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^ VOL. XXIV.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRlXliiC JS IEMBER 8,1893. NUMBER 49. / ??????^^i i- .ihb m^ii i i .mM-rrv L? Jirtnc? is the only European country wWoh hss to-day fewer able men then it had thirty years ago. * There have been no train or stage robberies in California since that State declared those offenses to be capital. The San Francisco Examine? thinks that the tendeffoy of* the ministers of E||^d the Goepektb f}n<l their text in the DBm* daily papeT is not to be censured. ?, BQttfl^PQHHBHHHfKrlVwE^th oenturj ^TmC gbipg tliio world OH sewer gas," Rmfci|tq?a.whatever in fact and no ground v& y^ for bej&rving in the theory that the ( emanations froto a sower arc in au\ , square miles in extont^^RES^Vfe ' , * caused, explains the New York Post, * by the sand blowing out of tho river j ? until a high embankment is formed | along tho shores, and behind the bank 8 . are formed the lakes. - ? ? . It would pnzzlo the most profound ^ psychologist, the New York News t thinks, to attempt an exnlanation of r Now Yorks suicide statistics. Great ? business depression naturally accounts e for an increase in the number t ? of, 81 " ^^but analysis of the F statitf' % some interesting ^ ,/erage suicide, strange a Aft. is not the poor Ie * . man. /) person Vno Beeks "oblivion ^ in self destruction is usually he who t has livod in comfort if not in luxury, i and who is too cowardly to face finan- c cial reverse like a man. He lacks the pluck necessary to go to his home and o frankly disclose the truth. So he es- I capes by a pellet of lead, and leaves his family with only the stained name ^ of a suicide. Poverty is not tho chief o breeder of self-destruction. Perhaps the most prolific causo of all is tho sadden realization that several down- a ward steps must bo taken on tho social j adder. .1 ! ! ??? ! I II J i) Tho zone system of railroad rates ? which ih so successfully operated in * ir i t - J * 5 I nungary, nan mauo a ueep impression upon James L. Cowlcs, well known in railroad circles. Ho says: "Distanco eosts practically nothing in the transportation of freight or of passengers, and, therofore, distance should l>o disregarded in the discrimination of rates. The rote now charged for tlio shortest distance for any particular service is the rate that should bo adopted for all distances. Whon once a train starts from Boston to San Francisco, thero isn't a man living that can toll the difference in cost of running that train, whether a passongei leaves the train at the first station out of Boston or goos through from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast." Mt. Cowl es further says that there is not ton dollar* difference between < running a train from Chicago to New York, full of passengers or empty. V Says tho Washington btar: Warburton Pike, an. Englishman and an oxplorer, has just roturned to civilization after a lengthy sojourn in Central Alaska, which, by the way, is more of qn uncertain land than was Central Africa prior to the advent of Stanley on tho dark continent. Mr. Piko is satisfied that except asagamc preserve tho interior of Alaska is worthless, and at present anything like a dispute over that allegation is not possible because there is no one who can argue ~.:u. at_ l..,* n ,?;ii 1 Wltu mi l u\rf uuf IV HU? uu nv?? vv ^ remember that English opinion as to a country's valuo is not always reliable. Great Britain might still have possessed much of the northwestern territory now belonging to the United States - tho States of Washington, Iduho and Montana?had not the brother of the then Premior of England been traveling in the disputed region. He was a sportsman, and because the salmon in tho Columbia River would not rise to a flv he said that tho country " <.? net. worth tpmireling over. His testimony was accepted, but in view of later developl * monts seemed to be rather ridiculous GOV. TILLMAN'S MESSAGE. SOUTH CAROLINA'S LEGISLATURE MEETS AT COLUMBIA' The Message of the Governor A Vigorous Document, Which Accuses the Fedrral Courts of Encroachm* nt* Upon State's Bights. He Does Not Favor Government Ownership. ^Columbia, 8. C.?The General Assembly of South Carolina met Tuesday at ooon. 1 mi'cations are that the >?ea*fn will btrof uuaiuil importance. ? Hitherto the custom of that body has Wen to ad* journ early on the morning of ChriatmftiP y^^y^uma^^giportant mattcrs claim rtwas read fn both House sad pjjP^tho^yafl^ they met. language and at great length the decisions oT the United States Supreme Court and the Circuit Court on the conflict of jurisdiction in regard tr* -?zi-r tr?U? bj ? orate constable upon . a? railroad *hch was in. the hands of a United States receiver .appointed by the court. In the course of his remarks h-j says: 4 There is no law . (or th*s unwarranted interference on the part of the United States Court; there is nothing in the United States constitution to warrant it The au'bors of that instrument nevor [fared to set up any such claim, and th? court only obtain* it by a violent ssumpLion of power, which is the essence of tjrunny. That it required a century for judicial insolence to go so f?r is sufficient pr&of. tha'- it hxs no basis Iff law or ^jusiro, and could only spring from Uy?t perpetual grasping afteit more power eM'h liha?ha?a(jU;rys jA.ihe judges'df tho [Jnitcd States Circuit and District Oourta? 3ne by one the reserved rights of the Jtutes are being absorbed by the Federal udiciary and it is high time for Congress ;o take the matter ?n bands, and by <x)r?ss limitations restrain the unliccuseu md iniquitous powers exorcised by the :ourts in this mutter of receiverships. "There is talk in tome quarters, and a growing demand for government ownerhip of railroads, for the6c corporations, vhethcr in the bands of receivers or of lie owners themselves, have fouml such ??dv Mnd willing tools among the Fediral judges, who arc ever ready to staad >ct\vccn them and the people in their ffort* to restrain them within reasonable 1 rounds, that no other mode of relief ap>ears possible. This is not a desirable olution of the problem, and I do not dvoc?te if, because a ULU control would j Imost inevitab'y be used as an engine in lections bv the use of employes at the. 1 ripowcrT~-^e <; o a republican form of government. "But ho?e who manipulate nnd control these orporatious, aud who grow rich in 1 ohbing the people through them, hold 1 p their hands in horror at the mere idea 1 f gov? rnment ownership of ruilroaris. Jut whnt have we in the United States t this time? What is the condition of 1 large number of these corporations? Jpwards of thirty-three thousand miles f railroads, one-tilth ol the total milege in the United States, and rcpresenttig a capital of more than $1,400,000,000, rc today in the hands of receivers, who ro but th ; servants or partners of the udges. "We have here government own<r.-hi> r control (at h ast in t iTect) tbe mo t bsolutu that is possible to exist. The ^odeial judiciary, without any staiutes m the subject, or comparatively few, Uniting or defining their por.er-*, courol one-fifth of the railroads in the Jn:ted States without risponsibility to inybody; without anyone to overlook hem <r their agents, the receivers; vitliout any accounting to be had for he millions and hundreds of millions of lollars of these wards in chancery; is.ung receivers' certifie??t? o which arc preerred lttns on the properties; nsisting he State'9 ollicers when tiny attempt to :ollect taxes; amsting our constables or the slightest interference, even, with reight they haul; baiguining with the ect ivers lor the employment of kins)eoplc or favorites?f.n<l Congrc-8 sits dly by watching tbi* more than Russian ibsolutism with utter indifference. The inholy marrisge between the 'dignity' of he Fedtr d Couit and these harlot cor10 ations must b annulled and the ownrs of tlie bonds made to uiuhrstand h .t there is a p int beyond which the path nee of thcbmtc w ill not permit then, o {. O " Cone err ing the Sea Island sufTeiers, lov Tillm in says : "Th.-27th of August ast witnessed the most disastrous stonn ind tidal wave on the coast from Ibauort to Charleston of which our ?sr.al? live any record. The exact number of ives lost is unknown, but it waaconsidjrably over a thousand, and there was a otal loss of crops on the more expose ! stands all the w ay from John's Island to Hilton Head Over one-half of the louses were also blowu down or wash d iway, and tl e unfortunate people would H ive ion*; since vucciiuiucu 10 htnrvaiiuii but for the timely assistance and charity rendered by our own people ai.d those ivina abroad. The management of the *o:k of relief was takon in hand hy local committer, but believing that methodical bmii.ess arrangement and i-xpeiience were better, Miss Clara B trior, of the Red Cross Association, with Ihi lieutenants, was asked to take charge of it, and this noble lady with her corps of assistants has been on the ground since the 20th of September, laboring in the cause of humanity. The extent of the disaster cannot bj understood except by personal inspection. The question of ielu f and how best to administer is a dithcu't one; even the amount absolutely necessary to prevent starvation is unknown. Although the State is poor and the crops everywhere a failure, it is not lie w ill of South Carolina that any ol her citizens, no matter how humble they may be?even the poorest negroes? should starve, and when you send your | committee to investigate the phosphate I industry at Beaufort as recommended by the phosphate commission, it would he j well, I thiuk, to instruct it to leport fully also on the condition of these1 ( lard*, and as to the advisability of an appointment to aid Mm Barton in re ieving the suffering which i ,inevitable." The Governor aaysagre.t many suf(> rera have appealed to hie f-r relief in tl a matter of text a and he rhcothmeadi that the ,4tj -nrp n ller General be allowed t<> suspend the co!Ucti->a on all property within tho d e vasts t<d regions in B'-Kufort, Colleton, Berkeley and G< orgetown, and to remit the taxes of all kinds where in his judgment it is proper to do so. No other course Is prnc'ioable or feasible, because the terri orial limits Cannot be described; exci pt On gi-netal lerhi?, tnd even within these limits arc many who cannot pat ;* thouf serious injiry.to thcms lve.-, and the mrfttie may be safely lef- tQ the li-crctiou of t)? Comptroller General - Savannah and Jacksonville have | falsedthe quarantine against J3run?- J wick, Gk Charles and Will O'Neil were arrested for stealing hones from 8. W. and A. T. Tedder, of CheetarAald 1 county, S. 0. The Charlotte, N. O., police captured them ih BeVrjrhill township, Mecklenburg county. ?. E. Thompson, of Fredericksburg, Va., #to is walking on a wager to Bogota, South America, has arrived at ' the City of -Mexico. Ofle condition of his trip is that he must imk carry money with him- He has been hospi- \ ^ably. received in Mexioo, but he nearly ijtarvod in Texas. Arkansas has . 1Q.00&. farms which. produce 600,000<bttifc*of cottonj W?jt-o . 000 hushclnqf of wheat. From the ArkanseeforSae \ are cut over $20,000,000 worth of lunjber every year. ~ ] Gen. John Gibbott, of the tJilited \ States' army, retired, delivered a leo- j ture at Winchester, Vs., under the aimpices of Christ's Episcopal Church, i and for the benefit of tho poor. Hia 1 subject was: "My life on th? plxius, < or what 1 know about the Indiana." j A report ia current that Major Tun 1 ner Morehead, who has been in Europe 1 several months, has effected a* sale of the Cape Pear and Tadkin Valley railroad to a syndicate of English aanitalluts, Duplin eonnty, N. 0.,will renew its attempt to have the courts declare the present method of distributing the public school taxes - Unconstitutional. instituted another shit againfit tnr State Board of Education. At present, the counties collect and keep the j school fund, but the Duplin board wish it all to go into tho State Treas- ' ury and to bo thence distributed per capita. 1 A huge bear was brought by express ^ from llavelock, in Craven county, to ' Ncwbern, N. C., Tuesday. It was ' killed by three sportsmen?two of 1 them Northern gentlemen?who had gone out doer hunting. It was killed at Great Lake helow Newborn, and a few miles from the Atlantic and North Caroliua railroad. The bear was a magnificent specimen, six feet in i length with a glossy black coat of hair and great rolls of fat when dressed. His estimated weight was 450 pounds. i The three principal agricultural ex- 1 hibits at the Georgia State Fair at Augusta were won by women, Misses Zoe Brown,of Hancock county, M. Rutherford, Sumter couuty, and Annie Dennis, of Talbott county. While Governor Reynolds, of Delaware, was in his private office at the State house at Dover, some unknown person hurled two huge rocks and a stone cuspidoro through the window, with intent to either injure or kill. The President made his Thanksgiving dinner off a 27-ponnd, pink and white, plump variety of turkey, shipped from Westerly, Conn., by Horace Vose, who has selected the presidential bird since Grant's time. L. Bertram Cady, a swell Fifth avenue merchant tailor, while at the theatre in New York the other night, spied through his opera glasses, Albert MeMillen, who had stolen $2,800 from him in 1889 and escaped. A policeman was summoned, and the thief arrested. Duella Welz, a pretty type-writer of Cincinnati, sued Will Syberly, a rich shoe man's son, for breach of promise, and the jury found that she was damaged $10,000 worth. The Spartanburg (S. C.) Spartan says: Charlotte hasstarted its seventh cotton mill. This ono is for weaving towels, counterpanes and the like. All that Charlotte now needs is a good soap factory to go along with the tOWCIS. The will of the late Alfred W. Shields, of Biehmond, Va., Icavcs his farm to his two colored servants, and an estate of $18,000 to the University of Virginia. Prisoner Painted. Uoanokk, Va.?The case of D. H. Mitchell, charged with murdering M. Dyer, was given to the jury and the verdict was manslaughter, and the penalty fixed at five years in the penitentiary. Mr. Mitchell, when the verdict was announced, fainted, and for some time it was thought he was dead. A physician was summoned, but before he arrived Mitchell resumed iiis normal condition. The eounsel | will make an appeal for a new trial. I Over eighty per cent, of the ship* I ping of the world is bnilton the British isles, and nearly one-half of this on 1 tbo Olydeu " THE PKOCEE^MB Of the General Assembly iJ| BUI 11 Capitol CoimmpUjgg &Mam< of d from Dajr to Doflp^ Sod Day?The followiBffluy bill occupied the moat of the to the House: That the fcl'owipgJpBcora in th'a state shell receife the f(B$Wiog salaries, sod rio other CHni&aation, to wit: Odvefnor'd prltatS umtary, $1,350; Gorernoi's mcsioogt r, 3|4o0; Sec retery of 8tete and keegfr of Stite House sod grounds, $(,?. clerk of Secretary of Bute, r\ a s i i r d Jh^HLi *fP n" bo>k 300^ ?^ ?u ^ Attorney gu.ircme^^| Court, each^ Court.j^l a n c e '"ce.OQ?rt!S"* 5?'?"?i;??r. :eois P?r jT" J jJEp a<i J meetings, {?iu? l&^rpt f** t< c *?J toilet torfgfrl;, wHV? iciior ft>rnfMtdifcd| Kjpo shall r<ceive i; salary ??rri? per diem tod mileage as on^^Bb nf the General Assembly while in *^HPVce UP?D *be tessiooa thereof; StaMWibrad^p, $800; nembers of the ganiaMfcd House of Re3r< sentatives, eacb^^Her diem during my regular or specMHpion and 5 c< nta MUtlib *^W to arflSwuruing thrreienato, $800 ; assistant cleric of 6cn?t*>, (250; reading e'erk of Senate, $230 ser;eant-at-arm?, of Senate, $200; clerk of Qou?e of Hcpieseota'.ives, $800; assist mt clerk, $250; sergeant-at-arms of Houso of Representatives, $200; rind'ng 3lerk of House of Representatives, $23->; railroad commissioners^ each $1,200, to be paid as low provided by l\w. The bill wis passe 1 to wind up th Port Royal & Augusta railroad. SENATE. Thfe Governor's mess ige vetoiug the fol'owing bills. Act chartering th'.Is ibel Powor Company. Act to inc >rporste the ResuforjJipd I'ort Royal Railroad Company. Tw voter# were sustained. A bill was also passed to prohibit the killing or hunting of opossums in thiState between the Irst. day of April and the first day of November in any year. - 3 1 D?y.?Toe General Assembly held n joii.t session for the election of judg< s and a register of mtsae and convejnu ? for Charleston county and John E. C 'gswcll was elected. The joint stssion th-sn ehc'ed judges. For Associate Justice the f Mowing candidates were put in nomination: Li -utenint Govcrno.- Gaiy, Speaker Ira It. Jon?s and Associ tte Justice McGowan. TIIK KLKCTR1) ONF.S: Eugene It. Gn y, associate justice Supreme Court to succeed Sam el McGow *n;W. C. Ttjnnet, judge of th*. first circuit to succeed Jus. F I/.lar; Jas Aldrich to succeed himself as j .dge ol the st c ?nd circuit; I). A. Tows sen judgo of the seventh circuit, t? succeed W. II. Wallace; I D Wi'herspoon, judge of the sixth circuit, to succeed himself; H. C. Watts, judge of the fourth circuit, to succeed Joshua II Hudson. Memorial evercises were held in bonoi of the late Senator Desehnnps, of Clar endon. One Hundred Fortieth Anniversary. The Moravians of Old Town, neni Winston, N. C., celebrated the on< hundred fortieth anniversary n: the founding of their con gregation on Thursday last. This ii the mother church, and the first on< established by the Moravians in th< South. On October 8, 1853, a com pany of twelve single brethren set ou from Bethlehem, Ph., to form a settle ment in the wilds of the South Among the number was Bernhan Adam Grube, t*e first minister of th< infant settlement, who died in his 92< year, and on his 90th birthday walke< from Bethlehem to Nazareth, Pa., i distance of ten miles, and wflked bad A idw days after, having returned Pennsylvania from North Carolina ii after yearn Amber, often classed among gems, is a fossil product. Most of the speoi mens inclosing insects are manufac tnred from gofn copal. I . fur 6?lt industry , Prof. Mat 90/'? Roport Upon His Ob formations fa fftbratka. Prof. W. F. Mumt, who with Congressman 8. B. Alexander, recently made a trip to ihe West td observe the agar beet industry with a view to its! possibla cultivation for the production of sugar in this State has made the following report: To His Excellency EliaaCarr, Governor of North Carolina: Having been requested by fcm to be ono of a committee to go to Nebraska ! for the purpose of investigating the i condition there, of the culture of the ' sugar beet *hnd ihe manufacture of 1 sugar therefrom, and having perftff tried I . to the best of my ability the duty placed ' Upon, me I beg leave to submit a state- j ment in rsgard to this trip. It may be proper not A to state that the op portunity uiakr> {hi* investigation *?c afforded without ant expense Ui , tho State or myself by gentlemen who ' we interested in the (iA**c!cp uvuv Cf | tne sugar beet industry in the South. The genileitiett engaged in this enter- i prise wish to go to work intelligently , and make suro of success before investing largo capital in the enterprise. They therefore desired that some one ! interested in tho agricultural develop- j | ment of the Stato and the South should j carefully investigate trlini haw been ' ! (lone, and is being done elsewhere, SO I ( as to fully understand the conditions ' necessary for success. Hou. S. B. I ' Alexander, of Charlotte, and the , ' tvriter (instituted this committee, tho 1 latter going by your request. It sliould be stated at the outset that tho mad- J nfacturo of the sugar beet has only of i late years become possible even with ! the encouragement of a bounty. Years ago, tests made in North Cnro- { lina showed the beets to contuin a per j ^ (tentsge of sugar inadeqiiate to its pfO- i fitabie madufitcturo hnder conditions prevailing in this country, and its pro- I duction was only possible in counties J like France and Germany, with a ' ' ?... 1 ..I _i i?i T)..i : t.. I 1 nui^iun ui uik'hjj inour. imiv u>uii^ iu ^ tile persistent and intelligent labors of German and Ftencii seed growers^ and the investigation* of German scientists the saccharine quality of the beet hus been steadily developed until its per centage of sugar rivals that of the sugar cano. This has been accomplished by ft careful election, by means of Poluriscope tests of beets for seed growing gradually raising the standard from year to year until the sugar beet of today stands in the some relation to that of flften years ago, that the thoroughbred horse does to the sorub. A good ancestry is as valuable in a plant as a pedigee in a horse. Horticulturists unaerstaud thisjtrst as well as liorsebreedern. This process of : by careiui a* .fill knot ttp | improvement in the beet wril doubtless j be made. Not only has the general , saccharine quality of the beet beeti ' thus improved, but several strains or ; breeds have been produced specially ; ^ adapted to certain soils, one reaching ! it best ou sandy soils, anothor on clay, etc., etc. So ihat now growers 1 can select seod bled specially for the 1 needs of their peculiar soil. Whether 1 this process of development can bo 1 carried further iu our climate or 1 whether, as in the ease of some other ' seeds, we must depend upon foreign growers remains vet to be proved. ! But the indications ure that an equally 1 intelligent course of culture here will give fully sh gbod result iu tlio seed 1 product, and iu time wo may produce seed that for our purpose will be even bctK-. 'bsn .bat now inportcd. With the great future sugar industry which seems assured in this country, our intelligent and enterprising seed growers may bo depended upon to do their part in the work of t improvement. The progress of the 1 Sugar Beet industry and the maun- . facturc of the sugm has been more rapid than most persons imagine. A few years ago the larger part of the sugar of commerce was the product of j the sugar cane, 'io.l.iv this is already . reversed and the larger pail is pro- j duced by the Sugar Beit. In 1880 wo I produced tons ot Beet Sugar. The j crop or output for the present scasou is estimated to be not less than 2o,iH)0 | i tons. Still the increase in the demand is such that we still produce hut nhoilt one-tenth ot the sugar consumed in our ( countrv. The development of the Sugar Boot industry h"i? been largely , f duo to the eueouiHgeirn'Tit bounty of 2 ccntH per j!ooi!'t. \\ !ii'e the *t uuiity I in more directly beneficial to the man- \ nfneturer, it in lighter tux on this vjq eutner than a tariff would be?for the | ' tnrifT would increase the price of every s pound used, while the bounty only is paid on that produced in thin country. | In thi* shape it enci urnges an agrieitl- : r turnl product, an 1 if we muet have i "protection,"bo'im* from that v/'li help . the farmer is (b-fUMible. With u variety of soils uipnble of ' producing the beet in great peril et'nn, I it behoove? our pi uple to be looking ! r into thin matter There are now in j , operation n number of beet sugut f factories, where great mius have been i Avueiuled in eilnen ti iik tie- farmers in , the culture of tie heel, nml in ex3 perimental work of various kinds. Only 5 of late have theae great expenditures begun to reward liie energetic pro* 1 prietora of theae works, an?l. as they . gain experience, the fanners supplying the factorieH are getting more profit out of the culture. The peculiarity of ? the Sugar Beet industry liea in the . fact that success to the -manufacturer means success to the grower of the * beets, for the factory 'a entirely dc * pendent nnojj thr. farmer. If Hie mi* J mcr cannot find profit in the enlture the factory cannot get supplies, so that it is essential to the success of the factory that the enlture should pay the ' grower, upon whom they depend for " their raw material. The factory must have supplies and must therefore contract to take the crops at an agreed bpdti price, so that the grower la an re ttf his market Wofe be plants the crop and know* that nogfttnbliag in future* oeu affect ihe price trhile ne hi producing it. Each Jear'a experience puta him in a better poeition to contract for the coming year. This mutual dependence of manufacturer and producer will always inaure a reasonably fair division of profits, The manufacturer, with half a million Ot more invested in a plant that can be run but for a few weeka or months annually, niuat be aure of his atipply, and the fatiliefj learning by experience the price thai will pky him, naa the whip handle, and no extpriiod can Im> practiced. The factory we visited ia the Norfolk Jteet 9tlg?r Factory, located at Norfolk on the nofHl fork of the Elkhorn river in Nebraaka, ofi the railroad leading from Fremont on the Platte to the Black Hilla of Dakota. The aame company own* ah>o a factory at Grand Island on the Fl?*'o r?Vvr. Tf.'.vu -wm rtid not have time ftf tisit. They ulao run two factoriee in California, The buaineaa, after many discouragements and a liberal expenditure, ia now in tfebtaaks, but wo understand that the California factories are much more profitable owing to the longer season for planting and manufacture. The cjreat drawbacka to tho buaineaa In Ncwbraaka are the lack of labor and | the fth<?rt season for working up the i crop. Farntiefs are deterred from i planting large areaR beCfluae of tho im- | possibility of getting abundant help at ' fhinuing time. Both of theae diffmtil- i ties would bo obviated in a Southern latitude. Bo far as I could observe, the culture is almost identical with that of cotton, except that deeper i breaking ia nccesaary for tho boeta. i [)ur Southern farm hands, accustomed < f<> chopping out and thinning cottou, would And the chopping out and thin- i dug the beets almost identical, and the I ihundance of this class of labor in the j 3onth would admit of beet culture on i i larger scale than an Nebraska. Then i too we could begin to BOW earlier in spring, and by a succession of crops, \ sould keep the factory running twice i is long ah there. We drove into the i country around Norfolk, Nebraska,and 1 talked with a quite a llulrtber of the i rarmers. They are generally an ignorant 1 class of German immigrants, but they \ ill agree that the boet orop is the most \ profitable one th?y raiso. The only, i jther crops are corn and prairie hay, 1 Hid though they raise largo corn crops the price, 20 to 25 cents per hnshel, < renders it necessary that they turn it 1 into beef aud pork to get any profit jilt of it. From a number of these growers I ascertained that their average ] ?ros8 receipts are about $50.00 per 1 !ic*?; for the beets. Tho factory pays 1 llie n{ R"i,()0 |mT toU OUil acre, though there are instatiCbR oY ??u * or more tons being raised. One grower in California is said to have raised 117 tons per acre, the largest yield known. Too large a beet is not wanted, one the size of a small or medium pineapple hejng as large us desired. In California the price runs as high at 50.50 per ton, the practice there being to pay according to the saccharine (luality of the beet as ascertained by Li-- ii i?: T)..i 4i?o 111(9 IT IHIII IHl'dJJL'. illli U\>lll^ |u i in* less intelligent character of the Nohraska grower it has been found necessary to fix an average price for all. The greatest care is used in getting need from beets of good pedigree, the best seed growers in Europe always testing by the Polariseope every beet planted for seed, and rejecting all that falls below standard in quality. The to Eur?p?'tv?.a.!,.n.n,ll,y Tn.(1 croj), and buy no beets bin" grown from seed thus selected for various soils. This in more essentia! where the average price prevails, than when each grower is responsible for the quality of his crop. An exp >rioueed buyer is already in Em ope selecting seed for the crop of 1HSM, and eontracts are now being made with the farmers for next year. Every one with whom we conversed has inerei sed his planting annually and all propose to put in a larger area next year, though the factory has neatly r?-u'd,ed its full capacity for that climate. This is of Jtself a sufficient indication of tlx value of the crop to the growc, who all seem enthusiastic on the subject. We were hardly preparei for the. extent of the manufacture, much as we had hrsru of it. The Norfolk Meet Sugar Company line n plant which wo were informed cost ?:U)0,000, and from the extent of the massive brick buildings, and the array of complicated machinery we could well believe the statement. Thev say that they would not buil<l another ho Hinnij Thie company expected to turn o.it 1his season over three million pounds of granulated white sugar. I tile with this a nam pie of tliiH Hiigar, which was made in twelve hours from the raw beets. The process used is a diffusion process. The beets are carried from | the soils, or covered pits between the railroad tracks, through cemented sluices, through which a stream of water rushes, to an opening in the wall of the building, where an Archimedean screw elevates them to the washer, whicfMs ? longtrnngh.through the centre of which a shaft revolves on which is a special line of wooden pins, which agitate the beets in water, and at the same time carry them to the further end of the trough, where an elevator takes tliem to the top story of the building. Here they are caught | in a receiver similar /? ? part body, which dump when full, andat the same time registers the weights of the beets. They are received in the pnlper, where a series of grooved knives on a ?*haft slices them into shreds finer than a goose quill. Tlio pnlp passes into a series of fourteen tall cylinders^which constitute tlm diffusion battery. Here, warm water is passed repeatedly i through MlV cylT5<I3F"~tn 'suese"*??'^ until the water fin* taken up ?H trace of the saccharine mMtf? ^"*1" ^v? tense water is now boiled in ?**!**"? T ratora mixed with milk of InDS h> Jf8 certain point where it is injected w? ? oarbou di-oxide, which precipitates th*.?, j lime. The clear liquid is then dtfand 1 off and passed through a series of wj&jii filters to still further clear it of impurities. It then posses to the vaceum *t pans, where it is boiled In vacuo at a , low temperature to the point of perfect erystaH ration. The mass of orynfalixed sugar and syrup is then run into n series of centrifugal machines, opera t?' ing on the same principle as a cream separator, where the molasses is thrown off and the pure white arystnl sugar is ; retained. Each chargo of a centrifugal ,, * is emptied, as finished, into a trough .< through which a sorow scraper revolves which conveys tho sugar to and through' ? the hoated drying oylindor, from which it pours oat the fine granulated va&tESHm . of OOMIrtnS*'. T* i; Myn WCI pounds* 111 a tMflf. wmi ^ v.j branded and numbered by tho raent inspector for tho bounty, orvstalizod liquid thrown offby thflMMV '* triftlgals is as yet an entirely **9 product, though it could doubtless b* evaporated into good syrup. Tho pulf^v after being emptied from the diffusion battery, is sold to cattle feeders at 90 cents per ton, but would be worth tl great oeal more hero. We saw 1,00(1 3. steers being fattened with this pulptjf V and oOA meal. Tho cattle eat itv greedily and their condition shows it? to l>e a nutritive food. Another projj^. 'J duct now entiroly wasted in Nebraska^! but whiqh would bo of great vabMl^MfjL, here is the potash and lime cftRtT," lectcd in tho purifying procos. This J contains all tho potash and mineral matter removed from the boots, and the limo used in tho work. This must bo a valuable fertilizer, but the Ne- J braska farmers cannot bo induced to haul it away, though I feel euro that is just what their black sandy soil, needs. Tho average product of sugar at this factory is stated to be 166 to 170 pounds per ton of boots, and a* tho careful breeding up of tho beets ia continued tho product may bo expected to increase. Tho owners of tho Nebraska factories', who are experienced mi gar makers from Louisiana, arc enthusiastic over tho boot, and beliovo that in time it will entirely supplant the fl<nn for sugar making. There is tin nimnanni capnai now ruauy 10 owhnrk in this industry in the South, which only awaits the determination of the question as to what points are most favorable for the industry, and where tlio beets can be grown in quantity to pay tho farmer and quality to pay the manufacturer. To dctcrmino this, it is proposed to place selected seed in the hands of careful men in various sections, Tlndor intelligent su- . Kevision. bo as to test accurately tho tore will Tie no nromn ..,?v *1.., ^ '- J" H of seed to nil applicants, sinco oxjKv - -^SjS ricnce lias shown that no accurate results can be bad in this way. But tho tests will bo made with enre and ?oientitlc accuracy tho coming season, and tho probabilities are that North Carolina inay secure one or more of tho proposed factories. We think every encouragement should be given tho enteriirise, and that it will open up for our people a sourco of agricultural profit as yet hardly conceivable. licspectfully submitted, A W. F. MASSKY. M Two Kings in Chicago. ^ There are two young African kings living in Chicago. The elder of tho two huf> <1 long African name, which he una AiiiCi icanizeit into A. U. JOWuH? ? Prince Jowett has sacrificed his kfngdom for Christianity, but it is his intention to return to Africa with his kingly neighbor and reclaim his own land, and together they will forma federation and spread the gospel by degrees. Prince Jowett lias been in America for some time, and lias a good education. The other is Momolu Massaquoi, king of Jabacca, and hereditary princo of ten tribes. King Masso quoi is quite a young man, mil won educated. Ho ia the eldest son of Queen Sundi Mannie, lato ruler of Jftbacca and the head wife of King Lahal. Anti-Snappers Issue a Manifesto. The anti-snappers are at work again in New York to overthrow Tammany. Charles H. Fairchild iaaued a long addreaa to New York Democrats Wednesday abusing tho machine Democratio. organization in vigorous and vicious terms and calling upon the Democrats to join the new organization, to be known aa the Now York State Democracy. On the general committee are such dames as Ellery Anderson, Abrain Hewitt, William It. Grace, James Swann, Oscar Strauss, Fredrick Coudert and about a hundred others. An Agrd Bishop Dead. Con'MiiiA, 8. C.?Information x,M received by Bishop Halter, of tho A. M. E. Church, of the death of Daniel A. Payne, at Wiberforce, 'Ohio, senior Bishop of that church, and '?nc of the oldest active Bishops in the world. Ho was 90 years old at the time of hia death. He was originally from Charleston, S. C. Memorial services in his honor will be held by the A. M. E. ohnrches probably on Sunday. Bishop Baiter has gone on to theWherel. Mo Prize Fighting iff Ssuih Carolina. Columbia, 8. O.?A bill prohibiting ? J prize fighting in Sonth Carolina passed the General Assembly. The penalty is three years imprisonment and $1,000 fine for principals and second*, It is said there is never mi odd uuss*:;'? ber of rows on an ear of com, * "