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-V '4*e i 1 Fa ORD .uli. ^ • * *' f nrr [EN 8. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 51, ISSfi. VOLUME 5.—SU3IBEB 1C. j.-J0 vs-u. - * ZfZXKXMUmCS&’A &J'i\ ■r /FMGED DO i ►WED UP THE fiUKF. , stciiJC 1 * nor v tlrov. th>:t o" >wnlfi|» of Mr. XjouIs L<a<Ic'koos Mf, 6>JVvnrd T. Slmv, at Halli iHlaod—Details at tha Hrul uiul >n<linK AfEnir—-Tlie F.ual Un- ’•td Courier, August 2oth. lr. Ludekcoa was well and favora- (known in Charleston and bn Bui* lu’s Isand. His family are at mb Residing in Aiken, and he was ; styiufiier and the previous season i as clerk at the New Brighton Itel. Mr. Shaw was a son of Mr. iji- Shaw, who lives at the corner 'Smith and Montague streets, and business at the corner of Chapel .streets. Mr. Ludekens ceuty-flve years of a^e was scarcely more is conneci^oM-wilii 7udekehs was famjliar- Iknown to a large circle of friends Uhls and other Bouthem cities, and Shaw being a Charlestonian, the rs pf their death was received with >w and regret wherever it became lory of the sad event was told jrter at the Charleston Hotel |ay afternoon soon after the ar- tbe steamer from Bullivan’s The relator of tho circum- tr. G. B. Ott, a young >m Aiken, wlio was in Mr. Shaw and Mr. L,ude- tima of tlio drowning. Mr. Fguest at the New Brighton [d was spending some time ^ompanied by a friend, Mr E S also of Aiken. Mr. Ott Budekins were old friends, ^the invitation of the latter a ras made up to go in bathing, Irty consisting of Mr. Ott, Mr. tens and Mr. McCreary. Mr. did not go down into the surf sometime afterwards. It was it 12 o’clock, and the tide was ris- The three young men went down !m the bathing-house little think- of the sad events which were to I* - olace within the next hour, id BEYOND THE BREAKERS, and kept well out beyond them dur ing the whole time of their bath. Prom what happened it i£ to he inferr ed that they unconsciousiy, although the tide was coming in, wore moving out towards the channel', where, in fact, the drowning took place. Mr. Ott said just before the disappearance of Mr, Ludekens they were close to gether. Mr,_Ott was not a good swim- ler^art'd Mr. Ludekens was teaching kow to take the surf bath with as ittle exertion as possible. Mr. Lude- ceng was supporting his friend with when the latter said that he link ho was making much and asked Mr. Ludekens to >w him to shift for himself. Mr. judekens complied and they separa- at that time Mr. Sl.nw was ?ut aTJo?t distance further seaward ian Mr. Ludekens. Mr. McCreary td Mr, Ott wore both between the two men that wore drowned and the tore. Soon after Mr. Ludekens parted lMt. Ott. A VEBT HEAVY WAYB rolled !o, Mr. Ott took advantage of it and tamed his face towards the lore and was earned J^ward. Be- 1 ngU^trfnowever, his attUrTtion led to Mr. Ludekens fpr an This latter gentleman being swimmer boldly faced the plunged into it. Mr. Ott >t say^whetlijer, when ho turn- Mr. Ludekeiis. Mr- in sight. He thinks, ie was not. When Mr. red an upright posi- IDil and looked back is direction in which Mr. Lude* }as had disappeared. Mr. Ludekens observed then by Mr. Ott at a kdderable distance from the place rhere he had dived into the wave. His head and shoulders were above TO^ter. Mr. Ott then tbWght he heard A CRY FOR IIEBP, and that it came from Mr. Ludekens. agined that his friend was ’ as ho knew him to be a good er. Tho cry for help was again d and then Mr. Ott knew r. Ludekens was in danger. , however, powerless to assist e did not dare venture out iu- urf where the unfortunate man wing. Mr. McCreary, al- not a good swimmer, ttempt to reach Mr, Lude- iled to reach him in time sisianfe. In fact the ri<i Ott and McCreary Tar apart for even a good to have reached a person in him from death. When refore, saw that any exer- ould be useless without he ran up as best he could bthe surf in tho direction of thing-house. BOTH DISAPPEARED. As here* ho looked back and, in what ho took to be a verj’ short of gpace of time, both Ludekens and Shaw had disappeared. Mr. Ott that ho did not see Mr. Shaw ggling as if in any danger, and he not hear him utter any cry of or distress. Ott reached the bathing-house few minutes after both men had jgone down, and the news from tl point spread like Islam}- * W *+-<:- S THE BEACH WAS CROWDED .'1th the guests of the hotel and ittaaus generally, all looking y ial-> each iucomia© ug it for eomo nov beyond^ Tktf ut and occurrence, near Si, sh<jr. , r. i tkc j-'laec X'urred. It or }haw, and it \:t ashore. After >vc le th >e i i ;i > " Mr atoly taken of the body and preparing it for Lv.iu- dt y. 3Z portatlon to the city lent night the have been, search was continued for the body j Sullivan's of Mr. Ludekens, but up lo the time ,. a rope l in. A s^orin, * - ,• >d .he. ;-} r ruea, u i J ♦rkr b cn replace 1. It is j at this lime to tell the ie deatii of tho two young j erished in the surf yester- ; :ri uc r d surf-bathers, who | T' ae r ii fiie habit of bathing on FArOlt-lr? riOVLTILNT. of the departure of the boat from the Island (4 P. M.) there were no tidings of the missing man. FUTILE ATTEMPTS AT RESUSCITATION. Immediately after the body of Mr. Shaw had been removed from the wa ter to the beach it was surrounding by a large gathering t of sympathizing friends. Among those who had as sembled wa-T a number of ladies, who worked assiduously, aiding those who were vainly ondeayoring to restore life to the body. Every possible remedy was tried, but life had long been quite ex tinct. Mr. P. R. Shaw, the father of the unfortunate young man, went over on the 7:30 P. M. boat yesterday, and returned to the city last night at 10 with the casket, which was receiv ed at the Ferry by a number of the friends of the deceased. LUDEKENS’ BODY NOT FOUND. Up to half-past 9 o’clock last night the body of Ludekens had not been recovered. All during the afternoon anduntil itwas too dark for such efforts to be availing various parties of men were out in small boats sounding, with a view of finding the body. Everything possible under the cir cumstances was done that human aid could afford or ingenuity suggest, but without effect. Upon his arrival in the city yester day' Mr. McCreary thoughtfully tele graphed to the friends of Mr. I.ude- kens the fact of his death, with the further intelligence that he would in form them whenever tho report should reach the city that Mr. Lude kens’ body had been found. A REMARKABLE INCIDENT. A remarkable incident occurred du ring the evening, which was related to a Reporter last night by a gentle man who arrived in the city' on the lust boat from the Island. He said that not long after the recovery of Mr. Shaw’s body from tho waves a dead shark was washedashore at very nearly the same spot where MrShaw was first seen floating after his death. There can, however, be no possible connec tion between the circumstances, inas much as Mr. Shaw’s body was intact, and without tho sign of a violent death. THE INQUEST. Th© information of tho accident was given to Coroner DeVeaux yesterday’ afternoon at about 5 o’clock. Tho next boat was not to leave the city until 7:30 P. M., anti as the in tention of the relatives of Mr. Edward T. Shaw was to have his body brought over to the city at 10:30 o’clock, the coroner determined to postpone the holding of the inquest until this morning at 10 o’clock. . Another* Account. The following is the statement made by Mr. McCreary to Coroner DeVeaux yesterday' evening in Charleston: “We went in bathing about half-past 12 o’clock at high water. Mr. Ott, Mr. Ludekens and I went in together. We were in the water about three- quarters of an hour, and Mr. Lude kens was about fifty yards from us to wards the ocean. I think I heard him call for help, and when I icokod round I saw him SINK AND RISE AGAIN. “I.then started to go towards him, but when I got about half the distance —tv.’enty-flve y’ards, from him to me I didn’t see him any more. He had dis appeared. As to Mr. Shaw, I don’t think he was in the water more than five minutes when he was drowned. He was out where Mr. Ludekens was. I did not know Shaw*. He was on the other side (farther out) of Mr. Ludekens, and disappeared suddenly. I don’t think he struggled or I would have seen it. Mr. Shaw’s body floated up in about three hours afterwards.” Tho Tragedy of 18:54. Tho tragedy of'yesterday recalls an equally sad event of the same kind whici occurred on the Island a little over two years ago, and in which Miss Ella M. Benjamin lost her life. The previous tragedy occurred, however, not at the same place as that of yes terday. It was on the beach near the breakwater which ends at the fort. It was on the afternoon of the 15th of August, aud a number of children were bathing on the front beach, near Dr. Kinloch’s house. Miss Ella M. Benjamin, a lady from Summerville, who was staying on the Island, was bathing with them. Julian Reid, a little son of Mr. Laughton It. Reid, of Charleston, who was among the children, got beyond his depth, and was in imminent dan ger of drowning when Miss Benjamin saw his peril, and being a good swim mer at once went to his rescue. She reached the drowning child, caught him in her arms and held him above tho water for nearly fifteen minutes until a boat in which were two colored men came up. The little boy' was lifted into the boat and the men turn ed their attention to the heroic voma who had saved him. The proloi efforts to sav© the life of the however, had doubtless her strength. She kept^V*-^ id then k VfJ. It [slant!, are familiar with the treacherous undertow and rarely venture out beyond their depth. Mr. Ludekens was a good swimmer, ami his death is difficult to account for, unless, having been in the water for too long a time, he was seized with a sudden cramp which gendered him powerless. On the oth*,. hand, this would eoarely account for the death of Mr. Shaw,who had been in the water a short time. There have been rumors of late of the presence on the Island beach of sharks in more than usual numbers, and a bather in tho surf recerjHy is said to have been bitten by one. The story, however, was received with grave doubts by many, and the sharks at least cannot have caused Mr. Shaw’s death, ji>ec*use his body shows no signs of an attack by these mon sters of the deep. The sad affair is altogether unac countable. It was freely discussed, but no one could arrive at a theory which would account for the double tragedy. After this warning it is hoped that precautions will be taken against any future accidents of the kind. Holding an Inquest on One of the Vic tims—The Body of tho Other not yet Found. News and Courier, 1 'Aug. 2Gf/i. The sad drowning of Messrs. Saaw and Ludekens, on Sullivan’s Island, last Tuesday, was the subject of gen eral comment yesterday, and was deeply deplored by all, not only be cause of the painful circumstances at tending their .death, bui also from the fact fchdt both of the young men were very well known in the community. Numerous were the inquiries made a*: to the recovery of Mr. Ludekens’ body, but up to the latest accounts last night it had not been found, al though the general impression is that it will bo washed up sooner or latter, as it could hardly have been carried out to sea, aud there is nothing along the beach to keep it from rising to the surface. Two of Mr. Ludekens’ rela tives, a Mr. Narnberger, from Aiken, and a gentleman from Augusta, ar ia tho city yesterday, and 1m- to the Island, of the body should it bo found. At 10 o’clock yesterday morning Deputy Coroner Rivets went up to the ivsiJencAr'df Mr. J. Shaw, the father of thF'yoitng man who was drowned, and held anLinqi:esiy over tha^o^y qf his sou. Thev^lcttpf the jury was that death was the result of acciden tal drowning. Mr. ShawWas a young man of estimable qualities, and owing to a disposition on his part to^-speud most of his time at home, was the pet of ids family, to the members of whom his sad and untimely end is a grievous blew. The funeral services will be held at half-past 10 o’clock this morning, at Grace Church. Several theories were advanced yes terday as to the causes which led to the drowning of these young men. Mr. Bhaw was naturally weak and delicate, and was totally unable to swim. It is supposed that ho must have gone put above his waist in tho water and'that when the wave came lie was thrown oil his foot and carried oencath the surface by the undertow. With regard to Mr. Ludekens, who is known to have been an experienced swimmer, used to bathing on the Island,a great deal of surprise was ex pressed that he should have been so powerless to save himself from drown ing. The surf was very high, how ever, owing to the prevalence of eas terly winds, and the current was run ning very strong. The waves were so large that a gentleman who went out fishing oil tho beach in the morn ing hud his boat swamped in the surf while returning to the Island shortly before high tide, fore, be no 1 \v: n mediately went down in order to take charge TLc F-.igboecr I>!d Sir Umloretand it. Carolina Spartan. We are in earnest about the farmers’ movement. It made a good Fart. ading farmers of the State . J’e aroused. They felt the time had co. ie for united and intelligent effort. Hav ing suddenly got rid of human slavery they also desired to bo emancipated from the slavery to factors and money lenders. They wished to become free indeed. But the farmers must re member that enthusiastic conven tions, high-sounding resolutions, and the Genera! Assembly, under the con trol of farmers, will not pay debts and lift mortgages on the farms. Even the repeal of rhe lien law will not fill the empty cribs with corn and the barns with baj'. They may vote aud pass resolutions and enact laws until doomsday, and the meal tub will be no fuller in consequence thereof. The fact is the farmers’ movement got ott on the wrong track. The engineer did not understand the business. In stead of moving forward slowly and cautiously on the track of real reform and progress, which is & steep up grade, he dashed down the political side track that looked bo inviting. Hence the derailment and the disas ter worse than that of the Banteo tres tle. An attempt is being ma ie to rally the farmers again and that for the avowed purpose of controlling the General Assembly. If the real object of the farmers’ movement is a politi cal one and they aro using all this talk about bettering their coudition as a sham in order to control primaries, conventions and legislatures, then the fanners’ movement will soon resolve itself into a political machine. But tiioreal farmers’ movement has hard ly begun yet. One of the dangers is that farmers will be taught to look to conventions aud special legislation to help them in their daily work. They somehow think labor will be improv ed by repealing the lien law and that all farmers in the legislature will brirgblessings untold. Such teaching as this is a delusion. If there are debts on the farm they have to he paid by individual ettort. If labor is not trust worthy, it must be improved by good example and good pay. If the crops are poor the soil must be deepened and enriched. There must be general improvement In every nook aud cor ner from the pig pen to the parlor. If a convention, or any sort of meeting offers you any help, if it teaches you better how to do your work, then at tend that convention. Do not be afraid to follow any “Moses” who will lead you to improved methods in farming, full barns-comfort aud ele gance about the home, good, health ful reading for the family. Do not think for a moment the farmers’ movement got a backset in Colum bia. It was not on trial there. Move forward, move slowly, move surely, with an eye to individual success, aud you will not fail. CONFEDF.RATE TREASURE, An ♦ fit e> - sha had sav c :ickh' sa; was a ; j Fution au '' from ■'and r. Courier Ln to the ; ere abso- [surf bathing hint »t of There can, there- loubt that Mr. Ludekens carriod out by the current and through exhaustion or loss ot presence of mind became helpless. A gentleman who has been residing on the Island for a number of sum mers said yesterday that he never al lowed any of his family to bathe after the 15th of August, as the cast winds usually set in about that time, and there is generally more or loss danger Lorn the undertow. This is especially the case when the surf runs high, as it was doing on Tuesday, as after the waves break the receeding water rushes back with a swirl and suction force that is sometimes irresistible. Tntorr-tiii"- Front that Followed the Fall of Richmond. It was determined that we should resume our march that night for Washington, Ga., one or two days’ march distant, and orders were issued by Gen. Breckinridge that we move at mid night. About 10 o’clock I re ceived a message form Geu. Breckin ridge that he desired to see me im mediately. 1 went to his quarters, and ho Informed mo that tho treasure which had been brought from Rich mond was at the railroad station, and that it was necessary to provide for it* removal and transportation. He in structed roe to procure a sufficient number of wagoue to remove it, and to detail a guard of fifty men under a field officer for its protection. Hefur- ther informed mo that there was be tween $590,000 and $600,000 in specie— he did not know the exact amount— tlie greater part gold. I must, he said, personally superintend its transfer from the oars to the wagons. This was uot a very agreeable duty. I represent ed that if no one knew just what sumof money was there, It was rather an un pleasant responsibility to impose on the party who was to take change of it I wmld have no opportunity to count It, nor possible mean* of as certaining whether the entire amount was turned over to me. He responded that all that bad been opuaidered, and bade mo proceed to obey the order. I detailed fifty picked men ns guard, and put them under command of Col. Theophilus Steel aud four of my best stubaltcrns. I obtained six wagons and, proceeding to the station, began at once the task of removing tho treas ure. It was in charge of some of the for mer treasury clerks and was packed in money belts, shot bags, a few small iron chests, and all sorts of boxes, some of them of the frailest dosorip- ion. In this shape I found it loaded in open box cars. I stationed sentries at the doors, and, rummaging through the cars by the faint light of a few tal low candles, gathered up all that I could find. Rather more than an hour was consumed in making the transfer from the cars to tho wagons, and after the latter had been started off and had gotten half a mile away Lieut. John B. Cole, one of the officers of the guard, rode up to me witli a pine box, which may have held $2,000 or $3,000 in gold, on the pommel of his saddle. He had re mained after tho others had left, and ferreting abput in the car which we thought we had thoroughly searched, had discovered this box stuck in a cor ner and closely covered up with a piece of sacking. Oa the next day Gen. Breckift- A Shark Aground. News and Courier. Cn Tuesday afteruooj and 7 o’clock, a fer Lng eight feet the beach at; short ui thc^ con G k mensur- was stranded on llvan’s Island, just a be below the spot where of young Shaw was washed Tne monster, although con- xlerablj exhausted, was still able to hold her own against any of the im mense crowd who gathered around it. A couple of colored men, however suc ceeded in hau’in v the-nark upon the "to work with a 10 the* _ ^ or preclou r.only thro - V v >•1 . . r*n:;t#c4 the u:ac-i. uu r;! .'.or . o anxiously “oponiug.” watches stones were found, howev amall sharks and hundreds of eggs. The difficulty in depri ring the average shack of its life was roost forcibly shown by th e-promptness with which this one snapped its huge jaws at some Of the curious in the crowd, among, whom were many ladles, eve^ after It* intestines had been Tem.ovedA • ’ - , V . , .• ■ - ' t Life (and Heath) in Belfast. Cable Latter to the New York World. The two great centres of disturbance are the Sbankhill and Falls roads the former being Orange, the latter Cath olic. Ther* is a heavy population ou each of these thoroughfare*, which seem to run parallel to each other, and on which there have been fights from oue end of them to the other and on most of the cross streets by which they are intersected. The long contin ued hostility aud the combats that have come to be traditional, have cleaned nearly all the Catholics out of the Orange neighborhoods and nearly all the Orangemen out of the Catholic neighborhoods. Yet these communities may liv® and often do live with nothing to separate them but a street or an alley, which,through custom has oome to Ije regarded as a sort of a dead line. The hatred with which these religious partisans hate each ether is not to be described in one word. Th* people here have been fightiug each other almost every day for the past tvo months. There has been here an actual, constant state of war carried on with stones, guns or whatever weapons were nearest to hand. The streets are paved with cobble stones and about the size of goose eggs. They are called “kid neys.” They are smooth, a little ob long and very heavy, and rioters throw them with a force and precision tha would have done honor to King and his sling. The bowlders are dug up^'the wo men aud children, so be ready for an emergeucy^^t ;saw dozens of piles of them b^wy at the opening of small stree^^nd alleys. A shop- keeper v ^So lives on Falls road, and wbft^ni seen a score or more of these told me that the rapidity with ich the streets would fill up at the word of alarum was amazing; that he always wondered where the crowd came from in so short a time. He saw the terrible Springfield road encoun ter last Sunday morning, and the bul let holes and bruises about his house show that he was in tho midst of it. The fighting commenced at 4 o’clock in the morning and was kept up till 9. Women and girls carried stones to the men and boys in the fighting in the laps of their dresses. I asked him if the people seemed to be excited. “No” he said; “they kept very quiet. They seeUi .d to be dead in earnest. Some time there would be a shout among the associates of one who happened to hit •somebody ou the otlfer Side; that was all. I didn’t hear any screaming among the women. I think the latter were more determined than the men. I saw one young girl cairyipg stones with nothing on but her night dress. People did not shut their doors at ail, hut kept them wide open, and child ren were almost entirely unprotected, running about the street* In disregard •pf $ie danger.”v ridge directed me to increase the ’gnard to 200 men and take charge of it in person. I suggested that instead of composing it entirely of men from *hy brigade, it should be constituted of details from all five. I thought this the best plan to allay any little feeling of jealousy that might arise, an’d insure a more perfect vigilance, as I felt persuaded that these details would all carefully watch each other. My suggestion was adopted. Nearly the entire guard was kept constantly on duty, day aud night, and a majority of th* whole escort was generally about th* wagon* at •nary halt, •IomIj inspecting the guard. At Savannah river Mr. Davis or dered that the silver coin, amounting to one hundred aud eight or ten thous and dollars, be paid to tho troops in partial discharge of the arrears of pay due them. The Quartermasters of the several brigades were engaged during the entire night In counting out the money, and a throng of soldiers sur rounded the little cabin where they were deviding ’’the pile* 4 Into their respective quotas until early dawn. The sight of so much money seemed to banish sleep. My brigade received $32 per cap ! ta, officers and man shar ing alike. Gen. Breckinridge was paid tin t sum, aud, for the purpose, was borue on th® roll of the brigade. THE MISSISSIPPI PLAN. WHAT A FARMER THINKS OF GEN. LEE’S COLLEGE. On the next day, at Washing^ 0 turned over the residue of the^fej^iry to Mr. M. H. Clark, Acting TjdPasurer of the Confederate and ex perienced a feeling Gen. Duke in the ^>reat rust Biv relief.— miac Heaven Home of the Editor. T eston Sunday Dispatch. solemnly the truth is brought to us by some one who has ‘been Hjfce,” who says in this af fecting picture, an editor died, and slowly wenffed his way down to where he supposed a warm reception awaited him. The devil met him and said: ‘‘For many years thou hast borne the blame for the bad spelling that the printers have gotten off in the paper; the paper has gone for $2 00, but alas the $2 00 has often failed to come in. The printer has bedeviled thee for wages Baturday night when thou hast not a durned fartbering to thy name. Men have taken thy paper without paying for it, and cursed thee for not “getting up a better paper. Thou has been called a dead beat by the freight conductors and a dead head by passenger conductors, when thou hast shown thy annual pass to their envious gaze. All these things thou has borne in silence. Thou canst not come in.” And he fired him. As he did so he murmured to himself: “Heaven’s his home, and besidjs, if we had let him inhere he would have been dunning his delin quent subscribers and thus created dig cord iu toy kingdom.” An Array of Fljcures aiul Facts fbr Fanners to Ponder—Queer and Cost ly Methods ol Teaching Boys how to Farm—The Question of an Agj^cnl- tural College Viewed from a Practi cal Standpoint. Editor of Columbia- Register: Much ho* been said and written •bout the necessity of an agricultural •olleg®, pure and simple, and this is the principal plank In the farmers’ platform, in fact about tho only tiling^ especially advocated by the leaders in this movement, ostensibly for secur ing the rights and redressing the wrongs of farmers, aud leading them out of tlve land of bondage. Time and space will not warrant the investigation of this subject demands; but as the Mississippi Agricultural College has been persistently held up to our admiring gaze os the acme of perfection, th® oue thing needful to lift us out of ignorance and pov erty to intelligent “high fanping aud wealth,” ! will give it acursory exam ination. “Make me,” says its advo cates, “a trustee of Buch a college as General Lee’s, that is all I ask.” Now, it is only reasonable to sup pose that he and his supporters have carefully scrutinized ail the reports of this model concern; examined the time devoted to various studies, the amount of money received, number of students graduated, &c., &c., and that they are ail approved. Having taken great interest in this matter, and with a biennial report for the two years ending November, 1835, on hand. I will endeavor to give some idea of the results of this wonder-working insti tution.. At page 45 the Military Pro fessor gives a table giving the whole number of students at various periods of the years, which shows that there were in five years 1,523 students, out of which no fewer than 657 left hefo>\ completing one, gear's study? This wholesale desertion he mildly desig nates as “restlessness,” and rejoices that in the last year given the deser tions, had greatly decreased, and only reached 22 per cent. Since its organ ization iu 1339 ic boas slot’ having graduated thirty-nine. Of the total number present during the five years there were but 648 receiving a Colle giate course, sixty-five of these being irregular, leaving $75 in the prepara tory department equivalent, I suppose to a graded school of high character. This college has received over $300,- 000, and is now in receipt of about $37,000 per annum from (he State aud land scrip, and the public can judge of the amount of edr.oniion given for this expenditure. At page 18, report for 1885, \vc find a “general statement” believed io em brace two years, but the absence of any date and the disagreement in fig ures do not warrant a positive e< ue'.u- Bion one way or the other, which show's a receipt of $87,708 41 from the State. The payments are: For sala ries $49,658 26; for students labor $10,- 199 61; for farm labor $5,044 etc. The farm foretnauhas $600, equal to $1,200. so that labor on the farm cost in two years $16,643. Th« land planted consist of260 acres —64in corn, 11 iu cotton and 'pe bal ance iu small grainforage crops &c., requiring but little cultivation. In other words, it cost $30 per acre in labor alone with hut 75 in cultivated crops. The total proceeds from all source^ at their own prices and door, tooi/s up to $0,532 40, so that labor aUprtq wRh out mules, plows, manurpf &c., cost twice as much as the gp<^ss product. Pages 23 and 2S0f(ives the result of 11 acres of coUg^^danting. The pick ing beiufi^^ne by the students, costs only or $32 per acre. This ex- peJFfwura i» accounted for on the ud that, thougli student labor is expensive it “is regarded the most profitable investment made by the college,” us it forms “industrious hab its and tastes, without which the mental traininy of the college would nol be of any special value to the young ~f m*II »<*attendance. The manual labor . is the^roii?N42ffint^ai>pareutIy, and mental training only siJNrKlhHy. Does not every boy raised on a know how to pick cotton at $7 per bale? Then why go to the college for four years, at great expense to him- selfund State, to gain what he already possesses? Is this the way to teach habits of economy ? Is this not fully as essential as habits of industry? Can any hoy tail to see through such expenditure; and instead of profiting by such recklessness, is he not much more likely to receive permanent harm. Are not colleges supposed to be for the very purpose of imparting a men tal training that cannot he had at home? Is there any more sense in having an agricultural college‘than a shoemakers’ or carpenter*’ college? Any one wishing to learn the latter trades will go to a man who has had several years’ experieucewith faculties for imparting his knowledge. But he can’t charge four or five prices for the work done by these apprentices; and How One of ihe Men of Fame YVa* Cured of a Case ot Neuralgia. Washington Letter in the Baltimore Xun. Senator Gorman tells the following story on himself: For many j’cars ho has been a sufferer from regular at tacks of neuralgia. On somu occas- sions he has been confined to his homo If it requires a course at a da >' or two - 80 inU ‘ nse wn8 !!'* pain * 'An old lady friend once called up on him w hile he was suffering from one of his attacks. She displayed so much sympathy that she almost for got to name the request she had to make-—but she did not. Upon learn ing that the Senator was troubled with neuralgia she volunteered to give him an infallible remedy provid ed he would promise not laugh at her or accuse her of being a believer iu | conjuration, spells, etc. The Senator in a good-natured way, informed her that he was under treatment from an eminent physician who sometimes afforded him temporary relief. The old _ lady finally prevailed upon the Sena tor to give her remedy a fair trial, whereupon she suggested that he get an ordinary nutmeg, such as is used in cooking, drill a hole through it, tach it to a piece of string or ribbon, -- and wear it around his neck continual ly. The Senator while sufferingdno day determined to give tho nuhaCg remedy a trial. He followed tho old lady’s directions, and in a few hours fttt greatly relieved. He has worn tho nutmeg ever since, aud is seldom. troubled with neuralgia. Ho haaeon* suited several physicians, ou tho sub ject, and they stale that the nutmeg possesses certain virtues which may have effect on neuralgic pains. Fading, Fading - , Away. Sumter. Advance. Since the Dawson Tillman combi nation has come to light, Tillman- stock has been on the decline, eome- tuhat. The beacon light of this great “Agricultural Moses” seems to be fad fading away, Ob! v -*j/ *• harrow, yet it is claimed that these men, who never were trained them- scliC-i in the field, can iu four years turn out hotter farmers than those who have spent a life at the business. If they can’t give student* "mi ntul training of any special value” they surely should give some evidence that they themselves have the capacity to impart such instruction iu manual la bor as will give hotter results than here shown. college to learn to pick cotton at $250 per 100 ixmiids of seed, surely we ought to have a “Laborers’ College” and grant diplomas to field bauds who pick it at 60 cents, thus leaving the collegian, expensively trained, about $3 to $4 per day in the lurch. When a rich country like England with the “Royal Agricultural College” amply endowed and equipped, has only about seventy agricultural stu dents, is it not utter nonsense for a poor State like this to pretend to start one? Where aro our men of experience competent to undertake the various branches? Why. we have not one who has ever been to such a college. Even granting that a student spends four years, what guarantee have we that he is going back to a poor farm, poor living and hard work, with the cer tainty of having no capital to carry ®n farming on a proper basis? The Mississippi College entirely ig nores “mechanic arts,” though the Act of Congress places them ou the same plane of agriculture. Would it not be iu finitely better to teach a stu dent iron and wood working so as to enable him to make many and repair all ot his implements, aud thus save much outlay of cash and the loss of precious time, and at which he could earn rather more than fifty cents per lay? This our poor despised “annex” will do the coming session, but it will scarcely receive the lavish praise be stowed on one which fails to comply with the law'. General Lee’s College boasts of a President, nine Professors, a Secre tary, Purchasing Agent and Instruc tor in book keeping, a Surgeon, five tutors, Drawing Master, Writing Mas ter Steward and Janitor, Foreman of the Farm (is he a graduate or picked up?), and Hospital Nurse,. Oue is a ‘‘Professor of Dairy Husbandry.” but the College granting such diplo mas is'not stated. With a teacher of bookkeeping on hand, and attention is called by Gen eral Lee to his report, one would have thought that lue accounts would have been plain and exact, yet pages IS and 19 I can’t make them agree, but then I have not been to the College. Under the “disbursement*” student icbor is down for $10,199,61, and farm labor for $5,014,45; but the “farm ac count” is debited only with “farm la bor” $4,103,93 and “student labor” $937 52 making $5,041,45, leaving out ntirely the $10,159,61 for student la bor under the head of “disburse ments.” Now, if this labor was not on the farm, where does it come in? Even with this trifle omitted in the farm account,” its expenses are tostopthe $5,7429.9 over the receipts, and the loss is balanced with “By State Treasurer” that amount. rhe “inventory,”supposed to repre sent the present values foots up$2| 401.84; the land, 1,750 acres, onji^iOO of which is good,“the bajanflods worn and gullied hill land,” i^^timated at $24 per acre all arou*FW with buiid- i. Tho stooteFiiotwithstanding the “failure U^ffeed and fj^m death, has not m^rethe returns expected,” but yelXit appears t£ have added value $7,777.50; not a bad v.Ing, if correct, when tho total value is hut flo.SOl. The improve ment in the laud is claimed to equal $5,500. These two items aro carefully blended with another “farm account,” at pages 33 aud 34, which has a total disbursement of only $8,898.83, against the one at page 19. having $12,647.45, while it carefully takes iu the full amount of credits; thus contriving to show a nominal balance in favor^f the farm by deducting $4,855.88 for student labor and ignoring the $5, SENATOR GORMAN’S NUTMEG. ' I r v b ^ .it • Talmage to Women. In tho first place I charge you to avoid life-time alliances with a man who despises the Christian religion. It is not necessary that a man should b® religious before, but If a mau has * positive hatred of the Christian relig ion, beware of him. He will sneer at your posture in prayer, will deprecate your love for Jesus Christ. Stand off from each an alliance. It may not be absolutely necessary before your union that he should be a child of God ; but it is absolutely necessary he should not despise the Christian re ligion. If you arc engaged tousueh a one it is your duty to break the en gagement. My words may come just in ♦ime to save your soul, rf^g tin, I charge you, don’t marry a man of evil habits. If bo will not now resist them, he certainly will not when he has gained the prize. Tho alms-houses are full of women who thought they would reform their hus bands. No man twenty-five years of age, if he is addicted to intoxicants, can be reformed by a wife: for in tho present day his system is full of strych nine, nux vomica, logwood and tUher- poisons. He is past refopnl. It is like taking a wheel-bas^ow on tho track of the Hudson stiver Railroad n^expressyT would also charffp^tm to avoid alliance with exlreiijpay selfish men—those who their business and nothing Borne men aro so much married to their business that their marriage to you w'ouid be absolute bigamy. In India the wife leaps upon the funeral pyre of her dead husband: but iu America many wives leap upon the funeral pyre of their living husband. I counsel you to unite yourself with a man who is a fortune iu himself. Lands, money and the like are well enough; but two or three unlucky in vestments may upturn thorn. Tbs re are men who are fortunes in them selves, who are always get}nil ami large hearted, But I also charge you* don’t look for a perfect man. If you find a man who is perfect, who is inca pable of mistakes, don’t unite yourself with him! What a wife you would make for him. Iu other words there are no perfect men. The only perfect pair slid down the banks of paradise VqP it is his duty to give them such an in sight into his business and methods of utilizing time and materials that they can turn out good work at the lowest cost. Is there anv college in tha world especially for cotton spinner*or any other trade? I here appears to be a vaguo idea that a college pes^sses gome mag' powers, and that wl royal road to su its attendant It* Presld bankru ivel inline inf '-M 742.69 drawn from the treasury to bal ance loss ou farm, as shown at page 19, It is not reasonable to expect great and perfect results all at once; nor to nope that a college can work wonders iu agriculture in a few years. But, in all seriousness, I ask if this vaunted college can claim even auy degree of it or success! Would it not be the farmers of the State to ex- his matter themselves in preference dixit ot any self-constituted leade?*Wf!“$fWtt how smart ho may be. Let them carefully study the case in all its bearings, and if they can conscien tiously say that this institution is all it is claimed by its advocates, and that they are willing to tax them selves some $30,000 per annum, be sides investing, say, $150,000 to start this college, why, then have one. But remember, it can’t raise crops in had years, nor yet insure twelve cents for your cotton. On the other hand. If you find that it will not bear a close and intelligent investigation, that it possesses no bet ter facilities for teaching practical farming than can be had on any well arranged farm and that such fact might easily have been ascertained by its advocate*, why 3’ou can form your qfiuioii as to their honesty, intelli gence aud patriotism. Another Farmer. Savannah News: Atlsnla having voted out whiskey now wards r.ior* manufacture*'. The anont of money -£ie annually spent for whiukey wil tiess furnish all the factories she the scene of much lehe<^ for several kwill never reign VntU she 1* grant- averument, aud ror later. J# . I.i The Kind of Men Wanted, Columbia Register. The popularity of a irmu i« not al ways a safe test of his fitness for pub lic oilico. On the contrary, It is often thecas® that the very qualities which fit him for position of trust and sibility are ia the way of his po] ty. Everybody Is, unfortune’ familiar with the fact th exercise of the nrio^t immoj basing mean* have risen to poptil adept iu the use of these treat \yeU; to dlw* views of each iadividuftL of voters; to ho hail during the campaign wli association would be s the election; to he nil men, and anything tp any mil cure his vote iu word, to ‘stoop*! quer, will usually win iu a populsj test. But tho man who,whatev< talent, substitutes these tics for the principle of uriswcrvli honor aud integrity, is the man who is not the one entitled to tho votes of an intelligent constituency. Bather take the man who U above these small and mean resorts to .secure suc cess at the cxtieuKO of his manhood aud the people's interests. Bhootlng through the teg agara hasbeconi .-a enuTJP Cooper Graham wept thro! head sticking out Iris bar: #17 Jim os Scott, a ttsliermani wishing tofichta II others, attempted to swim through but lost his life. Such recklessness should be stopped. i ■ ' HI7V Wd-r\ To clean lamp ebinneys moisten, a small rag in kero «ne and |nhf wipe them clear with a clea» « Handy In cleaning church r'- -IroW / .a 'a*. r * ' ; z" ' ••-r iy