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TEE WEEKLY gcvotd to ^gricnltuif, .iioriiailtun;, JlomcBliq tfconomj, Unliii Hittf fTrq ^wmt^eure of (he |l;uj. VOL. XII.?Nuiv Skkiks. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUABY-21, IS81. NUMBER 2 f?- - & ' DEFERRED NEWS ITEMS. A I.AMI I.IW.IK IN Al'lilSTA. ? AugUSt l, (ill., January 12. ? A large meeting was hcl?l Inst night to express sympathy with the Irish people. A Land Lea.ue was formed and cousideri.ble money suoscribed in aid of the Irish l.aml League. ? S'ioO \ 1>\\ Sv|C INIlKUKII I'Oll Will s K K Y .?TIlC Kev. K. N. I'r.ut has been getting up statistics of how much whiskey was sold in the town of Ablieville during the six days of Christmas and found that the astonishing amount of !?d,7H0 worth was sold in town. - I'l'tuii.iuv \sn Fiuk in Tkx\s. ? Liberty, .1 .in Uary It).?The stile of J. L>. Kinncr tSj llro. was blown open last night and robbed of twelve hundred dollars. Dai.i.as, January 10.?A destructive tire is reported from Wettllierford as having occurred lust iiight. It included the loss of eleven bales of hotton and a block of frame buildines. The to. till loss is $o5U,OU?J. l'artially insured." Mriti)kiu:i?iiy Moonsiiinkiis.? Louisville. Ky., January I'd.?A special from (Jailatin, Tonnes fee, to the Courier-Journal says: "Captain Hkccne, a respectable citizen, who lives about eight miles North, while in his yard attending to domestic duties, was fired upon by a party of unknown men and fatally wounded. It is thought that the deed was perpetrated by some moonshiners whom it is said Captain Skecne had reported to the authorities." A Nkcko Havisiikii Kmni.tu With Hi i.i.kts. ? New Orleans, La., January Id.?A dispatch to the Democrat from Little Kock, Arkansas, _ says: "A daughter of C. II. Loads, of Mar riana, Lee County, was brutally outraged by a colored man yesterday. The negro was arrested and put in jail. An infuriated inob surrounded the prison, forced the doors, took the prisoner a short distance from town and literally riddled his body with bullets. ? . s Kii.i.ku with as Axk.?Louisville, January 12. ? A special from Chattanooga says, a report has reached that city that James M. Lay had been killed a few days ago in Scott County.? Kay was the District Attorney for the Third Ten- l nessee Circuit, lie was a half brother to Con- 1 grcssiuan L. ('. Hank, of the Second Tennessee J District. The exact cause, of the killing has not i yet come to light, one rumor being that Lay had 1 an altercation with a man who insulted his wife. 1 Lay attempted to tire, but before he could draw ^ his weapon his assailant split his head open with , an axe. , ltriixT To I>i:\ r11 in a Iti'kmni: IIoisk.? Last 'I hursday night, on (lie plantation of .Mr. Itcdin Lewis, three miles Norili of I'loretioc, one of 1 I lie laborer's Ionises was foil till to be on lire jubt before daylight, by Mr. Stockiv , ?no uus a store I just above Lewis's mill. The Haines rapidly | eitveloj>e?l an I consumed lite house, which was ( occii|iie<l by an aged colore*! man. The o!*l man's wife Ita I gone to see some of her |ieo|ile, ami lie was in the house alone. Mr. Lewis ha*l t only a few days before had some wood hauled to r liitn, as the weather was cold. After the dailies subsided, ihe lifeless, charte I trunk mid head ot the jinor old in in were found in one corner 1 of the ruins. The verdict of I lie jury of impiest I was in accordance with the facts.?l-'lnri-tiC' | Turn's. . o A (SovKttX'iit Wtt'i Can't Swim.?-Very few 1 j*eo le know how near (leneral Ketine?ly eainc to being Coventor, (iovernor llagood was at ' hi: Salifla (>1*1 Town plantation the 1st instant, and while crossing the Saluda in a cation, (the ferryman being away,) a large body of Moating ice struck the canoc and came near upsetting ii I in the mid lloof the river. The canoc dipped water several times. The river was tip and thotiov- I eriior can't swim a lick. A sort of fatality | recnir to pursue mtr (Inventors. Hampioii was ^ 1 taken IVom the olliee to the I'niled Stales Senate ; Simpson was taken to the Supreme bench, | 1 and llugood, in I lie early part of his term, came j tear ending his executive career in the murky j waters of the Su'ttda.? .\V?7Wrry l/irnh/. o - A liooii Tkst.? A writer in the l.oinloii ijurcn s ays that hushau Is love lo lie lovcl, l>nt that a I very c iressiug, very ileimins'iative ami pcrpctn- i ally administrative wile clogs hy excess. There ft a;>;i 'i'"si ? h iiiu;j!i truth in this, though a good deal <1 c*|>?. it< 1 s mi how iiitteh it takes to clog ft j man. ( opacities tlillcr. Some men are like woo'lcn Indians?y 111 call caress them forever without making much impression on them.? I Others absorb easily and till up at once, like J eighteen penny sponges. W hen a man has a , capacity somewhat between that of a wooilen In" iliati ami that of a sponge, ami one does not , ' 11 1 w exi'tiy how much he can si ami, it i- con- I bi'lered a gooil test to let him cateh lit.s wile caressing same olhet woman's hush in I. . . AMI TUB NtUiltlir.S. ? t'lcvclainl, I fcJJfWerl-Vlli'iiTroV/i Al^ai^cM nV.Vn'geLmai ' taal'tield last evening ill the re-Menu. .,? u;n: .. I Ivl wards. (i. \\. I'omx'lel), of Talladega, ami ! f?. II. M. Wail ins, i f Cotirtlaii'l, mldt csse?I the ' '.' Mima I ? ' ! ting forth the comlitioii of the col- j oreil people in the Smith, their lack of eduen- ; lion, .S.;., ami asking that the coining .minimis- i t ration iio win.' it can to 11 i I in the education of ! the hliicks. (iarlicl i Responded that thecilnca' I ti"ii of their children was the .'"lViiiost iltny of i nit the American people ami assuring th.""' I',:" ! w hat cetjld t o *1 otio '^oiilij mil t u| to lie 1 110.? . He nrgt ! tliciii 1 1 avoid i.ii.-in^ tliu colnr line :i*: I not to sepuntlt; litems';! yes as a alas;, troiu J .Ill" U' tlllXVIIJi ? ? I OltAVI > > I K Ill.TIIIKII. Ili I 1.0 I'. fJ. ! Senate his' >!oii'laiy l.og.-iii inli'n'lr.cisil u bill ' to auiljori/c tlio i;|>j>iiiiilinciit of tivtrT".! I 1 M. (Ji-aiit i<*! tiii* rtiii-i 'l Ii. 'I lie bill was reii'l ; f>. -it li:il/lll llpoll I III-rt'<|IK'?l <>r I Ollklltlg. Il Il-I-' i vi'li : lint iii reuoj'iijli>.ii i,f tlio ;i::i11: i:! joihiic j nt (it'iiernl (Jrin! lr.'e nf tho ;i;-|ny iit-'l vy |irt-.i!t-iii "film I it it it 1 .S;a!e*-, t lit* I'm- - j ill i:t is am Ism i/i'il in >t |> | ii >i 111 him. bv fHi'l '.viib ' lc; ml vivo a if I c< ii*"I "i t hi,- Suiinlc, I < lb" ru- , tiro-l lint, tvitli I ho rank an I liill pay "f th" Iji'iipv::! of Ii- . .iiiny. 'I I.i- s- .ovl M?.iii?ij ir.iiit?.?*k 'In IV. Mint, wl.i'ii lit' si.oil '-.'I'l-i'l-r mi cm " 'i-iu'v I is :ivi-(?ii i ?* ;iiii*ititr ll-o *> i vi?"i* >f (Jfii t'.-.-l '.'-"iii .'I a.'iiv" ?1111. in n- i;/n Iiilit t.-iiinnri I-1 ' ..milti-" ii--.it* \i- i i' t I hi- i-ii'l, -I ; mi era! IS ?* t . - ' - I in: 11 "ii M i. iiii . .11.ills. Tub It\ii.ito.\it Sm vsiii.i1 at Tkkstus.?Tre ton, S. CM Juii II.?At 0 o'clock this moriii six boxes of the South bound freight on t Charlotte, Columbiaand August* Hailroad, we |ireci|>il?te<l down an embark mcut forty IV high at Hatcher's trestle, just one mile from tl place. The cause of the accident is attribut to rotten cross ties. The wreck was complei one box being utterly demolished and the otlu more or less injured, the freight, consisting groceries, dry goods, furniture, &c., being sc: tered and broken to pieces, many articles fa ing into the creek and floating otf. The tie" spread like wildfire and soon the scene of t disaster was crowded rith curious spectator Barrels of sugar were hursted open by the aci dent and crowds <>t hungry negroes swectein and fed themselves to their hearts' content. The plundering, however, was soon stopped I railroad officials, who have been nil day cngu e<l in collecting ami guarding the goods and removing the tirhria and repairing the track.Strange to say that in so terrible acatnstrophe t one was seriously injured : the conductor r cciving only a few scratches, although his coat must have made several evolutions before reael ing the bottom of the declivity, where it no stands as upright as though placed on purpos A negro lirnkeman who was standing on top < the car at the time of the accident was sei whirling through the air on the opposite side < the traek, and making a double somctsau landed at least thirty feet from his starlit] point, recieving no graeter injury than tl breaking of his collar bone. ? liri/ixtcr. - ? What Kikki'i- tiik I.iqi oit Tiiaffh* Has o tiik ('outturn Hack.?We propose to address few* words especially to the colored voters ? this town. With many among them we ha* little or no hope that our suggestions will I heeded, for it is an open boast, and we fear In true, in many eases at least, that "a drink c liquor will huy a nigger's vote." lint we thin we have other and a good many colored me iwmuig its whose vote cannot he thus bought, an who have intelligence enough and principl enough to ca<t then suffrage in the interest i peace and order. It is to that class we wotib address our remarks, and we will say to tliei that in our judgment their race suffers far mor from the effects of liquor and liqiior-drinkiii; than do the whiles, much as it injures the hit Icr : first, because the colored people have les money to spare?and every cent comes to thei !>y hard licks, that comes honc.-tly?for such useless ami ruinous luxury " * liquor ; and, see ond, having less money to spend thus they ar niTi'SMiiHcii to loty a ctieaper, meaner ip.alu jf liquor, which, in sonic cases, is absolute! poisonous, ami jf t|?.v ticiiik much of it, bcin i deadly poison, will certainly kill them.? l.ituMisvillr II, ml,I. Si " tin: ix Aikkx.? On the night of the St! nMaiit Mrs. Frances 15oatwright, age>l aboii I'), COUlUlilteil ' **"" Pial in this County, by shooting with a pistol ler husband is a highly respectable gentleman god about '<"), ijuilc infirm au<l somewhat ileal le says ho heard a pistol shot some time ilurin; he night, but thought it was some boys in th ool and paid no attention to the matter, til loiicing that Mrs. Iluatwrighl was absent, h use to look Ibr her, and found her lying on th learth in the silling room waltering in blooil he pistol lying with the handle in the tire am inrtly burnt, but upon examination lie was hoi itied to find life extinct. Mrs. I'oatwright belongs to one of the inos respectable families of the commuiiity.? Co r. . ? Important Laws Passed by the Last Legislaturi ARTIFICIAL 1.1 M liS. Skit I u.n 1. Whereas, he balanec of ihenppn p.inioii of twenty th'iusaml dollars made b Act of Assembly, approved l>eceniber ll 1, 1ST*, for furnishing to every eitizen of this Stab who lost a leg <>r arm in the late war, an urtil ci il leg or arm to supply the place of that so lus has been turned into (lie State treasury at ll close of the last liseal year: lie il enacted 1 tin: authority aforesaid, That Section 1 of :i Aei entitled "Aii Aet to provide artificial liinl for all soldieis of the State, who lost their le; or arms "luring military services in years 1 S*? 1h j mi;:;, lSi;|, ami iMb'i," approved l>ecen ber -1, 1ST'.', be, and the same is hereb, aniemied on twelfth line, between the won ' and" ami "in," insert the word "was;" ai on the thirteenth line, strike out the word "one and substitute the word "or;" so that the Si lio.i as amended will road : That the tiovenu C uiiplrollor-doiiei'fil, and the chairman of t Slate hoard of health, be, ami are hereby, co slituted a board to eontraet for and fiiruisli every citizen of ibis Slate, who lost a leg or ai in the late war, an aitilicial leg or arm to mi ply the place of that so lost ; Provided. 'I'll h applicant shall furnish a eei lilicale fi "in i Clerk of the Court of his county, ami the swo statement of three competent and disinterest persons, personally uciiuuinted with tbcapp cant, showing that he is a citizen ..i ii.n Mai :iiit was hi the service ot I lit- rotate "I .>011 t'amlina.nr of I lie I'oiifeileratP Stales, at t time nf I lie loss of sai'l limit iwi ri'/n/i) llur, 'I'I'rit f'6 fias lint receive'! r.ti aftilioial I or arm from tlii.s or any oilier Slat*, or from t I'nitC'l States. /Voro/ >/ j'nrthtr. That I. hi eleet in receive in money the jirico of sai I ur lieial limit. Si.r. "J. That the iinc\|>ciiilcl lialanee in I tre i.-nry levio-1 ami i; illecli 'I nmler the Aet I cciii'1" ISVU. he a| | ri | riaI? I. an I the In surer is licre''y ilirccle-l ami rei|iiire<l In expe I ho aaiiif as provi'le I tiinler this amemle I Aet Sic :J. T mi sK'O ofsai-l ttiioxpeinle l halai he. ami is heicl..", appropriate! to <lclVay t r> [letjacj of carrying out ilia jifovisinus nf ti Approve! I eo^li.hoi *J I, |S1(?. Till' IMtillT t > I lttjU i: It It \ It it l: I > rii'.i iii.-: t. 'ritivl \?Ikmi :i IiiimIi.'iiiiI ilic . iuli i il?- uii 1 hi-, vviiii.-.v a v. ? |>1 j hi-r iliitl rii-iiliyu vlis ill l|i.> colat I! bill! shall 1>G 1 <1 of liCi* ||||*.1 in I!;i: !:iisi|s of whirl, litr hiishai.'i i!ic?l !Ui I i>l 1.11 . iii-1; as hn liu 1 uli.-iiC'l Si i . That .: > much i.f all Aula ini'l p-irif 1 A.i-ls a . i ill! .ll-'.-li'lil v.illi I hi-: \t' 1>?J :i II I I ' imt* 'm hi-t-i I v i-i-|.< i'i -I i \ | ; i-.iv.--l I in! ' ! "I |s -II I WORK FOR THE MONTH?JANUARY. | ng | Willi the advent of a now year we seize v lie | the opportunity of extending to our readers d re . tlie greetings appropriate to the season, and a .0( wish all of litem A Happy New Year, fruit- c ,-,s ful seasons and abounding crops, with t t.,l health, prosperity and happiness. ii ie This is an appropriate and, indeed, a nat- b >rM ural time at whieh to perfect plans for the year to eonie, looking backward as well as a forward that the lessons whieh experience d teaches may guard against errors?as itn n portant to be avoided as to achieve successes, a Survey the ground before you. consider the t! means at your command and do not attempt h H* too much, certainly not more than you can a fairly expect, with the foreesyou have avail- c L"'' able, to carry out in good time ami proper li order. A seasonable thing to do and oue tl J>' which, if done, will often bring its own re- s! ward, is to. c Open an Account Hook?Not ncccs- o ? s.-oily a full and regular system of bookie keeping, but. at least, an itemized memo- e c- I random of receipts and expenditures from all si li sources. The same book may serve a use- ci li ful purpose also in all'ordiug a place, always o w convenient, fur recording uiemoranduins of ci t, farm operations ; also for entries of many 't , r items wlliell it is llnf wise or fn vi? A 1( to memory J tlio dales of engagements of )f hands and wages agreed upon; petty sales jt lor which payment is deferred, and a thou ' in ! s Hid items which are letter made matters of it I rr ; t record for future reference. This, too, is a nl fitting time for taking an inventory of live oi stock, machinery, tools, crops unsold and fc on hand, and other assets, and this may T a properly be entered in such a book. At tli *f the end of the year, by comparing receipts at e and expenditures, a farmer may thus see p how he stands. A b mk where such entries w | may be made, conveniently at hand, will in 1' k future years always have an interest, alid, as n j faithfully used, will contribute to the satis- to <1 : faction of running a farm. to 0 I'it.\INS.? Do not neglect the water fur- lil 1 i rows in your grain fields, hut examine them in ,, j that nothing accumulates to slop the free en e , discharge of surplus water, as nothing more su r injures (lit wheat plant than accumulation it ' of water around the routs. sh Mam iiks and Composts.? Materials (l j for compost piles may readily he collected in - at many odd intervals when a hand and tli e i team can readily he spared for the work. \M V Tlieto is a iong list of substances, available pr ^ nu almost every farm, wliieb, aeeiiniulated Ii 2 j ami mixed with manure from (lie stables, be j will largely increase, and at nogroalcxpe ise, li\ I the plant food at your disposal. Koad scrap- st; I' | iugs, leaves, s a-weed, the wastes froin_l.Ue b" ' I o'u/tfKl.ilkc<T up." I'oullry manure hail pi better be kept to itself, in b xcs or barrels, sa | uiid'T cover, mixed with dry earth or coal h? f 1 ashes, and used in the vegetable garden. WaiIIINS, 1 MI'I.KMKNTS, A.C. Do Hot fll L, ! delay until the time for their use is almost cs H <ir i|uite at hand, but at mice have any lie- ea 0 ! eessary repairs made, so that when needed pi you will nut have tu semi to shop for miss- b? I ing Imlis, i\;c. hi I Wo have though I that it would do no (|i : harm to rojioat what has boon so often said to | in the /'iinii'T about improving the broods ca of our d onestio animals, feeling as wo do tli ^ that about tho lirst of the year all of our oi many readers are more apt to make good tli resolutions than at any other one period of tli ; tho year. "Thinking that now I will try ?,e I to make some changes for the hotter, Ibr m i the next year ; what can I spend some of sc . my savings of the past year in thai will do ai ')' | me the inest good lie answer tnnsl mi- a? hesitntinijlj/ y in not hi li'/ that will make a ui l\ 1 i/milrr i'i litru (hint lit improve the I/reals T i* i of i/our i foment ic animals. tl i, j Now that the eounlry is so lull ol reliable IV ic | breeders who make a specialty of raising is iv | and improving the breeds of all domestic ei 11, | animals, the close competition compels them al !,s I to sell at a much more reasonaole price than i.! formerly. Take for instance the price at w I ; which you can obtain a thoroughbred male |\ pie ill Ullliouoieu J # 111 11 \ ill DIOOll. oik: lliilt a | will Ik: sure to ui;ik<> :i murk on all llie pro- p Is ' n?")' "" ?"'W poor llie female p:i- n I ifiit is In what other way is it possible t| to invest so small a sum that w ill bring in a hotter return anil at the same time be able to see it so soon t In a year from the p time the pig is bought, w ith reasonably ?ooj }, ' eare ve e.gj have a numerous herd ol halt " blood pigs th 't are sure to pay well lor genemus feed. and will at the seine time he a u 111 pleasure to the owner to look at. as they |', 1' will he so mueh better looking than his 1,1 i old sloi k was and not hall' so apt to gel in | | misehiei*. t io into a neighborhood win re ,. 1,1 ! good lings ( well bred) are kei't. and we n ? ?! ; will never hear a harking dog and sipieal- j, li- i,,j, l,,g, caos. ll l.y sending rough boys or . t ie. men to drive a neighbor's hogs out ol the ' n 'li corn lield. I } he W e recently saw a lot of pigs of'.lie Well t // - I red sort just eight mouths ol.l when slaueh- v eg tried that averaged over Lil'tl pounds. We j he ! do not mention this as a great weight lor j iv the age, for it is not. 'I hey were not raised ; j ii. on a dairy farm or they would have been ' * mueh larger. Twenty ev thirty years ago | , ll(, the farmer who raised thi; lot of niee polk i t. ! was always ol.li^e.l to keep his hogs untd j ( ( loiirteeli to sixteen months old to make an j > )( I average ol liOO pounds each. .Now is not [ , six mouths in the life ol a pig Well Worth ^ saving. ( , lirood sows that are expected to bring ( \ our early spring pigs should he separated } | "* : 11miii others, from one to two months before 1 | 1 in: t i lilt! I lie v a IV ex licet i:d tofari'oW. M.iliv ! , J I J j valuable pigs are lost every year IVoin ueg- v : )e? I in this partieular. I'mw- should not ; i be kept either haltered or in stanchions | l'J" : when nearer (ban a month of the time tliey 1,0 | urn due to calve, and should always be led , liberally nil aw corn lor \t least ten days I ;| 'el before they are I'reJi, :m it ha> b en found , , I to be a jjreat help in parturition At least I of many ol our ino.-i sueee.-sj'ul breeder.- say : ilie (liev have tievel' ha I a eo\V tail to '/of l id I ol tlie p! i:ula immediately when the cow j ? was liberally tei| on corn. Wlrnn tlm ealf r- > * s teja'days old it will begiu to cat a litt ncnl nud bran mixed and some hfiy, whie huuld be ho placed that it cud get 'hei \l the tiuic without being iu reach of tli <wN vThc moro the cult cats of good in rt%>VM*food the sooner it will be ready ft tsJJhurcNmse, let that be for uiilk or ft (Every flock -of breeding ewes should b Ifttwcd to run uKthe field u portion of tli W unless il^be very stormy. Sheep d bear confineuieiitSji his climate as we s other animals. It is-also very iuiporlati lot tb.tyf arc not turned out with eilhc OIM8 Ofycaltle ; the horses arc sure to rut nd\the cattle arc liable to injure thcui. thu auj ?pg tint ewes to bring poor lambs nil reutoufclv fcn lmv.> tli.-m t-. !>v W||?>erk)<J. A timi?l jmimal like I"' IWPfciM ill m aju 11 l?o 111> tnTOtT' Mtfti *gr oa through a narrow gat D^jgbt tiogloot to supply all animals lib ra t. Btr-iw or some absorbent, as b ) d^ng tbe manure pile can be greatly in roaajd, then haul it out at once ami savi lie year's interest by using it on grass o urn for '81 rather than keep it wastiu; ill fall to use on wheat to ripen in '82.? InuFican Jr<ir?ur. G KHMI NATION or Skkks?In the opin in of General Le Hue a discovery of valui as been niatle in relation to the plaiitim rcotton. A (juestion having arisen as to tin I cells in Indian corn tho matter was re rred to the microseopist, l'rof. 'i'lioma; ay I or. He found a series of oil cells ncai ic o>iter surface, and another row immedi cmBurroiuiditig the chit or >ermiiiatin< iint^ evidencing the complete protectioi hic.fr the latter received. This fact let; rof Jl'aylor to experiment, with a view ol :ceAr>iuiiio tin; amount of resistance offeree i tlmattacks ol agents generally supposed be if a destructive nature to all orgajw fe, cJfton seed being useil in I lie ex per ifrtta For the purpose of removing tin ittO'nJfYom the seed he used concentrate" ilphwie aeid, which completely remove; witHbut visibly aifecting the outer browi icll qVtlio seed. Tofttst the actual effect of the goriiiinat K pCtperty he handed some cotton see", us Mealed and afterward washed, to a r. SLider.-, who planted it. To the sur ise otijvery one except Mr. Taylor, win id tixresecn this result, the germ hail no1 sen' destroyed, the seed came up at least e <X*s curlier than that in its uatura ate. To grace rtuin whether this might no mr^aTHTVloT several mouths ami llici anted at thcsuuiu time with seed of the me crop unprepared. The same result lb! vv ed. The advantage to planters in having: 'c ??r six days start can searee'y be over timated, v.hether availed of in avoiding rly frosts or raising early cotton, lor whiel otniuuis are o He red hy several cottoi aids in the Soulh. lint this is not said t( : tlie principal benefit conferred by tin seovery. Hitherto cotton plant inj; has ha< hi- done by hand, and the.seed sown broad is I, owing; to the adherent cotton prevent in;, ic seed being; used in the planters used Ibi ?rn and other clean seed. After pre pa rat ioi ic seed can be used in any planter, and bj ic regularity of growth resulting;, tlie sub <Iitfiit cultivation g?reatly facilitated. Tin ode of-preparing; the seed is as follows: Tin oil is placed in an earthen or glass vessc id ordinary sulphuric acid poured over s< i to completely cover it. It is then stirre< 11111 the brown shell is left free from cotton he acid is poured oil to he used again. am ic seed'washed till all acidity disappear (tin the water, and dried. A large quant it j to he thus prepared and iistrihutcd anion it ton plautcis for uex> season, 'i'he aeii Iter it has heeouie salurate I or cxhaiistci to be experimented with to aseertai hether the glucose cannot he recoverei Ixperiinents are also to ho instituted w ill view to ascertain the practicability of tli rocess ;?s applied to seeds slow of germi ation, such as that of the palm, w hich take I I t'l' j U! I J? %.\J Oj'M'lU. . O l'l lit'lUMI O.N Till: Al'l'uicnu.N M KNT U [ KI'KKSKNTATIoN ?The 1 ?i?ltill Aifl'i rdsi as been figuring out the results as the mold be distributed among the sever: tales of a Congressional a|>j <>rt ionuiei aider the present census and snuis up ; dlows: "The number 180.000 would only furtln ake away three Null hern a*ul four Soutl ru members, the losing SKOes being Cm leelieut, Florida. I lliiiuis. New York, Vi ;inia. West Virginia and Wisconsin. I!i lie (junta 1 00 (MO would further takenwa line Northern and only six Southern ineti icrs, leaving I til to the North and 117 I lie South. That is to say, if the South rilling to lose nine ul its present member t can deprive the North of twenty-three i (s members. It can do still b tier by gi\ ng iiji three more and taking ten I'mm ll \ortli by fixing the (junta at LlOO.IMO. I bat were done the changes from tin* pre nt representation would be as follows : I li" \ .ill ll the ln>>>es Would be : Maine S< \v 11 n 111 ] >! i it* I. \ i niioiil. 1. Mnssaehi ills'.!, Klinui* I>1 iikI 1. ('oiiiu ciiMit I, N?> fork S, Ni -\v Jersey I. Pennsylvania < Miio I. Michigan \. Indiana Illinois iVisconsin Iowa 1, Minnesota ami Ni Mask a \v 111111 i uain olio each ami Kansas ! n tin* South, tin' losiiio States Would ho Mahaina J, I'lorida 1. (Jeorjiia I. Keiituck 5. Louisiana 1, Maryland I. Missouri : Sortli Carolina 1, Tennessee 'J, Vii<*in Texas Would gain I iulcr such a i ppolt ioinnciit tin; majority of Northei neinhers would he hut t?tl instead of S is at present, and yet till' liiemhersh >f the 11 oils j would he reduced hy on 15," This is the ~oas.ui ,,| 111<> year when vol rahie lo lis i uti r t heir Si coin 1 el. il lie 0.1 at ire hroiled tor spring eliiekens. 10 January I'i.ankth.?Jupiteriscv?ning [ 11 star, and taker first place among the planets ? ai during the uionth on account of the distur- li le bing elements in action on his cloud surface, li l- that seem to show a direct relation between p >r him and the sun. The threat rcdspotsth.it ci >r arc yet to be seen on Jupiter are supposed r< to have originated the auroral displays iu c< o Kuglaud, Ireland and the Orkneys, as well '< e as the carlh quakes in Austria, and the w 0 Volcanic eruptions at .Mnunu Loa, Vesuvius 'I II and Mount Rtker. * To the satlic cause is la it attributed the severe suow storms iu the It ir South, and the frigid waves that have rolled 1'" 1 frnill ll'OSl In nnef nn.l 1* .. vw? %vr vucv UIIU I I ('Ul IIUIUI IU dUUlllf '? is carrying the mercury below zero. The situ in d just now is in a more quiescent condition, si r his bright luco being marred Jby i'uw black ci a blemishes, though at one time during !). - fb ,1 ceuiber sun spots were observed, said to be 'I e large enough to be seen by the linked eye. 'i Two or three planets like the earth might st - be dropped into these huge caverns without w y 1 saving any imue traee than a ball dropped " - into the ocean. .Jupiter, heedless of tencs- ai e trial interest, pursues his shining course,at ?'< r <? o'clock and setting at midnight ; be lore I'1 the close of the mouth he will set at half- w; - past 10 o'clock. Venus is also evening star, ti( and is bewitcliiugly beautiful as she hangs <>l for three Imursalter sunset in the western so sky. She will continue through the uiouth it e on her eastern path, receding from the sun, ml i approaching the earth and increasing in gt - brightness. For three months to coin.: the ??f western evening sky will present a grand Tl s scenic perlbrmanee. in which \ enus, Ju of r piter ami Saturn will be the principal actors. ci< \ enus will approach Jupiter and Saturn ; tli ' .Jupiter and Saturn will approach each sis i other ; ami the increasbn.- |.?o.\uoity wi.l be >o I plainly perceptible. TUi? 'H " K'd'i Reason f ii> pt?n?iary annals, and this is the time to 1 w.itcli their brilliant movements, lb-fore 1,1 I the pageant closes, Venus will meet and pass ke " .Jupiter, and afterwards pay her court to hi - Saturn in the same way. Then .Jupiter and " : Saturn will lie close together, and pass each II I other just, as they come into conjunct ion I"' with the sun, and the grand pan- nana of In i single, double and triple conjunctions will th not close until next May, when Venus comes hi into inferior conjunct ion with the sun. and an 1 her reign as evening star closes. \ enus se i sets now about 8 o'clock, at the end of the w? month not far from 11 o'clock. Saturn is tin ? still evening star, and, though receding th t from the earth and approaching the sun, is wi a beautiful object for telescopic observation th I from the wider opening of hi.-i.VMwm t"iTe | iWrs earlier. Mars is morning j 'a i star, risin." an hour and a hall belore the I ''' 1 I nun In. iiivoil liv bis |-111111 v I a light. .Mercury is morning star until the eti 'Jiltli, when lie comes in superior coujune wl ' tion with the sun, passes to his eastern siilo and beeonies evening star. The January h; r j moon lulis on the Ifitli. She will Ibrin a to > j succession of beautiful tableaux in eonnee or ' lion with the "rami trio of planets that will w ? reign in tho western evening sky. On the hi .'hi sin; will appear as a shilling crescent, ( < I with Venus lor her attendant ; on the (?th. ' with increasing brightness,she will pay her I eourt to .Jupiter ; on the 7th, just alter she j r lias reached her li'st fjuarter, she will he 1 seen in conjunction with Saturn. She will yj f pass near Neptune on the 1Mb, and near 1'ranus oil the I'.lili, while in her waning |(| phase, she will form a brilliant picture with L' .Mars for a companion ou the morning of 1 the 27til. ;l| a ? *. . 'I The IiKTitni.it a he Movement of the (j ' Sn.VEit 1 )ol.I.Aits.?There has been a very ' marked falling off in the orders for stand8 aid silver dollars rceijved by tho Treasurer if J here was a big boom in the coin a short |( ^ time ago owing to the crop movement.? ?r ' t This lioom has suhsidetl as the crops have ' Iicjoii moved. I lie Ninth si ml Nmuiwcs* v 11 especially, were largo in their orders I'orsil- w I vcr. Texas loads all the otlici* States.? . h Several hanks in that State just howled l'??r j. e silver ami got it. .Much of this eoin was j( ' used in payment of labor. Much of it is s rapidly linding its way back into the towns ^ and cities in purchases of goods and sup (j plies. The merchants are taking it to the j K banks and depositing it. Thus it flows >' right back to the distributing centre. The y banks cannot conveniently keep large <|U.ind titics of silver in their vaults The result it will very likely be the exchange of the sil- 1 i-s vcr fur certificates, and the return of the 'I former to the tiovemment vaults. >r - - J i- A Kit HA K nK T11 K Kitosr.?A striking ' , illustration ot the force exerted hy water in 1 r the act of freezing may he seen in St Lawit rence (Vunetery. The Werner monument, 1 iy i which stands near the entrance, rests upon ' a- a heavy iron slab, which in turn is sup- 1 in ported hy several large spherical iron globes, ' is about eight inches in diameter and about a 1 > , bill inch thick. These hollow iron lulls I of I have small oliciiiiies at the ton. and durin" ! 1 I tlie rain which preceded the very cold ^p<*11 :I u- j nut' id' tin-in became l*ilcd **-t h water. The 1 11'| w at it then l'r< i/.i: in t In- ' -?l). ntid in so doing 1 s- ' burst it in two and threw tin- fragments j ' n j several yards i'l! into one id' tin- paths. A 1 ,s Li. i ^idiii ball id ice ullit'll It'll ollt id tin: globe ^ 1 i- j when it bin>t was I'mmd near olio id tin- j ; \v j fragments ??SA<*cs. I i;. j _ I Sl'AVl.N ? 1 li ive a horse tb it issji ivinod. L.. I just discovered it a we -k ago today ? o He is live years old, and what 1 .ant to i : know is: Can it he cured without blistering t i? it '! And is it aikisible to blister this win- i o tor y J-'. I!nin:ins. t i;i i IiKI'I.Y.?The spa v in cant} ?L be eured 1 n wit limit blistering, wbieh eau In-done-at 1 in any tiuie. The treatment of spavin is very ! | unsatisfactory ; that which is most success- j i i,, till Initio tiring (which might to be done : |y only by a competent veterinarian, i and litis , | j lering. with three months' standing rest. [ ? during which two or three more blisters 1 t i-I may be applied, tiive the horse a puiya- . id ! live and k'1- p oil Sid't l-aal -I*. 1/l.tlA V. ' ' V. S. in Anirrirun Farmer. A CcnrsK Kkrps Warm Kksiit Days. -<)no week ago yesterday Miss Minnie tyrd, l lie fourteen year old duugutcrof T. A. tyrd a well-known printer of this city, was roiiounced dead by the attending jtliysiian. Dr. Simpson, and p'aeed in a casket ;ady for burial. The iuueral was arrang-* .1 to take place the Sunday afternoon fo|? twing, and at the appointed hour the hearsn lid carriages wore at the door ready to take lose in attendance upon the funeral to Oakiltd Cemetery. A few moments beforctho moral services were to commence, Mi*, rank Kidgc noticed that a small flower had illeii from one of the hands of the corpse ito the space between the body and the de of the cofliti, the lid of w hich hak tioy been placed on. Mr. Ridge lifted the aver, and, as he attempted to place it in io position from which it had fallen, tincod that the hands of the deceased were ill warm, and also that the lips and oars ere still highly colored and also warm.?o called the attention of a lady to the fact, id asked her to put her hand under the irpse and see if the back was warm. The dy di.l as requested and found that 'hero as still considerable warmth in that por>11 of the body lying next to the bottom the collin. Those observations were on made known to those in attendance, id tiiv hearse and carriages were dismissI. The room was cleared and several titleinen held a conference for the purpose ascertaining what was best to done.? liey made an examination of the condition the body, and alter some discussion deled that life was extinct. The mother of e child about this time I itcrposcdaud in tod that ?l.o kmus ilioro wtin siuy rensou lor bclicvg that her child was still ulitc. Nothing more was done until the followg day, when Mr. (Ireen Holland, the icper of Oakland Cemetery, called at the use for the purpose of ascertaining why was that the funeral did not take place, e thought that something was wrong, as had : re pa red a grave at the request of a end of the family who notified him of e death When Mr. Holland reached the nise he learned all of the facts in the case, d stated to Mr. llyrd that if he would ml the body as it was to the cemetery he mid take care ol it until further developcuts were reached. This was douc, and e body sent to Oakland, where the casket is deposited in the dead house. Sineo at dav 'I Wtuli oi the body. No signs ot decay are noticed, and ecrin portions of the body are yet warm and e-like. During the past lour days quite number of persons have visited the cent? my for the purpose of ascertaining if lint they had heard was true. A nuinnef of the physici lis of the city ive investigated the matter and can cuuio no satisfactory conclusion. The case is 10 of the most remarkable on record, and hat will he done with the body rem tins to seen : at present we can't say. -Atlanta r:., \ l>l..............1. .???.,/ . ........j. / ... TI1K MiOiO-.S SAY SIIKIS \ esterday l)rs. Color, Collier and Fowler sited the cemetery lor the purpose of aking a thorough ex iitiin.ition of Miss I iti it it; liyrd, the young lady whose renins have been lying in the dead house r tin* past week. A battery was applied id every known test resorted to, but no .idence of lile could be discovered, ami ft or a complete and satisfactory exainimoti the physicians declared Miss Hyfd end. This is indeed a remarkable case and evry physician who has seen the body is lost >r a solution. As has been stated, allot' er death t he bo iy still ictained its Warmth, 'lie color still adhered to the lips, and ev? ry appearance of life was visible, yet she as pronounced dead. During the entire eek the warm'h of the body was readily seert lined, and even now the temperature ' only a little below that of a living be? 'a- , . In making the examination yesterday, Dr. 'ol'er. who was a 11 em * >t i ng to d teef a plllsa<* ion. discovered :i slight corpse like odor.? t is assorted that the retnaiiis will be bur? .d today.? C'oHaftlHtioH. S//t. I><?mkstic Vkast?Take a handful of wps and hoil them half an hour in two |Uarts of water; at the same titue pare half i dozen ??oocl whitu potatoes, hoil them for ialf an hour, and mash them verv line.-? I'lien strain the water from the hops on the lOtatoes. and stir in tw > tablespoon fills U\' alt and a pint of Hour. Leave it until it s luke-warin, and then add one pint of mover's yeast, or its equivalent in yeast uade from yeast esikes, ami let rise fur six tours. Strain it through a eollander or roarse srere, and it is frt for use. It will >eep a week in summer and three weeks n winter. When the Iresh yeast made as ihove is lightest, stir this into Indian meal intil the latter makes a line dou^h. Make his into small r mud cakes, less th in onei;ialter inch thii k and drv them on a well easomd Isiard rn the oven when it is eoul 'tt'Oi^h not to hake them, or in the sun. vliicli is hi tter still If in the latter, turir hem every two hours until I hey are tlmrul;_dtly dried ?Cl.iiYI !! ah rie. hum an excess of water It the piant. has a t- tideiicy to ma!; butler oo sol':, am! eon-eipo iitlv to injure its keepnjr uualities; hut mixed with timothy, in In- j?r<>} >rt"n<ii.< above j;i\cn. it m*1<1s to tho autter suflieieiit moisture, which is lacki iviicro timothy ahum is j;iven. Tin; result, .1* course, will ho somewhat muddied by t!??; nature of the soil upon which the ?r.hs is . rown. A clay loam soil, well drained, will [ roiluco the most satis! t< t rv result'?a only soil the lea t liut whatever may bo he nature o|" the soil, it is desirable that ov. s ! ;i >iuivd up >11 l.ij!, we" drained and. rithei th in nj> >11 low, swampy soil.? . I Di' i i' ini Fm nur.