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should be stripped of IFS bark, raised
from the ground, the sap wood taken
of, and the timber reduced to its re-
quired dimensions.
Ostrich farming in South Africa is
lucrative. The feathers are sometimes
clipped and sometimes plucked. A
strong bird can be relieved of feathers
three times in fourteen months. The
feathers from the male bird are the
handsomest. The bird is easily tanned.
MIR. W. Z. Prentice, bee man in
Erie County, Ohio, has $50 hives of bees
and has already taken 1000 pounds of
white clover honey from them, and the
buckwheat honey is yet to be taken.
The season has been favorable for the
bees, as well as for the farmers who de-
pend upon grain crops.
The English propose to have a
great agriculture fair in 1879, at an ex-
pense of S250,000. 1t is said that ag-
riculture is declining in Great Britain.
The number of cattle, the wheat acre
age, and other crops are decreasing,
and very nearly one-half of the popula-
ton of the United Kingdom is now de-
pendent for sustenance on imported
food. The people hope that an exhibit
ton as proposed will help to revive a
dropping business.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Foochow, having called the attention of
the foreign Consuls to the contemplated
mixture of dried and prepared willow
leaves with tea leaves, the Governor OF
Foochow has issued a proclamation
threatening delinquents with severe
punishment. Those at the head of the
scheme, he says, are numerous, and any
person who proves the guilt of one OF
them will receive 100 piastres. "Let
ALL" he adds, "tremble and obey"
Several months ago, the discovery
of Prof. Barff, of England, that iron
could be protected from rust by being
covered with an oxide formed by means
of superheated steam, excited great at
tention. A simpler process has been in
vented by Mr.. G. Bower. He places the
articles to be coated in chamber o.
/ fire. clay provided with two pipes, one
for the admission and the other for the
escape of air. Both pipes having beer
closed, the heat is raised to a temper
AZURE of about 100 degrees Fahren
heit. At the end of each hour the pipe;
are opened, so that atmospheric ali
may be forced into the chamber by thu
one, and the deoxidized air driven ou
through the other. This is continued
until a sufficient film of magnetic oxide
is formed on the articles. The coating
is beautiful light gray or neutral tint
very delicate in appearance, and it per
fsctly protects iron from rust. Unde,
all circumstances, the invention is de
cided to be invaluable.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-03

of Boston, left an only child, who in
herited his vast fortune, and married
man who had a. singularly prosperous
career-the late Mr.. Van de Weyer. in
innate friend of the first King of the
Belgians, and for more than thirty years
his representative in London. His Wild
ow, who owned a beautiful residence
near Windsor, and enjoyed the intimate
friendship of Queen Victoria, died q
fortnight ago. Russell Sturgis is now
the American partner in Baring's. One
of his sons is married to a daughter of
the Speaker of the House of Commons,
and his daughter is the wife of the eld-
est son of Sir George Hamilton Sey-
mour, the diplomatist.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-03
School and Church.

The pubIc school children OF Chi
cago number about 46, 900 at this years
opening.
--Sixty-four women school-teachers
in Pennsylvania took advantage of their
summer vacations to find husbands and
sent in their designations.
Two japanese girls, Miss Stematz
Yamagarva and Miss Shige Nagal, who
have been studying in New Haven for
the last five years, will now enter Vassar
College. They speak English fuently.
The Wesleyan Methodist and the
Primitive Wesleyans in Ireland had a
quarrel in 1876 and separated. I'll e
two bodies have now united under cir
cumstances indicative of great happi-
ness and prosperity in the future.
The Maennerchor Garden in Phila-
delphia is one of the biggest beer-drink-
ing places in that city, but it is occupi-
ed on Sunday afternoons by large con-
gregations, who attend the preaching
services which are kept up by city pas
tors.
-Spurgeon is in poor health again
"When l took the tabernacle expected
that it would kill me in seven years.
have contrived to exist for Il, but | can
not last much longer"
-Sixty-fve Protestants from Boston
paid a visit to the Pope, and went
through the form of etiquette customary
in his presence of kneeling before him.
A correspondent of leading Catholic
newspaper says that their department
was such as to elicit every praise.
The question referred to the Luz
theran Conference at the last conven-
ton: "Shall the women of our congre-
cations he allowed to vote at the cleo
ton of q pastor?" has been fully dis
cussed by the Conferences, and they
have passed resolutions against such
a privilege.
The Colorado Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has voted
by large majority not to admit any
minister who smokes or chewS tobacco.
No action has been taken as to the hab-
its of the laymen in this respect, and
they are free to chew and smoke all they
please without fear of ecclesiastical
censure.
Two young lady students in natural
history have this summer made tour
on foot through the Southern States,
studying and collecting specimens.
They started from Somerset, KY, walk
ed $50 miles, and ended their trip at
Beaufort, N. c.. A college professor
and two male students made the Jour-
ney with them.
The Methodist Conference of South
eastern Indiana has dropped from men,
bership the Rev. DIR. De La Matyr, Ma
tional Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the indianapolis District. At
his request majority of the Conference
allowed him to continue in the Metho-
dist Church as a Methodist preacher.
The Methodist ministers of Chicago re-
Gently voted, too, that minister ought
to have nothing to do with politics.
Syracuse University loses Prof.
Durston, who goes into commercial
business. Virginia University gets $50
900 more from w. w. Corcoran to en-
dow chair of Natural History. Color
ado College, at Colorado Springs, is
ready for students but needs more
money. Oberlin receives S25, 900 from
an anonymous giver, understood to be
a Massachusetts woman. Johns Hop
kins University will soon put its male
and female students on a perfectly equal
footing as to studies.
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CURRENT NEWS.
wAsHrNGroN
W. A. WADE, Publisher.
TENNESSEE

The President and party returped 10
Washington on the 18th from their extended
trip through the Northwest.
The President has appointed Thos. b.
Ellis, Of Brooklyn, n. Y, Indian Agent at
TT. Berthold Agency, Dakota, L. N. Kelly,
Of Elgin, H., at Los Pnos Agency, Colo
RADIO; and Joseph A. stephan, of Laporte,
Ind, at Standing Rock Agency.
The Chinese Minister, Chin Ian Pin, on
the ssth formally presented his credentials
20 the President. The members Of the Chi
nese Embassy were all present Al the cere-
mOny, dressed in their national costume, and
the President was attended by the members
OF the Cabinet.
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Science and Industry.

The Atlanta cotton merchants pre-
dict receipt in that city this season of
$4,000 bales of cotton.
-Atagreat shoe mandatory in Lynn,
Mass, recently, pair of kid side-laced
woman's boots was made from the
stock in just eleven minutes, in sight of
visitors.
The soil of the United States is the
best in the world, yet in many European
countries the annual yield per acre on
all land under cultivation is greatly on
the increase from year to year.
As soon as tree is cut down, If in
tended for mechanical purposes, it
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-03

Pumpkin Pie.-Take Ii quarts of
pumpkin, which you have previously
boiled and strained; add to it while hot
2 tablespoonful of flour, 2, quarts of
milk, eggs, pound of sugar, table
spoonful Of ginger, of grated nutmeg,
l teaspoonful OF salt. Bake with avery
thin undercrust, the mixture being laid
on at least six times as thick as the paste
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-03

The only surviving members, of
Capt, Otis's family of nine persons, liv-
ing few miles in the country, are the
aged mother and an idiotic son. The
other seven have been swept away by
the fever Yicksburq Letter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-03

-Changeable silks in delicate shades
are becoming fashionable for house
dresses.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

REMEDY FOR TRoUBLE-Wor
i your true remedy. II misfor
tune hits you hard. Won hit
something else hard, pitch into
something with a Will. there !,
nothing Ike good. solid. exhaust
ing worl to cure trouble. If
You have met with losses Won
don't want - lie awake and
think about them. You want
-lcep-calm. sound >leep-and
eat Your dinner with an ape
titc. But you can't unle,, YOU
work. Ii YOU say Won don't
feel like work, and 20 loating al
day 70 tell Tom, Dick, ard
Harry the story OF Your woes.
you'll lie awake and keep your
wife awake by your tossing, spoil
your temper and your breakfast
next morning, and begin to-mor-
row feeling ten times worse than
you DO to-day. There are some
troubles that only time al heal,
aud perhaps some that cannot be
healed at all; bat all can be help
ed by the great panacea work.
Try, it you who are afflicted; il
is not a patent machine; il has
proved its efficiency since first
Adam and Eve left behind them,
with weeping, their beautiful
Eden. All good physicians in
regular standing prescribe It IN
mental and moral disease. 1t
operates kindly as Well as leav-
inc no d~isagreeable sequeix and
we assure you that we have tax
Ell a large quantity OF 1t with
the most beneticient results. 1t
will cure more complaints than
any nostrum IN the materia med
ca, and comes nearer to be a
"cure all than any drug or
compound of drugs IN the mar
ket. And it will not hurt you
if you do not take it sugar coat
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
Hog Measles.

EDITOR HOME AND FARM:-I
have a disease in my hogs that |
wish some information concern
ing the same. When first taken
they seem to be very weak, and
act like blind staggers, and have
but very little disposition to eat.
They break out all over. and es-
peclally the mouth becomes very
sore, and the eyes become very
much infiamed and swollen, and
III two cases the eye-ball has
burst, and the pupil Of the eye
has dropped out. l have one
now that has been sick about six
weeks. One of its eyes came out,
and it still lives, but eats but
very little. My whole flock has
had the disease, and | have lost
about one third of the whole. |
feed mostly on Stops, and occa-
slonally give them sulphur IN
their feed. | think it helped
them some. If you a name
the disease, and give a remedy
through the Home and Farm
you will very much obliged a
friend and subscriber to "IIome
and Farm G. A. LAWRENCE.
Hilldale, n. G.
We are Of the opinion that
your hogs have the measles. The
treatment should consist Of cool
ing drinks, low diet and mild
purgatives, and positive cleanli-
ness and protection from the
weather. Take pulverized mu
rate OF ammonia, one ounce
nitrate of potash, n ounce;
flour Of sulphur, one half ounce;
mix and divide into eight parts,
and give one part three times a
day in bran mash. @" the sores
with any kind of grease to allay
itching.-ED.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

would get up and put a table
against the door, so as TO gain time
fVr explanation while the good man
was opening the door. lie got up
accordingly, and was IN the act 81
pushing the table against tie door
when . tall, stalwart figure. IN rcd
flannel shlrt-sleeves. with a big.
black catskIn cap upon his head,
pushed open the door. He looked
like a thunder-cloud for an IN
slant, but was met with this adj
dress by the guest III his shirt:
My name is James Kent. | am
Chancellor of the State of New
York. The woman in that bed IS
my wife, Betsey. Your wife Is
upstairs. There is your supper
The explanation, which certainly
was not constructed on the theory
OF pleading IN the Chancellors
court, made everything harmonI-
Gus"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
T~elegraphic Items.

At Savannah, Ga, yesterday,
Constable Ben. D.. Morgan, while
assisting the deputy sheriff to
arrest David V. Lebey, a maniac
who had barricaded himself in
his house and threatened to kill
his wife on the approach of any
one, was shot and almost instant
y killed by Lebey. The excite
ment was intense. The streets
in the vicinity of the house were
blocked with people subsequent
" a posse broke into the room,
secured the lunatic, and carried
him to jail.
A Sacramento (Cal.) dispatch
says the sheriff has arrested Troy
Dye public administrator Of the
county, on the charge of be i'm
plicated In the recent murder Of
the wealthy farmer, J. NJ Tullis,
at Grand Island. Clark, the
business partner of Dye, was also
arrested. There is strong cir
cumstantial evidence against the
prisoners. The motive for com
uniting the crime is allege to be
a desire to administrate the es-
tate of Tullis.
At l a. m. yesterday Ella
Chase, a woman Of extraordina-
ry physique, known asthe Indian
doctress, was killed in bed, at the
side other husband, w. IL. Chase,
at Savannah Ca, by the dis
charge Of his pistol, which he
gave her to examine. The ball
entered her left ear, producing
instant death. The verdict Of
the coroner's jury way acclden-
tai shooting.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
A Danish Horror.

There is something rotten n
Denmark. Rumors have long
been in circulation at Copenhagen
respecting the cruel treatment of
two young ladies of high rank
one sixteen and the other seventeen
years of age-the daughters of VI.
de Tohiesen, n of the King 5
Chamberlains and Minister of the
Interior in a recent Cabinet. The
father was a great favorIte at
Court, but did not have sufficient
strength of mind and character to
be master of his own household,
and allowed his wife to ~pcrsecute
his children. About 4 month ago
the elder daughter was found one
morning starving IN Il dog kennel
belonging to Il neigh6or, and on be
ing questioned by Il young lady OF
high rank, she declared that she
had run away firm her home to
avoid the repeated cruel lll-trcat-
ment inflicted by her mother on
the slightest %pretence. Her body
was ii mass of bruises. She declared
that she was gagged and tied, and
then, nearly every day, SIZE was I'M
dressed and severely beaten, \
large steel pin vas hooked in her
dress in a way that she had to hold
her head in one position all day
long. The Queen took the young
ladies under her special protection
and informed their father that she
would send them to Il boarding
school IN Paris.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

Cuder what conditions is damage
from lightning possible, and what
afv The means by which the risk
may he lessened or avoided? An
Isolated tree, standing either upon
ii vide plain or upon an emInence,
is obviously likely to determine a
tghtning discharge, to attract the
l.htning." to use Il common eX-
preston. The top of the tree is
tur nearest point to the cloud, and
>snce the tree is a better conductor
than the air, a line drawn vertical
II through it to the cloud marks
the shortest and easiest course
along which the electricitles may
pa :. If. when the charged cloud
arrives directly over this point, the
tension is sufficient overcome the
resistance along that line, a dis
churge will take place and the
tree Will be struck. But If the
tension be not sufficient, the cloud
Will pass harmlessly over. Hence
IL appears that Il person standing
durmga thunder storm beneath "A
Tree 50 situated is exposed to some
risk. On no account, therefore,
should the traveller take refuge
under an isolated tree; generally
he will do well to avoid its neigh
oofhood altogether, but should he
ne 0vertakcn by the storm when on
i plain with no shelter near, the
Tree may still be made to afford HIM
some protection, If he take up a
position near it, but not under It's
branches, he will probably escape
ulhurt should the lightning de-
send upon it. The safest distance
rom the tree is that which is equal
10 It's height. TO approach much
herer than this is to incur the
Isl OF being within the influence
o. The stroke; to remain at IA much
greater distance away is to place
one self In the same conditions OF
$50 alton as the tree itself. 1t will
nave been remarked by all obser-
'e'S OF the phenomenon that when
ever Il tree has been struck by
i5htmng it has generally occupied
a' ISOLATED position. In describ-
ing the position as one of isolation,
however, it is not meant that the
Tree Is necessarily Standing alone,
'ut that it is not one of a numer-
WIS group. When ther" + many
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

trees together their COLLECTIVELY Is
often sufficient to cause an IN e.
struc i've discharge Of the electrlcl-
ty. This is especially likely to
happen when the trees are wet
with rain, for then their surfaces
are covered with a film Of water,
which is a good conductor. For
this reason, the danger from hight
ming is much less after ram has
begun to fall than before, when
everything is dry. 1t appears,
therefore. that the safest situation
during a thunder storm is III the
midst Of a wood, particularly II the
neighborhood Of the tallest trees
can be avoided. In such a place
Of shelter the traveller may take
refuge in full assurance that he
will there be effectually shielded
from harm. The greatest risk Of
injury from lightning is undoubt-
eddy incurred by persons travelling
across a wide and very flat plain,
because IN such a situation they
are the only elevated objects. To
lessen the risk, which may here be
somewhat serious, advantage should
be taken Of whatever undulations
surface may exist, to keep upon
the lowest ground. No doubt the
PROSTATE position would IN these
circumstances afford greater secu-
rity than the erect. 1t happens
not unfrequently that animals are
killed by lightning under Il tree to
which they had betaken themselves
for shelter. In these the tree Is
struck partly in consequence OF
the isolation, and partly on account
of the presence of the animals be-
Meath it. Usually there are sew
eral, and aften many Ct them as
sembled together, huddled proba-
bly, by terror into contact II with
another. The air, heated by their
bodies, rises above them laden with
moisture, derived mainly from
their breath. Who has not noticed
the cloud of yapor that in the early
morning and in certain states of
the weather hangs over a flock of
sheep or a herd of kline? The col
umn of moist air ascending
through the branches Of the tree
toward the cloud offers, in conse-
quence of the comparatively high
conductlylty OF water, a favorable
passage for the electricity. \ herd
of cattle under an isolated tree is
thus exposed to a double risk; also
iG is evident that these animals are
III the open country less secure
flom injury than human beings,
who cannot affect the atmosphere
in a like degree.-Chomders' jour-
nal.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
That's Betsy in the Bed

The following odd story related
by the author of Chancellor Kent
has, perhaps, not yet 'passed into
history ''The Chancellor and his
wife were once travelling in a one
horse carriage, long before the days
of stage-coaches, to visit friends
who lived in the then almost mac
cessible region of Canandaigua;
they lost their way, night came on,
and finding themselves on a wrong
road, they stopped at a Lighthouse,
and solicited entertainment for the
night. The good m of the
house made them welcome, gave
them a homely supper, and ex-
planned that she did not expect her
husband, who was chopping wood
a few miles oil, to come home till
late. She then told her guests to
take her bed in the corner, and
that she and her husband would
sleep in the chamber and desir-
ing the Chancellor to let her hus-
band in on his return, she took a
candle and climbed up a ladder
through a trap-door into the cham
ber.' The guests then went to
bed, but the Chancellor was I'M
EASY. He observed to his wife
'Betsey' that the door did not lock;
That he feared the chopper, coming
home in the dark, and finding
another man in his bed, and appa-
rently with his wife, would begin
to chop and that he thought he
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
The Government and the IL
1icit DiStillerS The Offer Of
AmneSty.

Col. w. Ill. Chapman, the spe-
cial revenue agent for this district
and for South Carolina, reached the
city last eveningfrom Spartanburg,
where he has been negotiating sue
cessfully with the illicit distillers
of that and neighboring counties
to procure Il cessation CT their I'M
lawful traffic. lie is highly pleased
and encouraged by the results of
his visit to South Carolina. The
distillers he reports, are anxious to
make terms with the government
to have the indictments against
them quashed, and fall in with alac-
rity with the propositions laid be-
for him. Gov. Hampton, by pen
and tongue, has aided him IN the
accomplishment of his work, and
the illicit trafficers have waited
upon him in large bodies to secure
amnesty under pledges of future
good behavior. Col. Chapman
confirms the reports of tt c surren-
der of law breakers to the United
States district attorney at Green
vile, and expresses ull confidence
in the policy of the steps which the
government has taken to prevent
infractions Of the internal revenue
laws. There are counties IN South
Carolina where there has been
trouble in the past, which he pro
poses to visit In due time with the
propositions that the administra-
ton has authorized him to make to
the people, and where he is sure he
will be met IN the same spirit with
which he has been greeted in Green
vile, ~Spartanburg and the other
counties where he has been. At
present he is en- route to Statesville.
Col. Chapman confirms the truth
Of the telegram copied into yester-
days Observer from the Columbia
Register, regarding the purpose of
the administration to offer to the
Illicit distillers of North Carolina
the same terms which have been
offered to those Of South Carolina,
and under the same conditions,
and is satisfied. rs he may be, that
the proposition will be accepted
with alacrity.-Charl0fte Observer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
Facts Worth Knowing.

A correspondent sends us the
following assertions, which he
claims are absolutely true:
There never was a woodcock
e e on the Pacific coast.
There never was a Pacific steam
er that ever burst her boiler.
There never was a dog went mad
west OF the Rocky mountains.
There never was beech or syca-
more tree struck by lightning.
There never was an eel caught on
the Pacific coast.
There never was a locomotive or
a steamer struck by lightning.