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x _ ^ gtroltd lo ^riritulliire, horticulture, gomcslit <?tonomg, polite 1'ilcraturc, $olitits, and the (Current ^Rcics of the gag. VOL. XVII ?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 8,1S86. NUMBER 1. Tiik Carolina Clay-Katisks.?It has been n matter of speculation fur years as to why the 'poor whito trash* of central Nrtrth Carolina ato the clay that is found in that part of the country. It reuiaiued for a Philadelphia physician to solve the mystery. A short tiuic ago Dr. Frank II. Getchcll, of 1532 Spruce street, went on a gunning expedition to North Carolina. His quost for game led him into the wild countrv back of Salisbury, which is inhabited, for the most part, by a miserable race of beings with oulyjust enough energy to eke out a wretched existence. These croiturcs arc nearly all veritablo Jiving skeletons, and, with few exceptions, are addicted to the habit of clay-oatiug. While shootiug wild turkey and other gamo in this wild region, i)r. (Jetchell made ati incidental study <>l this peculiar habit or vice among the inhabitants. It is a mountainous country, and in the spring little rivulets start out from the caps of snow on the mountain, and, as tho days grow warmer, tho little rivulets become torrents, and great wash-outs are made aloDg the uiountniu-sidc. The soil is of a heavy, clayey nature, but there arc strata ol clay that is heavier thnu the rest, and the water rushes down, this clay is formed into littlo pellets, and rolls and accumulates in heaps in tho valley. These little pellets and rolls arc what the clay-eaters devour with as much avidity as a toper swallows a glass of whiskey. 'Among the poor people of this section,' said Dr. (letchcll. vesterd:?v fh?* hnhit r?f eating clay is altnust universal. Kven little toddlers are confirmed in the habit, and the appetite seems to iucrcasc with time. While investigating the matter, I entered a cabin occupied by ouo of these poor families, and saw a little chap tied by the anklo to the leg of a table, en which was placed a big dish of bread and meat and potatoes within easy reach. The child was kicking and crying, and I asked his j mother why she had tied hiui up. She replied that she wanted him to cat. some food i before ho went out to the clay, and lie re* ' fused to do so. The woman confessed ! that she ate the clay herself, but explained that the child's hcahli demanded that it eat some st:b?0I'od bofi>ro eating any I earth. Almost every one I uiet in this section 1 was addicted to this habit. They were J all very thin, but their flesh seemed to be , puffed out. This was particularly noticeable about the eyes, which had a reddish t hue. ' 'All of the clay-catcrs were excessively j lazy and indolent, and all of these condi- ( tions combined led me to the conclusion , .t . -*. h- ? ? lliai Lliurc UlUftl UU BOII1U SUUUUVU U| MIUIU' lating qualities, or both, in tho clay, and 1 i dctcnuim d to find out whether thero was 1 or tint. I consequently brought a lot yt tho clay home with uio, and Prof, Tiernnu and myself uiade an analysis of tho stufl, and discovered that, instead of clay-eaters, tho inhabitants of central North Carolina should more properly be called arseniceaters. 'All of this day contains arsenic, but ox~ actly in what proportion, wc have not yet discovered. Arscnic-tating is common in many parts of tho world, and is practiced to a greater or less extent throughout the world. It acts as a sedative anu falsi as a stimulant, i tie mountaineers 01 oiyriap Austria, tire habitual arsenic-caters. They, give as their reason (or eating it, that they nre better able to climb the mountains after eating the poison, and their explanation is a perfectly reasonable one, as arsenic acts as a sedative to the heart's action. The habit is also prevalent in the Tyrol and in the Alps. 'It is also said that the peasant girls of Switzerland and parts of Germany and in Scand inavia, eat arsenic to give lustre to their eyes and color to their cheeks, but this is a matter 1 h ive not investigated. It lias been shown that arsenic or av-enioal fumes are a sure cure for intermittent fever. 'The inhabitants of a section of Cornwall, Euglund. at one time all suffered with this type of fever ; but when the copper works were established there, 1 ho fever disappeared. This was accounted for by tho arsenical Iuiikh created in the treat, mcnt of copper. As to whether arseniceating shortens life, I am not yet prepared to say, but I intend investigating the matter thoroughly.'?Philadelphia Times. O * Uncle .John, I thought your cows were well hied'! ' 'Of course they are, my dear. They are Alderneys, and 1 have their pedigrees from v. ay h ick.' 1 don't rare about that. They arc not well bred. One of them just chased 111c out of the pasture lot. and I think they are just as rude as they cati be ! '?-AVtr l'orA' (/raphic. li ITT Kit l'llinT HeTWEEM TeVCIIKK and Pupil - Aubuun, III., December .'10. ?Ouc uf the uiost singular social disagreemoots that has ever divided a community has separated Mio 1,500 inhabitants of this peaceful village iuto two rancorous lac* tious. lietwccn the families of J. M Christopher and James II. Lewis, brothersin-law and rich farmers, a feud has existed for several years over an inheritance, but not until recently have the neighbors shown any disposition to champion the oauso of either. Three months ago Miss Hun ice Christo* nher was or.nl nnf pi! a I ..- iflwii- 'iii.l i o-~~ " *" 11 given what is knowu as tlic Finley School. She is tweuty^two years old and for some time had been receiving attentions from Frank Hitchcock, one of the village bonus. Aiuong her scholars she was surprised to find Miss Emily Lewis, her oighlcen-year? old cousin. Teacher and pupil soon de? veloped a hatred lor one another which the scholars were not slow to no'ice. The oue was severe and tyrinieal, the other disobedient and at times intractable. The scholars told of the awlul passages at words which the two girls passionately indulged in, and the town, from discussing the soaudal, unconsciously began to take sides, until at length many old friends found their social relations completely severed. Just before the eud of the h lay term an unusually hotter controversy w is had over a geometrical problem which terminated in Miss Christopher calling Miss Lewis a blockhead and Miss Lewis accusing Miss Christopher of knowing less about inatlr cmatics than her pupils. Miss Christopher undertook to chastise Miss Lewis for her insolence, but after a violent scuttle in which luitli ?n.m? 1 ?.i ? jwmi^ uiviivo ivm i Hi. u bangs and inflicted several disfiguring scratches upon one another, the tetchor tetire i, a little the worse off for the c!f >rt. The town scandal ran so liigh that night that a number of young men quarrelled an l fought aver the merits of the affair. Miss Christopher gave tio intimation of her purpose, but when school opened on the following morning young Hitchcock, the lusty and obedient lover, was the first to enter, lie was given a ?cnt l clide Miss fit ristopher's desk. .Miss Lewis was tailed, but declined to leavo her seat, where, tpon .Miss Christopher walked up the aisle litchoock and, followed grasping the hands of diss Lewis, held them pinned behind her jack until Miss Christopher hal satisfactorily jutiished her with a long strap. L'j on being released the girl tied home in tears and relate I he method of her chastisement to her mother. The mother flew into hysterical rage and. matching up her hush-.nd's revolver ha-d^no I jver to the school. Discipline had meanwhile ranished. and when Mrs Lewis arrived upon the scene it was one of wild disorder in which i ihc scholars were loudly uiibra:ding the" I teacher and iier lover for the r conduct. Mrs. Lewis rushc<l into tlie room with pistol in ha.i t an.I her linger cii the trigger, an I hil not a couple of plucky 1> ?ys taken the revolver away from her she would doubtless haw shot Loth ! her niece ami young Hitchcock. .Shesntg'it the | next best retaliation by having them arrested . j They were tried before a magistrate for asjault I and battery last Thursday aud (he jury disagreed. Then tliey were re arrested for disorderly conduct, and after a two days' hearing were last evening lined $10 and costs ea h by tho magistrate. The ablest legal talent procurable ut Springfield was engaged in (lie case, and the arguments were as elaborate and graphic us if the trial was for n.urdcr and tho prisoners victims of circumstantial evidence. People from all the country around came in to the hearings with their best rigs as on church days. Young II it dicock took advantage of the trial to propose marriage to Miss Christopher, and his oiler was accepted. She is disposed to retire from the school, but the Christopher faction insists that she must continue to teach. C)n the other hand, ilie Lewis :nction declare that Miss Kmily shall pursue her studio at the Finley School, and intimate that if Miss Chris lupin'i f* vi uuumj'if iu uu<ni in i itivir i will be a tragedy. The (.'nnimissioners will j probably take the case in hand an 1 dismiss j both teacher an 1 pupil. The legal expenses of 1 the two trials will sum up over Sd.oot). McKeunoy, Texas, heeembor Li'.'. ? Thomas Ilinson, a boy aged fourteen years, enticed tho three little daughters ol' John. Gallagher. residing at St. I'aul, this county, some distance from home yesterday evens ing about sunset. Alter getting th on in a secluded spot he brutally asstulted Laura, a child of seven or eight years of age. The other children fled. Pepuly Sheriff Uroeks arrested Ilinson li.-t n:pht and lodged him in jail. There is some douht as to how long ho will bo permitted i u l t iiituii i HI i?:. Hi, Paso, Texas, Peccmbcr 21b? It became koovMj hero ytsterday that a bold attempt was made mi tbe night of the 2!!rd inst. to blow up the bridge of the South eru Pacifiu lliiilroad across I be llio (Ira lule river, several miles above this city. I > v nam it c was placed on the track and the bridge bolts were loosened. A dozen or more men, sj caking Knglish, seized bridgekeen r Meivin about midnight, bound and blind!' Idcd him, and thin marched him to his cabin. Tin: 15anv Has Come.?Said one of tho Western Union Telegraph receivers ' yesterday : 'Do you kuow that few people ! outside the doctors and the telegraph receivers realize how many babies arc born in the world '! Why, there isn't a day, Sundays included, that I don't handle from If) to 23 'bihy telegrams,' as we call 'em. 15y these I moan telegraphic announcements of the advent of little strange.s. There's :i good deal of huurui nature in these messages. Of course, they are usually sent to the little one's grandparents, and they take on all shades of exuberance, from tlie wildly exalted ecstacy of a li?born to the cold, formal, aud not in'r.O quentiy disgusted announcement of the sixth. I will say, however, that alter too seeoud or third event of the kind the lightning is not drawn on so reck lo.-sly. The slower process of the mails is considered enough for the emergency. The coming of the first, however, is as sure to bring out an excited telegram as the sun shines It is great fun to watch the senders ol these first baby dispatches as they prepare them. A young father comes in with a hurried step aud an exultant, beaming face. He grabs a blank and dashes off something like this : 'Great news ! Mary very ill. Fiuc boy!' Then he tears tha'. j up. Somehow- he doesn't want the rude ( telegrapher to kn >\v the name of the gentle , but happy sufferer, and he tries it again : 'I"jX|h eted ovont realized; a little girl ; wife doing well.' -'Hut, pshaw !' lie says, 'that's rather a cold way to speak of her to own father and mother. Wife, why of course she's wife ; but I do not iiko tint,' and he tears it up. Then he starts again, j and this time lie says: 'Confound the telegrapher, he shan't know anything about it,' and he writes : 'It has coute?eight ' . pounds?female. Mother all right.' lie j looks at it a minute, and then tears it up. I . with the remark : 'They wou't know i whether that moans a Jersey calf or a ilamblctouian colt.' Jiy this time the j young man has got into a sweat, and grab' J t hing a pencil bedashes off: 'It's a girl, i Mother doing nieely,' and after looking at that live or six minutes, and maybe with a ? MyMfl/trcWrn/r ir^y arc all about alike, these first young fathers. They're proud and happy and conscious, and yet tlioy will do almost anything to conceal their idcu- ^ tity. Sometimes the young man comes in ' showing signs that the great domestic event has been too much for him, and then 1 1 have to take the pencil and help him out, ' and L do it in a practical way. I get the ^ address and 1 simply write : 'The little N stranger 4s here. It is a girl or boy.) Mother well.' And then the man pays 1 his half-dollar and nearly pulls me through 1 the window in his fierce desire to have me c go and give the baby a bath. There is ( great fun in a telegraph ollioe when the 1 baby business lias been particularly good, : 1 can tell you.'?Chicago Ifrrahf. Sol III (\VK01.IX.v\s IMtOSt'EKITY.? Charleston, S. (J., J>eccinber 31.?The Xitm urn/ ('ultra r will print to-uiorrow :i 1 review of the industrial growth ami resources of South Carolina covering a ' period of live years since the 1'nited States census ol 1880. The review shows an in- : eiease of 823,1 12,803 in the value of real and personal property, of nearly lit) per cent, decrease (more than 8500,000) in the public debt of the State during the same period. In 1880 the value of the products oi'the State and agricultural ma> ehinery was 871,180.87!) ; in 1SS5 the value is 811 1,908,047?an increase of 810,718,708, trade up as follows: increased value of live st >ck 80,018,380, agricultural productions 88.030,221, agricultural j machinery 81.-103.078, manufactured produets 821,033,2-10. Individual deposits in State and National i .i....: ir?iii[\a timing im; >i .u .-nun <111 in- i crease of 81)11,0S({. The commercial cap- ' ital is estimated at ?1(>;082.000, as cohi-* ' pared with S 10,1.">(? 000 in 1880. There are D.'Joli manufacturing establishments in the Stale, as compared with 2,70S in 1SS0. The capital employed has increased from SI 1,205,S!11 to 823.807,510, while the products have increased from SI 0,738,008 to 838,103,250. During the five years 2 I0 miles of railroad have been built, at a cost of 82,000,000. In flnc, the. review shows that the people have added in five years 800,300,000 to the total wealth of South Carol iua. Atlanta, tia., December 21).?dames ] Turner, nephew of United States Senator Joseph H. Drown, wis run over by a freight engine in the Western and Atlantic Railroad yards last night, and was ground to death. Mr. Turner was trying to cross the track i.i front of the engine. Senator Drown is President of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Tub Tiikkatknkd Issue.?Tlio up country is op.?1 mouthed about makiu? a proper apportiouiu ;nt au issue in the next oauipaigu. This be ng tbe case, it is as well to see wl at is tbe ground of complaint which arises in default of an enumeration and reapportionment. As near as we can approximate the li'ures we find the following results: Charleston county is very certaiulv under (JO.0(10 nnnulntimi at thin period, Edgefield and liarnwoll together possibly foot up 'Jo,000 to-day; Abbeville and Anderson 83.000; Greenville and Spartanburg 00,000; Richland and Orangeburg TSjOOO* Suuiter aud Marian 78,000. Now then, if Charleston county has 12 represen. tativos to say 00.000 people, this gives one representative to every 3,000. At this rate Edgefield and Earn well should have 10 representilives, they htvo only 10; Abbeville aud Anderson should have 10, they have onlv 0; Greenville and Spartanburg should have 18, they have ouly 8; Richland and Orangeburg should havo 15, they have ouly 10; Sumter and Mation should have 15 they have only 8. Without going further these figures are sufficient to indicate the gross wrong done in postponing the enumeration, aud the reapportionment under it as expressly directed by the Constitution. At the next State j Convention, called for the nomination of 1 State officers, which is tantamount to an ' election, this inequality will transpire in a 1 Lclliug way. Doubling the county delcga- ! don in the Legislature lor representation in die Convention whilst Charleston will havo ' .'8 delegates Edgefield and linrnwell comlined will have 2 t nhhnuolt iln? lies have over 30,000 more people than 'harlcstou county; o Abbeville and Anlersou will have but 22, although they live over 20,000 uiore people than .'harlestou county; Greenville and Spartanmrg will have but 20, thoueh rlioy have 30,000 more people than Charleston soauty. This same advantage will enure o other counties in the State besides C 'harlcMon county, and we simply make 11 lie comparison with it to make the stat> m nt more iuei.-ive, as it enjoys above all lairnesentation tl^af- j hfs date. Wc do not pretend to nice accuracy in ho figures given. We have allowed Irectiville and Spartanburg a 1 irgor inn-ease from 1ST0 to 1SS."> than any of the itlier counties, and Charleston county the oast increase of all oi 'he figures of 1SS0. iVe take it, however, that wo have not raided far from the true state of the case. iVo thus may see at a glance what a dis- , urbing clement hasten thrown into the :?xt campaign -by the assembly failing to , lo its sworn duty. There is absolutely no . cvi^e t'ur it, and wo sincerely trust that , ,lAv?}opular condemnation will make such i demoralizing incident in the legislation of he State a political impossibility hereafter. ? Cul. Rrjislcr. ? . . - Why Not??Why net plant Black Walnuts, Butternuts and Chestnuts upon your farm? I eau remember a chestnut tree that crew on our homestead that v.as a pleasant feature of the past. The foliage and blossoms were possessed of great beauty, ami as the chestnut burrs began to appear they suggested pleasant thoughts of the nutting time coming. When the first nuts b> gau to fall, there was much scrambling far them among the little ones, and when all were gathered many a pleasant evening was spent cracking them by the lire. Although I am an enthusiastic fruitgrower, 1 am of the opiuiou that there may be as much profit in planting these nut-bearing trees as in planting fruit trees. 1 aui thinking now of planting them about our farm. Tiio Hluck Walnut succeeds a 1 most anywhere. Wo have two young trees upon our place neat Rochester, fruit which we gather every year from four t> six bushels of nuts. Supposing we hail a ten-acre lot of trees, the revenue could not be loss than $1.1)00 a ye ir for the fruit alone. Aside from the fruit, the timber of the Chestnut and Mock Walnut are exceedingly valua- j ble for many purposes. There ore many farms in the great West which arc destitute of trees. The Mock Walnut there would doubtless succeed better than the Chestnut. As trees of all kinds can be procured at a vcy 1 >w price?from ten to twenty live cents each?there is no excuse for not planting them.? (irrcms Fruit (J roircr. - * It knocks nil the giltoff the gingerbread of nn editor's life to know th.it when he has written a fiery and brilliant article denouncing tyranny, and exposing slavery, he will lnve to go home and split kindling woud for his wife, and shine his mother-in law's bcots.? Fall ltivcr Advance. Skasoxahi.k Duties oe Farmers.? Those w!io have families of children should int(frest themselves in the district school and see tha' it is well taught and sustained. No farmer who is a parent can afford to neglect his duty in this matter, or fail to manifest a lively interest in the school where his own neighbors' children receive their rudimentary, if uot principal, edjuca tiou. Able school trustees and commissioners, with capablo and efficient teachers arc important requisites, and it is tho incumbent duty of <-vcry parent to aid in securing these desirable auxiliaries to public nh.l 'P.. -u: J J uu\4 ir/uju XV 15 I'UU) ilklUUll the school meeting, vote for tlio besr'tnon for school trustees, and aid in making liboral provision for a first class school in your district. And do not fail to visit the same occasionally and encourage the teach, er. lu this and other ways jou can do much to improve the school, and every judicious effort in that direciion will redouud to the benefit of all interested? parents, pupils and teachers. Good officers and teachers can best be secured*through the personal attention and influence of parents who manifest lively interest in their selection and uiauagciucnt. Furthermore, provide your family with pure aud useful books and periodicals. Mouey invested in reading matter of tbc right juality pays largo dividends. The rule should be to "get only the best"?ouly such publications as arc instructive, useful aud elevating. Avoid all trashy story papers, and other reading of a senseless aud iCQsatioual character?of the nickel novel tnd love-aud-iuurder gcucra. Thoy nre demoralizing and worse than poison for young people. lustcud ol such useless Irash secure standard books pertaining to rural and domestic affairs, as well as history, science aud literature.?Am. Ayricultu"iat. J'kkcentaok.?The reckoning of pur- ( scntages, like the minus sign iu algebra, is k com taut stumbling block to the novice. hiVen experienced uewspiper writers often )ecouto muddled wh?vi they attempt to k?of it. Th^ asceudi^^ ~ oer cent; given any sum of figures, the louhliog of it is au addition of 100 per ;out. But the moment the change is a Increasing calculation tho inexperienced mathematician betrays himself, and even the expert is apt to stumble or go astray. An advance from 20 to 25 ?s an increase of 25 per cent; but the reverse of this, that is, a decline from 25 to 20, is a decrease of only 20 per cent. There aro many persons, otherwise intelligent, who cauuot seo why the reduction of 100 to 50 is not a 1 j.k .>1* 1 111! fion^ if a n m;vin;n?; i?? iv? |/v;i vumj n u u idvauce from .">?? to 100 id an increase of 100 per cent. The other Jay an article of merchandise #which had been purchased at 10 cents a pound was resold at .'10 coats a pound, a profit of 200 per cent.-, whereupon a writer in chrouicling the sale, said that at the beginniug of i' e recent depression several invoices of the same class of goods which bad coat over 30 cents per pound had been fiually sold at 10 cents per pound, a loss of over 200 per cent. Of cours" there cannot he a deerea>o or loss of more than 100 per cent, because this wipes out the whole of the invest ment. An advance of from 10 to 30 is a gain of 200 per cent.; hut a decline from 30 to 10 is a loss of only GGj per cent.?N< ic Vor/c .Journal of Ci mmcrcc. Shot IIis Rival and Himself.? Kansas City, December 28.?Christinas night at I/mle lllue, Mo., Frank A'aughn was married to Kliza Swopc. Immediately after the ceremony, while Vaughn and his wife were standing at a window, they were tired at from the outside the ball rrmyimr Y:m<?lio\s head. It was thought O" ?"*n r> - -- o | the shot was lir*d by Abraham Nave, cousin of the bride, who had threatened that if she did not many him tic would shoot the in hi she should marry. List night Nave visited the \<iu_h:is and said the reports ol' the Christmas afl'air worried his mother ! and asked that Vaughn and his wife accompany hiin to his home and deny that they suspected him. This morning they started on horseback. When half the journey was completed Nave rode up to the buggy and shot Vaughn dead, lie then rode homo, and upon the approach ot the officers killed himself by shooting. Akukstki) Afteii Twenty-Fivf. Yf.aus.?Scdalin, Mo., December 28. James L. Siguioud, a brother of one of the if most prominent citizens of this (Petis) county, was brought here last night by a detective ami turned over to the 8horiff of Hock Castle county, Ivy., to which place he will bo taken to answer for a murder committed tweuty-fivo years ago. D.ynokr of thf. Barber-Suoi'.? IIow inauy prescriptions for soro throats do you suppose I've writteu in the last week?' asked ? P'>troit doctor the other day. 'Oh, perhaps a dozen.' Nearly thirty, sir. And what do you think the cause in every caso was?' Change of weather, of course.' Change of nothing! There were two rases where the patients slept with opeu windows and yet cold, but iu all the rest tho ailment could bo traced directly to the barber ' What did the barber do?' 'Cut their hair. I fell you tho arcrngo harbor h a more dangerous foe to humanity than cholera and snialWpox, While they can bo guarded against or stauipod out, he lives ou, year after year.' Is it dtngerous to get the hair cut.' Outside of the three summer months it is. Take a raw day like tins nnd I'ortynino out of every fifty men who get iuto a barber's chair to havo their hair trimmed will have a cold or soro throat boforo to-morrow night. I would rather take a walk for two hours without my overcoat than to have two ouuoes of hair snipped off my head.' Hut if people waut their hair out how is the barber to blame?' He is all to blame. No one should havo his hair cut uioro than twico a year?May and September?and it should be done ouly on a war m day. 'Take it in the case of young men and 1 9 1-1 1 < ? ? " uuys, cominuru me aocior. "A won trom tho barber in sufficient to make them subtuit to a haircut or shampoo. Those who don't hear from the h:?ir?>cutiog may certainly expect to from the Hhutupoo. You walk out of the shop into tho cold air, and within twenty-four hours you oau look for neuralgia, toothache, earache, or soro throat.' 'Would you advise a law on the subject ?' 'We couldn't utake a law to cover tho case. What I'd advise is for the people to investigate the matter and exorcise judgment and common senje. It is just as bad to r??b your head as your feet. You wouldut' dare to take your socks off boys. The risk is ovon greater than in pulling utf an undershirt. Peoplo should understand this. I have seen a dozen cases of pucumouia brought on by hair-cut ing on a cold day. It is responsible for much of .? _ i 1 t - i* ?I- . tne ast 11111:1, ana peruaps lor some 01 mo consumption.' 'IIow about shaviug, doctor?' 'It ia a dangerous habit. You can traco nearly every c ise of toothache and facial neuralgia in a man to the habit of shaving. If all men protected their throats by chin whiskers, aud the ucrvos of the face by a liberal growth, you wouldn't hear of half tho present ailments. When I was a boy I never heard of a case of neuralgia iu tho facial nerves. In these days it is as com* mon as cases of tho ague. Men used to ' wear beards. The fashion of to*day is meant to cucourage ailments. Shaving opens tho pores of tho f cc and invites neuralgia to step iu and twitch the nerves/ ?-Detroit Free ? A Cotton Fire in Macon.?Macon, Ga., December 31.?Fire broke out this morning in the cotton warchouso of J. S. Stowart it Sou, containing about ?1,800 bales of cotton belong:ug principally to planters. The building was damaged to tho amount of ?3,000 aud oil the cotton was consumed except about 300 bales which was badly damaged. The total loss in cotton and building is estimated at 830,000. Tho iusurance 011 tho building i9 84,000 aud on 840,000. The firo was caused by sparks falling through the skylight into a basket of samples, Another' Exodus.? Another largo number of colored people left the Ilalsellvillc neighborhood for Little Rock, Ark; on last Monday. This makes over 200 that have left that section within tho pr.it month. There arc agmts scut among then, by nil road men, who lull golden talcs to them about Arkansas; Tho negroes aro required to pay a sail sum of uionoy before starting and we understand they sign a contract to work out tho balance of their expenses in Arkansas. Wo hear others will leave this county soon for the same destination.?Chester Bulletin 2oth. 'Yars, sir, she's seven-eights Jersey, an' ye may ask Squire Uu'erwood, ur cny 'cm round here, an' they'll tell yo so ' 'Scveu-cighths Jersey. We'1 the other eighth ? ' * 'Why?er?that's c The residence of V of Fairfield, was i Saturday. It ouu the family was fore aid oou'