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??I I I' if -r.ww^m^aagflmaoiiirM'U'jit U I if wiyiwiMMM -,M| ni.au ?.mi put. "Mini rjyn? h 1.?1 VOL. XLIII. ~_ _ WINXSBORO, S. 0., A^DNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,.^^^ ^ ^ ^ TIMELY TOPIC'S FOB FARMERS. ^ HOW TO I JO PAYING YVOKK AT Tills SKAX)N. Suggestions of Interest, from Auil:?i i^ . t.ttive ;>?)urei-. (W. L. Joi.e> it. '-he S.ut!.-.r* Cultiv It is presumed that by this time every farmer lias matured Lis plans, and is al ready under way in executing tiif.-rtr. uue of the first things to claim hi.s attention is the preparation of the manure to be used. He has decided to use c?jmi>oMs largely and he mlist now prepare tliem; Fthe matter caunut be deferred liiu. h loDger. Whilst a compost wiii give inir results, prepared only a month or six weeks in advance of it- application, the general drift of experience mdicvt-.-. tint better results ensue where they are prepared three months in advance. Cum posts for cotton should be put up at once, and care taken that every condition for proper fermentation be present. Thfsp ftond'tions are uroner admixture of ingredients, decided moisture all through the muss-, and a decid< d compactness. A loosely thrown up pile of manure will become too hot and be greatly injured. A proper fermentation brings about several valuable results. First, it reduces or breaks down the coarser ingredients, as hay, straw, leaves or other litter, and renders the distribution of the compost easier and more W uniform. Uniformity of distribution is r a matter of first importance. In the next place it renders inert, insoluble materials active and soluble. All of the nitrogen, for instance, of green or fresh . manure is insoluble; it is either in the form of albuminous compounds or of W urea (a constituent of urine), and must D6 caangeu WJ ui utu;v before plants can appropriate it. The danger is that, as this ammonia is formed, it may be driven off by beat and be lost. This is to be prevented by keeping the fermentation within proper bounds, as above pointed out, aud by covering the heap with a layer of rich ^ dirt six or eight inches thick, to c<iteh W and absorb any escaping ammonia. Another and very effective means of prevention loss is using kainit as one of the ingredients of the compost. The preva lent idea has been that land piaster was excellent for that purpose. But plaster >- ^ only acts efficiently -where there is water enough to dissolve it, and this is not m- generally the case in a compost heap. Kainit is much more soluble than plaster, and will Hx. ammonia under circumstances where plaster will not. Kainit is decidedly the best cheap and available substance for the purpose that we know It has been just stated that kainit ^ ought to be one of the ingredients of a BR compost heap?-what other of the elic-mi? ^ cal or concentrated fertilizers should en Fter into it. mere neeu oe no nesixasion in saying that pliospho* ie acid, in some form, should oeciwy a front place in this respect. No substance is more universally wanting in old, long-cropped lands than phosphoric acid, none, the application of which, on such lands, has given _ more uniformly good results. Besides.. wfcgfl^^.kairut and phosphoric acid, there are no Bother chemical fertilizers which need fcrenerally .enter into composts; in excases some others may be Bj depends upon the nature of tixv* comport, this let us {"urn attention. A* a ^^role, barn-yard manure is the ma:n foundation of compo>ts. It const-ts the excrement and. urine ol hor.-es a:;d cattle mixed with a variable quantity of lit ter. "With the farmer it is an everpressing inquiry how he may increase "? * ? 1 Zu? * Ji " the quantity ana improve tut uu;i;iij' ui ^ this most valuable substance. As to the first (the quantity), the ready answer of Northern and European writers ha* been ^r by keeping mort stock. i>ut bear m niind, ho wever, thi.t this answer comes Bra. from regions where gra;s and gram are m the leading crops, and where iarge cities and a dense population (largely mauu Uliacturing) create a large demand for food, including meat. To a Xort. em or English farmer ihe question is, shall hay and grain be sold direct from the farm, or shall they be converted into meat and milk, and cheese and butter, and these become the objects of sale? He can find sale for either. With a Southern, farmer the conditions are some what different. At present the most of * his land is too poo? to grow grass successfully, and-climatic conditions render small grain crops rather uncertain. The cities about him arc small, population is sparse, and a small portion of ic engaged in manufactures. Would these surrounding warrant a general increase in the number of live stock on the farm? That is extremely doubtful. Except in localities -where there is an extendei "range," most farmers ha\c, until a recent period, . erred in keeping too much rather than jr too little stock. In one direction there * * might be a profitable increase, viz., m / \ raising all the horses and mules they f ? need, and possibly the hogs required for - % domestic use. Gradually our farms jLmight be brought up to the requisite jE|?3egree of fertility to produce grass and r^akiaisi enough for a moderate increase in ^ a number of milk cows. There is a * ej?iand for good butter at the South, " ^ an^fcwe Olloht by ail means to strive to JF wor^tuP to the point of supplying it. But ^Wter all, tiie increase suggested - small, and would not co verv X WOUitl D?- ??' ?. far towaM^ increasing the quantity of manure. ^Sow, then* can it be done? ;By more caMc'^u* husbanding of all manurial materialman the farm (especially the urine of ani^B^8) the preventing of the leaching??^e soluble (and therefore most valuable^B^tions by rain. I In this connblBt^11 the most urgent need of Southern i^?iers is more stall room for stock. Sial^sbould be large and roomy, and so arranged that stock will not have to be halteMpd* but may be free to move about at will* When animals are haltered their m;rine is discharged at certain spots\ the coarse manure is not uniformly ilinproguated ' ' 3 ??-1 >?Tiirr?ni>, with it, as it snouiu uc, * will stand or lie down m wet Manure to r serious injury of their hoof-slor hides. Again, large stalls aie il^siraeble. that manure may accumulate in thVm for long-periods of time without undtie rais ing of the bottom of the stall or \othei jnconvenienc-. Large stalls, fo\iik<. reason, admit of the use of iar. e quantities of litter. And this is one of iVir ^ most available means of increasing tlk quantity of stable manure. On mau} Southern farms nine-tenths of the urin. of stock is practically lost. When not at work they are allowed to run at large in open yards, whc-rj there is no absorbent; if thpr.* is one to absorb it, the rains most effectually leach it out in the end. Kept in large stalls, when not at work, k, and these stalls kept well littered, a ven large portion of the urine is absorbc-i and"perfectly saved. When litter is in f pregnated with urine, its quality i greatly improved". It-is a very diffcren ihing from litter dimply mixed with solit excrement and rotted. Here is room fo /great improvement in our methods?thi ^Husbanding of the urine. - Again, stalls should not be cleaned on ^ more than once a \ear. Managed a "^bove, neither the health nor the clear i ?ggpgaee ae?aasc g .'.jus r i act mm .? in lir.ess of H'.imals demands it, and under no other conditions can manure 1 e accumulated with sol.ttle i?;s.s or detriment to ics quu'ity. The great foe to barnyard manure of high quality the-open I vt'-.l. Abundant littering helps matters. | .vOffie, but 1- aching vviii be gn at, The j >Ja: k, Kch juices which ilow iruiii it after j every luuvy or protracted rain are im- j pregnat-d with suits of ammonia no lest, j than soluble mineral ingredients. Let j us banish the opeu yards from our farms, and'c'.'.iing-.Mhft mime from bara! 3 ar<: t-.j shi-i manil-V. ! A * ?<.tl???v f.* lvilirr nrfronA rrv-i_ ...MU.., AJ^U. nure, which is quite unlimited, and wliX'h may serve as a basis for compost, ih itaves. straw. ? ti\, deccx-ipo-scii by the ngeucy of a? In-.- and iillic. .'Wies may be Ucedaioncor-n c'ombination-whhiime, or iime mny it used alone. iji the List Ca.se the chief fiH'Ct: n of the lime i.s to deauu leu'tce ?i?e iefives. \\ ht-n :u>>!ies ate used aioue, they accoinplish the same purpose, buc in addition increase very materially the feiiilizuig roper ties oi' the k-aves. They add to them limi-, potash, magnesia, phosphoric ar:d sulphuric acids?indeed, every min! era! ingredient needed by plants. Jf a i ! proper amount of ammonia and some' phosphoric acid be udued to such, a mixtuie, a very complete and perfect manure is produced. Such a mixture, then, makes an excellent basis for a comport. Aslies and lime should not be added directly to stable manure; they wili drive oil* ammonia. But after those substances have been mixed with large j I quantities of leaves, have become diluted i ! and marked by them, and entered into j new combinations, they may then be" | mixed with stabie manure without detri| ment. Ten bushels of ashes to three or ! four well packed two-horse wagon loads | of leaves makes a good mixture. It ! ought to be prepared some months bej fore it enters into the final compost heap. ! A farmer migut begin now, and at all j available opportunities through the year, ; gather and haul leaves and put up pens | of such mixtures. He would be aston| ished at the amount which system and energy would accumulate in, the course | of a year. It should not be put in piles, | but in pens four or live feet high, well ! moistened to start with, well packed and ! covered at top with a layer of rich dirt j several inches thick to retain moisture. I After such a heap has been well moist-: ! ened, rains wiii be apt to keep it wet j enough afterwards. Rain will leach thin j layers of manure scattered in a yard or | the thin edges of a spread-out heap, but i will not leach a mass four feet thick with j straight upright sides. j Now, supposing a farmer has the i several materials mentioned on hand and : | is ready to make his compost?how shall!1 i he proportion the several .ingredients? i | Furman's formula, now so extensively i useu, is unrty ousneis eaca ci itaoie j manure and. cotton seed, -?00 pounds of ! acid phosphate and 200 pounds of kainit. j Experience has shown this to be a very ' excellent compound for land of average ; fertility. Can it and should it ever be j ; varied? Suppose one has' cotton se d, ! ' but no stable manure. In sueh case ten j ! additional bushels of cotton seed should j ..take the place or the lacking manure; so i ; that the formula would b.c 40 bushels of ; cotton seed. -AuO pounds of acid phosI phate and H0>? pounds oi kainit. Bat it ; would be desirable, to keep up the de: sired dilution of the chemical fertilizers : j in tne compost, to mix with the above ia^redients twenty-live or tlnrty bu^heis I oi ixen earth, or wood mold, or some j Ui. i.^1 U -ii.-UJ.vi. OU?M/V/?-W VAIV has stable manure, but no cotton seed; ! ilie place Ox the cotton seed may be : tak^u b\ cotton meai?say 30 bushels of j manure, ouO pounds of cottonseed meal, ; 100 pounds of aoid phosphate and 201) | pounds, ox kainit. Suppose one's land is ; extremely poor. Then the quantity of | the cotton seed in the comport may be ! doubled, the quantities of other ingredi| enti. remaining Cue same. If one's lan<? i is uuite ricu. hail or even less of the cot -J, / , j lua &t-ed may enter., into the compost, j ! the other constituents remaining the | smile. buppuse olio has the mixture of j leaves mitt at-hes, but no mam ire or cotton seeu; then the formula si .ould be 60 bushels of leaf mixture, 400 . pounds of cotton teed ineaJ, *00 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of kainit. liess iiainit .would be called for in this ca*e, because tiie ashes, in leaf mixture, would take its place. If lime only was mixed with the leaves, the full quantity of kainit should be added. It is well to build the compost pens in - x;.1.1. z.. ur ne<*r inv ulciu^ iu ?jlllcjll it i?> iu ?uplied; this'will save-hauling during the very busy season of spring. And everyone ougiit to provide hinself with a compost distributor,- both fur economizing labor and time and for .securing uniformity of distribution. Various patterns of these are now made over the country, and some of them are simple ; and inexpensive. A revolving cylinder with spikes, in a hopper with slut in the bottom and .movable slides; to. regulate width of slot, constitute the essential parts-ofa.spreader, and almost any farmer can majke^one-forhimself. As spring oats will "be sown lliis month, attention is called to the mixed character of-seed oats sold in the market as Texas rust-proof oats. Last year a good deal sold under that name were not red rust-proof; the crop ripened late and very uequally. The straw of some was tall, soit and giving?quite dillerent from the strong,,stiff straw of the rustproof. Some, seed sold as Texas rustproof is very good, but one should . be cautious and examine closely before purchasing. As a rule, it is better to buy home-raised seed, if it is possible, when one is under the necessity of buying at all. For spring oats, sow spring-grown seed, and those irom a region south of vniir Irwvrlit-v sita tn those from ?/ Y V"" W X' " w~ ? *" " " " a point north, of you. We need fully acclimated varieties. Sow "as early as possible, it is just as well to risk killing by cold when a crop is soivn early, as to run the the- gauntlet of destruction- by the drought and rust in the spring when a crop is sown late. Rich land and bottom land may be sow;i later than poor upland. Have seen good crops of oats on bottom land sown in March. It is ulwaj s well to sow some of the oat crop on such land, if one has any that is well drained. Bottom lands need occasional rest from corn crops, and if the spring :s very dry an oat crop on bottoms pays very, handsomely. By sill means sow a ' *- ,x ,-? ? + on/1* nr-iif O foiT vxv-j/ vi <->4-1.0, iuu n ?> chance. V .- 4 ?c 'v ? A channel lias been cut through frora iTj*ke Los Angeles county, California,'to tiiv ocean, _ but further work ; ywards making a harbor of the lake has. *ieen suspended until the arrival of piles, which are daily expected. Large suction i-ipes have been laid from the iake over vhe bill into a deep valiej, where a steam i iredger will be set to work and the /?r>nvf?vpr1 hv tli a suction t>ir)'es - nil be used as filling for the road, wlucb uis been graded for five miles towards Los Ai'geles. The now *2 silver certiticates have bet:issued. They are?4>ut hold on?if tb< I aited States Treasurer wacts us to noiie* >*> fcis publications he- had better send alonj; sone sa-uple copies. i'LAIN TALK von YOIN<; y.rs. Some Advice I5;tse<! <>n Common Sense ;isid K\ cry-Day Kxpericnce. Yes, si flu J up riglit Vfore us, while we talk to you like a Dnteii uncle. And what are we going to say? Just Save somethiug, young man! Don't spenu a'J you get, and run m uebt Don't blow in your money on cigars, beer, good clothes, or, it may be, a fust j girl. Don't run or incline to that sort j of business. It is demoralizing, danger ous, deadly. There is nothing that, gives a man more ennobling thoughts?bulges out his chest so broadly?fills him with such uli inspiring sense of manliness, as to own something. Try it, and see what a noble pleasure it is to own a piece of land, it may be only a few acres. Perhaps an humble village plot, or a more pretentious city lot, but to own it?to have as all your own, that which yon have paid for, a piece of Gou's good round eaith, 'is to acquire a feeling of security and independence which is the most delicious and profitable experience ia the world. To step out upon?to plant your poor feet squarely on some piece ox land, some little portion of earth and fet 1 that it is all your own? that you alone possess it, tliat it lias been won by your own endeavors, by toil and struggle, through patient working; to know that the grass that greens it, this spot uf earth, you own?the violet that blooms above its verdure, the vines that ornament it are yours to possess and enjoy, gladdening the eye, delighting the senses; that the glad sun will beautify it and the lains of heaven moisten it into brightening beauty, all this brings a sense of pleasure and feeling of contentment that can be realized frcfai no other method of enjoyment. It is freedom, independence, joy! Then to this exquisite and 'ennobling sense of possession may be added the delight of a home, and underneath heaven, there is no joy so pure, so elevating as a well ordered home! Beneath the shade of your own vine and fig tree, clasping your little ones to your heart, with wife in loving communion, the glories and peace of the home of God is only above this lieaven on earth! Yes, young man! Own a piece of land! No one, however small his pay. little his savings, but can in due course of time have a have a home of his own?a piece of the good, wide earth, all his own! .Boys, work for it! Young man, get it, and the State and the nation will be the gainer, and humanity the better oil', for the true nobleness of citizenship is centered in Lim who has earned a home, for that home leads to the observance of law, and respect for constituted authority inculcates moral and Christian duties and these to love for your fellowmen and to i the fear of God! Young man, get a i piece of land.?Exchange. Guarded for Her Diamonds. it is astonishing to me Low tne people who are nut in iS'ew York society strug- j gle for an entrance. The one aim of j their lives seem to be to get within the j circle which, whether it is made up of I what they are pleased to call aristocracy ! or not, has the credit of being, and is ! the goal toward which so many ambitious ; men anu women bend all their energies. ' I have in mind a lady of whom I wrote some time ago, who has no end of money, is a widow, handsome and not too old to enjoy life. She lias been living \ a number of years in Europe, but she j has returned home determined to take ' social life by storm. She has rented a house in one 'of the most exclusive parts ; of town, and she has given choice enter- j tai^ments to. which all the so-called i swells were pleased to come. They ate j her dinners, pronounced her cooking un-! exceptionable and went home to laugh j at her eiforts to be one of tbem. The i charity ball came, and it was given out! that she was to open the ball, but she j didn't: and not onlv that?she took no : z' 4.1 ?r l, ! pudb jlul il:c jlaax^ul. kju?z ?ao o*l the ba.ll, however, and wore $250,000; worth of diamonds. To enjoy this luxury she was guarded by four detec-, tives, two from Tiffany's and two furn- i ishedby the police force. It seems to i me this is taking a great deal of trouble j for a iittle display. I cannot imagine ! anything more uncomfortable than to be i under the eyes of four detectives for an j entire evening. I should certainly feel j as though I were going to be arrested ; for something. Why would it not do j iusr as well to wear a iittle tablet on one's i breast bearing the inscription: "I have j $250,000 worth of diamonds in Tiffany's : safe, but I do not -want to take the risk i of wearing them."?Xew York Letter. Jackson's Gliost. The following story appears in the Richmond State: I send you a thriiling and true account of a ghost which has recently appeared at the' Virginia Military Institute. On the night of the 28th, shortly after 12 o'clock, as the sentinel was walking his lonely beat, his attention was attracted through the sally port to the front of the barracks by a slight sound resembling the rustling of leaves by a gentle wind. Instantly, between the two large forty-six pound siege pieces, there appeared a soldier dressed in a Confederate uniform and mounted on a large gray horse. His sword was drawn, his horse tightly reined up, and two white plumes floated gracefully about his hat. The sentinel at lirst, almost paralyzed with terror, had gazed upon the object, but in an instant, -when the horse had started through the sally port into the courtyard at a round trot, crossing the sentinel's beat, making no audible sound, although he was passing over a solid brick pavement, the sentinel, true to his military principle, challenged with a loud voice, "Who goes there?*' The rider did not heed the challenge, but passed on at the same pace until arriving at an abrupt, dangerous and impassable precipice in the rear of the barracks he vanished. On the next night a similar phenomenon occurred. An old veteran present recognized the grand and imposing rider to be none other than that of General Stonewall Jackson. So far no explanation can be given. James T. Hilton, Lexington, Ya. A .Somnambulist's rromeiKuie. A decided sensation was created on the streets at Akron late last evening !>y a well known lady residing"on North High street coming upon the street in ven airy attire, bting dressed in a single garment in which she hud gone to bed. ISlie walked at least three blocks and crossed two main streets near the heart of thu city, being seen by quite a number of people. A gentleman who saw the lady come irom her house,- and seeing that she was walking away from her home in anything but proper dress, approached her and laid his hand on her shoulder, when he 1 -1 TT~ noticed mat sue was asiwp. j_lu too*, uold of her arm and led her back to he> uouse, where she entered, giving n<> signs that she was awake, though the cold air and frost of the night must havt severely chilled her body, which was idmost nude.?Special to the Cmcinnat. Enquirer. tjik .silk cicoi* roi: thk south. iiov.' the 1'arnsers .May Diversify Their "Work U> Advantage. Loria Blodgett writes to a. '\Vestcm paper: It is possible to nd'i io the pres"Lit crop of the planting States a crop Tint less in it> realized value to the people who grow it than the cotton crop is j | uovx-. I he si lie crop 01 Jhurope has the | chief resource of the northern provinces | -.1' Italy and of several districts of France ! for more than half a century. It is still at the highest position for those coun-; tries, but it cannot be increased and made adequate to supply tins country with silk. It. cannot be increased for reasons connected' with the close occupation of the laud here, the heavy taxes, and the embarrassments ami restrictions on the oceupiers of the soil; the heavy rentals and the absolute need of growing as much food as possible, and tire labor of the people can take care of. In the central and southern States here the situation is v.ir>liv diuWvnt. i.'iiere j is a surplus of land, very lightly taxed, | and not incumbered, but almost a'oso-! iutely out of use, because it docsn^t pay J to fnlti-tTstc if in rtoimit-T.iiir.n vritli the! West. There is no urgent demand for labor to produce food crops and no restriction whatever on the <>' < dom ot tb;* owners of land or the o* en piers of the farms in | tire few cases where the occupants are! the owners. There is no crushing ex-; action of taxes or rentals from the peo-: pie, and the only necessity is to produce a crop changeable directly for money. The cotton crop has had a great position as the money- earning crop of the South, but it does not return the most necessary of the expenses incurred in growing it to the small planter or farmer. It does not pay a dollar for his labor, and it rapidly exhausts all the ' fertility of the soil. It costs largely to prepare for it, and requires long waiting ; to realize what it does yield. Valuable 1 as it still is to the iarjre planters and on ' rich lands, it has ceased to be valuable i ; to .the greater body of the small farmers, j' and especially to the eastern States of the South. But in all these older States bath the soil and the climate especially favor the growth of silk. The mulberry is in- ; digenous, and it grows freely without J cultivation. Any part of the country ; and all classes of lands will produce it > profusely without cost and without ' ploughing or other cultivation. The land : being practically free of taxes, the occu- 1 pants are free to earn the most they can and to use the whole of what they do earn. After the mulberry trees are sufficiently grown it is an easy work to turn them into silk?a few clays only, net more than a month?and the crop of the year j is grown and gathered, ready for sale. 1 Tlie cocoons need no preparation of con- < sequence, or none wwen involves any j material cot>t. If a filature. is near at band they can lie immediately reeled, i and the reeled silk is worth live dollars a J pound?not merely the six or eight cents ? a pound which the ginned cotton brings. !' The cocoons, when gathered, are worth j < eighty cents to one dollar a pound; but j < they are not difficult to reel, and may be j" reeled at one?, as is done in Italy. The ; < full value of the silk can then be realized, j < This silk when reeled is the most en- j < during and permanently valuable of all j ] fibres; as much more valuable for any i definite weight than any other as gold is 1 more valuable than' iron. < There is not the least practical difficul ty in producing silk in any village or on : any farm. No machinery is needed, and < not a dollar need be paid for any tools ] or fixtures. Light feeding frames may 1 be made by any man or intelligent boy < / v Vj. l .1. _ * _ r. i 1. . j? j. i oi iigui ooaras or 01 uraucnes ox trees, j Shelter from storms must be taken to < avoid -wetting or chilling the young 1 worms. The eggs must be kept in a " cool and dry place until the loaves ap pear. It is not proposed to give precise directions here, but only to assure ali 1 intelligent persons that there is nothing ^ more required than every such person j ' can rea iJy learn. If a mistake is made j: in some process once, it may be easily 1 corrected the next time. ! The writer oi' this note has had a life- < time experience in the public service and i a thorough knowledge of the cultivation j and resources of the country for a long J period, and of the South particularly, since 1851. Then the best realization 1 from the cotton crop was still very im- : perfect, because cotton was very little 1 manufactured. Now manufacturers of < cotton in the South are general ana 1 prosperous, but to grow cotton is no |1 longer possible, with profit, on the worn : lands of the esatern States South. Still more, the circumstances of the country are greatly changed, and an im mense consumption of raw silk has been established. The present demand takes 500,000 pounds per month, or 6,000,000 pounds per year, worth ?30,000,000. The imports of raw silk for November, 1886, were 546,035 pounds, vrlue $2,615,174. If half of this were not grown here it would cost the merest trifle to the growers, beyond their time, and would be a net profit of almost its full value. It would be so much directly added to the national resources, and it would all come to those; who have no other .resource to convert their tirae into money. THE SOUTII'S IMntOVEKKNTS. Some of the Leailin;Coiup.ti:Ic.sOrgaiii/.e(l Last Week. The Tradesman's* weekly report of new enterprises in tlie South shows that the remarkable development that has been in progress for some months past in all sections of the South is on the increase. Among the leading orgai izatiOns of the week reported by the Tradesman are the following: Kentucky A* Arkansas Land Company, of Louisville, Ivy., capital, $2,500,000. Peacock Coal. Iron ?fe Improvement Company, of Birmingham, Ala., with 3200,000. Cotton Press at Gainesville, Texas, with $40,000 capital. Cotton factory at Shelby, N. C. Electric light works at Shelbyville, Ala., and Dallas, Texas. Three furniture factories, one at Winston, In. C., one at Home, Ga., unci one at Louisville, Ivy., the latter with $500,000 capital. Goid mine at Marysville, Tenn. Cumberland Iron ;:nd Band Company, of Henderson, Ivy., with .$3,000,000 capital. ' Black B.md Iron luuiroad Com- | pany, at iiv-y, Ala., with i'iM',UO0 cap; tal. Four marble companies in Tennessee and Georgia. iMae raiiru<iu uuiiipaiiiutS; uv.u m xcu uessee, one in North Carolina, one in Florida, two in Texas, one in Arkansas one in South Caroling one in Louisiana. The Tradesman also reports that cotton mills at Chattanooga, Waco, Texas. High Point, X. C., and Charlotte, X. C.. will be considerably enlarged. A large number of smaller industries ire also reported. i> :>'t i'.tii to keep a diary. Kec-p it locked up in a trunk. * THE COTTON' CROP. Unequalled for Cleanliness, Color and J.enjjtli of Staple?Price of Seed is Low. Washington', D. C., February 10? Tiic report of tlie cotton crop of 1885 shows the average at the date of the close <'i the picking season, tlie proportion of the crop marketed on the lirst of February, the quality of the staple, the price of seed and product, compared with that of 1885. The close of the picking is reported the same as last year in the Caroiinas and Texas; one day earner m iuississxppA, iwu xatci j-u Georgia and Louisiana; four in Tennessee and twenty-one in Arkansas. The dates are: North. Carolina, Decom'jer 2; South Carolina, November >0; Georgia, December 1; Florida, No-1 vcmber 27: Alabama, December 22; Mississippi, December?; Louisiana, December!^; Texas, December 3; Arkansas, December 2";: Tennessee, December 5. The later maturing of the crop is extending the season in a few States only. in Arkansas ?h<! season was Itngfhe'oed by the inability to pick the j.1 ::*&\ v rvest. xtetorus vl tu? [?iyuw-, tion 'ii^Tkewd made the Average to February 'i, 1S85, one per cent. At that date about 5,550,000 bales had gone from the plantations. TL'is would indicate a crop of (>,4G0,000 nales, a mere triili' above tlie 2sovember indications. Oi the rate of vieL.1. the proportion by States is as follows: North Carolina ST, South Caroliua S."S, (Georgia 85, Florida S3, Alabama >S7, Mississippi S-l, Louisiana S3, Texas 85, Arkansas Si, Tennessee S3. The quality of the crop is superior. Barely, it ever, have returns of cleanliness and color, combined with the length of staple, equalled those just received. The price of seed is low, and complaint is made of the combination of oil millers to reduce prices. Kenters will sell at Liny prices, sometimes as low as five to eight cents per bushel. The best planters refuse to sell at ruining rates. The iverage in Mississippi and Louisiana is ten cents, eleven in Arkansas, twelve m Texas^and Tennessee, thirteen in South Carolina. Georgia and Alabama,. sixteen in Florida! Feeders 61 cattle and sheep pay the highest ratej The product is larger than iasf year in Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, p,nd smaller in the other States. . The average result from a careful analysis of present returns is an aggregate less than two per cent, lower than that of last year. EXPERIENCE WITH A SILO. J'hc Marvelous Cheapness of the Food it I'rouuecs. Mr. George AY. Koiner, a leading farmer'and stock raiser of Augusta coun:y, Ta., lias furnished the Staunton Vindicator the lolloiviiig account of Lis experience with a silo. "Last August I put up a frame building 12 by 12 and 12 feet high. The frame is <S inches, planked up on both sides. The space between was filled with sawdust. I put in a plank floor and covered with plank, with a door in one corner at the ground. The building did dot cost over $20, with an estimated fnnc On A-nnrncA 0!^ crrciOT* :om -was cut. Not having planted the :-orn for the purpose, and only as an experiment, I selected the lightest growth corn field. 'Tho corn was cut in j ;all inch lengths"t)v steam' power, and j luring the nllicg oi the silo three men :racipeu the cut fodder as tiglt as the/ ;ouid pack it. The silo was only filled juiy half full, not feeling sure that this itlan of house would keep it well. The Lop was then covered with one and a Lialf feet dry wheat chaff and placed loose i)lanks, closely fitted, covering the entire top. Upon the ph.uk was put two feet of stone. The gable ends were mi and flip ioh was f-omDieted sit a cost of about ?1 per ton. "On December 5 I opened the door at the bottom made i'or the purpose of getting the ensilage out. I found it in splendid condition, except a few inches iround the sides and on top. Fearing there would be some trouble to te ?-h rtock to eat it, some of the ensilage was offered to horses, cows and hogs?all ate it at once with as much relish as if it was ^reen clover. After feeding the ensilage a few days to- cows, they increased their flow of milk, besides giving a richer iiiality. The stock, which have been ted upon ensilage alone except access to i straw stack, have increased in weight ind manifest an nirwasm armetite and I taste for it. It is said that green ciover, jut when in bloom, makes as good ensilage as green corn. Clover that will make one and a lialf tons of bay will make twenty tons of ensilage per acre, ;ind corn that will make forty to fifty bushels per acre will make about twenty tive tons of ensilage. IV11KKU is"LULL JtlUKST ? A >"1110 Year Olil Georgia CIiiM Lays Her In the Shade. The Gumming Clarion is informed by Mr. ?>. xerry, who sjjent jasi wcck m Buford, on the Air Lino Railroad, of a ease which rivals the celebrated Lulu Hurst. He, in company with a well known minister of that place, visited the home of a little girl nine years old, and who is rather undersized. They had heard of the child's powers and desired to put them to test. Mr. Terry saw the child lay one hand on the top of a table and niove around the room with it as though it were a mere plaything. Am ordinary chiid of that age could hardly f!>a +rJhlt> nf oil ?,!Y Trvrv who is quite muscular, then took hold of a stout stick, grasping it at each end; the child placed her hands on the stick in the middle, and before lie knew it the stick was wrenched out of his grasp. This experiment was tried a second time, Mr. Terry exerting liis whole strength to hold it, with the same result. A door, which fastened with a button, was then closed and a person p aced outside to push against it. I3y simply placing her hands on the door the button gradually moved until tlr> door was unfastened. It is said that when she touches the wail a person placing his - ear against the opposite side can hear a clicking sound resembling the noise made by a telegraph instrument. i!t is stated, and can be proven, that small stones frequently fall in showers around her while she* is in the house. Xo one can tell where they come from. Also,- that in whatever part of a rc om she is a popping sound is heard :-2) parentiy in the wood- These are only a tow of the feats the child is able to per form. She has bad health and is not I considered bright, but tUvrc can be uo | sort of doubt as to her powers. ?A fresh illustration of the power of music to charm was given in a Kutland louse the other evening. A young man vas playing the guitar late at night an;: >vas surprised at the visit of a good-sized rat. The animal seemed to enjoy tlu aiusic ana slowly came nearer the pert'urmer, until within a few feet of hitu Ifter listening a few minutes the rat uietly disappeared. When a cat sin its do it < ij 1 p irpo.<e3 but simply to ame vs herself. PHOTOGRAPHED IN CHUJRCH. Ho-.v :tn Enterprising Arti.si Secured Pictures of Pscsltlent an?l Mrs. Cleveland. (SpCK^i! Jo the XV*' Yo:k VTo.!<3 ) TFashixgtox, February 7.?For the past few days- a Ciucinnati artist has. been here carrying a letter-box under his arm that Lad every appearance o&an infernal machine. On more than one occasion the yo.uhg ma i has been taken fr>r ? <"vnnir For two davs he has been under police espionage and was at last compeJle^o exhibit the contents of mysteriotaj^x.- Instead /_-f its being'a dangerous contrivance it proved to be only a 'simple and harmless detective can. era, such as is used by amateur pho-. tographeip, which he had been carrying around the city for the purpose of using on the prominent public men and their wives. Yesterday he was at the White I House with bis machine, but was not allowed tp take it beyond the vestibule. | He was desiious of securing an iustani taneous puotogr ?.ph of Mrs. Cleveland j at her reception. Tliis morning the artist stationed him! self at ptifrdoi/r of Dr. Sunderland's church wj&ftBffrthu arrival ox the Presidential carriage, recognizing tiiat thi> would doubtless be his ouly opportunity of sccurincr a i>]iotoj?riij>h of the Pre-i dent's wife in jji^vet costume. It was not luug until the csiriagt^arrived at the church door containing the President and r\Er^. Cleveland. As the party alighted the aiti-t set the mechanism of the mysterious lox in motion and it was. performing its work. ?>Irs. Cleveland saw the artist ant th? box. In a moment she appreciated the situation. As quick as thought she wr eathed her face with smiles, looking at the young man and the box, which he still held halt' concealed under his arm, bowed politely aif to thank him for his enterprise, and passed into the church. The President also saw the machine and looked displeased. After the sermon had begun the artist seated himself in the church gallery and succeeded in getting th ee excellent photographs of Mrs. Cleveland and the President as they appeared in church. IT S3IELLS OI" WA H. Powders-Makers Preparing for {lie C'uutf:sij)latett Conflict. (F.-cm lie IV.sSaii- iphla lUor'.) Ag a straw that shows .which, way the European war wind blows, the people of Wilmington are attaching a great deal of importance to the unusual activity at the I) upon t Powder Hills on the Uiandywine, a few miles from that city. The mills have never in their history been more busy, and the men are worked night and day in some parts of the great establishment, which is turning out black powder such as soldiers use in war by the tons. The powder-makers are told that the orders no-.v on hand cannot i-.fi" fillo/i -f.icf ..'i.M'fi-ii Mr.,"I tlioso wli tions oi' an unprecedented demand for the article Lave strengthened the current, belief that the Duponts are shipping large quantities of explosives to Prance or Germany, ar. d that the war in Europe is coming surely in the spring. The ollice of the Ilupauno Chemical Works at Thompson's Point, X. J., is situated now in Wilmington, and it can be stated with positiveness that their .mills, at which the most destructive explosives in the world arc manufactured, are as busy as the Dupont works. The mills of the latter company arc the most famo.:.s in the world, and have mrwt nKvnvs fnrni<!i<?r) a luro-p tvronnrrinn of powder io European nations on the eve of a war. Jo.ii before the FrancoPrussian -war tL. nulls were rim on extra time, as is the ease nowj and tliis "was taken then, as now, to be a pretty sure harbinger of war. The Duponts are very cautious when the newspaper men arc around, and they say to all such inquisitive people that they are not exporting large quantities of powder, but iu nearly every instance when their mills have been ousie&t, and just before an European struggle, the same reply has been made to the press. They do not deny, however, the unusual activity at the mills, but declare in an indifferent sort of way that the powder is for' the powder is for the coal regions. If this ]m frioro i? r.ivimicf i\t tin e\*f rnorf? nary coal supply and cneap fuel this spring. Knowing people at Wilmington, however, smile vben the coal region story is told, and declare that it is a musty old chestnut. INSTEAD OF JJEING HANGED. Whiit Elecfri?ti:i:is S:ty of Taking l.ife by Means of h Battery. (From th-> X- w Y r'.< St.-'.r.) Some New York physicians think tha^ improvements in hanging are urgently needed. They want to make the death penalty easy, pleasant and delightful. Electricity has been proposed by them for capital punishment, and the Legislature yesterday considered a bill to substitute the electric battery for the hang-rv> n T-* 'c yrw\/\ j-Liau. o xvj-rc. An electrician at the- Ed son building in Pearl street, where electricity is manufactured for illuminating purposes, was yesterday sisked how people might be killed with neatness and dispatch In electricity. He said that it was the easiest matter in the world. All a condemned man would have to do at the hour and moment when lie was to leave the world for brighter climes, would be to take hold of two wires, one connected with a positive battery and the other with a negative battery. Acting thus as a conductor between the two wires the electricity would go through him like a stroke of lightning. He would die in an infinitesimal fraction of a second. His taking oil would be as painless as it was sudden. He would never know what had hit him. He might stand on two plates, receive the electric current through his toes a Ail die with his boots on. He migh^ sit in a chair with his feet resting on the plates and Jic comfortably. Killing the condemned by electricity is a humane, civilized and scientific way uf disposing oi them. A man is usualh sixteen minutes in dying at the end of a hangman'o rope, and he usually sulfers a great deal before death comes to relieve him. A one-Cell battery would kill all the prisoners who will ever be hanged in the Tombs under the present law. The only people opposed to the use of electricity in capital punishment are the hangmen, and they are opposed to it because it would throw them out of work. If the. gallows are taken down ail the hangmen in the country will strike. Los* cf Flfah end Ssireogth With poor appetite, r.a:i perhaps slight ouirh iti morning. or 01: iirs-t lying down t night, should he looked to in time. Per ons iiffifcted Viith consumption are ]>: o verbially unconscious of their real state. Most easescommcnce with disordered liver. <- .dinir to had digestics and imperfect v..imilation of food?hence the.emaciation, r waiting of the fle>h. It is a form of - roful'us disease, and is curable by the -L' <<( lh ;t greatot of all blood cleansing, nti-bilious :irui invigorating compound , "ii'.vr: Dr Pierce's "G- ldetl 3letflca D -covery." SHERMAN AND ULAIIi. I A Presidential Ticket that is 3Itich Talked Al>ot:t.' (F.on the vr.i'liiEu'rcn Rcpuh'xar.) The presidential ticket makers about Washington are bilking a great deal o: j Sherman and Blair as the Republican candidates for 188$. It is claimed that the two Senators would form a peculiarly i strong combination on account of the j variety of causes to which their prominence is due. A leading western Senator, who would not allow his name to be used in this connection, for obvious rea. sons, spoke of the ticket with enthusiasm in conversation with a reporter. "Senator Sherman," said he, "hasthe confidence of ihe business mon in every j suction of the couLtrv in a greater ue-; j;ree than any other man in public lil'e. j His wise and conservative policy as See-! rutary of the Treasury and his soundness \ on. ax: me miporrauc questions ?ineu have engaged the attention of Congress in tlie last twenty years mark him as an absolutely safe man to put in tiie Wliite House even if he did not possess any brilliant qualities of mind. In one particular he is unique. Although, a Western man, and of coarse deeply interested in the progress of his section and alive to its peculiar interests, he is as well liked by the great financial movers of Xew York and the factory men of Massachusetts as he is by the farming element of tiie west. You will not find that the Senator's name is very general!f lauded by the politicians on account of . h >; personal popularity, for he does not ' travel on his "magnetism," so to speak; , bat go north, east, south or west and j. \ ou will hear people say: "Sherman is a j, s ;fe man. The business interests of the !: country can rely on him." This, it j seems to me, is the greatest praise that j : could be bestowed on a statesman. Per- j. sonal magnetism, brilliancy on the L slump, and solidness with boys are all i 1 very well in their way, bat business j, men think more of sound principles, |' conservatism, and long legislative ex-! perience. Senator Sherman is one of i the very few statesmen who have not, in j1 the course of a long public career, gone : wrong on some important question? 3 hence the widespread confidence he in- 1 spires. He could certainly carry New s York, which is likely to be again the 1 Pivotal State in 1888, and it is more than J probable that Connecticut, Indiana and 1 Xew Jersey would go with him. The * Republican campaign with Senator Sher- 1 cian as the stsndard-bearer would, be a " thoroughly aggressive one. The princi- < vies of the Republican jjarty have never J needed any defense, and with the Ohio Senator on the ticket the candidate would need no defense either. His ] record ever since he entered politics is , pure, and there is nothing to hide or explain. Of course there would neces- ( S-irilv be petty campaign lie:?, but they . would aliect" the Senator just as the ! throwing 01 pebbles would affect the < Washington monument. Senator Blair would. I think, make the strongest kind of a second in this ( ticket. In the first place, he is from the e 1st. Then his strength is of a peculiar ^ kind which would swell the Republican in /Innl-.irfnT -Tic Pdrninf and consistent temperance record would i lie worth thousands of votes to the ticket < in New York State alone where, among '< temperance people, he is looked upon as < a sort of apostle. Xo one doubts the 1 sincerity of the man or attributes his } profession of temperance principles to a * desire for political gain. He is known t to be opposed to rum on principle, but < lie is one of those who beheve that the liquor traiiic can be regulated better by the Republican party than by any third party organization. He does not see the expediency of breaking up ibe grand old party, which has taken the lead in every species of progress and reform during the past thirty years, in order to advance i urohibibnrv r>lans of more than doubtful ( feasibility. With the conservative tern- < perance people his name is a tower of f strength, and there are enough there in i the very quarters where their votes are t needed, to swell the Bepublican vote to ; such proportions as would clear away all j doubts of success in 1888. i Another great element of strength in i the Senator is the favor with which the J South looks upon his efforts to promote c education in their section. I am nut one 1 of those who think that the South is 1 going to remain forever "solid." I be- i iieve that with a man on our ticket who 1 would represent some idea that is popu- J i:.ir in the South we could gain two or 1 perhaps three States next time. Yir- t "inift. win know. is strrmolv in favor of ( the Blair educational bill. It is likely to i go Republican any how in 18S$, but 1 with. Senator Blair on the ticket assurance would be rendered doubly sure. The same may be said of Tennessee, i which, in a national contest, is a close ' State. West Virginia would likely fall iu line also, since the Blair bill has more advocates there proportionately than in any other State in the Union. So, ali things considered, I think the Hepubli- i cans could not name-a stroDger ticket < two years hence than Sherman and < Blair. The Tobacco Tax. The prospects for the repeal of ihe tobacco tax at the present session of Congress is anything but cheering, A long corresMotidenri! between Messrs. \Y''y son ar.'l Kan da! I and Speaker Carlisle has i Veil given to the press. Life is too short :nd our space too valuable to 111! it up \vi;i: his mal:er exclusively. Br icily tiie letters ! f these gentlemen explain why no motio:. ! was made to pass the bill under a susp-.-a- ! -i'jii <;f the rales last Monday. The Washington correspondent) of the Richmond , Whi'j informs that paper that Speaker Car lisle had said that it' he recognized any one to make the motion it would be Mr. Kelley, if Peur.sylvania, "a Republican, but tin Democratic friends.of riie measure though! i;it the motion should com? Irom a Democrat. Accordingly, a committee addres-jic i fa li?m u- n <r !.?m t, recognize a Democrat to rr.;:ko i!ie motion. ;> it lie then refused to recognize any one for that purpose.?Charlotte Chronicle. ?Near Willow Creek, Cal., a few days 1 ago, a Mexican was riding along on liiliovse with the reins tied to his wrist and playing a harmonica. v;Len the horse go: frightened at t^o iioi.se and commenced backing, throwing liirn oil, and ar- ii?. was unable to unfasten the reins from his wrist, lie was dragged to death. Deputy Siit-rlll' Caton, of ^hidisonvilie. ivy., ;v?.ysted i?y Mr. G;;L>b, of Se'or.rv, vvlii-e, iiiremiiti*.)^ to icvy on lhe prop riy if :> nv.:i cai?e:,t MeElroy, its WcUstf-r o-.mtv. f. r v.:"-yM ta.vs. u-as attacks! l.y M :Elroy \vi;h an u\e. (J-jbb ro civ,-,'::?r<-b- J tbly ;i "wound, w!.<\i Canton >r J killed ikElruy. ?Jack Harvey, an eccentric cLaracte; of Pittsburg, Pa., d;eu Friday, aftc-i living a miserly Lie for over fifty years, lie left 5*0,Go!) in an old tin can which | iie bad buried in the yard back of the f <hanty. An exchange speaks of a man "with doubl< t-.-th who can crack a walnut. Tha' i :v-.thing. There is a policeman in Iiosto: vho has a set of false ttctb, and he ca; rack a cocoanut. .V spendthrift says 'chac he found out J li.- i 1 overing his house with m'-rtu.-igcs didn 11 ?keep the raiu out in wet weather. MEANEST SCOUNIv. >EL ON EAIITH. Persons differ as to what constitutes the meanest crime of -which man can bo guilty. Some particular offense or crime strikes a deeper, daiker horror to the mind of one person more than another; but there are a few deeds so much more damning titan all others, that their mere mention thrills the heart, soul and mind -with a cold, shivering, shuddering horror. We copy part of a letter v ritten by Luther Benson some time ftco. detailing an offense committed by a demon in Iranian shape that would. make a tiend tun: pale and hide liis head in shame. Here it is: "A man who had for years been bound in the chains of appetite for strong drill!*, and who had resorted to every means to burst the bondage, as a last resort. went to an inebriate asylum and remained sir months; then feeling he had th-j mastery of his passion for drink, returned to his home, family and friends. A former chum and bummer proclaimed he would make the man break his pledge, and in order to accomplish "us hpudish act, he, for weeks and months, hounded,. hunted and tempted this"" aSicted man, until at last he yielded, and is again fallen. At this time Ms .. . family are in rags and starving for bread; and he is on the chain gang breaking stone. The man who will persuade another to break his pledge, or LVJlXi ; J L LI A.JLLX \,\J JLiiO 1UL^? OUGHT TO DIE, and when such a traitor dies, and his miserable carcass ftiust be disposed of, if only to avoid the stench and loathsome putridity, which it would necessarily engender, take it to some mountain chasm away from the haunts of man, where no foot ever trod before, where the bright beams of God's sunlight never shone, where moonlight and starlight never entered; to some spot so damp and gloomy that birds and beasts avoid the place, .ind hurry from its shadows as though it were ths banqueting house of fiends and THE HOME OF THE DA3INED, vhere the blackness of darkness reigns supreme, and the jutting rocks and . ragged crags are enveloped Id the dim, impenetrable darkness of eternal night, L*A i~i r.y, or*/J i />lr e* Z\J iXu.KX ao iv iiaug aiuuuu them like funeral pyres, where the dark mu smoky icicles of eternal despair as they hung pendant from, the reeking, slimy cliff are but mute fingers pointing :o the fitting place to bury such a jvreieh; and from these icy finghr-points 2rop the thick, clotter gore of his victim is tear-drops of despair upon the traitor. Dig DEEP, DEEP, DEEP AS HELL ITSELF, bury him face downward, and with tne pen of eternal misery and tiie hand of universal scorn, write ndon his back in iharac'ers made lurid by his base, cow irdiy arid damning caime, "Xo ressurrection forever and forever.5' Tnen let :liat shriveled sonl wake up in the fiery "uruace whose. sides are red-hot -with creeping flames, and let him, with blis:ered lips and parched tongue, cry for )ne drop of water, and for answer, let here come to his ears the SWEET TOUXD OF CALLING P.AIN* md the ripple and murmur of clear ;rystil streamlets, and that he may be dune in his torment, let the devils draw )li' from him as one whose crime makes lim unfit for their companionship and )oint flaming fingers of scorn at him md with -tongues of forked," hissing" iamo, cry in his ears eternally and former, "Traitor against God." BLSKOP SI3IPSOVS TOMB. rhe Beautiful Mausoleum Erected by 3Irs? Simpson in West Laurel Kill. (Fiom the Philadelphia liecord ) On the edge of a declining slope in the iorth western part of West Laurel Hill Cemetery stands the grand mausoleum irected to the memory of Bishop Simpson by his widow. It occupies an eleva;ion overlooking a beautiful landscape, ;brough -which wends the narrow schuyikili. The structure, composite jothic in style and cruciform in shape, a 22 h by lt>? feet in dimension, includng the wings at the side, and 24 feefc iigh from its base to the top of the ;rosses on the main building. It looks ike a miniature church. There are five vindows and four trefoils of. cathedral stained glass giving iignt to the chamber, which is 10 by 10 feet in the clear. Eight cajecombs, four on each side, jiuit of white Italian marble, occupy ;bc wings of the structure, wliile in the ientre of the chamber is the sarcophagus n which rests the dead body of the jishop. Upon the end of the tomb is the inscription: "I shall be satisfied when I iAv;ike in Thv likeness." Then follows: Olatthew Simpson, Bishop of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church. Born, fune 21, 1811. L>ied, June 18, 1884." lhe lot upon which the mausoleum is erected is circular in shape, ninety feet a diameter and surrounded by a granite joping. The prevailing feature of the tvhole structure is its simplicity. ?i w MORE ABOUT THE MATTHEWS CASE4 \fAn T nc.lo in f V.A Charges of Bribery. v,"\s:iixc.tox, D. C., Februarys.?The remainder of ttie documents bearing upon !he nomination ^f 3Ir. .JamesC. Matthews, :>f Albany, X. Y., to be Recorder of Deeds for ihe District of Columbia, were made public to-day in conformity with the re;nov;il of the injunction of secrecy by the Senate in secret session yesterday. The greater part of the petitions and memorani; received from persons outside of Washington appear to have been originated by Mr. Win. H. Johnson, colored, of Albany, X. Y., whose name leads those attached .to the petitions and whose signature alone is ittached to a number of Jong letters, aei-u-ing Matthews of attempts at bribing iiim, intimidation of colored voters and of uttering threats of removal of colored men i'rom employment at the State capital un ie.-s they voted the Democratic ticket. John5 ;rt further asserts that ia past years Matthews -v.is, with him, an earnest Republican worker, but changed his politics from corrupt motives. Among the protesting >l :cunicn'ts is an editorial from the Troy Tcleyram, characteriyjag Matthews as the <.vor>t kind of offensive partisan; report of iic executive committee of the Columbia, s;)c:n:!cratic club defining its position upon home rule; and a letter from J. Owen Moore, of Washingtondale, Orange county, X. Y , leciarinur that "Matthews is a scoun. ii'cl -.n-1 is only using his black skin as stock in trade in politics." . The Asides-sou Koad L?w. S :;.- 'or Murray has raised a rov.* in his >u::ty by Ins new rafid law, and is busy rying to satisfy his constituents. The law p"ovid;> th-it :he roads in Audeison county liust he worked enough days to put and Keep them in thorough order, and the provisions of the hill are .stringent enough to ;ocomp!i.-h this end. There is, also, a -mall levy made for macadamizing parts of >1 the road which arc so spongy that ordi :nry work cannot euro the delects, liie r.v i? an excel lent one unci we wish it had eeu extended to this county. The howl - ! principally by -Mr. Murray's oppol, who would seek uny opportunity to \-n<:er him unoopular.?Spartanburg iler* al/L A