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. _ _ \(? - U \ . O Y I 7- v - ' (flTill#>t1fV iH?15 flit$wttti% VOL. I. LAURENS C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 19,188?. NO. 42. ?UUUUIITS IOU THE MONTH. BOMB BKABONAIILK M OOl.sI loxs FHOM IIIUII Al THOU ITV. Wlint Work lite (Jood I'm mn ? HllOllId llo lu thc Mimili of May-All IntercNtlllg Article Prow nu IntrlllKotM Writer, (W IJ. Jono* in the May "Cultiv-Cor.") Tho earth is now wann onoagh for grasa and weeds to grow rapidly. Thoy cannot bo porinittcd t<> share with the oropsthe plan! food in the soil; oxtermi nation of them i? now the order of Hie day. How to accomplish this economi cally, rapidly and without injury to young crops is ono of tho nicest problems Uie farmer is called upon to solve. In the recent progress of agriculture, tho old-time method ot running around young plants with ii narrow scooter, hav ing u board nailed to foot and beam on one side to prevent throwing dirt on the little plants, first gave way to the sweep. The latter shaved the surface nicely, and with ils wing running quito Hat threw very little dir!. Moreovor tho siding furrows swept ont the middles nt the same timo, a greai advance over two siding furrows with scooters and subse quent breaking of tho middles with shovels. But with tho nicest work of tho swoop, there is still a narrow strip along the line of plants which is undis turbed, and upon which grass cnn firmly lix itself. Te destroy il, thc hoc was called into requisition. This involved heavy expense, unpleasant contact with labor and great demand for hands to ohop out cotton. Next came broadcast cultivation with thc harrow in the first stages of thc crop, w ith heel scrapes and I cultivators later. This is as far as we have advanced; indeed, most fanners have not yet n ached this point, and thc method is not yet, perhaps, fully per fected. Hut from thc very nature of things WO must advance in tins direction -machines, implements, horseqiower, must supplant hand labor more and more. How to cheapen production is the problem of tho hour. Our fathers pushed labor to tho utmost in clearing forest? and cultivating virgin soils. Since the war thc usc of fertilizers has been developed to great perfection; and now surroundings demand tho most extended use of machinery and horse-power. All .departments of ?udustry aro moving in this direction, and agriculture cannot lng behind. Cautiously, wisely, judiciously it must go en. Our readers will remember the articles published last year in tho Cultivator on broadcast cultivation with tho harrow. Tho points which seem to be well Bot tled were that obstructions must bo re moved - trash hi the shape of corn and cotton stalks cut ap or knocked to pieces and buried by breaking land with large turn ploughs; beds, if any, to ls? low and leveled down with harrow inn.ledi utely after planting; if rain follow s plant ing quickly, harrow as soon as dry enough, never allowing a ernst to form. As soon as colton begins fairly to conic up, run harrow'obliquely across rows never in the direction of tho rows in four or live days run obliquely across again in tho opposite direction, so that these two harrow nigs may lu' at right angles to euell other. In three or four days harrow again across tho last. These borrowings must begin early and bo re peated rapidly to thin out thc cotton, which they can do v^hilst the plants ure very young and lender-when still yel low. Win n older and tougher they will be pushed asido often without hi ing de stroyed. The cotton now la ing consid erably thinned, grass and weeds thor oughly killed, and thc surface nicely pulverized, tho orpp is in condition to bc easily cultivated with sweep or scrape. It is said also that in the condition left by the harrow ings a good hand can chop to a stund two acres of cotton a day. If t.-c soil is supplied with humus, and the land well prepared, cultivation should bc very shallow from thc start. In hard soil, disposed to run together after min, a deep plowing is perhaps admissible when the cotton is very young, hut not otherwise. In two experiments made HUCOO&sively in 1884 and I88? at the Ala bama Experiment Station, to test effects j 0? deep and shallow cultivation, there woe a difference respectively of 86 and 100 pounds of seed cotton per acre in favor of shallow cultivation throughout. The two plats were prepared, immured and Cultivated exactly alike, except that when the cotton on one plat was about a foot high it was plowed deep with a long sccoter and scrape, as is frequently done by farmers, and its roots considera bly cut. The serape should always be attached behind the foot of the plow, not in front of it, ami the scooter used with it should be very short, just long enough to keep the point of the plow foot from striking tho bottom'of the fur row. Another interesting experiment ma le at the same shdioit illustratoH a point wt; have often urged, to-wit, tho irrqiortancc of pressing or firming ?oed in the soil to insure prompt germination. Cotton was planted in two adjacent rows on tho same day with two different cot ton planters, one covering tho wed in tho usual manner, ?he other throwing the dirt into a ridge over the seed and then passing it down on the seed by a roller rigidly attached to tho machine; weather was dry. Where tho roller pressed tito dirt upon tho seed, a stand was secured in b u days; the other did not como up until after a rain had fallen and somo twenty-four days idler being planted. Inventors have not as yet gncn ap the hope or tho inability of i>orfecting a machine for chopping cotton. ' There is ovory probability that ono can be made which will ??bunch" cotton satisfactorily. Hut tho ?arno end might lie reached by a planter dropping the seed in Inila. The more hunching, however, is not the most important thing to he compassed ; killing the glass ulong the line of drill und thinning the bunch out so the plant.s will not crowd and dwarf each other ure tho main disiderala. This, it strikes us, the harrow will do better than anything else. After tia? harrow has dono its work, then probably a chopper might be used advantageously. The bringing to a filial stund will probably always re quire some hand labor, but, aside from this, cotton cultivation ought to be done exclusively by machines. We have no doubt the proper implements for thc purpose will bo forthcoming in dm' time. Machine-inade. cotton alone in this country eau competo with that raised by eheaj) labor in India and elsewhere. lt is of the Hrst importance that the carly workings of crops should be re peated at short intervals, and thorough ly done. .Vow is the time to kill grass with hast labor. If allowed to get ii sining foothold, it will take three times as much work to kill it next month as is required to do it now, to say nothing of the injury done by robbing the crop of food, and the bruising and disturbing of tho plants in getting the strongly rooted glass away from them. At least once in t< u days the harrows or plows should pass over, and whatever boo work is needed be given without hesitation ol delay. If thc ground happens to bc dry, don't be deceived into" the beliel thal the crop is clean because the young grass is covered with dust and is not plainly visible. We have seen many n crop ruined by carelessness just at thu point. A dry May checks the growth ol grass and lulls thc farmer into fanoict security. A wet June follows, the gins; springs up like magic ami he novel catches up with it nguiu. If the harrow has been properly use? in tlie corn Held, that crop will now lu perfectly clean and so far advanced tba there will be no further difficulty ii covering up young grass or weeds cvei with a scrape. We know from ropeatci trials, even on bottom lands thal are si liable to become foul, that a corn ero] may bc mode with the plow alone. t can bi- dono 0V011 with ordinary, ok time plows; start before gross make headway; with a turning shovel begin i tia- centre of the middle and bed up, th wing being tumcd away from the cori] Thc Inst furrow, when a middle is com pleted, will side tlie corn very dosel and throw just enough dirt to cover u young grass without covering the yoitll corn. Thc next working: with a shoi and broad turning Bhovol, begin next t corn with wing towards it, ami thro dirt moderately to thc plant.s. TllCi two workings should be given before tl corn is ten inches high. After that tl scrape will do all that is ncccssar When' corn is planted in the wntor-fll row, a proper running of the scrape wi cover nj) nil grass from the beginning 1 the end. Tho Arst of May is the best time I sow the first crops of forage corn, so gimms and millet. Supposing tho int to have been broken sonic time ago, should have received two broadcast ha rowings to koop the surface clean in mellow . This is especially necessary f all of the sorghums, because the plan arc Mindi at first and grow off quito slo1 ly. Hence early working with the pl? is difficult and md satisfactory if tl lund is grassy. Th080 crops can't be tlie expenso of Imo work; thoreforo tl necessity for having the laud in tim order nt planting time. Lay ??IV r?> three feet apart ; drill Hie Heed of s? gimms rather thinly and COVOr light with a board. For fodder CON) prod' in like mininer, but put in from two two and a half bushels of seed ja r aci As soon as tho plants arc up, and w boar it, side with scrape, set to run vc Hut; two or three plow bigs will suffit and if tho land was in proper conditi at tho time ?>f planting, no hoeing w bo called for. Gorman millet may sown broadcast if the land hus beeil w prepared and is in fine tilth; a h bushel of seed p?'r acre is sufficient. Si oossivo plantings of above crops ev? two or three weeks t<> tho first of Aug w ill enable a furnier to feed his stock through the summer on green fort moro cheaply than on anything else, a with great benefit to their health. ( and partly euro-say expose?! to sun II air for one day before feeding; this \ reduce the water in them and rom them h's? laxative, Any disposition scour muy bc prevontod by a mi: ration of dry mid green finuge; perk this is preferable from every point view. Clioap stock feed is like oh? coal for an engine, it minces the COSl production ?>f everything niised on farm; and wo must boar in mind t monoy saved is ?quivalant hi mo: mad?'. If one can reduce tho cost producing cotton a cent a pound, it is sumo to him us if he sohl for ono t more per pound. An abundance of eh forage makes less grain necessary. W not at work, stock may l>o kept with tlc ?ir no grain if fo?l full nd ions of g forage. If you havo pro pared foi largo crop of cotton, cut it <lown I ila ni a portion of the cotton land these forage crops, they will pay botter than cotton. Clover ami OTChard gnim will bo rc for tho mover by the end of the moi Ont after thc dow is off and cock up same es .M, ; n i ; ni I that is mowed before o'clock. After bay is woll wiltei should never tnk<; tho dow. Tho al applies more csjiccially to that cut 1 a mower. Spread out in a uniform er, not in swatliH, like that hamlen! .Irios vory rapidly on a bright day. hand-cut, and tho swaths aro very bc thc cocking may be deferred to tho a noon of tho next day; but if this is d it is better to turn the swaths over ir evening and lot tho undried bottom tioi?H toko tko dow. Both graos nod clover moko n better quality of hay if cut rather early; the quantity, however, will bo rather less. When a fourth of the heads turu brown is probably the best tinto to cut clover; when in full bloom tho timo to out gross. As soon as tito mown clover begins a new growth, topdressit with a hundred pounds of plaster to tho aero. Kvery one who raises hogs ought to plant hugely of the St. Domingo type of sweet potatoes for fattening them in tho fall. Considering quantity and quality, we know of no Other food so easily and cheaply raised for tho purpose. If tho potato and corn are dried at the temper ature of boiling water, three bushels of potatoes will contain as much dry matter as ono of corn; not as nundi fat or nlbumiuoUS matter in proportion as corn, but more of the starch group than corn. Pens would moko up the deficiency in the potato admirably ; the two would lit well together and make an almost per fect ration for fattening hogs. Have a potato and poa patch in the same en closure, so that the hogs may eat of each at will, and you have tin? foundation for cheap pork, if the Spanish ground pea succeeds as well generally us ii seems to have done in some localities, it might take tho placo of the cow pea, especially on lands containing lime. ('lover for spring, Bermuda gross for summer, peas, groundpeas and potatoes for fall and emly winter, make provision for nearly thu whole year. Let us strike for inde pendence in this and every other depart ment of farming. Bear in mind that grain harvest will soon be at hand and arrange work ahead with reference to it. Gol mops clean and well worked now, so that they may bear u shorl neglect during harvest. Some enterprising man in every neigh borhood ought to bo encouraged to buy a reaper and cut all tho grain just a^ parties now do the threshing. In ot hoi words, a traveling reaper ought to bo n regular institution. Farmorscai) ill apart tho tinto from their crops to hnrvcsl grain, and cradlors arc getting more ex acting and exorbitant in their demands TllO praOtiCO IS becoming quite genera to cut oats when the grain is in lin "dough," and cure it like hay. Cut, am allowed to take tho sun a dav waihou being tied up in bundles, ii become! suflloiently cured to bo tied np an? shocked in the usual manner. < >r it ina; bo cured Uko hay and stored away ii bulk in slacks or barns. lt make- ai excellent feed Fall oats were quite generally kille? by tho severe weather in January, bu W'ltCGC tho land has not been ploWOi since, an occasional stalk of oats may b found which has survived the cold. 1 would bo well to take care of these an gather them carefully when ripe. Tin i survival indicates a hardiness of const tlltiotl which will stand extreme coll and a very desirable strain of winter oat might be propagated from them. Th matter is worthy of trial. With ns th moron ry foll b> /.ero; tho red rust-pro< oats was entirely killed, with the vcr limited OXCeptiona noted above; the wit tor grazing oats was also very badi killed, possibly a tenth escaping, ll variety of oats that eau stand the cold < /.ero is md to be had, what grain can I substituted for fall oats? Bye will stan any degree of cold; eau it bo utilized i stock feed when mature and ripe? Woitl it be practicable to thresh and grind ll grain, ami chuff tho straw forage? ( could barley be utilized in place of oatl Wo think the latter ia used largely i stock feed in California how is il mai aged? Can any one t - -11 us? THU MMTIir.HN BAPTIHTS. Louisville KHrrirH nn Hie IMnce ot Hie Ne ('onvriltloil->l*lltllllK Hie lleleuaUiiii on Mulley ll.i-i The Southern Baptist Convention w meet in Louisville, Ky., on May S no> The Kev. Dr. Cooper, of Rich m on Va., was selected to deliver the Colive tioti sermon. Home time was devoted the Cuban mission. The question vv whether tile foreign or home boa should take charge of it and prosed the work. Able speeches wore made I both boards, but it was decided by largo majority to give it to tho hoi board. An amendment to the coiistil lioil was adopted so as to require de gates to be appointed by the 1st ot* M of each year, and tho representation bo one delegate for every one blind] dollars paid into the treasury by the of May of each year. A report on temperance, pledgi members to work for the suppression thc whiskey traffic, was adopted. The Convention adjourned sine die the 11th inst. Telephone .Hen Drowned. E. Y. Hinkle, of Baltimore, (lem Superintendent of the Washington T( phone Company, and William C. Stumps, Manager of Hie lines Winchester, Va., nearly lost their li on last Thursday nigh* while cross Opequan Creek coming from Berryvi Hinkle cut tho horse from Hie wai. and witli Stumps, who has only i hand, clung to the animal and w brought safely to the bank. He Mayhew, ropairer of the lines, reniai] in t he wagon and was drowned. -A silver tobacco IMJX which J< Alden carried in his pocket when, in courtship of Miles Standish, ho pres? ed to Priscilla Mullins tho Capta proposal of marriage, is now tim pro] ty of Mrs. M. McFadden, of Allegh City, Fa., a descendant of John Ah belonging to tho ninth generation in logular doreen!. Uer little stiver toi co box ia a curiosity to visitors. 1 suppoaod to bo nearly throe hunt yoars old. Ul ISRX&KY ?' \ I TI,i: \U Kana y ll rail llcforc Hie (?tienisc} BTWUB"?' %HMOClallONi Among tin- varions breeds t<? which popular attention lias boeu called in re cent veins, thore is none deserving a higher place in public estimation than the Guornsey, whether for dairy pur poses or the later garnered prollt as a beef animal; and yet, perhaps, notwith standing snell si l ong claims upon the funnels and breeders' attention. no breed is MI little generally known. Not only ure there very many who have uovor aeon a Guornsey, but there are a vast number mole who have never seen the milk or butter, mid a still greater number w ho have never eaten Guernsey beef. Those who have not, luisa' yet to seo tho deepest colored milk ami cream, the most goldeu colored butter, requir ing no aid from eolcying li alter either in BUIUUICI' or winter, and to Inste the most highly-flavored beef in existence, having a peculiar (laver of its own. This breed may be said to be the hap py medium between the diminutive Jer sey and the huge Friosian, and com prising the merits of both breeds. It is thus pnr-oxcellenco the farmer's breed, especially for the butter-making launer. Docile bi an extreme, bearing neglect of care well, it yet re]mys careful attention and good feeding with as mitch interest us can be expected of any bovine race. COT.OK OK Tin: liitBKi), Liven to the fastidious, whom nothing hut ii solid color will jilease, its rieh goldcn-hucd skin will provo attractive und recommend its pleasantly combined Iiilei; of y ellow or lemon-fawn and white; for in no other breed will (lu re be found such un exudation of. butyraceous mate rial lilling the pores and the hair with unctions matter, producing that soften ing effect so dear to the hand ol' the ex pert and to the "breeder of butter, at least, as a general rule in this breed, it being thc exception in other breeds. While lo the practical man, who Knows that color of the hair has not the slight est influence upon the yield or constitu tion, the charming, softening effects of thu blending ol' the golden fawns and white are sources of perpetual delight. OHIO IN or ruc. nilKF.I). As this is ic- old a breed as any other, hus been kepi purely bred ns long, and was imported into this country as early as the Jersey, there must bc a reason for its being comparatively so little known lind extended. The earliest settlers in the sea-board districts were Dutch, Swedish ami English. They naturally brought willi them (lu-cows from their homes, mid thus, with the intermingling of tin ir cattle, there sprung Up what is now termed "Nativo llaco." Aa it was found desirable to improve upon these with pure-bred stock, (he Devons, the Short boms, tho Jerseys and the Guern seys were imported. Tho latter two in thc li rat quarter ol this century. They al once attracted great attention foi their richness of yield. Knoll breed was im ported indiscriminately from either island under the generat. name of Alder ney. As they became fashionable in England, mid as each island restricted importation, tho true distinction finally culminated in the formation ol dubs for euell bleed. The Jerseys, from theil great beauty, as well as merit, have taken the lead. Their praise hus been herald ed in every manner, and being more finely bucked up by records of great per formance, the breed has a permanent hold in this country, and as merit is guiding selection now, its claims to value will increase. Thus, also, it is with thc Guornsey. The earliest importations made by Colt, Middle, King and others, have been maintained by many others. But for many years past those who were developing the Gnomsoys in this coun try, were too busy enlarging their herds, und having none to sparc, did but little to call attention to them. Hut as a ?knowledge of their merits spread, deal ers have steadily been i nc liaising thc': importations, and breeders liavo goni over and made selections, until now there | is beginning to be a supply for the rapid ly increasing demand. As thu island has a history ?d' ovor two thousand years, as the cattle have strongly marked peculiar characteristics, maintained by a rigid exclusion from tho island of any other breeds, it seems not worth our while to enter into the dis puted question ol' the origin of this breed of cuttle, but to conten? ourselves with their excellence AS wo lind them at this day. Wc may, in [Missing, state our belief that they are of Norman origin, though there is sonic testimony which might had us to suppose they might have originally been brought there by thc Danes, or at least that some animals were Imported by the Dunes and mixed with those found on the Island. As Normandy and Brittany me the nearest coast lands of France with which there is constant communication, ami as thc present Norman breeds, the Oontentine ami (he like, ar? very similar, almost equally noted for their rich dairy quali ties, and yielding most superior butter, that known ns eoniing from Isigny and Day cut and bringing the highest price in thc market-I say these points should biive great weight in ascribing thc main origin of tlie Guernsey breed to Nor mandy. Br, vhat as it may, tho most unprejudiced minds, after becoming ac quainted with all tho merits of Guern sey, must admit that they have no su periors in their peculiar traits. THAITH OF Tin: BBBSD, Theso may be slimmed up in few words. Tho Guernsey gives a larger quantity of miik than any of thc breeds which give rich milk; abo maintains the qnautity for a longer time, more con tinuously; it is tho deepest, tho riebest in color of all milks; it is unsurpassed in I yield of butter fats, less than flvo quarts having lunch' a pound of butter, even With tlx- few tests tl nit have been mude; the butter is tho highest, and deepest tone of al! self-colored butters; the but ter will go farther; it luisa peculiar rich Havor ano aroma; the beef is remarkably juiey and well interlaid with fat of the deepest color, tender, and ol' the highest flavor, and the carcass dresses well and profitably. Considering that there are bul 1,000 head of cattle on the island, and thal there must be more or less close interbreeding, the Chtornsey cow is ii very sure and regular breeder, and re produces herself and her fixed types with exactitude; her docility ?md gentle ness, most important traits in a dairy breed, are reniai Iud ?le, and the males are ol' an amiable and gentle disposition, seldom becoming cross or desiring to roam. In size, avoiding the diminutiveness on tin? (?ne hand and tho gross size on the other, the Guernsey is of tin? size easiest maintained for good returns; and when killed for beef, cuts to profit; as oxen, while not quick-stepping, they are patient and assiduous. The color is peculiar, mainly running in shades of orange and lemon fawn, either in solid masses or prettily broken with masses of white. Formerly black mid brindle were more common than at tho present time. The skin is usually of so rich a golden coloras to be unrivaled ami extraordinary. Ms linet iousness mellows thc skin ami softens the hair and exudes in a yellow hntyraceous se cretion, 'l'he golden rim around the eyes, the collections in ?he curs, and the dandruff nt tho end of tho tail, all pro claim the wonderful richness of thc ani mal. POTENCY or nu-. ORBED. The long continued similar course of breeding which th?' Guernsey has under gone gives it that power which we term potency; tin-ability to produce like, to repeat itself, whether upon members of its own breed or upon those of other breeds. It is this quality which rentiers tin- Quernsey bulls so valuable to stain)! their get with the peculiar richness ol the breed; this is vo lasting that it take generations to breed it oui. We knott of ait instance where a bull was intro duccd twenty years ago, and thc butter, as marketed from his descendants, showi (hi' rich color ami the good flavor to the ?lay. The continuity of her yield in om- ol thc most valuable t rails ol' the cow, loi by this pertinacity np to her calving even, the moderate milker in this longtl o', time catches up and viel ;.s in quantity more than the cow that milks well ?0 three or four months, or that goes dr; for two or three months, gradually fail ?Hg up to thc time of stopping. This i especially valuable to the owner of bu om- cow, and where he owns two cow ami insists upon their taking a natani and needed rest of six weeks or tw months, la- can arrange it so a alway to have his milk and butter. Like th hare and tortoise, it is the steady milko that beats in tho long run. OENRKAL IMTIU'OSR MERITS. . Tho Guernseys arc hardy and tough and therefore titted for any section n this country, and wo know of no bree so titted for tho rapidly increasing dniric of (he West, the far West and th Northwest. < >u their own island tin arc expo' cd more or loss every doy in th year, in tin-?lay lillie in the hot SUDS ail at night to tho heavy dews and to tli atmosph?re heavy with cold and dam) ness, provocative of rheumatism in tl inhabit: nts. The farmer and the ?lair; man want a cow of good size they on turn for beef, that while alive will pu well in milk ami butter. This BCC1113 I ho a sino qua non with fanners of tl East as well as of the West. Tf the: Cattle on ll small island are exposed I the bleaching sun and to such withcril blasts that I have seen whole hedge trees ami sh nibs blackened 1>,\ them by a devastating Ure, can stand sm changes, they arc well fitted to tho ha 'ile on many of our unsheltered farms. Killed Her Itel rayer. Robort Wright was shot and killed Elizabeth, Col., on lost Wednesday. 1 (1 woman from Denver, whom he had 1 frayed, and who came oil a niornii train from that city, accompanied 1 her brother. After her arrival alie wc to Wright's place of business and ask him to marry her. Upon his refusi she (Ired three shots at him from Colt's forty-live calibre revolver, two them taking effect, one in his head a the other in Iiis chest, and ho dropp dead. The woman claims to bc t mother ol n (Ive-weoks-old illegitim; child, of which Wright was tho filth Ile had often promised to marry h but always failed t<? keep his word. H made n)? her mind to kill him if he agi refused to kee)) his promise. After I shooting the woman and her brother i tcred a carriage und drove t<> Kim where the former gave herself up to 1 officers, but refused to give her name. Georgia newspapers aro lament because the Governor of their State o $1,000 n year, while his necessary penses are reckoned at $6,000. 'I Vermont Executive gets i>ni $1,0 Hut, then, the Vermont chief mogistl hats no great wear and tear in offlCO, ccpt to lace tho 1,000 men, each whom cla ris to have elected him i proposes to direct all his movements. -A number of girls in New York, \ understand stenography and Span are getting good salaries from merclu amt others having trade with Mex This indurate.-, that trade with f country is growing, and that it ia q worth the while of women who work diversify their stock of informal Spanish is a languago very cosily lean three months being ample timo to acq enough of it for tho purposes of co spondence. GEXBKAL Kinn u i c. LEB. nu \<-<-C|IIIIIICC of ihr Coinmaud nf itu* Coufcd . i \ r 111 y of Virginia. ( From tb<) Cliic.iKO Tribune. "Did T evor toll you,'' said ox-8cnator Pomeroy, <>f Kau sos, to me the other day, Hud I waa prosent when thu com mund of tho Confederate anny waa offer ed to General Lee?" "No." "Well, I WUK; J stood within ;.ix feet of him. Nobody bl tho party knew me as 1 hud just arrived i.. Washington from Kansas, and was almost an entire .stranger hore. Kansas wa? admitted, you re member, during tho last days ol' Buchan an's administration, and Lane and I were elected to the .Senate. We came to Washington w ith a lot of Kansas fellows to see what the secessionists were doing, and were on the ears when we heard that Fort Suinter hail been tired upon. "Hut 1 am going to tell you about Lee. I was keeping a diary then, as I have ever since, and do now. Only the other day I was reading it over, and it recalled to me that about the Kith or 17th of April, hsiil, a committee of twelve men came up from the s?cession convention, then meeting at Richmond, and stopped at tho hotel where I was. I used to circulate around among them, trying to lind oui what they were ap to, and discovered that they hud come to see General, who was over ut Arlington. One afternoon about 1 o'cloek they start ed off in carriages, und a friend of mine und I got in u buggy und followed them. We joined the procession before it got to Arlington, und acted just us if we were a part of their crowd. When we reached the old mansion General Leo, who was evidently not expecting uny cullers, cunio out in his dressing-gown ami slippers, and I toll you he was as noble a looking a man us ever 1 saw. Ho had boen sent forby General Scott, and caine from California, you remember, to use his influ ence to prevent Virginia from going out of tho I'nina, und while he hud not made any public declaration, peoplo gen erally understood that lie was opposed to secession, so wo watched what was going OU with a great deal of interest. "The chairman presented tho dele gates lo the General one by one, and when they hud been introduced ho be gun u speech which I wrote down as nearly us 1 could remember it in my diary that night, lt was very nearly in these words: 'Genend Lee. wc are au thorized by tho convention now in ses sion ?il Richmond to convey to you an expression of tho confidence and esteem, as one of the most csteomcd citizens of Virginia, and to tender you tho com mand of tho troops that have been raised to protect tho old State from the peril which now confronts her. Wc ure en couraged by the belief that you, ?if- a son of Virginia, will respoud to her edi und direct the military forces so as lo prevent tho military invasion of her sacred soil. We know that large bodies Of troops ?ne being organized in tho north for coercion of oar people, and they will be resisted by every patriotic citizen of tho Commonwealth. The con vention ut Richmond is awaiting anxious ly for our return with your ie iv , as your acceptance will give streui ii and encouragement to the people.' "To this Fcc responded briefly and directly, Ho stund a moment with a determined expression upon his face, us if the mind was fully mad.' ap, but he wa- not certain how 1.. express himself. My friend mid I, from what we had heard, expected that li?' would decline and tell thc committee to ;J<> home und abandon the secession programme. He started oat all right ill his reply. 'Gen tlemon,1 said he, '1 um opposed to war, although bred to the profession of arms. I am especially opposed to civil war, to strife between brothel's. I regret that one section of this country is arrayed against the other.' "Up to that,"continued Mr. Pomeroy, "1 thought he was going to decline, but Ins next words .scared mc: 'I heard the voice of Virginia,' hi1 said, 'of the moth er that bore me, whose soil is as SOCrcd as tho ashes of ray father buried there.' He's gone,' I said to my friend, 'he's made up his mind,'and his next words were: '\ cannot resist tim cull of the sovereign Stat?! to which 1 owe my first allegiance; but remember, gentlemen, I shall draw my sword in her defense, and with the pruyor that we, in defending our rights, may not bo com polled lo shed thc blood of our brethren.' "He then said that he would go to Richmond ut once and report in person to tiie government. "The next morning everybody knew that Lei* hud gone to Richmond, and within twenty-four hours the newspapers contained his order upon assuming com mand of the Virginia troops." \ i on. mi irr iii n Prehlatorlc Product. Dr. Van Marter, of Rome, has pub? li shed un interesting account of the evi dences discovered by him of prehisto. . dentistry in italy. In the museum of ("?rnelo TarqniniuH, u city on tho Medi terranean const, he found two specimens of ancient dentistry, which thc Mayor of timi city certifies were found upon the Hrs! o po liing of tho buried Ftruseun tombs, um) Professor Heilbig gives as surance that these were virgin tombs, tinting buck four or five centuries before tho Christian, era. In one til the speci mens the two superior central incisors] aro bound by a bund of very soft gold to tooth on either aide; tho artificial b eth are well OMVCd, evidently.from the tooth of some large animal. One other artitl oial tooth was held by the sumo band, but it is lost. Dr. Van Mailer hos in his ow n possession a skull iu wlvioh tho li rat n, per molar on the right sido is mis?-' und which shows plain marks of an alveolar abscess, proving conolusively toothaohe among tho Etruscans. THU ?IC (MOND <0\l"KHK.\?:K. Madera af I ni?rent lo iii?' MMIIOIUNI Church CHiittldered ami in , i . ? ? .1. in thu Methodist Episcopal General Conference lust week tho Manual of Discipline by Bishop MoTyolre again came up under a motion that tho Col lege ol' Bishop? bo requested to publish their decisions. After considerable dis cussion tho matter went over without action, lt was manifest that the greater part of the delegates are unwilling that the Manual shall servo as a final arbiter. A large number of amendments have, been offered, looking to a chungo of Discipline, but so far little disposition is manifested to make changes. Dr. Ed wards, of Virginia, introduced a resolu tion proposing a change in the order of divine service on tim Sabbath ?lay. An animated debate followed. Dis. McFcr rin, Kelley, Young and others spoko earnestly against the resolutions, which WHS Anally rejected. Tho commit!? o ou episcopacy reported in relation to episcopal residences that in their opinion there should bo a Bishop from each (d' the great sections of tho country. The Hew Dr. John Miloy, fraternal messenger from tho Northern Methodist ('hinch, was introduced to the Confer ence. Governor Foraker, the other fraternal messenger from the Northern Church, did not come. A large congregation attended Cen tenary Church to hear addresses by tho fraternal delegates-tho Rev. Mr. Briggs, of the Methodist Church of Canada, and the Rev. Dr. Miloy, of the Methodist Bpiscopal Church. The addresses were all admirable, and were most attentively heard, The report of tho committee on foreign missions, to which was referred tho reso lution in reference to tho appointment of a superintendent of loreign missions, recommended non-c< neurrence. Adopt ed. The committi.ti church extension recommended that the request for tho establishment ol'a woman's department of church extension, for the purpose of securing parsonages for the church, bo granted. Mr. Peterson, o? Vngillin, Irtan tho committee on Bibles, submitted a half dozen reports in relat ion to changes iu Discipline. He also submitted tho re port of his committee in regard to the memorial of tho Missouri Conference asking that the word .South'' be elimi nated from the name of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and report upon thc resolution providing that church members signing petitions for tho sale of intoxicating liquor may bo dealt with as tho ease may require. To this resolut ion the committee recommend non-concurrence. # Thc session of Thursday was consum ed in discussing different feuturesof tho Manual cd' Discipline, lt was resolved to elect four new bishops oil the 18th instant hK>s\.IO\s Ot IIA.\UI,\(jl, v \<w Mexico Man - Experience ni lin- llnnd* Of n .Moll. Theodore Baker, a New Mexico mau who was recently hanged by a mob, but was rescued and cut down before, lifo was extinct, gives this account of his .ex perience to fl nowspaper correspondent: "A little further on wc carno to a telegraph pole. From the crossbar sw ung a m w rope. Oil ono end was a big sliji noose. Tliey lcd nie under tho rope, I tried to stoop down and pul! my boots oft', as I had promised my folks I would aol dio with my boots on, but before 1 could do it the noose was thrown over my bend and I was jerked off my feet. My sonsos loft mo a mo ment, and then I waked up in what seemed to bo another world. As I recol lect now, the sensation was that every thing about mc had multiplied a great ninny times. lt seemed that my fivo executioners had grown in number until liier?' wer?- thousands of them, I saw what seemed to bea multitude of animals of all shapes ami sizes. Then things chang?*?! and I was iii great pain. i be came conscious that I was hanging by the nock, and that tho knot of tho ropo hail slipped around under my chin. ' My hands were loosely tied, and I jorked thom loose and tried to catch tho rope above me. Somebody caught moby tho feet just then ami gave mo a jerk. It Boomed liko a? bright Hash of lightning passed in front of my eyes. It was fol lowed by a terrible pabi up and down and across my back, and I could feel my legs jerk and draw lip. Then there was a blank, and i knew nothing moro until ll o'clock noxt day. "My lirst recollection w as being in tho court room, and saying: 'Who cut mo down?' Tlibrc was a terrible ringing in my cars, like tho beating of gongs. I recognized no ono. Tim pain in my back continued. Moment? o{ uncon sciousness followed during sot oval days, and I hm?' very little roooUeetion of tho journey here. Even, after I had been l?x ' jd np in this prison tor safe keeping for a long time I saw double. Dr. 8ym ington, WC prison physician, looked Uko two persons. I was still troubled with spells of total forgetfulness. Sometimes it seemed I didn't know who I was." - A Spanish vessel laden with moins ses wont ashore on the Florida coast, mimo days ago, and all but ono of the crew escaped, thanks to tho assistance of the residents of that ncighl)orhood, When the wreck broke up and casks of molasses bogan to come ashore, the captain and the crew stood by with axes and broke Hmm np as fast as they came within reach, refusing evett the empty casks to the men who H?I recently helped to savo their lives.