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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Treated by most of "iote4 B tt11stt t
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hers by same process. A plain, Silnple ahi
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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
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ATANTED-Agents in every section of the
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Oct21 taw.
THE
io1umbia Music )ouse
WILL SAVE YOU
WENTY-FIVE PER CENT. BY BUY
aG
OF THEM.
VERY IN8TRUMENT WARRANTED
ELIVERED AT ANY DEPOT OR
STEAMBOAT LANDING IN
TIHE 8TATE.
TRiTE FOR TERMS AND 1'RICE8
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A.LES.
Respeeifully,
OLUMBIA MIUSIC HOUSE,.
N. W. TRUMP, Manager,
8 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. CO~
Grace woas in all her steps, Heaven
Ineeygesture dignity and love!"
So appeared1 Mother Eve, anid so
may shinie her fair descendants;
with the exercise of comimoni sense,
care and propier treatment. An
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plaints are directly caused by dis
turbance or 811ppression of the
Menstrual Function. In every such
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spiecific. BRADFJILD's FVLALE
I EOULATOR1, wvill effect relief aid*
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inest materials. 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.
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