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Progress.
Ulla will long bo remembered as an ago of
material and moral progress. Tbo spirit of
enterprise ia abroad in tbo land and its in?
fluonoo is soon on every liai; J. Not only is
?Boro attention given to the comforts of homo
and tho family, but improvements iu agri
culture have made rapid progress ia tho past
ton years, increasing our crops, improving
Our lands and agricultural implements, limit
ing labor moro effootual in production. Tho
?loso of the war found us poor in rosourcos
and broken inspirit, and ns the road from
poverty to wealth with individuals is ruggod
and diffioult at first and grows moro easy,
.o with communities and States. In the
?hort period of human lifeoo indi vidual cnn riso
from poverty to actual wealth, unless by some
reiky and fortunato speculation, and whenever
H happens in suoh cases, tho individual is
enriched at tho expenso of his fellows.
Labor is capital and oapital is wealth, nnd
hence labor is wealth. Labor, howovor,
cannot croate woalth in tho legitimate walks
of production in a singlo goneration, but
wealth thus obtained is tho accumulated pro*
daots of tho labor of scvoral generations.
Wealth obtained by speculation is but tho
transfer of existing values from man to man,
bat whon acquired by labor it is its creation
and is un addition to tho general wealth. It
is the general rule that a person spends a
large half of his manhood in getting a start,
that is, in laying by a few thousand dollars,
but whon this is accomplished tho road to
woalth is easier, many avenues of making
monoy hoing open to tho moncyholder not
accessible before. Tho same is truo wf com
munitios. A country starting poor requires
years of industry and economy beforo activ?
progress begins, but whon onco tho country
begins to hold a surplus of money ovor tho
Wants of tho pooplo, enterprises beforo con
sidorod cutoplan become real nod of easy
attainraout. For years our wotor powers, a
great source of wealth in tho Enstorn States,
have been singing an id lo lullaby to the for
ests they traversed; our timber of overy vari
ety and valuo has stood silent sentinels of
the changing seasons, and our mineral ro
aourcoss, which may bo valuable, havo lain
hidden in tho secret chambers of tho earth. We
have froquontly given thom a passing thought,
realizing at tho timo there was not yot
enough of capital in tho country to prompt
any active steps towards their dovelopmont
and utilization. This is giving place to a
now ordor of things. Our productions arc
annually increasing. Monoy is accumulat
ing in tho country, and it is stirring up en.
terprieos in tho way of investment. This is
readily ecou in thc starting of factories at
Williumston and Charleston, and in tho pro
jecting of sinfilur enterprises in almost every
county of tho Stato. Our mineral resources
ate attracting active attention, as seen by
the roport of tho Commissioner of Agricul
ture, while nearly ovory enterprise promo
tive of woalth or comfort is hoing agitated.
In this connection wo anticipate no small
rosluts from tho enclosure law in tho im
provement of stook and tho bringing into
cultivation large traots of improductivo land,
not now profitable
Our progross in morals is equally visible.
Education is attracting a greater share of
attention and schools and colleges aro more
numerous and better patronized. Laws
restraining and preventivo of crime and
?whatever conducos to crime arc being advocat
ed and adopted. Thc last Legislature in this
Stato, under tho pressure cf a wholesome
nnd intolligeuL publio opinion, not only made
it a misdemeanor to onrry concoalcd weapons,
but restricted tho falo of liquor to incorpo
rated cities and towns and in them subjected
ita Balo to heavy license and stringent regu
lations. This was a stop long advocated by
many amid bitter opposition, but finally
adopted at tho publio demand. Tho oppo
nents of tho liquor traffic aro by no means
satisfied, but will continuo their warfare
until legal prohibition is secured. This may
bo remoto, but tho time will doubtless como
when it will be granted, not only in this but
in all the States. Tho warfuro is bogun ac
tively in tho North and West, and across tho
waters tho samo spirit of prohibition is being
awakened in tho old world. In our own
Stato tho victory gained last winter has
whottod tho opposition nnd we would not bo
surprised at tho presentation to tho noxt
Legislature of petitions signed by ono hun
drud thousand citizens of this Stato asking
tho passage of a strict prohibitory law.
Already petitions aro hoing circulated with
this view and the proBB and pulpit on this
subject aro largoly in accord. Un this and
other.moral subjoots tho public mind is hoing
exercised with an intorost novor boforo known
aud not even nntioipnted by tho strongest
advocates of temperance. Tho mission of
tho ministry and total abstinonoo sooiotios
bas borotoforo been fruitless, but it bas bo
oome tbo work of all lovors of peace and
ordor and is progressing as tho mission of
tho great moral world.
Tho Haleigh News' says that Mr. A. F.
Bizzoll, of Laurinburg, N. 0., last yoar
cultivated 60 acres in cotton with th reo mulos.
Ho gathored 40,270 pounds of lint cotton,
600 bushels of corn, 300 bushols of potatoes,
and paoked 6,000 pounds of pork. Ho could
havo realized, at low prices, on those crops
alono, ovor $4.000 in cash-ovor $1,300 to
caoh mulo. How will that do for "a oountry
tbat is good only io immigrate from?"
The Charleston News and Courier slates
tbat Governor Hagood was in Charleston on
the 12tb, attending the races in that city.
mt?Btt??? WU . JULI JL. MMJgjg B f HU .Mill SiL'J. Li JJJB
Our Productions, Labor, &o.
In our lut IMUO ve mentioned the relative
valuo of various products of (bis and. other
States, ?Uh the view of directing the attention
of our farming community te the probable
profit of tobacco growing, to which we consider
this county welt adapted. We oould only give
average yields per sore aqd average prloes ot
the articles mentioned, leaving to our readers te
reason for themselves as to tho profitableness ol
these protluots. Every one is'aware that an
average yield ls within the easy roaoh of nay
Industrious farmer, and very fow good farmers
would accept suoh a y ield for his crop elthor in
quantity or value. Tako corn and how many ol
our farmers would accept 7} bushels per noro
for his oropt In fact tho avorago yield of oom
per aero in 27 States varioB betwoen 26 and 41
bushels and tho average value por aero from
corn varies from $5.62 in South Carolina to $20
in Oregon, only ld States averaging above $16
per acre in oom.
Tho general average value of the chief pro
duots of all tho States of this Government varies
per aore between $8.60 in Florida and $20.82
in Rhode Island, only 4 of the 87 States averag
ing por aore above $20 for their products.
The averago valuo of all tho products of (his
Stato is $10.09 and thom aro but four States
showing n lower average, lo wit: Florida, Ne
braska, Iowa and Kansan. Consider this low
averago and that tho lowest average cash value
per aoro from tobacco is $88.16, and it will be
readily seen that wo can grow in thia county
tobacco profitably and ought to plaut il largely.
Ia addition to the quantity and vnluo of tho
products of a country, its desirableness for
money making depends largely on tho supply
and value of labor. In this respect our Stale
will compare favorably with any portion of Ibo
United .States, for while tho nogro may not bo a
model of morality or u dosirabk politician, ho
is certainly a good laborer and has thc physical
strength and climatic fitness for this county.
Ho may not bo fully reliable, but he will improve
lu (his respect, and on tho nvorage has as many
dcsirablo qualities as can bo fouud in any
laboring oluss.
The price paid for labor in tho South also
gives us groat advantages over many other Stales
of tho Union. The averago price paid per
mouth by the year in tho States and Territories
of the Union rauges without board betweon
$10.38 and $42.66; with board between $7.32
and $30.76, and among thc States varies as
follows: ID tho Eastern Statos between $10 and
$23.40 without board, and with board betweon
$12.02 and $14. In (ho Middle States without
board from $21.68 lo $16; with board from $10
to $1-1. In tho Southern Stales without board
from $10.38 to $18.45, and with board from
$7.32 to $12.20. In (he Weslarn Sutes with
out board from $10.14 to $10.03, and widi
board from $13 to $30. In Ibo Territories with
out board from $22 lo $42.05, and with board
from $13.80 to $30.75. Farm labor is cheaper
in South Carolina (han iu any other State,
averaging by the year without board $10.38 per
month, and with board $7.32. Thc general
averago of farm labor by tho year was iu
1879, for tho wholo coulry, $20.20, and fer tho
year 1880 $21.75. Tho average prico for labor
with board in 1880 was $14.66 per month.
lt will thus bo seen Hint South Carolina has a
great advantago in the low price of labor over
all thc other StatcB, havioR adv&niego of one
dollar per month over North Carolina and
Georgia. Enjoying a healthy climate and an
easy access to market, what hinders our people
from making money rapidly and what advantage
has any county of this State over our county?
And further what reason has any man to leave
a country, where all things considered, such
such great advantages exist and are open lo all
to search out au Utopian El Dorado? This
State, compared with any other State, has equal
advantages for making money, with numerous
dcsirablo couvenionocs of a social character,
such as schools, churches, Sic, which cannot bo
fouud in nowly settled Statos. If wo compare
this county with other counties of this Stato wo
will fiud our advantages equal lo theirs, for
while eomo may grow cotton moro profitably
than this, wc can more than counterbalance this
by growing lobacoo on our rich uplands. Tho
fact is wo have everything needed to mako us
contented and prosperous, and with industry anti
economy wc will enjoy these blessings and also
grow rich rapidly.
Wo propose in our next issue to say something
upon tho relativo value of lands in this and
other States, t li oso three items, tho relative
quantity and value of products, tho wages of
labor and thc price of land, being thc most im
portant considerations in tho desirableness of
homes.
A Negro Found Dead and Whis
key the Cause of His Death.
PAIR PI-AY, S. C., February 14, 1881.
MKSSKS. RDITOIIS: Julius Parks, a negro boy
who lived In Georgia, was found dead near tho
Iluptist Church at this placo on Sunday morn
ing, tho Kith instant. Tho deceased, with
Hiram Wright and Joe Stribling, had been on n
littlo lark on tho Georgia side of Tugaloo on
last Saturday evening and crossed over to Ibis
side of tho river and reached Fair Play about
10 P. M., when they separated for tho night,
Hiram ami Joo goiug into Anderson County to
thc former's mother's and Julius to his sistor's,
near Townville. After leaving this place no
thing can bo learned of Julius. Tho road ho
took to renoh his sister's is known as tho Pen?
dleton road, leading in a Northeast direction
from (his place and ho was found dead on tho
Fair Play and Anderson road, loading rather in
an Eastern direction from hero. Thc deceased
was thoroughly saturated with water and it is
supposed that be attempted to cross a oroek neni
Mr. Cleveland's but could not. The air?ame
wore nil out of their banks. No doubt he, aftei
trying to cross tho orcek, intended lo go where
Hiram Wright was sponding tho night, but was
not ablo to get there. Judge Seaborn, acting a?
Coroner, held an inquest, and the jury, consist
ing of the most intelligent men of this placo
returned a vcrdist Hint tho docensod froze tc
death while under the influenco of whiskey. Dr.
J. L. MeCurry mado tho post mortem examina
tion and could find no signs of a violent death.
W. P. C.
IMMIGRANTS ron OAK OLIN A.-Onion ol Fran:
Melohors, tho editor of tho Deutsche Zeitung
loft Charleston on Wednesday morning foi
New York to attend a oonloronoe with Hov
Mr. Neumann and others, with regard to th<
immigration of foreigners to South Caro
lina.
A now phosphate cumpany hm boen or?
gani/ 'd in Charleston with a capital ol
$?-'00.000. Thcro mint bo monoy in these
companies, if we aro to judgo by tho price
of tho fertilizers ihey sell.
Cotton Factories.
Tho proas of Newborry is advocating the
building of p, cotton fnotory in that town and
maintains there is an abundance of unem
ployed capital tb start the business and mako
itnsuooees.
There aro roportod in South Carolina'1,770
looms and 92,788 spindlos, consuming annu
ally 33,090 bales of cotton and giving em
ployment to 2,190 operatives.
Tho Atlanta cotton fnotory consumos 100
to 180 balos of ootton a week.
The movement that South Carolina let
particular is making in the direction of
building and establishing cotton faotorios,
though boomingly latp, is now of a magnitude
that hns aroused all tho hitherto dormant
(acid t ion of tho pooplo of this Commonwealth.
From the mountains to tho senshoro it has
with apparent euddonoss thrown off its
infantile garments, and with supernatural
growth asa um cd the robes of a growing
giant.--Newberry News.
If tho oxporionoed busioess men and capi
talists of Charleston havo oonfldonoe in prof
itable results whoro they will havo to bring
Coal a? considerable distance, at great cost,
for tho gonorating of steam as their motivo
power, why cannot the pooplo of this county
feol a like oonfidonoo whoro thoy havo but to
dam the magnificent wator powers which aro
gliding idly to tho soa? Southern faotorios
aro now controlling the great markots of tho
country in nil cooroo goods, and realizo from
twolvo to thirty per cont, on investments,
wbilo Northern mills in prosperous timos
ouly carn six per cont. Wo havo tho
advantage io having tho raw material at our
doors, thus saving tho freights which Northern
mills aro compelled to pay. Our climate is
moro oqunblo and favornblo to manufacture,
and labor is just as cheap and roliablo. Tho
diflerenoc of i of a cont a pound, which is
made botwocn this mnrkot and Charleston,
would itself pay a fair dividend of factory
8took. The greater the number of factories
in a country tho moro tho direct benefit to
tho funner, as prices will bo realized for tho
staple used iu homo consumption ns high aa
can bo obtained nt our port city. It will roi
quire organization to build. Several of our
citizens havo expressed a willingness to sub
scribo to tho stock. What say thoy to a
meeting for tho exchange of ideas? And
then for organization!-Lexington Dispatch.
Tho managers of tho Camperdown Cotton
Mills, nt (J rec ovillo, havo dotormincd to
employ two hundred and fifty additional
operatives. Heretofore tho milla have boen
turning out 150,000 pouods of yarn por
month,and whoo tho forc?is increased, as
contemplated, tho product will bo augmontod
to 275,000 pounds in tho samo length of (imo.
Tho establishment will run almost continu
ously, shutting down only from twolvo o'clook
on Saturday night to six on Monday morn
ing.
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OPPOSITION TO SUMPTUARY LAWS IN Onto.
-COLUMBUS, O., February 8.-Tho tempor
?neo question threatens to bo thc rock upon
which tho largo Republican majority in tho
Oenernl Assembly will founder and give
Ohio to thc Pomoorats noxt Fall. Thoro are
twenty bills touching on tho liquor question
now ponding. Sovoral provide for local
option in various forms; unothor provides for
submitting an amendment to tho constitutum
to pr?vido for licenses, and another to amend
tko constitution to allow loj.il option laws to
bo passod, and two others to allow a special
tax to bo levied upon places selling intoxica
ting liquors. Each proposition has its 6up
purtors. This division of opinion promises to
result in nothing, and, henee, picoso noone.
A caucus of Republicans, held last night to
consider these measures, resulted in a very
chaos of opinion, and it was agreed to
diaugroe. To-day a hill to provide local
option gavo many members ti fino opportu
nity to air their peculiar ideas, but ?resulted
in nothing but words. Thc German clement,
which bolds tho balance of power in Ohio,
and to whose votos tho Republicans aro
largely indebted for thoir prosont majority,
through their various societies uro protesting
against tho passogo of ultra sumptuary laws,
und these, with tito m mufaeturors and
dealers in intoxicating liquors, uro combining'
tu secure- tho defeat of nil these schemes
except thoso seeking to tax liquor-selling in
sooio form. This class oro willing to make
na end to this agitation by a law which shall
lovy a fair tax upon this trafilo, but aro not
eluw tu declare that if a radical temperance
law la passed, ortho attempts to entirely cut
off Sunday amusements aro persisted in, they
will retaliate by voting with tho Democrats
noxt Fall. On tho ot bor bund, about 200,000
pooplo havo been induced to sign petitions
praying for local option as a paoitcoa for tho
evils growing out of tho liquor t rallie Thc
law-maker is between two fires, and tho
outlook politically is largely obscured by tho
uncomfortablo question of liquor legislation.
-'Special to Chicago Times,
A SHARP SURINKAOK.-Mr. A. L. Bou)ware,
Reoeivor of tho Piedmont and Arlington
Lifo Insurance Company, has filed his report
to Judge Hughes, of tho United States Court
for tho Eastern District of Virginia. It fills
moro than threo columns of tho Richmond.
Dispatch, but tho results of tho Rocoivor's
examination mny bo briefly summarized
( Tho last actuary's estimate of tho liabilities
, of tho company was modo moro than ono
? yoorngo, and thon amounted to $1,270,713.52.
! Tho assets supposed to bo good aro pot down
, by tho Receiver at $219,232,55. Concluding.
. ho says: "Tho books of tho company havo boen
kopt in such a loose and unbosinoss-liko
, mi noer that it hos boen difficult for tho
Uecoivor to moko anything Uko an accurnto
. ostlmato of tho valuo of tho assois. His
examination, however, rovcals tho fact that
tho real estate owned by tho company has
boon obtained by it nt oxoessivo costs-in
. many, in foot in most, instances from officers
and agents of tho comp my And tho mort
' K<ig?8 havo been taken for tho most part opon
r property that would nover havo hoon oon
, aiderod oligiblo by business men. nt greatly
, exaggerated values, and with what seems to
tho recoivor a rncklo?n disrogtird of thc
' condition and title of tho property; there
appearing, with two or throe oxooptions,
absolutely no abstracts of title in possession
, of thoc'unpnny Many of thoso mortgagos,
p I tio, as will appear from tho former pail ol
j this roport, wero taken from officors and
' ngouM of tho company. Tho recoivor think,
' that tho estimates placed upon mortgagor are
much moro than ho will ever realise from
.
them, ss they aro estimated upoa tho sup
position that the titles to tho property scouring
them are goneraly good, which will doubtless
in roany instances turn out not to bo truo.
Tho assets aro widely soattorod, and it will
take thom muoh timo, labor and oxponse to
oolleet thom "
WARMINGTON, Fobruary 12.-The Shen?
andoah and Potomac Rivers at Harper's
Ferry rose last night and tho loo broke up.
Tho rivera continued to rise ail day and tho
lowor part of this oity has bcon flooded to the
depth of four or fivo feot, doing muob dam
ago.
Snow storms aro reported nt St. Josoph,
Mo., nndSt. Louis and a thunderstorm, with
heavy rain, at Patterson, N. J., and New
Huven, Conn.
Ci Nci N N ATTI, February 12.- Tologroms
reooived horo roprosont Warren, Ohio, as
inundated and boats are in demand to remove
tho pooplo of tho second ward from thoir
watery isolation caused by tho overflow of
Mnhoning Rivor. Tuscarora Valley ia
overflowed. Now Philadelphia inundated.
Rut little of any damngo in Kentuoky.
Snow in Southern Ohio.
The Ohio Rivor is rising rapid'y.
TOLEDO, Onto, Fobruary 12,-Middle
Ground is inundated. Water is Btnnding at
tho depth of three foot in tho Island Houso
Hotol and tho union dopot, outting off com
munication with Summit Snoot oseopt by ,
means of boats and preventing tho cntranoe (
of passenger trains. Tho Wostoily span of ,
tho Kanawha Railway bridge has been
carried away. This bridge was rebuilt last
Sommer and was a substantial ?ron structure.
Snow sot in this morning. Water in tho
strcot is Qvo foot deep.
Tho weather throughout tho wholo country
has boon a remarkable winter. Marly WO
had much snow and muoh oold. ' On tho 7th
instant, a furious storm from tho milt visited
Now Orleans, Mobilo and adjacent points.
Tho lev?os woro brokcu and Now Orleans
flooded. Fivo hundrod squares in the city
aro undor water and many pooplo aro suffer
ing for food. Boats have taken tho placo of
tho strcot cars. Evory building in tho town
of Pars Mnnchao, La., wore blown down. No
lives lo9t but many injured.
On tho 11th instant telegrams inform us
that reports of freshets, floods, ?co gorgon,
and bridges hoing carried away como from all
parts of tho Northern States. Storm and
and high water reports reach us from tho
Wost also, with loss of bridges and other
property. Thrco spans of tho Long Bridge
at Washington woro carried away.
NEW ORLEANS, Fobruary 12 -At midnight
last night there was no material change in
tho condition of tho wator in tho overflowed
districts. Ton thousand persons were sup
plied with food yostoiday by tho roliof com
mittee. A heavy rain and a utrong wind
prevail this morning.
NEW YORK. February 14.-Tho mayor ro
ceived n telegram from Quincy, Illinois, hist
night stating that nil tho trains there hnvo
been abandoned on account of tho snow nnd
tho extreme cold wind blowing and tho
thermometer being bolnw zero Sumo di flit
cully is experienced in conveying food to tho
passengers on the snow bound trains. Tho
snow blockade-is gonoral throughout tho
Northwest,
How COTTON FACTORIES PAW-Throe mil ?
lions and u hali dollars arc invested in ibo
Augusta Cotton Factories. Tho Augusta i n
Faotory, tho Granitcvillo, Van ol uso Factory | 4
and thc Langley Factory havo a oapital of
$1,000,000, giving employment to over 1,700
operatives and annually distributo among
them $300.000. During tho past four years
theso operatives havo been pnid in cash
$1.500,000. During tho period from 1877 to
1880, included, thoo factories paid ont in
dividends to thc stockholders ibo sum of $540,
000, and expended for tho purchase nf colton
for manufacturing purposes SM 073,080. It is
probable that tho Sibley Mills, us neon ns
they ure fully under way, will givo employ
ment to ono thousand operativos and dis
tribute among them annually not less than
$225,000 The Sibley alone will incrent-o
tho population of Augusta three thousand
souls.
WASHINGTON, February 9-Thc first count
of tho rd urns minting to the cotton crop of
1879 mudo hy ibo census nit00 gives thc fol
lowing rosult by Stnlos as tho cumber of
acres cultivated and tho number of bales
raised:
States. Acrcane, f?ales.
Alabama 2.278 390 083.854
Arknnsas 1.009,007 590.712
Florida 241300 54.006
Georgia 2,579.909 803.211
Kentucky 3.030 1,472
Louisiana 853.880 500.247
Mississippi 2,019,083 918.820
North Carolina 880.192 383,033
South Carolina 1,347.304 510 402
Tennessee 809.700 325,033
Texas 2,138,551 788.097
Total 14 004,107 5,500 707
Virginia, Missouri and Indian Territory
oro not included in tho statement, and 50,000
or 00.000 bales will probably require to bo
added on this ncouunt.
Tho Spnrtanburg Spartan says: ''Tho
Cowpons Centennial Committee hnvo nt
pointed Wednesday, tho 11th of May, as tho
day lor unveiling tho Morgan staion. There
I is to bo botono day for tho celebration. Thc
I pedestal with tho inscription is prepared and
in Charleston waiting shipment to this placo.
Tho statuo will bo ready in duo timo, nntl
sotno of Word's workmen will bring it on
boro and erect it. Maj. Houston, on tho Air
Lino, has been appointed to work up cheap
transportation. His limo for doing this is
very limited, and ho will not bo nblo. wo
four, to advertise in such a wny as to itiduco
mon from the North and Wost to visit us at
that time Wo will hope for tho best, how
ever. Tho speakers have not been selected.
Tho programme was to have four orators.
Snob information us wo can got from timo to
timo will bo given to tho public.
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Homer Jenkins, a whito, well-to-do young
farmer of twenty yours, of Oreonvillo,
committed suioido on tho 12th instant.
A long hoavy froight train, passing over
the Charleston nnd Savannah Ka tl road on tho
lilli, foll through tho long trestle on that
road. Tho trestle is four nnd ono qunrtnr
miles in length, and thrco miles of it foll
down. Tho loss to tho road is hoavy. Tho
trestlo wa? built in 1809. Thoro was no loss
of lifo. Five hundrod IHWKIB are ut work re
building the trestle.
Ex-Gov. Smith, Ropublloan, of Alabama,
ms boen to Mentor to soo Garfield. Ile ro*
torts' the latter rosolvod upon a kind nod
iboral poliey towards tho South. We
[uoter
"Gen. Garfield said he wanted to inaugy
ate suob a soliente of civil service roforoi as
o make tho Republican party in the South
?csp cot anio. He ox pr0880(1 a desire to gather
ill possiblo information about those bo ap
mints, in order to soloot tho best and to giro
he country a good and faithful admiuiscrar
ion. In this conversation bo statod that, tho
lomposition of most of bis cabinet was as
rot unsettled, intimating that ho had alroady
leoided on one or two. Gov. Smith thinks
hero is no question but that Blaino will bo
lis premier.
SUMTER, 8. C., February ll.-A negro
inmod John Davis was killed near Lynoh
iurg on Saturday, tho 5th instant. Henry
Muiron and Orango Iraaoa, colored, were
wasted yesterday and brought to Sumter
ail lust night, charged with the murder.
Minnon bus made a confession implicating
[eaaos.
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A very slight declivity suffices to givo tho
'untiing motion to water. Throe inohos per
nile in a smooth, straight channel gives a
rolooity of about throe miles no hour. Tho
Onnges, which gathers tho waters of tho
limaluya mountains, tho loftiost in tho world,
is, at 189 miles from ita month, only 800 feet
ihove, tho sea, and to fall there 800 feet in
ho long course of tho river is said to requiro
noro than u month.
Thom arc no less than one hundred and
iffy students in tho Baptist Theological
joiuimvry at Ramapntan, India, who aro in
raining for tho Christian ministry. Sumo
if tho students nro married, and their wires
ire obliged to spend a part of their timo in
itudy, n.nd eonio of them keep up with their
uisbiinds in tho full course.
There were 105 new Congregational
?burches organized in tho United Stales
luring 1880, nnd 205 ministers ordained or
nstulled. In 1870 thcro were sixty sovon
lew churches organized and 173 ministers
irduincd or installed, while ninety niuo
vere dismissed in placo of seventy io 1880.
The students lit Eastman's Commercial
3ollego in Poughkoopsi, New York, havo
?empelled tho exclusion of Frederic C.
Diokorsoo, a colored young man of character
ind intelligence. His feos had been paid and
in had commonccd his studies, when the
vhito students threatened violonoe if ho
ion li no ed among thom.
Georgia is credited with a production of
9,181,200 bushels of com in 1880 against 20,
127,400 bushels in 1879. Last year's crop was
ibout 1,000,000 bushels smaller than that of
ho previous year, although Texas, Ohio,
[own und Pennsylvania reported handsome
rains.
The official result of tho Presidential elec
ion lins been announced: Hancock received
"444.313; Garfield, 4,437,981; Weaver. 307,
103; Neal Dow, 0,014) scattering. 1.97 2. Tho
otal voto is 9,200,794. Hancock's majority
ivor Garfield 0,33?.. This docs not look like
)omoernoy is doad or played out.
Tho number of halos of colton received ot
di tho ports up to February ll, 1881, was
1,229,783. Samo time last year 4.020.388
md sumo timo thc your beforo that 3,547,'
,28.
On tho 9th instant both houses of Con'
'ross counted tho votes for President in tin1
mil of tho House. Gen. Garfield was da
dared to havo a majority of tho votes cast
I'ho vote of Ocnrgiii was not Counted, because
t was cast hy hor electors on n dav diP.eron1
'rom that provided hy Act of Congress,
A mau named Sterling was hanged it
Youngstown, Ohio, in 1877, for tho murder of t
roting girl. He was convicted on thc cvidenci
if a huckster, who a few days ago on his death
>ed, confessed that he was the murderer.
Hon. Foruando. Wood, tuombor of Con?
gross from Now York, died on tko 14th ?HM
?tant. Ho was olooted to Congross in 1841
and was twioo Mayor of No.v York. Ho"
commenced tho world as a cigar maker.
A dispatch from Peoria, III., says a collis*
ion ocourred on Tuesday ovenlng on tho
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad botw?en a
pnssongor and oouotruotion train, by whicli
titree laborers woro killed and ten woundod.
'SEASON, 1881.
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ALL persons indebted to thc estate of Jcaso
Gibson, deceased, will mako payment to me,
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