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if nriT\TT/in mrTTi annri/tn KJfclJUl L lttii AlrREi/LUEi. ADVICE TO FARMERS OF A COTTOI PLANTERS CONGRESS. Speeches Made by Hon. Hector I). Lan and Other Leaden* of the Agitation fc Decreased Acreage?An Address Issaei Augusta, Ga., March 15.?Th American Cotton Growers' Associa tion met here today to discuss the ac visability of reducing the produclioi Of Mat staple. osverai promiaeu planters and coiton factors made at dresses urging upon the farmers th necessity of a reduction of the acreag and advising the raising of supplie for home consumption. The mos prominent of the speakers were lion Hector D. Lane of Alabama, presideo of the association: Mayor W. U Young, Thomas Barrett, president o the Augusta Cotton Exchange, aa< Hon. Patrick Walsh. As a result o I the Ike convention the following ad dress was issued: To the Cotton Growers of America The Cotton Growers' Protective Asso /tiotinn nf A marina in convention as sembled, at Augusta, Ga., on this March 15, 1897, again come to yo: with an urgent appeal for co opera tive action in planting the crop fo 1897. It is a matter of extreme con gratulation that the appeal made ti you for 1895 and 1896 was so generous Iy responded to, and that the crop o those years made upon the diminishei acreage, did have the effect of increas ing the price of cotton. The crop of 1895, though estimate* to be 3,400,000 bales short of the cro of 1894, was in tha markets of th world worth more by nearly $30,000, 000. In the face of this result to aban don the idea of diminished acreagi would be to sound the retreat in th face of victory. It is the consensus of opinion amonj the best thinkers that if by any mean the cotton crop of America could b held within the limits of 8,000,000 o 9,000,000 bales per annum for fiv years, the people* of these Souther] States would be the richest and mos prosperous in the world. How Can tbis be brought about The answer is with you. We appea to your self-interest and your patriot ism to do all in your power to kee] down the production of the staple. Do not abandon the ground yo have won. Fight upon the ground laid down; make the cotton States sel supporting; put more land in clove and grasses for your hogs to run on diversify your crops and when yoi have done all this the area devoted t cotton will yield more returns than i you sought to increase the number o your bales. Thftro Viae noTror hppri a timA in th history of our section of the countr; that a movement looking to the in creased production of earn, hay, oat and other food crops was so importan and necessary as now. It is felt by the most thoughtfu men that we are entering upon period of great uncertainties and tha even a small cotton crop may fail ti five adequate returns for its produc tion. The mutterings of a storm are dis turbing values and unsettling all busi ness calculations. The prudent mai will trim his sails to meet it. Wit] the commerce of the country inter rupted by war, and war may come cotton would be unsalable except a nominal prices. We desire to say to every cottor grower, whether his crop is ten bale; or one tnousana bales, see to it ma your place is self sustaining. W mean by this to advise you to grow oi your farms an abundance of com meat, hay, oats, peas, potatoes for al the people on the place. If your tenan will not raise these things sell them t him and put the money in your pods ets instead of sending it out of the coun try. When you have done this, gro\ all thft vmi ^nri If every farmer or planter in th cotton growing district will make thi his rule of action and live up to i conscientiously, it will accomplish th result we so much desire. It will b the means of making all prosperou and happy and cotton will sell for i higher price. We would urge you to make sur first of a cheap home grown living fo all the people and all the animals oi the placa, and then make whatcottoi you can. We address our argumen to each individual farmer. Ever, farmer may measurably control th cost of producing cotton. Let each individual farmer resolv in his own mind and without regar< to what others may do, to cut dowi the cost of producing his cotton. B; confining his area to the best part o "Li_ 1 a. _a V .1 !! jdis neius, 07 conceniraung nis skui industry and fertilizer on a smalle area, he will make cotton cheaper Every farmer knows that the bette the land, the better preparation am cultivation, the more liberal th amount of well balanced fertilizers h applies per acre, the less will be th cost per pound of cotton. Plant only the best land in cottoi and the poor land in rye, peas, etc This will certainly reduce your cro product in the aggregate, but wi] greatly reduce the cost, so that in an; event whatever others may do, yoi will be all right. The Constitutional Tax. Columbia, March 18.?It looks no\ as if the supplementary school ta provided for in the State Constitutio: to make up an amount sufficient ti give the enrolled pupils in the publi schools of the State 13 per capita is gc ing to be levied by the comptrollo general. It will be remembered tha Mr. Gage of Chester introduced a res olution at the recent session of th general assembly to compel the comp troller to levy this tax. lie took th position that this amount must b provided in each individual count] and not for the State at large and tha it would take $81,000 to do it. Th comptroller says he is looking into th matter carefully and proposes to hav a test case made in order to have th constitutional provision construed. 9 State. Eg A Big Defalcation. || Richmond, March 17.?The board o 9 directors of the old Mutual Assuranc I society of Virginia made public thi 9 afternoon a defalcation of some $:>5, 9 000 as the result of the examinatioi 9 of the books of the association by ai 9 expert bookkeeper. Mr. F. D. Stegar 9 the assistant secretary, in whose ac 9 counts the defalcation occurs, wa 9 sent for to explain the matter, but di< 9 not appear and is said to have left th All the securities of the corpa Wr'on, which is one of the oldest am ingest in the State are intact, th gV ss being on collections. FOUR SURVIVED. Thirlyllve People Battled With Thtrat u ?. i * aim uiiii^oi< New York, March 10 ?Out of the eighty-two persons, comprising the e passengers and crew of the steamer : (p Yille de St. Nazaire,which sailed from this perl on March 0 for Port Aux ! Prince, Hayti, only four are known to hava survived the disaster which befell the craft about forty-eight hour? later. These lour passed through an ' exp?rience such as has fortunately 1 t fallen to the lot of few, seeing one af- , ter another of the thirty-one others g ' who left the steamer in the large boat J perish of exposure to the cold or die * of hunger, some suffering during the r . seven days in which they drifted help- c lessly4 without sail or compass, pangs that drove them to madness before 1 death came to their relief. Among the ' survivors is Senor 1'agado, a San Dd- a j mingan, who was compelled to wit- t j ness the death of his wife and four t children without being able to alleviate their sufferings. What became of * . the forty-four persous besides those a ' mentioned above can be only too well c surmised, although there is a remote t I" possibility that one or more of the v ? three boats in which they left the sinking steamer i a the midst of a herce A' ' March storm, off the always perilous Cape Hatteras, has been picked up by a sailinsr vessel which has not yet 0 made a port and made kuown the res'j cue. The other known survivors bell sides Togado are Captain Berri, Mr. Stauts. the third engineer and the '* ship's doctor, Maire. " e , The St. Nazaire was one of the West ( Indian fleet of the French Trans At* t P lantic Steamship Company and plied c between this and West Indian ports, s '] commanded by Captain Jacquaman. f She cleared from New York for Port c de France, March Gth. On the follow- j ing day, according to the story told j by one of the survivors, a leak was t | discovered, but it was not thought to ^ be sulliciently serious to warrant a re- j _ turn to port. By the middle of the g second day, however, ttie leak had t increased to a dangerous extent and a s , portion of the cargo on the port side \ of the vessel was damaged by the wa- t , ter which had commenced to Dour in t in great quantities. a A terrible storm arjse on the night s J* of the second day, and the heavy seas j ? together with tbe big leak, rendered the escape of the vessel from ship- c wreck an impossibility. Realizing that s . the ship was doomed the captain or- r _ dered the four life boats to be lowered c * and into them crowded the passengers ' and crew. The boats were soon swept t * apart by the wind and waves. The f boat which was found by the Hilda s . six days after the sinking of the ship f is the only one of the four that has j been heard of. ? The Ville de St. Nazaire was valued r ' at $300,000. Her cargo was valued at * l' |50,000 and she carried $25,000 in x ? gold. The agent said he did net know s whether the cargo was insured or not. "s , Captain Jaquanan was a widower and e ^ two of his daughters are said to be j a married and living in the south of ? it 11 n 1< ranee. * Engineer Stauts and Dr. Mai re have so far recovered from the effects of their terrible exposure as to ba able to '* be up and around the saloons of the " steamship La Normandie, to which a they have been taken to recuperate. ^ Captain Berri is resting easily at the '* Hotel Martin. ' To his physician,Captain Berri said: 1 "The supply of food and water on the small boats was exhausted the first 1 day, and then bogan the awful strug? gle in which thirty-one out of the J thirty-five persons in the boat perished. Mrs. Tagado and her four ch.il- ^ 1 dren were amons-the first to succumb. j After the water gave out a few bis- ^ . cults retrained. Many of the men g were almost choked in swallowing the s 0 dry stuff, and in desperation they s drank of the salt water. Those who c L" commenced to drink the brine could 7 not stop, and in a few days they became maniacs and died in maniacal ? e convulsions. Others who resisted the t ? temptation to drink the salt water could not stand the deprivation and 6 r 1 rpu?? 1 UJ.CU 1 L vJLLl UUUgCI . lUUdU VY UU IQLUaiUe ed had not strength enough to move, s and when the baat was picked ud } a there were four of the dead with the i living. I did everything I could to e induce the unfortunate people to keep . r from drinking the salt water and to 11 set themselves to fi?ht death, but what ^ I said had little effect." .t Y Daring Attempt at Kidnapping. e Houston, Tex., March IS.?The most daring attemnt at firimo p.v(# 1 ? known here was frustrated this morning at 3 o'clock when detectives killed a Walter Hdghes as he was in the act V of entering the house of Frank Dunn, ' J' a wealthy resident of this city. The * police received information some time * r ago that a scheme was on foot to kid- J ' nap Dunn's little daughter. The pur- . ^ pose of the kidnappers was to keep ^ the girl in captivity and demand ?10,- * 6 000 ransom for restoring her to her * ? parents. Detectives have been on , ? guard at Mr. Dunn's house for several ' nights, but no developments occurred 1 ^ until this morning, when it was dis- * covered that a man was attempting to j P force one of the wkidows of the Dunn * 1 residence. One of the officers inad- j y vertently attracted the attention of ' a the marauder, who, finding he was I discovered, drow a revolver and fired ' twice at the detective. The detectives ( v then opened lire and the intruder fell ? x dead. Hugh was a railroad mac, but * Q has lately been working as a carpen- ? 3 ter. He had rented a house near 1 c Dunn's and under the lloor of one of 1 the rooms had dug a cave in which r the kidnapped child was to bo secreted ] t until the ransom was paid. At a point ? some distance from the city Hughes c e had arranged a number of tia boxes K where he intended to direct that the e ransom money ba deposited. Hughes e also intended to give notice that if . j any watch was kept over these deposi- J I tories it would result in the death of ? e the child. When Hughes' body was * e searched a revolver, a keen edged j e butcher knife and a bottle of chloro j 0 form was found. An immense crowd x _ has gathered in and around the mor- , gue where the body lies. Mrs. Hughes J has been arrested, but will not talk. if Wholesale Tolnoiilng. t e Budapest, March 10.?The trial of < s twelve women and two men was com- i menced at Vasarhely, on Lake Llodos, 1 ft to day. The prisoners are charged ^ ft with poisoning their husbands, or I others of their relatives, in order to 1 ' obtain insurance money. Some of 1 s the prisoners are acceused of four or J d five murders. The chief prisoner is a 1 e mid wife, named Marie Jajer, who is t ?- charged with supplying the poison d with which the murders were com- 1 e mitted. About 2U0 witnesses have been * , called. t " LOANS TO COUNTIES. HFTER THE FUNDS OF THE STATE SINKING FUND. N'ew Act ConHtrued?Several ConntleH Apply Far Vnrlons Sums?The Tf xt of the Act?A Coming Meeting. Columbia, March 20.?There were jut few measures introduced at the ast session of the general assembly vhich caused more thoughtful discus;ion than that intended to allow he funds of the sinking fund com nission to ba loaned to the several :ounties of the State. Many possible tangers were pointed out at the ti >ut the bill was passed and became an ict, b3ing approved on Feb. 25. It >ecomes effective on the 20th dayhereafter. And now the subsequent >roceedings are interesting the State ind county officials. Already several :ounties have made applications to he sinking fund commission for loans mder the act. The act reads as follows: Ln act requiring the sinking fund commissioners to lend funds to the several county boards of commisotVnAMa r\f fVia itCQ of >31l/UvlO \J I tuu IJtaiV XKJi bUU KOU vi their counties, in preference to lending same to other applicants for same funds. Section 1. Be it enacted by the genxal assembly of the State of South Carolina, that the sinking fund comnission is hereby authorized and retired, when in the judgment of the laid commissioners of the sinking und valid bonds of the State are not >ffered or oDtainable at a reasonable )rice, to lend the money of the sinkng fund commission both "cumulaive and ordinary" for a period ef one rear, at a rate of interest of 5 per cent. >er annum. Sec. 2. That said loan shall be made >y slid commission upon the valid ecurities of tha sevsral States of the Jnited States, giving; preference thereo, or upon the note of the county reasuvar and county supervisor of iny of th6 counties of this Slate who hall make application for a loan; >rovided, the said loan be not more han one-third of the tax levy for said :ouuty, and the whole of the taxes of aid county shall ba pledged for the epayment of the money so borrowed >f said sinking fund commission. Sec. 3. That the countv treasurArH nf he respective counties borrowing unds of the sinking fund commission hall pay the note so given out of the irst taxes collected for the fiscal year n which said money is borrowed. Sec. 4. That the sinking fund comnission shall receive applications for ,he various counties and file the same mtil the first day of March of every iubsequent year hereafter; and if the ip plications aggregate more than the mtire fund in the hands of the sinkng fund commission, said commision shall prorate the loan to be made o the several counties in proportion othe taxes paid bv the respective ;ounties; provided, that no loan shall >e made to any couuty in excess of >nethird of the amount of tax levy or such county for county purposes; jrovided, further, that for this year he applications shall continue to be nade until May the first. 8ec. 5. That the sinking fund comnicQinn shall fnrthwif.h rail in all emporary loans heretofore made by t, and loan said fund under the prorisions of this act. Sec. 6. That any county treasurer vho shall violate the provisions of his act shall be fined, on conviction her3of, a sum not exceeding $1,000, md his bond shall be liable to said Inking fund commission for the imount of the loss sustained by said :ommission, together with all costs ind expenses thereof. Sec. 7. That all acts and parts of icts inconsistent with this act be and he same are hereby repealed. There being some question as to the :onstruction of the provisions of the ict, the attorney general was asked to :onstrue it for "the commission. This le has done and the following issued >y the State treasurer has been printed ilong with the act and is being sent o the several counties, so that their >fficials may inform themsalves: Office of State Treasurer, JLyopai LLLiOUL \JL Olliilllig X' UUU, Columbia, S. C., March 17, 1897. The foregoing copy of an act istrantnitted for the information of those joncerned: The attorney general has construed he act as follows: The sinking fund :ommission is authorized and required ,o lend money at 5 per cent, interest )er annum, when State of South Car)lina bonds cannot be obtained at a easonable price. The money cannot >e loaned for a longer nor shorter >eriod than one year. Tke money nust be loaned: first, upon the valid iecurities of the several States of the Jnited States, giving preference there,o; secondly, what money remains ifter making loans upon such securiies offered as above stated is to ba, on he first dav of May, 1897, and on the irst day of March of each year thereafer, loaned to the several counties apilying for loans and complying with Arms nf ar>t; said balance loaned to :ounties being prorated among the :everal counties in proportion to the axes paid, and no loan to any county ihall be in excess of one third of the ax levy for such county for county )urposes?the "ordinary county tax." Applications for loans are to be forwarded to tie undersigned, to whom ilso apply for further information. W. II. Timmkrman, State Treasurer and exollicio Treas urer and Secretary of the Sinking Fund Commission. The commission had about $173,000 oaned out in 'JO days time on Februiry 1. These loans, it is said, will be it once called in. As will be seen the lolders of State bonds will still have he preference on loans and the counies can borrow whatever is left. Barnwell has asked for a loan of >8,000; Williamsburg for $3,000; Georgetown for $3,500, and Oconee or $2,500. York and liichland wish o borrow some, but have not yet statid how much. Aiken wants to borrow $3,000 for ordinary county purjoscs and has written asking if she vill be allowed to borrow $0,000 more, hedging the special tax of l-(5th of a nil! levied for six years for the pur>oso of ei-acting a now court house, .nasmuch as no loan can bo mado for onger than one year it is safe to say hat Aiken cannot get this $0,000. A meeting of the commission has joen called for March 30 to consider ill these matters. It will no doubt be ittended by all the members.?State. The Cubaun Active. Habana, Anarch 17 via Key West, March 17.?From Sagua La Grande i comes the news that on the 13th inst., r the parties of Anicato Hernandez, Rohan arwl .Tulin Dnminoiez sumrisp.d a section of volnnteers belonging to the 8 Sixth company of that city, the ma- "v i jority of them being negroes who t were protecting the cane cutters of the estate Salvador at a mile distance i from the place. Seven were killed on 8 , the spot and two have disappeared, f Many large cane fires are reported all ^ over Matanzas province, the rebels applying the torch to the fields in order to prevent grinding. They also set ^ . fire to a great section o.' the Matanzas c railroad, burning the crossties for a c long distance. The rebels fired on , n fV>A ni/ykfo .QIIVWIQTT * U uauauacutt UU uo uif;ako wi VUUUHJ and Monday. The city was much t alarmed and the garrison under arms a during the two nights. No losses re- a ported. Another attack is expected tonight aud the government is send- s ing troops. Several Cuban leaders in 5 Mataazas provinc3 have received e orders from Gomez to march tovard a Las Villas or Santa Clara province. " The last information locates Gomez at ? Dagamal, near Arroyo Blanco on the ! borders of Puerto Principe. It is reported at the last moment T that -he rebels have blown up a train 0 near Union, Matanzis province, but * details are lacking. Advices received * frnm Sunr.fi kiiritu3 detail the attack 1* made by the rebels on the town of 1 Paredes on the railroad line from Tu- ? nas to Sancti Spiritus. On the wight > of the 9th insit., about 10 p. m. the 1 rebels, after taking possession of the c town attacked the railroad station c which had been converted into a fort ^ and protected by a detachment com- * manded by Capt. Huertas, two ser- c geants, a corporal, 100 soldiers and ? about 50 volunteers. The insurgents J fired on the fort from all sides, thrust- 4 ing their gun3 into the very loopholes F of the same. The firing then became intense and the defenders, despite their a stout resistance, were forced to ?iban- * don the fort, leaving their dead and I wounded with their arms and ammu- f nitions which were all taken away. a Only a few volunteers managed to es * nA Rprorflftnt and 23 soldiers were ? killed. The captain and 15 soldiers ^ were seriously wounded. The telegraph operator was also wounded in * the act of wiring for assistance, but Jthis did not coma as the wires had 1 been previously cut. While this was a taking place at the station fort, another f party of rebels attacked another fort 1 named Fiel, at the extremity of the ? town. The garrison, composed of a 1 sergeant and 35 soldiers was soon over- * powered. All perished except one, 1 TTTftO /IQUMl'a/t O TTTOTT 09 r?*io or I 8 yyuu yyw u TT UJ All the arms and ammunition were captured and the fort destroyed. The Cubans were commanded by Jose Miguel Gomez, a brave leader in command of that district, but their numbers are not stated. It is said three were killed in the attack, a private named Enrique Canizares; a Spanish deserter and the other one unknown. Near the town of Paredes occurred the explosion lately reported. Cotton Meal Seized. c fJoLTTMKiA March 19.?Fertilizer In- a spector Croswell has seized at Ben- r nettsville eighty tons of cotton t seed meal shipped to a merchant in i that town, which did not have the j required tags on it showing that the t privilege tax of twenty-fi ye cents per j ton had been paid. The strange part i of it is that the meal is naid to have & come from New York, while there t are oil mills all over the State which could have furnished it. An oil mill man said yesterday that the meal was . really bought in the West through J New York orokers, aad that as a mat- ' ter of fact this particular brand was c worth very little. Governor Ellerbe 1 instrnntfid Assistant Attornev General 6 Townsend to proceed against the firm for violating the fertilizer law. It is provided that the State may sue to recover the value of all fertilizers without the tags and as cotton seed maal sells for $18.50, the amount in this case foots up $1,480, quite a sung sura for the State if she gets it. It is not often that dealers are caught napping in regard to paying the tax and such seizures are few and far between. He Fell Quickly. Columbia, 8. C.. March 18.?When Governor Ellerbe reorganized the nnnetoKnlavir a faar rlavciffn ha nTl- t VV/UOUU) K/MIUL J M AV II MWJ H Itgv uv MM V nounced that he would use his official j broadaxe to chop oil the head of the i very first appointee who got drunk. 1 Under such circumstances he little I dreamed that he would have to use lais t axe in less than a week. But he did, 1 all the same. One of the members of t the new force got on a spree after t getting his commission. It was z prompt] y reported to Governor El lerbe f and yesterday he chopped the oll'end- c er's official head otF without a word, s Another man will be selected to fill f the place. Tne man was one of the 1 mfimhfirs nf tho fnrmpir forcft who had t been retained. Governor Ellerbe says that he expects to take similar action in every case of such character that is brought to his attention and the constables may as well understand it.? State. He Eloped With a White Girl. Birmingham. March 15.?A. special to The State Herald from Kennedy, Ala., says: News reached here this afternoon that the negro, Andy Beard, who eloped with the white girl Lona Baines, who lived about ten miles south of this place ia Pickens county, was killed Saturday evening in the highway near Olney township, Pickens county. The couple were overtaken by a body of 25 mounted men, and as they discovered that they were being pursued the negro began to run, whereupon the pursuers opened fire, killing him instantly. The girl Lona cried out to the slayers of her paramour to treat her in the same manner that they had him, but the body rode away, leaving: her near the scene of the killi ng. Her father and brothers afterward took her back home and it is not known in what manner her punishment was inllicted. General Hampton Jill. t Wasiiinoton, March 16.?General c Wade Hampton is seriously ill at 1 his apartments at the Metropolitan a Hotel. He is suffering from heart t trouble and as he is now nearly 30 s years of age, it is feared he has not c sufficient recuperative power to with stand the aitack. A Drop Too Much. Jacksonville, Fla., March 17.? t Brodie Williams, the hign diver, t jumped last night in a ball of firs y from a 75 foot tower into Lake Worth v at Palm Beach, struck the bottom, b broke his neck and died within a few t hours. t Whore the Money Goes. It looks as if, as the nation increases n population, the cost of government ?er capita would grow less. We have io more Presidents now than we had ^ *Un Unrvmm'MM 4 Vi rvn n\\ ma Vi Q XTCk lb bUC UO^lUUlUg) bUUU^U Tf KJ uhtw rery properly doubled the salary of he ono we have. We have only ,bout one fifth as many Congressmen .3 we had at lirsw in proportion to >opulation. In proportion to populaion our army is much smaller than it vas at the beginning of the century. We have only eight members of the abinet, where we had six in the time if John Adams, in spite of the fact hat the country is now fourteen imes as populous as then. We have idded little to our diplomats service, ind one foreign minister now repreents, 71,500,000 people, instead of yl00,000, and yet our annual ordinary xpenditures have increased liftyfold, ^nd our expenditures per capita, inlead of diminishing, have increased rom $1.39 in 1800 to $4.93 in 1896. It ooks as if either our ancestors were rery stingy, or we are very extravigent. As a matter of fact, however, he greater part of our increased^x>enditureu is due to gratitude, and gratitude is a thing to be proud of? iot ashamed of. We pay $140,000,000 innually to the men wno saved the Jnion, most or tnem lor geiung nun a saving it. There are about 900,000 >f them thirty-two years after the war losed, which shows that the 600,000 Confederate soldiers were dangerous ot of fellows, and that wounds reeived in defending the Union were ionductive to longevity. Deducting he amount made for pensions and he interest on the public debt, the ter capita of expenditure is $2 48. For our war department we pay ibout $2,000 for every soldier in the ield. This oupht to make enlistments lopular. In Europe, as a rule, they lay only about $400. If Russia paid is much for her army in proportion o its numbers as we pay to our war lepartment, it would cost her about :i snn nnn nnn a. ir?fnv in time of Deace. .nd in about two years Russia would lave to quit preparing to fight. As a natter of fact, however, she pays litle more than dimes for our dollars, md can continue to threaten the peace >f Europe. One of our queerest n increases expenditure, is in ippropriations for the Indians. iVe paid in Indian appropriaions something over $12,000,000 oet raoii Ac IharA ftTA nnlv fthout i quarter of a million Indians in the ountry, wild and tame, this amounts o $48 per capita, or $240 for a family if five. It pays to be an Indian alnost as well as to be a pensioner. In .864 the Indians, as numerous as now, :ost only about one-sixth as much, vhich shows that they are appreciatng in value. At present rates of in:rease they would cost $270 per capita hirty-three years from now, and vould be the aristocrats of the land, 'erhaps by that time Congress will lecide that it is batter to buy them ill and present them to our worst eneny. It would certainly be economy " ? TTT o buy tJiem on now. we cau uurow money at 2:i per cent, and $48 >er annum per capita would amount o nearly $1,800 per Indian, or $9,000 >er family. This is fully 900 times as nuch. as the Indians are worth to themelvos, and 9,000,000 times as much as hey are worth to anybody else. Lively Meeting. Denver, Col., March 14.?The midlle-of-the-road Populists met here yeserday and adjourned after three hours >f fighting. Women were in the hick of the melee and they were in everal instances instigators of the atack. The first assault was provoked )y the remark of a woman that she iroul.d not sit in a convention with the tirelings of corporations, indicating >ne of the delegates. The latter re.iliec that the accuser was a liar and :ier husband flew to the rescue., while lis wife and her women companions itoocl by and cheered the fighters. tfr.3. E. W. Reed started another row >y saying that she had saen too much it politics to blush any more, that was i perfunctory effort that did the party 10 good. Mrs. Alice Faulkner took a land in the row and eulogized "Grand )ld man Waite." She grew excited tnd some one made a slighting re iiili lk bLiab ^iOVipibl*yvU X HUVX UVM w*vi Che ovent of the afternoon was when Hiss Holmes replied to the attack of he boiler inspector, W. R. Frazier. 3e said that the eorprations were nore powerful than Populists. "That's i lie," shouted half a dozen, and men ind women were on their feet making or the speaker. "If the shoe fits put it >n," retorted Frazier, bracing himelf for the rush. He was no match or the crowd and was driven from lis position, but fought desperately to he door. Mr. Akers next came in for niitrh frAflfrriftnt On bfeinc asked bv klrs. Reed if it was not "time for him o go out and choke himsalf to death," Uc<irs reported that Mrs. Heed had not dded anything to her reputation by roing out as a street singer. Miss holmes demanded why the men stood ilenl.ly by and saw the women inulted. None responded and then &rs. Reed and Miss Holme3 adminis ered the punishment tnemseives ana ore most of Mr. Akers' beard out of lis face. Mm!) Carrier Arrestr.il. Lynchburg, Va,t March 17.?Postilfice Inspectory Gregory arrived here oday, haying in custody Grier Bar:er, a mail carrier on the run between Chatham an^ Pullens, who had been irresied on the charge of robbing the nails. For several months past leters containing money have been re>orted missing and Barker's arrest vas the result of an investigation by he postoflice authorities. Barker vas taken before a United States Comnissoner andcornmited to jail to await rial. Appointments Confirmed. Washington, March 17.?The senite committee on foreiga relations oday ordered a favorble report to ba nade on the nominations of John lay to be ambassador to Great Brit,in, Horace Porter to ba ambassador o France and Mr. White, present ecretary at London, to be secretary ?f the embassy at London. Lynched u I'reacher. SooTTsuouo, Ala., March 13.?John ). Smith, a negro preacher, was shot o death by a mob, which broke into he jail here. Smith was arrested 'esterday charged with outraging the rife of a white farmer living near lere. This morning a mob broke into he jail and despite the pleadings of ho preacher, tilled him full of bullets. J 1 -V Ploughing Land When Too W?t* The Southern Cultivator says: No matter how much a farmer has been ueiayea oy tne neavy rains or jjeoruary, or how much hurried he may feel in consequence of these delays, he should beware of putting the plow in his land before it is sufficiently dry. We know the temptation, when work is pressing and the sun is shining, tc go on with the plowing, but we also know, from experience, that there is no injury to land or to crops which is more disastrous or more lasting in its efforts than plowing too soon after heavy rains. The injury, to stiff clays more especially, when plowed too wet, is not confined to one crop or one season, but extends to following years and future crops, causing cul tivation to be attended to many necessarily difficulties. Unfortunately such an error cannot be remedied at leas! during the same year. The mistake of preparing land when too wet, will invariably cause loss in the cultivated crops and much vexation of spirit in our vain efforts to escape the results ol our lack of judgment. Let us keep ic mind tlut on this work of careful and judicious preparation hinges the om parative success or failure of our crops and let us therefore abstain from put ting the plows in the land until it is in proper condition for the work. Thor ough preparation is much more impor tant than early planting, and even il we have to reduce the intended areas of our different crops, the sacrifice is well made, if by it we ara enabled to put the remainder of our land in fir3l class condition for the reception of the seed. Less Exclusive Than Or over. Washington, March 16.?President McKinley has issued an order that un doubtedly will increase his popularity among a large portion of the citizens of the District. It is that the road back of the Whiie House and running through the White House grounds be restored to its former func tion as a public thoroughfare. It if part of the President's grounds and is subject to his orders. Up to withis the last four years it has always been open to the use of the public. Dur ing the excepted period the grounds were given over to tne use or tae Cleveland children and the gates were closed to the general public. During the past administration the only time: the grounds were open to the public were on Easter Monday for egg rolling, and on Saturdays "when the Marine Band gave its concerts. Pianos by the Mile. See Ludden and Bates' new advertisment of one thousand Mathushek pianos. Suppose them all loaded on to wagons in one grand procession, allow 15 feet for each wagon ana team and the line would be nearly three miles long. That is just the wholesale way this great southern house does business. Having acquired an interest in the noted Mathushek att rtma vi/vm aitnnlv. jl utuu labnuj' , iaojr us uun ing purchasers direct and saving aiJ intermediate profits. This means a saying of from $50 to $100 on each piano, and the securing of one of the oldest and most reliable instruments al a remarkably low figure. Better write them at Savannah, Ga., or at 93 Fifth Ave., New York City. It I? Bald That of all the diseases that affect mankind, diseases of the kidneys ar? the most dangerous and fatal. m this be so, how important it is that the kidneys be kept in a healthy condition . The use of Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will do tt is. It if *u? ? LLC UUUUO Ul [II'O VOUV1UU 1U UIOM troubles, The trustworthy care for the Whiskey, Opium, Morphine and Tobacco Habits, For further information address The Keeley Institute, or Drawer 27, Columbia, 3. C. / I"MATHUSHEK"?Tho Piano for a Lifetime.! 1000 I PIANOS ^ J' ?^1C^ ^ Pianos on hand. LUDDEN 4. BATES, interested In this Factory, now ofFer this great stock at S")0 to 5100 less than former prices. No strictly Jll^ch (Jrndo l'lano ever sold so Ion. ONE PROFIT from Factory to Consumer. Greater Inducements than ever in sllghtr ly used Pianos and Organs?many as pood us new?sold under guarantee. V Latest .Styles. Elegant Cases. Also New STEiHWAY Pianos, Mason & Hamlin Organs. M Write for Factory Prices and Bargain Lists. I LUDDEN & BATES, SAVANNAH, 6A. |b All Sheet Music Onc-IIalf Price. HOT JKLMIS. No Danger, in Ci'uixo One ll.ujir, ok Fokming Another. Ol'IUM (Morphine, Laudanum) El.- , Cukeii in krom Font to Six Weeks. LIQUOR DISK ASK Cured Usually in Four Weeks. Also Tobacco Habit and Nervous Diseases, The Cure has been endorsed by the Legislature of six States and one Territory; by the National Government in the Soldiers' Homes and in the regular army; by many local authorities in the cure of iudigent drunkards (morphine and liquor); by Miss Wallard, the W. C. T. I' : Francis Murphy, Neal Dow and the I. <). ?i. i' : by prominent men all over the land; by ;{00,<KK) cured patients, tuoio than 20,(M) of these being physicians. Tho Leslie E. Keeloy Company anil the Ivceley Institute of S. 0. are responsible corporations which could not afford to put forth any claim that thej are unable to prove. For printed matter and terms, address, THE IvEELEV INSTITUTE, or Drawer -7. Columbia, S. C. 1 Mention this paper. "we 1 WANT j i A. PARTNER, 1 'IN i EYERY > i [ mrATrr-ET / ; 1UW11 Postmasters, Railroad Agents, j General I i store Keepers, Clerks, Minlsterd, or any \ 1 other person, lady or gentleman, who can devote a little or .all of their time to onr j bus! ess. We do not want any money In i advance, and pay large commissions to \ - those who work for as. We have the bes; > Family Medicines on earth, and can pro* luce lots of testimonials from oar home 1 people. f Send for blank application and circular. \ , Address , I , BRAZILIAN MBDICINB'CO., [ 844 Broadway, Anposta. Ua ;see I HERE. is:your liver all right?, Axe your Kidneys in a healthy condition If so, Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will keep them so. If not, Hilton's Life for the L'ver and Kidneys will make them so. A 26c bottle will convince yon of this 1 fact. Taken regularly after meals It Is an aid to digestion, cures habitual constipation, and thns refreshes and clears both body and mind. SOLD WHOLESALE BY ; rhc Murray Drug Co., | ^COLUMBIA, 8. 0. ; AOT / s Di. H. BAKR, Charleston. 8. O. Advice to Mothers. [ \ I I I I 1 We take pleasure la calUng your atten ) Hon to a remedy so long needed in carry* | lng children safely through the critical itage of teething. It ia an incalculable - bleealng to mother and child. If you are disturbed at night with a sick, fretful,. teething child, uae Pitts' Carminative, It will give instant relief, and regulate thei bowels, and make teething safe and easy-.. 1 It will cure Dysentery and Diarrhoea. | Pitts Carminative ia an instant -ellef for colic of infants. It will promo'** digestion, give tone and energy to the stomach and bowels. The sick, puny, suffering child will soon become the fat and frolicking Joy ^ of the household. It is very pleasant to s the taste and only cost 25 cents per bottle, "Sold by druggists and by THP MTTOTIAV TYRnn fVI Columbia, 8. C. Machinery AND Supplies v Engines, Boilers; Saw Mills, Corn Mills, uri t irm? n.i?i. ir?AkiMAn TV UtiHb iuiius, xiuuoia, duck jnaouiuts, Moulders, Gang Hdgere. And all kinds of Wood Working Ida chinery. No one In the South can offer yon higher grade goods, or at lower prlies. Talbott, Llddell and Watertowa Endues. We are only a few hours ride from yt u. Write for prices. Light, Variable Feed Plantation Saw Mills a Specialty. V. C. Badham, General Agent, COLUMBIA. 8. C. ENGINES, . BOILERS, SAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS, AT FACTORY PRICES. E. W. SCREVEN, COLUMBIA, a. o.