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f~~ her$W 4e for arm rset tan, grai Uhlt it to thos o1 us who 1 X1 g r to have an ox eoange of fW1e*s t this important subject. I t now thqq j are R#rs who are wellie i1 1 tiwbnne ?'fd I would like to get their ideas .s a matter of improvement for myself. My experience has been limited, but I have .made some observations and perhaps some of your readers might like to hear them. There was a pexlod of time when we were not dependent on the 'Ot crop for stock feed, but that has long since passed away, and we iow con sider the oat crop our onl1v hope, as corn raising. in thie eountry .as come to be but one of things of the past, a part of the agricultural history of the anti bellum regime. Just after the war closed and cotton was selling all the way up as high as 40 cents per pound, when everything was in an abnormal condition, when the coin meroe, the finances, and the agricul ture of the whole country was on a hoom, thobasis of which was an in flated currency, when money flowed like water, we could afford high stock feed, but in a few years wben every thing settled down to a normal condi tion, the farmer began to look about for cheap food for the mules that worked the cotton crop and the result was a general introduction of the famous red-rust proof oat. 1Some claimed that it was a God-send -Ao this country, the only hope of the cotton planter while I have always been undecided whether it was a bless ing or a curse, for this reason, if the cotton planter had been unable to get this oat some twelve or fourteen years ago, he would have been forced to adopt a different system of agricnl ture and he would have been unable to raise cotton at the low price lie re ceived for it, without this cheap stock food, consequently he would have given more of his limo and attention to production of food crops, the rear ing of cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, etc., together with sowing the various grasses and making fine pastures. Again he would never have known and suffered the evils of that vampire, the lien law, which, while it is grad nally sucking his life blood, cools him with the flap of its wing in the form of hope. The red oat, like whiskey, is good in its place, but is and has been harmful as a basis for a cotton crop. As a leader there is no better crop for our farmers, and we should give to it that intelligent study that it deserves; there is one serious draw.back how ever, to our oat crop and only one which I have carefully studied to rem edy so far as my own crop is concern ed and that is the freezihg out process which has proven so disastrous of late years. Last season I planted one hundred acres in oats, and planted in several ways to satisfy myself which was the surest way to get a good stand, and the safest way of protection from freezes. The first safe-gaurd is early sowing always, as late sowing is seventy-five per cent. more liable to freezeout than early sowing. I sowed my crop In various ways to find out the best mothod of putting in a crop. The largest part, I prepared it nicely, cotton seeded i. well, then sowed the seed anmd harrowed ini the whole thing, and such a stand I never sawv en ground. T next plowed in seine very shallow and then liarrowed the ground ,get tin as fine a stand as the first. Next, .Ipiowed in some as deep a mules could pull the lowvs, (I mneani one horse plows), anld harrowed tihe grounld, also got a flue standl. All of this done ill du season801, nlot laterl than 20th October. I then sowed some ill latter par-t of November anud Decemn bei-, all of whichl I plowed in about anl average depth. Some I hlarrowedl anid some I left roughu In or:der to flid out it harrowing the ground hamd anmy efrect oii the stand, but being sowecd late, and the freezes commencing, not more thlan three per- cent, of them ever camne uip at all, being killed Ill tile process of germination. Ninety acres out of the hundred were killed out, while the remaining tell acres were far from havinig a full stanId. Now the host stand of the ten acres were thlose that I plowed in deepest, and the next best were those that I plowed in shial lQw, while the poorest sadwr those I harrowed in. tndwr I also took occasionl to notice the different styles of sowing adopted by nearest noeighbors, and found about the same results withI them as in my own fields. I claim if we will plow in the oats deep and then harrow fIle ground over that the freezes will not - -effect the stand more than ten per cent., which is a reasonable allowavce for bad seed and weakly plants, where if -we put them in shallow, the stanid will be i njured Ailily fifty per cent. I give as my reasons the following: My actual experimenat for that purpose. It Is potent to all that whemo hats have been sown on cotton land, you can stand amnd trace the original water furrows between the pld cotton beds, by the regular stand of oats looking as if they had been sown ini drills. Again I can tell whbere the laps of t wo lands is by the oats being more regular along this ridge, because in plowing along this lap the oat seed get twice as much dirt thrown over them, by reason of the lapping process, as any other part of the land. Yet agin,I cani trace out every water furrow betweep the Ian is where the oat crop simply been harrowed in and am tun able to account for it In any other way thab by more of the soil being drag Sthis furrow by the harrow. reason- why I believe dee p wiIn of osi will save the stand .aitour fr-eezes are seldom more t inches deep, and if the root oatis owndeep ini the wr eate bielow whuqre the cold penetrates, Iteertald gil l'ive although the top ntbe bI cif tby cold. All vege -a a (sudency to come out ~~ thot is taken off fro-oi or but the red oat has wodp!fheppaoIty in this direc tion eyen cah ~g ut sand mnaking two dit?e& .e~U~ My attentona was ea t last year when I e n amessome green food haf ansore of oats out whitete wer i the milk state, and i on andmade another erop *. goo a th rt, yet at amts. eaet any decause, so as the ~4intact, and if we oat deepi a i d vtwlilbeu seao~ U~? t W*W 4 *0 nO*r hes d sonmuch oebipl h ng out, ada 0ble with bad stands. Of oonte there are other causes, but I reg arrwing In is the chief oause. 'he s one more theory upon which I am uudecided, simply because I have not had an opportunity of testing it. I believe it has some bearing, but don't know to what extent, and that theory is, that our oats having becotne dimat ized, they have become more tender from the effects of so much warm weather in the fall and spring, striking the young plant first and then coming again ron them nearer maturity. If some farmer will procure seed from a colder latitude and publish his expe rieice, he will confer a great favor on the generally. No one need fear put ting the oat eed too deep in the ground as I have filly tested that and find I can get a good (stand at eight inches deep. I would liko to thear tl'om some of the older heads on this subjeot, men who have been long in the business, and who hwve made it a study. All we need in this country to make our agricultural interests a success, is to give it its dues in the way of brain work get out of the old channels, stop planting cotton only as a surplus and making every plantation sel f-sustain ing, and last but not least, stop the negro from killing mules by starvation and other equally as barbarous meth ods. If we could and would devote all our time and attention to our farming interests, it would bring about that grand agricultural revolution which I claim must come are we will have any substantial progress or solid improvement in this country; then and not until theun, will we have that "New South" they are writing so much about. Let us not leave the whole rgricul lural department in the the hands of the old men, but let cur young men lay hold and make it an honorable calling instead of a disgrace as many of us consider it now. 8. i. Ii. Tobacco Culture. The following interesting letter, re ceived from Commissioner 1Butler, will also appear in the regort of the State agricultural department oin the 15th Instant: LANDSFORD CIESTER CO., S. C., Scptember 21, 188.5. Col. A. P. Butler, Cominissioner of Agriculture, Columbia, S. C.--Dear Sir: Realizing, after eight years' ex perience, both in planting and renting out land for the cultivation of cotton in this section, the necessity of iinding another or rather additional money crop, I began two years no to inves tigate and study the cultivation and curing of tobacco. I soon became convinced that a portion of my land was adapted to the growth of "bright yellow" tobacco, the production of which has done so much of late years to enrich certain sections of North Carolina and Virginia. Whether our climate would prove equally suitable could be proven only by actual exper iment. This experiment I decided to make. In Noyember last I employed in Vance county, N. C., a young man versed in tobacco culture and curing, and on the first day of January, 1885, began work to prepare for my first. crop. Desirous of giving it a fair trial I cleared out anid prepared for culti vationl seven acres .o I originail forest land of good quality anld of the p roper kind for the growth of bright tobacco, viz. of grmay sand(y telp soil with 1)0 rous5 yellow sandy subsoil. I also selecte'd abourt ten acres in difierenit lots of 01(d Jands, part in small pmines or second growth, par't in broom sedlge, aind about two acres in a flue state of' cultivation, all of same character as new grounsi already described. All of this, by re peated plowvings and harrow ing I r-educed to-the finest tilth dur-ing tihe monQlth of March, April aind May, and in the latter month prep)ared thema all for the reception of myl plants-first maniuring thoem-the ne0w ground with 200 p)ounids of blood amnmoniated sup erphosphates, (manufactured by thle "Domestic Fcertilizer Compalny of Co lumbia,") and the old land with a com post of stable mnanure, cotton seed, kainita and acid phosphate at the rate of a little more thI an 1,000 pounds per1 were, both applied in the drlill anmd bed ded in, as for cotton, and afterwards "hilled" by checking withI a struliht shovel and drawing up with hand ho0es anld "patting" to re'ain the moisture and inldicate the p)lace for settinIg the plant. All of tils work I sound easv, and by thle 10th of May had all my tobacco land ready withl two horse's anld three extia ho0e hanlds-twVo of tihem boys unlder 15 year's. In addi tioni I had p)lanlted twvelve acres in cot toll, about the sam'e inl corn, besides garden aiid patches. My p)lanlt beds wer'e prepared in January and Febru ary, part on upland and part onl brlanlch bottoms, the object being to provide for the extreme of wet or dry, and with the hlope of Seening plants for' ear'ly setting from the wvarm up)land beds. Thie seed, all of best varieties freom yellow tobacco virgins of Nor'th Carolina, camne well andp proved very hlardy, some even standing the sever'e tast of thrlee or four inches of snow Withlout hurllt in tIle middle of M~arch. Fa'm this date (March 17) to about the 10th of June0, however, we hlad positively no rainl, nlot even a shlower In Apr'il, pr'oberbial for her1 smiles anld teas's. In the latter par't of May we had two small shlower's, but not enlough to wet the grotbud half an inch, som upland beds did pr'actic.ally no goot , the dry cold did practically no good, the dry cold wind "blowing the plaids off the bed," as thle sylng goes, and the "flea beetle" and "nly "lite rally eating upl what remainded. My bot torm beds, however, did their tbll dulty anld furni'shed me all the plant. I need ed or had time anid season to set. The first shower in May (about the 20tit) I set 16,000 plants, of whlich perhaps 10,0001 lved. Tile second shower, about the 28th, -1 set 24,000, saving alot moi'e thanl 12 000, the hlot suni and dry ground kill nh the halt1. [ then set.about 10,000 wIt.h water., (a slow tedious anld costly process;) two-Lhirds of these lived and did well. About the middle of Julne I suceceded in getting all my laud once set, and rbaps,lid 40,000 plants then Jivling ut teterrible dry hot weather Im mediately thereafter kIlled 10 or 12,- I 1)00 of them, and it was not until the 4 Ith of July that we had a seasonsundi- I blent to wet the gro~und aind lateast was, I reet enon h lan& to Iring m < living plante* u to 50,000, or enongl l mattered over 17 rsof land to plant a 10 acres Aihly. Urinthe 4th of July t o 29th August we adnot a drop of an, and, of course the tobaooo grew lowly, but the ground havin bon noe wet it did not Me., and con- u inued to work it, plongbbig each wy 4 I'4 V.4A . ti to ts It.c h ime. the Oul y trouble w h the horn warm, but about thq ."19 they, p p in vast and lug grat { iand before I oou get my raw negro hands "'edu cated" up to the point of catching all of them, big aud. little as they wont, the ones- left behind, and growing rap dly to ouor e- sie, - had done me great injury. sodn as the worms appeurd I alsQ tookImeasures to reduce 6heir nutnbere by poisoning the moth, whose egg laid on the under side of the tobaoco leaf, produces the worm. To this end, In the cultivation of the crop, I had instucted my hoe hands to spare all plants of the Jimpson (Jamestown) weed found growing In the tobacco hills, the seed going to the field with the cornpost, I suppose, and the cousequence was that In each lot I had a few very flourishing stalks of Jimpson just coming into bloom. Within these blooms, which are the favorite food of the "hawk moth," and which are open at night and closed in daylight, or, at least, sunlight, I each evening injected -a few drops of swect cned water, pretty *ell colored with cobalt, using a small machine oil can with spring bottom as an injector. I soon began to find the dead moths, and it less thanl a week's timue had the satisfactiona to note, first a decrease in the eggs and young worms, and in two weeks' time a total disappearance of all except th i old worms neglected in previous worming; nor have I been bothered with them since, except once, when my Jimpson weeds being nearly killed by .he continued doses of cobalt I discontinned the use of it a few days, when I found the worms again ap pearing and young moths growing nn merous in the fields. A few, two or three, does a week has kept them under ever since: and right here I will say that I believe if I had commenced the use of the cobalt as soon as the first Jimpson bloom appeared [ should have escaped the worms almost alto gether. My tobacco showinw seed-buds first about 15th July-the first planting-I topbed enough for one barn about July 20. This tobacco was cut and put in barn August 26; cured out August 29, and the specimens I send you arc from it. After the rain, 29th August, it all grew rapidly, and for the first time gave tme some trouble with the suck Na1, which have been or should be re nIoved each week until ready for the knife. I find the additional difficulty, resulting from the rain of that (late, that all my bottom leaves on the older toiacco are ripe and all the tips or top leaves are green and growing. As, however, I must get through by frost, curing two barns a week, and having barely time to do that, I am compelled to cut, and the result is that while I have a fair show of bright tobacco, suitable for wrappers, I have a very unreasonable amount of green tips which no skill and care will make any thing else of. For this the season is responsible. If we had had rains, even an average amount of it in the spring and summer, all the tobacco would have been ripe to the top and ready for the knife by this time. I built me two curing barns of most approved style; fitted thet with dou ble return flues, costing barns com piete, about $95 each, atnd find them to act p)erfectly. I have already cut and( cured eight barns) of from 400 to 500 pounds weight of cured leaf, and expect to cure six or, perhaps, sevena more. I have also built a most sub stanatial packing house, 40 by 20, two floors, gavinag me capacity fotr storing about 35 boxes, besidies rooin for strip ping and hatndling. I will prepare my tobacco for market during the warm wvet spells in the winter months; wvill pack it ini hogsheads and ship to some market in North Carolina or Virgina'm, atnd wvhen I get returns wvill tell you more about It as a money crop. Thu's far I have demonstrated to my own satisfaction: 1st. TIhat our soil and climate are best adapted to the production of fine v'llowv tobacco. mi. That the kind and abundance of lak.rl we have is (with good matnage ment, a good stock of patience, due al lowatice for ignorance and consequent intefficiency, until taught,) peculiar-ly favor-able to its production as an auxil iary crop. 3d. That 1 shall enlarge my facilitIes for curing and storing, and naext year shall extend the prodluctiotn on my own place by inducementd hold out to my tenants to planat two to four acres to thme family, to be worked by them, (in which operation women and children cani be most profitably employed dur-. lng the idle season 'of August and to 15th September,) and aftowards when readly to cure, to be sold on hIll or cur-e(d on shares, as agreed upon. 4th. That you have not heard the last of tobacco growing as. an industry in this section. I send you a few hands of "bright," running f-oni flrst grade .leaf to bright "lug," which' you can place with other South Car-olina p)roducts in -Ag ricul tural liall, remembering that b right yellow tobacco will stand neither handling nior light, (excessive) and that it should not be subjected to the extremoes of wet and dry. Those spec inens have nover' yet been bulked, and are tact at their best, but may at least rank as curiosidlea, comIng-, as they do from the fre-t barn of flue curecd tobacco ever cured ~n the St ate, (Auagust 29, 1885,) so far as I know, and certainly the first cored in what will otne day be the celebrated yellow tobacco region of Chester cownty. I am very respectfully, yours to comimanad, W' 1..DAvas. Counterfitting a Valuable Awttet. The p)ublisher of the Madison County Review writes from Hunutsville, A rk., as to the effect of Birown's.iron BItter. on his wife. -Mir. Daugherty says, "My wife has bebn ush g the BlItters for some1 months; (lie effect In hier case Is remarkLable". Heo algo writes that owlig to coquterfbits tlid imnitatl,pns, It was diffleult to get the gsino arti-. ale. That didicunty is novr remedied' imitators hau'. been expose.d and pud to flight. Thme, as elsewhere Bio*n's [ron Bitters cana lSp9a of all tis re apecltable drugglst adoieir aMitie.E. -James B~ Clary t#ho live's ase niles from Newberry, wI4.aIl t of leirium (remens IiIuethethe was eing attacked by a crowd ofsge. n firig at hi. Imanary en~q on~e f the ball, from h. pistol trc is tile son, aged Bir, making a very erlous wound. At this titue it is hought the lit if oW Hil * rbeae urea wit tarrha. St1 t Into -The trial of Fetrdinant Ward cor monced on Monday. -Bullion iu th k of i l increasod9844 . r5 -New York city .is to a eaid for water lillies to be pluctd ln ul pa e. -There -wore reported thnlougbQ,p Spain on Thursday 167 new osses q cholera,and 6 deat. . -"Liberty Enl1Yhteiing,tlto Worl4" I wants $40,000 more for chains anid anchors to keep her steadfast. -The Porte has issued a cirodlar to C the Powers stating that the armaments of Greece are a menace to peace. - -Jay Gould's family have an income of $1,400,000 a year from their invest mont in Missouri Pacific Railroad stock. -The Democrats of Dakota hayo determined to take no part in the elgo gion for a Constitution for South Da, kota. -It is undostood that the sentence ' of death of the leader of the half-breed r rebellion in Canada will be commuted I to life-long servitude. -The Archbishop of Canterbury has C drawn up special prayers for use In his I diocese with reference to thdapproach ing general election in England. -Capitalists from Dunlap Iowa, have formed a company with 150 000 paid up capital for a private savfngs bank at Chattanooga. -Tho Swedish bark. Zacharias, Capt. iudrosen, which left Wilming ton, N. C., on April 21, for H ull, Is miss ing, and It is feared that she is lost. -The President has appointed C. Meyer Zulick, of Arizona, to be Gov ernor of Arizona, vice Frederick A. Tritle, resigned. -A. W. Shaw, better known as "Josh Billings," died at Monterey, Cal , on the 14th inst., of apoplexy. The body was embalmed and sent East. -Ilanlan and Lee won the Pleasure Island boat race near Albany, N. Y by three lengths in 18 minutes and 241 seconds, defeating Conley and Court ney. -In St. Louis all the street ear lines 1 are running nearly if not quite a full complement of ears without molesta tion, and the police guard has been reduced one-hal'. -The marine hospital burean is in formed that cholera is inci easing in fatality in Palermo, and that. vellow fever Is on the increase in Guan mas, Mexico. -The Court of Alabama Claims has refused to reinstate J. F. Manning, the attorney whose denunciation of the Court led to the recent official investi gation of its expenses. -There are at least twenty cases of smallpox in Marinette, Wis', the dis, ease having been brought there by a Montreal citizen. Four deaths have already occurred. -Thirty counties in. Kansas have nominated Prohibition tickets, and it i is expected that at least an equal num ber of Prohibition tickets will be chosen in additional counties. --There were forty-one deaths from smallpox in Montreal on Tuesday, eight in St. Cunegonde, five in St. Iienri, five in St. Jean Baptiste, one in St. Gabriel and two inIlachelaga. -George E. Gill, aged sevenity-five, whlo recently remnoved1 to Chattanooga from Wilmington, D)ei., was killed by a freight traina at the outskirts of the city last week wvhile taking a walk. -The Harvard College annex, so called, opiened its seventh year on Monday with sixty-five young womnen enrolled. It ntow, for thie first time, has a house of its owvn, and its endow ment amounts to $85,000. -Bids wereC op)ened at the Treasury Department last week for the brick andl stonec work on the new Federal build.. ing at Lynchburg, Va. A. M. Mc Gow~an, of Washington, was the low est bidder at $26,700. -The Iind office at WVavhing~ton has received a communication stating that Dr. Powers, who wvas a Gove.rnmnent witness in the prosecut ion of' a frandu lent land case In C'alifo,rnIa, has becen slain by J. F. Pr'uitt, one of the dc fendants; --The Georgia Legislature adjourned on Thursdav, after a suimmer session of one hun'drcd (lays. The most im por'tant bill passed was the genteral local opIt ion law, under~ which many tem.p)er'antce elections will be held In various counties. -The WVay ne county, Mich., Court, last week, dfeceed( that the law pr~o hibiting the manufacture and sale of aloholic liquor is unlconlstititioal for. technical reasons, and because it pro ventedl men from engaging in legiti mnse busites4. -Hiarner & Roher ts, coal operators, of Pittsburg, Pa., have dlecided to start their Elizabeth mine at the three-cent rate. This is one of tile largest mines on the river, and the concession of thle rate demanded Is an Important victory for the strikers. --An effort is soon to be mnade to in duce tile State dlep)artnmnt to take some actiotn ill the mlatter of the conlla genleral at. Paris. This is one0 of the most sought of theO consulates, and there are said to be fonr hundred p plicants upon01 file for it. ( i) -The New York guber'natorial camn paign brings on a renewval of silly attenltionl to matter's thlat have ntothing to do with the Issues. The war record of Governor 111l's brothers is one of the outside points which has caused discussion. -A great senlsation hlas been caused In Quincy, Ill., by the publication of the details of the defalcation of 'ienry RI. Conley, secretaryv and treasurer ofr the Quincy GaslIght and Coke (omn pany. Is pecuIlationIs covered a Prinod oi eleven year's and1 amnountedl tofromi $22,0 to $30,000. -Pre'sident Lincoln wenit to tihe theater often to forget his cares. Grant nmot so frequently. IIayes seldom. Arthur Wenlt every time there was anything worth seeing. Hie was very liospliable to actors and actresses, too. President Cleveland does not care very hineh for the theater, but he goes oc eiionally. -Lettets from Bhienville Parish, La, last week give partIcnlar, of the reign of terror which has existed ini the is h for some time. The origin of trouble was a neighborhood' fetnd. Members of several families have been taken from their homes and wh:pped ~d other wisq makreted. Two pa Lbwere shot amid, It is feared, fatally *nded. Governor MctEnery, after otigation of the matter through the satrkt Judge, has ordered that all ilty parties be arrested and punish 8everal have boen iqentified, and ots are in puranuit of them. Brown, a prolinent Jilen I8 Va0 was got and i.,li the ' Mrdun eo nq i ri, teo although UIJdte<1. exl."ioenit. The killing. is lardd , agata.dly. There has al'old rl'u l between the two neT1 ."Kerj eTitEdeolared that he qpntle l0o3 k5iii4w~ on sight. They t Cttttd at the fair ai u 3r y' tap it~ haol of t1 aria AM~ t- i i tI~ Ip obiiil t eo ther and. Starcelv s, wAtr se when' Cernler placed his platlm ost iust 3rown's body and fired, the ha l . ering two itbabds below the heart. Cernjr was at once arrosted and hir iod to jail. Brown. was takei Into ho open air where he died ip twont a lye ninutes. The news flew like vildtiro through the large crowd, ays n twenty littutes the ibeli ig totln 'ent in threats of lynchin Tie nayor ordered a military guard" around he jail. Brown was an energetic and Irosporous young farmer and Was gen rally liked. Kerner is a member of a rolminct and wealthy family. When t college some years ago he killed a ellow-student in a quarrel. ' After a ong trial ie .was acquitted. His 'riends claim that his mind is unbal nuced, and insanity will be the plea of 1is defence. THE WORLD OF LABOR. Jnlon Workmon In larlnette. Wie, Be solgo a Boarding-louso of Nou Union Men At ani early- hour on Thursday a ar;e force of the Laborers' Union of aarinette Vis,, estimated to be nearly thousanl strong, inarched in a solid lody act'oss the river to Melnlinee md sirrounded one of the Kirby Car >cnter Comually's boardin i-houses >efore the meil had been to breakfast, lot allowing a man to go to work. P'his act is the outcome of the meeting ield there by the members of t he union tt which it was stated that, tihe Kirby ,arpenter Company was emploting eon-union it in their mills and had 'efused to sign the contraict which the >ther nill coinpanirs had signed, llowing their men eleven hours as a lay's work, with one hour for dinner, he balance of the season. The Union laiis that the Kirby Carpenter Coin >any was quietly !iring and importing non in their barges from Chicago to vork at the old standard time as be 'ore the last lockout, waiving all claims mud rights to themselves and to the en-hour law of Michi.gan as now in 'orec: that the mill has its complement )f mrlen and could be run in full force 'ron this on. Up to a late hour on rhurscty night 110 settletment had been nade or ar"rangemnlt on which (he lills will ag'ain start tp. 'hle comn any' is determined that the millis shall JO run.on the olt system, while the 1011 is equally deierlined that no rnan shall go to work under such an LrraIugt'lellnt. Railrondl C,uanlasle,ns. The Supreme Court of the United States on Ttue:alay begani hearing argu mnents upon t he ''Missi-ilppi railroad cominissioners' cases." ''he'ie are three mi nulmber, havilig points of difference, but, simi in.i11' ,t heirI ansiin featur ies, and( they we're arigued I ogethIer. Tlhiey in volve a dlecisioni upon1 the right'of a State to fix I aiiff rates, p)re'scrIibe local - ities for (lepo1t , at ma11keC other r'egu Iasion fort, rmilead s w hichm arie bil t and( operated unider charters oft ojher' States of' thle United Slates. LIn 1 84, tile bliAsissippi _Leg islatur, pass(edl a rail road comniuission bill prlovidinlg for the appiotinment of' a board of commis sionerIs athtlorized and r'equired to fix tar'iff' rates foir raiilr'oads lying in and1( passing tlirough thle State, and1( to xer' cise certaini other' fiunlctionis ill th li ran aigemenIt of lines, and emipowver'ed the lomimission to demliand u'l(der peelties f'or non11-compi)linec such iniforiraltionl from the .'oads as might be found iesir'able in theO perIformlane~ (of its loties. Tile commIissionIers look steps ~o carry out the lawv, givhaw tile r'oads moice of' the fuqct, whier'eupon the [1airmlers' Loan andf Trust Company, as r'ustees of' the Mobile and Ohio Itoad, he1 Illiniois Central and1( the New Or.. calns and1 Northeastern cach at tucked he lawv in tile F'eder'al Courts, holding t to be untonIsti ulitial, and secured ml inljunctionl rest rining thle comifhs lonler's fr'omi carrying the State lawv nio effect. 'fie (lnestloll comes bef'ore lIe Sulpreme1 C,,ourt uponl ap)peal from he Cour't, below. Leo's, ElectIon Asuecd. Theil State Democr'atic comittce, tile [lon. John S. Blarbour', chlairmnan, muet It lRichmond, Va. Onl Thurlsday', and was ill seson for several hearing re )or'ts fr'om dlitfeent. sectionIs of' the state. The inons awas genlerally veryv mncouraging. Fr'om statemecnts miade lie comitteemnen feel justified ill 18ssertinlg tihat tile (electionl of' Genl. Fitz. [see for Goveror' is assured and that they wvill have a mlojor'it y in bot h brtanlches of' tile General 'Assemblhly. RIepr'esenitativies lO fro al number of Ionbtf'uilluties were prleset, to ask the comamitaee fur help, ai were )iromisedl all the assistanlco tihat the sommifittee coulId aifrord. -Thle Bap1tist arefI' trii 14 to boiuild a 11hnIchl at Clin1to1 nard, E-lgeflild ~ounlty. Caupt. Wardl't, thioulgh imtself I Methodist, ha:s offer'ed to doubleC tile ar'gest i ndi vidual BapItist subscription n the counlty. -THE * o e eecoinbIning Iron Wits ureo Womesognadajleh me the mues ad e For a titent FOO,a.sIa*, LbOg EneTyh. " has oq Ea4 e r sow bantame t~aoi ;swIg, 5 1 4 rern* 4.t lis 01 B ET e31 he steot s pthere host a tree of the sa nae, r aoingeu the omail streemi is the Southern Ntat. 1] eoW a p lgepeetoraat prineiple tam loosens D Ils he ear1y mornlog og at n etWn to th trow off the fls membteae Is steup ad Wh en eombised with the heaWssJ moot. ' 1 the mulesa plant of the old efd, pre- e e... o s Rsrsy or Swst a A YvWr, the 4aes4 known remedy tsr coougbe, croup, bt sat Cesssmpte ;sodts palatablealy ' to lake it. A.t our d*ruR . r. #rie -S si. WAer A. EATL Atlanta G Use DL 6-R S jituos RRRRUEsY CORDIAL fII " * ""1D""ant Chi"re . Teethg. 1o'.o i. l of TUTT'l it 25 YEARS IN USE. d 2h Greatet edicaU_Trinu" gh of the Ago -- SYMPTOMS OF A TORPIDLIVER. i Loss ofappetite, Ilowels costive, Pl'aIn III1 the hend, with a dull sensation in the d back part, Palu under the shoulder- 8 blade, Fullnoes after eating, with adis- - inclinntion to exertion of body or mind, Irritability of temper, Low spirits, with .a feeling of having neglected some duty, Weariness, Dirminois, Fluttering at the Ieat, Dots before The eyes, Headache over the right eye Restlessness, with fitful dreams, Highly colored Urine, and CONSTIPATION. U -1'UTT'S PILLM are especially adapted to such cases, one doso effcts such a b change offeoling as to astonish the sufferer. They Inrease the Appetite,end cause the 1 body to Takeon Flesih thua the system is i nourished, and by their Tonle Aotion on the .Igsti'c r ns,o uslarS ools .o produced. lrice'iiie. 44 Muarra t,N.Y1 TUT'8 HAIR DYE. GRAY I1AiR or WIsKBaRu changed to a Gossy BLACK by a single application of 0 this DYE. It imparts a natural color, acts T instantaneously. Sold by Druggista, or se t by express on receipt of Si. "fMoe, 44 Murray St., New York. tL a THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. How the Unsumpecting are Often Gulled. CAPITAL VERSUS MERIT. It is possible that money dipped into a bounteous supply of printer's Ink, is to be used to teach false ideas. Why is it that such persistent anathemas should all at once he hurled against the use of "Potash and Pvtssh Mixtures?"I Those who insist that Potash is a poIsol do so because that is the way they have of lighting B. B. B., as the latter contains potash properly combined. Opium, morphine strychnine, aconite whiskey, etc., are al deadly poisons, and are dally destroying the lives of people, and hly, do not these mni cry out against them'n? It is because theire is no money In y sight to do so. L'o)tashl is not regarded as a poison1, andt very selidoini harmsil any one; butthose who a buse it arej usn aosiveeof ble pison teni tilines a iln..oieo l'Otashi, in piroper eon,biinttion, is regatrdled bly thme unedlical pirfsii'ion ats the qu ickest, grathst anid n,sost poswerfi uil loods remedy evei kniownm to mtan. TIhmose whlo believe in re.vealedl cominhationis anti Iudian foolish ne'ss a re surely in a co)nditionl to become rat her "erianlk y" in thesir lsdeas at any time. We assert uti erst adingly that l'otash, as useds ini the manufacture of II. 11. B., is not a lioison , andi( thes pliei need s'ot place any COnidiencee ini assertionis to the contrary. Why is it that in one thousand letters which we receive weg never hear a word atgainmst its (use? Thle truth is; 13. B. 1B. is working such wondel(rs in the cure o)f all bloodl poisonsX, si.fumha, thinmnatisun, ca tarrh, etc., tht (othiers arie treibling in thesi r bosots, an cr sy ailoudts, 'poison," "'fraud," bscaumse thesy fear Its tritunpliant s mar(eb. Let any main sor w.'nan itski any respecstable doctor or dlruiggist if we are not right. Do not lhe dlecelvc<i, buit go right along and call for 11. 11. 1., and be, cured. It is ismak ing five times miore cures ill A tlanta thsan#ll oIsthier blood remnedies combiniled. We sdonm't say that others are poisonms or frauds; wes are nsot that easily 1U alarmed, but we say ours is tIhe best, and- - we have the proof. Send for our :32-page 6 book, free, and1( be consvinzced. - Sold by all 'lruigglis. BLOOD BA LM CO., 'Atlanta, Ga. Mason & HmIin ORGANS: PIANOS: or, aci ret s* orA'ianna o. aloguecs free. 3' r ORGAN AND PIANO000. tB4 Tremont St.,Boston. 468E.14th St. (Union Scq.), N. Y. 149 WabMsh Ave., Chicago. tsy oams. A eertain cure. Not expensive. Th anon us' treatment in one package. Good for hi the Hee, Headache, Dissiness, Hay Fever, &c. \linft CeDts B 11 a amp , Good Pay foa* Agonta. 5100 to #200 peW rie od. t Rcrdy & Co., lIsic-ipta, l'a. PIANOS-ORCAN8 'The demand for the improied M&sou & HTAast PrA isi now so large that a seconsaddition to the quartr a m acn nn a enop en a Wetynsysof Om'ou to (italogners, E Payments,YouorGaRentec Mdason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., .. NEW YORK ;BSO ;(JI IA00. . 'WANTED if."AU**E GNT comingVaente. No risk, quisales. Territory gvnstaato urned drs DRSCOTT,642 Broadway St.,N.Y._ Men Think* they know all about Mittang Lin- Ag hient. Few do. Not to know ia re* nlot to haTo, b4L~ beautiful,al . her.sk1nA id nobody evr l er how easy It is to put eauty on the skiw. Seagty n the skin is IVNagnola alm. NEW AiVERTISEMENTS. BTI OF ' FER. To introduce them we will give away 1000 self operating Washing Machinos. If you. ant one send us your name, P. 0. and :press -offce at once. THE NA'IONAL CO., S1 Dey St., N. Y. h,e Magio Inseot Exterminator and MO8UIro DIT CUIE. - o offer one thenatad 4Ia'rs 1b' Its *AL.1. "end f O, 13cuars. SA LLA DE & CO., Bast.,19th St., New York. SEAFNE$e Its CAUSEB% f by one who was deaf twenty t years. Treated by most of "iote4 B tt11stt t the day with no beieyIt. *rdd M.tf three months, and since then ubdreds of hers by same process. A plain, Silnple ahi Locessful home treatment. Address T S. AO, 128 East 26th St., New York City, 'AREX'S TO20.. If you are wasting away from age, dptle any disease or weakness and require stum ant take PARKER'S TONIC at once it wil vigorate and build you up from the ffrst dose it will never intoxicate. It has saved hun ^eds of lives, it may save your: IiISCOX & Cq:, I1ew York. ATANTED-Agents in every section of the country to sell Hon. a. COY freat )okC, "Three Dlecades of Yeaeia1 Lett" lation, " tllustrated with Ste+u Pla Ot t now ready. 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It bears tile palm for constanicy of strength, eertqn. _ t 'of effect, elcfanco of prep~a t ona uty p aperneand N - relilv chapnss.Thetestimony jr in ts avo lagenine Itnever f ails when fairly tied. iairtersville, Ga. This will certify that two menm hers of my immedilate family, after4 w having suffered for many .years e from menstrual Irreguilari ty, and havIng been treatedi without be. lit b'y vaIrlous medical doctors, were at length comnpletely cured bsy one b)ot tle of D)r. .1. lradifleld's Female Hegulator. Its effect in such eases Is truly wond(erful, and well maiy the remedy be called "Woman's Best Friend." Yours Itespectfly 1JAMIEs W. ~TRANON. Send for our book onl the "Ifealthi and IIappiness of Woman." Mall. ed free. BuenmAIEI EOULATOII Co.4 SI - Atlanta, da. ZRALTH RESTORED. Ith 1A5OVER1's TAILOR STe'T*uyou,.o t Dresses to fit, without oral hustin. ns. Dressmkers pronounce it perfect. lee otSse, Dook and Double Trae Wel%INTRODUOE Stein, Bool and Wheel will be seat on 51$ t.00, Addres t81m