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Stato News. All tug prisoners )n the >Ben"etls tillcjail eseoped'last' week. A new rifle company is about to or ganise ifrjBarnwcH. Tjre crop prospect in Edgcfield continues extremely fine. The editor of tho Kcrshaw Gazette is"tie fiappy possessor of two whito mockirigbhfds?' ? ?' I ' -The dog killers of Charleston re ported, vtho< destruction of .twenty-six nuiiunls-on 'Friday. * Miss Mary Booth diod snddenly at Tl'mm'oaarillo on Friday last. Heart' VTndge Town8P,o4 is holding a :spo o&? iefrn of the court at Marlon. Tho re are ocata on the docket. A new post office, called Enorco, has been established in Laurens coun ty, with John Lauford postmaster. Mr. John H. Adams ono of tho oldest and most esteemed citizens of York county, died on tho ^d instant. ''Damtheuicsandmosquitoes" is tho latest word which puzzles tho spelling classes iu Winnsboro." ?An election for sheriff will be held in'Fnirfield County on tho 24th of August'. "Twenty-four candidates. *t;ast weelc the wife of James Scar borough',1 residing nenr Gillisonvillfe, gnvo birth" to thrcp children, and nil art doing well. ' 'On the ,10th instant, Charles Tal bor'o was * 4rownc<^ in a creek near Beaufort. Ho was seized with cramps while bathing. On .Saturday last Broad rivor, in Spartanbu-jg epunty, was stocked with 80,000. young, shad, brought in cans from Jlolyoke, Mass. .Mr* G. Washington Mooro, ono of t4ie best of tho citizens of Greenville county,: died .at his residence, near Grccuvillq, on .the 6th instant. i.Tho--chlore house of Mr. M. T. Mixon. in the Cypress' neighborhood, near Timmonsville, wns entered on Saturday night' and robbed of 200 pounds of Imeon. ? The 1 Rev. >T;H. Pope, fbr many years pastor of the Baptist church at Greeriwriod.Jdicd in that town on. the . 8th1 inst Ho was buriod at Newber ff, his native town. ? Capihiri S. B. Clowney, cashipr of ' the Winnsboro national bank, left on ThurBdayYjto \ attendL^j?lvention in cashiers o?- the United States, i ThO'fixdelsior Cliib, of Chcraw, and the Bcnnettsville Club had a match gavo at'Bcnnettsvillo, on tho 14th instant. Sc?rc?Excelior, 35; Bcn nettsville, 31*. bTho. letiding ttadicals of Union County arci" prowling around the country at bight rrganizmgthe Union leagues.- - The1' old' cry of Ku-K!ux will bo next in order. r-Ths Stbnewatl Club, of Timmons rille, and tho ?Farmers'Club, of Ebc n?*?r, bad -n. gaLxe on the 15th instant; ?core 21 to ?0 in favor of tho grangers. Middlemen, take a back seat, ' TnV Grwnvi.Io' Ba,?e Ball Club Imit* had & tussle with the Garrison Bam Ball Chub, and have boon beaten. Th% 'feoya'i? 'blue were too much for th?'ex?>Confedi. Let ushave peace. ' The . R?ckhill' Grnnge is happy in tho' possession of an okrn which mens nrcs twelve* inches in length, and which the editor thinks will supply him with okraso.up for the balance of his lifo.: A gentleman, by tho name of Al lan, while-'in bathing at Smith & Melton's lorry; on the Cntawba river, | Sbnday, 3d irtBt., was drowned. His body was recovered tho following Thursday, about one mile below where he lost biajife... r-Tho Barnwell-Blockville war has taken a new turn.- On Thursday last Judge . Maker issued an order direct- | ing the clerk of the court to re-remove | h'a jfiicefrjo.m Blackville to Barnwcll. Why not/coirrpromiso by having two county scats? ?j Aii postmaster on tho Charlotte, Columbiaand.Augusta Railroad, near Edgcfield, had his head blown off with' -a Torpedo Chicken, forwarded from ? the 'war department, last week, for ? charging five cents- a niece for postage stamps. Served him right. ?^ir. James It. Bhnouson, of Union, oiti of the so-called Ku-Klux prison ers, arrived in Columbia, Friday, on hi* way home from an imprisonment of three years niid-a half in tho peni tentiary.' Ho speaks in the highest terms of thp^.kind^treatment they re ceived from Governors Hoffman and Tilden: n . -'i't'i ?. A coloredbase bnll cbab in Darling ton bus thirty-five member?. .The average Willinmsburg farmer is not a succesHful potato speculator. :One of them made a shipment of po tatoes to New York last week, upon which ho paid Bovcuty-fivc cents a barrel freight. The net sales returned him fifty cents a barrel?a loss of twenty five cents a barrel. This is the way to glow rich. John T. Grist, Esq., has been ap pointed special deputy collector of Internal Revenue, fur the Third Col lection District of South Caroliua, embracing the counties If Abbeville, A nderson, Aikcn, Chester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Groenvillo, Lnurens, Lex ington, Jfowborry, Ocqneo, Pickets, Richlaad, Spartanburg, Union and York. NEW9&' TIMES.' ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY MORKIKO 11Y TIIH _ORAKOKHURO NEWS COMPANY._ . THAI) C. ANliRLlVSTKditQf. 0K0. ItOLIVEK, HnsinoBH Manager. S A~T ? R 1>A Y^Suly 24,18751 Parkers Hani. Wo see by late papers that the jury have convicted Parker of appro priating $150,000 in cupons, which at fifty per cent discount, their par value, makes $75,000 for which he has to account, there nro other indictments against him, and another jury has been impannclled to try him for other defalcations, the sickness of the Attorney General. has postponed the trial for a fow days. A Hqansh in Harness. Some accounts of the lifting power of a vegetablo in its growth, as deter mined from week to week by puttiog a peculiar test upon a squash, have been published from time to time, but the whole progress of the experiment was detailed by President Clark, at a late meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, in a lec ture on "Plant Growth." Wc take the account from the report in the Ncic England Farmer: "It had been known for a long time that plants exerted considerable force during their growth. Beans, acorns *Dthcr seeds lift an amount of rt., m lThby iTibi'Uit fromTTm soTT" in the early stages of their growth. Mushrooms have been known to li"t flag stones weighing eighty pounds from, their .bed in garden walks, and 8hadt-trec3 in our streets frequently lift tho pavements, and'even crowd in basement walls uuder our houses, with their roots. The force measured in a black birch was equal to raising a column of wator eighty-six feet, while the sap was in motion. The idea was conceived at the Massachusetts Agri cultural College of measuring the force of a growing plant, and a squash was selected as a subject for Buch an experiment. It seemed to be the most available of" anything we could try. So, last spring, a bed of rich compost was prepared and placed in ono of the glass houses at the College, where observations could bo made night and day through the summer, and during all weather. The soil was placed in a largo, tight box or tank, in which the roots were made to stay, and during some of tho stages of the squash's growth it was watched, and hourly observations made and recorded, ft r a whole week nt a time. Squashes* are made up of fibrous tissues; the outsid? fibres run length wise, then another set, liko bands, cross these, holding the squashes to gether the other way, and then, on the inside, is another set running lengthwise, to which tho seeds are attached. Tho vuharnessed squash was now exhibited, showing unmis takable signs of having been driven I in a harness much too smnll for it.) A strong box had been prepared to receive it, with boards set edgewiso in tho bottom, on which the squash was laid, like a baby in its cradle, but un like the baby it was told to lie there during its entire grow th to tho period of mature squashhood. Iron bolt3 and straps easily secured tho cradle, but something must bo dono to keep the growth from rising, or if it did rise, to indicate the power exerted. An iron grate or harness, made open to admit light and air, ns the squash would rot in a tight closed box, was formed in ! shape similar to the saddle of a cart harness. This was placed over tho ?quash and weights placed upon it, first a light one, then, ns it was lifted by thegrowth of the squash, a henvicr j one was laid on?25 lbs, then 50, next I 100, then, 200, and after that 200 at a time. It soon became difficult to find weights or room for them. The sad dlo got full. Then an inch bar of steel was arranged on the principle of stcdyards; one end being fastened down to the cradle bed of the squash, and at ono foot from the end, or just over the middle of the squash, a bear* ing was |mndc, and beyond this, bear ing, weights wcro hung, as weights nre hung upon a weighing bar. Woights wore piled on till the bar broke. Then a chosuut timber5x6 inches, good nnd sound, was put in placo of tho broken bar, and loaded bag* of sand and anvils till it held six of the latter,'and as many of the form? or as there was room for. Still tho squash grew, nnd as it grow, it raised the sand and anvils ono after another as they were piled on, until ono morn ing tho timber was found broken under its weight, but the squash all right and. increasing in size hourly. A heavy, wide cart-tire was bolted on to the m xt lever, used for stiffening it, and this one lasted till the harness crushed in the shell of the squaSh, in J one or two of its bearings. Thus end ed the experiment of testing thq. vital force of a growingsqunsh. At this time it had tipped the beam undcrthc weight of two tons and 120 pounds, nud had carried on its back, bt.t with out lifting it, n load of 500 pounds for ten do)s. Many harness galls were made dur ing the trial, but in every instances tho squR?h healed itself in a short time, and camb out healthy 'ft last with perfectly formed plump seeds and a cavity in each half, when \t? as it was before tho audienco?large enough for a large sized hen's nest. The meat or rind of the squash was about three in eben in thickness, and by estimation contained sixty-four thousand millions of cells, each of which had been formed from sap pre pared hy the leaves of the vine, and carried through the vino and stem of the squash itself, with instructions to appropriate as best it could under the circumstances. The forco exerted by tho vital power of tho vine was suffi cient to raise a column of water forty eight hours, at the end of which timejg us a correct answer/l^ere^l^sneen much dispute about the question whether tre?s grew except at the ex tremities, ami important law eases have grown out of it. Parties on both sides were euro they were right, but the weight of evidence was nearly all against the theory of elongation ex cept at the cuds of the new wood. The story of the filbert tree growing up through the centre of a mill-atona, and finally, by its growth, suspending the stone several inches In the air, not generally credited. Oui investiga tions prove- that similar effects are produced every year, by every tree i which grows, and that this rising of I tho tree is necessary to its own pre j servation. Under the influence of I winds which sway our trees to and fro, during their growth, the roots must be loosened in the soil and par tially prevented from holding the tree Becurely in its placo. Now for tho remedy. Each year, as tho tree grows, it lays on a riog ol new wood entirely around every part, not only of the top, but of the roots also. It cannot build on the under side of all these roots unless it lifts the treo from its bed, or crowds the soil away from underneath, to mako room for the new cells it is bound to carry there. Finding it ensier to lift the tree than to sink the world, the tree is accordingly raised each year, by just so much as the thickness of the new wood, which is laid upon the under side of the roots. And now the beauty of the arrangement is seen, when we discover that this added yearly growth is just sufficient to take up the slack in the roots caused by tho rocking of the treo during storms and winds The tree is thus securely tightened and anchored in the soil every year anew. Kilkenny Cats. Tiie Charleston Aries and Courier calls the Now York World a third roto paper: The News and Courier is a very tol erant journal, and daily inculcates lessons of charity and good will? when a point is to be gained. But let any prominent member of its party act without reference to its wishes md designs and how quickly its tune is changed. Witness, for instance, its treatment of Mr. Youraans, who saw fit to accept employment as counsel for Parker in the late trial at Columbia. Was there ever a more glaring case of impudent and tyranical journalism ? It is como to a pretty pass, assuredly, w hen n lawyer cannot accept a re tainer from a political opponent with out drawing upon himself the abuse of this papor?a sheet that is notoriously addicted to the very thing it condemns in Mr. Youmans. Do the editors of tho News and Courier forgot coming to the assistance of tho chief Radical corruptionist, Franklin J. Moses, Jr., once upon a time, in the issue of 20, 000 copies of a whitewashing supple ment?for which they were paid. If th'oy have for got ton this transaction, let ?thera rake over their private jour nalistic reminiscences, and they will find numerous instances of a similar character.?Qharletlou Chronicle. Tho New Crop Cotton. New Yokk, July 19.--The first bale of the new cotton crop was put up for sale to-day at the Cotton Ex change, and was bought by Merrill A Co., brokers, at 18 cents a pound. Speaking of this bale, the New Orleans Price Current of Wednesday last Bays: Our cotton circles were com pletely taken by surprise this morning by the receipt of a bale of new cotton, | not from Rio Grande, as usual, but i from St. Landry Pariah, shipped by Mr. Joseph Bcrand from his planta tion on tho Teche. There can be no mistake about the bale being all of a new crop. It in well ginned, of gocd color, classing middling fair to fair, new classification, and weighing up wards of 400 pounds. We learn that this cotton is mostly from Mr. Bernnd'a plantation, but received liberal contributions from his neigh bors, who were furnished by him with the seed, which Is of an unusually early variety, known as the 'Herlong,' selected with the anticipation of get ting an early yield. Owing to recent rains, no moro can be expected ior somo time from the same locality. The bale was purchased by Col. W. N. Owen, at the fancy price of 25 cents, right for premium to be awarded for first bale being regflfyja^afiSBa tor." _^-<rV >\ ' - For nuTnerThforniation apply to V??. Perrcyclcnr, Acting Foreman of I. E.H. A L Co. Orangeborg, 8. C, July 13th 1875. L. H. WANXAMAKXR, Sec. July 17 1875_3t Billiard Tables lor Sale Under Foreclosure of Myrtgag?. I will fell on Sales Day next first Mon day in AugiWt to the highest bidder two fine Billiard Table?, with fixtures complete, and equipments for a first claas bar-room? Terms Cash. PHILIP GRAY, Agent. jnly 17 1875 St a % i o O Pf? o Building Material &c. The subscriber would ask the attention ef | the readers of the Nfw*A Times to bis Stock of Hardware, Building Material, House Finishing and Carrige Building and Trimming Material, Ac. Consisting in part of Fresh Stone lame, Hydrnlio Cement, Calcind Plaster, Nnils, Hair, Laths, Locke, Hing", Bradcs, Tacks, Window Gloss, Putty, Varnishes, Pa int?, Oils and Brushes. In short, the largest variety of goods to be found in any one house in tho State. All goods warranted as represented, and price* gnar.mtccdjas low as the lowest for same quality of goods. All orders accompanied with Cash or satisfactory City references, will have prompt and careful attention. JOHN C. DIAL, i Columbia, 6? C jnly 10 lo75 . 3m. Rtl ;:< Ii Ii il ml qf\ T, Pill M M I/TjJ()7 \ > Ii. i- ? - .. . .. \mitiA g,{ ?40 .KOT-*.?U*U)i'..? HO titic ii L) 1 I 0 *1 ,?}}] iH.-i \sY.t'..{10 ?*H=bf r?,'-;-'! ? .i?- .*' "OtHI .]/. * \tf t'A \fc Ml I'tji ! '.t^'l-o'o) >'."Jl i{ i:v ?' ? \l; \-;:v.viu ? 'IT'/..I .?>? . '.5 -1 ? -.--rJff.-J-ir i ot J;f?ivv9c* ?;' ? l i t . ..'. i.'". ? '? ? :?.( b;?"-.?V<i,? ? m ? ?"?t*> y'jj.J it. it:u,u> itili Uli .1 ???:???' ; i (?'* rffnGi _irasiii L ways to maintain it in Dry Goods Until, CIpthing, Uhots, Ac". ?h bftiiif -.-At? I IHK LA55EST ?SSORTSEKT-is? 1 ' 1 r ;?i l Wiltfoa ui I .-?'. THE MOST FASHIONABLE STYLES? Whilst v?o will Rluaya haro ? "plain nnd medium Styles" for thorn* wfco prefer them, yet wtty will aim to be up with the high- , The Lowest Price**?None can buy guoda Cheaper than- ifeia \i ?fl Houm. None watch the baslnem !o u large a bud? article tlit nhm examined-at home will prove ntuwtisfactorr.... Further?<>."?? N?* Bfiek^EstaMUk liphmcnt and Knew .rooms in a model of eWiiVetttmre' and eon-, fort, being pronounced by eeery-. I bode to be the Largest of It* kinil i in the State. We matt cordially ' invite a generous public to pax* judgment on our taute and nkill by a personal inspection of the. .premises and ntock Our frigcrU tar and near are amared that everything that patient deftra ined effort caYi do nlll alvr.?Ta ha done to keep our House at the head of tho trade.? ? t'/' Lot* ef NEW STYLES in ? un\v v ? *ii 1U ?I FOR Ladies. Gents aad ClaEtoiaiu' .?) -.'burn ?":-,.xv to'-i . Special Notico.-A n.w^ef^O.l.bJ.VrfDIAMOND P.r feet fit SHIRTS arrived ;ti;i 'jr.i;.. |? i|l imj tjn > "fl.-. 1 i ..'?<??:" ?-?rS^ ?rf V .0? ) or. r.fi Isii h btf A r i'? >??-t?l)4." i ... ! 1.7th .'...1. : <? ir./yii'.!? T. KOHN A BROTHER. T. KOHN & BROTHER. T. KOHN A BROTHER, V ? |tj ,u ? r, 0h| > ?\.j,r' : j g f?o.fuxa t v^aj-a