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_ WB3KK I. V ~ j • Vol. IX. HubNoription One Year SI.OO Six Mouth 50 Three Mouths. 25 Ineariat) y in Advance. &T Positively no paper sent until the money is paid. Notice given each Rnhsciber two weeks before the expiration of his time, and if subscription is not renewed, the paper is at once discontinued. Our no tice will be the letter “X." marked on the margin of the paper in Mue pencil *HT Any persou who will send us the 'names of five new subscribers, with #5 cash will be entitled to owe year’s sub •script ion free. VdvcMMisinjf lflitow. Guo square, first insertion...l 00 *Ueh subsequent insertion 75 One square three months 10 00 ne square six mouths 15 00 One square twelve months *.?O ou Quarter oolurun twelve months.. 40 IK) Half column six raoutliß 00 no Half colaun twelve months 75 00 One column twelve mouths 125 *H) # '^ r Teh lines or less considered a sqnure u 1 tractions of squares are counted as full squares. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, ETC. A. C. QJILLAiN, Dentist , WILL be iu Thomsou from the Ist till the 15th of each month. All operations strictly First Class. Office on Haiti street, first door south of A. B. Throaher's residence. * Private engage ments iu the couutry promptly filled. jtn2i*-ly PRIC-SS SuITHA OTIM S 'I'HE UNDERSIGNEI) is better pre- I paierl than ever 1 1 make BOOTS AND SHOES of all styles for I tidies and Gentlemen, cheap f*r cash. 1 ketp on haud an assortment of the very best -lualojrhsl. ami make Wedding and Party ikiota and >4hoes a specialty. I have re cently learned anew process of prepar liug aules from the best Baltimore Oak .and .slaughter Hemlock that make them Hast much linger than t eld process .Very'thankful for past liberal patron age, and solicit a continuance of the same. All work warranted. Gal! and examine stock and prices. Shop in back room of X. N. Lewis store. !jau2*.-ly W 13. B. CASON. >!. HARP, ileuivr iii and Manufacturer all kind* Tin & Sheet Iron Ware. Aiho, Dealer in CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE. LAMPS an-1 LAMP GOOD*. Gutter Ipg afid Roofing done at Lowest Rates, al'be. lowest prices gniirinteed tor every- Ethinand I will not be undersold. B|Send for Price List. ■ NO. 1U BltOU> STREET, .Markwaiter’s Marb.e Works, IAVILIOS mfiff Charleston, S. C. J G. T. ALFOItD <£ CO., Proprietors Hates. #2. :A) ami §3. WO per day lluii* Cutting —IK THE LATEST AND MOST SCIENTIFIC MANNER, -BY E. D. AMONITTI, ia list on Iliimiiu I loir, (Gmcs llhpkb Ckstbai, Horn.) \IGUSTA, G KOIiGIA. iiittn'.-lf Planters, Attention! We could not supply the demand for the Outlet •fin lasi seiwun owing to the yellow fever quarantine To prevent a *iu)il.tr occurrence during the c tiling -season, we have been iuetrueted to -ffer the Improve < 1 lett <iin, ATIBO Feeder and ('aud-eimer*, At a very low price to all who will pur chase this spring for cash or good paper. Now i*. vonr cnance to purchase the finest Cotton Giu ever off red to t e trade, at prices th t any planter can afford. To get. t e largest d:-connt yon ahouhl purci ase between now and May 1 ,'th. We are also offering the celebra t'd Hiarelow Ihnjrinps of eve y style; also S r': EPS PA KE SEP vi. "< ’ .S SW. MILLS, i HliESi i EUs GUIS MILLS. Ac., Ac . At greatly reduced pri *es Give us eull or write for circulars. Extr low figures made to thosn who iiurcha*e tbei eutir* g ntiiog und direahing out tits through us. -ddress. 0. M. Si ONE k CD., Gen ral Agents f-.r Plantation Machin ery, \ngtwt* Ga. apl 3-biu. NERVOUS DEBILITY SEMIN AL WEAKNESS, Lost Manhood, lin latency. U. i vernal 1 asitude. Enerva tion of Mind aid B<nty and all diseaHes that follow as a s<qiiei;ce of indiacretion cr excess quick y and permanently cured by H*re* q*ec fie. prepared by h physician ands the result of years of Ktu ty ad practice in treating these special and Meases, and sold at $2 per package thiee packages for $5. For specific circnlar and full particulars, ad dress Dr. BATE ACO , 201 vdark St., Chicago 111 feMhiy_ BURNHAM’S JLmmm tSSfimSk rßiiiTtußEsTiikttu.ti.nsi rrii-M rfdvKnl. Pamphlet free. J MILLING SUPPLIES Works: Christiana, Lancaster Cos., J*a. Office; S3 H. Heaver tit., York, l J m. febs-iy Opium and Morp! ine Habit And DRUNKENNESS absolutely and peJily cured. Paialess: no publicity; the worst cases of Druukeuuess cured in Id or Id clays. Send Htaiup for particu lar* to I ‘-S. CAKtYON, 21* a. Clark St., Chicago lit Dean make money faater at work for ua than at anything eiae. capital not required; we will atari yon. si2 per day at homo made by the uduatri- Man,women, boys and girta want ed everywhere to work *. * U". how ia the time Costl, outfit and terms free. Address. fItUEACO., Auouata.Moi 1.27-H Grant and Hayes were both born the same year. It'.. . T -Twenty-seven daughters bright ■en a Cleveland, N. C., homestead | with their pi attle. - There are n •' fourteen murder - ier in Texas who have Ireen found ! guilty of murder iu the Brat degree. I . f —lii September the Princes L mise will—that iu to say, the glorious cli mate of Causda agrees with the royal couple. —Mr. Singleton Vau B iren, of New York, died ou Monday. He was a grandson of the late Preside t Vau Buren. —Kitty Warren, a colored woman, receu ly died iu the Washington county (Md.) almshouse aged one hundred ami four years. —Albion, N. Y., lias a hermit of se.veuty years who hides himself from Immun gaze, having been disappoint ed iu love fu ty years ago. —The New York post-office rfi ecives 50,000 in iccurately a*l iettei’a a day Wind a commentary upou InitAap 4 *aiift*e-sijes!” —A sitign ar freak of nature is re ported from New Y rk, where a cat gave birth to a kitten am. a pup bear ing only slight traces of feline traits. —The law prohibiting opium smok ing in Nevada, under a penalty of SIOOO fine or two years’ imprison uieut, went into effect on the first of May. —Heinlinr.lt, who ia to lie hanged Od Staten Isf-iiu next month, a ill he the first person executed ther m 108 yearn Tile previous culprit was a negres*. i —Two colored men recently ap plied to be admitted to tin* bar of the Sopreme Court of Kor !i Caroli na. One ..as aecep ed ami the otli r refused. —The largest instalment of bonds ever sent in ut oue time to the Treas ury for redemption was forwarded •.outlay by the Mav r.ok national bank, of Boston. The amount was $11,(100,000. —The steamship Jeaimette, uow lying a! Sau Francisco, will turn her prow mi her public cisco. —Half of tlie hair and liear.l of a man in Springfield, baas., bus turn ed giay, while the other alf ret ius its natural dark oulor. The dividing line of the beard is iu tile mid dle of the cbiu, and on tne bead it is immediately over the nose. —Mr. 'ohu Duuu, tbe ex-oonfl dential minister of King Cetewayo and now iuterpretor on tbe stuff of Lord Chelmsford, married his seven teenth wiie when abon< to start on the expeditrnn for the relief of Eko we. He bought her for ten cows. Many of Ilia other wives he got fur uolhiug as presents from Zulu cli.efs. —Four hundred thousand persons, according to the Itadway World, are employed on toe railroads of tilts country, u.nl live tunes that my depend upon the roads for support. It. is also estimated that between ff.KlO.oilo,ooo and $400,000,000 are uu uitaliy paid o employees ami to per hi ms who turn id. the coinpHiiies with supplies of various kinds. —B t wet*h iki and tiie £ll of Ju ly a., mimea-e ainoom of money will iietiirowu ou the market. Called J lamas to the extent of $284,000,000 pine io he take • up. Of theae about SIOO,OOO,<WO "111 lie by direct ex ' ehaoge , f .ix per Cent, for four per eeiit. tinmii. file r mauling $lB4, Mi 00.00.1 no.-i be reinvested mime ...iere. It liny give rea. eaLiie a bonut. —liiuoe the occupation of Bonn by the lui.iu.i Government an the capital oi milieu I aiy, twelve Protentaiil cnurcm-a have oeeii built there, >4 vliicb tlirie are Epmcopal, two Methodist, one Presbyter an, one Bapiini, an i one called the American Uni. n Church. Tue other are the Liberal Church, the Wultiesiu Church he Eva gehC M.litnry Ctinrcn and the Ap.iato.ic Ciiurcu of it >;ne. —T..e dent ruction oi w ild bcaata au.i hiniaea la oe of tli Uu ica uu oer.alien by the authorities of the Ea.U iutiiea; but, t.iuugh the atrug gle has been eurrieo ou fur centuries, mail ha* hot yet trimnp ed m it.— Laiat year no lean than 22,801 wild oeaaia aud 127,290 auakea were de stroyed, at a.i expense of 103,000 runpeea, or $51,400. Nearly 17,01)0 persollM were atlaeleii by -uakea dur ing tlie year, und 3,000 persona were victims of tigers, leopards, wolves ana other ferocious uuimals. —Beports received at the general laud office iu Washington, show tbut during the mouths of January, Feb ruary, March and April last, as rnuuy actes were taken up as ever belore ttt any single year, which indicates an unprecedented and eucouragiug in crease in the volume of immigration. It appears, moreover, from state ments reeeutly prepan-d at t e laud office, that there are 724,311,477 acres of surveyed public lands which are yet undisposed of, atnl the enormous aggregate of over 1,000,000,800 acres that have never been surveyed. THOMSON-, GA., WKDpEWDAY, .rCITIS 35. 1R79. OLD AGE. BY ISO LINK. We love to note the flush of youth, Thf t mantles on the dimple cheek; To catch the smiles of hope and truth, And hear the gladsome voices speak. Bat far more beautiful than these, Is sweet old age, with glory crowned ; The hoary head one sometime sees. When in the way of wisdom found. Yes, sweet old age, the fsoe perchauce Is furrowed now, and wet with tears; Still ohest'ning sorrows but enhance The beauty of declining years. Faith lends its aid aud to the mind Tie future teems with glories new; The vanished years are left behind, Eternity appears in view. We almost seem to breathe the air Of some far dhtant spirit clime; Or list if we may almost hear The echo of some strain sublime. God’s chosen ones! They bear His Real And safe within His fold are found, And in their pra; enoe we may feel We surely tread ou holy ground. —Buena Vista Argus. REMINISCENCES OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. BT AN OLD CITIZKN. Ebenezer William, was 1 he son of Joseph Williams, of Williams burg, .Viuss,, aid was barn in 1791. At thv age of 17 ho left i Ik* pal omul root ami 'sought a home in Virginia. He eetllvd at Major Mayo's, or near there, for Ik* used to t,II with much zest, this anecdote on Gon. Winfield Scott, lie was livii g there at the limo Gen. Sc li wus married to Miss Mayo. Miss M. was an heiress and a lovely character. On toe morning after the mar- riage the General's turn.ml, which was a coach and four, ..s drawn up at i Ik- joule. General j Scott said to Mr. Mayo, “What Ido you suppose, sir, I gave for that tiirno.it?” “■*eli. General, ’ said Mr Mayo, “I would tallo r n l say.” “But I insist on hearing trom you.” “tV u!l,"said Mr. Mayo, “if you must Imvo my opinion, I think you gave your note for thom.” Mr Williams migrated to Go. Ittmhia county ub nt 1818, ami obtained board at Mr. Heggie’s, near the llnclc, and opened a to Rp*t 1 Jones Ito.l moved up near A | pling, and opened a school lie then Guilt on the place n w owned by lion. J. |\ Williams. In 18-2 he was elect ed Rector of Columbia County Academy at Appling, the Trus teed then being Rev. Jnriah liar ri, Tom Hamilton, Dr. Nathan Crawford and Ed. Bowdric. By this marriage three chil dren were horn and raised to majority—two sons and one daughter. The latfer married A. M. (cr Cuffi Crawford. Uon. J. P. Williams, the elder son. still lives at the old homestead, and is one of Columbia’s best cil izens a large and suecossful far mer and an intelligent and pop ular gentleman. Ho was elected to the Legislature in 4876. and the late Convention having ub l ished the session of 1877, ho was re-elected without opposition to the next House ot Kcpresontu lives. J. P. Williams married Mrs. Gibson. They have two children—a son, Ehenezer, now a student ut Oxford, and Miss Susie, a charming and interest ing lady, just blooming into wo manhood. With huie-lowc ecu tere.l iu her, having all the ad vantages of sel 001-lile, wi h mind well-tutored und a hear iodocli inuied ir the grout truths of ihe Christian religion, with u h'Tiie embowered in flowers <-t every l.ui ami delightful fra grance, in love and contentment Miss Susie has a bright present and a cmsoling future. Win. M. or as he was generally called “T>d>e" Williams, was the young est son of Ehenezer William* lie was graduated at Y;.le<* liege with great distinction, un.l as a mark of the high estimate put upon his attainments, ho wu elected to deliver the address lie fore the Alumni of the College, but bis bad health prevented his acceptance He died ut the age of 24. About 1812, Ehenezer Wil liums, huving lost his wife sever al years before, was again mar ried, this lime to Mary C. Mar tin. By this marriage one child only was born—Mary Frances, who afterwards became the wife ol S. C. Lamkiii, Ebenezci Wil liams was Rector of Appling Academy for 12 or 15 years, lie died in 1860 at the age ot 66 years. In politics he was a Clarkist and then a bum icrat of the strictest sect, iu the days of old Col. Williams. Isaac Ramsey, Wrn. and Stephen Draue, Judge Wm. Magruder and old Tom 1 Olive, all Clark men and hot fiol. iticians. I know Mr. \V. well in the latter portion of his life. I was a visitor at his boase pl*o fessionally and socially, nd al ways found him jovial and ready for a festive confab. He loved a jone as well as most men: I; re member once I was called to visit hint pressionally and found h m vory low spiritod He was then living ut the place now owned hy S. C. Lamkiu. There was reafy very little the mutter w th him. “Ah I’ said he, “Doctor you need not laugh at me. I have the typhoid fever, and you need not make light of my t aok.’V A I laughed boartily at him and, said: “Cheer up, my friend; your typhoid fever is all moonshine.” “Hut," said ho, • “y* u don t know.” “Well,” i replied, “if l don't know you sh**ul I not have soul tor me. Now, Mr. Williams, 1 will make tiiis compromise with you. You may have the tfphnfd, it you will, but the feour I eaiiuot allow you to have.” Seeing how rediculotis the. whole thing appeared, he began to laugh, und little or no me.. eiua was necessary to put him on his feet again. i don’t l ever n.et him utter this hut hu laughingly uliudod to thu little episode, aud spoke of it as a “good joke on Schneider.” ~ Of oldmun KUAN WILSON I must speak a lew kind words of rem-mi-rance. Though he was only some 10 or 12 years u res ident of Columbia county, yet lie was just, over the line, and pass, ed lull h <>f his time iu and about Thomson in the “earlier and better days ol the Repultlift.” I placed ibis good old man’s uatfie in tin- list of my Keuiioisccnvos tor an especial t eason, und that is, to hold li<in up as a b.-aUoii light for the tergiversutory poli ticians ol the present day to em ulate. Tins old man, heavy with years, entering ad.iwn the Vast slope of life, wi ll vision in-per fect ufkd iameing* -tuj ti, * r d~ f-'d ol sound mind au-l disposing mommy, amid all the trial* und ills of tile and vicisii tides of for. Mile, stands t .-day to do hi* every Inly to his country. Lust year I saw the old gentleman, almost the lasi of his generation, us he hud v alkcd in from Ids son iii-luw’s, Dr. Hawes, to re spond to his election by hi* puo pic us a delegate to the Thomson Congressional Convention. Mr Wilson was at first a Troup mnn; then a Cruwlnrdiie, then an old line Whig; and when Mr. Ste phens becume tie great cham pion of Whiggery in Georgia ho took him a* his political Gunia laci. When the Whig purty gave up the ghost—the. North, ern wing g ing into Abolition ism and the Southern into Know iii'tliingisin—Mr. W. id I lowed Mr. Stephens tut.) the old, uuter rified, iron-si le Democracy, and he is with arid for him to day. For 30 years ho has voiod for Mr. Stepsons, and hopes lie may live t vote for him at least five times more. Then a century’ of year- will liav’o fallen lip m this oil h-.ury-h sided gentleman, and whose li. ad ha* always been, and is “till y it,’ level i . pot tics. fhen, no do‘t, lie will be willing i,o “cross ore. tbe liver and rest under tbe shade of th trees.” Mr. Wilson, 1 think, has two married duughle sand two s ns, John and .Janies, un.l these last two lived in C luiubia county from tee lime of their majority’ up to the organization of McDuf fie county’- JAMES R. WILSON, the youngest son, is a fat, jolly, whole-souled gentleman, very popular uml agreeable to nil of his many filer da. lie is very pleasam und hospitable at his home <>f welcome ; and here lheir numero'iH friends always Hud the happy wife and jolly hug liund, with their group of Land sumo cl ihlrcn always prepared lo give a cordial and hearty welcome. JOHN K. WILSON I lie oldest Hon, represented Co lumbia county in the Legi luime.es of 1853-7 9 and 1884. This last was Ihu “stampede Liogislauuc ” run out of Milledgevillo by Suer man. Now, John is not much on the run. He is a slow coa. li in a loot race, as a mere glance at him as lie lakes nis slow, stately step, with stick in hand, will show. II it you belter be lieve when news came that Sher man ami his cohorts were near there was a shaking of the dry hones, and such a “gittin’ down stairs.” Buggies, horses, wag otis were hired at fabulous firiees. John R. and his colleague, who was about as slow, ran up to town at 2:40 speed, got all their tricks and patted out on foot, a negro coming along riding one, male ami leading another. But “necessity knows no luw," so they mako the darky descend and they mount the donkeys bare-buck. John R. says it was “prehaps” the most disagreeable ride he ever hud. The mule he was riding was very poor, ami it was like riding on a rail, hut ‘instiling or atiy way, good Lord,' to get away from the Yanks. So he onncluded to turn equestrenne and ride side-ways, ladies' fash ion. To walk the mule was 100 slow, and to trot was a churning process which mixed up things in his alderinunie locality, and to gallop was to buzzard a break down, when all flight be lust. So they agreed to “make haste slowly." In a dense woods they were accosted with: “Who comes there I” Not wishing to speak first our Columbians played Yuakeo and said: | “Who are you?” ! " The reply came back, “I am the Colonel of the 16th Illinois Regiment.” “Tbe devil you are I" said John R. “Then we ,uro all gone up suckers. We surrender.” The joko was a g od one, and G.-nator Stephens, the so-called j .’ol-iiicl, relieved them of ilioir fears. John K. has .idl'mtic pen el ant for the Legislature since. But ho is a cupilul good survey or and the map lie executed of MeDutfio county It met with (lie unqualified approval of Col, Frobel. Col. F, I be.iieve was appointed to gel up a map of Georgia. lie wrote to each sur veyor for p map if hir respective county, ajtd pronounced Mr. W-Ison's tliubest execute 1, mis! elaborate and artistic of any he received. Since then maps of olLufip'ittrtie*.lutv-o been gotten, tfuj Sltljle mWe of MeDutfie. ' lecoinmended the legislature T* pay Mr Wilsoe §lob for so uo curule an i ereditabie a map. Mr Wilson bus also given u lo cal habitation and a name to Wfiite Oak C;. in pgr und, w hiuti the Presidbfg Elder pronounced the bost./deeigned of any he knew 0,. Every man in McDuf fie, wfm is able, should hav- one of these county maps. May your shadow, John R., paver grow loss. About the Fly. When a .'feifoit woman an swered the door boll yesti r.luy' she found a stranger upon the steps. He hud a i audio in his hand, a smile on his face, und ho suid: “ffullam, can I sell you some fly-paper ?” •‘Doc* the paper fly?” she asked. “No ma’am, hut it makes the (lies fly.” “VVlial do I want the tlie* to fly for?” she yoblinue.l. ‘.Ever fly, madam ho wu* explaining, when she culled out: “I waul you to flv ! I can get al- ng belter with flies that, with age lit-1" ‘ But I'm lint on the fly," lie *ollly protested. “Our dug she grimly re plied mid so ho was. He flow around the corner, th • agent flew for tho gate, the roll of fl>- pftper flew over the curb, and a newsboy climbed a true box to ho out of the mu s. and limited : “She flew, thou flyest, he fled, and i be.ievo t he dog got u piece meat with that emit tail!” The older Ruth-child was a mail of gi'cat indepen.lance of chuiuet r and had very little patience With the overbearing manners of the nobility; One da) the Due de Gramm.nil oil ed on liiiji when he was writing. The millionaire lilu-d hi* head, nodded ad a*ke.| ihe visit'*r to take a chair. The Dto a* not aeensloinod to s icll a reception uii-l said with hantear, “Moosi -r. -I am the Due de Griniiiiinnt.” 1 Rothschild Idled hi* eyes nice more from In* writing and re plied, ** An! i* that sc! Then please take two chairs. rvluli'fl of R"V. ! "r. I’alinage, ha* been judicially declared insane in Philade'plna One of the ovi donecsof hi- menial iinsmi'idno**, a-cording to a witn.-*-, wa* ’hat ho went to Brooklyn nee a week to hear Dr Tuiinago’s ser mon*. a tHii.irs crave;. There’s a spSt on the hillside fr awny, Where, In sainmCr, -the grass grows greeu; Where, beneath a rustling elm tree’s shade, A moss-covered stone is seen. ’Tis a quiet, unfrequented spot, A solitude lone aud wild; Yet, somebody’s hopes are buried there; ’Tie the gravis bf 'S’WMJe eMW. *■* Add, every year there's a redbreast oomes; . When the month of May is nigh. And builds her nest in 1 trail quiet spot, 'Mill the elm tree's brsnehes high; While her melody .sweet, by the hour; she trills, As if by the scene beguiled, Perhaps—who kuowwf ’tis an angel oouieai j . if., To the grave of that little child. —————i. .-o-;o.i The Eruptions of Etna. In a lever to the Now York World Prof. Sillimini saye: What Romo is to Italian his tory Etna is to the si* rv of act ivo Volcanoes. From thu seventh century before the Christian era Etna ftu*t a record of activity longer dixi rnoro authentic than that of any other volcano on the globe. And yet geologically t his hist ne mountain has tbw claims t> respect for its antiquity; since it has been thrown up from the se in one of the most recent of geological epochs. the vigorous eruption which the daily dispatches are now unii.pincing is tho first since that of 18fij>, which in January of that year btirst out of a point about five miles northeast of the main one ot Etna, at a place now known as Monte Frumonto, abedr 65, 00 feet above tho sea.' F on thi* new mouth lava flowed, at tli ■ rate of ahout u mile a day;; dividing first into two streams, uii.l by Muroli 10, this eruption had optived mouths along a line of several miles to the southeast. The present eruption (nr more prepcrly series of eruptions), no far as we can from the imperfet data at present available, .promises to b much more extended and disastrous than that of 1865. Already it is uiiuoiiiieed as havii.g opened months above Raodazoe, u town not less tiiiiu fif cen miles by West of ibe .main oouu of Et -1.’., ity upon where that stream descending from the mountains at the North turns ut a right angle to tho East and forms for many miles the boundary of Etna. How far above Randazoe tho new crater is we have yet to learn. Bianca rilla, which is also threatened, is about as fur to the Southwest of the main rone Etna as Ran- d <itoe is to the North, while Casljglinno is also on the Aleun taru, in a lino Norlheust of the Etna cone, at tho third angle ol a s.-aline triangle of which Run duzoc is the second angle. Pied monte, which is said to bo so obscured t-y volcanic dust as to he ir darkness by day, is a town directly itt the lino cf Castiglione, to the Northeast from the ma.n cone and over fifteen miles from it. Ifitislrue, as stated, that the roads to Catania and Aci Roa'e are blocked, then there must be two additional mouths open in the Southeast towards tho Mediterranean. Iu other words, the points''named consid ered us a whole, would show active eruptions on the four quarters of tho compass all at ..nee ami on a scale of magnitude - hi.-It ha* probably not been equaled in tho present century. The full data tor such a conclu sion are wanting as yet. But it seems reasonable, allowing a consi lerablo abatement for inac curacy of telegraphic communi i aliens of foreign geographical names un.l something lor tho almost unavoidable tendency to overstate the oiagaiu.de anil ex tent of such very remarkable phenomena, that the present eruption is .'no of u very won derltil charaoter Tho develop ment and details of its progress will lie watched with tho great est interest. If it i* indeed what there seem* only to much roil, son to tear, there will lie umplo time to galll. r detail* from -or respoil Icnce, and a large start -if very emnpelem ->h*ei’ver* will *o a he o' i lie ground to record and report tho .rogress of even's. Few people m lei have not ntuilvi a sin ly of ho history of Etna i and fowor .-lill have visited und explored its wonders) have any adequate notion of what it is in it- vast extent and engross mg interest Phut it is about 10,- 870 feel high, and lorm- the one great conspioiioo- foal.iire of the I-I uni of Sicily every schoolboy knows. In u'l classical litcra tare, both Greek and Roman, ;-- - - Etna is a frequent theme for poets and mythology. Poor hundred und seventy years B. C., Pindar in hi* Pythian ode, for Heirb fd Etna, winner in the chariot race says: “He (Ence ladus) i| fust bound by a pillar of iho sky, even by 'snowy Etna, nursing the whole year her duz r.lingsnow, whereouvppruspringe Of unapproachable tire. are vom ited ff ora the inmost depths; In the daytime the lava, streams tWYF fbf kh * lurid, smoko, but in tbo darkness a red rollir*g flame sweepeth rocks with up roar to the wide deep Rea.” Thb- vivid language is hotto too strong to dpseribo tbo de-: vasiaMnns, which Etna has At interval* during over 2,soo.years of recorded eruphots spread over the fertile plains aiiu wood ed slopes. Again and again have Oatar.ia, Aci Reale and other Sicilian towns boon ore whelmed and destroyed by the vast dis charges of molten lava which have enooaohed even upon the md, with great destruction of marine life. Not less than 300,- 000 people dwell in the forty town** upon the flunks of Etna in au area of about 500 square mile*. Few districts of Europe arc more populous, and none more productive in a variety of tho most valuable fruits oi the soil. The line of the base, marked •Ifroughoitt a large part of its cir cuit by- 0... rivers Alcantara and Hicnelo, measuros nearly ninety miles, and this area is sharply divided into three zones—the fertile, the wooded niwl the des ert—each characterized by fea tures suggested by these names. Tho getiera! aspect of the snowy Etna has been made quite familiar to lovers of al t in Amer ica by the well known picture of its cone and snow clad flunks, painted by our lamented coun irypiuit, Thomas Cole— a picture now preserved ip the Wadsworth Gallery ut Hartford. 1 have stood on the spot whore Cole took Ids sketch foe this picture on the edge of the ancient Greek ihetdMlffff'ntfßiara, distant as tbe bee Ujes probably twenty five miles from the cone. Tho seme is one not to be forgotteii, with tho blue wulors of Lbo Mediterrunen on the left and this sublime cone piorcoing the sky-line in the middle distance Tired Razors, Barbers often assert that razors get tired of shaving, and that they will perform sat'sfatorily if permitted to rest for a time. It has been found by microscopic examination that tbe tired razor, frost long stropping by tho same hand and in the same direction, has the ultimate fibers of its sur. face or edge all arranged in one direction, (ike the edgo of a pioco of cut velvet; but ufter a month’s rest Lhese fibers rear range themselves holerogene ously, crossing each oilier and presenting a saw like edgo, each fiber supporting its fellow, and hence cutting the beard instead of being forced down flat with out cutting, as when laid by. Tho orchestral organ for the new St. Patrick's Cathedral iu Now York, is one of the most powerful organs over built. It is voiced to the unprecedented wind force of twelve inches, the enormous pressure over the valves being overcome by a vac uum pallet. The bellows is blown by a steam ongine, it con tains four manuals of live octavos each, a pedal of two aud one half octavos, seventy stops and com binations and five thousand pipes. There is a religious movement against tobacco in the Oneida Com inanity, where tho weed has been freely used. The re formers do not take and pledge, nor abstain whenever they de sire to smoko or chew, bat pray for God to remove tho apptjte for tobacco, and many declare that they have thus been qptirely curod. Fourteen persons sat down lo dinner at Robert McNuelseyV i able, in Atlantic City, and be fore the meal was over sown of them were violently ill They had eaten t.is-ad from a loaf that contained arsenic enough to kill a hundred inon, and only the great vise of the (loses prevented fatal results. Laura Buker of Clarksburg, Ind., w . forbiddon by her pa rents to keep an appointment with her lover; so she went out aud hanged herself. In o. 26. Farm and Garden, -- •mi i ', .: I,' . FAUTS ABOUT THE PO ;fc; At a meeting of the Washing ton Horticultural Society, #rof. Wm. Saunders made thu tpiicw ing iatqrijatiqg remarks tipon the potato: t ssovq-Ki. - ,iq The potato i- a native of va rious parts of Snath America, pnrtic.darly of Chib, Pern and. t|ie Argentine territory. jft, is stated that it was sent to -Spain* eatiy'in The sixteenth century; from thence it spread to Italy ami ffermuny. It was intro, dtteod into England from Virgin ia about tho year 1586. It was sfow to gain popularity, for it is •fated tu bavo been rare as a field crop in nO, but after that lime the culture scents to havo steadily increased; and it is now considered by political econo mists as bciug next to wheat in importance as an article of food, although, as compared to wheat, Us nutritive properties auo very low, yet one acre fg£ potatoes gives more food for mao than two acres of oats Approaching in its -(imposition to rice and tho plantain, it is siii.l to bo suficrior '*■”* iu ttUlqpKftikjt/ ‘f J The cimpaction of tho potato varies very greatly in the differ ent varieties; tho ingredients arc the same, but the proportions vary considerably. The propor tion of water ranges froov seven ty-two to eighty two. per cent.; of t>earthy tibrino front six to eight per cent.; oT pure stareh from nine to fifteen percent.: ud.l of gum from three to .'.•nt,, while small I ropni^fl vegetable alba mem salts make'up the w the bulk. Asa vegetable, J esUemed in > OatiH ; -m ■ ; ' mended tjui! poXjS woWr-rwokn't. wi degree of beat, be boiled, they sIUH at oucc in hot waten enoes of opinion prM point, some cJaiming should be placed in eoid^H which is slowly brought to boiling prdnt, W’hCn peeled and soaked In old Wpter, ft portion of tho Ipcnla will ho extracted, und if placed iu a slow oven the skiu will be •hardened und thick ened. The water in which the potatoes have boon boiled is nearly .fi'stitiite of nutritive mat ter, and is said to contain sub stances which arc deleterious to health. Potatoes are deficiout in min eral matter, so that they are unfit to be a solo food, but that defect is supplied by the addition of hard water, milk ami other elements of food. New and waxy potatoes are said to be lass digestible than those that are old and mealy, und which contain a greater amount of starch. When cooked, the stareh cells burst and mealiness ia the result Besides their use as a table vegetable, potatoes furnish a large quantity of starch, which is employed for various purpo ses in tho arts, and forms the basis of a variety of fariuaccous foods, such ns artificial tapioca, sago, vermicelli, etc. It is much used fur culinary purposes, and many famed gravies, sauces und soups are largely indebted to it tor tlioir excellence, as also are breu.l and pastry, it is some times called potato flour, but the tubers contain no propor flour, their starch is destitute of gluten, a sir stance which is necessary for tho production of dough, which, after fermentation and nakiug, be omes bread. In cer tain proportions tho footila of.tho potato may be mixod with wh at flour so as to produce good broad. —Afler plowing, we harrow thoroughly and i oil, then let the weeds start for a few days. Af ter tho weods have hiade a good start, we put in the gang plow and cut thorn back, then harrow ard roll as before. This opera tion wo repeal as often us we can, killing millions of weeds every time we stir lUe soil. This praclieo gives us comparatively clean holds, and wo tiud that it pays well. —Grain all over the State is turning out 'veil.