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

'stesmehip company. and they favored
tho project, The:company would allow
Slie growers to fit up the steerase for,
ward cabin .fwith,s their, refrigerators,
which cafrabea a'doneA with five hundred
dollars for each1vessel., This portion of
the ship would hold 25,OOO or O,OOO
baskets, and as:compart tment' gimmedi
diately underneath could be fitted up
which Ybglg CARR. 5000 additional.
They would charge the groWersif for he
tahipmept Of this am ount, 'ffI 81 fruit to
liverpool .abont two thousand dollar s.
md giyethem the privilege of sending
out an agent free Of charge With each
consignment:l s.t,. ~, - ,[ I.s 20 snT is.@o1
: !. THEa 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 the Pacific states about one
per cent. All the great corn growing
regions have Increased acreage& Mid
ele states two per cent, South Atlantic
sstatea threei per- cent. Gulf states, in
land southern states, twelve per cent,
states north of Ohio seven, west of the
Missisappi9 fourteen per cent. The
condition of the crop is below an aver
Iage'in the New England and South At:
lantic states. The minimum, condition,
eighty-two per cent. 7being- in RHODE
Island, Florida and Alabama. are also
below the average, but other Gulf
states and iniand southern states aro
about theimaSim TN, 112 in Mississippi.
'All other states except Missouri, ,,1O3
are below the average, the minimum
elglhitEyyItWoo being in Wisconsin.
That most insnffel 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 in st. james parish, Iouisiana,
fecenay,sa man gby,tho name TofY Bow
den, 'well.meanipg person. but af-
fioted with that peculiar sense of
humor which is sure to get somebody
or other into trouble sooner or later.
One of his most 4snccessful Jokes was
Stf1nJ = OF dlepIaying advertising blIls
'printeaEin 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 an out
house led to search for the cause, and
tho corpse of Bowden was found
beneath the floor and under n covering
of corn husks, where it was rapidly
decaying. a Swedish plantation hand, !,
who had seen him displaying his irnita-
tion bills, had mistaken him for per-
son of, large and available means, and
had murdered him for his money. The
Swede is now fugitive, and he feels
doubly the weight of the joke, for he
got no money, and the Governor has
offered $1,000 for his arrest. 4 = ,
PPoF. DoNArDsoN, the aeronaut, who
has been travelling in company with
Barnnm's Hippodrome, and making bal
loon ascensions after tho conclusion of
the afternoon performances, made his
second trip frum Chicago on tho 18th,
accompanied by Mr.. Newton s. Grim
wood, n reporter of the Chicago Journal.
After ascending into the air the balloon
took northeasterlys 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 The lake. Tho
schooner followed after it until it was
observed to rise suddenly into the mir,
When the chase was given up. A worry
severe gale occurred on the lake
about midnight, and, Sc ne further It'd
ings had been reeeiyed IN Chicago from
thecballoon orlits occupants up to the
morning of the 18th, grave apprehen-
sions were felt for their safety. 1t was
the opinion of experts that the balloon
Gonld not possibly have reacheds the
|iETichiganI shore before5 the storm Burst
upon it, and that tho aeronalts per.
ished in stheslake.3 II IS said by some
that the balloon. was q rotten, patched
UP affair. 5Jo5d I9F8. n VI g
- -EAn nEnglishman travelled, Of course
relates that an American gentleman