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"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 1866.' [*waw*a*rs;. _fitiy ct-i ?tswlng,' been m So**; kissed '"Vttirscaasc* ms I a* re iato- fili'i .shade, read, . tba b>ewi r and swore; r ?a do?a that. are isad taa wood; :e; fckh breaks op at wasfntl ~nsy<.ensh, oa notfcioj bat waea did I wake ? Etc. ei fcr r their QLftb, getting of bet few who we than a good fair lien to who are i Js Stttliai^ The are always oa a l^-work bard aomeiiuw they can't get are in old i was even red about as >we. 1*be average |d mo. There's ^Jreezmg, in this few folks board bet still there on in the ; Most c^very more or less; and his to lap merchants say right now, mswrcy for the a general thing itole dependence. Ifj got any taon* r he is a bested where the ad farmer comes In. of money and- still corn and i&eep and hogs and chick to wear store and his old ones a sro bare beaded and et'ai_no company hare to dress , whether they or xy.$. Bat it is a a living, I dWt know csaciiy what is the is not understand the try to conform, are Jost ?bleeged * Knie and go in debt, and When the from the post afraid to open it for darned little Used to around him like a HV are mighty dottt, death and the ? nearly at welcome A man who was born to keep so or a bora poor and has got know much about the got roach class, and is all to their impru nt bot the met oar rich men got a start 9*ro?built cp on. the society w Rh ;ts ex bold of 'em. They now. I know lota of ff they were to lose conidff't start now and They think they could, ; mankind are too now for an old any chance, op in bis first foney makes money keep*money after it is is a slim chance now 16 make money and b> gan shot of so eaa'bmtle himself op and and tani his back fortune, moat of 'em to marry, op and common ?faaaajbs girls are ??2mA ao if he spends ?be Is apt to is* eotaes hoose hire at: d clothes Qu a strain. There are I f?v Atting; rich uow-a-days, bat when a mas does get a start, he can ^et richer than they used to. A half a million now.is about what fifty thousand dollars used to be. But the : average man is not going* to get rich* and I reckon it is the common lot, and 'therefore it is all right. Nobody ought to distress himself about it, or hanker after money, bat somehow I ! cant help wishing that our common j people were a Kttlerbetter off. 1 w ish they were oat of debt and bad a little j ahead?just a start. Why the very j best people I know are about the poorest according to their position in [society. Look at our . preachers. T^yrdon't banker after money nor luxuries;; but they are entitled to a reasonable living. I told a man the other day stoat a man who bad got rich, and he said he always knowed be was a shifty cuss. The preachers don't belong to that class. They are not shifty. 1 wonder what is the matter with the churches. They are always behind. It ain't one in ten thai pays the preacher. what they promise. There is always a balance to lap over, and the laps are never paid. The chatcb wants repairs, and there is no mor ey to do it with. I don't know much about the cities nor about all the towns in the state, but I know of but one town that has nice churches all paid for and well fur nished and. that pays the preachers all they promise, and that town is the nice little village of Acworth. All the rest that* I know are straggling a'oog, begging and pleading and hoping to do better next year. I know that it is mighty hard to keep up four or five churches in a little town and pay lour or five preachers. 1 was reading about this the other day fh- Scribner's Magazine?aboat ti>v jew cb urch in Connecticut that ha* absorbed ?11 others. They call it the Christian League, and it includes Methodists and Baptistsand Presby terians and Episcopalians and has bat one creed and that is the apostle's creed. Towns that had four churches and four preachers' to pay nave' con solidated into one, .and everybody goes there and helps' to build it up. This^ movement begun in New Albion, three years ago,* a city of thirteen thousand inhabitants, and has Spread all over the state until, as the article said, every town in the State ' has fol lowed suit. This is a new departure sure enough, and if it is all true is the biggest thing I have read about in a Wnig time. I beard ao old mau say the other day that cnurch money was the hardest money in the world to l^we7a?anietWas-iai^v()r of changing the constitution of tbel?itfTeU^tai?*j and have the government to pay the preachers, like they do in England, 'For/ says he *it gets no better, but worse; and if it wasn't for the women the preachers would perish to death.' He told me about a member who got mad with another member and wanted him turned out of the church, and be cause they wonIdent do it he quit pitying the * preacher. Jesso. Any tniiigfor an excu.se. Well, you see the preachers caa'fc- talk for them selves, and they don't talk, and have long since learned how to suffer and be strong. The trouble with churches is pretty much the same that it is in any other corporation. The members are all stockholders with the individual lia bility clause struck out of the charac ter and no man owes the debt. They feel like somebody else owes it and are not' doing their share" of the pay ing, and I reckon that's so, too. But alter all, the big trouble is poverty. The preachers ought to be all rich and the people, too, and then maybe Everybody would be happy. Maybe they would?maybe. But whether we would or not,, most everybody is willing to try it awhile and see. Manuring for a Bale of Cotton Per Acre. I I have a piece of ground I. want to plant iu cotton this year?it lies to the north. Now j want to know how I must' manage it to the best advan tage to make me at least a bale of cot ton per acre, what manure to use, how much and in what way? I have been raising on an average one-half | bale of cotton per acre, bot according to my calculations, one-bale per acre 'will more than double profits. I will tell you what I was thinking of doing, but as 1 am young, and have but lit tle experience in farming, 1 want your views. The land last year made ten bushels of wheat per acre without any manure; I want to break it with a two-horse plow as soon as possible ; I thought I would lay off rows three and a half or four feet wide, throw dirt each way with a turner and sub soil in bottom of furrow, ttien use about forty bushels of cotton seed per acre and compost equal to two hun dred pounds guano per acre. Will it be best to pot compost in w ith seed on top or put it on each side ??J. C. H., Confers, Ga., Jan Slh. 1883. Answer.?The preparation you pro pose to give the land is good, but yon are not quite specific enough about the manure you expect to use. We do not know what the*compost is composed of. If you mean stable or lot manure with acid phosphate, we would suggest that all the materials be composted together, and we sug gest the addition of some kainit and plaster to the materials you mention. For one acre two hundred pounds acid phosphate, two hundred pounds kainit, one hundred pounds plaster, forty bush els cotton seed, and equal quantity (if you have it) of farm yard manure. As said above, it is better to mix these alt up into a com post and let them re act upon each other in the heap, if not, it would be well to put compost on top of seed and in direct contact j with them. The furrow in which the manure is put should be a tolerably deep one.?Southern Cultivator. mm* > ? The poor are only they who feel poor, sad poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a trae aeareh would be found very iodi gest and ragged. THE NEGRO TINGE. A Startling Sensation in Baltimore Society?The Child Bride of a . Wealthy Broker Proves to be a Ne gress?Suit for Divorce, Baltimore, February 8.?One of the most sensational and interesting divorce suits ever enacted on the le gal stage in this country will, at an early day, engage the astute and shin ing Blackstoue talent of this city. The romantic details of this peculiar life drama will certainly cause the gossips, not only of this particular locality, but of the entire United States, to wag their respective tongues with great velocity and to roil their individual eyes with earnest amazement. The story reads like a romance, but every word is as true as gold. I Five years ago, among the 'young j bloods" of Baltimore, there was num | bered a young gentleman who, by a happy combination of art and nature, j was entitled to a high seat in the I arena of life. He was youthful, 23 I years of age r handsome in face and stately and dignified in form. He was the happy possessor of $100,000, safely invested ip registered United States' bonds, beqaatbed to him by an aged grandmother. The young man had a very aristocratic and wealthy mother, and she was extremely par ticular in reference to her son's choice of a domestic partner for life. On a bright frosty morning in the mouth of January, 1877, the young man eutered a fashionable kid glove establishment on Lexington Street, this city for the purpose of purchas ing a No. 7 lady's kid glove,, which was the size that snugly encased his small and finely formed hand. There, to compress an individual world into a few words, he met his destiny. The young saleslady who waited upon him was a beautiful brunette, with a most engaging mein. It was the old and ever new story. When he an nounced to hie mother he was going to marry this young lady there was a total annihilation of the domestic peace in that Madison avenue man sion. As may be imagined the mar riage caused a serious disruption of family ties; but as the young lady behaved so well under the circum stances, she was so pretty and be witching and kind in manner to her mother-in-law, that old lady at last relented. Two years later the young couple were happily keeping house in a lux urious manner and the joyous pros pective father was well known as a shrewd and energetic broker. At ^bfs^en?^6T^th?^oung husband's existence he discoverecLjhat his wife, was using large amounts ?fjnoney in a very mysterious manner. He began to expostulate with her. "Bear," he kindly said, "I am wealthy, I^Knoir, but I cannot stand these mysterious and heavy dt fla. What do yda" do or want *with all tbis money?" she returned confusive and evasive replies, and the 3'oung husband was much perplexed by his wife's peculiar behavior. About this time the proprietors and patrons of the 'bucket shops' aud lower gambling resorts of this city were greatly amazed by the behavior aud display of wealth which an aged I colored woman delighted them with. She was a veiy light mulatto about the exact shade, as far as complexion went, of an ordinary cream puff, with ; a couple of teaspoonfuls of ginger in its culinary, make-up. She was a most inordinate gambler, seemed to be completely carried away by the ; passion of chance, and, while a con : staut and heavy looser, was never j short for more than a couple of hours at a time. She actually appeared to own a gold mine. Where she got her money no one knew, and she never told, but she had it, and that was all that was necessary for the particular business she was then engaged in. I One fine day the broker found him self the proud father of a red haired, dimpled boy. He then did not find so much fault with his wife for what he considered her extravagant aud useless expenditure of mouey, and supreme content and unalloyed hap piness held high carnival within . his castle walls. One morning when his cooing babe, now aged nearly two years, sat upon Us paternal grand mother's knee, a colored servant brought her a letter, fiesh from the wiry man in modest gray. She opened it with a smile of peace, read it with a gasp of horror, and then, with one wild shriek of woe, she and the infant simultaneously fell to the floor. The letter, written in almost au illegible band filled with an abun-. dant of phonetic spelllug, containing the following startling words: j 'Your son's wife is a nigger. He married a nigger. 1 am her grand mother, and i am what they call a mulatto. You would think she is white, like you white folks, but she ain't. If you don't believe me come see me. I send my address/ A name, number and the name of a street were at the bottom of this i dynamite band-grenade. Of course j when the old lady recovered from her swoon she refused to believe that the j I note contained the truth. However, when the husband heard of the con- j ! tents he immediately began a strict ! investigation, and ?vhen the facts in j the case became so convincing that j the wife could deny no longer, his j j young and charming brunette trea j sure, with tears of anguish in her j j beautiful dark eyes, confessed, in her j ! husband's arms, that colored blood j i did run in her veins. It8eems that the old mulatto wo | man gambler was his wife's graml | mother. His wife's grand-father was a white man. and her parents were j white, her mother having been more I successful at deception in this line j with her husband than the young j j wife had been with her young broker I husband. The beautiful brunette wile I j then certainly had a very slight negro j element in her physical make-up. It I appears that the old colored grand mother had for years obtained 'hush money' from the young wife, which she spent on her ruling passion?gam-j j bling. The old mulatto was the wo-J man who had so amazed the frequen ters of the low gambling hells of this city. When the young wife refused to give the old woman money she would threaten to write or tell the secret to the aristocratic mother-in law. At last the wife, tired and comple tely disheartened by the frequent de mands of her purse by the old female gambler, absolutely refused to give her any more substantial * wealth, never even dreaming for a moment that at that late day the old woman would carry her vile threat into exe cution. But in an evil hour the old female gambler did so, with the dire results stated. As the voung wife re fuses to give up her husband, and as her attorney, one of the leading law yers of this city, declares that under the circumstances of the case the mar riage is legal, it is stated that the young broker, goaded on by his in dignant mother, will institute suit for a divorce at an early day. In appearance the unhappy wife resembles the average pretty American brunette, and no oue not conversant with the facts as here given would suppose, even for a moment, that she had a slight mixture of colored blood in her veins. That Bad~Boy, The Trick He Played on Hit Pa in Chicago. When pa and I got to Chicago said the boy, 'we walked around town all day and went to the stores, and at night pa was offul tired aod he put me to bed in the taverD and went out to walk around and get rested. I wasn't tired and I walked around the hotel. I thought pa had gone to the theatre, and that made me mad, and I thought I would play him for all I was worth. Oar room was 210 and the next room was 212, and there was an old maid, with a Scotch ter rier, occupied 212. I saw her twice aod she called me names, 'cause she thought I wanted to steal her dog. That made me mad at her, and so I took my jack-knife anaV drew the tacks out of the tin thing that the numbers were painted on, and put the old maid's number on our door, and our number on her door, and then I went to bed. I tried to keep awake'so as to help pa if he had any difficulty, but I rather guess I got asleep, but woke up when the dog barked. If the dog bad not woke me op the woman's screams would, and if that hadn't pa would. You see, pa came borne from the theatre about 12 and he had been drinkreg. He says everybody drinks when they go to Chicago, even the minister. Pa looked at the numbers on the doors all along the hall till he found 210, and walked right in and pulled off his eoat aod threw it on the lounge where the dog was. The old maid ,Jrfe"a$tesp?NDut the dog barked and pa said, ThaTclrSSed boy has bought a dog!' and he kicked the dog and the old maid woke and said^ 'What is the matter, pet?' Pa laffe&^and said, *Nuthin' the mazzer with nic^ pet,' and theo you ought to heard the yel?Dg. The old maid covered her bead aod kicked and yelled, aod the dog snarled and bit pa on the pants, aod pa had his vest off aod his suspenders unbuttoned, aod he, got scared and took his coat aod vest aud weot out io the hall, aod I opeoed oar door aod told pa he was io the wrong room and I koowed it, "and he came io oar room and I locked the door, and the bellr boy, the porter aod the clerk came op to see what ailed the old maid, aod she said a burglar got in her room and they found pa's hat on the lounge, and they took it and told her to be quiet aod they would find the burglar. Pa was so scared that he sweat like everything, aod the bed was offal warm, aod be preteoded to go to sleep, but he was wondering how- he could get the hat back. In the morn ing I told him it would be hard work to explaio it to ma how *he happeoed to get ioto the wrong room, and he said it wasn't ^accessary to say any thiog about it to ma. Then he gave me $5 to go oat and bay him a new hat, and he said I might keep the change if I would not mention it again, and I got him one for ten shill ings, and we took the eight o'clock train in the morning and came home, aod I 'spose the Chicago detectives are tryiog to fit pa's hat oo a burglar. Pa seemed affully relieved* when we got across the State line ioto Wiscon sin. Bat you'd a died to see him come out of that old lady's room, with his coat and vest oo his arm, and his sus penders hanging down, looking scart. He daseo't lick me any more or I'll tell ma where be left his bat.' IIIS PA KILLS HIM. 'Say, what was your father running after the doctor io his shirt sleeves for, last Suoday morning ?'[j?aid thejgrocery man to the bad boy. 'He looked scar ed. Was your ma sick again ? 'Ob, no, roa is'healthy enough, now she has got a new fur lined cloak. She placed consumption on pa, and cough ed so she liked to raised her lights aod liver, aod made pa believe she cooldn't live, aod got the doctor to pcrscribe a fur-lined circular, and pa went and got one, and ma has improved awfully. Her cough is all gone, and she can walk ten miles. I was the one that was sick. You see, I wanted to get pa into the church again, and get him to stop drinking, so I got a boy to write a letter to him in a female hand, and sign the name of a choir singer pa was mashed oo, aod tell him she was yearn ing for him to come back to the church, and that the church seemed a blank without bis smiling fac and benevolent heart, aod to please come back for her sake. Pa got the letter Saturday night, and he seemed tickled, but I guess he dreamed about it all night, aod Sunday morning he was mad, and be took me by the ear and said I could come no 'Daisy' business on him the secon?Vtimc. He said he knew I wrote the letter, and for me to go up into the store room aod prepare for the almight iest licking a boy ever bad, aod he weot down stairs and broke up an apple j barrel and got a stave to whip me witfc, j Well, I had to think mighty quick, bat. I was enough for him I got a dried bladder in my room, one that me and my chum got to the slaughter house, and I blowed it partly up, so that it so that it would be sorter flat like, and I put it down inside the back part of my pants, right about the spot where pa hits when he punishes me. I know ed when the barrel stave hit the blad der it would explode. Well, pa came np and found me crying. I can cry just as easy as you can turn on the water at a faucet, and pa took off his coat and looked sorry. I was afraid he would give up whipping me when he seen me cry, and I wanted to go on with the bladder experiment, so I look ed kind of hard, as if I was defying him to do his worst, and then he took me by the neck and laid me across a trunk. I didn't dare struggle much for fear the bladder would loose itself, and pa said: 'Now Hennery, I am going to break you of your foolishness or I will break your back,' and he spit on his hands and brought the barrel stave down on my best pants. Well, you'd a died if you had heard the ex plosion. It almost knocked me off the trunk. It sounded like a firecracker away down cellar in a barrel, and pa looked scared. I rolled off the trunk on the floor and put some flour on my face to make me look pale, and then I kind of kicked my legs like a fellow who is dying on the stage after being stabbed with a piece of lath, and groan ed, and said : 'Pa, you have killed me, but I forgive you/ and then I rolled around and frothed at the mouth, cause I had a piece of soap in my mouth to make foam Well, pa was all broke up. He said : 'Great God ! what have I done 1 I have broken bis spinal column. 0, my poor boy, do not die V I kept chewing the soap and foaming at the mouth, and I drew my legs up and kicked them out and clutched my hair, anu rowled my eyes, then kicked pa in the stummick as he bent over me and knocked bis breath out of him, and then my limbs began to get rigid, and I said : 'Too late, pa, I die at the hand of an assas sin. Go for the doctor.' Pa tbrowed his coat over me, and started down stairs on a run, saying : 'I have mur dered my brave boy, and he told ma to go up stairs and stay with me 'cause I bad fallen off a trunk and ruptured a blood vessel, and went after the doc tor. When he went out the front door, I sat up and lit a cigarette, and ma came up and I told her all about how I fooled pa, and if she would take on and cry when pa came back, I would get him to go back to church again and swear off drinking, and she laughed and said she would. So when pa and the doctor came back, ma was sitting on a velocipede \ used to ride, which was in the store room, and she bad her apron over her face and she just more than bellowed. Pa be was pale, and be told' the doctor be was just playing with me j with a piece of board, aud he beard something crack, and he kind of thought my spine- got broke falling off the trunk. The doctor wanted to feel where my spine was broke, and I open ed my eyes and had a vacant sort of stare, like a woman who leads a dog "bya string, and looked as though my mind^was wandering, and I told the doctoMfrere-. J^asno use setting my spine, as it was br^e"lrr-se-V^faJ places, and I wouldo't let him feel of the'3?Te4 blatter. I told pa that I was going to die, and I wanted him to promise me two things on my djing bed He cried and said he would, and I told him to promise me that he would quit drink ing and attend church regular, and he said he would never drink another drop, and he would go to church every Sun day. I made him get down upon his knees beside me and swear it. and ma said she was so glad, and ma called the doctor out into the hall and told bim the joke, and the doctor came into the room and told pa he was afraid pa's presence would excite the patient, and for him to put on his coat and go out and walk around the block, or go to church, and ma and he would remove me to another room and do all that was j possible to make my hours pleasant. Pa he cried and said be would put on his plug hat and go to church, and he kissed me and got flour on his nose, aud I came near laughing right out to see the white flour on his red nose when I thought bow the people in church would laugh at pa. But he went on feeling mighty bad, and then I got up and pulled the busted bladder out of my pants and ma and the doctor laughed awful. When pa got back from church and asked for me, ma said I had gone down town. She said the doctor found my spine was only un coupled and he coupled it together and I was all right. Pa said it was 'al mighty strange, cause I heard the spine break when I struck him with the bar rel.' Pa was nervous all the afternoon, and ma thinks be suspects we played it on him. Say, you don't think there i? any harm in playiug it on the old man a Itttle for a good cause, do you ?' The grocery man said he supposed in the interest of reform it was all right, but if it was bis bov that had played such a trick he would take an axe to bim, and the boy went out apparently encouraged, saying he hadn't seen the old man since the day before, and he was almost afraid to meet him. -II mn - An elopement came to a sad end at Charlotte, N. C, last Tuesday. The I parents of Miss Stella Martin were op- I posed to her marriap'1 with Junius Harrisbugg, and the lovers planned that the young lady, who lived in the country, should go to Charlotte, where she would be met by her lover at the depot, when they were to proceed to Coticord and be married. The girl j escaped from her father's house in the j night and went to the city. Her lover, however, proved Taithless and did not j meet her. She remained at the depot from daylight until dark, not daring to leave the place for fear of mishing her lover. As night came ou she recog nized that she hud been duped, and when a policeman came to suggest that she had better leave the depot, he found her a raving maniac. The Kentucky journals are mention ing, among other pathetic incidents of j the present floods, the fact that three hundred barrels of whiskey were swept away from the city of Frankfort the j other day. [ An Engineer at a Concert. I was Ioa6ng around the streets last night,' said Jim Nelson, one of the oldest locomotive engineers running into New Orleans, 'and as I had noth ing to do I dropped into a concert and heard a .?lick-looking Dutchman play a piano that made me feel all over in spots As soon as he sat down on the stool I knew by the way he handled himself that he understood the machine he was running. He tapped the small keys away up one end. just as if they were gauges, and wanted to see if be bad water enough. Then he looked up, as if he wanted to know how muoh steam he was carrying, and the next moment he pulled open the throttle and sailed out on the main line, just as if he was half an hour late. You could hear her thunder over culverts and bridges, aod getting faster and faster, until the fellow rocked in his seat like a cradle! Somehow, I thought it was old '36' pulling a passenger train and getting out of the way of a special.' The fel low worked the keys on the middle division like* lightning,, aod theo he flew aioog the North end of the line until the drivers went around like a buzz saw, and I got excited. About the time I was fixing to tell him to cut ber off a little, he kicked the dampers un der the machine wide open, pulled the throttle way back in the tender, and Jerusalem jumpers! how he did run ! I couldn't stand it any longer, and yell ed to him that be was 'pounding' on the left side, and if he wasn't careful he'd drop his ash pan. But he didn't bear. No one heard me. Everything was flying and whizzing. Telegraph poles oo the side of the track looked like a row of corn stalks, the trees appeared to be a mud bank, and ali the time the exhaust of the old machine sounded like the bum of a bumble bee. I tried to yell out, but my tODgue wouldo't move. He went round curves like a bullet, slipped an eccentric, blew out his soft plug, went, down grades fifty feet to the mile and not a confounded brake set. She went by the meeting point at a mile and a half a minute, and called for more steam. My hair stood up like a cat's tail, because I knew the game was up. Sure enough, dead ahead of us was the head light of the 'special.' In a daze I heard the crash as they struck, and I saw cars shivered into atou)s, people mashed and mangled and bleeding and gasping for water. I heard another crash as the Dutch pro fessor struck the keys away down on the lower end of the Southern division, and then I came to my senses. There he was at a dead standstill, with the door of fire box of the machioe opeo, wipiog the perspiratioo i-ff his face aod bowing to the people before him. If I live to be 1,000 years old I'll never for get the ride that Dutchman gave me on a piano.' And Jim and the boys walked around the corner and took something. Xeic Orleans Times-Democrat. The workingmen's National Conven- j tion at Cleveland, Ohio, and the Ceo-; tral Labor Union, which held a meet- j j ing at New York a few days ago, both I oassed vigorous resolutions deuouncios I J those "philanthropic protectionists who ! have endeavored to hire and import j i pauper labor from Europe at pauperi- j I zing prices, for the express purpose of! pd^fr^lidin^Ajm^rican labor of its fair j share in thermUual^^^ contem plated by a protectiveita^H^' The | point here made by the Ameri?23r workingmen is not without significance and suggestiveness, The advocacy of a j high tariff has been principally on the j ground that it was for the benefit of American labor; that it was the only | protection American workiogmen had against an influx of foreign goods manu factured by ' the pauper labor'' of Eu rope. There was something so plausi- | blc in this that Amcricau workingmen took it for granted that it was true, although many of them have been puz zled by the experience that has been coo staotly coming home to them that the comparatively higher wages they re ceived instead of enabling them to lay by money, were absorbed by their house bold expenses. Still, without consider ing the fact that tariff increr^ed the cost of almost everything they c. .sumtd or used, including their tools, their furni ture and their domestic utensils, they have been taught to believe that a high tariff was a protection to them, and that those who supported it, even though j they profited by it were their best j friends. There are two things to which all great industries are subject, and J they have their origin io the fluctuations of demand and supply. These are j "strikes" on the one hand and "lock outs" on the other. The strikes are j workingmeu's means either of exactiug an increase of wages or of resisting an attempt to reduce wages. "Lock-outs" are the closing of works or mines on the j part of great corporations as a means of i bringing workingmen to terms. But into these customary contests between capital and labor a new element was in-! jectcd last year, when, to meet the ex- | tensive strikes that then occurred, j foreign labor was imported to take the place of the strikers. It was not until then that the workingmen and labor j unions began to declare that it was de-: lusive to say that the high tariff was a protection to American workingmen if foreigu labor could be imported "duty free" as a substitute for borne labor' and I as a means of forcing it to come to ! terms with employers. Without enter- ' ing into the merits of this particular question, which involves qucstious of policy distinct in themselves, it is cer tain that such importations have given | great offence to the labor unions, and that their iudignation is beginning to find vent in utterances such as we have 1 quoted at the beginning of this article. ' They find that a high tariff does not j protect them from the competition of j skilled and unskilled workmen from abroad nor from high prices at home. j Fourteen children were crushed to j death during a panic in a school house, ! caused by a trivial fire, in New York City on Tuesday. The school was attach ed to the German Catholic Church of the | Most Holy Redeemer and taught by Sisters of Charity who temporarily loht1 control of their pupils when the alarm was given. The children were crush- j ed on a stairway, being piled in a heap i and trampled by their schoolmates. Extent of the Damages by the Floods. Cincinnati, February 21.?The lar- | gest actual loss by the flood, is to the gas company, ?100,000 besides the loss of a week's business. The loss to the coal interest is ?100,000 ; to the city from broken streets, etc., ?10,- ! 000 ; the railroads actual and indirect, I half a million. The personal losses so J far as gathered amount to hundreds of I thousands but no complete estimate can j ever be made. ; . Louisville, February 21.?Since daylight the water has been falling an inch and a half an hour, and now marks j 36 feet 8 inches at the head of the canal ! j and 61 feet 8 inches at the foot of the j ! falls. Many of the overflowed houses i j are beginning to show up with liberal I coatings wof mud, and in a week busi-1 ; ness on toe river front will be rcsum I cd. The Point, Portland and Ship- j I ping Port are not so fortunate as j j it will take weeks of labor and j j thousands of dollars to put them on I j the same basis as before the flood, i j The damage to the cut off dam, alone, j is estimated at ?20,000. Other public I ! works in the same locality have also i suffered, while below the break in the j dam the water will have to be pumped ; out at the expense of the city before I the houses can be repaired or cleaned j out. Nine-tenths of the inhabitants will have to completely refurnish their homes. Without unremittiug attention from the charitable, the most iutense suffering will continue for weeks. All over the country wherever Ken tuckians are to be found, they show that they have not forgotten their native State. The ladies of Louisville j are tireless in their good deeds. "Incidental Protection'' I Is the singularly beautiful name invent j ed for the seductive process by which money is conjured out of the pocket of the farmer into that of the man behind the little table in the great national fair. Everybody is full of life and activity, j there is hurrying to and fro, there is laughter, there are cheers aud merri ment and jokes and lunches and corks popping and immense prosperity; aud the farmer feels the influence of the place and jingles what is left of his cash in his pocket and knows he is having a I good time. And when he stops before j the little table and sees the thimble j put over the pea and the dealer asks j him blandly if anything could be fairer, i be feels almost, ashamed to say he knows where the pea is, the thing i- so plain. And he does know all about it, but he leaves the rest of his cash behind bim, for the pea isn't there ; and his friend at the little table tells him that he is better off than if it had been, for now he is?in cidentally protected against being rob j bed, till he scrapes together some more money and falls into bad hands. They used to call it thimblerigging, but that was before Heaven sent a party of moral ideas with a bucket of whitewash for the fences and an unlimited supply of flam I ing posters for the dead walls; and none but truly good men are allowed to handle the little inker.?Ar. Y. WorV.1 - mmt- ?nprm ? - Manures for Irish Potatoes. 1. Is cotton seed hull ash, or mu riate of potash, best to mix with cot ton seed meal for Irish potatoes? I 2. In what proportion should the I ^o.tajU^fee^rnixed with cotton _gse4 | meal ? Fertilizes-te e^?a>?uTpounds ! per acre?600 pounds of cotton seed : meal, 200 pounds potash ; will potash ! be too much ? 3. If potash is too much, would any phosphates be beneficial ? 4. If no. phosphates, what other fertilizer would you recommend ?? W. H. U., Memphis, Ten*,., Jan. Zrd, Answer.?1. Either good ; proba bly cotton seed hull ash is the better of the two, but we have no direct ex-! periment8 bearing on the point. A j good man}' have been made where j muriate of potash waR applied to Irish potatoes, and the results wcie quite uniformly favorable 2. About 100 pounds of muriate potash to 200 pounds meal is a good proportion. No danger in applying 200 pounds muriate potash to one acre j of potatoes. 3. It would be better to substitute ! phosphate for some of the meal?say j 200 pounds phosphate, 400 pounds I meal, and 200 pounds potash. 4. No better combination of ferti- j lizcrs than the last named could be ? had for the same money.?Southern Cultivator. Furm?n's Method of Com-1 posting. - i I notice in the October number of! Southern Cultivator, an address by I the lion. F. C. Furn.n, of Baldwin; county, Georgia, on Intensive Farm-! ing. I wish to try his method of: making compost piles and would like j more information on the subject. lie j says cover the compost piles with six j inches rich earth. First, is it really necessary to cover the compost piles with earth? Second, are the piles j made under shelter? Third, please j give me the address of the Hon. F. j C. F'urman ??T. C, BenneltsciJle, Marlboro county, S. C. Jan. 9th, 1883. | Answer.?1. It is better to coverj compost heaps with earth, for two reasons : One is it keeps the upper part damp, and dampness is essential j to proper fermentation. In the se cond place, some gases of value al- j ways pass off from a fermenting heap and the earth absorbs and retains these. 2. Most writers direct that com-1 posts be sheltered from rain ; we do not think it necessary and never' cover them in our own practice. We i fiud that heaps four feet high, with I perpendicular walls, never loose any-; thing by leaching from rain water ; I on the contrary, the rain that falls on one does not more than keep it eufii- i ciently moist for a well regulated fer- j mentation to go ou. Heat is always | developed during fermentation, this tends to dry off the mass and the rain j about counteracts this. 3 Mr. Furman's post-office is Mil- i ledtfoville, Ga.?Southern Cultivator. \ _^ .. i - na fi? Let every man strive to add a good j ? me to his other capital. i News and Gossip. ^ Immigrants from the Europe to the* United States now come for $20 each* on the ocean steam er. An exchange says it makes a woman" sick to keep a secret. He mast have* guessed at it. as it has never yet beetf put to a practical test. A Vass?r college miss reads the' prayer-book response thus: 'As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without men. Ah, me!' The death is announced from the' western coast of Africa of KingOmora. ne leaves 703 widows. Of his 95' children 75 are alive'. His oldest eon* has 400 wives. Here is probably the shortest Court ship on record: A miner in California* fell in love with a girl at first sight. She was equally smitten with him, and the entire courtship was: 'My pet' 'You bet.' Colorless women should wear no* j blue, save the very dark, shunning the I electric and cadet shapes.?[Fashion \ Journal. That's all right. Now tell j us what a colored woman ought to* j wear.?[Philadelphia News. j Prof. Dufour has presented * new* ; and interesting proof that the earth is j round The images of distant objects" i reflected in the Lake of Geneva in cabn j weather show just the degree of distor j tion which a careful mathematical cal j culation would predict on account of I the shape of the earth. j The Lancaster Ledger says the j amount of cotton yet in the fields in I that county is astonishing, and cites as j one instance a farmer in Indian Land ! township who has one hundred acres j that remains untouched io the fields. I The scarcity of labor is attributed fas j the cause. I Gloves are no longer fashionable. ! Men gave up wearing them to balls and j the opera two years ago, instigated ! thereto by the Prince of Wales, fi?t ! some wicked women, with pretty bands, j brought it about that all the other j women should keep their bands bare I whether they were pretty or not. and i they have to keep them clean?which is j the worst of it. I The Mormons have been thirty years j buildiog a granite temple at Salt Lake j City, and it will take at least ten years j more to finish the work, in case it is j ever carried into completion, which Ii I now considered doubtful. There is dif ! ficulty in gathering the taxes levied upon the believers for this purpose, and the Gentiles already count on turn ing the structure ioto a state house when Utah is admitted into the Union. W. C. Hawkins, living in Saluda i Township, has invented a plow stock j which can be used as a double foot, a corn coverer, and by means of a rake i attachment can be used as a cultivator j and corn hocr at the same time. His : plow has beeo examined in the patent j office and he was officially notified on i the 12th of January that a patent would be allowed on his plow.?Green-* ville Neics. A bride aod bridegroom, b?ving been shown politely over the White House the other day by one of the pri ! vate secretaries or other men in 'wait j ing, the groom, in taking leave of him, phanded him a dollar bill and cried out: -Taketn^jjlr. Arthur; if Fd have I come and seeli^ou before election, j darned if I wouidi?T4ra^evotcd for you,' and the secretary kept ffor~d??3L and the compliment without a word. You see he hated to deceive the happy j fellow and deprive bim of bi3 supposed j pleasure in having seeo President Arthur. . Frank McNamee, "Dutch" Pillet and* Levi Chew, the latter a colored man, were lately arrested in Philadelphia, i while driving a wagon containing five dead bodies to the Medical College* The bodies had been stolen from the Lebanon Cemetery, a burial ground for1 colored persons io the lower part of the city, Robert Chew, the superintendent of the cemetery, and Andrew Mullet bate also been arrested. Fuur of the bodies fouod in the wagco bave been identified. One of them is that of Hans Jorgenseo, who shot himself io the head on Novem^ ber 29 and Hied on the 1st inst. The prisoners were held in ?5,000 each for a further bearing. The late transit of Venus curiously proved the accurate calculations of the ancient makers of that, famous horologi cal curiosity, the Strasburg clock. A few days before the transit, tt^T^Amer ican Register tells ns, visitors to the eathedr?! inspecting in tbe planetarium attached to the clock, noticed that one of the small gilt balls r presenting Venus was gradually moving toward a point between the sun and- the earth, and on the day of the passage the ball stood exactly between them. Old Con rad Dasypodius, the Strasburg mathe matician, superintended the manufac ture of the clock and its accompanying planetarium some time between 1571-^. the dates differing according to various authorities; and it is interesting to note that, after three hundred years of existence, the clock faithfully fulfils the calculations of its dead inventor.?Loin* don Graphic. The Mahdi, or False Prophet of the Soudan, is described as one Mobamed Ahmed, a Doogoliao. He is illiterate, but has studied religion, has beeo or daiocd a Sheik, aod has gained a repu tation for sanctity by playing the her mit. He has increased his influeoce by marrying numerous wives among the wealthy families, keeping within the prescribed number of four by a resort* when necessary, to divorce. In May, 1881, he openly proclaimed himself to be the Prophet foretold by Mohammed, preachiug universal equality of law and religion, with community of goods to all believers, and death to all who re jected him. LiKe most prophets, he was denounced by his own townsmen, who proclaimed him mad. In ap pcarance he is tall and slim, and wears a black beard. He reads and writes with difficulty, is head of a local order of Dervishes, and has shown much tact in uniting tbe discordant tribes. Tbe number of tribesmen who fellow him ia estimated at about 338,000 souls.