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SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1882.
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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
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. 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
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c&rds^and
STAMPS OF ANY KIND
CaUSn C. P. OblELN,
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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.