Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ep, . f/ . 2~. ' Til WEEKLY Ml UKIOI TIMES. gquofqd to ^gqiqnlturq, ?ortiqulturq, gomqstiq (Sqonomg, polite Jfitqratarc, |)otitiqs, ami thq Current gjciur. of the gag. von. XII?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 4, 1881. NUMBER 8. ' DEFERRED NKUM TT*W? I Another Cotton Milt. Oonk.? Ilenningto Vs., February 18.?The aou?n mills at Iris Comer, n?.%r North Bennington, formerly know s as '-Essex Mills;" were b;.rnod this morning.Loss $35,000 ; insured for $25,000. The proj erly was owned by II. C, Thayer & Co., of Boj & Dbatii of Skxator Carprnter.?Washing'.or K February 24.?Senator Matt II. Carpenter, c p Wisconsin, died at his residence in this cit litis morning. Senator Carpenter was a nativ of Vermont, having been born at Morctown i I that State in 1824. He moved to Wisconsin i 1848. Ho was serving his second term in tli ^Ki Senate, having been first elected iu 18G9 an nerving until 1875- His present term began i B 1879 and would have expired in 1885. A Jaipur's Drains Knocked Out.?Andersoi BBv- February 24.?A brutal murder was committe > Vn the Jail at Hartwcll, Oa., last night. Who T. V. Shelton, the jailor, went to tlie jail in th ipcrformance of his duties his brains were knocV -- " Tti out ny a prisoner, who made his ^escape, nn?. it isjkought, crossed into South Carolina. Th murderer is n very tall black negro with distint smallpox marks and with a doublo thumb o his right hand, by which marks he may be easil identified.? News ami Courier. The Cotton Cnnr.?Tho first count of the r< a turns relating to the cotton crop of 1879 mad >-?by the census ofiiccat Washington, gives tho fo v"; 'r, .lowing result by States, as to the number c cultivated and the number of bnlcs raised Acreage. Unlet 2,278,390 f>83,H."> -Arkansas.., I,<.<>7 ".'.'0,71 tfs Kentucky...... ' 1,67 Louisiana 868,886 500,24 Mississippi 3,019,068 918,82( North Carolina 880,192 388,68 . South Carolina 1,847,804 616,40: Tonnessee 809,786 826,08) Texas 2,138,664 788,69 Total 14,063,167 6,666,76 Virginia, Missouri and Indian Territory or not included in the statement, and 60,000 oi ,tu\ aa'\ h.l ' wv,v?w u.iios win prooaoty req uirc to be addw on (his account. Mom.?The moss which grows upon llie oy press, live oak, and gum trees in swamp land? is a product of considerable commercial value. It is a profuse parasitic growth, which is growi by the autumn winds, and requires less labor and oare in the harvesting than the hay crop. It it gathered mainly by poor whites and negroes and brings, in a cured state, from two to foui ceuts per pound. It is used, after being ground or cleansed by machinery devisde for .the pur. v > poet, stuffing furniture, mattresses, cushions, ftflfliMffltd ui lli1 sects make it a peculiarly valuable material foi the purposes to which it is applied. The rc ceipts of moss this year at tho port of Ne w Orleans up to August Illst, amounted to 10,500,(XK pounds, valued nt $315,000.?Ez. ? . . ?? ? Pl'ties or a Jt'iiy Commissionku.?In hit charge to tho Qrand Jury of Charleston County last week Judge Mnckey took occasion to com men! pretty severely upon the number of incom .petcntnnd exempt persons placed in the jury box ' The Judire said : "1'ln> f.n-i ???? ' ? " 1 ----- ? .?.u.,.?<.UUllUil my nltention that (he jury law of (he Sta(e if being flagrantly violated andean be only checked kby'the indictment, trial anil conviction of a large number of jury commissioners in this State.? 'This violation, which is conspicuous in the Coun.ty of Charleston, consists in placing in the jury box the names of persons it ho are exempt by law or disqualified by physical or mental disabilities discharging the duties of jurors. There are from very nearly fifty classes of persons who nre exempt, by virtue of their employments, from jurv servico, while every citizen who has passed the age of Co 3 ears is also exempt. The law requires that the person to serve as a juror shall bo of siund ju Igmant and good moral character. This rule of law is rppltcable to nil classes It is, therefore, the duty of the jury commis nioner to make diligent inquiry nnd ascertain ^whether the persons lie selects for the jury box are not per onsexempt bylaw, and that they art persons of souud judgment aud good moral character. The result of this violation of law is that valuable lime is lost nnd the county is burdened with additional expenses. The law has never left to chance whose names shall go into the jury box. The law prohibits selection in the drawing from the box. That is by chance, but the names that go in aro to bo the names of persons having the qualifications under the law.? Otherwise p*;j?n8 emP* employment, ot go or infirmity are entitled to their pfty iftney come* while the publio receive no service whatever from tl.em TI.U !? ' - ? .?? > IU ?? ?1 VHV VIII, l|(| III 1 1 because the jury commissioner has not done hid duty, lie is a worthy person, no doubt, who evidently does not undorstand the duties of hit office. He is liable to an Indictment for non fcasattoo in oftiue ( and if this violation of tin law should again occur while I am In this conn ty, I shall urge the grand jury to present thi jury commissioner for nou-feosonco in office," Canada has a funny little Irish trouble on her hands. 'J'ho settlors of Stag Creole nil Euioralders, have for throe yours rcfusee to pay county taxes, averring that thoy gol no benefit from county machinery. So the county sent a shoriff'down with writs tc serve upon the delinquents. No soonei was ho fairly at work thnu the humorists o ?. tho settlement seised him and gavo him hit choice of hanging or eating the documents lie ato llioiu. Then they let hiin go, giv ing hnu a ecrtaiu tiu*u to lake himself oi The sheriff was not stayed hy any danger of digestion, but tore out m fast?? his owi and his nag's heels would carry him, Tbi ease has been sent to the Dominion Gov eminent, but it refuses to entervene, am tho town is now raising a company of foluq toer* to punish the unrnly jokers. jfitf joa vis' COMING BOOK. n "Rise ami Pall >>/ the Southern Confcdeh racy." Sonic of (he Point* Jeff. Davis 11 Will Make and Maintain?'The Whole ~ Subject Discussed. j. Jefferson Davis's history of "The ltiso ami Fall of the (Jon fedora to Government" is soon to be issued by n New York house. ^ The following summary of its contonts is I given out : Davis's introduction is a short ' one, covering not quite two pages. He e dedicates tbo work to the widows and orn phnus of the Confederate dead. He conII ceivcs it to bo his duty to his countrymen 10 to prepare this history of the rise and fail? ui'O of their causo. lie Buds in the struct11 uro of the thirteen States and their relations to each other primary principles and vested , rights on which ho rests his vindication of j the Confederacy. He evinces the doctrino n of Slates' sovereignty a compact .by. which States voluntarily gave their consent to federation, with no desigu expressed or J implied ever to become fractional parts' of a ' nation, and he believes that thoso who re' sistcd the violation of this original compact were in fact tho true friends of constitution11 al union. y The author, in discussing tho principles aud events in their natural and logical order, first gives his attention to African servitude, and tho long and bitter sectional ? strife to which it gave rise. Ho thcu takes " up the questious of States' rights, giving ' constitutional and historical arguments on which he rests the principle of State sovcr^ cignty, and quoting copiously froui all au2 thoritics on the subject. Thcso questions o and a full statcmeui of the immediate causes J vol j to ine narTStftWriWeGroggte,-. 8 the fullest statement yet wrUtenfromTF > 2 Southern standpoiut of fiorce distentions in I Confederate councils and of his defonso for tho prolongation of the war for many months 1 alter many of the ablest meu of tiio South were fully convinced that their struggle was a hopeless one. In the opening work he p treats of tho early legislation on the subject of slavery. He acquits the South of all responsibility for the cxistcnco iu its midst . of the peculiar institution, and calls attent tion to the fact that Virginia was the fiist State to prohibit tho importation into its t territory of the blacks brought to this coun( try and reduced to slavery, and thai Georgia was tho first Stat; to incorporate into its eonstituton the prohibition of tho Afri' oau slavo trade. All through the work he ( treats of slavery, not as tho cause of the war, but only as an incident of the secession i ' movement. Paramount to the question he ' declares was tho equality in territories, and J feqflhi figiW'Hi WmtfnuB' n'nu u'uvt-umac ' States iu the Union. lie traces tho con flict which intensified the iusult and hurst into open war. While upon this subject he ) speaks in condemnatory pterins of the Missouri compromise, which he regaads as the surrender of rights which belonged to the 5 South and which itshoild have maintained, ' but after it was adopted he believed it should have been adhered to, an J he arraigns the " North and federal governments for tho fail urc of the compromise .vhich was practical1 ly repealed by the bills of organization of ] > the territories of Kansas and Nebraska in I 1859. Mr. Davis takes occasion to declare ' i in many places throughout his work, his 1 devotion to the constitutional Union, lie i instances speeches which he made in 1851, ( during his candidacy for Governor of Mis- ( sissippi, in opposition to Ilcury S. Foote. i These speeches contained repeated dcclara- 1 , tions of his adherence and devotion to the J Union, and he utHrms that his public deeds i r were at all times actuated by this spirit be- ( , fore the general government began its vio lent encroachments on the rights of the I States. It was during the Pierce adminis- 1 tration that the struggle in Kansas between the free sod and the pro-slavery parties cul < initiated in bitterness. This strugglo, Mr. , Davis finds, was the beginning of tho immediate cause of the war. lie devotes con- 1 siderotic space to a description of what he ( calls tuo usurpations of the federal author* < ities. Congress, it will bo remembered, rc- j " fused to rccogujzo the delegate chosen from , Kansas, on tho ground that his election by the pro slavery party had been procured 1 1 by fraud. Ho regards the repeal of the ' 1 Missouri compromise as re-opening thequcs- | lion of slavery iu the territories, and as ( precipitating a conflict between tho opposing parties, which was encouraged by the abohtinuist of the North, heard which fiually ' compelled tho South, in sclfdcfcnse, to taken . decided stand. Ho holds the violent nb<?l- i , itionlsts largely responsible for final broach | , of tho peaec ; bringing his history down to ( , tho election of Lincoln, he finds the federal , government in tho hands of a party under 1 which tho Southern States could uot live. Lincoln was elected upon a platform of resistance to slavery extension, a parly antagonistic to tho South, and believing in the centralization of power iu tho federal government, controllod by tho executive depar} tincnt. Having devoted half of the first voluuio to au exposition of tho causes which ; led the South to desiro a separation from I ik. JLJ i tno ieuerai government, Mr. lJavis proceeds I iu scvoral chaptors to dofond tho right of i secession. Iu justification of this right ho , quotes largely from Webster, Calhoun, r Douglass, Greeley, Howard, lien Jon and Clsy. In maintaining thut the compact be' twocn the States was of tho nnturo of a > coufederation, he draws largely for the bai. sis of his argument upon the debates in the constitutional convention of 1789. und forr tifies himself with citrnotj from Storey ou constitution, Klliott's debates and Bancroft's 1 history. Ho refers to tho meuiorablo doa bate on the purchase of Louisiana, when B Josiah Quinoy, of Massachusetts, in the v House of Representatives, said that tho act . virtually dissolvod tho union, so tint tho States wore freed frhui their obligations and i* should prepare for peaeeobleor forcible scppratitn. lie gives the history of the adop tion of the teeth nmomduicnt to the consti- | tut ion, by which it wiw provided that "powers uot granted to tho United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the peoplo." lie vindicates the 1 right of scccssiou ns perfectly compatible with the constitution, and claims, besides, that the general government has no rightful power to prevent it. The i]uestion, ho maintains, rests with the people, from whom all power is derived. t Arriving in the latter part of the first c volume at the period when hostilities corn- ( tncnccd, the narrative makes rapid progress. The author refers to the Northern protests against coercion, in which connection the natue of Greeley figures prominently. He ( maintains that the South did everything in ( its power to go out of tho Un'.on peaceably j and quietly. The conservative temper of s the Southern people, he says, was shown in tho early acts of its Congress, nnd in the 1 adoption of its constitution it was tho dc- i sire and endeavor of the confederacy to c bind and unite the two countries together ^ in friendly ties. Ho takes a friendlier view of Lincoln nt the beginning of his admin- 11 istratioii than of his couforccs in the fcJe- 1 ral government. He speaks ot Lincoln's s inaugural address, and says that Lincolu ti did not so far violate the traditions of his ^ couutry ns to defend coercion. While nr- . guiug against tho right of the South to seceue, and stating that ho would use iorcc nnitlltrlt Li - - * ?</ jiivwvk kj uuuu ov?ibu> property, ri ho did not intimate that nil invasion of thu ] South would bo undertaken. These ex- k tracts I'roui Mr. Iiincoln's inaugural led the * United States, and quotes SenatoflO^^felrf. resolution, ordering withdrawal oF garri- ' sous occupying Southcru forts. Hq. accuses g Seward and others of bad faith in represent r< ing tint no hostile intention was involved tj in the succor which was sent to garrisoned . forts, whereas the real design was to enablo 11 the troops to hold out against the domauds c' of thu South for the restoration of its prop- tl crty. lie characterizes the act of Lincoln's ^ administration in scuding ammunition to u, Fort Suuiter as an act uf fraud and prevarication. Defending them, and still justifying tho right of the South to withdraw from in the Uuion and from a government of its tf own, he lays the responsibility lor all the bloodshed, upon the North. lie speaks at length of the journey of the peacoootbmis- ea g'lfunnmhn nuui ?y I. ai itnl, to Washington, to negotiate for a peace- Sl ful adjustment of questions at issue. lie sc>croly criticises the conduct of Secretary Seward and his calleaguc during these dc- 1 liberations, and asserts that tho overtures S(of the South were met iu not a fr.tuk and c; candid spirit. ti A Runaway Tuain.?Tho most hair- ai raising episode that ever happened to a New CM Mexican mountain railway train fell to the t,v lot of (,'ouductor Blessinghaui Thursday af- 1C ternoon, at 3 o'clock, on tho west slope of n: lilorictta summit. The train comprised or nearly thirty loads, and as it entered upon 1,1 [he descent Jake Brown, the engineer, ai brew on the water-brake, but found that it ',! 1. ivas broken and would not work. Tho train 'aiuud momentum to such a frightful ex- 1,1 :cnt tbat the switch cables and books lying 01 mi the pilot base in front were hurled froui 111 their places into the nir, breaking one of w lie locomotive's guard rails. Brown called l<1 for brakes, but the train men had already let every oue and realized that tho train *' was beyond their control. Seeing that nothing could bo done to stop tho mad m course the train was running, Brown jumpcd from the cab while going at the frightful rate of sixty utiles an hour and lauded seventy-two tcct distaut, actual measure- h' ineot. Blessingham, who was on the ca- 1,1 lioosc, with Pawnee Charley and wife as a* passengers, fearing that tho train was going l' to destruction, cut his way cir loose and ^ checked it with the brakes, while the train continued its velocity dowu the long grade. 61 fhe fireman stood at his post like a hero, ^ mil wlnlc the engine was plunging down die flight at a giddy speed, ho crawled out an the toot-board and poked sand through r< the gaud box, thinking that it might u??ist the wheel* in getting a grip upou tho j, rail*. h As the train sped around Material curvo, vv which is "short and steep," tho veloccity 1} was so great lhat tho locomotive ran on oue c rail and overbalanced so groatly that it come ^ within an uco of losing its equilibrium.? t< The brakemen ou deok were obliged to lie s flat and cling to the running boards for ^ safety. For six miles those badly frighten* ^ od men stuck to the ship and faced tho horrors of death. Below Cononcito is a not- ii urul basin, with throo miles of level track, a and it wm on this strotch tho runnaway iraiii wns mastered and stopped. Homo of the cars woro laden with iron for tho front, 1 but they wero unloaded boforo tho train stopped by tho material bciug hurled in ail directions. Just how the train hold to ] the rails as well as it did is a mystery r which the philosophers must solvo?we t can't. I -7??.?- * ? I One day is worth throe to him who docs % everything in order* the boad law. The following Act of the Legislature is if general interest : \n Act to Amend an Act Approved March 10th 1874. entitled An Act to amend Chapter XLV of Title XI. Part 1, of the General Statutes, Relating to the Repairs of Highways and Bridges. Section 1. Be it enactcd by the Sennto md House of Representatives of the State ?f South Carolina, now met and sitting iu .leneral Assembly, and by the authority of ho same, That tho Act approved March L9th. 1874, entitled "An Act to amend Chapter XLV of Title XI, Part I, of the General Statutes," bo, and the same is tereby, amende! Nfco _<>u' Section 2 of said Act, and insert in lieu hereof the following : That each tiwuship ii ino several counties ol this State shall onslituto 3 highway district and it shall >o the duty of the Hoard of County Couiuissioneri of each county annually, during he early portiou of each year, to appoiut ouio suitable and proper person superintendent of highways for each highway disrict; he shall be u resident in tho highway istrict for which he is appointed, mid of hose liable to road duty therein, and by BUAou of his offico exempt friui said duty. Saeli superintendent of highways shall pld h is offico and ho required to discharge io duties of the sauie for twolvo fkonths *om the dato of his oppointment. lie lay be removed by tho county commission frnfl^onother appoiiHiucnt^d^lijg||d|ia eneral and ' >ads in hhyl Hqpt the direction of io oountjp^^^H^K^rii, Ho shall onee i every tuH^^Nflfroport to tho oounty )u-u>i?si<M^|^HjHWt4ho condition of io roawyj^H^^Kialb district 3 of said ct and'^Hj^^^Kt^cjlicf' the followiug The SuSt^^^^KK^fiHr?ghway districts lall dividejj PPtys io his district ito su^ljnosH^^U^^jetnefs of not less two i^^gp^ppPqve miles and litable squads or companies, and assign a juad or compauy to each overseer of seeon or district. lie shall require the overicrs of roads iu his highway district to ?!! out the hands assigned to their respecve sections or districts and work the roads id repair and build bridges of same, when,'cr lie may deem it necessary, after reive hours' notice, and shall require every tad hand to bring with him for use a hoe, ce, uiattock, spade or other too! for work 1 the road or bridges. lie shall deterinc the number of days for each working id the tools to be brought by such road ind : Provided, That not more than twelve j iys* work are required of any one hand , i n year. When the county commissioners i any of them give orders to the Super- ] ten-lent of highway districts to have ony ork done in his district, and he neglects i i do the same, he shall be deemed guilty i a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction ] icreof in a Trial Justice's court, he shall s fined in a sum of not less than leu nor ore than fifty dollars, and tho overseers of | istricts for neglecting to call out their i inds aud work the roads when required ] / the Superintendent of highway districts ( all be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, ; id, upon conviction thereof in the court i >ovc named, be fined in a sum of not less ; tan five uor uioro than twenty dollars.? i I'hcnevcr a highway runs along the line , f two highway districts the Supciiutcnd- j its of tko same shall jointly divide the i ighway i*lo suitublc sections and appoint a overseer for each of said sectious and icy shall assign tocacli overseer from their ispectivc districts or from either district ich laborers and rnr.fl hmula n? mno Kn oce&?snry to work the samo. -Each Supcritcndont of highway district shall cause is overseers when working sections in hich there are bridges to have such return or work done on such bridges to pre;rv? them and keep ?.hoin in order os can onvcnicutly bo done by tho road hands, ind in suoh oasu where tho oaoded repairs j bridges aro of suoh a character that they hall in tho opinion of tho Superintendent o given out un tor contract by the county ouimissioncrs he should report the saute o said oouiDiissioQors without delay. Sko. 3. That all Acts or parts of Acts iicousistc.it with this Aot. be, and tho sumo .re hereby, repealed. Annrovcd Ocacmbar 21. 1S75). ?r r ?' ?" Tub Coxokalki) Wravox Imw.?Willis Mc)anicl ?u .coijvicted at Alison of assault and mttery, but as the offenoe was committed on ths iret of January, 1881, it made him liable under he provisions of tho eonosaled weapons Aot "he Judge, therefore, sentenoed him to three oontbs In the oonnty Jail for assault and bat* crj and three months in the Penitentiary or PJCO fine for oarrying a concealed weapon about lis person. This, the Ailtcn Journal believes, is he first conviction under the provisions of this Aot, The defendant is a white man. - .J 1 'iNEW YOHK Cokkkk HOUSE SCHEME.? I see that you are discussing the coffeehouse scheme in Charleston. Our experience iu New York has been entirely successful, nnd must encourage other cities to take up the good Work The work has been done here by a regularly organised company, the Now York Coffee-House company (limited.) with a capital cf ?110,000, only half of which litis yet been called in for use. The equipment of the two houses now iu operation cost about S7,000 and the rest is used in running the business. M. K. Jcaup, the banker, to whom most ot the credit of the scheme belongs, long ago became convinced that if the workingtnan was to be enticed from liquor it would not be by sermons unaided by tiny substitute for liquor. In New York all our laborers go to their work with their dinner pails end when noon comes, instead of sitting on the tTuiftttrtii?' tin* - ?> , - ?j ?uo vnwn eniWJOS where a warm tire and hot drinks enable thcui to tnko their dinners in comfort. Ten cents cusurcs for them the hospitalities of the saloon, which almost every ouc will admit is for them a necessity at noontime. Then in the evening crying children and scolding wives drivo tired men to the com-, fortablo saloons, as much for quiet as for liquor. The Coffco-IIouso Company docs iway with the laborer's necessity for going to saloons. Every one is welcome with his dinner pail in the coffoo-house restaurant Food is warmed nud a plcasrut scat at a polished tabic aud a cup of hot coffeo is furnished for four cents. Above tho restaurant is n suite of rooms entiroly devoted to the public's use, but chiefly intended for patrons of the restaurant. Ono room is for chess, checkers and dominoes; another is for reading and is provided with all the city enterprise. Tike prices charged for food arc lower than tho cheapest Qf restaurants, but as no more than four or fivo per ceutuui is wanted on tho capital, the food is excel-, lout in quality nud well cooked. There are two of those houses already established since last June, and others will be organized just as soon ns good sites can be found Mr. Jcsup says that, when he finds an in terseotlon of streets, the four corners of which arc occupied by liquor saloons, he wants one of those corners for a coffee-house. Notwithstanding the large part of tho coffee-house which pays no return, the two houses have paid expenses, and next year will yield the return of five per cent, expected of thcui. Both the houses arc overcrowded aud need more room than they have, ofnot"c(>ilL'o among I 1111 toiiuuiifniriiuii.ws iu the early morning at prices lower than the poor can make it for themselves. This will poor women along. The buying for the help houses is done for cash at wholesale, and as soon -<s possible cooked toad will be sold by the pound or ration ta persons who want to take it homo with thoui.-?Cor. News and Courier. Medical Uses of Koos.--For burns or scalds nothing is more soothing than the white ofuu egg, which maybe pourod over the wound. It is softer as a varnish for a burn than collodion, and being always at ban J can be applied immediately. It is also more cooling than the "sweet oil and cotton," which was formally supposed to be the surest application to allay tho smarting j pain. It is the contact with air which mvns tho extreme discomfort experienced from ordinary accidents of this kind ; and anything which excludes air and prevents inflammation is the thing to bo at onco applied. Tho egg is also considered one of the best remedies for dysentery licntcn up slightly, with or without sugar, and swallowed at a gulp, it tends by its emollient rjualities to lessen the inflammation of the Momach and intestines, and by forming a transient coating on those organs to enable nature to resume her healthful sway over the diseased body. Two, or at most threo, eggs per day, would be all that is required in ordinary eases ; and since the egg is not merely medicine, but food as well, the lighter the diet otherwise, and the quieter the patient is kept, the more certain aud rapid is tho recovery. Animal Food nm Fowls in Winter. ?II we would have eggs iu winter, animal food lor hying hens is a matter of prime importance. A variety of grains, with grceu food, in the 6hnpc of cabbuges or roots, will, if the other conditions arc favorable, give soute eggs. But a regular and large number of eggs cau only be had with coustant supply of animal food. Ouo reason why eggs are so abundant in live early spring and summer is the full supply of insect food that fowls find in tho open air and the grass, after long abstinence in (heir winter quarters. It is a somewhat difficult matter for the average farmer to supply animal food to his fowls, especially if he lives remoto from the shore. The wattes of the Inula, scrap* ot moat, and slummed nnlk too often go to the pig?, the dog, and the out. Tho moat economical source of sup* ply is these tnblo wastes, and if wo could in quito too uiany eases kill off tho dog and add his carcass to tho rations for tbo bene, it would be a double gain, for there would bo a gain iu tho neighborhood of the Mup-> yly of mutton, woo), and lambs. Items ekom Ok ken vi (.i.e.?-Greenville, S. C., February 22.?Dr. Jesse M. Westmorclnnd, of this city, who had his right ankle badly fractured about a mouth ago by jumping from a train on the Columbia and Greenville Kiilrnod near llroad River to escape what might have been a fearful death, has entered suit nir?!?ki tli? PrJmnl.i.i or.,1 Greenville Railroad Company for ten thousand dollars damage suffered therefrom.? The ease will be docketed for the approaching term of the Court of Common l'leas for Greenville County. Inquiries amongst farmers from many neighborhoods in this section of country reveal the facts that first apprehensions as to the damage done to fruit trees Ivthecxtraoj4inary cold spell iu January aro fully confirmed, and thnt the fruit crop this year will be very light?in some sections almost none nt nil. At first it was thought that peaches only had suffered, but it is found upon a more careful examination that not only peaches, but apples and fruits of tender growth have been killed in tho bud, many of tho young bearing limbs being completely dead from tho effects of tho frcczo. The wheat nnd oat crops have suffered comparatively little, which verifies tho | common bolief with farmers that snow is a J protection rather than an injury to tlicso crops. The noticeably increased activity of farmors in this vicinity, iu turning their individual nttcutiou so early in the season to the beneficial effect of the stock 1a'wr wh'icK oxtonds over the greater portion of Greenville County and which will doubtless be asked for by the remainder of ll-c county at tho next session of the General AssemblyUnder the old law, or custom, farmers were, at this season of the year, in the midst of a regular campaign of fcnco making for protection against the in roads of scattering squads of mischievous and almost worthless stock?building miles of fenco to guard against a dozen or two Imad of cnttlo that were scarcely worth their care and feed in winter. With tho stock law iu force, their attention and energy arc directed to the planting ot couAH Him PillII Ifflu "ftil ' uluH1 sional "patch" of rice, while finer breeds of stock are more in demand There is no doubt of the fact that the stock law, and the consequent saving in the expense of building and repairing fences, has infused considerable new life iuto the agricultural prospects of this and other counties whereit is iu operation.?AVtis uml Cowrie*. How to Dbivk Away Hats.?A writer iu treating of this question gives a simple plan by which any ono cau rid his premises of rats, and keep the vcruiiu away, permanently. lie says: "We clear our premises of these detcstiblc vermin by making whitewash yellow with copperas, and covering the stones and rafters in the cellar with it. In every crerioo in which a ra? may tread we put the crystals of copporas, and scatter the same in tho corners of tho floor. Tho result was a perfect stauipcdo of rats and mieo. Since that tiuio Dot a loot fail of either rat or mouse lias been heard about the house. Every spring a coat of yellow wash is given the cellar asa purifier, as an exterminator, and no typhoid, dvscn-' tcry or fever attacks the family. Muuy persons deliberately attract all the rats ir> the neighborhood by leaving fruit and vegetables uncovered in the cellar, and sometimes evou the soap grease is left open for their rcg&lcuicnt. Cover up everything eatable in the cellar and pantry, aud you will soon have them out. These precautions,joined to the service of a good cat, will prove as good a vat exterminator as chemists can provide. We never allow rats to be poisoned in our dwelling; they arc so liable to die between the walls and produce uiuch annoyauce." Onion Ouonving.?The New York Times, in answer to a correspondent, says ot onion growing : "Onious will thrivo in any light soil, but do best upon Dcwly drained reclaimed swauip land, with black vegetable soil. A rich t sandy loaui is the next to bo chosen. The best fertilizer is well rotted horse uianuic ; night soil is good for theui ; Peruvian guano, superphosphate of liinc, and plaster arc also very benefceioh To produce n good crop of good sized bulbs, the soil should bo rich, and this crop docs better every succeeding year that it is grown on the sauio soil. The cause of onions growing to tops (scabious.) in placo of bulbs, is want of manure, and, perhaps, poor seed ; bccaoso seed; because seed grown on poor soil, nnd l V.. .-+.1 J. UUIU i/y puui UDIUU9, TV III pruuucc |)l)ur onions. Tho seed should be pl%nted e.irly in tho spring, Whito onions are in greater demand for pietling and cooling than red one); they aro equally prolific, hot arc not so hardy as the red. Onions are grow* (ft rows a foot apurl and throe inches apart in tho rows. They maybe grown to touth and crowd each other in the ground if thn soil is good enough."