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Four squares estimated as a quarter-column, eight squares as a half-column, and sixteen squares as a whole column. . i -C- The FAMMJEB has a large and grow ing, circulation among the best class of farm ers : and planters of the South, especially in the two Carolina 1 . 1 ' 'J8 The Postage en the Farmer is only five cents per quarter, payable at the office where the paper is received. ; 9" Post Office Money Orders may be obtained in all the cities, and in many of the large towns, r We consider them perfectly safe, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less. ji ; I - 1 1 i Registered Letters, under the new sastem, which went into effect June 1st, are a very safe means of sending small sums of mo ney where P; O. Money. Orders cannot be easily obtained; Observe, the Beaistry fee, as well as postage, must be paid in stamps at the office where the letter is mailed; or it will be liable to be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Buy and affix the stamps both for postage and registry, put in the money and seal the letter in the presence of the post-master ana take his receipt jor it. juetiers sent to us in this tway are at our risk. . . Concerning . Investments ( for Small I ' Capitalists From the Journal of Commerce. J , A country correspondent encloses us a lip he nas cut irom some newspaper which urges all small capitalists to invest their money in a certain project for the purpose of realizing a very large return in the way ot annual dividends ; and he asks us if it is vwell to folio vr this advice. We ; answer that he cannot do better. , He is r evidently bound to put. his money in some ibrm of speculative investment, and it will burn in his pocket until he has thus dis posed of it. The company which is so anxious to secure stockholders we have ! ncj doubt 1 will clean! him out at shorter 1 notice and' iu ! a more scientific fashion than any other enterprise now puffing itr self into public notice. 80 let him in vest at once, and having thus disposed of all his available means, he should go to work and earn' bis living, : holding the -stock aforesaid as a perpetual memorial of his folly.: He has not sense enough to take care of a . surplus, and therefore ne may as well xiu. uiinseii 01 11 in ; 101s cuaiiuei auy other. It he had any sense or judg ment be would not' have been attracted by the invitation. Does he suppose that I if there, was a reasonable chance of an investment earning fifty to one hundred per cent, per annum with "undoubted se curity" that it would remain open long enough for small capitalists in ' the rural districts to hear of it .and profit by it ? Any such opportunity, where the proposed return is more than a ghost of a chance, like a prize in a lottery, ' would be picked up by those sharp moneyed men who must be among the first to heir of it. The golden promises made by this concern and endorsed by the newspaper writer, whose puff bears all tlm ear marks of paid eulogy are old jokes newly, vamped for the fresh born gudgeons that can thus be tickled out of their money. "Does' our correspondent now pee the folly I ol his assumption that a chance to make a safi- investment where the money is likely to double the first year has remained open until he heard ! of it ? In the discovery; of a comet or the inven tion of a churnins-machine the rural ex pert hus as fair a chance to be first as his metropolitan -competitor. But J; no mn hailing froin a central money market hav ing a safe investment to offer . that pro mises to donble the capital the 1 first year is obliged to cry it all over the land for V bid, and then onlv successful because a smart countryman is sharp enough to take it. The contingency that it may double the investors, money, in a year, - in ; all Cases, supposes t h e' eor respon d i n g cha n ce that it may work' exactly ' the other way. . . 1 . i t -j , ' I The Dead Alive Ilow the Spirit of ft Supposed Dead Han was toe; Spirit of a Living Man TrlfUn that are Tain. An aged and highly-respected r gentle man of New Albany, In d., who for - many years has been a very . firm ; believer in spiritualism, has recently had his faith greatly shaken in the dogma of this ism by revelations that have come directly to him through the living instead of the dead. . It was in this wise : Over twenty years I ago a favorite son of the gentleman in i question went, into the British navy; For time the father re- ceived letters from the son; but in the course of the passing years these letters ceased to arrive, and over eight years passed without the father- receiving any information from the son other than that communicated through spiritual mediums. Most of the spirits agreed i t h at th e son was dead ; but at one period a medium or mediums insisted that he was" alive, and would arrive on a certain vessel at a cer tain . time at New Orleans. The time arrived and passed, and even to this day no such vessel has arrived at New Orleans The majority4-nearly all, indeed ot the mediums fori the past five or six years, have agreed, in their communications with the father; that the son was I dead; that he died, some held, id Ireland; others in an island of the ocean. The ; fajher himself believed that he V frequently meld communication wiih his dead son, and. in this belief he was backed by the testimony of several mediums, who attested that the son had come to them from the spirit land and talked with them, . not unfiequently referring to his near relatives that wer known to be dead. The father's belief was so peculiar as to be a consolation to him in his supposed bereavement; and thus the matter stood until recently. I A few weeks ago, lust how many we cannot state with exactness,' the father re ceived a letter 1 from the son he bad mourned as dead, and with whose spirit he bad so frequently held, as he imagined, sweet conveise. , The letter was received by .the father at t he New Albany post office, and announced that the son was alive and in good health ; that he was at present, and hand been for nearly eight years, a resident -of Australia. 'The fact in relation to the vsupposed death of the son, and the communications held by the father ' with his- supposed disembodied spirit, are quite familiar to the citizens of New Albany, and have frequently been the subject of comment, particularly so on account of the simple and serene faith of the father in the supposed revelations made to . him directly from the i son or through the mediums he consulted. ... i ... si Number of Members of Churches of Different ; Denomination ',. In,,' the United States. - ,-.":.. , We are indebted to the Catholic World for the following list of memberships in1 1-867 in the TJnited States. ' We clip from an exhaustive and interesting article I on; Protestantism in. the May number f, of the World : IT 1 i;7r v"-" I 'f ! ' Lutherans, 332,155;' German- Reformed j 110,408; United Brethren, 97,983j Mora-' vians, 6,655; Dutch' lfortned,'K57,846; Mennonites, 39,110; Reformed Menonnities, 11,000; Evangelical , Association, ( 58,002; Christian Connection, 500,000;; Church 'bf God, 32,000; Old i School ;;Presbyterians, 246,350; New School Presbyterians,. .161, 538; Reformed. Presbyterians. (General Synod), 8,324; Synod of Reformed Presby terians, 6,000; Associate and United iPres byterians, ; 63,489;; .Associate .Reformed Presbyterians, 3,909; . Free Presbyterians, 1,000; Cumberland Presbyterians, 100,000;J Baptists, 1,094,806; Free Will Baptists, 59,. Ill; Seventh Day Baptists; 7,038: Dunke 20,000; German Seventh Day , Baptists, 1,800 ; . Free-Commu.hist Baptist,; 104 ; Anti Mission Baptists;! 105,'000;: SixPrini ciple Baptists, 3,000 , River ; brethren," 7,000; Disciples (Canjbellites), 300,000; Congregationar!Sts.2Z$862; Unitarians, 30,000; Univer?a!ists, 80,000; 'ProtestUnV Euiscopal, 194 692; Methodist Episcopal, 1.146,081; iMethodist Protestant,! 50,000; Methodist Church, 50,000; True Wesleyan, 25,000; African Methodist, 200,000 ; Zion African Methodist; 60,000; Methodist Episcopal (South),. 535,040; Free Meth odist,4i839; Western Primitive Methodist, 2,000 ; Independent Methodist, 800; Friend?, on Quakers, 100,000; Hicksites, 40,000; ; Shakers, 4,713; Adventists;30,000; Sweden borgains, 5,000; Spiritualism, 165, 000, ! Mormon Church, 60,000; Christian Perfectionists, 255 ; Catholic Apostolic Church, 250; total, 6,396,110. -- The membership'of the Roman Catholic Church is estimated by careful writers at alout 4,000,000, as against the probable aggregate of 7.000,000 Protestants of all names and kinds. I- What We Should; Eat The Truth at ' ' ' I " last- ' : ' ' ; ; The following, from the. Galaxy, is in that periodical imputed to a philosopher whous described as the "erudite barsaeld Young" : ii 1 "Ii cannot lay down any special rules as to what vou had better eat. ' Breadstuff's are bad. Never eat bread. The process by. which the article is rendered light and white is very deleterious " to . the j health.' Never eat hot cakes nor cold ones. Corn bread is fatal. "Take to the Wheat in grain; carry, some in your pockets, and chew, the food nature designed for you. If your teeth are bad or you have none soak the wheat in castor oil. Acorns are good for "people, who read What if Know About Farming. Their digestions require something of the sort Eat soup. Never take four plates of sotfp. Besides being vulgar it undermines the'eon stitution. For breakfast, I should say ham and eggs fried; or if tried eggs don't agree with you, drop them. Don't hurry your meals. Remember that Rome was not built in a day. Don't be afraid of fritter ing away time, at' breakfast. -.. Eat them with sugar e or syrup. For dinner, you want something substantial---pork, for example. If you choose pork, stick to .it right through the year: many a man has built : himself up in the pork-packing business. And then, abrupt changes are' dangerous. ; j For tea, something very light should be taken, such as lobsters and milk, cucumbers and ice-cream, or cold mince pie, pickles and hardl cider. Then for lunch (which is to be eaten, of course, im- meaiaieiy oetore going w Dea;, we nave always found plenty of sauer krout, Welsh rabbit, pickled walnuts, saleratus biscuit hot, . with London porter and green tea, very agreeable and soothing." It would seem that Gen. Grant's highest ambition is to retire at the end of ia second term with u. plenty of money and; no poor km.77 LMuisviUe Courier. 1 ' CHVBCH MEMBERSHIP. , Tragedy in jreflerson, Texas. -The following is from the,; Jefferson (Texas) Herald of April, 12th ; The par ties connected with jhis tragedy are W. R; Rose and Jesse Robinson, both of them dangerous and bad men, either drunk or sober. -Rose n and , .Robinson have . never quarreled, but were : apparently good friends. ' Last Tuesday they accidentally metfat Rooks& Meschow's shop, and Rob inson accused Rose of treating him coolly. Rose replied that he intended to leave off some of his associations,, and he was one; that he (Rose) intended to quite drinking whiskey and be a better man the quarrel terminated by Robinson telling Rose ,that be intended to kill him. iu Soon after. this Rose went to his own ? shop and went to 'work. ' ; In about an hour from the parting from Rooks ife' Mescow's ' shop, -Robinson appeared at the door of Rose's shop, with 'pistol' (six shooter) in. hand. - jRbse was at bis anvil, 'and as soon' as he saw Robinson he went to a1 box to the side of the shop; got his pistol (single; barrel) ; and , quickly fired :the ball taking effect three inches be- low me. iei& nippie. xvooiusou i,ut:u com menced firiuff at Rose as he: ran; out- of a: side door; as be (Rose) entered the, back door . pf; his shop,;; Robinson ,t. fired, ? a i8hot .which brqke his left :lejg, ahd he fell. Robinson went up near him and ' riddled hislbody firing-in.lalL - six .ifihots; Rose died in five minutes after the faring . com menced. Robinson started across the street leisurely and quite 'suddenly ' stop ped, sat down in the street, commenced to . 1. 1 . 1 51 . -J j 1.11 vomit 0100a, ana in a iew moments, ieii forward upon his face, was carried to" his room, and died in about thirty minutes from the time he was shot, i - Both of these men have been tried by military courts for murder, and by some kind of hocus pocus both were cleared. ! ; ! Robinson! served a short' time in the Georgia penitentiary, and while so serving, the county that, sent him up had a half dozen true j bills against him tor . theft. No one knows in this city ; how he made his living, except it was by - gambling. Rose was a blacksmith, and when sober would work and behave himself tolerably well, but when drinking! was a demon. Our community breathes. more freely, be ing rid of t wo men that were a terror to all who knew hirn. ' t , ., ; .. A Terrific Explosion Over One Thou : sand Barrels of Oil Explode. ' , From the Cleveland Herald.' , ; . About. 6. o'clock Tuesday- ; morning thousands of our citizens were aroused j by one r of the most terrific explosions that ever "shook up" things terrestrial in this locality,. It proved-to be the agitating bouse of Hussey, Payne & Co.'s oil refine ry, situated on the canal, a short distance South of the Atlantic and Great Western railway. It exploded without a moment's warning, and without ii , any assignable cause, as far as.knpwn. j The report was tremendous,' and the concussion ot the air' was so great as to shake- buildings two miles distant. Over a thousand barrels of oil were in the agitator, and in a moment - .' ' " .1..: 'r -. ' ' j - j.Ji it- an immense volume ui uame auu iuick. smoke toldi that the fire fiend was complet ing the work of destruction. : . - The immediate effects of. the, explosion were appalling. The building was en tirely covered with iron, i intended to 1 be fire-proof. It was ' literally . blown to pieces, large fragments of iron rolled up and twisted, being hurled a great distance in every 'direction. The- building was made a complete and utter ruin, the work of desolation being finished by the flames. Other buildings connected with the works were nearly destroyed. - Brick "walls Vwere blown down, and windows everywhere in the vicinity were shivered to atoms.: Th chemicni works of Marsh and Harwood, situated at a distance from the oil works, were badly damaged; and look as -if they bad been through a first-class earthquake. A fragment of wood was blown through the window of a bouse fully a hundred rods distant,' and struck a- woman who was making a fire, but its force being spent, it inflicted no serious injury. ' Within a radius of half a mile houses were shaken to theirjvery foundations, and their occupants not already awake s turn- bled out in the wildest dismay. ' Win- ; dows were broken, the entire' sash , being blown out in many cases; crockery rattled, 1 shelf ornaments were5 thrown down pro miscuously, and the destruction of proper ty was considerable. The jar, was very perceptible as far distant as Prospect st reet, and was felt throughout the entire I southeastern portion of the city. ' t -The damage to the oil . works is , esti-a mated at $25,000, although it is quite prob-. able that it will reach; a higher figure. A MisslngT Bridal Couple and a Dlsap pointed f ongregratlon. " For the past few7 months there has been daily and nightly ; heavy skirmishing in; the pleasant Vales of, Love, between Mr. McHarris; a gentleman of color,' and. a ; cream-colored damsel.' ' A general engage- ' ' ment has finally taken place, and the cita- ;; del of the- young lady's ; affections being f: carried by storm,; she, surrendered uncon ditionally, and last night at 9 o'clock, the high ' contracting parties were to , have signed a trjeatypf peace and perpetual union. 1 " t '',:. - ' At that hour a large and expectant con gregation ,;was assembled at' Ebenezer Church to witness the solemn and impose ing ceremonief1. IThe beaux, rid of the dust accumulated in the Fifteenth Amend ment tratopdressedlri ' their'; J&est attire, 1 and the belles,' Whose tongues 'were rat tling at a rapid rate, gorgeously gotten up: in the latest Parisian, style, were quivering with eager anxiety to gaze on the happy twain soon to be made one; - Nine o'clock came and no stir about the ; doorway;: but .remembering that Jt was fashionable on such occasions for the wed ding party to be ehind time, they con tented themselves in spending the waiting moments in' sweet, converse of . gallantry arid love. Time, passed thus pleasantly away until the hour of ten approached,, and there being still no appearance ot tne chief actors in. the play; a slight uneasi ness began to manifest itself in the large audience, but, having come to see the show, they were patient, and "thar theyj sot, ' and sot, ohtwel they thought they should hav took root,'1 and, at 11 o'clock,; a deputation was sent to ; the lady's house to ascertain the cause of delay. The committee, upon their arrival at the fair one's mansion, found that damsel all forlorn, disconsolate and refusing .to be' comforted. She had not laid eyes upon her precious William, and having a pain in her heart all day, thought it a presenti ment of some evil, so much so that she had not arrayed herself for the joyous -occasion. r ; The committee, with this state of facts, returned to the church and reported; whereupon, the congregation dispersed, much disappointed and greatly wonder ing what had befallen the missing McHar ris, who,-' not haying been seen at a late hoar this morning, it is feared has possi bly been Ku Kluxed by a rival ", suitor. Rich. News. - : . Death of a Notorious Brtgand. , Guicche, the brigand of Arezzo, Italy, was shot recently Iby the King's carbineers.' . He was, it is said, the terror but also the boast of the neighborhood ; . and, no less from admiration! than from fear, he was always sure,' so long a he could elude the bloodhounds of the law, of a supper and & sweetheart. ; Justice was over and over again suspended by the dread of his anger, and tempting posts, usually so coveted in Itlay, were refused by one official after another in deference to his mandates. The mode of his capture was in keeping with the remainder of his eventful history. Three of ! bis pursuers took" refuge one evening witn a poor and aged couple, and their suspicions were . at : once aroused by seeing before them, the promise of a more sumptuous repast than was warranted by the peasants' condition. The supper was . preparing for Giucche, . and the fact was AYtnrfAfl firnm t.ha tamnnnnnir t?r Thfl . carbineers lay ,in wait for: the solitary J bravo, who soon came along singfcg a re pitto, or love song, : and : they dispatched i him before he had time to do more th&n bite off one of their fingers. . - ! ' , . ss: let- f 3- ta t I m -! 'J-: 1 ''
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