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TIOUtGHTS FOR TlE 1ONl. SOME SEA.ONABLE SUGGESTIONS FR o1 HIGi AtTiloIti'v. What woedi the Good Farier- Should Do in the 3onth or Ai:,ust--Ain luteresting Article From an Ente!igent Writer. (W. L. Jones in the Au't "Cnivor.") To one who is not a routine farner, nice questioni; are sometimes sprung this month touching the managcment of a cotton crop. As a rule "laying by" is completed by the last of July, - but should heavy, conpacing rais follow close on the heel of the last plowing, and hot dry weather sets in, is it better to plow again or no!. anu how late in the season may plowing be advantageously continued? No in flexible rule on these points can be 1. t laid dowvn-one must decide according to circumstances. If the land is fresh, t or the soil filled with humus, so that it is friable and loose, plowing miay be stopped earlier than whece opposite conditions prevail. If the soil is dis posed to run together and bake, plow ing should continue as late as it can be without breaking off limbs and bolls too badly. One furrow in each mid dIe, using a very wide scrape and .a very short singletee, is all that is needed. It is hardly necessary to add that the plow should run as shallow as possible, just deep enough to break a single root. Another circumstance to be consid cred is the state or condition of the crop for the time being-if it has been growing slowly and steadily up to the time in question, a light plowing may not accelerate growth so much as to induce shedding; but if growth has been suspended by dry, hot weather and copious rain-falls, there is danger of a second growth setting in so rapid lv as to make the plant throw off its fruit. Plowing would accelerate the second growth, and might do harm instead of g6od. It would be well in such case as to delay it awhile until after the impulse gived the plant by the rains had somewhat expended itself. If frequent rains continue, no farther plowing of course is advisable, but if a '.'good season" only occurs, followed-by dry weather, the plows mal be advantageously started, say a week after the rain: tfr by that time the effects of the rain wili be well-nigh over: and plowing will only prolong a steady continuous growth. Let it be borne in mind that a sudden start ing or a!sudden checking of growth are both very objectionable after cotton begins tv'Trnit- One must consider, therefordthe cdndition of his crop, the character of his soil and the kind of weather prevailing, and regulate his course accordingly. The "topping" ot cotton Is another point which comes up just now. If done it must be before the middle of August, for the object of topping is to divert the forces of the plant from weed-making to fruit-making, and after the middle of August, there are .only fifteen. or twenty days in which fruit that will mature before frost can form: not many blooms after the first of September can- ordinarily be count ed on. If the plant has about ceased growing, topping of course can do no good-it will simply be labor thrown away. If, on the cottrary, weed is oeing rapidly formed, topping may do some good by. checking new growth (which now- can-'add. nothing to the vield) an& diverting the forces of the plant into frait-making. At times we have seen toppinig prouce decidedly good results-at other times inoue whateve- ;1 Here, as everywhere, fairming calls for keen, discriminating judgmeint. To do what is best under ever-varying, shifting conditions de mands intellect of the highest order and most thoroughly trained. In. the olden time, 'when reliance was had upon the natural fertility of the soil. removing competition by keeping down weeds and grass was the chief business of the farmer, and he who could manage labor best and get the most work-done was the most success ful. Executive talent was the great desideraf ur. .Of . course t his will always be an iinportant factor in farming, but now with worn, exhaust ed soils, destitute of humus, runnmng together and baking after every rain -the feeding of plants, the preserva tion of soils from washing and the securing of fmne tilth, call for much more thiought. Agr'culture now is a very different thing from what it was in this country fifty years ago.- It is a much more difficeult art-one that makes brains greatly paramount to mere labor. In the olden time fodder-puiling was a prominent feature in the work of this month, more so than at present, partly because more corn was planted tlyn now, and partly because fodder was the almost execusive dependence for long forage for horses and mules. Other kinds of forage hiave rutipplanted it more or less, but it still holds a high place in the estimation of Southern farmers, and deservedly so. Well cured, it is very titne feed, but if musty, it is execrable. Considering the risk of weather, it is better to cut off the tops above the ears and cure them in shocks. Tops can be cured success fully in weather that fodder would spoil in.' For some years we have adopted the plan of going over the corn and-stripping all the blades below th'e ear. These are the first to dry up and-sian be taken off some days in adva di'ottting the tops. Som~e art is reqdisifnta shock up the tops so -r not bfow over. They must Sall around the bottom toC n<*%enongh toadmit t ir access to the vmust all be I they are I dis I e o:. Ariange business so tnat lows and harrows may start promptly fter every rains. 'Most of the seeds to le sown are small, and call for a very ilv Nulverized soil. Deep breaking .nd fine sur!face tilth are the desiderata o far nsmcchanical preparation goes. 'he plow, the roller, the harrow, fol owing each other in the order naned, vill do the work. With the modern myroevemen t; in pulverizing harrowb, here is little ditliculty in bringing and into the best condition, even when tarting with it rough. For grass and :lover-epeciayI g rass-the land hould be made very rich. If the upply of manure is limited, it is better o put it all on a small area and sow mly that. It is time, labor and seed v:ated to sow on poor land. One Cre of good grass is worth ten of that vhich is poor and hardly able to main ai itselt in the struggle for existence. )n ordinary land apply not less than hirty two-horce wagon loads of yard Uanire to start with. If you get a ood stand you can help out this 1tuontity by top-dressing next spring vith commercial fertilizers. Tihe nanure should be well mixed with he stirface soil by harrowing. Never >low it under decp. Whether for rass proper, clover or lucern, a good pplication of barnyard manture is the est founlation to build on; commer ial fertilizers answer a good purpose ferwards. In relation to grass culture, the otton bcft may be conveniently livided into two sections--a northern L11mi southern half. Norti, say of par ili thirty-three degrees of latitude, -ed and white clover, together with >rchard and herds grass, grow admir Lblv and should be mrost widely sown. ;outh of that line the annual clover, as he burr :mid the crimson, together vith an annual winter grass like the 'rescue" (Featuca), can be nore cer ainl- relied on. Lucern will do well n both sections. We are speaking :ow broadly-there are other plants hat may succeed well and answer ood pur! ose in both the sectiosn lamed. The tail meadow oat grasQ vill grow all over the cotton belt: ctter in the northern then in the -outhern half, but moderately well inl he latter ou rich sansdv loasis. Tim thv does well on the valley land is' le northern section. Span;sh c!oves Richardsonia) is a valuable plant fos be Gulf borders, perhaps superior tc 111v of the true clovers for that region. rhere is ample material from which to hoose, and an abundance of land: iothing stands in the way of grasi mture but habit, and to some extent lack of appreciation of the value 01 rasses and clovers. Everything that -heapens she maintenance of worl; tock lessens the cost of production, nd everything that cheapens produc ion increases the net profits from thc 'rm. Now whilst it costs something2 Is the way of manure, labor and seed .0 get a field of grass, it. must be :re neinbered that such a field will vield rops of hay and some grazing for any years and if the first outlay it livided by the number of years, thc munual exoense, so to speak, will bc ierv small. But grass cuiture coin nends itself not only because it is the :heapest means of keeping stock, but )ecause it is the best restorative and >reservative of our worn, humus ex austed iands. If carni and fodder ould be r.aised at exactly the same -ost as har and oats, the latter arc reatly to be prseferredl ins view of heir benieficial effects on land. Farm rs hold this idea and practice it in the eeding down of land to smnall grain; hey say the land need~s sc-wing down. Bt the rest from the plow ins that case asts for one year only; grass growing ~xtendss it through many years. Grass tepends mainly on wint~er rains whsich arch- fil; corns cannot be made with mlt summer rains andl these often faii. )ur true policy is to concentrate corn :ulture on lansd specially adapted to hat crop, manure highly and cultivate ih bsarrow and plow exclusively, sc to reduce cost to a minimum, andl len utilize !.illsides, rocky knolls and uch localities as are inot adopted to lan culture, by seeding them down o grasses asnd small grainms. On formner occasious we have urged he sowing of rye lots for supplyisng ~ren feed itn the early sprinig. Noth-. ng is so reliable; rich land, good seed md early sowisng ase just as certain to risg a full sup~ply of early gr-een -orage as sprug succeeds winter. The icher the land the more the rye wili e relished by stock. This is limpor ant because rye is not as much relished y animnals as some other plants, but ts quality can be greatly impsroved by ;owing on rich or nighly manured and. It is somewhat disposed to ecome wod as it gets older, buta ich soil by pronmotinug rapid growth, >bviates this-it will grow high enough o cut before weody fiber has tinme to levelop. Give the rye patch pr-ec lee over all others-begin its prepa. -arion at osnce-break and roll and zarrow and incorporate manure with urface soil. Ilave everything ready o sow the seed by the 10th of next nonth . Sow Southern raised seed, nd preferably that growsn nearest our locality. Western rye will not nswcr. Seed from Virginsia, east of he mountains, does very well. Sow me and a hsaif to two bushels per acre. The nearer the burn the patch can be oated the better; if it cannot be sear tihe harns, let it be adjacent to a arm road so that it may be easy to each with a wagon. Isn everything ave an eye to economizing labor. It is too late now to plant forage :orn: the worm will eat and destroy he bud: p'ossibly early amber cane ould matr.re suffieiently before frost o ake good forage. We sowed it ast ear onl the 11th of July and it natured seed. It can be cut when he seed is in the dough. Germans illet and Hutngarianm grass may still sown, however, assd on rich land make good yields. Cow peas ;be sown for forage. The ore rapidly in the latter the early stummiser. If talready- been made ~ply of forage, act is some of these opprobrium of 'Northern hav ouths. Somec tem- in the rabgrass unally too aUd ''11i" thc roUn these are the conditions of success. :For greens, sow the seventop-it will stand our coldest winters--other kinds have to be dug and put in hanks or collars. Let neihborhood clubs now come tog-ether and have barbecues. Give the social side of our nature-z an oppor tanitv of espanding. The exacting. demands of his crop have heretotore kept the farmer too busy and too close lv at home for him to cnjoy much the society of his friends. This is the greatest defect in lfrm life; let us counteract its dwarting, narrowing tendency whenever we can. Meez together as often as possible, compare notes, swap experiecees, discuss the public welfare of the county and State. Do not be frightened by tile bugaboo crv of politiesi: tarmers have as iuch right to polities as anybody else. Why should they not tix up slates as wCl as city people or anybody cle? 13y all tcans take politics out of the hands o1 the self-seekers. Desecration or a Graie and MattUntion of a MIr. John C. IHumphries, of Durh-liunville-, Aiken. S. C.. write- to the Aiken hrerc; giving an accont of an outrage Lperpetrated on the night of July 24th at the cemetery of Mount Hecrnion Bzkpti.t Church, in Lex ington county. The (hirch is in Aiken county, near llanre Bridge on the North Edisto River, but the cemetery is on the opposite side of the river. A young man nlamed Tilhnan R. Williams, of exception ally good character and well connected, died seven months ago and was decently buried. On the 21th of July the grave bore the evidence of having leen cldese crated. and rehitives of the dead man had the grave opened. the body removed and :1a autopsy held, when it was ascer tained 1hat the 0liest of the corpse had teen cut open from just above the navel to the clavicle or collar bone. the knife raining centralyiv throughli the ster.aumn, making an incision more than twelve inches long. Tie liart had been removeul :mid the hands deprived of their thubihs. The affair has caused much excitement in the neig-hbor hood. A .MALL W-AU CLOUD. The President to be Authorized to Ilenew the Demand ror Cutting. WismsNicrox. August 3.-The House Committee on Foreign Alfairs, at a called meeting to-day, took up and considered the resolution introduced by Representa tives Belmont, Craine and Lanham in rela tion to the Cutting case, and also the cor respondence on the subject furiiished by the Seeretary of State. Representative Lanhama :ppcared in person before the conmittee in support of his resolution, and finally the following preamb.l..le and resolutions, drawn up by Representative Craine. were adopted: "Wherens A. K. Cutting, an American citizen. is wrongfully deprived of his liberty by the Mexican olielals at Paso a I Norte. i the republic of Mexico: and where-as the Mexican government refuses to reiose said Ctting, upon the demand of the Pres ident of the United States: and whereas the government of Mexico a-ged as a reason for its refus:d to comply with such demand that said Cuttinr is guilly of violating a Mexican law upon Atmerican soil: and whereas the House of Repr-esentatives. while appreciating the disposition shown by the government of Mexico to cairy -ut its interTational obligations, can never as sent to the doctrine that the ctizens of the United States ia:ay be prosecut-d in a foreign country for acts done wholly upon American soil: therefore. he it "'Resred, That- the Ilouse of Rtepre sent-atives approv'es of the action of the President of the Uited :ates in demanding the release of sai A.' K. Cutting. "Re..uired. Thiat the P'resident of thie United States be and lie is hereby requested to reinew the demadc for the release of snid A. K. Cuttin. The resolutions were unavlniouslv adopted and laid before the House by Chairman Belmonit to-dany, and immtediate action requested. While Thx re is Life Therc is Hope. Many of tile dIlseases of this season of the'year can be averted by a small amount of care and at little cost, by the timely use of Ewiulxx's Tfor-Az CixCHoN.1 CoRit.\L. It cures Diarrhwea Dysenitery, Chol era Morbus and like comuplaimis. No tracelcr should be- withotut a bottle, as it will prevent any disease that would no doubt arise fr-om the change of water, food and climate, without its use. The most valuable medicine in the world, contains all the best anid most curative properties of all other -Tonics, Bitters, etc., etc., being the greadtest IWood Purifier, Liver RegulIa tor and Life and .lealth-Restoring Agent in existence. F-or Malaria, Fever and Agute, Chills anid Fever, Dyspepsia, Indigestiots , lek 11ead ache, Nervous .Ieadache, Chronic Rhenmatism, etc., etc., it is truly a Herculean Remedy. It gives new life and vigor to the aged. For ladies mn delicate health, weak and sickly chil dren, nursing~ mothers. See circulars wrapped with bottle. CIIAIR LESTON, S. C., Sept. 1, 1885. IU. B. EwinANK, Esq., Pr-esidenit of The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., Spartanburg, S. C.: Dear Sir-I have used a case of your Topaz Cordial ini miy family, and as a Tonic and Appe tizer I can cheerfully rccommend( i: to all who are sull'ering from Debility and lack of appetite. My children, especially, have been mnuch betietitted by its use. Respectfully, H1 UTSOX LE E. Ask your druggist for EwnAxx's Tora~z CixdnoxA Com>IAL and take no other. THE TOPAz CINCTIONA CORDIA L Co., * Spartanburg, S. C., U. S. A. Why Is itt When your are driving a nil, and hit your thtmb instead of ti.e nail, and you then go jumpiling and hoping anid whirl ing -around the room in the wildest contor tioiis of agony. and slinging your hand as if you were trying to hurl caT the lacecr:ted thumb,. some one is suire to ask you "it it hurts:' and whil~e von know the inquiry arises from a nitpathetie nature, still a wild. passionate, earinest, mulful, longing, insatiate dLsire to be perverse creeps through pur boom a-.d you can'it repress the tantaiizjin inl ination to say: " No. it don't hllt a hii but ius at tihis very nio meiit, 1 was seize.d wit :lti.0 uneolltrolhable de-ire to learra a new sli p in daninig."- It is wrong to make suchi a t epiv, but never theless it is humun nature to do a To Get RIId of :,tiierv. What is the use- of suffering from dys pepsia, niervous lprostratio n or debility whlen Brown's Iron Bitters will tone yon p and east these horrors out ?'There i in everv bottle of this valuale ton i sbad blood good, and bids dis be cheerful. It brings goiodJ ~iner table, and mfij it drives away' enjoy a 1 +table c BRIC-A-BRAC. A plane issue-A shaving. The fishery question-Got a bite? Moves in the best society-The fan. A bride's made-By the clergyman. Having a great run-Perspiration. The Associated Press-A lover's squceze. Mental gymnastics-Jumping to a coa clusion. Pugilists are the only men who really make money by striking. Whenever a musician gets a _bright thought he makes a note of it. No bald-headed men are enlisted now. It aggravates the Indians. Dentist-made teeth go well with a false set-oh voice. A bang is something to a door-especial ly when it is on a pretty girl. Fashionable people do not seem to be able to hear scandal and not repeat it. A few weeks more and the tide of travel will be from instead of to the resorts. Civil service reform was a Republican web which caught the Democratic fly. Chicago has a population of 655,000 of which only 164,000 are native Americans. You can't tell by the size of a woman's mouth how many hair pins it will hold. Mrs. Cleveland is said to have a remark able memory for names as well as for faces. A woman hates to pass a pretty bonnet in a store window, but she is always willing to go buy it. A student of human nature says anything can be sharpened. Put a lead-pencil in a woman's hand, and see. A man may refuse to be a friend to a principal in a duel because he desires to be second to no man in the country. Man proposes and the girl makes inquiry as to his pecuniary value, and then gives an answer. The fly is not much of an astronomer, but if there is a cream jug within his orbit he will find out all about the milky way. As prohibition begins to prohibit in At lanta the domestic wine business shows signs of beginning to boom in that city. The most important on the list of books to be taken to the mountains for the sum mer is the pocket book. Don't forget that. The economical man is never happier than when lie discovers a tobacconist's shop in which he can buy a ten cents cigar for five cents. Oregon pays a bounty of two cents for every squirrel killed, and one man recently was paid for 125,000 squirrel tails which he had collected. There is a crazy man in Buffalo who imagines he Is an umpire. And there are lots of base ball players who imagine their umpire is a crazy man. Beware of the young man who writes love letters with a type-writer. They may be dictated, and if lie dictates before mar riage he will boss afterward. An Ohio factory turns out 57,000,000 matches a day, and yet many a man has barked his shins on a rocking chair because lie didn't have one of them. The enforcement of prohibition laws in Rhode Island has produced a marked effect on Newport. No sea-serpent has been noticed around there this summer. A new drug has been extracted from hops, which is said to be a coimbination of morphine, cocoaine and atropice. Beer contains plenty of the new drug. A writer says that a woman is a silent power in the land. To this a cynical old bachelor editor responds: "That it will be news to thousands of husbands." Ages will come and go: but woman will not be perfectly happy until she can have eyes attached to her shoulders, so that she may look up and criticise her own back hair. The Del Rio (Tex.) Dot is edited by a young lady. She remarks: "Man pro poses, but it sometimes takes a great deal of encouragement to get him to do so." A writer on woman's rights says: " Never scold your husband before supper. Put him to his purgation on a full stomach." But suppose he doesn't provide the supper? A gifted poet writes: "The dlevil arose from his little hed, and washed his face and combed his head." We hope not to be considered profane if we ask where in hell hie got his water? One of the pet mnanent mysteries to a student of human nature is why those little girls who fight so hard against being kissed at copenhagen play the game at all. They don't have to. Did you ever feel that deep, inner, subtle sensation of the whole being. as though the whole world had flopped up andl hit you on the head, which creeps over a man when hie steps on a place that isn't there? As a drug clerk, the female is not a bril liant success. When you wink at her across a soda fountain, she doesn't know whether to put a little balm of Gilead in your soda, or hang her head and blush. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, has prophesied a storm for September 29, which will be the w'orst in ten years. If it will blow Wiggins to the north pole it will be welcomed by a grateful continent. An exchange thinks that the Chinese way of removing dandruff with sandpaper is the most effectual. Perhaps it is, hut the common North American Indian has a plan, though qtuite abrupt, which is said to be reasonably sure. Sam Jones says: "There Is something wrong when a preacher gets $400 and a pitcher $5,000." The Boston Tran.cript explains: "But Sam should remember that the $5,000 pitcher has a much better delivery than the $400 preacher." "With all thy false I love thee still," said the newly-married man to his spouse when viewing the mysteries of her toilet. "With all thy faults I love the still," said the owner of a whisky still. "With all thy faults I love thee still," said the man who was mated to a garrulous woman. "With all thy vaults I love thee still," said i wife to the leaping acreonaut. Publicity is money. This has come to be recognized by shrewd business men as an ackniowledged fact. Competition is so keen, and we live in such busy times, that s man's best hope for success really rests in the judicious p~resentation of the merits ot bis wares. If a merchant, mantifacturer r mechanic has a g'enuine meritorious arti :le for sale It will always pay to let his neighbors know it. Land near Birmingham, Alabama, sold recently for $400 an acre. It was ptir :hased five yecars ago for $50 an acre. A alf-acre in the city of Birmingham soldl ~or $97,000. Ten years ago it was woirthi ittle or nothing. T'he Manu'factur'er's~ Rec ~rd says: Manufacturing has made it valuable and s steadily increasing its value. The land >wners are growing rich, the farmers find t good home market for all their fruits, regetables. poultry, etc., and everybody in md~ around Birmingham is prospering. Chattanooga can tell the same tale, aitd so 'an Armiston, Roanoke and other plaics. yhis is the result of manutfacturinir. and tis manufactui-ing has been dlevelopedi .rough the in thuence of a protective tariff. Marshal Boy kin, of South Catrolina, hais >en contirmed. THESHNG MACHIINES Simplest. Mnost Dunrable Kcernomical, antl Pcerfect in uise-wasteR nou erain; cle-ans it ready for market. THRESHING ENGINES adHOS Aaw Mis. and Mtanidard Implements gen. erally. Send for illustrated catabogue. _A -. L" A n IMA R, GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Facts or luterest Gathered from Varions Quarters. A Bohemian family in Chicago cat dog's flesh. The total v:sible supply of cotton for the world is 1,b,5 bales. Hoar sprung a bloody shirt discussion in the Senate Thursday. Specials from all over Alabama show un eXpecled vietories for Independents. The elections in France resulted in a conplete victory for the Republicans. 1 landbills demanding home rule are being circul:ited throughout Wales. The operatives in 42 factories at Broclon, M1ss., struck Saturday. The New Orle:ms Timex-Democrat thinks the nostai note is a failure and a fraud. Virginia has raised more hay this year than for any of the preceding forty of her existence. At Oakland, Ill.. the mercury at one time last Thursday registered 112 degrees in the shade. William Hooper & Son, of Baltimore, have made an assignment. Estimated assets $500,000. Mr. and 'Mrs. Van Hlouten, of Watses sing, N. Y., were poisoned recently from eating caunned lobster. David Davis was not worth the six or eight millions he was credited with. It has been olicially given at $850,000. J. C. Dobbin,, a train shifter, was torn literally to pieces by a freight train at Cen tral, Thursday. The ground was covered to the depth of 11 inches yesterday at Mount Washington, N. i., with snow. The four-story brick block, comprising Nos. Ill, 118 and 120 South Eutaw street, Baltimore, was burned last Thursday. In the anarchist trials at Chicago, yes terday, the defence opened their case, 31iyor Ilirrison being one of their wit nesses. The Sibley Mills' operatives at Augusta returned to work to-day. The situa tion at the Augusta factory remains un changed. By .special order of Governor Ireland, of Texas, the parties concerned in delivering Arresures to the Mexican authorities have been arrested. The Governor of New Foundland says: "I have reason to believe that the report of starvation in Labrador is absolutely un true." Two French sub-officers of the army, stationed at Algiers, fought a duel with sabres. The head of one of the combat ants was cleft in twain. There is said to be another great boom in Alabama coal hnds. Active life prevails in the vicinity of Birmingham and through out the Black Warrior belt. The proprietors of factories in Westpha lia and Rhenish Prussia are dismissing workmen by wholesale, owing to the ter rilde depression in trade. In New Albany, Ind., on July 27, Prof. J. G. Strunk shot Dr. C. L. IIoover, a prominent druggist. and his son Charles loover-domestic difficulties. The people of Texas have established a Confederate Home in Austin, which they propose to make a model resting place for the heroes of the Lost Cause. Enterprising South Carolina editors are beginuing to admit th.t wisdom did not (lie with Calhoun, MeDufie and Waddell. The world moves.-A 1gutst4 Chronide. At the trial of the Chicago dynamiters a ca load of the explosives used by the an archists as well as the bloodstained clothes of the murdered policemen were exhibited to the jury. In Louisville, on July 27, John Koehiler, a jealous husband, shot John Carter, a counterfeiter, through the heart and Peter Hloup~h, a bricklayer, through the right eye. In a recent autograph letter to a New York man, Jefferson Davis says: "I1 am too old to quarrel, too old '.o boast. The man of sense in his old age likes to be let alone." Gov. Ireland's letter addressed to Secre tary Bayard is approved all over Texas, amd-has hand the effect of intensifying the war spi:rit by affording it a quasi authority for its existence. Careful Rcpublicans concede that the next House will be Democratic by a re duced mnajority. Don Cameron admits that the next Senate may be Democratic or pain fully close politically. 3Iosquitoes are so thick at resorts on the coast along Barnegat Bay that city people arc compelled to return home. The walls of every house are literally black with the insects, and the people endure almost un bearable torture. The aggregate appropriation made by the regular appropriation bills passed at this session of Congress (excluding the for titientionos bill) is $365.000,000, which is $45,000,000 in excess of the approp~riations made by the bills passed last session. In Cincinnati, Wednesday, a little boy, bareheaded and barefooted, reeling with liquor, staggered before the merchants along Race street, flourishing a revolver. lie fired at a gentleman who attempted to dIlsarm him. It is estimated that British capital invest ed in the United States amounts to $175, ;S6,535. This money is in mortgages, cat tie, land, mines and manufactures. Some investments pay from 121 to 3 per cent. Some pay nothing. Seventy acres of land north of Birming ham, Ala., wvere recently sold at the rate of $400 per acre. As the same land was purchased five years ago at about $50 per at-re, an idea of the increase in the value of property in that ri-ing district can be ob tained. The Adjutant General of Texas received at Austin applications for permission to raise volunteer regiments in case of war with Mlexico. H~e also received informa tion that the Mexicans are reinforcing the garrison at El Paso del Norte. Uncle Sam has only one company at El Paso in charge of Fort Bliss. Either Senators Hampton and Butler are wvrong in voting practically against the Morrison resolution or the whole South Carolina delegation in the House, includ ing .Messrs. Hiemphill and Dargan, have blundered. Hlemphill and Dargan heard from the people at home. no doub~t. Hlamp ton and Butler may hear later on.---A ugusta Chron icle. At Hanckney's bar room, Rome, Ga., is an old rusty pistol, which was dug out of the ground tby 31r. Aycock a few days ago, but whence it c-anecis a mystery. The dates of the p~atent are battered, but as near its can be made out read "May 12, 1757." The place where the pistol is touched off is at the bottom, but the rust has eaten off most of the works, One like it has never before been seen in this genleration. The debt statement, issued Thursday, shows the decreamse of the ptublic dlebt dur i::z the month of July to be $9J,049,10:3.85; en-h in treasury. $484.58(. q0)3; gold certi lietes outtstanding', $74. '18,517; silver cer to!icts outstanding, $87,564,044; certifi cadtes of deposit otstainnding. $19,105,000: legral tenders outst:mdinmg. $:346,738; frac tional c-urrency (not including amount esti maated :;s lost or destroyed), $6,'J53,721.52. While Robbins's circus was on the way fmm~ Mamnor to Sag Harbor, L, I., via the Longz Island Itailroad, a large elephant in a -- ii two camels attacked the latter, henm both. The keeper, who at -itiet the elephant, was driven narrowly escaping with his madle by the elephant ex gers to such an extent -break out of their Enuters tje sy.te m rrm unknown Causes, at a 2a3ons. Shattco the Nerns, Impairs Digestion, and ELfe, " ele Jnsche. EST TO H Iqr Qnickly and corpletly cures. 1laria,and Chills and Fev.r. orl ntermittent Fevers. La.. 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