Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|. fBE COUNTY RECORD J?. ~~ KINGSTREE, S. C. ^QPIS J. BR19TOW, KcL & I'rop'r, ! j^v ! England receives about $400,000,000 \f. lO'?*7 from the amounts it has loaned ,'V p foreign countries. On July 1 over $9,000,000 in interfcrt was due in Philadelphia, the city L>: kterest alone being $1,289,576.94. this is an age of debt, exclaims the poeton Globe. Where all the bottles and pins go 57 - furnishes a subject for wonder. Powlerlr, while at the head of the Knights I Ilk Labor, declared that he destroyed krary bottle after its original contents ; lad been nsed, and advised all to follow his example in order to aid the jPiaBiadngfarj;. The "effete Last" can, it seems, indulge in the extravagance of destructive storms as weH as the "wild and woolly West," observes the New York Tribune. The hailstorm of a fortnight ago in England utterly desolated an area of a hundred square miles in Essex. The hailstones killed poultry and game, seriously injured cattle, out branches from trees and riddled roofs of corrugated iron. Cyclone and flood accompanied the hail, and in an hour or two damages of more than 82,500,000 were inflicted. Truly, an ati-Jubilee storm. Justice Harlan, of the Supreme Court. in an address before the Yale j Law School, stated that he believed ]? ' ? of all documents in American nistory V ,. he would have preferred to have been P the author of George Mason's bill of rights. This was the first in?v atrument upon earth defining that jpf principle -which underlies every free L - government to-day the separation of .the three functions of government, j - executive, legislative and judicial. He took occasion also to express his disapproval of Americans who arc 1 ashamed of their Government by saying that "there are those among ns who affect to believe that no government without royalty can be endurjL ing. They affect the manners and those they see abroad, and : express disgust at thto simplicity of all MAnMti Tt lrnnlrl Ko veil St*' 'Tp' " IT, 'V" ftr them to stay permanently abroad. They are Americans in name only and 'Sfc dean-re our pity rather than our conWbL By -y ' "" A Be;l?n paper prints some facts regarding electric railways in Earope, which suggests to the San Francisco Chronicle that the people in the Old . World are slow to take up a good x thing. According to this paper, Ger. t4X mafey has 252 miles of electric rail. way, France 82 miles, Great Britain and Ireland 66J miles, Austria-Han' t'r.. gmy44 miles, Switzerland 29 miles and Italy 24} miles. Servia, Russia, Belgium and Spain hare but from 6} miles to 18} miles each. Contrasted ' with the 12,000 miles of electric railway op stated in the United States this isa rery sorry showing, and the disparity is emphasized when it is stated that European countries are almost !r.. an deficient in other methods of sret . - ting about as they are in electric rail/'. ways. 'The United States may learn some things from the people of Enrope, but the latter might derive some ' excellent pointers from us on the submoving passengers in big file statistics of aocidents furnished by some of the insurance companies disclose .some odd facts. Out oi ? ' 4000" given aocidents 681 -were caused 4 by falling on the pavement, while 142 were from slipping down stairs, with 157 due lb miscellaneous causes, mak ing a total of 981. Accidents frorc riding in carriages and wagons arc given at 421, which is closely followed by that new form of accident on the tv ? ; bicycle, coming up to 413. It is showr that 264 persons were cut with edgec tools, while 195 suffered from the falling of heavy objects. Kick i ?? horses were the cause o: 134, while nothing is said abou' [ mules, probably because the mule ? ' 'drtPA not exist in the section of conn I try from which these figures wert collated. The whirring of intricat< machinery, from which one would ex ' jpect an immense number of accident} 'to occur, really has but a small per1 rentage to its credit, being only 107? 1 I ?eventy-two eyes were hurt, sixty-nin? fingers crushed, fifty-five peopb stepped on nails in their stockings ? ' and, singular to relate, out of 1000 ac | cidents only forty-three were due t< railroads. The list all the way througt' F shows, comments the Atlanta Con stitution, that more accidents come t< V the man who walks upon his feet thai to the one who rides on railroads, sail: j on a steamboat, or coasts around on i ( ErV-\' bioyele. - : ? It*' 1 tJL4ki AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Durability of Fence Post*. Fence posts of the wooden kind have least durability in sandy soil which moisture and air alternately penetrate. It might be supposed that very wet soil, or where the posts stand in stagnant water, would make them decav more nuieklv. But in such t ^ tf positions less air comes in contact with the wood. When set in the ground fence posts usually decay first just where the post enters the soil, as this has most changes from wet to dry and gives the air most chance to work on the wood. Charring the surface of the post where it enters the soil greatly increases its durability. Too Loosening:. Where shallow cultivation has been practiced during the earlier stages of growth, and dry weather prevails, it is ruinous to change to deep culture at the later workings. We once saw this tried on potatoes in a dry season. The first workings had been frequent, with sweeps running about two iuclies deep. As the season advanced the ground became quite hard below the depth of cultivation. Early in July it was cultivated deep with double shovel in order to "loosen up the ground." Up to this time the crop was fairly promising; but now the plants wilted at once, and, though rain fell, they never recovered, the crop beiug almost an entire failure. Agricultural Epitomist Charcoal For Garden*. Although charcoal has no fertilizing properties in itself, it is an excellent thing to apply to gardens, to manure heaps, and, indeed, to all rich ground. It is indestructible, though its lightness causes it to be easily washed from the soil, when it will be broken into very fine particles, and deposited in the black mud of ditches and ponds. This is very rich, because the charcoal is an excellent absorbent of ammonia from the air which it readily gives to the roots of plants. Hence though the charcoal be not itself fertile it is au excellent gatherer of fertility. In fresh charcoal there is a slight trace of sulphur, whioh makes it repellant to insects. A mixture of sulphur and charcoal is the be3t means of repelling cucumber and squash bugs when it has been dusted on the vines. Boston Uultivator. Seeding Thin 1'atclies. As haying progresses every farmer will notice thin patches where the grass might be a good deal better. On a small scale it is an excellent idea to sow on the seed as though the ground were plowed and follow with a good dressing of manure from the cattle barn, and in two or three days or a week even follow with a good heavy white birch brush and you will be surprised at the increase in the hay crop the following year. This plan, if well carried out under favorable conditions, will prove fully as successful as the more expensive method of plowing and reseeding. Do not conjure up the idea that there is no time now for this kind of work. Plan for it and do an annsnal amount of thinking on behalf of the old farm and it will be a genuine surprise to note the result.?A. A. Sonthwick, of Massachusetts, in American Agriculturist. Car? of Young Turkeys. Until they are nearly half grown, young turkeys are very sensitive to o^ATilrl Kn VflTlf in tllA U1C WDK. JL UCJ OUVU4U l/W ? coop until the dew has dried off the grass, and especially if they run with a turkey hen. The Common domestic hen is a much better mother for the young turks than is the turkey hen. The latter is too early a riser in the morning, as it finds while the air is cold and the grass is wet with dew that the insects it is looking for are torpid and easily caught. But while the turkey hen is running through the grass her draggled brood are chirping farther and farther behind until their chirp can no longer be heard. After the birds are half grown, the wider range that the turkey hen takes mokes what chicks she succeeds in raising larger and thriftier than those that the common hen has cared for, though both were hatched about the same time. The turkeys should be fed before being allowed to wander in the morning. That will keep them busy until the dew has driedjfrom the grass, and will prevent the hen turkey from wandering too far. Potatoes Among Quack Grass. It is, we think, impossible to kill quack grass by growing a potato crop among it, no matter how carefully the potatoes are freed from the weed. It is impossible to either hoe or cultivate where the potato hills are, and with any chance to get to the air and light by growth above ground, the uudereround roots will be kept alive. The best way to cheek quack grass growth is to cover the top with wet soil, putting enough salt on the green leaves to increase their natural tendency tc rot when thus buried. In this way we have known good potato crops to be grown on fields abounding in quack grass. But after* the potatoes begin to set cultivation must stop, else it will check their growth, and cause a new set of potatoes to form in the hill. I The result was that though the potato i crop was fair, it had at harvesting ;iuie to be dug out ofta bed of quack roots. There is great danger of spreading < quack grass by growing potatoes j among the quack. Its roots will often j penetrate the potato, and if such po- ? totdes are used whole for seed, thero is likely to be a quack bud on somo part of the-qaack root attached to the potato, which will start a new plantation of this weed. All the cultivating implements used among quack grass should be searched for quack roots before they are used in any other field. Amei-icau Cultivator. Aboa: 80,000 families make "their living in Paris in connection with the cab industry and taking care of -hovsea. SP? W ' ' ' BILL ArS MEKIYIETIER. COMPARATIVE FIGURES OX CRIME NORTH AND SOUTH. SHOWS SOME STARTLING FACTS. William Calls Census Reports to His Aid In Refuting Charges of Lawlessness In the South. I have jnst received the third vol ume of * "C ompendium 01 tne census of 1890." Eight years have passed since the people made their returns and the time is nearingwhen they will be called on again. It takes a long : time and costs millions of money, but I it is a big thing and diffuses knowledge i among the people. It is better that the money be spent that way, for there are no private schemes nor corporation swindles in it and it gives employment to thousands of needy people. The census is the only mode of getting at the true condition of the nation's affairs and a comparative view of the wealth, resources, education and morality of the people of the different states. I have been very much interested in these comparisons and feel prouder than ever before of my .state and section. For more than half a century j the partisan and sectional literature ol the north has overshadowed and humiliated us with unfair, untrue and slanderous statements. By these un*wa+1XA/1O nf KftlF nrosq nn^ I vuriMinu Uiciavuo v* iuv^ v pulpits their own good people hav? been poisoned against us and immigration influenced in northern channels. Personally, I do not complair of this, for I esteem it a blessing thai neither northern fanatics nor foreigr paupers have to any alarming extenl; infested our .fair lands. The natura. increase of our own people will soon enough occupy the south and secure to us k homogeneous citizenship thatwili continue to be the most moral and the most patriotic of any this side of the Atlantic. Not long ago an Ohio man had the cheek to publish a letter about our lawlessness and said it was amazing impudence for Georgia or the south to invito northern people to settle here. "Well, we don't imite him nor any of bio kind. An unknown friends writes mo from Nebraska and says: "Call olf your dogs. Let the yankees alono w/vnii Krt.n 4i\r HeririAni). AUU UIUM JVll* uviu *v? -W* have lived for thirteen years right hero where both abound and I will take the Germans or the Swedes or the Swis? every time. The yankees have hated yon for generations. They are born hating yan aid raised np in school i and churches to hate yon. They can't help it Bn1; these foreigners have no such prejudices. They don't like your negroes, but have got nothing against you. They ore a fair-minded, industrious peoplf and I have found them honest and kind and good neighbors whom you can depend on in time of trouble." But to the census. Look at thesi figures on crime and criminals in some of the states aorth and south in 1890: Massachusetts, convicted criminals in prison 5,977 New York, canvlcted criminals in prison....,? 11,4(68 Ohio, convictel criminals in prison... 2,909 Illinois, convi( ted criminals in prison. 3,936 Total 23,540 Now deduct the negroes 1,795 Leaving vhites 21,745 Now let us bike four southern states: Georgia, whit<? '..242 8outh Carolina, whites 123 Mississippi 119 Virginia..' 332 Total 866 Now the total white population of the four northern states is 15,477,000, and the total white population of the four southern states is 3,000,400, being about one-fifth. The negro has been eliminated in both statements, and as the population of the four northern states is five times that of ours we will multiply our convicted white prisoners by five, which would give us 4,330 against 21,745. I said in a recent letter that there were 50 per cent more of felonies in New York or Massachusetts than in Georgia. I was mistaken. There are five times as many, which is 500 per cent, and this is the ratio according to white population. I tell you, my brethren, this census compendium proves an alarming condition of things up north, and it is high time our southern churches were organizing boards of missions and sending missionaries up there. We send them to Mexico aud China and Brazil aud to the Indians in the west; why not to Massachusetts and New York aud Ohio, where crime and immorality prevail to a greater extent than in any civilized country? That is just what Mr. Stetson said?the statistician of Massachusetts. His language as published was; "There is no country upon earth where crime is so flagrant and so freriuent as in Massachusetts." Her population is about double our white pop ulation, and yet she has fifteen times i as r any white criminals in her prisons?and what is worse than all, my brethren, 748 of them are women. Just ponder over it and, like j the prophet, exclaim: "How are the mighty fallen!" Only one white woman in the jails or chaingangs of Georgia and 748 in the Puritan state of New England. What shall we do about it? What can we do? But this is not all that the census tells. In addition to this vast army of prisoners. Massachusetts has 700 iiV iiKIiii" ^ teiilMftMHSiiflifif' j'"'IW juvenile prisoners, while New York has 3,676 and Ohio 1,530. Then there are over 8,000 paupers in the four states, besides the thousands that are in private benevolent institution's. How in the world do those states tip north support such a vast army of criminals, paupers, tramps and non-producers? No wonder they want protection and pensions; no wonder they plunder the public treasury. They are obliged to do it. Ninety per cent of all the money that goes into it comes out into their pockets in some way or other, and still they are not happy; they want the other ten. But what is the relative condition of the common people of the sections? How about homes and mortgages and debts? It is the common people who constitute a state or a nation. They support it with their labor and defend it with their arms. In numbers they are as 500 to 1 of the aristocracy. They all deserve to have homes? homes of their own, unencumbered. A home means more than shelter. It means roses and vines and shade trees and fruit. Ask the poor renter who is bumped about from place to place every year. Ask his wife and daughters what they think of home. The census puts down 99,890 white families in Georgia who have homes, and says that 96 per cent of these are paid for and have no encumbrance. Virginia has 97 per cent paid for; Mississippi and South Curolina 93 per cent each. Massachusetts has 175,000 families owning homes, but 37 per cent of them are mortgaged. New York has 490,000 homes, and 41 per cent are mortrrorrn/1 on.1 Vi />AnmilAr QQTQ tVlftt. """ ^ 1 j - more tban 90 per cent of all the home encumbrance of the United States is in the north Atlaut:c and north central divisions only 4i per cent is on the homes of the South Atlantic states. The mortgages on Massachusetts homes amount to $102,948,196. Just think of it ponder it ruminate over it ove:* one hundred millions of debt against the common people of one little state having abou; double the white population of Georgia. Can they ever pay it? Xew York is. but little better, having $245,000,000. In fact, the whole north is covered as with a blanket by debt, and the millionaires are the owners of it. Debt! What a hard, unfeeling word it is. My old partner was wont to say it has a harder alliterative following, viz: debt, duns, death, damnation and the devil. Is it any wonder that such exponents as Debs and George and Coxey rise up and plead for tho people the common people the toilers who have nd homes at all? Is it any wonder that strikes are made and tba people carry blood in their eyes and desperation in their hearts? Put yourself in their place, if you can, and then you will feel as they feel. But, while we sympathize with them, arid pity them, let us be gratefpl that we live in this southern land, and are in the peaceful enjoyment of so many rich blessings. May the good Lord preserve us from their crimes and their debts is my prayer. Bill Arp in Atlanta Const .tution. Warn Growing Shorter. With the exception of tlx? Fraueornisslan war, the greatest war which Europe lias seen since the days of Napoleon was the Crimean war, which took place more than forty years ago, and lasted about two years. The campaigns of Napoleon,of course,while they were considered short as compared with some previous wars Ln Europe, were certainly long as compared with the wars of tlie past few decades. A distinct movement In the direction of the shorter duration of wars Is to be I noticed in the past few centuries. i The eaiuoaijm ln the Spanish Nether- I lands lasted forty-two years. Then followed the thirty-years* war In Europe, ending in the peace of Westphalia. Civil war In England lasted from 1642 to 1660, although hostilities were not In progress all that time. The wars of the Spanish Succession, of the Austrian Succession, the Swedish-Russian war. and the Seven Years* war followed, averaging about ten years apiece. The Napoleonic campaigns covered nearly fifteen years. The Crimean war lasted from 1854 to 1S56. In the jvar of the rebellion, in this country, the world saw the latest war which es tended over fmr years of time. , Since 1S6E. with the general lntrodoetkra of the telegraph, the electric cable, and the modern system of railways, war has become a matter of a few months at most. In 1860 Prussia defeated Austria in seven weeks. Prussia defeated France in about two months. The war between Russia and Turkey negan in April, ion, ana was practically finished by the# close of tiiat year. The war between China and Japan began about midsummer, 1S?M, a nd ended In March, 1SD3. The present war between Turkey and Greece seems to be practically ended In about four weeks from the outbreak of formal hostilities. It seems to be shown by experience that two important civilized nations In these days of telegraph and railway cannot conduct wars for any length of time unless the contending countries are separated by the ocean or some other natural barrier. Artificial Rnbies. Although minute diamonds can be made with the aid of the electric fur- ! uace, none large enough to be employed In jewelry have yet been produced. But rubies of large tize, and as fine in color :uid appearance as the best natural gems, have been made. A certain method of detecting artificial rubies is by examination with a microscope. The natural gem is always filled with minute cricks, invisible to the naked eye, but perfectly discernible with a high magnifying oower. The artificial ruby has no cnu : \ but, on the other hand, is filled wiu. minute bubbles, or gas holes. Pfppp1 ' STUHST KBOWN18 TtlIRS Says Bradstreefs Report of the Condition of Wheat, ALL STAPLES RULING HIGH. Cotton Promises the Largest Total Yield on Record, and Better Prices Than for the Crop of 1894-5. Bradstreet's Review of Trade for week ending Aug. 28th says: The gen eral trade situation continues to improve, and aside from the unnecessarily prolonged sirike of the soft coal miners, there is little in sight to cloud the outlook. The features of the week are the advance in prices of almost all leading ' staples, bringing an upward movement all along the line in iron and steel. Steel billets are now $1.50 above the lowest figures, bars $1.50, rods $3 and plates $1. Bessemer pig is up 25 cents, and Southern irons are very strong one continued active export movement. Where wire mills have not advanced prices they have withdrawn quotations. Some Western steel mills are sold up to January 1st, which, with the demand for earlier deliveries from.furnaces than had been arranged for, are quite significant Lead, too, and soft coal are higher, as is wheat notwithstanding one or two reactions. Bradstreet's points out that the statistical position of wheat is the strong est knowti since the United States become a considerable exporter, and that its price, as well as that for bread, is likely to materially eiceed the present week's advance. Following that of wheat, prices are higher flour, corn, oats, larl, potatoes, butter, eggs, beans, cbeese, leaf tobacco, wool and live stock. Advances for leather, hides, lumber and linseed oil are also reported. Cotton, which is up 3-16 cent, reports the smallest world's stock for seven years past at this period, an improved tone and higher prices for the manufactured products, In spite of crop damages, the tenor of it is toward the largest total yield on record, but witl^ probabilities favoring much better process thau those obtained for the crop of 1894-'5, the out-turn of which was 9,873,000 bales. Advances are also backed for reorders of woolen goods at mills, but print cloths, petroleum and sngar are unchanged for the week, while pork is reported slightly lowor than a week ago. No such general or pronounced upward movement of prices of nearly all leading staples has been witnessed witnin a weex lor many years. Wheat exports are of large volume, aggregating (flour included as wheat) 5,149,60S bushel s for the week, as against 6,312,80S bushels last week, 8,281.854 last year, 1,871,928 in this week two years ago, 3,420,000 in 1894, and 5,092,500 in the corresponding week of 1893. With the exception of last week, this week's shipments are the largest since the third week of September, 1893. Com exports show a considerable falling of? being 2,682,452 bushels, against 3,923,035 last week, 2,610,309 a year ago, 1,121,532 in 1894, and 1,116, 800 in 1893. There were 210 business failures reported throughout the United States this week, against 221 last week, 320 a year ago and 190 two years ago, 192 three years ago and 369 in the kke week in 1893. MILLIONS FOB THE FARMER, They Will Receive $400,000,000 More Than Last Year. Assistant Secretary Brigham, of the Agricultural Department, today expressed the opinion that the American farmers this year would reoeiye in the afffirrecrat* from $400,000,000 to $500. 000,000 in excess of what they received lest year for their farm products. This, he says, means much to farmers, as they have learned in the season of hard times through which they have passed to economize where they could, and to to careful in buying. They will use the money that they receive for their crops to pay off their debts, cancel mortgages and in making improvements on the farms and farm buildings. This seems like a vast sum, but statistics , sustain the claim. ] Colonel Brigham also predicted that , the increase in the price of farm prod- ; nets would benefit the laboring ele- , ment. The prioe of labor, he said, did , not decline with the price of farm pro- ( ducts, and for some time the farmers were forced to pay as much for the ser- , yices of those who did this work as ever, which this year were cut in two. "Inasmach as wages did not decline, I < see no reason why they should be ex- . pected to rise with the advance of farm j products, which are now bringing only , fair prices," he said. "Still, the labor- \ ing man will be benefited by the ad- \ vance in prices. The farmer will dis- ] V\ i a ? n il aV>I a/1 rt no a rt n el vri 1 1 msVa UUIU^O Uio iuucuiC7V&ucoo auu n ill uacasav ] improvements which will require labor. He will purchase more of the products of labor, putting a vast . amount of money in circulation, and this will create a demand for labor in all lines, and men who have been without employment or only partially employed will work full time at fair a wages." _____ t Mountain Railroad in San Domingo. United States Consul Grimke, at [ San Domingo, has informed the State j Department of the completion of a rail- j road from Puerto Plata to Santiago, , about forty miles, over two mountain ranges. American and British capital- f ists invested in the road, and several j American engineers have been engaged a in its building. t Tillman on the Stump. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, on August 30th delivered a speech at Troy, X. Y., on the subject of silve^ the taridf and the general cussedness of c politics. On the 31st he also spoke in ? Brooklyn, his subject being "Duty of f Democrats." The Senator goes from t New York State to Peunsj'lvania, where he begins a series of speeches in the ? mining districts. His tight in New t York, so he says, is to keep the Hill , crowd from beating the Chicago platform. | ENCHANTING LAND, FAREWELL! T |1 Rabbi David Marx W rites of His Visit To "The Land of The Sky." It is a relief to leave the busy haunts of men; the cities crowded with ha- * manity, sweltering beneath the burdens of toil and the hot mid-summer sun and wend our course to the lofty . ^ summit of mountain. , How invigorating are the breezes that ramble through the cloud kissed regions, sweet with the frankincense of Vgj fresh-leaved forests. The soul under goes transformation. A new freedom possesses body and mind. The voices 3 of the mountains stir to the quick every latent energy; and nature, unfolding ,.?? within, breathes new life. "Land of the skv!" Whoever named V1! thee so, spoke no idle word, bat truer were the thought: "Gateway 'twixt earth and heaven." This region is most charming. Pelion is not piled on Ossa, but banked against ^ each other; like the huge waves of ruf- - ' tied sea, mountain succeeds mountain, dense with luxuriant foliage, until lost in the haziness of the distant blue, a . .7 veritable sea of mountains threatens to , : engulf the verdant valley that nestles . -*5 below us, quietly resting, securely guarded by its hoary sentinels of thickveined cliffs. Here eartL looks to j heaven with smiling countenance, and . V heaven rejoices at the gladness of earth, fhe very clouds, that "rise like exhalations" from the valley, and uninvited > enter our apartments, wear an air of , . |g Fellowship. Phautomlike, as a breath they pass and array their battalions of y <{S cumuli to glorify the departure of tho . slay's sun. And when night majestically spreads her star-studded mantle over the bosom , '^V of earth, and one by one the many pointed constellations twinkle with roguish friendliness, how much mora <t5H brightly appear these silvery decorations from our mountain retreat than * when obscured and dimmed by clouds of valley or smoke of city. ** ** ;; dbfl Here the lover of natural scenery ' finds nnuying satisiaction. Every step J^| shifts the slides of the marvelous pano- Jgfl rama ond Uirnir# h?'nrA thfl PVfl A dis- oSl solving view of blending shades, color, outline and background, an entrancing * t?v| picture, a view that is never the same. Here nature charms by her creative ^ powers. With unflagging zeal she cau- . tiously retouches her handiwork, lest .a! the eye grow weary and the soul become satisfied. Here heaven and earth meet iu a kiss of such gentle tenderness that vision cannot discern the touching of their lips. .Softly, almost unconsciously, a spirit' of pride enters our heart, aud" with the I)-, astfulness of a school lad, we claim partnership in this grand country. A .'"ji patriotic impulse seizes us. Our soul is harmonizes with nature. Our being thrills with a new love for this "sweet As we wend our wuy over roads aM carved through stubborn rocks, we v2H: marvel at the works of man and confess, our obligations toward the skillful and daring engineers ana surveyors wno ;.* have wrestled from nature royal liigh* Gratitude and recognition are due ^ those whose brain and brawn devised and accomplished the wonderful winding mazes of these mountain paths over .* ''S which we travel with ease, comfort and pleasure. Neither man nor beast seems . to tire as mile upon mile of labyrinthian county pike is covered. *Vhat a wonderful necromancer ia th'a gaunt old mountain. Every bend . AR ; of the road juggles with our aenseaand ' the grand orchestra of nature playa suitable accompainmeuts to the dex- terity of the conjurer. A low murmer ?jjj as the Philemons and Baucises vow to one auother love eternal; a soft rustle of the lowly plants, eager to make their presence known; a soothing sound from the contesting waters that in gently /> * rivalry precipitate each other over the J steep,' rock clefts amidst the plaudits of 3 their moist friends, destined to fall .? \ into the rock-hollowed basin worn by centuries of battering?all these sweet j ^ melodies of the mountain hymn ? 6 piean to the Maker of all, a glorious r soul-stiriing hallelujah. They lift the soul of man above the worries and t burdens of life. The nebulae of caret 1 j are dissipated by the gentle wooings of 3 nature, beautified by the land of deity. J , Beautiful mountains of North* Caro lina, so calm and majestic; so lofty and ' > Wj inspiring! Would that mankind might l>ehold ye, noted in the tints of woodlard, the hazy blue of atmosphere, the ; suft shadow of clouds and the beuign " 5 radiance of heaven.' Upon your sum- ;v.j| uiiis, the king of day smiles with warm- jJnM hearted geniality, and the full-faced orb of niffht sheds her sofest beams of ioIvory brightness. Hound you play ' i; the storms of heaven, terribly majestio! J Amongst you dwell the peace of sua- '} shine and the grace of beauty! With regret we leave yomr hallowing presence and the abode of your hardy -on* tilling the steep s!o|>es of your ^ 'tout ribbed sides. Back to tbn haunts of men we wander, our vacation i'JSB snded. Homeward we turn our reluoant step, bnt with a new born strength ? !o assume the duties of life; richer in , leaith; wealthier in activity: nobler in Enchanting land, farewell! Dav.dMarx. -Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 11. v ' y * ? d?m..kifla * i ru Liu, 4iriiij' ui vuo a?c|/u uuv* . mjm The Grand Army of the Republic mat }. j| it Buffalo, N. Y. It was the largest fl necting ever held, Resident MeKinley ind Governor Black were in attendance. V resolution approving the project of he late Gen. Wm. B. Hasten to estab- ;\"*j ish a sanitarium on Castle Pinckney 'sland, at Charleston, S. C., harbor, vas unanimously adopted. At the request of the citizens of Bufalo. President MeKinley rode at the ' lead of the line in the G. A. R. parade is far as the reviewing stand, where he ,-jM aken the seat previously assigned to lim, and reviewed the veterans as they V^jgj Millions in a Mshery Combine. Edwin Corbin, of Chicago, HI., has dosed a deal amalgamating the United states and Canadian Lakes fisheries -.^6 sompanies, whereby the control of wenty companies passes into the hands '$99 >f a British company with $-i,iXK),000 apital. Mr. Corbin, who is in Lon- ? Ion, sails for the United States next ?v33 veck, accompanied by a staff of British ""ountants to initiate the coneolade- ~p j f . . , ... "* ' j