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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. . MI Kt i.iiw? lAu t ?ors. Kei>orts Blade lu Hie. Department ?I Agri culture i>> UH Special C< t roHponileiitH. The State Department of Agriculture hos received and tabulated tho April Int reports of its special oorrespoudonls. These returns cover ovory count.) in the ?State and over one-half tue townships. A1U?A IN W1IKAT AMI) OATS. Estimates based upon these reports show that tho area iu wheat has boen In? oroasod throe per cont, over tho area of 188G. Tim condition is reported at 1 jer cent, better than ut tho samo time oat year, but 5 per cent, below an aver ago crop. Tho aroa in oats shows a de crease of ? per cent, below last your. Condition 2 per cent, bettor than in 1880, hut ll per cont, below an average. Jt in estimated that 42 per cent, of tho oat crop waa sown in the fal), end seven ty four oj tho correspondents report th carly sowing in better condition than that sown in the Spring, white ni . hun dred and thirty-seven COltsidi tho lil .. crop tho most promising. thc correspondents estimate that only abouts per cont of the wheat crop wai drilled, tho balaree of lllO Clop i broadcasted; and tho reports, with very few exceptions, show that thc condition of tho grain sow n broadcast i i much bet ter than the small proportion that was drilled. It is estimated that I (? per cont, of the w heat crop was winter hilled. Pi STOCK. Tho condition of horses and other work animals is reported at 7 por cent, below tho avorago of this ?cai ut ot the year, duo entirely lo tho deileicuoy of grain produced hy tho sinai! crops of 188(1. Tho condition of calilo, sheep und hog? is fully up to un nveiago. Live stock lias suffered very slightly from diseases of any kind, tho principal complaint being of cholera an.ono hogs, but this does not appear to hov i I", eu as prevalent as in previous year?, A fow eases of glanders have bei n reported muong hors. -., but tho spread of the disease has been checked by Ihe action of tho Department and tho ownors of tho htoek ni destroying tho aillioled ani mals. KAUM SUPPLIES. Tho reports indicate that tho amount of farm supplies purchased win not bo less than in ?88?, owing to tho partial I failure of tho orops of last yenr, but ih< correspondents report that i ie fanners aro using overy ? Hort to bettor their condition by practicing tho n ?si rigid economy, ami hy a determination h> in crease thc area in food cr p . 1 HIM r.Aiton. Farm labor is abundant, and roportod a? increasing in oflloiouoy. ? ?no hundred and eighty-two of thc cori pendents! reply that labor is "good;" lift; as "in-! different," and le? ?fl "b il " Ollbj twenty-eight corresponden! report n scarcity of labor, eau ? <l bj '.?> laborers working on turpoutino faun iud roil* roods. Tho emigration appeaj a to have bad u o appreciable effeet on Hie farm labor of lue Btato. (OM Ml-iu MA I. I-'RIITIMKI t. , From November 1, 1885, to Apt ?I 1, 188(5, tho sales ol commercial fcvtili/ert in Sunlit Carolina union ?ted to 104,081 tons; for thc. same period in t ?8(1 ^7 tho sales have been 1)1,070 lone, showing u deoreaso tho present season of 13,005 ton?. Tho salea aro also 18,428 ton? be low 1884 85, showingi for tho past two years, a steady declino in tho > onsuinp tiou of oommeroial fi ttlizi rs by tho farmers ol' the State. COTTON OS HA: I>. The correspond? mis roport that about 5 per OOUt. Ol last year's cotton crop was in thc hands of thc fauns on tho 1st of % April. This amounis to about 25,000 bale?. i m tr, ITO. Fruit, garden produce-, ai vi carly planted corn have l>eeu injured by tho recent frosts and freezes, bul it ?vas too early, at tl? date of the reports, April I, to furnish an est i mato of Ino amount of damage inlliofc ii. RRMAltKB, While these reports >!o 11? ' leal.e ns favorable au exhibit ss ci aid I o .? ?red, still there ure pome facti < ' ' lined iii them that .should onconrogi th tanners. Tho area in wheat has been increased. The condition of holli ?I eal and oats in higher than at tho sarao time lust year. Aumuller proportion of tho crop was winter killed than in 1S8I?. Horses and other work animals ure in fair comilit?n for farm work. Thoro has boon no in crease in tho amount of food supplies purchased, notwithstanding last .vein's short crops, mal thoro has been n di - crease in tho amount of commercial fer llimers purchased in VttlllO of about 1800,000. With very few exceptions tho roporta to tho Department aro of o cheerful eharaoter, und their tone indica!, s a de termination among tho formers to do servo ?neceas this year, which they will win with fu\ orablo, When t<? riant Seed . lt is a common notion that tho tom Krature of the air und tho soil bl n ro bio indication of tho time for planting the different varieties <>i farm an I a u den seeds. Many fanners will not plant corn or cotton until, in 'heir judgmout, thc . oil is "wurm onough" to geruiiuato tho good. That this ?8 not an um rring 8nido may bo easily demonstrated by io experience of any one w ho has kept a diary and obsorveu olosely) Hi?qniw true that corn, nor cotton, nor other WCd iriJl germinato and como np if tho temperutuie of tho soil continue?, after planting, below tho proper degree of YfArmth for tho genniimtion and growth of tho particular seed. Hut ordinary observation shows that in our changeable spring climate tho temperature of tho air and soil on ono day is no guarantee of what it will lie ?luce or four days thoreaftcr. Tho condition: of plonting may bo all rigid n* tho time of planting and bo ail wrong nt Um time of <.ii pating, Tn tho spring corn usually rc iintrwa about twelvoorfoiut.cn days to como up, and cotton seed from live to ton days. Roneo, tho weather may be all that could bo desired for several daj s after planting tho seed and then lum cold or rain. Itis moro important that the lattor half of tho period of germination should be moro favorable ?han tho Ural lialf. Tho correct rule ht to plant oo oordingto time-tho day of tho month - having regard otherwise only to prop er degree or dryness in tho sod, which should bo in good condition for work ing, Tho timo should bo determined by oxporiouco of past years. Tho writer hus several times planted corn whou tho ground was frozen early in tho morning, an i sooured a perfect stand of vigorous plants, in Dakota and other extreme Northern sections, wheat, corn and veg etables uro planted in May, as soon 08 tho ground has thawed to a depth BUllloient to permit of plowing and har rowing, tho soil haying been deeply broken the preceding fall; and it often OCOUrs that tho seeds so planted aro up and growing while tho deep subsoil is still hard frozen to tlie depth of many tuck?. S. \\ lilli' Clover Among si ni? ben h -. I Some of tho readers of tho Southon. j Cultivator may have discovered thal ! there is nothing in tho shape of natural growth so destructivo to tho strawberry I plant as whito clover. It is much more rampant some years than others, but ii is always tko great pestiferous obstado I to tko growth and culturo of this de lhi ms berry. 'Phis may not bo tko ease in other strawberry region:;, but in our li otion of central Virginia, it is especial ly so. This clover, uko ail othors, in a tap rooted growth. It crowds, hugs und starves tho strawberry (danta to a ruin ous exteut. Clover roots as well as strawberry roots, grow in mild winter weather, This ?lover und all biennial weeds and grasses may be weeded out to advantage in winter win n the ground is not frozen, but it is tedious work. Now what is the remedy? Haild-WOOd lug is almost impracticable; it may bo gouged and torn away, but its long, tough roots often remain to como again end tko work is tiresomo and will not pay. The best remedy, however, for small lots or for gardou culture is to plant in hills-, two plants in a hill, lillis SU Wubin distance apart. Tho cultivator can manage them in this position, and not only white clover, but bluo grass und all other pests can bo eradicated with comparative case, und the berries will bo larg< r and of better quality, J. FIT;;. Keswick, Va, .-<U.< -s- ... A Hncccunful Dairyman. Docs dairy ?farming pity? Docs any thing but cotton-growing pay? asks tho Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaolito, and then adds: Lot us see: Since the first dav of Janua ry, 1887, Mr. W. J. Northern has sold .' 0 pounds of Jersey butter and four hundred and fifteen ($-115) dollars worth of .-.tock. Now lit some mun who holds that tko only ready-money crop of this county is codon-that cotton-growiug oih;- the surest, guarantee of money making-tako lils pencil and soe if ko c ni figure such profits out of u year of toil and anxiety in tho cotton-field. Ile that as it may, it doe.-? look as if Mr. Northern wore making Ids Jerseys pay. If this bo true of kim, why muy not Others succeed ill tho same business: Cotton hus been king, but kings arc sometimes deposed; and it not always ti wiso subject that sides with tho king in ,thc days of revolution. "Timi Pale Woman," Al one of tho villages on our coast, there ure a good many rough fishermen. Tliero aro a good number of churohoi and ministers thor?, and they huvo tried to do something for theso men in theil way; but, lin in;; they could md, the;, have given it nj). Tho Church said, "V>? have rung our boll, engaged our quat tcttoohoir, aud if you do not come, w i cannot help il." There is no command for people t< go to get. tho Gospel; the command i to carry the < lospol to the people-"G< yo into all tho world," thut means ovory where. Miss Phelps was given up b die, but her physicians said, 'df you gi to such a village ?ni our const, perhap the sea air may prolong your life; but i is un uwtully wicked place." That pal woman arrived lhere, and took a room She hlopt hut little tho first night, nm toward morning was Bleeping quiotl; willi her windows open for sou ?or, who she was nw likened by tho rough BWCai lng of men under lier window. Sh could not bear it, and, hastily dressing went down to the door, and said, "Ol won, I am a poor, sick, dying womal I kave come from tho bills to proton my lifo, but you are going to drive ni away." "Ono wicked mun said, "Who isgoin to drive you away, you palo woman?" "Von ure; you have been sweuria about my Saviour." The mun trembled, and said, "I wi knock down tko man thut swear Nobody shall swear w hile you ure here, A mun came ulong swearing. Said le "You stop that; there is an angel here, In a few days she took a little cabin? organ, hired a hall, opened tho doo aud windows, and thc rough men gatl orod around. She touched tho koy and began to sing, "What a friend \> have in Jesus." Def oro she bad thiishei t? ora were in oyes unoccuhtomod to wee In a little While she bad a church, ai hu<l need for a minister, and they a doing great things thoro that nov WOUlTl have been done but for that pn woman, -Dr. Bates in Sorvioo for Jose Mio Went. "I como down hero to go out on tl Lansing train," she said to Officer Butt? at tho Third streot depot yesterday mor ing, aa she held a satchel in ono bai und an umbrella in tho other. Ves'm train goes in thirteen mi ides." "How aro tko stoves in tko oars?" .Pi rfoctly safe, ma'am. All tho w on that road can roll over twice aud r take Uro." "bridges safe?" "Kntircly so." "Ilou t tue rails ever spread on tl road?" ..Never.'' "How ia it alioiit collisions?" " I hey don't havo any." "Any chanco for somo other train t in into tho rear end of ours?" "Not a bit," "Well, I don't know but I will U risks and go, but 1 want you to und ml that if anything does happon which I um killud my old man wc niko a cent lesa than $2,000, and mel he ii want tko buriul expenses to mx No wonder," said the doctor, "dio cl lek nil th? time, ll \M both lu gr? fool lien and gi midtittliets and a candy st ab in da- sume block." A HANK Ol' HIM.IONS. Tll<D FullUlOUM Weilltll ?il lin Ullltk of I ran? ? - iiM <>i i< ul Sketch ot' n Stupend ous Plunnulttl Institution. A tow evenings ugo, says tho Baronesa Salvador, l attended a most interesting reception in tho Parisan world -a rooop tion'where few foreigners aro ovor ad mitted. It waa given liv M. M nguiu, governor of tlie Bank of trance, ?ni Un oooasion of tho eighty-seventh anniver sary of tho institution. During thc ? ve ning i gathered niuoh information, au?i, ns it bas novor been published, my Auiorioan frionds may lind a t\ ,v uotos of value. Alter ninny trials ami failures, tho groat Bank of I'rance wan limn with thu nineteenth couta ry. fu tho begin ning its capital wail 80,000,000 fraues, represented by 80,000 abares .if 1,000 fiancs cadi, and Its shareholder*! were Napoleon Uonaparto, laioiou Bonaparte, Hortense ?le Bcauharnais, Cambaceres, Duroo and others less noted, lt;; tem porary homo was tho llotol Massiao, in tho Place des Victoires. in 1807 its capital was increased to 182,000,000 francs. Many special laws haw boon enacted giving privilegi s to luis hank until December 81, bs???, privileges re newable af tor that dato. Tho building ocoupied by tho Bank of Franco ?it tho present time has great importance. It is an irregular quadrilateral building, surrounded hy tho Bues Croix ?les Petits Changes, de la Vrillieic, Baili O' el Rad /dwell. The public luis oulire COlltldouco in tho bank, and to merit thiscontldoiico great precautions have been tah? n lo render private as Woll as public prop* rty safe. The lire brigade, coin posed of firemen who once bolongod to the n ?i mont of 1'aris, hun ipartmouts in tho building; under ono roof aro pL c< d two immoilSO reservoirs, and sixty armories contain Inn?es ready to throw jets of water. Aside from tho tirOmouuo night watchmen are employed. Tho llotol di la Vrillioro, ocoupied to-day by the Bank of Franco, waa built in 1035, after tho designs of Francois ?Mansard. Tho build lug is generally known under the namo ot llotol do Toulouse, because ?; was brought in IV':; by Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Ohmtc do Toulouse, second son of Tonis X.IY. and Min a doMOUtos pun. Tho DttOdo Contine...ii, who was the son of tho Comte de Toulouse em bellished tho bute! and gavo it if s namo. When bellied in 17'.?d, tho building vt declared national property, and there tho national printing boma; was in stalled. lu I80o the Emperor made a decree that thc Hotel do Toulouse should become tho property of the bank for ?,000,000 francs, but it was in 181 I that the corporation removed from the Hotel MassiaO. Popular tradition {aves the vaults and the forbieation and destruc tion of bank notes in Un- Banquo do Franco a profoundly mysterious reputa tion. Tho vaults, looked, rolockcd mid locked again, are never seen CXCOpt by thc guardian.':, hut l?y special permission the precious billots woro oshibited to mo. in the beginning bank notes n ro black, but this color is too easily photo< graphed. lu 1862 blue was chosen, ihoy an' all hine with the oxcoptioil of the. note of 6,000 francs, created In 18-10, which waa red. Never moro than 100 Mittings ol' thin note was made, and of those there aro hut live in oirotllation at prosont. Thc ligures printed on thc notes arc their means of Identification, md the combinations aro SO mun. rons that each unto lum ita own mri.. A in to passes through twouty-thrco opera tions from Uto timo it is first engraved Ltntil tho Signatare of tho first oushior is placed upon it. Tho Burvi illanco i ; HO severe that workingmon coe.ot tal;?.' .veli a clipping of paper. Aber each impression, women aro employed to .oun; and recount tho papers and place them in packages of 1,0(10. The. color if tho blue ink ia tincliailgabl ., ami its composition in a SCOrot. TliOSO notes leave tho bank crisp and bright, to ro turn in lesa tliaii two years torn, soiled md often altogether illegible, having made thc tour of F rance, and perhaps of die world. Aa they aro brought bu l: md judged unworthy for uso, after inany formalities they ure destroyed in thc presence of the regents. At oUO time the worthless notes w?ro tm in? tl, but now they are reduced to posto; two 'liorrnouH cylinders receive thc notes, Water is poured upon this nioss, tho orifice of tho cylinder closed and .-?..di d ?nd tho whole is cooked forty-olghl hours. A very lino hluo paste is tho ia - mb, and this is sold by weight for the manufacturo of pasteboard, Tko notes in circulation ut this moment represent 1,600,000,000 frillies, and si ll CC its oroo lion the bank bus issued 86,500.01)0,000. The governor of tho Bunk of Franco is M. luagnin, a faithful representative nf tho government presided over by M. Jlilen Grovy, and himself vice president of thc Senate, T he genorol council ta ?ompow?d ot two lioutenant-govornors. tlirco lionorary lloutonant-gOVOmors und liftccn regents, among tllOSO Caron Alphonse (leRothschild, and Huron Hot tinglier, all chiefs of great l u nch bank ing-liouses. Beveral times lias the Bank of Franco been in a position to render service to tho government; once in INTI, nt tho close of the Franco-Prussian war, it made tho Republic a loan of sovoral hundred millions. Tho shares of 500 francs aro quoted nt tho BOUTSO 1,000, iiml during the last few weeks, when stock fell fur below par bec.iuso of the rumors of war, those of thc J ?mik of Franco wore reduced to only 1,626 francs. A Ml??ry ?if TWO Wonls. "Oh, if I woro lucky enough t?? call this csbite mine, 1 should bo a happy follow," said ii yoting man. "And then?" said a friend. "Why, thon I'd pull down tb? old house, and build a palace, bavo lots of primo fellows io ?nd me, koop tho beat wines, and tho fiuost hortses and dogs in tho counrly." "And then?" "Then I'd bunt, ami ride, and smoko, and drink, and dance, nu?I keep open house, and enjoy lifo gloriously. ' "And then?" "Why, thon, 1 suppose, iiko other people, I should grow old, and not caro much for these things," "Ami then?" "Why, thou, I sitppoto in tho course of nature I should leave nfl those pleasant things-and-well yes-dio." "And then," "Oh, bother your thous, I must bo off." Many years after tho friend was accosted with : "dod bless you! 1 owe my happiness to you!" "How?" By two words spoken in season long ago - - "And then? '-Tho Quivor. Why ls A alago Uko a biol? because H is "wlugn" and "tiles." A WISSTKKN TKltltOR. Tho S'ury of n "WoHlom Highwayman itu a Mountain I.?on. (Froth IhO * hlcagO News.) An amusing story comes to ur; from tho far West. For a long timo nu out law, mumal Roach tho Terror, had booti tho Boourgo of tho mountain districts ol idaho, a.id lost month he waylaid and proci "dod to rob ono Bivcns, a wealthy gentleman who was traveling through tho Toi I itory on minina busin? ss. While tho I ,vo wi JO thus employed tho oim in robbing and the other in laang robbed tin , suddenly booame aware of tho approach of a mountain lion, ono of tie . K a toy, cruel monsters that in habit and Jay waste the fastnesses of tho Becky Mountain region. Roach imme diately dropped his booty and skinned lip a i ree aS nimbly as hu ever could; as fortlvo other man, bu didu't stop to pick np bia property ho followed beach up tho tree (Vith marked alacrity. The (it nc lion, Haunting Iiis tail savagely, Hoking his hideous fangs and rolling ita glass; eyeballs suggestively, looked nj; at tho t\?o mou in the tree, and prepared to join ti.em. "flavo you a pistol':" asked Roach thc T01 ror. "No,*' s.dd Biveus, tho traveler, "but in my belt 1. carry a knife fourteen inches long'. ' "Thou," suggested the Terror, "sup poso you stick tho knife into that var mint whoo ho r< achers out for us." ; "Yes, bul if I leave tho knife in the lion,'' ai d Bivcns, "and if befalls with it, wi; ut protection have 1 from you? I j No, i'll kc< j) tho knife and lot you shoot 11 ibo cidi i with your pistol."' .*Y< , but supposing I do shoot him," h said Roach, "what protection have lb against your knife when my pistol is U empty V" j Meanwhile tho lion was (fuming up tho t tre< with alarming rapidity, flo scorned li to grow throo foot ovory way as ho ad- h va a ci d foot by foot. j "Unless we can como to a compro-1 < misc," enid Ib ach, "tho vermint will eat s us both. I .ct's agre-.? to Ibis: You stab i bim and I'll shoot him -at any rate, i Oitltor WO folks or that critter has got to L die." h "That'sso," said Bivono, "and 1 ac-it ccpt tho Compromise." I ?So when the lion got within range I,] Roach bkizod away at it and Bivcns lg reai hod down and drove hts knife clean | I up to tho hill in tho monster's breast. I] Tuc ?ion foll to lim ground with a bullet i bole in his head and eleven inches of 11 steel in bis lungs. Thou Roach audi BIVOUS descended from tho tree. They bad escaped so narrowly that they iambi uot be other than friends. I'.uch was in- 1 debted to tho other for his lifo. They resolved not to separate, anil now they uro engaged in tho bandit limbless to- | gcthor ill tho Idaho fa. nu;ssc. . 6 .-.?> -??.?>-- 11 LA flo lt SKNT i tain Tin: sui Til. i Ono Hundred mill Ten Nogroon (rom This Suellen Hay llecomo tho CUIIHU of Soma Trott hi <.. ' ?'.oin tho Sow '. ork sun . B. J, Coy le, of Washington, hus tho Contract for laying tho new system of li sowers in East Orango, and on ?Saturday i , ho W CUl'i (i Ut) negroes from North Car- 11? ulina and Virginia. They were brought ! j on by throe agents of a labor bureau, j., .md, as tho agents got a commission for cooli mau, they made ail sorts of ropro ftentationa to secure them, promising many of them 1$18 a month an I board, and othors $1.50 por day. Ooyhi could not pay them all tho agents promised and a row scorned imminent. To make mathis woree, tho agents beca mo in toxicated, and attempted to avoid any discu si?n with tho laborers and to drive them Into quarters in an old hat shop in Dodd .st reet where a gang of Italians had boon housed. Tho colored men did not liko tho . martel s, and wore dissatisfied with tho rations of meat and oom meal provided by the contractor, Fearing a riot, tho contractor Called on tho police, from Orange and Fist Drange, ami sev eral Squads of men were sent to thc scene. Thc colored men bad sensible loaders, who said that there would bo 00 row; but the police had plenty to do in protecting thc drunken agent-, from the wrath of the crowd of men and boys willoh gathered and excited the ire of tho three fuddled mon. They tinnily persuad? d the colored nun to stay in thc barracks until to-day, when an effort will bo made to come to some under standing with them. They were quiet yost irday, but demanded that thc agents should pay their fares lo their homes if satisfactory arrangements were not made. Tio' Cotton vlovoniont. lu its wei Uly review of tho movomont of ila- cotton crop, tho New Yolk Finan cial Oh ron iola says that for the week ending Friday, April 8, tho total receipts have reached 20,308 hales, against .11,1 b"> bales last werie, '10,208 bales the previous WOl k, and 57,710 balea three weeks nineo; making the total receipts since tho 1st ol' Hoptomber, 1880,0,070,101 bides, against 1,801,080 bales for tho Bamo period of INN,', 8(J, showing au increase since Sep tember 1, 1HSC, of 178,202 bales. Tho exports for tho same time reach a total of 40,0(H bales, of whioh 27,0861! Mun-1.. Great Britain, 105to Franco and l2,.'(7o to the rest of tim continent. Tho todd Miles for forward delivery for the week aro ino, loo bales. For immediate delivery tho total sales foot up 001 bales. Hie imports iuto continental ports bave been for tho same period 04,000 hales. There was an iucreuso in tho cotton in sight Friday night of 10,106 bales ivs compared with tho samo date of 1880, an inerooBO of 4*5,474 bides as compared with the corresponding dato of 1885, and a deer? ase. of 225,000 Imies as compared with 1881. Tho old interior stocks havo decreased dining tho week 10,07s boles, and wore b'riday night 184,654 bales lesa than at tho sumo period last year. Tho receipts at tho samo towns have been 2, hld bales lesa than tho same wonk last year, and since Boptcmber 1 tho receipts at all tho towns aro 08,827 bales moro than for tho 8?.me timo bi 1885-81?. Tho total receipts from thc plantations since iSeptoinlior 1, 1880, aro 0,154,351 biles; in 1885 80 wore 5,105,8*3 bales; m IM81 85 wore 4,712,780 bales. Al though thc receipts at tho outports tim week wero 20,308 l?alos, tho actual movement from plantations was only 18,860 bales, tho balanco boing takon from the stocks at tho interior towns, luvst year tho receipts from tho planta lions for tho samo week were 25,473 halos, and for 1885 they wons 6,716. soi KN Tl VIC UOAXKS. How Sonic St ioiillsls l)ii>M (l U|? I'mls i>l Ult) Mtutloeloil in a laiieiliil .Winner. (ttoribner For April*) Tho {-(rout lesson which Cuvier taught tho world was, that many mee.; of uni linds were entirely extinct, und that nature's ohaiu of oxistonco hud not ono but ninny missing links. From his recognition of that fact thc soienco of palaeontology may bo said to date. Cut tko cu rd i vu io US nature of the mastodon was too fascinating an absurdity lo bc BO easily killed, and it continued to ap pear ul intervals. As lute us 185J5 we Und a New langland medical professor wiitin ' OS ii it were an UUipiChtioUilblo fttOt. Th*- jjiant theory lingered still longer, und even yot cannot bo consid ered eutirely extinct among thc un learned. Tho dictum that ibo supersti tious ot om agc an- but thu science of preceding ages re?oives ampia confirma tion in the history ol' this subject. N..I lougor ago tliaii l81Ua mastodon iskolo ton WUK oxhibitod lu New Orleans ns that of a giant. Thoorauium was modo uf YAW bille, fantastic woodou t totli were fitted in the jaws, all ?ni. sing \ n ts were restored after tho human model, and the whole raised upon tho hind logs. Il sortainly conveyod tho notion of "u hideous, diabolical giant,'' and was no loubt responsible for many nightman ?. As ii sad commentary on tho state of the nodical profession iuthosouthwi Btu) t< ,imo, it may be added that tho oxhibitor .vas perfectly honest in hisboliof, and to support his failli he hud tt trunk full ol' physicians' cert ideates Unit these were inman bom H, lu 1Mb) "Dr." Kooli, a Gorman char atan, created a great sensation by on lounoiug the discovery of the leviathan >f Job. which he eaUod?tho Missourium, rom tho State wlioro il was found. It limed Ollt, however, tO U0 nothing but i mastodon preposterously mounted. Kook had added an extra dozen or Oioro Oints to tho backbone and ribs to the ?best, turned the tusks outward into a lerai-oirole, and converted the animal nto nu aquatic monster which auch ?red tsolf to trees by means of lt? H?oklo ihapcd tusks and then peacefully lered on tho bosom of tho waves. Liko ho Siberian, lie found interesting con irmutions Of his views in tho book of lob, that refuge of perplexed lUOUStcr linkers. Kooli look his leviathan to .ondon, where it was purchased by tho ! Iritish museum, and reconverted into u i aastodon by Professor Owen, OM nt nico recognized its true nature. l.t.KCI! Ks i S A ll Ult SK ' \ lt. fiioy li?.< apo froiii ;t I .nt ly's Pocket amt Cn UNO Any Amount ol Trouble. (From tin: N.-vv Vork Sun.) A Fourth avenue car was rolling | monthly along .Madison avenue, ne .Tfty-niuth shoot, tho other day, when ts ordinary assorlmont of nil sorts of nvsseiige.ts was startled out ol' semi istlessucss by a shriek that would have I nado Bllffido Fill's proudest S.,.ux burn rilli envy. "Toko it off! Take it away! Take it ill'!" screamed a nicely dressed lady, umping into tho.aislo, with ono hand on he bell-ropo and the other outstretched o ono of tho startled malo passengers, hr features were a pietaro ol' terror, ; ml hor black oyes gleamed with fra ide [density al t'ao wrist ol' lier oubitrotohed ' rm. At first a suspicion swept through Hie linds of tho knowing' possnngi that il ras a case of snakes, lint on looking at lie pretty wrist, set off by n jeweled] raeolet, thoy saw a real live b eeb. A lawyer who has an Otlico in the 'otter hui kling ?md win* lia- some nerve s well as gallantry, plucked oil' tho .edi and put it in a paper box which ho lady had carrit il in hi r pocket, leanwuilo tho cluer lady passengers iii what tiny could to sooth tho lightened ?-isler. .'How many leeches ?IM you have, j ladam, in tho box?" asked tho lawyer. "Three!'' abe gasped. "Why, madam, there's only ono lure." The shriok that followed w as a ohoitis. aery female poSSOUgor thought she was /earing one or both of tho other two. blt the lawyer found both in tin; mul ing of the eur, ami one of them was : rippled in tito excitement. Tho linly jumped off the eur spitefully o conceal lier embarrassment, it turned mt that she waa tho pretty wife of a well mown iron merchant and mombor of bo Hovcnth Iteginiont, who was ut home vdh a swollen leg. His wife had bi en lown town to gol the leeches to feed on ter husband's log, but the druggist had lit too big a breathing kolo tor them.' iVhen the husband learned of los wife's .dvonturo ho laughed till the swolliug rent down. Au l?ale IMca for I'roHOiil Style*. There is a class of women, and thc nimber of them is unnecessarily large, vho haVO a tendency to assume un air of .pology and solf-oxouso when tito love if adornment and eagerness to achieve he name is talked of. They assunio a lepre-catiug air win n this subject is irought up. And why should thoy? ll S natural and titting tliut women should vant to look und dress well. .Moro than hut, it is a Woman's duty, just so far as tor circumstances mid means will admit, o dress well ?md tush fully. Why there s any occasion for a woman to make a 'guy" of herself for "beauty's sako" is a iiyatery. Dressing, to ho Hun-, ia an at, and it is only to those to whom this ut is unknown who are raising the hue md cry about "dress reform" and ' son libio droshing." Thc women who thcor 7.0 mont exbftuntive'ly Upon this so-culled tcuaiblo dressing aro apt to bo tho most lowdy and ridiculous anywhere to be bund. It is tho woman dovoid of uti !wto whoso fl?tire is scrawny and abso* ubdy destitute of uny lines of bounty, a liono arm ia long and bony, that is sure .u overy and all occasions to declare hat tho dressing of tho present day is nirmful and injin ions to oiioV; health. 1'lmy seo sin lurking in every rulllo and )loat.-Ex. All .Men aro .Mol Hud, N cit her aro all prepared remedies un reliable. This is proven by tho results following tho uso of Dr. Darter's Iron Tonio for dyspopsia, rl.jumatigm, soro iulu, jaundice, torpid livor and gone ml weakness. . * hogltllimulo nctrcssoa are now known tvs Prohibitionist*, to distinguish them from those who appear In tights. Ol lt (?UK AT CA CIA IN. I Kein i ii i-c< iu . , <>l flouerai I.I I- from Huit uri?I Lona's Ituuki (i'ii'iu th?! Now York Sun ) , I Wo oro told timi ouly twicoduring tho . biographer's prolonged iutiniuoy with j Lee was tho latter soon to lese Iiis tom per, and tliut ono ol' these lapsos from I self-control occurred at Sharpsburg. ! "Loo," il seems, "was liding along a I little in tho rear of tho lino when ho came noross a soldier w ho had stolen and ' killed a pig, which ho was surreptitious I ly conveying to his quarters, Positivo ?orders having beon given against pillage . .i i verj kind in Maryland, this llagrant dil regard ol' his commands throw tho Honorai into a hot passion. Though isuuli greatly disinclined to capital pun ishment, ho dotorramcd to make aa ex? ! ample of this skulking pilferer, aud ordered the min to be arrested and takon hack to .hickson, with directions to have i him shot." Tim Curium (louerai, to 'whom Scriptural precedents were quito as familiar as they luci hoon to Orom well's ofllcors, "could not quito eeo tho ' utility ol' toe culprit's execution, when men wore already acareo, and i* struck him tliat it would answer tho purpose ? quito ii i ?veil to put tho fellow in tho front ranks of tho army at tho most threatened point." Ho accordingly treated him ns David is reported to have -served the luotbaud <d' bathsheba, "pla? iug him where his chalice Of being shot was excellent. Mh--fellow, though j fond of clandestine pork, was not wuut I iug in courage, and behaved gallantly. ! Ho redeemed his credit by his bl avery, j coming through the heat of tlio light j unscathed, and thus though ho lost his ; pig, he. may be said to have s e ed his ; bacon. ' Thu author appropriately couoludos Uio chapter assigned to Gettysburg, whore tho star of tho Confederacy's fortunen passed into irreparable eclipso, with tho following anecdote, which rests only on newspaper authority, but which (lenora! Long deems worthy of belief and reproduction, because it is so strangely consonant with Iiis own obsor ? ? of i. e's largo-minded and in* ?ably co ;-' rate attitude toward Union men. The story was originally told by a "Grand Army" mun, who hail been viewing tho panorama of thc battlo of Gettysburg, and who said: "i was in tho butilo of Getty nhurg mysolf, and an incident occum d there which largely changed my views of tho Southern peo ple. I had In en u most bitter anti-South mun, uud fought and cursed tho Confod? orates desperately. I could seo nothing good in any of them, Too last day of the h. hi I %, ? , bailly WOUUdcd; ll ball shatter...! my loft leg. I lay on tho grotmd not far from (Jomet cry Ltfdgo, aiid us; General I co ordered his retreat, Ibo and his oillccrs rode near mo, As they came ; !. rig I r? cognized hun, and, though raint from exposure und 1 ?ss of blood, I r.iiscd np my hands, looked Leo in tim taco, and shouted an loud as I could. 'Hurrah tor Ibu Union!' Thc . ?oneral hear ? me, looked, i-toppod his horse, dismounted, and cune toward me. 1 co nie.--, t iud I. at ilrst thought lie mcaul to !;ill mo. Hut as he carno up he looked down at U10 with such u sad - :pi . m upon his face that all fear left mo, and 1 wondered what ho WHS about. Unextended his baud lo me, and grasping mino firmly and looking right into my OJOS, said: ?My son, ? H hope tliut you will soon bo well,1 If 1 Hli .e a thottsaud years 1. shall newer forget the 1 i. !\ upo'i Li e's face, '?'here ho was, detealed, retiring '.ionia iii ld that had H Cost lum and lii.^ cunno almost their last ? hope, yet ho stopped to say such worth as those t,, a vi.united soldier of thc enemy w ho had taunted him us ho passet' by! As soon as tho general had left mt 1 eried myself to sleep there upon tin bloody gr* und." THE TUA I N DISTATOHIClt. V .UHII Wini llolil-. Ito- I.il.- ol Kvoij l'a* tttiugoi' Iii I UH limul. The travolillg public have long bcd wont to bestow approval UpOU railway tngiueer.: for tho self-saorilioillg s[>irii which t hey exhibit when tho lives on trusb vi to their caro aro endangered, ant in thu annals of the rail these occur rencos are so frequei t that passongen gt : erally inclure tho man at the throttll of tin- locomotivo as a hero by virtue o his position. These opinions aro do servodly held, and it would bo tin grossest injustice to detract from tin honor which solf-nbiiogntion alway merits; but Ibero is a class of lauwa; employes, almost oiitircly unknown t< ptu'sengers, whoso responsibility is s> much greater and whose slightest omi* sion might jeopardize tho lives ol poopl on lrains moro tlian any oversight ti the part of conductors or ongiuct rs, thu it ; indeed strange that Choy oro s seldom mentioned in tho public prints. This class is tho train dispatohon whose ovory order is implicitly oboyo by trainmen; and while the crew of t>n train is responsible for the movement t thai train alone, thu dispatcher holds i his hands tho liven of every indiviibu on every train on thu road; and on road having a lurga traillo the duties in posed on lum aro very great and million: His position in tho railway service unique; were all trains running mi lim ami provided for on the periodical tim* talde issued by the Company, lie woul havo no dutios to perform; bul trail will get delayed and occasions will aril requiring extra trains, or trains withoi any specified timo or rights, to bo ri over thc road, and thou his services a necessary to avoid hours of delay. All trains on railroads aro divided classi s, according to their importune generally two, passenger and freigli anti all trains of ono clnss ruuning in spcoiilod direction have tho right to tl road, or need keep no lookout for trai of tho same or a lower class running tho opposite direction, Thus it is ? sumed that ou a certain railrond trai running eastward have tho right of wi over trains running westward; then i oast-bound passenger train can run t ?Indo length of tho road iu cntiro disi gani of all trains; anothor passons train going wost need only look out 1 tho i ast hound pa .seliger traill, wll the 11-eight train-- must keep ont of t way of both paascngor trains and of I freight train whioh is running in 1 direction proscribed as having tho rij of rood. Every ono understands that all tra aro charted or :avo a timo given passing each st*, don, whioh time can no instance bo anticipated, aud hence train mon know whore all other tr? ! ought to be ut tiny --articular moniout, if on time; but ns trains frequently and generally get late tho train of inforior class must have its movement expedited j by sonn: extraneous cause or it may bo dolayod for hours awaiting a train that i may have been wrecked or bas been kept back for some other of many causes. Then tim duties of tho train dispatohor are of importance. Ho will probably give au order to tho delayed train by telegraph directing it not to go beyond a certain placo winch ho thinks it can reaeh without diilieulty, and ho directs tho opposiug train tc proceed to tho samo place and then: pass tho other train and in that manner tho trains aro enabled to pass each other without any delay to either. His great responsibility consists in that ho may have a do/.on : other trains in his charge ut the samo time and in directing one train to go beyond its usual place to moot another ho may neglect to give an order to tho second train and in such an event a col lision would probably ensue, much prop erty bo destroyed and probably lives bo lost. lt will readily bo seen that tho slight est mistake ol' a train dispatcher might cause serious results; and in this respect his responsibility is probably greater than that of any other individual under whose charge the public are placed. A pilot "ii a vessel may lose his reckoning, but tiie tact soon becomes apparent to ot hers, and his capacity for mischief is thereby lessoned; other railway em ployes may neglect their duties, and rush headlong into danger, but tboir Associates generally realize the situation before any unfortunate results ensue; but the slightest behest of a train dis patcher must bo obeyed without ques tion; even though to do SO would jeopardizo tho lives of those receiving the orders though ol course until au accident results the train men are igno rant ol tho fact that they have been given wrong directions. Instances of oversight ol dispatchers are extremely rare much loss than ol' neglect of conductors and engineers to adhere to the ord? rs given to them-and wliile they perform their onerous duties almost entirely unknown to tho people whose lives they have in their control, and therefore never receive the mood of praise duo them, travelers ought at least be made acquainted with their duties and tho important part they play in tho rnpid and safe movement of passengers. \\ l.vrs W KXIiOltSBMIiJVT. Till' I'AtilClit' \|>|H-H ol OlIC Ol \ !. . oi.ler ll. Ku* phi* lu'H o?d Her?anla. (From the Alluma Coe. titUttOn.) The following rather pathetic epistle was among those recently received by Governor < lordi >u : HON. JOHN li, OottDON-Dear ?Sir: Pardon mo for taking the privilege of writing to you to ask a favor of you. About two months ago 1 was discharged as a messenger in tho Interior Depart ment, on a false report, and tho lion. Van H. Manning and an ex-member of Congress from the .\ te of Mississippi instructed mo to write to you, knowing that you was a personal friend of my former master, Hon. Alexander II. Stephens, and ask you would you bo kimi enough to write to tho Hon. Henry Harris, Third Assistant Postmaster (leneral, at W ashington, 1). C., in my behalf. Mr. Gordon, I was always faith ful in discharging my duties ns a mes senger, and of all tho moneys, stamps and other valuables that 1 handled or pa: si d through my hands ol' the depart ment, my employers will say to-day that they never had thc least suspicion of my honesty. Furthermore I was true to my old master. I was faithful. 1 served him well, and he said when he put mo in tho department, upon this ho felt bound to serve mo some too. 1 was in General Toombs'a brigade, during tho war and served there faithful as a ser vant. I have crawled up on my knees and hands, over a mile, to carry my friends something to eat that was m tho d. h u: e ot their section of thc country and < leneral Toomba has often said 1 never forgot my natural ritual. I know who my best flic mis aro. Mr. Stephens said that it are tho duty of thoso that wen elevated to high, lofty position to look upon the humble and poor with tho eye of pity for this reason I appeal to your sympathy, your charity and to your gem rosily us the Governor of tho dear old State that give mo birth to look upon my humble and deprived con dition willi pity. I bog of you, sir, with all tho humbleness crowning tho act of a servant to write to Mr. Harris at tho earliest dato as your conveniences will allow you in my behalf. I n niain, sir, your mo-, bumble and obedient servant, PlEUCE LAFAYETTE, moody Kiol in Deli vor. DENVEE, April ll.-A bloody riot oc curred hero to-night between rival Swedish, Polish and Hungarian colonies, ut SHth and 'duke st rc ts, which resulted in the fatal shooting of live men and tho serious wounding of several others. lt grow out of ii christening festivity. When tho christening party had eaten and drunk they went out upon tho side walk and made war upon thu inhabitants of a neighboring house. Others in tho neighborhood became involved and tho uproar becalm, great. lt reqidred a detachment of tv dozon polico, armed with Winchesters, to quoll the disturbance. Throe or four police first made their appoaranco, when tho rioters postponed their contention and joined forces against tho common onomy. Tiley could not stand against tho ritlos, however, and about thirty woro lodged in tho calaboose and some in tho hospi tal. but ono or two of thc prisoners can speak Knglish. Tboy uro all raggod, dirty and spattered with blood, and have Ibo appoaranco of belonging to tho low est typo of humanity. Many of thom arrived in Denver only a week ago, dirool from Hungaria, Poland, Bohemia ami othor parts of Europe. A \<*w Way t? ''?y Old Orbta. (Shakespeare tells how this can bo nccom pl Urned In ono of his Immortal plays* bili dobti to nature mutt bc paid on demain union day? of grace bo obtained tbrougl tho usc of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medica Discovery." It Is not a 'euro nil" tatt In vnluahlo for sore throat, bronchitis, astb mn, catarrh, consumption and all disease of thc pulmonary and othor organs, OHUROI by scrofula or "bad blood." Hciofuleu ulcers, swellings and tumors aro cured b (ts wonderful alterative action. Hy drujj gists. 'v ,:? : 4