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fMTKK WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. ?ateA Aug. 2, 1881.1 '?l?i^ -Ol J ii ? It?^ Iii ll ll 1 1 11 Ul' 5 V*4 1 I ll "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends chou Aims^t ot. be thy Country's, thy Gcd'?. and Truth's." SUMTER., Sc G., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 18S3. *_ New Series-Vol. III. No. 7. _m .LJ_ M ne- negrgaaam sasmeBEgaqgactng aasaa_a i i-nr--r-r"-"T-"T-? - '?? '?? .? . 1 x J" ? ^- ???-""??-??-???-???? ? -? -n II nm --a i g ?a-B-B--a THE T?tUE SOrTHRON, Established June, 186?. Publiai*! ?ery Tuesday, -w ras and Southron Publishing SOCCER, 8. C. Two Dollars per an cum-in advance. 4DT?RTI8KM?ST8. On* Sanare, first insertion...?-$1 00 f?Tery subsequent insertion. 50 "Oootiwcttibrtijr^moaAs, or longer will *? made nifcd&ed rate?. AU comm?ntcat?ons which subserve pr?vate Sntessts wRl be charged for as ad vertisemen ts. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be tioga notices and notices of deaths pnb Hahed^free. - ..... For job work or contracts for advertising address Watchman and Southron. or apply at theO*ce,to N. G. OSTEEN, Business Manager. wm mm, ?0O BROADWAY, N. Y. UNDERSIGNED IS GANVA8SIN? ^ ^anarer County io toe interest of the flpS??? -famed Compas j, and will take risks fut ni tare and all fann property, at RATES AS LOW AS ANT FIRST CLASS C&tfPAXY CAN OFFER. < Hs will bo glad io call on soy one in any ^o&?T the Co^ty jabe* so sequ?ste^ to make personal surrey? Office for the present -ia the Office of Watchman and Sontkrcn, S&ptlB : .. W. F. SHAME. D E A ?I : 50; ?0?? KNOW TH3 BS?50N IRBY PEOPLE WAN? TO BUY |TK WftSQN ?6HTN??8 SEWER . -;\; in preference to any other ? tWe will, tell yo?. . BECAUSE it bas no Cogs, Cams or Gears, j BECAUSE it has no Rawhide or Felt j ~ E5&?USE it hair no Cast-iron Parts paint- j e?Vo^Brtocow its defects. .BSCAUSE. it does not shake, rattle or j - dan? ail over the floor when rn a at a high i V rate of speed. <:. BECAUSE it has two speeds-one for fine work ors delicate operator, and the other fi>r fitst ?peed, so that yon can do one-third j jfjioWwoiTk ia a day than can be done on any ' * other Sewing Machine. JflSCAUSE it russ Light and Easy. T^ftSCAUSElost motion can be be taken up after years of wear without changing or put \ ting io new paris, which cannot be done - -with any other Sewing Machine. BECAUSE it darns rips and tears. < BECAUSE it does the mos? elegant designs j??rtkroia>ring witbont ac attachment. k BECAUSE it does not break the thread or needle when rua backwards. ? We contd tell you for hours of hs Superiority ^overall other Sewing 5?achines. We think - this|Mjjtf&eient reason why people should bwywe WfLSON. It is sold on very easy terms. ZBCI^TMANN & BSO., -v BOOT AND SHOE STOKE. 5 : ' SUMTER, S. C. Angil_._ sTf^j, READ mmsmi W.H. m OFFERS TO HIS CUSTOMERS AND TUE ; - \ " PUBLIC GENERALLY A Large nod Well Assorted stock of Heavy and Fancy Groceries. -Fresh srrivaisyLuly,* An^jjfl^?Sds guaranteed as represented. ! Crockery, Glassware, Lamps. A large invoice of Crockery, Glassware and ' Lamps, of every description just opened. Call early arl get bargains. ?H tra-WABS. :>' -My stock of .Tin-ware is complete, embrac? ing everything in general use* Sp?cial iu dnceraeots offered to purchasers. Thc Hitch- \ 4/1 Sd? and The Bumest Sets consist of ten j '^jftttTof "tiniw?Pfe, all useful articles, for one j dollar, made with- patent fire-proof bottoms, and gna/asteed not to leak. tobacco, Cigars, &c. *?tf?)!&A\%?Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, ^<?fc!*4?Ngant assortment of Cigars, ot rfooiu brands. The DUKE OF DURHAM j C?GARKTS, sold by the thousand or ?ingle package. Also a good assortment of Pipes, j - wot?en and Willow Ware. A fall pot offered in Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, ! Wasb-boards, Set ves, Well Buckets, Brooms, . Ac., tc. TWIN BED SPRINGS. lam still makiog the Twin Bed Springs, j sad selling them at the exceedingly low price of $3.50 a set. Coe mattress is suScieut to make a comfortable bed where these springs are used. Every set guaranteed to give satis fac?o?for money refunded. TOSAT AM EIC3 FLOUS Always on Hand. The bestand cheapest feed for stock. Purchasers will do well to call and examine ? my stock and prices. * 'Money saved is money j made." All goods delivered free of charge to any ? part of the city. . W. H. YATES. SCMTER, S. C. j Aog28 . Opposite Jno. Reid's. Jjftli?ft Bil toft Ys?irl jp' ' 0?a Bss??r? !. W If yoe have a bad taste in your -mouth, sal- j < ???ut ii) or yellow color of skin, fsel despoil* : , ^ient, stupid, and drowsy, appetite unsteady, , frcqmajt headache or dizziness, you are "bil- j t>na.n Nothing will arouse your Liver to t?ct j : on and strengthes op rour system equal to I 1 ?t?6HS' HEPATiC COMPOUND jj 1ATBM AND KIDNEY CURE, j BEHOVES CONSTIPATION, j) REMOVES DIZZINESS, j . DI8PELS SICK HEADACHE. BANISHES BILIOUSNESS. * CUKES LIVER COMPLAINT. " j Overtomes Malaria 1 Biood Poisoning. < REGULATES TS ? STOM A CH. \ WILL REGULATE THE LIVER. WILL REGULATE THE BOWELS, j j The Liver and Kidneys ii . Ott be kept perfectly healthy ID any eli- j t ?ate by taking an occasional dose of j ( W?MOHSP HEPATIC COMPOUND, i < THE GREAT VEGETA BLE j\ Liver and Kidney Medicine. ?* Sumter hv Dr. A. J. CHINA. y Io KayesTilieby Dr. F. J. MAYES. I ' lo Bboopville by Dr. R. Y. McLEOD. j < DO WJE k ?GIS?, Proprietors^ j ( Wholesale Di-uggisis, Charleston, ^. C. ti ?mm_.-. il WANTED, j ; ? & ACTIVB, glib-tongued Canvassing ? A AggSt, to sefi my Book of Poems. A i Sale pVcned. - Apply to I a - W. G- KENNEDY, . At the Sumter Book Store, j a YOUTH AND AGE. When hearts are young aod lightsome The road is straight and clear, And round about on every side 9 Bow bright all things appear ! Tbe dullest mu3ic charms us thea, We laugh and know not why ; Tbe very flowers opon our path They look too bright to die. When hearts are old and weary, The road is twisted sore, And there is little to be seen Beyond oar cottage door ; Tbe flowers we thought would never fade - Lie dead upon the sod ; And then we sigh for peace and rest Within the arms of God. ;- -Matthias Barr. BILL ABP IN THE KITCHEN-MRS. A RP AS A HOUSE? KEEPER-GETTING SOMETHING TO COOK AND KNOWING HOW TO COOK IT-TROU? BLE WITH COLORED COOK3. Cultivator and Dixie Farmer. * t ' 'How do yon get along at your j house V I never meet a nabor or an | old friend uow-a-days but what I j want to ask nun that question. Il don't mean to ask it like 1 ask 'Are your folks all well V but I can't help thinking about the cooking, washing and domestic affairs. The Seid and j the farm are all right. We^ can get j plenty of labor ac fair pnces, but j there are"* few problems right round j a man's house that have not been solved yet. They are mighty big problems too, for tLe women are con- j cerned in 'em-our wives and our j daughters, and I would like to see this cooking and washing business settled down on some substantial ba? sis. There is nothing settled at my house. How do you get along at yours? We don't care so much about the cooking, for my daughters can do that and do it with alacrity and do it nice, and nobody has better eating than when they turn loose with plenty cf supplies. If they have plenty of butter, and sugar, and egg6, and lemons, and ?ard, and chickens, and all the vegetables, and good dry wood for the stove, the dinner will be all right and no mistake, but then they don't wan't to cook all the time. ? Sometimes a follow or two comes cruising around and the girls can't leave 'em prematurely, and so my wife she thinks she must cook supper and I don't want her to. She has fit enough. Old man Colder joined the army at the first of the war. He was old, but he was a red-hot rebel, and said he wauled to fight some. So he \ fought all over the first battle of Manassas, and tort round furiously and hollered to the boys to come on, and that night he Jaid down and thought he was going to die. He sent for Dr, Miller, and says he, 'Doc? tor, if I am well enough to travel, I want to go home in the morning ; please give me a discharge! I've fit* enough.' Just so, my wife has iii enough. I don't want her to have to work any more. I want her to come and to go when she pleases. I want I her to have a carriage and a Sue pair | cf gentle horses, and when she wants to ride let her ride. I want her to have a good time the rent of her days. Site is entitled to it as much as any j soldier was ever entitled to a pen- j sion. c>o of course i don't want her j to have to cook. Now, if we lived in j town and con?d get fresh bread every ! day it wouldn't make so much dif? ference, but we don't. Somebody has got to make the biscuit or the egg-bread, and get up a little some? thing and so among us all we do get up a supper and get along. Hut what I mean to say is, there is j nothing regular, nothing on a rock foundation. Some days we have lunch and late dinner, and no supper, and some other days we have three j regular meale, and some other days ? we don't have much of airy thing, and ? so it goes on year after year, and j nothing settled, for (he girls are gone 1 a good deal ?and they have right | smart company when at home, and sometimes we can hire a darkey for a day or two, and they want big pay and lois of scraps to take home to their young ones. But-after ali, the cooking don't bother ue much., and we cat; always get along if we have something to ' cook. There are more folks thar j want vittcis than cook?, and I am ? thankful we have always had more j than our share. There is another lit- J tie problem right along here, and that is the cleaning up and scouring the floors and piazzere, arid ilse brass ket? tle, and the water bucke?s, and the cook vessels, and making lye ?oap, | and doing a heap of little things that the darkeys always did ar;d the white folks never would do if they could he'p it. But the biggiest trouble at my house is this everlasting washing business. I don't reckon there is a woman in the world that loves clean things and clean clothes any better I than my wife. She is^ bound to have j clean sheets and clean curtains, and 1 clean pillow cases, and clean gar-! [Bents of allsorts, and it just takes j ?nore towels to do her than a Corsi- j can. An ! so the wash woman is j everlastingly a grumbling about, the j big pile of clothes, and not long ago j when ehe took the basket out of thc j buggy she asked me if I was shore j that one of the children hadn't got ? tied up hi the bundle, for it was pow-1 powerful heavy. Well, we begun at | ?yne dollar a week, and then she raised j 5n us to one dollar and a quarter, and j now s^e says she must have one d<>l- j !ar art?rahalf. and I reckon it is righi, i for the darkeys that help her have j, ?truck for higher wages, and tbe good I, >ld soul is doing the best she can. j She is one of the old-time darkies, md when they are gone I don't know j ?vhat will become of the problem, M die o?d stock still wash and scour and I ; ?ook, and make baskets, and shuck i i ;ollars, and foot mats and brooms, j < >ut when they are all dead and gone j < hat is the end of all that sort of busi- ] j ie6S, for this new generation won't do ? 1 t. I'll bet there ain't a new nigger I ( n the State who will ever make a j ? plit basket. They don't know how, J t ind they don't intend to learn. j i Bat aller all there is some kind of j \ SOBBEE j comfort for most everybody. If the ! washing isa bother we musn't forget I that it always was a bother even in slaven* times. The washing' and the ironing was a bother then, for the rain would come and the winds would blow, and there was too much starch or too little, and if there is anything in this life that gets along smoothly all the time I dorrt know it. We old folks can weather the storm I reckon, for we have got used to trouble, but the young set haven't. Nabor Free ! man and his good wife amuse me ; they haven't got used to it yet, and when the cook leaves or the wash woman gets ou a strike they just pack up and go to 'ma.' What a blessed thing it is to have a ma to go to-a good old fashioned ma, who will lighten the burdens of life and give aid and comfort to their children. 'I'm going to ma.' Happy is the child who can say that. It is mighty nice to get married and set up house keeping'and give a big dinner occa? sionally, but when the young mother gets fretted and tired and the baby is j sick, it is a world of comfort to say, 'I'm going to pack up and go to ma !' Folks never get too old to be careless of a good father's and a good mother's caresses. Fond parents are about the 1 greatest treasure in this life, and it humbles us to lose them. I never ! like to see children leave them and go i away off to Texas, or Arkansas or | California. I would rather stay by tbe old folks and comfort them and let ! them comfort me. I would rather ? live hard and be near them than to go \ afar off and get rich. SILL ARP. | What our Poor Land Will Do. ! Mr. J. B. Turner, at Wintbero', purchased his farm five years ago. The land was badly washed and ap? peared too poor to sprout cow peas. Ile bought 326 acres and paid $3 90 per acre for it without improvement, and the former owner of the land had moved West, as he thought it was too poor to make a living on. Mr. Turn- j er went to work at once, built a dwel-1 ling, fenced off a pasture and placed j on it two thoroughbred Jerseys, bull and heifer. He tiien fenced off other j fields, fifteen to twenty acres each, sowed rye and oats for grazing pur? poses. After the grain had been eaten off he broadcasted the land with j pine straw, earth and lot manure, j and planted in turnips. They grew very large and the yield was enor? mous. He fed his stock, both cattle j and hogs, on turnips, pot??ocrf ;>nd j peas cooked. After the turnips were taken from the land he again manured it broadcast, plowed thoroughly and j seeded to orchard grass and clover, j He now has 28 acres in the best con-i dillon for atty crop, and 38 acres pro- j duce an abundant pasture for his herd of ten fine Jerseys. Ile has . anot her field which he intends to seed to orchard grass and clover this fall. Ile finds that these grasses do well ! and produce more milk and butter j than atty other varieties. Ile grows j verv little cotton, onlv enough to nay his laborers, and puts tho balance of his land \\\ grain and grasses. He j has 50 acree* upland corn fertilized I with lot manure from his cattle, j mixed with acid phosphate, and al-1 though the season has been very un ? favorable, he expects to make | bushels of corn on tue 50 acres, j which, lie says, will he an abundance j to feed his 20 head of Berkshire hogs, | and leave a surplus for his otljov stock. ? Ile has now on hand, from last year's | crop 200 bushels ofcorri, 2,000 bundles j of fodder, sixteen wagon load^ oats in j the straw, and 15 tons of rough forage, and will this year mow six acres of peas for hay. Mr. Turner says that any young mau with good health, energy and I pluck, and a good wife., ca:: do iv* j well here as anywhere in the world. ] Two years ago he bought 300 acres moro of land near his residence. This t he rents to good tenants with the un- j derstandiug that they manure every acre they plant. Ile gets his rent j without any trouble, his tenant?-, have j credit with any of the merchants, and j their mules are always fat. Cats Agai J. C. Siribling, of Pendleton, S. C. j says: ito w sba! i we get our cotton! laud in oats '/ At Pendleton we have ? the oldest strictly agricultural so- j ciety in the State. A few members j of this society have formed themselves j into a visiting fainter's society, and meet at each other's houses each month and discuss some previously appointed subject, and inspect the ? farms. At our hist meeting the s:ib- i ject was 'How shall we plant our ot- <; ton land in time to make a sure j crop'r" The decision of the club ::Her j full discussion was that on loose soil, j or fresh land, it is advisable to put in j the oats with a sweep in thc months ! ' of August ami September in the!, standing crop ; and on older land, 1 where the inclination is io run to- j ' gether and become hard from fall J rains, it was thought best to .pie!*, out j1 the cotton as early as possible and j thoroughly prepare the land with the \ plow, aud harrow the oat - in and ; * roll. It was thought best to plow j under the few remaining late bolls on ; ! the stalks for the reason that there is but very little difference it? picking !! them out rather than plowing them ? under. The cost of picking the late, crop is more, and the price obtained ! ; for the yellow cotton is less, and when ; we consider the manum! valu* of 'his : small late crop, there is but iitile ; economy in gathering it. When we I consider the advantages of ?:;? early j sown oat crop, there is :?<.? economv ; in picking this late crop. : Thc boast nf IV-ion that; ii is the most ; ' cultural! of ali the American cities iii i ' sometimes econ nu: stioued by envious j ! rivals, but that ber business meo uu- j ' ierstand tho art of failing, ???jd n:ak;s?;i ' < ;!ean, cor?)pic.to failures, is beyond ; ' ?ute. Wright. Worster & Co. faille ia . ' hat city a few days since for $j>770. )00, and turned over, as cooiplete as- ; ;ets te their cre-litors, the writing desks ! , md six "lliee chairs. These creditors I 1 nay not he satisfied with this showing, j ? )ut some people want the whole earth, j < ! John Morgan's Last Haid. I Story of thc Woman who O'? cc linn Shdtcr and Sent Word io the Union Troops. NASHVILLE. Sept, ll.-tn a state? ment recently made to an indianapolis newspaper, Andrew J. Campbell, tho Union soldier who killed the Con? f?d?rale General John II. Morgan of Greenville, Tenn., narrated all thecir? cumstances ol Morgan's attempt tc j escape and -.he manner in which h? j snot him down, but said he knew j nothing ofthe means by which hi?] commander learned that Morgan was j at Greenville. The missmg informa? tion ic- supplied by Evrard S. Rich- i ard?, a grain merchant in Chicago, ; who was Adjutant-General of Tenne?;- j see while Andrew Johnson was Mi'-J - : tary Governor ofthat State. John Wi]Hams was a Tennessean,! but a Union sympathiser, lie was a J man of wealth and education, and r ad ! a very beautiful and accomplished ; wife twenty years his junio?. Mrs. ! Williams was a si fong Union wo;nar., | and lost no opportunity to give aid or ' information to th : Union soldiers, j ?ir. and Airs. Wilnams's residence ? was Greenville, about S'ftj-sis miles j from Bristol, where the Confederate j army was encamped. Williams, with I others of his townsmen, had been i compelled to leave home on account j of the strong feeling against them for their Union sympathy, so that there was no one at home but Mrs. Williams j herself. On the night before Morgan's death, about 9 o'clock, the quiet of the Williams house was disturbed by a lend knock at the door. Sirs. Wil? liams went to the door and asked : .Who is there V \ 'John A?organ's men,' was the re- j ply. Knowing Morgan very weil. ?Ira. Williams had no hesitation in admit? ting those outside, particularly as a sudden thought flashed through her mind, which subsequently hore good fruit. Throwing the door open, she bade them enter and welcome, and Morgan crossed the threshold with three or four of his staff. Mrs. Williams prepared a supper for them.- At her earliest opportunity to get outside of the house she went to a twelve-year-old boy, whom she knew, and gave him some instructions and a note. The boy disappeared, and fifteen minutes later he rode cautiously out of town on a bay horse. When haifa miie away he lashed his animal into a run, Unsuspicious and confiding, Mor? gan and his staff supped, and about ll o'clock retired to bed. They slept soundly, and day was just begining to break when was heard the tramp of feet, a cry, a shot, and then all wu*; still. About eighteen miles from Green? ville Gen. Alvin C. Gillern of the Union army wa?? encamped with a brigade ot 2.500 soldier*. Gen. Gil? lern was sleeping in his teni at ll o'clock, when a picket awaked him and called him outside. He found the picket holding by the bridle a hay horse j whose Hanks were ha? ??ed in foam and on whose back was -<? small hoy. The G?nerai asked the lao what he want? ed, and lor an answer thc boy 1:anded G diem a v. ale.. It read : Gen. ?Porgan and his stat?, with a small force of mer., .-.re stopping at my house, ann will remain ail night. If yon send a detachment of men be? fore sunrise yen erny capture '..Lem. Yours truly. MF.S. ?Toss WILLIAMS. The boy was taken into G diem's ; tent and fed, and im^?inte?v boots and saddles was sounded, ami sis companies or cavalry-, under Coi. Ingerton. were ordered io Greenville. -.?-> " <>-~ ? ?EA? masing Confederate Funds. It is stated in Washington that thc j oSees of the government wi}! at the next session of Congress be author?; ; zed to make thorough and eat rn", ? j search io" RT y rem.vining funds or j property of ino bte C mfederate gov- ! ' ernrnent. Far; s who ought know ; ' insist that, thew are about thirty mil-j lions of monc .? v ' in ? xis&mee which j : wa? tho property ol '.he Confederacy. ! ; if this is tree, there wiii probablv be ! : serions di&co?ty in finding it. Ai' constant watch has oven kepi by the j ' authorities ever since tho var for M properly or funds of iris nature, but ; ? to no avail. Agents nave even been i ? sent abroad for no other purpose timm j . lids, and it is asserted that one mun j i who profersed to ' ... ' . great knowl eugft on this subji cl, was promised one hi?lf of whatever rm might r?c-.?v* ; er, but recovered nothing; Apropos j cf'.tilis, r* gossiper In a local naper j tells an intercsim?T anecdote : A ii--:, j < slea::., b: '!: -specially for him"kn lc ? 1 running, w:m v. poured toward the fi mid of the war. Slit was i remarka- ! i bte swift and fine vessel, and wr>s . i bought ir: by four men. two Cont.-;- i . i-ratts and two Duhm men. The war [ < was; a!mest to an end. Everybody j..?' could sec? <lu<t. These men knew ? i where there"was-s lot of cotton be-jl longing to the Confederate govern- ? ^ rnent, and knew h - to go* it, too. j ? i hey employed a careful man who : I coil ld keep .his month shut io t:?ke j-; ebarge <.! the vessel, und giving Mm ' * sealed or : rs. dtrectrd him to sui! tor j ; lia'ijhx am' await telegraphic orders ? < as io hit? ;.' '"' m?reme! i. i io sailed, j t and lay .'.t ti al; fax wi Mi hi;- Gres . < banked and awaiting orders foi tv eeks. I 1 finally fhn Confederacy c dbpsed, ' ' .v;.! sim ?vi 1 aneo;isl v ';<? mc* l \ ... \ ordern ; J sad for Liverp .-1 ami examina his \ : insti notions the da-? before arriving j \ there. \\>? ?...; mu ;m opening ! ' ids orders -v.i"? imst?mcWd io cali on \ 1 t;*vo firms of brokers . nd deliver two j oacka?"^s, Hwal: imr instructions from '< them ru:d miking with nobody. Ho : ?' i?ter.ii: .* ebeye-i and when tin minis- j 1 ter of th?! United Stm< s at Loud n " came look for some three million j fol lars worth ox Go?; f?derale eotton j ; that v.-.?.-?. suppOciod to b tying an ind : ' in Li vern-?o!, London md fifanehes-!' i;cr. he could not ii ! it. it is ex- ! J peeled that some ?fi bc rumored de- j t posits of Confederate properly will j t :rn out .<> be of a piece wit ii the . s ibo ve. i t Practica] Hints ATSout Grapes To ike. Editor of uh*. Greenwte Nen-:;: After six years experience with the vine, J cannot speak RC enlhu^iastical !y as some have lately Jone 'laving an innate luve ?or the holness, ? j have devclr-d a great, deal of ray time ; to it as 'veil as reading standard I works treating of it. What I write j is ibr tiro bet-out of ?.hese about to ; engage in grape growing, and to en? courage others to engage in ir.-not for those now in tuc business, as they of cen se know, or should know, all about, it. We ??ave within five miles of this city thousands of acres orland that is now growing from five to twen? ty-five dollars won!) of corn and cot? ter; that will bring st leant sovr :ity Jve co ene hundred and i'ily dollars had \{ been ic. grape:". v?*i?; the ^O::?V amounter labor and fertilizers that it took io make the e- rn ami cotton you v'v> see timi ir; -ithr* case this land would have made six to fifteen times move h-y\ in been planted thro* years ae;o in grapes. Now, io prove this, let ns take one acre of goodlaud that this year r/Hl make twenty dollars worth of cotton. Vines planted six by fifteen chives four hundred and ninety io the acre. This, i think, the proper distance, as it enables us to cultivate other crops between the rows of graces that will lessen the expense and enable us to make enough peas, potatoes or melons I to pay for cluan cultivation, and this j is what the grape requires, and also ; enables us to pass with ease through j each row with a wagon. Now, allow ie:; pr-mos of grapes to ; each vine, on good land ; this gives : f'/ur thousand nine hundred pounds ....., inc acre at three cm.ts peroound and I we have o?:e hundred and mny-sove;:. : dollar**. Compare this with the cot- ; ton and we have a balance in ?a**T?r ; of the grapes of one hundred and ; twenty seven dollars. i Any one who can raise a good ! healthy chicken, pig or cow can raise a goo:'healthy grape vine. In the; one case it takes teed and care, in tl:?1 j other it takes fertilizers and work. Now as to the cost of one aero. 4?-0 Concor?? Tice- at 2 cu,, each.$9 80 ; 490 smikv* (p: 5 ce?ts etch.24.50 ? Tqr?ue for tyiag vines.2.Tu j Total.27.00 ? There are other varieties that will ; cost more, bat thc Concord is good j enough to start with, and weean raise j our own vinos of the other varieties I by starting with a few. As to making wine, any one who .' will invest a doliar and a halt ie a lit- j tie boot .American Gr?.ue Grrowing j and Wine Making,' by George Hus- j mann, and will follow the instructions j given therein can raise good grapes ! and make good wine. This book can \ be obtained of Orange, Judd & Co., ! 751 Broadway, New York. In some j years you can make a gallon per vine j out it is safe lo count on half that | erich, oo good land. We must not j expect always tc obtain a dollar per j gallon for our wines. As the business ! increases, as 1 hope ir wilt do, wines j will tro down in price and we will yet ! see good wines sold in this city at j twensy-Mve and i?fcy cents per gallon ; I even thia price will give us from one ? to two hundred dollars per acre. Those desiring to raise grapes ?l>r i c-arkot should not select latid more j than live miles from a railroad or ex- ! press oSce, as graces have to bc ; handled with care. ! Grapes are a sure crop every y cai' j as my c:<?p uss not failed in iii:, years, j and had I known what I do ie-day i would have fifty acres in grapes and ' would prefer graces as -ny crop at j two cents per pound lo coito:, al icu I cents. Ked 'cud?? aro orrs* for ?r^apes as tl ey are stronger and last 1 wggr than ; gv?y o? sandy Sand?. High eleva- j Uses are best, but any Und io tars ; ai i mate not *" t will bring good ' gropes. You will see i have mado ] ao account cf the cu; ti" aiio.fr; ga .?mr- ; ie;:, etc. This is ba) an ce? I by ih? en?- i tivation, picking, otc . of cotton, j which is about the same- ; This year I realized ibr ail my crop sold from ?ive to ten cents p er . v !.. ricr?, so you will soe that ihre:- cenis j uer pound is a low valuation, bul it ; is always host Lo calculate low ana ? then gu higher if we eau. Hoping j Lo see soma of the many cotton fields ? .?round our city Changed into well- '? Sept vineyards and golden clusters, j a tnt their juice changed into 'Win ' Lfca? maketh criad the hean of man.' j _ j The Gciiaea O 077. L rwndes county. Ga., is the hi.?m? i )f the diminutive guinea cows, ra; i .hey are new called, t! ongh ii ?at was ?ot the firs? name of ibo lu ii ii* a disputed point whether ?.; not ; ti:e original st.-ck was brought from Sriir.orca, bu* ihe bree?! was undoubt \!!y perfected by thc late t1 ! ne! Stap'er, who bef?te the war was a nan of large wealth and kept open ! mese on a ii:1'* estate neat Valdosta. !t was his idea t . breed a race cf ;ow.s suited to tl:at region-scant feeders of small size, docile, nardy ital wide rangers*. 'Ko succeeded,' .ays the Atlanta Constitution, 'in ? ?rollin;1; an admit-abm little animal that :ould live on the native, pastnragi of he pine barrens ?md stand any sort J? CM poe ure. lt averages thirty-rive inches luckes;in height, has ati im- 1 nt: uso bag. ie as gentle as ?'-m', me! V'ks but i.?h'N* j er! th;0j V ?5 li ?I ilc.ksup. ror vears ii vets !..::.w : -:s he Stapler cow, ?-md v. j ; dubbed i guinea-,.' after sonic r-i'.liias tee d had j i ieeo sold.' I . A itovel ii^hinq exntri ace was that i >f Captain r). F. Overton .>? Norfolk, ; l7a., ' is in tho mtnmadeu trade. ! .V! Great W???a i; ? be had about -0, H)\) iish in hi-- seine, when, ?vitbout .varntn-:, a whale at leas.- thirty-five !? .... rose between t-he poe.j boats, .. rtd. tijrev/ing the fish in ever}' Uirea- 1 . - . carried away the entire center 'A ho net. Thc whale 'hen rose several tiaes within tee feet of the crew and , itupe?ed the:.! by blowing water into i heir laces. i A Live Lord ia Arkansas. Kew an english Aristocrat wa? He eoived bj z con of tho ^Vectis. From the Arkansas Traveller: Lord I Iliggleton, who came to Arkansas j wit!? a view to the purchase of a I large tract of timber land, does not i like certain se cia! conditions which he found in the remete regions where the steam whistle bus never disturbed ' the quiet of ile; squatter. Some time : ago while riding alone through the Wood?. bc i :-.t the pretense of ;*. road ? he had been attempting to fellow, i Xi glu cm um bringing with it a heavy . black cloud, from which a torrent of ,' rain began to pour. Josi ?ts he had i despaired of finding a . im e of shelter, he saw big light gleaming among t >e ir*.es. buming his muse io that direction, uu soon came io a lonee Ksrirro;i n<li:rg a small I muse. ' Say , i -.-.ry -oed man/' :;e cali ni. 'Von bet : i'm u good mun,' replied sono? one ' c-poum. . che door. -Tm counted the I l>r.-i m.m?. io thus community. NA icngei aro than y ?le rd ay ? Sang Ab? Kuckle. Don'tikn'ow Abe, i reekin V *'.:' . : .ut; not acquaintedin thiscoun try,5 and thir.kir.g te huprescthc man ? with his rank, which in Amener, he know was always t?sdioa to, he ad? ded : 'I am lim mud-.' 'The devil you say ' Then I rech?n yen air a stranger here. Jule/ turning tc his wife, 'git no. The Lord's out here.' 'You don't v 'demum.! rn?.' said the Ear) of I'iggheom waiting tor au invitation heft;re oisnmm.'i" g; 'I say ? am the Lord-.; "Oh, yes ; I ernstand. Ain't buen much i acquainted with you in the past, bur I reekin i kin make up for lost tiree io the futur' ' 'I'm. a? wet as a drowned mt, don't you know-' 'iion't icnow. podo?, r- seuze the fa? miliarity- but I hov reason ter jedge that yer mr. Xever seed a man that could stay out in the rain without gettin sorter damp.' 'Look herc, /rn tired of this foolishness.' 'i'm bokin' thar, but I kain"', see nuthim' 'Well, darn your bloody hide, haven't you got cm ugh sense to asl; a man ia mit ol'the rain V 'Reekin I've got the sense, but 1 ain't got a bloody hide, au' h. would take a good 'un to bloody it. Ef you don't believe it ins' slip-shuck verseif.' 'No use, you know, io talk to mc that way : ? am a graduate of a boxing aca? demy.* 'Yes, an' I split rails Len years: I carry a maul in one sleeve and a handspike in the other, an' a wedge on fop o' my head.' 'You, pap,' called the woman, 'let the man alone. Didn't he say he was the Lord, or snthin' o' that sort?' 'I ain't a goia' to pester him, lesson he ags it eu;, but I dorrt care if he's Gin? eroi Jackson, much less the Lord ; he hain't tamper with me.' 'You per? sist in misconstruing what I say,' said Lord Iliggleton. 'Jule, did yon hear that word ? Blamed if ? don't believe he is a sort ot a Lord.' 'I want to como into your house and dry myself by tue fire.' 'Then come on, fur yer as welcome as thc fresh air in June. Come in, sir,' he added, es the stranger approached ; 'you didn't say thai yon wanted to come in.* 'But you might have known taut I did.' 'Yes, but i never try to 'tend ter other folks' business. It was ijorafed around this neighborhood onot that I could whip the devil, an' when you said yer was the Imrd I o id:: 't know but what yer wanted a little fun. Make verseif at home, sir, Jude, git the jug.' A Simular Incident or the War. The Petersburg ('Ta.) I rm ex-A open; j -says : I J: the early part of 1864 a snort hui -miritc? fight occurred ata maco lu ?ion-t Ton meare:- called Dami * id ge. between n part of Longstreet's "?.ru- and u considerable ibrcc of Fed? era! caleary, ?mmy were ku-ed on boll ? ;d . Among the Confederate ..mud wan ?.. m.-: n m^d Seaford, from o' nih Carolina, wh- hud been a Pro? fesse?: o'. :uwi he-malice in one of tim co lieges ni that State, und who wan e m ef tue ?ne?t locking men we ever saw wm; ; rivate in the Yvanh .. . v u Light infantry fror?t Charirs G.j and we-lihl not accept a commission, though it wm tendered him severs! tm: rm, 'Hr was buried on the spot v ! mo he VT. killed, and his comrades returned to their quar? ters- several miles away. About two weeks after thc light a 'utter came to ? ios addres-5. Th_% Captain ol tim j company opened it and it proved to j he ir* o a young lady to who? Sc: ; f rd wivs engaged lo be ou cried lt vus w? itren ou the very da} lue fight occurred m Dundrid r~e, related a crea-n tim writer had just had, in ? :imi she saw Seaford lying dead o!? the l-aitieihdd shot through the loft Lr- asl-described the death wound exactly UM it vvr;:, and even the topo ?;. ..;'!.y ol'-..he field, though she had never seen it, un*] in ali probability knew nothing ol'the bai ile. ?he beg? ged him to semi her a lock of his hair as a : acred memento should anything !'.?:>{:'\. i ;> h m. :\v Barley. The hon rn- who employs the pre? sent opportunity to sow as much hind i n barley as .he can thoroughly pie pareand enrich, will reap an abun? dant reward next spring. Barley it? M un ? ; valaabh; crop f.-.r green .ooo hu- * ? sf ali kinds, and is very pvt ht:?- ? ? ;>hj a?< u crop to thresh for narke. ? [ Gi1 good laud. - liar tiler can make ; j io 'ii: loone} to du .<.:... e.? of bailey , ? [ mm fri us co-den, am! make it with j i Due : ! ird of tho e.-; umso L t is :?. much i ? moro pro???t.ble croo tiran colton. A *".. i tim barley* ia ?. I . .'. ?ho loud', cid be pla ?ii d m peas, and will make ; ; ?j considerable v a ni ?n peas, bes' les ; i a very valuable crop o? hay. Lue j j best of this culture is, that albo get- ? ? ting thc barley and. nea vine hay from j i th- hud, the soil wu! be in a better ; . condition tor snaking another ero): ; tin.o il -.vonhi be ai un taking a ump j f of cotton from it. A large sowing of <. ba:h y, o.e. ? stud rye .his tall will do . j a great deni ; o obliterate t rie etfecis ' { of the'disastrous drought of this stun-1 ; mer.-Anderson Intelligencer. ; \ A Sig Hotel BUL 'Do you BOO that comfortable self-1 satisfied looking colored mon ?Um:;-; ing near Attorney G?nerai Brewster's ! red wheeled carriage?' asked a man 1 in Washington, ima: man ha? rx his? tory. He is a 81.200 clerk now m ; the Interior Department, and he seems content with his toi.. ?Ie entitled ; io the proud distinction of having ! paid tho bi<;ge.-?. hotel bill in tins or any other country.1 On being press? ed to tell the ?story about this mousier hotel bin, thc gentleman ?aid that the mao who is now th* v 2C0 clerk, was in the early days ofreconstrn-cuor. the Secietaty of St;;fe of South Carolina. Tte h*.d been educated for the minis? try, but having gone icm polities im was elected Secretary of State. The Governor m. cl financial agent cm, cocted a scheme to is? ne ^m 000,000 j of S'.ato bonds fr the purpose o i inking up certain outstanding bonds. Tiic Legislature authorized tim issue of bonds, but lhere was someth ing ! crooked about, the emiter, and ir was necesnary that tbe bonds noola be out on the market os secretly an i es> seditiously as possible, it rvss de? termined to Lo New Ye-ri: and is? sue the bonds there, where they were 10 bo seid. Thc Qorer.ior, FiUnnoia? A ge* st an .. Si ore: aw of State arrived in Nrew York in due time, whore ele? gant apr rt meo IP had been tuleen in the St. Denis Hoo l. The proprietor of the hotel had demanded a poetry high 11 rfu ra for enterfainiug the party, bot when he fom?? out thai the Sewv-tary. of Stege was a negro he ref:; : 1 to _m tertafo him at any price, lie said that ?f it were known that a negro was patting np at too bote! h ii patrols would desert him ot one:. Tho Gov? ernor a -d Financial Agent were in a dilemma. The Secretary of State toey kee vi-was very timid and they j were afraid, if they suggested to him j that he would have to seek other ?nar- j tors he would take himself bacU to South Carolina, with loo great seal of State, -incl their pretty scheme would be knocked in tho head. They there- j fore went to the landlord and plained the trouble frankly, and promiscJ if he wouid permit the Secretary of State ti* remain they would take their meals in their rooms and would, besides, pay him any sum he would demand for damages he might salier by tuc jv res*.-nee of the negro in the house. Toe party re? mained at the St. Denis forty-live days and put their $6,000,000 of bonds on the marki e. Thc bili ol theSecretary of S tate mr tbe forty five days' entertain-ucn? wu* O'--.'.'-m or a little over $265 a dav. Rough cn Atlanta. Dave Cromeline tells us that com? ing down on the train the other nighs he heard a baking powder represen? tative tell a rough story on Atlanta drummers. The man from the c^st said : 'I dreamed the other night that 1 died, and went, OJ a matte: of course, to purgatory. 1 looked around and met burning; drummers from al? most every city of importance in the Union. There war. a meat man from Chicago, a shoe man from Boston, an umbrella man from New York., and so on, but not a solitary drummer from Atlanta did I sec. 1 thought it strange {hat so greata city as A Jauta should not bo represented, und te learn the cause I hunte! np the dev"! and ashed him why it was mat the Gate City of G corgis woo ?:ot repre? sented in his ve.st assemblage. With? out a word he led rr.e io av^s? cham? ber and unlooked tho door, rio oom: ed to a number ol' men hanging from the ceiling and said : "These are At? lanta drummers, and they are being iienc: np ie-.Irv. They arc e:>rircly too green to burn.'-Maco?.? Te'e graph. A railroad conductor roeroily erm! ont of his o wn pocket tim fare of a woman who was hastening without ticket or mosey to her imsbamos death-bed io a Philadelphia hospital, at thesame time c-mvc;? mg to her lio ir;proo--:oit ?'.ar i; io m re waa paid by o man who s.v., behind ie*- :*od had ; ? stressed . is sympathy. Ti an ,: - ; son pr- -aptly put thc credit wi ere ;: 1 belonged and subseo,ue;.i?y te-:.; DC-CS-! rico ?.;i tho C U.dUC?Oi Why 00 h'Ay j waived his nv;; c'aitn '."'tho waroo"'s ! : g, i*:'v:de. 4y e'-r ::?i.' i-as to renly, 'when v? .. !:avo Keen a cot? ductor for ten vern-, arni been ' - 'oe a od snubbed by '.? di": ee.O Kpsci-j iueiis of traveling humanity you wiii team to coyen-duty and be satis- j ? !iod with that alone. That vee: ?>/??, .]?:.'ros was real, but pricey -ooo (, et of every ten 1 : ?eec with s-oailarj stories will be moil ......oom dead b om-, ind frauds of tim first wator. (fa; ;o7iductor does a humano act T OW rmd j ! dieu and :he pabilo ima., of it a few : ; will compliment him and praise him i for it, but for th . next si:, months j 3VCry tramp and shyster along toe j ; road will strike his train and ondea- ; rm to-cheat him out. of the iure hy j' working upon his feelings.'* For iliziiin^ His W.Ce. A newspaper correspondent who . em recently made a visit io tao alas- j ; tachnsctts Stale VYV on : ' Concord . .chitos I titer* sting imo loot wi::.*" , : mi' ?' wi!: be ne eei ? io :?.;.'; upon ; : is illustrative of th?* ?act i.hu? Divine . < .uri! 0 ion :s not ai ways ?'? h.: 1 em ts appiroation urrt'o :im n-iure t. ts ; < -amrml upon, tlc says : *rwns stamimg ie rn-* ::..." > halV-'j ! utgaued io co^nvers.O.i m v h. im* j : deputy Wart'se:i, wi* e: ' :.' ; ."? i au j : -hi mae advancing throu d' ibo ' .' . v.rn* wa > vas dragging ms . ?. . ?og ? ;>ehind him It was perfect :y ose- \ es ;. and hrmg !i..c a ie....s of . f.d. I . isk-ed the warden about h s it,m. :\. md h-a loh! me thal ho tmd boee s n- ! cuced for om ihr kio,, ?ug U:* u ?ie to ? loath, and that after he entered tuc nison thc leg which lu had used for <? hat purpose began to grow ?seiess, md til: now it was entirely devoid of : l?ows V.TA Gossip. M De Lesseps is expected on the isth? mus of Panama in January. Tie Thames "ri ver in E o gland is said tc . - in a deplorable state. A corres pondent writes : 'At the lower sr-tt.-s cf thc tide ir hs literally a 2ow of noth? ing bat elands of mud, and the fte* id odor arising tberefrcm dearly indicaros that it arises from sower deposits.' Th ere is an old lady camed Brown living in Hunton, 'dich., whose hair is fuming fror-, gray to its original color, and imo is now cuttiog her third sst tit teeta. Fer several years she has hud har second eyesight, and can see to do Sue ?vori* as well a* anybody. Tim eouth is niikiag great progress ia divers*Sod crops, and is reaping groat km .-ms by the change. A few years g.-f, Florida purchased all of her Irisa potatoes. L.:u year mr. Taos J. ib>h ercs, of Leon coon-:7. in that state, realised a profit of ?1,556.55 on a er m of tweoty acres 0? irish potatoes. Tho Abbeville Press and Banner states that there in: ve been tweuty one cases ef typhoid mvor at Williamsmu withte the pu e two months, bays the pr?ts axd Banner : *The disease ia some eases babies tim skill of the best physicians at that j.lace. vYilliamston ha*; heretofore been a healthy location ?ud free fro?* fever. There must be a k-eai cassa.' . . rJu-u. Proctor l?ott, who has recent? ly been -pmigmmird governor of K? u taal:, delivered a very sensible and basiuess ld e ma apurai address. lie in^-?ts apar, baudhag ap and maintain in- th- public school J, recommends a change in ino mode ^-f assessing proper? ty and fha collection of taxes and econ? omy m the public expenditures. Ke very plainly announced his determina? ?Km to 'go slow" in rho pardoning bu.si - ne<=. The v*ino cf the poultry consumed in thc United States annually is estimated at p00.000.0f,'\ or ?6 to each inhabi? tant. The yal ne of th: eggs consuito-d is se* ot ?240.000,000, or $540,000. fr-j? mr poultry aod eggs ^*her. or about ?10 per year to each -tuucioitant. Th a amber of e;r2s ??oasutned is esti? m?t- d to be 9.GO*COOO,000, or 180 eggs to ead inhabitant, which would alimv ono egg to each person every other day. A Georgia judge has just emphasized the sentiment of that State 00 the s.:!> jeet of obscene literature by sentetmiiii; aa agent of;the New York Police Gi zeile to r ay a Gne of ^1.000 or serve twelve utoaths io the chain-gang f??r for chem.-. deg copie* ofthat savory ami ifr^matie sheet, ff the judiciary of th? ether srates were os pronounced ia their view:-- eu the morality of journalism the cou-;cry would cot be so flooded wbh pueiicatiocs obere coi unios are made up from the siitne aud filth that are ex? cluded fro ai decent newspapers. Dr. Bellin R. Grigg, the meJic.d pandit who has beerj pursuing the g^rtus that are supposed to cause various dis? eases, has jnst announced in Buffalo that attar boiling a cashed clot of blood he has discovered that all thc bacteria of disease are forms of ?bria. The conn try doctors will be glad to know this. V>rh:*a a patient ls down with the Mos they can jost ?jet hold of his fibrin and knock the daylights out of his bacteria, which wilt obviate the necessity of using calomel and Dover's powders in such large doses. A re.^e farm is a uaw Georgia indus? try. Two gardeners in the vicinity of Shannah planted three acres io roso trees. This year they sold 22.000 treov to parties in the North, and had orders for "0,000 which -hey couid not ?iii. Thc trees meet with a ready saie at frc;? ?10 to uer 100. ()v<-r 600.Odo trees are annually imported ?ito this country from France. England and Bo!;sad-, and the Savannah iVe?w pav.s it bas been demonstrated th as Georgia lias a better climate for the cul? tivation nf rose srees thaa that iu the South of France. ".Jr. Richard Giant White, an ultra ^esabiiean, ia n recent article in flin ?Xorth A.meriean Review,*speaks p!ah? i . mu: boich abcut the causes and motive- et the lute war. tie says : 'Tho VT:.:' (fer rho Union) was virtn-tl'y carried on hu tho mooeyed men, the h .sines** moa ot the North. They furn? ished us 'sinews,* ?nd "ids they did for r? :r;:- awa purooses and in their own in i ? Many' of theta grew rieh nv ;n;"r.s of the wai : most of thee? saw that m =ts successful rr-seculion hiv their future prosperity. The war was amone3! roa king process. Thu Fedora! Gm rome:)!, was victorious simply b" cause lt had the 1 ...st a>co and tho a?o.?vS mon- ; . 1 h- .?> .... and \- had the m<**S a*eu beor, cse shad the most money. ? -te i ? rjfederate cause failed simply 1 e ... . ??. its men um im money we**? ?*x :.. - U M : fer r.o otlmr reason.' The Am- a* ta Chronicle says : 'it is the truth iu .1 every young man si. mid rasie it- in ids h t '..r hold ii in . is memory. Wit:!** wera die -ussing 'great princin'eV li;.- North meant business, and mean-* it rev.' Truth, end don't you forget it . Recent statistics based cv the census ?how ?i .t in Mi'waukee, where more ?i r is made and drunk than in any :rher city cf rqual size in the worle. In re are twice -is n any suicides rs in ?.nv otht-r municipality of the >at:??? pi.mniatiea. This induces one of rio1 ieading German papers of the A\ est t?> idm::. that ic ': thc eiri.^ ofthc conn i V ??,c Germans are, in proportion to heh* un:..her?, twice as well repvesent .? attM ng r deides as ?ftiy other nei> ]j. -.tuc ii.r excessive use of beer is i-ncd :m th- eause. 'There U no la.:h.-.* jocra&l referred to, m ., he modorare use of ber brigbt ?: . ? i; ?ts men, but, there is .:-.-. M? doob; tn:.* too much beer st upi ; - . . . ;....-..:'.- tin-drinker, and, .:. i i.-j persiste?? in, makes him . . .; . ; and we ka:in:lod. ii is ii . m . ...u, io certain attacks of metau ?boHa, which comes upon the herr .?..?.. ari ia which ito bewails himself ids fate, pbms himself asa vrret.-di y . ; fiy.-U.Jy IA>S b?S If.-avy j ead and \ cering eyes sink languidly s tin talle.' '?Te -mme aufherit\. owevu v. - .?: .':.:<. rs beer a levorage of ?xeeo?m vii 00 in eon? par ison with ;.- . ?.) :?? ?ors. winch, it contend*, ransterm a mau iuto a blood-toits?y wild beast and violator of the la*?.*