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>V E. B. MURE AY cv GO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1884. VOLUME XIX.--NO. 39 Irael loni innis In Regard to Termines The following hint*, from the Kansai 'iu Itcricw, regarding tornadoes art ven in tho belief that many people an Med every year who could nave theil T!i hv ti little practical knowledge o lt. movements ol these destructive M Tin? tornado season is embraced between Si,., j.; nf April and t! e lJt nf Septem H . i ,?] - i;t [he latitude of Ku ilsa* City H . mriiiidoes occur in the month ol |,y m d dun". A- v o North 01 '.i nf ibis latitude tiny are propor' ; nllv curlier <>r Inter, and curly or tat? .. . - vary the timo of their occurrence ?<. rmi docs occur '" 'he afternoon, ?H . ..?'.y between two o'c'ock and o'clock bein'- called (lie tonia H. !. ?'IViiiad'CS move from Southwest to Iirthcast, generally Eut about twenty ?recs North, and their linear move eal is ordinarily from thirty to forty Tornadoes occur on sultry days, or ben thc temperature is very high und e air is thoroughly saturated with Tornadoes occur when thc electrical ?ndition-? areli ?gb, or when tho air is BBi.-i.iv eharg'-rrwith electricity. ?M The approach of n tornado may be Bu HM i by ominous clouds appearing in Hie Southwest and also in thc North west, Hlie clouds sometime resemble the smoke BHf a haystack, at other times they nppi ar Hike iridescent fog. Sometimes they pre Hnt a deep greenish hue, or intensely Black, or have a purplish, yellowish, or Bubb tinge. When these two masses or Hniks of clouds under the impulse of Hiposing currents, approach each other Hiev arc thrown into great confusion ; Herc is a roaring, likened to the runib BraBig ot* distant thunder, mid au upward Hftpulsioii of air und vapor. So ni ihr: Bund of the tornado is let down to the Brill und moves to thc front, while neilds RH clouds play around it. The tornado |!w formed has four characteristic move? tuts: a linear movement toward the rtheast; a gyratory movement (North the equator) contrary to the hands of ratcb ; a zigzag or swaying movement, ich leaves deiitntcd edges in tho path the tornado ; and a rising nod falling ivemeiit, the poise ol the upper ctir I, by which the tornado leaps over lions of its path, f one is familiar with these prenioni y signs he is put on his guard, and cn the tornado appears, he is prepared net intelligently und promptly. Un llie preceding principles bc can easily trruiue the projected path of the tor io, from the locatiou of the funnel, 1 whether it will be necessary to run ith or South lo escape from it. Ue at, of course, not run East or West. Vhen a tornado ts imminent, certain cautions should bo observed. Doors 1 windows in houses should bc closed, um!? in burns unhitched, and aili 's in stables let out. The safest placo i house is tho Southwest corner on the . floor, or better perhaps, the South it corner iu tho cellar. If a tornado rtakes one on a prairie, lie feceduwn d, bead toward the Enal, und place bauds over tho head tor protection, near a low solid object, like a largo ie or stump, lie face downward, East it, bend toward the object, with.hr.nds rthc head for protection, ivery home should have u dug out at inventent distance from the house,or, i U is better, a tornado room built into : West or South wall of tho cellar, | ^.?e enough 1er tho family, und for j Hingsof great value like deeds or money. I ?The destructive effects of tornudoes re- 1 PHU from thc gynatory movement, which '. BHestiniatcd as from one to five hundred Hies an hour. Tornadoes with tho hour ?ass form of cloud ure thc mos} intense, Hil -seem to be irre.istible, but the great H "umber of tornudoes aro of a lower ! BR(?""ity and we can build against them, j I"ne houses are moro tenacious or j istic than brick or stone, and when \ crtbrown are not so destructive tc life, wy should have strong frames. Brick ?jjf 'J-f-s should have an extra layer of H?ek laid in cement in thc West and Buth walls. Sumo houses with very ^Hiek walls laid in cement are compara H< ly safe against most tornadoes. ? Houses built near a hill or binti' pre B?ing an elevation should be located on ?p Northeast bide, as the elevation tends HS lift the tornado over the house. A B'Ve of bard wood, such as oak, maple, B'liut and hickory, Southwest of n HUHS, or a forest Southwest (d' a town. Bl i tendency to break the force ol* a Btiado and drive il into the upper ?ir, HliQiigh it i0 not t afe for a person lo he Bur a tree or in a grove during a lorna H fear of being struck by flying lim HM1*- Occasionally n torimdo of great Bermiiy will cut a clean swath through HHisfove, but forests tend to break the Hf?- 01 tornadoes, and will drive moat B them into the upper air. All towns H prairie Stales should plant heavy Hoves of hard timberSouthwestof.them. Br?ug a residence of forty years In Hatherii Michigan when it was heavily ?"herrd, tut multics were unknown, that ? they were driven into the upper uir Hd rendered harmless ; but since thc H*F''hl have beeb cut away torin does in HB't purl bf the. State have become some- I Bal frequent and destructive. Not to BB' " n,,d protect against tornadoes Bu'1'' '!!*!. nnl taking medicine for levels, ?'mI.mts a lever proves fatal, but most Mers can be cured, and so mos. lorna; F ran bc* . rendered comparatively H"olesa. M*)' a caieful study of the principles gfi'cli underlie these storms, and obrer of thc premonitory pigns, during BUT '"rmu'o nea son, it in believed that WBf ,{ '?"y pvTsons, who Kiep their pr? > SEC" of mhid and act intel'.igcntly and BmPtly, whr-.u tho storm appears, need be killed by ri tornado, still U i" always ' best lo have a dear conscience whatever ' may happen. Meteorologists are very carefully study- j mg these storm-. The Signal Service already in their daily reports during the season, indicate the barometric trough 1 of low pressure, extending from the : Southwest toward the Northeast, along I which tornadoes move, and ii is believed ' that thc time i* not far distant when they will predict to certain districts ' probable toi nado days. UKSFMTt: AM) BIGAMIST. A ?espectable North Carolina (?tri Iluiied. About two weeks ago lhere was a quiet wedding in the little town ol Henderson ville, in the Western part of this State the contracting parties being a man named J bomas J. Harber, of ('hester S : U., and Miss Annie Tate, of Henderson- : vill >. Harber immediately lefi with his lind.-, going, as he said, to Galveston 1 ex as. Shortly after they took their de parture inquiries reached Hendersunville lor Harber, and it was then that the de- ' velopiuents told below were made. At :be lime Barber married the young lady he bad a wife and four children in Ches ter, 8. C., h iving deserted them a few weeks previously. Harber, it teems, bad occasion to visit Ilendersonville frequent ly i" the capacity of a drummer, aud on one oj these visits he made the acquain tance of Miss Tate. He brought good oiedenlial.s and being well known in Ilendersonville by several citizens who j vouched for his good character and social j standing, he noon gained the confidence I of the young lady and ber family, and was warmly welcomed on all his vi-ils. I An attachment sprang up between llar- \ ber and the young lady, and though .-lie ' bad many .suitors, ?dio turned them all 1 away mid cuing to Harber. He was very i constant in hi, attentions, sending tho young lady baskets ol' fruits and cundies aud other mementoes of his love and affection, and so completely did ho win ber heart that when ho arrived in Ilen dersonville one day about two weeks ago and proposal an immediate marriage, sba at once consented, and they left ?'yj Gal veston. Hays passed and nothing being beard from Iben:, the young lady's family wrote to the house that Harber represent ed and asked for his addles-. The reply came on a postal curd : "Wc do not know where you will lind Mr. liai her. Some days ago be sent bis aample:- hack to us and that is the hist we have heard from him. Perhaps his wife, who lives in Chester, can give you thc desired infor mation." Upon the receipt of tbis astounding piece ol' news, the family instituted in- 1 quirics and found that it vas only too ' true, and that they bad betu woefully deceived by tho rascally drummer. Since HarLcr left Ilendersonville with his second wife, no traces of bim have been found and Iiis whereabouts are nu- 1 known. Harber is about '?"j years old. six feet ' high, heavy mustache, fundy hair, blue . eyes and weighs about 200 pounds. He , was married about five years ago to a daughter of Mr. John " Hamilton, ol ' Chester, but about a year ago ho had a quarrel with her and they separated. After a few mouths separation they made 4 up and lived together up to tho time of ' bis base desertion. His wife has four children left her to support. The young ?adv who was deceived into marrying Harber comes from one of the best known J and most respectable families in Western North Carolina. She is a daughter of ' the late Dr. William S. Tate, of States viIU?, and a niece of Colonel Samuel McD. Tate, of Morganton. She is about , 22 years old, and was educated at the Mt. Dcssailcs Convent, near Baltimore. ( Wherever the family are known they aie , hehl in high esteem and respect, and the indignation of the people about Hender- . Bonville is. greatly aroused over the affair. Sincere sympathy is expressed on all j sides tor ibo family who have been mude . the victims pf such base deception, and j a determination has been expressed by } the people to leave no stone unturned in the elfint to capture Harber and bring him to justice. i Mr. H. Corder, late of Chester, but now < a citizen ol' Charlotte, says he knows Barber well, and a conversation ence had : with him was brought to mind by the . affair. Cue day recently Barber met Mr. Corder in Chester and remarked: "There is n girl up in Ilendersonville who is dead ill love with me and wants . me to marry her." Mr. Corder then de- i mimiced bim ?s a rascal for harboring j such thoughts, and told bim he had bet- , ter go to work and support his wife and i children. Harbor traveled for Webb's ] crockery bouse of Charleston. Our in- < formant, who comes from Chester, states , thal Barber's wife was entirely ?ll ?gnu- ( rance of bis movements, and the news of | his second mai igo reached her only a | Couple of days ago. Il is known Unit , the young lady was in utter ignorance of ; Harbor's character, and it is probable , even now that, she is none the wiser. Wherever she is, God be with her.-- i Charlotte Obten er, April 1. A Man Who Mortgaged Himself. GUEESVIbbR, N. C., March 27.-One of thc most remarkable suits on record is about to bc heard before the Supreme Court of this State. It grows out of a mortgage on bis own person made by a white man named John liando, of Pitt County, in this State, securing Jim Taker, a cotton planter, for a debt due him. This deed reads : . J, John liando, of the County of Pitt, in the State of North Carolina, am indebted lo Jim Taker, ol the State and County aforesaid, in the sum of $26, for which he hollis my note, to bo due on the llth day of January, 1884, und to secure the "payment of the same I do hereby convey lo him these articles of personal properly, to wit, myself to work with bim long enough to pay the 'lebt, but'on this special trust that if I fail to pav said debt right away, then he, the ?aid Taker, or his assigns, may sell me at the court house door for credit or cash, as he thinks, after giving twenty days' public notice at three public places, and apply thc proceeds of such ssle to the discharge of said debt, and interest on the saine and cost and expense ol making such sale, and pay the surplus, if any,to '"."Given under my hand and jseal lhi?, the 14th day of JunU?ry, 1884." Hundo failed to pay tho amount due,: and Taker was at liberty, under the ternis of the deed, to sell him at public | miction. Some time before the expira- j lipn ?if the twenty days' grace allowed Ibo mortgaged debtor the m WM got out, | and the court home green was crowded with people expecting to witness the m.vel sale-id a white man. An injune ti.m wa* granted by th? Superior Court, and no side took place. The Supreme Court will hear the case. _ What nreyou thinking of, my dear," said H wife to her husband. 'Thinking of what wo will have for f upper.' I thought so ; eating is always suppermost j in your mind." (?KKMAN CA Ul*. HENDEBSONVILLE. N. C., March 20. A short drive in the bracing, crisp air of a March morning from the pretty little town of Hendersonville, North Carolina, through a winding and beautiful avenue of rhododendrons and mountain laurel, and your correspondent waa at Dun Cragiu, the handsome residence of H. Ct. Ewart, 3<?0 lett above Hendersonville, and 2,800 feet above the sea level. .Standing in the broad and spacious Ve randa* thc view is beautiful beyond description. At the foot of the hill sparkles bright crystal sherts of water; beyond the little mountain town, with its cottages, spires and churches ; farther yet. the lovely valley of the Ochittwaha, and beyond all, the everlasting hills of the Allegbanies, extending for miles and miles unbroken rangos of lofty, blue capped peaks, making in its entirety one of tho loveliest landscapes in our beauti ful south-land. The Chnslitution scribe met with a courteous reception from the proprietor of Dun Cragiu who, upon j being apprised of the object of the visit, ! at once consented to alford any informa- : lion in his power upon .the subject in ', question. Tho fcubject, I need scarcely add, was "Carp, the new Dutch immi grant, ils culture and its future." Without delay the Constitution opened its batteries. "What first lead me into the cultiva tion of carp upon such an extensive scale ?" "Well," answered Mr. Ewart, "I will perhaps surprise you by saying that the j carp farra owes its origin t" the A Manta j Constitution. The graphic articles de-i scriplive of this Gab, written a few years ago by the brilliant and versatile Grady, first attracted my attention. I at once secured from the United .Stales fish com* missioner, through the Hon. It. 15. : Vance, SI. C., from this district, a few dozen of the "carp fry," and placing them in a small pond prepared for tho purpose, awaited results. The rapidity of" their growth surprised me beyond measure, and when I Bscertaiued by eat ing several of the fish then weighing from 1 to 1^ pounds, that the edible qualities were nearly, if not quite, equal to the shad, aud infinitely the superior of the perch, bass or sucker, I at once con cluded that the carp was thc "fish for the musics,'' and thru its culturo could be made an exceedingly profitable business. With this end in view I built extensive ponds, covering au area of several acres, and stocked them with a lot of fine carp, only to lose them, however, in a year afterwards." "How was that?" "Hy committing tho serious blunder of building cheap dams. The heavy fresh ets of 1882, so destructive in your State, swept my dams away, leaving me with a dozen or more of my* carp, and a consid erable amount of experience on hand." "What next ?" "Having learnt from actual experience that it was folly to construct large carp ponds, unless the dams were solidly built i 1 at once began a careful study of the science of dam building, for a science it certainly is. After some time I decided to adopt the 'Jones system.' I regret .hat I am not at liberty to explain this ijstem 'as application for letters patent j tor this process of dam-building, with its ! concomitants, sluice way gate, tish screen, ste, is now pending before the United States patent office. But if you will rvalk down to my ponds I will give you \n idea of their construction." A few moment's walk o ,i we were at i small pond of clean wat.r, covering an Area of a quarter of an acre, just above rind connected with a lovely sheet of water covering an area of five acres. "This small pond," said Mr. Ewart, "is my hatching jiond. It is fed by the wa ler of adjacent springs conducted in wooden troughs, and is Irom four feet to two inches in depth. It is, as you see, well supplied with needle grass, pickerel weed, water lilies, and other aequalics. The five-acre pond below is the 'nursery |)ond.' In that pond I have 75 breeders carefully selected for size and quality. Tho depth of that pond varies from six feet to two inches, the soil is black loam, ind rich in aquatic productions. Tho -hallow water, you observe, is lined with willow and hemlock brush. Herc during .he warm, sunny mornings of April ami May, the breeders spawn, depositing their 'ggf, which are adhesive among the wigs ami brush under the surface of the waler. Did you ever watch fish spawu V The Constitution scribe had not. "Then you should do so, as the sight is i novel and noisy process. Just before the spawning season, the carp evince ;reat activity. Naturally sluggish, it now swims rapidly through the pond, indulten, liku mullets, jumps its entire length out of the water. When ready to Jeposit its eggs the female carp heads rapidly for tho warm, shallow water, closely pursued by the male, sometimes a han' dozen of them at a time 'tumbling ; heads over tails.' When the female drops her ."gpj thc male wi ni ming close ly behind her drops his milt amongst tue !*"g-J> Kl,d vigorously lashing the water frith his tai!, mixes the spawn. Thia ia the act of impregnation, and tho eggs batch in from six to twelve days, accord ing to the temperature of the water. Whenever I ascertain that the carp are spawning, I examine the brush nod twigs carefully and transfer tbe branches covered with eggs to the batching pond, in which uo fish are kept at all. Here they are placed in water, shallow water, and carefully protected from frogs, turtle, eic, until hatched, when they are regular fed with small particles of bread or cracker crumbs saturated in^sweet milk. You observe a trunk extending through the dam of the hutching pond into the nursery pond ? This is the pass-way for the small fry from the hatching pond to the nursery. The mouth of that trunk in the hatching pond is screened with galvanized wire mesh large enough lo allow the little fry to poss through into their nursery but too small to permit ingress the larger fish. In the nursery the batch nf this year are allowed to remain till November, wheu the pond is drawn and the fry, now 'lively little fingerings able to care for themselves, transferred to the "stock pond." one fourth mile above the nursery. This is marte by placing the young carp in forty gallon barrels aud hauling them to the stock pond. Several thousand cao be carried in a single barrel. The stock pond when at its height cov ers an area of seventy-five acres. Here the fry have an unlimited pasture in which to roam, and an iuex haustible supply of vegetable and insect live u? fatten on. FVorj this pond they can, when they attain martel size, be easily taken in nrt? and traps. Every third year the ?loci, pond will be drained. And the largo carp taken 'therefrom and placed in a small market ponds, where they will bo fed regularly and taken os required. The nursery pond is fed with a pure mountain creek, the water of which baa been placed under the control by digging a ditch ten feet wide at the mouth of the pond and around the pond. Thia canal, or ditch, in high water car rie? the surplus water arnuad the pond, an automatic gate at the junction of ditch and pond only permitting a sufficient quantity of water to enter the pond, thus keeping it ut n uniform depth summer and winter. This Automatic (inte is so screened as to prevent an ingress or in gress of llie smallest fish. All of my pond? har? the Moues dam,'which, after careful consideration and practical trial, . I unhesitatingly pronounce iron walls against musk rat?, crawfish, et ?fomnr genut. They have withstood the heav- : iest freshets known here for years, cnn never rot or decay, cost nothing for re- j pairing, and the construction material is cheap ami easily obtained. Ks perts who ? have examined my dams, whilst surpris- , ed at their simplicity nod economy of construction, at once concedo their supe riority over any known system. The ? ; screen over the mouth of thc trunk way is superior to anything of lite kind I have . ever seen. It never clogs, does not catch thu smallest atom ot rubbish, and yet will not permit the escape of smallest . tinh. The gate is also an excellent in* I vention, simple and easy to operate. I ? can empty my pond in (ive hours, and my j < stock pond in twenty four hours." "Do you feed your carp ?" j "No, only the small fry in the hatch- : lng pond. Carp should not be artificial ly fed. The fish is a vegetarian and not carnivorous. It will fallen rapidly upon i the succulent leaves of the water cress, ' the tenuvT shoots of tho pickerel, the weed of the waler oak, and tue myriad of i slugs ami ituioialculte thal abound upon i thc leaves mound the roms ot ttie tiymo hea udorauta, ami other aquatic plants. My ponds are now well supplied with every variety of water plants. I make .it , a poiut also to anuually increase the food j supply. I have the bank? lined with j 1 ehlcr hushes, the berries of which the j I carp are especially fond of. This year I j tdamed double rows of the liiiisiail mill icrry near tho ponds. Th eec will bear . in a few years, and alford in their season a large supply of natural food. I have also in my ponds a variety of water moss, a rank grower of which the carp seemed fond." "Will they only feed upon vegetable or insect muller ?" "Uh^iio! not all. Like pigs they cat anything. But to make carp culture profitable, artificial feeding should be dispensed with as fur us possible, and the fish bc required literally to 'root for its own living.' If, however, artificial feed ing is resorted lo it should be cheapened us much as possible. Commencing in the spring give them lettuce leaves, tur nip tops, und kitchen scraps. Later feed i cabbage leaves, melon rinds, sweet corn, squash, etc., ami in the fall pumpkins, boiled turnip?, cabbage, potatoes, etc. They seem especially fond of pumpkins, und the fry will liberally 'gut' a large sized one. "Much difference of opinion teems to exist us to the edible qualities of the curp. What is your opinion of the fish?" "As 1 told you, before embarking in the business ( n such au extensive seule 1 satisfied myself ort that hy ealing some of my carp. They were taken atti ; the spawning season, lute in the tali, und were plump uud in good condition. 1 tried them baked and fried, und found them far superior in flavor to the mullet or perch, and nearly if not indeed quite ihe equal of thu shad. The flesh is very white aud about the same consistency us shad." "Were they bony ?" "All fish, I believe have hones, but the carp is as free from them us any ii-li I know of. Indeed with the large carp, tho bones give no trouble, the flesh flak ing oh' nicely. Carp, however, should liol be eaten during the spawning season, ur immediately thereafter, aa at that lime, like all other fish, the flesh is soft, and of uupleasant taste. Neither do I be lieve, all statements lo the contrary, that carp taken from stagnant and otl'ensivo pools of water would be lit to eat. In such pools the flesh of thc fish will un doubtedly be tl fleeted and rendered unlit for table use, it having n moldly and muddy ta<te. Speaking of the edible qualities of the fislO 1 see that the Uni ted States Fisk (.'oinmissioner, Hon. S. ISaird, recently sent into twenty-three States and Territories letters of inquiry as to the table qualities of the earp, ad dressed to parties who had eaten the fish. Ile received 212 replies and out of this number 22'.) made favorable mention, the meed of praise running from 'good,' to 'very fine.' Only 19 uliudcd to the fish as 'poor' und indifferent." "How large do the carp grow ?" "In the river Danube, in <Jermany, they are often caught weighing lrom ?0 lo 75 pounds. 'I have them weighing 8 pounds, three years of uge. In South Carolina, Georgia, or ibo eastern part of this Slate, where the waters are warmer the fame fish would doubtless have at tained a weight of fifteen pounds. In this section with long winters and late cold springs they will not grow with such rapidity." "At what age, will they spawn ?" "In this section, the Scale carp at two years, tho Leather and Mirror carp at three." "Can the male he distinguished from the female 1" "Easily, the female, is the largest, pud just before the spawning season acquires a bright yellowish cast on its belly and sides." "Are they prolific?" "Wonderfully so. Last September I caught a female carp weighing only lj pounds that must have, had 10,000 eggs in it. A female carp weighing ? pounds is said to contain 600,000 eggs. Unlike other fish, they do not spawn at certain seasons, but drop their eggs us soon us each female attains maturity, whether that bc iu April or November." "Is it a game fish ?" "Not so gurney as the shcephcad, trout or 'that cavalier of the sea,' the Span ish mackerel, but at times it lukes the hook freely, is a strong puller and fights to the last. Often last fall I had them to snap my line in two and escape with bait aud hook." "How ?nan v carp can bo raised to the acre?" "That depends 1 If artificially fed I should say five thousand, if not, perhaps half that number. A carp pond proper ly cared for and abundantly stock-, d with uatural food will undoubtedly pay its owner a clear, net profit of five h uud red dollars per acre. This will lead a cotton farm, won't it? There is always a de mand for l?esh fish, and they can readily be sold al ten cents per pound. At that price, the profits per acre would be enor mous, provided always that proper care is given the ponds, for carp have many enemies." "Whr-t aro they ?" "Ore f 'ogs, musk- ruts, turtles, snakes, cranes, i . . ms and kingfishers. The Ott ly rerucuji *s the shotgun, and it mus. bo used dili?,<>ntly and effectively duriug thc spring und summer months. Otherwise your carp will soon bo ox terminated. I have killed u blue crane with a pound and a half carp swallowed whola in ?ls throat. The ponds can be protected from poachers by stretching strands of barb wiro under tho surface ot the water close to the hanks. This will soon pul a step to night seining." "Do carp hibernate in this climate in the winter season as in Germany, or the northern Sutes?" . . : . . "I doubt it. The past winter was fl very severe one, my ponds often being covered will? four inch ice, vet ns hoon as it disappeared I could see indications of the carp moving about in tito water. Hut they do not. seem to feed during tho winter, al lcKst not to any appreciable extent." "Can large carp be shipped any dis tance alive'.'" "0, yes ! it is almost impossible to kill ii carp. They aro wonderfully tenacious af lite. Lat l September I caught a two pound earp, placed it in an empty bucket ind after a walk td' ball a mile and a delay of at least three quarter-? of nu [?our placed in a tub of waler. To my surprise, in a few seconds it was an lively is when first taken from tho pond, I pin .ow shipping breeders over lue States,so (ar without loss." ' Of the three varieties, scsle, irirror tr leather, which do you commiei the pre* ferab?e?" "There is really no difference. If the ?louds arc not impure and if not eaten luring thc spawning season the tia vor of lie tish is about the same. The leather j .arp is the handsomest fish of ibo three." I "Are carp subject to any disease?" "Yes, and a very deadly one, fungus, a uoldly growth on its back, caused by ni puro water, sometimes by wounds, | dieu from a weak condition ol the tish. . L'h?re is uo cure for it. Whenever il ippears, the only thing to be done is to Iraiti the ponds, kill all the diseased tish md commence, as the lawyers have it, 'tie novo." "Will the caro hybridize with other ? isl* ?" "! doubt if, except it be with members . f its own family, the cypritiidtc. With be gold fish ii would readily hybridize, mt I am satisfied not with the bass, or rout, or perch. Still carp should be ;ept to themselves, as tither fish of every uriety, even to the tiny minnow wilj iray upon their spawn." "Do carp ever destroy their own [?awn ?" "Yes, as soon as .1 is deposited, if the Kind does not alford them sufficient bod." "One more question and our batteries viii close-what is the ocst way of cook UR tho carp." "Well, I am not an adept in the culi lary art, bul will venture to give a few eceipes. Tho first is perhaps familiar 0 every sportsman. Take ii couple of ?lump carp, wash sud clean well, strew ng pepper and salt on both in and out ille, wrap each separately in a sheet of rhite paper, we!! buttered. Round this rrap a sheet of newspaper, dip in cold later for a few moments, then place on bcd of hot coals. In a few moments the pepper carps' are reidy fir thc able an^ cooked in lin ir own juices anti erved witt; potatoes will satisfy the most picurean latte. Thc small carp are best ried. Clean nicely, place in a weak irine over night, wipe it thoroughly dry nd cover willi corn meal. Have the fat oiling hot and pince fish in same. Frying uiekly. The "Van Antwerp method' is als?) mpular. (Mean nicely, wrap li-.li in a ?nen towel, coil neatly in a large fish ettie and boil fifteen minutes, then ro love fish to baking pan, bake and then niste with butter gravy. A nice dressing honld occupy the interior of tho fish nd around its sides. This closed thc Cbnstitulion'* interview .'iib Mr. Ewart, and bidding him adieu, our correspondent was soon wending his ray back to Hendersunville, satisfied hat the Constitution with its usual enlcr irise had first given to tho public a de Cription ol' the largest and most coni ilete carp farm in the Southern ?States, if lot, indeed, in the United Stetes. The Negroes' Claims. Wo clip the following sensible talk rom the Nashville Manner: The recent convention of the negroes f this Stale, which assembled in tho itale capitol, wa? au evidence of their esire to advance and elevate themselves n the social and political scale. This esire is to be placed to their credit, .'he white people of the Stale have no bjectinu to every laudable effort they lake in this direction. Indeed, the .'bite people of Tennessee have shown n the plainest possible mininer that they rant thc negro educated. The white lenple are paying for their education rom ten to twenty dollars where they hemselves pay one. There is not prob ity tme negro in a thousand throughout he State who is not dependent in some ray or another on white people for em iloytnent, for advice ard for homes, 'hese aro simply facts that no con vc il ion can change, no r?solution blot out nd no speech controvert. The posses ion of the ballot cannot change (he fact. They make great mistakes when they ?ndertake to compel the white penplo to eco rd them a status to which they are iot entitled, either by their intelligence ip voting power. In this State, at least, the negro is. in 1 minority, and will so continuo to the nd of time. For them, in tho face of hese things, to present au issue of races, s most absurd. They will, in time, see .nd appreciate thc truth. It is by no nouns our purpose to discourage the iraise-worthy efforts of leading negroes 0 advance, improve and elevate their ic-oplc. Rut taking the history nf ni nil lino, they should not he surprised that iot in one generation nor in several gen rations have any peoplo emerged from 1 state of servitude ami entire illiteracy iud become the superiors or thc equals ocially or intellectually of those who ; ately controlled them. - When a bachelor says he is sii,glL" | rom choice, it makes him mad to ask j tim why the girl made choice ol'some ) ?liier fellow. - It is stated that during tho present :entury 150,000,000 copies of the Bible nive been printed in 220 different lan guages. The United States contribute* innually 875,000,000 for sustaining tho ?burches and ministry, and $31,000,000 I br purely benevolent purposes. - Gen. Roger A. Pryor ts confident hat Mr. Tilden will receive the Demo :ratic nomination for President, and that ie will accept. He is also of thc ophi on that Blaine and Lincoln would moko he strongest ticket the Republicans ?mid nominate. General Pryor thinks .he fight will be a close one. - A Chinaman came intu the ladies* rabin ou the ferryboat and took a scat beside an Iri.-.b market woman. He teemed to want to make himself agree ?hie, and rubbing his bands remarked : 'Belly cold." The woman looked at bim with an air of contempt and replied: 'If you'd put your shurt inside yer pants ver stomach wouldn't he cowl;!, yer bea then blackguard." - Tho Barnwell People says "Tho last of tho immigrants sent to this Colliny by Commissioner Boy kin has gone to 1'exas. He was receiving $16 per month, with rations of ten pounds, of bacon, Mix teen pounds of meal, twenty-five pounds of flour and sis pounds of rice per month, with a comfortable house, and all . the wood ho wished free of charge. He supported bis family comfortably aud saved a hundred dollars a year, but waa j not happy and accordingly went West." ANOTHER CYCLONE. In South Carolina. Coi.UMlitA, S. C., April 2.-Columbia ! was visited to-day by a gale commencing about seven o'clock this morning and continuing wi tb more or less violence I throughout the day. Fencing, trees and a few chimneys wero blown down and several buildings injured. The most se I rions damage done was at iho State j House, the roof of tho Northeast corner of which was torn loose and blown away ! A mass td' brick and some timber broke j through the ceiling and fell on the Moor I of the hall of Representatives with such ! violence that the plastering above the j chandalier in tho Governors office was j broken. Tho chandalier caine down i with II crash on thu lloor, and u table a: I which the Governor and some friend.' i ?ut. The chandalier was badly broken, ? and pieces of it penetrated a book lying j just in front of tho Governor who fortu nately escaped injury. lu Lexington County near Saluda vi I le, several houses were blown down and trees cn ried away, and considerable damage done to fences. It is reported that while two colored men near lied Hank Factory, four miles from the city, were propping up u building, it was blown down on them, killing them instantly, and a piece of scantling blew oil and struck a young white boy I uti ic ti Hg injuries from which llO has since died. Fires in the woods aro now raging in Lexington County opposite Columbia j and great damage is being done. Un h-s tue wind subsides, ii will ba i m pus- [ siblc lo estimate tho loss. Great excitement was caused in Co lumbia at ll o'clock this morning when the wind had about reached its highest t velocity by un alarm of thu root of a i private dwelling in upper Slain street in , iv thickly settled portion of tho city, h'ving caught. Fortunately the llames ? wire discovered before much headway was made und extinguished. Information reached here by the oven- | nig train that the storm struck Walhalla . al three o'clock this morning and drove . thc inhabitants from their houses in ninny , instances, but no loss of life resulted. It is rumored this itfternoun that Tim men ville, Darlington County, had been | levelled to tlie ground, but dispatches , just received from there contradicts tho | reports. No information has been ro- | ceived of bad effects of tho storm along the lines of railroads leading from Co lumbia. Fired in thc woods, however, arc reported in different sections. Tho wind is very high now, making it very disagreeable for pedestrians, Many fears are entertained that during tho night a i regular cyclone may -.trike us. The wins arc now down North of Columbia. lu > '.(ul jilli. CHATTANOOGA, TKNN., April 2.-A ( cyclone, attended with tho most terrible ' Consequence?, prevailed last night ( throughout North Alabama nnd North Georgia, and ?.real damnge was dono and ( the loss of life was terribie. (Ju account j of tho remoteness from ruilronds of much i of the couni.y, only meager details can i bo given, hut from what is already knowu ( it nm be set down ns the most destruct- i i ve storin that has prevailed in this sec- i Lion this year, and it is tho fourth in ibo i pa-t three months. It had no distinctive i character. lu sumo localities it was | funnel shaped like n cyclone, and in i others it appeared as a tornado; but i everywhere it carried death and destruc- t timi in it? path. Trees were uprooted i ami Hont Hying through the air. i Thc house of lion. Clayton Tatum, a ? prominent politician in Dado County, , was demolished and he mid his wifo und i chili! wero instantly killed. Tho house - of William Crowley wai blown to atoms i ami his entire family was killed. The | storm swept along tho crest of Sand j M omi tain, mid every house in its path i was destroyed. In Madison County, j Ala., near Huntsville, the destruction t was equally as great. The wind struck i the house of James While and his wife i and Mrs. Connor, his mother-in-law, \ were instantly killed. James Crowley < was sitting in doors, with a little child on each knee; when thc storm struck ] thc building. A huge piece of timber ' struck bim in the back and produced j instant death, but the two children < estell ped. lu another family n little baby ( was blown several hundred yards. The 1 datmige cannot bc o-stiinated, and the i loss ot life will bo terrible. ? in Aiubaum. ' NKW OKI.KANS, April 2.-A dispatch to tho Time?-Democrat from Huntsville. 1 Aia., says a destructive cyclone passed ' th lough the Southeast portion of that 1 County Inst night, greatly damaging lim- I ber mid fencing. The house of a family ' named White was completely blown away. Mrs. White and her mother-in law wero killed. A baby was carried several miles and dropped in the woods 1 where it was found alive this morning. A man named Glover hud both shoulders broken, and other persons sustained in juries more or less serious. 1 Ii. Ohio. CINCINNATI, April 2.-At Dublin, Franklin Onuoty, Ohio, a town of about 300 inhabitants, the Christain Church was unroofed, and several barns and out houses were removed from their founda tions, mid some carried a great distance. Tho farmhouse of Phillip Wolfe, three miks East, was completely demolished. The family was caught in the ruins, but afterwards rescued with slight injuries, Considerable stock was killed by falling barns, but no estimate can be made as the distant parts of thc County have not been heard from. Tile direction of the slorni was from the Northwest. Near .loysville twelve barns were destroyed, lour horses killed and three persons badly hurt. At Mechanicsburg, G., ninny trees were blown down and several buildings unroofed and upturned. The cyclone here came from the Northwest. From Urbana, Ohio, it is reported that tho storm did great damage in the vicinity of Mutual and Uowlersville, the track being one third of a mile wide. The destruction of timber is very heavy. Large trees were torn from the ground by their roots. No lives are reported lost. In IndlauH. MUNCIE, IND., April 2.-A cyclone struck thia County ut about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, completely wiping Oakville, seven miles South of here, ou the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louis ville railroad, eutirely out of existence, and doing great damage to life aud prop erty. At about five o'cioek a heavy black cloud came driving from the West and Hoot her from the North. The clouds met at the house of Lewis Coch ran, two miles West of Oakville, lifted it from ita foundation and tearing it into kindling wood, distributing it over a dis tance of two and a half miles. A minute later it struck Oakville. Of the houses in town all but three were torn down. Four persons were killed outright in Oakville, and a fifth died, this morning. James Sanders, two miles West of Oak ville, was also killed, making six killed ia all, and fifty reported, wounded. A large warehouse ana small house adjoin i og. are in ruina, and the scene is A chaos of rut bi- h, of whose ownership it is im possible to tell. Anna Dearborn, an old ' lady, two eons of Colonel Johnson and Jautos Sauden are among tho killed. The traek of the cyclone was about a quarter of a milo wide and everything in its traek was destroyed. lu I'onnrtjlvHiiIa. PlTTSUUKO, April 2.-A terrific wind storm accompanied by thunder and lightning and hail, passed over this city at 10 o'clock this morning, doing consid erable datnugo to property and injuring a number of persons. The new wire mills ol Oliver & Roberts, a largo sheet iron structure on Ninth street, South side, was blown down and two workmen were seriously injured, one of whom will prob ably die. A frame house on Twenty eighth street, not yet completed, was also demolished, but no ono was hurt. A carpenter named Robinson, who wa? erecting a scoflbld on which Old Jones will be executed to-morrow was struck by a bc?m and seriously burl. A num ber of other persons were injured by fall ing chimneys .Mid signs. A special dispatch from Petrolia reports great damage from tho storm ibero about 10:80 a. m. OllieAOO, April 2.--A dispatch to tho Dui/;/ Neva from Munci, Ind., gives the 1 following detail of ibo Oak ville cyclone : ' lu tho path of thc storm, four and live ' miles Lost and West of the village, the ' damage is equally great. livery farm 1 that the cyclone passed over was made a perfect w reck, barns, houses, orchard ar i , l forest being blown down and fences leve!?: 1 1 to tho ground. Everything presents a 1 ?cene ol desolation. On the ?"arm of ' James Sanders, four miles East of Mid- ' tlletowti, tho dwelling and barn were ,' completely destroyed. .Mr. Sanders, who was a merchant at Middletown, but who 1 was out on tho place at tho timo nnd had ! taken refuge in r. barn, was killed. At ' the town ol' Murray a family of eight had ! their house blown to splinters, and the ! father, Wm. Lines, was killed outright, 1 the others escaped uninjured. W. T. I Frank, u planter, while out on his farm 1 four miles Last of Oakville, was killed 1 jy the st (jr m. The people of Oukoville 1 ire without homes, food, clothing or bed- 1 ling. They wore found standing in a J .-.old, blinding snow storm or shivering ' in few fireless houses thnt remained. A ? portion, more fortuu.tte than the others, 1 have opened their homes to the Buffering, ' md arc making arrangements lo iced the j liungry until they may bo ablo to help themselves. j A Dcmaud for a Nen Caucus. j WASHINGTON', April 1.-A printed ' circular, which ?B signed ".Many Demo- 1 trills," and which is understood to have f been prepared by Democratic Represen- ' tat ives who are dissatisfied willi tho action of the recent caucus on the Mor- j rison bill, waa sent by mail ta day lu ' ..very Democratic member of tho House. ' riie circular, which culls itself "Au ud- 1 Irons lo tho Democratic members of tho blouse of Representatives," begin? by re- 1 diing Ibo proceedings of tho caucus, and ' is in substance au argument in favor of a 1 reconsideration of Ibo caucus action. It f .hreaiens that the minority who voied c ?gainst thc caucus resolutions will defeat 1 hu passage of any turill'bill at this ses- j doti, unless it be such u bill us will com- ' neild itself lo their approval and the ap- ' irovul oftheir constituent.. It su m mar- ? zea tho present duty of the Democratic * party ns follows : "The first great duty of 1 .ho Democratic party is to arm itself for 1 tho coming battle thai it may by ibo " people's approval retain its present con- * roi of this Homo and acquire that J lUthoriiy in tho Senate and posci-sion ' if the Executive chair, without which * he party will continue powerless and ' lubsurvient in the Government. The L lecond great duty of thc Democratic par- ) y will be to uso tho power thus acquired 1 in reforming the Government, reforming 1 taxation methods, reforming tho admin 1 ?Htration, reforming all irregularities ami ( luppresaing all abuses. * * * Wo j ire ail eager to arrive nt the saino demi- ' nation, power and reform. In this llouso 1 ?vc arc now at the cross-roads. Shall wo J livide and fail, ot unito and succeed? 1 We are unit in html purposes. Shall wo 1 lose all by contention over the meaus? * There, cuu be but oue answer to these 1 inquiries. Il is our duly to seek a lovel ? upon which all can staud, to cast aside (elfishness and prejudice, and with a brotherly spirit with full consciousness 1 :>f our great rc pc-usibilily ?eek consistent 1 uv* honorablo extrication from our didi- 8 :u;.y.:; Tho address theu reviews at consider nblo length tho question ut issue between the two factions of tho party and con cludes as follows: "Tho deniuud of the present moment is that the Democracy Jeclure it? policy. Not by division into tract io nt) and futile efforts to pass "a bill," but by a decisivo unequivocal, unani mous expression. We cull fur another caucus, and offer the following suggestion for resolutions to be adopted thereat : "Jtc?oloed, That it is the sense of the Democratic party pf the House of Repre sentatives that at tho earliest practicable moment the national revenues should bo reduced to tho neceusiiie? of the Govern ment, economically administered ; that it, u unjust sud undemocratic to levy Ulir.vcessary tuve?, re JO I li o c in a largo and dangerous surplus in the treasury: that the present customs duties aa levien by tbe Republican party be rearranged, sud the aggregate revenue reduced, so that the burden of taxation may be brought to the lowest possible limit, and be more equitably distributed, and that internal ta**; be reduced as soon ai practicable, in such manner a* thc Dem ocratic party in Congress may hereafter agree upon. "JiesolveJ. That the bill reported favor ably to the House by the chairman of the Ways and means committee shall be re committed to that committee with in structions to report back before the teuth day of January next a bill reducing rev enues by tbe abridgment of both customs and internal tarts to the actual necessi ties of the Government. "Jtaohvd, That these resolutions ex press the sentiment of the Democratic party of this House, which hereby pledges itself to n reduction of the taxes which now burden the people, and to au equi table readjustment thereof, so as to en courage protective industries at home and afford just compensation to labor, but not lo create or foster monopolies." - Woman will never be as well paid for lecturing as mea, simply because they have done so much of it for nothing. - "Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer?" was recently very ably discussed by the members of a debating society. The conclusion arrived at was, that it was not wrong but impossible? - Young man, never marry tho -girl who will elope with you. The woman who bas sufficient will to elope generally bas the determination that will make her head of the family. - Two yoong married French ladies were talking about their husbands. Said one of them : "Do you really think your Julee went shooting yesterday ?" "Wei!, I der/t think he 'ried td deceive me yesterday; I am .inclined to think he went." "Rut be didn't bring back any game." "That's what makes me euro he did gel" WM the wife's reply, . Young: Men and Maidens. It is a common and startling remark nowadays that yoting men cannot afford to marry. If this he trite, society is in great danger. If only the rich can take to themselves wives, not only will tho race dwindle, hut it will dwindle through the vicious channels. I am inclined to think that Lite aphorism is satanic, and therelore a lie. I do not believe that young men cannot afford to marry, any more than they could not afford to, fifty ora hundred years ago. I believe that society, with all its ingenuity in the devil's service, cannot so order thing:* as to prevent the honest union of young men and maidens, and u married life. Und has not constituted marrjnge ns the normal condition ol' humanity, and then rendered the condition an impossibility 10 the mass of mankind. Tho order to Noah's posterity, ' lie fruitful and multi* ply," was ii", .-.pedal appointment of tho rich as the inheritors of tho earth. Uod hus no respect, for persons, and if it wero possible to conceive ol' partiality in Uod, we should say that he leaned lo tho side jf the poor. The Scriptures take it for granted thal every mau has a wife and ..very woman has a husband, except?? rx .ipir ' is. Any idea thal resists this ?ox im ... ipathy is perverse and pestiferous. ' nave seen many cases of this sup I" jed can't alford to murry disease, and jxamined many, and always found symp. tonia proved another complaint altogeth er. Tho diagnosis had been utterly false. It was a don't-want-to- marry trouble that was effecting the patient. Tili? waa the story : Formosa had dwelt in marble halls and clothed herself iii icres of purple or fino linen. Marriage .villi her means a thousand a year. So I ook at my two thousand, and can't otford to marry. Formula wise, and truth wise, 11 is this : Foolish girls wish to live idle, pampered and fashionable lives, and loolish young men are -..r king after tho foolish girls. In Muli a complication, marriage loses its meaning; and ii, is /cry natural for young men lo sny, "I sannot afford to marry." Tho truth is tie can:l afford to marry after the style lforesaid, mid he docs not wish to marry in a Bcnsiblo style, to which his two hnusaiid would say Amen. But there ire others than foolish girls in the world. There aro girls of simple tastes, of mod est mien, industrious habits, and utiBol ish hearts. You uro not apt to find them n the highways or in conspicuous places. They make tho best wives in the world, viii le the Saratoga thing m*kes tho vorst. Look for thom nt home, not in mciety-(hut fizzling, bubbling caldron, vhcre pride, vanity and vapidity, sea limed willi vico, sputter into uss iodation. Kind them helping in nursery, pantry, citchen, not sauntering wIlSi br. zea ?tare m a frequented promenade, or dandling uuong I? renell novels in the boudoir. Don't bc desperate, my dci.r fellow, md say lhere is no such j; iii as I describe. 1 know heller. I don't binnie you for (linking so when you judge from th? irticle that lies around loosu in the city if New York. But chango your sphere >f observation. (Jo into quieter paths. Jon'l bo dazzled by mere plumage, .'arrota and peacocks ure nut nightingales, flic true girl hus to ba sought for. She loes not parade herself us show goods, iho is not fashionable. Generally alicia int rich. But O 1 what a heart she has ?vhen you find her! so large, and pure, md womanly! When you eo it, you yonder if those showy things outside vere really women. If you gain ber uve, your two thousand uro u million : he'll not ask you for n carriago and a irst class house. She'll wear simple Iresses and turn them when necessary, villi HO vulgar magnificence, to flown ipon her economy. She'll keep every hing neut and nice in your sky-parlor ind give you such n welcome when you rome home that you'll think your parlor ligher than ever. She'll entertain true friends ou n dollar, and astonish you at ho thought-how very little happiness lepends on money ! She'll make you ove home (if you don't you're a brute) ind tench you how to pity while you corn a poor, fashionable society that .hinks itself rich, und vainly tries to bink itself happy. Now do not, I pray you, say any more, 'I can't afford to marry." Go, find tho ruo woman, and you can. Throw away hat cigur, burn up that switch-csue, bo ensible yourself mid Beck your wife, ina cusible way.-Ret, T. J). Talmage. Most of the recent converts raado by Mormon missionaries have been settled n Colorado. Ono of their settlements, llannssa, iu Conejos County, baa been nailed by a correspondent of the Chichi inti Enquirer, who furnishes his paper . vith a statement of tho condition of af fairs there, and n number of interviews vith individual converts to Mormonism. These immigrants ?re mostly from Geor gia and Kentucky. They were attracted by the preaching of the missionaries, who said nothing about polygamy or blood atonement, aud forgot to mention th? "doctrines and coveuauts" and va rious other peculiar features of Mormon ism. "They kept pretty close to 'he old Bible." They represented tbr.t Utah ivas ? land of promise, where od would DO helter oh in a worldly way,imd where \\\ was good-wili und brotherly love. When tboy reached their settlement, they found ibo soil was capable of one good crop in six years, th?', polygamy ivas practicer] ; that they were obliged lo buy their eupp'.ies of tho Mormon deal ers, who charged them two or three prices; that the "old Bible" vanished into tue background tum the doctrines sod covenants of the Mormon Church ?me prominently forward ; and tbft they were expected and required td vote according to the dictation of the Mormon leaders. It wa3 an exercise of this last prerogative of the Church that finally goaded them to the point of revolt. Half the Southerners in tho colony are now in Colorado, having refused at tho election last November to vote the ticket dictated bj the Mormon priesthood. Wiso Words. Principie is a passion for truth. Punishment is lame, but it comes. Tlidre is somejielp tor all the defects ci fortune. He who baa uo. character is not a man ; he is a thing. Men who nave many friends are ono mies of their own fortunes. Of friends, however humble, scorn not one small service while it last. As soon as a woman begins 16'dress "loud," ber manners end conversation partake of the same character. To wish to do without our fellows and to be under obligation to no one, is a sure sign of a soul void of sensibility. True politeness is the last touch of a noble character. "It ia the gold on the spire, the sunlight on the cornfield." To have bis tongue cut out, And' to be seated deaf and dumb in a corner, wow preferable to his condition who cannot govern his tongue. - When the P dm of your hand Itches it U a sign that you are going to get eomo money-wheo you. earn It, Mormon Converts.