The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, January 26, 1878, Image 1

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I ION. WINNSBORO, S. C., SA.TURDAY, JANUARY 26 1878. Al1.NO.1 NEWllY ADVERTISEMEVi B AT f yPIANO, OIOAM NPSt. CIF-1,00. BE TT S.1,11lfrtln SVV! rgn,121 ItopI1,$ i, Pansonly 1V 3) e104 $430. UIrettla free. JIANIVI. v. JIFA'rT,Y, V\'a1ingIItoll, N. .. 1 I l ov . l .4trated Prim G'lsu 1U-M, fr-ee. UireW 117'.tern1 U111; Wor0k8, M'TY L O4 0 -\CA I. 1 0p.. or 111 New Year t w Card : u J. I. IISTIAD & Co., N it York. Fr Ctt4 ltlI(S fli. \NIM OTHi outlto eve"y.bod4y t1kt-w tir \V llh frol, wh h tSl.nIry. TIe1411 11111- iin d a e goal r%' 44ed. M 1. ICNVUllit. CO., PhlilladelphIa,lPa., olr mllukee, \\ LiculnsIn F T[ t E E 18 For ilts. bru ti--s and Ik 1 prain4. h11ell 11n11 b l liix A l I u' . NiA 1 1 I l .s , h e i n frC ). )II 1(141, IN l i t, 1 - l n j dolvint ulovri, (1st hI rlt sorves, mwollpfd %'o; 141!,r, sl is :M(l V V0111 v in 1; SA\ND FOlYs EXI'lRAC'T MF \VITcll l.\%ElI. Ak IW :ll an lelil T.all I I, W;1-1' -0 I by) - f Pi l' T EIt. \Vlillf.a;le 1). , >11 3.,1 \W ash ing ton S re , 11-ikin, .Ma,-i A. J , pL it"'bl,e11 rh lri',1u1i Sendfo Rd ed Pice L,s0 ol CAI PNET ORGANS. N nll] splo!1#111 Hiye ii Es -g. DU CED h - .e . hln-th (N v1-1 7. .A, Ir-:- -;. ).\O I IlA.\I ll,N ORUA\N UO. Bo t.t, Nvw Yor', t) CiYoitgj. AETSo I s ulded !. 0i.s nlo FOR 1101IM.N's \ PICTORIAL BIBLES, 20A tisv'allons. Addireis, for nlow virrflar .A. J1. 10MMAN CO., 1131) Arch 91 rv.o,P11ia. Ageunts Wanted F:oa PAnIrricARS ADDREIiSS COMPANY, 829 Blr.ndway, New York City; Chicago, Ill., New Orans, La.; or Sain Fr,anic0 California. HABIT CURED. A Cortbain an I Siu-a Cure. Largo reduetoIlitii pie.i's. A irit bottle free. Ais. ,. A. I tor-LI.om a. L.a hino r k, Inillana. OX 1033. (V0Ifrnl rly rl'S . WS. It . Co1inttS). 'Those vi- hin' rel'1f and er for Riptur thillo -il llt, [fr. J. .\. 11b lMAN, 2 Broad Nvay, New York. send lois. for hifi new btnk, withl photogrphh likotesses of bad caIes befioreAld 1aNer (1tr10.d'ware of chears who pretend , ur1ish I. Sh Irm n' re atm iiiit. one o I fellows., a 7--1rma clerk, now valliz 1himsvf Dr. \. ,. Cr 1 8psn, 0 Indicted on complah'l, ot' Dr. S. nt i wa trial torl forgery ]nal embezzlemet. A Great 01er for Holidays, We will during these hard tiies and the holidays 0ipseo100 NEWI PIANOS andt Ol GNS, of first-chass maakers, at lower prices for cash, or installments, than ( nver bo-foro ofTered. WATEIRS PIANOS and ORGANS are the best male, WrrIat0I for to oiars Illustrated Catiao,eul mailed. Gret inducements to the rado. *Vinnos, 7--octavv, $1.0; 7.3 r ntave, $1s50. Organs, 2 stops, 8 o8; 4 stopfi, $53; 7 stops, $615 ; 8 st ops, $70; 10 beto, $85; 12Mops, $91;in peOf order not Used a yvar. Sheet imsio at half irnice. HOlACE WATES & ONS, de1anufacturcrs and D)alers, 40 East 14h Street, New York. jan I-tw Columbia Business Cards. IT EADQUARTERS for clicapetit Gr cerios nd lardwore in Columbia to bo found at the old reliable hoso of LORICK & LOWANCE. I_ IX'S, Portraits, PhotograpIs, Sterf l oscopes, &Vc. All old pictures copiod. Art Gallery Building, 1*2-A Main Street, Coltirbin, S. (5 VisitJrs aure cordially in vitud to call and examino. II AlLES EMA'S,forinrly of Camden, I ha miove-l to Gollitbi.:.., 1.1 i opeled a large -tock<, of Dry (oods tt Not iols, 11ots, 8hoc-, Trnnos and Valikes. Satis fiaction glarito cd. Ii,l - C \iEItY-- Opposite the Iln: .. Port raits, Phitoegrat ph, ....:. pIs an 1 Purr vty pc,s 1iIIsht-1il inI (.." b t 'I vt l.- oil Ithv e t 0bi pteinr-s vo;Ii.- -mn1 vnhi0.el to any size. W. A. I't'KhlNG, l''p ttr. )i & D.AVIS, imprflers anid . l. dealer'; in WaItets,' les.e ety Silver :-nl Piatel Ware. 11otste i riish. in -oodt, , e. N. . Watecltes aid jew lIry repairt-d. ColAiunbill, S. . oct 27-y GW-'R A I TI)D NT NATIONAL Ezysition! W E could find no other ap propriate heading to indicate the largo Stock of DRY GOODS, SHOES, HATS, &c. &c., that we are now daily receiving W thought of Headquartors, Emnpo rium and Bazaar. All too tame. Come One I Come All We are determined not to be un dersold by any house in South Carolina. The Best Prints in Town at 61 ets The very best made at 8k cts. Coats' Cotton, all colors, at 75 ets. We intend to try to please you in prices, goods and polite attention. CALL AND SEE. LADD BROB. oct 9 NEWV WILLCOX & GIUBS Silent Sewingq Machina. Latest~ In vent ion, Prodtcing M~airveous lIts sutrpaing merit. places It btwyonil all corn petition.i anti mak:des it' te cheapost. not11withI st aitintg the laruge I iducemiem SolTeretl by setllera~ or nloisy, ha rtl-runing, t roublestomne, two Only3 31achinie i1 thet WVorlil wit. .Antoniatic Featu,res, ad with no TIenstIOn to MaIlitte. Write by Postal Clard for Price List, List of Offices, &e. W I LCOX & uiu288 S. Ml. C0 (Cor. Bond St.) 658 Broadway, N. Y a may NOT'ICE. A LL. persons indebted to the estate of LJ maos It. Aliton, deceased, are hereby notified that the notes and accounts belonging to said estate have b)ten placed in the hands of James G. McCants, attor ney, with instructions to Aettle up and collect the same as seen as possible. H. L. ELLIOT T, Ja n~ 15- A dministrator. VEGETPNE An Excelleut MedicIne. SPHtI NV II.iD, 0., Feb-'li8, 1877, TIS 1 to CVrl I (y IMi tI I hitve 111it IME'llI NE InI:tlitf:lVttirel by If. It. 8'V14, Bost,on, Mas-s , fill IRhtthn ii ut aill tlie eral Prost.rationl of (h2o Nervlr% r. S% *in, wit il go-it SIcces. I reolt fi,IIItI VVt51title I t' t ilt n xce 1eit, IiediIlno for bIlch coinptilnt ls. Yotri very truly, C'. W. VANIMIMlT. Mr. vaticigrift, or 1iv 11firl of V:rt levrift & irritian. is :t wel.i kn,own masies iltfe till. Ilil-we, haiving oile Of llo Ltrguat sLorva In spr-Ingfield, 0. (Jurl Minister's Wifb. I.S'iVIl.LE. KY., Feb.J16, 187T. L I. ST-EVENSs : ':ir NI. r--IThre:' .ve-ra ago I w.14 st,ffering lerrIbly wIIh 11n1l,1nmn-llory lillinallsinl. 0111r lollaiiI r'.s wvl- :ivi-Ned wo to tako Ve.elino. A\ 'tPIr t akU oer o1w bot tie, I wIs ent.irely 101 eve<l. lii- v. tv' ielig a let1111n of tile (tseat-o, I uin entai 4mt'on' -aI 1:1k0: I'. alt ail b:'ing bouln 1il11 gri'itiy. It :1al greitly improves my MS. A. g oAteLAoeD. 1011 West Jefforslon St.ret. lKlbO anld Isure. Allt. I t. T v : t S to I 6i la.' your VI X-.M:TINE- wA4 I'erilomild to .:11 a i I o rW ! t Ile por:I IlIIl or a rrit -mi(, I comml1ilc( t I rp* L1 AI ie(. Wl' ' I wva.t suilfl'r iali i: i ,n Ie t Ii 0 It yIa il olt . pro s tI o liirl:olli byi t over,rk :111l grrgular luSt. Its wonlll11 siretiOlttw,l:i1 a:111it nil:. ijl ' i O II -I i f e 'tL lay lW IMlitatedl sy.4-n 1train i h . , ,.e; ailtd] utoder Its pl-r 2 n it -. I rali-Ili v o' Iverei, galliil'r ml -e IW:II It110 11"ll hettnu., good tvvillig. sine tl I wv I ji to Ih ateI l to ghve V e t'Ine illy lv'sl 111011i.i .b ilwilt, as betigy a s:ife, "tIN'S: l ;mPIAO t il ag .In proltnot Ing healthl amod restoring Ii' w.1 iledi Sy*sv'n (to it liew lift, In v "e: .. \'I- I'(.," NI-Eiit.llti il.n lyineill(I I lose, mill as lotg is Iihve I it- ver expec', to Hlud t better. Youl's I I-tily, W. It. CI,A !KI 120 Montercy '-!roet, All0ghany, Pennsylvania. The folloving lt1er from Rev. C. W. Mils liv i.t oril m-il oro- lilt, meyti llist. Episcl 11:11 Church.1 Hyde P'ark, ande Wt l"r.ent Se,Illl n I .N,, Vit It ci%i*i v r 4! e w011' 4 Iq) roads I,s leieI'r oft lie won cler il"i ltr Ilve qutalitAt's of \ egeliti', asa thorou,.It cleai nsee :tii imr'itur of tle bloud. I VIl IMitK, 3AM., Feb. 15, 1S-O. AtlH. II. it. STCVFNS : Iear Sir-Alot len yern ago my health falled thmugh tle. dileting i,Irezti of lys P ,i :' v:rly .1 3ea r ;lti* I wits litaa l:'e.4 iy rylinilih lever In Its %Vor, form1. It sCU,'e'l Il Ily I:k, nl took ile fornl of a larke <ve a seatf:-d Aiscoss%*, wIllh w:as ifteeln Illontils tin g.1inrlag. I hml two oiqur-rtjk)IISleil I y hI: be-t skill In tlit, Sstia. Gl. 1.4-ovved noi) p1i., tia C1il VtIre. I sillfereel gre.it j a.t :1 1 1ims, atd was ioitaw ly w ie:kenel 1)y a protilse i aga'. I also lust, sal itees W, b,Iu at diffever.t I lines. M ]' tels r la (iiti s iiibolit, si"e l yeITrs, till May. 1N, whiia itfrim riecoittientlt ine to go liot hle e:11c, nl tl I:Ilk %Vi I Ii ytIt of t.11 virtue of I-'gelile. I (lid si, ant by yotur kllintess ):u"-dtirougli -our 11,1itefactory, loting tIhe gr,ilnIIts &c., y whill your reinctly Is pro -ywhat I 'aw nnd lieart I gained some con ltlence lin \tgetlitv. I Io.n' llig t soon after, bit, fell W1rse 1 iiin Its effecis srtill T ipers'v-re. aid huon Oelk i washolll littil)i lit other resprects. yet I (lId 1101 Sm. I he ris'ttis I ivrettdC I, I h;1d taikei It. fal(lifully for a lit it, mnore han it year. when thedifo ulllylty ti I Ie h:ick was (red : tiitt for ninte m1ott0.s I have eljoyed the best, of healt h. tiring Ilhe pit few weeks I Iaid a scrofuloxis well1i1g as large as tiy l.ist, gat her on aiotIer p:tri o iI v Iho ity. I took VEMIA'TINE fallfitlly, a1n1 It remnoved It leveI wit I h I iesurfrie ' a litoith. I tit ilk I sholilif have bvei 1vired of Iy liiln troble soonlier It I h:iil 1.1 ,!:I larg 'I tu.es, after having becoie aiilst iOlil io It-, ILffucA. t.et yltr 11:1tront troub~ le1th IIISCiOCtla or' khintii iiti:5 i t t lidt'ls:t d Ihat It. takei I to[fll i) cure chmoe disetses ; anil If 1.hey wIll pl: ilt 13' lake VEOTiNE, It will in mny judgment, curv theml. With gren t obligat Ions I am You's Very trill.y. (;. W. 'AINANSFJEI.1). rastor of the Met hodist. Episcopal Chlrlh. V E' ET INE --PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. Vegetine is Soldi by all Drugg is!,s. jan 1 -4w WATERS'0RUCHESTRION ames ORGAN li than ienlt heiitian lini style nrai plerfct,I in tii e viiin ever niandei. Ithusa thiecelebrtedg CoIner to hithp, whIsch 4. a flue -I:itenItini the iin aun (~ ~. Volec, anti two ande n,. half Octaves of bells -tuned~i it perfect hiar. It fi iiiOniy wlthl ths reeds., ii U ~" anidtheltref1ect S Ilnng. ii ~ ~ Ical ahid elctrmiig. i WATE4l' OL,A IR 10 - NA, (ItCHIEM'TI1AI,, SCONCElUTO1 VESPI. E.R,CENTENNTAL CIIIlER., C IIAPEL , andi CO(TTA(GE (O14 ANM, in Uimque F~renchm (a. 5es coinbine PC It ITY o/VO1CIN4G with great volum lilt ton 1414suitaible for P'arlor or Chi elic. WATERS' PIANOS,(Min,)mimre AHRE TIlE IIEST JlIAI)DE heTon,Tonch, Work lnannlhipi, and Dumralitly Unuurpassed. Warrantedl for MIX YEIA 11 . PH.E CE EX TH ElI ELY. LOW/or ensks.Mon. aly II1nsteinsent eceavedl. lInstrn:nents to ilet unt pidt for nes per contlract. A ,ibernl D)lNeonut to 2.ai'heir.. inist4re,Chum-br,#,,'ihuiolsi,etc. ACAENTR' WVA NTWED. Speelnl Iinuents to the tradei.llustratced Oniningues inlid. Second-handl Inst riutits at ORtEAT HARit (lAINti. IION(ACE1 WATElIS & SONS, Dlannfn et nirers and Dealers, .40 EAST 3 4thi ST.,UNIO'N SQUA R E,N.Y, NOTICE. r [3HE Grmlf of Leeh & Co. is this day Januatry 1, 1878- F. ELDER, I will contin-.e the business heretoforo 0-nduted by Le(1t ch & Co., andl( respect fitlly olidit ai COIl LinIuanion of tlte patron age of the public. All persons owing the firm of Leetch & Co. will sottlo with me if paying by January 21), 1878; and those4 havIng any claimsh against thle same wvill present thorn to moe for pafymenCft. F. ELDER. In consequenca of my withdrawing from the firm of Leetch & Co.,. fand being about to'leave the State, all persons in debted to the old firm will find thoir lie count)' with F. Elder; and any accounts unpaid by January 20, wvill be placed with my~ attorney, A. M. Mackey, for col leotion, No excepti ins made. Jan .xztJan20 Rt. F. LEETOU. A CHAPTER ABOUT BUGS. --o THE STRANGE HA 1ITS OF INSECVTS EXPLAINED. An Hour With a Loading Egn tomologist -Eight Thousand Beetios In Ono Room--Bonuties of Natural History. The reportor of a Northern paper gives an interesting account .of a visit paid to Mr. Andrew S. Fuller, an ontomiologist, living at Ridge, wood, New Jersey, who has spent many years collecting bugs and studying their habits. The follow ing is a description of what the reportor saw: His office is neatly furnished. A coal stove and plain writing table occupy the centre of the room, and a fine scientific library is ranged against the wall. Cases of baugs in sliding drawors stare the visitcr in the face, and strange Counds are frequently heard from old log and decaying pieces of wood piled in the room. Each is worked by the grub of some bug or boetl3 whose habits are the particular study of IMr. Fuller. Thore are in the room 125 cases of beetlos alone, contain, ing 7,450 species up to 1873. How many have beo added to his collec, tion since that time is not known, but lie thinks several hundrod. Ho has secured many snout bC3tle mentioned in the work of Le Conte and Horn recently published. In answer to various questions, Mr. .ullor said that no collection included all th3 known species of beetles in tho United States. About 10,000 kjpds havo boon classified and doscribod, and addi tions are constantly being made. made. There are prob%bly not loss than 25,000 specics in the country, 15,000 of which are yet to be dis covered. "Do you confine yourself to the collection oA botles alone ?" asked the writer. "Most bug collectors," he an swered, "study during life but one order or family. I am especially interested in the beetlo. Taking beetles, moths, butterflies, bugs, flies, ants, etc.. together, there must be over 100,000 different species inhabiting the United States alone. It is supposed that over 100,000 kinds of plants are scattered over the world, and five distinct species of insects prey upon each plant. This would give us 500,000 kinds of insects, and there are probably many more. Taking this view of the matter, it is no wonder that individual bug collectors give their timo to the study of but one order or family. "One family of beetles," continued Mr. Fu]llcr, "works exclusively at trees. Their grubs live and bore into the timber. There, for in stance, are the long-horned beetles, 551 species being already named and described in the United States. Every farmer knows the apple ti e borer, which is one of the long horned family." "TilE DEsTRIUCTIVEXEss oF BlEETrLEs, said Mr. Fuller, "may be imagined when I tell you, t,hat some of their grubs are as large as a man's finger, and live in the trunk of a tree from ton to tweaty years, before chang ing their shape and becoming beetles. All these years they are constantly feeding. They go bor ing through the trees like augora, and leave trails as crooked andl devious as the path of a ship in a headwind. I have knowni grubs to bore over fifty feet in oak trees, before they were turned into beetles. B3ut these grubs have their enemies. The little wood packer eats the eggs which he finds on the bark of the tree, and nips the grub as he is wvorking his way in. As the forests are cut down, woodpeckers become scarcer and grubs increase." "One might suppose," continued tihe buggist, "when a grub is on, cased in two inches of solid green hard mlale, that he is pretty well p rotected from the outside world. But it is not so, for hero we have a fly," drawing out one of his cases, "that finds and destroys him." There were r'ows of the flies in the case. Tile wings were trans.. larent, the body lyas black, the legs and antennte yellow, the waist wasp-.like, and a tail, like a horse hair, five inches lone. ran f;ram the ond of the insect. Through this fine hair she deposits her eggs. "This," said the savan "is THE ICHNEUMON FLY." He next hold an old piece of maple wood to the writor's ear. A faint noiso was hard. "Here is a grub hard at work. Well, the ichonimon fly, by listen-. ing on tho tree, knows where to find her grub. The next thing is to get in to it. She places her oggs through this fine horse hair or tail. Hero is a microscope. Look tat the end of this egg-placer and you will sco a two-bladed back saw. Seo it 1" The writer nodded. "With this saw th fly cuts through the solid wood to the grub. But when she rcachs hirn she does not destroy him. She simply drops an egg upon his back; the ogg hatches another grub, and the second grub borcs into the first one and foods on him and destroys him, and enlarges, until, in time, after vari ons changes, it e:crges from the trc nnother ichnounon fly. It cannot propagato its species with out finding this grub." "Tho fly has killed the grub," con tinued the speaker," but the grub has bored P. holo which lets in the air and moistaro, and hastons the decay of the tree. Ho JAs cut off many of the vessola that carry up the sap, for the borors that escape the fly do not go out the way they came in. Ie cannot pass out the hole through which he entered, for he has increasod in size fifty times, and moro than that, the hole has grown over long before his maturi ty. On roaching full growth he takes a direct courso outward, stop ping ait the bark, for should he go through and poke out his head some woodpecker might coine along and take it off. So the grub rests under the bark, surrounding him self with a ring of excrement. There ho undergoes his last transforma, tion and becomes a beetle. Then ho gnaws a holo through the bark and escapos to the open air. "Lot us watch the naplo tree," said Mr. Fuller. "The attacks of these insects, together with old ago, flinally tell on it. Scores of insects work upon its leaves, others food upon the little twigs, and an almost endloss lino of ants and bugs train up and down its trunk. It loses vitality and dies. Then the wind blowa the old tree down. It scarce ly touches the ground before it is attacked by an entirely different class of insects. They have no tooth for live timber, but only for that which is dying or dead. Some bore straight into the solid wood. Others go under the bark and the surface of the wood. Their peculiar office seems to be to separate the bark from the wood, and for this purpose they are mado very thin, some of them not over the hundredth part of an inch in thickness. The holes and looseness of the bark al low the wator to got in and haston the decay of the log. The wood becomes soft and mellow, like a well'. ripened apple. Then the stage horned b)eetles appear, the females dropping their eggs whoe the grubs will find suitable food. The snapping bug also takes a hand at the old log, and revels in its rotton-. noess. "THE LAST FEEDER OF ALL, said Mr. Fuller, "is a groat lazy, shining, black beetle, with corrugat ed wing covers, a short-jointed an~ tenmon frayed like the end of a thread, a good-sized mouth, and a horn on his nose like that of a rhi-. noceros reversed. Ho is the laziest of all beetles. When picking up an old log I have seen dozens drop to the ground, but not one ever made an attempt to escape. When this be.tle has finished his work the maple has gone through its last change. The old log is thoroughly rotton and becomes pure vegetable Here Mr. Fuller sat down at the table and began to write. The re-. porter was about to leave when the entomologisL said : "I have given you the little I know edneerning one beetle, but to--day there is not one hundred of our American insects whose true history is well known. There is room for a thousand active young men to distinguish themselves in this direction. The pursuit is most fascinating, and no man who has once entered it will ever wish to turn back. Just to give you an idea. One man visitdd Florida during the winter, and brought back over 1,600 new species ofi bugs. Another man-broke down . the -bug market in one specialty, Hle found under a deadialnst n bidreds of bugs that wgzeJ on Is ae