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Anderson Intelligencer. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. J. P. CLIN KSCALES, I Editors and CE 0. LANGSTON, J Proprietors TERMS: ^ ONE TEAR_.fl 50 SIX MONTHS . 75 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1896. Ex-Speaker Crisp bas announced that he will be a candidate from Georgia for the United State Senate to succeed Sena tor Gordon. Dr. Talmuge recently preached a ser mon on "ifs." The conjunction has been very frequently used in connection with the doctor. Mr. Edison claims to be able to photo graph a man's brain, but he doesn't claim that ho can show brains in the pic ture when there are none in the head submitted to test. ? m Every Democrat should wish for the Domination of McKinley by the Repub licans ; he's the easiest man to beat, now that Harrison is out of it They say soiled bank notes are dissem inators of disease, but it would be hard to find the man who wouldn't willingly handle a few of them now and then. Democrats in three or four Southern States are quarreling over whether they shall have one State Convention or two. Unlessa stop is put to factional fights pretty soon there will be no necessity for holding a Convention at all. Mrs. Lease always was a bold and con fident person. She says that her preach ing will not interfere with her political activity. The old clergy will learn from the new woman how to mix religion and politics without losing one or the other. - m m The verdici of acquittal rendered by the jury in the Broxton Bridge lynching in Colleton Ccunty is maminously con . demed by the press of the State. There was do doubt of the guilt of the pris oners, and they should have paid the penalty of the law. The Legislature has done the proper thing in reimbursing Gov. Evans the sum of montsy spent in having South Carolina represented at the Atlanta Ex position last fall. The exhibit was a most creditable one, and will prove a good advertise, ment for our State. "Is excessive love a case of insanity ?" is the question before the New York Supreme Court. The uncontrolable pas sion of one man for another man's wife is the case sent up for decision. One woman declares that a good club is the best remedy far this kind of madness. Both houses of the General Assembly have agreed to adjourn od March 7th. They began on January 15th, and March 7th will make about seven weeks this body has been in session. It was expect ed to List two months or more, but by bard and energetic work of the various committees the work will be completed by this date. ? ^ * The Intelligencer is in receipt of the "first number cf Ttie South Carolina To bacconist, which Is published weekly at Suinter, S. C, by N. G. Osteen, and is edited by H. G. Osteen and J. A. Brogdon. The subscription price is ?2 a year. It is a neat publicat ion, and full of interesting matter pertaining to the cultivation of tobacco. While crime baa been steadily on the increase in the United States the past three years, it is a significant fact that lynchings and mob law have just as steadily decreased. There are about half as many suicides annually as murders, and in 1895 to 10,500 murders there were 5,739 suicides and 171 lynchings. It is quite probable f,bat the extremely hard times of recent years has had something to do with the increase of crime. Charleston is arranging to have a royal occasion during the third week of April, the most delightful season of the year to visit the grand old City by the Sea. It is the week of the Floral Fair and Sch?tz enfest, and the Confederate Veterans of the State will have a big reunion there. The South Carolina editors will also hold their annual meeting there the same week. The railroads will give low excur :m . b?od rates, said Charleston may expect a large crowd of visitors. The press is pretty generally urging _iar-mers to diversify their crops, and not to plant too much cotton. The press is doing what I* considers its duty to the farmers and the South, when it urges just such action on the part of the farm ers. If the farmer has his corn crib and smoke house at home, he's all right His cotton then becomes a source of revenue and the market hi not glutted by an over production, the price received for the White staple is good. mo m - Although the Federal census was taken Dearly six years ago, all of the vast vol ume of information then collected has not yet been classified and published. It is served in driblets at frequent inter vals and some of the census bulletins are very interesting. One of the latest of these gives the population of the country by sexes and shows that in 1890 there were In the United States 32,067.880 males and 30,554,370 females, a male majority of ; 1,513,510. Spain does not like the action of the United State Senate regarding the war in Cuba, and, judging from the cablegrams received in Washington from Madrid, the Spaniards are anxious for a little war with our country. The Spanish govern ment has about all It can attend to with out seeking trouble with t?e United r~^~States, and it would be wise policy not to oppose tho action of our government. The United States wants no war, but if it is forced on us we will go into it with all the force and energy we possess. The bill before :',he Senate restricting immigration to tho United States is the - most liberal measure that could prove effective. Its purpose .s to shut off the Influx of totally ignorant 'persons who come to this country and who are a bur den from the hour they arrive on Ameri can soil. The bill, requires all immi ^^grants over 14 yearsi of age to have suf ficient education to pass & simple exami nation in reading und writing. Of the 279,000 immigrants who came to the United States in 1895 about 42,000 could neither read nor write, Such a popula iioD could not add to the intelligent de velopment of any country. It would either go to swell the slum population cf the cities or be sent :o starre on the waste lands of the American deserts. Hon. Patrick Walsh, as chairman of the commit'eo on the Southern States Exposition to be held in Chicago this Summer, issued an able and interesting appeal in the Augusta Chronicle of lost Sunday to the Governors of the Southern States and the people of the Southern States, urging them to co-operate and make this exposition a big success. It will be an unparalleled opportunity for ' the display of Southern products and resources, and no section of the South caD afford to neglect it. Gov. Evans is deeply interested in the exposition, but &e will have no funds in. his hands w ith wblc? to make a State display. It will take money to have our State properly represented and the citizens of evory Connty in the State should be -willing to contribute for that porpose. We feel safe in saying that the city and county of An derson will aid in the great work. Misa M. S. Hampton, regent for the State of South Carolina, makea an urgent appeal for contributions of money and relics of the war for the South Carolina room of the Confederate Museum in the Davis building at Richmond. Thus far the other Southern States have far ex ceeded South Carolina. This ought not to be. The Palmetto State was foremost in Secession, and the blood of h9r heroes atain every battlefield from Pennsylvania to Texas. Let her survivors and country men perpetuate the history of the great struggle. The South Carolina room ought forthwith be prepared for the great reunion of the veterans at Richmond in June next. All contributions in money, large or small, should be sent to Miss Mary S. Hampton, at Hot Springs, X. C. All contributions of war relics and curi osities should be sent to Mrs. W. P. DeSaasure, 316 East Main street, Rich mond, Ya. The General Assembly. Columbia State, March 2nd. The heavy tapestry of uncertainty which has obscured even a glance at the hopeful pros pect of an end to the seem ingly endless session of the general as sembly up to a week ago has been pulled aside at last and the weary eyes of worn out, patience-exhausted newspaper men have been permitted to rest on the cheer ing vision of next Saturday standing with arm raised and holding a placard on which appeared the inscription, "Final adjournment March 7," the emblem of rest and relief from a six months mo notony. These long weeks have not been like woman?"varium et mutabile sem per femina." It has been the same wea ry "demnition grind" that all men chafe under. And it may be said that the ar rival of the last week of the session Is more or less joyously received by many members and the mass of the people. But all things must come to an end on earth sooner or later, and the long session of the South Carolina parliament will conclude with this week. That is what the concurrent resolution Bays and what every one is expecting, though there may be some opposition still to changing "sub juries" to M8ui juris," when the phrase appears in a new statute. During the past week the general as sembly baa accomplished more real work than during any preceding fortnight. Nearly all the important bills?the billa that bad to be disposed of?have been gotten out of the way in the house, and are on the road to final disposition in ample time to allow the adjournment to take place at the appointed time. The general appropriation and supply bills have been sent to the senate. Of course there was of necessity much hard work on them. The 4* milt levy has been definitely decided upon at last, and ibe taxpayers feel easier, while the in come tax scheme has died the death it was destined to die. Governor Evans has 1 been given his $0,000 in rather a satisfac tory way, and there won't be any trouble in the senate over it. The house has giv en the State Fair $2,400 for premiums. It was not thought that there would be op position to this in tne senate, but the Ben ate committee has reported unfavorably as to the item. Xt will scarcely result in its being stricken out, however. The pension bill has also been disposed of during the past week, making a liberal appropriation for the Confederate vete rans, their widows and their orphans, and a committee of free conference is now settling the differences between the two houses. The general school law has been pretty thoroughly worked over in the house, and the county school superintendents are going to stay, unless the committee adjusting the differences decides to leave them out after all. The election precinct bill has been dis posed of finally, also in the house. On Saturday, the bill to prevent the ex travagant printing of reports of State offi cers was disposed of, passing the house. The other printing bill?the important one reducing the compensation for the public printing?is still resting easy on the senate calendar. There was an interesting fight in the house over the bill to transform the dis pensary law into a temperance law before it was killed, and for the first time voices were raised against the great dispensary system. The house has also passed the impor tant bill providing for a State bank ex aminer, though the senate wished to im pose the duties of that office on the State treasurer. Nearly all the other general bills have been disposed of by the house, and the special order calendar is well nigh empty at last. Mr. Otts' school book bill is on it now, as is also Judge Townsend'e bill relating to telegraph and express compa nies. The railroad bill relating to the in terchange of freights has passed the house and the senate all rignt, and there will be no further trouble over it. The house made a vigorous attack on its calendar on Saturday, and a couple of more days' work of th? same kind will ?et it pretty well cleared. The senate hills will be passed over for a couple of days more. The house election of a public printer has been fixed for tomorrow. Mr. Calvo, the present public printer, will stand lor re-election, and will be opposed for the position by Mr. T. S. Bryan, also of this city. On the same day two trustees of the Winthrop Normal College will be elected, as will also the State Code Com missioner. Mr. Breazeale is expected to be elected to the latter position. The bill providing for ten judicial cir cuits has never been considered yet, and it is not likely now that it will be touch ed at this session, but will be left hang ing in mid-air when the body adjourns. Mr. Earle's bill to provide for a system of county courts is also so far down on the calendar that it stands little or no opportunity of passing at this session, even though should it encounter no op position. The fight over the metropolitan police bill was fought in the senate during the week just closed, and no changes will be made in the law as it stands. The bill providing for the number and pay of the magistrates in the State bas also been successfully engineered through. One of the features of the past week in the senate was the attempt to pass a pro vision in the tax exemption bill over the veto of the Governor, and another was the fight in the house over the railroad rate bill. On to Greenwood. The extension of the Carolina Midland railway from Severn to Greonwood is to begin next week. It wili be remembered that a few weeks ago Col. Mike Brown succeeded in forming the company which has leased his road and will built it on through to its junction with the Seaboard Air line. The new company is to be known, under its charter granted at the present session of the Legislature, as the Greenwood, Anderson and Western rail road company. The announcement that work was to commence next week was made yester day. It was further stated that the company has determined also to build beyond Greenwood to either Greenville or Ander son, those two places being permitted to bid for the Northern terminus. The announcement was also made yes terday that Mr. Bernard B. Evans, now ot this city, had been appointed the gen eral agent of the company. He will die charge all the duties of both the general passenger and freight agents, and the po sition is one of responsibility. The people along the route will be de lighted to hear that the work of construc tion of this line through territory hereto fore untouched by a railroad line will soon commence.?Columbia State. Dispensary Constables Shot. Walhalla, Feb. 28.?Special : To night at 11 o'clock, while Dispensary Constables Jenkins, of Darlington fame, and Redmond were on their way to the county jail they were stopped by a posbe of unknown men and fired upon. About twenty shots were fired in rapid succession. Both of the constables fell and are badly wounded. Jenkins was shot in the left hand, taking off one fin ger and lodging in the wrist, also through one arm. Another ball passed through the calf of the right leg, and still another from a shotgun in the back. Redmond received several shotgun loads in the right arm and side, with a variety of pistol balls, and left wrist, and is thought to bo mortally wounded. It is now thought four men did the shooting. Neither Jenkins nor Redmond returned the fire, as they were outnum bered, and they made every effort to get to the jail. Both constables say they re cognize the men who fired upon them. Dr. J. W. Dell was called at once, but no particulars can be learned further than above stated, Light on a Timely Topic. To the Editor of Neivs and Courier: Such conditions of surplus dairy butter as your recent Yorkville correspondent writeB of have more than any other one thiDg been instrumental in building up the successful creamery business of other sections of our country. In neighbor hoods where creameries are established factors in material progress the tendency of ihe times is towards larger plants, wider territory and greater concentration for the objects of lessening the per pound expenses of manufacturing and securing greater uniformity of product. As a means for reaching a more extended ter ritory, skimming stations on lines of railway and at other available points throughout the surrounding country are being established tributary to the cen trally located creamery. At these sub stations the milk is separated, the skim milk is returned fresh and sweet to the adjacent farms, while the cream is hauled to the central station to be made into uni form high-grade butter. The usual prac tice is to dispose of this butter as fast as made, and distribute the proceeds, less expenses, among the patrons at the end of each month. The great Franklin County Creamery at St. Albans, Vt., has about sixty stations where the milk is separated, from which about 20,000 pounds of butter are made every day. In the recent discussion in the Hews and Courier one reason of the low price of butter did not appear, and that is its unusually low pri 20 all over the country. The following are the New York prices of creamery, Western extra, the fourth week in February for the past five years. (This grade Is the Elgin creamery, finest of the Charleston market:) 1891, 31 cents; 1892, 30 cents; 1893, 28 cents; 1894, 2Gi cents; 1895,23 cents, and in 189G, 21 cents Only one week ago this butter Bold at 19 cents, the lowest winter prico since Elgin butter has been on this market. Last Friday's Price Current quotes rolls, fresh, common to good at 8al0 cents, and I fee'l safe in saying that our average country butter would not find many purchasers at 10 cents in the leading butter market of the country to-day. From the following letter your readers may infer as to the critical judgment of the New York produce dealers : New York, January 14,1890. J. W. Hart^-Dear Sir: Enclosed we hand you sales for the tub of butter you shipped us on the 1st instant. We made a very careful examination of the quality of this butter and also called in one or two judges of butter and had them pass judgment. In reply will say that the graiu of the butter was all right, tha color was all right and the style of packing was all right. While it was not high salted, the salt was just a little gritty and did not seem to be well enough dissolved, or in other words it was not as smooth as we usually find in our best creameries. The flavor was not high and it was not exactly clean flavored, so that the only in prove ment we could suggest in the butter would be to have it high and clean flavor ed, and salt about as this tub wes, but have the salt so it would not show gritty. The day this butter sold top price for t be finest that comes was 24 cents, as you will notice by the Price Current we en close you. Yours truly, James Rowland <fc Co. The accompanying account sales shows that the butter c m signed this house Bold for 22 cents, while the finest on the market brought 24 cents, as above stated : A second shipment was forwarded, and IS1 cents was the price obtained. Accom panying the account sales was the follow ing : New York, February 1, 189G. J. W. Hart?Dear Sir: Enclosed we hand you sales for your two tubs of but ter and check for balance due you. Twenty cents is now top for the finest that r^mes. This would have brought top price if it had shown a little more flavor. The butter was nicely made, everything was all O. K., excepting it did not throw a high flavor, and this is what it takes to bring the extreme top. Youra truly, James Rowland & Co. I will not attempt to explain why our butter failed to get right up in the front rank, but after we have been there, ex planations may be in order. I will say this much?there is nothing the matter with our soil, our feeding stuffs or our cows that prevents us making with profit to ourselves a grade oi butter that will lead the batter markets of this country in quality and price. As your Charleston correspondent has truly stated, the gr??t es': cause of the small demand and low price of our country butter iti the rela tively poor quality of the larger propor tion of it offered for Bale. Lack of skill in handling the milk is largely responBi blo for this state of affairs. Just one point in this connection, the almost uni versal custom throughout the South to churn the entire milk. We have experi mented along this line in every way we could think of, and have come to the con clusion that it is impossible to make good, merchantable butter by churning the whole milk. For a fuller discussion of this point your readers are referred to our experiment bulletin, No. 19, a copy of which may be obtained by addressing the Agricultural Experiment Station, Clem son College, S. C. Another and a far more serious cause of the inferior quality of our butter, a fault characteristic of the cotton growing States, is duo to the large quantities ot cotton seed and ootton seed products fed to cows. Cotton seed, in any form, when fed invariably tends to produce hardness in the butter fat ; in other words, causes the butter to bave a high melting point. The butter can scarcely be liquefied by bringing it to the temperature of the body ; it sticks like beeswax to the tip of the mouth and is necessarily more difficult to digest than the easily liquefied butter made where little or no cotton seed is fed. I do not advocate the total abandonment of ootton seed as a feed for milch cows. Both on account of its cheapness com pared with other purchased feeds and its effect in making the butter stand up in hot weather I would advise its limited use, and that in connection with feeding staffs having a tendency to make the butter soft, oily and of low melting point. The great mass of butter consumers In the South are not educated to the point where they object to cotton Beed butter, having been used to it all their lives. A correspondent at Lanford'e, S. C, writes me that he feeds entirely through the winter months on cotton seed bulls and meal ; Le leeds to an 800-pound cow 22 pounds of hulls and 8 pounds of msal. His herd averages him over 300 pou ads L?f butter per cow per annum, and the butter he sells in Augusta at 20cents net. However, he is not entirely satisfied with bis present practice, for he adds : I now save a silo full of sorghum ensilage, and shall commence to feed it soon. On the other hand a Charleston friend writes me as follows : "One of the Char leston grocers tells me that he has been retting butter from Chester and Aikeo, Dut has cancelled his orders because his customers complain that the butter will aot melt nicely for cooking." From ;hese facts the loyal Cbarlestonian will conclude that the taste of his native city n this particular ic more discriminating ban that of the Augusta people. The bl lowing is the testimony of a gentleman u the head of a well known Ladies' Col ege in a letter of January IG last: "I iave departed from the traditional feed iround here (cotton seed meal nnd hulls ) ind my butter is superior accordingly Lt has color and odor and flavor almost ike springtime. My girls eat a great leal more of it than when I bought it all. ' The cheapness of cotton seed meal and julls is a strong temptation to make use )f them very largely in feeding milch sows, but the effects are as easily detected is merino wool would be, and no artifice >n the part of the butter-maker can con seal the effects of such excessive use. Korean we feel certain tnat heavy feeding m cotton seed is not injurious to the iealth of the cow, when it is so rapidly fatal to hogs and calves. In every step in its manufacture skill s necessary if the butter is to be of high 1 uality and meet with ready sale. Skill s also required in getting a price com nensurato with the value of the butter, [t is not usual that the highest prices are eceived by trading good butter at the sountry store, where quality cuts no fig ire in the price. In the towns and villages of the State rood customers may be secured by the armers living near and retained If they $an always be prompt in filling their coh racts with good butter. Another good jJan is to consign butter to a reliable :orn mission house. A considerable qual ity of butter is shipped from Seneca to 1 commission house in Charleston. The :om mission merchants of the North sell jutter for a commission of 5 per ceut. Possibly the smaller quantities handled md the greater expense for ice in sum ner explain why our commission men barge a larger commission. If regular ihipments can be made the commission nerchant he will soon have regular cus omers for that make of butter, who will )Q dibBatisfied if for any reason they fail 0 get it. The farmer should have a dis inctive mark or brand for bis butter, so hat it will be known at Bight. If for any eason a churning fails to come up to the ?sual standard, the stamp should not gu >n it on any account. The butter may je used at home or sent to market in a )lain package. No risks Bhould be run >y trying to sell it on the good reputation ?f the brand. When the farmer has buc :eeded in getting a good demand for his >utter he should not be contented, but ihould endeavor to make liner goods. An ncreased demand will follow and tuen the producer is in the way of getting a higher price. Thio in its turn will be an incentive to still further improvement. In making any chan?"3 in his methods the farmer should be careful to make these gradually, so that his customer*; may get used to them by degrees. Then the improvement will please them, whereas any abrupt changes will cause dissatisfaction. In view of the present low prices tbo question of over-production looms up. The Western producer is not sending bis buttor here out of pure love for the con sumer down by the sea, so that it looks as if there will be profits for the South Car olina dairy farmers who are trying to keep abreast with the times. On account of the present low prices of butter efforts are being made to increase our export trade. More of the invigorating and life-bus taining liquid, milk, should be used by our people, both on account of its whole so m un ess and comparative cheapness when produced at home. No farm house table is complete without a generous pitcher of milk, and its value in pro viding material for the formation of bone and muscle in our growing boys and girls can scarcely be over-estimated. Where there appears to be a surplus of milk beyond what the family can con sume, it is worth while to consider the advisability of making cheese irom a portion. One of our State Senators writes me by to-day's mail: "By your process hb given in Bulletin No. 19, my wife has been making very fine cheese, and ehe wishes to continue as long as our cows are in milk." The price received for the butter is only a fraction of the returns from the cow. I he natural increase, the manure, with the accompanying enrichment of the farm, and the skim and buttermilk are to be included in the account, and it is the more or less skillful handling of these products that will determine the profit m dairying. J. W. Hart. Clcmson College, S. G, Feb. 24, 1896. Sam Jones Talks on the Dispensary Law Rev. Sam P. Jones is no admirer of the South Carolina Dispensary Jaw as his sermon yesterday afternoon went to show. Mr. Jones arrived in the city from Rock Hill at 11:30 and went immediately to the Columbia Female College, where he re mained during the day. A number of ministers of the city representing all de nominations called at the College and had a short talk with the noted evangelist on religious work. Mr. Jones was laughing and chatting very pleasantly with several visitors when a Register reporter called shortly after hia arrival and asked for an inter view. He has changed somewhat since he was in Columbia last, and his hair is quite gray around the edges. Mr. Jones looked careworn from his hard labor for the past few months, but was apparently in the best of spirits. He was asked to give bis opinion on the workings of the atate Dispensary. He .-aid : 'The law at first was an experiment, of course, and the regulation of prohibi tion and the extermination of the liquor traffic has been a problem that has been vexing good men lor some time. I bave watched with interest the States which have constitutional prohibition ; the States with local option ; and the StateB which have the best excise laws for the control of tho traffic ; and lastly the South Caro lina Dispensary law. I believe that whiskey is a good thing in its place and I believe its place is in Hell and I shall never drink any nor countenance the sale of any under any law this side of Hell. "The only difference between the Dis pensary Law and the open saloons, as I see it, is the method of dealing out the damnable stuff. Whatever may be the good intentions of the persons with whom the Dispensary idea originated, already it is beginning to go to seed in South Carolina. I understand that this sover eign State is advertising its liquor and pusbing its business. As I see it, the salaries of the Dispensers must be deter mined by the largeness of their sales. If this be true the State is dealing in it for the money that is in it, and whenever the State does deal in it for the money, then a bull-neck, white apron saloon keeper is a gentleman beside the State of South Carolina. "I am for extermination rather than regulation of the liquor traffic, for you can no more regulate the sale so that men will not be debauched, boys ruined, wives murdered, children butchered and homes made desolate, than you can regulate cholera by a license uystem of legislative enactment, or any more than you can regulate the ravages of hydrophobia through the same channel. The profit and beverage question will damn the South Carolina Dispensary in the eyes of all God-fearing men. How any profess ed Christian can staud behind the counter and deal out liquor in the name cf his Stale as a beverage for his fellow citizens and deserve any thing else but contempt of all good people, I cannot understand, and he'll be a frying in Hell before his feet get cold, in my candid opinion."? Columbia Register. Food and Cotton Production. There are many intelligent people in the South who thoughtlessly maintain that the cotton section of the country would be ruined without itu unrivalled capacity to produce cotton. We propose here to show the utter fal lacy of this opinion. In the colonial period of this State, before one pound of cotton was made here, the colony was one of the most prosperous, if not the most prosperous, of all, and Charleston the grandest city of America. The city was described by the elder Adams as one of flowing wealth, inhabited by rich and courtly people. All things considered, it was the finest community in the whole country. So much for the day when there was not a pound of cotton grown on the continent. We by no means mean to decry the value of our great staple prudently handled. We only mean here to dispute the opinion that without cotton the South would "go to pot." By the census of 1890 the thirteen Atlantic States, from Maine to West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, with and area of 250,325 square miles, and a little over twenty one million people, produced a little over rive hundred and fourteen million dollars farm products. About $24.19 per head of population and ?2,054 per square mile. Now, let us tako up the four Atlantic States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with about four million people, in 1890, and we would number two hundred thousand square miles. The farm product of these States for the census year was about one hun dred and ninety-seven million dollars. In round numbers, these four States made about a thousand dollars to the square mile, and about ?40 to the inhabi tant. About 117 million of this farm pro duct was cotton money ; therefore, there was some eighty million of farm product other than cottcn. This shows just six teen dol'ars to the inhabitant or some ?8 to inhabitant less than tho Northern At lantic.States. Is there a shdow of a doubt thaf should we quit the culture of cotton these States could quadruplo this ?10 ahead so as to make it ?04? When we take into con sideration the time we could devote to the improvement of the soil upon the dismissal of cotton from our farm pro duction, we think there can bo no reason able doubt that our system of cultivation would go up so rapidly that in less than a decade our lands would increase in va'ue beyond all precedent. And it would not be long belore we would look back to our prosent shambling system and its products with wonder and amaze ment that we should have so long shut our eyes to our plain possibilities. Texas is going to drive us to this, whether we would or no. In the census year Texas was making very nearly a million bales less than the four Atlantic States. In the big crop of '94 she made about three-quarters of a million bales more. Texas, with her 200,000 square miles and three million people, is going steadily forward in cotton production, so that :he old States of the Atlantic shore will be driven to the wall as cotton pro ducers. If Texas should proceed in her cotton production at the rate she did from '90 to '94, by 1900 she will be pro ducing nine million bales. Her cotton production iu '89-'90 was 1,470.000. In *94-'95 it was 3,114,000, son>e 2.7 fold, which iu '98 would show nearly eight million and a half Hales for Texas. Plainly the cotton game is up with ub, and we had better be looking round for some other production actively and at once.?Columbia Register. A Small Exodus to Africa. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 27.?The steam ship Laurada, the arrival of which has been anxiously awaited for several days by three hundred negro emigrants on their way to Liberia, has just been re ported at quarantine. She will remain at anchor in Tybee Roads to-night, and, after passing the quarantine inspection in tho morning, will come up to the city. The Laurada'sconnection with the recent filibustering schemes caused the suspic ion, when Bhe failed to reach here, that she had gone to Cuba. She will take on her eareo of emigrants at once and will probably sail to-morrow night for Mon rovia. _ - _ ? There were forty more divorces than thero were weddings in Fresno, Cal., last i year, 1 Bclton Locals. Messrs. Frank Msjor and Walter Cox, formerly of this place bat now of Polzer, viBited frieadB and relatives la town Sun day. Mrs. Latimer and MiSRea Hnrkness and Wakefield, of Honea Path, were visitiog relatives In town Saturday and 8onday. Mrs. J. C. Harris, of Anderson, was visiting friends in our community last week. The health of this commauity ?b very good at present, aod it 1b hoped that it will remain so. Johnson Bane, the great performer on the guitar and banjo, is to give a recital in the Academy hall this (Tuesday) evening. The farmers of this commuoity are busi ly engaged working in their gardens, and preparing their land for this year's pro duction Dr. Manly filled hia regular appoint ment here Sunday, and preached an ex cellent and instructive Bermon. Miss Mattie Brown, one of Belton's most charming young ladies, who has been on an extended visit to Miss Sallie Mattison, near Aoderaon, returued home Friday. Miss Rosa Poore, of this place, visited relatives in Anderson last week. There haB been about 5,100 bales of cot ton Bold at this market this year, and it still comes in. Miss Leila Pepper, from near Easley, is now attendiog the Belton High School. People in the surrounding country have bpgun to realize what a floe ioBtitution Balton baa, and they are making use of their advantages. There i* room for plenty more, and we will be glad to Bee othero come into oar school at any time. Klux. Moscow Items. The health of the Community is very gcod at this writing, although the measles have been holding fall sway for some time. Mr James L. Gable, who has been sick for the last three or four months, we are glad to say is able to be out again. We attended preaching at Varennes laBt fourth Sunday, aod beard a very interest ing sermon by Rev. H. C Fennel, a former pastor of that church. Rev. J 0 Wilson, the present pastor, has signified his inten tion of resigning the fourth Sonday in March. Mr. Wilson is beloved by all, and it is hoped that he will continue to preach at that place. The school at this place, taught by Rev. Foster Speer, is in e flourishing condition. Mr. Speer is one of our best teachers, and the patrons are highly pleased with him The Hebron Debating and Literary So ciety meets every Wednesday night. It is likely to be a great benefit, especially to the young men who take quite an active part in debiting the different subjects. Mi'eb Annie Griffin, a beautiful and ac complished young lady of Laurenn County, is visiting the family of Mr. J B. Lsverett. Mr. L E. Step h eus on and family, from near Lowndesville, have moved into our community and are occupying the house formerly occupied by Mr. A. J. Hall. Judging from the amount of guano that is being hauled, we think there will be as much cotton planted this year as ever, which is another step towards hard times, and will continue to be so until cotton is made a surplus crop. We think the best plan for the farmer now is to raise plenty of corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, and certain ly plenty of meat at home, and not let the rise in cotton this last fall cause him to plant another large crop of cotton and get four and five cents for lt. Oheoa. Toney Creek Items. While the weather was pretty the farm ers put in full time plowing, and when it was too wet to plow they were busy hauling their guano home. If it will only continue to be warm it will make the farmers want to plant corn soon. Work of all kinds is going on around here. The old bridge has been torn np, and, under the management of Mr. Sanford, the new iron one will soon be completed. Now, a little more work on our roads and this community will be progressing fine, but the roads now are very rough on the new buggies and car riages in this community. Frank, youngest son of Mr. J. M. Acker, has been very sick with rheuma tism, being so be could not move him self, but he is better now. Old Aunt Cinda Poore has been real sick with heavy cold, and is still very feeble. Sunday School is improving slowly. We hope to see it flourishing now the warm weather is coming on. Mr. Fred. Cox left for Clemson last week. Fred's smiling face is missed very much. Mr. W. L. Sutherland and wife and Miss A. 0. Norris attended church at Barker's Creek Sunday. Lawrence drives a fine new carriage, and his two grays make quite a dash. Th 3 gardeners have begun their work. Mrs. Cries Mattison is on the sick list. Th9 pulpit at Shady Grove wili be fill ed b;' Rev. Mr. Pratt, of Greenville, next Sunday. Hope the congregation will be large._ Omeara. Barker's Creek Items. Well, Mr. Editor, we have been haviog some blustering weather for the past ten days. Mrs. J. O. Ragsdale has been on the sick list for the past week. Miss Euna Greer has recovered from a severe case of measles. Several of our young people attended the sinping at Mr. J. 8. Ragsdale'o last Satnr dav night. Miss Lee Clement bas returned home after a week's stay in LaurenB with friends and relatives Miss Leslie Cummioga visited her friend, Miss Attif? Major, last Sunday. Miss Palestine Tucker, of Honea Path, was in our midst on Sunday last. We are always clad to welcome her in oar midst. Mr. W. C Branyon was in cur mid6t again last Sunday. Mr R. L Branyon, of Little River sec tion, worshipped at this place on Sunday latt. Mr. Walter King visited friends in this section last Sabbath. It setms that Walter has some attraction around here. Miss Leila Moore, a beautiful and charm ing young lady from Honea Path, was in our midst last Sabbath Our Sunday School la improving a little at this place, but there is room for more improvement yet We can't see why the voung people stay away from Sunday School. Why not come out next Sabbath and hear the young people sing If you don't want to study the lesson ? We bad rather go to churoh than Bit at home. Sunday school is the place to build your self It is generally the case that all San day school workers is loved by all Chris tian people. Try and see if you all can't come out next Sunday. Hash. Union Meeting. The Union Meeting of District No. 3, Saluda Assoc'ation, will be held with the church at Cross Roads, Saturday before the 5th Suoday in March, 1896. The fol lowing is the program : Introductory Bermon, Rev. 0. L. Martin; alternate, Rev. J. R Earle. Organization. Recess 1st. Query: Romanism in Amerioa?its influence on our institutions, and how to meet it? Speakers, J. F. Singleton and J. J. Beck. Twenty minutes oach. 2nd. Query: Whioh Is exerting the most dangerous influence, the infidel or the in consistent church member? Speakers, Wm. Brown and W. R. Earle. Twenty minutes each Missionary sermon by Rev. J. J. B?ck. T. H. Garrett, for Com. Killed a Little Girl. Atlanta, Feb. 27.--News comes from the heart of Rabun, one of the most mountainous counties in the State, that a moonshiner killed a ten-year-old girl several nights ago. The assassin fired into a bouse occupied by a man named Crunkelston, who was suspected of hav ing given information to the revenue officers. The bullet bit the child and killed her. Andrew Welborn, an outlaw, has been indicted for the murder. Mrs. Anna Gage, wife of Ex Deputy U. S. Marshal, Columbus, Kan., says: "I was delivered of TWINS in less than 20 min utes and with scarcely any paiu after using only two bottles of "MOTHERS' FRIEND" DID NOT ST7FFER AFTERWARD. tySontby Express or mall, on receipt of price, 81.OO per bottle. Book "TO MOTIIEHS'' mailed free. BRADF.IELD REGULATOB CO., ATLAMA, OA. ISOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, He Saved the Child. Spartanburq, Feb. 27.?About 12 o'clock yesterday as oue of the Southern's freight trains bad just started South, Engineer T. M. Hunter, as the enginB turned a curve about two miles from towia saw a small negro child apparently asleep on the track. Mr. Hunter realized that it would beimpo&sible for him 1.0 stop his engine. In a moment he shut off tho s team and jumped to the ground It wast ben a race between the engine and the noble man as to which would first reach tho innocent negro child who lay asleep on the track. The locomotive lost none of Ub momentum and Mr. Hunter strained every nerve to keep up with it and pushed ahead of it. Just as ibe ponderous wheels were about to crush the victim, he jumped, forward, caught the child, and the two wore knocked to the aide of the truck. The child was unhurt, but Mr. Hunter re - ceived severe injuries on the left hip.? Columbia State. ? Two or three weeks ago, in the city of AugUBta, a revival service was in prog ress in one of the Protestant churches?0 Baptist Church, we believe?and at the same time a corresponding service wasi going on in one of the Roman Catholic churches. The Protestant minister and the Catholic priest prayed for each other and for the promotion of the good cause in which each was engaged in bis own way. The last number of tho Methodist Christian Advocate of Nashvills, contains a communication from the Rev. Walter R. Lamburtb, who has been raising mon ey for tho relief of the suffering Armenian ChriPtians. Mr. Lambutb incorporates in his letter a note be bad received from Father Gleeson, of the Roman Catholic Church in Nashville, in which he says : "I am heartily in accord with you In every effort to relieve the unfortunate Armenians. Shall I appeal to my people to remit the amount to you, or iaave you any other practical waj' to suggest?" Mr. Lambuth adds : "Our Ron an Cath olic brother has just sent his check for $56.50, with kind wishes that our efforts at relief may be crowned with .success." As Mr Lambutb says, this "is suggestive of that broader sympathy which in Chris tian lands i? steadily growing out of a community of interest born of God, which draws men together in common brotherhood." ? In a glaus jar at the City Hospital is kept theb eart of James Criss. Criss was shot about a month ago by a negro named Sparkman. In the heart of the murdered man is a bullet. This would not be at all interesting but for the fact that the bullet enternd the wall of the heart and came almost entirely through, remaining held in the fibrous muscles that t urround the heart. In this shape Criss lived forty eight hourB. Two bullets bad entered bis body. Besides the one in the heart one entered his stomach, going through the abdominal cavity into the intestines. Either wound would have caused death in a very few hours under ordinary cir cumstances, but it seems that Criss in tended to fight off death with bis will power or some other power for he clung to this mortal existence longer than any one ever did who carried a bullst in bia heart and one in his stomach. The organ with the exposed bullet is quite a medi cal treasure, and is very interesting to gaze and think upon.?News and Courier, ? Several carloads of horseii that started from Oregon for Kentucky last week were mopped at Sboshone, Idaho, by the own ers and the horses were taken from the cars and sold at 50 cents apiece. This was more profitable than to pay the heavy freight bill with what the horses would have brought in Kentucky. ? Mr. W. Scott had a pine log brought to his saw mill near Edgefield C. H. that measured 48 inches in diameter and 13 feet around. From this immense stock Mr. Scott cut 5,300 feet of heart weather boarding. The tree came from Mr. Joe Rollandrs land. A Household Treasure. D. W. Fnller, of Canejoharle, N. Y., says that he always keeps Dr. King's New Dis covery in the house and hiu family has al ways found the very best results follow its uhc; that he would not be without i., if procurable. G. A. Dykeman.. Druggist, Oatskill, N. Y., says that Dr. Kind's New Discovery is undoubtedly the beat- Cough remedy; tbat he has used it in his family for eight years, and it has never failed to do all that ia claimed for it. Why not try a remedy so long tried and tested Trial bottles free at Hill Bros', drug' store. Regular size 50c. and $1.00. Did You Ever. Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief aid cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a won derful direct influence iu giving strength and tone to the organs. If yon have Loss of Appetite, Constipation, Headache Faint ing Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepia?, Ex citable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medi cine you need. Health and Strength are guaranteed by iis use. Large botthss only fifty cents at Hill Bros', drug Btore. EDISTO PHI Very few of the Departments ! idea of the goods we are offering : Brand. Edisto Acid Phosphate. Edisto Kainit. Ediato Soluble Guano. Ediato Aramoniated Fertilizer. Ediato Dissolved Bone. Kdisto do do . Edisto do do . Edisto do do . Edisto do do . Ediato do do . Edisto Eainit. Edisto Dissolved Be ne. Edi?to Acid Phosphat*. Ediato Alliance Fertilizer. Kdisto Ammonlated Dissolved Bone. Ediato Ammoniatod Fertilizer. Edisto Dis. Bone with Ammo, and Potast Edisto Soluble Guaco. Edisto Guano. Edisto Kainit. Edisto Soluble Guano. Edisto Special Wheat Compound. Edisto Acid Phosphate. Edisto Ammoniatid Fertilizer. Ediato Soluble Gaano. Edisto Oissoived Boae. Edisto Dis. Bone with Ammonia and Pott Edisto Acid Phosphate. Edisto 8pecial Truck, No. 444 . Edisto Special Truck, No. 644. Edisto 8pecial Truck, No. 684.'. ft?- For sale by F. E. Watkins, turing Co , Autun, S. C. ; R. M. Rue ? "If you tell on me, I will kill you," is the motto of the Georgia moonshiner. One night last week, Joseph Crumpton and bis daughter Sallie, wore standing up before a window in Cru m pton's bouao. Suddenly a rifle ball craahed through the window. It struck Crumpton in the Bide, passed through h la body and lodged iu the heart of the young lady. The young lady died with scarcely a groan. The father lingered for aocne time and also died. It developed shortly afterward that Crnmpton had reported Andrew Wiiborn for runniiag a moonshine still and it is credited that Wiiborn committed the murder. Wilborr, has not been seen since. ? What the town of Decntur, Mich., lacks of being under "petticoat role" is not a great deal. A woman is the presi dent of the municipal council, a woman keepa the postofflce, there are women in the council, one of the leading physicians is a woman, there are several women merchants in the place, and besides there are women cobblers, carpenters, preach ers, etc Yet they say that the town is thriving, and that it is one of the beat governed in the State. ? "Filty thousand dogs," it is stated, "are employed in pulling carts around the streets and roads of Belgium. They are said to have greater pulling power than any other animal, being able to pull four times their weight." PoBsibly our ?train of doga came from Belgium orig inally?and tbataccounta for their "pull" with the South Carolina Legislature. - ? Most of the inhabitants of Haugeaund, Norwav, have never tasted intoxicants. It has ? population of 6,200, and for twen ty-nine years not a drop of spirituous liquor has been sold there. ? According to the vary best ecclesias tical authorities, Chriut was never known to laugh. ? What a darling world it would be if b very body were as polite as a candidate. NOTICE. THE undersigned forbids any person hiring or harboring Bob Jackson or Davis and Will. Davis, two mulatto boys, aged about 11 and 14 y tiara respec lively, as they are bound to mo and have left me without cause. They came from the neighborhood of Belton. A reward will be paid for their return to me or to the police of Anderson. R. T. CHAM BLEE. March4,1896 36 1? NO YANKEE! rriHANK GOD I was born near Edge L field, S C. I bave invented the beet and cheapest STOCK HETCHEB that iras ever invented. Agents wauted. Ad dress W. P. HOLLEY. Green vil le, Ala. Feb 26.18P6_85_3m New Store and l?ew Goods ! IN THE C. A. SEED 1CU8XC H0??BE, (1 eneral Merchandise, y Dry Good*, Mats and Shoos,, a ; prices that will astonish you Also, the very beat BIO COFFEE on earth. Just stop and tee our 5-pound Coffee?it's a world beater. COLIC & COFFEE. Oct28 1*95 17 HECKERS' SELF-RAISING BUCKWHEAT ! Mixed with cold water 01 milk and a little syrup only, (see directions on each package,) mikes a delightful cake for breakfast. For sale by all Grocers. No better time than the present for trying a package. WAKE SNAKES, DAY'S BREAKING ! Competition must wake up earlier and get a hustle on to get ahead of i;hat? JEWELRY PALACE OF WILL. HUBBARD'S, Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank. I havo the largest Stock of Goods and the LOWEST PRICES in Town, and right there is where the eecrtt lies. If yoi want to SAVE A DOLLAR, drop arocmd and get ray prices on? Gold and Silver Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Diamonds, Engagement Bings, Noveltie s, &c. A visit lo my Store will repay you. Engraving free. Promptness in everything. Am always up to date with all the latest attractions in my line. WILL. R. HUBBARD'S JEWELRY PALACE. SHOE AND LEATHER FIRM. NOTHING LIKE LEATHER, says an old saw, speaking of its en during quality. Certainly nothing can be firmer than our S H OIES. They are symbols of endurance, and proofs of what service good leather can be. For the good of your feet a od your health, you can't have too good a Shoe. Whatever you buy here ?3 of good stuff", and well made, and would be cheap at a higher price. We ir tells. Style talks. THE YATES SHOE CO,. Masonic Building, Anderson, S. C. 3SPH?TE COMPANY, ANALYSES 1895-90. have issued Analyses so far this season. The following Analyses will give an Phosphoric Acid. Name 0/Chemist or Class 0/Analysis. Available Total Potash Ammo. .Georgia Department of Auricu).1?95.12 iK2.14 48. 1.25..... do do .1895....12.06.?. .Clemson Ag. College, S C.1895.11.?6 . do do .lKto. 9.97 .N. C. Ag. Experiment Station.18^5.14 34 .Factory Tests, Season.18^5-1*96.14 05 . do do do do 1896.14 57 . do do do do . do do do do . do do do do .Dr. Ulox, Hambarg, Germany.... .Alabama Department Agriculture do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do., do . do. do . do., do... do do.., H-96.. 18H6.. 1896.. .18H6.. .IKMi.. .1S96. .1*96., .1896. .1?96. .1896. .1896. ..1*96 .1896. 15.15. 14.93. 14 57. .12 73.. .12 43. .15 52.. .16 21. .16 22. .16 40. .16 28.. .15 90., 1.53.. 14?. 2 fil 3.89 .12 87.. 14.85.. 13 24.. 9.47.. M 60.. 11 29. 12 98.. 8.31.. 10.38.. .15 04.. .13 52 , 13 59.. .112S., .13 30. .14.52. .13X7., 1.21.. 150., 2.72.. 10?. 127. 101.. 4.83 243 282 163 2-79 ..13.64. 1.81.1.72 .12 82.. .Tennessee Department Ag.1896 . 8 94.11.97 . 2 53. 2 28 do .1896.1099.14.96. 202..188 do . m.11 75.12.03. 2 58. .Factory Tost.1*96. ish. do do do do do do do .1896. .1*9? .1896. .1896. .1896. .1?96. .18?6. .10 50. .10 42. . 9.04. .12 26 .12.82. . 5.89. . 5.36. . 5 56. ...12.38. 1 38._ 2.72 ...12 38. 142.? 2 24 ...U.H7. 2.36. 221 14 03. 129. 1.72 ...14.<!6. 1 55. 7.12. 6 40. 6 68. 4 32. 4 70. S.64. 4 42 6.84 662 Anderson, S. C. sell, Pendleton, r*. C J. B? E. SLOAN, Treas. and Genl. Agent M. W. Coleman & Co., Seneca, 8. C. ; Pendleton Manufac TTm TEN TIMES OUT OF TEN The good farmer takes the Flows and Hoes sold by Sullivan Hardware Co. TEN TIMES OUT OF TEN ?Phe wise man selects Sullivan Hardware Co's. Guano Distributors and Cotton Planters. TEN TIMES OUT OP TEN The careful buyer goes to Sullivan Hardware Co for Harnes, Horse Collars, Pads and Back Bands. TEN TIMES OUT OF TEN The frugal man goes to Sullivan Hardware Co. for all his Agricultural and Mechanical Hardware. WHY ? He knows he can get from the Sullivan Hardware Co j just what he wants and save money. He knows the Sullivan Hardware Co. is Headquarters, and sells the best of everything. NHj ?If you are a stranger to us, or if we have q B) a never been tried by you, lose no time. Give us a call, and we will vote you a life-member of our immense circle of customers and friends. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. MANY A QUARREL IVIlGHT bave been avoided by neater care In tue purchase of? ? GROCERIES. ? It's unreasonable to blame your wife for a poor breakfast when you have filled to supply her ?nth good materials. She'll never have cause to complain, and neither vill you, (if she can cook,) if you purchase your Groceries from? JOHN A. AUSTIN & CO. and THE TEAPOT. YOU WILL BE BUN OVEK BY OUR BARGAINS if you don't run over them. We are rolling 0??WL?aV*g by day, and if our name is not in the pot it is your misfortune, we ai*?y? carry a full lino of? Djry Goods, Jeans, Shoes and General Groce?Iei. OUR SPECIALTIES are Dean'o Patent Flotsr and J. K. Ho. 2 Coflee. Don't fail ito see ns before buying Mol asses. Respectfully, RATLIFFE & CO. ?Of Standard H gh Grade Fertilisers and Acids at pricw that will suit you. MAN KIND Is Never Satisfied. IF this be true, then we are not of that kind, for we are satisfied, indeed, with our business of 1895. In fact, we are more than pleased with our good luck, and to show you how we appreciate the way you have patronized us, we propose to give you back a part of your money ; and as it is our custom when we desire to do a thing to do it at once, we shall proceed to divide our accumulation of wealth at once. To get your share of the dividend which we have declared, you should call at ence. Here is the plan?the same old one 17e have always observed under same circum stances : We must not make too much money in too short a time, and when we do it is time to cut^ down the prices. Observing this rule, we think it time to cut clown our prices. So, for the present, we propose to sell you? A 10-inch Waah Par; at 3c. 10J-inch Wash Pan at 4c. llj-inch Wash Pan at 5c. 13-inch Wash Pan at 6c. Dairy or Milk Pans, 5i-inch, four for 5c. 6-inch same three for 5c. 6$-inch same two for 5c. 7?-inch same 3c. 8} inch same 3Jc 9 i -inch same 4c. IH-inch same 5c. 12i-inch same 6c. i 13J-inch same 7c. 14$-inch same 8c. Dish or Milk Buckets? 2 ga). 10c, 2i gal. 12*o, 3 gal. 15c. Half Bushel Baskets 3c. Plain Cedar Pencils 3c. doz. Rubber Tip same 7?c doz. Red polished same 10c dos. Clothes Pins 50 for 5c. Clay Pipes 10 for 5c. Men's Top Shirts 12Jc each. Drill Drawers 12 )c. pair. Eight big bars Soap for 25c, and don't you forget it. Men's Sox 5c. pair?Women's Hose same figger. We have a few remnants of Wool Flannel to close at prices that will make your head swim. And apiece or two of Jeans at figgera below low water mark. Come and see 'em and be happy. Nowse the time to get these figgers, for the time may come when they will not be the sann*. Look out for cuts in other Goodn, for we are in a cutting notion, became our trade justifies it. Also, Pins at lc. per paper. Yours always truly, C. S. MINOR and THE 10c. ST0R?L Yes, the only ;t0c. Store, No. 27 South side Public Square* We run only one Store now, and that's a big one, an.' growin ?very day,