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TIIOUGilTS FOR TIlE MONTi. I iO M E E A . tO NA B L E Ut G G E S T %Nio F R O M HIGH AUTHoRITV. What Work the Good Farmer, simuitd no in the Month of December.-An rinteretin: Arti cle From an Inteligent Writer. (W. L. Jones in the Decemkr -Cuiva: 1r.") Last month attention was called to the importance of supplying animals, in winter, with warm water and 1 arm food. It wasumgested thiat. water be brought from springs, in underground pipes, directly into the stalls, when ever this was practicable. But as this cannot be done on many tarms. we suggest another arrangemnti. which is practicable on every tarm. A loree pump may be placed in the barn or stable with pipe running from it to a well near by. With such arrange mzent, the farmer without exposure, and without taking his animals from their stalls, could supply them with iresh, wari water, by pipes running from the punip to drinkini vessels in each stall. The pipe, leading to the well, should be sunk deep enotih in the ground to escape freezing in tile coldest we-ither. How quickly, how easily, how pleasantly could stock be supplied with fresh, warm water in winter, and cool, fresh water in sum mer. The first outlay would be soon returned in the saving of time and labor in takin. animals in and out of their stalls. Irregularity: in feeding and watering lays the foundation for much of the sickness of stock. Ar range everything, therefore, about barn and stable with reference to great est convenience and (spatch. The easier a thing can be done, the more certainty of its being done. Rainy weather usually sets in this month and continues during the win ter. If stock has been allowed the run of the fieldi up to this time, stop it at once. There is no practice in our farming more short-sighted than allow ing stock to tramp the wet fields during winter. Pretty much everything of value as food has been gleaned a! ready; the stock wil! get little or nothing, but they will danagc the lamd greatly. The land is entitled to all the debris of the crqp. lan't be so short sighted as to try to get everything out of it at once. Iememnuber the story of the goose that laid the golden egg. Moreover, it is true economy, as well as kindness to stock, to keep them out of the cold rains. The little gleanings they get will not produce more animal heat than that which expo-ure to cold rains will take from their bodies. In1 other words, the animals will gain] nothing, the fields will lose their vege. table matter and the soil its friability. In all the more thickly settled portions of the country we have passed beyond the mixed pastoral and farming state, and have reached the farming s.ate proper. Our policy novw is to provide special pastures and raise food for all the stock kept on the farm. This must become, as much as any other, an or ganized, well-developed part of otn farm economy. See how readily and quickly it asstunes this shape on the stock farms scattered over the coun try. Owners of Jerseys-who attach value to their stock-very soon have good pastures and unlimited supplies of forage. It only requires that oliC should make up his irnd to have them. With Bermuda grass, red, white and burr clovers, lucern and Spanish clo ver, orchard, herds and blue grasses, barley, rye, Germanz millet, sorghum, pea vines anddrilled corn; why should one ever be at a loss in providing for his stock? With so many avaiiable crops, stup plemented by an unlimited supply of cotton seed andl a mild, genial climate superadded. why should not Southern farmers raise more stock ? Why should a mule or a horse ever be brought from the north side of the Ohio river? Why should hundreds of tots of butter and oleomargarine from the North be sold in the Soutth every year? Why work ourselves to death to raise cotton to buy horses, mules, bacon, flour, lard, meal, gltucose or starch syrup when every one of these, except the glucose, which can be stup planted by sorghtum syrup, can be raised at home wvithotut the slightest dimlculty! Why play- into the hands of middlemen, railroads, banks, spec ulators, etc., to say nothing of the de pendence upon the uusteady, unreliable laborers in our midst ? You say cotton is always salable, always brings cash. So does first-class butter, so (toes bacon, so does lard, so does a good mule or horse. Jersey butter finds ready sale simply because it is good butter. The owners of such stock make butter in a business-like way; they have good milk-hotuses and proper arrangemlents for cooling and keeping milk; water power- or some other mechanical device for churning. They do not los.e patientce in cool weath er and pour hot water- in the churn; they know that slow churning miakes the most andl the best butter. Th~ley know that large feeds of cotton seedl spoil butter, and they feed something else. ji all of out- farmers handled their milk and butter in like mianner, Northern btutter- would soon be driven out of the amrket. In theC oldo~n time, the little sturpluis butter on otur farm w-as r-egarded as a trifle, and little fallento gie it Jlence, we have fleinocar-eless ways and methods -let us change thein. Let ev-ery farmer ar-ramge to make somne butter forn market-handle it properly, make its quality good and its appearanice attractive and he wvill always findh ready sale at good nr:- s. In this connection attention may be called to the imnportantce of improving our native stock. This can be most quickly done by cr-ossing with some of the improved breeds. Jersey bulls can now be pturchased at veryv reason able prices. Excepting those from most noted strainis, b~ull calves can 1)e bought fromt tifteent to lifty dollars. It a large, welil-red native cow, with good udder and large teats, be cr-ossed with a Jersey bull, the resulting gr-ade will be valuable ifor meat, milk and butter. It is remarkable how much b~th the quantity and gjuality of the butter is improved by such a cross. For general putrposes on a larmn, such a Jersey grade is, if any-thing, precfer able to a full-blooded Jersey. It is hardier-, has longer teats and is, thcrc fore, mor-e easily milked, and when old, makes more meat. lat shor-t, it is a good combination animal. One near a large market, whio precfers selling milk to batter, udight cr-ow wvith a Bolstein bull. The liolstein is a largec breed and perhaps the deepeat miikers we have. They reqjuire good pastures and abundant food. A cow is sometimes defined as a -machine for converting food into milk ; to get milk, therefore, there must be food. A cow cannot make something -out of nething--that is an attr-ibute of omnipotence~ only. But the foods givn toixn s >,-e qunite ariable in their composition, and one might nat urally infer that a food with a certain composition might be more easily and comipletely converted into milk that some other of ditbrent character; an other might be more readily converted imlo 1lesh and fat. In a general way this has been recognized and ac;:epted as a fact. Corn, for instance, is con sidered a fattening food ; cow-peas as a milk-producing one. lut experi nients have beeni made to test these matters more in detail and more deti nitely. and the best rations for special purposes have been fixed with a degrce of certainty suticient for practical purp oses. Food may be regarded as made up of three groups of sub stances: nitrogienous compound (which for brevity may be called pro tein), starch, num1 and sugar com poinds (called hydro-carbon1i) and tat-. Now, for a cow weighing i poulnd, CXpelrimiienits show that its diliy rations should contain :!-11 pounds ol protein, !24 pounds of hydro-car bons and fourteenths of a pound of t-I. This does not mean that the food i analyzed should contain the above quaitities of those substances, but that those quantities must be present n diestible form so the animal can digest and appropriate them. The amounts present and the amounts digestible are quite une(ual especial ly in long forage, as hay, fodder, straw, etc. Thus of hay about 60 per cent. of its protein is digestible; about the same of its hydro-carbon, and from 20 to 40 per cent. of its fat. Of straw, about :"0 ner cent. of its protein, 40 pe'r cen. of its hydro-carbon and :) per cent. of its fat is digestible. Of Corn (grain), nearly 8- per cent. of its protein, 90 per cent. of its hydro-car bon and 60 per cent. of its fat is digest ible. Of oats (grain), 87 per cent. of its protein, 77 of its hvdro-carbon and 7s per cent. of its fat is digestible. In making np a ration, therefore, atten tion mas be had, not only to the composition of stuff (as shown by an alysis), but also to its digestibility. Tables of composition and digestibility ol tlie more common kinds of food and fora-e are given in a little book callId "Farier's Animal Handbook," published by P. Appleton & Co., or New York, which every i* rwer ~would lind useful and convcii:enit to have. (Tis is gratui tous advertising, given without the knowledge of said publisliers). In making up the ration fer an animal, the proper proportion of the three in -redients mentioned above can be secured ouiv by mixing two or more ioods inl ceitain' proportions. No sin gle food contains them exactly inl proper proportions, though sonie ap proximate it nearer than others. It any one of the threc be present in a riion in excess of the amount called i r, it. will not be appropriated by the ae:mal, and will, therefore, be practi cailv lost. A question of economy is, tLrefore, largely involvcd. Or ob jCt now is to call attention to it to get our readers to think about the mater. At sonic future time we hope to givc several rations properly proportioned, and m(de up o the foods and forage. generally foumnd on Southern farms. The work of the year is about fin ihed. Would it, not be well to bal aniee accounts and see whether we have made or lost? We hope all will find the balance on the right side of the ledger-. If any are so unfortunate ac to be in debt, we hope they will find themselves nearer out than they were a year ago: and, inspired with fresh hope, will enjoy the happy reunions of the approaching Christmas. To one and all the writer sends his war-mest Whie Th re is Life There is Ilope. Many of the diseases of this season of th~ year can be averted by a small amount of care and at little cost, by the timely use of EwBzANK's TOPAZ CINCHONA CORDIAL. It cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Chlel era. Morbus and like complaints. No tr at cler should be without a bottle, as it will prevent any disease that wvould no doubt arise from the change c. water, food and climate, without 'as use. The most valuable medicine ini the world, contains all the best and most curative proper-ties of all other Tonics, Bitters, etc., etc., being the greatest Blood Purifier, Liver Regula tor and Life and Health-Restor-ing Agent in existence. For Malaria, Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sick Head ache, Nervous Hleadache, Chronic Rhenmatism, etc., etc., it is truly a Iherculean 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. CHA RLEsTON, S. C., Sept. 1, 1885. H1. .B. EwBANK, Esq., President 0f The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., Spartanburg, S. C.: Dear Sir-I have used a case of your Topaz Cor-dial in my family, and as a Tonic and Appe tizer I can cheerfully recommend i: to all who are sufifering from Debility and lack of appetite. My children, especially, have been much benefitted by its use. Respectfuily, IICTsoN LEE. Ask your druggist for- EwBANK's T'olAz CINCuONA CORDmAL and take no other. TnE TOPAz CINCIIoNA CotRtuxL Co., * Spartnburg, S. C., U. S. A. Senator Riley, of New York, said the other evening, while speaking of the famous Broadway investigation by the special committee of the Legislature: 'I never was so impressed with a man as I was with Rosec Conliing while we wer holding that investigation. After we had concluded taking the testimony, the counsel for the defense gave notice that they wished to suomit arguments at Albany. Of course we wanted Mr. Coking to go along as the repriesenta ive of the committee. When the propo sition was made to him in secret session he said that he would prefer to have his partner, Mr. Seward, assume that share of the woik, becaus~e there were certain mmories about Albany which would make it very distasteful to him in case he should have to visit there. Seward flatly declined to go, and in the course of the discussion one of the members of the committee said that there were two Snators who had particularly requested his presence. They were men who voted against Conkling ~in the famous Sena trhdl contest of i88l. As their names w.. mentioned, Conikling drew himself ip to hi~s full height and said: "Gentle nicm, I shall merely send these personsa poite note of regret.' Afteragreat dealcoi pr.uason, however, he consented to go.-Wasin~gton Letter to the Boston Traveller. The~ formation of Mother Evc's tom~b on ia outskirts of Djcddahl shows her to havc 'eeu a woman over thirty feet high. We have adways had a suspicion that Father A dam, wh'en lhe ate that quince, was a vic im of donmstic coercon. mlV ico If ( 1*:, b A.%1,*:. The i'oston Globe prilts ltte1r firom Some of the best imo.n el::.or of the country in aiswrto th uri'y: ) What shoni Presiden Clvean urn th e n e x t tw o v ,,: , u 'n e tit D cratie sn '- * asrdi I '. " Colone'l Alexair L 1'eIClare of the Philalelphia Tims wr i fle land keeps stragt' ' '0 h 0 w be his C h arles A. Dana ei i ew ork N0 antagonizes the abov. withi 4t oil. ing-: "He houCld inos do the hast two years. Samuel1CI Bowles oI -,he St~a e publican sas: -lie shou istail live l) to t idciples eni' di the Presideer and i ; o cem.ber 25, lui, to Georgc \: ffam Cumris." F.W. .asno h.C~rsnNw and Courier writes: "Al ' him go) on0 to theend in thc wa e 1has biee going from the begii." M. M. Gillaml o4 the "Ph1iladlphi'a Record savs th at e led t,(1 i l e - "Ilices; with Widelawake, repr:en(itative 1elio crats as speedily as oiiber ally interlpreted civil! ser ice ruls. and allow the men so appointed to work for the party. Melville E. Stone of the Chicago News says: "He should be ale to go before the country with con ialen-ce upon his record. If, however. it be true that the majority of the American peolie do not approve of his policy, do not regard 'a public offlice as a bic us rather than a partisan r-ewar: if It he trIC that the general scitiment of tie' ecuntrv may be arrayed against fn hnest. faith ful and intelligent administration of the Presidential office, then tLc attention of thoughtful minuds av be well turiiekd to a weightier question than the welfare of of the President or his prt." Stillson Hutchins irites that Cleve land has strengthened his Party outside its natural lines. lie thondtl now con solidate and energize it. He hs no doubt of Democratic src-css in - with or without Clevelane , but. thiuk it would be just. like ClevelIand o positively decline a renomination. G eorge W. Abell I the, Balti:m ore Snu commends Cleveland for keeping hi pledges and chides the party for love o spoils. AN IS-At ON D!II K. brink makes a man a fool. Take the wisest man and make him riunk, and Ix is as big a fool as the most illiterate and siliv is in the same condition. In fact th wiser the man the bigr t. he 0l- - fo more reasons than one e, ni 4hi,1 of their young washood wLc wod nUt Stool to anythg be-n-atl thC dignity of gentlemen when ober, hav bnc, known t0) borro:: ixorev whi druking. in ohrder to -e1 fth very stuil that n as eventhen i mang thein lose their self-;puct and forget their manhood, with all -the tru', ti beautiful and the goo.," and becoi troulblesoine to their friends cand the community and liable to vihklate the la-.i an1d be punishelC for their recklescnss. While slightly under the -'Viience o. liquor, and not enough to bh dt-ected by others, acts have been committed an words uttered, unconseioutsly. througl the el'ects of the stiulant, which wouCl nmke any sober, sensible p.erson thinl the "guilty" man must be either ticht v, "a natural born-fool.' All oing t, the mean linnor shoved O~l on him. .A man whio takesr but onle drink de serves no more credit than he who take:: two. The11 Urincile is the same :ll the. way thr-eng1h; the cause and eytet the samai in the one case as in the oth~er. I; one drink satIiies one man andx it take: more for another. both avul~d be hehl equallly guilty, on the picile that ,i one drink did not satisfy the former in would zake as much as the latter. it is a weakness to drink, in the sense that it is a weakness to gamble, etc. It is a habit, a pass:on. We are all weal er atuires of habit and passion. One hal a ?ondness for one thing, an~d one for another. What suits one, dies not a ways sutits another. In ma.f c ases the. gatabler does not drink; in many casex the midnight thief does not drink. Tfheir rulin3 passion is not the cupl that im toxicates; thev are intoxicated with the love and excitement oL their avocations. Often the man who drinks has no other fault-his fault is more hurtful to him self than to others. Free from thec eifects of drink, he attends to his busi ness and minds his own afiairs; but utn der its intiuence, he negkets his busi ness and speaks and acts as he would not be guilty of doimg when sober. A man whose refined nature and ctativated taste would shrink from the very thoughit of evil, losses his better self when under the control of drink, and lie deliberately commits those very sin fromn which he. recoils in his sobarness. He grets into bad company and becomes involved in ugly scrapes. it is easy enough for the free man to say he could quit drinking. Let him contract the habit and he will find then that if he abandon it he will desen~ e mere credit than if he had never begun the habit. The grandest exhibition of~ human will that can be, is recorded when a slave breaks his bonds and stands firm. Why (lon't you take one ddink and quit? Yes, yielding ti the tempntation to take onie drink laid quit Iias been the pr imel cause of the loss of .ady almighty and magnificent mind that cotmd have made its future as grand and glorious as its past had been iniamous ami inglori eus. Edgar Allen l'o~e on1ce thotught lhe was strong enough to take one drink and quit. lUut in the brilliancy of his intel lect, bright in the circle of letters as the evening star in the circle above im, found to his cost that he could not take~ one drink and quit. P'rnitiss, the matchless Mississipia.j under the y. er of whose gigantic mind a concaen trate-d Congress swaved for consectnei (ays; once thought he could take one drink and quit. But in the pid~e of his intellectual stren- t. in the :. lory of his towering mind, 1e too founda to0 his cost that he could not take one dina and gut--:, berry OLsrvr of the (Celfic we-t 'n a~ wn, of th:: Paga 1l ef-. I imesc he v1.. as .'1 r.- ':: ~ ti: r- a retr'ece. iin Ih Is fo hi brougt with hi ;f ni' I:: - the eii' rcuel' le a u r-ii t .ito be~ fo)und LL....ri.:: in Ger.L y. thoult-h Sauta CkOs does n-0 .-eem to truth of this orli'a-md 1~ i' ' iati'i eough indic-ated by the- vrd "c lus, whch in th~e Goeti or ancient Gernmua~ means "child" and " onl. ant S.'NATOR .)ON ES'S FLAME. A IN11 'ictir- of the Richest Heiress inl the West. BY the death of Francis Palms, one of ihe oldest :md best known citizens of Detroit. the entire estate which he had acexnmulated descends to two children, a son and daughter. The exact value of this estal.% .iavs a writer in the Philadel phia Timevs, it is impossible to fix with certainy, h"at it is believed that it will not fall bow:41 5,00,00 at the lowest. .I :th of it consists in great land tracts n Jiehigan and Wisconsin, covered by the towering forests for which that r"ion is famous, and the value of which S imorally certain to increase as timber orI building and other purposes becomes more searce. Added to this are bonds an isecrtes to the amount of an al 'st fabulous sum, and real estate in t n-'yen r of western cities. Always an ecoomi' and thrifty man, Mr. Palms adIe fe blunders in the investment of il:s capital, the ctire snm of which he i harly keaw himseli at the time of his death from general debility. But little is knowi of the son, who will probably share jointly with the daughter in the dishihution of this vast estate, and who is au oirspring of Mr. Palms's first mar riage, the daughter being the fruit of a scond union. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Miss Palms, however, thanks to the conduct of a Senator of the United States. A few years ago Miss Palms visited Washington for the first time, and was given a cordial welcome by the wives of politicians whom her father had helped to make. Personally accomplished and beautiful, she won a high piace in many hearts, and, as sub sequent events proved, completely con qucred the susceptible Senator Jones. Duriwg her visit to the capital the atten tions of the Florida statesman became so frequent and annoying that when Miss A1alms finally left the city it was said she hail done so only to escape her elderly suitor's persecutions. In this, it will be remembered, she was not successful, as Senator Jones followed her to her home in Detroit, refusing to accept an un (uaiiied no from the lady in answer to his ofier of marriage. Physical force finally succeeded in closing the door of the Palms mansion against him, but it has not served to prevent him from re maining in the Michigan metropolis nor from sending constant reminders in the shape of fruits and flowers to a lady who as constantly returned them without re ply. As photographed by the gossips, Mdi:s Palms is tall and stately, likelthe tree whose plural name she bears. A wealth of dark and lustrous hair crowns an unusually shapely head, which itself is poised upon a graceful figure of the mature development of some thirty odd year.. Tempe'ranc1n the loi,. 11. is from eight to sixteen that boys begin to break away from parental con trol andi the restrain of the fireside. It is t en that they seem to feel that they l W more than they who bore them; it is thel that they begin to assert the liberty ox the street, and taste its de n its vices, and its crimes. Said a nglish jurist of great distinction: "A lIrge majority of all the criminals vho, are brought before me have been made what they are by being allowed to be away from home evenings between the ages cf eight and sixteen." What a ttimlony is this, dear mothers and sis ters' Surely one of the most practical studies in this temperance work is how to keep the young away fron tempta lion, and pleasantly and profitably occu p~y thme evenings. Guard your own doors. There is one sort of drinking-house that no0 State enactment can touch, and that is a private house with a decanter in its cupboard. Good friends, guard your own doors with teetotalism. A foolish rich man who died lately disinherited his drimken son. In that same will he Ibeqiueathed his "wine cellar" to certain Iheirs. The father most insanely ttmpted his own son to drink, and then on his Idying bed gave the boy a last kick into opeum disgrace! The most effectual of all htone protection is to guard our own home. F'romi such temperance honmes will come the power to close up the pub lie drink~ing~ dens.--Cuyler. Re~gulating the R~ailroads. lin'. roN, D~ecemiber 9.--The con fer ies on the inter-State commerce bill iiishdtheir labors this morning and will 'eport their bill as soon as it can be printed. Oni die question of enforcing the act, the comiss~ion feature of the Senate bill is ac jid(ed by th~e House conferees, while the Senate conferees accepts the system pro p)o-ed in the Recagan bill, under which a sh'ipe" is entitled to sue for damages in the t'itdStts Court in his own behalf. ITiui- gives~ shippers the option of making com phnits to the commission on instituting uitsin the Federal cour-ts. Railroads are plrohiblited fronm charging more for a short than for a lunger distauce upon their own line. in the sane direc-tion, the shorter being ind adled within the longer distance andi the einrmmstauices and conditions being the same: but thle commission is authorized. up:on the application of the railroad, and atia investigation of the facts, to relieve the roads from the operation of the general rul!e in specialh cases. The Senate conferees agree to the absolute prohibition of pooling ec::tainied in thme House bill. These wer~e the main features of differ eceiC. (On the qution01 of the publicity of res. the provisions of the two bills hatve bee~n muerged so as to require each railroad to make public the rates between points up. xx its own road. as proposed in the House ili, and, in addition, the commission is re ire~d to) secure publicity of through rates in .-> far as it may be found necessary. .A Wami of Distrtess. M n~ m :.-roi, December 7.-The people in this section of thme State are in a sad con dliti n. The terrible freeze of last January entirily destroyedl the oat crop and seriously injuredt the' wheat. A few spring oats and abut th -.ixth of a wheat crop was gath e: -1. It was very soon consumed. The iods and hail storms, from tihe 20thm of Mae to the middle o'f .July, destroyed the ar o the bottom lands. The little corn Im:tde on the uplands is about out now. Thecoto ep e ee gathered, and is *hmt ) o' . It wilntexceed forty per ce t of ht year's crop. There is not a a'rmer who has made expenses. All are 'hnd withm searcely any wheat or oat seed to s Awan everything mann or beast eats he hasi~ to) buy', ecept hay. The outlook is Te coiditiont of the white people is bad n-autthat of the blacks is sorrowful. .* it onle-hilfi of them will have to leave h aconty. They have nothing to buy doe or Clotes with, and they have scarce .. 'in to eat, and the white people are i .- to nid them. The people arec on -' e'. of istre's, antd it has niot been it --ho theirs. Tlwv could not ie e mt--. There mutt be a great :n of uerig this winter.-YKers and 0e Loi', the head and founder of .u hose of the Order of Notre D~ame in ibIi coni with their' 700 sisters atnd 2:3, o airl pupiias, died Friday afternoon in Cn initi. Six houses of Notre D~ame on tie Pcine slope also lose in her one of their principdalfounders. Drilliant society featutres-.'ome people's COTTON BANDITh IN YORK. Forty Negroca Swear to K1ll any One Catchi:. them stealing Cotton-.1i hite Boy or i2 Years their First Victim. Yomi, December M.-The 2 w. r t rier hasalready publib-ed in a i-p:itih from Chester the fact that : vm:n- w!hi boy was foutind near his hiat. a YAt coinly, so badly beaten anid m- l 'i* he soon died. The follown-- ae t h: as far as can be learneid Albout sun lownai on the eventin' of :t0th tull. g-rie of i~htres wire h1r : tield of Wm. E. Co I, w) lIves na Broad River. in the wes;s-rn pat ift county. A negro hoy in the t in the direction of the er. followed 1 Mrs. Good and her little -iumAer. "r eceding they found the sn o1 .f Gr. Goot. lad 12 years old. na1med .Johnt ie, lyin1 in a wa-ter furrow inll esls c:din i skull trushed, his noith kie i:: his body brui-ed. He was c-ried te . house and diel !t 9 o'click neve.r vr. ing consciousness-, Tri-l .lu-tiet- B!:r. I tir- neighboihood, was rittilled ,It.ti Wednesdav, at in s coroner, I- .m mond a jury and proceeded With 1h11 i:: quest. After ex;nnig ; h-.e nn' - o witnesses the ivnaue was.- aounel :;i iet again (nI Friday, when, after ta much testimonv. none of a character, the jury again adj-urned next Friday. In the mYeantinie circumstances poinl to 3ose Lipseonb. Dan iiobert, at j Dowdle and Print Thompson, all erb-red, as the guilty parties, and they were com mitted to jail. The theory of the investc gation was that some of these ngroes been detected b the uurdered r-ov in ll act of stealing a basket (if .tnr. his father's field. and to ptevent (-tectionthe killed him, intending- to throw his bod nto no Broad iiver-, only two hundred- Id I tant ; but they were thwarted in ltis I the approach of the people from the house. The theory proved correct, for this morn ing Print and Dan made a confession tot above effect, and also implicated Mose and Bailey as accesories. They also say that there is a combination of about forty ne groes in that neighborhood pledged that if either one is caught in the act of stealing they are to kill the person so dctectin.r them. This admission may lead to a large number of arrests. There is much excite ment in [the Broad river section, and naw that a confession has been made. your cor respond-nt does not pretend to know what may happen next, thoutgh at this tim all Is quiet. Attemptin; to Make 6:ates LiatLe to tt.1s - their own Citizzins. I.\LE11. It. C.. DeC:1ce .Tecs of Temple against the State o North Ca lina and Roberts, auditor, involving th right of holders of special tax bonds to e force the collection of special ta xes levied by the:same Acts of Assenbly u r der w the bonds were authorized, was heard yes terday in the United States Curi, .Judges Bond and Seymour, on a moton : the State to dismiss the bili. A nov' que tion arises as to the right of a citizen of a State to sue it, when his Federal rightsha been invaded by alleged unconstitutina legislation. Edw~ard L. Audlrew, otf of York, and Ex-Solicitor General S. L. F. Phillips, in elaborate artument, uphelii tli jurisdiction of the court, w I"- 1t. P. B:t tie and John W. Graham. for the State, opt* posed it with ability and a free citation authorities. The same Judges are to-day engaged i:n hearing the case of 'Morton, Bliss & Co. vs. Roberts, auditor, which is a petition for) mandamus to compel the audito-r to irciude in the tax list a requisition for the co-lece tion of special taxes. The same counsel: p pear in this case. The decision of the Cout is awaited with much interest. A queer .Judicial VDecison. The laws of Ohio require a~lllproperKy be listedl for taxsation " at its true value i monuey." National batik stock is, us a ru. worthi in the open market more thi:min cents oii the dollar. It was at~-eescd 1~ ve:r at G5 cen~ts on the dollar. aund tie banks, admitting it was worth nmuh tor than the assessment, sought to eujioin :Im collection on so large a valuation. Te founded their right to a reduci'tion On the claimi that other property wa not vau .+> hiahly in piroportion to its i actu v'.ue Tais amounted to a claim tha-t perjty be-ing generali, shoutld be staimped wit aL app)rovul of the courts and madeuna rsl To the amazement of hotm-st filk noth quaiated with the- lotre of th e lawc bokih -curt decided in favor of thi" -iemti'ly absurd claim. The brw us it nw.s~d therefore that tihe banks shall ave te 1-g r-ight to viohute law bcause others are nit conscientious in listing property for tai tion. It is such deep and mys:.erious "-g det-isions" as the one rendlered in Clevelaindi last week that futrnish ammunition to jaw smiths and wild-eyed reformers.- Tour town (CJhio) TelefjIir. Never Too Old to Wed. That the fires of love sometimes- bnii brightly even in the breasts of thIs who has-c passed the alloted limit of le is proven by a nmarringte whlich was slen ized in 3Middletown, N. Y. r-ecently. The united ages of the contraoctin-- paticLs are 144 years, tihe gr-oom being .10 ye::s ohld ~md the bride four years his senier. Th poOim was Sampson Townscnud, It well-to do re tired farmer of Light Street, Columbia county, Pa., and the bride 3t-s. Julia Gil lespie of 3Iiddletown. The weddiong t-;ok place at the residence of the bride's di-tugh: ter. When the hour for the ceremony hatd ar rived the venerable but smiling and appu rently very hatppy couple were escorted to their statton under a floral bell by the six year-old grandson and thre-yvear-old grea-It granddaughter of the bride. The ceremonay was performed by the bride's pastre. C. 31. Winchester, and it wasu noticed thit the contracting couple were as ner-vous and as awkawrd as if this wats l'ther rs experi ence in matrimony. About thirty gu e-ts were present, nearly all of theta beintg de scendants of the bride. It is intimiate-d that the couple will not be very warmuly wel comned by the grootn's fatally, two grown up sons. .A Sad Trra;:ed-y Last Saturday evening two sous of 3-r. Booth, Ashiby and George, with a 'son o 3Mr. Sam Brown named Er-in, wete play iug with an unloaded pistol, in a room na 3Irs. Boothe. There was a loadled pi to on the muantlepiece. and in some way Ervi got hold of it, thinking it was unio::ded. and snapped it at Ashby, sending the bullei into his brain. The i l struck- 'hby's headl juti. back Of tihe ear, llndi pastig up wards and forwards penetratei the skuili near the top of the head. Hie lived, t*hough unconscious, ttntii the next afte:-necon. An investigation by the Coroner broug~ht to liarht the above facts. 3Mrs. Bonth is al nmost crazed with grief and is in a very crit ical condition.-S-ndetr 1idwt/iaea. Progress or Proiiutoni. IIouse oft Representative of-ci thi Ge.ra A.ssembly, now) in sessilon hm p: makting ther-etil li uor licen-e-.. bi is cinivalent to mio ri- thani dou~hi t '. iproiosition~ to maki-e it ::ti)) nt a- v i d w by) a smal majo-irity.t The Aebyh pased plroiiir mis -utr~*ighi. for it of the larg'est blacvk countie, upon peitit from nearly all the white inhabit n-.. .- la' prohibition billls are pas-:ed almot witom objection from any mc-mber. The. S, nte has passed Ia general local ciptitn la1w for all the counties. The difference between a matrimonial tie and a necktie is that the latter will wear rmit and1 thea frorer won't hil.:-d Iy Bea . t T rit n v a '0 l'.:.-n v *'ie'' D i' Cr- . n'01 W it -x tic impi-ar -1 h , :t n:l re iic N% re1::r. . 1 aren - i:: ::.: n:: tof the nn - :non:.d rir I cann'Lb. .hve. C ll'r R liv l; fir U- *it' .eir has miere IICU!L MU there has 4 1e 'hu fa tifs wvinier. I1av D ecemnber. , . .ee :l t 'ii oples whII' are :row 0epp ::: int the mattinlonial L1:L. as happy'' :-"ti' C~ to-day. 'YSPEPS!A, INDiGESTION, WEAKNESS, CHILLS AND FEVERS. MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT, KIDNEY TROUBLES, NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM. T is Invigorat- IT gives NEW ing and De- LIFE to the lig.tr.l to tak, whole SYSTEM tnd of great' by Strengthening -s a Mcdcine r the Muscles. Ton v::-:n: nd n Lg the NERVES, Wcnen and Chil- and competelyDi drcn. gcting the food. CONTINS'L Minerals, is com posed of carefulzy * o otetds seccted Vcget jJ jcae-t OE b e eoci m d comb-ir a skecadsly-e f n rreceip ofasoc. S '.:r..:d .e t'.:ciz e d H E, I b1) , inedi e mite, sLe.t Toe j '- nd Dg- C in compteand I full, rnakn.- aok, 'Vodliyna, by i e apdicnsg R C, c " how t tret. dis- c I -r \ l 7r. n;. .t'h!da'orw ~~cajestat2KOME, I m'aled, together : ru ' 'j Ch mcard by new r~ ~ :.-r e d:. : ' a a e.-:-. r te.n:. ear. I: SnD mr ccan d heica oanycr~ P as ict hnlr. Ctok by S. S. S.zi CUn'S I have taken. My face, body and neck m-.i:.m is entirety gone. I weighed 116 poundsi !2 onde.3My firs bottle he'ped me greatly, I wal: not be without S. S. S. for several tint( C. E. 31 Tli.-:4:mu>! Coi a'highliy concentrate Grade r: si:er fcr all croi>. A.5JILZ COTTON AND) COfRN CO.MP( twvo crops anid also largely used by the Truet ASiiLEY ASM ELz:IENT.-A very cher tl.Ier fobr C otton, Corn and Small Grain Crc Mi D.YJIS5OLVED BONE: AST1LE3 G radsfrune alone and in Compost heap. 1'-' Tern . Di reet~mn, Te'cstimonial.4, and f pla ium Uof i.: Cmauvy, address TiE ASULEY PHOSP Nov2ZL.y Th: -p1saea. :onerfeul daciey.1 .o otherC or relieve all m-aner of d:: -'ae. The ingoamaaion a!>ont th'em,:a o ful. Oe r"ll ad-. easy to tak, nd( thM -:ar-:cla.s r;wer olf these pitls. they would wall 7:ithout. S ritb mil for :2 cents in staaps. Illi eb i nbrrnuio is ery valua>hi. T. SL.JO'4'SO'N& MO T H E 'S *'.'-*".'**-.: iie time of labor - it greatly to tre of both . ves the -I r. :no.i favorable - r r1 a, a .I ' : lthi to F- -.-1, antl oher n1 . 1:S <clacy in -n ts *, o bI Calledi an, l t I rank - ,r: : c .se .: remnedies of I;w no~-e- -oy We .) t.p l . ciTe con wound. e --w r, :e wrier-. Yet n .ae nu.;res o1 'ile. se-1 o :r 0K. I- maled free _e~~p !r.!D 2: - LA~o CN &MWGa. PIANOard ORGANS From the World's Best Makers, AT FACTORY PRICES. Easiest Terms of Payment Eight Grand Makers, and Over Three Hundred Styles to Select From. PIANOS: Cbckering, Mason & Hamlin, Hathushek, Bent and Arion. ORGANS: Mason & Hamlin, Orchestral and Bay State. Pianos and Organs delivered, freight paid, to all points South. Fifteen days' trial, and Freight raid Both Ways, if not satisfactory. Order, and test the Instruments in your Own Homes. COLUMBIA MUSIC HOUSR Branch of LUDDEN & BATES' SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE. PRICES AND TERMS THE SAME. N. W. TRUMP, Manager. 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