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SHERIDAN oVSIMS, Proprietors. Subsoiuition.' One Yea*/...,.81 .GO : Six Months:... .'..........1.00 ?; HiillStora Of [the Gospel.....,1.00 ADVERTISEMENTS. First Distortion:....:.i.......81.00 Ench Subsequent Insertions.50 Liberal contracts made for [I mouth and over. i JOB <ym?JGM '?' > ?(*) *! I?? '( ?H ' ?'. 13 PREPARED TO DO ALL KIKD3QK AN . AH'Ui.'I.K ON THIS SUIIJECT THAT *V BHO?LD Bfe 11 IC AD BY EVEttY FA KM Kit, Editor Orangeburg Deinobr?t: In tbo Dcmocint of April 18th, JVC. H., of tbo Fork, maclo allusiou to thft "huge piles of pea-Vino hav ^suspended -on aacks-" he eaw when passing my place in August last, and in plain terms condemned the practise. Now, I so fully agree with J. C. II. iu all he has said about the pea as a fertilizer, tbat it is with some reluc tance that I attempt ,lo de fend the practice of gathering pea vines even for hay ; but for the sake of consis tency 1 must explain. This piece of ^and was prepared and planted in peas for the purpose of gathering ike vines for cow food?and just here is another ?obi\ quality of pea viucs that cannot bo too highly praised. Nothing compares with pea vine hay; as a regular feed for milch-cows. I "would respectfully commend the fol lowing plau to my brother farmers. Prepare in the spring by thoroughly breaking one or two acres of good land. About tho middle or last of May guano welt and sow down G or 7 peeks,of either the speckled or cow pea to the acre. Turn under well then harrow or smooth with a brush, and when you see a few yellow peas /on' them, cut close to the ground, hang on racks a few days and then house them. And you get an amount of food that will surprise yon. The yield per acre is in proportion to the quality of the land, averaging from 2x0fi0 to 10,000 pounds. The butter from this feed rivals tho celebrated Goshen in appearance and excels it in flavor. This hay is not to be de spised as a feed for mules, fattening them without corn or oats ; in fact, it is a? good as Northern clover. And is as J. C. II. expresses it, "the clo ver of tho .South," and the farmer who does not utilize it as such is just a little behind this progressive age. If .J. C. H. will conic over in St. Matthews again next August we will ?obligate to show him on more than Q.ne^p/nce not only huge stacks of pea vine hay, but corn bouses and sheds large enough to hold all this ibay, where a great quantity of the very best home made manure is made and protected from the weather, ob viating in tho futurej the necessity of ?sing so much guano. So we not on ly get the milk and butter, with the pleasure of having fat cattle and choice beef, but actually get more than the worth of the pea vines as a fertilizer in the piles of rich manure made by these cattle under shelter. I wish to be understood?I do not Advocate the plan of gathering pea vines indiscriminately from the ianci, but do earnestly recommend these patches as the best method now known for getting tho greatest quan tity of food to the acre ; and such food as will pay a better percent age for money and time expend ed than any other. Does it in jure the land to take off this hay ? Certainly it doesJ So docs it injure land to take any crop from it that is grown there. Who among us will leave pur corn and cotton to rot and decay'in tho fields as fertilizers be cause the land is injured by tak ing them off. It pays us better to gather them; just so in the case of Jheso patches for pea vine hay. I fully endorse J. C. H.'s statement that the pea is the best known fertili zer that we have. I will go further than J. C. II. is willing to go, and say that it improves land to grow peas on it, even if you take the vines off, provided you leave the roots in the ground, cut them off when gathering instead of pulling them up. As proof of this assurance I saw on a place in this neighborhood last year while inspecting crops, (for you know, Mr. Editor, we inspect each others crops over here ever}' year when they are made, to see what we have been doing, and not always the least important part about it, how it was done.) rice growing on land that had been planted in peas two consecutive years and the vines gath ered from the land each year, a"i3o rice gowing on land immediately ad joining this, tint had been planted in cotton the preceding year, and Well manured too, and incredible as it may seem, the rice growing on the pea land was better than that on the cotton laid. IfJ. G. II. will again examine the analysis he gave us of tho pea vine, he will see that the amount of ammonia was in too great proportion for tho other sorts, and in excess of the natural supply of the soil, so it must have been gathered: from tho atmosphere, and as the lime, magnesia, potash and phosphor ic acid are in oxceBs of tho supply i found in our common soils, aud these latter are not supplied by the atmos phere, wo must account for tboir prcsenco in such quantities in some other way. Tho pea sends its tap root deep into the subsoil and draws those .supplies of lime, magnesia, pot nsh, etc., from a greater depth than ordinary crops generally feed. The atmosphere supplies the .ammonia, it being absorbed by the broad leaves of the pea, and thus the pea vine shows this rich analysis without robbing the surface soil to any great extent, and without being such an exhaustc of the soil as the analysis would indi cate ; it is the greatest restorer .of worn out lands that we can use, as it draws its supplies from beyond the reach of other crops, and places them near the surface where they can bo utilized. If this were not the case, any land that would grow a good crop of pea vines, would be abundant ly supplied with all the necessary minerals to make a heavy crop of cither corn or cotton. This pea subject makes me feel like a Fork of Eiiisto man, I grow enthu siastic, and could write enough to fill up one whole side of your paper, and then the half would not be told ; but every farmer ought to know these things ahead}' by experience, and the}' woidd, if they would but sec, read and think for themselves.; but unfortunately for us as a class, we read too little, think scarcely at all, and judging from the way so many of us plod along in the same old furrow our fathers followed, we wilfully close our eyes, and bring our igno rance and prejudice to bear against all innovations and improvements on the old style. J. W. S. Middle St. Matthews. A Sad Fate. Last week we published the marri age notice of Mr. Philemon Sanders and Miss Bluncot Garret, daughter of Mr.J. W. Garrett, of this place. This week it is our sad duty to announce tho death of Mr. Sanders. lie was married on Wednesday, the 9th in stant, and started off on a bridal tour with his lovejy bride on the same morning, or. the train for Charleston, en route to his father's residence, near Walterboro, in Colleton County, reaching there on the next day. On last Wednesday, tho 10th instant, just one week after his marriage, he rode up to the town of Walterboro, seven miles from his father's resi dence, and while paying a visit at Dr. G. M. River's house, about four o'clock in the afternoon, tho terrible tornado struck the town of Walter boro, and he was among the number killed by the falling of Dr. River's house during the storm. Mr. San ders had been a resident of Spartan burg for several years. He was a young man about twenty-five years of age, of steady habits and good busi ness qualifications and gave promise of being a useful and influential citi zen. To have been thus suddenly cut down in the bloom of youth, with in a week after his marriage, with a long, happy and prosperous life ap parently in prospect is indeed a sad and mysterious fate. And what a chilling blast to the happiness of tho lovely young bride of a week must this sad death be 1 Truly aro "the ways of Providence mysterious and past finding out 1" May Ho who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," sanctify this dispensation of His Providence to the young bride in her sorrow !?Sparteniburg Herald. A Beautiful Extract. A naval officer, being at sea in a dreadful storm, bis wife sitting in the cabin near him filled with alarm for the safety of the ship, was so surpris ed at his serenity and composure that she cried out: "My dear, arc you not afraid ? How is it possible yon can be so calm in such a dreadful storm?" He rose from the chair, dashed it to tho deck, drew his sword, pointing it to the breast of his wife, oxclaimcd : "Arc you not afraid?" "No 1" she immediately replied. "Why not?" enquired tho officer. "Because," replied his wife, "I know that tho sword is in the hands of my husband, and iic loves mo too well to hurt inc." "Then," said be, "I know in whom I believe, and He who holds the winds in His hands is my Father. A-Miner's Luck. The race of bonanza kings has not ?yet run itself out, and those of ;tho Atlantic slope aro likely to i|ival those of the Pacific. Four years ago H. A. W. Tabor was a merchant? one of the sort who were left in Cali fornia Gulch after the Pike's Peak .furore in 1859?and none woro so poor as' to do him reverence. To-day he is mavor of the city of Lcadville, whoso 1G,0GC population is growing at a rale of 400 daily; treasurer of] Lake county, postmaster, president of the bank of Lcadville, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, and last month he received from a single one of his numerous mines a net income of over ?1,500 a day. Even this on ly covered tho actual dividend after a surplus had been withheld for, the purchase of new and heavy machine ry. Largely interested in over two dozen mines, this latest'and busiest of bonanza kings came to New York to buy more. If anything could add to the marvelous romance of the man and his lifo it would be the fact that all his wealth and that of thousands of others has been taken from the carburet earths, which can be shov eled as free as sand, handled almost without expense, and which, were walked over and passed by as worth less by experienced minors for twen ty years. When the ten thousand miners, who struggled alter golden sand in California Gulch, drifted de spondently away over fifteen years ago, and that name became a camp by-word, the loft stranded, among others, a couple of German shoemak ers and the merchant Tabor. These three became partners to carry out the small trader's carburet vision, and the Little Pittsburg was their first find, where there aro now thirty paying and 1G0 prospective mines. German number one grasped gladly at the 8100,000 offered for his share, as soon as their discovery was known. A week later German number two went away with 8202,500. The Yan kee remained, and he and Senator Chnfico to-day own jointly 73>-100 of this mine which, in its consolidated form, pays for kscjf over and over again every month, and which has over 85,000,000 worth of ore in plain sight.?Jycw York Graphic. Dean Swift's Newspaper Hoax. One of the cleverest hoaxes ever perpetrated was invented by Swift and intended for the public good, lie caused to be printed and circu lated some "last words" of a street robber named Elliston, purporting to be written shortly before his execu tion, in which the condemned thief was made to 6ay : "Now, as 1 am a dying man, 1 have dono something which may be of good U3C to the puh ljc. I have left with an honest man? the only honest man I ever know?= the names of all my wicked breth ren, the places of their abode, with a a short account of the chief crimes they have committed, in many of which I have been their accomplice, and heard the rest from their own mouths. I have likewise set down the names of those we call our setters, of the wicked houses we iregucnt, and all those who receive and buy our stolen goods. I have solemnly charged this honest man, and have received his promise upon oath, that whenever he hears of auy rogue to bo tried for robbery or house-breaking, he will look into his list, and if he finds the name there of the thief con cerned, to send the whole paper to the government. Of this I hero give my companions fair and public warn ing, and hope that they will take it." We are told the Dean's ruso succeed ed 30 well that street ..xobbcr&cs were for many years after few and far be tween. How to Do It. An intelligent and thrifty farmer says : "Hut for the cooperation of my boys 1 should have failed. The eld est is near twenty-one, and the other boys in the neighborhood, younger, havo loft their parents; mine have stuck to me when I most needed their .service;;, and I attribute this result to the fact that I havo tried to make their home pleasant. I have furnish ed them with attractive and useful reading, and when night comes and the clay's work is cndccl, instead of running with other boyo to ths rail road station and adjoining towns', they gathered around the great lamp and became interested in their books and papers. ? ???Tab fll?ftDIiR. . ?o? JJIJt. IIASTffXG HOLLEY, AN OLD ANp JZ*. OFFENSIVE WIIITE MAN, WAYLAID AND ?KILLED. The western portion of Ibis county, lying between GraniteviHe and, the Savannah River., was ,on Friday the 18th, thrown into the most, intense excitement on discovering that one pf the most diabolical murders in tho annals of crime had been committed in that neighborhood. The murdored man was Mr. Hasting Hoi ley, an ola and respected citizen of Gregg town ship. * ?Some 25 or 30 years ago, Mr. Wi ley Floyd married Caroline McClcn don. During the war Floyd became too in Li mate with his wife's sister, Li/./.ie McClendon, and since the war has been living with both, and is the father of some twelve children by the former, and the reputed father of six by the latter. About a year ago Hasting Holloy reported Wiley Floyd who is iris brother- in-iaw1, for bas tardy. The case came up before Es quiro Soulhnlj* of Langley, and on tho evidence of tins >yoman, Lizzie McClendon, the justice mnde Floyd give bond for the support of two of her children. Some three weeks since he was reported to Justice Sims, of Grauitcville, and Saturday, the 12th of April was appointed for the trial. But neither Floyd nor Mr. Hasting Ilolley, who was tho princi pal witness against Floyd, was pres ent. Mr. Juck Floyd, a son of Wiley Floyd, stated to the Court that his father was too sick to attend the trial and in his name asked a contin uance. The trial was postponed un til the following Monday. Again both Mr. Floyd and Mr. Ilolley were absent, the former pleading sickness, asked through his son that the case suould be continued until the follow ing Saturday. Justice Sims issued summons for Mr. Hollcy which was carried to his residence the following Thursday evening. Tho constable was informed by Mrs. Ilolley, (tho wife of Hastin^^jjfiey,) that her husband had l?SF^&h^?n Friday, the 11th, to attend the first trial and that she had not seen him since, and' that she supposed he was with his relatives either at GraniteviHe or Vaucluse. The constable told her that he was not at cither of those places. She then became alarmed and on the morning following, Fri day, the 18th, the neighbors began a search. They took the road to GraniteviHe which ho bad taken when he hud left home on the even ing before the day appointed for the trial, for being very old and quite in firm, a walk of that distance was no small task, and he started the even ing previous that he might have plen ty of time to make the trip and that he might have time to rest before the trial began. His relatives and friends svho were searching for him or rather his body, for their suspicions of foul play had ripened into a certainty, found his body in the woods about 30 or 40 yards from the road at a dis tance of a mile from his home, and some two hundred yards from the, house of John (or as lie is better known), Jack Floyd, on the road leading to GraniteviHe. The body was terribly mutilated. From the signs on the ground in the vicinnity, he had been killed or stunned in the road and then dragged to whore his body was found, when the fiends not satisfied with the lile of this poor old inoffensive man, cut ins head from the body and his hands from his arms. The head was found near but it is not known what was done with the hands, as they have not yet been found. The coroner was sent for and im mediately on his arrival impaneled a jury of inquest. The evidence before tho jury was of such a character as to render it necessary for him to issue warrants for the arrest of Wiley Floyd, his son Jack Floyd, his wife Mrs. Caroline Floyd and Liz/.ie Mc Clendon. And they are now in jail for murder. D. S. Henderson, Esq., has been retained by tho defendants, and O. C. Jordan, Esq., by tho friends of the murdered man to prosecute. When a man takes the life of a fel low being when under some great ex citement, wo can make some excuse for him and pass upon the net with much leniency, too much very often. But whoa the crime has been studied and royupwed, every step weighed well before taken, then there's Home thing in it that strikes the most bru tal with horror. We do not know ?who tho guilty pal tics ?arc in this case, but one thing is certain, n cold blooded .murder has been committed hero .right in onr midst, at?d the most deliberate and the most cowardly wo have ever heard of. Justice de mands that the perpetrator should meet with tho punishment his ,orl.mc demands, and we hope for-once that justice , will not be cheated, as is the cuse now almost daily. As has been the case, until the(out throats in soci ety hesitate no more to kill a human being than they wonld a brute that crosses his path, but at the same time we want it to be the guilty who stujer. We can't afford 'any more legal mur ders any more than we can afford these butcheries.' We are not in favor of manufactu ring opinions and lest something said in. these .columns might affect these cases when the}' come up before the; courts, sve shall not give the state ments of any of those who are or wjll bo witnesses until an investigation is had and a decision rendered.?-Aikcn Courier Journal. .Bargains. An eccentric old man, fond of pick ing up good bargains, ?n one occasion attended a sale of old military stores, in Edinburg Castle.. A lot of twenty drums, with their drumsticks, were ottered at the rate ofsixpence a drum.: Such a chance was not to be mis3cd, and at bis nod the hammer fell. lie had to havo a cart to take them away, and then remembered he had no proper accommodation for them ; so he called an open air meeting of juvenile population and distributed his prizes among them, more to their delight than to that of the older in habitants, who were driven distracted by the constant din of the spirit-stir ring drum. A more profitable deal in military stores was effected by a Constantinopolitan Jew, who hoyght some six hundred rust}' old helmets, that had lain in the Church of St. Irene, from the Turkish Government at the rate of about sixpence a pound, lie cleaned them'up, and was reward ed for his pairs by discovering that the despised martial relics were made of fine steel, and adorned with Arabic inscriptions showing that they were of a very ancient date. T/ho; lucky dealer sold a few for twenty piasters a piece. Finding they went oir readily at that price, he raised the price to thirty, then to forty, and finally to fifty piasters, until an Ar menian offered to take the lot off his hands at something like eighteen shillings per helmet, and he closet) with the offer. The purchaser put them up at the bazaars, and then the authorities, waking up to their folly in parting with thcin so heedlessly, bought them back again at from .C2 and ?3 apiece, and thought they did wisely?a poof that they had made a shocking bargain in the first instance. A Double Sabbath. Rev. Dr. Field once kept n double Sabbath. In crossing the Pacific, it becomes necessary to niter the reck oning of the days to conform to that of the eastern and western hemis phere, nccoring as a ship is sailing in one direction or the other. In going to Japan, when tho 180th degree of longitude was reached (which is just half way round tho world from the Jioynl Observatory at.Grcenwich, England, from which longitude is reckoned), a day is dropped and in returning ope is added. The ship in which the doctor was sailing crossed the meridian on the 8th of June, and so two days wero put down on the vessol's calendar as the 8th of June. Now, as it happened that this was Sunday, the crew and passengers had two Sabbaths succeeding each other, one of which was the Sabbath in Ja pan and in all Asia, and tho other the Sabbath in America and in Europe. vSomo of the ship's company were puz zled to know which to keep ; but the doctor did not think it would do him any harm to keep them both, and he says ho shall always remember with pleasure his double onbuuih on the sea. "I say, Sambo, docs you know what makes dc corn grow so fast when you put de manure on it?" "No, I don't hardly, 'copt it makes do ground stronger for dc corn." \ "Now, I'll jest tell ye. When do corn begins to smell dc manure, it don't like dc 'fuimnc.ry, so it hurries out ob dc groan' and gits up as high as possible, so as not to breathe the had air." ; Letter from Mississippi. Fouest Gi.kn, Holmes Co., Miss. April 14lh, 1879. Editor Orangeburg Democrat: As it has been some time since yo,i,i littve beard anything from tbis: corner of the world, perhaps a few lines from your quondam correspond-" ent may proye acceptable. We have had on unusually mild and early spring, though the weather lor the past few days has been quite cool for .the .season. The crops of all kinds nro very fine, and farmers hopeful. There is promise of an abundance of fruit. The appearance of farms and orcbaVdc is most pleasing and en couraging. The County Grange met on Thursday last, at Centre Grove Grange. There wns only a small at tendance owing to the fact that this i3 a wry busy lime with aU, clusscs. The trial of Jenkins for killing his brother-in-law, Reeves, is fixed'tor next week- It is said that the cir tCum&lantiaJ cyideh.ee against {he accused ih almost overwhelming. Reeves was an influential and popu lar citizen, and his death is h great Jop3 to the Community in which he lived. Thcr.c is a lively political interest stirring the yeomanry of Holmes. No less than thirty candidates arc anx ious to immolate themselves upon the altar of public service. It is to be hoped that pura patriotism is at the bottom of their zeal, and that the emoluments of ollicc have nothing to do with their ardent desire to serve the popple. If we were not quite sure that every office-seeker desires only the good pf his country, aritl nothing else wc might be led to criti cise the spirit, which fills several col umns of our county paper with "an nouncement's." "Will they bo willing, like Cin.cinnatUBj to return to the plow, when they are no longer need ed to guide the helm of the "Ship of Stato? It is the opinion of the majority, that there ought to he more farmers and fewer lawyers in the next legisla ture. The farming interests of the country suffer through neglect of our representatives. If "brevity is the soul of wit," I am sure that your readers will agree that this is one of the wildest com munications that you hny.e received for some time. MofiE Anon. Outrage by a Tramp. On Tuesday afternoon, a tramp, calling himself Patrick Kelly, went to the residence of Dr. Isiah Simpson, I ami requested, to have something to eat. The lady of the house kindly granted his request, and gave h;m a dinner. Rut the worthless fellow, far from feeling any gratitude for the kindness thus shown him, acted in a most disgraceful manner?breaking some pieces of crockery, and making ofT with some articles of children's plothing. He was afterwards overta ken on the road by Dr. Simpson (who was absent from home at the time of the outrage) and then taken in baud by policeman Potect. He was ' somewhat obstreperous when first ar rested, threatening to draw his pis tol, and had to be soothed with a wholsome blow on the side of his foolish head. Pity is that he had not suffered much rougher treatment. When ho was taken to his cell, and the sherilF started to search his per son, he showed some signs of resist ance, but being assured that the searching would be ?Jone f4whether or not," he quietly suhmi'ted. In view of such outrages as this, it might be well for our town council to onset an ordinance that would protect our ladies and children from any such trouble. Whenever a tramp comes to town, let him be put to work on the streets, the Council paying 1dm moderately for what he docs. Should he foolishly refuse to woek, let him be put in the guard house on bread and water diet for a few days. TJns would bring him to his senses. Tramps are, generally speaking, va grants of the very worst character, and they should bo treated according ly.? Winnsboro N< wa and Herald. The Winnsboro News and Herald says: "Northrop is a beautiful speci men of a judicial ofllcer. Ho inti: mated In Court on Monday that Car dozo had received fair treatment and that he was therefore justified in talk ing an extreme course in the United States Court. Who ever heard of tin eh an nrgumcnt be lore in a court of justice?" FAITHFUL UNTO J)?ATII7 * >?? > ?o? a wipe FUr,FJX<un(} her jmarriagte vow even to 'J'f i SO thai* QF the <3a|J. lows. A touching story is narrated in connection with the .execution of Walter Watson, at Highland,'ihjax ann, on Friday Jast for the murder of Ezra, Comptoh. The porJie#had quarrelled about the charge-of-a*if?ac ler of a dollar for some soap made by Compton; who Was a st?retfep$$, Tho wife of Watson, to whom he had been but a year married, endeavored to restrain him from the quarrel, but her entreaties failed. A week before the execution Mrs.': Watson'visitp<J tho Governor, with her babe ??'hev aims, and made a'strong personal appeal for mercy, but the official de clined to interfere because the'sebr tence had been confirmed by thd^B preme Court. The faithful wifo was a daily visitor to her husband's cell', and joined him in fcrvpnt prayers;fpr forgiveness. During the last night most of the time she sat on his kneo breathiag words of love and cucourr agement, or at his fe,ct caressing his hands. He was truly a penitent.arid expressed himself as ( having uiq?e peace with God. As the time, a^ proached for the execution stye was, for a moment overcome, and fell, on her husband's neck in uncontrollable anguish, but suddenly she raisedjher (laxen head and assisted in arraying him for Ids doom. She had contnb-: ulcd a necktie nnd a pair of ?Uppers,; and put them on with a fierce detejs minalion that overmastered her agp^ ny. She combed his hair, aiid seeing all was ready, said sbe would go with him. All present remonstrated, w}th her, in which the minis'er, ,joined.; Her reply was a rebuke that few wo men would have ventured. "I should not have cxpec ctl this from a minis" ter. When I was married I promised to eleave to nvy husband for better or worse. I promised this to a.minister,, and I am going to keep my word as far as God will lot me." On reach ing the gallows, the pair soon to he sm mlered mounted the steps hand in hand. They A were sealed side by side over the fatal trap. She again look his hand and sobbed with bor 1 little head resting upon his shoulder while the minister made tho closing prayers. - uuttx ?f? Meanwhile tho culprit sat in his I chair unmoved.. A heart-broken wife', was, sobbing on his bosom, strong men sobbed, but the rann to be hang ed seemed an uninterested spectator' of the absorbing scene of which he was the central figure. For fully-' five minutes he sat there without tho least perceptible twitch of a muscle. There was no bravado in thiscompo sure ; it was the calmness of resigna - tion. At the closo of the religiouq exercises the two stood up, and for the last, time she embraced her hus band, kissed him passionately, and with "Good-bye, Walter," stepped back and fell into the arms of the good' Christian ladies who were there to re ceive her. The last words of the un happy man were a leryent prayer Cob. mercy and for heavenly aid to his poor wife. At the sheriffs slKJsnvr' the remains of her husband in -Ins collin, and kissing: his Upa and ar ranging the hair, turned away with a' look of woe'and said, "I cab cry npv more ; I have no more tears. God have mprcy on me and .my little baby.!.' i i ?? < iimjI An hour later the coffin was on-ah ? cast-bound train, accompanied by the wife. At Hiehlnnd, a bleak station1 seven miles from this point,'-it was deposited on the barren ground, and as the train moved on only one other' person besides the widow: was in charge. The face that broken-heart ed woman turned up to tho occupants of the passing tram, most of whom had seen the hanging, will h?unt many in their dreams. '??:',? "I never knew a fashipnable wp?, man who didn't think more of a fool than of an upright, sensible man.," 8 ay s Tai range. 1 hp produpt of honey in California has grown from a single hive of beep, imported into that country thirty years ago, to 3,5<G00,000 poundai a year. The Federal constables are an ex pensive luxury. They cost the coan try ?300,000 in 187G and 1878 for running tho elections and disfran chising voters in the interest of the Republican part)'. Tho country can dispense with their services.