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y ll? I jr M. .Wi ^ ititi* LAURENS C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST If), 1885. NO. 3 THOUGHTS l'OR TUE MONTH. 80MK KU.VKOXAUM-: BlUJUItSTIOXg l HOM mun A inion rr Y . w inn WorK Hu- Good l'A rino i i 8l.ould ll? in III? Mont li of .Inly-\n liitrrexl!:':; Irlich' Fniin mi Intelligent Writer. (W. L, Jouos in tho J unu "Culliv .;or.") Hummer crops ?tili require diligent cultivation. Drought ami hen' aro to bo fought as best wo may, gross and weeds are to bb kout down, and tho formation in tko soil of available pliant food to be promoted to the fullest extent. Ono of the greatest antidotes against drought is an ftbundanee of humus in tho soil. A fanner cannot atop now to simply this in a field when: thou: is a groy mg crop; it must bo looked after in Iii;, genoral plans, embracing proper rotations, und resting of land, or during winter, when leaves, pine and other si raw may be hauled out und scattered apon it. Fut good growth of peavines supplies a first ?piiility humus for old land and peas may bo plaided for such purpose dining this and uoxt month. If seed aro plenty, they may bo broadcast nt tho rate of one and a half bushels per acre; il* seed aro scarce, plant in drills two and half to three feet apart, cit her sowing peas thin ly in furrow or dropping live or six in hills fifteen inclu s apart. Cultivation will induce BO muon moro vigorous growth that the drilled jans will make about ns much vim s as thu broadcast. Wilora vines is the object almost any variety will answer, tho old-fashioned cow or clay pen being one of the best. For this work, in mid-summer, one has to catch tho seasons; start plqugh after a IT in as soon as practicable, und drop peas in every third or fourth furrow whoa ono intends to drill breaking land and planting need will tims go on to-1 gotlior. Our experience is that peas, mast not bo planted deep to come up well; and narrow scooters are tho best ordinary plows for this work. Probably a deep cutting harrow, like Ibo disc, with a seeding attachment, might bo made to do this work very rapidly on ground not too hard. Dot us always koop an eve oat for means of accomplishing work rapidly; economy demands it, and the rapid drying of tho soil in summer makes it a very great necessity. Time under snell circumstances is most valuable; an opportu .?ty lost may never bo recovered. hut let us go back to tho cultivation of crops. Much of tho corn receives its las.1 working this month. Lot this bo th(?ro.Mf?'1? bl the sense of stirring every inch of ,,,U! surface, but lot it bo only tho surface. Doop plowing 'ol' corn after jointing fain'.,'' begins, is undoubtedly injurions. Som*Ihnes a merciful rain fall In part wards oh thc damage, bul only inpart; it cannot who.'ly counteract tho hurt; tho licol-scmpo is ii."' bosl single plow for laying by corn ; properly set ?t leaves tho Biirfoco appropriately love!. A wheel cultivator may I) . gauged to run shallow enough, and will then answer very well. If tho crop has bool, judio!" o utily cultivated Up to.this tune, no hoc work will bo'reqifired; ii needed, how ever, give. it. Lot tho land bc loft piSr hv'tly dean unless it is decided to -.ow pen* in tho corn-an old and excellent pini'tic'i'. Pena will interfere loss with thc corn than grass or weeds, und the latter are 001*0 to come sooner or later. Fut if tho 00*71 is hud by perfectly ch an it will bo preiity thoroughly matured be fore grass and woodta can got much foot hold. Last yeal* WO sowed soja beans, pr Japan peas, as they used to be called, in bottom corn on tho li'th of July, and they matured before frost and madia an excellent crop. AS it dis's not nm, it tines Mt interfere with fodder pulling. Cotton masks rapid surface cultivation also, especially during tho first half of tho month. Asfc?ody and rapid growth is now desirable to wy tho foundation for fruiting next mon tu. flot good weed by tho first of At.gust and than let the plant take on fruit ; frequent cultivation promotes rapid growth; keep thc ploughs* thorcforu constantly moving, lot no crust form, let no grass gi t a tool hold, let heol-sorapo run very shallow and Hat; keep them sharp *o as to cut off May pops, briers, etc. Oct only those scrapes that aro bent in the middle., .sons to form il Ollff to lit on the ploW-f?Ot, t*ml allow tho wings to run Hat. A narrow bar of atoel simply bi nt in a curve, with a hob in the middle to receive tho heel bolt, is wholly unlit for tho work now in lanni; it throws too lunch dirt, aud haves bods too high for hilly land. lt, jany suit very wall for tho level, Bandy! i.wta toward tho coast. Fut ibo Serapi on th? Isiek of the plow f?.ot, not in frotiv of it, as loiifj as tho cotton will ltear it without liavil g ita limbs or boils, broken off; nut two furrows to each row . A twenty-inch SO nine will elem out a middle thoroughly with two furrows. Later in the season a wider one may be run once in eaoh middle. If hoe work hos liven properly dono nj) to this time little moro of it will bo needed, but a ?I?UVJ worked crop at tho start will call fur a ?reat deal of work at tho end. On ioirnor occasions wo have pointed .out tho beiK,,nc"" results from frequent attrfaec Oirr?V? of the soil; wo briefly recall them again. A thin layer of pul vorized soil is oW of tho very best mulches to lie hod. ft)* the only ono pmctieablo ou a large ScaW, It prevents tho escape of moisture, Moa otf rapid ly itself after being stirred, hu? tfm'-cbuljy cuta oft tho ascent of moisture fr.'ui bo neath through itself int/) the air. Deep stirring of the soil makes U dry .off .rapidly. Hence tho pnt/ tieo of plowing bi'?ttoii>n lands in tho spring to get them dry enough to ?dant. M,ojsturc from be low cannot ascend rapidly through pul verized earth whilst tho free circulation of air in such i-arUi causes the water in it to go o/f-jfaito the atmosphere vary rapidly, withmthin layer of pulverised soil at tho surfaeo, tia) moiatuwi supply comes up from below all tho roo** of pUnts, thoso near the sttrface as woll as those defeat r down. A HtirAo layer of pulverized earth md only serves aa a conservator of moisture intimen of drought, but prevent* tho ?oil below from becoming oxcearivcly heated; it koopa out the hooL as a wall Ulled with sawdust excludes it iron? mi loo honse: tho menlo of action is the wane in both. Excessive heating of tho! is not only injurious to tho roots of plants, bttt a high temperature- evapor ates the moisture in it rapidly ? Any ex cess of temperature above that which plant? need is doubly injurious to them, directly by impairing their vitality, and indirectly by depriving them of needed moisture. Ono need uevor fea'r keeping the soil too cool in July and there is equally little danger of its ever being too wet. The last beneficial result from stirring tile surface, which will be mentioned now, is the admission of air into tho soil. Tho presence of air is indispensable to tho health of roofs and their proper working. Plants languish in wet soils because water shuts oil' air from their roots. A tight, bard crust at the surface docs thc same thing to n considerable degree. In addition to promoting the health and proper working of roots, thc presence of air in the soil is essential to nitrification, the process by which tho unavailable nitrogen of the soil is chang ed into that which is available. Also to those changes in thc minerals in tho soil by which their valuable contents aro brought within the reach of planks. From vory many points of view, thoro foi'O, frequent surface stirrings of the soil arc shown to be beneficial, to say nothing of tho killing of grass and weeds. Wo repeat, therefore, keep the plows moving with all diligence. In addition to peas, already consider ed as a humus supplying crop, lute forage crops of all kinds should now claim attention. Drilled corn may still be sown, 'laking it all in all, this is perhaps tho best forage crop wo have. The later sowings of it should not bo altogether as thick as tho earlier, as the cool weather of autumn is not so favora ble for maturing and developing starch and sugar as the warm weather of mid summer; tho late grown plants should have moro light and air. Make drills at least three feet apart and sow seed so that there shall be a stalk .'very four to six inches in the row. Cultivate well and cut when ears begin to form. Corn does not dovolop its full nutritive value before that period. From a desire to minify thc stalk, the mistake is made sometime." of sowing loo thickly, and thc result is imperfect development and forage not relished by stock because it is not really nutritious. All have doubtless noticed tlad stock arc not fond of young corn plants, those?, for instance, that are re moved in thinning a crop. Sorghum does not devclopc its sweetness until the seeds ure formed, and the same is true with corn. Karly amber cane planted from tho Isl to tho 15th of this month w ill bc ready to cut by frost, and piled in bulk can la kept green and succulent for a couple ol months. It makes better forage ni itt green state than when cared and dry. For mules and cows it may be made tc [?over the months of October, Xovcmhci and December, and as it is easily rinsed, n supply for that purpose should bi found on every farm. Wc have fed it t< horses also, but they do not relish it a.1 much as mules, nor does it agree witl them us well if fed exclusively. A litth of it mixed with other forage is wei rc balled and doubtless healthy food. Ol ? number of varieties tried by us tin past season, tho amber is decidedly tin best as a forage plant. It is one of t!u sweetest, and the sialks being small an easily cut np and more readily masticate! by animals, (live it i trial, if you havi not done :<o. German millet may still bo pown or good land. Like all rapidly matu rh q crops, it makes heavy demands on tin soil, and Dos should bo nu t by hcuvi manuring. Put it sometimes helps om to lill out a short Slippry of forage who) iv long drought or other cijranjshoj.ee al low s only a short time to do it in. .' farmer caught with onipt v barns on tb Ural id* August might still till them witl German millet. Out just, as tho seed aro formihg; it makes one of the strong cst and most nutritious forages wc have Because it is so good, animais arc some times over fed with it to their inJury am il bad reputation is then unjustly givci tho juillet. Obiyor and pea vines ar liable to tho sumo r);;o;.. It is none too carly to common?.?, j.vo paring land for turnips. There is ni oct ter preparation than cow-penning am plowing tho land at intervals of two o Lineo weeks. Ju the absence of cattle broadcast manure an'l plow it in whei breaking ?yj huid, f.ot manure, wo] rotted, is suitable, and for turnips i much improved by a liboiul addition e I dd phosphate Any form of phoi>pli;:{ is good (ox turnips. But potash an nitrogen arc aili} needed by this gron feeding plant, and mew be supplied b kaijj et und cotton seed m cat. * Karylin tilth in almost as important for this ero ns manure; therefore repented plowing and harrow ings are recommended. Hi loot rather sandy ?oil for thiu crop, 'h gin rowings of rutabagas after tho t?i? ile of Ute ?4/mth, ate! continuo at intel vals, whenever iii*; soil is moist and i good condition, to the e,y]dlo of Augie or Jlrsl of September- -tho latent ??ow*i np of early maturing varieties liko red to and Hat Dutch. If land is well broke at first and harrowed after overy rah it will remain moist enough to bring u ?oed even in long spells of dry weathe Those who begin oarly and pursue rigl methods wrj^erally succeed in gcttm good stand? when ?he weather is vet unfavorable. Those' who to tl last minnie, and begin preparation win tho time for mVwiing arrives, an) vc! npt to fail unless tho yeat))or is iinusun ly favorable. Tho above remarks apply with eon. force to preparations for clover ami grui to lie sown in September. They shonl Iwgin by tho last of tho month and fo low tho same course marked out fi turnip*. Liberal manuring and fh u'fh are tho bttfl main points, All < th eso pl.^ts have ameU goods, and |1 little delicate ?CC<Uuigs demand foe ^naily found, and a flue seed bod to | themselves il). Sweet potato ?dip? or vines may I put mit all through thin moiith. Tl dil fashioned yellow yam might not ? much sot /nit after tho luth, but tl more recently introduced varieties of tl 3t. Domingo type will ??afee a fair OTC [>f tullera, and of decidedly lietter quel ty thft-H these started early in the spriti e'er tim laV-r plantings pieces of vine a pro'crable to ''diuy/rra' or "slips." ia good practice to start a p'deh of pot toes early in the season, from whj< vines may he cot for tho later and ma prop. 'lids io tf\o practice in all loon tic? where tho poWo ia raised mc abundantly and in greatest $erfc<ctio 4 pioco p| vine ten inches long, < Bioping in the ground, with the upper bud only above tho surface, will grow quite UH readily aa a rooted slip. Let every one put in u full crop of potatoes; work will not bc so pressing now and tho grain heida will furnish suitable and abundant land for the purpose. As soon as the tithers are of fair size, begin at once to feed to stuck of all kinds, horses, cows, bogs, etc. The mistake is generally made of waiting till frost or digging time to begin feeding them and then many are lost before they are con (inned. Our true policy is to feed tho stock on the farm with many diffet'Onl things, each in its season. Tho old style ol' feeding on corn and fodder all the year is not suited to one present environ ment-it is too expensive. Neither is it healthiest or best for auin als. We fed our stock for some time on green rye, then followed with red clover, and will begin soon on forage ? oi n. A part ration of dry forage is always given with these, and tho stock keep in a remarkably healthy, thriving condition. A sick ani mal wo rarely or never have. Now that tho heaviest press of work is over, barbecues and social gatherings are in order. Moro than others, farmers need the healthy, invigorating influences of such occasions. No one is so wisc that he may not learn from others. Meet and discuss matters pertaining to your calling. Visit each other's farms, and with friendly criticisms call attention to mistakes made ami suggest improve ments. Attend every (dub meeting; he must bo a dull man that cannot learn something there. The farmers in several States have boon aroused recently touch ing their relations to the State" and to other callings. They ure unwilling to bo ignored or imposed on longer. Wc hail it as a good omen-as an evidence of awakened thought. Lot fanners feel j and realize thal their vocation is just as honorable, just as ennobling and elevat ing as any other; flint it e ilis for just ns ; much brains, just as much learning and ! knowledge, if not more than any other, and let them resolve that they will no longer bear the heavier portion of the public burthens whilst the emoluments and honors are monopolized by others. ron m.-. u i PH'S SAKK. Unitiva I'orlcr I.ec I'nnloncd hy l*rt**l?lvnl CU-o-lnml. Tho President has pardoned R. Porter Leo, now confined in thc Buffalo peni tentiary for embezzlement. The follow ing is the President's memorandum in regard to this case: This convict was sentenced in Novem ber, 1882, at a t- rm ?d' thc Circuit Court of the United States hold at Syracuse, in the Northern District of New York, to be confined in the penitentiary at the city of B?llalo for the terni of ten years, upon a conviction for embezzling tho funds of thc first National Baiik at B?llalo while he was President thereof. While this is a statutory offeiiso, timi somewhat technical in its character, thc publie are so mindi interested in tin security of our banking institutions, anti such strict faith and care should be de manded of those having thom in charge, that I am much disinclined to extern clemency to those properly found guilty of offenses like that on which this pris oner was convicted. 1 nm oiltirchj familiar with this case, and knew tb? prisoner a long timo before his convie ?ion. His sentence was generally re guided at the time as a very SOVCre ono being tho full extent of tin" law. Witl the commutation allowed in the State o New York for good conduct in prison he has served a sentence of live years and it is entirely certain in my mind tba whatever good is ever to be wrough upon l?im individually has already bcci accomplished. At tho timo of his conviction Ins wit? -a Hollie, COliragCOUB, and devoted wo man and live small children were tin sad Bufferers for Ilia crime, and exacte? tho sympathy of the entire community By her patient, bard labor to supper her children, and nevor falling trust am hope in thc darkest days, this wife ha demonstrated that she at hast is entitle? to clemency. ? am glad to bc able ti jrcstorp to her her husband, ami to b satisfied ut thc iwunp tijj;.o that the cud of justice aro fully answered. QROVBH Cl.HVW.ANl>. Thc Origin of Jug?, Tho origin of jugs dates back to nu tiquity. Vet we have all discovered tba tim j:;*', whose appearance is the mos antiquated, docs not always belong t that rather enigmatic pciw.l. Tim llb tory of "Tho Little Brown .Tug" is quit as ancient as most people care to go bac to investigate. Lately there has been great breeze raised over a jug calle "The Poach blow Vase." In artistic cit cb s, its side for eighteen thousand do lars v-ilj mark an em. Vet to most pei plo in this world liiere are many thing potter, "bv a jugful," The jug is a mo; singular utensil. A pail, goblet or a ji be rinsed, and you can satisfy you self by opt icm pr, >of that thc thing clean; but a jug lias'a Util*} kobi in tli top and the interior is all darluie. . N eye penetrates it, no eye can move ov< it? surface. Yon din clean it only b putting water into it, shaking it up an pouring it out. If the water comes Ol (dean, you judge you have succeeded i purifying tho jug. In this the jug like the num&n hjpartj R0 mortui eye cn look il?to tll? recesses, and you ono on! judge of ita purity by what comes ot 9t ?. "_^._ ii,e fjfftf, n?* Oe? Harr?. A fox who wa? passing through tl forest ono day heard a great diann among tho luiros, and ho turned aside find several of them engaged in lia knocks around a burrow. "What's all this row nbout'/" denian od iUvvnord, ns he ?ell among thom. "Why, fiir," replied one of the ban our father is dead, and we can't agree to who shall possess his burrow . " "But it's large enough for all of you "Ho it hq bul; that settles a qnestii of fact instead of principle," "Well, I'll toke fact and you can kc tho principle," said tho. fox, as ho to? possession of tho burrow. MORAI,.-When the hoir" light ov tho old homestead, tho lawyer comos own tho farra. Preshh-iU Him, luis this pushed the Si ate? l4imonWr-No, your excellency, that a milliner's hil), mid if yon will lake I advise of a man of experience you will 1 nfflx a voto. WITHIN THE KINKS. TUB BXPBUIBiXOBS OF A IIOtSBIIOLll OP BOUTIIBRX LA Ol EH. Who! They Underwent nurina Battle-. \ sirii. lug Story ?>f ?li? Confederate \\ nr. (From (he Philadelphia Times.) It wo? :n July, 1808, a time of so mach Interest to all Virginians, when tho tide of battle ebbed ami flowed like an angry Hood over oar love ly vnlloy, leaving desolation and sor row in its path. Our home, known as Fountain Hook, was about one mile from thc Potomac Uiver, directly on tho turn pike between Shophordatowil and Kear ney ville, a point on tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. July IC waa an unusually quiet day. No Federal soldiers were to bc seen rid ing over tho country. Consequently our fears were aroused knowing, as wc did, from experience that a calm always came before, a storm. Tho next morning wc found that our fears were not ground less, for a large force under Goiieral Gregg had crossed the Potomac and some were encamped on the turnpike und some on thc road leading to Mar tinsburg. UNWELCOMING VISITORS. Stragglers, mostly from Col. (Ircgg's regiment, began to swann all over the placo. Numerous and outrageous were the depredations they committed. Hear ing a thumping at tia? back ol' the house 1 we went in and found two men in thc pantry. "What are you doing hore?" 1 said my mother, with dignity. Oin* of ' them impudently answered: "Oh wo just came to sec what sort of style you ! lived in," and added, mockingly: "I'll 1 take that ham, if you please." turning j ironed, she found he had already dom' so. Ho thou reached over and said: "I'll take these preserves, too." "No," she ? mid, "I don't think you will." "I'd 1 like to know who in the b- will prevent ' IllC," ho answered. "I will," she said, 1 very quietly, and, leaning forward, she 1 put out her hand and gave a little push, 1 which sent it to the lloor with a crash. Ho lokcd startled for a moment, hut ' piickly recovered and sneered: "Oh, ' that's your style, is it?-' "Ves, and you 1 walk out of this house. lt is a pity you liad no mother to teach you not to break ' into houses and steal." This reference 1 to his neither seemed to rouse huu and ie said: "I have a mot ber, and as good i enc as you, if you are a right good looking woman.'" Nevertheless In- wall;- ' d very nu ekly out. ASKING Koli A GUARD, 1 So great wore the ravages committed 1 that my young sister and a Cousin from baltimore went into town to ask for a guard. Win n the complaint was laid beforo Gonoml Gregg, ho turned to an ' o Ulcer and :yiid, "Tell Colonel Gregg . that I havo heard nothing hut complaints | nf his regiment this morning, and if needs be ho must take one-half of his : men tn keep thc other half in order." I 1 lotlhl if tho order WOS ever delivered. While he was speaking a courier came in , ind reported "a large body ol' rebels ad- | Mincing on the turnpike from Lee to wu." Che girls anxiously to be nt home, asked J for an escort, for tho soldiers had been rory impertinent to them on their way into town. An escort was readily granted ! md although our house was near the ^ lUt-posts ho came all tho way to the lour and there received my mother's . hanks for his courtesy. She also asked lim his name, which at first he refused j o give, but upon her reminding him hat ho knew not what il day might iring fourth he gave it: "Major Gaston, if Gonornl Gregg's staff." None but ' hose who have seen and felt it can \ 'Calizo our feelings as wc saw thc enemy ^ idvanco in such order and numbers, mowing as we did that only a few miles arther on thoy were to moot our forces, imong whom were many friends near md dear. Soon a few stray shots were icard, thoo ila' dint.; lieut ?u.d nil strag- 1 dcrs were drawn in and quiet reigned ?, or a little w hile. Thon came the whirr 1 md shriek of the shells as they passed t iver the house, and the villainous "zip'' | if the minnie balls as they cut the leaves n rom tia* hedge around our door. All of | is retreated to thc collar, The family j ionsisted of my mother, her two (laugh- t era, her niece, her two little grandchil- , hen, wliomt mother wau ia Baltimore', i negro woman abd a terror-stricken t log- . A FIOIIX TO UK REMEMBERED. ' All that evening the battle raged, Thc C?derai wounded were brought from thc ; ield and laid upon the lawn before and Hider tin. protection of thc house until hey could-be taken away, soino few in unlnilanecs, others on horses or on ? tretchers. I shall never forget the sight if a white horse, his whole forequarter x luinod with, tho liio;h\qod pf Jngj who vas lying dead across his back. The iring never ceased until late in thc light. Ott!1 house was kept closed ami lerfcctly dark. The troops had no time o tarry and I heard them, as they passed o and from the spring, wonder where ho women of tho liouso were. AM night vu -y^i.e.i ia ino darkness, oaoh ^Ith a andie, a few matches and a pieeo of hocolntc in our pockets. These had >ccn kept for a tune cf need and we bought that time had come. It was nd'/ a night of horror, !'-. i?oJ or bree o'cl?ilK all fh? Federal* find gone nil wo hoard tho smooth canter o{ thu Muthern horseman tuk? ?0 p;tu.c of tho harp ring of tho steel-shod horses of the ?Torthorn cavalry. Daylight found me ?iib a palo fuco and hollow eyes, but icorty welcome for tho Confederates who ode wi to say that they would be back o breakfast. Our friends from town, ?tanned for our safety, carno almost as oon. OKNBKAr. UM HIMSELF. Hoeing a soldier and hoing) anxious to .now wno of our friends liad como asked lim to what regiment he belonged, to ho great amusement, of all around, for t proved to lie Genoral F. Leo himself. Iraong tho first questions asked was who ran in command of the forces opposed o us. When Ooneml Leo waa told that t was Gonoml Gregg ho instantly said: .I wonder it he Know I was in command m this side?" sud I gathered that they tad been either classmates or frionds he foie tlif war. Oh, tia; contrast hotweon two days divided I y only a .single night! Tho day before terror and gloom per vaded and to-day tho house Ulled with joy and glndnoss. Wo bad litth- or nothing to give them to eat, all having been taken from us tho day before and the garden trampled by tho troops. While ridions that had been sent from the uamp were being prepared we gath ered around the piano to entertain our guests witl) music ami to deliver to General J. K. J!. Stuart sonn' music that had been in our keeping for govern! months, scut to bini by an admiring friend in Baltimore "Soldier Boy Nineteen Years Old" and "Benny Ha vens, Oh," were sung with a 111 arly good will. Impromptu verses to tie latter air were composed by nearly all present. General Stuart's contribution, written on the Lack of a piece ol' music, was the following: STCAlu 's IMPROMPTU, To tho bonnie lass, Mis-- Lottie, ( >ur adoration's due, She soothes our hi arts in times of woe With music soft and true. May she rule her beau ol' nineteen, The gallant Brigndior, Who, though ho vanquish nu n, I ween Ih r own command must fi ar. To our jolly friend, l it /. Lee, A health before w o ?, He has a heart all full of gil 0, A strong arin for the foe. May his triumphs kmc continue And .Miss Lottie always know The number ol' his regiment And smiles ou bim bestow. Later in the day a Baltimore American was gotten hold of by some means and thc portico rang willi merriment as the account of thc battle from a I eii, rid point ol' view was read out, and its in accuracy wondered at and commented Dh by all. I beard General Lee say: I j "Well, I have not been in a hotter place \ ) mice the war began than thal light was ' 1 nt ono timo yesterday." ll was indeed h % bard fought tight, though it has badin but small nu ntion ie ll." "Annals of the : War." lt was lu re that Colonel Denke, ] af tho Firs! Virginia Cavalry (formerly v Stuart's), was kided. Win n wo con- ; irratulated Colonel Morgan on his pro- i motion, he said, feelingly: "Not yet! v iud yet! too lately have I paid my last ? tribute to poor Deako." But this was no abiding place for t ?ither army. Win n tho Federals were 1; Iriven across tho river thc Conf?d?ral" , | retired beyond the railroad, ami so it I was with us until peace settled down iver the whole land, and the war became is it now is, a tiling of the memory only. ; ': HKIJKN BoTHijun PKXOIJKTOX. R tShephordstown, W. Va, j1' lli^ l i ! h- V. n i i r lit'lH. \\ - 1,. Of frosh-wftler . ola as apart from their il mighty couth) thc conger, there arc threo distinct kinds-tho sharp-nosed H oel, tho broad-nosed or rrog-mouthed 11 iel, and the snig. Of tin three, the ? -harp-nosed eel is both tlc largest tish i md the lu st eating, though Romo prefer ( the snig-ecl ns having a superior flavor, i rho snig, however, in spite of its excel- ] lenee, has not tin samo value as tin | sharp-nosed eel ; for it seldom, if over, h ittains more than haifa pound in weight, j I'he sharp-nosed eel, mi thc contrary, I il ittains au enormous size. * hie on recoil', hat was taken in the Medway, not far from Hochcstcr, weighed thirty-four M pounds, measured six feet in length, and in nul a girth of twenty-fl vc inches. Alioth-1 a ir eel, taken in Kent, weighed forty h rounds and measured live feet nile nobes. Yarrell speaks of having seen at j Hambridge tho preserved skins of two !, ivhiehliau weighed together llfty pound : , .\ bc heaviest tWonty-SCVi n pounds, the j ?thor twenty-three pounds. I'm these n nstances, though not to bo regarded as si apocryphal, are very exceptional; and a : h rvvy lair average weight for sharp-nosed i w .els is six pounds. Kols of even tee ! lounds weight are md common, .md Ur. Frank Buckland speaks of one ol ' hut size ns being (he largest lu: had OVI f ' icon.--Popular Science Monthly. <llmoland II Oi'iiioeriiiii' l.iiicoln. The politicians did not like President > iincoln. Tiny would have pushed bini S iSldo ut lilt" end of his ti t tomi if it I nul lain in their power. 'I'la hamer in h he way was the confidence reposed in ^ lim by the sovereign people. The situ I ition at this time is not dissimilar. I ll 'resident Cleveland has noi j.leased the ll, loliticians, either of his own party or ol' I b he opposition ; but ovory da v it becomes j m nore and more rp.anifesi that tho people I! -both tin Democrats who took him on A rust and tho It?publicans who distrust- r< .d him are behind bim and backing ri dm. His sturdy honesty pleases them, 5! I'he wiser politicians, seeing tl?-- ?rift of ?> ho popular ou?ront aro beginning to V ledge. Bradford Fra. si Until tho circumstances ol the ri, int oizuros of American vessels at shel- ol anne, Nova Scotia, were understood it C iras though^ that via flshorioa question ct ia.'; K) bo again sprung )11 the old V [round, ill spite of the recent IV vocation ai >y tho Dominion nnthorilh i ol their .. irst order for seizures, lt bj now un- hi lorstOOd, however, that the VOSSCls WOrC \' eized for violation of the Canadian ona- s oms regulations and tor ofhnsi s 1, Onnpat?d WI VU fishing. 'Ike sessels li vere seized for having permitted certain I! if their men to go ashore without re- (' ?orting to the custom-house authorities, s t is urged on behalf of the P,o\Sjcd VOS- Il els that the offotUj . ^Ore unintentional; t< Ult V0 M?uiuoi seo what ground for the ll aterferonoo of our government tlio cos < ai livid. Tho imponndod vessels aro, tl echiiically at any rate, in the pogjtivU of h\ iolntors of the law, Tia; conditions out of which grow the leo margarine industry aro well illustr?t- h d by the increasing demand for butter ol ,11 over Liirope from I850down,ond the ai onsUudly advancing price. The prudi- ci fioUB advances iii this direction may be S arther illustrated by tho importation of b mtter, cheese and < gg:> into England, g h tho years from 1KJ5 to IHM) the i in - I sirte of t'ne three commodities seldom ii ixceeded in any ono year ?500,000 in I 'iduo> whilo they lui ve since risen to g ?'20,000,000 per annum. Letting the a: acta do the reasoning it is apparent that tl ho new industry--tho production of S vholcKoiiio sulislitntcs for butter -was a il limpie necessity. Recognition of this s, oct must precede true progress in the k mportant matter of regulating the in- a lustry, t ALI. ABOUT SENATORS. SKXATOUS Wl'l'll IM.KXTV OF ll MU WO HUM V'lOUK WITH VKIIV U.M.I) Hi;AUK. Ucnnlofx Voting and Hdnalor* ont-srinitorN Who ure Miiaciilar and Senator? \\lu> An* I 'rn i i Senatorial liirllidaya. (I..-Uer to tho Philadelphia Tim??.) WASHINGTON, .July 10. -White locks mid beards among United States Bona* lora aro not always indicative of age. Take, for instance, Senator Edmtmds. Mis beard is gray-almost to whiteness and not in tho Senate Chamber is there mother head more bald than his, yet the thc years that he can chronicle are but lifty-oigltt. Voorhecs, of tho samo age, ias not ? bald spot on his head and his Itcnd and his heavy, brown hair is but ightly tinged with gray-a line specimen >l physical manhood is this "tall syca uorc of tho Wabash." Coko and Alb ion, eaeh numbering fifty-seven years, ne two other extremes. In the absence >f huir and color of beard the former ?ears a striking resemblance to Ed nunds. The latter has a heavy growth if hail'over his entire head, as has also Ito othor Senator from Iowa, Wilson, of .i[nal age, but whoso hair is gray and itands straight up like stubble in a grain leid, lintier, at 50, from his thin gray inir and white moustache looks nearly is old as Conger at 08. Nine p-rsons ?ut of ten would say that Blackburn, at i V, presents os old an appearance as leorge, at 59. Cockrcll, whose years nimber a half century, plus one, looks o he ten years older than Logan, while n fad ho is nine years younger, the lair and beard of tl ie former being a ?gilt gray, tito hair and moustache of he latter being comparatively as black s tho plumage of the raven. Only fifty-three years of this world's ifo luis .McPherson seen, yet from his whitening locks, hollowed chocks and coblo gait ito would quickly be taken to io eight or ton years older than Heck, ho is cloven years his senior, but who, n appearance, at least, isas muscular os nov. On Hick's head, which is cov red with a kinky cont of brown hair, mt a baro spot as largo as a dime can ie seen. A M I l.l.loN AlKK SBNATOK. Within ono scat of McPherson sits the lullionniro Senator Payne, who 1ms OlUldcd out exactly three-quarters of a cattily and who is therefore twenty-two ' ears older than this New Jersey Sena ir? but tito average visitor would bo nore apt to think there arc two years' lilTcrcncc in their ages than twonty-two. if the shoulders ol' Morrill, tho 'oldest ieutttor in tho Chamber, were less bent ie would appear younger than the "lish IOIO bachelor," Saulsbtvry, whoso record 1 years are sixty-eight and therefore 'ight years less than those of tho Ver non! Senator. .Iones, of Arkansas, is nit forty-six and consequently in the .rime of life, but his heard is quite , ray, while tho hair on his head, which < faxl turning gray, is as thin as a wheat ield visited by a drought. JOvarts, ?it ix ty-eight, although hu hair is darkly Tay, show,* nt . a sign of baldness, while Idler, lin- othor New York Senator, lore than twenty years his junior, shows deal of top head tliroiighjliis line silken * dir. Sherman, at sixty-three, although omewhtd lacking l y nature in vitality, in wcll-presorvod mau, not a bald spot eing visfillo through his iron-gray hair, (idiotie, at lifty ame appears older than l lawes ni sixty-nine, Vest nt tlfty-livo aa ld as Pugh at sixty-five. Sawyer is ixty-nino, yoi few la rsons would take im lo bc toil years older than Hoar, ho will bc sixty next August, ; HUT ON a sax .vron PMut>a roanr. Au examii\^?iou of ages shows that in lie thirties there is but one, Senator [cann, whose agc is 118 and who is there in: tho youngest member of tho upper ranch of Congress. Jv, Ute forties there re fourteen Sonators, lliddloborgor, the fi .'...1 youngest Senator, being -41; ? nhill and Spooner, 43; Aldrich, 44; lorry, 45; (?ray and .loms, of Arkansas, 15; blackburn, Connan, Miller and 1 I itched, ol' Pennsylvania, 47; I'huob, S; Mituderson, 49. The tifUos claim early one-half of the Si gators, tho mun ir hoing thirty nevon and every year et wenn ?fty and sixty being rcpre- ' tated. Hf the age of ?l) Hare are five, owen, butler, Dolph, Hv,U> and ( fitehell, of Oregon; of r.l, Blair, Cock ?ll, Knstis ami Soweit ; of .VJ, Call, Har ?n, t'\gaib} and Jones, of Florida; of I, Camc.ron, Gibson and McPherson; [54, Fair and Fryoj c4 88, Vest and rliitohall. Of the age ol 511 there arc X Senate-.-, Chase, Cu'dutn, Jou.o-?, of evada; l'aimer, Teller and Vr.ncc-this S{0 claiming a greater mir.i\>er than any thor. Che recorded ages of Allison, uki- and Wilson, of Iowa, are f>7 yeats itch; of Camdon, Edmunds, Platt and 011rln es, .Vj; of OeorgO, Hawley, Hoar nd Maheno, 51), Thc p?xides boast of vi nty-threo Sonators, Hogan, McMil a ami Rt"..... rn being (Kl; .Maxoy, Van ... Ik and Whitthorne, 61; Cixlquitt, h tu ford und Morgan, 62. UK> latter's irthdny being Juno 20;; Sherman, 63; eek and Wilson, of Maryland, (H; rowe, Hearst* and Pugh, 66: Pike, 06: oitgev, I.varts, Hampton, Harris and ftulsbury, 68; Dawes and Sawyor, <;<'. i thc seventies there two hut two Senn as. Pay no being 78 and Morrill 76. et ween t ho youngest Senator, Kenna, ul oUU-Mf, Morrill, there aro, therefore, drty-ciglli years, Morrill Iteiug exactly vice the ago ol' Kenna, SKN VTOKIAI. ItlltTUDAYK. Tho monti) of October has given birth > tho greatest number O? Senators, ?even having been born therein. Mareil ad April have joined hands with De lmoor, each month having givon seven en it ors. February, May and Septem or can be credited willi six each; Atl ast and Novomlior, four; January, uno and July, three cooli. Thia esti into ip. on tho supposition thai Senator lOgan was born February 9, 182(>, os ?von in two or tliroo cyclopedias. His ?c has nevin1 lifcn officially recorded in io Congressional Directory, Nine cantors appear not to know ino month t which they were boru, and two, Aili nn and Van Wyok, knowing tho month, now not '.ho day. Dolph, of Oregon, nd Wilson, of Maryland, woro bom on ho same day of the ?arno month, Octo ber li), although seven year? apart. Tho birthdays of Vost and Blair occur on tho same day of the same month, December (5, as do also those of Ingalls and Baals bury, December 29. Logan and Man derson were each born February il. There are no two Senators of exactly tho same agc, considered by years. FOREION-BOBN SENATORS, Five Senators can never become Presi dents, as they aro foreign-born, Peek having been born in Scotland; Jones, of Nevada, in England; Fair, Sewell and Jones, of Florida, in Ireland. New York has given birth to more of the present Senat >rs tba 1 any other State, tho number being eight; Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia can boast of six each, Virginia and West Virginia being con sidered in this est?mate ILS one; Massa chusetts and Pennsylvania, five each, with tho remainder scattering. Fourteen have been born in Now England, Only four States west of tho Mississippi Indiana, Missouri, Iowa und Minnesota - have given birth to Senators. Not ii Senator has been born in the western half of the United States. Out of a total of .seventy-six Senators thirty-four have boen born in the States they represent. All of the Now England Senators have boen born in their respec tive States, with tho exception of Chase, of Rhode Island, and Hawley, of Con necticut, the latter having made a jump from North Carolina. Only one New York Senator-Miller-was born in tho Empire Stab?, Evavts having first seen light in Boston, Mass. Both of tho Senators from Maryland, from Pennsyl vania, South Carolina, North Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee were born in the States they represent. The remaining Senators that ure certified representatives of the State? that gave them birth are Blackburn, Cookreil, Colquitt, Eustis, Logan, Palmer and Sherman. T, c. J, Emma picks up her peu, und in a burn lug gush ot enthusiasm, writes: "Thc day is gem-, the wind's at rest, the moon ls Up and fail', I'll wear the dress that suits him. bcsl, a ribbon in my hair." Oh don't, please don't. Wo know tho weather ia getting to 1)0 right warm, but wo don't think il. will justify the above. 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