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THE WEEKLY iflS OIIOI TI1E1. gijcoted to Agriculture, horticulture, gomestie (Economy, |Jolife literature, politics, and the Current ^teios off thi, ?ag. VOT,. XVII.?New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 1, 1S80. NUMBER S9. *? i* REMINISCENCES or TIIR MACBETH LIGHT ARTILLERY. UY ONE or THEN. Nu. 18. Countries that arc mado up of hills and dales arc more interesting and attractive than the prairie land, where no upheavals of nature relieve the monotony of the scene, or mountains without their connecting links of vatleys?so it is the ups and dows in life that give iaterest to human history. That 'vnriety is the spice of life,' was demonstrated a thousand times over during tho war of Secession. Soldiers arc naturally discontented beings ; and during the war it was noticeable that evon in the midst of comparative ease and plenty they nlways received tho news that summoned them to anothor field with demonstrations of joy. Not that the prospect would be more pleasing or their surrouu liugs more favorable, hut on tho general principle that ? variety in .i:?< t i- il. ? b"" i '.MiV/ vu me appeuie, so change in scenes nttracts the eye and variety in music pleescs the car. The writer remembers that during the activo campaign in Virginia and Maryland, in the summer and fall of 18G2, when Lee's army was on the march day aud night, and subsisting, for the most part, ou green apples and corn, that it was the men who had been loudest in their acclamations of joy over the prospect of getting into an active field, who then pined most for a place in some district where opposing armies were disposed to j remain in statu quo, and men could lie down at night get up in the morning at decent h ?urs, aud cat their food at a walking rather than a galloping speed. After going beyond and pretty much over the Confederacy, the Macbeth found that quiet place on the coast of South Carolina. But eight months of inaction, in the midst of scenes that had become stale, made our men anxious for any mo?e, even though it were "swapping the witch for the devil. It was now spring time and we were already feeling the heat of approaching summer and were anxious to get away from it ; so it is easy enough to imagine that the order summoning us from the lowlands on the coast, in the hot season of the year, to tho balmy air of the 'lnn<l of the skies' was news thrice gladly received. It was early in May, I8?il, that we were ordered to report to Col. 1'almcr at Asheville for duty. Asiieville was a new field to the company and in the midst of grand and beautiful surroundings. Could we have hnd our owu choice iu the selection of a new military field, I tl?> j;ol-ktio?v lb At- there waVanofTt er place in the Confederacy to whinli we would have preferred going. Then, ns an additional argument in favor of Asheville, and one, too, that give it unusual interest, wn< the fact that the route there was through the very heart of ilie countiy in which most of the members of the Macbeth lived. Our rejoicing over this new field was not because wo imagined it was one of comparative case. In anticipation of a fight the Macbeth had been ?ont frnm l.oo'a n??i??\* \r% ~ 1/ : 1 wv... ..v... ..vv u ... ..t(7 V II ^111 III IU i\iiiniun, N. C., ilien to Wilmington, Charleston, Mis9i?eippi, Mobile and back to Charleston again, of course we imagined that the order summoning the company to Ashovillc was based on a like expectation. On reaching the South Carolina Depot in Charleston our guns were dismounted and placed on the ears. I.ieut. Porter, the writer and most ot* I lie men accompanied them to Union, t'apt. Jeter, Lieut. Monro and enough men to care for the horses took the dirt road for I'uiou. Members of the company lifing in Camden, Chester aud Laurens were switched oil on branch roads leading to their respective counties, with a vetbal furlough to report at Union and Spartanburg in ten or fifteen days. Perhaps the day the Macbeth left the City by the sea for the 'Land of the skies ' will ho the ono longest remembered by the men as richest in prospective pleasure. Those of us who left Charleston on the train spent several days at home before ('apt. Jeter and the dirt road travelers arrived. Hours of joy arc as fleet as the wind. We passed the timo in framing an l taking in all the pleasure that our pent-up natures, now unstrung, were eapnblc of enjoying. As we now revert to those few days, crowded with p VP ills of lianniup?s nti.l ,m. lii'n. ' >?" f"?? from owe?, pensive feelings involuntarily steal over us. Where, indeed, is the man who can contemplate that picture, then so beautiful in ail that mailo young life happy, ami not feel sad The Macbeth was made up largely from Union County, and our citi/ons, regarding the men as at lmme. overlooked the fact that ijuito u number of the company were from Chester, Laurens and other counties, away from homo nnd any military post where rations could bo hud. Mr. Wosly Sanders, then proprietor of the Unionville Hotel, was thoughtful enough to get up a family basket of provisions, and with his good wife came to our camp the day before we left I'tiion and treated the soldiers to one good square meal. Other things may be forgotten, but that generous act on the part of Mr. Sanders nnd his good lady will ever linger with those who partook of that dinner, spread by patriotic hands, among the pleasant recollections of tho war. Manv of the fathers and mothers and of I he ?r<?i her ^ and sisters, who com rihu t c<l to the happiness of those day?, have passed away. And. alas ! what changes time has wrought in the appearance of thoso who have survived the eventful years since .May, IbGI. The youths who had just entered on the stage of young manhood and womanhood are now, with silverylocks, traveling down the western bill of life. The yung ladies and men who now walk our streets with elastic steps, so buoyant in spirit and full of animation, belong to a generation then tinhorn. Ye*, these arc sad reflections. Hut it is none the lo-s true, that time changeniul we mortals change with it A lew days after ( apt. Jeter and his party reached 1 nam, i.ient. Porter and the writer, with the men who camo through on the train took charge of the horses anil went on througl to Spartanburg. At Pacolet Depot we met somi young lady friends from Greenville and Spar tanburg, going on a visit to some friends nortl of Pacolet river, in Union county. The lioui spent with them at Pacolet Depot is a pleaein; incident called up from the buried past o twenty-two years ago. Wc rested at Spartan burg nearly a week, waiting for Oapt. Jeter an< Lieut. Munro and the Chester and Laurens boys Those few days spent in Spartanburg will evei remain in our memory among the pleasant rec ollections of the past. A number of imprompti parties were gotten up by the young ladies, and they now more before the imagination wreathed iu smiles, full of life, and with all the loveliness and attraction of young womanhood that char acterized them twenty-two years ago. Our guns were taken out of the depot at Spartanburg and remounted. Tlio battery was something new in Spartanburg, being the first one. fully equipped for the war. that had ever been there. It gave us sonic notoriety. Our limber and caisson chests were loaded with ammunitiou, making it impracticable to drill with horses, but we tried to compensate those who visited our camp by going through with the details of loading and firing; thus giving them somo idea of how the guns were managed in an actual engagement. The good ladies of Spartanburg brought rations, already cooked, to the camp the evening before the company left, and after the men had been drawn up in line the young ladies went up and down it, filling the dirty haversacks with provisions that were far better than camp fare. The thought that this cruel war was tearinct us awav from the noble Indies of Union and Spart inburg, like the bitterness that linger in (he throat after sonic pleasant drink, was the bitterness left in the breast by the wotpl farewell. We marched out of Spartanburg, along the Howard Gap road, towards Aihcvillc with our thoughts all that day running Southward. Most of us were young men and were leaving our sweethearts behind. Some twelve miles north of Spartanburg, just beyond luman and near Mount Calvary church, in the bend of the road stands a little log cabin. It was occupied, twenty-two years ago, as we passed by on our way to Ashcvilic, by some women. They evi lently did not understand tho meaning of troops going to wants the mountains, l'ertiaps they had the mountains associated with tlie hiding; place of friends. One of them said to the men?'Yes, you have heen whipped in <'liarle-dm, and are now running to the mountains 11 hide or perhaps she was in sympathy with the Union and .tillered those word.) uui "f yoy over wliat~3hc conceived our humiliation. <>r. taking a more liberal vie.-, of it, ol.c may have been a *tautv.h rebel, and her words were those of contempt for what she imagined was an act of cowardice. We hivouaccd that night on the creek at the foot of Windmill llill, northward. The next day we crossed l'arolet river at Dr. Colitmbu* Mills" place, now Maccaboy's, and camped at the base of Tryon .Mountain. The following morning wc passed by Itrack l.iiiktbrd's place, high up ou the side of the mountain. Old llrack, as he was called, di l not know a letter of tlie alphabet; but liis eccentricities had given him a character at home and abroad. For a man of his letters lie could go to Charleston or lialeigh and put on as much style and dignity as most men. As an illustration of his oddities, lie asked l>r. Mills to write out a description of his land, for nu advertisement. The doctor finished it and began to read that the land was lying and.situated in Polk County, North Carolina, and on the head waters of the PacMct river, the old man said, 'Stop, stop, Doctor! that it no description of my land. I want you to put il as it is?hanging and swinging in Polk county.' His land ran up to the top of Tryon and is in the Thermal belt, that has in the last deeadr attracted the attention of fruit growers, frotn Maine to Florida. 15 rack Lank ford's peach orchard has not missed hearing fruit in six'y years. I rcmcmher eating some excellent peaches from this orchard one year ago thh month, ttld Itrack had several sons in tin army who were true its steel to the cause o lite Confederacy, up to the surrender of out armies, and the old man lent a helping hand it taking up and returning deserter- to out armies, as long as the war lasted, lie has lonj since passed away. We camped that night 01 top of Blue llidge, just north of tireen lliver The next morning we parsed through I lender <b tJl.tlll I I U i III' Hill I I II ICMWI MUlillC'l 111 | HI midst of a beautiful country long since notcc for health and as a summer retreat for tin people further South. We bivonaeed that nigh some ten miles from Ashcville and near St John s Church, in the wilderness?at.euitil'u r,pisco|>:il church tiuilt years previous 1?y somi rich iner. from the coast of Smith Carolina Thet country was and is tilled up with the resi deuces of men from the Palmetto State. Tin following day we reached our destination ami reported to Col. J. 15. Palmer, then cummandinf that fort, lie was a Northern man, hut liai espoused the cause of the Coiife leracy. and w had 110 truer man in our .armies. At Shilo !i commanded a regiment in the Confederate arm and his brother one in the Federal army. I that bloody engagement lie was severel wounded. We were ordered to go into cam two 1111les northeast ot vsiievitic, near a ]1111 Methodist church. on Heaver Hani ('rook. I was a lovely caiii|>, in a beautiful grove on lb si'le of a hill. In front of llie CAinp. northward mountain peaks baflic<l their frowning forehead in tlie wave? of the blue ethereal ocean thn floated above us. I wonder if the members c the Macbeth will ever for vet that eamp and ih kind people in its vicinity. Near by was Ih home of the widow Killian and her two intei esting (laughter?, and their home wa- always place of welcome tor the Macbeth. They ha a son and brother in the Confederate servin and knew not only how to sympathize with on soldiers, but look p'easuro j., exhibiting i They had a sptendi 1 oreli d t of fruit, and i was as tree to our men as if they had had , personal interest in each. Cherries were just ' i getting ripe when we reached Ashcvillc. and b Dr. Decker told the men that their systems - needed acid and a free u*c of the cherries would i be good for their health. I do not kuow that r it was the cherries or the splendid climate that ; built up the men. They ate the fruit freely and f they nerer had better health. A little further up the creek lived an old englishman, Uev. I Thomas Stradley. He aud his family treated . us very much like we were their own relations. t Tho same was true of the excellent widow Beard and her noble daughters. I retnemt ber eating some excellent meals at the home of I Mrs. Killian and father Stradley. The writer I visited the homo of these good people five years i after the war and found them the same kind, - hospitable peoplo that they were during the war. When the Macbeth left Charleston the strawberry crop had been pretty well put on the market. We found the crop in full blast as we passed through Union ntul Spartanburg, aud the same was truo when wc arrived at Asheville. We enjoyed strawberries that year from the seaboard to the top of the Blue Itidge. After the cultivated berries had been exhausted about Ashcvillc the wild ones, that almost covered the hills ami mountains in that country, began to ripen, and lasted for more than a month longer. What a country "he mud of the skies' is for fruit, ami the Macbcths remember that it was a bis Part l',c 1 ivinj; of the company during the lime we were in that military district. Vim. Mother.?We wore at a railroad junction ouc night waiting a few hours for a train, in the waiting room, in the ouly rocking chair, trying to talk a brown-eyed hoy to sleep, who talks a great deal himscW when he wants to keep awake. Presently a freight train arrived, and a beautiful little old woman came in, escorted by a tieruian, and they talked in Herman, he giving her. evidently, a lots of information about the route she vas going, and telling her about her tickets and baggago check, and occasionally patting her en the arm. At first our I'uitcd States baby, who did not un dcrstaud (iertnau, was tickled to hear them talk, and he -snickered at the peculiar sound of the lauguago that was I eing spoken. The groat big tuan put his hand to the old lady's cheek, and said something encouraging, and a great big tear ciuio to _ her eye, and she?looked?as-trappy as-a I niieon. | The little brown eyes of the boy opened pretty big, and his face sobered down from its laugh, and he said, ' I'apa. it is the mother. We knew it was, but how should a four-year-old sleepy baby, that couldn't understand tierman, toll that the iady was the bin man's mother '! We asked him how he knew, and he said, 'Oh, the big man was so kind to her.' The big man bustled out ; we gave the little old mother the rocking chair, aud prescutly the man came in with a baggage man, and to him he spoke English. He said, 'This is my mother, and she docs not speak English She is going to Iowa, and I have got to go back on the next train, . but I want you to attend to her baggage , and see heron the right car. the rear car. with a good seat near the centre, and (ell 1 the conductor she is my mother. And L here's a dollar lor you, and I will do as much for your mother some time.' Thi? Kutrirntro man in-aetan.! #1..% ,1. , a **v */MbfcI'Vibv ??? ?m cue uuiitii with ouc hand. grasped the big mail's hand with the other, and looked at the little Gorman mother with an expression that showed that he had a mother, too ; and we almost know that the old lady was well [. treated. Then we put the sleeping mind r reader ou a bench, and wont out 011 the , platform and got acquainted with the big German ; and he talked of horse trading. ; buying and selling, and everything, that 1 showed tie was a live man, ready for any speculation, from buying a yearling eoit to a crop of hops or barley, and thai his wile c 1 , I was a very busy one ; and at times h > was b full of hard work, disappointment and t rough roads; but with all this hurry mid excitemen,t he was kind to his mother, and we loved him just a little, and when after a few minutes' talk about business he si id, . 'You must excuse me, I must go into the depot and see if my 'mother wants anyl thing, we felt like grasping his fat. red ' hand and kissing it. Oh, the i >ve ol mother is the same in any language, and i' is good in all languages.? O. II". / IM Ail IN Alt V I1.1.S.?A Philadelphia y phyf ician sajs that a great deal of what p passes ior Heart disease is only mild <lys> e pepsin, that nervousness commonly is bad 1 temper, and that two-thirds of the so called K malaria is nothing but laziness. ImacrinaI . " tion, lie says, is responsible Ibr a multitude ( ul ills, and lie gives as an instance the ease ,i of a clergyman, who, after preaching a " sermon, would lake a tcaspooiiful uf sweet 0 ened water, and doze oil like a babe, ruder the iuipiession that it was a l/'mn _// /# j sedative. If you can't trust a mail for the ful ir ' ( i amount, let hi.u skip. This trying t ? g- I jt S an average on honesty liasahva)- been :i a j failure-? / ?.*/? Ih/hiii/ FARM TOPICS FOR THE MONTH. SP.l'TEMHEH. Demosthenes is reported to havo said that the essence of oratory was action ! action ! ! action ! ! ! If the great (Ireek orator had livod in our day aud time, and followed tho avocation of the South Carolina farmer, hie oratorical motto would have been very n])ro/ws to all agricultural interest. If a cottoutoc does not staud iu need of action, and a great deal of it, from the 1st day of January until the olst day of December, theu opr experience and observations have been **-.Ty much at fault. A few days lost in the early season means late preparation; precious time idled now aud then, later on. will show up late planting; and as the shadows grow shorter, a little more folding of the hands and a little uioro slumber means grass, bad and unwise cultivation, great reduction ia the averago of the crop we should have made, and thus has come much of our agricultural poverty, as well as this heritage of ''hard times. The crop of 1S8() is about made. The older planters tell us that no bloom that comes after the 10th of September will make while cotton but siucc the days of guano wo have seen blooms of the 21st of this month make white cotton. lly the way, will the Hon. Commissioner and some of your correspondents tell us what is the largest number of fresh blooms thoy have noticed on a stalk of cotton in one day ? While this is uot a matter of much importance, yet wo may learn from this fact in how short a time the cotton plant, uuder a high state of cultivation, can aud may make a crop. We noticed a stalk on the 10th ol August that had twelve white blooms, on 20th it had seven, on the 21st eight?twenty-seven blooms in three days. On average cotton this, by itself, would bo a fiue crop, but it was ou ti.?? ?.:n .....i--. I VUWVUII *.wnv *1111 uiuau ruiiiviiiiu^ u * ti c ?v u thousand pounds of seed cotton per acre. Wo did not think of it at tho time or we should have--uoweetHui blooms uucottbn more on the average of our genor?l crop. September is the first harvest month for I aii crops.4 Mosu ot the forage Cm are already housed. Fodder and . ..jaro saved, and pea-vine hay is about the u.ly long forage crop that will rcrjuirc nttoraiou. If you cm spare tho vines, by all moans leave them on the ground ; pick over for tho purpose of saving an atopic supply of seed ; allow your stock to run over and glean the field, tramping tho vines and dead leaves into the soil. Never turn under pea vines without you intend sowing small grain ; leave alone until you are ready lor your Spring preparation for cotton or earn. Kxperieucc and close observation havo taught us that it is worse than time thrown away to turn under pea vines for anything but a grain crop, but we much prefer to always follow this crop by cutton or corn. COTTON riCKl.NO. In the uiiddlc and lower section of the State picking has pretty generally couiuieuccd. It will bo the 1st of October before this is the casein the upper section, as the crop is unusually late, I'ick clean and as rapidly as possible ; pin as fast as convenient ; sell at your nearest market, and stop interest at once. There are several fallacies regarding this crop that arc fast dying out. One is that you must hulk your cotton until it may heat a little ? the oil will pa-s into the lint?-and you will gain much in weight. The fact is. about all you will gain will be a damaged lot of lint and seed. Another is that middle men and speculators have combined against the farmer to get the cotton crop out of his hands and then put the price up. What is the average actual result? Cotton hold for six months at heavy expense ; loss of weight at from ten to twentylive pounds per bale, and finally sold for tb" same or less price than could have been obtained in (lie early Fall. Twenty . years experience lias taught us to pick clean and handle with care ; gin and pack tree and trimly ; keep out of the weather; sell us soon as you can get to the scales, if you have any fair home market, CO It N. Itcfore the next llcport appears we will I be in the midst of cribbing corn. As soon as it is dry. by all means gather, and ( don t leave it a temptation to both man and beast. We prefer putting up in the shuck, and a* very few baskets are turned in sprinkle a handful of dry salt; it will keep out weevil, and you will hardly ev-r . , find a shuck or eub in your trough. sWKKT I'oT.VloKS. This is a crop that is very justly growing in favor and increasing in production I in many sections of the State. In the Piedmont section, which is so often more i oi loss subject to heavy freezes, the trouble I has been as to keeping safely through the Winter. In tho middle aud lower sections . wo arc told that there is ucvcr auy difficulty in this direction. Without tho various losses wo have had in different plans that have been tried, wo will give a very primitive plan that wo use now, aud which has nover failed in our heaviest trceses. The potatoes aro dug immediately after the first frost. A lot of pine poles aro cut to make a bed eight or ten feet squartn Put these just on tho ground ; green pioo I tags (cr needles) are put upou tho poles to the depth of two or thrco inches ; 011 these are placed a luyer of dry corn stalks of two inches; on this tho potatoes jro put, say thirty or forty TmsV^u; a cone ' shape ; then a layer of corn stalks, three i inches; then a layer of green pine tags, I three or four inches ; then six inches of I sand. if you are going to cover with a I board shed, if uot, twelve inches of sand 1 or light clay. We have never failed to keep potatoes successfully by this simple, i cheap plan, but iiav; failed with all others, i Quo of the most iuiportaut matters that < requires the farmer's attcutiou at this lime 1 is preparation for his Winter grain. In < somo sections of the trtate the corn crop t will be cut short very much by the failure of the bottom lands. This failure must be i supplemented by some early barley, rye and oatf. Wc consider barley the most valuable early green forage crop ; it never ; has the saute injurious effects that follows | the use of some other green forage plants. < To make barley you have to sow only rich < land. If you do otherwise, it will be ' simply sending good seed alter bad, for '< your crop is sure to bo a failure. We are 1 going to sow a live aero lot in a few days, and will give our plan for what it is worth. The lot was in oats the past season, and made forty bushels per acre. It has already tocu broken deeply with a bull tongue plough ; we will break again in a few days with saute plough as deep as a a strong tuule can do it. Will manure with forty bushels of green cotton seed per acre, cotton seed bavin;: been ground in eottotr scud~nrrrt: Will sow one and a half I bushels of clout hurley per aero; plough, ami harrow with smoothing harrow. 1 ? should have sta'ed that about a ' won head of cattle have been penned on the lot at night for the . ' month or more. 11 ye will make a lino c.. ' Y. inter past urn go, if sown at once, on most any of our average farming land. We have sown a good deal of our thin cotton land, as we laid by the cotton, in rye, which wo will use as a pasturage during the Winter and early .Spring. What heads out we will ieave to fall on tlio ground and be turned under next Summer again, as we are going to pursue this plan for several years with this particular piece of land (a poor red clay) as a recupcra ting experiment. Our plan is: always sow a portion of your oat crop in h>'cp touibcr; in fact from September to Marcb has been our rule for years, and we have never made a complete failure. Our judgment is that the J led ltust l'roof is the oofs lor our climate, from one and a half to two bushels per acre. Plough thoroughly ; manure with something?stable manure and cotton seed?and if you have neither of the above, a mixture of cotton seed meal, acidulated rock and kainit. Nothing responds more quickly to a littlo manure than an oat crop, and you might juntas well give up that old idea that oats can be made where nothing else will grow, for the rod oat will never do it, and none of the other varieties will give you a crop one out of throe. Don t be deceived about seed. We have seen several lots that have been shipped into the State as red rust pro d' oats that are badly mixed and of an inferior quality. On the other hand we have seen some very line Texas red oats that are genuine and very good. There is a yellowish red oat on the market that will deceive a careless observer, and can ho easily passed f.?r red oats ; hut we saw tlicin tried last year, and they were very inferior, hook always for the heard on the (train ; this is a characteristic of the red oats, and none are genuine without it.? I >. I' i'l .VAN, ill Monthly J'l/iorf. 'irtt/fiira/ !) jmrhn'Ht. Prohibition is beginning to prohibit in Atlanta, and the sorrowful wet men aro becoming convinced of that fact. 'Ihc absurdity of the idea that the enforcement of a law endorsed by the majority of the people is impracticable, is patent to all intelligent mind-, and if the people of Athirta want prohibition and will lill the j city (illiccs with friends to the measure, I prohibiti >u will I'la-t oertaiuly prohibit. A cyclone struck a New Jersey mosquito the other day, and alter a furious struggle retreat d to the woods to hide its j shame.? Tin IIhi/t. ? iVrsia is very rugged, hence the i'orsiau I | SEASONABLE RECIPES. Tomato Figs.?Four boiling water >ver tho tomatoes in order to reinovo the ikins, then weigh aud place thoin in a stone nr with as much sugar as you havo totna* .oes, aud lot them staud two days ; the* jour off tho Byrup and boil aud skim it mtil no scutn risos. Then pour over it ho tomatoes and lot them stand two days, is beforo, then boil and skim agaiu. After ho third time thoy aro fit to dry, if tho reather is good ; if not, let them stand in iho syrup until drying woathor, then placo )o largo earthen plates or dishes and put hem in tho sun to try, which will take A inAnlr A r#n? nV lit itASWkk ?uwuv ii u j nuvi nuiuu j'.iv* uitiu uunil iu small woden boxes with fine whito sugar betwocu each layer. Theso figs will keep for years. The small pear-shaped tomatoes arc tho host kind to nso in making 5gs. Dried Pears.?Core audquarter them; if large, cut in smaller pieces. Scald them in a syrup made of 4u)fl'ee' sugar, thou dry quickly in n hot-air closet, moderately boated oven or other rapidly evaporating ippnratus. They uiakc a good Hweetmoat, lnd may be used in cuko or puddings. Keep air-tight in a glass fruit jar. This recipe is vouched for by the Journal of Chemistry. Tomato Preserves.?Take the round yellow variety as soou as ripe, scald aud peel; then to one pound of lomatocs add one pound of sugar and let thoin stand over night. Take the tomatoes out of tho sugar, and boil tho syrup, removing tho - cum. Put in tho tomatoes and a few slices of lent-ui, and boil gently fiftccu or twenty minutes ; remove tho frut again, and boil until the syrup thickens. On cooling put (lie fruit into jars and pour the syrup over it. ScAi.Loi'KD Cahraok.?Strip tho loose leaves froui a eabbnge, cut it in quattcrs almost through the core, and steaui until tender. When nearly done, lift the cabbage into an cartlicu baking dish of suitablo size, cut it line, tiour on the ton a nair~of milk, with salt to taste. Sprinkle over tlio top lino broad or cracker crumbs, Itako one hour ; the top should havo a brown crust but the iusido should bo croauiy. This has proved to be a very nico way of cooking cabbage. Aimu.k 1'uff.s.?Sift one teaspoonful of salt, ouc half of soda and one of creamlurt?r into a pint of Hour ; mix with sweet milk sufficient lo u\akc a rather stiff batter} add two eggs, and four or ?\x apples according to size, chopped tine. Drop the puffs from a tablespoon into boiling lard. Drt them brown, and eat while hot with maple syrup. Citron I'iikskrvkm.?Cut tlio rind in fancy shapes, notching the edges nicely, then lay them in nlutn water, not too strong, and let them remain all night: in the morning pnt in fresh alum water and boil a few minutes, then change them to clear water, hot, of course, and boil till tender. Now prepare the svrun. usintr ono and one half pounds of sugar and a cup of water for each pound of rind. When the syrup is clear, put in the rind and boil till transparent. If tho llavor of ginger is lih *d, tie a piece in a thin muslin bag and boil with tho preserves, removing it when they are done. These are delicious. I'l< KI.KI? Ktltss.? 1 >oiI the eggs perfectly hard, remove the shell, and put the eggs in jars, then pour over them scalding vinegar, well seasoned with whole pepper, spico, and ginger. Seal tightly, and they will ho ill for use in a month. Delicious with cold meats. IIistoiii< Humus in Kuins.? Mr. Sloan, who is still engaged in making observations for the United States geological survey, took a trip op the Ashley ltiver yesterday, going as far as Lamb s, on the South Carolina Kail way, and thence up the east hank of the river on horseback. Mr. Sloan reports that ino^t of the old mansions and historic plnees up the river have been destroyed by the earthquake. "Mid Ill-ton Hall ' is badly injured, while I?r. lJakor < handsome old i'.ngiish house t.nd the Cohen place arc hopeless wrecks. At the Cohen place ho found an old well, wliijli lin> been filled in for n .......I.,.- .1 ......I,, r.li;.... ..n I l.n . t I I I. a ? " HMlUg ..J' ...V ..v.. ...V trunk of mi uM nump was buried in it so as to be comj?lctc1y hidden from view. The earthquake, however, lias forced tlit* top of it up f>ur feel three inches above the surface of III c ground. Mr. Sloan al-o discovered, between Lamb s an i Ten-mile Hill, a large hole in which several smuU pine trees have been engulfed. The lio'.e is thirty-one feel long at its longest point and twenty feet broad. When first discovered it is said to have been about fifteen feet in depth, it lias eince filled up with soft, oozy mud. and is now only about five feet deep. X>ir* mnl Court- r. - ? Tito difference between sonic men and a d i.-, (hat they vvil! go into a saloon torn. tlwr and the doc will couio out perfectly o~ - ^ ' sober. ? ? . Strong Ije will clean tainted pork barrels.