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Price
Concessions.
WE have been letting down the price bars
to even up the Stock. Suits have been sold out
at certain prices, and-instead of going out to
buy we have dropped a higher grade down to a
lower price. This is a most favorable condition
of things for buyers.
Men's Blue
Serge Suits,
With single or double-breasted Coats, that were
unmatched values at $15.00, now $12.50 a
Suit. Also, two lots of
Neat Gray
Worsted Suits,
That were among our best sellers at $15.00 and
$16.50, now $12.50 a Suit.
B. 0. Evans & Co
9
THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS.
WHITE FRONT
DON'T FORGET X
EVERYBODY bas been EOMDK Frnit Jars thia Beaaon, but up to this time we
have been selling Cherry Jars; now we are ready to furnish you with
THE BEST FRUIT JARS
That has been on the market this season, and we give you nothing bnt good, sound
Jars-no broken ones.
Our line of TA BILE CUTLERY is un-to-dnte In every respect. Also, the
best Hatcher Knives for kitchen nae ; and when it comes to Pocket Knives and
Scissors we have them of the best make, sold nnder a guarantee.
Don't forget to call on ns when you are In Town, as we can save yon money on
some line of Goode. Jost received one car load of Lynchburg Chilled Torn Plows,
the best Plow on the market. Remember that we can give you Jobbers prices on
Dixie Points and Castings. Yon can get thom at our Store or have them shipped
direct from factory. We sell GROTEBIES as oheap as anybody.
CARMYLE BROS., Anderson, 8: C.
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THE WHEELS W?LL WOT UFT^PRO^iTHgiOROUNB*
FOR HI8 GRASS CROP! the farmer needs a MOWER that is con
venient to handle, durable and with gieat capacity, so that with the least
labur for himself, and the least care and risk, and with the least strain upou
horse? and harness, he can cut the most grass, whether in heavy cutting or
hght, over rough ground or imooth. in a dry season or* ft wet one, in good
conditions or bad conditions.
R.i? THF rufiassirisg
S|s? S a ais? VB milli 1*011?
And you have a machi ne that meeta all of there requirements. It is the best
tooet satiafactory Mower on the market.
We also have a line of CHATTANOOGA C tNE MILLS.
McOUIJLY BROS.
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FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL.
From Our Oien Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21,1900.
At last the president has recognized
the folly of remaining at Canton while
the country over whose destinies ho
will preside until tho fourth of March
next is on tho brink of what is likely to
be one of the most gigantic conflicts in
the history of modern times, and has
hurried back to the White House. Thc
action of the government will there
fore no longer be crippled by the diffi
culty of communicating with him over
a thousand miles of space. The pro
blem before the Administration now is
acknowledged by the highest officers
of the nation to be far greater than
was believed possible when the inter
ests of this ?ud other nations wad first
threatened, and it is now the firm con
viction of all, that the country has be
fore it a question that may involve not
only an extra session of Congress, but
a vast increase in the present military
strength.
It is recognized that the President
has already committed the govern
ment to a policy which may result in
an immense military command being
sent to China, and that with a war in
the Philippines on hand and a desper
ate state of affairs in China which may
call for thousands of troops, questions
of vast moment confront the Adminis
tration that may in a large measure di
vorce the approaching campaign of
much interest. Anxiery pervades the
official atmosphere of Washington, and
so great is the concern felt that two
cabinet officers this evening expressed
their opinion that there was no escape
from an extra session and an immedi
ate authorization of many more regi
ments of volunteers. This belief,
however, is not shared by other cabinet
members, and it is certain that thc
President will not decisivly act at
present. It is at times like this that
the nation suffers from having a weak
man at its head-ono who blows hot
and cold alternately. The sending of
a single regiment to China was done, it
is believed, at Secretary Hay's ?L_<: :
tence, and chen the President began to
wobble and accept the declarations of
underlings that no more troops could
be spared-this in the face of the fact
that the Philippine war has been de
clared to be at an end and that Gen.
McArthur baa 05.000 soldiers there,
while Spain never, at any time, had
more than 20,000. Now, some 15,000 or
20,000 more men will be sent to China
and the President will wait again un
til, perhaps, our men have been sacri
ficed again before calling Congress in
session to provide the necessary
troops.
The lamentable lack of system in the
War Department under tho present
organization has again become ap
parent. It now seems that the battery
ordered to China has been refused per
mission to take any of tho 22 moun
tain guns which have been stored at
Manila for nearly a year without ever
being used, .and has started without
guns. Further, if the battery does get
permission to take these, great diffi
culty will be experienced in providing
the powder. Two months ago the army
ordnance o H ice began negotiations
with a number cf firma for the rmr
chose of powder and projectiles, bnt
nothing has been agreed to, the office
being still engaged in haggling over
the price. Each army bureau is ruled
by a little tin. god, and there seems to
he no general responsible head any
where. Possibly, General Miles may
he Bent to China, now that winning a
great military reputation can no longer
make him a formidable candidate for
the presidency. He is anxious to go,
and the advantages of sending a high
ranking officer in the event of joint in
ternational operations are quite ma
terial.
The National platform, taken in con
junction with other signs of the times,
is taken by democrats here to prove
that the Administration is afraid to
stand on its record. The republicans
are shirking the imperialistic issue all
along the line and aro trying to make
their fight cn tho silver plank of the
democratic platform and the prosperi ty
of the farmers of some of the States of
the middle west-a prosperity in which
they are unwilling to even admit the
cooperation of tho Almighty. The
democrats, however, will certainly
hold their opponents to the rack. At
the notification meeting at Indian
apolis on August 8, the imperialistic
key-note will ne loudly sounded. One
of tho principal objects in having the
notification take place there is that it
is likely to have much influence on the
party prospects in Indiana and Illinois.
Indiana has no sympathy with impe
rialism or even expansion. Its manu
factures are consumed almost entirely
within the United States and it bas lit
tle interest in any increased trade with
the Orient. The people are conserva
tive, as shown in u>ore elections than
one, and they deeply resent the atti
tude of thc Administration and Con
gress toward Porto Rico. After thc
lines of battle are well formed in Indi
ana, it is said to be tho intention of the
domocratic managers to invade Illi
nois. At tho Democratic Congress
ional headquarters in this city, where
tho observation of tho German vote
extends to the middle west, espec
ially to Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illi
nois and Wisconsin, it is claimed that
there are undoubted evidences of dis
satisfaction with President McKinley's
imperialistic administration, and every
effort is being made to confirm the
Germans of the middle west in these
views. Dr. Habercom's defection from
the republican parry was widelv
heralded throughout the western
States, where his political work for the
repnbbcnn? in past campaigns waa
prettv well known. An ri ia AT?ect6d to
result in great good to the party."
Secretary Gage is ont in an inter
view in which he takes sharp issue with
the alarmists who believe and assert
that Mr. Biyan, if elected President,
could or would nullify the gold law in
any way except by ita repeal by Con
gress. Justice to the dem?crata com
Eu the secretary to otate that he he
ves that, the law would be ri/ridly
observed aa long aa it remained on the
statute booka. He believes that Mr.
Bryan would at once send a message to
I Congress recommending its repeal, bat
until this was carried into effect, he
does not believe that the law could or
would be nullified. It has been charged
thnt a silver Secretary of the Treasury
could cause a'panic by paying the
benda in silver, (except the now two
?? cents, whicn are payable in gold),
his, however, the secretory thinks
would be puerile,, as long as tho law
expressly main tain a thc party of the
two metals.
STATE NEWS
- Senator Tillman has rejoined the
Stato campaigners.
- The Piedmont-Greenville baseball
team has disbanded for lack of support.
- A farmer near Columbia raised an
Irish potato weighing ono pound and
live ouuces.
- Au alligator, twelve f ?tinlength,
was killed in an old pond near Aiken a
few days ago.
- Dr. J. M. Josey, of Darlington
county, died a few days ugo from tho ]
effects of a bone toll?n.
- Brooker Washington has been
selected to preside over the negro
department of the Charleston exposi
tion.
- Orangeburg County will produce
some of the finest tobacco this year
that will go on thc market in this
State.
- Walhalla ? Semi-Centennial Cele
bration has been postponed from
August 10th and 17th to August 23rd
and 24th.
- One of the submarine torpedo
boats recently contracted for by the
navy department will be assigned to
permanent duty in Charleston harbor.
- John A. Robinson, of Dacusville,
Pickens county, was out trying to kill
a partridge last week and bis gun ac
cidentally went off, shooting the end of
his foot off.
- Mr. Harrison Butler, of Aiken
cou*1' v, has on his farm, near Hamburg,
an ^land field of 20 acres that has on
it a crop of corn estimated at not less
than 100 bushels per acre.
- A negro named Clarence Alexan
der attempted to board a fast through
frieght at Cowpens but be failed to do
so, fell and the car wheels passed over
his left leg almost cutting it off just
above the ankle.
- The board of trustees of the South
Carolina college have elected Mr. A.
C. Moore to succeed Dr. Glenn, who
resigned, to accept a position with
Vanderbilt university. Mr, Moore is
from Spartanburg.
- In Darlington County the Caro
lina Fibre Company has enlarged its
plant and is now making twenty to
thirty thousand pounds of paper per
day. This is the only paper mill in
existence that makes paper exclusively
of pine wood.
- The bank of Due West has applied
for a charter. The capital stock is to
be $20,000. The corporators are: C.
E. Todd, R. S. Galloway, R. C. Brown
lee, M. B. Clinkscales, A. Seiden Ken
nedy, of Due West, and B. F. Mauldiu,
of Anderson.
- The Wheat Growers Convention
of the State will be held in Greenwood
on August 15, and the local committee
are at work preparing for it. A large
attendance is expected and the con
vention promises to be even more suc
cesHoul than thc one last year.
-Orangeburg will likely have a re
markable person as one of its Represen
tatives in the next legislature in Dr.
Wolfe, who will probably head the
ticket in that county. Dr. Wolfe is
not over 48 inches in height, weighs 75
pounds and wears a number Si hat.
- The Greenwood Index has started
the movement to have the Federal
government purchase the grounds
around the old Star fort near Ninety
Six and preserve it ns a national park.
It is one of the most interesting points
connected with the Revolutionary war.
- Last Friday at noon, near Colum
bia, a colored woman, with her son
and daughter, went under a pine tree
to eat dinner.. A storm cniuo up and
lightning struck the tree. The mother
was instantly killed, the girl was stun
ned and badly injured. The boy was
not hurt.
- Mr. J. W. Kiug, of Ebeneser, sold
some tobacco on the Darlington mar
ket June 80th that was planted May
2nd. In less than two months after tho
plants were put in the ground Mr. King
had cured and sold the tobacco and
had the money iu pocket. What other
crop will put money in a fanner's pock
et in such a short time?-Darlinqton
Messenger.
- The recent census of the Catawba
Indians, living on the reservation in
York, county shows that out of a total
of about 72 there are still about 10 or
12 full-bloods. It has been thought
for florae time that the Inst of the. pure
blooded Catawba? hod passed away,
but the, inquiries of the census taker
convinced him that this isa mistake.
He feels confident that his investiga
tions are conclusive.
- Near Glassy Mountain in Green*
ville county revenue officers made a
raid, seizing a distillery in active
onorfttinn. eleven fermenters an? ?GGC
gallons of beer which were destroyed.
Jackson Howard was arrested and as
the officers were leaving the distillery
they were fired upon by moonshiners
and the fire was returned. Howard1
was bound over to the United States
court and in default of bond was com
mitted to jail.
- Gov. Mcsweeney has been notified'
by the War Department that this
State's requisition for supplies for the
militia forces bad been honored and
that supplies worth in the aggregate
$5,788.03 would bo shipped at once.
These supplies include about 800
blouses, with caps and leggins. The new
materials will not bo.obtained before
thoy are needed. Several companies
of tho State are now waiting to bo
equipped with uniforms.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
- The Georgia peach crop, eape
chilly tho Elbertas, will bo immense.
- Reports indicate that the Georgia
watermelon crop is about 21 per cent
oft'
- Fifteen persons were drowned by
a cloudburst ut Coleman, Texas, July
10.
- lu the drought stricken region of
Arizona where thero is great scarcity I
of water cattle are dying by the thous
ands.
- Thero are now 48 war vessels,
ranging from battleships to torpedo
boats being constructed for the Gov
ernment.
- Earthquakes in the Caucnssus
monntain region of Russia, July 14,
destroyed five villages and killed six
persons.
- There were seventy deaths from
sunstroke in Now York last Wednes
day, moro than half of them being
little children.
- The United States spends $200
000,000 a year for the cause of public
education-a sum equal to those of
Great Britain, Germany and France
combined.
- A dwelling house in Florida sank
into the earth fifty feot during a recent
freshet. The occupants hurried out
and were saved but the house and
household goods were lost.
- A malignant and deadly epidemic
prevails in Caldwell parish, Louisiana.
There has been forty deaths and no
recovery. The president of tho Stnto
board of health is making on investi
gation.
- A Washington man hus brought
suit for divorce from his wife because
she sleeps with a razor under her pil
low. She will ofter no explanation for
this eccentric habit and refuses to give
one when naked.
- The first new bale of cotton is
more than n month later than last
year. It got on the market in New
Orleans Friday, July 13th. The first
bale last year was exhibited in New
Orleans on June 15th.
- The planters of Hawaii prefer Ne
gro laborers to the Japanese. Two
agents will visit this country for the
purpose of getting laborers to migrate
to the Sandwich 1. 'ands. They offer
to pay transportation and #80.00 a
month.
- Beyond the frost line, in Florida,
a grape fruit tree is shown holding
four separate crops of fruit. Tho first
bloom is now matured. Tho second
crop is nearly full grown, tho third
about the size of a hen's egg, and the
fourth about tho size of a robins, egg.
- The date for notifying Bryan and
Stevenson of their nomination hae
been fixed on August 8th at Indian
apolis, Ind. Congressman Richardson
of Tennessee will make the speech of
notification to Mr. Bryan, and Gov.
Charles L. Thomas, of Colorado, that
.to Mr. Stevenson.
- There were some remarkable
yields reported at the session of the
Georgia Wheat Growers convention in
Macon. The first prize was given for
G5 bushels per aero for four acres; the
second best yield was 59 1-2 bushels
per acre. Tho Savannah News says
the crop is tho best by thousands of
bushels since the war.
- When a bolt of lightning knocked
the Rev. Shepard Knapp, a Congrega
tional preacher of New Haven, oft'the
wooden norse of a merry-go-round,
from which bc was endeavoring to se
cure the brassring, thc capture of which
would entitle him to another free ride,
he remarked, ns he picked himself up,
unhurt and somewhat startled, that he
regarded the phenomenon ns a Divine
warning against playing games of
chance.
- Alfonso Castaldo, of Staten island,
N. Y., has a large Mexican parrot,
which he vnlues at $500. The parrot
was stolen tho other day and a Bowery
young man named Rooney WOB charg
ed with being the thief. In Court yes
terday ibo parrot and Boonoy were
brought in, and Rooney said he lind
always owned it. But just then Cas
taldo came into court and tho bird,
with a joyful flip of its wings, croaked,
"Hello, Pop. You here?" That was
enough. It proved to th? magistrate
that the parrot had been on intimate
terms with Castaldo and he got tho
bird, while Rooney was sent to jail for
six months.
- New Orleans received in lSO-1, as a
bequest from Simon V. Sickles, n
druggist, a fund of $10,844 for the es
tablishment of a dispensary to furnish
drngs and medical advice free to thc
poor of the city. Until 1877 fhe income
was used for this purpose, but thc city
council, finding that the expense much
exceeded the receipts, voted to' stop
the disbursements until' the lime wiieu
the fund should have so increased that
the city could equip a free dispensary
and thus carry ont the testator's'desire
to the letter. The amount of the fund
is now $83,OC2iO 1. When it has reached
$100,000 the plan will be carried'ont.
- Penniea are barred from' the col
lection baskets of St. Leo's Roman
Catholic Church in New York city.
The Bev. Thos. S. Dacey, pastor of the
church; made the announcement lost
Sunday. The priest said that pennies
came in by the hundred and that he
wearied counting them. "This put
ting of pennies in the collection plates,"
he said, "is an insult to tho church.
Don't put any more in. No ono can
truly believe in the presence of Christ
in the church and give a penny for tho
support of His religion. It's mockery
1 of religion."
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The South Carolina Inter-State Exposition.
While Charleston has been very busy
entertaining the National Educational
Convention during the past ten dnys,
there was no cessation ot the work
connected with tho great Exposition
which is to be held in that city in 1001.
Tho officials have been engaged in get
ting the vnriousdcpartmcnts organized,
aud while this makes but little out
ward show, it is one of the most im
portant things to be done. A proper
start is half the rate, and tho utmost
caro is belog observed in the selection
of men for tho various working posi
tions. In tho matter of securing a
competent supervising architect to
take tho entire matter of laying out
grounds, constructing buildings, etc.,
tho board of directors has given tho
greatest amount of time nnd attention.
Men of national and international repu
tation have appeared before tho board
and given their idens aud suggested
tho plans upon which they would work
if elected, but the decision has not yet
been reached. The directors propose
that the South Carolina Inter-Stato
and West Indian Exposition, while
necessarily being on a smaller^ scale
than the World's Fnir, Bhall exceed in
beauty of grounds and interest, any
thing over planned on this continent.
Tho lands secured for the uso of the
company aro so situated as to admit of
tho highest development and will lend
themselves easily to the work of trans
formation. A splendid river front
gently sloping towards Rutledge ave
nue, and with hero and there, groves ol
the grandest of water oaks-these au
natural beauties that could not bo ob
tained in some localities, no mattel
what the appropriations were or hov
skillful the designers and landscape
gardeners.
The Exposition office is daily in rc
ceipt of letters from all parts of thc
country and they indicate tho greatest
interest in the project. Many exhib?
tors have already made application foi
snnce, and hundreds of well knewr
concerns arc asking for more informa
tion in regard to grounds, buildings
concessions, etc.
Subscriptions to the capital stool
continue to come in and the outlook ii
very bright indeed. A twenty pc
cent assessment lins been called for, ii
order that the charter moy be obtuinec
and this amount is being rapidly paie
in. Tho call does not menu tim
i enough money has been subscribed
but is made in accordance with the dm
forms of law. Subscriptions are stil
in order, and now more than ever be
fore, will those who subscribed be sui?
that they are not making "contribu
j tions" but good "investments."
Among the exhibits that are receiv
ing attention nt the Paris Exposition i
! that of the Southern Railway, and ii i
almost certain that this exhibit will bi
brought to Charleston. Another ex
1 bibit that will likely bo brought fron
Paris will be the Philippine collection
of the Smithsonian Institute.
The South Carolina Inter-Stato ant
1 West Indian Exposition opening jus
after the close of the Paris and Hu flak
Exposition will get ninny splendid dis
Slays from botii places, and thus com
ino the best of thc most recent expo
' sitions for tho patrons of thc grea
Southern enterprise.
Election Calculations.
Hon. Charles Estes used to be ni
adept at making election calculations
We do not know that he is figuring 01
the coming contest in November. Tin
New York Press, with an air of mag
nanimous fairness, gives what it calli
the certain Bryan and certain Mc
Kinley States, lt deals very liberall:
with the Dewocrnts io tho doubt fit
commonwealths and must shock Marl
Hanna and General Grosvenor with it
hiuuificcnce, from rt partisan point o
view, lt even, hypothetically, place
Bryan within 11 votes of victory, am
then proceeds ns follows:
In New England, of course, there ii
is not a ghost of an opportunity,
There is none in Pennsylvania, nor ii
there moro in California, Iowa, Nov
Jersey, Oregon, West Virginia nu<
Wisconsin. In the following States
then. Mr. Hiyan would have to loo!
for those eleven votes:
Electora
State. Vote.
Illinois.lil
North Dakota. .5
Michigan.14
Minnesota. 1?
New York.:?<?
Ohio.2:1
Either Illinois, Michigan, New York
or Ohio would give enough. (Jr Nortl
Dakota and Minnesota together would
give enough. But with free silver at
the issue again this year, as it was in
1890, why should Bryan expect to enrrj
a single one of these States? Wo can
not see it. But, ns we have said, and
ns wo shnll have occasion to repeat,
Mr. Bryan can very easily como close
enough to thc necessary 224 votes to
o mice an accident in supposedly "sure"
A*V?rUb.lVttU UlU LUlUll Vf V \XK* IH>L
expect tho accident. But we and oth
ers should be fools to count on the ac
cident as impossible. So let us work!
Some shrewd judges do not concede
i California, West Virginia and Wiscon
sin to McKinley. Neither the Press
nOr any other man can tell what effect
anti-imperialism may have in Illinois,
North .Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota,
New York or Ohio. Free silver may
not bo' such a ghost as the Press is in
clined to think. ,
Bnt the Press virtually admits that
the Republican party is in danger of
defeat, and that any map who thinks
McKinley has a sure thing is the vic
tim of a disordered imagination.
We are of the opinion that Bryan is
stronger than ho was, personally and
nationally, in 1800, and that his chances
of election aro first rate.
Some of our Democratic people who
go about despondently should pluck up
courage and enthusiasm. Republican
brethren might as well got a scare
upon them.-Augusta Chronicle.
Tho Forecasting of the Size of This Year's
Crop.
The weather conditions over since
cotton was planted has been abnormal
over a large portion of the relton belt,
largely owing to excessive rainfall, but
ns is well known extraordinarily heavy
rains, such as occurred in placea during
June, generally cover very Hunted
areas surrounding which there are
larger areas that do not have so much
rain. Now it cannot bc doubted but
that the cotton crop was severely daui
ngcd in places by too much rainfall, by
usects, by lack of growth and hy grass
ami weeds, butas nil offset many local
ities report exceedingly promising con
ditions, particularly west of thc Mis
sissippi, so that the always difficult
tusk of approximately forcastiug tho
size of the crop in July is this year ren
dered more difficult by tho many con
flicting reports from nearly all portions
of thc cotton belt. Recently tho crop
has made general improvement, but
whether it can fully recover its former
impairment is as yet uncertain and
largely depends on the subs?quent
weather conditions.
In North Coudina the condition of
crops is still fairly good, but all aro
suffering considerably from drought,
except perhaps in the mountain dis
tricts. This is especial^' true of corn,
tobacco, minor crops and gardens,
while cotton appears to have stood tho
drought so far remarkably well, as few
reports of damage to that crop were re
ceived. While not growing very rap
idly, cotton has still a healthy appear
ance, und is blooming and setting fruit
fairly well. It is reported to be falling
rapidly in .Johnston and a few other
counties. '
In South Carolina cotton is yellow on
light soils from being cultivated when
thc ground was too wet; elsewhere it
has good color, and tields are gener
ally clean, although the plants aro
small in places. Growth was slower in
the past week than during the previous
one, but cotton is now fruiting well,
with butfew reports of shedding. Some
fields continue grassy, und will be laid
by in such condition. Sea-island cotton
is affected by blight.
In Georgia the work of cleaning crops
has been pushed, and much has been
accomplished along this line. Cotton,
while improved in ninny sections, is
still small and does not seem to be
fruiting as well as it should.
I n Florida cotton suffered from rust,
and a great deal of fruit was damaged.
Local high winds contributed to an
otherwise unsatisfactory condition.
Thero is still much grass in cotton;
where cloau it is being laid by.
In Alabama considerable progress
was made in cleaning out grass and
weeds, and cotton and corn continue to
improve, though cotton is fruiting
slowly, the forms are small and some
shedding is still reported.
In Mississippi with the increased
sunshine, warmer nights nud cleaner
tields, cotton has improved; the color is
much better yot the plant remains small
and uneven; it is fruiting unsatisfac
torily asa whole, yet in some places it
is putting on fruit rapidly. Lowland
cotton has nearly all been abandoned.
In Louisiana much of the cotton is
still in weeds und grass, with tho
ground too wet to work, and where
Heids are clean, complaints are general
that the plant is'growing too fast, run
ning to stalk nod taking on but little
fruit; boll worms ure reported to be
doing some damage in DeSoto parish.
In Tennessee farmers were able to
give cotton some much-needed atten
tion and where not ruined, by tho late
floods this crop is in promising condir
?Son.
lu Texas Showers mid local rains im
proved cotton generally. Tho plant
waft shedding prior to the showers. The
crop as a whole is in fair condition but
some Holds are still reported to be
grassy. Reports iudicate that the crop
is improving and is more promising
thnn it has been so far this season.
Roll worms and the Mexican w eevil are
reported from many sections over tho
southern portion of the State. Then* is
still some cotton to be chopped out
while some curly planting is being
worked for tho last lime. I'rom this it
can be observed thai thc crop is very
irregular and some exceptionally lute
The crop is very spotted and ranges
from very poor to excellent.
In Arkansas .showers, generally well
distributed, occurred during the past
week. Considerable progress was made,
in cleaning out and laying by cotton,
which is generally small but has been
growing nicely und the greater portion
of it is in good condition, while some
is very grassy and no attempt will be
made to save it.
In oklahoma cotton continues to do
well, and is blooming and bolling.
In Missouri cotton, in tho southeast
ern counties, has been worked out and
its condition is much improved.
- In San Diego county, Cal., recent
ly there died at the great age of 183
years Augustine, chief of the Sequoia
tribe of Indians. He had ruled tho
tribe over 100 years, and in all that
time had never been incapacitated by
sickness for more than one day at A
time. _ _
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for the last 15 years, and bel i o TO him perfectly
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cially able to carry out any obligations mule by
their firm. _ . . ~
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