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-_Z" ANDERSQ^^TTH?^ tn - - VOLUME XVTTT.-NO AR BEAUTii-UL. SPRING GOODS. fc:iJ:ri>> 1883 i r___ -- 3m ANDREW $t PREVOST ire Still on the Square, at the same old St and, and are Sell ing Goods as Low as any House in the City. if iriil ^ V ? ol B CROC KR T DEP ARTM ENT is full. The best Sugar?, Coffees, Teas and UtiidGoods at all prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. Everything delivered free in VFAHME?8 -WC ure still agents for the Celebrated CHAMPION REAPER AKD HflB. Testimonials from a over the County that it is the Machine for fifrmcr? J'.ill take pleasure in showing and explaining our Machine. Terms liberal. ,cr8' HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS ON HAND, ?jjold low on Cotton Option A few tons o? KAINIT lea. Cull earl v. Expecting to ?J&um.this Fall, we would respectfully ask one all to give us a showing. 8 jhttlil. Iffljj ANDREW & PREVOST. DEPOT STREET. SPUING OF 1883. EW GOODS I NEW PRICES 1 r AM PRE PARED FOR A ROUSING TRADE! I keep always on hand a KULI' STOCK, of DRY AND FANCY GOODS, in Immense Stock of Dress Goods of every Description. SILKS, LACE CURTAINS, &c. Gire me a call, and I will convince you that I mean business. My motto : Ml ?les and small profits. I make a Specialty of Zeig!? r Bros. Fine Shoes. Come ?ne, come all, and examine my stock before buying elsewhere. No ??ble to show Goods. Will compare prices with any house in thc up country. Very respectfully, W. A. CHAPMAN. No. a Benson Street, Anderson, S. C. pril 12,1883_39 WHAT IS THIS I HEAR ? THAT CLARK &> OCX Have the Best Goods for the Least Money ! WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FINE LINE OFF SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, liipted to the wanta of all-Boys, Youths, Young Men and Old. Also, a very tine as mment of UNDERWEAR-siich as Shirts, Drawers, Collars and Cravats. Also, a hi istorlment of WORSTED DIAGONALS, SUITINGS, CLOTHS and CAS8I ?EBES, which we are prepared to make up in the very latest styles, and will snare no p?'ai, either in Cutting or Fitting, that we may thereby jilease those who will favor us tim their patronage. Call before purchasing elsewhere and be convinced. t?f Pay last year's account and save costs. CLARK Sc CO. JOHN W. DANIELS, Proprietor. Kirch 22, l SSS 3d FERTILIZERS FOR 1888 JAM still selling the well-known brands of Fertilizers and Acid Phosphates, to wit Eutaw Fertilizer, Excellenza Fertilizer, Yemassee Fertilizer and Eutaw and Ashepoo Acid Phosphates. CALL AND SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. My Stock of General Merchandise is Complete ! Such ns suits the Wants of the people generally. Always on hand FLOUR, BACON. SUGAR, COFFEE, MOLASSES. Ac. FULL STOCK OF DRY GOODS, N0TI0N8, SHOES, BOOTS, HATS, CAPS, HARDWARE, O UT LE It Y. CROCKERY and GLASSWARE, ??tc. Call nt No 10 Granite Row. W. JP. BARR. Feb 22, 1S33 32 TIMES CZHZ^HSrCKE! AMD MEN CHANCE WITH THEM, AND that is the reason we have just laid in A LARGE STOCK OF NEW GOODS, for we know that all our customers desire something that is new and at the same ."??rviceable. Our Stock comprises a fine assortment or Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, NOTIONS, HARDWARE, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC., Milich we will sell at the Lowest Prices. While other things are changing, we would W thal we are too young to change our plan of olfering good and substantial Bargains ??II who favor us with a trial. TVE ARE IN THE COTTON MARKET, MwM give tho highest prices. We have a largo lot of BAGGINO and TIES on ?"M. Qet our prices before closimr a trade. _ BBOWU BBOS. J?pt21.1682 _ 10 HEADQUARTERS FOR STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS, THRESHERS, AND ALL KINDS MACHINERY. HAVlI????'??>H''?.ed the Southern Branch of the GEISER g?WW?ACTIT CtUbr.J?!/10 ?O. at this place. I will keep constantly on hand a roll supply of their TlM Machiner;;, consisting of their ^Regulating Grain Separator, Cleaner and Bagger, Peerless, Portable, Traction and Domestic Steam Engines, SAW MIT.L.S, &C. *nie??,kf?P.on hand a full supply of Gum and Hemp ^In?-?0.^ ^eo?klr? sB??? Va,ve". ai*? Gange?, Steam OinmRttsm J^"?P*i?ES^u?a rX?nTr?tin.ph Injectors. KirtlnK Injectors. Corn and Wheat(M'?'>J.UT .fflj ?rh8,f*?. Elbows, Nippen., Union's Reducera. in fact every hingTL"^S daij^^Jness. Come and see roe before buying, and you will bc sure to get a nra ?HOP.-1 aro always ready, with flr.t-cla<s tools, to repair all kinds ^nery entrust* to me. ^ DIVVER. AprU 12, isa*'8 HEW ?^UJ>IHO, NEAR RAILROAD BHIDOB, AHDEE80F,8^0. THE HILLS OF CAROLINA. What They Can Grow ot Grain and Grtrn flniMii Uorajwndcntc of Augusta Chronicle mid Con stitutionalist, COLUMBIA, May IG.-Some times since I alluded, iu thia correspondence, to the grass and grain farm of Mr. NV. G. Childs, near this city, and promised to write mure fully of it afterwards. Yes terday afternoon i visited this farra nnd was very courteously received by Mr. Childs, who carried me over the many points of interest. The clearing from the public road to the river comprises 3.000 ncres as level as a floor aod il is hard to imagine anything more beautiful than thia large field of "waving groin" and luxuriant grass. In nne of the meadows Mr. Childs bad three mowers and five horse rakes H work cutting and piling the grass pre paratory to being "shocked." These mowers can cut, in ordinary land, ten ?cres a day and each rake will do the ivork of thirty meu. One of the mead ows is a mile and a quarter in length and the mower will travel four miles in making the circuit of thia plat. In such arge areas as this each mower wi ll cut twenty acres per day. Mr. Childs is now telling $20 worth o? uew hay per day Just Miough to supply the local demand in this narket. It sells readily for from $20 to >25 per ton and ranks in quality with he best Northern Timothy. The beBt, atest and most improved labor-saving machinery is used for every purpose. In iddition to the mowers., rakes, thrushers. ind binders he bas machines for loading md unloading the wagons atm iverything is systematically arranged for :onvenience and dispatch. With the 'xception of one or two white men, all he hands employed are negroes, and Mr ,'hilds saya he ?nds that they soon R'coine accustomed to the use of the nost intricate machinery, and use it as (fliciently as men of moro intelligence :ould. ?ince the adoption of tho stock aw the native grasses and many new .arictiesare springing up all over this >lantntion, as well as in all other parts if the State, and as the grata is not now ?aten down by wandering stock, there viii be much larger quantities of bay ?ured every year. Mr. Childs' experience with" grasses ommenced in 187G, and he has shown so mich energy and good judgment in this . ?ranch of agriculture, that he is rccog lized as high authority on such matters tot only in South Carolina but among irogressive farmers all over the country ; nd bis plantation has been visited by arge numbers of our own people and trangers passing through the State, His attention nas been directed chiefly o the Bermudn, Means or Johnson, /etch, crowfoot, crab grass, etc., but nainly with the first two. Bermuda, he ays, is generally known as wire grass, lut he has always understood that there s a difference between them. Wire ;raas grow? chiefly from a stem that rceps above the surface shooting a sprig ip and a root down at each joint, and bes not grow high or thick enough for iay, and can not be improved by coll ation, while Bermuda gras3 forms roots eneath the surface very thick and fine ,-ith a deep green color and is much inproved by cultivation. Bermuda grass will grow from six to airly inches high, according to the daptibility of the soil. If well set ot wei ve inches high it will yield at least ne ton of cured hay at each cutting per ere. lt can be cut from two to three ?mes a year, according to the wet or dry eason. It is very much injured by a rought, but ordinarily there is enough ain for it during the summer ; the year 881, however, was an exception and it ufrered dreadfully. It does not do well n any land without fertilizing, except n rich alluvial land that is overflowed uring the winter. It is very exhaustive a land when cut and removed ; if not amoved will improve the land each year, table manure and commercial fertilizers rill improve it decidedly, even upon rich lluvial lands, but Mr. Childs ucubtt if t will pay to fertilize generally. Bermu la grass mekes an excellent pasture; it 4 not much injured by tramping and rill make a good pasture from early pring uutil heavy frost. This grass is iropngated by the roots; when obtained ho roots are cut into small pieces, sowed road-cast upon newly plowed laud and arrowed in. Thia should be done after he winter freezes and before the middle f summer, as the roots are easily injured y cold or dry weather. Bermuda will kill most any grass xcept broom sedge, which will kill out otb. Bermuda and Means' grass. It is I most impossible to exterminate it when L becomes well set. After the hay has icen placed in the barn it is improved y a little salt being thrown over it, from , piot to a quart per tou is enough ; if oo much is used there is danger of too nuch heat being developed and the hay nay be iujured. Mr. T. C. Howard,of icor in his manual says : "The desid ?ratiini to the South is a grass that is lerennial, nutritious and adapted to tho l?mate. While we bave grasses and orage plants that do well when nursed, ve have few that live and thrive here as n their native habitat. The Bermuda ind crab grass are at home in tho South. They not only live, but live in spite ol leglect, aod when petted and encouraged bey make such grateful returns as aston sh the benefactor." Mr. Childs says that the Means ot lohnson grass looks very much like r'oung corn. It is said to have beer ntroduced into this 8tate hy a Mr Means and into Alabama by a Mr Johnson, hence its names. It mature <eed and eau be propagated either bj teed or roots. The seed should be sowr in the fall. Nearly a ton per acre cac be got at each cutting. It grows fron three to ten leet high. It scarcely impov erishes laud at all. It grows ven rapidly, over ao inch a day on moist land while this grass does much better on rici land it will do moderately well OD ordi nary land. When Bermuda and Mean; grass grow together they do very nice!) for awhile, belter than either by itsell The Means grass will bo finer and thicke and the Bermuda grass will grow fastei but alter awhile the Bermuda sod get too tough, and the Means grass will dh appear until the land is plowed. Mi Howard published a letter in his marni;: from the late Mr. N. B Moore, of Auguj ta, whom he regarded as the highe? authority on Southern grass culture. 1 was his opinion, after an experience ( upward of forty years in cultivatin grasses, that this grass was to be prelei red to all others. It ls perennial, is J nutritious as any other ; when once st it ls difficult to eradicate ; will grow c ordinary land and yields abundantly. Mr. Childs bas the vetch or partridj pea also growing on bis plantation, bi he does not cut lt as he prefers that should die down and fertilne* the Berm da among which it is growing. f pointed out place? to me where the vet< Was abundant and th? Bermuda the was far superior to the places where tl vetch did not appear. Mr. Childs usually has five mowers work and they will cut on an average acre? per day. When the hay te cfit* it is loaded by a hay loader and then unloaded by a harpoon fork and after wards baled at the rate of two hundred and fifty bales a day. Mr. Childs planted a part of his grsin'this season with the grain drill, and he is so well pleased with 1 the result that he expects to put in his eutirecropnext season with this machine. He say? it eaves seed, and unless the winter is unusually severe that as good a staud will be obtained as when the seed are sown broadcast. Mr. Childs is a practical and progress ive planter, and whilo succeeding HO admirably on his own farm, he is accom plishing great good for the whole people. He anti ex-Governor Hagood are the pioneers in grass culture in the State, and no two men have done moro to benefit tho agriculturists, show the possibilities of our soil and develop the resources of the State than these two gentlemen, and South Carolina will always owe them a debt of gratitude. The farmers in all parts of South Carolina, encouraged hy the success of Governor Hagood and Mr. Childs, are making many inquiries on the Bubjecl nud we may soon expect to hear favorable reports from other sections of the Slate. With the increasing attention to fine stock, tho organizutioi ot associations for the encouragement ol stock raising, and the improvement of breeds, the pos sibility of grass farms in every county, and many other evidences of improve ment, we may safely say that the State is fast becoming prosperous and pro* gressive. RICHLAND. Will This be Repeated ? During a cold spring, like that which is just now drawing to an end, people generally console themselves with the re flection that the sun will eventually gel the victory, and thnt summer will cer tainly come al last though its coming may be delayed. Uncertain af. the weather is tho general fealures of the reason recur with a regularity which warrants the confidence thus reposed in annual return of seed time and harvest ; but there aro instances on record in which even the seasons seem to have lost their characteristic features, as if the or dinary laws of meteorology had been temporarily supended. A remarkable lase of this kind, and one which the long continued cold weather of this spring make? particularly interesting just now is that of the year 1816, which has beer ?ailed "the year without a summer." A :ommunication printed in the Congrega 'ionalist gives the following summary o the weather of this remarkable year ! January and February were mild March was cold; April began warm, bu ?oded in BHOW and ice. Ice formed ni inch thick in May, and fields were plant .il over an over again till it was too lat? to replant. June was the coldest eve mown in this latitude ; frost and ice wer common. Almost every green thing wa tilled; fruit nearly all destroyed. Snoi fell to the depth of ten inches in Ver nont, seven in Maine, three in the inte ??or of New York, and also in Massacbu letts. There were a few warm days. I ivas called a dry season. The wind blet Headily from the north, cold and fierce Mothers knit extra Rocks and mittens fu .heir children in the spring, and woo liles that usually disappeared during th ivarm spell in front of the houses wer ipeedily built up again. Planting an shivering were done together, and th Farmers who worked out their taxes o .he county roadBiwore overe.nn.ts and mi? tens. In a town in Vermont a flock t ?heep belooging to a fnrmer had bee sent as usual to their pasture. On tb 17th of June a heavy snow fell in No England. The cold was intense. A furner who had a large field of cor in Tewsbury built fires around it at nig! lo ward of the frost ; many an evenir tie and his neighbors took turns watcl ing them. He was rewarded with ti inly crop ot corn in the neighboring Considerable damage was done in Ne Orleans in consequence of the rapid ri sf the Mississippi river. Fears were e? tertained that the sun was cooling off at throughout New England all pic-ni were strictly prohibited. July was accompanied with frost ai ?ce. Indian corn was nearly all destro ed ; some favorably situated fields esca ed. August was more cheerless, if posi hie, than the summer months win preceded it. Ice was formed hnlf : inch in thickness. Indian corn was frozen that the greater part was cut dot and dried for fodder. Almost eve green thing wns destroyed in this cou try and in Europe. On the 30th sm fell at Barnett, forty miles from Londt Very little corn ripened in New Engla and the Middle States. Farmers si plied themselves from corn produced 1810 for seed in tho spring of 1817. sold at from $4 to $5 per bushel. Successors to Eads and Baum. WASHINGTON, May 21.-Tho Pr? dent has appointed Samuel W. Fergus? of Mississippi, to bo a member of t Mississippi River commission, vice J B. Fads, resigned, and Walter Evans, Louisville, Ky., commissioner of int nal revenue, in place of Oreen B. Kat resigned. Walter Evane is a lawyer of so ability and is well known in the polii of his State. Ho was at one time law partner of Benj. ll. Bristow Hopkinsville, Ky., aud was Bristo mau at the convention in 1876. In 1 he was a delegate to the Chicago C veotion and was one of the 306 ? supported Gen. Grant. In 1879 he a candidate for Qovernnor of his St on the Republican ticket. He bas heretofore held office, although he had considerable influence in ibo dis button of Federal patronage in Ken tuc He and Postmaster General Gresl ?re warm personal friends, and it is derstood that the latter waa instrumei in securing Evans's appointment, new appointee qualified and waa sa in to Jay at Louisville, the occasion haste being that the ten days for wi an acting commissioner of internal enue could be appointed expired to and it was necessary that tba commis should at once be filled. - O, for one generation of clean unpolluted men-men whose veins not fed with fire ; men fit to be the c ?anions of pure women, men wort! e the fathers of children ; men wh not stumble upon the rock of apop at mid age, ot go staggering down a drunkard's grave ; but who cao sit look into the taces of their grandchil with eyes undimmed and hearts une eredl Such a generation aa tl possible in America, and to produce a revolution the persistent, conscien work of temperance reformers ia co tent.-Dr. B. H. McDonald. It seems impossible that a re made of such common,* simple piar Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandi Ste., should make so many and such cares aa Hop Bitters do ; but whe and young, rich and poor, pastor doctor, lawyer and editor, all testi having been cured by them, you believe and try them yourself, and . no longer. ! ART'S REFLECTIONS. Hin rtiUoiM>i>t'y Turu: Into thc Tariff Channel? Haden't wo better go a Hule ?low about this tariff business? I'm afraid it's a tricky horso or mule thal hucks his rider or a gun that kicks backwards. What we all want to do, you know, is to get into oflice ami run the government, sud capture the treasury, and grow fat on the spoils, and incidentally save the nation. We Democrats want revenue, and we want protection, and if anybody knows which is the best way tn secure these great blessings, why of course I'm for that way, bul I'm gelling powerful dubus about the horse. The tariff has always been an unpopular thing with the people-sorter like death and laxes everybody tries to postpone the one and dodge the other. The very name of it sounds like an oppression while free trade carries with it an idea of liberty and eijual rights lo all. History says that a long lime ago a barbarian, whose name was Tarilla, came over from Africa and settled on the bluff by the straits ot Gibraltar, and he made every boat that passed pay toll on everything it carried, and he and bis clan got rich off of these spoils, aud alter awhile these tolls were called the tariff, mid all such exactions from the trading people have had ibat name to this day and it is looked upon as a barbarian business. Nevertheless al! civilized governments have a tariff for revenue, and our people have lived under this sort of machinery for over a hundred years and 1 reckon- we can con tinue to live under it. What I'm dubus about is the propriety of our Southern people raising much ol' a rumpus against a lillie protection just at this particular lime. We are trying to encourage man ufactures and manufacturers need pro tection, nod they can't live without it. Foreigners car, deliver pig iron in our ports at seven dollars a ton and wc can't make it nt home for less than twelve dollars. It is nil stuff about our iron men at Birmingham making it at nine dollars. They never have done it and they never will while they pay fair, liv ing wages to the workmen. Hut sup pose that Birmingham can make it at that, no other place can, und we must take tho average. Georgia mid Alabama and Tennessee have got millions invested in that business, and we don't want to cripple our own people. If they are making too much ami are gelling bloated, let us take off a little protection-but do it by degrees-?regulate 'em liku we reg ulate the railroads, but don't cripple 'em for there are thousands of poor families dependent upon these iron works. Farming don't pay a poor farmer on poor land, and farming wants protection more than anything, but I don't see how it is to get it, and because it don't pay any better, our poor people have to work in this iron busiuess. I don't believe the average farmer gets more than fifty cents a day for his labor. There are thousands of them who don't get the half of it. I heard a Talladega man say the other day that farm labor wan the poo-est paid labor in north Alabama and would not average more than thirty cents to the hand. He didn't mean hirelings, but meant the farmer who worked for himself on his own land or on rented land. The papers make much ado over Mr. Furman's success, and a few others, and over truck farming, and peach growing, which is all very well and very encouraging, and hopeful, but tbe average farmer lias no such advan tage?. Joe Brown pays his niggers a dollar a day to dig ore in ins mines. Railroads pay about the same, car build ers and fouudrys pay it, but the farmer can't do it. He can't pay more than the half of it and come out even ; and hu wouldent get any hands at all if thu darkies dident have families and wanted to work where their children could help 'em. Farming is a slow way to make money, but then there is a law of com pensation about everything in this life, and farming bas its blessings that other pu i.-mi ?..i do not have. The farmer be longs to nobody. He is the freest man upon earth and the most independent, Ile has more latitude ?nd longitude. He has a house in the country willi plenty ol pure air and good water. If he makes but little in the field, he bas no occasion to spend but little. He can raise his own hogs, and sheep, and callie and chickens. His wood cost nothing und the luxury of big back logs ant: blazing fires in open fire places all wintei lung, is something that eily people lour, for, but cannot alford. My own lam cost me nevon thousand dollars. I havi 120 acres of open land in good condition and it yields nie on au average abuu five dollars an acre over nil expenses Say nine per cent, upon the investment Weil, that is mighty little, consider'ni) my own labor and supervision. I'vi been the time when I made five times a much without any capital except rn; head. But then we have to keep a pai of horses to ride around and they hav> to be fed from the farm. There aro little leaks all round, bu still we are happier on the farm thai we were in the town and feel more se cure from the ills of life. We fear n pestilence or disease, no burglars ti tl '"**8. We lock no doors, and Mn A nas quit looking under the bed fd a man. ? love to hear the churn dashe splashing in the butter milk. I love t hear the roosters crow and the peacoc holier, and see the martins sailing roun the martin goards. I love to hear nabor Btop and chat about tbe growin crops. I love to take tho children wit me to tho water mill and fish below th dam amid the roar of falling waters, c Eaddle around the pond in an old leak ateau. I lovo to wander through tb woods and glades and wear old clothe that can't get no older or dirtier and g< caught in a shower of rain if I want i< Old man Horace remarked about tv, thousand years ago that the town wi the best place for a rich man to live ii and the country was the host place for poor man to die in, and inasmuch i riqb.es were uncertain and death w sure, it becomes a prudent man to mo' to the country as soon as he can g there. Farmers have their ups at downs of course, but they don't collup and burst up like tradesmen. Tin don't go down undera panic. Ten yea ago nearly all the iron men broke suspended, and they are on the looko now for another squall, and I don't wa the squall to come from anything o parly will do when we get in the gover ment wagoo and begin to pull the rei over the dashboard. Let us go slow and let everybody doi easy. I do not tbink it ia good poli for our newspapers to say very much tbe tariff question. Touch it up tender handle it gingerly, for it is a danger? old gun, and kicks awfully when ov loaded. They might shoot a bia cartridge or burst a cap occasionally, I we must all be careful or the Democra log will split into pieces on thia ta business. There are some cracks io now. Let us say to the country that tariff ia now very unequal and unsa factory, and we intend to make it right ?ind do everybody justice; don't go into details-make no apeci tiona, but ge ne ral ire-votes are what want-votes enough to elect. Let the newspapers go slow, but let our candi dates promise everything to everybody. General Forney must promiso protection to iron in north Alabama and Genera! Somebody must promise to have every thing free somewhere else. Fit the promise to the people and when we all get into office We can liormonizo on tho 1 spoils. I wonder what will become of j all these office-holders when 'we uns' get . in next year. I'm getting sorry for VIM in advance for I don't know what they ; will do for a living. They have held ' office no long they are not fit for any ! other business nnd I nm afraid they will perish to death or fall on tho County. , Mut then I reckon they will pick up , some little something and put it awny before we turn 'em out. I reckon they will. Itu.I. A UP. 1 a i TALL TALKS OF THF. WIND. ? ronda it iou ii Dry - Woollen How lu finllt 1 ?nd Trrcs lllown up by Hm Hunts. CH?CALO, May 20.-Some ono of the 1 dories luid concerning tho work of thc I cyclones in Wisconsin and Illinois ?re r tl most beyond belief, yet their truth is t <o well vouched for by many witnesses 1 thflt they must he accepted as trust S worthy. At Kellogg's Corners, Kenosha <? .ounty, Wisconsin, the cyclone which a t lew minutes later visited' Hacino with s Mich di ?est rous result, swept a millpond s Iry, currying tho water in a blinding . ?licet to the barn ?d' Chas. Herrick, t which was literally deluged, and a cow . Hahled therein w:ts drowned. A nsw ' brick school bouse at A Et alan, Jefferson .ounty. Wisconsin, was destroyed by r hail. The stones were ns big ns egg?, 8 und came down in such numbers ?nd C with such velocity HS to make tho build- ' iug look as though it had been destroyed I by a cannonade. Mrs. Northrop and her 1 ?on, who lived on a farm in Racine 1 .ounty, near Union Grove, were standing t nt a window watchitig the cyclone, when ? they noticed that thc funnel was coming c toward them with terrific momentum. ' They jumped into the cellar, und hud no *' ?(Hitler landed un their feet than their c house, a substantial frame, was picked up t like u balloon and carried over their ^ head n long distance down the road. * The residence of Mr. Page, southeast ' of Springfield, III., was demolished and I every outbuilding blown down. Some 1 of them were carried completely away, 1 especially a large ice bouse, of which no c vestige could be found within a radius * of n mile. Mr. Pace, with bis family, 1 took refuge in tho cellar of the house on ? seeing the approach of the cyclone. ? They bud a narrow escape from being r crushed to death by the foundali ms of ' tho building, composed of brick, which ' came tumbling in upon them, seriously t bruising Mrs. Page. The house would * at times rise several feet off the ground, ' but, strange to suy, with the exception ' nf being unroofed, it settled down almost ' on the old foundation. Near thc house, ' and in thc track of thc tornado, were < found several hugo logs which lind evi- 1 tlently been a part of some log house, 1 but which Mr. Pace had never seen 1 before and did not know whence they 1 came. The wagon standing tiear the i house was carried several rods away and e turned upside down without being much ( damaged. The residence of Supervisor | Grubb, in the sume neighborhood, was > unharmed, but ii Hummer kitchen was t thrown out of shape. The stove which I was heated nt the time, was raised up and carried about 2u0 yards and lodged 1 in a straw stack. A fire followed, and 1 the bain and other outbuildings adjacent I were consumed. ? Near Dawson, further East, the torna- 1 do was very violent. Along its track t uothing could be found that had not been 1 damaged. In nil the fields were deud | horses and cattle. Trees were prostrated, fences were blown away, und tho roads I in some ptaces blockaded. In one place < u haystack in a shapeless mass impeded < travel. It had been blown from an ad- i joining field. The cyclone nt Dawson and oilier points, according to the testi- > mony of eye witnesses, presented the ap? < pearance nt ti mi n of ? vast ball of fire, ! shaped as a funnel. It seemed to possess heat and power nt thc little end. Noth ing ot birnam construction could survive its touch. A few miles North of Virginia, III., a hedge fence was raised root nnd branch and carried away. A big pile of railroad ties' lying near the track was scattered far and wide. On Springfield Hound Prairie a horse wan found with a piece of rail through bis body. At the residence of Major Hess, one and a half miles East of Springfield, the chimneys were tum bled und thc windows broken. In one of the windows sat a large wooden bowl. This was split midway, one-half being left iu its original position and the other half curried off by tho cyclone. At one place a flock of geese were found naked ibis morning, their feathers having been stripped from their backs and hung upon a hedge. On a hill near Howard, III., the storm wus very severe. OB Friday afw moon this knoll was well covered with .houses and burns. On Saturday moruing not a stick of timber was to be seeu. The only vestige of houses or barns now left are the cellar walls. The trees are filled with tom garments, remnants of bed clothes, and the entrails of nuimals, and strewu over the ground are bushels of grain and corn. At Grafton, sixteen miles south weit of Jerseyville, III., large stones wero lifted off the bluffs and hurled with tremendous force into the Mississippi River and upon the town below, causing tho utmost con sternation and fear among the inhabi tanti!. The Wabash track was covered for several miles with stones thrown by the force of the wind from the bluffs. A car ot* stone weighing 42,000 pounds was lifted from the track, and the stones scat tered in every direction. Micheal Lamed was taken up bodily and carried away. Search was made and his body found in a culvert of the Wabash Rail way, a distance of one hundred yards from where the storm struck him. His bead and face were split in two, and bis body badly bruised. Large pickets were carried a long distance and driven into trunks of trees. - During the war a Georgian start ed to Marietta with some chickens for aale He met the soldiers, and they bought all his chickens but one rooster. Heinsist ed that they should take bim, but they were out of money and couldn't buy The old man said ho hated to go on town with only one chicken, and was greatly puzzled about it. At last one of the soldiers said : "Old man, I'll play' you a game of sc ven-up for him " "Agreed/' said tho old man. They [day ed a long and spirited game. At sst the soldier won. The old man rung the rooster's neck and tossed him at the soldier's feet, and mounted his swab tail ed pony and started for home. After getting some two hundred yards he sud denly stopped, turned round and rode back aud said : "You played a fair famo and won the rooster fairly, but I'd ike to know what yon put up against that rooster." A trae strengthening medicine and .health renewer ts Brown's Iron Bitters. JUST GRANT'S LUCK. How II? IlniJiienecl to Ile-Kiiler the Army In 1801. WASHINGTON, May 17.-A Sunday paper publlubes the story <>f how Grant re-entered the Army in 1861, as told by un old classmate who watt then muster ing ollicer in Illinois, "Grant," he fays, "turned up one day. He had not Hcen liiui Hinco the Mexican war. Grant Raid lie waa married and had very bsd luck. Somehow lie couldn't get along. He did not know why. He said just then he lived in Galena mid was working in a tannery in which he had a small interest. Why don't you go into tho army ?' said [. 'Well, I have been thinking of that, ie nnswercd, hut I have no influence, iud it seems you can't get nnything lowadays without influence. 'That is rory true,' I nani. 'Did you notice they nive made Hallock (who wan instructor n mathematic* when Grant wan a cadet) i major-general ? caid Grnnt ; 'and I see hat red headed Cump Sherman has been nude colonel of the new 13th infantry,' ie went on to say, oud, after a moment'? neditation, softly muttered, though ?rant was never a violently profane 1 nan : 'Halleck a mnior-geucral and merman a colonel ! The Lord look lown !' 'Tom,' continued Grant, after , hinking n minute, can't you give mo j ouiething to do here?' 'Vee, I eau, I , aid ; you can help me niako out theso j nuster roll? right. So it was agreed that j Irani ahould como into my oflice, help no in my duties ns mustering oflice and ecelve $1*20 per month for his services, in it went on until I had mustered in 18 ' egiments, Ooo afternoon Gov. Yates 1 eut for inc. I found him in a Btate of < xcitement-poor fellow, lie was that ' vny very often. He had junt had a dis- 1 ?ntch from Gen. Prentiss at Cairo, that 1 here was an immense force of rebels on 1 he Kentucky tdde, within u few hours of ' .'airo, and he had undoubted informa- ' dion that they were to be crossed I iver at once, perhups thnt very nigbt. ' Ie begged the Governor to Hend him 1 ?very uvailnblo man at once. This * thinning news wns followed by another ' elegratn from President Lincoln, n. 1 iS'ushingtou, telling Yates that on no ac- 1 munt must the rebels get any foothold 1 n Illinois, to prevent any crossing if possible, nod to co-operato with Gen. 1 'remiss. The Governor hnd sent for mo 1 o say that he wanted the troops then in ' .amp mustered into the United Stales I ervice and sent nfl'to Cairo that night. Vhile the Governor was talking, a bought flashed into my mind. Why , lan't I put Grnnt into one of theBO new , egiments? 'Governor,' said I, 'these . egiments will probably get into a fight < vi thin 24 hours. It is rather important , hat they should be properly command- , id. Who are to be made colonels?' . Host of the candidates for field officers vero in hearing, and the fact that they , .vould have to go iuto a battle within 24 lours seemed to repress their military irdor somewhat. "Now, Governor,' said | [, 'I have in my office an old classmate ind comrade. He was all through the Mexican war, and WSB n good soldier. ' What he has been doing since, I do not rxactly know, but he has not been very luccessful in business and would like to jo out in one of these new regiments cn jeciully as they will probably have to go nto a ilght HO soon. I strongly recoin nend the appointment of Captain Grant o command one of these new regiments.' , Hie Governor didn't know what to do. [Ie hnd promised nearly all the positions , izcept tho Inst regiment, which would be he 21st Illinois, and a man named Al- j ixander wanted to he the colonel and ( vas very strongly backed for the posi ion. But Alexander had seen no Ber nice, and was willing to take tho second dace in view of the probable fight. Vates insisted, however, that Grant must ie recommended for the place by some me in the S'atc. 'Can't you get some me to recommend you ?' said I to Grant. Hu finally said he knew n man named Washburne a little, who was then a ;nember of Congress from the Galena iistrict, but that its he (Grant) was a Democrat, ?ad Washburne s Republican it wast doubtful if Washburne would do it. 'However, I will try bira,' said Girant, and he telegraphed to Washburne nbout as follows: 'Recommend me for position an field officer in new regiments starling for Cairo.' In four hours Wash burne replied about like this: 'think Capt. Graut might be useful as n field nflicer in one of tho new regiments leav ing Springfield to-night, if you can con sistently appoint him.' Weil, this fixed it. Grant was made colonel of the 2lBt Illinois Infantry. I loaned him money enough lo send his wife some and have enough left to purchase a horse and such articles of cquipmeut ns were necessary. This is the way Grant went into tho war. The rest is history." Grant never forgot the friend who bad stood by him so staunchly when the clouds looked the darkest. He made him a colonel in the army in 1866, and appointed ono son in the army and the other to West Point, where he grad uated well. When bis leg got well enough to aiiow him to dn any service, Grant made bim superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and, after his tour of duty there, he was appointed superintendent of the Soldiers' Home near Washington. He can always get anything Grant can help him to. The Home Doctor. An invalid should never be allowed to touch hot rolls or hot bread in any shape. Vegetables are the life and soul of healthy living, and should not be neg lected at any meal. A Hinall cup of warm milk containing a teaspoonful of lime water may be gi ven frequently in cases of "bowel complaint," Merely warm the back by a fire, and never continue keeping the back exposed to the beat after it has become comforta bly warm. To do otherwise ls debilita ting. Tbe following is recommended aa a cure for neuralgic headache : Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a small cup of strong coffee. This will usually afford immediate relief in neuralgic headache. Tea ordinarily increases neuralgic pain, and ought not to be used by persons affected with it. If a healthy child (and a delicate one proportionately) is regularly put to bed about dark, in a quiet, well ventilated, or even cool room, after a supper of plain food, it will naturally awake at daybreak, good natured, with a keen appetite for a wholesome breakfast. Nutritious, plain food, at regular hours, with no candy or stimulants, and free bathing, help the system to ward off many prevalent chil dren 'a ailments, ?nd to bear with much less danger the few that must necessarily como to the majority of little ones. - "And so," says the narrator eloaing his story, "they took him to the ceme tery lu a gold-mounted hearse, with four black horses and all tbe bands lu tbe garrison playing the 'Dead March.'" "Very grand, I desuy," remarks his listener, "but I don't care for ely le. Going to the cemetery on foot ia good, enough for BreV TIIK CANADIAN CONSPIRACY. A Hellenic that Promised Independence to Che South. By the Jiet . I?'. B. Carton, of Appleton, S. C. McGowan's Brigade left three hundred wounded in the field hospital at Gettys burg. They begged me to stay with them, and I did. After six weeks I was sent to Fort McHenry. Having remained there six or eight weeks, I followed the exam ple of David, (I like to follow great men) who ''leaped over a wall," and went to Montreal, Canads. dome friends there told us, another chaplain and myself, that they were fit* ting out a vessel to send some supplies to Bermuda for the Confederates and would give us passage if we would wait ten days or so. Tho night before we expect ed to sail, the gentleman at whose house wo wara stopping, a refugee, told us some gentlemen we had met at his bouse were Hent by the Confederate Government to release our officers, 3,500 in number, who were in prison on Johnson's Island. They wanted a hundred, hut bad scarcely half the number, although the country was swarming with escaped prisoners. They bad reluctantly sent him to see if cvo would go. We spent the night in consideration and prayer, and at sunrise next morning ?tarted back on a trip which we all knew meant success or death. To go back, instead of homeward, was ono of the liardest trials of my life. THE PLAN OF RESCUE. A Canadian wa3 to represent himself .? hiring bands to work on a canal. We ?vere to take an American steamer as ?mployed by him. The "supplies for Bermuda," were on board thin steamer, marked "castings." When well out on die American sido of Lake Erie we would >eizo the crew and put them into thc tiold. Next morning, just at dawn, we .-.ouUl run up beside a very powerful gunboat, the only war vessel in the lake, lying beside the Island, board it, allow no one to leave bia berth, and hoist the Confederate flag, when the prisoners pvnuld disarm the guard and take posses sion of the Island. We would then take mch vessels au we needed to carry our men to Canada, burn tbe rest and leavo. One of our men. on whose judgment we :ould rely, had just visited the Island ind the gunboat. He said a dozen reso lute men could have accomplished all we proposed. THE PLOT 1.EAKB OUT. On the very ove of our departure the nail arrived laden with the disclosure jf our enterprise. Perhaps a dozen pa iera claimed the credit of* the discovery. J no declared there were sixty thousand men engaged. Another that the whole '.hing was a hoax. Others filled up tho rap between the sixty thousand and nothing, but none of them approximated Lhe truth. There were iust fifty-six who bad "taken their liven in their hands." None of the papers were entitled to any credit. Our Canadian "employer" bad betrayed us to the United States Consul and got $30,000 for bin treason. None but those who felt it can realize the sad ness with which we saw the defeat of this admirably planned scheme, when we thought success and all its consequences almost secured. As soon as we learned that we were betrayed we started for home. A spy followed us to Quebec. He might have ?pared himself the trouble, as fifty-six men would have scarcely make an open attack ou the United States. Some young men were reatrained from killing bim with great difficulty by the older ones. HOW THE CONFEDERACY FAILED TO BE COME A NATION. The release of 3,500 officers, equivalent to 35,000 privates in exchange, was an important object. This, however, was but the beginning. The people could scarcely be restrained from making war on Canada, even after our failure. Had we succeeded, even a strong man could not have restrained them, and Mr. Lin coln, who had announced in biB peculiar English, "that ho intended to run tbs machine as be found it, unies* hie mas ters, the American People, should deter mine otherwise," was not the man to op pose the popular will. Then England would have been obliged to help ber colony. France waa only waiting for the concurrence of England to recognize and help us. If wo sustained the conflict four years, with the world against us, the issue would haye been neither doubtful nor distant with the help of such allies. Had that expedition succeeded, the Con federate States would now be a nation. Seldom bas such an issue hung on the success or failure of fifty-six mon. THE GHOST OF THE ENTBUPBISE haunted the North all the winter. It was once gravely believed that we were going to cross the Lake on the ice. Back in Dixie, I read these repeated alarms with considerable interest. I have never seen even a tolerable ac curate account of this expedition, except one I published in tho Religious Herald, just after the war, which I suppose very few of your readera saw. This is given as a contribution to the truth of history. How to HQVO a Loving Wife. A correspondent aends the following to the Phrcnoloigical Journal : "It you would have a loving wife, be as gentle in your words after aa before marriage ; treat her quite tenderly when a matron aa when a miss ; don't make her the maid of all work and ask her why she looks less tidy and neat than when you first knew her; don't buy cheap, tough beef and soold her because it does not-come on the table 'porter house;' don't grumble about squalling babies if you can't keep up a 'nursery/ and remember that 'baby may take after papa' in bia disposition ; don't amoke and chew tobacco and tbua shatter your nerves and spoil your temper, and make your breath a nuisance, and then com plain that your .fife dee! i ESS lo kiss ?ou ; go home joyous and cheerful to er and tell her the good newa you have heard, and not silently put on your bat and go out to the 'club or lodge, and let her afterwards learn that you spent the evening st the opera or at a fancy ball with Mrs. Dash. Love your wife: be Eat ?ont; remember you are not perfect,' ut try to be ; let whiskey, tobacco and vulgar company alone, spend your. eveninga with your wife, and lead a decent. Christian life, and your wife will be loving and true-if you did net marry a heartless beauty without sense of worth ; if you do, who is to blame if you suffer the consequences?" - Priest : "Pat, I understand yon are) going to be married again."-Disconso late widower : **Yls, your riv'reoce." Priest : "But your wife, Pat, baa only been dead two week?," D. W. : "Yis, your riv'rence ; but abure ain't abe as dead now aa abe ever will bo ?" Decided steps ought to be taken to core a Gold or Oottgb at once. We should recommend Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, ?bis valuable medicine I? in dorsed by the physicians aud you ca? rely on Undoing tho work ?*sry timo.