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liiouuirrsfoa the month. i? :< i 1 a>o>JE <?K K?.S fkom t. ai thorstv. j i i I : W hill \Vorl? (In* <??kw! Farmer* Sibiiiii I?o in j ' the Moiisi! of VG^iiHt-Aii inlfrestinx Article j 1 From an Intelligent Writer. ^ >y . x*. juuvs in -.1x2 jiuguv; tur.ivsso:, ') To one who is not a routine fanner, nicc questions arc sometimes sprung this month touching the management ofa cotton crop. As a rule "laying by" is completed by the last of -July, i but should heavy, compacting rains | follow close on the heel ot the hist : plowing, and hot dry weather sets in, j is it bettor to plow again or not, and , how late in the season may plowing be advantageously continued? No inflexible : uie 011 these points can be laid do\vn?o::e must dccide according to circumstances. It' the land is fresh, or the *< ' '. filled with humus, so that it is fiiubir* and loose, plowing may be stopped earlier than where opposite condition's prevail. If the soil is disposed to rim together and bake, plow ing should continue :ts kite as ir can uc without breaking oil limbs ;ui?l bolls too badly. 0;:c furrow in each middie, using a very wide scrape and a very short .singlet* ee, is all that is needed. It is hardly necessary to add that the plow should run as shallow as possible, just deep enough to break a single root. Another circumstance to be considered is the state or condition of the crop for ibc time being?it' it has been growing slowly and steadily up to the time in question, a light plowing may not accelerate growth so much as to j induce shedding; but if growth has been suspended by dry, hot weather and copious rain-falls, there is danger oi a second growui scitjujc in su i-ayiuly as to make the plant throw oil' its fruit, Plowing would accelcratc the second growth, and might do harm instead of good. It would be well in such case as to delay it awhile until after the impulse given the plant by the rains had somewhat expended itself. If frequent rains continue, no farther plowing of course is advisable, but if a ;'good season'' only occurs, followed by dry weather, the plows may be advantageously started, say a week after the rain: for by that time the ejects of the rain will be well-nigh over: and plowing will only prolong a steady continuous growth. Let it be borne in mind that a sudden starting or a smiden checking of growth arc both very objectionable after cotton begins to fruit. One must consider, therefore, the condition of his crop, the character of bis soil and the kind of weather prevailing, and regulate bis course accordingly. The "topping" ot cotton is another point which comes up just now. If done it must be before the middle of August, for the object of topping is-to divert the forces of the plant from weed-making to fruit-making, and after the middle of August, there arc only fifteen or twenty days in which fruit that will mature before frost can form; not many blooms after the first of September can ordinarily be counted on. If the plant has about ceased growing, topping of course can do no good?it will simply be labor thrown away. If, on the contrary, weed is -fVtvrnrwl fntmino' miv lid some good by checking new growth (which now can add nothing to the yield) and diverting !he forces ol' the plant into lVuit-making. At times we iiavc seen topping produce decidedly j good results?at other limes none j whatever. Here, as everywhere, j farming call* for keen, discriminating I judgment. To do what is best under i ever-varving, shifting conditions do-! mantis intellect of the highest order j and mo>t thoroughly trained,. In the i olden lime, when reliance was had upon the natural fertility of the soil, removing competition by keeping down weeds and grass was the chief: business of the farmer, and he who could manage labor best and iret the most work done was the most successful. Executive talent was the great desideratum. Of course this will always be an important factor in iarnmig, dui now wnn worn, uxuuusi- i ed soils, destitute of humus, running together and baking alter every rain ; ?the feeding of plants, the prescrva- ! tion of soils from w aching and the . securing of line tilth, call for much more thought. Agriculture now is a very different thing from what it was in this country fifty years ago. It is a much more difficult art?one that makes brains greatly paramount to mere labor. In the olden time fodder-pulling was a prominent leataro in the work of this month, more so than at present, partly because more corn was planted than now, and partly because fodder j was the almost exclusive dependence for Ion:; forage for horses and mules. Other kinds of forage have supplanted it more or less, bnt it still holds a high place, in the estimation of Southern farmers, and deservedly so. Well cured, it is very fine feed, but if musty it is execrable. Considering the risk of weather, it is better to cut oil* the tops above the ears and cure them in shocks. Tops can be cured success 1U1JV III W IMUivi UiiU 1UUUC1 WULUU spoil in. For some years We have adopted the plan of going: over the corn and stripping all the blades below the ear. These are the first to dry up and can be taken off some days in advance of cutting the tops. Sunie art is requisite to shock up the tops so they wii[ not blow over. They must be spread out all around the bottom to brace up well, but not enough to admit rain, and also give air access to the j center of the shock. They must all be ; settled on the ground before they are j tied. A rope with loop i? the end is j drawn tightly around the middle, and j then a band of grass or any convenient substance placed securely around the shock jest above th" rope. After this another baud is placed near the top. Put up green the leaves wiii speedily wilt and droop down so as to shed rain. The mass will quickly shrink t;;iuu^u ?A;i?*iiv ?:v\; uuu} . except in very long spells of wet i weather, the whole will cure well and ] may remain for weeks in the field. I Ot course it is always better, however, i to house 01 stack forage as so;;:: after it is cured as can be conveniently clone, j At the North the whole stalk is cut ; down and cured as above, but their {' corn has smaller stalks than ours, j Our tops correspond to ii;>j whole j stalks of their corn, if these tops are j passed through a cutter and are ; sprinkled with a ii'.iio meal they will j! be eaten up very clean by stock. If fed alone, especially if not cut up, some of the largest portion of the stem j . is apt Lo be left. "T Preparation forautunm crops should ) < now be vigorously pressed, turnips !? should be sown by the end of the ' I JZlUiJlH. ?!?*i Ui? cv mivi cmiuv I uftlsc- grains will call for seeding early j H'Xt month. 2v'o <i?uo, therefore, is to i bo icsr. Arrange business >o that ; $>lows and harrov. - may promptly j after every rain. .Most of the seeds to ( t>e sown arc small, and call for a very i fine'y pulverized soli. Deep breaking- ? andfiiK; surface tilth are fhe deciderala | * so far as mechanical preparation -goes, i r The plow, the roller, the harrow, fol- j t lovrir.g each other iu :!:e order named, will do the work. With :he modern j B| imj harrows, j j: ^Lthere is ll'i'e difficulty in bringing! I SwLud into the best condition, even when i Ktarfing with it rough. For grass and | j ^over?especially grass?the land i v Mjsnhl be made very rich. If the h l^-of ma3?i:re is limited; it is better 11 ^ iV o put it all on a small area and sow i >nly rhat. It is time, labor and seed ] wasted tu sow on poor land. One lore of good grass is worth ten of that j which i- poor and hardly able to maintain itscll in the struggle for existence, j 1 On ordinary land apply not less than ; thirty two-horse wagon loads of yardj' manure to start with. If yon get a* good stand you can help out this quantity by top-dressing next spring ! with commercial fertilizers. The manure should he well mixed with , the surface soil by harrowing. Never ; plow it under deep. Whether for; grass proper, clover or lucern, a good j application of barnyard manure is the ; best foundation to build on: commer-j ci:il fertilizers answer a good purpose ; afterwards. IM relation to grass culture, the cotton belt may" he conveniently divided into two sections?a northern and southern half. North, say of parallel thirty-three degrees of latitude, red and. white clover, together with orchard'and herds grass, grow admirably and should be most widely sown. South of that line ti:e annual clover, as the burr and the crimson, together with an annual winter grass like the "rescue" (Festuca), can be more certainly relied on. Lucern will do well in both sections. We are speaking now broadly?there are other plants that may succeed well and answer a good purpose 3n both the sections named. The' tall meadow oat grass will grow all over the cotton belt; better in the northern then in the southern half, but moderately well in the latter on rich sandy loams. Timothy does well on the valley land in the northern section. Spanish clover (Iiichardsonia) is a vamaoie pjanr lor the Gulf borders, perhaps superior to j any of the true clovers for that region. I There is ample material from which to choose, ami an abundance 01 laud; nothing stands in the way of grass culture but habit, and to some extent a lack of appreciation of the value of grasses aiu! clovers. Everything that cheapens the maintenance of work stock lessens the cost of production, and everything that cheapens production increases the net profits from the farm. Xow whilst it costs something I in the way of manure, labor and seed to get a field of grass, it must be remembered that such a field will yield crops of hay and some grazing for many years and if the first outlay is divided by the number of years, the annual expense, so to speak, will be very small. But grass culture coin j mends itself not only because it is me | cheapest means of keeping stock, but j because it is the best restorative and preservative of our worn, humus exhausted lands. If corn and fodder could be raised at exactly the same cost as hay and oats, the latter are greatly to be preferred in view oi their beneficial effects on land. Farmj ers hold this idea and practice it in the j seeding down of land to small grain; j tlicy say the land needs sowing down. But the rest from the plow in that case lasts for one year only; grass growing extends it through many years. Grass depends mainly on winter rains which rarely fail; corn cannot be made without summer rains- and these often fail. | Our true policy is to concentrate corn : culture on land specially adapted to ! that crop, manure highly and cultivate with harrow and plow exclusively, so as to reduce cost to a minimum, and. then utilize hillsides, rocky knolls and ! such localities as are not adopted to clean culture, by seeding them down to grasses and small grains. On former occasions we have urged the sowing of rye lots for snppiying green feed in the earlv spring. Xoth- ] * * ? * * ? ^ 1! mg is so renaoie: ncn isum, gouu scuu; and early sowing arc just as certain to j bring a full supply of early green j forage as spring succecds winter. The richer the land the more the rye will be relished by stock. This is important because rye is not as much relished by animals as some other plants, but its quality can be greatly improved by sowing on rich or nighly manured land. It is somewhat disposed to become woody as it gets older, but a rich soil by promoting rapid growth, obviates this?it will grow high enough Jo cut before woody liber lias time to develop. Give the rye patch precedence over all others?begin its prepa ration at once?break and roll and harrow and incorporate manure with surface soil. Ilave everything ready to sow the seed by the 10th of next month. Sow Southern raised seed, and preferably that grown nearest your locality. Western rye will not answer. Seed from Virginia, east of! tiic mountains, uoes very wen. oow i one and a half to two bushels per acre.! The nearer the barn the patch can he j located the better; if it cannot be near the barn, let it be adjacent to a ! farm road so that it may be easy to | reach with a wagon. In everything j have an eye to economizing labor. it is too late now 1.0 plant forage corn; the worm will eat and destroy \ the bud: possibly early amber cane! would mature sufficiently before frost! to make good forage. We sowed it I last year on iiie 11th of July and it matured seed. It can be cut when the seed is in the dough. German millet and Hungarian grass may still be sown, however, and on rich land will make good yields. Cow peas may also be sown for forage. The pea* grows more rapidly in the latter j than it does in the early summer. If provision has not already been made for an ample supply of forage, act promptly and get in some of these crops. I)o not let the opprobrium of buying Western and Northern bay rest any longer upon the South. Something may be done a little later in the { season in the way of hay of crabgrass j and oiher kinds which grow snon- ! 1- cr*i? ?:i I UUK UUM \. ?. liC liUMUKCS liMliUM made with these is to cut them too late. Crabgrass mown just after it is in fall bloom and properly cured makes a very excellent aivjle of bay. Remember that during fall ard winter, when the teams are" not very busy, they can be kept almost entirely on bay. and the grain ration reduced to one feed a day. 1 Turnips should be sown during this ; month?the rutabagas and Aberdeens during tiie early part: Dutch and red top towards the last of the month. ! Make the land very rich, bring it into ( the finest tilth, cover seed very lightly j and "firm" the ground: these are the j conditions of success. For greens, ?ow the seveutop?it will stand our L-oldcs: winters?other kinds have to ' be dug and put in banks or cellars. Let neighborhood clubs now come ! together and have barbecues. Give | \ the social side of our natures an oppor- i ' Uuiity of expanding. Th?i exacting j :lcmands of his crop have heretofore j 1 kept the farmer too busy and too close-: * Iv at home for him to enjoy much the * society of his friends. This is the ' greatest defect in farm life: let us 1 . ountcraco its dwarSiig, narrowing j cndcncy whenever we can. 2Ieci!. ogrcthci as often as possible, compare lotes, swap experiences, discuss the j public welfare of the county and State. c Do not be frightened by the bugaboo ry of politic; farmers have as much ight to politics as anybody else. Why ,j ihoiild they not fix up slates zz we'll as t rity people or anybody else'r ]?y all ; neans take politics out of the hands of 5 he self-seekers. ** ' ?* j c About .six months ago a story was pun- J1 Vied in some of the Georgia papers of a ! c ouug man named William Jones, a com- ! j ?ositor, who was said to have come into ' 1 ios>ession of a fortune. 3Ir. William Jones. \l .iio attained his majority on Sunday last, i 1 as taken charge of his fortune in Charles- j a in. * c I ! I I UEAKKAL \E\VS ITEMS. 1 t-'nctH of Interest fathered from \ariou? ( Quarters. A Bohemian family in Chicago cat dog's .: :lesh. j | . The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 1,4^,91-i bales. Hoar sprung a bloody shirt discussion in ' the Senate Thursday. Active preparations arc being made to , restore ordei in Burmah. Henry Gibson, colored, was drowned in . the Samee Kiver Thursday. Serious rioting occurred in Belfast Fri-j day and continued till Tnesdny. Specids from all over Alabama show un- | cxpccted victories for Independents. The elections in France resulted in a ; complete victory for the Republicans. Handbills demanding home rule are being circulated throughout Wales. The operatives in 42 factories at Broclon, Mass., struck Saturday. The New Orleans Time*-Democrat thinks the postal note is a failure and a fraud. Volunteer companies have actually been formed in Texas to begin war with Mexico. 3Iiss Ann OiTncr. 18 years of age. liv- j -MT ! IUJJ near xvjiiiurv, >> . > u., . juut aun ( Benjamin Crooks, her betrayer. I Virginia lias raised more hay this year than for any of the preceding forty of her existence. At Oakland, 111., the mercury at one time last Thursday registered 112 degrees in the shade. William Hooper Son, of Baltimore, have made an assignment. Estimated i assets s.^uO.OOO. Mr. and Mrs. Van Houtcn, of Watsessing. X. Y., were poisoned recently from eating canned lobster. David Davis was not worth the six or eight millions he was credited with. It has been oilicially given at S&30,000. J. C. Dobbins, a train shifter, was torn ' literally to pieces by a freight train at Ccn- j tral, Thursday. The ground was covered to the depth of li inches yesterday at Mount Washington, N. II., with snow. The four-story brick block, comprising Xos. 11?>, 118 and 120 Soutli En taw street, Baltimore, was burned last Thursday. In the anarchist trials at Chicago, yes- i terday, the defence opened their case. Mayor Harrison being one of thc-ir witnesses. The Sibley Mills' operatives at Augusta returned to work to-day. The situation at the Augusta factor}' remains unchanged. By special order of Governor Ireland, of Texas, the parties concerned in delivering Arresures to the Mexican authorities have been arrested. The Governor of Xew Foundland says: "I have reason to believe that the report of starvation in Labrador is absolutely untrue." Two French sub-officers of the army, stationed at Algiers, fought a duel with sabres. The head of one of the combat ants was cleft in twain. Eight hundred employees m the llotelcy packing house at the Union Stock Yards have struck against the 10 hour working day. The Governor lias issued a requisition for Giliin Donegal, colored, of Savannah, who murdered -Bob Walts on a Beaufort excursion boat three weeks ago. An elder son of Peter Stukcs, colored, of Bamberg, accidcnui'iy shot his seven year old sister, Thursday, while they were toviag with a pistol. At Xatchcz, Miss., on Tuesday night Judge Joseph Shields, author of "The Life and Times of S. S. Prentiss," committed suii-ide. The loss of his wife had ailected his mind. There is said to be another great boom in Alabama coal lands. Active life prevails in the vicinij.ycf Birmingham and - jugliout the Black Warrior tjeii. The proprietors of factories in Westpha- i ii:t and lthenish Prussia are dismissing' workmen by wholesale, owing to the terrible depression jn trade. In Xew Albany, Ind., on July 27, Prof. ; T f 1 LN 1. .* ), n i T\ - f* T ? O. V.T. Oil UI1K feilUt JL/I. U. prominent druggist, and his son Charles ; Hoover?domestic difficulties. The people of Texas have established a j Confederate Home in Austin, which they j propose to make a model resting place for j the heroes of the Lost Cause. Enterprising South Carolina editors are j beginning to admit that wisdom did not; die with Calhoun, McDuffie and Waddell. j The world moves.?Augusta Chronicle. At the trial of the Chicago dynamiters a carload of tiie explosives used by the anarchists as well as the bloodstained clothes j of the murdered policemen were exhibited j to the jury. In Louisville, on July 27, John Koehler, j a jealous husband, shot John Carter, a counterfeiter, through the heart and Peter llouph, a bricklayer, through the right eye. In a recent autograph letter to a New York man, Jefferson Davis says: "I am too old to quarrel, too old to boast. The man of sense in his old age likes to be let alone." Gov. Ireland's letter addressed to Secretary Bayard is approved all over Texas, and has* had the effect of intensifying the war spirit by affording it a quasi authority for its existence. Careful Republicans concede that the j next House will be Democratic by a re-1 duced majority. Don Cameron admits that' the next Senate may be Democratic or pain- ; fully close politically. The skeleton of a, Xew York drummer, I named Yervell, who mysteriously disap-; pearcd from the American Hotel in Allan-; la, Ga., in 1872, vju dug up in the yard of I a Collins street bagnio Thursday. The committee charged with the invcsli- J gation of time case of Dr. Meynardie, rela- j tive to the recent shooting scrape in which him and his sons were involved, have ex-1 oneratcd iiim from all blame. The body of James Snowling, a stone contractor of Uxbridge, Mass., was found recently in the woods near his slone ledge. He had lighted the fuse of a dynamite cartridge and lain down on it. A cyclone at Hartland, Kansas, Thurs- j day, demolished 20 houses, blowed 1G cars I from the track and did great damage to the , growing crops. A yacht was caught by i flic storm on Lake Huron and six young men drowned. On a wager of ?1 about the depth of | water in a well in Baltimore, one man was i 1 lei down the well to measure it and was j 1 overcome by foul air, and hi* companion, j : seeing his friend fall, went down to his ; J assistance, and was also overcome. During the past two years over 7,000 1 emigrants have been satisfactorily settled in ! Pennessee through the efforts of the Bureau I j :>f Agriculture. They are well to do! farmers, and prove a valuable acquisition : ' lo the population. I; Mosquitoes are so thick at resorts on Hie j 1 :-oasl along Barnegat Ba}- that city people j < ire compelled to return home. The walls | ( >f every house arc literally black with the | 1 nsects,"and the people endure almost un- j i wearable torture. j t The aggregate appropriation made by I' he regular appropriation bills passed at j J his session of Congress (excluding the for- i ilications bill) is ?305.000,000, which is; <45.000.000 in excess of the appropriations ] nade by the bills passed Jast session. In Cincinnati, "Wednesday, a little boy, ! 1 jareheaded and barefooted, racing with ! icpior, staggered before the merchants! / ilotig Race" street flourishing a revolver. a Ie tired at a gentleman who attempted to * lisann him. r It is estimated tbat British capital invest- s idintbe United States amounts to $170,1SG,3&>. This money is in mortgages, catle, land, mines and manufactures. Some nvsstments pay from 12* to 3 per cent, tome pay nothing. Few people realize bow rapidly the gov- \ rnment's land is disappearing. The pub v ic land in all the Suites and territories is iverrun with buyers and the best is being i )icked up with an energy tbat bids fair to eave I'ncle Sam without an acre of good 1 and at the end of the next decade. Is it c lot about time a limit was put upon the! * imount of land tbat any one person or j a ompany can own? ' - t Seventy acres ol' land north of IJirwiug- I 1am, Ala., were recently sold ;;t the rate! >1 *400 per acre. As the same laud was ( purchased five years ago at about ?~>0 per : icre, au idea of the iuerease in ihe value uf I . properly in that ri-ing district can be ob-; lained. i ] It is not improbable that an extra session \ oi Congress will l>e called in the event the ! rvittinn- ofFo?r ic lint crttlr?il A rlr-mnnrl 1 bus been made on Mexico for his release, | which has been refused. A second demand will be made, and if it is still refused. Con-1 gross will be called and some lively times : may be anticipated. The Adjutant General of Texas received at Austin applications for perniisc-ion to raise volunteer regiments in case of war with Mexico. He also received information that the Mexicans arc reinforcing the garrison at El Paso del Norte. Uncle Sam i has only one company at El Paso in charge j of Fort Bliss. Either Senators Hampton and Butler arc wrong in voting practically against the ! Morrison resolution or the whole South ! Carolina, delegation in the House, includ- ^ ing Messrs. Hemphill and Pargan, have blundered. Hemphill and Dargan heard | from tin; people at home.no doubt. Hampton and Butler may hear later on.?Avgmla \ Chronicle. 4 x TT v/~\fl-t 1C I -A I ilUt'MlCV O U?U 1 wm, xiviuv, . an old rusty pistol, which was dug out of; the ground by .Mr. Ayeock a few days ago, but whence it came is a mystery. The dates j of the patent are battered, l?ut as near as j am be made out read "-May 12.17-37." The ' place where the pistol is touched oil is at the bottom, but the rust has eaten oil most | of the works. One like it has never before j been seen in this generation. The debt statement, issued Thursday, | shows the decrease of the public debt dur-: ing the month of July to be *9,040,103.8.3; , cash in-treasury, $484,5S6,30:3; gold certi- j ficates outstanding, *74,718,517; silver ccr-; tilicates outstanding, $87,564,044: certirl- j cates of deposit outstanding, si;>, 105.000;' legal lender;, outstanding. ?34(5,738; frac-' tioual currency (not including amount esti- ; mated as lost or destroyed), ?0,053,721.52. J "While Robbins's circus was on the way from Manor to Sag Harbor, L, I., via the Long Island Railroad, a iarge elephant in a car with two camels attacked the latter, killing them both. The keeper, who at- < tempted to quiet the elephant, was driven ; | from the car, narrowly escaping with his j itfn Tiin tinkf mfiflf! hv the elenhant ex- i i cited "the lions and tigers to sucli an extent j ! that they attempted to break out of their ; I cages, and a terrible uproar prevailed for I some time. ! A new process of making illuminating | and fuel gas lias been devised, the product j of which is known as ferhydric gas. Proi fessor James Bartlett, chemist, Yale Col | lege, and Professor E. Dwight Kendall, I New York School of Technology, after a | thorough test, state that the invention will j prove to be the best illuminating gas j known; that the fuel gas made by the pro! cess will be a formidable competitor of j natural gas, and that the fuel gas can be I supplied at :> cents per 1,1)00 feet. Compared j volume for volume with natural gas, the I ; advantage in heat units of the ferhydric | fuel gas'is shown by the fact that natural gas has 1:3,000 units, while The latter, it is : claimed, has 32,000 heat un-ts. HOUR I It LIC DEED. Desecration of a Grove and Mutilation of a j Corpse. Mr. John C. Humphries, of Durhamville, | Aiken, S. C., writes to the Aiken Recorder j giving an account otan outrage perpetrated j on the niglil of July i.'4th at the cemetery- ! of Mount Ilcrmon baptist Church, in Lex- i ington county. The church is in Aiken j county. nc:ir ilansey's Bridge on the North j Edisto River, but the cemetery is on the | opposite side of the river. A young man j named Tillman R. Williams, of exception- j ally good character and well connected, j died seven months ago and was decently j buried. On the 2-ltli of J tily the grave j i bore the evidence of having been dese- j { crated, and relatives of the dead man ! ! had the grave opened, the body removed ! and an autopsy held, when it was asccr- j tained that tli^ cljc-^t of the corpse had been ! cut open from just above the nav-1 to the clavicle or collar boue, the knife ranging centrally through the sternum, making an incision more than twelve inches long. -The heart had been removed and the hands deprived of their thumbs. The affair has caused much excitement in the neighborhood. "While T)i re is I.-ifc There is Hope,. 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In a tow 2ring r;)ge lie rushed upon her to punish her, but the overseer interfered and had ' j him put out. They laid around the town i antil the hands were dismissed when the y'oung reprobates went to the girl's house ^ ind frightened her mother and sisters by I heir vehement violence. The indignant c citizens soon got together and flogged'them t >ut of town, "if the facts are as we have c earned them, they well deserve the punishxient they received. It is :i pitv that some s ar and 'feathers were not convenient to j v idorn the would-be masher?Spartanburg \ ' Herald. j t j t Tlie Riots Renewed. r>... .m.-t Aliquot 7 ?"While ,")00 work- i DJ*.l,r.\.^l, nen were going lionie this evening a bottle ! vas thrown among them from a window. | a ['lie workmen retaliated with iron bolts' o mil a furious tumult ensued. Police and | n oldiers hastened to the scene and charged I e he rioters, but without dispersing them, j f ['he police then fired upen the crowd, i il cverely wounding seven persons. ! h ? : s To Get Kid of Misery, What is tlie use of suffering from dys- j a icpsia, nervous prostration or debility, ! k vlien Brown's Iron Bitters will tone yon j a il? and cast these horrors out? There is ! tl oy in every bottle of this valuable tonic. ' h .'? makes bad blood good, and bids dis- o ual people be cheerful. It brings good c liter to the dinner table, and makes the 11 amily happy. It drives away the blues, .nd helps you to enjoy a hearty laugh. Lnd all'the respectable druggists keep it. b bric-a-brac: ' Jli, the fly's a riser early Xow-a-days. led he makes the sleeper surly "With his ways; tie is very, very fresh, :1ml he has an eye for llesh To amaze. lie's a most persistent fellow? Is the fly; You may kick the bedstead mellow, Or may try: But you cannot frighten him; He'll* return with greater vim By-and-bv. Well he knows a perfect sleeping From pretense; Ami he knows, when he is creeping, IIow immense Is your age, but still he goes O'er the tlesh that you expose And through rents. If he thought that you would strike him With your list, Or if you were up just like him, He'd desist: For the names of lazy men He has written with his pen On his list. A plane issue?A shaving. The fishery question?Got a bite? Moves in the best society?The fan. A bride's made?By the clergyman. Having a great run?Perspiration. The Associated Press?A lover's squeeze. Mental gymnastics?Jumping to a conclusion. Pugilists are the only men who really make money by striking. "Whenever a musician gets a bright thought he makes r> note of it. Xo bald-headed men arc enlisted now. It aggravates the Indians. Dentist-made teeth go well with a falsesel-oh voice. A bang is something to a door?especially when It is on a pretty girl. Fashionable people do not seem to be able to hear scandal and not repeat it. A few weeks more and the tide of travel will be from instead of to the resorts. Civil service reform was a Republican web which caught the Democratic fly. Chicago has a population of Coo,00.0 of which only 16-1,000 are native Americans. You can't tell by the size of a woman's ..iv i.?: * ...:n t l.1 mourn now iii;to n iiair puis n wm iiuiu. 31 rs. Cleveland is said to have a remarkable memory for names as well as for facc s A woman hales to pass a pretty bonnet in a store window, but she is always willing to go buy it. A student of human nature says anything ' can be sharpened. Put a lead-pencil in a woman's hand, and see. A man may refuse to be a friend to a principal in a cluel because he desires to be second to no man in the country. Man proposes and the girl makes inquiry as to his pecuniary value, and then gives an answer. It is seldom that a man is sufficiently color-blind t<? be able not to tell a greenback wli?>n be sees it. The My is pot much of an astronomer, but if there is a cream jug within his orbit he will find out all about the milky way. As prohibition begins to prohibit in Atlanta the domestic wine business shows signs of beginning to boom in that city. The most important on the list of books to be takeu to the mountains for the summer is the pocket book. Don't forget that. The economical man is never happier than when he discovers a tobacconist's shop in which he can buy a ten cents cigar for five cents. Oregon pays a boupty of two cents for every squirrel killed, and one man recently was paid for 120,000 squirrel tails which he had collected. Tlmm ic <1 r>r*v/v man in "RnfF-iln trim imagines lie is an umpire. And there are lots Of base ball players who imagine their umpire is a crazy man. Beware of the young man who writes love letters with a typewriter. They may he dictated, and if he dictates before marriage he will boss afterward. An Ohio factory turns out 57,000,000 matches a day, and yet many a man has barked his shins on a rocking chair because hg didn't have one of them. The enforcement of prohibition laws in Rhode Island has produced a marked effect on Newport. No sea-serpent has been noticed around there this summer. A new drug has bepn extracted from liops, which is said to be a conibination of morphine, cocoaine and atropine. Beer contains plenty of the new drug. A writer savs that a woman is a silent power in the land. To this a cynical old bachelor editor responds: "That it will be ? J IU IUUU5UUU3 Ul iiU^UOJ-fUO. Ages will come and go; but woman will not be perfectly liappv until she can have eyes attached to her Shoulders, so that she may look up and criticise Jier own back hair. The Del Rio (Tex.) Dot is edited by a young lady. She remarks: "Man proposes, but it sometimes takes a great deal of encouragement to get him to do so." A writer on woman's rights says: "Never scold your husband before supper. Put him lo his purgation on a full stomach." But suppose he doesn't provide the supper? Texans have a way of taking the law in their own hands, and it is 'not in their nafrnrn tr\ r\otiontl\r enhrmt tn tvliot Ttroo on. I CV.41V." !'V ^U'/Uiiu i.\s Miiuv nug parcntly a gross outrage perpetrated upon an American citizen on Texan soil. A gifted poet writes; "Tlie devil arose from liis little bed, and washed his face j :md combed his head." "We hope not to be considered profane if we ask where in hell ; be got bis water? . One of the pe:manent mysteries to a 1 student of human nature is why those little 1 ^irls who fight so hard against being kissed ; it Copenhagen play the game at all. They * lon't have to. ; Did you ever feel that deep, inner, subtle sensation of the whole being, as though the whole world had flopped up and hit you on . ,he head, which creeps over a man when i ie steps on a place that isn't there? As a drug clerk, the female is not a bril-1 iant success. When you wink at her lcross a soda fountain, she doesn't know ' whether to put a little balm of Gilead in pour soda, or hang her head and blush. ; Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, ' aas prophesied a storm for September 29, j which will be the worst in ten years. If it i will blow Wiggins to the north pole it will < je welcomed by a grateful continent. i An exchange thinks that the Chinose * ,vay of removing dandruff with sandpaper [ s the most effectual. Perhaps it is, hut k he common North American Indian lias a c )lan, though quite abrupt, which is said to ? )e reasonably sure. a Sam Jones says: "There is something vrong when a preacher gets ?400 and a )itclier ?o,000.*' The Boston Transcript ixplains: "But Sam should remember hat the s.j.OOO pitcher has a much better . lelivery than the $400 preacher." ^ "With all thy false I love thee still," aid the newly-married man to his spouse s vhen viewing the mysteries of her toilet, e 'With all thy faults I love the still," said ? lie owner of a whisky still. "With all ^ hy faults I love thee still," said the man dio was mated to a garrulous woman. With all thy vaul's I love thee still," said , wife to the leaping aereonaut. Many times a boy would gladly run way and go fishing Sunday if lie could mly get his father to thrash him in the aorning before he sets out; then he could njoy the whole long day without a pang, hit when he has to wait until evening for : the dread of that unknown ill that awaits im clouds all Lis skies and pitches all His ongs in minor keys. . ~ Publicity is money. This has come to I e recognizcd by shrewd business men as I n acknowledged fact. Competition is so { ecn. and we live in such busy times, that _ man's best hope for success really rests in . jc judicious presentation of the merits of is wares. If a merchant, manufacturer r mechanic has a genuine meritorious arti- j le for sale it will always pay to let his eighbors know it. / Marshal Boykin, of South Carolina, ha* ecn confirmed. j The Wordsworths and Mary Howitt. | Toward the end of March, 1831, Wil-1 liam and I were surprised one morning j by a call from the poet Wordswo^h. I looking unhappy and dismayed. He | explained that he, with wife, daughter.; and a grandchild journeying home from j London, had arrived in Nottingham the i }receding night. Mrs. Wordsworth. ] lowever, was taken so ill that it J>vas | impossible for them lo go on. ltiey | knew no one in the town except us by ! name. Would we :it least befriend them ; so far as to direct him to a medical' man? But long before we had learned : the particulars of this sad story, which j he seemed almost too perturbed to tell, i we had assured him of every help 011 j our part. The invalid was conveyed to our house, and Dr. Godfrey Howitt, who was an intelligent young physician, c 1 being called in merelv prescribed j rest and good attendance. \Vordsworth, j perceiving that his wife could have both with us, left her and Dora under our roof and proceeded on his way with little Rotha. Our guests remained with us a fortnight. Mrs. Wordsworth was agreeable and unpretending, while Dora, sweet, lively, intelligent, and enthusiastically attached to the church, proved an especial acquisition to my VOUIlg Unci pieusiug MMin-muuiuia, staying with us, and whose devotional temperament was secretly yearning for a form of worship in which every faculty might be permitted to assist the heart when prostrate before its Maker; more especially since she made the discovery that tiie doctrines of the Establishment were essentially right, the Book of Common Prayer needlessly neglected by dissenters. William's brother Emanuel, living at Farn.sfield, lent us his phaeton, so fnat Mi's. Wordsworth, when sufficiently recovered, could take a daily airing, and I think he himself must often have driven them about the pleasant neighborhood with its Sherwood traditions, since they retained for him a warfn regard, and that not alone they declared because he was an "anti-revolutionist." It was, it must be remembered, a time of general election and the approach of the passing of the reform bill. Politics was the all-absorbing theme, as the nation watched with intense interest the proceedings of king, lords, and commons. Mr. Wordsworth could think, write, and talk on other subjects than the coming ^'Revolution, the Deform," as he termed it. His wife j and daughter on their return found him ' complaining tl)at *'he was as well in i body as sorrow and heaviness for the condition of his country would allow j him to be." A visit to Keswick did no: revive him, for Southcy's buoyant, cheerful spirit hfid likoyyisp sur$k under the mischief he felt must arise from the imminent revolution. These two great poets and Christian philosophers dreading democracy also believeu that if England had no established religion she soon would have none at all. My husband, brought up in another school of thought, feic if needful to arraign .th-j proceedings of a law;upheld church. I sided with him. It was natural, therefore, that Wordsworth should regard us as well-intentioned, but very "tumult-1 uous young people.*' ThisViiflerence of; opinion (lid not, however, interfere with I our friendship.?Man/ IIoiuilL in (iqod I Worth, | - The Pictured Rocks of Virginia. The famous pictured rocks on the Eyansyille pike, about four miles from tms place, nave ocen a source or worn:eland speciflatioii fot? move than a century, and have attracted much attention among the learned men of this country and Europe. The cliff upon which these drawings exist is of considerable size and within a short distance of the highway above mentioned. The rock is a white sandstone which wears little from exposure to the weather, and upon its smooth surfaec nre delineated the outlines of at least fifty species of animals, birds, reptiles and fish, embracing in the number panthers, deer, buffalo, otters, beavers, wildcats, foxes, wt>lves, raccoons, opossums, bear.?, elk, crows, eagles, turkeys, eels, various sorts of fish, large arid small, snakes, etc. In the midst of this silent menagerie of specimens of the animal kingdom is the fulllength outline of a female form, beautiful and perfect in every respect. Interspersed among the drawings of animals, etc., arc imitations of the footprints of each sort, the whole space occupied bcinor 1 ?0 Inn r liv AO u*iftn rIV\ rrliof ?3 O J "* w ' liUW racc the artist belonged, or what his purpose was in making these rude portraits, must ever remain a mystery, but the work was evidently done ages ago.? Morgan town (W. Va.) Letter. While the Northern cities are voting the English sparrow a nuisance, Leesville rejoices at their appearance and rapid increase within her limits. i i PEACE INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG LADIES, RALEIGH, NORTH C AROLINA. THE FALL TERM COMMENCES OX the first Wednesday of September, 188u, and closes corresponding time in June following. Advantages for instruction in all the'branches, usually tauaht in firstclass Seminaries for Young Ladies, unsurpassed. Building heated by steam, and in svery way as to equipment, etc., equal to my m the South. A full ?orps of First01 ass Teachers engaged for session commencing in September. Terms as reason- < ible as any other institution ottering same id vantages. Correspondence solicited. For catalogue, containing fail particulars is to terms, etc., address REV. R. BURWELL & SOX, AugllL2m Principals, Raleigh, X. C. CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. THE rumor that the Principal will remove to Columbia, S. C., ia a mistake. \ [Ie has purchased the controlling interest nthe CHARLOTTE FEMALE IXSTIrTTE: has spent ?4,000 in renovating and mproving the buildings, and is now makng more valuable improvements than ;v?r. The building is lighted with gas, > vanned with the best of wrought-iron 'urnaces, has hot and cold water baths, md first-class appointments as a Boarding , jchool in ever)- respect Xo more experienced and accomplished :orps of Teachers is to be found iii the t South, and the Music and Art Department ire unsurpassed. Full session begins September 1,1886. ti For Catalogue apply to the Principal, \ Rev. WM. R. ATKIXSON, AugllL2m Charlotte, X. C. i\F\ NTFTWLADY active and p VV iilN L?jU intelligent, torepre- * ent in her own locality an old firm. Refer- ' nces required. Permanent position and :ood salary. GAY & BROS* 16 Barclav it., X. Y. ?ll^OlXVx WORLD Bheapes! THE Gommercial College ^Lexingwn, Ky. y' JUjthettllonor and Gold Medal over all other Colleges, at ?e WorM'a Exposition, forSystecj of Book-keeping: and General Bnalnc** Edntulljn. COOO Cradnatrs InEnvI- 1 ne*. 10 Teachers employed. <>>tof i'cllBuMne** Course, Including Tuition, Stationery and Board, about $90. Short* 0 HnJi Tj^t-Wrltlnj and T^fc^raptiy specialties. So Va. {j Cation, Knt*r Sow. tiradna:** Unarantred Soem*. For circulars address W.B. SMITH, Pres*t( I?cxInjrton,Ky. 3. lP[HTCWJHTED!"D^i??"i^ I hrn % Sample free to tbosebecumirigageuts. r lULK IlKonsk,qnie'esales. Territory (riven. ? nHK^^B^'r7"Satii-fucLion guaranteed. Address JR. SCOTT, 842 Broatfway, NEW YORK. ? THRESHING MBH? : ;implost, Mo*t Durable, Economical, and Perfect " n line?wastes no grain; cleans it ready for market. FHRESHING ENGINES POWEas,^ I taw nilli. and Standard Implements gen* ? irally. Send for illustrated catalogue. A. B. FARQUHAR, r'cnntylranl* Agricultural Wort*, YORK. P?? I annnBBBSHaaaBHuattBBBBaBBBa Kilters tlie system from unknown causes, at all seasons. Shatters the >'erres, Impairs Digestion, and Enfeebles the ^ l^^-CTTnmr iEsscf - atj i lunitt Q:;:ckly and completely cures Malurin,and Chills and Fevers. I<orIntermittent Fevers, 7,a?sitade, Lack of Energy, it has no equal. It enriches and purifies tho blood, stimulates the appetite. and strengthens tho muscles and nerves. It does not injure the teeth, cause headache, or I produce constipation?ill other Iron msdirinA tin. Fatheh T. J. Reilly, tho patriotic and scholarly Catholic Divine, of Arkansas, says: "I have used Brown's Iron Bitters with the createst satisfaction for Malaria, and as a preventive of Chills and like diseases, and will always keep it on fa&nd as a ready friend.*1 , Genuine has above trade mark and crossed red lines cri wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BROWS CHKMICAL CO.. BAI.TIMORE, M!>. | LaDH'-.s' Hand Booe?useful and attractive, contiininp: list of prizes for recipes, information about ! cdns. etc., {riven sway by all dealers in medicine, or ! moiled to any address on receipt of 2c. stamp. AURAMVI ! Most of the diseases which afflict mar.Vr^q a*, ojiginally caused byadisirderfd or^&t^ncit&e LIVER* For all conjr.law" oi vhie kind, sach ? Torpidity of tluslaver, Biliousness. Servou3 Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation, Flatulency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach | (sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malar^, Bloody Fius, Chills and Fever, Brwa^'ccu* tSwer, Exhaustion befor?%or afjcx Jfevec3,"0hionic Diarrhoea, T(fzz c? AW?ite, Headache, Foul Breath, irregularities "incicectal to Females, Bearing-down 5KS&STADIGER'S AUR&K7M is Invaluable. It is net a n?na??aJor all diseases, bat SB 5? ali diseases of''tin LIVER, will V,V ? K STGMACHandpOWKLS. it cliafigus the" complexion from a waxy, yellow tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes low. gloomy *piriU. It is one of the BEST ALTERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE BLOOD, and Is A VALUASLE TONIC. STADsGER'S aURANTI; For sale by all Druggists. Price ?! bottle. | C. r*. STApiCER, Proprietor, 140 SO. FRONT ST.. Philadelphia, Pa. PIANOS aci OEMS BUY THEM AT HOME, THE BEST MAKES OF PIANOS AND ORGANS ?SOLD AT? FACTOBY PItlCES FOE CASH j -on? EASY INSTALMENTS. I V i\Jt,AKLSl ??, ; POT, FREIGHT FREE. . Write for prices and terms to JT. W. TKU1P, < olumliia, S. C. i JuneSOLly OOQ^QQOOOgCOC'OOOOS?QOOO<WiH? | 1836j 11 SWIFT'S S 1 ?T ?TA BEMEDY NOT FOI 1 ss s HALF A C | EELIETOG SUFFEI I sjsis KflS I?? ?? 3 I AN INTERESTING TREATISE ON BL S3 FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS. IT SH L ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPEC ^?0?mO?OOG<3000000G?C?0?< ^LSHLEY j3OLU The Solublc'Guano'is'a'highly concentrated rrade Fertilizer for all crops. ASHLEY COTTON AND CORN COMPO wo crops and abo largely used by the Truck* ASHLEY ASH ELEMENT.?A very chcaj ilizer for Cotton, Corn and Small Grain Crot Hnes. etc. ASH LET DISSOLVED BONE; ASHLEY rrades?for use alone and in Compost heap. For Terms, Directions, Testimonials, and fc ublications of the Company, address THE ASHLEY FHOSPJ Nov25Lly ssass ease yeao mmbm aum ^csaas^ 'hese pills were a wonderful discovery. 2To others r relieye ^manner of disease. The information ar le marvelous power of thesa pills, they would walk ithout. Ser.t by mail for 25 cents in stomps. Ilia is information is very valuatIe. I. S. JCHXSOX & ? "JIOTHKJrS FRIEND" MAKES CHILD-BIRTH EASY. The time lmsconic at last when the terrible agony incident to this very critical period in j; woman's life can be avoided. A distinguished physician, who passed tl:e greatest portion of his life (foity-fonr years) in this branch of practice, left to childbearing woman this price !ess ienacv ami life-saving appliance, '"TIIE MOTHERS' EK1ENI)," and to-day there are thousands of the hot women in our land who, having used this wonderful remedy before confinement, rise up and call his name blessed. We receive letters from every section of tlie country thanking us for placing this preparation in the reach of suffering woman. One lady front North Carolina writes as that she would like to thank the proprietors on herkitfes for bring- 1 ing it to her notice, as in i? pro- j vious confinement she ha?l two doctois, and they were compelled to use chlol'onn, instruments, etc., and she suffered almost death; but this time she used "310 riiEiJS' FRIEND," flint 5<<>i *.VA IUUU1 \??io ShUiVj 'JUItAi and almost liko magic. Now why should a woman suffer / when she can avoid it? We can prove all we claim by lisiny witnesses, and anyone interesteel can call, or have their husbands do so, at our ofiico, and see the oiijjinal letters, which we cauuot publish. This remedy Is one about which we can not publish certificates, but it is a most wonderful liniment to be used after the first two or three months. ' Send for our treatise on the Health and Happiness ot Woman, mailed free, which gives aU particulars. The Bradfield Regulator Co. Box 28, Atlanta, Ga. Sold by all druggists. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ifflBRSIWWWBOTFS 1 llMli <324and 326 Pearl St., New York. ST SEND FOE CEECULAE. NTH (JURE TVTfl PAY. Dr. Harbin's Mixture for Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Jtc. Send tor circulars to F. Xichois & Co.. GreenviUe> s. c. FREE "ssftfifisgf iiVaaadi Celebrated LIVER PILLS. Address F. NICHOLS & CO., Greenville, S. C. DO JST0 MOKE WHITEWASHING , NOT WHEN PLASTIC PAINT Can "be had so cheap. cend for pamphlet and color card, and learn its merits. MAXWELL, HAZLETT & CO., 100 McElderry's Wharf. Baltimore, Md., and Coo Washington Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. A &J. <&. V X ? Jm A Pure Family Medicine That Never Intoxicates. IIISCOX & CO., 163 William Street. Xcw torb, Soid by all Druggists in large bottles at One ! Dollar. NEWSPAPER ADYERTISINrT DAUCHY &, CO., ?7 Park Place ami 24-'ZC, Hurray St., X'ew VorkMafce lowest rates on all newspapers in the U. S. and Canada. Established IM>7. SPECIAL OFFER.?We will insert a one-inch advertisement one month in oar selected list or 2*23 Dailies and Weeklies, covering the U. S.. tor $ .60 Circulation 0,9S0,292 copies per monthSend ror Catalogue. Tames centemplating a line of advertising, large or .small, are requested to Send ror estimate or g^sc. Aug4?iw ?r IPECIFIC.l 111886 1 l A DAY, BUT POE j~j | 1EMTJEY *^a sis si LING HUMANITY! \ \ | ?? cilcila H ^1^.-1 a*m | i'yg OOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT |tj if OULD BE READ BY EVERYBODY. (5 M JIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. |h J ble Guano. ( [ Ammoniated Guano, a complete High U^D ?A complete Fertilizer for these ;rs near Charleston for vegetables, etc. 5 and excellent Xon-Animoniaied Fer15 and fnr Fruit: Trnoc (Imno ? -v- * ACID PHOSPHATE, of very Hijh >r tlie various attractive and insti uctive EIATE CO., Charleston,'S/C. ^ like theai ia the world, tfill positively cnra ouiid each box is worth ten times the cost of a i mace to* realize 100 miles to get a box if they could not be had stratc-d pamphlet free, postpaid. Send for it; CO.. 22 CusioaHouse Street, BOSTON. MASS.