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V ? I I Iekhphei. Prof, dimes' Address Before the Good Roads Convention. *: NEW ERA IN THE SOUTH. Bad Reads Have Retarded Our Dex welopment Along Every LLne--Mud aad Sand Tax. The following is the address of Prof. J. A. Holmes, State Geologist ef North Caroline, before the Good Roads Convention in Columbia during fair week. He said: -Vr. President and Gentlemen: Oar meeting is an evidence of the fret which we have come to recognize, that the public road problem is the foremost of the economio problems j which, in this part of our country, we ] are called upon to solve at the present | time. The awakening of interest in this , subject is one of the phases in the de- | velopmeut of the new era in the old South. During the past quarter of a century we nave seen in all the Southern States the gradual development of this new era, especially in connection with the growth of diversified industries, uch as the trucking industry along our gulf and South Atlantic seaboard, the springing up of various manufacturing enterprises throughout our hill country, the growth of our mining industries, the development of our systems of transportation, both by railroad and by water. We note but one exception to onr increase in prosperity along various lines, and that is in connection with the agricultural ioterests of the country, and while in some respects these interests have pushed ahead, in other resects they have gone back. It will be out of place here to enter into a discussion as to all of the causes of this agricultural depression about which we hear so m? r?K Vin f nnHnnht?nl* nna nf tVl A greatest causes is the condition of oar pablic roads. * These bad roads have retarded development along every line. They have interfered with our schools ana with oar churches, and with the pleasures and comforts of our peo&in many other ways. Their htiug influence bears heavily on all, bat especially on the farming olassea. Bat what is of more vital importance is the fact that these bad roads constitute an enormous mad and sand tax of not less than $5 per capita per annum on every man, woman and child living in the Southern States. In Sonth Carolina alone this terrible bnrden amounts to not less than $5,000, OUO annually. No wonder that our people stagger under such a harden, which they do not seem either to realize or to understand. . This meaus that it costs the people of South Carolina every year $5,000,000 more to do the banling and the traveling which they now do on the public roads, than it would cost to do the sams mnnnt nf hfiiilinir and traveling ii there existed in the State good macadam roads instead of the present poor dirt roads. Every tax levied is supposed to benefit the people who levy it and the aoney thus paid by the people as the tax soon comes back into eircolation and reaches them again, bat this $5,000,000 mad tax, wnich is levied regardless of the will of the people by the inexorable law of nature and the ? conditions of trade, is a complete loss, as it benefits no one. It is simply aa enormous yearly dram upon the energies, resources and money of oar people, which is as senseless and useless aa it is enormous, and is a total loss. Our people complain that they are already too poor to build oostly macadam roada The truth is we are too txxjr to do without them, and so long as our bad roads continue we may expect to be poor. Indeed, as compared with other States and countries which have good roads we may expect to become annually poorer. Without good roads every phase of the industrial progress of the South trill be greatly retarded and her agricultural interest will relatively go backward. This public road problem is of too vital importance to be left longer in the background. We must give it the recognition which it demands. We have been asleep long enough. We are not a wealthy people, nor have we a dense population, but we must accspt the actuation as it is and make the best Wit Friends of good roads must organize and carry this campaign of education into every household. The Good Roads laague and the wheelmen must enlist in this work the farmers, the politicians and the bankers, the preachers and the doctors, the women as well as the men, colored citizens as wall as the %hite. The State must do its pui. We ought to have in every Southern State a road commission to officially aid in organizing and directing the work of road improvement The State should provide for the training of road engineers at all of its institutions for higher education. It should make an appropriation which conld be nsed to supplement the moneys raised by connties and townships for permanent road work and thus encourage this sort of work. It should use its convicts for ib# crushing of stone at certain central points, from which stone could be hipped to the various counties. The counties must do their part They must be the unit of action, provide funds for pushing forward the work on j a business-like basis. They should purchase full outfits of road machinery; they should use all their own convicts sentenced for periods less than 10 years, and hire labor when necessary to supplement the convict force. The people living along the lines of road to be improved should give the right of way for new roads; they should give the 6tone from their farms for macadamizing purposes and should co-operate in every possible way with county and State authorities. First of all, before beginning ihe permanent improvement of any piece of road it should be carefully surveyed by a competent engineer and its location should be changed whenever by so doing a better road cau be provided. Nowhere except in mountain regions ahonld there be allowed on our prominent public roads a grade steeper than Ac s" 1jL. 1 \ yRftini pc-r cent p)ie?t in 100) and in the more j level portions of the States 3 feet ill 100 i should be regarded as a maximum grade. While some arrangement must ol course be made for keeping in repair the unimproved roads from year to year, yet tlie work of the county should be conceutrated as far as possible on l>ermaneut improvement, and the system of beginning this permanent work at the county seat and extending it as rapidly as possible outward into the county by degrees on the more important public roads is undoubtedly the system which accomplishes the greatest good for the greatest number of people. n' a 3 3 i :iJ: . we man regaru row uuuuiuk m business. It demands into ligeut supervision M much as railroad building, or cotton manufacturing, or any other sort of business. We must select for the position of road supervisors the most cornlatent men to be found, regardless of their politics or other considerations, and whenever we can find a better man for the place we should feel duty bound to make the change. The friends of | good roads must in time stand by the I supervisor and aid him is his work. I We must not make the mistake of ! wasting the little money which can j [ be raised by taxation for this purpose and henoe we need constantly the best engineers and the best road builders which oan be employed. A CIRCULAR Regarding the Making of Returns by the Merchants of the State. r nmntrAlla* onaral Pnfnn lion nn. dei taken to apply the provisions of a law on the statute books, which has been there for a number of years, but has never yet been enforced. It is in regard to the returns of merchants of their property for taxation. If the act's provisions are thoroughly enforced throughout the State the results will be rather far-reaching. Mr. Upton says he is not after instituting radical reforms iu the tax department; in fact, he does not entirely approve of this section, but says that inasmuch as he finds the act on the statute books, it is his dnty to enforce its provisions so far as he is able. He is of the opinion that its enforcement will relieve many merchants from herdships they now bear. Here ia his circular to the county auditors: Deak Sir Tour attention is direct ed to the requirements of section 229 of the revised statutes 1893. In order that the provisions of this section may be oomplied with, yon are requested to at once send to this othce the number of merchants in your oountv. When returns for this purpose will be furnished vou. This department will insist that all merchants comply with the requirements of this section. Yon will take the necessary steps to pnt this form for retnrn in the hands of every merchant in your county at the earliest day practicable. Yours truly, L. P. Eptox. Comptroller General. The following is a copy of the section of the act which the circular lias reference to: Section 229 (177.) Any person who shall at any plaoe in this State, be engaged in the business of buying and selling personal property consigned to him from any plaoe out of the State, or property not*the product of this State. tn Kim frnm nnrr nln/*A vitKin the State, shall be held to be a merchant, and, at the same time he is required to list his other personal property, shall delivv to the auditor of the county in which his business is situated a statement under his oath of the average monthly value of his personal property, moneys and credits pertaining to his mercantile business, to ascertain which he shall set down the valuf on hand on the 1st day of January of the preceding year, or other time of commencing business during the year, add thereto all purchases, when made, at cost and the remainder shall be theaverage onhandfor that month; and in like manner ascertain the average value for each month, doan to the 1st day of January of the year in which the return is to be made, add together such month values, divide the aggregate by the number of months he has been in business during the preceding year, as aforesaid, and to the quotient add the moneys and credits on hand the first day of January in the year in which the return is made, and the prodnot of this last addition shall be the snm upon which he shall pay taxes for the year in which the return is madr: Provided, That when business is opened after the 1st day of January of the preoeding yoar and closed before the 1st day of January of the year in which the return is made, the parties opening and closing such business shall make returns on merchandise the tune of opening and closing such business being the times used as the basis of the retnrn as established in this section. The new comptroller has also discovered a typographical error in the printed copy of the assessment act. The copy made it appear that the time for taking returns expires on February 12. The error has been corrected in the following circular sent to the auditors: Dear Sis: Your attention is directed to page 464 acts 1897, which provides for the making of tax returns from January 1 to February 20 of etch year. Yours trulv, L. P.'Eptox. fomntroiler Genera!. h;s air *?avb out. Spats Why is HandehBsrrs ba:id ov, . Soeratonts? He's been studying mediaeval history. Spats- -What had that to do with it Soeratoots ?Fie wanted to feel how it was to he broken on the wheel. EFFECt Oi' OH A.yon. You certainly look better; you must have followed my advice and had a change. Yes. doctor, so 1 have. Where did you go ? I went to - nliTsician. The Wife?"What a sweet smile there Is ou the baby's face, John."' The Husband?"Yes. he's probably dreaming that he's keeping me awake."?Town Topics. There may be lots of nice men In the ^ world, but the bill collectors don't meet them. ( i r" i 1"MBWI IfSlT The State's Appeal Taken to Supreme Court in Vandercook Case. THE JUVENILE REFORMATORY. After the Merchants -No Interest AcCount To Warm Leglslutors-Olher S. C . Happenings. The appeal in the Yandercook case has been taken and now the case goes j up before the United States Supreme ' Conrt for a final decision. The mass of papers has at last been compiled and ' Judge Simonton has signed them, which ; carries the case before the highest tri- ,! bunal of the country. The pai>ers are ' very voluminous. It is understood that ' the attorney general will go immedi- ,! at&ly to Washington and endeavor to 1 have the case heard and J decision 1 rendered before the legislature adjourns ' that the law makers may not have to be 1 reassembled to dispose of the carcass, 1 should the Supreme Court affirm Judge J Simonton's decision. If Judge himon- ' ton*s opinion is affirmed then the legis- ' lature will be called upon to provide ' some legislation to meet the trade of the 1 original package agencies. In either * event the State will save considerable ' i r money by a decision ironi me com i ucfore the legislature adjourns aud all possible efforts will be made to this end. ; There were two batches of papers filed by Assistant Attorney General Townsend. One batch refers to the equity part of the ftpp.V. and the other to-the jwiiuts at law. The assignment of errors states that the bill of complaint presents no question arising under the constitution or laws of the United States and that the court has no juris- i diction, as there are other adequate remedies at law, if the alleg* ions are true. It further says that Jucq e Simonton erred in holding the dispensary act and the provisions relative to the prohibition of the importation of and the inspection of liquors not a valid exercise > of the police powers of the State and in contravention of the constitution of the United States and the inter-State com- i merce act. The condition is also made j that Judge Simonton erred in holding j 11 1 ?-;J?* ?f/ira nr IQI18 uuu-resiucu* uu uupi/i., ?? - ? | ^ell liquors, either himself or by an L agent The bill of exception also contends that the court has no jurisdiction and that the plaintiff is not the real party in ' interest. No action of the kind can be maintained under the dispensary act i and the constables cannot be sued. ! That there is a misjoiner of cause of action in that the plaintiff sues for recovery of the possession of personal property and also for exemplary damages tor the commission of a tresspass in taking the same. The dispensary, the State contends, is not in conflict with article 9 of the constitution of the United States and its provisions. The parties defendant are S. W. . Vance; J. M. Scott, W. N. Bahr, W. ? Livingston, C. S. Moseley and M. Pe- 0 terson. As will be seen from the above c should the State lose the case the State c authorities will have to pay the judg- t ments, amounting to $1,000 for the loss ? of the liquors and $1,000 damages or the q parties defendant will be held themselves responsible for the $2,000 t awarded to the Vandercook company by / itlVTr ""J-;- * Governor Ellerbe, in a general conversation about his annual message to the General-Assembly, indicated that it ' was his intention to make it as brief as 8 possible and at the same time cover all n of the points of importance. He said ? that he had asked for certain informa- F tiou and that as soon as be secured this 1( he would be able to begiu active work 1 on his message. It is evident that the n liquor problem will be the leading issue * discussed by Governor Ellerbe and he ? is cot making public at this juncture ? what he will urge upon the General As- 8 sembly as the best solution of theprob- 1 lem. The State. o Governor Ellerbe is very much de- ^ lighted that the State has not had to d pay any interest this year. Although the finances of the State at one time were exceedingly low, Governor El- 8 lerbe and Dr. Timmerman arranged so c that there would have to be no loan. 8 Now that taxes are coming in, there will a be no need for a loan. This is the first P time in many years that it has not been J found necessary to make a loan of I from $00,000 to $150,000 during the 1 winter. D -* * a Kerr. Diehard Carroll, who is agitat- fa ing the subject of the establishment of y a reformatory for youthful criminals, tl called on the Governor, by appointment, last week. The Governor expressed sympathy with tie movement c and said that he would do all in his a power to see it consummated, but he ( expressed serious doubts as to whether g the State would be able to do anything t along that line just now as the condi- $ tion of the State's finance* would not C admit of it, in his judgment d The salons who will attend the coming session of the Legislature need eu- 1: tertain no anxiety as to their being t< kept warm while in the 'egislative hall, d In addition to the hot air facilities of c regulating the temperature of the t place four steam-heaters will be run iu fa each hall. These heaters were being put in Jast week. At Charleston, Henry Heywood, a a colored lineman in the employ of the tl Charleston Light and Power Company, b was electrocuted bv falling on live t wires. His body, whi'e hanging to the wires, emitted blue flashes for about ihrt* minutes. p Tho anuual meeting of the stockholders of tho Cheraw and Darlington t Railroad Companj- was held in Dior- i euce. A dividend of SI. 50 per share s was declared, payable on Dec. 10. At t Charleston the annual meeting of the i b stockholders of the Northeastern Rail- p rtoad Company was also held, and a semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent, was declared. c The North Atlantic squadron will c rendezvous in Hampton Roads this winter, and will very likely visit Charleston. .. . - ^ ? ; ?. v ?t < , -;v ,. - . -( ran ill m The Last Time Legislature Can Sit Over 40 Days. PALMETTO STATE NEWS ITEMS. rwo Constables Pardoned?Gov. Kllerbe's Position as to the Constabulary?Sentence Commuted. Charleston's Gala Week, begins on Monday, Dec. 18th. It was intended to bold the festal week daring the month j 5i October but the prevalence of yellow fever in the South and the requirements the board of health that all persons entering the city should be armed with wealth certificates forced the committee io deier the festivities. The postponement of the Gala Week has given the rommittee additional time to perfect the irrangements with the result that the flala Week this year will be one of the most attractive and successful that has sver taken place. The arrangements ilready concluded insure a week chock nil of amusements of every kind and a most enjoyable time to all who take in the festival. The city will have on her ?ala dress. A decided feature will be ho grand firework spectacle known as he ".battle of Bunker Hill." The committee has gone to a heavy expense in mgaging this spectacle, which ranks as the chief piece of the I'aine Fireworks rt ? J i! a J C i>uui]iauy b prouucuons. t\ ^ruiiu urenan's tournament reel contest, ending vith a street parade of Charleston's unmrpassed fire department. A number >f reel companies from all over South ?arolina and North Carolina have signiied their intention of participating in he contest and tournaments. A floral wade, bicycle races, fantastic parade ind trades display and the grand lageant of the Minions of Minerva, >arade of the militia, shotgun and rifle :ontests, and numerous other attractions tare been provided. The committee lave spared neither pains nor expense o get up a fine show and the arrangenents already concluded insure the onaummation of their intentions in his score. ?i> The Governor being asked by a repesentative of The State about the ru&or that he had agreed to put on a large lumber of liquor constables who would { >e known as "detectives," whose duty ion Id be to go about the State, locate iolations of the liquor laws and report hem to the municipal authorities, said hat so far as he was concerned he hod emoved the constabulary, but had re-, ained two detectives and a few specials o look after the rural districts. He has !ready stated to the publio that this ras all he intended to do until he found hat the municipal authorities of any dace were not making any efforts at enorcing the liquor law. lie says that o far as the State Board of Conrol is concerned, its members alone iave the power to withhold the profits >f any town or city in which the law is lot being enforced. He alone, on tha >ther hand, has the power to appoint onstablea. If the State board, when onvinced that the authorities of any own are not enforcing the law, sees It to exercise its power and then revests him to appoint the constables to ook after the State's interests, he will hen exercise his perogative. This, the Governor said, was the status of the rhole matter. The approaching session of the legis* sture promises to be a long one. The* Teat bone of contention will, of course ie the dispensary law, but besides that dncational matters, taxation and the ihosphate situation will come in for a irge share of argument This will be be last session iu which legislators lav sit more than forty days with pay, nd the prospects are that they will be ngaged considerably over that time, lomo well posted men believe the seaion will last two months. Next year be legislature may remain in session ver forty days if members wish, but bey will get no pay for over that time. l>ey will remain in session over forty ays then?nit. Getting the benefit of the three mill chool tar and the prospect of obtaining onsiderably longer terms in the public chools of the State has resulted in quite n increase in this year's enrollment of upils in the schools. There are this ear 25,846 more pupils enrolled in the mblic schools than last year. Nearly 0,000 of these are white pupils. Another oticeable thing is that while there were carcely more than 100 more girls than oys last year in the i Qblic schools, thia ear the girls have a little over 1,000 in beir favor. The Secretary of State has irsaed ommissions to two Charleston concerns s follows: The Berkeley Chemical Company, which is to manufacture high Tftde fertilizers. The capital stuck is o be $500,000 divided into shares at 100 each. The Charleston Crockery 1 Company. The capital is to be $10,000 ivided into shares at 100 each. Governor Ellerbe has commnted to ife imprisonment in the State penientiary at hard labor the sentence of ieath imposed upon John Watkins, olored, by Jndge Klugh at the recent Brm of court in Kershaw connty upon is conviction of the crime of rape. Governor Ellerbe has pardoned .liquor Constables J. H. Brice and J. v. May, who killed John T. Sims in he "Dark Corner" section of Spartan-' urg ronnty, on Dec. 18. 1896, nearly wo years ago. Thieves and burglars ore keeping the >?lice and sheriff of Greenville busy. Governor Ellerbe issued the regulaion Thanksgiving proclamation, callng upon the people of the State to asemble on that day and return thanks o the Ruler of the Universe for the tenefits that have accrued to them as a eople during the past 3*ear. The Secretary of State has granted a harter to the Simpsonvillo Telephone Company of Simpsonville, Greenville ounty. ^ The next annual State convention of ., he Y. M. C. A. will be held in Colum- I >ia. Feb. 10-13. I \ - v . / II HI Mlill ! !The Call Issued for Meetings of Cotton Growers of Counties, PALMETTO STATE CULLINGS. Charleston Forging to the FrontState S. S. Association to Send Out a Field Secretary. Preparations are being rapidly made for the holding of the convention of the cotton growers of the Southern States in Atlanta on Deo. 18. This convention i? i?k. ;n/.UnAi 11 cm uodu ullicu \JJ luuno iu vuim^v v* the recent convention held in Columbia in consequence o* the action taken at that timo. President Wilborn, of the State Farmers' Alliance, who was president of the State convention, is confident that the gathering in Atlanta will be a most representative one. The following has been issued by Mr. Wilborn: By direction of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' convention, which assembled in Columbia Nov. 10, 1W7, I hereby call upon every cotton grower and each person interested in producing coiton to assemble at their respective county courthouses on the first < Monday of December for the purpose of j eflectiug a permanent organization to | join in with the other Southern States ; in taking such action as will enable the cotton growers to in some way better control the production and sale of the cotton crop of the South and in some measure obtain the full market value of this great staple crop. J. C. Wilborn, President of S. C. Cotton Growers' Association. Mr. Wilborn was in Columbia last week. He fears that the cotton growers in the various States will not have time to meet and elect delegates to represent them at the convention because of the uearuess of the date appointed and he will ask Governor Ellerbe to write a personal letter to each of the governors of the other Southern States asking them to appoint two delegates at large and one from each congressional district in their respective States. Governor Ellerbe, it is understood will write these letters at once. The several governors will be asked to appoint mAn rrhn >ra dir?nt)v pnnpArnfld ill the matter aad such men only. The coming convention will doubtless I attract widespread attention both in the North and the South and the resait of its deliberations will be awaited with no little concern, particularly by those who manipulate the price of cotton. Saturday, the 13th, was a red letter day in the commercial history of Charleston. It marked the shipment of the largest amount of exports that ever left that port before in one day. Six British steamships were cleared and the total cargoes of the half dozen ves sels consisted of 40,000 bales of upland ootton, 16,500 sacks of flour, 8,700 tons of pig iron, 5,000 bushels of wheat, 1,088 barrels of rosin, 35,000 feet of cypress lumber and 500 tons of cotton seed. lms proves conclusively inai ine euoria of the merchants and business men to build up Charleston and increase the advantages and facilities of the port have not been in vain, and the departure of the six big steamships should I put an end to all this pessimistic views that may have been entertained as to the fnture of the city.-News .'did Courier. There was a meeting of the executive committee of the South Carolina Sunday School association during fair week. Two sessions were held in the local Y. M. C. A. hall in Columbia, President Charles H. Carlisle, of Spartanburg, presiding. The reports indicated that the Sunday school work in the State is in good condition. Plans were adopted | ' for the advancement of the- work. ItJ , was decided among other things to put , Mr. Frank F. Whilden, of Charleston, , to work as field secretary. He will devote his entire time to the work end ; will assume the duties of his new post- tion on Dee. 1. Mr. Whilden is aa , earnest Christian worker, having been doing fine volunteer work for years. ' The News and Conner's Spartanburg correspondent savs Jndge Aldrich's lecture before ' the students of Wofford College attracted a large audience. Besides about 250 students from both colleges, there was a large number of others present He complimented the College for the excellent work it had done in the rut, and stated that he considered that an appropriate question for consideration would be this: "After graduation? What?" For an hour the Judge brought from the store house of his mind treasures new and old, and applied them to the subject in hand. He spoke without notes or manuscript, and his s^jde was graceful and attractive. The Register says there were conferences and wire-pulling, without end. and an allotment of offices, just as if the people had noth:ng to do with it, during Fair week, and the following prominent gentlemen are spoken of as probable candidates for Governor: E. L. Archer, Spartanburg; Col. O. L. Schumpert, Leon J. Williams, Judge, ? w /VI ? 1- VT7 n At. 1 iJuctmnan, Li. v. i. nnas, ?y. iuc- i < Gowan, "Uncle" George Tillman, Sea- j ator Harrison, of Greenville: Col. D.H. ' Tompkins,Congressman Talbert, Judge : Hudson and probably others. ( Another excursion of merchants from 1 towns on the line of the Ohio River s and Charleston Railway yisited Char- j leston iast week. 1 The famous Yandercook original ' package case is to be taken .up to the j United States Supreme Court to obtain f a decision in ample time for the guid- -t aace of the General Assembly when it j meets in January. Attorney General . Barber feels confident that he will win the light over the main issue involved. -? ? s Joshua Frye shot and killed Bailey ! Buchanan, six miles from Laurens. * They were colored boys and, it is said, ( were playing and tho pistol was acci- c dentally discharged. v pwrit How Mr. Bradley Reduces the Acre-age of Cotton One-Half. A STATE JOCKEY CLUflr* , s The Redisricting Bill Hang With Suspenders York's New Repr*~ Sfntiflv. Olhor nnti Mr. W. T. Bradley, of Troy, in m communication to The State, haa tkft following to say in the connection of reducing the acreage of cotton: "It is a fact well known to every one that oar financial condition is depressed?I mean the Southern States?and it-is aft due to the fact that we are getting nothing for cotton, our money crop; and this is caused, as we well know, by overproduction. Various remedies have boom suggested. It is a problem that has taxed the minds of our best thinkers and most practical farmers for years. Tbafc something must be done is evident* or we cannot see future relief. "I suppose it will not come amiss for me to give my experience in the fond hope that what I say will be the manna of doing; something to relieve the situation. I have made a study of this sufe^ ject and shall attempt to give yon ny experience. "It is universally conceded that to aucuoi^oi me acreage is toe care ior m the ills.' How to bring about this redaction is the question. Any of the. plans suggested would bring the desired relief if carried oat. ' 'My plan is this: Let the farmer pre* * pare as mach land for cotton as he may *' wish, bat when he is ready to plant, lei him plant every other row in ootton, and in Jane let him plant the remaining rows in peas. This, yon will observe, reduces the acreage one-half bat does net redaee the yield so mach, an my experience teaches me. "I make at least three-fonrths of ft crop of cotton, and peas without limit V You enrich your land, so that ia a fewyears yon can make a bale per acre with every alternate row in peas, have at abundance of feed, and consequently fat stock and your bacon at home. Besides, you save one-half fertilizer, onehalf hoeing and one-third plowing. "We have in cultivation this year 24,000,000 acres. We will make (ift round numbers) 10,000,000 bales. Thie 1 aaIIati ia wnrtli a ? tha Aoaaant nftjftm 2 $250,000,000. Now. to follow the pm < suggestion, we would have 13,000,000in cultivation, which would yield 7,600,000 bale*, or $800,000,000 at 8 cent* per pound, a gain of $50,000,000, to nothing abont the coat of production. gjg which, as I have shown, would be about [t % one-half. "If it is not desirable to plantso many peas, you can plant pinderm, sweet or Irish potatoes, with equal suooo?. I bought ten acres of very poor land and farmed it aa^bove suggested, and today I am offered $400 for the tea acres. I am making a bale of cotton .par acre, and corn, eta, in proportion." There was a State Jockey Clubs formed at Columbia during the fair. 7 The object is to encourage the raising of blooded horses and the baring at annual meets. The following goatlomen were elected ofBosrs for the ansa Tt 9 3 A /t.l are \ mg year: .rremiaan*?voi. johh u. Haskell; first Vice President?Thomas Taylor; seoond Vice President?W. H. > Frazier. Executive Committee?A. T. *jJ Smythe, Charleston; Starting Hinean, ^ Charleston; Silas MoOaaghria, Hewberry; D. P. Veraer, Greenville; James Cantey, Camden; J. K. Geraett, Gar- ^ nett; F. D. Kendall Colombia W. B. 'J S. Whaley, Colombia; J.' B. Bates; Barnwell; C. S. McCullongh, Darlington. Secretary?W. L. Sanders, Claiw mont Treasurer?Hugh Meighafi; Columbia. The ezeeutiTe committee rj will meet in February, 1908, with the executive committee of the fair assoiie ? Lion for conference to complete the union between the two organisational The annual dues have been placed ah the nominal sum of 810. which inelodaa membership fees and dues for the &*t year, so as to induce every gentleman -1 throughout the State who ie in sympathy with the promotion of such an er- . F denization to join and make the. nao> ciation a strong and representative one. One of the matters remaining upon calendar at the last session of the Gen- <% sral Assembly was the redisricting bill. It will be high up on the onionJar at the approaching session and iia . mthor proposes to puah it There majr be a few changes in the bill, but thejr i will be of immaterial character. Thin kutbor of the bill, in an intonriew with k representative of the State, stated that be bad conferred with many oI the members of the body during the recent State Fair and had found that a guaafc }j leal of the opposition developed at the last session has disappeared. Tberu will be some opposition of conne, bat ), le hopes to get the bill through after presenting the argument shewing the necessity for each a measure. Col. J. P. Thomas, the State histo ian, requests all parties in tha State :j laving in their possession Confederate oils sent them by the late Geaent Farley for revision to send those rolls n to his office at once. He is very delirons of taking an inventory of all the oils and getting the work thoroughly dj lystematized. A number of these rollk i lave already been returned, bnt there ire still a number of them that eanaefc ie located. With the approval of Got mor Ellerbe an Rrrangement has beam nade whereby the adjutant general ? it once to turn over all the Confederate ecords of every character now on file n his office to the State historian. ir? rr v "T~l nnn>. null. XI, Uliuouu Limo uvea uuiu - nated by a primary election as representative from York county, to succeed L. K. Huustoa, deceased. Mr. Johnion's majority over bis opponent, Mr. J iV. J. Cherry, of Rock Hill, will be net * f ess than 15U, and may bo more than ' !U0. ^ A special to The State from Walhalla, says: Ira Lee. a highly respected eit ncn of Lorn: Creek community, seven een miles above here, committed sainde in the woods near his home by hoking himself to death by a pair of msrenaers. *' j^S