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w ? THE ROlUiY XEWSJ (Every SftttirUity ^loniirti; I T W. BEATY, Editor, i ()X K vKAR,i.... $2.00 Si\ Montus^ .. #. fci.Otf All coinmviiinjiiioui sending fo ??rv? if?rivat4> UH?>rent. u iU tnw isburi;)^ lor iui lttlvvi'li>i?ui?n(v* * - 'i Petyr Raymond's Sod. o Twenty years ago Tiior liayuioii 1 .owned u harJ, , stony Jarux eighteen miles front Hhrtfbrd. One4^tfptouibor .evening obout ^ o'clock, ug he returned ' ?oI home irooi a neighbor's ho Gtiddeyly j'e.eolleetvsd tliat he had* left his bridle hanging ou y bar-post by his sheep barn uTion lie turned his old white mare in the pasture that siixeri&aoii, J le sprang over the walj and struck ,? r. I l . i ,U.IU5J| 1UIP, IIW^V11^ Ctxu^c i L U.UIDfU any dy?-inawed bovine should make it ImcviT usleia lyr bridle pmrt poses. A* be W'CW near the burn be rn, thought be beared wico?; inside. What any gno should be there lor bo could not co'Vjjeet ure. lie stepped as lightly as be could on the unm.ov.ved row en i and slippel in behind the big door, which was standing idar and listened, I'll/lip, bis eldest son, wua there, .and Clinton Dexter, a son of a lfrah at whose house bo bad beeu io call. The Jails were about ol an age?both nearJy tilleon. Philip was talking when Jds lather went np to the barn, but lie finished what lie was saying just as JNIr. llayrnond got in position to cateb the words, and young Defterxjou)men<oed to reply,. lie said; "Well, Phil, my fat her is just as inconsi derate as your lather is. 1 don't think he reniojjnjhcrs he evei* was a boy. There is scarcely a day in the year that he does not tide nut?ho tides inorc'n he u&o-d to biuiro he was selectman, and you may bo sure . i hat he a 1 ways has something on hand .to be done, just as your lathe# doea. feonn as the frost is -out of the ground in the spring he tells me before he rides off that I may pick up stones ot spread manure till it is time to milk and fodder* a liliie lat.er jn the season h# tells mo to hoe coin or potatoes, or weed the garden till it is time to get tip the rows: and if ho is at humo when I take t lie pales to go out and milk, be always tells me to be sure and strip the cows clean, just as though he thought 2 would be lazy and dishonest enough to leave hall the milk in their bags if be did not tclj me so; and lie would be just as likely to tell me that before a dozen visitors as any ? makes a fellow li'i'l mi-rlilv i i 11 / < 11 -111 > rt o 1. h> von 1/nniA* - - y ? > Ji) winter I have to chop wood nifwl .of the time thai I sun not at school; and I don't think my father ever feels xpiite satisfied if 1 don't chop quite as much, and hoe a* much, and plow as much as a lull-growu man could do in the same time. I did not know till the olhe day hew it was with you, JMiil. 1 don't wonder that your patience is worn out; and I assure you that 1 am quite as tired ol Jiving in t his way as you ;) re," "1 hesitated a good while, (.'lit,*' Phil replied, "before 1 decided to speak to you about it; but 1 made up my mind in haying time that it wya the last summer I hit 1 should stay at home and help hay it and fare as I did then. Father is always ready to find fault?he generally says when he gets home, 41 don't tjiiek you've hurt yourself wot king to-day, Philip]' And sometimes he ask me it my hack dosetft ache, I've chopped so much or hood so much; and no matter it I work as hard ;\s I can from sunrise till sundown, I never hear anything more encouraging? never get one word of praise. I feci sorry to cleat* out on mother'*} Account. I love her, for I bcljeye she loves me; but if' father loves nm he never shows it ? never speaks a tender or loving word to me. iVly mind is fully made up, ('lint. I am going to 1 un awav; and I want to get oft" tonight. Never mind about your clothes W ?I've g<>t shirts and stockings and handkerchiefs enough put up, and I'll divide with you till we can earn more I.sst week I thought it over, and I thought it would grieve mother so I pretty much decided to give it up; but 1 got so provoked the day that father went to Hartlord I determined I would go anyway. You see, here I've lived ever since I was born, vifdiin eighteen miles of Hartford, but never was there, nor in any other city. I asked father it i might go with him, last Juno when he was going, and he said that I couldon't go very well then, but I should go with him the first timo that he went alter haying, Well when he ee' spoke of going last week, I asked him if he was going to take me along, and he anwered pretty crabbklly, 'Xo sir; pretty tune lor you to think of going when the hired mat) is gone',' I. told him that I would get you to come and do the chores, and that you would ho as faithful in doing them as I would he; but he wouldn't hear a word about it. I didn't tyei light hearted after he was gone, hut^tr-ied to brave it out t he best I cop,'I*; and I worked hard all day. That afternoon was a dark, / liiliiltr n ft on ftnil T nfrtt nr\ I li? UHV. "I' 1 cows and milked them a litilo earlier than I apposed that I did; hut I don't think the sun was five minutes high when I got the ehroes done, I took the newspaper and pat down in the door, '* so ?rs to ho on hand to tako oar? of the horse when lather came; and I hadn't read a quarter of a column, when ho drove up. Well, as true as I live and eA* breathe, after his promising mc that V 1 should go to Hartford with him tho first time that ho went after haying and . f i I I ^ I ~ ? * 11 1i'" ? VOL.7. . CONW t ' L U "I . ! " * thou breahiug his word., leaving tuo to i ieel disappointed and to work hard all ^ day, the first thing he said to tuo when , lie droy.e up was 4 What are ^'ou sitting ! there a leading lor? why aren't you doing your chores?' It galled, I tell you, but I ic plied as calmly as I could ; that the chore? were all doue, ami he ' said: 4Oh, oh, that i*i it i* it? \ on do the chorea the middle of the niter- j noou v.lieu 1 am gone, and then sit " ll .\lllll ii I . .d U/tl .1 j'1 f I ... ill vAvstrii .hivjl i vau juu: was so confounded cutting, if he liad stuck a ! ^ knife iijto me ho wouldn't, have hurt ; ' nxe any worse. I vowed .liuMJ that 1 ,s j would seo Hartford on my birthday, and I ahull ho much luitakcu it i :uu s riot there .to-jjuonow morning, and il J | my father sees tuo again for one year 1( he'd sec more'it I think he will. 1 will he heix* at the bai n at. just midnight '' My bundle ol elotlies is hero now in r the oal bin. Don't 1 ail to be on time. ' Clint. Wo uiust get to Hartford by * Bunrisu. 1 want to get aiitlle glimpse v of the city bcrfore ijte steamboat goes 1 out. 1 don't know what the fare is to ) New Vork. I doubt if we have money enough to take us there. If we havan'l . 1 we can 8top at eonje of the landing 1 place's on the way." What a variety of feelings Wter (Ivu.yrnond had in the fifteen minutes he stood behind the barn door ami j listened. At first he was so utter ly 1 surprised lie could hardly believe Ins ( own ears; hut as ho took it all in?is he .comprehended what bis son eontemplate^ doing, ho was in high dudgeon; he unconsc'ously closed hi.* teeth ' very lirtnlv and clenched his right fisi tightly, lie could hardly refrain from ' pouncing upon his son then and 'here -N and giving him u sound drubbing, x but he decided that it would be wise * to hear the boys" talk out, and learn ' all their plans, and ?licn eonti<?Mi them. But as Hhilip talked on, J? ivmoiidV teeth were Jess firmly closed,' and when l'hilfpsaid in a halt sad 1 tone, lkI dpyjht it my father loves me at all,'' a do/an different feelings i* - i * str?ve twi' Uin mastcry, "Don't love him?" ho repealed to ' himself, "the ungrateful rascal) JJave * not I betoi scrubbing along savingly ua possible, and privately putting 1 little cuius into the waving bank h> ' that I could send hint away in a * year or two, and give him a In iter chance for an education than J over '' had? Haven't 1 often said to my ' friends that he was one of the most i faithful, trusty boys in the world, and 1 i that I could leave home at any nine, ' day or night, and never worry ah >nt c things as long as he \v:u there to lake l; care? If he docs doubt my !o\c, up | to this time 1 have loved him an 1 ] ' have been proud of him. I haven't i been very demonstrative about it, t > be sure. 1 never thought it wise to | ,J pet and praise children, J'ei haps 1 M have been a little too unsocial and :| alraigbtlacud with him. Maybe I'd : x better not let them know that Jvc heard this talk about their running , " away; but { shall, of course, do some- ; 1 thing to prevent their going, I'll go s up to the house and think over w'utt s course to take." And Deter Hay mom) crept away 1 from the barn as though 'lie were a 1 sueak-ihief, and then hurried home u.^ :l fast as he could, not once thinking of ' his bnddle, lie Mild hardly got suatod 1 in his tisn^l place in the lug armchair ;l before J'hjlip came in. Philip expoc- 1 led his father would eay, gru/Hy; "It. 1 is high time lb;it you were in bud." 1 And so bo was taken by surprise when bis father said, gently; "Won't you hand me the almanac ( before you /sjt dow n, I'liilip?" Philip's mother raised her eyes N i from her Hewing, and glanced at her ' : husband as ihough s];e wondered ' what had called forth such ungual j gentleness. Huyujond Opened the ' 1 almanac at September, and alter i ' glancing down the page, ho turned ! to his wife and asked: "Is to day tin- I I third or fourth Tuesday of the mouth?" ! ' 'The fourth," she replied. "To- j 1 morrow is the last day of tho month." i; "Are you quite sure about 11?" he 1 queried. "It you are correct, I am a :l week behindhand in my reckoning. c I've bad so many things crowded . j upon me lately, I've hardly known j which way lo turn first. I promised 1 ' Mr. SSkidinore that I would take that ' two-year-old heifer away that I v bought ol him before tlie first of Oc- v tober She inuiil bo got home to-mor- 1 1 row." Philip got up to go to bed, Hay- 1 moml said; s 'Don't hurry, Philip; I'm thinking :l i how to get that heifer home. 1 be- :l I lidvn T will t al/o vnn rloti'ii tlwrn uni'lu |IW?V A '? *?? m?VV I V\? ??VM .1 KM V* W \ y in the morning, and leave you to drive ' her up*. It is nine miles there, but J you cun coiue back leisurely and leed ' alongside the road. You'd like it as 1 well as to stay at home and work, ' wouldn't you Philip?" I "Yes, sir." (> Philip replied in an absent-minded > way, lie was in a quandary. Per- I baps he had better stay at home a 1 little longer and see it' things didn't J1 seem more agreeable to htm. Maybe 1 he had judged his father a little too 1 harshly-?Clinton Dexter could come j" to the barn at midnight to meet him, 1 and? I t 3 T3 \// \;H' JL_ .Aai Iiulopoi AYBORO, 8. C.. S Philip was arrested in his eogitaions by his lather saying: 4,1 have so many cures, so many hings to think of, that f can hardly oop track ol my children's ages. 1 oliove, Philip, your birthday coincs ho thirtieth oi September, doceu't, V1> "Yes, sir." 44And so you will be fifteen yours Id to-niorrOw. Well, well, ii does eat all how time tlios. Kitteen yi' iis! i I doesn't seem more than halt that hue since you were a bnhy. Lit me oe. I believe I promised to let you ;o to Hartford tins tall, didn't I? We hall be halt way there when we get 0 f>kidntore\g and seeing to-morrow! ' * h your birthday, perhaps we had bo' - ; er keep on. I don't know an we ; iave any better time to leave. We an take an early start?have break- | asl at hall-pas', live, and get oil' by ix, and by nine, it we have good luek, re shall he there. We can stay there ill three o'clock in the alternoon, and 1 oil wouldn't he late home. It will >e good light to-morrow evening-- ! here is a good moon now. Well, you nay an well go to bed and get all the 1 leep you can. I shall call von aUshmr , 'clock" I'hilip started the second time to go )Ut just as he got his hand 011 the! audi hi.-, lather said: i-Wa<t a minute, 1'inJip. !l you, 1 ral some one to keep your company 1 t'om ?skidm ore's and heij) yon to drive h?' heifer, 1 wouldn't mind staying til nearly night belore we leti the ;ity. J V rJtaps (Minion Oe.Ylcr w.mid >c willing to walk "]? Irotn there with on and ) 1 <-11? drive lu-r, it !m could go | vith us to linrit<nd and spmid the lay. If von thiuk that yon would, | itul \ on would like to have i.im go, 1 'on may run < ver to Mr ! K \tor's and ; ?'ll him that I it is convenient lor him 1 o spare (J iiiton I would Jike to Itave tint go to Hartford with us to-morrow aid walk home from Skidinore's with on in the evening. .And be sure ami ! ell ( tint 011, it'his father consents to' lis going, that we will call for him as arl v as six o'clock.' J'hilip s:>jd; "Yes, sir," and took ip h is it at and went in o the hall; hut M'lofe hi' got t o 1 lie outside door his j allnr callml out*. j "Oik- lIiii?more, Philip. I 1 -it my | >ritlit? haugii g on a bar-post down by In- sheep barn (bis ailcriionn ll von ii : mine back across lots and 1?riu<iT it u|#, i ll siye truing bir ii in i Ik; morning intended getting it uiyscll when I a 111 e botnc from Mr. Dexter,s but i'* lipped my mind. ' Ipickv thing it did," Philip said to limscll as be stepped mil *> 1 the door, dl im had come round tliat way home guess he wouldn't he in quite so jciillo a mood to-night. lie would tnve given mc'llail Columbia' right I ir.d lelit; and ('lint would have tared j vnivc than 1, lor when his lather's! nick is up lie's as savage as a tiger. j strange what has eninc over lather | o-nighl! I noticed that mother was nirprised to see him so much more oeial and gentle llian eomimui. On his way over lo Mr. I )i xler's, >hilj]i had as great a variety ul feelugs and as great a enidli -t Willi thcni is his lather had while standing heumi I lie barn donrj but belore he trot here the summing tip wai- thai he was in ungrateful scamp, ami that his la'ii r was all right; only In? had so many are*; and anxieties that it sometimes,' made him a little stern ami crabbed. Mr. Dexter was always ready to d/lige lib; neighbor lbiynmnd, and he heerl'ully gave his consent to C'iiin oil's going. Clinton did not know vhat to make ol (his sudden turn of iflairs. As he went with Philip to lie door, he. whispered; ' What's up, Phil?? what lias hap' lened?? has your father ton ml out my i l.iug?" "Not a thing?-not a thing,," Philip nirriedjy whispered back. "You Ion I sniinos". t i in. Iie'd be Inkinc us I I t - , - . . 0 I larl ior I, tomorrow, in* had. It's >)1 right, I ill t its i Ik hi rankest tiling lial ever ha|>])(>iii'd ? I'll It'll you all ihout it to-morrow?can't stay long n i o 11 g h now.' UM?\ Kayiiioiid took up a new-paicr and bowed his hcatl over it as soon is hia sou stalled I m Air. Dcxter'sj lull 1 his wile had observed him closely <he would have seen that he did hul rery litile reading, and that there was i troul Jod expression on his eountennice, lie did not raise his eyes I'roiu lie paper when lie heard returning lootiteps, but he listened very intently, 11)<I lie knew that iMiilip stole sollly iin 1 hufried 1 y to the it.ud; end til the iall and opened the chamber door heore he came ovel to the silling room. \ look <>I relief came into his tare and ic straightened upas il a great burden tad been lilted horn him. lie had no lonbt but that the bundle ol clothing iad been brought up Irom the oat-Inn md lelt on the chamber stairs till J'hilp should go to bed. That is what he 11! . II 1 ... i I I . lopeu ins noy wmim <i<> wnen ne a*K- i id him to come around by the barn i:xl get the halter. He had no furth i fear that lie would attempt to give lim i he Hip that night. .Mr. U .yiuond out 1'hil rode up to Mi, DcXiei .*> Uoor or Clinton, tlio next morning, just as he sun was peeping over the hills, it g / ldont /l ournal. VTL'HDAV JUNE 19 i>Wiviiii'?1 ?HMWI wa?ii wwfwr?? wag a? delightful a September mornintj as I hoy could desire. As soon as ! 11?? y were on the road., .Mr. Raymond , Hj?oi: "Now, boys, you must, keep your , .'yes open?see all there is to bo teen, and get all tbe enjoyment out ut going that you can. We don't have holidays wry often, and \.e must make the most of them. l'hiiij) and I have worked pretty hard lately, and 1 guess, i Union, t.Mat you u;iv?. i do- j licve'a play day will do us all good, j I mailt up my mind this morning, to leave all my carts ami business behind nic for once; so you need have no tears it you talk to each other all you please, and ask me as many opiostions as yen wish,'that it will disturb me at all.'* Mr. Ikivtnoml spared no pains to haxcihc boys enjoy their first trip to llart lord. Me called ilu ir attention in 1 everything iliat he thought would in terest. them on the way. llo told j tbt'Dl.who owned such and such u farm ; when! ho Was a boy; what the land j was (wroth an acre then, an I wltal was itmarket value now; who built 1 1 his house and that; and pointed on' where General was born., and where Mod. lived til! lie went to college. ! le was no less painstaking when lliev got to the city. lie took them past Trinity College, the State Mouse, the High School; be pointed out the di tie rent churches, and told them who preached in them; ho went with them to the Anlhcna-uiu ami j spent an houi with ill-Mil there. Sometimes IMiilip looked at ids latli er in dumb bewilderment and wondered if they were really in llnrt lord or it it were all a dream. How social | and interesting his lather was! Me loll as it In* 111a er was acquainted with I him before, Wir.t a delightful time lie would have bad i! be bad not been planning to do so mean a thing. Il his lather knew il, how lie would despise him; ho looked at him so earn cully, sometimes lie was alraid that, he saw guilt 111 his countenance. If lie could only get up the courage he won! I conlos the whole to Ins latherj ji ii'.I implore I lis forgi v en ess. Thim the day vv??rc away, and Philip wak f it sorry when it, was time to start fo;- iioiiir. Alter Mr. Kaymond I "It I In; hit is to Co I Jo w oil with (lie heifer, tlicy talked over the event ol the past l went y-lour hours together, it i it I liny wore liotli very decided! v ol tlie opinion llmt thev had had :x \ ery narrow am! providential escape li'om committing a very, disgriicelul net; iiini they hoth agiccd, al'er a little discussion on t hat point, that thev would nei er divulgo to :i human being that they had ever dreamed ol' r liming a u ay. it, was obcuL hall-past nine when I 'hilip drove the lieiler into?his laihei's haru yard. Alter he had his supper his fat her asked him to step out to the shed ami gel the package Unit was under the wagon seat. \\ hen lie brought it Mr. liaynioud opened it ami look II t<in it 1\\ obst ej 's Unabridged I )ietionaryand sat do w n to his dv sk ami wrole on a fly leal ? "Piesi ined to Philip ('. Itayniond, on his fifteenth birthday, by his alloc,t.ionate lather, Peter Uaymond." And then, wilhonl closing the book, lie passed it to Philip. Philip con hi bear no more, 'lhe lours lit at had eeine to his eyes l wonts times during the day, and as many tinies had lieen forced back now overll ?wed bis eyelids a'.nl ran down his cheeks. lie slaminereil: ?ni ate too kind to me lather. I do not deser \ e t Ids," tkJ>on't deserve it, Philip!' exelaime' Mr. Itayntoml, with mueh appan iti surprise. "I think you'd belter leave that to my jiidgv/m ill. I should like ; to know w hat, hoy d- es deserve kind ; iless Irom his lather, it von don't? It i had a di 7,v\\ sons 1 e.oiihl not ask them to In- more laitlilul and industrious Uian you have been, There, there! don't shed any tears over it?you're 11 red -- bel ter go to I no { as soon as you can, so as to lee I Iresli in the mornings it it is a good day to morrow v. e must ; seen re t ho ro won.' "Thank you, father,' Philip said,! with a quivering voice, and \>cnt im- i med I'll ( 1 v im <ilmr?i ft he li'ii) li.on n' J "l ' little less overcome himself, he wmiM ; I that his father's voice was j slightly shaky, ami ii' lie h id 'o??!<<mI ' hack as he passed i lit ol the Moor he he would h ive seen his latin r 1>rttnii a tear or two l'rom his own e\es. . Henceforth theu* was 1:0 lack of conlideuce, sympathy and affection hetweeii Mr. Raymond and 1'hilip; and ?y reason ol a private interview that Mr. Raymond had with Clinton Rev let's i.tlhei, (Minion's home lile wis mtudi more agreeable than heretofore. Rhilip has always looked back in! his hllcunlh hii'lhday as a remarkable 1 epoch in his lite; and he never ceased ? until bin aged lather recently visited him and heard him speak rat her harshly to his own lit lie son ?-l<> marvel this Wntldei'tiil elliLiitm 11?-\f e.-iino <ivni' ln< ; *r>~ ~ ...... ^ lather, liimsolt, or both, at lint tune. Then his father took him ;uml? and told him the whole story, ami caution* nl him against growing into ihe habit ol speaking that a :?y to his children. "Always remember, lMiilip," he said "that crustiness and harshness are no / Mail ik i?~- - W - - ??, / w y Y* Ak / viw | % v , IST "?. NO. 24. more agreeable to a child's feeling than t,liey arc to a grown person's; and that they aro more likolv to lead any one out ol the right path than into it; and that they never will lor get love.* Timely Farm and Plantation Tuples. Tjhk Da uk Sii?k or j ijk Durruitw.? The prospect is not very cheering just now, it. must be confessed. rho last cotton crop is s*> 1?I and lias not brought much money - or rather, it has no put much money into the pockets of the planters. Our fences are bail ami getting worse; our larui buildings are dilapnialt J; our stock is lean and badly cared for; labor is ^unreliable;" debt and lienes hang hei\ily over us; our lands need manures, but we have no money to buy them ?but we need not go on with the enumeration. There is much unseemly and unnecessary croaking among us, an there always is everywhere; but the cond< lions we have indicated are sad facts 1 with loo many. They are making no progress toward prosperity, hut get- j ting pooler and pooler, year by year. This is the dark side ot' the picture, and it is the only side that many are able to get a glimpse of at present. In HO'ue parts oi the Eolith there ma.y be i few indications ol any change lor the belter, and the croaking we deprecate is scarcely to ho wondered at, ami we are slow to blame those who are running down hill for not seeing those | who are ascend.ng, and not believing it p'?s.>ible to ascend. Tine I JuKiirr Si OK OK THU I'wjtlur.? Tins we lear is loo seldom looked at. Some mav doubt its existence, because llley do not see it. It is as clearly established a fact., however, ns the reverse. It sho wn, first., a slow but.st.eaily progress in both the theory and the practice of fanning in the South; second, that the use of lei lili/.ers, both home made and commercial, is becoming better understood and, as a consequence better results are secured by their application; ihird, that a large and increasing number of tanners are improving instead oi dl'tOVIorat illg their laudc, year by year; lourth, that good farmers (and iheir number in in( re.using) arc making more per aero and more per hand than they did boI're; tilth, thai an increasing unmber ol lurmers are diversifying and planning to diversity their crops; sixth, that that class called (formerly with something like pity mixed with eontempt,) 'Small lanneis," are generally more prosperous than they ever were before, and in a lair way to become large tanners in a legitimate , manner, through a strong healthy grow til in prosperity and wealth. They put their ow n hands to the plow, as occasion requires. J' ii OS J' i. J M IV ('I t I IS S M A I. L I'huiifkuh.?Air. Daniel Dennett, who lias been travelling in Louisiana and Aiississippi, report through Our 1 lo/uc f/ouruul some cases illustrative ol the prosperous condition of tho "small fanners1' or "pinelan I farmers." lie says: "One small pimdaud farmer in* tbrmcd me, that he always makes plenty of corn, pork and hay, and has mad J live bales ol cotton, live hundred pounds each, troni four acres ol pinolaud, by the. use ol home made manure, lie has money to lend, and is not a very hard worker. Another small larmer made, thirty-live bushels of corn Irom three-quarters ol an acre ol manured laud. IJo said three seres ol sueh lami would give him mi ample supply ol corn lor a year, and he would have a surplus. A farmer in the pimdauds, in clearing his land, put the lavish and saplings in the windrows, ami cultivated between. The next year he moved all the wind- j I'D UL'w fioil hnd iii t. ilc/'M vi>ct iiiwl ' 1 ?- J I ploughed in bark, rotten can cm and do- i rayed woikL Ho made a handsome i properly in a lew years, cultivating pim-lands, Another says, ten acres of poor lands to a hand, with plenty ol > leaves, trash, and homo made tcrtili- | zers ploughed in, will produce more corn and cotton than lortv acres as they usually manage these lands. One fa?'uior in the poorest part ot tlwj pinelands has this year the greatest abundance of pork, corn, sweet potatoes, rice, sugar, molnsffcs, iuiIk, butter, fowls, ; eggs, etc,. all produced on his own farm, and he not a man of wealth, or of more than a fair amount of intelligence. He is simply a man of good common sense, and a farmer." The Angora (><?at llu.shicss Looking I p. The introduction of any new industry or any new crop is generally at- : tended with many drawbacks and discouragements, and mere arc always 1 people enough ready to cry out Unit it is a delusion, and a snare, and can [ end only in failure. This is the state of things now in regard to ramie jute, \ silk and mohair. The last named, i ! however, is beginning to show signs ot | having at last got a basis ol an actual | home market and a bona fide demand. Messrs. lla'l & Turney, Jamestown, j N. V., manufacturer* of mohair gbods, are exhibiting samples ol their work, which are said to coinimro favorably ; with the imported fabrics. Being so, they will sell, and the demand lor the lleeco of the Angora goat will increase, Ai) V ) : it T L.s EM EN J> In-an toil at yi.'M | - r Mjnr.ro for fir st, nui ts <-<tttl* I.?: ? ?Hi suh ?*' |iieut tiutorliou. <J?; ineh spue? will coiistiuile a s<|ii.ire w1ici!ht in brevier or ills play ty|u; lcs.< tltu mi Inch tni! In? tor its a s<i tar*. MatH?':< u<>ti?vs fro?. Dentin* aiifl Kunor.il notices fro". Jlc!i'4i6tis iutwi?t*.s it'oiii! square f i. A liberal ?ii-*? ? i?.t will !>? in n'ti t<? tlnw. svlmsi nilvct tisoii.cnt#; ere to b* U ;?t in f? throe months <>i longer. and will at last, k?o tan^ihl i result? fnnr. their labor*. and their faith. It will bo tiio aunt?, tit time, with ramie, jute and ? iIL, Kut'd ( oi/t Tm? i'oxiu Trouble*. (Iai.viwi'on, June b,? A speciiU di>patch t? t e News from lirnwiiHville says: (?en. Fuero, lecentky Ht Monterey, is on his way to \\ .? 1 r??i.t i--r of which lie is to haw command. i l i? foic) includes two tfeg'mcnt* ?>I c.iv iiry with orders to cheek raiding up*?u Texas, (Jeneral Coitions ?> >?:,. v refused to obey the order d. .' .u i<>r lurn to report in pcrs mi at the t .?tt Mexieo. lie sayo h resigned, a ; ' \* now a citizen. i 11 ^ it u n Vh are* c.i < a!aling a petition to the government t? let Cortina* remain in authority m t a**. Iiio 11 ran/lit. The appearance \frhe Texas State to?.ps on the Wio (*:nn In produced great excitement among -'on people on the Mexican side. The ?esidonts of ranches above Ma'ainnu* have organized to resist invasion, and have placed sunti&clb at the crossing of the tiver and roads. The cattle drovers are much utarmcd, and so no prominent oitl/.ene have gone to Matat nor as tor seem it v and protection. / The Jttdiuiis in no llurrv to Hurler away / the HJack Mil*. \f \Y ashi n? ton, June 5.?The Sioux; chiefs lied Cloud and others, held a long and earnest council on Wcdiieftday ( vetting in regard to signing away their hunting privilege in Nebraska lor $25,000, and finally reached the unanimous conclusion that they would, under no circumstances, ( igti until they have consulted the wishes ol their people. They also determined to leave io day for their homes in 1 )akot.t. Yesterday morning tlie commissioner of Indian alVairs h:ui an intorvjow with the chiefs, in which he assured them the secret a rv of the interior regretted that they had declined the pioposition made then:, find s'at..i.i iii . i I'M uiilV lie lUlU CtMUC lO I .. 11?t' IV!l.)lllor proposition, which was that they should lake tho agreement with them and t ?iIK among theinacl ves, one copy at the Spotted I HI ami uiio at tin; Ued Cloud agency, ami that they sign it tho.ro and send it haoU im room an possible. I lo as&uced them that the President saw it was i11k|?o?pousildc tbprcsb hack th? uhrle muu iroiii all that c uiniry <>f tho North 1 'lilt to in Nebraska. The Indian* were asked t<? give r.p a title, which i*t of no I'.tluo to thetu, to tho country hot woo 11 tho North Platte ami the Niobrara rivers, mid in return for it they would get tho right to occupy 4 and live in the 'Country north ot r,ho Niobrara and south ot the Nebraska line?the very country that they are living Lr. uuw and that they desire so much. Duel mill a Suicide. Havana, June 7. ? A duel took place yesterday between J >r. Algernon Sydney Curtis, of New Yoik, ..ml Salvador Oonflronl, a tobacco merchant ?>t Havana and New York. The combatants had been intimate blends for many years and lived together iu New York. Curtis armed here two weeks ug's and was stopping at Cortereal's home, lie stales that yesterday morning he wu> awakened by Oortero&l slapping his lace and' accusing him of improper conduct to his wile. This Curtis denied, and .hoi words ensued, which javultcd in a challenge to liglu and its acceptance. That a Iter r.0011 hoth men proceeded iu earriaoes to the suhnrhs wit limit wit. nesses, and on arriving there dismissed the carriages. Five shots weiie tired hy each oi the contestants, beginning art the distance of twenty h el, and tiring as they advanced. At the tilth discharge Dr. Curtis \vn* serio.a.-.Ky wounded in the hip, and tell to. I lie ground tainting from pain and l<>o> <?t blood. I pon recovering eonseioiisucss he saw Cortereal reload his revolver, place h, at his temple ami, tired, killing himself. Oorturew^s body has been brought to this e.iy. It is thought he believed nis opponent dead, when he knled hiaisell. :>r. Curtis is confined to hi* led by severity ot his w.i?iiirl>, and is uud & police mu'veiiluuce. The Wiunshoro Aocv, in on nni"?iting upon the wish of the (teorgia (\n\stUiUion-tli*t that the Charleston Mercury should lie rev'ued, and tuo assertion of' the Cireouviilo Arcod tli.it only a straight-out democratic liekufc would hereafter receive its support, thus delivers words ot wisdoms "And now a word to the donst'ltftiotudUt. We admit that in journal* ism, as in street cars and omudmscs, there is always room tor one more, and that the M< rcurj was a live, -piey and readable paper. l>ut we want I * A - 1 - * ' no iuon* |>011lio?i suon as tlie Mr cur// used to preach. Tb:it?*tyle ot pwlitioa cost the south about >> t,uiM 1,0.1 and, alt hough .we m ?y nut regivt having oiu'o i'ully tried the wisdom ol it, wo arc not ready u> tiy it again. It is too expensive- iVe can't ntloid to spend money now hs we once did. I.et us rock along slowly ami compromise our po'iiies as we e.i>uij>roiuii?uJL our del is alter the war.