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18 ritEJ'ARKJ) TO DO AM. JCJNDSOK
How to Mqke Manuro.
Editor Orangeburg Democrat :
At tho time you wrote me asking
my views on Ammonia, the pressure
of my farm duties prevented tue from
writing, but the subject is of sufficient
importance to interest every one en
gaged in farming at any time. The
questions asked as nearly as I recol
lect were as follows:
"Is ammonia plant food or a stim
ulant? If food, does it develop the
growth of plant, or increase quantity
of fruit? What arc the sources at
7iand on a plantation from which it
inay bo obtained, and how? If stable
manure and cotton seed aro the on
ly sources, and if others, how manage
to utilize them in such manures as a
farmer can afford ?"
The farmer of to clay cares very
little about a theory that practice
does not bear ont. The ago is loo
progressive and time too precious to
deal in anything but the practical.
Thousands of dollars have been spent
pn this same volatile substance, am !
paonia, in as small a place as Orange
burg County, and yet among the mass
Of farmars very little is known about
jt, but I think a happier day is dawn
ing for us. When such questions as
these arc asked by the fanners does
it not show that a spirit of inquiry
is alive among us, and that we are j
seeking after the practicable and j
available, something that will pay.
This very question brought out a
piece fiom "J. C. II." last week in j
your paper that is richly worth a doz
en years'subscription to any farmer
in the county. If "J. C. 1J." had
never written anything eke but this
piece on ammonia, it in itself would
place the Orangeburg fanners under
lasting obligations to him. It is tine
it took hin) a long lime to own up the
corn, but he has manfully admitted !
it at last, where he says he uses all j
the cotton seed ho can get and
Btretehes it as far as it will go, even
If he does not get more than five
bushels to the acre. That is right,!
Doctor, *lif a little will do goud, a'
heap will do mo e." j
Js ammonia plant food or a stimu
lant? It is both ; It first stimulates!
the plant to a healthy and vigorous
growth, enabling it to send out its i
roots in all directions in search of
more food ; by an increase of lea!!
growth it absorbs moisture and am
monia fiotn-lhc atmosphere at the
same time the roots are gathering
supplies from the soil. We were t Id
in "J. C. II.'s" excellent article that
all plants contain ammonia ; and as
nothing is self generated, they niUbl
take it up from both, hence the neces
sity of supplying it when soils are
deficient in this necessary element,
as a tadln L-nl quantity is net supplied
by the atmosphere. If ammonia then
is found in nil plants, and it is more
ubundant in the seed than any other
part, it must necessarily follow that it
tonds to increased productiveness of
fruit as well as healthy growth of
plant.
Stable manuro and cotton seed are
not the uuly souices for supplying
ammonia on a plantation, that are,
available. What are these others
and how managed? With stable ma
nure and cotton seed as a base, the
farmer has it in his power to create
sufficient ammonia at home for all
necessary farm purposes without pur
chasing a single pound ; and a few
weeks from now will be the time to
commence operations. If you haven't
stables or sheds for all your stock go
to work and build them, no necessity
for putting up anything line, just nnv
thing that wilj do to turn water and j
rain off your stock and their drop
pings. Put into these stalls and tin
der these sheds all the vegetable mat j
ter you can gather about the place, j
whether green or dry, rake and haul
litter from the woods?don't fear you
will get too much, have it two or j
three feet deep in the stalls after it is I
well packed by the stock, so that
none of the droppings from them will
leach through, buteverythin ? absorb
ed and retained. As the top be
comes foul add more litter, and con
tinue doing so us often as it becomes
necessary. Pen up all cattle, sheep
and goats every night, and every
morning let tho slops from the house
be emptied in these stalls, and when
hogs are penned for fattening shelter
them too, put plenty of litter in their
pens, and the quantity of rich manure
they will make will surprise those
who have never tried it. And now
we have by Christmas a vast hulk of
crude rnateriul rich in ammonia gen
erating properties?but it is not avail
able plant food in this condition. Ho
fore it can be taken up by plants it
must undergo decomposition ; as the
food taken into the stomach under
goes fermentation and decomposition
before it supplies nourishment to the
body, or can he taken up by the ab
sorbent vessels, so this crude mass
requires q change to become plant
food, it must undergo this change.
It iB true, it will, after long enough,
become decomposed in the soil when
placed there in tins crude state; but
wo cannot wait for this slow process.
We want \t in condition to be taken
VP by the plant qt once. We want, it
for the present crop?we cannot af
ford to wait for another year to reap
t-ho bene'.lt wo should get this.
The following has been my plan for
several yoars of utilizing this large
mass of unfermented manure, and
making it available plant food. I
commence with a layer of manure,
say one foot deep in large pens or
walled up places, then a luyer of cot
ton seed, and on this German Kainil
or potash salt, then another layer of
manure, cotton seed, and pota&l: salt
alternately until the heap is about
five feet high, and finish up with a
thick layer or covering of coarse ma
nure. These heaps can he built out
in the weather as rains do not effect
them. Care should be taken ?o keep
the heap thoroughly dampened as it
progresses. To this heap I add all
the crude manure from horse-stables,
cow-stalls, cow lot, hog pens and eve
ry available supply about the place.
On this mass should be poured daily
all slops from the house (and this is
not a small i em of ammonia creating
material.) Occasionally a pointed
polo should be run d.nvn into the
heap to see that it does not get too
hot. In case it does, water should
be poured in these holes until the
heap is cooler?in about six weeks
or two months it will be ready for
use. but can remain several months
and lose nothing. When ready to
commence hauling out the heap
should be cut down perpendicularly,
which will thoroughly mix it. While
this mass is undergoing fermentation
or decomposition Bulllcient ammonia
is generated to permeate the whole,
making it alike rich in every part.
The potash salt certainly acts as an
absorbent, as there is no escape of
ammonia from these heaps when tho
salt is used. That has heretofore
been the principal objection to the
compost heap. The heat generated
by decomposition set tree the ammo
nia and it escaped into the air, but if
the above plan is adopted there will
be no under heat and consequently
no unnecessary waste of ammonia.
All will be retained and the whole
mass becomes rich in ammonia, and
readily available as plant food; be-j
sides il is light to haul out, thotough
ly rotted, and c n be evenly distrib
uted in the furrow. Another ndvnn- i
tage of these compost heaps, there is
sullloicut heat in this mass while un
dergoing decomposition to destroy j
grass seeds, and the seeds of all
weeds that may have been brought ill
by stock or thrown into these stalls.
J. W. Suiimcus.
June I2th, 1880.
Grant in 1884.
Colonel McCluro telegraph's to the
Philadelphia T,\fiu'? from Chicago,
"'General Gl ant tji.ielly slipped into
the Palmer House this morning, and
I never saw him look more gentle and
composed, Me came unheralded, at
least to the multitude, and witnesses j
with complacency the profuse floral
and bunting decorations of the Pal
mer House rotunda and lobbies which
were intended tq celebrate his nomi
nation. He chatted pleasantly in
passing his acquaintance!), walked]
leisurely to the ladies1 parlor und the j
outer (loots were closed ngainsl all ?
when he entered. In half and hour
he stepped but in the same unostenta- i
tious manner, and the laces of'Camo
ion, Logan and S orrs were visible ns
tue lieutenants with whom he had ;
been in conference. What trans
pired in that brief council of war will
probably never be known to the pub
lic but alter Grant hid hurried oil' to
the Milwaukee train both Cameron
and Logan said publicly that Grunt
would he nominated without opposi
rion in 188-1. The conlidetit expecta
tion ol Gen. Grant and bis leaders is
that Gariield will he beaten in 1880,
and that one term of Democratic rule
under the inspiration o! the Confeder
ate brigadiers will make the Repub
lican paity shout a spontaneous call
lor the return of its old commander,
and that the country will elect him by
the largest popular majority ever
given to any President since Monroe.
Gen. Grant is repulsed, not defeated,
and he no more doubt- his election .
to the Presidency if lie lives than he
doubled his conquest ol Richmond
win n his lines retreated in b'oody
Confusion from cold Harbor.
Interesting Figures.
A diligent statistician professes to
have compiled irom ufliciul sources
the following figures in icgarto items
Iof national expense:
Salaries ol nil clergymen.SG.000.000
Cost of dogs.70.000,000
Support ofcrimbials.12.000,000
Fees ol litigation.35 000.000
Cost of tobacco and clgars..?iO.0u0.000
Importation of liquors.?O.OUO.OOO
.Support of grog Shops. 1.600.000
Whole cost of liquors..'.....2,000,000,000
The internal revenue report of the
United elates government for the fiscal
year ending June, 1870, shows the
amount of government taxation for
the whole country for cigars, tobacco
and snuff, during 187G, was ?39,792,
IJ3G. Tho number ol cigars on which
duties we?e paid in the same period
was almost 2.000.000,000. Adding
to these 110,000.000 of pounds of
tobacco, manufactured for smoking
'and chewing, and wo have an
amount of not less than ?250,000,
000 a year.
Senator Ferry, of Michigan, who
has been appearing in public at
Washington for a short time with a
black eye, is the last victim of Wash
ington scandal. His friends, however,
tell a clear story about his getting it,
in fact two or thrqe stories, from which
it appears that or. Ferry stumbled
somewhere or somehow and received
his black eye, so aa to speak, in the
path of rectitude.
Tho Defeat of Grant.
Tho defeat of Grant last week at
Chicago gives to vaulting ambition
tho most severe rebuke that has ever
been administered to any American
citizen. In times of war, having been
given credit for being the greatest
military chieftain on the continent,
and in times of peace, having been
twice elected President of tho United
States, this illustrious citizen, after a
retirement from tho White House at
Washington, made the circuit of the
world, and was received at the differ
ent courts and cities of ICurope with
more distinguished consideration than
has ever been accorded to any Ameri
can citizen, and upon his return to
the shores of Ins own country lie w>s
received with the highest honors that,
his- countrymen could bestow.
Not content with the greatest mili
tary and civil honors that have been
conferred upon any citizen since
Washington, he seeks further and
greater honors than the Father of his
Country would accept, and the coun
try witnesses the spectacle of his ig
nominious defeat in a scramble for a
third term, While no Other candidate
bus any cause for humiliation, except
Which naturally follows defeat, our
distinguished citizen has been remind
ed that he is nut the autocrat of this
Republic, and has received such a re
buke at the hands of his countrymen
as should put a quietus upon his un
bounded ambition and m >ke the ex
P res'dent bang bis head with shame.
After hob-nobbing with Kings and
FJmperor8 he no doubt had become
drunk with the idea of being the first
citizen to bold the Presidential office
for a third term, ami perhaps forever.
From a Democratic standpoint we
are in doubt whether or not to be
graltQed at the defeat of Grant and
the nomination of Garfietd. There is
ne) doubt that (Jen. Grant could or
ganize a greater enthusiasm among
the negroes in the South than could
any other Republican candidate.
While this is true, we believe it is
also true that Gen. Garfield can com
mand a much larger Northern vole
than could Gen. G ant. With Gar
field as the nominee we feel that we
wilt not be so much disturbed in our
local elections as wc would have been
if Giant had been nominated. The
result in our opinion iy, we will be
mote secure in our local elections,
while the Democratic nominee for
President ?viM have a much harder
light.?Press anil B inner.
Love in New England.
The surpassing loveliness of mod
ern "progress" is well illustrated by
the divorce statistics of the highly
cultivated New England States. In
Massachusetts there is one divorce
to every twenty-one marriages; in
Vermont, one to sev- Rlcen ; Rhode
Island, one to fourteen, and in Con
necticut?godly Connecticut!?one
divoice to every eleven marriages.
Twenty years ago the proportion of
divorces to marriages in Massachu
setts was only as *>oc to fifty-one?
considerably less than half the pres
ent rate. Massachusetts claims to he
the most enlightened State in the uni
verse?to represent the highest grade
of "culture." If this claim be a jjusl
one, the unpleasant conclusion is
forced upon us that modern civiliza
tion means the destruction of the mar
riage relation, the disi uplion of all the
social tics that bind the family togeth
er, the overthrow of all that mankind
in all ages has held most sacred upon
eurlh. Massachusetts is still behind
Connecticut in* this department of
'cub-haw,'' but. she is making rapid
.strides toward the goal of perfection,
which it is to be presumed will lie
tcached when the divorces shall equal
man ingc, and divorce be abolished
by a constitutional amendment as
"vestiges id' barbarism."
Low-Country and Up-Country.
The fact that all the State ticket
was made up from Columbia and be
low that city has been frequently re
marked on by our people, but we pre
sume that no special dissatisfaction
will be developed on that account.
The ticket is one composed of relia
ble and worthy men, who will no
doubt li!l the offices to which they
have been nominated, with satisfac
tion to the whole State. Abbeville
is proud of having tho Chairman of
the Stale Convention chosen from
among her delegates. No man in the
State has greater merits or more pop*
ularily than Col. James S. Colhran.
He is now one of the most prominent
citizens of the State, and the people
only need an opportunity to confer
upon him the highest honors of the
Commonwealth.?Press and Banner.
Southern mocking birds well de
serve the name. They imitate not
only the songs of other birds, but hu
man whistlers as well. A lady of
Macon, Ga., relates that her pel
?mocking bird often deceive all the in
mates of her bouse by its clever imi
tation of the po '.man's whistle.
They go out to gel letters, and find
Juck on a spray, near the fence, blow
ing his whistle and looking entirely
innocent of any intcution to hoax the
family.
Fred Grant in red hot and cannot
be muzzled. He swears that if father
loses the election, the old commander
will be solid for Tilden or any other
Democrat.
Who Shall Boat Garfieid?
We have a slight dnalrb to form
some wholsome Gonelus:on*^&Jto the
man who can beat knock the ship oft*
the Ohio statesman's h?ad.- .We be
gin with the acceptance oT. the fact
that our quondam leaijj^of Gramer
cy Park has retired to that sweet and
consoling privacy which leaves him
no longer worried in looking after
the fortunes of the Democracy, aud
that he will confine himself*for the
future to . _
?'Roses aud lilies and forge^ne?n&s."
Leaving Mr. Tilden^tKcn, in the
shadows of Gr a mercy Park, let us
look mound for tho man tof>0 the
work, for the greatest nojninee under
the sun, who has dropp?clTn ugpn us
as the bottom of "tho ,tub#>of the
plumed knight of M-tMrt^And ""the
greatest captain of the ^eV'^tni the
great resumptionist dropped out.
Who shall he bo who shall?jpluck
sweet victory from o:!r. adv?rsity?j
How do we stand in the list of'calfdi-1
dales? Here they are, im,*in a*row, j
and alphabetically arranged: ? %
1. Bayard, of Delawat?
2. Knglish, of Indian,. *.
5). Field, of Californufa
4. Hancock, of Pennsylvania.*
5. Ilcndricka, of Indiana, -
G. Payne, of ! - fr, 'jfrj- ?
7. Seymour, of NcvJ^^^vkT
8. Thurman, of Ohio.
Let us see how many de legates will
compose the Cincinnati Convention.
These amount to 738. _ Now. with
the two-thirds rule enforced, which it
will undoubtedly be, it .u^kiives a vote
of 402 to reach the nomiuulion. Let
any man sit down with this list before
him and ask himself vsliich of all
these names is at ail likely to reach
this vote of-102. Qihers may see the
matter quite differently v*om us, but
we think Seymour is the only man
likely to do it. It is lni > hers said
not to bo a candidate and lie may get
only a nominal vote at fi-.it, bt\t when
it conies to the pinch he wIU.be recog
nized as a political neecvjily.. ?
We do not follow any preference in
this matter at all. "We la* only look
ing at tilings as wo see* them llatly
before us. The wires inform us the
great State of Illinois endorses Sey
mour. Suvely an intelligent wide
awake State like Illinois, with such
splendid Democratic possibilities be
fore her, should she wet V. into line,
lias not wasted her pre^j^oe. Wo,
thervlore, may '?s wTTo^Ssntemplale
Soyuiour as a political Tact in the
race. And if Illinois presses Iiis
nominal ion he will bo nominated,
and with him we can surely whip the
light. Illinois is more of a political
possibility to the Democracy than
Ohio; and should wc win back the
Stato of Stephen A. Douglas, we be
lieve she would, stick, and the De
mocracy by her. At all events wc
believe her counsels in I he Conven
tion will be potent and he heeded.?
Columbia Register.
In only a few weeks the class of "80
will "cross the threshold'- and "enter
the arena" and begin the "ba'.tle of
life." Once more "night" will per
form its grand annual spectacular
feat, and will succssfully "bring out
the stars." H will also bring out the
cats, and likewise the bugs, but she?
bless her pretty innocent face?will
not say anything about that in her
essay. "The mill will never grind
with the water that has passed" again,
just as it refused to grind with the
same water last year. "Man" will
again be "the arbitftg of his own des
tiny," ajid'impersoha] people will be
generally warned to "beware" of des
perate steps on the assurance that
?Uhe darkest day" never hist through
day aller to-morrow?a great conso
lation for the man who has lost his
lantern. IV unkind will be cheerfully
told to Hope on, Hope ever, although
what they are to hupe for, beyond the
death of a rich and childless relative,
is not very definitely set forth.
TllE work of the l^iti.le revision
Committee, so far ns concerns the
New Testament is now substantially
ended, and the revised text will pro
bably be formally and finally publish
ed during the summer, No more apt
occasion could be selected, for the
present year is the fifth centenary of
the publication ? f Wyclille's transla
tion of the Bible, printed in 1380.
j The work has been going on simul
taneously in England and this coun
try. The appearance of the new ver
sions will be one of the summer's sen
sations. A change that, will strike
the ordinary render *is the arrange
ment paragraphs, according to
sense, instead of the chapter and
verse plan of the King James transla
tors. Work on the Ohl '.Testament
will hardly be completed before 1883.
Jai'fkksox Davis' plantation nt
Hurricane. Miss., ts leased by Mont
goinery & Sons. The firm is com
posed of four negroes who were for
merly owned by a brother of the cx
Presideni of the Confederacy. They
own plantations worth S75.000, hire
several more and do a largo mercaur
tile business at Vicksburg.
Gen. James A. Garfieid, of Ohio,
the Republican candidate for the
Presidency, hns been since tho war a
member ol Congress, and is now in
the House. The present Legislature
of his Slate being Republican, elected
him to auceeed Mr. Thurman in tho
United States Senate.
Tilden and Grant.
Tilden has been completely baulk
ed in bis plans and purposes by tho
defeat of Grant at Chicago. He sees
there is no chance for him now.
Even his money and skill as a mana
ger cannot save him, and ho has re
solved to retire from the contest, and
make no further effort, either by him
self or through bis friends, to -el the
nomination at Cincinnati. This is a
sudden giving way under outside
pressure ; ?9 up to the nomination of
Guifield lie was fully in the field, with
a firm resolve to get the nomination
if he could. We liSve not been fully
infolmed aa to the particular bearing
winch late events have had upon bis
prospects which induced the change
in his purposes, but there is evidently
a reason, and a good oue too, for the
course he has taken.
The talk of Grant stock looming up
in Dcmocrtic quarters seems to be
not exactly nil tall;, and the idea of
putting him forward with bis own
consent seems to he gaining ground,
ridiculous as it may seem at the first
view. The idea of Grant being tho
possible Democrats nominee will be
scarcely realized or seriously consid
ered until the first dash of surprise
and astonishment has passed off
This, ?hough strange ami startling
enough, is not exactly new for the
same thing was hinted at in 1SG8.
It has been said by prominent
Northern Democrats that this mov?
is not more absurd and contradictory
than was the nomination of Horace
Grecley in 1872, and the chances of
success much belter. The plea is
urged, and with some shade of prob
ability, thai Grant could carry tlio |
South in a body, which would strike
confusion and consternation into the:
opposing ranks, and completely break
and demoralize the. Republican line
in the New England Slates, and di
vide and distract the party tactics and
purposes generally. The disalb'ded
and disappointed, and their name is
legion, might seize the occasion lb
break out of party traces, and ignore
the resolution binding them to support
the nominee of the Chicago Conven
tion. This may serve as the sensa
tion of the hour, and be useil to al
ract attention anel excite comment
and speculation till ruled off the track
by something else in the line of a new
tiino days wonder. Althoughjrognrd
ed by the great body of the Northern
Democrats as a huge joke that no
liorly for a moment believes, 3-et it is
said to be much /discussed.? Palmet
to Yeoman.
The Nimble Cowhide.
The excitement for last Monday
was the public cowhiding of one col
ored young ipau by another. A
young colored girl was tho betrothed
of a young man named Clinton, but,
after the wedding day had been ap
pointed and the bridal trosseau ar
ranged, Clinton espied another dam
sel upon whom he centred his affec
tions. Last week they were married,
to tho utlersurpri.se of sweetheart
number one. Allen Crawford, a bro
ther of the deserted gill determined
upon revenge. Last Monday even
ing bu met Clinton near the store of
Messrs. Hunter & Hood and gave him
a severe whipping with a cowhide.
Bystanders say not less than a hund
red lashes wore applied with consid
erable energy. Clinton bore the ap
plication of the lash with meekness
and without resistance. Monday
night a brother of Clinton took the
matter up, but a co'lision between him
and Crawford was averted by the in
terference of spectators. It Is prob
a'de the end 16 not yet.?Carolina
RevU W.
Wonders will never cease. Merc
is the Philadelphia Grand Jury asking
for the whipping post in its last pre
sent men'., in the following terms:
"Punishment should be severe, short
and decisive. Then our prison ca
pacity would, we feel assured, be
sudluieiil to meet tiio requirements.
We would, therefore, suggest the en
actment of a law by the Slate Legis
ture which would allow u mode of
punishment subject to the will of the
judges to criminals' for a second and
subsequent offense, similar to that
now in the Sla'o of Delaware, as the
best mode of overcoming the present
evil of overcrowded prisons."
The Toledo Blade denounces the
English sparrow as "a swaggerer, a
boaster, a liar, ami a caucus-packer,
a frequenter of free lunches, and a
(lead bent generally. Ho has no do
j mestic virtues, and is as devoid of
public spirit as a defeated candi
date aller a county convention. His
appeal a nco in this country was a
misfortune, and Ids continuance here
is a nuisance that ought to be abated
j by general legislation. T,he city of
[ New York may want him to keep
' people out of Central Putk, but so far
as Toledo is concerned, thy sparrow
must go."
TilK Commissioner of Agriculture
is sending cut circulars,soliciting sam
ples of the products of every county.
They will be carefully arranged in
the propei classes and plainly marked
with the name of county and contri
butor. Specimens of whentx corn,
oats, peas, <fec, are wanted ; also any
article used for Agricultural or
; Mechanical purposes, manufactured
in tho State.
Arthur's Record.
The stint; of the ticket lies in the
tail. 'J he Republican party has too
many men of Vice-Presidentia' cali
bre to be put on with the nomination
of Chester A. Arthur. That gentle
man has been prominent in politics
of tho country for some years, but
not in any enviable way. Perhaps
no name known to newspaper readers,
except that of Mr. Cornell, calls ftp
readily and so offensively the idea of;
the machine which has disgraced the
party in New York and serves as a
text for the denunciation of civil set
vice reformers all over the country.
General Arthur is a machine politi
cian in almost every su.'ise of the
word and to the extent of his ability
ho was set up as a boss, subject only
to the orders of his bosses, who are
Conk ling and his Lieutenant, Cornell.
It canot be forgotten that Iiis candi
date for Vice-President has served
in this capacity, and that in this ca
pacify he boldly violated his obllga-i
lions to conduct in the public interest
the Federal oflice entrusted to his keep
ing. Mis prostitution of the civil
aervice to partisan ends went, in fact,
to such a length that a Republican
administration was obliged to take
notice of it and call him to account.
Nor did bis partisan virulence stop
there for he took issue with tho ad
ministration, defied its authority and
wa3 foremost in the battle for the
spoil system, which was one of the
most notable events in the early his
tory of the Hayes administration, it
will not edify honest Republicans to
read what Secretary Sherman said of
Mr. Arthur and his associates in sup
port of the attempt to remove him.
In putting Buch a man on bis ticket,
without any regard to the general
lack of qualifications for se> important !
an oflice, the Convention humbled it
self in the dust at the feet of the Ross
of Rosses and gave him a sweet re
venge upon the influences which com
bined to defeat the third-term con
spiracy. Harmony i4* dearly bought '
at such a price.?Philadelphia TimnrA
A Princess' Romance,
About the tccent marriage of the
Princess Frederica of iIanover there
was not a little romance. '?Here,''
said a London correspondent, "is a
Princess mairyiug a private secre
tary ; a descendant of the Hanovari
ao Kings marrying an undisiinguish
eel Baron, doing it against the will of
her brother, making her friends, the
Cambridges,furious, and calling forth
the sneers of the Imperial family in
Germany. She is encouraged by the
Queen of England who applies to
the Emperor William for her dowry,
anil braves the wrath other family to
satisfy the will of her ralative. The
Princess Frodrrioa has loved the
Huron R?umungen for veaTs. She
sought long ago for permission to
make him her husband. For his
sake she had refused more than one
advantageous match. Il is said when
Prince Leopold began to siiow some
thing more to her than a mere friend
ly attachment she determined to ap
peal to him as the favorite son of the
Queen. She told him her story and
asked Iiis aid. Like a Hue knight,
be devoted himself to her cause, lie
urged his mother until she caught
some of her son's enthusiasm ; he ar
ranged matters which without him
would have been difficult ; he turned
her clitics into her partisans ; and so
it comes about that a sister of n
crown less King is able with even
something like pomp to marry for
love."
A better day is drawuing in Auro
ra, Nevada, for a Gospel preacher is
wanted. The local editor's soul is
touched, and with a vexed spirit he
dies out: "We are sorely in need of
a preached ; we don't want any cheap
trash. We want a good muscular
Christian, who can calch sinners by
the scruir of the neck and drag them
howling up the plane of righteous
ness ; one wtio will not drink more
than Tie can bold. Such a man will
get a right smart lay out here. If he
can play the fiddle for the regular
j weekly dance it will augment his
[salary Bomewhal."
Texas papers say that last Septem
ber the wife of Mr. B. H Davis was
supposed to have been drowned while
bathing with a parly of friends at
Gulvcston. Her death was announc
ed in the obituary columns of the pa
pers, and her funeral sermon was
preached at the Baptist Church in
Bryan. It has just been ascertained,
however, says tho Times, that the
lady was not drowned, and that she
has since becu living in New York
city, having eloped with a pyclended
friend of her husbrnd.
J A Southern paper quotes a gentle
' man of the colored persuasion as say
ing : "No, parson, I problyTI never
jgit courage to jine de church. When
, a poor darkey's spiritual' viscr tnkes
i him down in the riber and says, 'I
capsize thee,' and then ducks under,
I ii's time dat darkey looks after his
self. You don't play none ob dem
games on me, old man.''
Gkn. Judson Kilpatrick, of New
Jersey, was quite unanimous for Gi ant
at Chicago. Considering the General's
own estimate of himself, it was for
tunate that he was not required to go
farther west, lest the country night
j tip up, V'nstward.
Light on Garfield.
Tbc New York Sun 6heds light
upon the Republican nominee, as
follows ; "The character of Gen. Gar
Bcld can be judged by the following
conspicuous facts: When, in 18,72,
the Credit Mobilier bribery and cor
ruption among members of Congress
were first exposed, Gen. Garfield wan
one among those accused. He imtne?
diatoly published a letter expressly
and positively denying that he had
any share in it. Next, on January
14, 1873, he appeared before the com
mittee of tho House of Representa
tives, and under oa'h declared : "I
never owned, received, or agreed to
receive any stock of the Credit Mohi?
lier, or of the Union Pacific Railroad,
nor any dividends arising from either
of Ibera.'
"But on January 2Gth next followr
ing, the Hon. Oakes Ames was exam
ined before the same committee, nnd
proved by record evidence, partly iij
Gen. Gat field's own handwriting, that
Gen. Garlicld had had stock in tho
Credit Moodier, and that he had re
reccived dividends thereupon. Mr.
Ames also testified that Gen. Gar
field hail visited hiin subsequent to
the commencement of the investiga
tion by the House, and had endeavor
ed to induce him to swear before the
com mi tec thai money thus paid him
as dividends had been delivered to
him as a loan,' anJ yet, at the very
game lime that lie had endeavored to
procure this false testimony from Mr,
Ames, Gen. Garfield had called upon
Mr. Ames to pay him an additional
sum of money on account of the
Credit Mobilier, claiming that the
dividends he had aheacly received
had not been as large as they should
have been.
"A perjurer, and a man who at
tempts to suborn perjury, is not fit to
be President.
' One other important feature in,
the history of Gen. Garfield is his re
lation to the De Goyler paving con
tract. One De Goyler bad made a
coo tract with tho Shepherd Ring in
Washington to put down a quanti'.y
of patent pavement. Gen. Garfield
was Chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations in '.he House of Rep
resentatives. In order to pay for
this patent pavement an appropria
tion was needed from Congress. The
sum of live thousand dollars was paid
to Gen. Garfield on behalf of De
Go\ Icr, aud appropriations to the
amount of millions of dollars were
thereafter grauted to the Washing
ton Ring, the appropriation for the
De Goyler pavemcpt being included
therein,
"These ore gome of the facts in
the public record of James A. Gar
field for Piesidedt of the United
Stales."
The Whirlpool of Journal torn.
Oh, tin8 great absorbing, cavernous
hissing, roaring, foaming, maelstrom
of journalism 1 How it sucks in lalect
genius, earning, brains, hopes, ambi
tions, aspirations ! Of the hundreds
who are called, how few aro chosen 1
What infinite variety of ability it de
mauds 1 What tact, knack, care and
industry 1 We must speak well of
each other, old friends, for nobody
else will have much to eay of us. We
are to ihc temple of fame as curbstone
brokers are to the legitimate ex
change. We must content ourselves
with making all the noise possible
while we ate living, for very little
noise shall we make after we have
finally departed.
I Little Edith (who has heard her
mamma speak of blighted affections,)
??Mamma, and you think if a person
J is really and truly in love it would
be wicked to deprive her of tho object
of her affections?" Mamma : "Why,
eertianly, E.'?lh, dear ; but whero in
! the world did you learn all that?"
! Edith: "I heard you tell it to Mrs.
I Jinglejaw to-day Aud, nA&mma, I'm
awfully :n love with piece oi
I cake in the cupboard." It in need
less to Hay that Edith and the object
of her affections wero immediately
united.
During, the session of the Chicago
Convention on Friday, when the
reading was concluded and the chair
rapped in order to put the question
on the adoption of the majority re
port, a North Carolina colored dele
gate, who had been taking a nop,
roused himself and sung out, "Sbavo
jsir?" This caused some exhibition
of good humor, and was quite a relief
to the usual condition of acrimony.
During his speech in the nomina
ting ol Grant on Saturday, Conjutrtg
[ had the massive cheek to. say of
j him : "Without bureaus, committees,
ollicials or emissaries to manufacture
sentiment in his fftvor, without in
tiiguc or effort on, his part, Qran.t hi
I the candidate w hose supporters ^svo
I never threatened to, bolt, as they eay
j he is a Republican, who never wa
' vcrs."
j ?An hones.t politician has been
discovered, in the person of State
I Senator Duivid R. Mm ray, of Han
jcock County, Kentucky. Senator
I Murray was abitged to visit Lend
jville, Colorado, during the session of
the Legislature and upou his return
; refused to draw from tho State Trei
'sury 8105, to which he was legally
j entitled.