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''"'?*? ' . . . **? .?,. .... ?gfej_SBsssss:JT~I~~_gi_.."mTrrrt-!-5-tsss - 11. in mi. 1 ? . ?.?-?.,w....?n.,- .,.,.,,".mmmmm.mmmmn",. .,..-..,.?"...?.?. . , M.n_.ir ._" r fi i ?r? m f? (? fr* fr?l HI Tl 15) T ?? ;fS rj\ fi iij Wa [fi IE ^^^^^?^i^ ^ l!!J JU U Ifi IN n TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1877. VOLUME XII.--NO. 41. ^Professional Gards. AV M. 0. KEITH. JOHN S. VERNER. KEITH & VERNER, A T T OR NE YS AT LAW AND Solicitors in Equity, ^Vill practico in tho Stnto Courts on tho Eight .1 Judicial Circuit nnd in tho United ."?Stntos Court Office on Public Square, Walhalla, <S G Jtm 0, 187o 8 tf S. P. DENDY, ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR al LAW and Solicitor in Equity, "VfiU praotico in tho Courts o? Law and 'Equity, in tho Eighth Judicial Circuit. Ol?too in tho Court Houso, Walhalla, S C Nov 1, 1870 3 ly s. MCGOWAN, it. A. THOMPSON. Abbeville, S 0 Walhalla, S C MCGOWAN & THOMPSON, A T T OR NE Y S A T L A W, Will give prompt attention to all business confided to them in tho Stato, County, nud United States Courts. O/fice on Court House Square, Walhalla, S C Tito junior partner, Ma. THOMPSON, will also practico in tho Courts of Pickcns, Croon ville nnd Anderson. January, 1870 tf JOSEPH J. NORTON, ATTORNEY AT LA W, WALHALLA, S. C. All business for Piokcns County left with JAMES E. IIAGOOD, ESQ., PiCKENS, C. H., WILL BE PROMPTLY A TTE ND ED TO Ootobor 20. 18G8 4 tf A VALUABLE DISCOVERY. ANEW Chemical Composition lins been dis covered which is perfectly adapted to thc making of Monuments, Tombstones, Mantel Pieces, &o. It very much resembles marble, is ?equnlly durable, resisting tho cliccls of water, ?heap and within tho reach of all to beautify the gravea of their dear departed ones. The undersigned has bought tho right for this Stato and is prepared, on short notice, to do any work in his linc. Specimens of thc material ami work cnn bc seen nt my residence on the old Samuel Reid farm. I cnn put up Box Tombs, lettering included, at from ?15 to !?30, according to the agc of tho deceased. Head b'toncs ami othor work nt equally low prices. L. B. LEE. Juno 28, 1877 82-3ni Fair Trial. ? ALL persons having Clocks, Watches, Jewelry. Sewing Machines, Scot., need ing repairs aro most respectfully solicited to givo mo a fair trial. I pledgo myself that ivhero tho work is not mechanically dofoetive, .or been ruined by experiments, tn give ns full ontiafaction both ns to wm: KM A NS inc nnd PRICE, ns can bo found in any part of the lountry. Provisions o?' all kind? will be nikon nt market, prices for work where it ls inconvenient to pny cash.#But payment in seme kind will bo required on dolivory of irork. I also offer at tho lowest cash price, a small lot of tho celebrated Sohauheusen Spectacles and Eycglnssos. Also Goggles, Eve Protectors, &o., &c Place of business over tho store of Vernor & Stribling Walhalla, S. C. F. M. MORGAN. Juno G 1877 29 oowGm At |"| rp^ is not easily earned in these M" I / I / I / 'bues, but it cnn bo made in ft tt fl three months by any ono of M. fl fl n either sex, in any part of tho ill ? fl ? country who is willing to work *r ? : ? . steadily at ibo employment that >we furnish. $fi6 per week in your own town. You need not bo away from homo ovor night. You can givo your whole limo to tho work, or only your spare moments. Webavo agents who aro making over $20 por day. All who engaso nt ono* nan make money fast. At tho present time money cannot, bo made.so easily and rapidly at any other business. It costs nothing to try .tho business. Terms ami $5 Outfit freo, /ld ,<lrcss at once H. II ALI,KT & CO., Portland, Maine, dug 9, 1877 38-ly Atlanta Paper Mills, -A.-tla.n-ta,, 3-a. BOOK AND NEWS, All Sizos and "Weights. Office, 48 Broad Street, Atlanta^ Ga. AddrosB JAS. ORMOND, Propriotor. liefer to this issuo as a Spocimon of hie Paper, FOR SALE, STEAM SAW MILL AND FIX TURES, AT SENECA CITY. WE WILL SELL THE STEAM SAWMILL AND FIXTURES belonging to ns in Soncoa City. Tho mill mny bo treated for nt private sale until TUESDAY, tho 4lh day of Septembor noxt. If not sohl previously, it will bo sold at auction to tho highest bidder nt Soncoa City on that, day. Tho undersigned will givo all needed Information. Terms accommodating. W. Ii, HARDIN. W. A. LOWERY. July 19, 1877 85-7t TAI s; I ILLL 1>1SCIIA11?UH. ny a RACE w. HINSDALE. Jesus did ouco atone For all roy sins, ? Such wondrous graco and love, My spirit wius. His power lo pave is such, Th it I eon rest My humbled, wenry henri Upon Iiis breast. Tho vengeance of tho law Hath spent its storm, Upon n sinless one, In human form. And from tho cross 1 hear A voioe divine, Which says, "I've ransomed thee, Thou shalt bo mind" No condemnation, uow, My soul dismays, But, justified by God, 1 siug his praise. The burden of my debt I bear no more, Set free, with full discharge, Toward hcavcu I soar. Translated from my gloom To joy und peace, I praise the Son of God For my relouso. IF YOU WANT A KISS, TAKE IT. Thero is a jolly Saxon proverb That is pretty much like this: That a man is half in heaven When he has a woman's kiss. But there's danger iu delaying, Aud tho sweetness may forsake it; So L tell you, bashful lover, If you want a kiss, why tako it. Never let another fellow Steal a march on you in this; Never let n laughing maiden Seo you a spoiling for a ki^s. There's s royal way of kissing, And tho jolly ones who in uko it Havn a motto that is winning: If you waut a kiss, why take it. Any fool may face a cannon - Anybody wear a crown But a man must win a woman, If he'd hove her for his own. Would you have a golden tipple, You must God thc tree ?iud shake it; If a thing is worth the having, Aud you want a kiss, why take it. Who would burn upon a desert? With a forest running by? Who would give his sunny summer For a bleak and wintry sky? Oh! I tell you there ia mugio, And you cannot, cannot break it; For thc sweetest part of laving ls to want a kiss and-take it. Application of Commercial Fer tilizers. An Essai/ read before thc Summer Meet ingot thc ?State Grange at Anderson, S. C , on the 8/A o/ August, 1877, bj/ Gol, Thomas Taylor, President of thc State Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety. Sinoo thc carly settlement of this conti nent, tho products of tho soil have been thc baois upon which our prosperity rests Wo arc an agricultural people and require pcuoo nnd quiet for the pursuit of agriculture. Originally, tho natural fertility of tho soil was very great; tho timber wus cut down and destroyed to enable thc farmer to grow'hoso produots which fed and clothed tho people of this country and a largo portion of tho people of tho world. Tho system pursued by tho farmers waa to cut down tho timber and plant thc Altino crop yearly without nny rest to tho land, until it became almost un productive; tlien they turned their attention to (dearing moro land, mid thc samo ruinous system was pursued until tho whole country wus doored and exhausted in what aro known as tho old sottled Slates of this con tinent. So soon os this systom of cultivation had exhausted tho most productive laud in kouth Carolina, our people begun moving to new States whioh woro represented as moro fertile, when tho sumo system of plant ing and cultivation was pursued, until they, too, bcoumo exhausted to a great degree lt is apparent to us till that thc result must bo tho (-anio so long as this system of agri oulturo prevails. Pcoco and quiet reigned over the land for almost n century; then esme about a section al trouble, which upset our Stnto govern mont and changed our system of labor. It then becutno necessary to resort to a different plan and modo of propnration to miikc tho products upon tho exhausted hinds pny tho producer. How was this condition of things to bc relieved? That was tho ques tion to thc farmers. Ile felt very littlo disposed to mnko an effort with almost a certainty of failure. Still, something must bo done to enable him to support and odu Oato his children. It Wits impossible to mako enough manure on his firm to supply to tho exhausted hind what tho plant required, and ho felt disheartened at tho prospect, Tho improvement in agricultural implo manta hart beon very grout, and ho naturally turucd hts attention to supplying this dofcot in n mensuro by ploughing ami bettor cul ture. Tn nomo instances tIiis proved suc cessful; in most coses it was ruinous to tho land, burying whut little soil wus left in tho land to such n depth thnt tho plant could not reach it to ntnku use of it, for observa tion proves thnt thc plant docs not penetrate beyond a certain depth to find and take up its nourishment; thus tho laud became less productive than bc foro. A few years ago tho whole country went wild upon reiults of experiments by Mr. Dixon, of Georgia, and without calculating thc effect of deep ploughing upon thc dif ferent grades of soil that exists in each State, many planters adopted tho plan laid down hy Mr. Dixon for all soils; they made many failures; denounced improved implements and deep ploughing, and went hack to the old shovel plough without knowing why they had failed. A friend of mino lind a plantation on which he thought Dixon's ploughing and culture would produce similar results, lie read Mr. Dixon's articles with great care and attention; he bought thu mules and ploughs, and ho ploughed and subsoiled until he could almost seo tho glitter of gold willi cneli furrow thc plough turned. Ile hud his hind ploughed and harrowed, and ready for tho seed before his neighbor com menced work. About thia time his neigh bor, who lind tho same kind of soil, trashed down his cotton und corn stalks, nnd with thc old short shovel plough reversed the old beds, und planted his crop. M y fi ?end, whose place looked like o gurdon, could not but feel pity for the failure that was uhuad for his neighbor. Both crops were planted, mid both came up. Mv friend's heart went out in sympathy over tl C f< oMc effort made by his neighbor Hut lo! thc neighbor's crop soon passed his in size, and continued to do so up to harvesting. The result of harvest was still grouter than between tho growth and fruiting; and he, disgusted with improved implements, went back to thc old shovel plough, mid pronounced Dixon a humbug. Hero is a case where all tho bear ines wore not taken into consideration. My fiiend attempted to accomplish in ono year what Mr. Dixon had taken probably live years to do, turning tho land shallow at li rs r, and increasing thc depth gradually, by which means ho preserved what there was of soil loft upon tho land for tho use of tho plant. Tho success of the farmer has boon tho result, of experiment, and not of knowledge; und so long us wc work in tho dark no spo cifiod result, can be certain. It is self evi dent that all land must he ploughed, but how it should bo ploughed depends upon the diameter of the soil. Sandy soil should be ploughed shallow first; it. may be subsoiled to any depth, and the ploughing may be deepened each year without injury to land or crop. Cluy and bottom land cm bo ploughed deeper, following with tho subsoil, mid in creasing tho depth in ploughing yearly. All land should he ploughed ill tho fill and winter, and pet the benefit of frost and iee; lund getsa grout deal of fructifying power fruin icc and frost We now have exhausted land and improved implements which enable us to prepare the lund thoroughly for seed Wo need something more. We get that in thc commercial manures, which supply to thc plant thoso chemical properties which have been exhausted by long culturo mid injudicious management. We now have land and implements, but wo need something to make the land pro ductive to a sufficient degreo to pay tho pro duocr. We find underlying pomo of thc land 3nd waters in tho lower part of the State a phosphntio deposit, which, upon being ground und rendered soluble, forms tho basis of a manure, which supplies to the lands those properties which have been ex hausted, These mixtures, known ns com mercial manures, huvo becoino generally used, mid have even, with our experimental applications, paid tho producer in POIIIO in stances. This vast source of wealth to tho State and farmer seems lo bo providential, and is tho means by which wo will bo ena bled to recover our losses in n great measure. If the farmers had known how to make proper uso of this discovery, their lands would havo improved yearly, instead of fail ing, alter repeated applications of fertilizers. It is almost tho universal system of the farmer to apply thc cotton seed, with it.s increase hy tho uso of commercial manure, to some other exhn jstcd land, instead of returning tho sumo to tho lund that modo it Thereby they rendor thc land less produc tivo each year, after tho first or second np plication. This system will not build lip our exhausted lands, but havo tho reverso efl'oct. Tho rotation of orops in some degree removes thc difficulty, but oven that will not offect it entirely. You must return all tho incrensed production of un acre of lund, which iu used as manure, to thc samo land, and not attempt to build up two pieces of land with tho production of one. No hind cnn stand such depletion mid pay tho pro ducer. Tho best cvidonco of tho fertility of our lands is that they have been nblo to stund suoh a systom of culture and produce anything. J have traveled over some of tho best farming hindi in tho Noithwcst, tho Now England and Middle States. Tlicsumo system would, and did, for a time, render theso lands vory poor. Tho owners, how ever, saw tho error of their culture, and adopted a system of rotation-planting a picoo of laud onoo in three yeats, sowing crass and liming. What wus tho result? Their lands increased in yield steadily until they surpassed their virgin state. Tho samo thing can bo done hore, with equul success, by a rottitiou of orops-sowing peas and clover sud turning in tho same. l)o not take tiloso from tho lund hccnuso they look so fine nnd you ore short of rough food for your mules und cultlo. Thc natural fortility of our Innds cannot bo disputed. No State hns more natural advantages thnn South Carolina. Wc cnn grow nil tho crops that aro grown on thc continent, from thc olive nnd banana down to tho most substantial needs of thc people. Where can we find such an Edon? Yet with these nuturul ad vantages, wc are poor. Gentlemen, tho remedy is within our roach. First, we must nettle ?ti our minds that Wo will stay where wo ure. Thora is no better place to move to, nnd then wo must work in the constitution of thc land. Tho lund holds the power to prepare thc food for tho plant, but you have to put tho material into it, just as you supply the stomach with food, which is then churned up, ?nd then distributed to make blood, bone nnd muscle. How is the fertilizer to be used with the largest results to tho farmer? Is it by ap plying largo quantities to tho nero? I em phatically F.tv ho. You require only what the land will utilize for thc plant to consume nid all over (lint supply is wasted for that year, and 1 think is lost to thc farmer. How will you ascertain the quantity tho lind w ill enable thc pl int to use? Up to this time that has been experimental and caleu lated by the result obtained. In sonic ins stances it has been remunerative* in others ! tho reverse. I assert, without lenr of con trudiotiun, that fertilizers cannot ho used successfully without ascertaining-first, what the land has hoon exhausted of, second, what quantity of fertilizer the land will en able the plant to consumo. This can be obtained only hy analysts. This would be expensive to Ike fanners singly, but not so, as a whole. There is ono fact to ho kept in mind. The constitutional tune of tito latid must bc partially restored b"foro you can reap largo retraits from the usc of fertilizers. Land that will produce OOO pounds of seed cotton without tho aid of fertilizers will certainly proiluco (rom one-third to one half more by their uso. It may double (he yield. That, however, would bo too lar?;o und estimate ?s n general rule. I have had with tho application of '?00 pounds of Fa cilio (runno, on river land, n yield of 1,200 and 1,500 pound per norcot* seed cotton, which did not yield moro than 500 to 000 pounds without it. 1 hnvo also hud tho same result from the Ktiwnn, both heating Peruvian guano. This land, however, sooined particularly adapted to tho nppltcn lion of fertilizers; and (he crop has never fallen back in the past four years. Those '.mils were cleared by tho Indian, boforo I lie white man settled tho country. Tho manner and mode of applying fertili zees is very uniform; it is sowed in a deep furrow and tho dirt lapped upon it-the cotton being planted upon tho top of tho bed. Sometimos a second npplication is made after the cotton is thinned to a stand hy running a furrow close to tho cotton, sowing tho fertilizer and throwing a furrow upon it. This second appli cation gives a new impetus to thc plant, and goivi far lo perfecting its fruit if there is enough vitality in the land to give sus (enanco to the plant for so lons a time. There is very often visible in thc month of I August upon tho cotton plant what is called I rust by many fanners The leaves deoay and dropoff and thc plant dies. I say its not thc rust in most enses, but proceeds I from tho soil being unable to supply food nny longer, lite fertilizer having exhausted nil the vitality that was in the land for that crop. Thc coltan Ind attained a good size, well fruited, all opened and picked carly in September, It may be said by some that preaching and practico uro two different things. I admit that you tiny proaoh always, but unless wo practice we cannot expect to euro tho land of poverty. The longer the land is without medicino nnd food for the plant, the more difficult will he tho task of building it up. There is no time Uko thc present to begin with the remedy. Tl IOS. TAYLOR. Richland County, S C. ?I3TTI3B FKODI 1.1IR PlYtY. ME88K8 EDITORS: Tho morning of thc Titi? instan?, lound mc waiting nt tho An derson Depot, nnd but a short time was spent in wuiling.cro the whistle announced that tho train was on schedule. Put a short tim? elapsed before wo were greeted with "all aboard," and thc train moved oil'. The morning was clear und beautiful and a gentle broezu was quite bracing and nothing seemed to mar tho pleasure of a quiet ride by rail, save dust for several weeks, dry weather und tho stifling effects of nicotin Tho first class coach was filled with ladas nnd tho second class became tho smoking car. Tho former on my return was o Hayed by copious showers, but of tho latter wo might say, "l'jphrahu is joined lo his idols; lot him alono/' Notwithstanding tho dry weather, tho* crops from a "bird's eye glauco" pre sented a frosh nnd vigorous appearance from Anderson to Ninety-Six, where I left thc railroad nnd traveled through the conni ry to Rdgcflold Court House. There aro some magnificent homes along tho road I traveled. Tho orup seems to bo pretty well Hi versified will? corn, cotton, nnd peas, and abundant showers nnd labor that was controlled by thc Und owners will give handsome rewards to thc farmers of Kdgo field this year, t saw Inrge fields of foddor already pulled nnd housod. Tho Inst two weeks court almost cleared tho docket far Eilgefmld, and no doubt tho next term of Common Picas will bo nothing moro than tho recuit of good government. Tho pol i t in >l turbulence of former Ridioal rulo lins givon wnv under Dcmooiulio go vero moot to comparativo quietude and good order. 1 visited r.dgcwood, thc lato residence of of ox-Governor Pickcns. I drove around tho terraced walks and viewed tho fhiub bcry, tho rare collection of tropical fruits and flowers, as well as native shrubbery. Al though in a dilapidated and neglected con cotidition, shows that bc had a taste for thc beauties of nature. On my return (hero was some interest manifested concerning a new railroad from Augusta vin Greenwood, in the direction of Asheville, N. G. About ono hundred nnd sixty thousand dollars oro subbcribed and tho route from Greenwood to thc Savannah Uiver bas not been heard from or canvassed yet. Augusta proposes to build tho road across thc Savannah River, including tho bridge nndtrossel across the river. The com pany will commence operations ns soon as two hundred thousand ?lollara arc subscribed. Tho road will cross the Savannah just above Turkey Creek. The di.stanoe from Green wood to the Savannah River is 85 or 40 miles, and ulong a beautiful sandy ridge, crossing but ono or two small branches. Competition is the lifo nf trade, which everybody can verify that has ever had any thing to do with the company of the Green ville it Columbia Railroad. I predict that when Augusta builds a road to the Savan nah River, on tho Greenwood route, she will then build n branch to Allen's Factory and connect with the Hartwell and Elberton Railroad, now graded to within eleven miles of Allen's Factory, which branch or con necting link will only bo sonic 20 or 30 miles long. This road by Hartwell to Toecoa City will ho within six miles of your correspondent's and will bo next in impor tance to tho projected routo through the Fork. But the last fleeting ray of hope of 0 railroad ever being built through tho Fork* is now obliterated. Elections for fencing in tho stock or crop w:u held on tho day of my return. At Ninety-Six 47 majority was in favor of fencing up tho stock. Greenwood gavo a majority against fencing up the stock. Some portions of Edgefield went by de fault and did not vote at nil, One township Fort Mills, I believe, in York County, have agreed to throw down tho fences nnd fence tho Township. There is no doubt hut the fence law would he abolished if the land owners only were allowed a voice in the matter, and they aro undoubtedly thc prop er ones to say whether the fence or no fence law shall be established. I can't seo why our Legislature places Gus matter before the people. Why not send all thc Acts back to tho people for ratification with tho aime propriety? Thc peoplo send thc best men to make our laws und vost them with full power to transact all business to tho best of their ability, and why not tho fence law? But I am digressing 1 stopped at tho Waverly Houso nt An derson, going and coining. It is kept now by Mr. E. E. Kcese, whose efforts ?rc untir ing to render every comfort to thc traveling public. Thc houso has boen refurnished, tho tables arc furnished with tho best the country affords, tho servants aro attentive and ''everything breathes along thc face of things" comfort to thc weary traveler. The crops aro generally good all thc way to Edgefield; but they will not compare with tho crops of Coonee in general or Tugaloo Valley in particular. Tho great froshct of 187G swept away all tho mill dams, sending thc rich alluvials that had boen accumulat ing for thc last half century, distributing it not only on tho low lands, but high up on the hill sides. This with a necessity that knows no law, thc sevoro freezing and pul verizing this alluvial and a little "book laming," all conspire to give, if no accident takes place, tho largest yield of corn and cotton that ever has been realized along the Tugaloo Valley. In June, 1870, wo wete visited by tho most disastrous freshet evo' known in this oounty, and in 1877 tho growing crop of corn, cotton and pens is commensurate with that memorable Inun dation, extending from hillside to hillside, tho bottom included; tho far roon) clearing up and availing themselves of tho rich de posits until the whole valley fairly groans under tho choicest hlcfsings of n kind and beneficent Provirlonco. Wo can reali/.o now that tho great freshet was a great blessing in disguise, inasmuch ns it taught us many lessons of econ omy and our dependenco on tho Author of every good and perfect gift. This des ni tory lette r has been spun out longer than 1 anticipated. Very respectfully yours, KAPPA. Pl.?f.ADRI.P?lifA. August 23.-A largo number of acceptances havo been reccivod from thc Governors invited to a special con vocation of the Executives of tho several States to bo hold next week. Extensivo and elab?ralo preparations mo hoing made for their reception and entertainment. On Wednesday, tho 20th instant, thoro will bc a grand floral display, and on thc 30th an industrial review, in which tho employees of tho various manufacturing establishments of Philadelphia will participate A?.KXANDniAi August 23-Thc French man-of-war Carosol has passed Ader with cholera on board. Fifty of tho crew have died. One hundred and thirty are still sick. ODDS AND ENDS.-Koop tho weeds down in nursery rows. Wood flood beds, and if limy aro not already sheltered, do not woit for tho noodling to suffer, bofoto sh odo of soino kind is applied. When n cntnpillnr's web is discovered, do not sloop until you know that it and its oontotits is disposed of. Ancient Mod? of Umba lining tlie Dead. Herodotus and Diodorus tell of three triodos of Gtnbaltnerit prevalent in Egypt. Tito first WJS very costly, answering to about $2,000, exclusive of such gems, jowels, and ?old as love nod prodigality might lavish upon tho dead; thc second, 9300; tho third within the rcnuh of nil. As to tho extent to which gems and jewels wcro wound up in thc cerecloth to deck the dead there is thc instance of tho queen lately found nt Thebes, whoso ornamenta w?ro shown in our Exhibition of 18G?. They arc now in tho Pasha's Museum. Their intrinsic value alone, that is, brcuk up and melt down, is several thousand pounds, lt is curious in rending the two historians' account of the Egyptian embalmer to observo in divers mutters tho foreshadowing of tho modern undertaker in his ways. Thc dif ferent degrees of woo were then ns now sounded according to thc depth of tho purse. Just ns it is now, when tho furnisher will undertake for you any gradation of sorrow from thc simple elm coffin and pauper Amo ral up to thc Sourish and parade of plumed hearse, weeping mutes and pranciug steeds, so with tho Egyptian. Only tho manner was different. When a bereaved mourner, they tell no, went into ORO of these Egyp tian shops, tho functionaries would show him different models in wood highly and artistically {hushed, or otherwise, to repre sent thc mummy and coffin. There wero painted patterns of mummies in their multi* colored eases to choose from. Tho various costs according to pattern, wero then stated. Tho customer chose his model, nud thc bar gain was struck. Ile then went home and sent back tho dead body, nod tho body remained with the embalmer until tho wholo process was completed. Tho number of days requisito for embalming was, as wo gather from both historians, seventy or seventy-two, and this tallies with tho Scripture account (Gen 1. 8.); for doubt less the immediato process only occupied part of the time, tho rest being given to tho ritual of mourning. Thc processos for em balming arc related very categorically, lu some things they hardly commend them selves to our present sentiment of what i* respectful to tho dead. Tho ohiof secret seemed to consist in certain chemicals in jected into thc veins und body; io certain washings and stecpings in natron, and in the filling up of thc cavity of tho body with myrrh and other balsamic substances and spicos. Tho brains were drawn out through tho nostrils. Sometimes the face and bund? were gilt. Certain jewels were laid on tho breast under innumerable swathings of linen. And then o kind of pictured shell received tho body-a sort of close fitting oaso raado to open and shut lengthwise after tho fashion of a violin case. Hut when thc mummy was sent homo-what then? Tho family did not immediately part with it. On tho contrary, they often kept their dead relativo for a long while, guest in Iiis own house. A room was set npnrt. Tho mummy, stand ing upright ns in life, was enshrined in a kind of painted cabinet-a tabernacle starred over with innumerable hieroglyphics, aod protected with great painted scurahaoi and multicolored cherubim, with their over shadowing wings spread athwart thc chet. Hitherto, then, nt intervals, tho family would como to hold communion with tho dead. They would bring fresh lotus flowers to enwrcath their silent relative or strew about the ground blossoms of asphodel and papyrus. Numberless paintings in tho tombs of Egypt picture this nfiooting socno -a mother and her ohildron knooling in circle with tho dead in their midst, or a wifo with phiintivo faco and dishevelled hair embracing the placid looking mummy of her husband. Listen to what Diodorua says: "a clover embalmer," ho writes, "would send buck thc body perfectly preserved, oven thc hair of eyelids and eyebrows re maining undisturbed; tho wholo appearanco so unaltered I lint every foaturo might bo recognized. The Egyptians, therefore, who> sometimes kept t li ci r ancestors in magnifi cent apartments sot apart, havo an bpportu nity of contemplating tho faces of thoso who died long before thom, and thc height of figure of their bodies being distinguishable as well tis the character of tho countenance; they may enjoy a wonderful gratification as if they lived in thc society of those thoy seo before them."-/Sunda;/ at Home. Tho Dorkings ns a class may bo considered thu standard English fowl, and combine moro general qualities than any other; regular sitters, largo size, plump, squaro built, dclioato flesh, and highly Havered. VARNISHING.-Before any arttolo is varnished, it should bo thoroughly oleansod from all grosso spots with plenty of hot wnter, soap and soda, which must bo well rubbed off. it is also cs9cntiul that tho ar ticle to bo operated upon should bo perfectly dry. A special despatch to tho St. Petersburg Go/ox, reproduced by the official Kassian ngcnoj, admits that tho ItUSSi&ti losses in the two bnttlo? bOlore Plevna wore 8,000 to 10,000 men, half of whom were killed or sci iously woundod. About 6,000 are in tho hospital at Sistova, Simnilv.u, nod Turnt! Mngurolli. Of 200persons attached lo tho Hed Cross nmbulnnccs, toity wcro killed whilo ooHecting tho. woundod. A steno cultor onco received from a German tho following epitaph, to be engraved on the tombstone ot his deceased wifo: "My rife Susan is dead; if she lind Hf lil next I'YId^y, rdio'd ?icon dead shunt two veoks. As a treo fall so must abo stand. All dinga is impossible mit (?od." I He prompt in all lblu0s.