnant of the incoin- 1
ing crop, aid shuts .out all sunlight from .>
the markctr^s; s
Such Is tho situation, and the whole ar- 1
gumcnt would be lbr a short cotton crop. '
provided the loss of product could be equal- P
ly distributed among producers. The efleet
of increase in product is simply to impose (
on the gt09|or the (ask of more picking, ,
baling"htrtl hauling, without remuneration, t
and indeed, as we believe, at even less than ?
a diminished product would bring to the t
phiatcr. > (
The interest of the planter in a heavy s
crop is, therefore, a purely individual ami |
not a collective intcrqaft. It is an iiltcrcst t
mtftfcly to^ecuro his personal share in the
sum total of crop money, which he believes
will he endangered by n small yield on his 1
mrhr'nl'tt1' torn* It' lm l,r? iicv,ii..nl *
tint three bales of his short crop would j '
brin;.; him. just as much money us five bales j
of a heavy crop, he would say give me the j J
three bales all the time. to I '
raise and send two bales. uiy
own cost.
But asttiie cottnr^jirop covert.a vast rc- t
gion am\'cmbraogf a variety of climatic <
conditions, no vioiuage of tho planting in- ]
terest, anjl no region of country feels that 1
it has an! material power in controlling the 1
grand vonune of prodfea^. If snob a power 1
could p ^\l>lybe brought into eatisteiree and
wiseb,- intcrcst J
not wond p the planter.
The-iml.ility df t^Hlinting interest to
establish and luniutaiflEMpr control,.of cotton
production nmong3pbemselve?/w. hieh
would ho tho simplest an^moet dire^ remedy
for the evils under which tmrr labor,) |
makes it clear enough to our mind that all
projected combinations to control the markets
and shipments of cotton in the same
interest, 'rill be equally impracticable ai d ; '
futile^ aud the chances are that they will :
prove disastrous. Dlen should not venture 1
beyond jheir legitimate business?business
which tine have been trained to and un- 1 1
derstandin all its parts and bearings. If! I
they do, fchcy will blunder and learn expo- I
rienco at ^ost of loss and failure. t
)Ye see: no possible chance of controlling l
the cotton trade by any combinations among I
producers, especially in the light of the !
c.?.t - 1 - -
vuair p..>iiik/iii?iviuiio 111 ii-gumtu ciiimii ;
production havo been found impracticable, j '
The only remedy we can see in the premises j
is a personal one, and very partial at that. {
It is for every cotton producer to jrnin a pe- l ^
cuniary condition in which he will not he I (
forced to hurry his crop forward at the !
opening',o'" the market, hut can choose his j
own time tor selling.
This will he some vantage ground gained,
though pc.haps not a very important one in
respect to mere prices. It would have i
made up very material d i (lore ncy the cur- ^
rent cotton")ear; but next lull, if tho mar- <
ket opeys tinder the depressing effeoU of 1
extravagant estimates of the maturing *
crop ajd the cramp of goneral dull timed, ,
we canieclt would mako a great difference, :
should ihejorop afterwards prove light, and e
business ipvive.?Macon Tchywph awl ,
j,
A ^j^^ntow.? It is well known that '
hluo and scarlet colors in juxtaposition ]
cause qozzhng effect 011 the e?o. These c
colorft strung ou a line and placed over
strawb&e? beds produce a puzzling effect ou
nulls, imd no bird will enter the cardeu rj
while these colors flutter in the air. Pieces t
of blue and scarlet should he cut about one -j
and a ludf'f et in length, and tied to a line t
one ffWlpart. Tliis line is to ho supported t
by poles six l'ect in height from the straw- ^
berry beds. To support strawberries, keep- j j
mg infill clean and cuaoiing ihcid to ripen | ,,
all round, lake a piece of stout wiro a yard j ?
in length, bend it at rightangles ton inches
1'roni each end, bend the space between the ^
right angles into a curve. 8tuinpthc.sc two j
cuds six inches in depth into the earth clnso :
to the Strawberry plants, then draw the ^
Iruitdver the wire, each plant requiring j|
two. To prevent rusting, place the wires r
in oredtatfe flvroc or four days and then dry
than.?Gardener's Miignzinc.
- . * ? I
A yonng lady was yesterday standing on r
the wharf foot of Second street, wav- j;
ing her handkerchief at a schooner lying in ?
the stream. "Know anybody on board?" Sl
queried her oouipanion, as lie came along. u
"No. I don't ; but they are waving their
handkerchiefs at mo," she replied. -'Iiaud
Thai) ker >hoo!) chiefs!" lie exclaimed, ']
dropping his basket and leaning against a p
wonn pile ; "why, them's the men's shirts,
hung up 10 dry !" She waved into a ware-' 1
house. & . /
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DISHES FCR THE SICK
Ciik'KK.n Broth.?Cut youug chickens
old ones aro too rich and strong) into
mall pieces, bruise or crack the bones, and
>ut the whole, with a little rice, into a stone
ar with a cover. Set the jar into a largo
settle of water and let the water boil and
;eop boiling for hours; then strain off the
i?| 11 id and season with salt, a little black
cpper, and add two spoonfuls ot fresh
nilk. This is a most excellent nourishing
liet for those too ill to take solid food;
vhoii not so sick, the chicken and rice can
>c dished up with the broth, and is very
mlatable.
Auuow Hoot Brotii.?Take a pint
resli milk and let it come to a boil; stir in
nilk, boiling a tablespoonfnI of arrow ruotAl
vhich has been dissolved in a little cold"
nilk or water; continue to stir that it may
. _ a 1 11.1 .1
101 lump. :wiu lot 0011 tin iiiick iis cusiaru.
w-ason with white sugar and a little nutneg
or cinnamon. If the patient djes not
dish sweets, season with salt.
Kick Ci.'staud.?Boil half cup of rice
ill std't, then stir it into a pint of fresh
nilk, and put to boil again. Beat the
rolks ol two egg.-> with half cup of white |
ugar till light, and stir into the boiling
nilk and ricc. As soon as well mixed take
rom the fire, or tho eggs will turn. Seaiou
with einnamon and allspiceCounn
Svitur.?Boil an ounce of flax
or half an hour; strain and add to the lijuid
half pound of white sugar, or a pint
>f honey, an ounce of powdered gum araliic,
ind the juice of a lemon ; let the mixture
iitnmer together for some time, stirring oejasionally.
IJnttlo it up, and take a tableipoonful
for a dose, frequently repeated.?
If the cough is troublesome at night, add
,o tho bed time dose a little paragoric.
ChoVK Cakk.?Three eggs and half
[lound (if sugar beaten light, cup of butter
creamed sdt, a half tea cup of cream or
lour miik in which h:is been dissolved h:ilf
teaspoonful of .soda, a tablcspuonful oi
powdered cloves, and flour enough to form
i soft dough, ttoll thin and bake light
otown.
PoyA'coPtrFFs.?Mash the potatoes soft,
ind liiif "smooth with an egg ; inincc fine
lold beef or mutton, (ham can be used but
is not so good) season with salt, pepper, a
little onion and celery ; mix all together,
make into balls, dredge with flour, and fry
t>rfc>wu.?ftovtJicni, Cultivator.
P01flj*rec ECONpMY. I
ftp wrtjj cold sprR^1 water. Put them in %
vessol of water up to the neck, boil half
tie bladders or oil-skin over tight, I
or cook and seal while hot. Let them set
until cold. Keep in a cool place. l\se as
soon as opened, Pack hay around while
boiling, to steady them. ] put them up in
this manner last year, and fiud it to he a
nice way when one cannot get the sugar
just ns the fruit is ready.
Our Cake.?One cup of butter, two of
?ugar, three of flour, four eggs, one teaspoonful
of soda, one cup of sour milk.?
L'In vol as you please.
Kistom Cake.?One tea-cup of butter,
three of sugar, six eggs, four tea-cups of
Hour, one cup of sweet milk, cue teaspoonI'nl
of cream of tartar, half tcnspoonful of
soda.'half nutmeg, a wine glass of rose water.
liake in a moderate oven.
Ckoton Sponck Cake.?Six eggs, half
pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one
pound of flour, a tn^H^^ul of soda, two
>f croaui tartar, on^^^Hn sweet milk.?
Hub the butter aml^^^T to a cream, beat
.be Cggs sepnlatelythe cream of tnr?r
with the th>ur the soda with
be uiilk, which |flHHkidded last. This
nay be made on cream of tartar
ind sweet milk, ^flj^^^Ktcrmilk instead,
this lattr r makes jelly cake.
Irish- J'otato JHjhkiu>.?Mash very
imoothly a pound potatoes; cream
with it halt a pouuM^rnutter. ]feat three
_itb byif a^p|||prol^<>r
itjlMbMtcggtvat tea .pup of'butierwiitt^j
ertspoofifuU4 aoda?wiue and spice to tPl
aste. Flour the fruit well before adding
!iCt the cak< remain in the pau uuni .it is
told.? Southern Cultivator.
How TH&Y Buried 'the Hatchk: ?
The day following our centennial festivities
he foTOwingTffcid ent occurred in a South
hid saloon : A friend liad invited one&of
lie South Carolina soldiers into the Raldbii
o put another turf on the hi iried hatchet. i
Vhile standing at the bar a stranger name
a. 'flic Carolinian smldMHt droppedHtis
;lass and closely eyed thjH^nger. %&i$
;aze was so steady and nBLlr thjNtthe
rietid began to be al.irmn^Bd'to fcflflDli'
he hatchet \v:is about to'SVug up agJuSt'-?
)ircctly the Carolinian the atCTfllger
f he knew hiui. TherdWj tit DO
ion, whereupon the Caro]in^w^fitk'ed him
P he was not in the war. "Yes," was the
eply. "And you were once stationed at
neb a place?'' "Yes." "And took part
11 such a skirmish?" "Vcs." "Well, I
bought so," replied the Carolinian, and,
aising his hat, snowed a large scar on his
jrchead, saying, "There is your sabre mark, 1
ly boy; come up and take a drink." And 1
d then and there they decorated the grave 1
f the buried hatchet.?JJosto?. Herald.
The poet Schiller died May Oth 1850.?
'he steamship Schiller, named after the (
oet, went down May 9, 1875. 1
An acre contains 4,840 square yards.? 1
i square mile contains 1140 square acres. I
BKSX^ARLORS.
Almost every Aflfafeuii house possesses
one of these dfjHHr altars. erected to
what unknown gotmres it is impossible to
guess. It is a Hogy, before whoui IVoui
time to time people burn gas in chandeliers
of fearful design ; to whom are dedicated
flagrant carpets, impossible oil paintings,
furniture too gorgeous for common day and
shrouded therefrom by customary Holland.
>1 usty smells belong to this Deity ; stillness,
angles, absence of sunshine. The visitor,
entering, sees written above the portal:?
Who enters here abandons?conversation."
What is there to talk about 111 a dark room
as the J>omdatiicl, except where one crack
in a reluctant shutter reveals a stand of
wax (lowers under glass, and a dimly discerned
hostess, who evidently waits -only,
your departure to extinguish that solitary
ray '! The voice instinctively hushes; the
mind finds itself barren of ideas. A few
dreary commonplaces are exchanged, then
a rise, a rustle, the door is gained and the
light of the blessed sun ; you glance up in
passing;?flap goes the blind?inner darkness
is again resumed, Hogy bas it all his
own way, and you thank your stars you
have done your duty by tlie Urowns for at
least a twelve-month ! And yet. upon this
dismal apartment, which she hates, and all
her acquaintances hate, poor Mrs. Hrown
Iris lavished time and money enough to
make two rooms charming For ugly
things cost as much as pretty ones?often
more. And costly ugliness is, as Mrs.
Hrown would tell you. 4n great responsibility
to take care of.' What with {lie carpet
which inusn't get faded, and the mirror
which musn't get fly-specked, and the gilding
which musu't he tarnished, there is
nothing hut to shut the ronui up to darkness
and all dull influences. And as families
arc like (lies and will follow the sun,
the domestic life comes to he led everywhere
rather than in the best parlor, and
the 'taboo* which Mrs. Hrown proclaims is
easily enforced.
En mm Soi tiikun ( ri/rivATcm:?
l'loasc publish the extract 1 semi you in
your highly prized "Cultivator," that it
may bo widely circulated. 1 want our
farmers wives to read it and bo benefitted.
I hate parlors?their cold, stiff, chccr/cs*
elegance chills my social feeling. 1 have
ouo its true, because 1 have to do as other
people, but 1 don't want it aud rarely go in
it. I generally find some excuse for askiug
my friends into my little sitting room,
where I am at my work with baby on the
floor, and make no-apology for the little ^
shoe that he has tlwown across tlic room, % >.
""u '*" <" ?*.' ?.??? .....v i? moure
moment that I would love to spend
with a friend if I could run in, "just as I
am," to their cozy sitting room, or cool
back piazza ; but to attire myself in keeping
with the costly parlor, would consume
the little time 1 had to spare for the visit;
and the dark, stiff, unaircd room would
make my head ache. So my little visit,
which I might have chjoyed, hut for the
parlor, is abandoned. l)on't understand,
Mr. Editor. that I am not fond of tasty
pretty rooms ; no true woman wiil sit long
in any o.hcr ; hut the parlors are not, as a, '
general thing, tasty or pretty, and that's
the reason the ladies make "pop calls."?
Rut, please excuse me for trespassing on
your time?1 didn't mean to; and publish
the extract when you have space, as the
well expressed sentiments of
A FARMER'S WIFE.
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Kaiumts?To Rid tiikOaiidkn Of.?
Editork Southern Cultivator:?Among
your readers there arc doubtless many who
are annoved bv rabbits. Thov alumnd W*i?
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enormously, and down to three years ago,
gave mo great annoyance. I watched lor
them with my gun, stuck up effigies, and
exhausted my ingenuity upon them without
the slightest effect. Hut three years ago an
old negro woman brought two ox skulls to
my garden, for some purpose which she did
not explain to me, and these 1 stuck up at
each end of my pea rows, and the rabbits
left that night. They not only left the garden,
hut they left the neighborhood of it.
Not a vegetable has been touched by them
since. This is my fourth year of exemption
from their depredations. A daughter \
living within a mile of me has been acquainted
with those facts during three years
or more, but was incredulous as to the cause
of my exemption,jis I was vpiwilling myself*"
even to recommend the experiment to Tier
adoption, lint she procured two and stuck
them up in her garden, fixing one of them
on her sweet potato plant bed, which was
being torn to pieces every night, and the
potatoes devoured. The rabbits grabbled
the potatoes from between the very noses of
the skulls the first night. It was a cloudy,
dark night, llut the moon shone brightly
oil the subsequent-night, and there lias not
beqii (lie sign of a rabbit in lier garden
since. As 1 do Wot Wxpect yon, and but
very few of ypur readers to believe a word
of litis, I will not | lit my naute to it, but
cilly my initials, which will be recognized
by my friends, of whom many subscribe to. 4
your journal. They will try it at once, and
nil theoretical experimenters will also, and
by this means, a very useful fact will become
known after awhile. 'J'. S. JX
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Dkad in a Crystal Coffin.?An interesting
but melancholy discovery wan
made the other day at the foot of Mont
Blanc. A block of ice, separated from the
mass of the mountain by the thaw, rolled
down into the valley. I'pon closer inspection
it was found to contain enclosed the
remains of the. American, John Blackford,
who about three years since attempted an
iiseent. and has never since been beard of.
IJo evidently met with his death on that
occasion, and has since laid iu his cold crystaline
coffin, which has preserved his body
ind clothing admirably. When found I.is
Features were unchanged, as if he had only
breathed his last half au hour befojv,