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?A BY E. BVMTJEEAY & CO. ANDEESON, S. C, THUKSDAY MOENING, NOVEMBEE 4, 1886. VOLUME XXII. -KO. 17. OUR STOCK IS IMMENSE! ie Largest line Erer Carried by one Firm in the Up-Conntry! $35,000 WORTH IN OUR TWO STORES. WE HAUST UNLOAD?CALL EARLY. Ladies'Newinarkets, Dolmans and Short Wraps At Popular Prices, rand Children's Oloaks in Great Variety. Elegant Line of Dress Goods. We can showyou tlie handsomest line at 10, 12 1-2, 15, I, 25, worth-at least 5c more on the yard, but we cannot affordl;? carry them. We Tritt sell you a Beautiful Line of Wool Lace, >~ At 15"1; per yard?others ask 25c. TO ARRIVE, We are expecting daily a line of KID GLOVES, all stedeB and sizes. Others ask $1.00 to $125 for them. We are going to run them for 75c. We can recommend them. ; f ^SHOES FOR EVERYBODY. Hen's, Women's and Children's. Women's Polkas for 75c. Children's from 25c up. Kent's in Calf, Congress' Bals. or Buttons for $2.00, worth fully $3.00. Se??tifi? line Picture Frames, Oil Paintings, etc. OUR STOCK OF GROCERIES. 400 barrels Flour, the finest quality Cream Cheese, and everything you want at prices to suit the times. THE CLOTHING BUSINESS. fHl DEY GOODS BUSINESS ! The Largest Stock of 'FALL AND WINTER GOODS Now on hand since the commencement of our business. J. P. SULLIVAN & GO. Our stock (Hothing larger than ever. Our stock Dry Goods larger than ever. Our determination to sell Cheaper than ever. The prettiest in the market. DRESS GINGHAMS, CASHMERES, TRECO GOODS, and everything. Don't fa>l to come in?we will take pleasure in shotting you through our .entire stock. v ; COFFEE?alM ays the best. J- J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. - Sept 23.1886_, 11 _3m ATTENTION! WE desire to call attention to our Stock of General Merchandise. We are sell? ing everything very close, and will sell REGARDLESS OF COST For next ninety days?consisting of EVERYTHING kept in a General Merchan? dise Store. We give especial attention to buying FLOUR and GROCERIES, and can meet aoy competition. LOOK AT OUR WAGONS AJVD BUGGIES. We CAN and WILL sell you as low aB anyone. A few sets of HARNESS that must be sold. A WORD TO THOSE WHO OWE US For Supplies and Merchandise, Fertilizers, Horses and Mules. The same are now due, and we MUST have our money, as we need it. All Notes aud Accounts for Fertilizerssmust be paid by November 1st We will not indulge you any longer. CUNNINGEAM, FOWLER & COOLEY. Oct 14,1886 14 _J TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOY. WE ARE NOW SELLING THE BEST CAKBIAGES, PHYTONS, BTfGGIES AND WAGONS In Anderson for the Least Money, /"YUALITY being considered, and would be pleased to have you call on us before w you purchase and get pricep. We have just received a Car Load of Fine Side Bar Buggies, and other styles, which we will offer at LOWER PRICES than ever before heard of in this market. . LAST, BUT JVOT LEAST, All pereons who owe us one cent must settle with us before November 15,188G for we will put our books and papers in the hands of an Officer for collection on that date. . We mean what we say, and a word to the wise is sufficient. REED & STEPHENS, Main Street, between the University and Public Square. l^??H$r$'?oi,?MN, J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. How do you like your educational journal? Do your pupils ever manifest any disposition to read the papers? Miss Minerva Drake will continue to teach at St. Paul's, Miss Jennie Rosa, mondat Cedar-wreath, and Miss Belle Elrod at Batheyda. The Pendleton Trustees have located schools at Sandy Springs, Denver, As berry, New Light, Mt. Tabor, and Pen? dleton, and order them to open Nov. 1st., and continue until further notice is given. Miss Zella;Caopbell will have charge of the Eureka school, Mr. Sterling and the patrons having failed to agree upon terms. Miss Zella has had some expe? rience in teaching, and has given satis? faction. Capt. J. H. Rice gave us a long con ' versation while in Anderson Oct. 26tb, and the'benefit of several suggestions he proposes to make to the Legislature, rel? ative to changes needed in the school law of South Carolina. It will be re? membered that Capt. Rice was last Tuesday elected State Superintendeut of Education. His speech delivered here was full of good sense and enthusiasm for the cause he represents. It would do good if delivered in every county in the State. No thoughtful man will deny that there are many changes needed, but Mr. Rice was eminently correct when he said that the greatest necessity was to popularize the public school system. We can not afford to go backward, and he who would tear down the system without offering something better, would throw a barrier in the way of the pro? gress of his country. Many people are opposed to any kind of public school system. Many claim that the old ante? bellum system of South Carolina was the best the world ever Baw. Both classes are mistaken. South Carolina can not afford, if she would, to fold her arms, and, looking so indifferently at the pro? gress of States and nations, boast of her ability to take care of herself without any public school system; the antebel? lum system served its day, suited the times in which it was operated very welb but the post-bellum conditions demand a better,sa wider, a deeper system. But what changes can be made that will im? prove the system that was thrust upon us by oar political enemies, and has been unwillingly operated by the Democratic party since 1876? Every fair-minded man must concede that an increase of the number of school .District*, thereby greatly diminishing the size of the pres? ent oues, would very much facilitate the work of school officers, and unquestion? ably render the workings of the system more efficient. As the law stands, that arrangement can not be effected. The poll tax stands in the way. Now, the polls must go to the school District from which they are collected. That entails npon the County Treasurer an immense amount of work now, while the School Districts are conterminous with the County Townships. Cut the Townships into three or four school districts each, and nothing short of a census could enable the Treasurer to keep his books straight. The matter can be very easily remedied by the Legislature, and we respectfully call the attention of our Representatives to the matter. Let the law bo so modified that the poll tax shall be apportioned as the 2-mill tax is now done. That done, and the schools will have guaranteed to them closer supervis? ion and more efficient work on the part of the teachers. That slight change we suggest ourselves to our law makers, and trust they will give it that attention it deserves. The suggestions made by Captain Rice we will notice in another issue. Hopewell, Oct. 20,: 188G. Mr. Editor : The board of Trustees met Saturday last and passed the follow? ing rules for the go verm en l of our schools for the coming year: No public money will be paid for children who go out of the Township, our schools being situated conveniently to every one. No papers will be signed except at the regular meetings. Papers mnst be prop? erly made-out and certified to first Satur? day in each mouth, at 2 o'clock p. m., at Hopewell School House. Teachers paid four cents for 1st grade, 3 cents for 2nd and 2 cents for 3rd per scholar per day. Limit, forty scholars. Public schools to be opened Monday, the 22od dny of November. W. A. Neal, Clerk. Mr. Editor: Prof. Morrison.'sarticle in reference to the State Normal is very suggestive. Your own, also, is to the point. I take it that the prime object in view in holding the Normal, is to reach and benefit the teachers?to lift them up to a higher plane in the profession. Judged by this standard, I think the Normal is a failure, for it does not reach the teachers as a mass, and I very much question if it helps those whom it does reach. I have conversed with some who attended the Normal at Greenville, and the general" verdict is that the kind of instruction given there, was outside and above the wants of the teachers in the common schools. That the principle in? volved in the effort upon the part of the State to reach the teachers and teach them how to teach, is a correct one,, cannot be denied, I think. But is it not a better way to use the money in holding County Normals? Our own Normal th's sum? mer is proof to the point, and the writer has heard one Township Trustee say that he "could see the signs of the Normal Bticking out of the school houeo window.'' Over seventy of tho white teachers of this County attended our own, while only two or three attended the State Normal. Then let tho State help the County Nor? mals by a liberal appropriation, and re? quire by law the presence of every teach? er with a penalty for failure to attend, and in the cxaminalious let live percent, be added to the general average for attendance on the County Normal. Let oar Legislators look into the matter this winter and give us some legislation in the interest of the schools. X. Y. Z. SILLY TJSACHEB8. From an education journal we get the following: "We heard of an instance the other day of a teacher who required her pupils to look at a white spot on the blackboard for fifteen minutes, until the tears ran down their cheeks and their eyes became swollen as with crying, in order to keep them quiet. On another occasion she made her pupils open their books and look at one word for a long time, especially charging them "not to read a word." In no other way could she imagine bow to keep them out of mischief. Such persons disgrace the calling." How many teachers can be found now who take up the time and prevent the business of the school-room with such foolishness 1 To all such we recommend some good school journal, that will give them some idea of what the business of teaching is. And we especially recom? mend such to attend the meetings of the Teachers' Association, and set about -preparing themselves for the calling in which they are engsged. ? Carthage Record._ A PLEA FOB ORGANIZATION. Essay Bead Before the Storevllle Farm? ers' Club, by T. L, Cllnkscalos, and Pub? lished by Beqaest of tbe club. Mr, President and gentlemen of the Farmers' Club: In compliance with your request, I have made the effort to say something on tbe subject of organi? zation. It is a subject in which I feel a great interest, and about which I have much anxiety. Farming is one of tbe noblest occupations of our land, and we should feel proud of tbe name. If we could only persuade our farmers to be? lieve that there was a necessity for us to organize, we could begin to rise to tbe position that we should occupy in life. There is no necessity for me to say that in "unity there is strength." That, you all know. For instance, if you want money out of tbe bank, you have to get two men to unite with you to get it, and if we can get money, or the necessities of life by two or three uniting together, can we hot accomplish more by neighbor? hoods, or townships uniting? Suppose that this or any other neighborhood would unite, could we not buy our goods cheaper ? That is not all, we could come together and talk about farming, give our experience in managing our farm?, care of stock, cutting and curing hay?we can learn from one another. The other day a freed man came to my house to grind an axe. I learned something from him about keeping water on the grindstone, and we can always learn something from oneanother, however humble one may be. Gentlemen, I do wish that we could get the farmers to unite, not only for saving money, but to be social with one another. That is one thing we need. We should .not be so much for self. Look at men of all other professions, the merchants, mechanics, doctors and all others, even those who make theii living by hiring?"Knights of Labor," are all organized, and yet we are the back bone and sinew of the country, and have no concert of action among ua. Come, brother farmers, let us not be laggards, let us rise to the position we should occupy. Do not let us be afraid of each other. We will not do you any harm by organizing. Don't be afraid of loosing half a day or one day by attend? ing your club. You will gain in several ways. Don't wait for some one to lead off, go at it yourself, get a few together and let others see what can be done, and do not be discouraged if your numbers are small and some are careless about coming to your meeting. What can we accomplish without patience and perseverance ? "Large streams from little fountains flow," so let a few of us try to accomplish some? thing by organization. A few of us know what the grange did for us, and because some one made a few dollars out of it more than the private,- they fell out with it, or rather fell back into tbe merchant's bands. Gentlemen, we cannot run any busi? ness and make it a success without money, and we, as farmers, seem to be content to let things go without any effort to help ourselves. We can accomplish some? thing, let us rise and do it. One reason we farmers do not unite, I am tempted to 'say, is from ignorance. I heard a person slandering our club the other day, by saying our object was to put labor down to six dollars per month for grown hands, and three dollars per month for plow boys. Tbe object of organization is to benefit all and injure none. I want us to try to do something in our club to redeem the name of farmers. Split Ten Dollar Notes. A new departure in the matter of counterfeiting money was brought to light at the United States sub treasury in Baltimore a few days ago. A somewhat worn ten dollar government bill was pre? sented at the cashier's window with a re? quest for change, which was given. Tbe note was Bent to Washington as mutilated currency, and was returned with the in? formation that one side of the note was good, but the other side was a well execu? ted counterfeit of the original. It was found that a genuine ten dollar bill had been split, the face being separated from tbe back, a seemingly impossible under? taking. The original face with a coun? terfeit back had been used, and it is quite likely that the genuine back with a well executed counterfeit face has been passed in some other quarter. More receutly another $10 "front" was presented at the casher's window with a similar request for change. The clerk at the window, suspecting tbe bill, told the man who handed it in to wait a moment until he could consult Dr. Bishop, tbe sub treas? urer. Dr. Bishop recognized in the note the familiar game and said it was worth just $5. When the clerk returned to the window tbe man bad left without wait' ing for his change. The sub treasury, which was out $5 on the first transaction, was evened up by the second. A Female Gold Miuc. There is a woman in Camdcn, 0., from whose body at different points, there have been taken gold bars, or, rather, needles. These needles have varied in length from a half-inch to four or five inches, and are in thickness a little larger than a darning needle. The only solution offered is that in early years she swallowed a gold coin, or piece ,of gold, which by sonio action of the gastric juices of tho stomach, was dissolved and circulated through the system, then, by some action of the blood, precipitated.? Boston Herald, THE PROBLEM OF THE CENTURY. Practical Success of tho Mason Cotton Picker. By far the most important inspection of the Mason Cotton Harvester yet made has just been concluded by a committee of the National Cotton Planters' Associa? tion. The committee was composed of Mr. R. P. Duncan, of MisHesipii, the Hon. J. T. Henderson, commissioner of agriculture of Georgia, and Messrs. John A. Cobb, of Georgia, and J. M. Hollings worth, of Louisiana?men whose practi? cal ideas and long experience in the cultivation of the great Southern staple especially fitted them for the delicate and responsible task they had to perform. The Harvester waa tested by these gen? tlemen in the cotton field at Sumter, and under conditions which demonstrated the utility of a machine which is destined to work a revolution in all the cotton producing countries in the world. The report of the committee is most encourag? ing and is as follows: Charleston, October 12,1886. To Col. F. C. Morehead, President National Cotton Planters' Association of America: The undersigned, your com? mittee appointed by you at the request of the Mason Cotton Harvester Company, to inspect, investigate and report upon the practical operation of the Mason Cot? ton Harvesting Machine for the benefit of the National Cotton Planters' Associa? tion, have the honor to submit the follow? ing report: Your committee report that under your authority they proceeded to Sumter, South Carolina, and, on the 20th instant, witnessed for a larger part of the day, the practical operation of the said Harvester in gathering seed cotton from the plant in the open field. Your committee are candid to say, that while Home little improvements, in their opinion, as well as that of the inventor, have yet to be introduced and perfected in order to present a perfectly practical cotton harvester machine for use by the cotton planter in the field, your commit? tee were most agreeably surprised and gratified to witness in operation a ma chine approaching so closely to a practically successful cotton harvester, and feel that they can, with confidence, predict for the cotton planter, a machine that will, in the near future, relieve him of the most distasteful part and expensive item of harvesting the cotton crop of the South. Your committee would, 1st, more specifically and particularly report that the paid machine, with two horses and one negro driver, was, in the presence of this committee, placed in practical work* ing operation in a small cotton field near the town of Sumter, South Carolina. The cotton row was straddled by the machine, thus placing the same mechanism for gathering the cotton on each side of the row of cotton plants. The team was driven at the ordinary gait for field work, and the machine seemed to be, and was, under the easy management and control of the driver while turning at the end of the rows and during each stage of its field operations. 2. The machine gathered of fairly clean cotton at the rate of 240 pounds of seed cotton per hour, from cotton plants that would not yield more than one bale of lint cotton to every three acres, and your committee are satisfied that, if the trial hid been in cotton yielding more per acre, the amount gathered by the machine would have been in the same proportion increased. 3. Your committee could discover no damage done, in the operation of the machine, to the plant in any way. either to the unopened bolls, or the leaves-on the stalk, but they are pleased and grati? fied to be able to report that the machine practically distinguished between the the open cotton it was intended to gather, and the balance of the plant; gathering one and leaving the other uninjured, which, in the opinion of your committee, was the most insurmountable difficulty to be overcome in the practical operation of a cotton harvester. This difficulty seems to have been happily and most success? fully overcome by the peculiar and in? genious contrivance of the inventor. 4. Your committee report that there was more cotton wasted upon the ground in the operation of the machine than tbey thought would be allowable in a success? fully working machine, but they are at the same time satisfied that much of such wasting was caused from?first, a slight defect in the depth of the part that re? ceives the cotton from the gathering stems or fingers, which can be and will be easi? ly remedied; and, second, in the peculiar condition of the open cotton on most of the stalks for machine harvesting. Most of the cotton in which it was operated having opened early in August, and being subjected to the summer drought on sandy land, was thus rendered unduly sensitive to the slightest touch or dis? turbance from the fingers of the machine in passing though the plant. Owing to the condition of the open cotton as stated, your committee are satisfied much, if not the greater part, of said waste is attribu? table ; and they feel equally well assured that the defect alluded to in the cotton receiver is now being overcome and remedied in a new and improved machine which your committee did not see in operation because not yet completed. Your committee are of the opinion that in harvesting cotton as in harvesting small grain or hay, with a machine, the condition of the crop must be observed and must control to a certain extent the more successful results to be secured from the operation of the implement used, and they can appreciate how the cotton to bo harvested must, in the nature of things, be credited with the same indulgence and fair, impartial consideration. Your committee, in concluding this report, beg leave to say that the improve? ment suggested by the committee will be overcome in the opinion of the inventor, Mr. Mason, in a very short while, and they-congralulute the cotton planters of the South upon the present success of the Mason Cotton Harvester, and assure them, in the opinion of the committee, the said Mason Cotton Harvester embod? ies the correct principle, and in the near future its practical and useful operation will be as complete as the mower and the self-binder, which seem for years as diffi? cult of successful solution. The special mechanism of the machine and its practical operation was elaborate? ly explained to your committee, and with the improvements, which we are assured will be in a short while completed in a perfected machine, your committee are constrained to confidently hope and believe that the Cotton Harvester will be a practical success, the more serious difficulties having been already practical? ly overcome. Your committee finally beg leave to express the deep sense of gratitude they feel for the very kind and generous court? esies shown them by the inventor, Mr. Mason, Mr. T. D. Jervey, the president of the Mason Cotton Harvester Company, Mr. James S. Murdoch, and other mem? bers of the Harvester Company. Your committee were singularly impressed with the candor and open expressions of the above gentleman upon what were the defects of the machine as mentioned, and their willingness and ability to success- | fully overcome them. Georgia?J. T. HENDERSON, Chairman, Louisiana?J. M. Hollingsworth, Georgia?Jno. A. Conn, Mississippi?Robt. P. Duncan, Committee. ? The statement is made that if the Chinese nation wero to pass before an observer in single file, the procession would uevcr cease, for a new generation would be coming on the stage as fast as J the procession moved, CHARLOTTE'S QUEER PHENOMENA, Bain Falling Every Day at the Same Hour from Clear Sides, Charlotte has a sensation of the most puzzling character, and one which will prove an interesting subject for study by the scientists and the learned men of the land. It is a tree, or rather a pair of trees, in the vicinity of which regularly each day at 3 o'clock a shower of rain falls. Tbe phenomenon was yesterday witnessed by a crowd of at least 250 citi zens, before whose gaze the rain fell for tbe space of two hours. The locality of this strange occurrence is at the corner of Ninth and D streets. Three weeks ago it was reported that every day at three o'clock a shower of rain would fall at that spot, but most of our citizens thought it a subject for the chef tnut bell. During the last few days, however, they have begun to look at the matter in a different light. There is no joke about it, but tbe rain really does fall, as indicated above, and it can be witness ed any day after three o'clock in the afternoon. An Observer reporter, anxious to test tbe truthfulness of the report, yesterday visited the spot and found a crowd of at least 250 people already assembled, wait? ing for the rain to commence. The skies were perfectly clear, tbe sun was shining brightly, and everything in the vicinity was dry and dusty from the pro longed drought. On reaching the place where the people were assembled, the reporter inquired for the spot on which it was said that tbe rainfall was to be seen, and was pointed to two scrubby oak trees growing in a yard at the corner of Ninth and D streets. There was nothing unu? sual about the appearance of the trees, save that they were not very well filled with leaves. At half past three o'clock tbe expectant multitude was rewarded by the appearance of the rain. It began coming down between tbe two trees in a kind of a mist which gradually increased until it was a gentle, but undoubtedly a genuine rain fall. Though the rain was falling before the eyes of all present, no one could toll from whence it came. It could be seen coming down from a point above the tops of the trees, and continued falling until 5 o'clock, and that was all that could be realized. Every individual present could see it plainly. Ad um? brella held under the falling water was quickly made dripping wet. Hander? chiefs spread on the ground were also made wet. One lady placed a gossamer at the foot of tbe tree, and when she took it up it contained a tableBpoonful of | water. The water is icy cold. Among those present yesterday and who can testify to the truthfulness of what is above recorded, were Mr. James A. Barry, sergeant in charge of tbe signal station in this city; Mr. D. P. Hutchinson, and a large number of young lady pupils of tbe Charlotte female institute in charge of Mrs. Atkin.-on, in addition to number prominent citizens. Mr. Barry was so impressed with what he witnessed that he reported the occurrence to tbe chief sig? nal station at Washington. The plat of ground covered by the rainfall is about tou feet square. This wonderful occur? rence has been going on daily for four weeks past, as tbe residents of that vicin? ity can testify. While tbe rain was falling yesterday Mr, Hutchinson climbed up one of the trees to make an investigation, but failed to unravel the mystery. The leaves and twigs were perfectly dry, and while he was in the top of the tree be could see the rain coming down from above him. These are the facts, and the wise men can now take the case. A similar phenomenon U reported in Cheraw.? Charlotte Observer. A Home of Your Own. One of the very first things that a young married couple should think of, is the getting of a home of their own; a house which is theirs "to have and to hold" for lifetime, if possible; one that shall be to their children a place around which all their youthful memories gather, and bring a glow to their hearts, no mat ter what may come to them in after years; one in which each room will, in process of time, become endeared through its associations. It may seem far away in tbe distance at first, but persistent thought and effort in that direction will bring it to pass in time, and much sooner than at first seemed probable. Necessity or expediency may make renting tbe only thing to do for a season, but I still adhere to the opinion that it is the truest economy and highest wisdom to get a home of your own at the earliest moment that you can make it praticable. The peripatetic people have rarely much of value that they can call their own, for in the very nature of things tbey could not have. Tbe family lack the sense of permanency iu regard to a homo which is always so desirable, and espec? ially when people are upon the down hill side of life. While young and vigorous, with brains busy with what is going on in the world, its absence is not felt so much, but the day must come when the interests will be gradually withdrawn with the waning strength from purely outside matters and centre within tbe home, and it is then that the heart longs for and is best satisfied with what long habit has made dear and familiar. Another tbing is true. Your expendi? tures are much more likely to be carefully looked after if you have such an object in view. I know a couple who boarded for some years after their marriage, then rented a bouse and went to housekeeping. They lived up to every cent of their in? come, though never running in debt. Finally they cancluded to have a home of their own, and took advantage of the installment plan; that is, they had a house built for them by persons who make that sort of thing their business, gave a mortgage upon it to secure the building, and paid for it in monthly installments. The undertaking caused .a complete change in their way of living. Without being niggardly, they looked closely after expenses, and found that they could enjoy life just as well as ever, better, because they had a definite object iu view which absorbed their thoughts, nd for which tbey were planning from ?jay to day. They go without many little luxuries to which they were accustomed, but they do not feel tbe deprivation in the comfort they take in what is to be really a home, not juat simply a tempo? rary place to live in.?Toledo Blade. Snake Charming. As for the so-called charming of ser? pents, it may be practiced by any one who from observation comprehends tbe movements of the reptiles and knows how tar to venture on familiarities. Confidence and dexterity on tbe part of the "charmer" can overcome fear and subtlety on the part of the hnake, which after all, is only watching it-t opportunity to strike or to escape. Thejugglers understand this very well, and know bow far the snake can reach to strike. Keeping at a safe dis? tance, they irritate it just enough to make it follow tbe movements of their hands, or tbe bit of bright cloth waved before them, and which in point of facts is a shield to receive the bite should the cobra attempt to strike. The snake has risen and expanded its "hood," not for any admiration of the flaunted colors, or for any enjoyment of the discordant din which is supposed to charm it, but, iu self-protection, the better to aim at its tormentor. "He is the best charmer," says Dr. Vincent Richarde, in his val? uable work, "Landmarks of snake Pois? oned Literature," "who is tho most intimately conversant with the move? ments of the reptiles under varying conditions. - PRIHIBHTON IN ATLANTA. Mayor Hlilyer Makes an Investigation and Telegraphs the Results to New York. The Atlanta Constitution of October26 says: The Daily Voice of New York city yesterday afternoon contained an accu? rate statement of the prohibition situa? tion in Atlanta. Early yesterday morn ing Hun. George Hillyer, Mayor, received a telegram from the managing editor of the Voice asking for positive information upon the subject. The telegram read: "New Yoke, October 25,1886.?May? or of Atlanta, Georgia. Please give us five hundred words on the effect of pro? hibition since the last license expired. Give the number of arrests for drunken? ness and deeds of violence yesterday as compared to the fame day the last two years. The morning paperB here are filled with reports of big jug trade in Atlanta. Important to have facts in the Voice this afternoon. "Editor Daily Voice." Immediately npon receipt of the tele gn>m Mayor Hillyer caused the city docket at police headquarter for Saturday and Sunday just passed to be carefully examined, and comparing ibem with the same days of 1886 and 1884, sent the following telegram: "Mayor's Office, Atlanta, Ga., October 25, 1886.?Editor Daily Voice, New York: I shall publish your dispatch in the Atlanta daily papers with the following reply: In the barroom days, drunkenness was common, and not always noticed; the police less attentive, and many escaped arrest. Now, if a man gets drunk, or even partly drunk, it attracts attention; police are active and vigilant, and arrest early certain: The figures in the police office show the arrests for disorder and drunkenness on Saturday and Sunday, October 23 and 24,1886, to be 22; corresponding days in 1885, 31, and 1884, 25. Many cases at present are chargeable to domestic wine, which is not prohibited, and which it is .-aid is oiten doctored. Figures in the express office show bardly one jug or demijohn shipped into the city per 1,000 inhabi? tants. All exaggerated reports are to be condemned. The good effec's of prohi? bition here are apparent. Trade in all branches, except the whiskey traffic, is prospering. There is a marked improve? ment in the habits, morals and happiness of the people. Prosperity is admitted and rejoiced in, both as to private and public affairs. It is greatly to be depre? cated that when scores and hundreds of facts, Euch as peaceful streets and happy homes, and sober husbands, sons and brothers, with plenty to eat and to wear, where before was broken hearts and fear, and sometimes actual want, the great daily press abroad say nothing about it; but if a hand truck load of jugs is seen, which is no great matter to sixty thou? sand people, this must be magnified into a "jug train," and the ?vhole preis of the United States made to ring with it! 1 here is not one-tenth as much iotoxi c tnts drank in Atlanta now as there was a year agn, possibly much less than that. Formerly the advocates of barrooms were numerous aod powerful. Now nobody advocates restoring the barrooms. For? merly the issue was high license against birrooras; now the very most that the opponents of total prohibition would contend for is high license. The barroom nuisance has gone out from Atlanta forever, and we would like all the world to know it. We are determined to give total prohibition a fair trial under the law, and are greatly strengthened and et couraged with it so far. But our peo? ple are already practically united in the belief that the barroom will never come buck. I only wish the people at a dis- - tance could see the truth as we have it de monstrated here, and tbus escape the diinger of being misled by the many exaggerated, prejudiced rumors that are published in other States on the subject. "George Hillyer, Mayor." Stories of Poison, "If you were going to commit suicide," I asked Prof. H. C. white, "how would you do it?" "Queer question," he replied, smiling, "but I think I should take a whiff of prussic acid." v "Would that kill quickly ?" "In about a second. You would sim? ply catch a scent of burned peach kernels and all would be over. An hour after death there would be no trace of poison in your body. The first effect of prussic acid would be to turn your blood black. As your corpse cooled the poison would evaporate and in an hour all would be gone. Like lightning the breath of the acid Hashes through the veins, kills and vanishes." ' Is this acid to be found in the drug etoires?" "Yes but not in the concentrated form I speak of. If I wanted to kill myself, which I clearly do not, I should pour hydrochloric acid over cyanide of potash, whiff the prussic acid gas that arose and go off in a twinkling." "I have in my laboratory at Athens," theProfessorcontinued, "apiece ofparch ment bearing these words: 'Thisis writ? ten with the blood of Jerry Twincher, who was poisoned with prussic acid.' The writing is as black as ink. "A curious thing came to me in my practice," said the professor, as he knock? ed the ashes from bis cigar, "about three yea)*s ago. The stomach of a woman, who bad died under suspicious circum starces in Aiken, S. C, was sent me for examination. I discovered a large quan? tity of strychnine in the stomach, and made several crystals which I sent to the authorities. Her husband was arrested, accused of murdering her, and convicted. About that time I got a letter from a druggist, who lived near Aiken, stating that the quinine be was selling was pro? ducing very strange effects, and asking me to analyze a sample he sent me. I did do, and found that it was almost half stryubnine. I at once thought of the man who was under conviction in that neighborhood for killing his wife with strychnine, and thought that.he might have been unjustly accused. I went to Aiken to ascertain the facts." "And you found the man really inno? cent ?" "No. I realized that the story ought to have ended that way, but it didn't. The man was clearly guilty."?Atlanta Con- j dilution. A Joko on the Jndge. Judge Jim Brown is one of the sharpest; and smartest men on the bench in Geor? gia, but if reports are true he was certain? ly tMpped for once a short time ago. The report goes that some years ago a young man was convicted before Judge Brow a of selling whisky, and that the judge stuck a heavy sentence to him. The joung fellow, whose name we could not learn, served his time out, and resolved to himself to get even with the judge. At the Ellijay court a while back, the young mau went, to the judge and asked him if he didn't want some good blockade whisky: The judge's face lighted up with smiles and with profuse thanks he replied "yes." Along with the judge the two traveled on a short distance and IK) pointed out a email keg of the juice close by. The judge picked it up and tendered to the young man pay for it. This was refused. With a "sidewip ing" stroke the public expounder of the laws had it secreted under his long tailed coat, end marched to town when be gent? ly plaoed it in his room. In ten minutes time i.ha man sworo out a warrant for Judge Brown for removing and conceal ihg blockade whisky. This is the report brought here by a man and whether it is true or not wo are unable to tell.?Dah Mega, C?a., Signal. To Reduce the Cost of Cotton. Mr. S. R. Cockrill, of Arkansas, one of the VicePresidents of the National Cotton Planters' Association of America, has issued the following very important circular letter to the cotton planters of the Southern States: As a cotton planter/or forty five years, I have decided that two important changes can be made by cotton growers: First. We can diminish the cost of growing cotton. Second. We can di | minish the cost of spinning it into yarn. Third. These changes will make cotton \ planting as valuable as it was when we owned slaves. The cost in growing ctitton will be saved by dispensing with tbe "hoe work." Increase the mule force, and drive up the ploughs, and go over tbe land with the plough twice before tbe seeds are planted. Plant the cotton nearly level, ana plough it East and West and North and South. Make tbe mules do the work, and hoes will not be required. This will be the saving of the hoe work. This we will call one cent a pound saved in the grow? ing. Fourth. We ii'iw come to the saving of the crop?that is the picking. This is now done by human fingers?both tedious and expensive. The cotton bar vefter only requires a little improvement. Two kinds now in controversy as to which will be the more valuable in saving the crop. Both will be put into ute, and tbe trial will decide which is best. I have made my decision on the harvester, which is in favor of the one which cuts down tbe stalks and moves them cut to the several machines now invented, which will cut olf tbe bolls from the stalks, take the cotton from th.; bolls,' separate tbe seed and then clean the seed cotton ready for tbe gin. The cotton stalk mill then receives the stalks and grinds them into meal as a fertilizer, and the aale of the stalks pays the expense of ginning. One-fourth cotton seed meal and three-fourths cotton stalk meal make the fertilizer to grow the next crop of coUmi? an improvement of 15 to 20 per cent, in product. This is 1A cents a pound in saving, and 1 cent before, makes 2? cents a pound in growing and gathering the cotton crop. If it costs 7 cents a pound now, it will cost 4} cents a pound then. This will give the growers a fair profit. The next saving is the "spinning mill" in tbe cot? ton field. This is saving No. 3, and will pave 2 cents a pound?that ia No. 1 is 3 cent; No. 2 is U cents; No. 3 is 2 cents ?4J cents gained by the grower on his crop annually. The spinning mill is on a new basis, and differs from all cotton spinning mills now running. That is, it is the cotton planters' spinning mill, worked by experienced men fiom the Boston and Manchester mills. They may start the mill thus: . I fix Pine Bluff as the location of the mill. Ten cotton planters who can act in harmony, each owning a'good cotton plantation in Jefferson County, form a company. A is elected as chairman. Tbey own ten fine cotton plantations in Jefferson County, growing crops annually. These form the ban's upon which tbey rely for tbe money to put up tbe building and purchase the machinery necessary to spin yarn, worth 14 or 15 cents a pound. Each planter is to give his note for $4,000, interest 7 per cent., tbe principal due in four years. The building is in tbe shape of a cross one story high, cost not over $10,000. AH machinery to rest on the ground floor. Tbe cotton planters to furnish their own cotton to tbe mill, and they pay 2 cents a pound toll and receive their cotton in yarn, which is sold at 14 cents a pound. A new method of running the mills is that tbe cotton growers furnish their own cotton to be spun into yarn for 2 cents a pound tell.. The mill has no cotton to buy or to sell, and it may run day and night during the year?the toll pays tbe expenses of tbe mill. The growers of the cotton sell their cotton in yarn worth 14 cents a pound to the looms of Manchester, Boston, <&c. Tbe result is, with the improvements mentioned in the cultivation and saving tbe crop of cotton: Cost for cultivation'and gather? ing, 4J cents; cost for spinning, 2 cents, making 6} cents a pound : sale of yarn 14 cents. This leaves for the grower 7J cents and all expeoses paid. The annual income will vary with tbe price of cotton 8, 9 and 10 cents, and yarn will vary likewise. The Drop. ' Getting the drop on him" is a phrase which, among the lawless pioneer miners, and among the lawless generally, means that the one party has bis gun cocked, aimed, and ready to fire before the other has time to draw bis weapon. The man who has the drop against him has the sudden choice to surrender and be disarmed, or die. He is at the mercy of his enemy. It appears from the fol? lowing conversation, reported to us by.a friend,as occurring between two Chicago Irishman, that there is more than one way of getting tbe drop on a man: "Come in, Patrick, and take a drop of something." "No, Mike; I am afraid of drops ever since Tim Flaherty died." "Well, what about him?" "He was one of the likeliest fellows in these parts. But be began the drop business in Barney Shannon's saloon. It was just a drop of something out of a bottle at first. But in a little while Tim took a few drops too much, and then he dropped into tbe gutter. He lost his place, he lost his money, he lost his coat and bat, he lost everything but his thirst for strong drink. Poor Tim 1 But the worst is yet to come. He got crazy with drink one day and killed a man. And the last time I saw him be was just taking his last drop with a slipping noose around his neck. I have quit this drop? ping business, Mike. I have seen too many good fellows when whiskey got tbe drop on them. They took just a drop from the bottle, then they dropped into the gutter, and they dropped into tbe grave. No rum se? r can get the drop ou me any more; xad if you drop htm, Mike, he will drop you." The whisky business is a lawless dis perado. It tries to get the drop on boys and girls, on men ana women, on politics, politicians aud officers, on the govern? ment and on tbe country. The train robber presents his pistol with the demand; "Your money or your life." Rum gives no such alternative. Its demand is: "Your money and your life."?Cliicago Interior. A Tale That had to be the Last. A party of gentlemen at a Birmingham hotel were telling stories one night recently, of famous shots and how many quails and partridge?, ducks and other birds had been killed at a single dis? charge. After listening to what seemed to be a willful exegreation by different narrator?, a stranger who was present volunteered his experience of his only use of the double barreled gun as fol? lows : -"I went into the field one day to try guuning. The only game discovered was an immense flock of black birds. I should Ray there were 10,000 in the flock. Slowly I crawled up to them, and when not more than four rods.away the birds rose in a solid ma:!s. I fired both barrels and how many do you think I killed ?" Different guesses were made' by the party, ranging from twenty to one hun? dred. "Not one," said the stranger, "but I went out with my brother to look for re sultsand we picked up four bushelsof legs. I had shot a little under." "It was tho last story told.? New Haven Neics. i ? A pair ofslippere-An eloping couple. Death of a Weallliv Recluse. New York, October 2."?.?Stripptd sdA the great fortune left b*r t.y her hUeband/^ Mrs. A. T. Stewart, who died tin* moru ine, was not a remarkable v. (man, and. ? though the possessor of millions, the was not a woman to be invicd. Since her hus-band s death she bs* lived i-nlitary in .1 her splendor. Her lowly life in bcr Fifth avenue marble pal.-ce could scarce? ly have been a bappy one. She did not g figure in society. Her name was not' ' prominent in benevolent enterprises, though her private benefuctious are said to have been large. Her grt-Ht bocse \ always seemed as cold and uninviting as a sepulchre. She was rarely rce n outside the dnors. Wheu she did enter the street it was in such state that the old lady seemed uncomfortable and unhappy..j Little is known of her later life. She leaves a great fortune and a palate, but no children to weep over her coffin, p;id only a few friends to follow her as raouid-. ers to the splendid mausoleum built at Garden Oily (o contain the stolen body of her husband. And yet Mrs. Stewart was an estimable lady and her life has been free from fault. Mrs. Stewart b>t left home last Friday, when sLe dined with Mrs. Henry Hilton, wife of ex Judge Hilton, the friend of her husband, the executor of his will and the administra? tor of his estate. On returning she caught cold, and on Saturday and Sun? day was unable to leave her bed. This morning she was thought to be better, but at 10 o'clock she died suddenly of congestion of the lungs and beart trou? ble. Mrs. Stewart was the eldest daugh"-^ ter of James Church, a pioneer merchant . of this city. She was born in 1802, and was married to Mr. A. T. Stewart in 1823 by the late Rev. Dr. Mitchell. In person uhe was small and of slender form. Those who are in attendance say that in death her face wean a peaceful expression as though she were asleep, and is very natural in appearance. It was stated to day by an intimate , friend of Mrs. Stewart that the mansion " and the large collection. of paintings have probably been willed to the city as the nucleus of a great public art gallery. ' It is thought that the larger part of tho ? estate will be left to ex Judge Hilton. The principal pictures in the marble palace are Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair," David Huntington^ "Washington Recep? tion," Meissonier's "Charge of Cuiras? siers;" "The Disputed Boundary," by , Erskine Nicoll; "The Village Festival/'' by Kraus, the greatest of German pain? ters ; "After the Ball," by Alfred Ste?| vens; a masterpiece by Bougureau, one by Fortuny, ana many others. The col- . lection is the finest of modern painters in America. Mr. Stewart did not care much for the old masters. The collection^ is worth over $17)0^666?-The Meisson-^ iers alone cost $60,000 and the Bonbeurs \ $35,000. Among the i-tatuary in the house are some fine masterpieces?Pow? er's Greek Slave, Eve, Paul and Virginia. Mrs. Stewart's wealth is estimated at from $20,000,000 to $50,000,000. . Among the real estate are the great buildings at Chambers street, and at Tenth street, the - Metropolitan Hotel and Niblo's TheatrejB the Woman's Hotel in Fourth avenue, the -\ Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, the V3st Hempstead Plains estate and many wool-^ len mills. The funeral will be held V Thursday afternoon. The Rev. Arthur ?? Brooks, of the Church of the Incarnation, will officiate. The services at the house will be private. The body will be taken to Garden City and. placed in. the tomb of A. T. Stewart. Public -ervi^ be held in the chapel late in ihWirreT^ noon of Thursday. Bishop Littlejohn, who is in Chicago, has been. telegraphed for and is expected to arrive in time to . h take part in the services. The ceremony ;. will be of the plainest description. An Important Decision on Railroad Freight Charges.. Washington, Oct. 25.?The United States supreme court rendered its decis? ion to-day in the case of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific railroad company,'plain? tiffs in error, against the people of the State of Illinois. The specific allegation.. was that the railroad company charged Elder & McEinney 15 cents per hundred pounds for transporting goods from Peo- . ria to New York City, and on the same, day charged Isaac Bailey and F. O, Swannell 25 cents per hundred pounds for the same class of goods from Oilman, HI., to New York?Gillman being 86 miles nearer than Peoria to New York, ^ The discrimination, it was alleged, was in f' violation of the laws of Illinois, which prohibits any charge for the transporta? tion of passengers or freight within the State of Illinois proportionately greater than would be charged for the transport tation of passengers or like classes of freight "over a greater distance of the I same road." The gist of the decision is '? contained in the conclusion as follows: "When it'is attempted to apply to trans- j portation through an entire series of States a principle of this kind, and each - one of the States or of half a dozen j; States shall attempt to establish its own rates of transportation, its own methods to prevent discrimination in rates, or to permit it, the deleterious influence upon the freedom ' of commerce among the ? States and upon the transportation of goods through the States can not be overestimated. That this species of reg? ulation is one which must be, if estab- .". lished at all, of a general and national character, and can not be safely and wisely remitted to local rules and local regulations, we think is clear frc<n what has already been said. And if it be a regulation' of commerce, as we think we have demonstrated it is, and as the Illi? nois court conceded it to be, it must be of that national character, and the regula? tion can only appropriately be by general rule and principles, which demand that it should be done by the Congress of the United States ander the commerce clause of the constitution." The judgment of the supreme court of Illinois, which was adverse to the railroad, is reversed, and the case is remanded to that court for ? further proceedings in conformity with the above opinion. Justice Bradley delivered a dissenting opinion, in which the chief justice and"" Justice Gray concurred. In this opinion it is conceded that Congress might if it saw fit, regulate the matter under consid? eration, but not having done so, it is held that the State does not lose its power to regulate the charges of its own rail? roads in its own territory simply because the goods or persons transported have been brought from or are destined to a point beyond the State borders. Where Good Citizens Come From. The country boy or girl is face to face with practical realities. He sees bow slowly money is made on the farm; be is taught from youth up the need of economy; he has the nature of saving . first explained to him every day in the week; he is not exposed to the tempta--^ tion of the saloon or ball room and he is not so much of a lady's man before he has occasion to use a razor on his downy '. cheeks. He may be a trifle rude; he may not feel easy in company, but in the long, closely contested race of life it is the chap that trudges to school barefoot cd in summer and in stogas in winter, '.' whose mother, cuts his hair with the sheep shears, who leads the chap that, goes to the city school with the starched shirt front and fancy slippers, and whose head is shaved with a lawn mower at the ; barber shop. Such has been our observ? ance, and we think we know what wo are talking about.?Exchange. ? There have been 150 suicides in"tho German army during the past eight' months,