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ESTABLISHEI) IN 1865. 1 NEWBERtRY. S. C.. THLURSI)AY, MARCH17,87.PIE150AYR YOUNG ABBOTT'S $1.000 M1EAL. The Government Will Not Restore th Bond He Ate Up. The case of Joseph Abbott, the Chicagoan, who swallowed a $1,00C bond and made application to the government for the issue of a dupli cate, presents some interesting feat ures aside from the details given in the Washington dispatches. It is s matter of history that men have swallowed articles of great value in order to save them, but diamond; and state dispatches were usually the materials of the repast in question. It is also told that an old farmer, upon visiting the city, put his "wad" of greenbacke in his tobacco box for safe keeping, and in a fit of abstraction masticated a goodly roll of currency, remarking at the time that it was "pretty durt poor terbacker." A few years ag a cash boy in Gossage's dry good: store laid hands on a ten dollar bill and to avoid detection chewed and swallowed it. He afterwards con fessed, and as the unusual diet made him pretty sick the firm let him of without further punishment. Young bloods about town have been knowr to light a cigar with a five dollar bill but a $1,000 meal like Abbott's if not in the ordinary run. Moses J. Wentworth is Abbott': attorney, and the. story he tells is that Abbott is .about twenty-tw< years of age, and up to August 26 1883, was the coat-room boy at the Clifton house. le had been in the employ of that house for twelve years and had saved every cent of his wage, until he had laid by $1,900. Thh amount he bad invested in Lnitec States bonds, and he kept them se creted in the coat room of the hotel where he worked days and slep nights. The boy made his saving the one idea of his life. and graduall3 worked himself into a state of min< bordering on insanity, so great wero his fears of being robbed. In fact for some time before the date ii question his employers noticed tha he was somewhat "off," but as he at tended faithfully to his duties bu little attention was paid to his beha vior. About midnight somebodj wanted to get into the coat room anc pounded on the door. Abbott wa; awakened suddenly from a sounc sleep, and supposing that burglar, were after his treasures, went ravinz crazy. Hie shrieked for help an< made a gleat noise, but would allov no one to enter the room. It became necessary to call the police, and Ab bot: was carried.off violently insane lie was tried, pronounced insane and~taken to the Kankakee asylum Atter ten months he was pronounces cured and discharged. Hie came t< Chicago, and the $900 in bonds whici had been found in the coat-roon were restored to him. lHe then tolb Mr. Woodcock, the proprietor, tha he had swallowed a $1,000) bond thi night in question in his paroxism o fear, and showed him a tally on th< wall where he kept a record of hi: bonds. Other corroborative evidenci convinced Mr. Woodcock that thi boy's story was true, and he.shad s< much confidence in his honesty an< truthfulness that among the docu ments sent on to Washington was ai affidavit by Mr. Woodcock declarin his belief in the truth of the state ment, and offering to sign an indemn nity bond to the government. Thle government officials were seeminglj convinced of the entire truth fulnes: of the story, but construed the lav to cover only accidental destructioi of bonds, whereas in this case thi destruction was i ntentional.-Chticag< Tribunte. The Sweep of the Syndicates. The great game of railroad con solidation meets on the threshold thi inter-State commerce Act of Con gress. It was exactly what was t< be looked for, and it is quite possi ble that every railroad of the coun try will become a part of a grea railroad league composed of suel huge syste,as as that reported to havy been inaugurated around the Sull syndicate. Such a railroad league com:pose< of these mighty syndicates will tr' to the last extent the character o our federative system of govern ment. The most powerful lobbie ever known to American history wil infest our legislative halls. Thb Register has never deemed the inter State commerce Act as either wis or justified by any provision of th Constitution. The inter-State cont merce provision had no more to d with the conduct and managemen of the railroads than it had to d with the opening and keeping of ou thigh roads and the transportatio thereupon from State toState. Iti Consti'ut.ion to suit a case enutirel, foreign to the scheme of our Federal government. Whac will Congres do with a railroad laegue which will be the grandest combination known to modern history ? As the Register maintained, when the bill was on its passage, the general government must go to the full extent of an ac tual despotism in this matter of rail road control, or its enactments and its commission will he circumvented and disregarded as surely, as silent ly and as unerringly as the seasons come in their courses. The question which this league will bring up at so:ne time, sooner or later, will be the lawfulness of such combinations, and whether this imperium cum im perio is compatible with the existence of our established governments. State or Federal. It is a question not to be settled by lawyers and courts, but must go directly to a po litical solution. Is Congress pre pared to declare these combinations a penal offense and to forbid their existence under any pretense what ever ? Having stepped into the arena, this is what it .li surely leads up to, sooner or later. We shall see. The better policy, it has ever seemed to us, would have been to have left each State in charge of its own co-opera tions, and to have made such corpo rations subject to such freight and other regulations as each State would have seen fit to make for the protection of its own people, going to the extent of vacating the charters of such corporations if necessary. The greed of corporations in our day is no new thing in the history of I man, though it may now go to an ex tent and disclose a power never be fore witnessed. The true origin of corporations is to be found in the Middle Ages, where cities, towns. fraternities of tradesnen and the like obtained charters from feudal sov ereigns of certain privileges and im muuities, sometimes for the protec i tion of personal liberty and some times for the advantage of trade. In England the prerogative of creating corporations was in the King, who granted a charter for the purpose; but charters may be granted by Parliament also, and this now is the ordinary course. In this coun try corporations are created by the special charter of the Legislatures. or formed by the voluntary associa tion of members under a general law. Every corporation is under the -supervision of some visitor who gen-. erLlly in England is the King. In this country thme Legislatures possess in general this right of supervision. This is the whole theory of these corporations. They are the creatures Iof sovereigns or commonwealths. IBut it is a familliar ract of history that these creatures have time and again set at defiance their creators and masters, so as to unsettle so Sciety and at times to disintegrate States, as occurred in the case of the early Italian republics and in other parts of Europe. Can we expect to fare any better in this country with such a comnbination as this. grand American Railroad League would -prove ? It is useless, and worse than childish, to blame individual memn bers of these combinations. They -are only seeking what they esteem -their rights of property and the con trol thereof under their charters. If we allow them to hold charters su perior to the body of society from which these charters are derived, Iwhose fault is it ? The question is one that must be met, and we piredict that in less than ten years it will be the greatest question before the people of these States.-C6olumnhia Register. The 0.. NT. & L. I. It. President Moseley, of the Colum bia, Newberry andl Laurens r ailroad. - arrived in the city last night to at -tend a meeting of the Finance Comn tmittee of his road. lie has assurances that Columbia will v-ote the required subscriptions. To use his words: -Twelve townships. covering all the iline from Spartanburg here. have 'voted already from $150,000 to $O00. 000t to the road- We com.e down to fBroatd River with this matgnificent Sbacking and iare knocking at the d (oors of the C-apital of the State, only asking her to bridge us over the stream." -The committee, at their meeting this morning, let out five miles of e rading to Messrs. Rice & Coleman, -which will be paid for out of funds in >hand. Further contracts for work twill be let out as the work may de rThe work of procuring signatures to petition for the election in Colum bia township w:rs reported as pro. 5 gressing v-ery satisf-coiy-ou e; '9,,,.,,,., March 11. TOBACCO (LTiUE. Tiie .ystei of Toiaeco ('uit re A dopt ed by ti:e Prize-Taker. Tmii: NEws AND Coan:i; BuiJEA. 101 MAIN ST.. CixtB1a. JM:irch 10. J It will doubtless interest the farm ers of the State to know the methods pursued by Mr. F. 31. Rogers, Jr., of Florence, in raising the lot of tobac co which recently took the prize offered by the department of agricul ture, and to this end the News and Courier Bureau has secured access to the reports which Mr. Rogers has made to the department. His formal report is as follows: Variety of seed planted. yellow Oronoko; date of seeding in plant bed, .January 11; date of transplant ing. May 13; area in cultivation, one acre; character of soil, gray top soil and yellow clay subsoil. Mode of preparation : Broken with one'horse plough twice, once in January and once in April. Just be fore planting bedding up with turn ploughs. Planted in drills. Kind of fertilizers used, Star brand, commercial fertilizers. Quantity used, &c., 400 pounds in the drill when prepared for planting; fifty bushels cotton seed per acre, also compost made from stable manure. Date applied, May 5. Cost of fertili zer, $9 for fertilizers $9 for cotton seed. Cost of labor per acre, $36.54; kind of labor, colored. Ploughing and hoeing: Ploughed and hoed three times each. Average number of leaves left in the topping process to each plant, twelve. Date harvested, August 9. How cured, with flues. Yield per acre. 949 pounds. Where sold and price per pound Sold atIIenderson, N. C., for $175.45, average 18. cents per pound. Type and quality graded by buyer, fine texture and good color. Mr. Rogers submitted his account sales to the department. The tobac co was sold by Harris, Gooch & Co., Henderson, N. C. The prize lot was in a measure sacrificed in order to secure quick sales, and enable a re port to be made in time. It wrs sold at Hederson, December 10, when the snow was ten ~inches on the ground. The 949 pounds brought $175.45. Deducting warehouse charges $1.50, auction fees $2.45, commissions $5.26, and freight and drayage $10.58, the net returns were $155.66. Thue consignees wrote: "We think we could have done better for you if we had waited until the weather modecrated." Another lot of 922 pounds, pre vusyship)ped by Mr. Rogers, and sold at Hlenderson, November 24, bjrougrht $273.68. Deducting ware Ihouse charges $1.20. auction fees $2.40, commissions $8.21, and freignt and drayage $4.47; the net return was $257.40. The grades o1 the two lots were substantially the same. Mr. Rogers says: "As regards the first lot I cannot say exactly the amount of land it was taken from. and therefore cannot conscientiously enter it, but I send the bill for your inspection, so that you can compare it and draw your own conclusions as to what the last should have brought." IIe subsequently mentions (under dat .~ December 11) that he has marketed not quite one-seventh of his crop. As well as can be judged from Mr. Rogers's report the cost of cultivating his experimental acre was $54.54, and his return $155.GG. Uf course the cost of curing, Ihandling, &c., as well as the cost of cultivating,; would have to be de ducted in order to get a fair idea of the profits of his venture. Woman's Place. The new departure of the National Woman's Christian Tremperance Union and the discussions incident thereto naturally sugest a consid eration of some other matters in con nection with woman's place and womnans worx(. all n ok That^shie hasaplcanawok and very important ones tco, in the world's uplif!ing and salvation is ac Iknowledged by all; that her p)lace and work have been too much re stricted heretofore will be admitted by most; but that she has the same spherCIe and eq1ual work anid responsi b)ility w i the men will be claimed by ery few. It is. only within the recent past that any attempt has been made to utilize the influence and power of woman in great moral reforms and in efTorts for the evangelization of the world. For ages the idea of subordination has prevailed to sicb a degree that practically womans Iwork and woman's iinfluence has been conziined exclusivelv to the home. There is no qjuestion but tihat this is Iat las the throne of her power. But must her work and influence be con fined to these narrow limits ? Of late years this question has received Ti a pretty unanimous and hearty re ply in the negative. Consequently, ,i various associations of women have been organized and prosecuted with remarkable vigor and success, looking Bt to the betterment of mankind in da morals and religion. Prominent th among these are the Woman's Chris- m tian Temvperauce Union and the er Woman's Missionary'Societies of the in various churches. sil To these and all similar associa- pr Lions the Acocale would now and J< has always extended the right hand re of fellowship. In their legitimate ri sphere, and in so far as they are confined to their legitimate work, er they must win a God-speed from po every philanthropist and Christian. dh No nobler or more inspiring motto at was ever adopted by any human or- th ganization than those undcr which b3 these two associations labor-"For bi "God, Home and Native Land," and Ti Woman's Work for Woman." of But in our approval and hearty to endorsement and zealous co opera- ea tion with our sisters in their laudable m undertakings for God, the church $1 and humanity, we take it for granted oc always .that their noble enterprises la will be conducted in a womanly way. Whenever they forget that they are I: women and attempt to conduct their di affairs after the fashion of men, they th lose their hold on the public regard te and lessen the probability of their oc ultimate success. T There may come a day when our p( women shall share equally with our vi men in all public privileges as well as p: duties and responsibilities. ti There may be a time when there tb shall be no respect of sexes, as there th is none of races, in all the require- pl ments of the law. Women may go to the polls and vote as men, and cc that they may shoulder the musket al and fight as men, when occasion re- sc quires. Certainly, if the right of of suffrage ever becomes theirs the oS duties and responsibilities of citizen- o( ship should be theirs also. But that ti time is not yet, and will not likely s be for many generations to come, if tr ever. di What, then, should be the restric- it tions to woman's sphere and woman's t3 work? None whatever, except those bi imposed by God himself in His n Word, and in tihe very constitution ei and environments of the sex These restrictions are not hard to find. 11cr ei kingdom is first of all in the home. ui It is here that her influence is most n: powerfully felt. But if time and cir- tI cumstance permit, that influence may s: and ought to be felt in other homes $ and in wider spheres. But how ? w In the.p)ulpit, on the platform, on the n stum~p ? Verily, no; for then she ci loses the distinctive influence and ti power of her sweet. womanly char- si acter. T[he Adt'ocate helieves in women l% preachers, but only in those quiet yet n powerful preachers of the Gospel k who preach and teach in thle home, is by the wayside, and by all thle sweet d and gentle ministries thmat only a ti woman knows how to employ._ But a whenever a woman ascends the pul- s< pit or platform, and stands in the tl face of a curious and promiscuous t< crowd of both sexes, and preaches 3 or lectures, she is at once shorn of fi hler peculiar and heaven.endowed n power. p It is not enough to say that such 1k women do good by their p)ublic min- 'n istries. It may also be true that i: they do harm. It is not enough to 1 say that souls are converted and 1 great reforms advanced under their 'J public pleadings. Souls would be s saved and reformations would take I place, and perhaps all the more, u were she to confine herself to the a more private, but none the less pow. s erful, ministries of woman's sphere. r Let no one try to reverse the Di- I vine order. Woman is now Queen, fi queen of hearts and queen of homes. c But whenever she steps down from 9 her high vantage ground and takes t her place b)eside the sterner, yet C ruder, sex, she may still be recogr- ~ nized as queen, but it will be a queen shorn of her glory and her power-a y queen without sub'jects andl without t em pire.-S. C. kleocate. A gentleman informed us laste Monday that Northern capitalists t were trying to buy up all the lands in Sumter and Clarendon counties along the line of the proposed Sum ter, Orangeburg, and Augusta con nection of the Coast Line. T his looks like there may' be some truth in the report that this road will soon be built, notwithstanding the opinion of some wiseacres that it is only a bluff game that is being played. IlHowever. we shall see wha~t we shall see in a short time.-Oraniew 1rg A BONANZA IN COTTON SEED. sE -- F Le Plans of the New Southern OII K Company. of IE NE%t S AND COURIER BUREAU, l01 MAIN ST., COLUMB.A, March 11.) CI Messrs. Fred Oliver and H. C. fiE itcher will leave Columbia on Mon- gi y for Houston, Texas, to locate c< e site for one of the first of the oil c< l1s to be established by the South- w n Cotton Oil Company. Journey- fl( g in this direction they will select ti ;es for the other mills which it is 01 oposed to put up this year. Mr. m hn Oliver, in conversation with a ti presentative of the iewes and Cou- ci r to-night, said : si "-The mills to be built by the South- of n Company will each have a ca- ti .city of 150 tons of cotton seed fi: .ily, or 25,000 tons a year, the pro- it et of 50,000 bales. The size of cl ese projected mills may be judged it the fact that the present Colum- ei a mill, now controlled by the Oil bi -ust monopoly, has a daily capacity g: seventy-five tons, and yet is able tl consume as much seed as any mill ci st of the Mississippi. The eight E ills to be built this year will cost 25,000 dollars each, making the tlay of the company a million dol rs in 1887. t! "-As has already been stated the ecial machinery required for ad tional mills cannot he turned out is year. Mr. Oliver gave some in resting information as to the meth I of organizing the I.ew company. 1 tie capital stock was fixed at $5, 10,000. Each of the half dozen indi duals and firms organizing the corn my subscribed for a certain quan y of stock, upon the agreement q at a proportion of one-half to two irds thereof was to be appropriately n aced by them. h "-The amount of money actually a mntributed by the organizers will be a )Out $2,000,000. That sum repre nts the present m' -num amount cash capital. The organizers will r Ter one-half or two-thirds of the $5, )0,000 of stock subscribed for to e planters and business men of the >uth. so as to enable them to con o the organization, if they wish to > so. No stock will be issued until is paid for. If the South does not a .ke this portion of the stock it will sold to Northern parties who are >w .pplying for it, and who will iter the company in good faith. "It is to be a legitimate business iterprise, relying for its success t ?on its superior economy in the ~ anufactures and the good will of I e Southern planters. Mr. Oliver t ys that either raill should have I 100,000 working capital, which c ould bring the investment in each c to $2-25,000. Residents of each I ty where a mill is located will Lave ( e option of taking a part of the I ock in it, even a majority. Thist ill give local interest and confidence. I [r. Armour having affirmed and de- 3 ied in order to affect the stock mar- 1 et and make the money, which heC believed to have made, has settledC own now and wants to come into ic company, but he is not wanted ny more Hie showed his colors too on. Anticipating as a result of i competition higher prices for cot- 1 ) seed and lower prices for oil. t Ir..Oliver is nevertheless sure that I -om 20 to 25 per cent. innual profit 'ill be made by the Southern corn- 1 any. Hie has it figured down close-i . The public have but little idea 1 hat enormous profits the Oil Trust making in the business. It is too ig a bonanza for experienced mer. ke the Olivers to be crowded out of. 'he ewcs acnn Courier representative howed Mr. Oliver a letter from the on. G. B. Lartigue, of Blackville, rging the advantages of that town s a site for one of the mills. lie1 tated that he was receiving gre at umbers of such letters, but tha.t the >cation of the mills -must be decided rst by the transportation advantages ffered, and second by the facilities iven for compeCtition on superior erms with the Oil Trust railroad entres, where the Oil Trust mills rere antiquated and inefficient, ~ould be selected first. Charleston -as a good point, lie knew of no etter site for a mill than Columbia, ut the fact that the Oil Trust mill ere was one of the newest and best quipped in the country, would make his city one of the last places to be .ttacked by the Southern Company." N. G. G. Legal Status of the Chicken. A novel case was tried in Pennsyl ania at the last term of the Franklin lounty court, the decision in which ies the legal status of a man's gar ten andl his neighbor's chickens, and vil either make the use of the shot ;un more general i:i this State or the .cis-r of th. poultry yard more cure. Henry Klingensmith and rank Wagoner are neighbors. lingensmith had a field of winter T heat, and Wagoner owned a flock choice chickens. Wagoner's chick. is went into Klingens,iith's wheat t ld and worked on the sprouting. ti -ain with the avidity of crows in a t4 >rn field. Klingensmith finally dis- b >vered them, and went after them a ith a shot gun, killing most of the s )ck. He then sized up the damage a e poultry had done, and sued Wag- 1 ier to recover. He claimed a judg- I ent of $30. Wagoner, believing o at the loss of a lot of valuable d ,ickens and the payment of $30 be- t, des was an unwarranted straining e 'justice, began a criminal prosecu on of Klingensmith under the statute s ring penalties for killing and maim- t, g domestic animals. The Judge d iarged the jury in the case that a d an had no legal right to raise chick- jp is that either annoyed his neigh. a >rs or fattened themselves in their t rdens or on their crops, and that c ic killing of them under such cir- y imstances was justifiable in law. i lingensmith was acquitted. s Trial Justice Jurors. A question of general interest to ie public was decided by Judge l orton at the last term of the Ker- e iaw court. Mr. H. Baum way sum oned as a juror by Trial Justice inkler. He failed to attend, and aid the fine of $2 provided by law. 1 a few days he was again sum oned as a juror by the same Trial ustice. He refused to serve upon ,e ground that no man can be re. uired to sit as a juror before the ime Trial Justice more than once in ie same year; that having been sum ioned by Trial Justice Winkler, and aving paid the ine for non-attend nee, this was equivalent to service s a juror, and he could not be again ummoned. The Trial Justice de ided that he had not served as-a jn )r, and was liable; therefore he would npose the fine fixed by law. Mr. !aum appealed, and Judge Norton ecided that faiing to serve as a juror nd paying the fine was not equiva nt to service; that Mr. Baum ras liable to be summoned again, nd he therefore affirmed the judg ient of the Trial Justice. Capital Punishment. Capital punishment is inflicted by be State, because the safety of soci ty demands it. The object is to i rotect society, and this, first, by 1 utting the guilty person beyond the< ower to repeat the crime; and sec. 1 nd that his fate be an example to< eter others. Now we submit that rivate executions destroy the effecti f example to a great extent. yhe ow value at which human life is es imated-if we are to judge from the umber of murder cases tried every ear-justifies the opinion that men ave come to believe that they can ommit crime and escape the conse ~uences, by legal technicalities. ome people seem to think there is lways a way to save a man's neck. nd to all such, the sight of a public ecution would not be amiss. We >elieve that nothing wouldi so impress le sanctity of human life upon the arge body of ignorant negroes, who Ire continually quarreling and fight. ng, as to witness an execution. It s never a pleasing spectacle, but we hink that all who desire to see it, hould be allowed that privlege. arens Adiertiser. A MAN WITH THREE WIVES. MACON, GA., March 11.-Yester lay at Bainbridge the wife of J. HI. Iawley died from the effects of mor >hine administered by her husband >y mistake, it is said, for quinine. he was uuried to-day. When Hlaw ey returned from the funeral he was net by the Sheriff and arrested for igamy. When shown the evidence ~gainst him, lie broke dlown and con essed to having' a wife in South Caro ina and another in Florida. lie is now suspected of mnurder. Heavy Failure in Fairfield. Mr. John S. Swygert of Jenkins ille has made an assignment of all 's property to .J. H. Yarborough for he benefit of his creditors. Mr. Swygert has been merchandizing in he county for a number of years past. Hie has always done a large business, bis customers resiuding for the most part on Broad River and its tributa ries. The disastrous floods of tihe past year made it impossible for them to meet their obligations, and this made it impossible for Mr. Swy gert to meet his^own obligations and continue business,' and hence the as.! signment. His liabilities are stated at $55,000; noininal as3ets, $11,000. A 1 ,11:. VrA Ufi' kin I.UU .L. he Appalling Dignity Surrounding the Supreme Court. The dignity which surrounds the nited States supreme court is some iing appalling. No one is permit d to wear an overcoat within the ar of the court. Note books are iso prohibited, and the attorney or )ectator who attempts to make .an bstract of the proceedinge is quick notified to desist. Benjamin F. utler, of Massachusetts, was guilty f an infraction of the rules the other ay, which those who sat near enough overhear the colioquy that ensued njoyed immensely. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan. ,as speaking when Gen. Butler en ered. The general immediately ropped into the vacant chair. Then, rawing a cigar from his pocket, he roceeded to enjoy what is known as "dry smoke." His action threw 2e vigilant court officials into a state f terror, from which they have not et recovered. Marshal Nicholay nmediately rushed forward, and,. eizing General Butler by the arm, xclaimed : "Remove your cigar at once, sir." The general's eyes twinkled ma ciously as he placed his hand to his ar and said : "Speak louder 1" "You cannot smoke here. It's gaints the rules," replied Mr. Nicho ay, emphatically. "I'n not smoking," growled Gene ai Butler, still holding the cigar in is teeth. "I know you are not smoking," was be marshal's reply, "but you must ot keep that cigar in your mouth." General Butler replied that he had bad cold, and that it always re ieved him to take a dry smoke, but he marshal insisted so vigorously hat either the general or the cigar nust go, that he finally submitted to be inevitable, and threw his cigar rom him with such force that it hit ayer Storrow on the leg and broke nto a . -.dnqzen pieces.-Kansas '7ity Journal. ('HE CORN AND WHEAT SUPPLY. Vhat is Left in the Country of Last Year's Crop of the Two Great Cereals. W4TASIIINGTON, March 10.-The kiarch report of the department of tgriculture of the distribution of cbeat and corn shows that 36 per ent. of the crop of corn is still in 'armers' hands, a smaller proportion ban in March 1885-6, but larger ,han in 1884. The estimated re main ler is 603,000,000 bushels. The es imated proportion held for home ~onsumption is 337,000,000 bushels, eaving 288,000,000 for transportation aeyond the country lines. The pro. ortion of the merchantable corn is 36 per cent., making the quality of ,he crop comparatively high, 80 being :he average percentage of merchant ~ble corn. Thue remainder of this year's amount ot wheat on hand is 27 per :ent. of the crop, or about 122,000,000 bushels, against 107,000,000 last year, and 169,000,000 in March, 1885, the the largest surplus of the largest crop ever grown. It is .3,000,000 bushels more than in March, 1884, and 24, 000,000 bushels more than in 1882, after the shortest crop of recent years. The proportion held for lo cal consumption is 194,000,000 bush els, and the proportion to be shipped beyond country lines, 263,000,000 bushels. The quality of the crop is unusually good in the principal wheat growing sections, the ayerage weight being 58.5 pounds per b>ushel. "Let the Farmer Live at Home and Prosperity Will Dawn." Trhe Columbia Register of the 9th gives its editorial columns to a com. munication on the condition of the farmer and the cause. It says that cotton p)lanting is doomed and the chief cause is the vast credit system now used to make a crop. The writer further says that the farmers should plant a half crop of cotton and there. by strengthen the market. The ar. guments are very good. but experi. ence has shown and will show again that the reducing of the cotton crop is impossible. Suppose that every farmer. this year, was to only plant half the land usually put in cotton and next fall the price was to go up to 15 or 16 cents a pound. The fol. lowing year every acre that could be planted would be put in cotton, ari) the condition of the country woI be equally as bad if not worse.4Il is very easy to draw pictures on psier and art is sometimes acknowredget prettier th'an nature, but with the farmers the only way to get them oni of the financial sea of credit and bankruptcy is the way of experienci and education. Cotton will always be the mneoromn nf this State ani every oouy Knows it, oui wuere w.e farmers lack education is learning to live at home. It has otten been demonstrated that cotton caibe raised at a profit at 9 cents a pound, but to do this the farmer must raise his own sup; plies and provisions. It is the vast purchases of bacon, corn and forage that is gradually but surely eating away the farmer's all-his lanc - Cotton at eight and nine cents a _ pound can not make profit enough to .i. buy everything that is needed ofn a farm. When farmers study theirbo siness and calculate the same as other professions they will be inde pendent and prosperous. We agree with the paragraph in the communication that "the tariff and State taxation have, in a sense, nothing to do with the desperstemo d ition of things.' In.a sense this-is a fact, but we believe if the as removed that regaining t lost would be easier and more Let the farmer live at.home and' perity will dawn.-Greenv: . Judge Cothran. After spending two weeks very pleasantly in Washington, Hon.J::S Cothran returned from that city a few days ago. He went to see Coe gress in session before he takes.the seat to which he has been eledted. -- He says that Speaker Carlisle-is a wonderful man, and" he was dm pressed not only with his.ability,bu-. with his character as well. Duri.g his stay in Washington Judge Coth ran called on the President. HO,. thinks well of the President, and be lieves he is honest, capable and :R i dependent. / , Judge Cothran says that his con stituents should bear in mind the, fact that he will have no seeds, post: offices, public documents,, or.:other favors to confer until next-Decem ber. The seeds and public'.ode ments for this Congress have been assigned to his predecessor, Hon D. W. Aiken. Judge Cothran will fake his seat., in Congress ia December,iurless! -- , eitra ; session should 'be-.called _____ fore that day.-Abete Prea#d Bauner. Little Presidential Booms. Varions little presidential booms are now springing 4p: all .over.he - country. Eved the far West Califor nia has loomed up ,a c the name of William T. The chief point urged .in Mr. Coleman's nomination isrfla s and strange. It. is that he is hardly known and has neverheld political .4 office. His abilitres are' rated -very high by the &mi FranciscA4TfaRL These little booms are preYious, nd3 many a candidate will come to grief even before -ther convention.But these little booms will on1gresult ia making 'President>Cleveland more oC a favorite- with the masses of thepse pIe, for nothing but dissatisfaation' with the present executiveis the sle,sin and this dissatisfactioni ease Cleveland has a mind of his own and: acts as. he.thinks proper. I.et.them boom ahead. Dissatisfaction, ithr justice wi. never amount to uc. -Greeille Netcs. Victory for Drummers. The power of a State -or mum cipality to tax "drummere" frou other States has aain been deniied by the United States Supreme Conit In this opinion the court-goestr - ther in restrhting or denying:the power than it has ever gone befoe It has hitherto declared unconstitxa tional laws imposing a.ax or license on non resident travelipg salemen. on the ground that sac egisltatr was an unjust discriminaton against the citizens of other jae.The Tennessee law now seSs4ewas in force in but one distr utitwa applicable to drummers. c og into ~ that district from other psof Ten nessee as well as from other States~ and for this reason three of the egt justices dissentcfrom the ~ionof - the court. b iesss Failures, . Naw YORK, MarcWh--Busies failures, occurring throgo E -country,. during t.he last week as. ported to R. G. guan'n&Co:', mer Scantile agency to-day,-number forti& SUnited States 230, Canada 52; to r 282, aainst 229 last week, and 2O9 the ~week previous. The increase. over, last week is mainly attribue Itdi Canada and the British Pow , where casulties are zepwa1 numerous. A considerablencr~ is also apparent iA the 6.cl 8 a : and in the South. SCity there was hat portance the rs