This well known horticulturist, gardener and general estate manager to Pierre Lorillard, met with a severe gunning accident recently at the hands of a friend, who did not know he was near. One shot went through the nose, and another destroyed the left eye.

Elbert S. Carman, the very successful editor of the Rural New- Yorker, we learn from the Farm Journal, was born in Hempstead, Long Island, in 1837, and educated partly in Brown University. He became editor and proprietor of the paper in 1877. He has always had a fondness for agriculture and botany, and his experimental grounds at Rockaway furnish many of the facts which render his paper so popular.