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BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JAY3OS. W?LHAJLLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 14, 1892. VOLUME XLIII.-KO. 2.
The Canvass in Alabama.
KED HOT TIMES IX TUAT STATE.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., January 6.- J
Since the last Democratic State Con- !
vent ion held in Alabama an actual i
and active Kolb campaign has been in j
progress every day. When Gover
nor Jones received the nomination
to the highest office within the gift
of the people of the Commonwealth
the issue was then broadly made by
the friends of Captain Kolb that he
had been swindled out of the nomi
nation, and that thereby by keen
politicians had perpetrated a shame
ful wrong and a grievous fraud on
the farmers and other ardent sup
porters oft Captain Kolb. "Remem
ber the Alamo !" became the battle
cry of Kolb men, referring to the
last Convention. So successful was
the movement in welding the far
mers into a determination to right
Kolb's wrongs and make him Gover
nor next time, that it has looked to
the studious politicians in the State j
as if he would have a walkover.
Then came the appointment of Hec
tor Lane, by the Governor to suc
ceed Kolb as Commissioner of Agri- !
culture. Following his appointment
came public letters Lane had written
to Kolb, in which it appeared that
the Governor's own appointee had
handled him pretty roughly, and had
been working with Air. Kolb, at
tempting,lo.bring about the Gover
nor^ downfall. Following the pub-1
iication of these letters there came j
an outcry for the withdrawal of j
Governor Jones and putting up some
: other man like Oates, for instance,
as a candidate, this being deemed- by
the opposition as the only means of
beating Kolb. So bright did Kolb's
prospects become at this time.and so
gloomy was the ..Governor's ^hat!
numbers of politicians in different!
parts of the State, who had been !
hand apd glove in the Convention j
and even delegate s came over to
Kolb, this disintegration of the Jones
forces reaching its climax in the per
son of Judge William Richardson.
The campaign fairly opened in Jef
ferson county about two months
before the primaries were held, when
the county was conceded to be in
favor of C-iptain Kolb against Gov- i
ernor Jones by a large majority, on !
account of Kolb coming out in a'
statement that he opposed working j
viets in tue mines in Alabama,
elected
i
would have them withdrawn' it' ne
had to cancel the leases. Governor ;
Jones met Kolb's statement by an- j
nouncing that he did not approve
convict labor competing with free
men, and would do all in his power
to have the Act annulled, ' but he
would not go so far as Kolb and
agree to cancel the leases. For seve
ral weeks before the primaries were
held, both Governor Jones and Cap
tain Kolb devoted much time in can
vassing the county. The campaign
was mostly "confined to the mines
and small towns. The farmers and
working people, as ar general. thing,
were for Kolb, and merchants and
corporations for Jones. The total
vote in Jefferson polled on December
21st, gave Governor Jones a majority
of 638. It is said that the man who
saved him the county was Henry W.
. DeBardeleben, who controls exten
sive mines at Blue Creek. He per^
8uaded a great many of the miners
who favored Kolb not to vote at all.
Mr. DeBardeleben is the founder of
Bessemer, and by personal appeals to
Tie people of that city he changed
if from" Kolb for jones. As many as
four of ihe farming precincts never
' gave the Governor a single vote.
The Jefferson county farming ele
ment is the smallest part of au.y
county in the State, not excepting
Mobile, and if this is an index the
"" State - will be overwhelmingly for
Koib. To offset the moral effect of
the Governor's victory, December
21st, the friends of Kolb iave ealled-j
a Convention f r next Monday in
Madison county. Governor Jones
... and Captain Koib are both ' canvass
' ing' that' county this week. The
most' noteworthy feature of the
campaign in that county is that
Judge Richardson, of : whom we
.m&?? mention -before in this special,!
one of the four candidates who com
-.ipL ed to beat Koib in the last -Con
* ven?los, is t. enthusiastic supporter
of Mm:in this race.- The friends of
Governor . June's, who control the j
xecutiye Committee in Dallas!
county, which fcas'the same vote of j
'"'^efferspsj-'are hurry:ing-up action inj
-bat courir for the 'sake of themorai j
?scef the -undoubted victory}
Governor" will achieve"- there."|
': :caBvasr ia Jefferson demon- j
..otrai^d- ihrA Koib- couldn't -stand be--!
.re th? .Govert:>r .-va the *?asrp..
r-.\. est astafc?.politicians is - the ^S?ate, I
: :. ?l. dertm?ve?' po?cy i?jlo ;
g?p^^isniy. ?^ve^tioas.''as j
"^?ssibl?, " m : ? omer tb at - i?t? ?
get aronad^to speak..:
only issue left is whether or not ? the
Governor can get around before the
Kolb men call the different County
Conventions. So the 'fight is for and
against time. The bitterness which
has characterized the campaign, and
has had no parallel, perhaps, in the
political annals of Alabama, is mostly
confined to the newspapers and
politicians. Neither Jones abuses
Kolb nor Kolo Jones. There are as
yet no charges whatever of- a slan
derous and yillifying nature against
the Governor, but all the undesirable
appellations and "denunciations that
can be imagined aiv heaped upon the
Alliance candidate, Captain Kolb.
And it is thought that it will, if
anything, help him among the far
mers of the State, who are abused
almost equally with him by some of j
the newspapers. To illustrate the
ferocity of politics in some parts of
the State, I am informed that in
Bibb, a Kolb and Alliance county,
and where President Adams, of the
State Alliance, lives, there is a dis
position on the part of Jones men to
disregard the present constituted
party organization entirely, by refus
ing to act with them in the coming
meetings. A new organization will
be the result, and whatever factor
dominates the State Convention,
their delegates will be seated. The
Jeffers^: delegation may also furnish
a contest with a like result. It is
rumored that, should Madison go for
Governor Jones, it would virtually
end the campaign. However, if
Kolb wins with a walkover, it will
"whoop" up his line of battle. It is.
my humble opinion th?t if Captain
Kolb receives the nomination for
Governor in the coming Convention
there will be a split in the party.
The faction known as the old guards,
or non-Alliance Democrats, will not
give him their support.
^J. C. MANNING.
THE GREAT HAND CHARITY.
LIFE-SKETCH OF ITS DONOR-HIS
HABITS AND TRAITS-HOW A
SOUTHERN BANKER'S HONESTY LED
TO THE GIFT-PROVISIONS OF MR.
HAND'S WILL.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., December 19,
1891.-In the year 1801 there was
born into the family of Daniel Hand,
a farmer magistrate living in the
town of Madison, Conn., a son who
took by baptism the Christian name
of his father. It was a family of
n'ciTolu?d, wlusu ?ntjcatral ? cirraalB
reached back to one of the first
patentees of East Hampton, Long
Island, and had since, during a cen
tury and a half, streamed through
the veins of the most hardy and
God-fearing yeomen of the shore
towns of Connecticut, as well as of
the earliest settlei*s of the "New
Connecticut" in Ohio. The son
grew np in the usual environment of
a Yankee farm community. He
drew his lettering from the "little
red school boase," toiled on the farm,
and absorbed into his character, at
its formative and plastic stage, the
pious habitudes so universal in the
theocratic epoch of New England.
But 'ike most Yankee striplings, he
migrated at the age of 16 to the
South, where an uncle, who was a
merchant at Augusta, Ga?, received
him as a clerk in his store. In duel
time the nephqg succeeded to his
uncle's business. The firm prospered
by the Yankee acuteness and thrift
of its head, and fifteen years before
th'? outbreak of the Civil War had
so ?^panded its trade that Mr. Hand
took a partner, a tried clerk, George
W. Williams, who not long after
went to Charleston, Si C., to found
and manage a branch of the Augusta
house. This scion of the firm soon
outgrew the parent stem, and , ere
long there was transferred to it the
larger part of Mr. Hand's mercantile
capital.
The onset of the war, disastrous to
many a Northern enterprise, menaced
the Charleston house with double
danger. The firm faced not merely
the ruinous conditions of Southern
trade, but the hostilities of the Con
federate authorities, who were aware
of the anti-slavery principles of its
head. Mr. Hand himself, while at
New Orleans, was arrested as an
alleged spy and placed under parole;
and a few days later, at Augusta Was
rescued from a mob by the
?rference of personal friends. In
the Charleston Coarts attempts made
to sequestrate his property were hap- .|
pi?y thwarted-by the efforts of Mr.
Williams, whose lively sympathy
with the Confederate cause gave him
a strong vantage in the legal contest .
Meanwhile Mr. Hand went to - live
daris?2^>? four years of the war afc
Asheville, N. C., under a kind of
normal parole, and also to be ready,
in case oi emergency, to lend aid to
his finn's affairs at Charleston. Bat
j emergency di? not come, and
ing the isying four years Mr.
Miajas controlled the business; of
.-se. with, an ability m? alert
r'that increased its fortunes,
ter t?? *ar Mz?:??nfc already
man, -came Nortk. to Eve
at GaSford, Conn.,- OD funds
not been embarked in his
Thiii -years.
a?nok> :&?:
But Mr. Hand, relying on his o
oft-repeated belief, that "Willis
is honest," always declared him!
so sure, of an honorable adjustm
that he would not even suggest
Eleven years ago, however, when
shaciows of his old age were deep
j ing, he yielded to the advice of
legal counsel, Judge Morris, of t
city. A- letter soon brought 3
Williams Northward, and then i
lowed and adjustment, some of 1
striking details of which, given
me by Judge Morris himself, n<
probably 3ppear for the first time
print.
It was disclosed at this intervi
with Mr. Williams that for years
had kept rigidly the accounts for t
$130,000 representing Mr. Han?
interest in the Charleston business
the out-break- of the war. Agai
this original sum Mr. Williams h
set his own services for twenty ye?
as manager, treating. Mr. f?ai
throughout as though he were ;
active partner. Profits, interest ai
losses had been computed careful!
and figured up year after year to
cent; and the set of accounts at tl
time of presentation was absolute
complete, and was accepted by 3d
Hand without question. It show?
that Mr. Williams owed his actual
retired but quasi active partner $55$
OOO, for which the former, gai
six notes for ?80,000 each and oi
for ?78,000-one note being payab
each year until 1888. These we]
accepted by Mr. Hand withoi
security. With interest added 1
them, as. well as with the annu
interest on the whole remaining del
at 5 per cent, they were paid by M
Williams, usually before maturit;
and the last note for ?78,000 was m<
one year in advance. The sturd
integrity of the Southern cr?dite
may be better appreciated from th
fact that by law only a small frac
tion, at most, of the whole amour
could have been recovered ; and th
magnitude of the sum (?648,000
finally paid up was equally a sm
prise to Mr. Hand and his lawye:
It is significant, too, that throughou
the transaction Mr. Williams adde
gratitude to his princely payment;
ever referring to Mr. Hand as hi
benefactor and the originator- of hi
fortune.
The after history of that grea
fund derived from Southern honest;
has already been told. How, ii
October, 1888, after it had grown, b;
judicious investments, to more thai
*i ooo non ry .OQO.fr?^rw?s givei
by Mr. Ha^l to the American Mis
sionary Association to be a fund fo
educating the Southern negroes. T<
this great; sum, the largest up t<
that time ever given to benevolenci
by a living American, is now. adde<
by Mr. Hand's death some ?300,00(
immediately, and ?200.000 in rever
sion after the death of family lega
tees. Out of the whole property o:
Mr. Hand, estimated at ?1,600,000
more than seven-eighths have thus
far gone for the noble purpose oi
educating the Southern freedmen
But even more impressive, in thes?
days of fiscal distrust, than the mag
nitude of the gift is the story thal
goes with it : The anti-slavery mer
chant returning to the South th?
fortune made in the slave States:
that fortune preserved and increased
by the ex-Confederate partner ; and
both Northman and the Southron,
the Yankee Puritan and the ardient
Secessionist, . cherishing sacredly
through diverse political creeds and
the wildest mutations of affairs, theil
common affection and their bed-rock
honesties. Hero, surely, is a tro?
tale from real life more picturesque
and stimula-ting than the fancies of
idealized " romance.
A few words remain for the
two actors in the story. One, now
liviiag, is a prosperous banker at
Charleston, active ic good works, a
fervent Methodist. The other, just
gone to his reward at the age of 90
years, was tall and erect in stature,
sine wy in frame, intellectttal in cast
of face, dressing elegantly and more
like a statesman, or a- preacher (for
whom he was often mistaken) than
the typical Yankee bred on the farm.
He was a plain, even absteminons,
liver, never spending more thaa his
few thousands a- year? Mentally and
in temper he was of t?ae most positive
type, relying jmplicity on his own
judgment, rarely seeking advice and
often * resenting it. He joined the
Presbyterian church at the age of
28, and throughout his busy life was
a most devout follower of that creed,
constantly infusing his strong faith
into life and conduct, and not seldom
3tyling. himself a "trustee for Provi
dence" over his own property.
Altogether, he was one of thosa
deeply individualized forms of old
school men whom we rarely n?eet
nowadays outside pf Tjooks, and
never save in. their-old age. Taking
the two partners't?gether, very strik
ingly do they triggest the Quaker
poet's lines :
. -
; ,A11 hearts confess th? saints elect -
I Who, twain raMt&.in love agree,
I And melt not in an a?id sect
The Christian heart of charity.
I Only with the iiast word must
- "honesty" bc bracketed in the verne
i to get Me *uii measure and rhythm
the longest and most ramifies ever
brought to a ProbateCourt in Con
necticut. It fills ninety-six pages
of closely ?written ?egal cap, and con
tains no less than eleven codicils
added since 1872, when the body of
the will was executed. There are
no public bequests except to the
American Missionary "Association,
which, as stated, will receive in trust
for the colored race, directly or by
reversion, about ?500,000 in addition
to the larger sum given several ye?rs
ago. Mr. Hand lost his wife and
several children long since, and as
remote relatives died off, the codicils
show that the aim of educating the
colored people at the South took
wider and wider proportions in his
mind, until now, at last, it has mate
rialized in a total sum larger than
the Slater fund or the princely gift
to the Southern freedmen of George
Peabody. c. D.
Colonel Keitt oh the Situation.
EXOREE PLANTATION, S. C.,
January 2, 1892.*'
To the Editor of the Greenville
Daily .Neics :
The condition of the people is
deplorable and is rapidly growing
worse. On one side we- are threat
ened with financial'disaster. On the
other demagogues in their greed for
office-arr "blowing" the flames of
sectional and factional hate. Intel
ligent and virtuous men alone can
save us. No.. heed should be given
to unclean men-they are the lepers !
of society and bring disaster and
ruin.
Five years ago B. R. Tillman made
his appearance before the public as
the advocate of an Agricultural andi
Mechanical College, which was nece :- j
sary to place the farmers on an ;
equality with other classes and on j
the road to prosperity. The farmers i
met in convention in Columbia in !
April, 1886, under his leadership, for |
the purpose of taking steps to estab- i
lish such a college. Tillman declared
he wanted no office ; that ali he1
desired was to be a Trustee of such
an institution. The writer was a;
member of the convention and was !
in full sympathy with the movement, ?
as he always has been and is with I
everything looking to the advance
ment of the agricultural rnlercst. :
The convention bad not adjourned
thirty days before the press of the j
State announced as a fact that Till- i
man had sold out the Farmers' Move- j
ment to Dawson.
When" the State CoTTveviftui?IITC?
in the summer Tillman held a caucus
of the Farmers' Movement delegates
and tried to get them to vote for I
Sheppard, a lawyer, Dawson's candi- :
date, against Richardson, a farmer. ;
As Tillman had been taking delight '
in abusing lawyers his course was!
conclusive with many that what the I
press stated was true-that he had i
sold us out to Dawson.
The writer lost confidence in him j
and reluctantly consented in i890 to j
support him. He did not do so until
he was assured Tillman was an Alli
anceman and after he heard him
speak at Newberry, where, among
other things, he made the following j
pledges, not one of which he has|
kept. He said : "it you elect me
Governor the first message I send to
the Legislature I will ask them to
reduce the salaries of all the State
officers." Earle said : "But you will
be elected and they can't reduce
yours." Tillman replied: "I don't
care if they do." Did he send that
message to the Legislature?- No.
SThynot? Was he "blowing?". .
He said: "Fellow-citizens, you
Iriow nothing about your State Gov
ernment. You have been ruled by
aristocrats since the days of the
Lord's Proprietors. If you elect me
Governor I will ask the Legislature
to print ten thousand copies of the
Comptroller General's report and I
will send them all over the State,
and you will then know what is
being done." Did he make this
request of the Legislature? No.
What excuse has he for failing to do
so? Was he "blowing?"
He said:_ "Fellow-citizens, if you
elect me Governor I will save you
$100,000." Was he "blowing?" How
now stand mailers ? I ?ad of sav
ing the State $100,000^' has lost
the State this first year of his admin- j
istraticn near $1,000,000. He has
put ns on the down grade. Matters-j
are serious ancT under his administra
tion they aro gowing worse very
fast. By his bad management of
the phosphate interest the estimate
is he will have lost the State $168,- j
000 on royalty at the end of the fiscal
year March, 1892. When he went
into office t'ne bonds of the State
were at a premium of about 5 per
cent ; now their are wortlr only* 93
cents on tbedollar. .By their depre
ciation he has. lost the State about
$700,000. The public debt, amount
ing'to millions of dollars, is due next
year and will have to be paid or j
refunded, Georgia refunded her
?ebi at 3 per cent and ours'ought to.
be refunded for the same or less,;
The signs are a-Tillman administra-, j
tion cannot refund it except ata high'1
interest, if. at all? Capitalists have
po -confidence :f? an administration
headed by a mau who recently said,
did z great 'fleal-of blowing last
summer. I don't recollect all I said." ?
Blowers never inspire confidence ?D j
anybody.
When the Legislature, realizing !
the scarcity of money and the straits .
to which the people are reduced,
extended the time for the payment
of taxes to the 20th day of February, j
Tillman refused to approve it. He
is in a soft place. He has feathered
his nest and cares not a stiver now
for the people, only for their votes.
He saw very differently when he .
had no gloves.
In the campaign of 1890 Tillman
denounced all who received free
passes on the railroads as biibe tak-1
ers and- said they were "tamed."i
He must have been "blowing." It
is alleged that he rode on free pass
No. 1 and the railroads and express
companies carried everything free
for him and he has not denied it. ?
By his silence he pleads guilty. The :
Legislature fixed him on the free
pass business. He has to pay now
like other people when he rides on j
the cars ; hence his abuse of the
members of the Legislature-in his
speech a few nights ago at Laurens.
He is mad. He calls for a Legisla- j :
ture of henchmen to execute his
orders. As the Executive, if he-can, j
he will seize all the powers of the j
other departments of the Govern- :
ment and use them for his own bene
fit. His ambition has crazed him. :
He aspires to be a Palatine.
Popular government with such!
men in office cannot long survive. In j
his speech at Laurens, opening his ? [
campaign for this year in villification j
and abuse, he surpassed even what j:
he said in 1890 when he swung round j;
tH circle. Then he was plain B. R. ?
Jillman ; now he is Chief Magistratej
of the State.
Farmers of the State, what do you ;
think of our* Governor whom we j
elected? I own I am ashamed Ii
voted for him and will never do it
again. He has deceived us inten-. '
tionally and badly and has proven
himself to be a fraud.
Tillman, realizing he has not made ;
good a single pledge he gave us dur
ing the campaign of 1890 ; that he i
brought great pecuniary loss upon ;
the State; -that his administration i
has been a failure and the people i
feel and know it, is now trying to
fasten the blame on the Legislature, j
Farmers, merchants, business men,
citizens, all, let us come together, i
Let ail of our efforts be for the coin- .
mon good and general welfare. Our ;
once proud old State sorely needs
-the services of - every good.and joya,] t
citizen if our Christian civilization I
rind-honies" are redeemed and saved i
from the vil?^Let every one do his
duty to God 'and his country. Ban
ish u\\ personal preferences. Let
every community be closely scanned
and men, clean, capable and loyal to
principle alone, .be selected and
elected to office. Elect them whe- i
i
ther they want the office or not, and j
tell them they must serve. If this is !
done all will be well-the State will
be redeemed and saved, the people j
again united and happy and Tillman j
quietly laid away with eight follow- j
ing his political corpse to its last j
resting place-six pall bearers and i
two mourners-Irby and Shell.
Respectfully,
ELLISON S. KEITT.
TEX TEAKS WITH TOBACCO.
Results of the Experience of a Prac
tical Planter.
NUMBER THREE.
Editor News and Courier : As
already stated, the tobacco crop is a
jealous one, and a crop which requires j
..he closest attention. The tobacco
planter can either make the largest
returns or the most ignoble failure, j
To make a success the crop must
have every attention and everything
it wants, or good-bye to your golden
dreams of profit. And in no par- !
ticular is there to be more care than i
in fertilizing. Unless you fertilize
right the big figures at the end of ?
the year will be on the wrong side j
of the page.
In fertilizing the tobacco crop!
greater care is required to adopt the |
right elements to the soil than in any |
other crop. As a rule, the coarse!
and unrotted domestic manures used^
on the cotton and corn fields will
jiot do well on tobacco. If these
are used at all they should be well
rotted in the compost heap before
placed on the land. There are now
a number of brands of commercial
fertilizers which meet the demands
of every grade of leaf produced and
which every planter who expects to
make a success should use unstint
ingly.
-In choosing a fertilizer consult the,
character of your soil and decide
upon the type of tobacco to be grown.
Soluble phosphoric acid, nitrogen
and potash are the elements which a
standard tobacco fertilizer should
! possess. This will give the planter
? ? basis upon ^which he can make his
own selection. It is difficult to lay
down - absolute mles on this score,
l>ut the writer Iras secured from an
eminent chemist and. tobacco expert,
Major H. L. Ragland, of Virginia,
tko. following valuable data :
First. The phosphoric acid most
available and procurable at the small
est cost to our planters is found in
dissolved South Carolina rock, sold
as acid phosphate.
Second. A solvent quickly-acting
nitrate' is decidedly better for the
bright yellow type than the slow
acting one, because this type needs
to be pushed forward by rapid growth
to early maturity, so as to cause the
plants to ripen yellow in color, and
at a time when the weather condi
tions are most favorable to the cur
ing process.
Third. The sulphate of potash is
better than the chloride for any class
of tobacco, because the chloride
imparts ? greener colo'- to the plants,
causing them to cure of a darker
shade, and injures the texture. The
so-called "muriate of potassium" is
unfit for any class of tobacco and
should not be used. Being cheaper
some fertilizer manufacturers use it
largely, but it should not be used on
land where the tobacco plant mus?
grow.
Following the line of Major Rag
land's research we find a formula
which he has laid down as a general
rule. For an acre of poor, gray, old
field land which is to be planted for
bright tobacco we find the following
laid down :
Dissolved South Carolina rock, i. e.,
acid phosphate. .pounds. .200
Nitrate of soda.'..1G0
Sulphate of potash.1-10
Total.500
If 'the land is freshly cleared of
forest soil, the following formula is
recommended :
Acid phosphate. pounds.. 100
Nitrate of soda.140
Sulphate nf potash.120
Total. 420
For an acre of long cleared land
which has been cropped upon for a
number of years continuously this
formula is offered :
Acid phosphate.pounds. 100
Nitrate of soda.1">0
Sulphate of potash. .140
Total.m
The above should giv* thc planter
a fair idea of what is needed in the
way of a fertilizer for his tobacco
crop. It will be seen that the allow
ance for each acre is rather large
compared with the amount used on
cotton and other crops, but the
planter must bear in mind that thc
yield of tobacco, if properly managed,
is correspondingly large. Under the
old regime of tobacco ?rr o wi ns 600 to
700 pounds of leaf per acre was con
sidered a big yield, but things have
changed wonderfully along this line
within the past few years. The
tobacco planters in tte Florence sec
tion now grow from 1,000 to 1,250
pounds of tobacco per acre.
It is true that high topping lias
much to do with this, but not all.
These planter* have followed the
policy that in tobacco growing you
must take your best land and make
it yield all which generous fertilizing
will do and this policy has paid them
well. It costs no more to cultivate
a well fertilized acre of tobacco than
any other kind and but little more to
cure it. Hence it is best to make it
yield its full share, and the only way
to get it is by generous use of com
mercial fertilizers.
When as much as 450 pounds or
500 pounds of fertilizer is applied
per aere it is best to broadcast one
half and apply the balance in the
drill. This method of application
gives the roots something to feed on
during its entire growing season and
makes a uniform plant.
H. E. HARMAN.
WINSTON, N. C.
Johnstone on the Situation.
THE CONGRESSMAN FROM THE THIRD
DISTRICT IS INTERVIEWED IN
CHARLESTON-WHAT HE SAYS.
Congressman Geonre Johnstone
spent a few hours in the city yester
day on his way to Washington. Ile
was seen by a reporter for the News
and Courier^ while at the Charleston
Hotel, and conversed upon State and
national politics. Mr. Johnstone has
never talked much for the newspa
pers, and even now does not care to
have very much to say for publica
tion.
Being asked what he thought of
the present national situation, he
replied that he did not have any time
to express himself in other than the
most general.terms. He regards the
issues of the Presidential election as
dependent almost entirely upon the
action of the present National House
of Representatives ; with wise action
on their part, in spite of some appear
ances to the contrary, he regarded
the election as easily within the grasp
of the Democracy, and the Demo
cratic prospects as brighter than they
had been at any time since Cleve
land's election.
The present discontent that is
even-where apparent throughout the
North, and especially the Northwest,
could be turned to the benefit of the
Democracy, and any action of the
House of Representatives should be
taken with that end continually ir
view. Several of the Western States
can now be fairly classed as doubt
ful, and added to the States or New
York, Connecticut and New Jersey,
the election would np longer be 2
disputable question.
. Ber ig asked as to wh o would be
the nominee of the Republicans, he
answered promptly : Harrison. Thal
Blaine was already a defeated candi
date and Harrison a.successful one
and the Republicans would neve]
exchange a defeated for a snccessfu
candidate.--News and Connery Uh
1
ODDS AMD ENDS.
A cushion car wheel is new.
] New Mexico claims meerschaum
I deposits.
The moon is said to move 3.333 fe<
i per second.
November was the ninth month c
j the y< ;??r at one time.
The emperor of Japan lately ei
tered on his fortieth year.
It is an error to think that an
"poor creature'' can have a ''fin
j heart."
I A lump of coal weighing a ton ws
! recently mined in Wyoming and ses
j to Denver.
j A new heiring bank 100 miles lon
j has been discovered off the west coas
; of Newfoundland.
Tlie queen's granddaughters ou*
j number her majesty's grandsons b
I almost three to one.
j At the bureau of eugraving 1,40
j people are employed all the time i
j making paper money.
i The interstate commerce commi:
j sion requires ?225,000 and the federo
I courts about $4,000,000 for a year.
It is on house cleaning days, notoi
washing days, that washing prepara
tioiis of aU kinds are especially valu
j able.
j 'Some souls are like coffins; thei
confines are too cramped and narro?
j to hold anything but cold and
j aced;-.
j. The Burmese natives deli . .'ii
I huge, loosely rolled cheroots; C'SLTX
. ing from six to eighteen inches ii
; length.
A new and powerful machine fo:
; clearing wrecks on railroads has beei
; invented y nd tried by a citizen o:
I Michigan.
By a new system compound sheet!
; of plariniiin and gold are used t<
j make-crucibles for use in industria
: chemistry.
j A Delaware farmer claims to b<
? able- t J preserve watermelons fo:
; winter use by coating the lind thickh
with varnish.
About L ' the railroad which is t(
. connect Jaira with Jerusalem ha:
been completed. The remainder wii
be finished within a year.
All who care for the individual anc
the home must desire that in every
land there be one day o? the weei
free from the exactions of toi1
An Augusta man has recovered ?
verdict of C 00 against a bani
which refused to honor his ckec?
although lie had money there on de
posit.
Before he came to America Mr
Willard, the English actor, though:
that his was a rather rare name, hu
on one occasion at ??oston he was er.
tortamed at a dinner at which every
guest was a Willard.
A New York Minister's Boy.
There is a certain up town ministei
whose little son. having profited by
his fathers teachings, has a most
complete faith in God. Tho little
fellow spent some weeks in the conn
r.ry.._aml became much interested iv.
a vokeof oxen which " bel"Jiged or
I the place on which ne was staying.
I One day, desirous ol' stirring the
' creatures up a little, he poked them
. with a stick, but they didn't mind
; that. Then he scratched them wirb
: a hoe which lay haney, but still
! they stood drowsy, almost lireless.
! Finally the boy stuck a wisp of hay
up each ox's nose. That did the
business. The oxen stopped chewing
their cuds and began to look ex
tremely frisky.
; ''Take care. Harry," shouted the
: hired man, "them beasts might cut
; and run."
j "Couldn't yon stop em if they
; did ?" asked Harry.
"Welt perhaps I could, and then
i agin perhaps I couldn't. Oxen is
; powerful ugly sometimes."
j Harry was silent for a moment,
j and then lie said, 'T know wbocouid
stop "em if you couldn't."
j "Wrho?" asked the man.
"God," was the'answer.
"H^w could God stop 'emf
"Ho could say "Gee-haw' at em,"
i was the triumphant answer. -New
; York Tim rs.
Iri>h Wit.
j An Irish peasant brought a litter
! of kittens to a Protestant vicar in a
! certain town in Comity Wicklow, ve
j questing him to purchase them. Thc
vicar decline L "lour rivrence, they
: are good Protestant kittens," urged
; Paddy, but his reverence remained
. obdurate. A few days after the Po
. man Catholic priest (who had mean
; while been informed of the offer to
his brother clergyman) was a])
proached, and on his refusing to
make a purchase the would be seller
I urged a sale, "Sure, father, dear
they are good Catholic kittens."
"But how is thus, my man?" replied
the priest. "You said a day or TWO
ago they were good Protestant kit
: tens." "And so they were,'' said th?
peasant, "but their eyes weren"t
I ojiened. "-London Spectator.
A Joke of the Kaiser.
A story which reaches me from
Potsdam is of a harmless character.
The German emperor appeared a few
days ago before the barracks of the
Guard Hussars. He dismounted and
gave the corporal of the guard orders
! to inarch his men away silently into
! the officers' mess close by. Then he
j caused the alarm to be sounded by
i the trumpeter of the guard, whom he
1 j kept hy Iiis side. The officer of the
j guard, who had noticeu nothing of
' ! the crent, came rushing out. but the
; guard was gone. "Where is your
gn^rd, sir?" said the emperor; to
i which the imf ortunate man could of
! j course give no answer. His majesty
i ?vas mightily pleased at the result of
; this practical joke.-Vanity Fair.
Two Ways of Pronouncing Missouri.
' There is a discussion among the
} Missouri ne wspapers of the proper
pronunciation of the name of their
\ state. It seems to be understood
that the-plain people call it "Mizzou
' ree" and the patrician folk "Mizzou
1 rah." Arkansas wisely settled a
; similar dspute some years ago by a
\ statute which, made the correct pro
' nunciation ' ' Arkaasaw, " with the ac
cent on the first syllable. -Ph?adel
' phia Ledger. ._
' Patience is the ballast of the soul,
I that will keep it from rolling and
. tumbling in. the great storm.
Let Us Talk About Tobago.
THE PRODUCTION OF THE WEED IX
THIS COUNTRY IN 1839.
WASHINGTON, December 31.-The
Census Office to-day issued a bulle
tin giving the statistics of the tobacco
production in the United States dur
ing the year 1889. The bulletin
states that tobacco is pro?! need to a
greater or lesser extent in forty-two
States and Territories, the only non
producing States being Ida! .
N'evada, Rhode Island and Wyom
ing; the non-producing Territories
Dklahoma and .Utah. The ei/:-e
:rop of the country amounted in
L889 to 488,255,896 pounds: th?
aurnber of planters being 205,862,
md the area devoted to tobacco cul
;ure, exclusive of counties cultivat
ing less than one acre, 692,990 acres,
:>r 1,082.80 square miles. The area
;n cultivation was, however, very un
equally distributed, Kentucky having
39.62 per cent of the total acreage
ind producing 45.44 per cent of the
3ntire crop, and the six States next
in rank of production 50.16 per cent
rf the acreage and 42.49 per cent of
:he crop ; while the twenty States
md Territories having the smallest
production had less than 900 acres in
lobaeco and yielded an aggregate of
151,052 pounds, or less than one
:enth of one per cent, of the entire
2rop.
The average production per acre
)f the entire ecuiitry was 705 pounds,
ranging among the seed-leaf States,
producing 5,000,000 pounds or
upwards, from 854 pounds per acre
in Ohio to 1,402 pounds per acre in'
Connecticut, and the more import
Hit of the States in which the manu
facturing and export varieties pre
dominate, from 375 pounds \ r acre
in North Carolina to 820 pounds per
icre in Missouri.
The total value of the crop to the
producers, estimated on the basis of
ictual sales, was *o"4,844,449, an
\verage cf 7.1 cents per pound.
The leading tobacco producing
joimty of the entire country is Lan
caster county, Pa., which yielded in
1889 19,217,3U0 pounds, worth
51,349,090 to the producers. Chris
tian and Henderson counties, Ken
tucky, each produce over 10,000,000
pounds, as also does Dane county,
Wisconsin, and Pittsylvania county,
Virginia. Seventeen other courues,
aine of which are in Kentucky, pro
luced between 5,000,000 and 10,000,
300 pounds each.
The Law of Apportionment.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOP. THE APPOR
TIONMENT OF THE REPRESENTA
TIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRE
SENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA, FROM Tili. SEVE
RAL COUNTIES ' TIMS STATE,
ACCORDING To TUE ENUMERATION
OE THE UNITED SI ATES CENSUS
FOR THE YEAR 1890.
Whereas, the Constitution of South
Cai dina. Article II, Section 4.
requires that representation ;n the
General Assembly shall the appor
tioned among the several counties o?
the State in the course of every tenth
year after 1875; and, whereas, the
said Section OL the Constitution was
duly amended in 1886, authorizing
the General Assembly at any time in
its discretion to adopt the immedi
ately preceding United States cen
sus as a true and correct enumera
tion of the inhabitants of the several
counties, and make the apportion
ment anet* assignment among the
severai counties according to said
enumeration; and, whereas, there
has been no enumeration of the
inhabitants of the several counties by
the State since 1875 :
Section I. Beit enacted, etc.. That
the United States census for the year
ls.'O be, and the same is hereby,
adopted as a t: ue and correct enu
meration of the inhabitants of thc
several counties of this State, and
that the apportionment and assign
ment of Representatives among -: e
several counties be made according
to said enumeration.
Section 2. That the several counties
shall, at the session of the General
Assembly next following the first gen
eral election after the passage of the
Act, and therefore until the same shall
be repealed, be entitled to represen
tation as follows : Abbeville 5, Aiken
3, Anderson 5, Barnwell 5, Beaufort
4, Berkeley 5, Charleston 7, Chester
3, Chesterfield 2, Clarendon 3, Colleton
4, Darlington 3, Edgefield 5, Fail-field
3, Florence 3, Georgetown 2, Green
ville 5, Hampton 2, Horn- 2, Ker
shaw 2, Lancaster 2, Laurens 2, Lex
ington 2, Marion 3, Marlboro 3, New
berry 3, Oconee 2, Orangeburg- 5,
Pickens 2, Richland 4, Spartanburg
6, Sumter 5, Union 3, Williamsburg
3, York 4.
Section 3. All Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with this Act be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
Frederick Douglass recently se-,
cured a place as clerk in the agricul
tural department for the daughter of
his old master in the days of slavery.
The lady was brought up in extreme
luxury, but has for ten years expe
rienced great privations ; and when
the case wa3 presented to Secretary
JRu.sk he appreciated its pathetic^
sspeet.