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Tf » • if i '.fvyuk^, '-l BARNWELL, S. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1§86. HOME MBAMWABLE Hr«UEHTIO!t« FROM HIGH A1T1IORITV. A 0 Whal Work the Gor ff Farmrrii fMion!4 Do io lk« Month of Orlotu-r-An Intrreitlng Aril- ele From an Inlrlltjcent Writer. (W L. Jone« In th* October “Cnltira'or.”) The gathering and housing of summer crops will for the present occupy mott of the formers’ time. The rewards of skill and labor are now his. He not only has the pleasure of seeing his barns and store-houses well Sled, but also the ex quisite enjoyment of pious consum mated, of undertakings well executed. His estimate of his own ability is possi bly enhanced by the success of his ventures, and he may reasonably and properly indulge his pride a little. For six months or more he has Been engaged in an arduous campaign—one calling for unceasing attention, unflagging energy and discriminating judgment at every tarn—one in which difficulties were con stantly to be met and overcome—many a Scylla on the one side and a Charybdis on the other to’- be" shnnnod —one in which co-operation with natnre was to be assiduously courted and antagonism with her as carefully avoided. Now the bent bow may be a little relaxed, and elasticity restored to the strained body and mind. Whil? the plain, routine work of pick ing cotton or breaking corn is going on, there is no strain upon the mind, and it can leisurely ami quietly look luck ami compare results with their causes. Like the old soldier w ho recalls the luttlcs he fought, the faimer can new tiriug back befor Aim the *‘tight jJaces" he was in, the difficulties he had to meet, and bow direction is most frequently done in a hurried and imperfect manner in the spring, when heavy rainfalls startle ns from our lethargy oy their destructive ness. ' • -T, . f . In seetbbs where grams and grasses constitute the prevailing crops these are left in the ground when the latter are not confront* difficulties do not confront farmers. We scarcely ever see an allusion to the wash ing away of soils in Northern or Western agricultural journals. At the South, the trouble lies at the door of cotton and tobacco—land-destroying, labor-demand ing crops—how they have cursed and how Jhey still curse our agriculture! Strange paritdoxes; where the labor problem is most difficult and embarrass ing, we raise crops which call for most labor; whore summer droughts are most disastrous, we rely chiefly on sunrtner crops; where winter rams are most copious and destructive, we keep our lands bare through the winter that they may be washed away and their fertility destroyed by leaching; in a climate aa- mitting the greatest variety of produc tion, our crops are few in number and we are buyers of almost everything, when we ought to purchase almost noth ing. Recently we have taken advantage of the com{iarative leisure on the farm to do something towards stopping washes. In many places we found little washes started on the upper side of ditche*. Our practice for some years has been to leave an unplowcd strip three or four feet wide along the npper margin of ditches to stop washes and filter oat the dirt coming down from above. It works ad mirably, but sometimes, notwithstanding this precaution, little washes have start ed. We had a hand with a wagon load of leaves follow each ditch on stubble land and throw leaves in each wash, and wl.ere rocks were convenient, put some i of them at lower end of wash to hold the leaves in olaco. In the absence of rocks he met them, and calmly and' jmlfcMfrl T, ^ discuss hi* management, whethTT^od | ^ or bed. If von Lad to do it nv.‘r JLn. I dirt - »•* are there an Q v cluing* • Would you have broken your land drop- in the ' yt vo'ur td Tiil I ^ -t ‘STdi P paasinr er and more thoroughly? tW A ^ h *' 1 * wor J °* have harrowed it more Wfdre ptantmg* I * k, “V. wiU keep a farm ' < raantitv lD ex ! w “ J ' ent oonditlom It should be i J done in summer or autumn so forage, hay, etc., gathered and housed. Ground peas should also be gathered by that time, that the tops may be cured as torage, and the gathering of the nuts facilitated. After killing frost the nuts quickly lose their hold on the vines, and Would you have used the aame ami kind of manure? Would yon have worked your crop* more rapidly and of toner in spring and early aurmrer, and gotten ahead of the grass before the rains set in? If you had known it was going to be s wet summer, would you not have beatirred yourself a little more? I Could you not have bestirred \ our** 1L without knowing it wras going to be wetfj •elient rule to l<e always nt rule to l>e alway for the worat, thonah hoping Don't you tinnk now, in Is it not an excel prepared for the beat? Don t view of your extended evtton field, their chan, bare surface* ready to washed away, and their auila leached by the winter nuns, that you planted rather too much cotton? Would it not have been better to have rested some of the land you cultivated? It is quite remark able that in a countrv id which ;•opula- tion is so sjauwe, and land is so* super abundant, we are as anxious to utilize every foot of it every year as is coun tries* where population is very dei *e and the land can nardir support it. Our judgment is that if hall the ojH.n land in the country was rest'd every year abso lute rest, not sown in grain) at much would be made on the half cultix ntod*aa is now made on the whole. Have the arrangement ycu adopted last winter and spring to prevent the washing of yonr land proved tuctosaful? Didn’t you make tout terraces in the early spring, just before the usual big ndnfalu occur, and did not these rains | to be ready for the winter mins; not in spring | after those rains have done their de- i sirurtive work. I We have also l>een constructing anise (■amende* across a branch bottom, hav- ! mg considerable fall, to prevent the scouring effects of heavy froaneta. The narrowest points between converging hills were selected for their rites. At one point where w wagon rood was do- ! dred s brood dam of rooks was built . , ; across from two points of equal altitude . j o® each side of the branch and a high bridge built across the latter- At other 1 jMiinta two rows of stakes, some three , feet apart, were firmly driven in the ground, and the space between them . idled with brush ami log*. Our purpose I is, next spring, to dme willow stobs l along the line of these barricade.-, and 1st them grow up to trees, and thus form I living and pennon) nt bamoades toeatch -and hold trash and dirt- | kind must be well done; water is very great, and arc strong and driven deej-tvTn ground, the whole ia liable to do | away. It ia well to have a small crow- 1 ar and prepare deep holes to receive the stakes, which ia eMtly done by job bing the bar down, shaking it backwards and forwards, and rept sting this a few times. In connection with this matter ' of proeerving the *oil, we venture to re peat a suggestion made in the Cultivator several years ago: That fields be laid off |ui stripe (horizontal) from twenty to palled up. Bbrghum out and stowed away under shelter will keep green and sweet for a long time, prolonging the period of green feed well np to Christ- mas. Stalks, leaves and heads out up together we find to be a most excellent feed for cattle. Our people, generally, have not learned yet to appreciate its value as'btock feed. We bunk it superi or to Millo Maize or any other of that class. The amber cane is the beet variety fqr this purpose. The sweet potato vine is another good feed, liable now to bh rained by frost As it is almost impossible to cure them, they may be either grazed or pulled off and fe^r'* Little damage to the potato 1 will accrue if this is done after the mid dle of October. Everything should be in readiness also for oigging the pota toes. After the weather gets cool and vegetation ceases active growth, tie dig ging may take place at any time when the soil is dry. Where the vines are not fed off to stock, the usual practice is to pull them out of the way with a plow. This gathers the vines in heaps at the end of the rows and deprives tne land of their fertilizing properties. It would be better to have a turn plough with sharp, revolving ooulter, add run it on each side of a row so as to out off the vines and burr them in the middles. Then with a plow, called a “potato digger," such as is used by Northern farmers for digging Irish potatoes, the tubers might be lifted ont of the ground with groat rapidity and without being cut and bruised. Dig in dry weather after the plant has ceased growing rapidly, put in hills of thirty to forty bushels, keen dry, wrap with pine straw and eornatalzs six io eight inches thick, and cover with dirt, increasing the thickness of the lat ter as the weather gets colder, until it is one foot thick. At first leave an air hole at top of hill, say for four or five weeks, then stop it up with dirt and cut off all communication with outride air. A shelter over the hill is preferable, though not indispensable, if enough dirt is put on the hill, and it is well sloped so ae to abed water rapidly. WH£B£ THE FUG WAS FCRLED. TUB SLEEP* OLD PLACE THAT EVER LIVE IN HISTORY. WILL An Kye-YMineu lo (be MtirrenSer • The Story ToM by Colonel Peers on the Historic Field. (fetter to tho Philadelphia Thn. •.) — Appomattox Courthouse, Va., a sleepy 1 little village, dozing its days away on the old stage road between Richmond and Lynchburg, seems to the Northern traveler to hare become tired of exist ence away back in the early part of tho century and to have settled into a Rip Van Winkle sleep, from which it only once awoke, shaken by the thunder of cafinon and the tread of armed men, only to relapse into more profound slumber. All unconscious of its world wide fame and the richness of its local history, tho little town is content with its own peculiar life and calmly ignores the roar and rash of the outside world. Once in a while a stray tourist comes this way, but seldom does the old tavern door open to admit a stranger. Its hinges have accumulated nut for years and long sprigs of grass grow between the broken {torchtriep*. The whole town wears the same passive air of somnolency as when Generals Grant and Lee rode through its quiet streets to cfcae, by s few strokes of the pen, the most bitterly contested and bloody in ternecine contest ever to swell the pages of history. THU road to APPOMATTOX. picket line fell followed hard liwohnndredrerei. of the *rP»« ! u, di» cover something He rods through the village about j ^ h# i ork of zz this ■of the •trike them before they had tune to get didSot Ok, (,,! U4I, d 0 " “ d ““"•‘•d. Would it pot be better to make ti rraoes 1 1 on land when it is resting or in ht ubble, 1 worn in the (sill or early win- thot M and do the we in a cultivated strip would be prem^ arrested by the uncultivated that th£ terraces may get M*ttled before the heavy spring rains: am) wopkl it not bo well to ■ ow the ter races in sre or wheat, as soon as they are made, ana get a growth upon them at onoe? If terrace* freshly made in stub ble land should give way under heavy vain, the land would not wash, because it is compact and held by roots,. But when terraces are made in spring/ and the land between them ploiighed, us is generally the case, the washing becomes excessive and disastrous if heavy rains prevail. We have found Uiat on old land, in which washes have already started, it is extremely difficult to get terrace*-well established without the aid of some hillside ditches. Our practice in such cues is to ran ditches just as one would do if he did not have terracing in view, and then lay off terraces just as if there were no ditches present—of course jumping over and not filling the ditches where the terraces cross them. After the terraces become well establish ed and both incipient and old gullies are .a entirely filled up, the ditches may be ’ filled np if one thinks he can control the water without them. On very rolling told, where the disposition to wash is very greet, we find it best sometimes tor run snort secondary ditches between the regular ditches. A secondary ditch will run across from one ditch to the next below, Marling just below the dam of the first andftnptymg into the one below. Placed just above an incipient wash a I 1 smalt secondary ditch will assist materi- ally in stopping it We cannot join the araent advocates of terracing in whole- . sale denunciations of hillside ditches. We find the latter, at times, very useful —nay, almost indispensable. If one starts with fresh land, and there is no uncultivated slope above from which witer may flow down upon it, terraces alone may answer, bat on old lands where washes have already started these may be arrested and permanently stopped by a judicious combination of ditches and terraces with more case and more quickly than by terraces alone. , Terraces are sometime* made too nar- r; a strip, at least two feet wide, in i middle of them should not be dia- l by the plow, bat left firm and t to resist tiie washing action of , , After the terrace is well estab- Kr*—» R may be reduced in width jVifiit'* advisable. Gan a good part i this ana spring i tune between ,the in denning of our i strip below it A vast deal could be ac complished by this simple arrangement toward the preoerration of the soil, and now that the pasturing of grain fields is being largely abandoned, there is no ob- oction to adopting it We cannot too often or too emphatically stress the joint, that clean cnltnre is tho main cause of the red,*gullied hill* south of the Potomac. Will our readers pardon ns for urging the great importance of s down our bare fields? If they have no faith in their ability to raise gram, or have no special use for that crop, _ftey can sow rye, and it is not yet too late to do that On Average kmd and-for the purpose now in view, a half bushel of seed to the aero will suffice, and the small outlay will be returned manifold in the improvement of the land. With peas as a summer renovating crop, and rye as a winter one, we have the best of facilities for bringing np our worn and wasted soils. ' Towards the last of the month wheat sowing will be ia order in the northern sections of the cotton belt It is well to realize the fact that our climate is not the best for wheat, and (hat it should not therefore be made a leading crop But while this is true, by judicious se lection of varieties, and of suitable soils, with proper preparation and manuring, enough wheat lor home supply can be raised. First as to varieties. We must discard the handsome but tender white wheat*, and taka those of the Mediter ranean type—red, bearded kinds, which seem at home in warm The good housewife will have to yield a lit tle on the score of white flour; it will be none the less nutritious or palatable. In the next place, the highest and dryeet knobs and knolls should be selected. No matter if poor; make up for that by manure. There is very little land rion enough to bring whegt without manure anyway. If it has been sown in peek, so much the better; there is no better crop to precede wheat than peas, unless it be clover. Turn the peavinee under noi very deep, and then harrow the lane several times. Get the finest tilth you can. If ootton seed is to be used, am there is nothing better, they can be spread on the land before it is turned, out it will not do to turn them unler If commercial fertilizers or ooUbh seed meal tire used, they can be harrowed instead of being plowed in. After the seed is sown, roll the land; this will esuae the seed to com* up better and more uniformly- Wheat may be ri»wn from the 20th of October to the 1st of December, aoeording to Had Paris seen Helen attempt to a cow out of the beck yard, it u rafe to I ■ay that the Trojan war would never have been waged, and Homer would have been oblig'd to Uke tin Haj market riot for aa epic. Had .Antony seen Cleopatra chase a street oar down a dusty avenue of Gairo, it is safe to state that he would have lied disenchanted beck to Octavia, and the divorce court lawyrT- "decree quietly secured; no publictiy”-—would never have made a cent from him. Had Dante seen Beatrice Are a half brick at the vandal hen which prospecti*! for seeds in her flower-bed every spring, it is again safe to say he would have sent bock her notes, her white mouse pen wiper, tin* lava smoking set with "Merry Chnstmaa" pointed across the stern, and discontinued that rocky courtship which ho subsequently celebrated in his poem known as "The Inferno." in the three situations given above the average woman is grand, massive, Titanic, inoompreheasibl*. The man who witnesses these feminine moods from the weather ride of s high board fence and does not stand with head bared, hushed and awe-stricken has poetry in hie soul In all she bat in the brick-throwing act greatest—and most dangerous. There ia s physiological reason for this. It is not ler fault that an ambulance wagon has to be rung up after her brick-throwing moods, bat that this kind of exercise always creates a flurry and an upward tendency in tho window glass market She cannot help aiming at the hen and bringing down the usual inoffensive citi zen in the next ward. Her shoulders were not rightly ronstrnctod for boll casing, and in the hurry incident upon eying the citizen she frequently forgets to consult her hand-book on throwing, and makes the left hand do all the labor instead of the right, aa laid down by the authorities. Nor is she mentally con stituted for a baae-ball pitcher. Many husbands ■■ _ truce. This was the only part played in the This morning two tramps from the drams of the war by the famous borders of the Keystone btate found * a , )p i e tree of Appomattox.** General themselves at Appomattox Btotion, on | Lwj *nd General Grant never met nnder the Norfolk and WiMtern lUdroad. | iti boughs; in fact, the letter never got After a walk of three miles through within t ‘ ' ‘ ... sedge, field and thicket, forests and tree. corn-fields, they reached Appomattox aQ bon,»/(«, the flag of trace entered Courthouse. Lpon the brow of a hill bis lines, and was im-t bv General Lee overlooking the town a small graveyard | on tbeftow of a hill, half way oetween brings vividly back to inemqry the one the town and the apple orchard. Have abort but pregnant period of eml war the two chieftains convened awhile, then which m inseparably connected with the turned and rode together into the town." place, for within its whitewashed fence* 1 are eigliteeu graves mono long row, each! ™ with * nameless white pine head-board 1 “Meeting Mr. Wihner McLean of wmple design. These graves contain front of the Conrthowau, General the dust of the Confederate soldiers' asked him where they could do • mmm A FLORIDA HERMIT. tmmm from tiie west came in with the intelli gence that Sheridan had come up the railroad track and was across the road in Lee’s front In the afternoon Lee ar rived and encamped on the brow of a f: ' i omeh rKbMtAEE icim hill about a mile from town. About half-way betweSfi, through a fertile Tbt . Mpm . rh . Wr u* L-. meadow, runs Appomattox Creek, cross ing the road near an old apple orchard.” ^ A OOCKCIL QF WAR. <- "I went into the Confederato caqjp that night and learned from an' officer that a council of war had just been held by General Lee and his generals, at wnieh it was decided that if Sheridan’s cavalry was the only obstruction in front an attempt would lie made early the next morning to cut through, but if Ord’s infantry should arrive during tho night there would be nothing left uut surren der. Lee’s pickets Lad been thrown through and abont a mile west of the town, and a sharp encounter occurred about dusk between them and the 15th New (York cavalry. The back through the town, by the enemy, and it was in leading this pursait that the commander of the caval ry, Lieutenant Colonel Root, was killed in the centre of the village. This was the last life lost at Appomattox. On Sunday morning a battery was planted in my yard one hundred yards from the Courthouse, and an artillery duel with the Federals began. From "this battery the last shots were fired by the Army of Northern Virginia. Aboard o’clock that Sunday morning word was brought General Lee, who had ridden np under one of the apple trees on the banks of the creek, that the infantry was in his front several thousand strong. Accord ing to the decision of the council the night before, he immediately sent for ward from this point the flag of THE —A Mra*(« Creature Wha Taak DaBcht Iri tbr Flare* Storau af nifte. i CormporSaoca af tba 1 bilaSrlpkia Ttoaa) Ecutis, Fla., September 90.—It wae told me a few nights ago when the beea- tifnl lake was peopled with shadows sad from the dark encircling woods came the plaintive notes of the ‘Vhip-o’-wflL Bnstisisone of a chain of lakes that have water oommoniootion with the out side world by means of the Ooklawaha river. The latter ia a narrow, crooked stream, hedged by swamp and hammock, loafing lazily wherever the notion seems to take it These lakes are beautiful clear-water streams, and wuheliah and make comfortable the prettiest and most delightful portion of Florida, the hill and lake region. The hills sloping down to these lakes are now dotted with the handsome villas and thrifty orange groves of both permanent settlers and winter residents. . Lakes Harris and Enstis, in the meeting of the twin HAtora in s realm of beauty, ing, boating ard sailing are much indulged in by the lake fronton, and now, with this preface to my strange, wierd tale, I wfll proceed. “home few yean ago, when this try was sparsely settled and knew everybody else, much was excited by the On! mameu snout a wean oerorw io i man.who had escaped military < •>$» isr as if he bad to tmoakim, bat to no So ths evil that Jet” who “No, we are not to us i wm< upon place where he was t was in his boot fishi some Uttered book, to be his favorite n were made to 1 t*i* or water or bothTeadwhipped ~ ■peroll^on 1 nrifo and molded stfwtifcout asrisn ranee of a ^**^^1^*** The or»y} «nd “dead old hist. in .*hoo | killed in the last akirmiah on Hatorday ! writing, and the nrety night and holiday morning before Lee 1 that gentleman to m* c aunt the flag of truce irver the hills to Gmht. A small whitewaabed pine monu ment had been erected in the centre of the lot by some loyal friend of the <lsad, but even it is now overturned and lies prostrate before the row of mound*. The Courthouse, a tall, square, red brick building, reeembhng more the residence of s solid old Virginia farmer than a public structure, stands within a small square or “green" in the center of the town. The old stage road coming over the eastern hills deferentially turns to one side and passes around the Court house in a aemi-cirale, to resume in front its onward course again. Just north of the public building and the road is the tavern, a gioomy-kx kin^ | to complete the sorrendcr hi* about they all failed. He'would i questions, nor even look up addressed. He appeared to be about seventy year* oU, of thin, but way build, his lung, white hair falling down over his shouldere, his long while based reaching to hie waist. Hie of «d | skin j Long eanoe, evidently hollowed ont of of that x-Liiig to his waist. His slothiag was 1 . . k , ~ ^ VT^__ in of some animal. Hie boat was a W— *^*_**f... ti"*’"*. * I his ibird.’ A CHILD OF TUB XI(MR AES I escort'd by own bouse, when, in the parlor, the article* of capitulation 1 * l ™° were drawn up and Lgned. An hour or l wl ”. . - so ktar General Lee paaerd me-on hiM'V**?". ty-ytoo return to camp. He was atone, and rode 1 7°^* trxm ■lowly aad thoughtfully, his bead bowed ~ upon hie brewt, as though ia thought He did not bat looked like one who, while of baring done his best, had been com pelled to submit to the inevitable, feel ing at tbc mine time the temble im portance of the step he had taken. After the surrender both generals retired to their respective headquarters, and, if I not, neither came into town “At night more of a m ■JW. . yttsryi A, and would lovers floating idly waves, where the mo its silver glory, would as* off ta the dte- Uaee the toesing craft of tba hera ri. i Pleasure boats, merry Hm way HI Wen. MS hera: 1. Amoa, theta ■LlU&V .(l pM» fit SOU «f SOU Of structure of ancient damp wall, while well-sweep rears its dm Both, I think, left on Tuesday, .. ^ - . .,- Grant leaving General Gibbon „ _ . iijvs:-”" 4 " “ d ^ j sfaiv? i ^kaf£« .<* mass of matted ivy leaves cling to one | Daring Colonel Pecrs’s narrative he ' ^ UD< ** r wm heard and the pointed ont many points of interest The spot where the two gnat leaden met ia marked by a pile of stones, while nearly a mile np the road, on the brow of the hill, stands the solitary poplar nnder which the Confederate er Mood while « 2-1 there he I Amos by the old-time head. Very tils uatie in the musty register, or climb the creaking stair* with hu tallow candle to seek re pose. The county jail is south east of the Courthouse about twenty yards away. the i ha* j the Court house abont twenty y*nh sway. , er ctood while delri “ Two small stores, one of which enjoys, address to his troops. delivering his farewell all oU the additional dignity of being the poet- offiee, a blacksmith shop and ten or twelve dwellings constitute the remain der of the town, which contains, by setaal count, one hundred inhabitants. The nearest church i* two miles away. The people of Appomattox are vary kind and hoApiteble, and without questioning the intent and purposes of the stranger at their gates, receive him courteously, minister to his wants quietly, unostenta tiously, but with a kind-heartedness be neath all that is genuine and cheering. A number of Northern riritorh stray here in the course of the year; in fact, curi osity is tho motive inducing strangers to come at all, but there is no cool ness in the welcome of these people. The veteran who fought under Meade at Gettyubtirg and followed Hooker into the Wilderness finds here one of Jack- son’s ♦-♦foot oavaby" ready to gfrep biz and share his humble home with The Mr.lean house, where the articles of surrender were signed, is a long, com-1 hbuding sheeta of fortable-looking, red brick dwelling, with a porch running its entire length. Over the parlor door hang* a picture of the room, representing it when the articles of surrender were being signed. io owned the Mr. Wilmer house at the time, he first battle of family her* to "n 1869 the old hands of Mr. N. owner. His son, Mr. COLONEL FKSBS’S STORY. A great man here is Colonel G. ’eera, clerk of the county court, has held uninterruptedly office ho eighteen; who are not right-minded sneey at their wiveiTwealmeas of mental grasp in rot being able to distinguish between a mutilated and jumped-on urn-1 pire and a three-base bit These nice ^ f oe subtleties of the game may be thus lost to her, bnt it is not her fault Her gray brain matter is not pat up that way, architecturally speaking, any more than her shoulder is built to bring confusion and death to cows. It will be observed by all who take the Trouble to attend a base ball game in the interests of science that the best throw ers have very square shoulders, and the shoulders of some are higher at the corners than near the neck. In these latter the clavicle tends upward as it leaves the spinal column, a circumstance I give mm a patriarchal appearance, which allows free play of the arm in any office in the basement of the Courthouse direction. Whereas as is seen in aladys is crowded with musty old papers, many skeleton, the shoulder-blade slopes down | bearing date early in the last century a merchant Mid postmaster in the ril lag®. Ths only time when the town iwakes o any degree of life is on Court days. They are periods of great interest to the Virginia fanners a town from far Tv awyers transact the local Court and the Judge of toe County ( allowed to practice before the eighteen years, and altogether for 'near ly a quarter of a century. Colonel Foots is the only white man now living at Appomattox Courthouse who was here | at toe time of the surrender of General Lee. He is the friend, counsellor and like a toboggan slide and overlaps the arm-socket in a manner which prevents her lifting her am without cracking her shoulder-blade or bunting out a seam in her basque, either of which is calculated to discourage good marksmanship.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. —General Boulanger, desiring to se cure from the French government an appropriation for new mmlosive bomba, recently invitee the Budget Committee to witness toe experiments he was carry ing on in private. The experiments he was carrying on in private. The experi ment is made with a monitor mortar, for the destruction of fortifications; the mis sile explodes with exceedingly destruo- tive effect It is charged with a new ex- and concerning the estates and fortunes of many pcond F. F. V’s. Colonel Peers is probably better acquainted with the local events transpiring at the time of Lee’s surrender than any wi*q in the South. With great kindness he pointed ont the scenes of the memorable inci dents of toe 8th and 9th of April, 1865. “I remember well,” he said, as, stand ing on toe Courthouse “groon,” he gazed thoughtfully at the woods skirting toe western sky, as thoi * in memory’s eye toe banners through toe ber as though yesterday the the Army oi Northern Virginia into history. There were few ■ Appomattox that with Lee around again of'hostile “I remem- day when passed men in Some were others with on plosive, of whose composition Boulanger Joe Johnston in the Sooth, and others and his aaaoeiatsa alone possess the again were sleeping on the fields of secret. The compound, however, ia ad- Gettysburg, Antietam mitted to have all the powers of gun villa. . There were anxious wives, ootton with none of its defects, and is broken-hearted widows and ■aid, in addition, to be eerily transport- mothers among aa, aad the-few who re- able and free from liability to. non- mained could easily see toe dork clouds It is stated tort the gathering closer over toe Confederacy, committee were not only Lee, driven ont of Richmond and np- aad pleased, bet premia- rooted from PeterT ths General’s de-|his weary troop j On! who a refugee from bringing Me toe horrors of wai. into the its present T. Ragland, is and pea & flock to ...witeL-. .Two. resident . ... e local Court business bewilderment. Court Court is Cireuit _ made to have S removed to Ap- mattox Station, three miles distant tis place contains more inhabitants than its sister town and is growing as rapidly as the average interior Virginia town. Then several brands of whiskey are sold here. The country surrounding Appomattox Courthouse is poor and un inviting and there is little to attract strangers save its rich mine of historic interest the thunder king was seen marshaling squadrons along ths dork other boats would daih for but be was in his glory th hurrying from the scene, esc the storm a strange thrill at toe sight of man, who seemed to ravd in ■weep through rain like a tari _ to trough of the their topmost crests. At hermit wrtdd stand erect, sad heodtd, in his hart, sometimes giving vent to maniacal laughter mad* to traskUm to his bnt they all failed. Onoe, a party who | had been endeavoring for a to solve the mystery, followed « tiously, as he seemed homeward ( ^ and unaware of their espionage. He|ahs j paddled out of the lake into U and when a short distance out, an abrupt turn, apparently in the saw-grars prairie at the edge. Tho ♦SI hunting-party could see and returned to their h no homes in of him felon iai A week paared and the* hermit still missed upon toe lake, week having passed and still the young men who had lowed him determined to moke a ough search. They were prompted to of nomani- it i to’ “If yon eves ion you will i Rpllt Ten-Dollar Note*. A new departure in the matter of counterfeiting money was brought to light at toe United States Sob-Treasury in Baltimore a few days ago. A some what worn ten-dollar Government bill was pretented at the cashier’s window with a request for change, which was given. The note was sent to Washing ton as mutilated currency, and was re turned with toe information that one side of the note was good, but the other side was a well executed counterfeit of the original. It was fomrt that a genu ine ten-dollar lull had been split, the face being separated from toe bock, a undertaking. The with a counterfeit back bad been used, and it is quite likely that the genuine back with a well executed couu terfeit face has been passed in somi other quarter. More recently another ten-dollar “front” was presented at the cashier’s window with a similar request for change. The clerk at the window, auapseting the bill, told the man who handed it in to wait a moment until he consulted Dr. Bishop, the 8ub-Tiea*arer. Dr. Bishop recognized in the note the familiar game, and said it was worth just I growa 95. When the clerk returned to the window the man had left for his change. The which was oat 95 on ths wis evened up bv tt this by the common feelings ■ ty as well as by eariosty. He might bs I bs cured by ■ nek and in great distress. Procuring a I the wooRra rags i light boot they set out upon their self-1 er pot ad no* so imposed mission. -'Beaching ths point|to«a on tbs fin whfjro he had diB&DDeared they Dtuhed I resolutely through tfuGaU inattecPgrais, I it will extract *Q the nrtn. and after a short diatonoa, to tkrir arton-1 bora done by a Mead m rite iahment, they came to a m rrow b or creek, easily navigable to small 1 Two hundred yards from this point was I • dump of hammock, and htire their —„ — search ended. The hut was before them, ridared iataDibla, and I Tying their boat to a tamenoaed root, | they gently approached it It was * eight feet long and four feet wide, with *apiing«» thatehad with gran sides covered with dried hides of i tore. The stench tort can interior of toe hut was atanc ering. Propping the door tmofe with al pole they looked in. The hermit ky in a i dead upon the floor, his body badly oo- composed. Death had endsntiy m> •* ■ ’ •**•'■*** Vii w,/ it*; m -Two; proached him very suddenly, fingers still held a little mema book which he had been reading, party covered the body aa wall aa they | could and, tumbling tbs hat down uj it, left it to await the final tramp. THE STOBY Or HIS LOT. “From the little book which I aa said toe narrator, “for I was one of party, we learned the following ta The mao supposed to be over yean old was not; few miles out of Walton i of their jiarante ndjotead; mi Of I m toast mea so do over aevssny I yet fifty. Tsars am), a savannah, lived f£nk nie Jeflboat. The farms t-J XSST*-