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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, j SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. Hotv the Farmer May Profitably Uso the j Present Time of the ?ear. It is harillv necessary to urge the prompt gathering and "housing of all manured crops still remaining in the field. The days will get shorter and shorter, and the weather increasingly cold and unpleasant; corn will waste and cotton will drop on tLc ground and become stained and trashy. Every aiiVU Vlii^VO IV v*4>v? diligence. A month hence the days wiU be an hour shorter, and one-tenth less work can be gotten out of a laborer than at present. Indeed, with our present labor, it is becoming unprofitable to employ any more of it than one cat? help duringthe winter months. The negro is so averse to wet and cold during that period it is hard to get work out of him. But for this, there i3 much about a farm which could be done, and most conveniently too daring the winter. Almost every thing in the way of betterments can be attended to with more advantage then than during the Dnsy crop season. Ditching, removing stumps and stones, clearing and cleaning up, terracing, filling gullies, making levees across bottoms, making farm roads, hauling ! leaves for litter, making composts, j and other like things, can rcceive at- j tention without detriment to growing j crops. Such matters are generally i put off until spring, and then there j is a hurrying, and rushing, and halfdoing, to gel them done and out of the way, that preparations may be made for summer crops. Very much of this kind of work may be advantageously done in November, if labor can be held steadily to it; end where hands are hired lor the year, it ought to be done. The farmer can give his whole attention to these matters?study and plan and supervise closely. We find that our presence is more imperatively called for by this kind of work than any other on the farm. In routine operations, trained hands can do pretty well, but in betterments repeated cxercise of judgment is called for at almost every step. We t?.'k much of improving our lands by deep plowing, sowing peas, heavy manuriug, but what availetb *V -wo.** If nrr o A lio 1 lC? ii iauu auvi buv ov** ic wished away as fast as it is deepened or enriched. In all efforts to improve the soil, the first step must be to bold it?attention, study, ingenuity, must all be directed to this point. Since terracing has acquired notoriety, billside ditching has been almost entirely discarded. This may be well after terraces have become firmly established, but anterior to this, whilst the terraces are being made, and the loose earth thrown up by the plow is easily washed away, ditches will be decidedly advantageous, especially if washes have already begun. In heavy rains, water acquires a terrible momentum down slopes that are long and steep, if allowed to traverse the whole distance ; catch it in a ditch befoi'e it has liad time to acquire volume and velocity. Make the ditch large and deep enough to hold the water in the heaviest rains; don t be^ timid about this, fearing yonr ditch wili become a gulley. With the greatest fall ?iveu hillside ditches, it is an easy matter to get them filled up after they hav i served their purpose. Every one who has had much experience with hillside ditches knows that the trouble is to keep. them open. Briars, weeds, v etc., falling into them are constantly catching earth and making a soil in their bottoms, nnon which snrinsr ud grasses and weeds; these catch more soil and soon the ditch, breaks over, unless often cleaned out. In crossing them with the plow dirt and trash fall in to such a degree that it is uext to impossible to keep them open when the plowman does not tnrn at the ditch. Where rows are run on a level one year's breaking and cultivation of the land will completely obliterate a ditch that is crossed. Y A poorly made, inadequate ditch is worse than no ditch, bnt a properly made, lflro-p ditch has one decided drawback f especially on steep slopes ?the water falling into it from above tends to start little gullies on the upper edge of the ditch; and liiese if not chccked tend to elongate np the hillin other words ditches tend to generate gullies. Fortunately this can be obviated by leaving an unplowed strip along the upper edge of the ditch. Weeds and "grass growing upon this strip binds its soil so that water will not cut through it, but checked, in its flow, deposits its burden of soil on said strip and quietly percolates through This strip should be not less than three feet in width. Where this precaution has not been taken, and gullies have started along the upper edge of ditches, it would be well to put trash of some kind in every one of these, weighing it down with rocks. A perfect edge to the ditch can thus be soon established, and the unplowed strip will take care of it afterwards. Don't defer looking after these apparently little things; a stitch in tifnc will save more than afterwards. Where moderate gullies have already formed banl leaves, straw or trash of any kind and put in them?a little brush at iutervals, or a row of stobs placed across them will serve to keep the leaves from being washed oat of them. If this is done, and nloTO men made to lift their nlows over in crossing these washes, they will very \ soon fill up. More are less dirt and trash will drop into them froui the plows as thep are lifted over, and this will help to fill them. If washes are plowed across without lifting plow, the loose dirt in the wash is carried off by the first rain, and thus every plow . ing serves to deepen the wash. Make /"V it an nnviolable rule to have the plow lifted over every wash that can be crossed. At this" season of the year it is well to sow a little rye, wheat or other grain along these washes that are filled with leaves; it will help materially to catch and hold the dirt which is carried into them bv ruins; when this is done in the spring, a spontaneous growth ofgrass and weeds will do the same thing. It is all important, however, in everv case to fix carefully the lower end of the wash or gaily so as to check the actionj>f water there; the filling up will begin there and gradually work up the hill. We ; have repeatedly changed the face of a < field by such "simple devices as we have described, and with very little ; labor. Land thus guarded is ready for ter- ; racinsr, and ten-aces, when well estab- ' lishedf, will permanently hold the soil j1 and fit it for the reception of all the ' manure you can apply to it. After ' the soil is prepared to receive manure, j < the next step is to fit it for labor-sav-1( ing implements. These are our main I ] reliance for lessening the cost of pro- ; duction, which is but another express ' 1 sion for increasing net profits. Every j1 obstruction in the shape of rocks, i! stumps, etc., should be removed. Of course this remark does not apply to j newgrounds or excessively rocky i land. It probably would not pay to spend the requisite labor on these. ; i But there is an abundance of open j ] land in the country with very few i i stumps or rocks upon it, and this j < should be cultivated and improved, even 11 oaiiiv worn, m picieicucu tv . any other. On all such land the rocks |! and stumps should be removed;; he 1 cost will noi be great, and will soon be paid back in the saving of labor from the use of implements which j economize labor. The smoothing j harrow, with its broad sweep of ten | ^ I _ _ _ I* L ? ? . I_ - 1 __ C I 01 twelve xeei, in me cany siages 01 cultivation, and the straddling cultitors, carrying a row at a go, at a later stage of the crop, will soon pay back with large interest the expense of digging up a few stumps and hauling off a few rocks. Perhaps these stumps are needed close by to build obstructions across gullies or ravines, or levees across branch bottoms, to check j the flow of water during floods and } gather deposits of sediment upon the j ^Ail Th/? KtiiMii.rr Af ItilTOOS *Afi2 ovu. a 1jv vi i^/ ? wo iav* vs-o 7 valley lands is worthy of attention. Branch bottoms are in some respects our very beat land;?, but they are often badly washed or scoured by heavy rains. Levees built across at narrow points, where the hills project into the bottoms, would not only stop the damage from water, but nuke, the overflows a positive blessing through the rich sediments deposiieu. Where the levees cross the main ditch, abutment* of heavy rocks or of large timbers should be built or willows planted on edge of ditch. Where rocks cannot be had to build a levee, a double row of willows planted across the bottom, with brush and logs between and above them, will soon make a good clam; a wuiow aam wou;a cest aimost nothing; green willow stalks driven in along the line is all that is necessary as these take 4'oot and grow readily. A little work of this kind, not done because not thought of, would often double the value of bottom lands. Some time ago we discussed at some length the subject of farm roads, and will not repeat. These should be looked after now and put in good order. Roads can kept in good condition much easier by a little work oft repeated than by much work at interval!*. As soon as a wash or hole begins to form fill them at once; a few well broken rocks or spadefuls of dirt will do it then; a wagon load may be required if ncglected long. -Our miblic roads would be kept in much better order is smalt squads of'- hands were kept working oii. them .all the time, in place ol many hands upon_ them twicc in ihe year. This is very emphatically one of the cases in which a stitch in time savet nine. Rocks should always be broken fine when used upon roads; no piece should be more than one and a half inches through. Small rocks will pack into a compact mass, large ones will not; the latter will continually work ont of their beds, and a loose rock in a road bed is as objectionable as a stump. A h/xaI- KftmmAH mJU Ka o trni*rr n. iula uiu uc iuiiuu convenient thing , on & farm, where rocks are found. A road bed of clay is much improved by the addition of sand. This may sometimes be very convienently obtained by placing obstructions at intervals in the adjacent ditches to catch the sand which washes into them. On the contrary, a sandy road-bed is improved by the addition of clay, and this can sometimes be i cheaply obtained where there is an underlying clay subsoil by digging nn cirlrt r\f v?i vuvu vtuw v/a iiiv i v*\. v enough to get clay and throw it; on the road-bed. Farmers are more directly interested in good roads than any other class in the community, and it behooves them to look carefully into these matters. They need good roads on their farms over which to haul their crops to their barns, and jjood public roads to facilitate trans pun 01 prouuue lu iiranv^t. A large snpply of barnyard manure, with which to make compost, is every year regarded as more and more essential on the farm. Commercial fertilizers give so much better recalls in conjunction with stall manure, than when used alone, that every farmer is anxious to have a full supply of the latter. He wants enough to go over all the land he cultivates. This can only be had by the use of ample quantities of litter. Daring the busv crop season, he did not feel perhaps lhat he had time to stop his teams and hands to haul leaves; but for some months now he will have ample time. A rcJe shelter under which litter cotilci be stored and kept dry4s very desirable. Thus nrrjniorort a llmifpr! nnanfif.r r>nn3rl be put in the stalls at s1iqt? intervals, j and become thoroughly incorporated ! with, the droppings, of"tba- animals,-! Wet leaves hauled directly from' the woods and put in the stalls, not only brings discomfort to the stock, but adds ss much water as dead weight to be handled and hauled out. Where there is a choice of oak aud pine leaves the Jaitcrare rather to be preferred; some persons regard them of little maimrial valne?-analysis does not confirm this view. "Freshly fallen leaves of the common old field pine nnnfnin fh<* fr?llnivintr nnanfifiec nf manorial substances "in a hundred parts: ANALYSIS OF PDJE STRAW. Ammonia (potential) 0.47 Phosphoric acip 0.24 Potash 0.12 Magnesia 0.08 Lime 0.28 Silica... 2.24 Snlnhni*?f? a/'i/l fi OA -V%?? J/WW* IV U^/AV4 W Now compare the above with ordinary damp or green stable manure. ANALYSIS OF STABLE MANURE. Ammonia 0.60 Phosphoric acid .0.50 Potash ..0.40 Magnesia .. 0.30 Lime 0.50 The pine straw contains about fourfifths as much ammonia, about onehalf as much phosphoric acid, about one-half as much lime as. the manure. Piue straw is recommended also because it breaks up and mixes with other ingredients rapidiv, and rots more easily than oak leaves. . After the pine leaves have lain on the ground for along time much of their fertilizing contents have been washed out by rains, and they are then less valuable. Before the winter rains 3et iu will be o (TaaH fimo 1 Konl nn or* w fcvvvi iiutv iv i4uui, uy au avuuuauw supply of these leaves. Make pens of poles or rails, fill them with the pine straw and color with planks, as before suggested, planks make the best temporary roofs, especially during the winter, when they are not much warped by the sun. Litter the stalls now as rapidly as they will bear it. From time to time fork up the edges and dryer parts and throw them on the wet spots, A very large quantity of manure can be made in the next three months if one goes about in it earuest; and all of it will be needed to make up the compost heaps in February. To increase:-the richness of the. manure, and facilitate its rotting where mrich litter is used, cotton seed mav be scattered in the stall occasionally. To prevent loss of ammonia a little kainft may be sprinkled in the stalls; a pb.und, or less, a Say to each stall will-.suffice. Where 3lie proposes to ase kainit in bis compost, this is the best manner of doing it; it will become thoroughly incorporated with the stall manure; andthorough mixture of its ingredient* idds much to the value of a compost. Poor Fellows. Prostrated, debilitated, enfeebled, they feel as if they were hardly worth picking up. They would hardly give the toss of a bright penny for a chance of a choice between life and death. Bat even such forlorn people can be renewed by the use of Brown's Iron Jlsitters. It vitalizes the Diooa, tones the nerves, and renovates the system. Mr. Isaac C. Weed, Burr's Mills, O., says, "I u*e?l Brown's Iron Bitters for general weakness, and it helped me greatly." * IJIJI: aWB?e?MrmfwrrriniaMaMBaCET Ufa m A SHOC IJLSG XKAGJEDT. Three Men, Father and Two Soaa, Killed by a Kio&man--Particulars of the Occurrence. (From the Xcwsand Courier.) At *\%% \.lrn/?noa^au 1ft: It iitcf a white man, named Curler, and a negro, named Charles Brook?,galloped into Edgefield with the news of a most horrible crime. The victims are Edward Pressley, a white man, who is over eighty years of age, and his two sons Charles and Edward, aged about twenty-six and thirty years respectively. The murderer is Robert Jones, also white, who married the grand-1 1- - C D ~ J %W*.U,V ii&(i?iK?*r ui ricwit-v *uu rruv; nvcr? on the farm with them. The sct'iie of the tragedv is about eight miles west of the conrt-house. The representative of the News and Courier, upon bearing of the occurrence, at once set out to investigate it and gathered the following details oi the horrible affair: Jones, the murderer, it appears, came here from Georgia several years ago and married Mr. Pressley's granddaughter. The *** * _ - ' y ? j it _t_ rressieys rent some lana in uie ueiguborhood, a portion of which was occupied by Jones, who, however, paid no rent for it; On Tuesday evening before the homicidc Charles Presslcy went to Jones's house and told hiin that he would have to vacate the laud as he and his brother could not afibrd to pay the rent for him. On Wednesday about 11 o'clock Jones entered the field where old Presslcy and his sons Charles and Edward were ploughing. A colored man who lives near the scene of the murder states that he saw Jones go up to Charles Presslcy and, without auy words, raise a double barrelled, gun to his shoulder and empty the contents of both barrels into the body of his victim. lie then turned and walked off in the direction of the woods. Edward Pressley, the brother of the murdered man, putting down his plough, started to pursue the murderer of his brother. Jones waited until he came up and, then taking a knife, stabbed him iu the richt 6ide -ripped the knife entirely across his chest, killing him almost instantly. In the meantime old Pressley was in the fioM fn hnl/1 hie crtn'c nlonorh horse which had been frightened at the sound of the firing. Jones deliberately reloaded his gun, approached the old mau and shot him dead. He then went home, mounted his horse and rode off. Johu Pressley, the only remaining son, was in the house at the time and came out after hearing the firing, onl\' to find his father and his two brothers lying dead in the field. A messenger was dispatched to the court-house to get out a warrant. The Presslevs have the reputation of being respectable, quiet and orderly people, the elderly son, John, having served through the war with bravery. Jones came to Edgefield about Fix years ago and settled in the county. His sisters are married there, one of them being. the wife oL Mr. Park man, one ot the defendants in the Culbreath case. There is the strangest sequel to this horrible affair, however. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon a short, thickset man, attired in an ordinary homespun suit, entered the village, carrying on his shoulder a double-barrelled shotgun. He went to the postoffice, left his gun with a man in there, aud then slowly and deliberately walked ou to the jail, which is situated next to the court house and which has a front yard, railed in by an ordinary Jron railing. "That's Jones," said some ? . . 7 /? . , ? one, ana as tne news or tne muraer had been known for some time a crowd speedily followed Jones. He applied to the negro tarn key, who opened the gate, aud entered the place and gave himself up. He was followed into the jail by a miscellaneous crowd, bnt no one made auv attempt to injure him. Upon entering the jail he remarked to some of the prisoners who knew him that he had killed three of the best men in the comity, but he was obliged to do it. At this point his relative interposed and advised him to say nothing more, anr* he obeyed the injunction. The evidence oeforc the coroner s jury was brief. Charles Brooks, an eyewitness of ihe killing testified as follows: "I was at my house shucking corn and ihe first noise I heard was a gun, then I heard a scream, and I raised np aud saw two mon running whom I recognized as Edward Pressley, Jr., and Bob Jones. I paw them catch hold of cach. -other and I saw one ' i. i 5 . i / i reacn unt 01 nis nana* as n ne was using his knife but I don't know which one it was, but I saw Mr. Pressley fall, and Mr. Jones walked off with his gun in his hand, and then I saw something lying on the ground that I took to be Charles Pressley. Mr. Jones walked back in the direction of where Mr. (Jharies Pressley was lying and stopped and loaded his gun, after which he walked to where Edward Pressley, Sr., was standing and said, "Dog gone it, I will shoot you too," aud thereupon he raised his gun and shot him. Mr. Jones then walked on towards his house, about 400 yards off. Mr. Presslev. Sr.. fell as soon as he was shot. YVhen I saw Mr. Edward Presslev and Mr. Bob Jones running Mr. -j Jones was in front The .first report that I heard seemed to be as if both barrels were discharged at once. No one else could have done the shooting without my seeing him. I am satisfied from what I saw that Mr. Jones killed all three of the Pressleys. Dan Mitchell and myself were about the second ones to get there after they fell. I did not see any weapons of any kind lying about. I never heard ofMr. Press'ey and Mr. Jones having any iam!? yy uiuuv^uii* Mi*. J. B. Presslev, the only surviving male member of the family was not an eye-witness, and his evidence is not important. Mr. J R. Terry testified as follows: *1 was at my house, abont one mile from Mr. Pressley^ placc, on the road towards Edgefield village. I was in mv potato patch and saw Mr. Jones coming up throngh the corn field, aud he called to me. I stopped, and after shaking hands said that he was in great trouble. He had his gan on his shoulder at the time. I asked him whatsis the matter. He said he had had a difficulty with the Presslys about land. He said he bought the laud and paid for it. and bad papers for it, and that the Pressleys had Attempted. to sow oats upon it, and that he nad tola them that- he would shoot thenar if they did, and that they had csraraenced to sow oats in the:Corning, a?d that he had shot them in consequence. He then said that he would it go the village and give liimseJf np, or go to Georgia and die there-. 1 thought that he was jesting. He -then went in the direction of the village of. Edgefield. He said that he. was afraid that he had .killed. Charles Pressley,-Edward Pressley, Sr., and Edward Pressiey, Jz*. He did not give any * A 1 A? -At X) I reason lor me snooting otnei man that they (the Pressleys) were trying to take his land after he had forbidden them He did not say what he had shot Ihein.with." ?The Atlanta Prohibitionists offered to pay the taxes of any colored man who desired to vote the tcmperance i ticket at the election this week, audi ih& iiauor-raen. hearinsr of this, bine-! ribboned two hundred^nti-prohibitiou j negroes, sent them.early next morning J to the Je^nperauce headquarters ai?5 i hat* two huir&red votes qtmlrfied, ata i cost to the - Prohibitionists of - nearl* $1,000. THK EIMJEFLELD LYJfCHIJiG. : Proceedings ia the Court of Seg?ioat-The x i mi ruiipuucu, nuu Lots rnamiers AOr | mitted to Bail. As already stated) the grand jury of i Edjrefield found a "true bill" against : all the parlies charged with the killing ofCulbreath. When the indictmeut was read to ihe prisoners, their counsel interposed a motion to qtia6h it on different grounds, eighteen in number, ! which may be summarized as forlow*: 1. Thnt tho copy of the indictment furnished them In the clerk ol Court was not a true copy. 2. A challenge to the array or panel ! of the grand jury. j 3. The objections to the validity of ; the grand jury because some of the Jurors were removed and some excused i and others were instituted in their Dlaees. 4. A motion to quash the indictment because ui* delects *iu certain of the count*. The State, through the AttorneyGeneral, answered these objections, denying that any one. of them was tenable in law. The argument of the questions in| volved in the defendants' motion com[ me need before Judge Hudson on j Thursday morning. j An hour was spent in a technical i skirmish over points involving the order in which argument should be ! heard The defence then proceeded to j open the case, Major Gary delivering i thf> nnpninc ar.?*nmftnfc i? their hfthalf. He delivered a splendid legal argument, absolutely free from anything like sensational appeals, but confined entirely to the legal grounds upon which the plea of the defendants was based. He was followed by Attarnevj General Miles, who likewise addressed j himself wholly to the discussion of the I legal question's involved in the case. | Mr. Miies took occasion, however, in passing, to mate a ptiDiic acKnowieagmcnt of his indebtedness to the counsel associated with hinr^ Messrs. Bonham & Bonham, and Gary & Evans, for the valuable aid which they had extended to him in the preparation of the case. General M.-C. Butler-closed the argument for the defence in a very strong speech. Where bureau- life, he said, was concerned, it would' not" do to come into Court and say that the solemn injunction.of the law should be ! trifled with. Before a man can be put on trial for his life-'every provision, every injunction of- the law., most be i strictly and scrupulously complied: with. The State could suffer 1101 detriment by having the law strictly j enforced; The eitizen could suffer no detriment and would, besidesy have no. excuse for taking; the law in -hir own hands. Judge Hudson then delivered his decision orally, sustaining the State in every particular and overruling all the points made by the defendants-, after which the Court adjourned for dinner,: the defendants giving, notice of ex ceptions to the ruling of tho Court. The defence next , moved to qnash the panel of petit jurors* alleging various irregularities, and5 argument was heard. Shortly afterwards, thia motion to quash- was abaudoned. The defendants' counsel theu moved that the trial of the case: be postponed: till the next term of Court, on tbegrowid' of the absence of a number of their witnesses and the expected: absence of Lieutenant-Governor.. Sheppard* one of the counsel, and Senator Talbert, one of the deteudauts. Attorneyfteneral. Mites said he considered that the motion was addressed entirely to the discretion of the Ccnrrt. The State,, he added, was ready for trial. After hearing the views of all the counsel, Judge Hadson granted: the motion and continued the case. A motion was then made to admit all the defendants to bail, and the '1cfendants' coousel spoke at some length on this. The attorney-general 6aid that it was simply, his duty, as. the officer of the State, to call the atien tion of the Court to the law on the; subject. The State's- attorneys^ he said, were glad that the responsibility was on the; shoulders of the Court, j They made no active resistance- to the motion, as they - did not feel it to be iu the line of their duty i . Jndgc Hudson said that he regarded the circumstances of this case as somewhat extraordinary and peculiar, and without expressing an opinion as to the weight of evidence in the case he : would admit all Che defendants to bail in tlve sum of $2,500 each* THE WAR IN THE-BULKANSf . Prince Alexander and hit BniRarlant GAia A Great Triumph. The latest news from the seat-of war in Europe shows a complete change in the aspect of affairs;; ;The prospects of Bulgaria, thanks to Prince Alprntidpr'a Krarorv anH wnpralshin are as bright now as they wero gloomv recently. An official report states that the Servian ft: entered Bresnik on Wednesday. The town had been abandoned bv the Bulgarians, who, in their haste to get away, leflei-ghtgnns behind them. The capture ?fBtesnikleaves that route open toSofia*Tfce; Bulgarian army of the: Widden<lifK trict may be considered compteteiy; destroyed aud dispersed. TheBulgarians have carried every one of the Servian positions which "were meuac lug Mivmtza*. rrince Alexander lea the Bulgarian columns in person. Later news confirms the-tidings of the great victory won by Prince Alexander and his .Bulgarians at Widden. Everi the Servian dispatches freely acknowledge the truth oftitefialgarian ' account, although they first denied it Prince Alexander, however, feels the need of assistance, and has given up ' his claim on Roumelia in order to obtain aid from the-Sultan. Bulgaria -is denuding the Turkish frontier of trf/ops and is , sending . all her available forces to combat the Servians. - The public are allowed to go to the depots en route to see their relations and friends. Manv of the villagers tramp long distances and wait"at the depots seversd-hoars, and in some instances whcte daysand nights, to see their friends aud. give them flowers and-presctftts^- Prince Alexander's success- -before.:Slivmtza has revived the courage of those going to the front, and they, undergo extreme hardships with remarkable -fortitude. In many cases they are tsomptHed to march long distances in bad. weather, and at night carop.iu opea -spaces wbere 4hey are shelterless; not naviftg". even ordinary tents to protect 4he?h from-the severity of theweatfeeivv A Blind sad Deaf-Womas< -v Miss Minnie Wallace, of Atlanta,/lost her hearing, .her. sightaud sense- of taste-.1 Sores covered her body and limbs! . Her joints were swollen and painful, her limbs paralyzed, appetite lost, and-she was eking out a'miserable life. Six bettles of B. B. B. restored her sight and hearing*-relieved-all achesand .pains, added flesh ?nd strength and she is now a well-woman; 'Write-to. ner. A prominent Alabama physician said: "A patient who was almost dying from the effects of Tertiary SypbttHs -and-who had been treated by several, noted- physicians without beoefit, used one-dozes bottles of 13. B. B. and was entirely cured.; He bad ulcers on his arms and the bones protruded through the flesh and skm at the elbow, and death seemed-inevitable." * A 1>V MJii TV aiLTiilKity. mrs. ty'issuiw** sootjoxfisrsri* shaalo. &1- ] ways toe used lor children _teetfcteg^ It aootheai tbe child;- softens -tlv> g?ms, aJIaysrftil -paJa.-! curfc5a-wind-coBc.-and-i.H-t^e72?<>f-renieajf lor } <aarrhoea. Trenty-ttre ceuts g toottle. Julyl4Ltyl I { the Wallace house. Arranging for Organization and for a Reunion >'?? l>v By request, a unniber of gentlemen, members of the Wallace House, met. in Wright's Hotel, Columbia, on the evening of the 11th iusr. Present: F. A. Connor, Abbeville; I. S. Bamberg, Barnwell; John B. Erwin, Lancaster; J. B. Humbert. J. Wash Watts, Laurens; John S. Verner, Oconee; D. F. Bradiev, Pioicens: E. S. Allen, Spartnnbnnr: A. E. Hutchinson, B. H. i Massey, York. The following officers of the House were present: John T. Sloan, clerk; "W. McB. Sloan, assistant clerk; O. Marshall,doorkeeper. On motion Mr.-B. H. Massey was called to ttie chair and John T. Sloan was appointed secretary. The secretary handed the chairman the gavel used in the organization 01 the Wallace House. [Applause.] The chairman stated tnar uie meeting naa been requested for the purpose of consulting with the view of organizing a permanent society of the members of the Wallace House of Representatives who organized in the Carolina Hall November, 1876. The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to: Resolved, That the secretary prepare and publish a list of the members of Maiiqa nf Rf>r>rf>fipnfatives who or | ganized, in the Carolina Iiall on November, 1876, known as the "Wallace j House, and that they be requested to | meet in CaroHna Hall, in the city of Columbia, on "Wednesday or Thursday of the next State Fair for the purpose of organizing a permanent society. ROLL OF MEMBERS. Frotn Abbeville?W. Iv. Bradley, deceased, R. R. Hemphill, F. A. Connor, William Hood, T. L. Moore. ' From Aiken?C. E. Sawyer, J. J. Woodward, L. M. Asbill, J. G. Guign ttlll. From Anderson?H. R. Vandiver, R. W. Simpson, W. C. Brown, deceased, James L. Orr. From Barnwell? L. W. Yoninans, M. A. Rounfcree, Robert Aldrieh, I. S. Bambersr, John W. Holmes. From Beantort?Thomas Hamilton, N. B. Myers, deceased. From Chesterfield?J. C. CoH, D. T. Redfearn. From Colleton?H. E. Bissell, Wm. Maree, deceased, J. M. Cnmmings, L. E. Parler, Robert Jones-. From Edgefield?W. S. Allen, J. C. Sheppard, James CaHison, T. E. Jennings, H. A. Shaw. From Snmter-rJ. II. Westberry. FremUnion?W. 11. "Wallace, G. D. Peafce, William Jefferies. From Greenville?J. F. McDonald, deceased, J. T. Ansfcin, J. W. Gray, J. L. Westmoreland. From Horry?L. D. Bryan, J. R. Cooper. From Lancaster?John B. Erwin, | J. C. Biakeney, deceased. From Laurens?J. B. Hnmbert, J. Wash Watts, D. W. Anderson. \ From Lexington?G. Leapbart, G. Muller. From Marion?J. G. Bine, James McRac, R. H. Rogers, J. P. Davis. From Marlboro?P. M.Hamer,T.N. Edens. : From Oconee?B. Frank Sloan, Johu S. Vnrner. From Orangeburg?W. H. Iteedish. From Pickens?D. F. Bradley, E. H. Bates. From Spartanburg?W. T. Compton, deceased, J. W. Wofford, E. S. Allen, Charles Petty. From York?A. E. Hutchinson, B. H. Maseey, J. A. Deal, deceased, W. B. By erf, deceased. Resolved, That ex-Governor Wade Hampton, the Senate aud its officer* oft 1876, the Slate' officers of 1876 and Judge A C. Haskell be, and they are hpreby, invited to attend the meeting. ( Resolved, That a committee of three j be appointed to invite the Hon. W. H. Wallace to address the meeting on the \ history of the eventful struggle of theE Wallace House, whereupon the chair- f man announced Messrs. Vomer, Run- f berg and Allen, of the committee. Resolved, That a committee of ifrree : be appointed to make arrangments for ! the contemplated meeting, whereupon the Chair aimouuced Messrs. Erwiu, > Bradley and Connor, of the committee.1 The meeting then adjourned. The Rebel Kiel Executed. Louis liiel, the leader in the half-; breed insurrection against the Domin- s ion government in the Northwest Ter- [ ritory, was hanged at Rcgiua on the s 16th iust. In his last hours he behaved : with a coolness and conrage that com- j inanaeame respect ami even nuuuia-c tion of his executioners. He wasjj hanged, it is said, not so much for his j leadership in the revolt as for partici- ] pation in the killing of some of the > Queen's subjects, which the authorities called a slaughter, but to the last he | denied narticiDation or complicity in | that-; killing, * After bis conviction strenuous efforts were made to set aside the verdict of the court which convicted him, by an appeal to the Privy Council, but this was- refused. 'Then an effort was made.to procure from the Governor-General a commutation* of sentence, which was also refused. The Canadian French took j mttcti raterestais ease, ne uen?g ux Ifr-encir parentage, ai ^ it was urged in his behalf that be was insane. Three physicians were selected to visit him and make-a test of his sanity. Two out of three were of opinion that he was mentally unbalanced, while the third refused to say that he was not. But all this did not save him. The edict ror nis execution went iorm, anu the hangman obeyed it. ?Somebody has discovered the discoarafriug fact that five Governor* of New -York have dropped dead of heart disease, Still the. position will be sought after. ?Contributions in aid of the sufferers by the great fire at Galveston on the 13th inst. arc coming in frotn all quarters. The total loss is estimated - 4. efU\ AAA at ^owjwu* ? . ?Of thirteen Ivnchings conducted by one band of Vigilantes in Montana during ;tbe last three months, it is claimed that the right man was hanged in twelve instances. . ?Miss Angelina. Brown, of New York citv, has sued her physicians, TV ?. ,Vs OAn Tin i.JV. ?%.. c> r muy iiiiii >uo ovii JL/1. A. E.%M. Purdy, for $10,000 damages for baring: falsely .reported that she bad Bmalipox and causing: her to be seat to tbe-smattpox,bcrspital on Blackwell's Island;' ?The .ccnsu6 of Kansas, jU6t completed by the State board ef agricul 1 - - - 1- ^ ?? 1 ft CO 4 OCi ture, snows a popumuuu ui i,-uo,ii a gain of 372,466 in the past five years. | The greater portion of this increase is | within the past two years, daring j which time the almost depopulated j western conoties have nearly regained ; former numbers. ?Mr. Thompson and Mrs. Wood-j fall went to the agency at Lawrence, j Kan., to be married. The ceremony was nerformed at 9 o'clock a. oi. and ! Thorny on-died-at hoon of dropsy of the heart" and was buried at 1& o'clock nextdayv- The--minister-who married the coupie> preached the funeral sermon. and dn the^eveuinsr married Ihe woman to anothef roaih"?It is said that-in thirteen counties ?f Virginia the noise of raiinrav trains has never been beard. / r II I jffminTl !. .... I??a Suicide In Marlboro. Mr. J. Iv. Glass, a promising young i man about twenty-one years of age, j who has been keeping books lor; Messrs. Pegues & Brothers, of Marl- [ boro county, committed suicide la<t \ Thursday night about 9 o'clock by I shooting himself in the head with a J pistol. IJe had made an arrangement i to come over to Cheraw with some ! friends to a dance, and while convers- | ing with these friends handed over his j pocket-book, told them good-bye and, placing a pi.?tol 10 his car, lired. No ' cause can be assigned for the rash i deed. The deceased was a native ox ' Abbeville county. fcnoalfvr f?ttrli?ln III. Speaker Carlisle was so ill when he arrived at Washington on Thursday afternoon that he was obliged to take to his bed at once. Visitors were not permitted to see him and cards were not taken to his room, lie i.< now improving. ?Secretary Manning is partial te apples, but to red apples only. The result is that the negro peddlers tk/i ti-McniM- luiiMiiicr LrriAn linnp aiUUUU lug Li V/UOUI T VUUMlMg .iWj, but reel apples in "stock, and from the chairwomen to the assistant secretaties all the employees lunch on red apples. ?Senator bharon, who died last week, left a statement, written shortly before his decease, that he had never in ativ manner promised to marry Miss Hill; that the pretended letters from himself to her were forgeries; and that his representatives mast light her claims to the very last. ?Vesuvius is again in a state oij eruption. The lava is streaming down on the west side of the mountain, and some alarm is expressed, as the observatory authorises believe that the eruption will become more serious than it is at present. ?Germany has acquiesced in the Pope's settlement of the Caroline question. MALARIA Ssten the system from nsknown cauara* . Shatters the Herres, Impairs Digestion, and Enfeebles the H 3 a TH mL Si? BE5T TQNllf Quickly and completely cores .">Ialaria,aad Chills tnd Fevers. For Intermittent Fevers, Las* oltode, Lack of Energy, it has no equal. It nricbes And purifies the blood. stimulates the appetite. and strengthens the muscles and nerves. It does not injure the teeth, csnao hcadac.hn. or produce constipation?all otker Iron medicma do. Fathzb T. J. Bull*. the patriotic end scholarly Catholic Divine, of Arkansas, says: "I hare n*ed Brown's Iron Bitters with the great eat satisfaction for Malaria, and as a preventive of -Chills and like diseases, and Trill always keep it on hand as a ready friend," Genuine has above trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BliOWTfCHEMTCAL CO.. BALTIMORE, MD. Ladies' Hand Boos?useful and attractive, containing list of prizes for recipes, information about coins, etc., given away by all dealers in medicine, or mailed to any address on receipt of 3c. stamp. TUTTS PILLS 25 YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Triumph of the Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. L>oss of appetite, Bowels costive, Fain Jn the bead, with a dull sensation in tho back part, Pain nnder the slionlderblade, Fullness after eating, with a. disinclination to exertion of body or mind, Irritability of temper, I.ow spirits, with a feelingof having neglected some daty, Weariness, Dizziness, Fluttering at the Heart* Dots before tho eyes, Headache ever the right eye, Restlessness, with fltlai dfcuast mcmj coiareu tnuci <ui? CONSTIPATION. TUTT'S PHXS are especially adapted to sach cases, one dose effecjs such a change offeelingas to astonish tiie sufferer.. They Increase the Appetite,sud cause the body to Take ou flesh, thua the system is nourished, and by their Tonic Action on the Digestive OrranSjTletpilarStool* are proanceq. rncc Tim'S HAIR DYE. Geat Hate or Whiskers changed to a gl088t Black by a single application ot this Dte. It imparts a natural color, acts instantaneously. 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My kidneys have been inactive and irregular for many years, attended with excruciating pain in the small of the back. At times I became too nervous to attend to business. My case had all the attention that money could secure, but only to result in a complete failure. B. B. B. was recommended, and to say that 1/s action on me was magical would be a mild term. One bottle made me feel like a new man?just like I was young again. In all my life I never used so powerful and potent a remedy. For the blood and the kidneys it is the best I ever saw, and one bottle will force any one to praise it. A. L. D. Sold by all druggists. All Sorts of hurts and many sorts of ails of man and beast need a cooling lotion. Mustang Liniment. Good Pay for Acronlk. SlOO to S200 j>OT ino.in.tilriM'llinirourCrnuil Sen HUiary. Fssaounaiii! Oeclxlve Baltlooi fhvlVoriil Write to J. C. 2IcCurdy &. Vik, lliiladdpUla, i"aZuy tooM. A certain care. Not expensive. Thrm C-' ' * - -A Virirt.1 f?? rVlM pnninw i iTtV *1 Ifll* Ul Vbv J fin ?. \?ww *? ^ " ? tDite'Bewi, Hmteebe. Dtainesa. Hay Fever, Ac vr-trwa. S'.-?r^a'?iiU,. ? ???M???B3?111111'l.Mm iiwunMia FOR COUCHS AND CROUP U& TAYLOR'S linn? MULLEim. The iweet gnm.*i gufeered from a tree of the tame saa* growing along the mall atrean* In the Socthem State*, eontalaa a itlnnjlating expectorant principle Out looaess the phlegm producing the early morning cough. and izL~zlxM the child to throw off tiie iUae memhraoe In eronpaoJ whooping-cough. When combined with the healing modlaglnooi principle Sn the tnnllein plant ef the old fleidiKpr?i. eenta la Tinom'i Csnoxxz Krxxar 07 Swxxr <3cx xxd Moixxnr the finest known remedy for Cmtfi*. Croup, TTaooplng-Congh and Coawmption; and as pMtfiMe. any ? ettild 1? pleaied to take It. Aifc Tsar droaciit fcr it. Price, 23c. ml SI. WATTES A- f AYLOS, AtUata," G*. C?e DR. BIG GEES' HTJCSLEB2KST" CORDIAX tot Diarrhoea, Dytenteiy and Children TeetMnj. ForaaSebj ^dro??iau. MOTHERS' FRIEND. mtmmmmmmm NO More Terror'JThis invaluable prepowflnri ic frnlr o tri_ jumph of scientific vr? v.?fl "P^n T skill, and no more irrITO MOTw ?*.21. estimable benefit was ever bestowed on the nr. nr...- mothers of the world. Mors IDanger. it not only shortens the time of labor and lessens the [intensity of pain, but, better than all, it - n-L-13 greatly diminishes the Mother or Onlict. danger to life of both mother and child, and [leaves the mother in a 'condition highly faThe Dread of vorable to speeay recovery, and far" less */r i_ , liable to flooding, coi.Mother nOOCl vulsions, and other alarming s y m p t o m s +r? linrrDriniT jUlV/iUCUV W Transformed to |aDd painful labor. Its truly wonderful efficacy in this respect enHn titles the Mothers' U jT Ih Friekd to be ranked as one of the life-saving appliances given to tne wona Dy ine ?nd discoveries of modem science. From the nature of y /-x j- the case it will of Y course be understood V/ JL r that we cannot publish certificates con ceming this Remedy without wounding the and Fa<u> delicacy of the writers, fcaietj ana i^ase Yet we have hundreds of such testimonialson file, and no mother ?'T0? who has once used it will ever again be _ _ . _t_ iwiuiout it m iier uiiie Suffering woman of trouble. . A prominent pliysician lately remarked to tlie proprietor, that if.it were admissible te nuke public the letters we receive, the "Mothers' Friend" would out sell anything on the market. Send for our Treatise on "Health and Happiness of Woman," mailed free. V> .. Cn. JDKAUfUblii/. ilUJUiiAlun wm Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte, Columbia & Ausrasta K. R SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCTOBER 4, iO 1885,?Eastern Standard Time. GOING NORTH. VA 53 \riTT. KVPRF^S. Leave Augusta 9.10 a. m. Leave W. C. &. A. Junction.... .1.12 p. m. Arrive at Columbia 1.22 p. m Leave Columbia 1.32 p. m. Leave Killian's .1.58 p. m. Leave Blythewood ^2.13 p. in Leave Kidgewav .2.34 p. m. Leave Simpson's 2.47 p. m. Leaye Wjnnsboro '... .3.02 p. m. Leave White Oak..! 3.22 p. in. Leave Woodward's 3.43 p. m. Leave Blackstock 3.50 p. m. Leave Cornwall's 3.58 p. m. Leave Chester 4.15 p. m. Leave Lewis' .*. 4.32 p. m. r.oavu Smith's 4.40 t>". m. Leave Rock Hill _. 4.56 p. m. Leave Fort Mill .v?5.20 p? m. Leave Pineville 5.40 p. m. Arrive at Charlotte 6.00 p. m Arrive at Statesville 9.35 p. m GOING SOUTH. NO. 52, MAIL AND EXPRESS. i-<eave otaiesvuie i.to a. uj. Leave Charlotte 1.00 p. m Leave Pineville. 1.27 p. ra Leave Fort Mill 1.44 p. m. Leave Kock Hill 2.02 p. a. Leave Smith's 2.22 p. m, Leave Lewis' 2.30 p m. Leave Chester. .2.44 p. m. Leave Cornwall's........ 3.03 p. m. Leave Blacks took 3.12 p.. m. Leave Woodward's 3.1$ p. m: Leave White Oak . .3.30 p. m. Leave Winnsboro... .3.48 p. m. Leave Simpson's. .4.03 p: m. Leave Ridgeway. 4.i6p: m; T 'Rlxrt.hfi'wnoH .4.32 D: IB. Leave Killian's .4.49 .pi'm Arrive at Columbia: ...5.15 p. m. Leave Columbia . .5.25p. m. Leave W. C. & A. Junction 5.57 p.' m. Arrive at Augusta 9.38 p-. m. Connection is now made at Chester (by trains 52 and 53) for Lancaster and intermediate points on C. & C. R. R., and for all point<on C. & L. R. R. as far as Hickory, xN. C. \r CT A TT/ITTTTT? n "P A G. R. TALCOTT. Superintended D. CARDWELL. A. G. P. A'. . _ . nninil"1 TVHISK Y HABITS eurtd I E 8 M athorAw without p*in. BOOK LBS ill III particulars sent FREE. ?' a WOOLLEY. M. D., Atl*nt*,Oi. Ashley JSoli Tliu Srtlnlilu fiimnn ?<s n. nonrentrat Grade Fertilizer for all crops! 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