Year: 1874

%. This constitution may be amended by
the vote of twothirds of the County Unions,
subject to the ratification of the State Union,
or by vote of the State Union, subject to
the ratification of two-thirds of the County
Unions. JAMES CHESNUT,


Chairman Executive Committee.


The Executive Committee also unanimous
ly adopted the following resolutions:


Resolved, That the delegations from the
several counties to the Taxpayers Conven-,
tion of 1874 be requested to proceed at once5
to the organization Of Subordinate and Coun-
ty Tax Unions, in accordance with the plan
now promulgated by the Executive Commit
tee of that convention.


Resolved, That the County Unions shall
elect, not later than the first Monday in Sep.
tember, the members Of the State Union,
which will meet at time to be hereafter an
nounced by the Executive Committee of the
Taxpayers Convention.


ResoEved, That after the organization of the
Tax-Unions it would be inexpedient, in our
opinion, to re-assemble the present conven-
tion, and that if it be at any time advisable
to call the taxpayers of the State into con-
vention again, new body should be organ
lied upon motion of the Union.


Resolved, That this committee, before sepa-
rating, take great pleasure in placing upon
record their appreciation of the ability, I'M
partiality and dignity with which their Chair.
man, the Hon. James Chestnut, has presided
over their deliberations.


SENSIBLE BEEs.-The following illustra-
tion of the power possessed by insects to COM
municate their experiences to one another Is
given by a lady correspondent of the London
Spectator II was staying in the house of
gentleman who was fond of trying expert
ments, and who was bee.keeper. Having
read in some book on bees that the best and
most humane way of taking the honey, with
out destroying the bees, was to immerse the
hive for few minutes in tub of cold water,
when the bees, being halfdrowned, could not
sting, while the honey was uninjured,, since
the water could not penetrate the closely
waxed cells, he resolved on trying. the plan.
I saw the experiment tried. The bees, &C.
cording to the receipt, were 6shed out of the
water after the hive had been immersed few
minutes, and with those remaining in the hive
laid on sieve in the sun to dry. But as by
bad management, the experiment had been
tried too late in the day, as the sun was going
down, they were removed into the kitchen, to
the great indignation Of the cook, on whom
they revenged their suHerings as soon as the
warm rays of the fire before which they were
placed revived them. As she insisted on their
being taken away, they were put back into
their old hive, which had been dried, together
with portion of their honey, and placed on
one of the shelves of the apiary, in which
were five or six other strong hives full Of bees,
and left for the night. Early the next morn
ing my friend went to look at the hive on
which he had experimental the night before,
but, to his amazement not only the bees from
that hive were gone, but the other hives were
also deserted not bee remained in any of
them. The halfdrowned bees must, there
fore, in some way or other, have made the
other bees understand the fate which awaited
Them"