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t ? BY CM3STKSCALES & LANGSTON. DD v NOT FORGET!! HUVfkV ? THAT THE ANDERSON MUSIC HOUSE le HeaifiC.ua.Tt 9? for the very best makes of PI Alf OS and ; - ?'. -j vOR?EAl9S, where yon can gat Lowest Prices and heat . ; v-i terms, under a positive guarantee. ^; i^Piree Oac Loa?ds of OarrMg^raffiBuggpies * ?rf\' ;iJrutrec^^;aAd^we WT?J^NOT be undersold. Jewing machines. After twenty rears ciperience I have found out which is tba very best Sewing Ma ; chine, and wo will-be-pleasod to explain the merits of the celebrated New, Horn?, which surpasses all 'others. We also sell the Favorit?, S4. John, Unioa, White*, Victor, and several other makes. jsjr> It wilipay you to inspect my stock and get piioss in either department of my business before buying." Respectfully, & SON. Choice Goods, Fresh Stock,; -Low Prices, Courteous Attention, Free- City Delivery, Are fill Scoured by Buying ? ? ^ ^ I E s ?. AST - NO. 5> HOTEL GHia?OLA FLACR wfSBS TRY^ BOTTLE OF OUR CURE m J1 or Sick Headache, Indigestion, Biliousness, And all similar disorders. It is the best Family Medicine on the market. ? We have an excellent line of? CIGARS, TOBACCO AND PIPES, AND THE NICEST AND FRESHEST STOCK OP 'Peitfuiaery arid Toilet A.rtides IN THE CITY. .There has been an Earthquake in the prices of GARDEN SEEDS; and we an at the 'bottom.- ' " '-" ? . No. 4.Hotel Block. TODD BROS,, Druggists, ? ',1 YOUR PRICES WERE LOW ENOUGH BEFORE !" Of course they were, but wo are determined to placo our ? TChristmas Goods within'the reach of All! OO with a little sacrifice of our own interest we are able to Bhow you CHRIST" D MAS PRESENTS suitable /or both sexes and alt ages, at prices which will satisfy even the most picayunisb. YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG LAD1B*, Aire you undecided what to give each other? Then come to the? LADIES' STORE, Where yoa cannot fail to be suited; and that, too, without running any risk of ,benDg;'lfinancially embarras.-sed" on the strength of it. '4 ^JJSHWe give a most cordial-invitation to all to come and admire, If you do * tiuttibg-etoe. " ; " Very truly, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. THE ALLIANCE HAVE MADE EURTEEK SLEEPING REDUCTIONS OK ALL Se?g 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. New 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 For 50c. we will sell yoa a SHIRT you have always cheerfully paid 76c. for. It is 1800 linen bosom, linen coffij and collar band, Mansutta body, reinforced patent stay. . In fact, as well made as a dollar Shirt. 9&* We are here to save money to the psople, and we are doing it. 3,200 Bushels Pure Spring Seed Oats Just Received, And everything else needful on the farm constantly on hand. Very reBpeg. fully, sRL S. HILL*; Manager. Te}a?he)r$'Golumn. All communications; intended for this Oolnmn should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, 8^0._ Miss Delia Brown has a small school at Lone Star, but-has no . facilities for ' teaching. The house.is-ver 7 poor, and it is still more poorly furnished. Not even a blackboard or a desk to write on, or any comfortable seats. She is a young teacher just beginning, and if she suc? ceeds will deserve great credit for achieving success in the face of difficul? ties. We learned of a plan on foot to concentrate at another point and build a better house, which, it is to be hoped, will be carried on to a successful issue. At Flint Hill we found Miss Alma Elgin on deck, with about forty pupils, but in a very unsuitable building, of which fact, however, the patrons them? selves are fully aware, and propose to remedy the matter during the coming 'summer by - putting .op a comfortable house; -There- are some bright- pupils here, and they appear to be making Borne progress but, of course, not as much as they would do if the teacher had better facilities for doing her work. Cedar Grove colored school is taught by J. B. Maxwell, a teacher of several years' experience, who baa an orderly and well kept school.- His classes ge~6 evidence of some good work being done, especially in the primary department. The Maddcx school is a uew location where the people have recently built a good, substantial bouse, and what is sei* dorn the case, but very much to their credit, have actually completed the house inBide and out. Here we found Miss Anna Grubbs with over forty pu? pils, and we spent two very enjoyable hours with - them. These -pupils were quick -and ready in responses, and showed familiarity with the subjects in hand. We had never met the teacher before, but were much impressed with the evident energy and earnestneas that has been displayed in the management of her school, and the hold which she seems to .have * upon bar pupils. Our good friend, Maddox, who accompanied us to the school, seems to be greatly inter? ested'in its success, and says they intend to make the house larger. After a good night's rest at our rela? tive, Alien Williams, we wended our way to the Barker's Greek school, where Miss Lena Campbell is in charge. This ia a small school, and does not appear to us to have progressed any beyond what it was when we last visited it, and this is not chargeable to either the present or former teacher, but is due to the fact that the school does not run any beyond the public term, and the work has to be done over each.succeeding term. There is no blackboard here, bat the teacher told us that the people propose to enlarge the honse and add some conveniences to it. In a moral and religious community, such as this is, and underneath the shadow of a neat Church- building, an advance forward in the shape of a good school house in needed, and* then put a good teacher i a it and keep her at it con* stantly. To go to Prof. Watkios' school at Honea Path, is a pleasure always and at all times, and this pleasure we enjoyed last week for an hour or two. The peo? ple of Honea Path appreciate this teacher and his work, too, for tbey have recently put up an addition to the build? ing, and have placed seven-.y-five patent leaks in the several rooms, and the peo? ple from the surrounding country appre? ciate it, too, tor. the expenses having been reduced to a minimum cost, num? bers have moved in and others are ex Bxpecting to follow suit. The County, too, will reap great benefit from it, for. juite a number of young men and women are here who will soon be at work in the school houses of the County. With an enrollment of two hundred and thirty, and an average attendance of one hun? dred and sixty five, the principal has his bands full, but being ably assisted by Prof. Oulbertson and Misse* Dargan and Oulbertson, and the principal, withal, baving a fund of tact, everything moves along like clock work. Our visit was necessarily much.shorter than we liked, but we promise ouraelf the pleasure of a more extended visit in the near future, after the public schools of the County have closed. The Honea Path-colored' high school is taught by Thomas Sanders and bis wife, and the people, both white and col? ored, speak-in.-the highest terms of the got-d. work being done, and the good in fli?'*r.Ci-3 being exerted by this teacher upon bis race, and from what we saw in bis school room we tbink it is true. His pupils are being well taught, of wbich we had sufficient proof. Miss Laura Nance is the teacher this year at Saluda, assisted by Miss Beulah Cox. These ladies bave their school in good shape, and their classes are pro? gressing. We noted aubstantial progress made since our last visit, and some good Beed sown by Obeatham is being reaped now, and we are glad to know that the people appreciate these teachers. A class in arithmetic here gave evidence of a good degree of proficiency in fractions. We made a second visit to the Shady Grove school at Calhoun, but this school being taught by our daughter, Miss May Russell, we can only say that everything seemed to indicate that the teacber is trying to do her duty, and this is borne out by the testimony of those of the patrons with whom we talked. One mile from Calhoun we came across a colored school at New Hope Church, taught by L, A. Ford. This teacher had over sixty scholaru present the day we called, and he seems to have them under control, and his classes are making good headway. A class in arithmetic made some calculations in . interest at the blackboard which were very creditable. At the Centennial school Miss Lizzie Brock holds sway over a small school of about twenty-five scholars, but the same ANDERSON, S. C, j fact is patent here as at all other places where the school runs-only during the public term. In the very nature of things but little, if any, progress can be made, and the same ground has to be gone over each succeeding term, no mat? ter how bard the teacher may work. Miss Lizzie is competent, -and is doing her beBt, and would succeed if the ?patrons would keep her at it. Counting tho Cotton Crop. The Charleston News and Courier offers the following premiums for the nearest guesses of the correct number of bales of the United States cotton crop of 1889-1890: THE F1R8T PREMIUM. . -tons of The Wilcox, Gibbs & Co's Manipulated Guano. 5 tons if the winning number of guess is recorded on or before March 81,1890. 5 tons on or before April 30,1890. 4 tons on or before May 31,1890. 3 tons on or before June 30, 1890. 2 tons on or before July 31,1890. THE SECOND PREMIUM. A copy of the News and Cbuuier and the Sunday News, free for one year. THE THIRD PREMIUM. A copy of the News and Courier, free', for one year. THE FOURTH PREMIUM. A copy of the Weekly News and Courier, free, for one year, The Commercial and Financial Chron tele will bo the authority for the number of bales of the United States cotton crop of 1889-90. When its statement of the ,1889-90 cotton crop is published (some time in September) the First Premium will be given to whoever makes the best or nearest guess on the crop. The Sec? ond Premium will be given* to the second nearest or second best guess on the crop. The Third and Fourth Premiums will be given to the third and fourth best or nearest guesses. The guess number, the name (or ini? tials) and the address of the gnesser and the date of record will be published weekly in the Sunday News. In the event of ties of two or more similar numbers or guesses the one first recorded will receive the First Premium. The Second Premium will go to the next, and the Third and Fourth Premium in the same order.. Guessing open to every one. Any one can guess as often as desired. Sou can guess monthly, weekly, daily or hourly if you -choose I There are only two RULES. All guessea must be made on the bal? lots printed in the Weekly News and Courier. Cut one out fill it up and send it to the New8 and Courier, Charleston, S. O. Only one guess can be made on one ballot, and each ballot must be accompa? nied by five cents in stamps or coin. BALLOT EARLY AND OFTEN. Every one registering a guess will get a copy of the Sunday News acknowledg? ing the ballot. Wnar'a My Nigger 1 In the month of January, 1860, in going down the big river from Yicksburg to New Orleans, I happened to strike a boat on which wore half a dozen profes? sional gamblers. There were a large number of other passengers, and a game was going on in the cabin night and day. I happened to fall in with two young men at the start and incidentally learned that they had been off on a speculation which turned out disastrously, and were returning home so close to dead broke that they could only raise $20 between tbem. On the second night one of them came in the game with this money, and in the course of an hour won $700. Then luck shifted and he was cleaned out. As his last dollar went the banker inquired: "Have you anything to raise -a stake on?" "Yes. Whar's my nigger I" was the reply. "Yere, Mars John!" answered a voice, and a "young aud likely," as ' it used to be termed, negro boy about 20 years old entered the cabin and bowed very hum? bly. "Thar-H a nigger who is worth $1,600 in gold," said the young man. "How much will you put up against him?" "Twelve hundred." "Done 1" In just forty minutes the lasl; dollar was gone, luck and trickery being too many for the young fellow, and as he rose up the "banker" called out: "Luck seems to bate some folks. Wbar's my nigger?" ? No one could answer, but a search for him was at once instituted. Three or four men looked high aud low, but he eould not be found, aud it was finally concluded that he bad gone overboard. There was a great deal of "cussing around," but it didn't help matters any, and all finally turned in for the night. When I went to my stateroom I found the washbowl full of black water, and a strange coat and hat on the floor. I was wondering over tbeee things when one of the young men came in?the one who had not played. "I came to remove these things," he explained. "I got into you room by mistake, you Bee." "But what does it mean ?" "It means that I am the 'nigger' who was put againBt $1,200 and lost." "What an idea 1" "Y?b, we ought to have made $1,000 apiece, but it was no go. Hope you'll excuse my intrusion and keep mum." And all the rest of the way down to New Orleans the passengers mourned the death of that"likeiy nigger," and won? dered whether he went right down or died by inches.?New York Sun. ? If a man does not make new ac? quaintances as he advances in life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. ?[Sam Jones says he would not give ten cents to hear Ingersoll on "The Mis? takes of Moses;" but he would give ten dollars to hear Moses on the mistakes of Iogeraoll. ? He led the German and his dudish dress was the admiration of the assembled fair, but his stout partner slipped on his favorite corn. Sensation 1 Salvation Oil to the rescue. Happiness again. THURSDAY MORN] BILL ARP. Atlanta Constitution. I saw a tramp yesterday?a genuine tramp. There was nobody at home but me, and I was working in the garden. He was ragged and dirty, and when I asked him what I could do for him he smiled and said he would like to have something to eat. The request surprised me, for be was not old and looked healthy and strong. "Where do you live ?" said I. "I have no home," said he, "but I hail from Michigan." "How did you get here 7" said I. He pointed down to his old Bhoes and said: "I walked." "Where are yon going VI asked. "Just traveling around generally?nowhere in particular," he said, and smiled again? an honest, pleasant sort of a smile. "Are you a tramp ?" said I?"That's about the size of it," he Baid, "though by trade I am a tinner and I can earn my dinner in a few minutes if you have any old tinware you would like to have mended. "Where are your tools/' said I. He threw back his old coat and showed the ends of a soldering iron sticking out of his pocket and pulled a smaller lump of Bolder from another pocket and smiled again. But my wife was not at home and 1 don't generally interfere with her department j without orders, and so I walked with him ! to the kitchen and asked Mrs. Sicily Mims if she had any cold victuals for a jvayfar ing man, though a fool, and she looked at him with undisguised disgust and said ehe 'lowed maybe she could find something. While he was feasting I asked him why he dident go down to Mr. Gilbert's tinshop and ask for work. He smiled again and said lie dident have time to stay long in one place and he could do better by mending tin along the road. He thanked me very politely for his victuals, and made a bow to Mrs. Mims and limped away. Mrs. Mims remarked that ehe was gwine to lock up the kitchen to-night, that that man wasent after no good. "He's a yankee," said 1^ "and foute for you, I reckon." "Better go back whar he come from," said she. "Got enough poor white trash of our own that, won't work for a living." He was the first traveling beggar I have seen in years. What a bleesed country we live in; a country without beggars. We can't even sustain a poor house in Bartow county, a county con? taining twenty-five thousand people. Can't get enough poor people to patronize it to make it respectable. Where can you find a region where providence has been as generous to the laboring man ; a region where the toilers and bread-winners can get a dollar a day and live well on a fourth of it? Where is healthy labor so well rewarded? Joe Brown works a hundred or so at his mines?not in mines away down in the ground?not in danger? ous shafts, or fire damp, or. foul atmos? phere, but in the hillsides with the heav? ens in sight, and as most of them live in our town and want to go to the night meeting, and enjoy themselves, Old Joe hauls them ont in the morning and hauls them back at night. Talk about the poor, oppressed negro of the south 1 I asked a New York man about the New York negro and he said that their condi? tion was very miserable compared with the negro here. In Now York city they are confined to three streets, Sullivan, Sleeker and Thompson, and their families never go out of tbat quarter and white folks never go in it. They pass through it, of course, but they don't stop. The negro men hire out by the day or the week as porters or as waiters in certain hotels. Most every occupation is abut against them. They used to be barbers, but the Germans have run them out of that business and now the Italians are running the Germans out. The negro used to drive the cabs, and busses, but you never see one with the reins now un? less it be on the private carriage of a southern gentleman?an old slave owner of couree. You never see a negro con? ductor of a street car or on the elevated railway. You never see one as a guest in the great hotels. They are avoided in the city railroad cars. Passengers will sit by a dirty Italian rather than by a clean, well-dressed negro. It seems to be a prejudice, against contact, and is uni? versal. The broadest philanthropy will not overcome it. When the Methodists had their great conference two years ago the white members were provided for in the best private houses in the city, but the negro bishops were sent to the negro hotels. You never see a negro sitting with the whites at a church or a theater or a restaurant. Their children do not mix with white children at the school?. They have their own churches and their own schools. These negroes in New York and their ancestors have been living there for a century, and have made no progress, no advance in the arts or sciences, or in? ventions, or in the higher professions or occupations. They are good, law-abiding citizens and give no trouble?not as much trouble as the Italians or the Irish. Some call this prejudice, but it is not prejudice. It is the law of natural repulsion and af? fects all classes. In Providence, R. I., there is a large population of negroes-not black negroes, nor flat-nosed. They seem to have come from a different tribe and country. They are of a copper color and good, comely specimens of manhood and womanhood, but they live to themselves, and have their particular part of the city. They do not mix. Public opinion is against it. The doors of all avocations and professions are by law open to them, but in fact are closed against them. In former times they welcomed you in every town at the sign of the red, white and blue : but they don't now, I was ruminating over this because Hayne3 Milner sent me my blacksmith's bill this morning and I paid it. For thirteen years I have been patronizing him because be was a good smith and a good negro. We have whitesmiths here, but our people do not quit the black smiths. In fact, they have the run of the custom. And so it is with negro car? penters, and masons, and gardeners and cooks., and washwomen, and barbers and draymen. In all auch occupations the southern negro really gets the advantage. As tenants upon tbe farms and as team? sters and miners be is generally preferred. His race condition at tbe south is better and happier than the laboring classes of tbe Irish or German or Italian or the Swede. None of them have been able to :NG, MARCH 13, Ii drive the negro from hia frienda or his friends from the negro. I never saw a good negro who did not have as many friends as he wanted. They can always get good work at good wages and are always protected and defended against oppression. Haynes Milner's house was burned, and the white folks helped him to rebuild it. Their children get their schooling for nothing, and not a dollar of it comes from the Slater fund, or any other fund, but ours. Our doctors visit their sick and hardly ever collect-their bills. Mrs. Sicily Mime got sick and my wife sent her her meals every day. In fact, they do not have the^cares and fears of the poor white people- in this coun? try. They have an abiding faith in the abundance of food and clothing that is all around them, and if they can't get their share one-way they can another. This a fair picture of the negro as be is in North Georgia, where there are neith? er too many nor too few?where the rela? tions between/tbe races are friendly and kind, and always will be if the howling hypocrites of the north will let us alone. If they do not, and there should be a war of the races, the north will be held re? sponsible for it before God and man. The conservative people of the north need not tell us that they do not approve of the utterances of Ingalls, or Chandler, or Sherman, or Fhelps, or Cook upon the negro question. It is the duty of all good citizens to join issue with such men and denounce them for their lies and slanders. If Wanamaker don't care to appoint a negro postmaster in Providence, why should he in Athena or Americus ? He asked Mr. Carlton, fn a sneering way, if it would be safe for him to go to Athens and investigate, and Carlton replied that better men than him had been there and were not molested, but the way our people feel about the indignities and insults, and the revenges that Wnnamaker and the President have heaped upon them, they had both better stay at home. We want none of their sort to visit our section. What a pitiful spectacle it is. The President of a great nation has made himself so odious to a third of bis empire that he wouldn't dare to make a tour among bis southern subjects. We see that the Cbautauqua,, at Albany, has Btooped so low as to invite bim there. Athens wouldn't do it?nor Americus. I don't know what kind of people they have in Albany, but in our part of the country we have not yet got so humble as to? m ''Lick the hand that's raised to strike the blow," nor have we attained to that exalted Christian charity, which says "if a man smites thee on one cheek, turn the other to him also." We are just human, and Mr. Harrison and Mr. Wanamaker will yet find out that they have tbe scorn snd disgust of tbe southern people. If their success in securing this will help to per? petuate " their power, let it be so. A boycott in trade is but a little thing, but a boycott that smothers the respect of fifteen millions of white people is a big thing, and will live in history. Bill Arp. Couldn't Stand It. An infidel young lawyer, going west to settle fot life, made it bis boast that he "would locate in some place where there were uo Churches, no Sunday schools, or Bibles." So he found a place of this sort. Before the year was out, he wrote for a preacher to come and bring plenty of Bibles, to begin preaching, and start Sunday schools, for he said : "I am con? vinced that a neighborhood without Bi? bles, Sunday schools and preaching is too much like hell for any living man to stay in." The invisible and silent influ? ences of Churches to suppress disturbing immoralities are not appreciated, until one goes to those places where there are none. Tbe moon, high up in the heav? ens, exerts a silent influence on the sea lifting tbe tides to roll out and refresh tbe low lands. So tbe silent influence of Bibles, churches and Sunday schools lifts men to a higher plain of moral living. Christianity gives value to material things. A tract ol land located in a re? gion of churches, where the people are civil, kind and peaceable, is worth twice as much as one located among still houses and open grog shops where bad men live. Business men now owning property on the outskirts of a city, find that it pays financially to build a church there. Because they know a Church <vill convert the people?reform the Leigh borhood?build up good society?and then men will buy lots to build upon. "Godliness is profitable unto all things." Who would settle all his fam? ily among wild Indians, though the cli? mate be ever so healthy though the land be ever so rich and the scenery ever so beautiful. Men advertise a piece of land for sale, and to induce others to buy,.call attention to the fact that said property.is located in a region where good neighbors live?where churches and schools are con? venient. Yes, Christianity enhances the worth of material things. Negroes Back from the West. The negro exodus from thb West con? tinues, these deluded creatures moving out to tbe "promised lands" of Arkansas in pairs, tens, fifties and hundreds. But there is another side to the matter about which little has been said. We refer to tbe few stragglers who manage to get back. A reporter for the Enquirer met one of these at Blacksburg a few days ago. He was a miserable looking object carrying all his wordly effects on his back, in a bag made of bed licking, and from bim the reporter elicited the follow? ing experience: "Ise been out ter Arkansas, boss, and I's gitting back ter home, close ter Raleigh. And if 1 gits dar, I aint gwine ter leave no more, neithei. Dem's er bad country out yonder. Er man makes er about er dollar an' er quarter er dayj an' it takes erbout er dollar fer to live, an' he's Bick mos' all de time, at dat. I's bin out dar two years now, and I had enough money to briug me home, but one of dese white gentlemen wid er twisted moustache, went an' took it away from me out in Alabama, and I's walked all de way from Central. I tells you boss, if 1 gits back ter Raleigh, I's gwine ler stay dar."-? Yorfoille Enquirer. 590. THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. South Carolina Makes the Biggest Corn Crop Ever Grown on One Acre . From the American Agriculturist. The acre entered by Mr. Z. J. Drake was a sandy soil in Marlboro County, South Carolina. The original growth was oak, hickory and long leaf pine. Three years ago, before the land was improved, eight dollars per acre was a fair valuation, while, thirty years ago the plantation of which this acre is an average snecimen was called by its owner ''Starvation's Empire." Ifc had a gentle slope, with northern exposure, and was naturally well drained. The acre was a fair specimen of much of the poor land in the South, and its improvement and productiveness affords an instructive lesson. As late as 1885, when it was in corn, it made a poor crop?practically nothing. In 1886 the acre yielded about 300 pounds of seed cotton, two dollars' worth of ammoniated fertilizer being used in the way common to ordinary cotton culture. The fertility was so reduced that in 1887 the yield of corn was not over five bushels per acre. But now Mr. Drake undertook to improve it. To provide the vegetable matter or humus so much needed, the land was liberally covered with rakings of leaves, straw, etc, from the neighboring woods. On top of this, 25 horse-loads of stable man? ure were evenly spread broadcast; also, 75 bushels of cotton seed, 500 pounds of Wilcox, Gibbs & Co's manipulated guano, 250 pounds of cotton seed meal and 250 pounds of kainit. The heavy dressing was all ploughed under with Starke's Dixie turning plough. Il was laid off in rows with the same plough,' two furrowB to the row, four feet apart; 100 pojnds of guano were applied in the furrows, and then each pair of furrows were thrown into a ridge with the same plough. The Peterkin cotton was plantad with a Leytch cotton planter, and made^ the great crop of 917 pounds of lint cotton on the acre, showing conclusively the result of the improvement. PREPARING FOR THE BrGGEST CROP ON RECORD. Mr. Drake decided that this acre was the one for him to enter in the corn con* test, and be determined to make the biggest crop on record, season permit? ting. The last of February, therefore, he hauled upcn the contest acre 50 one horse wagon-loads of stable manure, averaging 20 bushels to the load, or 1,000 bushels of manure in all, worth $50, to which should be added $4 for hauling and spreading. This was the droppings of horses and mules fed on corn and fodder and was not moved until hauled to the acre. At the same time 500 pounds each of manipulated guano, cotton seed meal and kainit were also broadcasted, and the whole was then ploughed under. Following the plough whole cotton seed was liberally Btrewed in each furrow, 600 bushels being applied to the acre. A subsoil plough came after, breaking the soil to a total depth of 12 inches and also burying the whole cotton seed deeper than the other man? ure. Thus the decaying seed would back up the crop later in^the season, when its roots had penetrated below the first layer of manure. One horse and a man did the ploughing, and also the oubsoiling; both jobs being completed in one day, (March 1,) at a total expense of two dollars. The acre was harrowed on the same day with a Thomas smoothing harrow, one man and two horses doing the work in about one hour. The next day, March 2, the acre was laid off, with the Starke plough, in two furrows to the row, followed by the subsoil plough* in each row. The rows were alternately three and six feet apart?that is, there were sis feet between two rows, then three feet, then six feet, and so on. THE VABIETY AND CULTURE. The seed planted was one bushel of the common gourd variety of the South? ern white Dent corn, but it was a strain that bad been improved by twenty years of careful selection from the best of corn grown on this plantation. The planting was done in half a day by four hands, on March 2, the weather being warm and the land moist! Five or six kernels were dropped to each foot of the row. The latter were five inches deep, but the seed was only covered lightly an inch deep by raking in the sides of the furrow. Rain, the next day, washed in more soil, and covered the seed rather deeply. There were good rains March 10 and 15, the plants began to show on the 16th, and' by the 25th there was a tolerably good stand. On April 8 the crop was hoed for the first time, thinned to one stock every five or six inches, and the few missing places replanted. On the 20th the wide spaces (six feet) between the alternate rows were ploughed out with the subsoil plough. Then a mixture composed of two hundred pounds each of manipulated guano, kainit, cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and animal bone, was evenly applied by -sowing in each furrow (thus confining this application of plant food to the wide spaces,) after which the whole acre was gone over with a ThomaB harrow. There was-rain on the 24tb, and two days later the crop was again harrowed with the Thomas harrow. Now, on May 15, the narrow or three-foot rows were ploughed out with the Eubsoiler, and 300 pounds of nitrate of 3oda was sowed in these rows, and worked in with a hand-harrow or cultivator. On the 25th the Thomas harrow was run through the wide rows to break the crust. It will be seen that by this time the soil was not only well filled with plant-food, but had been thorough? ly cultivated on the surface, and also well worked underneath by the subsoil plough, so that the whole soil was not only full of fertility, but was in that light and open condition that beat facilitates root growth. ROOT DEVELOPMENT. To stimulate a still further root devel? opment, especially in the wide spaces between the alternate rows, where there was more room for this purpose, three furrows were run, side by side, in the middle of the wide rows, with the sub? soil plough, and 200 pounds of manipu? lated guano was app lied in these fur? rows, the rows being then worked by a Thomas harrow. The next ^ay there was about an inch of rain, about six inches of rain fell four days later, and, vM 4 VOLUM on Jone 2, the land was lightly stirred with a hoe. A little earth was hoed in to the corn, making the land about level. There was more rain June 4 and 5, and, on the 8th, three furrows were again turned in the middle of the wide rows, this time with a 20 inch Campbell sweep. Now. 500 pounds of a mixture composed of equal parts of manipulated guano, cotton-seed meal, and kainit was strewn in the wide spaces, and the corn on the entire field was hoed. Rain came the next day, but, on June 11,100 pounds of nitrate of soda was sowed in the narrow rows and hoed in. THE WONDERS OF THE CBOP. The crop was now a wonderful si;hr. It soon became'necessary to put up posts and nail'slatsjto them, on both sides of each row, to prevent;;the corn falling. No hilling was done, but the whole acre was kept perfectly level. Arrangemuntu for irrigating bad been made, but the I season was early and wet, as compared with other years; rain followed frequent i ly, and no irrigation was necessary. In fact, as Mr. Drake says, "the season was the most favorable for corn I ever saw." The fame of the contest acre spread far and wide, farmers and planters came from all parts of Marlboro and adjoining counties to behold it. P. L. Breeder, a great cotton planter, and one of the most progressive farmers in the State, savs it was "a wonder to behold." S. A. Bro wo, editor of the Marlboro Democrat, writes: "The harvest was indeed a curiosity. One laborer told us that tbe corn, when pulled, was knee deep on tbe ground. The yield was not much of a surprisn to those who visited the crop while grow? ing, and some Marion County farmers put the estimate at 300 bushels." THE HARVEST AND ITS CORRECTNESS. The acre was surveyed June 29 by Wm# C. Alford, a legal surveyor, and also a trial justice, who takes oath that the plot was measured by an accurate Guntsr's chain, and was 296 48-147 feet long and 147 feet wide, containing 43,560 equare feet, or precisely one acre. The boun? daries were marked by stakes firmly driven in the ground, but this precaution was hardly necessary, as no other corn was grown in the vicinity, tbe acre stand? ing alone by itself. The harvesting was done in the presence of a large num? ber of gentlemen?representative farmers ?including'J. C. Campbell, as the offi? cial representative of the American Agri? culturist, and G. B. W. Dunn, J. W. Reynolds and John T. Tart, as .Air. Drake's three witnesses. The acre was first remeasured and found to be of tbe dimensions just noted. In order that tbe harvest might be completed in tbe presence of the witnesses in one day, about thirty hands were employed to pluck and shuck the ears and weigh them. Mr. Dunn personally attended to the gathering, the weighing was done by Mr. Reynolds on Fairbanks's tested scales and the tally was kept by Mr. Tart. .Mr. Reynolds also kept a tally, which cor? responded with Mr. Tart's record. Mr. Campbell supervised the whole affair. In addition to all these precautions, the number and character of the specta :ors made any cheating impossible, bad it been thought of, and the fact that no other corn grew in the neighborhood rendered impossible the addition of any grown outside the contest acre. Mr. Drake and his witnesses certified before Justice Alford that the crop, as harveuted November 25, was 17,407 pounds of corn in the ear, of which 140 pounds was soft or poor corn. Each witness selected, from different parts of the field, an aver? age lot of ears, and from 100 pounds of ears so gathered Mr. Tart obtained 80} pounds of kernels and 19} pounds of cobs. Mr. Beynolds obtained 82 pounds of kernels and 18 pounds of cobs, und Mr. Dunn got 83} pounds of kernels and 16} pounds of cobs. Averaging these tests shows that 82 per cent of the total crop was kernels, or 14,273 pounds of shelled corn, equal to 254 bushels, 49 pounds of shelled corn at 56 pounds to tbe bushel. This, if kiln-dried until it contained only 10 per cent of water, would shrink to 239 bushels, and if the water is all allowed for tho crop would be 217 bushels of actual dry matter in tbe shelled corn grown on one acre. VERIFYING THE RECORD. In addition to all the safeguards nar? rated to insure faithful accuracy, we have made several independent investi? gations, all of which fully confirm the honor and integrity of the parties con? cerned. Not only Mr. Drake, but the surveyor, justices and witnesses are men of unimpeachable standing in their com? munities. While the American Agricul? turist is fully convinced of the correctness of Mr. Drake's report from beginning to end, we have deemed it wise to explain the basis of our opinion, so that every farmer may be equally convinced*of the absolute fact that within a fraction of 255 bushels of shelled corn have been actually grown on one acre, in a single crop, in one season. This being the lar? gest crop of corn ever made on one acre in the history of tbe world's agricul ture the American Agriculturist deems i'self fortunate in having made it a matiei: of record beyond dispute. THE COST OF THE CROP. This was heavy. Look at the items of manure, and fertilizer alone, to which are appended Mr. Drake's other state? ment of expenses: 1000 bushels stable manure.$ 5D 00 867 pounds Geiman kainit. 7 80 867 pounds cotton seed meal. 10 80 200 pounds acid phosphate. 2 00 10C6 pounds manipulated guano. J3 32 200 pounds animal bone. 4 00 400 peunds nitrate of soda. 12 00 600 bushels cotton seed. 120 00 Total cost of 50 loads manure, 5,600 pounds of fertilizers and 600 bush? els of whole cotton seed.$21D f?2 Applying the same. 7 00 Total cost ofplautfood applied to the contest acre.$226 92 Interest on value of land, at C per cent. 1 50 The ploughing represented labor worth. 1 00 The harrowing cost. 2 00 Other preparation of the soil. I 00 Cost of the seed. I 00 Tho cultivating represented labor worth. ') 00 Other work of caring for the crop.... 11 00 The cost of harvesting. -3 00 Total cost of culture, aside from E XXIV.- -NO. 36. plant food.$ 37 50 Grand total, including all expenses for entire crop.$264 42 Corn is valued at seventy five cents per bushel in South Carolina, or $19116 for the crop, to which may be added $15 for one and one half tonB of cured top stalks, making the total receipts ?206 16. Assuming that the plant food in the stalks will be all returned to the land, the soil is robbed,wonly of the nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid'in the kernels and cobs, amounting in value to $50 or $60. There would, therefore, be left in the soil at least $150 worth of the manurial elements put on in the spring. Crediting only half of this bal? ance to the crop% makes the receipts exceed expenses. On the most practi cal basis, therefore, it must be,"'admitted that the improvement to the land will fully make up for the deficiency in the value of the crop.^The financial show? ing of the largest corn crop on record is therefore on the right side.?_Contrary to the prevailingimpression, also, the quality of the Southern white corn is quite on a par with the best average Eastern or Northern corn. The expe? rience of the best feeders in the South shows that practice fully confirms the theoretical equality between],the Eastern (or Northern) and Southern corns, es? pecially for fattening purposes. This is another great argument for home pro? duction of the meats and dairy, products consumed in the South. It is notable that Mr. Drake's corn bad from twenty.' to thirty-six rows per ear. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? A planter at Monticello, Fla., has already shipped this season 40,000 pounds of watermelon seeds. ? It is said of the eixty thousand Hebrews in New York city not one is keeping a liquor saloon. ? In Italy, the influenza has thrown people into a long, deep sleep and they cannot be aroused. They nr a kept alive with liquid food. ? Edward Atkinson declares that the annual production of eggs in this country equals in money value the country's an? nual total production of iron. ? Siberia is said to have a spot of ground about thirty miles square that has not thawed cut for a hundred years, and is frozen to a'depth of sixty feet. ? In the Edgefield court of sessions, Monday, the case of R. T. Jones?already tried five times?for the murder of the tbree Presaleys, was continued until next August term. ; ? Charleston has had two noted visi? tors within tbe'past few days in the per-, sous of Claus Spreckles,'.the great Ha? waiian sugar King and Vice-President. > Morton. The latter arrived last Sunday r j on bis way to Florida. ? An Atlanta man says: "Talking about trusts, the South ought to form a trunt not to buy from any house or firm in the north or west which lies about and villifiea the Southern people." That Atlanta man's bead is level. ? The yield of corn iu Illinois la*V||? year was 247,980,000 bushels, and from . ':? an investigation made by the Illinois -.1 State Board of Agriculture it turns out .': that the farmers have received for their corn ?10,000,000 less than the cost of$K production. ?A Kentuckian believes he has struck it rich. He says he can produce a rain -?; storm which will cover a whole county v and last for hours at an expense of $11,. ^ from'cer' An chemicals, and he is now im patier.ly waiting for next summer and a dry spell to try it. ? A Kansas City family mimed Frost, consists of five brothers whoso names are Jack Frost, Winter Frost, White Froat, Cold Frost and Snow Frost. As there doesn't appear to he a Late Frost, it is inferred that the peach crop in that_ neighborhood is safe. ? A good rule for the guidance of :a> & girl through the years when she is the ~ object of admiration and fl?tl;ery is to do nothing which ehe/would not be willing to tell now to her mother and hereafter^-/, to her hnsband. Life may be made tamer for her by observing that rule, but it will assuredly be more pure, womanly and safe. ? A man from Bare Butte Valley, South Dakota, lost his pocket-book con? taining $250, which was found by a man of Elk Creek. A month later, upon learning who was the owner, he returned the same, and the owner was very thank? ful?but demanded interest for the use of.~; the money for that time. Judgment was . given for ?1.45 and cost. ? The conversation had turned on the healthfulness of two localities. "In our village," said one, "we don't average over a death a year." "Why, that's a - terrible .mortality," replied the other; "in our town we only had one death in five years, and that was the doctor." "Couldn't he cure himself?" "No, pocr man ; he died of starvation." ? A peculiarity about the blind ia that there is seldom one of them who smokes. Soldiers and sailor accustomed to smok? ing, and who have lost thsir sight in ac? tion, continue to smoke for a short while, but soon give up the habit. They say that it gives them no pleasure when they cannot see the smoke, and some have said they cannot taste the smok unless they see it. ? In tbe Oconee Court of Sessions, last week, Thomas O. Parker was tried for tbe murder of Jesse Horn, in January 1880, over ten years ago. During this time most of the witnesses have either died or left the State, but those who were sworn gave details of the killing fully and accurately. The defense set up was thai of killing in self-defence of his father,/:? Cap!. W. F. Parker, who was being as? saulted by the deceased. The son ehot. and killed Horn just in time to save his father grievously bodily harm?bo the jury found a verdict of not guilty, after deliberating four hours% m Its Excellent Qualities. Commend to public approval the Cali? fornia liquid fiuit remedy, Syrup of Figs. It is pleasing to the eye, and to the taste, - and by gently acting oh the kidneys, liver and bowels, it cleanses the Bystem effectually, thereby promoting the health ' and comfort of all who^nse ik 28