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Til WEEKLY fclOI TIMES. ' JMPOtgd to g^iqnUurij, lortiijulluq, foimtatiq ?qonomfi, fjolitc ffefe ?nfl^ Current $mt of the Saj< VOL. X.?New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLIMBSEPTEMBER 19, 1879. NUMBEE 38. -> - L JL 1 ! !. _ . _ _!_ _ . - DEFERRED NEWS HEMS. A Terrible Plague Carrying of Young Men in Georgia.?Yorkville, Ga September 7.?For tho past mouth ther has becu a fearful disease raging iu Polk Paulding aud llaralson Counties. Thephyt iciaus are baffled" and tho people aro dyin: with unusal rapidity iu this famously health, scctiou. I have asked several physician: what.this disease is, and they all say they d< not know. One thing is certain. It is fear fully fatal, aud seems to continue to spread One very strange circumstance is that it at tacks young men alone ; but one old man ha yet died. Over lifty young tncu, in the ful important portion of the tacts and informa tion gathered by the couiuiissiou. Jioth largo farmers, and both arc conscrva live in puUvtnq AUV KltTISING A TkKROK 'lu Tiiiev KS ?"Ueforo 1 ever steal anything," remarked a citizen of this county yesterday, in con vcrsation with a newspaper man, "I an going to kill all the editors and have all tin newspapers stopped." The occasion of this energetic utterance was this : The speaker sat on liis front porch the other day reading the Observer. II is eye had just fallen upon an advertisement for a stolen horse, when a man rode up to the gate on horseback and hailed him. He looked again at the advertisement and then at the horse. The do scription fitted the horse at the gite to a dot. He went out and the rider engaged him in conversation. lie proposed to sell the animal and offered it at such a price as to convince the citizen the more fully that it was the one referred to in the advertisement, and lie thereupon took both horse and rider into custody. His suspicions were perfectly well-grounded, and, thanks to the VPrlleAIVIOlH liurihinofn muttAx *'? in possession of tlie horse and the thief is in durance.? Charlotte Observer. m That boy'll be the death of his grandmother yet. He wasn't allowed to come to ^ the first table, there were so many dinner guests, but lie kept them aware of his presence by calling out now and then from the pantry, where he had been shut up, "Ain't it tiuic for inc yet ?" At last the pastry was placed on the table. That boy's keen nostrils made him aware of this to him most interesting feature of the feast. He climbed up to the transom, put his head out and called out, "I say, folks, dou't you eat up all them pics !" ? The Floriilian lias conversed with several cotton planters in the viciuity of Tallahassee concerning the prospective yield, I* ?u.? n_ ~e uuu ii/ uuuo tuuiii {^cuurauy ui mu upiUIOQ that they will not get more than a twothirds crop. Tlio continued rains are doing no little damage, and, while the caterpillars are injuring the crop upon some plantations, other fields arc uuffcring from rust. A . In Leeshurg, Fla., when a man is fined by the Mayor and he can't pay, he is hired out to a farmer, who pays tho fine and takes the offender to work out the amount on the farm. This is considered much better than feeding such people in jail at the expenso of the county. ??? Sound advico?A locomotive's whistle Lto tell the people to get off the track. : flush of manhood-uud stregth,have fullcn vie v , , tims to the terrible disease. It appears to b< *? a-sort of epidemic typhoid fevcrTbut has scv cral symptoms different from thoso of rogu lar typhoid fever. As I write Clark Whit is being buried, and I saw his corpse. II< suffered terribly, and just before he diet the blood oozed out of his mouth and cars his tongue turned very black and swcllec terribly. The disease is f;arfully fatal. ] know one promiucnt physician who hat twenty-nine eases, and not one recovered though all received the most careful treat Ouicnt. The people here are justly terrifiet nt the ravages of this fearful malady. Gc< kuows what it is, but it is causing sorrov in many a household and spreading fcui throughout the neighborhood from which ] write. Physicians hope that the approach in?x cool weather will check it.?Special h the Atlanta Constitution. ? ? Great Britain's Distress.?Clare So ) well ltoad and Albert Pell, members of tin British House of Commons, arrived in Now York on Saturday by the Steamship City of Montreal. Mr. llcad represents South Norfolk and Mr. Poll South Leicestershire in Parliament, and they come to this coun try as a sub committee representing the parliamentary commission now engaged it investigating the causes of the prevailing distress in the agricultural districts of Eug land. The sub-comuiittee is mainly chargct with inquiry into the condition of the agri cultural classes in America and the method: under which our agricultural system is car riod 011, with a view of supplying or adapt ing that system, if practicable, to the llrit ish agricultural system. The commissioners will visit the principal producing sections or States of this country, aud will confei _ and consult with statisticians,. agricultura bodies End officers, State or Federal, who are charged with the supervision of agricultural interests or affairs. They will spend several months in this work, and il is expected that their report will form an TALES OF THE JIM-JAM8. F Zola's story of ,,L'Assoinuioir" recalls a , chat I oucc had with one who might be e termed a professional drunkard. He had suffered terribly from cxecssivo drinking ; i- he kuew its evils fat better thuu one could g ten iiun, ana lie realized Iiis position thory oughly, yet he clung to the habit aud a avowed hiuiscit' u drunkard. Said he : I 0 have gone too far and too long on this road. My stomach has been made over and adapted to ruui. The organ can't be revolution* >' ized again It's too old to leave off whis* s key. To chaugc its feed would kill me in a 1 fortnight. It isu't so good a stomach as the natural one was, but it stands -a pint or 8 more of brandy per. day. IVe trAln^TfT" to that during 1 hoho many years, aud VOU - can't teach unsold stomach new tricks.'? a Delirium tremens ? Snakes ? Jiui-jauis ? 3 Yes, I've had touches of them. You want 1 to know how it feels? I'll tell you, nl; though I never did much more than just I pass the jiui-jauis frontier. You have L drank maybe a week, maybe more. You 1 have kept extra "full" duriug that period. , At last liquor ceases to excite, brace up, or tranquilizc. Yon drink a half a pint of , 1 brandy and it has no more effect than so 1 much water. Thou you are close on the , y norrors. roou wont help you. lour r stomach rejects it. | I Now your punishment commences. You , - can't sleep. You are weary. Oh, sj wca- . ? ry, but there is no rest. You arc tired of | thinking, yet the tired brain will think.? ( You lie down, drop into a doze for a mo- j - ment, and wake up with a shock as if touch- | j ed by an electric wire. You arc covered | r with perspiration. You get up and walk | the room, walk the streets?walk, walk, ( i walk, and then fling yourself dowu, pray- ( s ing for ever so few miuutcs' sleep. All ( - this for days with people about you, and , ? through nights, whose lone, silent dreary i hours drag, drag, drag, while thus you lie j ; down and get up, aud merely to kill the . time you dress and uudrcss, while people ] 1 wonder what uneasy mortal is fussing in - the next room aud forever going up and , i down stairs. To stay the live-long night in , - that lone room is horrible, you are stifled, , - buried, in it. To get out in the street is i only to change the horror. Your exhausted j i body pleads lor rest. Y'our brain pleads | > for rest. Jiut no Chinese torturer employed j in keeping some miserable criminal awake , I till lie dies was ever more full of relcutless ( vigilance than your abused nerves. They 1 MH 1- - ? ? arc uiau. i ney nave mutinied. l liey nave . I bo rue suui borne the load of alcohol you - have imposed upon them uutil frenzied with i the strain, they have taken the bit between | their teeth and run away with your body and i brain. You realize this. You feel yourself borne on from horror to horror by this un- < seen power within you. Dreads iudcscriba- ] ble seize you. Your hands have a sensation ? of being of an enormous size. They do i I not look like it. They feel it. Y'our head in like manner feels as if enormously puffed i out. Then juur breath comes spasmodicali ly, hot flushes strike at the region of the i heart, all the blood seems at times to rush in that direction, and you fight aimlessly for ; life and expect to fall dead. This is the i commencement of the horrors. Now you i l are fixed for seeing rats, and snakes, and I vermin. i llow many attacks can a man stand ?? i flow many ? I've known men /ho weren't 1 wholly free from the jim jams for months. They saw the things continually. Didn't I mind them at all. Got used to them.? < There was Greenwood, a lawyer in Sonora, , Tuolumne County, Cal., he lived on whis- < key as nearly as a man could live on it for < years. Sometimes he had the snakes very bad, and again they'd tone down to inodcr- I ation, yet he had 'em all the same. He I would sit in his ofhec drawing up, some le gal document as straight and correct as the l soberest legal head in the county, and all i the time curse the crows (jini-juui crows, i you know) for getting on his paper. There > was French Louis, who kept a saloon at < Jamestown, in the same county, who drank I himself to death with his own liquor, He < was a mass of bloat, yet he'd serve custom- i crs to the last, and all the time sec a string i of monkeys (jiin-jam monkeys) running ; round the cornices of his saloon. ''They i amuse me," he would say, "and besides i they arc not so mischievous as real monkeys." There's a man living in that same town to day to whom a phase of mania (t pot a is ; of no more inconvenience, apparently, than a severe cold. I'll call him Doncaster, | which isn't his real name, but comes pretty | near it. That man is a living contradiction j of the theory that whiskey in excess will j kill people. He has for twenty years drank j lakes of it, and the poorest whiskey in the i world at that. After a howling drunk at ( night, ho will do a hard day's work and keep i up both the work and a modified sort of < spree 011 more whiskey, seeing all the time < men arouud him, (jim-jmn men,) who talk and threaten him. 'They plagued inc at first,' . Raid ho, "but I (old 'cm to git and they got. i One flight I heard a lot of fellers under my < window (dotting to rob and kill me. I < thought t> myself, if that's your game I'll , take a hand in it in-self. So I got up, took < niv knife and six-shooter and put out.-When I got out of doors they seemed to me i about one hundred yards ahead in the dark- i ness, nnd one hundred yards ahead they j kept fur two miles, nor could flnt any nearer to ihcui. So I traveled^Mp they traveled, out of the cauip all t hatjflHfcce, until all at oncothey Beeuied (o maSajKruight scoot off the road, and I heard 'elflfMt talkingou Graveyard llill. Then IsaB^ll, and say I, 'Snakes, by ,' and I (Hw about and came home." Then therdHB|{pr. D. of the same cautp. lie knew fiSflMrs that he was drinking himself to deaflEBIewas treating cases of the jim-jauiaiflEver tho couatry, yet he knew his turnflM^ como. lie feared it too. For years boBflke real v, . i.?i.1 ?< 1 jns iiuiiuio uuiu ui uiui, uc ujnMv a raw or heard a cat acfuail 1 ' f ipqaTife o7 Those about, film ir^ftey hoard them, too, in order to find out whether they were real rats and cats or jim-jaui rats and cats. The boys detected this drend at last, and used to frighten the doctor by assorting they heard nothing, while the cats were singiug their highest notes. At last the real article got hold of him. Not in the shape of cats or rats, though. Worse. Men with clubs and pistols, lie got a club himself and ran down main street screaming and beating the air with half the camp after him. An iucidcnt in his case shows how, in these tits, a man may bo both in and out of his sober souses at the same time. Among those who were trying to soothe him after he was stopped was ouo Dave Hortnn. mi i"nr?r:int hut ronsi?mn>nti:il norson ind uot at any tiuie a particular favorite of the doctor's. ''There's nothing lfter you, doctor, nothing at all," said Ilorton, much in the tone he would have used toward a frightened child, when all at once the doctor hit him a lively rap on the head with It is club. At this, llortou's benevolence turned all to gall aud bitterness, and he wauted to fight the mad physician. Well, D. reeovcrcd from this fit, aud a friend, at bis rejuest, told him how he had raved and acted. But when he alluded to Ilorton, the doctor remarked, with a curious expression : "Oh, yes; I recollect that part of it. The fool i moyod me and I wanted to get i id of him." As was his wont, the doctor kept strictly sober some months and then he went at it, aud kept himself deluged with whiskey for weeks, until the men with clubs and pistols .jot after him again. Thattiuic they settled liiui, and the doctor knew it, for, in one of bis quiet spells, lie turned to his iutiuiatc friend and said : "It's no use; salt can't save inc. I know my case thoroughly, and the quicker I go the better I'm suited." Arc not these good temperance lectures ? ?New York Graphic. Money.?It hcalt lacerated honor, satis ties justice and buys a square meal. Everything resolves itself into cash, from a 'corner" in corn to the building of churches. Children ask for pennies, youth aspires to dimes and quarters, mauhood is swayed by the almighty dollar. The blacksmith swings the sledge, the lawyer pleads for his client, and the judge decides the question of life or death, for money. Money makes the man ; therefore man must make the money, if he would be respected. Our old neighbor, Hen Franklin, once said: ' Knowledge is powor." Fogy idea. Money is power. Money, with a little feeble help, Rhoves the world ahead and keeps business moving. Money buys Hrusscls carpets, laco curtains, Steinways, and builds marble mansions. It drives us to church in a splendid turnout it secures the best pews, and in some places it pays the parson. It buys a Paisley and rich satins for the madam, splendid silks, laces and kerchiefs for Mati'da Jane Anna. It commands the respect of gaping crowds and secures the most obsequious attention. Money is useful. It enables us to be kind and charitable, to send tracts and bibles to the heathen in surrounding cities. It makes and straightens railroads nnd builds air line railways. Money is a big thing on salt-wells. Money bids care banish. It is a soother in sickness. Its power stops short of nothing save the ugly mouth if the grim messenger, whoso relentless band spares no one, but levels all earthlv listiiictions, and tenches poor humanity .hat it is hut dust. At the brink of eternity money goes back on us. The beggar ind the millionaire rest side by side beneath [lie sod, to raise in equality to respond to :hc final summons that awaits all. ToYouno Mem.?Do not work for fame. Work to do good. Qualify yours df to do ill the good it is possible for you to do. Improve the mind. Acquire stores of knowledge, and use that knowedg to bene. Tit mankind. Fame will come if you merit it. If you do not merit it you may seek it till you go ot your grave and never ejrasp it. Ilave a definite object. Let that be a worthy one?a philanthropic me, if possible. March steadily forward ? not daily, but hourly?towards the object you have in view. No matter what obsta. lies arc to be scaled, never yield till you arc victorious. Men who work for fame, never ^et it. It comes, if at all, because it is merited ; because of superior qualifications xercised in the discharge of duty ; because >f noble deeds done for humanity?and, in i hundred other ways, because of work lone meriting it. The only way to gain fame is to do some, thing worthy of it?but do not do that some, thing to win it. If sought for in that way, it will avoid your gra?p like an apparition. The Agricultural Outlook.?If far mors arc proverbially great croakers iu timei of adversity, it cannot be denied that the] are as great blowers in times of prosperity During the lute drought they were literal!) burned up?the com crop w*s lost beyoud redemption, and the cotton was too small and backward to promise more than half a crop: but the floods came, and lo I what a change cornea over the old croaker's vision. Everything begins to assume tho coulcur dc rose. Now tassels and shoots put in an appearance, and the cotton takes & start and flares out Us creamy and crimson blossoms; the grass isssafttofrydrtteyfe SnnSi uud everybody is elated at the prospect ol the future harvest. It is queer how people will forget the lessons of experience, and halloo before thev get out of the woods. Many corn-field* which give promise to the eye. when harvested will yield little but uubbins ; cjrn cannot wait on work crthcscasous; both must couic at the proper time, or it is labor Lst. As to cotton, a wet spell or a dry spell may blast our hopes. The rainy season, which has been almost incessant for a month, has run the plant to weed. It is beautiful to look at, but the forms will shed about as fust as they come, the lower bolls will rot or mature imperfectly, and should it even be a good seasou henceforth, it is too late to hope for much benefit from it. This is not a very favorable outlook for the farmer, but there is cousolatiou iu the rettectiou that it might have beeu worse.? The wheat and oat crop has beeu good, uud the country has beeu proverbially healthy. liut however uucertuiu the crop prospects may be, there arc are some things which are rcry certain. Taxes have to be paid that fertilizer bill will take the cream of thi prrm thai. Iii>n innrliniirn fur unnnllnu uml 1 I " C O" --['I'-"'labor must be met, ami preparations made for auotlier year's struggle for success. Don't flatter yourself with the hope that a better time is coming, that a revival el business is near, that flush times aud plenty of mouey are back agaiu, cotton fifteen ceuts a pound, credit good and everybody houest and reliable. We have heard this sort of talk over aud over agaiu ; it comes from uicu who have "axes to grind;" put no faith iu it. Times will never grow bettet until the legious ol loafers who have congregated about cities, villages aud railroad stations take to the plow. The great want of the times is good, honest, faithful work iu the field. We must have moro produ cers, fewer consumers. The balaucc of tradi is agaiust us. We pay out thousands foi what we should produce at home. W< must rciurui an incsc evils it we desire bet tor times. Put not faith in fiuuuciul proph ets. Wurk, economize iu all things, taki carc of what you have, and don't go in debt, arc the only roads out of the wilder uess. Why Bees Work in tiie Dark.?A life-time might be spent iu investigating the mysteries hiddeu in a bee-hive, and still half the secrets would be undiscovered The formation of the cell has long been ti celebrated problem for the mathematician whilst the changes which the honey under goes offer at least an equal interest to the chemist. Every one knows what honey fresh trom comb is like. It is a clear, yellow syrup, without a trace of solid sugar in it. Upon straining, however, it gradually assumes a crystalline appearance?it candies, as the saying is, and ultimately becomes a solid lump of sugar. It has not been suspected that this change was due to a photographic action ; that the same agent, which alters the molecular arrangements of the iodine of silver 011 tho excited coliodian plate, and determines the formation of camphor and iodine of crystals in a bottle, causes the syrup honey to assume a crystalline form. This, however, is the case.? M. Schciblor has enclosed honey in stoppered flasks, some of which he has kept in perfect darkness ; while others have been exposed to the light. The invariable results have been that the sunned portion rapidly crystallized, while that kept in the dark has remained perfectly liquid. We now see why bees work in perfect darkness,and why they are so careful to obscure the glass win.1 .-i-: -1- ? uu?s wiiluii arc sumuimics placed in their hives. The existencoof their young depends upon the liquidity of saccharine food presented to them ; and if light were allowed access to the syrup it would gradually acquire a more or less solid consistency ; it would seal up tho cells, and in all probability prove fatal to the inmates of the hive. A method of refreshing rancid butter is published in many of the papers as follows: "To a pint of water add thirty drops (about half a tcaspoonful) of liquor of chloride of lime. Wash in this two and a half pounds of rancid butter. When every particle of the butter has c une in contact with the water, let it stand an hour or two; then wash tho butter well in pure water. The butter is then left without any odor, and has the sweetness of fresh butter. These preparations of lime have nothing injurious in them." A writer who claims to have tried this, says that the most rancid butter was rendered so sweet by it that able judges could not distinguish it from Inew butter when placed along side the latter on the table. .1.^1 - JU-f.1 . V-0. Ginning and Spinning.?Winnsboro,' s September 5.?The interestiug article from I your Audersou correspundeut, "W.," iu u . recent issue of your enterprising paper r upon the subject of manufacturing yarns I from seed cotton, iuduccs me to say a word 1 or two explanatory of my rcsolutiou at the ; late joint meeting of the State Agricultural i Society and Stato Grange in Chester. The rcsolutiou as adopted authorizes the !_ i;_; p . i T % . ? uieuiunuiisiiig 01 mc liCgtsiaturo tor a re, ward of 810,000 to pc paid for an iuveni tion which will cuablc farmers, upon their i plantations nud at paying rates, to couvcrt , their crops from the seed into yarns. ! ^wrprioetpel object hod in view when I * UflV'IC\1 ?! ? . iv'ti WHO IV Ultvvv v??v ? tention of farmers und inventors to tho i want oi such a machine, ns well as to the practicability of perfecting ic. 1 was awaro i of the experiment of Col. Harrison with tho ''Clement Attachment," which demonstrates the practicability of spinning from , the seed, but the machine is loo costly for farm use, and could not compete for tho 1 ? * - ,,rt ' rcwaru unless 11 was mutinied so as to conio within tho requirements. I remember, , when I was a boy. seeing a hand machiue i which did the same tiling, i. c., spin yarn from seed cotton, the cotton being spread i upon an cudlcss clotii band which curried it to the saws, whence it was passed in i proper condition to six spindles and then made into yarn, the whole operated by the turning of a crank. This machiuo is as i much too small us the other is too large, but equally well demonstrates the feasibility of > the plan of spiuuing from the seed. Now if the State will do what was doue in New i York, when it waut.d a steamboat for tho i Krie Canal, and iu Indiana, when a practi, cai road steamer was needed?offer an iu! ducemcut to inventors?1 havo no hesita1 tioti in saying that ere long we will havo s the intermediate of the two uiachiucs alluded to, and, as the result, each farmer will, . in addition to the questionable profits now made by raising cotton, be ablo to pocket the very decided premium which accrues by converting it into yarn. There are two other ideas that present i themselves iu this connection. Spiu your i stained cotton iuto yarns and ten cents i worth of bleaching material will make them ?the vieldines of a haln?ns wliitn nc cnAi.. f o "" """ " m,vv h" ouu" * You can now understand why special or. dors aro t'roquoully given to buyors to bci cure this clas of cotton, but always at rc. duced price of course. The other idea was suggested by seeing this year and last year an intimation by the New York Cotton Exr change that efforts would be made to deduct i the weight of bagging and tics from tho - weight of the bale. If this is done?and - it is a well known fact that farmers are the s victims in all combinations?then would i the price offered for this machine be indeed paltry iu comparison with tho good that would be done to tho State by its invention. Many of our best mechanics arc too poor to risk their labor upon a venture, but offer I them satisfactory remuneration for their ' talents and they will employ them. T. W. Woodward. Six Acres Better tiia.y Fifty.?All . over our country we aro raising pitifully . small crops from large fields. Time, labor r and capital are sunk in fruitless toil. Is . there not a better way? An extract from i the Rev. J. N. Glenn, Itockdalc County, r Georgia, suggests the answer. Mr. Glenn says : ' In 1827-152 I was intimate in the family of Mr. William Hudson, Hancock County, Georgia. I often observed a six ncro lot, upon which he raised every year a fine crop ' of wheat. The crop of 18152 was the vcrv best wheat I ever saw. Enquiring iuto the eccrct of his success, he told me, in substance, that he had sown wheat in that lot for over twenty-one years in succession.? When he begau with i', the land was worn and thin. #Thc secret of its redemption and surprising productiveness was, that ho began by spreading over it, in June, a heavy i coating of manure from his gin and horse lot, preparatory to sowing peas. Having broken the ground deep, the peas were soon growing luxuriantly. Wheu the peas were about Uftecn inches high, the first of October, he turned them under and sowed two bushels of wheat the to acre, harrowed and , rolled the ground. The first year he made a good crop. When it jvas harvested ho , sowed pons as before?-turning the heavy stubble deep under. Again in October ho turned his peas under?sowing wheat and , treating the ground as before. And sc, with a few interruptions, he had been doing for twenty-one years. lie never failed to uiukc a good crop, and used no fertilizers except what was furnished by his lots, the stubble and the peas. lie told mo that ho never had flour to buy when he concentrated on the six acres ; when he tru>ted to fifty or a hundred acres on the common p'a i, bo bad flour to buy." Are there not many such experiences and observations, showing that six may be better than fifty '(?Monroe Enquirer. Just bjfore the Judge of the police court passed sentence lie \v is stopped by the prisoner, who remarked : ''You remind uie of the crops, Judge." "Why?" asked his honor. "You are looking was the response. The court didn't belie its locks.