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j?oi)0tq<l to ^puiijiiHuri), lortinulturq, ffomgstiq VOL. XII?Nkw Seuies. UNION (!. II., SOUTII cffi)I.l?A, JANUARY 2.1, 1881. NUMBER 2. DEFF.RRRn KRUla ITWMB I ?? A Land League in Augusta.?Augusta, On., January 12.?A largo meeting was hold ln?t night to express sympathy with the Irish people. A Land League was formed and considerable money suoscribcd in aid of the Irish Lnnd League. .?. ?030 a Day Squanurkkd rou Whiskey.?The Her. It. N. Pratt has been getting up statistics bf how much whiskey was sold in tho town of Abbeville during tho six days of Christmas and found that the astonishing amount of $3,780 worth wns sold in town. itunai.auy and Futic in Tux vs.?Liberty, Jnuliary 10.?The safe of J. D. Kinncr & Uro. was blown open Inst night and robbed of twelve hundred dollars. Dai.i.aS, January 10.?A destructive fire is reported from Weaiberford as having occurred lost bight. It included the loss of eleven bales of botlon and a block of framo buildings. The to. tal loss is $360,00(J. Partially insured." Mori>khki> by Moqnsiiixkus.? Louisville. Ky., January 12.?A special from Oallntin, Tenneshee, to the Courier-Journal says: "Captain Skccne, a respectable citizen, who lives about bight 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 snid Captain Skecue had reported to the authorities." A Nkciio Ravisiiku Ridi>lki> With Bullets. ?New Orleans, La., January 13.?A dispatch to the Democrat from Little Hock, Arkansas, says: "A daughter of C. II. Bonds, of Mar' rinna, Lee County, was brutally outraged by a colored man yesterday. The negro wos arrested and put in jail. An infuriated mob surrounded the prison, forced the doors, took the prisoner a short distance from town and literally riddled his body with bullets. Killed with ax Axk.?Louisville, January 12.?A special from Chattanooga says, a report lias reached that city that James M. Ray had bee* killed a few days ago in Scott County.? Ray was the District Attorney for the Third Tennessee Circuit. lie was a half brother to Cont r - . B' "" " v/. iihuk, ui mo second Tennessee j District. Tlio exact causo of the killing has not ? yet conic to light, one rutuor being that Hay had o nn alternation with a man who insulted his wife. 11 Kay attempted to firo, but before ho could drnw 0 his weapon his assailant split his head open with ^ tu axe. / IJlIRNT TU DkaTII IN a lilllt.NINU Uoi'sk.? Last Thursday night, on the plantation of .Mr. Kedin Lewis, three miles North of Florence, one of " the laborer's houses was found to bo oil fire just ^ before daylight, by Mr. Staokiu/, who iias a rftore li just above Lewis's mill. The flames rapidly |i enveloped lwid consumed the house, which was |( occupied by an aged colored man. The old man's wife had gone to see some of her people, ' mid lie was in the house alone. Mr. Lewis had ll only a few days before had some wood hauled to r him, a# the weather was cold. After the flames (| subsided, ihe lifeless, charted trunk and head of the poor uld man were found in one corner r of the ruins. The verdict of Ihe jury of inquest h was in accordauce with the facts.?Florence j| Timet. p A Qovkhnoii Who Can't Swim.?Very few r peo lo know how near General Kennedy came to being Governor. Governor Ilugood was nl r !ii< Saluda Old Town plantation the 1st instant, ' and while crossing the Saluda in a canoe, (the ^ ferryman being a way,) a large body of floating ....... V. I.V? ...ft . V H llic m'nMluof the river. The canoe dipped water several limes. Tlic river was up and I lie Gov* I1 urnor can't Swim a lick. A sort of fatality seems to pursue our Governors. Hampton was ' taken from the office to the United States Sen- v ate ; Sitnpsou was taken to the Supreme bench, c and Uagood, in the early part of his term, came ' hear ending his executive career in tho murky ( waters of the Saluda.?A'en-berry Herald. ' ? i A Good Tkst.?A writer in the I<ondon (Jueen ^ says that husbands love to be loved, but that a , very caressing, very demons'.rative and perpetu- ] ally administrative wife clogs by excess. There | ^ appears to ho tn'ioli truth in this, though a good , \letil depends on how much it takes to clog A < man. Capacities (litter. Sonic men are like t wooden Indiana?you cau cnress (lieui forever , witliout making much impression on them.? | Others absorb easily and fill up at once, like | eighteen penny sponges. When a man has a ; capacity somewhat between that of a wooden In* , ,dian and thai of a sponge, and one docs not know exactly how much he can stand, it is considered a good test to let him catch his wife caressing some othei woman's husband. UAnriKLit axi> tiik Nkoroks.?Cleveland, wiWMif8Y,j,s flV-wwUsa ap."7.'nv?i Garfield Inst evening at the resttftrnv*. # Kdwards. G. W. Uraxdell, of Talladega, und 1j. H. M. WniKins, of Courtlnnd, addressed the General setting foflh tho condition of the colored people in the South, their lack of education, &p., and asking that the coming adminis i ration uo wlidf- it can to aid in the education of the blacks. Garfield r'apondeJ that the educa" lion of their children was the foremost duty of fttl line Antorlpen ppoplc and assuring tfw"? "'"i what coh<4 be done tyowld not fail |o be done.? Jle urged iheut IP ftvojd raising tho oolor line tijftd not to separate Htcmsplrcs 03 ? plasp from fhe masu of cituem. , ? ? --TW *"* "~ ..Ohast to i?b Hktihko.?>|u the V, 8. Senate lost Monday I<ogan introduced a bill to authorise the appointment of General U. ti an ?I*A :?* HL. kin ? ?. v?i* imv ivi|?0u nti>. in? vi111 wu rinm ill length upon the request of Conkling. it proVIiIh th*t In raoognillon of the eminent public sorricesof General D. 8. Grant, lata of I be army toil ex'president of ilia Unite.I States, tho President is ajuil)orix*4 lo appoint hint, by and will* ? he'ml* ice and Qcnsont of the Senate, to Iho retired lilt, will* the .rank and full pay of the Jtawnl of tba A1"'"/, The second aeotion authorise* Hie President, when lie shall oonsider in emefgenby ha* nrisen requiring the serrioe ftf Qen4*M'tlrtrtit' on ndilre ditty, to assign htm la any eommwmfooinittenmiftiie with the rank or general- llclbtcd t<y tlurcomtw111ee oat Military pffairs. | PL iiib h vii.uoao Smasiiui' at Tkknton.?Trenton, S. C., Jan II.?At 0 o'clock this morning six boxes of the South bound freight on the Charlotte, Columbia ami Augusta Hail road, were precipitated down an cmbarkmcnt forty feet high at Hatcher's trestle, just one mile from this place. The cause of the accident is attributed to rotten cross tics. The wreck was complete, one box being utterly doniolishcd and the others more or less injured, the freight, consisting of groceries, dry goods, furniture, &c., being scattered and broken to pieces, mnny articles falling into tho creek and floating off". The news sprend like wildfire and soon the scene of the disaster was crowded r. ith curious spectators. Barrels of sugar were hursted open by the accident and crowds ol hungry negroes sweetened anil fed themselves to their hearts' content.? The plundering, however, was soon stopped by railroad officials, who have been all day engaged in collecting and guarding the goods and in removing the drbrit and repairing the track.? Strange to say that in so terrible a catastrophe no one was seriously injured ; tho conductor receiving only a few scratches, although his conch must have made several evolutions before reach ...? .v?uiu ui mi uccuviiy, wncro 11 now Btnnds ns upright ns though placed on purpose A negro brakeraan who was standing on top of the car at the time of the accident was sent whirling through the air on the opposito aide of the track, nnd making a double somersault landed at least thirty feet from his starting point, recicving no graetcr injury than the breaking of li is collar bone.?lleyuter. What Effkct tiik Liquor Traffic Has on nik Ooi.orki) Rack.?Wo propose to address a few words especially to the colored voters of his town. With many among them wo have little or no hope that our suggestions will be iccdcd, for it is an open boast, and we fear too rue, in many cases at least, that "a drink of iquor will buy a nigger's vote." But we think w&liave other nnd a good many colored men itnong us whose vote cannot be thus bought, and who have intelligence enough and principle uiough to cast tlicit suffrage in the interest of ieace and order. It is to that clnss we would iddress our remnrks, and we will say to them hat in our judgment their race suffers far more rom the effects of liquor and liquor-drinking hnn do the whites, much as it injures the later; first, because the colored people have less noney to spare?and every cent comes to them >y hard licks, that conies honestly?for such a iscless and ruinous luxury ns liquor ; and, secnd, having less money to spend thus they are iccessitntod to buy a cheaper, meaner quality f liquor, which, in some cases, is absolutely oisonous, and if they drink much of it, being deadly poison, will certainly kill them.? .aurensviHc Herald. - - SricniK in Aikkn.?On the night of the 8th istnnt Mrs, Frances Bontwright, n^cd aboiij 'bnfVn tills County, by shooting with a pistol, ler husband is a highly respectable gentleman, ged about G.r>, quite infirm and somewhat deaf. Ic says lie heard a pistol shot some time during lie iiiglit, hut thought it was some boys in the ' oad and paid no nttention to the matter, till * oticing that Mrs. Bontwright was absent, he ' ose to look for her, and found her lying on the I earth in the Hitting room wnllering in blood, ' lie pistol lying with the handle in the tiro mid artly burnt, but upon examination he was horified to find life extinct. Mrs. Uoatwright belongs to one of the most ( espectable families of the community.?Col f legixtcr. . + . mportant Laws Passed by the Last Legislature' ' ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. Skction 1. Whereas, he balanco of the appro- | trial ion of twenty thousand dollars made by j let of Assembly, npproved December 24, 1870, , or furnishing to every citizen of this State, i v'.io lost a leg or arm in the late war, an nrtifi* iial leg or arm to supply the place of that so lost, ias been turned into the State treasury at the dose of the last fiscal year : Be it enacted by he authority aforesaid, Thnt Section 1 of an let entitled "An Act to provide artificial limbs 'or nil soldieis of the State, who lost their legs n* arms duritur military services in veors 18(11. 1802, 1800, 1801, and 1800," approved Decern Iter 24, 1870, be, and the same is hereby, intended on twelfth lino, between the words "and" and in," insert the word "was;" and in the thirteenth line, strike out the word "one," md substitute the word "or;" so that the Seclion as amended will read : That the Governor. Cimplroller-Gcneral, and the chniruian of the Slate board of health, be, and arc hereby, constituted a board to contract for and furnish to every citizen of this Slate, who lost a leg or arm in the late war, an artificial leg or arui to supply the place of that so lost; Provided, Tha' the applicant shall furnish a certificate from the Clerk of the Court of his county, and the sworn statement of thrco competent aud disinterested persons, personal!* noouninted with the applicant, showing that he is a citizen find was in tne service of the Stale of South Carolina, or of the Confederate States, nt the time of the loss of said limb ; A(i<i provided furliter, Tl/rtt W6 has not received an artificial leg or arm from this or any other Slate er from the United States, J'rovidjd further, That Ire may elect to receive in money the prioo of said artificial limb. Sko. 2. That ilio unexpended balance in iho treasury levied and collected under (lie Act Decern 24, 1879, be appropriated, and tbo Irensurcr is herd''V directed ami required to expend tbt snino as provided under Ibis nmeiided Act. Wkc, i}. T-i?t $100 of said unexpended balance be, and is herebv, appropriated to defray the e*pcQM8 of carrying out tbt? provisions of this Wt.. . ? Approved Deoaiubsr 24, 1880, TflP. BIGHT OP DQWgR BARRKD, Hr.crioS I. Thai when a husband dies iutestate and bis widow aceepte Iter distributive share iq his estate she shall bo barred of ber dowev in tbe lands of whioh her husband di<id seised and of *11 such as ho Inpl aliened, Urn. g. That so muoli 01' all Acts and pari* of Acta as is Indons'.slant with this Act be and the rtame in hereby repealed. Approved December '21, 1880, WORK FOR THE MONTH?JANUARY. Willi the advent of a new year we ecizo the opportunity of extending to our readers the greetings appropriate to the season, aud wish all of theui A Happy New Year, fruitful seasons and abounding crops, with health, prosperity aud huppiucss. This is an appropriate and, indeed, a natural time at which to perfect plans for the year to come, looking backward as well as forward that the lessons which experience teaches may guard against errors?as iuiportaut to be avoided as to achieve successes. Survey the ground before you. consider the means at your command and do not attempt too much, certainly not more than you cau fairly expect, with the forces you have available, to carry out in good time and proper order. A seasonable thing to do and ouc which, if done, will oftcu bring its own reward, is to. Ot'kn an Account Book?Not necessarily a full and regular system of bookkeeping, but, at least, an itemized memorandum of receipts aud expenditures from all sources. The sauie book may serve a useful purpose also in affording a place, always convenient fur ri>n.ir. - 1 ~p uaviaiwitUJUUIIIS UI farm operations ; also for entries of many items which it is not wise or sale to leave to memory; the dates of engagements of hands and wages agreed upon; petty sales for which payment is deferred, and a thou * i sind items which are Letter made matters of I record for future reference. This, too, is a < fitting time for taking an inventory of live < stock, machinery, tools, crops unsold and ! on hand, and other assets-, and this uiay ' properly bo outered in sueh a book. At t the cud of the year, by comparing receipts i and expenditures, a farmer uiay thus see j how he stands. A book where sueh entries \ way be uiade, conveniently at hand, will in ] future years always have an interest, and, ? faithfully used, will contribute to the satis- t faction of running a farm. t DRAINS.?Do not neglect the water fur- I rows in your grain Holds, but examine them i dint nothing accumulates to stop the free ( Jischargc of surplus water,vas nothing more * njures tin wheat plant tliuu accumulation i if water around the roots. s Manures and Composts.? Materials "or compost piies may readily be collected i it many odd intervals when a baud and t cam can readily be spared for the work. "J fheie is a ioug list of substances, available | in utmost every farm, which, accumulated I ind mixed with manure from the stables, t vill largely increase, aid at no great expeasc, f ,he plant food at your disposal. Road scrap- s ngs, leaves, s -a-weed, the wastes from jjie A dp." Poultry man uro MM T letter be kept to itself, in b xes or barrels, s inder cover, mixed with dry earth or eoul I islies, and used in the vegetable garden. Wauons, Implements, &c.?Do not f Jelay until the time for their u.-e is almost i jr quite at hand,, but at once have any lie- c icssary repairs made, so that when needed j you will not have to send to shop for miss- I iug bolts, &c. I Wo have thought that it would do no i liartn to repeat what has been so often said t in the Farmer about improving the breeds < I our (1 unestie animals, fouling as wo do t ihat about tho first of the year all of our c many readers arc more apt to make good t resolutions than at any other one period of t the year. "Thinking that now i will try *; to make some changes for the better, for t the next year ; what can I spend some of * my savings of the past year in that will do . me the most good '(" IYe answer mast un j hesitatingly, in nothing that will make u \ r/rcater return than to improve the breeds ' of your domestic animals. i Now that the country.is so full of reliable | breeders who make a specialty of raising i and improving the breeds of all domestic < animals, the close competition compels them ; to sell at a much uiore reasonable price than formerly. Take for instance the price at which you can obtain a thoroughbred male pig of undoubted purity of blood, one that i will be sure to make a murk on all the progeny, no matter how poor the female parent is lu what other way is it possible to invest so small a sum tint will bring in n better return nnd at the same time be able to ace it so soon ? In a year t'roui the time the pig is bought, with reasonably good wire .vo can have a numerous herd of half blood pigs that are sure to pay well for generous feed, and will at the semo time be a pleasure to the owner to look at, us they will be so much better looking than his old stock was and not half so apt to get in mischief. (Jo into a neighborhood where good hogs (well bred) are kept, aud we will never hear a barking dog and stpieulioK bog, o???? d by sending rough boys or men to drive a neighbor's hogs out of the corn held. Wo recently saw a lot of pigs of 'die well bred sort just eight months old when slaughtered that ayoruged over 220 pounds. Wo do not uimtion this as a great weight for the age, for it is not. They were not raised on a dairy farm or they would havo been uiuclt larger. Twenty or thirty years ago the farmer who raised this lot of nico pork was nlw.oys obliged to keep bis hogs until fourteen to sixteen months old to make an avcruge of 200 pounds ench. Now is not ? ... i:r. _? _ a:? l oia uiv/iuiio iu iuc jiiu ui u pig won worm saving. ... , Brood hows that nro expected to bring our early spring pigs should bo separated frou) others, l'roin ouo to two months before the time they are expected to farrow. Many valuable pigs are lost every year from neg)uot lu this particular. Cowi should not be kept either haltered or iu stanohious when nearer than a month of the time thoy are due to oalvo, and should always bo fed liberally op ear corn for r.t least tcu days before they are fresh, as it lias boon found to be a great help iu parturition. At least many of opr most suorcssfpl breeders say thoy have never had a cow fail to get rid of the placenta immediately when the cow | wte liberally led on com. When llw <wlf V? t^Hraavs old it will begin to oat a little tiealaiaa bran mixed "tend some h!ty, which should bo no placed that it cud get at tbcui nUlft' time without being ia roach of the Q4vV^l'he uiyro.the call cats of good nutrtftroffcod the sooner it will bo ready for let that be for uiilk or for jijiy.flocfrof breodiug owes should bo run lhytlve field a portion of the iLbewer^r stormy. Sheep do n<^^EBc<wfin^entSmx- |iis climate ns troll as^KinkniinuIs. It ibulso very important tl.Jflur. are not turned out with either honB|KjMttle ; the horses are sura to run, anjMfffiwtlc aro liable to injuYe them, thus ca<*jWb thdLcwes to bring poor lauibs and lrej?umtta fo have them before reaching h<nMyM|ia|iLii| A tiuiid ^uimalUio a shc^HfiUUMWn bo care,qA?flti^gapi?+*hroagh a narrow gate or ftenfed. Dggfl^tighyH to supply nil nniniuld libcrnMjVith striw or some absorbent, as by so dang the uinnure pile cuu be greatly increaad, then haul it out at once and save one tear's interest by using it on grass or corfrjfor '81 rather than keep It wasting 'tMgbll to use on wheat to ripen iu '82.? AnMicun Farmer. GIrmination ok Skkds?In the opinion of General Le Due a discovery of value luill been made in relation to the planting )fty>Ro?i. A question having arisen asto the )it$Mls iu Iudian corn tho matter was reI'efK'd to the microscopist, I'rof. Thomas fu^lor. He found a series of oil cells ucar ha.qtttcr surface, and another row imtnediiteijrtpurrounding the chit or germinating > tiuB evidencing the complete protection the latter rccoived. This fact led ProtiTnylor to cxperiuient, with a view of* ( imx^hining the amount of resistance offered (/fiHuittacks of agents generally supposed <> bejffa destructive nature to all orgajic ife, Mton seed being used in the experiitttls For the purpose of removing the JKnu. the seed he used couccntratcd idHfab acid, which completely removes tMBt visibly affecting the outer brown Tajftt the actual effect of tlic germinal?g pAerty he handed some cotton seed hus.Jfltted and afterward washed, to a dr. XKders, who planted it. To the surmise Mgury one except Mr. Taylor, who tad tfASSbn this result, the genu had not iceo^Mfitilroyed, the seed came up at least ivd JB* earlier than that in its natural t"te?certain whether this might not t*^^w"^WpC|g??g?.t?rul 'months and then iluutcu at the same time with seed of the | nine crop unprepared. The same result fob owed*'?? *? * The advantage to planters in having ivc or six days start can searco'y be overestimated, whether availed of in avoiding early frosts or raising early cotton, for which u-ouiiuuis are offered by several cotton >oards in the South. Hut this is not said to )c the priucipal benefit conferred by the liscovcry. Hitherto cotton planting has had o be done by hand, and the seed sown broad last, owing to the adherent cotton preventing ho seed being used in the planters used for :orn nndotherclcan seed. After preparation he seed enn bo used in unv ulanter. and bv ^ I ? ho regularity of growth resulting, the sub;o<|uotit cuhivNtioii greatly facilitated. Tito node of-preparing the seed is as follows: The iced is placed in nu enrtheo or glass vessel uid ordinary sulphuric acid poured over so is (o completely cover it. It is then stirred until tho browu shell is left free from cotton, flic acid is poured ofl' to be used again, and ihe .seed'wiishcd till all acidity disappears from tho water, and dried. A large quantity is to be Lb us prepared and distributed among rotten plantcis for next season. The acid, after it has bceonic saturated or exhausted, is to be experimented with to ascertain whether*the glucose cannot be recovered. Kxporiuients are also to be instituted with a view to ascertain the practicability of the process ts applied to seeds slow of germination, such as that of the palui, which takes three years to sprout. Fiodbino on the Apportionment of Kkpkbrentation.?The Boston Advertiser has boon figuring out the results as they would b? distributed among the several Slates of a Congressional apportionment under the present cuusus and sums up ns follows: "The number 180,000 would only further take nwQy three Northern a*d four Southern members, the losing Stn^es being Connecticut, Florida. Illinois, Now York, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. But the quota 190^000 would further takeaway nine Northern' nnd only six Southern members, leaving 164 to the North nnd 97 tu the South. That is to say, if the South is willing to loso nine of its present members, it cau doprive the North of twenty-three ol its members. It can do still b .Iter by giving up three more and taking ten from the North by fixing the quyta at 200,000, If that Were done the changes from the present representation would bo ns follows : In tho North the losses would be: Maine 2, New Hampshire 1, Vermont 1, Mnssaehu set(s 2, Khoue Island 1, Connecticut 1, New York 8, New Jersey 1, Pennsylvania ti, Ohio 4, Michigan 1, Indiana 8, Illinois 4, Wisconsin 1, lowu 1, Minnesota ami Nebraska would gain one each and Kansas 2 In tho South, the losing States would be : Alabama 2, Florida I, Georgia 1, Kentucky 2, liouisiana 1, Maryland 1, Missouri 2, North Carolinn 1, Tcuucssec 2, Viigiuia 1. Texas would gain 2. Under such an apportionment tho majority of Northern members would be but (10 instead of 81, as at present, and yet the membership of the llouso would bo reduced by oulj 46," This is the season of tho yenr when venerable hens enter their second childhood ant; aro broiled for spring chickens. - ?, January Plakbth.?Jopktri?cv> ning | star, Miid take* first place among tire planets during the month ou uccount of the disturbing elements in action on his cloud surface, that seem to show a direct relation between him and the sun. The great red spots tli.it are yet to be seen on Jupiter are supposed to have originated the auroral displays in Knglaud, Ireland and the Orkneys, as well as the earth quakes in Austria, and the Volcanic eruptions at Mauna Lea, Vesuvius and the Bathe trause is attributed tho severe snow storms in the South, and the frigid waves that have rolled from west to cost and from north to south, carrying the mercury below r.ero. The sun just now is in n more quiescent condition, his bright J a to being uiarred J?y fuw black blcnuftjies, though At one time during December sun spots were observed, said to be large enough to be seen by the naked eye. Two or three planets like the earth might be dropped into these huge caverns without having any uiotc trace than a ball dropped iuto the ocean. Jupiter, heedless of terrestrial interest, pursues Ins Khi?i?>r ?? t , , "" p VVUIOV,, III (J o'clock and sotting at midnight; bcfurc the close of the month ho will see at halfpast 10 o'clock. Venus is also evening star, and is bcwitchingly beautiful as she hangs lor three hours alter sunset in the western sky. Site will coutiuuo through the uiouih on Iter eastern path, receding from the sun, 1 approachiug the earth and increasirg in brightness. For three months to come the 1 western evening sky will present a grand scenic performance, in which Venus, .Ju- 1 piter ami Saturn will be the principal actors. 1 Venus will approach Jupiter and Saturn ; 1 Jupiter and Saturn will approach each i other ; and the increas??.?- p?oAiuiity will be ! plainly perceptible. TU** ?H j? g'Oa season iu pUociary annals, and this is the time to witch their brilliant movements. Before the pageant closes, Venus will incut and pass Jupiter, and afterwards pay her court to Saturn in the same wav. Then -limit or ?ml . * v ----- ? Saturn will he close together, and pass each oilier just as they come into conjunction with the sun, and the grand pau< rttuia of I single, double and triple conjunctions will I not close until next May, when Venus couics I into inferior conjunction with the hud, and ; her reign ntitvvening 3tar closes. Venus f seta now ab?^(L'S o'clock, at the end of the ' month not far from !) o'clock. Saturn is I still evening star, and, though receding I from the earth and approaching the sun, is ' a beautiful object for telescopic observation I from the wider opening of hLv.ui??-ui file ftcrdrs earlier. Mars is morning ' star. ruinj> an hour aud a half before the ' sun, aud can be recognized by bis ruddy < light. Mercury is morning star until the 1 20th, when he comes in superior conjunction with the sun, passes to his eastern side and becomes evening star. The January moon fulls on the 15th. She will form a succession of beautiful tableaux in connection with the grand trio of planets that will reign in tlto western evening sky. On the 3d she will appear as a shining crescent, with Venus for her attendant ; on the 0th. with increasing brightness,she will pay her court to Jupiter ; on the 7th, just after she has reached her li*st quarter, she will be seen in conjunction with Saturn. She will pass near :Ncprunc ou tno Utli, and near Uranus on the 19th, while iu her waning phase, she will form a brilliant picture v/ith Mars lor a companion on the morning of the 27th. The Retrograde Movement of tiie Silver Dollars.?There has been a very marked falling off in the orders for standard silver dollars rccijvcd by the Treasurer There was a big boom in the coin a short time ago owing to the crop movement.? This boom has subsided as the crops have been moved. The South and Southwest especially, were large in their orders for silver. Texas leads all the other States.? Several banks iu that State just howled for silver and got it. .Much of this corn was used in payment of labor. Much of it is rapidly iiudiug its way back into the towns and cities in purchases of goods and supplies. The merchants arc taking it to the banks and depositing it. Thus it flows right back to the disttibuting centre. The banks cannot conveniently keep large quantities of silver in their vaults The result will very likely be the exchange of the silvor for certificates, and the return of the former to the Clovernment vaults. A Freak of the Frost.?A striking illustration of the force exerted by water in the act of freezing may be seen in St. Law, rcncc Cemetery. The Werner monument, I ' which stands near the eutrauce, rests upon a heavy iron slab, which in turn is supi ported by several large spherical iron globes, > about eight inches in diameter and about a , half inch thick. These hollow irou balls i have small opeuiugs at the top, and during the rain which preceded the very cold spell i one of them became filled with water. The water then froze in the bull, and in so doing burst it in two and threw the fragments several yards off into one of the paths. A solid ball of ice which fell out ol the globe when it burst, was found near one of the fragments?Sum/ay AVws. - Spavin?I have a horse tli it isspavined. I just discovered it u weak ugo today.? He is fivo years old, nnd what I /ant to know is : Can it be cured without blistering it? Aud is it advisiblo to blister this winter ? P. ltOBKIlTB. , Kkply.?The spavin cannot be cured without blistering, which cau bo done al , nuy time. The Ireatinout of spavin is very unsatisfactory ; that which is most success, ful being firing (which ought to be done r only by a Competent veterinarian,) and blistering, with three months' standing rost, during which two or three noro blisters may be applied, (live the horse a purgaI live and keep on Soft feed.?1). 1/K.may, V. 8. in American Farmer. A CoitrsB Kkf.i'8 Warm Eigut Days. ?One week ago yesterday Mies Minnie Hyrd, tho fourteen yearold daughter of T. A. Hyrd u well-known printer of this city, was pronounced dead by I lie attending physician, Dr. Simpson, and p'aeod in a casket ready for burial. The luueral was arranged to take place the Sunday afternoon billowing, and at the appointed hour the hears" and carriages were at the door ready to take those in attendance upon the funeral to Oakland Cemetery. A few moments boforetho funeral services were to ooimncncc, Mr. Frank Ridge noticed that a small flower had fallen from one of the hands of the corpso into the spaco between tho body nod tho side of tho coffin, the lid of wbktlt Uak never been placed on. "Mr. lltdgo lifted tho flower, and, as he attempted to place it in the nosition from u-l.i.-l. ;? ? tiocd that the hands of the deceased were still warm, and also that the lips and cars were still highly colored and also warm.? lie called the attention of a lady to the fact, aud asked her to put her hand under the corpse and see if the back waswarui. The lady did as requested and found that there was still considerable warmth in that portion of the body lying next to the bottom of the coffin. These observations were soon made known to those in attendance, aud the hear so and carriages were dismissed. The room was cleared and several gentlemen held a conference for the purpose nf ascertaining what was best to done.? They made an examination of the ootiditioti of the body, and after some discussion decided that life was extinct. The mother of the child about this time \ itcrposed and insisted that the ron.-? - ,J-"" <o long as tlioro wmn any reason Tor believing that her child was still alive. Nolhiug more was done until the following day, when Mr. Green Holland, the keeper of Oakland Cemetery, called at the house for the purpose of ascertaining why it was that the funeral did not take place, lie thought that something was wrong, as he had prepared a grave at the request of a IViend of the family who notified him of the death When Mr. Holland reached the house he learned all of the facts in the case, md stated to Mr. Hyrd that if he would send the body as it was to the cemetery bo would take care ol it until further developments were reached. This was done, and the body sent to Oakland, where the casket was deposited in the dead house. Since that dov ioi tne body. No signs ot decay are uoticed, and certain portions of the body are yet warm and lile-like. Daring the past tour days quite number of persons hare visited tho ceut? etery for the purpose of ascertaining if what they had heard was true. A nuuiocr of the physicians of the city have investigated the matter aud cuu couio to no satisfactory conclusion. The case is otic of tlie most remarkable on record, and what will be done with the body remains to be seen : at present we can't say.?Atlanta (Co.,) I'/toiinijrajrft. Til K DOC i 0-..S SAY SDK IS DKAD. Yesterday Drs. Color, Collier and l'owler visited the cemetery for the purpose of making a thorough ex imiiiation of Miss Minnie llyrd, the young lady whose remains have been lying in the dead house for the past week. A battery was applied and every known test resorted to, but no evidence of life could be discovered, and after a complete and satisfactory examination the physicians declared Miss liyrd dead. This is indeed a remarkable case and every physician who has seen I lie body is lost I'or a solution. As lias been stated, al'tci1 her death the bo 1y still retained its Wafuith. The color still adhered to the lips, and ev? ery appearance of life was visible, yet she was pronounced dead. During the entire week the warmth of the body was readily ascert lined, and even now the temperature! ii? only a little below that of a living being ...... [n making the examination yesterday, Dr. Cofer, who was attempting to d< toot a pulsa* lion, discovered a slight corpse like odor ? It is assorted that the remains will be buried today.? Cuii .*(!i a (ion, 8 th. .?. Domkstic Yeast.?Take a handful of hops and boil them half an hour iu two ipiarts of water; at the same time pare half a dozen good white potatoes, boil them for linn tin nour, nna mnsii uicm very tine.? Then strain the water from the hops on the I potatoes, and stir in tw i tablcspoonl'uls a\4 salt ami a pint of Hour. Leave it until it is hike-warm, and then add one pint of brewer's yeast, or iti equivalent in yeast made from yeast cakes, aM let rise for six hours. Strain it through a collander or coarse sieve, and it is tit for use. It will keep a week in summer and three weeks in winter. When the fresh yeast made as above is lightest, stir this into Indian meal until the latter makes n fine dough. Make this into small round cakes, less than onequarter inch thick, and dry them oh a wolf seasoned board in the oven when it is cooi i eunuch not to bake llwmi or in ihn tnn which is hotter still If in tho latter, turn them every two hours until they aro tlior| oughly dried. Ct.oVKlt ithme, From an cxcc&j of Wafer in the plant, has a l<udency to inuk.: butter too soft, and consequently to injure its keeping qualities; hut mixed with timothy, in tho proportions above given, it adds to tho butter sufficient moisture, which is kicking whero timothy alnno is given. Tho result, ;of course, Will bo somewhat moditicd by tho nature of the soil upon which tire grass is grown. A clay loam soil, well drained, will produoo tho most satisfact <ry rosulls?a sandy soil the I'cbSt. Hut whatever may ber tho natUTO of (ho soil, it i9 desirable that cows be pastured upon high, woll drained land, rather lhan upon low, swampy soil.?* American Farmer.