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7 frilCtiUx’iLxyulU THf o'- CjOF C" AIKEN RECORDER. BY.FORD & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1,1892. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. - W t.V, V '' " S ' ^ ^ :* for Infants and Children. ,< CMtorla to k> veQ adapted to childreB Uua I recommend itaa superior to any prescription known to me.” II. A. Aacnzn, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. "The use of'Caatoria* to so universal and Its merits so well known that it seems a work of supsrerogration to endorse it. Few are the inteUtgest who do not keep Caatoria within aasr reach.” 9 Carlos Masttw, D.D , New York City. pastor Blcomingdale Reformed Church. Caatoria cares Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di- Witfout injurious medication. " For several years I have recommended your * Castoria,' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results.” Edwin F. Pardxs, M. D., “ The Winthrop," 125th Street and 7th Are., New York Cityv Thx CsHTatm Company, 77 Murbat Strkrt, Nrw York. L. Johnson, President. Chas. F. Degen, Gen. Man. and Sec. & Treas. AUGUSTA LUMBER GO., Manufacturers of ELUMBERE LATHS, SHINGLES, MOUlAnC.^, DOORS, BLINDS, SASH. All Ms of Dressed Lmlier and General Bnilflinj Material. Office, Factory and Yards: Adams, Campbell, D’Antitfnac and Jackson Sts. Augusta, Georgia. WINTER RESORT. •(o)- THE PINE FOREST INN, !, S. C. Finest Winter Resort in the South. P INE TREES extend for miles in every direction, affording instant relief to sufferers from throat ami lung troubles. Beautiful walks and drives splendid hunting and fishing. Write for terms. F fe * PURDY & MOORE, Managers. PARK HOTEL - - AIKEN, S. C. First Class in Every Respect. ^ITUATED on a brow of a hill, commanding an extensive view. Hotel KO grounds embrace 350 acres of dense pine forest. The hotel accommo dates 250 guests. It is lighted bv gas, and the bed-rooms heated by means of open wood fire-places; while the public rooms, in addition to these and the halls, are heated by steam. The drainage and other sanitary arrange ments are absolutely perfect. The water supply is pure and abundant, from springs on{the grounds. The cuisine receives the most careful attention, the table being supplied direct from New York markets. For circulars and other particulars, address B. P. CHATFIELD, Proprietor. C. B. DOSCHER. C. E. PETTY. R. A. TRAIN. DOSCHER & CO. FANCY FAMILY GROCERIES! PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS. 606 Broad Street AUGUSTA, GA. Hum Vi ft 1 >« ■* hw.Vv i r « HOTEL 5 Summerville Heights, Augusta, Georgia. Tliis new and elegant hotel, situated in the most delightful portion of the Bouih, with accommodations for 300 guests, opened its doors for winter tourists December 15, 1891. In its construction, nothing that will contrib ute to the comfort of its patrons has been omitted; ilfis unsurpassed in ail its appointments and general tone. For full particulars and a handsome illustiated book apply to A. Linsley, at Hotel Bon Air, Augusta, Ga. T HE exercises of the above school will begin on the 14th day of September next, and will continue tor forty weeks. Principal—Prof. J. F. McKinnon. Pirtst A Habitant—Prof. J. R. Mack. Lady Asaisfante-Miss Ethel Browne and Miss Lizzie Ravenei. Inatrbctor in Prtnch, Music and Calisthenics—Miss Maria Edgertou. TERMS. Free during the free school term (which begins with session) to al‘ from Aiken School District (city) studying free school studies; al others, during said time and at al other times, to pay as follows: FOR EACH MONTH OF FOUR WEEKS: First and Second Grades $1 50 Third and Fourth Grades 2 00. Fifth and Sixth Grades 2 50. High School (English Course).. 3 00. High School Classical Course). 3 50. French 1 00. Music 3 00. A discount of ten per cent is al lowed when three pu[ils from the same family attend, and fifteen per cent, when more than three attend. Tuition is payable monthly in ad vance, and if not paid by the second Wednesday of the school month the pupil is suspended until payment is made. No deduction is made for ab sence of less than ten days. Board in respectable families can be obtain ed at from $10 to $15 per month. D. S. HLNDERSON, President of Trustees, E. J. C. WOOD, Secretary, HENRY BUSCH, Treasurer. CROFT & CHAFEE, Attornejs-at-Lai, Alien, S. C. D. S. Henderson. E. P. Henderson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Law. Will practice in the Counties of Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell. 0. C. JORDAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AIKEN, 8. C. Walter Ashley, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. (Successor to Aldrich & Ashley.) Practices in all the Courts. Special attention to office work. Dr. B. H. Teague, DENTIST, BicMani Araie - - Alien, S. C. Di*. H. J. Ray, Dentist, Park Ave. - - Aiken, S. C. REGISTRATION NOTICE. J WILL be in Aiken on the I^irst Monday in each month for the purpose of transacting any business connected with the office of Supei vi sor of Registration. Office in M. B. Woodward’s office, Croft’s Block. S. A. WOODWARD, Supervisor of Registration. NOTICE! A LL persons are notified that no hunting or trapping is allowed on the Pine Forest Estate at Croft’s or the Bauskett place, (now owned by The Aiken Land and Improve ment Company) at LaKeview unless written consent is given by the un dersigned. T. G. CROFT, President. Aiken. S. C., Nov. 3d, 1891-tf. Producing Cotton at 4three and One I half Cents. From the Manufacturer’s Record. At a recent interview on the cot ton crop prospects, R. T. Nesbitt, the Georgia commissioner of agriculture, asserted that recent experiments at the Georgia station bad shown that where land had been properly treated a yield of one bale of cotton to the acre could be made at costs of 3J£ cent per pound In support of this asser tion Commissioner Nesbitt cited Col Felix Corput.of Floyd county, as an authority and as one who had ob tained similar results in actual prac tice. This statement of cost has been challenged.by those who doubted the accuracy of the figures, and in reply Commissioner Nesbitt has made pub lic Colonel Corput’s statement, which is in substance as follows: Believing that an accurate state ment of the operations of a small farm would be interesting to your readers, I submit the following itemi zed exhibit of the work done by hired help on an 80 acre farm. Every dol lar expended or received is charged or credited where it belongs. It is an unvarnished statement of facts. But for the rust I would have made at least ten bales of cotton more. Be lieving that the cotton operations would be of interest to a greater num ber, I make a separate exhibit for that crop. The 30 bales of cotton re ported averaged 476 pounds when ginued. I reduce average to 460 pounds, so as to be positively inside of weight at present time. My esti mates as to cost for plowing, etc., are full, but, my help being hired by the year, allowance had to be made for rainy weather, so that no overcharge should appear against the vineyard. COST OF CULTIVATION AND PROCEEDS FROM 28 ACRES IN COTTON. Turning land, 1 man snd 3 horses, 24 days, at $3 pel day :V. $72 00 Harrowing with disc, 1 man, 3 horses, 4 days, at $3 per day i 12 00 Laying oft, 1 man, 1 horse, 4 days, at $1.25 per day 5 00 Distributing fertilizers, 1 man, 1 horse, 5 day’s, at $1- 25 per day ' 6 26 Listing on fertilizers, 1 man, 1 horse, 8 days, at $1 25 per day 10 00 Bedding with l-horse tur ners, 1 man, 1 horse, 9 days, at $1.25 per day 11 25 Runningout middles, 1 man, 1 horse, 4 days, at $1.25 per day & 6 00 $12150 Fnseed, ;1 iety cot- Vushel... PLANTING. Harrowing down bed, 1 man, 1 horse, 5 days, at $1 25 per day Distributing fertilizers, 1 man, 1 horse, 5 days, $1 25 per day • • - Planting and man, 1 horse, 25 per day .. 25 bushels Ozier cc| at 35 cents per bu^ 5 bushels Truitt v;^ tonseed, at $1 per<J 3}.i tons acid phosphate at $15- 75 per ton 1 ton of cottonseed meal Mixing above Hand to assist with fertilizer and planter, 5 days, 75 cts. per day CULTIVATION. Harrowjng cotton in sprout, 1 man, 1 horse, 4 days, at $1 25 per day 5 plo.vines, 2 furrows to row, 1 man 1 horse, 40 days, at $1 25 per day Chopping to stand, 21 days’ hoeing, at 75 cents per day. Chopping through cotton 4 weeks later, 9 days, 75 cents per day 55 13 17 75 • 2 00 3 75 $11113 $5 00 50 00 15 75 6 75 $77 50 GATHERING, HAULING AND GINNING. Picking 46,500 pounds of cot- at 50 cents per 100 $232 50 Hauling 30 bales of cotton to the gin, at 60 cents per bale. 270 yards of bagging, at 7 cents per yard 6 bundles ties, at $1 45 per bundle Toll for ginning, l-20th 18 00 18 90 8 70 50 13 $328 23 J, W, ASHHURST, ACT, FIRE LIFE CYCLONE ACCI DENT Total cost of production $638 36 CONTRA. 30 bales of cotton, average 460 pounds, 13 800 pounds at 7!4 cents per pound. $1,000 50 Remnant, 645 pounds of seed cotton at 2 cents per pound... 12 90 15 tons of cottonseed at $11 50 uer ton... 172 50 Total income from 28 acres $1,185 90 Total net profit from 28 acres Tlie foregoing sfiow that each acre cost: For the preparation of the land about For planting, seeding, ferti lizing, etc., about For cultivation about For the gathering, ginning, baling, etc., abou $547 54 $4 35 11 The entire cost of crop per acre $22 82 Tlie gross earniulgs of each acre 42 35 INSURANCE 15 per cent, more than any other In- ranee Company. Office in Aiken Co.. Loan & Savings Bank, year’s crop, but from then until turned last fall has averaged a yearly cutting of two tons of clover hay per acre. The field is now in wheat, and will be brought back to clover the coining spring. In the last seven years I have used about five loads of barn-yard manure to tne acre. If these figures are to be accepted as reliable, and there appears to be no reason for doubting their accuracy, they furnish a striking illustraiion of what may be accomplished by scien tific farming, by the tillage of the soil in. accordance with tlie laws which nature lays down and insists must be observed. It is farming of this character that is most needed in this country to-day, not alone in the South, but also in the fertile West. Legal Suicide. Not to speak lightly of grave sub jects, Oregon has put the beer on hei murderers. The man who kills another and is convicted of murder is sentenced to death as in other states, but is made to hang himself. The banging takes place there amid all the lugubrious surroundings which are common to the death penalty else where. The striking difference, we are informed, is in the supreme mo ment—the execution itself. Instead of the snerift, or some hired deputy, having to hang the culprit by spring- a trap, touching a trigger, or driving off a horse, the gallows is automatic, audthe victim is his own executioner. The hanging takes place in the “exe cution room” of the jail, in the pres ence of fourteen persons—certain de signated officers, a spiritual adviser chosen by the prisoner, and a jury of six reputable citizens of the State The hanging contrivance which is said to beat electricity, is thus de scribed. As the prisoner enters the execu tion room and has finished his consul tation with his spiritual adviser, the black cap is placed over his head, the noose is adjusted, and he advances to a position on a small piece of carpet, about four feet square which is placed directly in the centre. This carpet covers one end of the fatal machine. While there is nothing suspicious about this carpeted spot, it is a small platform segarate from the rest of the floor. Below, it rests on the end of a long lever, the opposite end of which is in an adjoining room. In this ad joining room are two large pails. The upper pail contains about forty pounds of water, a rubber tube con nected it with the pail below, and the water starting to flow at the opening of a valve. This pail of water is fastened to one end of a steel bar, at the other end of which is a thirty- pound ball of iron, held in its posi- only by the heavier weight at the oth er end. To this ball of iron is at tached a rope passing upward and over a pulley into the wkll where a trigger holds a weight of 225 pounds in position. This weight is also se curely fastened to a rope which seems > disappear over the ceiling. The other end of this rope is the one at which the condemned man is stand ing. Unconscious of what he is doing, he steps on to this small bit of carpet. His weight moves the leyer under the floor. By this the valve in the pail of water is opened. Noiselessly the water pases through the rubber tube into the empty pail. The ball of iron is released from its position. It jerks out the trigger holding the heavy weight. This drops, and with in thirty seconds from the time the man has stepped on to the carpet he is jerked into the air and his death is instantaneous. The prisoner is jerked about six feet into to the air and falls back to about three feet from the floor. In each of the four executions which have taken place, the neck has been broken and there has ap peared no sign of struggling. The Hallway Tax Suits. The net profit from eacli acre $19 53 Tlie cotton crop remained unsold, and tlie larger portion of the seed was used tor fertilizing wheat, but would bring the above if placed on the market at the present time. Much of this cotton could have sold for 8Vo cents if ginned and marketed as gathered. I liaye owned this land for seven years. The year I bought it was planted to Cotton, and I am told made one-half bale to the acre. Next spr.r g I seeded part of it to oats and planted balance in corn, with the results of about twenty bushels ot| bushels of corn per I terraced the land, turned it with three horses, and sub soiled in same furrow with two horses at a cost of abojut $5 per acre. In the following sprinjg, I planted in in corn and peas; gathering something over 27^ bushels oflcorn to the acre, and saved about 150 bushels of peas. That fall and following spring seeded it to wheat ana oats, and sowed it in glover. No aifcount was kept of this outs and fifteen acre. That fall Judge Simonton has rendered a de cision in the matter of the railway tax suits, so far as the tenders of pay ment made by the companies are con cerned. It will be remembered that the railroads made tenders at the proper time for payment of their taxes, based on the old assessments. These tenders were refused by order of the Comptroller Ge.ieral Shortly after that the County Treasurers were instructed to issue executions against the roads, and the Sheriffs were in structed to levy on their property. The United States Court granted an injunction restraining the officers from so doing, and the decree quoted below applies to all the cases: “It is ordered, adjudged and de creed that the complainant (railroad) deposit with the clerk of this Court, within ten days from the date of this order, a certified check, drawn upon a solvent bank, payable to each county treasurer defendant heteiu. the check to such treasurer being for the same sum of money heretofore tendered to him by complainant as the sum ad mitted to be due. That tlie said clerk deliver to each of said defendants, or to his attorney in this case, the check so drawn. That upon delivery of such check, the bank upon which it is drawn remaining solvent, It shall be received and accepted as of the day of the original tender, with the same force, effect and operation, to every intent, purpose and inference what soever, as if the money was actually received on that day. All questions as to the costs of tills receipt and de livery are reserved.” The railroads will therefore pay tlie amounts they offered,—tlie only di rect effect of Ellerbe’s bluff being that the State Government loses the interest on the lax money for forty- four days. The cases in regard to the remain der of tlie taxes claimed by the State under the Comptroller’s increased as sessments will be heard in the United States Court on Monday next, the 4th instant. Judge Simonton will not be one of the Judges to hear It. The Couit on that occasion will be presided over by Judge Bond and Judge Goff, the latter being one of the newly appointed Judges of the Circuit Court of Ap peals of the United States. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Weighed in the Balances. News and Courier. When Benjamin R. Tillman and his hangers-on, a coterie of disap pointed office-seekers, went before the people of South Carolina two years ago and asked for their suffrages they adopted as their slogan the special abuse of the existing administration and the general denunciation of the Democratic party as then organized. By such an appeal to the passions of the masses, backed by unfounded charges of fraud and oppression and by the wildest promises of reform, Tillman and a select few of his polit ical family raised themselves to place and power. Tillman, Irby, Shell, Pope and a few others secured the spoils, while the sturdy yeomanry of South Carolina continued to labor in their fields, hopefully expectant of the era of prosperity which the can didates of their choice had lavishly promised them. What has been the result of the campaign of abuse and its consequent political revolution? Has there been reform in the administration of af fairs? Have taxes been reduced? Are the farmers and merchants and man ufacturers more prosperous today than they were in 1890? Every man, woman and child in South Carolina can answer these questions without assistance from us. The “hard times” of 1890 were “flush times” to the grinding poverty which has settled down upon many sections of the State in 1892. Is Tillman responsible for this lack of prosperity? He is not responsible for the decline in the val ue of farm products, which has im poverished the people, but he is re sponsible for promising his credulous followers to bring about a condition of affairs which he knew he could not control, and in encouragaging and fostering their discontent for his own personal ends. Is he responsible for the lack of confidence which the financial world entertains for South Carolina securities? Is he responsi ble for the confusion which prevails in the State’s phosphate interests? Is he responsible for the litigation into which the State has been plunged on all sides? To these questions the an swer is distinctly. Yes! Was it re markable tnat this should have been the result? Not at all! Men who are without exegptive ability, legal kuowledgeor broad patriotic imjnujse$ are not competent to manage io&'af- fairs of a State. That the State is in no worse plight than it is today is due to the fact that sufficient “rotten drift-wood” floated into the Legisla ture to act as a conservative check upon the schemes of the Executive. The conservative people of the State have met and have suggested the names of honorable citizens to con duct the fight against Tillman and Tillmanism. It remains to be seen whether the people who were so wo- fully deceived two years ago have had enough of the Preiender, and are ready for a restoration of the State to its former proud position, or whether they will again follow him and place in nis hands the power toifinish the ruin he has so successfully begun. SHOT HIS Fill LX I >. A Fatal Accident at Heath, Ga., Last Saturday. Augusta Chronicle. Late Saturday afternoon a very un fortunate accident happened at Heath, Ga., by which one friend accidentally shot and killed another. For some time Messrs. Mcllwean & Deaton have bad a large force of hands at work near Heath, Ga., get ting out naval ‘■tores. Among (he bosses employed in the work was Mr. Irwin Taylor of North Carolina, and Mr. H. M. Kirkland of Aiken, S. C. Saturday afternoon when the men stopped work, Messrs. Taylor & Kirk land got their pistols and began prac ticing shooting at a bat that one of the negro men would toss in the air. Both men were sitting on a log, side by side, with their pistols in their hands. As the negro would throw up the hat, the men would shoot at it al ternately. They had been shooting for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes when the negro threw the hat to tlie right, near the end of the log. The men, becoming interested in the shooting, forgot whose time it was to shoot, and both rose at the same time to shoot and did shoot. One ball went whizzing at the hat, but the other found a mark in the head of Mr. Taylor, and lie fell dead in his tracks, the ball having entered the back part of his head and lodged in his brain. It was ail done so suddenly that Mr. Kirkland was dazed and hardly knew what bad happened. Just as Mr. Kikland pulled the trigger Mr. Taylor jumped up and caught the ball in his head. Both men were highly thought of in the camp and were close friends, and Mr. Kirkland, when he realized what lie had done, was ne4rlv etazed. Mr. Taylor is a married man with several children, who live in North Carolina, where his body has been sent. • Mr. H. M. Kirkland is an unjuar- ried man from Aiken. The shotting was purely accidental, and is grdatly regretted by the contractors. \ - - —I Economy and Scanty Cash. Col. Orr’s Mistake. It is a fixed and immutable law that to have good, sound health one must have pure, rich and abundant blood. There is no shorter nor surer route than by a course of De Witt’s Sarsaparilla W. J. Platt, Treasurer Blake of Abbeville Coun ty published the following in the Press and Banner of March 23d: In the speech Col. Orr delivered at Laurens on the 18th instant, occurs a statement which I desire to correct through your columns. In holding Gov. Tillman responsible for the non payment of faxes by the railroads, he uses the following language: “Some of you ask if he is responsi ble for it. I say, yes. It was his duty as Governor to instruct the treasurers when the railroads tendered the coun ty taxes to accept and give a receipt pro tanto, instead of which he in structed them to refuse, and today we are in the humiliating position of the State of South Carolina going into Courts to try to make the railroads pay taxes we refused to take.” So far as the above statement per tains to the Treasurer of Abbeville County it is absolutely erroneous, as the attorney who tendered the money and other witnesses will testify. The Governor neither instructed the Treasurer to refuse the money, nor did the Treasurer refuse it, but offered to take it and give the railroad credit to that amount for the taxes due. We can scarcely conceive how Gov. Tillman can be responsible for the ac tion of the Treasurer in this matter, when the railroads put their scheme into execution almost at the expira tion of the time for collecting taxes, when the Treasurer’s office was crowded with tax-payers, and when the limited time precluded any cor respondence between the Governor and Treasurer, except by wire. Mr. Henry Winter, formerly man ager of the Savannah Brewery, says he had Rheumatism of the Heart for several years. Often he was unable to walk over a few blocks, his pain was so intense; he had trouble to get his breath ; he had physicians in Phil adelphia, his former home, but the best professor in the university three could not give him relief. Coming here he saw P P P advertised, tried two bottles, and is now a well man. His pain has left him and he can n»w walk all day. He renders thanks to P P P. and says its works are won derful. From the Manufacturers’ Record. The extremextepresslr >i in the prleol X»f votrvvn, coming ut-opw tjjf, of the planting season, has caused planters to hesitate about tlie propri ety of raising much cotton and using fertilizers as usual. Our information from North and South Carolina and Georgia is that while a fair acreage will be planted, not over 40 to 50 per cent, of the usual quantity of com mon fertilizer will be used. Great economy will be observed and less cash used than at any 7 time since the war. The disposition to raise other crops in general, and the use of home supplies of manures, will be a firm necessity. Of course this year will wind up with abundant home supplies a less crop of cotton and no new debts incurred. Good and favorable sea sons may help them to a surplus. A Cotton Factory for Bamberg. Northerners salt everything, and it is very distressing when a hostess has a soup she knows to be deliciously seasoned to see a guest reach for the pepper and salt before tasting the soup. “Late to bed and eaily to rise will shorten the road to your home in the skies,” But early to bed aud a Little Early Riser,” the pill that makes life longer and better and wiser W. J. Platt. At a recent meeting of tlie directors of the Bamberg Carriage and Wagon Manufacturing Company it was de cided to convert the plant into a cot ton factory, with a capital stock of $75,000. The $50,000 capital stock of the carriage factory will now go into the new enterprise and the books will be opened for an additional subscrip tion of $25,000, which can be raised in a single day. The change was brought about by Hie ham times, the directors thinking a cotton factory would pay better. The factory build ing is nearly complete, and will he a handsome structure, three stories high. It will be ready for the next crop of cotton. With the April number the Cosmo politan Magazine completes its 12th volume in a manner worthy the wide and growing popularity of this mag azine. Tlie Cosmopolitan is the most superbly illustrated of the monthlies, and tlie pictorial embellishment of the April number i> rather above the average. The leading article is on “Genoa—the hom-e of Columbus,” written by Murat Hatitfead, who re cently visited theeity, aud illustrated from photographs of ali the principal relics of the great navigator which re main in Genoa. Among the many other clever contrUyjd.ors to this at tractive magazine are Lieut. A. M. D’Armit, William H. Rideing, Cora Maynard, Edward Everett Hale, Count Leon Tolstoi, and many others. Published by tlie Cosmopolitan Mag azine Company, New York, at $2.40 a year A well-to do, well-fed clergyman recently preached to a congregation of poor people and took for bis topic: “How to be Happy though Hungry.” He eloquently reminded iiis hearers that though they might be hungry in this world, they would be tilled in the next world, and. therefore, di - content with their lot was a griev ous siu. Mrs. L R. Patton, Rockford, HI., writes: “From personal experience l can recommend De Witt’s Sarsapa rilla, a cure for impure blood and gen eral debility” W. J. Platt. Wade Hampton was a millionaire of very nearly one before tlie war. but of late years fortune has frowned on him. It is pleasant to learn, therefore, that he has become inter ested in a Mexican silver mine, in one vein of which there is $200,000 in sight, while other veins not yet opened premise good returns. Rheumatism and Syphilis yield readily to P P P (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium.)