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VOL. X.?New Series, UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 12, 1579. NUMBER 37.
GEN. JOHN B. HOOD.
The gnllaut Hood is uo uiorc. He died
of yellow fever in New Orleans?his wife
having died of the same fatal diseaso a few
days before hiut. Ilow mysterious uro the
providences of God.
The bravo soldier passes through the
carnage of battle unhurt, where thousands
fall around him, and is struck down iti the
time of peace, in a great city?one, of n
Very few, who fall before the ravages of disease
!
Geo. Hood was a gallant Captain in the
late war. always couspicuous at tho post of
duty and dauger. lie was ICentuckiao
he was on adtf on the Texap frpntier until
1859. In a sevore engagement with, the
Coniancho Indians, in which his dashing
Courage Was conspicuously illustrated, he
received his first wound.
His resignation from tho old army was
sent forward in April 18Gl,nud afterwards,
to the oloso of the great coutest between
tho Stales, Hood was over the embodiment
of the soldier and the patriot.
Ho was one of Leo's most activo and able
lirigadicr.'1, and-rising to tho command of a
Division in Lougstreet's corps, proved himself
to be tho gijuhI of the best Major Generals
in tho great Army of Northern Virginia.
At Gkiekautanga, Hood was an oriflamuio
in tho fight, and his gallant Division, in
/ which our own Jenkins and Law were Jlrigfldiersu
followed his bold commands with a
eplondid charge, worthy of his leadership,
lie lost a leg in this battle, uud for his past
services and gallantry, was promoted Lieutenant
General, and assigned to the cominaud
of a corps in tho Army of Teuuessce,
then about to broak up its wiuter quarters
art Dalton in the spring of 1864.
Whether from the loss of his leg, or from
either P.llOlU frrtll IFiinil's hriof narnnr na a
corps commander was without distinction.
When, unhappily, Gen. Johnstone was
icmoved from the chief command of >lhe
Aruiy of Tennessee, on the 17th of July,
1801, Mr. Davis selected Hood to bo his
successor..
Illfhloe, the corps commander, declined
to assume the responsibility'of so great a
. .command, tmiearnestly remonstrated with,
^1 tit
battle, and he insisted upon Hood's leading
the army to tho field.
Johustone had "fuilod to arrest tho advance
of tho enemy to tho vicinity of Atlanta,"
to use the language of the Confederate
Government, and as ho "expressed no confidence
that ke eould defeat or repel him,"
bis junior corps commadcr was induced to
uudertnke the task.
Johnstone had telegraphed to the Government,
in &oply to the charge, that he
-expressed no confidence in his ability to
defeat Sherjnau?that "confident language
hj a military commander toas not evidence
of competence." In assuming the command
of the aruiy, liood, who spent the first day
of his great command at the headquarters
of the retiring General, fully illustrated the
spirit of this reply, and published uu order
to the troops as modest in ifcjr**
is at tne%iflnny MtroS oF the 20th 22J
and 23th of J uly, demonstrated the strength
of Sherman's position, and Hood's inability
to "defeat or repel liiui."
Ho held Atlanta, howevor, until tho 25th
of August, when Sherman begau to move
his army to Joucsbaro, 30 miles ou Hood's
left flank and rear. The battles of Jonesboro
were fought on the 30th of August
and the 1st of September, by Hardee, and
Atlauta -was lost aud won ! The subsequent
career of Hood is familiar to the
country.
His advance into Teuncsseo was well
planned, and came ucar bciug a success;
the failure at Spriug Hill of two corps of
his army, which ho had thrown ou the tlauk
und roar of Schofield's retreating aruiy, to
(Uttack aud rout it, is yet unexplained.
Hood was not with them. Why we do
jiot know. Ho reuiaiocd with S. D. Lee,
.at Columbia, aud came forward tho next
Jay and led the troops iu person on the
bloody field of Franklin. Pushing boldly
on to Nashville, ho suffered a crushing de
feat in front of that city in December, and
thus closed his career as a soldier ! lie
would rather have died us Cleburu died, iu
fbo enemies lust ditch at Franklin, than to
havo lived to sou his gallant army, in tho
bitter cold of D-rcembcr, driven out of Tennessee
!
JJut he bore his defeat with pationt resignation,
and lived to soo every artny and
uvory soldier of tho Confederacy, surrendered
to tho government of tho United
Stutos. And now, after fourtoun years of
pence, in tho quiet pursuits of domestic
life,.tho worthy and respected citizen of
New^ff^ft$,Tfn> honored and beloved survivor
of the Lost Cause, the il#un?^l Km.
baud and lather, I'ulU asleep in death, and
is buried in tho quiet hush of a great city's
grief, amid tho toara of frieuds and tho
regrots of millions of his fellow oitigcns.
liis wife had diod bofore him, only a
low days, and ItU ten littlo children aro
left to the cure of every manly, southorn
heart.
May tied bleu thorn with friends and
m iko them worthy of <hc gallant, spotless
3-'*
name they bear, the ouly inheritance tiieir
fat hot had to leave them. When Stonewall
Jackson was dying, lie said in his delirium,
"lot us cross over the river and rest in the
shade of the trees."
As the years pass by the Confederate
soldier fu'tills t hese dying words of the great
Jackson. The ranks are slowly forming
over the river. Tho great Captain is already
there, and one by one his generals arc
taking their places by his side, and the
brave men who followed theui aro slowly
crossing to their rest uuder the shade of
the trees of ibi Paradise of Cod.
afflict that loveiy Isle. The riot at Lurgan
on last "Lady Day" took tho conventional
form of a conflict between the police aud
the Home Rule mob, the Oranguicn acting
in this instance ouly as a sort of proximate
causes of the row. The efforts of a Home
Ruler to "get at" an antagonistic Ornnwe.
W . Q - " O"
man leu to the arrest of the former, and of
course, as a natural consequence, to an attempt
at a rescue. Tlicu the police fired
on the uiob, several persons were killed or
wounded, and a coroner's inquest was held
in which the Orangemen had a majority
of tho jury, and brought in a verdict
justifying the police. A minority verdict
signed by eleven Homo llulers found the
facts exactly the }ther way, and so Irish
opinion is, as usual, divided, and when Parliament
meets again u now cause for agitation
will bo roady for the honorable members.
Rut at the bottom of the present disturbance
is a more important nud ominous
question than the difiercucc between Orange
and Green. A movement has been recently
started looking to tlie abolition of the present
Land laws of Ireland which promises
to cause most serious trouble in the immediate
future. Parliament at its last session
repealed the act making it illegal for any
number of persons to meet in Irelaud as a
"couvcntioo" cltictcd to represent special
classes or interests in the country, and the
result has been that already a convent ion
has met at Castlcbar and has established
'The "Nationnl Laud League- of M'ayo,"^
with a most elaborate.and. enmnr?htoi?iv/i
:is far as may bo, of the tillers of the soil
from rack renting land owners, and the
ultimate abolition of the present Lund
laws of Ireland, and the substitution in
;n their place of such a system as shall be
in accord with the social rights, the traditions,
and the moral sentiriicots of the Irish
race." The Irish landlords road this as
the starting of an agitation to abolish them.
The Irish Land laws ato admittedly, even
now, largoly in the interest of the landlords,
and if those laws arc abolished, with such
substitution as that indicated, the landlords,
as an inevitable consequeucc, would go
overboard with them.
A movement liko this presents a platform
upon which almost all tho disaffected
classes iu Ireland cau stand together. As
waiter of Fenians aud Orange4*ia-v
m'?J?rrr<y rjTTirT*
mittcd to its support. The breaking up of
the great lauded ostates and the establishment
af a pc isaut proprietary arc advocated
by journals represcutiug all shades of political
opiuiou. As tho case now stands, three
hundred persons own over 6,000.000 acres
of Irish land, twelve of the three hundred
owning 1,297,888 acres between them.?
The agricultural population have no interest
in tho soil, and their condition nv?n in
times of comparative prosperity, is most
degrading and deplorable. But tho present
time is one of unusual depression. The
annual return of the liogistrar-Gooeral for
Ireland shows a decrease within the year of
20,000 milch cows, over 77,000 sheep and
197,409 pigs. The potato crop shows signs
of rot, and is said indeed to he in a condition
closely rcsouibliag that of tha ever
memorable year 184S. And, to crown all,
the effect of American competition upon
the eattlo market has been uiost disastrous.
American livo stock and American meat
can be carried from America to England
as cheaply as from Iroland to England, and
of course this means ruiu to tho Irish grazieifl.
It is probable, therefore, that this agitation
over the Land laws will have very important
conscqucuccs. From every point
of view the question is beset with difficulty,
and, with a turbulent and discontented population
at their back, the Irish ngitators
will bo cortain to give serious trouble. England
has her hands full alrcadv without
this additional problem. It remains to be
seen how Parliament will deal with it.?
Newt and Courier.
ITon't livo in hopo with your arnn folded.
Fortune smiles on those who roll up thoir
sleeves and put their shoulder to the whoel
that propels thuui on to wealth nnd happiness.
Out this out and carry it about with
Jou in your vtst pockot, ye who idle in
ar-rooms or at the corners of the streets
Clear boiling wator will remove tea stains,
and many fruit stains. Pour the wa'er
through tho stain, nnd thus prevent it
spreading over the fabric.
THE VALUE OF THE OAT CROP.
farmers siioui.d^'read, mark, lear!
and inwardly digest the following
University of Georgia,
Department of Agriculture, [
Athens, Ga., August 30. j
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist :
The injury done to the corn crop through
out the greater part of* Georgia, by the pro
tractcd drought in Juno and July, render
it necessary that our fanners should endea
vor lo supply the deficiency by raising i
greater amount - of small grain than thp;
havo bficu iu the habit of raising, if the
iiiMinni"ihihill1 Ti ' i
'A *
I w >uld specially - recommend them t
prepare for a large oat crop.
This, by providing a sufficient amount o
food for thu work animals in tho spring
will Icavo the bulk of whatever corn is let
of the prcscut crop for bread, and will,
hope, teach our farmers what I believe i
true, namely :
First. That oats arc the cheapest foragi
crop they can raise.
Second. That they are the most nutritive
as they contain more of the flesh aud mus
! cie-lorunug. heat-producing and fatten in;
elements than arc contained in the corn am
fodder, which arc the general feed given it
horses and mules.
Third. That they yield a higher percent
age of profit ou the use of fertilizers thai
corn; and fourth, that oats, instead of beiug
as many erroneously believe, an exhaustive
crop, when properly cultivated, improve thi
soil. It is the cheapest forage crop. Out
should be sown in September?the tfuit
when the laboring forco on plantations\ it
least occupied, and, therefore, arc sown a
nominal cost, especially where a part of tha
force works for stated yearly wages. Th<
sowing the crop in the spring is also inex
pensive, as two hands iu three days can sav<
nnd put away four acres of oats. If this
cost is compared with that of making cori
and fodder, it is obvious that for the sauii
expenditure fully double the quanity o
forage can be made in oats that can be inadi
in coru and fodder. They arc the most uu
tritivo horse feed. C.bcuiigal analysis ha:
.demonstrated that in.thtt^Jirou* classes oj
? y? -jy. i
and the carbohydrates and oils or neat an.(
fat-producing,' oats (the grain, straw anc
chaff) are richer than corn. In Kuglarn
oats are the only grain on which the raci
horses and those used in fox hunting?tin
highest types of muscular strength am
condition?aro fed.
They yield a higher percentage of profi
on the use of commercial fertilizers,
have fouud by actual experiment that th
application of ?7.50 worth of a good am
moniated super-phosphate per acre to oat
/ill more than double the production c
the natural soil, while the same amount up
plied to corn, except in uuusually favorubl
seasons, docs not yield anything like tha
per ceutagc of iucreusc. That they iui
prove, not exhaust the soil. Oats furnisl
large quantities of nitrogen in their root
nilfj BllHtH- "*"1 a don?tdvruble amount i;
also taken up by the growth of weeds aui
grass after the crop is cut, while corn is uu
deniably a nitrogen exhausting crop, be
cause during its entire growth and cultiva
tion in tho hot summer months, every blad<
of grass and everything that produces nitro
gen is speedily destroyed, whereas the oa(
plant appropriates during the period of its
growth the soluble nitrogen contained in
whateror fertilizer is applied to it, and tlu
subsequent growth of grass and weeds in
the summer holds th? rest, which cau nci
tlicr be evaporated nor washed away.
From three to three and a half acres ol
land well broken, curichc 1 by the applica
tion of from 150 to 200 pounds of a good
nmmoniatcd super-phosphate, sown in Sop
tember, with two to two and a half bushels
of gcnuiuc rust proof oats, will yield a sufficient
quantity of food for one horso o!
mule. It takes .about the same area ol
lan.l to produce a sufheient quantity of corn
aud fodder, with favorable seasons, to sun
port one work animal. If '.he relative cost
of labor in producing the oats and corn and
fodder be taken into account, it will be
found that the cost of tho latter is full)
double that of the former.
Hut to raise oats to meet the end to which
I have indicated, we must not, as is too of
ten tho practice, scratch in without manure
at any time between November and March
a bushel or n bushel and a half of any seed
we can hud, on tho poorest piece of land or.
our farm. Wo must concedo to oats the
rank to which their importance and valut
entitle thcui, and employ the same can
which we givo to cotton and corn, if wt
would dorivc tho bcuefits which thoy art
capable of offering.
Wm. M. Krownb,
Professor of Agriculture, Ac.
?
"Invcstiirntor" wants in know >< > :
good for cabbage worms. Bless **onr soul
man. cabbage, of course. A good, ? plumj
cabbage will last several worms a week. II
you want your worms to be real nice rut]
lat for fall cooking you must take care U
keep tlieni nway from caycnno pepper 01
woak solutions of salt.?Marathon Imir
pefrtten^.
H0B8E EDUCATION.
* Never lose your temper, for the uiouieut t
: you do so, you at the same tiuie lose the J
advantage whieh you should always have t
over hiui In handling a colt remember s
that you are forming the future horse, and s
carc, now taken either in his appearance or o
character, is by no means lost, lly the time s
h lie is a year old, he should allow you to
to place light articles on his back without g
s any resistance, and should be taught not to 'J
bo afraid of straps hanging loose cither 1_
a about the body or heels. This education is li
y best done, in the winter, and should be re- v
y pealed until perfectly brokeg, nndWheti 1 a
" horse. -4)uring the operation (TP" hutfcr- a
0 breaking, great care should be.taken,to al- fi
ways make him walk fast. Vast walking v
f (the best gait, of a h'orse) should be part of s
his education and he will never forget it in o
t 'his after life. We hate had a wide expert- d
1 ence with colts, and have yet to find one b
a whieh could not be made a good walker if o
properly trained when young ; but this is a a
Q fast age, and walking is too slow to keep up tl
with. With reference to balky horse*, h
there are more balky drivers; hence the u
. driver shall bo addressed rather than the o
T horse, which can be well done by the fob
j lowing from the Farm Journal: ' t
[j "If you hav". balky horses, it is your own w
i ?? .1-- t -
limit nun uut uie nurses, ioril they do hot I tl
. pull true there is some cause l'ur it, nuil if you I tl
\v? L j f i
2 excited, stop him fur five or ten minutes; ti
s let him become calm, and as soon as he is ci
9 .over his excitement he will, in nine eases si
i out of ten, pull at the worH. Whipping tl
t and slushing and swearing only make the o
t matter worse. After you have handled him a
3 a while, and his excitement has CooTcdj take' b
. him by the bits, turu each Way a few uiiu- ri
3 utes as far as you can, pull out the tongue, n
9 gentle hiui a little, uurein him, then step a|
1 before the balky horse and let the other w
} start first; then you can take them anywhere in
f you wish A balky horse is always high oi
3 spirited and starts quick ; half the pull is a<
. out before the other starts; by standing be- u<
3 tforo hiui tho other starts first, liy close si
\ .application to this ru)c you can make any g
horse pull'. If & horse--*4ias been badly" d
^ yfra miyow'- w '^t&R tinn.'rrgy *3
J empty wagon, and let ?him draw it around n
| for a while on level ground; then put on a o
j little load and incrcuso it gradually, caress- t!
2 ing as before, and in a short time you can a
B have a good work horse."?Turf, Field and ci
I Farm. n
si
r ThkDeAVPANIIRAB BV Mliivn ftutiimii !i
i teeth!?The nudiphonc, an instrument in- p
e vented by a Western Yankee for alleviat- w
i. iu<; the misery of deafness, is simply a n
s sl??et of vulcanized rubber, about 1-22 of f<
if an inch in thickness, set firmly in a handle n
of the same material. In the upper rim 1
c of this sheet arc pierced some holes through
t which passes a silken cord. This goes down
on the inner side of the sheet, to the ban- f
i die, through a slot in which it passes. My C
g {lulling this cord the sheet is bent over at n
? mny angle which the user may desire.? 1
1 lOach person has to ascertain for himsulr w
. what kind of a curve of the rubber sheet o
. will enable him to hear best. Generally it u:
. is very slight?only about ten or twelve
? degrjes?though apparently tho deafer the ui
. person the greater the curvo must bc.-;
When used, the person holding it simply di
t touches the upper edge of the fan, or audi- F
i phone, against the teeth of the upper jaw. li<
. The voico of the speaker strikes upon this fo
i tense sheet of rubber and communicates to I*
it vibrations which are in turn imparted to s{
the teeth, aud then pass to the auditory in
f nerve. With this operation the outer ear ai
has nothing whatever to do, the delicate tl
| machinery through which sound passing w
from without makes an impression upon the si
.......... j uvuv >a llllt U3UU ill ail. A 110 l(
outer ear may be stoppod up entirely, so p
far as it is possible to do it, and yet one tr
hears distinctly the moment the audiphouc st
is applied to the teeth. It is neoossary to c;
use the teeth of tho upper jaw lor the rea- ui
son that they are more nearly in contact b<
with tho auditory nervo; nor does it make c<
much difference whether the teeth bo one's mi
own or artificial, so long as those artificial ri
teeth nrc lightly fitted ; for when that is In
the case tho vibration is imparted about as 01
well as when they are natural teeth. The y<
inventor is deaf himself. He happened cl
one day to hold a watch between his teeth, T
and noticed that ho could distinctly hear b
its ticking, though wheu ho held it to his ti
car no sound was audible. This Set him w
to thinking that possibly ho might be nblo tl
to invent some device by which the souuds h
of the human voice could be transmitted to g
tho auditory nerve through tho medium of w
tho teeth, just as the ticking of tho watch U
had beeu. g
- ? d
A countryman who bad novor paid more r<
' than 25 cents to see an exhibition, wont to w
i see tho "Forty Thieves." The ticket-seller I
? eharged him 75 cents. Passing the paste- at
I board back ho quietly romarked : ft
. ~ ??r
I it, Mister, "I don't want to soo the other ?i
> 39," and out he marched. V
r ? it
"I'll take the starch out of you." 08 the 0
feMpiratido Mid td th6 shirt dollar. 8<
Girlhood's Perils.?Wc copied yeserduy
a brief article trout the New York
lerald warning girls to beware of favoring
he attentions of men who cannot, with reaon,
bo expected to marry thcui. "Meu,"
ays the Herald, "whose intentions are hourablc,
woo girls at their homes aud not by
tcalth and in out-of-the-way places."
It is difficult to persuade au American
;irl that she cannot take care of hersc)f<
'lie customs of our society throw h.r cary
on her own resources. While still in
icr teens she enters society aud associates
nth persons of opposite sex on walks, drives
nd^excursious. Her mother seldom thinks
fetnalo companion for tho t % ?.
r ? "-"V *" "1U j'urnjr P
nd uiodesty of the latter to protect her
rom advances in flic company of men which
rill compromise her good name. Aud it
hould be remembered that the girls of 110
ther country arc so worthy of this conGonce.
Thrown upou their own responsibility
the vast majority of them pass the
rdeal unscathed, and wlicu they marry are
s chaste in thought and life as though
hoy had uevor passed the precincts of their
ionics without the couipaniouship of their
lothcrs, true as steel to their persoual honr
and to that of their husbands.
But among the millions who stand unfinished,
there are scores and hundreds
rho fall into tho uiirc. Delighted with
heir freedom, flattered and fascinated by
ho attentions of well-dressed and agreeablcna
msldiousproumcs usually, but somemes
through the Are aud recklessness
1 used by wine and drugs, take the fatal
'.ep which forever separates them from
.... V.iiav.uwaun vi jjui ivy auu rous lUCtll
f their rijrht to rank among the chaste
nd honorable womcu of society. There is
ut one safe rule for girls to adopt in their
Nations with men, and that is to encourage
o advances which cannot be witucsscd aud
pproved at home. This rule, if observed,
ill save infinite sorrow and trouble to
inny who even now arc treading dangerusly
near the precipice. Those chaucc
ijuaintances which American girls are so
^customed to make on the cars, at cxcurons,
in stores and elsewhcne, without any
uyrautcc of the standing or respectability
f 0)0 men introduced, sj^jd bo jLvajdad. , ,,
md lu all cases tlie j uugment of a discreet
lothor or some woman of discernment and
bscrvation should be sought respecting
ie propriety of encouraging such acquniutnccs;
but above all, under no circumstancs
should a promise, however solemnly
lade or likely of fulfillment, suffice to peruade
a maiden to surrcuder herself, with
11 such surrender implies, uutil the law has
ronounced her a wife. No circumstances
rhatcvcr can justify su?h action, and in
incty-niuc cases out of every hundred it is
jllowod by a life-time of bitter remorse, if
ot by immediate suffering aud disgrace.?
ioclic.ilcr IJeruhl.
Tub Speed of a Locomotive.?"IIow
list do you lliiuk wo arc traveling
Jharley Fraser, one ol the oldest engineers
f the New York, Lake Kric ami Western
lailwav, asked a Sun reporter as they
'ere standing together on tlio foot board
f locomotive No. 809, rushing over the
icadows toward Rutherford l'ark.
ui should think we were going nearly a
lile a minute."
"A mile a minute!" said Fraser. "I
Dubt if you ever rode a mile a minute,
ew locomotives have driving wheels over
re feet, and I have my doubts if a fivciot
wheeler can be pushed u mile a minute
eoplo have a very erroneous idea of tho
jeed of railroad trains. We are not goig
now more than thirty five miles an hour,
ad this is very fast. Few trains make
liis speed. Tho passengers in the ears
ould think we were going a mile a minuto
ire if I was to pull out the throttle so as
> send her forty miles an hour. The exross
trains make no such time a? tho local
ains. Whore we lose is with so
? 1
ops. No inm could stand on a platform
ir and faco the wind going a milo a mintc
and live. The breath would actually
e blown out of his body. You couldn't
>uut the telegraph poles going a mile a
dnuto. Talk to an old engineer of that
itc being made by a passenger train, autl
c would laugh. I made a mile a minuto
ace, however. It was when I was but 18
?arsofage. I was an engineer then, in
iiarge of a tine six-foot wheel locouiotivo.
here wero a lot of railroad moguls on
oard, and the objeet was to make the best
nie we could. They were to ring the gong
hrtn thn ??? - ?'1'
..... .... u|.wu ????? ? in no a minute. 1
bought wo were making it ior Home time
efore the bell rang. At length, on a down
rade, with a full head of Btouu), when wo
'ere spinning along as if wc wero nil goiug
> destruction, and tho motion of the piston
uing over the centre could no longer bo
istinguished, tho hell rang. Wc had
inched the rate of a mile n minute. Ik
as the fastest 1 cv< r rode, before or sinco.
tried hard to uiuko a mile a minute on
lbsequcnt miles, hut lacked it three or
tur seconds every time. I couldn't squeeze
aothcr niilo inside of the sixty seconds.?
/hen you hear a man telling about riding
i ft passenger train thnt rau a mile ft tnirvto,
don't say anything, but uictiUUy
'tfttch off \ COCd AllOttaha*?V CO
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