The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-28

AIERRIBLE tIREARM.-The Government is now
having made at Hartford, Conn.,, one hundred bat
! terry guns of invention. Fifty OF them will
have one-inch bore end the balance one-half inch
pore M Inc gun Is quite curiosity to look at The
it has series Of barrels, with carrier and lock
cylinder, rgdly fastened to the main shaft, and
Of crank the cartridges bong fed into tho carrier
from the feed boxes, theme driving endwiso into
the rear ends Of the barrels thon exploded and the
empty cartridge cases withdrawn, without any
pause in the operation. The ncessant loal:ing and
firing are produced by the simplest kind Of mech
anism is there bong less parts about the gun than
chargei at the ratio of two hundred shots per min
ute One OF its features is that there is no recol
winch y can ahoct the accuracy Of tho aim. Whom
tho gun is once sighted at given object, the same
aim can be maintained at the will Of the operator
until t. thousanss tI5 IDS Of discharges take place.
- q ! ateral train 7 motion Of the gun may DO kept
50 that perfect sheet Of halls can bo made to
sweep section of any circle within its range. AS
force Of the powder is expended IN giving velocity
TO the ball. 4 consideration which is claimed to
pc OF the very first Importance in this gum that
drawn from the barrels thus precludng such re-
suits as were shown the battle field Of Gettys-
burg where: Of the 1854 muskets collected after
OF thom containing two loads each and 5000 being
charged with from three to ten loads each, the
ear cartridges oftentmes being loaded witrout break
first The gun is light and easily transported
One of the sizes now being made at the arinory
dlscharges 56-lOO inch caGbre balls, and weighs
22o pounds The other size discharges balls of
one inch cahbre lnine ounces in weight, and
weighs between 500 and so pounds. The first
named has range of about one mile and the lat
ter upward of two miles.
STRANGE, YET TRuE.-A gentleman IN the lower
ordinarily gives from two to three gallons at
milking. 1t is remarkable fact that for the last
Two months she has given more nilk in cold wea-
ther than in warm. When the weather is cold her
milk is abundant, but when it rnoderates her sup
ply is reduced down frequently to less than quart
This rkable freak attracted the notice Of her
owner several weeks ago, and ever since he has
been sedulously trying to divine the cause At
first he thought she was milked by other parties
than members Of his family, but as the COW was
confined IN lot adjoining his residence and close
y watched, be became satisfied no person other
than some one Of his family MIXED her
During the recent extreme cold weather,
her milk was abundant, but yesterday even
ing the weather having very much
moderately she failed entirely. This morn
ing he was up early determined it possible to learn
the cause Of the failure. He had hardly entered
the COW yard before his attention was attracted to
q rustlifg noise in some chunks near the stable
Presently he saw huge snake emerge from
underneath tho stable and crawl up to his favorite
mixer and deliberately begin stripping her teats.
as a mans arm at the shoulder. It was what is
known as COW snake. The mystery was now ex-
planned. In cold weather the snake lies dormant.
ALTERNATING, but when the weather gets warm he
emerges from his winter quarters. The gentleman
attempted to kill the snake but failed. It ran back
ed with its favorite beverage.
Inc gentleman who relates this snake story is
one OF most respected citizens and vouches for
its truth. h.-Ne,o Albany Ledger.