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VO.1IANNING. CL A ENDONS COU NTY, S. C., W EDNESDAY J 88s NO. 24. Vol-J IIIA T I THIS Ai.I.-DIOlRTANT MAT 'E1. A Careful Revit..- of the Co:dUtion 0. Scwhools as Learne by in-ti" a Win Leading People inL this Sectioi. F:-om th-e ':,tuimere An The Imev. William F. Slocum, of the First Congregational Church, returned on Saturday night from an extended trip of several weeks' duration in, the Southern States, where he was e gaged a imvestigatimg the conditions of edu0a tion, particularly colored 'tols Among the places visited were ; ton, Savannah, Jack-Uvilie, Fl.t, New Orleans, Jackson, -Miss., and Talladega, Ala. Besides visiting the publiu .iihol from lowest to highest grade, ad tLe various colleges, an interview v.::3 had with the Governor of Missis:,ippi, '. ius city authorities, State educatio coM missioners and othevs. 'Mr. S eum said: "I found every where a stro:e ing that the colored people must a ed ucated. The New South has no oubts on this questicu. In most cases i p;nary education of colored people iscora- cte by the State, Georgia and M iss.Ip: particularly granting large sums: but higher instruction in the ordinary En lish branches is usually afforded by t be church schools supported by p!ilan thropic contributions. The w f these schools is of greatest importance for training colored teachers of high character. It is a striking fact tat re ligion, as taught by the ordinary e4 red preacher in the South, is not elevt the moral tone of the colored race. Of course there are striking exceptions. but the improved moral tone of the race comes through the training in tiiee higher church schools and colle. . It found a prevailing tentiment every were that industrial education must be push ed. This amounts to a decided mve Laent and -ome of the colleges do Irst rate work. Another strikiug fact that shows improved moral conditions is t hat the color line is growing more diict that is, there are more black children and fewer mulattoes, which indic:d., a healthiersevaration of whites and blacks. No one who has not stcod face to with the tremendous proldem in L South can rightly appreciate its iot'y difficulties, and yet there are elent nin hope. stroig hope, and the outlook i" not woiolly discouraging. "In Charleston the 'dorrin school is the best for colored chil, 1. and contains about v: impi " principal, Mr. A. Doty, an C.,t Southein gentleman, was :n oiietr a the South Carolina army. it is a nificant fact that it was he who ioa. the first gun that fired upon the ship advancing to th" aid of F]i'rt Sumter in 1861- The school is prevaded -uith '.e spirit of military discipline, anad the utmost neatness of dress is reg. There are 24 teachers, but only primr o branches are taught. "In Savannah colored teachers ::re employed in the colod schools, as is usually the case throughout the Som. except irr Charleston. Here, as eV where else, the sentiment that the colored people must be educated prevails. "un Florida not so much has been done as elsewhere. The colored popula tion is not so great there as in som of the other States. It is signiticant thtt the new college for whites, the W\inter Park College, at Winter Park, Fl. though only two years old, has take a very high stand among Southern eaut. tional institutions. "In New Orleans the educatiorau movement for both races is strong, and1 it is spreading into the counties of the State in an excellent system of county free schools. The Straight University,1 in New Orleans, is the best institution for the training of colored stude nts in the more advanced branches. It has 50 in attendance, and supplies numecrousI teachers to the country schools through. out the South. Eighty per cent. of thse graduates become teachers. The univer sity has white teachers, and includes a law arnd a theological departmet. Its funds ::ome largely from the American Missionary Association, and it is doing worK of great value. Some of the ne groes about New Orleans arc becombi:g quite wealthy as plantation owners, and one owns a large interest in one of the railroads that runs into the city. "Mississippi appropriates $1,000,000) annually for educational purposes, aro the amount is divided per capita a.mong the white and the blackphodis. The: Governor of the State-if a man of ad mirable shrewdness, who believes thor oughly that the saifety of the country depends upon the educatiou of the co! ored people. 'We feel very kindly ti ward the colored people;' 'aid the Gox ernor, and added. rathr siutcaty believe that thi-e apaies of the coloredi race have bee n underrat'a.' The~ be school for the educt.ion of coloed stu !den~ts in iisippi is at Toug'loo, ne' Jackson. It is upon a lrg plntie of 500 acer., ..as, ' 't'.eis 'dci upon the idustria pl. I hs l~ active suppor t the S tt, imm whic it receives 5~.,'I00 a y 'r l of the boys work on the f arm for one hour each day, which hais two valuable resulte: First, it teaches them how to care for stock, &c., and second, how to imsprove wornout lands, a necessary procs in the agricultural development of the South. Blacksmithing, carpentryv and tinning are taught. A student, it he chooses', may become a regular appren tice. A most interesting exprimnti being tried by the president of the col lege at To" ugaloo. He putrchased a tract of 2,000) acres of land, which he dividea into tracts of 2 and 30Q acres, and is sell ing to colored familie". It is f'onu t.a. thelandholder immuedliately beconmes con servative and more strenuous for higher education. This school is doing a ms important work, and every cent received from contributions is welt expen' d. "Anotherschool of similar acelenc is that at Talladega, in labaia. Iti upon the industn~al plan:, i5 supporte by the American Missionary: Ass'scii, and receives help from the Sbte fund, so wisely administered by Dr. Haygood, formerly of Oxford, ia. tSew ing and cooking are among the branches taught to girls. ".An excellent featnure sthat a small s-.hools t is n-evr less tlhan :1 per Inh A'. n r .1 per o i has, bo.ei found' tiastrous to give :molcation t" ay !,nie free Of cha.rge. for it is not prI* d.3In of the colorl pro)pht- great .aeri lices ~n~to ee to r c;.drtn at schoul. The spiri of devotion amoug the teach ers in the coiepe, who nre uiuallv per Sons ( thorouh ti 1 tae North, and who nia!!v re-ie very mleagre salaries, is one ot the .opeful signs of our tiaUms. .inhed, the whole problem, Oliver Wedl 1--H 1 c has a L. 'Any patient e- i I cu L thI d ct is caled i-n time, bat t. treul i, in many cases that Im doctor shouli P:ze e etdled tol or tLrce louvdrot ye a' btfore the p ra r.- Th-ae -e i a sirong sentineuot iu the South that thle colored peoule must go onto the Soil. There is something in this. They sem not unnited for it, and may become a kind of strong conservative yeoLmanry in the South. Buit their occupatioLs need not be limited to this cylere, and many oth1cr occupations Colored lawyers practice in the country distriets, and ill certain cases colored physielais have been calle-d in consultin with white phys~ician. aThefa t muA beo kept in miud that tLis is a question of elevating a race, and not merlv of raising a lew individ:s in tL-s generation. The i church schools are having a !trong andi elevating moral intuenee. TLe spirit of genuine r-ligiou- devotion is often profound. Each college needs to be specialvl endowed so as to carry out an indepciident policy adapted to the com munity in which it is placed. These sehools are necessarv oecause they make the elements od Lora and religious -haracter, a.d this character can be >rought into the race only by the special raining of individuzis who shall become licigent and upright leaders. Le ame may be said of the pupils in these chools as Dr. Thomas Arnold said of he boys of Englnnd, 'We must seck to raise up~ gre~atlrs.' L t A gLIND INVENTOR. ..on- auc na :<. )rg:Jae Gun :rmi Other Sz-in Withctt t:h- Aidt of sighc. t I have haI the opport unity of meeting ,he inv entor of a new rifle. Herr Franz Forla, t a fomnsr ieutenunt in the fLustrian arm'y, who, during the !irst :.ni sin::. rt.ecived a shot in ais r.lIt eye, wich destroyed t Ae optic aerve', an~d, indirAectly, soll acedL the-, lef lt Ae til the p S deaer, no oly 28 ke.r ! id, 1:a.- 1boen fur it last -ine _ir6 totZally 1b:Ind. B1ut wiVthout th e use i he e iz i: ine =u anl has' I d u g ese years not vULy, a 2eW aga:ngu, also two mi hnes the t iOxidti ion of iron .tvcc and othr metals at a coSt wich .ant 1' called ridi"ulously Small; furth r, au aipaatus ior automat.cal up n a inwieroctett r, a new ;sott autpowder, nut to e Of iliLr in retions whichi fu -'.eir way into the esse inustialetalshmntsof Vien.' md saved the inventor from starvation, t Us is great dicorvries, far from brir g 'ug ci: m oeats et Det.'te -a .Mutlay 'a wh.i Ue ea ard'i only by ex-~ reme pt tsonal privations. "My rifl ::omplained t.e unfortu::ate inveatoe, "would ha-e long been in the hands of the British gov.ruLent had the advanc 1 :noniey which I hatd obtained from a !t private person in London been more than ?220, which Oid not suffice for the vrages of one workman, who assists m,, ma the necessary material. "Now at last it is finished, and though [ may f'all into the fault of all inventor, [ considler it the best rifle existing, being without the disadivantag'es of other na :-ne ridles, and with many advantages .ver them. I can prove by my Austrian ma German patents of some live years -'o that th'e straight puli system whichl lstnguishes every modern r lie, and in itslf, without the machine, secures the louble effe,:t, has be-eunmy invention. U~pon this and upon other appropr-t tions in the line by ditferent successful inet ? do not lay any stress. There nis my. ne rte, which, in short, has the folowing ad.2vantage-s: it can be used as ingle loader even with an attached magazue; eartridges are not thrown into the Lgi~el in a loose form, but lie one above the other, without the possibility of placing them wrongly; the magazine an be attacd er not at will; all parts are0 sona, no ispiral spriLg exis i tim rie; thle price of nmy weapon with roy alty and eveything else will be under 2. Ev-ery old system, with the eep tioa of Werdi's, can be used for trans. formation into my ridle at a cost of S o 10) shiliigs-less in the case of Gras, Mauser, Berdan or Beaumont, and something more in the case of Ienry Martini." "And how can you make any inven tion, specially such a complicated one as arifl, without, unafortutnately, being able to :-o tL- e..Aiaa:te p:-ts, and how are your dkvice, caniedt Out by the woa~rk Iseev ' wit mynger- And not i one sing' c. L.5 ::':e they: deceivaed me. ti~os: we a'.e dth their *yes kare waron, t~i ,wih h e. of y ::ng-rs, am . -y . hla-/ o y macims epa-.. salaton of metals we-re entirel m:d I. nvyself f-'n earve-d wt~Od, with th Lel of a string, wire arid bread eumbs. I am now dte'.sSg a very con pliated electric apparatus." .J o :: he:- az:s..co::i ( he~cc. i r-o - -ems merre than probaibe tha '~to Hawle iy b~a a dlonWh porI)o., in td~g >yal : Leiin re.ui~on adr ban-q.et. H" w -. of e -s de ed o met ~ii EMod ct nr .es t.v-C~ peotle ai chan-ce to b' oom or eago i::tkn. Thudy Lion n, whercei he n' met.,vea of the : 'st X minent -euln in0h sa:--.. 'It E i re:".tehtt wiu .....-...:: an Ht* aw ie'. rndmiu what I t .0yu :' ha t goaing to bce. If- ane nisc'ance her-uiu cannot maal t, ee he ill wanit iawley for ir..t plc .:nrd -some- live W estern 'a lik'e Major- McKinley, of Canton, orR bertson, of Indiaina, for Vie-President" WOMEN AT THI POLLS. Uov tit Vair One of WashIn;on Terri tory Cust Their iiallot,. W.I.A-W.\LLA, May 24.-Although a tenderfoot and acquainted with few in our vicinity, I was appointed a jadge of election in Mica precinct. A struggle was in prrgress betwist rival towns -or the county seat, and runners had been through the precincts urging everybody to bring out the votes of the ladies. in this chivalrous region our women have equal prerogatives with men, although they view the ballot with an indifferencei agonizing to all advocates of suffrage. I went early to the polls, a small, log school house in the hills, shadowed by lofy ins. A rough wagon road ran bythe .ehool house, wherein deer tracks w qre quite as comn as hoof-prints of horses. The ladies were not early at the polls. A little before noon came a ft niily party, a man wife and three children. Soon after, from every direction, as if by preconcerted arrangement, wagons dlrove up containing similar housel olds. Not only were all the little ones brought atlong, but enormaous jugs of milk and baskets of lunch. The bachelors scat tered timidly and the ladies swarmed in apon us, moved the benches around the tire, blockaded the doorway, and took ntire possession of the premises. They were farmers' wives, buxom, sensib nd energetic. A more domestic sceneI ne seldom sees. Here a moti. 'r musin ber baby, there a fond father a -ling his nfant daughter, yonder a knot of women i xchanging recipes for mixed ickles, mnd again an eager group setting out aunch and passing pie and sliced pork :o their friends. I could not at tirst understand this in rasion, until I learned that the school s iouse was the one public resort for ;oeil purposes. Dances, parties, sing ng schools, preaching and political neetings all were held here. A gather ng at the school house was the signal or a general assemblage oi friends, an1d he women had evidently given more hughat to this fact than to the original t notive of the occasion. Still they came. By noon the build ng was fairly packed, and the picnie1 Lppearunce increased with every arrival. "f you iron ginghams and calicoes on he wrong side they look" "His very best cow. The snow was leep, and all the poor thing got to eat: was noss" ":They ay Lr vituals taste of pine u half the time. Drops from the >itch rafters" "I pulled the poor child's tooth my elf, so" "Who shall you vote fur, Sac:" "Me? I don't know. Jack ain't here .et. .Ima give- meq Som',- 0e, too. "Oh, Eliza, at the poll after ali" "Yes. Didn't want to come a bit. i i s Republican and I told him I'd vote Jemecratie sure if he made me come. u$t he said no matter, so longaswe botL -ote for Spokane Falls." "Pooh! I guess we're every bit as sharpc .s the men folks." "Don't vote for Spicer. They say he reats his wife perfectly awful." - 1. tell you, times has changed'" com- t aented -4 man in blouse and overalls;t caning against a pine. "When I was .a oy, to ihome in fndianny, I recolleet 1earin' maw and paw taik this votin' )usiness over. 'I tell ye,' says the old nan to her, 'I wouldn't have ye go to he polls nolIow. You'd have to walk i ip to the box through a crowd of loaf- t :rs, all smokin' pipes and starin' at ye, c .nd you'd sink through the floor.' He t >rto be here now." lBut at last, after lunch was eate.n andi I >ut away, and the babies had had their < ips and the ladies had exhausted all the ~osip, a general movement was mad~e < oward departure. It .a a long wayi< lome, and the cows to milk, and water o draw, and supper to get, and the >reakfast dishes to wash at the heels of It dl. After such a festival one might sup- 't >ose the ladies would vote cheerily, but ' his was not the case. It had been post-1< >oned as long as possible and now that t must actually be done they went at it pitefully. Here was a husband handing rival ickets to his wife and say ing for he public tar, "You can vote whichever;! ocu like," at the same time gripping his wn ballot with a resolute air and a jaw f such outline as made one hope his 1 pouse wo'uld vote as he did, in the in ~erests of domestic peace. There a dame H vas imperatively thrusting on her hus and the prohibition ticket. These prohibition ladies were earnest mad intelligent. They advanced iirmly o the pulls and gave in their ballots ~ich an air of satisfaction. Beyond these ew who had a definite personal ir g ose he voting was perfunctory and done with manifest dislike. The ladies each aanded their ballot to the inspector hesi atingly', watched curiously as he put it ni the box and turned away with a toss >ifthe head. "Ther"! A s the fir'st time 1 ever oted1, ::nd i'd: bs: the lat 2 sv t so we ca stay homne niext time." '1 ~ ouieg men nmnst ie gro)wiag weak Sinded~ when you diag an old lady like ' ('ut to v"te I'm i0 vears old. Old nough to know better!" tAn i th contemn'tuous air the dames retired to the wagons. Alas! The per lve of 'ature Wile manyv of their ist'r i' the eat sigh for sufinrge thoseI who have it hold it in didain Now came young Tyndatll andmhs wif :m hors ek, and thtere wais quite a 'stir imjong~ the ladie who stiU in~ the wagons LP the "baC chiC around th rees Tyd had ~ iircha'd the' Oldat aind Lrgeot rauch' 1ia th precnet an ha . bruh ride from Si F' ancisco evrt mouts beore Fe had see Oer, for shie was very retired and aristo \ ou'n' wo~ili. with peu'*eby~t gh'ii I fae , a welt of oionde hair andt round,! hiht blu' yes, attired in an eege r::i ,mg abi' o dar gree velv~et, wtha log' plume on he~r daintv cip. -0h .tuoh very young." : i the in spec(tor a- thoecouplei drew near. "D1o 'N, dnt." replied one I 'the judges. "I hen she ought nut ic bie alow\ed." ''You'll have to ask her age,' said another of the judges. Thec burly inspector looked concerned and nervous. More nervous yet as the to find herself the oniy woman present. r Tlyndall, whose dress and bearing c showed early culture, nodded to the I] Officials, tookhis wife's arm and escorted fa her forw::rd. He picked out his tickets r from the table, folded one and handed to h her, folded thie other and held it between r his tngrs Mrs. Tyndall presented c h-rself beore the ballot box and raised v her ic.t , uncertain what came next. V Hcr innocent lne eyes rested on the in- p spector via a pretty look of wonder and inquiry. a: T*he'inpector dropped her ballot into fi the box. 'o doubt a barb rankles in n his consciecee to this day. o: Mrs. Tidall stood looking on an in- W stanit, with-out moving Si "Is that all?" she cried at last. aston- i ished. 97 "That's all. You've voted, Stella," c< -aid her husband, offering his vote in 0i urn, and t*.' I ide laughed merrily. She ai :ook her humud's arm and peeped all thout her with great auusement, and vent off in high spirits. It had been a err funny episode for her. H WOODRUFF CLARK2. cUan:ENT FAD1I TOPICS. ta th Iloeing Coru. I nR. J. n 1 in:: in .ihrn Cul ivator ' Corn, properly planted on well la. ared land, should rarely need the la ioe in the early staiges if the D lowing be skillfully done. While our )ersonal experience does not approve the st eneral practice of planting in the water sa arrow ias ndvocated by Dr. Jones), we n( iuve found it very helpful in the way of it, ubsequent cultivation to plant in very dc vide deep furrows and covering Very pr hallow, so that the plants will be below th he general surface. The first plowing th hould be done with an implement that tL hrows but little dirt to the corn, yet ju nough to cover well the step between be lie hills or plants. The thinning (if ca weded) should be done ahead of the in >lowing, and the latter should be done Di >nIlv comeientiously (?) careful labor s. ThO plowman should be required m! o stop and uncover plants, or cover or so ll out woe-s or grass with foot or it and as hE goes. He should be im- re: ressed with the idea that the work of vo leaning the young plants must be done y the work of his plow, or his hands I th ed feet-no hoe to follow. It is not a d ad idea to furnish each plowman with a htL mall short-handled, one-hand hoe, to be of arried with his plow and used as occa TI ion may require. It will be found that be e will be nmch more careful to do good th ork with his pl. w if he is given to un- in erstand that careless work will not be OV ndured and left for the hoes to rcmey. ca Of course it will often occur that the Ind is milicientlV smooth to admit of pc tough work b)y the plow, except i round trees and sunups; but it will not y( ay to go over a tild, row by row, it i rder to clean around such obstacles. ;tter makc n job of it, early in the ciil- C vation, : oing from one to another with ii ut regard to the intervening rows. o It somietinmes pays well to go over the ce orn crop - ith the hoes about laying-by St me, each hand taking two or more rowsa t a time, and destroy scattering buiches m f gras-s and cleaning around stumps and th i-es. This will depend upon whether I1 e hands can be spared from the more be xacting cotton crop. Chopin;;" Cotton. (Hy the r-nme Writer m The characteriatie work on a cotton of rm during the month of May is cot n-chopping. Among the many ma- o hines that have been invented to d tr is work none has yet been very favor bly received or generally adopted by rmers. The operation is one-like ottn-picking-that seems to demand| ni ever-changing motion ar d the exer-| ise of an ever-acting judgment whiche to annot be materialized into a machine. ich a machine, however, is probably rithin the possibilities of human inven- fr ion. The cotton harvester is an undis- a >uted necessity; but it is not so clear w hat a machine for chopping, or merely -blocking out" cotton-reducing the i ontinuous row of plants to bunches-is xactly what is needed. Why sow the 0 eed so as to secure a continuous row ot t lants, and then at th6 first operation y >rceed to destroy the continuity? On >oor, unfertilized land, which requires es ht the phants should stand very close 0 a order to make a maximum crop, suech'e Scointinuous row is perhaps necessary;i~ ut it seems an unnecessary waste of eed and labor on land which will bear he stalks 1$ inches to two or three feet part. Why not plant the seed on such iud in hills or steps-already chopped? ce Ehe writer planted his entire crop two uccessiVv yars in hills 3x:2 feet with he most satisfactory results. But it is vo late now to diacuss the policy of hill r step-planting. The crop is nearly nllI -anted and much of it will soon be th eady 101 the irst operation.- P. lifthe soil has been imp~acted from the B~ ffct of one or more rains after plant- C< ug it is ot'th e .Irst imupor-tance to break at he crust and let in the light and air. Ito the condition of the land in this respect, pr .nd the necessities of the corn c.10p, will in etrine wether it wil! be better to n.a -egon is;a good, mello contion,1 wt nacaat j~ LCi'ly re' froma grass, 1we tra w1 often' fo' 'd it bet to put the mn we to ' ork 'a advnce of plowing and M s soon as he Ielecaf of the plant is at ally eeeoped. If this plan is adopted to he work of chojpig oat shouldl and al nbe very rvpidtly dom-., the aimn be- mn ig to get over the crop in a wek or ten pi law kas. It does. not pay to con-j C :ua the tim that wouild be, regared to P. h- ou to a gien number of p1:.ts, or W i a. ic I s a be-n wel -1nd' thi ii : anit -rm ob '-tractions, such a.-J \ - .; A stone", a -au should go in a a i ci of a waik, rarely g-V~ivin ore 5aa a stro for tach bnche~ of plat 7 v,. in tisay two aesei per hand per L. ad ve 1mL. ILLmember.JC tat)0 b pla~ ong 'Or "bocin ou"a .h:0'f h pion riireCs and' assueice' t' nat the c'ottOL '.ou~l be iowed'( with.in i i.e daWs. Gnra lly the c tton erop IPt esto he 'gone orr wih plowis or tb o as ma idly as it was planted. It l etire-: t' curs that the whole erop :ij u 'gethetr. iLo~ever p~lanited. At -r: j ure it L-.,more 'iportant to Ir :4et ver qutickly than Lo do the work 'wr ipeetiy. The aima should j: e to make every stroke of the hoe do its iii .tmost, rarely striking "twice in the .: -mn plae, thus etting over the crop ci apidly and quickly-on the same pr: iple that would govern a reseung part 2 relieving the hunger and thirst of imishing ship's crew or a starving ga [son. The plows should follow th: ocing as quickly as possible and go i idly. 'The scond hoeing shoui )mmene in a few days after the int i ening plowing, and should be dfi' ith more care, the plalnts now e ut to a final stanld. WhiCh .1n b do' ith comparative safety. It this eo i' ad the( consequent plloun 111 b i illy done there will be little, i. any tore need of the hoes. More d.1. a the age and physical stc17th ho holds the plow than is gem ra!i ipposed. As a rule boy's and girl a )t strong enough or careial enouit t 2ide the plow properly in cultivatin )tton in the earlier stages; it shobli 3ly be intrusted to older and : tronge id steadier latud: THE 'IGT IN 'EIGNi '--i!Giil '. ow the Chances for Democratic \ iL: Look to One Observer. The New York World thiuks that thi lk of Democrats from the South ant .e West who have recently visitet 'ashington does not bear out ex-Secre ry Manning's theory that those impor .t section would force Mr. Cleve nd's renomination upon the New Yorl emocracv whether the latter shouk ze it or not. Many of Mr. Cleveland' rongest friends from those sections ar< id to have stated frankly that his re mination would depend upon his abil to get the support of his own Stat< legation. They are said to have ex essed their satisfaction, in advance, witb at candidate who should prove to be e choice of New York. They say tha1 e battle-ground is to be New York, it as it was in 1884, and that it wouh extremely foolish to nominate auy adidate who should not have the back g of the majority of the New York =mocracy. Mr. Cleveland is believed to have beer iking a high bid for Massachusetts anC veral of the New England Statcs, hui is not thought that he expects to be aominated or re-elected without the te of his own State. "Mr. Cleveland," said a New Yorkei a other day, "may get the New TorI legates in the National Conveition, .t unless he has a maj;rity (two-thirds them at his back his boom will fail, ie whole foundation of the Clevelari' om in the South and West is due it e claim made by the President's frierd: the East of his great popularity in his n State; that he is the on!y man who u carry New York, c. The ruomes1 r. Cleveland fails to demonstrate h.' puelarity at home, his Western ad rers will drop him immediately. Ncw rk will decide the candidate for tht mocracy and the election." There are said to be several weal ints in Cleveland's hold upon the estern and the Southern Democracy. dio men declare that it is by no meam tain that the delegaticn from thai Ite will throw up their hats for Clevv. id. Men of the Thurman type au& !mbers of the old-time Democracy say At they have been overlooked by the -esident uutil they are in no mood tc come his enthusiastic followers. hi ichigan there are four Democrats, ex. >ngressmen, who charge their retire !nt to the Administration-Maybury Detroit, Carleton of Port Huron, >mstock of Grand Rapids, and Eldridg< Adrian. It is said that there will bc yuble in delivering the delegation over Mr. Cleveland. Indiana is said to be in open revolt. >orhees and 3IcDonald arc known tc unfriendly to MIr. Cleve:and's renomi tion, and the old friends of the latt ce-President Hendricks are declared be in sympathy with them. Senato2 C rhees's son, a delegate to Congresi >m Wyoming Territory, recently miadt violent attack upon MIr. Cleveland, dch was published, it is said, with the nator's knowledge and with his entirt proval. In Virginia and Louisiana, il said, many leading Democrats are enly opposed to MIr. Cleveland. The dorsement of the Administration by e State Democratic Convention ol antucky is not considered to have be: pecially strong either in its language its spirit. "It is highly improbable," said a West aoffiicial recently, "that the Democracy the country will attempt to force any ndidate down the throats of the Nev, >rk Democrats against their will. ] not believe MIr. Cleveland would ae pt a renomination coming in that way, it would mean almost certain defeat.' Cleveland and Lee. It is probable that instead of spending e month of June at Red Top, the esident and 3Mrs. Cleveland, will go te tquer White Sulphur Springs, Va. lonel MIad~dux, the leading' hotel inaL this place, has extended an invitat ior them and has prepared a cottage ex essly for them. He is now in Wash gton, and arrangements have beeL dec for the President and MIrs. Cleve. ad to go to the springs about the 11r.si sek in June for a day, as a sort of tria. .p. If everything is satistactery the vitation wiil be accepted. Colonel addux was in Baltimore a few d~ay: -o gettin" up a party of Baltimoereani acompaey the President and his win d to make other necessary arrange. nts. Among those who will accont .ny them are General Shecridan and >lonel Kellogg, of his staf; Sena.tor A. Goretan and a numbecr of Dailti. reans and Genendl Fiuingh L0e. 2e'y will leave here in the prievat ear w e president of the Virginia 'idlja. tiroid. Colonel 31adde~ux has been ic ashingtn severnd lays and has rcour' ande the wae to the PesideLt ng the :Inest in the worel for over ked braIins, whdeh wil1, a') dubt, educ~e him to give it a trial. It is 1)'ed, o, that the little trip may not be. with' .t certat u political sigaiic Lene. Ti et that Governor Lee is to be in tih aty s regarded here' as another etvi :ace that \Vir'inians are determined, i ele o t e him on to the tail o. ne nxt lai "dential kite with Ciev.e ud.~ Baore Amaerican. e.amtl n *nous eiiy loS of? enny' tJ its shold send 10 cenlts in sltap '. ustratd hook offering siure meaus ofI cure ddress Worled's Dispensary MIedical Asso -.,T. zV L.A7.i FE i:S A LL TilE secc:!--- S tLaar at his place t the &ytmaX-t the other day, his table welil cvered with papers. transact - h LetiLIe la;ie5ss is methodi::dly' thon: c hehad been an executive :. i . lu:. but ai iemeu. to ?' a relici to I' ia to turn from them for a little while, walk with me into his pri vate room athl talk on other subjects. Our conversation was about journalism, its wonderful growth, its change of character and its future, and upon other topics, but I shall not now repeat what Le had to say, except on one suuject the in'lustrial condition of the South and that I do with his consent. "ft apparent prosperity of tile South," ;sad Secretary Lamar, "is to be found in the cities, and not :dl of thm share it. Atianta, Chattanooga, Nash vile, .:ii, Birmingham and other cities that are the centres of mineral de velopment already made or anticip-atedi are growing rapidly in population and apparently in wealth. Towns, also, that are situatd upoii the new railroads that -have been built during the past ftw years are larger and more thriving than they were, bat their growti has been largelv at te cxpiense of less fortunate townsthakt have either stood still or have actually deteriorated. This cireum stance, I think, is likely to give an eon'ou-s irjptawion to the strange' paSie tLhrog te SoIuth iUl the rail vova<u xa LIe ;aiov0 V.I%*!. Ile 'SeeS Uh on ttemu staions apparently tiieg, the centr of new cowmmnrcial enterprises, and 1:e Snatan~'dly concund t it the South is m...akig very repi .rogress; but lIw do snow tiat tae maa who has o a('ti LLew store at 4'eof these places, twn disant ifrom the raila Nilere h elosd m>hisformr1usi..ess, ot the agl -i :. in eLrt, to A1ke a hiin piand:g catku. sul .: . u an come. Io tow 4' *ng to .4 U.tr, r prsn 'ra:rt c ite abc tre h : i :s ") Ie , L i res ie .... .........w k' lte1 1 l3 :ie - L.. ~ _ at ti pr Oty t- or in I S, L)a ge e.i tt, specu lative-b.<i . m.. atre, a. Ier upon ai*i..ted .-mus rather t u' o tii a tal L. bet aInveted th a:r that n.Luchl ofI it 1a gone from the North and C'n \ . -~, . a~ there-t, and I o' ~at:> beundk io as ooft:::g the futur. proprty of the region.1 ouiy ay t::.t thereurl, av not yetb: reaized. I ought to ay that I have very little pr al knowledge of afiirs i tioe sections o. the South o which I Lave. eent : lg The ' booin' has come aci hav beenL there to r-main long at a tiMe, MVd m piu ions are formed frora w t 1 lave cead in the newspapers aud heard from per sons who have b-en there. I thnk you: wil AIld to', that such ci ies as Charles ton, Savannah, looile and New Urleans 'Let us see, iaid he, taking. do.,u aco pendiumi of the last censusm, "how much these cities increae 'in~ ' po.aO).tioni be tweeni 1870 andl IS0. Chalest~ouine inl pop'l~ation in the t d cade I108 or at the rate of about 1) )- per cec. ,a vannah gained 1,-1, or about 5. per cent.; Mobile actually lot 1 , r02 in pop ulation, and New Orleans gained 2?,I72, or about 1:. ip-r cent. If you' rememb'er that the average increase of popl~ation throughout the whole countiry duriing the sameli tenl years aiveraged:-J10 er cnt., you will see that there is nothiing en luaing in these 1igures. "Ilow do you accouat for the appar ent staation in what were fortaerly the grTeat co~nierci:d centres of the South?' 1 asked. "By~ te depres:;,ii of the planting in terest, of whiich I have already .spoken," was the. reply. --hey are dependent upon the agriculture 01 the country for their trade. "Ha;ven't the crops been good?' everr mii' I a . :-ptions. must at- r1I.e.it uepp~a t~e . se. im ne' ed nDcy tiU ngrictr is ae Iar and ais ' tt. :: ",.r .,, i ott. i 2:...a 1 ~ ao i : reI reit\e Udilr. ',ut th e tr. i eeis t hit o la .; e--; f 1s year -r.......awr1.y-ii 0 4.r ,itt. 1reat4..ha t ~ fM.!ad tha t .- - er u .,04wc-.j" s circu~tanes. ad yo w iesot thik i shoulti. aguith." S , . I be.n *4t4in evra con ) tIraX-i- In re. Lsr I r '.. ..! fnr im.. i-. at tner air - jritimiwL I <:e : ofaddn; butgi rdn t ky nd thl rc h-V iandrte" ic of cotton ha be goodj "nease is probably the wearing out of our lands. You know that all agricultural lands produce less and less except they are constantly renewed by fertilizers, and our people are too poor to buy those. The increased aggregate crop is due to increased acreage, but we have not been able to increase the former in the same proportion that we have in creased the latter and the amount of labor expended. We work over more ground and more hands are employed, but it costs more to make a bale of cot ton now than it formerly did. "Another reason, I thir k, why we do not raise as much cotton to an acre as we formerly did is that we don't get what we call as good a 'stand' as we used to. The importance of this is not hkely to be appreciated by one who has never lived where cotton is raised. If there are many long, vacant spaces in the rows of cotton plants, they may grow very thrifty, and the field, as one looks over it, may appear to bear a great crop, and yet, when the cotton comes to be pick it will turn out light. Now, in order to secure a good 'stand,' that is, to have the ground all occupied, the closest care and attention are necessary at a cer tain critical period. In former times, when the planter had complete control of the labor, he could enforce this care and attention as he cannot do now. The cotton lands of the South are now mostly rented to the negroes, and if the owner retains an interest in the crop he has no voice in the manner in which it shall be worked. If he should interfere the ne groes would resent it. There is a great deal of careless farming in the South." The Cotton Movement. The New York Financial Chronicle, in its weekly cotton review, says that for the week ending Friday evening, the 20th inst., the total receipts have reached 10, 626 bales, against 12,666 bales last week, 1:3,077 bales the previous week, and 15, 141 bales three weeks since; making the total receipts since the 1st of September, 1880. 5,158,523 bales, against 5,142,549 bales for the same period of 1885-6, showing an increase since September 1, 1886, of 15,974 bales. The exports for the week ending the same time reach a total of 21,227 bales, of which 13,035 were to Great Britain, - to France, and 8,192 to the rest of the continent. The total visible supply of cotton, as made up by cable and telegraph, for the week was as follows: Total of Great Britain stock 991,M00, total of continental stocks ls,500-making a total of Ea ropean stocks of 1,403,500. The total visible supply for the world is 2,266,779. bales; ol this number 1,525,279 are American and 741,500 East Indian, etc. The imports into continental ports for the same period have been 90,000'-' There was a decrease in the cotton in sight, Friday night, of 5,699 bales as compared with the same date of 1686, an increase of 30,389 bales as com pared with the correspond:ng date of The receipts at interior towns for the week have been 6,6S6 bales. Old inte nor stocks decreased 7,581 bales, and were 110,397 less than at the same period last year. Tne actual movement from the planta ions, not including the overland receipts or Southern consumption, but simply the receipts that reach the market ihrough the outports, since September 1, 1665, were 5,1i5,331 bales, in 1885 6 were 5,301,195 bales, and in 1884-5 were i,741,467 bales. Although the receipts Lt the outports the past week were 10,626 ales, the actual movement from planta ions was only 2,984 bales, the balance being taken from the stocks at the inte rior towns. Last year the receipts from tue plantations for the same week were 3,57 bales, and for 1885 they were N;u bales. Fatally Stung by n Centipede. Cooke county comes to the front with the horrible death of a young man uamied Charles Allison. Several years ago his brother Wihiiam went to Texas to engage in the cattle-raising business. ie came back last week on a visit. Last ;unday morning the two brothers were preparmg to go to church, when Charles out on a coat wnich his brother had brought from T1'exas with him. In a few ainutes he experienced a burning sensa .:on on the arma. He took off the coat and tore open the sleeve, when a deadly cantipede trom the plains of Texas was een crawling slowly up his arm, stinging ats it went. 31edical assistance was has iy summoned, but when the doctors rarved his arm had swollen to twice its natural size and in a few hours burst along the p)oisoned track of the insect. The young man died in most horrible agony about nightfall and was buried the nxt day.-N ashville American. Twntyt Year in a Canzal-Ioat Cabin. hSee that woman," said a man, point i~to a canal-boat tuoving along the it. A. head hidden in a checked calico a nbonnet protruded from the cabin sthwy j.i1a woman, sir, hasn't . aenot of that cabin in twenty years. I ct o stout she can't get nothmn' but i~rhead ot. Last tune she come up ..deel wa: when Grant was in..ugurat as.n cap tain and the mate and the t i,- nu-drners helped. Had an awful ?Ae. then they got her back again .d elasucbeen out since. Last fall *due ni.uu man came down here Iod'ered. her big pay to exhibit her but when he learned that he'd have :e thec canl-boat and all he refused i a a contract."-Alba.ny Exp:'ess. -; r.lo)Ugn of":.:pndencey. lhC0 e die:e peculiar to you, 'NIIh havO.e r. L:,cd you of -heh and made life a bur aja eaily get out of. Dr. -- iC ite Pr erpuer will tree aach tjes, and so recall to your ctce and u i o or ,ex. It cures he etomoogithe "l. unur whieu I whisule they will on u my hantd." "Pshaw'. Thicecme and alight on my head without my whistling." The entomologist sat down.