Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I * / YKURLOW 8. C ARTE 11, | ^ JFcutxily Newspaper : For the Pronu>txrn o/ the Political, Social, Agricultural aaod Comtnerrial Interests. J TERM8. SI.50 A Y*j *. ejoitob amd muuaia. > r ' u ) pamakvh rm axrr.ixat. ~ ~~ "" ' j* oi'j.. 1- \\ Kf.KLV L A N U A ^ 1 K K U . s K P I K \1 H K K lKSTABU> Eh 1*>-' DISPENSARY PROFITS, j1 Difficulty About Its Proper Distribution. ' I1 Statistics From Different Counties " as to the Amount Required for " the School Fund?An lutri- ^ cate Business. , * ii Columbia Record. The dispensary "profit, which according to law must be distri- " i t buted to the various counties fori public school purposes, has not ' vet been sent ovit, and there is no telling when it will he. Tins is ' owing to the difficulty of definitely deciding what is due each ' county There a deficit exists. It is provided that the school fund shall amount to $3 per capita and when taxation does not bring up r a county to that amount, the diss pensary profits shall he so distri- | huted us to make that amount. The practical part of currying | out the law is more intricate than it would seem. Getting at the I propor distribution of the fund is . no easy matter and the comptroller general has had to consider some knotty questions in connection with tho matter. He is receiving reports from every county and so soon as they can he revised, the ' money will he apportioned. Some of the reports are interesting. For instance, Beaufort, , Charleston, Richland, Greenwood anil Sumter report that there will he no deficit and the school fund ( will not have to ho supplemented j, from dispensary profits. The counties mentioned, with the possi- s bio exception of Beaufort and Greenwood, contribute more than any other counties in tho state, ( probably,to the dispensat y profits, ! yet they get nothing. Marion reports that she will j need $24!).75 to mike tho $3 per' capita, Marlboro $47 1)0, Greenville $844. York $1)0.47, Dorchester $72 01 and Lexington $1,338.42. In many instances too many | schools are established. In some, districts of tho state where two or three schools would be entirely j sufficient, eight, ten or twelve are in operation. This adds to the difficulty of distributing the fund and it can only be legally given i out after tho data are in hand. SMALLPOX AGAIN. Sixteen Negroes in the Post House in Elrod Section. Special to Tho State. Piedmont, Sept 30?The smallpox has broken out in the Elrod settlement find there fire fit present some 10 esses under treatment | at the pest house, just established on the L G El rod estate, some; four miles above here. It is at i present confined to the colored, i km) pie, but it is feared that the disease has been widely scattered, as a protracted meeting has recently been in sessior in the immediate vicinity, to which the colored peo pie have docked from all quarters. ' RED HOT FROM THE OUN Was the ball that hi* (i It Steadmen of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible Ulcers that no treatment haliuul frir Oft uuaru Tlmn Riii*Lr. len's Arnica Salve cured him. ' Cures Cuts,Bruises, Boils, Felons, Corns, Skin Kruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. 2& cts, a box. Cure guaranteed. i IOME MILLS M\KE THEM. <. SELVES FELT. t 'ho State, 21st. f There is spread before the peoile of the South at this time a ' rout object lesson of ihe value of ' ome cotton mills to cotton pian * ers. Everybody realizes that 1 lu'se mills do good to the commu- J litics in which they operate; that I hey build them up in population, n wealth and in importance, mis. 1 ng.thc villages to towns and towns ' o cities. Intelligent farmers re- * iize that they do good to the ' ountry also, increasing the home 1 Market for produce of all kinds nd increasing the value of lands 1 n their neighborhoods. It is al-M o understood, although foi the!* uost part loosely, that they help < he cotton planters near them b\ | jiving theiu better prices for their taple than they could get from i xporters. Hut only now is there ji o great and b:oad an example of 1 his last benetit IIS 111 imt 1 in'y tliu whole South hut the cot on trade In two hemispheres. The situation is most interest ng, even to those who have no : la/.ard in the outcome. The colon crop, which six weeks ago iromised a great yield notwithstanding its partial failure in this mrt of the south, has since de-| lined rapidly in condition, owing j :o the drought in the southwest. Before the etlects of this drought wore fully revealed Henry M.I Neil I, the New Orleans representative i.t British exporters, gave nut an estiil^ite of oyer 12,00<>,-j f)00 hales, and the Liverpool mar- ' ket, responding to it, at once ami sharply lowered the price. This drop synchronously atfected the New York market, and, to a lesser extent, all the American mar kets. So. 11 afterward the government crop report for September revealed the full extent of the drought injuries in the trans-mississippi region and the Southern markets began to rise. The nevs since) then has continued and heightened the government's estimate of losses, and throughout the manufacturing South prices have advan ced materially. To this advance! there has hsen a partial response iu Now York, but Liverpool, pinning its faith to Noill's estimates, lias maintained practically the prices of a month ago. So we have this condition : The price of cotton in the cotton manufacturing States of the South is as high as in New York, and in sonic places higher, while in Now York it is relatively higher than in Liverpool. Liverpool has been paying 7 cents for middling cotton, and mill towns in South Cariklinu lin vo luion tiat'inir ? u tnnoli as unci 6? cents for it. The result is that it does not pay to buy cotton for export, and unless Liverpool materially raises its bids it will be able to buy very little in the near future. The Southern buying which keeps the price up, and even raises it in the absence of foreign competition, is being done by the j Southern mills. Their managers see for themselves the hollowness of Neill's estimate ; they know the crop is going to fall largely below last year's ; they believe that the price is certain to go higher, and as provident men they are laying in'their stocks now. In thus reasoning and acting they are indubitably right. At the present and prospective prices of cotton roods they can : lTi>r< 1 to pay what | hey are now pa\ in^, and even i nnch higher prices. The demand , or cotton, both at home and thread is <jrrcatev than it has ever >ccn. the crop is the shortest in everal years, and the margin bei i ween the prices of raw and mm-1 ifaetnred cotton is very lar?*e.? ' I'his is the time for Southern! llanters to hold all they can and 'or Southern mills to jjet ill they ran. We hope that but little will j te marketed for the present and ' hat every hale of that little will :o into t'jc warehouses of our own nil Is. j' The significant point of the ivhole matter is that Southern; nili>, by competition a i on?j them wives, unaided by Southern buy-) M's, have for weeks kept up the; price of cotton over larpe areas. L This is in dctiance of Knglish speculators and spinners, and it is, 11 ?r rent step toward Southern in -1 dependence. We can make it the rule and ii\ our own price for our iireat staple if we will only build j mills enough Once we spin all I out cotton what will we care for ^ Liverpool, or for New York and Boston markets ! In cotton prices! we will be a law unto ourselves, ' and no falso estimates of yields need compel us to sacrifice our crop. For all that we raise we j will have purchasers at home. The mill stockholder will plant cotton and the cotton planter will buy mill stocks. There will he profit in both planting and manufacturing, and an adjustment of pricoA between them will not be difficult. South Carolina last year manufactured 44 per cent, of the lar rest crop of cotton she ever rais. ed. This year she is like'y to consume live-sevenths of a short crop?half a million bales nut of a crop of 700,000 bales. If we keep up tln? pace we have taken now five years inoro will raise consumption above local production. Fverv cotton planter with as much as a hundred dol lars to invest, should put it if he can into a now cotton mill convenient to his plantation. It will buy permanent insurance against fo:?* e:gn and speculative rapacity. Will Huter Suit. Attorney General Bellinger is . preparing to bring suit against the bondsmen of Col W A Neal, [owing to the failure of Col Neal j to make any other settlement of the amount the committee finds [ him owing the State. It hap I pens that all three of the bonds ' men are Columbians and are men who stand high in the community, ! financially as well as otherwise. The bond is signed by VVilie .Jones, 1* II Haltiwanger and Scott Pope.?The State, 21st. >1II,I,|0\S GIVEN AWAY It is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one concern in i the land who are not afraid to ho generous to the needy and suffer! ing. The proprietors of f>r King's New Discovery for Consumption, ,( \?ll I'll S 1111(1 ( 'llldii iiotro I ; ' h1"" overtoil million trial bottles of this great medicine; and have the satisfaction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of i hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all disease* of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on Crawford Bros' Druggist, and get a free trial bottle. Regular size 50c. and $1. Every bottle guaranteed, or price refunded. Dr. Illle*'Art m nil* are fu*r*ot??d to (N| Jinlawi laSO mlBvtM. "Ob* c?nt * do**. } COTTO" FARMER0' TRUST.' Fiic;; is Great Need For Such ' An Organization. New (hlcans Business Man ; Favors Fighting the l">evil with File if it Be Possible. I y Washington, Sept 2"? ''I am 11 iguinst trusts us a general pro- P position, lint I would l?e ?;lad to i1 <oe the cotton planters of the ' ^oiith forma eoinhine in order to!1 put up the price of cotton,'' said) Mr .1 A Steele, of New Orleans. Is "This inny sound a <;ood deal like ihe proposition of the old * Scotch fisherman, who wrote to j4 Mr (i ladstonc that ho stood by j him in his free trade views, hut ' h'1 thought there ou??ht to he a 1 y ? ' u .T V tin herrings. At lilt* same ' time, at tin* risk of being eon I ' si Icrcd inconsistent, I repeat that I! a farmers' trust would meet my ' approval. " The poor devil of a planter' toils the year round in the burn-' ing sun of our Southern clime, j making a cotton crop, which, when gathered, ginned, and ba)e<l, i must t?e Jold by him for whatever 1 price the buyer chooses to give. The owner of the product hasn't a word to say as to the price he j shall receive, and being in dent j for supplies to bis local merchant, is not able to hold his bales to a I time when ho might dispose of j them in a better market. <41 am dubious as to the possibility of such a planters' comtiina-j lion, hut it would seem not to hoi utterly impracticable* It would bo a clear case of combining in self defense, for at the prevailing) ! prices of the past three years the! piodnction of cotton, instead of being attended with profit, has been an actual Ipss to those who [are engaged in it. If a trust could advance the price even 1 cent I a pound, it would mean a train of millions of dollars to the Southern farmers, and the world at large, who consume cotton, would not > he injured by such a slight inI crease." Doctor Dies iu His liuggy. Special to the State. Spartanburg, Sept 1*.?News reached the ?5ty this morning that the horse of Di. Thos. \V. noil of Whitney had run away and killed him. He was a lover of tine horses and this particular one had run away several times. When he was found dead in the lot of Mr. A. M. Glover, with tin abrasion on his head, it was natu rally concluded that a shocking accident had happened. Hut an examination of all the circumstances showed that it was no accident but a case of heart failure. Mr. Glover found him in his lot about 0 o'clock Sunday night and at once called his neighbors. Dr. Vernou's horse and buggy was standing near. The doctor had been seen near night going home alone in his buggy, and ho had to pass Mr. Glover's to reach his 1 own house, which was a short dis; tanco away. Ho had been visiting a patient at Mr. Glover's, , and it is supposed the horse i turned in there from force of habit. lie was probably dead ' before reaching this point. He was about 34 years old and very popnlar as a physician. To Car* Constipation Fortter. i Ttks Cuotrtta (Tandy Cntharllc. 10c or tS?. If O C. C. fall to euro, dru^gUU refund noaay. A SWINDLER ABROAD. lepresenl* Himself us aLawyc From Birmingham, Am. ^peeial to The Slate. Spartanburg, Sept Hi ? A sliel nscul irivinir his bonis as Binning nun, Ala., worked a enntidcne< ;ame on ono of the oldest am ilost prominent members of th ipartanhur?r bar on the if I of tlii nonth. He went into the ofliei ml talked about things in genera 11 a most cnlertuininii manner epresentinir that lie h: d beei ummcring in Asheville and wa )ii his way home to Birmingham hat he had run short nf lesired tlu; :ii<l of a brother sit ornev t<? get *lo. Ho produce i license to practice law in Birni n^ham and said he was a prat icing attorney at that plant Kverylhing seemed so plausibl md he was sncti a nice fellow til spartan went down to the ban with hint and endorsed his ehee for $10 on the Alabama Nation; bank of Birmingham. In d< I'onrso of time the check can back protested. A letter to leading law lirni in Birmingha reveals the fact that there is t such place; that he has bet drawing such checks on this bar all through Tennessee, (ieorg and the Carolinas; that ho was Birmingham some time ago ai desired this bank to cash son checks for him on other banks,b they refused to take them exce for collection; that he became < fended and went away in a ho The man is evidently a fraud a ought to he widely published. A BLIND PKOFKSSOIL dohn Swearingen (Jets a Chair Cedar Springs. Last .I une there graduated lr< the South Carolina college a you man who broke all records at tl institution. .John Swearingen Kdgetield though blind wc through the entire college com and graduated at the head of I I class. lie was pronounced by t faculty the most remarkable ni t Iwn' l,,i*l L* I 1 HIVJ IKI't v * Ul IMM'? II. v I'IMI J 'graduation Mr. Swearingen w< to his home in Kdgelield where quietlv spent the summer. N he has been elected a professor the State Institution for the De numb and Blind at Cedar Sprir and soon enters upon his dut I there. It is understood to be purpose to save his money a complete his education at Harvi university. He is ambitious | enter the legal profession, who know him feel sure that I brilliant future awaits him.?1 ; State. A Great Earthquake at Aidii Smyrna, Asia Minor, Sept. ?There was a disastrous ear quake this morning at Aidin, town on the Mender, 81 to southeast of this place, llundr | of persons nere killed in the val ; of Mcndercz. (i Walt Whitman has renoun politics for what will be proba i a more profitable occupati 1 Mr A'hitman has entered mercantile business in Union. Have you forgotten pay your subscription to Ivodgi Pay your subscripitoi Ledger! Pardon of Prevfus 11 :is 1 icon Sillied. Palis, Sept 1-council of ministers decided today to pardon 1 Dreyfus in principle. The par Ion will take elfeei in a few days. * Dreyfus lias relinquished his * appeal for a reversal of the judj;1 nient of the court mart ial. I _ 3 l>, PR FY PCS' FIRST DAY BKYOND PRIS< >N NY A LPS. I/ike One Returned From t li?i Dead. (i lief at Death of his First ('humpion ? I lealt !i \'?i d London Sept. 2'2.? A corrc(j spondent of tIk* Daily Mail who ( joined the Dreyfus party at Dor, deaux and accompanied theni to ( urpentrus, deserihes Dreyfus as I 1 "thoughtful, prematurely aged, with soft eyes, a smile like a wo. man's and rather the. appearance . of a savant than a soldier " I When told of the groat waye of British sympathy in his hchalf, lie wrumr the correspondent's hand f and showed the deepest emotion. I lis health, the correspondent says, is far from satisfactory, lie >n ate meat yesterday for the fust j i "It is against the doctors orj ders," said Mathieu Dreyfus. ! 44 Ah!" said the? former captain of artillery, 4'let me have a hol:i day today. 1 will lie sedate and . obedient again tomorrow. 1 am * just like a hoy now and feel that U I could run and jump about the nd fsreen h'dds for very joy. .lust (think! I shall now he aide to I laugh and play with my children in the beautiful country." After the meal despite his hrothjer's half laughing protest, he at smoked several cigars to celebrate the holiday." The sad note amid the rejoicing was the death <>f M. )U1 Scheurer-Kestner. I "1 run grieved beyond words," ,u? said Dreyfus, k-to think that 1 nf shall ne.er he able to thank that >nj noble heart.'' so t^ne of his first acts on obtain|)js iti.tr his freedom was to have a k0 wreath sent to he placed on the ;,n coffin of his champion and friend. Ms present he speaks little of jnt past .events, lie says: "I have |le forgiven, hut 1 cannot forget," (,w and he intends t<? devote himself jn to proving his innocence. When tlf that has been accomplished ho j,rS will only ask to lie allowed to ieg | ?pend the remainder of his davs uio'with his loved one-, far from the II md btisy world. ird "His delight ?at everything on to. the journey," continues Tho All Daily Mail's correspondent, "was ; a that of a man'returning from the I ^ The dead to the world -he loved. The affection and solicitude of his brother are touching to see. His u. physical weakness causes the deep* 20 appiohension to his frionds. tl,, The journey was in the main un a ! eventful except for a few expres* lies sions of dissappointment on the C(js part of people who endeavored to ley got a glimpse of him." Lieut. Col. Miley Dead. oe<* Washington, Sept 10.?Lieut y Col John D Miley, inspector gen* on" J oral of volunteers, died today at Manila. The death was due to typhoid fever. j Col Miley served on Gen Miles' er o staff during the Porto Kicnn cam, to P"ign What atop* Nauralgla? />. Ml lea* Pain Pill*.