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VOL. VI.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 29, IS75. NUMBER 43.
JOHffHY'S OPIHIOW 07 GRANDMOTHERS.
Grandmothers are very nice folks;
They bent all the aunts in creation,
They let a chap do as he likee,
And don't worry about education.
I'm sure I can't see it all,
What a poor fellow erer could do ,
For apples, and pennies, and cakes,
Without a grandmother or two.
Grandmothers speak softly to "ma's,"
To let a hoy have a good tirno ;
Sometimes they will whisper, 'tis true,
'Totlier way, when a boy wants to climb.
Grandmothers have muffins for tea,
And pies, a whole row, in the cellar,
And they are apt (if they know it in time)
To make chicken pie for a "feller."
And if he is bad now and then,
And makes a great racketing noise,
They onlj look over their speeks,
And say, "Ah, those boys will be boys 1
"Life is only so short at the beet,
Let the children be happy to-day
Then look for awhile at the sky,
And the hills that are far, far away.
Quite often, as twilight comes on,
Grandmothers sing hymns very low
To themselves as they rock by the fire,
About Heaven, and when they shall go.
And then, a boy'stopping to think,
Will find a hot tear in his eye,
To know what will come at the last,
For grandmothers all have to die.
1 wish they could stay here and pray,
For a boy needs their prayers ev'ry night ;
Some boys more than others, \ s'pose;
Such as 1 need a wonderful sight.
For tho Union Times.
Idle Moments in an Old Library.
NO. 19.
Dr. Lrmukl B. Askrw lived on the lot now
I L- Tkf-l t?.T i- i tnif wrk*r?
TOtupwu ujr iiinj. ?iouur?, in 1014, 1010, 1010,
1819, 1820 and 1824, he seems to have an applicant
at the old Library for books. From his
Record he was certainly not much of a reader.
Dr. Askew was an eccentric man, honest in
his convictions, stubborn in his prejudices, reticent
in his disposition without much social feelings
about him. He was one of those wise
looking men like uncle Billy in the Georgia
Scenes, who never hazarded an opinion which
compromised his judgment. He was a kind
neighbor, devoted in his friendships and cautious
in the expression of his opinions. He
never had much reputation as a physician. His
record speaks for itself:
Medical Extracts, Encyclopedia, Sherlocli on
Death, American Revolution, Buffon's Natural
History, &c.
HKXKT BSBNilARU.
Henry Bcrnhard was a portly, fine lonkiag
i_XEMl"iin r'n i""' "f"1 'M*
^ position.?one who enjoyed life and/troubled
'himself very little about what might turn up in
:the future. lie lived in the house now occupied
by Mr. Moses?the upper part being used
;as the "Dwelling House," the lower part as a
store-room.
Mr. Bernhard was in partnership with the
late Clough 8. Sims?Sims finding most of the
<capitol and Dernhard the business qualifications.
After a few years of apparently prosperous
'business, Mr. Sims found out that the funds had
'been applied to other purposes than the payiment
of the Firm's indebtedness and that he
was left to foot the bill.
We don't know what became of liernhard.?
lie does not seem to have cared much for books.
Very light reading constituted his pabulem.
.
An lnsaranoe Bombshell.
A convention of Insurance Commissioners and
Superintendents was !ie!d in New York last week.
We learn from tlie New York papers that the
3iarmony of the body was unpleasantly disturbed
by Commissioner John A. Finch, of Indiana,
who quietly dropped the biggest kind of a bombshell
plump into the midst of the body. The
order of the day was the delivery of addresses.
When Mr. Finch's turn came he made a compact,
logical argument, intended to show his colleagues
the errors under which the whole system
of Life Insurance has been laboring for ninny
years past. He contended that the contract for
life ineurnnce is the most one-sided known in
business ; that it hinds the policy holders as with
a chain of rivetted steel, and the compnny as
with a rope of sand ; that the companies have
every advantage of the policy holder in regard
to payments of dividends, the satisfaction of
claims, the elections of agents and solicitors ;
that the responsibility for contracts is shifted
from solicitor to general agents, from general
agents to the companies, and from the companies
back again ; that the companies "sit in a myste
ry and speak in technical phrases," and that
when a policy is forfeited or lapses from any
<eause, "the holder receives what the company
graciously will give."
This, remarks the Brooklyn Argun, is a stern
indictment, striking at the root of the present
system of conducting the life insurance business.
By way of remedy, Mr. Finch proposes the
passage of a new general law, which shall make
tall life policies non-forfeitable after the first payment,
compell the companies to be responsible
lor me ncis OI accrctllieu ugemn mm aunuiiuin ,
permit no defense at law for fraud in applications
after the lapse of five years, and make n
.contract between company and holder as binding
as any other contract. This proposition is suffi.ciently
sweeping to stir the whole life insurance
interest to its foundations. It will please the
great mass of people who are policy holders?
.and it will displease a good many of the companies
who have figured conspicuously in the law
Courts in contests over claims. But, considering
the fact that there are in the State of New
\ York alone more than 800.000 holders of lift
policies in the different grades, and the additional
facts that this vast army of the prudenl
are insured to the amount of S'-J,000.000,000, th<
new departure suggested by the Indiana Com
inissiouer becomes at oneo a subject of populat
interest. The bold defense of the policy holderi
will naturally make Mr. Finch the leader in t
new atritation. The companies will ho heart
in due time.?Chronicle ami Sentinel.
? . ?
JunoR Lynch at Work.?New Orleans Octo
bcr 16.?The following telegram was receivoi
by the Governor last night :
Katun Kohok, October 14.
Covirnor Antonie, New Orleans:
Join Oair was arrested here yesterday b
Deputy Sheriff Woodward, charged as an accea
Bory in the poisoning of Dr. J. W. Sanders.Ho
was taken by a deputy Sheriff and posse t(
wards O.inton. Keports received here say Job
Oair was shot to death on the road, and his sit
ter*in-law hung in the court house square then
Mrs. Gair is here, and is not disturbed
IIKNKY SrilOKTKK, Mayor.
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For tho Times.
FOREIGN CATTLE HAVE LONG HORNS.
Mr. Editor :?A good deal of space has
been devoted in our Agricultural journals of
late to maximum crops. People are always
very much taken by statements of crops at
a distance, while in their own county perhaps
thoy could find cases quite worthy of
study.
In tumbling over some old papers a few
days ago I came across the enclosed lleport
of Dr. Ray. of Richland, one of the best
planters of his day, and one of the cleverest
fellows and staunchest patriots that
buckled on his sword in the Confederate
service. You will doubtless rocognize the
typographical features:
DR- D. W. RAT'a REPORT.
Mr. Editor :?Will you do uie the kindness
to publish the result of Dr. Ray's
planting operations in 1860, as submitted
to tne suite Agricultural eocicty f JJr.
Ray cultivates oao of the poorest plautations
in the Fork, (llhhland,) but he has demonstrated,
satisfactorily to himself and his
neighbors, that by the liberal application of
Guano, Gypsuui and barn-yard fertilisers, he
can secure maximum crops, and that the
land does not deteriorate under their use.
The soil is sandy, with a yellowish clay
subsoil. There must be some peculiarity in
this soil, which secures uniformity in results,
for in all our experience we have not been
able to attain auything like certainty from
the use of Guano. Its beneficial effects
seem to have been established throughout
that flat, sandy region below Columbia,
rosting upon a cold clay subsoil; and the
soils in the back country which have (economically)
rospouded to its application, have
been, as fur as we can learn, of this character.
We have heard of very few successful
experiments upon the clay lands in the upcountry.
TO DR. D. W. RAY, OF RICHLAND.
For the best 10 acres cotton 17,883 lbs. S. T. ?40
.. <? ? 5 4. c< 9,489 44 ? 30
? 44 44 2 44 44 4,673 " 44 20
44 44 44 1 44 44 8,077 " 14 10
For the largest net yield per hand
of the entire crop Silver Fitcher 30
STATKM KNT.
Rales cotton averaging 400 lbs 436
Rushels corn 5,775
Bushels wheat 440
Bushels sweet potatoes 2,000
Molasses (China sugar cane) Gals 1,150
Pindars, 11 acres, fine.
Peas on 230 acres, to fatten stock, furnish
seed for nextyear, and food for milk cows
during the winter.
Porkers slaughtered,averaging 186 lbs. net 51
Number of hands worked 50
Tons of Guano, Peruvian, applied 80
Tons ufU|ppBu(i! : zu
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOIL.
The surface soil embraces three kinds :
No. 1, light sandy. No. 2, middling sandy.
No. 3. clay?not stiff, however, but considerably
stiffer than No. 2. The subsoil of
No. 1, yellow clay, with about 80 per cent,
of sand; of No. 2, clay, with 60 percent of
sand, and of No. 3. about 40 per ccut, of
sand. The average yield per acre, before
using the mauure, were about 400 lbs.
cotton in the seed, and from 6 to 12 bushoU
corn.
PREPARATION AND CULTIVATION.
The land is broken up with narrow, halfshovel
plows, as deep as one mule can
conveniently do it. Then tho rows arc
laid off with a shovel plow, making a deep
furrow?sometimes two furrows are run to
insure its being deep. In this furrow the
manure is put?compost, guano, and gypsum,
&c., all together. Upon this furrow lap
furrow, and re-lap furrow, until tho bed is
completed. The seed is then planted in
chops made by a narrow hoc, and covered
with a drag.
PROPORTIONAL MIXTURE OF MANURE FOR
THE GENERAL CR0P8.
100 lbs. Pcruviau Guano, per acre.
50 lbs. Gjpsuui, per acre.
50 lbs. salt, per acre.
A full proportion of salt was not used iu
the crop of this year, because it was not received
in time to apply it.
MODE OK CULTURE OF TIIE PRIZE ACRES."
The one acre plat was planted on the 8th
of April, in rows 3? feet apart, and in chops
18 inches apart. Manures applied?90
bushels compost, 30 bushels cotton seed, 120
lbs. Peruvian guano, and 60 lbs. gypsum,
put in the drill, and left furrowed as Vbove
stated. 1st working, shaved down; 2d,
scraped down ; 3d. scraped down again;4th,
middles plowed out with scraper plow, and
drawn up withjhoc; 5th shaved down again;
6th, and last, middles plowed out and drawn
up again.
The two acre plat wal planted 25th of
April, in rows 3} feet apart, chops 18 inches
apart,' 1 stalk to the chop. Manures applied
?120 bushels compost, 145 bushels cotton
seed, 240 lbs. Peruvian guano, 120 lbs. gypsum.
Cultivation just the same as the one
i acre plat.
1 The five acre plat was planted iu rows 3
feet 3 inches apart, and in chops 13 inches
apait, one stalk to the chop. Manures ap
Klied?150 bushels compost, (per acre) 12(
t)s. Peruvian guano, 60 lbs. gypsum, an<i
! OA tLa a?i1- lOiret elmvort rlown then nloWff
| out, and drawn up thren times.
5 Tho ten acre plat wus manured in tin
- same way, planted in tho same way, nm
cultivated in the same way, iu every pnrtic
* ular.
Dr. Hay attaches the greatest important
to a good stand. It is in vaiu to expect i
maximum crop without having the requisit
i- number of plants upon the ground ; and h
1 has been able to secure this by no proces
so uniformly as by planting in the chops.
area in cultivation.
y Acres in cotton f>8
" corn and peas 31
_ " " wheat HI
" " potatoes 1
n ?? " pindars 1
" " sugar cane i
lit
Deducting the wheat, as usually done, tl
average per haud would be a fraction over
twenty acres.
COST OK FERTILIZERS.
30 tons Peruvian Quano, delivered $2034 00
10 " Elide Quano " 628 00
20 " Gypsum ' 800 00
100 Sacks Salt 85 00
$2,947 00
VALUE OF THE CROPS.
436 bales cotton?$40 per bale $17,440 00
6,775 bushels corn?$1 per bushels 6,776 00
440 ' wheat?$l| " 650 00
2000 " sweet pototoes?60c. 1,000 00
1,160 gals, molasses?40c 460 00
61 hogs?7}c net 711 44
Mv $26,936 45
It is uuoeopssary to make any continents
?the figures speak for themselves, and
prove beyond a GOttbt that Dr. Ray's success
in planting has been the result of good
management, and the liberal uso of good
fertilizers, and not, as it has been stated,
Kv f lio .? n 1 f l xr ?i t inn aP n lnrrvn A r.iO (m tlin
haud. R. J. GAGE, Sec'y.
?.
A Bittkr Radical.?Tho Washington
correspondent of the Augusta Chroniclr A
Sentinel writes:
Decidedly the bitterest Radical in Wushinton
is a niau of the name of Murtagh,thu
pimp of Shepherd and Grant, who ruus that
filthy sheet, tho National Republican. Ilis
paper is daily filled with malicious lies
against the good peoplo of the South, and so
frequently has he misrepresented the South,
that scarcely a decent man can be found who
will read his paper. The Republican thrives
upon this abuse, a* it gives Murlagh a carte
blanche to the Treasury, where he draws
freely and often to keep his paper alive.?
He was recently allowed to swindle the
Washingtonians out of $96,000, and now
claiuis $40,000 more out of the Government
for priutiug alleged to have been done iu
18G8 aud 'G9. He hates the English worse
than siu, and is in constant warfare with
Jenkins, of the New York Times, who hails
from Albion. Jenkins gets tho better of
him invariably, as Murtagh's armor beiug
vulnerable he invites attack. He repairs to
Shepherd's mansion nightly, and obtaius
points for the uext day's issue of his paper.
The paper is owned mutually by Murtagh,
Shepherd aud Grant, and Shepherd virtually
runs the concern. Graut is so completely
iu the power of the "ring" that his '"pals"
never consult him at all, unless they want
some confederate silenced by a fat appointment.
This man Murtagh holds pews in
six different churches for iuflueuce, and occupies
them alternately. What astonishes
me most is that Murtagh and other bummers
have their pews immediately arumd Grant>.
^...X . i.nyni iiin'iij* r. "toe
observed of all observers. Hut this is nn
old trick of the Christian statesmen, and I
am informed that even down in South Carolina
the saintly Whittemoro is a devout
church-goer, and responds as lustily as
though he had never sold a cadctship.
One Way to Stop Cotton Stealing.
?We learn from reliable parties who visited
the t>pot, that on Saturday night last a
DllUU OI CllSgUlseu llieu wi-iii i/u nciuiviivuoii
of Mr. Robert J. Smith, at Cool Springs,
in this county, aud awakening Mr. Willie
Smith, the clerk, ordered him to remove the
books and papers of his employer, and his
own personal effects, as they intended to fire
the house. They then inquired for the
barrel of kerosene, and after assisting him
to remove his trunk and the books of the
6tore, they saturated the building with oil
aud applied the torch, aud the "house and
all it coutained was soon a pile of ashes
The house was the property of the late
Willis Allen. Mr. Smith was constructing
a two-story building across the road fron
the one he occupied, which was fired by the
disguised men, and was also consumed.?
There was also five bales of cotton outside
the storehouse, which the clerk begged per
mission to remove, but was sternly refused
and it shared the fate of the storehouse.?
A scrupulous regard for the property o
persons not connected with the store was ob
scrvablc. They carefully removed to i
place of safety the tool chest of Mr. O. G
McCoy, and a cage and bird belonging t
the clerk. The loss is estimated at abou
$(>,000 ; no insurance.?Tr win ton (Go.
Southron.
Mellow Soil About Tmkes.?Unlcs
the surface oi the ground is mulched uroun
young trees over an area of six to ten fet
in diameter, the ground should be kcptclca
and mellow. Every farmer knows that
hill of corn or potatoos will not amount t
much unless cultivated, and yet there ai
many who will neglect to give tho sani
, caro to a tree which is worth a hundre
hills of the former. In rich soil, trees ma
grow rapidly without cultivation, and r
amount of grass or weeds will retard then
but there are other things to be looked afte
If the weeds and grass are allowed to gro
up around the stems of ; pple, peach <
a Korl u;il! lninAtnn crtfl n/v
(JlllIJUU iiuuo, uil uum nai. wvv?/m>v w.? ..v.
their base by being shaded thereby bo in
1 suitable condition for the reception of tl
' eggs which will eventualy become peach <
. apple borers. Take any dozen young app
. trees in the sections where the apple bor
is abundant, and allow a portion to bccho
ed with weeds and the remainder well ci
1 tivated, nnd then watch the result. Fro
our own experience, we believe that t!
ohnnce are nine to one in favor of the
cultivated being exempt froui this pest.e
West Farmer.
a
e A good book and good wouiuu are exc
c lent things for those who know just how
s nnnreciate their value. There are lilt
however, who judge of both from t
beauty of the covering.
5 "Vhat's all this talk about tho courren
?2 and the five-twinties and the sirin-thirt
that I hears about, Mike?" "Why, bl
your sowl, don't ye know, Pat? It nini
L that the Government wants to make*!
>1 laborin' min work from five-twinty in I
le mornin' till sivio-thirty in the avening."
i
THE FAM0U8 8IX HUNDREDfie
Lnion of the Survivors oftnc Chon/c at
Bala kin va?About the jifrn who Jiotle
into' '"The Valley of Death."
The soldiers of the Light Cavalry brigade,
the men who rode into the "Valley of
Death" on that fatal October uiorniug ouc
and twenty years ago, were invited to attend
meeting last night to make arrangements
for a dinner iu celebration of the anniversary
of the Baluklava charge. Thotrysting place
was the Prince of Wales Tavern, Villiers
street, Strand, and the hour fixed for the
muster was 9 o'clock, to enable tiioae who
were engaged in business to put in an appearance
f consequence o! tno disagreeable
drissling rain, not so many came as Were
expected, bat a respectable contingent, in
cvqry scuse of the word, of war-worn veterans,
answered to the roll-call all the same.
Hale, hearty men they were, the most of
then ; but, so portly of build, that they set
one wondering what sort of light cavalry
that, must have been where the weight in
the pig skin ran up to eighteen stone of
living flesh in sundry instances. Jovial of
manner and neat of address, they discussed
the matter before them as one might have
expected?in brief, soldierly, and most harmouious
manner. It was agreed that a dinner
should he solemnised in the Charing
Cross Ilotcl?is not solemnized the correct
word ? for has not Charles Lever defined a
dinner ns a social sacrament?on the 25th
of October, and it was stated that many
officers who had helped to write one of the
most brilliant pages in our military annals
had promised to give the event the sanction
of tfieir presenco. The greatest part of
those in the room had belonged to the Eleventh
Hussars, thut distinguished corps having
been principally recruited in London.
One warrior had served his apprenticeship
to arms under JDeLaccy Evans in Spain ;
another was remarkable as having borne the
flag of truce to the Russian lines the 'day
after Ralaklnvu ; a third was never tired of
celebrating the hauls fails of his ancient
captain, Sir linger Palmer, who led the E.
troop or the Eleveuth into action, and did
his slaughter with cold steel, having forgottcu
his revolver in the hurry to jump into
the saddle. After the formal proceedings
were over, there were some rare gossip
over former campaigns, and l ho uonniilitarv
observer was enabled to pick up
some interesting remiuisccuccs.
It is a curious circumstance that every
mnu but one who wou that supremest of all
miliary distinctions, tho Victoria Cross, in
the piagpififliht mad ride immortalizediby
lr.
Light Dragoons, who stood ou the ground
with Kis clparger writhing in the death agony
beside him. Truuipet-Major Crawford
flashed by ; his good steed stumbled, the
rider was disuiouutcd, and his naked
sabre sent whirling out of his grasp* A
pair of Cossacks saw their opportunity and
spurred upon the defenceless Crawford but
Parke8 confronted them and kept them at
bay. When the retreat came the two
brave fellows followed their comrades, and
were pursued by six Russians, but Parkes,
with his single sword, held them at arm's
i length and retired slowly, fighting and dci
feuding the trumpet-major uutil deprived of
i his weapon by a shot. This is uo rhodoi
uiontade, but plain facts, as recorded in the
. Gazette. Lieutenant Alcxaudcr Robert
| Dunn, of Cardigan's boys, was another hero
I of that day, fruitful in heroes. lie saved
. the life of Sergt. Bently, of his owu corps,
s by cutting down two or three Russian troopr
ors who were-attacking him in the rear, and
i afterwards hewed to the chine a Russian
> hussar who had fallen upon private
. Lcvett. This Duuu, it will be remembered,
3 afterwards commanded the Thirty-third,
. being the youngest man of his rank in the
, army, aud perished in the Abyssinian expe.
dition. Riding-master Joseph Malone had
f hi? horse shot in the charge, but, properly
. speaking, his bit of ^trious gun-metal
i was gaiucd the day previous when he volunteered
with three troopers, on the march
0 to Balaklava, and captured an escort of tin
t enemy's cavalry aud the baggage they wert
j conveying to Sebastopol. Troop Sergeant
Major Johu Berryuian, of the old "Death's
head and Cross bones," the same sturdj
j cavalier who took prisoner threo Russian:
1 while they were within reach of their owi
oLri?n7in'a fnrm hoh.TVPfl fsTllonrlifl
..V ... ? 1
ly at lialaklava. When his horse was sho
a under him hefstopped in the field with Capt
? Webb, w ho was vended, amid a shower o
? shot nntf sliefi, and although repeatedly toh
"j Hiy that officer to consult his own safety, an<
leave him, he refused to do so. and, Ser
y geant John Farrcll coming by, tho tw
10 faithful fellows carried Capt. Webb out o
1' tho range of the guns. The couragoou
' Irishman Fart ell, who lost his horse lik
w the majority of his plucky couipanious, an
jr had gone near to losing his life, was aware
XT ed the envied honor, but did not long sui
a vive to wear it. Charles Wooden now
Ie quartermaster in the. One Hundreth an
.)r Fourth foot, was another of the Scventeent
c lauccrs who earned the cross on the 25th c
?r October, 1854, and he, too, had hischarg<
** kill iu the wild melee. Assisted by Dr. M<
' ' nntt, of the Iuniskillcn dragoons, he sui
!ni ceeded in carrying Major Morris, of his ow
i i ir..n..
I regiment, wno my urcuuiuoy wuuiiucu, (u
so place of safety. In chatty rccollcctioi
Mich as those we have tried to pen and i
tales of hair-brcattths 'scapes in the hai
cl. days gone by, tho time was pleasantly pas
to cd, and shortly before midnight the sur\
,n vors of the "Six Hundred" separated, lool
l,e ing forward with joyous anticipation to
merry meeting on HalaklavaDay.?Loiuh
Standard.
ies Why is a doctor better taken care
iss t*iaD ^'8 Patlcnts? Because, when lie go
to bed, somebody is sure to rap him up.
die Mite no vows to perform this or thntythe|)It
shows 110 great strength, and makes th
ride behind ftyself.
^ C
RUSSELL'S REVENUE.
A DOUBLE WEDDING AND A DOUBLE KUNEKAL
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
About five years ago William llussell, a
farmer, liviug a few miles from Rosovillo,
Pennsylvania, was left a widower, with one
child. The carc of the farmer's house then
devolved upon his daughter Harriet, aged
sixteen years. A girl named Mary Stokes,
about the same age, was employed to aid iD
the household work. Miss Russell discovered
that her father was paying attention
of a lover to the girl. The farmer's daughter
dismissed the Stokes girl from her situation
in the family. When Russell learned
VI Jjtuvcvuiu^ u? lunncuiuieiy UTUUglll
the girl back, aud told his daughter that
he was to remain theMjW long as she chose.
The daughter theranp&j left the house, and
Vent to work (ho neighborhood.
Mary Stokes finan^WHEtasscll's and a few
days afterwards Miss Russell resumed her
old position in her father's house.
Living in this village was a highly respected
young carpeutcr named Morton
Hurst. His father owned a farm adjoining
that of the Russells. Some years ago a
difficulty arose between the two farmers
about the piopea location of a line fence.?
A long, bitter and expeusive lawsuit followed.
Farmer Hurst was finally successful
in the suit, and died two years ago.?
Russell hated tin: name of Hurst, and when,
some three years since, he made the discovery
that his daughter and the ,'ou of his
old enemy had formed au attachment for
each other, and were actually eugaged to be
married, lie threatened to disown Harriet
if she did not at oucc renounce tho idea of
wedding young Hurst. She made the sacrifice
in obedience to her parent. About
three months n<ro 11 man>11 fin?iiiiiwl?d liia
daughter by tolling her that lie intended to
soon marry the girl Mary Stokes, and bring
her back to the farm-house. Harriet assured
liiui that when ho brought his wife
home he would find his daughter gone.?
Friday morning the old farmer, telling
Harriet that he would return with his wife
in the afternoon, drove toward the home of
Mary Stokes. The daughter placed the
house in readiness for the return of her
father, aud about noon started for lloscville.
She left behind hor, on the bureau in her
room, the following letter addressed to her
father:
Dear Father :?I have always tried to
be a dutiful daughter to you, but the aot
you intend to do to-day is more than I ean
submit to, as I have more than once told
you. You choose a compauion above me. |
I hop > ?he will be as truo w >*u hav*
r^p^. "t ?r " f'r"
Do not thiuk I am writing this with a light
heart, although in leaving the home of my
childhood I go to find a home with one I
havo long laved and whose wife I expect to
be in a few hours. God bless you, father,
aud good-by. Your oucc-loved daughter,
Hattie.
tt ? ,| *11 1?? ? 11
upon reaching irus viuagc xuiss iiussen
was uiet by Ilorton Hurst. They proceeded
to the housp of Mrs. William Filley, a
sister of Hurst's, and about 2 o'clock in the
afternoon were married by Rev. Mr. Young,
of the Methodist church Afterwards they
went iu company with Mrs. Filley. and a
young gentlcmau, a friend of Hurst's, to the
village tavern, where it had been arranged
to take dinucr. They were nearly through
the repast, when the door of the dining
room was burst in, aud farmer Russell, pale
with rage,, and a singular glitter in his eye,
sprang into the apartment. His daughter
arose hastily and ran toward him with outstretched
arms, but be threw her aside and
sprang upou her husband.
'You scoundrel!" he exclaimed, "\rou
set my daughter up to leave her home!"?
, lie grasped Hurst by the throat, but the
, young uiau threw him off and commenced
i backing toward the door. Russell seized a
knife from the table, and getting between
I Hurst and the door, attempted to stab the
i young man. llurst received the thrust in
I his arm, aud seeing that the old man was
bent on murder, drew a revolver and warned
i him to stand back. Russell did not heed
> the warning, aud continued to make deadly
5 lunges with the kuife. Hurst received
- many of these iu his arm and shoulder.?
- Hurst's sister escaped from the room during
f the melee, and the young man preseni
i seemed to bo paralyzed with terror. Ai
i last Hurst pushed his assailant buck frou
him and leveled the pistol at him. Hi:
t wife at this instant sprang between the met
. just as the husband's pistol was discharged
f The ball entered her brain, and she fell t<
1 the floor and expired without saying a word
J The report of the pistol brought a uuuibc
' of persons iuto the room. Hurst had fall
o en ou his knees beside his wife's body, am
f after several times frantically appealing t
8 her by name to look up and speak to hiu
e he rose to his feet, and before a hand coul
d be extended to prevent him, shot himsel
1- through the head, and he fell dead besid
r- his wife. Russell seemed stricken dum
a by the fearful sceno, and was led from th
d room like a child.
h As soon as the excitement that followc
>f the news of the tragedy could be somewhi
jr allayed, the bodies of the young marrie
) couple were removed to the residence <
c- Mr. Filley, followed by hundreds of peopl
n In the evening an inquest was held L
a James Powell, Justice of ihe Peace. Ru
is sell was arrested and held in 82,000 I
in await the action of the grand jury. .
-d verdict that Mrs. Harriet 11. Ilurst met hi
s- death by the accidental discharge of a pi
l- to I, and that tlortou liurst came 10 n
k- death by his own hand while tcmporari
a insane, was rendered.
# T ^
"Is the Colonel here?" shouted a ma
sticking his hend into a Kansas City stre
of car. r,IIe is," answered thirteen men
es they rose up.
A Kansas girl says nothing makes h
? so mad as to have a grasshopper crawl i
ee and down her back just as her lover h
conTe *o the proposing point.
ft
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Melton and Smalls.?It did seem
queer that so eminent a Reformer as Mr.
Attorney-General Meltou should have allowed
a live mulatto Congressman, charged
with fraud, to slip through his fingers; but
it could be urged that his powerful uiind
was occupied iu roviowiug the Parker trial,
aud that he really thojght the case was in
good hauds aud needed no particular attcn- ^
tion. A remorseless correspondent of the
Columbia Ret/itfrr, Mr. Edwiu F. Gary,
cuts this ground from under our feet, and
fdaoes the Attornoy-Geucral in a very ut^ly
ight-for a Reformer. Mr. Gary was the prin- \ ,1 ^gjjHg
cipal witness, *br the State, ag inst Conirrcssman
Smalls. On the morninc of the
trial, Reformer Melton (as Attorucy-GCOCT*'^*
al) announced his withdrawal lYoni the cose.
This left the caae in tho hands of Solieitor
Runklc, who naked for a continuance, and
said that the ^toesscs wore not present.
Although the case came over from a provi- ^
ous term, uouc of tho witnesses had been \
summoned to appear. Judge Carpenter in- \
sis ted that tho trial should go on. Mr.
Gary was examined, but no questions were
put that would bring out the important facts
that he knew, aod what lie wanted to tell
he was prevented from telling. Result?
tho acquittal of Smalls. Cause?the withdrawal
of Reformer Melton from the case.
Had lie remained in Court, he must, for his
own sake, have couducted the prosecution
vigorously. It was easier to withdraw and
think of Judge Mackey and ex-Treasurer
Parker. So Smalls escaped; Suialls, who
is not a "dead duc^" 1'^? Parker, but a
popular Radical; a member of Congress,
who carries a big slice of the vote of Beaufort
County iu his capacious pocket.?Newt
and Courier.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New
York, wrote as follows in a letter declining
an invilatiou to attend tho Georgia State
Pair ! "In five veers from thin time the
census will show our numbers to be more
thau fifty millious. The day, then, is dawniug
when the lands of the South will be
greatly lifted up iu value. I have given
uftich time aud thought to tho agricultural
condition of tho United States. I bave
traveled extensively, and I bavo examined
with oarc into tho industrial interests of all
sections, and I am confident that horeafter
the South will get a large and growing
share of those who arc seeking new homes
oitber from Europe or from tho older States
of tho Union. This flood-tide will bear
with it wealth and varied industries. I
prav. fojr jiie day jtfhen tho South shall ho ^ jf
' ef? 1 p* nWSsured porvudiog wel*
fecials of our Union."
These are wordg of a 8tatt8m j
Houldbo ponde*,d b ,hc . 0'( ,h
North leagued Witt. HXal, for
poses inimical to our wel...e apd wel|.do[og
A Veteran Re-union.^7
N. .T.. October 19.?The Vetcr*k1Zv"
here to-d'iy surpassed anything 0Y?^\unYn
this city. At Wavcrly Gens. KilpaX^u
Prior, Halstead and Seigel, and Capt. Bv
wards, Confederate, and Capt. Hopes delivered
addresses, and there were recitations of
music, &c. Returning from Wavcrly, they
were witnessed by ten thousand citizens.
The whole city was ablaze with lime lights,
torches, fire-works and transparencies. The
line marched through Broad street and
countermarched to the Sheridan House,
where there was a large display of fireworks,
and addresses were delivered from the balcony
by Capt. Edwards, Gen. Halstead,
Capt. Townsond and Rev. Mr Kieffc^ A
grand supper and entertainment was given
to the invited guests at Sheridan House tonight.
A Man's Head Blown Off.?Memphis,
October 21.?Dr. Ballard, formerly
ot texas, residing near marton, Arkansas,
while riding with a lady vesterda}'afternoon,
was waylaid and shot by a uian named Andrei,
who fired ono barrel of a shot gun at
I the doctor, the charge taking effect in his
I neck and face and knocked him off his
horso. After falling, Ballard asked AnI
drews to raise him up, which he did, in a
sitting posture, and then placing the gun
'p near his head discharged the other barrel,
? literally blowing Ballard's head off. Ant
drews then went to Marion and surrendered
himself to the authorities. Androws had
been employed by Ballard a few days before.
* Ballard had knocked him down twice.?
Ballard is represented as having been a violent
man. and had on Sunday last waylaid
i and shot his wife's nephew, Andrew Frazer.
r Five Gbades ok Oats.?New York,
'r October 20.?The Committee on Grain of
^ the New York Produce Exohange has de0
cided to establish five grades of oats?
'? white, high mixed, No. 2, No. 3 and no
grade. White oats shall bo bright, sound,
" clean, frco from other grain, and shall weigh
o - ? -? a 1- tl.
1)01 loss man wuriy-twu puuuua m tuo uica"
sured bushel; high mixed oats shall be twoc
thirds white, and equal to No. 2 in all other
respects; No. 2 oats shall be sound, rcasona"
bly clean, and reasonably free from other
'J grain; No. 3 oats shall be fit for warehous*1
ing, otherwise unequal to No. 2; no grade
shall include all oats damp, unsound, dirty
or from auy other cause unfit for No. 3.
y The committee will proceed at once to ess"
tablish grades for corn, wheat und other
grains.
A
T>w> Ttnrnwnll Unnntv Tax Union meets
8- on sales-day in November. At the meeting
is delegates to the State Union, to meet during
ly the same month, are to he elected.
We should like to see this body revived.
n Are other counties moving in the matter ?
e? The Tax Union oan do much if it will take
Q8 hold of things in earnest. But unless it
does that, it had better not meet at all.
er It is said that Brigham Young has acjp
quired tlio title of general from having been
as called "Briggy dear" so often by his numerous
wives.