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= V ? CAMDEN, B. 0., FRIDAY, DEt'lCM I ?1>H a. 189 ?- VOLUME VIII Safe? &L V vS i V t aV tlMINSLS. m Boy ..Murdered in Horry County; p jlis body Buried in tho wSbds, THE DISTRICTS REARRANGED, v ? . '???/?. _ " ' ? Tlilmtm Soya Ho Honrs All K.ludu of | X'olltluul Mu^tovlijga In ltognrd to tho Approuohliig StutoCnnumlgn. A' ppeoial t& tho StaCe 'fyom Conway fit tlxos 24th says Bomo tirno ago Chaa. Btoxbh#, who Uy?8 near Bod Bluff on -Whitoville road, wont with his OttSj Guy and Goorgo, to tho boach Iphmg, On Monday Goorgo started ):^ome In an ox cart with hia dog run ning along bobirnl him. About 10:80 ho passed Wampoo and there wis a no? gro, John Butlpr, walking bohuid tho oft* with a gun on hi{a shoulder. About 1-jpi m. tho negro caino back by Wam Euijifl'?-- riding ? in the. cart with the dog ?&.ityd.Qn '.behind, StoYOtts had dieap? Vpoaved. Butler atoppod at thoatoro of O. Thompson at Wampeo and jQtorod to trado ox and cart to him. fytloj, olftimed to havo bought tho team rem Stovons, but found it slower than . .-thought , Butlor did not make a Krtrado, so ho drovo off in tho direction ? of Htar" Bluff. Last Saturday -Daniol ^toVOhB, a brother of Goorgo, wont to Vteeoingl His father said that _ . , , _ i'ge. .... fcfishorio.s and not eeoing his brother, asked about him.: His father said that ho h'ad loft for homo on Monday. This afctho ~ fimt^timo^ tlvo boy had boen isBod. The father thought he was at W and the mother thought ho jy^a-With his^ather. ? A search was im lodiatoly b?;un and kept np through ^.Saturday and/ Sunday, On next day the neighbors joined in the search and lljlPlSM body of tho boy. was found ?&t?.-:Wflmpee,y. between the road and Jn^iy^ buried undor some leaves and E|t?Csh with a load of shot in the baok of i~ his hoad, Htevena had ?about $23 in OP r.oo.ket whoa he left the beaoh. Tho jegrothad not yet beou captured, but it ? supposed that he went to North Caro mM oa. ho 19 caught ho will llflltfr. A.Hq was to-have appeared before was .jButle; ^ w^B tb.'E,. jpfcho magistrate for stealing. probably a bad char -*?? Charleston qorrea is said to be an IV; -Tho licgijter'H O i^ondont. a|5,:ai_Th.?rfi ... . ^organisation among the ornmual class Sis of tTfo city for the protection of jthoee of its members ? who get within W toil b of tho law. The membor hip is said to be largo and constantly Jncioasing, whiph makes it a danger $us*powor in tho community if all the Reports are truo. 'ThO-aim of the soci ety is all poaaiblo protection of its fmemboj'H, in tho employment of legal jtalen.t to defend them when tho mem Labors tiro brought up in the court house Lfcs well 'as affording othor necessary I J^ans of protection; V v: Senator Tillman while in. .Columbia f last Week, in an interview with a State ^.representative, said; "I hoar of nil piiads of political muttcrings in tho |$tato in regard to the approaohing State ^ bainpaigu, out have not heard what is Agoing on. Ho aayB tho dispensary is hall light: if Judge Shnonton's decisions as to the O. P. question aro sustained jjie says, ho docs not fear anything from them. Ho feels confident that ho will |/^get his dispensary bill through Con %gfe*iM?t--tbe approaching session. He | r^mpftJtod, however, that ho. did n6t >xeel any uneasiness that .Judgo Simoa ton's position would boBustaiued. " ; ?' ' ? , After Jan. 1 next, which is now very lose, ftt iiand, Jhe^registration . Jaws of louthCarolina will be on velvet. That was tho way a lawyer expressed it to a representative of tho State. Tho rea ^ .'sMfoTf this.' statoment is that on and |?vHft$T.tb&t day ?tho simple educational L ?n<l property qualifications, for the 1 franchise will be all to lomain of the suffragesoheiue devised in the late con f * stitutional ? convention. The "under standing olauae'' will on" that date be OOEnou tiling of the past, and in the ?? future uo legal pitfall will stand in the ^ Bxahiix^fr? 8u^&^? ai * 1Z. A. Webster, tli^ new collector of s ln^Ornal Revenue for this State, has assumed charge of his oflfico. Ho has prearranged tho rovenue districts, putting Abbovil lo, " Anderson, Greeuville, ilreenwood, Laurens, ^i&^ewberry, , )flAnftg? PiokcxiH, .Snliida, Spartanburg .vand. Union iu the third district. Mr. pWebster has romoved the Democratic ^Deputy Collectors and anpointed the T>llowrog in charge of the three dis ricts: First? ,T. 11. Fordham, colored ; ? 4idm?jvd ? Dease, - colored; SfThird^AnBon C. Moriok, white. '?y, '?r * ?? ? ? ' 1 ? ?1A. national park at the. Cowpoji* bat ^? ground in Cherokee county is agi sting the people of Gaffoey now, id tney will make a strong effort to JW? the next congress authorize btrpnrohaso of the property and to bft^-lt improvod in. ai mftnttor credit J able to tho government aud our fore fathers* wborfojight and fell therer Son skurJtfcLaurin favors thogpark and will for it ? -???#- r- ? Chera w 's f a i r was a decided svtccess i n icnlar. Jjarge crowd* attend ing countit (exhibits jdbioycle it# suid e very bo _ jAUWith. people of olaOh< om tho adjoining" counties and from J 9 berae ?n d bi cycle raoea were jodai-d, and everybody went to i DSaa and ^ac?d injai I. ? TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH, Tho South. fuAl?;bama Populists declare Against ^cgioos lynched a negro lapial in Alabama. ^aii ftt ov??tw A rich voin of gold has boon discov ered in J Aiding county, Ga. v *>OaS0C0!.0/ Flo., has suflbrod a SI 00, - VOL), uro, of lucondiary origin. Tho reports ofjlyuohings near lilaok Bhonv and SoreYon, Go., werofalso. {< Tho Virginia Logislaturo is in sea lv is .overwhelmingly Doaio oratic, Governor Ellerbo, of South Carolina, announces that ho is a caudidato for re eleotion. Vt^'v ?, Olivor, <10 yoars old, of Norfolk, Va., shot and killed hlinsolf at his homo. Kx-Uovornor Evans, of South Coro una, is to bo rnarriod Dec. 15th to Miss Plume, of Connecticut. Atlanta, Ga., iX-to have a now evo ning paper, in wliioh tho Applotons, of Isew loik, aro interested, North Carolina hns eighty-six rollor jiourinjf mill8, and a largo majority of t/jem mo operated bv Mater power. Quioksand bods in tho suburbs of \Vi V,'U18' > bftvo caused tho tion abandonment of a largo sco Uioke i Prioo, coloroil, Waiting trial for a felonious assault, was taken from jail at Starks, Fl a., by a mob and hanged. A handfio'mo silver sorvico was pre Rontod to tho gunboat .Nashville at tho m. ... lmvy yard by citizons of Nash ville, Tonn. Engineer L. M. J3umgarnor, of tho opart an burg and Ashoville road, who was shot a few days ago by a tramp named Lambert, is dead. Th? Vnivo?'8lty of Virginia dofoatod th?i University of North Carolina, at luchmond, on Thanksgiving day, in a gamo of football, 12 to 0. At Alexander, near ABlioviUo, N. O., an attempt was made to wreok tho *>ast bound froight, but was dotooted just Uy. time | to prevent its success. Governor Atkinson, of W?4 Virginia, announcos that for want of funds no requisitions will bo issued, for any fugi tivesfrom tho jurisdiction of tho State's officials. Tho rocoivors of tho failed Western Carolina Jiank, of Aohovillo, N. C., have filed t.lipir roport, showing assets, and bail, iu oxcoss of liabilities, opS. Cd. At Bockstilo church, in Web3lor county, Ky Toy Allon. a young man, horsewhlppod Key. Joplin, whobad ro proved him for bad behavior during tho services. S. JI. Fishblato, of Wilmington., N. C., has assignod. Tho assots estimated at 325,000, aro said to tfxeoed th6 liabil ities. Proforouces a&ount to S12.000 or SI 8, 000. \ _ A barrol of alcohol turnodoovor on a lantern in ths wnrnlinnsn of tiir. 2*avcn;> wood Distilling Company, "^t."]"ou'i'a, causing a loss of $100,000, with insur ance of about 75 por cent. ? ? Jlenry Oliver, aged about 40 \reara, committed suioido at Bichmond, Va. , by Pl?QfUg a gun undor his chin, blow ing off two ontiro front part of his head. I ho cause of tho rash act is not known. s,,A .di?P?toh from Atlanta, Go., says Clark Howell, editor of tho Constitu tion has withdrawn from that paper, and that Evan P. Howell and Clark flowoll will begin tho publication of a big morning and-evening paper;- ? . .Wi,min{?t?n, N. C., has just organ ized a paid fire ddfcmrtmont /modeled after that of Atlirofca, which-Ssono^of the beBt in the So*th. An Atlanta fire man will go to Wilmington to train tho members of the now department. 7-1? ? The Nortli. ? lAit*f?on? M?ch., Scott A. Bowdish shot his daughtor and kil'od himself. . Two men and ajoiuan met death in *. Maziug\buil^ag at. Jamestown, AtFarmlan^, O., fird destroyed the postolnoe, railway station ami opera houso. -* The deputy customs oolleotor o ( Ev ansville, In a., is In jail on the charge of embezzlement. The Warwick 'Cyolo Manufacturing Company, at Springfield , Mass., has been attached for $160,000. ^Iiuring tlxe forty, hours devotion at a Catholic churoh in Kankakee, III., Mrs MtcbmHBrattl rectrrored bor eight after two years of blindnoss. At Hollydaysbur/r, Pa. , two men aro sententKJd to hang for murder; a man in the Baltimore ponitentiary, iust bo fore bia suicide said-lie bad committed the murdor. At Cleveland, Ohio, J. J.- Sfclnherd has been arrested on a charge of em bezzling newly $200,000 from F. IX 1 Whin son and ? receiver baa been asked for Ilia firm, which is alleged to bo in eel vent and owi^g $2,000,000. Bllioolloneoui. An attempt to rob the North Amherst, O., bank was a failure. No American citizens aro now conflu ed iu a prison in tbo Island of Cuba. Kentucky. distillers have abandoned tbeir efforts to form a trust. mixed. ? :jlr - A special Urom Seattle, Wash., says PawaonCity is threatened with aUrva tion.- Tba" priceofa. b^srsl^kia^.T^, - Efrtbqnakea in the monntamona dis Jricu of Saxon Thujriagia have serious |IlB HIS CliMl I ? v - ? Governor Ellcrbe Wants to Remain in Oftlco Another Term, HE DEFENDS DISPENSARY LAW, Ho b iu Favor of Amending tUo JLuw, and Drop tlio Profit Feature, Kto. i Horpiblo Murder iu Horry. Govornor Ellorbo haa doolarod hia candidacy fov ro-oloction as governor1 1 of tho Btato, aucl in advance of Ins annual mossago to tho gonoral assem bly, ho has woon fit to prosont hia views in rogard to tho liquor quostiou. llo also strongly oxprosaos hiuisolf in rogard to criticisms that had boon made of his oQloial acts. Last wook ho gave out an intorviow. In rogard to a Btato mont iu a Charleston paper that ho had told Nowbold not to eurrondor, tho govoruor eayB; "I am getting heartily sick audtirod of Buoh dirty flings and insinuations. It Boouia that ft gontloman haa fid'pro I op tion, but has to submit to euclialaii dor pus insinuations. "Thoro Booms to bo a common ui^fi?r" standing on the part of oortain people to destroy tho dispensary law, and thoy takft advantage ol all uufortunatoocour ronoea to uso thom agaipst tho law. Siuco X have boon Governor I havotriod foarlesaly to perform my official duties, and will not bo Bworvod by idlo clamor or Bonooloss criticism. -y ; '?Tho most difficult problekn that con fronts us today is that or tho liquor trafllo. Tho, dispensary, I think, is tho boat solution of tho question, but aa tho courts havo dopidod that tho dispensary is not a police regulation, I am in. favor of amending tho law sp as to maho it n police rogulatiqu by eliminating tho profit fofttuFo, nocossury not soil it as a bovtfrago, but only for medioinrtl and sacvamontal purppsos, A^hoso who advooato high liconso have sfri'ely not road Corofullv tho de cisions of the courts, for in tuo caso of Scott vs. Donald, tho court advaucod the view that tho Stato could prohibit, they, could iuspeot, but could do no rnoro. If tho disponsary is not a police regulation, and tho Stato cannotoontrol the liquor under tho diapeosarjKjaw, it cortainly caunot do so ^un.dor \high licenao... Jioaidoa, under it high iicenso systom it would, iu a fow* months/ do gonorate intotho open barrooms. "X proposo to go boforo tho peoplo on my record, and, if necessary, to ad vooato tho policy just outlined. Soino of my euemies nave said X might bp re-elected bocauso pfo tho unwritton law to givo a governed1 two terms. I want it understood t)iat no ouo need keep out of the raco on this account, and I would not havo it as a more mat ter of procodont if my clforts did not warrant an endorsement. "If I Cuuiiolr ioniln iho, numoroufl oh org os that have boon made against mo, and cannot show to tho peoplo that il havo honoBtly aud faithfully tried to discbargo tho du.tjos of tho olfico, I do oot caro to bo ro-olQotp(j. " MR. WIIlfiDKN'S AI>DItKSfi a : To the Sunday School Workers of South Urtvolluu. To the Sunday-School Workrs of the Slate of South Caroli}&: Asking diviuo guidanco, X havo fto cepted tho call to tho position of field secretary of tho South Carolina Sunday Sohool Association and havo entorod upon my official dutiotf.' It will bo ray purposo to do all I can to further the ?Master's kingdom in this special lino of work and will try^fti as short a timo as f can tp visit o'l 'the counties of this State to tho ond that thoy may all bo enrolled under tho organized ibaujior of tho Sunday-School Association inter denominational work. I would earnestly ask that all inter estod in this work will open corroBpon^-, one? with mo, that wo may arraugo dates for holding county conventions, and would earnestly urgo that this par ticular matter in our work bo empha sized; also that tho officers and oxocu tivo committees of the various county organizations bostir themselves as to nlaco of moating, programmo and con tributions from tho scnools for tho Stato work*. - - I am yoar servant in this gr<?nt work and my dosiro is that "I may study to show myself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to bo ashamed,'' (2 Tim.-ii. 16) and that 1 may under God bocomo a very useful vessel in His soryioe. Let us bo earnest in prayor one foT another and for the work, and wo havo the BBsuranco of that promiso. "That He who hath bogun a good work in jou will continuo it until tho day of Joaus Yours in tho work, FiiankE. WiiHiDEn, Pie! Secretary for South Carolina. itlpB n, S. 0,, November 15, 1807. '^et^ueil on Bonds. Waft^r Q'Quinu, oharged with th? murder ^>f Policeman Ponder, Qf Atlan ta, Ga.j has been ncqnitted. Julia? Simon And L. Steinau, arraigned foi the ttrnf crime, were released on 91,00<j bopda. Ed P Ux*: fad JRd Purvis Handed. rris, a negro, was hanged in . ~ya*d AtXillingf on, Harnett county, North OarrMna, for the murder M M. J. BUokmab, a white flagman on , the Atlaptio Coast Line, on the 14th oH August last Purvis confessed inthe | Fred W. OiriiHn, Vha aa fiurijfiftnfl . cashier embezzled WWOQ from the I Northwestern National bank, in Hli ; nois, and who wm eentenced to fire year* in the Jo) let penitentiary, ks> been pardoned by Pr??identVoK>j?l?y. ft*rt??a*kee J* CsM?ml?. . Two dtttoet shocks of^rthqttake I wefe | rtbraitone ware tiUm vcrfftrl Tit A PIC ItKl'OUT. No (ioucrut liitinovvment, Saya IJratl street's Uevtcw. BiAdslroot'H weekly trade report for the pftat weok, Bays ins,> part: "Not withstanding tho uppoavanco of a do maud for holiday specialties at Bomo points in tho South, at Chicago, St. Louis and in tho tribn'ary thereto, General trade throughout tho country us shown no general improvement. Most favorable., ropcris aro from tho torritory, west oMho Mississippi river and north of thiWUissouji and Kansas, where ooldor weathor has stimulated demand at tho interior uud country merchants have beeu buying with oom parative freedom. ? "Tho .Eastorn cotton goods industry continues doprossod." Consumers evi dently do not intend to buy extensively uutil thoy boliovo tho prico of raw cot ton is ready to udvanco. Competition from Southern mills? more particularly ovorproduetiou by manufacturers who pvoduco a single staplo- undorlies oxiating largo stocks and tho heavinona of prices. Converters and munufaoturers of cotton yarns are sit uated relatively inoro -favorably. Other linos representing seasonable distribu tion aro manufacturers pi woolens, olothlng, shoos and jobbors of fancy groceries. At Philadelphia thoro is a chock in demand for products in lead ing toxtilo linos and arrnngomontB aro making to vun on shorter time. Iron and Btoel hnvo tyot boon in as active demand us expooted, and arc lower, notwithstanding furnaces uud mills arc supplied with orders sufnoiont to carry thorn well into noxt year. A favorablo feature is found in advances in wages of operatives invariouu industrial lines. "1'horo aro business faihireo re ported throughout tho United Statee, compared with 285 lust wook. There aro ;J4 fail uroa roportod from tho Do minion of Canada, oomparod with 01 lust wvook. " IIKNUY A. .KICKS. Tho uowly olootod General Master workman or tho Kuiiubts of Lubor la Jle^iry A. Hicks, of New York. This loavoa Mr Sovereign tho only jmnl,' Genoral workman in tho or dor of tho Knights of Labor. All oihors who havo hold this position liavo bcon oithor ox pollod from tlio ordor or died. Mr. Hicks hns boon at tho hoad of tho build- j iug unions, connoctod with tho KnightjM of Labor, for nearly ton yoars. Ho iB president of tho Ktato congress of dis trict and local nasomblioB of Now York and was a national cominittooman for his State in tho Pcopio'n party, Tho report of tho Bocrotary of tho order of Knights of Labor shows tho sooioty to bo in a flourishing condition." llie roport of friction botwoon tho members and of ' fleers of tho order wero sfroniiously do niod, but there seems to havo boon a pretty livoly scramble for supremaoy in tho choosing of tho now offioors. N1CURO BUKNICD TO DEATH. He Killed a Wlilto Man and Paid tho l*eualty on a I>lghlwood<Knofc I'yro. special from Wilmington, N. 0., says that on Thanksgiving Day, Nathan Willis, a colorod man liviuw'noar Town Oreok, Brunswick oounty, was arrested on tho ohargo of murdering a young white man by tho name of Btophens. Stephens was found in tho vicinity of Wamplo, N. O., with a gunshot wound in the back. A mob was raised bv tho farmors in tho country near tho Waccaiu^w river. Willis was taken from the sheriff, car ried into tho woods and chainad be tween two pino troes. Lightwood was then piled around him and he was b urn edtod o alii, "tlnis "eufToT in g death to pay the ponalty for his crimo. After the murder, suspicion at onco retted on tho colored man who had beon seon in neighboring cominunijjos wearing somo of Stephens' gavmonts. Ho had also boon tfoon driving tho ox cart in which tho. murdered man was laetoeen. alive, and $25 in monoy was founrt'on his person, that, it was sup posed, he took from, his victim's pock ets. The officers .carriod Willis to Con way jail, Horry county, 8. O. ; Cuban Autonomy a Fact. Madrid, Spain. *?-(By Cablo)? Tho Offloial Gazetto publishes the royal de crees, granting autonomy to Cuba and Porto llico, thus removing the anxiety that had begun to be experienced on all eidos as 'the result of the govern ment's reticence and unexplained do 'oy. ? ^ I ? Dr. Dorlwud I)ea<i, Her. J)r, Luke Borland, of Hot Spring*. N. 0.', founder of the Dorland Uniwwty? Hot Springe, - at the home of hia 60ft, Cbai. J. Dorlatid, in Spj-fogfifld, 111, aged 83 years. riagiie lj? Jn<fu Unchecked. - Tho tpread of tho bnbonle friajrne ?bows no signs of abatement** Popnab, Surat and elsewhere in India, It h*? attended to Belgium and Abaau?dgur. ?i M 8Ueei |U*lway reha? e, A!**, &<iwh k Bdn, repjr* ?entiog a syndicate, has purchased all the United cZZtrottia* 117 miles sfe^t |TStfW?y:~~ ? ? V [VJ?V ! ? - jwww. j jjjiBi iiii J lie Experience of People in an In diana Town, WERE SHAKEN OUT OF BED. A Three-Ton lOujvtno Was Torn to Fragments anil ICvery Living Animal Killed Instantly. A epooial from Andoraonvillo (Ky. ) to tho l.ouisvlllo Evening 1'ost says fChostorilold, Ind,, was al most wiped oft" tho map by tho explosion of oighty quarts of nitro-glyo* orino, which hail boon brought ovor* land from Montpolior and placed in a^i opon lleld half a mile from town'. Marion, Manaey and Ham Maguivo woro working gas wolla near by when tho explosion occur roil. Man soy w^n blown. Afty foot, but not fatally injured, Maguiro was thrown a humlroil foot in tho aiv and badly lacerated, but wiP. recover. Mr. James Cold's house, l!00 rods distant, was blown to pioces. The explosion toro a hole in tho ground down to the wator lino, and so far it i learned, it was spontaneous. A three-ton ongino was lorn to / rag monta and every living animal whs killed instantly.* Tho liitlo town of Chesterfield ia a mass of ruin, ovory house being moved from its foundation, wimlowo shattered, doors smashed in, ovory light put out aiid the plastering ehakon from tho walls. Hovornt pooplo wore shakou out of boil. AfDalosvillo, two miles iliatant, aud at Yorktown, llvo milos distant, tho damage was almost as groat. Many pooplo wore injured and it ia a niiraolo that none woro killod outright. The jar of tho explosion was folt io all directions for fifteen milos distant. Tho gaa In tho well was blown out aud a workman namod C'oopor lit it and causod another explosion, in which ho was fatally burned. Tho dainago cannot bo csti matod, A PKAKFUL TYPHOON. Ono of (lir. Woint Disasters ICvor Ito poi-teil from tho Sent horn Oooan. A dispatch from Han Francisco, Cal., says tho typhoon whioh owopt ovor tho Phillipino Islands on tho <5 th of Octo ber. was the cfiuno of ono of tho worst disasters that has booh lopo'rlud from tho southern ocoan in many years, if not in tho history of that section of tho world. Thousand h of liven woro lost, including many Europeans, and tho damago to proporty was appalling. Tho dilliculties of gottlng news from tho islands ia groat at any timo, and owing to tho remoteness of somo of. ..the provinces vieitod by tho hurricane, all details of the (dorm did not much Hong Kong until the 1st of Novombor. Tho Bleainol' Claolio, front tho Orient, brought lotters and papers which con tain account* N,i>f tho ravagos f tho tidal wave atnl the Winds. K. voral towna wero swept and blown away. ''Fully *100 Europeans woro drowned, aud it ia> estimatoil that nearly 0,000 natives porished. Tho Boa at ftamoa swopt inland nearly a rtiilO, destroying. proporty. valued at several million dollars, and causing wholosalo deaths among tho nativos. IM>IGKNT CUIi AN- AM Kit I CAN'S. Gen. I-ieft 8?3'b Tlicro Arc 1,007 In tho Island* Coneul General j/oo lias mado ft ro* port to tho Bocretary of Btato, in which ho uayfl thorovaio 1,007 Amoricau~-?ili zcns iu Cubadftp^dontupdncharitablo aasistauoo. They Jiavo befln partly provided for out of tho &*>0/040 appro priated by CougreBu. Gcnci'M Loo nays that in making provinion' Mr tho roliof of thoso citizens moro" than 81,000 a week must bo oxpondod. Iiohfl*'drftwn $25,000 of tho nam appropriated, of winch two drafts for ?5,000 oach wavo drawn last month. Ho exprossos tho opinioa that a considorablo timo muni olaptfo before t|u>, indigents will'bo self sustaining. Visible Supply of Cotton.' Secretary Hester's weokly statemont of tho world's vfoiiblo supply of cotton shows a)i incrcasd comparod with last vock of 234, 104 bales, as compared with last year as 280,368. He places (ho to tal visible at 8,445,511] bales against 2,21 1, 800 last); wcok and 8,075,880 last yoaif. Of thoxformor amount 8,-15,520 balos are American. Not/a Pipe of l*eat:e. At Mountfatorling, Ky., J.|TL Era brey, a farmor, was shot and killed by his tonant, L. A. Shull. Thoy quar* roled over a division of the tobac co crop. ^ Knsy Dentil From Hydrophobia. Ernost Eggsieker, a farmer, died from hydrophobia at tho Baptist Sarii. tarium in 8t. Louis, Mo. Jio was bit ten by a dog in Hep torn Lev. Ilia death was in diroot contradiction to tho popu lar impression that death by hydropho bia is always attended with horrible sufferings. Tho patioDtwaa rational at all tilnos, drank water freely, did not froth at tho mouth, nor bark niro n dog and did not sufler; IIJs one attendant was moro for company than for medical service. - Sjjj? Hrya n Kadotrt a College Prlxo. William X Bryan has given to the Missouri State University $250, which la to be annually need in awarding a prizo for the bost essay ol?v the science of government w. >u To Frfwt $Ts\oOOVO^)t> ^ Assistant Seoretary Vaoderlip lias, authorized the Direoior ef the Bureau I of flrrm-p t n cr Ulixit anrl ( ,^0,600} silver eertj?eatee f?,000, i treasnry of 1890 $0,000,000. O eor*e"oo?14 aTw *ct* 8?larlcs. TO HA CCD (Till NO ?y the I?o?C ('tiro v)n Wli'O uml llu Stullt I'voooimca. I Hv H. H. Untile. DluwSor, asMvlod by T. I., nlabok ri.nl r. I). Cm |>oa(or, AH*lsWmt ? ' ? ' ' * Xfu<ii UtiroiJna Uxi-orliHOut fttuUon.) .. i.vi,\ ctA>i? tvhioh i?< of eo tnuoh import* ftuoo iu North Carolina that 0 ? , farmers (ivh shown by iho VUoventh Census, Bulletin U!<) engage in plant ing it, dosorvoft to. bo studied with the view of improvement iu cultivation and handling for market. Tho acreage in 18.SD iu tno State was t>7.0?7 acres, i.nd tho total crop produced during that year was 80,8?ft,)ift8 pounds. Tho value of this tobacco wan ami the avorago valuo per pound was 14. U- cents. Considering only the largo tobacco* producing 8tatet? (thooo producing over _ live million pound" annually), rsort-n Cavoliuu hoaua tho lint with tho avoiage valuo per pound. Tho average yield per aero in U?ft pounds. . . , Tho seed in now n tlrst in a plant-bed end tho plants transplanted from it to the hold. Tho acod-bod is gonorallv in ^ protected situation, sheltered on the north by trees, and facing thoHouth to have tho bano'ilt of a sunny exposure, and generally on the side of a Kiuali stream. Tho'bods arc prepared ami tno seeds sown during . I annary or! obruai,y , or ovcu an lato us tho onrlior part of March. Tho ?oil chosen i<* generally virgin, of light suudy texture. moist and rich. Brush or wood in burned upon ih)\ to lull out all insects aud woods. The noil, aflor cooling, is thoroughly hood and raked to get it in as line con ? ditiou an possible, leaving tho ashes in tho Boil for thoir fertilizing properties. Stablo manure, well rottod, or a strong ammoniatod fertilizer in next worked in. yood in carofully sown at. tho rate usually of one tnblospoonful for cvory 100 square yards, having previously mixed tho seed with a distributing medium of ashes or an aniuionudod for tilizor. Orosn sooding ia recommended to ensure a certain and regular stand. Somo plant ora recommend a uocond Bowing of ?ood, of a tablospoonful in quantity, to ousuro this. Tho aoocl is now lightly covered by brushing in ana pressed in by a weeding boo, or by a licht roller,' or by tramping of tho foot. A light oovor of straw or loaves is placed upon tho bed for protection, or a Might oovoring of stable inanuro. It is the general oustonv to give the bed an addi tional protection of a cloth tocomploto* lv eovor it. This is accomplished by sotting 12-ineh planks on thoir edges in ?iho ground, to make a squaro trauio, with tho corners carefully naiVed to gether. Inexpensive cotton-shoot lngia pe wed together and then lacked on the framo so as to completely covor tno wholo bod. This is to act both as a cola frAOiO as well anto kocp out jn?eot?, tho principal ono among which is tho llea bootlo, which, in every locality, is do otructivo to tho young plants, ihocovcr can bo romovod two or throe wooks bo foro tho plants are set out in tho notd. This in dond when thoir leaves aroabout inehos in length. Tho timo from tho middle or latter part of Apnl to the last of May, according to tho sea son Gouuiui'i y. uiiTeroni noins aro transplanted at different times to cauiio their maturing conRooutively, e|ul, to givo tho ourer timo to attend to tho va rious holds in Bucoossion. A now pro costs is boing clovolopod in which sprout in"- tho soed artificially before hey aro planted is used, which is Bald to do crease tho timo in tho Bood-bod bofofo transplanting to thirty or forty ay o, Tho quality of B<?il noodod varies _foi difterent types. For the yo low variety tho soil host suitod ia a light, gravelly loam, with opou clay subsoil to provent tho collection of much monduro around tlio vootB. It is woll cultivated aud put in fine, mellow condition, <imt-r. com ploto fertilizer, gonerally at tho rato or 800 to 000 pounds to iho aoro, applied in drills foot apart, oithor alone or in connection with stable manure or Bpoci flllv preparod compost. A turunig plow iB uBod-to bod tra this fci tilizor, and? with a wcoding boo hillo aro made 2J to 8 foet apart. Hill culture is uocessary fortobacoo, to intmro pioper drainage, bo much uoedod by it, I c nyfitom of roots ib Buperfloial, aud ino soil. oonBoquonlly, ahould not l/e wo? kp ed dooply. Tor this reason most o( oultivation is by hoes. OrasJ kept out, and the top soil kept Ifi a ' ***<>'" low condition. During the growth of tho plant, especially aftor topp?nK oo ours, Buekorfl grow from tho- stalk at 4ha batio of tho loaVoB, and must bo pull ed oft' every wook, very carefully, to provont. injury to tho loaf. It ib notdo sircd that tho tobacco should bloom and seed, u? this injures tho quality of tho leaf. To provont this it ib toppod bv pulling off tho button at tho top, which will, in timo, form tho flower and weed nod*, together with ?ever?l inches of tho upper stalk. Thifl topping is dono no as to allow from ton to fourteen leavos to remain upon the stalk. , J ho Icavos ar> nevor counted, as an oxporionooa hand can toll at a glance how much of tho uppor stalk, togotner with tlio but ton, shpuld bo roUnoved to loovo tho ox net numbor of leaves dosircd. ? his ex I orience is gained by tho following faot: From tho regularity of tlio growth of tho loavos upon tho slellf , tho ninth l eaf io ahvavs tho one on tho third tior, im mediately nbovo tho first and lowcBt leaf '?pon tho stalk. The m heel enemies of tlio tobacco plant, in addition to iho (loa bug or boHle, already montionod, aro tho out worm, bud or boll worm, and hotn worm all produced by tho maturod fly ofthcpartlcular speoles. Thonut.wonn uttncks Iho TouriB plnrU? nrior tmn?' -of tho largo ilnrolinn moth (Plegothort* tins Carolina)? tho tobacco worm, or horn^cfttorpilJar, which is the most draaded of all tobacco inaccta -rap poor in June or J nly on the<3Ar?o '^bocco leaTOS, and must be carefully piefcedoft by hand as often as thev appear '?h* bod or bolt-worm, so/njurious to cot ton and corn, is also destructive, to?"* i Off on tho bud, and is oftontiwos quito a* ale muxmms. whether the ourinflr is to ba done by ono ?roW?W mother/ fAu outlinaoftho pal lad off,, or 2i? ibis way ceutly, as lifts boon stated, thoso loaves havo boon thrown away, and ftro yot in nuu:\ localities* Other.* | *V*>Cvr to OUj'O t liovo miming loaves and the hU?j? in thin direction ia to ho commended. I lu> planta uto carefully Muckered, and iho woniiH taken oft' as toon as thoy aPpOftt on tho leaves. Art a general rule, it may l>o nald thfi\. plants aro roft.lv to he ont oft' for' curing WO to 120 c\uy? after U annpln^Ung. Tho tobacco u oonaidorod 1 ipo \whon the leaven turn a 1 i^U t idtado of if/oeu or grooniHh yollow, ofton in spots, when tho fuz/. on tho lout' disappoint, and whon tho loaf la folded over from bolow it will crack open whon prossod between tlio ihmnl) anil linger. Tho stalka thon, while standing, aro split open two thirds of tho way from tho top lo Iho bottom, and out ofl an inch or two bo low tho bottom loaf. For curing, 0 ov ^stalks aro arraugod upon a amooth vino BticU? usually 1 foot (1 inches long,, by inserting it through tho Split por tion of tho stalk. For curing, tho coiu jnon log barn is u:tcd, tho sizoa boing It) foot and 20 for.t square, and 20 loot high, Tho at-ioks holding tho stalks avu carefully handle I and placed in tho barn, arranged in tiers. Tho curing ia done by mcanaof two return lluoa about 12 inohoa in diamoler, made of shoot iron, running horizontally lit tiio bot- f torn of tho barn And died from tho out side. This method ia known as lluo ouriog, to distinguish from nun-curing and direct heat curing with wood ov oharcoal, both of whioh aro practiced, according to tho locality and tho typo of tobncco desired to bo cured, and Iho degree of ad van co men t attained in tho culture of tobacco in vnrious sections of tin* country. linprovcinonta in tho curing of to bacco inado it poasihlo for tho develop inont of tho yollow or goldon loaf to bacco. In oarllor days tobacco waa cured otor an opon flvo. Conauipiontly the loavoa word nibro or loan smoked, ami a yollow loaf waa an linpoaaibilily. Tho find. notable advanco waa made whon Cant. Abishol Blade and William Long, ,of Caawell county, N. O., in 182-1, HrHt used charcoal for ouring by direct heat. To tho former* who do nertbed aftorwarda. in. 1850, tli'o method lio followed, both in tho cultivation, curing and management of yollow to- , pacco, much praiso ahould bo aaorlhod. It waa hid teaching that enabled others subsequently t<i improve upon hia plan and to euro yellow tobacco in a nioro satisfactory and syslomatio way. Tho it ag land method, ft rot brought- out in 1871, waa ono of those, and ia tho ono now ttonorally used, though this luia boon improvod in many particular by Major Itnglaud. it is now as followa, tho thorinomotcr in all casna boing trod, which ia generally placed in the b.u n on a level with tho lowest loavoa; First. Sapping Frocoss. ? DO dogrooa (Fahrenheit) foV ? to' ?(> hours, then ?4<1 vaucii g rapidly to 120, to remain only 4 few minutes; then out oft' hoat aiid descend to DO dogreon. - --? Heoond. Yollowing Frocoss. ---90 do grcea fiom 21 to ill) hours. Third. Fixing Color. ? 100 dcgrosn-l hours; thon tot) to 110 de?roca, 2J a* frrcoH ovory J) liouruj flunlly 110 to 12( ilegrooa 1 to 8 hours. Fourth. Curing tho I>cnf. ? 120 to 1JJ7 degreoB 0 to N hours/" Filth. Curing tSbfllc and Btom,- -lC.> to 170 degrees, ft dogrooj por hour; ooiVy tinuo at 170 dogroos till stalk and stoni aro thoroughly, killod and dry, whioh ia in 12 toifrJioura, , . Tho mMliod dosoribed by Davis is Bomowhut similar, but doon not include tho sapping process of tho formor, which was a lator addition to tho art of curing, It. ia as. follows, in Mutliuo.; . First. 1'ollpwing Frocose.? At 00 dogroos if woathor b? mild, 80 do prcos if cool, for 18 to. 90 hours, til the desired color b? ttt-t-ftiued. - Hocond. Drying l^oooss. ? At 0/5 do< greos for 2 hours, at 100 for 3 hours, at 10ft for 2 hours, at 110 for 2, lift for \i, 120 for (J, at 180 for 2, at 140 for 2, at 1(10 for 2, at ICQ for .21 hours, or until btolfc nnd stem aro dry. * Whon properly onrod, tobacco ro* tains at first a slight tiugo of greon, which fadot and nloaohos whonover it beoornoa soft, until it disappears alto gother. ' t heso aro moroly outlines of tho cur^ ing proceaaeo. To bo an expert ouroi requiros oxperionco, intelligonoo and, aboivoflll, careful suporvisiou of all continironcioa as thoy ariso. A f tor curing, tho tobacco is allowodto cool and to "order," which is tho pro cess of taking up xnoisturo, whon thn . loaf bcoomes soft and pliant. It can then be handled without danger or craoking or splitting. Jn dry woathor tnoisturo may bo produced in tho born by pprlnkllrig tho floor with water. In? loaros can Ijo stripped then from the - atnlk and graded, or allowed to romaiu upoli the stalks to bo eUippod-laWW.^ whon it is more convenient, in tho meantime oithor hanging up or bulk ing down in auy convoniont placo. Iho grading muat bo dono by carcful ox .perieuced hands. On each stalk usually aro found three grades of leaf, and two of lugfl. Tho grrwlofl fU'O iila^cd to^ gether and bnlkod down to await a cou venient timo for markoting. Tho Mlddto of-tlio-ltoaders. ; 'J'be national organi7,ati6n committeo of tho middlo of-tho-road Populiats hold a mooting in tft, J^ouis, M, and gave out an Addroau ?;olting forth the ? chiof features pf tho platform in tho next campaigii ; it will hold a mooting in .January and asks tho People's party ' comroittoo to meet wi^ them.