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lilil?. CM ike night the day, thon can'et not then he Jahc to any man.'* VOL. IV..NO. 33 O Ommuiiioations. CONSTITUTION p? TUE ? . Agricultural and Mechanical Society OF OCONEB COUNTY. ARTICLE I. Thia Sooiety shall bo known nnd designated aa tho " AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY " of Oconco. AHT. II. Tiio objects of tho Society shall lae promotion and improvement of tho Agri cultural and Mcohauicul interest* of the HJounty. ART. III. Tho ofllccrs of tho Society shull 'Can&ifit of a Presidont, eight Vioc-Presidonts, ?ono from each Township ; Treasurer, Sec oetary, Corresponding S e c r o tary ; and au Skecutivo Committeo of Seven, of which ?the President, Secretary, and- <Jorrenpondiug iSeoretary, shall be cx-officto members. Three .ball constitute a quorum of the Executive Committee /ART. IV. At all thc meetings of tho Socio ?ty ?the President shall preside, preserve order, .-0*11 exercise tho usual duties of that oHice. All motions shall be addressed to him, and )ie shall collect and declare tho votes on all .questions brought boforo the Society. Ho ratall havo powor to call Special Meetings by .piting notico through 'tho Oounty paper for (two weeks. In his absence, tho Senior Vice tPresidcnt present shull exercise thc name pow .ero. v ART. V. It ?hall bo the duty of thc Secro Aaryand Treasurer to attend all meetings of ?bj Society, to keep a record of thc proceed* iuejs, to receive all monies due or coming to the Society, and disburse tho sumo under tho ordor of tho Executive Committee, who shall re?ort at each quarterly meeting of the Socio ty?n exhibit of its disbursements and other proceedings. The Corresponding Secretury ?hall have in ohargc ull letters addressed to the Society, ami answer the same under its dircotion ; which letters and answers bc shall keep regularly filed. ART. VI. It shall bc thc duty of the Ex ecutive Committee to execute ali business .oa?dcd to it by thc Society, to prepare list?s of premiums to bc uwarded for thc various erupa and agricultural productions, for new inventions in machinery, and Tor improved stock ; to bring to tho notico of tho Society a neb improved labor-saving machines und ag ricultural implements us they "may recom mend for thc uso of the members thereof; mid from time to time, ut their discretion, shall pur-chase with tho funds of tho Society suob as they may think advisable, aud if by actual ?sortaient, tho oommittee aro satisfied of '-?their aucocasful operation, they shall recom mend 'them to hn awarded as premiums ; nnd, if ?ot satisfied of thoir utility, resell them TX,. the beuefit of tho Society. It shall bd their duty to tnako the necessary arrangements for the regular meetings of the Sooiety,-provide a suitable piuco of meeting, and muko arrunge mebte for tho dolivory of tho annual address ea, to superintend tho annual oxhibition, and prepare and digest business for tho Sooiety at ita regular meetings ; and it shall also be th air duty to attood to all business of the So elefy pot eapeoially entrusted to other Com mittccs. . Ant. VII. No.person shall bocomp a mein ber uniese reported by tho committee on Mom beridup, and rcooived by tho Sooiety. Per norn: becoming members shull pay fifty couts initiation foo, ut^d signing tho Constitution, .nd tho further payment of auoh sum annuul ly aa the Society by a majority of its mem bers present at any regular meeting shull di ront. ?nd any member shall havo thc privilege of withdrawing at any timo on giving notice* to Uko. Soeretary and Treasurer, and paying mp ail arre?r?g?h. .ART. VIII. Tho regular meetings of tlic ?ooicty ehalte^follows, to wit-t j^tfho reg ulier annual meeting to bo hold on tho last Thuvre?ay io Ootobor in! each year, and quar terly meetings to bo held on tho last Satur ?days'tn la?uary, April and July. At tho an nua? .uuvYting, officers of tho Sooloty ?hull bo ' ?elected tor tho succeeding your. An annual address ?halt be delivered upon agriculture or BOmo kindred! eubjoot j and, unless otherwise provided, the annual exhibition? of livo stook, productions of tho farm, dairy, and tarden, ' -oved implements of husbandry, ?har ffWlWpiv. . -niumsto auocossful lineo Ufte fim, ??<i P""- Ak ii; ?eoipetftora sholl foo '?ifaydod, &0, W.T quarterly meetings suoh bruces ah?H M irauaaotea as sholl bo submitted hy tba B? esutlfo. Committeo, or any member of t)|e So 0)0ttf, i^RT. IX. Thia. 'Constitution abell bo el i?red or*mp?4od only at thc regular quarter ly meetings nf the Sooiety, by ? two third .Bft?rity of tho voie? oast. Snob aUoratiq J^rtg baeo proprio^ ??4 tho^roposat entr, od on the Minutes at tho stated meeting pre ceding. OFFICERS OF TUB SOCIETY. Pretidc.nl-E. P. Vor ncr. Vice-Presidents-Wteener Township-M. C. Weudelken. Ghattuga-Abel Robin?. White'Water-Stm?ol Lo vi o good, i Pttloski-Wm. D Dcaton, Tugolo-r-O. L. Hollingsworth. Conter-Dr. W. R. Harbin. Seneca-J. W. Livingston. Kcowoe-James T. Reid. Seorotary-Rob't A. Thompson. Corresponding Secretary-Wm. C. Keith. Treasurer J. R. Shclor. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Janies II. Whitoor, Jno. W. Shclor, Wm. A. Lay, M. F. Mitchell, Wm. C. Keith,*R A. Thompson, E. P. Vernor. V AKIET Y The Chinaman Tho fi New York Sun " has thc following on thc question " Cnn a Chiuuman bo belief ed on Oath :" " Now your Ohinainnn ia a fearful idolator," a heathen of thc heathen, a worshipper of Joss, His scheme of salvation is a simple ouc. He construes u hideous Jim Crow out of bamboo ; this he bhiokens, puts in glu?* bends for eyes, sets it up in a temple, and culls it thc devil-whioh is the only gloain of intelligence shown io thc whole proceeding.' Then poor John Chinaman goes down upon his marrow bones before his bamboo affair und wallows upon the ground in an ccstuoy of adoration. Whut is to bo done with such a creature .as this when bo comes into a Co^rt of justice lo tell thc truth, the whole truth, and nothing but thc truth ?. It is < f no use to swear him on tho four Evangelists. You might as well swear him by Ap'/llo, God of Music, or Thor, God of Thunder, or Hamlet, King of Doo mark He would take ult three oaths, and then lie. Thc ingenious judiciary of Idaho, however, have fixed him Thoy huvc dived into thc philosophy of Confucius, into the holy books of Lac-tse, info the Chang Lung of tho Buddhists.** Thoy have found timi an oath accompanied with tho proper Chinese ceremonies will strike terror into tho inmost heart of tho native of tho Flowery Kingdom j that though ho may make light of the Christian Scriptures, burnt paper and a dead rooster will wring the very truth from his secret soul. When therefore, tho case of Ah Choy and Ah Sum, charged with the mur der of Ah Son, was culled the other duy at Silver City, and ten Chinamen came forward to testify in thc matter, a most singular scene occurred : . Pring mo a rooster, a saucer, and some yellow tissue paper,' quoth the mag istrate, ! and prepare the Mcrlfioiul kuife.' Thu Sheriff did his duty and unsheathed hin l owie. Tho jurat was written upou tho yel low paper, a match applied, sud tho oath float in a l?lt?0 cloud of smoko, a testa mentary witness to Wo v. . u ,.ft. rooster s head, with a squeak of romoustranuc from tho unhappy biped, the suuuor waa dashed upon thu ground and broken into bits, typical of what would happen to John China man if he told a lie, and tho first wituuss was duolarcd duly sworn. The ceremony waa io puatcd with every witness? Ten roosters died under tho sheriff's knife, that ten Chinamen might tell thc truth ; ten bits of yellow paper burst into blaze ; teu good wbito snuocrs be came brokeu orookory." A CtmtouB discovery has boco made re cently at Pompeii. In a house in course of j I excavation un u?en wan fouud, closed with an iron door, on opening whioh, a butch of eighty ono loavta, put in nearly eighteen hundred yours ago, und now, somewhat over done, was dh-covered j and oven the largo iron Hbo vol with-whioh they had been neatly laid in rows. Thc loaves, woro but slightly uverbaked by the lava heat, having been pro tected by a quantity of ashes covering tho door. There is no bakor's mark on ?ho loaves ; they aro circu?-ir, about nine inohos ia diameter, rather flat, and indented (evi dently with th?? bakor'a elbow) in tho oed ter, and aro slightly raised at tho sides, and divi ded by eight lines radiating from the center iuto.oight segments. Thoy are now of a deep brown color, and hard, but very light. In the sum? shop woro found 601 bronze and 08 silver coins A mill, with a great quad tity of com in oxoellent preservation, has also been discovered. TU* Republican purty is yot yoting : ithai not liveu )onK? Dut xl h08 ,ived well."-[Potts Ville Minora' Jonraal. Tho above is tra?, and like all feat MM* U will ^mr\v. Th? soonah of it? corruption already fills the laud Lat it go it will noMoon be forgotten Eyorj for* in the Honk wiU remind tts of HMyrsn ny.} tho thousands of United State* sssoaaor and collcetors will be H?onnihaoU of its extra WK??OJSI AHO ?ogw LoglsUtor* ond Con KrosiM-;pt tho South will for many year speak oiJti.lmbcoUlty-^???'?? Tcu?Amn The Marriage Lewe. Io England pcoplo aro married by banna, or dispensed from them by licence. In Chureh marriages no registrarvts required to be present; among nonconformists bis atten dance in requisite. Tho Quakers hare a separate law.* ll to thc rose! yea. If the place where the marriage ia celebrated has not bcon ' properly consecrated the marriage is invnlid. lt oan only bo performed within oertiin hours -never later than ll A. M. In 8ootl?nd there is marriago by simplo consent of the parties, marriages according to threo or four different laws, ?nd irregular marriages, whioh make people Hablo to a flue ; but the pay ment of tho fine legolir.es the marriage, and this is a com toon mode of procedure. In Irc lund thero is ono law for Protestant Church men, another for Presbyterians, and no law at all for Catholics, except a law of pains and penalties iu certain oases. If a Roman Cath olic priest should presume to oolobrate a marriage between a Roman Catholio and Protestant, or even between a Roman Catho lic sud a person who had been a Protestant within a year of tho marriage, till compara tively a recent time that was a capital offeuoo, and oven now it is a criminal offence of a very high order, and tho marriage is absolute void. Of the irregular Scottish marriages, Sir Roundel! Palmer boa the horror that might bc cxpectod in an English lawyer and churchman, and his description of them is technical and droll. Ile says "The system of irregular marriages in Scotlaud is a very startling thing to those whoso minds ure not thoroughly accustomed to it. It is contracted iu two different ways. Suppose auy gentloman in this House visited a house in Scotland where a young lady hap pened to bc staying, aud that he and the young took a walk together, and in the course of the walk ho took a pi eoe of p?,)er out of his pocket on whioh they wrote down a mu tual promise to marry ; though the pieoe of papor might bo simply put baok again fnto his pocket, though nothing might lie said to anybody about the writing, and though no body else might bo there ut the time, if thu persons afterward lived in a cortain way togeth er, that would bo a valid marriage, although uobody might know of 'he fact.of the mar riage for years afterward. No mero promise will constitute a marriago unless it be in wri-. ting, and unless ftubnequf.itle copuda. ? premiso so given and so followed constitutes a good marriage, however long it may be kept secrot. There is another even moro ex traordinary mode, in which no writing at all is necessary, and that ia where tho promise is made not de. /n/?ro,Jbut de present?-where the woman says, "I take you, John, for my husband," and where the man says, "I take you, Mary, (or ray wife," beforo witucsae*. A promise of that kind boing brought up af any future period, even although the people huvo never lived together, will hold good/and will bo sufiioient to overturn any perfectly of the parties1 &*Kp thttt eitUor into, and thia aotually ooourred in tho oolc bratod Dalrymple case." How TUE DBBT IS BBINO RKOUOKD, Tho.Ropublioan party has boen in. pow,orAopl only during tho .war, but for tho four yoori whioh havo elapsed since. For tho conduol of the Government they hayo beou for eight years entirely responsible., Tho following table shows how thoy have reduced tho pub Ho debt. Tho war substantially closed, say Secretary MoCulloch, on tho Int of April 1865. It is at that poriod wo oommcnoo ou table Wo give the figures in round num bars : April, 1865, ; ?2,866,000,00 Soptoinbor, 1864, 2,757,000,00 Novombar, 1868, 2.557,00a,00 July. 1869, . 2,645,000,00 How long Will it be, roador, before we pa tho dobt, under thia Showing, with Rcpubl can rule? lt inproper to say that tho fij ures abovo given aro from tho official repor of tho ?eorotarios of tho Treasury, Moasri MoOullooh and Boutwoll.- Terra /lau Journut. TEA eosts 85 oenta per pound in Chin tho duty is 25 oonts, that makes 00 oonts. v The freight to New York about two com the importer's fair profit IO por 'cent., ai tho retail doaler's 25 per cont, Tha^brin tho toa to, the conautner al 03 cents per pour allowing over two oonte for freight from N York to Cinoinuatl. This asme tea cam 1 be* tia'd in thia oity for loan than #1.60 j " pound, giving 67 oenta plundor on"<tf ? pound, for the benefit of the heavy oapti * lite who nlonopollae tht tea trade. W there no duty on tea, and weiro there no > V nopip of capital, ohiofty through the aid '; banks, then tea would cb.tqe to the .coua.ut 1 at 66 ?.te. per tb .CM?, gi voa s olear awiri r to tho poor, of 88 'joanis or> tho ?pound, . roason of tho dut;, making.* -Pf *m . bn ?e?o?hi ot both the duty and the mono] * of ?anual. 85 ooota, on eaoh pound. [Prom the Detroit Advertiser ?nd Tribune.] Bown Among the Dead Men. .-. It is a straago business, this diving. The danger fascinates some, bat the peril is never for a.,moment lost aig'ht of. I pot on tho hel met for tho tirat time more than ten yean ag>, ?nd yet I navet resume it without ? feeling that it may be the last tim? 1 ?hall ?vet go. down. , 0>' course one haa moro confidence after a while, but there is something in beiog shut up in sn armor, weighed dowu with a hundred pounds, and knowing that a little leak in your life pipe is your death, that BO diver can ever get ."id of. And I do not know that I should care to banish the feelings for the sight of tho oloar blue sky, the genial sun aud the face, of a fellow man, after long hours among thc fisher, makes you feel like one who has suddenly been drawn away from tho grasp of death. 1 have had some narrow es capes while pursuing my strange profession ; every divot has, or has been unusually lueky to cseapc them. I think the most dangerous place I over got into was going dowu to examine thc pro polleivOomet, suuk off Toledo. Ia workiug about ber.bottom, I got my air pipe coiled over a large sliver from tho stoveu bole, aud could not read? it with my hands. Every time Iapraug up to remove the hose my ten der would give mo the "slack" of the lin?, thus letting me fall back again. He did not understand1 his duties, and did not koow'what. my signals ou the life Hue meant. It wa? two boura and a half before I waa relieved, ( and there wasn't a moment that I was not looking to sec the hose out by the ragged wood, lt's a struuge feeling you have down ibero. You go walking over a vessel, clam bering up her sides, peering here aud there, and-thu feeling that you ure alone makes you nervous aud uueasy. .Sometimes a vessel siuks down so fairly that site stands up on the bottom as trim aud us ueat as if she rodo ou the surfaoe Theo you can go down into the cabin, up tho shrouds walk all over her, just as easily as a sailor could if she were still dashing away bc fore the bjjtftotfjfv Only it seems no quiet, so tomb like ; "Wore uro no waves dowu there only a swaying'back and forth of thc wuters, and a see sawing of the ship. You hear noth ing from above. Tho greut fishes will oomo swimming about, rubbing their uoses against your glass, and sturiug witli u wondering look into your eyes. Tho very stilluesa some times gives life ar chill. You hear just a muming, wniliug sound, like thc last notes of au organ, aud you oanuot help but think of dead mon Hunting over und around you. I h uve been-down especially to rescue tho bodies of those drowned. About four years ago thc propeller Buckeye, belonging to the Northern Transportation Compauy, weat down in the river St. Lawrence, iu soveuty oight fact of water, and it was known that a mother aud child wero asleep in their state room at thc time of her sink m g. The father bogged of .mo and o tiered mo a good deal of dreaded tliflWKf ?lift corpses, a?* ;? \ been all over the wreck two or three time?, and knew just where tho stateroom was. The door was fast looked, and I waited a good whilo before bursting it open. Of course, a dead person eould not hara you, but oven in broad day, on uhore, aud ] with people around you, dou't you know that J tho sight aud prescnoe of a dead person bringa up solemn thoughts and nervous feelings ? 1 knew how thoy would look, now thoy wore floating around in tho room, aud if tho father hadn't beou looking so wretched above, thero, was ho money to tempt ino in thu re. But, at last, I got a crowbar from forwards, and, not letting myself think, gave the light door a blow that stovo, it in. Tho water carno rushing out, tho vessol just thou lurohed over toward my side, and cut they oamo, the dinon first, her eyes wido open and hair trailing behind, and in her left hand she held tho hand of tho child. I knew how they ? would look, but I screamed out and jumped back. Her face waa fear ful ly distorted, show ing how hard death had boen made, and the eyos looked through tho green waters at me ie . a woy th tit made my flesh-orecp. The child had died easily ; ita I i Ul o white fuco giving ont no sigu of terror. , It was a good whilo before I fastened tbi line to them and gavo tho signal to haul up ] and I felt so uneasy that 1 waa not long ii I following. This is ono of tho drawbacks t< r any feeling of curiosity a diver might other i Wiso huvo. I never go down tho hatohwa; '* of the cabin steps without thinking of a dca 9, man floating ?bout there. When tho Lao I f Belle souk on St. Clair flats the engineer wi ?e oaufthtUh tho' roahing water? end no trac a wvts evor found of his body. IBs wife oat? fi to toe, hoaring that I was to go down to tli ? w^kVao^ aakod mo to1 flhd the body if po y Mbfl. H?VtfmouWered thia wbon I wont dowi j ?nd weci groping ihWngh thTt) ?r?g?no r?o" n mom cu tn ry cx|icotati?n8 of encountering the body. 1 looked sfcrTong without finding it I that I got nervous, and had started for tho ladder to go up, when \ felt something strike my helmet and giro way, and a ohill went dancing over me as I thought the dead body was at hand. But, oa teaching up, I found that I had ran against the fire-hone, the end af wbioh wad hanging dow?, what I so dread' ed wai still hidden beyond my sight. A diver docs not like to go down more tba a hundred and twenty feet ; at that depth the pressure is painful and there is danger of internal injury. I caa stay down for five or .ix hours at a time at a hundred end fifteen er twenty feet and do a good deal of hard work. In the Watcra of L'ke Huron the diver eau ace thirty or forty feet sway, but the other lakes will aereen a reseal not ten feet from you. Up here you seldom think of aceidont or death, but a hundred feet of water washiag over your hoad would set you to thinking. A little stoppage of the air pump, a leak in your hose, a careless action on the patt of your tender, and the weight of a'mountain would press tho life out of you before you could muke a move. And you may "foul" your pipe or lino yourself, and io your haste bring on what you dread. I often got my hose around a stair or rail, and though I am not oui led cowardly, sad generally release it without much trouble, the bare idea of what . slender thing holds bauk the olutoh of death off my throat, makes a cold sweat start from qyery pore. Tnu "Cincinnati Enquirer" sums tho is sues of the impending politioal campaign ia the following truthful langutgc, sod what is trae in Ohio is also true thc country over. The "Enquirer" says; "Hard times, UJOBOV .carce, low prices for tho farmers' products, high tuxes, and plundering of the government by its officials, are thc issues of tho pending eleotiou* The people b?gin to understand the cause of their misery. The lcadors of the Republican party can no longer deceive the rauk and file of their organization. They eau make money plenty or they can make it source. They have been ourUiliug thc cir culation of greenbacks until money is harder to obtain than it was before the war. This policy has beon forced upon the Administra tion by tho bondholders, who aro determined to bring the bouds to par, in order that om dollur will purchase as much labor or prov io ions ns three dollars did during the war. Thus the not income upon their bonds cat bo triplod. Are the people in favor of thii legislation for the exclusive interest of th* bondholder and banker f If they are not they will vote the Democratic ticket: at tin coming eleotioa. AWAY up iu Connecticut the people havi a very correct perception of ibu qualification for office? of th? Southern leadors of the Bad icul party. Tho ?'Bridgeport (Conn.) Re publican Farmer," after reciting the crime with wliich Congressman Bowen is charge S?? F r$ W&mm OT tn mau who, as a member of Uongrea? Unitod States, baa a yoioe in making laws f< Conuootiout and Ohio, Maasaobusetta at Pennsylvania-snob, his qualifications as si forth by a prominont loador in bis own part, If bO has not tho moral, attributes to quali him to represent tho R?dioal party, then will bo diffioult to find ono who has, in or o of tho penitentiary. With suoh a reoord 1 may aspire to any position within the gift thc Radical faotion." DON'T LOOK IOU TUB COMM-Because cannot bo seen with the naked eye at tl place and a great dosi of sleep and patlen and wear and tear in the peepers may saved by giving tho thing up. A fsoetb local editor of a Wilmington paper expi? the invisibility of tho groat oom?t aa f??loi A star of unusual lustre and magnltt can be soon in tbo Hasten* heavens any I midnight. The expeotod oomct having b I detained by business engagements olsowh II this star has boen sent out to entertain ! I audiouo? until tho obief star of tb? speed. I oao arrive. Some repot ts ara to the el ; I that the new comet baa bad the toothacb ' j ita tail, and bas,stopped at one of Vulo ? blacksmith abops to hate i% repaired. ? [j ONi.Dno* AT A T?MB.-Have you II wal ohed an icicle aa it formed T You nol 91 how it frozo one drop at a timo until it v * I foot long or moro. If the Witter was o JI tho ioiole remained oloar, and sparVledbr 1 ly in the sun ; but if tho wator was but si ll ly muddy, the ioiolo looked fouV, and ita 1 rtylw?s>spoil?$j "WM eo out oh?W* 10 I forming? ' Ono little thought or fcelto? ,0'| timo adds its influence; ; If avorr thoug 10 pureed right, tho. soul vrUl-bq loveh ?. will sparklo with .happiness; but af .Mi a, 1 end wrong, thoro'.w?! bo aeformit m I wretchedness. Trie FALL TRADE IN DRY GOOD?J - Th?, geuoral complaint of thc New York merchants is that tho fall trado is lato this year. Tho samo thing, however, has been said at thia time for tho last fivo years ; aod it is owing to tho natnral chango tho whole country has undergone and is daily undergoing. On this snbject the Now York Post remarks : Railroads aro annihilating distance, tho tol egraph annihilates timo, and the remote West ern or Southern merchants no Jongor most hurry to tho seacoast in J uno to lay in bis fall and winter stook. A great chango has also* come over tho business ettstonis of Southern States since tho war. Ten or twelve years .go it mado hardly any difference to the Southern merchant whether the planters had a good, bad or indifferent crop, so for as lay ing in goods was concerned. His stook must bo bought, and if the planter had no cotton he had credit, with either the ino reliant s or his own commission agoot, while tho Southern . f> merchant also had oredit here, and used it tao. 4 All this has since ohangod. Credit is no longor tho sole life of the Southern trade and it is therefore natural that tho merchant should require au assured prospect of cafes suoh as he can only find in good erops, before ho makes large purchases. "Western mer chants aro also, in the same way, moro ans ious of late to cut tho garment aecording to thc cloth ; hence tho fall trade is necessarily retarded until moro is known of the prospect) of the crops; .Thus far our information goes to show that tho Southern States will, as a whole, be pros perous, not on ly in raising a good crop, but io getting very full price for their product. Tho Westen.? farmers now haye every rcasom to cxpeet a bountiful harvest and fair prices, particularly if they aro not misled, as they w'ero last year, in hoarding prodoco for a higher market, IMPORTAMT DECISION. --Judge Bryan hus rendered a decision, in the case of Grady, Hawthorne and others, that when a member of a oo-partuership goes into bankruptcy, bis oo partners must go into bankruptcy also, al? though they may have committed no aot of bankruptcy. SUNFLOWERS AS DISINFECTANTS.-Fxpo riments in Franco and Holland have shown that sunflowers, whon planted on an exton, sive soale, H ill neutralize thc deleterious ef. foots bf exhalations from marshes. This platt has been tried with great success io tho fcnjny districts near Rochcfort,* Franoe, and the ad I thoritios of Holland assert that intermittent . fe vor has entirely disappeared from districts where the sunflowers have been planted. Though tho above foots appear to be proved, Hi? not yet ascertained what effect tho ann flower produces on the atmosphere, wbother it generates oxygen, lijje other plants of rapid' vowth, or whether it destroys tho, animal nud1 vegetable germs of miasma produoing fever. ' To PREVENT GUNS FROM llusriNa.-nFo?', tho benefit of such of your readers os pride of no little experience and which I tried ou I bia rcsomiueudation aud found to bc pevfeotly satisfactory. It is as follows : 2Q OM fin?* olive oil, li oz. spts of turpentine. Thia if* to rubbed'on tho gun barrels with a rag, and aJUo inside leaving them with thc oil on andi not rubbed off until wanted to bo used. This, during any datup. weather,.! ? at? sure wU& keep guns itt first rato condition.-?oKffe? Field. A WILD BOY IN IOWA -Considerable ex* oitemont exist? in East Davenport and Gil bert Town, io consequence of a wild boy wita ha? bceu seen by soveral voraoions individual? prowling about the n ?od* at tho back of Judge Grant's farm and on tho river'* bank and isl ands- About a week ago a man feturutn^froni a shooting exouraioasaw what bo et fi rat took for some wild animal orouohlog by the bank of tko tiver. It suddenly plunged in and. emerged with a fish, which it devoured ra?, venously. Getting olosor to it bo,saw that?fc was a boy, apparently about fifteen or ?teten?/ entirely without clothes, and covorcd witli light sandy hair of a silky appearance. attempted io approaoh it, but the creature booamo alarmed, and, taking to the water, swam to a neighboring island and hid itt ino sedges. Ott returning home ho gave inf^, matlorj ead ft close lookout baa boen kept. Tho oroatoro, whatever it may ho^sa***** ?cen twice alnoe, ?ed this wU4 toy woodt will doubtless H ^^ooft??(^ A BOY having oona plained'to hiafftWdr iHflft BilHiad thrown tho Bible at Wmattd ^irt ^ Mm o? the head, the fcfherr?tflt^ ? ?Well, yo? are the ootyMat?** W family dft^hem thc Bibleu wti'WM'?? ??tit Impression." I k h i re a 30 td fo ld