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_____________ > V - . v -v> .'4 v v. .^^Bt V / ' iTHE WEEKLY HM UNION TIMES.Lm gcrotijd to ^iciitturc, gortyuUurq, gomqstiq <&smm%, ^and the Current glens of the gag. ' "T^C 5S"' ;? ~ ~ ~? '^ ' |L' ' ' ' ; '* ' >*' 11 " ,v't'''1 %?, t'Laggina^ii'Watiii " "* )Wt?i iter Ss*i*a^. 7. UNION C. II., SOUT#C?ROL1NA, AUGUST 25, 1SS2. NUMBER sT"**' AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT 0? THE STATE UNIVER8ITY. Columbia, S. C. August 11. At the meeting of the board of trustees of the State University on Woduosday uight, Prof. MoBryde submitted his views with regard to the proper administration of his important department, which met with hearty couourreuce. The plao proposed by him for the organization of his department was adopted, au l he wis aaihirizil to b;giu opuratious at once. Uu will proceed to the equipment of his chair for thorough sqieutifio aud practical work. His lecture room will be supplied with charts and all the models aud samples of agricultural seeds plant-, implements, &e , necessary to illus~ trate h s course of instruction. His laboratory arill k.? ?: !. ?: - j ..... wv iuiuiouuu nun ununi9U(>p 1*9 for til.; mo of students .mil lor the study of (hose uiiuute organisms so fatal to plant and annua) life. Apparatus for testing the purity aud vitality of farm seeds will be imported directly from Europe. The profess or informs me that the adulteration of farui floods has been almost redueod to a science that clover seed is manufactured from quarty grain , old turnip seed roasted aul colored aud sold us new. Such adulterations arc far more dangerous than those found iu fertilizers, aud call loudly for State iuterlereuce aud control. Seivcs, scales, acids, Ac., for the mechanical uualysis of soils and other scientific investigations will bo purchased. The lauds belongiug to the Uuivcrsity will be devoted to ezperiuicutal purposes.? Agriculture as a sciuuco can ouly be developed, and is au art perfected by experiment. The experiments conducted ou the farui will be made as practical as possible Only ??V.. iviiva nil! UVCiHUil'U UjMIU il3 Jjr mi 13C to be of immediate value to the fir-u ir<i of the State A well-devised and couducted ex perimeut is valuable even when it gives negative results. Il may explode the pretentions of a highly-advertised seed, fertiliser or implement. Such au expariuieut .a therefore a buoy that warns the farmer of -dangers ahead. Among the experiments proposed are the following series : 1st. With eereals, testing -different varieties, fertilisers, modes of culture, &c. 2d Similar experiments with grasses 3d. Similar ones with cotton. 4>h. Others with new omps.such as dhurra.tiew -varieties of sorghum, millet, to sinic. lucero. soja hispida, Ac. 6th With new liiitn pro -cesses, such as ensilage, jfeu 6m. Willi new varieties of vegetables. (Under this bead will fall the testing of second cr>>p potatoes, &c ) 7th. With new varieties of small fruits. 8th. Experiments iu cattlefeeding. (Tests of different nutritive r?tions. &c.) The trustees have ordered the erection of a greenhouse. This will be filled with choice specimens of foreign and native plants of economic or scientific importance. Sueh a house will afford opportunities for experi. mouts io cross breeding und hybridising plants, for the production of new vurietics of seeds, lor the testiug of seeds, &c. The results of the experiments will be freely published aud distributed gratuitously among the farmers of the State. As the department is developed uiore luod will be acqnired and experiments' nurseries, vineyards and orchards planted.? This will allow of the testing of u w varieties of fruits, &c. Ornamental grounds ^ will also be laid off around the greenhouse. Au arboretum will be added in tiuie. The < depirtuieul will cheerfully determine its species, &o.. of any' uuknnwn plant, tnake analyses of se< ds, &c. and do any other SHU ilar work for the farmers of the State without chargo. Correspondence on agri cultural subjects is invited. A Bloodless Duet.?A sub-tiiute f? r the duel, whioh will doubtless be welcomed by high tempered uieu who are poor marksmen, has been found in Italy. The editor i of an Italian paper is -aid to have received from a fellow oitiien, to whom he had given offence, the following letter : "Sir, L canout send my secoode to such o scoundrel us 1 yourself. Hereby, therefore. I suiito you. That is the sole objeot of this letter. It convoys to you. ou my behalf, sound slap oj either oheek. Be thankful for my mod <..ii..n ? k:-i. L.. J 1 1 wimuii hub np.iicu Jftlll II p'roilll OOII signiucutnf heartj thwacks with ui> fa?nr- i I ite walkiaxstiox ! [ remain. etc " The next morning the editor printed hie adversary'a letter, together with this crushing rejoinder: "Iniuiitiibh adversary: In oompliauou with your request, [ hasten to th ink you for having only aunt me a couple 1 of cuffs in*t ud of a severe thrashing. You i have struck me in ariting. Similarly, I . hereby ditclnrgo all tho six birrela of my revolver at your head and kill you bv letter. As a*him as you ah ill h ive perused this note 1 you in y consider yourself a dead nrin I saint** your cor se with the hi-xhest coiisid ention. Yours, etc" This expeditious and bloodless oicth >d of avenuintr ones wrotitfs oiixht to prove an ueoeptuble substi lute for the ' code" ainou^ V.rginia gentle uien of the old school, 1 would urge. writes Prof H nry. that our fsruiers feed more oats to young stock, colts lis well us calves There is no food ( that will imi ?rnll correct acidity of the Mom-*) hoU keep the whole syetuui in good or the first dead "rebel." Albany, Ga. July, 21.1882. The reasons given by you this morning why Colonel Fisher, who was killed at Bull Run, coul I not havo been the first rebel killed was correot. The first soldier who died while in the service of the 8outhern | 8tutes was a tailor from Augusts, On, who died in April, 1861. and the first soldier killed in buttle w is a beardless I oy not twenty years old, from North Carolina, in May, 1861 This was the first blood shed in the Southern cuuse. There were two First Georgia regiments which went to the war in April, 1861: the first Regulars, who were sent to Savannah, and tho First Volunteers who were ordered to Pcnsacola under Col. Ramsey, from' August*. There- weio companies froui Augustia, Goorgu, in this regiment, oue of boys just from school, and one or older citizens of Augusta. In the latter company was a tailor, who, in a frolic, caught uud put io his bosout a garter, or, us sometimes called, a thunder and lightning snake. There is n variety of this spc eies of serpent, some whose bite is deadly and others who aro not at all poisonous. The soldier made a mistake, as there is but very li tie difference io their looks. Whilst going around with the snake io his bosom a crowd of his fellow soldiers gathered around, and in a spirit of bravado ho took it out and provoked the reptile until it bit him on the back of his hand, from which ho died very soou. The snake was killed, taken *to August and preserved in alco hol. Being in that city a few months after, wards, I saw the reptilo, which was two tcet long and about tho sice of a child's fioger. All the uienitfers of the First Georgia Regiment will recollect this circumstance. The fi rst soldier killed in buttle on the Southern side was at Rig Bethel Church, about fifty miles from Gut Towu, VirginiaBenjamin Butler hud lauded the first Yankee troops in Virginia in May, 1861, and was met by a Virginia regiment at tho church named General Wadsworth, of Connecticut, was iu immediate comuiuod, and upon seeing the Southern troops advancing on him jumped a log, waved his sword over his head and ordered his men to fire. They did so, aud the North Carolina boy, who was a volunteer in the Virginia regimeut. fell dead?the ouly one killed on our side. Immediately our mcu returned the fir), shooting the General ' from the log, and Ilia soldiers left that buttle field. These two men, one on each side, was the first blood shed in the war, except the tnen of the Massachusetts regiment who were killed by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland. I was with uiy regiment in July, 18G1 and visited the cemetury in Richumud, Va , nud stood over the grave, at the head of which was a board bearing this inscriptioo(thc name I have forgotten): Ilis nauie was Wyutt, and he was a member of the Edgecombe Guards, eouiuiuuded by Captain John L. Bridgers"From North Curolina; the first soldier killed iu the war between the North aud South."* Any of the old soldiers of the Sixteenth Georgia UegiincDt will recollect the circumstances of this, the first battle of the war. S. B. Wioht. One of the stuff in the Sixteenth Georgia Regiment. Lovers Excii.vnqi.no Teeth.?I per formed an operation of transplanting under romantic circumstances on a certain occasion. A young lady, as pretty as a poach, and a fine looking young fellow, came to-see uoe one uioruiug. Afior uo little hesitation, they told tno they were betrothed, and that ho waa in the aruiy, and was going away to the plains for ut least a year, hunting Indians. "And wo are very uuhuppy at pirting " whimpered she. ' Yes, we are," almost blubbe.ed he. "Wo heard of transplanting teeth, and want you to talto one our of each of our mouths and transfer them." For a moment I was transfixed with laughter and astonishment, and I attempted to reason litem out of their foolish proposition?but they insisted; so I extraoted one of her largest btok teeth aud one of his smallest, and ohanged theui about. Hers fitted iu his jaw all right, and he went off a few days afterwards o his post with his lady love's molar His tooth, however, would not aliok in, for within a week theynuog lady oauie baok with her fuoe deadfully swollen. I reduced llie iuflmiation and eased the pain, hat oould uoi rcpi.iiu ner lover i?uk, ?na sue weut ?w ?y with it wrapped up in a piper. Oh Ithe in iron *t tuoy of women. Six mouth* alter he married a man old euouh to be her fatherWheu the youiiu lieu enint ubaoquciiily returned he indignantly told me of the manner he had been jilted, uud requested mo to immediately extract hit* false hive'atooth which I did, an i he threw it in iho ailtpi dure.? Cincinnati Enquirer. For bedding home* m raw ia better thin nwiluit, if the quality of the uiauure ijt taken into consideration, as the i<?<lum mikes the m inure ton dry and it overheat# and . poihi very a h>0 if uot watchtd very Tiib Colored Cook.?There is quite a Variety of colored cooks in feeling the kitchens ofthcSoutlietu end of the United States cf North Auiurioa at tlie present day. They vary in color from the sombre shades of u burned stump iu a dark alley at midnight to the mellow tints of u ripe pumpkin tinned with tho rays of the rising sun. They vary iu other respects. Tho young one is uiore impudent ami less re.-:pccrful thin the old, one. When she comes in search a "place,' she is apt to say that a "cullid wash lady' told her that the "white woman that lived here" wanted >o hire a cook; but they all resemble each other in ooe particular?their ignorance of oookury is 21) degrees above proof, and their unaonsiou-iness of their least 145 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. We have not space to describe all the varieties of the colored cook, but will tel| what we know of the couimouest type, the culinary ntist who is fat, black and forty yoars of age, or thereabouts. She is proud of having 'bolonge 1 to do old judge for,' de wuh," and she is food of comparing the pre: sent with tho past. Her comparisons are not complimentary to the pscscut, for her surroundings are to her as the gloomy ruins of social and material things standing out against a brilliant and gold tinted back, ground "'oh da gorgiousness ob do g?od ole days." With tho loyalty of her race, she is faithful to her o d master and mistress to thecxtcntof calling oo tin.n for the loan of half a dollar whenever she is financially embarrassed. She seldom s'ays at any ??uo place inorc than three months at a time. Wheu hired she promises to couie ou Thursday, the day the old cook intends leaving, but she does not come uutil the following Monday evening, when she arrives uccom" panied by a small trunk with wall paper pasted on the outside of it, aud a lar^e bundle of "her things" tied mi in a natehwork o ?r ? i bed spread. During the first lew days she acts so thai her mistress absorbs the idea that the uuw cook is a treasure. Hut Iter satisfaction in and aduiirutiou for her treasure reoeives successive uud severe shocks as the idiosyncrasies of the cook's character begin to develop. Shu cau cook a chicken, but all the colored people cau do that. It is u talent that is hereditary. Beyond that her capacity is limited. SlicTTrealhes on the plates, aud polishes them on hur sleeve beloro putting them on the table. She develops religious proclivities wlticit uojcs sitate ber attendance at church three times ou Sunday,-at prayer-meeting on Wednesday uud choir-practice ou Saturday nightShe is also a member of the "Buuevoleut Order of the Sisters of the Mystciious Tou WiBe Virgius," the weekly meetings of which require her attendance ou Tuesday uights. Thus her mistress has onlv three evenings iu the week ou which she feels at liberty to entertain hur friunds at hur owu house. The favorite dissipation of the colored cook, besides religious observe ices, consists of sittingdowu on tho kitchen door: step to rest, and going to sleep there while the biscuits bum to a cinder ardtha offee boils and mixes witb the cabbage aud oilier fruits in the adjacent skill it. She has days ou which she suffers with "a misery iu ner noau, proD ably iroui too much religious observance on the provious evening, and on these d tys she takes a gloomy view of life, breaks dishes, forgets to put acy baking powder in the batter cakes and manufactures coffee of the kind that leuves successive circles of an nlluvial deposit ou the iuside of the cup. It is not well to remonstrate with her on these occasions If you do she will talk to herself confidentially in a low tone of voice duriug the next lew days about being overworked. In the cotton picking season n >thing short of lessons on the piano, the use ot the pirlor to receive her company in, and seven nights out of the week will induce the average colored cook to remain at hof post of duty aud continue the destruction of expensive groceries. Cotton picking with banjo uccompauimonts, and thu dance at night in the barn, have attractions no pecuniary offer will outweigh, and the uotton field is to the oook what the fashionable watering plaoe is to her young mistress. When she oouies to hire she tells her employers that she is Dot marrisd. After awhi'o, when the latter ootiees the frequent appearance of a "cullud g'emutan" about the kitchen and the oook'a boudoir aud brings her to task fur having concealed the fact that she wan married, the replies: "Ho' do Ltwd 'm, we isn't married; we jet took up wid one a judder." Honesty it her strong p >int; she otu be trusted with a dollar to take to inarkut in the morning, end the wiil invest fifty ceuit of it iu provision* andr cheerfully turnover fif'eett centt of change ti .er e ployor on her return. The appetite of the colored cook is something that the eo| uutus of tliia piipor are too limited in extent to aowuriDe. ? Irm<i4 Sijtiny*. Th-ii vriiioh <1 ??o out cuoc^rii uo wo make JU> weiitiufD. fcf. .. I. L !**- - . - Hon. R. M. Sims' Model Farm?Editor Register : On a recent visit to Columbia I had the plcaure of an invitation to spend a night with Mr. R. M. Siuis, who lives six miles East of Columbia. My visit was not only a great pleasure in meeting the family of Mr. Sims, but what is or should be, to all farmers especially, to the sight of a model farm. Since my visit to Mr. Sims' I have seen many gx>d farms and 4finc crops, but as a whole I have scon noththiug to compare with his. I must begin by saying 'hat for the past lifty years I have been woriti^,' farms a.^d noticing everything in the line of farming, but Mr. ^ims crop does certainly, beat anything i have oveT ouu. ?uuuuui mu.e are many 01 nis ueignbor? who are not aware there is such a sight so near Columbia . Mr. Sims says he has 200 acres jf cotton an J 80 acres in com? several acres in svr-ot potatoes and so many melons that I saw hundreds of the finest rotting ou the ground. The cotton field is a perfect level plain, a'l contiguous; the rows perfectly straight and all of ever distance. The whole field is one magnificent flower garden ?the mingling of pure white with red bio ons and the green cotton leaves ("no grass in his'n") ur?kc a beautiful contrast. It is not possible to do justice to Mie field, so go out and seo for yourselves ? The coru is on upland sandy soil, which to us iu the clay region would i idicate poor land, but to see the corn, all made and perfectly matured, show:: there is no proverty of soil there. My opinion is that there is "more in the man than iu llio land," and must give M-, Sims the credit of being the model farmer ofSouth Carolina uutil I can seo or li^ar of a better. It is now the time of year that an estimate can be made, as the cotton stalk is full of well grown bolls and the corn about ripe, so I will venture the csti. lite that Mr. Siuis will make 200 bale* of cotton nud at last 200 bushels of corn to the acre. ? G. in Columbia Ri-rj inter. : Regiments op (I tail landers.?The appearance of the Highland regiments which England is now hurrying up to the frout from both sides of Egypt at once will doubtless bo M great a surprise to the Bedouins of Arabi Pasha as to their gr.tn Jfithars in 1798. When the Highlanders ofSir Ralph ADcrcrouiby's army landed at Alcxaudr:a iu that year the Arabs oi the town, after a wondering surrey of the stalwart Celts, ran to announce to their friends the arrival of a host of giants, so huge that the clothes which they wore were all too short for them. In the Sepoy mutiny of 1857 the Highland regiments did priceless service both at Lucknow and Cawnpore, storming on one occasion a high walled garden defended by five times their number of Sepoys and literally annihilating the whole garrison. When Nana Sahib's soldiers first caught sight of the plaids and kilts they exclaimed joyfully that all the English soldiers must have been killed, aud that the sirkar (government) had to call out the women. But after their first taste of a Highland boyonct charge they abandoned this belief ouce for all aud fell buck upon the ih.ory that these terrible fighters had deliberately adopted this female grab in order to remind litem of the wrong which they came to revenge, viz , the massacre of the English ladies by Nina Sihib Killed the Wrong IIens ?An irasci bio him captain settled down to Portland life by ll?6 side of a well tempered tnun, and the two got along very well until the hen que* tiou o.une up. Skid the Captain: "I like you as a neighbor, but I don't like your hen*, uud if they trouble me any more, I'll shout them." The mild-m innered neighbor studied over the mutter aouie, but knowing the Cuptuin'a reputation Well by the repo.t, ho replied; Well, if w<? can't get along any otuer way, shoot the ben*, but I'll take it as a favor if you will throw them when dead over into our yard and yell to uiy wife." "All right," said the Captain, The next day the Captain's gun was hoard, and a dead hen fell iu the q liet uian't yard. The next day auolhor hen was thrown over, the next two, nod tho next after, thrco. 'Say." said the quiet man, ''couldn't you souttur the .> along a little? We really can't dispose of the number you ure killing." > <1 ivu 'mil til ffniir muir polatinna " the Captain gruffly. And the quiot uinn did. lie kept his neighbors well supplied with chickens fur suui s weeks. Ouu day the Cuplsin said ?.o the quiet iimii: "I have half n dosen nice hens I'm going i to tries you il'ynu will keep quiet abuut this affair." "(low is that T" said the quiet man Are yuu surry because yuu killed uty hens?" "Your hens?" said the Captain. Why, sir. those hens belonged to my wife! I didn't know she had uuy until I had fed you and your neighb irs all summer nut of her t ...k " ? IX..11 I il. T ?''vw a ui iiMNUt ?o,? ? *!?'., ~ lie ^ikkI to jfnttrieltStail yiu will never IifcY friotjde. . 1 c I The Pnt8sand tiie People.?In our day the people can no moro move and have their being in any truly effective sense without the press than the press can live without that responsive popular support so necessary to the wide efficiency of a journal, how ver faithful and earnest its work. These forces then, must move together with cordial mutuality in order that society should perform its full fuuetions. Of course we do not deny that a people can exist withou'/ the press, but let us imagine for a mouicnt the whole people of a free State without the modern uewspapcr. You may remove the railway and pull down the telegraph wires, but stop the newspaper, which tiuds its way into every nook and corner oi the land, however remote or obscure, and you would iu our day stop the very springs ^f^Minnuci^o^youw^ldlowcr the stanjiua^givctidir^fon'^D^c^F'mTnU^ very heart of the State to the meanest aspi rations aud tlie paltriest performances. It may be said with simple truth thai the newspaper performs a creator function in the economy of a free State in our day and times than the most exalted statesmanship. It makes aud unmakes statesmen and actually maps out affairs for the exercise of proper statesmanship. And in more cases than one has the pen proved mightier than the sword We are living in an ago of more or less a military cast just now, and hence military heroes of all dimensions fill the page. Bui we are approaching, if we have not alrcad) reached, the era when facts shall fix the fat< of empires rather than successful chieftains When truth aud justice and the actual ne cessitics of human society shall find a bi<> voice in human affairs. When the pregnant uegation of the masses, acting in their own behalf, shall sullenly stand across the path whom neither the needle gun can prick tc performance nor the armored monsters ol the deep drive into submission. Human intelligence aud will shall be found more than a match for gunpowder. The power to staud still, to clog the wheels, to stop thu grain in the fields, t< stop the loouis at tiieir work and thu great tiveiilics of transportation, tu lading ami unlading, i.'? a word the strike that striket all along the line ? ?< human production 01 its distribution, sooner or later will have its reckoning. Sooner or later itfo will hear the swelling voice of down-trodden humanity utter iu thunder tones : Let justice be doilt between man aud man! And wbo sh..! gainsay the douiand? The ijuibbles oftht court house, the strategy of so-called statesmanship, the deep laid wiles of machitii politicians, ihusham worship aud insincerity ot*priestcraft?all these things will have hat their day. whilst the actual necessities of lb case, with its actual possibilities, wiil givi the law to the occasion. For it will sooi be plain to all that uo man defeats God Nor can all the men on c..rth couibinec gainsay Him who laid the foundations o: the earth and laid the corner stone thereof This movement of the multitude hatl come out of the womb of our times, and t< no little extent does it owe its origin to the loius of the free prc>sof the civilized world The slavery of our own section found it! quietus there, aud all things which savoi of slavery must die the death. Africar slavery was only made in its isolation tilt vicarious sacrifice for ull the rest. Now, the same press, if it be a free press if it Le a brave press, if it be a faithfu press, stands, under God, master of the situitim; and. iu the eud, it will be fount that the press can neither afford to be bough cajoled or bullied. No man's money can bu^ the human heart away from true heroism from a chevalier love for the right aud the tru in the long run. And there will be, ther must be, born to the demands of the case h roes of the pen no I ss than of tho sword men whose words thuII never die and whosi superb instincts shall hrill through count less generations of uieu. Col. llcgistcr. ? ? Tits Match Monopoly, ?Notice was issued Wednesday lo every wholesale dealer in l'hiladel phi v of lite advance in the price of matches froti 25 cents to $1 50 per gross, according to kind This will necessitate a proportionate rise on th< part of the dealers and jobbers in the trade.? In consequence of the inaction of Congress, the the publio have been placed at the mercy of a company which can put the price up as high as it pleases. About fifteen years ago the hrsi etfori at combination of match manufacturers was made by the Swift & Courfney and lieechei Company. The financial) result was a grea stock co'mpany, comprising about twenty manufactories and said to represent a capital of $5,000,000. The sulphur matches, whicl originally were sold by the combination at $ I HO are now sold for $2 30, and parlor matches rost from $2 to 250. The stamp act was iroposet about twenty years ago, whioh drove out of thi market all small manufacturers. At first thi government sold the stamps at one cent each ten per cent, off, and ooropelled the mate) men to have their own plates engraved which was the condition on whioh the ten pe cent, was taken off. The ten per cent, was noi directly taken off at first, but they were givei ten per oent. more stamps, whioh was equivalen t? an allowance of but nine per oent. The oom bination has for some time been carrying on i suit with the government to recover the addi tional one per cent Awful Sullen.--X gentleman io Ilartwell sent to the Great Western Guu Work: and purchased a small parlor rifle, will 1.000 cartridges of the smallest site, tlx bullets being about tlto site of a buckshot fie went over to Benson's mill pond, froy hunting, und fouud :i very large frog of I hi uiusculine geuder sittiug on n stuuip, jus above the water, fie shot twenty seven tinui ?t him, when his frogship lost his bal?nci uud dropped over in the shallow water. Up on tatting the frog out it was found he h id swallowed twenty sit of the bullets, cntchiu| theui in his mouth, supposing them to tx flies. When he went to ui ive, the weigh: of thelead carried nim overhorad, and whet . taken ou( he wis not dduad but awful wuilet -ifenwW C <**0 Sid. Six Plucky Youno Gihls.?Mount Airy, N. 0 ,August 8.?Sis gay and froliei st -me young ladies nrrivod in this place today , all rijrgi d out and equipped Tor a journey on foot through the mountains of this State.? The girls wear dresses even abutter than the i regulation walk'ng skirt. They have knapsacks strapped over their shoulders, wear b oad-bottomed, easy shoes, dark hose, and ur? tized up for comfort. Tfcey propose to take a trip on foot through all of the mouotain countries of North Carolina. In their baggage tliey have hummocks which will be vtsed in case they have to camp out at night. The trip will consume about two months and cover a district of six or eight hundred : miles. The girls are all young, tlio oldest probaly not twenty two and tho youngost not sixteen. They are lit ho and hearty aud appear to be able to make fifteen or twenty miles a day easily. Three of the fair p ?wlm - r thfrfiA trom Mary tana. 'lHrce of twem nr? pupils of n well known seminary iu Virginia and the daughters of well-known business men in that State. Their present novel and .1 i__? : j- ?ii iiiucuul'i)i tup ia lujuu piiucipuny iu gratify one or two of the party, who could not afford to travel on railroads. When a desire was expressed by them in thcprescnco of the other four gills who make up the i party to see the magnificent scenery of the western part of this State, it was at onco i proposed to tramp it through the country, an J thus avoid railroad fares and at the " ; same time afford a better view of the seen: r cry. The party will leave here to mori row for Asheville, iu liumcombo County. . They do not manifest any fear of being molested in the long aud lonesome route. ? ' They say thev are fully able to take care of t themselves. Part of the way is through dense forests, through which even manydar, iug men are not anxious to go, especially > at night. r r ? i Value of Coax Cons?Few farmers t stop to consider how much of fertilizig matter is annually wasted about the farm, ! nor of the. expense incurred in purchasing the same materials in othet forms. Thus | in the apparently insignificant matter of r corn cobs is an item woith saving, if tho accumulations of corn cobs were gathered * up aud thrown into the hogpen they would, r by next spring, be reduced to manure. It t has been estimated that in the corn cobs I | grown in this country last year were upwards 5 of two hundred million pounds of potash. ~ Where corncobs are used in lighting fires ^ at tho farm house, the potash may be saved 1 in the increased value of ths ashes. e It is well known that the difteccut varicc ties of wood, when burned yield varying pro^ portions of potash. At the head ofthc list in | the production of potash stands the willow; f hcucc its ashes aro of superior value in this respect, yet corn cobs contain double the 1 annual of potash carried in thcwillow; so, in this manner, we may approximate the value oflhc ashes obtained iu the burning of corn ? cobs, and preserve the same for futurco use in the fertilization of the soil of the farm. 1 Successful faiminir is commoulv there ) t ? . J suit of careful attcutiou to little things, t , the economical use of the smallest demo t I of value. Houcc even the corn cobs, wi'?. j their products of potash, arc worthy the att teution of the practical and thrifty farmer. . The enormous cost to the farmer of potash , ?whether in his biruyard manure, in ish e commercial fertilizers, or in his more direct 0 purchases of potash iu one form or another ' ?renders the economical utilization of con? B cubs a matter of soino importance. Sknatoii Hill.?The condition of Senator Hill this miming is practically the same as f.>r two weeks past. He is daily weakening i.i strength and the end of his sufferings comes 1 nearer every hour. He undergoes almost intol erable agonies, at times, relieved only by opiate-. > with which his quiet slumbers can alone be iu duced. i He is now being treated w th a preparation of ergot, or barley husks, discovered by a St. Louis ' physician, and said to have performed some nr raculous cures of seemingly hopeless cases ?(' cancer. Whether the new medicine can arrest I or cure Senator Hill's malady is, however, not ' considered even problematic, and it is being trie I ' for whatever good results it may produce, l A Wonkkkful Kkmkdv. ? We learn that Ilia Senator has received nearly five hundred letter* I from persons throughout the Union who claim ? to have been cured of cancer by the use of red clover tea and poultices. In addition to these letters and as a timely testimony to the efficacy of the prescription ts the following, which wo find in one of our State exchanges this morning : The Lumpkin (Oa) Independent states that Mrs Green 13. Hurley, of that county, was effe?- m tually and petmanently cured of a cancer by making a strong toa of the leaves and blooms ot* red olover, and drinking It in lieu of water. She occasionally made a poultice of the leaves and blooms and applied it direct to the cancer- ? Mrs Hurley was cured by Ibis treatment within t two months, and three years have passed and no sign of a return.?Atlanta Herald. A Poser for His Mother.?Little - Eddie T. w is sick of gastric fever pocvisli s and fret I u I, but he seemed to want the idea j to prevail that it wasn't much trouble to attend him. His mammn, while bathing his brow, soothingly rcmar ed: ''What in home without n ino:her." The young ; rascal iinui diately snipped out : "Well, e whut would mother be without a homey" 1 The dead bark on the trunks and larger 9 limbs of trees is best removed during n thaw. 0 A wash of whale oil or soft ?oap npplied vith u brush gives a smooth, heilthy ap1 pcarnnoo. j * Why Sue Powders?Miss Lilyphnoe t Mys she uses powder merely to tako the i shine ofl her lime, but Fogg thinks sho uses i it|o take the shine oil ot tbo other woinao'l ..