The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-08-07

steamship company, and they favored
the project. The company would allow
the growers to fit up the steerage for.
ward cabin with their refrigerators,
which cailsbe done. with five hundred
dollars Tor each vessel, This portion Of
the ship. would hold $4,000 or 10000
baskets and compartment @immedi-
diately uuderneath could be fitted up
Which would carry 5000 additional.
They would charge the growers for the
shipment OF this amount Of fruit. to
Liverpool about two thousand dollnrs;s
and give them the privilege of sending
out an agent free of charge with each
consignment.
THE July returns to the department.
of agriculture shows that the acreage in
corn .is about three per cent. greater
than last year. New England has in
creased her acreage about eleven per
cent. and tho Pacific states about one
per cent. All the great corn growing
regions have increased acreagc-Mid-
ele states two per cent, South Atlantic
states three per cent. Gulf states, in
land southern states, twelve per cent,
states north of Ohio seven, west of the
mississippi fourteen per cent The
condition Of The crop is below an aver-
age in theNew England and South At:
lantic states The minimum condition,
eighty.two per cent. ,7being i'll Rhode
Island, Florida and Alabama are also
below tho average, but other Gulf
states and inland southern states arc
about hemuxiInum, 112 in Mississippi.
AL other states except Missouri, 1O3
are below the average, the minimum
eighty-two being in Wisconsin.
THAT most insuffei able of all idiots,
the practical joker, does not always
escape on earth the wrath that is laid
up for him. There lived and taught
school i'll st. James parish, Louisiana,
recenthly,ta man by'tho nalno Of Bow
den, a''well-meanipg person. but nf-
ilicted with that peculiar sense of
humor which is sure to get somebody
or other into trouble sooner or later.
One of his most successful Jokes was
ohntT OF dleplaylng advertising bills
printed III imitation of greenbacks, and
Offering to bet hundreds and thousands
of dollars with people who didn't know
that he was fooling. The other day an
offensive smell coming from M out
house led to search for the cause, and
tho corpse Of Bowdcn was found
beneath the floor and under Il covering
of corn h1lsks, where it was rapidly
decaying. A Swedish plantation hand,
who had seen him displaying his imita-
ton bills, had mistaken him for per-
son of large and available means, and
had murdered him for his money. The
Swede is now n fugitive, and he feels
doubly the weight of the joke, for he
got no money, and the Governor has
offered 81, 900 for his arrest.
PPoF. DONALDSON, tho acronaut, who
has been travelling in company with
Barnnm's Hippodromc, and making bal
loon ascensions after tho conclusion of
the afternoon performances, made his
second trip frum Chicago on the 18th,
accompanied by Mr.. Newton S. Grim
wood, arcporter Of the Chicago Journal.
After ascending into the air tho balloon
took Il northeastesly course. sailing
over the lake in the direction of Mus
kegon, Mich. About seven o'clock in
the evening it was sighted by schooner
about thirty miles northeast of Chicago,
Mt which time the balloon was skim
ming the surface of tho lake. The
schooner followed after it until it was
observed to rise suddenly into the mir,
when the chase was given up. A very
severe gale occurred on tho lake
about midnight, and, ns. no further It'd
ings had been received in Chicago from
thoSballoon orLits occupants up to the
morning of the 17th, grave apprehen-
sions were felt for their safety. It was
the opinion Of experts that the balloon
could not possibly have reached the
lMichigan shore before the storm burst
upon it,, and that tho ncronauts per
ished in the lake. 1t is said by somo
that the balloon was rotten, patched
up affair.
An nEnGlishman-traveled, of course
| relates that an American gentleman
who had at m early age gone the over
land route to California. told him this .