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-4 1 4" i ___ ,rVL XI ICKENS, S. C,, TIIURSDAY, MAY 19, I887.N.'4 ALL kBOUT THE BAPTISTS. MEMBERSHIP OF TIlE CIURIC1L I THE SOUTHERN STATES. The Seasion in Louisvilie of lteprosonto tives of the Immense Membership--In portant Features of tho Convention. - Sig.t-Soeing and Business Meetings. (Letter to the Augusta Chroniclo.) According to the latest returns, whic: have been recently made up from oflloia sources, there are in the fourteen South ern States and the Indian Territor; 2,050,985 Baptists. Of thoso 1,065,17 are white, and are in accord with th body known as the Southern Baptis Convention. This is the body whose ses sions have boon held in the beautifu brown stone edifice of the Broadwa; Church. The building is of ornate de sign and modern architecture, and rank with the churches of which Drs. Hemp 4 hill and Willitte aro pastors, as amonE the finest and most costly religious edi flees of the South. Through three dail; sessions the spacious audit4tium ha been filled with representatives fron every South of the Pennsylvania iinc and the Ohio river. From Georgia thor< wore fifty-five delegates, and Georgic furnishes the president and secretary This makes the fifteenth session ove: which Dr. Mell, Chancellor of the Uni versity, has presided, and the seventh a which the secretary has served at the long table. The reporte of the two Boards of the convention, which control the operationi respectively of home and foreign mis slons demonstrate a year of great pros perity. Indeed, I hear from all side gratulations from almost every body o C hristians. The year has been 0110 o large increase in numbers and greatei efficiency than for many years past There have been contributed, as report 'd to this convention, for foreign mis blons $87,830.53, and for home missioni $122,097.20. The foreign stations of the convention are established in Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Africa and China. Th< number of missionaries is 110, and o: churches and stations for preaching 05. There are 25 schools, with 587 pupils, Among the many interesting features of r' this work abroad was the erection in th( dense population of the city of Shangha: of a chapel, entirely at the expense of a native Christian, and consequently at nc cost to the convention. The whole of China has been thrown open to Chris tian missions by imperial edict. In the department of home mission thero had been 251 missionaries rrus tained who had supplied pulpits at 822 points in the South and the island of uba. This force of Christian workeri had gathered together 119 churches, and had built 62 new houses of worship al a cost of over $00,000. The number o: persons added to the churches was 6,242. The most wonderful advance in Christian missions, considering the time and means expended, has been that ir the neighboring island of Cuba, and it has been described as never having been surpassed in the history of modern mis sions. In December, 1885, a missionary, named Diaz, was ordained at Key West, and in the following month a church was constituted in Havana, which, at the last report, after one year's operation, contains over three hundred members, and two other churches have been estab lished. An attempt is to be made in th< immediate future for the erection of a Baptist house of worship in Havana. One of the most important works ac complished by the Board has been thai of aflording doctrinal and practical in structioni to colored ministers and churclh officers. A number of very learned and able men have been employed in gather ing these leaders of the negro populatiois together for the purpose of instruction, In this work Georgia, Alabama, .Florida, Maryland and Mississippi reap the bene. fits. There arc also twenty preachers oj this race employed in the State of Texas, About those times there leak out cor. tain little instances of heroism and sacri flee which could not be known, perhaps, otherwise than through the dry detaili of annual repoi s. One of these con. corns the Citadel Square Church ir Charleston. It so happened that jusi before the terrible earthquake, whict not only shattered their church, bul which also destroyed many of theil homes, the process of collecting the reg ular contribution for missions was ir progress. Although dismayed at th( vast p)roportions of the calamity upo)01 them, this church finished their collec tion for missions, while without a sanct uary in which to meet, and while thea had nothing but the green sward light ened by the smile of God's sun wher< they could be gathered together. Som<( might sneer at this enthusiasm and tern it fanaticism, but to me it looks bk< common old-fashioned honesty. Thog did not own the money that had beo1 g.iven for a specific purpose, and n<( right could possibly exist for divorting it from the purpose for which it wva given. But it was grand, nlevertheless The speaking in this convention is al ways of the hig host order of inorit. .I takes a tremendous amount of gall ini at ordinary nman to seek to address and in terest 700 men drawn from the best anm 4most advanced andl thoughtful men o the South. Mo that when arguments ar< to be made there is a general depend once upon the more able and cloquen men. One of the Northern visitors ii his address quoted the remark of a pris oner who had been captured by Romte and after his release and return to hi home, described his captors as a "natioj of Senators." That might be a littl poverdrawn, but still it is a serious thin1 to take the floor before euch a body. 1 the calibre is small and the ammsunii ioi weak, the poor fellow soon discovers i -net by any discourtesy of the auditors but by sonmc inexplicable intuition tha his silence would be golden, and hi "farewell" be~ better than his "howdy. The sermon preached before the con vention this year was by Dr. Ocorg Cooper, of Richmond. It wasa glowin1 fervid disquisition upon "the Expectin1 Christ" ascending on high, andl no0 seated upon His th.sone, "from heonce Loith expecting" until His cause shouli triumph and the principles of kingdt n prevail. Thus far strong :tldressoa u mrea than aveage~ aiit have bo made by Dr. dward Judson, of New York, tho son of the veteran missionary, Adoniram Judson, by Dr. Goorge U. v Lorimer, of Chicago, REov. Mr. Dixon, of Baltimore, Dr. C. C. Bitting, of the Publication Society, and Dr. .l. P. Greene, of St Louis. Dr. Judson's ad dress on Saturday night moved a vast concourse as I have seen few assemblages moves, and following it came the rat tling and disconnected remarks of a mimster of Augusta who rightly com i pared-himself to a small boy following 1Gilmore's band who was sot to the work of raising some $2,500 for the future operations of the Board of Foreign Mis- 1 y sions, which was done under the abiding l influence of the speech of the great son of the greatest missionary. t A FAT liLACK HIOTTLE. Filled to the Cork With Five Ilollar Tres ury Note,,. There came to light in Macon yester - day a New Year's story that would fitly adorn a temperance lecture. A bright little girl gave away what t - was regarded as a pleasing secret. It happened in this way: The Telegraph c man stumbled into a millineisy store yes- f terday and while waiting to get the at- I tontion of the lady who makes the female i population pretty, idly listened to a con- c versation between a customer-evidently the wife of a mcchanic-a.,d the millin- t er. The lady was looking at a very f pretty hat for her little girl who stood ( at her side with hungry eyes. The hat 1 was purchased, and the Telegraph man c mentally thought it looked like extrava- r gance for a mechanic's family to throw 1 away four dollars and a half on a little girl's hat. As this was the only purchase in which the child seemed interested, she sided s up to where the Telegraph man was standing and artlessly said: "We dot t lots or money now." The reporter hero Y mentally cursed himself for forgetting 1 to buy a ticket for'the last lottery draw ing. 1 "Where did you get it, ais?" "Papa broke th' bottle?" "Broke the bottle?" r "Essur; th' bottle was jus' as fuller c money as it tood be, an' we's 'ich now." No true reporter can be idle when such r an item as this is in speaking distance, i and it was not more than a few minttes t, before the child's mother was per suaded into telling the following story, 1 and yet she never dreamed that every n word of it was being jotted down by the shorthand finger of memory upon the f thumb worn page of a mental note book: 1; "I have passed through the ordeal of t a drunkard's wife, and 1 am too happy v now to go over what and how much I suffered. My husband drank heavily g and often half of his wages went for drink. He kept a large black bottle of s] whiskey all the time in the house, in addition to what he drank in town. On n Christmas Eve night five years ago he came home drunk, and as something had gone wrong with him, ho was in the a worst kind of a humor. Our oldest boy was in the crib very sick with the fever, s and there was not a cent of money in the house to buy him the cheapest toy. My c husband had been away from home all day and being drunk had forgotten all a about his Christmas. I put my husband t] to bed and returned to the bed side of my dying boy to watch and weep. It s: was nearly daybreak when I saw my precious son sinking fast. Rushing out c of the house I called in a lady friend, and then aroused my husband. The a: sleep had somewhat sobered him, and as ho loved his boy devotedly, he was h soon bonding over the little fellow, beg ging him to say something to him. b "The little fellow slowly turned his eyes toward his father and said: I'm n going to die, papa, for I see the angels beckoning me to come. This is Christ- a mas morning, pap)a; please let me see o what Santa Claus put in my stocking. My husband went to the mantle and a took down the little stocking. It was empty ! Ho stood still and stared at it g for a minute, aud God only knows the c agony of his heart in that short time. HeI turned to say, but our boy would d not have heard him had the poor man's breaking heart allowed to speak. Our r boy was dead! "The (lay before New Year's my huis- a band called for the bottle. May God C forgive my feelings at that minute, for I 11 wished he, too, was dead. I obeyed him n mechanically. To my surprise, he took the bottle in his hands and, pouring the t whisky on thec ground, said: 'I will s drink no mere; and the money I would t, spend for whiskey wve will put in this bottle, and all enjoy the contents.' You e can imagine how happy I was. H{e had k~ sworn oil many times before, but Ihknew lie was in earnest this time. We made a a calculation, and estimated that whiskey t cost him, taking the past year as a basis, I on an average of five dollars a week. You see-a good deal of his money went e to paty court flues for drunkenness. Well it was deelded to put five dollars a week t in the bottle for live years, come what '2 would. The time was out last New Year's day, and the big black bottle was s broken. Now figure up how many five a (dollars that bo.ttle contained!" '"Two hundred andl sixty." "'Yes, or $1,000 dlollars. But thin was nmot all. We saved on-mgh in that time r outside of the bottl to buy a littlei home." "'But are you not afraid in breaking the bottle your husband will break his lI resolutiony" "No; because we have started another bottle bank," said the lady with a happy c smile. Th'le husb)and is a Macon mechanic, well kuow anid enjoys the respect and zn esteenm of all. H[e says lie never knew how muchel genuine pleasure there was at home with his loved ones until he got sober enough to appreciate it, anid to Jill a instead of empty the fat black bottle. "on-r amtI ~ o n-r sa."' Rlbp 1ition is somletimes1 thei only way to a hnpujr.s at truth uplon the miol8(. Accordl Inugly ta ke noti1ce tihat Dr. P'icece' "Plens anit Purgative P'ellets,"' (the oiiginail ittl t fAiver Pills) !ontinule to be! wond erfuilly efccetive ini cases of sick andit nervouls head-(1 ache, constipation, indigestion, rush of blood to the head, cold extremities, and aill ailments arising from obstruct iou of the bodily functions. Their actionm is thorough yet gei tle, and the ingred ints beling eutirely . v(getablle, they (8nn be taken with imupunity into the mnot delicate stme.All drum Teee Is mor ambition without energy WILD LIFE ON TUE BO1CDE1i. Three Mexicans Who Tried to ]Co, a Sheriff and' lVht Ilap,pened. Fron the 'iladephIla North Anoricen.) A tall, spare man, with glittering black eyes that stared you unflinchingly in the face, lounged carelessly around the Continental Hotel last night. It was James hart, who was at one ime sheriff of a little town in the south western part of Texas. The town at the time of Hart's election was fairly overrun by lawless people. "I reckon I seen some putty excitin' imes on the frontier," he said to a North .merican roporter. "People out my way use ter say I ould fito. Well, mobbo I kin and nobbo I can't. "I remember onot-that was just after was eleted-that it becamo known I iad some dust hid in my bedroom. "One night when wo war asleep three ierned greasers kern in and tried to teal it." "Did they got away with it?" asked he reporter. "Stranger," said the ox-sheriff delib irately, "considerin' that there air three raves jos on the other side of my house ith the bodies of threo greasers in 'em, t is putty safe to say they didn't git the ust." "Thar kern to our town one day," con inued the ex-shorifil, "a young feller rom the east. His name whar Bob :hambers, en ho whar as bright and as ansome a youngster as I ever laid eyes n. All the gals in town and on the eighboring ranches got dead stuck on i'm. 'At thet time Tom Parker kept the Quickstop Concert Saloon.' "His daughter Nellie sang on the tago, and durned purty gurl she whar. "She had a way of lookin' at ye with hem big black eyes of hern that woulf sake you feel like jumpin' up and kissin Ler. "The minit Chambers seen her ho fell cad over heels in love with her. "Night after night he'd be seen at the Juickstop' listening to thet gal sing, .ot thet she hed sech a good voice, but n account of her purty face. "Dick Sanders, the son of a rich E t ncher, was also in love with the gal. t ho didn't seem ter take to 'im, en' she 1 -a him so one night. t "He didn'u say nothin', but turned on 1 is heel and went out. It was nearly a x ionth afore lie turned up again. "One bright morning a vanquero )und the dead body of Bob Chambers ing by the roadside, near an old hacal. bullet hole in his head showed how he as killed. "In his hand he clinched tightly a ray coat button. , "When Nelly heard of Bob's death t se nearly went crazy. "One day she disappeared, and was n ever afterward of. "It was late on Saturday night. "The saloon was full of men drinkin', nokin' and playin' kyards. "Sanders kern in en and started a 1 nall game. "I noticed one of the buttins of his oat was missin'. "Sez I to myself, 'Dick, me boy, ye ir the one who gave Chambers his set er. I'll 'rest you.' "I slid up to him, and placing my f sooter agin his head, said quietly: "'Dick, I recon ye air wanted to oc spy a cell down at Laredo jail.' "'WYat fur?' he said up in an instant, Lid layin' his hands on his weapons. "'None of that! hands up over your oad.' "'Ye air wanted for kiln' Bob Chan urs.' "'It's a lie,' he yc'lcd; 'yo ain't got o proof.' "'Mebbe not, but d'y ever see that ~oro?' says I, tossing the gray button ' a the table. t "Sanders turned the color of chalk, ' d then said:a "Well, I suppose I might as well f long, an' 'prove my innercence in ~ ulrt.' "Yes; yer hoss and mine, already sad ecd, stand aforo the door." "Didn't he show any fight?" asked the ' nportor. 'Nw"was the response; "it wouldn'tI o fur him to show fight in thet p lace. ihambers was woerry popular, and the iill darned town would a fit to kill his turderer if riled. Sanders knowed this. "As Laredo was too far away I couldn't ike him down thar thet night, so I Larted for Jake Roberts's p)lace,- about ~n miles from town. "Trho darkness was so dense that you ould have eut it with a boarding house nie. "'Bout the only thing you could hear bove the clatter of the horses' hoofs war Lie chirpings of the night insects and irds in the trees. "We stopped at a ranch, got a drink n' then puish ed on. "I noticed Sanders keep cyoin' the diek underbrush that lay like a shadow ong the dark road. "I thought lhe wanted to ecacpe, and > I says: "'he fust move ye make, San ors, I p)lug ye with leadl.' . "Hoe didn't say nothin', but looked rate afore him after that. "Just as we got to a portion of tihe oad that skirts a lonely lake Sanders imitated the screech of a night owl. "1 knowv what that meant, though. ''Quick as lightning I slid ofier my ess to the ground. "I was just in time. "A dozen rifles bolched forth their otnts. "My horse dropped dead. "Sanders put spurs to his horse, but ot soon enough. "Up went my gun. "Crack!I "Sanders fell over his animal dead as door nail. "As soon as I fired I changed my po ition. It wur well, fur another volley 'histled thro' the air. "'I jumped into the lake, swam across iid made my way back to the town. "I got a posso of men an t went after oim as tried to rescuoi Sanders. "They were his father, brother and a adi-doz"n ranchers. "Th ?then and brother escaped, but li others .Trmed a jig in the air. "Thot's the w.y we live down in 'exas," continued tio ox-sheriff, as lie topped into the elevator. "Como& dowvn >o timec." "T'lhe New York n irket is extensiveliy tipplied w ith foreign - ggs."' We thought ur11 faithers~ eLt o)ff I Ie foreigni yolk for oo 4d morde thani a hit ni Ired years ago. CONIDITION OF TilE CitOPS. The May Report of the National Depart mont of Agriculture. The report of the United States De partment of Agriculture for May relates to the condition of winter grain, the progress of spring plowing ind the pro portion of the proposed cotton area llready planted. It indicates a decline in the condition of wheat of two points 9inco April 1st, the general average for the whole country being 86, against 95 it the same date in 1886, 70 in 1885. and )4 in 1884. The changes in condition have not been uniform throughout the winter wheat region, some States show ing an increase, a majority a slight dc :line, and a few a heavy falling ol' Rye has sufifred from the same con litions which have injuriously affected wheat, but on account of its hardier na turo the general average is considerably higher, standing at 90.8, against 92.8 on April 1st and 95.7. at the same date in L886. The condition is barely below the xverago, being 87.8, against 96.7 in May, 1836, and 82 in 1885. The season has been more generally ndvaneed in all parts of the country than usual, spring plowing being seriously behind only on the Atlantic coast South to Pennsylvania, and on the Pacific ilope. In these sections it has been de Layed by cold and excess of moisture. Elsewhore the work is ahead of the aver ngo year, the season, especially during April, having been gonarally favorable, with temperature above normal and rain fall at minimum. The proportion al ready on May 1st is estimated at 80 per eent. of the whole, while the amount nsually completed at that date is about 76 por cent. The proportion of cotton already planted amounts to more than four-fifths )f the proposed area, and is slightly freater than at the same date in any )receding five years, but is little less han the proportion returned by corro pondents as the average planting at hat date. The proportions by States ro as follows: North Carolina 70, South Carolina 80, leorgia 84, Florida 96, Alabama 88, lirissippi 84, Louisiana 83, Texas 82, rkansas 80, Tennessee SO. There in omo complaint of slow germination and oor stands on account of drought at he time of planting in some sections, ut with favorable weather replanting is apidly filling all the gaps. AN INCIDENT OF' TiE WAR. how Two Actors Met by Chance. (From the Chicago News.) Gus Mortimor, the manager of Louis ames, who is lately from New Orleans, ays that the Southern people are in ensely disgusted with the recent utter nces of Joff' Davis. Beauregard was nd is still a great favorite with the lo iernors, and they resent any slight Ipon him. Mortimor who was in the Jonfederato army and in Beauregard's ommand, says that lie was the most opular rebel officer, although he was an ixtra strict disciplinarian. During the irst winter of the war Beauregard com nanded the armies of Virginia, and the veather was intensely cold. The men vore volunteers of course, aid entirely mused to the hardships of war, and they oll sick in great numbers, and, what vas worse, became dull and dispirited. ?rofiting by the example of the first apoleon, Beauregard hit upon the plan f esteblishing a theatre in the camp for he amusement of the troops. Mortimer vas selected to organize the company nd the work of erecting the theatre was egun. The man who was entrusted vith the funds necessary to engage the ompany skipped South and deserted vith the money, and the movement of hie Federal army broke up all the plans. )uring the war, Mortimer says, the heatres in the South coined money. 'he horrors of the siege were mitigated nd sometimes added to b)y dramatic p)er c>rmances, and wvhen an army entered a c>wn the first thing it did was to organ to a compiany anid play in the theatre. some of the armies contaiined enough oldier-actors for a very fair sizcd comn >any, and in some cases plays were re Learsed ahead, but oftener still the comn any was' non-military and belonged to ho theatre or traveled about seeking to >ly in some town occupied by troops. L'hi prices charged were 501 cents for >rivates and $1 for oillicors and the iouses were universally p)acked. The udiences were enthusiastic and general y in the very best of humor, so much so 5s to make it rather diflicult to p)lay. dlortimer wals paroled1, anid p]ayed oflf an mi for a year or two wVith all sorts of >icked1 upl comipanies-half piofessional, mlf amlateuir, and all sorts of sectional smn and polities. Onice at Corinth lhe >layed "RIichard Ill ." in a linen duster; mt the audience didn't seem to mindl lie discrepaney a bit, and insisted on 1i5 coming forward ini the tent scene and inging the ''Star Spangled Banner"and 'in the I'risoni Cell I Sit." On the iiight of the second day's battle of the iVilderness Mortinier was on picket luty. He had not eaten a morsel for >ver thirty-six hours, and he was niearly lead wvith hunger, and very faiut, Liaving )ut recently Comic from the hospital. It mad been the wont of the soldiers to supl >ly the place of food withl cop)ious chews if plug1 tobacco, andh MortimIer's p)ockets vore fuall of thie weed, but the doctor had orbiddeni himi using it. lHe was stand ug by a tree, faint and despairing, and1 a the agoniy of his situaitioni exclaimed bloud: "I'd1 give the biggist plug of tobacco n the world for a piece of hard-tack." "'I'll take you at y:n7 wVord1, Johnny Lteb," exclaimed a hearty voice, and b)e ore Mortimner could brir:g his gun to his bhoulder a form sprang out of the dusk mnd a stalwart zouiayo stood before him. "I've been watchiing you* for sonic ime," continuiedl the Northern man, 'and .1 thought y'ou saw mte anid was get ,iug ready to pot me till [ heard you l;peak." The zouavo had unslung his miapsack and displayed beforo the famn shod rebel what seemed to him a ban iet. ''And now, young fellow," lie iaid, ''if you'll give moia plug of tobacco youi can have all the hard-tack your jaws tan crack. Fork over." Suchiexohanges ,ve common, and Mortimer clutched lie food and passed over a plug of Vir linia tobacco, which was aseagerly rc ~oived by the zouave. TIhiy talked a nomenit or two, ai(then1, realizing their langer, p)rep)ared1 to part. Mortimer in. uidentalhly told his companion his name m.d calling. The other wan surprised ind said lie was an actor, too. ed. "You are a brick. When the war is over I'll come North and join you. What's your name?" "Louis James," said the zouavo, as ho reslung his knapsack, picked up his gun and disappeared in the woods. For the Farmer. Soon the scarecrow and stretched wires will be soon in the fields as pro tection against crows, but it in a diputed question as to whether the crow in the cornfield is an enemy- or a friend. Though he be sometimes destructive to the corn, yet ho destroys many insects and grubs. Large trees can be moved and trans planted, thus taking advantage of several years growth, provided all the roots and some of tho adhering earth be carried with them. Tho place in which they are to be deposited should also be specially c prepared for their reception. A prominent nurseryman says that nursery practices in peach propagation and culture have weakened the vital power of the tree, which is unable to re sist as depressing influences as formerly, when the trees from seeding grew well and lived to an old ago. A fresh egg will sink when placed in water, and when boiled the skin will not pool off like that of an orange, as in the case with those not strictly fresh. Stale cggs are glassy and very smooth, while fresh eggs have a peculiar roughness. Where tho ground has been well liar rowed and made even and smooth the Labor of harvesting will be lessened, as i the ground will be better fit for the work s of the harvesting machine. Removo all stones and clods that may interfere. The farmer who gets bohind in his work at this season will not very easily I ratch up. It requires more effort to mceoed when there is 1> regular c tystem than otherwise, and this is the 1 nonth when the most careful work a ;hould be done. t The French, who export pears, cover 1 ho inside of the boxes with spongy caper or drr moss, which absorbs the noisture. ?ho pears can be thus kept L month or more. They are closely &e ked, but do not touch each other. The 58th annunl exhibition of the Pennsylvania Horticulturai Society will - e held September 27 to 30 inclusive. t ['ho premium list amounts to $700. The shrysanthemum show is to occur Novem er 8 to 11 inclusive. There are over fifty poultry associa- ( ions in the United States, that annually t ive exhibitions. They have been in- 1 strumental in greatly advancing the i )oultry interests. Use no stable manure on your peach 1 ;recs. A mixture of some kind of min ral fertilizers is better. Experiments f avo shown marl to be excellent for 1 peach trees. Wire netting, 2-inch mesh, is now cheaper than boards for fencing poultry, and can be more easily arranged and with less labor. Laying a front yard with turf will nearly always result in a stand of grass, even after repeated seedings have been tried without success. Even on the best regulated farms stock n nmy be injured. hence old wells, half 1 Liidden ditches and such like should be s 3overed or filled up. t The ditches along the sides of the road s ;hould be opened now, in expectation of i busy season and the prevalence of H spring rains. In filling vacancies in blackberry i >atches put the roots down as deep in t he ground as possible, as the season is ' ather late. The season has been very favorable to he growth of young strawborry plants, lio loss in some sections being very mall. t Evergreen hedges may be0 trimmed and )ut in shape as late as this month, but it I s best not to cut back too much. The small size broilers will now begin x> give way to those weighing three to :our ppunds per p)air. Maufactu,rinig Iin souithI Ca,rol1ina,. The Chronicle is pleased to note the nterpriso anti succesr; of South Caroli-t aa, and points to the Stato's statistics in nanufacturing enterprises with pleasu re. l'he State has suffered little if any from abor troubles, and shows her manufac x>ries flourishing almost uniformly. The tatement is made that in 1860 she hadl 1,280 factories and1 $7,000,000 used as )apital. In 1880, 2,078 factories were running, $11,2~>0,000 capital was in use, md the piroducet was $16,700,000. Last. yecar these figures had growni to 3,248 ractories, $21,260,000 cap)ital, and 30, -. )00,000 of jproducts. TIhe Columbus ((Ga.) Enquirer-Sun givcs ihe above figures, and says thatt :luring the last six years there has been 1 gain o,f over eighty per~ cent., and add1s: "'Isn't there something to be proud of in that?" Exemption of many indlus trial euterp)rises from taxation has tend ed1 to give big help to growth. Under such policy the cotton mills have grown Lill now they emp~loy $5,E00,00() of capi tal, as compared wvith $800,000 in 1860, while the annual product has bieomet ?35,600,000 against $700,00i0 at the war's >uitbreak. Trade in lumb,er has devel >pled as haniIdsomeCly. In 1860 $1,110, )00 wvas employed as capital in timblerI production, and the market value of the mutpuit then wvas $1,124,000. Last year $3,250,000) was the capital in use, and bhe product brought $6,236,000. Rosin md turpmentine making have kept pace; n 1880) $1,00)0,000 was the value of that prodluct; last year it grow to $2,000,000. -Charlotte Chronicle. 'fHE RRPOR'T'i OF TuEi lanI\h OF mm TA r'iTic.s just received1 shows that the im portsh for tho' month of March amiounit $62,920,242, being an increaso over the samo mo(nthi of last year of $2,800,000,. T1he largest increase in article was ini I soffee andl tiu plate. Dutiable goods ii only increased butt little over $1 ,00J0,000. The implorts for the nine months ending I March 31 amfounfted to $508,875,387, an C increase of $38,000,000 over the same p)eriodl of last year. Of th'im increase< nearly $27,000,000 was in dutiable and I the remainder in free goods. At the average rate of duty, this shows an in crease in customs over last year of about $i2,000,000. TIhie imports of sugar fell off about $.3,000,000, which indicates1 either that more Was produced or that less is being nued. TIE I)UI)E AN)) TIIE HEAR. till Nye Again HonKS Up the Interatat Comminsoners. (From tihe New York Worl4.) Under the Intorstato Commerco Lav a dog cannot ride on the elevated road but this does not apply to other wild o lomestic amInals. That is the reason that a dude yestor lay, accompanied by a young bear weighing about forty poun ds, success fully ovaded the ticket-taker and rodc lown town on one ticket. The dude wore one of thoso short waisted and sawed-oil ulsters, commonl1 Malled Norfolk jackets, but the cub worc lothing but an air of deiance. The two sat down near each other, hui he bear was restless. Finally ho jumpet ijp on the seat near a lady, who wai riding down town, and she wvont int< mother car. Tiherc was a good deal o ooi then near the dude, but nobody ranted any of those seats. There ought to be some ruling on thia luestion of bear transportation. It is n natter that interests a of us. Can wilt >oasts and reptiles be classed as p)eople vhilo dogs are ruled out? Can a man lecom panied by a small dog, be barre) mt, while the owner of an elephant 0i in active hornet's nest may take his )roperty with him on his journey? Here was a clear case of wild beasi those youth alone prevented his eating )eople, for he hungry enough to cat thc uind legs of a railroad frog. The question to be submitted to the nterstate Commission is, whether thc always by thus leaving down the bars ro not, as common carriers, to admit a entleman accompanied by a hyena, a >ut goat, an alligator or a rhinoceros. Jnjuet discriuinations cannot be made o the prejudice of any one. It is to bo hoped, however, that furth r complications may be avoided by caving the bears at home, and if the Iwnors can tear themselves away froml heir bears during bnsiness hours anid Lavo them at home, it u ill do much to estore travel to its normal condition. .31.1i, Nv:. ----.a- - - The Cott in )loviue'nt. The Now York Financial Chronicle, in is weekly cotton review, says that for be week ending Friday evening, the 6th ust., the total receipts have reached 13, 77 bales:, against 15 ,1 41 bles1 last week, 1,222 bales the previous week, nl 21. 27 balcs three weeks since; making the Dtal receiplts since the 1st of Septemlber, 88(, 5,1:5,2:11 bides, against 5,1)78,231t ales for the samuo period of 1885 8(, howing ann lerense m i lce heptember 1, 881i, of 5l;,883 bales. h'o imlorts int' continentn ii ort or the same period lieV been 6l),0( )ales. There was an incrtase in the ct on in sight, Friday night, of 31,651 >ales as compared ? ith the same date o [886, an increase of I 10,1-3l b:des as coin p)ared wit i the corresoonding date o 1885, and a decreaac of 27(,183 bales a ompared with 1 881. The old interior .-tocks have decrease< luring the week 1),52() bales, and wet friday night 135,171 hales less than a he samo period lust year. The receipt it the same towns have lieen 12,192 balic ess than tihe i iunc week last year, ant iucc Septenl ci 1 lie receipts at all ti owins ale i,O:3t; bales mtorc timan for fih ame time in 1885 86. Thle total recipits from th Ce plan tat iom ince Meptember 1, 1 88, are 5,17;,677 ales; in 885- ; were 5,283,(;25 bales L 1881 5 were 1, 7.12,2(431 ha1s. Althouglt he receipts at the ouitpiorts the past week cro 13,077 bales, the actual Iovecent rotm plantationls was only 2,602 bales, lie balance being taken from the siocks t the. interior towns. ILast year the re (eipts from the pllanitations for the same reek were 18, 16- lbales, and for 1885 bey wero 2,228 hales. T1he decrease in mount in sight Friday niighit, ats comn ared with last yeiar, is 19, 62 balues, the aecreatse ias compalred with 1884I 85 i. 95,495 bades and athle increase over The Chronicle, ini its Iionlthly review, ives solme initerestinig iguircs. T he gross lovement duirinig April exhibits a de. line from the figares for the correspond ig lUmnth of the two preceding years, lie month's total being 50,515 bales, gainst 80,-Il Ibales last year and 51,982 ales in 188~>; for the eight uiionithis the ggregato is 1, 107,5i;s batles, against ,071 ,81 7 bales ani NW1,761) bah(1, re pectiv'ely, for the samne period af the wo preceding seatsons. Thle nect move .ient for the io nth is alsoi helo w that hr April of IN88G, bunt C.iii ts aim ini rease ol ver fte samU mionithi in 1885 (it ,868 hales. Thei tot als are 301,804 bales his year, agatinst 59 , -i 8 hales ini 1886, iid 22,5:16 hales in 1 88c. N otwithstanid ing thei smaller 1month I's miovceiiet, the ggregate net for the season to ditto con inules ini excess of that for any similar icrit d ini our r(eordl. 'The (Chrioniclt ka.Ls t hat, iinilmmn itli the overlandh, reciiuts- iat the ports Lnrieg AXpri! recordt a idecLiuie from a car' ago9. In fait, the i iot arr1 ia hatve een less Ithan hal : what the iy werei. in phril, J88l0, retat'hiing 89, 18e; bales, ithi 1885 there is at loss.- at I.I,18 b-.ales, le total thien beinig 1103,75 baYs. Fwo lie eight month:, hoawever, t he aggre ate I, in excess of that fir (ei her 1885 56 I 88 I 85. Thei exports t(i foreign iort-s Lave fal len till very consderablAy iuring! the month, theu munblier of bale1( hiipled aggitegat inJg 1095,118, atginst 22, 1-1 a year ago, anti 186,892 in 1885. oni tmsh-dI withi lad8 year, the ttal te Ilay I recordsI ani excess of 559,871 b ales, ud the gaini ovtr 1881 85 is 583,4() alesa. l'ort stocks are nowv 290,05& iles less 1-him on Alaiy I, last year, ant bet dlecline t romj at yeiar ago ini the stockt t inttrior townis is h16,000 hales. Thli amnount of ctton marketed sinc< >eptembeir 1 in I188(1 7 is thus seen to be 4-,4 f, bles more than~ in 1885- 6, ant 22,781 batles mlore thin in 1884 -5. 'lb otal taukmigs b y spinners since Septenm icr 1, 1886, arec ],769,191 hales. Of thi ,mounit t, Sontthtrn spinners h avo takoi 31,0009 bales. Northiernt spinners hari p to May I taken 1,438,191 bales, a de rease from the corresponding period im 885- I of 145,625 bales, antd an incres ver the sam(e time in 188-i5- of 204,50t tales. A bright eye, clear skin, glowing fea tires, animatedi expressionl, andi a quick, irm tetp. The aro all scured biy ising l)r. Harter'~s Jronm Tonio, * - " tJ WAR AND JOURNALIM.. o How General Waahington Would Ua e Appreclated a Go6d Reporter. Moncure D. Conway reoently read in' New York a paper on "The Geuer and the Journalist in time of War" before e the Military Service Institution at Gov - ernor's I+land, New York. - Mr. Conway related his experienoedap a war correspondent during the Franco Prussian war. He contrasted the treat ment he and Murat Halstead received at the hands of the French, who turned thorn out of Metz, with the attention subsoquently shown them by order of Bismarok when they followed the general army. "Generals come and go, but the reporters and interviewers are always with us," ho said, "and the wirrlors of our time have got to come tgsome terms with thorn." Referring to an eminent English military authority, whom he did not name, Mr. Conway remarked: "I need not say that I do not mean Lord Wolseloy, for he is an eminent English humbug." It was the testimony of Gormany, ho declared that it was a de cided advantage to have correspondente with an army, and he never heard of a military authority or General who had expressed regret or found fault that courtesies woro extended to the corre spondents. In the discussion which followed Capt. F. V. Groan, who recently re signed from the United States engineers, and was tho United States military attacho with the Russian army during the war with Turkey, told of the surveil lanco exercised by the Russians over correspondents and their reports. Capt. Green paid a very high compliment to McGarraghan, whom ho rated as one of the greatest war correspondents. Major ,J. B. Ground told of the exactions of English military officials while he was with the army in Egypt. Col. W. (. Church gave a few experiences duiing the civil war. Gen. J. B. Fry, in closing, read this letter concerning cor-. respondents, written by Washington. CAMP or rmiE GLovE, July 19, 17i 7. To the Committee of Congess on a Visit to the Camp: A small traveling press to follow headquarters would be productive of many eminent advantages. It would enable us to give speedily ex act information of any military transac tions that take place, with proper com ments upon them, and thereby frustrate the pernicious tendency of falsehood and misrepresentation, which, in my opinion, of what complexion they be, are in the main detrimental to our cause, If the people had a channel of intelli gence that from its usual authenticity they could look up to with confidence, they might be preserved from that dlspondeney they are apt to falt into from the exaggerated picture our one mies and their emissaries among uscom monly draw of any misfortune we meet with. An ingonus man to accompany this press and be employed wholly in - writing for it would render it singularly beneficial. OIEO. \V ASHINoToN. A BITTER IIARANGUE. IThe Very IVild Talk of a Very Foolish Negro. (From the Baltimore Sni.) C A meeting of colored citizens was held in this city last night. The chairman stated that it was called to advocate a judicious emigration from those parts of the South where the colored people are subjected to unjust treatment to such parts of the United States where they enjoy the rights and privileges accorded to every citizen of the United States. That there aro many places in the South whore the colored people enjoy proper civil protection is an admitted fact. Our policy will be to encourage them to ro main there, for theoreason their position, to say the least, is fair. But we shall never cease our labors in the interest of those who are not so well oil'. E. 11. Smutton (colored) an ox-member of the North Carolina Legislature, was introduced, lie said: "In the matter of voting all kinds of device are practiced to defraud the colored people out of their votes. Throughout the Solid South laws have been made that no de vice, such as a p)icture of any kind, or even a (lot, should be placed on a ballot, that would enable the voters who are unalble to read to discriminate betwecn the Democratic and Republican tickets. Whenever such a ballot is found in the ballot box it is thrown out, and if found in the hands of a colored voter he is sent to prison for violating the election laws. In many counties the leaders among the colored people are arrested and sent to the penitentiary or murdered to intimi date their followere. By the landlord anmd tenant laws, if a colored man plants a crop) and gathmers it bofore the landilord makes a division of it according to his claims upon the tenant, the tenant is convictedl of frand and sentenced to 'tie p)eniteCntiary. By what is known as the 'justified law' of North Carolina, colored mien are prevented from going security tor each other by a law requiring such sureties to swear that they are worth ::J ,500( in real estate, which must be nt *nemlibored by mortgage and the party entirely out of debt. The whites will sell colored peop1)1 all the land they want, but they must agree to give the granmtor a mortgage on the land, and work it inj partnershuip until paid for. One my work on such terms for twenty years anid at its expiration will be in deb t, owning nothing. P~rovisions are sold to tenants at extortionate -prices p)ork at .I5 cents per pound, common flour at 5 cents, brown sugar at 10 cents, eto. Womch are hired at eighty-two por mohnthi. The schools in many coun ties are kept open omuly two and a haif months. If you undertake to keep an account of your work and wages and hlcd the employer to it, you are ac counted a bad 'niggor,' and must be got ten rid of, or you will spoil all other 'nliggers.' You must either escape for your life or be put mn prison on some protu' '- murored." ' u ir ~fon' OF InREhAND) is best (kld by sonme ;gures furnished by Mulhall, one -of thme most reliable statisticians of his day ie says that during Victoria's roignl t.er') ha'j died of starvation in Ireland 1,Z00,000 people; there have been1 evicted for non-payment of rent 3i,3t5,000; andl there have emigrated 4, 185,000)(. This is flity years' record of the reign of a good Queen! It needs no comm ent. When everything elsec:fails, Dr. Sage's Catarrhu liemedy cures.