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Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---.$300 per Annum In Advance. VOL. Vii.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST23, 1871. [NO.10 Trl10 FAIRFIELD HERALD IS Pt'n118I~Lsc WsKIY BtY D ESP1Il'ICS A WILL gAMS, TermisI.-Tnt. In s uiblS i heeIC-I Weeks in the rown of Winnsboro, at $3.00 in wareably in advarnce. f6ty All transient advertisentent.s to be id in advanco. Obituary Notices and Tributes S1.00 per square. The Fatal Accidit on the Blue Kitlgo Rond, The following letter signed "T." and dated W alhalla the 1 Ith, appears in the Columbia Union of yes terday : The railway collision on Thursday, near Perryville, by which Mr. J. U. Clemson lost his life, was the result of such groes carelessness as to do. serve bettor the name of murder than accident. The facts are about as fol lows: On Thursday last, the up train on the Blue Ritidge Road, cousistipg of an engine, baggage car and a pas senger car, loft Anderson closely fol. lowed by a lumber train, belonging to the Greenville Road. Previous to reaching Pendleton, the passenger oar became detached from the engine and was left standing on a bridge. Fortunately there was between it and the coming lumber train a straiht piece of road, so that the latter was stopped within, however, a few yards of thostanding car. Had it stood upon a curve, thie accident of the day would have occurred earlier and with proba bly wore fatal results. In spite of this warning, the lumber train con tinued to follow the pnsenger train closely. After pabsing Pendleton, the passenger train stopped at liunnicut's orossing (not a regular station) to put out some freight. Behinid was a curve, and around that curve dashed the lumber train striking the pas.enger car which .had just commenced to move forward. and badly wrocking the rear platforin. Such pastengers as had not succeded in jumping off were thrown vi lontly forward. Mr. Clemson was thrown against the end of the c4r, and was so bruised inter nally that he die'd in a short time. These facts show c imniual negli gence on the p;.rt of the superintend. ent of the Blue Ridge Railway in al lowing one train to follow another in such close proximity as to rendersuch a collision possible. The remedy will, it is to be hoped, be found in ex emplary pecuniary damages. The engineer of the lumber train' was criminally careless in running in. to the train which a previous warning proved ho was following too closely. A remedy for him ought to be found in an instant dismission from his employment, and a criminal prosecu tion. As if fato followed the passenger train, another disaster wasi prevented only by the energy and act ivity of one of thd colored employees. The passengers had been transferred from the wrecked car to a box-car. Soon after starting, the coupling broke, and the car started on a down grade, to ward the scene of the previous disas ter. A colored ian ran past the car and began throwing ohunks of wood in front of the wheels, thus re tarding its speed until a large piece finally threw it off the track. If it hand not been for the ptromlpt action of this mian,' the car would have soon gained a speed that could not have failed to result in a fatal disaster to the women and children in the car. As the wrecked car was the only pas senger coach owned by the Blue Rlidgo Comipany, passengers amto now transferred fromt Walhalla to An derson in a box-ear, and are allowed to sit in splint chairs as far as they will go round, then upon trunks, and finally upon the floor, or stand if they prefei-. Unaccountable as it may scomn, a coroner's jury, sitting on the body of Mr. Clemson, returned a verdict of "death -by'- unavoidable actoident." -We venture to Aay that no persons t ntot Mnryid' at Udis 'tcrditt thtaa the officials of the BleRig Company. ln ig Preparatton or lFood for Stock.. It has been 'long. admitted - that chopping the food gi-ven to out- horses mul 1os.and cattle, increases the diges tibility of the food,-andc makes sinaller Cuantity, supply u'uffieient nutriment. 'e steaming and softoning the chop ped food by waiter was a further 1m provemient in the preparation of stock food, both as to gnhlilty and in econe ioal noint of view, and now another and, Itit' is idli greater improvement has booun itroduced, namely, the grindIng or crushing fodder, hay andi straw, by which they are made qutito soft arnd sucoulent, more easy of digestion, more nutritiyo, and more jathtable. Th 'itful is ,d6M by ple and lnexp~ensl .4j .1 a operatio'n'. --So- Farm andl 19 me. 'ira. tnton ohu e~ that WAmen stimulate nmens passions with their dross, their, daniceg, bare':arms, bare nooks, and thon make a- terriblo' upa roar when they come to afii the eon. seqncesna of the own inin.~ost. A Baby Dies of llydrophobia-Au Awful Casc- The Child Tears its Clothing and Barks Like a Dog. A little son of John McGinuis, an employee at the stock yards, died last Saturlay morning of hydrophobia. The ago of the child was one year and line months, The case is a somewhat singular ene, and therefore we give It with sone particularity of detail. Very few cases are un record of the fearful complaint attacking one so young. The position taken by cor tain authorities that the disoase is simply of the imagination is here proved to be untenable. An unrea soning infant, just beginning to prat tie, is n t likely to be so disturbed by the fear of imaginary physical troubles as to be in this manner hur. ried out of the world. The child was bitten a little over a month ago. The mother had one day seated it on the ground at the back door of the house, when a large Newfoundland dog belonging to a butcher named Shuler, living in the neighborhood, came suddenly rush ig up to the child and bit it. No one was about the house had seen tiis nimal previounly. Three ugly wounds were inflicted upon the tender infant by the ravag ing animal-one at the side of the left temple, another between the ayes, and the third on the top of the head near the edge of the hair. The brute showed every symptom of mad. nces, foaming at the mouth, snapping at everything it passed, without stop. ping to veut its rage upon any particu lar object. The wounds upon tie child soon licaled, only one slight scar on the nose renuining. The matter faded. rrom the recollection of the parents. Last Wednesday morning the infant began to show singular signs of irrita ion and commenced tearing off its slothes, at the same time uttering low, wailing cries, and complaining of Shirst. But when water was offered to it the most distressing writhing of jaws and convulsive movements of the Face and throat followed. No one ;eemed at first to know the real cause if the trouble. The startled mother did all in her power to restore her infant to ease and quiet. Thinking it might be suffering from the heat, ihe took off some of the superfluous alothing. The wise wonen of the neighborhood gathered in and gave tbeir diagnosis of the disease. Some said the compliant was diptheria, and some said the poor littie thing was teething. All day Wednesday the little suf. ferer exhibited the sane symptoms, seeming, however, all the time to suf for more acutely. It pulled and tug ged at its clothing with such energy as to tear off the buttons, and threw its arms about in the most agovized manner. This continued until Friday night, neither the mother nor the child sleeping. The infant took no uourishment during all this time, and when water was offered went into convulsions, seeming to reject it with horror. Dr. W. W. Goodman, living at the Rock Island car works, was aunamoned on Fridlay evening. IHe at once told the gried-stricken parents that their child was dying of hydrophobia, and nothing could be done to save it. i~e admnistere d morphia without effect. The child was apparently in the last stage of the disease. In '.ts convul' sions it seemed endowed 5.ith preter natural strength. The foam which issued from' its mouth was stained with blood. It uttered an incessant whine, which those about it eonmpared to the whin ing of a dog. Whenever the hands of those attending it approached its face the efforts to bite were manifest ly eanine. Although but just com menoinig to talk1 it repeatedly uttered the word "dog?' during the night pro coding its death, as it had somehow in its diseased infantile brain mysteri ously assooiated the idea of. its pres. ent sufferings with its being bitten a month before. At 8 o'clock en Saturday death eamo to the relief of the sufferer. From Wednesday nlorning until this hour no nourishment and not a di-op of water had passed its lips. ITho ease is a peculiar one, and should at tract the geineral attention of the medical 'world. The First Bale, The receoipt from Dr. Elijah IT. Dowlhing, of B~arnwell County, of the first bale of South Carolina cotton and,its sale at 25 cents per pound, have already been reported. Now the curious fact is noticed that this is the third consmeoutive year that Chmaru leston has redoiVed 'hom "first bale" freim Dr. Dowlin'd, one of~ thoe most ooessful, praotical and extensive planters of Barnwell County. W~e are p ained to 'record the death of Mr. R.JT.W. McCann, an enter prising aotife and useful citizen of this County, and a young man g real ly 'esteemad 'by 'a lNrgo cirdle of friends -afd acquaintances.-Andev eon lntll'~jnem. Arc We Rluined. Once there was a man whoso housso was burned down. lie had plenty of land, and stock, and appliances for work left, but on reviewing the situa tionli he made up his mind that ie was ruined. Now he was a rather obst Inate old chap, and would listen to no ar-, gument which was opposed to his own convictions. "Why, my friend, you arc not ruined," his many friends would any ; "you have a bright prospect before you ; all you have to do is to quit whinming about, the past, and look only to the future." But ruined he would be, and notihing would insult him Moro than to nay there was a chance for his reviving ; and sure enough lie was rninnd ; tie let go all holds-everything went to the dogs, amid he died a pauper. That's the condition of our country to-day. The fanatical persistenoy with which soine people Cling to the idea that wn are ruined, is perfecth marvelous. The fashion is to recur to the past, think over how many nig. gers we used to have, and sigh 1'we are ruined.'' And if a man attempts to argue against the suicidal notion Ie occupies the position of a strange Irishman at a fair ; ho has got to trike hard or wear a thick skin, or lie su fers pretty badly. * And the whole press keeps up the whiue from one end of tho land to tho other. In 1865 the whole world ivas looking towards our sunny fields For homes, and were repelled by the ery "we are ruined." Of course the wvorld didn't want to go to a ruined ,ountry, and so the world and his Aife staid at Lou e. Pick up a paper and we'll bet you that half you read 'oes to show that we are ruined. Well so far as we and our houses ire concerned , we don't, believe we tre ruined. Wo think the road to )rosperity is plain Cease absurd re istance to an accouplished revolu ion-abandon the senmiments and nethods which are as foreign to our -ra as the Vishnu philosophy. Get ,he car on the track-putsteam on -cry "all aboard," -and down the yrooves of timo we'll drive the train into a future where flowers bloom, ind birds sing, and won go about wvith pockets full of rooks.-Clinton ,La) Democrat. I Murder for Ten Cents. The particulars of the Thorndalo murder, as given by the Canadian papeA, are of a most horrible nature. Mrs. Campbell, the wife of the mur :erod man, was awakened by the sound of voices by the bedsido de rmauding money. Mr. Campbell told the burglars that there was no money in the housc, but they disbelieved him and shot at him three times without effect, Then began a hand to-hand encounter between the hus. bandc) and his two opponents. His wife successfully procured axe and a carving knife, but they were seized by one of the ruflians and made to do dreadful duty in despatching the unfortunate Campbell. After being horribly gashed and bruised he fell dead on the floor. The assassins then turned upon the woman and renewed their requests for money, She told them to take her little child's safe, containing ten cents, which was all there was in the house. They there upon angrily turned time furnit'uro upside down, but failed to find any-* thing more valuable than the little safe, which, with its wealth of ten cents, they actually to.k, arid left the premises swearing at their disappoint mont ; while the crush'ed and hero a, ed wife applied herself as well as she might to the task of stilling the cu es of tier fatherhess children -and com. posing the corpse of her brave and beloved husband. Grapes. Thme large orop of grapes grown in th~e vicinity of Richnmond is a great public benefit. They are so healthy and such an important addition toth variety of summer diet. Bytung back a few years and recollecting the linmited suppl the brogtto' the city-how they wore only placed upon a few tables, and were but little used as a rare fruit, we can appreciate thme rapid manner in which the fruit o .1 turists have' enlarged the crop. Grapes arc rapidly being introducod into every hour o as a p irt of the sub stance of the season.--Ricn mend Dis patch.__ An Island Swept by a Volcnnic Wave. One of the most terrible of thme ap. paling calamities that have lately oc curred in those quarters of the g lobo which are subject to great eenvul1sionsa af nature is reported from the Batavia papers by the cable to-day. A small isla'nd in the Malay archipelago, known as swept by a wave forty yards in height, caused by a concussiona of the sea wbich accompained an out burst of thme volcano of Ruwang. . All human beIngs on the ialattd, 416 in~ number, together with their, Ofttle, borebs and other aniaile, perished i the sudden dolugo. Mrs. Mary Aon Cleveland, Nf Maqakota, Iowa, has sued ten saloon keepers in that city for 5,000 damages done her by furnishing liquor to her husband. Turnip Crop. There is no erop that the farmei nn put in the ground which pays hin: better than the turnip. We art aware that with some persons It jb looked upon its of little account but it has never received the conbider, ation to which it is really entitled : and thoso who turn up their noses at it are not genuine farmers. alt is a or >p moreover'that is put in at a time, whben the hurrying work of the season is over , and it occupies ground that has been used for something else. The cultivation also, say of from one to two acres of turnips, involves oomparatively little labor. The crop too, is harvesed in Nuomber, when there is almost no other labor on the farm to interfere with it. As to the variety of aced to sow, wo believe their is no turnip eqrual to the purple top. A top dressing of bone manure is almost indispensable o an abundant crop. . For an early crop take the Early Flat and sow broadcast early in July. ['he Purple Top for the regular farm trop. This should be sowed in driils btirty inches apart, and when the Arnips are the size of a hickory nut, bin out to eight or ten inches apart u the row. They seldom fail in affording a satisfactory crop. The rop can be put in the latter part of Fuly or firt't half of August. Wh'lon the land is a little 0liort, sow aiong the corn at the last working. l'lhey will not interfere in the least vith that crop, generally, and very ittle when it ij harvested. Be sure al ways to procure seed from tstablishcd seed houses of reputation, and use that grown bore instead of in Iurope, if you wish the best and afest article.- German town Tele lraph/. Good Sense Showit by Voters, Col. C. G. Meuminger has been .ected a School Commissioner in .;harlcston. ie was nominated by the Republican party and voted for 3y many of both parties. When such mton as Col. Menminger, so well fit. 'ed for the office to which lie is elected re brought forward by - the people, it is a sign that good sense begins to prevail over the nonsense and crime of electing incompetent persons on mere party grounds. All men elect ad to transact the public business should be elected on account of their merit, more especially in offices that are not political, county officers, judges, and others that mnight be nam ad. It is a disgrace to any party to nominato men of bad or doubtful character to any oflice, political or not, and still more disgraceful in the people to olect such men when nonal nated.- Grcenville Entrpriz;. A Sardine Supper. A country landlord, wishing to give in elegant entertaitnment at his house, sent to a neighboring city for two do%. en boxes of sardines, wiich he was informed was the chief delicacy in the market. His ehirography, how. ever, was so had as to make the order road, "two dozen boxes syringes." The night of the party came, and, as supper time drew near, the landlord looked anxiously down the street for the asppe'arace of the stage which was to btring the principal dish on the bill. At last it arrived, and with it package for the expectant land lord. Diarectly there was a great outcry, and a sound of cursing in thec bar-rootn. The entire partf' rtshaed out to see what was the matter, and there stooil llrown pufling and blowing with ragg. "See there ! I sent for two doeni box es of sardihes for supper to-night, and the cussed fools sent twenty-th roe boxes of them pewter stiuirt-guns, and says that's all there was in the market." Singular Case, A young lady of Pit Lsfurg 4o all appearances lay dead for Lwenty-two days. When she died (?) there was such a peculiar eg pression op q-her countenance, and deocomposaltion .not appearing, her frienda refused, to al low her to be b~uried. On the twenty second day she arose with sastart,.as if just awakened from a refreshing sleep and was surprised upon being inform. ed of her Rip Van. Winkle, slumber. About her first motion was to go to the cupboard and put herself outside of a couple of pies. She thtert told the astonishted neighbors who had filled thte house that sihe huad only been asleep a d reaming, and boon me'greatly annoyed at what she thought sdas their propensity to "tease" her for "over sleeping hersolf an hour In the miorfa ing." It Ia a very singular onse. Some young. people near Rlocky Mound, Ga., were taking a walk, when one young:lady havidg.:a *emell switch. in -her hand, struck a-ofg man whao'happened to.'have ia; 'M!all coppeor cart ridge int bis pddtlofa pocket wildh xplbded, tkd bgIllpass ing.thron h their clothing aidd ing in-the kne of the lalyredttiia patnful and dangerous wound'. Ain "gent" was once asked what wife. One ha pa e s prod i-gal, brit fru..gal' a true-gal, and suited to to his cnuna taste. A Desperale Struggle at North Spiring field, and all for Sport. One of the most des orate contests we have heard of for a ong time took place at North Springfield a (lay or two since, and tho affair is made a little amusing by the fact that thero Was not the least feeling of hostility between the parties, and no effort to harm each other. It appears that Mr. Turk and Mr. Allison (lid not elgroo as to the ability of two mon to forcibly handle a single man in a cer tain way, and an arrangement was entered into by which Mr. Turk un. dertook with the aid of any other man he Mnight select, to forcibly convey Mr. Allison a certain specified dis tane in twenty-fivo minutes' tino. The day was agreed upon for the trial and all parties woro prose nt, Mr. Turk having brought to Itis assistance a colored, man said to be one of the stout-est men in the country. The parties are in fact all men of superior physical power. The contest began and. proceeded gallantly, with varying and doubt ful prospects. There was no reser vation of physical strength-the ut. most capacity of the contestants was brought into action-mutole was not spared. - At the end of 2.1A minutes of this extraordinary and desperato struggle the parties had reached tho door of the room into which Allison was to be taken. But physical enduranceo could hold out no longer, and here the contest ended. The parties were all completely exhausted, their health, and even their lives, being imperiled by the long continued strain upon [heir muscular organizations. Mr. rurk fainted, and the services of a physician were required to restore him. The colored man became sick, and vomited profusoly. .Allison was reduced so that ho was unablo to speak, and wont immediately to bod. We understand , however, that rest and attention have restored all partIes to their wonted strength and vigor. But whether their minds are satisfied upon the point at issue wO are not informed. Tampering With Coin. Th e last report of the assayer of tle mint of Philadelphia contains some intoresting infornation in regard to he various imethodi of counterfeiting ;old coin, or abstracting from them a part of their value. In one lot of 1 f1,000, there were 34 double eag le. I'wo of those had been burnt or bls. tered, but as they wore vory -1h- IV 1) under weight, tho oljo.'t .:h; m . t ing has not been ise.,voied. The other pieces were all from 10 to 20 grains light-that is, reduced from 40 to8O cents in value. One was filed smoothly nearly all around the outer edge, but all the others retained the "milling" which had been restored after the filing. In this way 5O cents worth of gold was taken from each piece, without sonsibly diminishing its diameter. In one or two cases, where from 22J to 58. grains had been taken away, the eye would do. tect the loss. One piece wasreduced by the use of nois. This treatmont makes the surface rough, so that it is easily do teeted. In the namio lot there were ten eagles wvhich had bt.con filed, and two treated with aeld, tihe latter being quite spoiled. A number of counter.. feits were found in the same lot. The best piece was light only two and a half grains, but some of its lettering was very bad. This piece contained abont 69J per cant. pure gold, the genuine coin contaIning 90 per cent. seine of thme poorer pieces contain only about f00 per cent. Another lot of coins had been split, and filled with platinunm. 'The best method of do tecting filled or counterfeit pieces is bf'f)ndling their specific gravity by3 iroighing ijiwator, Apples as Flood. The Importanice of appies as a food, ay:ibgha.nt hitherto been t sufficiently estintated or understood.1 1Besides conitributing a large propor- I tion sugar, muacilage, and othert notri tive compoundti in the form of food, they contain sucoh sAno combination of vegetable 'acids,' oxtractivo sub- I stances and arotnatic principles as to 1 act powerfully in the eapacity of ren frigerents, tonies -and antiseptics ; and when freely usedl at the season of ripeness, by rural laborers and others, they greatly maintain andi strengthen the p0Oe of productive labor. . istenl to te ~Iockinug Bird, In apipa to tbao inegwing Legisla, litre oft (dIia a vlg is raised for the mioking bit'd. ITho' young of these biro .noe hm1frighly 'taken frdo4 thd east ris' soon as found and sent' to e for~~l o toit~opo0, .wht.o ,.tbqy ell E li$ prcesandi,. as Oeer brdod th isoe of Ie wit Idra frdmi'ydd tidy,'a serisiblb dim ,gution hf dh'o uitimber of Alosb 'glorious'arki. Sied b for ne derpivoev m-eas There I sno need cif pr'aiig the present style of ladies' dresses, for they are "uffed" enough alrma. Whites Attacked by an ArmCdi Negro Blob. A correspondent of the Savannah News writing from Eatouton Putnam County Ga., August 8th, says : "As I have already written you, a special election was held in Ilutnan County to-day for Representative and County Oflicers. The voting proceed Od (juietlj, but evidently in favor of the Democrata, until about I1 o'clock wheni a negro drew a,knife upon one of the police deputized by the Sheriff to keep ordor. The negro was inime diately arrested and hurried off to jail. This excited the other negroes somoewhat, and and one of their num. ber proposed to rescue the prisoner. This put him in limbo, and there was much confusion in consequence. About twenty negroes of the worst tripe then proceoded to the residence f the negro candidate, and armed hlenselves with guns and pistols that and bean previously stored there. Returning to the Court House square hey made a warlike demonstration, ul were met and dispersed by the utizen4s. One or two negroes were vounded, and one white man shot ilightly in the neck. The attack of ,e negroes upon the white people vas entirely unprovoked. There can >e no excuse set up for it. I trust, iowevor, that they have been learned lesson." Diamind Cut lilamonid. A o< rrespondent, writing from laratoga, relatos this incident : "Among our visitors is a young lergyman. ITO in smart, and has his yes open. He is a echurchman, and vill make his mark. An incident fill illustrato this. 11 is college eh uM s settled in the Baptist ministry. )ur church friend miade a call on his hum. It was Saturday, and he propos ( to spend 8umday with hi old asso .iute, He was made welcome, but rith the least bitiofi ombarassmont hat ho did not fail to observo. At ength the Baptist brother spoko. I should be delighted to have you >roach for me to-morrow. But the act is, it is our communion. We mave it directly after our morning orvice, It would be very awkward, rou know, for you to preach for me md then go out of the house with the miregonerate, for by the rules of our lhurch, you, not being baptized, can. ot commune with us.' The church. an laughed, and said : 'Oh don't o uneasy. I will preach for you. lut were I forty times baptized, I ould not sit down to your table, for y the rule of our church, you, you now, are not ordained, and cannot diminiater the ordinanoo at all.' Lnd so lie preached, and at the closo rent out to his dinner. Oci. Butler and his New Party. Gen. B. F. Butler always makes stir in whatever he 'engages. He is ow the centro of a considerable olitical agitation in MassachumsettA. k Boston correspondent of the N. Y. Iribune says : "(Jen. Butler's self-nomination for he gubernatorial chair has exploded early all the political magazines in he State, and is prod ueing the same proar which, like an eco, follows rtost of his proclamations. lie isr arded b~y the old and tried meinbers of he Republican party as an extremely angerous man at any time. But uat now his actions are looked uponi nith more than usual distrust, on sa ount of his absurd ideas upon some mportant mattera of public policy. rIts idea of public faith' in fmnafcial naitters are particularly mistrusted. le dlesiresi the formation of a 'new iarty.' Hie hmas a platform of his wn, conglomerated of labor theorlrs, >artIal repudiation, and a war with omnebody, which lie believes will be he foundation of the now party, 3utler's own declaratilon, thu posal.d Ility of his rejection by the Repub an Convention was a qontingency ot worth eensiderbmyg, shoei full well hat he is basing his hopes of success pon'the stupport of the new party, ~hether, he is nominated by the Re. ublicant, orno. DIfpihcrla Cured wIth Laemon Julce, 's Adolo time ago, Dr. Rtevillont, in a apor presented to the French Acado ny of Medicine,'amsserted that lemon ulco is one of the ' rost efficatlous niedieines whicb dali be applied to lipthoeria, and he relates thlat, whoa a Iressor in the hospital, his own lifo ras savod by this timely application, rIo got three dozen lemons, and gar tled his throat with juice swallowing i little at the same tim'c, in order to rot on the more' deep-soated liarte. I'le Dootor has noted numerous oases >f cotnpleota success obtained by this. nothod of treatment, The truth is~ wealth rand fashion ste realities ; hut they are not very mtomln eaities. ''haef Are ohmparms., sivcIly insignflolant ones. Life and ieath, and gin, andebhame., and sorrow snfI epontance, arid victory and do. red, to dslewna realti'os, and the othe' 1'olorig 'to" iluIlo a difrwent sategory. A Soathetn lady isi said' t. have been poisoned by chewing green sew ing oilkJ. Transplanting Trees. A tree will transplant very much better and grow with more certainlh if slug when the ground Is very wet. and if it is a valuable tree it pays well to wet the ground the day before digging. Almost any evergreen will bear transplanting, and will do well if shaded the first summer. No one would believe the diffurenco till they try it. There is no trouble about trans planting largo trece, if you take two or three years for it. We have tried it on pear which is the hardest to move. Dig three-fourthe up, and fill up the placo till another yeair ; or if a very big tree, take still another year. This saves labor, for then not so much digging is necessary. Plants started too early in the spring get a cheek or kind of chill from which they will not recover the wholo season. . 'tree should hardly be watered at all unless they are mulched, not bimp. ly because of the waste in ovapora tion, but the cold produced by the evaporation, does about as much harm as the water does good. We often hear persons say they wonder why watering trees does so little good. The reason is that the evaporatiol produces so much cold thnt the trees stop growing. And then it takes very much more water to reach tire roots of a tree than the inexperienced are aware of, so that the single bucket of water only makes a cold placo around the collar of the tree. If tie tree was in a strong growing state it could bear it, but it is in as much need of warmth as water. Mulch prevents evaporation and holds the water till it has time to reach the roots. But when we consider that a barrel of dry earth will nearly hold a barrel of water, we must not think that a single bucket of water will be of much use.-Gardners Monthly. SpontpllUs Combustion. From experiments lately tried by some of our most skillful chemists, the fact seems well established that certain articles, such as old wearing apparel, well-dried wood, etc, ore Ca pable of generating sulicient heat to induce combustiongwithout the appli cation of fire. A pliece of old cotton saturated with linseed oil and packed in a chest with old papers and rags, he found after eight days, so shrivell. ed up that the rags looked as if they had been held near a ire. Again, some old rags to which no oil had been applied were wrapped up with two or three matches and placed in n tin box, which was hung in a loft exposed to the rays of an afternoon aan during very hot weather. After three or four days of this test tile box in which the rags had been de posited was found to contain only some well-blacked cinders. In short the various tests proved very satistfae torily, we think, that not a ferr of the numerous fires "supposed to be the work of an incendiary" are caused by perhaps a rag which has been used with benzine by the frugal housewife to clean a coat, or by the hent which is known to be generated from artioles of silk, cotton, e tc., shut up in a close room. Transmisssion of Dets by iNail. A number of boes wore forwarded to tLanoaster county, Pa., on Friday, from some distant point, by mail, in an ingentous manner, The moans employed'for Lheiy transi$ consieed of a block ,of wo'd'abon6 aii lnohee Ia length, 'four inches 'wide, about an inch and a quarter thick. )?our heles5 about a1) ixil In la el oum-feroso4 were ?oyred ~.througly the block with a'n noggr.m each of wjkiql4 were confined a queen Von anSI sotno ibalf dosen others .tlha lonrgdr tioti for a coo'ny or hi e.' Esellm sty of' the angur hole was proted bya wire screec, af'ordipg plenpy of venti latiome. $~he postage amqnnted to, onlg tyen ogoe ete. . In sever4 ef the Parie suburbs the grou~ed is said o be thickly sown with shella that filled to burst when $fgiowjig to thq rain .ind snow,- but :whh eow, in a good:state: o rs erk oMore or -less, danger is. as, was phown in tlw oagg of' g gentle mnan and his son who were strolling recently in a rutie'.piirt of Montmo. benqy. One of tbemn trod -spen a shell,. whieb~ explodeod, killing the father sud maiwing.the son. Here we hre a .0retarto , bull mad0 by a French p'enoher; *ho'lato Jyssaid : -f'dmiire 3the' prodigious aMrppgthc( of bind n l ' Withi 'the jaw. .)snsg of en ' as a. Jhe Apat 2. thungin'd filil.iaseottathe swordi .I 'Paddy frein Odrhmaythy~ !itoteghle e. tore. be,bland1essl Iitb aytliiugk ebox *AavIrpg been offermd fen thouvand dollar. its geMd, by'Alubsiarine.' caable to writb a JMfb of.OlhrisevlSpargsett, the giantinglish pretieket, liar telegraphb ed 'back thal6 a. good a -life ofi 'Chtli6 as could be written would be found in the New Testament