Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WWZ' . : \ ' ' ' I, v* # -La ** ' .* */ '/ ,4 TIE WEIILI^SoiiOH TIMES. " ' 1 11 1 ' . _ _ *';0V::L S^?? *? iorii^illuri;, j}omi;stiit ffqonomj, f}olitf. JTiteraturii, J)oliti<s, and thq dfurrtnt $tms of the ling. VOL. VI?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 29, 1875. NUMBER 43. f jvuMi'i orinov ow misMomu. Grandmothers art rtry nioe folks; . They beet ell the eunU in creation, They let e chap do M he likee. And don't worry about education. I'm earn I can't see it ell. Whet e poor fellow eeer could do , For apples, and pennies, and oakcs, Without a grandmother or .two. Grandmothers speak softly to "ma's," To let a boy have a good time ; Sometimes they will whisper, 'tis true, 'Tother way, when a boy wants to olimb. "Grandmothers hare muffins for tea. And piee, a whole row, in the cellar, And they are apt (if they know it in time) Tn make ohlcken pie tor a "feller." And if he is bad now and then, 1 And makes a great racketing noisn, They only leak eeer their specks, ^. And say, "Ah, those boys will btrwoysi i "life is only so short at the best, . Let the children be hannv (h-Hm " 1 Then look for awhile at the sky, ' And the hills that are far, far away. ; 1 'Quite often, as twilight comes on, t Grandmothers sing hymns very low , To themselves as they rock by the (ire, / About Heaven, and when they shall go. ^ And then, a boy stopping to think, 1 Will find a hot tear in his eye. To know what will come at the last, 8 For grandmothers all have to die. ^ 1 wish they could stay here and pray, * For a boy needs their prayers sv'ry night; a Some boys more than others, I s' pose; t Suoh as I need a wonderful sight. t For th? Union Times. ' Idle Moments la an Old Library. r NO. 19. a Da. L*moxl B. Asnrw lived on the lot now ? oocupied by Maj. MoLure, in 1814, 1815, 1818, b 1819, 1820 aad 1824, he seems to have an appli- b cant at the old Library for books. From his c Record he was certainly not much of a reader. ? Dr. Askew was an eccentric man, honest in ^ his conviotions, stubborn in his prejudices, retieent in his disposition without much social feelings about him. He was one of those wise lookinw men lik? nn?l? n;il? ?- " ^ ? ? ? ! / lu iiic vi corgi a _ Scenes, who never hturded an opinion whioh compromised his judgment. He was a kind B neighbor, devoted in his friendships and cau- B tious in the expression of his opinions. He ? never had much reputation as a physician. His ^ record speaks for itself: Pi Medioal Extracts, Encyclopedia, 8herlooh on p Death, American Revolution, Bunion's Natural History, Ac. p N HURT MSHHAXB. Henry Bernhard was a portly, fine looking pey ituilrfimM e 1 |M| " position.?one who eqjoyed life andviroubled 'Klmself eery little about what might turn up in tthe future. He lived in the house now occu- . '.pied by Mr. Moses?the upper part being used ;ss the "Dwelling House," the lower part as a store-room. Mr. Bernhard was in partnership with the date Clough 8. Sims?Sims finding moat of the capitol and Bernhard the business qualifications. After a few years of apparently prosperous 'business, Mr. Sims found out that the funds had fteen applied to other purposes than the payment of the Firm's indebtedness and that he <waa left to foot the bill. We don't know what became of Bernhard.? Jie does not seem to have cared much foT books. ( Very light reading constituted his pabulem. Aa lnsuranoe Bombshell. j A convention of lnsuranoe Commissioners and Superintendents was held in New York last week. . 1 i We learn from the New York papers that the ' *1 harmony of the body was unpleasantly disturbed f by Commissioner Johw A. Finch, of Indiana, c who quietly dropped the biggest kind of a bomb- t hell plump into the midst of the body. The order of the day was the delivery of addresses. When Mr. Finch's turn came he made a com- 1 pact, logical argumeut, intended to show his colleagues the errors under whioh the whole system of Life Insurance has been laboring for many years past. He contended that the contract for life insurance is the most one-sided known in i business ; that it hinds the policy holders as with 1 a chain of rivetted steel, and the company as I ' with a rope of sand ; that the companies have < f - every advantage of the policy holder in regard to payments of dividends, the satisfaction of claims, the elections of agents and solicitors; that the responsibility for contracts is gifted ( from solicitor to general agents, from general 1 agents to the companies, and from tlie companies I back again ; that the companies *'sit in a myste ] ry and speak in tech nival phrases," and that when a policy is forfeited or lapses from any ' cause, "the holder receives what the oompany graciously will give." ? This, remarks the Brooklyn Argut, is a stern "indictment, striking at the noot of the preeent .system of conducting the life insurance business. By way of remedy, Mr. Fisca proposes the passage of a new general law, which shall make mil life policies non-forfeitable after the first payment, oompell the oompanles to be responsible , for the acts of accredited agents and solicitors ; , permit no defense at law for fraud in applicaiU> ?i l- - rwtvm* v? ?uv i?pbv v? u*v j %rmrwf ?uu uj?rv n .contract between company end holder m binding 1 .as any other oontract. This proposition ia auffi- l Gently sweeping to stir the whole life instfranee i Interest to its foundations. It will please the great mass of people who are policy holders? . .and it will displease a good many of the companies who hare figured conspicuously in the law 1 Courts in contests over claims. But, oonsider- 1 fag the fact that there are in the State of New I York alone more than 800.000 holders of life ; policies in the different gradea, and the addi- ' tional facta that this vast army of the prudent are insured to the amount of $'2,000,000,000, the [ new departure suggested by the Indiana Com- < missioner becomes at once a subject of popular < interest. The bold dofense of the policy holders ( y will naturally make Mr. Pinch the leader in a new agitation. The companies will be heard 4? due time.?Ckroniele and Sentinel. 1 .1 s I Jtnxtn Lynch at Won*.?New Orleans Octo- i ber 16 ?The following telegram was reoeired | by*the Governor last night: I Baton Rocas, October 14. 1 Oonrnor Antoni*, Nev Orleans: I Jc^n Gair was arrested here yesterday by I DepuW Sheriff Woodward, charged as an aecesI sory 14 the poisoning of Dr. J. W. Sanders.? B He wad taken by a deputy Sheriff and fete torn wards Ottnton. Reports received here say John 1 Gair ?if shot In death on the road, and kia !*. in ooort bouM square tfcere. Mrs. OalrU here, end is not dleturbed \ HENRY 8CHORTER, Mayor. I \ * I 9 For tbo Times. FOBBIGH CATTLE HAVE LOHO HOBN8. Mr. Editor :?A good deal of space has been devoted in oar Agricultural journals of late to maximum crops. People are always very much taken by statements of crops at a distance, while in their owu county perhaps thoy could 6nd cases quite worthy of study. In tumbling over some old papers a few days ago I came across the enclosed Report of Dr. R*v of * ^ 1 ? planters o? hie day, and one bf fee clcverest fellow* and staunches! pitmta^^jl buckled on his sword in the Confederate service. You will doubtless rocognisetne typographical features: DE- D. W. EAY's BEPOET. Mr. Editor :?Will you do me tho kindness to publish the result of Dr. Ray's plantiug operations in 1860, as submitted to the State Agricultural Society ? Dr. Ray cultivates one of the poorest plantations n tho Fork, (Richland,) hut he has demonstrated, satisfactorily to himself and his leighbors, that by the liberal application of ?uano, Gypsum and barn-yard fertilisers, he an secure maximum crops, and that the and does not deteriorate under their use. The soil is sandy, with a yellowish clay ubsoil. There must be some peculiarity in his soil, which secures uniformity in results, or in all our experience we have not been ble to attain anything like certainty from he use of Guano. Its beneficial effects eem to have been established throughout hat flat, sandy region below Columbia, ostiug upon a cold day subsoil; and the oils in the baok country which have (econmicnliy) responded to its application, have een, as fur as we can learn, of this characar. We have heard of very few successful xperiments upon the day lands in the upountry. to dr. d. w. ray. of richt.ann or the best 10 acres cotton 17,883 lbs. S. P. $40 " " " 6 " 9489 " ?? 30 '? " " 2 ' ? 4,678 " " 20 " " " 1 " " 8,077 ? " 10 or the largest net yield per hand of the eniire crop Silver Pitoher 80 STATEMENT. ales cotton averaging 400 lbs 436 ushels corn 6,776 ushels wheat 440 ushels sweet potatoes .. 2,000 [olassea (China sugar cane) Gals 1,160 indars, 11 acres, fine. 1 eas on 280 acres, to fatten stock, furnish seed for next year, and food for milk cows during the winter. orkers slaughtered,averaging 186 lbs. net 61 umber of bands worked.. 60 j^o^^^^^ruvi^^^plied 80 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOIL. The surface soil embraces three kinds : Vo. 1, light sandy. No. 2, middling sandy, tfo. 3, clay?not stiff, however, but eonsidtrably stiffer than No. 2. The subsoil of So. 1, yellow clay, with about 80 per cent. >f sand; of No. 2, clay, with 00 per cent of iand, and of No. 3. about 40 per ceut, of land. The averago yield per acre, before isiug the manure, were about 400 lbs. :otton in the seed, and from 6 to 12 bushels torn. PREPARATION AND CULTIVATION. The land is broken up with narrow, half-o .j? ? ? ?' ? - IUUT?I piunoj uo unuu US UUU U1UIC CQQ ouveniently do it. Then tho rows are aid off with a shovel plow, making a deep urrow?sometimes two furrows are run to usuro its being deep, in this furrow the unnurc is put?Compost, guano, and gypsum, Etc., all together. Upon this furrow lap urrow, and re-lap furrow, until tho bed is iompleted. The seed is thon planted in >hop8 made by a narrow hoe, and covered with a drag. >ROPQRTIONAL MIXTURE OF MANURE FOR ^ THE OENERAL CHOPS. 100 lbs. Peruvian Quano, per acre. 50 lbs. Gypsum, per acre. 50 lbs. salt, per aero. A full proportion of salt was not used in .he orop of this year, because it was not revived in time to apply it. MODE OF CULTURE OF THE PRIZE ACRES." The one acre plat was planted on the 8th >f April, in rows 3} feet apart, aud in ohops 18 inches apart. Mathires applied?90 lushels compost, 30 bushels cotton seed, 120 [be. Peruvian guano, and 60 lbs. gypsum, jut in tho drill, and left furrowed asvbove Oatod. 1st working, shaved down; 2d, scraped down ; 3d, scraped down again; 4th, Diddles plowed out with scraper plow, and irawn up withjhoe; 5th shaved down again; Stb, and last, middles plowed out and drawn ip again. A The two acre plat wA planted 25th of April, in rows 3} feet apart, ohops 18 inches ipart'l stalk to the chop. Manures applied ?120 bushels snmpost, 145 bushels cotton teed, 240 lbs. Peruvian guano, 120 lbs. gyp mm. Cultivation just tho same as the ono icrc plot. The five aore plat was planted in rows 3 feet 3 inches apart, and in chops 13 inohes ipait, one stalk to the.chop. Manures applied?150 bushels oompost, (per aore) 120 lbs. Peruvian guano, 60 lbs. gypsum, and 20 lbs. sal:. Firatsbaved down, then plowed jut, and drawn up three times. The ten aors plat was manured in tho ismo way, planted in the same way, and sultivated in the same way, iu every particular. a Da. Rat attaches the greatest importance to a good stand. It is in vain to expect a maximum orop without having the requisite number of plants upon tho ground ; and he baa been able to seoure this by no process io uniformly as by planting in the ohops. arka in cultivation.' \crN^n ootton ?. 681 " 44 corn and peas 316 44 wheat - 109 " " potatoea 16 " " pindara ~ 16 ? eugar 91 nil Deducting the wheat, as usually done, the i&t '1 average per haud would be a fraction ovei twenty acres. 008T OK FERTILIZERS. SO tons Peruvian Guano, delivered J2034 OC 10 " Elide Guano " .... 628 OC 20 " Gypsum " 800 OC 100 8acks Salt 86 OC $2,947 00 VALUE OF THE CROPS. 486 bales cotton?$40 per bale $17,440 00 6,776 bushels corn?$1 per bushels 6,776 00 440 wheat?$1 j " 560 00 2000 " sweet pototocs?60c. 1,000 00 1,160 gals, molasses?40c 460 00 oi nogs?7jo net 711 44 provefc^^ofl^^P^iliet Dr. Ray's success id planting has 6w? m result of good mnnngcment, and the liberal use of good fertilizers, and not, as it has been stated, by the cultivation of a large nroa to the hand. R. J. GAGE, Sec'y. A Bitter Radical.?Tho Washington correspondent of tho Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel writes: Deoidedly the bitterest Radical in Wushinton is a man of tho name of Murtagh,the pimp of Shepherd and Grant, who runs that filthy sheet, the National Republican. Uis paper is daily filled with malicious lies against the good peoplo of the South, and so frequently has he misrepresented the South, that scarcely a decent man can bo found who will read his paper. The Republican thrives upon this abuse, a" it gives Murlagh a carte blanche to the Treasury, where he draws freely and often to keep his paper alive.? He was recently allowed to swindle the Washingtonians out of $96,000, and now claims $40,000 more out of the Government for printing alleged to have been done iu 186S and '69. lie hates tho English worse than sin. and is in constant, wurfiim .Jenkins, of the Now York Timet, who hails froui Albion. Jenkins gets the better of him invariably, as Murtagh's aruior being vulnerable he invites attack. He repairs to Shepherd's mansion nightly, and obtuius points for the next day's issue of his paper. The paper is owned mutually by Murtugh, Shepherd and Graut, und Shepherd virtually runs the concern. Grant is so completely in the power of the "ring" that his "pals" never consult him at all, unless they want Borne confederate silenced by a fat appointment. This man Murtagh holds pews in six different churches for influence, and occupies them alternately. What astonishes me most is that Murtagh and other bummers have their p?r? immediately ar-^ynd [Observed of all^observ^rs. But this is an ! old triok of the Christian statesmen, and I am informed that even down in South Carolina the saintly Whittemore is a devout church-goer, and responds as lustily as though he had never sold a cadctship. One Way to Stop Cotton Steam no. ?We learn from reliable parties who visited the Apot, that on Saturday night lust a band of disguised men went to a storehouse of Mr. Robert J. Smith, at Cool Springs, in this county, and awakening Mr. Willie Smith, the clerk, ordered him to remove the books and papers of his employer, and his own personal effects, as they intended to fire the house. They then inquired for the barrel of kerosene, and after assisting him to remove his trunk and the books of the store, they saturated the building with oil and applied the torch, and the4iouse and all it contained was soon a pile of ashes. The house was the property of the late Willis Allen. Mr. Smith was constructing a two-story building across the road from the one he occupied, which was fired by the disguised men, and was also cousunud.? There was also five bales of cotton outside the storehouse, which the clerk begged permission to remove, but was sternly refused, and it shared the fate of the storehouse.? A scrupulous regard for tho property of persons not connected with the store was observable. They carefully removed to a Slace of safety the tool chest of Mr. O. G. IcCoy, and a cage and bird belonging to the clerk. The loss is estimated at about $6,000; no insurance.?Irwinton (Go.) Southron. xr r o i _ m _7Z_ n t xuhijiaiw C5uiu Abuur DIKES.?unless the surfaco of the ground is mulched around young trees over an urea of six to ton feet in diameter, the ground should be kept clean and mellow. Every farmer knows that a hill of corn or potatoes will not amount to much unless cultivated, and yet there are many who will Lteglect to give the same eare to a treo whieh is worth a hundred hills of the former. In rich soil, trees may grow rapidly without cultivation, and no amount of grass or weeds will retard them; but there are other things to be looked after. If the weeds and grass are allowed to grow up around the stems of ?pple, peach or nuinee trees, the bark will becomo soft near tneir base by being shaded thereby be in a suitable condition for the reception of the eggs which will eventualy become peach or apple borers. Take any dozon young apple trees in the sections where the apple borer is abundant, and allow a portion to be choked with weeds and the remainder well cultivated. and then watch the result. From our own experience, we believe that the ohanee arc nine to one in favor of thoee cultivated being exempt from this pest.? West Farmer. A good book and good woman are excellent things for thoee who know just how to appreciate their value. There are mon, however, who judge of both from the beauty of the covering. "Vhat's all this talk about the oourrency and the five-twioties and the rifei-thirtiee that I hears about, Mike?" "Wuy, bliss your sowl, don't ye know, Pat# It manes that the Government wants to makefehe laborin' min work from five-twinty in the morain' till sivio-thirty in the avening." ' * 1 THE FAMOUS SIX HUNDRED. Re-Union of the Survivor* of (tie Chit rye at l lialaklava?About the Men ir.ho Rude 1 into " The Valley of Death." [ The soldiers of tho Light Cavalry Brigade, tho nioii who rode into the "Valley of i Death" on that fatal October morning oue and twenty years ago, were invited to attend meeting last night to make arrangements for a dinner in celebration of the anniversary of the Bnlaklava charge. Thetrysting place was the Prince of Wales Tavbrn, Villiers street, Strand, and tho hour fixed for the mlistcr was 9 o'clock, to enable tbeae who were engaged in business to put in an appearance ^Jtyxmeequence ot toe disagreeable drinling rain, not so many cameras Wcro expected, but a respectable oontingont, in ovury sense of tho word, of war-worn veterans^ answered to the roll-call all the same. Ilald. henrtv mon tVinw ?' ? -?-f , J .UUJ nvili, vuo IIIUOI/ UI thetz ; but, so portly of build, that they set one fcondcring what sort of light cavalry that, tunst have been where the weight in the pig skin ran up to eighteen stone of living flesh in sundry instances. Jovial of manner and neat of address, they discussed i the matter before them as one might have i expected?in brief, soldierly, and most harmonious uiauner. It was agreed that a din- 1 nor should be solemnized in the Charing I Cross Hotel?is not solemnized the correct word ? for has not Charles Lever defined a i dinner as a social sacrament?on the 25th t of October, and it was stated that many < officers who had helped to write one of the * uiost brilliaut pages in our military annals i had promised to give the event the sanction i of tl\oir presence. The greatest part of \ those in the room had belonged to the Kiev- i enth Hussars, that distinguished corps hav- t iog been principally recruited in London. < One warrior had served his apprenticeship s to arms under DeLaccy Evans in Spain j 1 another was remarkable as having borne the s flag of truce to the Russian lines the 'day I after Balaklava ; a third was never tired of 1 celebrating the hauls fails of his ancient 1 captain, Sir Roger I'aluier, who led the E. i troop or the Eleventh into nntinn hia slaughter with cold steel, having forgot- 1 ten his revolver io the hurry to jump into f the saddle. After the formal proceedings ? were over, there were some rare gossip r over former campaigns, and iho uon- f military observer was cuablcd to pick up some interesting rcmiuisccuces. b it is a curious circumstance that every j man but one who won that supremest of all s military distinctions, the Victoria Cross, in j tho mad ride imuiortarizcdjlby 1 Lig^^OT^^^s, who stood on the ground with Bis cbyirger writhing in the death agony beside him. Trumpet-Major Crawford flashed by; his good steed stumbled, the rider was dismounted, and his nuked sabro sent whirling out of his grasp- A pair of Cossacks saw their opportunity and Qnurrorl nrvrvn ?1>a /InfAnArtlAoo ^v wj/unvvt wpvu vuv uuieuwcicoo VIMW 1UIU (JUL Parkcs coul'rontod tbcm nod kept them at bay. When the retreat cauie tho two brave fellows followed their comrades, and were pursue<JT>y six Russians, but Parkos, with his single sword, held them nt arm's length and retired slowly, fighting and defending the truuipct-major until deprived of his weapon by a shot. This is no rhodomontade, but plaiu facts, as recorded in the Gazette. Lieutenaut Alexaudcr Robert Dunn, of Cardigud-'s boys, was another hero of that day, fruitful in heroes. He saved the life of Sergt. Rcntly, of his own corps, by cutting down two or three Russian troopers who werenttacking him in the rear, and afterwards hewed to the chine a Russian hussar who had fallen upon private Levctt. This Duun, it will be remembered, afterwards commanded the Thirty-third, being tho youngest man of his rank in tho army, aud perished in the Abyssiniun expedition. Riding-master Joseph Mulono had his liorso shot in the charge, but, properly speaking, his bit of j^orious gun-metal was gained the day previous when he volunteered with threo troopers, on the march to Balaklava, and captured an-escort of the enemy's cavalry and tfie baggage they wero convoying to Sebastopol. Troop ScrgcantMajor John Borrvinan, of the old "Death'shead and Cross bonfcs," tho 6amc sturdy cavalier who took prisoner threo Russians whilo they were within reach of their own guns at Mckenzie's farm, behaved splendidly at Balaklava. When his horse was shot under him hejstoppod in the field with Capt. Webb, who was jiijipdcd, amid a shower of shot nn (f ?hoTT ftti^ nlAiniif/K ronoofo^lu I t>y that officer to oLnsalt his own safety, and leave him, he refused to do so. and, Sergeant John Fnrrell coming by, the two faithful fellows parried Capt. Webb out of the range cf the guns. The oourageous Irishman Furrell, who lost his horse like the majority of his plucky companions, and had gone near to losing his life, was awarded the envied honor, but did not long survive to wear it. Charles Wooden now a quartermaster in the. One Hundreth and Fourth foot, was another of the Seventeenth lancers who oarucd the cross on the 25th of October, 1854, and bo, too, had his charger kill in the wild melee. Assisted by Dr. Monntt, of the Inniakillon dragoons, be succeeded in carrying Major Morris, of his own regiment, who lay droadfully wounded, to a pUce of safety. In chatty recollections suob as those we have tried to pen and in tales of hair-byoniyhs 'scapes in the hard dyff gone by, the tithe was pleasantly posset^ and shortly before midnight tbe survivors of the "Six Hundred" separated, looking forward with joyons anticipation to a merry meeting on Balaklava Day.?Loruion Why s a dootor ^better taken care of than his patients f Because, when ho goes \o bed, somebody is suro to rap him up. e no tows to perform this or thaLj? Tit shows no great strength, and makes tnoc ride bebiad Ayself. 4V % /# RUSSELL'S REVENUE. A DOUBLE WEDDING AND A DOUBLE EU- , NKKAL IN PENNSYLVANIA. About five years ago William Russell, a I farmer, living a few miles from Roscvillo, 1 Pennsylvania, was left a widower, with one i child. The care of the farmer's house then 1 devolved upon his daughter Harriet, aged * sixteen years. A girl named Mary Stokes, { about the same age, was employed to aid in I the household work. Miss ltussell discov- ( ered that her father was paying attention < of a lover to the girl. The farmer's daugh- I ter distnuksd th? a-? 1? 1 ^ ?? ^?v?vw gm uuui tier situ- * Ation in the family- When Russell learned c of this proceeding ho immediately brought ? the girl back, and told his daughter that t she was to remain thqMVw long as she chose. ? The daughter thaMSjm} left the house, and 1 Vent to work sewflHft} tho neighborhood. 1 Mary Stokes finn^MUfeusscll's and a few e days afterwards Miss Russell resumed her I old position in her father's house. o Living in this village was a highly re- s spotted young carpeutcr named llorton s Hurst. His father owned a farm adjoining C that of the lltissclls. Some years ago a p ilillieulty arose between the two farmers tl about the proper location of a line fence.? h A long, bitter and expeusive lawsuit fol- tl lowed. Fanner Hurst, was finally success- d I'ul in the suit, and died two years ago.? i Mussel) hated the tiamc of Hurst, and when, o some three years since, he made the discov- v ;ry that his daughter and the ?on of his tl >ld enemy had formed an attachment for 1' jaeli other, and were actually eugaged to be is narried. lie threatened to disowu Harriet p> f she did not at once renounce tho idea of w wedding young Hurst. She made the sac- fc ifice in obedience to her parent. About a ,hree months ago Russell astounded his laughter by telling her that he intended to ioou marry the girl Mary Stokes, and bring ^ icr back to the farm-house. Harriet as- nJ mrcd him that when ho brought his wife * iouic he would fiud his daughter gone.? ct Friday morning the old farmer, telling t'1 LT .1 - I lurncir iuai ne would return with his wife >u n the afternoon, drove toward the home of g1 Mary Stokes. The daughter placed the louse in readiness for the return of her co 'ather, and about noon started for Roscville. >hc lull behind her, on the bureau in her w' ooui, the following letter addressed to her 86 ather: th Dear Father:?I have always tried to to a dutiful daughter to you, but the aot c> ou intend to do to-day is more than I can ?f ubmit to, as I have more than once told w> 'ou. You ohoose a companion above me. P1 I hop' >|ic }" W%<Sl tflTu k^nfmwriti ng this with a light ' heart, although in leaving the home of my childhood I go to find a home with one 1 8 have long laved and whose wife I expect to ^ be In a few hours. God bless you, father, I aud good-by. Your oucc-lovcd daughter, Hattie. , Upon reaching this village Miss llussell ? was uiet by Ilorton Hurst. They proceeded to the house of Mrs. William Filley, a !: sister of Hurst's, and about 2 o'clock in the afternoon were married by Rev. Mr. Young, * oi tne Methodist church Afterwards they e went in compauy with Mrs. Fillcy. and a 1 young gentlouiau, a friend of Hurst's, to the ' village tavern, where it had been arranged to take dinuer. They were nearly through J the repast, when the door of the dining 1 room was burst in, aud farmer Russell, pale c with rage, and a singular glitter in his eye, ' sprang into the apartment. Ilis daughter a arose hastily and rau toward him with out- c stretched arms, but he threw her aside and sprang upou her husband. ? ' You scoundrel!" he exclaimed, "You 1 set uiy daughter up to leave her home !"? 11 He grasped Hurst by the throat, but the young uiau threw him off and commenced t backing toward the door. Russell seized a knife from the table, and getting between Hurst and the door, attempted to stab the young man. Hurst received the thrust in ^ his arm, and seeing that the old man was bent on murder, drew a rovolvcr and warned hiui to stand back. Russell did not l.ccd j the warning, and continued to mako deadly ^ lunges with the knife. Hurst received t g many of those iu his arm and shoulder.? Hurst's sister escaped from the room during | the melee, and the young man present ^ seemed to bo paralyzed with terror. At ^ last Hurst pushed his assailant back from ^ him and leveled the pistol at him. His j wife at this instant sprang between the men j just as the husband's pistol was discharged, j The ball entered her brain, and she fell to the floor and expired without saying a word. The report of the pistol brought a number rtf nANAnQ infA ?AAm i*.ll W. *u?v viaV IWUI. liUICb UBU JUI1- | en ou bis knees beside his wife's body, and t after several times frantically appealing to ( ber by name to look up and speak to him, , he rose to his feet, and before a hand could be extended to prevent him, shot himself ( through the head, and he fell dead beside , his wife. Russell seemed stricken dumb H by the fearful sccno, and was led from the t room like a child. . As soon as the excitement that followed y the news of the tragedy could be somewhat ? allayed, the bodies of the young married couple were removed to the residence of g Mr. Filley, followed by hundreds of people. t In the eveuing an inquest was held Ly r James Powell, Justice of the Peace. Rus- j sell was arrested and hold in $2,000 to await the action of the grand jury. A verdict that Mrs. Harriet 11. Hurst met her death by the accidental discharge of a pis- < tol, and that Horton Hurst came to his < death by his own hand while temporarily t insane, was rendered. "Is the Colonel here ?" shouted a man, sticking his head into a Kansas City street . an- " i K:_- ? 1 v?i 1ic inj huvwvioil tllli wuu Uiua IH they rose up. ' A Kansas girl says nothing makes her nor mad as to have a grasshopper era* 1. up < and down her back just ?* her loycr has ? confe *o the proposing point. i * ^ . \ Vjf , . Mkt.ton and Smalls.?It did seem [juoor that so eminent a Reformer as Mr. Attorney-General Melton should have allowed a live mulatto Congressman, charged with fraud, to slip through his fingers; but it could be urged that his powerful mind whs occupied iu reviewing the Parker trial, ind that he really tho lght the ease was in ?ood hands and needed no particular atten,ion. A remorseless correspondent of the Columbia Reyi*ter, Mr. Kdwiu F. Gary. :uts this ground from under our feet, and daces the Attorney-General in a very ugly ight-for a Reformer. Mr. Gary was the prin- v :ipai witness, lor the State, ag itisl Con;rcssinan Suialls. On the morning of the J^QNBP rial, Reformer Melton (as AtM^nrjj-OCT8t? J) announced his withdrawal from the caae. V Phis left the caae in tho handa of Solicitor iunklc, who aaked for a continuance, and aid that the witnesses were not present. Uthough the case came over from a prcvius term, nouo of the witnesses had been ' umnioncd to appear. Judge Carpenter inistcd that the trial should go on. Mr. r'ary was examined, but no questions were ut that would bring out the important facts hat he knew, and what lie wanted to tell c was prevented from telling. Result? tic acquittal of Suialls. Cause?the withrawal of Reformer Melton from the ease. lad he remained in Court, he must, for his wn sake, have conducted the prosecution igorously. It was easier to withdraw and link of Judge Mackey and ex-Treasurer 'arkcr. So Smalls escaped; Smalls, who i not a "dead (Juck" like Pnrkor, but a opulnr Radical, a member of Congress, ho carries a big slice of the vote of Bcau?rt County in his capacious pocket.?Ncict nd Courier. lSx-Govcrnor Horatio Seymour, of New ork, wrote as follows in a letter doclining 1 invitation to attend the Georgia State air : "In five years from this time the 'nsus will show our uumbers to be more inu fifty millions. The day, then, is dawng when the lands of the South will bo catly lifted up in value. I have given Uch time aud thought to tho agricultural mdition of the United States. I have aveled extensively, and I have examined ith care into tho industrial interests of all ctions, and I am confident that hereafter e South will get a large and growing are of thoso who arc seeking new homes ther from Europe or from the oldor States ' the Union. This flood-tide will bear ith it wealth and vnried industries. I , a^or t?c dayifhen the Shuth Bhall be ^ pervading weltt"**^''*"f\*ecth"n8 of our Union." These are N^words of a statesman, and hould bo ponded by the people of the *orth leagued w.tlts^ Radicals for pur>oses inimical to our we^and well-doing. A Veteran Re-union^^, i*abetu, I. J., October 19.?The Vetcra?K~ union icro to-d-iy surpassed anything over^jlj, jn his city. At Waverly Gens. KilpaN^fc 'nor, naisteua ana Seigcl, and Capt. Efc. rards, Confederate, and Capt. Ropes deliv-N. :rcd addresses, and there were recitations of nusic, &c. Returning from Waverly, they ^ rere witnessed by ten thousand citizens. flic whole city was ablaze with lime lights, V orches, fire-works and transparencies. The \ ine marched through Broad street and louutermarched to the Sheridan House, rhere there was a large display of fireworks, ind addresses were delivered from the bal:ony by Capt. Edwards, Gen. Ilalstead, 3apt. Towusond and Rev. Mr Kieffc^ A jrand supper and cnttfrtainmeut was given o the invited guests at Sheridan House tolight. A Man's Head Blown Off.?Mem?iiis, October 21.?Dr. Ballard, formerly if texas, residing near Marion, Arkansas, rhile riding with a lady yesterdaj'afternoon, ras waylaid and shot by a man named Anlre^> who fired one barrel of a shot gun at he doctor, the charee taking effect in his teck and face and knocked him off his torso. After falling, Ballard asked AnIrews to raise him up, which he did, in a itting posture, aud then placing the gun tear his head discharged the other barrel, itcrally blowing Ballard's head off. AnIrews then went to Marion and surrendered limself to the authorities. Andrews had teen employed by Ballard a few dnys before. Mallard had knocked him down twice.? dullard is represented as having boon a vioent man, and had on Sunday last waylaid tnd shot his wife's nephew, Andrew Eraser. Fivs Grades of Oats.?New vmv October 20.?The Committee on Grain of .he New York Produce Exchange has desided to establish five grades of oats? vhite, high mixed, No. 2, No. 3 and no ;rade. White oats shall be bright, sound, slcan, freo from other grain, and shall weigh tot less than thirty-two pounds to the measured bushel; high mixed oats shall be twohirds whito, and equal to No. 2 in all other espects; No. 2 oats shall be sound, rcasona>ly clean, and reasonably free from other train; No. 3 oats shall be fit for warehousng, otherwise unequal to No. 2; no grade ihall include all oats damp, unsound, dirty >r from any other cause unfit for No. 3. The committee will proceed at once to esablish grades for corn, wheat and other trains. - The Barnwoll County Tax Union meets in sales-day in November. At the meeting lclogalcs to the State Union, to meet during .he same month, are to bo elected. We should like to see this body revived. Are other counties moving in the matter 1 l'hfl TVr TTnlnn nan iln mn/ili 5P it will t?L. hold of things in earnest. But unless it ioes that, it had better not meet at all. It is said that Brigham Young has acquired the titlo of general from baring been sailed "Briggy dear" so ofteu by his numerous wires. -^1