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, THE WI1KM qgiOH TIMES. VOL. X.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 12, 1S79. NUMBER 37. GEN. JOHN B. HOOD. , The gallant Hood is no more, lie died | of yellow fever in New Orleans?liis wife , having died of the same fatal disease a lew days before him. How mysterious are the s providences of God. The bravo soldier passes through the < carnage of battle unhurt, where thousands , fall around him, and is struck down iu the ( time of peace, in a great city?one, of a , Very few, who fall before the ravages of dia- | ease! | /I... IT 1 -.11--* " * - vrcu. unuu was a gauani. v^apuun ill LIIC < late war. always conspicuous at the post of | duty and danger, lie was a Kentuckiau - by .birthr and % graduate of \Vcsfc lVnufcju **kt'tho cinew 18&U '1 > - As-ntwi^?er^.ifcilWPSW StAtnrAwnyp y lie was on duty on the Texa? frputier until '1 1859. In a severe engagement with the ; Douiauchc Indians, in which his dashing < Courage was conspicuously illustrated, he I received his first wound. t 11 is resignation froui the old army was i sent forward in April 1801, and afterwards, t to the close of the great eoutest between J the Stales, Ilood was over the embodiment i of the soldier and the patriot. ( Ho was one of Ley's most active ami able t Hrigauicr.-, and rising to the command of a c Division in Longstroot's corps, proved liini- \ #elj'tn be the oqmtl of the best Major Gen- i <erals iu the great Army of Northern Yir- ( fiuia- j At Ckiekautaaga, Hood was an oriflamuic s tn the fight, and his gallant Division, in t which our own Jenkins aud Law were Jlrig- c aidicrs, followed his bold eominauds with a I splendid charge, worthy of his leadership, t Jle lost a leg iu this battle, aud for his past I cervices aud gallautry, was promoted l.ioutouant General, aud assigned to the com- 1 maud of a corps in the Army of'Tenuesscc, < then about to break up its winter quarters sit Hilton in the spring of 18G1. Whether from the loss of his leg, or from other causes, Gou Hood's brief career as a ?eorps commander was without distinction. When, unhappily, Gou. Johnstone was jcmoved from the chief command of -1110 Army of Tennessee, on the 17th of July, 18b 1, Mr. Davis selected Hood to be his successor. Hardee, the corps commander, declined | to assume the responsibility'of so groat, a ? .command, and earnestly remonstrated with j r^rT"r.,nr. u*>** tummuW. ij JBut ^lr. Davie was bonnni fi^ntufj a grotf? | I) ittI.!, aii'1. he insisted upon Hood's leading a the army to the field. t Johnstone had "failed to arrest the ad- ( vanee of the enemy to the vicinity of Atluu- | to use the language of the Confederate ; <1 )vernuient, and as he "expressed no con- j iideuee that he could defeat or repel him," t his junior corps com made r was induced to ( undertake the task. . Johnstone had telegraphed to the Cov- 'J .eminent, in to ply to the charge, that he , expressed no confidence in his ability to defeat Sherman?that "confident lam/ioti/c # It*/ a mi/itun/ comm. nidcr was not evidence .| ofconi/ftcucc." In assuming the command t of the army, Hood, who spent the first day of his great eomni ind at the headquarters f of the retiring Heneral, fully illustrated the , spirit of this reply, and published an order ? to ths troops as modest as it was honcful. , . lint the bloody battles of the 20th 22d , and 28th of July, demonstrated the strength t of Shernriii's position, and Hood's inability , to "defeat or repel him." I If.. I...1.1 v.i...... i. :i ,i. . nu iibiu .iii.uiL i, iinnuvur, 11 u 1/11 Luc _oiu j of August, wlien Sherman began to move | liis army t ? Jonesb >ro, miles on llooil's , loft fl ink and roar. The battles of Jones- , boro were fought on the 30th of August 'j and the 1st of September, by Hardee, and ( Atlanta was lost and won ! The subsc- ( i|uent career of Hood is familiar to the , country. , His advance into Tennessee was well ., planned, and e nno near being a success j | the failure at Spring Hill of two corps of his army, which he had thrown on the tl auk ] * and rear of Schoiicld s retreating army, to , attack and rout it, is yet unexplained. t Hood was not with thcni. Why we do , not know, lie remained with S. D. bee, j at Columbia, and canic forward the next ( day and led the troops in person on the . bloody Held of Franklin. Pushing boldly t on 10 .>.usiivino, no buttered a cru-liiuj; do- I io.it in i'r >111 of that city in December, ami ] ( thus closed his career us a soldier! He \j would rather have died as Cleborn died, in Iu ? enemies last ditjli at Franklin, than to j have lived to see his gallant army, in the j bitter cold of December, driven out of Ten- , jiossuo! ^ 15at he bore his defeat with patient res- , ignaliou, and lived to see every army and , every soldier of the Confederacy, surrcn- | tiered to the government of the I'nitcd | Stales. And now, after fourteen years of s peace, in the quiet pursuits of domestic life, the worthy ami respected citizen of i.. New Orleans, the honored ami beloved aurto vivor of the D >st Cause, the devoted hus- | baud and lather, lulls asleep in death, and u is buried in t l?o ?|uict hush of a groat city's t grief, amid the tears of friends and the , regrets of iiiillions of his fellow citizens. ^ iiis wife li.id died before him, only a | lew days, and his ten little children are loft to the care of every manly, southern ; heart. I ;i M iv (Sod hie ?s them with friends audit inikothcm worthy of (he gallant, spotless js % uauic I hoy boar, the only inheritance their father had to leave theui. When Stonewall Jackson was dying, he said in his delirium, "let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees." As the years pass by the Confederate soldier fu'lills these dying words of the great Jacksou. The ranks are slowly forming ;ver the river. The great Captain isalrcaiy there, and one by one his generals are .axing meir places by his side, and the brave men who followed them arc slowly crossing to their rest under the shade of die trees of the Paradise of God. ? *. m . * ? fcaiit than the chronic j^^^mUhroils whim ifflict that lovciy Isle. The riot at Lurgan m last uLady Pay" took the conventional form of a conflict between the police aud he Home Rule mob, the Orauguien acting n tliis instance only as a sort of proximate muses of the row. The efforts of a Home j Ituler to '-got at" an antagonistic Orangenan led to the arrest of the former, and of :ourse, as a natural consequence, to an atom pt at a rescue. Thou the police fired m the mob, several persons were killed or vounded, and a coroner's inquest was held n which the Orangemen had a majority i >f the jury, and brought in a verdict j listllying tlio police. A minority verdict igncd by eleven Home Rulers found the acts exactly the 5ther way, and so Irish pinion is, as usual, divided, and when Pariuuicnt meets again a new cause lor agita- , i< n will bo ready for the honorable uicui* ' >ers. Rut at the bottom of the present distur* atiee is a more important and ominous jucstion than the difiereuce between Orange ind Green. A movement has been recently darted looking to the abolition of the prcs;nt Laud laws of Ireland which promises o cause most serious trouble in the iuinic^ liate future. Parliament at its last session epealed the act making it illegal for any lumber of persons to meet in Ireland as a 'convention" elected to represent special ilasscs or interests in the country, and the vault has be ;n that already a convention las mot at Custlebar and lias established The "National Land League of Mayo," villi a most clalmratq .atjd, ^pmprchonsive i jhoUtI imi. is far as may be, ol the tillers of the soil Yom rack renting land owners, and the lltiuiate abolition of the present Land aws of Ireland, and the substitution in n their place of such a system as shall be n accord with the social rights, the tradi,ions, and the moral sentiments of the Irish ace." The Irish landlords read this as he starting of an agitation to abolish them. I'lie Irish Land laws aie admittedly, even low, largely in the interest of the landlords, ilid if these laws are abolished, with such ubstitution as that indicated, the landlords, is an inevitable consequence, would go ivcrboard with tlicm. A movement like this presents a platbrni upon which almost all the disaffected i . . : . i i ? . > - misses 111 ireianu can sianu logotner. As i matter of ("act both Fenians aud Orangeunn ?iiJ (JatKulivOf mo VUIII* nitted to its support. The breaking up of he great landed estates and the establish- j nent at* a pc isant proprietary are advo -atcd >y journals representing all shades of polit- ! eal opinion. As the case now stands, three | iiindred persons own over G.000.000 acres ; if Irish land, twelve of the three hundred wiling 1,207,888 acres between them.? j The agricultural population have no iuter st in the soil, aud their condition, even in ! iincs of comparative prosperity, is most i legrading and deplorable. Hut the pros- . nt time is one of unusual depression. The | iiiuiiaI return of the Registrar-General lor ! reland shows a decrease within the year of ( 20.000 milch cows, over 77,000 sheep and ; 07,100 pigs. The potato crop shows signs j >f rot, and is said indeed to In: in a condiion closely resembling that of the ever j ( netnorablo year 181S. And. to crown all. he effect of American competition upon ' he cattle market has hecn most disastrous. , \incrican live stock and American meat ! mii bo carried froui America to Kngland is cheaply as from Ireland to Kngland, and foursc this means ruin to the Irish gra- . licis. It is probable, therefore, that this agita- j ion over the Laud laws will have very iin- j lort iut consequences. Froui every point | f view the question is beset with difli uilty, I ind, with a turbulent and discontented pop. , ilatiou at their back, the Irish agitators; . I v i 11 he certain to give serious trouble. Kng | ??,l 1. .W I.,... 1 1-. <--11 -l- l. *.l I ...i .null iiti iiirciiuy \viiiMiuI his additional problem. It. remains to be icon how Parliament will ileal with it.? Y< ten am! ('mirirr. Don't live in hope with your arms folded, fortune smiles on those who roll up '.heir ileevcs and put their shoulder to the wheel hat propels them on to wealth and happitoss. Cut this out and carry it about with j ton in your vest pocket, ye who idle in iar-room.s or at the corners of the streets - ? # Clear boiling water will remove tea stains, ind many fruit stains. I'our the w i er hiou:;h the stain, and thus prevent it preaditij* oror the fabric. THE VALUE OF THE OAT CHOP. farmers should'wlead, mark, learn and inwardly DIGEST the following : University of Georgia, Department of Agriculture, [ Athens, Ga., August 30. J Editors Chronicle ami Constitutionalist : The injury done to the corn crop throughout the greater part of Georgia, by the protracted drought in Juno and July, renders it necessary that our farmers should endeavor to supply the deficiency by raising a greater amount -of small grain than t-hpy huvj boon iu the habit of raising, if they I w >uld specially * recommend theui to prepare fur a large oat crop. This, by providing a sufficient amount of food for the work animals in the spring, will leave the bulk of whatever corn is left " of the present crop for bread, and will, I hope, teach our farmers what 1 believe is true, namely : First. That oals arc the cheapest forage crop they can raise. Second. That they are the most nutritive, as they contain more of the flesh and muscle-forming. heat-producing and fattening elements than arc contained in the corn and fodder, which arc the general feed given to horses nod mules. Third. That they^ield a higher percentage of profit ou the use of fertilizers than corn; and fourth, that oats, instead of being,, as nianv erroneouslv believe, an exhaustive crop, when properly cultivated, improve the soil. It is the clicupcst forage crop. Oats should be sown in September?the time . when the laboriug force on plantations ; is least occupied, and, therefore, are sown at nominal cost, especially where a part of that force works for stated yearly wages. The sowing the crop in the spring is also inexpensive, as two hands iu three days can save and put away four acres of oats. If this cost is compared with that of making corn and fodder, it is obvious that for the same expenditure fully double the quunity of forage can bo made in oats that can be made in com ana iouacr. mey are ine most nutritive horse feed. Chemical analysis has demonstrated that in tlm,thrco* classes oj ijj^^taiLces which, enter iotlk stock food, , namely"^Ufeuujinnida or uunfoiTToTlntlfgp and the carbcFaiyd rates and oils or heat and fat-producing,' oats (the grain, straw and chatf) arc richer than corn. In Kugland oats are the only graiu on which the race horses and those used in fox hunting?the highest types of muscular strength and condition?arc fed. They yield a higher percentage of profit 011 the use of commercial fertilizers. I have found by actual experiment that the application of ?7 !>0 worth of a good ammoniutcd super-phosphate per acre to oats ?'ill more than double the production of the natural soil, while the same amount up plied to corn, except in unusually favorable seasons, docs not yield anything like that per centagc of increase. That they improve, not exhaust the soil. Oats furnish large ((unutitics of nitrogen in their roots and stubble, nml a considerable amount is also taken up by the growth of weeds and trass after the cron is cur while cum i< iloniably a nitrogen exhausting crop, because during its entire growth and cultivation in the hot summer months, every blade of grass and everything that produces nitrogen is speedily destroyed, whereas the oat plant appropriates during the period ol' its growth the soluble nitrogen contained in whate/er fertilizer is applied to it, and the -ubsefjuent growth of grass and weeds in the summer holds tie* rest, which can neither he evaporated nor washed away. From three to three and a half acres of land well broken, cnricln* I by tin* application of from l.~?0 to litlt) pounds of a good ammoniatcd super phosphate, sown in September, with two to two and a half bushels af genuine rust proof oats, will yield a suflicicut <|ii irtity ol food tor one horse or mule. It takes about the same area of land to produce a sufficient quantity of corn and fodder, with favorable seasons, to support one work animal. If 'lie relative cost ol' labor in producing the oats and corn and fodder be taken into account, it will be found tli it the cost ol the latter is fully double that ol' the former. Hut to raise oats to meet the end to which 1 have indicated, we must not. as is too of ton the practice, scratch in without manure, at any time between N ivcuihcr and March, a bushel ?>r a bushel ami a half of any seed we can liud, on the poorest piece of land on our i'ui m. We must concede to oats the rank to which their importance and value entitle them, and employ the same care which we <;ivo to cotton and corn, if we would derive the benefits which they are l I r rr t-e panic 01 uiioriiijt. W.M M. HltOWNK, Professor of Agriculture, Ac. "Investigator" wants to know what is Ljood for cabbage worms, liless -our soul, man. cabbage, of course. A jiood. plump cihbapfo will l ist several worms a week. If you want your worms to be real nice end lat for fall cooking you must take care to keep them away from cayenne pepjwr or weak solutions of salt. ? Marathon huh-, i prhrf'nt. HORSE EDUCATION. Never lose your Icuiper, for the moment you do so, you at the same time lose the advantage which you should always have over him In handling a colt remember that you are forming the future horse, and care, now taken either in his appearance or .1 ^4 -- i i i - i? cuuracicr, is oy no moans lost. jiy ino time ho is a year old, lie should allow you to to place light articles 011 his back without any resistance, and should be taught not to be afraid of straps liauging loose cither about the body or heels. This education is best done in the winter, and should be repented until perfectly broken. nn,d when horse. -^During the operation of* hulforbrenking, great care should bc.takeu.to always make him walk fust. Fast walking (the best gait of a liorse) should be part of bis education and lie will never forget it in bis after life. We lintc bad a wide experience with eolts, and have yet to find one which could not be made a good walker if properly trained when young ; but this is a fast age, and walking is too alow to keep up with. With reference to balky horse, there are more balky drivers; hence the driver shall bo addressed rather than the 1 ?i-: I. i- ii 1 ?? ? nurse, which can uc wen uono l>y tue Iollowing from the Farm Journal: "If you hav?*. balky horses, it is your own fault and not the horses." for if they do not pull true there is some cause for it, and if you excited, stop him for five or ten minutes; let hiui become calm, and as soou ns he is over his excitement lie will, in niuc eases out of ten, pull at the worth Whipping and slashing and swearing only make the matter worse. After you have handled him a while, and his excitement has cooled, take him by the hits, turn each way a few minutes as far as you can, pull out the tongue, gentle him a little, unrein him, thcu step before the balky horse and let the other start first; then you can take them anywhere you wish A balky horse is always high spirited and starts quick ; half the pull is out before the other starts; by standing before hiin the oilier starts first. lly close application to this ru)c you can make auy horse pull. If ^ horso\-4ias been badJV* fymiEtf, ytm tmpaw mt -nltftH ma. - wMjj1 cuipty wagon, and let diiui draw it around for a while 011 level ground; then put on a little load and increase it gradually, caressing as before, and in a short time you can have a good work horse."?Turf, Fit'ltl and Farm. Tiik Deaf can iieaii iiy means of tiieiu teeth!?The andiphonc, an instrument invented by a Western Yankee for alleviating the misery of deafness, is simply a ?\t?ut of vulcanized rubber, about 12- of an inch in thickness, net fu-mly in a handle of the same material. In the upper rim of this sheet are pierced some holes through which passes a silken cord. This goes down on the iuncr side of the sheet, to the handle, through a slot in which it passes. By pulling this cord the sheet is bent over at any angle which the user may desire.? Kach person has to ascertain for himself what kind of a curve of the rubber sheet will enable him to hear best. Generally it is very slight?only about ten or twelve degrjes?though apparently the deafer the person the greater the curve must be.-% \ T L. _ 1 -I * >> nt;ii usiiu, mo person holding it simply touches the upper edge of the fan, or audiphone, against the teeth of the upper jaw. The voice of the speaker strikes upon this tense sheet of rubber and communicates to it vibrations which are in turn imnarteil to E --- - the teeth. :iii?1 tlicu pass to the auditory nerve. With this operation the outer ear has nothing whatever to do, the delicate machinery through which sound passing from without makes an impression upon the auditory nerve is not used at all. The outer ear may he stopped up entirely, so far as it is possible to do it, and yet one hears distinctly the moment the audiphotie is applied to the teeth. It is necessary to use the teeth of the upper jaw for the reason that they are more nearly in contact with the auditory nerve; nor does it make much difference whether the teeth be one's own or artificial, so long as those artilicial teeth arc tightly fitted ; for when that is the case the vibration is imparted about as well as when they arc natural teeth. The inventor is deaf himself, lie happened one day to hold a watch between his teeth, and loticcd that lie could distinctly hear its ticking, though when he held it to liis ear no sound was audible. This set him to thinking that pos-ibly lie might be able to invent some device by which the sounds of the human voice could be transmitted to the auditory nerve through the medium of the teeth, just as the ticking of the watch liod linrtii A country 111:111 who had never paid more than 2."> cents to see an exhibition, went to see the "Forty Thieves." The ticket seller charged him 7"> cents. Passing the pasteboard back l?o fjuictly remarked : "Keep it, Mister, "! don't want to see the other and out lie marched. ? - ? "I'll take the starch out of you," as the 1 perspiration said t6 thft shirt Collar. ?= 1 ? i. . t-,l! i Ginlhood's Perils.?We oopicil yesterday u brief article Iroui the New York Herald warning girls to beware of favoring the attentions of uicu who cannot, with roa* ?... ?~.i * ? "? ouu, i/u t-Api-vivu iu muirjr (iicui. "J1CU," says the Jltrahl, "whoso intentions nro houorublc, woo y:irls at their homes aud not by stealth ami in out-of-the-way places." It is difficult to persuade nu American girl that she cannot take carc of herselfThe customs of our society throw h.r early on her own resources. Whilo still iu her teens she enters society and associates with persons of opposite sex on walks, drives and cxcursious. ller mother scjdoui thinks of pfttyhljm? a fetnalo companion for tho * % . '^ugbter^DBTtrusts whoW* to tno purity 'and modesty of the latter to protect her from advances in the compauy of men which will compromise her good name. And it should be remembered that tho girls of no other country arc so worthy of this confidence. Thrown upon their own responsibility the vast majority of them pass tho ordeal unscathed, and when they uiarry aro as chaste in thought and life as though they had never passed tho precincts of their !-- ?? " . uuivo n miui inc cuuijKiiiiuii.smj) oi (lUMr mothers, true as steel to their personal honor and to that of their husbands. lint among the millions who stand untarnished, there are scores and hundreds who fall into tho uiirc. Delighted with their freedom, flattered aud fascinated by tho uttentions of well-dressed and agreeableand insidious promises usually, but sometimes through the Are and recklessness caused by wine and drugs, take tho fatal step which forever separates them front their consciousness of purity and robs thcui of their right to rank among the chaste and honorable women of society. There is but one safe rule for girls to adopt in their relations with men, aud that is to encourage no advances which cannot be witnessed aud approved at home. This rule, if observed, will save infinite sorrow and troublo to many who even uow arc treading dangerously near the precipice. Those chaucc acquaintances which American girls arc so accustomed to make on the cars, at excursions, in stores and elsewheae, without any guurautce of the standing or respectability mother or some woman of discernment and observation should be sought respecting the propriety of encouraging such acquaint uncus; uiu uoovc an, unuer no circumstances should a promise, however solemnly made or likely of fultillmcnt, suffice to persuade a maiden to surrender herself, with all such surrender implies, uutil the law has pronounced her a wife. No circumstances whatever can justify su?h action, and in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred it is followed by a life time of bitter remorse, if not by immediate suffering and disgrace.? Rochester Ilcritld. . . Tub Spkkd ok a Locomotive.?''How fust do you think wo are traveling '{"? Charley l'raser, one ol the oldest engineers of the New York, Lake Lrie and Western Railway, asked a Sun reporter as they were standing together on the foot board of locomotive No. .'501), rushing over tho meadows toward Rutherford Park. "1 should think we were going nearly a mile a minute." "A mile a minute !" said l'raser. 4'I doubt if you ever rode a mile a minute. Few locomotives have driving wheels over live feet, and 1 luce my doubts if a fivefoot wheeler can be pushed a utile a minute l'eople have a very erroneous idea of tho speed of railroad trains. We are not going now more than thirty five miles an hour, and this is very last, l'ew trains make this speed. The passengers in the cars would think wo were going a mile a minute sure it' I was to pull out the throttle so us to send her forty uiilos an hour. The express trains make no suoh time as the local trains. Where we 1 ose is with so many stops. No mm could stand on a platform car and face the wind going a mile a minute and live. The breath would actually be blown out of his body. You couldu't count the telegraph poles going a mile a minute. Talk to an old engineer of that rate being made by a passenger train, ant) he would laugh. I made a mile a minuto once, however. It was when I was but IK years of age. I was an engineer then, in charge of a line six-foot wheel locomotive. There were a Jot of railroad moguls on board, and the object was to make the best time we could. They were to ring the gong when the snood wn? ? mit. ? ? - J . .." ? V u IIIKIUIU. I. thought wo were making it for some tiino before tho boll rang. At length, on a down grade, with a full head of steam, when wo were spinning along as if we wore all going to destruction, and the motion of the pinion going over tho centre could no longer bo distinguished, tho bell rang. Wc ha?i reached the rate of a mile a minute, ft was tho fastest I ev< r rode, before < r since. 1 tried bard to make a mile a minute ou subsequent miles, but lacked it three or four seconds every tiino. 1 couldn't squcezo another mile inside of tho sixty seconds.? When you bear a man telling about riding in a passenger train that ran a mile a minute, don't say anything, hut mentally sltatch off i good Allowance.?JV. 1'. Sun.