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THE CONYERS WEEKLY VOL. X. WASHINGTON, D. C. I FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT MEN AND THINGS. Whnt Our National Law Makers are Doing —Departmental Uossip—Movements President and Mrs. Cleveland. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, Mr. Edmunds, from the ;ommittee on foreign relations, reported a bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, and said he would move to take it up as early next week as he could get the floor. Mr. Manderson, from the committee on printing, reported a joint resolution for the disposition of undistributed copies of records of the late War, reports of the tenth census and reports of the public lands commission. The Senate bill appropriationg $50,000 additional for a public building at Pen¬ sacola, was taken up and became the text for a general discussion as to the erection of public buildings.... In the House, the JM r. Belmont, of New York, from com¬ mittee on foreign affairs, reported a joint resolution for an international conference to secure greater safety at sea. Referred to committee on the whole. Mr. Hill,of Illinois, from the same committee, re¬ ported a bill to fix the charge for pass¬ ports at one dollar. Placed on the House calendar. The bill to prevent the selling and advertising of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia, came up in regular order on the calendar, but was postponed. affecting After a good deal the of bill legislation reached local interests, was subsidized rail¬ on the calendar requiring roads to maintain and operate separate telegraph lines (directed against the Pa¬ cific remainder railroads). Its discussion occupied and it the of the day’s session, went over. In the Senate the bill was passed thousand ap¬ propriating twelve hundred dollars for a public building in Kansas City. The bill for the relief of importers of animals for breeding purposes in cer¬ tain cases was taken up and passed. objected Air. Riddieberger took the floor and to the consideration of any matter, to which objection could be made, during the time assigned for morning business, until he could have action on the resolu¬ tion offered by him some weeks since to have the British extradition treaty con¬ sidered in open session. After he had been speaking for ten or fifteen minutes, he was ruled out of order and directed to take his seat. The Senate then, at 2:10, took up unfinished business—the Blair educational bill. The Senate then voted 43 to 9 to proceed to executive business, Riddieberger voting in the affirmative. A dramatic, though momentary, scene fol¬ lowed. Air. Riddieberger arose as the chair announced the vote and attempted During to speak, and created quite a House row ... the morning hour, the re¬ sumed consideration of the bill making bills of lading conclusive evidence in cer¬ tain cases, and it was passed. Following is the bill: “That, whenever any com¬ mon carrier by land or water, or its agent authorized to execute and deliver bills of lading, signs and delivers any bill of lading or instrument in the nature there¬ of, purporting to be for goods, wares, or merchandise received by such carrier for transportation from one state to another within the United States or to any for¬ eign country, such bill of lading or in¬ strument in the nature thereof, in the hands of any bona fide holder for valua¬ ble consideration, w ho acquired the same in the usual course of trade without any notice of any defect therein, shall be con¬ clusive evidence that the goods described therein were actually received by such carrier in the manner and for the pur¬ pose as therein stated.” The Speaker announced the appointment of the fol¬ lowing members of the special committee to in investigate Pennsylvania: the existing labor troubles of Messrs. Tillman South Carolina, Stone of Alissouri, Chip man of Michigan, Anderson of Kansas, and Parker of New' Y’ork. In the Senate, Air. Frye offered a reso¬ lution, the which was adopted, instructing committee on commerce to inquire into the right and expediency of Con gresstassuming control of the erection cf bridges over navigable waters within state limits. The Senate resumed con¬ sideration of the resolution to refer the President’s Alessage, and Air. Platt said that the President’s Alessage meant the absolute and final destruction of the pro¬ tective system and that it could result in nothing the else than the entire downfall of protective system of the country.... In the House, Air. Seney, of Ohio, from the committee on judiciary', reported ad¬ versely a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment in relation to the manufacture, importation, transpor¬ tation, liquors. exportation and sale of alcoholic Air. Springer, from the commit¬ tee on territories, reported a bill to or¬ ganize the territory of Oklahoma. Re¬ ferred to committee of the whole. Air. Compton,.from the committee on labor, reported of letter a bill to limit the hours of labor carriers. Placed on the House calendar. Air. Oates called up and the lHouse passed, the bill regulating the ju insdiction of the United States district ■judges nudge ia Alabama. It provides that the of the southern district shall have ■jurisdiction throughout the middle dis l. nct - The House passed the bill amend ling existing law, so that the death f P ena *ty shall not be inflicted for casting | an ay a vessel upon the high seas unless a ! loss of life results from such act, but I providing tor life the penalty of imprisonment ! or for a term of years with a fine. GOSSIP. official Commissioner Colman has received an Secretary request from the office of the Chief of Queensland, to recommend to the government in the colony, a suit- CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1888. able person for employment as an instruc¬ tor in agriculture. Representative Lee, of Virginia, pre¬ sented the petition of the General As¬ sembly of Virginia asking establish for an in appro¬ Alex¬ andria priation of $100,000 the to manufacture of a factory for school where sugar from sorghum, and a the process of manufacture could, bo taught. The McDuftie-Davidson, contested election case of Alabama, was taken up by the elections committee. The committee reserved their report, which will probably not be made in some days. It appears that the committee will send to the dis¬ trict, and have the election figures thor¬ oughly investigated before reporting. A. E. Thornton, president of the cot¬ ton seed oil mill in Atlanta, Ga., is in Wa shington, to appear before the com¬ mittee in opposition to the bill regulating bill the manufacture of lard. If such a should pass it would affect, to a Southern large ex¬ tent, Southernindustries. The members of Congress are universally apposed to it. An epidemic of measles prevails among pub¬ the school children who attend the lic schools. The schools worst attacked were the fourth grade in the Carberry building, and the third grade in the Pea¬ body. Over half of the fourth-grade pupils in the Carberry were sick with the measles, and ten days Peabody ago about third twenty- grade. live were sick in the The Secretary of War transmitted to Congress a tabular statement of the mil ilia force of the United States, which shows that at the last returns there were 8,210 commissioned officers. There were 18,331 no a-commissioned officers, 2,900 musicians and 71,396 privates, making in all 92,027 enlisted men and ft grand total (officers and men) for the militia force of 100,837 men. The number of men available for military duty (unorganized) : s set down at 7.920.768. DANGERS OF THE DEEP. "Tlic Mlzznn Mast Gave Way and tlie 8bl» Opened and Let us All Into the Sea-” A dispatch from Olympia, W. T., gives particulars in regard to tne wreck of the Abercorn, which occurred near the mouth of the Columbia river. The w'eather was foggy, not stormy, as previously stated. Immediately after striking, all hands went into the cabin, as the sea was breaking badly forward. While they w'ere there the foremost and mainmast broke and the deck split. In the afternoon a heavy sea broke into the cabin, drowning several inmates. Three survivors escaped from the cabin and ascended the rigging of mizzenmast. They saw Pilot Johnston as he came out of the cabin, which was fille.1 with water. Just as he appeared, a wave struck him. He tried to grasp a bar of the com pan ion way, but missed it, Just at that moment, a second wave struck him and carried him into the ocean. He kept afloat for some time, but kept look¬ ing back at the vessel and swimming parrallel with the coast. Soon he sank to rise no more. One of the survivors says: ‘A little later the mizzenmast gave way and the ship opened and let us all into the sea. As the mast was going 1 jumped to the clear side of the ship, and was under the -water for some time. As I came up the second time I saw near me a plank about thirteen feet long, which I seized and steered for the shore.” The next survivor, a man about twenty-five years af age, came ashore with a piece of plank under each arm. Both men were in the water half an hour. A boy who was saved is an orphan, and was one of the five boys from the training ship, all of whom were making their first voyage. He came ashore with two pieces of plank, and was the last to reach the shore, hav¬ ing been about an hour in the water, and having drifted two miles up the coast from where the others landed. He -was conscious when found by white men and Indians. The hoy says he saw several persons in the water after he left the wreck and that he was the last to see the captain alive. At one time the cap¬ tain was within fifteen feet of him, and told him to hang to his plank and not to be scared, and he would reaeh the shore all right. Then a heavy wave struck them and that was the last he saw of the captain or any of the ship’s crew. Shortly after they reached the shore, a body was seen floating a short distance from land, but it sank immediately on being sighted. includ¬ Sixteen bodies are reported found, ing those of Pilot Johnston and the cap tafu, the former book found having in been ‘.his pocket. recognized All by a bodies note found sixteen to nine¬ the were There still teen miles up the coast. are six bodies unheard from. WRECK. ON THE OEOlUilA. It. U. An accident occurred at Bonesville, on the Georgia railroad, 33 miles from Augus¬ ta, in which three freight trains were in¬ volved. Train No. 36 was on the side¬ track at Bonesville. Trains No. 6, way freight from Augusta to Atlanta, was just about to enter the side-track, also, and had a minute and a half in which to do so, on schedule time, when No. 14, the second section or train No. 36, came thundering down the main track and collided with No. 6. Both engines were badlv demolished, and the cars were piled up in the greatest confusion, some of the boxes of No. 14 being thrown against the train on the side track and badly crushing the tender of engine No. 36. The train hands and engineers all escaped injury, except Engineer Simon Berry, of No. 14, who sprained his ankle in jumping from the engine. The injury to the rolling stock will amount to thous¬ and-i of dollars. MONEY FLOWING IN. Bishops Ireland and Keane report thnt subscriptions raised by them in Wash¬ ington and Baltimore for the new Catho¬ lic University in Washington amount tc $150,000, SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FOB BUSY PEOPLE. Tbo Social. Religion* and Temperance World—Projected Enterprises—Mar¬ riages, Fires. Deaths. Etc. The pottery of Charles H. Hartung, near Baltimore, Md., was destroyed by fire, together with two horses and a mule. Damage, $15,000; insurance, $8,000. Albert Little, sheriff of Gonzales coun¬ ty, Texas, was killed recently by a negro desperado named Jackson. riddled A posse with over¬ bul¬ took Jackson and him lets. On account of proceedings praying before for Judge Gustin at Macon, Ga., a new trial for Tom Woolfolk, the mur¬ derer, his execution did not occur Feb¬ ruary 10 th. The steam launch Irene, at New Or¬ leans, La., blew out a flue head recently resulting in the drowning of William Meade, engineer, and the fatal scalding of two boys. Seven Indian Territory murderers were sentenced by Judge Parker in the United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., to be hanged Friday, April 27. Five are and ne¬ groes. one is a Cherokee Indian, one is white. Henry Marshall deliberately killed William Mason, at Soddy, Tenn., by shooting him with a gun. Marshall was placed on trial for murder in the first de¬ gree, and the jury found him guilty as indicted. Rev. Wm. C. Stacy, who for years has been pastor of the Presbyterian church at Jonesboro, N. C., has received a call to Lawinburg church, the pastorate of which is vacant by reason of the death of Rev. J. H. Cable. The schooner Adventure, Whitehurst., master, from Charleston, S. C., bound to Washington with guano, is stuck in Oregon Inlet, N. C., and is a total loss. Cargo insured. Col. Charles E. R. Drayton, editor and proprietor of the Aiken, S. C., Recorder, and one of the most forcible writers on the state press, died of pneumonia, aftei an illness of ten days. The United States government has now 18 new buildings ready for occupancy at the new military reservation near Atlanta, Ga., and five companies will occupy them in June. It has caused quite an advance in real estate in the neighborhood of the post. A passenger coach on the Rome express for Atlanta, Ga., left the track two miles from Rome, and turned over. Fortunate¬ ly, no one was seriously hurt. A good many were bruised, and all badly shaken up. The accident was due to a rail spread¬ ing. Burglars entered the jewelry store of Chapman & Gale, on Main street, in Nor¬ folk, Va., through the skylight, took the door off the safe and stole all the dia¬ monds. gold watches and valuable jewel¬ ry in the stock of the firm. Loss $30,000. David Webb, a well known citizen oi Portsmouth, Vn., was arrested with his wife, son and daughter, for counterfeit¬ and circu¬ ing ten and five cent pieces, lating them among shops in their searched, neigh¬ borhood. When the house was dies for molding small silver coin were found. Deputy Revenue Collector Colquitt captured in Randolph county, them owned Ala., and five illicit distilleries, one of operated by the Haley brothers, known as bold and desperate moonshiners. A large amount of whiskey was destroyed, but after a lively chase the moonshiners escaped to the mountains. The committee of citizens appointed devising tc co-operate with the ladies in plans and means for the establishment oi a home for orphan boys in Columbus, Ga., met, and the question was fully dis¬ cussed and sub-committees were appoint¬ ed to solicit subscriptions for the home. John Blackmore heads the list with $ 1 , 000 . Fred W. Watkins, late a prominent member of the Young Men’s Christian Association at Birmingham, leaving Ala., has left for parts unknown, several warrants and creditors behind. He forged, it is alleged,the and names leading of a prom¬ inent business man a lawyer to a $490 note, and borrowed money on the paper. About, one hundred Scotchmen, mem¬ bers of the Paving Cutter’s union of Li thonia, Ga., and Stone Alountain, struck against Venable Bros. & Foster. The cause of the strike is because Venable Bros. & Foster had about twenty negroes, block breakers, to arrive from Virginia to go to work at their quarry at Stone Alountain. The Alississippi Senate passed first by a two thirds vote a resolution on its read¬ ing, looking to submitting to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment re¬ stricting the tenure of the governor to one term of four years. Also, making the judiciary elective by the people, in ste ad of provided. being appointed by the governor, as now As a mixed train on the Ea t and West road was approaching Starksville, Ga., a freight ear that had been changed from a broad guage to a narrow gunge truck began to rock, and finally turned over. Five freight cars and a passenger coach were ditched and badly wrecked. Six passengers were hurt, some of their injuries being quite serious. Tom Ellis, editor of the Birmingham, Ala., Hornet, who was shot by Detective A. J. Sullivan, died. How lie lived so long after being shot was a mystery even to physicians. His pulse ceased to beat thirteen honrs before he died, and three hours before he stopped breathing his limbs were cold and rigid. W. B. Moore, business manager of the Hornet announced his intention of shooting Sullivan at sight. Capt. Fletcher Barnes, of Mount Pleas¬ ant, Maury county, Tenn., fell dead in the baggage car on the accommodation train on the Floreiice railroad. He took passage on that train with the intention of going to Nashville. lie ran some dis¬ tance to catch the train, but when he got ion seemed perfectly well and unusually jolly. He walked through the passenger coach into the. baggage ear, where lie talked pleasantly to the baggage master and postal agent for a few minutes. These two officials were busy with their work,but suddenly they heard something fall, and looking around saw him lying on the floor dead, Capt. Barnes served through the Confederate War as captain in Riffle’s regiment and Forrest’s com¬ mand, and was a gallant soldier. FLORIDA ITEMS. •' The second grand concert, by the col¬ ored people, was given at the Exposition in Jacksonville. The programme was an entire change from that of their first con¬ cert, and contained many features which were of particular interest to white citi¬ zens and Northern vistors, as well as to the colored people themselves.... The funeral services of Airs. Julia V. Mc¬ Laughlin, the universally loved wile of Major R- McLaughlin, took place from the St. John’s Episcopal Church, at Jack¬ sonville, the services being conducted by Rev. R. II. Weller, D. I)., rector of the church... .While the ditchers were en¬ gaged on the sewerage work iu Pensacola, they found, about two feet under the earth, two human skeletons about 200 feet apart. With one of them was found two Spanish silver dollars, bearing, dates respectively of 1776 and 1778. It is sup¬ posed that these skeletons were of soldiers who fell during the battle fought there in 1781, by the Spanish and French against the English, in which the former were victorious.... The benefit tendered by Miss Adelaide Randall and her come¬ dy company, for the Immigration Fund, was the attraction, recently, at Park Opera House, Jacksonville... .The Jack¬ sonville Baseball and Athletic Association has purchased an entire block adjoining Springfield. A large force of hands will be immediately put to work to put the grouuds in first-class condition, and the accommodations for visitors to witness games played will be immediately built. ... St. Augustine is agitating department.... the ques¬ tion of a paid fire Kissimee has been chosen, by a large majority, as the permanent county seat of Osceola county.... Frans Johanson, a sailor on the schooner Annie P. Chase, at Fernandina, fell from the mast while in a fit and died from his injuries. He was native of Rauma, Finland.... Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, and wife and son, B. M. Schofield, are in Jacksonville again after a short absence.... Constables Ste¬ phens and Robbins arrested a negro named William Johnson, about two miles east of Mandarin. Johnson is about 20 years of age, and says he formerly lived at Ocala, and on his person were found a diamond ling, two emerald rings, Col. Magill’s watch chain, valuable cuff but¬ tons and other jewelry... .The Jackson¬ ville Street Railway Company has just received five new cars of equipped the Stephenson with the build. These cars are Demorest automatic register and all the latest improvements in street cars.... During the past ten days $50,000 worth of government laud was sold through the United States Land Office at Gainesville. This amount of money paid for over cigars 37, 000 acres... .The exportation increasing, of last from Key West is slowly week’s shipment amounting to 2,000,000, mostly to New Y’ork .. A despicable fire bug is terrorizing the people of Live Oak, and he will be severely dealt with if captured. YELLOWSTONE KIT. Ufa Admirers In Montgomery, Ala..Threat¬ en an Editor mnl (iet flocked Up The Afontgomery, Ala., Hem/d, a pa per edited by colored men, has stirred up another sensation. Last Summer, Jesse Duke, the former editor, offended the white people of that city and had to make a hasty departure to escape the anathemas of the irate community. Rev. A. N. McEwen, the present editor, has given offense to a certain element of his own race, and many colored peop'e have risen up in arms against him. It seems that Yellowstone Kit,of patent medicine fame, who has been holding forth there some weeks, is the real cause of the trouble that has brought about the strife and con¬ flict among the colored population. An article appeared in the Herald bitterly denouncing Kit for his peculiar means the and method of getting money from ignorant and credulous class of negroes. That evening a number of Kit’s worship the pers addressed a letter to MeEwen, editor, giving him warning to leave the city within twenty-four hours. AIcEwen remained, and Kit’s gang made loud threats, saying they would ku-klux him before day* At a late the hour police in station the night to McEwen went to avoid trouble, and ask;*d protection. colored Warrants were issued, and and four made men, who signed the note tin threats, were arrested. They were tried before the recorder and fined $56 in each case. Great excitement prevails among is the colored people, and further trouble anticipated. _______ SHOULD MOVE SOUTH. There is a fierce war being Springfield, waged Ill. be¬ tween the laundries of It was begun a few days ago, and they are now washing collars and cuffs at the rate of two dozen for one cent, and shirts for two cents each. The Chinese bum dries have refused to cut rates so tar, and declare that they will quit rather than work for nothing. THE BUSY WORLD PHOTOGBAPHEI) BY THE EVEB PRESENT NEWSPAPER MA Y. The European Powers Preparing for n fireat JSiriigglo-Irlsh Allairi-Storta’is Railroad Accidents, .Suicides, etc. The proposal to form a trust among stove manufacturers does not find many supporters among Chicago, Ill., stove men. Geu. Boulanger attended a perfoi mnnee at theatre Ducliattelet, in Paris, and was greeted with tumultuous shouts of “Yivi Boulanger.” A rubber goods trust is being organized millions at New Y’ork; its capital is fifty of be dollars, and the price of rubber will advanced. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada, will succeed the Earl of Dufferin as the Governor-General of India at the end of the present year. Richard K. Fox, the proprietor of the New Y’ork Police Gazette, was arrested by Inspector ing Williams, charged encouraging with violat¬ prize the penal code by lighting. The jury in the case of the United States vs. Benjamin Hopkins, late assist¬ ant cashier of the Fidelity National verdict Bank, of at Cincinnati, Ohio, reuirned a guilty, as indicted. The absorption of the Whitney Arms Company by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, of New Haven, Conn., is believed to be the beginning of a series of such combinations resulting in a tire arms trust. The failure of Bensley Brothers, of the Chicago, Ill., Board of Trade, a firm of thirty years’ standing, was announced. The general impression on the Board of Trade was that the liabilities would reach $300,000 to $350,000. A terrific natural gas explosion At. Norton, oc¬ curred at the residence of T. at Anderson, Ind., blowing out tin* front of the house and killing Fenton 0. Ro¬ gers, a Cincinnati book-keeper, who was sleeping in a front room. Cutting is again fast and furious in western freight rates at Chicago, and nobody knows what rates actually are, for they hardly have time to become sta¬ tionary before a new cut is made. All western roads nre involved. A special from Seward, Nebraska, says that Aliss Etta Shattuck, the school teach¬ er who was so severely frozen Omaha during the recent blizzard, died. The Pet fund for her benefit, amounting to $3,570, will probably be turned over to her pa rents. The German Reichstag recently passed the military loan bill without debate. Three members (social Democrats) op¬ posed the measure, The Reichstag com mittee has rejected the clause of the anti-socialist bill relative to the expatri¬ ation of socialist leaders. The United States revenue cutter Al¬ bert Gallatin collided with the revenue cutter Dexter in Woods Hull, Alass., har¬ bor. The Gallatin had been down the Sound, and on h<*r return struck the bow of the Dexter with considerable force. The Gallatin received the worst damage. The British steamships Algatha, Gap tain Ourwi.se, Lufra, Captain Grim stead, and Darien, Captain Mokee, all under charter to go to Philadelphia with miss¬ iron ore for Messrs. Naylor & Co., are ing, and their crews, numbering in all eighty souls, are believed to have been lost. Austria and Turkey have been visited by violent snow storms. In Turkey the storm All traffic is the by worst anci experienced land is suspended, since 1874. sea and telegraphic communication is inter mpted. At Constantinople the snow is three feet deep, and business is at a standstill. An epidemic of suddenly typhoid fever (lie has broken out quite in State Industrial home for girls in Adrian, Mich., and thirteen or fourteen cases are already reported. The attacks so far are comparatively mild, but a change may occur at any time, and every precaution disease. is being taken to meet the dread John 8. Hayes, a well-known farmer of Broadbend, Ill., had just built a corn mill and was making a test of the ma¬ chinery. The stones were run at a high rate of speed, and flying becoming all heated, buret, the fragments in direc¬ tions. John S. Hayes and his sou, An¬ drew, were instantly killed. Henry But¬ ler, engineer, and AV. O., Burtner, a car¬ penter, were seriously injured. The Assembly chamber, in (he vacated. Capitol at Albany, N. Y., is about to be The authorities have discovered many serious movements of stone in the grand arch, all of the main ribs of the vault split, and many of the stones cracked dear through. The whole ceiling is de¬ clared to be in a dangerous conditio*. The time must come soon, they say, when, without warning, the whole ceiling will fall, and recommend that the whole As¬ sembly wing of the capitol be vacated at once. STRANGE ACC IDENT. An orderly of Rossviile hospital, New York, was instructed to move a patient, second named Charles AlcClane. fiom the floor of the hospital to the third, where the doctors were about to perform raised an operation on AlcClane. The orderly the elevator to the second floor and went for the patient. Having placed AlcClane on a folding cot, the orderly moved him to the shaft, re-opened the door, and without looking to see if the elevator was there, rolled the cot forward. During the orderly's absence to prepare the patient, the elevator had been lent up s -J*.ry, and AlcClane was precipitated through the shaft clear down the eellai. vid wax killed. NO. 51. SPRING FARM NOTES. WHAT THE SOUTHERN FARMER'S THOUGHTS ABE TURNING TO. Intensive Farming tlie Older of Ihn Dny Wbat Progressive Women Are Doing - About Etta*, nutter, Tobacco. Etc. GOLDEN WORDS. There are many farms in the South yielding cerned, a scanty living for all con¬ where it would be wise to sell one-lialf the mules, one-half the plows and other implements, one-half the land (or let it rest), dispense with half the labor, and invest the money saved improved in fer¬ tilizers, improved stock and implements, and such appliances as may he needed to reduce loss and waste. The farmer who confines his best efforts and skill to a small portion of his farm and still continues the whole area in cultiva¬ tion has practically only reduced area without reducing expenses .—Southern Cultivator. A WOMAN'S WORK. “I have raised ever so many chickens,” says a lady in St. Alary’s Parish, La., “and been very successful. Aly chiclccn eggs alone some months bring me $12 or $15, and during grinding season I have made from $75 to $100 easily. My chicken sales keep my pockets amply supplied with cash.” So mote it he in thousands of country homes all over our de-ir old poverty stricken Southland. We ask what able-bodied white man or able negro is making as much money planting cotton? Echo answers none, and this is being done with only u lady’s spare time. What is here said of the women of Lou¬ isiana is also true of the women of many other Southern States.— Exchange. TOBACCO. The best soil for growing the “Black Wrapper” is a dark, rich loam. Black loam is inclined to make dark tobacco. The manure should he well rotted, if any can be had. Fresh manure inclines to fire it up and “head in,” and should not be used. If a fertilizer is used it should not be put immediately in the hill, it will do better to scatter it around the hill. The soil should be broken deep and well pulverized. If a good freeze comes better, after it the first breaking so much the will clear the soil of cut worms. PECAN TREES. The pecan belongs to the same genus with the hickory, and is equally difficult to transplant, it will not grow from cut¬ tings, and requires considerable cure to transplant it. The nuts should be care¬ fully gathered from the tree, and buried under some loose earth and trash, ro that they will they be will kept cool be disturbed and moist, by an<) where not ver¬ min. Then plant them as you would peach-stones, say in February or March, or just as they begiu to sprout. In othel words, manage about us peach-stones. It is better to plant the nuts just where you wish the trees to permanently grow. off But if not convenient to do this, cut the tap root the next fall, and transplant again, and so on until ready to set them permanently, transplanting, or re-setting every fall until finally located. The trees, if well cultivated, will commence to beat a few nuts in eight or ten years, and the yield will rapidly increase annually, as the trees become larger. TO MAKE GOOD HAMS. The Westphalia hams are made as fol¬ lows: Well rubbed with dry salt and left to drain twenty-four hours. Take two quarts of salt; tw T o quarts of bag (rock) salt; three pounds of brown sugar; one pound of saltpetre four ounces of sal prunelle, and four ounces juniper berries, well mixed and boiled in six quarts of water. The brine is then cooled and skimmed. The hums are then taken from the salt and wiped dry, and the cold pickle poured over them and rubbed in. There should be enough brine to cover the meat. Turn the meat every second day for three weeks, then take them out, wipe dry, and a mixture of ground pepper, salt and bran is thor¬ oughly rubbed in, filling nil cracks and openings. They arc then smoked a little every day for three months or more, until completely dry, when they will keep and improve in flavor for years. Pyroligne¬ animalcu¬ ous acid will keep off flies and les of all kinds, and improve the flavor of the meat. EGOS AND HOTTER. A lady in Water Valley, Miss., writes to a Southern farm journal; “As I wrote you what I was doing in the Summer with our ‘scrub stock,’I will now tell you what I have made clear of expenses in one year. Have sold 1,016 used pounds home, of but¬ ler, besides what we at at twenty-five cents per pound, worth making of $254. Also twelve dollars eggs and seven dollars worth of turkeys. So ypu see that fanners’ wives can do some¬ thing to help their husbands if they will only try. I have not been running a ‘dairy,’ but simply selling the surplus butter from the cows we kept to supply the family table.” BLACKBERRIES. The .9 a lay more _________ o w * ~ berries, roots and herbs than the inhabitants of iny other Southern state. During the last blackberry season a single farm in Greensboro shipped in one day 18,000 pounds of dried blackberries. This is the kind of work for women and child ,-en, as well as the gathering of herbs and roots, of which we shall soon have some¬ thing practical to give to our female readers. THE RIGHT SORT. The young ladies of Auburn, Ala., have organized a flourishing cooking club. As there is an agricultural and mechanical college at that place, the young men will know where to find domestic wives when they gaaduate,