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mm -^SSSSH '^^lli %11 f I 11 ^ 111 fl ^llf ijf ^j f ^ j^ VOL. XLII. WINXSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1886. NO. 42. <#||j THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH, j j POME fcEASOXABI.E ??"?UKSTIO\>i FROM HIGH Al TIIOH! S'V. k ? ! J What Work the (iund Farmers Khuiiii! Do in I ( iht' .M?nth ?!' May?An ititrrtslin; Article j ] From .in Intelligent Writer. (W T.. Jo- c< =r th- M iv "Caltsr ?-or."') | i Tin- earth is now warm enough for ; ? r grass and weeds to grow rapidly. They i: j en nnot be permitted to share with the i1 crops the plunt food in the soil; externa- j * nation of them is now the order of the j w Oav. How to accomplish this ecijnomi-; ( rally, rapidly and without injury to ! i xoung crops is one of the nicest problems Ike farmer is called upon to solve. In r i he recent progress of agriculture, the d f old-time method of running around j(! young j'lants with a narrow scooter, liav- J * ing a board nailed to foot and beam on i c one side to prevent throwing dirt on the 11: 'itfV first yaw; wav to the sweep. I (" x The latter shaved the surface nicely, nufi ! 1! with its wing running quite fiat threw j ? very little dirt. AToreovcr the siding j S( k furrows swept out the middles at the i S1 same time, a great advance over two C; siding furrows with scooters and subsequent breaking of the middles with 11 shovels. But with the nicest work of 1* the sweep, the re is still a narrow strip " along the line of plants which is undis- Ct .t ?,1?. ,1 ^ *?/i i*r^*o cc /hi r* tir. Ir ^ I muvn.1, iUylV.1 U|A/ii ?? UiVU vw*A fix itself. T'.? destroy it, tlie lioe was ,5 (-ailed into. requisition.' This involved ^ heavy expense, unpleasant contact with 111 labor and great demand for hands to i c:i chop out cotton. Next came broadcast ' cultivation with the harrow in the first; stages of the croj), with heel scrapes and ! cultivators Liter. This is as far as we j ^1 ? .1 r JT] lisve auvuuccu, juiuucu, luosi juu.iuu'xo | Lave not yet reached tliis jjoiait, and the ^ juetliod is not yet, perhaps, fully per- au footed. But from the very nature of i tilings we must advance in this direction co ?machines, implements, horse-power, ~n must supplant hand labor more and co more. How to cheapen production is tti; the problem of the hour. Our fathers pushed labor to the utmost in clearing co ^ - - - /-, c/vj forests and cultivating virgin soils. ?mce . ? TV" i lie war the use of fertilizers has been developed to great perfection; and now 10 , surroundings demand the most extended 00 r.se of machinery and horse-power. All *h< departments of industry are moving -in this direction, and agriculture cannot lag sof behind. Cautiously, wisely, judiciously gh it must go on. * to Our readers will remember the articles sli< published last year in the Cultivator on roi i. broadcast cultivation with the liarrow. me 1 he points which seem to be well set- all tied "were that destructions mnst be re- are moved?trash in the shape of com and ly. cotton stalks cut ux> or co jsztcw and buried by breaking land with large km turn ploughs; beds if any, to be low the 'r and leveled down with harrow irameui nec ately after planting; if rain follows plant- ore ing .quickly, harrow as soon as dry thr enough, ,-ever allowing a crust to form, gh' .As sooti as cotton begins fairly to come wij tip, run harrow obliquely across rows? in *? y-v-P -fllO VATIX 171 tW< * HCVCr 111 l IIC i-iil tXWXJL KJi. VUV ? four or five days inn obliquely across As again in the opposite direction, so that be: these two harrowings may be at right fla' angles to each other. In three or four &ii< days harrow again across the last. These at harrowings must begin early and bo re- be peated rapidly to thin out the cotton. so\ which they can do whilst the plants are P*'< very young and tender?when still yel- bu L w. When older and tougher they will ce* 1 e pushed aside often without being de- tw. j troved. The cotton now being consid- ^ erably thinned, grass and weeds thor- tin oughly killed, and the surface nicely mc 2 ulverized, the crop is in condition to ^ 1 v easily cultivated with sweep or scrape. au' ] t is said also that in the condition left a*r l>v the harrowings a good hand can chop rec rto a stand two acres of cotton a day. thIi ti .e soil is supplied with humus, and sCC the land well prepared, cultivation should ; be very shallow from the start. In hard . soil, disposed to mn together after rain, a deep plowing is perhaps admissible CCi when the cotton is very young, but not Pr' otherwise. In two experiments made successively in ISS-i and 18S5 at the Ala- uxv Lama Experiment Station, to test effects mj of deep and shallow cultivation, there l)r f was a difference respectively of 35 and sal 109 pounds of seed cotton per acre in *n< favor of shallow cultivation throughout. *1 lie two plats were prepared, manured and cultivated exactly alike, except that , when the cotfon on one plat was about *? c foot high it was plowed deep with a ^ long scooter and scrape, as is frequently ^ done by farmers, and its roots considera- * bly cut. The scrape should always be ftttpcbed behind the foot of the plow, not in front of it, and tlie scooter used io with it should be very short, just long Ci enough to keep the point of the plow- sa _ foot from striking the bottom of the fur- o'< . row. Another interesting experiment sL made at the same station illustrates a aj point v.'c- h;ive often urged, to-wit, the a importance of pressing or tinning seed er in the soil to ii:sure promjJt germination, di Cotton was planted in two adjacent rows h; on the same day with two different eot- tL ton planters, one covering the seed in n< the usual manner, the other throwing it the dirt into a ridge over the seed and e\ then passing it down on the seed l>y a ti< roller rigidly attached to the machine; cl ^ jft weather was dry. Where the roller ci pressed the dirt upon the seed, a stand w was secured in ten days; the other did tl not come up until after a rain had fallen hi and some twenty-four days after being b' planted. tl Inventors have not as yet given up the ^ * < i.- i> hope or the possibility 01 peruvung a * machine for chopping cotton. There is every probability that one can be made p which will "bunch" cotton satisfactorily, s1 But the same end might be reached by a f; planter dropping the seed in hills. The u mere bunching, however, is not the most c important thing to be compassed; killing p r the grass along the line of drill and j a thinning the bunch out so the plants! p will not crowd and dwarf each other are ! a the main disiderata. This, it strikes us, : a fho !w;tov.' will do better than auvtlxing i b el>-e. After tlie harrow has done its! I work, then probably a chopper might be j t; tised advantageously. The bringing to j v a final stand will probably always re- | f quire some hand labor, but, aside from ! \ { this, cotton cultivation ought to be done j c exclusively by machines. We have no j a doubt the proper implements for the j c purpose v.'ill be forthcoming in due time. Machine-made cotton alone in this country can compete with that raised by cheap labor in India and elsewhere. It is of the iir.st importance that the :*arly workings 01 crops should he reprated at short intervals, and thoroughly done. Xow is the time to kill grass vitli least lahor. If allowed to get a s.ronir foothold, it v.iii take three times is much work to kill it next mouth as is equired to do it now, to say nothing of he injury done l>y robbing the crop of bod, and the bruising and disturbing of he plants in getting the strongly rooted crass away from them. At least once in en clays the harrows or plows should >ass over, and whatever hoe work is teeded be given without hesitation or [day. If the ground happens i > be !ry, don't be deceived into the belief hat the crop is clean because the young rassis covered with dust and is not '1 aiij.lv visible. Y\"e have seen many a rop ruined by carelessness just at this oint. A dry May cheeks the growth of | rass and lulls the, fanner into fancied 'curity. A wet June follows, the grass (rings up like magic and he never itches up with it again. If the harrow has been properly used t the corn field, that crop will now be erfeetly clean and so far advanced that iere will be no further difficulty in jvering up young grass or weeds even ith a scrape. "We know from repeated nils, even on bottom lands that are so ible to become foul, that a com crop ay be made with the plow alone. It .11 be douc even with ordinary, old me plows; start before gr.iss nmkos stdway; w ith a turning shovel begin in e centre of the- middle and bod up, the jig being turned away from the eorn. jie last furrow, when a middle is corneted, will side the corn very closely i id throw just enough dirt to cover up | >ung grass without covering the young rn. The next 'working: with a short .<1 broad turning shovel, begin next to m with wing towards it, and throw rt moderately to the plants. These 0 workings should be given before the rn is ten inches high. After that the : -ape will do all that is necessary. ; here corn is planted in the water-fur- : iv, a proper running of the scrape will i ver up all grass from the beginning to ; 1 end. ( Ihe first of 3Iay is the best time to v "fn r\? -P. v?*o c?r\v_ ' ?T kliv 1UOI V/X vv/llij OUi." urns and millet. Supposing the land 1 liave been broken some time ago, it 3uld have received two broadcast barkings t<j keep tbe surface clean and r >Uow. Tliis is especially necessary for of the sorghums, because the plants : small at first and grow oil quite slowKence early working with the plow c ..i: iAJl SMWAiUCtOIY 11 tilC 1 d is grassy. These crops can't bear i ; expense of hoe work; therefore the s ;essity for having the land hi finest s Ler at planting time. Lay off rows i ee feet apart; drill the seed of sor- t urns ratiier tiimiy arid cover ngnuy i :li a board. For fodder corn proceed s like manner, but put in from two to i 5 and a half bushels of seed per acre. 1 soon as the plants are up, and will { ir it, side with scrape, set to run very ( t; two or three plowings will suffice, 1 1 if the land was in proper condition i the time of planting, no hoeing will < called for. German millet may be ] vn broadcast if the land has been well 1 spared and is in fine tilth; a half i shel of seed per acre is sufficient. Sue- , isive plantings of above crops every < ^ ^.-v. f 1 >+n ffirst. iti Anonist II enable a farmer to feed Lis stock all < rough the summer on green forage < >re cheaply than on anything else, and 1 th great benefit to their health. Cut . d partly cure?say exposed to sun and 1 for one day?before feeding; this will 1 luce the water in them and render j m less laxative. Any disposition to : >ur may be prevented by a mixed < ion of dry and green forage; perhaps is is preferable from every pome 01 . ;w. Cheap stock feed is like clieap : ill for an engine, it reduces the cost of : oduction of everything raised on 'the . nn; and we must bear in mind that mev saved is. equivalent to money ; ide. If one cau reduce the cost of oducing cotton a cent a jocund, it is the me to him as if he sold for one cent ?re per pound. An abundance of cheap rage makes less grain necessary. "When 't at work, stock may be kept with lit! .or no grain if fed full rations of good cage. If you have prepared for a sre crop of cotton, cut it down and ?it a portion of tlie cotton land in ese forage crops, tliey will pay you :tter than cotton. Clover and orchard grass will be ready rthe mower by the end of the month, it after the dew is off and cock up the me evening all that is mowed before one clock. After hay is well wilted it lould never take the dew. The above >plies more especially to that cut with mower. Spread out in f uniform lay, not in swaths, like thr.r. handout, it von- ramVllv on a bright da v. If j """ -' J I J u md-cut, and the swat lis are very heavy, .e cocking may be deferred to the aftcr30X1 of the next clay; but if this is done, is better to turn the swaths over in the -ening and let the undried bottom por:)ns take the dew. Both grass and over make a better quality of hay if it rather early; the quantity, however, I ill be rather less. "When a fourth of ic heads turn brown is probably the ?st time to cut clovcr; when in full loom the time to cut grass. As soon as ic mown clover begins a new growth, >pdress it with a hundred pounds ot \ laster to the acre. Every one who raises hogs ought to j hint largely of the St. Domingo type of j .veet potatoes for fattening them in the j ill. Considering quantity and quality, J e know of no other food so easily and beaply raised for the purpose. If the otato and eom are dried at the temperture of boiling water, tliree bushels of otutoes will contain as much dry matter s one of com; not as much fat or Ibuminous matter in proportion as com, ut more of the starch group than com. Vas would make up the deficiency in lie potato admirably; the two would fit ell together and make an almost perect ration for fattening hogs. Have a iotato and pea patch in the same enlosure, so that the hogs may eat of each ,t will, and you have the foundation for .Iwv-i-va Tf flir. rrrrmrul succeeds as well generally ::s it seems to have nunc in some localities, it nri^rht take tlie place of the cow pea, especially on lands containing lime. (Hover for spring, Bermuda grass for summer. peas, ! grotiii'lpeas and potatoes for full and ! early wii.ter, make provision for nearly ' the whole year. Lot us strike for iiulej pendence in this and every other depart1 merit of farming. ; Bear in mind that gr.tiu harvest will ; soon bo at hand ami arrange work alscad ; vitli reference to it. (>ec crojis dean | and well worked now, so that they may j bear o. short neglect (hiring liarvest. ; Home enterprising man in every neigh I borhood ought to he encouraged to buy ! a reaper and cut aU the grain just as i parties now do the threshing. In other ! words, a traveling reaper ought to be a I regular institution. Fanners can ill sjiare | the time from their crops to harvest i grain, and eradlers are getting more exacting and exorbitant in their demands. The practice is becoming quite general to cut' oats when the grain is in the "dough," and cure it like hay. Cut, and allowed to take the sun a day without being tied up in bundles, it becomes sufficiently cured to be tied up and shocked in the usual manner. Or it may be cured like bay and stored away in bulk iu stacks or burns. It makes an excellent feed. Fall oats were quite generally killed by the severe weather in January, but where the land has not been plowed since, an occasional stalk of oats may lie found which lias survived the cold. It would be well to take care of these and gather them carefully when ripe. Their survival indicates a hardiness of constitution which will stand extreme cold, and a. very desirable strain of winter oats might be propagated from them. The matter is worthy of trial. "With us the mfvtviiw foil +n 7OTA- 4-1.rt vn," w /JV,x V UiV XV.VI XllOl'^lUWl oats was entirely killed, with the very ; limited exceptions noted above; the winter grazing oats was also very badly killed, possibly a tenth escaping. If a variety of oats that can stand the cold of zero is not to be had, what grain can be 1 substituted for fall oats'? ' Rye will stand . any degree of cold; can it be utilized as , stock feed when mature and ripe? Would it be practicable to thresh and grind the jrain, and chaff the straw forage? Or _'ould barley be utilized in place of oats? I We think the latter io used largely as i >tock feed in California?how is it man- ? iged? Can any one tell us? i a \7\n iv " "'?"2 t rwentv Lives Lowt Ir? Kansas City?Fnctory ' Girls Hnricd in the Ruins of Their Ijuildin;;- I The street Perfect Rivers. ] A fearful storm of wind .and rain swept c lihu/^on^minlr from 11 o'clock till ! loon. The court liouse on Second v ;trcet was totally demolished al>ove the iecond story. The Lathrop school lmild- s ng on Eighth street was partially wreck- t id and many children caught in the *nins. An overall factory on Second 1 if-root was l>lown down. The old water 1 vorks "building near the court house was 1 jlown down. At the Western Union 1 lelegrapli office but one wire is working I >ut of the city. Communication has i jeen established witli St. Louis over that c .vire by way of Dallas, Galveston, New e Orleans and Memphis. One span at tke k North end of the railroad bridge across t :lie Missouri River was blown into the <river, blocking the Hannibal and St. * Joseph, Rock Island, Wabash and Kan- f sas City, St. Joe and Council Blurts 1 Roads Eight girls have been taken out J jf the overall factor}*, four of whom are 1 lead; many others are in the ruins, but ( ' > 1 ^ r?? , mere is scarcely a, uupu xui uicn mto. En the confusion it is impossible to ascer- 1 tain definitely the extent of the calamity, 1 but it is said that over twenty employees < ire imprisoned in the basement of the t factory. The disastrous fury of the * storm was confined to the north end of the city except in the destruction of the 1 Lathrope school building on Eighth < street. The buildings generally except- i ing those mentioned withstood the fury < of the storm. i As nearly as can be learned amid the 1 intense excitement and confusion, about twenty persons are known to be dead. 1 At the Latlirope school eleven children . are reported dead. Of the four build- ; ings wrecked all were more or less un- : sound. The school building has been twice condemned and the court house by many was considered unsafe. Xo ' one was killed except in these four houses. The storm, although entailing such lie. ivy loss of life, was nothing of the nature of the tornado that visited the city three years ago. It was a violent vtind, accompanied by a flood of water and heavy hail, which turned many streets into rivers. Signs, shutters, chimneys, etc., were blown with the gale and a large number of vehicles were overturned in the streets. JLiie black clouds that rolled over the city created almost the darkness of Bight and made timid ones crouch in terror in cellars. The streets were entirely deserted, and in some instances horses were seen wandering ahout attached to vehicles and seeking refuge from the pelting storm. Artificial Teeth a Prehistoric Product. Dr. Van Marter, of Eorne, has pubo7t intiirpsHnc account of the evi ~ O donees discovered by him of prehistoric dentistry in Italy. In tliu museum of Cornelo Tarquinius, a city on the Mediterranean coast, he found two specimens of ancient dentistry, which the Mayor of that city certifies were found upon the first opening of the buried Etruscan tombs, and Professor Heilbig gives assurance that these were virgin tombs, dating back four or live centimes before the Christian era. In one of the speci| mens the two superior central incisors j are bound by a band of very soft gold to ; teeth on either side; tin; artificial .teeth i 1 are well carved, evidently from the tooth ! of some large animal. One other artifi-1 cial tooth was held by the same band, , but it is lost. Dr. Yan Marter has in his : ov.n possession a skull in which the first ; upper molar on the right side is missing, and which shows plain marks of an i alveolar abscess, proving conclusively j j toothache among the Etruscans, j ?The Augusta cotton mills have abol ished tlie "pass" or "live system" among : their operatives, in accordance^vitli the i demands of tlie Knights of Labor. GIEP.XSEY CATTLE. A | V11 iv-say Rend Ilefore the Gnortisey Breeders' | Association. Among the various breeds to which ( I popular attention has been called in re- ' j cent years, there is none deserving a r I higher place in public estimation than I the Guernsey, whether for dairy pur- 0 | poses or the Liter garnered profit as a * beef animal; and vet. oerliaos. notwith- 0 I ^ %> ' * A ' V standing sucli strong claims upon the j farmers and breeders' attention, no 0 I breed is so little generally known. Not ^ only are there very many who have . j never seen a Guernsey, but there are a 11 vast number more who have never seen 3 the milk or butter, and a still greater w number who have never eaten Guernsey a, beef. Those who have not, have yet to .see ihe deepest colored, milk and cream, st the most gulden colored butter, requir- ai ing no aid from coloring matter either rn in summer or winter, and to taste the at most highly-flavored beef in existence, 01 AMV T U. JJKsKS > UA V^X X to VJ v> 11. " This breed may be said to be the Lap- (* pv medium between the diminutive Jer- ' sev and the huge Friesian, and com- m prising the merits of both breeds. It is thus par-excellence the farmer's breed, , especially for the butter-making fanner. . * ?X1 Docile to an extreme, bearing neglect of ? care well, it vet rcb.tvs careful attention ' v X v ^ and good feeding with as much interest .,; .1 ~c i - ltS w cA^ctLcu ujl auv uuvme rivet;: | COLOR OF THE BREED. ^ Even to the fastidious, wliom nothing til' but a solid color will please, its rieli golden-lmed sl^in will prove attractive ^ and recommend its pleasantly combined ?? hues of yellow or lemon-fawn and white; ^ for in 110 other breed will there be found as such an exudation of butvraceous mate- ^ rial tilling the pores and the hair with ^ unctions matter, lirorlnf?irif flint. snffpn- ! ing effect so dear to the hand of the ex- ^ pert and to the breeder of butter, at , . least, as a general rule in this breed, it CVt being the exception in other breeds. ^ While to the practical man, who knows that color of the hair has not the slight- ^ .'st influence upon the yield or eonstitu- ^ tion, the charming, softening effects of . ' 0> ? 111? :lie blending of the golden fawns and ? O O (i^-r ivliite are sources of perpetual delight. ORIGIN- OF THE EP.EED. jint As this is as old a breed as any other, am i;ls l)0<.-n kept purely bred as long, and mo vas imported into this country as early to ] us tne Jersey, there must be a reason for iiar ts being comparatively so little known Did extended. The earliest settlers in he sea-board districts were Dutch, 1 Swedish and English. They naturally and wrought with them the cows from their this tomes, and thus,, with the intermingling so i >f their cattle, there s])rang up what oivu<TJ?^irable to improve upon these arc pit!) pure-bred stock, the Devons, the yea shorthorns, the Jerseys and the Guern- at r cys were imported. The Litter two in atm l.*-. a 4. +1,;.. Tlim Ill" IjlUlJL 1*?! Ui. buio VWUUU T< ,t once attracted great attention for tlieir inh; iehnexs of yielcl. Each breed was im- niai >orted indiscriminately from either tun sland under the generat name of Alder- wel icy. As they became fashionable in be; uigland, and as each island restricted Ea.1mportation, the true distinction finally catl Eliminated in the formation of clubs for the tacli breed. The Jerseys, from their * tree jreat beauty, as well as merit, have taken j ho lead. Their praise has been herald- cJ,a 'd in every manner, and being more life inelv backed up by records of great perormancc, the breed has a permanent iold in this country, and as merit is - putting selection now, its claims to value < < nil increase. Thus, also, it is with the M Guernsey. Tlie earliest importations rj nade by Colt, Biddle, King and others, me, lave been maintained by many others, xin ftut for many years past those who were ya_ lcveloping the Guernseys in thii coun- ^ioi ;ry, were too busy enlarging their herds, mcl having none to spare, did but little :o call attention to them. But as a S]1C knowledge of their merits spread, deal- the ?i-c lini-A "h^A-n innrpasi'tKr tlitiir 1-^+ " **** " ^ J ~ O " VJ\J I mportations, and breeders liave gone ]ar, >ver and made selections, until now there !s beginning to be a supply for the rapid- tjo; v increasing demand. * -rnt As the island has a history of over of < two thousand years, as the cattle have be strongly marked peculiar characteristics, do! maintained by a rigid exclusion from the of island of any other breeds, it seems not j worth our while to enter into the dis- me puted question of the origin of this the breed of cattle, but to content ourselves ' with their excellence as we find them at the this day. We may, in passing, state our belief that they are of Norman origin, though there is some testimony which might lead us to suppose they might Eli have originally been brought there by a ^ the Panes, or at least that some animals tra were imported bv the Danes and mixed with those found on the island. As he: Normandy and Brittany are the nearest to coast lands of France with which there is hn constant communication, and as the sl" present Norman breeds, tlie Contenline Cc and the like, are very similar, almost tjl1 equally noted for their rich daily qnali- ^h< ties, and yielding most superior butter, de that known as coming from Isigny and m< Eayeut and bringing the highest price in c'h the market?I say these points should liave great weight in ascribing the mam 1)11 origin of the Guernsey breed to Nor- m! inanely. Be that as it' may, the most re: unprejudiced minds, after becoming acquainted with all the merits of Guernsey, must admit that they have no superiors in their peculiar traits. TRAITS OF THE BREED. These may be summed up in few words. The Guernsey gives a larger la; quantity of milk than any of the breeds pr which give rich milk; she maintains the fr, ^moTi+ifv TOT o Innnvr tinip mnrp fon tinuously; it is the deepest, the richest 1>S in color of all milks; it is unsurpassed in XI yield of butter fats, less than five quarts having made a pound of butter, even 0f with the few tests that have been made; [0 the butter is the highest and deepest t'jne of all self-colored butters; the butter will go farther; it has a peculiar rich A! favor and aroma; the beef is remarkably c( juicy and well interlaid with fat of the et i u-^vcst color, tender, and of the highest pi flavor, and the carcass dresses well and fry profitably. Considering that there are C but 1,000 head of cattle on the island, b< n a l 1 j unci mut mere xiiusi ut* muic ux iwo ^uov, i interbreeding, tlie Guernsey cow is a ec very sure and regular breeder, and re- si I produces herself and her fixed types I y< vitli exactitude; her docility and gentleioss, most important traits in a dairy >reed, are remarkable, and the males are ?f an amiable and gentle disposition, eldom becoming cross or desiring to oam. In size, avoiding the diinimitiveness n tlie one hand and the gross siz.e on lie other, the Guernsey is of the size asiest maintained for good returns; and lien killed for beef, cuts to profit; as xen, -while not quick-stepping, they are atient and assiduous. The color is peculiar, mainly running 1 shades of orange and lemon fawn, ither in solid masses or prettily broken itli masses of white. Formerly black id bnndle were more common than at le pij&ent tiljie. The skin is usually of ) ricli a golden color as to be unrivaled id extraordinary. Its unctiousness ellows the skin and snftons fho liaiv id eludes in a yellow butvraceous section. The golden rim around the t's, the collections in the ears, and the iiulrufF at the end of the tail, all proAim the wonderful richness of the amid. ; k POTENCY OF TirE BREED. The long continued similar course of ceding which the Guernsey has under- , me gives it that .power which we term . itency; the ability to produce like, to peat it-self, whether upon members of . own breed or upon those of other , eeds. It is this quality which renders ( c Guernsey bulls so valuable to stamp ( :;ir get with the peculiar richness of , .. T ? 1 . XT * - 1 i ' ? * ? v nreeu; ims is so lasting mat it taxes " aerations to breed it out. We know an instance where a hull- w:is intro- ( ced twenty years ago, and tlie butter, ^ marketed from liis descendants, shows t ) rich color and the good flavor to this c F- :i Hie continuity of her yield is one of ; most valuable traits of tlio cow, for f this pertinacity up to her calving ( >n, the moderate milker in this length (, fimn -m\ orwl o "I' O ^ o re tliau the cow that milks well for n ee or four months, or that goes dry e two or three months, gradually fail; up to the time of stopping. Th's is ? iccially valuable to the owner of hut ? cow, and where he. owns two cows n i insists upon their taking a natural w I needed rest of six weeks or two ? ntiis, he can arrange it so. as always il lave his milk and butter. Like the (] e and tortoise, it is the steady milker 4* 1-vriofc* TT? 4l?/^ 1 nr./-? ? ?* ? v uvau? in uiu x inl. GENERAL PURPOSE MERITS. sj 'lie Guernseys are hardy and tough, c; I therefore fitted for any section of af < country, aud Ave know of no breed \ itted for the rapidly increasing dairies nj tlin JTi.rt pn/1 the tc exposed more or -Mm i r, in the day time in the hot suns and sc light to the heavy dews and to the ai lospliere heavy with cold and damp- p: s, provocative of rheumatism in the abit; nts. The farmer and the dairy- Qj i want a cow of good size they can n< a for beef, that while alive will pay tl 1 in milk and lmtter. This seems to cj x sine qua non with farmers of the v< it as well as of the West. If these h :le on a small island are exposed to V( bleaching sun and to such withering ^ >ts that 1 have seen whole hedges, ;s and shrubs blackened by them as a devastating tire, can stand such nges, they are well fitted to the hard on many of our unsheltered farms. if h?ei lb w THE SOlTilERX BAPTISTS. y ivvilie Selected ? the Place of the Xe.xt ^ invention?Putting the Delegation on a ai oney Hn-in. ill 'lie Southern Baptist Convention will et in Louisville, Ky., on .May s next, 11 d Kev. Dr. Cooper, of Richmond, ;l, was selected to deliver tlie Conven- I i sermon. Some time was devoted to si Cuban mission. The question was o ether the foreign or home hoard a; mid take charge of it and prosecute work. Able speeches were made for :h boards, but it was decided by a " zc majority to give it to the home v trd. An amendment to the constitu- e a was adopted so as to require dele- a es to be appointed by the 1st of May each year, and the representation to n one delegate for every one hundred v Jars paid into the treasury by the 1st s May of each year. a * ?+*v?v?v\A*?o*i/?rk iVl^rlrnnrr S 1. UJJL tuu^viauv,vj mbers to work for the suppression of v ! whiskey traffic, was adopted. 0 The Convention adjourned sine die on * ; 11th inst. i Killed Her Iletrnyrr. t Rolx'rt Wright was shot and lcilled at izabeth, Col., on last Wednesday, l\v t roman from Denver, whom he had be- *> yed, and who came on a morning c ,in from that city, accompanied by i r brother. After her arrival she went Wright's place of business and asked n to mam* her. Upon his refusing e fired three shots at him from a ' ilt's forty-five calibre revolver, two of ! L-m taking effect, one in his head and l- other in his chest, anil he dropped act The woman claims to l>e the ( )ther of a live-weeks-old illegitimate ( ild, of which Wright was the father. ' j had often promised to marry her, *' it always failed to keep his word. She 1 ule up her mind to kill him if he again ' fused to keep his promise. After the ooting the woman and her brother en- 1 red a carriage and drove to Kiowa, lore the former <ravc herself up to the Seers, Imt refused to give her name. 1 Ji>lm Most, the Anarrhi.it. Herr }Jost, the Anarchist, was arrested <t week and lokged in the Toinltf ison in New York. He had "skipped" | jri Chicago, to escape airest. He was ( ought up on Friday, and released on iil in the sum of one thousand dollars. Lie money was subscribed by some of ost's friends. He complained bitterly having been handcuffed and of the ss of ?180 at the time he was arrested. hr>\ which John I klen carried in his pocket when, in the uirtship of Miles Standish, he presentl to Priscilla Mullins the Captain's roj^osal of marriage, is now the proper' of Mrs. M. McPadden, of Allegheny ity, Pa., a descendant of John Alder), ilonging to the ninth generation in tl.e sgular descent. Her little silver tol >ao) box i.< a curiosity to visitors, it is ipposed to be nearly three hundred jars old. w ?EXKRAL ROBERT E. LEE. His Acceptance of tin; Command of the Confer' crate Army of Virginia. (F.Om 'h > Chirago Tr:bi:n?) "Did I ever toll you," said ex-Senato: Fonieroy, of Kansas, to me the otliei day, that I was present when tlie eonv mand of the Confederate army was offer ed to General Lee?" "Xo." "WAII T Tt'OO* T C?+AA/1 PIV ft\rA ' ? A ???Oj J. Oiv/vv I Milium OlA Atv, I of him. Nobody in the party knew me us I had just arrived in Washington from Kansas, and was almost an entire strangei here. Kansas was admitted, you remember, during the last days of Buchanan's administration, and Lane and I were elected to the Senate. "We came to Washington with a lot of Kansas fellows to see what the secessionists were doing, and were on the cars when we heard that Fort Sumter had been fired upon. "But I am going to tell you about Lee. I was keeping a diary then, as I have ever since, arid do now. Only the other day I was reading it over, and it recalled to me that about the 16th or 17th of April, 1S61, a committee of twelve uiun eame up from the secession convention, then meeting at Richmond, and stopped at the hotel where I was. I used to circulate around among them, trying to iind out what they were up to, md discovered tiiat they lad come to see General, who was over at Arlington. Dne afternoon about 4 o'clock they started off in carriages, and a friend of mine md I got in a buggy and followed them. >. u juuu-u me procession oeiore n got to Arlington, and acted just as if we were i part of their crowd. "When we reached lie old mansion General Lee, who was svidentlv not expecting any callers, came mt in his dressing-gown and slippers, .nd I tell you he was as noble a looking , man as ever I saw. He liad been sent or by General Scott, and came from California, you remember, to use his iuflur.c\ to prevent Virginia from going out >f the Union, and while he hail not aade any public declaration, people genially understood that he was opposed o secession, so we watched what was oing on with a great deal of interest. "The chairman presented the deleates to the General one by one, and lien they had been introduced he bean a speech which I wrote down as early as I could remember it in my iary that night. It was very nearly in aese words: 'General Lee, Ave are aulorized by the convention now in scs011 at Richmond to convey to you an repression of the confidence and esteem, ? one of the most esteemed citizens of irginia, and to tender you the comtand of the troops that have been raised > protect the old State from the peril .... crUj WIIW?TWt;?MB?? >11 of Virginia, will respond to her call id direct the military forces so as to 1 L-event the military invasion of her icred soil. "We know that large bodies : troops are being organized in the : r>rth for coercion of our people, and iey will be resisted by every patriotic tizen ot tiie uommonweami. ine contrition at Richmond is awaiting anxious for our return witli your answer, as jur acceptance will give strength and icouragemcnt to the people.' "To this Lee responded briefly and irectly. He stood a moment with a L'termined expression upon his face, as the mind was fully made up, but he as not certain how to express himself, ry friend and I, from what we had card, expected that he would decline nd tell the committee to go home and bandon the secession programme. He ;arted out all right in his reply. 'Genemen,' said he, 'I am opposed to war, [though broil to the profession of arms, am especially opposed to civil war, to :rife between brothers. I regret that ne section of this country is arrayed gainst the other.' "Up to that," continued Mr. Pomeroy, I thought he was going to decline, but is next words scared me: 'I heard the oice of Yirgiuia,' he said, 'of the mothr that bore me, whose soil is as sacred s the ashes of my father buried there.' He's gone,' I said to my friend, 'lie's lade up his mind,' and his next words ,-ere: 'I cannot resist the call of the overeign State to which I owe my first Uegiance; but rememl>er, gentlemen, I hall draw my sword in her defense, and rith the prayer that we, in defending >ur rights, may not be compelled to shed he blood of our brethren.' "He then said that he would go to Richmond at once and report in person o the government. "The next morning everybody knew hat Lee had gone to Richmond, and vitliin twenty-four hours the newspapers ontaiiied his order upon assuming command of the Virginia troops." Teh-phone Men Drowned. E. Y. Hinkle, of Baltimore, General superintendent of the Washington Telephone Company, and William C. E. Stumps. Manager of tlie lines in Winchester, Ya., nearly lost their lives )ii last Thursday night while crossing Jpeqna.li Creek coming from Berryville. Kinkle cut the horse from the wagon tnd with Stumps, who has only one land, clung to the animal and were mmght safely to the bank. Hemy Mayliew, repairer of the lines, remained n the wagon and was drowned. ?Georgia newspapers are lamenting riovnrnor of their State firets >',000 a year, while his necessary ex[lenses are reckoned at $(>,000. The, Vermont Executive gets but ?1,000. But, then, the Vermont chief magistrate lia.s no great wear and tear in office, except to face the 1,000 men, each of whom claims to have elected him and proposes to direct all his movements. ?A number of girls in New York, who understand stenography and Spanish, are getting good salaries from merchants and others having trade with Mexico. This indidates that trade with that country is growing, and that it is quite worth the while of women who work to diversify their stock of information. Spanish is a language very easily learned, three months being ample time to acquire enough of it for the purposes of correspondence. ?Mr. Absalom Blythe, formerly United States Marshal, was acquitted last week, in the Circuit Court, of the charge of-misappropriating government funds. THE KICii.MOM) COFERE^CE. Matters of Interest to the Methodist Church C*xi*idered and Decided. In the Methodist Episcopal General r Conference last week the Manual of r Discipline by Bishop McTyeire again - came up under a motion that the Col . lege of Bishops be requested to publish ' their decisions. After considerable dis- 1 cussion the matter went over without 1 : action. It was manifest that the greater part of the delegates are unwilling that ^ the Manual shall serve as a final arbiter. 1 A Large number of amendments have been offered, looking to a cliange of-/ Discipline, but so far little disposition is" ** manifested to make changes. Dr. Ed- 1 wards, of Virginia, introduced a resolu- v tion proposing a change in the order of divine service on the Sabbath day. An '' animated debate followed. Drs. McFer- 1 rin, Kellev, Young and others spoke * earnestly against the resolutions, which T was finally rejected. ^ The committee on episcopacy reported ^ in relation to episcopal residences that I in their opinion there should be a Bishop ^ from each of the great sections of the 0 country. The Eev. Dr. John Milev, fraternal ^ messenger from the Northern Methodist P Church, was introduced to the Conference. Governor Foraker, the other ^ fraternal messenger from the Northern a Church, did not come. rrA large congregation attended Cen- ^ tenary Church to hear addresses by the w fraternal delegates?the Rev. Mr. Briggs, P' of the Methodist Church of Canada, and ui the Rev. Dr. Miiey, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The addresses were oil nn/1 Of Ci/AiNU. wtlt illU^l ?fcbl/t ilCl > heard. tr The report of the committee oil foreign 01 missions, to which was referred the reso- *f? lution in reference to the appointment & of a superintendent of foreign missions, ei" recommended non-concurrence. Adopt- of ed. ' - ev The committee on church extension op recommended that the request for the he establishment of a woman's department se: of church extension, for the purpose of fo: securing parsonages for the church, be su granted. re: Af . Ti r - f T-" c 11 air. j.-eierson, ox v lrgmia, irorn tne pe committoc on Bibles, submitted a lialf- er dozen reports in relation to changes in a < Discipline. He also submitted the re- m< port of his committee in regard to the 1 memorial of the Missouri Conference th< asking that the word "S'.'uth" be elimi- foi mi ted from the name of the Methodist th< Episcopal Church, South, and report we upon the resolution providing that bk church members signing petitions for 12 the sale of intoxicating liquor may be do: dealt with as the case may require. To coi The session of Thursday was consum- tw< ed in discussing different features of the aw Manual of Discipline. It was resolved tai to elect four new bishops on the 18th ev< instant. on ms SENSATIONS OF HANGING, or A New Mcxico"3!an's Experience at the Hands tw of a .Mob. S0< Theodore Baker, a New Mexico man s* who was recently hanged by a mob, but C1^ was rescued and cut down before life Pu was extinct, gives this account of his ex- wc perience to a newspaper correspondent: yo "A Httle further on we came to a ^ telegraph pole. From the crossbar T0 swung a new rope. On one end was a Pa big slip noose. They led me under the fa' # * ? i -3 wo rope. 1 tneu to stoop uowu uuu jj llu my boots off, as I had promised my folks he I would not die with my boots on, but m< before I could do it the noose was f?: thrown over my head and I was jerked he off my feet. My senses left me a moment, and then I waked up in what CI seemed to be another world. As I recol- s? lect now, the sensation was that every- he thing about me had multiplied a great fr< many times. It seemed that my five to executioners had grown in number until an there were thousands of them. I saw * what seemed to be a multitude of animals aD of all shapes and sizes. Then things je< ~1.A T Ti-no in nrroat. "noin T to Uiliiuycu UUUJL IIU.1 J_Li UjiV-VU came conscious that I was hanging by no the neck, and that the knot of the rope had slipped around under my chin. My ^ hands were loosely tied, and I jerked ^ them loose and tried to catch the rope ?0 above me. Somebody caught me by the feet just then and gave me a jerk. It dc seemed like a bright flash of lightning C< passed in front of my eyes. It was fol- th lowed by a terrible pain up and down UI and across my back, and I could feel my legs jerk and draw up. Then there was a blank, and I knew nothing more until tr 11 o'clock next day. j "My first recollection was being in the- ^ court room, and saying: 'Who cut mi ^ down?' There was a terrible ringing in my ears, like the beating of gongs. 1 recognized no one. The pain in mv back continued. Moments of uncon- Q] sciousness followed during several days. and I liave very little recollection of tin . journey here. Even after I had beeL ^ iocked up in this prison for safe keeping j. ! for a long time I saw double. Dr. Svni j ington, the prison physician, looked liki ^ two persons. I was still troubled witl , spells of total forgetfulness. Sometime, it seemed I didn't know who I was." ?A Spanish vessel laden with mo-uses went asliorc on the Florida coas * some days ago, and all hut one of th< >v crew escaped, thanks to the assistance o 11 the residents of that neighborhood. A When the wreck broke up and cask.of mo'asses began to come ashore, th< * captain and the crew stood by witi. axes and broke them up as fast as the\ a came within reach, refusing even tin ' emutv casks to the men who so recently a helped, to save their lives. ?Senator Malione has been called upon to heal a Republican faction figh* } at Petersburg, Ya. The trouble is be- x tween rivals for the Republican nomina- c tion for mayor. The animosity of thi c factions has become so great that a mas.- > meeting of citizens, irrespective of colo) 1 or politics, will soon be held to inaugu- , rate a movement for a non-partisan anu ' a better administration of tiie city gov- j ernment. ?i The business failures occurring through- j out the country during last week number lor the United States 156; Canada 20. fa THE npOM OF CLUY ERICS. Xo Apparent Choncc {or Him to Escape the G&l!ow>i~$o!net>)in? of the Crime He Com* inlttcd. The case of Thomas J. Cluverius, convicted of tlie murder of Fannie Lillian .Madison, has attracted widespread attention. As the facts of the case may have passed out of recollection, a brief state- ? ment may now be proper. On the 13th March, 18S5, at 3 o'clock, a. m., Miss Fannie Lillian Madison arrived in Richmond from Bath county and went to the American Hotel, where she registered as 4 Miss F. L. ?iIcrton." Next morning m ? ? i 5t?r dead body was found in the old city eservoir, a short distance west of Hollyvood cemetery. On the 18th, near Little Plymouth, in the county of King :nd Queen, her first cousin, T. J. Cluveius (Kla-veers), was arrested, charged rith the murdc-r of the deceased. He raived an examination before the Police "ustice, was indicted in April, and "was >rought to trial in the Hustings Court of lichmond at the May term. On the 4th ay of June the jury returned a verdict f "guilty." The case went to the Court of Appeals, iie decision of -which was adverse to the risoner?as already published. , The Richmond papers give some addional particulars of the result of the ise in the Court of Appeals. The judglent of the lower court is sustained in 1 particulars. Little or no surprise as manifested at the decision; in fact, ublic opinion had been very well settled pon the presumption that no new hear ig -would be granted. Por over a week ie air lias been full of rumors that the nirt stood four to one against a new ial, and that two of the four disagreed ily as to the certain particulars, and r once rumor was correct. How these cts leaked out is not known, or whethit was onlv one of the lucky surmises those who are supposed to know ery thing. After the reading of the >inion of the court, as expressed, had en arrived at after a very patient and ...A: * ^ - i* n J T _ < - A - ? ? J iicxuLiy review. 01 an me iacts as sec rtli at tlie time of the trial, and was pported by copious quotations and Eerences to the most learned and corntent authorities. Thus is ended anothact in the great tragedy which shocked continent and for a time made Richmd unenviably famous. Cluverius knew what the decision of 3 court would be at least one hour be e Judge Fauntleroy finished reading J opinion. The first few pages that re read indicated a decision unfavoras to the prisoner, and about half-past o'clock Mr. McGcorge, a feed dealer, ing business in Richmond, left the irt. rnpjp ^ TfT|f -|Wti tn tfrn infl o o'clock before the prisoner was are that the Supreme Court had sus- ? ned the decision of the lower court on iry point that was raised by the priser's counsel. When the action of the court was kle known to him he never trembled moved a muscle, except perhaps a little itching of the facial muscles, and this m passed away, giving place to that mness and self-control which has exed so much wonder, and has been a zzle to so many. When he heard the irds, "The decision is unfavorable to u," he raised his eyes, which had en gazing at the floor, and, in a clear ice, said, "I am surprised." Here he used, and the silcnce seemed as pain[ to those who saw the prisoner as it .s to the prisoner himself. Presently qualified his remarks, and in a voice 3re trembling than at any time heretore, he remarked, "I had hoped for tter results." Sergeant Lee subsequently said: "Mr. uverius, I "will now have to put you in litary confinement. Your treatment reafter must be somewhat different )m what it has been, and it is my duty have you put in solitary confinement d a guard placed at your celL" Cluverius looked up at Sergeant Lee cl replied: "Sergeant, 1 mane no odition. I have tried not to give tronble anyone in this jail and I will continue >t to do so." The only hope now left to the prisoner executive clemency, for unless the Dvernor interferes, Cluverius will pay e penalty of his crime upon the scafLd. The action of the Supreme Court will mbtless be certified to the Hustings )urt before the June term, and when at is done the prisoner will be brought ) to be resentenced, ^ B? .Something for (lie Girl*. Every housekeeper knows how careful satment keeps table-linen and houserid furniture. Girls do not always - nrr??of /xa-ro . > 1U\> UI IL'iUVmUVi biiMV V^-VV WM.W eir own little possessions will often lable them to dross nicely on very little oney. A lady says: "When I was a girl there was one of y youug friends who was distinguished >r 'making her things last.' Her dress, its, gloves and ril)l?ons were a marvel I durability. I used to wonder how le managed to make them last so withit their looking shabby, but I ceased > do so after I had visited her at her ra home, i'iie reason wny ner ciotnes ore so long was that she took such good ire of them. Her dresses were brushed id folded away carefully, and the i-'htest spot on them was removed as )on as it was discovered. Her hat was rapped in an old pocket handkerchief, ttd put away in a box as soon as done ith, the strings and laces being straight:ied and rolled out most symmetrically xch time. Her gloves were never fold1 together, but were pulled out straight ad laid fiat in a box, one upon the othr, each time they were used, the tiniest 1 - 1- i. U.st i*. OiC UCIi-iy ilieuut'u iii_LUUat UCiUIC ib uou me to show itself. But the thing that npressed me most was the care she befcowed on her ribbons. When making p bows she used to line the upper part f the ribbon with white paper, and this ot only prevented the ribbon from beoming limp and creased, but kept it lean, so that when the bow was soiled n one side she could turn the ribbon, nd the ribbon, and the part that had eon covered came out looking new and resh, That girl married and brought p a large family. Her husband haa to glit his way, and did so bravely, and as unusually successful, for he became ealthy. But his prosperity was due uite as much to his wife's care and eonomy in saving money as it was to is in making it."