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Cattle Disease.

among the cattle in the ncighborhood of
Mush Creek, Greenville county. A. A.
Neeves lost 2 COWS, Frank Simmons l.,
r. McFee 2, Mr. Hawking l, d. Baily l,
B. Boswell l, j. Kelly l or 2, 3. Gosnel
2, J. Westmoreland l.
The disease seems to effect the COWS as
cholera does hogs. They first appear
dull and sleepy; their cars drop; they
refuse to eat live some ten or fourteen
days.
Mr.. Neeves who gives US this informa-
ton, says he cut open two that died Of
this disease, and found that the fat
and lntcstines are splotched n blood
shot, and have the same appearance OF
hogs that die of what is called hog
cholera. If any of our readers can fur
nish any useful information of his dis
ease, and of the remedy, he will confer q
favor by sending it to us for publication.
GrcenUilte News.
A writer in the New York Times says
the failure of most men to make money
by farming is because Of their land
owners instead of tenants. There may
be far more truth in CHS idea than we are
at first willing to admit. a farmer sets
out by buying a farm, and ~cultivatlng
freq not one-titth his purchased
AREA, illus requiring olc-iiiLu l. pay the
interest incurred and taxes imposed upon
the other four-tifths, and these two items
will annually amount to enough to pre-
vent any net gain. Whereas if the far
mer only rented Just the area he cultiva-
ted, it would be but a little greater out
Law than the taxes and interest on that
same area, and that other drain of taxes
| and interest on the remaining acres OF
the farm would DC no concern Of his.
Whatever net earnings were then realized
could be applied to the purchase of I'M
proved machinery, better stock, and fer
~tiliZers for each successive crop. Is there
not common sense in this argument?
Are not a majority of our farmers land
poor? Not long since we heard a large
Arkansas planter say he paid $1,000 taxes
and it was about all he got as the earnings
of his crop.
4 new cotton plant has been discover
ed in some far-otr country-Egypt, or
somewhere among Afric's sable sons
which will eclipse anything Of the kind
ever grown in the world. This novelty
grows to an unusual height for the cot
ton plant, and has neither limbs nor
leaves, but projects it's holds directly
from the wood or stalk, like the fig, n
bears all unusual number of bolls to each
plant. Well, this is not quite the thing,
Tor, as long as there is q boil, the cotton
will have to be ''picked." II some one
would only discover a cotton that grew
right on tho stock without the bolls, we
would then only ask for q further i'm
provement of a plant that grew the lint
without the seed, after the fashion of the
moss on our Southern seacosts. We do
not know what revolutionary effect our
Egyptian discovery may make in the cot
tom planting world, but VIC confess to lit
tie faith in such wonders.
SALE OF THE PENDLETON Factory
On Wednesday the 23rd inst, tho val
liable property known as the Pendleton
| Factory was sold at public cutlery in An
derson. The property was divided into
three tracts. The one upon which the
factory buildings stand was bid off by
Col. j. N.ABrOwn for the Bondholdcrs at
ten thousand dollars f.; the Keasler Mill
Tract was bid Oft at 81 800 by'Capt. John
McGrath, and the bottom land tract of
thirty-one acres was purchased by the
bondholders at $500. Several pieces Of
machinery were sold at much less than
their cost. The aggregate amount of the
sale is about one-eighth Of the cost Of the
property. We hope the purchasers will
at once have the factory put into opera
ton in such ann az to the benefit
themselves and afford employment to a
number Of operatives.
THE LITTLE BooK.-The Investiga-
ting Committee Of the Senate met this
morning. 1t is understood that DR.. w.
II. Jackson was examined in reference to
the ~"little" book, but the purport Of what
he said is not known. 1t has TRANSFERRED
that there are some eighty odd members
of the old House and seventeen OF the
Senate i'm implicated. The names Of Bow
Icy for 81, 800 Joe Crews $500, Tolbert
$500, are said to be mentioned in the list.
-Ih9niE.
Another wonder has been discovered
in California. The water of Deep Spring
valley Lake is charged with borax, and
ducks which at certain seasons visit the
lake in great numbers, become so loaded
down with crystalliZations Us to be UNI
able to fly, and fall an easy prey to the
Indians, who pick them from the water
by the hand.
Mother save your children from tor
ture and death by using Shriner's Indian
Vermifuge. 1t will destroy and expel
worms of every variety. 1t is a reliable
agent. Use it according to the directions
on the bottle and watch the result, and
you will be convinced that it does its
work well.
The trial of the Ellenton prisoners is
drawing rapidly TO a close, and every day.
makes more manifest the fimsiness of
the charges against them ard the bitter
ness and unscrupulousncss Of the prose-
cutting officers.
There is q strong probability that the
resolution of DIR. Muller, Of Lexington,
will be adopted, and the pay of the mem
bers for the two sessions bafixed at S5OO.
A blessing to humanity is what DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup can we'll be termed,
for it has done more good alleady than
any other medicine.