MINIMUM PRICE FOR COTTON. Important Steps Taken by the Cotton Growers' Convention at si. Louis. At the Cotton-Growers, Conven tion in St. LOU?B, MO., recently, rep resenting the entire South, after thoroughly canvassing the condition cf tho orop und the prospoot for yield, urged the farmers of tho entire South not to sell their cotton at leas than 10 cents, fixing this as a mini mum prico to bo accepted. If indi vidual farmers aro compelled to roal izo on a part of their crop they will he urged to sell as little as poss*\>le and to market tho balanco slowly. Such action by this convention will unquestionably have a very marked effect in strengthening tho views of u^^ters on 10 cents as a minimum, ?RBugainst tho organized effort of ttn^pianters, who are in bettor finan cial shape than for years, it will be difficult for tho bears to make any 8' -ious break in price. The South ia practically assured of receiving for this crop, including seed, at least as muob as last year, or $060,000,000, with Rome prospects of going to $700,000,000. Tho convention discussed ware housing from every point of view, and aTccepted, without disputo, the supremo need of warehouses through out the South. Many plans were discussed as to an outcome of this agitation, and some broad proposi tion will be accepted everywhere as tho solution of the greatest problem connected with cotton handling. In dividual warehouses will bo estab lished here and there, and efforts will bo made by promoters of various schemes to organize co-operative warehouses to bo owned and ope rated by farmers, but visionary as such enterprises are, they serve to awaken tho world's attention to the importance of a better system of marketing cotton. Bronchitis for Twenty Years. Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville, 111., writes: "I bad bronchitis for twenty years and never got relief until I used Foley's Honey and Tar which is a sure cure." Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. JjUUUOy, Seneca. In a recent statemont sent out by State Superintendent of Education Martin it is shown that the #5,000 appropriated by the last L?gislature is not yet exhausted. There is still on hand $1,800, which means that 189 more rural libraries may be established throughout the State. Ooonee .? entitled to two more libra ries wc understand. We Ar? Not ?Diggers." [Toocoa Record.] A good friend of the Record said to us this week: "Why don't you light in and give the town a dig every now and then about its re ligious affairs." We asked our friend if he took us for a digger. We dig sometimes out on our editorial farra, and we may have to dig all year out there next year, for our subscribers are awful. slow, but we desire to state that profes sionally wo are not diggers. Wo have tried to bo editors though we know in this effort wo liuve failed considerably. As to our lighting in upon tho re ligious sido et Toocoa, we want tu say again, us we have often said iu tho'past, we do not consider it our editorial duty to reforra anybody's morals. We have a job trying to hold our own down, according to Hoyle. We never "light in" upon people's religion but what wo get lit upon ourselves. Tho last time wo undertook editorially to spur up re ligious matters in Toccoa wc lost 14 subscribers, got expelled from tho ohuroh and oame noargettiug ridder on a rail out of town, not to mention the several aud various private lec tures wo had from church members themselves. Wo know that in Toccoa, as else where, a groat many men's religion is in their wife's name, but how oan the Record prevent this any moro than it can provent a mau from doing business in his wife's name ? And after all wo suspect lots of men folks would go dead broke altogether on religion unless he did put it in his wife's name. A man can't be so confoundedly good now-a-days any how, no mat ter bow hard he tries. He's built wrong. No, please let us light in, and dig at another place where its easier digging. We'd strike nothing but rocks digging into people's re ligion. The preacher has that job. All we can do is to stand by and en courage him with our editorial smile. We argue that this country is going to be better off this year than ever before, for wo have never seen so much hay gathered and the fiolds are still rich with it. The high {>rice of wheat ought to induco some >ody to plant for home-made Hour this year. We expect to see more cattle than ever before through this country this fall and we have been told by wise men that what wo need most herc is more hay and more cattle to eat the hay. We arc get ting on pretty well, thank you, in ', this Peo Dee country.-Florence Times. The Governor and the Lynchings. Tho year has net yet closed., but in less than twelve months there have been snvon lynchings in this State, or rather that number of killings are to be charged io mob law. It is a pretty bad record, but it could be worse. It is no worse than the re cord of other Slates, but that is very small consolation. It distresses Governor Ileyward very much that these violations of the law should occur from time to timo. Ho has tho consciousness of doing his full duty in trying to prevent lynchings, and he has been prompt and emphatic in every effort to that end. There hus been no mistaking the policy of Governor Heyward, and if thoro has beon any fault, it cannot be at tributed to him, for he has worried more about these than anything that has occurred during the year. Governor Ileyward appreciates as much as docs any ouu else tho almost hopeless efforts that are being made to punish those who participate in these violations of tho laws of the State, but he doe*, not proposo to let up an instant in his purpose of at least forcing every one known to be in a lynching party to trial, and then for the jurios to decide the issue be tween the lynchers and tho laws of the State. Last January Governor Ileyward reported two lynchings to the Gene ral Assembly, both of thom in Dor chester county. Then followed the lynching at Scranton, and soon after wards the outrage at Kutan ville While Governor Ileyward was in St. Louis there was a lynohing in Chesterfield and recently there have been lynchings at Kershaw and one in which Laurens and Greenwood are in a dispute as to where the deed was actually committed.-August Kohn iu News and Courier, Octo ber 8th. O A. JBI TO n. X J?L m BM? the Ito Kind You Haye Always Bought Freight Conductor Wisc, of the Southern Railway, whose home is said to be in Savannah, and Jack Godhaul, a negro switchman, and Walter Ziegler were killed on the outskirts of Charlotte, N. C., last Wednesday night. The traiu, which was south-bound No. 73, on the Charlotte, Columbia und Augusta division of tho Southern, was being pushed by a switch engine when sud denly all the brakes became set and the engine crushed iuto tho rear of tho caboose. Conductor Wise was in tito rear of thc caboose and the other men between ,'ie caboose and engine. 4 CAR LOADS 4 OF. BUGGIES AND WAGONS loen