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CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 18^ >GF. i0w He P*) not iz ad< Busis tioii. Official) by Kateg nooi Co*s int? a <U b?i Kui money n Colum- | It he most ind lodg Hia hai- j if that he it deadly ; itself only ifluence ?f is in the stores and fciee that he ounce of! ikl so much j lach is proof j * ''I ?ased fifteen i i containing 8 wallowed transaction >use. Vvf ben he had done ?g around for lost strenuous The next ?bauch he took night while iter, and when entered her irly stifled by *r husband was irfectly oncon a moment that the victim of his n the doctors" after they ha4 it two hours, the almost expired j vigor and he was it into his head I jket While half called at a drug jfag speech on the: of his system, in j isceptible to the any other! poison* j jr two o?nces o?i was refused him. j drug store, where j lining it, and than j took the whole dose, j >vered by his father ' ite. Three doctors ! jmoned, and, after j pumps aud filling j and emetics, they I to consciousness, a simitar example in be found in this or mnitjf, and, therefore, the palm for having inks alive ? Boston BURN A TOWN. k Treat of ? N??jfra Pre??h$T. Miss., March 22. ? The on the New Orleans srn Railroad, 100 miles Han, was destroyed by , night Shortly after I torch was applied to five [?different portions of the withiu two hours almost id residence in the place out. People ito the streets, nteraent prevailed. ?rn Union t^legragh office and particulars are it from passengers who rvis ^on the north bound afternoon it .was learned iflagration is the rtSult of ing between white people }, growing out of the arrest preacher. The negroes ^iown in revenge. of citizens left Meridian for 3 "a special train late this ran pan le an d the llqRONLYJftO. May Come Into the Democratic Fold. 3 RRIBLg I^nta, Ga., March Tl. ? In an few today with Hon. Thomas E. [People's party ex Congressman fee Ninth Georgia District, h$, bees that there is room for only peat parties, and says that if the jcrats carry out in good faith 1 platform, the People's party 5ve them full credit and act Jingly. ! . T. A. Watson, the moat Third party leader in Georgia, same position, saying that if i made by the Democratic in their National platform, on \ tie party woo, are carried out, pie ought to, be satisfied, announcement of these inter are received with considerable j here, indicating that the; party in the South will rapidly ! > pieces if the Democratic party squarely on its platform. . ? DEATH OF COL. SHEPARD, ie famous Kdltor of New York "Mail and Express." P New York, March 24. ? Col Elliott F. Shepard, editor of the Mail j Mnd Express, died suddenly this i afternoon at his home No. 2 West ; [Fiftv second \ street. His death fol ,-iowed the administration of ether by j Dr Charles McK&rney and his family physician, Dr J. W. McLane, who k wereaboatto make an examination to . 'ascertain whether the Colonel** sus picion that he was suffering from' . a stone in the bladder was correct. || J Up to this rooming Col Sbepard had attended-feKbis business in the usual wayX No one there knew of the contemplated operation when he west home last evening. He merelj toM his manager thM he probably would not be down on ^Friday, bat that he would be there on Saturday afternoon. A DISPENSER APPOINTED. D. H. TRAXLER GETS THE STATE DtS PENSARY JOB. Appointed State Liquor Commissioner. Something About the New 51an. Halls From Florence ? Bi* Ba?i nes?? Record ami Ability. When it was said a day or two ago that Governor Tillman was rushing ! his preparations for the opening of the State dispensary, the statement was thoroughly correct. Yesterday he appointed the State liquor commit sioner, or State dispenser, as this officer is commonlv called. The early appointment creates a little surprise among certain people. In his selection of a man Governor Tillman acted to suit his own faocy and did not regard the applications filed with-him. appointee is Mr. D. H. Trax ler, of Timmonsvilk; Florence county. He was in the city yesterday, and after a consultation with Governor Tillman, at which the place was offered and accepted, his appointment was announced. Mr. Traxler is forty-four years of age and is a man of large means, owning and running the largest general merchandise business in- that section. This business, it is said, pays Mr. Traxler very handsomely, and he will not, by taking this position, relinquish it. He was born in Charleston county, and moved thence to his present home in 1869. For eighteen years he was in the employ of the Atlantic Coast * Line at Timmonaville, and served several years as treasurer of Darlington county before the county was divided into two counties. It is stated that he will return here in a few weeks to push the preparations for the opening of the State dispensary. These preparations the Governor has well under way, but the bar-keeper will have to prepare his bar, etc, ? The State. CHAkLESTON catching up. An Electric Street Car Line the Latest Pro . Jectert Enterprise. Charletton, March 22. ? It be gins to look as if Charleston is about to catch np with the procession aDd have an electric line of street cars. A syndicate has made a bid for the two lines of "hay burners" here, and foiling to secure them, will build a new road. St. Phillip's church spire will here after be used as a beacon light to range thfe entrance to Charleston har bor through a new jetty channel. The. vestry of the church to-day granted the use of the spire to the United States Government for that purpose. The fight before the Interstate Com merce Commission at their meeting here on April 3r^ promises to be a livelj one. The trtfck farmers have engaged eminent counsel, while Sena tor A. T. Smythe wall lead the legal forces of the various railroads. The baseball cranks of Charleston are in the seventh heaven of delight to-night over the magnificent victory achieved over the Baltimore team to day ? I to 1. It was a great game, and has sent baseball stock soaring skyward. The two teams play again to-morrow afternoon. The Wheelman's Track Association, with a capital stock of S5,000, has. been organized here, with the follow ing officers: President, J. L. Johnson; vice-president^ J. H. Lacoste; Secre tary, T. P. Whaley; treasurer, B. F. Evans. The association will at once fit up a bicycle track with the latest appliances for racing and fancy riding. FOR A GIRL'S LOVE. Snicideof a School Boy Whose Affections : Wer? Unreqnited. Louisville, March 22. ? Because of unrequitted iove Will Fry, aged I 17, laid his head on the Louisville Southern track rear Shelbyville yes- ! terday and suffered decapitation. He had been in love ifrith 8 school girl living in his neighborhood for several months, and, while <he was always affable and kind to him, she did not encourage his attentions any more than she did a number of other i young fellows who were equally de voted. Yodtrg Fry asked to be excused] from school, and walking to a point | on X fee railroad where there was a sharp curve, waited for the train J which wa|^oon doe.* At its approach he laid his head on the track. When the engineer saw the young man' it was too late to defeat his purpose. The teacher heard the train stop, and, as it was something unusual, she called several of the elder pupils, in cluding joung Fry's sweetheart, to go with her to investigate. When they reached the track a sickening sight met their eyes. Lying in a pool of blood beside the track was the decapitated body of young Fry, while under the wheels of the engine lay the head. The body was carried to the school by. the rail road employes^ and the boy's iatheif and mother wer# notified of his tragic death. . f'. .* V;-' 1 , r. " S?a -^toton Men Basiling Trains. Toledo, 0., March 22, ? The non union men are running the Ann Arbor ro?4 n* shape. Trains^ both freight and > iasenger. are now roBaing-OT tzi&a. The proceedings in court arer giving tie new employes time to get awf So tl* topes, uo -oMrf- . pj IT SEEMS TOO WONDERFUL. be Telautograph Which Transmits Writing by Wire. I - The very latest thing in telegraph instruments, says the New- York j World, was shown at No. 80 Broad j way. It is called the telautograph, or long-distance writing mtichina All the afternoon business men, tele graph experts, newspaper folkB and ' others filled the rooms of the National Telautograph Company and witched the remarkably accurate records made by the little machine. . , It consists- of a transmitter and a receiver associated for use at one station. The mechanism of tbe ma chine is extremely simple aed direct. An ordinary lead pencil iB used in transmitting. Near its point two silk cords are fastened at right angles to each other. These connect with the instrument, and, following the motions of the pencil, regulate the current im pulses that control the receiving pen at the distant station. The writing is done on ordinary paper five inches wide conveniently arranged on a roll attached to the machine. A lever is so moved by the hand as to shift the paper forward mechanically at the transmitter and electrically at the receiver. The re ceiving pen is a capillary glass tube placed at the junction of two alumi num arms. It is supplied with ink which flows from a reservoir, through a small tube placed in one of tfrfe arms. The electrical impulses, coming over the wire, move the pen of the recorder simultaneously with the movements of the pencil in the hand of tbe sender. As the pen passes over the paper an ink tracing is left, which is always a fac-simile of the sender's motions, whether in the formation of letters, figures, signs or sketches. "There is practically no limit to the work that this machine wi ll do," said Manager ^JJoBn H. Bryant. "Wherever a record is required it is invaluable. From his office a busi ness man can send instructions to the factory, close by or many miles dis tant, and have them delivered in his own handwriting. "A broker dealing by wire can give quotations and execute orders to buy and sefT securities without danger <pf dispute. A physician may wire' his prescription to a druggist, using the arbitrary code of the profession, con fidentUiat no mistake will be made [ in the transmission. A reporter, j writing up a fire or an accident of : any kind, can send to his paper a ] sketch of his subject taken od the spot Superintendent Byrnes wishing to notify all the police precincts at once of the escape of a burglar could not only do so as quickly as by tele graph, but he could be sure that his orders were transmitted in his own writing, and an accurate discription of the man- could be sketched atthe same time if necessary." Speaking of the telephone, Mr Bry ant said that the telautograph would beeome more popular than the former instrument, because there would be no questions to be asked and answered perhaps a dozen times before getting a definite reply. "This turtle o f ours," said he, "will keep moving along and fcave your message. all recorded before the telephone is through buzzing. There willie no more strikes of Mes senger fc^ys, for while we are ^waiting for the boy to come, the message, writ ten on the machine, will be at :i?i des tination. Then, again, a man :an go away and leave the machine locxed up in his desk. When he returns in one, two or half a dozen days, he will find the messages sent to him by his friends all recorded on the roll paper in his desk. In cities and towns the telautograph will be operated on the .exchange or central station plan, in much the same manner as the telephone is now worked. Prof Eltsha Gray, the in ventor of the telautograph, h-.is de voted -his life to the perfection of com munication by electricity. He invent ed the musical telephone, and history, his friends say, will give him credit foTinventing the speaking telephone and the harmonic telegraph. MR DAtflS'S REMAINS. Arranging for the Final Interment in Hollywood. New Orleans, March 25. ? Mayor J. Taylor Ellison, of Richmond, Va., arrived in this city yesterday and held a conference with Gen Glynn an^ staff, of the iTmieiana Confederate Veterans, opfBNhe^emoval of the re mains of JefFerso*] Davis to Rich mond. u The details as to the date of the re moval, the composition of the eBCort, the number of stopping places and the route^will be agreed upon at another conference this afternoon. Mayor Ellison says that the rein terment will take place in Hollywood cemetery at Richmond, May &0th. ! The plot has been selected by Mrs j Davis and will be reserved for the j Davis family. The Louisiana clivis I ion will have charge of the ceremo nies at New Orleans, and Lee Camp at Richmond. During the coming summer or fall designs for the Davis monument will \ be asked for. The monument will be arecte&lm Monroe Par*, and they ex j pect to lay the corner-stone and begin work next year. They will complete , the" structure within the next two or j three years. : Earthquake In Montana. Helena, Mont., March 25.? An earthquake shock, lasting thirty secppds, was felt here last night at 0.15 o'clock* No 8?ffioua -dtoMge r - dose. sasai CAL CAUGHMAN TilKS. ' THE LEXINGTON STATESMAN'S PO LITICAL STATUS. i His Ant&gonUm to Certain Admin let ration fU f [? Measures and Why He Support# Senator Botler? He's ScU 1 a "Bef^rmer." A 1 Wa8hinqtok, D. C., Miirch 20. " To the Editot bf The^ State: I noticed in the columns of yco* valu able paper an editorial inA*]*tah you comment upon myself on ius article which appeared in the Augusta Chronicle. I have not had an oppor tunity of seeing a copy of ?iid paper, and therefore do not know iat what way I have been forestalled, with / f J ? ' titles. I disclaim any titles whatever, except that of F. C. Caugliman. I am Bimply Cal Caughma#, and have always had the courage to fiither any thing I have ever done, and hid be hind no nom de plume. It seems that now since I1 have be- j come a candidate for the position of reading clefk of the United States Senate, I am; to 1m attacked on all sides, both by the supposed Reformer* j and the Consefatives. , I take this opportunity of string to the* Demo cracy of South Carolina, representing both factions, that the first opposition I felt from the Reformers was from some of the^ lieutenants of the admin istration because of my posi tion in be half of the Hon D. A. Towhsend in the convention, against some of the leaders who were in behalf of W. C. Benet I won in that nu?, aad have won ever since. I considered Maj Town send therimlwark of the Reform Movement, asBcr legal adviser, and war4eserving of promotion. ; ^During the sessjonofthe last Legis lature, I assumed a different course fro? some of the leaders in j the ad ministration, and opposed some of their unwise legislation. First among them was the ^districting bill, for I believed it was conceived in* spirit of revenge because the Bon W. H. Brawley had justly and honestly de feated the Hon J. W. Stokes. I op posed- the bi^ of Maj Dennis, of lkrkeley, to dump the negro vote back on the grand old city of Char leston. I also opposed that most in famous dispensary bill, which- malnm the State of Sotft&Qarolii a the instru ment of dispensing the damning in iquity to its citizens 4for the sake of revenue, thereby bringing her citizens to degradation under a false idea of appeasing the prohibitionists. Now it is well known that the idea of government i% to throw the broad segis of her protecting arm around all of her citizens, and bring them up to that standard, of . citizenship, which will under all circumstance* bring security, peace and happiness to every family and make the government great and grand in all of its concep tions. j' I opposed the railroad bill, because I believed^ it injurious to the interest of South Carolina. I knew the great advantages derived by the people of Lexington in the construction of the railroads in our eounty, :ind I saw the evil arriving from such radical legis lation. I was opposed to the seating of Murray for Congress, and think and believe Adjutant General Farley has written a page upon the history of South Carolina that will ever be appreciated by our tr^ie and loyal sons that believe in the perpetuation of Anglo-Saxon civilization for voting against that dark spot which now rests upon South Carolina^ I claim that no man has a right to say that any portion of the great State of South Carolina should be dedicated to the idea of an Africanized civilization. I was also an ardent supporter of CoLD. P. Dunean, Sligh and Thomas against some of the gentlemen who were being chaperoned by some of the lieutenants of tibe administration. Now I desire to say that I am an ardent supporter of the idea of the "Shell Manifesto," and am standing upon the platform with both feet, be lieving it was intended for the good of the masses, and not 'or the personal aggrandizement of any one or two in dividuals; and 'will never allow any one to dictate to me the course I am to pursue on any poetical issue. An indication or allusion to my having deserted the reform ranks is without foundation. Education at the South. ? " English visitors are greatly surprised to find that so different a sentiment concerning public education exists in the Southern states of our country from that which animates the Norther^ ones. In the Northern states there is pride in the commw schools; 1 in the schools for youn^j childrenf. In the South," the colleges and universities absorb whatever enthusiasm there is; but there is no positive enthusiasm. For many reasons the Southern states took no inteipst in public education before 'the war; do state system of public schools existed. The first to adopt any was Texas in 1866. Mr. Geqrge W. Cable in the November Cosmopo litan discusses the opportunities for the education of the common people at the South. He proposes the question only to admit that these opportunities do not exist, and gives as a main reason that the Southern man, believes in "government by gentlemen and has no reason or desire to provide for the elevation of the common people." Mr. Gable says: "Much is heard of a gradual in crease in the yearly outlays for schools in the South, but the increase in population is unnoted. In the six states of Georgia, North and South Carolina,, Louisiana, Florida, and Alabama the increase of -o.utlay per capita of the state population was four cents! It would take 70 years at this rate to reach the per capita of Iowa." "Nearly all the best private institutions are by main force mo nopolized by the same favored cite s that swallowed the lion's share of the public finds set apart for higher education." In South Carolina the university and the military insti tute with 366 students obtain an out lay of public funds twice the cash ' value of the 2962 common school i houses with 25,000 students. This State spent over 8200 on each uni versity student, $150 on each military student, and $1.84 on each of its com mon school students. The blacks (of school age) are to the whites near ly as 2 to 1; the money fot higher education is divided as 1-5, to J. Georgia spent ('$8-*89) for white higher education $71 on each student; on her 522,764 children (outside of her seven principal cities) she spent for schooling 89 cents a head! Mr Cable says no effective improve ment in their schools can be looked for until there disappears the ancient belief in the exclusive supremacy of the gentlemen and there arises ft de mocracy that concedes equal rights and recognizes the importance to the State of the highest possible intelli gence in the lowest, strata of popula 5 f. ] * * don*? Ex* j , ? ' ?? J - . < : In regard to my support of Gen Butler for the United States Senate, I desire to say that I have told him on different occasions, boiii by letter and person, in the last three years, that, ahouIH. he become a candidate Jot re j electiorfro the United States Senate, / would give him my earnest support I recognize in him allof that which constitutes the military chieftain, the patriot and the statesman, who left that priceless limb of his body buried . in the soil of Vir ginia, striking a blow for constitu tional liberty in the "Lost Cause." Beireving, as I do, in the doctrine of Holy. Writ, that whe:a the great day I comes alid Virginia will be required to deliver that great trophy and trans mit it back to South Carolina to be reunited with the mortality of her be loved son, I feel it is but our duty to* stand by ihat grand Carolinian and preserve the greatness of our State, thereby teaching the comiBg genera tions to emulate the virtues of one so dear and near to every Carolinian's heart " ! And God forbid tiiat the day will ever come that thy past chivalry of South Carolina shall .be forgotten and such men as ' Gen Butler shall be ignored by the ycsmg spirits of our \ AN OUTRAGE QN HUMANITY. Bones of a Confederate Soldier on Sale? Q. A. R. Men Indignant. A dispatch firoci Lyjm, Mass., March A Broken ani booe, part of a backbone and a rp, with the inscription, "A bit of a rebel sol dier fonnd on Gulp's Hill, after the battle of Gettyjfig^g Soch is the ghastly exhibition in the window of Grant A Tapper's cigar store in Mar* ket street The Collection is offered for sale at $100, and forma a part of a cabinet composed of w4r.relice, ballets, scraps of belt, a bayonet and other souvenirs of the late war. ? Hie member of Post 6, G. A. R, of this city are emphatic In jtheir expres sions ot disapproval and horror at the outrage which has been^perpetrated against the remains ot themen who were, in one sense, their comrades. That the ixxlies of brave men, who sacrificed their livSI fighting for what they considered right, should be *thus dug up ?ai?4 exposed for sale as the relics of the civil war, has aroused widespread indignation, and threats have been made which, if .carried out, will prove ill for the owner and seller of the exhibit. It wii thought that the exhibit; might.be pitces of woojjj painted white and carted in soch' a manner as to, represent bone, but upon examination the display was found to be exactly as advertised, and consists at a part of the spinal column a rib and a broken bone. It is impossible to ascertain: the identity of the owner of the ex hibit, but the man in charge of the store gave the price of the collection entirV as $100. A'anife, clsimed to hambeen tak en fro? the grave of a Confederate general by the owner of the exhibition, is alio offered $>r sale. h>aid a prominent member of the Grand Army: "If -tbe: owner of those bones of dead soldier* is in need, I stand read j to help him, but I do pro test against a traffic in human remains." It was a sacrilege to disinter the bod ies, but to offer the whitened corpses for sale is woise. It is an outrage." All day Sunday the sidewalk before the window of the store where rest the? bones was crowded and expresoons of horror an? disgust were heard on every side. One man, with a promi nent sear ftpon his right cheek, evi dently a veft-*a, remarked in an ex-" .cited manner: "If such an exhibition should be be made in .the South, the owner woukl be gracing the nearest lamp post, in short order." A member of th? firm of Grant & Topper chu ned that the bones were left with him by a Grand Army man, a former resident of Pennsylvania. It is proba'jle that a- committee of Lynn's citizens wiir take some action upon the matter as it is considered by all to be a disgrace to the city, and if the bones are not removed the conse quences may prove disastrous to the firm which allow such an exhibition to be displayed in their window. ? New Orleans Picayune, WILLNOT HELP GONZALES. SENATOR IRBY DISPOSED TO BE FACETIOUS. ? He W<&)4 FftTtfr the Appointment of the Editor of "The State*' as Minister . Plenipotentiary to Sheol. W ABHiNOTOiy March 24.? I cabled*1 on Senator Ifrby at his room at the Natiopsd Hotel this evening, and aakra him if he said, as reported in a Columbia paper, that he would oppose Mr N. G. Gonzales for anything except a mission- to hell. This amused the Senator very much, and he said: !: 'There wis quite acircwdiumy room last night, when a member, quite prominent in the anti-reform faction, undertook to sound me as to whether I would favor the appoint ment of Qpnzales to a foreign mission, with a view toygettiug'rid of him in South Qarolina politics. This I did not like, and said: 'If international rations were established between hell and the United States government, I would probably favor hiin as minister plenipotentiary.' This created quite a laugh, and I thought and heard -no more about it"' The Senator further remarked that h$ hardly ever crosses bridges until be gets to them, and as to opposing the nomination of Sfr Gonzales, that woi&l depend very mtelfupon whether tfce position lor whi^h he was nomi nated would fit him qr not, and that his rule in voting for the confirmation or rejection of nominees, has been to lay aside all prejudice and vote ac cording to what he considers to be right and just ; i The declaration of Senator Irby above retired to appeared tin a special djipatch to , the Columbia Evening Journal, printed in its edi tion of Friday. It is as follows: Washington, D. G, March 24.? t"Yes, sir. Yon * can state with emphasis that Mr^J. G. Gonzales will "Dot be confirmed if appointed to a con sulate. If lam correctly informed, and I ,have no reason to question the source of the information, Gonzales fought Jhe organized Democracy in his Starfe, and for this reason a num >r M Senator; s will fight his appoint* meat and oppose his confirmation if appointed oyer oar protest." This was the remarkable statement made to me to-day by a well-known Senator from the Northwest For political reasons, his name is, at his own request, withheld, until the mat ter comes up. So it seems an organized fight is in store for Mr Gonzales. I saw Senator Irby, and inquired if he knew anything concerning the affair, but refused to be interviewed, and and only said: "If international relations were established between the United States and h ? 1 I would warmly endorse the application of Gonzales as envoy extraordinary and i miiriiter plenipotentiary to that place, but I am opposed to his holding any j other position." Irby's face looked calm, but it was the calm that always precedes a storm. ? The State. Colombia Item*. I % ' Mr Sam Harman while watching a 'barn of Mr Swygert near Oolttjmbia, was dangerously shot by some person who was hidden from view. Hopes are entertained for his recovery al though he is in a bad condition. It is exposed to be an assassin's attempt Humor says, Mr N. G. Gonzales may get an appointment to a Spanish American consulate. He will re present, if chosen, with ability and dignity. It is supposed, that, Gen Jo^H. Earle will be the next district attor ney. ' The grand old hero, Wade Hamp ton, will ever grace and honor % pub lic position. President Cleveland seleete with care and rewards the faithful. __ * 4.'~* 'A * There is opposition at Washington, in some quarters to Mr Beni Perry for collector. The getting there by some is a hard row. A negro, Bob Richardson, is in the toils for an attempt to kill another ! negro, Ransom Simmons. The tight occurred on the Speigner place near Columbia. Columbia is working? ifall for a big May carnival. Staqgessto her. The Colombia Police have arrested a man natmed John Dunningham. He was too free with his tongue as to his exploits and so secured a deten tion for examination. The projected bank, huge factory J and Other industries in Columbia, so persistently pushed by the dailies of the Capitol will come ere long. Columbia has the natural position as a commercial center. . She needs the i populatiaif which local enterprises al ways bring. Clemson gets a big lift in the privi lege tax. $45,000 has been paid in already to the State, all of which goes to Clemson. ' Gen LeRoy F.Youmans M at Washington in the pursuit of the dis trict attorney's ofSce,vX8o it is said. The Columbia post-office- is a nice pUim. The anxious ire oflJhe..bencb until one gets it WJfco? ? a A A REMARKABLE 4NDU9TRY. C Spcclal Report on Phosphate Mining south. \ Commissioner of I*abor Carrolf Di ? Wright has, in ^compliance wfith a resolution 0/ the dilate , just forward* ed Ui that body jk rejjort on the : pfuite industry^ The chief materia]* . for this report have been collected by 1 Capt James F. Tucker, one <jf the department's special agents, and a gentleman thoroughly familiar %ith the industry. The i^omraiasioner's rej? port covers 137 phosphate mining establish men ts, 106 being in Ffyridk SO in South Carolina aijd 1 in JJOrtV Carolina. Pl^phates were discovered in South Carolina in 1867--8, and thi im j? ? portance of discovery was pro* pptly recognized and appreciated, both by scientific I and by xhmu$ygjnen. In 1868 the South Carolina mine 1 pro duced 12,262 tons* ljrtuTe in 189 i they prodaced 572,949 tans. ' / T j The Florida phosphate deposit iwere ; discovered in 1878, and their 1b at an nual output was 532,027 tons. The last annual output of South Carolina mines was 698,97 9 tons, and North Carolina mines reported |tf t?W i 8,700-i 'V tons, or a total for the whole in iostry ^f 1,231,708 tons. / This quanti y wa^L valued at the mine? at $7,153,2 )1. , Operators in all the four States \ mentioned, control 265,638 sorer of ;! land and 170? nfilas of river. Of the land, 193,348 aireu in Florida. The total value of me capital inverted in plants in the industry is 14,7^5,582, and in land, $14,366,067. The average number of hands; employed in me in dustry is 9,165, and of this 11 5,242 are employed in t he Carolina mines. The total ture for labor for the last yiar wist g $2,473^65. \r river mines The Average earnings in the Florida land mines was $211, for each person employed, and ? in the river $355, a higher grade of required in the the land mines. In Sputh Carolina, the earn in ga in the land mines per annum, and intherive^rmi $278. Through the phosphate the amount of wajpes paid to tjik "of men beings for 1892,;$ while the Wages ]*id tor ing and converting superphosphate are $1,587,600, or a total wage to the industry the 8tate4 through the disc6 very of ]_ $4,182,910, the payment of t&is large sum being due eiitirely to the! new in* dustry of phosphate min of course a constant to the economic force which the industry is addition t# thin, labor through the wage cost tion drayage, wi ire ho using handling, which in the amounts to a very ednsid ipartment of Labor grea knditis addition of ptates in In sum. tnkmi The Depi eatatt pains to ascertain the . future opportunities fox labor by collecting information on this particular point Dr Wyatt, in " "Phosphates of America," given the lowest estimate for South Carolina, in round (numbers, as 15,000,000 tons in sight This amount, at the present rate <jf produc tion, would keep the industry in foil activity for twenty -eight years fron^ 1891. ' !' Captain Tucker of the Department^ of Labor has made vary catefal esti mates relative to Florida, Jttyrlh Caro lina and Georgia,, and other States, and he concludes that in the! State of Florida the amount in sight is 133^ 095,835 tons; for the other 8tates> : 10,000,000. These variood estimates show a total of 149,055,835 tons of phosphate in sight, and this statement shows better than any other; the future ? opportunities tor employment of lnboj ? in this industry. . No discoveries of any considerable quantities of phosphate have been made during the past two years. Of course, as the commissioner remarks, i it is impossible to say what develop- 1 ments will take plifcee in the future in the way of discoveries. - j A PLEA FOR LEVEL^E. received ra Level le Governor Tillman H^cclveu lor Him Slinel by Nearly/ Hundred People, Mc Dow^ Them. ;? Governor Til from the attorney a voluminous Kxcellency to commute sentence to life imprisonment^ The document has fortyj-twoN and contains 1,406 najnes. ^t is signed by all classes, conditions and colors. Among the signers are the members of the Pittsburg baseball team, The name ot F. B. Mc pow, M. IX, also appears on the list and opposite . his name is this: "The Lord gkveth and the Lord hath the fwa v." Mc Dow killed W. Dawson. The Governor has not yet tgken ? ~ |^e matter? Columbia ' i Afjru gavewa any action In Journal, .1 ' : "*** *; 'J**-* ' * * DufranchJalng Colore^ Voter*. Dover, Del., 'March Legislature yeitterday delinquent poll tax law pealed two yeairs ago. ? * ? ? ? ? jriM* franchise the gipeat bulk of^, the colored vote of Kent aiid Sussgp counties at j the nest efectioiifi asnhe; voters km* not paid their jwll tax within the mfifc