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W ' fort,? ROTATION OF CROPS. ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE FARMERS j OF SOUTH CAROLINA. -sj An EfcKay Delivered by Mr. H. R. Tillman, j of Hamburg, before tbe Farmers' Club of j Edgefield County, Having been selected, at the last t meeting of the Club as one of the sneakers to ODen this discussion on "Ilotation of Crops" and outline the j sorts best suited to our hilly country, j I have deemed it worth while to givt ; the subject patient thought and study j and to present my views in the best | possible manner, hoping that some j good may result from my suggestions. The topic for discussion is perhaps the most important question connected with intelligent farm man- | ageinent; and nothing in our business as farmers require more thought or will better repay thorough study. As I could not possibly hope* to do cnhi<>i?t in nil ovtoinnnra -"VJVVV JV ... I neons address, I have written out what I have to say; and my only apology for its length must he the vastness of the snbject. As it is, I shall only attempt an outline, and shall confine myself to those parts of the question which bear directly on our immediate surroundings. A celebrated physician once said that "the first thing to do in attempting to cure a sick man, is to gel him to acknowledge that he is sick." And it r- t 1 +.t II x 6ka.ii uppeur iu uiwyunsuuic iuiug? which are paiufullv familiar to you all it is because I desire that y?u should be as thoroughly convinced as I am that .ve are desperately "sick" agriculturally, and nothing but a change of methods can save us. Let us take a . brief glance at the situation. After eighteen years of farming with free labor, a large majority of our people find themselves gradually but surely getting poorer and poorer; and LUC lucu. suui an v? ^Iiij[/.auuu as this has never been before in oar midst is proof sufficient that we have only begun to realize the unwelcome truth, and so seek at this late day the reason. I cannot but think that all of us feel, as well as see, the need ol some changc in our present system; and it is the business?far more important than any other business?of the members of this Club to discover the cause and apply the remedy, at lea=t among ourselves. It will require our united and unremitting efforts to find a way out of this agricultural wilderness, because it involves ;<s great a revolution in our present, system of farming as the emancipation or tne slaves produced in oar labor. And right here I wish to caution you against a fatal error peculiar to ns as a class. Farmers?when they attempt an organization for any purpose?want somebody else to do the thinking and let them derive the benefit. It"worries them to have to think about anything but their accustomed work. And if?after a few visitors to the Grange or agricultural club?no other member has read or spoken something which thev consider has re^ paid them for the time, they lose in- i terest and soon the organization dies.! If it is queer expectation, gentlemen, that yon are to'come here to learn and endeavor to teach; that yon are to receive while you give nothing in return; that you can derive much benfit from meeting once a month to give expression to rude opinions and suggestions on the subject tcybe discussed, without any previous thought or preparation, von will b.c woefully disappointed. That sort of thing has been going on time out of mind at church and other places, without any one heimr mnch benefitted therebv. No stream can rise higher than its source. Ideas born without thought are generally worth no more than the breath wasted in. giving them birth. This beautiful building (the drill hall of a cavalry company) in which we sit is an example of"what organized effort can accomplish. Allow me to express the hope that, ere many years, the farms of the member^vf this Club will be as shining examples of the benefit organization has been to its members. If we make an earnest an honest effort as individuals to discover a remedy for m m >-? r-U /\ 11 a af>n?* UUL piCOCilL UiiU^UlUC>).?C SAiail <?5iuedly find one. The trouble, I tear, will be to get our farmers to apply it. It 5s a fact acknowledged on all sides, thc.t our hilly lands are the most productive, naturally, in the State; "while we all know that for health and an abundance of good, pure water?furnished by never-failing springs and streams?"they are' unsurpassed the world. Tt wnnlfl annpar. then, thai nature designed these lauds for something better than to be washed away byconstant clean culture in cotton, with no attention whatever to rotation of crops or rational methods of farming which would at least maintain their fertility for a longer period than the brief time they now last, if not indefinitely. Our present system?or rather no system?of fanning has rendered barren fully half of our arable area; and, if persisted in, will soon render the res>t so poor that we will not be j able to wriug out of the murdered land j even the bare living we now obtain. I say "murdered" because-1 can find no other word to properly express my meaning; and I venture to assert that the world has never seen, in all its history, such butchery of land or such a reckless waste of the accumulated fertility of centuries, as has been witnessed in the hilly sections of the South devoted to cotton since I860 ? and nowhere greater than right here Cast your mind's eye around the sections of country from which the members of this Club have come this morning:; recall to mind the hundreds?nay thousands?of acres of land now cleared, which at the close of the war were in original forest or had a heavv ?1 ^ J ^ growm 01 oiQ neia pines, 10 say uoining of those other thousands then in cultivation which were in good heart for making crops. See the present condition of these lands; much of it, too poor to pay for cultivating and seamed with gullies by the thousand, has been abandoned, while the rest is fast becoming so. Most of these gullied fields, wheu cultivated at all, are in cotton, and controlled by negro * mu*.. ?:?i . renters. j.ijcv win suvu l>c ojcuic, while the black horde like a swarm of devouring- locusts, moves on to the next pine"thicket on the remaining few acres of woodland left, to repeat the operation. The land owner, to all intents and purposes having sold his broad acres to these tenants ought to have something to show for them. Bat ask him; ask yourselves! Ask even those men who themselves work in the field and control every foot of their land, directing how it shall be worked. This last class will tell you they are clearing no money, and every one can see even their places are going down hill; while if any man who rents noe orAf onr mrvnor fn cl?r\rtr -fm* Inc ilUO UU * UiVll^ ? W I* AVI skinned acres, he has changed the investment only, and got some money and a lot of poor washed away land? I both together not worth as much as the land originally. But most of us have not even that small consolation. Our lands aie gone, we are in debt, and we have nothing for them. Truly one may well ask "Have we not, like Esau of old, sold our birthright for a : WJwOO V* [;V.liS,V . A i<v? v ? .? -W v . something radically wrong in our J whole system, then*. Onr lathers, the i old slave holders, got rich under this ! system of taking all from the land and ; giving back nothing, while we grow j ft jgw poorer. The explanation is this, they as a rule bought nothing' but sugar and coffee, salt and iron, and a few clothes, while they sold everything, flour, meat aHd corn, in addition to their cotton. We sell nothing but cotton and buy everything, even axes and hoe helves while the only live stock raised on our land has been negroes who belonged to tnemseives. uui even 11 mey ue-1 longed to us instead, as did their ancestors to ours, we would be in a bad way unless we changed. -We are killing the goose that laid the golden egg, in thus sterilizing our farmers by constant tillage in cotton, and have nothing to show in return except a poor living; thus proving that we are really eating up our capital and working for Ipse than nnr victuals and clothes. We kill our goose but find no egg; they also killed theirs, for they were as great butchers of land as we are, but they got their egg and had something to show for their butchering. This is a dark and gloomy picture, but a little reflection wiil cause any fair-minded man to acknowledge that it is not overdrawn. If any one, after contemplating it. does not i'eel that we are desperately "sick" and in ir ?" of a physician, he must be blind inured. "Taking into consideration, then, the nature of our lands?their friable texture and broken character?I make the assertion that we are committing a crime akin to suicide to continue longer our present system; and not to devote our energies entirely to stock raising, as being the only method by which we can derive any income from our lands without, at the same time, losing as much or more from the washing away of the soil than the profit 011 the crop cultivated amounts to. And this brings me back to my subject?"Is the rotation of crops a benefit to land? Ana if so, what rotation is best adapted to'our immediate section?" To the first proposition I answer emphatically yes; and will proceed to give the reasons why. Plantgflike animals, differ much in their hamte and in the differenct sorts of food upon Which they subsist. The broad leafed cfovers, turnips and peas obtaiir mtrrir of thSirnourishment from the air; while the narrow leafed grains and grasses?especially if their seeds are ripened?withdraw mainly. mineral food from the soil. The cererls require large supplies of phosphoric acid and silica for their healthy nutrition,; TheLegames require lime; and turnips, clover and potatoes take up a great amount of potash. Some crops, as clover and peas, feed on the subsoil from having, a tap-root, and thus bring upslores of fertility from below, which ibey store near the surface. Indian corn and the small grains being surfacc-rooted plaiits, derive llieir SUUSlCHViC HUUi iicai u;t cuuav.v. Indian corn, when sown in peas, the small grains, peas sown alone, clover and the grasses tend to keep up a supply of huinos; while cotton our principal crop heretofore, requires clean culture so late in the summer as to allow no other growth on the land and leaves it bare the whole time, thus exposing it to the washing rains of both winter and summer. If it were not for the constant washing and leaching, cotton?which practically on hillv lands will imnoperish afield sooner than any other crop?would be the least exhaustive of any we could plant continuously; provided the seed were returned to the land and stock kept o ff it. The reason for this is: The lint which is sold is nearly all carbon, a five hundred pound bale only containing five pounds of mineral elements or ash, while the rest of those elements tnken. from the soil remain on the farm in the seed. A crop of corn, or oats, or wheat, of equal money value to a bale of cotton, wonld remove several times as much of these ? ? ?? ' art a knlrt / . /t/vtf aii mineral eieuicuio mc c/<n?c vi wicvu without the seed. But if those crops are consumed on the farm and the manure saved as it should be, they will not exhanst the land as soon as the cotton, simply because thev are humus-producing instead of humusdestroying crops; and as they do not leave the land bare all the time, (end to keep it from washing, which is the source of the greatest loss of fertility to us. Eoerv one knows that a new ground will not wash under three or four years K/vitr cfftan 4 Ka IIIIIOUIA mQT* Iiu HiaiLci iivw oitc]; iX.HtAciuv Ki*<*v be. If, then, by a proper rotation, we could keep our lands charged with humus, they would never wash to injure; and it would seem but the dictate of common sense to endeavor to so manage our farms as to keep up a supply of this all-important constituent. But we do not do this, be-1 cause we plant cotton continuously, almost, therefore we are not following the dictates of common sense; and this too, in the face of the fact which we all admit, that there is no money in it. But suppose our lands were level and did Kot waste. To plant any one crop continuously on the same field wouid be poorfarming, and final iy reduce that field to a state of barrenness as regards that crop, unless an eqnivolent of all the mineral elements removed each was returned to the soil annually; and in addition thereto as much vegetable matter as had been fUken up or evaporated by the sun. But to return this vegetable matter to large fields is impracticable. They cannot be treated like pet patches, ancl j the problem is how to keep up the supply of humus. It can only be done by growing it on the land. This is both the easiest and the chcapesst j way. Bat if, while growing this vegetable matter, we cau at the eame time grow a crop which will yield an income, we kill two birds with one stone; and the science of farming consists in learning to do this very thing. Let ns only solve this problem?or i,f it has been solved by others let us follow their teaching?and it will not be long ere we will see both profit and pleasure in it. This is what is meant by rotation of crops. Prof. Tnomev, who made a geological survey of this State in 1845, remarks that the soils in the upper part of South Carolina have all the mineral elements necessary for plant growth in inexhaustible quantities; and that our lands onlv need the suddIv of veer- i etable matter to be kept up to yield good crops for all time to come. That this is true most certainly of our neighborhood, demonstrated by the short time it takes these lands to recuperate and regain their fertility when the soil is not washed away, even after they are to all appearances completely exhausted. What folly, then, to pursue a system of farming which quickest robs the land of allimportant substance, and soon puts the best field in such a condition 'nat no amount of fertilizers or guanos can make it yield good crops of cotton or corn. When there is not sufficient humus in the soil these mineral ma nures only cause crops to fire or burn up if there is at any time a Jack of moisture; and if there is rain sufficient cotton rusts or sheds its fruit, aud corn fires. Oats, rye, clover and peas are the only plauts, with which I am acquainted, which are said to yield maximum crops on soils comparatively exhausted of vegetable matter, provided the mineral elements are present in abundance j These are all humus-prodrrcing crops, and can be made to yield an income while supplying humus for future crops of corn aud cotton. But here comes in the question j UU??TT /sKfoir* m?r>oivtl I 11V? aic WC IV \Jkswni IUVOV uuuviM manures?" They cost money and our worn out fields cannot yield us a living and buy our guanos too, wi.Ji which to raise" only oats, rye and peas. Granted; but they certainly will not much longer do that in cotton, either; and but for the continued clearing of the old worn out fields we would have long since touched bottom, and now be in a desperate condition indeed. Luckily most of us have some good land yet left, and we should husband it as shipwrecked sailor does his last loaf. For if we shall regain our reason and commence a rational system of farming these few remaining acres ofgood land * ? - x. L..U iL. A * will enaoie us to unu^u uver mu uiut: which must elapse ere we could expect to obtain an income from other sources than cotton. If we will concentrate our efforts upon this good land?and what is more, concentrate the manure upon it too?by proper rotation we can keep it good and use the income from it to build up the rest of our lands which are now roo poor to pay for cultivating. There is not a farmer in this neighborhood who does not yaar after year cultivate, or allow reuters to cultivate, land which he knoics to be too poor to repay the expense 01 working", me uesi- cn s*;?suii=>, and the good land he works has to carry this poor land, and his profits are thus lessened or entirely lost. We have been using onr brains too little, and following in old ruts without considering whither they are leading us. There is not now, and never has been ill our county, a single man who has more than a vague conception of the possibilities of an acre of land thoroughly and properly worked. [continued next week.] WAR HISTORY. What General Hampton Claims for His Lesion at Manassas. The News and Courier publishes a long letter from General "Wade Hamp ton, correcting errors in articles of Generals Johnston and Imboden, touching the first battle of Manassas, or Bull Run. General Hampton shows that the Hampton Legion, 600 strong, which he commanded, arrested the victorious columns or t>nerman una Keys, who were driving the Confederate forces back, and that the Legion so delayed the Federal advance as to enable the Confederate reinfor&ments to be brought np. The Jfetcs and Courtier gives an elaborate review of the battle, the history of which, it claims, must now be rewritten. Its conclusion is that Hampton was to Jackson and Manassas what Jackson was to the whole Confederate left?Hampton saved Stonewall Jackson, as Jackson saved the army. It was the magnificent fightingof the Legion under terrible odds that gave Jackson time to bring his troops into position. Had he not had time to form the Virginians, who afterwards stood like a stone wall, the battle would have oeen inevitably lost. The opportunity io form those Virginians was given to Jackson by Hampton and his men, and was {riven by them alone. For a JLffc-Timc. I have suffered for years with an eruption?bring out at intervals all over my body. At times my hands would be useless, which were both painful and annoying. All other remedies had been exhausted, when my merchant here, who handles S. S. S.", induced me to try Swift's Specific. I tried one bottle and could see that the sores on my handftwere drying up. After the use of several bottles I was entirely cured. My skin is now as fair and smooth as that of a new-born babe. This eruption was hereditary, as my father was similarly affected. He had also been entirely cured. I tate great pleasure in recommending it to others who arc similarly affected. I can vouch for it. It is all it claims to be. I consider it a God-send to this generation, and my house shall never be without it. # J. D. ROSS. Sparta, Ga., November 21,1884. Treatment on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Thk Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga., * A Sensation In Lauren*. The young man Verdin. who was badly whipped in Laurens county week before last under the impression that he had defaced a school room with obscene writing, is said to be at Woodruff, where he has wealthy and influential relatives who are very indignant, and say they will prosecute the men who whipped young Verdin to the utmost extent of their means. Twelve prominent citizens of Laurens, including one trial justice, are said to have been implicated in the whipping, which was a terribly severe one. Verdin claims that the only evidence against him was the similarity between the obscene writing and some writing in his music book which was supposed to be bis, but was not. He says he confessed because the muzzle of a loaded and cocked revolver rested against each of his temples. Lively legal proceedings are probable. An Tn/li'flna TTrtrrnr At Mariou, Ind., last Saturday', a colored man named Wallace assaulted the fourteen-year-old daughter of a well-known citizen named Vinson. The girl was thrown into spasms and her death was declared to be but question of a few days. On Monday night it became evident that an attempt would be made to. lvnchthe brute, and Sheriff Ilolman surrounded himself. At 12.45 o'clock the mob made a desperate assault on the jail. The sheriff warned the mob and then fired a vol.^v killing James Keily and wounding three or four others. The Spanish Mission in Demand. The applicanis for the Spanish mis sion will equal if not exceed the number of applicants on file at the State department for any of the foreign missions. The office of minister to Spain is regarded as one of the most desirable appointments to foreign countries. No action has yet been taken towards a successor to Mr. Foster. When he left Washington for Spain to negotiate the second conrmcr* cial treaty between the United States and that country the appointment of his successor was postponed until his return. Bidding for Totes. There is a weakness on the part of the Georgia Legislature for ordering pictures of distinguished Georgians Dr. Felton, who is a member of the House and is spoken of as a possible Governor, moved that $500 be appropriated to secure portraits of the late Rev. Jesse Mercer and the late Bishop Pierce respectively. This was making a bid for two religious sects at once. Mr. Arnbeim, who is a Hebrew, brought a laugh upon the whole subject by moving that $25 12 appropriated to'seenre a cheap picture of*Moscs. Rheumatism. Although a practitioner of near twenty years, my mother influenced me to procure B. B. B. for her. She had been confined to her bed several months with Rheumatism which had stubbornly resisted all the usual remedies. Within twenty-four hours after commencing B. B. B. I "observed marked relief. She has ju>t commenced her third bottle and is nearly as active as ever, and has been in the front yard with "rake in hand," cleaning up. Her improvement is trulv iconderful and immensely* gratifying. * C. H. MONTGOMERY, M. D. * Jacksonville, Ala., June 6,1884. ?A new base ball club has been organized in Edgefield, composed of | the members of tbe bar, with Lieutenant Governor Sheppard as captain. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. , Facts of Interest, Gathered irom Various i Quarters. ? Dried beef canned is credited with | poisoning many people in the West. Thp Vienna Tnnhlntt cava th<?t thp Czar will visit Emperor Franci3 Joseph 111 September ?The prospects for a heavy ricc crop in South Louisiaua continue to be promising. ?Everything will be ready by August 1 for the active operation of the Meridian, Miss., Phosphate Company. ?The Mormons commenced a crusade in London on Sunday. They intend to hold meetings every Sunday. ?General Sheridan has telegraphed the President from Fort Reno that no serious Indian tronbles need be annre ? ? - I I hended. Miss Cleveland has left Washington for New York City, and is not ex| pected to return until the heated term is over. ?The cholera in' Spain continues without any falling off. Sanitarv measures are applied in every way possible. ?During the past week the Plvmonth, Pa., epidemic has not shown any marked abatement and three deaths have occurred there. ?James G. Wintersmith, doorkeeper ot the iNational House of .Representatives, died at Louisville, Ky\, on Tuesday afternoon, aged 36 years. ? Storms continue to destroy life and property in hundreds of parishes in Austria and Hungary, and there is a gloomy prospect of a heavy loss of crops. At Utica, New York, on MondayRichard II. Williams, of Williams & Roberts, builders, fell through a skylight a distance of forty feet and was killed. ?The report that Russia is negotiating a war loan, and a crisis betweeu that country and England is imminenf, a pauiu 111 iuc land uuui&c la&i i week, ?iik! securities fell flat. ?There is 110 important change in General Grant's condition, except that from a long and technical report made by the consulting doctors, it seem? that the cancer in his mouth is rather spreading. ?Joseph Taylor, who on May 31, 1S34, brutally murdered Keeper Michael F. Doran at the Eastern penitentiary by beating out his brains with a wooden bobbin and bar of iron, was hanged at Philadelphia last Friday. ?At Watertown, III., last Thursday evening lightning struck the barns and residence of David Lewis, instantly killing Lewis and injuring several members of his family and destroying1 the buildings. ?J. N. Lynch, a farmer of Washington Township, Gibson county, Ind., last week poisoned his four children with arsenic on pie crnst, and tried to I poison his wife. One child is dead and j Lynch has disappeared. ?There is high authority for the | statement that the President has not issued an order to the heads of departments to the effect that dismissals and appointments to fiLl places not vacant must cease. ?The News and Courier's Fayetteville correspondent states that the recently published sensational accounts of an alleged negro plot against the white people in Chatham" county, North Carolina, is a canard, which originated in a hoaxing letter. ?The Republican State Convention of Virginia last week nominated John S. Wise for Governor, H. Clinton Wood for Lieutenant-Governor, and Frank S. Blair for Attorney-General. The Readjusters and -Radicals have joined forces, but the Democrats are confident of victory. ?R. D. Bridges and T. J. Martin fought a duel at Riverside, Texas, a few days ago with shotguns. Tliev were placed thirty yards apart and fired simultaneously. Neither was hurt, although one of the duelists was a crack shotT It is believed the guns were loaded with blank cartridges by the seconds. ?Reororft F. Stedman. 40 vears old. of Sebec,~Me., was married a few days ago to Grace Preble, a girl of 11 years, living in tbe same town. The "town clerk at first refused to issue a license, bnt the consent of the child's parents being given no legal ground for refusal remained, and the marriage ceremony was performed at once. ?Mr. J. B. Watklns, of Kansas, who not long since purchased from Louisiana and the United States a large area of land lying in Calcasieu, Cameron and Vermillion Parishes, has acquired from Mr." Lastie Dupre, of St. Landry, his stock of cattle and horses ranging m those panshes. The price paid is said to have been $66,000. ? A fire in Washington city on Thursday night destroyed the offices of the Post and Republican, but the papers were issued as usual the next day. While the Post building were still in flames, the printers of the Post and Republican were hard at work a: the Star office, preparing for the next dav's issue. The loss by the fire was $150,000. ?Edward Farris, a white boy, aged 9, and Arnold Daniel, colored, aged 7, got into a quarrel in Atlanta on Friday, during which the white boy hit the negro with a rock, inflicting a braise. Daniel drew from his pocket a huge knife, such as is used to prune fruit trees, and stabbed Farris, inflict ing a wound that will probably prove fatal. . Daniel has been arrested. ?The dreaded web-worm has made its appearance in several cotton fields south of Dallas, 'Lexas, along the river. Thus far their ravages have been confined to a district only a lew miles square. Planters dread this worm more than any other, and considerable anxiety exists among cotton dealers of North Texas over the sudden appearance of this scourge in the very heart of the cotton belt. ?A terrible affray took place at Brook's Station, Ga., on last Saturday night. Young Dr. Gable had made some slighting remarks about Pompev Drewry's wife. Drewry approached Gable about the matter," when Gable reiterated the remark. Drewry closed in on Gable with his knife and cut him very badly. Gable picked up a scantling and struck Drewry, breaking his arm. Both parties stand high in the community. Gable is dying from his wounds. "Wonderful Efficacy."' Some neoole are slow in tellina what yood things have done for them, hut Mr. John P. Daly, of Gillisonville, S. C., says he take's <*reat pleasure in testifying to the wonderful efficacy of Brown's Iron Bitters in dyspepsia, fever and ague, and generally debility of the system. He has personally experienced the most satisfactory results from the use of this valuable medicine. Make a memorandum of this, all ye whose systems are run down. Brown's Iron Bitters will cure yon. * -Mrs. W.B. Plunket, ofBatesburg, made 165 pounds of butter from two Jerseys in the months ofMay and June ? ana one weeK ot tne time only one cow was milked. The record for week before last was 23? pounds. ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Mrs. Wixslow's Soothing Sykcp shoald always be used for children teething. it soothes the child, softens the gums, allays aU pain, cures wind colic, and Is the best remedy lor diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. JulyULtly is*. > V . * - & THE XEWS OF THE STATE. Some of the Late&t Sayings and Doings in South Carolina. ?Senator Butler has returned home from Washington. ?The grapes in York county are said to be rotting very rapidly. ?There were four deaths from scarlet fever in the town of Fort Mill last week. ?Company G, Orr's Rifles, C. S. A., will have a reunion at Abbeville on the 7th of August. ?The Abbeville Rifles have made arrangements to go into camp on Savannah River for a week. ?There are 140 visitors at Glenn Springs, about three times the number that were at the springs at this time last year. ?Thn IJock Ilill llerald suvs that there are forty-one unmarried ladies and seventy-six marriageable" men in that town. ?There are twenty prisoners con fined in the jail at Edgefield, of whom several are colored people confined for breaking their contracts. ?The Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad is now graded to within five miles of Hendersonville, and 250 men are at work qn the last section. ?On the 10th inst. a kiln containing 11,000 feet of lumber belonging to It. w. iJramn ik uo., ox .lancaster, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. ?The new cotton seed oil mill in Columbia is approaching- compaction, and the new cotton compress will be ready for work with the beginning of the season. ?John Sou, colored, eighteen years of age, has been committed to jail in York county, for making a criminal assault upon a colored girl, eight years old, on the 4th of July last. ?Susan Crosby, colored, has been lodged in .the Lancaster jail, charged with killing her infant child. The woman said she buried the child, thinking that ^ had been born dead. ? l&frli A norncf MiiiPtr-Siv V"1 U'V il"" will have an exhibit of fine cattle, horses and mules, which will, doubtless, reflect credit on the best stockraising country in the United States. ?The agricultural department has returned to Mr. Joseph Ogden, the treasurer of the West Gold Mine in Union, u $400 ingot of gold lent the department tor the New Orleans exhibit. ?W. L. Wo9d, Jr., white, and Charlie Carter, colored, got into an altercation in HotteaPathon Thursday morning about sunrise which ended in the former shooting the latter with a shotgun, killing him instantly. ?Fnrfv-eiorhf. candidates for teach ers' certificates were examined at'the recent meeting of the board of examiners for York county. Of this number thirty-five received certificates of different grades, and thirteen were rejected. ?Governor Thompson has appointed Mr. C. C. Tracy, of Waltcrboro, jjchool commissioner of Colleton county, vice Jesse DuBose, deceased.' Mr. Tracy is a prominent voting lawyer and a pro? gressive and competent friend of education. ?The congregation of Cumberland A. M. E. Church at Aiken have seceded from the African connection. It hoe omnlnroil tVif? T?PV_ "R. WillStOll Taylor to fill the pulpit, and now styles itself the Independent Methodist' Episcopal Church. ?Mr, George L. Holmes, of Charleston, the special agent of the United States bureau of statistics for South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, is on a tour through the State securing data for fti? I work. ?The President has appointed B. I Husrer Ward and II. W. Riohurd>on collector of customs at Georgetown and Beaufort respectively. Senator Hampton recommended the former and Senator Butler the latter. The Charleston case is still in theijmnds of the President. ? Vinnie Nance, the young colored woman charged with the murder of Daniel Kleckiey on June 27, was convicted at Newberry hist week. The case against Amy Ilntherford, an alleged accomplice, was not pressed. The case against Martha Liles, another * alleged accomplice, was continued. ?The total receipts of the State treasury for May and June, 1S8-A and 1885, as ascertained upon inquiry at the comptroller-gcneral's office, were as follows: 18S4. 1SS5. May... .5 37,184.99 May... .? 39,890.45 June ... 1G7,4G9.38 June ... 178,440.73 Total .$204,654.37 Total .$21S,331.1l4 ?Mr. F. C. Caughman, of Columbia, one of the new -deputy marshals, made his first capture in Fairfield ! county last Wednesday. He arrested Bunyan Collins, colored, of Monticello, for retailing liquor without a special i tax license and brought him before Commissioner Bauskett of Columbia. The commissioner held him in $200 bail for his appearance lor mai at me Greenville term of the United Stales District Court. ?On last Thursday morning a negro boy, aged eighteen years, was shot and killed while hoeing cotton in a field near Hickory Tavern, Laurens county, in the Tumbling Shoals sec tion. The person shooting him (name j not given) fired from the road first i and then climbed over the fence and 1 then shot twice again. The boy was ; killed instantly. The negro had been talking disrespectfully of a white lady ; liviuff in the neighborhood, of unblem isbed reputation, and her brother had sworn revenge. ?The crops along the lines of railway from Columbia to the North Carolina line on the Ashevillc Road are finer to the sight than they have been at this time for several years past. Corn is particularly flourishing. Even 1 bevond the mountaius and about the South Carolina colony of Flat Rock, N. C., the seasons have been extraordinarily propitious. Everywhere there seems "to have been a sufficiency of rain. The corn crop is already practi callv made and cotton will soon be ou* of danger. The London Leprosy. The Pall Mall Gazette declares that there exists in London, in full operation, a system for the violation of girls, raostiy of tender age and too young to understand the nature of the crime of which they are the victims, these outrages being constantly perpetrated with almost absolute impunity ; aud that the arrangements for procuring, certifying, violating and t disposing of these ruined victims of London's lust are made with a simplicity and efficiency incredible'to all w ho have not an actual demonstration of the facility with which the crime can be accomplished. Some of these helpless victims are snared, trapped and denied either when drugged or after a prolonged struggle in a locked room, in which the weaker succumb to sheer, downright force. Others are reg-uiariy procurea--Donguc ac so j much per head, or enticed under van- j ous promises into the fatal chamber < from which they are never allowed to : emerge until they have lost what woman ought to value more than life. The prices mentioned as paid to the agents vary from ?40 to ?3. Outers tile system from unknown causes, at all seasons. Simttcss the >'eires, Impairs Digestion, and Enfeeble3 the ^ | TQNTC Quickly and completely cnres Malaria,and Chills and Fevers. Forlntcrmittent Fevers, Lassitude, Lack of Energy, it has no equal. It enriches and purifies the blood, stimulates the appetite, and strengthens the muscles and nerves. Tt. not in inrft t>tA tAftt.h patim nr I produce constipation?all other Iron medirines do. Father T. J. Rehxy. the patriotic and scholarly Catholic Divine, of Arkansas. Bays: "I have used Brown's Iron Bitters with the greatest satisfaction for Malaria, and as a preventive of Chills and like diseases, and will always keep it on hand as & ready friend." Genuine has above trade n vie and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by 11ROWK CHEMICAL CO.. BALTJ HORE, MD. Ladies' Hand book?useful and attractive, containing list of prizes for recipes, information about coins, etc., (riven away by al! detlers in medicine, or mailed to any address on receipt of 2c. stamp. Bottled Advertising. It has been demonstrated that bottled advertising is superior to any and all modes. We have adopted the plan of placing the bulk of our advertising IXsII)E of the bottle and corking it up, while others do all their work on the outside. That is the reason that 15. 12. prows so valuable in the cure of ail uo<?l diseases, Scrofulous Swellings and J-oivs, Kiieumatism, Catarrh, Skin and Kidney affections. Merit is in the bottle and tLe patient is at once convinced of the fact. Lance bottles Si; three for Address, Klood Balm Co., Atlanta, <la. B. E. B. J. M. Ellis, Atlanta, Ga., writes: I have had a severe form of Eczema ten yearn, and have failed to secure relief from various doctors, and about 14:) bottles of a noted remedy. It was pronounced incurable, but the use <>f I). !I. 15 has effected a cure, and I refer to Dr. I). O. C. I leery, Dr. F. F. Taber, Atlanta. Ga. W. M. Cheshire, at W. !!. Urotherton's store, Atlanta, writes: "1 have had a largeeatin<r nicer on mv lei cured bv the use of B. 13.' B. ' It is decidedly a most wonderful medicine for the cure of blood diseases, and it will please everybody." Nashville, Tf.xx., Nov. k, 1S?4. One of my customers, Mrs. L. Williams, has been using B. B. B. a short time and reported to nie that its effects were simply marvelous, and that it far surpassej any blood remedies she has used, and that she could lieariily sanction anything said in its favor, as it hurt given licr more relief than anything she had ever used before. W. II. OWEN, Druggist. A ;>2-p?ige book filled with information about your blood, your skin. Kidneys, Rheumatism, Old Ulcers ami Sores, Blood * IA-., IIUIIII.U mu- b?* ?i;ij wwu. Sold by all Drusjsists. Address, BLOOD BALM CO., July 22 Atlanta, (Ja. TUTTS imii PILLS 25 YEARS SN USE. The Greatest?Medical Trium'Dli of the Aee! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss of appetite* Bowels costive, Pain in tbo bead, with a dull sensation in the back port. 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ARE YOU TP HTTP T ]?!"> With any disease pe1-LtU U DIj ij j ) culiar to vourgentle sex? . . If so, to you we brings tidings of comPnvf oiirl rrvncit i?'iv V/m r?nn EJfci CURED and restored to perfect health by usinji Bradfiel&'s Female Regulator!: If is a special remedy for all diseases ; pertaining to the womb, and any intelli- < gent woman can cure herself by following the directions. It is especially efficacious in cases of suppressed or painful menstruation, in whites and partial prolapsus. It affords immediate relief and permanently restores the menstrual function. As a' remedy to be used during that critical, period known as "Change of Like," this i invaluable preparation has no rival. i SAVED HE5S EiIFJE ! j ltidc.ic, mcIntosii Co., Ga. ; Dk. J. BnADKfcLD?Dear Sir I have taken several bottles of your Female Re^u- , lator for falling of fhe "womb and other diseases combined, or sixteen standing, . and 1 really believe I am cured entirely, for which please accept my heartfelt thanks and most profound gratitude. I know your medicine saved my life, "so you see I cannot speak too highly in its favor. Ihavereeoinmended.it to several of my friends who are suffering as I was. Yours very respectfully, MRS. W. E. STEBBINS. Our Treatise on the "Health and Ilappi ness or woman" maiieu iree. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Y Atlanta, Ga. SeplofxLly ESTABLISHED IN 1793 i BINGrHAM'S Is the onlv scliool for Boys In the south with 1 GAS LIGHT, a tlrst-class GYMNASIUM, ana a first-Class I5ATH HOUSE. Special terms to young men of small means. The iS3rd Session begins August 25th. 1'or Catalogue address ' 3Iaj. R. BIXGHAJI. r..SrvnniM y,ywnrii x C. o ui > xji,*1v>v v>^. THE MANNING TIMES PUBLISHED 15 Y jE5C. Xj. ZOA-^R/IE^, CFIR/.j ?AT? M A X ]V I 3T O, S. Only $1.50 per annum in advance. Cheap advertising medium. \ \ - ' - " - loiiilflij | HEALTH AXD PLEASURE RESORT.; The All Healing Mineral Springs,; Gaston County, North Carolina. \TTE TAKE PLEASURE IX AXVV nouncing to cur friends and the public that the XEW HOTEL buildings ard now open for the accommodation of guests. The buildings are larger, more substantial, better arranged and* located (TIIAX THOSE DESTROYED liY FIRE LAST SEASOX,) where a good dry atmosphere can be had, overlooking the springs and valley, which will prove a benefit to toe invalid and pleasure seeKer. 1 no accommodations and comforts will be found superior to those offered heretofore and will compare favorably with other firstclass resorts. The waters of the All Healing Mineral Springs are well known to cure Dyspepsia and all diseases of the digestive organs, Gravel, Diabetes and Kidney affections, Scrofulous an? Syphilitic complaints, White Swelling and"skin diseases generally. All persons afflicted with Lung troubles, find great relief here from the Climate and the Use of the Waters. The.Springs are beautifully loc.ced, on the Richmond and Danville Kaiboad in the Piedmont Belt of mountains, Lid at the base of Crowder's Mountain, being four miles east of King's Mountain, six miles j West, of (inxtonia. and two miles south of i the Atlanta and Charlotte Ilailroni known as the Richmond and'Danville Line. All persons wishing to find a pleasant and comfortable place, in which to pass a few ! weeks* for health or pleasure, can do no 1 better than to give the climate and waters of All Healing Mineral Spring-! a trial. For testimonials, Circulars, terms, etc., address. COZZEXS & THOMAS, All Healing P. 0. Gaston County, North Carolina. June 6 TJHEO H HMAN. FORTY-FXltST YEAR,? ISS3. The Religions Weekly of the 3'rotestfint V?*Tiii2/?An5il fllinrftli. A magazine of Ecclesiastical IrreUlgeaee. devotional and general reading. and the i-'.rgest and most Influential weekly la tlw Piou-stant Episcopal Church. . In the Xcws 2>epartment the energy <?r Thk Churchman Is well known. and its organization is very complete for procuring news which it elves with remarkable promptness. The JIasazinc Department alone contalus In a year sufllcierit reading matter to make more than live i-2mo hooks of 3au pages eacn." Irs Book Reviews are a prominent feature. JLiterary. Art and Scientific Xotes arc carefully prepared by specialists. Its European Correspondents are persons of eminent ability. The Children's 5)epartinent is Illastrated and specially edited for ths children. S3.30 a yoar in advance, post paid. Three dollars to Clergymen, single copies ten cents. M. H. MALLORY d: CO., J7 l^arayette ?'iace. .lew x orst. AyliLGm BONG'S MOUNTAIN Hlte SCHCOL KIXG'S MOUXTAIX, X. C. A Matliematical and Classical School with a complete BUSINESS COLLEGE attached. The largest male boarding school in Western Xorih Carolina. Military plan, except in its Business Department. One hundred and forty students last year?over ninety boarded. Its graduates "in Bookkeeping iill lucrative positions in every Southern State. One hundred dollars will cover'all expense ot'iull course in Business College. Two hundred dollars will cover all expense for ten montlis in regular departments, and furnish botli dress and fatigue suit* of uniform. Next session opens 24th' August, 1885. Semi for Catalogue to W . T. R. 23ELX. A. 51., .J uly0i.2ui . I'rineipa!. zQ< IN the complaint concerning our cooks, which never seem to lessen as tne' rears go by, but 011 the contrary seems to swell in volume, we wonder that it has not occurred to many of those who find the zompiauit unavoiuaoie mat iiiey uave one svay of remedying matters a good deal in their own hands. An active half hour, thre^ tircies a dav, with a "HOME COMFORT" WROUGHT IRON COOKING RAX(tE in the kitchen, is all that is required to prepare the most substantial weal without'fatigue. These celebrated Ranges are sold only from .wagons by our iuthorized salesmen, nr.w making headquarters at Winnsboro, S. O. Yours truly," WROUGHT IRON RANGE CO., May 19-3m St. Louis, Mo. J nrr ? n : r\rnnnTi UJtlAit i.Ui 1 i j Female Institute.; SESSION* BEGINS September 2nd, ] LSS.", closes JuiH' -in!, IS.*. ;. Unsurpassed *i:i the Uioiwu^lmess ami 1 high standard of its Literary, Music and j Art Departments. ] For Catalogues apply'to j jiEV. \\\ K. ATKINSON', j f !l>nr!r?ttp V C. P. 8.?Persons receiving catalogues will ] take, notion that the session begins a week . sooner than announced in the catalogue. J .JulySiJm ] ATTEVTIO.Y, IE"1 -A. IR< S, S ! \ YV E offer you the celebrated Poierkin | Cotton Seed at Si.50 per bushel. It will j 1 srive forty per cent, of lint, and equal the !, yield in seed cotton of any other variety, | We are agents for tiie IX-cring Binders. j j Reapers and Mowers, the Thomas Ilake, j Corhin and Acme Harrows, Farqiihar Cotton Planters, Iron A pre Cultivator*. Saw ! Mills, Engines, Gins, Presses. Plows, Etc.! Repairs for Champion and Buckeye Ma- J' chines and'for Watt Plows. Write to us. McMASTER & G1BBES, Mar4L6m Columbia, S. C, fiood P;ty for Aceats. $IOO to S200 7>er , j mo.iu:i?lo>tellinsrour<?rasi<illiitory. ! 1 Faiuoukaud Occitirv B:tttl*>suf tin-World ' Write to J. C. 5IcC'tvrdy tic Co., tfulaueipUia, l'a. VANDERBILT UK ACADEMIC; BIBLICAL; LAW; ME Civil Enjrineerinc: .and JIanual Technology erabi Riven to Civil Engineering. Full course in Man; Literary and Scientilic Department, iaXhec STAUNTON FEW/ STAUNTON, VIRCINIA. REV. 0, Opens its 16th session Sept. 9th. 1SS3, with a corps of buildings. Elegant and LealthJul location. Home ii Departments oX ilosic and Art in tie hand* ol skilled t< > I afciag? Bi-| iTriftiT i rrirttf'ya' 'j*. wrJia XEW ADVERTISEMENTS, J CUREt%,eDEAR . reel's ratent improved Ousmonea EAR DRUMS PERFECTLY RESTORE THE HEARING, and perform the work oi the . < Natural Drum. Alwais In position, but In- * visible to others and comfortable to wear. All . ^Sa conversation and even whispers heard distinctly. We refer to those usinjr them. Send for illustrated 'ooolc with testimonials free. Address . ' v F. JIISCOX, S43 Broadway. N. Y. -Mention . tills paper. t ? +, WEILS' ' HEALTH EESEWER S iAre you railing, try Wells' Health iientwer, a 4 pure, clean, wholesome . TUi^IG, For Brain, Nerves. Stomach. Liver, Kidneys, J.unjrs. An immunized inviirorant. Cures Dvsnensla. Headache, Fever. Aaruf*. Chills. Debility r , ana Weakness. > "ROUGH ON' TOOTHACHE" Instant relief mr Neuralgia. Tootliaeli, Face- A ache. Kk* '6 ;5i@ K. S. WKLLS. Jersey City. A*. J. PARKER'S m HAIR BALSAM ? Parker's Hair Balsam Is Hnely perfumed an J is warranted to prevent falling of the lia r and ,jH to remove dandruff and ,r :ung. Parte Tonic. <1 , -t A Pure Family Medicine That Neve v Intoxicates. If you are a mechanic or firmer, worn v.'lib overwork. or a mother run down by fami. f \ Or Household duties try Fahksk's'Toxic. IIISCOX ?fc C O., 163 William Street, Xew York. 50c. and $1 frizes, ?t all dealers !n medicine. , ? Great saving In buying dollar size. ?. f MOSQUITOES. SETJSS " H MOSQUITO BITE CURE, gives Instant' r reller. and drives them away. Address , | SAL LADE ^ CO., S East l$th St., Xew York. 1 ) ~a~ BUKNHAM'S * 131 PROVED , M STASBASO 'Cm ^jLgTTTRBIIE Is tl?e KF.ST constructed and ior LESS MONKY pc-v Pamphlet FREE bv BURNHAM BROS., YORK, PA. Julj"23l/ttv the r -p Oolumfeia Music House ? WILL SAVE YOU v TWEXTY-F1YE PEIt CENT. KY BUY ing 3 y. Pianos aM 0rpi= r OF THEM. EVERY INSTRUMENT WARRANTED. \:M '/l ?0? ~ :* i DELIVERED.AT ANY DEPOT OR V ' %r' STEAMBOAT LANDING IN . THE STATE. 1 d WHITE FOR TERMS AZTI) PRICES 'r i " o o i 1 SPEC IA E TKUMS EOE SIX- JET TIME ^ SALES. Am Kespeei:Yu!v, COLUMBIA MUSIC HOUSE, IS. Vv. THUMP, Manager, * > 12G31AIX STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. ' Local agents in Fairfield Count}*: J. 0. BO AO. ?V innsboro. ;-v A. A. 3101111 IS, liliigcway. ^ ' v; wiarjoue. . oiusiuu <e Aplasia ii. ii " v SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY 10,1885, ?Eastern Standard Time. GOING NORTH. SO. S3, MAIL A2*!D EXI'UKSSw v Leave Augusta 9.05'a. m. v\ Leave V.\ C. &. A. .Junction 1.12 p. m. . \ iri'ive at Columbia 1.22 p. m. : Leave Columbia 1.32 p. m. 'K Leave Kiilian's 3..>sp. mt Leave ISiythewood 2.1? p. m Leave RidgCNvay 2.31 p. m. vH Leave* Simpson's 2.47 p. m. , Leave Winr.sboro 3.02 p. m. Leave White Oak 3.22 p. m. r A'lrm TT,u\/?^"o v/T'o *? A *5 ?v *?? X Leave Rlaekstock 3.50 p. in. Leave Cornwall's 3.58 p, in. Leave Chester 4.17 p. m. Leave Lewis' 4.:>2 p. m. Leave Smith's.... 4.40 p. in. Leave Rock Hill 5.01 p. m. Leave Fort Mill ">.-()p, m. /SH Leave Pineville 5.40p. m. Arrive at Charlotte.. 6.10 p. m. SH Arrive at Statcsville.-. 9.35 p. m. No. 19, Way Freight, Passenger Coach Attached, Daily, except Sundays; Leave Columbia. .1.55 p. m. Leave Wiansboro 5.25 p. in. Leave Chester s.20 p. m. \? Arrive at Charlotte 12.45 a.m. ~ (ifUV.'t ^riTTTTT NO. 52, MAIL .o;a EXPJISSS. Leave. SuteSvillc 7.43.a. m. . . ? # Leave Charlotte 2.00 p. m. Leave Pincviiir .1.27 p. ih. -f Leave Fort Mill ..1.44 p. in. Leave Rock liiil .. .2.02 p. ix. ^ : Leave Smith's 2.22: p. t?. Leave Lewis' 2.30 p m. Leave Chester *_'.44 pL in. - \ Leave Cornwall's 3.03 p.m. /' Leave Blackstock 3.12 p. m. . -g Leave Wood ward's .o.?S p." m. i ||? [^eave White Oak .3.30 m. Leave Whmsboro .3.48 p. m. J|| Leave .Simpson's 4.03 o. m. Leave Ridge way 4.10 p. m. , m Leave Elythewpbd 4.32 p. w. V Leave Kiilian's 4.49 p. 21 Sjrivc at Columbia ..".1" p. to. . 4 j Leave Columbia 5.25 p.m. A Leave W. C. & A. Junction 5.57 p. m. ><|jj Arrive at Augusta. 9-.3S pj m. fl So. 20, Way Freight, Passenger Coach TB Attached, Dally, esccpt .Sundays. __ Leave Charlotte 9.45- p. m. Leave Chester 1.50 a. m. - ~ ^ Leave "Winnsboro .5.25 a. m. Arrive at Columbia 8.20 a.m. ? C?nr.ection is n: v/made at Chester (by W r-*~' trains 52 and 53) for Lancaster and inter- 't - * mediate points on C. A C. H. Ix.. and f.->r , ill points on C. & L. II. R- as far as Xcr:- j ion, X. C. < ~ ' :.r. slaughter, g. p. a. ' w G p. TALCOT3", Superintendent: D. CARDVv'ell, a. g. p. a. : . Easy to use. A certain cars. Is ot expensive. Thr?? months' treatment in one paefcage. Good for Cold jg Is the Head, Headache. Dizziness, Hay Fever, <tc. y v Fifty cent*. Ey all Drogjista. or by mail. f E. T. HAZBLnSE. Wenen, Pa. f rT^T"^"^ STfnr5^ Nashville, Tenn. / I J. V JL $6 Departments: , IDICAL; PII AiniACEUTICAl; DENTAL. * ^ race-! in Academic Department. Special attention . J lal Technology. Session opens Sept. 16. Tuition in ilogical, free. For Catalogue (tree) scad to Sect'y. f sle"sehhnaryt iAS. WILLIS, A. M., Principal. 12 ?deer* uk<1 Teacher*. Excellent brick a atiuence. Moral culture receives carclul attention. 4B"V ;achers. Number ui pupils limit id. ^ -gS2] * : - 1 '-.-J ; i