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SMITHFIEL HERALD. A. M. Woodall, Editor. CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSING ATTEND HER! Subscrlotlon SI.OO Pjr Year. VOLUME 12 SMITHFIELD, N. C, THURSDAY JULY 27, 1893. NUMBER 13. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. 1 DIllKCTOKY. tOt XT V OFFICEK S'jrlI-.I. T. KUinKtoa. oin. e in fourt j s. steven-. .f- j Oliver, ofaie iu j 1 sill priori rt lork X fi.- lii Court Mmi". lU'iiister of IVvl J. L - urt House . , I'nTK.irer!-:. J. Holt. olTUf in the store I : 1 i K. J. Holt ' Coron -r I.. I- Saser Surveyor lUium-M!-'"' -n,vrU..e..a.-..t ol Health-Dr. K. SoblV. otti.-e on Si-on;l lreet IVoar.l fount v Comm.ssiomra 1. .i t i'i.nirmiin. Jo. J. V ounur. I T. XV. tT.m.ty IU.r.l of KomntlouI. U. Har.lco. Coaitv s.UH-riiitendent of 1'uMie tiou. I'r'of. Irsi T. Turlinscton. I list rue- TOWS OFl'ICCUS. if nv.tr Soth XX'ootlall '..iiKiitsMlitners .1. A. Morgan mm l-- XV w Jail, rtrsl Ward: XV. M. IV" W. 1- Fuller. aXVard:A.XX .U,r " ' lu.U.,.. Fourth Ward 11. Hudson, ClorL A. M. Woodall Treasurer Joliu K. Hood. Tax Collector ti. X. 1'eaeovk ColUeman J- C. Hiuiiham. Town Countable 1. A. Coats. CHFUCHES. Methodist Church im Second strtt. Kev. . - .1 . . or i n e v i i ... .1.1 each molith. Sllllil ay M'U.hh , ..n.i iv imiriitnir at - O ClOCK. IT. i rayer . i n it n Miiiiriini it'". nieeti r .......uaiiv Invited to attend l- 11- . .1. uM.llill'J lit Ues nor vice. Missionary BaptW"'"" o ; At best, bv glancing at the head- "'""V"''' :;!d:Mnss,oncanonlv make an i.toVeVerTsan.la. choice of the articles fcUi-SiiS-V TAri-whichliexvillrcacl. and let the are cordially invlie 1 to iiiienu p. Primitive r.aptist l harch Fldcr J. A. 1. J" Fastor.,1 Service. .5 . ii.l satariiav ocutt n oulh. All are cordially invited to attend thrse nervices. Presbvterian ( huri h. 5v A i V lurrav: pa-t-r Services, in the OldA.a.Univ tulidins rverv Third Sahbath. i.iori.mir and rTrnintT Sabbat U school every MaH.ath at U;n o'cliu-k a iu.. SCHOOLS, rnrlinton Institute Male and female, rlington, Fh. U.. (L X-O.) Friaci J. 1 Davis, A. M-, iTriuity College) A Utant. Frof. T. K. Crocker. iWate ForvsO I iitln fireek. Cait. It. L.. Creech. Millitary Tactics and E V;rontll, rl 1 ittr ! - Teleurahv. r. J . l-at-iiter i ,iarr Hepartimnt. Mrs. Ira : J. W. IVunin teacher ia Friuiary IHp T. Turlington. Music I.ODOES. Olive Bran -h I-od je. No. ;iT, I. O. . F-. E. S. Sanders. X. ti-. J- l- Sliei. J ... l.r li. J. .obie. Sec'T. Meets in t tie ;Min . Hall every Monday evenin? at ?S o clock. All ...... ii - ....l ; .i 1 1 1- iiiviteil- ... i.! i v. si. A. Y. and A M Stroud street. r-naw i.r. V. M.. i i l.os S. Thain. Seeretary. Mcx ts the second j it..rdnv and Fourth Tuesday n.eht in each , mouth. All Lit - ' - " - 4 " 11 M rt rt 1 llllll 1 111 i in lOUSTY FA II ME US' alliance. OFFICEUS: j W. R. Creech. President ; Jos. Fulier Vice . President: E. I). Snead. Secretary: it. A. v ,el lot. Treasurer; I). K Staffoid. Chaplain; XX iu ; fi.hMrdson l-turer. KeRiilar time ol meet-; ins. the s'oThursdaj ia January. April ; juij and October. ! a. m. e. ciicrcii ; On Hancock Street, ReT. J. B McGee Fas- j tmr. services iuunu ; w clock i. in. on eachSeeon.l Sunday 1 1 each ; month, sun.sar cnooi c er .un. Iff at oviook. xx. k. iioit siMerinten- tleu'. t ias meeting r rr ahui"hi "--i .t h o'cl.K-k. All are cordially itvitcd to at tend these services. , Missionary Raptist Church tcolored.X I.eT. i :. mnrninc nnl-p 11c W. T. H. Woodward, A. SI. rastor. Services !OCa IiamCS It Contains make US Ht'lt o Jlock a. in. and 8 p. iu. on first and ! r i jr were in the hnme third S.indavs in each month. Prayer meet-j eei as II W C XXlit in II1C UOme ins on xx ednesday i each .JL" circle again. Items that else- p. m. Sundar School every Sunday evening s mt ..-clock, xviiiiam o. Sanders, sup t. ; where make no impress upon us - Send us Your Subscription. We are fiequently asked by busy men what periodical will best give them the news of the day, boiled down so that, with the limited time at their com mand, they can keep abreast of the thought and progress of the day. There is but one such The Keview ol Keviews. , This magazine fills the bill ! exactly. Its illustrations alone, , especially its portraits of promi- nent persons, are worm many . times its subscription price of 1 A. $2.50 per year. We will iurnish The Review ot Reviews and The Smitiifield Herald for S3.00. Thi3 is a model combination ol rcfiding matter for any family. Address The Herald, Smithfield, N. C. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Tetters, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Chaped Hands, Chilblains Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and pos itively cures Piles, or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re - funded. Price 25 cents oer box. For sale bv Hood Bros. Smith - fiehLancM. W. Benson, at Benson. jj c THE NEWSPAPER READER. ! We know a man who reads the big city dailies, but he doesn't kno w who t is going on under his nose. Danville Times. ti i :t i..t.:.. iucic uiuv ut i juni. iiui:u somewhere within the confines l tint? nnrMfrrntili lutf Tlx-fr t llf. ; less we shall treat it seriously. ' The best informed men are not ' those who read the largest pa pers or the largest number of :! papers. They are those who, having subscribed to enterpris ing and carefully edited journals, ; read them closely. The maxim , "beware of the man of one book" applies to the man of one , paper, for there are few things which escape his ouscrvatioii : 1 . . -i few occurrences of which he iino not some knowledge, ana il so ' inclined he is able to "jerk you ; up" in conversation at any and if so j moment It is simolv impossible for anv!workis something very much one to read thorough! v the enor-! mous sheets put forth upon an r"V unoffending public from the ! : presses of great American cities, i others pass unread. The time mav come when sueh cities as New York, Philadelphia j authority isenjomed by this very and Chicago will gladly sup-i ancient writer to labor at all port papers which will contain j t,n,cs to be a true gentleman, no advertisements and will print lest from, hls .own defects ot mere svllabuses of the current -character he stiller the authority news. " "The Nutshell ' or The Sen htm by favor of the Su-;fri-" Tii n:Mt- " ! prtme Being to be weakned. An would be a good name for such sheets. We find that the reader 0r ma" v papers is unable to read j - 1 ' . ail V ot tll?m W lth With pleasure. ' Editors who have been long in um ,n tae uirone WI 1 r oc harness rarely read anything ! greater than thou " The prefect with old time zest. As well ex j "ad the custody ol the key of the pect a watermelon to taste as!L"'or ro-val granaries, to s eet to a centenarian as to a which no entrance could be ob bovofli. There i a limit to i ta,ne,J without the production Ulental as i,.t. Jo tn ni,;Mi -I (l l"t .- Llli.l. 1 t ! After we have been rmdinr 10. ! 24. 4S-9Gand 120-nare da 1 ey. 24, 4S, 9G and 120 page dailier, ! manuscripts by the peck, tele- j f " 1 grams, prooi-sheets, ccc, we Gftca fint t necessary tO "reduce J temperature and ascertain t . "where we are at" by taking home our favorite weeklj'. In its well-edited and cleanly-printed coumnS we find the neVS of the . . . . . Veek IU SllOrt Space, With tran- .... , , quillizing comrreat thercu ,on. There is a dewv freshness in the 0d0r of its damp sheet, and the here disclose their importance as j tnev loom up in contrast vitn the simple annals of village life. We read of toppling empires and bursting banks, along with items concerning cures for sitting hens and accounts of monster yields of potato-patches. We look at the busy world as through a telescope, and are far away from its smoke and stench and noisv wranglings, yet near enough n raovcments wnidl arc to of real importanCe. Ag with SQ musfc ifc wiUl ntW fVrtninlv for week-days condensation should be the order ; on Sundays morc lattitude is allowable though there is a limit to human en durance even on Sundays. The average reader wants a paper that has been rigidly edit ed. He asks that the grain be winnowed from th? thaff, and this is what few of the big dalies of the big cities do. If they would idoit the reader would know what was going on under his nose." Richmond Dispatch. The German Empire has 5 27G.O0O farms, of which 2,953,- ! 000 are cultivated bv the own ' ers. ' i One man can cultivate twelve ' acres of cotton, or with the best ! machinery, thirty acres THE OLDEST BOOK iN THE WORLD. The only complete work that, without question, can lay claim to being the oldest book in the world is known as the "Papyrus Prisse," and now forms one of the treasures of the Bibliotheqne Nationale, says Knowledge. It was presented to the great library of Paris by a Frenchman of the name of Prisse, who dis covered the papyrus at Thebes. The tomb in which it was found contained, the mummy of one of the Entews of the eleventh, or first 7 hebau, dynasty. The date when the manuscript was writ ten cannot, therefore, have been later than 2500 B. C. But if tie exact age of this iden tical copy should be doubtful, xve know precisely, from the texf itself, the date of its com position, as it states it was com piled by one Ptah hoted, who lived in the reign of King Assa. The full title runs: "Precepts of the Perfect Ptah hotep, under the King of the South and North, Assa." As this king was the last but one ol the fifth dynasty. Ptah-hotcp, who flourished in the reigu of this Pharaoh and -" wr uelu the distinguished office of tat f . prelect, must nave compiled ihis work his work about 33o0 ! B. C. Divided into 'ortv-iour paragraphs, or chapters, the morc than a mere literary curi- osity. it is written in the tgyp- l,an ierauc cnaracter; is rny- tumic, u not poetic; is addressed j t the educated classes and em- in-;bodlcs throughout high and ! nobie principles for the regula- i tiou of individual life and con- jduct, and lor the maintenance ol ! government. The man in j Egyptian preie t was th high- lest dignitary in the land, second only authority to Pharaoh him felt- ,J 1 T,.,. ..1. J UH". self. It was the othce held bv in the biblical story: Vl. .1 " 11 T 1 01 ine preicctoriai seal. me ! bidder of the office 1. . was at once lord of the - A . t,ie Egyptian Iirst ireabur cuanceiior A 1 It tre:ii chcq of the ex iudicial ca- tier and, m his pacity. lord chief justice of Egypt All our greatest Egyp tologists bear testimony to the extraordinary civilization ol ancient Egypt. The work of Ptah-hotep fully confirms this position. It testifies to a height of culture and refinement ob taining in Egyptian societv' ;, 240 vears ago that to our West- ern circumscribed modern superiority inconceivable. The notions of are simply teachings of the ' precepts" more than justifying all that has bee l said by Egyptologists. "It is cer tain, says Professor Renouf, "that at least 3,000 years before Christ there was iu Egypt a powerful and elaborately or ganized monarchy enjoying a material civilization ia many re spect not inferior to that of Europe in the last centurv. Lepitus writes: "The fourth dynasty ascended the throne about 3.124 B. C, and at that time, long before our usual ideas of the development cf the na tions, there is found a people highly instructed in all arcs of peace; a state carefully organiz ed ; a hierarchy firmly founded, minutely divided and organized even to the smallest external matters; a universally diffused system of writing and the com mon use of papvrus; in short, a civilization which in all essen tial points has already attained its full maturitY.nd only by close investigation is f ui ther de velopment in some directions dis covered." So also Professor Maspero: "In one of the tombs ofGizeh. a high officer of the first period of the sixth dynasty IR C 371131 tnlp: ffi ti! of 'Governor of the House o.f, Books.' Not only was there al ready a literature, but this lit erature was su'Hc'ently large to fill libraries, and its importance was so great that one of the court officers was specially des- ignatcd for the keeping of the royal library, ine wisdom and high moral teaching embodied in the precepts of Ptah hotcp abundantly confirm this tes timony. Kcw Observer-Chronicle. Curiosities About oranges. The name "orange" is from the Latin aurum, meaning gold or of golden color. The truit was originally a small bitter berry aboi:t the size of a com mon Richmond cherry, and very seedy. It has been cultivated in Hindosotand from a very remote period and was taken from that country to Arabia and Persia in the eighth or ninth centuries. It is said to have received little or no attention from cultivators of fruits in cither of the countries last mentioned above, prior to the beginning of the tenth centu rv, there being a tradition that it was a "cursed" fruit sent the by un- Mohammed to destroy faithful. This reminds me that our com mon tomato was formerly sup posed to be poisonous, it now being less than fifty years since it was only growi as a garden curiosity. But to the orange: In the tenth and eleventh centur ies the horticulturists of Oman and Syria began the cultivation ot the tree in earnest, the fruit going under the name ot "biga rade." By the end of the twelfth century it had become quite abundant in all the countries of the Levant, the returning sol dicrs of the cross (Crusaders) bringing it with them upon their return Irom Jerusale n. It vas well know, but not ex tensively cultivated in cither Italy, Spain or France before the middle of the sixteenth cen tury, four hundred vears after its introduction into the first named country, the hindrance being a survival and an addition to the old anti-Mohanimcdan tradition, viz: That the use ol the fruit would cause the par taker to enroll himself with the legion cf Islam whether he de sired to or not. The Spaniards finally attempt ed and succeeded in cultivating it in their! West Indian colonies, and from there it found iis wav into Florida, Ccrtral America, Mexico and California, always improving in ize and flavor un til it became what it is to day, one of the most perfect. Botan ist Journal. Fish m Boilingf water. One of the most remarkable discoveries iu the shape of a pe culiar species of fish ever made on this continent wusthat ma e at Carson City, New, in 187G. At that time both the Hale ec Norcross and the Savage mines were down to what is known as the "2,200-foot level." When at that depth a subterranean lake of boiling water was tapped. The accident flooued both mines to the depth of 400 feet. After the water had all been pumped out except that which had gath ered in basins and in the inac- AaoiUla r 4 11 d i 4- Ti gM 11. "1 .-I' C ..caaiuit uui nun vji lu. i-r , and when the water still had a temperature of 128 degrees nearly scalding hot many queer looking little blood-red fish were taken out. In appearance they resembled gold-fish. TheY seemed lively and sport ive enough when the' were in their native element boiling water notwithstanding the fact that thev did not even have rudimentary eves. When the fish were takf n out of the hot water and put into buckets of cold water for the purpose of be ing transported to the surface, they died as quickly as a perch or bass would if plunged into a kettle of watt r that was scald ing hot; not only this, but the skin peeled off exactly as if they had been boiled. Eyeless fish are c o m m o n enough in all subterranean lakes and rivers, but this ia the only case on record of living fish bc- foutid in boiling water. The world annually consumes about G50,000 tons of coffee. Estimating coffee as being worth about $400 per ton, which is about a good average, this rep resents an outlay of $2G0,000, 000 for this one beverage each year. j extra sessions of congress .xir. Cleveland s can lor an ex tra session of Congrt ss to meet on August 7th, i.i the twelfth proclamation oi that character since the foundation of our gov ernment. The first extra session called was by President John Adams, to meet on May 15, 1797, in view of the suspension of diplo matic relations with France. It adjourned on fuly 10, the same j-ear. The second session assembled at I he call of President Jefferson, and convened October 17, 1803, being called on account of trem ble growing out of the e-ession of Louisiana by Spain to France, adjourning March 28, 1S04. The next extra session was al so called by Mr. Jefferson, and convened October 2G, 1807, hav ing been made necessary by our disturban.-es with Great Brit ian. The fourth extra session con vened, in response to a procla mation by President Madison, on November 4, 1811, the call having been issued July 24. The meeting lasted until July G, 1812, and was also made necessary by disturbance relation with Brit ain. Mr. Madison called another session to convene September 19, 1814, the session lasting until March 3, 1815. President Van Buren called the sixth extra session of Congress to convene September 4, 1S37, a period of twenty-three -ears having elapsed since such action had been taken. It lasted forty three days, and was called on account ol the suspension of spe cic payment and the generally serious condition of the coun try's finances. The seventh extya session was convened by President Har rison on May 31,1811, the proc lamation having been issued on the seventeenth of March as a result ol the threatening condi tion of thecountry's finances and revenues. This case was perhaps more cinalogous to the present situation than any other extra session. On the 21st of August, 1S5G, the eighth extra session, called by President Pierce, met on nc count of a failure in the previous session to make appropri i tions for the Army, as ? result of tlu Kansas trouble. The Whigs, who had control of the House, had put a "rider" on the Army bill forbidding the using o! troops to enforce x hat was known a the Le Compton constitution, which caused the bill to fail. The extra session thus called lasted but nine days and the bill be came a laxv xvithout the "rider." President Lincoln called the ninth session to meet on July 4, 18G1 , the cause being the insur rection of the Southern States It lasted thirty-four days. The tenth extra session was called by Picsident Hayc., for October 15, 1877, on account ol the failure of the previous ses sion to make appropriations for the Army. The Democrats con trolled the House and the Repub licans the Senate, the hitter re fusing to agree to a "i icier," so called, iu respect to the using ol troops at the polls. The last extra session was con vened March 18, 1879. having been called bv President Hayes by reason of the failure of the Porty-filth Congress to make ap propriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial depart ments, as well as the Army ex- ! penses The g ncral idea that thirty day's notice is required to call an extra session together is errone- II was the pratice in the early days of the count rj-, when mcrns of transporta ion and communication were slow, to give a notice ol two or three months, but the Forty-third Congress was called on a notice of but three days, while an ex tra session called by President Hayes assembled on a notice ol fourteen days. North Carolin ian. The beet root crop of Germany averages nine tons per acre; rf Russia, five tons. It is estimated that the world raises annually 9,122,000,000 bushels ol grains. Texas has the most sheep, 4-,-990.23G; the grand total in this country is 43.4.l,l'iG. Life-Time t. When people look at the nurn crons volumes written by Scott, Dickens and 1 hackery it strikes them that these great writers did an enormous amount of work. The mechanical labor of pro ducing so many books ii in itsell something remarkable, but a busy newspaper man writes more in a year than a success ful novelist does in twenty years. An active reporter grinds out, at the lowest estimate 1,400 words a day, 42.000 in a month, 504,000 in a year, equivalent m quantity to the reading matter of nearly six three-hundred page novels. Some reporters have been at work from twenty to forty years. At the very low average we have given, a bus journalist would write in tcu years 5,040, 000 vords; in f vventy years 10, 080,000; in thirty years 15,120. 000 words, and iu forty years 20, IGO.000, or an amount of mat ter equivalent to 224 novels of 300 pages each, the work of any fifty industrious novelists. It is very evident from these figures that newspaper writing represents hard work. But let us go a little furter with these sta tistics. In order to write twerty words a man's finger travels over the space of a foot with two or three distinct movements 'n the formation of each letter. At this rate it will bt seen that, as there are 5,280 feet in a mile. a nexvspaper man in lorty years makes his pencil travel about 195 miles with a vertical and a lattcral motion. This work is aside fro n the re porter's time a. id labor spent in getting his facts, but even this superficial calculation should make it plain that the mechani cal or physical labor of wilting is much greater than the general public supposes. We have had in our mind a writer who gets up only a column a day, but there are men who averag- two or three columns daily. To figure out the product and the labor of such toilers would stag ger belief and would cat se many young men to give up their j-iurtialiswic aspiration. Atlanta Constitution. A Million Friends. A friend in need is a friend in deed, and not less than erne mill ion people have loundjust such a friend in Dr. King's New Dis covery hr consumption, coughs and colds. If you have never used this great cough medicine, one trial will convince you that it has won -eriul curative pow ers in all di.'cases of throat, chest ami lungs. Each bottle is guaranteed to do all that is claimed or money refunded. Trial bottles free it Hood Bros, Smith field, aud . W Benson, Benson, N. C. Large bottles 50c. and $1. How is This Explained ? A very curious number is 142,- 857, whi.-h, multiplied bv 1, 2,3, 4, 5 or 0, oives the same figures in the same order, beginning at a different point ; but if multipli ed bv 7 it crix'c all nines. Mul tiplied bv 2 it equals 285,714; bv a, 4-28,571 ; by 4, 571.428; by 5, 714.S25; by G, 857.142; aud, as I have said, by 7, 999, 999 Again, if you multiply 142.857 bv 8 vou have 1,142,- 85G. and bv addinn the first figure to the' last you get the original number, 142,857. Leeds ( England Mercury. Time men in France competed to see who could tlrink ti e most water. One swallowed twelve cpiarls, the second tunc and the third seven. Ml three died from the effects. China makes a poor show in i he journalistic world. For all its 400.000,000 inhabitants it !i;ts onlv 21 newsnaners. 10 of s only newspapers, iu which are daily and 14 appear at longer intervals. A new substance call Jed valzin is now being manufactured in Berlin under a patent, and it is claimed to be 200 times sweeter than sugar and free from certain obiectionable o;onerties of sac j - j charin. The average consumption of grain in Europe is 410 pounds per inhabitant, yearly. .What is Accomplished in a by a Busy Journali: KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement ixnJ tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life morc, with less expenditure, ly more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will nttedt the value to he.-ilth of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced ia tho remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence ia duo to its presenting in the form most acceptable and ph.-i.4-ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial propertied of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleaning the y?tei;i, dispelling colds, headaches rir.d f overs and permanently curing count? putioi.. It has given (satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it act on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without xveak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale Vy all drug gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Fig, und being well inormcd, you will not accept any nubatitutc if ollered. STATE NEWS. Two more cases of scarlet fever were reported in Raleigh Satur d iv in the family of Mi. Filing ton. State Auditor Furmnn saxs that the pension fund for this vear will be a liitlc over $100, 000. The Atlantic aud North Caro lina railway has dctlau d a divi denel of five per eent , two thirds of which will go into the State treasury. Seventeen horses belonging to Mr. J. II. Harden, of Alamance county, were sold at auction last Friday by the trustees to whom Mr. Harden had assigned. The horses sold for $5,050, av eraging $300 each. According to the r:port of the Railroad Commission there is noxv 2,571 miles of railroad in the State. Itptatcs that there was only 39 miles of mad con structed tlu ring the year just closed and that one road, 1G miles of track of the Maxton, Uma and Rowland read, was taken up. The total assessment of rail road property in the State for taxation is $23,843,920.01. The Richmond and Danville system is assessed, 1 ,100 miles, at $7, 1G3.459.92. The Atlantic Coast Line, 715, miles, at $0,GS0,377 .92. The taxes tin railroads this year will be $90,000, cr about twice as much as was paid last year. The Raleigh-Ncxvs-ObseTvcr says: Mr. Andrew Rroadfoot, who lives near Fayetteville. has lately dug a well on his place, 00 feet deep. Nearly all the wax down the well was a clay, but a stratum of gravel was found at the I ottom, with a plciitv of good water. In t lie gravel he found a part of a log of wood, petrified in part and partially converted into coal, of tiie va riety known as lignite. The pet rifietl part was thickly encrusted with crystals of iron pyrite, while the lignite had enclosures of what appeared to b? pine rosin. This rosin will melt and blaze on the application ol a match and give the character istic odor of tuipentine when burning. How many year:; it required for this pine log to become buri ed under sixty feet of dirt is a question for geologists to specu late on. Mr. Broadfoot reports alse,, on the same plantation, two depressions or shallow drains, some twenty-five acres each, without any outlet lor water. They have both been drained by sinking a well at the lowest part of each basin. Through these wells the mrfaee water reaches a porcus stratum of gravel and escapes, levm the basins in a good conditio. i for crops. The outer rim of the basin is, in both cases, v ry sandy and poor. The specimens referred to above have been deposited in the i State MiiTCtim.