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GOD AND OUR NATIYE LAND. CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1893 No. 50. SEY. Charleston William -vSecretary le ? West lis morning, r Whitney led her dur knt ztr her unexpected ie,jrno with been at her at half light, Dr Mc iveral hours ,De departed that hour it litney's illness turn before sat up until ir he retired to was darkened. i3 o'clock one of toaoned him and hitaey's room, time to^ee her Ij did "death even time to >rother and sister, >, having been Whitney's con serious. They a few minutes Whitney awaken pathy throughout ay telegrams and iTence were received Ithough these mes were kept strictly id by friends of the the first telegrams se from President s-eland. 'Sir Julian h minister at Wash i representatives of tions also sent mes- | were also received of Senators and Con Mr Whitney's col veland s Cabinet and f Mr Harrison's Cabi- 1 mediate friends of the uring the day. rs Whitney has evinced | heart trouble. Slight ess from this cause have rtled her and occasioned I ave anxiety. For three j patient has been guarded j ing influences and almost i ufiued to the bed. The the attack that was the I of her last illness, Mrs \ gave one of the dinner j t are the fifth ionable fad of j season, She was in weak j at the time, and the excite strain consequent on the nt of her large party are have superinduced the meral will take place at 10 fon Tuesday forenoon from St >mew's Church, Madison The services will be con by the Rev Dr David H. The interment will be at iawn Cemetery, where her Iter, who died abroad in >883, is Col Daniel S. Lamont, Mr lejs intimate friend, has charge funeral arrangement?. He says the funeral will be as quiet as >le. OF THE BARK ALICE. Salors Drowned in "Attempting to Rest of the Crew Rescued the Life-Saving Crewai Long Beach, N. J. EW York, Feto. 7 ? Superintend- i Havens, of the 4th district life service at Point Pleasant, re the Norwegian bark Alice, j from Dunkirk, bound ! York in ballast, came ashore j at Long Beach, N. J., life- 'I station. Before an attempt i made to, rescue the crew by ! station tive of the crew lancl in their own boat, J in\ the surf and all 1 The lit'e-saving station j succeeded in. getting a life line j to the b?yk and by the use j breeches bua/ rescued the eleven , *xig members of the crew, in- ' the captaiu. The bark's fore- j is gone and she will probably a total loss. of the sailors who left the in the boat drifted ashore twen miles uorth of the wreck, and is at the Island Beach life-sav station. Two bodies have been and two are still missing. RUMPtNG THROUGH A TUNEL N?rrow Escape ot & Vestibaled Train on the Baltimore an<\Ohio BoJMl. tU Parkesbur<?, W. Ya., Feb. 7. ? i The vestibuled last line from Cincin- I nati to New York, on the Baltimore ' ami Ohio Railway, jumped the track as a tunnel was reached last night. I ; The engine and every car hut the sleeper went off. The train was going forty miles an hour and dashed over the ties, seraping the sides of the tun nel until it emerged from the other side. The engineer, Wm Myers, was badly scalded and his fireman was 1 hurt. The track was blockaded for ; twelve hours. . A Homestead Rioter ACquiled of Murder Pitts Br kg, February 7. ? The jury this evening in the trial of Clifford for killing Conners. a Pinkerton de- I tective, at Homestead duriug the riot of July 6, rendered a verdict of rr^t guilty. Clifford was a prominent^ striker and was iden tided as being among those who lined the river bank at Homestead to oppose the landing t of the Pinkertooa. - ' . ' ?. ? *? r- ? ~ . "t *** - . . Si | PROHIBITION '^DDRESS. ~ THE LEADER IS6UES AN H^K^TaNT PRCNUNCIAMENTO.^^v^ J FroWbirtooIsts Calle.l Upon to K*fa*e to Sijjn Di#p<.n?ary Petitions au<l Pre pare for the Fray?' "Blood Mooey*' Denounced. When the Evans Dispensary law xwa^ passed the prediction was made that the prohibitionists would not be satisfied with it as the" solution of the prohibition question, and such proves | to be the case. ? Ever since the law was passed the ? prohibitionists ? officially speaking ? aave remained perfectly quiet, but *now they come to the front once more, I and through their State chairman they issue a manifesto to the people. It makes exceedingly interesting reading and is given in full: THE MANIFESTO. IV) the State Prohibition Executive Committee? By the action of our com mittee at its meeting in December j last, I was requested to have the draft ! of the prohibition bill which had been j adopted by the committee brought be- 1 ' the Legislature then in session, and to give my personal attention to its proper presentation to that body. That duty I endeavored to discharge to the best of my ability, giving my | almost continuous attendance on the I sessions of the House and Senate and the committees until the matter was disposed of bv the adoption of what is known as the Evans Dispensory law. Since then I have purposely avoided giving any public expression of opinion on the subject; first, be cause any attempt to forecast the re su.ts to flow from the law would be to a large extent speculative, and also because I feared that any adverse crit icism which might escape me might be viewed in the light of factious oppo sition^ the experiment, and calcu lated to hinder the good which it ad vocates, some of them earnest and I conscientious prohibitionists, believed ! would come out of it, if it could be : fairly tried. It seems to me proper, however, ! tnat I should express to you, as mem- ! bers of the committee, my convictions ! on the subject formed, after the excite ment attending the campaign and the anxiety of watching and counselling the movement during its progress in the Legislature have passed, and I ! have had time and opportunity to con sider the situation. ; In considering the action of the ! Legislature on the subject of prohibi- j tton^'it should bet borne inmind that the ! question presented to the voters of the State by the prohibitionists at the j primary elections was a very distinct j one, in this respect at least", namely, I whether the legal sauction of the sale * of liquors as a beverage should be withdrawn and- such sale prohibited by the State. This oeing the fact, the majority vote cast at that time can be under stood in no other 9ense than as the ex- i pression of a demand that the traffic j of intoxicans as a beverage should be* j prohibited. To carry out this purpose your ex ecutive [committee prepared a bill which was introduced into the House by Mr Roper, of Marlboro,^ After a most determined oppositioif "by the j liquor interests and the gudxi political i prohibitionists, this bill was reported j favorably by the large special com- j mittee, composed of one member of i each county, with only six dissenting | votes, and after a protracted debate of more than a week, in which the oppo sition was allowed to exhaust their arguments, almost without interrup tion from the friends of the measure, it passed the House by an unprece dented majority. Up to this point it is clear that the large majority of the Representatives believed that their constituents want ed the kind of prohibition which was expressed in the Roper bill. This was legislation which would prohibit, and ! it was this fact which, in my judg ment, sealed its fate with the Legisla ture. The combined elements of op position to real prohibition ultimately proved successful in the substitution of the Evans bill in the Senate. Its sub sequent passage by the House was the result of a conviction in the minds of many sincere and conscientious bers who had supported the Reper bill as the proper .measure that it would be impossible to secure the passage of that bill against the determined oppo sition ofthe Senate, and that it would, therefore, be better to accept the dis pensary law, which had so many fea- i tures in common with the Roper bill, than to have no legislation on the sub ject at the present session. The fact however remains that the people asked for prohibition of the liquor traffic, and their representatives have seen fit to give them instead a law which takes the dispensing of intoxicants as a beverage out of the hands of the citizen and places it directly and entirely under the con trol of the State. Such is the law which the prohibi tionists of the State are called on to consider in order to determiue their future attitude and action respecting it. Are we, as prohibitionists, dis charging ourselves from all respnnsi lity for a law which was clearly a perversion of our purpose as expressed in the bill which we submitted, patient ly, to await the results of the law in the hinds of those who have taken the responsibility of foisting it upon an Unwilling people? Or shall we op pose iV as we would any measure wni?h^we believe fraught with evil to society by making common cause with '*T7V - if all classes of our citizens who in any j lawful way seek to render it inopera ; tive? Or .shall we stand ready to aid in extracting whatever of good mav p^efound possible from its operation? In considering these questions let . us remember that while the act does f not profess to regulate, k is claimed j that a positive good is secured by it, ; for which prohibitionists have been ; long working, namely, the closing of : the saloon and its eongenor, the club J room with its bar-room appendage; ! tliat under the provisions of this act it ? is really in the power of the majority who voted for prohibition to say to what extent the dispensary system shall prevail, and that the general j effect of the act will be a considerable i j ''step' toward ultimate prohibition. I ?Moreover, us uot forget that our : prohibition movement derives what- 1 ever of force it possesses from the i moral principle that the manufacture and sale -of intoxicants for beverage! purposes, in view of the evils which i flow therefrom, is wrong in the sight of God, and fearfully demoralizing to man, .and therefore any law which provides for such traffic must of neces sity be opposed to prohibition. It j makes no difference whether the State i sanctions the sale by issuing license to the citizen to engage therein, or, as in the case of this law, takes the sale into its own hands. When the State does this it compromises a principle of right and perverts the purposes of prohibitive legislation, and both prin ciple and consistency constrain me to condemn ir. To what extent, then, do the claims above stated commend the dispensary law to the co-operation or support of the prohibitionists? It is true that most of the provisions of the dispen sary law are taken from the Roper bill without change, and that thus many of the features of the hill fram ed by your committee have now the force of law. But it is also true of the dispensarly law that it makes the sale of liquor as a beverage by the v State practically without limitation as to use and quantity in order that the profits therefrom, blood money as it is, shall go to enrich the avenue of the State and counties. It seems to me, therefore, that the duty of all true prohibitionists will be: first, to use their influence to prevent the establishment of dispensaries by refusing themselves, and inducing others to refuse, to sign the petitions which are necessary to their establish ment under section 8 of the act. The result of this course, if successful, will be to give us real prohibition ? no dispensary ? no legal sales of iutoxi cants. * If the dispensary part of the Evans experiment fails to go into operation it will be because the people who are to ask for it do not choose to do so, and this was certainly contemplated by the authors of the scheme when they provided that the dispensers could only be appointed on *'a peti tion signed by a majority of the free hold voters of the incorporated town or city in which the permit is to be I issued.'' ^ Now, if these voters are not ! to exercise their choice in this matter, why this provision? And if they are expected to use their judgment in the matter, where is the occasion for Gov ernor Tillman's recently published re flection on them tor so doing, and his implied threats that prohibitionists will regret their refusal to establish these dispensaries. The step toward prohibition which the prohibitionists see in the dispen sary law, is the possible power which it gives them to prohibit the dispen sary, which they can do, if in sufficient numbers they refrain from asking I for it. It will then be prohibition indeed its fuilest sense, artd that is what every true prohibitionist has been working and praying for. Can it be that 'Governor Tilli^an does not credit the prohibitionists who differ from him on this point with acting from moral principle, and that he cannot realize that they are bound to repudiate the dispensary for the same reason that they would the sale of liquor as a beverage under any other plan, because such safe is morally wrong? "The threatened alliance between the whiskey men and other political opponents who are bitterly opposed to j the law and the prohibitionists who are in favor of it*' can have no appiica- 1 tion to the class of prohibitionists , te presented by our ccmmittee. The truth is, however that the dis pensary experiment has features in it which naturally enough arouse the | antagonism of so many distinct classes of citizens that it need not surprise i Governor Tillman or any one else if it i fails to run smoothly. The whiskey j men oppose it because it breaks up their business. Many sincere patriots are horrified at the spectacle of the State becoming i the successor to the business from I which it has driven these citizens, ? Many astute lawyers and others find in these provisions of the law a most j dangerous exercise of the powers of j the ikate and an invasion of the private rights of the citizen to engage in any business, not declared to be wrong: while the prohibitionists who voted to have the sale of intoxicants as a beverage prohibited are justlv in dignant at the legislation which so perverted the meaning of their de mand as to make it one for unlimited whiskey revenue and themselves un : willing partners in the unholy tratiic. If in spite of the-re elements of the op position the dispensary g^>es into op t eration it becomes the duty of pro i hibitionists to aid in everv proper , way the enlurcement of the law j against violators, and makiug as far ag practicable the good featuJes of the ; law effective. To do this will require that our organization as a committee, and the effective county organizations which were so successful in the local campaign, should be maintained and strengthened, having also in view the securing of such legislation in the | future as shall eventually rid our | State from the curse of the liquor traffic. Some plan for future operations is very desirable, and I should be glad to have from the members of the com mittee suggestions as to the methods best suited to effect our purpose. Respeftfully, L I). Ciiilds, Ch'm State Pro. Ex. Com. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 7, 1893. LAMAR'S SUCCESSOR. ]Ex-Senator Howell Edmund Jackson, Now Judge of the Vnited States Court for the "District of Tennessee. Washington, Feb. 2.? The Presi dent to-day nominated Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee,- to be Asso ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice L. Q. C. La mar, deceased. Howell Edmunds Jackson is an ex Senator and at present Judge of the United States court for the district embracing Tennessee. , He is a native and life-long resident of Tennessee. He is remembered at the capital as a man of quiet, unassuming manners, generally well liked, and distinguished for fairness and judicial consideration of the questions arising here. Inquiry about the Capitol* shows that the appointment is considered, from a judicial and not a ' political view, as a splendid one. Abtfnt the Supreme Court it is ^aid that Presi dent Harrison has shown once more a great deal of judgment in- his selec tion of a man for a place on the bench of the highest tribunal in the land. It is stated that Judge Jackson has made a fine Circuit Judge, and that no doubt is entertained as to his mak ing a good Justice. The appointment wa? a great sur priseJo the Tennessee delegation in the House. The two Republican members felt sore over the selection of a Democrat and a States Rights man, but when asked as to Judge Jackson's personal fitness, conceded that his character and abilities were all that could be desired. The" 'selection was politically no more pleasing to some of the Democratic representatives who recall the fact that Judge Jackson was leader of the "Old School Demo crats of Tennessee," an element which made a warm but unsuccessful fight within the party in favor of the pay ment of the State deoT73*U?c^for dol lar, substantially as demandeouj!**he_,< bondholders. These men said, how ever, that the new judge was strong, clear and able. Why So Secret About It? Savannah, February 1. ? Much comment has been caused here by the publication of a circular which fell into the hands of the Central Rail road people despite the efforts of Gov ernor Tillman, the author, to keep it secret. The circular is as follows: Executive Chamber, ) Columbia, January 23, 1893. j To Mr Sir: Orders have gone from the Comptroller General's office to county treasurers to issue executions against all railroads which have de faulted in payment of taxes. It is the wish of the Executive that these exe cutions be pressed promptly and enough personal property belonging to the railroads be seized to satisfy the claim of the State. No mail car can be disturbed in transit, or engine attached to one, but passenger cars can be levied on. In cases where a railroad has paid no taxes for 1891-92, the executions must be pressed without regard to the United States Court at Charleston or its orders, (as in the Nance case,) and the property held at all hazards. We have the law for it and the State Gov ernment will stand by its officials and see that they suffer no harm. Of course this circular is confi dential and must not be made pnblic. Benjamin Tillman, Governor. THE ANTI-OPTION BILL. The Final Fight in the "House to Commence Tomorrow. Washington, Feb. 4. ? The agri- j cultural committete of the House met this j morning and decided to report the : anti option bill back to the House, I non-concur in the Senate amendment, j and agree to the request of the Senate , for a conference. ? ?. . The committee reached no conclu sion as to the mode of procedure with the bill, and the matter now rests j largely with Chairman Hatch. It is probable that he will endeavor to make a test, of the bill's strength Monday by taking advantage of the rules ^permitting- the measure to be acted on under a suspension of the rules. SOUNDS LIKE TILLMAN. He Must H:i\c Asked ^lor Oftic?* iiml Keen Refused. Salem, Ore., Feb. 1. ? Governor . Pennoyer received a letter yesterday J from his Adjutant General aakingper- ! mission to use two brass cannon be longing to the State for the purpose of firing a salute on inauguration day. The Governor sent the following re- j ply: "No permission will be givfcn to { use State cannon in firing a salute over the inauguration of a W all street plutocrat as President of the United I States." ? j L ; , j-*-"" ?' THE U. S. SENATE. THE ANTI-OPTION BILL WHETHER GOOD OR BAD, Parses the United States Senate ami Sent^to the Houso, the Action of Which Is Doubtful. Washington, Jan. 31. ? The anti option bill was taken up and the hours for taking the vote to-day were prolonged. At 8:15 the discussion on the bill closed and the votiug began. The first vote was on an amendment offered by Vilas to strike out of the George substitute the words "option | and futures as hereinbefore defined are ? ? hereby declared to be obstructions to and restraints upon commerce among the States and with foreign countries and to be illegal and void." It was rejected? yeas ?1 9, nays 51. ^ The question was then on the pas sage of the bill. Explanations of the reasons why they(feU compelled to Vute against the B^l were given by Harris, Berry, Bate, Vance, Butler and \ est. Several other amendments were -presented and all were rejected some without a division, pie bill was tbfen passed? yeas 40, n*ys 29. 1 he following is the vote? detail: \eas? Allison, Blackburn, Call, Carey, Chandler, Cockrell, Cullom, Davis, Dubois, Faulkner, Felton, Frye, Gallinger, Gordon, Hale, Hans^ brough, Hawley, Higgins. Hunton, Irby Kyle McMillan, Mandersou, Mitchell, Morgan, Morrill, Peffer Perkins , PeUigrew, Proctor, Sherman! ' bhoup, Squire, Stockbridge, Teller, Turpie, \oorhees, Wallthall, Wash burn and Wilson? 40. Nays? Beny, Blodgett, Butler, Cafiery OameroD, Coke, Daniel, Dawes, Dixon, Gibson, Gorman, Grav Harris, Hill, Hise6ck, Hoar, Jones of Arkansas, McPhjereon, Mills, Palmer, v . Saw>'er. Stewart, V eat, \ ilas, WhiteiW Woolcott ? 29. Pairs were announced between Carlisle and Paddock; Aldrich and Quay; Bate and Allen, Jones and banders, Pasco and Casey; Vance and Warren. The bill i8 0ne passed by the House of Representatives on June 9, 1WJ, with various Senate amend ments thereto. The first section defines the word "options" to mean a contract or agree ment for the right or privilege to de liver at a future time, or within a designated period, any of the articles mentioned in Section 3. The second section defines "futures" to mean a contract or agreement to sell and deliver at a future time, or within a designated period, any of such articles, when the party so con ^^ctbj^was not the owner of such articles, m /iiaj^-*^-^reed for the right to their future possessiOu. '? The Act, however, is not to apply to an v contract to supply national, state or municipal governments . with any of such articles, nor to contracts by far mers and planters for future delivery, ! nor to agreements to pay or deliver a j part of the products of land as com- | pensation for its use, or as compensa- 1 tion for work or labor done or to be done on the same, nor to agreements : with farmers or planters to furnish j such articles for use or compensation, ! provided that such contracts or agree ments shall not be made or settled fur ! any board of trade or exchange. The third section specifies the I articles to which the bill is to apply, | as cotton (raw or unmanufactured") ! hops, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley,' I pork, lard and bacon. The fourth section imposes special taxes as fallows: Dealers iu options I or futures, $1,000 a year for a license ; fee and five cents a pound on cotton, ! hops, pork, lard or bacon, and twenty cents a bushel on grain. ^ Sections 5 to 15 relate to the details for enforcing the tax, and section 15 provides that the Act shall take effect I on the first of July, 1893. Bishop Brook?-' Romance. [Henry Mycfarland, in the Philadelphia Record.] When I was up in New England W\ year ago I heard what I believed to be j the only romance of the dead Bishop's life. It wa3 in a small town, not a hundred miles from Boston, as I was walking down the street with an old resident, that I saw a sweet-faced little woman of perhaps 35, of whom my friend said after she had passed: "That little woman declined to marry Phillips Brooks. It is an open secret here that for years be has wanted to marry her and that she has refused him,. We do not, of course, know why, unless it be that she did not ! feel as if she could leave her mother, who is an invalid and needs her care, for we believe that she reciprocates his affection, and cer tainly their relations are as cordial as possible. Dr Brooks comes here from time to time to take tea with the ; mother and daughter. The daughter is a teacher in a school here, support ing her mother and herself largely, I although they have a little income be sides. She is very bright, very culti vated and a lovely Christian. It would be more than a brilliant match for her. Yes I do not suppose it will ever come to pass while her mother lives." Ami now it never will in this world. But it will in the world to come. Cholera in Altona. Hamburg, February 0. ? Four new cases of cholera and two deaths from that disease were reported in Altona , yesterday. A PANIC IN ST. LOUIS. Three Medical Students Supposed to Have Died of Tvphus Fever. St. Louis, February 7. ? A sensa tion was created to day by the an nouncement that eighty students at tending the G)llegeof Physicians and Surgeons at the corner of Jefferson avenue and Gamble street had left for home on account of the sudden death jof three students. The excitement was intensified by a report that the deaths were caused by what is feared is typhus fever. The dead are Geo Herndnn, of Western Kentucky, died on Friday; Fred H. White, San Antonio, Texas, died this morning, aud David II. Brown, of this city, died this afternoon. The students were attacked by symptoms whijch the physicians were unable to ascribe to virulent scarlet fever, cerebrospinal meningitis <>r cereTfcal typhus, and in issuing the death certificates the facts were sub mitted to the health department. In the case of Student White the health commissioner issued a certificate of scarlet fever. is believed the disease was contracted in the dissect ing room. THE SILVER SITUATION. The Fight for the R?*i?ch1 of the Sherman i < _ Act. Washington, Feb. 4. ? The advo cates of the repeal of the Sherman bullion purchase act continued to-day in the House to circulate their peti tions in favor of a cloture amendment to the rule for the consideration of the Asdrew-Cate bill. Ther&vWaa only a slim attendance of members, so that many new signatures could not be ob tained. All of the Democrats from New York, except Mr Cjimmiugs, have signed. fJummings wants more time to think over the matter. The number of signatures obtained thus far falls considerably short of a majority of the Democrats of the House, and apprehensions are felt that it will be impossible to obtain the desired majority. A * number of signatures can be ob tained if assurance be given that some compromise measure will be substi tuted for the present law. Members of this mind say that it is asking too much of them to repeal the present j law ami have no other act for furnish- ; ing continued addition to the circulat ing medium in its place. Missionary work among Republi can members of the House has begun. An anchor has been cast to windward | by the Democrats in favor of rej>eal, and efforts are making to get most of the Republicans in line on an agree ment to support the Democrats in vol- , ing* Sown the previous question on the order reported by the rules committee, and then voting in favor of cloture in case it be found that the same result ' cannot tbe achieved by securing the ! signatures of a majority of the Demo crats to the petition in circulation. It j is believed that if the Republicans j will give a cordial and fairly united I support, they, with the repeal Demo- j crate, will constitute a majority of the | House. A very quiet but systematic light 1 on the silver question is in progress in the Senate, as a result of Mr Hill's notice that he would call up the bill to repeal the Sherman silver act on Monday next. Under the rules of the Senate, a motion to take up a bill is not debatable, and the work that is done by friends and opponents of the bill must necessarily be accomplished bv means ot a personal canvass. I his has developed the fact that.there is a difference of opinion among the op. j ponents of repeal as to what is the ; better policy, but the majority of them appear to be in favor of voting ' down the motion u> take up the bill. This is the plan of Mr 1 eller, who, ; while not fearful of the final vote should the bill be taken up, believes in fighting it from the start and hitting ' it hard at every opportunity. Those silver men who think it ! would be better to call the bill up be lieve they can thoroughly lire the advocates" of repeal by precipitating long debate, which will interfere with other business and cause them to will inglv drop the subject. In addition to this, they want the satisfaction ol loading it down with amendments and ^otherwise disfiguring it, so that ; its warmest champions would not vote for it. FIRES IN ROCK HIlL y f " * ! Two Oih* Night, hut FortariHtely NeiUwr Was Dfefcfitrpu*. Rock Hill, Feb. 7. ? At 1 1 o'clock last night fire was discovered in the ^ rear of Hope k K van's drug store.) In a few minutes the fire bad spnad to the adjacent 8tore3\of Craig A Co. and T. P. Roddey, and the whole block, for a while, was considered hopeless. However, our gallant fire company soon gained control of the flames, and what would otherwise have been a serious lo.-> was merely nominal, save tlirte thousand dollars. ? All were well injured except II"{>e cV KvajDS* who will lose about a thousand dollars. Again, at 3 o'clock. '!;<? 'ire alarm was sounded. Thf stablt - of I) r . J. White were on fire. A mule and horse were burned to <ic-:ith. and f"d der. corn, etc., were destroyed. L?>js about 8 <>00; no insurance. , The origin of both fire* are sup I posed to have been accidental. ! MONEY IK COTTONSEED. THE OIL FAST TAKING THE PLACE. OF HOG'S FAT IN LARD. Twenty llu-hols of Cotton Seed will Now , Fay (or Five Hundred Founds of a First class Ff ftlllrci ? An Offer of Great Importance to the Cotton Planter* of South Carolina. Coiamiua, Jan. 30.? "It is an ill . wind that blows no one good" is an old saying, ami is particularly ap plicable to the present high price of ' ! hojr products. For the past three or four mouths the price of provisions in the Western markets has been steadily going up. No class of goods has ap preciated more in value than hogs, an. I lard. It is a well-known fact that the Southern prod udV^of^ cotton . seed oil is an essential ingrWi^nt of the modern lard; and consequently the price of the oil has goin^uj in its maximum. The oil mills a*6 having a big demand tor their products just now, and t hone .farmers who have kept a supply of cotton seed are particular ly fortunate. The Southern Cotton Oil Com- ? . pany, one of the largest manufactories in the country, realizing the oppofc tunities of the situation and the near ness of the planting season, have made a remarkable olfer to Carolina's farmers. In a word, cotton seed is made more than exchangeable with. high grade fertilizers. The shortness of the hog crop has come in very timely for the farmers, and they will no doubt reap a harvest out of the unusual situation. The following circular letter from, the Southern Cotton Oil Company, of Columbia, ofwhlvh Mr C. Fitzsimons is manager, is self-explanatory, and marks a distinct and important era in the cotton seed industry in this State TO TH K COTTON PLANTERS OF 8. C. ? We beg to announce to you that cotton seed. oil has advanced to such a good value that we can offer you * j? the following exchanges of fertilizer! for cotton seed. We have regular agents at every railroad depot and we ^ have authorized them to oiler you for us as follows: For every 20 bushels of cotton seed you will deliver to our agents they will give you 500 pounds of a standard guano, the guaranteed ? < analysis of which will be 2J percent ammonia, 8 per cent phosphoric acid and 2 per cent potash, Or for 20 bushels of seul they will give you 750 pounds of acid phosphate. Or for 20 bushels of seed they wilhgive you 400 - pounds of our prime cotton qped meal. Now the practical question to you is: 4 Which will pay you "best as a fertili zer, 20 bushels of seed per acre, or f)()0 pounds standard guano? Yon have used both seed and com mercial fertilizers for years past. ^ If you had to buy seed for a fertilizer and were oiTerwi by a TerfctiitSr cfuitSVM 20 bushels of cotton s^ed for the sine price you were offered 500 pounds standard guano at, which would you pay for and put on your land? We can arrange to have the fertili zers at the depot before you have your need, so that you can haul a load l)oth ways. This arrangement thrbtigh our agents will enable you to haul at your convenience in small quantities, "but if parties having 700 bushels or more of seed (a car load) desire to trade directly with us; let them cor respond with us. We desire also to again call lyour attention to the value of cotton seed hulls as a food for cattle. We have been so successful in introducing them, and they have proved to be so econo mical and valuable as a feed, that we have stopped burning the^| as we formerly did and are now shipping our entire production/or feed, amount ing to three hundred tons psr week. From our Western mills we are ship ping hundreds of tons to the I cattle pens in Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis. The Southern Cotton Oil Co. C. FiTZ.siMo.ve, Manager. CAROLINA HAY. The Carolina oil mills, and especial ly the Southern Cotton Oil Company, are shipping a lot of hulls to the cat tie dealer?;. Until recently this by i^avv shipments to the Western apd ^southern cottle yards. The deflftert are paying g mmI prices for the "hulli" as they tiud it cheaper in "thi end. Mr Filzsimons says that the CanAiaft ? j cattle raisers are beginning to realize tlve value of "hulls" as a feed for cat? tie, and are making purchases, but by J no means as Jarge as those of foreign cattle men. The cotton see4 industry has never reached such a high water mark before. ? Net ess and Courier. I?W>KTar>)ife?t of Mr. Blaine. Wa-ttincton, Feb. 1. ? The follow iiv_r statement is published by request: 17'Mai>i.4>n Place, ^ Wamiin<;ton, D. C., Feb. 1, 1893. The r.ubli shed advertisements of manv ' Biographies of James G. I'.laiiK ]?rt-tending to l>e authentic and auth'-ritative, compel me to state that i. > l.?i"graphy or life works of Mr / Ulaine i? antli- fczed <<r approved by rnvseii' <t by any member of Mr liiaineV ?: miiy: that no manuscript i.y Mr T>!;iine, or any private letter m paper <?f Mr JJlaine, or any material for a biography, haa been given out to ai>y ? if, in the future, any au thentic or authorized biography s-hould 'be prepared by competent authors, it will be authenticated and authorized by myself, > ~ j Harriet $. Blaike. '*