—— WHAT Is HER HISTORY ? On a small headstone of marble that stands in the cemetery for Federal soldiers at Florence, South Carolina, is the fullowing : FLORENA BUDWIN, Who 18 the woman who lies there among the dead soldiers, and how came she there? Bhe ehould be known in Philadelphia. The record of her case on the books of the ceme- tery is very brief and gives bat little information. It is to the effect that Fiorenu Budwin, of Philadelphia, died at Florence, 8. C., January 28, 1865 aged 20, avd that she was the wife of Captain Budwin, who was killed at Andersonville, Ga. Nothing more. Persons living at Florence say that she was a prisoner of war at the time of her death; that disguised in the uniform of a private soldier she enlist ed and followed her husband into the army and was captured by the Con- federates; that she died in childbirth, and that up to the time of her con- fisement her sex was not suspected by ber captors nor, so far as was known, hy her comrades in the prison. She is assigned to no regiment in the record book, aud nothing seems to be kuown of Captain Budwin except the fucts fhis ravk and death, and these were probably obtained from the poor woman herself before she died. It would be interesting to have some ac count of him, to what command he belonged, where he was from, and what was the circumstanees of his un- fortunate wife's enlistment in the son for separating the adversaries by as great a distance as possible, name- ly, the fact that Gambetta was a very large wan and M. De Fourtou a slen- der man. Now, supposing the adver- saries fired at a distance of five paces the slender man would have a larger target than the large man; at ten paces the slender man's advantage would lessen, and so on; the great- er the distance between the combat, ant, the more equal their chances be- came as far as concerned the target to be aimed at. Throughout this duel Gambetta acted with perfect coolness. On the eve of the engagement M.Clemenceau gave him sone hints as to the correct manner of using his arm and aiming. The next morning when he went to carry him to the rendezvous he lound Gambetta sitting at his window and calmly shooting with a revolver at the sparrows in his garden. While they were riding out to Plessis-Piquet Gambetta wished to smoke, but M. Jlemenceau prevented him, saying that the tobacco would make his hand Gambetla's first words “Ah ! unsteady. when the duel was over were : now I'll light up a cigar. QUEEREST OF FAOES. At a friend's house last summer I | was shown a photograph of a young lady which impressed me not so much by its beauty as by its character. The expression of the countenance denot ed a strong will and a serene if not a volatil disposition. It was a face of a girl whom one would like to know-—one to whose care, if he hag army and her subsequent career there- in. | : : : ing : There are 8one things that would | *he minds and morals of bis childrey ; Pack avimals, rushing toward the seem to corroborate what is told of | I asked who It was, and was told that fort. Mrs. Budwin, About a mile distant ! from the soldier's cemetery, where she College, Northamton, Mass, As I had ‘De fort was a surgiog .oass of the responsibility of a family, he| would feel no hesitation in intrusting | it was the graduating class of Smith | A BATTLE WITH PECCARIES, The pecceries of South America are formidable because they attack their enemies in large bodies, and with great vigor and bravery. The method and skill of their charges suggests that they are led by chiefs skilful enough in predatory warfare to direct the surrounding and destruction of a powerful jaguar. The object to be stormed—for they win by repeated charges —is surrounded in silence, by a circle of hundreds of pecoaries. At a given signal, a simultaneous snap. ping of teeth takes place which is fol lowed by a converging rush towards the centre, reach the front first, and the smallest and weakest bring up the rear. ‘1 hose | in front are pushed on by the wass in the rear, so that the enemy is con” stantly confronted by a rank of foes, no matter how many he may have disaoled. An English engineer, while survey- ing a Brazilian forest, for a railway route, encountered a herd of peccaries one night, and with difficulty drove them off. condense, exhibits the bravery of these wild pig. One day, he and his party came upon a morass, the furrowed ground trodden grass, turbid pools, and pig sty order of which indicated that it | was the headquarters of all the peccaries in the neighborhood. not a pig was to be seen. The camp was fortified. night there came an alarm. ly, from all arousd, rose the sound of Sudden simultaneous snapping of teeth, and then came the charge of hundreds of Under the hammocks and around The largest and strongest | His narrative, which we | Bat | In the | a FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. pect it in the one case as in the other. | New York World, FARM AND GARDEN XOTER 1859-1889. SHEEP LOSING WOOL, A Wisconsin correspondent asks to | the cause of sheep losing their wool, | He docs not state anything uns to the | PTO 00¢ of the most profitable ani- condition of the flock, but writes that | mals on the farm. last spring the wool dropped serious. | ly in patches, a blacksmith, makes a cheap und ex There are a number of reasons, A | ce/leot Implement for chopping root | feverish condition of the animal will | for stock. sometimes cause this, especially of the | fine-wooled breeds, Thin sheep ex- | honey outside the hives, as Haodle a bog properly aud it will A common howe straightened out by Great Reduction » ¥ i Bees should not be allowed (0 find { mneite« | atlack it | pred to the weather during winter, if robbing and causes them to | suddenly gorged with strong food to. | PEOPle. { wards spring, are apt to lose their Bo sheep alternately poorly ter than fed and then crowded with food Oue barn large enough for all is be i several iil re 8:0 Ones, Have f, and have it wool, may everyihiug under on well 1asured, lose their wool, and in ed lition the | Whether pri ne up or down, PRICES!!! i RN ® eo | places in the fibre, often seriously prime mution sheep are always sala. ble, and at good prices, The markets | remaining fleeces will have week | | lowering the price, Scabby sheep | drop their wool where the parasites |e VEVer tupplied with choice mut, | | causing scab are burrowing vuder the Ll, ; | i the first Secretary (youd in, if the Missour; | when the of Horticultural Society, says a good | falling after { scarf skin. This is one things to be looked toad is worth £10 iu a garden as an! wool is found to be loose off. RULES or i insect destroyer | If a farmer will ke Dot to | cannot use or Las | L am now Prepared to Give on FOR CARE OF POULTRY. care purchase what li 1. Have everything clean about |, ; ’ E little need for, he will soon learn that | | to buy | Clean out the houses Annoiot with nt the kerosene. | | the place. | it is poor economy for him | least once every week, 4 anything but the best, and cracks Whitewash the interior twice a | roosts Turkeys and guigess year 4 be allowed 10 roost in | t ! ye, BIG BARGAINS. , Which 1s | —spring and fall. Have a dust bath in the Dont crowd the fowls. : |or the result will Le 2, yards, Sw i lie 3. Success contagious, nil the fowls of the barn to | yard being subject . it depends in a great measure upon thie I i ; n building fences, take the cos, 4. In winter feed a bot mask in the ; : t : ; . and the time that they will last into | morning. We mix corn meal with . hot water, adding any from the table, Feed | stuff, table scraps, ete., at noon, and consideration. A che ap fence may be soft leavings =" 1100 cheap. All fences are costly, ard some green |. i tne fewer you have the betier. A writer that he best resus kee; if : iii id : states had “the corn at night. Corn is the best night hen each pied ho'd DRY GOODS RB Brapes g food in winter, as it will pot digest as a of I My bunch was wrapped n quicsly as any other, and possessing, | paper, pad ked in coxes as it does, a great deal of heat, is ing one bushel, and the buxes kept in « plase | where the aD excellent protection of the fowls dur- temperature did 1 fal) Dress (Goods Jrom Se is buried, there was during the late | heard of a young ladies’ college from | peccaries, pushing to the front, where civil War a stockade in which Federa] | which a year or two ago & class of | the men in the fort, having fired off prisoners of war were confined and | two members had been graduated [| theif gous, were backing aod thrust. guarded. Its site and the earthworks | thought this was a case of one, and | i0g With their long knives and bill. about are still well defined. In this | that the orignal of the portrait was | hooks, at hundreds of pigs struggling ing cold nights, 5. Give fresh water daily, A rusty nails in the drinking water acts | ! . 2 : | below 55 degrees above zero few | per yard. i —— STICKING TO HIS BEST FRIEND. — | “There is one thing about me,” the as | ’ : as an excellent tonic. said 6. Supply them with ground bone boastful passenger, alwavg stockade Mre. Budwin was imprisoned | and the date of ber death shows that | she died sometime before the war was | ended. When Sherman was advanc- ing through South Carolina, the Con- federate records of this prison were sent to Richmond for safe keeping and are belived to have been destroy- ed in that city in the great conflagra- tion that ensued upon the evacuation Mrs. story rests for the present on the ver- bal least, of whom were residents of and on daty in Florence when she died there. reader of the Times cao tell the tale in by the confederates, Budwin's testimony of persons, at some, full Perhaps some fellow soldier its completeness, The cemetery wherein is her lonely grave—lonely from the sad circum- stancos of her death and as being that of one woman among so many men— | is well laid out and neatly kept, as is | characteristic of the resting places of | the Union dead, and in it are the re- mains of about three thousand soldiers, | many of whom, like the poor woman the subject of this sketch, died while | prisoners in the stockade hard by. Some little children sleep there, too, in the shade of the pretty trees, sons and daughters of the soldiers of for mer garrisons of Charleston and Col- | umbia, and there is something very pathetic in the sight of their tiny | graves, far, far away from home and | friends—side by side with those of the soldiers, perhaps their fathers’ com. rades. Frorexce, 8S, C. G. D. — A— PISTOLS AT THIRTY PACES The adversaries were placed in a distance of thirty paces in an open space on ihe plain of Chatillon, where | there was neither tree nor any object | in sight of importance enough to guide | the aim; the silbouettes of tlie com. batants stood out against & perfectly clear sky, for the report that the duel was fought in a fog is untrue, the pistols were charged with the regular quantity of powder nod with regular bullets by M. Clemenceau himself. M. Clemenceau chose pistols = the seme of bis principal, for the simple reason that be did not consider Gam. ‘betta to have sufficient agility to fight with swords. As for distance M. Clemenceau at first proposed 35 paces, but the seconds of M. DeFour. tou suggested 30. Gambetta him. self would have fovght at five or ten paces, had his secocds ordered him to graph that riveted my attention, that I held in my hand ; and I awoke unwilling to the fact that there was face I so that there were forty-nine of a8 it feast where one might see and scen the savory dish, yet must forever to { atives, who urged that, as there were | several good likenesses of Mrs, Adams, that unfortunately isolated she. What was my surprise, therefore, to | learn that 30 far was this from the | truth, that the Smith College Class | of '86 realy numberd forty-nine mem. | bers, and that each of the forty and | nine had sat in turn for the photo. It was, indeed, a “composit” photograph | no such young lady as the one whose = : rather, It much admire ~OT her! was a peculiar, a rather uocanny, sen sation that I experienced in gazing at these nine and forty sweet girl grad uates baked into a photographic pie, were and served at a Barmecide it fail taste iL, — a A— An Extraordinary Proceeding Avox, Mich., March “We'll make a black bird of him that'll yet : fmeil of tar,” ssid a citizen referring wo Charl- es Adams, who startled and incensed | the community by an set without par- ellel in the history of the State, Oa February Sth, Mrs. Adams died, and on | the 21st was buried. Friday Mr. Adams | f announced to a few friends that he tended to have his wife's body d in inter red and a photograph taken of her as | ob- she lay in her cofia., Strenuous jections were made by Mrs, Adams’ rel. | no excuse existed for the proposed des- | ecration., Adams persisted, however, | and early on Saturday morning, with | the sexton and his assistants to | the cemetery and began throwing the | the went frozen earth from newly made grave. In hall an hour a crowd collected: among them was the mother of Mrs | Adame and other distant ralativoes many of whom wept as the work pro- After an hour's work the col- fin was reached, and before the lid was removed Adams was again urged by Mrs. Adams's relatives not to persist in his work. [fe would not yield his pre- ference, however, and though sarround- ed by a crowd of weeping and wailling women and men who threatened vio- lence, he ordered the lid to be remov- ed, This was done, and the face of the dead was exposed to view at the bot- tom of the grave, " The coffin was lifted out and remo. od to where it could be placed against a background of snow-covered evergreens and was photographed in the presence of fally one half of the villagers, The lid was then replaced on the coffin and his wife was buried the second tiwe eeoded, | to climb up the smooth surface of the | impelled by those io the rear, threw | | themselves | ripped | notified to-day that their salaries hides, Guns were discharged from the we] fr | through thick aud thin.” ’ . . . 5 oy ster shells, mortar, lime, sand, ete. stick to my frien ls aiways stick all of which are excellent articles hammocks, and then the occupants | | reachen down and slashed with their knives at the swarming pigs below. One pig after another was cut down | by the men in the fort, but, others, | the with hides | their sharp : against and | them up tusks, The ti jumped to reach them, and, under ¢ hamn cks ing, | 11 ig | Me 181 goashed the tree to which they were | tied, Suddenly the attack ceased animals had silently withdrawn. Then, witwout a moment's warning : woo | again the pigs drew off, and again | crash of teeth, came another w charge, and the fight was rend they renewed the battle, Seven times | they charged daring the night, and | not until daybreak was the last grunt heard. ——— Labor Tro bles Reaping, Pa, March 3. <The commit tee of employes of the Schuykill Navi pio] gation Company and tributary canals which called on the officers of the cor- poration for the increase of wages re- | ports that the request has been granted be wages this season will be £55 and £7 Ps Employes at the outer depot were had been reduced fron 10 to 20 per cent, to date from March 1. Pirrssunon, Pa., March 3.<The min- ers employed at the Pierce and Vir ginia Coal Mines, near Sharon, on the Sharpaville branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rairroad have struck sgainal » proposed reductioy of 10 cents Creveraxp, O., March 3 ~All the switchman in the Cleaveland vards of the New York, Peansylvania and Obio Railroad struck this moraiag because the crews of switching trains had been reduced from three brakemen and a conductor to two brakemen and a con- ductor, : Mitwavkee, Wis, March 3.—~The striking printers this afternoon offered to return on the conditions of the com- promise suggested by the publishers before the strike, but they were told that there was no Work for union men, The pressmen have been oallad out but papers will be issued a¢ wand. The boss job printers alse refused to negoti- ate with the strikers, Bosrox, March 3. Employes of Bow- ker & Co, extensive marble workers, to the number of 300 have struck: It is understood that the eave of the strike is the employment of non-union hands, A member of the firm states that 200 per tri according to length. do mo; but there was an excellent rea- The peop'e bellere him to be insane. men have been sent for from Italy, | regulaly.- | where ] ye the | ile the do ahout “That's right,” said the man in d, ’ the formation of egg shells. Without | hen next seal; ” i the proper foo i, how can a al by the wav Jim, Fine lay i msin Agricullurist, you happen a dollar you ¥" PRUNING GRAPEVINES, ~ NCTIONS, “{ioess an" A proper balance of the vital forces | “Loan it “Not “Is that what vo nds (Ome a due consideration of the ability and by + | much. eapacity of the vines is of great impor- tance f fruit is The development o th wi cour fri Hose from Sc {lo £1 per Pp u strain comes and the impa i sand Dass and plenty i Many a them pie his face look Or Or i 1 al swrighber beyond and fuling to GROCERIES ripen, death is the inevitable conses |, DAYE YOu any quence, and io a few years, if not re- newed, the bearing led to * Well nothing very urgent, Bobby,” “Why 1” Id m ic ought to be atte nl : frui wood is at | the top of the trellis or at the extrem. of the Wil.» J., Secretary jaughed Featherly. ity of the vines. On account that when biscaitt +h hasten matiers® us Thou Give u CONQUERED “Because Ciara 1 forgoing considerations, Mr, E. N. of the New Jersey Horticultural So o Lower Tan the Low, est. vou found out what » % f telat : iams of Montclair, could make it ought to ciety, advises the notices to bear in mind a few facts and priociples be. | fore attempting to prune a vine. | the fruit bearing CAnes of this year are First-That as a general rule, grown from buds cu last year's canes; in other words, the wood of this cone tains the the | fruitful canes of next year, | Second—That the fruit buds differ | from wood buds only because of bet. | ter development, ¢ a Call. buds which produce We Guarantee Satige faction, Third —~That a cluster is a fruitful | tendril, and that the ordinary capaci | ty of a fruitful bud is to develop, on au average two or three of thee fruit ful tendrils, or as comely expressed, | clusters of fruit. There are however, exceptions to this rule, notably, five | or six clusters on a cane of the Elvira | being quite common, Fourth That the tendency of the sap is to the extremity of the vine, that the straighter the cane the more rapid the growth, and the strongest growth from a proved eave will gen- erally ba found nearest the end: Fifih—That it is an easy matter ty overiax a young vine by endeavor- log 10 make it produce and ripen more fruit thao it is capable of doing. A young vine canoot yield the orop that an older matured vine can with out injury, any more than a young boy or girl ean do the work of an adul’, and it le as "oreasonable to ex- - Countrv Prodvce On hand, and Wanted at all times, C. U. HOFFER Allegner 1 w., Bellerorde, Pa SWAYNE'S QINTMENT the feline ped housing,
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