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B4KNWELL, S. C.,-THURSDAY, AUGUST 18j 1887.
NO. 51.
tiii; (jnowiNG
CONDITION AM) OKNKUAI. Ot 1N.OOK
<)N Till. I1RST Ol’ AIAil ST.
Kxcellent I'rof<i>»?c«»-f^r a Great VI0I1I of
Cotton—Heavy Keduotlon in (lie Cona
tion of Corn.-No Improvement In ^prftig
AVIieat--A Poor l‘Tult Croj».
roB|K)ndent8 report that tho weather baa
beeu favorable and -forty-two unfavor
able.
corfox.
The crop was thought io be slightly
injured by4he excessive hot weather
during a few days of the month, but
timely rains came and the crop was re
Covering, when H»<- heavy mini
; tinuing have caused the cotton to shetl
j some of its fruit. The crop was two or
' Wahhinotox, August 10.—The August i three weeks •xuiier than last year, and,
report of tHb Department of Agriculture ! U , ie ™^ e » Lfw ft fl ’ H Ix’ttom crop. Some
• t „ .. , . . ; of rttlFconoapondents say that if the
gives the following facts and figures us ! sejaana contiune three weekd kmgertLat
IT full crop wIIThe gathered, and that it
will 00 fie largest vield that has been
HISMAIICK'S HIG 8CHKMK.
A Hrmnrkable Project Which the fleyiiian
Chancellor Is Said to Hare in Vl«» —
Ucnnany Wants Iloilaml.
(Special io tho New Yorfc Herakl.) ^
FraNkfoiit, August 8.—Ily a very
lucky coincidence I liave just had "a
a -ffaighly intt resting conyt rjation with a
Torcjgu diplomatist whose high position
tumbles him to have as clear an insight
into the views and ulterior aims of I’niice
Dismarck as perhaps any man living can
have.- .The dipltunatist-m .question was
U> tho aondititm of tho 'grcrwttrg"fro] s
throughout the country :■ —
-, COTTON.
m some kwaliMv, that it
t jej^ut, ir*s
fdl tl e 8tut
produced in tins State ft>r several years,
^ d nut tfce largest'ever produced. But
Ihe past month has been favorable, i there an* so- many Casualties that^may
except that the rainfall has linen nu-
e [ually distributed in y.mit of tiuu, toe
drought threatening ut one period''and
damaging ruin's' foilWurg. In the < alt
era belt the excess of moisture pm’
nates as a facUir of depreciation,
weed is therefore large ant^ sappy,
the fruit fall appears iu some ;h
serious, and sonic ou >ea yf rust ujip
In Ldui.uaua similar com^tions L
ly very |iartia!!y
lasipj i. Texas has 1». • n too tl
thongh the ilrought has not as yet
ilisaatrous or sev. re.
stains of ttie crop u v
to a fashion rflSio tJerman watering place,
and. thc^foriune of travel placed us in tho
same railway carriage. . - •
I called the diplomatist's attention to
tho report published by the Brussels
arise before the maturity of the'crop I (ia , zette to “« ‘ that the ^mun
from continued heavy rains, drought' e V 1 ‘, wer *‘ com P 1 '‘ t %l a mc “ ur<J h J
TIMELY TOPICS
FARMERS,
~T
HOW TO 1)0 PAYING WOKK AT TltlS
SEASON.,
8iigge»tloii» of I ut e rc*t, from an Autliorl-
r- tatlvc Source.
r J*nn a in Southern rultlvator )
- Augnsi®il usually a month of compar
ative rest on the Southern farm. The
arduous labor of cultivating the two
passing through Frankfort on his way most important crops i.s pretty weH over
on every well-managed farm, excepting,
possibly, iu tho extreme northern edge
of our peculiar territory. Although
July 1st is literally the midway station
in the year’s calendar, August l)t is
stalk and blades,
after remov
the
iving
ears, as so much roughness, or “ktover,”
fit only to be picked over by cattle, and
the btuk of it trampled under foot into
the manure. With their rich meadows
and mowers they cannot afford the
tedions labors involved and meagre re
turns from the practice of fodder-pulling
as followed by nouthern farmers. They
arc right, and wo arc wrong in this mat
ter. If only the labor devoted to pull
ing and housing corn blades in the
.South were employed in preparing
meadows and mowing grass the result
wonM 'fldd milfiohs of dollars To tfv'
value of our farm results. We would
then be encouraged to increase the area
devoted to grass for mowing to any de
sired extent, until cur- barns would bo
filled with plenty for horses, mules,
sheep and cattle, and the sorry spectacle
of haU-famishiNl animals, shivering in
find Uic nYer| illar; wlifcli h^s appeared which in twenty-WTonrsreme^ redly nearer the dividing line between ^d^dTu, a^SanTn^Tfiii/ir
......... 1—1..: ,l_. . uerman troops oouUL be tISfown u»fo ! ♦!.«—1.—— --1 1-1 . .. - .. - .t
f-i
- ruevirtlryf, and
AlnwhiMiipi. T
1st of .A
oognm* t
the vtuci
rttst.
Wl
rj
t..
he pnn
goo.1 iu
report
u and
I
tm
The cun. ci
■
be early up! md o ru is
mar, in our I ^ ‘“‘V" u »otu the wor
-rially change the aver-! ^ ^ Ibodipkrtnatttt said:
“ I hat report is so nesr Io the t:uth
that it is sure to lie contradicted. Ger
man designs upon Holland, are, mi my !
ppinion, the key note of I’riuco Bos- ‘
I’lurck’s futuro projects. iTince Bis-!
marck, if be cloaks his acts, m IJuiu con
,e»«ls his* opinions, and I Lave serious
reasons lhat justify my oonviotion that
bt fbre long rrinoi' Bi .marek will, by un
adroit move, use UollsnU hn the muuis,
draig.) as it may seem at tint sight, of
in report •«l gene rally to cemt-ntiug frieQ-lahip with 1'rauce and
r grown in tho htxtc. uf aopnnag a ooloiual empire for Otr-
rnatutvd and [ many. M
I remarked: "I don’t quite nnderntand
The c ndjtion is reported in ivfqHir
Carolina at ‘.»7 \>*-r cent.; middle C..roii-
ii.v at 10J pircent., and ju lower Cap'Jiua
»t y<r cent. Au average for U c State
• f'.U par cent, hhowiug a falling ft 2
ivr c* nt. for the St.»U moo* our last re-
js.rl; but, n« v>rthek-ri, toe crop m> still
betl* r than fur yearn ni* to this date.
3 work of cu^ivation amL the laltors
of HmT liurvust Yet there may bo some
aiak that may profitably Imj done in tbe
continued cultivation 0* the cotton field.
bllAl.L CLOWINJII OOXTINITB? - .
It dependn on the conditiou £l tlio
plants and seasons. If the crop is in a
.1
growing condition, and fruiting well, |
but is rather later in development
than it should be, the cultivators, or 1 , -
shallo w mnui'-g 3woci>* and scrapes, may 1 f OTer ’ * OOPru . *' tc
be run over the fields every ten days,
MltlMkrly aft.>r a rainfall sutfi.’iont to
10
of U
Uv •
the one
ard Lnc
1 la- if) Im rwl
whk h
‘ in Hi
Tr»w^!
kina
ima
N<
(•
Si Kith
, Tel
I it
yon. How could this be done?”
In -this way. Suppose some day
t* many were to asy to France, ‘You
may have Alsnoc L nune bark J^aia
previJe,! you will lot Gennanj na«c !f 0 'i r ? <r 1 .
oarte blanche eh«wberc and agree to ,1U< ' *’**»♦».
|M-r (ii rruany alaorhing Holland and all the '‘M
t. €••*»- \ llullmd cvdouiea.' A pr ’position h> re-'
tnrn the lost provinces aould lw nxvived ' >v "'
m Fiance with leaf* and'baan.U of joy. j ^ 11
At heart the K renew an<l tier mans d<> I y”*
not hate cseh other nearly na bitterly as J
the F ranch and La gush t(o. hull# hy the (.
"I firmly believe that 1‘rtoce Uisuisrvk '’ ul
really oi.ateiBplalM each a move. The oay ‘*e hu-tTii
Uhanoellor c*vvr foUown well-beaten "
lme» o| dipw.ualte runUaei 11m gemo* h*on n*x.
*1 no. for j m as mdettoahle ae that nt a purl, a I ^**5***ti**n Im
nn a crush II lot-cutting and mangling
mint bo can fully avoid#!, ae the eifoot
will be to r-v.isn tho plant to dusl its
fruit and th-ii t.ikr on a now growth too |
late to amount to auv thing. The object
now should Is to prevent the shedi.ing
of the Npiare- aln ady formed, and cn-.
their •!< Vi'lo|H):i.'tK into blooms'
cry few that m.tkc their 1
ft< r l!«• tenth of the bU’Uth
ipe the Ursl killing fr*»ls of
J-ate cotton sbotili Im on
I to k>v ;» up a vigunaia growth,
the ••! tiUoual ucv<
stinteil and often forgotten allowance of!
shucks, would be Uinielud from among
us. «
To do this wo are not^ilependnnt on
the doubtful sncccia or th*; st:iu>lard buy
grasses from abroad. Wt* have our own
native—at l*ast thoroughly naturali^d
—crab grass, crowfoot, licrtAUtla, and
several species of i>mpal urns; besides
several species of millet, ludun corn.
Of course, if IAmm
is no other resource for hay, and nothing
more profitable for the hands to do, the
fodder should tat pulled. A comntoii
field band, oowting say fifty cents a day,
can save one dollar's worth of fodder,
and poesibly pot sehouvly injure the
com—a very good operation The plan
of catting the stsiks down will nut
answer in our climate, and without other
resource of better forage.
WMST MAT Ml PLANTBa ~~ -
August has somrtinxw been called a
presence of Mr. Davis, the balance of
tho cab 1 net gave their opinions in favor
of tho bombnrdment., Mr. Toombs was,
as was liis custom, pacing the floor.
When it cutne his turn to express his
opinion, to the amazement. pf all be
vehemently opposed the"' attack, aud
made one of tho most remarkable
speeches of all bis life in opposition to
it. He ssid it wonld be the doom of the
Confederacy. He said: “Let Charleston
go. Give up Sumter. Let it be pro
visioned, but never explode the volcano
that is ^nder qur fi et*’ Ho said it was
ratcidc an-l imtbo'ns find'-would lose us
■...very fhend .in all tho North, and ex
nibited all his magnificent power* in
opposition to UiogKack. lie said: “Mr.
President, you will wantonly strike a
hornet’s ru st that fills the Korth from
ocean to ocean, and legions, now quiet,
will swarm out to sting n* to death. It
U uniiecesaary; it puts us iu the wrong;
it is f dal.” And so it was. Toombs was
the wise si and the greatest of all the
(UUsiiuu ol tho boutheru Confederacy.
JI-K»KKaON I * IV Ut KEnj K*.
(s«»%#rnor C'urt^ii tkinl ry of His Fro.
P 1
CARTLOADS OF HOSET.
I ,V - . I
• ivLit 1 of ih< Now L>rk World:
iitiuu has oe»u oaUad to a Jotter
tv m >r ( urtin, pnbUahed in the
l-fii tii-I., iCMgard to an
• . hu pait with a
To ti
My all.
<.| ex-ti
I i t-rald
<JU f,'ed •• jll)|
pUI|*>-4- Ut ,-v^O
a or hetsuuit Ut**
letUT. flota Will
m
lupin*'tit of
tlie nundier of
of new Mpiarva,
young holla
f ill sue and curlier
sweeps and aorapea
J July, if
irrreLM
imatUmM
j tart* aud
PI
the peee-
t founder uf
dtp.) tualM'
stlgvou, (
U, i[. 1. rb
r el
dte
f au artist,
atnkr at
Mu
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m 1
no'
M
bo
t 4f«
vun
I ■rt
two-U
naa ni.
aav sm 1
the tul
ana, (J
been a
and K
with o
IvLftt* i&v
JlU|<
rr
r»lii
Ml
d
mu aurpl
Ohio 1
kliM.or.
he ci.iij
was reperU
favagta of 1
Ul Iba
vt ry alightly.
7H. 8, two {Siin
turns Of laat )
.v !■■■
bxvJUT:
Ntbrarl
wge over
•h
tat n
*w *aat month, * ' in
ig, la not improved
t turn*, but Laa fJher. oft
The gtCerkl avers «.• t>
Is less th<ui the Augu*t rt-
t-ar. Dakota ha/ toade a
slight change and f-Uuds highest in con
diUun. The average fur Wisconsin i« 73,
.Mmiicsota 7d, Iowa 72, Nebnoku 77,
Dakota HI. iu liu evtiemo cast and
1’acific coast tim comhUon of spring
wheat is high. There ut jno. report-of
winter wheat the present month, as it is
too early to obtain results.
fu the oats crop there is no chni.ge.
p.irt of the breadth wa* harvt*U<l at
Li t reports. The conditiou areiages
80.(>, which imbeutes a crop sughtly un
der the average. • w
The barley crop promises to yield
rati" r better than was leans 1 last month.
The eastern product averages a higher
condition, but is reduced slightly since
last reports. The average is 8(1.2, indi
cating nearly au average yield.
Buckwluut appears to be practically
the same as last year am^wverages idxiut
lH).3iu condition.
TOBACCO.
Tho tobacco crop is in high condition
in the seed leaf States, averaging nearly
100, except in Winconsin. The shipping
md cutting district of the West make
unprecedented reports of low condition
—Tennessee 08, Kentucky 50, Ohio 55,
Indiana 58, Illinois 52, Missouri 00. In
view .of the heavy reduction iu acreage
in flagmen is, the usual crop may be ex
pected. Au ofii( ial investigation of the
area now in progress will determine au
thoritatively the breadth cultivated the
present year.
rOTATOIS.
There is A great reduction since the
1st of July in the fcondition of potatoes,
almost entirely the result ^ drought.
There ia no material decline on Ihe
Atlantic or Gulf coasts, but the injury
is severe in the West. The loss during
tho month as reported is fully 20 pei
cent of tho prospective crop.
FRUIT..
The fruit crop is very poor. Theft-
will be few apples outside New Englairo
and New York. There will bo a partial
crop in Michigan. *In the Ohio. River
States the harvest will Le nearly an en
tire failure.
HAY.
Thu hay crop is also greatly reduced
In the West the geheral crup is 80.
THE CHOPS IN THE STATE.
ix r rvf;»., au 1 01.1 cot
•i*.t a Urg* turrewac iu to* art
•re*i *»i» yvar*. 1 flab potatoes rej* fl*-d
or upper ( aiwl ua at (V per n-Bt., tukl-
'la Gaiohna at per eibk, and lever
.'aroiina at Hi |<r erat. Hweet |vlatuea
ire rej’uruM (*>r upper Carolina at P5
a r cvuL, tuuklle 4 'are> ina at 1U0 per
rni, at J lower Carolina at 37per c uL,
ait-rege lof the State of *.17 per cent.
Oar correvp •ndotiu report tin* crop in
fine ouiuLt.ou, and aa ihe crop hm l-cen
lucre tat'd 2 jer cent 111 acrevgu the y u l*l
mint D
4 {>;>« Ir
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m c*.nbnu.d now, Hia bitter
ap.ererBt hi thaaaac fuin>w
ia»t ran, and thna a) oi*l
r )4*»W into th* rwlgva of *>ll
)e pi iwiug Ou« farrow in
u-U'g a tveniy-ineh aw*
nival*-r, will ireneraltv Is
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Mi < •>rruv.
nt* liave bum tund- in
the last f*.ity yiara,
an*l runelowona Lava
Souirtime* it pays; |
, aoiu« Uaew it iniiirvH 1
om-ti Uiat will aJaxyal
>1 ol-pirt to topping m
tlhcT growth of wac<l and
Janf hag aa many aa it
t. n<*w forma would 1
to mature, the ahm being It)'
plant U» throw all its vigor.
Um* ulanf
, and vIki
•wcoikI apring, in allaatou to the fact
that many of the crops planted first in-
the rarlu-r mouths may again be put in*
but chiefly Iwoauw it ia the lieguiuiuir
of s* <<iHune for all of the grew and
amad gram. Many of the garden *«g*»-
tabl % including Ural pa, beets, btrena,
toiuabeM, Irish potatoea. etc . may Im
piann,. viih rraaooabir proapert of awo-
eereful rcauiia. It ia the BMun month
for sow utg all tho roagLleaved vanrtwa
of lam 11 „ hucrea* depcnda- more thou
•id la the spring—-OB dinp prcparvl: u.
oil hberei tuauunog with wall rutted tlal-le
ia luanurr, or *|iuekJy aulabh* fatbharr*.
p, aad guml MwaoBre With UlUe effort,
at!' and reresmabl*' want her, moat of the
gvrelro vegetal 4es may Im had 10 pleoty
until froai. We hare several bam me
eet-de*! Well ia producing an ahundaal
supply of tomatiw from plaala grow a
from catting off the «4d |4qnri. A eat-
Ung ooulaming a vigorous ahpof, with a
poiboa of lha older riem will
readily yOreka mot. aad if set m a <Iaep-
ly dog aod aad shaded for a few day* it
will soon come into haanng and aooUnite
until killetl by froaL
hia paat with
mate in** during the j
uu-a, and also to a |
raliorre, 1*0., oa tne
saro- ►.ibjecf pfi’doJii d b* Ihe World nil
tin* IMth last. 1 uolicd the use uf yoar
oolun.as to make a !tr.« t 1 ■lannal of
the fart*, ao farm they are known tome.
Garetuot Lurtin tuak>v tww mialak*a
iu UmmAa*jt. a .««*, LmM 1 had mad*
| J*;..' aocu *>‘iui agaluat him and that 11
nad allagt*! that Lu was to pay ffJUkUUU 1
to a deapenait.) for my awMaaiiiatlua. Ail |
thM, Imm-u on a' a*dtopnper arUcle por-
• Ua tbe rupuit of an "inur
•I with me fur puhhnabuff by
l*r eorrrepoaihmt. nueh Was
im** , A will auown hiatoriaii 1
to »ni«* my bmgraphy, ardi
tog'** him l»»r that pun*-**
»l ol all*, to pis made during the
THE AMOUNT OT MONET IN THE
NATIONAL TREAffirKT.
Some Startling Figure* A beet the QoaaU-
tj at Moaej la the Halted Hutu Ti *aae
rj—The Public Deht^all Paid.
WASH»crTON, Anguat 7.—Few peepoba,
porhapa, who read the frequently pii5-
liabed reporta of the flaoal operationa of
the government give any nnnviiVa aliiiu
to tbe vaatneaa and significance of them
operations. We read of the hundreds
of millions of gold and silver in the
treasury, bat how few persons here any
intelligent idea of whet ia embneed in
the nine figures required to deeeribe tho
liabilities and assets of the government?
It ia only when the auriferous contents
of the treasury vaults are weighed end
measured and placed by the side of arti
cles and commodities that are daily
handled by the maaaea theten fatsfUffdbfi
comprehension can be obtained by tbe
peupleof the financial strength of the
treasury and the greet extent of the gov-
crnmmt'a flaoal operations.
I find by ruferwnoe to the latest pob-
Itahcd statement of treasury assets and
lialuhtlea that among the amete wm
0281.01*1,317 in goU and amrly *150,-
000,000 in rilrer, iaaladiag 3^1**),<W0
ol trad# dollar* and frarUoual anlau
Takrag up this £181,000,000 of gaU and
EireJ Xlw «•
and if pSted into ordinary earta, one
ton to tMoh cart, H would make a pro
test of spaea lor the awresaanl* cT
' the 1
be 7,800 toes. Hsaeanng it to carto, «
ia the ease of the gold, toe rilrer now
bald by the treasury wonld rn|ton ire
aarvteae of 7.8toJ bonre end carte to
Uutl b
ice ikaniarc k ftv!
rmMLj tktt Miunl 1
U*t f |
|>Ut>
4'
larilyix- very large.
UKATil ul A 1 A 'I*).l * t NION M‘X.
• r.l>
• r-l-'j, XYlni Fi.l Io 1* rtl
•••tl loro. I* No Morv.
W.Mlt
Fanlaw Wtrduy.
the
of
gnnt
la lie.
tost Franc*-
.1 ■ V *: *l t *o»t
Um; r-ml nirtny of Genuanr, France and
Rumia is Lnglaod. It ia ’>a this h*ai*
that Umj future of Kup'pc aod Asia is to* liavi
be settled the Continent fur the Conti- dun
uental*, Germany to cement Wtrag
fn«ud*hip wiUi 1 ranee by giving her
back AKaoe-LoraaM) and thereby rvalue
utr niaguificent dream of Colonial em
pire; aiat Russia, under tbe wgia ol
Germany and France, to secure the road, ping was pro
not duly to CouatautiDopie, but to a of to*- vtalka :
uucl^oveted port on the Indian Ohsati,
Ivivutu Ftnuu amMlntiah India.
“it ia to-day not France, but Lu^ttml,
that m the Ulianoellor'a beto uoiro.
£very where Le turns it is Knglaud that
Opposes his intereata. In the Balkan
rt to develop tbe forma sl-
e. Tbe objeot, according to 1
t*o% la rsrvly attained t>y
•«mg Ihe growing top of th*
■Me
MOM TlMJMMS'W ItaHI r.
•Be At
Uka a
1 may otleti beaccompiiahad b
tore
Hlavk-ISaaea NaatMlaa tluq.**
fFraai lb* lMMib>*lil« 1 •at*Mr-J.airosi 1
Ttie first evidence of the coming power
*1 hr of this r* markable man was exhibited at
•ppug or k pping off the growing cud* WUlingtoo. a small village in Abbeville
ol the brmLcb* a, as well aa the leader., diatrict (aa the present coon lira were
In mo*t 1 *41 a where topping eutlon re-. then called), Mouth Carolina. 1 irnaral
»ulb-*l ia tncTeuiong the yield a augU George MeDufle, the only reprwnto
l*e» u noticed that the work was tire pi Deaxoathenca in this country
rather early—auma time m July. I rince 1‘atrick Henry, lived near there
Lvovjr on** I aa obaerved that rialka of ] McDuffie wae haraeasad lightning. He
cotton that wtre topped by the late of
the plow-hurxe early in the season are
often made much inure Inulfui thereby.
Ia such
Union spy .
the Mhcnamloah,'’ died at his homo at 'Vniusula it is Kngland that is straining
i FosUr Brook, N. Y., lost week, agid every nerve to creato smilll independent
j sixty-ta veii j cars. Beginning life os a nanonaiities into bai riors against liusaian
fancy goods merchant in Massachusetts, * l ‘il Austrian conquest. And as to the
! nt the opening of the war he raised a dounnation that Bumaiek is trying to
com} any of the Fourteenth Mmsachu- | bring aliout in Egypt, England is the
-* tu Heavy Aitiiiery. He wai mx>d J°8 “j the manger that prevents Bis-
ufterwanls employe*! by Major-General marck’s policy ol placing Egypt under
I B. F. Butler in the iiani'e of tho United , French or continental control. In Ccn-
fitutes to go into the British pro vino s to ; tral Asia it is England that prevents
look into the system of blockade running Russia from developing southward
then in vogue. He was successful in
this mission, for Major-General C. C.
Augur, in. bis rei>ort of August *25, 1805,
>a)s that it was through^the instmmpi:-
tahty of Air. Warsley that tho extensive
system of blocka*lc-ninuing from Balti
more-and Washington was broken up.
After returniug from this trip Warsley
went out as a spy upon Mosby undar “In spite of these plain facts England,
Augur, though not until he had returned
to Boston and married Helen Isabelle
Francis, who survives him.
Accompanied by his young wife,
Warsley set out ostensibly upon a ped
dling trip through Virginia. His real
object was soon susi>ectod by Mosby,
and a spy was placed upon his tiack.
The spy was a handsome young lady
who was to be conducted to Washington
by Warsley. The Union spy was too
smart to be caught, and, instead of
using his pass through the Unipn lines,
ho conducted the lady through swamps
and by-roads until she became disgusted
with the trip, and she returned to Mosby
convinced ot tbe loyalty of Warsley.
Mosby was not convinced, aud at one
time placed a pistol to - Warsley’s head,
threatening to blow his brains out. The
young lady interceded aud Warsley’s
life was aaved. Afterwards Mosby be
came hnr firm friend, fighting a duel
with a nephew of General Leu Ixicausc
Lieutenant Lee Lad set a guard upon
Warsley and had condemned him as a
spy. On two occasions Warsley furnish
ed information bv which the Federal
forces were enabled to surround tb*
house in which Mosby was quartered,
but tbe dashing Rebel cut his way out
and escaped. On several occasions
Warsley got information of intended
raids Upon Washington in time to allow
the anthorittei to mass their forces an 1
save the capital.
At tbST' time of the
President Lincoln Warsley
of a squad of
When Booth was killed Waraley retar ae-1
10 private life, aad for jeon m- a pais
ia the Bradford oil laida.
policy which was always felt by Bismarck
to be a necessity, in order to enable
Germany to hold her own in Central
Europe. Everywhere it js England that
stands in the Chancellor’s way.”
And here the diplomatist ftghted a
fresh cigar, and added, with a significant
smile: J X.
the effect of the early top-
baUy to push tbe branches
into more vigorous growth,
causing a more rapid evolution of forms.
On the whole, we have very little faith
in topping cotton as s part of a regun»r
system.
PI XL!.NO FOHDUL
The propriety of pulling fodder, L e.,
whether it does not injure the grain more
than tho fodder is worth, to pull the
blader to> is usually done, is one of the
questions that has been long mooted,
but never settled. Experimenters differ
in results and conclusions. Possibly
each is correct in the results of his ex
periment, but wrong in his general con
clusions. Tho only true conclusion is,
that pulling the blades sometimes does,
and sometimes does not, injure the grain
more.than the value of the fodder ac
cused. It is commonly said, in com
parison with the animal system that the
blades of corn are the lungs of the plant,
by imams of which the plant takes in
nutriment from the air; and as an animal
will at once die iLdepnved of its lungs,
therefore the corn will be injured by re
moving the blades—a very singular and
altogetmr unwarranted conclusion. If
it is said that the-plant will die if de
prived of its blades—lungs—the simUe
would be perfect and the conclusion cor j
rect. It is a fact in vegetable economy
that the leaves or blades of plants con
tinue gieen aud succulent for a time
after they have ceased to be at all neces
sary to the perfection- of the fruit or
seed.* Familiar illustrations of this law
may be found on every hand. In the
case of the corn plant, under favorable
and natural conditions of soil and sea
son, the ear of corn—the fruit of tho
plant- is among the first parts to show
signs of ir atnrity. The tassel and silk
perform their offices, and are the first to
fade; then the husk or shuck, and the
enclosed grain. This succession will be
noted particularly when corn is grown
on fresh lands or soils abounding in
humus. On worn and exhausted soils,
or soils deprived of vegetable
and easily influenced by drouth, the
bladen olton “dry up”-before the
is fully matured. In such cases it is nn-
doubtiy true that to hasten the stripping
of the blades, without reference to the
condition of the ear, would result in
more or less injury and loss of weight of
grain. Of this every farmer must be his
judge. Be governed by the oon4ition
____ of the ear, and not the blades altogether,
tramps, whJ dionreh-K^IuTUions ‘^indcdding just when to commence pulL
right and wrong. He seems to Tie ob-1 ^*5. _ 7 ■ . ..
liviousto everything but-one, and to _ ih*** w noth ng in the
concentrate himself into a lightning bqlt; : { ut **.““?** *^5**^^
for the paepoae of striking the one point *^ an ti,0e *J cur ӣ
he wtelu-s to Lit hard.-Conrep*.mW « V
Buffalo Conner.
Young resa or mkklW aged (Met. —
ikUlujr and dadrefl
. 1 Mad 1*om** is
in the present naval manoeuvres, seems
to have utterly ignored the possibility
of defence against a German or an allied
Fn nch, German and Russian fleet at
tacking her from the North Sea. The
British naval authorities seem to have
only provided for the case of French
invaders coming from Cherbourg or
Boulogne!”
Sam Jone* at Chautauqua.
The lecture of Sam Jones on “Charac
ter and Character” is going on, and as I
now write in hearing of much he says,
it is clear that he has his audience well
in hand and is playing upon the thou
sands who listen as the harper plays
upon the strings of his instrument. As
often, on an average, as once a minute
there bursts forth the most stormy ap
plause. The man is at his best, and this
is with him a field day. He has distin
guished between character and reputa
tion, character and orthodoxy, character
and professions and relations, and js
now picturing the relation of character
to temjjierance, high-license, prohibitivn
and a great many other interests of
practical life. He is absolutely fearless,
aud really he loves a burning mark. He
has no more love or rev* 1 once for lords
and noblea, judges and bishops, than for
lightning, iiu*
forged the chain of logic at a white boat
Ho was the most nervous, impsiMourd
and thrilling tribune of the people of
that day. He demouMreted the jiolitioal
problems as Euclid did geometry, while
foaming at the Mouth and aon*UBing
like a painted Creek Indian. He had
married the only daughter of Dick Bin-
gloton, the celebrated millionaire turf
man and rice planter, and he uNned four
hundred slaves and made eight hundred
bales of cotton a yoar. - He had been a
member of Congreea, governor of South
Carolina, and was afterwards Unite*!
Btales Senator. The people, tofoic
making up their minds on anv political
question, would sav “Mr. McDuffie ia
going to speak at Morrow’s old field two
weeks from now, and I will wait till I
hear him,” and there they would come
forty and fifty miles, and camp out the
night before to bear him, and hio speech
would decide the politics of the eu
country once a year. On this Willing-
ton occasion it was said that “the ever
lasting mouthed Bob Toombs was
coming over to meet him.” Four thou
sand people were there when that rash
young Georgian crossed the Havannak
to meet the lion in his den, to beard tbe
Douglas in his halls. Toombc rode a
horse, and it was remarked that his shirt
bosom was stained with toboooo-juice.
Yet he was one of tbe handsomest men
that ever had the seal of genius on his
brow. His head was round as the celes
tial globe. His abundant, straight,
black hair bang in profusion over his
ample, marble forehead. He had as
many teeth as a shark, and they were
whiter than ivory. His eyes were black
as death and bigger than an ox’s. His
step was as graceful as the wild-cat’s,
and yet he weighed two hundred pounds.
IRr pies* noe captivated even the idola
ters of George McDuffie. He bounded
into the arena like a black-maned Nu-
midian lion from the unknown deserts
of middle Georgia, to reply to the
Olympian Jupiter of the up-oountry of
the proud Palmetto tttate. It was the
most memor’ble overthrow that Mc
Duffie ever sustained. This was in the
Harrison-Van Boren election of 1840.
His argument, his invective, hia over
bearing torrent of irreverent denuncia
tion, ia a tradition in that country even
now. McDuffie said; Pi have heard
John Randolph, of Roanoke, and
Tristom Bargeoa, of Rhode
thia wild Georgian is the
this aft*”
S hoW Um*
• to br rmiaed, I dal
•.apply U*« urn Motor,
ul* " 1,1 mportal.t to a.*;
from a are nit —rva*a
fund, from lha ir.vatu puw ul Um gov -1
mar, or was ouotnbatrd by uJhais who, I
with hkv oval, Miiffril Um* I alii* from I
afar aad ened havoc.
The 1 aonjotoua W*tl« r acquired aa im -
porioaea H would hoi others iac have (
finMsaMd from Um fort that afloat tiu*
lira* of ite receipt, wb«*a g ang to my I
raaidroee at lb*^ naual hour, 1 »»* a mar 1
orourhug h*akia Um baacmiot sail of]
the poling of the yard truer aad looking |
ink nUy toward* the gate en I ranee. In-
stood uf proceed tog to tho gate I turned
oo*l went toward the croorhing figure.
Aa ha waa approached, ha roaa, fled aad
osoaped. Tim unpurtaoM thaa givan to
thwoitoiiymuwt letter induced tue to ia-
close it to the Iten. W. B. Reed, of
PhiMduiphto, with a request toot be
would make such inquiry oa to him
ought Im practicable to dieouver the
writer, and U> verify or diaprore the I
Statements.
Governor Curtin's “emphatic contra-1
diction" ol the aocuaationa against him j
pertains not to me, but to .the writer of 1
the U tter, wlio is unknown to nw, and
for whom I have not vouched.
The avowal of Govvnthr Curtin of
real to main lain tie* government by |
honorable warfare, and the denial that
he “ever resorted to such on ana for the*
conduct of the war," mark a commend-!
able appreciation of tho obligations of
civilized war, and it is a pity that, there
should Im anything to interrupt the cur
rent of liiq self fan la?ion. The letter
from Wilke*Larre, already referred to,
oertounl.' reveals conduct not very differ
t from that allcgod by the anonymous
letto^-writ* : ri It thereby appears that
Goveri*qr Curtin received an application,
appar*iiitWJrom the United States war
departiaeatVNfor tbe release from the
Pennsylvania penitentiary of a notorious
odnvict, that ho might “be sent over tho
lines for a specific pitrpose.” On this
and other like representations it appears
that an order was issued by tho governor
for tbe release of the convict. It is not
shown that the governor kneV or
thought proper to inquire for wni
special service the general of the army
required a convicted criminal; that the
fact that he was to lie employed at the
South was enough to secure compliance
with the application. To an average
mind iutout upon “honorable warfare”
the question would naturally have arisen
for what proper duty with the army can
a convict be particularly qualified? In
th;; absence of information on that point
it might have been reasonably suppo&q
tbut the “specific purpose” was to do Bn
act which & soldier wcrilvy of the name
would not perform. Asamsinatitin might
readily have been cup nosed tb b# such
“specific purpose,aud the application
for release have been postponed for
further information and refused
it should be such as would j
pliance by bringing tbe
the pale of “hoaqr^yg
of like kind
bat his ready belief
Thai
•aid ia lha < laily aawapaaa
aaariy »«7,006,000, _
feMLNI rinm Jnly L
rdd this mrpias woaid 1
Mx aad *>
it wonld sstgh 1JRI6 teas.
Kadi milboa ofgoid odfc MM 1
Io thsi
adds M^I
Andy mg
oordwuod is pttedhZss ttehvsry
purchaser, I lad that tha gold
" tUrtewasaa aorete sad th*
h sad that both woaid 1
yrara sgo whaa H wm
TIm gwoaral rsadar will b
tha vmtomi of thia sam
that it reprasaots 70,150
whieh would mobs s 1
that would
to s point twalvw mites
ddphtek tha dtetemm it
being 2CC mitea
Tha intend bmNiaa«
iodi
•1,001, . m
pmdhmtmn $1,879,
than otM-half of
>te now (ad
n
wpimeritiiia 40,687 tom of rifvardoitesa,
whteh would extend Uf mites if pocked
io outs cuuteuung one too snob.
Reducing IfcMh figures to a bads
where they may a* Intel
preheuded, and Grit the
which the govern meat
bonded debt may be fv„,
the general reader, I find
bon has, been at the average ale of
$62,(506,966 each year, 16,^,581 each
month, $174,186 each day. $7,368 eaeh
hour, and $120.47 for every mmaH d
the entire twenty-two yean.
Pnwmmg ~1'*"1-L'™ *•* ♦*-- n -tt
divisible mace of time, the bonded debt
of the United States has been deemmed
st the rate of $20.07 every second, or for
every swing of the penonfod, for the
entire period from Anguri SL 1866* to
Jidy 81, 1887.
This is an exhibftfem of rennprratiiai
and material progrempn the put of tha
country and ol sterfinf honeety and in
tegrity on the part of foe government
and people that is without pamlkl infon
world’s history.
m
NegroM aod Suastrok*,
The physicians of t^
hospital assert that they have
of a colored peLsoh i
stroke beiag iamittedL
This u A remarkable foot
to make white folks envious j
of weather.
Most paorde would
oolorod people were far
overcome*
caidan
to lean
of
eort