The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, January 25, 1883, Image 1

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w5.7 DIYOT1D TO !'OL1IIC, XOLLITY, EDUCATION AND TO T8E UENKRtL INTEREST OF THE COUNTEY. By D. F. BRADLEY & CO PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1883. VOL. XII. NO. Qa., has increased her li l s fty per cent. ' * are killing the surplus dogs in SOhatadooga. to prevent the spread of aSMAOL ; ildAng lots in the suburbs of Mont-. geipery, Ala., which not long ago were i*red for g,000, sold a few days since br $9,900. new Atlanta co.tton factory situ awn at the Exposition grounds, will be ready to commenee operations about the w. ' lEtof March. Corn is selling in 'some- portions of North Alabama at thirty-five cents per bushel, with not much demand even at that low figure. Two hundred new heuses are going up dn-Birmingham, Ala., and the popula tion is increasing at the rate of from 400 to 500 per month. Theeschool fund of Virginia has been increased by $500,000, one-fifth of which C sum Is to be devoted to the maintonan.-e of a colored normal -school. Mrs. Field, of San Antonio, Texas, refused to allow-her son to play with the r son of Mrs. Weber, for which Mrs. We-. f ber shot at her with a revolver. E. P. Andrews, of St. Augustine, Fla., caught a sawfish which was forrteen A feet long, had a saw three feet ten irches (1 long, and weighed nearly 800 pounds. D The bird hunt of the Selma Gun Club, ? which took place a few days ago, reiilt ed in the death of about 2,500 birds, be. a sides several deer and hundreds of squir t rels.a The Macon Library has received the breast-plate and arm-pieces of the armor recently unearthed in Florida, and sup- a posed to have belonged to one of D)eSo- a to's soldiers. 11 The late British census shows that g only 64,167 persons in the United King dom speak the old native Irish language. d This is a decrease of about 40,000 from the showing'of the census of 1871, and it suggests that the English language is overwhelming the Gaelic. In Wales the aboriginal language is rapidly fading 4 out, as it is Ireland. i Fish Commissioner Baird has been pro. vided by the Government with a swift u cruiser, the Albatross, at an expense of 8 *200,000, for the purpose of looking af- k ter the propagation of fish on the sea opasta of the country. The Professor h and his staff will take the United States si Ash exhibit to the great London exhibi- b tion next summer. The Albatross is a provided with every comfort and luxury d known to toilers on the sea. 3be is built for speed. Chattanooga hai a boom in cabbages. l The Times says: The cabbage trade of a Qhattanooga is enormous, and is increas- f iag at a rapid rate, During the present n see )n Dietzen & Brother have handled ii abont twenty car!, or 600,000, a large portion of which were, of course, ship. ped to Southern markets, Other dealers in the city have handled nearly as many, Mfost of them come from Vir ginia. They are raised there both in .spring and autumn, and the shipmentsar of some of the dealers are startling. One daler last season shipped seventy five 'amro ornearly 2,250,000 cabbages. Portuguese Shepherda. On the hill-side, under the oak trees. we see a child tending her flock and spi' ning with distaiff and spindle. Sulia sight is very common; little girls have rmuch tn do with domestic animals; they run fearlessly between the long horns of the great tawny oxen, and guide them in ~ the way they should go with a shower of f blows on their long-suffering foreheads f a snd muzzles. They milk the goats and j herd the swine, and grow lithe and strong i of 1;imb and nut-brown of face in the .warm sun. The herdsmnen and shepherd esses beguile their lonely watch with the peculiar antiphonal songs of the country, which often display remarkable wit in re partee on the part of the imiprovisatores, as well as a ready talent for rhyming. These songs are composed as well in SpainJ as in Portugal. One shepherd ohallenges j another to a tournament in verse, and bo- 1 gino by singing a stanza which is to serve as a key-note to the whole production, as well in the kind of measure to be used as in tune. In one of these lyrical ballads, whieh, so far as I know, has never erept into print, a man begins a song halfi a banter, half in earnest: "rt is better to love adog tham toelea woman, ' Jbaeef lde a wom w leave you to gif A woman, who perhaps has had some e experience of the improvidonce as well c as of the veracity of mankind, replies, in a, seedy caricature of the ether: " It is bettor to feed a dog than to feed a man, Por with a p1ece of meat a dog will leae 'you in lat th. h'nger of a nm wil last forever." And the keen, a trp-shooting is kept up t'hrough a long range of topics, thec ball tossed.back and forward from one skillfud cobni:oser to another, and when ~arovisation ilAs, traditional inj-,age remembered and sung wit equalr gusto.- E M pny in Harper's Weed's Autograpti Collection. The autograph letters left by Mr. ( Weed are thought to form the finest pri vate collection in this country. The collection inlu a, letters written by I every President of the United States since the f(ormation of the republic. All, of those smece the. time of Madison were written to Mr. Weed. 'There are also letters from most of the Rev olutionary 1 heroes. incldding Lafayette end baron Steuben. There are one or two letters< by Benedict Arnold. Nearly every man of note in t.he political partios in the last half enrtury has held correspond ence with l4 r. Weed. Nearly all of the political l(aders of Great Britain are represente4 in the collection of letters. Many of these were received direct by Mr. Weed from the writers during th'e war of the reboll4on and since. Royalty is also well represented in the collec. tion. Mr. Weed greatly prized this collection' e4 ' graphs, and took great pride i howing some ofth rarer autogij4 Ai inftimiate friends. e had. er* ~ up with shelves especiaIllii collectionu, and bbfore his eye.sIght failed. he could lay his hand upbn &ny partie4lar 1eter he~ FRANCIS GALTON, an English gentle man, has devised an apparatus for test iug the muscular sense. It consists of : box containing trays of small weight ar ranged in sequence, and numbered one two, three, etc. The jorson whose mus oular sense is to be tested is told to ar rango a given sot o, raights in thoi true order of heaviness, and his power are measured by his success in doing sc As the results of Mr. Galton's experi monts men are found to discriminat better than women, and men of intel lectual attainments botter than those o less mental activity. TEWFIK PAIUA, to maintain whor England has paid $17,000,000 for it Egyptian campaign, is a boy in his men tal capacities, though a man in years IIo spends a good deal of his time ha nossing up tandom the women of hi narem, putting bits in their months, ani driving them around the rooms. Bot he and his chief adviser, Riaz, are vor, angry that they are not permitted to cu off Arabi's head and the heads of al who sided with him in the late revolt. ] is, however, not much of a loss for modern Turk or Egyptian to lose hi head. They are doing it all the time. PopE Lr) XII. is said to have de clared recently to M. de Giers, the Rus sian Minister of Foreign Affairs, tha society was menaced by the enormou increase of infidelity, the spread of ag nostic literature, and by the unscrupu lous attitudo of the chiefs of the revolu tionary party, who had insinuate themselves into the favor of the peopl by making mendacious promises. T meet the terrific consequonces of thi state of affairs, the Pope said, "there : but one means-the ceunterbalancin influence of real religion, and the unic of all persons who believe in the divin ty of Christ." W1mN the pilot of an East River ferr joat fell dead at the wheel from hea1 :iiscase some two years ago, the ever was regarded as a warning against ti danger of running with a single pilot o 30 crowded a thoroughfare. When 3econd met the same fate the ferry coi pany adopted the precaution of haviu a wheelsman iti reserve, but nohad ,;eelcd to regard ittas an event likely to 1 duplicated very often. Statistics shm however, that it is of comparatirel frequent occurrence. During the ye: just closed there were five cases, a shown by the records of the Unite states Marine Hospital at Now York, pilots dying of disease of the heart whi at the helm. Large Loss in Using Damp Fuel. Burning wet or damp wood, or coa instead of dry is much more wastoft and exppensiVe thai most 1people imagine and the subject, is worthy of attentior now, when we are using much fuel, an are-or ought to be - providin(r a sur: ply of wood for the ro-t of tire yeai where fuel is used. An extensive serie of exlperiments, recently made at Ik chum, G ermany, shows that six tons c finely broken dry coal gives as muac heat as about seveu tons burned as we as it could be if waoter were dashe' upon01 it aand dirained off for a short,tLinuc Anad this is the eoandlit ion of much cor kept ini dIamp vaualt-s, leaky sheds, or oul of-doors. The lceon is 'obvious: kee the coal ian a dryI lace andl coaiditior: and live to four'teen paei 'ent. less, a< cordlinlg to its Ii neniess, will he nieede to obtain the sanie heat. There is a good scien tiftic ex planatio0 of this. W~ater, in chaniging to steair or col v'aptor event- th at is, in dryian 0.Y-coceals, or inak es latenlt., abtom 1,00 d~tegrees of heat. If heated t i1 o , the boiling point,. the steam real vcnaisabout. 1, 200 degree of heal alhuhonly221 deoirees are ensibh The waste of heat is still greater i burning green or~ wet wood. The sa or wvater uses uip- that is, carries off i a latenit st.:atc --a very l:arge portion e lhe healt produceed by its earbon, or it dry mat eaial. As mnuth meni and tear power' is required to haul thlree or foti cords of grcean wood as fo, six or ei'h Icords of dry wood. Thea lessoni i., ecu the fuel. and split it, as finely as it. is t he used, in th le grove; haaul it homn when well dr ied, antd I;eep it in :a da place for uke. It will be werthI far mioa for hieat.ing purpo ases thIaan if buraic green, or wet,Or damnp even. The 0n1 ex'ce'ption- to this advice is, whena b reason of auasier~ haulig on snow, an Oil accounat of the leisu.re 1.1 men an teams in winter, it may I-e expedienit t hiaul home the graeen wood thlen; buti all eneas let it be well dried fefore iti uaseud.---Ameflrican( Autric'ualtsl. ---M. Stanislaus Maaartian s'atos that,r t he result of anl expearaien oan thnia d iffherena: (rimiinais senteniced to dent] whio accepte th Ile scienutiftic triali preferenace to h-amginrg, No. I, nout is]hca exeluasivel y oni ten, lived thi yaears, and( t heat died. le hadl bee(on alnost a skee :on ant was ian a traan pa renf condi lion. No. 2?, on coffee, d;r iaa two years, borned as if ala interia lire hal calineda hiam. No. :s lived< ehooae f or eighat mioat Ihs, andl died a ye ry ad vancoad state of rot,tenn le and, as ir weae, devouraed bly wvorm. --A tame dheer belonga-ing to Samua Long. of Shteriana, Berks County, P~a. was scaredl by a (d(g, anad it jumped tI feaice anal ran aw ~ay. Theli fari ht.on anial maude a circuit, of teat miles, an ill its journe:ay at tracted abouat 1il1 armiedl hunat ers andl manyl1 dogs. Aft< ani exciting ebanse, at tendled by nuc elxcitemlenlt, the deer safely reache haome, andl many humntors were dlisa] I-Often when a man's neighbor has frightfully naughty bey, the neighb< remnarks: " 1 just like to be that htt ike's fat her!'' Queer! It's migh -,y of that a man shouaha wvishi to be h-hl r posbefor the p:uoaranity of such a di areea~ble child!-Boseto& Xrmorip. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Mn. BEEODUR will resume his "Life of hrist" in the. spring. REPoRTERs in the House of Commons omplain of the rustling of ladies' dresses a the gallery just over their heads. Miss JENNIn FLOOD, of San Fran isoo, is the happy owner of $500,000 in Jnited States 4 per cents, a New oar's present from her father. SIR TATrON SYKES, who has just bcen .ceived into the Roman Catholic lhurch in England, intends to build a uperb cathedral in Westminster. TIn Queen testified her regard for .rchbishop Tait by appearing in the eepest mourning at the splendid core iony of the opening of the new law >urts. Som English railway companies have lopted the American system of selling ckets at places other than the stations, ad advertise the fact as an extraordinary Lcility. TnE German Empire has at present >out 34,000,000-acres of forest, valued $400,000,000, andappropriates annual $500,000 to increase and maintain the rowth of the trees. IN the coffin of a Chinese maiden who ed and was buried in Now York a fow ys ago was noticed a large fan, open as for use. The father of the dead girl Lid that it was for "good luck." DR. M. I. BARKERZ says that "China a vast sepulcher, her tombs containing Alions of her population swept into itimely graves for want of knowl Igo of sanitgy laws and a scientific sowledge of medicine." EARLY rising, without early resting, is armful, says a medical exchange. Sen blo people always have .admitted it, at some persons want medical advice pon the simplest subject beforr. they are to let common sense sway tl,em. PROF. KArosr, of Vienna, has intro aced continuous baths for skin affec ens. The patient is placed in thom on mechanical bed, and remains there for fty or 100 days, not only taking his Lals, but sleeping while thus immersed water. MR. IRVING, the English actor, is ex oted to make his appearance on the merican stage next autumn, Miss fary Anderson having exchanged her merican engagement with him. Miss nderson intends to play at the Lyceum 'heater, in London, in September. M. LASSALLE, of the Paris Academy of fusic, has accepted an offer from an Linerican of 500,000 francs for a starring >ur in Russia, Spain, and Italy, to last ix months. The French theater man. gers say the Americans are ruining hem by sending salaries up too high. A BOSTONIAN says there were twenty >ur stormy Sundays last year, and that lie average in 'oston during the past ifteen years 1o.s been sixteen and one. >urth stormy Sundays in a year. The lostonian seems to have kept careful Lote of his excuses for not attending lurch. A NEW cattle dliscasqe in Europe, ansed by a minute fungus, manifests it elf by great enlargement and indura on, as well as ulceration of the tongue. t also attacks the bones of the faco andl iws, appears inside and outside the lraat in the form of tumors, andl is very structive, especially among young >ok. THE late British census shows that inly 64,167 persons in thle United King. em speak the old native Irish language. ~his is a decrease of about 40,000 from it showing of the census of ~871, and it ugests that the English language is verwhelming the Gaelio. In WVales the >original langnage is rapidly fading oui., 1a iti in Ireland. GOVERINOR-GENERAL LORNE recently Trote a letter to General Sherman asking im if it would be safe for his wife, ihe 'rincess Louise, to winter in Charleston, 0. It seems, from the Marquis' let ar, that the Princess had changed her ind about Bermuda, and preferred harleston. General Sherman replied, tating that in his opinion there was no afer or more pleasant place in the United ~tates for the Princess to winter than hiarleston, MINNEsOTA's militia report shows that lie total active strength of'the citizen oldiery is 782 men, with ordnance con isting of 1,210 Springfield rifles, sixty avalry swords, six pieces of artillery nd abont 70,000 ball cartridges. There ro no full companies in the State, and uteido of St. Paul and Minneapolis the rganization is very weak. The encamp. 1ont system introduced last year has hlad very good ffect upon the militia. isru COMM~IsIONER BAIRD has been ,rovided by the Government with a wift cruiser, the Albatross, at an ex ,ense of $200,000, for the purposo of ooking after the propagation of fish on ~he sea coasts of the country. Thle Pro lessor and his staff will take the UJnited 3tate fish exhibit to the great London ~Xhbition next summier. The Albatross 5 provided with every comfgrt and lux iry knowni to toilers on tho sea, She is bi46t for speed, . STREAMS OF GOOD AND BAD LUCK. - How a Curious Belief Euterfbres with tBuilding Ball-owds Ia lihn.. e Dr. D. Bethune MoCartoo, who for thirty-seven years was engaged in mia sionary work in C -na for the American - board of foroin m%ssions, and is now in the diplomatic service of that country, r has given some explanations in regard to the attitude of the Chinese toward rail ways. "To understand the opposition of the Chinese to railroads," said Dr. McCartoo, "you must know something about their superstitions. In China, considerations of good and bad luck enter into every transaction in life. In their conception, luck is a sort of material substance that can have a course like a wind or a stream. 1 For instance, a house opppsito to the e junction of a street, with the street in which it stands, is an unlucky position. The bad luck that may happen to flow down the opposite street will run right - into the house. In such a case a sign a will be put up to keep the bad luck away, 1 such as: "Tho stone of the groat mountain is hero. "This refers to the snored mountains worshiped by the high dignitaries of the t empire. Only the Emperor may wor 1 ship the heaven. Oflioers of the highest t rank worship the sacred mountains, the various powers of nature are worshiped s by the lower oflicial grades, and the common people worship their parents and ancestors. It isnot at all necessary that a piece of the stone of the sacred mountain shall be there, for the Chinese believe you can humbug the bad luck by simply declaring that the stone a a there. Sometimes they put up a bar rier to keep off a stream of bad luck. In - front of every mandarin's office there is . a large wall called pih-ho-Chang, which means 'the wail keeping off calamity.' Sometimes measures are taken to divest a stream of bad luck. I know of a house ? where a road came opposito the back s door and then came around the house. s It so happened that several eases of ill g ness occurred in the house, and it was n concluded that the trouble arose from a stream of ill-luck pouring down the road into the back door. So they closed the door and made the road zig-zag, so as to diminish the force of the stream. "Good luck is supposed to flow in the t same manner as bad luck. If a man's e ancestors are buried in a good place, a it stream of good luck flows down the fam a ily; if in a bad place, then a stream of bad luck descends. So careful are Chinese in such matters that they will i keep a corpse unburied for several years y rather than take any risk. They make their coffins very thick, and put packages of qnickline in among the wrappings of the bodies so that they do not become offensive. I have many a time slept in a i room that had such a coflin in it. You l4 must not think that these things are cl merely the superstitions of the ignorant. l Divination is a recognized science in China. The board of astronomers of the empire fix the lucky days for marriage, house-building, or travel, and those are publishod in the official almanacs. And then there ar innumerable Fungshwui doctors, whose business is to decide 1 questions of luck. Fungshwui means literally 'wind and water,' but the iden is best represented in the English by the word luck. The direction of luck streams . are alway$ considered in building, and hence it is that pagodas are always found at the junction of rivers, the forks of . roads, or the intersections of valleys. f "Now, you can imagine how much trouble railway building would cause in China; what innumerahl streams of 1 good luck it would cut off, or streams of bad lue t it would divert upon poor peo p1 ple who had carefully put their houses out of roach of such influences. The SChinese (do not have cometeries, and tombs a-re scattered in every direction .through the country. Nowhere could a ji ailroad beo laid dlowni wiithouit desecrat ing the tombs and laoerating the feelings 1 of the people. When an Eniglish conm ,pany built a railroad from Shanghai to Woosung-only fourteen miles-people t~ stood on the track crying and1 bceeeching so that it was sometimes necessary to - Istop the locomotive to plmt them off. The company never would have obtained a ,charter from the Chinese authorities had its intention been known. Their applli 1 cation was for >ermnission to build a yhoirsle-road, whio Ii was granted. T1he protests of the Chinese authorities were f disregarded, and the comp)any, suistained a by Sir Francis Wade, the British am.. hassador at Pekin, carried things with a r Jhigh hand. There was no traflic for the troad. and finally the company sold it to t the Chmnese government for a good sum. Thme railroad was then taken up." I The I)cstructlve Custom of the Bari nack Tribe. A Bannack Indian boy, about twelve 1years of age, met with a horrible decath Sath ouigmill at Fort lIfall Indian - gecy Idlaho Territory, last Tuesday. a Th'le boy was idling around the mill at the timo, andi happened to get in the mnachinery, and was badly crushed and mangled b)efore lhe could be taken from o the gearing. Hie died sooni afterwaird. I t is the custom of Indians to burn or a destroy all things connected with the -death of one of their tribe. For instance, eif one meet-s death by being kicked by a a horse, the animal is killed ; aInd if from -disease an Indlian (lies in a wickup; or d lodge, it is burned. The mill in which rthis accident occurred was built by the n Government at a cost of $7,000 or n $8,000, and was worth that amouint of s,money. Between six and seven o'clock on the mor ning of the 6th this mill was dlis covered to b1e on fire, and was soon en tiroly consumed, with a large amount of 'wheat and flour belonging to the In dians. T ihis grain and flour was worth from $2, 000 to $3,000. At the agency there are two tribesq of Indians, the B annacks and She r shones, and the grain and flour b)elongedl Ih mostly to the latter. From the well d1 known practice of Indians, which they .consider a-reli gious duty to avenge the death of one of their tribe by a fire or akilling, it was natural to place the de astruction of the mill attehands of the rBannacks, and the Shoshones losin SItheir property has caused a strong feef ding between the two tribes. It Is not Iapprehended that this may lead to any S1seriouis toublebetwoon theIndians,.ard Avenging a Father's Death. William C. Fletcher passed through his place to-day en route to the Texss border, where he has been for more than ten years past engaged in the cattle business. From him the 'Tmes repro sentative learned of a tragie event which recently occurred on the border )f the "Lone Star" State, the particu lars of which have never before been made public. At the beginning of the late clvil war Abraham Hall lived in )ne of the thinly-settled border counties. He was seventy years old and reputed to be wealthy,ownint a large tract of land, great herds of cattle, and a large but by io means costly residence. Ile had a family comprising one boy, aged ton, mnd four girls ranging from eight to six seen years. Though the State was in a sumult, the old man claimed to be neu ral, and while his neighbors were buckling on the armor Hall remained it home. The South oalled for every man capable of bearing arms. Texas vas scoured. Hall was called on to volunteer, but declined. One night a :>arty of twelve persons rode up to the iouse and repeated the demand for vol inteers. The old mair said ho preferred leath. IHe was taken from the house to 3 little ravine two hundred yards away, 1 rope put round his neck, the end of which was thrown over the limb of a ree, and Hall was once more asked to reconsider his refusal. The old man do ;lined, whereupon he was drawn up and let down senseless. Reviving, again he refused, and again he was drawn up.1 'l'his horrible scene was continued until the victim ceased to breathe, and the >arty rode away. The son of hall had followed the party when they dragged his father from the house, and, hiding himself behind a clump of bushes, the lad was a silent and horrified spectator. [Ie saw everything, and, more, he rec >gnized every actor in that cruel affair. When the men galloped away he ran from his hidin-placo, cat. (town the I)ody, and, flinging himself upon it, reg istered an oath to slay every man who had taken part in his father's deat.h. Time passed ; the war ended: young hall managed his father's estate and prospered. His sisters aided him ir. :he work. Almost their nearest neighbor was Frank l'arker, who led the band that hung old Hall in 1865. Twenty miles east lived John and Thomas Man tooth, two members of the party. The remainder were scattered throughout the State. One day in October, 1878, young Iall bade his sisters good-by forever, saying, "The time for revenge has come," and, without further explanation, he mounted his horse and rode swiftly away. An hour later he drew rein in front of Frank Parker's dwelling. Parker was in the yard. "I come to ask you why you killed my father." 1Iall said to hin. Parker gave the reason, adding that his conscience had troubled him ever since. Hall asked him if he was armed, and when the man drew a pistol, Hall did likewise, and fired. Parker dropped in the agonies of death. The next (lay Iiall visited the Mantooths. John Man tooth he shot dlead on the open prairie, after explaining the object of his visit. Thomas Mantooth met a similar fate on the public highway. Before spring an other of the twelve had been slain, Hall killing his man in a saloon brawl in San Antonio. By this time the remaining members of the band had become alarmed, and Hall suddenly paused in, his career of bloodshed. For more than a year nothing was heard of him, and the surviving objects of his hat red were beginning to think he had perished, when he suddeni,y reap peared. This time his vi^tim was named Kindred Rose, one of the twelve, but he (lied only after a desperate strug gle. T1'ho men met one afternoon in the witer of 1880 in a litt,le village onl the Mexican border. A street light ensuedl and ltose was killed, falliing fromi his horse and (lying on the street, while llhall, though wvoundled in t hree p)laces9, put spurs to his horse andI dashied away. fhe friends of Rlose pursued him iiito Texas. The pursuit was conttnued three dtays, friends of his former vict imls join ing in the chase. llall at last, was run to cover, in sight of his home, and niear the sp)ot where sixteen years before t lie fathter had met his death. IIere l,IIe tuirnedl on ihe pursuing panrty andi fo ur lht until lie wvas ridd!ed wvith huillets. IIi eldest sister was a hoirriiedt specttor oh the tragic end of her brot her. A year after she met one of t lie part y ini a neighboring town ; she was in cnom; any with a female friend, and, dlespite the entreaties of her co)mpanuion', called the iian to her, slipping her hiand1( inito t Ma pocket of her (tress as she did se. ''(apt. D avis,'' said she, when the m an camne up, "'you helped to kill my bro' her ; t ake that!"' and dIrawing a revolver, shle fired at, him. IDavis wats seiously wvolude , and( mi thle confusion the girl escaped. T-h.lis act alarmed all who hadt taken piart in the death of young I tall, and they re solvedl upon1 the exte(rmination of the entire family of IIhalls, of whm ni i three were livin g-th1(1elhtest trirl and two sisters. One night, after D)avis' life had been attempted, the lltall home. steadl was surrounded by masked men. The b)arred doors were broken down, and the three girls were mercilessly murdlered. The assassins then fired thle houise and disappeared. Thle t raugedny cauised a sensation, lhnt the expanmationi was made by interestoed partie.i thait in - dhians or greasers hadl nuirdored the i girls, plundered thie house, and then sot, it atilre. 'This wvas genieral ly accepl ted, and only latcly have the-f:mcts ini th cas \eakeil out. - ,i/c R.oc(: (A;rk.) Hjendii to Chtic<wso imen"s. - A wvhite man niot, long since suet a b)la(ck muauni inone of our court s, and while the trial was before thme ,niudge the litigants caine to an amienbhle ;et tlemienit, and so thle cnounset stated to) thme (court. "*A verbal sett lemient will not. answer,"' rieplied thme ,lge; "'it mtist be' in wriiting'. "1Ili-i isi tIe agreie ment in black aind whiili," resp)onded the connsel, pointinig toi the recnciledl partes, pra what does your honor wvant more than this?"'- (hiertiOo T1iies -Commmtles (to b>est when leit to run their own course, follow their own fash ins , ha governied according to thlei own laws, work ouit t.deir own dlest mii s. .(1P-, l H axelle. Buying Corn for Hogs. We are asked by a correspondent, If t will pay hii to keep hogs upon a largo cale, ho having plenty of pasture for hem to run on in summer, access to the nilk of a neighboring creamery free of :harge, but being under the necessity of )uying all his corn, the price of corn eig there at the present time forty ents. It will pay, we would say in -eply, an. excellent profit to fat e1 hogs, even it all the food .hat is used for that purpose must be )ought. The estimated value of corn ,vhen converted Into pork is as follows: When pork is worth five conta per bound, it gives fifty centq per bushel for he corn fed; when pork is worth six ents per pound gross, it gives sixty cents per bushel for the corn fed, and so n. We think that we can do better than this, but this is the rule. Some might not do so well, as much must nec e.sarily depend upon a knowledge of the business and intelligent general man agement. In this country we feed corn Its a general thing, and as a fat-produc ing food, it is superior to any other one thing. Our correspondent, evidently lacking experience, naturally falls into the too common error of supposing that his entire dependenco must be upon orn, which is higher in price than some )ther foods which will answer as well, aking the lower price at which they ay be had into conFideration. In I he sumnier time he has plenty of lasture. That is cheap, and furnishes in excellent food for hogs. Every swine breeder should have plenty of pasture. The milk from the creamery spoken of will be good as far as it goes. Swine breeders will never lose anything by feeding milk. But when wo come to corn, excellent as it is, as a fat-pro ilucing food, there are some objections to it. It mnust, not be or-gotten that it is a one-sidted food. Its offiee is to pro duce fat, and it will not furnish the elenent-s to produce bone and muscle in the growing hog, or to repair the warto of these in the fattenin;r hog; and we have not the slightest doubt what ever that much of our hog cholera, so called, is the result of this one-sided developmfeni, of feeding for fat alone-of feeding corn week in and week out and month in mid month out. 'The health of the hog, therefore, demands achange or mixture of foods, to the end that it may not fall to pieces in one part of the system, while It is being built up in another. Another objection t> fattening upon corn exclusively is thc cost. Is there anything else that is cheaper and that will at least pal tially take the place of corn P is a question which the intelli gent ferdor should always be as? teeas intemilgentry, no must seek for something that is nitrogenous, even if lie have a good supply of non-nitrogen oens food, like corn ; and while doing this, the question of comparative cost will necessarily present itself. Differ lnt locations and the stato of the .arkets will htave much to do with the solution of this qtuestion. In order to enable the reader to arrive at something like a correct conclusion as to the profit of substituting somo thing else for corn, or partially doing Eo, it may be well to state the estimate of the relative value of some of the foods as fat producers. A hundred pounds of Corl is intended to be equial to a hundred and thre pounld.s of barley ; at hundred and seventeen pounds of rye; a hundred and eighteen of oats; a hundred anet twen t.y-two of buck wheat,; a hummired and nineteen of linseed cake, xnd six h1ured and sixty five of mangolds. Now Witi such an est ilate a feeder can sit, down, nni with t,he mark et reports beforo him, easily dtelide which lie can feed muos', profita bly. liut. there aire still other things which are generally comaparativ-ely chleapi, and whlichi serve a nmcst excellent purpose whieni fed to0 hogs iinCI iinect ion with Icorn. We refer to) bran, m1iuidligs, shor uts an iiicr~~eeinCgs.- The mlost sue cessfuil feeler willI not, nieglect to con0 siderci such f'exls, anmi hie will not despise the still cheaper roots, iIe will never lose sight of t he fact eit her that thle hog wvill uit.i lize imnythlinug that is ait all eatai ble, and will co nsequtenitly not onily see that noIthlingo abouit, the preises of that eli aracter is waIStCd, but, can afford to piurchaise ablnoslt anything that is offered cheap. The general p)rop)er mianalgieent of hogs wi'll include comfortable quarters and care not to 1)0 overcrowded. In suiimmer they should1( have pllenlty of rang5e. Inl wVinter- their enclosures should be such as to shi eld thomi from storm aind co hl, fo r t here is nio u-o trying tol nmake r*Ok pr1o<4u tition plrofitab lo until this is done .!If'" are conlteut to feed gralin for t ho pu1rposo of keeping up a,o unniecessary wvaste of heat, we must, be satisfi ed to see our p rotit8 vaniishi. Ou r correspondhent in this inistance part icu larly states that his piggery will 1)e "'frost, plroolf andII havo every conveCn ien-e. Th 'bat i.s correct, but it will (do no hatrmx if we restato in this~ connetion what we have several times said be fore, I hat a hog (100s not r-equire a high tempel)rature 1. They will get along all righit ini a tempiercatuire of forty-five (do gre'es, and we thiink hotter thani In a high~ler'I tmprc at-uro. Their feeding pen s honhi dbh clean, for while the hog wvill cat food t hat is thrown into thle midst of lilt hi, if it can got no other, it prefers to be~ ted on a clean floor, and it need nlot be st ated that pork thuns madel is i tvery way better-.--Werlrn Rural. T -'wenm by-six years ago, accor-ding t< the l '(C I)ece Mrd/, it rained so harn that a pot 'night1een inches deep wa tllld and ran over between Sunmda night andiu M ond ay morning, and lt rmng of pceIh was foun d hanging to ii canoes werie padldled upj andl down hiE on the cou ntry highmways.; thle sheep aln hogi were caught in t: c forlks of th1 romis;5 the tish were stuck on bambo br-iari-; ani Pillpty barriel was fillled by th: raini at thlt hug,, even though thm spigget was oult all the while; and thi bark on thle eas~t side of all the p)in trees wvas wahed el. A BlANK in Lyons iiBes paiper eotore with litramrino'-il gfreen. TIhe bills o1 exchiange are lithlograplhed anud theo fig ures are 'writteni with all acidlaited1 inlk, so as to appear white upon01 a greoe round(. Thisj suemls to fu-msh t pcer ect sccurity againt alto tona, which you oann - ooe plug that he-isnot -New Yorkers seentofafr wealth. They hate 'eletied legislature two bankers, ive Ista and one plumber. News. -One of our exchanges recently4o. tained an elaborate editorial entitled ",The Bright Side of Journalism." The, editor had just heard that' a riv,A ha failed!-Boston Post. -Gambetta will lose two flagers as the result of playing with a toy pidtoL As he has already lost an eye, he will hereafter be often mistrken for a brake. man. -Boston Post. --"Ah, excuse me," exclaimed an Arkansaw man as he knocked down a stranger in the street. "1 thought that you were a friend- of mine. My eye sight is failing me, so that I'll' have to wear glasses. -Arkansaw Traveler. -The Coroner and the City Marsha' of a Colorado town are not on epaki terms because the latter saved the Iis of a man who came near to death on,the railway. The Coroner says that "np friend of mine takes the shingles off ml roof." -Prof. Tyndall says there will be wonderful change in the appearance df Niagara Falls in five thousand years. It is quito likely that there mill also be a remarkable change in ouraelves by that time. Any how, we shill see. .Korristown lcrald. a -It was but a simple pin, Puch says, on a chair, and the little boy did gria like a bear when the teacher took a seat, and in manner very fleet flew a half a hundred feet in the air. Thisthe teacher doth annoy, and he chants, and no pardon to the boy quick he grants. But he grabs the indiscreet little boy and him doth boat till ho rather spoils the seat of his "pants." -When he had called the meeting to order, Brother Gardner arose and said: "Gen'len, if it wasn't for do wheels of a wagon the wagon wouldn't move. When do wheels is on, den what!" "Grensel" solemnly exclaimed an old man. "Kerrecti" whispered the Pres ident, softly rubbing his hands togeth er. " We hez do wagon an' de wheels. We will now past do hat aroun' for de grease."-Detroit Free Press. -A white man not long since sued a black man in one of our courts, and while the trial was before the Judge the litigants came to an nmicabls set tlement, and so the counsel stated to the court. "A verbal settlement will not answer,'' replied the Judge; "it must be in writing. "1Here is theagreo ment in black and white," responded the counsel, pointing to the reconciled parties, "pray what does your honor want more than thisP"-Chicago Time. -The man who offers to pay hisland lady fifty cents a week extra if she will see that a butter plate is always before him at dinner, may be said to have un dertaken to make an extradition treaty. We own up to the badness of that pun, but it isn't so bad as one a friend of ours made when he said the clothes worn by the University students, and which seem intended to advertise their wearers as collegians. have a live cent, that is, " Harvard I'm" look.-Boston Post. Dust in the Air. There is scarcely a solid, however compact it may appear, which does not contain pores, and these pores are filled with air. It is to be found in abun dance in the soil; indeed, were it not so, numberless worms and insects which inhabit the latter would cease to exist. The most compact mortar and walls are penetrated by it, and water in Its natural state contains a large quan tity of air in solutin. The atnmosphere was formerl,y believed to extend no higher than hive miles above the earth'. surface, but meteorological observations have since shown that it extends to a height of more than 200 miles. Owing to the force of gravity the air is muoh denser near the earth, itnd gets thinner, layer by )ayer, as you ascend. If, then, the atmosp here were possessed of color, it would be very dark just round the globe, and the tint would gradually fade into space. There is no absolutely normal omposition of the air we breathe, or, if thero be, it Is, not at present known. It contains, however, in all cases, unless under purely artinl cial conditions, two essential elements, wilch are nearly invariable under normal circumstances, namely oxygen and nitrogen, and two acessory ele ments which vary extremely in amount, but are practically never absent, namely carbonic acid and water. Without either of t.he first two air could not exist, and without the last two air is scarcely found in nature. Their combi nation, moreover, is not a chemloal union, but a simple mechanical mixture. But besides these .constitucasL the air contains an immense amount of life, and small narticles derived from the whole creation. In the air may be found animalculos, spores, seeds, cells of al - kinds, eggs of insecta, fungi, and ele ments of contagion, besides formless dust, and sandy and other particles of local origin. For example, no one can travel in a railway carriage without being surrounded by dust, a large portion of which may be attaseted by a magnet, consisting, as it does, in a great measure, of minute particles of Iron deri1ved from the rails. The purest air has some dust in it. There probably never fell a beam of light from the, sun since the world was made which would not have shown countless numbers of solid particles.-Goodl Wordsu. Extra Hlazardous. A certain officer received a report of a policy written, covering, among others, this item : $150 on her 'wigs, braids, puffs, rolls, curls and other hair for her personal use, etc. The presiding genius of said officeex hibited an alarming ignorance of the subject in writing the agent as follows: " This is an uncommon item, and, as we fiind no blanks for an appropriate survey, you will lease speedily answer the following interrogations: What is the color of her hair ? and, if red, de cline. Is assured married or single ? I not single, is her husband quick tomn 'pered ? Does she ' fire up ' quickly horelef? If single, lhas sh beaux, and 'do they smoke ? Does Bhe use a spark 'arrester ? Is she near-sighted or cross oyedi, and are ber dressing-mirror lights Sglobed or baskoted ? Is she a match C maker, and is sho subject to 'em ? Has~ >she sparkling eves, and is she a heiress? ' Limit degr-oo o? heat of curling tong. ' and toilette chemicals to bay water anA ebampagnie, and not more hazardous. Strike out lightning clause if steel hair pins are used. (Jelluloid pins, back combs, hang supporters and other art'i (5l0s prohibited, and powder limited to twenty-five ponids in metal packages. If any moral hazard or enemies declina,." --A man should be regular in his haib its if his habits are .od7 Otherwise it were better in la&vatham altogether.