Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Prepared by— ANDREW A. KROEO, Pharmacist, Charleston, 8. C. tyFor sale by all Druggists. D. S. Henderson. TS^xr. Hexdekson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, 8. C. ractice in the State and MAKING ELOQUENCE TO ORDER. Will practice in the United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Cboit. J. Zed Dcjtlap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, 8. C PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston, g. c PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. _ Beware of giving your Check to any one on Train. Rates $2 00 @ $2 50. Jakes Aldrich. Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. . Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. Row Some Speeches That Hare Elec trified Congress Have Been Made. Washington Star. “It’s a mistaken idea that Senators’ and members’ speeches are written by their private secretaries,” said an old attache of the capitol the other day, turning slowly to a Star man after a long study of the vacant chairs and bare galleries. “As a general thing, their private secretaries don’t know any more than they do.” Then he stopped for a little, and drammed his stick against the marble flags, while he dropped off again into a study. “No, sir,” he added, leaning his chin on his cane and looking the scribe straight in the eye; “they don’t. ’ve been trying to make out the com position of a private secretary. I can’t do it. I don’t see what Con gressmen want them for, unless it’s on account of a kind of feeling that they ought to iiave^mo one. RTnunrr Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Sjiecia attention given to collections. That knows less than they do. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. James E. Davis, —Attorney at Law,— Barnwell Court House, S. C. Augusta Hotel, LEWIS & DOOLITTLE. Pr irge and well ventillated rooms Bates $2 per day; centrally located near railroad crossing; telegraph office and barbershop in the building. Augusta Hotel restaurant and lunch room ; choice wines, liquors and cigars. 1ST Meals to order at all hours. W. DEVORE. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. Aiken, S. C. DeYore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Aiken, S. C. James E. Da vis,I jAnTiirRE^ TuTnTnaTs. Tlarmvel C. Wright’s Hotel! S, Li WEIGHT & SON) Prop’rs.j COLUMBIA, s. c. fJlA BLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. ftefaa mauu/wOfa,-- 4 ^^ — Sawyer, Davis & Sawyer, Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention will be given to bu siness entrusted to our hands. Specia attention given to collections. Edwin R. Cunningham, 541 Broad St., - - Augusta, Ga. Commissioner of Deeds for South Carolina, New York, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, and Notary Public “with seal.” Drawing of and Probating Papers “a specialty.” Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. OFFICE on- j RioHIand Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Granitevillc Hotel. MBS. N. E. SENN, Proprietress. Table furnished with the best, and driving parties from Aiken furnished with lunch at short notice. D. F. McEwen, Diamonds! Watches! Jewelry!! NE W GOODS! LO WEST PRICES! :o: -agent for- Standard American Watches, <Every watch warranted to give per fect satisfaction to purchaser.) Alafoie, Todd & Co.’s Gold ipiensrsi Dr. Julius King’s Combination Spectacles! <The best—an immense assortment in store; I am enabled to suit parties by mail, when inconvenient to visit the store.) The largest and best stock of Jew elry ever brought to Aiken. Goods all marked in plain figures and only one price asked. Personal attention given to watch- work. Fine and difficult work solic ited at prices of National Jewelers’ Association. The Place for Bargains. Stanley & Bro., -Dealers in- CHINA, GLASS, EARTAENWARE And House-Furnishing Goods! COLUMBIA, - - SC. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. OFFICE at- Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. -OFFICE A1 Williston, Barnwell County, S. 0. ESF" Will attend calls to the country. THU Georgia Chemical Works. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fertili zers. M. C. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, - - AugustaJSa.. Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged. W. A. RECKLING COLUMBIA, S. C. P ICTURES sent can be enlarged to any size, and will be returned for inspection. If unsatisfactoay no charge. Correspondence solicited. J. A. Wright, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, At the Old Post Office on Richland Avenue. The best of material used, and any tyle of boot or shoe made to order. THORNE HARDWARE CO. I HARDWARE, tinware, i Woodenware, Crockery, Glassware House-furnishing Goods, Carriage and Wagon Material, Mill Sup plies, Agricultural Implements. 1032 Broad, corner 11th Street, lUgusta, - - Georgia. FROM THE PRESIDENT OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY. “ Indepeodeaco, Texas, Sept. 2C, 1882. Gentlemen: Ayer’s Hair Vigor Has been used in my household for three reasons:— 1st. To prevent falling ont of the hair. 2d. To prevent too rapid change of color. Sd. As a dressing. It has given entiro satisfaction In every instance. Yours respectfully, Wn. Carey Cuaxe.” A YETI’S UAin VIGOR Is entirely free from uncleanly, dangerous, or injurious sub stances. It prevents the hair from turning gray, restores gray hair to its original color, prevents baldness, preserves the hair and promotes its growth, cures dandruff and all diseases o' tho hair and scalp, and la, at the same time, a very superior and desirable dressing. PREPARED BY Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co.,Loweil y Mass. Sold by all Druggists. , But as I was saying, it don’t make any difference about the secretaries; they don’t write the speeches. And, to tell you the truth, I think the most of the Congressmen in both Houses now write their own speeches; but some of them don’t. What! You ain’t surprised at that? Why, how long have you been about? Why, as long as I can remember there’s been men hanging about the capitol to write speeches for so much a line Some of them read mighty nice in the record, and I tell you they sur prise a rural constituency. Years ago these men used to make lots of money.” “Is there much of that done now?” asked the Star. Well, it’s pard to say. There’s probably not so much as formerly, but you can’t tell. It’s oalv w twornen get the same speech, ~or something like that, that you can discover it, though I can generally pick out my man. Now, there’s the case Mr. Vest spoke of, where Allen and Nugen both printed the same speech. Such instances have occurred frequently. But generally when a man delivers an old speech, he goes far enough back in the Record after it not to double up in that way. Some years ago, I remember, a very brilliant speech was printed by a very slow, ordinary man in the House, and created quite a sensation, the mem ber’s district being flooded with the Globe of that date. But one of the members discovered that the same speech had been made by a very dis tinguished statesman in the House two or three terms previous. Along yortV-t-urnr./I Fc’ 4 *” DO YOU KNOW THAT LOEILLABB’S CLIMAX PLUG TOBACCO with Itc<l Tin Tag; Rose Lieaf Fine Cut Chewing; Navy Clippings, ami Black. Brown and Yellow Snuffs are the best and cheapest, quality considered? Corinick’s Barber Shop. I HAVE opened my shop on south side of Curve Street, first door from the corner of Main and Curve streets. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing executed by good work men. W. F. CORMICK. Congress—or mpybe it was the Forty- fourth, I don’t just remember—there was a very’ ordinary man in the House from Tennessee, named Coldwell. He had never done anything in particu lar, and never said much, until one day he came out with a very brilliant speech that set all the House in com motion and made him quite famous. But in the Forty-fifth Congress he was succeeded by another Coldwell, who was really a brilliant fellow. One day he was thus accosted in one of the committee rooms: “ ‘I met Bill Blank the other daj’.’ “ ‘Ah,’ replied Coldwell, vaguely, not knowing the name. “‘You know Bill?’ “ ‘No; I don’t remember him.’ “ ‘Why, don’t you know, he’s the fellow who wrote your great speech on a year or so ago. Leastwise, he told me so the other day.* “The Congressman smiled grimly. “ ‘I guess it was my predecessor he knew,’ and the mystery of the won derful oratorical development was ex plained. “There are lots of these cases, but they don’t all come out. If they did ! Well, I guess there’d he some suicides. You remember the case of White? No? Why, Speaker White, of Kentucky, it is thought, killed himself on account of an ex posure of this sort. White was a very able man, but he got caught in a bad fix. He was Speaker of the House in the Twenty-seventh Congress, you snow, and as I have said, he was an able man, but he was so pressed with justness that when he had to deliver lis valedictory he got one of those men, who are always on hand to make little money, to write his address. It was handed him just a little while before the time he had to deliver it, and he put it in his pocket without reading. Wiien the time came he rose and, slowly unfolding the manu script, read the address. It was very brilliant—but it was Aaron Burr’s famous valedictory to the Senate. The Speaker never recovered from the shock. He went home, was taken very ill, and it is supposed he killed himself for shame. “In former days,” the old man ad ded, after waiting a little while for his disclosures to sink deep into the reporter, “in former daj\s these speech-writers used to make lots of money. I don’t know whether they do es well now or not. They used to get $100, $150 and $200 for a good speech, and I know of one that sold for $350. No; I never heard of Clay or Webster hiring any speeches writ ten, hut I know that some of their speeches, which were thought to be j impromptu, were carefully prepared before being delivered.” FRENCH SPOLIATION’ CLAIMS. A The House Passes the Senate BUI Referring Them to the Court of Claims. ■Washington, Jan. 14.—No one wil be more surprised, probably, than the descendants of the claimants them selves by the announcement that the Senate bill, referring the French spoli ation claims to the Court of Claims, passed the House to-day by a vote 01’ 181 to 71. Having passed both houses it now goes to the President, who will in all probability sign it, and so it will shortly become a law. This will be the first step toward the payment of these long postponed claims. The claimants have gotten’as far as this before only to be disappointed by the Presidential veto, but it is probable that this time their bill will be signed. The bill passed to-day only refers the claims to the Court of Claims ^nljnvffitipition, Trh'rh -rrlti rift out the true from the false. But this will put them far. The New EngJ members supported the bill M*iT5usly, Messrs. Rice, of Massachusetts, and Milliken, of Maine, nxricing speeches reviving the interesting history of the claims and maintaining the right of the claimants to at least a judicial ex amination of their claims. The only argument of the opposition was old. When Daniel Webster made one of the three dozen favorable reports made in Congress on these claims it wgs that the claims were old, and therefore ought' to be outlawed. To this the friends of the bill responded that the fact that justice had been delayed fur- nished no reason for denying justice at this late day. t.; on I DAY. asKiliaSi from i Given Him. 153 yea* , says a Washington specif r 7.J When be awoke, to his - ife presented him w copy of letters t distinguished men Dr. Hall says tl a work which Beecher hopes th will look o' years, but, unli within a decade of le found last 'summer of true wisdom-^ 1 £ ft JANUARY. ’ ■ SUN 44 . v SUN, i-v Al. . Jc , SETS aaajjt MOON R A 8 20 21 22 23 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. Friday/! 7:19 7:19 7:18 7:18 5: 3 5: 4 5: 6 5: 7 9:35 10:37 11:41 morn 21 25 26 Saturday Sunday Monday 7:17 7:19 , 7:15 5: 8 5; 9 5:10 0:46 1:52 2:59 The Da vis-Sherman Controversy Fmyj JJiG Uuk fllirtah News, herman may feel some satis faction in having been instrumental in stirring up a hitter debate in the Senate, hut the country generally, perhaps, would rather that he would not meddle with matters that tend to disturb the growing feeling of har mony between the Northern and Southern people. Although on the retired list cf the army, Gen, Sherman is still a re markably active man, mentally and jhysically. He chafes, doubtless, un der the do-nothing sort of life that he is compelled to lead, and he is there fore all the while in danger of making mischief by busying himself with i lungs with which he has no imme diate concern. There are few, perhaps, who will not admit that his attack upon Mr. Jefferson Davir,. at the Grand Ar?nv H. Hay ne sends a poetic greet ing f‘I>m the “new born South in this fair A'-rnkig of her happier fate.” Vlucffeinl^ h on "New Hampshire nroun ut says: “I have never heard limjfroach and am not acquainted jis writing and probably we- not agree in doctrine or meth- Johp Sherman writes: “He is a remarkable powers and is of any mark of respect that ds can show.” 1 Spurgeon says: [astonished when God blesses somehow, I should not be so surprised if he blessed this Martin FarquharTupper con siders him a “Son of Thunder.” P. T. Barnum says: “Dr. Talmage is an original genius, and possesses several rare functions which tend to make him powerful', and lend posver to his preaching,” one of these being his preaching of “The'Terrors of the Law.’^ Emma Abbott writes: “If I Xtit fuV eloquence, I could my profession whom you never meet on tlm earth speak of you with love and gratitude for the hope and com fort you have given them.” PROFITABLE < The Furman ^ . Raleigh Ne We have been ii suits of a competitive trial! ble cotton raising in Georgic orded by the Atlant profit on “And then richer.” “Certain! where it was lormerl most credit the manui I shall double my year, putting 8,000 ]_ I believe I will get 1501 sixty-five acres. to three tades i few acres < of com | every acre of it this year.” W IT T -Tri i If ^NWilt 11 1. 1 ‘I 11 r , the trh-T.' ~a rertm 1 State had offered $800 in gold for the best yield of cotton made on ground enriched with their fertilizer, and four Jersey bulls for the best £ield pro duced by clubs. The highest yield was 1,345 pouuds of lint cotton to the acre, or three and one-half hales of 450 pounds each. The lowest yield was 430 pounds, or a bale to the acre The average of the seventy-five farm ers was 774 pounds, or nearly two bales to the acre. To secure this, they used an average of 888 pounds of the fertilizer, which cost $15.54. The cot ton brought $69.66, leaving a net profit of $44.12 to the acre, the cotton seed nearly paying for the cultivation. “At a bale to the acre above the cost of the fertilizer, any farmer can get rich,” says the Constitution, and the seventy-five made more than that ge. The returns from the State Nothwithstanding Mr. Randall’s comforting words the Pennsylvania Republicans are more alarmed the prospect of tariff reduction than eVer. They know well enough that the prt^ tection claquers, who have been whooping so recently in the South, do not represent Southern sentiment, and they get no substantial encour agement from the North and West. They are sending oat circulars in or der to ascertain just how each member of the next Congress stands on the tariff. oi uie RgptuKit* lffmVng9fi ? or~ ■&>uls, was wholly uncalled for and even in excusable. At that meeting he was reported to have said that while Pres ident of the Confederacy Mr. Davis abandoned his States’ rights views and aimed at absolute power. He claimed to base this statement on a letter which he had seen from Mr. Davis to a Governor of a State. Gen. Sherman’s speech was pub lished, and Mr. Davis in a card de nounced the statement as false. Of course it became at ouce incum bent on Gen. Sherman either to pro duce the letter or some other equally strong proof of his statement, or else honestjy admit that he had spoken without careful consideration, and could not furnish evidence in support of what lie had said. He did uot produce the letter. It is fair to assume that he could not. He has, however, prepared a long paper which he has asked to have made a record of the War Department. In this paper there is nothing that has not been made public already, and nothing in the way of documentary evidence to show that Mr. Davis ever changed the idews he entertained be fore he became President of the Con federacy with respect to the rights of the States. If Mr. Davis ever aimed at absolute power, or contemplated using force to maintain the integrity of the Confederacy, provided any one of the States had shown a disposition to withdraw, the evidence is yet to be furnished. Gen. Sherman certainly has not furnished it. The very lame way in which ho has supported his original assertion is cal culated to strengthen the impression that he lacks judgment in making statements with regard to matters which have a national interest, and that he is not always able to draw a distinction between facts and what he thinks arc facts. Instead of pursuing a course calcu lated to arouse bitter feelings, how much more graceful would it have been for him to have said that he was mistaken, or that whatever his pri vate opinion was he was unable to present the evidence necessary to sus tain the rash statement he had made. The Boy of the Burning’ Deck. Few but know the eery pretty piece of poetry by Mrs. Hemans, “Cashi- anca,” commencing “The hoy stood on the burning deck,” says a Paris letter. The poetess states that the lad was the son of the Admiral comman ding Pie flagship L’Orient, which took fire and exploded; that young Casablanca perished in the explosion, refusing to quit the position allotted him by his father, pending the battle of thellfile. I have been looking into the offtpial account of the incident. The A'uniral $vas Brueys, who was wound -<1 in the head and hand early in the s-stkm. He continued, jn give rrrrrr^lW lit' ( ’ od the request^?^fe^ IjwwI'ko expire on deck, which he did in tlie course of some minutes. Citoyen Casabianca, the father of the poeiic hero, then took command; his son jwas a middy, but only 10, not 13. At! that period lads entered the navy \|ery young. Casabianca was also a deputy. Pending the action his sou was by his side; the father was mortally wounded in the head by a splinter, and became insensible; he gave no injunctions to his son, but the latter wcu’d not the less quit his wounded parent. By this time the ship was on fire. Several cf the sailors had left and saved themselves on spars till picked up by the English boats. Aided bj T the purser, young Casabianca and his father were low ered down on a piece of mast iioating by, butjthey had only got a short dis tance froir.’ the 120-gun Orient when she blew up, and nothing more was seen ofjthe Casabiancas. But the noblest thii’K that perished there Was that young, faithful heart. Can’t Bring the Proof. Baltimore Sun. The letter upon which Gen. Sher man claims to have founded his ac- cuasion not being forthcoming, the proof upon which he depended falls to the ground, unless the public agrees to accept as true the interpretation he puts upon it. There is really nothing confirmatory of the charge made by him in his long communication on the subject addressed to the Secretsury of War. It is difficult to see wmit motive Gen. Sherman can have at this time in attacking Mr. Davis, and in reviving old animosities against the South and its leaders. The Simple Truth of History. From The Hour. Gen. Grant’s downward career be gan when he, theSnilitary idol of his fellow-citizens, entered the partisan service of the Republicans, and gave up to the party what was meant for mankind. As the Executive of the nation he became the victim of the most unscrupulous band of political scoundrels who ever fastened them selves upon an American administra tion. During the eight years he pre sided in the White House there was sea reel j’ a month which did not dis close some deed of rascality on the part of those whom he called to fill some o| the riTost important offices in his j*m. One of his private secre taries, now dead, barely escaped ex pulsion from the army and a cell in the penitentiary. One of his Cabinet officers was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors and summoned to the bar of the highest court known to the law. The name of another one has become the synonym of all that is bad and corrupt iu a bad and cor rupt age. Even Gen. Grant’s own relatives do not hesitate, in their greed for money, to bring disgrace and dis honor to his name. Grant’s second administration will live in our history as the mest corrupt we ever had. of Georgia three aud a half acres were required to produce a bale, or seven acres, un der the old method, to secure what the new method produced from one acre a demonstration of the profits of “im proved farming” which will no*t be lost on the planters of the cotton belt. The corn premiums produced results equally gratifying. There were six teen contestants, and the yield- was eighty-one bifsheis to the acre, the first premium being taken with 116’J bushels. The interest in these con tests, and their success prove that the Southern planters are abandoning the loose, old plantation methods, and are beginning to see the profit and comfort in small farms well tilled. In this connection we have thought it well to reproduce the Furman Formula which we printed last year - ^ ."flxA Y-rruai ** -llartfev—* 1 ~-l benefit we have understood to many of the farmers of this State. It is given below: “When I determined to go to farm ing, five years ago,” said Mr. Furman, “I saw that it would not do to farm in the old way. I saw farmers around me getting poorer every day, though they worked like slaves. I saw them starving their land so that each year the yield was scantier and their farms less valuable. I saw that it was still the plow following the axe, and that as fast as the farmer starved out a piece of land he cleared out a nfew piece. Worse than all, I saw that my own land rented to small farmers WAS 35 .PER CENT. POORER AND LESS VALUABLE than it was a few years ago, and that it would soon cease to pay me rent. I knew that Getirt**** wawtilest WithTTie best of season aud soil, and that if properly treated it would yield large results. “I therefore delected sixty-five acres > ' the poorest land I had and went to > brk. The first, of course, was to en rich the soil. To do this, there was but one way, to feed, and give it more food than the crops taked from it, and above all to give it proper food. I knew that certain phosphatic manures stimulated the soil so that it produced heavy crops for a while and then fell off! I wanted none of these. I did not believe in soil analysis. That was not exact enough. “What I wanted was to know ex actly what a perfect cotton plant took from the soil. That ascertained, then to restore to the soil exactly those ele ments in larger quantity than the crop had abstracted them. This is the basis of intensive farming, aud it will always give land that is richer year after year. I had a cotton plant analyzed, and found that I needed eight elements in my manure, of which commercial fertilizers only furnished three aud the soil only one. I therefore determined to buy chemi cals and mix them with humus, much bushels of wen-totted st able’ mami or well-rotted organic matter, as leaves, muck, etc., and scatter it about three inches thick upon a piece : of ground so situated that water will not stand on it, but shed ofT in every direction. The thirty bushels will weigh niue hundred pounds; take two hundred pounds of good phosphate, which cost $22.50 per ton, delivered, making the 200 pounds cost $2.25, aud 100 pounds kainit, which cost me by the ton $14, delivered, or 70 cents for 100 pouuds, and mix the acid phos phate and kainit thoroughly, then scatter evenly on the manure. The next thirty bushels green cotton seed ahd distribute evenly over the pile, and wet them thoroughly; they will weigh nine hundred pounds; take again two hundred pouuds acid phos phate and one hundred pounds kainit, mix and spread over the seed, begin on Uie manure aild keep u.i Art4hl<* wkx. building up your heap layer by layer until you get it as high as couvenient, then cover six inches of rich earth from fence corners, and leave at least a week; when ready to haul to the field cut with a spade or pick-axe square down and mix as thoroughly as possible. Now, we have thirty bushels of manure weighlug nine hundred pounds, and three hundred pounds chemicals in the first layer, and thirty bushels cotton seed, weigh ing nine hundred pounds, aud three hundred pounds of chemicals iu the second layer, and these two layers combined for the perfect compost. You perceive that the weight is 2,400 pounds. Value at cost is: v ;-*iV b that 1 After this month any one can walk across the Brooklyn bridge for a quar ter of a cent, and can ride across in the cars for three cents. The walking fare seems to be low enough to please all classes of people, buL it will prob ably not be long before it will be de manded that the footway be made as free as the sidewalks in any part of the two cities. • • A lady well advanced in years was found recently wandering along the road, near Leavenworth, Kansas, and, on being questioned, she said she was «earchi|ig for a buggy containing a child. .She had left the buggy a short distance from the-house, the horse at tached to it had wandered off. The night vfas bitter cold. It was discov ered that the horse had wandered into the wo^ds, and becoming tired, had laid dotvn. The child, a bright little girl, wju» found by some boys next morning snugly sleepiug against the breast of the horse, with its head ly ing on One the animal’s forelegs. The little one had evidently become cold,! year 80 bushels cotton seed, 12% eta.. $8.75 400 pounds acid phosphate. 4.50 ~ _i.4« Total $9.65 Or for 2,400 pounds a total value of $9.65 “This mixture makes practically a perfect manure for cotton and a splen did application for corn. It restores to the soil everything the cotton took from it, except silica, which is in the soil in inexhaustible quantity. So that when you put in a larger quantity of these than the cotton took out, your soil is evidently richer. I’ve shown you the money profit in manure. I’ve shown you the added value it giver to land. There are many other advaL- tages. You make your crop quicker and with less danger. I made last year, mark this, forty-seven halos on sixty-five acres in three months and five days. It was planted June 5th, and the caterpiller finished it on Sep- jptr.l)iy intlij ’ 1 i nm ■fwr i ..nT7in!ri society a stalk five feet high with 126 bolls by actual count on it. The seed from which this plantgrew was plan ted just fifty-nine da3 T s before. Cotton grown this way can be picked with half tiie cost and time of ordinary cotton. On my cotton land tli’s 3 r ear I raised 100 bushels of oats to the acre, and after cleaning off the stubble I planted the cotton, one stalk of which I showed the convention.” One is not to drop the cotton seed in a continuous row, but simply to put a few seed in the hill where 3’ou want a plant. By strewing the seed in a sprinkled row there is a great was:e. A cotton seed is like an egg, when a chick is born there is nothing left but the shell. When the seed is sprouted there is nothing but the shell left. The fertilizing power of this seed is lost. Worst than this. It draws from the soil for the elements that make it grow. It is left to deplete the soil in this way for two weeks at least, aud is then chopped down, leaving 011I3' one out of twent3 r plants to grow to fruit age. M>' plan is to plant four or five seed in a hill. The hills to stand in four feet squares. Of these I would let two plants to the hill grow to per- done. I am money out of the ground; I from my fellow-farmers. “The difllculty with us we try to farm too much land. I’m good fbr $3,000 with two mules and sixty-flve acres. Next year I'll beat this. In the meantime, I am* “bringing up” twenty-five acres. I never want over one hundred acres. These I will cultivate with three mules, and I’ll make 250 bales of cot ton on them, besides all the corn and ,» oats I need.” ^ “I am ouxious,” he added t “to see my plan adopted. If it is done we shall have the best State in the world. Why, look at France. Her recupera tive power is the wonder of the world. And whatsis it based on? Simply that she can raise two crops—one .of those a lentil crop—in one season. But in middle Georgia I can raise fffiirTTbp.. pi 1 .it n 11 ....niece of' l^nd and leave it richer than when I a m t|ij ; : '3i - V 5 * started, viz.: oats, cotton or corn and peas. There is nothing like It. Give me 100 acres of land li]ke the sixty- five that I own how, and I don’t wapt au orange grove, or a factory, or a truck farm, or anything else. I can live on my 100 acres of Georgia scrub land like a king, and lay up money every year. Any Georgian can have this in five years if he wants it. The rule I have followed will bring it Jujit a« surely as the sun brings heat and light.” Sr ■ | if j Why jGen. Grant Qnit Smoking. A dispatch from Washington to the Nf\v York Sun asserts ■ ill • fill that Grant has cancer of the ton flriced the sal mA * t Fror fection. It takes from two to four decaj’ed leaves,stable manure aud cot-j bushels of seed to plant an acre in ton seed till I had secured exactly what I the old way. B.y 1113’ plan a peek to was needed. I did so, and at last pro duced a perfect compost for cotton. I then ascertained that my crop of eight bales had taken out of each acre of m3’ land as much of the constituents of cotton as was held in 250 pounds of my compost on each acre, restoring double what the crop of the 3’ear be fore had taken out. The result was that I made four bales extra. I then restored doubled what the twelve bales had taken out and made twenty- three bales. I doubled the restorative the next year and got forty-seven bales. I doubled again, and tnis year have at least eightty bales. ^ “The manure cost me $3.60 a thou sand pounds. The first 3’ear I put 500 pounds to the acre—cost $1.80 an acre, or $111. for sixty acres. But my crop rose from eight to twelve bales, the extra four bales giving me $200. sur plus, or $83 net on my manure. Next my manure (1,000 pounds to and when the horse lay down went to try to make it get up, when, the boys think, the sagaciohs animal managed to plac^j it with its head on its arm, so to spe^k, to keep it from freezing to death. The mother w.as overjoyed acre) cost $285; but my crop increased to twent3’-three bales from eij^it on unmanured land. These extra bales give me $750 or net profit on manure of $516. The next year I used 2,000 the acre is enough, and the soil is not drawn to support a multitude of surplus plants far two or three weeks. Planting in four loot square is better than the old way. Cotton is a sun plant and needs room for its roots. When cramped to 12 or 15 inches it cannot attain its per fect growth. My aim is to put the plants together in four foot squares, and average 75 to 150 bolls to the plant. This will give me a pound of seed cotton to plant, or three bales to the iicre. >' “I never touch it wiilj a hoe. The growth of cotton comes from the spreading filaments that reach out from the root and feed it. If these are destroyed the growth stops until they are restore*!. I am satisfied that three hoeing lost me eighteen days of growth, or six da3’s each. I run a shallow plow along the cotton rows, and never go deep enough to cut the roots. But there are more details, in which men may differ. The main thing is the intensive system of ma nuring and the husbanding all the droppings and wastage of the farm for . yrr>™ir*i same nature as tne cancer from which the late Senator Hill, of Geor gia, suffered. The dispatch adds that an effort has been made to keep it from the public, but the doctor’s prohibition of cigars excited inquiry. Dr. Fordyce Barker, one of General Grant’s physicians, when questioned on the subject,declined to say whether there was danger of a cancer or not. In the latter part of last summer Gen eral Grant suffered from a swelling on the tongue. In September the swelling had increased so that he could hardly speak, and swallowed with difficulty. At that time he had a very bad tooth, which, b3’ advice of his physicians, was extracted^-Tho- -tq*?iT*tiTTTrNvns intensely painful, but he bore it with his usual firmness. The ph3’sicians thought also that his incessant smoking aggravated tho dis order, and ordered him to smoko only the first half of a cigar three times daily. Of his own accord he cut down his habit of smoking from twelve to fifteen cigars daily to half of one cigar a da3’. He continued this for a week, and then ceased smoking altogether. Speaking of General Grant’s present condition, Dr. Barker said: “It is » remarkable thing that a man should suddenly cease smoking who has been accustomed to smoke so many and so very strong cigars without in jury to his nervous S3'steni. Yet this is the case with him. He has not lost his appetite, and has slept as soundly as ever since his determination not to smoke. When I first learned of his trouble I was greatly alariped, but sfuce his troublesome tooth was ex tracted and he gave' up smoking he has im pro veil greatly. We told him to smoke only the first half of a cigar, because all the nicotine a smoker re ceives from a cigar is from the last half. He can eat and speak distinctly now, and feels quite well generally. 1 cannot say that he is out of danger, because I do not know tiiat, but h 1ms improved greatl3’. He writes a great deni aud takes considerable pleasure in his literary labors.” per acre at cost of $7.25 an acre, or j compost. I can take 100 acres of land to recover her child, and will keep the j $471 for total. But my crop went j in Georgia, and nt a nominal cost can faitbfa horse as long as she lives. • from eight to forty-seven bales .giving i bring Us pro lueiion from a sixth of a tv. A dispatch from Beaufort, 8. C., dated January 13, says: The annual election for Intcndant and Wardens of the town of Beaufort took place yesterdajx There were two tickets in the field, l>oth Republican. One was headed by J. W. Collius, the present incumbent, for Intcndant, with three highl3' respectable and solid white business men of Northern birth, viz., I). C. Wilson, Geo. Waterhouse and N. Christeueau, together with three colored men for Wardens. This was called the Regular ticket, and was elected by a small majority. Tho other was*beaded by F. W. Bcheper, with throe white men and three col ored, as follows, viz: James Riley, Win. Washington and W. J. Whlp- per. The contest was realized to be one of unusual acrimony and hence the exclusion of any white Soother- ner from representation on either tick et. As usual on every election day drunken negroes roamed town ami made what was once , the happy wealth and refinement, ou ordinary occasions s^iCtl -tz -< A;