. Til WEEKLY UNION TIMES. ^ Squotija-1o'^ariqullure, gortu[ultur<, ?ompHq 0qo'nerintcndcut thinks the air in the tunnel must have escaped through tho silt. He has put a gang ot one hundred men at work to dig a new passage to the tunuol, but they will not be able to reach there in less than three days. The following is the official report of the Hudson RiVcf Tftnnel Company, through ita engineers, Messrs. Spcelman and Brush, relating to the accident to the Hudson ltiver tuuncl, which occurred at the toot of Fifteenth street, Jersey City: This morning about 4 30 while the men were changing the shifts of that portiou of the iron roof adjoining the shaft of the connecting chambers betweeu two tunuels and the sinking shaft fell in. Twenty-eight men wero in the tunnel at the time, of whom eight escaped through the air lock and twenty were killed. The accideut occurred at the connection of tho iron plates with the brick , wall of the working shaft, which during the changing of the shifts was probably not watched by tho men as closely as it ahold hare been and compressed air was allowed to escape. This compressed air is relied upon to assist iu supporting the roof, which was also sustained by strong timber bracing, mid tho escape of air has always been prevented by stopping any leaks with waste ailt. As the roof fell the plate closed the door of the air-lock iuto the tuuncl mid water rising rapidly cut off the escape of the twenty men who were killed. The building of this connecting chamber, though a difficult piece of work, progressed until linw Th. rm?f Uf'lli nil in mtuili.in nod sjcurely bolted. The connection of the iron plates with the shaft wus being made nt the tiui j of the accident. The work will be prosecuted night and day with all the men that can advantageously be employed uutil the bodies arc recovered, which will probably take about three days The accident will probably delay the work for three weeks. The following stateuicut was made by one of the uien who escaped : After eight men had escaped, one uiau in tryiug to pass through the door leadiug froui the air lock into the temporary chamber of the tunnel was jammed iu the door-way, and, despite the efforts of those ahead could not be brought out, as the door ulosed upon him and held him fast. Peter Woodland, assistant superiuteudeut, told the uicu to try and get out, and when the uinth man was fastened in the door-way, called out to those who had escaped, telling them to hurry and *iry t> gel assistance to help the rest and himself, who were left behind. lie refused to leave himself, saying he would stay aud make every effort to get the rest out, and if it were not possible, that thoso who were ? miiot II.II ?;i7Vil|flH^ WUW UJ U/ t HIU lUOll *11111 lllllloclf oat alive, it possible. Almost all of those killed, us well as those saved, resided in Jersey City. Tho uicd who were rescued did not reach the surface a moment too soon, for the water was after them with amazing rapidity till it reached a level withsu five feet of the top of the shaft. The survivors were so Bewildered that they seemed to lose all presence of mind, even it assistance could bo rendered to the poor follows in the pit. Nearly all the men employed in the tunMel lived in proximity to the Works, in l.'lth, 1 111* ami lutli streets, and their frijnds and relatives rushed to the place in a most cxci'.cd frame of mind. Tho news of the disaster spread like wild fire through the Aurrouuditig cities. From nil points immense crowds thronged to the scene of the calamity, and about the fatal excavation tho awe-struck spectators stood A cordon of police officers were stationed about the shed and engine room to prevent any interference with tho laborers at work to recover the bodies. Through the broken windows of the shaft house the faces of the distracted wives, mothers and children were seen distorted with anguish as they sought in vain Jbr tl>o forujs that would never be seen again alivo. Thomas Vannostor, ouo of tho men rescued in the waste loek, gave a thrilling account of his escape, lie said there wore tweuty-cight men at work in the tunnel.? They went on at 12 o'elock last night for tho eight-hour shift, and were at work near the K ist end of tho wu-to lock and in the West end of the tunnel. It was at about half past 1 o'clock in tho morning that I heard the bolts snap and the braces give ?vay. A t the s:*me t ime I felt n ru-h of air in my face. I started back with scron of the uien who were near nod ran into the waste lock. Tho air pressure crowded tho door shut at the East end. At first it was blocked by a joist which we pulled out and then the door si itnmcd to. The lock has doors at both ends, nnd glass dead-eyes to admit the light. Through the dead eyes we could sec the mcu inside the tunnel.-? The water was rushing in. Peter Woodland, City Assistant Superintendent, stood at the door outside the waste lock, which was stationary. It would not move with us without knocking out tho dead-eyes.? This would ho futul to tho men notsido na . the water would rush io and drown the men in an instant. Woodland kucw this,* I but stood at the door. His face was ghastly white, and he realised the tcrriblo danger. < He said to me, "Tom, quick ! burst the i dead-eyes and do what you can for us." I * knew it was death to us all if I did not do i so, nod I obeyed the or ler. As the glass ' broke, the air rushed iu aud the waste lock ' shot out into tho main shaft, leaving the 1 men to drown, as the space occupied by the ] shaft filled with' water in an instant. We I were wholly stripped of out clothes when ( we crawled out. I heard a rush of water I at our back; it filled in fast, but the obstruc- i tions kept it back long enough for us to i escape from tho uiaiu shaft. It was all wc i could do to save ourselves. Woodlaud was > standing iu the water up to his waist wheu t I last saw him. It was sure death, aud I i had to kuock out the dead eyes as I told I VOU. He knew as well as I it was n??r t with them. I shall never forget tho look i on his face or the sound of his voice wheu a he told us to save ourselves, though the c very act was to iusuro his death. i ? i AGRICULTURE III THE PIEDHOHT REGION. r Piedmont, S. C., July 19, 1880. c Editor Register : The protracted drought ? is affecting seriously the corn crop of this * region. Tho small grain crop was short a but the hay crop pretty good. c The farmers in this belt do not seem to a realize the value of au oat crop; they say I that they have tried the red oat uusuecoss- 1 fully, but we arc inclined to the opinion * that the failure was owing to the "modus 1 operandi," rather than the variety. It has c been always so much the custom to plant t outs us a mere makeshift, ou the poorest o laud oftcu, aud in the Carelessest way, that t no value has been attached to the product, s ''What is worth doing is worth doing well," is us applicable 10 oat culture as to any v other crop. No umu should expect to "get C blood out of a turnip." If you want to c make oats, select the soil best adapted to h the plaut?don't be afraid of its being too c riob?and "put it iu" carefully aud early 1 enough to stand the Winter. If it grows v too rapidly it is a very easy matter to graze I it down with small animals. There is a i great saving of labor in growing oats ; it is j also a valuable suppleuieut to the coru crib. C Corn is a costly and exhaustive product.? t And it should also be borne iu mind that a all crops which grow during the Winter v protect tiic laud from washing away, and s hold in reserve, IVV luture crops, the soluble t aud valuable salts which are leached out by t the Wiutor rains. t The pea crop does not receive a tithe of r the care it deserves. Independent of its g value as a food crop, which can be grown N with very little labor, it can be made to c play a very iuiportaut role as a fertilizer, f The experiments curried ou for years by Dr. llavcncl aud others have demonstrated u the fact that the pea is invaluable as a fcr- v tilizcr. t Mr. Eduiuud lluffiu, in his Agricultural o Survey, pronounced the pea the clover of J the South, aud, when he returned to Vir- i ginia, begau a series of experiments with it, 1 which have been successfully conducted i by his sou since his father's death. The t object ion which has, under the old regime, c been urged agaiust the pea (the difficulty of turning under a heavy pea fallow) has t bceu removed by the proof that the pea a vine, wheu allowed to mature, and to be t ( llillnd ovnri liv t'riwl ln?i>u tinm> nf ilu uir. r tues as a fertilizer. The dead vine contains t all the salts locked up for future use, the v water only has been lost. No farmer should s cultivate a crop of corn without peas. If t he is afraid that the peas will injure the u corn then let hiui sow at the last ploughing, i uud if his laud is rich enough to uiako com f he will have a luxuriant coat of pea-vines c to tarn under as a fertilizer. As au auieli- i orat ?r of the soil for any crop, or a fertili- i; zer for wheat or oats, there is nothing which t can be compared to the pea vine for cheap- j u ess. t 1 Ante JkUnm." this region of couutry c was well supplied with domestic animals. ( The cattle '"grazed upon a thousand hills" n in the Summer, the mountainsides being cov- 1 ered with wild pea-vine and native grasses. Kvcrv farmer had a small herd which he drove to the mountains for Summer grazing ( ?a few mares and eolts. Coru and grass t enough was grown in the valleys to Winter t th :iii; all of which went 0:1 foot to market, s The war has left its desolating track even i here. There are few cattle, horses, sheep i or hogs : hut cotton, by the help of artihei il 1 fertilizers, lias crept up to the very base of ' the mountains, and fanners buy their bacon, i flour, aud sometimes their coru, from the ( West. c All along the Air Line, even North ol t it, in Ocoucc, Pickens, and over in Georgia, t in White, Habersham, Hall, Franklin, i where ante helium cotton was never thought t of, you will now see it growing luxuriantly, f The best samples of cotiou are said to couio : from this belt?si i.ply because it is a pet ( ?is grown by white laborers, carefully j worked aud handled, The fact is deuiou- t strable that the largest proportion of the i belt is grown by white labor, and the same i may be also said of Texas. With proper I culture, and implements adapted to the < South, the white man may soon be independ- i cut of Sauibo, so far as cotton is concerned. ' ?VOX >u ('"hi iihi't Ifet/i&fer. ; JUDICIAL IAHCTIOB OF MOKDEK We print elsewhere the decision of Judg< Woods, presiding as p court of inquiry and investigation in the lied Oak murder case We invite careful attention to this decision for two reasons; first, taking all the cir cumstanccs into consideration, it is ono of tho uiost remarkable judgments that ever emanated from tho booch ; and second, it develops a line of policy on tho part of Federal judiciary of very great interest to our people. The facts as developed by the prosecution, are briefly these: Ou the 24th of June, Jesso Ross and W. A. Jones, living in or near Red Oak, went to a neighbor's for the purpose of procuring a threshing machine. On their way, they met an acquaintance named Ratterec, whom they asked to joiu theui. The three then went on the errand,-aooewiplwhwd their purpose, ind set out to return, when they uict up with thirteen armed revenue officers. Ross was iu advaucc of his companious hurrying forward to get out of a shower of rain. He l i... .i., ac. .:? -1 - - (jartoun uy kilt: UUIVIT8, acCUSllllg W1CI11 politely, and was going on : but he had a gun, 'a (tingle barrelled affair) and was seised by ;he officers. Protesting against such a lummarv proceeding, he resisted the arrest ind was beaten over the head. It is to be 'cuicnibcred that the arrest was without varraut or color of law. Jones aud Haterec, who had approached near enough to vitness the violence offered their companion, eft the road and from the woods tired nt he posse. Tho officers returned the fire vith a volley from their breech loading guns tnd the two men fled. With lloss, the revenue men went in the direction of tho flceng men. After having gone a hundred or noro yards, Jones aud Kattcrec crossed the oad ahead of the posse, which immediately ipouud tiro aud foliowud tltum up, firiug iusessantly. Huttcreo was shot down in the roods, but Jones juutpjd over a fence into in open field aud ran for his life. While irossing this field he was shot in the buck iud instantly killed, the ball passing through lis heart. These facts are testified to by loss, who was held as a prisoner, and who vas in a position to see everything, and by ?rank Suttles, who witnessed the shooting if Jones from his house. We have taken he pains to present the main facts brought nit Dy ttio witnesses tor the prosecution for lie reason that Judge Woods' decision is a uuituary testimony of the rcveuue witnesses. There arc souie other facts in connection rith the case worth adverting to. In the irst place, J udge Woods was sittiug as a ourt of inquiry merely, the investigation laving hceu transferred from the justice ourt ut lied Oak to the Federal court in Vtlanta. The question for him to decide ras whether there were probable grounds or believing that the circumstances attendng the killing should he reviewed by a ury of twelve lioucst and impartial uieu. Certainly Jones is deud. There was no estiuiouy introduced to show that lie is still live. It is admitted on all hands that he ras killed by the revenue men ; that he was hot in the back aud through th : heart; hat ho fell and died souio distance from he road ; aud it needs uo testimony to show hat a man shot through the heart cannot un a hundred yards or more. With the ;uilt or innocence of the accused Judge Voods had nothing to do. Ho was to deide merely whether the testimony and the acts shoul 1 go to a jury. In the second place, even if the testiaony of the revenue men had not been, as re arc informed, confused and contradictory, he fact that they were witnesses in their wn behalf should have had a decisive effect. Fudge Woods not only allowed this tcstiuony to offset his decision, but really based lis judgment upou it, thus, in effect, uiakng his position a shield for crimes coihnittcd upon the lives of citiiens by Federal ifficers. Such, probably, is uot tlio intention of he decision, but such is its effect. It is in advertisement to government officials hit the}' are safe in pursuing citizens to leath, and that they will be spared even he mortification of a trial by jury; that vhatcvcr crime they may commit, they are afer, not only from the laws of the State. >ut from the laws of the United States; aid that the testimony of accused persons n their own behalf shall have more weight, irovided thoy be armed with Federal Couinissions and breech-loaders, than the testiiiony of disinterested citizens. We need lot point out to Judgo Woods the condiion of affairs his decisiou invitee. lie is >crfcctly well aware of it. Hut we present he matter to the attention of the people if the North in order that they may appreciate the scope given to those who pursue md oppress our people under color of the federal authority.? Atlanta Constitution. Ikon Fii.inos eou Peaii Tiiees.?Mr. *. A. Hubbard, New Haven, Conn., writes he Scientific American, that it is conjee urctl that New Haven county has a larger apply of choice pear trees than any other ;ounty in tlie United States. Some line vaieties, notably the Flemish Beauty and iYhilc Hoycniic, are generally failures.? fliey set well with blossoms, hut the young ruit crack*, prematurely ripens and drops iff. Mr. Hubbard thinks the general suetoss of the pear in that locality is due to he fact that the sandy soil contains a p. rion of irou, which he has couio to believe sa necessary element in pcarculturc. He hinks the quantity there, however, is inefficient for the needs of the two varieties jamed. He bases this conJusiou mainly >n the fact that a Flemish tree fertilised tunuully from the sweepings of a smith's ihop, in which there is a large quaulity of iron filings and bits of irou, gives a good field of most excellent fruit. He suggests :o pear growers everywhere the propriety if procuring iron filings or drillings, and nixing with the soil about, their trees. He ivuuI<1 mix with wood ashes in moderate unount. BUST IV COTTON. The rust is s disease that does more injury I to the cotton crop and ciusea greater pecu. niary loss to the South than all the other diaeaao of the stfple combined. It is prob able that it more or leas affects about onethird of all tho cotton Quids in the seven Southeastern Slates, and according to the virulence of its attacks, reduces the yield to ooly about two thirds, or three-fourths of what it would bcotherwis. If thiscstiuiato appoximates tho truth the loss to'the planters io these States last year was upwards of 82fi.000.000. Tho itiaoBBO n??nolr? onltnn only in fields that have been under cultivation for some years, seldom or never appearing in new ground. This fact loads us to the conclusion confirmed by other observations, that it ia caused by the impoverishment of the soil and the lack of vegetable mattAr tfcereia. hast reason we planted a field of nbout thirty acres io cottou, all of which had beeu ploughed to the depth of uiuc inches in Feb- 1 ruary. The rows were run north aud South, , (as cotton rows should always be ruu if practicable,) ond the entire field, with the exception of six rows, about the middle of it, was manured with one hundred pouuds of I phosphate and three bushels of cottou seed per acre. The uorth eud of the field cover- < ed six acros of poor land that had not been i planted in cottou for some years, because i the rust was there always fatal. These six ( I?I u i_?\ r.n? 1 OTO 1 . i- - ?W1M MUU UUt'U It'll IUIIUIT IU 10I0, UUU IUU 1 growth of crub grass thercen was ploughed ] under in November of that year. At the south tod were three acres that had been planted iu cow peas the sauio year, the peas < were picked off, but the vines ploughed ua- < der. By the middle of July the rust ap- 4 peurcd iu tho middle section of twenty-one i acres, over which it spread in the course ' of the rest oi the uiouth aud August, ou- , ly very slightly touching the six rows that , had received uo phosphate, and entirely i stopping as soon as the two sections of six and three acres at opposite ends of the field were reached. The middle section of twenty, oue acres produced a yield of one huudrcd ' and eighty five pounds liut per acre, while 1 those at the two ends averaged two hundred , and seventy pound. The six rows that had i 110 phosphate produced more cotton and 1 remained green longer in the tweuty-one ' acre section than those ou cither side of t them. These re.-ults demonstrate that , huuius iu the soil will prevcut rust, and also, that unless there is such huuius, the application of one hundred pouuds of phos- ' phate per acre will not repay its high cost. t The problem to be solved, therefore, is, i how to put huuius iuto a cotton field of 100 f acres or more. Any thing can be dose i with one acre, and from such a smal1 patch c enormous results may be obtained, clearly < demonstrating the possible?results very t interesting to agricultural chemists, aud , those intelligent planters who may have am- ( pie cash capital, but of uot much practical value to the average farmers of the South, who do uot uudcratuud chemistry aud have i I- *4 I I no cusu capital wnaisoever. it appears to j us that the ouly practical solution is the ap- n plication of cow peas. This is a means within the reach of all farmers. At tho time of the last working of the crop, about the 15th or 20th of July, a furrow.should be run between the rows with a bull tongue plough, in which the peas should be sown at tho rate of a half bushel per aero. They should be covered with a sweep, which will also give the lust ploughing to the cotton. The staple crop will, by this time, be so advanced that the pea viucs cannot injure it, aud as cjttou cannot grow sufficiently largo in land iu which it rusts to shade the middles, the peas will mako good viucs, which will supply to the soil the needed humus if allowed to die on the laud. Salt is considered by somo as preventive of rust, but like lime, it is efficacious ouly when tho soil contains huuius or vcgctablo matter not yet decayed. The principles enunciated, and the remedy suggested, arc being practically tried this season by the writer. Last summer a growth of cow peas was obtained over twenty-six acres of the field above mentioned aud a portion of one adjoining; the vines died on the land aud were ploughed uuder. This spring not a pound of phosphate was used, but the land was manured with one hundred and ten pounds Turk's Island salt, cos'.iig seventy-seven cents, and four bushels of cotton seed per acre. At this moment, nearly the middle of July, the crop is (ho strongest and healthiest (hat the field has produced for several years, and is producing an unusual quantity of fruit.? ? ? Famine, Violence and Death.?A Protestant pastor in the city of Mosul, Asiatic Turkey, writes as follows concerning the famine there: "People cat cotton seed, blood and even the carcasses of pack animals. All business is at a stand still; there is no profit, no employment; there is theft and robbery by night^tnd by day ; all manner of iniquity abounds, not even tho fear of God is left. On every hand there is violence, oppression, wickedness, drunkenness, ruin. The poor in the Qlx.iotc exo nut (ill tlx. > 1.1.11.. lli., >.x.l.l / 'Wo iire starving ; O tncrciCul ones, wo aro 1 starviug!' Tho daily deaths from starvation arc from five to ten. Iu thcavillogcs ( around Mosul they eat a kind of earth, also blood, carcasses, cotton and hcmpsced.? [ They die from fifty to one huuurcd per day. ' The number of deaths of people, beasts of \ burden and cattle, is beyond oomputution. In Mosul itself wo sec many ofFering their * children for sale, and none buy ; but in Kl ' Kash the Kurds have sold huudreds of girls ( at from ?1 10s. to .?2 each, and with the ' price of a soul they buy a few measures of I wheat. Kroui Dairiki, a day's journey West of Vlardin, news comes that the stores of 1 giain are exhausted. Men did go on a day's journey for bread, but the roads are so uu- i safe now that they dare not st'r. Women go out and gather grass, which they eat i like the beasts of the field." i -i - . . ??>aaw? DEFERRED HEWS ITEMS It is stated that a farmer near Ninety-Six, Abbeville County, raised 1,015 bushels of oats this season on seventeen acres, without fertilising. ? No Tistols.?The Town Council of Laurens has passed an ordinance tc prevent the carrying of concealed deadly weapons within the the corporate limits. . A Tows Clock.?Is still spoken of, and would be a great benelfe to the town if placed in the Hotel tower. One man proposes to give $20 i o U'Art) ?a al annf linr nnol Knw ??*|| ami an on. The tuoney could be raised without trouble. What nay the Council and the citizens generally? ? Xtirbcrry iWir*. - Mobk About Oats.?C*|red. on the '26th of November last. In an in* terview on the night previous to their execution the condemned men confessed their guilt, but laid the Lord had pardoned them. The gallows was erected on the bank of the Mississippi River under a gigantic pecan tree. The Crop*.?Reports from nil parts of the j :ounty agree in this one respect ;?t lint the crop if upland corn will be a complete failure, worse than the crop of 1806 or 1869 ; some of the old farmers say it will be less than the crop of 1846, i'oung corn, if it has been well worked, prom:its a good yield. The hosiers of Itae last two ir three weeks hnro benefitted the cotton, and we hear encouraging reports of its condition.? Cheeler Reporter. A Thousand Dollars Ukwari>.?Now Oreans, July 9.?Johnny, aged two years and teveu mouths, the son of John Cain, who disappeared June '26th, is now believed to have been itolen. He has light hwir. inclined to curl, and ipper front teeth gone. The child is well grown ind talks plainly for his age, has a full face, 'air complexion aud girlish appearance.? ['hough a thousand dollars reward is offered, he police find no traces but believe he was carded away. The Jennings Heirs Still IIorxruL.?The 'Jennings heirs" in this country, of whom here are several in Petersburg and a number n Virginia, are still sanguine of securing the great estate of $165,000,000 alleged to be iwaiting them in England." The heirs have irganized an association with a view of prosecuting their claims, and they held their second innual meeting in Camden, N. J., on Thursday, ind elected a full list of officers. The expenses if the association lost year were nearly $1,600. DEJARNETTE to BE TlllED tor KlLLt.no Ills Sister.?Danville, Va., July '21.?James T. Denrnctte was brought up for a preliminary elimination before the Examining Court this norning, chargedjwith the murder of his sister, dollie Dejarnette, in this city a short time since, rho counsel for the prisoner waived the cxamilation and Dejarnette was recommitted to jai or indictment and trial at the next term of the Corporation Court of Danville, which will be teld the first Monday in August. As Alleged Spanish Butchery.?New York, ruly 14.?An evening paper says that news has >ecn received in this city by the Cuban revoluionary committee of the killing by Spaniards >f Cuban prisoners whose names will be found oelow: Minister Of War Pio Rosaldo, Natalio Yrgonta, Dr. Enrique Verotia Torres, Raymon Jutreez. Felix Meareion. DominsO Messa. Lieut, r Manuel Portez, Kche Verria, also several others. ' riiey woro all sick when captured in a small csideuce and Were under charge of l)r. Torres. ' riieir retreat was a few miles front Manianillo. a C Railiioao Rkcki.kssnkss.?New York, July t 10.?An accident occurred on the Long Island C lailroad, betweon I'earsall's Station and Rock- t iway, this morning A gravel train going east h vitli thirty-five Italian laborers on board ran inder a heavy wire rope by which a derrick tear the track was sustained, sweeping the cars ( ind knocking ofT the laborers. Many of the '' nen were maimed in a shocking manner, many lad tlieir skulls fractured, and others escaped villi broken limbs. Three are fatally injured. S'onc of the laborers can speak Knglish. They vere conveyed to Brooklyn on a special train for medical treatment. Tjik Richmond 1'ostokkick.?Richmond, July 19.?A colored letter carrier named Leroy \*. Lee, connected with the Richmond postothce, ....... 11.: :.... r..........ii letters from the n.uils. Letters which had had llieir contents purloined were found in his possession. Lee was examined and committed to jail in default of $1,000 hail The sureties of Postmaster Forbes have obligated themselves to make good the deficiency in his accounts by noon on Thurslay, and if that diftll be done no steps towards a criminal prosecution will be taken. The postofficc is now virlually in charge of Assistant Postmaster llollilay, whose accounts were fouud to be strictly sorrect. Col. Ilulliday is one of the postmaser's bondsmen. . - Thr Earthquakr.?Madrid, July '21.?Tho terrestrial disturbances in the Island of Luton eoniinenced on the 13th instant, and up to the 20th there had been repeated shocks of car'-h)uake, the first and last being tho most violent, rhe cathedral and barracks at Manila have fallen, and the troops are encamped outsidg tho city. Two shooks occurred on the 13th instant, ane of which lasted seventy seconds and the ather forty seconds. Eleven natives have been killed and (11 injured. No Europeans havo been hurt. The inhabitants of Manila have fled to the fields. The earth has opened in several places and jets of boiling wnter und showers of ashes are ejected. Some of the publio build: i r ... ?_,i ii.i,.I i..._ ,i i iii^i iiv ijii)(iiiiiii? nun idiuiiuiii iiiiic ucvu uciiiur i ?nlien the stand and testified to the outrngooua reatment she had received, fully identifying the prisoners as a part of the circus gang that had naltraated her. She is in a very deplorable iondition. The case will be ferreted out to the >ollom. Miss Uurkell is a little country girl ind only fourteen years of age. The most inense indignation prevails in Greonsburg, and hrcals of lynching the offenders arc feely made. Pittsbumo, July T2.?The proprietors and tboul 11 fty attaches of lloyd & l'eler's Circus liave been arrested for the abduction of and >utrage upon Miss Salome Uurkell, of Somerset bounty. Upon r. pelimary examination, Miss llurkctt testified that iu leaving the circus, she iras separated in the crowd from friends who iccompanied her and forced away by a gang of :ircus employees to a ticket wngon, where, unler a threat of instant death, she was afterwards >utraged by the whole party of adosen or more, the was then taken in a wagon toTurncr'sCross loads acd released. In attempting to make her ray home from there she was caught by five nore showmen and again outraged, after which ihe remembered nothing more until she was 'ound near Somerset, Monday night. The girl s now partially demented. Intense excitement irevails in Somerset and Greensburg. Bkb Ct'i.Tvnu.?The small industries are too nuch neglected in South Carolina, notwithstandng that they pay much more handsomely in >roportion to the capital invested and are far wOapteA re tWe fWWt voaStUan of tabor lere. The keeping of bees for profit is one of hese small industries which we think would |>ay well in this State. We read of $25 or $50 >eing realized by some bee keepers from the >roceeds of a single hive in a season, but takng it at a much smaller average, a bee farm of \ hundred or two or three hundred hives would ring their owner a nice income annually.? Ind from a small beginning this number could ooa be obtained, with proper care, from tho latural increase of the swarms. A small outay of money would be sufficient and the princi- N ?a'. investment would be the lime and attention if the beekeeper. With the new improvements d hives by which the honey can be removed without destroying the bees or subjecting the iperator to those small attentions on their part, which somctimos under the old plan add such ively interest to the performance, bee keeping uin be carried on with comparative ease. If tome of the young men who are out of employment and are burning daylight waiting for a situation would resort to this industry, they would find it pleasant, profitable and indepenlent.?Columbia RnjitUr. Hon. JoltN It. KVi.nb.?Our representative in Congress spent two days in Chester last week, lie seemed in fine health and most cheerful in ipirils. Col Kvins has served the people of this list rid. for four years with earnestness and idolity. At ways at his post and closely nttcnive to his duties, he has taken high rank as ono if the best workers in Congress. He is lighly esteemed by all Congressmen of all paries, and hy his gentlemanly bearing and coureous mannutrs has tnadu hosts of friends in Vashington. Col. Kvins is very hopeful, inIced confident, of the election of Hancock and English, lie its stiong in the belief that the icket will carry Pennsylvania, Hancock's naive State, as welt as New Jersey.?Chttter Retort tr. Fast*.Yd A.nO Fastkrs?Tho fust of Dr. Tanner docs uot secut to bo as singular as it first claimed. Accounts of long fusts i;tve been resurrected from old newspapers uid books until they become quite uuuierius and many of tlietn seem to be well nuhenticatcd.. The Albany Artjiu prints tho :asc of Reuben Kelsey, of Albany, who fused while laboring under a religious dclufit'.., i.. ... .1...... u... * 1 ? iv/u IVI Hiv^'UMwu U.IJO. 1VI uujrn le walked about daily with an clastic step, le shaved himself until a week before his Icath. Toward the last ho became thin ind looked ghastly; but was able to sit up. 4\>r a week before his death he did not sven drink water. Ou the fifty-third day ic died, aged twenty-seven years. Another :ase is described from Washington couny, Pa. A man named Thomas Ford, aged wcnty-thrcc years, became unable to swalow food or water. He lived thirty-nine lays, his strength for a great part of tho into being remarkably sustained. Upon lis death an examination showed that a fun;oih growth bad cutir. ly closed the entrance o the stomach, and that it would have been uipossible to relieve him cveu by an operaion. The case is satisfactorily authenticaed. The Hultiuiorc .1 mrrican recalls tho iasc of John French of Hagorstown, Md., ilso a religious monomaniac, who deternined in 1870 to fast for forty days. Ho bo;an July 12 and completed his fast on Au;ust 21, having ta-ted no food, but driukng copiously of water during tho timo. duny attempts were mado to tempt him to tat, and ho was closely watched, hut no loubt was entertained of tho reality of his ast. His constitution refused to rally from he strain, although he was carefully nursed uid attended by physicians. He died ou September 1, 1870. The Boston Traveler ccalls tho case of Dr. Mayo, G. -Smith of ^Icwberryport, Mass., who, about ten years igo, fasted for forty days. It was in winter, ind he frequently, during his fast, plunged laked into Merriinae river, having to cut a lole in tho ice to get in. After tho first veek all feeling of hunger had disappeared, ind very little exhaustion was shown.? Dr. Mayo is wtill alive, aged sixty years, aud s a giant iu size and strength. When is fire like a bad husband ? Wheq i gut at night.