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In tho Land of the Sky. -TIIK Farmers' friends, THE WORLD, DAILY, Km UT PAO KS, $7 A Y KAU TIIK SUNDAY BU DU KT, TWKI.VI? P?OKS, $2 A Y KA ll. (Dy MAH. ON I.V.) TDK WEEKLY WORLD, Twin.vic PAOKS, $1 a Y KAU, The Largest, Newsiest, llright . est, Pest and ONLY Fearless Paper in South Carolina. SAMPLE COPIES Flt EE. -ADDRESS W0?IL1) "li Ul) GET 00, CHARLESTON, S. C. '0 R S A X S Merchant Tailor. THE CRESCENT -WATER Will Cure Your of !71UKDERI0K TIIlilLKUIIL, late J (htrmnuv, a professional tailor, is prepared to (lp any kind of work in his line on reasonable terms. Oive him a call at his euko on Main street, next door to ?auk, Walkalla, S. C. Octobor 31, 1889. 41-it ODE OF IMDY GftSBS OF LIVES KW KIDIJEY DISEASE GUIDED, Mr. J. N. Smith, for twenty vears an engineer on the Oroonvillo and Columbia lt. lt., says: "Tho Crescent Minora! Water is curing mo of a long standing Kidney Trouble, and I am better to-day than I havo boon for ten years, all through tho uso of this water, and my wlfo. who for many years has boen obliged to take medicino for her livor, has bad no occasion for any medicine since using tho Crescent Water, and now feels Uko a now poison." Leading citi/.ons of Oroonvillo add tho following! "Tho testimony of John N. Smith, re garding tho wutulorful curativo off oct? of I the Crescent Minorai Wator will bo of firent value, for no man's word is stronger ? GroonVillo than his." O. II, Judson, President Furman Uni versity. A. H.Cnroton, Superintondcn' Cotton Seed Mill. Frank Hammond, President Pcoplo's Hank. If. (!. Markley, Carrlago Manufacturer. T. 0. Oowor, ProprietorStrcot Railway. John II. Maxwell, M. D. J. W. Howell, M. D. O. T. Swandalo, M. D. J. W. Earlo, M. D. John Ferguson, Orooor, R. E. Allon tv- Uro., Grocers. J. P. Miller, Grocer. S. M. Snider ?fe Co., Jowolors. O. 1>. Darr, Stovo Dealer. John Hart, Contractor and Ruildor. Send for book of testimonials. A Case of Croscont Mineral Water, con taining 12 half-gallon bottles, will bo sont hy express, prepaid, by us on receipt of $1.00, and $1.50 a dozen will bo allowed for bottles returned at our expense. If your Druggist lins not obtained n supply, order direct of tho ORESCENT MINERAL WATER CO., Greenville, S. C. . July 3, 1800 TEACHER'S COLUMN. -o--. (?jgF* All communications intended for this column should bo addressed to S. P. Stribling, School Commis sioner, Walhalla, S. C. New School Districts. MCKINNEY'S CREEK, SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. 57. Boginning nt McKinney's ford, on Xcowcc river, thence the main road to tho Salem School District lino, thence said line to tho Smolt/.er School District line, fcuo said lino to tho Big Cliff, thence a straight linc to tho Wolf Pit, t. euee a straight lino to thc Birt ford, on Koowco viver, thence down said river to tho beginning point. S. P. STIUW.INO. Tillman's Plain Talk. TUE EDOEEIKI.D CONGRESSMAN ON TI:JO SUII-TREASURY RIM.. [From tho Hampton Guardian.] Thc following letter from tho Hon. George D. Tillman was written to a gentleman in this county, and while not intended for publication, wo tako the liberty of placing it boforo tho readers of thc Guardian: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, 1). C., August 10. Dear Sir : I cannot seo how any Allianceman or otherwise can want moro monoy issued; besides freo coinage of silver and abolition of national banks, with substitution of greenbacks in sufficient quantity to do tho business of thc country on a cash basis, would require about $30 per capita in coin and paper, and wo now have about $15 in coin, which would make it necessary to issue about $l? per capita, or $950,000. 000 in greenbacks, estimating tho population at (15,000,000. As I am in favor of relieving tho monoy fa mine to the above extent,' besides being willing to lighten taxes on tho poor and middle classes by levying an income tax on the rich to the extent of a hundred million dol lars or so, it occurs to mo that there is no necessity for tho sub-Treasury bill to pass if 1 can get the other measures through, and they are Al liance measures-at least in Barnwell County. TROJAN HOUSE AND HUMIIUG. The sub-Treasury bill is a humbug and a licpublicnn Trojan horse also. The bill is unconstitutional becauso it provides for tho manager of tho! warchouso to bo elected. Now tho 2d section of Article 2 of tho Con stitution of the United States re quires eyery officer and employee of the Federal Government to be "ap pointed." This shows that whoever drafted tho bill was an ignoramus, and the bill is (u democratic, unjust, crude and iinprn lienblo throughout. If the bill should become a law thc manager and all tho other em ployees at a warehouse would all bo Republicans-carpet baggers, ncalla wags or negroes-when a Rcpubli: can .President, should bo in power. Besides tho manager there would have to be a bookkeeper, a clerk, a cashier,, a teller, a weigher, a sampler, a shipper, a watchman, and nt*least three laborers to handle thc cotton twelve employees at good wages, which would make every warehouse virtually a little headquarters or fort to defend the interests of the Republican party. What decont cotton planter wants any stich cat tle cither storing, sampling, grading, selling or shipping bis cotton? FEDERAL INTERFERENCE ? Again, every crime committed in I tho warehouse, and every contract relating to cotton in it, would havo to bc settled in the Federal Courts -not State Courts. How would our people like to be dragged away from home to Charleston, Columbia or Greenville as parties or witnesses for assault or battery, or for forgery, breach of contract, stealing, embez zlement, etc. ? Thoro would ho plenty of these offences or civil suits growing out of tho warehouse transactions amounting lo $500,000 or more a year. Another absurd and unjust pro vision of tho bill is that "any owner," hot producer; of cotton, corn, wheat or oats can store it, or rather pawn it, and draw eighty per cent, of its value, which sum he can koop for one year at 1 per cont, interest. Now, everybody will Store his cot ton-merchants and speculators more than planters, beean;..* they can get tho uno of money so -dioap, and, second, because t ho more monoy put into circulation the higher the price of any article in tho markot-A tho price depending moro upon tiio quantity of money than upon de mand and Bupply. Tho speculator will got tho benefit of this inevitable rise in price and not the produoor. FAVORING A CLASH. Another unanswerable objootion to this sub-Treasury nonsense is that it provides for issuing several hundred millions of greenbacks in thc form of advances on only fivo agricultural products. Is thoro any justice in fa voring or petting producers of cot ton, tobacco, corn, wheat or oats, and leaving out tho producers of rice, sugar, groundpeas, rye, barley, lum ber, iron, cotton cloth at faotorios, eto ? What becomes of tho Alliance motto : "Equal rights to all; special favors to non?!" How does this pretty maxim comport with tax" g about two thousand small or pooi counties in tho United States tc build a $50,000 warehouse in about ono thousand largo, or rich coontie* that yield over 1(6.00,000 worth ol tho five favored products? CONTRACTION ANl^iVU'I.ATION. Leaving out of viowX.tho abovt objections to tho bill, thoro is yet another singlo objection whicl ought to causo ovory honest man t< discard it. Tho bill provides fo: putting into circulation, as advance! on fivo products, six or eight hun dre? million dollars in greenbacks ii in tho first part of thc crop year am then calling it all in and destroying it tho second part of tho crop yoai What tho country wants is mor money all tho timo. What possibl permanent good or relief will it b for tho farmers to have plenty c money one part of tho year and n money anotbor part of tho year ? If this sub-Treasury bill should b enacted into law there is hardly an calculating bow much the Govern mont would loso each year. Everj body who owned any produce woul pawn it for 80 per cent, and let stay in th" warehouse tor an artil cial rise in price, when many wool sell, of course, but perhaps half tl owners of pawned products, won! never sell them nt all, but Im vir drawn 80 per cont, of their mark prico at an inflated value, wh< monoy advances were most plentifi would simply allow tho year to e piro and force the government soil the pawned products at aucti< for whatever it eoidd get-at i enormous sacrifice of course. It is a well-known-fact in t history of prices that in thc ordiua routine of commercial business, co ncotod with agricultural produc they fluctuate more than *20 por co almost every year-frequently high as 40 or 50 per cent, and son times more; and if fluctuation is great iii tho normal course of tra( how much moro extreme and ruino will tho fluctuation be in prico wb many hundred millions* of dolli shall be first issued and then i strayed evory year! Tho now dom-yow, the stupidity-of ups ting all prices and demoralizing society by alternately expanding a contracting thc currency (ivory yo to the extent of six, eight or ni hundred millions of dollars, must palpable. OTIIHIC OIMKOTlONS. There are at least a dozen otl ! insuperable objections to this si Treasury scheme, but tho woathei too hot to waste time pointing th out. What I have said above 1 been written with a galloping pen Very truly, G. 1). TILLMAN Profuse Perspiration. A very popular fallacy is that p fuse perspiration is weakening. fi best reply perhaps to this supposit is a rcferenco to the men engaged gas works, to tho puddlers in manufacture of iron, to the sn boilers, and to all tboso whoso di labor is of the severest bodily scription. Many of these work st: ped to tho waist. Tho porspirat pours off in such quantity as of to make a pool at their foot, these men aro the perfection health and strength. They have encumbering fat, aro free from c< and nearly evory disoase. Again is well known how gymnasts, pot triann and oarsmen induce pro! perspiration while training, and they do not lose their strengtl limit their powers of enduranci Herald of Health. A scientist computes thai with aid of a machine constructed on principle of the boring, drilling pumping apparatus of the mosq a bolo could bo bored to tho coi of tho earth in less than a day. Mississippi Convention, lMI'OltTAMT LK1TKH KKOM KX-? SK^ATOH AIA'OUN. Tho mooting of tho constitutional convention in Mississippi lins been the occasion of bringing out tho fol lowing very valuable ?ottor from the best known Hopnhlican in the State, ox-Senator Alcorn, addressed to a Boston newspaper: To the Editor of the Advertiser : Your lotter of tho 3lst ultimo was delayed in its coming- i received it, nevertheless, before I loft ray home, and should havo roplied to it then, but was busy preparing for my pro tracted visit to tho capital. I observe what you Say in regard to the confidence in which you pro pose to receive any reply, should I desire lo have my name withhold. While I do not seek any publicity, I am always, willing that my name shall be made to appear in connec tion with anything I may writo. Thc desire for tho call of tho con vention nroso from a spirit of unrest among the people of this State. Thc faet that the negro population was increasing so rapidly in tho State of Mississippi, and that wo had already a majority of 60,000 negro voters in tho State, necessarily \ foreed upon tho thinking men the question, what was to be the end of j this? Tho rapid incienso of tho no gro population nroso from causes over which tho Legislature could ex ercise no control. The river counties, or what is known with us as the Delta counties of thc Mississippi, increased in its population from thousands of negroes imported each year. It is estimated that there were imported last wintor and spring into tho Delta full 30, 000 negroes. These were brought at thc expense of planters from popu lous negro districts of tho Carolinas and Georgia. The lands of the Delta will produce, under tho most 1 careless cultivation, as much as a bale of cotton to tho nore, whereas ' on the lands of thc Carolinas and ? Georgia it requires with tho best cultivation that could bo given nB ' many ns five or six acres of land to produce as much. Tho large land holders in the Delta found it profita ble to import negroes from the States named or elsewhere, to cultivate their lich soil. Tho negroes brought ! to tho Delta wero gonorally* of the ' most ignorant class. Tho planter . was not in search of intelligence, > but of strongth, muscle and endu ' vaneo under the burning sun of the . Mississippi swamps, and capacity to . resist thc infiuenco of malaria. These ' were the prerequisites for the labor ? in the cotton fields. . 1 Inasmuch as this. Delta, much of 1 which has been recently reclaimed 1 from thc Hood of the Mississippi by reason of levees, embrace sovcral . million acres of land susceptible of a ? population dense as that of Belgium, I and on account of its miasma, held 1 to bo fatal to the health of the la ? boring white man, tho question, as I ! have beforo stated, presented itself ' to the thoughtful as to what was to be the future of this population upon the destinies of Mississippi. Every ono knows, who knows anything ' about the negro, that he is incapa 1 hie of self-government; that in the 1 field of politics he becomes a cora 1 mod i ty of barter and side among while mon, who uso him ns a moans of elevating undeserving mon to places of public trust, and hence for bidding all idea of a healthy body politic. The negro has none of tho instincts of the Anglo-Saxon race with regard to Bolf-govornmont, but 1 when possessed of Emited education 1 becomes the more efficient tool under ? the manipulation of evil whito mon 1 for wrong to tho State, as witness, tho history of the lottery enterprise ' in Louisiana. Thc convention was called in view " of devising some means of putting a 1 check in the text of tho constitution 1 upon ignorance and corruption. ' The peopio folt tho ?ting of tho North in the continued charge of ' forcible domination in the South of 1 the ballot box. Tho desire to free themselves from this charge, which they folt in soino ' degree to bo true, lind tho wish to ? devise some means more in accord with civilization and statesmanship, . to save themselves from tho impend ing ruin, led to tho calling of tho convention. The convention is now i in session. It has organized by ; electing one of tho most consorva I tl Vc public men in thoStato as presi i dent of tho body. Not much has been done up to this time, hut suffi cient to mnke it plain that tho husi 1 ? " J.. ?' ?, ., ?., , J_-JTSS ness bf. tho convention will booon dacted with tho mt>Bt tondor regard for tho negro, whoso presence among us is hold to he by all intelli gent mon neoOBsary on account of our soil and climate to tho develop ment of our agricultural industry, tho foundation necessarily for tho future growth and wealth of our State. Ours is a striotly agricultu ral people. The domands of our soil is for cheap and unskilled labor. In tho negro we find tho oharaoter of labor suited to our wants. Wo wish to control him, for our own welfare as well ns his. Wo oxpond largo sums for tho education of his chil dren. This wo aro forced to do, that tho negro may bo contented among us, and thus you soo that wo must, if wo would advance our agricultural intercut, cultivate the most kindly relations with tho* negro. That we would deprive hun of his voto, if the question were left to us alone, (.hero is no duubt. He is not regarded oa pahlo of self-government by tho body of our people, but on tho othor hand he is held to bo an instrument of danger to tho peace of our sot eioty when manipulated and con trolled by designing and selfish white mon. But this convention un mistakably recognizes tho fact that tho 16th amendment throws a're straint Upon inc action of th? O' ventiou which wo cannot ovorloap, which wo cannot violate without forgetting our oaths, and which, if violated, would present nn issuo which wo would avoid with tho F?d? rai power. ? Our pooplo are confident that if they aro not interfered with by tho passage of the Lodgo hill, or some like unhealthy legislation that they can, without violation of tho Con stitution of tho United States, deal with tho negro question in such way as to advanco his civilization, promote his happiness, and through the strongth of his arms render him valuable as a citizen of tho common wealth. Tho people of Mississippi havo no sympathy with that class of mon who would di ive tho nogro from tho South, with thoso political emporios) who are mero theorists, mon who not only have not suc ceeded tbemsotvo8 in any practical work, hut who have aided and abet ted first in tho work of secession, thou in obstructing tho work of re construction by urging tho people to reject tho Fourteenth Amendment, and now propose to drive from the South tho only practical labor wo have, tho only labor available to us for the cultivation of our ootton fields. J. L. AI.OOKN. JACKSON, MISS., August 17. Tho Approximate Figures. According to tho preliminary state ment of tho census office, which is said tobo not oxact, but approximately correct, tho figures furnished us hy an oxohango a few days ago wore incorrect. On thoso figures of our exchange wo instituted a comparison between tho growth of South Carolina as compared with that of Georgia and j North Carolina. Tho figures of tho census office would show tho growth of North Carolina in the decado from 1880 to 1800 was 278,249 instead of 141,000; South Carolina's growth 108,425 instead of 292,000, and Georgia's (growth 853,820 instead of 198,000, [ as stated by our exchange. Taking tho statouiont of tho cen sus ofllco ns approximately correot, wo seo North Carolina's rato of in crease has boon 19.5 per cont on her population of 1880; South Carolina's 19.93, and Georgia's 22.9. - And tho increase of population to the square mile has been : North Carolina 5.0 to tho milo; South Caro lina 0.0, and Georgia's very nonrly 6. This would not scorn to show, after all, tho greator progress of our bor der States.- Columbia Register. Extremo sensitiveness is n gravo fault, not to say a sin. Tho pooplo who arc constantly on tho lookout for affronts show that they aro think ing about themselves a great deni more than is oither healthy or Chris tian. They aro ofton wrong, more over, as to matters of fact. Tho world does not want to hurt their feelings. Their \ orbid imagina tions conjure up a thousand ?lights whore not ono was intended. Thr4 a full-grown man, with any honest work to do, should torture himsolf by indulging in idlo fanoics of this kind, is a thing to mako tho angels weep. /.'.'; I WJiKKI.V. I V/IM- X .IVJivV/'Aiu? ll?, IV;HU, -MOVKl) TO-. y Walhalla in i868. Destroyed by Fire JV-ne 21st, 1887. i Re-Established August 11 l'opiilnlhm StatlStlC?. Tho ligures of tho oehaus just comptoted furnish somo interesting material for statisticians. Tho only ronl tost of tho rolativo population of Statos and oountios is to bo found in tho number o? . per sons to the square nillo. ?u tho United States,* wliioh h ?s au aro* of about 8,600,000 squaro milos, and u population of about s'.xty-two millions, it 'viii bo soon that tho "density" is about eighteen to the squaro milo. In 1880 it waa only about thirteen. This is consid ered n remarkable increase. The following table, taken from the estimates of population of tho census department, will be found to ho of great interest : States. Squaro <--Donsity-> Milos. 1890. 1880. Hhodolshmd. 1,08? $02.? 254,8(1 MassaohusottH. 8,040 248.87 221.77 Now .Torsoy....... 7,466 188.88 151.72 Connecticut. 4,845 150.07 1.28.52 Now York. 47,020 120.48 100.73 Pennsylvania.... 44,fS5 117.60 05.20 Maryland. 0,300 108.52 01.82 Ohio.. 40,700 88.42 78.40 Delaware. 1,000 85.(35 74.80 Illinois.,56,000 0:.88 . 64.00 . Indiana.85,010 01.00 55.00 Kentucky. 40,000 47.00 41.20 Virginia. 40,126 40.80 87.00 Tonnosseo. 41,750 43.21 80.94 Now Hampshire.. 0,806 42.80 88.62 Missouri. 08,736 40.50 31.64 South Carolina... 510,170 89.57 WH.UU Michigan. 57,480 37.87 28.60 Vermont. 9,135 80.87 80.87 Iowa. 66,475 84.01 20.28 North Carolina... 48,580 34.35 28.81 Georgia. 58,980 32.17 20.16,; Alabama. 21,640 31.01 24.40 Wost Virginia.... 24,045 31.84 25.00 Mississippi. 40,340 31.22 24.41 Wisconsin. 54,466 30.88 21.70 Louisiana. 45,420 24.90 20.00 Maine. 20,895 22.00 21.70 Kansas. 81,700 20.50 12.19 Arkau'.ns. 50,016 10.31 14.57 Minnesota. 70,206 ?7.80 9.86 Nobrnskn. 70,135 14.51 5.93 California.155,980 .8.0 5.54 Texas.202,280 8.17 0.00 Florida. 54,240 0.03 4.00 Wnshlngton. 71,000 4.01 1.12 South Dakota.... 77,000 4.01 1.17 , Colorado.103,045 8.86 . "Iftft^ Oregon. 04,500 3.21jf 1.84 North Dakota.... 70,700 2.M?I .03 Idaho. 84,200 U>3 .88 Montana.145,310 .88 ? .27 Wyoming. 97,596 .01 .21 Novada.100,740 .43 .60 Of all thc Southern States, Vir ginia has shown the greatest propor tion of in?rense of population to the square milo sinco 1880. After tho "Old Dominion" Statp, como Alabama, South Carolina, Ton nossoo, Mississippi, Oeorgia, North Carolina, Wost Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and last of all comes Texas, tho "Lono Star" State. From tho ahovo estimate Mary land has boon excluded. In Mary lnnd tho increase is greater than in any other Southern State. In faot, Mary land stands seventh in density of population among tho States of tho Union. It is a popular fallacy to assume that the Old World is so much more thickly settled than the now. Oregon and Brazil have thc same density; Nebraska and Kassia havo tho same square-milo population. Minnesota and Norway are tho samo; Wisconsin and Turkoy aro alike; Dolaware and Spain havo oaoh oighty-livo peoplo to tho mile, and Maryland is moro thickly settled than China. Now York is up to Portugal in tho density of it? population. Connecticut is almost as heavily populated as Austro-IIungary. Now Jersey has only .08 peoplo a square milo less than Franco. Massachusetts is thicker settled than Italy, and has thirty-two inhabi tants moro to tho milo than Germany. Rhode Island has twelve porsons moro to thc square mile than Great Britain and Ireland, and nearly- ns much ns ..teeming India." The Netherlands with 812, and Rolgium with 481, inhabitants to the milo, aro tho only countries more thickly populated than Rhode Island. Tho United States lacks only two peoplo to the mile of having as much as Siam. If Toxas had Tennessee's density, it would havo a population of ll,* 880,000. If it had Pennsylvania's it would havo 80,810,000, and if it hud Rhode Island's, its population would bo 79,000,000. If the United States had tho den sity of Rhodo Island, its population would bo 1,080,000,000. 'I1'-' Tho population of the Dominion of Canada, according to tho cotisas 1881, was 4,824,800, and it is esti mated that by 1891 the figuren will havo inoroasod to 5,270,877. Propa tions aro in aotlvo progress for taking the census of noxt^eor.