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VOL.~ ~ IIMNIU LiE~Nc()TY S. C., IN- ED) NES DA Y. I )ECE~W 2LJ .116 NO.IFl 1tii-; ;\5' 31 NIA: . .E l. 4 Mot It I itw ' e ? . , - 'What Wa- 1)ine aiu What u. -. The following ne- ills wUre intro ducel Bill relating to ag.utumd ontrac and prescibing a punishment for i:Iter femngi. with such contracts; to reda taxed costs in certain case; to atna Section :,46t). (itenen1 Statultsr to the criminal law: to regula. ter of interest upon lan:sabl i college of agrieulture aid tl Uchanie arts, and to devolve the dutie. the Je partmen~t of agricu-1lture upon. it a-nrg of directors; relatiing to the cur on of delinquent taxes; authorizing t r m ing of the taxes paid by arn:' cot ton listed for taxation In 1r86 from the crop of 1PS5; to amend Section 1 i an Act to change the time of listing prop erty for taxat'on; relating to actions for the recoverv of real property; relating to the maintenance of bastard childr providing for the adtmision of deaf mnutes and the ilind to the South Carolina In stitute for the Education of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind; bill amenling the charter of the town of Brunsoi. AUDITORS .D TnEAS"Rs The bill to reiuire the Governor to appoint one and the same person to the office of county treasvrer and county auditor, and to provide .aaries for the same in each county, caine u-p as un finished business. Senator Howell led an attack upon it. and the chief burden of its defence fell upon Senator Patter-! son. .On Senator Moody' s motion to i definitely postpone the unfavorable re port of the committee the vot. resulted: Yeas-*enators Alexander. Austin, Byrd, Edwards, Erwi, Field, Moody, 3u.tray, Patterson, Sligh, Si&t, Tal bert, Williams, 'Wingard and Wofford -15. Navs-Senators Bell, Biemai, Black Crews, Howell, Kennedy, Mc2aster, Moise, Munro. Reynolds. RL:Le, sink er, Smythe and Youmns-1-. Senzitor Mood's oill to re-lire the Governor to appoint one and, 'he Same ue-son to the Oflic of county treasurer ind county auditor, and tv provide sala ries for the same in eatch county, of course provoked a tight. It ':ad been unfavorably reported. Senator Moody moved to table the report and take up the bill. A general discussion ensued, which was suspended by the considera tion of the first sp.ecial order for the . day, and the bill was afterwards post poned till the session of 187. TUE coL3iA CANAL. liezre was <pie a ight over te Co lumbia Canal bill, which was t-. 'pecial order for the 13th inbt. Withut objeC tion Senator McMaster scn red theu. adoption of aran1tdments a ving the whole appropriaftion f 0.1, to be drawn from the State treasury an d re funded out of the surphis earnings of the penitentiary. Senator Sligh oi*ere d an amnendnunt providing that the penitentiary atr.i ties build a check dam at the present head of the Canal to preserve he work Ircmi injury by freshets; that th -ct of Colimbia have the option until Ma 1, Is7, of accepting the State's interest in the Canal; that the State -rant to the * city one hundred eonv icts for- e iperiod o"treyears, the city to pay for- the ooclothes, guards, se- . eured by thiem, provided the city give bond to supply the penitentiary wit.h .90-horse - power on the complein of the Canial and further assume* Lhe State' lihability for furnishing Col. S. A. P earce the 500-nors.e po. wer due hima by contract upon the completion of the Canal "Senator Byrd moved to table th?is amendment. ~The vote resuited Yeas-Senators Bell, Byrd, Erwin, Field, Howell, Izlar, McCanl, M cMaster, Moise, Moore, Murray, Patterson, Rey npids, Smith, Smtythe,, Williams, Wina gard, Woodward and Youmans-I. Nays-Senators Austin, )iem ann, Black, Crews, Edwards, Hemnphill, Ken nedy, Moody, Munro, Sllgh, Talbert and Wolord-12. Senator Eigh next offered an amend ment providing for the connection of the; old and new canals at a cost of 85,00)0, with a view simply'~ to xurnishing water power to the penitentiary. Senator Byrd moved to table. Adopted by a vote of 18 to :3. The only change from the preceding votc was th~at Sena for Erwin voted "no. Senator Sligh next moved to strike out the appropriation of S1:2.000 and in-ert; one of &25,006'. Senator Howell moved to table. Car r ied without a division. After further de'atte Sem t.ar Talbeit: noved to strike out the enaceting clause of the bill. Senator Marray moved to tal le. Yeas-Senators UBli, Byrd. Field, dowell, Izlar, McCall, McMaster, Moise, Moore, Murrg Patterson.cenolds, Woodward and Youmians-l . Navs-Senators Aus'tin, Liemanu, Black! Crews, Edwards, ErwinHm hill, Kiennedy, Moa ly-. Mu'o, Rhae, Sjligh, Talbert and Wolord-i. Idenator Taldert then moved to dis charge the hill and make it thle spneca order for to-murr ow. Senator Smytahe moved to table. eariied by a voeo 22 to 9. The bill then piassed without . iveln It appropriates iroX: tue sur-pio .re fngs of tL'- p::it -ar .i Us o h troseention of thevL h i~oitr~ua piroviso is adided t C:la h penittio directors are authorize di a- thi. from the State trenetury, to be :eturned when the peniteaLti.y arns the i ao nt. On the questio' of the final4 pa.sage of. the bill Senator Tailbert demanded thet yeas and nays, is pr-iu motion to .-ecomimit having. failed by ax voe f to 18. The vote resuled: Yeas-Se-nators Uel, Un ist. yd. Field, Howell, Mc astrr Mix, Nur ray, Patterson, Rvenold, iRhaL, Seua her, Smith. Smyethe Wika -s, W iir and Youmtans-17. 2ays -Senatrs hx -,in Biemann, Crews. Ed r .0ney Moody, Sligh, Taned and~ W-orord- 11. Senators Black. Ein Munro,. who would have voted "n. wer pa ~ired w ih uenators I;:Iar, Woodward and Moorv. wh Io V.ol have voted ".Ayt," Sen'ator lienwhill wa, absent. . L.: E:;S.' ro01 Do0s. Seniator Talbert's bill proividi:g foi the taxation of dogs and bitches'' was much di.cus ed. Sir Taihert scorcd a preliminu-y victory by securing the re Lection Of an. uufavorable report. without a divi on. He then moved to aieind so . t J"rOvide for a c-licuse" of one dol ar inotead of a "tux," the proceeds to be Paid imto the county treasury for educa tional purposes. Senator Williams moved to ,rike out tl.ie enacti claulse of the bill. Sinitr Au,7stinii ioved to tai-le Sena tor Win:ms's motion to strike out the enactinu words if the bill: Ye -nator Alexander, Austin, Bell, Diemaarn, Byrd. Crews, Edward-, Erwin, Mc Call. Mle~aster. 31oody, MIurray. illhame, Sligh. Smythe and Talbert-16: Navs-Senators Black, Field, Hemp hiil, owe.l, Kennedy, Mnro. Patter son, Reynolds, Sinkler, Smith, Williams and Younans-13. Several pro forma amendmcats were made to the bill. Several amendmeAts were defeated. The bill then passed without a division. with notice of general amendments on the third reading. TFE UNIVERsITY TISTEI. When the bill relating to the trustees of the University was read Senator Smythe moved to reconhider the vote by which on the second reading the Senate rejected the amendment adding! the chairmen of the committees on edu cation of the Senate and Hous3 to the board of trustees. Senator 'Murray urged that the motion was out of order, but after discussion the Chair ruled that it was in order. On the question of recon sideration the advocates of the amend ment urged that it would be advisable to retain this provision of the present law. Senators Murray and Edwards de clared that it would make the board too unwieldly, as the bill already provided for nineteen members. On Senator Murray's motion to table the amendment, the vote stood on a division 15 to 14. The bill thei passed without a division. :41i5sELLANEOUS. The hill to amend the law in relation to highways and bridges was amended so as only to abolish the office cA super ittendent of highways. It passed its third reading in such shape as to exempt the counties of Greenville, Chesterfield, Sumter, Darlington, Orangeburg Fair lield, Chester, York, Clarendon, Rich land, Beautfoit, Marion and Laurens from its provisions. The bil to regulate criminal practice; in the Courts of General Sessions pasd its second reading after a light, by a vote of :2 to G. it reduces the number of peremptory challenges for defendants in criminal cases, and abolishes much of the unnecessary verbiage of indictments. The bill to drovide for the payment by the State of the expenees of :.1 prose cUtions in crimiuatl cases provoked much discussion. A motion to indetinitely postpone the unfavorable report of the coinmiiCe was adopted by a vote of IG to 1:1, but soon after a proposition to continue it to the next session was car ried by 1T yeas to 14 navs. The bill" regulating the taxation of attorneys' costs in certain cases, and prescribing the method by which an attorney's right to additional costs and fees under control of the Court may be determined-went through withiout, op position. with a provi.o that it shall not apply to causes already commenced. On motion o1 Senator Smy the one hundred copies of the resolution in re gardi to the Charleston Jetties were ordered to be printed and distributed in acco rdance with the terms of the resolu nion. Senators Smythe, MIurray and 3MeCallj were appointed the Senate conferees on! the earthquake reassessment bill On Senator MIurray's motion the Sen ate refused to concur in the House reso lution in regard to phosphate royalty. The Senate agreed to the House amendments to the bill providing fo the transportation of convicts to the State penitentiary by penitentiary guartis. Senat r Sligh made a vain endeavor to rescue from an unfavorable report hi bill to give' physicians a lien for p~rofes sional services, and the bill was killed. Senator MIc3aster's joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment, that the State superintendent of educa tion shall be elected every four years by the Legislature, was, after a brief de fence, continued until next session. The bill fixing fees for tuition in the South Carolina College was amended so as to strike out the clause requiringI benetleiaries to teach two years in the puli schools, and authorizing to sus pend b'eneficiaries at the end of ainy ses sien., and passed and sent to the Hous. The bill to stay executions (thatis p.roviding a Stay Law; till next Novem ber wvas killed. The bill to change the time for listing taxab le property was killed. The bill to reiveal the lien law was p~ased to a third reading. The repeal to take e~'eet one year hence. The h ill to amend Section 20.4i of the General Statutes was passed to its third reading. This bil is intendled to punishi parties or organizations (like the Knights of Labor, from interferring with labore:s The bill to abolish the oicie of 3Maste in Laarenus county: was killed. The bill to reduce the number of tria justilces in iershaw county was piassed to; oth eeal countie nay the costs of crimnal pros cuitions was passed. \ joint rpiltion passed, to extend ine time or paymet of tax~es to the~ Isth TNbi toprh .i settlemient of criminal case$ " ith~outile conlsent of the aira neral or solicitor, wans iiled. A~ lil to make carnal know'ledge of a va.ma chid under tihe a.'e of sixteen ears, either with or without her c insent, caial oniencee, was killed, on maotin SeatrYoodward, by avote of 1f A id t. give a lihn to owners ofXtl us. ::. on the miar- served and their .an wi postp ned to the next ses . nt M3array's bill, relating to the LItion of delinquent taxes. wa passedi * a ot e of N to 14. The ili 'o amend the Code o'f Proce alate. was d.b:led iv Le lega membhers and hi Ld. Senator phill-s bill to nrohibi cigIhting weithiu three mi:lestf an' cli.er.e institution of k in thE State p.aed by a vo te 19i to 12. E<0N l~eDINS. The following bills receivd their see ond reading: To coi ier certain righ t. on the Port Royal and Western Carolili itailw ay C oiapunv, providing; fur tin dis;i e~ition of cert an unlaimeud draft in the bands of tlhe Colleton colty elll 'missioners-; vaulii certain town s and town sulbsriptions to the Cor poraltion ,,ow knUow'n as the . utie antd Nore twestern hailro id Company: aei:: ng the e of I f1_Etawv.ilk Railroad Ccam; relating to the com pensUtion of oertain of the ulhcers of Charleston colnir. The Speaker appointed 1e-srs. Mose, of Sumter, Brown, of Anderson, and Brawley, of Charleston, the committee of conference tn the Charleston earth quake bill. The House took up the ag-ricultural bureau bill. and passed it without any oppositiox. This bill is a substitute for that introduced early in the session, as the embodiment of the views expressed ly the Farmers' Convention. Its pro visions are as follows: It repeals Sections 1, 2 and :3 of the Act of 1879. "to create a department of agriculture," &c., amd substitu-tes the fol lowing in lieu thereof: SEe TION I. The Souti Carolina board of agriculture shall consist of ten per sons, who shall be agriculturalists. and be elected by the Legislature for the term of two years, and until their suc cessors are elected and qualified, a ma jority of whoi shall constitute a quorum, and vacancies arising fro:a any cause shall be tilled by the Legislature for the unexpired term. The board shall meet for the transaction of busi ness as :ten as they may deem expedi eat, but at least twice in each year. They shall receive no salary, but shall be al lowed the sum of three dollars per diem, and five conts per mile actually traveled while engaged in the duties of tihe board, not exceeding twenty days in ,ny one year. The first election of tL.. board 'hall be held immediately after tae ap proval of this Act. Se. 2. There shall be held in the Ciiv of Columbia, in the month of November in each Year. an annual ieeting of the South Carolina board of agriculture, togetherI with a convention of delegate , consistng of live from each co:;uty or ganization or society, 've froma the State Grange and five foa the State Agricui tural a)d Mechanical Society, who shliall, for the ilme being, be memabers oi the South Carolina board of agriculture, for the ourposes of deliberation and cun sultation as to the wants, prospeeta and conditions of the agricltural interest throughout the State, but they shall re eeive no comptunsanon. Sac. 3. Immediately after the election of the board they: shall organize. by the election of one of tieir number pre'-i dent, and at the expiration of the term. of office of the present eoniLssioner of agriculture, and every two years there after they shall eleet a commissioner of griculture, who shall be an agricultur ist. He shall be paid a salary of twenty tive one hundred dollars per annui. 1ayable monthly, and shall -;ec b;.2d to the State, with suretis con.titioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his oflice, in the sum five thousand dol lars, to be approved and filed in like manner as the bonds of State oflicers. He shall be empowered to employ an eflicient clerk, whose salary shall be twelve hundred dollars ivr anmuu:, rav able monthly. The saiai board shall also organiae ant encourage farmers' clubs or associations, and holdt farm ers' institutes wherever practicable. The very limited discussion which en sued after the bill had been read was opened by Mir. Boozer, of Eidgeuield, who opposed r. motion to amend the third section by making the- salary of the clerk of the new bureau $1,500, in stead of $1,2U0, as provided in the origi nal bill. MIr. Boozer said that if this LegislatuLre had come here to reform, this was a good time to commence re forming. The clerks in the City of Co lumbia worked from 12 to 18 hours a day and received f rom .3')0 to S8600 per annum. He didn't see why this clerk, who he was told worked about 1 or 5 hours a day, should receive $1,5-00. The amendment was tabled. MIr. Abney, of Rtichland, ventured to move to amend the bill by making the Governor a member of the ne.w board. la als" wanted to make the Governor chairman of the board. MIr. Tindal, the chairman of the com mittee, accepted the suggestion to make the Governor a memb er of the board, but pointed out very clearly that he could scarcely act in the capacity of chairman. Finally, after some consulta tion b etween the mem' nbers, ti-e ~amend ment was withdrawn. 31r. Lawton oifered a substitute to the entire bill, which p)rovided for the elec tion of seven members. one from each Congressional distriet, who, together with thle p~resent board, should consti tute the department. The substitute, however, was tabled. Dr. Thomas, of Union, wanted t: re duce the pay of the comilssioner from .92,100 to S1,S00, but the House refused to entertain th~e p~roposition. and the bill wvas finally passed without ary '-u end ment, save one providing that the dele gates to the annual conventain si-dlrh ceive nlo pay. The hill] ij hyMr. Dogla,~ vf Fai !!eld, to re rgaie the trial juslt*c systeim e' ched nmehi ebace The bill is intend3ed s -a!jtis ars if amenidments wVere inserted. The following couinties are enaaed iu21 itspovisi ns: Leaufort * justices. Chester 5, (Clarendon I, Edg nd s, Ge-orgetown h Gzreeni lle 30, Ha1 ', Afe ieting the number,. of jaie th 1House, or thait por'tion of it 'intereced in the lili, addre'e itsl to.1'1 the o-li; u 14at compilex task. ofI lxing the salar it. whiceh took np conisiderabl. thlee thle MIario delegat in alone consumaig 1 large portion of it. The original bill tixed the0 saaies at 'At0 for justicesi out side (if towns, $75 for those ini townts ojf towni of more than that number of i habitants. As near as could be gatler the followig sp cial salaries were name Wiiamsburg, s25 *per annum; Orang bur city two justices. 175 each: Matthew's, $150: Edg'tieid town, Si1 Horry, town of Conway, - Go: town Sniter, (0: town of Plantersvill GCorgetcwn count, SI125: town of Lai 'ca r .4200; outside the town. :1 G(reenv c1ity two jnstices, .'125 ene] i 1"M cr.o'\Ty SUEmIars. Among the bills whieh hav'e been o derco( to be engrossed brv the House ai two widch 1r esp2cdly interesting t countV sherhir. The firt is a bill ca: rVin- out Governior Sheppard's recon mendation in reference to the transpo: ta0io2 of convicts from the various corm fy jails to the penitentiary. The bi provides that the clerks of Courts in th various counties shall immediately a the close of each term of the Court c ession notify the superintendent c the pen)itentiary of the number of pri, oners sitteneced to the penitentiary, an the superintendent is directed foithwit: to send a proper guard to take charge c the pi oners and convey them to th peniteniiary "without cost to the coun tv." i.~nder this bill, should it pass th 6enate, such little excursions as tha which visit d Columbia two weeks ag from c;ne ot the eastern counties will no be prctible, and the taxpayers of th counties will not be called upon to pa; from 8:10 to 70 to transport each con viet to th-e penitentiary. The other bill is one to fix the fee fo dietingf prisoners in the county jail. Th. bill is ury short. Its provisions ar simply th 'on and after the passage o this Act the fee for dieting prisoners i: county ja.ils shall be 25 cents per day." Both tlne bills were passed a few mo mets before midnight. Next mornin ir. J. Frost Walker moved to recon si(ler the vote whereby the bill was or dere'd t., be "nroMd.3r. 31e(Hughi 0 Charltozon, made - speech in favor o the motion to reconsidir. It must bc remembercci. he argued, that the sherifT olice had no salary attuched to it. Th-1 ofieer?) was paid solely by fees. The fe, were lixed not only to reimburse hin for the expenses incurred, but also t< provide him with remuneration for th< discharge of his duties. It semed t< him that there had been too much re forming of the offiac of sheritl. The bill passed just before this ha: taken away one of the most nroistable source: of the incomes of fberiTs-he mi ant th( bill to provide for the transportation (d convicts to the penitentiary. These two -ills, he sail, would together take away one-third of the ineonles of the s'herinel. H1e proposed a reconsideration - in orde: to amend the bill iy making the fee :3U cents. Mr. Mill, of Beaufort, said if th< Hous. re- nidered its action ,f tie previous night night sessions wouldI no 0e worth one cent. After some further discusion the tMo iion to reconsider was tabled by en over whelming majority. THE L coL.411 CANAL Thec Se',nate bill appropriating .12,I)O for till Columbia Canal caused a lon debate in the House. Finaliv the en acting clause was stricken out by th< following vote: Yeas-3Ie'srs. Anci~n:, Ansel, Archer Austell, Barley, Darmore, Beard, Big hbr, Bpack, Boozer, Brawley, Brown, Broiwning. Byrd, Cain, Chalmers, Cleve land, Connors, Daniels, Dantzker, Da venport, Dean, Drake. DuBose, Dukes, Easley, Evans, Fox, Gary. Guen:, Ham ilton. of York, HamIlton, of Chester Hickman, Hi'J, longh, Hyde, Irby Joehnttm, Jones, Jordan, Keitt. King. League. MIars, MIason, MIcClintock, MIe Da)'niel 3Ic'issick, MIiller, of Laucaster \lims, Mloses, Norton, O'Bryan, Puri oy, Priing le, Raysor, Rleady, IRobinson Rue, Sally, Sarratt, Shaffer, Shaw, Sim'pso, Stanland, Stewart, Thonmas, o1 Unimon. Toale, Walker. Washington Wh arton, W~\ilson, of York, Wim:berly Wylie, Yourg-75. NaysSpeaker Simons and 3Messrs A.bney. Aldrich, Baxter, Blackweil, Brice. Brooker, Burke, Cappleman, Can sey, Chandler, Cobb. Douglass. Earle Ficken, Graham, Harper, Hudgens, Hutson, Ixershaw, Lawton, Lesesne. Lee. MIaher, 3Means, MIcHugh, 3Miller, o1 Georgetown, MIiller, of Beaufort, O'Brien, Padgett, P'lowden, Rlankin, Rutland, Seegers, Thomas, of Rlichland, Turner, Walker--:37. MIr. Ansel moved to reconsider thi vote by which the enacting clause wa stricken out, and also moved to lav thai motion on the table. The yeas and nay~ were called for and the motion prevaileC -yeas 74, nays :4. When the appropriation bill camle ul: ihere was a tight over the item of $14, 000 for the militia. On a motion tu strikt out this item, the vote stood 5d to 335 Subsequently the vote was reconsidered and, the item was reduced to $13, 000 ani passed ini this shiape. The aipplrritiot of 62Rc,000 for the Citadel caused sonm< debate, but was adopte'd by a vote of 7: to .11. The bcill was then palssed as whole. Wh'len the bill for tlie payment of th< members. onlieers and attaches of thn Gaoneral Assembly came up, MIr. Bigh:;m of M1arion. moved t'. redtuce the pay o: the Cler'i: of the Senate from $1 .0I00 tc 6500O, and the pay of the Assistant Cleri from1 s250i to S15'. Bothi proposition. were rejec. The bill was then passed blIn to alclow warrants and other prc e "sse'- issuedc by muinicipal authorities t( bed exted or c' ser'ved outsidcCe cporat( ~t,: t' prcovhde for the' c' mpulsory anendncle~ . sch. l 'ci ldretn from I. t: ofae who ire not now eni rla. and ina g ul; r' attendance inc .schoolI to ombnethe cimlie of auditor aini Ldecne the terim "tonship" a~s used it the varcius Aet of the. GeLeral A ssenmblh cr thc purp'ose of lections to mnake si'b Bill to ;mh i.. ihe rc'c-auding of th< cta-:es i.:.d by iarmers on cttoni li:,tec 1o1 t'Xatin i-i .N c rom tile cr011 o. 'S~-: to give the- Court cf Sessioncs eli current ar*i-dictio in' cases; ~.f..i asaul an utev 1 d~ the~ value homeste j :'cmpt I.-a; t' amen 'd Se.ctio1 - : & th~e Genecal Statutes, relating tc idhe. Ilen of the 'wncers of certin "toeh: to rew'I ! hecharte'r of the t *wn of Fcor Thec biil tc lix the 5l~daries of C'ircui I ''mrt .Tn'-'.s was hict taken mp. Thc a-, bill proposes to r-duce the salaries d 83510 to S3*,:YJ. After some disenssi( 1: a motion was made to continuc the b e I to the next sessiun, and on a call f 1: it yeas and nays the motion was adopte-d 1; yeas t7. nays 41. > I The bill to reduce the salaries of ti Supreme Court Judges was kilh-d witl - out debate or division. : A motion w.as afterwardl- made to n . consider the vote contining the Cire .Tudges' bill to the next sl. Pope called for th- yeas and nays, vlie resulted-veas 61, navs -S. This bro agh1 tlie bill up again, ad a motion. was mad: to strike out the enacting words-. 1 After some further discu-ion, 21: Hyde moved to indefinitely po stpone th bill. Dr. Pope demanded the yeas aL nays. iesult, yeas G!;, nays 4:3. So th bill was killed. D The bill to am'enid tl law in relatio: t to hawkers and peddlers provides for county license of $-50 per annum Amendenis were freelv offere.l. inclid ing dealers ii sto 'res, sewing machinci tin clocks, lightning rods. The bill ii consequence, became considerably mixe< up, but it was finally passel. The bill to renew and amend thi charter of the town of Winnsboro wa t passed. The sale of liquor is left sub ject to the local option law. t i-A R MD PROVE NTT. Have the readers of the Cultivator -'like the writcr, in all panics or depres sions that affect business in general noticed that the value of farm propert: was the last to siw it effects, but whe, it did fall it was ;he last to react whei reaction took plaee? And why is it so' Simply because active butsiness is mor sensitive to reactions than passive busi ness like farming. For the last rev years all 1 business has been very mue depressed and values have fallen. espe cially farm lands, so much so their vahu is but nominal, and to-day farm proper ty is at its lowest fgures. Reaction ha taken place in city and town property, and their values are rapidly increasin. and why is it so? Because the ownen such property are wide awake and anye to their interest and boom it up, at the commercial and financial barometer: indicate. This rise in values in citie and towns, if permanent, in time, will have its ellect on country property, foi prosperity, like depressions, has its in fluence on all surrounding interests; and: as prosperity brings money into active circulation, the amount of mnoly raises the vahmc- of all kinds of property throughout the country. ' s such, it behooves the farmers to begin to put their long-neglected farms. in order zind dress them up, for appearances ad': much to values, and hais iuch weight in influencing purchasers. All buildings on the farms should undergo repain and renovation, and where bullilgs and: sheds have been neglected for stoek, they should be built. In sIhort, the outfit should be complete. and paint an': whitewash used to make evervthing look neat and nice. Antlo it sloult be ith fencing. Have as good fencing and! gates as one can atiord, for all scii adds to the va--ie of the farm.T iL tui time 'o do all this kind of worIk and, im provements when it will iot iaterfere with field work, and it will be time well employed and in the end prove must profitable. Then comes field imnprovements and proper culture. As one rides along th roads and sees the iields gallied and washed, the impression made, is, "here is a farm going to ruin and waste; there can be no profitable farming done on such a farm;" and where briers ani Lushes have taken the tields the samc impression s are also made, and the con -elusions are perfectly correct; for where gullies, briers and bushes prevali no profit can arise from such a state of things and if even should there be a sufficiency of other land to cultivate, to admit of this waste of land what an ugly appearance it gives to the farm, suci yawning gullies and unsightly roughs. Now, what should be done? First, ter race all the hill lands and slopes so as to -stop washing and gullying, and if there are flat lands that hold water ditch them off, and when that is done, the plo0w and harrow must do the rest and diversitied farming follow; and let grain, grass and stock be the basis on which the farm must be built up. Our greatest trouble now is fencing, for timber is very scarce, which makes fencing more expensive than wec can undertake to have properly done. So why not abandon fencing andl keep up stock; for wherever it has been adpe id a proven very sajisfactory, adhsrdthe farmer of an expenise in trying to k.:cp up fencing which proved ineffectual and a waste of the little tim ber left us. Let property be ever so v 'aluable, if neglected and suifered to run down, it will depreciate in value and ofte.ntimes we see property sold above its val1ue, owing to neat and comafortable bul and good feing being phtaeed on it. Attractiveness has much or nmore to do withi the value of a farm titan tile value of1 the land; as such, we say- to the farmiers, go to work and improve your farnms and whether vu wish to sell or not it will enhance thteir *.alue. d oss H. Ursr. Care bprng, Ga. \ llHar e Out~go ruir Some of the best rbr n(u a * uage are often the lest correct, in a strictly gr'ammiatical sense. Manyia gifted authior dirds the connmon ruh of granmmar andi compnoses to suth Iharmony. He ireegte them -pedaggues and~ P p e- and --hmu f' r h-nm-elf more s-cop", ttigher ieedcm. n i hl as ha- often bee reared rammart..tit-s tongue, Lt andc sediy e mor o. 0C(lever and~ ac(eted .:uurr nowadaol ma-kii?e phi.ogie lawo 0 ch on, a'd in-stead *t obey~..g dtry mutyath' ritie- beome autorit then~elvn-s. Thet Eng'l~in lnagi * io big, too trong, too r-ich to st-K ii rowing to ho bonud ty anien-t fiede inelastic iule. \ Yo '.~..ran i -veitr n '.Iol Fran io .Mitiiey. I' Benj1' um The r. -.1 .. I, p-. N 1 re 1414)11 1ot* e H .- 1, W r ' hNE i s 0t-;1 1 4n-- he i .. - ie~ : 1 :141 'Wit ho10ut Rte-medy-.% (!- m~: w::a - .h. : .- X-v Y.r: s-.n.) the pres nt conditi n of a cI amous st)ck grwing valley. Four v rs talI t ii Lrass stood in the upper oth Platte I allev. The low, rocy hilab -.ere covered. The spaces iet weein the sage bushes were occnpied 1 by bunclies of grass. The treeless tlanks ef th e mountain ranges were vellow with dried grass, which waved in the wind. There was grass. and good grass, every Where throughout the valley. Heavy crops ofj hay were cut on the natural meadows. Cattle, lorses, antelope and ell roamd through the valley from Hunter's ranch at the bridge over the North PlAtte to nifty miles below Fort Stee. On every creek which issued from tile mountains prosperous cattle growers lved in log houses. The cattle were fat, an(1 though the growers always lied ab'out the per cent. of calves they branded, it did not seem as though dis aster were close at hand. But how is it to-day? The valley of the North Platte, this famous grazing ground, is virtually a g.ass desert. I have just returned from a trip through it and the adjacent mountains, and I have never sen a more valueless region to grow or hold cattle in. The grass is tramaped out by the hoof.s of thousands of ha gry and lean cattle, that walked for nonths over the arid land in search of food. They roamed for days before th -v staggered close to the snow in the foothills. and tlhe they closely followed the ritreating snow bauks intothe down timber, int; the green timber, and final 'y on to the summit of the Sierra Madre ouiintatus. .\.iX 0F L'-OLio.N. While slowly driving down this gray valle of desok tioii my comrade con tinually assured me that there was good grass in the footlhills, and that the catth- whIch grazed there were fat. We let the wargou at Grand Encampment river and took saddles and rode into the fothills. I we s strongly impressed with the unlhealthy appearane of the cattle. Their hair did not lie smooth. There Was :a pecliac stare in their eyes which f had long ago learned to recognize as fateiutl. The calves sucked the cows often and with nervous energy. The cows, ahmiost witlhout exception. were lean and weak. The grass, scanty ap-I pear ing to eastern eves at all tiies. hid 1 a queer, strange appearance. After going a few miles, and inspecting the grnass from1 the elevatiou of horse's back. I dis iounted and carefaily examine-d it, ch aft-r bunch, until 1i had inspected I'ftv buiches. The story was tol. In o buin which f examined we.tre there Lmore than twelve stalks of this year's rass. Tie other stalks, from twenty to sixty, wure last year's growth. It is not )ossible for cattle to separate the good frL m the poor. Three-quarters of the food that the cattle, which have grazed in the foothills during the past summer have eaten consisted of the weather b'atei. raiusoaked gras, of last season's -rowti. it is no wonder they waidered tar hit) the moitains in search of fresh and teinder iood. Almost daily, while hunting in the Sirra 31aldre mountaius. I saw small brls fl cattle feeding in the mountain j41ak or in the green timber. These animais we~ re ahuost as wild as elk. Tihey~ lbed in the same localities that the ela 'ad blacktail deer did. I judged from the frequency with which I saw these small her"ds that there were many. hun dreds of them'" in the mountains. What will be the fate of these half wild ani mais wich are glazing in the lofty, pine clad hihands three weeks ago? I uuhcsitatingly ans.wer not one ina ten will get out of the mountains. B3efore thi time thley. are .snowe'd in. Instinct, or pe'rhaips suior 11 reasoning power, tcehes game alnials to liy out of the mountains when heavy snow storms be gin to rage. Cattle have not ,this in stinet. TIhey' are almaost sure to linger too long in the highlands, and there they die of cold and hunger. The na ture of the ground forbids their being driven out, and, indeed, the cowboys have no heart to enter unknown and in tricalte mountain systems in search of these cattle, as they might get lost them selves. 31y hut ing" clnp was pitched Oin the eat.ernli slop~e of thle bierra 3Madre ntoun tain about two mu's fromi the summit of the dvid. Betweeni it and the bare4 ft isa a jack.traw like tangle of1 dow timber,1' and tw.'o wide belts of -*ren timber. A heavy m4jV fell steadily 1all of n nih. localizinig that thme hun as at an end, we~ packed up~ and traveledC4 down~ thie rugged mountain ilanks noW n~ down i truber, n14w In green:. W~e p~assed manity biands of cattle thatt raui in all directions, excepting the right one, aIt our applroac.h. It was C'vi Went that they had forgotten the tril ona w.ich th ey entered the highlands in caiv sununer. There catitle are sur1" to4 die 1hs wi'nter. In the treeless foothills ai the" attle which had passed the stun unrthr wee trailing for the lowr the* 1 rth , Clisut. 4'irt co V"il Ii of ii . v.r -..a 04, . - n uht ecati onld Before i *.oth b xl ofte - os alli Salong the b4arbed1 wir ce. na1 tin tr ' u er dire' the4m * o1' ly ' thy ltrte . gl. in pa.irs a.nd 4 4ler' u ,4'' 4gin de-titute of ca':ttle'. It as1 itiful :iht to) se the hun.:ry1 :mml r.outel ent('er the foothills and14 '1 ibe ee "'now. i. srchi 01 tiood. others I m.et 111d taliked1 with cattl north, and in the south, in the west and on the plains, and, with few exceptions, all told the same story. That the native grasses on closely grazed grounds were almost extinct; that the grass had been trodden out of many valleys; that other extensive areas had been almost ruined by overstocking, and that disasters, seri ois and widespread, menaces the whole cattle growing industry west of the 101st meridian. I have no doubt that the losses of cat tle now grazing on the ranges of high altitude will be sufficiently large this winter to bankrupt many individual as well as associated cattle growers. And it matters not what the winter may prove to be, whether mild or hard, the condition of the grass on the range sharply indicates that a large portion of the cattle cannot rustle through it. They are doomed to die. There is but little good grass east of the mountains. The Barber's Temperance Lecture. There are many temperance lectures which are not delivered in public places; and a good.many plain, sensible people say things on the subject which are quite as well worth remembering as the most eloquent addresses of emment temper ance orators. When men will look facts in the face they will find abundant rea sons for letting strong drink alone. Two colored barbers were together in a shop. One was a young man, the other was old. The young man took off his apron and started out of the door. "Yo's gwine to get a drink, Jim?" asked the elder. "Dat's what I's gwine to do." "Go and git yo' drink. I yoost ter do de same ting when I wuz young. When I wuz fust married dah wuz a gin mill next to de shop wha' I wucked, and I spent in it fifty and sebenty cents a day outen de dollah an' a half I earned. Wal, one mawnin I went into de butchah shop, and who shood cum in but de man wat kep' de likker shop. "Gib me ten pounds po'ter-house steak," he said. "He got it and went out. I sneaked up to de butchah and looked to see what monev I had left." "What do you wan?" said de butchal. "Gib me ten cents wuft o' libber," wuz my remark. "It was all I could pay fur. Now you go and git yo' drink. You'll eat libber, but de man wat sells yo' de stuff will hab his po'ter-house steak. De man behin' de bar eats po'ter-house steak-de man in front eats libber. I ain't touched de stuff fo' :30 years, and now I am eatin' po'ter-house steak myself." If a man wishes to make the rumseller rich and himself poor; to feed the rum seller luxurious while he starves his own children; if he desires to dress the rum seller's wife in velvets and his own wife in rags, and rob his own wretched, bare footed children that he may adorn and beautify the family of the rumseller there is only one thing necessary, and that is, let him drink strong drink. He will lind that these greedy rumselling cormorants will take everything he earns, and leave a wretched outcast, while they revel in Inxury, and waste the substance that belongs to the poor and suffering. Chierios %%ill Probably Make Hi Conffesion on the Scaffold. Rliciustoxo. Va.. December 11.-A though Cluverious, the convicted murderer of Lilian Madison. has declined to see any one except his spiritual adviser, there is a well-ground suspicion that he has in the past two day" confessed that he committed the crime for which he is so soon to pay the penalty. Rev. Dr. Hatcher, an emi neut Baptist divine, who has known Cluve rius for many years. is with him daily, and dthough he is reticent when asked the point blank question, yet certain questions put to imn, and others near him. guarantee the conclusion that the prisoner has ac knowledged the commission of the crime. For instance, the teaching of the Baptist miinisters is to the effect that a man who ims comimitted the sin of murder must ac inowledge his sin bdfore God and man. Lertain parties who are near to'Cluverious, md who are also Baptists, to which de :iomination Cluverious belongs, have posi :ivdiv asserted in the la't i4 hours that the orisoner has made his peace with God. It s thought that the prisoner's confession will be read from the scaffold, and that his piritual adviscrs have been bound to secre y until that time. This was the course ~ursued in the celebrated Jeter Phillips ~ase, Phillips being a member of the Blap ist denomination. le maintained his in aoeence up to the last, so far as the public was concerned, but confessed to Rev. Dr. D)ickinson, who kept the secret until the -onfession was read from the scaffold. Of what kind lof timber is the post of honor:' It i.s an east wind that blows the coal lealer good. Transported for life-The man who mar ics happily. The darkest hour is when you can't. tind lie matce 's. Ilouiest goodl humor is the oil and wine >l a nmerry nmeetine. An opponent of D~arwvini'm calls it "'sci It is the- private secretary that makes so nany things public. Lots of mien kne~w nothing of art before he war can draw a pension ea-sily now. We shoulid like to know how nmauv pokes therearc in the wheel of fortune?" The United Presbyterian contends that i- good to havec piety infused with com It is nrea.t error for a l:ady to wear ao onnet too youithiful for her age. ~It only rlll o mak the latter miore noticeable. ri inisatersoinh-: 1'a. that was an al'o loing prayer eaur preacher made this arin: I thougt hie would tadk the Lord 'd in elers advertise ihemaselves da!Iy. N.ba the a ubil uCIIed- i' uic' cellars in - xi I singersli and istrumllemlalists can .\ mvi'er 'Iot long ogo preacihed from he\ e -e ve therefore 'teadfast." But hpimer mald h.im expoundl~ from "Be Woie .'il 'hat 'aladl ivy is '-till alive Ii.x he wa1 hlx riv 'ime h:Lt Christmas , lrg ires o minee pie, beecause his udi miIflI-unn watedx 1)>1 maeC hima p'iec.e-ful. Nothingl I enlre th" 'l ircle of' hiumat; an l n hrista, Each- I year exhiibits a v line u of 'ini.a', withiout which riaaou- giver- wou'll ive up in ei espair. Th- correct bill ofiare 'or a Christmas el ad p~!lh-c u a xx <ntig. Of cour herel' mulhit he- a f air'- proprtiOn oh he:irtx' -lililreh