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The Press and Banner ? f ABBEVILLE, f<. C. ^ BILL AKP AT AX ARKANSAS HOTEL. 1 Atlanta Constitution. J It'rf just awful to get along without v money. It looks like the older I get ' the less money I have and the more it 1 takes to get a'oDgacd keep up with the 1 . wants of the family. An old friend told ? rac the olher day that St. Paul made a 5 mistake, cr else the translators did, for * L it was the lack of money that was the L root of all evil and not the love of it; v and he said also that tbe best band to bind the family together \va^ for the old t man to have a good healthy bank ac- b count. A surplus that could be drawn b upon when the children were in need. 1 I don't admit tbe truth of either propo- r sition, but I do say thai money is a good ? thing to have in tho family, and I wish a everybody had a surplus that was hon- a eatlv earned. I would risk _ preacher l on that. I wi<h his salary was $2 000 in o stead of $1,000. v About this time of the year my wife s like a prudent woman, begins to mention g incidentally along the wants of the fami- D ly and how the beds needs refurnishing, s for the sheets are about worn out, and will n be obliged to havo some new blankets, g aud the girls must havo somo wiuter gar- ^ tnentsand tbs whole family will need a shoes, and she winds up by saying "aud ? you need uadfershirts and socks aud a de t .cent suit of winter clothing. You look j right shabby and it don't become you. At your time of life you ought to dress v more like a gentleman. You have worn a those pants until they are right slick and ^ they have drawn up and are baggy at v the knees. I was right ashamed of you c last Sunday." a "I cannot keep up tskh rr.y expenses," j said I, "I owe some money and they are ^ . dunning me pretty bard. I don't know r how we will get along this winter unless j something turns up. Bat I am hopeful j and trusting iu Providence, f or He has g never failed yet." The next mail brought i me letters from Arkansas, inviting me to 7isit Pine Bluff and a fair at Warren ( and offering me $300, and as Mrs. Arp c perused them she said, "Well William, j that is all right. You say mone/ is so tight here you had better accept the offer s and go where it 1*3 loose, but you must ] take care of yourself. You know that t you can't stand what you used to." { So in due time I took the train for t Chattanooga, and it was really a pleasure, t a luxury, to ride on Mr. Thomas's road, r From there I took a sleeper for Memphis t over the Memphis and Charleston rail- t road, and wa3 agreeably surprised io find t how much the road has been improved t since I last traveled over it. We made ( the 300 miles in eleven hours and that is c fa3t enough for anybody. At Memphis a I took the Little Rock train for Brinkley 1 and Pine Bluff. We left the depot at t 7 o'clock p. m., end soon stopped at the t river to wait for the ferryboat. And we g did wait, for the ferryboat was bringing c a circus across, and wo never got off un- I til 9 o'clock. It took U3 another hour to a cross, for the river was very low and they f had to dodge the sandbsra. And when 0 the locomotive backed down to pull us up from the boat it carried up the first i three cars very well; but when it backed ji down to take up the passenger cars and | u had pulled us up about half way an o alarm was given that the headblock of a 6 sleeper was pulling out, aud just such a o rumpus was never heard. "All hands to t the brakes!" somebody cried, and the en- p gine commenced backing, backing, back- r ing, and beforo we knew it we were all ? on the boat again. But I tell you it was C alarming, especially to the sleeper, for if i .that headblock had have pulled out that n tun through the ferryboat and into tho d car would have never stopped until it had c river. I Well, it took another hour to repair the headblock and make tho connections ( Eecure, and at last about 11 o'clock, we ? got off, and then such a road, such a ^ road. It was just a sin for any State to * to aliow such a track to be used. The P csrs actually iumo off of everv trestle, o You can feel the jump and that sway t 8idewi?o like an oscillating engine and c tuove along with the double wabbles. i< Straugx; to say, these trains hardly ever 11 jump the track, and I oan't explain it v unless it is a3 a man said, the track is t straight and the wheels have got used to the bumps and hollows. We wzte> due ^ at Pine Bluff at 1 o'clock, but never got there until daylight, and it wa3 a long and miserable night. "Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morn' ^ ing," and so I went to bed thankful 3nd * relieved aud slept a few hours. The ' Truelock hotel is a good one and I enjoyed it, so when I was ready for break- v fast I took my seat in a luxurious diniogroom and was presented with a gilt edged J jj bill of fare, and I picked out a porter house steak and breakfast bacon, and r sausages, and croam toaat, and eggs a la ji Truelock, and potatoes a la something else, aud coffee, ctc. Thinks I to myself, I'll take a liberal variety and eat what I a like best. I never noticed the little fig- c ures away off oil the margin. I thought j I was iu a hotel, I did. Well, I partook i of the well-cooked viands, and the polite I tirl oHontira tv>iilpr r.tnnfl hv and f?n? ne like I was a prince. When I 1 inished he laid ,i blip of paper by >late and I saw $1.25 marked on it (lain, large Ggures. Then I glanced he gilt edged card and saw the little I ires adjacent to everything I bad crd :d. and I considered mystlf tho injui >er;on. I never eaid anything?no vord?but with lordly mcin I walked o the captain's office and paid the 1 ike a gentleman. But I shall alwi biuk that tho landlord ought to let I ;uests know in some way that ho lod, rou and that other feller feeds you. cnew there was one way to get even w dm, and that was to do without dinr rhich I did. I like Fine Bluff, though I don't i !je pine near the bluff. The pine 1 teen cut down and the bluff caved mt it is a nice, delightful little city 2,000 oi 15,000 pcoplo mostly black s milatto. The town is well laid off a olidly built up, and tho streets pai ,nd the suburban residences spaci< ind homo like. New and handso louses arc going up all the time. 1 treets are crowded with wagons loac nth cotton and tbo negroes throng 1 idewalks and the stores and laugh s pend their money free. A fino-looki aulatto named Wiley Jones owns all I treet car lines and is said to be wort] uartcr of a million, and says he woi ;ive it all to be a white man. He lighly esteemed by the white peo{ ,nd lends all his influence to keep pei ictwecn the races. This county sei hree negroes to the legislature. P. Huff handles more cotton and does m msiness for its siza than any city in I irest; everybody seems to be prosperi ,nd their business increasing. I wan' o see Mr. Howell, one of eight broth pho were raised near Rome, and whoi iow running eignt compresses at ais ct points and have made fortunes. ] >lace of business was pointed onftoi >ut when I called lor Mr. Howell a go laturcd gentleman said bis name \ lowell, but he was not the man 11 ooking for?"You wish to see the Ge ;ia Howell, but I am better stock tl le is; I am from South Carolina." M sverybody here is from Georgia, or Soi Carolina, or Alabama. The native-bi :itizens are very scarce and vi foung. Now if a man can stand the negrc ind face the conflict that may coi ?ine Bluff is a good place for a yoi nan to come and settle down to busin< >ut some thoughtful citizens told me tl here could be no general prosper mtil they got rid of the negro. Th ich lands would never bring a fair urn until a white population cultiva hem. It is all cotton?for miles ale he railroads you see nothing but i sense cotton fields and neero shanti )n these farms there ought to be rail attle, and sheep, and hogs, and frt ,nd there ought to be little thriving i ages with churches aDd schoohouses; 1 here is nothing but miles of cotton s hat i3 badly mixed with weeds a ;rass, for the negroes don't give it 1 me plowing. I have heard that P Jluff was sickly but I saw no signs ol raong her people. I never stood up 1 ore a more healthy lookiDg audience l , more cultured one. And now lam here in Warren, whi s not far from the Louisiana line. I List 100 miles from Pine Bluff and it tc is just thirteen hours to make the t n one of Jay Gould's roads. It took even hcurs to make thirty-eight mi f it and that is the fastest and the oi rain he had on it. But for good co ?l J ruuy v.uu were u^cu iu iuisaiuu ui u oad, I should havo been desperately m La it is, I could see, with fatisfaction, J rould tied in that car and made to r q it every day for a month, Arkan ieeds a railroad commission badly. Goi loes exactly a9 he pleases out here, a ares no more for the comfort of these p )le than he does for a drove of hogs. Warren is in a different count Duly about one third of the populati ire negroes, and they give no trout ?he exhibits at the fair show tl i bite folks run the machinc, and are i iroviug their stock and emulating es ther in raising corn and oats and po oes and hay and fruits of fill kinds. T ountry is filled up with good old-fai Dned, substantial people, who etill 1 ievc in a God and a Providence, and irtue and temperanco and a judgmi o come. Bill Arp ? It is a good rule to pay as you~i >ut some men must be going very slow dey go as they pay. ? A woman at Arumojvj has su er husband for the recovery of 1 also teeth. She bit him and he tc hem away from her, ? A Dexter (Me.) man wants a \ orce from his wife of four weeks gtac ag because ehe refuses to make fi \cks according to his recipe. Mrs. Eastern : My goodness me I am, I see by tho papers that a man I list died aged 118 years. Mr, faster Y7aal, wan't it about time ? ? At a recent Boston weddi ,s the newly-married pair aarching down the aisle, the prgan ilayed for a recessional the well-kno' iymn: "Onward, Christian Soldi klarching on to war/' icd BUFORD'S DEFEAT. lad my Nearly eveiy neighborhood io the upia per Counties of South Carolina is memo at rable oo account cf some tragical affair 6g. which occurred in it during tho years er. 1780 and 1781. Oil the 26th of Dicemre(j ber, 1779, Sir Henry Clinton, with a ,t a corps of more than 8,000 British soldiers, Up well provided with everything necessary jiU for tho efficiency of such a course, clearaya ed the harbor of New York and directed [he bis course towards South Carolina. Four ge3 things?the mildness of the climate, the j richness of the soil, the nearness to ith Georgia, and the distance from General ,eFj Washington?suggested South Carolina | to the British commander as the fittest Bee region, in all North America, in which 3a8 to crush out of existence the rebels jD) against the British government. His of conclusion, judging from the past history in(j of the contest and present condition of ;n(j the colonies, was correct. Tho war of the ,e(j rebellion had been raging, with all the )U8 fierceness, the contending partiesj were me able to effect, for a period of more than '{je four years, and not a single decisive batled tie had been fought. ;hQ The forcea of Sir Henry Clinton, de;D(j signed to operate in the South, were coning voyed by Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot. The iu? vnvflo-fi was not a DrosDerous one. A bUU "J 4. * h a storm scattered tbe fleet; some of the 3ld ships were captured, one ordinance vesjg sel foundered, most of the artillery, and ,]e) all of the cavalry horses perished. It was lce not until near the middle of February 1(jg that the forces were landed and ready for ine action. 0te With prompluess, energy and skill, the he British commander began to exucute the |Dg work which he bad undertaken. The ted country, far and near, was scourcd by er8 armed parties, for the purpose of securing are horses to supply the place of those lost eT_ ou V.h& "voyage. Notwithstanding the many difficulties which beset the British ne> commander on all sides, he began, with 0(j. a large force, the work of throwing up vas redoubts in front of the city of CharlesvaB ton. The siege began on land on the or. night of the 1st of April, the British tan Bhip8 Rosebuck, Richmond, Romulus, Qgt Blonde, Virginia, Raleigh, Sandwich and 2th Renown, closed in upon tbe city, and, 5rn with tbe land forces, cut it off entirely ery from communication with the country at every point, except that which faced the )e8) Cooper river. ne> The American forces were commanded ing by Grigadier General Benjamin Lincoln. 388) (Jo the lUtn or April, tne commanaers 01 hat the British land and naval forces, jointly, ity summoned the American general to sureir render. General Lincoln replied, "Sixty re_ days have passed since it has been known ted that your intentions against this town )0g were hostile, in which time has been afm. forded to abandon it; but duty and incli;e8i nation point to the propriety of supported ing it to the last extremity." lit, On the rejection of the snmmons, the ril- British batteries were opened and a conjut tinual firing kept up until the 12th of >nd May, when the city was surrendered on md the same terms as those offered on the jut 10th of April. ine As Charleston was the largest, and in f it every respect the most important town in je- the State, its capture was regarded by the ior British, aid by many of the inhabitants of the State and a considerable number ich of the inhabitants of Charleston ifrelf, as t is equivalent to the reduction of the whole -'- Ol.'. XT_ 1 OlA inhoM. )0K CUUO. XI U 1C33 tusu UlU U1 buy luuuui rip tants of the city petitioned the commanus der of the British forces to be readmitted lea to the character of British subjects, and aly iu the same petition declared their distil approbation of the doctrine of American iil- independence. Time has dealt gently ad. with this petition and its signers. Both fay have been preserved. ide The fall of Charleston was a terrible 8a3 calamity to the struggling colonies, but J'd ^ was regarded a grand success for the >Dd British. The loss to the Americans, in e0* prisoners alone, was 5,618, besides near 1,000 seamen. That the besieged might rJ- be able to resist the besiegers, all the lon cannon and firearmB of every description >le? in the colony, had been transported to the iat city. All this foil into the hands of the m* British. ich To announce the fall of Charleston, the ta- Earl of Lincoln was sent to Europe. On 'he the reception of the news, all England sh- was jubilant. So soon as Charleston surbe rendered, Sir Henry piinton get about to in establish a civil government in the pity jnt and State. Having reduced, as he supposed, Charleston to a state of subjection to the King of England, he returned to New York, taking with him a part of his '1 army, while the remainder was placed under the command of Cornwallis. Beled fore his departure, Sir Henry Clinton ie* planned three expeditions. One to move '?k up the Savannah Biyer to ^uguata; another to pass through the country tu dU inety-Six; and the Uiird, commanded >d^ by Cornwallis, to pass through the eastip e?n part of tho State in pursuit of Colonel Abraham Buford. It is with this fast l[. that we are present concerned. ias During the siege of Charleston, troops n ; from different sections of the State, and frog; other States, were sent to assist og the besieged in vepsllin^ the assaults of ?re the enemy. The entrance to the c^ty list was, soon after the work of throwing up tvn redoubts was began, entirely cut off. er, Among the troops cut off were those led by Colonel Abranam Buford. The exact umber of his command cannot, t lato day, be ascertained. An ol trustworthy authority says : "It cor of about 300 Continentals, the rear Virginia line." This probably vra ' the nucleus to which many other* ncclod themselves temporarily. ' near Colonel Buford had nppn Charleston is not certain, bat the t bility is that he had reached the i borhood of Monk's Corner. Ou th day of March, Cornwallis began th 6uit of Colonel Buford. With son 1 ficulty he crossed the Santee at La 1 ferry. The difficulty arose from tl that all the ferries on the river hat 1 destroyed by the Americansprobably, by Colonel Buford? seems that Cornwallis learned, on ing the river, on the 22od, that C Buford had left that point ten day vious. Immediately, on getting all his across the Santee, at Laneau'a Cornwallis set out in hot pursuit < ' ford fnllowim* in hio trantr H 27th, tit Nelson's ferry, on the S Corn waliis detached CoIodc! T? with a command consisting of fort] airy?one hundred and thirty of gion; one hundred mounted ini 1 and a three pouuder, to pursu American colonel. The whole fo: Tarleton, exclusive of the three poi was two hundred and seventy, which was either cavalry or mount fantry. The pursuit by this detac began on the 27th of May. Camde reached on the next day. Here Ta learned that Colonel Buford ha Rugeley'a Mill, on the 26tb, an hastening to join a body of troc 1 their way from Salisbury to Cha At two o'clock on the morning i 29th, Tarlet^y^chment wasag - -sriotion. At daylight, Rugely's mi 1 reached, where it was learned the 1 Buford and his command were ab 1 miles distant. ' It is manifest that Oolonel ] thought he was entirely out of d 1 and. as the weather was verv moved forward leisurely. He se< have baited for some daysatCamdi and then went to Rugely's At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of th of May, Tarleton's detachment ov him. At Rugely's Mill, however, ton sent Captain Kinlock to an Oolonel Baford to surrender. T< summons Colonel Bnford retnrni following reply: "I reject yoar sals, and shall defend myself to tl extremity." The place where Tarleton ov Colonel Buford, is about ten miles, road, nearly east from Lancaste County seat of Lancaster County, though it is more than one hundre eleven years since the battle?if bs may be called?was fought, scarce] change has taken place on the ground. The road runs where it die and with the exception of a small ai of undergrowth, the trees which w< silent witnesses of the slaughter, there to day. Th? land nn which Colonel Bufoi defeated, is now the property of R M. Plyer, of Tradesville, a few distant, in a north-eastern din Colonel Tarleton gives a strictly ac description of the battle ground in words: "an open wood." It is, wi exception of a small amount of i growth, an open rood to-day. In full view both of Colonel Ta and Colonel Buford, the advanced of Tarleton captured four Americar were in the rear of their line. Wl or not Colonel Buford had placed vi in bis rear for the purpose of lei the approach of the British is nc tainly known, but it seems that 1 not, and that after receiving the sun to surrender, continued his march, is what Tarl/eton says he did. Immediately on taking four ( Ameriaans prisoners, both Tarleto Buford began to put their forces in tion for action. Tarleton's descripi the order of his own troops and als of Colonel Buford, is perhaps corr is as follows. Of Colonel Buford he "He chose his post in an open wo the right of the road. He foriped 1 fantry in one line, with u small re He placed his colors in the centr he ordered his cannon, bagg3ge aoc gob to continue their march." ( disposition of his own troops, C Tarleton eaya: "He confided his wing, which was composed of sixtj goons and nearly as maqy mount fantry, to Major Cochran, desirioj to dismount the latter to gall the en flank before he moved against their with his cavalry. Captains Corb< Kinlocfe were directed, with the S teenth dragooDS and part of the legi charge Lfce centre of the Amer while Lieutebant-Colonel Tprlcion thirty chosen horse and some fnf assaulted their right flank and rese Such was the order of the battle ol ed by two of tho ^orpqianderg $s ' by Colonel Tarleton, The British commander had rush< detachment forward with great rap having marched 105 miles in 54 1 Hany of the horses had broken do become so tired that tjieir progresi slow. These, with the three poi which was still behind when the pi | battle was arranged, were ordered to it this position, when they arrived, on a small d and eminence which commands the road. I mated Thirf was designed as a rallying point in i of the case of a repute, ".-01011 rarleton seems i s only to bav>*. apprehended. ' i con- The two fare** we-ro viihiii 300 yard* 1 How of other when the arrangement fur i >ached bat tie was mtido by tha British, yet the >roba- Americans did not fire a gnD. As Ht.-on i neigh- as the British commander (501 his forces e 181 b put in position, lie moved forward to the t e pur- attack. When at the distance of 50 yards ! le dif from tbe Atncricnn front, the Continents] neau'B troops prepared to fire, but were com- 1 lefact manded by their officer* to reserve their i beeu fire until the British wem within ten -some, paces When this distance was reached, for it tho Americans fired, but with scarcely , cross any effect. The British closed in on the Lionel command of Buford, and in a few mo , s pre- meuta tho r.ffair ended. I The Americans had more men than the trocpa British, and they w?ro well provided with 1 ferry arms xnd Htnrauiiitioo, but they failed to 1 >f b3 I u?e thorn to any advantage The whole I n the British hss io the linitle whs five killed Jantee, and fourtee n wounded. Th* !'j?s of the irltflnn America us trrriljly great The kill? f eav- ed were one hundred and thirteen; the the le wounded and unable to he moved, one fanlry, hundred and fiftj; aud the pri3<?nerd, fiftye the three. .In all three hundred and sixteen, rce of Tarleton captured three stands of colors, under, two brass six pounders, two royals, two all of wagons with ammunition, one artillery ed iu- forge carl, i;fty five barrels of powder, hment twenty 6ix wagons loaded with new a was clothing, arms, musket cartridges, new irleton cartridges boxes, flints and camp equipd left age. d was The render is, no doubt, ready to say, >ps on this wuh a strarge battle and so it was. rlotte. Colonel Buford seems to have made many of the egregious blunder*. If be had opened ain in hfa^arliljery..aahe was ; T1 was forming bis men for action, the rusult ; it Col. would have been far different-. Many of out 20 those in the command of Colonel Buford were citizens of the Counties of York, Buford Chester and Lancaster, who had gone anger, down to assist io the defense of Charles warm, ton. For safety, they joined; the com;ms to maud of Buford, and while returning en and home many were cat to pieces. , mill. \ye are at a losa to know which to i e 29th cen8Ure most, Colonel Baford for his mis- i ertook management, or Colonel Tarletou for his < Tarle- craelty. It is admitted by the Americana i mmon 80me 0f them laid down their arms, I o this whjie others kept ap an ineffectual fire, i sd the wa8 declared, while the slaughter was propo- gring on, that Tarleton was killed. This . le last incensed the British, and they hewed the ' Americans to pieces without mercy. i ertook qq morn;Dg 0f ^e 30th, those of by the ^merjcan9 wjj0 were 80 badly I f* a i woun^e<^ ^at "were not able to ~ travel, were," Colonel Tarleton says, "pa- 1 . roled and placed at the neighboring plan- 1 16 lfc tations, and in a meeting house not far 1 v anv .. .. .< mL. i J ? > distant irom tne oatueneia. xne 1 battle woan(jed from Cheater County were in a 1 then, ^ayS removed to their homes. On mount thfl way home, however, a number of the Jre wounded became bo weak that they were 0taa(* deposited in Waxhaw Presbyterian Church. Here some died and were burrd was .0(j .Q ^ graveyflrd. ev. P. ^ xhe meeting bouse, not far distant from m.''es fhe battlefield, in which Colonel Tarleton jction. p|ace(j 8ome Qf wounded, was an Ascurate sociate Church within, perhaps, foujr i these hundred yards.of the battle field. The lh l^e probability ia that the spring uaed until jnder ja^ejy jjy Mr. S. E. Usher was the meeting house spring. This meetiDg house ,r^0tOD was also called Wa^haw, and so was tbg guard wjj0je COuntry from a short distance north is who oj. oam(jen. The meeting house, not far betber jj8tant from the battle field, was one of idettes piaceB which Rev. Thomas Clark, iTDWS m. D., preached as early as 1769. Some >t cer- 0? famjjiea w|th whom the wounded 16 ^ere placed by Tarleton, were Usher, imona Bart]ey> Montgomery, EJelson, Porter, Galloway, Carnes, and others forgotten. )f the Thirty-five or forty years ago, a plain < n an#d marble monument, seven and a half feet 1 poai-^ high and eighteen inches square at thg i tion of kfl80^ wag erecte(j to tjje raemory 0f thotie i 0 Americans who fell in the battle, and a ^ 89 rode wall of flint stones placed around 8?y8: the grave in which eighty-four of them od, to were Varied. On the east side of this 1131D" monumental shaft is the following inl8erv^ scrlptlon ; fl e, and "Nearly the entire command of Col. 1 wag- Buford were either killed or wounded. c )f the ga]]ant soldiers are buried in this ' ? . ? grave. They left their homes for the re- ] "ght iief 0f Charleston, Jwt hearing, at Cam- * 7 ra" den, of the surrender of the city, were !n" returning. IJere their liyes were ended 1 * , in the service of their country.'' emy's n , ?ronj On the South side is inscribed s ;t and "Erected to the memory and in the a even- boaor of the brave and patriotic Ameri- j, on, to can soldiers who fell in the battle which <j icans, occurred at this place on the 29th of 7 May, 1780, between Colonel Abraham r, antry, ^uford, who commanded a regiment of j( rves." $50 Virginians, and Colonel Tarfetoh, of aserv- the British army, with 350 cavalry au(J a a stated like number of infantry." c, Tbo inscription qn tip Eorth side is; J fe ;d his "The cruel and barbarous m^acre s< idity, committed on this occasion by Tarletoq g< lours. and his command, after the surrender of dl tvn or Colonel Buford and his regiment, origi- et 3 was nated the American war cry: 'Remember w jnder Tarleton.'s <juarters.' A British histo- y< an of rian confesses at this battle, 'the virtue "j ' take of humanity was totally forgot.*di f , Cr-'^y' Some of the statements contained in inscription- varv fu>'n\ the "thfccloen'.js uiuHi! .' } b-.'ii "tvi British hinloPiNii-.. E j li t.t'v !}.?' i.u'fi?>?*r i?f rxrie^'nj- f<-rct*? *z~ tff-n'v srhilo th.-i--* i ?. Tim ui!Wa?!r? <?l I>uf ?r.i'rt >W?i *r<>usinn Scotch lri??i ."tttlerN of Ohfaf.er, Y'uk *i)d Lancasi?r, and th? r*s;;it whj tlmt ilie British werr defeated a* Wii-. . liaiORoiiV, King'n Mountain, U;e Cowpeu snd Yorktown.?R. Lathan. in Yorkville Enquirer. Dynamite Plowing. Subsoiiiug wii!) dynamite ia tbe iHlest F.dvsnc3 in scientific agriculture. Mr. D. U. i5!oan, of Atlanta, has invented a method by which tbe hard groucd may be broken up to a depth of two or three feet at a cost of $25 an acre. Thin worir, be claims, is equal to the pr<C"M-? of "treucbing" u<ed by market gardener* to locsen the earth to a depth of two or three feet. Ground prepared in this way will aWrb a great deal of water and sustain vegetation iuxurixafiy through a protracted drought. It will aUo receive and assimilate several times the quantities of fertilizers taken by the soil plowed to the usual depth, and, eoricbed to its full capacity, will sustain much heavier crops. It is possible in this way to make five bales of c<>tton 01 250 bushels of corn to the acre. This has been demonstrated by the actual achievement of these results. The great trouble heretofore has, been the enormous expense of trenching ground. As done by market gardeners, the work costs about gne. thousand six hundred dollar an acre. Consequently, - i but small iTtr.uo treau^ Mr. Sloan proposes to do tb*?a?ne wdrk<.&*3S $25 an acre, and so make intensive fanning so economical that it will become the fashion, and the old sarface scratching will Le discarded. . . His plan in brief is to drill holes two to tbree feet deep and five feet apart, making 1,600 to the acre. In each he puts an explosive, and, after tamping, , sets off tbe charge. When properly arranged, the explosivo will disturb the Burface of the ground very little but will crack and pulverize in every direction to n ilidtannA r\ t f rrr r\ ?> (UvnA fnflf ailAAV^inA a uintauic ui VTTU UI LUICC icuv, avwiuiug to the depth aud quantity of explosive used. Yesterday afternoon, at 3.30 o'clock, Mr. Charles L. Patterson and Mr. J. 0. rburman, representing the Refaano Chemical Company, arranged explosives x . in twenty-eight boles dug in Mr. Sloan's garden, in rear of his residence, at 15 East Mitchell street. The plat was 25x40 feet and the holes were two feet deep. In each was one-fourth of a small sized dynamite cartridge with about an junce of Jndson powder. Attached to in electric fuse, these cartridges, planted L /..i J - ~ - ,wo ieei ueep, were expiuucu uy uiuaua >f a wire communicating with 8 battery. There was a dull, rumbling, smothered roar, aud the whole surface of the ground appeared to be lifted two or three ieet, while a few email clods sailed above he housetops. When the smoke cleared away it was ' found that the ground was broken to the lepth of thirty inches at the points of jxplosion, and broken sideways fof 9 jart of the distance between the holes rhe plat eras estimated one-fortieth of in acre and the c>st of the explosions in ;wenty eight holes was 75 cents, including two hours labor In drilling the holes, Mr. Patterson said it was only a quegT :ion of experiment to see just how much oowder to use, and at what depth?two eet or more?to place it to make it pulverize all the ground between the holes. He offers to take contracts to break ind pulverize the ground two feetdee^ or $2$ an acre. Mr. moan Das Died g caveat iur a paisnt and Mr. Pat Calhoun, who is now i|i kVaahingtoD, will look after the patent* ng of the mention?A,tlanta Comtiiiir kfk Onions. On a Hnu T was tflfeftn with chills and leadache. My quinine box was empty, . ind I was looking forward to a restless light. In desperation I peeled a raw mion and ate it slowly, then went to bed, vith warm feet and an extra quilt. I ras asleep in five minutes, and awakened n the morning quite well. Our bomely iut strong friend will be appreciated in ime as 9 taedicine, and if agriculturist^ could turn their attention to raising a aodel onion, with the strong scent taken ut that taints the breath so yqpleasntly, families will be putting such pills ato the cellar by the barrel, and the octors would take to onion farming, 'he onions aeta as a cathartic and diu3tic, and may help to break npa cold or >ssen the bad symptoms. A doctor says: "I always store a barrel of oniojjs jtj iy cellar in the fall. We have them joked twice a week, and whoever of the imily is threatened with a cold eats )mc oniqns raw- If this vegetable wfl# snerally eaten raw there would bp nq Iphtheria, gout, rheumatism, kidney or omach troubles. I know the young omen are afraid to cat them. One Dung man went so far as to say to me: [f my wife ate onions I would get a ivorce the same day "?Selected,