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IRBY ON THE WAR PATH. CLAIMS TO BE FIGHTING FOR THE POOR WHITE MEN. Tlie Suffrage Plan as ltpportcd Bitterly Attacked and Its Alleged Kft'ect of Disfranchising Whiten Pointed Out?War ? Between the Senator*. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 10.?Senator Irby has given an interview to tti6 Piedmont Headlight, which will be published in that paper today. Senator Irby strongly attacks Senator Tillman's suffrage plan as reported. Here is the interesting interview as it will appear in The Headlight: We visited Senator Irby at his home in Laurens last week and interviewed him about the work of the Constitutional convention and also got his opinion in regard to the suffrage plan proposed by Senator Tillman, and which has been made public within the last few days. We believe that if the report of Senator Tillman's committee was carried out that it would mean the disfranchisement of thousands of poor and illiterate white voters in South Carolina, and vindicate the position of The Headlight in its opposition to the calling of a constitutional convention. We found Senator Irby in fine spirits, and as usual he * as surrounded by his friends. There is no denying the fact that the people of Laurens honor and love Senator Irby, and they are clinched to him with hooks of steel. We asked the Senator about the work of the convention. "I have had but little to say thus far," remarked Senator Irby, "as only preliminary work was beiug mapped out, and the settlement of few questions of any great importance brought before that body. Of course there were plenty of speakers on hand, and I did not desire to fatigue the patience of the members. I have carefully watched the deliberations, however, determined that whenever the lights and interests of my people were imperilled that I would be heard from in no uncertain terms." "Senator," we asked, "what do you A# 4Vi/-v rtf SpflA HA 111 IX \JX IUO l^VVUimuuuuiiiVM V* tor Tillman's committee on the right of suffrage?" "I look upon that report as a political monstrosity?one of the most dangerous schemes ever concocted in the brain of man, and when the convention reconvenes I shall fight it and vote against it if I have not another member upon the floor at my back. Why the more I study that report, the stronger my opposition and the greater the danger I see in it. But let me take that report up section by section and analyze it for you? and I do hope that The Headlight will go to work without delay and arouse the white voters of our State as to the danger that threatens both the poor and illiterate white man, as also the political supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race in our State. "The first three sections of that report are but a reiteration of the old law and to which no objection can be urged. But after that tbe plot begins to thicken, and the further you go the more damnable and outrageous it becomes. First, let me take the qualifications for suffrage, as follows: "The person applying for registration must be able to read and write any section of this Constitution, or must show that he owns and pays taxes on $300 worth of property in this State; provided, that at the first registration under this Constitution and up to Jan. 1, 1898, all male persons of voting age who can read a clause in this Constitution or understand and explain it when read to them by the registration officer, shall be entitled to register and become electors, a separate record of all illiterate persons thus registered, sworn to by the registered officer shall be filed, one copy with the clerk of court and one in the office of secretary of State, on or before Jan. 1, 1898, and such persons shaft remain through life qualified electors, unless disqualified by the provisions of section 6 of this article. The certificate of the clerk of court or secretary of State shall be sufficient evidence to establish the right of said class of citizens to registration and the franchise." "Now, let us analyze this section and see what it means: In the first place here is a sweeping clause positively disfranchising every white man in South Carolina who is not able both to read and write or owns and pays taxes upon $300 worth of property in our State. This language is too plain to be misunderstood. It is a total disfranchisement of the poor and illiterate white men as well as the negro laboring under the same political dirahilitifis. 'But there is a tail to this suffrage kite that holds good until January 1, 1898, which permits the registration officer, if he sees proper and fit to do so, to grtmt a pardon to such voters as he may see fit and proper, subject to his amnesty?for the heinous crime of being poor and illiterate?and thus placa them upon a political equality with the educated negro and who has accumulated property. But even this proviso is coupled with a provision so ignominous and degrading that a proud-spirited Anglo-Saxon voter would sooner lose his right of suffrage than to accept such political charity. Here is what Senator Tillman's report says: ' 'A separate record of all illiterate persons thus registered, sworn to by the registration officer, shall be filed, one copy with the clerk of court, one with the secretary of State, etc." In other words, for a poor, uneducated man to vote aner mis law passes, a palpable and barefaced fraud must be committed and then the name of the beneficiary of this pardon must be filed as a public record, both at his court house and at the State capitol in Columbia. It will be a public and perpetual document of reproach upon thousands of honest family names in South Carolina and the descendants for generations to come of these pardoned voters will have the fact thrown in their teeth that their ancestors being poor and illiterate were permitted to vote in direct conflict with the spirit of their State Constitution, through a no?^nn on/1 ano/tiol apt. nf ailcrp ^/(klUVU HUU "Why, no brave and proud-spirited white man in the old palmetto State would accept suffrage under any such conditions and would sooner lose his right to vote and be shoved off in the same boat with the sea island negro. He would then indeed be a political exile in the State of his birth, but the honest name that he will bequeath to his children and his children's children would not be filed among the archives of South Carolina as are the names of pardoned convicts. "I am responsible for the calling of our Constitutional convention. I ] pledged the white voters of South s Carolina that not one of them should 1 lose his ballot on account of ignorance i or poverty, and I shall sacredly keep < this solemn covenant; and if it is < broken by Senator Tillman and the i convention, it will be with my denun- f ciation of the infamous plot ringing in 1 the ears of the delegates. What brave s and self-respecting white man desires his name handed down to future gen- t erations as being so poverty stricken t and ignorant tnat a separate clause t had to be engrafted into the Constitu- \ tion of his State to enable him to vote, t But this pardon for illiteracy and pov- t erty is only temporary. Here is an- i ether clause in Senator Tillman's re- j port that even removes the pardoning f power two years hence and requires a i strict educational and property quali- t lication to become a voter. Read it j carefully and then tell me how this ] coincides with the pledge that B. R.' j Tillman made the people, that if they i would call a Constitutional convention and trust him, that no white man i should oe disfranchised: ( 4 4 4Any person who shall apply for f ? x: CL? T 1 1QOQ if 4 registriuiuu aner uauuarj x, n i otherwise qualified, must be registered; provided, that he can both read and write any section of this Constitution, or can snow that he owns and has paid taxes during the previous year on property in this State assessed at $300 or more.' " 'iJanagers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, proof of the payment of all taxes, including poll tax assessed against him for the previous year.' "Let the convention adopt this report, and after January 1, 1898, onlv two years hence, a voter must both read and write any section of the Constitution or show that he owns and pays taxes on $300 worth of property. Even the right to pardon in this section is denied. The blackest convict in the penitentiary can have his disabilities removed by the governor, but the honest but poor and illiterate white voter must remain disfranchised. "Now let me ask what will become r of those thousands of poor white boys 19 vearsof a?e now living: in our State and whose parents are too poor to give i them an education or endow them with & $300 worth of property. They are already enlisted on the side of the Reform movement, and while too young to vote, have thrown up their nands and cheered and worked for the election, success of Tillman, myself and other Reform candidates. These youths are the coming voters who must uphold our Reform principles and continue our party in p"bwer. But they are struck down to a man with the most ignorant class of negroes and their right to a voice in the government of their native State taken from them. "Let this law pass, giving educated and prosperity owing negroes the right to vote, but denying the poor unlettered white man that high privilege, and you will see our ballot boxes saturated with blood. In two years' time you can't educate every white youth in South Carolina both to read and write, for the impoverished condition of thou- [ sands of poor white farmers and laborers will not permit them to spare the time of their sons to go to school. And then what is the result? Their ballot is taken from them and they will have no more voice in the government of this State than the mule that they plow or dumb cattle that tread our nichwavs. They must stand olf and j look on while the educated or property owning negroes, living in our towns and cities, are helpling to rule and govern our State, ana are making laws for those poor white men to live under. "In 1861-'65, when those poor,white men were being urged to the front, the question was never asked could a volunteer read or write, or did he own $300 worth of property. Neither were those conundrums propounded in 1876, when those poor and unlettered Democratic voters donned the red shirt and rescued the government of our State from the negro and Republican. And in 1890, when Tillman was preaching political equality before the people, and pleading with those poor and uneducated white men for their votes, he did not then ask did they have $300 worth of property, or could they read the Constitution of their State understanding^. But now that neither his life-blood nor his vote are needed, he must be struck down?thrown aside like a sucked lemon or passed through a political inquisition. 1 "I denounce that report of the right ] *' ? anil nf whiph I OI SUUragO UUI1JUUVITO, ouu U1 n J Senator Tillman is chairman, as mon- ] strous, and for our Reformers in the j convention t? pass any such law would ] be the bassest treachery and the deep- i est dyed ingratitude. When that re- ] port is brought before the convention < I shall fight it to the bitter end. I do ] not believe it will pass?I know that ] it should never pass. I pledged the ] poor and uneducated white men of j South Carolina that I would protect j them in their right to vote, and protect ] them I will: I will go down in defeat j and humiliation witb them. ] "The right of suffrage is the highest j privilege accorded a free born Ameri- : can citizen, and no degrading condi- < ' * - n.j ?, tions saouia De cuupieu witu imo right. "But it is claimed that such provisions are necesaary to preserve white supremacy in South Carolina. Now I will prove to you, and to every intelligent and thinking man that so far , from the adoption of Senator Tillman's I report by the convention 'preserving j white supremacy' that it will have a j directly opposite effect, and make of [the negro a political arbiter in our State and vest in his hands the balance of power. With a fresh right of franchise the negro leaders will go to work and marshal at least 50,000 legal voters. They claim that there are 72,000 blacks in South Carolina who can read and write, but there are undoubtedly 50,000 negroes who can vote under this proposed provision. The Conservatives now have between 35,000 and 40,000 voters, all of whom will be qualifiedjfor suffrage, while the Reform vote number 55,000. In our Reform ranks there are at least 15,000 men wim fnnnnt. read or write. Deprive them of their suffrage and the two fac- J tions are then nearly equal, with the ] negro vote larger than either one. < This would give the electoral vote of ; South Carolina, divided as the whites i are, to the Kepublican candidate for | President. Let either faction remain out of the next Democratic primary, : and with the assistance of the negro i the other would absolutely control the politics of our State. White supremacy 1 indeed. It means either negro supre- i macv or Conservative supremacy. I dislike very much to have to speak so < plainly, but it is vitally necessary that p some one should sound a note of u warning and arouse the Reformers d ind the poor men of this State to the w langer tnat menaces them. This is e: jne reason why I was anxious^for an h idjournment of the convention?to u five the people a chance to catch their n jreath and strangle this political mon- b itrosity. I; "Mississippi is held up as an example d oSouth Carolina. There is no analogy n between the political conditions of o ,hese two States. In Mississippi the p whites are not divided, but working o ogether. There was not a faction d .here standing ready to appeal to the h negroes, and use -him at the first op- d jortunity to crush the power of the armers. But in South Carolina our f< vhite people are divided, and will con- S > an ntui na. ,inue lo deuiviueu. xuru ?u,uuv fro voters loose upon our State, and t] fou can't manufacture a magnifying h jlass large enough to discern the re- l( nains of the reform movement. n But let us dive still further into this >p eport of Senator Tillman's suffrage a :oinmittee and we will find where, I rom the hour of its adoption, that u he poor white voters in our towns a tnd cities are disfranchised. Here is t] i clause that speaks for itself. tl "At any special elections in incor- g )orated cities and towns of this State a or the purpose of bonding the same, h ill resident owners of proper in said b :ities and towns of the assessed value t( )f $200, who are qualified electors un- n ler this Constitution, shall alone be i( sntitled to vote.' g "It matters not how honorable and fl ntelligent and upright he may be, a n roter Jiving in Spartanburg city can ? lave no voice in voting on the issuing j1 )f bonds unless he is worth $200. a "When you begin to restrict the a suffrage of white men there is no tell- y, ng where it will stop. There is where t he danger lies. Only a few days ago ^ Senator Tillman worked for, voted for, r, md carried through a measure pernitting the incorporated towns to ex- ? ;mpt manufacturing enterprises from 0 axation for a series of years. The s] joor laborers in those mills had no n luch clemency extended to them. n Chey must pay their street and their b x)ll tax, and even a tax upon their ^ >ot, kettle and mattress, while the & ich northern investor is allowed to go ^ cot free. Now I canot see with what j, insistency Senator Tillman can say D " ' i t i.l_ U. Hat tbose operatives, wno nonesuy y lustain the government, shall not vote a n a certain election because they have h xot $200 worth of property, while the t< veal thy stockholders in that mill, and & vho were exempt from taxation, have jj i right to vote? This is not in keeping1 f, vith the addresses that Senator Till- g nan made upon the stump, when he e van ted office. - 0 "I have unseathed my sword and n hrown away the scabbard. I am in u he battle to the end. No poor and un- tl sducated white man will lose his vote, o f I have the power to prevent it. I n hall denounce this outrage upon the s' loor of the convention, and I shall lenounce it upon the stand before the jeople. We can preserve white supremacy in South Carolina without either "V lisfranchising or humiliating a single tl vhite voter. The report of Senator n Tillman's committee certainly vindi- d jates the position of the Piedmont a deadlight when it opposed the calling g >f the Constitutional Convention. It tl vould have been a thousand times bet- o er to have never had that assembly c neet than let it pass the suffrage qual- c fication proposed by that committee, d Zou will find every Conservative ap- e )lauding and endorsing this plan, for A he simple reason that it will strike lown the vote that they could never ti secure, and give them political control >f our State. c "I believe that some of the members )f the committee signed this report, ^ it the earnest solicitation of Senator rillman without due consideration or S ippreciating its. danger. I do not enow how a single member of the o sonvention stands upon its adoption, >ut you can say to the poor and uned- F mated white voters of South Carolina hat they have in John L. M. Irby a B 'riend who will stand by them to the md, and will fight this monstrous pro- o position to the very last ditch. "Senator, why did you vote for the C lame of Butler, for the new county, nstead of Saluda?" u "I am glad you have ask 3d me this question, for I desire to state my posi- I iition and mv reasons in language so slain that all may understand. I did lot desire or intend to honor the name >f ex-Senator M. C. Butler, but I had S n my mind at that time the name of P William Butler, one of the most gal- v [ant soldiers of the revolution, and a G lero from whose loins sprung a long C iine of the ablest statesmen and war- a iors that our State has ever produced, a Did William Butler, the founder of ;his illustrious family, today survive ii ie would be a Reformer. When our State was a howling wilderness Butler n [eft Virginia on horseback, his wife f riding behind him, because he could g aot hold his own with the rich and iristocratic families of the old dominion. He built a pabin upon the Saluda ri^pr h.tiH whp.n the war of the revo- T iution broke out did heroic battle for n bis country. Two of my great uncles ri Tell fighting in his command, while a a number of the families in the upper a section of our State are linked with n that of Butler. Mv great uncle mar- I ried William Butler's daughter, and b tier dust now reposes in the family ti burial ground at Red Band, in Sal jda v jounty. Pierce Butler, another heroic c soldier of this name, fell fighting be- g side a brother of Ben Tillman s at e Dherabusco, Mexico. Others of that d aamehave occupied high and distin- b ?uished positions in our State and p have rendered their people faithful d ind valiant service. Wnen M. C. But- 0 ler was a youth of 15 vears George D. Tillman was elected for the legislature from Edgefield county on the creation of this new county, to be c known as Butler county. For forty- (; Ave years the people of that section ^ contended for that name, the com- jj mittee unanimously reported the name t] :>f Butler, and I voted for the name of q Butler. I did not have M. C. Butler a in view at the time, and Mr. George b D. Tillman expressly and distinctly v stated upon the floor of the conven- j] tion that the name was notintended as q an honor to M. C. Butler. This Re- ^ form movement is founded on great ^ principles ;it is not founded on passion q on hatred or on prejudice. We are c not a set of gbouls, to dig up the bones \ of the dead and spit upon and spurn ^ them. It is the honored name of Butler for which I cast my ballot. I have neither regrets to offer nor apologies to make. I fought Butler for five years 1j in the Senate and I fought his re-elec- I tion last year. He was defeated, a and as a poor man had to leave his h native State and go elsewhere to seek t< employment by which to make a sup- 1 ort for his family. I do not belie 1 insultijg the dead or houndi own the living. Senator Butler c rrong when he became an indeper at candidate, and he was rebuked is people with a crushing defeat. I s now leave him in peace, and jember that he left a portion of ] ody upon the battlefield of Virgin f Senator Butler aspired for office ay I would oppose him, for he d< ot represent the sentiments of mys rmy people.' I condemn his mi endent candidacy as much as a ne, but nothing that M. C. Butler c o will cast a reflection upon those < ecoes, statesmen and patriots, whi ust repose in the soil of Saluda." "Senator, do you expect oppositi ar Te election to the United Sta en ate?" "I really do not know. I understa lat a secret caucus has already tx ft Id. and a slate ticket formed in ( imbia. But I do not care the snap iy finger for the machination of t oliticians. I have anchored my fa nd my hope in the people, and wb get the people on my side I can b p all the politicians I want at 5 cei piece. Next year we must go bef< ae people, and they will decide w aey desire to represent them in t enate. I am willing to trust the nd if they say that I must stay ome, and they prefer to be represent y some one else, I will gracefully bi ) their will and earnestly work for 1 ominees of my party with the sa: jyalty and devotion that I rallied enator Tillman when' he wanted ce, and to Gov. Evans when he ired to the position he now holds, ave made war on no one- When I illman - Hemphill - Barnwell - Eva aucus was held, I denounced it ause I knew that it meant ruin to c aform ^movement. Even Senai illman afterwards confessed thai ras right and he was wrong when spudiated the agreement ente] lto. I worked for the calling ol institutional convention, pledgi ur white voters that not one m hould lose his suffrage. I never hs lisled or deceived the people, and ot intend to. I may be struck dov nt T shall sro down holding aloft \ iform banner and advocating 1 ime principles that Tillman ana n jlf aavocated in 1890. I have an ab lg faith, in the loyalty, wisdom a atriotism of the reform voters outh Carolina. I shall stand by th s loyally and as devotedly as tb ave stood by me. I do not prop > truckle to any politician or so-cj i leader for office. I place my tr l a sovereign people?I shall go 1 are them and plead my cause, a racefully bow to their decree wl ver it may be. I shall enter int ombination with no man or set len to secure re election. I shall r pon the record that I have made tie Senate, and upon that I shall sta r go down. I have never betraj ly people or sold them out,and ne^ hall." Independence Declared. Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 1. via E Vest, Oct 9.?Those hex-e whoargi tiat the Cubans could not be rec ized as belligerents becaus they n ed to have a regular govern mi cting, were surprised to learn tha overnment had been organized a ae fundamental laws of the repul: f Cuba formally proclaimed. Offic onfirmation of this news has been eived here and also that the indep ence of the island of Cuba was t mnly declared on September 2'6, Luton de Puerto Principe province. The government has been con ited in the following manner: President?Salvador Cisneros Bet ourt of Puerto Principe. Vice president Bartolome Massoc lanzanillo. Secretary of war?Carlos Roloff anta Clara. Vice secretary war ?Marce Meno f Matanzas. Secretary of foreign affairs?Raf 'ortuondo Tamayo of Santiago. Vice secretary of foreign affair! 'remin Valdeis Dominguez of Hava Secretary of finance?Severo P f Saneti Spiritus. Vice secretary of finance?Joaqi !astillo Duany of Santiago de Cu Secretary of interior?Santiago C r t> j: inreb ul xxcuicuiuH. Vice secretary of interior?Car )upois of Baracoa. General in chief?Maximo Gob Lieutenant general?Antonio Mac Jose Maceo, Maso. Capote, Sera anchez and Rodriguez have been ointed major generals. Jose Ma< rill lead the operations in Barac ruatanamo, Mayari and Santiago !uba; Maceo in Manzanillo, Baya nd Holguin; Sanchez in Las Vi] nd Rodriguez in Camaguey. Gomez and Maceo are plotting ivasion of Matanzas. The headquarters of the new gove lent haveDeen established in Pue 'rincipe province, and a systemt overnment is to be maintained. Democratic Victory. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 8 'here is great rejoicing in this city ight among the Democrats over t e-election of George Ochs as May nd the election of five out of eij ldermen. A great political fight i iade over the election to day, i republican forces being marshal y, H. Clay Evans, prominently mi ionedas a Republican nominee icepresident. The effort was made arry the city for the prestige it woi ive his political aspirations. It \ xpected that the Democrats would ivided on account of the recent { ernatorial contest, but the Democr resented a solid vote and carried i ay, reversing a Republican major f 1,270 last fall. Hel<l In Servitude. Atlanta, Oct. 8.?Writs of hab orpus were served today upon* E )wang and Leon Lam, proprietors lie Chinese village on the Midway tie Atlanta Exposition, command] hern to produce the bodies of n: Chinese women,charged by Lum Lii n Atlanta laundryman, with bei eld in voluntary servitude. Lii rho appears in the role of a phili tiropist, says women were bought Jhina and transported against th rill. The writ was taken out un< he Thirteenth Amendment to Constitution. These are the Chin ir? rr tttVi ACQ n/lmiocinn inlA UUUUlUlUg TT UVOC UULUltJOiUU 4UVW Jnited States at Ogdensburg, N. as caused so much trouble. Burn?(l to Death. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 7.?A sm imp exploded at the home of Mr. 1 I. Evatt, about 6:30 Sunday evenii t Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmii tarn, resulting in the death of two i srs, Do.*a and?die Evatt, aged 15 a 0 respectively. - THE LAST OF THE SEASON. SI id- THE FINAL WEATHER AND CROP by BULLETON FOR THE YEAR. -iet rekjg Director Bauer Very Interestingly Sumia. marizes the Conditions Existing?The toText of the Bulletin Issued Yesterdayelf The Outlook. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 10.?The folan lowing weekly bulletin of the condi)]d tion of the weather and the crops of 3se the State was issued yesterday by Director Bauer of the State weather servon ice. Inasmuch as it is the last report tes that will be issued this season, it will be read with much more interest than nd usual: ;en The week ending Monday, October 3o- 7, was cooler than usual over tne en(of tire State, the departure from the nor,be mal having been greatest on the first ith three days when it ranged from 8 to ien 12 degrees per day lower, after which Uy there was a gradual rise to normal or ats above on Sunday and Monday, 6th 3re and 7th. The temperature for the ho week ranged between 92 and at Cohe lumbia on the 7th and 30 at Greenup ville on the 1st. - The mean temperaat ture for the week, deduced from 33 ted station reports, was 63.5, and the norr)W mal for the same period is approxithe mately 68.5. me There were frosts on the 1st, 2nd to and 3rd, reaching from the extreme of- western portions of the State into the as- central and northeastern counties, I where, however, but little or no injury the resulted. In the western and extreme ins northern counties the frost was heavy, b8- killing pea vines, sweet potato vines, mr very late corn, and what cotton leaves tor that fGmained green, but it was not t I cold enough to injure cotton bolls. . he There was an entire absence of rain waaIf r\r?/l A /I M/-V1 ircKf VvQ . CU UUlilig 11ID YY ctn y auu nuo ui wugui ww f a came greatly intensified. Over the ng whole State there has not been more an than at best a trace of rain from the ive 9th to the 12th of September, and in do many places there has been no benefim, cial rain since the 23rd of August, the The effect of the drought has been to the cut short the pea crop, stop the growth iy- of cotton and cut off the top crop; id- prevent late corn from, filling propernd Iy; to cut off the yield of sweet potaof toes, estimated at from i to i; to greatem ly reduce,, if not to make an entire iey failure, of root crops in general; to reose duce the yield of molasses from sorgill um and sugar cane; to ruin fall garust dens; to keep back the growth of winbe ter vegetables on the coast truck ,nd farms, and to prevent the sowing ol lat small grains. However, the long cono a tinued dry, sunny weather gave excelof lent opportunity for making hay oi un all varieties and a verv large fodder in crop was saved in the very best condi,nd tion; for drying out and housing corn: red for picking cotton, which made rapid rer progress, and the lint has been saved in a beautiful condition; and for general harvest work. There were showers ctfer the west;ev. ern and central, counties during the [ <f afternoon of the 7th and early morn0g. ing of the 8th (Tuesday) that will be ee. beneficial to turnips, etc., but likely 3nt discolored open cotton to some extent, t a The amounts that fell have not been ,nd reported to this office, but the rainfall die in places was heavy. ial There was almost continuous clear re- weather the whole week; on fhe 7th en. alone was the sky obscured by clouds i0l- in the western portion. mu? +V, a TTowi Ana rntnnc JL J-LU UUUlUblV/U U1 uuo vax xvuo ux wj/w remains practically unchanged at the stj. end of the week. Rapid progress was made in picking an. and harvesting cotton, so that it ii generally reported from the eastern , 0f portions of the State that at least two thirds of the crop has been picked and Gf a large proportion of it marketed, What remains in the fields, in thai ca] section, is all open, and picking wili be finished in from two to three weeks, ae] if the weather remains favorable. Ie the western portion of the State pick 3_ ing is less advanced, but even there tlia nearly the whole crop is open, and ina picking and marketing is being pushed. The prevailing satisfactory price of cotton causing the farmers tc ba. sell as fast as gathered. As picking anl advances towards completion the smallness of the crop becomes more -los and more apparent. There is little more to add to whal nez has been said of corn in previous bul eo letins. Husking and housing has beeu An carried on to some extent, but the ap. weather has been such that corn did ceo not demand immediate attention? oa was, in fact, better conditioned in the de husk than it would have been in the m0 crib. The crop is large enough to sup las ply the needs of the State, with possi bly a surplus. the The entire season has favored the harvesting of rice, and that work is rn_ practically completed on the coast and rfo river plantations; upland rice filled rapidly during September, and is rip ening very satisfactory. Peas of late planting did not fil] well, and will be a short crop. Early peas yielded well. ; Sweet potatoes and second crop oi i Irish potatoes are yielding very poorly generally, although quite well in jht Placesvag The growing season is now practice cally ended, and little change can oc led cur in the condition of the different en. crops not yet entirely gathered. for It is unnecessary to review the seat0 son as a whole, as a file of these bullejld tins is a better record, except to say 7as that, everything considered, the farmbe e/s of South Carolina have abundant ,u_ reason to feel satisfied with the seaats son's results, for while some crops the were undoubtedly short others were ity correspondingly large. Although the weather conditions may not have been perfect, and the crops might have been larger, vet few, ^ if any, States fared better, while many ^ee fared worse. The entire absence of "0f destructive storms of wind, rain or hail is worthy of notice. Note.?With this issue the South jn| Carolina weather and crop bulletins 10. are discontinued for the season of ol lOftSf Iiotto /lAnfaiTlO^ ft J^gr J-Oi7U. J. lie UUiitKlUO XJ.C4VV V/VTUVMAMWv* ? ag general but faithful record of the weather that prevailed over the entire . jQ State from week to week. It was left ejr largely to the reader of the bulletins jer to use his own judgment as to the efthe ^e weat^er on the crops, alese though the actual condition of the the cr0Ps was accurately reported by the Y correspondents, and reproduced in the bulletins, and in their reports the final yield of the principle crops were foreshadowed long before maturity, all It is, therefore, a subject of regret that vV. the reports could not have been pubag, lislied in full. Qg- The director takes this opportunity sis- of thanking the correspondents most ,nd heartily and sincerely for their co-operation, for the director shares, only as one of them, the credit due for the merit and value the bulletins had. Often the language, always the prevailing tone or the reports, was used in writing the bulletins. As the weekly reports are no longer needed, correspondents will pleg^e discontinue them ior the year. The Cotton Crop. Washington, Oct. 10.?The returns to the statiscal divison of the Department nt a fiirtf t.Vift mrvnth nf October makes cotton show a decline of 5.7 points from the September condition, which was 70.8, against 65.1 for the present month. There is a general complaint, from all the counties reporting, of extensive damage from early rains, recent drought and ravages by boll worms and other insects. In South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi there is not one exception, and in the remaining States very few. The top crop' almost everywhere is reported a "failure and the yield short ened by premature opening. The percentages by States are as folio ws; Virginia 78, North Carolina 68, South Carolina 64, Georgia 72, Florida 84, Alabama 70, Mississippi 67, Louisiana 64, Texas 58, Arkansas 72, Tennessee 70, Missouri 85. , . Plague In the Water. Kalamazoo, Mich., Oct. 6.?News has reached here that James Guilford, who formerly lived at Prairie Ronde and who now resides in Hamilton county, Neb., has met with a terrible .misfortune. He was summoned home from California to find his twe sons, grandson and wife dead. GuilJ ford himself was taken sick soon aftei reaching that place. Investigation showed a number of dead rats in the well" the water of which the family was in the habit of drinking. Disgusted Jobbers. St. Louis, Oct. 7.?A special to the Star-Saying from Fort Smith, Ark., says: Six men held up the north bound train on the St. Louis and San Fran 1 cisco road at midnight last night neai 1 Gaston, I. T., a small station fifty miles south of here. After all their risk, trouble and planning, they secured but eighty-five cents. Thev were sc 1 disgusted that they threw tne monej on the floor, cursed the expressed mes 1 senger and left. INDIGESTION? i . YES I ' FIVE YEARS AGO I USED J^RS. JOE pERSON'S "REMEDY JL\> [ for indigestion, from which I suffeied much I took several bottles before I felt the goo< of it, tut one-half dozen bottles made i perfect cure, which care has been perman | ent. . MRS. \V. C. REID. Edgmoor, S. C., Sept. 19th, 1895. The Ren edy is for sale by d ruggists an( ' dealere generally. N Jobbers: WANNAMAKER DRUG CO , | . Orangeburg, S. C. MURBAY DRUG CO., i Columbia, S. C. i J. B. JOHNSON & CO., Rock Hill, S. C. : ''Tie Court of List Resort." I t Those who have failed to get cure< I [ elsewhere of the LIQUOR I MORPHINE and the TO > BACCO Habits and Nervou j Exhaustion, are invited t< t correspond with L ) THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, > > (or Drawer 27) COLUMBIA, S. C > > N. B.?The treatment is adminis t t tered in South Carolina only at Co [ lumbia. We can refer to ex-patients nea ' you. L ' [LiaS^ I A $3 Monthly^ ORGANS I i \ $2 Monthly5 1 5'THI\Ikr how much pleasure and bene-i r I Illl^IV flu flnc piano or Parlor Organ V #wlll b# to your wife and children, and howlongtf ' ithey hare wanted and waited. Jk 1 ? DON'T WAIT TOO LONG.* i Thry wont l>o with you for^ J ever, make them happy while J J you can. J ?XHIlVkr how very easily you can nowj 0 I IIilXIv buy n Piipert) instrument on our^ - r..- It iilnlOHt Without^ f|ln8taiinicni] i:uiM, mm r.... ^missing the money. J i -+ ACT QUICK 4- S Write for Midsummer Sale Bargain Sheetr 3 00 Stiji'Tli iii?lriuiioii{s on easiest# torins ever nffrrrtl; VOl'U own prlce^ for CASH. Wriln for particulars.x Hut 1510 OI'K'K. i!:in;aiiiN rolling out# dally. Strain a point and buy NOW.4 LUODEN & SATES, i SAVANNAH, Ca. i I OSBORNE'S : S^uunedd OQvJifeat AND V School of Shorthand and Telegraphy w . AUGUNTA. OA. No text books uaad. Actual buiinata from day o entering. Boilnett papers, collet* enrrener am goods used. lend for handsomely 111 tut rated oat* locut. Board cheap. B- B, far* paid to Aognita. I We desire to introduce our Fa ml- 9 ture business Into every community fl in the Southern States, and In order ? to do 80 in the quickest time have fl concluded to make some very liberal x fl offers in bedroom suits to secure at K least one customer at every post of- H flee in the next sixty days. Please 31 read this advertlsemeBt carefully and send at once for one of our spe- fl clal offers. ' ' ~''*rfl Our great offer No 1 consists of one 9 Solid Oak Bedroom Suit with large i dresser with 20x24 bevel m'rror, one 9 large wasbetand with case ooe 6 ft- ,* 6 bedstead fuil width Tnis suit of fl furniture is worth in any furniture ' fl store not less than 135-00. Do not H think for once that it Is a little cheap fl suit for we assure you it is not, but a B larce full size suit equal to anything m on the market. fl In order to start the sale of these fl suites and to keep our men busy and flj Introduce our business In your neigh- 9 Iborhood, ? e agree to ship one suite fl only to each shipping point In the fl South fei 916.00 when the cash cornea fl with the order. This advertisement - fl will possibly apptar twice In this pa- M per, therefore if you are Interested jfl i cut this out and sead with |15.00 and H the suite will be shipped to you. U a i , it is not just as represented you may fl , return the suite at our expense and M your 116.00 will be refunded to you. ? Our catalogue con taming many ulua- {? tratlons of rare bargains and bouse M i furnishing goods will be sent to >ou fl I upon application. fl The suite above described is a spe- fl cial bargain and does not appear in fl 1 the catalogue, therefore it is useless fl to write for illustrations of this suite, M and while you are delaying wrltlrg fl > B someone else is getting the bargain, i We assure you that we will not ' I tblp bat one saite in your neighbor* hood at t)ils price. Alter one solte 1 U bas been shipped in the neighbor- -* > hood tho price will go to at least ' B 930.00. I JU F. PADGETT, 9 846 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. ! LIFE [ FOR THE V^Jjra LIVER AND Kidneys, 1 FOE ||| DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION AND ALL LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES. 1 Sold wholesale by - The Murray Drug Co. -it ft COLUMBIA, 6. C. 1 Strawberry Plants | And In tact all kinds of plants can be ~ ;I SET OUT | by using the | . McSHEBRY J AUTOMATIC i TRANSPLAHTEB. A good driver and two children are all the force necessary to set from three to i five acres of plants In a day, and ' EVERY PLANT IS WATEBED ' * at the time it is set out, and some dry - soil is drawn aronnd the plants so that * the ground will not bake. No waiting for rain. Set opt your plants when tbey are - ? ? ready. Get a machine and plant for year neighbors. You can earn enough in one . season to pay for the machine. Easy terms. Send for circulars, prices and testimonials. \ . SOUTHERN FARM IMPLEMENT CO., 249 Meeting St, Charleston, S. C. Mention this paper. Delightful Results. " LETTEK FROM JUDGE BALD- ! WIN, OF MADISON, GA. Dr. \V. Pitts, Thomson, G.v r Dear Sir:?After having sought In vain for various remedies for the IPs of teech'ng . I tried your Carminative with most satisfactory and delightful results. It Is pleasant to take assuages pain aud produces rest without stupor. No parent should be without It during the tee hlng period who has once tried it, for it is indeed a magic medicine for babies. Very respectf. lly, JUDGE H. YV. BALDWIN. I For sale by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. MACHINERY 1 a m di FACrORv PRICES. ivery Ginnery should be equipped with i the Thomas Elevating and Distributing , Machinery for handling, clean!og, ginning and packing cotton. 1 Que single continuous lint flue and coa 1 denser for a battery of two or more gins, i Revolving double b^x steam press, selfi packing. Mo bands employed except to put tie* on bale. No belts. Mo pullles Mo screws to give trouble. Saves laboi ' and Insurance, Improves grade of cotton I and mafers morey. We offer also an extensive line of cotton gins, presses, cane mills corn mills and saw nulls Albo Talbott, Liddal, and Watertown f engines -> Our Klce Huller, which prepares rice * ready for the table or market should b? In every mill. ; V. C. Badham, * GENERAL AGENT, [j COLUMBIA, S. C. J