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(l>r arts- , . "fisr * v ; >.; Til WEEKLY ill BIIOI THIS, gaoled lo ^flritulturc, |)ortitullurq, gotnoslit <8(01101115, jloliit Jiloratiire, politics, antl lltr (ff,iirrcnt .JJcics of the $35. VOL. XVI.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBBR 2, 1885. NUMBER 30. ??? . ur a n^ ? ? ? 1 mao i JAIL'S S ALiiS. State of South Carolina. COUNTY OF UNION. Court of Common Pleas. Ann II. Jeter, riainitff, against F. Camillas Jeter, et at., Defendants. JN obedience to an order made in the above entitled case by his Honor U. C. l'ressley, Circuit Judge, I will sell before the Courthouse door in the town of Union, on the first Monday in October, 1885, the following described property, to wit: THREE LOTS. All that lot of land lying, being and situate in the town of Union, State aforesaid, containing three acres, more or less. Said lot bounded by Church street, the Episcopal Church lot. Mountain street, and lots of Mrs. Hailey and others. Said lot will he sold in three lots, plats of which can be seen in ray office. TERMS OF SALE. One-half cash ,- the balance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, to be secured by a bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises; the purchaser to pay for papers. JAMES MUNRO. Muster's Office, Master for Union Co. Sept 10, 18tto. The State of South Carolina. COUNTY OF UNION. Court of Coinuioc Picas. Solomon Gregory, Plaintiff, against Jeremiah Gregory tt al., Defendants. IN obedience to an order made in the above entitled coso by his Honor \V. II. Wallace, Circuit Judge, 1 will sell before the Courthouse door, in the town of Union, on the first Monday in October, 188o, the following described property, to wit: SIX Til ACTS. All that certain tract of land lying, being and situate in Sanluc township, Union county, 8tate aforesaid, contaiuing three hundred and twenty-three acres, more or less, bounded by lands formerly of Robert F. Glenn, estate of L>. Goudelock. estate of William A. Sims and others. Said tract will be sold in six tracts, plats of which can be seen al my office. TERMS OF SALE. Cne-third cash,- the balance on a credit of one and two years in equal installment", with interest from day of sale, to be secured by bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises. Master s Office, JAMES MUN'RO, Sept. 10, 1885. Master for Union Co. State of South Carolina. COUNTY OF UNION. Court of Coiuuion Pleas. Chesloy McCreight, Cloughie McCrciglit and Wm. C. Jones, Senior, Plaintiff*, ayainat -William C. Jones, Jr., and John Howard, Defendants. >TN obedience to ni* orde~ uiaA? ir?/fee nhavo J. stated case by his Honor J. S. Cothran, Circuit Judge, 1 will sell before the Courthouse door, in the town of Union, within the legal hours of aalo, on the first Monday in October, 1885, the following described property, to wit: SEVENTY-TWO ACRES. All that certain tract of land lying, being and situate in Union township, Union county, Stale aforesaid, containing seventy-two acres, more or less, bounded by lands of John Brandon, William K. Davis, Levi Smith and the estate of Benjamin Hawkins, deceased. TERMS OF SALE. One-half cosh ; tho balance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, to he secured by note of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises. The purchaser to pay for papers. JAMES MUNRO, Master's Office, Master for Union Co. Sept. 10, 1885. State of South Carolina. COUNTY OF UNION. Court of Common Plans. John P. McKissick and Thomas J. Orr, Plainj -iT. "J") against David Orr, Jnmes Orr, Ueorgo Orr, William Orr, Jaue Williams, Robert Orr, Walter 0. Orr, Violet Martiuand Joliu Orr, Defendants. IN obedience to an order made in the aboveatated case by his Honor W. if. Wallace, Circuit Judge, 1 will aell before the Courthouse door, in the town of Union, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Monday in October, 1885, the following described property, to wit . SIX TRACTS. All that certain tract of land lying, being and situate in Union county, State aforesaid, containing two hundred and sixty-two acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Adam M. Little, Thomas P. Uault,-lands formerly owned by William 0. W. I'age and others. Said tract will be sold in six tracts, plats of which can be seen at my office. if;k.ms ur s.iLit;. One-third cash ; the balance on a credit of one and two years, In equal installments, with interest from day of sale, to be secure 1 by bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises. The purchaser to pay for papers. Master's Office, JAMES MUNKO, Sept. 10, 1885. Master for Union Co. Sept 18 87 3t IMPERATIVE ORDER. To Clean out the Streams. OrricK op County Commissioners, t Union, Sept. 8, 1885 f TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. WHEREAS, this Board has received several written and oral reports iu regard to the immediote necessity of removing all rafts and obstructions in the streams of the county?par ticulnrly asasanitnry necessity?and demanding the immediate action of this Board in the matter, a* a duly mole obligatory ujon the, County oommissiouers under the act of the Oeneral Assembly of this State, as embraced in the General Statutes, section 117H and UH1, which require that all land owners of this county shall remove from the running streams of water upon their lands all trash, trees, rafts, timber and other obstructions, during the months of March and September in each year. It is, therefore, the order of this Board that *11 persons of this County having streams on their lands will attend promptly to the compliance of the law above stated, without further notice, or action will be taken by this Board in the matter. JA.MKS T. DOUGLASS, C. H. C. C. U. C. C. Uauie, Clerk, B. C. C. Sep 18 37 . 31. HOW TO OEOW TOBACCO. Fractioal Directions by a Veteran Planter. Raleigh, N. C., September 16 1885.? There nro two kinds of soil favored by tobacco farmers. One is the rich black or dark brown soil, with a deep subsoil of gray ; the other n light top soil with a subsoil of clay. South Carolina affords both theso conditions. The former soil suits the culture of the heavy seed leaf; the latter is adapted to the now famous yellow or bright tobacco, which has brought so much wealth to North Carolina, and has actually revolutionized her agriculture in ten years. In South Carolina and North Georgia tobacco can be grown successfully, and it is a question of time only, and perhaps a very short time, when that culturo will be an important part of agricultural enterprise. It is doubtless the caso that the bright tobacco will be grown in your State, and as the directions for its cultivation apply with practically equal force to the dark tobacco they arc given. These directions are given by a veteran tobacco grower in Granvillo, tho most famous tobacco growing county iu the world. PREPARATION OK SEED REDS. Select a fine, gray moist spot, with sunny exposure, along the hollows or near littlo drains in tho woods, ltako off the loaves and lay down small poles?about three inches in diameter?four or five feet apart, all over tho sizo you wish the bed. Through the middle, on a width of eight or ten feet, cover with wood eightecu or twenty inches deep. Chink in with dry wood and brush sufficient to burn till the 'skids' or poles beneath arc consumed. Now, with hooks or hoes fastened to long handles, pull the remaining wood and chunks in opposito diroctious over a space of six or eight feet; throw on enough wood to burn as before, [ and so continue till all the space is gono over. Now clear off the chunks and coals, 1 aud hoe up with grubbing hoes to the depth of nbout three iuches, taking care to loosen 1 the soil without briogiog tho clay to the ' surface. Now make a liberal application j of hot; pen or hen manuro previously prepared by chopping fine. This is then chopped iu with hilling or weoding hoes 1 and tho soil made perfectly fine by repeated ! rakiugs. 1 If the location is flat lay off iu beds six feel wido, with small shallow trenches between for drains. If rolling, uono will he | need iJ. The bed is now ready for tho i seed. Mix well in about a peck of ashes, 1 one tablespoonful of seed to each forty < square yards. Mark off with hoc or rake I handle in widths of about four feet, and sow over, using about half the seed ; then. i , A .it. uoici nan. J lira 1 iUi<* I'- ' y is done to secure regular seeding. Now ( tramp tho patch over with the foot or com- I press the soil with a small roller, cover ! thickly with brush, fence in and ditch around to koep off surface water. TIME FOll PREPARATION OF IIEL)S. The bods can be thus prepared at any time, when tl e soil is sufficiently dry, from tho 15th of November to the 1st of March, aud no further attcntioh will be needed till the plants are well up and square or have four leaves. At this stage tho 'nursing' must begin. Sprinkle over at midday, or early in the afternoon, somo Gne concentrated fertilizer at tho rate of half a peck per fifty squaro yards, once or twice a week, and iucrease tho quantity as the plants grow. Fresh stable or hen mauure, dried in the sun and finely pulverized, aud applied at the rate of half a bushel?more or less, aocordiog to strength?to the fitly square yards is about the best substitute for n concentrated fertilizer. Tho point is to bring tho plants on early, in time to transplant, from the 10th to the 20th of May. After tho plants begin to cover the I'rnnnd rnmovo thn hrnah mnk nut tho grass and weeds, continuing to manure as before directed. Not less than forty square yards should be buruod and seeded for every acre alotted for the crop. TIIE 80IL Foil THE CHOI'. A light gray sandy soil, with yellow clay subsoil, is tho favorite, but tolacco of equally fino texturo and flavor is made on fine white floury land with similar subsoil. On any light, thin soil with a growth of huckleberry, sour-wood, chinquepin, persimuion, post-oak, black jack or cither of them, the fiuo yellow will grow. Souio of the best planters select old fields grown up in pines or broom-sedge. These produce tho very brightest wrappers of a fine silky texture, but generally the virgin wood-land gives tho desired texture, with more weight and elasticity. FERTILIZERS. A liberal application of fertilizers is an important requisite. In the choice of fertilizers thjre is a difference of opinion. Thero arc a dozen or more good varieties. Your rioh phosphatos, with special treatment, will givo as good and satisfactory a fertilizer, perhaps, as the worm affords. Home-made fertilizers, rioh compost, &c , are of special value, also. PREPARING T1IK GROUND FOR TIIK PI. A NTS. New woodland, or ' piney ' old field, requiro the sauio preparation in winter or early spring as for corn or cotton. In March or April the soil should he uiade fiue by repeated dragging or ploughing. Now, with shovel plough, lay oft' the rows from thrco to threo and a half feet apart, the stronger soil requiring the wider rows. If home made manure is to bo used ? stablo and cow^pen?let it bo mixed arid scattered thinly in tho drill furrow, so as to go over the whole crop area, and follow with tho concentrated fertilizer nt tho rale of 200 to 250 pounds per ucrc. IT none of tho former is used, apply the latter nt tho rate of 1500 lo 150 pounds according to strength of soil. The land is then bed dcil with au ordinary turning plough, and with a hoe umde into hills three feet aparl froui ceutro to centre. Smooth off these until they present a flat surface of 15 or 2(J inches in diameter aod 'pat' (or strike gently with the flat side) in the ceutrc with the hoe. Now they arc roady for setting the plants when the proper scasou arrives. The making of hills with the hoc is an expensive and tedious process, but is still almost universally practiced. Kxcept in very rough new land the following process answers equally as well or better, and saves a great amount of time aud labor. T-ke two boards one and a half inches thick, six or eight inches wide, and about four feet long. Slope one cud of each to a point and back some twenty inches. Set these on the edge with slopjs up and nail on iuch boards fivo feet long to cover from end to end the two pieces. Turn this "upside down and you bnvo au implement shaped like the end of a flat boat, with staples; attach a chain to the front or pointed corners, fasten a single-tree midway the chain, aud nail on some rough handles, a single horse is hitched and walks betweeu two rows, the implement reaching over and smoothing two beds at onco. It can bo sufficiently weighted with stones or a log of wood to press down the beds as flat as desired. 1A.. !.!. _? ?. ?&itui mm uiNu a ngni snuvci plough and marK nnrosa threo feet apart, and the hills are made without a hoe at one-fourth or fifth the expense in the ordinary way HOW TO TRANSPLANT THE PLANTS. If the seed or plant beds have been well nttcuded to, the plants will be large enough to transplant by the first or second week in May. This is done after n shower, called a 'season,' and the ground must be sufficiently moist to secure 'a stand.' The plant is set by menus of a peg about six or seven inches long and out inch in diameter. The peg is inserted about two or thrco inches deep in the hill and withdrawn, when the plant is placed iu the openiug and the soil pressed to the roots. It is a rule that when the soil falls iu and tills the opening made by the planting peg, the season' is too light aud the plants will not live. If the 'season' is very wet, the soil ihould only be closed 'o the roots, as too much pressure will cause it to bako and injure the plants. TIIK PROPER SIZE OP PLANTS. The nronor siv.n fur nliinfinir iu ?k*? i r z?,u " "?u plants liavc fivo or six leaves, three to five inches long. They are drawn with the liaud from the seed bed cno by one and :arricd, generally in baskets, to the field, from which they arc dropped on the hills ?oue to each?by small boys and girls, ?fa good many planters to wash the roots before they are set, claiming that they live better, but the larger number set them as they are drawn from the beds. At every succeeding 'seasou' till the first day of .July the fieid should be gouo over and the missing hills replanted. It is generally considered satisfactory if a 'good stand' is obtained by the lOth of June, but the earlier the better. THE PLAN OF CULTIVATION. In eight or teu days after planting, or as soon as the plants begin to take root, the hill should bo scraped down with weediug hoes. It is not usual to plough new laud at the first working, but the plough is used first on old laud, by ruuuing close alongside the plants and throwing off a furrow, while the hoes follow to weed down nud draw a little fresh soil to the plants. The second ploughing follows in (juick succession and the whole row is broken up by running three times with a shovel plough. The hoes aguiu follow to draw more soil to the plants, giving them a broad, flat hill. Then again, quickly follows tho third and tinal ploughing, the hoes agnin following to finish with a large and elevated hill to the plants. The cultivation should bo quick and thorough, and uot continued beyond the middle of July. The last ploughing may be doue with a cotton sweep, which is fast growing in favor of that purpose. 'PRIMING* AND 'TOPPING.' As soon as the plants are large enough, a few of tho bottom leaves are broken off, usually from three to six inches above the surfaco of the hill, and the bud is broken out, leaving from ten to fourteen leaves on the stalk. The former process is called 'priming,' the latter 'topping.' Too high priming as well as topping delays the growth of the plant, and as early maturity is all-important to successful curing, the geucrnl practioc is to priuio low and top at not exceeding ten leaves, unless tho plant: promise to be very large, in which case nore leaves ave left to prevent too coarse a growth, if the seasou is wet and the plants luxuriaut and vigorous, higher top ping will bo required, and if dry, lower it ir the practico of some planters to tof high, early in tho senson, and if afterward; it be found that too uiany leaves have becc left it is easy to remove thuui. Upon the good judgement of the toppci depends the successful maturity of tlx crop, and none but skilled hands shoult undertake this work. It requires expert encc to be ablo to tell from the appearance of the plant how many leaves should b< left, nml nothing save practice can givi thi*. Generally thcro is but little toppinj dono till tlio cultivation is finished, it i then continued from week to week unli all the plants nro topped. As the seasoi advances the number of leaves left must b less and less in order to bring the lat plants to maturity; The topping should b finished by or bothro tho 10th of August If any, but few plains should ho allowed t remain untopped after this dato. Successful management at this stage o tho crop d.'^icndi greatly upon tho goo 1 judgement of tho planter, who must be governed by tho oppoarance of tho crop ! and the early or late Reasons; the great I desideratum being to bring in as "much ! weight of pbiut as can be matured in time i for curing. ! 'WORMING* AND 'SUCK.ERINO.' Thc^worms are not usually plentiful or troublesome till the topping begins. Sometimes, however, they uiako their appearunco soon after the crop is planted. Wormiug is slight work and can be done by girls or boys, who will be apt to keep them off if prizes are given for the lirgest number caught, or some plan adopted to create emulation or rivalry among the catchers. The crop should be gono over at least ouce if not twice a week. As long as it remains injUm field tho worms will continue to cut auiA. t tho leaves, and nothing T)ut (lie moss untiring watchfulness and labor will keep thorn down. Very soon after the topping is commenced the plants will begin to pour out nuckers. These should be allowed to grow mors than three or four inches beforo they nro pulled off. Both wormiug aud suckcring can go on at the same time, and it is , necessary to go over as often for one as the other. 'Eternal vigilance' is not in this case the 'price oflibcrty,' but is absolutely necessary to secure a good crop with whole leaics. The suckers make tho leaves light and the worms make litem ragged.? Special, Cor. iVcwi and Courier. Sow a Small Field to IIye?Every one who keeps cattle or poultry should sow nfc ln.isf: n flmol 1 naf/iK _- ---w- ? uwfwn p iwa i?u miiiur iyu uvuvy full. A few square reds of rye, convenient to the poultry house, will bo a great treat to the fowls during the mild days of winter and spring wheu ordinary green feed is unobtainable. It may be sown as lute as the middle of October for spring use, but if to be fed iu fall and winter the earlier it is sown after July the better. For cattle, rye is an excellent crop if fed when it is tender, many make the mistake of lcltiug it get its full growth before beginuiug to cut it. Every farmer can find a plucc for rye alter early potatoes or corn, or ou inverted sod where the grass is run out. If it require ! the s|iuiuicr months for growing we should valucj it less, but rye grows when the grouud would otherwise bo unoccupied, so that what/fodder is made is uearlv all clear gain, i Few farmers who have once grown a small field if rye for feeding cows early in spring in t..aW :hvM timesas much as can be used when young aud under,disappointment may result, llyc, weli cured, makes very fair hay, but the , s/^son for cutting it is not usually remarkAble for its good hay weather. So do not get excited over rye for fodder, but be sure and pfU iii a little for the cattle ami the liens. '1 wo bushels of seed per acre will give a g^od thick growth, but less is sufficient if to be allowed to ripen its seed. On hill sides a crop of winter rye is useful in preventing rains from washing the soil away. The stubble and roots ploughed under after the crop is removed also improved the land by tilling it with an abundance of vegetable matter. Fertilizing salts are also retained in tlu soil, which otherwise might leach away during the fall and spring. We should keep our laud occupied by some kind of crop as much of the time as possible. Idle acres always represent idle capita!, and idle capital keeps many farmers poor. Whole Loaf oit No IJiikai).?New York Prohibitionists are ahead of their brethren in Texas. At their recent State convention they passed the customary de. maid for a law absolutely forbiding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages and if they cannot get that they want no I * I _ A ! A _ I I A^ - 1.4 . A 1. - I'l... icgisiiuiuii in an iii rjguiuiu mu wiusny business. No rum or free ruui is the way they put it. Tho Gazette agrees with the New York &tn,that 'this is uot tho language of sensible ami practical temperance reformers.' They want legislation which can be carried into i effect and which will accomplish its intou! ded purposes; and prohibition has never dono and will never do that. I y What has succeeded better than any ; other attempt to mitigate the evils of tho ! liquor traffic is high license, lu all the : States where such a law has been passed it has worked like a charm, and tho more we see of its oporation the more thoroughly wo arc > convinced that it is the most effective rem * edy for tho worst evils of the liquor busi1 ness which has yet been tried in the ? United States, r j Experience shows that prohibition is im1 possible in excut ion but high license is actually enforced wherever it has boon im^ posed aud the testimony as to its great 3 practical beuefits is without contradiction. It diminishes tho number of liquor < Haioons, improves ineir cnaracier ana * the character of thoso who keep :i thetn, makes every licensed dealer an ally 0 of the authorities in compelling obedience e to the law, diminishes drunkenness and ? brawling, and brings into the public trcas' ury a vast nuiount of mouey, thus decreasing the taxes and enhancing the ,f prosperity of the communities which enjoy d its benefits. '*> FISHING FOR SNAKES. Tho writer placed a St. Patrick fly a black June, end a lively minnow where he was directed * a ud gradually brought them in, not even a rock-bass arising at the tempting lure. Another cast; a splash as if the father of all bass had struck, and.the slondcr rod bent liko a whip. Look out for him, cried tho expert, as a long, slender object seemed to shoot into the air, and entwined around tho Hue, then Kudddenly disappeared to rush off with the line. Eels, we suggested, working carefully at the reel and wishing for a donkcy-engnie attachment. No eels about that, replied uiy friend, as his lino rushed out in a s mi tar manner, but *,if?kevn?*d great snakes, too. Do o,'t land him in the boat, he shouted, as the capture came wriggling over-hand in his dircciiou head up. Now, then! The boatman seized a land iu?-uuk imu nuuu iuhucu a itvoiy uiuck watersnake, thr jc feet lung, whoso forked tougue darted out viciously, and whoso eyes snapped with rage. You see, said the original suako-fiiherman, I have a Irion 1 who is making a collection of snakes, and he wanted mo to collect all T could. L didn't know how to do it without hurting them, until one day I was here and pulling along, trolling for anything I could get, whou suddeulv I felt a jerk, and reeled in a snake larger than any 1 have seen here, and since then I have caught several. I tell you, they're game, ho added, and there's a regular convention of thorn in here, as the rod bent agaiu under the pressure. It's a new thing to take a fly on a snake, said the excited tishormau, working away; and talk about game! They've inure tricks than s whole family o( bass. Hut, to tell the truth the tir.st one I took about broke up our party. As I said, wo wore pulling aloug, and my housekeeper sat in the steru holding the rod, when all at once she had a bite that almost took the rod out of her hands. I saw the long tail fly out of the water and cried out that it was an cel. So she reeled in, uud in a minute the biggest old water-snake that you ever saw cauio rolling alongside. That settled it. Down went the rod and she took a flying leap for the bow of tlic boat, but iho liuc got around her dress, and she somehow jerked the reptile into lite boat, and I tell you sbc yelled when she saw it twisting alter her. 1 gave the boat a shove, and by luck we bit the shore, and the way we all fell out was a caution. 1 landed in the water and not one of the flics in in} log; but my fishermere' .IUTTT 'miifti a it'll ** mo?v , , ? % I uir. She struck land, however, and)*uiado for the woods, screaming lire and murder in three languages, and that was the last I saw of her. No. siie isn't running yet. She broke away from the lino in going through the woods, and walked homo, and all the women folk-: have combined in calling me a brute ever since for scaring her half to death. 1 got a good ducking, and, between you and me, I was about as frightened as she was. That's the way I discovered this snake fishing, and when you get the hang of it it rather breakes up the monotony of ordinary fishing. There is always something exciting ah iut it. and when you couie down to variety it takes the cake. Now, when you laud a bass he jumps into the air, wriggles, tights, and dies; but a good big suake don't die until his head is chopped off, and then bc'li hold up his tail and wave it at you. The other day L brought a man up here who had been all over the world, bad shot ele puaiiis in -vinca, cnaseu uie uius&. u.\ in the tar North, limited ou ovcry continent under the sun, yet?what was it he said, William? asked the Judge, appealing to the boatman. He iaid, replied the man, with a grin, that he'd never had so much excitement iu a chunk in iiis lite, and he told me afterwards that he had the jim-jams without tastiu' liquor. How? Why, hiui and the Judge b?th struck water-snakes to once, lie had one of these reels that multiplies four limes, and somehow both snakes got jerked into th : boat at the same time, and at'ore !.c knowed it one ol 'em made a rush up his pants' leg. Wall, continued Il?o oarsman, leaning back, with a loud haw-haw at the reco lection, I've seen ground and lofty tuinbliu, as they call it, at the circus, hut notion' to heat his leap. Ho gev a yoll and grabbed the critter through his panfs, made a slip and over lie went, nigh tipping over the boat, and slioulin' for uic to pull him our, out of one side of his mouth, and sweariu' at the .1 udge out of the other. It was up and down aud roly-poly, I kin tell jUU. At lust I soo thecriucr's tail astickiu' out alongside Ilis stockiu, and workin' up and down jest like a cat docs when she's mad. L made a grub for it and tried to jerk it out, all the time tho Colonel's eyes stick in' out so't you could have hung your rod on 'em ; but the first yank I give, the fly stuck on tho inside of his pants, and tho thing wouldn't enmo either way. Then ho went to gittiu' off his clothes; vest, suspenders, and panta was ally in' through the air for awhile. Alter he got his pants off, I'm blest if the hook wasn't stuck in his drawers, and the snako wound around his leg, and the way he got oil' them things was a caution. Hut they was tied around ankles in a hard knol and when I jerked 'cm off, there he wat un his back, his tect all mixed up, a-gaspin and swearin'. I never laughed so much in my life, sartin. llito ? No, they're as harmles ai chickens; live on little fish and young frogs that's what makes 'em so eager to take : fly ; they'll take most anything that look: like a fish or a lly. ? Cor. Chi la. Times. DEFERRED NEWS ITEMS. i A Sickening Stort From Ohio.? Akron, O.; i September 24?Several carcasses of diseased pork hare been seized in Akron markets. An investigation shows that bog cholera exists in every quarter of the county, several hundred porkers being down with the disease. As soon as it appears the owners kill the ntUicted hoes and send I hem to market. The discovery has caused much commotion in this city, mid Council is naked to forbid the sale of pork in Akr?n for a month. A Labor IIiot ix Cleveland.?Cleveland, September 24.?If it had not been for a notice posted to-day in the yards of the Cleveland rolling mills conceding prices a general at lacK upon nil the mil's would have been made tomorrow morning by a mob of 3,0<K) men. In the evening the men who had returned to work before the notice was posted wore received by ' howling mobs of strikers as they left the shops, and stones were thrown and pistols fired, but no one was reported fatally injured. The news from the East is warlike. The Austrian army is being mobilized. Severe fighting has occurred between Turks and Albanians at Djakovo. Both sides lost heavily. Tiir Tournament at the State Fair.?We are informed that there is now little room to doubt that the proposed tournament will be ono of the attractions at our next Fair. The matter is in the hands of several of our most spirited young men, and Col. Duncan hns promised every assistance to make it a success. A large number of gentlemen in various parts of the State have intimated their anxiety to take part, and others will be communicated with at once who it is believed will participate. If the proper efforts are put forth it is evident that this interesting feature can be innde on? of the most attractive of the muny inducements to attend the Fair, and will result in bringing together hero a large number who would not otherwise come. One of the conditions of a large gathering is cheap tares on all the railroads, and the authorities should address themselves nt once to securing a low fare, one which n itself win oe mc uuiuccrneiil to travel, ami adrertisc the public of the fact at the earliest moment, so that every one who would like to como cau make their arrangements in time to do so.? Columbia Register. Jersey Justice.?New Brunswick, N. J., September 2d.?Mrs. Elizabeth Hendricks, convicted upon charges growing out of bru'al treatment of a girl whom she had obtained from a charitable institution, was to-day sentenced to pay a fine of $600 upon each of the two charges and to ten year.*' ???? -:-*? Tiik British Revolution.?Loudon, September 14.?An immense popular meeting was held here to-night, at which orations were delivered by Messrs. Brndlaugh, Morley, Chamberlain and others. The liall was jiaeked by an audience numbering 7,0110 persons, and outside the building fully 20,000 more were assembled. The utmost good humor prevailed. Chamberlain was twenty minutes in getting through the crowd. He made a slashing election speech, but lite only now and important point in it was his vehcmont declaration that he would never become a member of a Cabinet which did not adopt reform measures, includ. ing reform of taxation laws, free elementary education and the acquisition of laud by local authorities in order to create small tenants. Oue of the features of the evcuing was Newman Hall's reference to the royal family, llis remarks brought forth a storm of derision, which lasted fully five minutes. Wit rue tiie Cold W'katiikk Came 1'iiom.? New York, September 28.?Snow fell in the Catskill Mountains and at Mil ford, Mass., today, the mercury fulling to IKt0, a fall of 4U? in twenty-four hours. Bennington, Vt., September "28.?The first snow storm of the season occurred to-day, supplemental to a heavy rain which began last night. The m.-rcury is falling and a heavy wind is blowing. Derby Line, Vt., September 1M.?Snow fell yesterday to a depth of three inches. Much damnge was done to crops. The thermometer is 30 degrees above zero this morning. Acciuknt on tiik Wrstkrn N. C. It. It.? Charlotte, N. C., September 23.?A broken rail near Warm Springs on tlie Western North Carolina ltailrond yesterday morning threw the mail car and tirst aud seoond class coaches of the West-bound passenger train from the truck. A'iss Kpotts, of Richmond, Va., received severe bruises, Mrs. Lawenback of Louisville, Ky., was cut about, the head, and .Mail Agent Chelsea was injured in the back. The wounded passengers were transfetred to an East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia train and carried to their destination. The cars were not damaged. Frank Mosks Onck Mors.?Rostou, September 2o.?In the Superior Court to-Jiy Franklin J. Moses, ex-Kepublicau Governor of South Carolina uuder Reconstruction, pleaded guilty to an indiclmeut charging him with obtaining money by false pretences from ex-Mayor Cobb and others in February, 1881. He will be sentenced on Thursday next, lie has recently served a term in Middlesex county jail for a i similar offence. A Nkw Railroad Kntkrprisk.?A meeting was lield at Triangle last Wednesday, in the , interest of a narrow gunge railroad, which is to tun from Fruitland, in Kdgefield county, via Ninety-six and Triangle to the city of Green, ville. The proposed road, which is now re' garded an assured fact, will traverse a portion i of this county that is now somewhat isolated, but nevertheless one of its best sections, and t ought to have better railroad facilities. It is ; proposed to connect this road with a narrow1 guage "ow ,n contemplation and pretty certain * of success, between Augusta aud Newberry.? I,aurtn*rillt Herald. r