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JOB WORK, THIS OFFICE 13 THE PLACE TO BRING IT TO IF YOU WANT STYLE. TO THINK OWN SELF BK TRUK AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THK NIGHT THK DAT, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BE FAIAK TO ANY MAN. BY JAYNESi SHELOK, SMITH & 8TF.?K. WALHALLA, SOUTH ?AKOL?NA, Al? lt I ii 20, 180?. NIflW SEIi?ES, NO. ??-VOX?UJM?J Jj.-NO. IO* CONFESSION OF A WIFE MURDERER BE FORE HIS HANQINQ. Impl?calos His Mothor in tho Crlnio. Tolls How Ho Brutally Murdorod His Wifo. Citos?viLi.K, TBNN., April 13. Hiram Hall, a prominent farmer, was hanged hero to-day for tho mur der of his wife. Hall made a confession of tho orimo yesterday, Htating that he had boon urged to kill his wife by his own mother, who wanted to get rid of her daughter-in-law. Ho said that ho waited for his wifo at a deep well near thc house until she came there for water, and as sho stooped over tn draw water, ho pushed her in. "She caught by tho sides of the well," ho said, "and ohing there pleading for livo, but my mother urged me on, and I seized a largo stono and struck the almost fainting woman on the head with all my force, and Bite dropped lifeless into the water. Later my mother came in and told me Ida was trying to get out, and go and ti nish her. I then went out and with a long plank beat her on tho head until I knew there was no life in her. After this my mother tried to get mo to kill my father, but I could not do that." After Hall's arrest and the facts be came known in tho county, it became necessary to remove him to another county to protect, him against mob violence, the crime being tho most diabolical and heartless ever known in that section of tho State. Do Not Bo Foolod With tho idea that any preparation your druggist may put up and try to sell you will purify your blood like Hood's Sarsaparilla. This medicine has a repu tation-it has earn 1 its record. It is prepared under tho personal supervision of educated pharmacists who know tho nature, quality and medicinal effect of all tho ingredients usod. Hood's Sarsa parilla absolutely cures all forms of blood discaso when other medicines fail to do any good. It is tho world's great spring medicino and the ono truo blood purifier. ls tho Millenium al Hand ? Tho cats and rats aro fraternizing in Lancaster, S. C., lying down and cavort ing together in a manner altogether startling to tho student of felino loro. Several youug cats and young rats aro tho objects of tho samo solicitude of the mother of the kittens, partaking together of nourishment from tho same maternal fountain, wherefore ?'ho wonder-stricken editor of tho lioviow remarks: "We have always heard that when cats go back on rats you may look out for the millonium. If there ho any truth in this obi saying, tho limo for tying tho devil is at hand, for tho finest mousers in tho county have discarded their sido arms and made peace with all rodents, from infancy to old ago. They have most assuredly "gone back on" what has been regarded from time Immemorial as the choicest diet of well-bred eats and aristocratic Cinnamon, namely, a rompin' rodent, roasted or raro." Not Chea -in I do not try tc Goods in town, b give the Best Valu and to please everj This week I I REMNANT SUM] offer at a Sacrifice. Come and look pleasure in showin, Respec Livery, Feed ar FertiT lu*y FERTILISERS aro HKTTIOli \ ||ftvo tho host on tho markot, What Denomination. Jay Cooke, in 18G6, told tho writer tho following : "One day when I was putting government bonds on tho market, I was greatoly an noyed by tito clerk tolling me that there was an old man in tho office who would do no businoBs with them and muBt seo me. To got rid of him, I went out. Ho said : "Mr. Cooko, I havo throe thou sand dollars in gold in this bag. 1 can't do anything with it in tho town where I live ; thoy aro circulating grocers' checks and everything oise for money, and I am frightened bo ee uso I think I will bo cheated if I dispos J of it. Will you toll mo on your word ot hot or if theso bonds aro sound and right?" I replied : "If they aro not right, nothing is right. I am putting all I have in tho world in thom." After further conversation the man conoluded to tako them. "What denomination will you havo them in Tr I asked. This was tJO much for tho man. He had never heard that word used in connection with business. Ho scratched his head, and said : "You may give me fivo hundrod in Old School Presbyterian, to pienso tho old woman ; but I will take tho heft of it in Baptist." A torpid livor causes depression of Spirits, indigestion, constipation, head ache. Uso Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Medicino to stunulato that organ. A Smart Young Trader. There was onco a worthy Presby terian minister, who, while sitting in his study, was interrupted by a small boy who had by some way or other gained admission, to sell tho good man some young pups. "I don't want any dogs, my boy," said the divine. "But they aro Presbyterian pups," persisted the youngster. Tho old gentleman, however, would not have them and tho disnj jointed boy withdrew. Some days afterward, while visit ing a friend, who was a Uni versahst, the minister was astonished to see the same boy come in and offer to soil his friend somo pups. "Good Universalist pupp," said tho chap. This was too much for the Domi nie, who said to the boy : "Are you not the samo boy that tried to sell me these pups the other day ?" "Yes, sir." "And did you not tell me then that they were Presbyterian pups?" "Yes, sir." "Then how can they bc Universa list pups, now ?" "Because they have had their eyes oponed since then," said the little chap. It is needless to add that ho sohl thc pups. ip Goods, JT-. ) sell the Cheapest ut it is my aim to e for your money r customer. Lave a small lot of VEER LAWNS to at them. We take g our Goods. ?tfully, loxandor, id Sale Stable. i ?er ) mid OH li)Al*ISK than over before, A BLOOD-CURDLING CRH. ASSAILANT OF A GEORGIA LADY MAY BE BURNED AT THE STAKE. Rovolting Dolalls as Told by Vlollm-Tho Fiond Surrounded in a Swamp. PALMETTO, QA., April 18.-A poBBO, composed of citizens of Camp bell, Hall and Cowota counties, ia in pursuit of Sam HOBO, tho nogro who last night assassinated Alfred Cran ford nt his homo near boro and then assaulted tho dead man's wife, and thcro now aceras no ohanco for tho negro to escape. When lioso is caught ho will either bc lynched and his - body rid dled with bullets or ho will bo burned at tho stake. Thore is a possibilty of his being brought to this place and executed. Mrs. Cranford, OJIO of his victims and tho wifo of tho murdered man, desires to bo present. HOBO is surrounded in a swamp and that he will bo oxecutod thero ib no possiblo doubt, as tho loadorsof tho mob aro determined men. Gov. Candler has offered a toward of #'2f>0 for tho delivery of Sam HOBO to tito Sheriff of Fulton county. STORY OK TUB CHIME. Tho Btory of the murder of Alfred Cranford, at Palmetto, Wednesday night, ns told by E. 1). Sharkey, of Atlanta, who visited Palmetto Thurs day, makes tho deed one of tho most atrocious crimes over committed in Georgia. Mr. Sharkoy went to tim scene of tho crime because of Iiis ac quaintance with tho entire Cranford family. The account of tho murder told by Mr. Sharkey was given him by Mrs. Cranford, wife of tho murdered man. Mr. Sharkey said : "I have never in my life over heard of a more dastardly crime. Alfred Cranford waB twenty-six years of ago and had been married Bix years, having four little children, tho youngest eight months old. This negro, Sam Hose, has been working for Alfred Cranford for some time, and waa regarded as a steady work man. Of late, howovor, ho baa made throats against Cranford to thc othor negroes on the pince, and these no grocs told Mr. Cranford. ?'Cranford told his father, G. E. Cranford, and on tho night boforo the murder borrowed a nistol fi n him. G. J?. Cranford lives tinco miles from Palmetto and Alfred, tho murdered man, lived with his family a half a milo further out. Wednes day night, Mr. A1 fred Cranford had just began eating his supper, when Sai Hose carno to tho bouse. Cran ford called him and tho negro did not answer. Cranford called again. This time HOBO nnsworod and en tered the hmiBC, not by tho regular door, but through Mrs. Cranford's room. He had taken off his BIIOCH and when first Mrs. Cranford saw him he had au ax upraised over thc hoad of her husband. "Before she could scream ho had brought tho blado down upon Mr. Cranford's Iicad, splitting his skull to Iiis ' yes. Cranford fell over sideways to the iloor. Tho negro then struck him on both temples with tho handle of the ax, driving in tho skull. Ho then kicked his victim on thc left sido of lit? face and in tho loft side. Black bruises on tho body corroborate this. Cranford lived three hours after tho blows had been struck. "Tho negro then compelled MTB. Cranford to accompany him whilo ho robbed tho house, and abo carried lier youngest baby on ono arm and with tho othor carried a lantern. "Ho then mado her return with him to tho room in which tho mur der had boon committed. Here one of thc little baby girls began crying and asked her mothor, ?What is Sam doing?' Whereupon tho negro struck tho child on tho ?ide of her head, knocking tho little girl about six or eight feet. He then snatched tho cight-months-old baby from thc arms of its mother and (lashed it to the floor. Tho baby may not live. "Then with renewed threats of death in case sho mnde tho slighost outcry, Sam Hose assaulted Mrs. Cranford, literally within arms-reach of where the brains wore oozing from her husband's hoad. After commit ting tho assault tho negro said : .Now I am through with m j work ; let them kill me if they can,' and left the hoilBO. "Mrs. Cranford took hor four children, and, not daring to make an outcry, made hor way to tho home of ber father-in-law, one-half mile distant. When at tho gato shel could contain her feelings no longer and bogan screaming. When Mr. ('ranlord reached her aide t>ho was lying unconscious on tho ground, having fainted from her torrado ox perienco. ?She told the story when abo ro? covered consciousness, howovor, and it took only a few moments to raiso tho alarm throughout tho entiro country for milos around. Tho family is HO well known and stands ?0 high in the county that the peoplo will not tolerate tho crime, When tboso peoplo oatch that negro there is going to bu a lynching sure, and they will bo ri^bt." PALMBTTo, March 16.-Up to thc present timo Sam HOBO bas not beon caught. The mob is still in pursuit of h,HVb FELL IN A WELL. Stayed Four Days at tho Bottom-Nearly Starved when Rosouod. CAKTKKSVIMJK, GA., April 14.-? John W?IHH, a negro workiug on Dr. McGowan's place, at Kuharlc, twolvo miles out from this placo, foll into an old well on tho placo last Thursday night and was not rosouod until Mon day afternoon. The woll ia forty foot deep and is in an old field. Willis was walking across tho Hold Thursday night, and it hoing dark ho foll headlong into tho well. Ho was considerably shocked, but not badly hurt. Ho had no way to got out and yelled himself hoarse. After ho had been in tho woll four days bc hoard somo plowmen and called to them. Thoy hoard him and ho was rescued almost starved to death. STATK OK OHIO, CITY OK TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTY, ) ' ' Frank J. Chcnoy makos oath that ho is tho senior partnor of tho linn of F. J. Cbonoy & Co., doing buslnoss in tho City of Toledo, County and Stnto aforesaid, and that said firm will pay tho sum of Ono Hundred Dollars for onoh and ovory caso of Catarrh that cannot bo enrod by tho uso of Dall's Catarrh Curo. FltANK J. Gil KMC Y. Sworn to hoforo ino and subscribed in my presence, this tlth day of December, A. D. 1880. A. W. OI.KASON, KAI. j Notary Public, Hall's Catarrh Cure is tuleen internally and acts directly on tho blood and m.u couB surfaces of tho system. Send for testimonials, free. P. J. CIIENBY ?t Co., Tolodo, O Sold by Druggists, 75o. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. Political Story from Washington. Tho following is printed in tho dally papers of tho State, coming from a Washington correspondent of a recent date : "Tho report comos by a somewhat circuitous route, and wo will not undortnkc to vouoh tor its ncouraoy. It is to tho effect that a treaty of poaco has been made be tween Senator Tillman and his for mer politioal rival, Gen. M. C. But ler, and tho programme is said to be that Cen. Butler will endeavor to re turn to tho Sonnte as tho successor of tho present junior Senator, J. L. MoLaurin, at tho expiration of tho lattor's term. My informant, who was in South Carolina recently and mingled with the membors of tho Tillinan-Latimcr Congressional ex cursion party, says there is not tho slightest possibility of defeating Se nator Tillman for re-election, ami at present there is a feeling that Sena tor McLnurin did not represent the views of a majority of his party when ho voted with tho Republicans to ratify the peace treaty. There is a disposition to reorganize the Demo cratic lines in South Carolina and bring back into thc regular organiza ? 5?., \\\tr il?.. l?...l~- Tl"..."<... V..'.. Hivll Itifcw V.W?, > - ul li j, ..f.lllj'llM and others who have heretofore an tagonized the Tillman faction in tho Palmetto State. It is claimed that Senator Tillman has had somo of the rough edges worn off of his na turo while in tho Senate, and ho is less objectionable to his former an tagonists than ho was a few years ago. Gen. Butler's popularity, to gether with his ability, would go a long way towards rendering him ac ceptable to tho followers of Till man." Music Kills a Filly. Music caused the death of a beautiful thrcc-ycar-old filly at Florence, Ala., tho other day. A farmer drove the valunblo young maro into town, and as ho was driving up tho principal street a brass baud suddenly struck up ita hlatunt music. Tho maro had novor board any sound Uko that buforo, and so startlod was she that she dropped dead in tho shaft;', of tho trap. A votorlnary surgeon who examined tho carcass declared that tho maro had died of heart failure, duo to e.. ci lenient caused by I he sound of the unaccustomed music of ii brass baud. --?, . t. Used during expectancy, Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablets cheer and strengthen mothers, shorten lubor and rob confinement of its torrors. A $5,000 Incendiary Firo at Liberty. Tho ntr.ro room and stuck of goods oooupied and owned by William .'.::?'.tcr ?fe Son at Liberty were re duced to adie:; at ail carly hour Thursday morning. Thc loss is OOO with *!\,000 insurance. Tho Uro, which is suppOHod to bo tho work of an incendiary, was discovorod nt 2 o'olock in tho morning. Bern tb? jp Ita Kind You Haw Always Bought If you ..ill mako a habit of look ing for tho good instead of tho evil in your associates and companions, you will often bo pleasantly sur prised at your discoveries. DR. A. C. TRUE, A GOVERNMENT EXPERT, HAS JUST VI8ITED THAT PLACE. Ho Talks Inttrostlngly of the Collogo, and What is Being Done Thoro. Dr, A. C. Truo spent ycstorday in Charleston, tho guot of Mr. J. C. Ilemphill. Dr. Truo is conneotcd with tho office of oxporiment sta tions.of tho United Statcb depart ment of agriculture, and ifl now on a tour of examination and inspection through thc Southern and South western States. Thc itinerary of tho present trip will not only causo him to visit every Stnto in thc South, but will take him ns far West as Arizona. The exact business of tho gontlemnn is to visit all tho experi ment stations, tako notice of tho progress of tho work, advise with tho staff of experimentalists at each sta tion and make a general report of tho same to tho agricultural d?part aient. In pursuance ot this mission Dr, True has just visited Clemson College, and, being a thoroughly practical scientist, as well ns a keon observer, ho talks entertainingly and instructively of what ha saw and of what ho thinks should be dono nt this Stato College, whore tho United Stntes experiment station is located. In speaking on tho subject Dr. True said \ "I found that thc experiment work at Clemson had improved a groat deal during tho last year. Belter arrangements havo been made to successfully carry on thc vork and additional improvements aro hoing added to tho system ns rapidly os conditions will permit. Ono of the very best moves at Clemson during the paBt year has been to concen trate tho work. Heretofore there has not been sufficient distinction betweon thc general farming for commercial purposes and tho experi mental Btation. I was glad to see that thiB disadvantage, under which the station labored in former years, baa been in a groat measure reme died. The experiments for tho next twelve months will bo entirely sepa rate and distinct from tho commer cial farming. Another chango which will causo tho experiments to pro gress ?B the fact that two of tho de partments heretofore maintained will bo abandoned. A geologist and a dairyman .vere on tho staff of tho station, with results insufficient to warrant the expenso of keeping them. They have been dropped from tho faculty and tho saving in tho ex penses by doing away with those two departments will give addi tional funds for tho othor work. "Thc principal work at present is in tho nature of iiold experiments. Under this head also comes tho fer tilizer practical tests. Cotton, for age plants, potuioes and other vege tables are receiving a great deal of attention, with good results. Fruits, apples, pears and some peaches aro being experimented with in differ ent ways. Poultry is also tho sub ject of much care and study. Breed ing and feeding aro tho principal subjects of investigation under this henel. Another investigation is goin_ on that should interest tho people of this part of tho State not a little ; it concerns rice. Of lato years a disease called 'smut' has de veloped in the rico of some parts of South Carolina. The Clemson Bta tion has arrived at the conclusion that this disease is an importation from .Japan and it took its stand in this Stato by mixing tho ?oed of tho two countries in somo manner. Tho Clemson experimentalists took up tho case right away and aro now of the opinion that 'smut' in rice can bo troatcd just the sanio as it is treated in the seed of other cereal grains. A bulletin on this subject will shortly bo issued and all grain planters should Hccuro a copy of it. By tho way, it might be important to men tion that arrangements have boon completed at Clemson to publish moro bulletins than heretofore, con taining full reports of tho results in all important experiments. Tho far mers' institutes are being encouraged by the staff at tho Clemson station. "Tho national department advises all stations, as well as Clemson, to adopt permanent lines for experi ments and stick to thom. A few important subjects, well studied, arc worth a great deal more to tho agri culturists of tho country than mea? gro information concerning a number of subjects. Tho funds by whioh the stations aro supported warrant thorough investigations along a few linc?, bat aro not sufliciontly large for experiments in,ronny branches at ono time. The best thing tho Circa* son or any other board of trustees can do is to select a fow very impor tant lines of experiment, got good men on tho station staff, koop poli tics and ovorything olso but business out of the work. Then results will follow, results that will bo beneficial lo thc people of tho country and well worth the money paid for them." Dr. True left Charleston last night for tho Florida station, whoro ho will spend a few days and then con tinue his investigations through the rest of his territory, and will roturn to Washington to collaborate tho in dividual reports from each station. News and Courier, April H, MIND READER FATHOMS A MYSTCflY. Idenllflod (he Negro who Murdered his Aunt and the Quilty Man Confessed. CAMILLA, GA., April 14.-Amanda Smiko, an old 1103ro woman, who liven with hor husband, Mouos Smike, near Baconton Station, thin oounty, j mysteriously disappeared lost Satur day night. Jim Koolbardi, a nephow of Mosos Smiko, was suspected of having murdered tho old woman. Jim was nrrestoxi aud onrricd bofore a justice, t?ut, if ter investigation, was dist ' avged. Yesterday Jim Reinhardt and eomo other negroes called nt tho houoo of | Dr. Posy, a mind reader, to ascer tain the facts in tho ense. Jim was identified as tho murderer. Ho con fessed and designated tho place of burial, whoro tho body has sinco boon found. Jim is now in jnil awaiting tho action of tho court. Dornngomonta of mouotrual f unotlons produoo miscarriage Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablets correct dorango A Carolinian's Opinion of tho Cuban Patriots. W. M. Wilson, a mombor of tho Second S. C. Regiment, has boon writing letters from Cuba to his homo paper, tho Flofonoe Times. His last lotter oontains an account of tho doparturc from Cuba and tho trip to Tampa. Thc following is his opinion of tho CubaiiB that havo como ander I Iiis observation ; "Many a soldier Will go homo with a much more elevated opinion of tho Spaniards than he lind when wo first carno herc, although thoy do not pro claim tho fact from their house tops. Havana is full of Spaniard? and they aro tho most civilized inhabitants of tho Isle of Cuba to-day. Thoy aro not out throats, nor bandits cither, aa many of us aro wont to boliovo. As a class tho Cubans aro a low sot of thieving out laws, whose solo do light is to sit in tho saddle, wield tho machcto and havo it said that ho is tho Napoleon of Napoleons. Thoy will accept Undo Sam's $3,000,000 vory reluctantly, but once in their hands you will seo tho moBt gor geously uniformed sot of "nassy" bandits of thc agc. "If I wore asked tho question, 'Do you consider tho Cubans capable of self-government?' I would reply emphatically no." They 'vc imitated everything else, but they Ve never been able to imitate the quality of Sarsaparilla I -1 Programme of Union Mooting. Four MADISON, S. C., April 10, 1800. Editors CoURIRlt: Pienso publish tho fol lowing prograinmo of union mooting of tho Second District: Will moot with tho Fort Madison church on Saturday bofore tho fifth Sun day in April at lOJ.o'olook A. M. Dovo I I ional sorvicos led by Sam Tannery. 1st Quory: Ilighor attainment in Chris tinn lifo; how i,"hall it bo attained ? Opened by J. W. Hoynolds. 2d Quory: Aro wo as professed Chris tians not doing tho caiiRO of Christ a great injury in professing to ho that which wo do not practico ? Can wo bo savod in so doing ? Dy J. A. Voiles. HUN HAY MORNING. Sundriy School mass mooting. Quory : What aro the duties of Christian parents in regard to tho moral and intollootual development of their ohildron ? Dov. P. J. Vormillion. Sermon at ll', o'clock A. M. by Dov. P. J. Vormillion. S. C. SMITH, For Committee. W. F. Kawl, Now Brookland, S. C., writes: Havo unod Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Medicino many years, and considor it tho boBt livor medicino mudo. I regard it a miracle compared with /odin's regu lator. When ono comparea tho American loss in tho Spanish war with tho loss in battle in tho lato war tho figures nppoar trilling indcod. In a list of twenty brigades in ono battlo tho oasunltion aro gi von. Anderson, S. C., in tho battlo of Gaines' Mill heads tho list. Out of 1,225 carriod into notion, 774 were killed and wounded, hoing a loss of 03 per cent, tho small* ost loss in the list being 28 per cont. Soven out of tho twop.ty wontionod show a loss exceeding ftO por oont, Eight Bbow f\ \o?a of botween 40 and 5,0. per conj, 'OYA Makes the food inore del ? ?f? TO ms. BOOKER WASHINGTON TELLS THEM TO VOTE FOR AND WITH DEMOCRATS. ls Thoro Any Reason Why tho Nogro Should Oppose tho Soulhorn Whito Man ? Tho most sonaiblo ami praotical negro of prominonco in tho South is Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskogee, Ala., and ho is thoroughly indopondont in his views. In an swering tho request of a prominont colored man in North Carolina as to what should bo dono to allay tho present coniliot botween tho races, Prof. Washington clearly advises him to m alco alliance with tho trium phant Dcmoornoy. Ile Bays in tho lotter : "I havo boon asking myself lately Bomo rather soriouB questions, and I want to put one or two of them to you. Is there any roason why thc negroes in tho South should continue to oppoBO tho Southorn whito man in his politics? Is not this thc Bourco of nearly all our troubles \ Unconsciously we seem to have got ten the idoa into our blood and bonoi that wo arc only acting in a manlj way when wo oppose Southern white mon with our votes. "I boliovo that Governor Johns ston, of Alabama, is just ns good i friend to the blaok man ns Hon. Wm Youngblood, of Alabama. Hon. Wm Youngblood has about 400 whito fol lowers, and Governor Johnston ha about 500,000 whito followers ii Alabama. Why should we follo\ Mr. Youngblood with his 400 whit followers rather than Governo Johnston with his 000,000 follower when no prinoiplo is at stako ? "Why is it that the nogro in Cub has surpassed us in Bottling his rac problem ? Is it not becauso tho nogr in Cuba has m ado tho white man intorest their own ? "For example, suppose during th agitation of tho freedom of Cuba th negro had ontinued to espouso th cause of Spain instead of tho causo < tho whites in Cuba? Would not tl: white Cubans have grown furioi against the blaok man in Cuba? "In some way, by some motho we must bring tho race to tho poii where it will censo to feel that tl only way for it to succeed is to o] poso everything suggested or pi f ,. " ? I. t... .t. ~ Cl_it_ ...t. !. - - . ... .ut in ujr mu > >uu inui u winn; [ililli, "Tilis I consider ono of our ro problems. I confess that personal I have brought myself wholly to tl point that I should liko to seo tl wholo raco got to, but I merely ni theBO questions to put ye u to thin ing along those lines if you havo n already begun to do so. "I boliovo that thoro are thousnn of whito Democrats in North Cai lina who aro fiO por cent beti friends to tho negro than Govern Ituflsoli, and I BOO no necessity continuing to follow Govornor Ri sell who has no power to protect, if ho has tho power, does not oxi oise it-rather than tho whito m who can protect, us if wo coane continually and forever oppose then --. -- Malaria ennnot Ibid a lodgmont in system while tho liver is in r/orfoct onl Dr. M. A. Simmons' Liver Medicine tho boat regulator. ---4 . ??-.-. A Roy's Composition on Newspapers An exchange publishes tho folk ing composition on "Newspaper writton by a little boy : "I don't know how nowspap como in tho world. I don't th God does either, for ho ain't got no ing to say bout them, and editor a in tho Bible. I think tho editor ono of tho missing links you h about and ntrayod into tho brush : aftor tho Hood, then sneaked ont r wrote tho things up, and has b hero ovor sinco. I don't think over dios. I novor saw a dead and novor heard of one gottin' lick Our paper is a mighty poor 'un. ' editor goes without underclothes winter, don't woar no sox, and \ hain't paid his subscription in years." -? --' 1 BsMith? Tho Kind You Haw Mwiflft That moil ruc saved by hope i faot of oxperionoo as woll as a covery o? revolution, for notl good or great was over aohioved I a perfeotly hopeless wan,, W -J?! VRE ?Cfous and wholesome IB OP., KEW VOM? Will Potatoes Pay? Will it pay to grow eweot potatoes in largo quantities for salo at fifteen oonts a bushel ? Tim is a question that wo would bo glad to havo some of our roadcrs answer, oithor affirma tively or negatively, giving tho rea sons for tho conclusion roaohed. Wo would doom it. a favor for aa many as possiblo of tho farmers of Sumter county to givo us an opinion on tho mattor, for an affirmative answer may dosido tho location in thia city of a largo etaroh faotory that would consumo ono to fivo thousand bushels of p?teteos a day. All farmers who have had experi ence in growing swoot potatoos are qualified to speak, for thoy know how many butshols an aero will produce, tho amount of manure roquirod, tho coot of cultivation, coBt of harvesting and hauling to tho noarcst depot. Therefore wo ask our roadora to think of tho matter, write out their opinions and Bond thom to UH at thoir leisure. In tho ouory, tho price of potatooa ia fixed at fifteen contB a bushol for tho reason that fifteen cents waa tho loweat price mentioned by tho South ern Starch Company proapeotora ivbo whero in thia city laat woek looking for a suitable location for a faotory. Thc same price, whether it bo fifteen or twenty couta a bushel, will bo paid at all depots within oasy roach of the factory, consequently tho farmer who livea fifteen, twonty-fivo or moro miloa from thia placo, but noar a depot, will bo on tho ca mo footing aa tho farmer at the faotory door. Tho potatoes richest in ataroh, and therefore moro valuablo to a starch factory, aro tho Southorn Queen and Bohama varieties, which aro, we have boon reliably informed by oxporionoed farmers, tho moat prolifio and at tho samo timo tho easiest cultivated. A comparativo Btatoment allowing tho rolativo not profit that a farmor oan realizo from potatoes, corn or cotton, at ourrent marketa prices for tho two last namod, products and fifteen centa a bushol for potatoes, would bo of decided intorest, and wo trust aomc of our roadora will make up auch a state ment from bia own experience as a produoor of tho threo cropa men tioned. Speaking off hand and with only auch random information aa wo havo been enabled to gather hero and thoro in the course of conversation with various farmers, wo aro decidedly inclined to boliovo that thoro is moro clear monoy to bo realized from tho sale of sweet potatooa at fiftoon centa a bushel than thoro ie. in cotton at oix conta a pound. Thia may bo a erroneous belief and we ahull bo under obligations to tho one that points out the error. Tho avorago crop of cot ton doea not yield in excosa of 2f)0 pound)? of lint to tho nore, in faot, tho l ocordo prove that tho avorago is much leaa than that, thoroforo tho groaa income from an aero of cotton ia only JJS'J .6. We havo been informed that it ia oaaior and far cheaper to mako an arco prod nco 200 bushels of potatooa than 260 pounds of lint cot ton, consequently tho gross income from an nore of potatooa would bo $30, j nat double tho price of tho cot tell ?rom tho ".ame land. Bat should tho yiold of potatoes bc only 100 bushols to tho acre, wo Itolievo tho not profit would bo greater than on 250 pounds of cotton, because t\\o fcrtilizor bill would bo loss, tho cost of cultivation would be loss and tho cost of harvesting and niarkoting would bo lesa than for cotton.-Sum tor Watchman. Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Modioliio oloars thc complexion, gives buoyancy to tho mind, euroa headache, regulates tho stomaoh, bowols and livor. --? There ia a bill boforo tho Maasri ohusetts TiOgialaturo to mako it com pulsory to nae wido inatcad of nar row tires on vohiolcs. Tho atatcsmnn who drafted tho bill baa bocomo ti rod of aooing tho Stato apond monoy to fix up tho mada and vhon havo thom out up by thoao narrow ti rc a. - -?w?- - Goncral Joseph Whoolor baa ao copted J . ' ivitation to dolivor tho oratk ot. : ocoaaion of tho Con federate re-union in Charleston. Mothers wishing stout, healthy girls should glvo thom Simmons' Squaw Vino Wine or Tablets as thoy approach puborty