Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY CLI MoCA. I /ES^^ANGSTON " Avnvtt^iT'TT^ ^ ----^ _ _--?--A M DijjRSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. O??TOI?KI? ia iuor V - : l$y actual count, were $i?.OO, 8.50, 7.50, FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, $r AA A - -1- ? 5.UU uasn ! Carrying out a business policy to never let broken lots get cold on our hands, we have placed these Over coats, sixty-nine by actual count, on our counters by themselves, and mark ed them at a price that will make them move. Tou will have to come early. They are bargains. Remember, only, sixty-nine-55.00 cash. WE ARE THE FEEDERS, HAVING botght the Stock and pood will of fe. H. Poore ?fe Co. we kindly ask y^nr attention to tbe fact tbat we are "The Feeders of the People." . Our mar ket ia supplied with thu very best Meats than money ct?n buy-BEEF. PORK, MUT TON, FISH. OYSTERS, CHICKENS, SLICED HAM, BREAKFAST BACON, I?} the piece or sliced. 'J. Mr. .L C. Nally has charge-ot our Fresh Meat Department, and will look after the vants of our customers withvtlie greatest care. Our Vegetable,' Fruit and Grocery Department is presided over by quiet and hon est Manie Fant. In addition tn tue above we have opened a Citw Dining Room and Restaurant, where regular Meal* will be served from 12 to 2. Before and after theso hou'? the RestaurahtTesture will prevail, where the nicest Fish, Oysters, Birds, Steaks, Hams, ive, can be bad at all hour?. Mr. Lyeth has ?pent the greater part of his life in the Hotel and Restaurant bus iness, and knows how to cater tn the appetite of his fellows. This Store will bs run a- n High Class Store, where everything will be conducted on stictly legitimate and business principles. Very-respectful ly, BUTLER & LYETH, MANAGERS. W. L. LYETH. M?nage'Restaurant. i M. L.fANT. Manser Grocery Department. J. C NaLLY, Manager of Market. V M. BUTLER Back Number._* G. F. TOLLY & SON. The way we are Cutting Prices on Furniture will be $ revelation in Furniture Selling. The rush of Christmas trade.is almost upon us, and the room aow taken up by large quantities of Furniture is abso lutely?necess?ry to the display of our HOLIDAY GOODS. To make a prompt and effective clearance^ this surplus 8to^: we have made a remorseless use of the knife in CUTTING PRICES. Will you be one of the lucky ones to share, in the Big Bar gain" Feaat we wiU spread before you the next few days! The largest Stock of Furniture in South Carolina, and at prices atJBetail below what the little fellows pay wholesale. So earns i#sg au? get your irurnUur? and have money left for Christmas; All prices below everybody else's price. G. F TOLLY <& SON, The Leaders and Money Savers for You: STATE SEWS. - It is st'ittd ?bat Senator Mclau rin, who bas been ill in Washington of typhoid fever, is on tho road to recovery. - Dr. W. M. Grier, president of ! Erskine college, has been given a rest for a while on account of Iiis health. J His physicians say he need? complete cest for awhile. - Spartanburg does not allow the railroads to blow their whistles within the corporate limits of the city. Two engincors have been fined $20 each for violation ot thc act. - Greenwood city bonds to the amount of $40,000 have been taken by Jones & Company, of New York. The money will bc used to erect water works and an electric light plant. - J. C. Younger, of Abbeville, raised 05 good hogs th?8 year. He raised two extra fine hogs ao home which weighed 1.200 pounds ? net. They were only eleven months old. - The cotton exchange in Spartan burg has retired from business. Thc city council placed on all the bucket shops a lioensc of $500. and thc ex change retired from the field in conse quence. - One man was killed and two others fatally injured by a boiler ex plosion at Townsend's woodyard in Charleston. Buildings in the vicinity were badly shaken and valuable prop erty destroyed. - Drayton Jone?, the 13-ycar-old son of Policeman Jones of Sumter, had one of his hands blown to pieces by the explosion of a cannon cracker which he was holding in his hand, The little fellow will have to carry his arm in a sling for several weeks. - Thc city council of Charleston has agreed to appropriate annually the sum of $1,500 for the maintenance of five scholarships in thc South Carolina Military academy, on con dition that the State Legislature con tinues its appropriation of $20,000 a year. - At Orangeburg a negro boy met death in a rather peculiar way. Ile improvised a Christmas cannon out of a bic^ de pump, and having filled it with powder, ho held it in his hand and touched it off. The explosion of thc powder drove the pump through tho boy's body and produced instant death. - Mr. B. L. Abney, who has for several years been assistant division counsel for the Southern Railway, has been promoted to division counsel to succeed the late Judge Co turan. He i s still a young man, but already recognized as an able attorney. His jurisdiction extends over the State of South Carolina. - Mr. L. P. Funderburk, who lives eevera] miles southwest of town, uss s calf Jersey cow from which he has sold during the past twelve months 310 pounds of - butter, aver aging 13} cents per pound, making a total of $42.62 he has realized from the sale of butter during the year. In addition Mr. F. has supplied his own table with butter."-Ldnemtrfi, Ledger. - No arrests have been made yet for the $10,000 robbery of the express office at Columbia. Assistant Gen eral Superintendent Levry says the robbery was committed by one of seven employees in the office but he does not want any reflections cast on the six innocent ones, but he expects to have his hands on the thief before he leaves Columbia. - Isham Kirby, an operative at Clifton No. 3 cotton mill, near Spar tanburg, was run over by an engine and killed Christmas day. He was leading his cow out to graze and attempted to pass over thc track just as, a passenger train came by. The engine struck him and his remains were horribly mangled. He leaves a widow and several children. -: Joe Jenkins, a'Negro who was arrested in Columbia on Tuesday on the charge of being drunk and dis orderly, turned out to be a regularly commissioned dispensary constable, whom.. Gove/nor Elierbe explained, had been employed to do detective work in the country. .Jenkins has since been disminsed from the service. - Henry Speed and Sam Wilbanks, two young white men of Ooonec County, got into a difficulty at a Christmas, tree on Christmas Eve night and Speed was killed by Wil banks. Speed received au ugly gash in tho throat ?ud was then shot in thu left side, /rom which he died im mediately. The Coroner's inquest failed to throw much light on the un fortunate affair. Wilbanks surrender ed to the sheriff. - Dr. Hext M. Perry has in his possession a very valuable and inter esting antique which he has lately added to his collection. . It is a Stradivari violin, said to have been made in the year1700. Dr. Perry secured the violin in Charleston some timo ago and he has bcou able to trace its history back for nearly a hundred years. Among Dr. Perry's relics, he prizes very highly a watch once owned by his grandfather and which had been in thc family for ninety eight years when it was bequeathed to the present owner over thirty years ago. - Oreruvilfe JFoitnttuiirrr. - A very serious accident occurred on tho Pickens and Easley rail road last week at the rock out near the Ariail place. Two men were blasting and had put a keg of powder in a hole to tear up the rock, hut when fire was applied to make the I explosion it did not go off : and tho . men vfcre taking the powder from the hole, when from some cause it ex- ' ploded, blowing a white mun about' ten feet,, but he was not hurt very' much, buj. a negro who was working j with him-was badly torn up about tho ( breast. Tho ne^,ro is still alive at this writing, but his recovery is very i uncertain.-/Yr/.v?* Journal." What Clemson ('?st thc state Last Your. Co JA: >im A, December 28.-Thc an nual reports of thc officers of Clemson College have been received. The re ports are very lon^r. and ?tisunfortun ate that all of tho valuable material submitted cannot be given publicity. Thc report of Col. Simpson, chairman of thc board of trustees, together with the summarized statement of the re ceipts and expenditures, ure given, as being of most importance, and later on moro of tue information may bc used. President Hartzog makes a detailed report of the work being doue. The College, he says, had enrolled at the beginning of the year '>''7 students; there are now HO:* students enrolled, and during the year 18H7 there have been 387 students enrolled, of which number 12 have been from other \ States. President Hartzog says that it was thought thc sickness at thc College might have affected the at tendance, but the number of students is even larger than usual. Chairman Simpson, in his report to the General Assembly, says: "The report of President Hartzog, j which is hereto attached, is so full and explanatory of all matters of gen eral interest we do not deem it neces sary to make any extended report. Wo ask a careful consideration of the reports of the president and of thc heads of the departments, thc secre tary and treasurer, and of d. P. Smith, secretary of thc fertilizer department. "At the annual meeting of thc hoard of trustees in 18!U? a plan for the re organization of the College was adopt ed. This plan divides the College in to five departments, with necessary subdivisions. It was not practicable at thc time to change tue system of bookkeeping, so as to show the cost of the departments and divisions sep arately, only the cost of the different departments. Hereafter a system of books will be kept so as to show an itemized statement of thc expenses of each division, und the total cost of each department, us well ns an item ized statement of every other amount of money expended during thc year. The itemized statement accompanying thc treasurer's report, necessarily for this^ycar, is not so divided. "Thc treasurers repov-, shows the total amount expended by each de partment. Much of this was for plant und permanent improvements. "Thc health of the College is good. The outbreak of sickucss last June was much regretted, but everything has been done to obviate, if possible, any recurrence of the trouble. Thc College and all of its departments are now, with a few minor exceptions, practically equipped, at leapt for the present, but additions will have to be made from time to tja?, as tuc knowl edge of the sciences and their applica tion to practical purposes increase. "Thc cost of maintaining an agri cultural and mechanical college must not be compared with the cost of a literary college. The expenso of such en institution is large and the c-uly way to determine whether the amount expended at Clemson is too large or too small is to compare it with the cost - of other similar institutions. Such u comparison will show that the appropriation to Clemson is below that ! of almost uny institution of like char j acter. "The amounts heretofore appropri ated, wc confidently believe, have (been wisely and profitably expended. This belief on our part has been en dorsed by everyoue who has taken the trouble to vi&it the College and in i spect its workings, and we rcspectful I ly request your hoaorablo bodies in person to visit the College and judge ?for yourselves of its necessities, it was claimed by some that there was a mistake itt the amount appropriated ? the College in 18i?4 of. $10,000. This amount has been refunded to the State Treasurer during the year. "By resolution the board of trus {tees was required to pay from the ! College appropriation tho annual in stallment due on tho Lee lands. One installment was paid last January and the next will bc paid next January, which will bc thc last payment. "The fertilizer department is eco nomically and satisfactorily managed by J. P. Smith, the efficient secretary of this department. Farmers' insti tutes were held in as many places as practicable Wo are pleased to report that they are growing in popularity. The change in thc vacatiou from win ter to summer will enable thc College force to do more work in this direc tion in thc future, at a time that will best suit the people generally, and that will net interfere with the Col I loge work.". Thc summarized financial statement will bc of special interest. It shows how much money Clemson College re ceives, and how it is spent. The first of thc statements is of Clemson Col lege proper, nod is ns follows: Receipts for the year 18!)7, ending De cember 31, 1897: Balance on band.S 474.40 Interest on Clemson bequest..... 3,512.30 Land script fund....4. r>,754 on Cash from Insurance on barn... 3,O00.oo Tuition fees. ?lO.tM? Rents. 282.f?0 Electric plant. 140.38 Chemical laboratory. 14.37 Teams and teamsters. 70.07 Dalry. 1,204.10 Mechanical department. 231.55 Farm producta. :??M>.7? Veterinary division... x.38 Police magistrate. 20.00 Convict division. 70.<15 Experimental mutton. 30.15 Miscellaneous. IO.in clerical errors. :t.0o Fri vi ?e-ge tax.? 00,000. t'a i Less expense fer tilizer depart ment and col Ifiction.$ (?,f)-i<5.71 Refund. State Treas, error.. 10,000.00 Leeland... 1,005.00 -$18,551.71 To balance. .? :i,774..'.o Expenso account Salarie?*.<; S,l(i.S.3S Mechanical department. s.702.40 EUeotrlo plant. .">(>.."?o Dalry. 1,102.75 Agricultural department . o,83,V7? Veterinary d?partaient. :U?1.K3 Hourn ical. . 004MK? Convicts. J 0S0.4 1 lillico. I,015.<KI Travol. 1,40:1.81 llepaireand construction. 7,141.SI Purolture. 701 .v> ? Heat and water. 2,<?01.:ia Military department. ?77.2I j Library. ?SI.41 Mathematical department. 'Jo:I tc Dike. :t*24.<>? Urological division. :t74.00 Cadet labor. :t,202.84 Farmers' instituto?. 073.00 Physical dividion. 740.111 Insurance. 1,070.70 <'am pus. 121.17 Cadet exchange. 200 00 MtacellaneoUH labor. 871. ti I FnelaeslOcd accounts. 50500 $ 58,007.02 ItaUncp.3,774.60 CteniHon (.'ollego'a authorities also bave tbe management and bundling nf ibo Morrill fund, which \? given by the Fed eral government fur experimental work and agricultural instruction. This fund for tbo past year bas boon expended aa follows: MOU ttl 1.1. PUNI) NTATKMKNT. Baumen on band, ISllO.^ 33.75 Annual cash instalment. 11,000.00 Availablo of vear endiug .hine . 30.811.033.7$ Disbursements Agriculture-salaries.$ 010.12 Mechante arts--salaries. ?tw?.r.? Mechante arts-apparatus. (J Rd Mechanic art? material. 100.58 Hnglish language-salaries. 1,301.02 Math .salaries. 1,000.03 Physical science-salaries. 2,600 70 Physical aclenco-apparatus. :'.('.'.? 3d Physical Bcienee- books. v S.7.'> Physical science-materials. 145.40 Fconouuio ?elenco-salaries. 050 ou Balance.$ 88.85 810,011.? 10 As suggested, it would bc a capital idea for the members of the ? encrai Assembly to visit Clemson College, and some of the holidays tho Legisla ture will take might well be devoted to this trip.-News and Courier. The Coining Legislature. COLUMBIA, Jan. 2.-Next week this time the hotels and boarding houses of Columbia wjl! be thronged wiih members of thc General Assembly and those connected with that institution. In about a week's time thc Hags will bc hauled up over thc Sonate and House chambers, signalling that thc law-milkers of Carolina have assem bled to make the laws for their State. There will be but few new faces in either branch. The Senate will have a good many more new members than the House. This curious condition has been brought about hy the crea tion of new Counties &wd not by 'deaths or resignations. In the Senate there will be Col. Robert Aldrich, from old Barnwell; Senator Mcllha ney, for Dorchester; Senator Jeffries, for Cherokee, and Senator Waller, for Greenwood. Mr. Hydriek. who takes tho place of Mr. Miles, cf Spartan - burg, and Mr. Johnson, of York, arc about the only new members on thc House side. The dispensary, finances, and the general County government laws will be the chief issues. About all thc vital legislation can bc embraced un der these beads. Some one will, no doubt, introduce a bill against foot ball and maybe some Legislator will have an anti-train-whistle bill. All of these sort of measures are to bc ex pected and the funniest part of it ii that these ludieron* bills often pass the House, only to bc slaughtered on the Senate side. If there is any one who eun foretell at this time what will happen iu dis pensary legislation he is a prophet. Tho administration, the B. R. Till mau, the board of control, thc sub dispensary and kindred influences will bc to let the dispensary law stand just as. it is. Tho dispensary law is by these influences regarded as "the best solution of thc liquor problem." and if the status quo cannot bc re tained, then and thou only il is pro posed to trim the law so as to bring it within the scope of a police regula tion. The General Assembly will have to give serious consideration to thc fi nancial condition of the State. The tax levy does not promise to be any lower than at present, and if running f business ou a cash basis is to bc prac ticed the levy will have to be larger, countiug thc sources of revenue the same as at present. The State has not borrowed any money this year, but, as usual, has used portions of the lax money just collected, which i;?. to he appropriated by the coining Gen erad Assembly, lu addition to this way of tiding over, tbe State has over drawn its accounts at several of its depositories. No interest was paid on these overdrafts. The General Assembly will find i* exceedingly difficult to cut down any of the expenses for thc successful con duct of >tho State government-a short session will be the largest saving. There will bc an effort made to abol ish the office of phosphate inspector, and do away with thc expenses inci dent to that office. Some alleged friend of tho cotton mill laborer will very likely introduce a bill for tho supposed benefit of thc laboring classes. It has been a noticeable fact that these measures have generally come from members who know but lit tle about thc actual conditions. At the last session'of the present Assem bly thousands and thousands of oper ators petitioned that matters be left alono so far as they were concerned, that they wanted no legislation, and that whut was supposed to bc in.their interest by tampering with labor laws would operate to their detriment. The fact of the matter is the mill la bor in South Carolina is very well sat isfied, and.is saving money-which is very much move than a good many others aro doinv. No new candidates have developed ' iu any of thc .Judgeship elections, The only contests promised atc in the circuits in which .Judge Itcnci and Judge Witherspoon preside. .Judge Witherspoon will not bc a candidate ? for rc election.- A< tr.s fin-/ (,\ntn'rr. mt . m< A ?hr Knilroatl Deal. Thc Atlantic Coast Line has bought tlie Charleston and Western Carolina system and will, it is understood, take control of thc properly at once. A rumor to that effect came out of New York yesterday morning, and the AV//-.\ miif Cmirit r set to work at once to verify it. A dispatch sent to the headquarters of thc Atlantic Coast Linc system in Wilmington brought forth thc response. "Your informa tion is correct. " The deal will bc nows to many peo ple in Charleston, umoug them being a number ?if railroad men. livery body knew that .Messrs. Thomas and Hyan did not mean to hold on to theil Charleston and Western Carolin:) lines, hut just what, they ?lid propos? to do with them has been a mooted question fur many a month. The av ?'rave railroad ?nan. when apt culed t on thc subject, wa- accustomed ti predict that, sooner or lui? y tin; prop orly would fall int-.' tin- hands ol' th? Southern system, even provided i were not true that Messrs. Thouin and Hyaii were silent representative ol' that corporation all alon J. NO om who was at all well informed (tn traf fie affairs believed Mr. (Cyan's often repeated assertion that the propert; hail been bought for operation and a un investment, in the vcrv nature o the case the Charleston ami Wester Carolina system hud to consolid?t with sonic other company-a.s au in dividual systetn'it'Occupicd un utioin: lons position. Its business was stricl ly local, and the only hope of rendel ing it profitable lay in having one ci another td* thc big systems touching i take it up ns fi feeder. Now that thc deal is an accou plished fact, it seems perfectly rial ural that the Atlantic Coast Lin should be the company to absorb th Thomas and Hyaii lines. The Cony Linc has been in the absorbing bus; ness for some yeurs. The policy < its management hus been one of u< quisition wherever opportunity o fered. Thc system has tong wanted direct inlet io Geprgiu, and thc trail originating in the southwest, whi this purchase also puts it into tl heart of a territory in which it hi never before competed for busiaei actively-the western part of th State. This deal will unquestionably ac greatly to the Atlantic Coast Line prestige as a factor in thc traffic a fairs of this section of the countr While there is now no direct conne tion between its old and new linc one may bc easily made at more th: ouc point. The c'osc relations esia . ng between thc Plant system and tl Atlantic Coast Linc might rcadi convert thc Charleston and Savanni into a connecting link by u trackaj arrangement, similar to that whit was commonly supposed to be in pr cess of perfection between the Pla system and the Charleston und Wes ern Carolina Company. The Caa Lino has a brunch which touches Dc mark, a point little removed from tl route of the (dd Port lloyal and A gusta road. Thc same company h for several years hud more or less i I tcre.^t itcthe Columbia, Newberry ai I Laurens. In these and other wa closer relutions may be brought abo between the parts of tin; Coast Li us it wus und the Coast Line as it i Lust night the Ni:tr* (tm/ Conn hud its Spurtanburg corresponde call upon Mr. .John ll. Cleveluu president of the Charleston and Wei ern Carolina system. Mr. Clcvcla had retired for the night and com quently could not bc seen, but his s said his father hud heard the rum of the suie nf thc road, and had te graphed to New York for informati on the subject. The dispatch fr< Wilmington referred to above, ho ever, leaves no doubt that the owm ship of thc property has been changi The people of this city will, course, hope to sec thc Coast Li convert its new branches into din feeders to Charleston. Thc Charl ton and Western Carolina could, rightly handled, be made ver}' val? ble to this port and city, and in ort to operate it iu another way the u management would have to go out its way to slight Charleston's co mercial interests. The Charleston and Western Ca lina Company has a total mileage 3?MJ.Lr? miles, 112 of which cxtc from Port Royal, S. C.. to Angus Ga.; liJ3 from Augusta to Spart) burg, S. C. : 57.75 from McCormick Anderson. S. C.. and vii?.??0 from Li rens to Greenville. S. C. The rt was practically owned by Sum Thomas and Thomas V. flynn, of N York. J. P. Clevelnnd, of Spurt! burg, S. C.. wus thc president, was capitalized for $1,200,000.-.V? tittil fourier. mt . mt - - J. J. Kelly, of New York, appee at a police court a few days since atti in trousers cut out of window curt? and newed up with nail.". Kelly wen sleep in a ilive and when he awoki had no clothing, but the curtain? ; some nails, couided with bia ing?nu HOOP produced an attire that en nhl cd i nt least to tell his tale of woo to guardians of the public! pence. - "There i* an old woman," say L-oulon paper, "who ba^ a milk stan* St. J Ames's Park, who hus stood at it nixty-thro? yean*. HeV motin- ken before her, and bi?r grandmother be th it. the latter having brou io posies? for severity-two yearn. TllC .1 ackson Colton Airain. Thc famous Jackson limbless *-i. t too, discovered in Africa ami ex ploited in Atlanta, is a truly remarka ble plant, in that so widely differing accounts are given of it. After it bad been credited with thc quality of pre I ducing four bales to the acre as a reg ular crop, with a large margin for spurts, and proclaimed as a perfect bonanza for the Southern fannel::, we reprinted a lew weeks ago the judg ment of two or three experts that it did not amount to anything, and was nothing new besides a farmer in Ar kansas offering to sell the seed of identically the same variety at tho prieo of a few cents a pound to all ap plicants. In these eircumst noes we appealed to the Atlanta papers t. . investigate the plant in cold blood, and publish the plain truth about it. so that thc .otton farmers throughout the South could know exactly what to expect ol' it. and to regulate their plans for tin ' future accordingly. The first response we have seen to this appeal is made hy the Atlanta .?nun,(tl. and is of the character ?'1' the first exciting accounts given of the newcomer. "It will be a source of gratification.'. says thc Jon. ? uni. "that the cotton is to bc planti I j near Atlanta again, as it was saut at one time that the entire crop ol' soi 1 would he sold to the Chilian govern ment, in which ease it would have anne out ol' reach of the Southern planters," and they would have been unable to obtain a supply ol' the sec!, "which is destined to revolutionize cotton growing in the South."' Dr. Moyer, an eminent anil wealthy citizen ol' New .Jersey, it. is explained, has furnished the money for the pur chase ol' the entire output of tin? seed (d' this wonderful cotton, ami his agents. Mr. \V; T. Korbes and Mr. T. NV. Beardsley, arc engaged in Atlanta making arrangements for cultivating another crop of ii, next year. Of tho cottjn itself the Journal re affirms, withf ul qualification, that it is "truly one cf the most wonderful dis coveries of the century," as it has been "conclusively proved that it out scrips all otliei varieties ever planted in thc Sr ti th." both in respect of "yield" 'nd of the quality of tho staple. Ol a piece of "very ordinary land" it grew from nine to eleven feet thc past season, "and kept green and growing until frost." It "stood a protracted drought during tue hottest part of thc season,'' and its rich foli age was "fresh and green" when fields of thc common cotton were "brown and bare of leafage." lt bears fruit "from tho ground un," and there is "no limit .o its fruitage except frost." The bolls, as heretofore noted, are formed on the leafstalk, in clusters of three to five, close to the main stalk, "so that it has no liudbs," and it may * be planted, on rich ground, as close as six inches apart in the row, without causing shedding. Its tropical nature makes it "one of thc hardiest of field crops so far as heat and drought are concerned." "A hundred bolls and upwards may be counted on thc stalks still standing in the fields," and it will produce between three and four bales to tho acre. "Its fibre rivals in fineness and strength the celebrated sea island varieties, measuring by the most careful measurements from one and a fourth to one. and a half inches in length." The lint is "as tine and as flossy as merino wool, which it re sembles in texture," and'a tyro in cot tun knowledge "could tell a sample of it from a sample of common cotton itt thc dark." Thc purchasers of thc seed, it is added, have organized them selves into a company, with their prin cipal offices in Atlanta, and "some very wealthy men arc connected with it.!' Besides the planting in Georgia, some of thc seed will be planted in Alabama and west of the Mississippi, and it is the purpose of the company to give it the most thorough trial in thc principal cotton growing sections of the South, "so as to completely prove its claims to supremacy over other varieties grown." All this is interesting, of course, and particularly so, as coming from so responsible a paper as thc Journal) which is familiar with cotton and cot ten growing in general, and is in a po sition to have seen the new crop in all stages of its growth, and to have han dled its product? The Journal, moreover, knows all that has been said by the "experts" in depreciation of the new plant, and its present statements are made in view of their assertions and i i answer to them. One particular fact men tioned by that paper appears to us to have peculiar significance, and it is one about which there cannot well be any dispute; ur doubt, and which is of itself conclusive as to the tine "qual ity" and consequent value of the new cotton, lt is that "thc first bale sold for ten cents a pound in thc open mar ket a few weeks ago." This is nearly double the price of other "upland" cotton at the same time, and if the limbless cotton will do no more than produce as much fibre per acre as the familiar varieties, but of double value, it certainly has large merits, and we shall hear a great deal more of it here after.-Xrirs ami*Courier. -r Tue city of Atlanta, Ga , has adopted tho plan of receiving its payment for taxes in instalments. Under this the taxpayer may deposit with tho city treas urer one-fourth of his tax assessment lu April, one-fourth in July and the remain der in October. The system is said to work well, tho edy never having receiv ed itM taxes so promptly tts under this arrangement, lt is found to hu an ad vantage to tho,taxpayers, who.generally prefer this method, and il is a caving to the city by enabling it to meet its own payments without resorting tn tho bor rowing of money in anticipation oi tax??'-, ami tue consequent payment <>i inter* on tho same.