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the (iran?eb?rg ne\vs ? PUBLISHED AT ORANGEBURG, S. c', Evory Saturday Morning. ' **;J?',|r.*"< ~~::o:*7r * . j" ?'7/J.S. If. JIALL<CCO. ? rUBLISHB-RS AND*"PROPR1ETOKS. .- ... i ?:o:?? ' , TERMS' OF SUBSCRIPTION. ?dt <i?*-*l *>' *.-?>?? V ?-f^uK' ?' ufi',v Ontj Copy for oj)Q year. $2.00 <' " ...? Six Months."..... 1.00 Any one sending - TKN' DOLLARS, for a, Clnb jof. Naw Subscribers, will receive ani EXTRA C0f>Y for' ONE YEAR, frco of ,?hafgei lrfy\>ne sondlng FIVE DOLLARS, ,f?r a Club of Now Subscribers, will rccpivo ?n EXTRA COW for SIX MONTHS, free of $m RATK8 OF ADVERTISING. I Square \t\t. Insertion. $1.00 " 2d ?? . 1.00 a 8Q?utre consists of 10 lines Brevier or ?ae inch of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices,.$5 00 Notices of Dismissal of Guardians Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.....$0 00 Contrnct Advertisements inserted upon the best liberal terms. - - MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, ??t' exceeding one Square, inserted w ithout charge. -:o:? Tornm Cash in Advance. LAW NOTICE. DeTreville & Sistrunk, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Oil A XG Eli URG, S. C. r. j. DrThkvili.c. F. 0. StsTKnsK. june 12 tf GLOVER & GLOVER, ATTORNEYS A n It coiixmei.iloks at luv. ORANOEBUBG C. IL, S. C. 'Taoc. Tf. G:.ovnn. Moutimek Glovkr. jan 2 ly HUT30NS & LEGARE, ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS. Will ?itoixl il,o Courts in Oraugeburg, Barnwll *nd Beaufort, att?I in.- Cnttea Mates, <?out ts. OFFICE AT ORANGElU lKi. S. ('. "TT. M. Ri tsds. Vi. F. Ht TSi.x. T. K. Lr.OAna. jaa 23 e ly izlar & dieble, ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, OR A KG Kit I 'R G, S. O. Jambi F. Izi.ar. Samuel Diiiui.k, ftb23 '? ly malcolm l browning-, ATTORNEY AT LAW. oka eh Ulli* C. ii., No. Ca auglM ly fred. fersner, dextist. "Will be in Orangeburg every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Office in rear of RULL, SCOYILL & TIKE, fab 20 t f dr. h. w. kennerly, ? U A .vtJ i; it v ? O, HAVING REMOVED TO THIS PLACE, Respectfully ?ftere his Professional fiertiefs to the Citizens and Vicinity. Office on Russell Sircet, opposite Bull, Heovill k Pike n. mar 13 2m DR. J. R. TOOMER, 0 R A N C, E li U R (J, S. C. RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE t'lTl ZKNH of Orangcburg and Vicinity that he hau resumed the Practice of Medicine, ami can he found at his Residence on Russell Street. jan 1?'.? ly r>. w. hob: nlson. fa8iiioxa11le tailor, I have the pleasure to announce to riy nu merous Customers and the Public generally, that having removed to a Central Position, handy and convenient to nil, I am now pre pared Cut, Fit und make Up n GENTLE MAN'S W A RDHOBE with Neatness and Despatch. Terms liberal and Work War ranted. Thankful for the Patronage of the Snat, T respectfully, solicit its continuance, ext door to Messrs. Bull, Scovill & Pike, I Can he fotind at all times, jan 9?ly D. W. ROBINSON. Crackers a?ti> ca ken.? By the Bt)X and at RF.T ML, a eholec assortment of CRACKRhS and AKR8, KNAPPE I S. JUMBLES, CREAM, SODA. kc.fke., MOLASSES pAKES furnished n' low rates by the Barrel or Box. ('all and fee Sample*. JOHN A. HAMILTON, ect ??3m * Court House Store .8 sweet saint o?,story. There in the ;midst of A tfloilY OF THE TIMES. f'ikfr 'tf/^JP'U,'// vi- r She knelt by tho; crimson altar, and the lyrfit frouj the painted window^ fell like a glory radiantly upon her form ; *he knelt aud prayed-In the sun-lit arolo. like some /"tweet in tin/grand the city's war, while"tho-world was rush ing on with its dizzy hum, Lucille AVo nel had stepped in from the street aud -inch to pruy. "-? She felt so pad und despairing that morning. She had just been disap pointed in getting an expected situatiou. Yes, a dozen times, had she read the short, cold note from her relative, to | whom she'had applied as the last?last resort. The story she had written had been refused by the publisher of the Magaz'ne, the day previous. What was left, now, toabe done ? Nothing. Nothing but to return to the haggard dunking old homestead, aud stiller, and bear, and hear her fath er's?poor old man-??fruitless and sad re pinincs. These were her thoughts, as she was returning to her uncle's residence in the city, from the post office, where she hud j just received that disheartening letter I Thus, she was thinking, bitterly, as she passed the Cathedral, and hearing the or- | ganist practising, and seeing the door open, and persons going in to repeat I their prayers, an impulse of religion?of superstition, perhaps, turned her steps into the church, and she prayed, "i'was a scene of expressive significance, yes, I an historical emblem. She. the daughter of a haughty house. the descendant ol' knightly men, and of j ' noble wmnen. afier suffering the keen I ... * humiljutbuis of poverty?aye, of hunger j j am's eold. and seeing her aged father -oiler and hearing him Lumm so i- iin. ( 11.civ his bitter, cruel fortune?after en dining this for ?? wear) year, had resolved to come to the city, and try? try some thing for her.seli and for hiui. After a w ick of trying and failure, this was the sad, despairing cud. Here she knelt iu the < athedral, nun the light played upon her in its beauty, ml i 0 singing.- of the grand organ vt brah d thn u? h the aoleii u stillness, nnou ? i' bill .-? ??woetl\ on the ear. am! then j prolb i idi\ Ionium through r c bti Idiug, ; w it !? it- deep - r.tlid b.i.-s. i Meinink.-, the organist, was another1 Tom Pinch, i d the sorrows, ami meek nesses ?i Ins own lite would express themselves in his melody, while a note of hum hi sympathy, I l oin a warm heart, win ni repeat itseii unbiddeq, as t he bur den of tiif music. It must have been so; for Lucille Avenel rose from her km cs and ieli happier. How expressive the whole scene! How typical of the Southern laud ! Brave hearts are resting 'ncath her turf, um Illy arms are prostrate, pale women kneel and weep Graves are her shrines ; her temples ruins, while a knelling re frain seems to pour i s pooatl music from its forests ami its streams. Niobc! Lucille Avenel returned to her sad dened hoiuuaiid brought little comfort to her fa: her. ?T'.ijia." said Lucille, after telling of her disappointments, "uncle and every body says, that things will soon be bet ter. The Slates w ill soou be i t eons'ruc ted and restored to their prosperity." "Ah. daughter." said the ohl gent Io nian, sadly, "thi..k of our lo.-se-, our ruins. I have been rich, and thought to set? you happy. Will these things be re stored!' Will they reconstruct my for tune, my spirit, my hopes'/ No, Lu cille.'' ami the old man looked so sad, and his voice quivered as he added ?they em never reconstruct me.' Lucille came aud laid her beaut it ill head upon the old man's breast, and tried to cheer him, but. he would . :j Ml, and retired to his rest that night, repeating, -they will never reconstruct inc." Lucille resumed her pinched and hard life, sewing for her support, and sullen d ami bore up like a heroine. At length a bettor day did dawn for her and her lather. Her uncle wrote tbat she could get employment to write in the govern ment offices in the city. So she and her lather moved down, and obtained rooms, and Lucille went every day and wroto in t tl i! g vein incut office. At first, it was nerj strange, and the polite young officer had to show her a great deal how to copy and fill up blauks. Hut after a while luaj-m-d the routiney( her businete ]> M-fo.u'.iy. She obtained a very good Bdmry-;for4rer services, and -she and-licr father were qnita comfortable. Of tuiovouing they would go touud*tQ uncle- Ralph ?ioplair'a aud talk over these ?ftew. times and phases ibtheir his tory. j? *^ ('lari Sinclair, Lucillas cousin, was highly doliglited and n in used ^ at the' "events of the day." as sbe called tboui, und declared that she would like nothing better than to write in tho Yankee's offices. It was ineffably amusing ?o himi her und her. uncle Teyton A'venel, Lii eille's father, dis?ussing tbo -'issues or the past." and "the living present." "Uncle Peyton, you will be obliged to 'accept the situation' nod admit these things to bo facts." "Ah! 1113* dcar^rirl, I hate that ex pression, 'accept the sit nation,' and some things arc facts which arc not truths, u combination of accidental circumstances may produce very anomalous results These results may seem to crush the truth to the. earth, but believe me, its mighty principle will rise and be vindi cated. "Oil ! my dear sir. please spare tue your metaphysics, these things may be untruths but they are certainly facts It I asked you whether you believed in negro suffrage as a principle, you would tell me, no. but. uiy dear un cle, you must believe in it as a fact, And what, sir, is to change the tuet ! Nothing in the world but your metaphy sics, and your hopes for some miraculous intervention, such OS we .Southerners looked lor during the War." "My girl, the neuro is a doomed ani mal, and destined soon tu leave only fos sil relics uf his race, if he insi.-ts unon his right to vnic in this country." / "My Lord, uncle, any one is doomed that attempts to argue with you upon this question. Your ideas and yourself are fossil relics of the past." "Vnll l>.il>r ll?JK. -*bl? I '?!?* bio* ?"? any more of an evening when 1 come here, fur you are getting to boa complete Radical." "Oh, that reminds mo, Lucille, do you know that everybody says that I'erey Waring, your old sweetheart, is a genu ine Kndic.il. What do you think id that?" "1 have heard, t'lutu, that Percy War ing differed in his political views from in-ist 01 his s< id his -s i tales, hot 1 do not tjiii.k that so I. r \< term 'Radical i- ii: in; applied t< him." "Oh; my, iht i.e we h:iv? it iguin There is no us< to phij up w< ids a in! banter Uatues. You know Lucille, that anyb dy in the South iu<w. who differs with lb.1 st'orssi >u party is culled .1 nodi cal. I mean u\ b d\ wit ? is willing to abide by reconstruction, and who thinks that it will 1)0 permanent. 111 other wouls anybody who is reconstructed." And so I hoy would chat ; Clara Sin clair in her rattling style, arguing with her uncle Peyton, and criticising the po litical situation; uncle Peyton, protest ing against the fate that had so vastly changed his circumstances, and those of his country, lie would ignore the pre sent unimturulstu'o of things, us hecalled them, and adhering to 111 * - past, believed implicitly ami with unswerving faith, that it would he vindicated and rest of id in the future. "'I'll'- glory of the South lias depart ed," he would say. " but the evolution of issues, and the .settling of the political and social equilibrum upon its level. Would restore it." One inure scene, and all our characters will have been presented. In the huge city, at bis desk, in his law office, Stlt I'erey Waring writing. lie was a man of about twenty-seven, of medium height, ami slight figure, with an intellectual head, and line distin gllishcd features. lie had heen practising law. little ever one year, ai d his busiuCSS was slowly in creasing, lie had served with gallantry in the Confederate army, ami surrendered the BWOrtl nf Captain, when Lee's skele ton army, by capitulation, grouped itself in tin- last historic tableau, civ the hlaek curtain tell upon the dreaduil drama Ruined 111 fortune, i'erey Waring, forced to the necessity ul seeking a livelihood, had putSU0(1 the study of the law, amid disheartening difficulties, and was just beginning to rcalizo the ?uecesa 01 bis? efforts. Po8SC8Sud ol a rare und commanding eloquence, and distinguished talent, tho eyes of tho politicians wore turned to him. In several of his Ibreusic ad drearies, uti expression of conservatism of political opinion, which suggested a com promise by vvbiflh'The gentlemen of the South could bow with dignity uml grace to the1 stroke ' thai' had impoverished them, and changed the entire fabric ol Jheir politics, and Ahe condition of their laborers, and yet ts?iintain the unsullied | Purity of their aocjjil economy, and even see a hope foci?T^ restoration of their ruined wealth---air expression of such conservative and p*ikiiiL' sentiments, had rather exposoiUbiiupo the censure id' his ??Hjociates. wnfli/.^t-iIn- Mine ti. it had brought hiin^Ktlteiiotice of the .more 1 ilii'ial-?if*tlif^P^B?^jP^/j' that ruled the SouthcrjJ^j^y^ ' At thc^m^WP'j^af hit? introduction to you reader, he iaj%riting a reply to a eouiiuunie itioij. he* hud just received from a political organization, whose per fect' (li'-'( :plim- Mj^^idroit manipulation ot the col ned p -ople by their secret so cieties, and sensation suggestions and promises, placed itrtheir hands the su preme government of the State. Percy Waring was ambitious. He had long differed withstand ebjeeted to the supine policy of-?inactivity, that had characterised the Southern people since the shock of their'aeteat, and the stiqfe fyhtg effect of theif unl.niked for change He had often thought, and had even grown warm in conversation with friends, saying that he longed for an opportunity to utter his sent intents to his country men. Suffice it to -ay.die accepted the invi tation to uddress the political meeting to bo culled by and under the auspices of the hated party that rule I the country. The time was appointed, and its an nouncement made to the public. Percy Waring's friends generally cut his acquaintance, notue without further formality, others aftei hearing from hi. ,.*',"?? Ifc , , . . own bps, that ,t \yus reahy his intenti >n to deliver the udjrc.-.-. All of his fruatls did this except,, u *'i'it^ot^ly*>?m? I -m uqurt i nni friend from childhood Ralph Itutledge called at his ofiiee the tin ruing aller the uiiuouncemciit apeened in print, lie found Percy Waring sitting at his desk. ?li .od uioiuiug. Percy," be saluted him us of yore, and the i tms of S'rauk and unaltered friendship istoitisltnd, ami to say the truth, almost unmanned Percy Waring. In the iever ?d his ambition, ami e enthusiasm ??i h;s supposed sense nt du h had Is ?? iyp.?r? d for the coolness- oi o.s friends .. ? ! o d even au t rip ited ! hem m* !i o ??cuts lint reeovoring bttusell he ruse au i ?iv t d In- friend war oly. -Take u se it Ralph " ? Vi-. 1 wanted to .*.ee you a moment. Percv. ab ui this poli ie.il harangue you are deliver to-uiurrow night to the Radi cal party ??Not to the Rolled party, Ralph, bui to any of mv follow-ettizeiis who will hear me.' '*3ly dear Icllovv, are you demented i Is it a practical joke't Do you suppose that any of your bona Jhb fellow-citizens will come to hear you under such au spices. Look here. Percy, 1 have come to put a stop to this thing. Hen.ember. Percy, your Inthei sleeps in a soldier's grave, winch be gained lighting tor prin ciple-, against which Voll are ahoiit to raise yotir V.'ice. ami which you are about to recant, remember, sir, you are a gentleman! Remember Lucille Avcuol ! You know you lose caste by this madness. Remember your profes sion, which is surely and steadil) in creasing your honors and rewards. Do voti expect to practice law for the uc grocs and to settle their estates ?" "Really, Ralph, you arc cloquout?"j ? I am in earnesl Percy. For Hods sake, tell inc. what kind of speech do you intend to make." T intend to express thoso sentiments which you have heard me utter so fre quently in conversation." ?Look bore, Percy Waring. 1 have done my duty. I cannot divine your motive nor your object in this madness. Hut if it is all in vain. m> dear sir. I can but char the gang-Way and let )ou go. You know the consequences ! "1 suppose one of them will be the loss of your friendship ami acquuiu t unco." "No, sir, I shall not cut you when we meet, but 1 never expect to meet you in society ! You, of course, know this." "Those, who caring not to uudcustnild my motives and my heart in this matter, are worthless friends. 1 fecfthut I am right, and 1 dread not these silly conse quences." "Well, sir, I have said what I intended to, you kuow the rest." ?Ami 1 shall say whut I intend to. to morrow night, and .-hall bo happy to have you hoar mo." "I shall not be there. Good morn Inge." And ho left the office. Another historic, emblematic scene'. Qh ! ho thi.s oroud, brave, dowu-trod den people have clung to the brightness and glory of their past. Their glory forever departed, and they mourn so pa thetically at its memorial. Scorning the facts, forced upon them, those facts subverting their entire civili zation and forming the bases upon which a new and entirely different one its to be supcrstructcd, they cliug with wild, loud devotion to the memories of the ir revocable past, and hope, romantically, madly, that the future will restore them. History but repeats itself. Its course is not retrogressive. Perhaps ill the widen ing circle of its cycles it may reach the correlative and parallel point, at which '.i stood before, but it widens, complicates progresses. Percy Waring delivered his oration, and he was cut. Instinct >vitb eloquence, burying the glorious pa-i. with stately eulogy, and gleaning from it lessons for the future, it pointed to that future, picturing the brightness of its new era. ami pointing out the practical duties of the different el.is.-es at the South. In his advice, to the colored people. 1 the eloquent speaker seriously disappoint cd those who had invited him to Bpcak. lie advised thum to scorn their secret or gan;/, .ti ins, by which they mechanically obeyed the will of tho i/iijm: into whose hands it.- springs were intrusted. lie hide them think for themselves. Their right- were guaranteed now irrevocably. Tiny should now commit only tho common interest of the country?the interests of the i ;n ploy or, the land owners, as well as J of those of the laborer. xv?i -u11mpe-?WS iiiauu uy ?iiy JO..UOI. tri interrupt him, but he had touched the right ch ird ib the colored man's nature, and they would hear him. '1 he effect of his address was thrilling, irrcsistuble. 'Twns the only way to reach the colored people, ami they fell the ti nt h ol t he advice. His address was published in all the ciiv newspapers, and all classes inwardly tell that the positiou I'erey Waring bad assumed promised much good to all classes. Still he lost caste. His friends cut bis acquaintance, and he was denounced, ?? lladical." 'Twns nn evening or two nftor the speech that. Lucille A vend and her fath er were ?t Pulph Sinclair's .spending the evening s usual. Clara Sinclair was, of course, brim full of chat lor uncle Peyton ami Lu eiile. "Well, uncle Peyton." she said, "have ytoi read Mr. I'erey Wurihg's speech to the lladical.- ?" "No, my girl, I hive not certainly. Mv Heavens, what can that boy mean! Iii- lai her'.- bones iiiu-t huvn stirred in their grave. What would he say? What would he say ?" "Ko.illy, sir. you might have read his speech. Hut.? Lucille, what do you think of your bean itleal now ? Are you disenchanted .' ' "Tho view.-of Mr. Waring are cer tainly very new and striking to tis. I urn not enough of a politician to kuoW whether he is altogether right or not. but I do sympathize with him in the ostra < I. in which appears t ? be tho consequence of it. 1 do think that these questions ought to be discussed, calmly and serious ly, ami that one ought to have :; right to differ with the majority in his opinion." "Uncle Peyton, do you bear all that. Lucille is as much of a lladical as 1 am. au 1 ought to be deprived of the boon ol kissing you. as well as [. Hut I beard to-day that Percy Waiiug is the Radical candidate for Congress. That is bis aim I soppo.-e. SuCCOSS shall be his erite riou." Aud SO she ratlled oil. Percy Waring was t he candidate lor Congress. The colored people broke through all tho routine of their party or ganization, and would have him tu be their candidate. A large und respectable portion of the white voters rallied on him, appreciating hi- manly, independent and promising course, and he was elected. The Slate was reconstructed, and re presented in Congress by one of her owo citizens, "to the mauor born," and elect dl by the consent \ind aid of the colored people, who thus properly appealed to responded generously and well. The State was reconstructed and re stored to her sons! Percy Waring distinguished himself in Congress by his bold and fearless de fence of the rights of his State, ns re constructed. All classes felt that he was right. When he returned home, ovation after ovation awaited him. The colored people invited htm to address tbein, and as he told thcin plainly and truthfully their rights and their duties, they gath ered around him as around one whom they could trust. Some of his friends were 'magnani mous enough tc come forward and renew their acquaintance with hitu, frankly acknowledging their error and prejudice ; others still kept him under the ban of social ostracism. Among those vho still treated him with co illiCSS were Ralph Sinclair's fam ily. None condemned hitu more vio lently than Peyton Aveucl. Years passed, and with their slaw rev olution, reconstruction upon a sure foun dation, was gradually being accomplish ed. The gentlemen of the South were either passing away or their bitter an tagonism to these changes was relenting. While these changes were working out their fulfilment, and Percy was vin dicating his sentiments by the criterion of their success und extension, let us for a moment look at the relations that ex isted between him and Lucille Avenel. Horn of kindred ancestry, both inheri tors of goodly patrimony, reared on neighboring plantations in the country, and meeting often in the same sociil cir cles in tie city, their intimacy had ripened into love. Their love had been mutually confessed in the sunny hours of childhood, hud ripened with their years, and? been re cognized aud approved by their parents. Js-^UW? father loved the boy as be said like his own it urtyrcd son, who KacT fallen in an early stage of the war. "lie has lost u gallant father," he would say. "I a noble boy. I will be hi- father, and he shall fill the place of my falleu son." Their engagement thus hallowed by the golden memories of youth, thus con tinued aud sanctioned by her father's blessing, had been interrupted in its con summation, only by the ruins and poverty, consequent to the war, and since by her lather's disapproval and anger at his political course. Percy Waring knew Lucille Avenel. too well, to lear that she would misunder stand or mistrust him, but he knew bar father's allegiance to the "principles in abeyance/' as he called those issues for which the South had so gloriously but so vainly struggled, aud he knew Lu uille's allegiance to her father. His pre judice or himself must pass away before he could claim bis Lucille. Year- passed away, an 1 Percy War ing had reaped high honors aud rich re ward. His sentiments has been adopted by a large aud influential class of the I South, and under their influence, peace, j in its truest sense, and prosperity un dreamed of at the South, were allaying all differences, settling all conflicts of class -. and pouring untold wealth into (he country. All opposition, all prejudice to him seemed giv ing away. At this period be thought of his Lu cille, thought of her girlish beauty and freshness, in the budding of her charms and the development of her disposition. He rosolved to make an effort to win her. He had m-ver called at her father's since they bad been in the city, and it had been a long time since he had spent an t veiling at Ralph Linelair's. This evening ho resolved to Cull at the house of the latter. They had deter mined to relent, lie was invited in. Lucille Avenel ami her father were there. At first the old man did not wish ts recog nize him, but his feelings .rave way when ho heard his manly voice, and saw his bold, high-toned manner and carriage. "1 forgive you, boy, 1 forgivo you. Lor your father's saU and for Lueille's, 1 forgive you. Ah, boy, you aro recon structed I suppose They could never have reconstructed your father, bravo fellow, aud thay will never reconstruct me. I will have to go to the grave like him, 'unreconstructed.' " We pass over the evening's chat. Percy Waring's high words .peaking from a "mind consoious to itsolf of right " Clara's chatting and witticisms^ aud Lucille A venera high and holy hnj P*mC88- . ?, larfl Their engagement was reconstructed They are married and happy. ?o b>? out stricken country. Agricultural Items. Hammonton, N. J., soot a uUliof) quarts of strawberries to market tfci seuson. The best com crop on prairie sod yet reported is 724 bushels by weight froi~ i-cven acres. A Pembroke, (N. H-.) farmer has ; pig which has gained a pound and a haH' each day since he was big enough to weigh sixty-eight pounds. Jidiu Johnson, tho father of upland tile draining in this country, lives to sou within the State of New York fifty tw?? factories of tile drains. A dairyman informs the Maine Far hier that having tried various things f?r sore teats on cows, he finds lard be.--, the most healing aud softening. The Stock Journal advises a Lijhor n fur regular farm work, and one that doc* not. without great pushing, trot mo: ? than six miles an hour with a ligh, j buggy. Cooked meal is nearly double the bul'i of uncooked, yet quart for quart it goes as far. Tho difference is, that much of th i food is undigested unless cooked Half a dozen eggs beat up with twa ounces oi suit, is recommended as a BUM relief of cattle choked with a potato or; an apple, by a correspondent of the Country Gentleman. Every farmer should have a compost, heap.?Culluct every kind of fertilize-. and to prevent any frcm liberating tli gasscsj keep the whole covered Wi*n car u or muck. The Journal of Agriculture racer" mends the application of a top dressing of manure to meadows immediately aft ? hayiug, especially on dry patches whew ;he grass roots are often parched und killed in wet weather. From six stations on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad 577 eight gall, a cans of milk are sent daily to the Chicm. ? market. The largest amount sent fr -i one station is 254 cans or 3,032 gall. ? - from Duudee. The Journal of Agriculture thin' ?* present Western prices for wool will r; i maintained, but sees no reason for mu< ft advance, ami doubts whether those wh' have their last clip on hand will gain much by keeping it over. Mr. A. S. Fuller offers a prize of 8100 to any person who will furnish bin. ... cheap ami effectual plan of extertuinatin molcs from bis grounds. He will I satisfied with a trap or a poison, provided,. the required work is done. Mr. J. II arris thinks steam threshing ? machines will soon take the place of the horse machines. This, ho thinks, will he of great advantage in the way of allow ing grain to be threshed 88 it is taU n ! from the field, and tl.e straw to be pu. iu the barn. Hiram Woodruff says in hit be !; about trotting horses, that a pull on bet!, reins will not bring up a horse when l\ > has broken front a trot. A firm, quid, pull should be given ou one rein, letting the other gr*"? a little, as muoh as }???'?> want the horse's head thrown out o*' line. vt> t A very practical agricultural east Wax given to the examinations at the close ol* the second year of the Massachusetts Agricultural College by a novel openin exerciso. Fiom the Sophomoro class 1(5 students wero sclocted by lot, and gu?- % an exhibition of their skill in mowiMjr with hand scythes. Dr. McCIuro, of Philadelphia, a Veterinary surgeon who has the caro several hundred horses, informs tho Practical Farmer that ho has neu r known the following prescription to fid! of curing colic in horses : "Aronsat* spirits of ammonia, half an ounce; Laud ?urn, one and n half ounces; mix wit ono pint of water, and administer, t?' not relieved, repeat tho dose. Dr. Ilandall says it is not expo^Aj^s to feed valuable ewes unhulted corn, lor says it is not usually thought to p*y f., grind corn for storo sheep. |}o also recommends bran slops and roots to In crease the milk of yeaning owes. It is estimated that thero are nvt . 12,000,000 head of cattle in Texas ab.m but prior to the war that State on' contained 3,000,000 hoad The domat. { censed and the cattle throve during the conflict, until they have increased cm % mously.