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J?"* We give a moat cordial invitation to all to come and admire, if you do nothing else. ' Very truly, ? ? THE ALLIANCE CO-OPERATIVE STORE! HAVE MADE FURTHER s WEEPING REDUCTIONS ON ALL WI^STTEIR GOODS! Selling at Cost, or Less, , ?"... ? WITH US MEANS SOMETHING. All-Wool Blankets at Cost. All Overcoats at and below Cost. Dress Ginghams at 5c. PREPARE FOR SPRING. New Embroideries now in stock. New White Goods now in stock. Hew Wool Dress Goods now in stock. Just received a fall assortment of Children's Clothing. . Men's Clothing at prices that will allow any man to dress well. BSU For 50c. we will Bell you a SHIRT you have always cheerfully paid 75c. for. It is 1800 linen bosom, linen cufis and collar band, Mausutta body, reinforced patent stay. In fact, as weit made as a dollar Shirt. ???* We are here to save money to the people, and we are doing it. 8,200 Bushels Pure Spring Seed Oats Just Received, And everything else needful on the farm constantly on hand. Very respectfully, R. S. HILL, Manager. TUA?HHr$'?0LUMN, -S?, All communications} intended for this Column Bbonld be addressed to D, H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner. Ander son, 8. 0._ At Pleasant Hill T. H. Garrison is teaching a colored school. This school is full and doing very well. The teacher seems to be striving to give valne re? ceived for the money, and bis classes stood creditable examinations. But he baa too many pupils and has to spread himself out too much. At Bethany we found Mr. P. B. Griffin in charge of a school of forty or more. This teacher is making hiB first, effort in the school room, and appears to be faith? ful and conscientious in bis duties, but the great drawback here, as in some other places, is found in the fact that the Bchool does not run longer than the pub? lic term, and what is gained is lost by the length of time that the pupils are out of school. The pupils appear to us to be hardly as well advanced as they were a year ago, and this will continue to be the case until a teacher for a longer term is put in charge and kept at work tor a longer term. Would that the people everywhere could be brought to feel and understand that this public money will not even give their children the rudi? ments of an English education unless it is supplemented by private funds. Un? aided and alone, it is a hindrance rather than a help, but when supplemented it becomes a valuable auxiliary. The pupils in this school are strocg and vig? orous in mind and body, and famish splendid material out of which to mold valuable and useful members of both Church and State. Miss Rosa Tribble is doing a good work at Cray ton, and seems to-have a hold upon the good people of this com? munity, for they keep her at it. We were impressed with the zeal and earn? estness of this teacher, and the manifest hold that she seems to have upon the respect ?nd confidence of her pupils, and we feel sure that she will do good here. Our warmest sympathies always go out toward all young lady teachers who are earnestly striving to do good and to be useful in their day and generation. A night spent beneath the kindly roof of our good old friend, M. S. Strickland, and we started out, much refreshed, for a visit to Miss Lucia Norria' school, which we found in a tenant house on the Kay place. Here we found some thirty odd pupils, whom we had never met in a school room before, and, although sur? rounded by unfavorable conditions, all seemed inspired by the earnest example of the teacher to engage willingly in the work .before them. Miss Lucia ib striv? ing bravely, in the face of difficulties, to achieve success, and she is doing it, too, and her patrons, realizing the situation, are rallying to her help, and propose to have a new house ready for her occupancy in a few weeks. All the "little ones" in this school are learning to read, write and spell, and little Amos Banister gave us an exhibition of what he could do iu reading, after having been in school only six weeks, a reader having been put iu hiB hands at the start. In passing back home, we could not refrain from calling again on Miss Allie Major at Neat's Creek. It is always a pleasure to us to stop with this school, for it has an efficient teacher at the head of it, and the pupils are bright, intelli? gent and well-behaved, and both always give ub a cordial greeting. A practical exemplification is afforded here of the wisdom of employing a professional teacher, and of keeping her at the- work for a term longer than that afforded by the public money. This school being under the shadow of the Church, is a valuable adjunct to it, and the good in? fluences that go out from the school will produce good fruit in the years to come, and will raise up a generation of young men and women well qualified to take the place of the one soon to pasB off the stage of action. Wd need schools to train the hand as well as the mind. Our high schools, academies and colleges are turning out graduates each year by the thousand, who go mainly to recruit the ranks of the army of clerks, book-keepers, sales? men, teachers, &c, and their purely lit? erary training is turning them away from the ranks of skilled labor, and when em? ployment fails they have no resource left. He who is skilled iu any kind of handicraft is always in demand, and is removed* in an equal degree from want. Tbis is eminently a practical age, and we should send out boys and girlB from nur schools with some sort of practical training. Two or three generations ago, the high school and the college, the bench and the bar, and the other learned professions were much more important factors in our civilization than they are to-ds.y, for the reason that this is an in? dustrial age, and the prime factors of to? day are the farm, the mill, the factory and the workshop. This is a very work aday world, and lot us have our boyB and girls taught how to make or do something. It is said to be a fact that the head cooks in some of the leading ho? tels command higher salaries than college presidents. There is more honor in the one, but there is a heap more money in the other. We are greatly gratified to learu in a private note from Dr. Lander that his College "is flourishing beyond prece? dent,'1 and that "nearly all bis available space is occupied by pupils who are uc UBUally orderly and studious." This is gratifying, indeed. Located as this in? stitution is, at one of the healthiest and most salubrious spots of upper Carolina, and manned by an excellent corps of teachers, there is every reason to hope for and believe in its continued success and prosperity. With this institution, and the Female College and Patrick Military Institute here, and other first class high schools in different parts of the Couo'y, there are abundant opportu? nities afforded to every boy and girl in our borders who is desirous of obtaining a higher education. Anderson County is justly proud of them all. ANDERSON, S.O., BILL ABF. Atlanta Constitution. I wish that I could take a trip round the world and see something, and find out how other people live. I don't mean a trip of seventy-two days, like Nelly Bly, | .but a slow journey of. two or three years, and a chance to learn something. Nelly don't know any more about the world now than the yankees know about us when they slide through to Florida in a sleeper and slide back again. They come to Atlanta, or New Orleans, or Memphis, or Birmingham, on an excursion, and stay a day or two, and eat a big dinner, and hear a few speeches, and go back home as ignorant as they came. Some of them came down to the exposition, and looked at the big ears of corn, and said they did ent believe it was raised in the State, for they looked out of the cars all the way from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and never saw any land that would produce such corn. This reminds me of a northern woman who had never seen any pine for? ests, and after she had passed Macon and got well into the piny woods, became rapturous in her admiration of those tall evergreens, that she said would be per? fectly beautiful if they had not been trimmed so high. She knew as little of picnics as I did about Guinea pigs. One of my Bmart chaps told me the other day that if a Guinea pig was held up by the tail its eyes would drop out. Of course I didn't believe it until he told me the Guinea pig had no tail, and then I give it up. I wish that I was young enough to travel and learn the truth about people, and manners and customs. It is astonishing bow little we know. I've been thinking for- fifty years that Chinamen eat rats, and now it turns out they don't. The first geography we ever studied had a picture of a Chinaman going around with a pole across bis shoulders and the pole was full of rats. It is astonishing how little we know of the people of our own county?the people of another State that is only a day's journey distant. I received a letter the other day from a Virginian who thinks of moving south, and he wanted to know how long it would take him and his family to become accli mated, and what was the safest time of the year to make the change. If he had ever been south he would uot have .asked | such questions. Most of the northern | people associate the south with malaria, and bad, sickly weather. They look on the map and see the parallels of latitude, and so form their opinions. Well, there is some malarial country away down south somewhere, but up here in Georgia we talk about going to Florida to spend the winter, just like the northern people do. The only difference between Georgia and Virginia is that our winters are shorter and milder, and our summers are longer and cooler. The climate is just as vigorous and bracing. Now, it is.a fact that the southern people know a great deal more about the north than their people know about us. The "tendency of travel is northward, and has always been bo. A hundred travelers would go north to where one came south. Business and pleasure called them there. Until the great army of drummers came into existence, the south? ern merchants went north twice a year to buy their goods, their spring utock and their fall stock, and they became well acquainted with the people and their manners and customs and politics and religion. For seven years I was a mer? chant and mingled with them from Bos? ton to Philadelphia, but none of them came South to mingle with me. Before the war we sent hundreds of our boys to northern colleges, bat they never send any to ours. We have taken their news? papers and magazines, but they have never taken ours. Thousands of our wealthy people yfeit their watering places and their great cities every summer, but they never visited ours, and so they are still unacquainted with us. In recent years a good many of their nabobs and invalids take a straight shoot for Florida every winter, but they go in Pullman sleepers with the curtains down, and when they get there they huddle together in a fine hotel at five dollars a day and don't get acquainted with the natives and don't want to. They come chock-full of the prejudice of a century, prejudices that are a part of their religion and theydont want to lose them. You might as well try to get a Baptist or Methodist or a Jew to change his religion. There is but one channel open to a removal of prejudice and that is through the pocket. The only hope of promoting peace is in getting acquainted, and the only hope of getting acquainted is through business channels. Russell Harrison came down to Atlanta to a banquet and he behaved like a gen? tleman, and I expect he is a gentleman, but he has gone back believing that our people are killing and persecuting the negroes and robbing republican postmas? ters as a general kind of amusement. But our climate and our mineral treasures are drawing their good people down here pretty fast, They are investing their money and they Btay to watch it, and the longer they stay the better they like us. Their deep concern about the negro soon passes away and the race problem bugbear vanishes into a mytb. The truth is, there are too many alarmists about the negro, even in our own section. There is plenty of room here for white and for black, and will be for a century to come. I can't see any volcano nor hear its mutterings. The race problem has already been solved in other countries. I was talking to a trav? eler a few days ago?a man who has seen enough of the world and humanity and government to cancel all his prejudices and cause him to look upon everything with the eye of a philosopher. Not long ago be took a trip to the Windward Islands, the little Antilles, and spent some weeks upon tbom. He visited St. Kitts and Dominica and Autigua and Carbadoes and Trinidad, and found the English people in charge, and although the population was mostly negroes, there was no trouble anywhere. There was no social equality, nor any other equality. England makes their laws and they have to obey them. The English rale is kind and humane, but it is firm aand bsolute. In those islands there are about thirty thousand whites and three hundred thous? and negroes. Those negroes were eman? cipated in 1834, and they are now pretty THURSDAY MORNI much what they were then. Some indus? trious, some lazy, some vagabonds, some beggars, but all dependent on the white man and are happy in chat dependence. They have plenty of religion, and are content with the present and have but little concern with the future. They cul? tivate the lands and make all the sugar and molasses. The lauds are owned by English landlords, who live in London. The governor-general is appointed by the crown, and he has enough officers and agents to enforce the laws and keep the peace. Negro policemen are appointed to keep order among the negroes, and they do. Now, what is the matter with that picture. Nothing, it is just the same pic? ture that is here. Right here in this community we have some honest, indus? trious negroes who. work regularly every day, and are clever, law-abiding citizens. Wo have others who work when they feel like it and steal when they don't. About half the boys from ten to eighteen are street vagabonds, who run the streets and the depot platforms, and are ready to make a nickel at anything that is quick and easy. They laugh and frolic, and are greasy and ragged and smell loud, and are perfectly happy. Sometimes they steal a half dollar's worth of something and atone for it by breaking up rocks on the streets for a week, but tbey don't care so they get enough to eat.'' These boys are not tbe exception but are the rule. If the laws were enforced tbe last rascal of them would be in the cbaingacg, but our people won't enforce it. We don't want to. Our feelings of sympathy for tbe little vagabonds prevent a prosecution for these little pilferings. They wait upon us so willingly and black our shoes, and carry our parcels, and briog our water, and sweep out our offices, and carry sweet notes from tbe boys to the girls and vice versa, and are always on hand wailing for a nickle, and so we take the bad with the good and are content. There is 210 vol? cano about them. Old England is smart?mighty smart. She gets the labor of these negroes for their food and clothing, just like she did before she freed them. Thai's about all the toilers get anywhere, whether white or black. Happy is the race that is content with their lot. Bill Aiip. Facing Death lu Darkness. Egypt Station, N. O, February 25.? "Forty laborers imprisoned in the Egypt coal mine!" This was the news that; spread terror throughout the county last night. The Egypt is the only coal mine in North Carolina and usually fifty laborers are employed in it, but yesterday there were only forty. The pit is 450 feet deep and there is only one cage used to draw out the men. During tbe afternoon yester? day this cage was caught by a slight caye in about midway between tbe top and bottom of tbe only shaft, thus render? ing useless the only means by which the laborers could get out. The news soon spread throughout the country, and hundreds of people gathered about tbe mine. At first nobody knew what to do. Wives, mothers and children of the imprisoned men gathered about the mine, and their cries of agony could be heard a mile away. It was known that the water rose very rapidly in the mines, and with tbe machinery blocked there was no way possible to pump ii out. The miners would therefore soon drown if not rescued. No voice could penetrate the depths and no sound could be heard from below. Night came on, but there was no pros? pects of rescue. At last Samuel A. Henzsey, the President of the coal mine company, got some men to work, and throughout the long hours while they tried to loosen the machinery mothers walked up and down weeping and carry? ing babes in their arms. Midnight came, bat nobody thought of sleeping. Just before daybreak some men were lowered down to tho fastened cage and cut a hole in it. This soon let daylight into the cave below, and immediately a shout from the miners was heard. Tbe glad tidings were then sent up "that the men were alive." Somo ropes were let down and one by one the men were pulled out. All were alive, but had the rescue been delayed all would have been drowned, as the water in the mine had risen four feet and would have soon covered the head of every man. They were all wet, cold and half starved. "We did not expect to be reached at all," remarked an old man. "We felt sure that the mine bad caved in at the top and not a man of us ever expected to be taken out of that pit alive. We hud? dled close together and spent tho time singing and praying. We knew at tbe rate water was rising on us that it would be only a matter of a few hours before we would all drown, and it required a lot of talk and persuasion to keep some of the men from lying down and drowninp; before the water was three feet deep. We then made a venture to stand on our feet just as long as we could and when we could stand no longer we had agreed to all lay down in the water at the same time and die. It was an awful time and I think we all suffered the horrors of a hundred deaths." ? Gen. John A. Foster, a veteran of the civil war and once a lawyer of re? pute, was found dead a few mornings ago on the floor of an insurance office on Broadway, New York, where he was ac? customed to sleep. He was at one time an intimate friend of prominent Republican politicians, but his desire for drink lost him nearly all his friends. He abandoned his wife, the daughter of a Southern planter, and two grown up daughters, about two years ago. Since then he has subsisted chiefly on charity. Since being deserted by her husband, Mrs. Fob ter has educated ber two daughters as well as supported them and herself, ou the small salary she has earned as a city missionary. She has worn widow's weeds since his desertion, so that she was filly attired when she went to the office where her husband's body lay. General Foster was assistant judge advocate gen? eral during the latter part of the war, and as such conducted the prosecution of Mrs. Surratt. ? Luck is only the name for having enough senao to avoid trouble. NG, MAKCH 6, 189C A NEGLECTED INDUSTRY. Thousands of Dollars Wasted by Carolina Track Farmers. To the Editor of the News and Courier : I wrote an article last week on the pick? ling business, which was largely copied throughout the South. In consequence I have been overrun with inquiries from your section from persons who wished to know further regarding the business of canning and pickling. For the benefit of those interested I will enter more fully into the details of the business. I have travelled South, and it was indeed sur? prising that one sees large quantities of canned goods sold in the South, and with but few exceptions tbey are packed by Northern packing houses. This has heretofore been the case, but with the go-ahead spirit of the New South it de? mands reform, and in a few years hence this industry will be found thriving everywhere in the Southern States, and the Northern packer will be forced to seek other markets. utilizing the late truck. Your farmers, more especially your truckers, have been satisfied with large profits realized by early shipments, but when the Virginia and Maryland pro? duct came in market it did not further pay your truckers to ship, consequently thousands of acres-of prime stock for canning and pickling purposes has been allowed to waste for want of some means of utilizing it; the same can be said of your fruits. The South raises large quantities of fruits, which but little is realized on, and the bulk of the crop is allowed to decay for want of canning facilities. These fruits and vegetables you have allowed to waste could be put up in your market and handsome profits realized; but instead the South depends on the North to supply her with the very articles she has thrown away. In Mary? land and elsewhere farmers do not enjoy the advantages realized by the Southern trucker. The Southern farmer has been well pnid, and his proiSts have been large for the produce; he has shipped to early markets, consequently when the product from Maryland comes in the prices are down, and we are compelled to sell in competition with the Southern product. The Souther farmer can, therefore, real? ize on his early shipments, and after it does not pay to ship the surplus can be utilized for canning purposes. the farmers' chance foe a sueplus. We have thousands of farmers in Ma? ryland who plant their crops for this purpose alone. They cure their own crops and will perhaps in addition buy up their neighbor's, sind at the close of the seaeon have a thousand or two dol? lars to add to the profit) of the farm ac? count. Because the Southern trucker has already realized a profit is no reason why he should abandon his surplus. It would give employment to numbers of persons during the canning season. Here in Maryland thousands depend on this industry for a living. Large numbers are given employment in the factories the year round canning fruits, vegetables, fish, oysters, etc., which could be done in your section to greater profit. Labor is cheap and plentiful and you enjoy every advantage of a good market, with an abundance of fruit, vegetables, fish and oysters. Your lands are rich, and your climate adopted to vegetable culture. As regards operating a causing factory, the Southern farmer has been under the im? pression that it required large capital, combined with long bueiness experience, but they are now beginning to realize that they can operate this canningjand pickling factory in addition to their other duties. A farm hand can learn the process in one day, as no previous knowl? edge is necessary. I have had numerous inquiries from persons who wished to start in a small way; others in a large way. The process of putting up pickles is very simple, and a start can be made on a very few dollars that would keep several persons busy for six months in the year. It would pay to combine the pickling business with that of canning, as the same machinery will answer for both purposes. cost of an outfit. An outfit that will can 2,000 3-pound cans per day will cost complete $150; that of a 5,000 3 pound can outfit will cost complete $225. The cans will cost for 3 pound, $2.40 or less per hundred; 2-pound, $1.80 per hundred; for pickles the bottles can be had very cheap. Pickles can also be put in barrels and kegs, in bulk, both plain and with mus tord, spices, etc; but when put up in bottles, nicely labelled, they command a ready Bale at paying prices. A canning outfit can be put up by the most inexpe? rienced person?used with steam power, or can be put in brick the same as sugar boilers. When steam is already used on a farm for other purposes it can be easily attached to your canning machinery, but it answers the same purpose to simply set in brick, as described above. The canning business 1b a clean, profitable business; there is nothing disagreeable about it, and as so little money is re? quired to make a start, and the profit connected with it so large, it is surpris? ing that so little attention is paid to the business. I will take great pleasure in giving all the information I can to your readers in reference to both canning and pickling, and', if desired, will give full particulars in reference to putting up vinegars, catsups, sauces, etc. I am con? vinced that your farmers have overlooked this important branch of industry, and depend too much on a foreign market for goods which they could find a paying market at home for, in supplying the wholesale and retail trade, and with a better article than is now sold in the Charleston aud Carolina markets. J. R. Calhoun. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 20. ? Some conception of the enormous damage caused by the recent storms in California and Oregon can be formed from the announcement that it will be a month before through trains can be run between San Francisco. ? "Don't sleep with your mouth open," said Fred to his younger brother. "You should breathe through your noso." "But I don't know when my mouth's open. What do you do when you wake up and find your mouth open?' "What do I do ? Why, I get up and Bhut it." The Cost of Crops, No business enterprise can be intelli? gently conducted without an accurate knowledge of the original cost of its pro? ducts or prime resources. The statement applies with equal force to individual ef? fort and corporate industry. The successful merchant does not determine the selling price of his goods until he puts together the first cost, the rent of his building, hire of clerks,' | charges for insurance and transportation, and 'all other legitimate expenses. When this sum is obtained, a suitable per cent is added to determine the paying price at which the goods are to be sold. Manu? facturers pursue the same policy. Rail? roads count the cost of construction and all needed repairs, together with current expenses for business, wear and tear, and accidents, before it will be possible to know the proper charges in freight and passenger rates. All this is legitimate and essential to business success. Farm? ing can never be made successful until this policy is adopted. It is a proposi? tion openly evident to any man of com? mon intelligence that no business will pay that does not add a profit to the cost of its products. It becomes every man to know all the minor details of his business. I dare say there is less of such information among farmers than in any other class of our citizens. A shoemaker can tell you, at once, the cost of the leather, the pegs and the thread, together with the labor necessary to make a pair of shoes. The blacksmith can tell you the cost of the iron, the nails and the work necessary to shoe a horse. The carpenter applies the same intelligence to his business before he puts a price upon his services. Indeed, in all the business relations of | life we expect profits to be demanded, based upon the cost, except in agricul? ture. It is a little singular that we never expect a farmer to know the cost of his wheat, oats, potatoes, peas, corn or cotton. May it not bo that we are greatly defi? cient in this particular? May it not be that we are giving our energies, our years and our efforts to products without a particle of profit, when there are splen? did possibilities within our reach iu other crops ? This leads me to suggest the propriety of a change in the policy of the farm. When the farmer sells a bushel of wheat, a barrel of potatoes or a bale of cotton, he ought to know exactly the profit he is receiving. Many farmers object because the process of information is too long continued. It begins with the prepara? tion of the land and goes till harvesting is over. This, is of course, an objection, but not a valid ono. To determine the cost ot any farm product it is only necessary to keep regular books against the fields, as to manure and labor expended in the pre? paration and cultivation of land, and the gathering and marketing of crops. This is not more tedious nor objecting than accounts kept against articles furnished the hired help on the farm. These facts, to be accurate, must be determined by the individual farmer. No one farmer can settle the cost of I making a pouud of cotton for any other farmer. There are many elements that enter into the cost of farm products and possibly all of them vary in every indi? vidual instance. Ones man cultivate much more intelligently and economi? cally than another. Ono man's methods, manures, stock, food and help come to him much more cheaply than another's. One man's farm may be much better adapted to certain crops than that of I another. The seasons upon two farms are not expected to be uniform in their benefits, however nearly adjacent the farms, as they do not always find the same crops in the same condition. For these reasons, together with many others, it is plain to be seen that each farmer must determine for h im seif the cost of his products. This information upon the farm is important to determine the most econo? mical labor. In all these years of ex? periment not many farmers of the South can give accurately the difference in hiring help for wages or for a part of the crop, because they do not know the cost of products under either method. It is highly important that our products should be grown at the least possible cost, if we make our efforts avail the most good. With this view every labor-saving method should bo applied until the cost is reduced to the minimum. What we greatly need upon our farms is the same business methods that are used in every other enterprise?such a system as will let us know all the time what we are doing and what we ought to do. Anything short of this brings us to a hazard life that takes its chances for many evils.? W. J. Northern in Southern Cultivator. The Heart, Throb, throb, throb. Never sleeping, but often tired, loaded with care, chilled with despair, bleeding with wounds often inflicted by those who do not understand it, or burdened by afflictions, it must beat on for a life time. Nothing finds a lodgment in its chambers that does not add to its labors. Every thought that the mind generates steps upon the heart before it wings its way into the outer world. The memory of dead loved ones are mountains of weight upon its sensi? tiveness ; the anxieties of the soul stream to the heart and bank themselves upon it, as the early snow drifts cover the tender plant; love, if it loves, fires it with feverish warmth and makes it the more sensitive; bate, if it bates, beats it to desperation and fills il with conflict. Still it works on. When slumber closes the eyelids, the heart is beating?beating beneath all its burdens; it works while we sleep, it aches when we laugh. Do not necessarily wound it; do not add to its bleeding wounds. Speak a kind word to cheer it; warm it when it is cold; encourage it when it despairs. ? Illinois is staggering to the front with what is claimed to be the largest hog on record. A Clark County farmer has a poker that tips the scales at 935 pounds. ? The Bible has been translated into C6 of the languages and dialects of Afri? ca. volum: Stand From Under. A great deal of Northern capital has gons into the Southern States in the last half dozen years; and there is not a week now that one does not read reports of new enterprises in the South under Northern control and management and set up with the help of Northern capital. We have a word of warning to give to the owners of these many millions of Northern capital invested in Southern enterprises, and of other millions ready to be invested in the same region. The profitableness of such enterprises depends upon the continuance of peace and order in the Southern States. Un? der the rule of Mr. Arthur, and still more under that of Mr. Cleveland, peace and order did obtain in these States. Con fidence in the stability of things down there drew many millions of Nortbern capital into those States. They are rich in a great variety of undeveloped natural resources; they have an abundant and sufficiently capable laboring force. Given good order and the Northern ven? tures in those States will continue to be, for years, uncommonly profitable; and there will be for a long time to come great inducements for more Northern capital and enterprise in that half of the Union. So far all has gone well down there. No complaints are heard from the North? ern men who have gone into the South with capital to engage in useful and de? veloping enterprises. They are welcom? ed; they find their capital safely and very profitably invested; they have no fault to find with the local laws; the taxes are low; their property, be it in mines or mills or factories, is secure. But we warn the owners of these many millions of Northern capital employed in the South that this happy and satisfac? tory condition may not last much longer. The Bepublican managers in Washing? ton have determined, as a desperate par? tisan expedient, to fling Southern affairs and interests into confusion and disorder. They have agreed on policies intended to set the two races in violent opposition to each other all over the South. They are getting ready laws which, as sure as they are enacted, will plunge the whole South Into a condition which every one will see is fatal to all legitimate business enter? prises. Already all over the South is felt l;he ground swell which foretells the coming storm. The proposed Republican legis? lation for Federal control of elections in the Southern States means, as the negroes as well as the whites understand, an at? tempt to make the most ignorant and corrupt part of the negro population rulers over the whites in the States, Counties and townships. In all parts of the South negro demagogues, excited by the promises of Republican legislation, are raising their heads with new hopes of mastery. They have the votes, and the Republicans in Congress, they be? lieve, will enact laws under which the Bolid negro vote in all the black country shall once more, as in the reconstruction times, control the offices, lay and-spend the local and State taxes, and begin a new career of robbery, lawlessness and demoralization. The beginnings of the great upheaval are already seen in the increase of incen? diary fires in several Southern States since the Bepublican programme became known, in the frequent assassinations of peaceful and orderly white men, and in a sensible increase of violence and disor? der and crime between the races. Watching these things carefully we are bound to warn Northern capitalists to "stand from under." Unless Northern public opinion makes itself heard, as it did in the latter carpet bag days, against this Republican programme the party now in power in both houses will make laws and the party managers will require policies from the Executive which will so excite the negro demagogues in the South as to produce in all these States collisions between the races which are sure to result in incendiarism, pillage, murder and a general and total disor? ganization of the negro population. The Republican managers do not care for the negro, but they see no hope of carrying another Presidential election unless they can once more, in the old Mississippi Bteamboat way, "put a niggor on the Bafety valve." They care nothing for the general interests of the country ; they care nothing for its prosperity? they care only for power, as has been shown in the House of Representatives already, they will do and dare everything to keep themselves in power. It is for Northern public opinion, by vigorous and timely protests, to drive them from their evil and unscrupulous designs.?New York Herald. One Hundred and Fifty Ter Cent. The Chemical National Bank, of New York City, enjoys the distinction of having its stock, the par value per share of which is $100, quoted on the market iX over $4,000 per share. This bank was first chartered in 1823 as the Chemical Manufacturing Company, with banking privileges. The plan in those days, to avoid the popular odium which is attach? ed to exclusive banking corporations, was to associate banking with manufacturing enterprises and a manufacturing bus? iness was actually done by the com? pany. In 1844 the charter expired and a new one was obtained with a capital of $300,000 in shares of $100 each. The policy of the new bank was to pile up u large surplus and thus inspire public confidence and dividends were not de? clared for five years. After that time 25 per cent, dividends were declared every two months, making an annual dividend of 150 per cent. The surplus is $5,000, 000, the undivided profits $1,000,000 more, and the average deposits amount to $20,000,000. This bank i3 one of the few national banks which do uotissue bills of its own.? Winnsboro News and Herald. ?Two rival belles at au evening party were seated in the conservatory with their respective cavaliers enjoying their eupper. The gas wa3 turned down somewhat, as it should be in a conservatory at an evening party. "My dear Julia," said one of the fascating creatures, "how beautiful your complexion i3 in this dim light!" "O, thank you," responded her rival; "and how lovely you look in the dark I" E XXIV.?NO. 35. ALL SOBTS OP PABAGBAPHS? ?A lady in Wisconsin gets two dollara^ and thirty cents per ponnd for her best butter. ? Squire Beasley, of Abberdeen, New |g York, has married 4067 runaway couples, ? An Illinois man got .1,000 pounds of honey from a single ' bee tree ** . ? Whenever you are feeling good na tured you are sure to meet the man who y guts you in a bad humor. ? Why is a game of ball, like a huck- j wheat cake ? Because its success *i depends very largely3upon the batter. Jr ? It is expected that the new couBti-'^ tution of Brazil will be Birailar to that of the United States, if not)>n exactcopyv. of it. ? \ ? Two little negro children, near Bal--\-* eigh, N. C, were buried alive in a sand V hole, where their'parents had sent. therA""1. for sand. ? ThejjWomau's ForeigulMissionary^ Society, of the Methodist Episcopal - Church, has more thau]thirteen thousand, members. - b-W. ? Of Napoleon's grand army, only one . hundred and twelve remain^to wear the " medal of St. Helena and draw]"a pension^ from republican France. ? The ostrich industry in South.Cali fornia last year yielded a profit of twenty thousand dollars. There are three hun? dred and sixty-one birds. ? The ice'men of New York""and_the V New England States are much cast down by the warm weather. The ice harvest has been very light this winter.'' ?i^^S ? The distress from famine in some . : districts of China has reached such a : -' point that girl babies are taken in basketB and carried round the cities for - oaic. sr. . ? A bill before the Kentucky-Legis- ; latnre provides a fine of $20 on every circus that doesn't show juBt what'tbe,"C poaters contain or the advertisements; state. ? T. O. Henry will begin soon with ' 3,000 men to dig a canal fifty feet wide, ; y reaching from the Arkansas river in Pu elbo to the Kansas State line, nearly 220 \ miles. ? The cheapest place in Missouri to live is at the penitentiary. The daily y.. cost of maintaining convicts at that-^;^ institution is only seven and one-half cents per capita. : ' ? One hundred and sixty seven bears' ; ^; were killed in Maine" last year.'-The State paid out $835, or $5 per head boun- ; ty. Over $1,000 was paid as bounty for killing crows. ? A meteor, of great illuminating ^s. power passed over Forksion, Penn., the ; other night, and in a minute thereafter a heavy report was heard, and the earth .-"" shook perceptibly. ? At East Lyons, la., a goose died very suddenly. On cutting it. open a silver thimble was found in its throat. It : is thought the fowl choked to death while trying to swallow it. ? A Massachusetts man, 75 years of age, has just fonnd in bis leg a pin which . he lost when he was 8. Some boys would have let the pin go, but those Massachu? setts people are so Baving they never give . ' up anything. ? An espalier pear tree nt Pollefc,^' France, was planted in 1580, and iB.now the oldest in Europe. It spreads 100 feet, its stem is three feet through, and it still bears 3000 to 4000 pears yearly. ? The wife of W. E. Curtis, of Wash- . " ingtou, D. O, is the possessor of a most . uncanny ornament in the Bhape of a necklace made of human eyes. The eyes were taken from Peruvian mummies, polished and placed in their present set- ~? tings. ? There is a queerly matched couple - in Atlanta. The husband weighs one>l?:; hundred and thirty pounds, and the wife,. three hundred pounds. When they were. ' married, the man weighed one hundred and fifty, and the woman, one hundred and twenty. ? It is sometimes said of a man that "he knows no fear." Such a man, if there if. any such, is himself to be feared. He is on approach to insensibility, like cast iron or atone. He knows nothing of^ religious trust, for "the man who has Mi? never feared has never trusted." ? A farmer was rather noted among his fiiends for a complaining disposition. One year the crops were exceptionaUy'^' good, and some curiosity was felt to see how he would meet the case. "I ' am afraid," said he, "that such a great crop would be a powerful strain on the land." ? A prominent citizen of Parsons, "~ Kan., determined to sup with a party of friends against the will of his wife. Heiv~| was resolved that he would, and she that he should not go. His friends missed: him, and just for fan invaded his resi? dence, where they found him and his wife ?*? ^ sitting in their chairs fast asleep. He had given her an opiate that he might slip-" away, and she had given him one that he might not. ;--? ^ ? The application of a caveat to fit?pS^ a marriage is something new. It is stated that a member of the Maryland Legisla? ture had contracted a marriage with a lady, and journeyed to the county seat to procure a license when he made the } painful discovery that his rival had filed-:% a caveat against the issue, and before he can get a license the case will have to be argued. The redding day has been postponed, but the old man is a fighter, and won't give up easily. ? President Harrison has refused to appoint as postmaster in her town a Mis- | souri woman who four years ago named her twin boys, Blaine and Logan, and during the last campaign named another pair Harrison and Morton. The Wil? mington Star thinks that Mr. Harrison did right from the fact that a'woman who; ? ? could be so cruel to her twin boys as that shows signs of innate wickedness or of mental weakness which would unfit her for any responsible position. Its Excellent Qualities. Commend to public approval the Galt-" fornia liquid fiuit remedy, Syrup of Figs, It is pleasing to the eye, and to the fiastft^! and by gently acting on the ,kidti@^^ liver and bowels, it cleanses th< _ effectually, thereby promoting th and comfort of all who use it. 1