The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-29
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The "Independent,sS. .easpeasly appeal
tS our citizens tosaid thenai in procuring
4 steamer. "a hsndsdhe fan,ouht has
4ready been. .sabscribed, bat, like Oliver
Twist, they ARE compelled to ask for
more. Give them lift is an invest
ment that will pay.
DEATH OF AN AGED LEx1NeToN1AN.-
We regret to learn of the sudden death,
ou Thursday last, of Mr.. John Metz,
Zone Of the oldest residents of Lexing-
ton,) from paralysis. He was on his
way from Columbia. and had arrived
within short distance of his home near
Spring Hill, when he was attacked, and
was unabl" to proceed; but was not dis
covered until next morning, when the
poor man was almost speechless, and
died in few minutes. Mr.. Metz was a
German by birth, but had resided in
Dutch Fork for many years, and was re-
garded as IN honest man, in the strictest
sense Of the term. His age was about
eighty.
A CoTToN FoREsT.-We had the plea
sure, on Thursday last, of visit to Mr..
j. NJ. Crawford IS cotton pntch-or forest,
rather, because majority of the stalks
are veritable trees i'll height-eight feet
being not uncommon. Mr.. Crawford
has field Of nine acres, from which he
expects to realize about fifteen bags.
One acre-on which he used as n fertil-
izer Etiwan No. 2-has already furnished
over 1000 pounds of seed cotton, and
yet the stalks still appear full of bolls.
Mr.. Crawfords field is n curiosity; not
only on account of the height of the
stalks, but nlso the profusion of bolls;
he thinks they will run from seventy to
seventyfve bolls to the stalk In fact,
so great is the weight, that many of the
stalks have fallen down, or been broken.
Mr.. G. has model farm, and is a 60
ahead man. He has tried several differ
ent fertilizers, and gives Etiwan No. .
the preference.
RURAL CARoLINIAS, NOVEMBER This
favorite Southern agricultural magazine
gains strength and interest with every
succeeding number This month, We
have "Maintenance Of the Fertility of
the Soil, by Professor Hilgard, of the
University of Mississippi; "1he South
and her Resources" by Hon. Alfred
Huger; plantation Economy" by Col.
d. Wyatt Aiken; "Texas Grasses" by
S. Z. Buckley; Southern Pcaches," :" by
p. j. Berckmans; "Manuro Pits, and
How to Use Them" by Alex. Y. Lee,
aud u hundred other articles of interest,
which we have not space to even men
ton. The R"rM shows manifest signs
of regularly increasing prosperity, and
yet how the publishers continue to sup
ply it at the marvellously low figure of
81 per annum is n miracle to us. Their
circulation must far surpass that Of any
magazine OF the class heretofore issued
at the South, or they would be compell-
ed to reduce expenses. If any of our
readers are without tho Rmm, tbey
should Mt orce enclose 81 to Walker,
Evans X Cogswell, No. 3 Broad street,
Charleston, S. G.. The WEEKLY CLEAN
Err IA large-sized family paper and the
Rural will be furnished for 81.
Mr. Forrest was greeted-as was to
have been expectcd--with crowded
house, last night. Tho wonderful vigor
OF the veteran actor is one of the mar
vels III American dramatic annals.
Twenty years ago he had reached the
zenith of his professional fame, and he
WAS to the American drama what his H.
lustrious rival and bitter personal enemy,
Macready, was to the English drama.
Yet to-day we find him still vigorous
enough to contest the histrionic palm
with those younger artists to whose
genius the buoyancy of youth lends its
aid and its charm. We observe in Mr..
Forests acting. the same great, striking