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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.
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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