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it? ? ' fl '. ' , ' 1 in! m JOB WORK. THI8 OFFICE 13 THE PLACE TO BRING IT TO IF YOU WANT STYL?. TO THINK OWN SELF BR TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THBN BK FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY JAYNBSi SUEL-Olv, SMITH & STE???, WAIIHAIJIIA, SOUTH GAROMNA, FI2BRUABY23, 189?. NEW SICKIES, NO. 47.-VOLUME Ii -NO. 8. IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. Head of National Department of Agri culture D?lirera an Address? At tho iutor-Stato Farmers' Insti tute, hold at Jaokson, Miss., a fow days ago, Hon. James Wilson, head of tho United States Department of Agriculture, delivered a notablo ad dross in which ho mndo speoial rofor ? coco to farming in the South. Seoretnry Wilson said in part: Wo aro rapidly coming into oom potition through the cheapening of transportation and tho improvomont of commorcial facilities with pro ducers of foe I throughout tho world and it is nocessary that tho Ameri can farmer should know where each staple crop is most at homo, bconuso whero they arc most unquestionably successful, competition with foreign .Competitors will bo moat profitably prosecuted. If nothing wcro sold from tho Boil hut the libro and Systems of ro tation wcro practiced tho soil would not very rapidly become unproduc tive, provided tho moro nitrogenous part of tho plant, thu seed, was re turned to tho soil regularly. But this lins not been tho case, and poo plo who havo been growing cotton and selling to other countries and other Statos tho nitrogenous part of tho plant will havo to learn by oxpe rlutieo that tho proocss oannot be continued indefinitely, as thc pcoplo of thc Upper Mississippi Valloy i learned regarding wheat growing. Evidently it has como to tho timo when tf.o Southern farmer must nt inly a system of rotation, through which tho necessary plant food be comes available for the moro exact ing crops, Tho department is mnking an ef fort to extend lue marketa of tho United States to foreign countries. Wo ono make butter cheaper than it oan be made in any other oountry, for the reason that we havo cheaper grasses and grain, Wo havo cstab Habed the fact that first-class Ameri can creamery butter ls equal to tho linc butter of Denmark, Franco and the Jlritish Isles, and havo tho satis faction of knowing that our butters sell ns high to tho retail merchant, as those do. No doubt wc could re ceive as high prices from thc whole sale dealers if wo could maintain a steady supply as the Danes do. The department hos mado vigor ous efforts within tho last two years to experiment widely regarding our ability to make our own sugar. Tho work lias progressed far enough to iudicato the fitness of our Boil and climate in a broad bolt noross thc country to produce beets of sufficient saccharine quality to justify tho in vestment of capital, skill and labor in this direction. WHAT SVQAQ COST?, Wc pay for migar annually some thing like ?100,000,000 to foreign countries whero tho conditions are no moro favorable for tho industry than hero at homo. Enough facto ries have been built and operated, ai a result of our experiments, to indi cate that along the upper parallels of our country, from New York to Cali fornia, and down into Now Mexico, ingar can be HiicocHafully grown. Wo hovo enteret) vigorously upon tho introduction of valuablo now plants from foreign countries, with tho object of introducing them into the life /ones similar to thc conditions from which they sprung. Wo have received ten tons of rioc ?oed that will Improve, wo think, tho rice grown in tho l<owor Mis sissippi Valley, llotween tho limited holt along om Heathorn ooast, whero tho ribbon cano is grown, and tho bolt when wo have a sugar beet, there is a bell where neither tho ribbon cane noi r tho Bugar beet, as far as learned, car bo Successfully cultivated, Tho do pavtmcnt ls considering what mighi be done for the people in this great region, und hos been developing f sorghum oano with g high por oent of saooharlno mnttor. During t visit to Georgia lately I loamed thal UK? State grows over (100,000 tons ol ootton sood In n year. I mado ai estimato of tho amount of nitrogen ono mattor necessary for tho rationi Of the 100,000 fat steors which tlv United Htates ships abroad annually lind found that with the addition o nomo cr ; iionaceoiis mattor, tho Stati of Georgia, through its cotton seed QOnld/bftve fattened every steer sen across tho Atlantic It ocourrcd U mo that this carbonaceous matter, ti balance tho cotton need ration, mlgh bo found In tho bagasse of tho sor ghum plant, after tho saccharin* asat??? ls extracted, or it might bi found in the sorghum plant entire without extruding tho sugar con tent?. With this objection pt viey the department has boon Bonding out high heredity sorghum H cod to those States lu order that tho farmer might make hin own sugar ii ho do* sirod, or that capitaliste might in vent in sugar making, which is en tirely praotioahlo, or that feeders might have carbonaceous nutriments to add to tho nitrogonouB cotton 8oed ration. NO CIIKMIfJAT.fl INT MK AT. Tho Bureau of Animal Industry is growing in usefulness. A thousand mon and women connected with the bureau Btudy the meats of tho United States and* oxamiuo everything for interstate and foreign oommorco ou tho foot and also aftor slaughter. Our inspectors uro present at all timeB from tho introduction of ti.o animal to tho alaughtor house to its exit from homo to foreign "markets. You have doubtless hoard tho sound of ooniliot ovor meats, pro and con ; alleged statements of tho uno of chemicals in canned meats, refrige rated meats and all that, and you aro probably in tho dark regarding tho truth of it all. Wc have rogular ro ports from all tho packing houae? in the country. Minen this agitation ovor ehomioal ly prepared meats has boon current, the department, considering it its duty to stand between the meat pro ducers and tho eonBumers of tho country, has been ranking, and is still making, a caruful chemical ex amination of all tho meats of com merce to ascertain whother there has been any practice of this kind dele terious tu tho health of tho public in general and tho army in particular, so that when tho commotion you now hear has subsided and tho for eign governments that may bo more or less hostile to tho meats of the United States, point to tho contro versy hero ns indicating conditions that warrcnt them in tho enactment of hostile legislation, wo may bc ablo to present tho truth and show to the world whether tho raeatf originating on our farms and going through the packing houses, aro 01 aro not doctored with ohcmioals tc tho injury of tho consumer. Wc have examined tho canned meats ol commerce, and find that niuo of tin statements regarding them aro true We lind that canned moat, whet properly taken caro of, is an indis pensable article of commerce. W< have not been ablo in any case t( find chemicals, although our investi g?tions have coverod all tho brandi of meat sold in the open market thu wo oar. hear of. Wo havo also ina guratcd extensive investigations inte tho character of our refrigerate meats, and utterly failed to lind, a far as wo havo gone, any ovidenc whatever of tho uso of chemicals Whi? u.rtvt- ...:n >.~--J i'll" WO"!? ?itt ?/>. . >i.. i i. 11 n i c illili every doubt is removed. If wo flu Anybody who handles tho farmer1 produce has been resorting to th uso of chcmioala which may destro tho health of our people ourinfluenc will go to their swift and upood punishment, and if wo lind that th Statement by men who have made n investigations themselves and hav had none made for them, aro untnu wo shall say so through tho publics tions of tho department, of the pee pN, and wo will have those publior fiona translated into all tho language of Kuropo and spread broadcast i those countries, let them uti ike whot thoy may. MOHR ATTENTION TO BUKKP. Thc sheep industry in the Unite States lu getting much moro nttor lion than it lins had, and is muc moro profitable. Enough oarl spring lambs are not ralsoei to sui ply our Northern markets. Tho pul lio taste for good mutton is growinj now tho people, aro giving attentic to mutton rather than wool shoo Tho South can produce early lam? at less expenso than tho North ca Th? Southern farmer oan, with groi profit, introduco the mutton shoe after ho has scoured good pastor lu these days of refrigeration, win produots can bo removed from 01 end of tho world to tho other in co storage, tho poultry interests requi moro attention. Every farm ci have and should havo a cornplcme of poultry. Tho market never h enough of Pekin ducks, Tuvkoys always sell well, and wb the market of tho United States oversupplied, cold storago vidi ta tho prodnot to tho other side of t Atlantic, or to thc other sido of t Pacific (.'heap grain and oho grass form tho basis ol dalry pi elliots, mutton, ahoop and poulti Wo havo theBO things in tho Unit States, and wo can enlarge our o\ supply to moot our own reepiiromen Wo havo found that about tho pi dnotion o' butter in foreign con tries. Tho 1 Innes ?oil 180,000,0 I worth of butter to Great Brita and we furnish them with the ' ?ow food. ? would like to sc? the Ame ric HU fm raer turning his alton lion to something more oxalted than pro duoing oow feed for any oows but his own. The great Northwest is represented hero to-day by many ot tho most intelligent farmers. Thoy aro woll assured that tho only profit that cu i nen from agriculture is that that comes from turning raw mate rials into a higher selling product. Tho United States wap supplied Inst year from tho Mississippi valloy with ?rains for homo uso and for many other purposes, and oxported over 200,000,000 bushels of corn. That corn should havo boon turned into a highor selling product in tho United States. Our mill feeds went abroad also. We produced flax bo causo wo want oil for painting our buildings, tho United States hoing tho groat painting nation. But wo did not fully realizo that tho nitro genous mattor of tho flax plant should bo kopi at homo to balance tho carbonaceous corn plant. Wo sent our mill feeds abroad to dairy men, to horse producers, to cattle men, to sheep mun, to poultry men, when wo muda just ns well feed these things at home and send tho highor selling product to tlio for oignor, after wo havo not only ap plied laborious days in tito corn field, and the wheat field, and the oat fiold, but, after wo havo added tho skill of tho farm, and of tho faotory to tho raw material. That *80,000, 000 worth of butter sold in Great Britain by Denmark is tho result of skill applied to our raw material. THU SOUTHERN FARMERS? I earnestly ad viso tho Sonthorn farmer to turn his attention to indus tries that will raak3 his land a little better every year, instead of making it a little poorer. The nearer tho farmer can get to independence of Other farmers the bettor for him. Ju theso dnys we cannot, of course, be come independent of thc factory and wcavo our cloth, knit our socks pro per, and all that ; but there is no reason why tho South should not produce all the grain it needs and havo money orops along the lines I havo suggested. Tho time has como when the in telligent management of the farm promises as well as any other voca tion in life. It will beat politics and bo a neck ahead of thu professions when all things are considered. This intelligent maniiRcment of tho farm comprehends tho training of your labor to do what is most profitablo to you and what will add to the com fort of thc worker. A South Caro lina gentleman gets his tea leaves picked at tho right timo by gather ing the young peoplo into a school to acquire tho elementary studies. Your labor can bo taught to milk cows and caro for them, grow tho crop they require, feed thooalves and run the separator, ohurn and buttor worker, paok tho butter and markot it, make checso under your supervi sion, caro for sheep and Iamb, shoar them in season and bcoomo as expert along theso lines as they now aro with cotton. This divorsi(?cation of farm work will bring rnonoy to tho Stato from consumers in our largo cities. It will croate a demand for farm literature and becomo an educative process that will lead along over pleasant paths to moro productive fields, hot ter farm conveniences, moro com fortable houses and higher ?denis of lifo. Cherry Pectoral has Leen curing hacking coughs for 60 years. Madford, in South western Virginia, reports nu earthquake shock on last Sun day nun nilli; at 4.85, willoh lc".!cd thirty aoonnds, It wwi accompanied by a grind ing uolao and tho pooplo wore very m ucl) alnrmod. A distinct shock was also felt at Martinsville, Uonry county, Hpcelals indicate that tho ?hook was folt al) ovor SnuthwoAtoru Virginia and wan unusually HQvoro, though no damage is reported. 8oTcntT-FItc Yours pf Growth. Mr. Thoodoro U. Searoh, of Philadel phia, tho Provident of t)ie Nut ional As sociation of Sfauufaoturers, advanced nonio i m pu ,'si ve figures in "\o cou rao of the formal address which no delivered boforo t'no annual convontton of that body in Philadelphia sovora! days ago. Going book sovonty-llve yoars in the ooramorciul and industrial progress of tho United States ho showed the* tho ox ports of manufaoturors ?n 1821 aggre gated ouly $5,025,017, or i?.S? por cont or tko total exports which in that year ag grogatod $13,071,81? 1. Then coming down to tho prosont timo he showed that tho exports of manufaoturors in 1808' aggre gated $288,871,44?, or 23.87 por cont of tho total oxports whioh in that year ag urogatod $1,210,202,007. From this dibcloenro ono can easily form Bomo idea of tho extraordinary progrosB whioh this country haB mado In commoroial aud industrial dirootions during tho past sovonty-flve yoars. 1Iow's*Tlils f Wo offer Ono Hundred Dollars Howard for any caso of catarrh that cannot bo cured by Uall's Catarrh Curo. F. J. Chonoy <fc Co., Props., Tolodo, O. Wo, tho undersigned, have known F. J. Chonoy for tho last 15 years, and bo liovo him porfootly honorable in nil busi ness transactions nnd flnanoialiy ablo to carry out any obligations mado by thoir Arm. West ?fe Traux, WholoRalo Druggists, Tolodo, O, Wabling, Kilman & Mnrvln, Whole sale Druggist?, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is takon inter nally, acting directly Upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. Prico, 75e. por bottle Sold by nil druggist?. Testimonials freo. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. Why the Army Bill Must bo Passed. Tho army reo ganizntion bill must I pass or tlie President will call an oxtra ] session of Congress. Tho opposition to tho bill in tho Non ato has already been frequently reforrcd to in tho Post and tho prediction mado that somo compromiso would bo agreed upon whoroby legislation of a temporary character would bo placed upon tho army appropriation bill. This will uot satisfy tho administration. No makeshift oxpo diont will bo accepted. The Prcsidont has determined that, tho passage of tho army bill shall bo made an issue, and thero is no doubt in administration cir cles that ho will bo successful. If, how ovor, any obstacles should provont notion, an oxtra session will surely bo held. Tho conditions whioh havo arison loavo no other oom no to bo pursued by tho President. A decision haB boen ren dorcd by tho Attorney Gonoral to tho I offeot that as soon as tho ratifications of | tho pcaco treaty aro exchanged tho volun teer soldiers can no longbr bo retained in service This is also true, tho Attor ney Conor ni holds, of tho additional regu lars who v/crc enlisted fer the war with Spain. Consequently without tho do ? sired legislation tho President will (Iud himself with nu army reduced from 05, 000 to 26,000 mon.-Washington Post. Prepare fer Spring. Don't lot thiB season overtake you boforo you havo attended to tho important duty of purifying your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Dy taking this modi oino now you may savo sickness that will moan timo and money ns well as suffer ing later on. Hood's Sarsaparilla will givo you rich, red blood, good appetite, good digestion and a sound, healthy body. It is tho greatest and ist spring mcdioino bconuso it is tho Ono True Dlood Purillor. Its un equaled record of marvolous euros has won for it tho confiduueo of tho wholo p copio. Some Colonial Figures. Within tho past fow days some impor tant data bearing upon tho ootonios, pro tectorates and dopondonoios of tho globe has boon sont out from tho Treasury De partment at Washington. In view of I tho character of recent events this dnta | is of timely interest. Some ligures takon therefrom aro given in the table bolow: Colo- Aren in PopU* Countries, liles. Hq. Miles. talion, Orcat llrltaln.48 11,260,412 3(4,069,122 Franco.32 3,017,327 62,012.030 Ocrmany. 8 1,020,070 10,600,000 Netherlands. 3 802,803 33,011,744 Vortical . 0 801,000 0,210,707 Boitin. 3 i, 6,077 2.W.000 Italy. 2 101,000 860,000 An-.iil.i-llMni-.il v. 2 23,202 1,608,002 I), HIM .il.. a 80,014 114,220 Kn i i. 3 266,660 6,081,000 Turkey. 4 601,600 17,489,000 Chin*. 6 2,881,600 10.Cfi0.000 United Stet?!. 4 ic8,287 10,177,000 Total. 120 21,821,382 603,0(0,624 According to tho information sot forth in tho table above Groat Britain has nearly twico ns many colonies as tho other powors, whilo her colonial popu lation aggregates in extent, nosily throe fifths that of tho othor powors. Franco comos no -1, upon tho list, but hor colo nies arc moro extern.i ve in territory than in population. To sweoton tho breath, brighten tho oyo, ulonr tho complexion and insuro tho natural bloom of health, uso Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Modlcino. Ilookor Washington tells n sf m y of an old colored woman in tho black bolt who had strayed into an Episcopal ohurch and was given a soat in tho gallery. As tho rooter wnxod eloquont in his sormon she began to respond with tho usual groans and ejaculations, until Sn offloor I of tho church wont up to stop tho dis. turbaanoo. In roply to his question tho j old auntie Haid: "I'm happy; Pvo got! roligion." "Nonsense," said tho oflloor, "this is no plaoo to got roligion H' --- ---. Tho Ufo prosorvcr whioh lins carriod many hullos safely over tho dnngorous sea "Chango of Lifo" is Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablots. Tho town of St. Matthews was visited by a disastrous flro last Friday night. Nearly nil tho wood buildings in tho main portion of tho town woro burned. Loss about $20,000; only $100 insurance. A BIG COTTON MILL BOOM. Delnxed With Oriers-?tnaller Con cerns In Tribulation* A dispatch from Providence, R. to the Boston Globe says : Tho big cotton manufacturers of tho Pawtucket valley, consisting of Robert Knight, tho Lonsdale Com pany, Quidniok Company and the Warwiok Cotton Hills, have recoived a dolugo of orders for cloths and shootings of the best quality, and hundreds of bales of cloth are now being shipped from Pontiac, Natiok and other points along tho Now York, Now Haven ?fe Hartford Hail road, to tho big trade markets throughout New England and the country. At Hobort Kuigkt's Natick mills, which havo a capacity of 100,000 spindles and 8,000 wido looms, ordors for 06,000 pieces, averaging 50 yards to tho piece, havo beon recoived, and tho numoroua hands employed in tho mammoth cloth rooms mo now kept nt work every evening until 10 and 11 o'clock in order to preparo the many bales for shipment. Twonty-fivo different varieties of colton goods aro manufactured at tho mills, and each ordor received is for foods of the very best quality, ono ordor alono calling for 40,000 pieces, 2,000,000 yards. At tho Pontiac mill and bleachery, owned by Robert Knight, tho ma chinery in every department io hum ming, mid 4,000 esses of bloaohed goods have been shipped from that placo within tho past four wenks, and thc hundreds of operatives aro kept on tho jump. At ovcry railroad station between Hopo and Providence on tho Paw tucket Valley road and Washington and Cranston, on tho Central Divis ion of tho Now Haven, goods aro being shipped and hundreds of car loads of cotton aro being recoived daily from different points in the South. Tho ordors received at Knight's mills aro thc biggest that havo been received in ton yoars and tho opera tives, as well as the manufacturers, are now confident that ? big busi ness boom is at hand which is bound to continue for some time to como. It is expected that tho mills now absolutely controlled by tho cotton king will consumo moro than 60,000 bales of raw material this year. This will exceed tho consumption in tho Knight mills by 10,000 halos over any previous year and it beats all records of tho cotton industry in this Stnto. Robert Knight is oredited with making somo of tho closest bargains with cotton brokers of late, and broker's commission in almost evory instanco is reported to have boon reduced from 60 conts to 425 couts a bale. Smaller mills and tho oidor cotton factories, with their antiquated ma ohincry, oan hardly stand up and compote with the overwhelming odds of tho Knight cotton goods trust. However, tho recent orders and tho local boom in tho cotton business aro BO extraordinary and gigantic in oharaoter timi tho nmallor manufac turers aro yet hopeful of the futuro. They do not think of going out of business yet awhile. Mothor's trusted frioud, Himuiona' Squaw Vino Wine or Tabloto, comparo tho system for oonflnomont, sliorton tabor nnd make child-birth easy. $400*000 Fire In Philadelphia. Last Friday throe six-story build ings wcro destroyed in Philadelphia, causing a loss of $400,000. Tho) locality of tho fire was only a fow yards from Wannamakor's big de partment storo, which was considera bly damaged by wator. Tho heaviest | losers from tho fire aro tho Emorson Shoo Co., John Wannamakor and W. R. Warnor &> Co., tho loss to each amounting to about $100,000. CJ JEB *K> Cf 3g& X .?fe. . B?Mith. AmM mfm Mum BmW Blfwtvs or Rattlesnakes as Fertilisers* Rattlesnakes for fertilizers is tho1 novol oxporimont to be tried by tho farmers of Laokawaxori township, Piko county. During tho past week, whilo workmen were employed, in stone quartos, sovorsl large dens of rattlesnakes wore found. Hundreds of the snakes were killed, tho cold weather rondoring them holpless. Measures will bo taken to kill all tho rattlors in their dens during the winter, and it is expeotcd that by spring a fow tons of snakes will have been harvested. Thc farmers pro pose to haul thom to their lands ond uso them for fertilizing purposos. Philadelphia Times, fr-Ade With Spain Is Again Besomed* WASHINGTON, February 18.-The lack of a .commeroiHl treaty with Spain, the former treaty having been terminated by the war, is not alto? gether preventing trade between toe countries, although American pro? duots are handicapped by an addi tional 20 per cont duty io Spanish ports, owing to tho lack of a treaty. Still, even under thcBO conditions, United States Consular Agent Mer tens, at Valencia, reports to tho state department that there is a groat demand for American whoat. A oargo of 4,000 tons of red winter wheat, which had just arrived there, proved entirely sati?faotory, and im porters wore willing rccoivo moro. Tho consular agent says : "Tho price seems to comparo fa vorably with that of Ku i minn whoat (tho kind generally imported horo when there ie a demand for foroign wheat,) although American whoat pays 20 per cent highor duties than grain from countries which have a commercial treaty with Spain. This is the first direct shipment from tho United StateB to this port since tho war." Tho consular agent abovo quoted remained at his post throughout tho entiro war, and oven continued in the dischnrgo of his oilicial functions UH far as possible without molesta tion. Don't wreck a lifo. From girlhood to womanhood tho monthly COVUBOS should bo regulated with Simmons' Squaw \ ino Wino or Tablets. Free Silver Won't Down. Mr. I. YV. Miller, a prominent Cincinnati insurance man, and T. H. Hussell, an Alabama building and loan man, had a heated discussion of tho free silver question at tho Arm strong Hotel, Rome, On., Inst Friday. Tho argument growing rather warm, Mr. Miller said that "ho did not bo liovo any perfectly honest man would voto for the gold standard in prefer ence to freo silver." Russell took tho remark as personal, struck Miller in tho faT with his fist and drew a knife, 'x no belligerents were separated by a Philadelphia traveling man, who had been one of many listeners. Miller is quite an old man and Russell much younger. A sluggish liver causes drowsiness; lethargy and a fooling of apathy. Dr M. A. Simmons' Livor Medicine arouse? tho livor and ohcerful energy succocdf sluggishness. - Number of Generals Discharged. WASHINGTON, February 18.-Th? war department has honorably dis charged Major Generals Butler am Sumnor and Brigadier General Kline, MoKee, Wiley, Lin coln and Comba, all of tho voluntco army. Tho military affairs committco o tho house to-day reported favorabl; tho senate bill to mnko Adjutan Gonoral II. C. Corbin a major gone ral. Tho houso bill for tho sam purpose has been reported airead] and this action to-day was taken t< facilitate aotion upon it in tho honst The Story of a Lotter. Tba Nations! Advertiser tulls story of an old bachelor who bough a pair of socks and found attache to one of them a slip of papor wit thone words : "I am a young lady c 20 and would Uko to correspond wit a baoholor with a view to matr niony." Namo and address wer given. Tho bachelor wrote, and in a fe days got th'1; lotter : "Mamma wo married 20 years ago. Tho morchnr you bought those sooks from ev dontly did not advertise or ho wool havo sold them long ago. Mamtu handed mo your lottor and said poi sibly I might suit you. I am 1 yoars old." A. J. Gill, Jr., Scotia, S. C., writes: havo usod Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livi Medicine in my family 10 years. It hi oured indigestion, dyspepsia, constlp i inn, and many othor ailtuonts. Will Not Repeat the Mistake. It is gratifying to noto that tl Itopubl?oan party has learned OT lesson in tho mhool of exporionc ! A.ftor tho civil war it did ??ot hesita to endow tho ignorant blades of tl South with all tho privileges and d ties of citizenship, at tho easas tin disfranchising tho intelligent whi element. Tho result wns that in largo section of country the detain tion of ignornnco and vico thron cned tho existonce of civilizatio Tho poaco treaty with Spain provid that tho Filipinos shall havo on auch privileges of citizenship as m be granted by Congress.-Louis vi Dispatch. All tho classics and metaphors tho command of a woman sein teacher don't provent hor jumping a chair at sight of a moure. will Not Bun for President. . WASHINGTON, February H.-Rear Ad miral Dowey, Henry Watterson's candi date for tho Presidency, declines to enter the race, as appears from a Washington 11 dispatch to the New York Horald, in spired by a personal lotter received by Judgo Brawloy from tho horo of Manilla. Tho Horald says: li "Roar Admiral Dowey will not aocopt 11 u nomination for the Presidency. This has boon tho opinion of his olosest friends hero fur Humo time, and they hnve not hositated to say that, from thoir knowl odgo of tho man, nothing was moro Im probable than that ho would allow him self to be drawn into the Bold of politics. Confirm?t u a of this view of tho most positivo ii ind has lately como to' ray knowledge. A frieud of Judgo Brawloy, of South Caroliua, who is an intimate j ; friend of Admiral Dowey, tells mo that on his rocont visit to this oity tho Judgo showed him a lotter latoly recolvod from Dowey, in which tho Admiral said that he would under no oiroumstanoos bo a candidate for tho Presidouoy; that his training had been on other linea, and that his tompcramout was suoh that ho could not enduro tho strain, ami that, muoh as ho appreciated the soutimonts of friondship and oonfldonco which lod to the mention of his namo ill connect ion with thatofllco, ho begged bin friends not to consider it a possibility. I saw Judgo Brawloy just as ho was leaving tho oity, and asked if ho would have any objec tion to giving tho lotter for publication. Ho said that ho could not with proprioty do so; tba' whilo ho did not consider it of such COL idential nature ns to make it improper for him to show it to any of his frienda, ho was uuwilliug to mateo it purni'-. l?o had not enjoined sooreoy upon any of thoso who had road tho lot ter, Judgo Brawloy added, and if tho fact that such a lotter was rccoived became known through thom he would Toavo it to thom to determino tho question of proprioty involvod." Whitewash Commission. Tho roport of tho Whitewash Commis sion recalls tho famous case of the mur derer who was ncqulttod by tho jury bo cause only two wltnossos had testified that thoy saw him shoot tho man, whilo ho was ablo to produce a hundred who sworo that thoy did not soo him do it. Tho propondoranco of testimony was thus in favor of tho accused. Tho Whitewash Commission roports that only two witnesses mudo definite accusations against tho embalmed hoof, whilo thoro woro many poisons, from all parts of tho country, including Chicago, who novor saw any hoof of this kind. Moreover, though Gen. ' MUOB'S chiof surgeon testified positively to om lain conditions which ho had observed in Porto Pico, exports nt Washington testi fied that thoso things could not bo. This recalls also tho man who couldn't bo sent to prison, but was. In foot, tho 'Whitewash Commission, hoing inst rinded to down Milos, is sot, Uko tho coon trap, to catch* him coming or going. It finds, first, thnt no bad beof was issued to tho army ; and, second, that Gun. Miles was responsible for al lowing bad beef to bo issuod. All of which nonsense may satisfy MoKinloy and Alger, but will not satisfy anybody olso.-Philadelphia Times. Tho Good Old Days. A law WOB passed by the state of Ten nessee in 1788, which provided that tho salaries of thal.commonwealth should bo ns follows: His oxcolloncy, tho Governor, por an num, 1,000 dcor hides. His honor, tho Chiof Justico, 500 door skins. Tho sccrotnry to his oxcolloncy, tho Governor, 500 raccoon sirius. County Clerk, 300 beavor skins. Clork of tho Houso of Commons, 200 raccoon skins. Members of tho Assembly, *>er diom, 8 raccoon skins. Justice'? foo for serving; a warrant, 1 mink skin. Ii wo would adopt tho hido scalo of paying tho salarlos of our Stato and county officers fow mon would want tho ofiicos. In tim?. BpM by dniggUt*. 1 Thoro is in tho nrohivos of tho His torical Sooioty of tho South Carolina Conference tho first boll that was ever used in tho town of WinnsbQro, S. C., in calling tho "Methodists" to religious worship. Bishop Anbury refers to it in his journal Novombor 10, 1780, as fol lows : "And behold, boro is a boll ovor tho ga Um y-and cracked, too; may it break I It is tho first I ovor saw in a houso of ours in Amorica; I hopo it may ho tho Inst!" At a rocont mooting of tho Presbyte rian Union in Now York Col. Alexander McClure, of Philadelphia, made a strong o.?fence of tho Amorioaii nowspapor press. Ho said: "Tho secular press novor was BO honest, novor had io many earnest men striving' for tho best interests of mankind ns to-day. It has called tho host class of intolloct to its aid. It io better than ovor in tho history of our civilisation." A two or throo wooka' courso of Dr. M. A. Simmons' Id vor Medicine will so regulato tho oxorotory functions that they will oporate without any aid what oxor. ? ? ? ?-i-! A natural soap mino and a pnint mino aro two of tho latest minorai disoovorios in tho Northwest. Sovorul soda lakes havo boon found in tho foothills near Ashcroft, B. C. Thoir bottom and shoros nro inoruntod with a natural washing compound containing borax ..?nd soda. No tv?*? analyses agroo ex actly an to tho composition of tho mate rial. No North, no South-at least thoro's no South; its all North I-Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle* Tho Now York Sun states that tho world's consumption of cotton during tho year 1800 will bo 10,750,000 bale?. It also states that tho business outlook for tho 1809 for tho furinor, artisan, manu facturer, for every American, was never brighter than it is to-day, NKWH NOTUS. IniereallMff Items Mh?rieMo<t Down Hov the llnmloi'n *f the Courier. A new cotton mill will soon bo built at ' llennittavlllo, in this statu. Prinoo Napoleon Obarloa Bonaparte Beel tu Rome, Italy, Inst Sunday. Tho State Senate baa killed tho Patton odistrlotlng bill ns to congressional dis irlots. As a Valent ino gilt Atlanta reeolvod U0O.0OO from Audrow Carnegie for n 'reo library. ? The fourth Missouri regiment, re - 1 joutly stationed nt Greenville, has boon < mtstored out of sorvioo. The Stato asylum for tho insano at V:\nkion, S. D., was destroyed by Bro Sunday morning. Sovonton of tho in- * nato? porished in tho fiamos. Stophon C. Garotti, proprietor of a restaurant tn Chnrlostou, committed sui ?ido last wook by drihking onrbolio mid. Business {roubles were tho 0AU80. Thoro aro probably a dozen casos of iniall-pox in and around Sumter, but thoro is no panic whatever, and tho authorities hopo to ohcok tho diooaso at ?noe. Sonator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, Itas been invited to deliver tho com moncomont address at Krskino Collogo this year, and lt is boliovod that ho will nocopt. ?u Tuesday 40,000 pounds of U. S. mail wa' blocked up in tho Atlanta liopot, cn account of tho snow and cold, which e. i .sed somo mail trains to bo taken off. Tito lntost dispatehos from Manilla say that Iloilo has boon captured with oven loss IOBS and delay than was antici pated. Tho guns of tho navy did tho business. It will bo easy enough to take all towns in tho islands, ospocinlly thoso within rango of our naval artillery. Tito Stato Board of Control has directed that $2f>,000 of dispensary pro fits bo paid to tho credit of tho school fund. This is tho first pay mont this year, and tho first si nco tito deficiency of last year was mado up on account of tho school fund. Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Medioine, by expelling from tho body tho OXCOBS of hilo and acids, improves tho assimilative processes, puriflos tho blood, tones up and strengthens. Prosperity Past and to Conto. Tho Barest sign of all, not of pros perity's coming, but of her actual ar rival with the declared intention of remaining, ?B of course tho invest ment of money in now enterprises. Thoro is evidence of such investment on every hand. Many large compa nies havo boon formed for which capital ha? been readily formed for which capital has been readily found. Tho relcaso of an immense numbor of millions of dollars in January in terest and dividends will further stimulate investment and continue in tho new year tho expansion that has marked tho course of the old with such wonderful records.-Nov/ York Times. Bwu* tho ?41"a Kind You ??OT Allays Bought -. ^itr>. Sa vanne h Officers' Salaries Cut. At a meeting of tho city council of Savannah, Ga., last Thursday Mayor Myora proposed a cut of 20 por cont on all salaries amounting to over $1,000 per year. The salaries of ofii oials receiving $1,000 or undor woro lopped off 10 per cent. This reduc tion all around saved about $'20,000. Tho cut was inaugurated for the pur pose of covering a deficit of $81,000 in thc city'a financial department. Snfc-BIowors lu Decatur. Last Thursday morning burglars entered thc post ofllco at Decatur, Qa., and blow open tho safo. About $76 in inonoy, sovoral drafts and checks and a quantity of stamps wero stolon. Two holes woro drilled in tho safe, and dynamite used to blow it opon. Boaring-down sensations, internal heat and fomalo woaknossos aro outed by tho uso of Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablets. After the Catechism. She-Will you lovo mo always? He-Passionately, my darling. She-And you will novor ceaso to lovo mo ? He-Never, my darling. She-And you will savo your rnonoy ? Ho-Every penny. She-And you will nevor speak harshly to mo ? He-Novor. She-And you will givo up all your bad habits ? He-K very ono of thom. She-And you will get along with mamma ? Ile-Yes. She-And papa ? Ho-Yo?. She-And you will always do just what mamma wants you to do V Ho-Yes. She-And just what papa wanta you to do ? He-YOB. Sho-And just what T want you to do ? Ho-'Of course. She-Well I will bo yours, but f {oar I am making an awful mistako. -Tit-Bits.