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4- e DEVOTED TO POLITICS, 'ORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTERUST OF TEE UOUNTRY. By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27 1881 VO X SUUTHERN NEWS. In Columbus county, N. C., it is pro posed t2, cultivat jute for market. On one ranch in Texas a thousand lambs were killed by cold weather. Malvern, Ark., has voted down the granting of liquor licenses in that place. The new code of Mississippi cost $12, 500, 5,000 volumes at $2 50 per volume. It is said that castor beans crn be raised th perfection in Western Texas. William H. Vanderbilt has given $10, 000 to the University of North Carolina. It is said in Alabama that for seventy five years good crops have succeeded hard winters. Tire places of a thousand or more ne groes who have left the prairies of Ala hama for Mississippi have been easily filled. In Louisiana there are said to be 139 species of fibrous plants which can be made amenable to the re(uirements of commerce. * During six days of Christmas, $3,780 worth of' whisky wassol, the Rev. R. N Pratt says, in the town of Abbeville, S. C. Aln effort is repo'rted at Prattville, Ala., to prohibit the sale of liquor within the e )rporate limits, or raise tile license to $2,500. 1,From Jackson Ville, Fla., the shipments of lurither lst year aggregated 41,719,255 feet, an increase of 7,710,317 over tile year previous. The largest, crop of sugar inl Louisiana this season is thought to be that made on Bellevue plantation in St. Mary parish, abott 2,000,000 pounds. Public schools in Tennessee in 1880 nimbered 5,522, against 3,942 in 1875. In l8%0 the teachers employed numbered 5,951, against 4,210 in 1875. In Alabama a law has been passed giv ilg blacismiths and woodworkers a lien on vehicles repaired by them until the price is pai(l. The b)lack lands of Alahma are said to be degenerating rapidly. Tle ridge inds/of canbrake have washed away, an1d the bottoms need draining badly. The city of Galveston has contracted for the sinking of an arteshim well to the depth of 2,500 feet 0. till water is reached satisfactory inl q uality and q uantmitity. Olives and oil have been raised in Soth Carolina. Fine samples have just b eenlh fuished by 31rs. Prestoni 8. froofrs, of Edgefiehl. The trees were plhinted in 1853. Ibuild cotton mills. Five million hales of unmlfanlufaictumredl cottoni is wiorth to lihe South $225,000,000. Spuni into yarn this cotton is worth to the South $450, 000,0(00. Lje. couinty, to be name in honor of. Gen. R. E. Lee, is p)roposed iln North SCarolina to be formed out of parts of Johnston, Wake, Frannklin and N ash counIIties, The liquor traflic is one of the qu les tiomns which the Legislature of North Carolina will have to face. A prohibi tory .liquor law association has b~eein started at Raleigh. SThe South Carolina law pr'ohibits ahl solutely the sade of inltoxienlting liquors, iinlding mfaltliqutors and wines, outside of all incorporatted cit: s, towns amiil viI-. [he rem ains of the father of IHon. Jefferson Davis atre buried in Wilkcs counity, Ga. It is alleged that Mr-. D~avis has a ritten to a genitlemlan of Wilkes eenty, oflering a liberal re ward for them. One of the most serious drawbacks to tihe ,prosperity (of South Florida is said to be the fact that so large a portion of te supplies is importedl from tihe NorthI. le remark might be extendedc~ to othler parts of the South.. Kennedy, theSotuthi Texas eattle King, Iwho recently sold out to an English comn 4 ~pany, had onle of the largest ranches in theState, hafving 180,000 acres of land under fence, upon whlich he fed 50,000 head of cattle and 10,000 head of horses. Nagotiations are in progress for the purchlase of land in Eastern North Caro lina vwhereupon to settle a colony of Swvedes, who are expected to arrive at dNew York early in the spring. A loca tion near Lhe Pamlico river in Bleaufort county. Thli Agricultural Department of South Ca4rolinaL will probably send an agent to Germany to induce immigratiolt~ There ipome talk of managing this5 ageuncy in connection with those of North Carolina andl Ghorgia, thereby securing greater Ndvan tages wvith les muitn Uniited States COllmissioner Le )uc has arranged for leasing 200 acres of Ilnd in Colleton county, S. C., about two miles from'Suminerville, for the purpose of establishing an experimental tea farm under the management of the United States Department of Agriculture. The owner, f. A. Middleton, of Charleston, grants a lease for twenty years for one dollar. At the end of the lease all per manent improvements will be his prop erty. By the new homnestead act of South Carolina, a homestead in I nds, whether held in fee or any lesser estate, not to exceed in value $1,000, with the yearly products thereof, is exempt to the head of every family residing in the State from attachment, levy or sale, on any mesne or linial process issuing from any court upon any judgment obtained upon any right of action arising subsequent to the ratification of tie State constitution. Also peronal property to the extent of $500 is exempt to the head of any family residing in the State. Rats In India. A captain in the army, holding an ap pointment in the Bengal Staff Corps was staying with his wife and young chiki in the samo station. The fAther-a right brave man he was, who had been wound ed not a great while before by some hill savage-wanted to bring up his son to be hardy and fearless, (like himself, I should add) so the parents put their lit tie one in a room to sleep by itself. But they soon noticed scratches and strange marks on the young child's hands, which, getting worse, made them call in a doc tor. This gentleman's advise was en couraging; he said: "If you don't want your child to lose his hands you had better keep him away from the rats, for they have been biting him. Traveling at one time in an out-of the-way district, I had put up for the ight at a "d'ak bungalow," i. c., travel ers' rest house. I asked the native In charge whether any sahibs had been there lately, and 1he said no, not for a long time. Before lying down to rest, I took off my riding boots and flung them on one side. When I came to put them on ill the morning I found I should travel with much less leather than I had the previous day, for the rats had made a complete wreck of the upper parts of the I boots. I hadn't another pair with me or I should certainly have worn them, for my appearance was somewhat nove, as I was wearing white trousers at the time, and the holes in the boot uppers were painfully manifest in consequence. An old painter in India, whose word I readily believe, assured me that the zinc I lining of somo grain bins was eaten through and mended, and eaten through again several times by rats, and that the I p~erformance was quite skillful, in that i the bins were built on brick pillars, and great care was taken never to leave ally-i thing b~eneath for the rats to stand upon. Blut neverthueless they managed repeat edly in some way, and( gnawed through the wood and then through the zinc un- 1 til tihe graiul fell out.1 I was living for a few months in an is-i olated, swampy district, and, as a nat- t ural sequence, the place being excessivelyi unhealthy, I was frequently attacked b~y thle constant companions of Indian jungle life, fever and ague. The bun galowv was a very rough building, and 1 had been put up in a great hurry, and every time the wind blew with any vio lence I anticipated it coming down in a space of time even less than that in which] it was put up. When laid uip with fever, and unale to read,-I use to watch the rats running ab~out tihe b~eams and rafters of the roof. Their p~erformances would have put Blondin altogether to shame. I amnusedl myse.lf by waiting until the rats got into difficult parts of tihe roof, and~ thlen clapp~ed my~ hands to startle them. But endeavormng to cause them to lose their balance was utterly futile. They always got out of sight in safety. 1 somletimes had something eatable left on the table, and thlen watched tihe ma nouvres of the rats to carry it away. I was sorry afterward, because they got impudent and courageous, and fre quently stole tings intended for my own consumpltion. Blue Monday. A recognized institution in England is " blue Monday," the direct fruit of the beer drinking which is there tolerated and allowed. The working Englishman is wedded to his beer. He feels that it is the great comfort, and one of the very few enjoyments of his life. And not only is the chocolate room or any like contrivance " slow," but there is about it an implication that he is taken in hand and managed by his betters, like a child, which he not unnaturally resents. Rightly or wrongly, he feels more ashamed at being treated in this way than he does of being drunk once a week-once, however, being here a word of wide signification. For in these cases " the same drunk " often extends from Saturday night to Monday, and not in frequently into Tuesday. Many first class artisans, knowing their own pro pensity, absolutely refnse to work for any man more thian four days a week. Tile social effect of this habit on the community may be imagined. TnR editor wrote "An evening with Saturn," and it came out in the paper " An evening with Satan." It was mighty rough, but the foreman said it was the work of the "devil." And it looked that way. SAD HISTORY OF THE CONFEDER ATE (ENERALS. The Men Who Oniereit Up Thir Lives atd Property On the Anta- or T'.eAsir Conuatry, aute How They Aceeqpted tHoe Arbitranent of the bwor and AbE. led by It. What a strange, and in the main, what a sad history is that of the generals who led the confederate armies in the late war. It is a story of poverty and depri vation, lit up here and there by a gleam of good lyck-but of poverty borne man fully, and of deprivation met with the same courage that led these men to the front of their legions. The fate of the "rebel brigadier" at the close of the war was enouah to de press the most bouyant among them. They had put everything on the turn of the sword and had lost. Property, busi ness- and all had been sacrificed in the irder of war, and they wero left, in the fierce light .of fame, without any resource --expected to support a certain dignity nd nothing to support it on. There was nio standing army into which they could be retired with adequate salary. There hvas no hop for them in the thousands )f lucrative offices that the republicans listributed among the federal generals. 'heir States were impoverished and 'were imable to support civil establishments hat would fu rnish offices out of which inything could be hoped for. Of course he pivates -of the confederate army vere deserving of all sympathy ; but iti cenis to me that the generals had some hiat harder lines. At any rate I am ure that there is no old soldier that fol owed the stars and bars that will not cad with interest a kindly inquiry into t lie history of these old leiders and their I amilies. I believe the annexed will be 1 nt.irely accurate, certainly nearly so. ( I hardly know where to begin, but uppose Nwe take the living Lees with ( vhich to open the hurried review. W. I. t . Lee, tile oldest son of Robert E. Lee, 9 s living at present in Fairfax county, Mi a fari that belonged to the estate of a is aunt, M rs.. Fitzhugh. It is a fine 1 )lace ; the General is an attentive and I utccessful farmer, and lie gets a comfort- i ile living onit of it. Custis Lee, the iext son, succeeded his father as Presi lent of Washing-Lee University and I ives in Lexington. le is a bachelor, Lild hiS two sisters live with himi. Ie las fine expectations, Judge Hughes hav ng decided that the ArlinEton estate, iow used ava federal cemetery, is his by - -i. lit of law. The case has been appealed, I )it the judgment will hardly le reversed --anld tie place .will be appraised and< )aynient made for it. Robert Lee lives mn the old Lee estate in Westmoreland 4 -ounty, where lie is moving along imoothly, making enough to supply his VIants. General Fitzhugh L ee has a farm I In the Potomac, that belonged to his unt, Mrs. Fitzhugh, and it is said is howing ermiderable enterprise, thougi tot amassing moncy. lie has a saw mill, t think, in connection with Iii, farm. I The llHou-s and the Senate hiav-e a good nany of on 7gen~eralIs, and I think withit lie exception of Generals Cockirell and: vance, all of them find their salairy very mportant. General Vance was 'living -ery easily, and1( addedl to his fortune bvy uis late miarriage. Senator Cockrell1,: vho was a brave and dlashing oilieer,I mitt upj a lucrative pr-actice in St. Louis1 1 iefore hei camte to the Senate, and is welli ixed. Besides these there are in thte Seniate. Major-General Matt Pansomi who s struggling to clear his property of en :umubrances that lie was forced" to pit iponi it to maiuke it. produtctive Briga her-General John T. M~organ, of Ala ama, who depended upon his law praIc ice, wichl was larger in volumue than in nconme; Li~Weutenaint-Ge'ner'al Hampi~lton, i South Carolina, who is a comparaitive y 1)o01 man, though a large land owner; \faijor-G eneral Butler, his colleague, who ast all in the war and has not recov~e red niuck- Major-General.Maxey, of Texas, whor the way has an independent ini oCmfe fromf his pract icC, and~ owns au beau tiful homeio in I aris, Texas. In t e douse there are muany lbriga hiers, andt~ a few heavier- generals. Gen araI .Joe .Johunson leadsl int rank, though hiis service ini tihe House hast not been brill ian t. lHe htas a line i nsu ranuce busi ness, and his wvife, a dlaughter of .J ud~e M~ciean, had considerable property. is boo0k has not paidl him much .1 hear-, be ing published undoer a poor conitract. Alabama has (lone well by her generals, ha:vi ng in the H~ouse--Major-General WV. IH. Forney, wvho has little beyond his salary, and Brigadier-General C. Mt. Shedley who is in about the sanme condil tion. Georgia has Brigatdier-G ene(ral Ph 'i Cook, who has a goodelaw practice in Amecricus, GIa., andl who has hadl four terms in the H-louse. Brigadier-General Dibrell, of Tennessee, is comfortably fixed, and is re-elected to the House for his third term-and Atkins and White thorne, of the same State were generals of State troops. Virginia has 1Nigadier General Bleale, who is doing well outsidIe of Congress, andl General Eppa Hunton, who retires at the close of the p)resenlt Congress, p)erfectly able to take care of himself. Nort Cb arolina has General Rob~ert Vance in the House, to b~alanlce General Zeb in the Senate. Louisiana has General Randall Gibson, who has been elected to the next House, and to the Senate also. He is a rich man, hav ing had means of his own, andl his wife having had somei property. General Chalmers is Representative of the fain us shoe-string odistrict of Mississippi, anod is modleratel y well ofT. TIhis finishues up the list of "rebel" generals in the Honuse and Senate, I think, without omission. There are a number of confederate generals in the dephlartnmenitsand ini various service in \Vashington. First in the im p ortance of his work is General Marcus J.Wright, who has charge of thc Con federate records, and who was looking towards a literary connection when he was offered this place that would have brought him fame and money. iajr General C. W. Field, m ho foi ht to the last day in the morning with Lee, is door-keeper of the house. having forner ly had an insurance business that gave him a living, but not much more. Ma jor-General L. L. Lamar, who whs a brave soldier, has some position about the house, probably *being in the docu ment room. IMajor-General Cadamus M. Wilcox is with the sergeant-at-arns of the Senate and has little fortune outside of his position. Major-General Sam Jones is in the adjutant general's office, where he has a good though not a prom-. inent place. Major-General Ilarry leth, who was a classmate and great friena of Burnside, has a comfortable position in the treasury-and this closes the roll I believe of the gonerals of the Southern irmies about Washington in any capac ity, unless General C. L. Stevenson, who was formerly clerk of a congrcion1al ommittee, still holds his place. The cause of education has engaged the iime and gives support to a good many )f the oki le ders of the boys in gray. 3tneral Custis Lee is at Washington-Lee ts before noted. General Kirby Smith s chancellor of the university of, the oith at Siwaice, Tennessee, his neces ities making him greatly dependent-on is salary. Lieutenant-General D. H. lill is president of the State agricultural ollege of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, at salary of $3 ,500. He has been poor Ver sinice the War, and lost much time ,lid mfoney in publishing a periodical hat was, lowever, a creditable and pure >ublication, and in teaching school. Irigadier-Gieneral M. P. Lowry has harge of a female school at Salem, Miss., nd is prospering finely. Lieutenant seneral A. P. Stewart is chancellor of he university of Mississippi, where he ets a good salary and has a fine position. rigadier-General Lilly is a professor omnewbere, I think at Washington-Lee mive sity, and this, I believe, closes the ist of generals who are engaged in train ng the young men of the South. And ,et there is General .1. Argyle Smith, iow superintendent of State instruction or Mississippi. There are very few of our old generals vho have accepted oflice from the federal rovernment. Lieutenant-General Long treet is minister to Turkey. Colonel doshy, who won the prominence of a reneral, is consul to I long-Kong. Major 3eneral LaFayette McLaws, who was me of the power of the Army of Vir Iiiial, is postmaster at Savannah.. Major veneral James Fagin was United States narslial of Arkansas under Grant; but I )elieve is out of the service now. I do iot know of any others that hold politi al appointments, and believe there are ione others. Oh yes, there is General lack Wharton, of Louisiana, who took he marshalship of the New Orleans dis riet a few years ago. The railroad business has capt ired its juota of the generals and pays good sal Lries for light and genteel work. Ma:iion senieral ,10' ni C. Brownvi, of Te(nnlessee, is irst vice president of the Texas Pacific, vi th headqiuarters at Marshall and a s3al try of $10,000) a year anid expenses. He indi money biefore he took this place, invinug had a practiece of $8,000 to $10,000 rom soon after the war. Major-General I hn 1B. Mlarmaduke is railroad conmunis rioner of the State of Missor ri on a salary >[ $5,000 a year, on which he lives with lignity andl~ ease. H e is a bachelor and svill prob~ably heave his position with a iompetency. iTe stanids high in St. b0ouis. Major-GAeraleni M. D). L. Rosser, me of the most daring cavalrymen4huat ver d1rew~ a sabre, is chief engineer of the Northern Pacific at a big salary, anid .ias made~l a fortune in lands along the inc. lie is a ha:chielor, and divides with Pierce Youniig the honors with the fair ~ex. lieutLenant-(General .Johmn B. G or* lon is counselSl for thme Louisville and Nashville road, at a salary of $14,000, md General E. P. Alexander, the best irtillecrist of the army, is practicail mana xer of the samie road1 at probblly as large m salary. Neither of the gentlemen are rih, but will both p)rob~ably save money friomi their salary. General R. HI. Ban soml was in charge of the freighit agrency ofian imilportanit Souitherni lne. Major. Ueneral E. C. Walthiall lives ini Oi'renadai, Mississippi, andio is generail counisel for the Mississippi Central road at a salary of t$h0,00 per~ annum, and is well off in'the wvorldl's goodis. There are three of our generals who have b)eome chi icfs of po(lice. Brigadier General R. 1H. A ndlerson, a dashing cav airy othieer, is chief of police ini Savaninah. Brigad ier-General 'lige Anderson, is chief (if police in A than La, and.Brigadier General W. W. Allen, is chief of police in Montgonmery, Alabama. Ther e is a niumbe' who have turned the sword 'nt ,a plough, and are loading bucolie lives lesides the Li es who nave gine to farming, there is~ Major General Frank 11. Cheatham, who has a fine p lace in Coffee county, Tennessee, on whlich hile mnases a goodl living. General W. HI. ("'Red'") .J ckson, who married a dhaugh ter of G eneral H ardhin g, and has charge of the famous Belle Meade farm, the home of Bonnie Scotland, G reat Tfom, and Enquirer, and from which came Bramble, B~en Ihll, and Luke Blackleam. IHe is rich and is up to his knees inl elo ver, literally and deservedly. Major Genm ral A. Bu ford has a fine.stock farm that is in itself wvorth a fortune, teing a gem of the blue-.grass. HeI raises thor oughbreds, none of which are more thor oughbred than himself. Brig dier-Gen (ral Wirt Adams is getting rich on a Mississippi fa-mi. General Joe D~avis is farming near the famous Beaur oir p'ace in M iss.issippi, but is in modem-ate ci rcumi - stances. Lieutcnan td enern1 JTo WVhe1t er, whose wife was rich, runs a far, (es a large law practice, and owns a store. He is rich and is becoming richer, and goes to Congress nextsession. Major General Pierce Young iA farming inl Georgia, and Gen ral L. J. Polk has a fine stock farm in Murray coun y, Tell nessee. There are few of the gen rals who hold State offices. I may begin with General A. H. Colquitt, who is governor of Geor gia at $3,000 a year and who is quite poor, although he has valuable lands. General Beauregard is adjutant general of the State of Louisiana at$2,500 a year -which salary is supplanted it is said by a salary of $5,000 for the Louisiana Sta e lottery, of which lie is commissioner. The law of course has its votaries. General Tominbs, of Georgia, who is very rich, practices law in a casual way, chiefly representing the State against the railroads, volunteering for the State. General A. R.. Lawton and 1H. I. Jack ,son], both of whom are well-to-do, prae tice law iml Savann h, Georgia, and have. large incomes. Mtajor-General Bate haits a good practice in Nashville aid is look ing to the Senate. General Alpheus Baker, most eloquent of men, practices in Louisville, where lie is coming intot a good income-wh ich (General Basil Duke, Who is alsqo in Louisville, has al ready built up for himself. Major-Genenl Bradley .Johntiston, who is said to have made a great deal of money in Virginia State bonds, is practicing in Baltimore with a big income, where Brigadier-ten oral George 1. Stewart is also locatel, and in good shape for a fine practice. Major-General WV. Y. C. Hunies is prac ticing in Memphis, where he has already amasse -1 a competency, and Brigadier General C. W. Gordon is inl the same city doing nearly as well. General Clingnman, of North Carolina, is also practicing law and doing well. Insurance has lost its popularity with the generals, although Major-General I. 11. Rtobinson, n1ow living inl Washinig ton, has made a snug fortune out of it, aid is driving a pair of Bonnie Scotland bays down the avenue-a gallant gentle man and general favorite, and blessed is the mahogany under which his legs -ire crossed. Major-G'eneral 1). IH. Maury is at insurance, aid has dlone vell, thou'h not so well as G eneral Robinson. Of miscellaneous pursuits there is a variety. General Jubal Early is living at Lynchlburg, a Bourbon bachelor, in tolerable circumstances. It is said that lie draws $5,000 a, year from the Louisi ana lottery as commissioner of special drawings. Major-General Mahone is con sidered rich, having made money in rail road bonds and stocks, it is said, nid is n<.w Senator elect from Virginia. Lieu teiant-General J. C. Pembertoni is living qluietly and in poor health in Philadel phia, where lie ias a rich brother. i e is himself inl moderate circumstances. SIv hms writ en a mook on Vickshurg's defense and sit rrender, but. I do not know whether or nit lhe will publiish it. Maor Gen'lera1l S. I1. I uck ner has luuli a va:triedl experiene. HIis wife owned large tracts < iii unmproved real estaute in Chicago, whieb wal- c'onlfi'cated, but afterwards recovmered. It wvas thleu miortgagred :md bunilt upi -and in the panic wassacrificedl for i t.s iiwrtgagi mioniey, leaving (General. Buckne*r poor-. IIe is now living in Ieu-: isvillec. Blrigatdier-( ieneral Zacek Deas, of Alabamna, went into Wall street aind made ahout $:200,000, withI which lhe re ti red, and is niow 11ivinog in ease. Bri a dier-General P. 1). Rocddy, the b~rave and1( chivalrie cavalrynm i, also made a for tunie in WVall Street, bmut lost over $100, 00(0 ini a few dI ys, andi wet to I ,onidon, where he is now living as financial agent of some bankimg firm, in moderate ci r cumistanices. Brigadier-(General J1. WV. Frazer, whlo sutrrendecred Cumbierlanid G ap is in IN'ew York, ini the brokerage business, (loin r well. .Brigamdier-(General Thiomnas Jourdamn is editor oif the Mi ting Ieoilo Broadway-a pr('sperous paL per. Major-(General Loring, wrho servedi four years in the Egyptian army, is now engineer for a nilning company in New. Mexico, and is taking chances (of a bigi fortune. General FrankI Armistrong has| madoe a fortune bly running a ''pony''ex-| press in Tlexas, and( (General A. W. Rey noldls, who went t- Eg~ypt with Loring, is still there-though out of service. Ge~neral Toni Bent on Samih lost his mind, andl was, the last time I heard (of him, in an insane asylumi ini Tenne~CS(e. It is a melancholy facet t hat nearlyv ev ery g~eneranl whio (lied or was killed,'died in poverty brought ab1out tbly hiis dero tion. Raphael and1( Paul H'emimes both (lied poor, butt a daughter of the fonner miarried L uke E. Wright, a pronmisitng and prosper-outs lawyer. G nierail ZollIi ('offer left nothing to a famiily of five dlaughters, but they have all mnarriedh, save one, andl have married wvell. (len eral Pillow's dleath caused the sale of Itis house and library which., however, his friends rebought b y sube :ption. (eui oral T1. C. H indl man, who was atsassinated, left nothing at all, hut the people of H eletna loved andl respected him. Thiiis family has many friends. G enieral Dick Taylor dlied poor; andl hiis two dautghiters ate living with his sister at Warreton. Hlishook (lid not piayitnythiing of accoun t. General "Stonewvall" .Jackson left hiis wife andl daughter withoutt meanis, bult his name has raised friends for themi, one of whom Mr. WVade Bolton, of Memph~dis, I think, left them $5,000 ini his will. General Polk left nothing to his famuily, but his son, Dr. Polk, has an immien e practice and distinguished chiaracter in New York. General Butshrod Johnson left only one son, who is (loing well, and er-al F(orrest , who left lbut little, left it with a thtrift.y andI prssperous sonl, whto makes all that is neceded. G eneral Ewel l's wife had abroit $100,000 wort h of prop erty in Rt. lAuis, 1 t hink, which wa saved froi conifiiscation by a friend. Mrs. 1 well died within three days of,her husband. (4enerai lragg (lied without property and his wife lives with her sister in New Orleans. The history of (h4awral IHood's children is part of the history of the country. (1eneral 1). 11. Cooper died in poverty, and his wife lives with her daughter in Texas, I believe. Major General W. 11. C. Whilting of Fort Fisher faie. who (lied in 'ihiningtoni prisoni in '64, left nothing, ind General L. M. Walker. who wasL killed in a duel with Marnaduke, left but little to his wife, who now lives in Charlottsville. (General Cobh--oh, what a cavalier was there !-left to his family but little of the fortune that his generous heart dis pense(l So boutilifilly in the piping times of peace. Truly it is sad history ! The story of men who gave their lives to their coun try, and left nothing to their wives but a poverty that made life a struggle. lBraver soldiers never drew sword -urer men never went to battle-whi er-minded ilen never went to (eath. H ad the issue of the conflict to wihich they pledged their honor and their lives been (iffirent, a pleasanter record could have been writ tei. As it is, the love and m sympathy of a whlIolC people will envelop their widows, their sons, and their daighiters-and their n:unes and their deeds shall be part and parcel of the glory of the South. "'l. W. (4." In the Athmnta Constitution. HUMORS- OF THE DAY. THE Yonker's Gazrett calls the minis ter's fee ' ao tax on matches." We-can match that; tho shoemaker's fee is the ttx oi men's soles. A LirTLE girl rol)roached with diso bedience and breaking the command inents, said, "Mamma, those command ments break awful easy." WHEN a man, offers to read your for tuno out of the goun'ls of a coffee cup, set that man o6'*n f* a cuP and sor cerer. -Burlington JAh'wkmye. The average age of 'a hog is only fif>1 teen years. This . always 4e00nles us $ when we seo a man spread himself, over four seats in a railway par. TiE first time a white man Se( an English railway coach, lie thinks he has struck a traveling American photograph car on rails. -Burlington Jawkeye. No'r everybody will be able to see the Nautch girls, but everybody can get a pretty good idea of their dance by put ting two hornets down the housemaid's back.--Boston Pot. A MAN in Caton, Steuben Coimty, N. Y., has raisedf a cabbage around the head of which thirteen smaller heads were clustered. - Erehange. Probably the cabbage was on the table. A FEw days after going to a wake, Bridget as kedl her mistress for her money. 'Aro you going to leave ?" "Yes, nia'am, I'm going t) marry tho corpse' husband. He told me 1 was th life of the w'akc." SA Ys his landlord to Thomas, "Your rent I maust raise, I'm ii o plagully p'in(ched for the pelf.'" " orhonor's main goobd, or I nxever can raise it myself." Ir is now said that the inventor of the Brush electric light received his first hint from brushing a b~lack eat's b)ack the wrong way. Tfhis should1( teach us not to despise the small and apparently use less things in nature. "I sAY, Clenm," cried two disputing darkies, appealing for decision to a sable umpire, "which is right-dizactly or dezactly ?" The sable monarch refcted. for a moment, and then,'with a look of wisdom said, "I can't tell p)erzactly." TOU)DLEK[Ns is a very small mnan, ig~y deedl; buIt ho said lie never minded it at all until his tfinee boys grew up to be tall, strapp)ing y oung fellows, and his wife began to cut <iown their old clothes and cut them over to fit him. And then he said lie did get mad. " How can I Le.at increase my stock?'' "fBy making sixK of one," qiaot~h Tomn; " No miracle 1 promise. A simpleor process rtn'er was known. .W hata is It ? W ell now, s'posin' You putt that yearling cow to usleep, 'TwHil make a heifer-dozin'. -Y1oniker's Gazetle. ONE night Uncle Harvey, keeper of a poor house down in Maine, was a aked bytho goans of one of the old men. "What is thme matter?" he asked. "I'm dying. Uncle H arvey," said the old man. "I'm (lying; go and get me a doughnut; I must have suthin' to pass away the time." Firrmo emb~lems are not always ap p)reiated. Tiheo neighhors of a poor fel low who died erected a tombstone to his memory, andl had placedl above it the conventional white dove. The widow looked at it through her tears and said: "It was very thoughtful to put it there. John was very fond of gunning, and it is, an especially suitable emblem.." Another New Plant. A cuirious plant has been discovered in Wisconsin, which produces a kind of (cotton) and flax from the same stalk. An exchiange says: It has already been wvoveni into fabrics, and, as any article flhat will make as good cloth as can be made from this plant will make good panper, it has been called the paper plant. It can be planted in the spring, and cut in the fall and winter. It bleaches itself white as it stands, and it will yield three or four tons to the acre. From a single root that was transplanted last sprmng grew twenty large stocks, with three hundred and sixty-five pod. containing the cotton, at least sixty 5(eeds in uach. From this root were ob tined seven ounces of pure cotton, and ov~er a poundl of flax. It is a very heavy plant, and grows from six to seven feet hwgh.