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VOL1. X-N.LPCKENS, S. C., T U-RSDAY, AUG.UST 5,18.NO45 Read ltefore the Richmion u (o ty (Ga.) %rl ,y eultutrnl )-oriety. (Frci the A otustaCi hra 1.) Much has been said and written upon this important subject, anid, ailithogh the merits of th system have 1beetn often and ably discussed, it does not seel to havo been presented with sulic forco us to recommend it to the great mass of our agricultural population. Tho great majority of Southern agri culturalists inugine they iud the methods of their fathers adequtte, it least to a poor support, and atre Ini'tfer cnt to any imiprovenu'1ts :'iggesteds b(y agricultural pa,pers, ma111gai4 JiRt ;, etc. In preparing this paper I tm indei)tcd for many valuable suggestins to our Commissioner of Agrieiultmi1e, (tl. J. T. Henderson, to Major .tiLuther M. luun soml, of the State 13oard of Agrieultre of the State of South (Crolina, to the book of husbandry by Col. George E.I Waring, and to Col. E. '1. t ckhouse for a practical letter upon lis own cx- 1 perience. l'raetically i good rot.il ion should dis tribute the farm work "yially, and it should give an opportunity for clearing the land, and it is gcle:ally Idvisel that the details of the rotation be regilated very mnch more by the fitriir's (e miand for food for his cattle than by any arbitrary rule, the two objects liug con stantly kept in view of furtisliiig, so far 1as postiil)le, regular employment for mnet and teams throulgiout the buiisy' seasonis, and of pursuing such a ctIrse as shnll< supply the land with the requisite manure at the proper time. i As at mattter of general advice, it is recommetided tlut the hulk of the frtm 1 manures be applied to uchit cropst as I corn, etc., as cannot he injured hv the most stimulating application, aid that 1 grain crops slould1 foltow tlhoso to whichl stable manures were origiIally npp)lied; that crops which have fe,-le powers of sending their roots deep in the soil in - searcl of food, such as wheat or oats, I :should follow such crops as elover or pea vines, which have this power inl an extraordinary degree. The crops whicl r&Shuiire clean culture, 1 and the expense of whose cltitivatioin is 1 very much increased 1by tie foulness of . the land, should follow:- crops which leave the land free from weeds or roots, after grain, and thiit ('ro,ps which re quire a large anounit of <-eoiposing, t orgamic matter, should iullow the de- I composition of roots ntild stbilhe grass. Two plants maty he cui:alt+"d side lv I side or successiv< I, w; ihi in t h;ey rei iar f uineqitl quantities of the s:uue constitut- 1 euts; at diflertnt timiies I lay will grow t luxuriantly without mitt;tnal injnry, if I they reqire for their developnu'it differ- 1 emt ingredients of the sil. As all phuits I remo% e from the suil c(rain i cOn"tituuits it is quite obvious that onte of theu Caln rend"sr it either richter o' tr Ioe fertile I for plttrs of another kind. If we conu- I vert into arable lands It soil h Ich has grown for centuries w::tod or Negeiut l which ha not chianged, iui if we spread over it the ashes of the wOe< and b(rush, we have added to thait conuinled within I the soil ia iew provision of :lkalinie lses and of phosplhates, which l:mty sulliice for a hundred or more crol.; of certain plants. If the soil cuntains; siliees sus ceptible of disintegrittiou, tiiien will also be present in it soluble silieate of potiashl or sotta, -avlich is necessar:y for renderinlg mature the stein of tie siliciOus pint, such as oat, wheat, rye sai birley; and with the phosphates alretdy p)reselt we have such It soil, all the eoidtitions leces sary, to sustain, luninterruptetd, crops (it corn for it series of yeirs. if this soil be either deficient or wantiing in thet siicates, bit yet conlttaill it gutintity of t 5-alt-s of lime and (of phoesphates, we will be enabled to obtain from it for a numiiber of years successive crop s oif toba)Iceo, peas, bens, etc'. But if nonie of the ini gredients furnished to these plaints be returnedl to the soil, it tiime must comle 1 when it can no0 loniger furnish their eon stitulents to a ne0w vegetattion, when it must beomet comp(5iilletely exhautmst ed iad at last q1uite steile, even for weeds. A field artificially prieparied for culture contins IL ceCrtam amiounit of assiilahted ingredienits, aliso of ammlioniiated salts and decayimog vegetabhle niiitte~r. The1 sysitemi of ro(tattion iadopited oni suh aL field is that piotash, planIts ( turnips or potaitoesi) is succeeded by a silica plnt (oats, wheat or barley, anid the latter by Jhne plants (peas~ or clover. ) All these plants requtire photspihites andl alkalites --the pottslh planiit re<p tiring the largest quantity of1 the lattr and the smllttest quanitity of the former; thle silien plants reqgiure, ini atdditioni to the solubhle silica left biy the p)otashi latnts, ai conlsiderauble quantity of phosphate, andii the suceceetd ing linio planits peas5 and il ov.r-re capaible of ex(hausltinlg the soil of this imi potan~it ingreodicnt to such ian extenit thtt there is only sutllicienit left to enab le Ia crop of oaLts to fotim their seed. A rotaitioni of cropsj) is attempi1ted so far as then exigenciecs of the cotton o'i p allowv, by followinig Cottoll with corn, andit that the sameil yearli w'ithi oats, sow ing pemas oii the stubble 11ind followiig wvithi cottoni the niext spiringf. IIome matnde manures are utsed so) far as they go~ with etxbOllnt results; compo1i(st (if noekCi and stable nurulie are cominlg mortie inito use, and the field pia, either tuirned uln dher or left to withler ain the surfacee, iadds largely to the fert,ility of tile sioil. llotationi of crops m nto whiere reduIcedl to a system. Wiithi a moderite use of manures and1( careful cuilturo the0 satme lands atrel lantted for years i cottoin -it is thought not only without deteriora tion, but wiithu actuail impriIovemet. Thie ratio which the pieCO of e(ittoni beari'u to( that of meat anti corn aff1ects tile sulces sirin of (crops5 more thanll aniythling etse. i%ovcrtheoless, the(re is buimt (ine oplinioni a1 ,o the beniefcial effect s of rotaLtion ill crops as a cheiapi mieans of preserving the .turmftimes's of the soil, tile sucecessioni of cr.)'s, c,ottoni, cornI anud smlll grain. In thL prui'(ce (if his fields, t ho fit'm or sells i'n ;'vality, his land1(. tie sclis in his crops cetj elemlenIts of thio atmU~os ph&m that are' co(iUnitl i bing replaice . f'rom~ that in haus1tile itore, and ertaini 'ons5tituentstu oif the soil tihaut are' his p'op.p erty, and1( which have'( seemued to formin out of the atmosp5~ hiCi( (elments, the body oif the planit. In atltogdther' aienaiut ing the crops of his fields, hle depriives the land of the condlition)s of their re production. A iiytemu of faruning, based upon01 such principles, justly deser'ves to be branded as a systemi of spoliation. Had all the consttituments of the soil, cair rica off from the field in the prod0(uce sold from year after year, or rotition after rotation, been completely restored to the land, it would havo presorved its fertility to the fullest extent. While one crop imay prepare the soil for the growth of another, and while during the growth of one crop certain olements which another would require are developed by natural agencies acting within the soil, the efflct of all cropping, that is, the removal of vegetatiolf from the land on which it grows, is to lessen the supply of mlineral ingredients in the soil, and the Longer we may be enabled to carry on mieh a process the more completely will be the exhaustion of the land. LITrr.r Roex, S. C., May 13, 1886. Mr. Wilberforce )aniol, Augusta, Ga.: Dear Sir--Your favor of 10th to hand, ferwarded from Marion. 1 fear Colonel l!usoml overestimated my ability to erve you. On a farm of sixty acres, livided into three fields, I have, for leven years, pursued i three-field rota ;ion--sla ll grain (oats and wheat), cot n011 an)d corn, with an ef'ort to improve he soil and obtain paying results by ap ilication of commercial manures, added "o what could be utilized on the farm. f ind I can in this way realize a modest (upport for my family fron the little arm. I try to grow all the peas possible with he corn, to have the land in the best >ossible condition for small grain. Then vhlen the small grain is harvested plant n peas. If I succeed in getting a heavy ,rowthl (f pea viner they will furnish ,1flicient nitrogen for the succeeding !otton crop. I have used liberally such o11nnercial lmlllure as I supposed best a(lapted to the crops and the soil. I ve about seven acres of land on which I grow annually two Crops-COttol and 'ye for winter amid spring grazing-which ua: paid me well thus far. Plant the :ott(ar about the first of May. Sow rye >etween the rows early in October. liar ow or plow in, the best I canl, so as not eriously to injure the cotton. I ai learning what I can of the grasses -looking to a greater diversification in arming and a larger rotation of crops. I look upon the above as better than 1l cotton, both for soil improvement tnd profits in farming, but a very im >erfect system. I have been following t because I did not know how to do bet er. Truly your obedient servant, E. T. STAe'KHOUsi1. I should be glad if I could add to the o1mpleteness of this essay by specifying o my associates in this club certain t,ations as being the best to adopt unli ler certain ciremnlstances, and I have ried h1ardl in examllination of the rotations ollowed in different parts of the country >y practical planters to this. But the esult of mily investigations has been sim >ly to convince me that there are so nlalny circlunstances of soil, c:im1ate, ocality, market, home supply and need f selling crop im order to get money for peeiall uses and afttir all so much to be oft to the fancy or whim of the farmer, hat it is not safe to state only general rmciples _which bear equally on all uses, and im view of which each culti "ator should select for himself after (li on1sideratiou, the system of cultivation hat it will be best for him to adhere to. W. DANIEL. he) Vo'p iolelen H ose. The receipt by the Queen Regent of >pail of the golden rose has led sonie llrious\wrter to put together the follow lg particulars conernllng the flower: 'e first of these roses were simple flow r1"s of red enmuanel, representing the atm-ral color of the rose. Later the olor of the rose was left white, and at arge ruby was put into the centre, the eltectionl from which gave the petals a mt. Innocent XI. had a golden rose unade which weighed over eight 1)ounds1, vas orninmnented with several sapplhires, mdl represented a value of over 10,000f. \lexandler V1II. ordlered one rose at ;,000f. anmd another at 4,000t1. Lately hie golden rose has been worth over O,000Of., anid has taken the form of a >i:anch with several flowers, a nia,ur-al -ose, which hazs been blessed by the Pope, foring the centre. Of this kind s the rose which the Quceen Regent of spain hats just receivedl. It is planted in limgnificenit silver gilded vase, which sa itsplendid exaniiple of Ronman work naniship. Thme rose itself is saidl to be a gmbhol of the Creator; thme slendlor and icehness of tihe mnetal represents thme sternal ligh t which surrounds the D)ivine, mid the pierfumes and( spices, which are daced ini the vase by tihe Pope, synmbol z.e the glory and resurrection of Chflrist. Phoe benedictionj of the rose is a solemmn erenmoniiy. Th'le IHoly Father, in his sacredl r(i>bes, reads the foma of the ieniedictioni from aL book which is held iy a Bishop. Two other Bishops hold mg lighted candiles standi( by his side. the high dignitaries of the Papal Court murrounid the P'ontiff, hohling the ini (ense, the holy wvater, the spices, anid inhier pierfonies. Aniothier dlignlitary knieeling prlesents thme rose to the Pp wh o reads thme prayers, blesses the ii .unse, the spices iand the pierfimnes, which are im turni presented to him by a Cardi nial. A fier p)uttinlg them into thme vase which holud the rose the goldlen rose is b,leme-d anld thle ceremoniy ends.--Pa1ll Mall (iazette. InyN Of (Grnce hii o)lfferent LandsiI. (Great Briitain, Ireland, liergaumo and Viena 3ii days. Fr anlkfor t, out oif fair timie, 4 (lays. Le~ipsie, Namb iierg andiu Auigsburg, 5 days Veniim, Aimsterdamt, Riotterdami, M iddlleburig, Anitwer-p, (olognme, .8reslaui, Nurmeimbuiirg an or ituigal , I days. D anitzie, loinugsbuirg iand France, 10 I hiuiiburig andi Stocklaum, 12 daiys. Naples1(, 8 lays; Spain11, II dauys; Rome, I5 (lays; (Genioai, 30 dlays. LJeghion, Milanu, anid somei othier laIces ill Italy, noi fi xed niumber of days. Slund(ays and1( holidays are inchlided ini the respite days at .L.ondonI, Naples, Amsterdam, Roitterdlam, Alitwerp~l, Mid dieburg, D antzie, J(oninlgsburg and 1. ranlce, but not at Venaice, Cologne, IUreshmiu and Nurembhuurg. At 11hunb1 urg the daiy on which the bill or note falls tluie maikes one of the days of grace, but Thre (lays' grace are allowed in North Amierica, aLt Berlir), and in Scotland. At Rio (10 'JanieirQ, .BJial, and other parts of Brazil, 15 days. In the United States the th oo of grace are reckopzed, exclusive of time day on which the n~ote or bill falls due,, an in cliusive of time last (day of grace.--Dry Goods Chmninin 7 Young Father Sh'rmnt, of Iirooklyn, Ilrnkw H11, vows of ('etlbey. (From the New Y9rk Star.) The announcement made a few days ago that the llev. William J. Sherman, the assistant priest of the Church of the VLsitatiol, in South Brooklyn, had brok en his priestly vows by marrying Miss Tillie McCoy, is believed to be true by the friens of both parties. Although said to be married on June 14, no one suspected it until thice weeks ago. The matter became a rumor about two weeks ago. Father Sherman is the son of Michael Sherman, a wealthy contractor living at No. 165 Warren street, South Brooklyn. Ho courted Tillie McCoy a few years ago, but vi hen she refuseA to marry hini he consenAd to the wishes of his parents and became a priest. After ordination lie resumed his visits to the McCoy fini ly, and finally induced Miss Tillie to marry him. The ceremony was per formed by llev. Francis J. Schneider, of No. 91 Second avenue, New York, who was roused out of bed to do the office. The groom said he was 27 years old and the bride 25. It is asserted that even after the marriage Father Sherman per formed his priestly duties, and vehem ent:y denied to his mother and father that he was married. Rev. Father Lane of the Ch,;ich of the Visitation said that he heard it in timated that Father Sherman had been married. "But as it was only a rumor," lie said, "I paid no attention to it. Father Sherman has been away on a vacation for more than three weeks, and, of course, before taking any action in the matter I want to wait a reasonable length of time to see if he intenls to re turn. lie should have been back several days ago. If he does come back I will not permit him to ofliciate until he clears his skirts of these charges. l understand that he dlenies that he is married. .1 t looks very strange, if lie is innocent, that he does not return or explain the cause of his absence." At the Episcopal residence the Bishop's sc cretary said that prompt steps would t)e taken to ascertain whether Father Sh,riman was married or not. As lie did not make any attempt to officiate, no action had yet been taken. Besides, no charges had yet been made. Now, that the imatter was the subject of public dis cussion, prompt action would he taken. If Fatler Sherman could not satisfactor ily prove that he had not been married he would be exeomnunicated. Of course the marriage could not be sanctioned by the church, so, if lie and Miss McCoy had be'in married they could never again be identified with the church. Father Sherman's parets 'mid his sis ter are heart broken. They refused to see any one except n1e,ir relatives. Michael Sherman, the priest's father is about 50 years of age, and a wealthy contractor. A reporter who called at the residence found the whole family in tears. When asked if the story was true, he said he feared it was. "If it is," lie said, between sobs, "the boy is dead to me. I never want to see or hear of him." ''])o you know where lie is?" "I have not the least idea. The farth or away the better, if this story is true. It has broken our hearts." Upon the front of the comfortable looking house at No. 12 Douglass street which has been for years the liome of Miss Tillie McCoy, was a bill announc ing the house to let. Thiings inside the house were in confusion. Carpets were up and the furniture was being prepar-d for removal. The aged mother and oth er members of the family were in the same heart-broken condition as the fami ly of Father Sherman. E_ward McCoy, brother of the alleged bride, is the head of the house. He is a fine looking, in telligent young man of 25 years. When asked about the statement of his sister's marriage, lie said firmly: ''We have no'thing to say about the matter.'' When informed in what frame oif mind the Shrman fiamily were, lie said: "I should think they would be to( have such a soni. They spent no end of monecy upon01 him." ''Will you not either deny or aflirm the statement?" '"It would not have been miade public only for the betrayal oif a friend. ]I[e was hard up for money and sold the in formation. I know who lhe is, and it woni't be good for him whien 1 lay mny hands on1 hiim.'" "DIlo you know where your sister or Father Sherman is?'' ''The latter I dlon't want to) know any thing iibout. I hope I will never see o>r hear of them.'' "D1onm't you know that they mire liviing some where on Atlantic avenue?" "T'o be caindidl, I do know. They are not at the lace ,you nameii. Unider no( circummstances will I say where Father Sherman is. I lowever, it will be impos sile for you or any one else to find him." It was said by thme nmeighibor's that owing to this aflir the McCoy family mntend(edl to leave Brooklyn. it is also believed that Father Sherman haes gone or going West. ''Yes," said tlhe parson at the tea table, ''young 'Jordan was out driving with Miss P.opinijay the other evening, aind the horse ran away. They were biothi thrown out and the b)uggy smashed to 1pieces. It was a Providential escape for bo0th of them; but I. canniot und(erstanmd how the young man came to lose control of his huorse."' ''iIe must hiave been driving with one hand,'' flippantly sulggestedl the mimnis ter's soni, a wild rake of a boy. "Or, p)erhap2s, hie liad the reinis around his neck,'' safid Edith, a shy young beau ty of sixteen, wvith a chiarumingly meodest mneini. And theni everybody exclaimied mn chorus: "Why, Edith!"'' Cambridge Chironi. ele. A Persiani poet gives the following in striict ionis upon this imiportanlt subl ject: "'When thou art nmarriedl seek to please thy wife, but listen not to all she says. Froii moan's right side a rib was taken to formi the womni, anld nmever was there seeni a rib quite straight, and would'st thou straighten it? It breaks, but bends not. Since then 'tis plain that crooked is woman' s tempher. Forgive her fautm and blame her not, nor let her anger thee, mnor coercion use, as all is vaini to straighten wvhat is curved." 'I hey Are Walled to "spot" the HlreakerN of the Prohibition L an%. (From the Ncw York World.) Waldo and Theodore Barnes, two efl'eminato looking stripliiigs, believe that i they Iave experienced a divine call to I redeem Ilhodo island from the ruin that thmtratens in conse<iuence of the defec- 1 tiv.i construction of the new prohibitory i law-. The act, which was framed by 1'r.:l>ibitionists unlearned in the law, was < ma,de to read that no intoxicants shall be < raclo or sold ''as a beverage," thus lim iti ng the illegal purposes and leaving the tanufacture or sale open for all other 1 p'arposes. The result of this has been 1 t convert the State into a vast entono- 1 I ogical museum. Nearly every third ,Xrsonl has taken an interest in the k alcoholic preservation of bigs, eatapil lars and insects of every description, I and, therefore, the consumption of a spirits has abatcd little since the reign of temperance began. )efianee of the law I was observed in all quarters, especially I in the country, but no warrants wore I issuel, the authovitics knowing that it' would be useless to act with the old gang I of spotters, whose rascally connivance 1 with venal magistrates was recently ex posed by a legislative committee. Thc f frauds of these spotters were so glaring f that no jury would convict on their tes- I tinony, and to the dismay of the Prohi- t bition party their aneninent to the con stitution seemed a dead failure, while i these beardless boys presented theni- t selves and made known their alleged mission. The Joan-of-Are call came to them r siltiltaneotusly while they were boiling a dead1( horse, and they there and then resolved to devote themselves to the ser- t vice of the State as detectives. '1'he father of the Barnes boys has carried on 1 the profession of horse knacker for many years, and his soils have grown up to b'e experts in the art of extracting the fats - from the carcasses secured by the old l gentlenlatr. The authorities were at first incliIed to trat the young men as maniacs, 1but thc earnestness, honesty and candor of the lads pleaded for them 1 anlid they wre .llowed to try their amateur detective hands on the violators of the liquor h.w. Elaced over their ap- a I)ointment, Waldo and Theodorc re turnedl home and began to lay in an out lit for their tir.st crusade. In the light Af their knowledge of detective work, t alerived almost wholly from books of the Jonathaln Wild type, the lads believed they could only aecomplish their pur pose wtiilh the aid of disguises. From the relics of a long ago stranded dra- 3 miatie Comlpany tiay prOCilred wigs, m oustaches, irate,' b eards, eorsair lshirts and other suitable costumes. I Packing 111) these with a map of the State and a copy of the prohibition law, the boys started out on their expedition. A pair of horse pistols completed their outlit. F'roi the outset they niet with signal success, obtaining sales at scores of piaaes and collecting evidence of the most itcontrovertille character. They could have obtained all they wanted by a wink of the eye, but the striplings were impressed with the idea that they must he disguised and that their throats would he cut if their disguises should be penetrated. Tlus, instead of walking up and getting their drinks in a natural way, they apieared as aged travelers, castaway sailors, etc., bent with years, trembling ill gait and with ha'nging tongues. .ii this way the inspired youths sie (ceded in bagging lifty law breakers, 3 and with one exceptiol altl have hecnt I convicted or adjudged guilty and re mtanded for trial inl the higher courts. - T'he boy detectives make good witnesses, 11d( cannlot be bleaten down hy the cross LrxaminIation. They are honiest and con scienltions5 in their alleged mlission, anld ~ Lave such pheOnminal maemtories thait rIhey nlever mlako anly mlemloranada, nor an1 thley bIe tripilped ill court ulpon a1 date ~ >r daIy. Iln at lne ciounitry inn1 where t rIhey went disgulised in costumes that . lad been used( ill fIngomari, the landlord was so scared( at the sight of the lieree ~ ooking visitors that lhe fled, leaving al11 bis illicit stock to themt. D)isguised as i 'ham diggers they visited another plaice, mid aifter making a sale thley caLme into t own and were phlotographed. They r hiow the poritralit tad re' .dt the adIven- ' buires with great relish'. A few evenings I lgo) thecy imaligined that, a commaittee of I leperate saloonists were charged with ' he duty of dlirkinig them, and they senit ~ >ult an1 alar'm to the the police, 'but it t vas nlothinig b~ut their highly drlamaitic r malIginlat.on. Once within the w~aills of I heir isolated dwelling, where tihe dead i or15e cauildron is rum, and they are safe I roma the mlost daring assassini. '1he ' Iromai of the swvelterin g carcasses makes t lhe plaice im apregnal e. 'Te chief of o(lice has now a hluge stack of war'ranits ( eady for service, and1( upon0 IL given ~ tight olicers will sally forth and execute a' Th le case~ of Meyer', editor of the IDrum,onit, the author of IL book calledl 'ALa Franiice 'Juiive,"' ini whlich MI. Meyer' v'as violenatly attacked, ha11 just come b)e-. oIre the Correctional 'Tribunal. It will i >e remlemb Ier'ed t.hat M. Meyer twice 'aught hold of his adv ersalry's sword, hitum placeing the hatter at a cotnsiderale lisadvant.age, in fact, virtuanlly dIisarm - nig him, andl the second timto he did so an1 his sword thtroungh M\1. I)ruamonit's high, cuittinug a vetn. 'The point at ssuie is whther the acitsedl party actedl huts willfully or involutatlrily foi oan nistinact oIf sel f-praeservatiton. (One of M. t DrumonCtl's seodIa M. A\(~4i obnIlhonse'' (I Dauet,r' word,plic eareoa li ness.l Jle I lion eraedly. Meyaser t f oulh ihae of inigl w'ltitheeiationa s1eie lie ' uhtlersary ' t w orlu elarise'y whatlhe l ali tohicamllyO cnesiuedfu p a d vn mg unintentoal.asa ''igh reprhen'sbld atio,buhe ellgtIa iI h'otd have retaied111 ealf-aser. Te ''ut'se ur judment. -ars?''s 'atin toiLng.do N(ews. Tomt "Wehan to gtee nachlanged."') Wliheo I wicer." "To) Warble Twice?" t "Yes. Alle stme Sing Sing." - T111E Hl"'It:AL !:OL'T'l. Improved Condition ("iNequt"l I ion the Late %nr. Corre.apondence of the 8acr.tmento It cor! -t';ii .) { I watched the chanuge through the ter ille time of lieconstruction1 and ctrp(et ag rule, or uisrule. None of the ;hanges that have since taken phect cm ncnced until about 1878- -80. Sinec that imne business has improved in all its ranches; inmigrants have iee , el oned, and in a utni 1er of cities North rn men and capital have been invited. L'ho old burned districts in the South )rnl cities andl towns have been rebuilt, 'ailroads improved, wvator p)ower sites itilized, and manny changes mtade that to hose who have only just wvitiessed thtse :lanlges (returning there since the war) 1eem little short of liratculous. This change is not confitnled to the cit v tlone. The country and its people hav'e also felt the result of that great struggle, ven to a greater extent than1 the city )colel. Frane houses now occupy the )lace of the old 1)o1 houses. A new ole house 111 the South inl lost sections vould see111 like a relapse to ai age long >ast. Lamps have taken the place of )ine splinters, used for light so long. .iity-miade chairs, tables, 1bed:stead1s, etc., ill the pIatce of the old hoie-made ''he ore-the-war truck." 1{ural 1atgatzincs ud agricultural ipers can be Seen11 in heir htomes, and children nitw read anid utelligently discuss the news of the ivy or and to parents who never enjoved he privilege of reading for thense.Llv es. L'here is also a nmore general desire to liversify the crop:s and to plait gardens and friut trees. The churches (.11aptist >r Methodist) are of frane, and clhirs >r easy-lbacke(I w1"oodenl 1beitches now ike the place once occtup ied ihv a couple >f short blocks with a itde on top t) sit 1)onl. it seems tIlt to g;'t religion in mne of those old backwoods chrcthes hould1( enititle one toi ran k as at sainit in hlie calendar of the churehe:;. 't sit for tours ont such seats, to kneel tin the n ven floor, and, when the religion was it ertaiuty, to be taken out in th(" wo iods and baptizedi in a lond abnost alive with otung alligators and wdater mnocctsinls, as presng cnduramice to the ver y furitii r edge. tote of these new 'lmirelies .re pin11tetd, land J say this, with all (:miI lon, that 1. have heard of one oil i;ig fell liole Swamp that luts :nttti g. . L'rte, no one there emi 1play it, but it ot there all the silame. Less thantm three years aig, whilc inl on1vers.tionl with at man of thi:: lil,ta iid overseer and a very anird-working ntl, 1 said to hin: '"1.1". S., w t il on fight for, any way"'' lie btsitatt(d miomnent, thleii htookted rotualt at his gar 111len and his house, and lis girls otn the )orch, reading and sewing, and, dt ubl(t ess, com1p'arilig their lot with hiis a:md heir mother's when voitig, ie rib pie 1: '1 did not know at the tint", but I alve ften thought," andil touchino: hi:; new iouse with his Ib:utl and nin-l:li, Iim onclude-. "it nmst Ihate beei for this, fter all." Within teln yards frot where xe were staniding was li, Old hme, at tle house, with an c:tithen flour, co 1 uilling O110 room, inl size aho ut I-5 liv 12 ect, and in which he andt1 his wife 'and ive girls had lived iittil aiter the war. ['he com11)arison between tiht old slinolty trld the new house of five roomis, a tiet' ,irden, and everyth in .g lovily altd miling, struck evei tiiim, manil spo k: olum es of the ohl past, tha:tt limil11y for' Ie white, as well as the ld:u-k ntam, )ld neVer return again. Land that couhli e purelmsl 1"11 ecalu-s ago for fifty cents lin aere, t> he aid for at ilnost aiiy tine, i:; iw li t I o get for : or 0 per acre (ash, furt ilw imher alone upon it is worth t hat nieh. Upon a recent visit. I was ;itiek i to ind a saw-nill in full last, run ity an x-Confeder'ate Majotr mat a Yank, uiponu lie site of mlaniy ai hiappy idayt's dieeri mat iirktey hunt that .1 hiavtt enjo iyed. A tl'ge numblIher of the peoptle knoitw itf ianil .ppr'eciate thetse chianges in the'ir ctindi ion), anid yer ofnnkowdeth bligaition they consider llu-msetle hIn er to the wvar for' huavit biroutght tis hlange ab oiutI. 'The life and sinew tif thie Stuth dii 1not hlink oif the war or its cionlstteencesan mre', on1ly to cherish the memliory, it bose thity foulgh t. b y t he sitde ofi, ian'id tt enhz'/e that it left. thiem ini a poasit ion -her1e thley had to "'gilt up aind itust. Itow well they haive tdone so theim roiveti coniditioni of tIht moist itlitieratte tet ini thle Uiioni textiliis li>-day. 'To 1e wiar wits an iunmiixed ev il, toii a gret iaiy it wits a great letssing ini disgui., da large' nmnhitr knotw mail slptak itf as such. Andt if' it was now et iIto ai .1e old order oft tings. To most of then d.1 1I)av is is li i in hidliattle flag-he riepresent s all thlit niCe held tde r'; hie retenils iol nameuls, ol'd ices, hoples amid aira)iit itns; si whi het' i lhhpappears amiiong themiu ther vill fthm elves hoa'se, for ht biringps'hack Ito them i 11 memontries tihey i on.sider sa-redI lemiories thiey wtould not. pami t ui i blfr f themn wvoultd nt live ivier ainr Io ay,. Let, then have theiir tiist gl>i i. 1et thiem chleer thir ol tlheathers. 'They 'alize, even b etter1 tihani we do t li lii's i all that is left (of the cause5 theye ouised. ('rtat, multiiidts o< fiGsh havte r''eently' icen foundii deadi ini t wa;ter-s of thIt mileuhs southwest iof W:hn in tont. Thie 'ater' is cioveredt biy an0 oi ly scumin, wh iieb 'his ily setn, wihich is supplte>l. lii avte tcautsid thle iota:lity imitng thei >metsppos ihtiti t a vistl wit ba . fi oil hail fonm ieredti in the i niighbor ponli the oily wteir, andithIlii iufacet S smoo(thl its glaiss. 'het ilad I tsh a rt iiftinig tip on the shuore bty thtoiusandl it osedi that thtr'e are nii liveib, le ift i haulloftte River', or' within tent iihi of' s motutih. 'Thetre is great. exeicitmunt vi'r tht atfltir, though nit onii hitis t'ver 'tiugiht of thie probabliility that theire is il territiory in the vicinity, antd that an nknown oil spring has fountd its way toi Ite sirfaice of the grround, h.altimnore mtericlun LIi2a,a1eurni I %IM'1)01'ED VOMIN. \Vhnt Sh11 He flone l itth Those WVho (an f1o Nothing I ( Ilbr C. l.phain in the Forum.) To the thoughtful woman the question recurs agaim and again, What can be dole with the purposeless, untrained woilin willing to work for wages but uinlable t4) sptindl time and nmoley in a loultftl atteiiipt to fit themselves for a lrti 'ular occupation? A woman's ex cllanige is chiefly a storehouse for unde sirable artieles, a few of which are boliglit in pity. It is a device of those who are earnestly seoking to help their fellow-women and not a natural out growth of the law of supply and de mand. The training school begins at the foundation; it fits a girl to hold her own, asking no favors. A womian's duty begins with tho wo man nieairest to her by ties of blood and affection, and stretches out to those ac counutel less fortunate than herself; but it does not end there. There are women far above her in the scale of wealth, peraips, who need a wider outlook and broaler sympathics; who need to be dlrawin out of themselves and their ex elusiveness; who need to be interested in the great, busy, struggling world outside of their circle, and to feel that upon them rests, in part, the responsibility of making it better and purer. In some ways they are more restricted than the womn1 who sews for them. The wife of i teamster, if she have the time, can take iu) aly renminerative employment, uad her friends neither question nor ro p:udiate her. The wife of a millionaire, posseCd of unlimited leisure, must be idle. For ''lie also is idle who might be better employed." If she can endure the epithet of ''peculiar'' she may give her life to the investigation and improve mnnt of teiement houses or devote her self to a particular line of study; other wise her work for her fellow-men and Wuiomn will be confined to charity balls nid ft>shionable bizairs. To do aught w lhieh would bring her at return in montey is not to be thought of for an instant. Amid from the wife and daughter of the milillionaiire to the girl who starves be hiniul ma counter rather than go into a confortalble kitchen, the sam1e power is at work. Alas! how weak we are. Wo 1ni'n nuay say that all honest work is en nnolling, and all voluntary idleness b littihi ng, inl talit, inl comparison with the wonumi \ who never lifts a finger to rve itmtier, nor has a thought above her (o adlornmlent aid her social coll (luests, the woimn who does the work of her kitchen, if she do it well, is worthy of ill the honor; but the conviction has not yet beconle at part of them. F.\l:l ('.111:4;-', ltf-MORtS. . t'h:igi " ttnpi anin-ed boy 'remident Clve inn.. W.illN Nc<ro, -lly 28.--Rumors about (ibine eltuiages that be gin with the dis plirlelit of M\r. hmai ing, follow with the w"ithdraw:al of Mr. I;ayard and end with the exuision of Mr. Garland, wing thi ir way into sight here pretty regular ly once a week, aul have to be about as often ias Ilit circumistantially denied, in order to relieve the public of the im pmrossion il,itt the relations of the present ('mlainet falmily are to be clianged. The st(is. ailoit M'. Maninllg aire based ulpon ti a iimnption that his health will n( it he sulicielit ly restored to eible him S (t -s1mw his dilties in the Treasury .De .trtilit'nt. Those aiit \r. Bayard are in nearly very case iii;plre1 by mo0tiveso f hostih ty, :nl have not been allowed to rest for ii m i utsince they started, soon after he fii!el to unike Mir. Williani Ilcnry ili' lbt'f, the friem of MIr. C. A. )ana, Mliii;str to Italy, and Geineral Charles 1 ihn, thme frienid of Mr. Pualitzer, Min. is(te o Auistriau. The dlesire to get Mr. (marhuaml ouit oif the Cabinet is miost zeal ou~sly oxp ra ssed b y p ersuons who( haimve inih- arg(iuits mgmainist thle prosecutionl if th li e Llt teleoneoii suit brought by3 thie governimenot, amid who are at the same hiis simit 5:0 of i e!x-i)nator ,J0oeph E. :Mel)oniald, onea oif thle co(uns.1el for the llItlllTelpone~ Company. This fact ilnW iiwould appeiar to lie ani obs5tacle to) .\ir. Mie l>1ibhl's Iprefermenit for a Cabi iiet plosj i iin, even if it were not true that whliebi (alls him fre<pmiently to the dle piiarmtt anid to the Iloor' of the Hiouse l'rmiii a souiir('e thaut entitles thme asser H ns lii hei flh-itst hbelief, it is aiscertaineds Iliat there is abisiuluitly 1n0 foundalitioni for any of thle innoris iibouit Cabinet Al:iimV. It is ertin that Mr. Bayarod hIs no t tl. shlitist initentl in of with lirawinig. I lis111 reiions with thme Priesi lent auii all thei rnembes of the Caobiniet ulii cuitliartly plealshanlt, anld the omiestic itllietiions fromi whlieb lhe hasi sufferedt imtve semeda to h inda to theim with an tle(t ionii wiib ilils bleen most marked(. l imnails aillectin g Mi. Bnyardt's dlepaLrtuire rirn l 1he Cabiinet iamy be set aide(l aIs en irely wor illessI 5 01 n l incorriect. L aw (lerk An.\ st itt, of th1e Supj en-isinig A rchiitect's iilli of the Treabsury I )epart iaint, is itority faor tIhe following lao. W\illiama 1. miithm in thamt plo.sitioni, mic biein tormen(itied by ai large nulmblher if i ilieieikers since lie ais.sonied charge li theopint ing powerIt. IeI ims already iarnetoi iislt ingiuishli thprofessionlal ilac -hui'ter . A! grat propo1rt ion f or ad are still wait ing. 'Their un prlmbb''ihl idisir toii serve their (counitry mdi thla.lve i in thme Trasxumry D)eparit nilt lema t hlim to aitteimpit a little ima vi'ry ilaiy soic aemme<>f thieml> jrefaces his >r her mplihat ion with floe statemenit: hant I shoiuhl lmvi ia posit ion oni such1 tlypointmient. Thii'. ltle trick of theirs a as reIla Il ol r. Smithu when lhe visited biii dlparnen1t Iist weeik, ad, enlling iis ~aiinvernor Thompiilsito few~~ miinlutes ater, hii remiaikd, giood-nalmturiedly: "'if voniii hei vi all thle stor,ies; olIlee-seekers oIll yout abiiutl iiii you nmiist believe mae ti lie thei greatist econmoimizer of truth omn aarth. ' "Oh, ni," replied the Governor, lilyaI, '"1 doini't believe~ that, bumt I am bieguiningm to thinmk you themost promnis l'ot,.imoly v(9. TOMMIR CLUVERIUS. lie Calmly Contemplates the Future and Loveo Flowera. (Fron( the Richmond Dispatch.) Thomas J. Cluverius, who is confined in the city jail for having murdered his cousin, Fannie Lillian Madison, is still kept in solitary confinement in one of the upper rooms. His room is a small one and overlooks the lower portion of the town in the direction of the Chesa peake and Ohio depot. The furniture consists of a single bed, a pine table with a bowl and pitcher, and a small pine bench, upon which are several potted plants-geraniums, etc. Cluverius is said to be very fond of flowers, and whcnevar he writes to his aunt and brother, with whom he corresponds regularly, speaks of his flowers. Cluvo runs enjoys good health; keops in good spirits, and is polite and courteous to his keepers, who speak in commendatory terms of him. hlis meals are furnished him twice a day from a restaurant. Cluverius wears a gray suit, and is neat and careful of his appearance. Ho has his hair cut close, and shaves regu larly twice a week. lie reads much the Bible and newspa pers especiall . His aunt and brother, w ho live at Littlo Plymouth, in King and Queen county, have not been to seo him for several weeks. Occasionally visitors call upon him, but are not admitted without his consent. A reporter of the Dispatch called at the prison a few days ago, and Cluverius expressed his willinguess to see him, provided that nothing about the visit was to be written. The terms being so unfavorable to the reportorial business, they were declined with thanks. At Staunton, September 10, or soon thereafter, the Virginia Supreme Court Appeals will decide whether it will give Cluverius a rehearing. If their decision is adverse, as it now seems sure to be, Judge Atkins, of the Hustings Court, will appoint the (lay of execution. A G:iOMT AT 'rTm 'TlilioTiTLE. A Stranlge Apinrttoln t en in a Worcester WorlinhlWp. For some time queer stories have been told of unusual proceedings at the Wor cester Steel Works at night. Complaints were made of assaults coniiiitted and of the general conduct of the men who in sistedl on going in and out, at will, until at length, to check those alleged out breaks, the mtnagers re(iested polico protection. Patrolman )ealoy was de tailed to go on duty there after 9 o'clock at night and remain until early in the morning. Michael Gleason, one of the em ployees, told ia Times' correspondent a queer yarn about an experience that ho had recently. Ie said that one night lie was walking through the mill, which was well lighted by electricity. When ho passed the boiler house he saw a strango man standing inside with his hand on the throttle of an engine which had not been fired up. Thei man looked at Gleason for a moment. Gleason spoke to him jokingly and asked hin if he was going to start up. The stranger's coun tenance did not change and his eyes seemed to jiump from their sockets. The man was unknown to Gleason, who had worked in the mill a long time and know everybody. Turning quickly Gleason ran to the other end of the mill, very much frightened. Large drops of per spiration stood out upon his face, and suddenly ie swooned away. Gleason said, that he was cared for 1by his com panion, and when he recovered lie told him what ho had seen. lie described the man's appearance minutely, even to to the striped jacket which he wore, but no one knew him. Fiinally some one recalled the fact that it was a perfect de scription of an engineer who was killed two years ago at thme very spot where the strange appiaritioni was seen by Gleason. Many) ol the workmen are firm ini tho belief that it was the ghost of the dead engineer. Having felt some uncertainity as to the eflicacy of M. Pasteur's pirocess for coim bating that fatal disease hydrophobia, I camne here somet days aigo to studoy the qluestioni andl the evidence on the spot. 1 hasten to say that all may doubts as to the v'alidhity of this greatest of modern liseoveries hiave been dispelled, and for the following reasons: M. Granicher, wvho has made a ver~y careful analysis of' the cases treated iup to June 1G at the Rue Vauqueini, informed mec that of 96 patients b)itteni by doigs (the disense of which was certified either by the inocuila tiin of other aimali~is after their death with the brain or spinal cord pirovini [atal, or by the fact that some animal bitten b'y the doJg had sutcumb)ed to iydrophobia,) of these 96 cases only one lied subseq uently to the cu rativo inocu Lations. 'This gives a dleath rate of only -044 per ccent. Again, ;44 pamtienits had becen bitten by (logs the matdness of , hicht was cerntifled to by the voterinary piactioinr of the commnunte, mand out of these there were three deaths, whichx gives a death rate of only 0.46 per cent, 1'aki g these two categories together, Lhme death rate was only 0.75~ per cent.,, whereas from a very accurato series of' statistics collected by M. Leblanc, vet rinary practitioner of thme city of Paris, t results that, as a rule, 16 per cent, oIf much cases may be expected to succumbl to htydrophtobia. The1i value, theni, as M. Grancher says, of the curative process f M. Pasteur may lie repI resenited as 2at himes as great as that of all (other treat mients. I may add that, with the ex ~el,tion of the prick with the fine-pointedl injection syrmige, patienits have no other Innoyance to complain of, as there are ablsolutely no syimptomnr, and( 10 puncitt. ures on 10 successive (lays are suiflicient, 'Io me the question is therefore judged, anid all whio are im dlanger should submit to this little operation..-Dr. C. li. Drya dale in London Times. lirothei Sam .Jonies muist get ump someo new poits. Th'le New O)rleaniu leayun4j objects to thme well kntown (log story, aind ahins; iIe said, it will be renmemnbered, that if this animal wecnt to see a base ball1 game ho would kill him, lie also thireatmeed to kill htim if he did various oilier thiuigs, Ilig latest threat is that if this dog votes for an but a ,Prohihition candidate lie wIll annllh late him i. It's a wonder that the dog hasn' auffered a sudden death long ago. Proba bily, though, this dlog is ah'endy (lead. Hoe is certainly too good to be living in thi~ wvork1 of sin,