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m if ;:n/ n EHR ITATCBM AN, Established Apri?, 1850.^ i? ? i .: ; *j "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 186*, SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1883. New Series-Vol. II. No. 85. Jfediaie*^ W Soutkro* Publishing p s?MTm s. c. E^ -? longer will tabaerre private a$*?#se?naots. MB?A AND ^jl^^^ Corner. ^ ^^^^tolOAYS EXCEPTED. * l^iSKl*(Tft>* train* a? nm on Camdon i***$??t ^?wbtf-U^Tll ?Skm IO 35 ? m ^^grj Cotas??*-:_? a>~. 6 58 p m .li?Yiibiipdi? Tan/tim ^ ""'it JLP T LJj?liafftai*n? u,45 s m 4 30 p m -l4^Crp?4?m Jone7- 8 09?? 6 35 p ?n ^:|^5&?rt?f?ff-_ 7 M ? ?... ? 35 a ? 3S^C??i?? J?ne'-.U ?5 a m.- S 4S p m S**? S* ?*a>d*?,_ I 40 f ?...10 12 p m ??rao** YtjiU fiMiiTi ... 45 s m '439 p? S 1?! CMMJiri Jaar**_? Man 6 35 p tn ^npW Jaa**?T*~-* # * ? P ? Arrrr. Cassite Jase*.-...8 48 p ta 10 35 a tn /f*?Tt ' r-1 " 12 P ?a * 40 p is ;' . - . ..cvaaacrioas. . i? ><C??m^?( <B*d? *? Cottntrbra with Colom :'U?^1tiMlr?f both wa?*, ?o aaa L Wirf?? ?i..?4b*Sp* Ovio* aad Co*aa>bis ?vd Spxrtanburg JM Aatillii Iii?rwafj ii Tei> with tb? Char ladt, Cs4aflftb3a aod A agosta Raiirosd to and fnm?U pasa** J*?rth bj trains leaving Camden 4 46 nv**, and arririoje at 10 15 p ta. iim?iir'inr mnlT s? Angosta to aH .Point? Wagt and Sooth : also at Charleston with ^^^y^^^^^^l?" Soatb"*b ? ^OlfSSi^RO&rtD TRIP TICKETS are KjtM U aa* ?ros? ?il Station? at ooo firet etas? E^^" iVl^M^^Urf^Xon rah? to ?nd ^^JCoi?H TICKRT8 to all points, can he 6 - aavaSaas?i to awpiying t? Jan?* Jon*?*. Agent r^aWri - . D. C. ALLEN, H*?iia&?a?s^^ 1 Cbarlast H?, S. C Wm AW HABNSSS, ItW|&T LRATHER ON HAND Read r ? ...-J? fe a* worked op at thereat Using SAJS^B8-of the Jateat style und of m j ?ft* ?nnj^?i mil ip, at mj shop to sell. > SSEBm?? to ?o all kin*? of Joh* in CjpiS ?ftWiKtV. Ail Orders receired Vitt W|?*ii?p^?4too<kd to, and with the J^^^g^ foii lise of PP - SADDLES, BRIDLES, |?j ".- GALES, and fW??* , ?"A: J^VTOTTHIKO ,?LSS ? . ^^?rtolnfloa Fin Klaas Harness? Shop. ji^^SAsUfSSS Baad? to look at good sad REPAIRING Old TRUNKS mHZZ^A ^SCIALTY. a>r line GUARANTEED BS nos* TE?RT coori. XB too.iu?r-time how fair it shoved-* My garden by the village road, ; "VV'itb ariLT* spire? Jin d garlands white, ' * v Ana odor? that perfumed the ui^ht Wherever the ?oath ?find rushed.' - There aolemd j?urpl? pansies ?toed, Gay tulips red with floral blood, And wild things fresh from fifcid and wooS, Deep heaven-bine bails of columbine, I . Tba dark?y-myp?c pasi?n vine, ?ad clematis thatjoves to U ine, Bedecked tttat happy place. Beneath the strong, unclouded blaze . . -O? Joig ?lid icry?nt ?tenier dsy* Their co^oraantoie-UMtw?sing gaze, Axt4,d,-gcz'cd eveqr eye. . Their cvp* at scented hoi ;ey-<lew Chzru.ed aE the b?-e?lh-.t o'er th?ai Csv, '* ?ad bettertEe* cf radiant Una Paused as they floated by. Kew falls a cloud jaf sailing snow, W Ko Mo- ?ni "teres ??s cup?o *h >w- ' ? " " Earth ?oidx thsm in her brecht ; A abroad of -white, a virg:n pall, 4^iy,^fwN^a:i^ :'TTf:; ^T? ^'??uin a?> sweat wiSac?l " To break their *iient rset. ^^?^f?^?ni^dr^^J |? T- ? ?jjc^?t^weiu^?oo?^cbid'beanw ' C.e?r. icicles, abo ve it % ? cain ; . And yuk-I know not h;?w-- . ?y fioV*irs win heir the dropping raia' Hhes i-pring reco^th bili a^d plain, And then it sha'] be niiue agaiu ; it is GocT* gard'en'now. DIFEIVlibTlES OF A WIT? LESS. "You must get around early in the. morning, my dear," said Mr. Spoopen? dyke, **because Fm going to ba a -wit Spo^peu^j^ r'^wliat have y?n been dc? mg ?? if?v? s '^What-tFye e?poee : Fve been doing ? Fve h?^r&scm? thingBm s law case, and F ve gol to ; swear to them.. Yon can't have a 4aw case without witnesses, and Fve got td be-one fco-mqrrow ; so yon hustie out in the. morning 'and get my *^^ey>c?3a't' d? a?ryt?iing toiyou, can they $n?pm?r Bm. Spoopendyke, ' oemi&y? ~;TV^^? - "If ? ain't there in Sine they can send me'l^j?i^^i^o?deiU!^ S^f^dyke, ominously; "andyou'd better, get me rea/Sy in tmi? if you don't vant to lose Eie/vjuid i?r. Spoopendyko hopped into ^jfc^P^?^^%j^tj??ed fifo clock a??d ?wo honra, anam^ed her hair, and ?l^n tor^pecolaie oa the chances of waking at thej>roper moment At first ?hpv coacl^?e^t?j^ylop^.?11 night,, but -he t?egan to get steepy; and, reflecting vhat rf she nied lier mind on the hour she wanted to rise she'd be sure to wake up, she- went to bed and to sleep sunni tancously. Ai half-past ?- si?a roused np wich a terrified ?tait-- ? ^.Wakenp^vJa^dearv*' ?^ exclaimed to hex h^band. ' - You?ve got to go a witnessing in a case this morning. Hur? ry np, or they'll put yon in jail." "Wah?* resi*>:*udirMr. Spoopen? dyke! ^Wh^d?dithe|he^^amixe? theWwfth-ftw?-?h !"?and jfeSboop endyke was sound asleep again. "You must get right np and go to court," said Mrs. Spoopendyke firmly. ''Yon know something about a law court and yon most wake np right off. " "What's i 4he matter V- propounded ?Mr.'Spoopendyke, sitting np and glar? ing around him. "What rlay of the month is this? Who called Spoopen? dyke? I ain't-slept a wink," and Mr. Spoopendyke fell back on his pillow. " You k?r>w you must go td the"case," continued Mrs. S;?oopendyke. " You've been appointed a witness and you must go and swear about "it. "Wake np, or they will arrest you." "Whatcase?" demanded Mr. Spoop? endyke. * ' Who's arrested ? Can't you let a man alone j ns? as he's getting in a doze? What's the matter with you, anyway ?" ** You wanted to' get up early about some court : fX>a?i, - get1 np. ho^r, or they'll ?end JQXL ibo ?ail," and ?Mra. bpoopeiid} ?<o g<?t1up and lighted the gas and began dropping on her skirts. "Who agoing to court?" asked Mr. 8poopendyke, sitting up in the bed. "Where's the court? Think any court wants me at 5 o'clock in the morning?* "It's about a. law case," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, cheerfully. " You know you are a witness. To think that I should to be 'the wi fe of a witness !" and Mrs. Spoopendyke, firmly impressed that it was something in the nature of a foreign mission, gazed admiringly upon her husband, i J5 "j>od gast ihe law case !" hb-?ed Mr." Spoopendyke, now thoroughly mad. " D'ye think a law case goes prowling around ail night like a policeman ? Got au idea that a Judge is going to strap the Court House on his back and fetch it up here at davlight to try a law case ?" "But you said you wanted to get np early," reasoned Mrs. Spoopendyke, " and it's pretty early DO W. ** **D*ye s*pose I wanted to get up at midrrighh to practice ?" propounded Mr. Spo?p?ndyk?.' "Think a law case is like a church-sociable, the first man there gets the best supper? P'raps you were afraid if I didn't start early I wouldn't get a seat. The measly court don't meet till 10 o'clock, dod gast it ; and here you wake me up at .41 WI mt d'ye suppose a witness ?3, anyhow?" shouted Mr. Spoopendyke, getting mad? der and madder. "Think he's a dark lantern, and goes around with his slide turned and the smoke coming out of the top? D'ye know what a court is?" "Why; yes," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, "a court is a place where they hang people, Mrs? Meterhof-" "That?? it ! You struck it first clip," .pattered Mr. Spoopendyke. "With that information, all you want is a plug hat and aa adjournment to be a lawyer. If I had your intelligence and a bald head, Fd hire out for Judge at board wage?. * I tell ye ft court is a place where they try oases about land, and licking ptopk, and antautf, tad and-di vorce cases. Yes, indeed," continued Mr. Spoopendyke, solemnly,. " they try. divorce cases about women waking their husbands'up in the dead of night. " " What kind of a law case are yon go? ing to witness ?" inquired Mrs. Spoopen? dyke. " A daylight.^case i You understand,, that ? AtM of clock, and not 5. Got. that through: ytfur? head? Think you can remember 10 o'clock ? If you can't can you remember ll, or noon ?" " Bo they h^e cases every hour ?" queried Mrs. Spoopendyke. " Of ^ome^rfbej "do. They leave every fifteen minutes, like a ferryboat, and if I can't catch one case 111 be wit? ness in another. Got it now? Only they don't run as often from midnight to & Begin to see into it?" "I think I do," said Mrs. Spoopen? dyke, ruminating. " I was thinking that if one started at 3 o'clock, I'd go and witness with you." "Oh, you'd make a witness !" pro? claimed Mr. Spoopendyke. . "With your capacity for observing arid ability . to recollect, you would only want to appear twice to absorb the whole wit? ness business," and, with this reflection, Afr. Spoopendyke went bock to his ! slumbers. At 10 o'clock sharp: his wife called him and notified him of the hour. . " How'm I going to get there in time ? Why didn't you call me before? Want me sent to State prison for contempt? Want to get rid of me, don't you?' and Mr. Spoopendyke darted into his - clothes. . . :f* Don't you want some breakfast, my dear?" inquired Mrs Spoopendyke, tenderly. " No, I don't want any measly break? fast," he shouted. "Didn't I tell ye I was a witness at 10, and now it's half past Think a man is appointed witness during good behavior ? S'pose I hold; theoffice till my successor is appointed ?" and Mr. Spoopendyke plunged down stairs and out of the house. "I only did what he told me to,"?ghed Mrs. Spoopendyke, wetting a piece of c?urt-phistrr and patching up a hole in \xf\r tiilk diVKfi- ** Thondi T dnn*fc BAA any use pf a man; being a witness if he *Airt be a witness when he wants to. If I were a mau," she continued, as she flopped down on the floor to change her t>oots, "Td get appointed by the Presi? dent, and then I could attend to business or not, as I liked," with which sage re? flection Mrs. Spoopendyke pulled out her husband's socks and began to sew wens three inches in diameter on the hecis. HOW IS DZ ANS JUSTURN C ALLS* A party of Sioux Indians were guests at a Iru?iug . Milwaukee hotel, says Peck*? ??un, and the ladies had a great deal of amusement with tJiem, studying their customs. That is, they all did ex? cept one lady. Tue ladies called upon the Indians and tl:e savages returned the calls almost before the ladies got to their rooms. One lady called on a chiof? ard then went to her room and jetired, and pretty soon there was a knock at her door, and she found that it was the chief. She told him to come in the. mondng. The lady unlocks her door in tho morning so the porter can come in and build a fire before she gets up. : She heard a knock in the morning, and supposing it was tho porter, she said. "Come in." : The door opened and lu walked Mr. Indian. She took one look at lum and pulled the bed clothes over her head. He sat down on the side of ihe bed-and said "'"ow 1" Well, she WHS so scared that she didn't know " How " from Adam. She said to him in the best Sioux that she could com? mand, "Please, good Mr. Indian, go away, until I get up," but he didn't seem to be in a hurry. He picked up ??eces of her wearing apparel from the floor, different ar: ides that he didn't seem to know anything about where they were worn, and made comments on them in the Sioux tongue. Tho stockings seemed to paralyze his untutored mind the most. They were these long, 90 de? grees in the shade stockings, and they were too much for his feeble intellect. Hu held them up by the toes and said " Ugh !" The lady trembled and wished he would go away. He seemed to take great delight in examining the hair on the bureau, and looked at the lady as much as to say, " Poor girl, some hostile tribe has made war on the pale face and taken many scalps.*' He critically , ex? amined all the crockery, the wash bowl and pitcher, but he was struck the worst at a corset?that he found on a chair. He tried to put it on himself, and was so handy about it that it occurred to the lady that he was not so fresh a delegate as he seemed to be. Finally she hap? pened to think of the bell, and she rung it as though the house was on fire, and pretty soon the porter came and invited the Indian to go down stairs and take a drink. Thc? Ia4y locked that door too quick, and she will never leave it open again when there are Indians in town. She says her hair, on the bureau, fairly turned crav from frieht. MUTTON. In an economical point of viow mut- j ton is the cheapest meat used ; it is also , the healthiest, at least, it i? claimed so ] by physicians who have studied the i workings of various meats upon the hu- < man system. The very poor, JUS well as i the rich, can afford the choicest parts of the mutton carcass. Farmers weil un- ' derstand the profits of early lambs of \ the best quality for the butcher. It is J one of the most interesting and profita- 1 ble branches of sheep husbandry in lo? cations accessible to market. At twelve j or fifteen weeks, properly fed, they will . weigh ten to twelve pounds per quarter, | and readily bring from $6 to $8 each. ^ The amount of lamb in the market, however, is sometimes very liberal-in < fact, more liberal than the conditions 1 would seem to warrant. But when a f customer at the restaurant calls for j i " roast spring lamb," and gets mutton, 1 and don't know the difference, why, it's ail the tame, you know. 1e That Bad Boy HTS PA PLAYS JOKES-AND HAS TO BE CARRIED HOME IX A HACK. I 'Say, do y?n think a little practical joke does any hurt V asked the bad boy. of the grocery man, as he came in with his Sunday suit on, and a bo? quet in his button-hole, and pried off a couple of figs from a new box that had just been opened. 'No, sir,1 said the grocery man, as be licked off the syrup that dripped from a quart measure, from which he had been filling a jug. 'I hold that a man that gets mad at a practical joke, that is, one that does not injure him, is a fool, and be ought to be shunned by all decent people. That's a: nice boquet you have in your coat. What is it, pansies ? 'Let me smell of it/ and the grocery man bent over iu front of the boy to take a whiff at the bou? quet. AB he did so a stream of water shot out of the innocent looking bou? quet and struck bim full in the face, and run down over his shirt, and the grocery man. yelled murder, and fell over a barrel of axe helves and scythe snaths, and then grouped around for a to wel to wipe his face. 'Yon condun* skunk/ said the gro? cery man to the boy, as he tool up an axe helve and started for him, 'what kind of a golblasted squirt gun you got there? I will maul you by thun? der/ and he rolled up his shirt sleeves. 'There, keep your temper. I took a test vote of you on the subject of practical jokes, before the machine began to play upon the conflagration that was raging on your whiskey nose, and you said a man that would get mad at a joke was a fool, and now 1 know it Here, let me show it to you. There is a rubber hose from the boque? inside my coat to my pants pocket, and there is a bulb of rubber that holds about half a piut, and when a feller smells of the posy, I squeeze the bulb, and you see fhe result, lt's tun, where you don't squirt it on a person that gets mad.' The grocery man said he would give the boy half a pound of figs if he would lend the boquet to him for half an hour to play it on a customer, and the boy fixed it on the grocery man and turned the nozzle so it would ?quirt right back into the grocery man's face.. He tried it on the first customer that came in, and got it right in his own face, and then the bulb in his pocket got to leaking and the rest of the water ran down the grocery man's leg, and he gave it up in disgust, and handed it back to the boy. 'How was it that your pa had to be carried home from the social in a hack the other night/ asked the grocery man as he stood close to the stove so bis pants leg would dry, 'He has not got to drinking again, has he?' '0, no/ said the boy as he filled the bulb with vinegar, to practice ou bis chum, 'It was the boquet that got pa into trouble. You see I got pa to smell of it, and 1 just filled him chuck full of water. He got mad and called* me all kinds of names, and said I was no good on earth, and I would fetch j up in state's prison, and then he j wanted to borrow it to wear to the j sociable. He said he would have more fun than you could shake a stick at, and I asked him if he didn't think he would fetch up at state's prison, and be said it was different with a man. He said when a man played a joke there was a certain dignity about it that was lacking in a boy. So 1 lent it to him, and. we all went to the sociable in the basement of the church. I never see pa more kitteny thau he was that night. He filled the bulb with ice water, and the first one he got to smell of his button-hole boquet was an old maid who thinks pa is a heathen, but she likes to be made something of by everybody that wears pants, and when pa sidled up to her and began talking about what a great work the christian women of the land ?vere doing in educating the heathen, she felt real good, and then she noticed pa's posy in his button? hole and she touched it, and then reached over her beak to .smell of it. Pa he squeezed the bulb, and about half a teacupful of water struck her right in the nose, and some cfit went into her strange place, and 0, my didn't she yell. The sisters gathered around her and they said her face was all perspiration, and the paint was coming off, and they took her into the kitchen, and she told them pa had slapped her with a dish of ice cream, and the w im men told the minister, and the deacons, and they went to pa for an explanation, and pa told them it was not so, and the min? ister got interested and got near pa, , and pa let the water go at him, and hit him in the eye, and then the dea? con got a dose, and pa laughed, and 1 then the minister, who used to go to college and be a hazer, and box, he 1 got mad and squared off and hit pa on the eye, and one of the deacons kicked pa, and pa got mad and said he could clean out the whole shebang, ? and began to pull off his coat, when 1 they bundled him out of doors, and ma got mad to see pa abused, and she left the sociable, and I had to stay and eat ice cream and things for the whole family. Pa says that settles it with < him. He says they haven't got any ' more christian charity in that church i than they have got in a tannery. His 1 eyes were just getting over being t black from the sparring lessons, and > I now he has got to go through the i yy&ter and beafsteak cure agaiu. He i 3ay8 its all owing to me.' ' . 'Well, what has all this got to do ? with your putting up signs in frout of t my store, 'Rotten Eggs' and 'Frowy ( Butter a speciality/ said the grocery ( nan as he took the boy by the ear i ind pulled him around. 'You have ? i rot an idea you are smart, and I want j t pou to keep away from here. The j ? iext time I catch you here I shall call j i ihe police and have you pulled. Now j a ?it!' ' t The boy pushed his year back on j a ;he side of his head where it be onged, took out a cigarette and lit it, md after putting smoke in the face of 1 ;he grocery cat that was sleeping on . * ;he cover of the sugar barrel, he said, j * If I was a provision pirate, that never jc told anything but what was spoiled 11 so it could not be sold in a first-class store, who cheated in weights and measures, who. bought only wormy figs, and decayed codfish, who got his butter from .-a fat rendering establish? ment, bis? cider from a vinegar fac? tory, and his sugar from a glucose factory, I would not insult the son of one of the first families. Why, sir, I could get out on the corner and when I saw customers coming here I could tell a story that would turn their stomachs, and send them to the grocery on the next corner. Suppose 1 should tell them that the cat sleeps in the dried apple barrel, that the mice made nests in the prune box, and rats run riot through the raisins, that you. never wash your hands ex? cept on- Decoration day and Christ? mas, that you wipe your nose on your shirt sleeves, and that you have the itch, do you think your business would be improved ? Suppose I should tell the customers that you ?ny sour kraut of wo?den-shoe Polack? er, who makes it ofpiec?s of cabbage that he gets by gathering swill, and you sell the stuff to respectable peo? ple, could you pay your rent ? If I should tell them that you put lozen? ges in the collection plate at church and charge the minister forty cents per pound for oleomargarine, you would have to close np. Old man, I am onto you, and now you apologize for pulling my ear.' The grocery man turned pale du? ring the recital, and finally said the bad boy was one of the best little fel? lows in this town, and the boy went out and hung up a sign in front, 'Girl wanted to cook.1 Two Romances. The son of a leading lawyer in New York, some years ago, wa9 attracted by the innocent face and quick wit of a Welsh chambermaid in his father's house, and declared that be preferred her to all the fashionable beauties who had courted his notice. His family protested, hut to uo pur? pose. The only concession be would make was to consent to go to Europe for three years before marrying the girl. In the meantime, having an in? dependent fortune, tbe lover placed her at one of the best schools in New York. The girl was ambitious and devoted in her affection to the man wbo had chosen her. He returned and found her more lovely than ever. They were married, and the lady is now one of the leaders of society in the city where they live-a noble, refined, charming wo? man. 'An eminent jurist, well-known in Pennsylvania in the early part of this ! century, was 'making the circuit,' on horseback, aud stopped for dinner at the house of a farmer. The daughter of j the farmer waited on them, and the ? judge-who had been a cynic about women-observed the peculiar gentle- ! ness of her voice and a certain sweet ! candor in her face. After dinner the j farmer said : 'Mary, bring the judge's horse.' Mary started to the field which was ! inclosed by a barred fence. Laying her hand on the topmost rail she vaulted lightly over. 'I saw,' said the judge afterwards, 'for the first time, a woman with a mind and body I should require in my wife. I called again and again at farm? er C's. At last I sent Mary to school for a couple of years, and here she is,' nodding to the stately matron who pre? sided at his table. The sons of the Judge and this real Maude Muller all attained distinction ; | one, like his father, at the bar: another ? was an eminent divine, and the third j was a Southern candidate for the Presi? dency. All were noted for their fiery eloquence, their h'igh sense of honor aud a certain appetite for fighting, which was well sustained by strong physical health. The Judge had not been mistaken in Mary's qualities of mind or body. - Youth's Companion. *mm * * pi Naming a Lake. Years ago, it was discovered that a ! certain lake which had long been con? sidered the head of the Mississippi, had no claim to that honor. The explorers found a new and smaller lake from which the great river took its rise. A discussion arose as to what would be appropriate for it. The story is that it was decided in this way : 'Let's make a oew name by coining a word,' said an old voyager. 'Some of you lamed ones tell me what is tbe Latin for true ?1 * Veritas,1 answered a scholar. 'Well, now, what is the Latin for head? 'Caput: 'Now write the two words together by syllables.' The scholar wrote on a strip o4 birch- j bark, 'ver-i-tas-ca-put.' 'Read it out.' The five syllables were read. 'Now drop the first and last syllables, md you'll have a good name of this j lake.' And 'Itasca' it was. Be Saving. With au economical wife at the head )f a house much can bc accomplished. The idea of saving is a pleasant one ; ! ind if wives imbibed it once, they j Evouid cultivate it and adhere to it ; aud i bus, when they are not aware of it, ;hey would be laying the foundation of i competent security in a stormy time, j1 ind shelter in a rainy day. The wife j : itho sees to her own house has a large I ield to save in. Thc best way for her j ! ;o comprehend it is to keep an account ' )f all current expenses. Probably not i 1 me woman in ten has an idea how j < nuchare the expenditures of herself j md family. Let the house-wife take j he idea, act upon it, and she will save ; ' lomething where before she thought ; i t impossible. This is a duty, yet not ? 1 i sordid avarice, but a moral obliga- j ' ion that rests upon the women as well ! < is the men. j ' ?i - j i A little three-year-old girl, while her \ \ notber was trying to get her to sleep, j - )ecame interestedjiu some outside noise, j, She was told that it was caused by a ; Ticket, when she sagely observed s j < Mama, I think he ought to be oiled.' 11 Silos and Ensilage. INTERESTING PRACTICAL TEST8. Correspondence Southern Cultivator. KEOWEE, OCONEE CO., S. C. 1883. The neighborhood Farmers' Club of Pendleton met at the farm ot Mr. J. C. Stribling to day, the special matter of consideration was the subject of Silos and ensilage. The Club in? spected Mr. Stabling's silo. His barn-yard incloses a very steep hill? side. His silo is built close to the line where the hill begins its sudden decline, wheieby he secures not only the best surface drainage, but also an outlet for an underground tile drain, which leads fi om'the bottom of the pit, and is intended to discharge any carbonic acid gas that might form du? ring the consumption of the ensilage and otherwise aid the ventilation. The silo has an area of 16 by 12 feet and is 12 feet deep, lt is cut into solid red clay, but for greater secu? rity against wet weather, it has walls of concrete of several inches in thick? ness, as high as the surface of the ground. The floor is also concrete. Above is the room for the cutting machine furnished with a movable floor, and covered by a roof with pro? jecting eaves. The door of the pit is in the wall of the lower end, and as it is below the surface, the approach is dug out. The club were invited to enter. Mr. Stribling began using his ensilage on the 8th of November, has fed continually eleven head of stock cattle, horses and colts indiscrimi? nately, and the ensliage is now per? haps a little more than half consumed. His pit was scarcely half full to begin with. He exhibited chopped pea vines, chopped fodder and corn, and also peavines put in whole. All were perfectly preserved. The peavines were appearently in better condition than when they were put in, as the tough, unavailable part of the stem had become softer and more succu? lent, and they seemed tobe decidedly more valuable than dried or cured vines, both for the reasons just men tined, and because the leaves, which dry crisp and shatter in sun-curing were here found entire. The green pods were also perfect. One of the party cut into a pod with his pen? knife and dissected some peas, and called attention to their perfect con? dition. There was no sign of mold or decomposition about any of the en? silage. The mass was dug into at random. It seems superfluous to say that a ! necessary point of a silo is the exclu? sion of the air from the forage. This is done by pressure, and a simple way to secure the pressure is by cov? ering the forage in the pit with heavy boards and piling rock or other I weighty material upon these. When the silo ia opened, the rocks are re? moved at one end, one plank is taken up and the forage is cut square down to the bottom of the pit the width of the plank. So it is gone through with, one plank at a time, the pres? sure on the rest being not disturbed. For this reason the pit should not be too wide, for while the forage will last in cold weather ten days, or per? haps longer, after exposure to the air, as the spring season advances and warm weather comes on it would be well to expose only such quantities as can be used more rapidly. Mr. Sta? bling's pit is twelve feet wide and be feeds a cut ol a plank's width in something like ten days, with no ap? pearance of his forage souring ; but next season he expects to save more material and intends dividing his pit by a middle wall running through its length, so that he will take up for each cut a board six feet long instead of twelve. This year his pit is not full and will not carry him far into the spring. The writer asked him if there was no sign of decomposition or souring immediately under the planks. He replied that he had at first supposed there must be, and had feared to give it to his stock, and so had begun by throwing away a layer of an inch or so. But it happened that his stock got hold of some re? jected stuff lying out in his lot, and ate it readily, without detriment, so that cow he feeds it all from the very top. There is no evidence at all of spoiling on the sides or floor. " At the last meeting of the club a report had been mace on the opening of Dr. Adger's pit. Dr. Adger is a member of the club ; his pit is also dug in hard clay and is under his barn roof and always thoroughly dry, but they found a la}rer of forage of lour or five inches all around the sides spoiled and lost. The JOSS was agreed to be due to the fact that the Doctor's pit has walls constructed of closely fitted logs faced with boards, from which it is impossible to exclude a certain amount of air, however the interstices between and behind the boards may be filled and packed. The concrete wall has a clear advan? tage. Mr. Stribling is a decided advocate of ensilage. We have permission to quote his opinions. Ile considers it the surest and cheapest way of saving forage. One is independent of the weather; no auushine is needed to save it ; the forage is stored just as it is mowed, and one can calculate on ! saving all that he can grow ; there is no risk of lire after housing, there is no waste in the use, and the feeding can be made perfectly accurate and systematic ; it occupies only about one-fifth storage room required for the same amount of ordinary farm "rough? ness." Well preserved ensilage is better feed than any kind of hay or dried fodder, and stock like it better. As to the crops fit for ensilage, Mr. Scribling has no doubt that any forage which stock will eat green, eau be ensilaged 'if cutline, weighted ; heavily, and protected from water.' j Ihe peavine has some advantages j [>ver other crops. It is excellent food | rery prolific, and exhausts the laud less j than other annuals. Fodder corn ! thickly drilled and cultivated is liso very valuable and greatly pro 3uctive. In regard to the cutting up of j irops, Mr. Stabling's experience j ; ihows that the forage may beprefeerv-j ed whole. But the chopping is al? ways to be preferred when one has conveniences for it. The finer the forage is cut the more easily it is pressed down to an air tight condition and the more readily is it taken from the pit. If one does not cut he must apply heavier weight. Mr. Stripling has been making some interesting figures on the subject of ensilage. He finds that in South Carolina there are nearly 600,000 for? age-eating animals, to which ie fed annually about 350,000 tons of dry forage, including shucks and straw. Of this about 170,000 tons iscorn fod? der, hay and other annuals, which re? quire good w eather for their success? ful curing, and the average loss on these crops alone each year is estima? ted at nearly 123,000 tons, worth ?2,000,000. This sum would be sufficient to build earth silos good enough for all practical purposes, ca? pable of holding all the forage needed in this State. Or to state the propo? sition differently, the damage to our forage crops in one year costs a sum which would build all the silos need? ed to preserve them. On this head Mr. Stribling invites further com? ment. Let us hear from other States also. As respects : the cost of silo - pits, Mr. Stripling's pit (which has been described), may be stated as costing under ?80 ; but concrete walls may not always be necessary, earth walls with a good, wide shelter and a good surface ditch around, may be suffi cient ; or the silo might be made above ground, each man must judge by his surroundings what would be economical and practical for him. The subject ought not to be left with? out remarking this also on the point of dividing a pit by a middle wall viz : that one is thereby better able to fill and press a compartment in a single day. In this climate it seems to be safe to leave the chopped forage un? pressed over a night certainly, so that one may have two days to fill his pit, but there may be climatic or at? mospheric conditions under which it would be more prudent to complete the whole operation while a single suu shines. Canning Factory. [From the Greenville News.] The gentleman who proposes to start a canning factory for putting up fruits and vegetables is now in this city, and there is no doubt that the factory will be established if assur? ance is given of supplies of material. VV. T. ?h?mate, with characteristic enterprise, has offered to furnish the necessary buildings and grounds, the capital required-?2,000 to $3,000 is so small that there is no doubt of its being readily obtained, and there will bc no difficulty about the labor. What is wanted, however, is some idea of what can be supplied of the following quantities of fruits needed : 9,000 bushels tomatoes. 1,000 bushels blackberries. 1,000 bushels huckleberries. 3,000 bushels large white and yel? low peaches. 3,000 bushels mellow and juicy ap? ples. Smaller quantities of quinces, cur? rants, raspberries, etc. The machinery for the canning of corn, beans, peas etc. is more ex? pensive, and such work will not be undertaken until the experiment has been tried on other things. All persons who can promise to supply any of the above fruits in quan? tities of from one bushel up at fair prices, are urgently requested to im? mediately send their address and the quantity they can probably furnish to the News, or to R. R. Asbury or W. T. Shumate. Of course they will not be bound to anything or asked to sell unless the prices are satisfactory. The present object is to get an idea of what can be had. The advantage of such a factory to the cit)7 and country can be readily seen. What fruit it would take would be over and above the usual consump? tion and just so much clear money paid out to our farmers for what is now wasted and rotted, bringing nothing. The quantities above called for would put probably from ?5,000 to $7,000 in cash among the farmers more than they now receive. This factory will utilize the ditches and old fields and surplus product of gar? dens and orchards, and create a new method of money making and a new branch of industry. The gentleman who is interested is from Harford county, Maryland, where the ennning factories have grown up and scattered in every di? rection until the business has become an immense one. The}' have in? creased the value of farm lauds a hun? dred per cent., and added vast sums to the property of the people and the resources of farmers. They have made the plaining of tomatoes a regu- \ lar business, and farmers rind it much more profitable than wheat or corn, the production of good land being from 250 to 400 bushels an acre and the average price 20 cents a bushel. The cost of cultivation and picking is ver)' little, and the profits considera? bly above those of cotton raising at 9 cents. 250 bushels of tomatoes at 20 cents is ?50; 500 pounds of cotton at 9 cents ?45. All who can furnish tomatoes, blackberries, whortleberries, peaches, apples, quinces, currants or pears will send in their names as above as quickly as possible. If no satisfactory answers are re-1 ceived, the project will probably be | dropped for the time, but it will bc revived next year when sufficient no- j tice can be given to allow the plant- j ing of tomatoes which will be the j most important feature of thc fae- j tory. j - i m - .This is a nico time of night for you to be coming in,? said a mothejr to her j daughter, who returued from a walk at 10 o'clock. 'When I was like you,' j continued she, 'my mother would not ; allow me out later than 7 o'clock.' j 'Ob, you Lad a uice ?ort of a mother,' murmured the girl. 'I had, you young jade, a nicer mother than ever you j had/ said the mother. [ News and Gossip. The Aileen Recorder publishes a list cf the visitors at that health resort. It fills two columns and a half. It is now generally conceded that the cotton crop will reach 7,000,000 bales. The Agricultural Bureau puts it at 6,835,000. Miss Chatnberlin, thc American beauty in Ec g laud, has captured Sir Maisy Thompson, and bis income of ?100,000 a year. When a rich Chinaman wants a wife he buys one. Rich men in Chiua ap? pear to have just as many privileges as rich widowers in America. In this State the number of cotton mills has increased in the past two years from eighteen to twenty-seven, and the number of spindles from 96,000* to 180,000. The increase is steady. Work will soon be resumed on the Hudson River Tunnel between Jersey City and New York. One million dei lars have already been expended on it, and it will take three millions more to complete the work. Augusta Chronicle : Thc peach crop is reported killed, but we expect confi? dently to eat all the fruit of that kind necessary for our health this summer. The peach crop is as bard to annihilate as the Democratic party. The Democratic party has a list of prospective Presidental candidates for 1884, of exceptional wealth and social position. Included in the number are Senators Pendleton, Bayard and David Davis, Justice Field, Gen. George B. McClellan, Gen. Ben. Butler and Sen? ator Fair. The Memphis Avalanche would have Southern planters raise but half the crop of cotton they are wont to produce and devote the rest of their cultivated land to grain, grasses and stock. In such a course it sees the only meaos of achieving Southern independence and thrift. A youug man who undertook to trace his family back two centuries, struck the penitentiary before he had exhaust? ed a century, and concluded to stop. He feared he would collide with a gal? lows before reaching the objective point. The Langtry^ seem to be a bad lot. Agnes Langtry, sister-in-law to the Jersey Lily, was brought to this coun? try to act as chaperone, being a maiden lady of mature years. She soon picked up a beau of her own to offset Gebhard, and OD Sunday disappeared with her friend at Niagara Falls. Nothing bas been heard from her except a telegram demanding her baggage which Mrs. Langtry refused to send ber. Tom Marshal's last words, as he turned bis face towards a window, were : 'This is the end ! I am dying on a borrowed bed, under a borrowed blanket and in a house built by public charity ! Bury me under that oak tree yonder, where there is plenty of room. I have been crowded all my life.' Such were the dying utterances of one of the most brilliant aud eloquent lawyers in the annals of Kentucky jurisprudence. Arizona and New Mexico are agitated by the continued operations of the Indian hostiles who have committed, from three to ten murders every day for the last two weeks. They are making for old Mexico closely followed by U. S. troops Mexi? can troops are also after them with orders to give no mercy to buck, squaw or child and the raogers, are out in force. It is stated that a secret society has been formed among the whites, members of which swear to hunt and kill every j male Apache Indian wherever he may ; be found. The White Mountian Ute Indians threaten to go on the war path next month unless the government gives them relief. On the day before the reception ten dered her at St. George's Bermuda, the Priocess Louise weat on a sketching expedition aloDg the shore, all alone, and after a time becoming thirsty, went for a drink to the cottage of a negra fisherman. No one was there but 'auntie,' and sh ? was as busy as could be i ron i ii g a shirt for her 'ole man' ta wear at the reception. The Princess asked for a drink. Tse no time to bodder getting water fo* you,' was the reply ; Tse fearful busy, for I'sc bound to see the queen's chile to-morrow.' .But, if you'll get me a drink, TH iron while you do,' said the thirsty Princess. The offer was accepted, the Princess finished the shirt and got her drink, and then revealed her identity. 'Fo'deLo'd, honey !* exclaimed 'auntie,' when she recovered from her surprise, 'ole man no* no one else ever wear dat shirt agaiu nohow !' ^- 11 - Counting the Money. The task of counting one thousand millions of dollars is difficult, even for the best experts, but the retireinent of Treasurer Gilfillan makes it neces? sary. His old assistant and friend, the new Treasurer. Mr. Wyman, may not feel much solicitude to have the accounts of his predecessor verified, and it ie understood that he will waive the right to have a secoud count of Uncle Sam's money made by his own assistants, but it is well for tlie gov? ernment to have experts search through the Treasury. Great frauds sometimes grow out of the neglect to make thorough investigations of ac? counts which are regarded as without a taint of corruption. Chief Daskam, of the division of public moneys ; Mr. Upton, who as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is familiar with the books, and Mr. Middleton, a Wash? ington banker, are the committee iu charge of the work, and at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon they took the keys and books from the retiring Treasurer and put their force of clerks into the vaults resolved to count enough packages before Monday to allow the tellers of thc Treasury to make their payments without inter* rnptiou during the present week. Having placed enough money behind them to do the business of the gov? ernment, the counters can now com? plete their work at leisure. Tho funds consist of about ?306,000,000 in cash, about ?250,000,000 in Trea? sury notes ready for issue, and $400, 000,000 iu bonds of national banks, vu all more than $1,000,000,000.