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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, y ALWAYS IN ADVANCE VOLUME V SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1878. NUMBER 5 / DeTreville & Heyward ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Oraiiffcbnrg C If., S. C. Will practice in ihe various Courts o State \f. J. DcTroville, James S- lleywaru Jvme2 tf. W. B. TRE AD WEL L DENTIST Will attend to patients at their residents either in Town or Country. Address through Post Office or'call on me at resi dent Concr Kussel and Treathvcll Streets. Prompt, attention will be given and satis faction guaranteed. W. B. TRKA1)WELL. nov 3 Iv Knowlton & Wannauiaker, ATTORNEYS ANM>J COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Oruiigcburt? C II., S. C Aug. B. Knowlton, P. M. WaiinamakuT, Orangeburg C. II. St. Matthews, may 5 1877 tf HORSESHOEING AND BLACKSMITH WORK BY THOMAS RAY, (Russell St. Opposite llarloy'.s Corner.) All manner of Smith work and Horse shoeing properly done. Fancy Send 1 work. Hailing for Grave Lot?. A trial Solicited. THOMAS HAY: pept 1 tf. M DRTUTT'S^) lAXPECTORANT Is tho m?gt ifonlal bnlHam ever imul hy sufferers from pulmonary dlscason. O It 1b cumpoxed of horhal products, which riavo a speclflo effect on tho throat anil udca; detaches from tho air colls oil Ir ritating: matter; causes it. to ho expecto rated, and nt once check* tho Inflammation which produces tho coujfh. A olnirle doso relieves tho most distressing paroxysm, soothes n?u ?.?;i?iiosb. nru' enables tho ml - iVr.-i- to en j..- ciulct rest ut nii: in . Moinj; a _ yli-nnimt rordfal. It louos tho weak stom ?doH'.* ?rtt " ^slr*ttlhr~*^cs}iii2x<^sad, ft.'r . children, q What others say about ? TutVs Expectorant* Had Asthma Thirty Years. HaltimORB, February 3, 1875. - *I havo had Asthma thirty years, and never iound ? medicine that had such a hapnv eflect." W. F. HOGAN, Charlei St A Child's Idea of Merit. Niw Oulkans, ffovtmber ii, 1876. ??Tutt'sExpectorant is a familiar name in my house. V>ly wife thinks it ths best medicine in the world, end the children say it Is 'nicer than molasses candy.'" NOAH WOODWARD, 101 N. Poydrss St. "Six, and all Croupy." ?'I am the mother of six children ; all of tllemhavo been croupy. Without Tutt's Kxpectorant, 1 don't think they could have survived some of the attacks. It U a niolhor's blessing." MARY STEVENS, Frankfort, Ky. A Doctor's Advice. V In my practice, I advise all families to keep Tut l's Expectorant, in sudden emergencies, for coughs, caoup, diphtheria, etc." T. P. ELLIS, M.D., Nowsrk, N.J. Chta by all druggists. Frlce $1.OO. Offlc* 36 Murray Street, JVeto York. "THE TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS FRUIT. MTutt'sPilIs are worth their wricht in pnld." REV. I. R. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky. 41 Tutt's Pills are a special hlrsiini? of the nine ttcnthccntury."-REV. F. R. OSGOOD, Now York. "I have used Tutt's Pius for torpor of the liver. They ara superior to any medicine lor biliary dis orders ever made." I. P. CARR, Attorney at Law, Augusts, Qs. MI have used Tutt's Pills five years in my family. They arc uncounted forcnitivencss and biliousness." F. R. WILSON, Qoornotown, Texas. "I hsve used Tutt's Medicine with Jjreat benefit.1' W. W. MANN, Editor Mobile Register. "We sell fifty boxes Tutt's Pills to five of all ethers."?SAYRE & CO.^Cartorsvillo, Gs. "Tutt's Pills have only"t?" be tried to establish their merits. They work like mnRic." W. H. BAR RON, 08 8ummar St., Boston. 11 There is no medicine so well adapted to the cure ?f bilious disorders as Tutt's Pills." J08. BRUMMEL, Richmond, Virginia. AND A THOUSAND MORE. Bold by druggists. US cents a box*. Office 86 Murray Street, Jfew York. TUTTS HAIR DYE HIGH TESTIMONY. ? FROM THE PACIFIC JOURNAL, . , -A OR It AT INVENTION has been made by IJit. TUTT, of New York, which restores youthful licnuty to the hair. That eminent chemist has succeeded in producing a Hair Dye which Imitates nature to perfection. Old basticlors may now rejoice." q Price 01-00. Office 36 Murray St., Jfew York. Sold by all druggists. iviay 6 1*77 TTOll S A r/E. A house and lot at Jnmiaon'a Turn Out bounded on the. Mast liy the 8. C. Rail Road' WiHhe sold cheap. Apply to MKS. II. M. A NEUE WS. aug 11 tf. Stllll* l?l*01lt sold Low Down by A- FISCHER. The Chufn or Earth Almond. [tUBLISIIED BY REQUEST.] The analysis of tin's plant and its practical use for a cries of years establishes conclusively its great value as n field crop, and none other known in husbandry cut)surpass it as an auxiliary to the great grain crop of this country It is extensively used by the Spaniards as food both for man and animals, und will be as profitably employed in this country, when its value becomes known and apprecia ted. The fibers, when pounded into a paste and mixed with water, make a remarkable emulsion, resembles milk in appearance, and, wh? n strain ed, the fat rises to the surface and looks like cream. 1 his emulsion, when prepared and sweet nod to the taste, is a most nutritive ingredient, and may be used as a valuable substi tute for milk?ihe remaining oako lorming a rich, nutritive food for all domestic animals. ri he cultivation of theCh?fais the same as cotton or corn, and may be planted at the .-a me time and grown between the rows of the latter crop, like the ground or field pea. The largest yield, however, is realized by planting the crop to it self upon thron I foot beds, as lor cotton?dropping one or two tubers twenty inches apart on the bed, and covered with the foot, or cotton board; or the crop may be plan ! ted on checks two feet nine inch es square, with one or two seeds to the hill, covered with foot or hoe, and cultivated entirely with the sweep, ' running two furrows each way at the same time. Oue bushel of tubers will plant from five to tenacrcs. The harvest is easy and expeditious?a thrust with a manure fork on opposite sides of the hill and thrown up, pre sents a qua it to a halt gallon of tub ers the size of a post 01 white oak acorn, and may be gathered from one to two bushels per day to the bund. When haTve'ste^l for inarket,tlioTi 1 bera must be well washed und dried in the sun, or spread on a floor and not hulked, as heat or fcrinentution will inj urc them. The seed are better for planting, taken fresh from the field i n spring; after remaining all wiuter in the ground. The Chufais a plant of more vitali ty and can be transplanted in any stage of its growth with more facility than any garden or field crop, to the missing spaces which are "few and far between," and is far more reliable and productive, requiring less labor in cultivation, maturing in one-hnlf the time of the potatoe or ground pea, and yields three times as much per acre. It luxuriates upon all poor or silich'us soils, endures the most in tense drowthb, never wiltcring under burning sun, its deep green leaves re sembling a luxuriant field of rice, al ways presenting a cheerful promise, and never failing to return the reward of a full fruition when the cultivation has been generous and complete. During the most Intal seasons we have ever experienced upon a field on which every other specks of crops have rusted and "dried up" during the first days of dry weather in May or June, and from which Wehavouot gathered, without its spcci/i'S vimntre live, bushels of corn, nor three htm I red pounds of seed cotton per acre in thirty years, an average of eighty two bushels of tubers per acre have bet n obtained. Other planters have repor ted over two hundred bushels per acre on a more goner- us -oil. What plant known to th? enlightened husband* man will yield >o much nutritive food per acre for the same labor? None of which we are informed ! How much happier the present condition and future prospect of the country, had this crop been grown extensively for the past five years. Dot the hun ger and scarcity now presenting such heart-rending results answer the short coming* of a misguided economy. The comparative value of tho Chufn, with oilier auxiliary crops for feeding and raising swine, is conclusive to all practical and experienced breeders, being ready for feeding in July and August, when other auxiliaries are struggling with most effort for maturi ty. The nursing sow when mined in autumn upon the potutoc, ground or | field pea, ta/ccs on fat rapi lly, milk dries uj>, ofh-pi ing dwindles and per ishes for its natural aliment. Tho ro suit of this stimulated conditiou of the "sow is known to all practical breeders. Not so when feeding upon the Chufh; hoth sow und pig find in the tubers those iugre lieiits s > es sentially united for the life-giving secretion of the dam, and the rap id development of the offspring; no vo.ro table food is so much relished by wild and domestic fowls nor contributes so much in savory flesh to the inmates of the poultry yard. All practical breeders of swine con cur that the most trying period with this animal are the months of'Febru ary und March?after surfeiting al I winter from gleaning the Heids, his condition becomes deranged and re quires an alterative by a change of food; without it, he sickens, nausea tes spul sleeps, and repeats the same symptoms from day to day until di sense terminates Iii? fate. Kolbing iu the form of vegetable food can be presented him more acceptable at this season than a reserved field of earth al tnonds. Even with the above facts as de veloped by the analysis of this plant, agriculturists who pass currently as intelligences in their vocation, are to be found who doubt and dread some goblin damned may haunt their fields and render "nut and Hermuda grass" as a plea lor the want of''hog and hominy," not realizing the truth that these enemies can be extirpated by marshaling this crop and hog upon the same lieid. When reason aud ex perience prevail, a more enlightened economy will congratulate the coun try upon the acquisition of one of the most valuable crops known to civi lized man. The Fence Law. KY nON. D. r. CRAYTON. Progress and improvement is tho order of the day. We see it at every turn. We neither sow or reap as our fathers did. (.'hange is secu iu every thing save the fencing arouud our fields. This alone is practiced as it was 200 years ag<?, and there is no change that has been made by an agricultural people where change is h) imperatively demanded and ao easily pointed out. To state it would seem to be all that were necessary; to argue it, would only be to confound. The proposed change in the fence law consists in this, and this only?fence or enclose stock and turn out crop?. The arable or cultivated lands is about ten times as great as is necess ary for pasture My observation is that one acre is sufficient for each head oi cattle, and that hogs pay best when confined in small pens. I find, h\ the returns in the Auditor's office of this county, that the average farm is forty acres. Ibis is just ten times as much as is necessary f? r the pas ture, as no farm of that size should keep more than four head of cattle. Assuming these returns to be cor rect, and to enclose the farms of the couutrx in ton acre, fields, which I believe is above the average size, it would require, estimating rails at$l per hundred, near 8-100,000 to pay for the fencing of this county. I believe it is generally conceded that ten per cent, annually is required to keep them in repair. Think of this?810, 000 annually spent in repairing fen ces; a sum sufficient to pay our Stato and county taxes. If so, can farmers prosper under such management? Prudence and economy cry aloud for the change. With our forest lauds reduced more than three-fourths in forty years, and our population in creased five-fold in tho same timo, how long will it requite, at this rate, to destroy the balanco of tho timbor ? I think we should leave aome to pos terity?at least enough to show tho kind of timber that formerly grow iii this couutry. It is argued by some that tb is change in the fence law is demandod alone -by the largo land owners. I contend that the reverse is true. A prudent man, with a tract of fifty acres, will retain o.ic half in forest, whilst a tract of 100 acres will rcquiro one-third. A tract of 1,000 can bo kept up with 100 acres, or ten per cent. As you will readily perccivo, the larger tho fields?tho smaller number of rails per acre will be re quired to enclose them. This being the case, the poor man, on fifty acres, has one-half locked up or dead capi tal; 'he middle man on his 100acres has but one-third non-productive, and the party with 1,000 can bring all into cultivation but 100?thus re serving but ten per cent. It may be urged that tho change will reduce the number of cattle If so,good will be accomplished, as this is :tot a grazing country, and as you diminish the number you improve the quality. Far better they kept on suia'l pastures and soiled, thus im proving the manure heap and saving time, by having them at hand, in - stead of coursing them by tho bell, to be diiven up at night; or, what is I wots?, suffering them to remain out. Again, it ia argued that by th>; proposed change we lose the glean iogs of the field. I think it is gen erally couceeded-that more injury is done the Innd aud subsequent crops than benefits derived by the stock. All good farmers know the great in jury done to our fie'ds by tho hqof in wet weather, and yet how few keep them off. I cauuot see how any sane man can insist upon the present cus tom when everything cries aloud for the change. A Lady's Strange Pets. Tvry Lions in a Honst? Li ing at Peace / With tho Inmates. ja&W^- lad tea choose a dog. n cat, a cnriaTy or pony for a pet, not] oiteir '??;t th nr lives upon them," but rare ly does one hear of a lady's attaching herself to such strauge pets as tho writer saw at Mrs. Lincoln's, 04 How ard street, a day or two ago. Living in the family are a couple of lious, twenty-one months old, brought up by the hand of Mrs. Lincoln. They are African lious, a species not easily reared in this country, but Mrs. Lin coln has succeeded, by the exercise of great care, in rearing them t) thct r present age and size. The male weighs about 250 pounds, and the female perhaps fifty pounds less. Tliey have been at the house on Howard street since last September, ami until within n month have had the "run of the place," going about the rooms with considerable freedom. As a measure of caution the police thought the creatures should be restrained, and their quarters are now moro limited than forme? ly, although they have a sute out-door run and a room adjoining the kitchen, with only a i strong wire door separating the apart ments. Mrs. Lincoln is as free with her pets as ladh'sare with their pood les. Sh? plays with them; feeds them from berhnnds, and has taught them various tricks. They will kiss berat her bidding, jump through a hoop, etc. Bet?re the police restrictions were pluced upon them, the animals were accustomed to walk into the kitchen or parlor among guests, and go back to their quarters without offering harm to any one. A year ago the lioness used to occupy tho same couch with the lady at night, but now she has grown too large to be taken upon a common bedstead. Tho animals aro quite a curiosity, and, in their gentleness, show plainly how potent is the law of kindness, even with tho brute creation ?lioslon llcr aid. In a free government the safety of the State may be in tm re peril from the well informed, unscrupulous clas ses, than from the ignorant rabble. Watch for opportunities of useful ness. Every day brings them, and onco gone thoy are gone forever. Why it Fays to Read. One's physical frame?his body? his muscles?his feet?bis hands?is only a living machine. It is tho mind, controlling and directing that ma chine, that gives it power and effici ency. The successful use of the body depends wholly upon tho mind?upou its ability to direct well. If one ties his arm in a sling, it becomes weak and finally powerless. Keep it in active exercise, and it acquires vigor and strength, and is discipline*- to use this strength as desired. Just so one's inihd, by "active exercise in thinking, reasoning, planning, studying, observ ing, acquires vigor, strength, power of concentration and direction. Plainly then, the man who exer cises his mind in reading and think ing, gives it increased power and effi ciency, and greater ability to direct the efibrts of his physical frame?his work?to belter results, than e can who merely or mainly uses Iiis mus cles. If a man reads a book or paper, even one he knows to be erroneous, it helps him by the effort to combat the errors. The combat invigorates his mind. Of all men, the farmer, the culti vator, needs to read more and think more?to strengthen his reasoning powers, so that they may help out and make more effective, more profi table, his hard toil. There can ha no doubt, that that farmer who supplies himself with the most reading, the most of other men's thoughts and experiences, will iu the end, it not at once, be the mo t successful. v "The mind makes the man," is a trite but very true adage. How much above tho brute that toils with him? is the man who merely works, eats, and sleeps, and cares for his progeny ? The brute does all this. The man rises in dignity, in self-respect, in the respect of others, just so far .as he rises in intelligence. We haven cer tain regard for the ant, or colony of ant*, that by /olig, oard, p.>i.w./i />;.?,, gathers a fiue, large, showy mound of earth?yellow earth it may be, or of silvery white. Iu what is that man superior to the ant, who spends his life wholly in scraping t tgethcr a mass of laud, und u pile of yellow gold or white silver, and a large house, lives in it, and dies there? He may be called n successful man, a rich man, but what docs that amount to after all. If be be rich in good deeds, if he be an intelligent man, if he be able, by the superior cultivation of his mind, bis thinking and reasoning powers, ? ot only to plan successfully 1 for himself, cut to give wise counsel to others, he commands our real re spect. Farmers, think of theso things. Now, and for a few coming months, while tho field work does not press, devote some time each day or evening to mind development. Lop off, if need be, a dollar ot two here or there, and with it buy one or two books, especially those treating of your own business, of the character and nature of the soils you till, of tho crops you raise, of the animals you have to do with, their differences and character, etc. This will lead to further think ing and reasoning; it will devclope mind-power; it will make you more intelligent; it will raise you higher in your own estimation, and higher in the estimation of your family, and of your neighbors. It will aid you in planning better for the future, and will thus really pay in dollars and cents. Subscribe for some good pa per dovoting a whole or a part of its space to agricultural subjects, and se lect some book, fu stone that will inter est both yourself and family. Let it be road and studied well. When its thoughts becomo your own, lend it to a neighbor and get him to read it. Then choose another book, and do the same \x\ih it. Next summer's toil will bo moro cheerful, you will have more to think of while following tho plow, the harrow, etc.; aud wo firmly believe that a year from now you will have more dollars in your pocket. Tho population of Africa is about 100,000,000. Memory. O Memory ! tliy voice is sweet, and the low murmurs of thy speech full on the heart like perfect music Thy power is marvelous?stronger than death's, more potent than the grave's. All generjtions have known thee, and th}' empire stretches backward to the beginning of the world. At a word, u, motion, of thiue, the past, which until then was blank and black, is made luminous with glowing deeds and radiant faces, ami all manuer of bright things. Thy hand passes over their blackness, and makes the over vaulting and far-reaching years liko a starry sky. Thy voice is never sil ent. The language of the heart is thine; and songs, and the voice of greeting, and tremulous farewells, sadly sweet, come floating up to us; nor is laughter wanting, or the low murmur ot prayer. In thy right hand is wisdom, and in thy left, con solation. Hope springs oat of thee as a llowcr out of its nati\ e soil; and faith itself finds support by leaning on thy arm. Memory, that findcth her per fect love in God, and in man, accord ing to the measure of his days, a life not Ip-kr perfect?what should \vr. do without her? Amid our failures sho rccallcth some autedating triumph, and the bitterness of our cup is made tolerable to our lips. Wheo pierced with human bereavement,she bindeth up our wounds with recollected mer cies; and God seems dearer and nigher to us because of her power. ????.<-. ?? A Devout Life. Devout life has untold power. Like the forces of nature, it is often hid den or obscure, but it holds and shakes the world. Men may refuse ?o hear your preaching; they are not able to cvado the argument of a blameless and holy life. The aroma of it fills all the atmosphere; its doc trine dist|Us like the gentle dew, or . i tTfir^e^^ou^^ its words to the eud of the world; there is no speech or language where its voice is not heard. Your religion, lu be of any worth, must besuch a life. Profession is well, but it is only the gateway to the life?only the sign of the inward substance. The Gospel was not proclaimed to give you a creed, but to render possible to you a devout life. You will be a power among men, hot in proportion to your knowledge, or your natural endowment, bat in proportion to the sanctity and fulness of your roligioua life.?Zion's Hcrtihl. - ??^b?. i ? In the mild climate of Rome, fires are rarely needed in winter, and on chilly days braziers with charcoal art) placed in rooms. The pope has a hor ror of fire, and w ill not allow it in his presence in any form, lie sometimes sutlers from cold hands, and in that case orders his "palietta." This is a small hollow ball of silver, fillod with hot water. The pope holds it until the cold ceases. WB ? MM "Why didn't you put on a clean collar before you left home?" called out an impertinent young fop to an omnibus-driver. '"Cause your mother hadn't sent home my washing," waa the extinguishing reply. Eighteen hundred revolutionary ladies have been flogged in .Rueaia, and whole citi- of the province of Kowono have been banished to Si beria. The boy who grows up with an over whelming fear of dogs will not de velop iuto a book agouti in afterlife. The imports of Franco during 1877 amounted to 6751,273,600, and tho oxports to ?695,864,600. Great Britain has expended $59, 000,000 in twelvo years in building ships of war. Every cloud, and cvory prosperous pocket-book, bos a silver lining. Most horses havo bridle tours. A cow belle?tho milk maid.