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11 S'1 .... - VOL. I. MANNING, (LA RENDON COUNTY S. C. WEDNEDAY, JULY 2l, 186 NO.32. sOM' E E.%SONu % G HIGH; What Work the Go the Mon~k of J Summer cro - cultivation. Drong " fought as bt. we may. grass are to be kept down, and the iPmnat. in the soil of availAble plaut fCd to I promoted to the fullest extent. One the greatest antidotes against aught is an abundance of humus in the 3il. A farmer cannot stop now to s-!ply this in a field where there is a growing crop: it must be looked after in his general plans, embracing proper rutatonN, ant resting of land, or during % intL r, when leaves, pine and other straw may be hauled out and scattered upon it. 13a good growth of pearines suplies a 1irst quality humus for old land and peas may be planted for such purpose during this and next month. I seed are plenty, they may be broadcast at the rate '-f one and a half bushels per aere; if seed are scarce, plant in drills two and half to three feet apart, either sowinig peas thin ly in furrow or dropping ive or six in hills fifteen inches apart. Cultivation induce so much more vigorous growth that the drilled peas wili make about as much vines as the broadcast. Where vines is the object alnost any variety will answer, the old-fashioned cow or clay pea being one of the best. For this work, in mi l-summn r, one has to catch the seasons; start plough iafte a rrin as soon as practicable, and drop peas in every third or foarth furrow when one intends to drill breaking land and planting seed will thus go on to gether. Our experienee is that peas must not be planted deep to come up well; and narrow scooters are the best ordinary plows for this work. Probably a deep cutting harrow, like the dise, with a seeding attachment, might be nac to do this work very rapidly on grcl'' notI too hard. Let us always keep 4 eye out for means of accomplishing work rapidly; economy demands it, and th!e rapid drying of the soil in smer makes it a very great necessity. Time under such circumstances is rmost valuable: an1 opportu ity lost may never be rece'.red. But let us go back to the cultivation of crops. Much of the corn receives its last working this nonth. Let this be thorough, in the sense of stirring every inch of the surface, but let it be only the surface. Deep plowing of corn after jointing fairly begins, is undouedl injurious. Sometime! a merciful rain fall in part wards oft the damage, but unlyi in part; it cannot vholly counteract the bhurt; the heel-scape is the best single low for laying by corn; properly set it. es the surface approximatAy level. A wheel cultivator may be gauged to run shallow enough, and will then answer very well. If the crop has been judici ousy cultivated up to this time, no hoe work will be retuired; if nceded, how ever, give it. Let the land be left per fectly clean unless it is decided to sow peas in the corn---an old and excellent practice. Peas will interfere less with' the corn than grass or weeds, and the: latter are sure to come sooner or later. But if the corn is laid by perfectly clean it will be pretty thoroughly matured be fore grass and weeds c-an get much foot hold. Last year we sowed soja beans,: or Japan peas, as they used to be called. in bottom corn on the 16th of July, and they matured before frost and ma'ae an excellent crop. As it does not run, it1 does not interfere with fodder pulling. Cotton needs rapid surface cultivation also, especially during the first half of the month. A steady and rapid growth is now desirable to lay the foundation for fruiting next month. Get good weed by the first of August and then let the pattake on fruit; frequent cultivation promotes rapid growth; keep the p~loug'hs therefore constantly moving, let no crust form, let no grass get a foot-hold, let heel-scrape run very shallow and tiat;: keep them sharp so as to cut off May-r pops, briers, etc. Get only those scrapesi that are bent in the middle, so as to formnn a cuff to fit on the plow-foot, and allow the wings to run flat. A narrow bar of steel simply bent in a curve, with a hole in the midlle to receive the heel bol1 is wholly unfit for the work now~ int hand; it throws too much dirt, andIa leaves beds too high for hilly land. It m;- suit very well for the level, sandy la toward the coast. Put the scrape ~.ak of the plow f. ot, noti ias long as the cotton will tbear it without haviz g its limbs or boils g broken off; run i~we furrows to each row.0 A twenty-inch serape will clean out a1 middle "thoroughly with two furrows. Later in the season a wider one nmay be run once in each middle. If hoe "work1 has been properly done up to this time little more of it will be needed, but a badly wqrked crop at the start will call - for agreat deal of work at the end. On former occasions we have pointed1 out the beneficial results from frequcent surface stirrings of the soil; we briefiy recall them again. A thiu layer of pul verized soil is one of the very bet mulches to be had. It is the only onef practicable on a large scale. It prevet I the escape of moisture, dries off mpi dly t itself after being stirred, but effectual b cuts off the ascent of moisture from be- k neath through itself into the air. D~eee ti stirring of the soil makes it dry ofC t rapidly. Hence the practice of plowingt bottoms lands in the spring to get theiu l enough to plant. MIoisture from be ot ascend rapidly through pul ti whilst the free circulation h causes the water inp eatmosphere very .o] of puilverized a roots, ofi& el1l as I oj t i 'lants, but a high temperature evapt tcs t'he moisture in it rapidly. Any E ) of temperature above that wli, lieed is doublv injurious to the impairin- their vitalitv. ai y depriving thein of need, ne need never feir keepij 1 in Julv and there er ;.Is ever being t< 1 result from stirrii th ace, which will be imention n.1" he admission of air into the soi Th preScnee of air is indispensable 1 th alth of roots and their prop worlkin. Pla!nts languish in wet soi Swater shuts olf air from the r tight. hard crust at the surfat dots the s'Une thing to a considerab: egree. In addition to promoting t1i -.d proper working of roots, tli . , o 00 ;,- in the soil is essential t nitrification,t '''s bv whi h unavailable nitrogen soil is enan, ed into that which is availab. %fAlso t those changes in the minerals in the-s by which their valuable contents ar( brought within the reach of plants. From very many points of view. there fore, irequent surface stirrings of tht soil are shown to be beneficial, to smN nothing of the killing of grass and weeds We repeat, therefore, keep the plow moving with *dl diligence. In addition to peas, already consider ea as a humus supplying crop, late forage crops of all kinds should now claim attention. Drilled corn mar still Oe sown. Taking it all in all, this is perhaps the best forage crop we have. The later sowings of it should not be altogether as thick as the earlier, as the cool weather of autumn is not so favora ble for maturing and developing starch and sugar as the warm weather of mid summer; the late grown plants should have more light and air. Make drills at least three feet apart and sow seed so that there shall be a stalk every four to six inches in the row. Cultivate well and eut when ears begin to form. Corn does not develop its ful nutritive vaiue before that period. From a desire to minifv the sialk, the mistake is made sometimes f sowing too thickly, and the result is imperfect development and forage not relished by stock because it is not really autritious. All have doubtless noticedl ihat stock are not fond of young corn plants, -those, for instance, that arc re lnovcd ila thinning a crop. Sorghum loes not develope its sweetness until the ;ceds are formed, and the same is true vith corn. Early amber cane planted from the 1st o the 15th of this month will be ready o cut by frost, and piled in bulk can Ie iept green and succulent for a couple of nonths. It makcs better forage in its ,reen state than when cured and drv. or mules and cows it may be made to ,over the months of Octoler, November ud December, and as it is easily raised, supply for that purpose should be ound on every farm. We have fed it to iorses also, but they do not relish it as nuch as mules, nor does it agree with hem as well if fed exclu.,ivelv. A little >f it mixed with other forage is well -lished and doubtless healthy food. Of number of varieties tried by us the >ast season. the amber is decidedly the >est as a foage plant. it is one of the weetest. and the stalks being small are asily cut up and more readily masticated >v animals. Give it a trial, if you have tot done so. German millet may still be sown on rood land. Like all rapidly maturing rops, it makes heavy demands on the I oil, and this should be met by heavv i .anuring. But it sometimes helps one a till out a short supply of forage when long drought or other circumstance al >ws only a short time to do it in. A! armer caught with enipty barns on the i-st of August might still fill them with terman millet. Cut just as the seeds re forming, it makes one of the strong st and most nutritious forages we have. ecause it is so good, animals are some mes over-fed with it to their injury and bad rep~utation is then unjustly given ie millet. Clover and .peavines ar-e able to the same charge. It is none too early to commence pre aring land for turnips. There is no etter preparation than cow-penning and lowing the land at intervals of two or iree weeks. In the absence of cattle, r-oadcast manure and plow it ini when reaking the land. Lot manure, well >tted, is suitable, and for turnips is mech improved by a liberal addition of -id phosphate. "Any form of phosphate good for turnips. But votash and! itrogen are also needed by~ this gross ~eding plant, and may be supplied by ainet and cotton seed meal. Verv fine Ith is almost as important for this~ crop I manure; therefore repeated plowings Lid harrowings are recommended. Se et rather sandy soil for this crop. Be-, in sowings of rutabagas after the mid- N le of the month, and continue at inter-] 11s, whenever the soil is moist and in I :>od condition, to the middle of August first of September-the latest sowingsp early maturing v-arieties like red top!D 2d fiat Dutch. If land is well brokenb :first and harrowed after every rain, | will remain moist enough to bring upli ed even in long spells of dry weather. hose who begin early and pursue right v .ethods generally succeed in getting I >Od stands when the weather is very,] sfavorable. Those who wait to th~e< st minute, and begin preparation when I: te time for phlating arrives, are very;. >t to fauil unless the weather is unusual- K favorable. The above remarks apply with equal re-e to preparations for clover and grass be sown in September. They should ~gin by the last of the month and fol w the same course marked out for: rnips. Liberal manuring and fine th are the twvo main points. All of Lese plants have small seeds, and the :the delicate seedlings demand food ~sily found, and a line seed-bed to fix iemselves in. Sweet po'tato slips or vines may be it out all througlh this month. ~The d-fashioned yellow yam might not do uch set out after the 10th, but the ore recently introduced varieties of the .Domingo typ~e will make a fair crop tubers, and of decidedly better cluab- 1 than those started early in the spring. or the later plantings pieces of vine are 7eferable to "drawers" or "slips." It I ec'd pr-actice to start a patch of pota ~- N the season, from which re the pot.4g later and main Sty and( 2a -'1l locali >r- sloping in the ground, ihte upi, bud onfly above the surfa, will grco quite as readitly Ps a rootd slip. L n, every onel putin a full cr:4 of potatoe. uI w xork- will ut(-t be so. ires,-ing niow ail d the grain fils Will f i suitable an 1g abundant land for i 1urpose. is soon as the tubers ar i fair size, begi >o at once to feed to sto-k of all kind horses, cows, hogs, etc. Thjeo mistake j generally made of waiting till frost u digging time to begin feeding them an 1. then many are lost before they are cor o umed. Our true policy Is to ice-d th ?r strock on the farm. with :any differen is things, each in its seasn. The old stvli ir of feeding on Corn an fAdder all th, t", year is not suited to on: prescnt en viron e ! mntt--it is too expen~t'. Neither is i e i healthiest or best for .:::aiUs. We fet e our stock for some time n green rye thenI followed with red cliver, and wil e bein soon on forage corn. A part ratioi of dry forage is ahvys given with these o and the stock keep in a remarkabh 1 i healthy, thriv.inq condition. A sick ani. 1 never have. Now that. the sre'ss of work is over, barbecues and socii - rmg, are in order. More than others, farm " - need the healthy, invigorating influences of such occasions. No one is so wise that lie may not learn from others. Meet and discus matters pert. ing to your calling. Visit each othe-r' farms, and with friendly criticisms cau attention to mistakes made and suggest improve ments. Attend every club meeting; he must be a dull man that cannot learn something there. The farmers in several States have been aroused recently touch ing their relations to the State and to other callings. They are unwilling to be ignored or imposed on longer. We hail it as a good omen-as an evidence of awakened thought. Let farmers feel and realize that their vocation is just as honorable, just as ennobling and elevat ing as any other; that it calls for just as much brains, just as much learning and knowledge. if not more than any othtr, and let them resolve that they will no longer bear the heavier )ortion of the public burthens whilst the emoluments and honors are monopolized by others. FOR HISI E SAKE. Reu!en Porter Lee Pardoned by Prexident ('Ieieland. The President has pardoned R1. Porter Lee, now confined in the Buffalo peni tentiary for embezzlement. The follow ing- is the President's memorandum in regard to this ease: This convict was sentenced in Novem-I ber, 1882. at a term of the Circuit Court of the United States held at Syracuse, in the Northern District of New York, to be confined in the penitentiary at the' city of Buffalo for the term of ten years, i upon a conviction for emibezzling the I funds of the First National Bank at i Buffalo while lie was President thereof. While this is a statutory offense, and somewhat technical in its character, the public are so much interested in the security of our banking institutions, and such strict faith and care should be de manded of those having them in charge, that I am much disinclined to extend clemency to those properly found guilty of offenses like that on which this pris oner was convicted. I am entirely familiar with this case, and knew tle prisoner a long time before his convic tion. His sentence was generally re garded at the time as a very severe one, being the full extent of the law. With the commutation allowed in the State of New York for good conduct in prison, he has served a sentence of five years; and it is entirely certain in my mind that whatever good is ever to be wrought upon him individually has already been accomp~lished. At the time of his conviction his wife -a noble, courageous, and devoted wo man-and five small chilren were the sad sufferers for his crime, and exacted 1 the sympathy of the entire commlunity.( By her patient, hard labor to supportt her children, and never failing trust and hope in the darkest days, this wife has demonstrated ".S she at least is entitled to clemency. I am glad to be able to restore to her her husband, and to be satisfied at the same time that the ends' of justice are fully answered.i GROVER CLEVELAND. The Orii of Jup, a C The origin of jugs dates back to an tiquity. Yet we have all discovered thatr the jug, whose appearance is the mostu rutiqjuated, does not alwvays belong to e that rather enigmatic periodl. The his- t tory of "The Little Brown Jug" is quite a is ancient as most p~eop~le care to go back a to investigate. Lately there has been a a reat breeze raised over a jug called "The Peachblow Vase." In artistic cir lecs, its sale for eig een thousand dol .ars will mark an eE Tet to most peo ple in this world there are many things I~ detter, "by a jugful." The jug is a most u uingular utensil. A p~ail, goblet or a jar t nay be rinsed, and you can satisfy your- a self by optical proof that the thing is 5 ~lean; but a jug has a little hole in the 0 :op and the interior is all darkness. No s ~ye penetrates it, no eye can move over V .ts surface. You can clean it only by Ii )utting water into it, shaking it up" andIl ouring it out. If the water comes out, p leani, you judge you have succeeded in tt )urifving the jug. In this the jug is tF 'ike thie human heart; no mortal eve can t ook into the recesses, and you can only ' udge of its purity by what comes out jc: >f it. e . , b ti A fox who was passing through the tI 'orest one day heard a great dispute a: smong the hares, and lie turned aside to S ind several of them engaged in hard s] mocks aroundl a b~urrow. N "What's all this row about?" demand- w d Rleynard, as lie fell among them. i '"Why, sir,"~ replied one of the hares, r mr father is dead, and w ecan't agree as te o who shall possess5 his barrow." a] ''Bumt it's large enough for all of you." s "So it is; but that settles a question >f fact instead of principle." "Well, 1'll take fact and you can keep lie principle," said the fox," as he took kg >ossession1 of the burrow. ha MonA.-When the heirs fight over. tl: he old homestead, the lawyer comes to ,it >wn the farm. ~ . A Precsiiiant--1l>:m. has:, thi5 pwedl the Sen a :Lammont-.No, your excllener, that is it t i~mher's bill, andl if von will Iake the ' WITHIN TllE LINES. TIE EXPFEic.x('iE OF A HOUVElIOL1 OF SOV'IERN LAME'4. U s Whint rtey Underwent Dutring Dattle--A Strik. n ina Story of ihe Confederate War. (From the Philadelphia Timeu.) It Was in Juily, 18G3, a time of SC 1 much interest to all Virginians, wher the tide of iattle ebbed ana floweL like an angry flood over our love 1v valley leaving desolation and sor row in its path. Our home, known as Fountain Rock, was about one mile from the Potomac River, directly on the turn pike between Shepherdstown and Kear neYville. a point on the Baltimore and Ohio R'ailroad. July 16 was an unusually quiet day. No Federal soldiers were to be seen rid ing over the country. Consequently our fears were aroused knowing, as we did, from eixperience that a calm always came b~efor-e a The next morning we found that our f - ere not ground less, for a large force un -- crl Gregg had crossed the Potomac an( some were encamped on the turnpike and some on the road leading to MIar tinsburg. UNwELCOMING VISITORS. Stragglers, mostly from Col. Gregg's regiment, began to swarm all over the place. Numerous and outrageous were the depredations the- committed. Hear ng a thumping at the back of the house we went in and found two men in the lantry. "What are you doing here?" said my mother, with dignity. One of| them ipudently answered: "Oh we I just came to see what sort of style you lived in," and added, mockingly: "I'll take that ham, if you please." Turning around, she found he had already done so. lie then reached over and saial: "I'll take these preserves, too." "No," she said, "I don't think you will." "I'd like to know who in the h-- will prevent me," lie answered. "I will," she said, very quietly, and, leaning forward, she put out her hand and gave a little push, which sent it to the floor with a crash. He loked startled for a moment, but quickly recovered and sneered: "Oh, that's your style, is. it ?" "Yes, and vou walk out of this house. It is a pity you had no mother to teach -on not to break into houses and steal." This reference to his mother seemed to rouse him and he said: "I have a mother, and as good a one as you, if you are a right good looking woman." Nevertheless he walk ed very meekly out. ASKING FoR A GUARD. So great m ere the ravages committed that my young sister and a cousin from Baltimore went into town to ask for a 'uard. When the complaint was laid before General Gregg, he turned to an Aicer and said, "'Tell Colonel Gregg lhat I have heard nothing but complaints f his regiment this morning, and if leeds be he must take one-half of his nen to keep the other half in order." I a loubt if the order was ever delivered. While lie was speaking a courier came in ind reported "a large body of rebels ad- h ,ancing on the turnpike from Leetown." Ihe girls anxiously to be at home, asked P or an escort, for tihe soldiers had been ,ery impertinent to them on their way nto town. An escort was readily granted nd although our house was near the >ut-posts he came all the way to the loor and there received my "mother's hanks for his courtesy. She" also asked tI uim his name, which at first he refused o give, but upon her reminding him n hat he knew not what a day might a >ring four'h he gave it: "Major Gaston,e fi(Generai Gregg's staff." None but hose who have seen and felt it can i advance in such order and numbers, t naowing as we did that only a few miles uther on they were to meet our forces, mong whom were many friends near ud dear. Soon a few stray shots were card, then the drum beat and all str-ag- L lers were drawn in and quiet 'reigned .as or a little while. Then came the whirr h] nd shriek of the shells as they passed fli ven the house, and the villainous "zip9h f the minnie balls as theycuthlevsa rom the hedge around out ther laves a s retreated to the cellar. The famailv ) onsisted of my mother, her two daugih- ti rs, her niece, her two little grandchil- m ren, whose mother was in Baltimore; - negro woman aiid a terror-stricken tri A FIGHT TO nlE REMEMBERED. li All that evening the battle raged, The TI ederal wounded were broughit from thet cl and laid upon the lawn before and h. nder the protection of the house until icy could be taken away, some few in , eabulances, others on horses or on se retchers. I shall never forget the sight h fa white horse, his whole forequarter "i ained with the life-blood of him who "~ us lying dead across his back. Thei ring never ceased until late in the by ight. Our house was kept closed andn erfectly dark. The troops had no time K tarry and I heard them, as they passed Sc. and froni the sprang, wonder where t ie women of the house were. All night 0 e waited in the darkness, each with a " (ndle, a few nmatches and a piece of 0? iocolate in our pockets. These hadP 2en kept for a time of need and we I uought that time had come. It was 6 ualy a night of horrors. By two or tree o'clock all the federals lhad gone mi ad we heard the smiooth canter of the al uathiern horseman take the laice of the te( uarp ring of the steel-shod horses of the. orthern cavalry. Daylight found me , itu a pale tace and hollow e'yes, but ~arty welcome for the Confederates who >de in to say that they wou:ld be back d b~reakfast.' Our friends from town, all aimed for our safety, came almost as co: on. oENERAL LEE HIMsELF. bu Seeing a soldier and being; anxious to In ow who of our friends had come asked 1o: .m to what regiment he b)clonged, to ex< .e great amusement of all around, for va] prov-ed to be General F. Lee himself. mnong the tiirst questions asked was who fac us in command of the forces oppuosed th( us. W\hen G eneral Lee was told that wh] was Genuerial Gregg lie instantly said : sin [ wonder- ii lhe knew I was in conumand f'ac this side?" and J gathered that they im] ud been either classmates or friends be- Idu: fore the war. 0h, the contra two days divided V onlIV a singie ni':1h The day boefore terror and gI om pn vailed and to-dar the lutse tiled wit joy and gladniss. We had littl r nothing to give them to ea'. all ihavin - been taken from us the day before an( the garden tranpled by the troop While raticns that had been sent fron the camp were being prepared we gath ered around the piano to entertain on: iguests with music and to deliver t General J. E. B. Stuart some mu's'ie tlha had been in our keepi for -ovru months, sent to him I' an wlmnirinm friend in Baltiniore. '".oldier B13o: Nineteen Years Old" and "JE-nvy Ha vens, Oh," were simg with a heartv good will. Impromptu verses to the latte' air were composed by nearly all preseilt. General Stuart's centributtion, written on the back of a piece of music, was the. followving: ST1'ART s DI ToMiTt'. To the bonnie lass, Miss Lottie, Our adoration's due, She soothes our hearts in times of woc With music soft and true. May she rule her beau of nineteen, The gallant Brigadier, Who, though he vanquish men, I ween Her own connand must fear. To our jolly friend. Fitz Lee, kA health before we go, -C ';; heart all full of glee, A strong 'in for the foe. MIav his triumph:sI< onltmlue And Miss Lottie always v The number of his regimlent And smiles on him bestow. Later in the day a Baltimore Ame-riean was gotten hold of I some means and the portico rang with merriment as the account of the battle from a Federal point of view was read out, and its in ccuracy wondered at and commented on by all. I heard General Lee sa'v: "Well, I have not been in a hotter place ince the war began than that light was it one time yesterday." It was indeed i hard fought fight, though it has had jut small mention in the "Annals of the War." it was here that Colonel Deake, f the First Virginia Ca'rah (formierly tuart's), was killed. When we con gratulated Colonel Morgan on lhis pro notion, he said, feelingly' "Not vet! lot yet' too lately have I paid my last ribute to poor Deake." But this was no abiding pIace for ither army. When the Federals were [riven across the river the Confederates etired beyond the railroad, and so it vas with us until peace settled down j ver the whole land, and the war became i .s it now is, a thing of the memory only. HELEN BOTELER. PNDLEOWN. Shepherdstown, W. Va. Ili: Fr:-Ahslater Et. Of fresh-water .els as apart from their ighty cou.sin the conger, there ar liree distinct kinds-the sharp-nosed el, the broad-nosed or frog-mouthed el, and the snig. Of these three, the harp-nosed eel is both the largest 11sh nd the best eating. though some prefer I ie snig-eel as having a sul)erior ilavor. he srig, however, in spite of its excel- I mec, has not the same valm as the liarp-nosed eel; for it seldom. if ever. ttains more than hialf a ieutnd in weight. 'he sharp-nosed eel, on the contrary, ttains an enormous size. One on iceord s iat was taken in the Miedway, not far -om Rochester, weighed thirty-four ounds, measured six feet in length, and ad a girth of tent;y-tive inches. Anoth- a eel, taken in Kent, weighed forty ounds and measured five feet nine s< iches. Tarrll speaks of having seen at amibridge the preserved skins of twob hich had weighed together fifty pounds; te heaviest twenty-seven pounds, the .L :her twenty-three ptounds. But these o stances, though not to be regarded as s )ocryp)hal, are very exceptional; and ah ~ry fair average weight for sharp-noseda 1is is six pounds. Eels of even ten munds weight are not common, and r. Frank Buckland speaks of one of at size as being the largest he had evert en.-Popular Science MIonthly. Cleoeland a Detmuocratie Lincolo~a. The politicians did not like President incoln. They would have pushed him S: ide at the end of his first term if it I id lain in their power. The barrier in 4' e war was the confidence reposed in 31 mn by the sovereign people. 'The situ- 4 ion at this time is not dissimilar. :esident Cleveland has not pleased the la >iticians, either of his own par'ty or of be e op)position; but every dayi it becomes s re and more manifest that the people B both the Democrats who took him on 3 ist and the Republicans who distrust- r him-are behind him and backingri mi. His sturdy honesty pleases them. 5 ie wiser politicians, seeing the drift of of e popular current, arc bea.ginning to \W dge.-Bradford Era. i Until the circumstances of the recent a zures of Aimerican vessels 'at Shel of re, Nova Scotia. were tunder-tood "t C ,s thought that the tisheries quston e .s to be again sprumg on thie old(1 ound, in spite (o the recent ~ revocatnn the Domiinio9 authorities of thteir tw st order feor~ e:zures. i is now itn- la 'stood, '.Myer, that the v essels, were Wi zed fo- iohition of the Canaidian' cus.St ns regulatdions and not for oense~s bi tnectedl with ishing. 'i e vessels re seized for hav'ing permnited cer tin J their men to go ashore wiithou re- C<( rting to the custom-house athorities Sa is u'ged on behalf of the seized ves- it s that the offenses were u"intnion' tol t we cannot see what grounid for the ik erfer'ence of our goiver'nient tle cas' an ord. TIhe impounded vvss' a t h it hnicaly at any rate, in thte positn oft lators of thle law. Ehte conditions (lit of which gr:-. the omargainet industryv arc well ' isr- t by the iincreasi:ng demiantd fo" imar el" over Europe from 1650t down : itth stantly advancing pric'e. Ithe 'rodi- e uIs atdvantces in this dlirection 1a ed 'ther illu~strte~td by the imp orttt, in b tter, cheese anid 'eggs itt I '''. i the years from 1S.!3 to Pe the' imn' rts of the three committnie's 'eldo' hit eeded ini anyv oni year P50,0 in h. nie. wvhile thier have einee' rliso og ),000))Oi per 'ainum. Letting the a ts do the reasoning it is apt artnt that h~ new indutstryi--the pr'oduetL i f 1 ~ loleoe substituttes for' bultter)-- was :1 mt ple necessity'. Bieco gaitiont i of ti sit t ntust precede true progriss in the ku sortant matter of regulating the in-n tri- Itho ALL MPloUT SENATOlS. --:7 %T011" WITUI PLEN 1rV OF HAIR ANI -: ($Ss WI V ERY 1ALD HEADS. e4nnlrr Vour:.: and .Senatorg Old-Senator Vha are M:-t-tannr and Senators WVho Ar Vrnil --Sennorinl ljirthdays. - (L :r ti. h P;iladeph:a Times.) IA IINGTOx. July 16.-White lock and beards among United States Sena t'rs ar*e ut always indicative of age. Take, ftr instance, Senator Edmunds. His heard is gray-almost to whiteness --and not in the Senate Chamber is there ano her head more bald than his, yet the the vars that he can chronicle are but fllty-eight. Voorhees, of the same age, has not a bald spot on his head and his head and his heavy, brown hair is but lightly tinged with gray-a fine specimen of physical manhood is this "tall syca more of the Wabash." Coke and Alli a'on, each numbering fifty-seven years, are two other extremes. In the absence of hair and color of beard the former bears a striking resemblance to Ed Imunds. The latter has a heavy growth of hair over his entire head, as has also the other Senator from Iowa, Wilson, of: equal age, but whose hair is gray and stands straight up like stubble in a grain field. Butler, at 50, from his thin gray -ir and white moustache looks nearly -s Conger at 68. Nine persons Out of te7N uld say that Blackburn, at 17, presenttsN old an appearance as George, at 59. Ckrell, whose years number a half centuNi plus one, looks to be ten years older t Logan, while in fact he is nine years - Q tinger, the hair and beard of tle forme being a light gray, the hair and moustache of the latter being comparatively as ck as the plumage of the raven. Only fifty-three years of this world's life has McPherson seen, yet from his whitening locks, hollowed cheeks and feeble gait he would quickly be taken to be eight or ten years older than Beck, who is eleven years his senior, but who, 3 :n appearance, at least, is as muscular as i mn ox. On Beck's head, which is cov- t red with a kinky coat of brown hair, 2ot a bare spot as large as a dime can i eoseen. A MILLIONAIRE SENATOR. Within one seat of McPherson sits the nillionaire Senator Payne, who has 1 'cunded out exactly three-quarters of a -entury and who is therefore twenty-two ears older than this New Jersey Sena or; but the average visitor would be t uore apt to think there are two years' lifference in their ages than twenty-two. If the shoulders of Morrill, the oldest enator in the Chamber, were less bent Ie would appear younger than the "fish >ole bachelor" Saulsbury, whose record a ae years are sixty-eight and therefore .(glit vea'rs less than those of the Ver- J uont Senator. Jones, of Arkansas, is r >ut forty-six and consequently in the C riie of life, but his beard is quite e i-ra, while the hair on his head, which r Sfasti turnng gray, is as thin as a wheat eld visited by a drought. Evarts, at c i' tv-eight. although his hair is darkly c vay. shows not a sign of baldness, whife C Iillcr, the other New York Senator, d lore than twenty years his junior, shows t deal of top head throughihis fine silken t. air. Sherman, at sixty-three, although lc a t what lacking by nature in vitality, f ;a well-preservedc man, not a bald spot eing visible throughi his iron-gray hair. lahone, at fifty-nine appears older than ~awes at sixty-nine, Vest at fifty-five as ad as Pugh 'at sixty-five. Sawyer is xtv-nine, yet few persons would take d im to be ten yeairs older than Hoar, a2 ho will be sixty next Aug iust-a 1ZT oNE .sENATOII UNDER FoRTY. 0: An exaination of ages shows that in B ec thirties there is but one, Senator 01 ennia, whose age is :38 and who is there- t1 re the youngest member of the upper ti cnnch of Congress. JIn the forties there E e fourteen Senators, Riddleberger, the ~ cond youuIgt Senator, being 41; 1y .bin and Spooner, 43; Aldrich, 44; ~ erry, 45; Gray and Jones, of Arkansas, 0o 1:iDackburn, Gorman, Milled and di litchell. of Pennsylvania, 47; Plumb, tl SManderson, 49. The fifties claim tl :arly one-half ot Lie Senators, th'e num r being thirty-sceven and every year fa -twveen fifty and sixty being repro- th nted. Of the ag~e of 50 there are five, e~ )wefl, Butler, D)olph, Hale and h~ itehell, of Oregon; of 51, Blair, Cock- sit 11, Eustis and Sewell; of 52, Call, Har- th ion, Ingalls and Jones, of Florida; of hi , Cameron, Gibson and McPherson; CV 54, lKair and Frye; of 55, Vest and sa hiitehall. Of the age of 56 there arep Sen'Iators-Chase, Cullum, .Jones, of th -vada; P'almer, Teller and Vance-this fo e claiming a greater number than any wv her. The recorded ages of Allison, mi >ke and Wilson, of Iowa, are 57 years oh .jh; of Caminden, Edmunds, Platt and be >orhees, 59 ; of George, Hawley, Hoar d Mfahone, 59. The sixties boast of cntyv-three S-enators, Logan, McMil iand 11ansuom' being 60; Maxey, Van vek and Wh litthorne, 61; Colquitt, co: aftord and Morgan, 62, the latter's Vi: thdarv being~ June 20; Sherman, 63; on ek a'd Wtilson, of Maryland, 64; he: own, rearst and Pugh, 65; Pike, 66; ho: 'i'er, Evarts, Hampton, Harris and pe. alsb:ury, 68; Daweis and Sawyer, 69. po: th~ e\ evetics there are but two Sena- of :s Pa une being 75 and Morrill 76. lea tA en'the youngest Senator, Kenmia, ne< di oldest, Moirill. there are, therefore, ust rty-e' it years, Morrill being exactly a y ee the age of Kenna. prn The monh of October has given birth cas thegretet number of Senators,Ju 1e avn been bor1n therein. March alo .I \gril have joined hands with Do- at aer, cachi month having given seven dat ator. Febr'iuary, May and Septem- go1 : eai becdted with ixeach; Au- stoi ,t ad Nov.ember, four; January, of , nfn ul. three each. This esti te iso'he suippositioni that be'stor anwas biorn F-ebruiary. 9J, 1826, as : asve een officially recorded in ( -, .gre. onal DirectoiT. Nine ma< 1.-rs appemtar not to know the month veta wich'I tii'-v were born, and two, Alli- liin ''1w\ Van' Wycvk, knowing the month, vet< 'w not the day. Dolph, of Oregon, aren t. Wiso, of Maryland, were born on sec< ,'u .,- ay o the same month. Oct.. 'has ber 19, although seven years apart. The birthdays of Vest and lair occur on the same day of the same month, December 6, as do also those of Ingalls and Sauls bury, December 29. Logan and Man derson were each born February 9. There are no two Senators of exactly the same age, considered by years. FOREIGN-BORN SENATOBs. Five Senators can never become Presi dents, as they are foreign-born, Beck having been born in Scotland; Jones, of Nevada, in England; Fair, Sewell and Jones. of Florida, in Ireland. New York has given birth to more of the present Senators than any other State, the number being eight; Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia can boast of six each, Virginia and West Virginia being con sidered in this estimate as one; Massa chusetts and Pennsylvania, five each, with the remainder scattering. Fourteen have been born in New England. Only four States west of the Mississippi Indiana, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota -have given birth to Senators. Not a Senator has heen born in the western half of the United States. Out of a total of seventy-six Senators thirty-four have been born in the States they represent. All of the New England Senators have been born in their respec tive States, with the exception of Chase, of Rhode Island, and Hawley, of Con necticut, the latter having made a jump from North Carolina. Only one New York Senator-Miller-was born in the Empire State, Evarts having first seen light in Boston, Mass. Both of the Stnators from Maryland, from Pennsyl vania, South Carolina, North Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee were born in the States they represent. The remaining Senators that are certified representatives of the States that gave them birth are Blackburn, Cockrell, Colquitt, Eustis, Logan, Palmer and Sherman. T. C. J. THE REVOLUTlONI5TS. The Rank and FIle. as a Rule, Tainted With Cri-ne or Insanity. (From the Ch:ca:o Tribune) I fin " a recent number of the Nou relle Revue.. uriously interesting paper >y Dr. Lomt. u revolutions and -evolutionists. '-. vs of popular ipheavals it is well toi. n. qf he anarchist and his associates el lefined. And, in the place, the writer liscovers a close relation between revo utions and climate. Of 192 political tprisings in Europe, the majority oc urred in Italy, Spain and Greece, while lussia, Sweden and Norway contributed ut few. Then again we find that of his number thirty-two took place in un- and thirty- in July, while in No ember and January there were only welve and fifteen, respectively. Heat, hen, must be considered as an important actor in revolutions. The learned doc or has also discovered that, however ure may be the lives of some of the evolutionary leaders, the rank and file, s a rule, have had criminal antecedents, r are tainted with insanity. Thus, ourdan, in the time of the first French avolution, who from a butcher boy be ime general, cut the throat of his form r employer, Launey; personally di acted the pillage, the burnings and the sasinations committed by his troops; mused the killing of seventy-three offi als at Avignon; and continued his ireer of crime until he was himself con emned to death by the revolutionary ibunal. Then there were Hejeune, of ie same epoch, the inventor of a guil tine, with which he first practiced on >wls, and Jean d'Heron of Nantes, who ore a human ear on his hat like a cock le and carried others in his pocket, hich he made the women kiss. Quite cently in Russia robbery and naasi ttion have been used to spread the >ctrines of the anarchists. Stellmacher id Kammnerar killed the banker Lysart id several of his family to get possession a few hundred fiorins. In Germany oedel, who had thirteen years previ isly been put under surveillance for .eft, and having no ostensible occupa n, attempted to take the life of the aiperor. lReinsdorf, who planned the iederwald attack on the imperial fami of Germany, was subject to criminal onomania and had been found guilty an assault on a woman. In Paris ring the troubles in 1833 out of thirty ree persons arrested it was found that irteen had already been condemned r theft. Alcohol is also an important :tor in revolutions. The excesses of e Paris commune were largely due to cessive use of stimulants by those who a been nearly starved during the ~ge. It is not surprising to be told by is scientific inquirer that insanity goes nd in hand with revolutions. 'The ents of 1871 in France sent 1,700 in 1e patients to the hospitals during a riod of eighteen months, and among Sleaders of the commune there were ir hereditary lunatics and four others to had been previously under treat int for that disease. Certainly of these allitions of the political caldron it may truly said, "That way madness lies!" - .lan Eaters. lonscious cannibalism is by no means ifined to the Feejee islands. The Rio rgen tribes of the Arancanos Indians, the northern coast of Chili, do not sitate, in hard winter, to keep the pot lng by slicing up a few of their su -tuous relatives; and Dr. Nachtigal is sitive that the country north and east the Congo is swarming with two-. ged 'man-eaters. The Dyaks of Bor >, who gather skulls as our red men d to gather scalps, now and then eat ersonal enemy as a matter of hygienic caution, on thie theory that the wizard 11s of the dead man's relatives can is be rendered ineifetual. Sparodie es of cannibalism occur in every East lian famine. The nations of Europe uie are in that respect total abstainers, >resent at least, for Roman traditions e back to a time when the Liestry tes of Southern Italy kept special ~kyards for fattening their prisoners var.-Dr. Orwald. [Galveston News.1 leveland's vetoes as Mayor of Buffalo le him Governor of New York; his >es as Governor of New York made SPresident of the United States; hisi >es as President of the United States liable to insure his election for a >nd term. As a veto artist Cleveland