Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ME WEEKLY Igjympt TIMES. _ ^({uotqd to ^flpnltur^, gwlfijuttttre, 'gomijstiq- ?ipoing, ^Eetcs the Jga;. VOL. XIV?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH Ciu^HRc? JANUARY 19. 1883. NUMBER 3. : '."h . '1 'J THE MATWnVfiT.'EHnwWV 1 TU. a .L-. .. ' A Vivid Skktcii of tiik Battlk of Fra.ski.im. It was the 80th of November, 1801. At 4 o'clock .in the afternooi the line of battle was formed, Stewart on tho right, Cheatham on the loft, their right and left flanks, interlocked like Parthian shields, composing the centre. Qen. Stephen D. Lee's Corps was hold in reserve ? Cleburne's position was in the centre, his divis" ion formed in three battle lines and ho at its head. Thus arranged Hood's lino was nearly two miles long, advancing, curved liko a Mus eulman'a scimitar, with the blade to the foe. But let us follow Cleburno. Bugles were blowing, drums beating and binds playing. A courier dashed up to Clehurno's presence and soon the word "Attention !" was given, then "Forward, march !" and the column passed over a hill and through a little skirt of wood*. Soon e fjfe< 1 into an open field and steadily they pressed on with "proper cadence" toward the rampart of blood and death. The Federal 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 and around the men, and at every explosion unbinding more evils than over flew from Pandora's box. Twilight was coming on. "Forward, men 1" was repoated all along (Inline. A living sheet of fire was poured inlo their ranks. Bu: the tnon pressed forward until the terrfic 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 old war cry rang out above tho din ofarms: "Follow tno, boys 1" Onco again, and again, and again, seven times, Cloburno's division, and, indeed, all P of Hood's army, charged tho breastworks. And once again, and again, and again, seven times were they repulsed. Every time they formed and re-formed under a most galling fire. At one times, just before dusk, Cleburne captured a portion of the works and turned the guns of a Federal battery on their former owuers ; but it was only for a few moments?a little silver rilt in the battle clouds that enveloped him in the darkness. It was the hottest fire Clebnrne had ever mot. It was but one stream of blnzing hell. Confederates were on nnn niiin nf lli? and Federals ontthe other. Men fell flat on their ( faces and fired from behind the bodies of their < dead comrades. Dead soldiors filled the entrenchments. Bio ,d made the earth as slippery 03 an ice pond. Thus tho firing was kept up 1 until after midnight, and gradually died out. 1 But both armies held their own. The Confeder- * atos passed the night where they wero, just out?ido the breastworks, The Federals only a few feet off, held their cover until near daybreak, 0 when they were quietly marohed away and retreated back to Nashville. j*. n<>W OLKUUUNB D1KD. But when the morrow's Sdrf began to Ktghl ? up the sky the surviviug soldiers looked out . upon a sad battlefield. The dead were piled one on top of the other in awful heaps and the wounded seemod thicker than the uncounted stars. . illorses, like men, had died game upon the detfencos. Cioburue's body lav thorc on top of the breastworks, ghastly in the sleep of dcath( .pierced 4with forty-nine bullets, through aud through; Ilis mare had her forefeet on top of the works, dead in that position. Not far from where Cleburne lay was seen the dead body of Gen. Adams. His horse had his forefect on one side of the works and his hind- | feet on tho other, dead. The General seems to havo 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. ^ Stah! lay by the roadside and his horse by his side, both dead, and all his staff. Gen. Gist ( from South Carolina, was lying with his sword, reaohiug across the breastwork, still grasped in his hand. He, too, was dead. Gen. Cranberry, of Texas, an 1 his horse were seen?horse and rider right on top of the breastworks, dead. * ^ All dead I Four thousand five hundred soldiers all lying side by side in death. Thirteen Con- ( federate Genorals were killed and* wounded. ( Six brothers, members of a Misissipi regiment, were all dead. "This was the bloodiest pioture in the book of Time 1" -4 The route over whioh Cleburne's command had marched the day previous to the battle of Franklin lay through some of the richest and loveliest oountry in all the 8outh. 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 la what is known as the "Polk and Pillow Settlement," or as it is now called, Aahwood. Here the distinguished and wealthy families bearing those names lived in a style of elegance and eaao but few baronial estates < of Europe could afford. Gen. Leonidas Polk, 1 (he Bishop; was born; here so, too, was ex-Prestdwnt James K. Polk, Gen. Luoius Polk, Col. 1 William Polk, Col.George Polk, Col- \ndrew J. Polk, Oen. Gideon S. Pillow, Col. Jerome Pillow, andothei prominent and famous persons. Nearly all of those gentlemen owned large plantations In Arkansas, Mississippi or Louisianna, and had \ prinoely incomes from their cotton and sugar erops; but here, at Ashwood, they bad their superb homesteads, mansions each with a manor, and their surroundings were in keeping with everything refined taste eould suggest and ^almost unlimited purses oould purchase. OLKBOSXS'S ROMANTIC OEAVI, Being sealous ohuroh people these gentlemen had built a beautiful Protestant Episoopal chapel, and hard by was the famity burying ground. It was a very romantio place and the neighborhood quite typioal of the flush days of our sunny r..? Southland. The ohapel was in the purest Gothic style, and Its walls and sharp-pointed roof were quite concealed by olambering ivy, while (he flowers and the shrubbery looked fresh and green even on this bleak November day. As Cleburne, with his staff, rode by, the general reined up his horse and lingered for a moment to admire a spot of suoh singular beauty. To Jilro, however, it waa ?h? beam/ of aadotaa. | > ? umiera mm utoomeu there seemed ready I fivlo and wither on the breast of death; the evei green was watting to lay upon his cotfin-lid, an frost glitt red on the fairest rose like jewclle mockery. Cleburne had a presentiment of tli nearness of death. Turning to one of his sta officers, he said with a sigh: "If I fall in tli coining fight, bury me hero at Ashwood." Tw day3 aftor his mangled form was placed beneat the sod at Ashwood. The service of the Episcopi Church was said by Bishop Quintard, and the the soldier slept in the grave he had chosei .?C. K. Robert in (hi Philadelphia Timet. A Traoic Game of Poker.?I remember 011 time when wo were on our way to New Orlean on a Misissippi ltiver s-.eamboat. Bill and I st up a game in the main saloon. The play use to be kept up pretty much all day, and sometime we would win or lose several thousand dollar In day. Thft game was at its briskest in th evening, after dinner, when most of the boy were more or less'full of wine, and wcro some times very heavy. Well, one night wo wer just going to sit down to the table, the lamp were lighted, and two new decks of [cards wer broken, wheualittlo fellow with a big moustache who sail he was a Kentuckian. asked to joi the game, as he wanted to learn it. lie showe< \ big ro'l of money, and we assented, thinkin we had caught a regular sucker. We hadn' been playing half an hour when Bill, on the finuiger a ueai, got iour Kings pat and startei off by raising the pot $100, the ante being $50 rhe pool mounted up to otor $5,000 beforsathe draw, and, much to his surprise Bill simply called the first bet of $500, and th bands wore then shown. The stranger liai scarce time to lay down four acos on the tab! when Bill raised one of his coat tails in his hand ind discharged the revolver through the pocket The stranger threw up his hands, half rose fron lis chair, and with a moan fell forward on th able, knocking over the lairp, and then turn ale 1 back on the floor dead. Of course (ho excite nent was tremendous; revolvers were drawn, uul a general panio ensued. Bill never lost hi: acrve for a second. Say's he : Gentlemen, jus ct me explain this little matter. That man hole four aces, and here is the oue I discarded from ny own hand. 1 never saw a deck of card villi two nccs of spades, and I'll swear that thi leek was all right when-1 counted it at the be ginning of the game, and so will my friend hen meaning me.) An 1 if you wantany more evi Icnce, look, here; and with that he yanked of he Kcntuckian's false mustache, and who should he stranger be but Chipper Jim, a noted skit ind desperado. We made up a committee to shuck the body overboard. One of the queer sal parts of the whole business woi, when w< same to count the stamps the half of it was sounterfcil money. . . A DuelFocoht Almost A Century Aoo,?St Vugustine, Fla., December 31.?On Thursday, trbile'engaged in tearing down a portico of the esidencc of Mr. Fuustina Pacctti, preparatorj o making repairs on the same, L. T. Canova ound a sword hidden away between the raftors if the roof. Upon making inquiries in relation o the same ho learned that the sword hat teen concealed in the place where he found ii or perhaps.sevonty-five or eighty years. Th< iarjt atttcned to it M lavenmuug . It would appear that one evening, while Fieri da was yet in possession of Spain, a grand bal sas given, at which was gathered the elite o the city. One of the ladies present was notec or her beauty, and her hand was eagerly sough tfier by the officers of the garrison for tho man; dcosant dances- Owing to some misunderstand ng she became engaged to two of the caballeroi or the same dance. Tho consequence was i (uarrel, which resulted in the cessation of thi nusic through the cutting of the strings of the nstrument. Hot words and insulting lnngungi tossed between theofficers and the two rnpaircJ o the open streets and engaged in a duel, it vhich one of thorn fell. The survivor, dropping tis sword , fled precipitately from the spot. One of the l'aoetii f unily, a boy of some 4 or years, witnessed tho encounter, and, running >ut, picked up the sword and carried it int< he house. Not wishing to bo called upon a: witnesses, the parents of the child concealed (hi word and kept all knowlcdgo ofit from thei leighbors. Thus (he old blade has been in it >lace upward of three generations. A North Carolina Mystkrt.?Beaufort, N j.., December 21.?Early this morning a larg ichooner anchored off Morebcad City on thi :oast. AJboat was sent ashore, in which were landsomely dressed woman and three children [t is reported that the fair passenger escapei from St. Michael's Island, whero she was sen lome timo ago for an attempt to poison her hus t>and. The story is that the woman, througl ihe assistance of a friendly sea captain, effectei tier escape from the islaud with her children tnd having converted what property she ha<] into cash, came to Moorehead. She and th little ones will at once loave for the North. 1 is said that those who ought to know the trutl of this story declined to talk about it to stranger* ?: A Strange Story.?A few days ag Et reliable gentleman said to us: "In m neighborhood nine, young men, intimat friends, of good fumilios iu oomfortabl* circ uuastauccs, and have died in the pat three months. They all died of the same die ease, typhoid fever, and no two of then were sick at the same time. As the firs drow near 'his death ho sent a messag to his best friend, tho one who nezc sickene and died, nskiug and advising him to lea< a KnMnr litfn 'I Kn at inn mnaamvA uioa con by each mao beforo ho died, and each reoi pient was the next victim of the fatal fcvei ?Barnwell People. ? ? , To Break Doos prom Sucking Egoi -j-Brenk an egg and after pouring out pai of the white, put in seveu grains of tarte emetic; lay the egg in the yard where th dog will find it; ho will be sick for a day o two, but will not bo injured. Should th doso fail, repeat it?it is seldom, however that the second dose is required. Stable manure is peferable to nny othe fertiliser. No farmer can afford to wast his manuro. All of it should be saved am utilised. In many oases farming would b more profitable if less land was cultivate with higher fertilisation. One aoro highl manured should pay better than three bu half manured and half cultivated. * ,0 WHY THE GIRLS DON'T K&.RRY. r* "What are wo girls to do?*' d This, writes a correspondent in the St. ( d Louis Spectator, was the question of a >e beau tit'ul Richmond belle. "Here thero ff are," coutinujd this lovely woman, ie "in tho best of society of our city, over 1 o two hundred aud fifty marriageable girls, i h many of them highly accomplished and attractive women, fitted to grace auy position; n and in all Richmond we have not a dozen )# really eligible men. Wo have hosts of beaux, but no prospective husbands Our i streets swarm with pleasant young fellows, i e who do for escorts, dancing partners and is flirtatio i material, but wo have absolutely j no uicn to whom an intelligent spirited, d ambitious girl could possibly think of tying ' 'g herself and her fortufios. They lack educa- i e tion, indcpcndenco, purpose?everything < a that is necessary to rise. Theru is no fu- j ' ture for them, and apparently none for us . e but to form nn old maid brigade and start on a crusade to somo of the far Western ' (> Territories, where sterling men arc plenty t n and worneu uro scarce," i d They did uot go crusading to the west, B and to-day the lamentations of tho Virgi3 uia bcllo fiuds full justification in 'he fact * 1 that Richmond is literally ovorrun with 1 ?. those uiost estimable, but seldom envied t ? or enviablo porti in of tho divine economy ) known as old maid. Every ball room and , j parlor wall is richly tapestried with these c slightly faded flowers. , Rut Richmond is not alone in this deli- ' cious misery. Tho samn complaint eoes ud i * from every city in tho land. The West sends to the East a gentle moan of sympa. thetio woe. 1'lenty of girls, lovely as the , sun ever shono on, but a panicky lack of ' desirable young men. j Thus spoke a clever and accomplished , young lady not long ago to a journalist: s "You mockingly criticise us for oncour) aging the attentions of what you contcmp" tuously stylo 'whipper-snappers,''snips'aud 8 'callow goslings.' but how can we help it? r There are twenty of these little fellows in i society where there is one really desirable 1 uan; and if it were not for thom wo would miss many an entertainment that we want to * attend, many an opera an 1 play, many a set in daucing, that wo 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, aud would be a , wall flower more than half tho time when she managed to inveigle her father or broth1 cr into escorting her to parties aud recep1 tions. You find me plenty of those cultiva} ted aspiring men, with a future ycu talk - Die 01 appreciating thorn and ready to dro^p 1 all their retinue of'snips' for them at any . f tiuio. Bring on your'raal men.' Trot ou' j ' your muclwtalkedof thorough'brcds." , She was only a debutante, but she non- . r . . 1 . plussed him. Tell over all the masculine j beads of your society rosary; lake an inven- , i tory of your male acquaintances in what is | e called good society and you will have to , ' admit that this vehement young girl iudict- . mcnt is a "true bill." All over this coun < , try a man-famine prevails. ; We have hosts of society follows?swells | giddy boys?but they aro hardly the hus. , band material a sensible woman would select. Many of them are kind hearted, agreeable s little creatures, disposed to do everytlrng in ( B their power to earn the gratitude cf the girls, r to whoso enjoy moot they contribute thejus selves and all they have and are. But a considerable proportion of them aro fr?;ks l# of nature, ouly to be accounted for when tho e creation of mosquitoes, fleas, mumps and s measles is explained. They arc as much a alike, fiud them where you will, as so many peas. There is not originality enough in t them for the tailors thoy patronize to get up sufficient difference tn he recn</iii?f?d nmlor li a microdor.pc. Their physiognomies nro 1 mild burlesques on (ho lap dog family. i California Farms.?The statistics e giveo by tho Los Angelos, California, Daily [t Commercial, as to tho iuimouso farms of I, that State, are doubtlesi oorrect, but they , arc astonishing. It quotes a list of a dozen ; * large California farms, and adds the fob i o lowing in the southern part of the State : , y The late Dan Murphy, of Santa Clarn, with e his 1G,000,000 acres ; Haggin & Corr, with 0 300,000 acres; Miller A Lux, 600,000 acres; it Gen. Beale, with 200,000 acres; H. M. ' I. Ncwhall, with 48,000 acres; Laukershim , , A Co., 50,000 acres; B. F. A G. K. Portor, t 36,000 aores; Moffit A Maclay, 20,000 acres; c E. J Baldwin, 20,000 acres; J. A L. bixby, 1 d 30,000 acres; J. Irvine, 48,000, acres; John ' 1 G. Downey, 75,000 acres; I. \V. Hellman i it 25,000 acres; Uichard Gird, 30,000 acres; | - J. S. Flood, 137,000 acres; Thomas R. j r. Bard, 50,000 acres; D- Freeman, 50,000 acres, and numerous other farmers and stock 1 growers whose farms extend into tens of i. thousands of acres. This is a great country 1 t and it docs not all lie in Colusa. * T e Srnt IIim a Check.?"John," said an ,r Indiana avenuo lady to her husband the B other morning, "you know Harry's expenses at eolleee are Quite lame this vear. and he writes me that he don't see how he's goiog to get along without tnoro help." :r "That's all right," said the husband, "I e seut him a check yesterday." I "You sent him ohcok ?" e "Yes; I wrote him that ho wouldu't get d another dollar out of uio before Christinas. <f If that don't aot as a check on his blamed it eztravganco, I don't kno / what will.? Chicago Check. Cd^^HlAMS?' The principal thing in o^HH^pius (a to got them just silt ?no??Npthcu? and not so salt as to iujur^^B|iTOr and cause thorn to get hard.l^^Bps should be neatly triminod and cut rj^Hfog, to Imitate as close as possible tho h^Bbfcommerce. "T^MUooely, so there shall bo no masses at the lowest extremity of the hauis^^Kp shoulders may bo cut in shapo conv^^Htfor packing, and they should be sultc^^^Kp^rate- packages from the hams. CttWd by both dry salting and brind^^HniMg^ulting is empolyed tho hamiiM^PM^^C^Ma with salt and sugar. Bot<r$^WI^ffi^^^t1myar?Tmo6hed-d? ! in platforms or tablus, the surface of which s spread with a layer of salt, and each hara s also covered with salt. When taken up o rub, which is usually done fivo or six imcs, a shallow box is at hand in which to lo tho work. "When brine is used, prepare a pickle itrong enough to float an egg and stir into t sufficient auuunt cf sugar and molasses o give it a sweetened taste. Sours adJ a ittlc saltpetre to color the meat, while others :laim it tends to harden the meat. In inodjrato quantities, it is generally acccepted as jenenctui. uover the hams with pickle and slaco the packages where the temperature s uniform and above freezing. For hams jf twelve pounds four weeks wili bo suffix jient; large hams must remain in brine a lonscr time. In general, three to Revcn arceks embraces the extremes of time required for domestic curing of hams, varying is to sizo of hams, temperature and time vhen they will be required for use. When t is designod to preserve hams through the lummcr they must not be removed from the sickle too soon. "Shoulders require much tho same trcatncnt as do hams, and both should be careFully smoked. The preservative principle e 1- - i ? ii suiuiwu lo Known ns creosote. Smoke made by bu'rn:ng corn cobs is highly csecuicd, but those engaged in curing meat ; )Q a large scale prefer the smoke obtained roui dry hickory that has been stripped of ts bark. The smoking process must not be oo much hurried or the creosote will not iave time to penetrate the ontiro substance >ftho meat. Ten days' smoking is usuilly sufficient, unless the pieces are very practiced by lome of the leading packing houses, consists n creating tho smoke in an oven outside of :,he smoke house and passed through under,. ;round pipes iuto it. Tho smoke, rising From tho floor to the top of the house, enjjuntere two opposito curreuts of air drawn From tho outside. Those currents cause tho jtnoko to form into a rapidly revolving horizontal column which passes amo jg the hams. The smoke is zot warm, and there is no heat to melt the hams or hot air to blacken them. Tho hams uuder this process aro smoked in vary much less time than by the old method. ''While cunvassiug hams has nothing to do with their flavor it is a protection from insects, and will pay the farmer for the extra labor. It should be dono beforo warm weather. Wran each ham in coarse hrnwn paper and then sew it up in cotton cloth, cut to suit the size, following the shape of the h in, When covered as described, dip ihcm 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.?N. Y World. Tub People Who Die in a Year. ?Dc you kno.v how many people die every year ? In order to kuow this wo need only to examine the statistics of the world's pop. a u.a oaa aaa aaa uiafciuu. iioia iiua ouv,uuu,uui; I u na u 11 UN is* Kuropo, 305,000, 000; Africa 201,000,000; America, 86,000,000; Ocoanica, 50,00000. rheso, remember, are low estimates, which give a total of only 1,400,000,000. Allowing to the inhabitants of tho oarth an avcrago life of 39 years we hod that every year, 35,135,000 people dio, which gives a total of 90,720 deaths par day?3,780 deaths per hour?G3deaths ovory minuto, or more than ono every seoond. Thu9, every second, as a French author expresses it, "a leaf falls from tho vrst treo of humanity, to be forthwith roplaoed by a now ouo." A Davy Crockett in Petticoats.? A correspondent writing from Kingston, New Mexico, says : "Hero, also, lives a woman of some thirty-fivo or forty summers, who is a wonder. She hasjust com Elcted * log cabin, and did all the work crself except putting up the last logs.? She cut the logs hauled them, and made the shingles to oovor it. ( saw her ride in town yesterday (Sunday) on a horse.? In front of her was a deer she hai just killed. You will probably thiuk she is a lovoly widow. 8uch is not the caso. She has a husband and ho takes euro of thcchil. drcn. (Good boy ") f The Major's Artificial Leo.?Major Todd, of Bangor, Me., lost his right leg at the battle of Fredericksburg, and some time ago bo pu. chased an artificial leg from a man in Washington. It contained a system of springs which cniblcd the Major to use it in such a natural manner that when he was walking along the street nobody would for a iniunnt suppise that he had uot both of his own legs. One Sunday, while tho Major was on his way to church, ho slipped upon tho ico and gave the store leg a severe wrench. lie must have dislocated somo of the springs; for, alter reaching the church and takiug Lhf ?ihWw wan ing tho Scriptures, the log sud lenly flow up and rested on the back of the scat in front of him. The congregation looked at him in amazement, and ho grow very red in the face. As soon as he took it dowu it jumped up again and wiggled about on the back of tho pew, finally kicking Mrs. Thompson's bonnet to rags. Then the Ma I jor suppressed it ncrain. and held it down i , -- . but it instantly begau a. convulsive movement in his own pew, during which it upset . the stools, plunged around among the hymn hooks and hats, and hammered the board c beneath the scat until the minister had to 1 stop- The sexton came rushing in to find out what was the matter, and tho Major, after explaining the difficulty in a whisper, ( asked the sexton to let him lean on him 1 while lie charged on the front door. As 1 soon as the Major got into the aisle that . dislocated leg kicked the the sexton sixteen . or seventeen times in a most insolent man- j ncr, varying the exercises by making ceceu- ? trie swoops off to ono side, during which 4 :* - * ? ?... it. Mt-fccu eigne 01 mo iiigu Hits at tlie pow doors into black silk chaos. v By tho time the Major rcachod the ^cs- a tibulc the leg had become perfectly reck- t loss. It flew up before aud it flow up be- ^ liiud. It butted against the good leg, and, ' darted out sidewise, and described circles, t and tried to insert its toes in the Major's j coat-tail pockets, and to whack him on the 1 nose. When the sexton came with the ! hack and put the Major in it the leg bang*ed through the window glass, and when the | driver got down t.? see about it the leg bran- t dished itself iu his face, and concluded the exercise by planting a terrible blow in his tbW Wd1 bi\fi ten 'dollar's to take tlio leg off, 'and tho driver accepted the offer. For several minutes it eluded all his efforts to cateli it as it danced about, 1 but finally ho got hold of it and hung on ^ while the Major tried to unbuckle the i straps, Thcu it came off and rolled the j driver in the uiud. lie got up to watch it. ^ It writhed and kicked and jumped and throbbed and hopped; and wheuevcr it 1 would make a dash to ono side or the otii- < er the crowd would scatter in order to give t it full play. Finally Ben Woolley set his ? dog on it, and a most exciting contest ensued, the log two or thrco times running off with tho dog; and it seemed likely that ' the dog would get whipped. Mr Woolley 1 got a crow bar and aimed a blow at the 1 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 I ^ again and burst it into flinders, and then * there was peace. The Major drove homo 1 and got his crutches, and since then he has t confined himself to the use of a wooden leg , without spriugs.? Chicayo Herald. What Goes with a Fa km.?When a < farm is bought or sold, questions often arise as to what goes with it, and disputes may ( often be avoided if farmers know just what their farm dords include. In "brief, says MrHaigh, of tho Detroit bar, in the American Agriculturist, where no reservations < aro made in the deed, the convoyance in- | eludes the laud, the buildings upon it, and | all such chattels or articles as have become ( so attached or fixed to tho soil or to the buildings as to become what is known in ' law as "fixtures." What constitutes a fixture depends largely on the intention of tho ( owner in putting it there, and also upon tho manner in which it is affixed. Anything 1 so affixed to the soil or tho buildings, that it cannot bo removed without injury, nearly always goes with the farm; and anything of a permanent nature, fitted for permanent use, 1 and annexed thereto by the owner with that intention, generally goes with the land, though it might be soverod without any iujury, as tho following examples will illustruto : All fences on the farm go with it, but no fencing materials, as rails, etc., if bought elsewhere and piled upon the farm, aud not yet buil t into a fence; they havo ncv: eryct been "annexed." But rails cut from timber standing on tho farm, nud piled up for future use, go with it; their original annexation is not severed by being changed from standing trees to rails. If, however, they were cut with tho iutention of using them elsewhere than on tho farm, they would then he personal property, and would not pass. Tho bare intention in the mind of the owner in this instanco makes the 1 vmmvivuvu 1/bvnovu itui oovavu IIUU ptOUIJUl property. Hop poles, if they have been onoo used upou the farm, aro regarded as n part of it, though at the time of sale they 1 nro stored away for futuro use Loose scaffold poles, however, laid across tho beams I of a barn, have bern held not to be a part | of the realty. Standing trees, of courso, aro part of tho farm ; so aro trees cut or blown down, ifleft whero they fall, but not if corded up for sale; tho wood has tlion bccomo personal property, i SciKNTIPIO FARMING PRACTICAL?MrRuckmaster, before a well attended iuueidj? of farmers, held at Tudley 10 Englaud, ,o consider a schouie for teaching the sci;no of farming, said that thoie was ik? >pinioo moro deeply engraved in the tnrnd )f the English farmer, than the belief that here was'somo antagonism botweon science md practice. Some eveu went so far as o say that the two arc incompatible. The urutcr who drains his laud, or tries a new nanurc, or a new plan, or a now crop, tails hixself a practical uian; ho despises ill experiments, and laughs at tho leachngs oi'scicntitic men. lie is not conscious hat. when ho is thinking over new plans md adopting new methods of cultivation, ac may bo illustrating in his daily work, a 9t ohewical and physHpgfoJ expermcnts of extreme complexity ana iulporancc. Meu of the highest order of intelect, and whose researches were tho roost uiginal, have been p-actical men. Practico md theory are but pluses of the sauic form >f thought. The practical farmer, if ho iver permits his mind to riso abive the raditions and empirical rules of his foroathers, and asks, "Couldu't that have iccn done in a belter an<J more perfect vay ? would not this be an improvement?" jceouics a theorist; and, when he tries to eulize these conceptions, become' a prac* ical mau. Theory and practico arc inseparable in ivcry art, however much men may seek o disunite them. The most practical nan is often tho most theoretical. Every iperation is with him a theory. He rocoglizes no change. lie will admit no trial or xpcrinicnt, because that would be an accnowlcdgcmcnt of science. Every science s built up of principles, and these principles sarried into work we call practico. There s the science of astronomy and tho art of lavigation; the science of geometry, and tho irt of measuring; tho science of mechanics ind the artof making ma< h'ntry; the scimcc of chemistry and tho art of agriculture. Vlmost every science is the basis of a cog>> late art. The most obvious and natural ray of arriving at a real knowledge of tho irt of agriculture would be to know somehing of those prinriplos on which tho art is >ascd; art being nothing more than the apilieation of principles previously acquired, k farmer who is able to uuite a perfect nastery of principles with a knowledge of >ractical details, is an educated and scicnific farmer. It might reasonably be inferred hat the shortest rnd easiest method of learnni: any industrial art and surest guide to \/?\u " .w., U.owicuV/O iU HIV? ttll, ttUUlU DO a mowledgc ofthusc fundamental principles ipon which the art was based. No amoun t f practical skill and experience could ever An Enthusiast on Onions.?I know his : An onion is the most vilified and vorst traduced esculent there is, and yet it s one of the most delicious to some persons ,hat the earth produces. There is one thing ,hat it lacks and that is popularity. I know neu who, if they experience the wh'ff of an )uion, become so sick that they arc in tho icepcs'. imaginable misery for hours there iftcr. On the other hand there are those vho are so passionately fond of onions that .hey would rather cat a mess of ouions than ;o sit down to tho finest banquet in the and. General S. F. Hunt is ono of them, jlencral Hunt is an enthusiast on the subect of onions. lie told me once that every : t_. it - i /? n i ? init; uu visits iuu rosiueuce 01 a iriena 01 fiis who makes a specialty of raising a particularly fine species of onions, he cats so many that be is ashamed of hiuasclf. Many times he slips off t o a restaurant and enjoys a feast of his favorite iu several courses.? lie says that those are the happiest moments of his life. To the traveling man tho onion is the best friend in the world.? VTou can't think of any shapo that an, jnion is not good. Boiled, stewed, fried baked, fricasseed, escolloped, roasted, pickled or raw, they arc palatable and delicious' looked with potatoes, beefsteak, turkey or luck, they arc exceedingly savory. Just let a fellow banging around the country, disgusted with the fare he receives at outof-the-way hotels or boarding houses, oat a raw onion and sec how it will brace him up. If you have taken too much tea of an even: J _i At.. # * - mg, uuu icei me worse ror your Dout tne next morning, manage to get on the outside of aa onion or two, auil see how it will help you. Onions nro excellent cures for heavy colds, as everybody knows. Then when a fellow becomes wakeful, just let hitn fill up on nice sliced onions. Gracious to goodness, what a comfortable drowsiness will come over him ? lie forgets all care ond sinks into a regular old-fashioned, forty-knot snooze that docs him a power of good, 1 tell you.? Spr ivy field Globe Waiit He Diei> Op.?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 he had died of. 'Euthanasia,"answered the Boston doctor with professional accuracy. "Youth in Asia !" rotorted the old ladv <* J ?ncvcr heard of it before. Thero ain't no lich nauie in mj jography 1" "Oh I" said the doctor, politely, "it means that the mental and physical forces havo succumbed to tho invasion of years ?nd tho vital (ires burned out from lac; of fuel?exhausted theniselvos, ns it were." "llumoh.'' fniil tlm mvaiifi.vl tiuiinf r t - J * J shortly, "wc call it old age in Detroit."