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i i * i ? ' -'- ,* > * # > *> - '. ;-. ? . * \* . w '^t .-* TEE WEEKLY ?BjII0I TIMEfe** Snuotod to ^niqnUur^, IJortiquUuri, gomcatiq ?qonomg, golife miifthV Current $tm of :' vol. xl. new series. union c. li , south oaro^pa, april 30, ififio. numrkr 17. Spears & Golton ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL % ?OF A? LARGE ASSORTMENT OF 1880. jg* 1880. THEIR Stook of Dress Goods, Constating in part of a Irish Poplins, Plain and Figured Delaines, muslins, Linens, Lawns, Suitings, Piques, &c., &c. ARE COMPLETE AND VERY ATTRACTIVE, THEIR STOCK OF Calicoes ARE unusually pretty, having taken espeeial pains in their selection, and they feel oonfident they can please any and all who call. THEIR STOCK OF Brown and Bleached Sheetings and Shirtings, together with Cottonades, Linens, Striped Homespuns and Tiokings deserve especial attention. THEIR STOCK OF IVotloiia, Consists of all the novelties of the season. Would call especial attention to Ladies' and Gent's Handkerchiefs, Ties, Scarfh, and a multitude of ether things too numerous to mention. THEIR STOCK OF Virg:nia Cassimeres, Is large and the styles are very handsome. THEIR STOCK OF D A A T fl a a r a si a w* d u u i o, o n u t o, n h I o, TRUNKS AND VALI8E8, Are ell complete in their mml departments nn<l defy competition. Cell end see for yourselves, _ SfEABS dt OftI.TOX. .. Eat i Grow Fat! 250 PACKAGES FISH, 600 LB8. CHEESE. 150 BBLS. FLOUR. 8,000 Lbs. Bacon. Sugar, Coffee, Holft8S6S| Salt, Crackers. Sardines, Oysters, Pickles, Bagging and Ties, - Lard, Candles, Spiees, Raisins, Citrons, Tea, Baking Powders, Lie. Tobaoeo, And all other articles usually kept IN A FIRST CLASS FAMILY GROCERY STORE. We obeli keep a full line of above Good* on band and guarantee prioee. GIVE US A CALL and you will be oonvinoed tbat yon can do as well with us as at any other of Ihe eurround ing markets. FULL WEIGHT GUARANTEED. SPEARS Sc CO. OetS 40 if Marble Work! I HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF PLAIN MARBLE WORK ON HAND, WHICH I WILL SELL A T YEBY Lflf PRICES, Ranging from 04 OO to |W OOper Sett, LETTERING $8 PER 100 LETTERS. f am prepared at all timet to Make On Short Notice, Large Granite igi garble loaiawti. ^ A FULL OOLLKOT/ON OF DB8ION8 ON HAND. W. A. mpHouos. ABf a IV H iy * Save Tour Rags. ONE cent a pound will be paid at tha Timet Offioe for any quantity cr clean, dry. whit rag*. B. M, STOKES. ESSAY ON OEASaES. At a meeting of tho Spartanburg Pomona Orange, at McAboc's Academy on the 10th inst., tho following Essay on Grasses was read by Qon. J. C. Anderson, and its publication in our county papers (Farmers' Column) unanimously calleu for : Worthy Master and Patrons : I know of no subject moro fit and more worthy from which we may draw many practical suggestions for the good of the good of the Order than tho cultivation of the grasses, and thero is every reason why we should be as much interested in this branch of Husbandry as in any othor. It is of vital importance in the annual success, and per^haps^^^^^^c^mm^and improving little and that wo havo mado such slow progress in this branch. Its importance and extent in the United States is very great. As shown by the reports of the Agricultural nonftrfmonf ifa volna runlro oanol fn iKo* of tho cotton orop. This fact of itsolf should ellicit more interest and inquiry than to-day exists among us as furmers, and I contribute a mito to this end and purpose by giving you some of my personal experience with the Grasses. We should not be surprised to see so much indifference and negleot when we review the past history of our country, and remember that under the old system that this branch was totally ignored by our fathers. Its important was not scon by them; its need was never felt; it was not their purpose to reclaim or to enrich tho soil, because it was of less value than the slave. Boing able to command the labor at all times, it was their policy to cut down, wear out, and sell out. U nder tho circumstances, they acted wisely for themselves, but unwisely for posterity. We find ourselves under different circumstanoes, and we mast adopt a different polioy. Some of the advantages they possessed wo have not, but at the same time we have many they did not enjoy. Al the beginning of this change in our system wc found muoh prejudice existing against any new doparture in farming, and the in troduction of tho cultivated grasses did not escape. Many young farmers who dared to depart on this lino mot tho taunts of the more advanoed, and were told to stop their "nonsense, or you buy corn next year." But we are glad to see, that notwithstanding this pressure and the want of information on the subject, tho cultivation of tho grasses is growing more in iavor, and that some progress is being made, and that interest ana inquiry are on the increase. Our increase their productive capacity and market value is to the interest of the individual farmer as well tho interest and prosperity of tho country at large. What we as farmers wish to know is how wo may improve our land with the smallest outlay of money and labor, and at the same time continue to produce paying crops. To sco our lunds growiug poorer or washing uway into the adjacent streams, will dispirit and unstring the energies of any one. I believo if there be any answer to this inquiry, or any remedy for the continual waBte, we may find it in the cultivation of the grasses, a! 1 1_ _l J 1 1 rti uiuru particularly urcnara ana nea uiover. These two possess the quality of producing fine forage aud at the same time improving the soil. Timothy and Herds Grass are more properly grazing and hay grasses, and our native Crab Grass is by no moans inferior for hay and possesses many advantages over some others. I havo had a limited experience with the five just mentioned, and while they have not all attained to that perfection we would desire, still they have succeeded sufficiently to encouruge uud even to bo profitable. Crab Grass may be grown to perfection, and made the friend instead of the great enomy we are wont to regard it on the farm. It makes most excellent hay, and any one may sucoeed with it on any land. Allow me to suggest that eaoh' one present set apart a small lot, one-half or ono acre, and break it deep, aud two or three times .b* the tonth of May, making the last plowing about that time, have tho surface smooth with Harrow or a pole drawn at right angle to the team. If the land is poor and light. manuring will doable ibe orop. Keep off stock any trj tbe hay; out when in full bloom. One bore under this treatment last year producod for me more than two tons of good hay. I sprinkled with salt as I put the hay in barn or staek. No one need be without forage if he will handle the Crab Grass. Timothy may be grown on a rich loam in onr county, but is a poor crop on high, dry upland, either for hay or gracing. In faot it is striotly a hay grass and will not bear close grazing here. It finds a great enemy in the Broomsedge and is gonerally overcome in three or four years. I have sown it pretty extensively for this country and havo made some fine hay from it, but have abandoned it for reasons above, and also beoause I regard the Orohard superior for our purposes. Iisrds Grass is to be preferred as a grating meadow on damp leads. While it makes a fine quality of hay, the quantity ia leas per aero than the Orchard or the Timothy. It will not be profitable if sown on dry or poor land. In 1872 I put down two aerea in Herds, on damp, branch bottom, and for six years bad a superior meadow always at hand for idle stock from Saturday night to Monday morning, and never) felt more independent of the oorn-orib. One and one-half bushels of seed is suflloient per acre and may be sown in fall or spring. Orobard Grass is superior in many respects to any other with whioh I have bad any experience. In fkct I am satisfied with the results of Orchard Grass and Red Clover, and feel that I bare reaped much profit by my ventures with them. And I can see no reason why they may not beoome 4 standard orops in a well regulated system of rotation in our country. It must be evident to the mind of any thinking man, that wo cannot continue the present eyslein of cleau orops, especially on broken lands, with now and then sowing down in grain, for many years to come.? There must be some redeeming and healing crop to restoro the continual wasto and drain that are going on irom year to year. It ia not sufficient to say that commercial manures will fill up this gap. That they are of great benefit I would not deny; but it is being daily demonstrated before our eyes that when they are used in oonjuuotion with even a poor system of rotation they prove to be of most benefit. May we oof iffiiirtfn "u rr?,J>'nEaiMg*fi portune discovery and development of tne phosphate beds than wo are at present doing ? Manure bonefits all crops, and the grasses are no exception. We need not complain that our land is too poor to grow Orchard Grass or Clover when wo not unusually expend hundreds of dollars to grow cotton with commercial manure. I believe it as easy to grow Clover and Orchard Grass with profit as it is cotton, if we only give them the same care and manure. Orchard Grass will grow on nnv soil out side of a sand bank. Clover is perhaps a little wore choice. Both possess the remarkable quality of enriching the soil and at tho same tiwo producing a profitable forage or grating crop. But we must remember that, like all other crops, the better the land and the manure, the larger yield, and ho who dliS poor land must be content with poor crops. After an experience of ten years or more with the graces mentioned, I am forced to the conclusion that as a rule, the best time of sowing the two last named is in the fall cf the year, after danger from the summer droughts has passed, and early enough to get well rooted beforo the Winter freezes commence. Drought and freezes are the too great enemies to Clover, especially in its tender stago. Orchard Grass is not so easily affected. The proper method I regard is to sow as a separate crop, without any small grain, as is usual. There may be exceptions to this rule, both as to time and method. In fact I bave succeeded in Spring and Fall sowing, and have also as signally failed in attaining a good oatch. If sown in the Spring, during tho months of February or March, it is subject to the dnngera of the constant thaw and freeze at the time it is most tender^ and if not entirely destroyed well rooted beforo the Summer droughts. If sown with small grain, it uudergoes the additional danger of sudden exposure to the hot sun at the timo the small grain is re movea. Ia addition to this, I can ace nothing gained or advantage derived, except perhaps a light Fall grazing, as no crop generally can be obtained before the following May or J uno. If, on the other hand, you sow in the Fall, say from the middlo of August to the first of October, you procure a crop the following Summer, if you get a catch, and if damaged during the winter you can avail yourself ot the chances of the spring. These remarks apply more particularly to Red Clover than Orchard Grass. I have found a stand of Orchard about as easy to obtain as a stand of oats. Its great worth consists in being a most exoellent grazing gross as well as good hay gross, and may intc general use on all the uplands of the come country. On a rich loam it grows vigor ously, from four to five feet high. It does uot form a sod as others, but grows more in separate stools or tussocks, and should be 60wu thick, to covor the entire surface. I find it valuable on steep hill sides, along branoh bottoms. It prevents washing ana is more valuable decidedly than the bushes and briars that sbade the outer edges. To sow Orchard Grass, the land should be in fine tilth, as free from the natives as possible; tlicn mark off in narrow lands and sow one and one-half bushels jjer acre as early as the seed can be distributed, and follow with roller, harrow, or polo. Stock should then be kept off and the grass allowed undisputed sway. It will be in full bloom about the first of June, and it desired for hay, it should then bo cut; but if for seed, it must be allowed to mature at least three-fourths of the heads. To make good hay, cut in the morning after tho dew is off, and if the sun shines hot it should be put int> cocks in the ovening and thrown out next morning just enough to air, but not to sun, and after an hour or two may be put into tho barn. It may be cut for seed, as wheat or oats, and handled in the same manner, but more carefully, as the best matured seed will waste. The choice seed are obtained by thrashing tbe bundles over a Solo, and tho inferior by passing the bun* les thus treated through an ordinary grainthrasher. Bat by cutting the first crop and not pasturing, tho grass will bo enabled to overoome the natives, take possession of the entire surfice, and will retain it for years, under a judicious after treatment. Orohard Grass and Olover bloom and are ready for hay about the same time, and make a valuable combination. Glover is not so long-lived as the grass, and (gives way the third year, leavinsr the orroaa in nnoaeaainn. It is more suited to a short rotation, and m it it one of the best fertilising plants in all agrioultura) circles, it maj be made more valuable to us than any of the known graaees. Orehard Grass is yaloable for grating in the winter and earW spring, and if not pastured during the Summer aud fall will afford an excollent bite in January. It ia not to be presumed that any farmer who reads Agricultural Journals at all is ignorant of tho fertilising power olaimed for Red Clover, but none of us oan fully realise the extent of that power until we demooiS^rin^r experiment. And it is only ueqptary to try it to convince any ooe that it Umiirely practicable and much more profitob^f waQ tnay at first be thought. Of course,&A mpat dot. wwtt flue clover on p^ora liule ^manure an<^ The hav should not be cured too .much to be good. If cut during the forenoon of a fair <Uy it will be sufficiently cured by the middle of the afternoon to put into cocks, unless it is very rank and thick when it may need mors suu the following day. The dew should not fall on the hay. It turns it blaok and extracts the sweetness from it. The day following the cocks should be turned over and exposed to air a short time before it is removed to the barn. I prefer to put up - ??? a iiMiu green ramcr man too muoh cured, and salt down freely, and the hay remains always sweet and fresh for feeding; otherwise you may have nothing but a lot of dry sticks for your trouble. In conclusion, I will say that I have been unable to estimate the beoefit derived from Red Clover on my farm for the post ten years. Thirty acres of land has been doubled in its productive capacity principally by Clover, and profitable crops of forage obtained every year. I hare been able to make more cotton by reducing the corn acreage, and finding half corn and plenty of hay has kept stock in | thrifty condition. I have not had a sick I horse or mule during that time. And when I see farmers go into the village and load back with bales of hay I feel that it is an insult to the calling. Thero is no excuse for a farmer to be out of forage. He may not be able to grow the cultivated grasses as he thinks, but surely there is not a farm in the oountry that will fail to grow orab grasss with a little persuasion. Let us, then, resolve to make further inquiry into this subject and avail oursolvos of the opportunities that present themselves to us, and endeavor to get more good and profit out of them before they escape us. Let us show a higher appreciation of an honorable calling and strive to make it more pleasant aa null a* mnra MnfiuUU A CATA8TROFHK IN N EW YORK.?New York, April 21?10.30 P. M.?A serious disaster has occurred at Madison Square Garden. A dispatch received at police head quarters says that the western or MadSunn avpniiA of tlm Kn'iMunw l>?? ?- v "hin. The police, firemen and ambulance corps are at work removing the debris and taking out the injured. A fair in aid of Hahneman Hospital was in progress at the time. A large number of people have been carried out of the building. Tho neighborhood is thronged with excited people. New York, April 21?11.30 P. M.? There were about 800 people in tho building at 9 30 P. M. when the front of the building facing on Madison avenue gave way, the wall falling outwards. A part of the roof adjoining also fell in with a crash and caused intense alarm inside the building. It is not at this time known how many persons wero killed, bat three have already been taken out dead and seven wounded, including Mrs. W. A. Ogden, Hegoman, Wm. P. Tileshon and Mrs. James Smith, of Flushing. The part of the building which fell was mainly occupied as an art gallery. The pictures were loaned and insured for $100,000 against fire alone, but so far as known not against other aociilnnla Where the Apostles Rest.?Charch authorities state that the Apostles of Christ are now in tho following places : Seven are in Rome?namely, Peter, Philip, Jainoa the Lesser, Jude, Bartholomew, Matthias and Simon. Three are in the Kingdom of Naples, Matthew at Salerno, Andrew at Amalfi, and Thomas at Ortona. One is in Spain, James the Groater, whose remains are at St. Jago de Compoetclla. Of the body of St. John the Evangelist, the remaining one of the twelve, there is no knowledge. The Evangelists Mark and Luke are also in It*lv?the former at Venice and the latter at Padua. St* Paul's remains are also believed to be in Italy. Peter's are, of courae, in the Chureh at Rome, whioh is called after him, as are also those of Simon and Jude. Those of James the Lesser sod of Philip tre in the Church of the Apostles; Bartholomew's in the Chnroh on the Island in the Tiber called [ after him; Matthias's are in the Banta Maria Maggoire, under the great altar of the renowned Basilica. A Murderous Arm.?Dr. Gatling, inventor of the famous gun, has just perfected another instrument of war that is said to be most oomplete in Its deadlj properties. It is capable of firing 1,000 shots in a minute, and bv the use of the instrument th/ee men oan do the work of 300 riflemen. It is oapable of killing * man or horse one mile awaj. It is somewhat in the form of the present Gatling gnn, but more oomplete, ana may pe taken to pteeee at will, and therefore oan easily bo moTed about. About $250,000 woro spent io experimenting on it. Judge Karahaw baa filed an order in tbo Clerk'a offioe for Richland County, fixing the day of the aale of the Leurena Railroad for the fist Mondnv in August next. The sale will be mado by N. B. Barnwell, Esq., Master of Riehland County, before the courthouse in Columbia. ? DEFERRED NEWS ITEMS. * < Thi Amkkicak Fashes, for April eontaios a y number of tnoat excellent at>?l practical articles, 4 including papers on lUclaiaring 8adfl?ua<f Fta* Lands; Making, Saving and Application of Barn-Yard Manure; The Origin, Character and 1 Improvement of Soils ; Beet Sugar ; Tobaceo, < and many other equally timely topics, including Frujt-Growing, Market Gardening, Flower Oiltore; besides, what constitutes one of the most instructive and popular features of this veteran journal, report* from several advanced farmers' 1 clubs; also the regular monthly notes of work on the farm, and. in the orchard, froit, visgets- a bla and flower gardens, poultry yard, Ac., with i a moat admirably oooductad department for the ' ladles or the fhtm household. ' 1 Our farming renders will flud a subscription * ,to The Farmer money well invented,?the eoct ? Eft?-rm'rm'T, "I "r" ? The Aib-Like.?It will be remembeVe<rthat V on the 8d Inst., nn unprecedented rain storm ( visited that portion of the Air-Line railroad between Mount Airy and Toccoa, Georgia, and dc- v vastated the country in that immediate section. I We learn from an eye-witness of the damages o done, that it cannot be conceived. Col. 0. J. B Foreaore, the indomitable manager of the road . left Atlanta for the scene of the disaster and has ' remained with the hands until day before yes- I ,QI..i?.. i ??"?? h nc amw .us am irain pass over ine Drcait. c Too much cannot be said for the Colonel's ener- , 157 and management. Many men would be , dumb-founded and at their wits ends, as to how to proceed in the emergency, but he went to * work with a will, with tho above result. We t; sometimes speak of a clever man "that cannot run a hotel." Col. Foreacre is exceedingly ? clever and certainly knows how to run a railroad. We congratulate him upon the expedi- 1 tious manner in which he has dispatched this 3 work, and say to all travelers that the road is now epen for through travel.?Greenville Netci. .?. 1 The Sun 8fots and their Meanino.?The re- 11 turn of the sun spots, according to the mysteri- v ous law that governs their appearance, is daily ( becoming mere manifest. They throng across the . great biasing globe of the sun singly, in groups, and in rows. They show a decided tendency t, to flock together, and generally there is at least t one principal member of a group, of enormous aize, surrounded by a dosen or more smaller spots, some of which can be detected only with i high telescopic powers. Many of them, how- t ever, are as large as a continent, and the largest t exoeed the whole earth in aise. Surrounding , the spots are the faculm ridges of light that stand out clearly, by their superior brilliancy, ? from the intense brightness of the sun's disk, a Any one can see the largor spots on a bright day a with a good spyglass, but great care must be ta- , ken to protect the eyes with a deeply colored, almost opaque glass. Sun spots seem to be con- ( nected in some strange way with the meteorological condition of the earth. When, after having been almost entirely absent for a time, they begin c to reappear in great numbers, seasons of exces I sive heat usually occur. At such times, too. the v northern lights are most frequent. Prof. Piaxzi ,j Smyth announces that these lights havs begun to shake out their banpers in the skUv nf Sqot. predicts a period of heal, to begin before the 1< summer ODens.?Nexct and Courier. ' ' Gold by the Pound in Groboia.?Advices by c telegraph and mail received from the gold mine r in White County, of which ? description was d given yesterday, show that the yield grows a richer and richer, and there is, of courso, an increase in the excitement. Col. J. II. Nicholls, who had started home, telegraphs us from Mount Airy that the Messrs. Lumsden found on Tuesday a nugget that weighed 440 pennyweights.? This is about one-third larger than the nugget that was shown in Atlanta on Tuesday, and is almost equal to the nugget of 520 pennyweights, which was the largest ever found in Georgia. A carl from Mr. E. J. Storr, a reliable gentleman who is on the ground, writes that the boys have begun to count their day's work by the pound, and that on Monday, only two hands being at work, they took out twenty-four pounds of gold, or to be exact 942 pennyweights. All of this was found in nuggets. One nugget weighed three hundred and thirty pennyweights, another seventy-three penny weights, and another flfty.flve pennyweights. The others were smaller pieces, ranging from five to forty pen- t nyweights. The day's work on Monday of the c two hands amounted to over $900, as the bullion is worth about 96 cents to the pennyweight. I fVe await with curiosity further news from the rich mine. We have bi^t little doubt that the Lumsdess will get a huge fortune out of t he old I II..I I r fA_ vugvtMuiv ???iuou, ium umo iur nnjr Jt5?m own ? given to the cultivation of turnips and potatoes. 1 But whatever they get will be a small fortune oompared to that whioh awaits him who oracks the sparkling veins that seam the hills and mountains that shut in the Vally of Nacooohoe.?Atlanta Comtitution. Tin Dtaarrr or Housbkbspinq.?Where is there any station higher than the ordering of the house? While the husband has to vex himself with outward matters, while he has wealth to gather and secure, while perhaps he takes part in the administration of the Stato, and everywhere depends on circumstances ; ruling nothing, I may say, while he oonceives that he is ruling much ; compelled to be but politic where he would willingly be reasonable, to dissemble where he would be open, to be false where he would be upright; while thus for the sake of an object which he never reaches, he must every moment sacrifice the first of objeets, harmony with himself, a reeonable housewife is aotually governing in the interior of her family ; has the comfort and activity of every person in it to provide for and make possible. What is the highest happiness of mortals, if not to execute what we consider right and good, to be really masters of the means oonduoive to our aims f And where should or can our nearest aims be but in the Interior of our home ?? All those indispensible and still to be renewed supplies, where do we expect, do we require to And them, if not in the plaoe where we rise and where we go to sleep, where kitohen and oollar, and every speeies of aooommodation for ourselvee and ours is to be always ready f What . unvarying activity is needed to oonduct this oonstantly recurving series in unbroken living order 1 How few are the men to whom it is given to return regularly like a star, to oommond tk*lr dk* aa lk?* Mmmknd tk*l* nUkl . i? for themselves their household instruments, to tow sad to reap, to gain and to expend, and to travel around their eircte with perpetual suocess and peace and love I It is when a woman has attained this inward mastery, that she truly makes the husband whom she loves a master ; her attention will aoquire all sorts of knowledge; her activity will torn them all to profit. Thus is she dependent upon no one ; and she proourss her husband genuine independence, that which is interior and domes'* . ' - - TT7"7?V ? Lie; whatever he possesses, he beholds seeured ; irhal he earns, well employed ; end thus he ean lireet hU mind to loftiel* objects, sod If fortune l hvors, he may set Id the Btate the same chancer whioh so well beoomes hi* wife at hosse.? 7 cells'* WilAelm Meiil/r. " . THJI MISSOURI HTTMLICAHX. * Br. Louis, April 21.?A special from Marshield My a that seventy-one victims of 8anday'a torn have been burled and twenty-five or mere re In a dying oonditlon. The number seriousJ wound is about one hundred and fifty. A aba about eighteen months old, whose mother res killed and whose friends were all wounded, ras found on the 10th Inst.,, in a ravine north-1 >f the town whero it lay aft night. It is now there it had been nearly ftventy-four hours. It vas considerably bruised, but vyill rccorcr. It ras claimed yesterday by its parents, who lite wo miles and a half from the southern portion <f the town. The child's serial flight therefore nust hare extended over three miles. A wngon ios been found that was carried four miles, and he section of a smokestack of a mill that was arried three miles and a half. It is reported hat from thirty to forty persons hare been illed by spurs of the tornado in the country, nd that the Town of Corsicana, in Barry Couny, is as badly wrecked as Marshfield. Barnettsville Destroyed.? St. Louis, April 1?10 P. M.?Dispatches just received say hat the storm of Sunday was very severs in ilorgan County, its track being strewn with lemolished houses, barns and other farm propirty. The little town of Barnettsville was torn tearly to pieces and several persons killod and rounded. It is now estimated that in Webster 'ounty, of which Marshfield is the couoty seat, ully one hundred people were killed and over wo hundred wounded. The loss of property in he county is estimated at $1,000,000. The Town or Licking Destroyed.?St. Louis, kpril 21.?The latest advices from Texas Couny, Mo., say that the town of Licking was enirely destroyed, with the exception of three louies, oj ouixiay nigtii's storm. Three huaIred persons are homeless. One life was Lost md seven persons were wounded, five of them eriously. The damage is fully $50,000. Tho ornado did immense injury to all kind* of iroperty in the county. The Storm in Illinois and Wisconsin.?Cliiago, April 20.?A special from Champaign, 11., says that the State University suffered oeerely by the storm of the 18th. A large porion ol the new main building woe unroofed.? 'he old university building, used as a dormito- ' jvelled to the ground. The students just esaped in time. Many ol the buildings in the ... ity were badly damaged. Minor casualties are cported. ?1 Taso, 111., reports say that the lamage done there will aggregate many thousand dollars. A special from Janesville, Wis., says that far cn miles along the track of the storm evidences >f destruction of property are seen, which will ake over $100,000 to replace. Churches lwelling houses, barns, fences, orchards, &c., ire much damaged, and some persons received langerous injuries. Tiim Storm in Abkansas.?Little Reek, April >0.?The storm Sunday night destroyed the town >f Elposo in white County, thirty miles due lorth of Little Rock. Several lives are reported ost. Among the dead are l)r. Ilairston and vife, Mr. Paul, wife and four children. Advices ihow that the storm of Sunday night was severest in the northorn part of the State, and in tho icighborhood of Fayetteville and Dardanelle ouch damage was done, and loss of life is retorted. ? The Women1* Heme, To the Public : The question has often been islced "What is this Home for, aad how is it to >e sustained?1' The Home is for respectable ndigent women?those who have once enjoyed tomfortable, if not luxurious homes, but now, tereft of worldly means, must look to othors for be omforts of life. In order to assist the funds >f the Home, an admission fee of twenty-five lollars a year, to be used as a permanent fund, will be required of each applicant; she will be txpected to sew, knit, care for her own room, ind in every possible way to contribute to the benefit of the institution. Any lady of this d&fui. not under fiftv veam of awn. aaai ha ed from any part of the State* In another aart of the Home are wards where the siek poor >f any class will be nursed under skillful medical treatment, free of cost. There are also rooms for pay patients ; those who, wishing to t>e under the care of one of our physicians, do not wish to board at a hotel; they can be boarled and nursed at the Home for fire dollars a week. The ladies expect that kind hearts and Christian charity will help support the Home, and that it will he as self-sustaiuing as possible. Would our kind citiiens each give a little of such as they could afford, the Home would be supplied, their own homes none the less cared for, and their own pleasures no fewer, while Qed's blessing would surely attend their gifts. The ladies wish to inform the publio that the Home will be open to pnbtic inspection as soon as they can oomplete furnishing it. They are awaiting tbe arrival of articles already contributed but not yet sent to tbe Home. In order that no unnecessary purchase may be made the ladies respeotfhlly ask those who have any article or articles to contribute, however small, or of whatever nature, to send the same at once, or as speedily as possible, to the Home. A tin plate, a bowl, a cup and saucer? anything that could possibly be utilised at the Home, will be gratefully received and such gift scarcely be felt by the donor, while it would f^ve timely assistance to the Home. As persons rom any part of the State will be admitted, the ladies will be very glad to give persons outside of Columbia an opportunity of contributing.? Many persons have pictures of which they have weaned ana consigned to a lumber room; such pictures would adorn and enliven our Home. An odd vase, a small bracket, an unused lamp, a water bucket, towels, bed clothes, stores?any thing and every thing that can comfort and be of use. Rind friends, please send your contributions at once, that the house may be opened at an early day to the publio. We hope none will think that because be or she can give but a trifle that it is not worth their while to give at all; each gift will be appreciated and perform its work. Many have generously contributed, and we frelcertain that all will cheerfully lend a helping hand to aid the sick and destitute. State papers please copy. M. T.