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- ? : ) JM*S< ' ' THE WEEKLY flW UHIOH TIKES. p noted to Agriculture, Jjoitiqulturc, |pomcstiq (Economy, polite literature, fjolitiqs, and the Current Jlttus of the ?atj. ? XIII.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 31, !SS2. NUMBER 13. FAMINE F0LL0W8THE FLOOD. th< Memphis, Tknn , March 17 ?Some idea of the enormity of the disasters by the flood iu the Mississppi Valley may be formed by wa couiparisoti. That is the only way I know |,al to |?iv?? anything like an idea of it to Ivistern readers. Tennessee's losses, which are eon- 11 1 sidercd trifling, are hardly ever spoken cd'at wa all in the ceaseless conversation about the ^r' floods that ones on everywhere. In pre sence of the distress in other Stales Tennessee makes no complaint, yet there have been no less than 2..>!57 persons in Tennessee suppliod with rations, they having '"r bcedn rown d out of their homes, utterly i uined, and reduced to the vorya.l^e ol'starva- "" women and children an ?w?.rv. wli brought to a condition ol'absolute hunger, with no food within their reach, and nothing '!U1 to buy it wiih if there were anything to buy". "ri The real shores olTennossue are uujslly blu#*. places lief trips of ricfi bottom land, ordiua- I,r' rily dry grourvd. Those strips arc from one 1,111 to eight tnilos wide and extend sometimes r"Jl from ton to twenty miles up and down the <>,s river. On these lived agricultural labors j|':l cros who, under the system of farming in ' vogue almost throughout the South, raised hy their cotton on shares with the owners or lessees of the land?that is. the planters mo supplied them with tools, livestock and food, ''''' and charged it tothcin. Their crop Is raised and the laborer's account for goods supplied is deducted from his half of the proceeds ' 11 is argued hy many that t he planters should W|t supply, them in this emergency hut they are V" afraid to do so, as there is the smallest possi 'r" bio chance in most cases of their gott ing any 'lvt return. The negro?and more than ninety five per cent, of the Tennessee sufferers arc :,r" negroes ? will not stay to work out a hope- *''v less debt; but if he Can succeed in getting ''ll' away behind ill his account, as he is always trying to do, lie invariably leaves the plan- ,t! tor in the lurch. P'? The govarnment instru ctions were that s,! rations should he given to sufferers any where m,> they might he found, regardless ofdistriets. I,r" This work of distriftution was finished yes 4,1 terday, and tin; accounts have just been made up as above. The only surplus re Wl' maioitig in the committee's hands is that >, Cl designed for the Male's Point unfortunates. , r" Tliis, unless some means are soon found to 1 convey it to them, will probably he given to ' others equally needy. The rations issued 1 nresfiieent to keep all the sulferers who have * ' " been reiiorted here, with tiio execution of '' those, 2tM* alive I'or ten il iys in c:?nno or mi- '' '-N til say March 2f>. The must sanguine penpie here. however, tin nut expeet the water to clear oil a- soon as that, and a further issue of rations will prohahly he necessary. l'tlSSI III I.ITIKS mil I'l.ANTINO ""I If another ten days ean h<s tide I n**cr and the water subsides in time to plant hy the ' ' ' middle of April there is a chance that all T" will go Well after that Some fix the plant ing time later, saying that if the seed ean he "! sown hy the middle of .M iv there will he a ' oood crop, unless trust, comes too early ,"'1 Others say it aittst he sown hy the middle of '! '1 April. The prosperity of the overllowed "" t^uintry for the next year, however, lianas. V as nearly as I ean judge hy too talk ot Ul' tnerehants and planter*, ;;n three contin '' ' goneies. "V First, it depends upon whether the plan J1" lets can get lahor, or wehlher the negroes ' emigrate ; second, on a late fill to give the ' crops time to mature after late planting ; J' 1 third, tin whether there is a June rise. The Mississippi lliver. as is well known. eoniiuotily runs high in June. If it does so 11,1 this year, with the levees all broken, eiops which may he planted hy that time must certainly lie destroyed. llOltKllltS OK Til K SITUATION. From the flooded distr'ets of Arkansas eonie most dreadful stories of stiff i*iiilt and ' ' impending death from famine. Beasts aiv 1,1 ' reported as ^rowinj* furious with hump r ' 1 * In places hn^s arc saiil Jo have killed and ' Oil t oaten each other ; wolves, loo. :int abroad in j. t. and in one or two instances, it . they hare thrown bold enough to This may be an exaggeration. ' i^ireratinn. however, to say that vin^ now wliitlmnt lood and itn " pe from their desolated homes : anxiously the help which people ' 1 . i.i ''in xtops to send them as soon as P . issible. Boats, tlmmrh they ean j ' e country to many places, cannot ' ere. . , I isn't war it's postilenc ; when " ilenee it's flood; after the flood in I reckon the people Bast d hearimrth.it we in this tlod ( 'A intry iieml aid" said a niereli int eid ir of the Tennessee ('luh last are Coll the ir irden sp .t of the world," str? r zealously." pl'o u_rh ;"siid tlie first ' But it is a hiir of pl.ivrues." t iin lie reseiiililino those of l'e_rypt i-1 1 ^'o if irnats. A Northerner knows ops lie buffalo ?rnat. It is a I ir^e ami ames in swarms, and kills the tain bites Two tliimrs are resort- ! them The aniiu ii> in ay lie an ^ i ?rn.'it oil. which is expensive. j y he raised hy scttiliii file to old ?v| ' tins siimLr I ?r six t?r | Wj1 * i^i| .-.>. !?: ' "1 arnuinl l<? avoid the |j(, pf. _ ,*venr bull alo it n'its are a I > >11 ( in | |, ( grcairi ii ..IbiM's ami curlier than usual, ami j | of the cattle that were m>t drowned many W|I. have brrn bitten to ileatli; fur thee are , , , lio leu's to burn, ami )>Iml"is e 1,111 >1 nil tin I j(t.* poor beasts, because oilcli tliev e Ilili->t reach ! ( tlieiii. 'flic country is sufl'erin_' an aecii un latiim of horrors, ami yet it is certain ?11 I tj the next (rti il lvs or two weeks will brim.; iI |t more awful stories than havu yet been fob! t 11 u ml reds must < I i There see ins to Ic u ( ^ t possible way of savini: tbein I vik.w i'it<>M i tit: III.i its J an 'J'ho si^hl from the Hinds of Moin|i!us: ' wu I nigh by no un-aiis the worst, is sail euougl sight of this happy prosperous city s the little town of llopcticld, all undei ter One roof alone appears. It is ap retitly in the middle of a large brand earn The timber is cleared away aroutu in such a way that the vista looks like i ter course. The flood is up above the mud floor of all the others houses, and tin tie Town of Marion, lying just back o ipefleld, i? in exactly the same condition is possible to go straight west from tin unpins shore in a skifl" for a distance ol tv to fifty miles, and the steam ferry boa it plies across the river in ordinary times w goes five mile? further across country icre there is usually dry laud. 4 >ue reason of the distress in the sunkci nls-or A-C?Kaid to be that tin: gov uncut.Contracts for car jtng main* tl?< fparSl Fr^Bcj^all?y were cut off las Ow Postmaster.General Jauies, aud tin >V" wafTllng of" the ap niching Hon fs. having lib means of cooi iiiication with the outside world and tn sou to suppose that the small local fresh were only precursors of the awl'ul flood it were coming from the Mississippi us it is said tln-y were caught unaware: what resembled a tidal wave throe 01 r feet in hieght. The population there ii re thrifty and woP to do. or rather was sc ore tlie flood, than is usual in Southern toni lands. Many settlers were iuiuiints from Illinois, Southern Indiana and it hern Kentueky, who have come it liin three years past, prepared to stay e especially melancholy story is reported in this region by James Collins, who >s a few miles helow Wittsburg Ho de one journey to Helena two weeks i. for provisions, carried them home and ided them with his neighbors. One ol se was John Patterson, who lived about i miles back from the St Francis River, was a small bndower, but thrifty and sporous, owning considerable stock and oral horses and mules. Collins paddled r to Patterson's place in a dug-out with visions, and arrived just in time to save family foili perishing, but Patterson : a lunatic. Kverything he had lost ; his e and three little children living in the and shiry of his house had no food. Pat<mi thought all that li.nl h .ppened was a ies of visions. lie is there yet with his lily. Collin* says this ease is one of ny in regard to the distress, though Pat <011 is the only one ho has heard of who reason Hfdp went to this rigeon to io a small steamer that went to Witts g Ironi Helena, hut it may euuio too late 111:111 v of the inhappy people. Cyt>1.NK#K A\l? l-'i llt'l'l IT l)K. \ remarkable ea*e of eoolness and fortie oeeiirred 011 White Kiver. fifteen miles 1 of lieie. during the late flood. Mr. T lioodlinaid wife started from the raff d. four miles above t'aliei Itoek, in a ill ho it to go down tIn-river. Mrs 'JoodIrid a ha be in her arms, and the boat eonled besides a h t of beddiug. househ dd nsils. &c. \t the mouth of Piuey the t upset, and Mrs. liin caught the h of a willow tree wit li otie hand, holding balie up with the other The husband h diflieult v swam to her assistance, assisher to a spot, where she could barely eh bottom with her feet and went in p::rl of the boat, wliie 1 lie found sunk in slough below, but. was 1111 ilile to riglit it lie. .1 <>liii hohanlson li:i|>t ?' !?'< 1 to 1 p r on ilm mountain above at. the time, and iritttr tlii'ir cries assisted tin* man in turnover tile boat. wlieu he rescued tlie Willi, xvIi i li.nl 'ven in the c dd xvater xvith rliihl lor three hours ?Ark /?*ri/isfrr. a n>l,"UKI> man's I'll km1pa M knt. When the levee jjavo way in iVotit of the zliuoli |> 1 111'ati<>11 a I'exv days ajjo one of neofo cabins xvas swept oil .several bund yards he lore the occupant, a colored ii. who xvas asleep :ii the house, discovd lhe situation. Then it xvas that he ic.ircd upon the porch of the house witha oarinciil on, having torn his clothing craxx lino out of the dehris, ami not stop 0 for ceremony frantically hailed all cors of t he compass for aid No one nppre? t inlT his situat ion as he had hoped for, and xvi-himr to trust himself further to the reies of the water, which xvas from six to feet deep ami riiniiiii^ rapidly, he tlircxv iself upon a frail tree ami rein lined t here an hour, when he xvas fished out. civcii of tun seed sack and taken to friends from oil In* harrowed a suit of clothing.? Mrm s A rufmirlir. i nm hunts OK tiik DKI.liiK. ^ Sikestoii (Mn.) dispatch to the St. I cmis ikr- says : " M inv . ovim; incuts hy llood ami field, especially hy II nod, reported. On I'Thruary 'J7. txvo houses t.iinvntr a ntttnher of I oes iloaled down am < hie funeral hy skills took place, the cession moving doxvn .Main street to the h lands on .lud_re Aiken's firm, the vie 1 heino a little diu^lller of Mrs \| S lie. At Point I'leas ant. hdoxv. >1 r. ISish went down stairs into his dinins; room I found a lariic hull"ilo fish, which lie cap ml and used lor breakfast. Wo It Si: Til an INK XV A It. t Car din a. ei^ht v live miles ah >ve V ieks 'id I'Mward II ivhardsoii left the hoat is onitleiuau is to Southern agriculture it \ auderhilt i> to the Northern tailroads is the owner of over twent\ plantations h sn^ar ami cotton, and uf several mill.' I other industries lie is moreover tin 11111 i e -1 in an in to - '.-i'll In response ><>ur < >rresi. ?n i oil s impii' y lie s iid that r-'.'iM 1 : v i II >\v is liki-lv I ? privo ri'i* il iinifoils in its i-ll M'ts tip<ui dies*" |???r is i?r 11|.< Smi: 11 i liin i In' w ir, n ?' mi I v in l- sti ui'ti'ill if |u*??j?- rly. I?ul tin- il'Miri /. 111'hi nl I ili t. 111 t In- wii| i|nv?l miIIVr w 11 i i I? iim-t ri'-ult II'* il nl n >t lliiuk I ruiMi' Il ill Vit. l'i'ii'li' 1 lis ?'ii 1 ii i ill i til || Vi'-'S :i I? i VI' \ I It "l?l| HI' ' 11 I nil I I tin- -111 it'-- liTritury ??l* I In? liotiuin i i: > ! ? It'll |>i .I'llU'i'.s .ili..ill l>.iIt s ul' out i toil annually will yet In- 11 mded, lie thinks. I A large portion is aire.. ..y underwater, and the rest will booh be. "The unexpected rise," he said, of four inches a day in this section is due to the backing up of waters by the discharge of the Yazoo flood just above Vicksburg. The latter came through the Yazoo delta after last Monday's and Tuesday's rains like a tidal wave ; sweeping everything before it. At Memphis and below the Mississippi is already falling, and as soon as the swell go-*s down this will continue lower down the river. but its effects will yet add to the danger on the lower liver, where the situation is , destined to become still more serious than at present. The flood is unprecedented. That i of 1874 coil not compare with it. He regards the cotton crop i-fllie bottom ? luixia as lost, with the exception of about t WW httniiq;d.aud fifty thousand bales, which } will be the maximum that cau be plaiiteJ iu the upper counties of 51 ississippi. lie has - himself n total of ?d,UOU acres under cultiva> tion iu his several plantations, and of these 1G.UU0 acres are already under water, the s stock of a portion being destroyed. Three thousand biles will, he thinks, b the in xi? mum of the crop lie can produce, lie his r taken measures to secure his horses and s mules, which lie wil1 send to St. Louis and ) sell. As to the cattle, pigs and such stock, most of them have necessarily perished. Th : distress and suffering entailed, he siid, I was pitiable to contemplate. As yet it had i not began to he lully realized Thousitids of* people will have to he fed, and the planters are destitute of means and without credit, i Coming, as the flood did, at a season when the plantations had all been mortgaged lot* advanees made upon the expected crops, it is destined to have a very serious effect upon I" the financial world. The crop is substantially gone j not only this, hut the planters' stock t" g"oc, "?.a .nitw .UjL_uroduCC is gQiic. 1 he merchants who UftToocnramTj"^[ money will find themselves seriously crippluA One Kuglish house in New Orleans he knew had advanced money on the prospective ! crops of over seventy plautati >t;s and what the end would he he could not foresee. In addition to this a more permanent injury will he inflicted upon the planters of the bottom lands by the entailed disorg inization of labor. The negroes are flocking to the hill country, a far !e>s productive region, whence of late the bottom planters h id been drawing large and much tie-aled accessions, lie did not know what had become of his own negroes, hut should endeavor to retain them. TIIK I.KVKKS AT NKW OKf.KANS. It is more than probable that the highest point of the flood has not been reached at New Orleans. Though the river has not va "led materially here for two or three d iy.9, it is now within a few inches of th top of the levees along the whole front At Yirks burg the gauge has been marked up sleulily lor a week, and this is likely to continue. The vast volume of water that was poured j through the crevasses on the east hank into the Yazoo bottoms is now coming hack into I the Mississippi and is supplemented by freshets in nearly all the streams in that re gmn . \Ye may. therefore, expect a lout or more ris ; at this point, and it needs hut a hasty examination of the levees to convince any eit'zen that such all addition to the flood now rolling past us would greatly imperil the safety of the whole city. The municipal authorities, therefore, cannot he too vigilant nor is there a moment to spare in raising and >i .i i... .-?? * imi- uii; ? 11111 111 k ii j j j i \>urif there is tins slightest t! ?11ix?*r. The Iitn* IVmiii Napoleon avenue to (Jar r??11??n ought particularly t*>In* closely *r?i:irtli*tl nigh (ami day. ami kept in the must tlior nugli impair. IT funds am needed to perform any necessary rvork (lie amount could easily he raised among (ho citizens. We do not for a moment question the zeal and watchfulness of f lic city governincut, hut where such itreat interests arc at stake tin* people naturally feel aiixi his, and would prefer to see su peril nous work :ii the direction of protection rather than (he least hesitation or delay. ? .V O. /'iriit/mic. An KniMNKUU P.\lt.\I.YZKI>?Tile I fill ! villc Kegister cf Monday has the following aeeount of a remarkable accident that occurred on the Uichiiioiid ami Ihinviilc Kailload, near News Kerry, Monday morning. Mr. Pat Dacey. the engineer on a freight train coinim_' South, hccamc paralyzed* llis fireman was outside of the cah at the time and did not observe that the engineer was paralyzed until he noticed that he failed to blow his whistle on approaching the 1 station. lie then w-nt to him and found , him sitting down, paralyzed and unconscious. The fireman in great alarm closed the throttle and jumped oft' the locomotive, receiving some slight injuries ahout the breast. The engine rushed at its own will without gnid unco and presently ran into the rear ol another freight train coming this way. The collision threw several cars (said tohoeight) . from t he track, doing considerable >1 mi igo, the extent of which has lint yet hoecn ascertained I II'* 11 I I -I I > f.K'' I I'll ^ 11 MM I \\.I> J MI l- I'll Jill; other tr.iin : ii 1 l?r<?ui;lit mi to iPtn.ille \v 11 ? r? It is Inuiie is. lit* wis not. injured sis l.ir :is known I?y 'he < ollisi<>n, but lie remains uiM'onseious I rum paralysis and lies at liis liuUselici'e in aeiilieil condition. ? 1 , Wii > \i:i: hi it l.ruisi, x i.u:s \ rapid glmict* I a i In* cniiip-i-.il i.>ii n| tin* i | in sic o|' |; prrifiiin 1 l ivrs n|' i !iis St ilr. :il its Pile scssjiin. .liuiv s l li.it 11 Ciiiisjsie | nf in en i if i In* lilimv inn '"Jen l*'H i"lis ; I' irnirrs, ;;7 ; lawyers, 'Jii ; planters. 7 j 1111v ! -lei'ins, II ; inert ii mis, III ; i,*:ieliers. ;! ; cmi| it irliii's. ; meeli.itnes, "J; iii?iiliiiee shrills, 1!; 1 real esinie ii;;eiiis, I ; I'lelnrs. | , eirneiilcrs, 1 ; i liuleliers, I ; e<liliirs, I : tuuiislers, SENSIBLE TALK ABOUT SLANG. We specially invite the attention of oui young la ly readers to the following wis: words by a writer in The American aboul the too prevalent use of slang : ' It is within the limits of moderation t<: say that ninety girls out of every huudrct would describe every variety of social pleas ure or amusement by declaring that they had a grod time,' or a "lovely time,' or a 'beautiful time.' 'Awfully nice* and 'awfully jolly' rro sulficienfly indefinite ti qualify almost any nouu in the dictionary and are conveniently vague ways of eon veying one's impressions without requiriiu that the impressions shall be too closely de fined or analysed; and they dispense witl the troublesome necessity of fitting th< w U<e thought, which becomes un avouJabio'H otTe Is obliged to tiud one's sel in expressions. Slang phrases constanth present themselves as the easiest and iuos obvious thing to say about people, or places or bimkfl, or sensations, when it would in volve some mental effort to describe them more accurately. Ami thuu such indefinite judgments 'do not ouiprouiisc one's power.of discrimination, ind cannot be cast up a< an iuteliectu'l reproach by pooph of more pcuctiffpl faculties and iuc jiivcnicut ui em ones. "Tho field of slang offers no restrictions and is as open to women as to the privileged sex; and expressions the uiost vulgar and dis g usiing may bo heard coming fro in lips so pretty us almost for the 1111:11 jut to ui ike one toicratotinythiug tlioy may choose to ut? ^fili^^bj^-Jli^^m^^coLinMit^onaHy uncon more positive ill results v.. , 1 ... " cOnrtUPA sing Ireshiicss and nuionle of style. It exterminates all dignity an 1 refinement of thought and speech, and 111 ikes a woman not only commonplace, hut common, ft ui ike 1 a girl's min i seem a place open to all comer: ?a court without a sanctuary. The aoecs sibility and 'hail-fellow-well-met* air g< far to destroy tho distinct, definite charm o! a woman's conversation. ft is not necessirj that people wno speak good lOuglish should he elaborate, or stiff, or pod mtic. The vorj best and most vig ?roUs Knglish is 111 i?1j up of short, simple words and idiomatic, natural expressions, and as far removed Iron formalism or affectation as slang itself. Tin charm of a clever, fascinating woman's converse.:! .r?, !i!:c the charm of some of the 1110s beaulil'uI poetry, often lies more in the 111:11111 -r than in (lie matter. "A facile, gr.icj'ul use of language \r;i one of the most conspicuous accomplishment of those charming, elegant women who inoul ded modern society in their sn/otis and 111 ..<1 conversation a fine art. Itisa very general ly conceded fact that in the society of mosi civilized countries there are more agreeabl women than men,?reckoning purely froii a social point of view ; and one reason o tins is tli it most educated women are <h i /' ttiiufi, and ililfthti,ti are proverbially plea satit people. Tliey are not hard workers but they rove from II iw?t to fl nver, am gather a great deal of sweetness from then all. There is not often much that is verj solid *o .how for all these sunny (lights; bu they get the full flavor and sweetness of th summer and the flowers, and are lighter am more graceful creatures than the stead plodders who eep close to the clover an buckwheat fields, wife a view to the exeellen yield and quality of the honey, and th monument of wax which is to crown thci labors. "Hut a woman who wishes to acquire tha permanent charm of conversation which clever cultivated woman may so abundant I possess, should carefully avoid slang word and phrases. Slang, it is true, may no seem to interfere with her immediate success, hut the effect is not the less deteriorat ing on society in general. Youth and prct tiiiess gain toleration lor a little coarseues ' and want of dignity, hut when the youth I and preltiness go, the coarseness and wan of dignity reuiaiu, uiiinmliliotl .<i|<l unjust i ti.il" A negro house on the plantation of Mr. Jnuie T. I.ciniuuii, in die lillle Itiver neighborhood was ile.?iroved by lire on Tuesday morning ? There were three negro children in the building one of win in was hiirut to death. We have mi hear l the particulars, hut we presume the eliil die a had heeu locked in the house while the p.n rents were at work ill the fields. ? Fairjirhl Mcu on J lit raid. A iH.trm: in Ruiz i.. ? l.ond >n, March J If. Advices from llio de Janeiro of the 'Jl install by way of l.ishnii, state that ram h is hecn fall nig in torrents during the last six weeks, (loin Ureal damage to rail ways in the provinces of IC i de .lenciro, San I'aulo and Munis (ireaco. Th towns of an .lose, M iclie. I'araty and I'irah have been almost de n ; e I, and many person have been drowned It.uucu. I'iimtici:. ? Watseka, III., March 17 ?.1. W. .1 ohn.son, of Sheldon, editor of the f/u id: , a proniin. nl Republican politician and a applicant for the Swe lisli consulship, is charge with h iving forced Commercial paper to the ex I lent ot several thousand dollars and has Irii ill | country. Mi nnr.tt ur x MoosstiiM.n. ? Atlanta, Marc i i( ri.w t,...k n...i.a .... .n.,..i .lwi. ' li r nl tiwinni'li ('.unity, inriwi iiikI wi tnv.l liv n party i.f mi Icrs. Imm le i I>v L>ej ' my Miii'ilrii Itolton, un?l was killcil. FARM NOTES. r lloofand lioru .shavings contain more ! thau twenty-five times as uiuclt nitrogen as t is contained in average stable manure. Sheep fed ou dry feed are frequently ' troubled with sore lips. Au application of ' sulphur and lard once or twice will generally affect a cure. r It is stated that go its among sheep aflord 1 theui protection against dogs. The goat " being pugnacious, attacks the dogs while the 1 sheep escape. ? For turning under a heavy sod there is nothing to equal a pair of good oxen. They ' may bo a little slow at the work, hot it .'ill be well done if tlioy are managed by a good I' driver. c An easy method of salting stock is ti place a lirge lump of rock salt at uiffercut I locations, to which the stock can resort wheuf ever desired. It can also be p! ?ced in the 1 troughs cf the stables to good advantage. If good clover or mixed hay is cut into v hall*incli lengths and steeped in hot water it 1 makes an excellent, cheap and healthy food 1 for fowls in winter ; and, as with cattle, a i i .... .it. ? it?V?V, IIIIOVV.U ll'tai 3|M IIIMUU VJll It iUlu.) tV# ' its virtues. As the influence of mule animals is more strongly impressed on tho offspring than tliot of the Female, it is important that great cure ho exercised in the selection of males for ' improvement. One with doubtful lineuge should be avoided. It is as necessary to use precaution in cutting off limbs from trees as amputating the leg or arm of an individual, and it can only be done safely when the tree has sufficient strength to bear the shock. Triuuniug of - *ri'Pg_ahiiiild ho done gradually. of cutting ott uTr mo unrWscu iraios at onco. The following is another of many cures that have been recommended for chicken s cholera: Charcoal, one pound; sulphur, ' one p mud ; copperas, half p mud ; calomel tea grains; salicylic acid, one druchui. 1 (Jrind to a line powder and give a teaspoon1 f'uI on moist uieul to a dozen fowls once a f day. ' Many dairymen practice milking their r cows steadily without allowing the uuiuials to go dry. They feed heavily on curu meal and oil cake until the milk fails, when the 1 cow is replaced by a fresh one. A dairyuiau ' who keeps ono hundred and fifty cows says " such a practice is more profitable than to 1 pass lime between their going dry and coming in. Piaster should always be kept on hand in H tin* barn. It will promote the growth of s nearly all plants, affords partial protection ' against drouth, and wnl furnish soluble lime '' to plants that need it. Of all the fertilizers known, plaster is the cheapest, and, for its, 1 cost, is the most remunerative. Two bushl! j els only are needed for a good application. 1 i It is a special fertilizer for clover, beans ' j peas and potatoes. I - 1 IIK V.M.UK OK ltVK AM) Cl.OVKIt.? i ( flic Charlotte Observer says: "We loam I. ..it I .. I I 1. _ . .1' ill. .-1 | UliK V UHMIl'I 'MKIIlMtMl, til V ' ll.l I l< >1 If, U'JIII, in c need culling Ins rye ihc last of Dcootnf her, when il was about u foot high, mid I reeding it to his stock ; that lie has cut it u twice this winter and it is now iil'tccu inches 1 high, lie will mow it again in Apr.I, when y in bloom, and il will be srotn live to six J feet high. After it is cut the third time, t the clover sown with it on the i^Uth of .Sep e t. niber he expects to mow three times during r the suinuicr. This will make six cuttings of green feed ii one year. Kor four years it previous he has sown the two, lye and eloa ver, together, and three of the lour ye rs v he has cut six greeu crops each year. One s severe winter the rye was cut only once, it but the clover three time - . This comes of - early sowing, deep plowing and thorough - preparation without foreign fertilizers, but - a plenty of the home?made. A great saving s in Ibrage, fat horses and cows, with rich i yellow butler, are the results." Can auyt one in KaiiTield make a better showing - tlian this? A Til it I c rv N Kiiito. ? William Mattison, s a colored fanner living near lloiiea I'alli, J was at Abbeville court bouse la-it, Monday to buy the Maddox mill property. 11<> ran l' it up to 3r?,f?(IO, and the best of it is be bad e the money and property to make good bis * bid. This man was emancipated without a dollar in bis pocket, and by industry, o,?,d j judgment and economy is now well off in this I- J world's g ituls. II is money lie made at farniI in-', while hundred* of farmers in tlii.scnuii" . p i ty have in that time s?ju indered their farms 1 and gone into debt. Mattison never buys J on a credit, but generally lias money enough to help out bis |e?.s thrifty neighbors. Let i- no man say (bat farming will not pay in " 1 this country. * * B ATTP.lt I'rniu.Mi ?lake one pint ol milk and three tublesp.ioiilul.s of ll oir and bf.it ilifin until Miniiitli. A<I<1 a mi hi I i ' ijuniilit)' id'.- ill an.I tliivu yolks ami wliitos bo.il' ii hojiir.iti ly. Make in biiiicivi i onjis or a j'u'l Iiiij-ili.-b about bail an boar ! | in n ijuiek oven. Sorvo Harm Willi s.iue" I Tub Orchard and 1'ruit Garden.?? Ileciuso of the failure of u crop last season, with the larger porthWaof our readers, orchards in some instances did not receive the attention they otherwise would; and consequently are not in as good condition as is estimated to ensure the development of fine Iruit in the event of a crop the present year. When such is the case, the orchard, or portions of it exhibiting a lack of vigor and thrift, which can be determined by tha growth of wood during last year, a little extra effort should be made to keep such trees in regaining th ir former vigor with as little delay as possible. As soon as the soil will admit of plowing, put it in order to receive whatever manure or fertilizer cau ba .-p irod. [I stable ui mure is available, broad cast after plowing ; if ashes or artificial i manures arc used, the drag-harrow or cultivator should be used after such application, in order to have their effect ou the trees us early in the season as possible. Truo, this expenditure of labor and outlay for manures, is on the presumption that the.*? will bo a crop cliis year; but in event of another failure. and possibly this may be the case, though it is scarcely probable, then there is los^ sustained by unnecessary outlay (7), says the close calculating reader. Hut more liberal reasoning places it on the side of , in that it promotes vigorous and healthy growth of the trees, which ultimately must pay better than stinting. Wo know many poaeli growers, who twolvo years ago, were impelled by cheir faith in tho profits 5f this industry, to plant tho greater and belter portions of their farms in orchards, why have lived to sco tho error of limiting In"greatTy reclucod^tSo"~ number of acres appropriated to peaches, giving more attention and thorough culturo to a smaller area, realizing much better "profit* p opcrtionately. It requires adtninis. trativoabilityof no mean standard to properly manage in every detail a peach orchard of ten thousand trees, nud lie who attcuips it with no better backing than lucre enthusiasm, will sooner or later find that he has an elcpliaut ou his hauds. Much better have but one thousand trees, with sufficient labor at command to meet the emergency when tho throng anil press of properly gathering a crop arrives, than to have ten thousand and bo a couple of days behind in the work entailed thereby. In brief, plant no more fruit of any kind than you are certain, beyond a doubt, you 1. r.._ .....i ?i,., U.III V. ivivatu, UlUU IUI , UIIU M l i>uu best order, with a selection of eight or ten of the host varieties, covering the season from first to last, (drafting can be preformed during this month, especially of tho cherry, which is usually attended with better success when done before the buds have swoll mi much. We need not enter into particulars in describing this operation, as it is a simple one, and has been repeatedly illustrated in the columns of Tiik American Farmer. (2rafting, when carefully done, is an easy and quick way of converting inferior k iuds of fruit into the best and most profitable. Apple, pear, plum and cherryf that a fair trial has proveu to be valuclesp, can by this method be brought into bearing I roil of the most desirable varieties in thrco; or four years. It is better, in grafting trees ofr? bearing size, to graft only a part of it first, giving the tree a year to recover from the shock produced by lopping off the branches ; then proceed with the other half tho> spring following. in the Fruit garden as the soi 1 dries off and the weather falls into spring behavior, it will tie proper to notice the mulching on. ptr.'iwuurrjr aim wiiuii h|irtaiiu urn mn.iv|y <??? the plants a portion of it may be removed; but it will not be safe to go too far in this direction this month, as March is "too on sartin in her ways" to be depended upon. (irapes cm be staked and tied up neatly ; so also raspberries and black her'ties where this plan is pursued, though we prefer kinds strong enough in their hahits of growth tosupport themselves, and this nearly all of them will do properly, if pruii-d as they should bo. A portion of the older wood in gooseberry and currant bushes can he rein wed with benefit to remainder. To grow fine fruit either in the garden or orchard, requires a iikiug ior that employment, supplemented by energy and intelligence. ? Amrrirtth Farmer. m ? A VazoiCily, Miss., special reports tlio tlood one fool higher than in INi>7. The people nro ilisi cgiiriling properly met si-eking only In sore in.....! I1 In Tlio e.iiu-tlioiKii w ernuiloil Aittl steamers are removing tlip sufferer* as fast an they cm. I'JIHI were removed last night, A cotton gin house full of refugees whs swept away, all ilrowne 1. Reports from other <j'.nrlers are alarming. ? A Ynrsii l.,?i?v's Vit'Tottv. ? Of the twenty* nine graduates in medicine at the commencement of the (lulled Slates Medical foliage, New York, on We lues lay evening, I luce of t he graduates were women, to one of whom, .Mt?s Ncllio I Shepar I, was awarded tiicgohi medal for the hast examination on n!l subjects. - ? Tito h ml moss which is bestowed on oilier* ?s never lost.