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RV E. R MTrRRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1880. I VOLUME XvT^?oT^ THE KING OF THE DEAD. Last August I was shooting prairie chickens in ?oathera Kansas. A thun der storm came sweeping out of the north west. I took shelter ina little roadside inn. Time banging heavily on nie. I read and reread the county papers that littered the table in the small bar-room Earlor. Reading tbe list of marriages, irths and deaths, I found among the latter the namo John O. Zalmack, aged thirty-six years. In another column was this announcement : SUICIDE.-Last night John O. Zalmack returned to bis cattle ranch, taking with hima.bottjo of poisoned whiskey. He hadreworooff," and said that if be found hs -couldnot re?lat the desire for alcohol he would drink of the poisoned liquor and die. In tho morning his dead body lay across bis bed. Sitting by a window watching the fierce Btorm I musingly repeated tho f?ame John C Zalmack. It sounded very fa miliar. Questioning the landlord of the inn, I was-soon in .possession of the little bo know of the history of the dead man, and learned that he was commonly called Jack Zaluack. Instantly the veil lifted from my memory, and brave Jnck Zalmack,- <mincr of the Northern Rocky Mountains, stood fourth. I know him well. Years ago I was among the Cour d'Alene Mountains of Northern Idaho, searching for a mountain of iron oro that common report located there. One evening soon after sunset I rode up to the brink of a deep canon. By my feet a tiny stream of cold water poured over tho edge of the rock, disappear ing from my sight as it Bank into tue ut ter blackness beneath mo, a' rope of wav ing,' bubbling foam. I camped, and having been unsuccessful in shooting and rubing, I lay supperless iu my blankets, smoking my pipe. My horse grazed about mo, or, coming to the fire, Btood with hanging head, and looked nt me with mournfully lonesome eyes. Again be would walk, to my blankets, and I would caresa bini asebia head hung ova ino. I was very lonely. ,Tho isolation of my life was affecting my nerves. I heard strange sounds, ano aa the night grew old I fancied I caw uncanny objects hovering aroubd my fire or ci?uchiog under the bushes, waiting for a favorable opportunity to spring upon me. I waa neither asleep nor yel awake. While I was resting physical!] ruy brain was amusing itself by creating horrors to frighten my body. The dayl I had spent in the Blackfoot Indian conn try, where light sleep, wakeful sleep, wai the price of my life had tried my nerve: severely. I heard ibo light patter of ( wolfs feet, then a quick, sharp sniff be hiad me. My horse, with loud B nor ts rah toward ?ne. Turning over on ra; breast, my rifle came to my shoulder and an ounco ball crr.thed between tin glaring eyes of . tho blacs midnight prowl er. 7 arose, rebuilt my fixe, and Ba waiting for the early dawn of a Northen summer to break. Out from the blacl abyss at my feet rolled np a volume o cries so fiendish that my blood chillei and little waves of icy coldness chase? each'other up my opine. With a groa groundswell of a chill rolling through mi from right to left, I recovered myself, sa; ing "Curso those panthers I What a star they gave mel I have been alono to long. This will nut do." With a final shudder I drew a pair c heavy Oregon blankets around me an sat motionless. Again the cries from th ch ?K.m. Thia time I heard the words "Help! help! help! Oh, my God!" lay down, and With anxious eyes peere into tho gloom .beneath mo. I could sc nothing.. I heard ri voice raUcd high i piteous appeals, saying: 'Do notetrik me. Don't! don't!" Then louder, i despair,shouting: "Help! help! Oh ra God !" Then a succession of screams i though como mortal w"* enduring th torments of the orthodox nell. I lay Iii teaing. My horse stood alongside of m< peering down with wide-opened eyes, h nervous ears cocked forward. At ano: intervals tho erie? and appeals for bel were repeated. Faintdawn came. Loo] ing into tho canon I could seo. the lit of blackness descending lower and low? until tho tops of tho mighty evergreei nt the bottom could be seen, locking !!! great black domes. Lighter, but sti not light enough to clear away tho shai ow8 from tho bottom of the canon. Tl pines behind me cast their sbadoi across tho chasm on the red wall basaltic reek opposite me before I cou see plainly to the bottom of tho rift the rocks. Fifteen hundred feet belo mo laya narrow valley. A torrent pot ed over ita rocky bed looking like a lon undulating wbite serpent gliding in ni out among tho pines. A gi i m ne of it b low mt, then lost to view, to flash out pure white through ita partial screen evergreens far down tue valley. LU! meadows of bunch groas and ps v;hes thorn bushes, with scarl?t berries thic ly studded over them, checkered tho h tom of tho .canon in brown and grec Two horses'grazed oh ono' of the.se gri ay lawns: one a solid white, the othei black with four whito stockings and blazed foe'e. A foll of blankets^ a lit pilo of nour and bacon in sacks, soi cooking utensils, two Baddies, ooo a 3a buck pack saddle; and a keg lay. on t ground by a| clump pf; pine-trees, j 81 lying on tbe Verge of tb? abyss, I Beard the valley with my glass to my ey.js. a rock on tbe T? ver aide I saw a'mine nr/Minnnt nan a ahstval ???? ? sick. J--1-- f--F --1 --- *~ t*"*"V could not see- the human being I b beardy crying ao loudly in the nie Walbina hank tn mv nlknkets. I pict up my rifle and started on a bunt for i breakfast Again I beard, and the air necmed quiver with the sound aa it rolled un fr the canon the cries, "Help I Help ! He Oh ray God I" Hurrying back to top of the cliff I looked over and sa? naked man standing in the shallow wi by the bank of tho little river. Tatt my glass on him, 1 stood waiting i listening. His screams were incessi He noon rushed out of the water v> arm? held above his head, as if to prot it from a savage blow.: Reaching meadow laud, he suddenly turned on (by me uuseen) object pursuing bira, : struck ?avago blotrs in tho air with clenched .hands; then, falling on knees, ho covered bia fc v*l with his a and implored for murty. Ai>t>are! it was not granted, as ho" jumped to feet and rao swiftly into tho thorn bus' wbe'roho crouched donn. He arose, t steathily walking toward the pilo of cr equipage, vi th a bouud and a yell of umpb, seized a gun and rushed towai tree, throwing tba gun to Iiis sbuul I ,itw two lilt fa putt, o? *hi to crooke, i I roct ly after tho dull reports of a doa ?arrollcd ahoVgun 'jamo floating up me. Standing an instant, he wei to be undecided what to do. Tl clubbing hia gua, ho ru-h ed rj ly to the tree. His wild yell of rngo fear struck harshly on my ears before reached the evergreen. When close I ho struck savagely at lu trunk, brea! th? atoek and bending the barrels of gun. Dropping the ?seles* weapon run with great speed into the forest lug: "Don't 1 don't ! don't I Help! h hclpl" ifTftornnt nf tho *r*Ur if there was that led into the canon, I remained stand ing on the verge of the cliff while I thought out the probable lay of the land. To the south the canon narrowed, the country evidently grew moro rugged, and the timber thickened. To the north thc canon widened, and the walls seemed to be lera precipitous. Following tho wind ings of the stream as closely aa possible with my eyes, I came to the conclusion that some four or fire miles furtbei north it would be possible to descend tc tho stream ; then, by riding up the val ley, I could get to r'.-e camp of the afllict tcd miner. While settling this, I frequent ly saw the naked man running quickly from trco to .tree, or.croucbing under thc thorn bushes like an animal in fear. Once ho sneaked to thq Tiver,, where he picked up a stone. With a cry of com bat, be rushed at the tree be had at tacked with a eliot-gun. An ho passed bo hurled tho rock with great force against its trunk. Running toward thc western wall of the cabin, no disappear ed among the thorn bushes. Saddling thy horse, I rodo back' inte the mountains and slowly picked my way to the north along mountain flanks, over burnt lands where extensive Umbel fires had raged, causing the unconsumed portions of tho troca to fall in a tangle like jack straws. An intense desire tc get to this man, to aid him in his imagi nary flight, had taken possession of mo. I was no longer hungry or nervous Pushing on as rapidly as I could for two hours, I turned and rode westward to ware the canon. I brui ridden past }tt mouth. Tho precipitous walls broke off abruptly, and wjth a grand swell curved back into mountain slopes thal extended down to the river. Dismount ing ? led my horse down the steep.moun. tmn Side, and was soon nt the stream ir j the valley. Fording the river and find ing a good trail on the other side, I rod? rapidly up it on a canter. Arriving at the camp of the miner; I reined in mj horse and sat on the animal, anxious!] looking around. I saw the naked mat crouched under como bushes, and rod? over Co him. He at once regarded me as a frient ami roi ri forcement, and told uia hts trou bles. Instantly I saw that he was suffer inf with delirium tremens.. Hp.waB.?razy and, though" id his camp, lost. He dn not know where Ms clothes were; dh not realize that h<> was naked. Witl vivid distinctness ho described to rife i giant clad in armor, with a bright til helmet on his head, who was armed witl an immense club, and who bad beet trying to kill him. He volunteered t show this giant to me. Walking along side of my horse, his trembling ham resting on my thigh, he Beemed to b unconscious of pain, apparently not feel ing the bleeding, swollen feet, or the lac erated skin, deeply scratched by the tho r as ho rushed through the bushes in h i mad flights from the specters creaton o; his disordered brain. With a eua den pressure of his hand or. my lej he said, "Stop I" With an anims gleam of fear and hntred in his eyes, h pointed with outstretched, trembling an to the pine he had sbotat in the morning and in a dry, husky whisper said : "Ther he is I Sec the great club he bas in hi hand. He is going to strike mci Shoot shoot! shoot!" and ho grabbed at m rifle. Kot securing it, he ran behind m horse and crouched down, whisperin hoarsely : "Do not let him strike me Ob, my God!" Thoroughly alarmed fe tho life of tho man. I dismounted, unsac died and led my horse to the river f< water. . The naked man.followed close belum I found bis clothes in a little pile behin a boulder by tho river bank. I coane him to put them on, which he dh!, wit my assistance. Getting him into h camp, I easily induced him to lie dowi Finding the keg to Oe filled with whisk; I drew some, and made a strong todd; which ho drank at my request. I gai him whiskey in moderation, and coaxe him .to eat a little trout I caught in tl river. I worked over him for two day until he finally slept for a few hours. ? soon as he awoke I gave him u litt whiskey. He was in his right mind, bi dreadfully nervous. Two days more pac ed and he was himself again-emanci ted, sore, exhausted, but his nerves we ..n,,?..,!.-. .t T.,,.!., "I.....1.. If? ??;J! ---J, uu*u^tiiw?ifvij w**.?M4J . A1Q OWS& UCCUI some ono to lean on, someone to be wit When I proposed to leave him, he objet ed, saying, "I eau not endure being ?loi yet; I will go with you for a week two." Wo ditched his provisions, emptied his whiskey keg into the rivi Mounting our horses, ?s rode into t | mountains. As he regained his streng ! and his mind became clear, I found hi I tb be singularly well informed. Our lc night together we spent on au island j Lake Pen d'Oreille. T mt night as < sat by the camp fire listening to the Uti j waves hissing on tho pebbly shore, a watching the shadows cast by the mou tains on the waters of the lake, ho. .ti me of bis trial in the canon. "I had been prospecting for plat gold. I had: been drinking freely Ai some days. Resolved n stop, I did i The next morning, aft a night spent short feverish 25*^2 broken ^?ith dreai of the most horrible description, I art very nervous and weak. Thinking tl a bath in tho Cold' v/ater of the tom would bo beneficial, and probably rest? the (one.of my nervous system, I-vicar tottered to the river bank. Undress! myself, I sat on a rock and looked ii the water. It swarmed with sea serpet sharko ?fiu uuvihuVn. Aa . occus?oi serai-human face, surmounting aehapel body, grinned at me from among 1 rentiles. or with lollintr tongue cast seo I ful glances at rae. Alarmed at my c< dition I forced myself into the wal The spectres retreated before me Hearing a loud shout, and ronny vol behind me cry ing, 'Hero he is; now havegot him, I turned to see ?he can valley filled with giants all with tin I mets on their heads. I never doab the reality of these spectres, Tho lc>. of thejo giants had a great club in hand, ena struck murderously at mo. the others grinned and nodded, and (i nificantly patted their stomachs. Lo ing up tho valley, theu down, I 1 thousands of these creatures. Rush from the water, I ran to my cai Grasping the gun I opened'fire on th clearing ray valley of all except tho lea? Driven wild by tho relentless pursuit* ried en by UM? cannibalistic giant 1 ever ?5truck at me with his club, I auoutly attacked him. . Sometime*! riven into the river. Then I marsha thegenii of the waters, and theyoppc the giant, drj vingbim fatback intotV est. The friendly genii would suddt transform themselves into carnivoi reptiles, intent on eating mo. The would arm myself with rocka, 1 rushing madly out of the tl.Yiani wt hurl. them at tho giant who would deavor to ?mite m? to the ground 1 skurried past, intent os hiding in timber. In my demented conditio could not fina my camp, except rare intervals, when I stumbled 01 in flighty to and from tho river." ' We got into a canoo J pd slowly j died over tho lake* fishing tor breakfast. As we finished Zalmack in tones told mo of the Buffering* he had dared from a disease bequeathed to t sySS?>MKiii5 Kiiucr. xiifiuvuoi ai: . was boro in Mu. At school, not know ; ing the danger he was in, be frequently went on boyUh frolics. As he grew older he weakened bis power of resis tance by thoughtlessly giving away to the i slight craving he at times had for liquor. > At last, when he was thoroughly alarm ed for ?is safety, be found that the de* sire for alcohol was almost irresistible. Again and again ha yielded to the crav ing, each time saying- that this would ?-e tho last timje. Then ho would "swear off." Soon he would look kindly on beer or ale or wine : then he would take "ina* v.l... >> l...r.._" I... "K.....I it whiskey would be drank Uko water. Recovering from that spree, he would soon believe it was a mishap, purely accidental, and would try it again, al ways with the same result. It was ?nt beer or wine or whiskey he craved; it was alcohol, and of this drug the least quantity, fanned tho smoldering fierceness of his desire into imperative demand that he could not resiot. He could give up the ase of alcohol for a few weeks, some times for mouths ; then bo would feel tho spoil, the glamour the alcohol cast be fore it, coming on gradually, taking pos session of, and haunting him day and night, luring him to bis destruction. Daily ba argued with himself, fighting stubbornly over each' point, and daily the nlcoholic portion of bis brain out argued the non-alcoholic. The desire for alcohol grew more intense, and the craving for the poison invariably culmi nated in an attack that ho had no more power to resist than he would bavo to realst a malaria chill. We had caught some fish, and ceas ing paddling we sat idly in the canoe, drifting before a light wind. "&?,vaok talked very despondently of his future, dwelling with great bitterness on thc mortification he had endured, of the sense of degradation be Buffered under. Sitting motionless in the canoe, bo tried to see his future, talking the while as hin imagination pictured painful scenes , in the lite he bad before him. - I cheered him as best I could. It vraaacase of hered itary disease that I did not believe there was any relief for. During the war I had an anny friend, a captain of artil lery, who was afflicted with this dis , ease. Worn out with repeated defeats, he, feeling thc glamour of alcohol com ing on, and having determined not te again endure the deep mortification re au 1 taut from a disgraceful spree, went inte bia quartera at Fort Henry and bleu his brains out. . Zalmack's case 1 though waa similar. > The next morning wo parted. I agr??e to be in Missoula on a certain day i possible, and together we were to tra ve up tho Lou Lou Fork of tba Bittei Root River. My work wouid be fin isbed.nnd we h au planned a chicken anl deer hunt. Ono bright October day I rode out o the Jocko country. Passing througl the Coiiacan Defile, I descended int? tho valley of the Missoula. Great flock of grouse took wing .from the gras before me. Fool hens Bat stupidly ii Hpruco trees and looked at me. In tbi distance a threshing machine wasloudh bumming. I coula see the small vert? cal column of dust rising high above th separator. Farm houses and barns nea tied at the bose of the bille. Clear, coe water flowed sluggishly in the irrigating ditches. It was the first glimpse of civ ization I had Been for some months, an I rode along the old Indian trail elater The frosty air, the rustle of tho dry bei bago, the leaf ess trees, and the dark, pim clad mountains of the Bitter Root Rang in tba distance all stimulated my^Bgh heartedness- Cantering briskly over th dusty trail I was Boon in Missoula. Pu ting my horse in a Btable I walked to tb hotel and inquired for my friend. He ha been iu town a week ; had beon on spree, and was then up stairs sufTerin with the damnably disease of diatillt tion-delirium tremens. Sorrowfully I mounted the ricket stairs. In a meanly furnished room thi wasfoul-smelling and ill-ventilated, Za mack lay on a hard bed, tossing, moat ing, and cravenly begging, by us unset spectators, tobe merciful. Ho was nura* by two sympathetic miners. Zalmat lay and mourned, or in terse langeai described tho phantoms that uanna him . Tho corpse of a friend he had bur? a few weeks previously floated in the a before him, and beckoned him with blac swollen hands, to descend to hell: c thrusting tho rotten ragged tonguo fro .out of its foul mouth, tbs bursted ey balls turned to bim and the engorge lids slowly a?d repeatedly winked at hil His description 01 the grating of the bon of tho neck and jaws, of the actions this naked moss of corruption, as the epe tro nodded aud grinned at him, or hes ily danced around bis bed, was horrib With a great cry of terror, Zalmack c up shouting that the head pf the corf had fallon off and rolled under the be while serpents, lizards, and poiacno toads swarmed out of the nock of t headless trank. He BC rcs v. ed to us 'keep them off of bim. The rou nurses Isughed heartily, and said it ? "a rum go." Koetong the Benaiti' nervous organization of the maa. I v deeply distressed. I spoke to him, j ] started, seemed to recognize my voi 'thou lost me. . With, a mighty effort . endcavot*d to grasp his . intellect, could seo him etrive to get control of Tho diseased mind could not clear ite of the wreck produced by the nicoli Tho delicate organ was disoT<*ired. ._?*_JrJ~_ ?_11_.i naa on ii au iTuu ncuga unu uccu tuiu into a mass of cog-wheels. of a delic machine, destroying the balance, causl come wheels to madly whirl aron others to atand: stiii. BO with this i brain. ' The alcohol had clogged ali of except the fervent imagination, wh wai?-reeling off a panorama of norri pk-turee* Speaking to tho nurses, I e i "">uid walch him tua? Dig??, Sc ingly they replied, "You can .tot sti it alone." I would try. They co sleep in the next room, and if I foun could not eudure the awful pictures painted'I would call to them. Ai o'clock I entered tho roora. The mir left. I heard - them throw themsol wearily on their hard bed. Soon t snored. Opening the window for fr air, I sat looking out smoking tho wi Tho doctor came, gave Zalmack some di bid mo good-night, and I was alone * my friend. Eleven o'clock, 12o'el< 1 o'clock struck on the clock in the ; ing room do wt- s'ulrs, and reverbero through the dark, silent house. Thc was still trembling and uoftly humn after the stroke one, when Zalmack i abound sat up, recognized me, and in unearthly whisper that made my bl chill, said, "Frank, tho clock has ?ti ono. Now they will appear." With stretched arm he pointed to the d< . with - terror-stricken face and blooi lips ho counted tho" rotten unshrot dead as they stalked into his room - stood in their foal nakedness at hi? ' side. Then with a rapt, torrlfied exj ? bionon bis face be whispered: "Liste the ?Cuiji of iii o tu ru?tt? as bo wal Inst! nettvely, I listened - aa - he With bia arm still outstretched, hu lowed the supposed sound with his b By his motions I could see it come rho stairs and down the hall. As > ! tared the room his arm fell on the i arid his ?yes retreated bet?re the adv of this spectre of a sound to bis bedside end with an unoartbly cry, be fell back on bis pillow, saying, "it takes shape. I It ia the King of tho Dead. It is a gigan tic brandy bottle filled with thc diseased brains of drunkards/' I endured the scenes this disordered imagination conjured up in quick eue cession until about 3 o clock. By that time I was so nervous that I really believe that I would have seen the horrible phan tomp he SAW, if I remained with him a few minutes longer.. Unable to enduro it, I hastily stepped into the hall and kicked sgsicst tee dcor cf the room where the two miners slept. Awaking them, I declared that I must have company that I could not endure the spectres, a* Zalmack painted them, alone. Without grumbling, without an impatient word, tho men got up. Throwing the light of a candle up to my face, they said. ''You had belter go get a drink of whiskey to cteady your n?rveo. Bring a driuK of medicine for Zalmack with you when you return." . That night of watching unstrung my nerves for a week. Zalmack finally re* coverd, and all ho remembered, except the creatures created by his imagination (and these were ever fresh to him), was that he had aceu me for an instant. He suffered greatly from remorse aud morti fication. Deep was the humiliation be endured. Ho sat by my side oue even ing as we ate our supper by the hot springs of the Lou Lou Fork of the Bitter lioot, and wondred what the end of his trouble would be. I suspected the ulti mate result of alcohol on his fine nervous organization ; but I cheered him, en couraged bim to keep un his fight. Gently, lovingly, sorrowfully ho spoke of his dead parents; whose sole inheri tance to him waa this uisease( and he thanked God that ho bad no children for it to descend to. His life in Kansas bad been bitterly bard. Having made a little fortune in the placer mines of Montana,, ho deter mined to leave tho mountains, where he waa exposed to many temptations.' He came to Kansas, aud, buying a herd of cattle, tended them. . But the longing, the loud calls made by his diseased brain for alcohol at stated times, could not be resisted. Repeatedly. ho fell. None, know the struggle, the continual fight, be kept up. Tired, worn out, discouraged, ho finally decided to kill himself rather than endure tho humiliation resultant from another spree. Ho did so. Un thinking people called him a drunkard, an outcast.. They said ho drank hie .jlf to death-a mistake too commonly made. He was the victim of an hereditary dis ease beyond the skill of wise physicians. FRAKK WILXESON. The Sovel? of Ireland. Mr. James Redpath describes in bis last letter a ride in the Parish of Island addy, in the County Mayo, which he visited in conducting his investigations of the Irish famine for the New York Tribune. He gi res a vivid glimpse of the destitution of the Irish peasantry-all the stronger no ho makes no effort nt picturesque description, but gives rather a catalogne of effects than an artistic pic ture. We quote : "There wero still moro dreadful scenes in the other cabins. 1 know no farmer in the East or West who Loops his cattlo in such foul stables. And yet children and infants, and mothers and stalwart workingmen-not beggars, but honest fellows, willing and eager to work-bavo been boro andi reared and married in these dreadful dens, none of them hav ing any other floors save the cold black earth ; none of them having windows lar ger than two feet- by eighteen inches, and nearly all of them having cowa or homes or donkeys in the same room, un divided either by a stone well or a parti tion of any kind. Heaps of oozing muck at tho doors 1 The last cabin filled me with dismay. It was dark and dirty and small. There wero litt' Neapa of what is called 'bog deal,' and iuc/c. as fuel, and a little peat fire. 'Bog deal' is the roeta of ancient fir trees that bave been pre served in the moist bog. No one rcmem : j bera when the fir trees grew. They dis appeared a generation ago. An old wo- I man, at least seventy yearn old, with white hair, discolored by tho smoke of tho cabin, and clad in foul rags, with her bare feet on tho wet floor, haggard and hideous from want, sat on an old ricketty chair, and told me ?be had been twice married-once to a man named Conway, once to a man namsd F'*ns- S?d tb~t she had two sons, ene by each husband, . in the United States. They had not written to her for years, she said, but had left her, in her decripit age, to beg alms orto starve. One ot these sons lives in Scranton, the other in Philadelphia. STer grand-daughter, a beautiful young girl of fourteen or sixteen, was I working with a spado in tba garden. There are very few girls with refined features and intelligent expressions, in these hovels. But it ia pathetic to meet a girl auch aa thia girl, who, if born in America and educated in our public schools, would ia al! human probability have become the honored and admired mother'of a wealthy home. This girl's beauty would almost have guaranteed her that rank in America. Twenty years heneo, if she liven hero, sha will be ugly and wrinkled like the rest. On Sunday I saw an old woman and man, with their young son, sitting around a basket, the lid of which, inverted, held their-Sunday dinner. There was a saucer in it. It hold salt water-common salt dissolved. Thereat of the meal consisted of cold potatoes; that was all. In* ailed it as I saw the little children of one of these hovels J crowded around tho pot with the cold ! Indian meal porridge. When I went back to. the hotel a Castlebar banker told me that 'there was far lees distress titan waa talked about, and that Ireland had never been better off.' " WHAT THERE ia m WnEAT.-The wheat grain is a fruit consisting of a seed and ita.covering. Ail the middle part of the grain is occupied by large, thin cells foll of a powdery substance, which con tains all the starch of the wheat. Out side the central starchy mass ls a single row of squarish ctlls filled with, a yellow ish material, veiy rich in nitrogenous, that is, flesh-forming matter. Bayona vu? a^aiu lucio uio ni SC thin coats or cov erings containing much mineral matter, both of potash and phosphates. The outermost coat is of but little value. Tho mill products of these coverings of the seed are peculiarly rich in nutriment, and fine flour is robbed of a large percentage of valuable and nutritious food. Mid dlings not only contain more fibrin and mineral matter than . fine floor, bot also more fat. Tho fibrous matter or outer coat, which is indigestible,, forma one sixth of the bran but not one-hundredth of the fine flour. Wheat contains tho greatest quantity of gluten and tho small est of starch ; rye^a medium proportion of both, while in. uarley, oat?.anti corn, the smallest proportion of and tho ranal 1-1 est of gluten are to bo found. In prac tice 100 pounds of flour will make, from 133 to 187 pound? of bread; ri good avcr ngo beiiig l8d pounds ; heneo a barrel of 100 pounds should yield 266 one-pound loaves. A SLAP UT TUE BLOODY SHIRT. Mr. Tftlmam Belarus from Ute Son th to Ilem&rk Upon the Visor and Iinnacuelty of Stalwart Lying. Mr. Talmage directed Li? congregation yesterday to sing, "My country, 'tis of thee," said his text-Judges i., 15 and continued as follows: "To meet engagements in nine of the Southern cities and io catch a glimpse cf tho South land in the Spring time, I made a trip two weeks long below Mason and I Dixon's line. I went ^equipped with questions and hungry for iui?riiintl?li ou moral and religious and political sub jects. I had a grave to visit in Georgia, that of my uncle, Dr. Samuel K. lal m?ge, for twenty years President of Oglethorpe University. When the war for slavery broke out ha lay down near tho scene of his usefulness. Ho was one of those who aro the adornment of tho Southern pulpit. Such raen as Jas. H. Thornwell and Smyth and Duncan and Pierce are to be mentioned with him. I went resolved to see and make a report of what I saw while South. I bad no political record to look after or guard, for ibo career of my useful ness has opened since the war closed. My admiration for the Democratic and Republican parties, aa parties, is so grept that it would take ono of McAllister's most powerful magnifying glasees to catch a glimivtb jf it. American politics is rotten. That party steals the most which has the best' chance. [Applause] I found while South the most perfect Eroof that the bulk of the stories TO get ere in the North, distilled by special correspondents, arc sheer fabrications and moat persistent attempts to misrep resent the real character of a large section of.our people. Tbore is no more need of governmental espionage at Charleston or Savannah and the other Southern cilles than there is in New York or Boston. Some people have an idea that tho senti ment in toe South leans towards the re establishment of negro slavery., Ahl the {icoplo aro. all hcartr/ glad to get rid of t, and tho plains nov. are placed under a better system of cultivation because it is gone. Old planters told me that the worry and anxiety and the care and look ing after a plantation of ncgron* is.all gone, and how all they have to do is to pay tho wages at tho end of the month. Put ft to ballot in the South whether or not you would have again tho system which prevailed before the war and you would get a thundering negative. The fight for slavery closed sixteen years ago and thoso Northern politicians who keep the subject of American slavery still roll ing might as well try to make the Door rebellion in Rhode Island or the attempt of Aaron Burato found on empir? a test for our Fall election. Tho whole subject of American slavery is dead and damned. The negro loves his work and his South. When we hear of rivers dragged and lakes to fish out colored men wno have been flung in we get but sample stories of what the North 1B expected to believe of the South, but they are so ridiculous as hardly to need contradiction. There is no maltreatment of the colored people, and as for American slavery, look for it in your Northern cites among the army of employees. See your female clerks. They need your sympathy far more than the workers of the rice iswamp or the sugar plantation. Find them on Fulton Btrcet, Brooklyn ; Broadway, New York ; Washington utreot, Boston; Chestnut street, Philadelphia. We want reforma tion in all these places to protect the weak from tyrantical employers, and we bad better begin our charity at home. "Another impression ie that there ? an hostility to Northern men who come to the South to Bettie. Tho impression ia that they are to be l:u-klukcd or other wise made uncomfortable. It Is a lie They want all the help they can get from tho North. They want the cotton spin dles near the cotton nelda and N rah cr? men to manage and Northern girls tc tend them. Of course, there is no more admiration for fools and braggers there than here. A man may go down io s Southerner aa be works m the field and begin his self-exultance. 'Pm from Bos ton, I am ; yes, I marched through thu very section with my regiment; I remem ber killing a heifer on your front stoop What a good thrashing wo fi. ve you didn't we, now V Such a man 'hat, tc say the least, would not get avery heart] welcome. He would not bo chosen i deacon in the Church and it would no bo surprising if ho moved off on the mos mobile section of a fence and carno dowt without much attendance to the landinj placo. ' Yes, and I should bo inclined t< say ho deserved it. (Applause.) ? Brooklyn man ia a good as a Mobil* man if ho behaves himself. There is no a more hospitable people in tho worh than the people of tho South. (Ap Elanae.) I bring to-day a general, invi ition to you elland all the North to g to the South and settle down. Horac Greeley's cry f 'Go. West' must b changed to 'Go South,' or rather add ec for ibero is room enough all over. Ther are fortunes by the hundred to be mad by tbo first men to go in to take posse) sion of the richea of the South. Yo Northern workers, go down where yo can breathe. The fare is only $15, if yo are not too particular how yon travo Afraid of heat ? Yon have hotter day here than ever are there. Of fever Wherever you go West, or South, yo have an acclimation attack, and it isonl a different kind of a shake, (Laughter Stop cursing the South, and stop lyin about her,-and go South and develo her immense resources of miningand foi eats. (Applause) .Let your Norther young men seule down with the Sou? ern young women, and under the mn? nolia grovo and the orange tree put yot political feuds asleep in tho eradlo of generation half North half South. (A] plauseO I hate to see these stories < the Southern peoplo gotten ap and ke| up for base political purposes. (A] pilarse). Another orrong impression that the peoplo of the South are antag nistic to the United States gorernraeo The people of the South submitted I tho settlement of tbo sword and are sui missive. If they 'eat fire* they keep ?ri vate platter of coals io a private root sat down with them and the forks d not look as if they had stirred hot coi nor the spoons aa though they bad ladli fiery jap. The men of the South a working ap, and you can see the men ot forty and sixty years startii afresh in life. It is devilish in us call tho temper of the South saturnine. have tra voled a good deal andi have j to find a man North who ha? a fi ?round of complaint against the. Soul Applause.) I wish that what I say m be received in silence. I sometimes i most wish for an. invasion of forci arms, to let the world see what 4 unit Soplo we are at heart and how t rees of Grant and Lee would mar together and not against each other. TTf a half dozen politicians North'a South would only,consent to die thi would bo no more sectional act:**ioi It would only be a case then for tho t dertakors. Wo wotild gladly flt up I catafalque and play 'the Rouges Marci -Xcw'Yott World, .April \?th. - Tho valcoof livo stock in Geor is $21,017,684. ? r:;t .:_!, ? , .t?:'->': '**.?..' './? ' Improved Cotton Cuitare. A practical planter who has thorough* ?studied the cotton question writes that ero is no use attempting to beat around tho bush any longer to avoid flatly st&i lng that there must be an improved sys* tem of cotton culture to make cotton an eminent success lo the American Co-.ion Btatos-it must come. In the days of alavcnr the old ?y?t?m worked well enough, perhaps, but those days aro of the past-tho days of tho present aro something entirely different, so far as re lates to labor at least. The improved system must consist of better culture, greater economy in agri cultural processes, a general practice op enriching lands by thoanpllcation of fer tilizing agents, the introduction of labor saving implements, and a thorough adan, tatton to tho changed condition of affairs generally. He believes this new system Is coming ; slowly, as must be admitted, Lut surely. Already it is beginning to show itself here and there at isolated points, wbero it is yielding valuable fruits. The planters are be com in rr roused to the necessities of the case, and already a large proportion of them have taken at least oue step in tho right direc tion-they are using fertilizers ; and the comparativo valu? of these, with modo of application, and results upon different Boils, are more eagerly canvassed than ever before. It is but fair to say that ftecuniary inability has proved a bar to mero vernon t dictated by the deliberate judgment of many planters.' This writer also refers to the efforts of Mr. David Dickson, of Georgia, as ao illustration of what may be done by a system of improved cotton culture. He says Mr. Dickson has produced tho most successful results in growing corn, cotton, oats, potatoes, ?co., on a larger scale for the last twenty years, of any one in. this vicinity. He originated the mode which he has so successfully pursued and which is now ^generally followed. It is pecu liar only in the fact that ho gives more distance, both to corn and cotton, than was formerly given'; that he has used more manured, ploughed deeper in the preparation of tho ground, cultivated shallower, and with moro care for the young plant, especially, than our plant ers generally havo dono. It is but jusl to bim to add that these results were oh tained with more satisfaction to himsell and laborers than is often found on othei Slantations. He uses Peruvian guano one dust, plaste: ind salt, combined oi mixed, under bis own watchful eye, witt such domestic manured as can bo eco nomicaliy raised and applied. Mr. Dickson pulverizes tho soil thor oughly in preparation for cotton, ant manures an acre (when expecting th< best results) with 160 pounds guano, 24< pounds dissolved bones, 100 pounds sal and 160 pounds plaster, thoroughly mixed, costing about $16 ; ' he mixture deposited in an eight-iuch furrow, i covered with a long scooter nuntin; deeply on each side, leaving a rich an< mellow seed-bed. He cultivates cleanl; with sweeps and uses tho hoe once o twice. His crops are remarkably rel! able, the most destructive casualties caus ing only partial failures ; and though h often puffers from worms or dronght, h rarely gets less than a halo per acre, an oftener obtains nearly two. Our writer goes on to state that larg results in cotton have undoubtedly bee obtained from poor soils by a liberal af plication of fertilizers. An instance reported from Onslow County, N. C., < a product of 2,700 pounds of seed cottoi or about 800 pounds of lint from one acr The cotton was cultivated in the usui way, the land highly manured with compost manure containing a large pe ce ?tige of stable marnoo. Other eas aro reported from the "Old North State A. B. Davis, of Carteret County, pr duced from an aero of land 2,800 pouni of seed cotton, using for manure fie only, which he caught himself. Calvi Tucker, of Pitt County, also product from one acre 2,300 pounds of seed cd ton, using barnyard manure, shell lin aud-leached oshea. J. T. Pearson, Wayne County, produced from one ac 2,200 pounds of seed cotton, using wi barnyard manure cottonseed and Bruted superphosphate of limo. lt. W. Peile tier, of Lenoir County, produced fro one acre ",061 pounds of seed cotto Tho mode of cultivation in these ca? was not unusual, the increased yie hoing mainly due to the fertilizers usc The season was an unfavorable one, ai the yield would have been much larg in a good season. Instances are given similar increases of production in ott farm crops, as the cereals and roots. The labor question is one still perpW in- the planter more pt leas-how eb be employ his labor to make it work the best advantage of all concome Wo have before us a report from Mr. F. Ward, of Georgia, on that subie which is worthy of careful considerate He aays: "I hogan operations by hiring i laborers (ali negroes) at $120 a year mon and $75 for women and boys, si plying thom with rations, Some worl as weii as I wished ; about ono-th would not work unless I was present, i then not cheerfully or well. I lost provisions of corn and meat, nnd rai about enough cotton to pay them ti wages in full. I settled with them ft iy ; all nero satisfied, and wanted to a another year. They were all worked Mthnr. T selected for the next c those with families who worked well, i turned off the drones. I kept man men altogether. I had a grent many plications to hire, which gave mo cht oi ibo laborera uruuu? nun iu gel ?a iii: aa I wanted to work my land. I t divided them into squads or families, let them rr'Ve selections of their Own workers. I measured off to each squi portion of land, and gave a mule to e two workers. I gave them one-half corn and fodder, peas, potatoes, sorgh melons, and half the dried peaches, oiie-third of tho cotton. I fed the plo stock, and they fed themselves and fo their own clothing. They went to ? very earnestly. The heads of sqt wer; good, practical farmers. I bad r ed a uortlon of the land to white la ?nd I was soon enabled to get t go .i? state of excitement and ambitit excei in the quantity of crops to be m The negros worked well and made j crops,- Some m ado 800 or 400 buabc corn to the band, and some from thn five bales of cotton per capita, bei large quantities of potatoes, and al 200 gallons of syrup in all. We over 700 pounds of dried peaches, bei what was kept for home concarap They were to furnish their own pr iocs, but by about tho middle of Jun .except two had applied to me for i aut) some for corn, and some for botl referred them to our contract ; the; knonledtced ita terms, bat raid it more to ? .ed them than they 'hough they had 'eat up all their inear, 'und money was all gone, too.' I had to ply them or lose the crop: I furn them, of courue. They did very after the crop was laid by until the to gather it They finished gath before Chrlstmc*.'' Mr. R. B. Springer, of Georgi?, rt another plan, pursued by himself, a lows : nl< employed freedmen, and them one-third of all that wai made. I furnished everything-land, tools, horses, seed, Aa, but I found that waa hardly enough, although they worked reasonably well. Later I gave them one-half, and only furnished the laud and stock, and fed tb? etock, they teing it ftll other es pouse. They repair my fences, clean out S my ditches, and keep the . plantation in ?ood order. This plan worked w*U. ly plantation looks belier than ?var be- i fore; the freedmen work better,- and make an abundance to supply themselves and familHt. I am at but little trouble, and, if anything, they are working better this year tba? ever. They repair and, keep up tho plantation at kit times when' they would do nothing elso ; therefore It is no expanse to them but labor, and a great saving to me. Freedmen would do much better if th ore v ere hot so many villains prowling over the country seek ing to swindle the negroes out of thoir hard-earned wages.? The Angora ?oat tn America. The readers of the South have already been many tiroes , pretty fully informed upon this subject. But the story merits repetition until it gains practical recog nition. Hence, it Is but proper that vre should repeat somewhat of a "distin guished arrival," from the Boston Daily Advertiser. It is thirty years since tho Su' ur of Turkey, as an act of gratitude to an American citizen, the late Dr. Davis, of South Carolina, sent to the United States, half a dozen fine specimens of tho An gora goat. There have been, since that time, a dozen importations of a few ani mals each. Theae, with their progeny, are scattered over all sections of tho country, In and south of tho middle States, and in some of tho Territories and California, but'eeldom in heards of over a few hundred-the object in tbs minds of all the owners seeming to be the raising of animals for breeding and not in flocks for fleece. There have been one or two exceptions ; notably that of tho Hon. Bichara Peters, who. on his fins (dock ranche, among the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge, at Calhoun, in northwestern Georgia, has, from the original stock, maintained a flock of greater or lesa number in their original purity. "With all the interest that baa been manifested in these unimals, the practi cal, profitable results from Angora goat husbandry have been but meagor and unsatisfactory. With - tho experience of flock masters in Australia and South Africa os examples-which have been of tho most satisfactory and profitable char acter-it is certain that the goats, with proper treatment, will thrive and bo prof itable outside of thoir native habitat in Asia Minor. Fifteen years ago the mo hair clip of the Cape of Good Hope had a value of $1,650. This year its value fer $050,000. Slr Samuel Wilson, of Mel bourn, Australia, one of the very first of English colonial breeders, says; 'Tho Angora industry is full of.promiso for this Ruction ;' and he has published the very best practical treatise on the subject Mr. J. B. EvanB, of Scorsteenburg, St Elizabeth, South Africa, who has a ranch of 180,000 acres, says: "Tho Angora Soats aro among the best members of my ocks and herds, which, among other species, has a flock of 800 ostriches.' "It is i ot unreasonable that a fiber which for fifteen years hes sold at double the price of tho beat combing wool, should have great value, and compel the atten tion of the capitalist and farmer to ita merits and possibilities for tho future, hero, where the variety of clinate, Boil and vegetation is so great. AU who aro interested in any attempts to develop tho resources of the country must welcome the efforts now newly being put forth to firovido an American growth of mohair br increasing ' lr manufactures of tho country mado i- ja that material. The best judges of the case say the want of success in this country ia based on the two causes of wrong location of flocka and a lack of careful breeding. Careful attention to these conditions has given success elsewhere, that should, with our unlimited resources, have been readily Shied here. All tho Appalachian range, >m Virginia south, is h cid by theso par ties to possess the needed qualities for1 success in thia industry, and .we are glad to be able to state that tho attempt is to bo made with better prospects than here tofore. "There are now in thia city some fine specimens of a breed of Angoras never before, save in one case, exported from Turkey. A pair of these animals,went last year to Mr. Evon'n phce in South Africa, of which we ha- heretofore spokt en. Tho animais now ander considera ron arrived here a day or two: since, in the steamer Dorian, from Constantinople, and were imported by Col. C. W. Jenks. They are to form a part of tho iambus flock of Mr. Petera, in Georgia. They were brought some hundreds of miles On mule back to the coast from tho province Gcrcdeh, in the interior of Asia Minor. Thc Angoras heretofore received in thia country bare been from provinces near the coast, and ara amalle?, with fleeces cf four, fivo and ?ht pounds.. Tho Geredsh breed is larger, with fleeces eight, ten, twelve, and, Tn same cases, fifteeu pounds in weight, of very fine and silky mohair, a lock of which flea before us, with pho tographs of animals of thia breed. Mr. Jenks informs us _Jt ho has traversed hundreds of milea In the ?luo.Ridge mountains of North Carolin A and Geor gia, the altitude, climate and vegetation of which are a transcript of those of tho goat districts of Asia Minor. Thus Mr. Peters and his associates, with this new and most valuable addition to their facil ities, propose tue recommencement of ah enteprise that has in it not only the growth of a fiber for goods known aa mohair, but the product of a etaplo that, if Uko the sample before us, will displace raw bilk for one-third of ita consumption, and grown at one-quarter tho price paid for tue product of tho silk worm, while for the uses referred to. in strength, fine ness, luster, or other n&dfui characteris tics, it is not inferior in any sense. We wish tho industry and its promoters great 8UCCC33.-The South,' New Yerk, A WABNIKO.-An intelligent writer calls tho attention of consumers of kero sene oil to the pernicious and. unhealthy practice of using lamps filled with that article with the wick? turned down. The gas which should be consumed t tho flames ia by this means left heavily ia the air, while tho cost of the oil thus saved, at tho present prices, would ecoree-; ly be one douar a year for t*e lamps of a household. His attention waa called Ftartlcularly to thia custom White board og lo the country, where kerosene waa tho (inly available light A largo family of chi.drcu living in tho house' were l taken Ul one night, and on going to tte ! nursery tho mother found the room neat; ly suffocating, with the ; lamp; tamed* down ; whereupon tho.physician forbade the nae of a lamp at night, onlceo turned at full head. Ho saya; he could quote many cases, one of a young girl subject to fita of faintness, which, if not Induced, were greatly increased by sleeping ia a room with the Limp almost turnr.. uut Besides the damago to health, it spoils tho paper and curtaira, soils tho minora and windows, and give? the wholo house an cntidy air and an unwncieesome odor. ? Escapeof Convicts. On Thursday evoniag lase, about 4 o'clock p. ra., two white convicts, named Charlea Keene abd Charles (lainey, mada their?ca?ejfrom tbe^etcclmj?e of tueAt t??t?? ?iiu I'V?uO'i Broad Valley ita? road. Tiey wer? both on the Bick Hit, and wore doing light work about tte stockade. They asked pnrm!?ion'to gt to the spring, about 160 yards distan* from the camp, and the guard foolishly permitted them to do GO. They procured a mattock, and when out of sight ca?; off* their shackles and hit. Thc guard waa sent in pursuit within a half hour after their escape; the settlement waa aroused and others besides the guard? started out on tho bunt for them. Capt. Kirk at once offered a reward of $20 each for them, but thoy succeedod ia eluding their pursuers, and would have probably mode' good their escape had they not broce into and robbed the house of a widow Indy, Mrs. Carter, in tho neighborhood of MMe Creek postofilce, about 15 mMeo from camp; They had procured a change of clothes at a wash place on Saturday, morning, just after they hatf crossed a stream, probably Rico's Crcok or Twelve Mile River, bat Could not resist their natural instincts to plunder and eteai, and in tho evening of tho same day broko into the bouso of tho widow lady, as ?bore ??.sted, ?ind stele therefrom, a int more clothing. They changed clothes at tbs wash place whore thoy first obtained 4hem and hid their convict suits ina hol> low log down the branch just below tho 5ring. When It was discovered that rs. Carter's h?uso had been robbed, a party started ia pursuit cf the robbers, not knowing them tobo escaped convict?, and captured them in tho neighborhood . of King's etore, on Little? Eaatatoc. In returning to Trial Ju?ticeTarrctfshou&o with them for a preliminary trial, Keene Bucceeded ia freeing himself from tho rope with which bo was tied and. took to the woods nt the raie of about 2:40, The Slard fired at him, but .wHhout effect! n Sunday morning liewas 'fjumped up" on Woodall Mountain and-closely pur sued, but up to this writing wa have not hviard whether ho has been recaptured or not. Keene bails from Thomaavil'.o, N. C., sud is ?aid to be a desperate char acter, having broken jail twice before ho was putin the Penitentiary-onco in Virginia ond onco in North Carolina. It iii said that Keeno is not bia real name. Qalney waa brought to this place and lodged, io jail until Monday* morning, when he was carried to tho stockade. Capt. Kirk has raised the reward for Keene to $80. Both Keene and Gainey were convicted ntCheras? fur the crime of cow steal'.dg. On Monday morning a negro by. tho name of Ben Weale?, who halls from Hopkins' Turnout, Richland Ooimty, who had been made a "trusty,", and eras a water carrier, otepped off mid took tko public road toward Willismston. " It is probable that he has been captured before this.-Piehen$ Sentinel.) # A Daef to the Death. Col. Alosander and Gol. Smiley wero prominent Calmants of mining lands at Silver City. Some dispute nroso as to a claim. Being unable to settle it satisfac torily, tho dispute augmented into a quarrel, and tue quarrel isto violent threats. It was well-known that both parties were men of nerve. Smiley ht?d won a reputation of being desperate in a personal encounter. Alexander, though he had never been credited with ohcJ ding blood, was considerad a can with whom it would not bo safe to trifle. All efforts to settle the mlcundeiatanding failed, and those who wero acquainted with the circumstances expected that bloodshed would be tho ultimate result. The day when tho encounter took place, Smlloy carno to Hot Springs.. Alexandor was in the town. Smiley went to tho bank and asked cf tho eas bier: "Have yon seen Alexander?" The cashier replied that he had not seen him, but understood that hoi was ia town, "I am going to kill him before 4 o'clock," exclaimed Smiley, and, turning, left the bank. After leaving the bank, he bsd stet "ons ia? wiiss he ~ct A?sx- ? ander. Tho furioua aspeci. immediately assumed by caeh man illustrated the fact that violence would ensue. Alexander" drew a Iorgo revolver, and, rushing upon Smiley, struck him over ibo head, Smiley staggered back, and. drew a Frenen self-cocking revolver, asid, with a rapidity almost beyond tho capacity ot enumeration, fired elk shots nt Alexan der. -Three shots took effect, r. ball strik ing each arm and another going through the taug*. Alexander"?'' pistol dropped from his hand. He attempted to recover it, but his right Arm had been paralyzed by the ball. He grasped it with bis loft hand, but the left arm having alee beers Ander kicked bia pistol into a calooa, near which the encounter occurred. Thenen tering, ho atoeped and caught the muzzla. of bis pistol with his left hand.' raised it up, and cocked it with his foot. Ho lifted the pistol from the floor. Smiley |etood outside, peeping around a door post, with only a part of his bcud ex fti.' Alexander nervously lifted the noApon, took deliberate aim and fired. The ball plowed along the post behind which Sr-iley stood, half burying itself* ,aod, n?riklng( Smiley in the ? forehoat* went through his brain. Smiley fell dead, aed Alexander, turuidg, sank from loss of blood. A large crowd witnessedthe encounter, 1 en H thft irr?jitftat of excitement nrovailefL. { Tho wotidc; is that several men wera not ? killed, for when Smiley fired tho six ! ?hot?, the sidewalk waa crowded with j people. The weapon? oed were not the Ea ri or pistols, hut tho brand intended to ill. almost regardleee ot distance. Ono of tho balls from Smiley's platel went through a signboard and barfed itself in another. The mark on the door pert,, made by the ball which killed Smiley, ia full six feet from tho sidewalk. Nino mea ont "bf ten vowld havo eaeaped, aa the' deadly misstto would havo pawed harmlessly over.-Little Bock\?rk,) <?<* ?tue. ^_ .' - 'A report to the annual confere?co nf the Mormons says that thc Msrsc^ populatloaof Utah is 111,320; that the I Church in that Territory hos lost COO raembera and gained ?.500 in a year, &o? that tho Church receipts ia that period were over $1,000,000. Apostle Sue* mado an eloquent defence of polygamy, and there was no ?bow of opposition to that dogma. , '"";-. A. L. Pierson, of Frio Oeuuty, Texas, has clipped thia, year . %>,W pounds of Merino wool, for which will pro?iably receive forty 'cc?ir, por pouctt._._j? GnrjKWtjp jiy Docrross.-* i hie that Mr. Godfrey is hp and st watte t\bd cured by so aleiple a remedy ?1' ?I assure you it is true that ho ia ..onUwly cured, aod with uothlRg hut Hop Bitters ; and only tea days ago his doctors gave hioA up and said ho mast diet 'W eli a-dayl Tiiat is retaark?t>lo I I wilt ?h?s diy and get somo for poet Geo -I know hop? are good,- r-iWrs? Jr