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THE WEEKLY Slllffltol TIMES. Stcoled to ^gricnlture, horticulture,' gomestic O'rconomi;. polite Jfeics (if the gag. vol.. XIV.?New Semes. UNION C. II., SOUTII ^VjSMnNA, JANUARY 19, 1583. NUMBER 3. THE DEATH OF CLEBURNE. A Vivii> Sicirrcu ok tiik l5\rn.i:or Fkvnki.ix. It was tlic 150th of November, 1S-JI. At I o'clock in the aftern oe the line of biltle \vi< fortncl. Stewart on the right, Cheatham ?>n t!ic jeft. their right an 1 left ll inks, interlocked like Parthian shields, composing the centre. Gen. Stephen I). Lee's Corps was lie! I in reserve ? Cleburne's position was in tHe centre, his ilivis" ion formed in three battle lines an I lie at its head. Thus arrange I I( > > 1"s line was nearly two miles long, advancing. curve I like a Mas salman's scimitar, with the h!a<le to the foe. Hut let us follow Cleburne. Ragles were blowing, drums beating an<l bin Is playing. A con rior dashc I up to Cleburne's presence an 1 goon the word "Attention !'' wis given, then "Forward, inarch !" and tlie column passed over a hill an l through a little skirt of woods. Soon they emerged into an open field an 1 steadily they pressed on with "proper cadence" toward the rampart of blood and death. The Felcral batteries began to open. First came solid shot bounding over the earth and tearing and crashing through the ranks ; then the shrieking shells flew through the air on the wings of destruction, bursting under and above an 1 around the uien, nn l at every explosion unbinding more evils than ever flew from Pandora's box. Twilight was coining on. "Forward, men!" was repeated ^ ali along tlu* line. A living sheet of tire was poured into their ranks. Put the moil pressed forward until the tcriTic roar ran from centre to flank, from wing to wing. Night came and the two armies fought like two blind giants in despair. Cleburne's oi l war cry rang out above the din of arms: "Follow me, boys !" Once again, and agiin, and again, seven limes, Cleburne's division, and, indee 1, all of I Food's army, charged the breastworks. And uucc ugmu, auu again, anu again, seven nines were they repulse J. Kvcry time they formed ami rc-formcd under a most galling fire. At one times, just before dusk, Cleburne o ipture 1 a portion of the works and turned the guns of a Federal battery on ttieir former owners ; but it was only for a few moments?a little silver rilt iu the battle clouds that enveloped him in the darkness. It was the hottest fire Cleburne had ever met. It was but one stream of blazing hell. Confederates were on one side of the breastworks and Federals ontthe other. Men fell fiat on their faces and fired from behind the bodies of their dead comrades. Dead soldiers fille I the entrenchments. Wo d made the earth as slippery as an ice pond. Thus the firing was kept up until after midnight, and gradually died out. Hut both armies held their own. The Confederates passed the night where they were, just outside the breastworks, The Federals only a few feet oil", held their cover until near daybreak, wlieu they were quietly marched away an I retreated back to Nashville. . HOW CLKIIL'llXK l)IEt). Hut when the morrow's sun began to "light up the sky the surviving soldiers looked out upon a sad battlefield. The dead were piled one on top of the other in awful heaps and the wounded seemed thicker than the uncounted stats. I'lorses, like men, had died game upon the defences. Cleburne's body lay there on top of the breastworks, ghastly in the sleep of death pierced 4with forty-nine bullets, through and through. His mate had her forefeet on top of the works, dead in that position. Not far from where Cleburne lay was seen the deal body of Gen. Adams. His horse had his forefeet on one side of the works and his hindfeet on the other, dead. The General seems to have been caught so that he was held to the horse's back, sitting bolt upright in his saddle, as if living, riddled and torn with balls. Gen. Stalil lay by the roadside and his horse by his side, both dead, and all his statr. Gen. Gist from South Carolina, was lying with his sword, reaching across the breastwork, still grasped in his hand, lie, too, was dead. Gen. Granberry, of Texas, an 1 liis horse were seen?horse and rider right on top of the breastworks, dead. All dead ! Four thousand five hundred soldiers all lying side by side in death. Thirteen Confederate Generals were killed andj wounded. Six brothers, members of :i Misissipi regiment, were all ilea J. "This was the bluoiliest picturo in tho book of Time !" The route over which Cleburne's coininanil hail marched the day previous to the battle of Franklin lay through some of tlie richest and loveliest country in all the South. The roads from Mount pleasant to Columbia run through a farming district, fertile as the famous Blue Grass region of Kentucky, and in the highest state of improvement. Six miles from Columbia is what is known as the "l'olk and l'illow Settlement," or as it is now called, Ash wood. Here the distinguished and wealthy families bearing those names lived in a style of elegance and case but few baronial estates of Burope could nlt'ord. Gen. I.conidas Folk, the liishop; was bom; here so, too, was ex-President James K. Folk, Gcu. Lucius Folk, Col. William Folk, Col. George Folk, Col- Vndrcw J. Polk, Gen. Gideon S. l'illow, Col. Jerome l'illow, ftndothei prominent and famous persons. Nearly all of these gentlemen owned large plantations in Arkansas, .Mississippi or Lotiisiauna, and had princely incomes from their cotton and sugar crops; but here, at Asliwood, they had their superb homesteads, mansions each with a manor, and their surroundings were in keeping with everything refined taste could suggest and almost unlimited purses could purchase. CU'.Ut'RXU's IIOM \ STIC lilt \VK, Being zealous church people these gentlemen had built a beautiful Protestant episcopal chap el, mill hard hy was the family burying ground. It was a very romantic place a i l tin; neighbor* hood quite typical of the llusli days of our sunny 4 Koutlil iitd. The chapel was in the purest (loth ?c style, and its walls an 1 sharp-pointed roof were ijuite concealed hy clambering ivy, while the flowers and the shrubbery looked fresh and green even on this bleak November day. As Cleburne, with his stall", ro le by, tlit* general reined up his horse and lingerc 1 for a moment to admire a spot of such singular beauty. To hisn, however, it was the beastly of sadness. ] The flowers tint b!oo:ne?l thero seemed ready ti ' f i le an I wither on the breast of death; the ever , green was waiting to lay upon his cofliti-lid, nn< | frost glilt red on the fairest rose like jcwclleii J in ickery. Cleburne had a presentiment of tin nearness of death. Turning to one of his staf officers, he said with a sigh: "If I fill in tin coming fight, bury me here at Ash wood." Twi lays after his mangled form was placed bcncatl the sod at Ash wood. The service of the Kpiscopn Church was said hy Hishop Ijuinlurd, uud thcr the soldier slept in ttie grave he had chosen ? ( '. / '. /t'/f/crl in l/i * /'/ii/(flt/j>hia Ttuien. A Tit w;ii: Ci amk or I'okkh.?I remember one time when we were on our way to New Orleans on a M-.sissippi Kiver steamboat. Hill and I sel up a game in the main saloon. The play used to lie kept up pretty much all day, and sometimes we would win or lose several thousand dollars in a day. The game was at its briskest in the evening, after dinner, when most of the hoys were more or less'full of wine, and were sometimes very heavy. Well, one night wo were just going to sit down to the table, the lamps were lighted, and two new decks of (cards were broken, whcualiltle fellow with a big moustache, who said he was a Kcntuckinn. asked to join the game, as he wanted to learn it. lie showed a big ro'l of money, and we assented, thinking we had caught a regular sucker. We hadn't been playing half an hour when Hill, on the stranger's deal, got four kings pat and started oil' by raising the pot $100, the ante being $ ">(). The pool mounted up to ofer $"?,000, bcforifelhc draw, and, much to his surprise, Hill simply called the first bet of $">00. and the hands were then shown. The stranger had scarce time to lay down four accs on the table when Hill raised one of his coat tails in his hand, and discharged the revolver through the pocket. The stranger threw up his hands, half rose from his chair, and with a moan fell forward on the table, knocking over the lan p, and then turn blel back on t he floor dead. Of course t he excitement was tremendous; revolvers were drawn, and a general panic ensued. Hill never lost his nerve forasecond. Say's he : '-Gentlemen,just let tnc explain this little matter. That man held four aces, and here is the one 1 discarded from my own hand. 1 never saw a deck of cards wiih two aces of spades, and I'll swear that the deck was all right when 1 counted it at the beginning of the game, and so will my friend here (meaning inc.) An 1 if you want any morcevi uence, iook uere; .ma wuii hint lie yanked oil the Keutuckinn's false mustache, an<l who should the stranger be but Chipper Jim, a nolc.l skin ami ilespera>lo. We nia<lo up a committee to chuck the body overboard. One of the queer est parts of the whole business was, when we came to count the stamps the half of it was counterfeit money. A Di.'t'.i. Kot'iiii r Ai.most A Oknti'uy Ami,?St. Augustine, Fla., December dl.? On Thursday, while engaged in tearing down a portico of the residence of Mr. Faustina Facet!i, preparatory to making repairs on the same, f<. T. t'anova found a sword hidden away between the rafters of the roof. I'p.ut making inquiries in relation to the same he learnc 1 that the sword had been concealed in the place where he found it for perhaps seventy-live or eighty years. The story attached to it is interesting . It would appear that one evening, while Flori ula was yet in possession ot .>patn, a grand I)all nas gifen, at which was gathered tlie elite of the city. One of tlie ladies present was noted for her beauty, and her hand was eagerly sought after by the officers of the garrison for the many pleasant dances- Owing tosoinc misunderstanding she became engaged to two of the eaballeros for the same dance. The consequence was a quarrel, which resulted in the cessation of the music through the cutting of the strings of the instrument. Hot words and insulting language passed between thcollicers and the two rep.lire 1 to the open streets and engaged in a duel, in which one of them fell. The survivor, dropping his sword , tied precipitately from the spot. One of the l'acctti funily, a boy of so nc 1 or ."> years, witnessed the encounter, an l, running out, picked up the sword and carried it into the house. Not wishing to be called upon as witnesses, the parents of the child concealed the sword and kept all knowledge of it from their neighbors. Thus the old blade has been in its place upward of three generations. ? ? A Nottrit Cakoi.ina Mvsrr.ity.?lleau fort, N. 0.., December 21. ? I'.arly this morning a large schooner anchored oil' Moreheal t'ity on this coast. .Vhoat was sent ashore, in which were a handsomely dressed woman and three children, U is reported that the fair passenger escaped from St. Michael's Island, where she was sent I some time ago for an attempt to poison her litis 1 >:t11 1. The story is tli.it the woman, through the assistance of a frieiitlly sea captain, elfectcl her escape from the island with her children, and having converted what property she had into cash, came to Moorchcad. She and the little ones will at once leave for the North. I is said that those who ought to know the truth of this story declined to talk about it to strangers ?. ?. A Stuanok Stouv.?A lew days agt a reliable gentleman said to us: "Inmj neighborhood nine, young men, intimate friends, of good families in comfortable circ uinstuuccs, and have died in the pas three months. They all died of the same dis case, typhoid fever, and no two of them were sick at the same time. As the lirst drew near his death ho sent a messagt to his best friend, the ouc who next siekonei and died, asking and advising him to lead a better life. I ho same message was sen by each man before he died, and each recipient was the next victim of the fatal lever ? linriurrll I'mnfc. To Hitkak l>oos kito.m Sucking Koos ? break an egg and after pouring out par o( the white, put in seven grains ol'tarte emetic ; lay the ejrtc in tin; yard where tlx do" will lind it; he will he siek fur a day o two, luit A'ill lint ho injured Should tin dose fail, repeat it?it is seldom, however that the second dose is required. Stable manure is pelerablo to any othe fei tiiiz -r. No farmer can afford to wastt his manure. All of it should he saved am utilized. In many cases farming would h more prulitalde il less land was cultivate with higher fertilization. < )ne acre highly in inured should pay better than tluee hn half m inured and half eultiv iled. , WHY THE GIRLS DON'T MARRf. ' Wh it are we girls to do ?*' I This, writes a correspondent in the Sc. I Louis Spectator, was the question of a i beau tit til Richmond belle. "Hero there F are," continu.d this lovely woman. ? "in the best of society of our city, over > two hundred aud fifty marriageable girls, i many of them highly accomplished and at1 j tractive women, lilted to grace any position; , | and in all Richmond we have not a dozen | really eligible men. We have hosts of beaux, but no prospective husbands Our streets swarm with pleasant young fellows, ? who do for escorts, dancing partners and i flirtatio t material, but we have absolutely no men to whom an intelligent spirited, ' ambitious girl could possibly think of tying herself and her fortunes. They lack educa, tion, independence, purpose?everything i that is necessary to rise. Them is no future for them, and apparently none for us but to form art old uiaid brigade and start on a crusade to some of the far Western Territories, where sterling men are plenty and women are scarce," They did not go crusading to the west, and to day the lamentations of the \ irgiuia belle fiuds full justification in 'lie fact that Richmond is literally overrun with those most estimable, but seldom envied or en viable porti m of the divine economy known us old maid. 1'ivery bull room and parlor wall is richly tapestried with these slightly faded flowers. Rut Richmond is not alone in this delicious misery. The same complaint goes up from every city in the laud. The West sends to the Ivist a gentle moan of sympathetic woe. Plenty of girls, lovely as the sun ever shone on, but a panicky lack of desirable young men. Thus spoke a clever and accomplished young lady not long ago to a journalist: "You mockingly criticise us for oticour nixing the attentions of what you contemptuously stylo 'whipper-snappers,' 'snips' and 'callow goslings.' but how can we help it? There are twenty of these little fellows in society whete there is one really desirable r ian; and if it were not for them we would miss many an entertainment that we want to attend, many an opera an 1 play, many a set iu dancing, that we now enjoy. But for these very pigmies, with three-hair power moustaches that you speak of so scornfully, every girl would be left at home ha'f the times she now gets out, and would be a wall flower more than half the time when she managed to inveigle her father or broth or into escorting her to parties and r^eep tions. You find uic plenty of those cultivated aspiring men, with a future yen talk ble of appreciating them and ready to drop all their retinue of'snips' for them at any t iitin lirtitir nit rnn r ' r tol ?*.? ? ' '1V..I out r i) Skm 11 i m a Ciikck.?"John," said an r Indiana avenue lad) to her husband the . other morning, "you know I lurry's expenses ( at cnllcgo tire ijuitc large this year, and lie writes me that he don't see how he's going to get along without more help."' r ''That's all right," said the husband, ''I : sent hint a cheek yesterday." 1 "You sent hiin a eheek a "Yes; I wrote liini that he wouldn't gel I another dollar out of me before t'hri>tinns r j 11't hat don't act as a eheek on hi< blamed t j extravgt'.nee, I don't kno : what will.? | Chi' IJ<> Ch( v * u a v. J'l III-, "U J \ ' u I l_??l lll'.ll. J IWV UU your uiuch-talkcd-of ihorough'breds." She was only a but she nonplussed hiui. Toll over all the uiasculine beads of your sooiety rosary; take an inventory of your male acquaintances in what is called good society and you will have to admit that this vehement young girl indictment is a "true bill." All over this coun try a man famine prevails. We have hosts of society fellows?swells giddy boys?but they are hardly the bus. band material a sensible woman would select. Many of them are kind hearted, agreeable little creatures, disposed to do every thug in their power to earn the gratitude el- the girls, to whoso enjoyment they contribute themselves and all they have and are. Hut a considerable proportion i f them are fro ks of nature, only to be accounted for when the creation of mosquitoes, fleas, mumps and i measles is explained. They are as much 1 alike, find them where you will, as so many peas. There is not originality enough in them for the tailors they patronize to get up suflicicut difference to be recognized under a microscope. Their physiognomies are mild burlesques on the lap dog family ? ( AI.II'OHMA r.Ul.MS.? I lie Statistics . given hy ilic Los Angelos, California, I>; i!y , Commercial, as to (lie immense farms of : that State, are doubtless correct, hilt tliey are astonishing. It tjuotes a list of a dozen ' large California farms, and adds the fol> lowing in the southern part of the State : , The late Dan Murphy, of Santa Clara, with his 1 <5.(100,(100 acres ; llaggiu it Carr, with . 5500,000 acres; Miller it Lux, (500,001)acres; L Ceu. l?ealo, with 200,000 acres; II M. Newhall, with 48,000 acres; Lnuku'.shiin it Co , 5(5,000 acres; If l*\ it C. K. I'orter, , 55(5,000 acres; M"Hit it Maelay, 20.000 acres; ? Iv .1 I>aldwin, 20,000 acres; .1. it L. bixhy, I 550,000 acres; .1. I rvine, 18,000, acres; .lnliu | (5. Downey, 75.000 acres; I. \V. liellnian t 25.000 acres; IIiehard Cird, 550,000 acres; . .1. S. Flood, 1517,000 acres; Thomas It Hard, 50.000 acres; D. Freeman, 50,000 acres, and numerous other farmers and tock growers whose farms extend into tens ol . thousands of acres. This is a groat country I ami it does not nil lie. in Colus.-i CuaBWlI.VMs?"The principal thing in co#* hauis id to g ;t thorn just salt ennigEte keep them and not so salt as to i"j'lrogR? flavor and cause tlioui to got | hard. Hfams should be neatly trimmed and cut rolncling, to imitate as close as passible the ha pas of commerce. 'TrjaEfclosely, so there shall be no masses of At. left at the lowest extremity of th? hams, gflpho shoulders uiay be cut in shape cciivc*ttt for packing, and they should be salted itfseparnto packages from the hauis. "Ht^lhiro cured by both dry salting and brino.^lPyhqu.dr.T salting is empolyed tho hauis it^rubhflXufiStn with salt and sugar. Between each rubbing t hoy "arc "bunched ap j on platforms or tables, the surface of which I is spread with a layer of salt, and each hiru is also covered with salt. When taken up to rub, which is usually done five or six times, a shallow box is a' hand in which to do the work. "When brine is used, prepare a pickle strong cuough to float an egg and stir into it suihcicut am,unt tf sugar and molasses to give it a sweetened taste. S-un ; ad 1 a little rait pet re to color the meat, while others claim it tends to harden the meat. In modcrate quantities, it is generally acceepted as beneficial. Cover the hams with pickle and place the packages where the temperature is uniform and above freezing. For hams of twelve pounds lour weeks wili he suffix cicnt; large hums must remain in brine a looser time. In general, three to seven weeks embraces the extremes of time required for domestic curing of hams, varying as to size of hams, temperature and time when they will he required for use. When it is designe 1 to preserve hams through the summer they must ti >t he removed from the ?.;?! I,. "Shoulders require much the same treatment as do hams, and both should be carefully smoked. The preservative principle of smoke is known as creosote. Sumke made by bu'rumg corn cobs is highly esteemed, but those engaged in curing meat on a large scale prefer the smoke obtained from dry hickory that has been stripped of its bark. The smoking process must not be too much hurried or the creosote will not have time to penetrate the outiro substance ol the meat. Ten days' smoking is usually sufficient, unless lite pieces are vorv -?'V "A process in ham-curing, practiced by some of the lea ling packing houses, consists in creating the smoke in an oven outside of the smoke house and passed through under., ground pipes into it. The smoke, rising from the floor to the top of the house, cncrouters two opposite currents of air drawn from the outside. These currents cause the smoke to form into a rapidly revolving horizontal column which passes aino jg the hamsThe smoke is sot warm, and there is no boat to molt tho hams or hot air to blacken them. The hauis under this process are smoked in very much loss time than by the old method. 'While canvassing hams has nothing to dr with their flavor it is a protection from insects, and will pay the farmer for the extra labor. It should be doue before warm weather. Wrap each ham in coarse brown paper and then sow it up in cotton cloth, cut to suit the size, following the shape of tho | h in, When covered as described, dip them in a wash made of lime water and colored with yellow ochre. Hang up in a cool place to dry. The wash closes the interstices o^ the muslin, and the whole forms a perfect protection against insects. The room in which any kind of cured meat is stored should be dry and cool, and the darker the better ?.V. WorM. ? Tub Dkoio.k Who Dik in a Ykar. ? Do you kno.v how many people die every year'f In order to know this we need only to e.xamiue the statistics of t'.c world's pop. ulation. Asia has 800,000,000 inhabitants; Kurope, .'.oo,000, 000; Africa 20 1.000,000; America, 80,000,000; Oeeaniea, 50,00000. These, remember, are low cstimitcs, which give a total of only 1,100,000,000. Allow ing to the inhabitants of the earth an average life of 150 years we liud that every year, 155.1155.000 neorde die. which -rives a total ? ' I I * O of ih>,720 deaths p r clay?.'?,7SU deaths per hour?G!i deaths every minute, ur mere than one every second. Thus, every second, as a French author expresses it, "a leaf falls from the vest tree of humanity, to be forthwith replaced by a new one." A Daw Ckockktt in Pki th'oars.? A correspondent writing from Kingston, New Mexico, says: "Here, also, lives a i woman ol sonic thirty-live or forty summers, who is a wonder. She hasjust eom; pleted a log cabin, and did all the Work herself except putting up the las: logs.? She out the logs hauled them, and made the shingles to cover it. I saw her ride in town yesterday (Sunday) on a horse.?In fr-?nt of her Was a deer she ha 1 just killed. You will probably think she is a lovely widow. Such is not tin one. She has a hu.ibaud and he takes e ire of theehil. dreli. (Hood boy.' j ??__ ? The Major's Artificial Leo.?Major Todd, of Hanger, Mc., lost Lis right leg at the battle of Fredericksburg, andsouic time ago ho pu.ch ise l an artificial leg from a man in Washington. It c mtained a system of springs which en ibied the M ajor to use it i.i such a natural manner that when he was walking along the street nobody! would f >r a in tin jut supp iso that ho had I not both of his own legs. One Sunday, while the Major was ou his way to church, hcslippsd upon the ice and gave the store lega severe wrench. lie must have dislocated some of the springs; for, alter reaching the church aud taking ing the Scriptures, the leg sud ienly flew up ar.d rested on the back of the seat in front of him. The congregation looked at hint in amazement, and he grow very red in the face. As soon as he took it down it jumped up again anu wiggled about on the back of the pew, finally kicking Mrs. Thompson's bonnet to rags. Then the Ma jor suppressed it again, and held it down, but it instantly began a convulsive in ivoincut in bis own pew, during which it upset the stools,plunged around among the hymn hooks and h its, and hammered the board beneath the seat until the minister had to stop- The sexton came rushing in to find out what was the m itter, and the Major, after explaining the difficulty in a whisper, asked the sexton to let him loan on him while lie charged on the front door. As i soon ns file M-iior crrO. inln #!>,? ?!? ?? - " J ' >-> ' ""v ",,v M,",w v???? dislocated leg kicked the the sexton sixteen or seventeen times in a most insolent manner, varying the exercisesbv linking eeeen, trie swoops off to one side, during which it kicked eight of the high h its at the pew doors into black silk chaos. By the time the Major reached the vestibule the leg had become perfectly reckless. It flow up before and it flew up behind. It butted against the good leg, and, darted out siuewise, and described circles, and tried to insert its toes in the Major's coat-tail pockets, and to whack him on the nose. When the sexton came with the hack ami put til" Major in it the leg banged through the window glass, and when the driver got down t.? see about it the leg brandished itself ill his mnl piinplml.xl tl,.. exercise by plantiug a terrible blow in bis fchirt,1fy,wodi!l'\S{ltf4whtVriea "dollars to take tbe leg off, '"and the driver accepted the offer, for several minutes it eluded all bis efforts to catch it as it danced about, but finally bo got hold of it and hung on while the Major tried to unbuckle the straps. Then it came off and rolled the driver in the u>ud. He got upto watch it. It writhed and kicked and jumped and throbbed and hopped; aud whenever it would make a dash to one side or the other the crowd would scatter in order to give it full play. Finally lien NVoollcy sot his dog on it, and a most exciting contest ensued, the leg two or three times running ' off with the dog; arid it seemed likely that the dog would get whipped. Mr Woolley ' got a crow bar and aimed a blow at the leg, with the intent to smash it; but he missed and nearly killed the dog. As soon as the dog retired, Mr. Woolley whacked it again and burst it into flinders, and then there was peace. The Major drove homo and got his crutches, and since then he has confined himself to the use of a wooden leg without springs.? Chicmjo Ih rahl. What Goes with a Fa km.? When a farm is bought or sold, (jucstions often arise ; as to what goes with it, and disputes may j often be avoided if farmers know just what . their farm deeds include. In* brief, says j \Ir Ifaigh, of the Detroit bar, in the American Agriculturist, where no reservations | are made in the deed, the conveyance in I eludes the laud, tlie buddings upon if, and ad such chattels or articles as have become so attached or fixed to tlie soil or to the buildings afl to become what is known in law as "fixtures." What constitutes a fixture depends largely on the intention ol'tho owiici in putting it there, and also upon the manner in which it is affixed. Anything so affixed to the soil or the buildings, that it cannot be removed without injury, nearly always goes with the farm; and anything o1' a permanent nature, fitted for permanent use, and annexed thereto by the owner with that intention, generally goes with the land, though it might ho severed without any injury, as the following examples will '.litis trato : All fences on the farm go with it. but no fencing materials, as rails, etc., if bought elsewhere and piled upon the farm, and not yet built into a fence; they have ncv: or yet been "annexed." l>ut rails cut from timber standing on the farm, and piled up for future use, go with it; their original an icxaliou is not severed by bt ing changed from standing trees to rails. If, however, ii. ... ......... ?i.~ ,.< : iiiij >u i f i. in uiiii iiiu in i v HiMiii ui n > i 11 tlii-iii elsewhere llinn on the farm, they would then he personal property, and would not pass. The bare intention in the mind of the owner in rhis instance makes tho difference between real estate and personal property. Hup poles, if they have been once used upon the farm, are regarded as a part of it. though at the time ol sale they are stored away for future use Loose scaffold poles, however, laid across the beams of a barn, have be< n held not to be a part of the realty. Standing trees, id" course, arc part of the fsrai;s> are trees cut or blown d >wn, if left where they fall, but i:ot if corded up for sale; the wood has then become personal property. Scientific Farmino Practical ?Mr. Buckmaster, boforo a well attended mooting of fanners, held at Tad ley in England, to consider a scheme for teaching the scicoo of farming, said that thoie was no opinion more deeply engraved in the mind of the English farmer, than the belief that there was'somo antagonism betweou science and practice. Sonic even went so far as to say that the two arc incompatible. The farmer ;vho drains his land, or tries a new manure, or a new plan, or a new crop, calls hixself a practical man; he despises all experiments, and laughs at the teach* ingsofscicntiCc men. lie is not conscious that, when he is thinking over new plans and adopting new methods of cultivation, he may be illustrating in his daily work, a series of chctqical and physiHogyoal exper* iments of extreme complexity and importance. Men of the highest order of intellect, and whose researches were the most oiiginal, have been p actieal men. Practice and theory are but pluses of the same form of thought. The practical farmer, ii' ho ever permits his initid to rise ah ?ve the traditions and empirical rules of his forefathers, and asks, ''Couldn't that have been <1 >ne in a better and more perfect way ? would not this be an improvement?" becomes a theorist; and, when lie tries to realize these concept ions, become a prac* tical uiau. Theory and practice are inseparable in every art, however much men uny seek to disunite them. The most practical man is often the most theoretical. Every operation is with him a theory. lie recognizes no change. He will admit no trial or experiment, because that would be an acknowledgement of science. Every science is built up of principles, and these principles carried into work we call practice. There is the science of astronomy and the art of navigation; the science of geometry, and the art of measuring; the science of mechanics and the art of making mailTncry; the science of chemistry and the art of agriculture. Almost every science is the basis of a cognate art. The most obvious and natural way of arriving at a real knowledge of the art of agriculture would be to know something of those principles 011 which the art is based; art being nothing more than the application of principles previously acquired. A farmer who is able to unite a perfect mastery of principles with a knowledgeof practical details, is an educated and scientific farmer. It might reasonably bo inferred that the shot tost rnd easiest method of learning any industrial art and surest guide to new discoveries in the art, would be a knowledge oi those fundamental principles upon which the art was based. No amount of practical skill aud experience could ever An Enthusiast on Onions.?I know this : An onion is (ho most vilifi-.d and worst traduced csculcut there is, and yet it is one of the most delicious to some persons that the earth pro luces. There is one thing that it lacks and that is popularity. 1 know meu who, if they experience the wh'ff of an onion, become so sick that they arc in the deepest imaginable misery for hours thereafter. On the other hand there are those who are so passionately fond of onions that they would rather eat a mess of onions than to sit down to the finest banquet iu the land. General S. F. Hunt is one of them. General Hunt is an enthusiast on the subject of onions, lie told me once that every time he visits the residence of a friend of his who makes a specialty of raising a particularly line species of onions, he oats so many that he is ashamed of himself. Manv times he slips off t o a restaurant and enjoys a feast of his favorite in several courses.? i . . lie says that those are the happiest moments oi' his life. To the traveling man the onion is the host friend in the world.? You can't think of any shape that an, onion is not good. Boiled, stewed, fried I baked, fricasseed, cscolloped, roasted, pick| led or raw, the}- are palatable and delicious* ! Cooked with potatoes, beefsteak, turkey or j duck, they are exceedingly savory, dust lot a fellow banging around the country, disgusted with the fare he receives at outof-the-way hotels or boarding houses, eat a raw oni.m and see how it will braeo him up. If you have taken too much tea of an even! ing, and feel the worse for your bout the j next morning, manage to get on the outside of an onion or two, and see how it will help you. Onions are excellent cures for heavy colds, as everybody knows. Then when a Icllow becomes wakeful, ju^t let him fill up on nice sliced onions. Gracious to goodness, what a comfortable drowsiness will couie over him '( lie forgets all care and sinks into a regular old-fashioned, forty-knot snooze that does him a power of good, I tell y >u ?Spruu/Jtebl Globe. m Want lis: I>iki? Of.?An old lady from this city who was visiting in Boston heaid a doctor giving a description of a late patient's illness and asked what disease ho had died of. ' Kuthanasia," answered the Boston doctor with professional accuracy. "Youth in Asia !" retorted the old lady; ,.never heard of it before. There ain't no sich name in my jography !" ' Oh!' said the doctor, nolitclv. "it means that the mental and physical forces have succumbed to the invasion of years and the vit il fires burned out from lac: of fuel?exhausted themselves, as it were." ' 11 uuijth,' said the mysiifi :d visitor, I shortly, "\vo call it old age in I>etroit."