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VOL. XLIII. WIXXSBQRO, S. C., WEDNE^AY, MAY 18, 1887, NO. 42, #
ALL ABOUT THE BAPTISTS.
MEMBERSHIP OF THE CTIVKCIi JN
THE SOVTHEKX STATES.
The Session in Louisville of Representatives
?f the Immense Membershii>~Important
Features of the Convention?
Sisht-Seeinpr and Ilusiness Meetings.
(Letter to the Augusta Chronicle.)
According to the latest returns, which
Lave been recently made up from officio 1
fcL sources, there are in the fourteen SouthWk
em States and the Indian Territory
2,050,985 Baptists. 0: these 1,005,171
are white, and are in accord with the
body known as the Southern Bsp~i?i
Convention. This is the boj]^vhose sessions
have been held i$fthe beautiful
the Broadway
^v-2?2$SBF^?nebu.ildii2g is of ornate design
and modem architecture, and ranks
with the churches of which Drs. Ecmphill
and Willi tts are pasters, as among
the finest and most costly religious edifices
of the South. Through three daily
sessions the spacious auditorium has
been filled with representatives from
L every South of the Pennsylvania line
^ and the Ohio river. From- Georgia there
' were fifty-five delegates, and Georgia
furnishes the president and secretary.
This makes the fifteenth session over
which Dr. Ivlell, Chancellor of the University,
has presided, and the seventh at
which the secretary has served at the
long table.
The reports of the two Boards of the
convention, which control the operations I
respectively of home and foreign missions
demonstrate a year of great prosperity.
Indeed, I hear from all sides
gratulations from almost every' body of
Christians. The year has been one of
large increase in numbers and greater
efficiency than for many years past.
There have been contributed, as report- i
ed to this convention, for foreign mis- j
sions $S7,S30.53, and for home missions j
$122,097.20. The foreign stations of the
convention are established in Brazil.
Mexico, Italy, Africa and China. The
number of missionaries is 116, and of
churches and stations for preaching 65.
There are 25 schools, with "587 pupils.
Among the many interesting features of
this work abroad was the erection in the
dense population of the city of Shanghai
of a chapel, entirely at the expense of a
native Christian, and consequently at no
cost to the convention. The whole of
China has been thrown open to Christian
missions bv imperial edict.
la the department of home missions j
there had been 251 missionaries sus- i
9 tained who had supplied pulpits at S22 j
t points in the South and the island of j
* Cnba. This force of Christian workers
had gathered together Hi) churches, and
had built 62 new houses of worship at
a cost of over $00,000. The number of
persons added to the churches was
6,242. The most wonderful advance in
Christian missions, considering the time
and means expended, has been that in
the neighboring island of Cuba, and it
has been described as never having been
suipassea in the history of modern missons.
In^W^rnl.p-r 1SS5, a missionary,
and in the fdllowing month' a church"!
was constituted in Havana, which, at the j
last report, az'ter one year's operation, j
contains over three hundred members, !
and two other churches have been estab-!
lished. An attempt is to be made in the i
immediate future for the erection of a j
Baptist house of "worship in Havana.
One of the most important -works accomplished
by the Board has been that
of affording doctrinal and practical injgar"
straction to colored ministers and church
W officers. A number of very learned and
K able men have been employed in gatheri
Inglhese leaders of the negro population
together for the purpose of instruction.
In this work Georgia, Alabama, Florida, ;
iiaryland and Mississippi reap the bene"ms.
There are also twenty preachers of
this race employed in the State of Texas.
About these times there leak out certain
little instances of heroism and sacrifice
which could not be known, perhaps,
otherwise than through the dry details
of reports. One of these concerns
the Citadel Square Church in
Charleston. It so happened that just
^ before the terrible earthquake, which
not only shattered their church, but
* which also destroyed many of their i
homes, the process of collecting the reg- j
ular contribution for missions was in {
progress. Although dismayed at the
vast proportions of the calamity upon
them, this church finished their coiiec- J
tion for missions, while without a sancfc|
nary in which to meet, and while they
I had nothing but the green sward lightened
by the smile of God's sun where
they coald be gathered together. Some
might sneer at this enthusiasm and term
it fanaticism, but to me it looks like
common old-fashioned honesty. They
did not own the money that had been
given for a specific purpose, and no
right could possibly exist for diverting
it from the purpose for which it was
V given. But it was grand, nevertheless.
is The speakiug ia tnis convention is always
of the highest older of merit. It
takes a tremendous amount of gail in an
ordinary man to seek to address and interest
700 men drawn from the beat and
i ? _ _ i x>
rmoss aavancect ana tnouguiiiu men
the South. So that whoa arguments are
to be made theie is a general dependence
upon the more able and eloquent
men. One of the Northern visitors in
" his address quoted the remark of a prisoner
who had been captured by Eome,
and after his release and return to his
home, described his captors as a "nation
of Senators." That might be a little
overdrawn, but still it is a serious thing
to take the tioor before such a body. Ii
the calibre is small and the ammuniti^ju
weak, the poor fellow soon discovers it
?not by any discourtesy of the auditors,
but by some inexplicable intuition that
his silence would be golden, and his
_ . "farewell" be better than his "howdy."
Jfhe serraon preached before the condition
this year was by Dr. George
Cooper, of Richmond. It was a glowing
fervid disquisition upon "the Expecting
Christ" ascending on high, and now
seated upon His thione, "from henceforth
expecting" until His cause should
triumph and the principles of kingdom
prevail. Thus far strong addresses ol
more average ability have been
made by Dr. Edward Hudson, of New
York, the son of the veteran missionary,
Adoniram Judson, by l)r. George 0.
Lorimer, of Chicago, Bev. 31r. Dixon,
. of Baltimore, Dr. C. 0. Bitting, of the
Publication Society, and Dr. J. P.
Greene, of St. Louis. Dr. Judson's address
on Saturday nigiit moved a vast
concourse as 1 have seen few assemblages
moved, and following it came the rat-1
^ tHn? and disconnected remarks of a 1
Sinister of Augusta who rightly compared
himself' to a small boy following :
Giimere's band who was set to the worS
of raising some 82.500 for the future
operations of the Board of Foreign IMissions,
which was done under the abiding
influence of the speech of the great sol
pi the greatest missionary.
A T AT IMLACK IJOTTLE.
Filleil io the Cork 'With Five DoI3::r Trcsury
Notes.
There came to Lght in Macon j esterday
a Zsc.v Year's story that "would fitly
adorn a temperance lecture.
A bright little girl gave away what
was regarded as a pleasing secret. It
happened in this way: The Telegraph
man stumbled into a millinery store yesterday
and while waiting to get the" attention
of the lady who makes the female
I population pretty, idly listened to a conversation
between a customer?evidently
the wife of a mechanic?a .d the milliner.
The lady was looking at a very
pretty bat for her little girl who stood
at her side.with hungry eyes. The hat
was purchased, and the Telegraph man
mentally thought it looked like extravagance
for a mechanic's family to throw
away four dollars and a half on a little
girl's hat.
As this was the only purchase in which
tli? child seemed interested, slie sided
up to where tlie Telegraph man was
standing and artlessly said: "We dot
lots er money now." 'The reporter here
mentally cursed himself for forgetting
to buy a ticket for the last lottery drawing.
"Where did you get it, sis?"
"Papa broke th' bottle?"
"Broke the bottle?"
"Essur; th' bottle was jus' as fuller
money as it tood be, an' we's 'ich now."
No true reporter can be idle when such
an item as tins is in speaking distance,
and it was not more than a few minutes
before the child's mother was persuaded
into telling the following" story,
and yet she never dreamed that every
word of it was being jotted down by the
shorthand linger of memory upon the
thumb worn page of a mental note book:
"I have passed through the ordeal of
a drunkard's wife, and 1 am too happy
now to go over what and how much I
suffered. My husband drank heavily
and often half of his wages went for
drink, lie kept a large black bottle of
whiskey ail the time in the house, in
addition to what he drank in town. On
Christmas Eve night live years ago he
came home drank, and as something had
gone wrong -with him, he was in the
worst kind of a humor. Our oldest boy
was in the crib very sick with the fever,
and there was not a cent of money in the
house to buy him the cheapest toy. My
husband had been away from home all
day and being drunk had forgotten all
about his Chnstmas. I put my husband
to bed ai d returned to the bed side of
my dying boy to watch and weep. It
was nearly daybreak when I saw my
precious son sinking* fast. Rushing out
of the house I called in a lady friend,
and then aroused my husband. The
sleep had somewhat sobered him, and
as he loved Lis boy devotedly, he was
soon bending over the little fellow, begging
him to say something to him.
"The little fellow slowly turned his
eyes toward his father and said: I'm
going to die, papa, for I see the angels
VtrUn-ULLLLLg i-LLC tU CUiiLC. J..LLU5 A3 V/JUJUOir
mas morning, papa; please let me see
what Santa Clans put in my stocking,
ily husband went to the mantle and
took down the little stocking. It was
empty! He stood still and stared at it
for a minute, and God only knows the
agony or his heart in that short time.
He turned to say, but our boy would
"breaking heart"allowed *t6~spea&r Our
boy was dead!
"The day before New Year's my husband
called for the bottle. 3Iay God
forgive my feelings at that minute, for I
wished he, too, was dead. I obeyed him
mechanically. To my surprise, he took
the bottle in his hands and, pouring the
whisky on the ground, said: 'I wiil
drink no more; and the money I would
spend for whiskey we will put in this
bottle, and all enjoy the contents.' You
can imagine how happy I was. He had
sworn oii' many times before, but I knew
he was in earnest this time. We made a
calculation, and estimated that whiskey
cost him, taking the past year as a basis,
on an average of live dollars a week.
You see a good deal of his money went
to pay court fines for drunkenness. Well
12. J ^ J - ji i~ 11 . n i_
li was uecxueu to put nve uoiiars a w ee*.
in the bottle for live years, come what
would. The time was out last New
Year's day, and the big black bottle was
broken. "Now figure up how many five
dollars that bottle contained!"
"Two hundred and sixty."
"Yes, or ?1,000 dollars. But this was
not all. We saved enough in that time
outside of the bottk to buy a little
home."
"But are you not afraid in breaking
the bottle your husband will break his
resolution?"
"No; because we have started another
bottle bank," said the lady with a happy
smile.
The husband is a Macon mechanic,
well knovv- and enjoys the respect asid
esteem of all. He says he never knew
how much genuine pleasure there was at
home with bis loved ones until he got
sober enough to appreciate it, and to fill
instead of empty the fat black bottle.
The Trouble With. Oi<! Virginia.
General Imboden. the noted Confederate
leader, is in the employ of the
treasury department as an expert on the
subject of the natural resources ami
transportation in "Virginia. He has just
completed an exhaustive report on the
manufactures and trade of the dominion,
Kandolph Tucker, after reading General
Imboden's reoort. told a storv which, he
said, explained why Virginia had not
"made more progress in business."
' One day in the house," said ho,
' Bragg, of Wisconsin, told me the secret
of oar backwardness. He said that in
war time he was marching toward Culpepper,
and on the road met an old
clergyman. The poor fellow was ragged,
unshaven and terribly seedy. Bragg
"topped him and asked how far it was to
Culpepper.
"Two miles, sir," said the minister.
"Well," said Bragg, "is it much of a
town?"
"No; it is not a very big town," replied
the clergy raac; and then, with a
brightening of the eyes and a proud,
stilxening of his long, thin frame, he
added, "But, sir, General Washington
once had his headquarters there."
That, to Mr. Tucker's mind, show why
Virginia -ices not go ahead. She clings
too el?' viy traditions and memories of
the past.?Exchange.
lac KKPOKT OF TIT*: BUKFAU OF STA:
Tisrics just received shows that the impel
ts for the month of March amount
i*2, being an increase over the
same moi::h. of last year of- $2,890,000.
The largest increase* in article was in
coffee and tin plate. Dutiable goods
only increased but little over $1,OOO.OOU.!
The imports for the nine months ending
March 31 amounted to S50S,875,387, an
increase of $8^,000,000 over the same
period of last year. Of this increase
nearly ?27,000,000 was in dutiable and
the remainder in free goods. At the
average rate of duty, this shows an increase
in customs over last year of about
612,000,000. The imports of sugar fell
off about ?3,000,000, which indicates
either that more was produced or that
less is being used.
WHO X-IFi: OX THE BOHDEK.
I Three Mexicans Who Tried to Itob a SheriJ?
and "What Happened.
(From the Philadelphia North American.)
A tali, sjjare man, -with glittering
black eyes tiiat stared you unflinchingly
in the face, lounged carelessly around
the Continental Hotel last night.
It was James Hart, who was at one
time sheriff of a little town in the southwestern
part of Texas.
The town at the time of Hart's election
was fairly overrun by lawless people.
"I reckon I seen some putty excitin'
times on the frontier," he said to a North
American reporter.
' People out my way use ter say I
couJd lite. Well, mebbe I kin and
mebbe I can't.
"I remember onct?that was just after
I was elected?that it became known I
had some dust hid in my bedroom.
"One night when we war asleep three
demed greasers kem in and tried to
steal it."
"Did they get away with it?" asked
the reporter.
"Stranger," said the ex-sheriff deliberately,
"considerin' that there air three
graves jes on the other side of my house
with the bodies of three greasers in 'em,
it is putty safe to say they didn't git the
dust."
"Thar kem to our town one day," continued
the ex-sheriff, "a young feller
irom tne east. Jtiis name wiiar ?>ob
Chambers, en he whar as bright and as
hansome a youngster as I ever laid eyes
on. All the gals in town and on the
neighboring ranches got dead stuck on
him,
"At thet time Tom Parker kept the
'Quickstep Concert Saloon.'
"His daughter Nellie sang on the
stage, and dnrned purty gurl she whar.
"She had a way of lookin' at ye with
them big black eyes of hern that would
make you feel like jura pin' up and kissin'
her.
"The minit Chambers seen her he fell
head over heels in love with her.
"Night after night he'd be seen at the
'Quickstep' listening to thet gal sing,
not thet she hed sech a good voice, but
on account of her purty face.
"Dick Sanders, the son of a rich
rancher, was also in love -.vith the gal.
She didn't seem ter take to 'im, en' she
told him so one night.
"He didn't say no thin', but turned on
his heel and went out. It was nearly a
month afore he turned up again.
"One bright morning a vanquero
found the dead body of Bob Chambers
lying by the roadside, near an old hacai.
A bullet hole in his head showed how he
was killed.
"In his hand he clinched tightly a
gray coat button.
"When Nelly heard of Bob's death
she nearly went crazy.
"One day she disappeared, and was
never afterward of.
"It was late on Saturday night.
"The saloon was full of "men drinkin',
smokin' and playin' kyards.
"Sanders kem in en and started a
small game.
"I noticed one of the buttins of his
coat was missin'.
"Sez I to myself, 'Dick, me boy, ye
air the one who gave Chambers his settler.
I'll 'rest you.' \
"I slid up to him, and placing my
shooter agin his head, said ouietly:
1LJ
espy s cell dowrr
" 'Wat fur?' he said up in an instant,
and layin' his hands on his weapons.
" 'None of that! hands up over your
head.' .
" 'Ye air wanted for killin' Bob Chambers.'
" 'It's a lie,' he yelled; 'ye ain't got
no proof.'
" 'Mebbe not, bnt d'yo ever see that
afore?' says I, tossing the gray button
on the table.
"Sanders turned the color of chalk,
and then said:
"Well, I suppose I might as well
g'long an' 'prove my innercence in
court.'
"Yes; yer hoss and mine, already saddled,
stand afore the door."
"Didn't he show any fight?" asked the
reporter.
"Naw," was the response; "it wouldn't
do fur him to show fight in thet place.
Chambers was werry popular, and the
hull darned town would a fit to kill his
murderer if riled. Sanders knowed this.
"As Laredo was too far away I couldn't
take him down thar thet night, so I
started for Jake Hoberts's place, about
ten miles from town.
"The darkness was so dense that you
could have cut it with a boarding house
knife.
" 'Bout the only thing you could hear
above the clatter of the horses' hoofs war
the chirpings of the night insects and
birds in the trees.
"We stopped at a ranch, got a drink
en' then pushed on.
"I noticed Sanders keep eyein' the
thick underbrush that lay like a shadow
long me ciars roaa.
"I thought he wanted to escape, and j
so I says: 'The fust move ye make, Sanders,
I plug ye with lead.'
' He didn't say nothin', hut looked
strate afore him after that.
"Just as we got to a portion of the
road that skirts a lonely lake Sanders
imitated the screech of a night owl.
"? knew what that meant, though.
"Quick as lightning I slid offer my
hoss to the ground.
"I was just in time.
"A dozen rifles belched forth their
contents.
"My horse dropped dead.
"Sanders put n^icc, uut
not soon enough.
"Up went my gun.
"Crack!"
"Sanders fell over his animal dead as
a door nail.
"As soon as I fired I changed my position.
It wur well, fur another volley
whistled thro' the air.
"I jumped into the lake, swam across
and made my way hack to the town.
"I got a posse of men and went after
them as tried to rescue Sanders.
"They were his father, brother and a
half-dozen ranchers.
"The father and brother escaped, but
the others danced a jig in the air.
"Thet's the way we live down in
Texas," continued the ex-i-heriff, as he
i ^ ? MWXi VUliiW UV"U ,
some time."
?The Mexican earthquake seems not
to liave been "without its compensations.
It is stated that the seismic disturbance
has ied to the discovery of both gold and
water in the district aii'ected, two articles
j that are very much needed. The average
Mexican, judging by his personal
uppcarance, is not as familiar with the
use of water, either in the way of internal
applications, as he should be. As to
gold .he is about on a par with the rest
of mankind?he doesn't walk lop-sided
from carrying too much of it in his
pocket. But if one earthquake has made
water plenty in a Mexican district where
water was unknown before, it may require
another earthquake to induce the
inhabitants to use enough of it to do
them any good.
When everything else [fails, Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures.
CONDITION Or THE CROPS.
The ?-Iay Ileport of the National Departuiejit
of Agriculture.
The report of the United States Department
of Agriculture for May relates
to the condition of winter grain, the
progress of spring plowing snd the proportion
of the proposed cotton area
already planted. It indicates a decline
in the condition of wheat of two points
sir.ce April 1st, the general average for
the whole country being S6, against 95
at the same date in 1SS6, 70 in 1885, and
91 in 1881. The changes in condition
have not been uniform throughout the
winter wheat region, some States showing
an increase, a majority a slight decline,
and a few a heavy falling off.
Eye has suffered from the same conditions
which have injuriously affected
wheat, but on account of its hardier nature
the general average is considerably
higher, standing at 90.8, against 92.8 on
April 1st and 95.7. at the same date in
1SS6. The condition is barely below the
average, being 87.8, against 96.7 in May,
1836, and 82 in 1SS5.
The season has been more generally
advanced in all parts of the country than
usual, soring flowing being seriously
behind only on the Atlantic coast South
to Pennsylvania, and on the Pacific
slope. In these sections it has been delayed
by cold and exc- ss of moisture.
Elsewhere the work is aaead of the average
year, the season, especially during
April, having been geuarally favorable,
with temperature above normal and rainfall
at minimum. The proportion already
on May 1st is estimated at 80 per
cent, of the whole, while the amount
usually completed at that date is about
76 per cent.
The proportion of cotton already
planted amounts to more than four-fifths
of the proposed area, and is slightly
greater than at the same date in any
preceding five years, but is little less
than the proportion returned by correspondents
as the average planting at
that date. The proportions by States '
are as follows:
Xorth Carolina 70, South Carolina 80,
Georgia Si, Florida 96, Alabama 88,
Mississippi 84, Louisiana 83, Texas 82,
Arkansas SO, Tennessee 80. There is
some complaint of slow germination and
poor stands on account oi drought at
the time of planting in some sections,
but with favorable weather replanting is
raoidlv filling all the sraos.
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR
How Two Actors Met by Chance.
(From tilts Chicago News.)
Gus Mortimer, the manager of Louis
James, who is lately from 2s ew Orleans,
says that the Southern people are intensely
disgusted with the recent utterances
of Jeff Davis. Beauregard was
and is still a great favorite with the
Southerners, and they resent any slight
upon him. Mortimer who was in the
Confederate army and in Beauregard's
command, says that he was the most
popular rebel officer., although he was an
extra strict disciplinarian. During the
first winter of the war Beauregard commanded
the armies of Virginia, and the
weather was intensely cold. The men
were volunteers of course, and entirely
unused to the hardships of war, and they
fell sick in great numbers, and, what
was worse, became dull and, dispirited
.-Tt"
:i jLXUVuxcguru nit upuu LJULC ?>UX??
f of establishing a theatre in thfe camp for
the amusement of the troops. Mortimer
was selected to organize the company
and the work of erecting the theatre was
begun. The man who was entrusted
with the funds necessary to engage the
company skipped South and deserted
with the money, and the movement of
the Federal army broke up ail the plans.
During the war, Mortimer says, the
theatres in the South coined moneys
The horrors of the siege were mitigated
and sometimes added toby dramatic performances,
and when an army entered a
town the first thing it did was to organize
a company and play in the theatre.
Some of the armies contained enough
soldier-actors for a very fair sized company,
and in some cases plays were rehearsed
ahead, but oftener still the company
was non-military and belonged to
the theatre or traveled about seeking to
play in some town occupied by troops.
The prices charged were 50 cents for
privates and $1 for officers and the
houses were universally packed. The
audiences were enthusiastic and generally
in the very best of humor, so much so
as to make it rather difficult to play.
Mortimer was paroled, and played off an
on for a year or two with all sorts of
picked up companies?half piofessional,
half amateur, and all sorts of sectionalism
and politics. Once at Corinth he
played "llichard III." in a linen duster;
but the audience didn't seem to mind
the discrepancy a bit, and insisted on
his coming forward in the tent scene and
singing the "Star Spangled Banner" and
"in tne jfrison uen i civ un ine
night of the second day's battle ui the
Wilderness Mortimer was on picket
duty. Ke had not eaten a morsel for
over thirty-six hours, and he was nearly
dead with hunger, and very faint, having
but recently come from the hospital. It
had been the wont of the soldiers to supply
the i>]ace of food with copious chews
of plug tobacco, and Mortimer's pockets
were full of the weed, but the doctor had
forbidden him using it. He was standing
by a tree, faint and despairing, and
in the agony of his situation r.w>i.nWri
aioud:
clI'd give the biggist plug of tobacco
in the world for a piece of hard-tack.
en ctb juur Vvord} Johnay
Beb," exclaimed a hearty voice, .and before
Mortimer could bring his gun to his
shoulder a form sprang out of the dusk
and a stalwart zouave stood before him.
"I've been watching you for some
time," continued the Northern man,
"and I thought you saw me and was getting
ready to pot me till I heard you
speak." The zouave had unslung his
knapsack and displayed before the famished
rebel what seemed to him a banquet.
"And now, young fellow," he
said, "if you'll give me a plug of tobacco
Viotto all fho harrl-tflf.k vrmr iaws
can crack. Pork over." Such exchanges
were common, and Mortimer clutched
the food and passed over a plug of Virginia
tobacco, which was as eagerly received
by the zouave. They talked a
moment or two, and then, realizing their
danger, prepared to part. Mortimer incidentally
told his companion his name
and calling. The other was surprised
and said he was an actor, too.
*'You are?" asked Mortimer, delighted.
"You are a brick. When the var
is over i'Jl come North and join you.
What's your name?"
"Louis James," said the zouave, as he
reslung his Knapsack, picked up his gun
and disappeared in the woods.
The stoby or Ireland is best told by
some figures furnished by Mulhall, one
of the most reliable statisticians of his
day. He says that during Victoria's
reiem there have died of starvation in
Ireland 1,255,000 people; there have
been evicted for non-payment of rent
3,365,000; and there have .emigrated
4,1^5,000. This is fifty years' record of
the reign of a good Queen! It needs no
comment.
wires will I^^eeefidii^S^dds as protection
against crows, but it is a diputed
question as to whether the crow in the
cornfield/Is an enemy or a friend.
Though lie be sometimes destructive to
the corn,, yet he destroys many insects
and grabs.'
Large trees can be moved and transplanted,
thus taking advantage of several
years gzqjrth, provided all the roots and
some ot tike adhering earth be carried
with them. The place in which they are
to be deposited should also be specially
prepared ior their reception.
A prominent nurseryman says that
nursery practices in ptjach propagation
and culture have weakened the vital!
power of the tree, which is unable to re-1
sist as depressing influences as formerly, j
when the trees from seeding grew well
and lived to an old age.
A fresh egg will sink when placed in
water, and when boiled the skin will not
peel oil li&e tliat 01 an orange, as in tne
case "with those not strictly fresh. Stale,
eggs are glassy and-rexy smooth, while
fresh eggs a peculiar ronghness.
Where the ground has been well harrowed
and made even and smooth the
labor of harvesting will be lessened, as
the ground will be better fit for the work
of the harvesting machine. Remove all
stones and clods that may interfere.
The farmer who gets behind in his
work at this* season will not very easily
catch up.-' It requires more effort to
succeed when there is no regular
system than otherwise, and this is the
month when the most careful work
should be'done.
The French, who export pears, cover
the inside of the boxes with spongy
paper or dry moss, which absorbs the
moisture.' The pears can be thus kept
a month ^or more. They are closely
packed, But do not touch each other.
The SStli annual exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will
be held September 27 to <50 inclusive.
The premium list amounts to $700. The
chrysanthemum show is to occur November
S to 11; inclusive.
There are-over fifty poultry associations
in tie JJnited States, that annually
give exlfcfiWtapns. They have been instrumentat
in greatly advancing the
poultry interests.
Use no stable manure on your peach
trees. Admixture of some kind of mineral
feriifeseis is better. Experiments
have shown marl, to be excellent for
peach trees.
Wire aetting,- 2-inch mesh, is now
cheaper boards for fencing poultry,
and can #e";more easily arranged and
with less Mhor.
Laying a front' yard with turf will
neariy'always resnlfin a stand of grass,
even after [repeated seedings have been
tried without success.,
Even on the best regulated farms stock
may be injured. Hence vold wells, half
hidden ditches and sn?& like should be
covered or Blled up. s
The discing slongsfchasides of the road
should bo ofje?e<t-now, in .expectation of 1
a busy seas? and the .-prevalence of.
sprin^iaini^ ... I
the ground, as possible, as the season is
rather late.
The season kiis been very favorable to
the growth oi young strawberry plants,
the loss in some sections being verv
small.
Evergreen hedges may be trimmed and
put in shape as late as this month, but it
is best not to cut back too much.
The small size broilers will now begin
to give way to those weighing three to
four pounds per pair.
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Manufacturing in South Carolina.
The Chronicle is pleased to note the
enterprise and success of South Carolina,
and points to the State's statistics in
manufacturing enterprises with pleasure.
The State has suffered little if any from
labor troubles, and shows her manufactories
flourishing almost uniformly. The
statement is made that in 1860 she had
1,280 factories and $7,000,000 used as
capital. In 1880, 2,078 factories were
running, $11,250,000 capital was in use,
and the product was $16,700,000. Last
year these figures had grown to 3,243
factories, $21,250,000 capital, and $30,000,000
of products.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun
gives the above figures, and says thai;
during the last six years there has been
a gain of over eighty per cent., and adds:
"Isn't there something to be proud of
in that?" Exemption of many industrial
enterprises from taxation has tended
to give big help to growth. Under
such policy the cotton mills have grown
till now they employ $5,000,000 of capi
tal, as compared witn $i>UU,UUU in ifcbU,
while the annual product has become
$5,600,000 against $700,000 at the war's
outbreak. Trade in lumber has developed
as handsomely. In 1860 $1,140,000
wa3 employed as capital ir. timber
production, and the market value of the
output then was $1,124,000. Last year
$3,250,000 was the- capital in use, and
the product brought $6,236,000. Eosin
and turpentine making have kept pace;
toon nnf> nnfi Trnlnn nf tli&tproduct;
last year it grew to $2,900,000
?Charlotte Chronicle. '
The Ney Mystery.
The recent exhumation of the remains
of P. S. Xey, at Third Creek Church, in
Rowan county, N. C., shed no light upon
the mystery of the eccentric man who
many have long supposed ffas the veritable
Marshal Ney of France, bo much
of the skull had passed into dust that it
could not be ascertained whether or not
it had been trephined. Unavailing
in rri+G fAr flia
>v ao AJU4VU.O J-U. LJLA^ +\SJsilver
pkte and for the bullets which it
was thought by many would be found.
A large number of persons were present,
and the exhumation was conducted
by eight well known physicians, who
made the following report:
The undersigned physicians wish to
state that according to previous notice
we did to-day cause to be exhumed the
i remains of P. S. Ney, in the presence of
a great number of witnesses, some of
them from Washington City, Raleigh
and other parts of the country. We
found some of the bones only and these
in a state of such decay that we cannot
state positively whether the skull had
even been trephined or not. We made
diligent search for bullets said to have
been lodged in the body but found none.
We succeeded so far however, as to
ascertain that the skeleton was about 5
feet 10 inches long and the skull around
about the eyes about 24 inches in circumference.
Health Marks.
A bright eye, clear skin,. glowing features,
animated expression, and a quick,
firm step. These are all secured by
using Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic,
TKK DUDE AN!) THE UK A It.
j Bill Xye A gait: Houses I'j> Die Interstate
Commissioners.
(From the NV*v York World.)
Under the- Interstate Commerce Law
! a dog cannot ride on the elevated road,
but this does not apply to other wild or
domestic animals.
That is the reason that a dude yesterday,
accompanied by a young bear,
weighing about forty pounds, successfully
evaded the ticket-taker and rode J
down town on one ticket.
The dude wore one of those shortwaisted
and sawed-cii uliters, commonly
j called Norfolk jackets, but the cab wore
nothing but an air of defiance.
The two sat down near each other, but
the bear was restless. Finally he jumped
up on the seat near a lady, who was
riding down town, and she went into
another car. There was a good deal of
room then near the dude, but nobody
wanted any of those seats.
There ought to be some ruling on this
viu.ww^.u w* ML JLD tt
matter that iiiteresta_all <J~ ***??-" ^rrrrr'
beasts and repines DC classed as p x>ple,
while dogs are ruled out? Can a man,:
accompanied by a small dog, be barred
out, while the earner of an eleghant or
an active hornet's nest may tBke his
property with him on his journey?
Here was a clear case o! wild beast
whose youth alone prevented his eating
people, for he hungry enough to eat the
hind legs of a railroad frcg.
The question to be submitted to the
Interstate Commission is, whether the
railways by thus leaving down the bars
are not, as common carriers, to admit a
gentleman, accompanied by a hyena, a
pet goat, an alligator or a rhinoceros.
Unjust discriminations cannot be made
to the prejudice of any one.
It is to be hoped, however, that further
complications may be avoided by
leaving the bears at home, and if the
owners can tear themselves away from
their bears during business hours and
,.4. ? ii ?.;n +?
ItaYC IfJUCi-U ?*l? JUUIXLU, VAV/ iJjLU.^.U. IV
restore travel to its normal condition.
Bill NYE.
The Cotton Movement.
The Sew York Financial Chronicle, in
its weekly cotton review, says that for
the week endiug Friday evening, the 6th
inst., the total receipts have reached 13,077
bales, against 15,141 bales last week,
14,222 bales the previous week, and 21,627
bales three weeks since; making the
total receipts since the 1st of September,
1886, 5,135,231 bales, against 5,078,348
bales for the same period of 1885-86,
showing an increase since September 1,
1886, of 56,883 bales.
The imports into continental ports
for the same period Lose been 6t),000
bales. There was an increase in the cotton
in sight, Friday night, of 31,651
bales as compared with the same date of
1886, an increase of 110,034 bales us compared
with the corresponding uute of
1S85, and a decrease of 276,183 bales as
compared with 1884.
The old interior stocks have decreased
/In-rrn rr +!>?? rr'or.lr 10 ^\')0 l\olnc on/3 TT*?>m
Friday night 135,471 bales less than at
the same period last -year. The receipts
at the same towns have been 12,192 bales
less than the same week last year, and
! same time in 18$.?-So.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September 1, 1880, are 5.173,077
bales; in 1885-86 were 5,283,625 bales;
in 1834 5 were 4,742,203 bales. Although
the receipts at the outporis the past week
were 13,077 bales, the actual movement
from plantations was only 2,002 bales,
the balance being taken from the stocks
at the interior towns. Last year the receipts
from the plantations for the same
week were 18,104 bales, and for 1885
they were 2,228 bales. Tiie decrease in
amount in sight Friday night, as compared
with last year, is 49,202 bales, the
increase as compared with 1884-85 is
095,495 bales and the increase over
1883 -84 is 053,095 bales.
The Chronicle, in its monthly review.
gives some interesting figures. The gross
movement during April exhibits a, decline
from the figures tor the corresponding
month of the two preceding years,
the month's total being 50,515 bales,
against 80,461 bales last year and 51,932
bales in 1885; for the eight months the
aggregate is 1,197,5(38 bales, against
1,071,817 bales and 894,760 bales, respectively,
for the same period of the
two preceding seasons. The net movement
for the month is also below that
for April of 1850, but exhibits an incr'ase
over the same month in 1885 of
7,868 bales. The totals are 30,304 bales
this year, against 59,468 bales in ISiJo,
and 22,536 bales in 1885. Notwithstanding
the smaller month's movement, the
aggregate net for the season to date continues
in excess of that for any similar
peric d in our record.
The Chronicle says that, in common
"Kith the overland, receipts at the ports
during April record a decline from a
year ago. In fact, the net arrivals have
been less tlian iialf what they were in
April, 1886, reaching 89,186 bales,
nora^nct 009 TviIas tin/? in f>nr.Tnoi-iwen; I
with 1885 there is a loss of 14,189 bales,
the total then being 103,375 baies. ?cr
the eight months, however, the aggregate
is iu. excess of that for either 1880-86
or 1854 -8-3. The exports to foreign
ports Jiave f alien olf very considerably
timing the _onth, the number of bales
shipped aggregating 195,118, against
322,149 a jear ago, and 186,302 in 1SS5.
iWftiixS^LJ^lJLear, the total to
and the gain over l<SS4-o5 is"
bales. Port stocks are now 290,655
baies less than on 3Iay 1, last year, and
the decline from a year ago in the stocks
at interior towns is 14(3,000 bales.
The amount of cotton marketed siDce
September 1 in I860-7 is thus seen to be
140,477 bales more than in 1885-6, and
722,781 bales more than in 1881-5. The
total takings by spinners since September
1, 1886, are 1,769,191 bales. Oi this
amount. Southern spinners have taken
331,000 bales. Northern spinners had
up to May 1 taken 1,433,191 bales, a decrease
from the corresponding period in
toor / .i.- 1 .>r ^v./I
JLOOv>?U U1 UiUCO, u?Liu. all jj-icxyuo^
over the same time in ISS-i-.j of 201,508
bales.
I nveiling an Indian Idol.
A rock which the Sioux Indians near
Fort Yates, D. T., have worshiped for
: generations as the petrified form of a
young s;iua,w, was formally unveiled the
othev day and dedicated to peace and
plenty. It appears that the white settlers
in the vicinity have long supposed
that this specimen of nature's art work
exerted a restraining inliuence on the
Indians, but of late the rock has been j
removed from its original resting place j
and it was feared that with its removal
its charm had disappeared. So the suggestion
was made to Sitting Bull that the
statue be placed upon a permanent
pedestal and unveiled with appropriate
ceremonies. This pleased the chieftain
- Ann t? ???
.Luiuaua vicu. w tcuvcj^axv
in the strange medley of Christian and
pagan rites by which the unveiling was
accompanied.?Reno Gazette.
WAR AXD JOUliXALISM.
Kovr General "Washington Would
Appreciated a Good Keporler.
Honcure D. Conway recently read ir
New York a paper on "The Geueral and
the Journalist in time of War" befoie
the Military Service Institution at Governor's
Island, New York.
Mr. Conway related his experiences a>
a war correspondent during the FrancoPrussian
war. He contrasted the treatment
he and Murat Halstead received at
the hamla of the French, who turner j
them out of Metz, with the attention
subsequently shown them by order o:
Bismarck when they followed the genera!
:irmy. "Generals come and go, but the
reporters and interviewers are always
>'ith us," he said, "and the warriors o:
i our tune nave got to come to some terms
with, them." Referring to an eminent
English military authority, whom he did
not name, Mr. Conwav remarked: ,fJ
need not say that I do not mean Lord
Wolseley, for lie is an pmrqrnt ^
rrnrr.Tvncr " Jt- - '? sse Sistiinoiiy of
-aermany, he declared that it was a decided;
advantage to have correspondent's
with an army, and he never heard cf a
military authority or General, who had
expressed regret or found fault that
courtesies were extended to the correspondents.
In the discussion which followed
Ca.pt. F. Y. Green, who recently resigned
from the United States engineers,
and was the United States military
attache with the Russian army during
the war with Turkey, told of the surveillance
exercised by the Russians over
correspondents and their reports. Capt.
Green paid a very high compliment to
McGarraglian, whom he rated as one of
the greatest war correspondents. Major
J. B. Greund told of 'the txactions oi
English military officials while he was
with the army in Egypt. Col. W. (J.
Cnurch gave a lew experiences aaiTg
the civil war. Gen. J. B. Fry, in
closing, read this letter concerning cirespondents,
written by Washington.
Camp of the Glove, July 19, 17 i 7.
To the Committee of Congress on a
Visit to the Camp: A small traveling
press to follow headquarters would be
productive of many eminent advantages.
It would enable us to give speedily exact
information of any military transactions
that take place, with proper comments
upon them, and thereby frustrate
the pernicious tendency of falsehood
and misrepresentation, which, in my
opinion, of what complexion they be,
are in the main detrimental to our cause.
It' the people had a channel of intelligence
that from its usual authenticity
they could look up to with confidence,
they might be preserved from that
despondency they are apt to fait into
from the exaggerated picture our enemies
and their emissaries among us commonly
draw of any misfortune we meet
with. Aningenius man to accompany
this r?ress and be emnloved whollv in
writing for it would render it singularly
beneficial. Geo. "Washesgtox.
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A BITTER HARANGUE. '
The Very "Wild Talk of a Very Foolish
Negro.
(From the Baltimore Sun.)
A meeting of colored citizens was held !
in this city last night. The chairman j
liafaedjfchat it was called to^ advocate a i
tiic boutii wiicio uuc1 ^Jtiople arc
subjected to unjust treatment to such
parts of the United States where they
enjoy the rights and privileges accorded
to every citizen of the United States.
That there are many places in the South
where the colored people enjoy proper
civil protection is an admitted fact. Our
policy will be to encourage them to remain
there, for the reason their position,
to say the least, is fair. But we shall
never cease our labors in the interest oi
those who are not so well off.
E. H. Sutton (colored) an ex-member
of the North Carolina Legislature, was
introduced. He said: "In the matter of
voting ail Kinas of device are practiced
to defraud the colored people out o?
their votes. Throughout the Solid
South laws have been made that no device,
such as a picture of any kind, or
even a dot, should be placed on a ballot,
that would enable the voters who are
unable to read to discriminate between
the Democratic and Republican tickets.
Whenever such a ballot is found in the
ballot box it is thrown out, and if found
in the hands of a colored voter he is sent
to prison for violating the election laws,
la many counties the leaders among the
colored people are arrested and sent to
the penitentiary or murderci to intimidate
their followers. By the landlord
and tenant laws, if a colored man plants
a crop and gathers it before the landlord
makes a division of it according to his
claims upon the tenant, the tenant is
convicted of fraud and sentenced to the
penitentiary. By what is known as the
'justified law' of .North Carolina, colored
men are prevented from going security
for each other bj a law requiring such
sureties to swear that they are worth
$1,500 in real estate, which must be unencumbered
by mortgage and the party
entirely out of debt. The whites will
?ell colored people all the land.tiiey
want, but they must agree to gire the
grantor a mortgage on the land, and
work it in partnership until paid for.
One may work on such terms for twenty
years and at its expiration will be in
debt, owning nothing. Provisions are
sold to tenants at extortionate prices?
lr of 1 ponfc r?AT nrvnnH /v\mmrv?>
iiour at 5 cents, brown sugar at 10 cents,
etc. Womeh are hirer] .at. Aio-hfv-trro
"i'i i in i' pi i^'ii 11 fihPji 1,1 co,^".
months, if you undertake to keepa^account
of your work and wages and
hold the employer to it, you are accounted
a bad 'nigger,' and must be gotten
rid of, or you will spoil all other
'niggers.' 1'ou must either escape lor
your life or be put in prison on some
pretext or murdered."
Murder in Newberry.
Jeff Williams killed Heldon Xclson on
Mr. P. 15. Workman's plantation in So.
!3 Township on Monday, the 0th instant.
The parties were each about 10 years old
and both negroes. Jeff is married:
Heldon was not. Monday afternoon
Heldon and Jeff's wife were at work in
the field together. Jeff was working in
another field. When Jeff went home at
night his ^vife told him that Heldon had
made improper proposals to her, and
upon her refusal had attempted to outrage
her. After hearing her statement
Jeff tried to borrow a pistol from others
on the placc, but failing in this went to
I I\Irs. Cooler's, a quarter of a mile away,
I and.borrowed one. He then went to
I ----- - - -* ? - -i - iii 1
I Heldon's house ana aspect mm aoout me
! affair. He says that Heldon denied it
and kicked him. He drew his pistol and
shot Heldon three times. Heldon ran
about four hundred yards and fell. Jeff
'olloved him and shot him again, killing
him instantly. Williams has not been
arrested.?dewberry Observer.
"The 2s ew York market is extensively
supplied with foreign eggs." 'tVe thought
our fathers cast off the foreign yolk for
good more than a hundred years ago.
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A Mighty Petroleum Fountain.
i
i Mr. Charles Marvin, writing to the
j Pall Mall Gazette, saya:
The Russian newspapers just received
| contain a telegram from Baku announcing
the greatest outburst of oil
ever known. It runs thus: "Baku, '
Russia.?At TagieiT's wells a fountain
has commenced playing at the rate
of 30,000 poods of petroleum an hour.
Its height is 224 feet. In spite of it??.*
being five versts from the town, the
j petroleum sand is pouring upon the. ?
buildings and streets." It is astonish-.
ing that the St Petersburg correspond- Wj*
ents of the London papers should not ...
have telegraphed this remarkable pher
nomenon, and I can only account for
their remissness on the grounds that'
they have either been too preoccupied
with Bulgarian matters or have grown
so accustomed to fresh oil fountains at
Baku lately as to _be blunted- to thei
fii ~n.i fie " ~present one. Yet;
-TTSgielf's "gusher" beats out and out
every previous record in the oil regions
of the two hemispheres. The champion,'
petroleum fountain up to now has been
the "Droojba," which in 1883 spouted
to tee feet or 300 feet, at
the rate of nearly .^^mrr-Tr^?:?* -;i
day. "This single well," I wrote from _
the spot in that year, "is spouting more
oil than all the 25,000 wells in America
Tiol/? t/iorof-hor "
Such an outflow was lookecl upon aa
almost incredible, and had there noli
been other Englishmen at Baku at the
time, I should have probably fared as
badly as Bruce and other travelers. But
the Droojba is now nowhere. Tagieff's
W6il is spouting nearly 500 tons an
hour, or more than 11,000 tons of oil a
day. If it were in London, it would
top the Monument by 20 feet, and the
mansions of far off Belgravia would be
covered with its greasy dust During
the birth throes of a Baku oil fountain,
stones are hurled a terrific distance, and
a high wind will carry the fine sand
spouting up with the oil miles away.
The roar of the gas preceding the oil
flow is terrific, and the atmosphere for
a time is rendered almost unbearable.
Compared with such fountains as the
Droojba and Tagiefij the Great Geyser,
of Iceland is a pygmy. Luckily the gas
soon clears off the stones cease to rattle
about the surrounding buildings, and
then the fountain becomes as orderly as
those in Trafalgar Square, pouring upward
sky high with a prodigious roar,
and forming round about the IS or 14
mch orifice vast shoals of sand, beyond'
which the petroleum gathers in lakes
large enough sometimes to sail a yacht
in. ^ " *-' .
How long Tagieff's "spouter" will . . --jfe
last, and what its ultimate ..yield, will':._ .* . .; '
be, will depend uoon circumstances. "
The Droojba lasted 115 daj^-iflcwing^ ^ .
for 43 days at the average rate of nt&c-pty- '
ly 3,400 ton? a, day, 31 -dayst^ai. I,'6l00 *
tons, 30 days at..about .900 tons, and'll V- '. ??
days at 600<;jfcondx . The: owners then' * .
managed to fi^-^cap'rorer^h^fcifice,.
and placed .'well' imdep* control- *
The total amount of . oil spouted, at the. .
very lowesCestinSate'' was ;2kl?w0l?iis, ." ~ :/
or oo.COO,000 gallons; the highest.esti-. .
mate-put it at'500,060 tans;-' At&ottghjgU yV '
estimate, had the oil spouted in-America,
it would have realised about a million
sterling, and .jBaadea.its v-Owa^-??e^, Ifrfcgy
millionaire, instead of "whicJi thefateof #jf W.*
the xountaiii at^ Baku was^to re-uder it^ . j,
[led to claims-^ of ciam:;^e ^surpassing^
j what he got for the small quantity of
oil he was able to catch and store,
while the rest, flowing beyond on to
S other people's property, was in most
j cases '-annexed" and not paid for. It
| is to be hoped that Tagief: & Co. will
i not be so unlucky; but in any case most
1 C\f if TC CTTrO tr? ]->0 TTTOCf/>r^
I
A Knowing Bull-Dog.
"He's played out and wants a rest.
He whipped the best dog in New York
last .night, and he ain't got over the
shaking-up yet."
It was a Philadelphia sporting man
who made the remark, and he referred
to a fine-looking bull-dog which sat by
his side on the train from New York.
The brute, however, had not escaped
without punishment, for under both eyes
he cai*ried the evidences of a severe
struggle.
"Get up here, Bruiser," said the sporting
man, and he sat the dog upon his
haunches, after which he wrapped him
up in his overcoat, so that nothing
could be seen but the "bull's" head.
The dog was perfectly contented and
looked very wise. Then the owner
placed his silk hat on Bruiser's head,
and the brute resembled a prize-fighter
after severe puunishment
"Here, Bruiser, be'a dude. Smoke
this cigarette." And the sport placed a
lighted cigarette in the dog's mouth.
A peal of laughter rang through the
car as the passengers saw this proceeding.
and Bruiser gave his master a sly
wink. He seemed to be conscious of the
amusement he was affording the crowd,
:tnd*did not in the least mind being
UiCSSCU up in I3U ?raxaj^ a
plug hat and stroking a cigarette. The*
hat and cigarette were removed and the
owner said:
. "Go to sleep, Bruiser."
The dog did not need to receive another
order, fla laid his head over on
the -window, and live minutes later was
actually snoring.
"Well, that's the first time I ever
heard a dog snore," remarked a passen- ?
ger. ?jvusaw,"
said the "owner proudly.^ "I've
- -rl ;>ti over to England with me
imf' > ^ i|rr |r mi i n next
Bruiser had to be awakened froncTfiS?
slumbers upon the arrival of the train
at Ninth and Green streets.?Philadelphia
2\'orlh American.
William Lockport Hunter, the famous
Texan hero, who was one of the fourteen
survivors of the massacre of Goliad, ^
died a few days since at Austin, Tex.
He was also one or the three men who
taft thfi fated Alamo irL the hoDe of
securing help for the gallant garrison.
At the time of his death he had reached
his 80ih yet r.
Eraslus Bvooks, who died the other
day in New York with something more
than a million, wisely guarded against
the lawyers becoming his residuary
legatees by dividing his estate among
his children long butore his death, reserving
for himself a mere competency
to securc the comforts due to age and
declining years.
Lately a redwood tree was cut on the
south fork of Elk River, Humboldt
county, CaL, which was sawed into
! twenty-one cuts, four of which were
| sixteen wet-long, tweive were iweuijr
j feet long, and five were twenty-four feet
! long, making the total length 424 Vteet
i An accurate tally at the mill showed
j that the twenty-one logs furnished 79,i
736 feet of lumber.
Brown?"You are looking well, Robinson."
Brown?"Yes, and feeling
well; but nevertheless I lost 120 pounds
1 of flesh iast month." Brown?"That's
not po-iibi^i1' Xtobiuson?"Yes it i&