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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! |
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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
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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.
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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
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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 |
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...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
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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
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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
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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.-%
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>> 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
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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.
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"I'll take the starch out of you," as the 1
perspiration said t6 thft shirt Collar.
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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*
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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.
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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. ? ?
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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.