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gfJSTER WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50 "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, I860. Consolidated Aug. 2, ISSI.] SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1882. New Series-To]. I. No. 33. --f.-? $$??t M?t ?rotan at? &rat ?pi Published erery Tuesday, -BY TBS Watchman and Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS: Two Dollars per an o um-io advance. ADVSRTI3S??STS. Ode Square, first insertion..................$l 00 Every subsequen t insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserve private a teres ts will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub? lished free. For job work or contracts for advertising address. Watchman and Southron, or apply at tho Office, to _ N. G. OSTEEN, Business Manager. CHERAW 1AN0 DARLINGTON ANO CH ERA W ANO SALISBURY RAILROADS. TI ???Nn?n PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, SocirTY KILL, S. C.. May 23, ISSI. f\8 AND AFTER THIS DATE, TRAINS \J on these Roads will run as follows,-erery except Sunday. Leave Wadestaro..................... S 40 a m Leave Bennett's_-.- 9 00am Le? ve M orren.. 9 ?5 a m Leave McFarlan ...9 35 a in Leave Cheraw_.-. 10 15 a m Leave Society Hill-.- 10 50 a ni Leave Darlington .......... .............. ll 35 a m Arrive at Florence-. 12 10 p tn CP. Leave Florence. 12 iO p m Leave Darlington . 1 20 p m Leave society Hill.............. 2 10 p ni Arrive at Chera*... 2 50 p ra Arrive, at Wadesborv. 4 15 p m - The freight train will leave Florence at 6 30 A M every day except Sunday; making the round trip to Cberew every day, and to Wadesboro as often as may he necessary-keeping out of the way of passenger train. _B D TOWNSEND. President. GERMAN KAiNIT, Direct Importation. PERUVIAN GITANO, Direct from the Agent of the Peruvian Gov? ernment. FISH GUANO, 6@3 per cent. Ammonia. ?T07A SCOTIA. LAND PLASTES. Sooth Carolina Ground Phosphate, Fine Ground and High Grade. For sale by HERMAN BULWINKLE, KERR'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. ' Jan 17_3m THE QUTMSEMl -ONE OF THE BEST NEWSPAPERS IS THE SOUTH. Ko Sensationalism ! 2?o Immorality ! ATOUSTA Mole and CoM?allst, 1882. SUBSCRIBE POE IT! THE CHRONICLE AND CONSTITU? TIONALIST is the oldest newspaper ia the South, and perhaps the oldest in the United States, having been established in 1T85. While thoroughly Democratic in prin? ciple, it is liberal, progressive and tolerant. The Chronicle contains the latest news from All parts of the world, and is recognized as a first class paper. As an advertising medium, it covers the country in Georgia and South Carolina tribu? tary to Augusta. We endeavor to exclude sensationalism. We publish no articles of an immoral charac? ter. TERMS: Daily, one year.-.'..$10 00 Tri-Weekly, one year. 5 00 Weekly, one year. 2 00 Address, WALSH & WRIGHT, . jan24-td_?_Augusta, Ga. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS POPULAR AND CENTRALLY located HOTEL having beec entirely renovated during the past Summer is now ready for the reception of the traveling public. Popular prices $2 and 2.5 '? per day * Special rate3 for Commercial Travelers. E. T. GAILLARD, Oct 25_Proprietor. THE AIMAR HOUSE, . CORN KR OF I Yanderhorst and King Sts j HAVING BEEN LEASED BY Miss Heriot, (Formerly of 190 Meeting-St.,) IS NOW OPEN for the accomoiodatior. of ? Boarders. Parties visiting Charleston wji! find thu House conveniently situated for bust- ! Bess, and directly on the line of Street Railway. Terms, per day, from $1 25 tu $1 50. " ? month, from $25 Pp to $3i? 00, j according to location of rooms-?ire extra. j Feb 13 I HILBERS HOUSE. 284 King Street, nex* to Masonic.Tem ple, Charleston, S. C. Rates Sl.50 per day, reduced rates ny the week or month, According to location of rooms. This house, so well and favorably known as being a strictly first-class bon ding hous<\ is centrally located, accessible to wholesale . and retail stores, theatre?, and places of in? terest, and especially desirable for business laen or families visiting the city; nothing be? ing neglected to make its guests comfortable. Ask for carriage at depot.-Respectfully ^~ MRS. 3. HILBERS PROPRIETRESS Sept 20-1881._ THE GRAxM) CENTRAL HOTEL. COLUMBIA, S. C. HAVING renewed my Lease of:'The Grand Central Holer7 for a term of years, I beg-leave to inform the Public that the House has beea thoroughly re-painted, and is now furnished with s?w and improved Black Walnut Furniture, Wire Spring Beds with best Hair Mattresses, Velvet and Brussels Carpets. Electric Annunciators cooi.ect with I every room, and the Hotel is connected j through the Columbia Telephot '. : Exchange j with every prominent place of business j throughout the City. These advantages, with j competent attendants, warrant me in assuring the traveling Public as good accommodations as tbe-Sonth can afford. JOHN T. WILLEY, Proprietor. _Sept 20 _3m COLUMBIAHGT?L R N. J.OWKANCE, Proprietor COLUMBIA, S: C. Tabfe, ROOC?S and Servants First-class. RATES REASONABLE. Sgt 20-3m_ _ DUBBER STAMPS NAM? STAMPS FOR MARKiMB CLOTHING with pndellible ink, or for printing visiting c&rds^and STAMPS OF ANY KIND CaUSn C. P. OblELN, -At thc Watchman and Southron Office. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. ON ond after Jan. 1st, 1SS2, the following schedule will be run on this Road?: .NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAIL TRAIS, (Daily ) (Nos. 47 West and 4S East) Leave Wilmington.10 15 p m Arrive ai Florence.?. 2 20 a m Leave Florence.2 50 a in Leave Sumter.?. 4 20 a m Arrive at Columbia.? ? ? .. . 6 10 a m Leave Columbia........10 00 p m Leave Sumter*-. ........12 08 a m Arrive at Florence. 134 a ui Leave Florence......... ......... ......... I 52 a m Arrive at Wilmington. 6 20 a m This Train stops only at Brinkley's, White ville, Flemington, Fair Bluff, Marion. Florence, Tiuamonsville. Mayesville, Sumter, Camden Junction and Ea* to ver. TBROUGn FREIGHT TRAIN. I>uily, except Sundays. Leave Florence. ?-.-ll 40 p m Leave Sumter. 2 28 a m Arrive at Columbia..?. 5 30 a Leave Columbia.?.- 5 00 p m Leave Sumter-.- .- 8 20 p m Arrive at Florence.??-ll 10 p m LOCAL FREIGHT-(Daily except Sunday.) Leave Florence.......... 6 00 a tn Ai rive at Sumter-. 10 55 a m Leave Sumter.?...ll 40 a m Arrive at Columbia. 4 00 p m Leave Columbia.?._... 7 00 a m Arrive at Sumter....?.ll 15 a m j Leave Sumter..12 15 p m j Arrive at Ilorence. 5 10 p m A. POPE, G. P. A. JOHN F. DIVINE. General Sup't. Columbia and Greenville Bail Hoad. PASSENGER. DEPARTMENT, COLUMBIA. S. C., August 31, ISSI. ON AND AFTER THURSDAY, September 1st, 1881, Passenger Tra:::* will run as herewith indicated, upon ?.his road aud its branches-Daily except Sundays : No. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Columbia (A).ll 20 a m Leave Alston.....??_-.12 26 p m Leave Newberry.?...? 1 21 p m Leave Hodges... 3 52 p m Laave Belton . . 5 05 p m Arrive at Greenville....- -.- -.. ..... 6 27 p m No. 43 Down Passenger. Leave Greenville at. .10 33 a m Leave Belton.ll 57 a m Leave Hodges.?. 1 12 p m Leave Newberry. 3 47 p m Leave Alston. 4 46 p m Arrive at Columbia (F).... ?. 5 50 p m SPARTANBURG, UMOX <fe COLUMBIA R. R. j No. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Alston.12 -i0 p m Leave Spartanburg; S JJ A C Depot (B) 4 03 p m j Arrive Spartanburg R"? D Depot (E) 4 12 p m j No- 43 Down Passenger. Leave Spartanburg R & D Depot (Ii) 12 48 p m Leave Spartanburg SU4C Depot (G ) 1 07 p m Leave Uoion. 2 36 p m Arrive at Alston. 4 36 p m LAURENS RAIL ROAI*. Leave Newberry. 3 55 p m Arrive at Laurens C- H. 6 45 p m Leave Laurens C. H. S 30 a m Arrive at Newberry.ll 30 a m ABBEVILLE BRANCH. leave Hodges. 3 56 p in Arrive at Abbeville. 4 46 p m Leave Abbeville-.12 15 pm Arrive at Hodges.?. 1 05 p m BLUE RIDGE R. R. & ANDERSON BRANCH. Leave Bet ton?. 5 OS p tn Leave Anderson.- .... 5 41pm Leave Pendleton. 6 20 p in Leave Senaca ,'C). 7 20 p m Arrive at Walhalla. 7 45 pm Leave Walhalla.. . 9 23 a m Leave Seneca (D)?. . 9 54 a m Leave Pendleton.10 30 a m Leave Anderson..?...ll 12 am Arrive at Belton.ll 4S a m On and after above dute through cars will be run between Columbia and Henderson ville with? out change. CONNECTIONS A-With South Carotina Rail Road from Charleston; with Wilmington C?!'jmbi&?f$Au gusta R lt from Wilmington and all points north thereof; with Charlotte. Columbia & Augusta I Rail Road from Charlotte and points north j thereof. B-With Asheville A Spartanburg Rail Road for points in Western N. C. C-With A. & C. Div. R4D.R. R. for all points South and West. D-With A- A C. Div. R. A D. R. R. from At Ianta and beyond. E-With A & C. Div. R. A D. R. R. for all points South and West. F-With South Carolina Rail R<--ad for Char lesion ; with Wilmington. Columbia A Augusta Rail Read for Wilmington and the North : wi:h Charlotte, Columbia A Augusta Rail Road for Charlotte aud the North. G-With Asheville A Spartanburg Rail ?oad from Hendersonville. . ll-With A. A C. Div. R. A D. R. R. from Cha-lotte A beyond. Standard time used is Washington, D. C., which is fifteen minutes faster than Columbia. J. W. FRY, Sup't. A. POPE. General Passer.??er Agent. August 2?. rsfti.: ff. Souih Carolina Railway Co, ! COMMENCING FEBRUARY 13th. ?S82. j Passenger Trains on Camden Branca will I run as follows, until further notice: EAST TO COLUMBIA. Leave Camden..... 7 40 a m i Leave Camden Junction. 9 50 a m j Arrive at Columbia.12 13 p m j WEST FROM COLOMBIA-DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS, j Leave Columbia. 4 05 a in?. 4.15 p m I Arrive Camden Junction, 12 ?1 p UK.. 6 0?) p m Arrive at Camden. 2 15 p m... 7 13 p m i EAST TO CHARLESTON AND AUGUSTA Leavc Camden. 3 00 p m ? Leu ve Camden June'. 4 19 p m I Arrive ai Charleston. 9 f?0 p u> I Arrive at Augusta. 7 35 a m WEST FROM CHARLESTON AND AUGUSTA. Leave Charleston. 7 45 m Leave Augusta.".. 4 45 p HI Arrive Camden June'.12 01 p m Arrive at Camden. 2 15 p m CONNECTIONS. Columbia ard Greenville Railroad both way.-, for all points on ihat Road and on the Spar? tanburg, Union and Columbia and Spartanburg j and Ashville Railroads, also with the Char lotte. Columbia and Augusta Railroad to and ! from all points North by Trains leaving Camden ! at 7 40 a tu, and arriving zi7 15 pm. Connections made at Augura to all points ^'est and South; also at Charleston with Steamers ior New York and Florida-on Wed nesdays and Saturdays. Trains on Camden Brunch nm daily except j Sun-lay. Ou maia noe. Columbia and Augusta i Divisions, trains run daily. Pullman Cars arc j run between Charleston and Washington, on j trains arriving at Columbia 12:13 and depart- i ing at -i:I5 P. Local sleepers between ! Charleston. Columbia and Augusta On Saturdays ROUND TRIP TIC Jv El 5 are | sold to and from all Stations at one tirs?. ela.<s j fare for the round trip-ticke-'s be?hg.??od titi j Monday noon, to return. Kxcursdou tickets j good for IO day? ur* regularly ou sale to an t j from all stations ac 6 cents per mile f-.-r round ! i trip. THROUGH TICKETS to all points, can be ! purchased by applying to James Jones. Agent j at Camden. D. C. ALLEN, General Passenger and Ticket Ageot. JOHN B. PECK, General Maoager. Charleston, S. C. j NORTH-EASTERN R. R. GO. SUPEEINTENDEISTT'S OFFICE, ! NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. j CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 23, 18S2. , On and after ibis date the following Sehe dale will bc ruo, Sundays included : Leave Charleston. Arrive Florence, j 8 Oo A. M.12 55 P. M. 4 40 P. M.?. 2 00 A M. 8 15 P. M.1 30 A. M. L^ave Florence. Arrive Charleston. 2 40 a. M.6 50 A. sc. 11 35 A. M.4 35 P M. 12 10 A. ar.9 20 A. M. Train leaving Florence at 2 40 A. M. viii j stop for way passengers. J. F. DIVINE, Gen'l Supt, I P. L. CLEA FOR, Gen'l. Ticket Agent. ROBERT HG?GK Se, SONS, ! IMPORTEKS AND DEALERS IN 1 I Br?, Iiis and W?te, i 44 South-Street, Baltimore, Md. December 9 DEDICATED TO "THE BOYS. -o BY J- W. TRADEWELL. -O I am dying, snrely dying, With no friend beside my bed. To speak a kind and cheerful word, Or bathe my fevered head. But the spirit that upheld me Through many a dangerous fight, Still upholds me in my agony This dark and gloomy night. Perhaps when I'm dead and gone, Some kindly voice may say I knew him in the pride of yonth, When all was bright and gay. But the promise of that youth once fair, Once beautifully bright, Has vanished in the di rkness Of this dark and stormy night. Deeply and darkly have T sinned For many a weary year, My fathers' heart caused many a pang, My sister many a tear. But I ara sure they will forgive When I have passed from sight, And my soul has winged its way Into the shadowy night. Oftentimes I see around, When fever is at its height, The manly forms of martial men Who charged with me in fight. Tell them they must not forget me, But to keep my memory bright, When I've vanished ?D the darkness Of this deep and gloomy night. Say unto those who faithful prove, Untii ray race was run, That the nightly King of Terrors Has no craven victim won ; For I gaze into his fearful face With eye as calm and bright As oft I faced him on the field In doubtful, dangerous fight. Tell the Boys when I have passed, From this cherished earth away, To see me like a Soldier, Aye, a veteran, laid away. Remember though a reckless man, Few his memory to defend ; That he bravely fought for victory ; That he lived and died their friend. Hark ! my Comrades ! I am going, Fades earth's landscapes from my sight. Hark ?.I hear the bugle blowing ! Quick, my soul, prepare for flight j Who knows but on the other shore, My path may be more bright, Because on earth my life has been One dismal, dark, dreary night, TOMCFOFYHEIDAY. As Viewed Through the Spectacles of Bill Arp. [Atlanta Constitution.J Every little while there's a new humbug comes to the front. I don't care anything about Oscar Wilie, but it frets me to see the folks up yonder running after him, and I'm afraid he will come down South, and our folks will be doing the same thing. They say he is a poet, and lectures on esthetics, and they say ?hat esthetics is a high up sorter of a thing that carnes a man above the frost line, and makes him ethereal and heavenly, and gives him new ideas of what is beautiful aud lovely. I like poetry purly well-that is, some kiuds of poetry, that deals ia facts-like "Mary had a lamb/7 and "Life is real, life is earnest," and the song of the shirt and the village black? smith, and the hermit, and all such, for they are according to nature and come home to a man, but I haven't got up to Swinburn and Tennyson aud such highfalutin poets yet, and ? don't think I ever will, lt's a strain on me to reach 'em, and I've quit try? ing. Many years ago I stopped and entrenched in Kathleen Mavourneen and the meeting of the waters and coming through the r}Te, and such like, and if Oscar has got anything better I don't want to hear it. We've got esthetics enough at our house. The children are purty and sweet and love me so when I get home, and they say their little prayers by the bed? side, and they have got their little pla}7 houses at the roots of the trees, and the broken china and the moss is laid round so nice, and the little chickens look so clean aud happy, and the young lambs are frisking about the meadow, and the waler gushes out so merrily from the spring and j o?d Kose has just given birth to such j a nice r.ew calf that I don't want any j higher esthetics just now. I don't care anything special about the Greeks ond the Romans, nor their heroes temples, for they have all | busted a iong time ago, and to my j opinion anything that busts is a sort ! of a humbug. Farmers don't bust, nor hard work, nor raising children j and chickens, and Fra fer coming j down to facts and business and hurd j p?.U; j Them fellers in the olden time got j esthetic and tried to build a tower to j climb up to Heaven, and the Al- j mighty got mad with 'em and confus- ? ed 'ern and Oscar Wilde will come to j the same end. Wc have got to work ! for a living, I tell you, and we nave ; got to work down here in the dirt ai.d ; the mud, and the women have got to j suffer and bear childi en just like they ; did 6,000 years ago, and there is no : dodging this sort of business, and j wht?i a man c< mes along to talk j about things in a higher plane, and j pretend he can ma'.e angels of us and \ fit us for heaven before we get there, ! 1 set him down as a fraud and a fool, j and he will be found as such lu due ? time. lt becomes a man to be cautious about running after new things, espe? cially if he is not afflicted with sur? plus money, but the other day a friend from your town sent me a can of cookaline, which he said lie wanted Mrs. Arp to try as a substitute for ; lard. Ii was nude out of cotton seed aud looked as nic<- a::d pure -rn sweet j oil, and I didn't see why it shouldn't j be a good thing, for 1 knew that rich . lolks used olive oil on.their vittcls at ! the North, arid over in France. r?:o I j sa tv no reason why ? good oil should j not come from other?vegetables. The j only difficulty was^^s^utting Mrs. i ?'-p to start out fairly onSho experi? ment, for you sec; she has^^iorr?,, and convictions ot? her own. don't run after notting, nor nob^iy. She won t change &MIB nor corners, nor needles aud thread. Site mak puddeDs and pies by the same old i coipts, and she used the old time lc sugar done u?> iu blue papers as lo: as shu could get it. She keeps towel hid away from the children ai a water dipper hung so high they cai reach it. When things are calm ai serene and everything lovely I u the towel but otherwise I rank {.loi with the children. So I says, says to the girls, hide this cookaline aw; in the kitchen and use it about hi and half with lard for a while ai gradually slide it into the biscuit ai batter cakes without any lard, ai let's see how it works. Well, worked splendid ; that is a fact. T girls took extra pains with the v tels, and my wife, Mrs. Arp, si complimented 'em and said they we mighty nice, and so one morning told her about how they were usir the cookaline in Atlanta and makii snowflake crackers with it, at she said she wanted no more the crackers, and I said that la was an animal grease and a ve; dirty animal at that, and som times had diseases that killed folk and the ojl was from a clean veget ble and Idident see why it wasent ; good or better. She said cotton se( might do very well to winter po? cows and sheep on, but there wasei enough substance in them to mal milk or butter and that cotton butti was the poorest 6tuff in the worl But, said I, suppose we try it, and it makes as good cakes as these and a heap cheaper than lard, hadn't v better use it. She looked up sudde ly with an inquiring glance, and ju then our little ten year old girl cac led out te he he, te he he, and tl girls bit their lips and fiownedathe but I saw the thing was done fo Mrs. Arp never eat narry pother cali just out of suspicion. After tba however, we all got along as usu; and nothing" was said, but we kno that she knows that we are using i and she knows that we know sh knows- it, and so it's all right nov for she is a sensible woman. It's great blessing and the beauty of it : it comes from our side of the hous< It's sorter like sugar. Them fellow up North can't raise it, though the can refine it and adulterate it bu they haveu't found anything cheape to mix with cotton seed oil yet, an maybe ihoy won't, The next thin you hear of they will have their littl mills all over this country squeezinj the juice out of our seed, and th price will go up to 25 cents a bushel and all that will help and make u batter acquainted. When they com* Gown here they will all turu Derne crats, if they wasent before, fo everybody wants to be cousiderei respectable, and the Democrats dowi South are the most respectable people I mean what I say and mean no ol fense, for 1 know some R?publicain who are mighlv nice people and elev er and kind aud all that, aud thej dident go to be Republicans. Serat of 'em turned ever after the war t( save their property and some to ge; office, which was all right consideriu' and 1 think they were sort of a brea! water between us and our foes Some few oi 'em, like Joe Brown knew when to flop back again, bul some dident, and they are there yet. I've got nothing agin 'era. Marcel lus Thornton is a right clever man, and if I was about to drown in a mill pond, I had just as leave depeud cu him to jump in and pull me out ae anybody. 1 don't know of any greal issues that are dividing us now bul money and office and spoils. I don't. The finances are settled and the par? ties are split up among themselves on the tariff, which is to say neither par? ty has any plank to stand on, and ii the Republicans would quit stealing and waiving the bloody shirt, I would not care anything about politics ex? cept for this. I want our boys to have a showing. The Democrats haven't had a chance to put a hand in the public crib for twenty-five years, and I think that turn-about is fair play. 1 want a chance for our people to show them Republicans that we can run the machine just as well as they can, even if we cau't steal as much. Though ? reckon that if there is anything loose a Iieing around our folks will pick it up. As to Ben Hill's big boom about the imfamy of the coalition, I confess I can't see it. For forty years I have heard the same sort of talk every two or four years, and I've got used to it. I'm too old a coon to be fooled with t';e like ofthat. When Mr. Hill wants to be elected he coalishes with everybody he can, irrespective of color. If I was a candidate I would coalish too. They are all coalishing, and the best coalisher generally wins the race. There ie no use in hollerin' corruption when the corruption ain'c there. There is no use in abusing C?lquitt and Gordon when they haveu't done anything wrong. There is no use in shouting bear when the bear ain't there. I'm agin all politicians whu try to deceive the people. Ben Hill is raising a power? ful fuss over a very small matter just like Joe Brown did over a bill to sell the public la.uis to educate the poor nigger. Joe was trying to coal? ish. It's all stuff lo my opinion, though 1 recon I'm a foul for want of sense. Now when anybody asks me why I am a Democrat, I can answer lum honest and say, like a school boy, '?.jos* case 1 um. and case I want to be." ? fell over o" that side in my youth, and i'm too cid now ID be swapping horses without any boot. Now if Dr, Felton, or Mr. Speer, or Mr. Cox have a good oiler of boot, let 'ern swap if they want to, 1 don't care. And besides, I'm a Democrat because 1 like fair play, and them other fellows have had the swing long enough in reason. Then, again, they have abused us, and they don't tote fair, and they cheated us out of a president, and I don't like 'em no how, and so on, and to fourth. That is why I an. a Democrat. We are going. -, have a rousing old time in G< cr*(|a 1MR ye?;r, and we won't mind sc" ' . . -Hon pitted against '?eff^|^t'3t ' ' tilr: tun cfit and to -^^y^^?^?L They both want of fc^7 how infill it with ^?^1 _ ability. The doctor made a good representative and Mr. Hill makes a good Senator. We will never forget the grand defense he made for us about Andersonville, and how he si? lenced Mr. Blaine and spiked their guns, and we have never heard any? thing of the Andersonville howl since. Now if Ben will quit charging infamy on the Independents, and the doctor will quit preaching corruption and rings on the Democrats and come back into line, we will all get along better and the people will rejoice to do them honor. Now I see that Mr. Cox of LaGrange, says this move? ment springs from the people. This is an old song ; Dr. Felton wore it I out in our district. When a politi- j c?an hankers after office he trumps up some excuse and lays it on the people, when the truth is the people caro mighty little about him or the office. The people haven't got time right now to be springing anything except trying to pull through the | winter and fix up for planting, and if i there are any -of 'em a springing new [ political movements I haven't heard of 'em. Tho trouble with these poli? ticians, they attach too much impor? tance to their own promotion. Let 'em stand back and wait modestly and maybe the people will spring somethiug after awhile. There are bigger things than politics. BILL ARP. The Source of the Mississippi. The new found source of the Mis? sissippi is a sparkling little gem of a lake, situated above and beyond Lake Itaska. It nestles among the piues of an unfrequented and wild region of Minnesota, many miles from the nearest white settlement, and just on the dividing ridge which forms the great water shed of North America. Within a few miles of it can be found lakes and streams whose waters are tributary to the Red river or the North and the Yellowstone, thus reaching the sea thousands of milos from the mouth of the mighty Mississippi, which flows in a trickling brook fro ni Lake Glazier. This lake, discovered to be the true source of the greatest river iu the world by Capt. Willard Glazier, on -July 22, 1881, is about a mile and a half in greatest diameter, and would be nearly round in shape but for a single promontory, whose rocky shores give it in outline the shape of a heart. The waters of the lake are exceedingly clear and pure, coming from springs, 6om*e being at the bottom, but the three most promi? nent rise a few miles back in low, wet laud, and flow into the lake iu little rills. On the very point of the pro? montory is a spring whose waters are as cold as ice, and at which Capt. Glazier's weary party slacked their thirst while exploring the shores of the new lake. So lonely is the region around the lake that for fourteen days not even a red skin was seen, and wearied by the hardships of this rough country, yet with a feeling of having added something to geographical knowledge, Capt. Glazier and his party were glad, indeed, to come into contact again willi their fellow-crea? tures.-Dubuque Herald. A Good Thing for the Piney Woods. A gentleman by the name of Stan? ley, from Wilmington, N. C., has invented machinery by which he utilizes the slabs from the. saw mills a'id all refuse pine wood, so much of which is wasted in our forests. He claims that one cord of light-wood will yield*eighty gallons of pine oil, worth, at manufacturers' prices, 25 cents per gallon. Also, that this cord of wuod will net twenty dollars. Ile not only gets the oil, but also fifty bushels ot charcoal, which he readily sells at 10 cents per bushel. Also, one hundred gallons of pyroligneous acid, also fifty pounds of vegetable asphalturn, making a fiue black varn? ish. The pine oil which is the prin? cipal yield, contains a large per cen tage of creosote, and has been found to be one of the best preserva? tives of woud known, protecting it from the attacks of insects and worms, particularly from the "Teredo" or saltwater-worm, which destroys all the piling underneath wharves along the seacoast. If Mr. Stanley's un? dertaking is a success, he has a fortune at hand. 'The yearly waste in our pine forests is immense, and if it could be turned to profit, as this invention would indicate, many a poor piney woods tract will be valu? able in the future. A Developing Industry. The total acreage of sorghum cane in the State of Kansas last year was 45, 628, and the product 3,899,440 gall?os of molasses. The value of the sorghum molasses produced in Kansas has in? creased from $350,338 in 1874 to ?1,754,748 in ISSI. The farmers and stuckuieu learn from experience that sorghum is better than rice cor:: for stock feeding purunses. Cattle and sheep will eat the seed, blades mid stalks of sorghur.i cane, while ouly the seed of the rice corn is eaten. Nearly all the sheep of Southern Kansas are being fed on sorghum cuoe this winter. It is cut and cured the same as hay. Gold Mining in Georgia. A new process of gold mit,: ig has re? cently -icen very satisfactorily tried in thc Chestateo River, by means called a vacuum dredging boat. It is designed to raise thc gravel from the beds of rivers, washing the ?md :!iid separating I thc ?old from it. At a recent trial thc ! boat raised the sand by tho vacuum j system at thc rate of from two to four . tons every five minutes. The saud wns rapidly washed automatically iu sluice | boxes and thc gold collected in quick- j silver. As the result of three nours' ; work $200 worth ?f gold was secured, j The expense vras not more than twelve j dollars. The sand was found to bc j very rich, and it is said thc? J is enough j in the rivers in Georgia to keep fifty boats busy for many years. j A clergyman says : "A young wo- i mau died in my neighborhood yester day while I was preaching the gospel in a state of beastly intoxication." | i. Glucose from Cassava. For some time past rumors have been current here of a company being in process of formation with a view of manufacturing glucose from cas? sava, but after careful inquiry, we have not been able to trace them to a reliable source. We have no hesita? tion, however, says the Confectioner's Journal, in saying that such a com? pany is contemplated at an early day, and this fact adds interest to the plant which seems destined to take a prominent part in the development o? the confectionery trade, and calls for more than a passing notice from us as to the nature of cassava, it?* habitat and its merits as a saccharine produc? ing material. All c onfectioners know that glucose has become a very im? portant article of commerce during the past few years, and the consump? tion of it has reached 200,000 tons in this country alone, and a large quan? tity is annually exported. It has been made heretofore from corn, which has advanced so much this year as to make this much-needed article quite expensive. The demand for it is very large and exceeds the supply. Heretofore the profits of manufacturing it have been very great at the rate ;;aid for corn during the past few years. During the trial of a recent lawsuit in New York it came out in the e\idence that the Buffalo Grape Sugar Company sold to one agency ?100,000 worth of grape sugnr, or glucose, per month. That company is now using nearly 6,000 bushels of corn every day in the week. A bushel of corn weighing fifty-six pounds will yield thirty pounds of sugar or glucose ; the average net profit on a bushel of corn is between forty and fifty cents, since when the price has materially advanced. This would make tue average profits of the Buflaiu Grape Sugar" Company over ?1.000,000 a year, on a capital now invested of $-1.000,000. The manu? factured glucose is used chiefly for making table syrups, candies, for brewing purposes, as food for bees, and making artificial honey. It is estimated that 11,000,000 bushels of corn will be used tin's year by the various manufactories of this product in this Country. The average produc? tion of corn iv the States of Pennsyl? vania, New York, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois is 35 bushels to the acre. The amount of glucose produced from one bushel is 30 pounds, or 1,050 pounds to tlift acre. Well authenti? cated evidence is at hand to the ef? fect that 20 tons of cassava to the acre is no unusual crop in Florida. This would, at 50 pounds to the bushel, give a yield of over TOO bush? els per acre, and, at the rate of 30 pounds of glucose per bushel, would produce over 21,000 pounds of g2u cose per acre A comparison of the yield of glucose from corn and cas? sava from a large area is as follows: 1,000 acres of corn yields, about 500 tons of glucose ; 1,000 acres of cas? sava yields about 10,000 tons of glu? cose. The method of cultivation is gener? ally as follows : The ground is pre? pared as for planting corn, the seed (which consists of a section of the stalk containing an eye) is set in the sandy soil spaced about two feet, in rows three feet apart. When about eighteen inches high the field is culti? vated in order to raise the soil about the base of the stalk, which affords a better support to the plant. The leaves of the branching top shade the ground, and prevent the formation of weeds and evaporation of surface moisture No irrigation is required, as the moisture is continu? ally supplied to the tubers by capilla? ry attraction. The tubers grow some? what similar to the sweet potato, rad? iating from the base of the plant and lying generally horizontal. They may be utilized iii about six months after planting, and will continue to grow without deterioration for a period of two years or upwards, developing to such au extent that tubers weighing from sixty to eighty pounds have fre? quently been taken from the soil. The harvesting of the crop is very simple: The stalk is raised and tubers extracted by simply pulling them from the loose soil. The plant may be again inserted, when it will pro? duce new roots.5 The earth in this case is the storehouse from which the supply is extracted as required, with the advantage of the crop increasing in value as long as it remains therein, whereas ir: corn lhere is a season for harvesting, storing, handling, and re handling before it comes to the hands of.the manufacturer. Cassava may be removed from the ground any day in the 365, and car? ried to the mill for direct treatment. For many years the root has been raised in Florida and used for many pm poses. Thc plants are natives of South America. The routs (tubers) may be preserved for food purposes, by being simply cleaned, sliced and dried ; from such dried slices manioc or cassava meal, used fur cas? sava bread, etc., is prepared by sim? ply grating. The starch is separated and prepared fur food under tho name of Brazilian arrow-root, and this, when agglom?rai cd together into pellets on hot plates, forms the tapioca of com? merce. The glucose made from cassava is of fine body and flavor.-Scientific American. Queen Victoria's Fortune. tandou Truth of a late date says : "It is usually supposed that thu Queen hay laid by a great deal of money, aud, acting on this supposition, it is asked | why sile cannot provide for her family ? j As a matter of fact she has not. ! Wheo Prince Albert died macy of the State Departments were iu debt; these i debts have been paid or?. Some of them-such as that of the oiasterof horse for which X10,000 per annum is allow? ed-always have to borrow from thc other departments jr from thc privy purse. The Queen really does not put by as much as .?20,000 per arnum on average of years. She has always given, 1 believe. .?100,000 to each of her daughters who was married, and this has drained her savings." Silk Baising at the South. The possibility of producing silk with profit is beginning to agitate the people in some parts of the South, and visions of prospective wealth are giving an impetus to the enterprise. A writer in the Louisville Courier Journal says : Silk culture in the South can be carried to the greatest success, owing to the mild climate and the long sea? sons of good weather. Silk culture can be managed -successfully and profitably in the South in rooms of all sizes and kinds, so they are dry and airy. 1 have sent samples of raw silk grow here in Memphis by myself and friends to Lyons, France, aud the re? ports of it are the highest, command? ing $11 a pound of twelve ounces. The French of Lyons aud Marseilles express their astonishment when in? formed that we have mulberry trees in great quantity without trouble, even whole forests of them. One person raising silk in the South can make as much as five persons can with cotton, and with an outlay of only a few dol?ais in starting. I have, at great expeuse and labor, prepared an exhibit of silk raised in the South for the Atlanta Exposition, but have been delayed in getting it placed in position, owing to a severe spell of sickness recently. A number of capitalists of Mem? phis, together with myself, are to es? tablish a filature of silk, also a mouli nage for reeling and preparing the silk raised in the South for the looms in the East To give ye ur readers an idea of the 6?k industry in the United States at present, 1 give an article from a journal devoted to the silk industry. It says : "No industry has had more won? derful growth in this country than the manufacture of silk. There are now invested in this industry about $18, 000,000 ; the total product of the silk looms annually is ?27,000,000 j and there are 18,000 operatives, receiv? ing in wages annually $6,000,000. In the town of Paterson, N. J., there are 32 silk-weaving mills, having 74, 000 throwing spindles, 23,000 braid? ing spindles, 730 power looms, 563 hand-weaving looms, and employing enough people to make a good sized city. The first silk mill was estab? lished there in 1840. The demand for raw sill: is so great in this coun? try (United States) that most of the raw silk has to be imported from France and to be woven by thc looms in our country." I have prepared, by careful and laborious work, a tabulated form of each day 's work to raise silk worms, and, which, if followed by your readers who raise silk in the future, will insure certain success. Any and all kinds of our mulberry trees will produce good silk. Even the osage orange, that grows so plen? tiful, will make good silk. I desire to lay before your readers, in the following tabulated statement, the daily work necessary to raise 40, 000 silk worms, which will produce 1,000 pounds of silk cocoons, worth from $2 $2.50 per pound : No. of lb. No. ft space Operations Days, leaves coo. occupied, for each day. 1st. \ 1 Remov'd worms 2d. I 2 as batched to 3d. l? 2 trays. 4tb . 2 2 Same. 5 tb. 2 2 Same. 6th. 2? 3 Change litter 7th . 3 4 and increase 8 tb . 5 i 5 space. 9th . 8 8 Same. 10th. 8 8 S?"ie. 11th . 8 19 Chan, -: litter 12tb . 8 20 and if.ease 13tb . 12 20 space. 14th. 24 20 Same. 15th. 8 24 Same. 16th. 24 24 Same. 17th. 24 45 Change litter 18th . 24 48 and increase 19ib . 34 43 space. 20th. 36 50 Same. 21st. 3 50 Same. 22d. 30 75 Change litter 23d. 45 75 and increase 24th . 75 75 space. 25th . 98 75 Same. 26th.130 100 Change litter 27th .160 100 and increase 28th .180 102 space. 29th .Cease eating ; ready to spin silk cocoons. In three days the}* finish their co? coons and then cut out, trnasform into a silk butterfly, lay from SOO to 1,000 eggs, and die. One person cao tend to 40,000 silk worms, but, two persons can attend to 120,000, and raise 3,000 pounds o? silk cocoons. The silk worms eat night and day incessantly. They must not be crowded too closely together ; tho young worms must not be placed where the larger worms are eating, b"t must be kept separately. Silk eggs must be wintered where they are to be fed and raised, and must be at their future home before the 1st of January preceding March. If shipped later in the season they are liable to be hatched iu transit, and having no leaves, will die. The silk worm rooms must be dry, provided with shutters or blinds, to be closed at night and during thun? der storms, especially when the worms are spinning their silk. The eggs must be kept from mice, crickets, and ants, for they will feast on them. In answer to many inquiries about the kind of mulberry leaf recored, etc., I will say that any kind of mulberry tree will produce silk, but the white mulberry tree produces the finest silk. I have a limited supply of acclimated silk eggs, and shall in the future de? vote my attention principally to rais? ing silk eggs in order to get a supply for your numerous readers. In answer to the many letters which I have received asking what kind ot a house is necessay, etc., I answer that any kind of a house, so it is dry and airy. They can be raised in rooms of all kinds and sizes-even in the cotton gin-houses on planta? tions, etc. The attention of your readers is specially called to the urgent necessi? ty of planting out young mulberry trees. - - $ t wm* Fight against a hasty temper. An? ger will come, but resist it stoutly. A spark may set a house OQ fire. A fit of passion nay give you cause to mourn all the days of life. Never re? venge an injury. NEWS ITEMS. The 18th of March will be the ono htiDdreth anniversary of the birth of John^O. Calhoun, the Southern states? man. Mr. James Johnson lives in Ne* York, and he has money. He is anxi? ous to spend a part of it, as will bo seen from the fellowing in the Wash? ington Post: .I will give ?10,000 to the Garfield Memorial Fund if Guiteaa will be jung from the top of a tower one hundred feet high, so that millions can ha re the satisfaction of seeing the villain get his just deserts. 'JAMES JonxaoN.' A piano teacher in Philadelphia hos for years studied the anatomy of tho hand with a view to discover why it is so much more difficult to raise the third finger of che hand above the keys of the piano than the other fingers. He thinks if he cuts a cord attached to that finger, which is wanting in the others, the dificulty which will be removed, and be has induced a pupil to submit to the operation, wbicb?wiil shortly be per? formed. According to a German economist, the iocome of the world is ?13,520, 000.000: debt ?10,926,000,000; tax? es, ?2,002,000,000; capital, ?85,612, 000,000 Sweden has the smallest debt or ?50.000,000 Frauce the lar? gest, or ?2,140,000,000. The United States has the largest income, and Eng? land the most capital. Italy is the heaviest taxed, paying 35 per cent, of its income for taxes to the average 15 per cent, of other nations. Jost as Louis XVI loved lock mak? ing, so Charles IV of Spain had a craze for the manufacture of sausages, which he carried on in strict seclusion in a building specially set apart for it. Lady B., a handsome English woman, trae to the instincts of Grandmaaia Eve, must needs peep in on his Most Christian Majesty. He detected the fair spy and punished her by seiz? ing her with his bloody hands and re? peatedly kissing her. Prince Bismark is writing his memoirs, beiog assisted in bis work by his sons, the Counts Herbert and Wilhelm. The Chancellor, will only contribute a portion of the book touching more especially on the period of conflict between the Government and the Prussian Diet, on the wars of 1866 ? and 1870, and on his stay at St. Peters? burg and at Paris. Herbert will treat of the Prince's childhood and youth, while his younger brother will take down his father's impressions and re? miniscences of the Prussian, German, and foreign Ministers with whom he has come into contact during bis career. A scientific writer in the Mark Lane Express says : 'The flavor of beef is due to tbe juices, and if during cooking these be allowed to escape the beef loses much of its taste. Hence, ia broiling, it should from the cutset be exposed to a bright, quick fire, which, by causiog the superficial fibres to at once contract and the albuminous juice near the surface to coagulate, leads to the plugging up of the surface pores, and consequent retention of the juices. Similarly, in boiling, beef should be plunged into almost boiling water. On the other hand, in making beef tea, I cold water is poured on chopped beef and gradually heated to draw the nutri? ment of the beef into the water. The Princess of Wales was once al? most as tasteless in dress as her mother in-law. Even yet her example of screening a neck of rather lengthy pro? portions has given a ridiculous habit of muffling in England to many of the shore and most apoplectic of dames. But the visits of this charming lady to Paris have gradually developed a genu? ine fine taste, and the Princess of Wales is fast becoming as much of a sovereign dictator in dress as Eugenie was. When last in Paris she appeared al- . most always in black, lt is the fash? ionable color of the moment, and, with the quantity of lace worn, transforms Parisian ladies almost into Castilian dames of the sixteenth century, when Spain was under the severe influence of the gloomy Philip II. The Princess usually wears pearls and cat's-eyes. which the superstitious suppose bring good luck The uniformity of toilet which ?has now become the fashion in London and Paris owes its origin to the Queen of Italy. At a special ball got up for her on her recent visit to Vienna the young beauties of that graceful capital all wore white in her honor, and she berslf was draped entirely in white satin, trimmed with silver gause, looped with gardenias, aud set off by strings of the seed pearl, which is the latest fashionable revival. The white Austrian uniform, too, chim? ed in appropriately. So in remembrance of the compliment Queen Marguerite, at the first ball on her return, made it known that her fair guests were to imi? tate the beauties of the Austrian capital. And so at the latest balls in London sr:d Paris the 'uniform toilet' is the rage, and ladies are expected to appear in some stated tint. General Zachariah C. Deas, a rail? road broker, died suddenly in New York, on the 6th instant, of apoplexy, aged 63. He was born in Camden, S. C , was a nephew of General Ches nut, and removed to Mobile, Ala., at an early age. At the outbreak of the war he joined the Confederate army and was appoiutcd on the staff of General Joseph E. Johnston. After the battle of Bull Kon he was appointed Colonel, j He organized the Tweuty-third Regi I ment of Alabama, and armed and equip ; ped it. He was sent to the Western j army under General Albert Sidney ! Johnston, and after the battle of Shiloh was appointed Brigadier General. Gen? eral Deas was in many important battles, and was regarded as a valiant soldier and ofiiccr. After being paroled at the close of the war he secure I a pardon and went immediately to New York, where he en??a??cd in the cotton h asi ness. A handsome lady entered a dry good t?tore and inquired for a "bow." ! The polite clerk threw himself back I and remarked that he was at her ser \ vice. "Yes, but I want a buff, not a 1 green one," wis the reply. The young j mau went on measuring goods ?mme? j diately.