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tKe WtNNS1o S a b Aiali TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.}_.. WINNSBORO. S C. SAT U. DAY.1 M A :;T 17 11008 THAT ARX HOG&. The Biggest "Crop" aver Known in l Jersey--A Fierce Rivalry. [fo*dentown NewT Jersey Times. l Bordertown had a sensation to-day. A lot of hogs from New Hanov er, Burlington county, were shipped to New York, and twenty-seven of them weighed all the way from 700 to nearly 900 pounds each. This is claimed to be the biggest "hog crop" in the country. It was a nov el sight, and all Bordentown turned out to see it. The hogs are the property of Joseph Carter. Be tween him and Samuel 8. Southard there is a great rivalry. Last year John Taylor, a Trenton pork dealer, offered a gold medal for the most successful hog raiser. Southard got it. Eighteen of his hogs averag ed 703 1.-5 pounds when killed, and 7094 when delivered. The king hog turned the scales at 795. It he can hold the medal for three years against all contestAnts it is his, but if perchance another should up the biggest average in pork he must yield his 1 Lurels. Ca, tr says he can do it. tnd so far, the balance is in his favor. Carter and Southardhave reduced the business of pork-raising to a science. The former, intent upon taking the palm, started off with tii. tj-nine hogs. Upon twenty seven of these he bases his hope of success. Of the original number several have been killed. Along in January three of them came so near choking to death that the farmer grew frightened and slaughtered them. They weighed 798, 817 and 738 pounds, respectively. The hogs entered for the prize have had the very best of care They have required attention, continually. There are just two events in the lives of such hogs, sleeping and e it.. irg. They are oo 'at even to wadd e. Tney never wake up, except to cat. and that p o ess over they nga&n stretch out upon clean straw in tneir separate pens. These particular hogs of Mr. Carter's were too lazy even to feed themselves, and, indeed even if they were not, they could not see their food. For - weeks they h .ve been in total blindne s. Like the average hog of no particular distinct:on they all had eyea, but three inches and a h .l? of genuint3 fat kept them closed . completely. The feeding process is oae of inter. est to both hog and spectator. The farm hand rolls up boiled meal into round bolls and forces it into their hogships' mouths. The hogs grunt and swallow and keep it up until they are perfectly gorge('. Th.iey are kept in a staffed condition on the best of meal and Dll that is asked of them is to grow fat. Carter's hogs were killed on Satmuday. Such mountains of fat were niever seen before. Some one, who didn't know any better, very nearly ended the lives of two of them before their time by simply standing them on their feet. Happily, however, they survived the shock, and 1 vdd to die by the butchers knife. Mr. Carter confidently expected that his hea.v iest hog would tip the beam at over 900, but he was disappointed. The largest, fattest hog of all weighed 871 pounds, and the average weight of the twenty-seven was 755. This beats Southardsa average of last year, but when the hogs reach mar.. ket they shrink, as usual. Yester day there was a steady stream of visitors to the farm. Sleighs of all description were out, and everybody went with thoughts bent upon p9rk. flOoS THAT 1AW'T' SEE. Notwithstanding Carter's good showing, Southard , thinks he can beat it. He has not killed yet, and his farm, as well as his. neighbor's, was overflowing with visitors. He began the year with twenty-nine hogs, all Jersey Reds, but his pens now contain but twenty- three. There they were, lying around, grunting and and pufting, and with snouts pointing upward in search of air. Their eyes could not be seen, and it took strong fingers to pry~ away masses the of fat so that the hid den organs of sight could be opened out. The blind, helpless masses were shaken by loud breathing, and occasionally would give ;ven4tqM. .a snort, but they seemed entirely un. able to get upon their feet. Hog men looked at them, and measured4 their lengths and breadthei antd declared that they wqald, qmy1 outweigh Carter's orop. "Perhapls; they will," said some tho, er'e friendly to Carter, "but 75'5 pounds average is hil to. beet." .8outhatdt is 'very proud of his last yeat's Mned" al. He has aituffed egein the house (the -bird was hht~'I~is ) anidthe medal lCshj~ teck.1 6a78. "If fra aJ in Mpov FOUR DEMOCRATIC LEADERR. 3ketched in Outline by a Great Repub lican Ohief. 'Mr. Blaine in the North American Review.] Mr. Hampton is a man of strong arts, possessing courage and execu tive force, but he has been in the thick of the light and has had per 3onal ambitions to gratify which nay not place him in history as an impartial witness. His personality protrudes at every point and his conception of what should be done fld what should be undone at the buth is precisely what is included in his own career. When Mirabeau was describing- all the great quali. ties that should distinguish a popu lar leader the keenest of French wits said he "had forgotten to add that he should be pock%marked." Mr. Lamar offers a contrast to Governor Hampton. He gen sralizes and philosopbizes with great ability, and presents the strange combination of a "refined spe uaa!ist" and a trustful optimist embodying some of the ch uracter.. istics of Mr. Calhoun, whom he de" vonly followed, and of Mr. Seward, whom he always opposed. Mr. La mar is the only man in public life who can be praised in New England for a warm eulogy of Charles Sum - ner, and immediately afterward dlected to the Senate as the repre" enatative of the white--line De.no 3rats of Mississippi. And yet incoa sistent as these positions are, it is the dream of Mr. Lamar's life to reconcile them. He is intensely aevoted to the South ; he has gen 3arous aspiratijns for the rni, n of the States-; he is shackled with the narrowing dogma of State rights, ad yet, withal, has botindless hopes for an imperial republic whose pow sr shall lead and direct the civiliza. tion of the world. Hedged in by opposing theeries, embarrassed by forces that seem irreconcilable, Mr. Ui%mar, p.ro'3ably more than any other man of the Democratic party, gives anxious and inquiring thought to the future. Of Mr. Stephens and Mr. Hen. tIricks it may be s.aid that in their. treatment of the question one aims to vindicite the course of his native Georgia ; the other to gain some ad. vantage for the Democratic party of the nation. Mr. Stephens has the mind of a metaphysician, led astray sometimes in his logic and some times in his facts, but aiming always to promote the interest of the State to which he is devoted. Mr. Hen% iricks is an accomplished political leader, wirh large experience, p,ios' e sed of tact and address, and in s inctively vi,wing every public 9ustion from its relat:on to the te and fortune of his party. Mr. Stephens argues from the stand point of Georgia; Mr. Hendricks has in view the Democracy of the nation. HOMm-MADZ FERTILIZER.-yudge 1R. F. Moore, one of the most sue cessful and intelligent farmers of our county hands us the following formula for composting a home mnade fertilizer, which, the Judge claims, is as good as any of -the standard commercial fertilizers in the market, and cheap, because it costs nothing except a little labor. The formula for one toti of the fertilizer is as follows : One thous and pounds of rich loam-eoarth (pro cured from the fence corners, or wash p)laces, or surface dirt from the woods), and fifteen bushels of cotton seed ; put ilito thie stable or stall of horse or cow, or over with a suffleient amount of leaves or straw to prevent the stall from be coming muddy or-dirty. Let It be tramped twenty .or .thirty days. when.it may be put in s pen, and another supply put in the stable. By this method Judge Moore says that a ton of fertilizer for each horse or cow can be made, equal to the best fertilizer offered in thes market, which is distributed in the same way, and in tbe same quantities as1 guano. All who know Judge Moore, know that.he has succeeded as a far. ner, and that he is nq eastle builder. We hope our farmers will give ,this manure a fair test, and save them ;elves the thousands of dollars paid W(efrtiliter iaant4f4obuers.- (/raso 'ora.Demoeraf. Fears are entertained that a vol, auo may be tapped bef6re athe Bt2 3othard Ttmunnelbef oote ted. e uotal length now bored is 18,500 rards from bo..thends1 The.. work Whtever, and they return to the noitth of the tunnel, streaming with si Their faces are yel ,c,tel htf the sun.4 is seemls to deoephehomenA E EWS OF THlE DAY, At last accounts Hardy Solomon was in Havana. An explosion occurred in Deep Drop Pit, near Wakefield, England, by which nineteen persons were killed. Final arrangements have been made for the grand international walking match at Gilmore's Garden, NTew York, next week. Murphy, Democrat has been re alected mayor of Troy, N. Y., by )ver 1,600 majority over the Repub.. lican and Greenback candidates, )nd 2,954 plurality over the Repub lican candidate. Unusual rainfalls on the Pacific slope have insured large crops of eereals. The wheat crop of Uali fornia is becoming more valuable than the proddet of the p recious metals. An American company is playing 'Uncle Tom's (.Lbin" in Vienna, and announces as one of the attractions of the performance, trapeze per ?ornances by an Indian girl "Miss 7enobia." The Cuban government has advis ed the municipalities to establish public schools for colored children, Lud wherever this cannot be promptly done, colored chiiidren sdould be admitted to the white s hool9. A Council Bluffs girl, on suicide intent, asked for morphine in a drug store. The clerk suspected her purpose, and sold her a powerful umotic. She returned an hour afterward, expressed her opinion of t man who would deceive a distrect ed girl in that way, and d eemanded lier ua!ioy back. In the tenement house sections of New York there are 6,000 per sons to the square mile, while in the other portions of tlh city the average is only 750. Soientists and humanitarians are trying to devise some practicable mode of relief from an evil that is terribly desriinctive of lifL, health and mortality. The statement that President Tilden is afflicted with partial paralysis should not be taken to mean that he is suffering from a paralytic stroke, or that he is in any immediate danger. These syinptoms have existed for many years, and though they have not grown worse, it was thought best that lie should undergo careful medical treatment. The principal measures which recently became laws during tho session of Congress, in addition to ten of the regular annual appropria tion bills, are the bill i educing the btx on tobacco and otherwie :iond ing the internal revenue laws ; the cen.ius pill; the bill to prevent the introduction of in fectious and con - tagious diseases, and the bill pro - viding for the payment of arrears of pensions for service during the late war. - A report has been received at Richmond of a premature explosion of nitro-glycerine at Dutch Gap, Tamnes iv,1 r. wvhich resulted in the killing of WV. C. Haiggerty, govern ment contractor for . widening and otherwise. improving Dutch Gap, and five or six negroes engaged on the work. It is reported also thait Elias -Hall, who has charge of of operating th e glycerine, was sither killed or fatally wounded. Kwr. Haggertbys body is said to havo been blown tito the river and not recovered. On Batarday night about ten geclock, a party of six or eight masked men called at the cabin of an old negro, Abe Wootten, living in the Ninth District, eight miles fromx Manchester, Tenn., and dlemanded, admittance, whieb being refused, they set fire in two or more plaoes. Finding that he and his wife and four children would be l>uned if they remained, the 'old man rushed out, and was seized by bhe maskers, who carried him about >ne hundled yards and shot him to dleath. When a cucumber is taken from ~he'vind et It be cut with a knife, eaving about the eighth of an inch >f the cucumber on the stem: then dlit the stem with a knife from the ;nd to the :vine, leaving a portion of Wh6' encumbier on each division; and m each pppagte slip there will be inew eucumber as large as the fIhst. The "flfh4 " in thus chaf.. engea compeIou in the lecture d: "A 'Oituani w bloade is the latest San Ere oIjonov-. 46y. . Turn him loose in th 4oture adisbahanot byedaati4 bfth 1JRIC-A-JR AC. In Hartford a ton of ice costs 37} cents, or three tons for a $1. This does not include postage, of course. Peter Cooper's memory is failing. Ho says Now York aldermen wore once honest and intelligent. Some matches may be in heavon, in the opionion of the Buffalo Ex pres, but not walking matches. Congre.ss was ieady last week to pass a thousand appropriation bills in a thousand quarter-hours. Mrs. Martha Miller, the grand, mother of General J. E. B. Stuart, died in Gatos county, N. C., a few days ago. Men who talk of death before dishonor are the follows who slide around behind the woodpile when they hear the click of the pistol. The most distinguished American songbirds at present on the lyric stage are Adelina Patti, Albina, kellogg, Gary, .Litta, Hank and Abbott. The negro pianist, Blind Tom, played at Columbus, Ga., one day hi.st wveek, one membler of his aus dienco being his mother, who lives in the place. The St. Louis City Council has been asked to stop the ringing of church bolle. They disturb the card players and men who are reading borrowed papers in beer saloons. It was in Portland, Oregon, Mr. Wilson said it was pronounced "ack-a-demy," and Mr. Jones said it was a-cad -amy. They drew their pistols and popped, and both sleep in the field behind the ac,ad-emv. The beauty of the evening at a large ball recently given by Queen Margaret, of Italy, was pronounced to be the Marquiso Villeneuve, who although over forty,' and a grand. mother, attracted universal admira tion. "Was the fog thick ?" "Why, my dear sir, I couldn't see a thing. I had to use my handkerchief, and the first thing I know I got hold of the nose of the fellow next to me, thinking it was my own." Neither Bayard Taylor, James T. Fields, Mr. Whipple, the essayist, Mr. Howells, of the Atlantic, Mr. C. P. Lathrop, nor Mr. Underwood, to say nothing of half a hundred other literary lights, ever "went through college," In Joliet, Ill., lately, a man had three dressed rabbits stolen from him. With a half smile on his lips he dressed a dead cat and hung it where the rabbits had been. That was stolen, too, and now there is an inquiry as to who ate it. Mrs. Lockwood, of Washington, is evidently not a student of human nature. She placed flowers upon the desks of Senators who procured her admissi on to the bar of the Supreme Court. She ought to have presented them with cork -screws. A law on the Kentucky statute book makes it compulsory upon inn- keepers to provide lodging and meals for persons traveling andl who are unable to pay. Many tramps take advantage of this and find no difficulty in getting through the State. The newspapers made Mr. Hayes what he is. Now he sends word to 4heir representatives that they may stand in the lobby and peep in at the select company in his parlors. Until this bitter hour many of the correspondents were not thoroughly assured that "Fraud was branded on his brow." We learn with some regret that Commissioner Le Duo has about given up the idea of raising gold headed canes from his recently im,~ ported bamboo shoots. The soil and climate of this country are both favorable to such an enterprise, but the return of gold to par has made it undesirable as. a business venture. The R1ev. Joseph Cook on a boy who climbs a tree to steal apples: "The apples are the objective natur al motive; the boy's appetite is, the subjective natural mnotive; his in. teto shis moral mnotilme,1 It is hardly necessary. to add that the boot or board the owner of the orchard applies .when het %atehgs him at it is the boy's .aua oo motive.nttaJoo The Keokuli Oonsa&ution ihas about "sised" the weather a e followhg : "Thel agtl6 6 catue e~y down th% ' folk t~i iask e eek & ah -er---hitch up the mule and pull us out; stuck, by jingo. The Roosevelt-Vance wedding was another of the unions between two old families which have beeh so frequent of late. New York has a real aristocracy of its own in the descendants of the sturdy old burghers who smoked their pipes at the doorsteps and ruled the desti nies of Now Amsterdam in the Town Council, and it is well that it should be perpetuated.-Nw York .bs-. pread. Prof. DAscom Greene has intro. duced an improved method of con structing a revolving dome. The framework is covered with paper one-sixth of an inch thick after drying. It has a structure as com, pact as that of the hardest wood, which it excels in strength, tough.. neas, and freedom from any liability to fracture. It is supported on six eight-inch balls, which roll between grooved iron tracks, and can easily be revolved by a moderate pressure, without the aid of machinery. C HEESIE! CHEESE I CHEESE LLBS. Choice Factory Choese ' O As low as the lowest. oct 17 U. G. DESPORTES. THE BAY STATE "Standard Screw" Shoes will alwiys give SATISFACTION. J. M. B3EATY & CO. JUST iECEIVED. LiAMS--Uncanvassed Sugar-Cured. Canned Goods-Tomatoes, Peach es, Salmon, Sardines, Pickles, &c. Teas--Gunpowder and Young Hyson. J. M. BEATY & CO. mch 1 LIVES ARE OFTEN LOST B Y the use of cheap Kerosene. Get one of our safety Lamps in whieh even the most dangerous oil i safe. $20,000 Saved Yearly to Fairfield, When our farmers learn to purchase "hemicals and make their own fertilizers, Call and get a book telling how it oan be done. dee 28 McMASTER & BRICE, JUST RECEIVED. -ANOS Bitter Water, Yeast Cakes, i Bull's Cough Syrup, German Syrup, Rat Exterminator, Gum Opium, Hepatic Compound. -ALSO several Stewart Sewing Mrehines, being the "improved Singer," for which we ure agents. ich 4 MCMASTE1 & Baio. REMOVAL. A BOUT the 16th of March we pro L.pose to remove our stock of goods to the store now occupied by J. M. Beaty & Co., where we will be pleased to see all our forxrier : friends ar d customers. Previous to that event we will sell at BOTTOM FIGURES, to avoid unnecessary trouble in movmng. Just. received a lot of fine an. canvassed hams. Also, Plows I Plows I Plows Ill 3. F. McMASTER2 & C00. FiFTY PAIRS FINE WVINTER~ CASSIMERE -PANTSW