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VOL. XLIII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1886. NO. 11. !
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THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH.
80.ME KEASOXABLE SI FatOM
HIGH AlTiiOHt i V.
? ^ What Work the Good Farmer* I)o in
the Monti: of OeJoI-er? \:s Interesting ArtiPV&
cle From an Intelligent Writer. (vV
L. Jar.es in the OJtobcr "Caltir^'or.")
The gathering and housing of summer
crows will for the present occuuv must
of the fanners' time. The rewards of
skill and labor are now his. He not only
: s has the pleasure of seeing his barns and
& store-houses well filled, but also the ex
. quisite enjoyment of plans consummated,
of undertakings well executed.
His estimate of his own ability is possibly
enhanced by the success of his
ventures, and he may reasonably rind
properly indulge his pride a little. For
> six months or more he has been engaged
in an arduous campaign?one calling for
^ unceasing attention, unflagging energy
f and discriminating judgment at every
turn?one in which difficulties were concfonfIt
!-?#? mt.'f- oTtil nTwnmf-?rtianv
a Scylla on the one side and a Charvbdis
I on the other to be shunned?one in
which co-operation with nature was to
be assiduously courted and antagonism
||pj^ "with her as carefully avoided. Now the
Sr bent bow may be a little relaxed, and
f elasticity restored to the c trained body!
and mind.
While the plain, routine work of pick- j
ing cotton or breaking com is going on, j
t there is no strain upon the mind, and it j
can leisurely and quietly look back and i
compare results with their causes. Like j
the old soldier who recalls the battles he
' fought, the fanner can now bring back
before him the "tight places'' he was in,
t the difficulties he had to meet, and how i
he met them, and calmly and judicially !
discuss his management, whether gooil;
or bad. If you had to do it over again.
4-1-nvw* o-r?v /?!?or?trc*c rr?n ttvmiI/1 f4
C4.X V_ v? VVl ?T V U*V4 . J
/ Would you have broken your laud deep- j
er and more thoroughly? .Would you j
rhave harrowed it more before planting? ;
Would you have used the same quantity j
and kind of manure? Would you have j
worked your crops more rapidly and j
oftener in spring and early summer, and j
gotten ahead of the grass before the j
? -. rains set in? If you had known it was !
l going to be a wet summer, would you
" - not have bestirred yourself a little more?
' v Could you not have bestirred yourself
r without knowing it was going to be wet?
Is it not an excellent rale to be always
prepareu lur ait; wuibi, uiuuyu
^ for the best? Don't you thick now, in
view of your extended cotton Held, with
their clean, bare surfaces ready to be
washed away, and their soils leached by
the winter rains, that you planted rather
too much cotton? Would it not have
pa been better to have rested some of the
Sj^ land you cultivated? It is quite remarkf
? able that in a country in which popula-j
tion is so sparse, and land is so super-1
* abundant, we are as anxious to utilize j
every foot of it every year as in coun-;
^ tries where population is very dense a. 1 i
i the land can hardly support it. Our j
i judgment is that if half the open land in j
Bjk the country was rested every year (abso- ]
lute rest, not sown in Grain) as much I
would be made on the* half cultivated as |
Wm is now made on the whole.
Have the arrangements you adopted I
If last winter and spring to prevent the
f washing of your land proved successful?
Didn't you make your terraces in the
early spring, just before the usual big
k rainfalls Qpcur, and did not these rains
strike them before they/had time to get:
compacted or get a growth of any kind i
hL upon them to bind and hold them, and j
did not they get badly washed away'?
"Would it not be better to make terraces
/ on land when it is resting or in stubble,
rand do the work in the fall or early winter,
so that the terraces may get settled
and firm before the heavy spring rains; j
and would it not be well to - ow the ter-!
races in rye or wheat, as soon as they are
| made, and get a growth upon them at
i v -dQT once? If terraces freshly made in stub
b?e land should give way under heavy
rain, the land would not" wash, because
[ it is compact and held by roots. But
when terraces are made in spring, and
the land between them ploughed, as is
. generally the case, the washing becomes
L excessive and disastrous if heavy rains
ft prevail. "We have found that on old
/-_ land, in which washes have already
started, it is extremely diilicult to get
terraces well established without the aid !
of some hillside ditches. Our practice j
P in such cases is to run ditches just as i
k one would do 11 lie aid not nave terracing
in view, and then lay off terraces just as
if there were no ditches present?of
course jumping over and not tilling the
|N ditches where the terraces cross them.
I After tne terraces become well established
and both incipient and old gullies are
fty' entirely filled up, the ditches may be
filled up if one thinks he can control the
water without them. On very rolling
land, where tKe disposition to" wash is
very great, we find it best sometimes to
F run short secondary ditches between the
t j regular ditches. A secondary ditch will
I run across from one ditch to the next
R below, starting just below the dam of the
'first and emptying into the one below.
[. -w Placed just above an incipient wash a
wkf small secondary ditch ^vill assist materif
ally in stopping it. We cannot join the
I ardent advocates of terracing in wholeI
sale denunciations of hillside ditches.
We find the latter, at times, very useful
K nay, almost indispensably. * If one
starts' with fresh land, and there is no
i uncultivated slope above from which
water may flow down upon it, terraces
i ^ alone may answer, but on* old lands
| where washes have already started these
may be arrested and permanently
J - stopped by a judicious combination of
ditches and terraces with more ease and
more quickly than by terraces alone.
1$ Terraces are sometimes made too narrow;
a strip, at least two feet wide, in
the middle of them should not be dis&
turbed by the plow, but left firm and
compact to resist the Trashing action of
water. After the terrace is well estabW
\ flfctshed it may be reduced in width if
V ?BSeemed ad viable. Can a good part of
fV>o l#?isTiT? time between this and sDrimr
Fbe better spent than in de-rising ways
and putting into execution means to
prevent the washing away of our soils?
All admit this is the very foundation of
successful farming, and yet we go on
from year to year pursuing methods which
facilitate the wasliing away of the soil
and hardly ever stopping and taking
time to arrest it What is done in this
direction is most frequently done in a
hurried an I imperfect manner in the
opring, when heavy rainfalls startle us
from our lethargy by their destructiveYr
seftfinn-; wii'sra mains and wrasse::
' constitute the prevailing crops these
Wjmy difficulties do not confront farmers. We
^9 scarcely ever see an allusion to the wash}S
ing away of soils in Northern or Western
agricultural journals. "At the South, the
||| trouble lies at the door of cotton and
tobacco?land-destroying,libor-demandWfr
ing crops?how they have cursed one
HL hotr they still curse our agriculture
Strange paradoxes; where the laboi
Bp*' problem is most difficult and embarrass
$$$ jng, we raise crops which call for mos'
[ labor; whore summer droughts are mosl
j disastrous, we rely chiefly on summex
i crops; wbere winter rains are most
j copious and destructive, we keep oui
| lands bare through the winter that they
j may be washed away and their fertility
| destroyed bv leaching; in a climate adj
mitting the greatest variety of producj
tion, our crops are few in number and
I we are buvers of almost everything,
j when we ought to purchase almost nothI
! Kecently we have take a advantage of
| the comparative leisure on the farm to
i do something towards stopping washes,
i In many places we found little washes
i started on the upper side of ditches. Our
j practice for some years has been to leave
j an un plowed strij) three or four feet
wide along the upper margin of ditches
to stop washes and filter out the dirt
j coming down from above. It works adj
mirably, but sometimes, notwithstanding
j this precaution, little washes have start[
ed. "We had a hand with a wagon load
of leaves follow each ditch on stubble
hmd and throw leaves in each wash, and
where rocks were convenient, put some
oc them at lower end of wash to hold the
haves in place. In the absence of rocks
a few stobs may be driven across the
mouth. Leaves not only catch and hold
dirt, but enrich the spot, and next year
grass and weeds will spring up in the
wash and illter out the dirt passing
through them. A very little work of
this kind every summer will keep a farm
in excellent condition. It should be
done in summer or autumn so as to be
ready for the winter rains; not in spriag
nfter those rain's have done their destructive
work. i
V\ e have also been constructing some
barricades across a branch bottom, having
considerable fall, to prevent the
scouring cifects of heavy freshets. The
narrowest points between converging
hills were selected for their sites. At
one point where a wagori road was desired
a broad dam of rocks was built
across from two points of equal altitude
on each side of the branch and a high
bridge bni.t across the latter. At other
pvuius iwu rows oi .suiKes, some uiree
feet apart, were firmly driven in the
ground, and the space betweeu tliem
iliied with brush and logs. Our purpose
is, next spring, to drive willow stobs
along the line of these barricades, and
let them grow up to trees," and thus form
living and ]>ermanent barricades to catch
ar.d hold trash and dirt. Work of this
kind must be -well done; the power of
water is very great, and unless the stakes
ar^ strong and driven deeply in the
ground, the whole is liable to be swept
away, it is well to have a small crowbar
and prepare deep holes to receive
the stakes, which is easily done by jobbing
the ar down, shaking it backwards
and forwards, and repeating this a few
times. In connection with this matter
of preserving the soil, we venture o re
pear a suggestion made in tne Cultivator
several years ago: That fields be laid off
in strips (horizontal) from twenty to
fifty yards in -width, and these alternately
sown cIqvoi and cultivated. Washes
started in a cultivated strip would be
promptly arrested by the uncultivated
strijj below it. A vast deal could be acc
>juplished by this simple arrangement
toward the preservation of the soil, and
now that the pasturing of grain fields-is
bul% iurgely abandoned, -there is no objection
to adopting it. We cannot too
often or too emphatically stress the
pcuii, mat clean culture is tiie mam
cause of the red, gullied hills south of
the Potomac.
Will our readers pardon us for again
urging the great importance of seeding
down our bare fields? If they have no
faith in their ability to raise" grass, or
have 110 special use for that crop, they
can sow rye, and it is not yet too late to
do that. On average land and for the
: _tr i
nuw iii view, a nau uusnei ui
seed to the acre will suffice, and the
small outlay will bo returned manifold
iu the improvement of the land. With
pe as as a summer renovating crop, and
rye as a winter one, wei have the best of
facilities for bringing up our worn and
wasted soils. " .
Towards the last of the month wheat
sowing will be in order in the northern
sections of the cotton be't. It is well to
realize the fact that our climate is not
the best for wheat, and that it should
not therefore be made a leading crop.
But while this is true, by judicious selection
of varieties, and of suitable soils,
with proper preparation and manuring,
enough wheat for home supply be
raised. First as to varieties. We must
discard the handsome but tender white
wheats, and take those of the Mediterranean
type?red, bearded kinds, which
seem at home in-warm climates. The
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^wu nuu^t:?julc win navt? iaj jieiu <x lietie
on the score of white flour; it will be
none the less nutritious or palatable. In
the next place, the highest and dry est
knobs and knolls should be selected.
No matter if pour; make up for that by
manure. There is very little land rich
enousrh to brine- wheat without manure
anyway. If it lias been sown in peas, so
much the better; there is no better crop
to precede wheat than peas, unless it be
clover. Turn the pea vines under not
very deep, and . then harrow the land
several times. Get the finest tilth you
can. II' cotton seed is to be used, and
there is nothing better, thev can be
spread on the land before it is turned,
but it will not do to turn them under
deeplv. If commercial fertilizers or
cotton seed meal are used, they can be
harrowed instead of being plowed in.
After the seod is sown, roll the land; this
v.-ill cause the seed to come up better
and more uniformly. Wheat may be
sown from the 20th of October to the
1st of December, according to latitude.
The tendency of late years has been to
sow too late/
About the 25th of the month a killing
frncf ikiiiHv rw?nrc ami if ic ttpII to
have everything ready for it, peavines,
forage, hay, etc., gathered and housed.
Groundpeas siio^ud also be gathered "by'
that time, that the tops may be cured as
lorage, and the gathering of the nuts
facilitated. After killing frost the nuts
quickly lose their hold on the vines, and
are left in the ground when the latter are
pulled up. Sorghum cut and stowed
away under shelter will keep green and
| sweet for a long time, prolonging the
i period of green feed well up to Christj
mas. Stalks, leaves and heads cut up
togetner v:c nnci to oe a moss exueueiu
feed for cattle. Our people, generally,
have not learned yet to appreciate its
value as stock feed. We think it superior
to ZMiilo Maize or any other of that
class. The amber cane is the best variety
for this purpose.
The sweet potato vine is another good
! feed, liable now to be ruined by frost.
! As it is almost impossible to cure them,
i the/ Uiuy uj uichei- grazed. or pulled ofi
and led. JLittie damage to the potato
will accrue if this is done after the middle
of October. Everything should be
in readiness also for digging the potat
toes. Alter tlie weather gets cool and
: vegetation ceases active growth, ti-e digi
ging may take place at any time when
-; the soil is dry. Where the vines ore not
11 fed off to stock, the usual practice is to
! j pull them out of the way with a plow.
-1 This gathers the vines in heaps at the
-1 end of the rows and deprives the land oi
c i their fertilizing properties. It would "be
: | better to have a turn plough with sharp,
j revolving coulter, and run it on each
; side -of a row so as to cut off the vines
and bun- them in the middles. Then
with a plow, called a "potato digger,''
such as is used by Northern farmers for
digging Irish j^otatoes, the tubers might
be lifted out of the ground with great
rapidity and without being cut and
bruised. Dig in dry weather after the
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hills of thirty to forty bushels, keep dry,
wrap with pine straw and cornstalks six
to eight inches thick, and cover with
din, increasing the thickness of the Litter
as the weather gets colder, until it is
one foot thick. At lirst leave an airhole
at top of hill, say for four or five weeks,
then stop it up with dirt and cut oil' all
communication with outside air. A i
shelter over the hill is preferable, though !
not indispensable, if enough dirt is put
on the hill, and it is well sloped so as to
shed water rapidly.
She Can't Throw a Brick.
Had Paris seen Helen attempt to shoo
a cow out of the back yard, it is safe to
say that the Trojan war would never have
been waged, and Homer would have
been obliged to take the Havmarket riot
for an eoie. Had Antonv seen Cleonatra
-ir v ?
chase a street car down a dusty aveirue
of Cairo, it is safe to state that he would
have fled disenclianted back to Octavia,
and the divorce court lawyer?"decree
quietly secured; no pubheity"?would
never have made a cent from him. Had
Dante seen Beatrice fire a half brick at
the vandal hen which prospected for
seeds in her flower-bed every spring, it
is again safe to say he would have sent
back her notes, her white mouse penwiper,
the lava smoking set with "Merry
Christmas" painted across the stern, and
discontinued that rocky courtship which
he subsequently celebrated in his poem
?">c? tr?^nrr?a "
In the three situations given above the
average woman is grand, massive,
Titanic, incomprehensible. The man
who witnesses these feminine moods
from the weather side of a high board
fence and does not stand with head
bared, hushed and awe-stricken has no
poetry in his soul. In all she is great,
but in the brick-throwing act she is
greatest?and most'dangerousl There is
a physiological reason for this. It is not
her fault that an ambulance wagon has
to be rung up after her brick-throwing
moods, but that this kind of exercise
always creates a flurry and an upward
tendency in the window glass market.
She cannot help aiming at the hen and
bringing down the usual inoffensive citizen
in the next ward. Her shoulders
were not rightly constructed for ball
tossing, and in the hurry incident upon
laying the citizen she frequently forgets
to consult her handbook on throwing,,
and makes the left hand do all the labor
instead of the right, as laid down by the ;
auinoniies. -\or is sne mentany con
stituted for a base-ball pitcher. Many <
husbands who are not right-minded 1
sneer at their wives' weakness of mental <
grasp in i'ot being able to distinguish
between a mutilated and jumped-on umpire
and a three-base hit. These nice
subtleties of the game may be thus lost
to her, but it is not-her fault. Her gray 1
brain matter is" not put up that way, <
architecturally speaking, any more than ]
her shoulder is built to bring confusion <
and death to cows. It
will be observed by all wlio take the ;
trouble to attend a base ball game in the 1
interests of science that the best ihrow- <
ers have very square shoulders, and the ]
shoulders of some are higher at the 1
corners than near the neck. In these '
latter the clavicle tends upward as it 1
leaves the spinal column, a circumstance <
which allows free play of the arm in any 1
direction. Whereas as is seen in a lady's <
skeleton, the shoulder-blade slopes down <
like a toboggan slide and overlaps the '
arm-socket m a manner wmcn prevents
her lifting lier arm without erocldng her
shoulder-blade or bursting out a seam in 1
her basque, either of which is calculated ;
to discourage* good marksmanship.? j
Chicago Inter-Ocean. ' 1
\ Maine Conundrum.
The way people can mix up them- :
selves and their relatives in the matter <
of marriage was perhaps never better 1
illustrated than in" the case of a back
woods Maine family, of "which a correspondent
writes: 1
A father, son and grandson married '
three sisters. ;
That looks simple enough, doesn't it? J
It hasn't davrned on you yet?
Well, see here:
1. the father, married AbagaiL
2. Benjamin, son of Amos, married
Betsey.
3. Charles, son of Benjamin, married
Caroline.
What then?
Amos is brother to his son.
Amos is brother to his grandson.
Amos is grandfather to his daughter.
Amos is grandfather to his sister.
Amos is father to his wife.
Amos is father to his grandson.
Amos is his own grandfather, his own
son and brother-in-law to himself.
Benjamin is brother to his father.
Jt>enjamin is orotner to nis son.
Benjamin is brother to his mother.
Benjamin is brother to his daughter.
Benjamin is the son of his sister.
Benjamin is the husband of his sister.
Charles is brother to his father.
Charles is brother to his grandfather.
Charles is brother t$ his mother.
Charles is brother to his grandmother.
Charles is grandnephew to his mother.
Charles is grandnephew to his wife.
Charles is the grandchild of his aunt.
Charles married to another aunt.
Charles is the son of his aunt.
Charles is the husband of his sister.
Maine is responsible for a good many
tilings, but tnc ioregomg wm snow tnat
slie is stiil engaged in the good work.?
Rochester Express.
' . A Cure for the Felon.
That woollen smoke is a cure for a
felon U certainly one of the medical discoveries
of the age: Could we give the
name of the correspondent v,-ho Sends us
the following it would bp at once re
cognised as of authority sufficient to
guarantee the truthfulness of any assertion
to which it might be appended:
-"If you ever endure the agony of a
felon yon will appreciate the fact that it
can be cured by woollen smoke._ Place
the woollen rags under an inverted flower
pot and put coals upon them, or set
them on the tire in sorie other way;
then hold the felon ovev the smoke, and
it will extract ail the pain. This has
7?. .1 T',~ ~ r*.: 1 ^4.- : -
i uwu uuiiu vj u. liicxiu ui uuuit; wiu'jlu a
week. 1 assure yoy. $;at in iuy circle "we
consider it as great a discovery as that
ether will temporarily deaden pain. The
1 ardv remedv for a felon that I ever cnrt
sidered infallible, and I have liad
: cognizance of several aggravated cases,
' was having the part laid open (under the
influence of ether) and the bone thor'
oughly scraped. That reaches the root
of the difficulty, but tie smoke cure is
: far better."?Boston Transcript.
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A bank cashier may get himself involved,
but he generally comes out all right in the
long run?that is, provided the long run is
; to Canada.
i WHERE THE FLAG WAS FUELED.
| THE SLEEPY OLR PL \CE THAT WILL
E\Ell L!\E l\ HISTORY.
An Eve-Witness to the Surrender?The Story
Toid by Colonel Peers on the Historic Field.
(l>ttc-r to the Philadelphia Tisi<?.)
Appomattox Courthouse, Va., a sleepy
little village, dozing its days away on
the old stage road between Richmond
and Lynchburg, seems to the Northern
traveler to have become tired of existence
away back in the early part of the
century and to have settled into a Rip
Tan "Winkle sleep, from which it only
o r\ c-1t 1-1\t? r\$
I vauu ?.wojuu-IWU. wj i^au\.iv.i. VJL
cannon ant1, the tread of armed men,
only to relapse into more profound
slumber. All unconscious of its worldwide
fame and the richness of its local
history, the little town is content with
its own peculiar life and calmly ignores
the roar and rush of the outside world.
Once in a while a stray tourist comes
this way, but seldom does the old tavern
door open to admit a stranger. Its
hinges have accumulated rust for years
and long sprigs of grass grow between
the broken porch-steps. The whole
town wears the same passive air of
somnolency as when Generals Grant and
Lee rode through its quiet streets to
close, by a few strokes of the pen, the
most bitterly contested and bloody internecine
contest ever to swell the pages
of history.
THE ROAD TO APPOMATTOX.
This morning two tramps from the
borders of the Keystone State found
themselves at Appomattox Station, on
the .Norfolk and Western Railroad.
After a walk of three miles through
sedge, field and thicket, forests and
corn-fields, they reached Appomattox
Courthouse. Upon the brow of a hill
overlooking the town a small graveyard
brings vividly back to memory the one
short but pregnant .period of civil war
which is .inseparably connected with the
place, for within its whitewashed fences
are eighteen graves in one long row, each
with a nameless white pine head-board
of simple design. These graves contain
the dust of the Confederate soldiers
killed in the last skirmish on Saturday
night and Sunday morning before Lee
sent the flag of truce over the hills to
Grant. A small whitewashed pine monu
ment had been erected in the centre of
the lot by some loyal friend of the dead, |
but even it is now overturned and lies
prostrate before the row of mounds.
The Courthouse, a tall, squcre, red
brick building, resembling more the
residence of a solid old Virginia farmer
than a public structure, stands within a
small square or "green" in the center of
the town. The old stage road coming
over the'eastern hills deferentially turns
to one side and passes around the Courtbouse
in a semi-circle, to resume in
front its onward course again. Just
north of the public building and across
the road is the tavern, u, glcJuiiy-looking
structure of ancient architecture. A
mass of matted ivy leaves cling to one
iamp wall, wliile near by the old-time
well-sweep rears its mossy head. Very
rarely does a guest inscribe his name in
the musty register, or climb the creaking
stairs with his tallow candle to seek repose.
The county jail is southeast of
the Courthouse about twenty yards away.
Iwo small stores, one of which enjoys
the additional dignity of being the postDfiice,
a blacksmith shop and ten or
twelve dwellings constitute the remain
j.er ui me iuwju, \> uiuu. uuuuims, uy i
ictual count, one hundred inhabitants. !
The nearest church is two miles away, j
Ihe people of Appomattox are very kind j
and hospitable, and without questioning i
the intent and purposes of the stranger
at their gates, receive him courteously, j
minister fco liis wants quietly, iinostenta- j
tiously, but with a kind-heartedness be-j
neath all that is genuine and cheering. :
A. number of Northern visitors stray here j
in the course of the year; in. fact, curi- j
Dsity is the motive inducing strangers
bo come at ail, but there is no coolness
in the welcome of these people.
Ihe veteran who fought under Meade at
Gettysburg and followed Hooker into
the Wilderness finds here one of Jackson's
"foot cavalry" ready to grasp his
tiand and share his humble home with
liis late foe.
r-AT AVt'T -OTTTJc'c? C?rr/\T>1T
i LiUlkO O OX Uik X .
A great man here is Colonel G. T.
Peers, clerk of the county court, an
office lie has held ^interruptedly for
eighteen years, and ^together for nearly
a quarter of a century. Colonel Peers
is the only white man now living at
Appomattox Courthouse who was here
at the time of the surrender of General
Lee. He is the friend, counsellor and
leader of the little community, and his
kindly, blue eyes and flowing white beard
give him a patriarchal appearance. His
j.1. r>
uinut; in nit; ui iue ouuruioubc
is crowded "with musty old papers, many
bearing date early in the last century
and concerning the estates and fortunes
of many proud F. F. Y's. Colonel
Peers is probably better acquainted with
the local events transpiring at the time
of Lee's surrender than any man the
South. Witji grpat kindness he pointed
cut the scenes of the memorable incidents
of the 8th and 9th of April, 1S65.
"I remember well," he said, as, standing
on the Courthouse "green,"he gazed
t.linncrhtfnllV tllO tl-nrulc el-i-r+in rr +V10
western sky, as though catching again
in memory's eye the glimmer of hostile
banners through the trees?"I remember
as though yesterday the day when
the Army of Is-or them Virginia passed
into liistury. There were few men in
Appomattox that spring. Some were
with Lee around Richmond, others with
Joe Johnston in the South,, and others
again were sleeping on the fields of
Gettysburg, Antietam and Chancpllorsville.
There were anxious wives,
broken-hearted widows and childlcss
mothers among us, and the few who remained
could easily see the dark clouds
gathering closer over the Confederacy.
Lee, driven out of Richmond and uprooted
from Petersburg, was hurrying I
his weary troops toward the western
mountains, witli the sleuth-hounds of
Grant and Sheridan pressing hard behind.
On Saturday morning, April 8, a
few stragglers reached Appomattox with
the information that Lee was close at
hand, while terrified cp.v?jfcr.v people
from the -est cai.ic in with .the intelligence
that Sheriian had come up the
railroad trade and was across the road in
Lee s front. In the afternoon Loo arrived
and encased on the brow of a
hill aVion r, 21 mill' from +mvn A limit
half-way between, through a fertile
meadow, runs Appomattox Creek, crossing
the road near an old apple orchard."
A COUNCIL OF WAR.
"I went into the Confederate camp
that night and learned from on officer
that a council of Trar had just been hold
i by General Lee and his generals, at
which it was deeded that if Sheridan's
cavalry was the only obstruction in front
an attempt would be made early the next
morning to cut through, but it' Ord's
infantry bhould arrive during the night
there would be nothing'left but surren;
der. Lee's pickets had been thrown
through and about a mile west of the
town, and a sharp encounter occurred
about dusk between them and the 15th
I New York cavalry*. The picket line fell
! back through the town, followed hard
I 1 . T -? - 1 . . I ' 11
uy me enemy, ana it was m leauing ims
pursuit that the commander of the cavalry,
Lieutenant Colonel Eoot, was killed
~'in the centre of the village. This was
the last life lost at Appomattox. On
Sunday morning a battery was planted
in my yard one hundred yards from the
Courthouse, and an artillery duel with
ihe Federals began. From this batten*
' . 1 ? i i ,i * "r>
me last snots were nreci. by tne Army 01
Northern Virginia. About 9 o'clock thr-.t
Sunday morning word "was brought
General Lee, who had ridden up under
one ox the apple trees on the banks of
the creek, that the infantry was in his
r/ont j:vcral thousand strong. Accordto
the decision of the council the
night before, he immediately sent forward
from this point the flag of truce.
This was th6 only part played in the
closing drama of the war by the famous
'apple tree of Appomattox." General
Lee and General Grant never met under
its boughs; in fact, the latter never got
vri':hin two hundred yards of the apple
tree. He rode through the village about
Ci. ~ xl e a. ^ __ i. ^
i iiu jiuur uiter wie nag ui truce entered
liis lines, and was met by General Lee
on the brow of a bill, half way between
the town and the apple orchard. Here
the two chieftains conversed awhile, then
turned and rode together into the town."
THE SURRENDER.
"Meeting Mr. Wilmer McLean in
front of the Courthouse, General Lee
asked him where they could do some
writing, and the party was escorted by
tha.t gentleman to his own house, where,
in the parlor, the articles of -capitulation
were drawn up and signed An hour or
so later General Lee passed me on his
return to camp. He was alone, and rode
slowly and thoughtfully, his head bowed
upon his breast, as though in deep |
thought. He did not seem depressed, j
but looked Jjke one who, while conscious
of leaving done his best, had been compelled
to submit to the inevitable, feeling'at
the same time the terrible importance
of the step he had taken. Alter
the surrender both generals retired to
their respective headquarters, and, if I
mistake not, neither came into town
again. Both, I think, left on Tuesday,
General Grant leaving General Gibbon
to complete the surrender and parole
officers and men."
During Colonel Peers's narrative lie
poinied out many points of interest.
The "spot where the two great leaders
met is marked bv n nilp of stones. wliilfi
nearly a mile up the road, on the brow
of the hill, stands the solitary poplar '
under which the Confederate command- !
er stood while delivering his 1'urewell :
address to his troops. '
The MbLean house, where the articles '
of surrender were signed, is a long, com- j
fortable-looking, red brick dwelling, 1
with a porch running its entire length. '
Over the parlor door hangs a picture of J
the ltoom, representing ifc when the
art;r?if being signed. '
Mr. Wilmer McLean, who owned the 1
house at the time, was a refugee from j
the first battle of Manassas, bringing his '
family here to escape the horrors of wai. f
In 1869 the old place passed into the 1
hands of Mr. N. H. Eagland, its present I ;
owner. His son, Mr. T. T. Eagland, is
a merchant and postmaster in the vii- *
lage. < i 1
The only vtime when tlic town awake/
to any degree of life is on Court days. J
They are periods of great interest to the (
Virginia farmers and people flock to '
town from far and near. Two resident 1
lawyers transact the local Court business 1
and the Judge of the County Court is ;
allowed to practice before the Circuit ^
Court.
A strong effort is being made to have tlie
Courthouse and jail removed to Ap- >
pomattox Station, three miles distant. '
This place contains more inhabitants '
than its sister town and is growing as J
rapidly as the average interior Virginia
town. Then several brands of whiskey 1
are sold here. The country surrounding 3
Appomattox Courthouse is' poor and tui- '
inviting and there is little to attract 1
strangers save its rich mine of historic
interest. 1
Split Ten-Dollar ."Vote*. !
A new departure in the matter of ]
counterfeiting money was brought to j
light at the United States Sub-Treasury
in Baltimore a few days ago. A somewhat
worn ten-dollar Government bill
was presented at the cashier's window
with a request for change, which was ;
given. Tiie note was sent to Washing- ,
ton as mutilated currency, and was re
turned with the information that one
side of the note was good, but the ther ]
side wus a well executed counterfeit of <
the original. It was found that a genu- <
ine ten-dollar bill had been split, the ;
face being separated from the back, a
seemingly impossible undertaking. The
original fa/;C with a counterfeit back had ,
been used, and it is quite likely that the .
genuine back with a well executed counterfeit
face has been passed in some ,
other quarter. More recently another
ten-dollar "front" wr.u presented at the ,
T.'ir.rln-a- u-i+.h a similar reniiest
for change. The clerk at the window,
suspecting the bill, tokl the man who
handed it in to wait a moment until he
consulted Dr. Bishop, the Sub-Treasurer.
Dr. Bishop recognized in the note the
familiar game, and paid it was worth iust
So. When the clerk returned to the
window the man had left without waiting
for his change.' ' The Sub-Treasury,
wliich was out ?5 on the first transaction,
tvc ? pvpnod nr> l->v+1i<v<5fv>r>v.rr?"Rn.1timore
v "J ? ?
Sun.
?General Boulanger, desiring to secure
from the French government an
appropriation for new explosive bombs,
recently invitee the Budget Committee
to witness the experiments he f.'as carrying
on in private. The experiments he
was parrying on in private. The experiment,
is made with a monster mortar, for
the destruction of fortilications; the missile
explodes with exceedingly destructive
effect. It is charged with a new explosive.
of whose composition Boulanger
and liis associates alone possess the I
secret. The compound, however, is ad-1
initted to have all the power* ryi
cotton with none of ?t? ^eleois, and is
said, in r.dd'itlan, (0 be easily Transportable
UY.-1 free from liability tu spontaneous
ignition. It is stilted that fhe ,
budget and committee v?rr v,..t onlv
highly satislM ;;r.w? . i&we'J, out promised
?foly support the General's uef
nr>5i.ri(1 tVvr n. 1 arcro crwinl jrnnmriripf.iort.
< i
j ?At ^ Montreal Knights of Labor j
picnic at Onnstown, Que., one married '
couple brought their fourteen children ,
on the grounds. The judges charged j
with the dnty of giving a prize to the I
largest; family present thought more j
than fourteen children ought to have:
been there with some couple, and adver- j
tised for parents who had beaten that |
show.
. SteakholdcTS?Butfhors.
[ clp!:> riii; railway dei-ahtmext
; Hi* 3* t!:c ."tiraiis of Htrformia;; a Bright Youns
Men ns:J s Prett\ tiir! Happy.
(riom the Vashin^n II -publican.)
J t;Thc life o- a government clerk is at
j best a monotonous one, as in nearly all
i the departments, the clerks have the same
routine work day after day," said a venerabie
Treasury clerk, "and wlien there
is a bit of gossip to relieve the monotony
of his life it is taken up with a relish and
retold till it blossoms out in many different
forms."
j "What is disturbing the monotony
I now?" inquired the reporter.
I "Well, I a:n getting to that. Six
I years ago last March a bright- eved, rosycheeked
young fellow of twenty-two received
an appointment through political
influence in the division I an employed
in. You know that was before the days
of civil service reform. Jie was quick
and intelligent and it was not long before
he was as familiar with the work as
the oldest clerk in the office. For a week
or so he was a most efficient clerk and
alwavs on time. With sorrow I began
to notice that lie was becoming dissipated;
that liis work was behind, and
instead of the frank, independent expression
that he had when he came in
the office was a careless, devil-may-care
sort of a look. I remonstrated with him
and told him he would be dismissed, and
justly, too, if he did not shake the companions
he was associating with.
'His only reply would be: 'I can take
care of myself; you needn't fret about
me.' His downfall didn't surprise me
mucii, lor 1 nan seen a numoeroi young
men go just liis way who had come in
the departments honest, sober young
fellows, and leave it broken down in
health, and careless as to how they made
their living. Things went 011 tins way
until the present administration came
into power, and the heads of the different
bureaus were changed. Consequently
a great number of new clerks came in.
Among these was a pretty young lady
with large brown eyes and a fascinating
smile. The clerks, both male and female,
immediately took took to her, and she
became a general favorite. The young
men in the office never lost an opportunity
to have a few minutes' chat with
her. but that is as far as it ever went.
Though she treated all pleasantly none
were ever invited to call on her. The
young fellow I spoke about had gotten
so that he seldom had anything to say
to any one. I11 the course of time he
made the acquaintance of the pretty
young clerk, and that evening one of
the older ladies, with the best intentions
in the world, told the young lady not to
get too intimate with that man, as he
was considered a 'rounder,' or in other
words, dissipated.
' She said she liked him and thought
there was a great deal of good in him if
lie had the proper encouragement. He
seemed to be a gentleman and tnat it lie :
.lid anything wrong it was only through <
carelessness. Alter this the two young
people were together constantly when
aot at the office and a most wonderful
i-hange came over him. He stopped
Irinking, attended to his work with a i
crill and when not somewhere with her
'A an evening stayed in his room and
read. I was pleased to note the change
xnd knew that all would come out well. 2
She had only been in the office about 1
six months when he came to me one day J
rod said he was going to resign, as his '
salary was not sufficient to support a <
ivife as he would like to, and that he had 1
secured a j^ositi n as book-keeper in a
tvliolesale grocery house in New York. 1
re went away and I heard nothing from '
jLi.cn. We often spoke of him at the ]
office, but no one ever dared ask the roung
lady clerk about him, for they re- 1
membered how she went for the old iadv '
ivlio spoke of him to her. Several weeks 1
jinee 1 was surprised when the young 1
.adv came to me, as the youns; man bad 1
ijcfore, and said she v.ould be pleased if i
[ would send her resignation to the J
Secretary. I asked her jokingly if she 1
tvas going: to be married. She blushingy
admitted she was, but would not say
;o A'hom. I suspected and felt pleased,
rhis morning she and her husband called
to see me, and it proved to be the young
man I suspected. He told me that he
iiad been very fortunate since leaving
-lie office, and was now head book-keeper
for the concern to which he went from
the department, and attributed all his
success to the pretty young bride at his
side. They left this" evening for New
i'ork, where henceforth will be their
home. It does my heart good to see a
marriage like that." !
Kin?Inc><i t?
?iSeuex,"ina communication to the '
Barnesville, Ga., Gazette, says: "Edgar |
Jet" never wrote a truer sentence than
when lie said in the Gazette last week
"No, we are not good enough to our
liorses and mules; if WS could show to
them more kindness, they might return
'o us more gentleness." And he might
have added, and more obedience and
better service. A horse, kindly treated,
will obey his -master in anything that he
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JUU uiiucx^tituu, ituu nu \y iiuii^
and better able to rendev. good and satis- :
factory qe~vip8 when be is well fed and
pared for una kindly spoken to than
when be is half starved, either for food
or water or both, and whipped unnecessarily,
and scolded at without cause.
Some men never speak kindly to a horse,
and so never have a kind horse. We
think a horse or a mule, properly treated
and cared lor, instead of being considered
"dead old'' at fifteen would be then
just in his prime, and would do good
work till thirty, if not forty; and if the
law forbidding cruel treatment of domestic
animals was rigidly enforced, we
should have better and cheaper horses
and mule?. But good laws, without virtue
enough in the people to respect
them, are of little avail. Another feature
of the treatment of horses is, that the
man who treats his horse wrong will
not treat his wife right. Let every
young isidy make a note of this fact, and
watch how her sweetheart treats his horse.
?Two young ladies were conversing
in a street car in the high key which the
rumbling of that public conveyance demands
if one wishes to be heard wl$e
the car is in motion. ?t.id one
of them, "the at sister's wedding
i;%c ivher night were just too curious
for anything. Of course we notified
the ncwspapeas that the weddy&g would
take place, but, you believe it, I
one of tiiO'iL. li.-.rrid rf?r>orh'?isi w-all-t./l n-n
ta that night in the parlor nnd ?^ked
her the E.ii?.c.s of the bridesmaids and
lots of other impudent questions. Ma
told hiiu to jr.st step i:it<T the back
kitchen and wait until every had gone
away and she would tell hiiu all about
it.''?Cleveland I\ViinDealer.
A \ illain'a Act Dsirin^ a Political Celebration.
Athkns, Ga., October 7.?Reports have
reached tli- ttanne?- Watchman of an explosion
in Carnesville la-t night. While a
bonfire was burning in the public square,
built by friends of the successful Franklin
county candidates. s<frae one threw a cartridge
or dynamite bomb into the flames.
An explosion followed and Senator-elect
f;cwi-: Davis is; reported seriouslj burl.
'I A FLORIDA HERMIT.
THE VERY STRAXGE ROMANCE THAT
COMES FROM LAKE ELSTIS.
The Remarkable Story of the Lone Fisherman
?A Strange Creature Who Took Delight in
the Fierce Storms of Xight.
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia t-mes.)
Eusns, Fla., September 29.?It was
told me a few nights ago when the beautiful
lake was peopled with shadows and
from the dark-encircling woods came the
plaintive notes of the whip-o'-will.
Eustis is one of a chain of lakes that
have water communication with the outside
world by means of the Ocklawaha
~ri\rc-r TTio loffo-r ic o ncmwcv
stream, hedged by swairp and hammock,
loafing lazily wherever the notion seems
to take it. These lakes are beautiful
clear-W8ter streams, and embellish and
make comfortable the prettiest and most
delightful portion of Florida, the hill
and lake region. The hills sloping down
to these lakes are now dotted with the j
handsome villas and thrifty orange |
groves of both permanent settlers and
winter residents. Lakes Harris and
Eustis, in the meeting of the waters, are
twin sisters in a realm of beauty. Fishing,
boating and sailing are pleasures
much indulged in by the lake fronters,
and now, with this preface to my
strange, wierd tale, I will proceed.
"Some few years ago, when this country
was sparsely settled and everybody
knew everybody else, much speculation
was excited bv the anoearance of a
stranger upon these lakes. The only
place where he was ever seen, however,
was in his boat fishing or por.ng over
some tattered book. Lake Eustis seemed
to be his favorite resort. Many efforts
were made to attract his attention and
to discover something about him, but
they all failed. He would answer no
questions, nor even look up when he was
addressed. He appeared to be about
seventy years old, of thin, but wiry
-un:?
UUXLU., UJ-o iUlig, VY LLLl/C 11 ail A?JJLULl? vLV/ ? LL
over his shoulders, his long white beard
reaching to his waist. His clothing was
of gray, almost threadbare, neatly patched
in places with what looked to be the
skin of some animal. His boat was a
long canoe, evidently hollowed out of
some tree by his own hands of very
graceful outlines and so light as to be
almost transparent. This he managed
with consummate skill, and when his in
quisitors became too troublesome lie
would speed away from them like some
frightened bird."
A CHILD OF THE NIGHT AND STORil.
"At night this strange creature was
more of a mystery than ever. Then his
canoe was rigged with a homely canvas
and would outsail the fastest craft. The
lovers floating idly on the shining
waves, where the moon showered down
its silver glory, would see off in the distance
the tossing craft of the lienrit. ;
Pleasure boats, merry laden with laughing
youth and maiden, would greet Mm
with song and jest. To ail of these he
made no sign. When the long roll of
the thurider was heard and the storm
king was seen marshaling his black ;
squadrons along the dark horizon all '
dtiier ooars wouia oasn ior me snore,
but lie w&j in his glory then. Those ;
liurrying from the scene, eager to escape .
the storm and danger, would experience .
i strange thrill at the sight of this old .
man, who seemed to revel in the tempest.
His boat would sweep through the
blinding sheets of rain like a meteor, '
sometimes almost disappearing in the ;
trough of the waves, then leaping to
their topmost crests. At these times the ;
iiermit would stand erect, and barebeaded.
in his boat, wildlv sresticulatina. :
sometimes giving vent to shrieks of :
maniacal laughter. Every effort was ;
made to track him to his hiding-place,
but they ai failed. Once, a party who
liad been endeavoring for a long time
to solve the mystery, followed him cautiously,
as he seemed homeward bound
ind unaware of their espionage. He
paddled out of the lake into the river, :
ind when a short distance out, making '
in abrupt 'ram, apparently disappeared
in the saw-grass prairie at the edge. The
tiunung-party could see no tr&co or mm
ind returned to their homes hi greater
bewilderment
A ^eeiv passed and the hermit -was '
still missed upon the lake. Another '
week having passed and still no sign,
the young men who had originally followed
him determined to make a thorough
search. They wye prompted to
this by the coc\erq? feelings of humanity
as \>eU as by ouriosty. He might be
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444 JL iUUUiW a.
Light boat they set out upon their selfimposed
mission. Reaching the point
where he" had disappeared tney pushed
resolutely through the tall parted grass,
and after a short distance, to their astonishment,
th$y came to a narrow branch
or treekj easily navigable to small boats.
Two hundred yards from this point was
a clump ?of hammock, and here their
search ended. The hut was before them.
Tying their boat to a large exposed root,
they gently approached it It was about
eight feet long ar.d Sour feet wide, made
with sat)liner-, thatched with .crass, the
sides covered with dried hides of alligators.
The stench that came from the
interior of the hut was almost overpowering,
Propping the door back with a
pole they looked in. The hermit lay
dead upon the iioor^ his body badly decomposed.
Death had evidently approached
him very suddenly, as las
lingers still held a little memorandum
book which he had been reading. The
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piui/jr wywcu uic uuuv wen ??> tiiuj
could and, tumbling the hut down upon
it, left it to await the final trump.
TEE STOBY OF HIS LIFE.
"From the little book which I saw,"
said the narrator, "for I was one of the
party, we learned the following facts:
The* man supposed to be over seventy
years old was not yet fifty, years ago, a
few miles out of iSavcamah. lived Frank
\Y aiton anq Jitinme o encoat. ine larfcis |
of tlieir parents adjoined; the Vwo '
grown up together. Together tb^y mastered
the intricacies, or the tOnool-booksThey
bercyso plight lovers. He was
tweaW-thre^ "years old; she was barely
seventeen. They were to have married
m dune, Due tne tempest swung i
I tlie piue against the palm. Frank en!
listed in the gallant Bartow's regiment
| and marched gaily to the front. Minnie
! pinned her col OA's on his liat and promised
to V?e faithful to the last, lu tut-1
: spring of 1865, ragged, dirty, half-starved
and penniless, he was paroled and started i
4-s\ dnswrria -f^rv oVioro fVm fnr+nnoc nf
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his ruined peopled. On his arrival in
Savannah he met an old friend iust from :
his former home, and to his eager inquiries
was informed that ^Minnie had been
married about a week before to a young
man who had escaped military duty by
'hiding out'iduring most of the* war. The
news seemed to stun Frank and he turned
away without a word. That night he
disappeaied from friendly sight as effectually
as if he had been swallowed up in
the fathomless ocean. His friends?and
__
lie had a host of them?made every effort
to trace him, but to no avail. He -was
never heard of again until his dead body -?i
was found in the little hut on the Ocklawaha
river. So the evil that women do
lives after them." Hamilton Jay.
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THE VALUE OF TERRACING.
How It is bhov. v. on a Farm in Georgia?Something
for Every Farmer to Kead.
(From ihe Atlanta Constitution.) In
replying to inquiries elsewhere,
mention is made of a recent visit to the ^
fann of Air. Orme, near W. -?.-Pnin^ _
Georgia. It is an historic farm, the first
terracing of land in the manner now so i
generally practiced having been done
there. A former owner observing that an ^
old mnside ditcli run nearly on a level,
and which had become obstructed, filled
up and overgrown with weeds and grass,
had caught the washings from above and
saved the soil, conceived the idea that a
narrow bed or dam run on a level would
do the same thing. He proceeded to
construct some of these, and thinking
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mat liic cuije ui ii i-erxuct: liiurt luaii
three feet liigh would fce very inconvenient
in a field, located them at such I
distances apart that the difference in
level between tvvo successive ones should
be just that amount. Subsequent experience
has shown that he hit upon the
very best distance. When Orme subsequently
purchased the farm, he quickly
perceived the value of the discovery, and
terraced all his land as rapidly as it was
brought into cultivation. The result is
simply marvelous. "Without a hillside
ditch on the place, and entirely through
the agency of terracing, steep hillsides,
which-were formerly deiaced by great
gullies, have changed into smooth, level
terraces, susceptible of highest cultivation.
Where the lines of level had been
correctly run, the results were perfect; J
in a few instances, incorrect running had
caused slight washes. "We saw terraces
which were established some fifteen
years ago. The soil had accumulated on
tlieir upper sides until. the intervening
surface had become almost or quite level,
just as it appears in yards and gardens
where the work is done -with spade and
shovel. " _ j
A little bed along the line of level is
thrown up by two furrows of a large .
plow, the centre of the bed not being
disturbed and remaining nrm.^ This
strip, aoout a loot 'wide under tlie bed, ? ?_ .
is very important, as it prevents the bed.
from being cut through by heavy rains
before the growth of grass and weeds
have strengthened it. To facilitate this
strengthening, grass seed are sown on
the beds as soon as they are thrown upblue
grass perhaps the best for the purpose.
Nothing more is required but to
repair any point through which water
may have cut before the- bed was well
established' mnw rl/Yrm 'xTTTMf
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weeds, bushes or briars that may have
sprung up, and to plow well down to the.
upper edge of the terrace border to keep
it from widening too much. The lower
edge of the border should be kept nicely
trimmed by running the plow near it,
but care should be taken never to undermine
it. If these rules are observed- the
uncultivated terrace boril jr will not ex- T
ceed a foot and a half in horizontal
TT-7 /I til 4-Vr/-\n rrl-> "U ~"U^ ? -?
trAVfcWU.} iVO VCJLlUA^cU. llCl^i-Lll f
reach three feet.
Such is the i^rocess by which a broken,
hilly farm has been held firm against the
ravages of water, and which, by judicious
cultivation and manuring, has been
made one of the most beautiful and valuable
in the country. If the terrace
border or bed can only be held until it
becomes firm and filled witli roots, the
hftttta is term Tf if ic TvHrtfcwi nMrnrrfW
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repair it, and as Mr. Orme's experience
clearly demonstrates, you will finally
succeed. His land is now no more liable
to -wash than the mo?t gently inclined
planes. The manure put upon it is in *
no danger of being carried into the sea.
He holds both soil and manure firmly in
his grasp. Pointing to the soil which
has been held by the terrace border, and
which, in some cases, had accumulated
to the depth of two and a half or three
t'eet, Mr. Grme very pertinently asked:
What would have become of that soil if
only hillside ditches had been present?
Would it not all have been washed into
and carried away by those ditchts? "We
could net answer no. Our faith in terraces
has been greatly strengthened by
inspecting this farm. They have been
tested?tested by prolonged time (fifteen
years), tested on deep declivities and on
gentle inclines, and tested on a variety
of soils; in each and every case the verdict
is, successful
;OH\ A.YD JACOB DYIXG.
The 8 iccessors of the Siamese Twins, a Noted
Pair, on Their Last Legs.
Tlu twins of Locana, who have been
shown in almost every town of Europe
as the successors of the renowned Siamese
twins, are at present dying at Vienna, or
at least are very ill. These twins, now
ageci iu, are umteu irom tiie sixth rib
downward. They have but one abdomen
and a single pair 'of legs. One of these is
under Jacob's control, the other under that
of John. They cannot walk and cannot
easily keep their balance. One is much
stronger and healthier than the other and
eats more; it is Jacob, and he keeps his
brother alive. Some time ago both quarreled
over a toy, and John got so excited
that he fell into a state of syncope or trance,
from which he did not recover till the next
day. He had already had an illness of the
same kind, and Virchow of Berlin had
thot n co/^atirl s\rtn rx?s\nlA lrill
him. This Jacob knew well; so, of course,
the illness of his brother (an apparently
lifeless body) gave him all the more concern,
since "the death of his brother would
but shortly precede his own. The physician
s are doing their best to save the unfortunate
children. Of course, no operation
can be thought cf in the present case..
r.ven m uiai 01 uic ?iamese twins, therewere
great difficulties attending a surgicalintervention;
and. before it was resolved to-,
intervene, death had: Iready done its work.
It the twins recover, ,:.,y will go the States,
where they were engaged, it is said, at the
rate of $0,000 per year; if not, their skeleton
is already promised to a London anatomical
nr seum for ?8,000.?JScieneefor
October.
?Dr. Allen, of Xew ilaysville, Ind.,
uas a wonderful dog. It is a large- black
animal performs its daily \vork with, the
utmost promptness and regularity. This
consists in keeping the kitchen woodbox
tilled. At intervals through the day
it wiii report to the kitchen and view ihe
wood-box. Whenever the supply of
fuel is getting low he proceeds to the
yard, grabs a stick in liis mouth and
takes it to the kitchen, repeating the
operation till the box is tilled ag:iin. It
keeps a special lookout on wash-days,
and at other times when an unusual
quantity of wood is. being used, and
never lets the box get empty as long as
there Is a supply in the vitrei.
The Washington Pod says that General
Miles will soon have an opportunity to explain
his reasons for disolx;ying the orders
of 'the War Department in accepting the
surrender of Geronimo conditionally. A
court of inquiry is to be instituted to decide
whether a court mertial should be ordered.
The Pout says thai General Miles'
report was received with considerable indignation
by the President,
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