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*Desportos & Williams, Proprietorsi] A ramily Paper; E1dvo~td to Science, Ar4 t; iv Inuty andLtrtr~[em--3O c nuI dao VOL., V1111.1 WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORIdAPI2,8T.NO4 T'II ' FAIRFIEIL) HERALD 11% 11 P l'Ilitl H D W l:KIY IlY DESPORTE~ S & VA O4MS, Tn111s. -TIts lI RAJ.1 iS pulliAled Week in the Town of win'usboro, at S3.00 in t wrialy in advanes. ajr All transient adiertisemeants to o aid in tdvance.. Obituary Noticer.s and Tributes $1 00 per Iuare. a ~ iENI' 14.r8. Tie rollowiig linles were written ',y t!a.I brave old e oi-mer ill New El."1.13ind poet, Iev. J.11hn l'i'i porit. '3.tey ! il e wartt remembering at. Ile prea.' s.it . For 8o ntch gil. we license thee So wsys - ilans. A lralt it .ell That, h ws Lthe mt rong, n:.,have% tilhe f'ree, Aid opens wie o tle gae Ot' hll. )o r '-iublic good" reinires Hih sme 8.iould live, inou uniny tle by rum. ociv-, ftihers, while tlie foes 'f).hisn destrofror seize their swor.ls, Anal heaven's own hail i il the bows Thily're d el ljn ,i ye euit le cor d fThat roun1 he rainlg field bhey draw, A l'er him iold your bield oif Iw Aid Gill io, give to in a bill DivorCong !111n f ikomh venl's hligh swaly. And while God s:,iys, ''Thoui shalt not kill, ady YO. foi gold; ye may, ye inug ? 1ontillive the b.,<y with thi Soul, Co pare t e bullet, oih thie boWl! In whi h is felt u ht fIerehiia blat Oit to detroytilng ag l's breati ? hI' ch biltnd t it-, vi itak thie n->re ft st, Whicb killno 1.oi with i fleadlior deAt Will ye nthe felon frx restrain And yet, tike ufti tle e' h i The living to lie ro ling land, The Clod coeininylog riuscan tied' Till by tht - wily, or- oil his bed, The poor corpe-carrier drippeii and died. Iahel band to h11a11 anl NC tce o fa coe, u i'atal anid in loathed emi race. Le ss, cutting, think ye, is the throng rTiat th a rielatig corpa e for lio Lashes inr torture, loathed and long, The linkard's child, the drunkard's - wifre. TO clasp that chy, to rate ihat breath, And ero escapie-ol ! that is death ! Are ye noit fatler:? ? When your sons Look to you f'o iheir <daily brearl, Dae Ye inll ongCky 1oad ithlo andecs The i.ible i t .L' tho m ye Spread -? -ion ye ht. yofr psons will live It ye ft~r ti.,sh al ,serpenl give? t holy r Co-]l! t ile light diviiin lreik arth d more troaduy froi n ab-e, Till we otidorli otr laws to thihe, . The perfect law of th re i aton love. or tfth ate i us lve oie can save Thy chibilreni fion a hopeless grav6. Pyicls lowlepnert.ha The following report of the omil initteo of Ihysiians Is pubished by brder of Couecla for the infdrnation of lo publice Clerk. o The following proareplo and preo lutions- were adopted by the Town Council of W dinnsboro : "Whereas, It i tne popular belief that the health of perons living in the woutern ptkeon of Winsboro is ~ iijuriously atl eU' during flib gumi mer and fall seaos, ta atid that chills and fever arc etse'd.by the mill-pond lying on thisi side of the town. There fore resolved by theTow n Cdunil, that L connittoe of Physicians be request od to give in writing to thie Uounei! their opinion as to the causes and means neceary for te provention rlf the bicevsryphisiA in the tr tiona. '. Ible dicauses o disa re a in h otheri partio of the town ade fltepi ofauhcu and sethtat Drs a.nd Robeirtcsn, iClak an T. late Mad clde manyueto witr diease sid asm dToh qution perhp moiwhetisr tm oeter otio pof the oa ise mof uhealth thsane thet rste nrsti nae -referetttad tot b oiliut e:iTha facets is o rly admittedandcn etonb ratd ab evry lisica ntew The. disatht aproy1tai if thiar .tpar ofth rtowniae dhfy (10termit hae ntlai and osrtitot faner and teiryconerqinces. Theo late in droprytandt perhi s mpoaeigti, mand others ext alspotd eve whore nof hio to d soes thatet, dhring name --liermit andlfll biou rttano devers is niws geelt indmited o, hie o daaisaseo it hatqirs aeain atountply moneaair, and tis sp sposed to exinerte wherever thr ios solroat ofa tai tfequeraturi, imoisturs and tehayit whoveweabinda iterIat man bilsNeif reosetare fher pnyreiie, why look wo snot theve msoariaaes o ota ayand Nvrwhr in ouaereretio the con ritattoe eit amost fryuwhfrl iour iu t miepon earcti the wevolu amoder of tc on.Wrtion ats ii intermia nd asno bioe rmant tensive low ground, subject to fre quent inundations. The rain fal upon several hundred acres of lan flows Into this pond, bringing with i of, course, a great amourgt of dooayisl vegeteblo iiiafei, not visible, but i a st~to of solution, or infusion to b spread over and deposited upon th Surfge9 of tihe ground. and in a few dayF by the subsidenco of the water, to I exposed to the rays of the sun. Tbi ropeated at every heavy rain, mus produce a concentrated soUrce of ine larit. It may be asked again, why i io that tlain. portion of the to-.n ha b 0ca. nhalthy Onl y of hte -,e wher.n ,h li i ~O pond has oi. ite:, i0.r t:nuy r ears;. The reply i that it w--, fo. um~ Iy a ptond, niow it i undttI ":-. F d are not fruitfq sources of i&k 11,ia o lon 6 they .r potids, anid are oonparativoly in noxious; as it is only aro.und thei miargins that (Joc ying vegetable inat ter is exposed to :hte solar heat. Man; portions of the coutry have booiU subject to ijalfi'iou, dieaE's tha N6re formerly oxempt. ''1o eiaso is, that what were originally narroy ravines where water would flow ol ,apidly, have, by tile washing in g sand, mud and vegetable debris, bp conio broad lowgrounds, subject 6 frequent inundations and deposityaimt .,ubsequent exposure to the rays of th hun. While such sources of mialari; 1exiht we may look for the natural re suits. That this pond is a focus o malarin; is proven by the fact tha the inhabitants suffer almost in ex ic proportioli tp their proximity to lt pond; ai tle direction in which the; happeh to rside from it. The sum mer breefes pre'valI gourally froe the est "il 1 bb 6 odth-west; an< would cary te ema ations froths an point toward; lh b-W andnohi'-east and it is jst in tipse localities w find the fevers and thir consequence most prevoiling. 1jurihg the U mer of 1871, a cotipany of U ' v Alry camped in the forest ncdr 04 pond. This company donsisted o about 90 won, not more than obofiftl escaped malarial fever. They., wer healthy when they arrived here. ,fl 1805, a regiment of U. S. Infdntri camped in the same place and suftre( so much fromn the same disease tha they removed to the woods then it rear of the College and becai healthy. Now for the remedy-if the abov< premises be correct, the remedy na turally suggests itself. The rainfal eanitiot be pievented, tile decompodi tion of vegetable matter cannot b prevented, but their accumulatio and retention in a certain locality miay be ftretented, and to this mus d,tir citiieii look for redemption A thorough 'and detLp draining o this Ptond; or rather, this lowground it is believed nodld be the means an< the only means of restoring the for mer good health 0f this afflicted por tion of our towil. This could b easily dolie by the dbAlru'tion of th dani, and Uy no other means that th Cnimittee ban sitgge re re moval dr the. ddm It is be liove'd wbul be algae suflicient to cause a thoroug1 dIaining of the grounds by the wash ing out of a deep channel, and thu prevedt their frequent floodings: 'the tOoiimitteo believe tiley Iiab Indieated thE. trdb b aose of the Uin health itieas of ile western pohtiba o the tonn, and also de remedy. It I for the niiorittes to act. If an thing is done, of edurab It ' will b done in Ii manner not to oonllier, wit1 private inter sts. It is beliefed tha this ~ortion of the town aan 136 mtd as healthv r.s the re.4t, which wvil cc C y in u'mate,~ :0i I 11 t(Ie val 1;.th property in~ thin locality al As the gerai hiealth ofi the towm w:,pod wi the esee'~ptioan of miatia rial d iseaser,, it. would Lr-e ~~!)unneensa~ ryto speak of' other caIm~ui of disease ilut it is not ammiss to say that somn of the jaids anid Ilots are ini a condi tion that wouldl not. he0 conidelred saf inl a mnore rol'wdedl town or city, di that our exemption from some die seasos is due to the natural free ten tilation of a thinly settled town But, this elemwptionl may not alway continue. ''horo are sometimes sea sons of protracted calm, wheon the at mostptiere itself as it acorns almost be cotnes stagliant-it such times th abcumlulatioii of filth and gar bag abou't many promises mnight be su ff cient to proidoee ierloiis diseases, sue as ty phoid~fever; dysentery, diarrhoes cholera nof-bus, cholera inphantuxna e to. A s thoso dcai'est th'e un who'lesop'. deposits are moat apt to suffer, it be hooves all to guard themselfes by thlorough cloansinig of thecir own p~em ses and babjitatlons, and tile use of dii infectants when necessary, ep ch sulphaie of iron (coperas) a'n d ca: bolie acid and the chloride of lim and soda. Some havE fearg that tIle stori'n of fertilbzers in the town may be fr1 jud icial to the hxeaih-(although son' of them are v'ery disagreeable, sufi ciontly so it would seem as to mal good citizens feel that they li'ave ni a right to force soch a nuisan'de upt the their unoffending fellow citi'zens yet it iis not proven by experieni that they are unwholeesome. Indoi some o so far as to say they are e -disinfenits. Be this as it I many would prefer the risk of di6 I eases to the disinfectiit. t The Committee, its the very imper. feot. discheirgo of this duty, feel that 1 they hsve no cause of complaint at a the task imposed ubion them, regard 8 ing it as the duty bf every phystoiiat ', to aid ly his counsel and advice in 1 the sanitary condition of his towin ahd S County, without awaiting the action t of our Town Councils and B]oaeds bf - H.alt~h. All of which is respectfully t Subinioild. 4 T. T. ROBERTSON M. D., , 13. ADIA[)l'N M. U. C. Cf AlK M. D. 'Jlrin Carolina Ncw3. It i. Irir.posol to build a cotton warehouse il Raleigh. Three candidates are already in the field for mayor of Charlotte. At Bladen Superior Court, held I-nst week, there were 120 oriminal casos tried. +ie eh1Ct-fe p 0t have taken Place next. wcefi at \vilmington has been indeu.itely postponed. f iis dischiirgo of fire arms in the streets of \Vilmington is makiNg it > hazardous to live in soue localities. S. R. he'll of Wil iinton; wos at tacked by 1hree highwdny robbers, Tuesday night, and iought re!'uge iii r the house of a friend. tfThe Wilmington Jour'nal notc s the a fact that there are large qiantities of goods bcing forwarded South via that eil, an increase En tormer years. A niovement is on foot td crect a cotton factory at Abbottsburg, in laden county; on the line of the Xilulngton, Charlotte and Ruther ford Railroad. Tke capital stock is to be placed at $150,000. Ma'or David's saw mill; on the line 9f the Ohattiam Rdilroad, blew up on Friday. The engineer was danger. ously wounded; and Mr. William towd, brother "f the p roprietor, slightly. Thie mill is a total wreek. . A uamlit' of ore from the King's liounltaii gold iiiinie was asaybd at lthe Utiiteil, tite.i branch niint Char. nltte oliih 19th. The gold. brick w.ighed 71 ounces, and was valued at It was foriarde9 hI t night by express; to Philadep,hia for coin. age. The vein fro'ni which it was taken is yieldihg abundantly. The [lalifa:1 and Scotland Neck Railroad is to be built at an early day. A member of the artillery comujiny t stationed at Charlotte died on duri day. There is a prospect of establishing a cotton factory in Raleigh upon the joint stock company plan. Wm. Roach a noted burglar, has been delivered by the Governor of North Carolina to the Governor of i Virginia. - A life insurance company, known as the Old North State Life hnsu raho Company, has been establislh ili.ed at Warrenton. 'ihe dow postoflice at Rilcigh, do. aigned by Architect Mullett, will be 105 feet iU length and 60 feet dee p, and somnething after the style of the a pitol in Row Jersey.. Wilmningtoii star iThore was ani old man in thfii Eity yesterdlay giving ing his name as William ,Whitaker, who says he ib'ught iinder WVellington SIin the brttle df Wsterlod. He was on his way fr~un Cfiarleldfi to Rieht r ubon'.. This wllvow and estimuable g.n tcmarn died yestrerdiay muorning, at hiL; resiJence, No. 9 ollege street, after a b'rief illness, at, tlea vanced .age of sevenuty-eilt jeaN. lie was pi'acticed iediiile hiere for a ln Itieanwath aufgeon of' the uit: er ot N'Iessi-s:. . Rt. and H. Hoyles. .ton, of the wellknown dry goods firm of Crane, flojleston & bo. .Just about one year ago, he celbrated the fiftieth or "golden" anniversary of .his wedding day. Mrs. IUoylston' s uriives himn.--Ch'aj. Mti Death of a Noted Sofft tXrirolinlin. "The Immnortal No" is dead. Hon. Joseph Powell died at GUreeiville, 'ienn., lately, after an evontrll life, and one act in it entitles hinm to aiiuip. reortality of famue. He ser~ed in tie SotiCrohina Leglslsturo, and was tepnily mian who voted "No" at a public meeting that passed the nulli: fleation resolutions. A goddheaded cane was presented to him inscribed "'dThe ?immp'rtal "No." During the rel'>611io'n b'd served inf B1urtiaide's g 'rmy, anil was imprisoned at Rtieh mond.-Cle el d (0his) Bad.ek. e '1the flartfora Churchman says: '"Ameriban litieratuie~i's at present e sunfering sadly f'rom thie lack of intel at ligent and independent criticisnm, and D henoo our book shelves groan under ) the weight of trash." d Expensive jewelry - Legislative d 'oar.inga. NAlural Bridge. ITS iltoiilAIi: .E i STItoCTIN- ybTI-nIt! OUs CilANGis RECENTLY OiSKnVEL. Mr. J. Parry McCluer, of Rock. bridge couuty rites to the COllegiac published at Lexig lon, Va , an organ of WaUhingtou-L:e Uiiveurity, calling attention to 8)a huIe'ont striking changes that h ve taken )lee)in tIe !rih of the Natural Bridge.1 Mr. McCluor .sys LNt '.uesda-y evnQuing as I war returnin-vith Mr'. Plogue, of thi pJace froinm a viit to a friend on tho other bide of tho bridge, I observed, upon glaiciig over in o the cha"nm, 41 vapor i.suing frori drevices in thei western 8ide f the brid and do ieeted at peculiar odor in ile atmaois. phere. Mr. Poague, upon having hi attention directed to the tmitter, was positive that he could detect somic thing of the sort himself. We were at a total loss to cobjecture the cause of this unwonted Di.TUiBANCE IN TIMS CIIAS'.. IOV. Upon returning home and inform. ing our friend of what we hid noen, we wert: informed that our v-ptor was a mere iist and if we had inelt any thing unpilileasant it must have been H polcat, for these animals are most plentiful in that locality. But hav ing occasion to ride over to the bi ldge early this morning, I found thiigs in a in at sadly excited cendaibi u ; for about a ixiile before arriving at the hotel I thought I could discern in that neighborhood hidavy clouds (it smuoke ha uging intenrely black. all arouiid that part of the hori:..m. As I neared the Ikot the smoik' became denser alid blickei- and when i got to the hotel I found VEkiRrIlNG IN Ti.' WIiL.DiT COXU SION. The negroes who occupy the desert.. ed premises near the bridge, on tlte brow of the liffi, hiad moved down to twe hotel, so great wall their terror, and every one was inaking ready-to depart at once. From below the bridge jiolumes of de.p black smoke were rolliii Continually, except when interriltod by jots of bright faue whih h occasiounily flared up to a great, heght: The surfac - of the grounid is warm for some ditance around, and is.-tenming" very visibly. The peculiar smell I noticed on Sun day last is now plainly perceptible to all. The rock on the western side of tho bridge has been cracked 6y the heat, and large nasses .havc fal len. into Ced.ir creek. A. yet the arch, da well iai can be seen in the interfals betwcen the volumes of smo'ke, is intact. occsionally, how.. ever, we could distingush the CRASHINO SoUND OF A Boui.Drrl as it dashee into the water bejow. The no roes say that the iirA intimd tionl they had (of anlythling of the kind was last night about 9 or 16 o'eviek. A boy walking across the brmdge was frightuned by a bright light shooting fron',the' hide of the bridge. He fled in terro:'-, and arous ed the rest of the inmediate neigh borhood. Every one was almost pet. rified with terrors I han' just reach ed here from the bridge. I shall re turn as soon .aq I oan gut ar.other hbrse. Everyl hin here is about to start for the bridge. [f you will lay this statement beforb Professor Camp bell of our geological dkpartnens, lie can doubtless, fin his .itend~d no quiaintaunce with the geology of our country, throw liglit, upon the caauses of this extrtaordinai.,y phraomenon, Can it be due to eleotricity 7" Professor bampbell,' of the Ui versity, to whose attent~on theee phei nomenas were called, dIoes not take cjuito so seriotus a vieir of them, and says: "I am inelinesd to consider the oause of this to be a great chemical action, and dlo not lean towardo at. trihuting it as auiggestedl by MIr, ilcCluer, to the acotioin of elettrici. ty." The . roinantic story of the brig Mary Cieete, found at sea under sail and desecrteil, is now robbedl of ita innb'eent efiarm by a Now York dlis. ffateli whie t anys.: It is usserted that thne brig Nhairy Celeste, found at. sea1 was bonded at Hlost,on for ,2,(000,pn was, insuired thore for $14,000. I believed at the ('ustom Houtse thiI her desertion at sea wias o job to d'. fraud the insurance companies. krtest of tiln.auralice Agel't. ,. Erastus Lyman, ex -president of th< Ikniekerboeker ifo. Insurance Com. fany, has been sugd byLtpe oinpany~ to' recover about $20),000, alleged L< hrave ,enlost by the company o, accounit o'f unauthoris.ed contract made by. hiiji with irrespoji.ible per sons. Mr. Ly madti was taken iaa ens todd ubiler ati ord~er of arkest issile by tha Court of Common Pleas, ant gave $l5,000' bail. Wbioh of our extravagant ladies i tdhese boasted times ever gave her lov er, as Oleopatra did, a pearl dissolvoe in vinegar (or undissolved) wort .?80,000?i A M~aine dinner for nine oost 3 eonts,or four cents and a mill pa head. IVoW a Spirit Bidc das Got Up. The high-toihed Spiritualists of Ne York have btei con1siderably alinoye of late by one Gordon, who has give exhibitions of h very aperiatur: chiar.actbr, fol tiy. conuilered Lim "quack;"' and not up to the right k ii. of snaiIf. Accof-dingly,. some bl "true blues" ritided his bhop lt., Wedneaduy, potuiAed on him whil he was doing his pre t tiest in showinl deceased r'latives, &e., iiud seize his stock in trado, which cnsisted a an assortment of wax faces and mash. Oi Sunday these trophios were showi at a d4iritualist meeting it Apoll 11ll, and one of them attracted muC attention. it' was the head of a vor beautiful woman, bolack eyes, dimple. peachy cheeks and all, as the ma who had it in ohirgo moved towar tho stage, showing the head tand beckoning arm above her cloak, ther was a commotion, which turned t cries of indignation as he flunig th figure on the pLtform, where the au dionce could see that with a iner bundle of rags and a wax face Gordo had been fouling a numtier of people Ile called it his "spirit bride." Shell In the Radical Camp. Tile Rock Hill Lantern is author ized to announce a niw work in prepa ration for the prcs, under the abov title. It will be published in fou volijimes, and will Contain, says th author, "a truthful public and privat history of the Republican party a Sou-6h Carolina sineo reconstruction including the lasp Legislature. Be ginning with the league, it wil' dis olose 'the corruptions of the party give the secret history aid manage Went of the camnpairi of 1870, ani show up the military and persona en gaged in procut ing the suspension o the writ of habeas corpus ; and wil furnish biographic sketches of le .1 ing 6hare 11ers, the part they played and how t hey pla3 ed it. The firs volume will be devoted to move ients in York ,Qo.inty." A Novel Law Suit. The Savannah Advertiser says: Bridegrooms, poor fellows, have : bard time at the best, and they ar< always to be pitied even in the heigh of their bliss. But Savannrh has on1 who is peculiarly unfortunmate. 11 wis r ecently joined in matrimony, an< prpf'ercd the rabbi $10 as his fee foi officiating. Tile latter had the law Oi his bide; it seems, and insiste< up!on tlhe payment of double tha 'in-o r.. .-. hi~idogrooini refused . duiA.lni, auiA hence a law suit which was decided by one of our jus tices, yqst*rdaj, in tavir of the com plainant.. It won't do to -b nizgrrdl' abou these matters, Messieurs, Bride grooms, and it is always best to bt liberal with the one who joins yo together in the bonds of wedlock. A Tofgh Story. The Greeley Tzibuue says.; "Ur Graham recently found a petriie< frog iq excavating a well. Its fea tures wie're wonderfully well preserv ed, and the owner intended to pres ent it to the Greeley Geologica Cabinet; but one day the boys sihat serod it with a hitch ett~ and to thei utter stir rise, ,an old Aztec coil d ropped out. The dato canniot ls deciphered, but, the figure of a head i plainly visible.'' Now, there nothinig dificeult in tihe telling of'se a story as that, and inhere is no reaso; why some new England newspaphe man shouldr.'t have had the fira chance atiit. It is reported that Judge TI. Hi Cooke, of the Eighth Judicial Cim cuit,.is closingr up all the bar rooms 1 A nderson, ocondo and G reenvillI Counties, which do niot .cor.form t what is known~ as the Tu pper law TJhais is ft law wivitih has renmined o the statto boskp of the State fo many years, but L'ali been prmacticatll a dead l.etter, for it was never exceu ted. It. provides that no one sial koek a. har oleejft bo hast a certai nuimber of bcds ond accoumodatioit for hori~s-in sihort, unless he keel an inn. Judge Cooke, it is said, is norea licenses issuedl by town or cit corporations, and holds each venrd ert an account under tihe Tupper law. A PhmiladelphiA doctor a~Joune< that we are approc:hin'g a poestilenti i periodl. ,From 1830 to 185 Jupite Satrii, Uranus and Neptune wi come nearer the earth than they hia bc~n for' eighteen hundlred year Thie res~ilt ill beo, aq the Doctor saia it has been before, that we shallhiw all manner of un~pleasantnress-pilagn famine, andl awfully hot and eco: weathIer. TIhis is a terriblo predie imenlt to get into. IHow wvill the glu tons, tobacco users und tight 1,ace survive ?" The Maine papers are evidoently yr yoking a fair for "smart women.I 3 The latest, boast in thlis line is thiu Mrs. Jerry Blaisdell, of East. De mark, recently spun a lot of we rolls,died and wove them into Sto t oloth, and out and made thereof a pair of pantaloons for her husbar a all of whidh she accomplished, unal .ed. in 36 hours. Oo hundied and fifty years ago if i.ny on1o had dared to ,ann'3unce the (>osibility of crossing t60 (Oeal in a vcb.l 6Iri% en bGy,?am, or of carria te being Oh ivi d at the rate of thirty m i ls an hour by this 8ato0 agent ; or 4.1 dalgue ro oty jpi og tlro butisanl fGce on a met ll ic .blate by thle light of the huu an4 then chemically fixing it there, or of coiveyi g news by elee Li ic agency for hundreds of miles, and csl)nially under the ocean, such pie. dictioms would have been considered simlJAy riliouilous. Ani .*uiiv wbeu Cien[I Ce ahouncs thnat it is posaible to control the oleun.ents, to cause it tu rain or i^aino at pleamire, and that it is vossiible to draw from the earth's hidden tteasufe new ro sourees of utitld wealth, impait igg the greatest laippiness and bene. hits' to the hitillati race, it is still viowed with Inreedulity by the manies. But afew years since, petro. laum wa1 flist utihned to our benefit. There doubtless was a time when a mau never drezmde of wtruing hin self by artiflcial heat. ior des tihe savage did iot know that tlio ppssi bility of heat eiisted in the trees under whose Ahelter ho lay. Ile pulled up wild toots, tickcd wild fruits, swallowed thi ravi o sters and mussels ; he wander'd, naked along the beach. A cave by lio river or sea side, or a holler tree served him for a abelter. Many generations passed beto.re he learned to muako a fire ; by slow steps ho passed friom the rtide tents, huts and cabins, to comfortable houses and stately mansions with h.iting apparatus by 1haich winter is shorn of ita vigor. ifedt. iacrcases abotit.one degree to every fifty feet w6 penetrate the earth ; shaItfts Are now sometimes stik to a depth of 2,000 feet. It is wituin tihe posi.,iibility of mechanisnm to bore 4,000 f<et more ; at that dei~pf we should find a heat of at lcna one hun dred and fifty degrees, and in many places even greatc-., han this. Mu. chanical power could. be obinined fi-on the steam and water foreed up from this depth. *[eated wdter and iteam from these coild be cirri d into our houses ard warm our dwell ings to a summer temperature. Con. ducted in pipes under the soil pro tected by glass we could choaply grow in New England, all of the southern and tropical plants and vegetables, The snow could be Jept melted from ithe streets of New .ork, and ail the huiling- warn'd from this spontane ois flow usefuil alU for cooking and other purposes: . Th4 Garden e'f Plants n Paris fionted by water fi-om sn artesian wyll igtieeti huuidrod. feet deep, Mith a temperature of 82 dog. Fah., is carried in pipes under the soil. A salad garden at Erfurt, in Saxony, is heated in tho same .manner, is said to have 3lelded $60,000 a year to the proprictor.-Scienti/ic American. Licse LaW. Judge Cooke, at the late term of the Court of doneral Session, at nal. hal1la, charged the grand jury, in sub. itance as follows in regard to tavern lioenses This sysiii is, ~ iibrally 1hbused. Every perspn licensed to sell liqunor by tihe dIrink must lie ii tavern keeper ; ho moust keep stabbang and provender for four horses, and aut least two spare bedls f'or guestit. TPha liquor room must be tuder the same rootf with the r'l.eepinag and horisehold .department. I lo must file his bond with the Clerk of the County, acoording to law. lie saxid there wverb violations of this law in' his dircuity ard h oirge~ the.granid jury that it w.as their sworn duty to jpresent any chr5e oomirng within their knowledge, wllero thie law was not complied wvitli. Judge Townsend, if wo renioember correctly, charged our grand jury to about tbe saie effect, at the last terma of' our court. And we ilso re. member, or think we Jo; timat the~ samno grand fidry presented certain pairties who hagd licenses, but who, it waa'charged; ha'd ifot, comid vdoib the udfdiis ppo inh paid liej r~swere granted., AiI~persons doinig businessS in anly CUiIc st,yle hIad beitter Iput their houses in order, or get reaidy to stand fbomu under. - M~adibors A Deathl Dlram. Asila r denath-bed hncident, which Robert Da.le Owen shhuld noi lose sight oh, oecurredl lately in tautor Ohio. On lhe I14th M r. Joseph .Deens who wvas lyinag in an uconscious stat suddenly revived and said to hi son, who wvas standing noar , him 'General Quiinn,". another ciizn of 10Ltfo; "is dead.'' As that gentle tinan was in) perect, health A.s far a: as knowni to~ the famiily,.it was P9ip posed that the dying man had beet dreaming,,tintil some one came inti the roomh with tiie announceml.nt tha General Quinn~ had just died ver, suddenly. ifow to account for th< ieurious knowledge given, will puzzl< the least visionary. M'en talk abouit the idle win,bt' the wind is :,w ays busy, atd like cheerful farmer, whistlcs ati work. Ili Ilet. IV It is of gre at imporance to draw j tliC atteitiln of ourI1 pl in t u. I's to a ly. t.hing that will hep! ? out the scareit v I felt by thii, as tvr, ot~her colilnuni. ty ill the "cotton danus belt," of lvf'rage. :. wagoI loaded vidt " ston t *lay'' was Smeon in illr strcet3 the e other day, about to be haulel over ef ifid through tlie ijiI.d.Iles that lio I bet,.ween this and tie Ln,.fita,ter line. f The hest -ubstituto for goqd, well., , cured forage, is to be lii flud in tho "Lgyptian or C.t-T'ai I\iiletA" (for tiere are tU k1i , a.14 ..a11111 s0t, that I does not answer,) which has long been 'lanted in 1lis nie iigh orhiood by a ,ood many, but is still not near io iwe knowna and appreciated as it iqshoid be. CThe advant.w s of indilet over every other greell crop t!at caln be plantod at this seasou a; a foraCe for animal, is that its astr i igeecy prevents scouring ; by u,ing salt freely, ain wilting it a few Ihours ini the sun a they will do well el it inl the hottest . eather. You can cut: it sooner than any other green crop plaraed in the spring, and oil can ut. it oftener and later. One-eiglth of an acre properly prepared-hatI is, made very rich (there is no use to plaft it in poor r land)--wi upliy fully iix work anliimals-hldf a peek of seed will plant this aid leave iome to spare. Plant it in threo f'et rows so it canl be ploughed-as you cut over it, clean out the grass, and two or threo times during t J se,:onn give it a top dres'.ing of stable m.uire. it cal bo planted inl A pril, as soon as thu danger if frost is over, at d cut early ill May. Cut it whe n hu ce high, in'a it can be cut every twclve or fifteen dayvs. The first Cuttling should be mado as soon as it can well be got hold of, Cight or tenl inches high, ,.s it oily be gins to grow after it is oneo cut. Sow it freely ill the drill and thin out tou twvelvo inches3. It does not runi up to stem and joint so EOOn, if left rather thick, and if the land is asrich as it ought. to be, it will grow fast enough.-(amh J urna/. t ha ng it llorse's uit. In Barbary, pacing horsos are hell in such high estimation that the - methld of iaking a ipirited trotter shack!o liko a boat in ia chop s2a is reduced to a iCence . To mako him rack eoaily, a ring if lead, covered with leather, is put arofund enIh hoof a cord fro!m each weight aceefds, an(I is fastened to the saddle, ou.t antl rear ; next, a strapl runs h6r'intally from tile fore to tle 1 hind foot on both sides. Being rather short, it is im plo0sible to ak11le a !oilg step. Re straint compels the animal to practico a new gait to progress it all. As soon 11.9 a habit is ehtablinhed of going alheilad thus tethered, the desired ani ble is fully and permnimuntly accom. pli.,bed. -- -- sawyer. The ap!ointment of Senator Saw yer of South Carolina to be Assis tant Secretary of the Treasury in i another of those s'urprises which the - lresident probably enjoys. Mr. r' Sawyer has not been spoeialy proi.Oii I int in fin anici al a hairs ince h1CIe hasii been ill thle Senahte. lie distinguish s ( ed himl.elf,holwever', by oppo.sing the s thlieving rinlgs of his ownl State, and i has scoure~d suchl a reputtationi for: I exact hlolety thalt he goes into the r Treasury Deparltmlenlt with a greiet t deal to ho sa d in his favor.--N. Y. NoUc for WhIiiskey. -A WYyoming territory correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says the ei n mate in remIna rkably heal t hy, anlld electricity abhound Is every where. .Whenl a man11 touchelis his blankeots, Iduring thle dar1k lighats, aL str'eaml 01 r ('ire follo w's his fingers. Theso are y not in]convenCienIt, as might at fIr.t a p. . pear, but scen::. to senld a hlealth y I glowi~ and elacieitIy thIirough the sys. ii temI u blilh it, is iminpos sile to de - s r-cribo. Men need n10 art'ificial stimiu a lants. it P'i.l10.s au ndlollec'. We learn fromIl aL piv~ate Son11rca that two editors afal a .urg.'on ile R aleigh Ilight be-fore last, and yester is day miornling 0one of the p.arty took~ I breakf'ast ait the ltNilroad Eting rIloese, at the diepot la this city', al1n. Ii departed oni thle Soth tinf. 'I .L e detl:inaltioni of the party was Formlt MIt., 5. S. C. W hat does it ilnean 'I- Chur4 s lu.'te ObTscueer. , P'robable Ims~pentlIni o1(51f1I livternuor ut - A dispatch to the New York WVor'd, t-' from Talahali'ce , says ~ : "The n. r's Governor of' Flor idla ha is openly S 1 at detianice the ac t prohliibitinig t b , Gove~'rn1or tromi ilppoint inig to oflice, ) (l interJ'hn, an1 y' peroni~l who ha~d Lee , nou.inated for IsuCh othlel and1 (eject4-' by the Senlate, anid that, ho ill 1- probably be imrp(.ehed at the i..s oj Sessioni of thei Li,"Id~ature. ut ..... a A .aontemnpoiary speaks of a fash: d, l'onablo tailor' a, beiing "0110 of' the d- 4)ld war IIoJsCes of thle trade,'' A. Leavv chawger. wesnn .