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t_-;- -? . - -, ^^^^^^^WMW^''l',*^W,'M'"w>"?W?-WWMMMBMMMw,ww.^^ KY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON. S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1884. VOLUME XX.-NO. l?7 ! WILHITE'S EYE WATER 18 A SURE CURE FOR SORE EYES, Or any coiumou form of inflamed oyes. WE SELL IT With the understanding that if it. does not prove bene ficial or effect a Cure, after directions have been carefully fol lowed, the sum paid for it WILL BE REFUNDED. It koa beau eotd on these conditions for tho past FOUR YEARS, and as yet wo have ItoriaiUCoiMtitofit, Or heard of a Case IT DID HOT CURE ! -o IT IS NOT A NEW P?EPARATION, AND HAS BEEN USED FOR TTTTP'PV T??RS But has beeu only four or five years on^ the market as a PROPRIETARY MEDICINE - -? If you have never used li, or know noth ing of ila effects on Ask your neighbor; or some ono who'baa ' seen it tried. It has cured SEVERE case? in from t?x to twenty four hoars. WlLHlTjE & WILHITE. FROPBlETOttS, Sept 25,1384 ll ?y UUfi VUUNUI TUfii WAR. HOSPITAL SCENES. Miss Emil?/ V. Mason, of Lexington, Va., in Charleston Weekly News. Ono day there waa brought iuto the hospital a fine looking young Irishman covered with blood and appearing to bo in a dying condition. He was of a Sa vannah regiment, aud the comrades who were detailed to bring him to us stated that in passing Lynchburg they hnd descended at tho station and hurrying to regain the train this man had jumped from the ground to tho platform. Almost Instantly ho was seised with vomiting blood. It was plain he had ruptured a blood vessel, and they had feared be woula not live to get to a hospital. Ten dcrly be was lifted from the lifter and every effort made to staunch the bleeding. We were not allowed to wash or dress him, Bpeak, or make the slightest noise to agitato him. As I pressed a handker chief upon his lip? ho oponed hiB eyes and fixed them upon me with an eager ness which showed me he wished to say something. By this timo we had become quick to interpret the looks and motions of the poor fellows committed to our hands. Dropping upon my kees, I made the sign ot the Cross. Wo saw the answer in his eyes. He was a Catholic, and wanted a priest to prepare him for death. Softly and distinctly I promised to send for a priest, should death be imminent, and reminded bim that upon hiB obedience to the orders to be quiet, and not agitate mind or body, depended his lifo and his hope of speaking when tho priestshould appear. With childlike submission he closed his eyes and lay so still that wo had to touch his pulso from time to time tc hp. assured that ha lived. With tbs morning tba hleediag ceased, and he was able to swallow medicine ana nourishment, and in another day he waa allowed to say a few words. Soon he asked for the ragged jacket, which, ac cording to rule, had been placed under his pillow, and took from tbe lining n a silver watch, and then a $100 United States banknote greeted our wondering eyes. It must have been worth $1,000 in Confederate money, and that a poor soldier should own BO much at thin crisis of our fate was indeed a marvel. I took charge of his treasures till he could tell ua his history and say what Ghoul J be done with them when death, which was inevitable, came to him. Though re lieved from fear of immediate death, it was evident that ho had fallen into a rapid decline. Fever and cough and those terrible "night sweats" soon reduc ed, this stalwart form to emaciation. Patient and uncomplaining be had but one anxiety, and this was for the fate ol the treasures he had guarded through three long yean in battle and in bivouac, in hunger and thirst and nakeduess. A STORY FOB BANK CASH IK IIS. He waa with his regiment at Bull Bun. and after the battle, seeing a wounded Federal leaning against a tree and appa rently dying, he went to him and found he belonged to a New York regiment and that he waB an Irishman. Supporting the dying man and praying beside him, he received hiB last words, and with them his watch and a one hundred doilai banknote which he desired should be f;iven to his siBter. Our Irishman readi ? y promised Bho should have this inheri tance "when the war ended," and at thc earliest opportunity sewed the money lu the lining of his jacket and hid away thc watch, keeping them safely throng!: every change and amidst every tempta tion which beset the poor soldier in those trying days. He was sure that be woulc "some day" get to New York and boabh to restore these things to the rightfu owner. Even at this late day he hele the same belief and could not be persua ded that the rooney was a "fortunate o war ;" that be had a right to Bpend it foi his own comfort, or to will it to whom lu would ; that even were tho war over a tu he in New York it would be impossibh to find the owner with so vague a clew ai he possessed. "And did you go barefoot and ragget and hungry all these three yearn," asket the surgeon, "with this money in you: pocket? Why, you might have sold i and been a rich man and have done i world of good." "Sure, Doctor, it was not mine to give,' was the simple am wer of thc dying man "If it please Almighty God when the wa is done I thought to go to New York ant ;uiver?be in the papers for Mrs. Bridge O'Reilly and give it to her own hand.'' "But," I urged, "there must be hun dreda of that name in the ereat City o New York ; how would jo', v ecide shouh dishonest ones come to maim this mon ey ?" "Sure I would have it called by th priest out from God's holy Altar," h replied, ofter a moment's thought. It was hard to destroy in the hones fellow the faith that was io him. Will the priest who came to see bim he srguei after tho same fashion, and as bis deat] approached we had to get the goa Bishop to settle this matter of "con science money." The authority of s high a functionary prevailed, and th dying man was induced to believe he ha a right to dispose of this little forlorn Tho watch ho wished to sent} to an Irish man of Sa. annah who had been a friend a brother to him, for be bad cerne wit him from the "old country." And fe ttle money I ho bad hoard that the li ttl orphans of Savannah, bad had no mil for two long years. He would like'a that money to be spent in milk for them. A lady, who went South the day afw we buried bim, took the watch and tb money and promised to see carried 01 tho lest will and testament of thisbonei heart. A . A TEMPEST IN THE PEA POT. Aa the war went on, and provisioi be came scarcer, and our appetites moi voracious, only peas, dried peas, seeme plenty, and these were old, often must and generally filled with worms. Vi made them up in every tariety ?f fori of which dried peas are capable, .cm) they were not canoed. In soap tm appeared one day, cold peas the secon thwTthev were fried, (wb?n. w? J" crease :) baked peas caine on tho four! SayTanatfaen town ir?g? wup. ceuTd but sympathise irUh th? convVfc cent? who clamored loudly for chang bat what could we do ?hen there we bul poa?, cornbread and sorghum I / length convalescing nature could[ sta ib So longer. lw?;?wAeJ^? rofuecd toeat peas, and bad tbrownihe over t?e cleon floor, and daubed them the freshly whitewashed walls of th diniDKroom. Tho onklndeat ont of i beaded by a one-armed man, who hi been loo/ Io bcepitaV* g*eat with wheatshed broadband otherwl knolled." Like naughty school boya, fffiSese men throwingmy bojiedpe atScb other, pewter plates opd spoo SfI?^obont and the waBs afldTflo Stared withVragments of the offensi '! M What does thia which we women eat without repug nance ? Are you not ashamed to be so dainty? I suppose you want pica and cakes." "They are filled witto rrorms," a rude voice cried. "I do not believe you eat tho same?" "Let me taste them," I replied, taking a plate from before a man and eating with bis pewter spoon. "This is from tho same peapot. Indeed, we have but ono pot for us all, and I spent hours this morning picking out the worms, which do not Injure the tasto and are perfectly harmless. It is good, wholesomo food." "Mighty colicky, anyhow," broko in an old man. The men laughed, but I went on taking no notice of a fact which all admitted. "Peas are the best fighting food. The Government gives it to us on principle. There were McClellan's men eating good beef, canned fruits and vegetables, trying for seven days to get to Richmond, and we, on dried peas, kent them back. I shall always believe that had wo eaten his beef and they our peas, tho result would have been difieren?.." This was received with roars of laugh ter, but the mon in good humor, and they ate the peas which remained, washed tho floor and cleaned the walls. Such is the variable temper of tho soldier-eager to resent real or imaginary wrongs, but quick to return to good hu mor and fun. But tho spoiled one-armed man bad Gen. Lee's socks put on him and went to his regiment the noxt day. THE 8TOHY OP GEN. LEE'S SOCKS. Speaking of Gen. Lee's socks-an "institution" peculiar to our hospitals I mu ht explain its origin and U9es. Bo sides ,VYT?i*t?n. Lee spent most of her time in making gloves and socks for the soldiers. She gavo me at one time sev eral pair of Gen. Lee's old socks, ao darned that Wi saw they hud bcon weil worn by cur L?ro. We. kept those to apply to the feet of those laggard "old soldiers" who were suspected of prefering the "luxury" of hospital life to the activ ity of the hold. And Buch waa tho effect of the application of these warlike socks that even a threat of it had tho effect of sending a man to his regiment who bad been lingering months in inactivity. Il came to be a standing joke in the hospital j infinitely enjoyed by the men. If a poor wretch was out of his bed over a weet he would be threatened with "Geo. Lee's socks," and through this means some most obstinate chronic cases wero cured Four of the moat determined rheumatic patients who bad resisted scarifying ol the limbs, and what was woree, the small est and thinest of diets, were sent tc their regiments and did good service afterwards. With these men the sock? bad to be left on several hourn, amidBt thout>- tiff laughter from the "assistants," showing that though men may reaUt pair and starvation they succumb directly tc ridicule. ? HEROIC YOUNG OFFICES. It was after the battle of Federicks burg-the Wilderness perhaps-we wen ordered to have ready eight huudrec beds, for so many our great field hospita accommodated. The convalescents anc the "old soldier," with rheumatism anc chronic disorders, who would not gel well, were sent to town hospitals, and wi made ready for the night when shoulc come in the eight hundred. The Bal aklava charge was uothing to it. The] came BO fast it was impossible to dres" and examino them. So upon the floor o the receiving wards (long, low building hastily put up} the ?ureos piaced in row on each side their ghastly burdens, cov ered with blood and dirt, stiff with mm and gravel from tho little streams ii which they often fell. The female mir- e. armed with pails of toddy or milk, pass ed up and dow^i giving to each man reviving drink to prepare him for th examination cf tho surgeons, while otb ere, with water and sponges, wet th stiff bandages. Aa I passed round looking to see wh was most in need of help and should fin be washed and borne to his bed, I wa especially attracted by one group, l ?oung officer lay with his head upon th ap of another equally distinguiabe looking man, while a negro man-servat stood by in great distress. I offered drink to the wounded man, saying "You are.badly hurt, I fear." "Oh no," he replied. "Do not min me, but help the poor fellow next mi who is groaning and crying. He : wounded in the wrist. Tbero is nothin so painful aa this. Besides, you see have my friend, a young physician, wit me and a servant to ask for what I need, So passing, on lo the man with ti wounded wrist, I stopped lo wet it arai and again, to loosen the tight band?t and say a com furling word, and so cs an on, till I lost sight of this interestic group where all were so interesting, ac forgot it till in the early morning I sa the same persons. The handsome your officer was being borne on a litter to tl amputating room, between his two friend H?B going first of all the wounded hero Sroved that bis was the most urgent eas lushing to his side, I reproached hi with having deceived me with his chee ful fae?. *'On;y a leg to be taken off," ho sai "An ovtry day affair." I followed to see bim laid upon tl terrible table which had proved fatal so many. Not only was his leg to 1 taken off at the thigh, an operation fro which few recovered, but be had tv wounds beside. From this moment I really lost night . this doomed man. He waa of a Lcuii ana regiment, (the Washington Artilles I think,) for he came from Wasbingti on tho Red Uiver. Ono could see th he was of refined and cultivated poop! that he was the darling bf the parents whom be constantly spoke. Yet be nev complained of bis rude straw conch seemed to miss the comforts which \ would fain have given bf rn, nor did ! lament bis untimely fate or utter n mi mur over pangs which would have mc cd the stoutest heart. He could not upon his back, for a gaping wouod c tended from bis shoulder far down up it, nor get upon one side, for there t arm waa crushed. We were forced ?wing bim from the ceiling. And so the terrible leg became catered with i fatal gangrene, and .all the burning thia proud flc3h could not keep dei from the door. Ie the burning fevers, the wild delirium, every word betrayal pure and noble heart Ail 1 of love TO GOD, TO COUUTBY AND TO HOI Only could he be quieted by the eon of music, We took turns, my sister i I, to ait beside him and sid* plaint byro*, when he would be atilt and m mur 'Wog, pray, pray," and ? we ? and pray?.^three long weeks, till uaw tba endtfraw near, and lowered I In blahed that bia^dull eas" mlahlh our words and bi? cold banda; reel j warm touch? Ono evening bc?bad b lying 80 still that we could hardly I bia breath, and the rough jnen of ward had gathered about the bed, i and aolemni rSudderJy the pale \ lighted with a lovely fk>w, the dim t shone brilliantly,l.tadThe rose lu his with ooWretehed arm? aa if to <A tome vWNe be|n# and bf? volca c ' and cheerful raog out; "Come down beautiful ladies, come." "He sees a vision," cried tbe awestrick en mon. We all knelt. Tbe young soldier fell back-dead ! j In anotber ward lay upon the floor two young men jual taken from an am* bulance dead, as was supposed. Their heads wero enveloped in bloody banda ges, and tho little clothing they had was glued to their bodies with mud and gravel. Hastily examining them, the surgeon ordered them to tho "Dead liousc." I prayed they might be left till moruing nod bent over them with my ear upon tho heart to try and detect n faint pulsation, but iu vain. Bot neither of them had the rigidity of death in their limbs, as I beard tho Burgeon remark. Turning them over ho pointed to the wound? below the ear, tho jaws shattered, and ono or both eyes put ont, and re* minded me that even could they bo brought to life it would be to an exist euro worse than death. Blind, deaf, perhaps unable to eat, and he muttered something about "wasting time on the dead which was needed for tho living." "Life is sweet," I replied, "even to the blind and the deaf and dumb, and these men may bo tho darlings of some fond hearts who will love them moro in I their helplessness than in tboir 'sunniest boure.' " And so I kept my "dead men," and the moro I examined the youngest ono tho more was my interest excited. H?B banda, small and well formed, betokened tho gentleman, lils bare feet wero of the samo typo, though cut by stones and covered with sand and gravel. After searching for a mouth to these bundles of rags, wo forced n small spoon between tho Hps with a drop of milk punch and hnd tue satisfaction to perceive that it did not ooze out, but disappeared some where, and all night long in making our rounds and passing tho "dead men," we pursue*! the -ame proejas. At lesgth, -iib. morning, thc great pressure was over and wo found a surgeon ready lo examino and dress again these wounds, and we were permitted to cut away by bits the Btiff rags from their bodies, wash and dress them, pick out the gravel from their torn foet and wrap them in greased linen. With what joy we heard tho first faint Bigh and felt tho first weak Sulaation ! Hour after hour, day after ay, these men lay side by Bide, aud wero fed drop by drop from a tubo less we should strangle them. Tho ono least wounded novar recovered his mind, which had been shattered with his body. He was rather of the earth earthy and soon returned to bis mother earth, while the younger oue, though be could neither speak nor see, and hear but little, showed iu a thousand ways that, though his mind wandered at times, he was aware of what went on about him, and was gentle and grateful to all who served bim. As he had come in without cap or knapsack, and there waa no clue to his identity, over his bed was marked "NAME AND REGIMENT UNKNOWN." In the meanwhile, by flag of truce from the North, had come newspapers and letters making inquiries for a young man who, in a fervor of enthusiasm, bad run away from school in EoglaDd to fight the battles of tho South. His mother having been a South Carolinian, he told his father be bad gono to fight for bis mother country, and for his moth er's grave I Traced to Charleston, he was known to have gone to the army of Northern Virginia, and to have entered tho battle of the Wilderness as colon bearer to bis regiment, in bare feet. As nothing had been heard of him Bince the battle, be was reported dead, but his dis tracted friends begged that the hospitals about Richmond might be examined to see if anv trace of him could bo found. We saw instantly that this runaway boy was our unknown patient. Informed of our suspicions, tho. RBftistant surgeon general came himself lo HRH gnu examine Bim, being himself a Carolinian nnd a friend of h'm mother's family. But the boy either would not or could not under stand the questions addressed to him. And so weeks passed in the dimly lighted room to which be was consigned, and many months went bo foro we could lift the bandage from the one eye ; before he could hear with the one ear and eat I with the wounded mouth. Fed with I soups and milk, be grew strong and cheerful, and was suspected of seeing a little before be confessed it, aa I often saw hit head elevated to an angle which enabled bim to seo the pretty girls who came from the city to read to bim and bring him dainties. These, moved by \ compassion for bis youth and romantic history, come io heip us uurse him, and risked daily choaking him in their well meant endeavors to feed him. At last all the bandages were removed save a ribbon across the lost eye, and our "dead man" carno forth a * handsome youth of. 18 or 19, graceful and elegant. And now the surgeon-general claimed him for his father, and with much regret we gave bim up to the flag of truce boat, and he waa lost to us till the end of tho war. Bent to England he had a new eye made, and came to see us after tbe fall of Bichmond, bringing mn a fine present, his enthusiasm and iii J gratitude nothing damped by time and change. Even with the two eyes, ho saw so imperfectly that be was soon obliged to seek for a life companion to guide his uncertain steps. In Charleston be fell in love with one ol his own family connection, and like the prince and princess in the fairy story, "they were married and lived happy ever after." ' Tili: BBBAD BIOT. Everyone who has known hospital life, in Confederate times especially, will remember bow the steward-the mat who bolds tho provisions-is held re sponsible for every short-coming bj both surgeons and matrons, and mon especially by tho men. Whether he hai money or no, be must give plenty to eat and there exista between'tbe steward anc the convalescents, those hungry fellows long starred in camp and now recoverinj from fever or wounds, a deadly an Iago I n'ism constantly breakiug out into "over acts." The stewart is to them a "cheat' -the man who withholds from them th rations given OUt by the Government He must have tll? ?neat, though th quartermaster may not furnish it, and i is his fault alone when the bread ration are "short." Cur stewart, meek little raab, Was u exception to this rule. Palo with fright ho came one day to aay that the conva leseante had stormed the bakery, take out the half cooked breed ind scatter? it ebo?t tba yard, bad beaten the bake and threatened to haag the stewart Always cagar to save the men from pun Sshment; yet recognizing that disciplio must be preserved, I hurried to thereon of war, to throw myself into tbe breac before tho surgeons should arrive wit the guard to captare iho'oflendert. Here WQ found tho tt&yr bakery, "sh an ty " cn adi o f plank, which bad bec ?ecurcc? at great trouble, lovclled to th ground, and two hundred excited toe clamoring, for the broad which the declared the steward withheld from the! from mean new,' or stole, from them ft bia own benefit. "And what do you eay of tho matron 1 I asked, rushing into their .midst. - ' L you think that she, through whoso hat* i;---' :/'-:-:yc ?'. : .. tho bread must pass, ia a party to thia theft? Do you accuso me, who have nursed you through months of illness. 1 making you chicken soup when vre had not seen a chicken for a year, forcing an old breastbone to do duty for months for those unreasonable fellows who wanted to seo the chicken, who has made you a greater variety in peas than ever was 1 known before, and who latterly stewed your rats when tho cook refused to touch them? And this is your gratitude! You tear down my bakeLo iso, beat my baker and hang my steward! Here guard Uko four of these men to the guardhouse. You all know if the hoad surgeon was here forty of you would go." To my surprise, tho angry nine laughed, cheered, and thero endued a struggle an to wno should go tc the guardhouse. A few days after came a "committee" of two "sheepish" looking fellows to ask my accepUnco of a ring. Each of these poor men had subscribed something from his pittance, and thor old enemy the steward had been sent ;o town to buy it. Accompanying tho ring waa n bit of dirty paper on which was written : FOR OUR CHIEF MATRON, , IN HONOR OF HER BRAVE CONDUCT ON THK DAY OF TUE BREAD RIOT. It was the ugliest little ring ever Been, but it was as "pure gold" os were tho hearts which sout it, and it shall go down to my posterity in memory of the bravo mon who led tho bread riot, and who suffered themselves to bo conquered by a hospital matron. Grapes and Croners. Few people, even in Greenville, havo any idea 01 the dimensiors reached h? I tho industry of grane growing here, anti a still smaller proportion of our citizens ?ealize what an imporUnt part tho busi ness will form of our comuicrco and enter prise. Tho figures of tho shipments will doubtless be astonishing, especially when wo remember the limited cnpiul and means employed. Tho books at tho ex press office show that 3,001 baskets of grapes were shipped from hero during tho Beaaon, beginning in the latter part of July and virtually ending on tho 10th of September, although there were some occasional shipments up to tho 18th of this month. In pouuds tho grapo ship ments aggregated 37,800. The principal shippers were Messrs. Garraux, H. B. Buist and Marshal!, although Mr. Put nam shipped quito a number of early baskets. The best market was Charleston, where a very large proportion of the ship ments went, but New York and Phila delphia took considerable quantities and a few lots went to Cincinnati. The varieties chiefly grown aro Clin ton, Concord, Ives and Delaware, and they commanded a ready sale, reaching the market early. Greenville promises to become famous ?br its grapes, for tboBe whipped from hero have been tho best in every market, the size surpassing any others and tho flavor being always pecu liarly rieb. . The shippers have had different expe riences, but all who have been seen unite in declaring themselves thoroughly satis fled with their experimenU and convinced that the culturo of grapes is as profitable SB any business th can be engaged is here. F. Hahn, w. o has shipped very few grapes thia year, it being tho "rest ing" season for hts vines, is equally satis fied with bis experience, having sold $400 or $600 in grapes from his two acres last year, netting a very comforUble profit. Mrs. Garraux bas kept n more accurate account of the results of her year's work than any of the others, and her figures may be relied on. Tho Garraux vine yard cf an acre and a quarter wan a beau tiful sight in tho bearing season, the vine" being literally loaded end covered with immense bunches of the luscious fruit. The acre and a fourth yielded 15, 500 pounds of grapes. 1,200 pounds were shipped, netting fj cents a pound on an average; 2.500 pounds were sold at reUil. The other thousand pounds was made into thirty gallons of wine, lost, given away, etc., andsomo few grapesare still ripening. 12,000 pounds at five cents is $600 ; 2,500 pounds retailed at 10 cents in $250. $850 on an acre and a quarter beats cotton, and the grape grow ers say the yield ts better every year. The records at the express office and account sales stand to prove these almost incredible figures. Hugh B. Buist has also been very suc cessful, although the figures of his crop were not obtainable, as he hod notfinished Bhipping when visited by tho represents tive of the New*. - His crop wso magnifi cent this year, and he attributes the fact that he makes no failures to his system of planting bis vines .fifteen feet apart. Ho gives them tho, same working usually given cotton, three plowingsand hoeings, and estimates bis next profits at $75 sn acre, as be sells entirely at wholesale, He hos a six acre vineyard, on Pi noy mountain and is firmly persuaded thal grape and fruit growing beats cotton raising by long odds.-Greenville Newt, Blaine's Record In 1876. HARRi8BURO,September.-About thro ; months ago the Harrisburg Patrioi-Dem ocrat steted that Charles H. Bergner, thi former publisher ' of the Harrisburg Telegraph-Republican, had told a numbci of persons in this city that Blaine wa defeated for nomination for the presiden cy in 1876 because of a statement mad* by Kemble at. Cincinnati that he hst F?aid Blaine $7,500 for a roting while th? alter waa speaker of the house of Rep resenUtives. In the Patriot's artfcli Bergner was alleged to have stated thai be bad Kemble's checks made payable t Blaine-ono for $5,000 and another fo $2,500-in bis bands. Bergner bas rf peatedly dented the truthfulness of th statement escribed to him, and seven newspapers have discredited the story. To establish the truth of the article ii tho Palriol Georgo D. Herbert, tho au th oi bsd himself prosecuted for libel. Foo persons to whoa) Bergner ls alleged I nave told the story of bribery wera SUD moned to appear at the present cour AU were present, but tho dlstrict-attorne of the county olid oil in bis pawer I ?revent the witnesses from being hean le claimed that no testimony was ac miscible except that intended to proi the publication of the libel. Coona representing the prosecutor insisted tbi the witnesses-should be heard as to tb nature of Berga or'a allegations, bat tl alderman before whom the argument wi made decided to Uko no action for tl present and the case was adjourned ant Monday. The witnesses, all of who aie respectable men, will fully suata: the accuracy of tho Patriot's statement irlveh a chance to testify. - Those who Tote for Cleveland wi have she consolation of knowing th they are voting for an honest man, - What a sensation it would create Butler' would only ?lepe with Mrs. Loe wood, and what a relief R vronld ba the people along the lino of BuUci speech-making tour. OS PLANTING COTTON. Early Dayo or the Iud ut try In America. Textile Manufacturer? Edition^ Bolton. At a recent' meeting of tho Cotton Plantera* Association, hold at Vicksburg, Miss., Major T. M. Barnes, of Atlanta, G>a., delivered an edd rots in which he told bis hearers that in the Uuited States cotton seeds were first planted as an ex periment in 1621. In tho province of south Carolina the growth of the cotton plant is noticed in a paper of the date of 1666, preserved in Carroll's historical collections of South Carolina. In 1736 the plant was known in gardens in lati tude 89? North on the Eastern shore of Maryland, and about forty? years after? ward it was cultivated in the county of Cfepe May, N. J. It was. however, little known except as a garden plant until ifler tho Revolutionary war-at the com mencement of which General Dolgall is mid to have had thirty acres of the groen seed cotton under culture near Savannah, in 1784 it is stated that among tho ex ports of Charleston, S. C., were Bevon bags of cotton valued at JC8 11s. Cd. a i>ag. Auothor email shipment was made in 1754, and in 1770 three more-amount lug to ten bales-were shipped to Liver pool. In tho year 1784 eight bags ship ped to England wore seized on tho ground .hat BO much cotton could not bo pro inced in the United Suites. Tho ix ports of tho next nix years wore uno :essivoly 14, 6,109,389,842 and (In 1790) SI bags. In 1786 tho first Sea Island cotton was rAised on the coast of Georgia, aud its exportation commenced in 1788 by Alex mder Bi&sill, of St. Simon's island. Tho iceds wero obtained from tho Bahamas, ho plant having beon introduced (here from Auguilla, one of tho Leeward lsle.t. The first successful crop in tho State was frat of V/iii?iin Elliott, ia 1790, ou Miloo ?lead islau?. The nueces* of the ;rop caused many to engegu in its culti vation, nnd some of tho largest fortunes in South Carolina wero thus rapidly iccumulatcd. In 1791 the cotton crop of he United States was 3,000,000 pounds -equal to about 6,000 of our preaont lize bales-threo-fourths of which was 'aised in South Carolina, and one-fourth u Georgia. Besides tho United States, tho chief countries for tho production of cotton are he East Indies, Egypt, Brazil, the West indies and Guiana. India contributes a supply of cotton ?ext in importance to that of tho United States. Again, until the punt few years, cotton ced, except for planting purposes, were bouldered utterly worthless, and in order 0 get rid of them tho hands and teams vere put to work hauling them away rom the gin houso. Regarding them in his light, thero was no object In econo nizing when the planting season came ound, and anywhere from three to five mabels per acre were wasted by the >oforementioned "Africanplanter'-the larkies' hands-enough wasted on every ifty acres to pay for three or four plant ire. About tho year 1850 a cotton planter. : now n as the Foster planter, was invented )y a North Carolinian, and manufactured n Baltimore. It was looked upon with ?onsidcrable suspicion and distrust, and ?ct, notwithstanding thia fact and its du muy and unwieldy proportions, quite 1 number wore introduced Into tho Caro Inas, and on nicely prepared ground the york waa comparatively satisfactory. This gave rise to various and sundry sug gestions about the saving of timo and abor. These suggestions were caught up >y different manufacturers of New York ind Pennsylvania, and inside of two or bree years cotton planters were being listributed in the different cotton States, specially in the Carolinas. Corn plant irs had ot*?n pronounced a cuccesa, and hese manufacturers expected similar e mit ; from their cotton planters. But vi th all their skill and inventive genius hey lacked practical experience with otton seed. They had not fallen upon a orrcct principio for forcing tenacious oed filled with lint through a hopper vith sufficient regularity to ensure a itand of cotton. After repeated tests, ollowed by as many failures, these nachlnes were thrown into fence corners, ind the old method of hand-planting mntinued, though enough had been leveloped to put the farmer to thinking. At the close of the war, partly of necea? Hy and partly to escape the conflict vith free labor, a large majority of cotton armers rented their lands to. the new* iedged freedmen. This condition of hingB was almost as bad for the intro lue'ion of improved machinery as before ho freedom of tho slaves : ana wherever t dxitsts now ci. i J rule holds equally good. the owner of the land said h?didn'f pro* )ose to buy improved implements to be lestroyed by negroes and . mules ; the enantsald he didn't propose to buy them 'or the benefit of the landlord. Consld ?ring the extreme poverty of the South it this time, as well as the unhappy rela j?n between renter and ten?nt In the tom mon struggle to become accustomed o' the -new order of things, it is not sur prising that labor saving machinery bad o bide its time. A few years later the'intelligent land owners made a discovery, and that waa that their farms, instead of improving J ti der tho tenant system, or even holding heir own, were being sadly neglected ind injured. In order to reclaim theso nrasting landa lt was necessary to take them back under their own supervision, ind hire the labor. Thia revived the Interest io the labor-saving Implements, md this time cotton planters were Inquired for. Again tho market was sup plied with the second edition of worthless Slant cr?, some coming down from the forth, others manufactured, or botched tip, at country blacksmith and cross roads trag?n shops, and not ono in fifty worth the cost of transportation to the field. With thia experience, it is not av .prising that a large per centum of cot ?on wes planted by hand. But a little later still, and the necessity for economizing on the farm becomes so pressing that not only tho most Improved cotton planters, bu' also scrapers, cultivators and barrows, are sought after by the more intelligent farmers of the Sooth. Advertisements are consulted. Expositions and State and County Fairs are visited, Selections are made and die machines put to work-of ooaree with vari?os results. Where the ?fork waa even partially satisfactory, prejudice was rapidly worn off. Bot here comes a second discovery-a discovery that bad only cropped out occa sion tilly before. Tho darkey, from ene ead of the South to the other," is opposed, apon g?nerai principles, to ali innova tions upon hie old buugliog methods of producing everything by main strength and awkwardness, bot especially is he prejudiced against any implement that uves the labor of two or three meo, opon the ground that lt is getting in bia way. Many a'good implement hos been con demned and thrown aside because of this ignorant, unskilled labor. Bot the time for economizing and lightening the labor system in the South cm St?le* ia now upon us ; not because of the Importance ofth? inventor or man ufacturer to foreo their gcols upon tho market, bot becario the worKf moves rapidly onward, tho tide of intelligent humanity sweeps forward, leaving the man who persists in his old primitivo methods simply because "his father did it that way'' far in the rear. What is good for to-day needs to be remedied for to-morrow. Fortunately this is a freecountry, bow ever, and if a man prefers to walk when ho can ride at oven less expenso tho organic law of the land will neither "mo lest nor make him afraid." And if e man insists upon planting his cotton crop by band at more than three times the expense of planting lt by machinery and yet not do it half so well-he Is, in n constitutional eenso, perfectly sate, but not in the sense of good judgment. During the past three or four years enough cotton hos been successfully planted by machinery to fully demon strate a great saving of money, time and hard labor, and it is indeed most gratify* lng to note tho rapid change from the primitivo to tho wido-awako, progressive methods. When such men os Col. Ed. Richardson, . Col. Ben. Ricks, Capt. ThomasM.Smedes and Charles H. Smith, of Mississippi, to say nothing of a host of their kind from the other cotton States, are found using these labor-saving imple mente, lt meaus something of decided interest to tho cotton planting industry in general. There lit no longer an excuse that reli able cotton plantera cannot be found. Thoy aro now on tho market, and can be had at reasonable figure*. With all respect to tho farmer who is still UBing two mules and throe or four hands to plant by band the same crop which could bo much bettor planted by the use of a machine with ono hand and one mule, tho ?peaker begged leavo to submit tho following comparison af tho methods: Take, for example, fifty acres, and fig ure the coii o! planting it by hand "*vi then by a planter. ?Jay it takes hy either method roven days to do tho work. By tho first method you use two mules and four hands. They aro worth 75 cents each, or $4.50 por day, not counting their board-seven days, (31.60. The cotton seed ls worth 10 cents per bushel, and you use at least flvo bushels' per aero. This would require 250 bushels, or $37.50. Total, $09.00 By tho second method you uso one hand and one mulo at 76 cents each, coven days. $10.50 ; seed Lsed, 1} bushels per acre (liberal allowance), or 76 bushels at 16 cents, $11.25; total, $21.76. This gives $47.26 clear, or enough to pay for three perfectly reliable cotton plantera for every 60 acres planted, to say nothing of the enormous saving in cultivatiog tho crop after it comes up. dabing ? Haman Face. In 1871 Thomas Colt, then 12 years old, was taken to Bellov?e Hospital suff ering from a disease which bad destroyed his nose and lips and bad begun to effect bis eyes. He was taken In charge by Dr. Gustavus Sabine, and since that time bas been under treatment with a view of replacing the lost parts of the face. After the course of the disease had been checked the process of building up was begun by cutting away the flesh about the edges of the orifice where the nono bad beon. Then tho inside of the large finger of the right hand was flayed, and the frosh cut wound was fitted whero the hose should bo. The hand was held in piece by bandages and piaster of paris until the finger had grown fast to the forehead and checks of the patient. In the meantime the mouth was covered by the hand, and a silver tube was inserted Into tho lad's throat, through which be was fed and through which be also breathed. When tho grafting of the fingers to the foco std completed, and circulation established, th? finger W?S -~rrt estated near the knuckle, leaving two and a half joints attaobed to the ; face. The opera tions so far had required about a year, but the process was only begun. The nest stop was to trim down tho finger into the shape of a hose by removing tho bone and gradually building up the fiesh on each side and drawing the skin from the cheeks and forehead over it. IQ course of time the result sought was obtained, except that there were as yet no nostrils. The eyes of the unfortunate boy had both been drawn out of position some what, and those were straightened by clipping nerves in the manner usually adopted by occulists in treating cross* eyed people. The eyebrows were also p?tCucd Up at tup iii ii er ?DUB. The next step was to give the boy a new pair of lips. This was done gradu ally by taking pieces of flesh from tho cheet?? and sn'afU >g the. J in plaos bit by blt. Yesterday, after thirteen years of ex [lerience under the surgeon's knife, hav* bg, meantime, undergone and recovered from thirty difieren t. operations, the patient, now a young man. left the hos* pttal. His face was emboto, and, to the casual observer, bore no traces of what he had passed through. The cas?: is extraordinary for the extent of the work done and the perfect result Obtained, lj?ot lesa extraordinary was the fortitude of the patient, who never murmured ander the necessarily painful operations, and who, when walking the floor because of his Bufferings,, was wont to cheer ap the other patients in the ward by telling droll stories, of which : he had a large supply. Ho waa known in the hospital as "Patient Tommy." Mr, Lincoln Wouldn't t?o. BALTIMOUK, September 26.~Tho Sun Eriots tho following: "It ia rumored ere that Secretary Lincoln was given te understand that it would be very agreea ble to Mr. Blaine to have him as a com panion on the western electioneering trip of the latter. The son of Abraham Iiirjr coln and a memtftr of Arthur's cabing would of course he quite a card for the occasion. But the kind of business on which Mr. Blaine is now engaged is not io Mr. Lincoln's line, and the Invitation was therefore declined. Tho significance of tiie''refusal is somewhat greater, from tho statement, which ls common report and which ls believed-to bo truo, thai Secretary Lincoln has received an inti malton foreshadowing- the desire of Mr Blaine to have him remain ic the cabinet when the 'magnetic' goes into the whiU house. Whether SecretnrjrLincoln doe! not share the enthusiastic anticipation o Mr. Blaine's occupancy of tho whit? house, or whether lu hopes to be electee to tho senate from Illinois in place o General Logan, and ic not tempted bj the offer of retention in the cabine;, ba> bot transpired." . ' -- Mr. Moody, evangelist, is shortly U begin a revival in Richmond, Va. -?Mamma," said a little up town boy ai hr- left his bed and crawled into' hers the other night,''I can go to sleep ii your bed, I know I can} but; X'vo atop my bcd nil up," - St. Louis girls ase the same bran? j of fino cut. that their papos chow. Tin I Vost-Dispatch is' authority ipr'tho -stat .feMntMt tobacco '.chewing is tho l.'.tes rage atuorg fashionable, wemen in tba MASON'S COTTON TICK EU, The Work or tho Harvester tn tho Whlt ? ?ming Fields. Tho cotlon crop of 1884 is now fairly open, and throughout the. cotton bellt? great interest ia manifested in the success of tho Mason Cotton Harvester. In many quarters there are symptoms of im patience because the machino hos not been placed on the marget, or, at. least, publicly tested, and some of our contem poraries are even indulging io cheap wit at tho expenso of tho inventor. In order to satisfy, as far ns posalblo. public interest and curiosity in regara to this novel and extraordinary implement, the Newt and Oourier has taken pains to ob- , tain accurnto information in regard to ita development up to tho present time, as ^ well as concerning the plana and expec tations of the Cotton Harvester Com pany. In tbe Ont placo it should bo slated that neither Mr. Mason nor any of those associated with him in perfecting his invention has entertained any iden of placing the Harvester on the market for general uso during the present. picking Beason. A? far back ns lost December it was determined by the company to limit this year's operations to tho manufacture of n limited number of the machinen of , different sizes and varying patterns in order that several modifications of tite Cri nelpie might bo thoroughly teated cforo tho manufacture of tho machines for ?alo was begun. In pursuance of this plan, Mr. Mason has constructed iiatf a dozen machines in three sizes, and since the cotton li nit began to open-experi ments have beeu mode every day with. the machines in a field of cotton planted:^ by the company for tho purpose in tho town of Sumter. Thc result of tbo-'f. ex periments has shown tho wisdom of 'he ompany la avoiding hasty action in tho . m&iiuf?ctU?o o? tho uoaehiueo. Despite the greatest care and hardest work duri.i.;; thc winter -and spring to make- tho machines perfect, Mr. Mason found upon first testing thom in tho field thia season that there wcro imperfections Ju construc tion which must bo overcome before tho machine could be treated as n practical success. Ono by ouo these defects have been overcome, and such difficult len "os remain to bo sol ved ie lr, to almost exclu* Bively to the gear of tho outmttntln remo val of the cotton, Into the bags oftei JJ? has been picked and deposited in tho. receiving boxes of tho machine. Tho picking cylinders, which form tho essen tial portion of.tho narr tater, gathering tho open cotton from tho plunts without, injury to tho plant i or to tho unopen fruit, work beautifully and with wonder ful rapidity. This part of tho machine, which has engaged. Mr. Macon's. whole attention for many months, and tho suc cess of which practically solves tho great problem of cotton-picking by machinery, scarcely needs any further improvement. The auxiliary contrivance.* for conveying the picked cotton Into the bags, being of less Importance, have received leas atten- ? tlon and Btill nced a good deal of modifi cation, which must, bo the result of pa tient and protracted tests. Mr. Mason, however, feels no ^uneasiness about theso defects, and is confident that'the perfect ing of this part of thc machino is only a matter of a little time. The difficulties experienced have been these : Tho .pick ing BtemB gather the cotton and deposit. lt eo rapidly Upon tho elevators thal, in heavily 'fruited cotton, the capacity of tho elevators has been inadequnto to remove it os fast at it comos in. -Tho. re sult is that the elevators become gorged, and tho revolving picker etems . forco come of tho cotton already picked off tho elevators and throw it on tho ground. At tho first glance this difficulty acema, trifling, but, owing to tho fact that only a very limited BDUCB!? available for th s.'. Uno ?? the eHvstois, is i? nat an easy ; matter, without a general reconstruction of the frame of tho machine, to remedy the fault. With ope pair of cylinders the machino picks nbout CO per cont: of the open cotton in passing overa row once, and very, nearly cleans the row by passing over it twice Mr. Mason is uoW . . . ?a work upon a machine r-arrying two pairs of cylinders,' which ' ?o calc?late? Will gather seven-eight" of tho colton nt ode picking. Arrangements bavo been made to, hav? ?,public exhibition of the Harvester before 4 committo appointed by tho offi cers of th? New Orleans World'? Expo sition and members of the National Cot ton Planton' Association. Col. F. C. Morehead, tho president of t-~ Nstl^sal. Cotton Planters' Association and Oom mleslbner-Qenoral of the World's Exp?ai t i on, in a letter to tho secretary ot tho Harvester Company, a few days, ?go, o^ako! a sugesti?n about ina testing nf,;'., thb machine, which will probably bc adopted. Col. Morehead says : . "Mr. Mason, I think, designated toking : . his machine out to Mississippi or Louisi ana and practically demonstrating its worth or value boforo a committee select ed by the World's Exposition beard. This would cost Mr. Mas?n & good deal of money add not be any moro effieia-' clous than what I now propose. Scmo of the most prominent men in your Sf-a!o Are activo members of tho National Cot ton Planters', Association of America, ander th? auspices of which tho World's, . ?'.';.? Exposition is to be held. If agreeable to Mr. Mason and tho stockholders of thc machine, I will appoint (by telegram, if nceeasary)-a competent committee from members of tho association in South Car olina mid add to It such other hionbers iv; will go from Georgia and North Carolina. , . Tho ' test shall be made under, tho.;." auspices of the National Colton Planters' Association of America, tho hoad of which oreanlration iii South Carolina ia.^ /' Hon. A, I. Butler, chiof of your agricul turaldepartment, und who ii vlco-prc3i dent of the association for tho t? tato of South Carolina. I would also request tho Go vernor of your State and tho pr?si- . dent of,your State agricultural society to bo present, nil of whom will no doubt join our .vice-president-in testifying, to , tho merits cf tho machine." " The Colton Harvester Company have ropiied to Col. Morehead that the com pany will be, pleased to make lbs tent upon tho terms 'and under th? auspice:* he siiggests; : : If doslrablevthe committee appointed by^ DirectorQcceraf Bnrko can witness the test at tho sum? timo or have another trial at a different time ami place. The test before Col. Morehead/sj i comiiiittco viii probably be made in thia State np.ar Col umhin, and as eooti ns tho committo ia duly appointed the tim? and place will be definitely fixed. If these lesta shall prove satisfactory, it is ibo pur' pose of the Harvester Company to organizo a construction, company this winier Hod proceed to manufacture' thu machines , for use in harvesting noxt year's crop. It m sy bo- added that' though hnndreds?f incred?i?ousirliatiterR : navo gone to Sumter to witucss tho work of the Harvester, not one who has ?..< ii doubt* its ultimate And complete success, -AVtM Courter. - Tho giraffe has n tongue seveutcm ioch?a loug-that IM. the mata giffie b*s. Wli?i must be tho length of tho. tongue of tho iRdySirafio? iujiert^ .