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VOL. XI.II. WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1886. NO. 51. b THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH. j SOME ^T(;?ESTio\> : ;:;>M j ?W* Al'THOKITV. What Work the Good Fanners Siioisid !5<> in Month of July?An Eutcresiins Article From an Intelligent W riter. fey (W. L. Jones in the Jaae "Calliraf or."') ^ Summer crops still require diligent j < ' - T-v Vi 11 1,^1 cultivation. JLTUUgili. y.utu iiLiit/ iiic- IVJ w | fought as best we may, grass and weeds i arc to be kept down, and the foimation j c in the soil of available plant foo'd to be j promoted to the fullest extent. One of j the greatest antidotes against drought is j an abundance of humus in the soil. A farmer cannot stop now to supply this in a field where theie is a growing crop; Ik it must be looked after in his general plans, embracing proper rotations, and resting of land, or during winter, when ^ leaves, pine and other straw may be hauled out and scattered upon it. But good growtii oi pcavmcs supples a nrsx quality liunnis for old land and i>eas may be planted for such purpose during this and next month. If seed are plenty, they may be broadcast at the rate of one K and a half bushels per acre; if see l are W scarce, plant in drills two and half to three feet apart, either sowing peas thinly in furrow or dropping five or . in inns niteen mcnes apart, louuvuuon b will induce so much more vigorous Ik growth that the drilled pe:u> will make v about as much vines' as the broadcast. 1 Where vines is the object almost any ; variety will answer, the old-fashioned cow or clay pea being one of the best. For this work, in mi.l-summer, one has ; to catch the seasons; start plough after a it in as soon as practicable, and drop ; peas in every third or fourth furrow J " when one intends to drill breaking land j! and planting seed will thus go on to- j / gether. Our experience is that peas ' must not be planted deep to come up |: well; and narrow scooters are the best : ordinary plows for this work. Probably j a deep cutting harrow, like the disc, with ; a seeding attachment, might be made to 5 do this work very rapidly on ground not ' too hard. Let us always keep an eye * out' for means of accomplishing work J - rapidly; economy demands it, and tiie ' rapid drying of the soil in summer makes ] it a very great necessity. Time under 1 such circumstances is most valuable; an " opportu .ity lost may never "be recovered. I * * But let its go back to the cultivation of crops. Much of the corn receives its 1 k last working this month. Let this be |j?* thorough, in the sense of stirring every i inch of the surface, but let it be only the < r surface. Deep plowing of corn after 5 jointing fairly begins, is undoubtedly i injurious. Sometimes a merciful rain 1 fall in part wards oil* the damage, but only \ -? +1-?A 1 ill pari;, It V;Vl.UJLVC.l?rVU IUW j * hurt; the heel-scrape is the best single j " plow for hiving by corn; properly set it j i leaves the surface approximately level. I ( A wheel cultivator may be gauged to run i shallow enough, and will then answer< vcrv well. If the crop has been judici- j ^ ousjy cultivated up to this time, no hoe ! t wort will be required; if needed, how- j t ever, give it. Let the land be left per-: t fectly clean unless it is decided to sow ; 1 peas'in the corn?an old and excellent practice. Peas will interfere less with i the corn than grass or weeds, and the i latter are sure to come sooner or later, i jbJut H Uie com is laiu uy percecuy ciean t it "will be pretty thoroughly matured be- ] fore grass and weeds can get much foot- 1 liold. Last year we sowed. soja beans, i or Japan peas, as they used to be called, i in bottom com on the 16th of July, and < they matured before frost and made an | i excellent crop. As it does not run, it 3 does not interfere with fodder pulling. j Cotton needs rapid surface cultivation ] also, especially during the first half of \ ? the month. A steady and rapid growth ; ^ is now desirable to lay the foundation j for fruiting next month. Get good weed j by the first of August and then let the < plant take on fruit; frequent cultivation t promotes rapid growth; keep the ploughs i therefore constantly moving, let no crust j form, let no grass "get a foot-hold, let < heel-scrape rim very shallow and flat; < keep them sharp so as to cut off May* < l pops, briers, etc. Get only those scrapes s ? that are bent in the middle, so as to form j a cuff to lit on the plow-foot, and allow ? the wings to run flat. A narrow bar of steel simply bent in a curve, -with a hole 1 in the middle to receive the heel bolt, . is wholly unfit for the work now in j 1 hand; it throws too much dirt, and!] "* -t-ir iru_l 1 Tt ! . leaves becis too nign ior nmy iauu. jll i L may suit very well for the level, sandy . ^ lands toward the coast. Put the scrapc ] on the back of the plow ft ot, not in front of it, as long as the cotton will j bear it without ha\ii g its limbs or bolls < . broken off; run two furrows to each row. A twenty-inch scrape will clean out a middle thoroughly with two furrows, j Later in the season a wider one may be . run once in each middle. If hoe work . has been properly done up to this time little more of it will be needed, but a | badly worked crop at the start will call . for a great deal of work at the end. On former occasions we have pointed . out the beneficial results from frequent ; surface stirrings of the soil; we briefly recall them again. A thin layer of pul- ! verized soil is one of the very best 1 mulches to be had. It is the only one ' practicable on a large scale. It prevents . the escape of moisture, dries on rapiiuy ifctielf after being stirred, but effectually cufc> off the ascent of moisture from beixeath through itself into tlie air. Deep stirring of the soil makes it dry off rapidly. Hence the practice of plowing j bottoms lands in the spring to get tliem dry enough to plant. Moisture from below cannot ascend rapidly through pulvorizwl rarth whilst the free circulation of air in sucli earth causes the water in it to go off into the atmosphere very k rapidly, with a thin layer of "pulverizeu r soil at the surface, the moisture supply 1 comes up from below all the roots of * plants, those near the surface as well as those deeper down. A surface layer of pulverized earth not only serves as a conservator of moisture in times of drought, but prevents the i soil below from' becoming excessively heated; it keeps out the heat, as a wall tilled, with sawdust excludes it from an ?- ~c ? ice House; me muue vi ;ituvu 1-3 > same iii both. Excessive heating of the ; soil is not only injurious to the roots of j plants, but a high temperature evapor- i ates the moisture in it rapidly. Any excess of temperature above that whjch plants need is doubiv injurious to them, directly by impairing their vitality, anil indirectly by depriving them of needed moisture*. t)ne need never fear keeping o/\il +/ >(-> nnn! in .Tnlv and thcl'D is WiV 0VU WV VW? ? V- ^ ? equally little danger of its ever being too wet. The last beneficial result from stirring the surface, which will be mentioned now, is the admission of air into the soil. The presence of air is indispensable to the health of roots and their proper working. Plants languish in wet soils because water shuts off air from their B?PsaMsena?? isaa?pirwufciBaenMPg roots. A tight, hard crust at the surface I does the same thing to a considerable Ji;cr!-; e. In addition to promoting the ; health and proper working ui roots, the presence of air in the soil is essential to nitriiication, the process by which the unavailable nitrogen of the soil is changed into that which is available. Also to | those changes in the minerals in the sou l>y which tlicir valuable contents are brought within the reach of plants. From very many points of view, therefore, frequent surface stirrings of the soil are shown to be beneficial, to say nothing of the killing of grass and weeds. We repeat, therefore, keep the plows moving with all diligence. In addition to peas, already considered as a humus supplving crop, late / P . 11 1_* "1 ."I 11 lorage crops 01 an kuius snouiu now claim attention. Drilled corn may still be sown. Taking it all in all, this is perhaps the bust forage crop we have. The later sowings of it should not be altogether as thick as the earlier, as the cool weather of autumn is not so favorable for maturing and developing starch and sugar as the warm weather of midsummer; the late grown plants should have more light and air. Make drills at loist three feet apart and sow seed so that there shall be a stalk every four to six inches in the row. Cultivate well and cut when ears begin to form. Corn does not develop its full nutritive value before that period. From a desire to minify the stalk, the mistake is made sometimes of sowing too thickly, and the result is imperfect development and forage not relished by stock because it is not really nutritious. All have doubtless noticed that stock are not fond of young corn >-?14-o rli/xcn fAv ir>cf?mAn oyrt 1/uUikO, UiVOL, XV A LXACVL' t*JL ^ JLV moved in thinning a crop. Sorghum does not develope its sweetness until the seeds are formed, and the same is true with com. Early amber cane planted from the 1st to the 15th of this month will be ready to cut by frost, and piled in bulk can be kept green and succulent for a couple of months. It makes better forage in its jreen state than when cured and dry. r or mules and cows it may be made to . over the months of October, November md December, and as it is easily raised, i supply for that purpose shoidd be iY\nn/l rvr> nrr?v\* f?>vni \YV? I^'iva if fr* horses also, but they do not relish it as : nuch as mules, nor does it agree with ;hem as well if fed exclusively. A little it mixed with other forage is well ; elished and doubtless healthy food. Of i numbe:: of varieties tried by us the mst season, the amber is decidedly the jest as a forage plant. It is one of the sweetest, and the stalks being small are easily civ: up and more readily masticated kT* if o f-riol if V/'Ml j ? i ? v it. cv aa ' vu iiu < ^ lot done so. -~ German millet may still be sown on ! jood land. Like all rapidly maturing . . rops. it makes heavy demands on the ; soil, and ih-.s should be met by heavy nanuring. But it sometimes helps one ;o fill out a short supply of forage when t long drought or other circumstance alows only a short time to do it in. A "armer caught with empty bams on the irst of August might still fill them with German millet. Cut just, as the seeds ire forming, it makes one of tlie strongest and most nutritious forages we have. Because it is so good, animals are some twoc fo/J Tvifli +r? f.lioiv ininrr orwl i bad reputation is then unjustly given * he millet. Clover and peavines are iable to the same charge. It is none too early to commence pre- , )aring land for turnips. There is no setter preparation than cow-penning and blowing the land at intervals of two or . ,hree weeks. In the absence of cattle; \ broadcast manure and plow it in when , creaking the land. Lot manure, well ^ rotted, is suitable, and for turnips is nuch improved by a liberal addition of A r? x* ^Arr?> nf u; K/.Ul/0?/JLL<+U^. j s good for turnips. But potasli and 1 .litrogen are also needed by this gross 1 'ceding plant, and may be supplied by . iainet and cotton seed nieaL Very fine J :ilth is almost as important for this crop < is manure; therefore repeated plowings ' md liarrowings are recommended. Se .ect rather sandy soil for this crop. Be- ( ?in sowings of rutabagas after the mid- < lie of the month, and continue at inter- j rals, whenever the soil is moist and in > ;ood condition, to the middle of August , xr first of September?tlie latest sowings ; ?f early maturing varieties like red top ! vnd flat Dutch. If land is well broken J it first and harrowed after every rain, ! .t will remain moist enough to bring up >eed even in long s]5ells of dry weather. . i'hose who begin early and pursue right 1 nethods generally succeed in getting . ;ood stands when the weather is very isfavorable. Those who wait to the . last minute, and begin preparation when ; :he time for planting arrives, are very . xpt to fail unless the weather is unusual- . ly lavoraoie. The above remarks apply with equal : force to preparations for clover and grass to be sown in September. They should begin by the last of the month and folLow the same course marked out for turnips. Liberal manuring and tine j tilth are.the two main points. All of these plants have small seeds, and the Little delicate seedlings demand food easily found, and a fine seed-bed to fix themselves in. Sweet potato slips or vines may be put out all through this month. The -IT r- 1 71 ,1^ OJLU-ia.s.m(jueu yeiiuw yum xmyui nui- uu much set out after the 10th, but the more recently introduced varieties of the : St. Domingo" type will make a fair crop of tubers, and of decidedly better quality than those started early in the spring. For the Liter plantings pieces of vine are ! preferable to "drawers" or "slips." It is good practice to start a patch of potatoes early in the season, from which vines may be cut for the later and main crop. This is the practice in all localities where the potato is raised most abundantly and in greatest perfection. A piece of vine ten inches long, set sloping in tue ground, witn tne upper bud only above the surface, will grow quite as readily as a rooted slip. Let every one put in a full crop of potatoes; work will not be so pressing now and the grain fields will furnish suitable and abundant land for the purpose. As soon as the tubers are of fair size, begin at once to feed to stock of all kinds, horses, cows, hogs, etc. The mistake is generally made of waiting till frost or digging time to begin feeding them and then many are lost before they are con5 tuned. Our true policy is to feed the stock cn the farm with many different - he* oArtc-Ar> Tl\o /A!/I Ck C'-iK U 111 ii>5 "iVuouii, uw uiu c;uj iu of feeding on corn and fodder all the year is not suited to our present environment?it ir too expensive. Neither is it healthiest or best for animals. We fed our stock for some time on green rye, then followed with red clover, and will begin soon on forage corn. A prvrt ration of dry forage is always given with these, and the stock keep' in a remarkablv healthy, thriving condition. A sick animal we rarely or never have. xi x i :?i ? _\ CAV mat uit; iitn> icst ui ?uia ? over, barbecues and social gatherings are in order, More than others, farmers need the healthy, invigorating influences of suc-i occasions. No one is so wise that he may not learn from others. Meet and discuss matters pertaining to your ?an?an??b???? ???ansr^ calling. Visit eacli other's farms, and j with friendly criticisms call attention to j iiiiobunvo iiiuuu (iuvi iui|/iv?v. j mvi&t. A.tt^yo/1 every club meeting; lie must 1>e a dull man tli;?t cannot learn j something there. The farmers m several States have been aroused recently touch- j ing their relations to the State and to other callings. They are unwilling to l>e ignored or imposed on longer. We hail it as a good omen?as an evidence of awakened thought. Let farmers feel and realize that their vocation is just as honorable, just as ennobling and elevating as any other; that it calls for just as 1 much brains, just as much learning and j knowledge, if not more than any other, and let them resolve that they will no ! longer bear the heavier portion of the I public burthens whilst the emoluments i and honors are monopolized by others. FOR IJJsi WIFE'S .SAKE. P",,?-cn Porter Lee Pardoned by President Cleveland. The President has pardoned R. Porter Lee, now confined in the Buffalo penitentiary for embezzlement. The following is the President's memorandum in regard to this case: This convict was sentenced in November, 18S2, at a term of the Circuit Court ; of the united btates lield at Syracuse, in the Northern District of New York, to i be confined in the penitentiary at the , city of Buffalo for the term of ten years, upon a conviction for embezzling the : funds of the First National Bank at 1 Buffalo while he was President thereof. While this is a statutory offense, and somewhat technical in its character, the public are so much interested iu the ] security of our banking institutions, and ] such strict faith and care should be de- . manded of those having them in charge, 2 that I am much disinclined to extend 1 clemency to those properly found guilty 1 of offenses like that on which this pris? ' oner was convicted. I am entirely ! familiar with this case, and knew the ] prisoner a long time before his convic- . tion. ills sentence was generally re- ' garded at tlae time as a very severe one, being tlie full extent of the law. With the commutation allowed in the State of Xew York for good conduct in prison, he has sensed a sentence of five vears; and it is entirely certain in my mincl that 1 whatever good is ever to be wrought 1 upon him individually has already been 1 accomplished. " * ^ At tlie time of his cor.\iction his wife ?a noble, courageous, and devoted woman?and five small children were the 1 stid sufferers for his crime, and exacted ^ the sympathy of the entire community. : By her patient, hard labor to support 1 her children, jwid never failing trust and ; hope iu tlie darkest days, this wife lms demonstrated that slie at least is entitled i1 to olcmency. I am glad to be able to restore to her her husband, and to be c satisfied at the same time that the ends af justice are fully answered. Grovee Cleveland. l mo ? j THE lO.VGREH-IO.WL BA.\K. _ Vlembers Who Do Xot Draw Tlieir Pay, But ' Let it Accumulate There. (From the Washington Hatchet. When a member clies his pay ceases on r :he dav of his death. The salary of the r successor commences the day after the (lecease of the former member, though :he election may not occur for several a months. The new member, in other words, draws pay for time he has never -j served. f A member is allowed 20 cents mileage v jach way, or 40 cents a mile one way, j. md he can chock for the full amount of a c>oth trijis when he takes his seat. He is c iilowed $125 a year for stationery. The <most of this sum is pocketed. + The members draw their money in j. lifferent ways. There are probably ^ twenty of the present House who let ? their salaries run into nest-eggs. Among these are Scott and Everhart, of Penn- c sylvania; Powell, of Illinois; Boutelle, ( if Mai'tip* TTptiIv nf f!ftlifnrrna! .Tnnps. .. Stewart and Reagan, of Texas; Ellsbury, a jf Ohio; Stone, of Massachusetts, and ^ Wakefield, of Minnesota. Scott has f Dver a year's salary owing to him?about a 5G,000.V The other members mentioned a liave from $1,000 to S3,000 to their credit. j, There are a couple of dozen members 2 tt'ho always overdraw, or rather borrow | from the nead of the bank. They bor- a row or get in advance sums ranging from 0 $10 to $300 and at the end of the month 0 they have nothing. The great majority t af the members draw all that is coming v to them at the end of the month, par- c ticularly those who have their famihes t with them. Some of them never see an $ outside bank, but let their monthly sala- a ry remain and draw it out in small sums. ( mv nnf flirviv colonDc r\ln/>a O UUiAV VUU UUWi. WJUU them in other banks, but this is not done as much as formerly. A number of them got caught in the Middleton Bank that I broke some time ago. f Most of the members do all their x. financial business over the counter of the t Congressional Bank, and some of them a pile checks up as high as S60,000 in a s single session. c 1 1 s The Origin of ^ T'Jm rvrirnn r*f inrrQ rlofrtc fri on- ^ tiquity. Yet we have all discovered tloat , the jug, whose appearance is the most | antiquated, does not always belong to ^ that rather enigmatic period. The his- t tory of "The Little Brown Jug" is quite T as ancient as most people care to go back c to investigate. Lately there has been a c great breeze raised over a jug called ^ "The Peachblow Vase." In artistic cir- ^ cles, its sale for eighteen thousand dol- ^ lars will mark an era. Yet to most peo- ^ pie in this world there are many things a Hr>t4*vr "Viv Q inorfnl " Tlif in or ic f) mnrf WVWVV*J *V " J"04U*' ? ~ ~ Jsingular utensil. A pail, goblet or a jar t may be rinsed, and you can satisfy your- > self by optical proof that the thing is * clean; but a jug has a little hole in the j top and the interior is all darkness. Xo x eye penetrates it, no eye can move over ^ its surface. You can clean it only by ? putting -water into it, shaking it up and ' pouring it out. If the water comes out clean, you judge you have succeeded in purifying the jug. In this the jug is lil-o -f V>nroo"n l"?oo*rf ti/-\ m al AtrA -n ? iUkV VJUkV^ XiViVl V y UV XJUV1 M?u. V/J V VUU j look into tlie recesses, and you can only ] judge of its purity by what comes out < of it. j The Foxes and the Hares. A fox who was passing through the \ forest one day heard a great dispute 3 among the hares, and he turned aside to find several of them engaged in hard ! knocks around a burrow. "What's all this row about?" demand- : eel Reynard, as lie fell among them. "Why, sir," replied one of the hares, our fatfier is dead, and we can't agree as to who shall ppssess his barrow." i "Bnt it's large enough for all of you." : "So it is; but tliat settles a question of fact instead of principle." "Well, I'll take fact and you can keep the principle," said the fox,'as he took possession of the burrow. When the heirs fight oyer the old homestead, the lawyer comes to own the farm. It is not safe to back luck against bard 1 work for a long race. " ' WITHIN THE LINES. TIIB i:XI*KKIK\CES OF A MOlSEHOtLD OK SOITIIEKX LADIES*. What Tliey l"-/lcrweitf I>urin^ Battle?A fclrikinz Storv of the I'onlcfcTO*? War. (From the Philadelphia Titnrs.) It was in July, 28G3, a time of so much interest to all Virginians, -wliki the tide of battle ebbed ana flowed like an angry flood over our lovely valley, leaving desolation and sor row m us pain, vur nome, Known as Fountain Rock, was about one mile from the Potomac River, directly on the turnpike between .^hephcrdstown and Keayneyville, a point on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. July 16 was an unusually quiet da^' Xo Federal soldiers were to be seen rid- . ing over the country. Consequently our 1 fears were aroused knowing, as we di? from experience that a calm alwavs came before a storm. Tlic next morning we < found that our fears were not groundless, for a large force und'T General \ Gregg had crossed tlie Potomac and j some were encamped 011 tlie turnpike 1 xnd some on the road leading to Martinsburg. < inrtt-ELCOJIIXG VISITOKS. { Stragglers, mostly from Col. Gregg's 1 regiment, began to "swarm all over the 1 place. Numerous and outrageous were * :lie depredations they committed. Hearing a thumping at the back of the house ( ,ve went in and found two men in the ( pantry. "What arc you doing here?" 1 said my mother, with dignity. One of 1 ;hem impudently answered: "Oh we ( ust came to see what sort of style you a ived in," and added, mockingly: "I'll ake that ham, if you please." Turning iround, she found he had already done >o. He then reached over and said: "I'll ake these preserves, too." "No," she avid, "I don't think you will." "I'd ike to know who in the h? will prevent ^ ne," he answered. "I will," she said, c rery quietly, and, leaning forward, she ? nit out her hand and gave a little push, vhich sent it to the floor with a crash. . 3e loked startled for a moment, but quickly recovered and sneered: "Oh, rj hat's your style, is it?" "Yes, and you valk out of this house. It is a pity you lad no mother to teach you not to break * nto houses and steal." * This reference ^ 0 his mother seemed to rouse him and a ic said: "I have a mother, and as good ^ 1 one as you, if you arc a right good- ^ ooking woman." Nevertheless he walk- ? :d very meekly out. asking for a guard. e So great were the ravages committed !' hat my young sister and a cousin from ^ Baltimore went into town to ask for a ^ ni;ird. "Wll ATI fill* <wmr?trrm + n-oc V ?efore General Gregg, lie turned to an *?fficer and said, "Tell Colonel Gregg ? hat I have heard nothing but complaints 1] if liis regiment tliis morning, and if a teeds be he mr.v take one-half of his v aen to keep th j other half in order." I e [oubt if the order was ever delivered. 5 Vliile he was speaking a courier caine in,nd reported "a large body of rebels ad- _ ancing on the turnpike from Leetown." S( Lhe girls anxiously to be at home, asked or an escort, for the soldiers had been ery impertinent to them on their way nto town. An escort was readily granted ^ nd although our house was near the q >ut-posts_he came all the way to the c loor ancl tliere received my mother's r hanks for his courtesy. She also asked ^ iim his name, which at first he refused j o give, but upon her reminding him ^ hat he knew not what a day might >ring fourth he gave it: "Major Gaston, ^ if General Gregg's staff." None but n hose who have seen and felt it can t( ealize our feelings as we saw the enemy q dvance in such order and numbers, j moving as we did that only a few miles ^ urther on they were to meet our forces, ^ mong whom were manv friends near . ,nd dear. Soon a few stray shots were ^ leard, then the drum beat and all strag;lers were drawn in and quiet reigned or a little wliile. Then came the whirr ^ nd sliriek of the shells as they passed ^ ver the house, and the villainous "zip" if the minnie balls as they cut the leaves ^ rom the hedge around our door. All of y ts retreated to the cellar. The family ^ onsisted of my mother, her two daugh- ^ ers, her niece, her two little grandchil- n Lren, whose mother was in Baltimore; .i , negro -woman and a terror-stricken p IO?T uo* a: A FIGHT TO BE REilEMBEKED. il All that evening the battle raged, The ^ federal wounded were brought from the ield and laid upon the lawn before and ^ mder the protection of the house until 0. hey could be taken away, some few in ? .mbulances, others on horses or on tretchers. I shall never forget the sight ^ >f a white horse, his whole forequarter tained -\\*ith the liie-blood of him who vas lying dead across his back. The iring never ceased until late in the light. Our house was kept closed and )erfectly dark. The troops had no time j o tarry and I heard them, as they passed o and from the spring, wonder where / he women of the house were. All night o ve waited in the darkness, each with a ^ :andle, a few matches and a piece of :hocoiate in our pockets. These had p )een kept for a time of need and we bought that time had come. It was S ruly a night of horrors. By two or n hree o'clock all the Federals had gone md we heard the smooth canter of the . southern horseman take the place of the iharn line of thr. steal-shnrf Ikitkhc nf Hip . Northern cavalry. Davliglit found me ^ vith a pale face and hollow eyes, but ,1 learty welcome for the Confederates who , ode in to say that they would be back o breakfast. Our friends from town, ilarmed for our safety, came almost as >oon. & GENERAL LEE HDISELF. ^ V Seeincr a soldier sud boine-'' anxious to -n enow -who of our L ^rds liacl come asked g lim to what regiment he belonged, to \ ;lie great amusement of all around, for f .t proved to be General F. Lee himself. <3 iinong the first questions asked was who s ivas in command of the forces opposed t :o us. When General Lee was told that c it was General Gregg he instantly said: v "I wonder ii he knew I was in command ^ Dn this side?" and I gathered that they j laad been either classmates or friends be-; l fore the war. Oh, the contrast between j s two days divided 1 y only r, single night! \ Ike day before terror and gloom pre- i roiled and to-day the lioive tilled with a joy and gladness. We W little or t nothing to give them to eat, all having ^ been taken from us the day before and the garden trampled by the troops. While rations that had been sent from . the camp were being prepared we gathe?ed around the piano to entertain our guests with music and to deliver to , General J. E. B. Stuart some music that . had been in our keeping for several ( months, sent to him by an admiring ] friend in Baltimore. ^Soldier Boy < Nineteen Years Old" and ''Benny Ha-' ] veils, Oh," were sung with a hearty good will. Impromptu verses to the latter stir were composed by nearly all present. 1 General Stuart's contribution, written on the back oi' a piece of music, was the j following: stuakt's impromptu. To the bonnie lass, Miss Lottie, Our audx^i2-n's due, Slie soothes our lie&tts-vil ti ps of woe With music soft artu. true. " May she rule her beau of nineteen, The gallant Brigadier, Who. thousrh he vanouish men, I ween Her own command must fear. To our jolly friend, Fitz Lee, A health before we go, He has a heart all full of glee, A strong arm for the foe. May his triumphs long continue And Miss Lottie always know The number of his regiment And smiles on him bestow. Later in the day a Baltimore American was gotten hold of by some means andthe portico rang with merriment as the xccount of the battle from a Federal point of view was read out, and its iniccuracy wondered at and commented on by ail. I heard General Lee say: ""Well, I have not been in a hotter place since the war began than that light was it one time yesterday." It was indeed 1 hard fought fight, though it has liad jnt small mention in the "Annals of the War." It was here that Colonel Deake, )f the First Virginia Cavalry (formerly Stuart's), was killed. "When we con jratnlated Colonel Morgan on liis pronotion, lie said, feelingly: "Not yet! lot yet! too lately have 1 paid my last ;ribute to poor Deake." But this was no abiding place for either army. When the federals were. Iriven across the river the Confederates etired beyond the railroad, and so it vas with us until peace settled down >ver the whole land, and the war became ls it now is, a thing of the memory only. Helen Botelee Pendleton. Shepherdstown, W. Ya. Bi^ Fresh-Water EeN. Of fresh-water eels as apart from their aightv cousin the conger, there are hree distinct kinds?the sharp-nosed el, the broad-nosed or frog-mouthed :el, and the snig. Of these three, the harp-nosed eel is both the largest lish nd the best eating, though some preferhe snig-eel as having a superior flavor, .lie snig, however, in spite of its excelsnce, has not the same value as the harp-nosed eel; for it seldom, if ever, ttains more than half a pound in weight. : ?he sharp-nosed eel, on the contrary, : "f4-?iTr>c o7-? /?nrwmrmc cnrrc> Hon < (.'LUUiO UlU VilVliilVUO ViJkV Vu A VWVA\% hat was taken in tlie 3Icdway, not far rom Rochester, weighed thirty-four omuls, measured six feet in length, and ad a girth rA twenty-five inches. Anotli- < r eel, taken in Kent, weighed forty iounds and measured live feet nine ! uches. Yarrell speaks of having seen at ] 'ambridge the preserved skins of two ] -hich had weighed together fifty pounds; < lie heaviest twenty-seven pounds, the < ther twenty-three pounds. But these ; astances, though not to be regarded as 1 poeryphal, are very excej>tional; and a ] ery fair average weight for sharp-nosed i els is six pounds. Eels of even ten : omids weight are not common, and i Ir. Frank .Auckland speaks of one of : Luxt size as being the largest he had ever ! een.?Popular Scicncc Monthly. Marching !>y a Sleeping Army. j The Confederate army under Price had < een on the march four days, and on j >cto?>er 3, previous to the attack on 1 lorinch, bivouacked by the roadside. A ; mion force marchmff for Corinth nassed l lis sleeping army without recognition. ( t is probable that they were heard pass- < ig, but those resting supposed it was a ] ortion of their own army. The orders \ ^ the Union soldiers were to make no oise?not to speak above a whisper, and ) allow no clanking or rattling of arms, treat was the astonishment of the * ohnnies in the morning to learn that j le Union force yesterday in their rear j as now at Corinth,, and that they had ' ctually allowed an enmy under arms to 2 iai;ch within a few steps of them and s ass unmolested. > An anecdote furnished xis by an eye- * itness serves to illustrate the real igno- ^ mce of their own immediate neighbors n both sides. A Union soldier thought ^ ) steal a blanket, and, slipping out of J le ranks, approached the sleeping sol- 1 iers, supposing them "soldiers of the- 1 Inn 99 tvoc T*ic ciivnrico mwri S ? r uau " cio jliao i -1 lising flic blanket to see tbat the sol- } iers beneatli it were' 'wearing the gray," [e spread down the blanket noiselessly 1 nd made his way out of their eamp and * lto our ranks again. He then informed *is comrades in a whisper that the camp ( ley were marching by was what they ould be lighting before night. This ? ivision of our army reached Corinth ; nd wheeled into line just as the attack ? egan upon that place. This achieve- c lrnif tvoq nrnlialVl v tint pycpI 1 pfl rlnrinf? ' 10 war for lucky conception and bold- < ess of execution.?Chicago Ledger. Cleveland a Democratic Lincoln. The politicians did not like President 1 iincoln. They -would have pushed him * side at the end of his first term if it 1 ad lain in their power. The barrier in J le way was the confidence reposed in 1 im by the sovereign people. The situ- ( tion at this time is not dissimilar. r 'resident Cleveland has not pleased the J oliticians, either of his own party or of t le opposition; but every day it becomcs lore and more manifest that the people ? -both the Democrats who took him on t rust and the Republicans who distrust- t d him?are behind him and backing im. His sturdy Iionesty pleases them, 'he wiser politicians, seeing the Jit ft of lie popular current, are beginning to * edge.?Bradford Era. ( m ( Until the circumstances of the recent < eizures of American vessels at Slicl- i airne, Xova Scotia, "were understood it , ras thought that the fisheries question ' ras to be again sprang on the old i .round, in spite of the recent revocation ] iy the Dominion authorities of their < irst order for seizures. It is now un- j [erst-ood, however, that the vessels were \ eized for violation of the Canadian cus- * oms regulations and not for offenses i onnected with tisliing. The vessels ? rere seized for having permitted certain ] >f their men to go ashore without re- ; >orting to the custom-house authorities. 1 t is urcred an behalf of the seized ves- i els that the offenses wore unintentional; I ] mt we cannot see what ground for the j. nterference of our government tlie cases j i .fford. The impounded vessels are, ] echnically at any rate, in the position of , iolators of the law. A prohibition publishing company has j jeen incorporated in Charlotte, X. C., with \ he avowed object of publishing "a new;, j inTV>r r>rkv>o?lino- tllP THTiilibitio'l of tllO I nanufaeture, importation and sa:.e of in.oxicants, except for mechanical and m?-di;iual purposes; the suppression of gamMing of all kinds; the reform of thuses in State and society and the promotion of pubic and private virtue.'' j ALL ABOUT SENATORS. ! sk\with i'LKXTV ()! i1a1ic a\d \toks with \ ::kv bald heads. S?nmt?r<i Yo:i:i;j nn<: Sj-nafors OliI?Senator* Who arc ."Wtisciilar r.ml .Senators \V!io Arc Frail?Senatorial Birthdays. (Letter to tin l'r.ttadelph'a Times) Washington*, July 1G.?White locks I" Imft V>?S22]s among United States Senators are not ai\vA?j .indicative of age. Take, for instance, Senator" JstjfflundsHis beard i.s gray?almost to whiteness ' ?and not in the Senate Chamber is there another head more bald than his, yet the the years that he can chronicle are but lifty-eigiit. \ oorhees, 01 rue same age, . lias not a bald spot on Ms head and liis bead and bis heavy, brown hair is but lightly tinged with gray?a fine specimen of physical manhood is this "tall sycamore of the Wabash." Coke and Allison, each numbering fifty-seven years, are two other extremes. In the absence of hair and color of beard the former bears a striking resemblance to Edmunds. The latter lias a heavy growth of hair over his entire head, as has also the other Senator from Iowa, Wilson, of equal age, but whose hair is gray and stands straight up like stubble in a grain field. Butler, at oO, from his thin gray hair and white moustache looks nearly as old as Conger at G8. Nine persons out of ten woidd say that Blackburn, at 17, presents as old an appearance as George, at .7.). Cockrell, whose years number a half century, plus one, noks to be ten years older than Logan, wUle in fact he is nine years younger, the ' hair and beard of the former being a j lierht srrav, the hair and moustache of , the latter being comparatively as black as the plumage of the raven. ' Only fifty-three years of this world's life has Mcpherson seen, yet from his whitening locks, hollowed cheeks and feeble gait he would quickly be taken to be eight or ten years older than Beck, who is eleven years his senior, but who, in appearance, at least, is as muscular as an ox. Un liecic s neao, wnicn is covered 'with a kinky coat of brown hair, not a bare spot as large as a dime can 1 Ijc seen. A MILLIONAIRE SENATOR. ( Within one seat of ZVIcPherson sits the i millionaire Senator Payne, who has a rounded out exactly three-quarters of a c senturv and who is therefore twenty-two c years older than this New Jersey Sena - c for; but the average visitor would be c more apt to think there are two years' t ilift'erence in their ages than twenty-two. t If the shoulders of Morrill, the oldest 1 Senator in the Chamber, were less bent i [ie would appear younger than the "fish- t pole bachelor," Saulsbury, whose record- a :-d years are sixty-eight and therefore 'v jiglit years less than those of the Ver- r mnnf .Tmips. of Arkansas, is I I but forty-six and consequently in the c prime of life, but liis beard is quite a array, while the hair on his head, which a is fast turning gray, is as thin as a wheat c lield visited by a drought. Evails, at I sixty-eight, although his hah- is darkly c irray, shows not a sign of baldness, while t Miller, the oilier New York Senator, t nore than twenty years his junior, show? I i deal of top head through Jlis line silken lair. Sherman, at sixty-three, although 1; somewhat lacking by nature in vitality, n js a well-preserved man, not a bald spot c jeing visible through his iron-gray hair. <1 VT.->"Uof Fti?. n-i-na oivruvnrc <VI/lA"r f.lian t .TJLctLJ.VyjLi.V_j txv xixuy Uiiiv, Dawes at sixty-nine, Vest at fifty-five as t! >ld as Pugli at sixty-five. Sawyer is f< iixty-nine, yet few persons would take f: aim to be ten years older than Hoar, t] vlio will be sixty next August. e BUT OXE SENATOR UXDEli FORTY. ^ S' An examination of ages shows that in ^ ;he thirties there is but one, Senator ^ ivenna, whose age is 38 and who is there- e ore the voungest member of the upr?er ^ ^ TT ? j/i- _ r |_T iL* >rancn 01 uongress. xn xuu iorues mere ^ trc fourteen Senators, Riddleberger, the iccond youngest Senator, being 41; f( Sabin and Spooner, 43; Aldrich, 44; ^ 3erry, 45; Gruy and Jones, of Arkansas, n LG; Blackburn, Gorman, Miller and e Vlitclicll. of Pennsylvania, 47; Plumb, ^ c8; Manderson, 49. The fifties claim learly one-lialf of the Senators, the number being thirty-seven and every year jetween fifty and sixty -being repreicnted. Of the age of 5U there are rive, 3owen, Butler, Dolph, Hale and c Mitchell, of Oregon; of 51. Blair, Cock- T ell, Jiustis ancl ttcveii; 01 -yi, uau, nar- u ison, Ingalls and Jones, of Florida; of h >3, Cameron, Gibson and McPherson; b )f Fair and Frye; of 55, Vest and p iYhiteholl. Of the age of 56 there are p ?ix Senators?Chase, Cullum, Jones, of o -it-. i m n 1 T7 1/ Ncvacia; I'auiier, JL enci" ;uiu >ituce?tms J-V ige claiming a greater number than any n )tlier. Tlie recorded ages of Allison, u 3oke and Wilson, of Iowa, are 57 years a jack; of Camden, Edmunds, Piatt" and p foorliees, 59; of George, Hawley, Hoar si ind Malione, 59. The sixties boast of tj wenty-threc Senators, Logan, McMil- c; an and Kansom being GO; Alaxey, Van I kVyck and Wliitthorne, Gl; Colquitt, a Stanford and Morgan, 62, the latter's a )irthdav being June 20; Sherman, 63; d jeck _ and Wilson, of Maryland, G4; g 3rown, Hearst and Pugk, G5; Pike, GG; si longer, iivarts, Jmrnjiton. jtiams ana <-> jaulsbury. 08; Dawes and Sawyer, 09. !n the seventies there are but two Senaors, Payne being 75 and Morrill 76. between the youngest Senator, Kenna, tnd oldest, Morrill, there are, therefore, -r :hirty-eight years, Morrill being exactly ., :wice the ajje of Kenna. SENATORIAL BIKTIIDaYS. | h TIic month of October lias given birth s :o the greatest number of Senators; Y leven having been bom tlierein. March * ' md April have joined hands with De- . ember, eacli month having given seven ;J Senators, February, May and Scptem- j.( ;er can be credited with six each; An- . ^ust and Xu1 ember, four; January, 11 lune and Jul}. three each. This esti- r5 nate is on the supposition that Senator ^ Logan was born February y. 1820, as c jiven in two or three cyclopedias. His * ige has never been officially recorded in c' rhe Congressional Directory. Nine ?. Senators appear not to know tlie month s.n which they were bora, and two, Alii- n son and Vau Wyek, knowing the month, mow not tin.- day. Dolph, of Oregon, ind Wilson, of Maryland, were born on ;he same day of the same month, Octo- 0 ber 19, although seven years apart. The c birthdays of Yost and Blair occur or. the :l <un<j day of the same mouth. December c as do also those of Ingalls and Sauls- | bury, December 29. Logan and Man- ; clerson were each born February 9. j Ihere arc no two Senators of exactly the same age. considered bv vears. 13 e SE.>4J.UJW, I -y Fi-.c Senators can never become Presi- J dents, as tliey are foreign-born, Beck f having been bom in Scotland; Jones, of t Nevada, in England; Fair, fScvell and [ \ Jones, oi" Florida, in Ireland. Sew l a -r.Ti fr. lllrtrA nf [ f jLUHV J-IUO jjil V-XJL .-TXAWAA VV w _ present Senators than any other State, (i the number being eight; Kentucky,11 Ohio and Virginia can boast of six each, Virginia and West Virginia being considered in this estimate as one; Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, five each, with the remainder scattering. Fourteen have been born in New England. Only four States west of the Mississippi? Indiana "Missnnri. Tnxva and Minnesota ?have given birth to Senators. Not a Senator has heen born in the western half of the United States. Out of a total of seventy-six Senators thirty-four have been born in the States they represent. All of the New England O -fl">/My* r?ior\r?/>. KJCJLUXL-UJ.& LLtL V C UUlil Xi-L iive States, -with the exception of Cliase, of Sk^IiMuSil_Hawlcy, of Connecticut, the latter Iiavihg~2&irc-<i.4nmiJ from North Cai-olina. Only one York Senator?Miller?was bom in tlie Empire State, Evarts having first seen light in Boston, Mass. Both of the QnnofAw -Fw\w "\f<i i-cl o r> rl frnm "P^rmcvl vania, South Carolina, Xortli Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee were born in the States they ; represent. The remaining Senators that 1 are certified representatives of the States : that gave them birth are Blackburn, Cockrell, Colquitt, Eustis, Logan, Palmer and Sherman. t. c. j. inCj nc.iviiiiiv.ucj The Rank and File, as a Rule, Tainted Willi ' Crime or Insanity. ] (From the Ch'ca^o Tribune ) I find in a recent number of the Nouvelle Revue a curiously interesting paper by Dr. Lombroso on revolutions and revolutionists. In these days of popular upheavals it is well to have the status of the anarchist and his associates clearly defined. And, in the place, the writer , discovers a close relation between revo- ^ [uti ons and climate. Of 192 political * uprisings in Europe, the majority ocburred in Italy, Spain and Greece, while Russia, Sweden and Norway contributed , but few. Then again we find that of tbis number thirty-two took place in ^ June and thirty in "July, while in No- '' rember and January there were only ;welve and fifteen, respectively. Heat, 1 ;hen, must be considered as an "important "actor in revolutions. The learned doc- " :or has also discovered that, however pure may be the lives of some of the ^ revolutionary leaders, the rank and file, is a rule, have had criminal antecedents, v >r are tainted with insanity. Thus, . lourdan, in the time of the first French s revolution, who from a butcher boy be:ame general, cut the throat of his former employer, Launey; personally di ect-ed the pillage, the burnings and the u issasinations committed by his troops; ? :aiised the killing of seventy-three otii- t\ :ials at Avignon; and continued his h lareer of crime until he was himself con- b lemned to death by the revolutionary e ribunal. Then there were Hejeune, of a he same epoch, the inventor of a guil- fi otine, with which he first practiced on b owls, and Jean d'Heron of Nantes, who vore a human ear on his hat like a cock- b .de and carried others in his pocket, rhich he made the women kiss. Quite . ecently in Russia robbery and assassi- 5 mtion'have been used to spread the % loctnnes 01 me anarcnists. Qtenmaoner ,nd Kammerar killed the banker Lysart w .nd several of his family to get possession ^ >f a few hundred florins. In Germany jr loedel, who had thirteen years previ- ti >usly been put under surveillance for h heft, and having no ostensible occupaion, attempted to take the life of the p Emperor. Eeinsdorf, who planned the a: iiederwald attack on the imperial fami- ai y of Germany, wa? subject to* criminal d' aonomania and had been found guilty tc if an assault on a woman. In Paris uring the troubles in 1833 out of thirty- (1: liree persons arrested it was found that 1\ liirteen had already been condemned w or tneit. Aiconoi is aiso an important ictor in revolutions. The excesses of j'* lie Paris commune were largely due to ^ xcessive use of stimulants by those who 01 .ail been nearly starved "during the jt iege. It is not surprising to be told by n( [lis scientific inquirer that insanity goes m and in hand with revolutions. The vents of 1871 in France sent 1,700 inme patients to the hospitals during a eriod of eighteen months, and among lie leaders of the commune there were our hereditary lunatics and four others di ho had been previously under treat lent for that disease. Certainly of these bullitions of the political caldron it may a c n + wott rrtO/lr?oc!0 lioc!" C ItJLUAj OU.JLU.J O-JJUiO ?T ^ OT Man Eatern. ^ U! Conscious cannibalism is by no means ?,' onfined to tlae Feejee islands. The Eio Lil rirgen tribes of the Arancanos Indians, n the northern coast of Chili, do not J esitate, in hard winter, to keep the pot ;jj oiling by slicing np a few of their su- [j, crfluous relatives; and Dr. Nachtigal is j> ositive :hat the country north and east w f the Congo is swarming with two- 0l ?gged n: an-eaters. 'liie JJyats 01 Jtfor- ut eo, who gather skulls as our red men w sed to gather scalps, now and then eat p< personal enemy as a matter of hygienic iL recaution, on the theory that the wizard ;u pells of the dead man's relatives can vj ius be rendered ineffectual. Sparodic 01 ases of cannibalism occur in every East C:i ndian famine. The nations of Europe tIj lone are in tliat resp<ict total abstainers, ^ t present at least, for Roman traditions ^ ate back to a time when the Liestry- ,' ones of Southern Italy kept special ^ tockyards for fattening their prisoners ^ f war.?Dr. Orwald. mm ? n< Egyptian Cleanline**. Tlie highor and middle class of a Egyptian Moslems are very clean. Their ^ eligion compels them to wash them- ^ elves frequently and so preserve their ealth; but the foreigner will sec in the j treats of Cairo a richly dressed and ;ii oiled lady, whose person is as clean as irequeni bathing can make it, leadingy the hand a little child with a face esmeared with dirt, and with its clothes joking as if they liad not been washed fr ?r months. The reason of this strange ,h ^consistency is that an unwashed and liabliilv dressed child is believed to be O ;ss liable to the evil eye. Another in- in onsistency is that an Egyptian will go in gain and again to the bath in the same bi irty shirt. He will wash himself thor- ^ ughly and then put on the same dirty m liirt, "because his ideas of cleanliness do sc .ot extend to his linen. to ... ,ii r\f TT-] il /.ll CYT.^Tl * f 11 1 * ^ J.I1U tV-UVtlllV/iiO UUV V/* ?T *? WAAV ?^J leomargarine industry are well illustrat- *,? d by tlae increasing demand for butter II over Europe from 1850 down, and the onstantly advancing price. The prodi;ious advances in tins direction may be nrther illustrated by the importation of nittor, cheese and eggs into England, m ii the years from 1825 to 1830 the im>orts of the three commodities seldom >xceeded in any one year .?500,000 in alue, while they have since risen to ?20.000,000 per "annum. Letting the acts dc the reasoning it is apparent that h he new industry?the production of vholesome substitutes for butter?was a mpie necessity. JKecogmnon oi tins | act must precede true progress in the ;L mportent matter of regulating the in- ;li lustry. ' a; THE CI.VVYMOX BEAX. A Jrcrio-Coinio Treatise on This Venerable But Fragrant Production. (From the Chicago News.) Xcxt to the dry lavender in venerably age is tlic ''cinnamon bean," wliicli will doubtless be brought out soon by the industrious fakir. Whatever natural phiA.i^fn r\$ or*/-? JLVJaV^JU^iO VA UU. VA ,-AJM.lV. wuu much application may say in regard to the cinnamon, even if they go so far as to say tliat the seed is no bean but a collection of small kernels in a fibrous tissue ?everybody knows from his childhood's days the delightful aromatic perfume of cinnamon, not only discernible in the taste of the big cake which mother herself made for Easter Sunday, but pififrfc perceptible to the olfactory nerves. j'r4?-H? vulgar, obtrusive scent, produced in a cSetfcfejhop from distilling, triturating, or bytunc ether, which in turn is made frnrfr^S^cid butter and such fatty substances as are^v. . ^ gained by boiling down the malodorous contents of garbage barrels?it is nature's own scent, sweet, subtle and lasting. What do the memories of youth care for botanical incongruities? The cinnamon bean has been dead so long that it will most certainly be resurrected. Fortunes bave been made out of it and it will igain furnish the festive street vender ivith visible means of support. Carried in the vest pocket, it will again "perneate your dress with a most wonderful md lasting scent, which pleases without jeing penetrating, which declaims you is a man of taste and good habits and ;vhich is not a product of effervescing iIvn-f /vf no+mv* " 11. l/j UUl VX XJtbVCLJ. V/? The receipt is easy. Purchase a bush;1 of what is known in kitchen parlance is cow beans. They cost about a dollar i bushel. Soak them -well until they well up, then dry them in the open air, mil, if dry, roast them while adding oil >f cinnamon, about four ounces to the >usheL Then select a prominent street :orner, sprinkle oil of cinnamon for half . block in every direction, sprinkle your iwn clothes with it until about three lollars has been expended for the essenial oil. Then sell the beans at ten cents piece. Be careful to select another omer farther off the next day, sprinkle gain oil over the remnant and over your lothes, and when the bushel is sold you rill have made about .$1,500. But do :oi buy any cinnamon beans yourself at treet corners. A Hase lJall Do?. The rival nines were made ur> of bovs nder 13, and Major. As I reached the round, it was his inning, and his master, ,iio claimed the privilege of striking for im, was at the bat. The dog was right ehind with one paw in advance, and his ves on the striker. In came the twisters, ml Major made several false starts; but nally, as the ball went scudding from the at, oil he rushed for first base, his cars apping, his plumelike tail out straight beind. But the short-stop was too nimble >r the dog, and just before he reached the ase the ball arrived there, and he came owly back, his tail hanging low, and a ery mournful expression in his great eyes. '"Male's out?side out!" cried the bovs. ad immediately conceiving a method by 'liicli be couL'i retrieve this disaster, the og seemed to regain his spirits, dashed ito the Held, and was speedily in his posion as left-lielder, before any of the others ad reached their placcs. In the preliminary '"pass around" that receded the play >Iajor was not left out, ud I saw that the balls that were thrown t him directly were quite as swift of those elivered from base to base; and in justice > him. I never saw him "muff." When a all was thrown at him he settled back and rapped his great lower jaw, into which ic projectile seemed to lit; then, with tail agging, he would hasten to earn' the ball i the next player. He was equally profient with low balls, either catching them i his mouth, or stopping them with his road chest, and in lielding he could not be .ltdone. When he caught a ball he carried at full speed to the nearest thrower, and a lew piayers were pui out uyuis quiet Lotious and activity.?iSt. Nicholas. A Terrible Revenge. Some time ago the wife of John [. Duvall, of Pittsburg, Pa., obtained a A'orce, and on the same day procured a .arriage license and married Jacob H. )iies, a resident of this city. Duvall made 3 effort to prevent the marriage, nor did ? seem to have any objection to it. All te parties are young, none of them being ,*er years of age. They reside on iount "Washington, a sparsely settled subrb, upon lhe top of the high bluff whieli rerlooks the city from the West side of ic Monongahela River. This evening Duvall went to Jones, and "l t'm Af 1 rr?n or Inm f/\ lnc A l.iv^ Vi UllU^Ul^ U1U1 IV ?11-3 Duse on a friendly visit dccoyed liim to is house, which stands near the brow of ie hill. In a stroll about the premises uyall led Jones back of an old bam, hich stands near by, and when safe from jservation and far "i^yond the hearing of lv other person, seized a can of vitriol liich he had concealcd there for the pur^se, and threw the liquid into the face of ie unfortunate Jones, who, totally dismed by the apparent friendship of Dulil, was unprepared for such a murderous lslaught. Stunned by the fearful pain lused by the burning "acid, Jones fell to ie ground, writhing in agony, while his sailant stood bv and doated over his ork. After watching the suffering of >nes until entirely satisfied, Duvall went the edge of the cliff, where there is a icer descent of oOO feet, and, shooting ;niself through the head, fell headlong to ie bottom, ile was picked up and cared to a house near by, where he is still ing in an insensible condition, with no jpe of recovery. .Jones was found and cared for, but is in very serious condition, and, if he recov s, will be badly disfigured and totally ind. Mrs. Jones is nearly crazed with ief and requires constant attendance, he parties arc in moderate circumstances id respected in their circle. Punishments in Old Times. The following brief record is reprinted cm tne i minora, l01111., tvurani, under lie of Sept. 7, 1TC1: Haktfokd, Sept. 7.?Last week. David ;unpbell and Alexander Pettigrcw were dieted before the Superior Court, sitting lhi.s town, for breaking open and rob ng the house of Mr. Abiel Abbot, of "insor, of two watches, to which indictent they both plead guilty, and were ntenced each of them to receive fifteen rioes. to have their right ears cut off, and be branded with a capital letter B on LVU xuii'iicuiio, vviin-ii puiii^nuiciu ctcd on them hist Friday. Pettigrew ed so much from the amputation of his ir that his life was in danger. .Mr. Cleveland's Yesoe*. [Galveston News.] Cleveland's vetoes as Mayor of Buffalo lade him (iovcrnor of .New York; his itoes as Governor of New York made mi President of the United States; his itoes as President of the United States re liable to insure his election for a ?cond tern. As a veto artist Cleveland as no superior. President?Dan. lias this passed the SenleY Lainont?No, your excellency, that is milliner's bill, and if you will take the rlvise of a man of experience von will not !Sx a yeto.