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,4 TIE' WEEKLY 1X1 DUOS TIMES, Dutoftd to ^jrirullurij, gortitultur?, gonnjstit di (ononis, |oIitc literature, gotitirs, and the Current Hems off the gas. VOL. XVII.?New Series. ONION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 23, 1880. NUMBER 10. A TKKBIUI.P /'TPiA*iu tv ifiw?po/i>"? I ? v * vjuvFi.^ c# xii A? Hit uses tossed in the air?-Cars of freight liftei from the tracks and scattered for miles?Mori than forty persons killed outright, and number, fatally injured. St. Cloud, Minn., April 15. A few minute! after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the akiei became overenst with a dark cloud, and a greai black mans rose over the hills southwest of th< city, coming with terrible velocity toward the western outskirts in a direct line for the Manitoba freight yards. The clouds hung low and rolled over and over like smoke on a battlefield and were accompanied by a loud roaring and cracking sound that resembled a conflagration in its fury. The cloud was funnelshaped, and the point dragged along the ground like the tail of a huge aerial beast, lashing everything that came in its path to atoms. The citizens had hardly time to fleo to their cellars and seek other places of refuge before the whirlwind wns on them; aud the air was filled with llvintr hoards shinnies K>.;?t.- ?1 w 0 ? - g>vw| wtivno UUU other bebris that was strewn orer the country and piled in piomiecuous heaps. It came from the southwest and moved in a northeasterly direction until it reached the river, where its oourse was diverted, and followed the river banks until it reached Sauk Rapids, where it diverged to the left, passing directly through the center of that town. The utmost excitcmeot prevailed. Women and children fled from their houses, and rushed aimlessly about in the midst of the dark clould of dust and avalanche of boards and brick. Men lost their presence of mind and stood in silence and inactivity in the presence of the wind demon. It was hardly noticed before it was on the city in all its fury, and people were not warucd of their danger before it was upon them, and they fell like grain stalks before the reaper's sickle. The part of St. Cloud struck by tlio clyclone was the southwestern sectiou, and was occupied by the houses of the laboring olass of people, tlio majority of whom aro foreigners employed on tho railroads. Their dwellings were lightbuilt houses and became an easy prey to the monster that had so viciously pounced upon them. They wcro like cockle shells in the grasp of the whirlwind, and were picked up and tossed in the air aud renUinto a thousand pieces. The earth was ploughed up in the line of the cyclone; and the path over which it pnssed, to the width of nearly a quarter of a mile, looks as though it had been upheaved by a terrible volcanio eruption. The wind had hardly begun its terrible work before it was finished, and the scene that greeted tho eyes of those who had escapad the fury was one fiat Mnuil Ih* Lnluf l-"-l -V.. J J >m? ??? ?W nuuuuor, ilK cries and shrieks of the wounded rent the air, and the ground was strewn with the bodies of the dead. Among them were stalwart men, weak women and woaker children. The citizens almost to a man, rushed to the demolished districts, and summoning physicians, began their work of rescuing those who were still living from beneath the piles of dirt and falling buildings. After dark the soene was a ghastly one. The rain poured down in torrents and hundreds of men wandered over the ground, many carryiug lanterns, searching for bodies among the ruins. The hotel lobbies were filled with excited citizens, many of whom suspected that some portion of their families or their friends had fallen victims to the torrible disaster. Women, seemingly unconscious of the rain that was falling, were in the streets and, ignoring lite gutters and turbid streams, glided about sobbing aud moaniug in their fright. The force of the storm was such as to wrench off the door of a safe in the postofiice and carry it some distance from the building. A church bell, weighing 1,000 pounds, was found among the debris four hundred feet away from any building. The remains of the dead are almost unreooguizable, being completely ciuslied and blackened. Tnere are a remarkable number of persons injured about the hips and spine; many of the survivors will be disabled for life. Eighteen dead were taken to the Little Oinnt engine house and stretched out on the floor, while the wounded were sent to the St. Benedict Catholic Hospital, where they were promptly cared for by a corps of physicians and nurses, among whom were numerous lady residents who had volunteered their services, There were forty-four wounded in the hospital last night, besides the large number that was taken to private residences. To-day thero are about forty-three, two having died, and others having been removed. The bodies at tho cn..... n..l1n .1 ......I I. J 1 ^IIICUUUOC nvio "van j vivo ovu lU'UUjr HUU placed in coffins. Sauk Uai'ids, Minn., April 15.?A cyclone struck this city ahortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and in just six minutes the best portion of the town was in ruins. Not a single business house was left standing on Main street. Many residences were demolished. The wind came from the southwest and swept everything before it for a width of about four blocks, 'lhe storm cloud was as black as night, with a bright clear sky on cither side. The Courthouse is now a heap of ruins and several of the county officers were killed. The schoolhouse, the Presbyterian and Congregational cnurches; the postoffice, a flour nrill and a large maohine shop were all converted into kindling wood in less time then it takes to tell it. What wu the center of the town is now covered with all aorta of debria, timber, doora pieces of furI niture, &c., At the preaent time twenty-two dead bodies hare been recovered from the ruins and a large number of people are injured. The spectaclt ia a sad one, the living being not only deprived of their frienda bat of all their earthly poaaes alons at the aacae time. * St. Taul, Minn., April 15.?The report o the oyolone at St. Clou<), Sauk Rapids, Ry< Station and other peinla in the vicinity las night and early this morning were not exagger ated. At 8 o'clock this morning there wen forfy-nlne dead and nearly two hundred injur ed, with many still missing,-whose bodiea wil probably be recovered to-night ai a church east of ltye station thir'eeu members of u wedding party were killed, including (he off'ciuling minister. At Sauk ltnpids a man named Vancllen, who ' weighs 250 pounds, was carried 400 feet through the air nnd fatally injured. A dead 5 baby was found in the street. No owner for it 1 can be found. 1 At St. Cloud, in the track of the cyclono, > stood the Manitoba freight house and cars filled 1 with freight. The heavy cars were lifted from the tracks and cast on the prairies la shapeless mass. Iron rails were torn fiom the sleepers nnd twisted like wires. Telegraph poles were torn up and wires twisted into curious masses. The freight house was totally wrecked. The I roof was lifted and blown several hundred feet, ( nnd over $3,000 worth of freight was scattered piece meal over an nroa of a quarter of a mile. Ffteen freight cars were demolished. Oper- ( ators in the telegrapn office nnd employees at the freight depots saw the cyclono coming nnd ] fled into the collar and they escaped. < Got His Wife Among the Tombs.? 8 Goldsmith Long, of tho lower soction of ' Greenville, has been atteulivo for some 1 time to Miss lvoxio Cox, n daughter of ' Manning Cox. Miss Cox is a young lady t whose many attractions of her person and * mind have given her tho opportunity to c pick and chooso among tho cligiblo young ? men of the neighborhood, and she selected a Mr. Long as the object of bcr affections, d acting much rnoro sensible than uinch v courted young ladies generally do, inas- u much as ho has everything to recommend h him. Mr. Cox, however, objectod to his * daughter marrying any of her suitors b and resolutely withheld bis consent. On ? Sunday Miss Cox attended church and * awaited her lover in the graveyard, lie V called for her promptly in that somewhat t' doleful but decidedly romantic trysting I | place, and they drove togother to the resi- u dcnce of J. II. Atkinson where tho llev. u Mr. West soon mado tboui one in the pres- " enco of a few friends. Thou they went a home. The beauty of it was that anothor lover c of the bride had requested her to meet b him that samo day for an oloperaent. As 11 she could not very well run off with two a men from tho samo grave yard tho same c day she wrote him to call nozt Sunday. It woa ooo of the happiest aol funniest t weddings on record, with just enough ro- , mance to spice it. As tho rejected, like tho accepted one, baa many things in his 1 favor, it is generally believed he will not n tarry long in the valley of sorrow, but 0 will quickly nriso aud induce one of the " many pretty girls of the neighborhood to join him iu utilizing tho preparations he u had made for domestic happiness and in getting up a wedding at which Mr. and * Mrs. Long will be asked to dance.? Grccnvilli News. 1 , 8 A Murdered Man's Foresight.?A. c P. Ilenly, the clerk of the ordinary at |( Athens, Ga., shows the copy of an old will u on file in the ordinary's office that probably ^ has not its liko in the country. Peter t Perry thought that ono Wells would as- T sossinatc him and, with this idea iu his 9 head, he mado his will. In it ho left his * property to a certain number of his friends whose names are mentioned, to be usod in prosecuting Wells to the utmost extent of the law, provided ho killed Perry. A few days after the will was made Perry was found dead in his garden, shot through the heart. When his will was read suspicion was aroused against Wells, and,on u search being made, the wadding from the gun that did tbo killing was found, and it proved to be part of a letter that passed between these men. Wells was tried for murder, convicted and huug ia three months after the killing. Stranue Visitors.?There was a heavy fall of a strange kind of a bug in llalcigh, Durham and Wilmington, on Fri- ] day night of last week. They came down i by tho thousand, and are represented as being ferocious and poisonous, instantly killiog lowls that ate of them. And their size is somewhat remarkable, being 2} inches long and an inch wido, with six legs? or four logs proper and two "feelers." Their coming is thought to have been induced by the clectrio light, which has just been introduced in the places named. Prof, i Atkimou, of vJbapel Ilill, has examined one of the strange creatures, and pronounces it a species of "water scorpion," but ho offers no explanation of the phenomenon of their sudden appearance in such largo numbers. A prominent member ol the Athens Ua., , bur asserted on the street* that before proi hibition went into effect in Clarko County I his criminal practice alone amounted to ' $1,000, and now he would take $150 for his practice in tho criminal court. ? No disease ever comes without a oause or 1 warning; hence endeavor to think baok for * tho oause. with a view to avoid it in tho B future, and on tho iostaut of any unpleasant I bodily sensation, cease eating until it bas disappeared, at least for twenty-four hours. THE CULTIVATION OF COBN- n Many readers of tho Cultivator ore g aware that it is tho practice with many C) farmers to plow up the entire corn-bed b< about the middle of May when tho corn is 01 about two feet high. If tho soason follow- st ing be dry or if there are only occasional ]y showers, tho roots of the coru will grow to mainly in the lower pulverized soil, where pi thcro is coustaut mosturc, holding plant tb wu iu duiuiiuii. nip aucr cultivation 18 as usually douc with a sweep, run shallow to th clean the bed of grass and to pulverize tho th surface soil. We will suppose a wet spell be of tea days or more to follow this May ca plowing?how will the corn bo affected by in it ? It will cause the corn to grow rapidly, in fhe corn roots will in a short time fake to possession of the entire com bed ; upon th ?111 1 r 1 - imvji win uu iuuqu near me cv lurfacc, because they cannot grow in the fu oo wet soil below. The stalks will crow pi inusually large and tall, and the ground to vill lo covered with grass and weeds. In co his condition of tho crop, tho farmer mj inds himself in a dilemma. If he should in loncludo to let tho cno and grass grow to- pr [ether, he cannot expect uiuch of a yield, soi ind if ho should determine, as he usually 0a Iocs, to cleau the corn-bed of grass and str reeds, what effect will this working havo th< ipon tho corn ? It will havo the effect of tic ringing tho growth of tho corn at once to tin stand still. Ia a short time the lower inj lades will bogin to turn ycllow; what is sto ailed Gring, which will soon reach up to ho insignificaut shoot, tho aborted oar. to Vbat has caused this sudden change in wi ho appearance of tho corn ? The amwer Ai would give is, the plow has done it. It th< latters not what kind of a plow may be du sed, nor how shallow it may be run over plu ho corn-bed, it will cut and destroy nearly lea 11 of those roots that grew near tho sur- ca: ico during the wet spoil of weather. The let orn has been severely root-pruued, and of efore it can recover from this root-prun- su< ig the time for tuakiug the car has passed, ere ud the result is a complete failure of tho a t rop. In the last tweuty-Gvo years I have seen his wot opoll happau nlput he Grst of June, aud in every' iustilnco he corn crop was more or loss injured? ^ ot so uiuch by the wet spell as, in my pinion, by tho faulty cultivation before nd after the rains. Such a wet spell appencd in this section last summer, comicncing about the 25 th of Muy, aud lasted wo weeks ; the com was plowod as usual ^jl nd revived. Afterward I heard several irincrs attribute the failure of tho crop to he wet spell. lJut is it a fact that a wet pell happeuiDg about the eariug time of . orn is calculated to injure the crop? Uuass it is in land too retentive of water, or Sh iot properly draiued, I cauuot think so- I iclievo it is mainly duo to a faulty of cul- aU ivation. If ouch a cultivation be attended rith so much hazard to the crop as I have 8a.1 hown.what better system can be instituted W1 o insuro success, whether the season bo SCI ret or dry ? My object in this couiuiuni- m( lation is to call tho attention of faruicis o a plan which both observation and expe- ' ienco have proved to bo more certain than ho one usually practiced. Jj" In a Southern climate like ours it is iin- ^ >ortaut tj have the rows wido apart, say 5 j ^ >r G feet, nnd not to havo the corn too . hick iu the drill. I will conGoe what I i . ?. . dt tave to suggest mainly to the use ot the dow in cultivation, leaving dot;iil? t? ? ?lio - ? 1 o ? ? *"v ;ood judgment of the farmer. As soon hen as the corn is large enough, go arounil t'1 t one time with a four-inch scooter, run- ca ling it as deep and as near the corn as 00 possible. Fifteen or twenty days after this ,s plowing, go around the second time, runaing one furrow with a four or five inch 01 burning shovel just outside tho scooter a' furrow, and throwing the dirt or soil well ^ iround the corn stalks in the drill. After 111 this second furrow ;s ran, the hoes should **'' follow, cleaning tho narrow corn-bcd and krinmnrr llin nnm f A n ctanil tr k ink uKahI .1 ba thin enough to stand and do well in a moderately dry season. Again, in fifteen or twooty days a third furrow should be added to the corn-bed. So far one furrow w ata time and at suitable intervals has been c< given to tho corn*bed ; our object in this t* is to give a fresh supply of pulverized ni soil to tho roots, but no more than is deem- '' ed necessary to grow a modcjatoly sized , talk, reserving tho uiiddlo to be given ai whon the time oomcs to grow an car. If tc in the meantime the middle aliniilit ln>eemn a foul, it should be cleaned with a sweop or 8 other suitablo plow. * At this stage of our cultivation, suppose j, a wet spell should oocur, how will the corn o be affected by it'( The roots will grow a near the surface for tho raisins given c above, but will bo confined to the narrow v coru-bcd made by tho six furrows already [ given; and the open third furrow will pre- r vent them from reaohing the unbroken j liddlc. As soon after the rains as the rouud is in a conditiou to be plowed, the ultivation can bo resumed. Tlie cornod is to be let alone whether it is grassy r not. The grass and weeds cannot be deroyed by the plow without also greatinjuring the corn roots, the very thing i bo avoided. But the middle cau now be lowed out entire with a turning plow, trowing tin dirt as far over the corn-bod i possiblo to cover up all grass and weeds tat have come up during the wet spell; ioso the plow cannot cover up had hotter i let alone, except so much of thorn as ,n bo destroyed with tho hoc. Thoy are some respects like the tares found arrow g with the wheat, had better be let grow I gcther until harvest, lest iu destroying I c one the other uiay bo injured. If, how- 1 er, there is no wet sp?ll after the third 1 rrow is run, when should the middlo bo I owed out'! Just wheu the oorn is about put forth the tassel ; thcu tin entire > rn-bed should be made that tho roots > iy get possession of all the ground with- 1 their reach iu order that they may ap- ? opriatc the fertilizing elements of tho a il to make the ear. If this ke dono too i rly, ani the season be favorable, tho a ilk is suro to grow too large, and then, if i o scasou should be unfavorable about the s ne the car is putting forth and maturing, t o soil may not afford water and fcrtiliz. ; clcuieula enough to maintain n large 1 dk and to grow an ear at the same time, s If it is necessary to plow coru after this c keep the bed clean, it should bo done i th a sweep, run as shallow as possible, c iy cultivation to be successful must avoid I 2 cutting of tho roots just before and t nog ttic.time the ear is uiakiug. In this c in I have only given the uiaiu points, a .ring minor details to bo applied as oc- a lion may require. I Tit can bo improved b it bo dono, for I am sure many readers t the Cultivator would aprcciatc any r jgestious that would enable them to in- I :asc the production of corn - and uiako it ( noro certain crop. a K. McKinnon. 0 Avllhi War Evi&rr.?A patLci incident of the war has been recalled at baffles fiction. This is the touching iry : Miss Annio^ Pickens, daughter of the ivernor of South Carolina, was to be irricd April 23, 18G3, in Charleston, to ^ outcnunt Andrew do liochelle. The wed- ^ ?g party had assembled nt the Pickens 1 lidence, and the cbrgyma-i was asking s 3 bride if sho was ready, when a shell ; an a Union gun in the harbor broke into ! 3 rooui and burst. Nine persons were hurt, j t only Miss Pickens' wound proved fatal. | e bore the pain with wonderful fortitude, 1 d was unmoved when informed that she ] d only an hour to live. Do Rocholle d that he would like to hare her die his fe, and the poor girl smiled sadly in asat. The guests remember the scene as far no pitiful than can be described. The ide lay on a sofa, her whito dress dab? d in blood and her long hair dishevelled, lile her pallid face was ho wrung with ag? y that her efforts to smile became futile, 50 ceremony was hurriedly performed, ough the bride's 'Yos,' was iu a faint, labored whisper, and her lips hardly moved response to her husband's kiss. Sho ed immediately afterward. Wiping Out tub Color Line.?For o two past campains the Ohio Republins have been in danger of losing their lored allies. The color line in tho schools the cause of the dissatisfaction. The ouse has passed Mr. Arnctt'a bill wiping it tho color line nud making it legal herc'ter for whites and blacks to intermarry, ho bill abolishes separate schools for whito id e.olorcd children. Five Democrats and rty-Gvc Republicans voted for tho bill, riends of tho measure say it will pass the enate and be a law inside of a week. Tun Cow I'k.a as a Forworn Crop.?The cow e?& is one of the most valuable fodder plants ip th? Strtnfli Wp hMA span a' ornn nf Iiich yielded four tons to the ncre of most exillent fodder, and it left the ground in the est condition for sowing wheat. Another faricr? sowed pea* among his corn, at the last lowing, covering ihem with the plow, and we tionld estimate the yield on the ground, of oth crops, at a ton and a half of corn fodder, nd forty bushels of peas, with the corn equal ) thirty-five or forty bushels t> the acre, and large quantity of pea straw, which makes ood feed. The opinion that the South is tot a stock country is entirely unfounded. Pith the long growing season, the really rioh, ut badly managed soil, and the great variety f fodder crops and feeding stuff's, it is not at 11 exaggerating the matter to say, that beef attle can be renred to one thousand pounds reight in three years, At n cost or one cent. >er pound live weight, and, in Addition, there s a large quantity of manure left, which in eally invaluable to the Southern farmer.? imerican Agrieuhuritt. A NEW| BILL OF BIGHTS. 1 It was nn evil day for both parties when the workiogmon assumed the right to organizo tor the coercion of their employers. A few voices were heard iu opposition ; here and there a sturdy adherent to principle was outspoken in condemnation ; but the laboror was supposed to bo tho weaker party and had therefore tho public svmpa- , thy. Tho employer was held up, for the i most part, as a bloated capitalist disposed to i grow rich out of the lifo-blood of his poor | dependents whoso ill-requited toil filled his groaning coffers; and it was claimed that there was no other mcthord ofrcdrcss. The workmcu were pictured as salves to a lyran nical master and only by conspiracy .and revolution could they socuro their emancipation from such cruel bondage! The end was held to justify tho means, and strikes became tho order of tho day. It is but just to tho great body of workogrncn to say that they wero never bcartly in favor of the system. Whenever the lands in a workshop or factory turned tgainst their employer, nnd by leaving his lorvicc in a body, sought to compel him to :ncreasc their pay or to allow them to manigc the establishment after their own fashon, it was tho few noisy and turbulent pirits who precipitated the contost, and by aunts and threats, and appeals to passion md prejudice, compelled their more than lalf-rcluctaut companions to join the con~ piracy. Tho latter often saw that such ixcrcisc of force could never subserve their ntcrcsts. Capital is not a griui and beard- 0 id tyrant wielding the mace of a despot. It ? 9 always tiuiid and conservative. It hesi- t atcs at invcsmcuts; it is apprehensive at t very show of popular violcnco j it has t iustinctive dread of anarchy ; p nd every successful attempt to wrench v iy force a reward for service not rillingly conceded by those to whom it ia ^ endered, counts in the long run against the v aborcr by closing some avenues that would r ithcrwisc bo opened for bis employment, g nd preventing the establishment of new ind profitable industries. Tbo system of oocrcinn otise adopted can t tavo iW the nature of things no recognized { imits. Revolutions, inaugurated in conipiracy, may have a peaceful beginning, but ire sure to result in violence if the end cantnf Ka a? llAPto'loa nlfnittAil 1*1% ? JUb U\J wvuvuiinv mvuiuyvi. JL IIU UJJUl ill I Vt'3 n an establishment ask for some terms the n imployer feels that ho cannot or ought not r .0 grant. They seize upon some moment ] vhen he can ill afford a suspension of his ^ vork, or at any rate lenst expects if, and cave his service. This, as wo have *1 ;aid. when it tukes the form usually a idopted, is a conspiracy to produco an 1 llegal effect, by an act which for each c n his place might bo legal .and |j proper. A customer at a grocery wishes or extended credit or for some other v avor the proprietor i* unwilling to grant. f| He has a perfectly legal right to cease trad- o ng with the offending dealer. l>ut he has t io moral or legal right to canvass tho noi^h- , joi'hood and to induce ali the customers of he establishment to combine for the ruin of ' he grocer's trade. ; The revolt among the the workmau soon i iocs beyond the withdrawal of the strikers, ind this, if men will ponder it. shows at ' )nco tho true character of the plea upon rcliidh if. in lllHth*. Tt in dntiirnni] itn advocates say, to protect the rights of the T laborer; to secure for his hungry wifo and 6 children a larger share of ;ho necessaries of v life, and to protest, in the only effective way c against an intolerable tyranny. Hut the t employer is not willing to accept the dicta- c Lion, nud ho looks around for other work- g men to take the place of those who havo v left him. He fiuds. it may be, any number r of the uucmploycd who arc not only ready j but anxious to step into the vacaut places t and take up the lines which their fellows ( havo abandoned. Arc the strikers content with this ? They ^ are struggling ostensibly for tho rights of workinginen; and if a sufficient number* of a. i u nlnbo n frt willing f A Oil Oia .. > aa n < ' nnn "iu n iiiui^ vv* un iik; >au?ut places u>ay they not ilo it? Arc the work- 1 iugmcn who go out on a striko the only members of the fraternity who have rights entitled to respect? If it i3 their right to combine an 1 leave the looms, or the forges, or tho turning lathes, or the car fronts, silent and deserted, may not other workingmen with equal rights come iu to fill the vacancy aud restore the old activity ? Are the wives and children of men who have been long unemployed and who jump at this opportunity to earn a livelihood any less entitled to bread than tho families of the strikers, who have been made the i theme of so much eloquenco ? What do wo sec on every side? The! most intorcrablo tyranny over his fellows practiced by the very men who claim to bo the anointed apostles of freedom. For. let all mark it, violence is not dircoted against the employer. Ifthero wero no idlo workmen anxious for service there would bo no need of a howling mob armed with clubs and paving stones to keep the deserted i works in the idleness to which they have 1 been devoted. The employer cannot start j his works without tho laborers and if a , mob is needed to stop the enterprise, the I violence is not against tho capitalist, but j against tbe workmen who are seeking the service. If wo concede tho right of tho men to combine and leavo tho looms, and tbe forges, and the mines, and the cars, and the carta, and the bargea to deoay in silence, there is no need of angry words to effect all this, unless the rights of other workingmeu arc ruthlessly invaded. The spirit of mob violence is not.therefoie, direc'.od Gist or chiefly agaiust the employer, no matter how great a tyrant ho may have beoo. He is powerless, and may fold liis arms in silence, if no ono is ready to enter the vacant service. Every actofiutimidatiou, every resort to brute force, shows that other workingmeu are willing to 811 the deserted places, and must be kept from it by the grossest violation of the liberties these men have vowed to cherish and protect. There cau be no occasiou llr Jouionstrations of force, except as these arc directed against men who are willing and anxious to work. 'Will the scabs aud the rates take the bread out of the mouths of our wives and children ? demand the angry rioters as tkcy break the windows of tho factory, overturn ........ .1 ??* * ? - <uu v/uio iu inu mrcci, icar up mo tracks }f tbc railway, upset the carts loaded with coal, cast off the lines of the barges, "kill'' tho engines ready to draw the freight, and hardly stop short of killing the uicn who lesirc to use them for this purpose. But have the scabs and the rats aud nil ihc rest of unemployed, by whatever oppro}rious names they may be known, who seek ,o secure this service, uo liberty to put :ho jread earned by honest toil iuto the mouths >f their wives and little oues ? By what tew 'bill of rights' is this denied to them ? b it not as much of a sacred 'right' for me man to hire himself out ns for another nan to quit the hireling's place? Hut -if liese men take the vucnut places they keep lie others out of theui.' And pray, have i,? i .? ? " -> U? wvn-;io uui MJI'JP IIIUHI HUE OI IIICSC Opotunties for work all these uionths or years fhile they heen idle and huogry ? We kuow that in theory the strikers often ay that they will stop at the liuc where iclcnee begins, but in practice they ue?*cr emaiu inside of this limit in any great truggle. Even if no blows are struck, uo tones arc thrown, no shots aro tired. tbo hreata and iutiuudntious directed against nose >lho would talce the vacant places if .hey dared, aro as rest acts of violence ns l charge with bludgeous or bayonets, or i volly from more deadly firearms. Those who protest against this system, ire not, therefore, as unmindful of tho iglitsof workiugmen as the organizers and cadersof the trades-unions would have their ollowcrs believe. Nor do they look at this [ucstion from only one side, becarso tlicy rc consulting a merely selfish interest ^icrc aro many thoughtful laborers engagd iu the great work of earning; an honest iving by honorable toil who arc heartily rilh us in the view we takc'of this exciting ucstion. Wc shall consider other aspects f it in succeeding articles. In the uicaniuic we wish every reflecting man to pooler over this spectacle, and to judge it tl o ovc of liberty is allot) one side r.ud the grinding tyranny of which wo hear so nuch wholly confined to the other.?X. I'. Commrrciat Aifvcrtim r. Raisixo lines stvekssh i.i.y.?In (he first dace, lings for successful feeding must lie trong in bone and muscle, produced by grass, villi little or no corn. We never feed gre<n orn to hogs, because ivc consider it unlieu'hy, and grass is just as beneficial and much Reaper. A full feed of corn should not bo ;iven before it is drj' enough to crib. Another ery important matter is the sleeping apnrtncnt; in fact it is of essential importance. Our tog house, n cheap broad shed, without florr, ho highest part on the south, with hoards ,o raise and lower to make an opening for (lie uin to shine in. The rest is composed of pure lurface ground that soon workes into fine dust, ,vhich will frequently remain so all the winter ind need no replenishing. Experienced stockmen have often raised their bauds in holly horror at this?nature's brcding. In order 'to preserve the lied well it is necessary that the hogs should fill the house comfortably full. This can be arranged by fencing off part and enlarging as the hogs fatten. The dirt should ho replenished every fail, and it is a good plan to hay,c some stored to ndd at times during the wintcV*. This kind of bedding never gels hot or cold, and is conducive to the health of the hogs. ? Cotton Plnnf. SwiMX.K*.?There has been irucli said latily about the Hohcminn oat swindle." Hut the whole thinor is so hnrpfnrpd il.ni ? /. .1" ..?i r? "*> ? "/ palhiste much with Ihc unfortunate suckers. But what is wor??c and more insinuating !s ihe fruit tree swindle. It lakes longer lo learn that you arc swindled, but the damage is almost irreparable. There is only one way to be safe in buying fruit trees, ami that is uncertain enough; and that is to buy of some local nursery man that has an established reputation for fair dealing. (Sire the slick-tongued, slick picturebook tree agent a wide berth, and set the (log on him if ho is too persistent. A safe rulo is to buy nothing of unknown traveling agents. i Question for debaters?'Can a man, tvhilo j asleop in the daytime have the nightmare?' | < ?< 1AH honest men will hear watching. It is the rascals who euunot stand it. *