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VOL. III MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1887. NO. 22, ALL ABOUT TlE 'APTISTS. MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHURCH IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The Session- in Louisville of Repreen'Ita tives of the Immense 3Icnbership-Im portant Features of the Convention Sight-Seeing and Business Meetings. (Letter to the Augusta Chronicle.) According to the latest returns, which have been recently made up from official sources, there are in the fourteen South ern States and the Indian Territory 2,050,985 Baptists. Of these 1,065,171 are white, and are in accord with the body known as the Southern Baptist Convention. This is the body whose ses sions have been held in the beautiful brown stone edifice of the Broadway Church. The building is of ornate de sign and modern architecture, and ranks with the churches of which Drs. Hemp hill and Willitts are pastors, as among the finest and most costly religious edi fices of the South. Through three daily sessions the spacious auditorium has been filled with representatives from every South of the Pennsylvania line and the Ohio river. From Georgia tLere were fifty-five delegates, and Georgia furnishes the president and secretary. This makes the fifteenth session over which Dr. Mell, Chancellor of the Uni versity, has presided, and the seventil at which the secretary has served at the long table. The reports of the two Boards of the convention, which control the operations respectively of home and foreign mis sions demonstrate a year of great pros perity. Indeed, I hear from all sides gratulations from almost every body of Christians. The year has been one of large increase in numbers ana greater efficiency than for many years past. There have been contributed, as report ed to this convention, for foreign mis sions $87,830.53, and for home missions $122,097.20. The foreign stations of the convention are established in Brazil, Mexico, Itly, Africa and China. The number of uissionaries is 116, and of churches and stations for preaching 65. There are 25 schools. with 587 pupils. Among the many interesting features of this work abroad was the erection in the dense population of the city of Shanghai of a chapel, entirely at the expense of a native Christian, and consequently at no cost to the convention. The whole of China has been thrown open to Chis tian missions by imperial edict. In the department of home missions there had been 251 missionaries sus tained who had supplied pulpits at S22 ( -points in the South and the island of c Cuba. This force of Christian workers had gathered together 119 churches, and had built 62 new houses of worship at a cost of over $60,000. The number of persons added to the churches was I 6,242.~ The most wonderful advance in Christian missions, considering the time and means expended, has been that in the neighboring island of Cuba, and it t has been described as never having been, surpassed in the history of modernzs sions. In December, 1885, a missionary, named Diaz, was ordained at Key West, and in the following month a church was constituted in Havana, which, at the last report, after one year's operation, contains over three hundred members, and1 two other churches have been estab lished. An attempt is to be made in the immediate future for the erection of a Baptist house of worship in Havana. One of the most important works ac-1 complished by the Board has been that of affording doctrinal and practical in struction to colored ministers and church officers. A number of very learned andt able zmen have been employed in gather ing these leaders of the negro population together for the purpose of mnstruction. In this work Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Maryland and Mississippi reap the bene fits. There are also twenty preachers of:1 this race employed in the Statecof Texas. About these times there leak out cer tain little instances of heroism and sacri fice which could not be known, perhaps, otherwise than through the dry details of annual reports. One of these con cerns the Citadel Square Church in1 Charleston. It so happened that just before the terrible earthquake. which not only shattered their .church, but which also destroyed many of thieir iiomes, the process of collecting the reg ular contribution for missons was in progress. Although dismayed at the vast proportions of the calamity upon them, this church finished their collec tion for misions, while without a sauact uary in which to meet, and while they bad nothing but the green sward light ened by the smile of God's sun where they could be gathered together. Some might sneer at this enthusiasm and term it fanaticism, but to me it looks like commnon old-fashioned 1.onesty. They did not own the money that had been given for a specific purpose, and no right could possibly exist for dive:ting it from the purpose for which it was given. But it was grand, neverthefess. The speaking in this convention is. al ways of the highest order of merit. It takes a tremendous amount of gall ini an ordinary man to seek to address and in terest 700 men drawn from the best and most advanced and thoughtful men of the South. So that when arguments are to be made there is a general depend ence upon the more able and eloquent men. One of the Northern visitors in his address quoted the remark of a pris ondr who had been captured by Rlome, and after his release and return to his home, described his captors as a"m n of Senators." That might be a lttle overdrawn, but still it is a senious tiung' to take the floor before ruch a body. 11 the calibre is suialil and the ammunition weak, the poor fellow soon discovers it --not by any discourtesy of the auditors, but by some inexplicable intuition that his silence would be golden, and is "farewell" be better than his '-howdy." The sermon preached before the con vention this year was by Dr. George Cooper, of Richmond. It was a glowing fervid disquisition upon "the Elxpecting Christ" ascending on high, and now seated upon His th.rone, "from hence forh expecting" until His cause should triurmph and the principles of kingdom prevail. Thus far strong addresses of manz than average ability have been m.de bv Dr. E0ward Jindson, of New York, the son of the veteran missionary, Adonimram Judson, by Dr. George C. Lorimer, of Chicago, Rev. Mr. Dixon, of Baltimore, Dr. C. C. Bitting, of the Publication Society, and Dr. .T. P. Greene, of St. Louis. Dr. Judson's ad dress on Saturday night moved a vast conecursCe as I have seen few assemblages moved, and following it came the rat tling and disconnected remarks of a minister of Augusta who rightly com pared himself to a small boy following Gilmores band who was set to the work of rsing some 2,500 for the future opeiions of the Board of Foreign Mis sions, which was done under the abiding inilieuce of the spet:ch of the great son of the greatest missionary. .1 FAT ULACK UOTTLE. Iilled to the Cork With Five Dollar Tres ury Notes. There came to hght in Macon yester lay a New Year's story that would fitly idorn a temperance lecture. A bright little girl gave away what was regarded as a pleasing secret. It [iappened in this way: The Telegraph man stumbled into a millinery store yes erday and while waiting to get the at tention of the lady who makes the female population pretty, idly listened to a con versation between a customer-evidently the wife of a mechanic-a .d the millin -r. The lady was looking at a very pretty hat for her little girl who stood it her side with hungry eyes. The hat was purchased, and the Telegraph man nentally thought it looked like extrava ance for a mechanic's family to throw way four dollars and a half on a little irl's hat. As this was the only purchase in which he child seemed interested, she sided ip to where the Telegraph man was tanding and artlessly said: "We dot ots or money now." The reporter here nentally cursed himself for forgetting > buy a ticket for the last lottery draw ng. "Where did you get it, sis?" "Papa broke th' bottle?" "Broke the bottle?" "Essur; th' bottle was jus' as fuller noney as it tood be, an' we's 'ich now." No true reporter can be idle when such Li item as this is in speaking distance, md it was not more than a few minutes >fore the child's mother was per uaded into telling the following story, d yet she never dreamed that every ord of it was being jotted down by the horthand finger of memory upon the humb worn page of a mental note book: "I have passed through the ordeal of drunkard's wife, and 1 am too happy Low to go over what and how much I uffered. My husband drank heavily .nd often half of his wages went for rink. He kept a large black bottle of thiskev all the time in the house, in dition to what he drank in town. On .hristmas Eve night five years ago he ame home drunk, and as something had one wrong with him, he was in the rorst kind of a humor. Our oldest boy vas in the crib very sick with the fever, nd there was not a cent of money in the touse to buy him the cheapest toy. My Lusband had been away from home all lav and being drunk had forgotten all bout his Christmas. I put my husband o bed and returned to the bed side of ay dying boy to watch and weep. It vas nearly daybreak when I saw my >ree'o - on sinking fast. Rushing oat >f the hL ase I called in a lady friend, nd then aroused my husband. The leep had somewhat sobered him, and ,s he loved his boy devotedly, he was on bending over the little fellow, beg ing him to say something to him. "The hittle fellow slowly turned his ~yes toward his father and said: I'm ~oing to die, papa, for I see the angels >eckong me to come. This is Christ nas morning, papa; please let me see hat Santa Claus put in my stocking. Iy husband went to the mantle and ook down the little stocking. It was ~mpty! He stood still and stared at it or a minute, and God only knows the gony of his heart in that short time. le turned to say, but our boy would iot have heard him had the poor man's >raking heart allowed to speak. Our Joy was dead! "The day before New Year's my hus )and called for the bottle. May God orgive my feelings at that minute, for I ished he, too, was dead. I obeyed him nehanically. To my surprise, he took he bottle in his hands and, pouring the hisky on the ground, said: 'I will rink no more; and the money I would spend for whiskey we will put in this ottle, and all enjoy the contents.' You :an imagine how happy I was. He had won off many times before, but I knew se was in earnest this time. We made a alculation, and estimated that whiskey ost him, taking the past year as a basis, >n an average of five dollars a week. You see a good deal of his money went to pay court fines for drunkenness. Well Lt was decided to put five dollars a week n the~ bottle for tive years, come what would. The time was out last New ear's day, and the big black bottle was broken. Now .tigure up how many five .olars that bo.ttie contained!" "Two hundred and sixty." "YEs, or 81l,000 doltars. But this was not all. We saved en >ugh in that time oatside of the botti - o buy a little bhome." "But are you not afraid in breaking the bottle your husband will break his resolution?" "No; because we have started another bottle bank," said the lady with a happy smile. The husband is a Macon mechanic, well know and enjoys the respect and esteem of all. He says he never knew how m~uch genuine pleasure there was at home with his loved ones until he got sobr enoug~h to appreciate it, and to fill insted of empty the fat black bottle. ReIdo ssoemsthe only way to ipr.s a truthi upon: the ind. Accord inly ak 'uctice tat Dr. Pieree's "Pleas nt *''r'gat'ie Pellets," (the original Little Li'r clillri continue to bec wouderfully ffctiv.e inl cases of sick and nervous head ace constipatio'n, imiietion, rush of blo0t the 1head, cold extremIitie.s, aniL :dl -dme:t 'ariusing~ from obstruction of the bo~ii~ enctionas. Their actiona is thoro~ugh ye eladte nrdet en entirely regnble, they can b~e taken with impunity into thie most delicate stomaich. All drtug Taere is more ambition without energy hn enrmr wihont ambition. WILD LIFE ON TILE BORDER. Three Mexicans Who Tried to Rob a Sheriff 1 and What Happened. (From the Philadelphia North American.) A tall, spare man, with glittering r black eyes that stared you unflinchingly t in the face, lounged carelessly around i ithe Continental Hotel last night. 1 It was James Hart, who was at one a time sheriff of a little town in the south- i western part of Texas. S The town at the time of Hart's election t was fairly overrun by lawless people. a "I reckon I seen some putty excitin' 1 times on the frontier," he said to a North 1 American reporter. i "People out my way use ter say I i could fite. Well, mebbe I kin and c mebbe I can't. "I remember onet-that was just after d I was elected-that it became known I I had some dust hid in my bedroom. t "One night when we war asleep three h derned greasers kem in and tried to A steal it." "Did they get away with it?" asked I a the reporter. 1 "Stranger," said the ex-sheriff delib erately, "considerin' that there air three a graves jes on the other side of my house u with the bodies of three greasers in 'em, b it is putty safe to say they didn't git the t dust." s "Thar kem to our town one day," con- la tinued the ex-sheriff, "a young feller I from the east. His name whar Bob a Chambers, en he whar as bright and as A hansome a youngster as I ever laid eyes w on. All the gals in town and on the f neighboring ranches got dead stuck on r him. C "At thet time Tom Parker kept the u 'Quickstep Concert Saloon.' 7 "His daughter Nellie sang on the stage, and durned purty gurl she whar. p "She had a way of lookin' at ye with o them big black eyes of hern that would g make you feel like jumpin' up and kissin' p her. tl "The minit Chambers seen her he fell si head over heels in love with her. ti "Night after night he'd be seen at the a 'Quickstep' listening to thet gal sing, not thet she hed sech a good. voice, but [ on account of her purty face. "Dick Sanders, the son of a rich A rancher, was also in love with the gal. s< She didn't seem ter take to 'im, en' she p told him so one night. tb "He didn't say nothin', but turned on b his heel and went out. It was nearly a ra month afore he turned up again. "One bright morning a vanquero found the dead body of Bob Chambers lying by the roadsiAe, near an old hacal. A bullet hole in his head showed how he was killed. "In his hand he clinched tightly a J gray coat button. * s; "When Nelly heard of Bob's death te she nearly went crazy. ai "One day she disappeared, and was a ever afterward of. S "It was late on Saturday night. u "The saloon was full of men drinkin', G smokin' and playin' kyards. cc "Sanders hem in en and started a P small game. e "I noticed one of the buttins of his i coat was missin'. "Sez I to myself, 'Dick, me boy, ye w ir the one who gave Chambers his set- w tier. I'll 'rest you.' u. "I slid up to him, and placing my shooter agin his head, said quietly: "'Dick, I recon ye air wanted to oc- P cupy a cell down at Laredo jail.' X "'Wat fur?' he said up in an instant, o and layin' his hands on his weapons. tl "'None of that! hands up over your w head.' "'Ye air wanted for killin' Bob Cham- bi bers.' "'It's a lie,' he yelled; 'ye ain't got cC no proof.'w " 'Mebbe not, but d'yc ever see that t~ afore?' says I, tossing the gray button I on the table. "Sanders turned the color of chalk, T and then said: "Well, I suppose I might as well fc g'long an' 'prove my innercence in 9 court. 1 "Yes; yer hoss and mine, already sad- ' ded, stand afore the door." "Didn't he show any fight?" asked the P~ reporter. "Naw," was the response; "it wouldn'tjP do fur him to show fight in thet place.Itl Chambers was worry popular, and the P hull darned town would a fit to kill his 'I murderer if riled. Sanders knowed this. P: "As Laredo was too far away Icouldn't a take him down thar thet night, so I al startea for Jake Roberts's place, about 13 ten miles from town. "The darkness was so dense that you could have cut it with a boarding house o knife. P " 'Bout the only thing you could hear a above the clatter of the horses' hoofs war the chirpings of the night insects and p birds in the trees. "We stopped at a ranch, got a drink Ul en' then pushed on. h "I noticed Sanders keep eyein' the 5 thick underbrush that lay like a shadow 'long the dark road.n "I thought he wanted to escape, and ' so I says: 'The fust move ye make, San- d ders, 1 plug ye with lead.' 0 "He didn't say nothin', but looked d strate afore him after that.b "Just as we got to a portion of the I! road that skirts a lonely lake Sanders P imitated the screech of a night owL 0 "I knew what that meant, though. "Quick as lightning I slid offer my hoss to the ground. 1 "I was just in time. "A dozen rifles belched forth their a contents. "My horse dropped dead. "Sanders put spurs to his horse, but not soon enough.f "Up went my gun. "Crack!s "Sanders fell over his animal dead as a a door nail. "As soon as I iired I changed my po sition. It wur we'l, fur another volley whistled thro' the air.t "I jumped into the lake, swam across s and made my way back to the town. "I got a posse of men and went after ~ them as tried to rescue Sanders. "They were his father, brother and a ~ half-dozen ranchers. "The father and brother escaped, but C the others danced a jig in the air: v "Thet's the way we live down in t Texas," continued the ex-sheriff, as he a stepped into the elevator. "Come down C e some time." "The New York market is extensively C suppied with foreign eggs." We thought a our fathers cast oiT the foreign yolk for a CONDITION OF THE CROPS. ic May Report of the National Depart ment of Agriculture. The report of the United States Dc >artment of Agriculture for May relates o the condition of winter grain, the rogress of spring plowing end the pro ortion of the proposed cotton area lready planted. It indicates a decline a the condition of wheat of two points ince April 1st, the general average for ie whole country being 86, against 95 t the same da:te in 188, 70 in 1885, and 4 in 1884. The changes in condition ave not been uniform throughout the inter wheat region, some States show ag an increase, a majority a slight de line, and a few a heavy falling off. Rye has suffered from the same con itions which have injuriously affected -heat, but on account of its hardier na ire the general average is considerably igher, standing at 90.8, against 92.8 on .pril 1st and 95.7. at the same date in 886. The condition is barely below the verage, being 87.8, against 96.7 in May, S36, and 82 in 1885. The season has been more generally avanced in all parts of the country than sual, spring plowing being seriously ehind only on the Atlantic coast South Pennsylvania, and on the Pacific opc. In these sections it has been de yed by cold and excess of moisture. lsewhere the work is ahead of the aver g year, the season, especially during pril, having been genarally favorable, ith temperature above normal and rain dl at minimum. The proportion al mdy on May 1st is estimated at 80 per mt. of the whole, while the amount sually completed at that date is about 3 per cent. The proportion of cotton already [anted amounts to more than four-fifths the proposed area, and is slightly eater than at the same date in any receding five years, but is little less tan the proportion returned by corre iondents as the average planting at at date. The proportions by States -e as follows: North Carolina 70, South Carolina 80, eorgia 84, Florida 96, Alabama 88, ississippi 84, Louisiana 83, Texas 82, rkansas 80, Tennessee So. There is me complaint of slow germination and >or stands on account of drought at e time of planting in some sections, it with favorable weather replanting is pidly filling all the gaps. AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR. How Two Actors Net by Chance. (From the Chicago News.) Gus Mortimer, the manager of Louis tnes, who is lately from New Orleans, ys that the S6uthern people are in nsely disgusted with the recent utter Lees of Jeff Davis. Beauregard was d is still a great favorite with the )utherners, and they resent any slight >on him. Mortimer who was in the nfederate army and in Beauregard's immand, says that he was the most )pular rebel officer, although he was an :tra strict disciplinarian. During the *st winter of the war Beauregard com anded the armies of Virginia, and the ather was intensely cold. The men re volunteers of course, and entirely ised to the hardships of war, and they 11 sick in great numbers, and, what as worse, became dull and dispirited. rofiting by the example of the first apoleon, Beauregard hit upon the plan establishing a theatre in the camp for .e amusement of the troops. Mortimer is selected to organize the company Ld the work of erecting the theatre was gun. The man who was entrusted th the funds necessary to engage the mpany skipped South and deserted ith the money, and the movement of e Federal army broke up all the plans. uring the war, Mortimer says, the: eatres in the South coined money. le horrors of the siege were mitigated; td sometimes added to by dramatic per rmances, and when an army entered a wn the first thing it did was to organ e a company and play in the theatre. yme of the armies contained enough >ldier-actors for a very fair sized coin my, and in some cases plays were re tarsed ahead, but oftener still the comn my was non-military and belonged to, .e theatre or traveled about seeking to ay in some town occupied by troops.: ie prices charged were 50 cents for ivates and $1 for olicers and the uses were universally packed. The idiences were enthusiastic and general in the very best of humor, so much so to make it rather diflicult to play. :ortimer was paroled, and played off an i for a year or two with all sorts of eked up companies-half piofessional, ilf amateur, and all sorts of sectional n and polities. Once at Corinth he ayed "Richard III." in a linen duster; at the audience didn't seem to mind e discrepancy a bit, and insisted on is coming forward in the tent scene and nging the "Star Spangled Banner" and In the P'rison Cell I Sit." On the igt of the second day's battle of the ilderness Mortimer was on picket sty. ie had not eaten a morsel for ier thirty-six hours, and he was nearly sad with hunger, and very faint, having at recently come from the hospital. it :d been the wont of the soldiers to sup y the place of food with copious chews plug tobacco, and Mortimier's pockets re ull of the weed, but the doctor had rbidden him using it. He was stand ig by a tree, faint and despairing, and the agony of his situation exclaimed "I'd give the biggist plug of tobacco the world for a piece of bard-tack." "I'll take you at your word, Johnny eb," exclaimed a hearty voice, and be >re Mortimer could bring his gun to his ouldr a form sprang out of the dusk ad a stalwart zouave stood before him. "Ive been watching you for some me." continued the Northern man, and I thought you saw me and was get n ready to pot me till I heard you eak." The zouave had unslung his napsack and displayed before the famn hed rebel what seemed to him a ban net. "And now, young fellow," he mid, "if you'll give inca plug of tobacco1 ou can have all the hard-tack your jaws n rack. Fork over." Such exchanges -rc common, and Mortimer clutched .ie food and passed over a plug of Vir inia tobacco, which was as eagerly re eived by the zouave. They talked a oioment or two, and then, realizing their anger, prepared to part. .Mortimer in identally told his companion his name ad calling. The other was surprised d said he was an actor, too. "Yua reT" naked Mortimer. delight ed. "You are a brick. When the war is over I'll come North and join you. What's your name?" "Louis James," said the zouave, as he reslung his knapsack, picked up his gun and disappeared in the woods. For the Fanmer. Soon the scarecrow and stretched wires will be seen in the fields as pro tection against crows, but it is a diputed question as to whether the crow in the cornfield is an enemy or a friend. Though he be sometimes destructive to the corn, yet he destroys many insects and grubs. Large trees can be moved and trans planted, thus taking advantage of several years growth, provided all the roots and some of the adhering earth be carritd with them. The place in which they are to be deposited should also be specially prepared for their reception. A prominent nurseryman says that nursery practices in peach propagation and culture have weakened the vital power of the tree, which is unable to re sist as depressing influences as formerly, when the trees from seeding grew well and lived to an old age. A fresh egg will sink when placed in water, and when boiled the skin 'will not peel off like that of an orange, as in the case with those not strictly fresh. Stale eggs are glassy and very smooth, while fresh eggs have a peculiar roughness. Where the ground has been well har rowed and made even and smooth the labor of harvesting will be lessened, as the ground will be better fit for the work of the harvesting machine. Remove all stones and clods that may interfere. The farmer who gets behind in his work at this season will not very easily catch up. It requires more effort to succeed when there is no regular system than otherkise, and this is the month when the most careful work should be done. The French, who export pears, cover the inside of the boxes with spongy paper or dry moss, which absorbs the moisture. The pears can be thus kept a month or more. They are closely packed, but do not touch each other. The 58th annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will be held September 27 to 30 inclusive. The premium list amounts to $700. The chrysanthemum show is to occur Novem ber 8 to 11 inclusive. There are over fifty poultry associa tions in the United States, that annually give exhibitions. They have been in strumental in greatly advancing the poultry interests. Use no stable manure on your peach trees. A mixture of some kind of min eral fertilizers is better. Experiments have shown marl to be excellent for peach trees. Wire netting, 2-inch mesh, is now cheaper than boards for fencing poultry, and can be more easily arranged and with less labor. Laying a front yard with turf will nearly always result in a stand of grass, even after repeated seedings have been tried without success. Even on the best regulated farms stock may be injured. Hence old wells, half hidden ditches and such like should be covered or filled up. The ditches along the sides of the road should be opened now, in expectation of a busy season and the prevalence of spring rains. In filling vacancies in blackberry patches put the roots down as deep in he ground as possible, as the season is rather late. The season has been very favorable to he growth of young strawberry plants, he loss in some sections being very small. Evergreen hedges may be trimmed and put in shape as late as this month, but it s best not to cut back too much. The small size broilers will now begin o give way to those weighing three to our pounds per pair. Manufacturing in South Carolina. The Chronicle is pleased to note the eterprise and success of South Caroli na, and points to the State's statistics in anufacturing enterprises with pleasure. The State has suffered little if any from labor troubles, and shows her manufac ories flourishing almost uniformaly. The statement is made that in 1860 she had 1,280 factories and $7,000,000 used as capital. In 1880, 2,078 factories were running, $11,230,000 capital was in use, and the product was $16,700,000. Last year these figures had grown to 3,243 factories, $21,250,000 capital, and $30, 000,000 of poducts. TeColumbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun gives the above figures, and says that during the last six years there has been a gain of over eighty per cent., and adds: "isn't there something to be proud of in that?" Exemption of many indus trial enterprises from taxation has tend ed to give big help to growth. Under such policy the cotton mills have grown till now they employ $5,000,000 of capi tal, as compared with $800,000 in 1860U, while the annual product has become 5,600,000 against $700,000 at the war's outbreak. Trade in lumber has devel oped as handsomely. In 1860 $1,140, 000 was employed as capital in timber production, and the market value of the output then was $1,124,000. Last year $3,20,000 was the capital in use, and the product brought $6,236,000. Rosin and turpentine making have kept pace; in 1880 $1,000,000 was the value of that product; last year it grew to $2,900,000. -Charlotte Chronicle. THE Ei'oRT OF THE BUIR.AU OF STA istes just received shows that the i ~orts for the month of March amount t2,929,242, being an increase over the same r~aonth of last year of $2,890,000. The la:-gest increase in article was in coffee and tin plate. D~utiable goods only increased but little over $1,000,000. The imports for the nine months ending March 31 amounted to $508,875,387, an increase of $38,000,000 over the same period of last year. Of this increase nearly $27,000,000 was in dutiable and the remainder in free goods. At the average rate of duty, this shows an in crease in customs over last year of about $12,00,000. The imports of sugar fell of about $3,000,000, which indicates either that more was produced or that les seing used. TnD )EANI) Till- UEIAl. 1i1l Nye Again Rouses Up the Interstate Commissioners. (Fromu tIh New York World.) Under the Interstate Commerce Law a dog cannot ride on the elevated road, but this does not apply to other wild or domestic animals. That is the reason that a dude yester day, accompaiuied by a young bear, weighing about forty pounds, success fully evaded the ticket-taker and rode down town on one tickLt. The dude wore one of those short waisted and sawed-of' ulsters, commonly called Norfolk jackets, but the cub wore nothing but an air of defiance. The two sat down near each other, but the bear was restless. Finally lie jumped up on the seat near a lady, who was riding down. town, and she went into another car. There was a good deal of room then near :he dude, but nobody wanted any of those seats. There ought to be some ruling on this question of bear transportation. It is a matter that interes+Q -ll of us. Can wild beasts and reptiles be classed as people, while dogs are ruled out? Can a man, accompanied by a small dog, be barred out, while the owner of an elephant or an active hornet's nest may take hi property with him on his journey? Bere was a clear case of wild beast whose youth alone prevented his eating people, for he hungry enough to eat the hind legs of a railroad frog. The question to be submitted to the Interstate Commission is, whether the railways by thus leaving down the bars are not, as common carriers, to admit a gentleman accompanied by a hyena, a pet goat, an alligator or a rhinoceros. Unjust discriminations cannot be made to the prejudice of any one. It is to be hoped, however, that furth er complications may be avoided by leaving the bears at home, and if the owners can tear themselves away from their bears during business hours and leave them at home, it will do much to restore travel to its normal condition. BILL -NY-,. The Cotton 3lovement. The New York Financial Chronicle, in its weekly cotton revier;, says that for the week ending Friday evening, the 6th inst., the total receipts have reached 13, 077 bales, against 15,141 bales last week, 14,222 bales the previous week, and 21, 627 bales three weeks siuce; making the total rccnipts since the 1st of Seoptember, 1886, 5,135,231 bales, against 5,078,348 bales for the same pericd of 1885-86. showing an inrcrease duce September 1, 1886, of 5,883 bales. The imports into contioental ports for the same period have been 60,000 bales. There was an increase in the cot ton in sight, Friday night, of 31,651 bales as compared with the same date of 18SSG, an increase of 110,C34 bales as com pared with the corresponding date of 18S5, and a decrease of 27G,1,3 b:.les a. compared with 1884. The old interior stocks have decreased datmg the week 10,520 bales, and were Friday night 1:35,471 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts at the same towns have been 12,192 bales less than the same week a:,t year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 6,936 bales more than for the same time in 1885-86. The total receipts from the plantations since September 1, 1886, are 5,173,677 bales; in 1885-81 were 5,283,625 bales; in 1864 5 were 4,742,263 bales. Although the receipts at the outports the past week were 13,077 bales, the actual movement from plantations was only 2,602 bales, the bance being taken from the stocks t the interior towns. Last year the re eipts from the plantations f or the same week were 18,164 bales, and for 1885 they were 2,228 bales. The decrease in amount in sight Friday night, as com pared with last year, is 49,262 bales, the increase as compared with 1884--85 is 3,495 bales and the increase over 1883-84 is 683,695 bales. The Chronicle, in its monthly review, gives some interesting figures. The gross movement during April exhibits a de cline from the figures for the correspond ing month of the two p)receding years, the month's total being 50,515 bales, against 80,461 bales last year and 51,932 bales in 1885; for the eight moenths~ the aggregate is 1,197,568 bales, against 1,071,817 bales and 894,760 bales, re spectively, for the same period of the two preceding seasons. The net move ment for the month is also below that for April of 1886, bat exhibits an in erase over the same month in 1885 ol 7,868 bales. The totals are 30,304 bales this year, againhst 59,468 bales in 1886, and 22,536 bales in 1885. Notwithstand ing the smaller month's movement, the aggregate net for the season to date con tinues in excess of that for any simiar peric d in our record. The Chronicie sag s that, in common with the overland, receipts at the porte during April record a decline fronm a year ago. In facd, the net arrivals have been less than half what they were in April, 1886, reaching 89,156 b-des, against :.:2,800 bales, and mn comparnson with 1kS there is a ioss of 14,150) bales, the to'tal thea being 10:-,375 bales. F.or the eight months, however, the aggre gate i~s in excess of that for either 1885-56 or 1584 -55. The exports to foreign ports have fallen oir very considerabiy during the month, thbe number of bales ship1ed aggregatiug 195,118, against 322,149) a year ago, and 186,302 in 1855. Contrasted witna last year, the total to May 1 records an excess of 559,374 bales, and the gain over 1854-85 is 583,jul bales. lPort stocks are now 0,5 bales less than on May 1, last year, and the decline from a year ago in the stocks at interior tow~ns in 146,000 bales. The amount of cotton marketed sinlce Septmbler 1 in 1s6--7 is thus seen to0 be 14;,477 bales more than in 1885-0,an 722,81 bales miore than in 1884-. T total takings by spinners since Septer2 her 1, 1836, are 1,769,191 bales Of l amount, Southern spinners have takena :331,6'00 bales. Northern spinners had up to May 1 taken 1,4:J8,191 bales, a de rease from the corresponding period ;a 185-6 of 145, t25 balies, and an incae ovr the. same timeL in 1884-5 of 204,ou8 bales. A bright eye, clear skin, glowing fL2 turc, animated expression, and a quiex, irm ,teu. These are all secured by sn Dr.n~ T-artic's Iron Tonic.* WAR AND JOURNALISM. How General Washington Would Haie Appreciated a Good Reporter. Moncure D. Conway recently read in New York a paper on "The General and the Journalist in time of War" before the Military Service Institution at Gov ernor's Island, New York. Mr. Conway related his experiences as a war correspondent during the Franco Prussian war. He contrasted the treat. ment he and Murat Halstead received at the hands of the French, who turned them out of Metz, with the attention subsequently shown them by order of Bismarck when they followed the general army. "Generals come and go, but the reporters and interviewers are always with us," he said, "and the warriors of our time have got to come to some terms with them." Referring to an eminent English military authority, whom he did not name, Mr. Conway remarked: "I need not say that I do not mean Lord Wolseley, for he is an eminent English humbug." It was the testimony of Germany, he declared that it was a de cided advantage to have correspondents with an army, and he never heard of a military authority or General who had expressed regret or found fault that courtesies were extended to the corre spondents. In the discussion which followed Capt. F. V. Green, who recently re signed from the United States engineers, and was the United States military attache with the Russian army during the war with Turkey, told of the surveil lance exercised by the Russians over correspondents and their reports. Capt. Green paid a very high compliment to MeGarraghan, whom he rated as one of the greatest war correspondents. Major J. B. Greund told of the exactions of English military officials while he was with the army in Egypt. Col. W. C. Church gave a few experiences dm ing the civil war. Gen. J. B. Fry, in closing, read this letter concerning cor respondents, written by Washington CIMP OF THE GIoE, July 19, 175 7. To the Committee of Congress on a Visit to the Camp: A small traveling press to follow headquarters would be productive of many eminent advantages. It would enable us to give speedily ex act information of any military transad tions that take place, with proper com ments upon them, and thereby frustrate the pernicious tendency of falsehood and misrepresentation, which, in my opinion, of what complexion they be, are in the main detrimental to our cause. If the people had a channel of intelli gence that from its usual authenticity they could look up to with confidence, they might be preserved from that despondency they are apt to falt into from the exaggerated picture our ene mies and their emissaries among us com monly draw of any misfortune we meet with. An ingenius man to accompany this press and be employed wholly in writing for it would render it singularly beneficial. Gxo. NVA MGTON. A BITTER HARANGUE. The Very Wild Talk of a Very Foolish Negro. (From the Baltimore Sun.) A meeting of colored citizens was held in this city last night. The chairman stated that it was called to advocate a judicious emigration'from those parts of the South where the colored people are subjected to unjust treatment to such parts of the United States where they enjoy the rights and privileges accorded to every citizen of the United States. That there are many places in the South where the colored people enjoy proper civil protection is an admitted fact. Our policy will be to encourage them to re main'there, for the reason their position, to say the least, is fair. But we shall never cease our labors in the interest of those who are not so well off. E. H. Sutton (,olored) an ex-member of the North Carolina Legilature, was introduced. He said: "I the matter of voting all kinds of device are practiced to defraud the colored people out of their votes. Throughout the Solid South laws have been made that no de vice, such as a picture of any kind, or even a dot,.should be placed on a ballot, that would enable the voters who are unable to read to discrimiate between the Democratic and Republican tickets. Whenever such a ballot is found in the ballot box it is thrown out, and if found in the hands of a colored voter he is sent to prison for violating the election laws. In many counties the leaders among the colored people are arrested and sent to the penitentiary or murdered to intimi date their followers. By the 'landlord and tenant laws, if a colored man plants a crop and gathers it before the landlord makes a division of it according to his claims upon the tenant, the tenant is convicted of fraud and sentenced to the penitentiary. By what is known as the 'justified law' of North Carolina, colored men are prevented from going security for each other by a law requiring such sureties to swear that they are worth 31,500 in real estate, which must be un encumbered by mortgage and the party entirely out of debt. The whites will sell colored people ali the land they want, but they must agree to give the grantor a mortgage on the land, and work it in partnership until paid for. One may work on such terms for twenty yars and at its expiration will be in ebt, owning nothing. Provisions are sold to tenants at extortioniate prices pork at 15 cents per pound, common flour at 5 cents, brown sugar at 10 cents, etc. Womeh are hired at eighty-two per month. The schools in many coun ties are kept open only two and a half monhs. If you undertake to keep an accoint of your work and wages and hold the employer to it, you are ac counted a bad 'nigger,' and must be got ten rid of, o; you will spoil all other 'niggrs.' You must either escape for yur* life or be put in prison on some preext or murdered." Tn~ sroRY oF IRETAND is best told by some ligures furnished by Mniball, one of the most reliable statisticians of his day. He says that during Victoria's reign there have died of starvation in Ireand 1,255,000 people; there have ben~ evicted for non-payment of rent :3,1;,.J00; and there have emigrated 4,1"5i00. This is tifty years' record of the reign of a good Queen! It needs no When everything clse':fails, Dr. Sage's ( aWaib Remedy nres