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WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. %> 1881.1 "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 Jan?, 186?: SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1883. New Series-Vol. II. So. 42, >-*f 1**? &*d* S&?hrov, Publishing ::T^r?;^S?MTEB, s. c. /5^>9>o??r8 per *TJ D am-in sd vane?. - -r'^J^:..\-AJ>T1RTI8KXKXT8. l'^^^^lojBftre, first insertion.-......$1 00 w?^SJsbsetr&eat insertion....... 50 t?at?scU for three laon'^hs. or longer will lir^ode at reduced nues. g^^^^nMM&ftSioas which subserve private " ft'fAirstVw?n be charged ?or aa advertisements. ' >~^4?BHB!j5^*!-'"^trihgae?"oT- wpect will be .. jjjjjmy sotket and notices of deaths pub -r^g|9b work or contracta for advertising j^^^S^?!ltr^mt1t **** **?rd*tr<mi or *pp1^ at i^^P^^S^-' - - Business Manager. lllpamiSTON, COLUMBIA AND ?pfe ?-?^^*11?0* 8CHKD?UE. pS^ip^iia^.flo??f?- SOUTH. S?P*? - . . ? j No. 48, i No. 40 **"*** I O l am 1 44 a us . - Sisfei 8 48 ? T T l^llfTF^l l?o- 43,1 Ko. 47, - g^^^fc ? -_[. Daily, j DaHy. ^^^^^^^^^S^******~v ***** 32?Pm 1 52 yn :^|^fcs*r5^ ? stops at all Stations. :S^WjjSN^1!j? lift ossiBo, Sumter; Camden Junc Cohnabia and all points on ~* C. A A. B. R. Stations, ts beYond, should tate Pwllasa Sleepers for Charleston 1 Augusta on rraios 48 sud 4?. Mgwr* OB 49 ean fake 48 train from E* fer Cotaabia, Angosta and Georgi* Tin Ccdambia Eales rea ?did feet seen Charleston and jjjgff F. DIVINE, Ceeeral Sup't. .Gen. Pasrenger Ag*t. ?TBN B. R, CO. OFFICE, RAILROAD'CO. S. C., May 13, 1883. tbs following Scbe Arrive Florence. 3 .00 P H. I 20 A. M. ~~m. 7 00 P. If. Arrive Charleston. -6 20 a. M. . ..6 30 p. M. .....8 00 A^jf. Tfeain leaving Florence at 2 25 k. M. will . Ciof? only at nungstree aetr-tf?Deks Corner. "'ISRSTB?L KATTrrtOAII SCHEDULE. > ? - > S??H>M5 EXCEPTED. -A^glip?atSik?ter--... .,.;.,,..?., 5 50 p m ' ; 'SwD^r.-S-r.-L. 8 45 a m '^'-"i.fl?^^???^?^ 4 05 p m * Af*r^'? to 6 30 p m |?g??&;ltB36SRS9N, J. F. DIVINE, |^1^i3^TK*et AgX - ; ? Gen?I Sept. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^tOaM&?CLNG February 4th, 1883, Paa :7> s-A? Testes wat nm as follows, until fur . ..?sr ??t?oe. <?o tr?bf are ruo on Camden Brasset co S?t*?j# i TO COLVBBIA. f<SQ^?too>ion................ 6 45 am 4 30 pm JiOSf ? Casadea Jacetion^. 8.? a m 0 35 p m Amvoai CutamUa_lt 28 am 10 35 p m V _ ' ' '"r ?K?S COLUMBIA ~s5s?fO Criasse**--8 00 a ro". CiSpui Arrive C?a*d?? Jn?rtK?o..?l 35 & m... 8 48 p m Arriva Et dmden_ 1 48 p ia..JO 12 p m "**?'- TO CBABLCT?TO* LOOT? Candes-_. 6 45 a m 4 30 p m ^^-*E?*W CaaWwi June*--8 00 a m 0 35 p m Arrive at Charterten-_ I ?3 p m ll 30 pm ?OW CffAKUSTO* leave Cbarieatun7 00 a m... 8 35 a m - Agare Caadee Jauc'^U35 a m... 8 48 p m ArdwatCajuden-..^ I 46 p m-JO 12 p m TO ADCCJITA >V Ljajs jfwifcn .-..".3 45 a m 4 30 p m ' Leos? CfeuxUu Janc'^ -8 00 a a 6 35 p m * " Ams* at A?g?ita.__-2 00 p m 7 13 a ut K- - PS?? APC CST A AagMta .... 7 05 a HU..9 00 p m Camden Jaao'-8 48 p m 10 35 a m AtriTe Camden .-..IS t2 p m 1 40 p m _ 4?&w~ conajcciioKs. CaonsuclWS ssado at Coin m bia with Col um AH* -d OraoBT?le Haiiroad both way?, to ana ' fross sltyiiinrs oo that Hoad and on the Spar _ laoborg. Union and Columbia and Spartanburg a?d AdmO? Kail roads, also with the Char wBEgg** Columbia zad Augusta Kaiiro&d to and ?oss al? peiett Noith by trains leaving Camden ' Ot 6 45* ax, ?sd arriving at 10 12 p m. Coaooetiossmao%9 at Angosta to ali Points S:v "Wos; and Sooth; also at Charleston with - gttiotsrt fer Hew York-oo Wednesdays a od *t? ft NTiejAlso obb Charleston and Savannah [ ^ ?a?l-cajr for Savannah sod all points South. . CooOoetes mod?at Blackville with Earn ti woU E. R. to and from Baruwell by all trains ??^?O^^Jaya HOUND TRIP TICEKTS are tfi and from all Stalioaa at one first cUt3 ? bGuwior the round trip-finke's being good till aHpfefeds/ coon, to return. Kx cars ion tickets ?PytOd fer 10 days are regularly on sale to nod IT^fesoT ott stattsas at 5 cents per mile for round Bfe^Sl?dggH TICKETS to all points, can he K -p?^tmdby Applying to James Jone?. Agent M?nent Passenger and Tiekec Agent. K JOH5 fe. PECK, General Manager. 1 .'. Charleston, S. C. SAifflifRf AND HARNESS. FINEST LEATHER ON BAND Ready to Iw worked np at the lowest living -.. r^A?NESS of the latest style and of my fm workmaoship, at my shop to sell. . l*?I*?parcd to do all kinds of Jobs in mj lt*? of business. Orders received wifi^ ooneomptly attended to, and with the ? A foll line of READY-SADE HARNESS, - SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, MARTIN? GALES, and / EVERYTHING ELSE portaioing toa Flrst-elus Harness Shop. < OLD HARNESS made to took as good tOTEBISGAod REPAIRING Old TRUNKS . ^ '^r-^&mkAhlY* WOS*5a ?r rino GUARANTEED THOUGHTS ON "A PASSING FANCY (?)" To Mies "A passing fancy," is it so ? . v All things are transient-this I know. If nst love too, pass away ? The earth, itself, with heat shall glow And vanish, like fast melting snow Beneath the sun's hot ray. Yet though this world must pass away When breaks eternity's long day, It is not lost, not gone ; 'Twill bod again, and by God's hand Revivified; at his command Break forth in endless song. The rose will then not wear a thorn, And cloudless be the sky each morn That wakes the new-born world. Only the bitter, not the sweet, Tho chaff, and not the golden wheat . Into oblivion hurled. Then tell me not the sou l's best gem, Its crowning joy, its diadem M nst fade and I still live. Ah no : my sou 1 would view this love As given by the God above Who naught but good doth give. And ever with the tenderest care I'll guard this love so pore and fair From every evil thought ; I'll prize it more than life is prized, Or ever loved a bird the skies When by some huntsman caught. Bot ah ! the bitter, bitter thought That sometimes comes with madness fraugh t, And makes the hot blood start : What if some one more blessed than I Should find more favor in thine eye And win thy gentle heart ! Then often wiil my thought look back Across life's lonely, desert track, And mourn o'er blighted love ; O'er love so geotle, tender, true, So stro. g, so earnest, lasting, pure: Love i all my heart's best love ! O dearest one, give me thy heart, And bid nc more'my love depart ; 'Tis 5xed, 'tisstayed on thee. Mine be the lot thy life to cheer, To banish from thy path each care, And with true sympathy to share Each joy, each grief you see. . * ? ? MAGAZINES, &c. Golden Days.-TK\s weekly publication, which basso quickly attained a large circu? lation, discloses, in the bound volume of 1882, good reasons for its success. For the j healthy, active boy and girl who inclines to j expression of strong vitality and entertain- j ment a judicious selection of articles has been j made. Taste and inclination have been recognized and submitted to in all sorts of proper ways. Its entertainment includes not only amusement, but the cultivation of strength and skill, and of a general aptitude to do things correctly. Education, however, is not neglected, although made subservient to entertainment. Stories, poems, indoor and outdoor games, puzzles, facts of useful knowledge, bow objects are made, and bow to make them, etc., comprise the contents of each number. Golden Dayt for 1883 prom? ises to be even better than during 1882. It is unique in its field, and deserving of great favor. Subscription price S3 a year. Ad? dress James E1 terson, Philadelphia, Pa. The Biographer is a promising venture in monthly periodical literature. It gives a large number of concise, but by no means dry, biographical sketches of men and women eminent in all departments of activity. Sub? jects are chosen with the view to gratify the public curiosity for particulars of the life and career of people whose names are appearing in the public prints. These sketches are ably written, and their interest is heightened by accompanying well executed portraits. In quality of daper and printing and tasteful? ness of appearance, The Biographer is among the best periodicals. It is sent to any add res at 25 cents a copy, or$2.50 ayear, New York, 23 Park Row. The Southern Cultivator for May. Thispopu* lar and sterling agricultural journal is again on our table. An examination of its contents shows it to be fully equal to previous num? bers. The proprietors have purchased The Southern Farmer'* Monthly, and by this act have absorbed the only remaining rival in their particular 6eid. The Southern Cultiva? tor stands in the very front rank of agricul? tural papers, and for the South is certainly unequalled by any. As usual. Thoughts for the Month and the inquiry Department are full of standard advice to the Southern farm? ers, and if the Cultivator contained only these it would be well worth the subscription price. But to these are added very many other fea? tures of interest and importance, embracing the subjects of Truck Farming, Laws for the Farmer, Sheep Husbandry, Fertilizers, Letters from the Field, Dickson's Letters on Intensive Farming, The Patrons of Husbandry, Jersey Cattle Notes, the Poultry Yard, the House? hold, Children's Department, Fashions, etc. Price, per annum 51.50. Address Jas. P. Harrison <fe Co., Atlanta, Ga. The following interesting picture comes from Washington of the domestic life of Bell, the telephone man : "Prof. Bell and his wife are both very food of flowers, and when oa the 28th the Lite? rary Society met at their boase had it most elaborately adcrued with flowers, especially cot roses with long stems, which Mrs. Bell made into loose bou? quets and preheated each lady with one as she left. Though born a deaf mute, Mrs. Bell has been taught to speak by .he new process and cao understand, by close watching the motions of the mouths of those who speak with her, ail they say to her. Consequently few who are unaware of her affliction notice it at ail in talking with her, and she receives and entertainscompaoy with perfect ease and grace. It is said her husband taught her to speak before their mar? riage, aod that their courtship began io that way. She and ber sister have been considered among the most beauti? ful women in Washington since they removed there.' *Say, Mister Causey, did you see a yaller dog come by here that looked as if he were ayear, or a year and a half, or two years old?* 'Yes, he passed about an hour, or an hour and a half, or two hoare ago; and is now a mile, a mile and a half, or two miles a head ; and he had a tail about an inch, or an inch and' a half,~"br two inches long/ That'll: do ; you're into me a foot, or foot and % half, or two feet.' The reiemd to ?bowe is tho same one That Bad Boy His Own'Ma Deceives Him. 'Give me ten cents worth of saffron, quick,' said the bad boy to the gro? cery mau, as he came in the grocery on a gallop, early one morning, with no collar on, and no vest. He looked as though he had been routed out of bed in a hurry, aud had jumped into his pants and boots, and put on bis coat on the run. 'I don't keep saffron,' said the gro? cery man, as he picked up a barrel of axe handles that the boy had tipped over iu his hurry. 'You want to go over to the drug store on the corner, if you want saffron. But what on earth is the mat-' At this point the boy shot out of the door, tipping over a basket of white beans, and disappeared in the drug store. The grocery man got down on his knees on the sidewalk and scooped up the beans, occasion? ally looking over toward the drug store, and just as he got them picked up the boy came out of the drug store and walked deliberately towards his home, as though there was no par? ticular hurry. The grocery man looked after him, took up an axe handle, spit on his hands and shouted to the boy to come over pretty soon, as he wanted te talk with him. The boy did not come to the grocery till towards night, but tho grocery man had seen him running down town a dozen times during the day, and once he rode up to the. house with the doctor, and the grocer surmised what was the trouble. Along towards night the boy came in in a dejected sort of tired way, sat down on a bar? rel of sugar, and never spoke. 'Whatis it, a"boy ora girl, ?" said the grocery man, winking at an old lady with a shawl over her head, who waa trying to hold a paper over a pitcher of yeast with her thumb. 'How in blazes did you know any? thing about it V said the boy, as he looked around in astonishment, and with some indignation. 'Well, it's a girl, if you must know, and that's enough,' and he looked down at the cat playing on the floor with a pota toe, his face a picture of dejection. '0, don't feel bad about it,' said the grocery man, as he opened the door for the old lady. 'Such tlr'ngs are bound to occur But you take my word for it, that young one is going to have a hard life, unless you mend your ways. You will be using it for a cork to a jug, or to wad a gun with, the first thing your ma knows.' . 'I wouldn't touch the darn thing with the tongs,' said the boy, as he rallied enough to eat some crackers and cheese. 'Gosh, this cheese tastes good. I hain't had nothing to eat since morning. I have been all over this town trolling for nurses. They think a boy hasn't got any feelings. But I wouldn't-care a gol darn, if ma hadu't been sending me for neuralgia medicine, and hay fever suuff all winter, when she wanted to get rid of me. 1 have come in the room lots of times when ma and the sewing girl were at work ou some flannel things, and ma would hide them in a basket and send me off after medicine. 1 was deceived up to about four o'clock this morning, when- pa came to my room and pulled me out of b?? to go over on the west side after some old woman that knew ma, and they have kept me whooping ever since. What does a boy want of a sister, unless it's a big sister ? I don't wan't no sister that I have got to hold, aud rock, and hold a bottle for. This afiair breaks me all np,' and the boy picks the cheese out of his teeth with a sliver he cut off the counter. 'Well, how does your pa take it, said the grocery man, as he charged the boy's pa with cheese, and saffron, and a number o? such things. '0, pa will pull through. He wanted to boss the whole concern until ma's chum, an old woman that takes suuff, flied him out into the hall. Pa sat there on my hand sled, a perfect picmre of despair, and I thought it would be a kindness to play it on him. I found the cat asleep in the bath room, and I rolled the cat up in a shawl and brought it out to pa and told him the uurse wanted him to hold the baby. It seemed to do pa good to feel that he was indespensa ble around the house, and he took the cat on his lap as tenderly as you ever saw a mother hold an infant. Well, I got io the back hall, and he couldn't see me, and pretty soon the cat be? gan to wake up and stretch himself, and pa said, 'S-h-h-tootsy, go to sleep, now, aud let its pa hold it,' and pa he rocked back and forth on the hand sled and began to sing, 'By, low, baby.' That settled it with the cat. Well, some cats can't stand music, anyway, and the more the cat wauted to get out of the shaw], the louder pa sung, and bimeby I heard something rip, and pa yelled 'Scat, you brute,' and when I looked around the corner of the hall the cat was bracing his self against pa's vest with his toe? nail, and pa fell over the sled and began to talk about the hereafter like the minister do*?s when he gets excited in church, and then pa kicked up the sled and seemed to be looking for me or the cat, but both of us was offul scarce. Don't you think there are times when boys and cats are kind of few around their accustomed haunts ? Pa don't look as though he was very smart, but he can hold a cat about as well as the next man. But I am sor? ry for ma she was just getting ready to go to Florida for her neuralgia, and this will puta 6top toit, cause she has to stay and take care of that young one. Pa says I will have a nice time this summer pushing the baby wagon. By the great horn spoons, there has got to be a dividing line somewhere, between business and pleasure, and I strike the line at wheeling a baby. I had rather catch a string of perch than to wheel all the babies ever was. They needn't pro? cure no baby on my account, if it is to amuse me. I don't see why babies can't be sawed off onto people that: need them in their bu folks don't need a baby would it be to take the baby son night and leave it on some old bach lor's door-step, li it had been a bic cte, or a breech loading shot-gun, wouldn't have cared, bv?t a bab) Bah ! It makes me iired. Fd druth have a prize package. Well, I a sorry pa allowed me to come hom after he drove me away last week, guess all he wanted me to come bac for was to humiliate me, and eend n on errands. Well, I must go and s( if he and the cat have made up.' And then the boy went out and pi up a paper sign in front of the stor 'Leave your measure for saffron tea The Best Cattle and Sheej A correspondent of of the Augus: Chronicle writing from Atlant says : Meeting my old friend, Col. Ric ard Peters, on the streets the otb< day, I asked him about Jerseys. B is the oldest stock raiser in Georgi; and oue of those practical men whos sense and enterprise have made thei pioneers and leaders in valuable ii dustries. He knows more aboi thorough-bred stock than any man i the South, his experience runnin back half a century and coverin every kind of cows, sheep and hogi He told me, among other things, th following : .The Jeisey business is increasin very rapidly over the South. The snit the climate and are as easily kef a? a common cow ; they bring from pound to a pound and a half of butt? a day on the same amount of foo given to village cows. The majorit milk up to-the time of calving. The come into profit very young, anothei great advantage. They will calv when about two jrears old. There ar several cases of cows having calve at 14 12 months old. This is to young. In the United States at prc sent there are about 19,000 registcre Jersey cows and heifers and 9,00 Jersey bulls, in 1866 there wer probably about 1,000-Jersey cow and 200 bulls. The large proportio has been bred in America, fully 8 per cent., and the experienced me believe the American are superior t the imported cows ; that America breeder is a more scientific breede than the foreigner. The tendency a present is to breed to families whos butter making qualities have been es tablished, and whose prepotency c the male has been tested. The farni ly that is most rapidly rising now i known as the 'Signal,' family. Thi family, on the male side, started fron a bull named Jerry, numbered 15 ii the Herd Register, im purled by Wm B. Dinsinore in the year 1868. 1 combination was made with Lad.1 Mary, a cow imported by T. J. Hand the present secretary of the catth club. Another celebrated importe* cow, 'Pans}', No. 8,' was brought be fore and combined with the blood o Jerry, the bull Albert being the bes known to breeders of the decendant; of Jerry and this combination. Oat of the 19,000 cows and 9,000 bull; there are probably, 1,500 cows and 5( bulls that have been brought into notic< by testing the production of'butler and they may be considered the headi of the rising families. These con 8ist mainly uf the descendants o Jupiter and Rhea, known as the Al phea and Bomba family. The Coo massie family of a recent importalior are rapidly coining into notice There are several others that claim tc be rising stars, but at present thi three mentioned are foremost, i Recently bulls have been sold al $5,000, and from that to $8,000 anc one or two not well established sales at ?10,000 and ?12,000. The owners expect to get their money back bj using the bulls for stock purposes. The demand in Georgia is far beyond the supply, the main trouble being ir obtaining acclimated animals. Sig nal sired but 14 heifers, 12 of which gave butter records running from 14 pounds to 22 pounds 1 1-2 ounces a week. Pansy had 39 decendauts, showing a weekly average of 16 pounds 7 ounces a week.' A number of years ago, when I was editing the Atlanta Constitution, when thorough bred stock raising was in its infancy in Georgia, I visit? ed the beautiful stock farm of Col. Petera, in Gordon county, and wrote several letters giving his stock ex? periences with sheep, hogs and cows for thirty years. At that time he had settled upon the Jerseys, after a full test of Durhams or Short Horns, De? vons, Ayrshires and Brahams; and upon the Merino sheep, after a test of the Virginia, Prolific, Cotswolds, Southdowns, Leicesters and New Ox? fords!, ires ; and upon tho Berkshire hogs, after test of Poland Chinas, Jersey Reds, Essex, Chester Whites, and Yorkshires. I gave, fully, for the Constitution, his testings of these breeds. At that time the Durham or Short horn breeds of cattle, the South? down and Cotswold breeds of sheep and Poland China hogs were the most popular North and We6t and hun? dreds of our Southern farmers were beginning to take interest in tho? roughbred stock, and were looking to these favorite breeds for introduc? tion into the South. Col. Peters had found to his great cost, by actual ex? periment, that neither Durhams, Cots? wolds nor Southdowns suited our Southern climate. They had too much flesh and wilted under our heat. The Jersey and Merino had proven in his trial to be the best breeds for the South. These lei tors, giving his valuable oractical costly experience, had a wide circulation in the press. Being known all over the United States as the most prominent South? ern stock breeder, Colonel Peters received myriads of letters of inquiry and request for advice as to the best breeds. Ile had the Constitution ar? ticles printed in circular form, and re? plied to all letters by sending his cir? cular. He estimates from reliable data, as he tells mo, that the informa? tion of the fitness of the various breeds to our Southern climate, given in this circular, has saved ScmLh?rn farmers a million of dollars that %puld have ?|^^enUnexDerim^^jtevith un* Kve been^ Every stock opinion advanced ten years ago has been confirmed by the experience of our stock men and farmers. The Jersey, then declared to be the cow for the South, has be? come our butter stand-by. The me? rino sheep, then asserted to be best suited f<>r Southern raising, has es? tablished its unqualified supremacy for Southern nse. [From tbe Darlington News.] Economy in Manures. This does not consist io not using commercial maoures, or in stinting tho quantity applied, but in the use of those absolutely essential to plant growth and in the proper application of the same. The object in manuring is or ought to be, to put so much and no more than is necessary to make a paying crop. If we do that with our limited means, we do well. To make land rich with com? mercial manures is an easy matter, if we have the means to farm regardless of cost ; but to live and support a fami? ly on a one or two horse crop and buy with the extra proceeds of it, manure enough to keep up, or increase its fer? tility, is a more difficult problem to solve. It becomes, therefore, a very important matter to know what and how much is essential, and how to ap? ply it so as to get full benefit from it. I have heretofore, in numerous ar? ticles in this paper, endeavored to show that three essentials to plant growth which were soonest exhausted in natu? rally fertile soil, and which are in a great measure lacking in our poor pine land and has to bc supplied by us to make good crops, were Potash, Phos? phoric Acid and Ammonia. That the other organic elements, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen were supplied in the earth and air, and the inorganic, such as soda, lime, magnesia, &c, were iu sufficient quantities in all soils, or else were supplied in the compounds of potasb and phosphate which we use. If this be so, then economy in manur? ing consists in supplying these three elements in the cheapest and best pos? sible form. How to do so is the ques? tion. The most simple and the best is the Peruvian Guano, if it were what it used to be when I was a boy. But the Chincha Islands are exhaust? ed and ? hear the red clay hills about Baltimore are nearly all gone, so that we have to look to auother source for our supply. The numberless com? pounds under the name of atnmouiated fertilizers come in opportunely to our aid. ?They cost money-they smell strong-they analyze well-r-they accu? mulate princely fortunes to the tricky and unscrupulous proprietors and if they fail to benefit the farmer aud pay in the increased production of crops, why-the fault is his-the lazy shift? less cotton planter, who don't know how to apply them or is too lazy to cul? tivate his land as it ought to be. Am moniated fertilizer-we have had enough of them. We have spent in them money enough in our County to pay every dollar of its indebtedness and a large part of the State debt, and for what purpose ? We make cotton to buy manure and we buy manure to make cotton. It is necessary for us to buy some manure, our land is wanting in all the clements that go to make farming profi- j table ; but it is cheaper and better to buy these elerneuts in their purest form and do the manipulating ourselves. They may cost us more money in the j outset, but we save in the freights on i worthless material, in disappointment I and trouble enough to more than pay the cost. Poor human nature is very weak, and one of our greatest weak? nesses is to gouge our neighbor, pro? vided we can do so under the cover of law. The temptation to adulterate is too great for us, io fact we live in the age of adulteration. We eat adulter? ated food, we drink adulterated drinks, we wear adulterated clothes, and last but not least, we waste our money, time, spirit and strength on adulterated manures. Can we save our morals and manners pure in such an adulterated atmosphere? Let us commence reform by beginning at the ground-use no more manipulated guanos, raise all of; our own home food and only cotton enough to pay for the absolute necessi? ties of religion, law and society. [To le Continued.] A Good Edgefield Anecdote. The recent agitation of the public road question reminds me of au anec? dote that a mail carrier, who rode be? tween Augusta and Longmires iu Edge field county, used to delight in telling, to show the average condition of the routes he travelled. He said on one occasion he was riding along at the rate of a mile an hour, his horse siukiug to his knees at every step, when looking some distance ahead of him he saw a small black object moving about in the mid? dle of the road which he at first suppos? ed was a bird. As he drew nearer he saw that it was a black hat and when he got within reach be lifted it and saw a man's head just far enough above the mud for him to breathe. The mail courier asked him what was the matter; he replied that he had struck a very soft place io the road and had immedi? ately suuk so rapidly that he was una? ble to extricate himself. The courier said, 'well my friend, you are certainly in a very bad fix.' The stranger re? plied 'well, if you think I am in an un? pleasant position, what do ynu think of my mule? I am on a mule.' This happend about Ked Hill tn Sen? ator Butler's county and this occur? rence, which ?9 vouched for, will con? vince any one that the Senator is in earnest in his efforts to improve the condition of the public highways. Columbia Correspondent of Augusta Chronicle. A German at a hotel the other day had some Limbergcr cheese sent to him. A little boy who sat beside him turned to his mother and exclaimed, 'Mamma, how I wish I was deaf and dumb in my nose.' Sad affairs: While putting on a clean shirt a Hartwell, Ga., man fell overea trunk and broke his collar-bone, j A Wild Western Wind. RACINE, WIS., May 19-The first cyclone in the history of this city struck Racine at 7 oclock last night passing through the extreme north? eastern portion of the city, demolish? ing 150 houses and barns and killing about 20 persons, besides injuring 100 otheis more or less seriously. The day was ushered in bright and cool with a fresh wind blowing from the southeast. Towards noon the sky became overcast and about 4 o'clock a sharp electric storm prevail? ed, although but little rain fell. The sun again came out for about an hour during the afternoon, the tempera? ture being about 70 degrees. To? wards 6 o'clock heavy masses of clouds again gathered in the west, portending a storm, and the air was oppressively warm. The cyclone was announced by the breaking of the clouds, and it 6truck the eartn with a noise which might be compared with the roar and rumbling of a thousand railroad trains thundering over a bridge. The path of the storm is little over a half mile long and per? haps a quarter of a mile wide. In this territory a building is left stand? ing here and there. Brick and frame houses alike collapsed, aud their sites are marked only by heaps of debris. Many occupants of houses escaped by fleeing to the cellars and other places of comparative safety, but the cyclone came with such light rapidity that many were killed beiore reaching the cellars. In ouly a few cases were houses moved from their foundations. Those in the middle of the storm centre simply fell in ruins where they had stood. Some nearer the circumference were turned around and it is reported that 6ome light articles, such as wagons, were swept into the lake. The cyclone, as it moved from the city out upon the waters of Lake Michigan, presented a grand spectacle. Whirling columns of air were seen as they flew over the watery expanse, bearing with them spiral columus of water, and no ship that encountered this mon? ster of the air could by any possibility escape destruction. STAUNTON, III, May 19.-At 1 o'clock last night the tornado passed about three miles east of here, totally demolishing Livingston's fine farm residence and dangerously injuring Mr. Livingstone. Other buildings in the vicinity were destroyed and or? chards injured. A construction crew about twenty-five men, on the Springfield and Illinois Southeastern Railway were camping near Olein's house, some of them sleeping in a ? large barn. All were seriously in? jured. Mr. Cantwell, contractor, I and Alva Berrie were instantly killed. A little giri, aged eight, canuot re? cover. CLINTON, ILLS., May 19.-a terri? ble cyclone passed over this vicinity, last night, doing a large amount of damage and killing several people. The wind took a southeast course and followed up Salt Creek in this coun? ty, on the line of which many houses were totally destroyed. About six miles south of Clinton the wind tore down a house, killing Peter Clifton, his wife and an eight-year-old daugh? ter, and fatally injured another child. The damages are very great. THE LATEST-FIFTV-FOUR DEATHS AND TWO HUNDRED WOUNDED. CHICAGO, May 19.-From advices received by the Associated Press from points in Illinois, visited by the cyclone Friday night, 54 deaths have already been reported in the State, and the number injured is -estimated at very nearly 200. Owing to the condition of the wires north of Mil? waukee, no accurate computation of the loss of life in Wisconsin can be made. MILWAUKEE, May 20.-A Racine dispatch says the numbers of known dead is nine and fatally injured twelve to fifteen. Those who received flesh wounds and more serious hurts number nearly one hundred. Six people remain unaccounted for. ST. LOUIS, May, 21.-Two more deaths have occurred at Stanton, Ills, resulting from the storm of Friday night. Additional reports from places not heretofore heard from, show that the storm in Illinois was widespread and very destructive. Houses and other farm property were destroyed in all directions, within the area of a dozen counties, and many persons were either killed or seriously woun? ded. _ ? How a Tornado Looked. The Fearful Visitation at Kansas City -Euin left in Its Track. KANSAS CITY, May 14.-Before the visitation of the tornado here yester? day the air was heavy and the fitful wind carried sheets of rain hither and thither .without apparent direction. In another hour the sides had grown darker and across their sullen surface torn scraps of clouds in fantastic shapes scudded with a velocity that told of the presence of vast air cur? rents somewhere in middle space. These were followed by dark sheets as of smoke that rolled up from the horizon, broke and lost themselves. The air suddenly grew cold. It is impossible to describe the weird and unnatural chill, save that it was icy j and lasted for some moments. Just then a gigantic cone-shaped cloud, j the point toward the earth, appeared in the Northwest. Those who noted the time saw that it was exactly 4:30. The cloud rushed into view so quick? ly that it was impossible to tell whether it was born of a conflict of thc elements before the eye or came from some point beyond. Moving with inconceivable rapidity, and bounding like a ball, sometimes hun- : dred8of feet above the earth and sometimes trailing upon it, the monster passed over Wyandotte, and paused at the mouth of the Kaw, where it sucked up tons of sand, completely changing its color from dark blue to deep dun, then it zigzag? ged upward, bounded into mid air and ; disappeared. - Scarcely had it made its spectral identical in size and shape, appeal at about the point where the first v seen. This cloud can be likened nothing so much as a partially c lapsed balloon with the neck en mously elongated and twisting abo The color was reddish yellow, d tinctly relieving it against the dari background. This extraordinary j parition of the skies moved direci toward the city, not very fast apj rently, but springing up and down an uncanny dance. As it came ne er, oue could see that every time touched the ground it swept it cleg carrying up the debris and droppi. it as it passed. A few moments afl its appearance it struck West Kans City, barely touching, however, a its damage confined principally to t unroofing of houses, demolishing t upper portion of the Stock Exchang and killing one man. Leaped in the air, strinking the bluff near Eeig teen th street, and passing on Es and slightly North for nearly t\ miles. In the greater part of tl distance the storm funnel touched t! ground, and a wilderness of ruin mar its track. The passage of the tornado was sudden that people did not have tin to be frightened till il was over, b the scene of terror that followed in i wake was something that words ca not describe. It cut a clean tra< through the city three miles in exte and iiotn 100 to 300 yards wid Heavy houses were demolished, sm* frame houses were scattered to tl winds, and trees were twisted fro the earth as il they were weeds Tl number of houses entirely demolish* is fifty, and the number of more i le83 damaged will amount to aboi j 200. The loss is about $200,00 j Three persons were killed outrig] and many others very badly injured. The Cold Wave. The cold wave which was ushered i by the blow of Sunday night bas coi tinued with lower thermometer ai general cloudiness Yesterday was cold, raw, November day. Sue weather ts not in memory of the olde iubabitant or almanac makers for tl 22d of May. At one time during tl day the clouds banked up with an om nous chill and there were painful su? gestions of snow in the air. The thei mometer, towards night, fell beneat thc forties, about half the usual ten perature for this season of the year,-an as the wind lulled and the moon cam out lhere were fears of frost. Th roo gt out the day the city put on a midwinte appearance. Doors and windows wei closed, stoves put on their winter blus and straw hats were put to shame b heavy overcoats beneath.- It is thougl that young cotton all over the State hs been seriously injured. The piar which had commenced to grow off gree and vigorous, has probably been blight ed and stunted in many places. Grai has not been affected and gardens ar I as a rule too far advanced to have falle before this cold snap. The maxitnui temperature yesterday was 64 degrees minimum temperature, 49; mean teni perature, 55 degrees.-Augusta Chroi\ ide, 23cZ. CINCINNATI, May 22.-At Muncie j Ind., the ground was covered by snoi last night. At Findlay, Ohio, snoi ! fell several inches deep. At Wapoko neta, Ohio, 6now was so heavy as t break the branches of trees and th j thermometer fell to thirty-five. A Hagcrstown, Indiana, snow fell fron uooon to night. At Easton, Ohio snow covers the ground. At Lima Ohio, twelve ioches of snow fell, am the branches of tress broke with it w .ight. At Bellefontain, Ohio, fou inches of snow fell, and tho thermome ter fell to thirty-four. At Marysville Ohio, a blinding snow storm be'gau ii the forenoon and lasted all day. CAREYVILLE, ILLS., May 22.-A severe frost here last night, damagec all crops considerably, doing more in? jury than the cyclones: CLEVELAND, O., May 22.-Cole windy weather prevails here, and trees, out-bouses and unfinished building: have suffered some. Snow is report?e to be five inches deep in Logan county. -- i-i - Most Tragic of Tragedies. A Dreadful Scene Enacted m a Bri? dal Chamber in South America. A horrible affair took place recently at Rio Grande del Sur, near to the Uruguayan frontier. A youug farmer was bitten by a mad dog and remedies were immediately applied to the wound. Cauterization was resorted to, and there was every reason to believe that the virus had uot entered the vic? tim's system. When the accident oc? curred the young man man was about to marry, but in consequence of the untoward occurrence the ceremony was postponed for three months, when the medical men who were consulted on the case gave it as their unanimous opin? ion that there was not the slightest ground for apprehending any danger from the bite. The marriage took place on the farm and was celebrated with the customary festivities. After the nuptial supper was over the bride? groom appeared to be seized with a tit of melancholy. One of love's ca? prices, said somebody. After supper i came the ball, and when this was at its height thc newly i wedded couple withdrew from the fes ! live scene and retired to their apart I ment. I About au hour afterwards the house j resounded with ferocious cries iuter mingled with shrieks and groans. As j soon as the guests had recovered from stupefaction, they started in the direc? tion of theories. They proceeded from the nuptial chamber, The door was burst open and a horrible spectacle presented itself. On the floor lay the young bride in a pool of blood. She still breathed, but her body was torn and bitten as if she had been seized by a tiger. lu the corner of the room was the bridegroom, cov? ered with blood and foaming at the mouth, scratching, biting and tearing away at the wall and furniture. With a sodden bound he sprang like a tiger upon the invaders of his lair, and he would have made one or more victims had not a brother of _the dying bride News and Gossip. AR old lady asked at the Sanders ville Ga., postoffice for * "yaller develop? ments to do letters up in." The mosquito has six legs and only one month. Let as therefore he thank? ful that if it does bite it dosea't kick; Though not much of a conversation? alist, a mute might gee along very nicely in a spoke factory. It is said the cotton crop in Andorf son this year will be the largest io acreage known is the history of the County. The Italians have built the two mos? formidable iron clad ship? in the world; _ They are 13,600 tons and can steam 1 17 knots an hour. This is something 1 the Uoited States have not done, and ' at present cannot do. A Missourri boy, desparing of any orthodox cure for chill and fever; caught a cricket, which he swallowed alive, and the parents of the boy say he has sot been troubled with chills from that day hence. Fellows who cannot swallow a cricket might try a base bail bat. Mr. Jay Gould, with all bis millions1 and his gorgeous steam yatch that cost so much money, could not boy, force or steam his way into the Eastern' Yacht Club of Boston. He was de? corously, but ignominiously, blackball? ed. Exactly why does not appear; perhaps it was because of jealously en? gendered by bis overpowering wealth j perhaps the majority of those voting had once been Wall street lambs. In warm-blooded animals the heart's" action cases in a few minutes after the' destruction of the nervous centers, or after the circulation of the blood in its' own vessels is by any means arrested. Not so with cold-blooded animals, how? ever, as thc heart of one of them may continue to beat for many boors after it has been emptied of blood, and even after it has been cut ont of the chest. The pulsations of the heart of an eel have been seen to con tin ne for six houri after separation from the rest el the' body, of a torpedo for nine hoars, and? of a salmon for twenty-four. A cubic inch of gold is worth $210; a cubjc foot, $362,380 ; a cubic yard? $9,797,762. This is valuing it at $1S an ounce. At the commencement of of the Christian era there was in the world four hundred and twenty-seven million dollars io gold. This bad dim* ished fifty-seven million dollars nt^ the time America was discovered, wfceli it began to increase. Now the amount of gold in rxze is estimated' to be six thousand million dol? lars. Probably the limited gold of toV old days had more purchasing power" than the vast accumulation of thes<T times. Some courious^iooes are found \tf many parts of Switzerland. They are smooth, flat, evidently hand-polished, and are covered with dots, lines, circles " and half-circles. In the opinion of Herr Rodiger, these stones are charts of the country made by prehistoric in-' habitants, and be claims to possess a collection of stones picked up in* Solo thurn which form together a map of the' cntir mton. The dots are seen to correspond with towns and villages* now in existence, and tbe lines with' roads now open. Even fords amf mountain passess arc indicated. - The I stones are mostly discovered at inter? vals of about six miles, and at spots' ' where several roads meet, j Mr. Tal ai age thinks that the great? i desideratum is 'practical religion-a re ! ligiou that will correctly label goods ;; that will prevent a man telling yon a4 watch was made in GeneVa when it waa* made in Massachusetts ; that will keep", the ground glass and the sand oat of j sugar ; that will sift out the Prussian4 blue from the tea leaves; that witt' ; separate the one quart of water from* the one honest drop of cow's milk/ j He thinks practical religion will rem?-" j dy all this, cast out hypocrisy, %upset" shoddy, and make decency, honesty and' truth domaiuant. He is certain it will come down with a heavy hand on fash? ionable society, and correct the iniqui? ties that now exist in it. Among th?se'' iniquities, Mr. Talmagc asserts, is thif not uncommon intoxication of fashion? able women. 'Society says she was' taken suddenly ill of the german. The' fact is she took too much champagne-' and mixed liquors and got drunk;' Not lo D g since, says a writer in" the" Colleton Press, a mule swam the Edisto' River at Sullivan's Ferry, with a load-' ed cart hitched to him. Some travelers" came to cross the river. As all could' not cross at the same time, some of the carts and drivers got on board of the,' fiat, and with them the owner of this mule. When they got about half wajr across the river, be aw ail of bis com-' pany going over. at. . ho, being left by' himself, concluded he bad better get*' over the best he could ; so he delibe? rately walked down into the water aa'-' til he was obliged to swim. So be went' to work swimming, and landed on the' other side, carrying with bim his load. When he walked ont on tbe sand-bar, he shook himself, as if saying to him-" self, 'I am over, independently of yottf flat.' From Stuttgart the death is report?e? of a goose well known to naturalists alt over thc world. This eccentric anima},' when still a gosling, abandoned ito flock, dismissed all recollections - of ita* infancy, repudiated thc conventional views aod habits of geese, and boldly marching into the barracks of an Uhlan regiment, stationed itself one day next to the sentry-box. Touched by this predilection for their corps, the Uhlanr erected a shed for the goose, and (of twenty-three ytars threats nor persua? sions have been able to separate the' martial bird from its adopted regiment? for any great length of time, li has" at different times changed quarters with! the corps from Esslingen to Ulm, thence' to Ludwigsburg, and back again to* Ulm. When the Uhlans went to fight for their country the forsaken attd deso? late goose took up for the time with si battalion of infantry ; bat no sooner* ' did the first Uhlahs re-enter the foWtf than the goose marched ont to* meet them, and returned with them to her* old quarters. She has DOW been staffed, and is to be seen in a glass eaae cfc ?? .