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Uod 11 iif( W* ? Mil^o VOLUME, Ylt CAMi)KiV, a. ,c.( FRIDAY, MAY 21', f TEACHERS OF " iS STATfi *11 B ANNUAL mkktino of ii? As 8 lie I AT Hs i ?? S ? - * ^ the (iomi>l?l? i*rog(Amme Has Heen Arranged Uoveruor Kvniia to Ad lirosa Them-- Cheap ltttllrottd titles Secured. The twenty-fifth annual meeting ol ihe State Teachers' Association is to bo held Hi KoqH Hllll in tho Wiuthrop (jbllogo builditig; cbmmeucihg on Jtyue 80, and continuing through July 3. .For sonic iimo the executive committee ^ has beeu preparing the' programmo. Tlib Wttrk btts bebu completed autl tho brUgrfliH; which ift bno of, the beet thai hda bfebu arinnged in recent yoars. Along with the programme tho follow ing information in furnished: ** Teachers who ho desire, will be t>oarded in Wiuthrop College at 75 bents a day provided they Wing bed *'ng(t*ith ftiem; stteh hs couiitetpahee, aiiu pillow .eases, tirjil towels. Wheels* tiiecb college is tiol propat^ed/to furnish thesfe articles. Nb deduction will be 2 Made fot absbhbo from menls. ? i . Thofifc desiring to board in Wiuthrop College must notify Mr. It. li. Cun - ningham, Rock Hill, S. C., nt least one week beforo the meeting. Hoard may be bad also in tho city at 75 cents to $1 per day in privato families. j Certificates of membership in tho as sociation must bo presented in settling f for board, else regular hotel ratgs will be charged. I Special rates liavo been scourod on all tho siil roads. 'The tickets will ^!c on aalejfroin June 29th to .July 2d, in t olusivo, with final limit of Jiily 4th. The rates for tho round trip from ? the principal points in the Stato areas follows, rates from intermediate points being in proportion: Abbeville via S A L #f> 20 Anderson, via Ho Ry, Pll&WC 7 10 Auguata, via So liy, P U A- W 0.. 7 15 Blacksbnrg, via O IK' 2 00 Camden, via OH C 3i25 Calhoun Falls, via SAL 5 80 Carlisle, via SAL 1 80 Catawba Junction, via O R A- C.. 50 Charleston, via S C A O, ACL. 9 (30 Chester, via Sq Ry 05 Clintou, via S/A Ju . 3 45 Columbia, via So Ry, S C Sr G... 4 05' * Darlington, via SAL 8 10 Denmark, Via F C & P G 80 Fairfax, vfa F C ?V I\ 7 00 $ Groenvillc, via So Ry, P1UOWC 00 ? Greenwood, via S A L . . 4 70 ^Lancaster, via O R St C, C A C 1 15 Laurenfe, via CN St. L .... ;.3 95 Newberry, viaC N St L, So Ry. ...4 55 OrasgCburg, via S C A- G, A C L . . 6 80 Prosperity* via C N St L, So Ry . . 4 55 Spartanburg, via So Ry 3 95 Sumter, via O R St C *. 6 30 Yorkvilie, via O R AC.:.. 79 Tuesday, June 30.? 8:30 p. m.? Ad dresses of welcome, aunual address by the president, organization, appoint tnent of committees. ^Wednesday, July 1?1 (fa* m.? Bot _ ... any in the rnhooln. Mi?i tt t, Honk, | Orangebnrg graded school ; discussion. II a. m.? Intermission. 11:15 a. m.? Business. 11:45 a. m. -Ante-bellum *? and modern methods compared, Presi dent 8. Lander, Williyuston Female College. * Docision. 900 p. m,? Ad dress by Dr. J. W. Babcook, Superin-i tendent of State Hospital for the In sane. ? j Thursday, July 2?10 a._9>?-The * new constitution and lulM^qnent legis > lation as related to ^hcrpublio schools, Superintendent W. F. Moncrieff, An derson graded school. Disoussion. 11 V *. m. ? Intermission. 11:15 a. m. y Business. 11:45 a< m.? The spoiling problem, Prof. E. P. Moses, Winthrop College. Disoussion. 8:30 p. m.? Ad d teas by Governor John Gary Evans. JMday, July 3,-10 a. m.? Depart mental' teaching. Supt. L. C. Glenn, Darlington graded school. Disous-t. sion. 11 a. ra. ? Iutorinission. 11:15 a. m. Business. 11:45 a. m. ? Verti cal penmanship, Supt. E. 8. Drehr, Columbia city schools. Diaou8si<jb. 8:30 p. m. ? Musical evening by Prof. Wade R. Brown, Winthrop College. 1 In conformity with what seems to be the general desire of the members of the association Jand on account of the eatisfactory experience of tbo last annual meeting, the number od sub ject in the programme have been re duced in order to afford opportunity ? for fuller diaonsaion and allow mort time for social interconra. Otar'l v features will be these: '?? Wednesday, 4 p.m. ? *r ? hMK partmente ? President, Supt. E. 8. Dreher, Columbia. 1. What is tho True Ksaenco or Function of Super virion ? Supt. W. H. Wallace, Newberry. Discus ' sion. 2. Child Study and lt? Relation to the Superintendent? Supt. Thos. B. Hamby,' Georgetown. Diacnision. v - 3. * Report of Committee on School ^ Blaaka and Forma ? Cbfctrma,:, Saper inlendantrE. L. . Haghes, Grcennlla. piaeuasion. Buaineas. , \ Thureday, 4 p m? School ^tnda Monera' department? Predidatf t, . Tboa W. Kaitt, Newberry. -*-4 p m? Call to order and roll eall. 4K>5-4:15--Bead < ipg ninutes of laat meeting. Subject moat important duties of the mh/wti commissioner. 4:15-4:30? V. | P. Martin; Oconee. 4:90-4:45-0. W. Hearaey, Marlboro. 4^45-5 :15--Dia ooaaioD. 8?bjec*~WM?qo?litm .and attaiamanta baa the pWic a right to * lMM*d la a oandidata for school co* 5:1W^O--O.P. WilMama, : r ... 4 me^i? President, Mitw Sarah Wither*. IfarlinatonV/s. / 1. iwoejkiv. aiaouBsiona of number Sieftohto^ Pty. fMtoraon Warldlaw, fcoulHUJafoJiua Cbtlege; JJisOussioH. ih"-Nfcture ?t?dy tot 6nch lessou.' Miss JElwaTfott^. Falls, Parlingtou; DisonbtAon. Business. Friday, 4 p m ? Collego department, ? PjrCWdenkt Ds-James H. Carlisle, Wfrffohl Cdllfcgoi i Atl English coiitflo ih ntgh sfchoolsj preparatory fov collogo- Prof. C. *?*. Furmau, Ulomaon Collego. Discus sion. Business. CONDITION 1>K TIIK 4) 1(61*8. Kiioouraglng Weekly Bulletin Issued by Mtate Weather Observer llauer. The following is the weekly bullurfu of the condition ot the weathot/aud tho oi-Opa b^ Stato Obsorvor ttawr.' Although tho avorago teiyi/rature for the past week was just thwsarae as for tho preceding, yet, *e l/lively, it was slightly coolor, as the season's in crcaao ia teniporatui'o averageo about two dogroes in May. Thejffe wore sov eral cool nights, and m/rnimum tom perritures of 50 or bolow<wero reported from tho high lands of tho western and northern counties. The minima for the week ^orb 49 at Rjdgowayj 48 at Chcraw and Elloroo, ftll On Friday, the Htb. Tho tortxlmuni temperature was 94, reported froni Oheraw on tho 6th. The muati temperature for the Statoi for tho week? being \ho average of 36 wockly mean temperature ropiitts was 69, and tho normal for tho samo period iB approximately 69. Tho high - est mean was 73, at Poverty Hill, .Edge field county, and tho lowest 6 1, at Held, Greouvillo county. Th'jpmean temperature for tho Stato einco March 1st has been about 1.5 degrees perfclay above normal. Thoro woro quito general ?howers over the entire Miotn nn tllG- 'J * ! r 4ih and 5th, but the roiufall was ucvertho less partial, and in cousoquencO' there remain largo portions of the State whoro drought is not relieved only surface wpttfng. Over a strip of country about six miles wide, iu I'iok ons county, tho rainfall exceeded fo ;r inchos on the 3d, and wftH accompanied by largo hail that, \p tho,, vicinity of Looper's, . destroyed all. vegetation in ltb path and stripped tho treva of fruit. The path of this destructive bail was narrow and abort. The heavy rains washed lands badly in Pickens and Edgefield ^counties, and newly planted lands have since then crubtml over. 0*er tho greater portion of the area CQmprisod by Aiken, Lexington. Kioh land, Sumter, Fairfield, York, New berry, Union, Kershaw, Chester and Lancaster counties, tho raiufall re mains deficient. Over tho romainder of the State enough rain fell for tho immediate needs of orops. Crops, as a rule, mado satisfactory progress during the i,week, except that a few cool nights seem to put a decid ed ckeek on the growth of torn and cotton, bnt fortunately ^ t^f weather soon turned warmer. >Vith tho ex ception of tho territory already noted, there seems to be sufficient moisturo for moBt crops, but grains would bo benefited by more rain. The plant ing season is practically cvor, except ilor sOtye of tho minor crops and for Tthe. bottom, land ?9?, apdj,bis.js mak^l ing satisfactory progress. Tbo fol lowing brief summaries express tho general conditions of tbe various crops named, and when a particular crop is |not mentioned it may be Assumed that |tho reports on it atjo in the main favor able. , I Corn continues to do w^ll; it is gon,-^ erally woikfed cieao, haa 'good color, and stand* are satisfactory.- Kepdrts on corn, without exoeption continue favorable unless that some report it amim for the season, and that cut and bod or heart worms are damaging tbe atand in a "number of counties. ') Cotton received a slight check to growth during the few cool njgbta, but .without sustaining any material injury. Stands are reported -the best ever know/i in AnderapOj Darlington and Chesterfield counties, and over the en tire Stato tho stands are good. Some complaint* of grass in Edgefield and Pickens counties, where" the ground was too wet to work. Cotton is re ported aa having a good, healthy color generally. Sea- island cotton has a good stand and is thriving. Chopping to a stand continues actively, and in places cotton has been plowed the sec ond tiriie. Planting has finished. | Transplanting tobacco was pushed during the week. Somo farmers are Obliged io ' water tho plants to save thtfm, it being neccssary to transplant regardless ot tho condition of tho ground, on aoooUnt of the sizo of the frianta. The scarcity of planta will essen tho contemplated area devoted /o tobacco. I Irish potatoes are geperally reported to be very poor, almost a fatluro over a large portion of tbe,8tate, owing to the dry weathecr, and aye needing more rain everywhere. ^Potato ? bugs aro reported from a number of counties, being moat destructive in Charleston county, where some fields are practi cally rained by them. Grains have made great improvement, but spring oats ere generally considered a failure, attboogh in pfawea the rains started a vigorous growth. Oate are about ' re?dy to hirref t io the eastern portion of tbe State. Fall oats are short, bnt beading welL ^ ? DKATB IN A CYCLONE. Sixty-Right People Killed. at Sherman, Texan, and VlelsKj. . A cyclone streak Sherman, Tous, at 4:30 Tboradey, ktlllatf many people and doing great data eg*. The number ot dead la now believed tobenbont IS? IS yd unidentified. It la aakl Owjjdow at reck the bell, park flirt nf a.Aateado teaoM and w_ billed. AH telegraph wires to Bhsnaaa are down. Dead ?mWte> have been fowd latfeef. ft*v, Xr. Shearer THEY TALKED ABOUT TEETH. DOt)TOR8 v,noi>K.\ii with somk , DKMAI, 1KMTKINKS, ?" ^ 4 'thi Au/lual Session of the Stats nei?J tul Asaoehitloii- Ofllcfra Kfeotod. Dental association entered wenty-sixtli annual hobkiou in the hall of Capital l^ddgCj uighta of Pythias, at Columbia. | Dr. Wingard opened t,b6 &chklou i prayer. ^4 for. Pi But lodge? (h& president, call ed tho association to ordof^ rffter which tho privileges of tho floor woroo*tend |pod to visiting dentists from othorStatoffl Vis. II. R. Jowott and J. A. Chnpplo, of Atlaot. , and li. 0. YottugQ, of An nhton?. Alei., wero prosonk aud it was to them that this oonrlgfty .was ex tended. v , , ^ The minutes of tffc last meeting were load ai\d adopted. Dr. Thotnf)soh of Newberry read a paper advocating tho geileral support of the Dehtal l'Sbteetito association in itd warefaro on trusts. Othor meni-.. bors spoko on this subject, aud afc tho conclusion of tho romurks several new members were elected. A,, communication from 1'rof-, II. Itfbrgpu, of Nashville, Tenn., called at tention to tho request of tho curators of the army medical museum, Wash ington, D. C., for contributions in tho shape of cash, specimens, etc., illus trating abnormal cases coming under tho notice of tho Doutal Association. The. subject on operative dentistry boing called, Dr. Ii. P. Dotterer spoko on tho subject of tho care amd treat ment of children's teeth. The groetings of tho association aud tho privileges of the floor wero extend ed to Prof. D% It. Kublelicld, of Van derbilt. University, Nashville, Tenn., who addressed tho .^iioetiOg on tho subject. Dr. Yonug) bf Andorson, and Dr. I. Alexander also spoko on this subject. j Dr. E. O. Kidgoll read a paper enti tled "Approximate lllliiig in incis sors. A method for adjustiug gold crowns wiuj treated br Dr. Alexander, who exhibited specimens of tho work question. Tho president appointed tho follow ing committee as tho notional surgical museum committee: DrcP*E. C. Kidg ett, of I3atoBburg, It. H. Teagne, of Aiken and C. B. Colsou, of Charles. ton. Dr. Young made a very interesting talk on* antiseptics. Afterwards quite an animated, discussion took place oq deutal legislation, tho association try ing to determino the best' means of protecting itself and tho people against the 'inoompetent and violators of oh* tablished law. Violators of dental ethics were reported by tho board and two of these, .were given time to either desist or be stricken from the roll of the association. A case reported at the last meeting was acted upon and tlie parly's name was dropped^ from" the roll. Tho socretary was authorized to have 500 copies of a "revised list of legitimate practioners stricken of! 4ntl sent to the school commissioners aud dentists of tho State within throe n onthe. * The c 'mmitteo on deceased members reported, offering a resolution of re- j| spect to tlio memory dO^r. W. P. | C Nvill, of Charleston, fend setting aside a blank page in tho minute book, to bo suitably inscribed, sacred to his memory. * Drs. Jowett and Cgapplo of Atlanta extended a warm and bordial invitation to the association to attend the Georgia State making on .Tune 0. Tho associ ation returned its thanks and expres sed itself pleased at having theso visitors with it. Dr. Dick read the following list of licenses granted by the board of ex aminers: A. Weinberg, Manning; F. L. Parker, Johnson; J. C. Whitfield, Anderson; D. I*; Boozer, Jr., Colum bia; H. L. Todd, Simpeonville^ J. C. Patrick, White Oak; R. L, Parker, Annie; IIifB. Tjindsey, Columbia. The following beneficiarics wero an nounced, aud they will bo sent to the institutions named: Shcout, Univer sity of Maryland; A. B. Wardlaw, Caltimoro Deqtak college; ? . An derson, dcpartm<mtof dentistry South ern Medical college; Parker Teague, Atlanta Dental oollege. The election of officers for the asso ciation for tho next year resulted a q follows: President., G. B. White, Chester; First Vice- President, HfvJl Ruv, Aiken; Second Vice-President, Vfm. Karle, Columbia; Corresponding Seoretary, E. A. Gasque, Marion; Be coming Secretary, B. Atma Smith, Charleston ; Treasurer, G. W. Dick, Sumter. l)r. G. F. S. Wright was re elected a member of the board of den tal examiners for five years, to succeed himself. Dr. Butledge, the retiring president, here read a valuable ad dress before giving op the gavel to bis successor. 0 The following committee, on motion, was' appointed to make a selection | from the following places for the next meeting: Sullivan's Island, Glenp Springs and Harris Lithia Springs: Drs. B. A. Smith, G. W. Dick and H, J. Bay. Fits Lee SeestbelhreaUleat. Oea. Fttsbargb Lee, the wm eonsai gen eral at Ha vaaa, bad a ocalw?f wftb Secrs Hiy Olaur aa< lbs ruslimt latasisp j[a I Uw views of I# edaUaMratfoa id to Csbas affair*. Ova. Lee's de X KLKQRAPlllO TICK'S. \ , (ho fV^Jdentlttl nominations i huraday, Robt. Lea JenkipS; ,<?f ff, wkh appointed consul of the t nitM Ktatos at I'titrw, Qroooe. Seven hundred stonemAsonsiu Pitta purg; I'rf. , v^oi)4 ofl it strike Thursday for Hii advance ia \Va g6s. v L, liussolf, of Wilmington', *>. C., was nominated for Governor ax tho State Republican CouVentioh, at Knloigh Friday.' Tho British miniate* at Pekin, has protested to tho Chiucso government against its oeaaiou of f6reah6ro at Cho foo to a Rua?ian firm. Attfiistant Soor6tary MMdoo, of tho Navy Department, will probably leave ,)V?Hhington on the Dolphin on Jun6 I5th and spend two weeks inapooting tho nrival militia organization of Geor gia and North Carolina. . A-} Ciucwnati," ()., Thursday thti \ Odd follows' Temple Company as ajgned. Tho rtssots are Dlao&d at $659, ? 000 and tho libilitios $2(50.000. The causo given ia tie ,).?ek of capital ana failuro to sell tho stook Aodnoudsof tho company, which waa bni'ding a now home for tho throe lodgoa of Cin cinnati. Tho Jatesl news in connection to the oyolono at Sherman, Texas, Friday, is that the (load now number 150, It ia feared ti^t the restoration of t?le graphio communication will bring in formation of the loss of life and prop erty in tho surrounding towns greater than already estimated. * By a voto Saturday the General Con ference of tho African Methodist Epis copal Zion Church, at Mobile, Ala., decided that tho next quadrennial ses sion bo held in tho Metropolitan Afri can Methodist Episcopal Zion church, Washington, 1). C., on tho first Wed nesday in May, 1000. J. B. Kornegay, of Van Doru, Alo., is uudcr arrest, charged with the fraudulent use of tho Hp is said to havo ordered somo $2Saj00 worth of - goods from 120 different firms in tho North and West and dis posed of tho goods at a big discount and mado no effort to settlo. lu De cember last ho mado an assignment, transferring previously all of his pro perty to his wife. Tho total visiblo supply of cotton for tho world is 2,481,1(51 bales, of which 2, <14/, 961 bales aro American, against {1,7896, 127. bales respectively last year. Recoipts of cotton this week at nil iuterior towns 18,047 bales. Roceipts from tho plantations 12,221 bales. *s Crop in sight 6,71:1,144 bales. Bernard Koch Saturday drowned himself in a reservoir at Irwin, I\fH after poieoning his brothor-in law, his wife and two children. _ Two hundred union car builders went out on a atri^o for higher wages at tho Eneigu Car Works, Huntington. W. Va., Saturday. Saturday an unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up a Norfolk and Western train in West Virginia. Ilamlin a fast mare, Nightingale valued at $10,000, fell dead Saturday at Louisville, Ky., on tho race track, while going at a tbreo-minute clip. Two boy a confess that they have been tho perpetrators of the many re cent fires a,t Waltham, Mass., in which Blv5Q0?(J^0^iaiIQP^f^wa?_deatrqyodi tho reason for theifrincendiarism being" "a desire to see the flame." ' T,1? Bock fort Watch Company, of, Rockfort, 111,, mado an assignment Saturday. The capital stock is f!&80, 000. The last inventory taken shows assets of $400,000, and liabilities o i $110,000. Cause of the assignment is tho depression of the watch trade. Tho prisoners in Newpttft, Ky., jail, sawed tho hinges off tho rear door Saturday night and all escaped exoept Jacksou and AValliug, the Alleged mur der ars of Pearl Bryan, who refused to leave, thinking it a plan to lynch them. i rUK KUttOKS -IN TJ1JC ACl'S. Secretary \ot State Tompkins has made . public tho following state ment in regard to the blunder in the new Acts, whereby tho corporation law of 188(5 wan printed therein Ifor the new law. "Jn reference to the mistako in the publication of tho corporation Ac*, I . desire to stato that tho Secretary of State had absolutely nothing to do with tho publication of tho Acts, t gave Mr. Breazealo a copy of the act of 1896, which I had printed for tho use of tho office. If the publio printer sent later and waa given a copy of tho act of 1886, ho should not hare ? been decoivcd'by it, aa the dato of it? approval by J. P. Richardson, aa gov ernor, was printed at the end of the act, and tho date /bt its Ratification, with the name- bf W. Til Manldin, president of tho senate, 'and Jamea Simons, speaker of th^fhoaae, waa alec there." In the aot of 1886 aa printed the date io omitted, being the only date so omitted, and several amenda tory 'act# >re incorporated therein. Mr. Tompkins, also calla attention to the new' aet creating the. office of code comuiiaaTober, which- makea it part of that officiate duties, in aeetion 2, "to collect and revise all the general atatne lav of the State now of force aa well a* -that which ahall be pasaed fronr 1 time to time. Uoele Sam Bays Watt. The State Department at Washington gave out tho following Wednesday: "Ia Com petitor case it cab be authoritatively stated (hat at the request of the United Sbealsh government will postpsne wSetilos iltli liMlMmaMM apse laMsy^m. tnttt the vtewa of tbeUi wapec(ia| the application to Mr eaaas of ihe treat/ of l?t6aad the protocol of HflJ can be prsssajed aad nwllirii t ' ?'* MX ARP'S letter. ^SfPAQinON IIRTWKRN PRIMU T1VK AND) titOVb MKTIIOD9, So Me .^AiitpTe Products of the Old Wheel ftiM ht torn. 'hua. is a groat goVornmont. We don't kndw very much abotft i* until wo go behiurt tho sOenoa ? behind th$ screens as it were - and boo what is go fng on, Tho doiugs of congress as wo road th'cm in tho papors aro very n^itty and exciting, but it iH mostly routine work and tells us nothing of what is going ofx fh tjio various dopartmoCt*" soientifio anft industrial. We Usod to got tho patent office report* that had a world of ourious information aitfff ex planatory pictures, but they scorn to have stopped coming. And there wero books on agriculture and noftiotfltnre and postifcrotts insects and books tha( told about battle and slicop and all the diseases to whioh tho? \^oro subject. All these usod to be distributed aitfou ft jtho pooplo liko the gardon seeds aro Itiatributed, and protty much for the same voto-6'astitlg purpose, bnt they oost a big lot of moneys and , now aro given only to tho scientific. Thfetffett of soiouoe mako but little noitya in the *orld. *f hoy oaro bnt little for famo or fortune, but thov are over at work studying nature and solving thyateries and lessening tho burdens of life. It does seem to bo a dispensation of pro vidonco that great men caro but little for inouey. What ?thoy discover or invont soon beoomos common proper* ty. I am not speaking of tho small man who takes out a ''patent on flub hooks or hairpins, but of great men, i liko ilewner and Pasteur, AgueBi/,, Ful ton, Watts, Newton or Morse. Hut I waB ruminating about n visit I had today? a visit from Profossor Tucker, tho United Hlates agent for 1 tho labor department. Ilo oamo to And out about how tho silk business was conducted iu (loorgia fifty years ago. Ho 1 told him how my father in 1M7 got fcomo n <,rus multicaulis cut tings from Washington and in two years had novcral acres of yoftng trees, and then built a hcuso forty feet squaro aud two stories high, and filled it with hurdlo frames aifd got somo silkworm eggs, and when they hatched tho worm goon filled the hoUHOfinfr eat up all the mulberry leaves and wanted more. Wo got onoiigh from a neigh bor to finish up with, and wo. boy^j were glad onough when tho nasty things ^gau to wrap up in thoir mummy liko shrouds. But my curiosity was excited. What does tho United Statos waut to know all -this for? Bo bo explained by say ing that his department is oompariug the old with the new ? the primitive mothods with the ^modern ? and tho oost of each, and wliich was the bost and gave more happiness, and other economio questions. He had a leather grip full of samples of the handiwork of the' women of western North Caro lina I and northeast Goorgia. Kvery littiO square or scrap was pinnod to a printed sheet, that gavo 'the name of the weaver and her ago and rcsidenoe. There wero samples of woolen and cot ton and linen and silk, samples of lih sey and jeans and counterpanes and quilts and wagon sheets and curtaini| and table olotbs, and souio of thorn were gems of beautiful fabric?, and in those mountain oounties the bumble people are still spinning aud weaving in the old-fashionod way and &re hap py. In mauy families their handi work is pilod up on the shelves and olotjhes presses, awaiting the marriage of sons and daughter*, to whom they were to be given as bridal preaenta. Professor Tucker had some specimens of silk sewing thread and flax thread that were made at home. He found good people Up there who seldom bought anything and were able to givo a strangor a good bed and plenty to cat andasin cere hospital i t y . He told me of an old man in^Ilabun who aaid he never fell out with thai United Stalrf until the revenue officers began to sneak around his little ?til), whero he had been miking peach brandy for fifty years, and had the re apeot of his Maklr and his neighbors, and bo told them that the United States wasent big enough to stop him, for tho right to mako it was handed down to him from his father and grandfather. ' Ho said they threatened him every timo they came about, but ha kept two pitchtorke* in the house? one under the front door aud the other at the head r- of his bed, and they dident , daro to arrest him. But after worrying with {hem for three years things kept get -ting hotter and hotter, and his. neigh bora advised htm to quit stilling and he did, for he was getting old and wanted to live in peace, but it was a bad government that would lot a rich man atill and not let a poor man. Ttreeebig diatilleries, said ^e, awindMf the government out of more tax money than all our moonshine atilla jnit to gethea^AU they have "to do ia to bribe the atorelfcaaner. I know of one over in North Carina that aold 8,800 gal lons in one year-end never paid a dol ]?* ?** on it. A He, told Professor Tucker that the rdveJiue men broke up forty atilla io tbatVegion last year, but to hfa knowledge there were about a LauJred that were still running on a entail aeale. "The boyeeorter like the dange?Aof it," aaid he, "and the in. former eatehea it when fonnd out He Generally leaves this pert of the oonntry aeeoon ae hepooket# Hie bribe. The' .mountain people are not ae honeet and honorable ae they need io be, nod ftnlT ?p?ee of thie bribetaking boeieeaa. Tb# United Btataa ought to be aehamed of it" *rum rUu<iji poaeible to oonviaee thoae noanttta* eerawhoare eeveaty-flve milae froaa it i| to ?o?T>rf their ooro ft tV ***#' J1? bushel will make tlii'eA K??]2*V^ titer nan haul ft hundred dolWf? with ft li<?lA yok? of kteers. But the? ortu't ruu .? Hti/l oft ibe goverutuont plau, for it would cost or if* L hftodrod dollars, ftnd they ha? ? got iiie rtrofte*. Me wanted to know If there an* oM-faohioned wheels aud looms uau<1 ?n this Abu u try- ? *oa. a good many. A good eld mtfn ?M? *ear here lft?t year whose fanlity toi** wore m\f other olothes as long as Ho lived. I kAOW another man who was <tuite Veil off tot ft farmer, who was * deacon in the church and some time. fofOiuatt Of ft g<ftud jury, who nevor bought stoVo eloltaca and ^e alwato ?oo&d well in hi 3 hoirtb-mado jeans. Ho Itanned leather and w??e Mhoes for Ida family Ilia sooka aiid auspenders >u,d turkey red ha,u^er. chiefs wero\tH tiatfe at home am so was the bod\tioking J h? father beda aOd mattresses. Xla!#e your girls to wort," said he, and thojJ 1tt raako good wives ant? flood ^\\otH. Ditring the war th$, women of Uolum bus Oa., atfofo off from wearing yaukoo goods, but rflino do the same way in peace." * T That is prottv hard on the girls, ru? should think ttoffld 1U them for a con tent or to l>3 sisters of cfotfUj. ? n tenant onoo who believed ho slfMig in Working tho children that tlioy grow up without rtnt schooling. rh?y dident bavolany U<ott*olfes ?nd dident *oo tho need of aitf. ?y hli ? " bright littlo girl whom the.t called Thelbv. "What is that child's uamo7 I afckcd the mother, and sho aaid: "Her name is Othello." "Why, that is a boy's name," said I, but she insist ed that somo rnftn who staid all night at their house snid it was a purty name for a girl. "What is your bo.y s name?" snid t, "tlieono yoncairOoo? "Oh, his iiamo is Deadomony, bu t wo call him Deo for short." The poor ? i,?,i ?0f Uja names mixed? Othello and "Desdemona. Homo of these rude pooplo aIo actually lovo to work. They got up boforo day and cook and cftt broakfaat boforo euonno aud aro off to tho field. Ono of my tonauts told me he whs always sorry, when Sunday came, for it was a mighty long day to him. But the old-fashioned wheel and loom wero very usoful and pleasant things to work with. , My wife still lores to tell her children how sho usod to Bpin and wcavo on Saturdays aud sometimes when she came from school iti the evouings, and how Ailsey? A ?!? ? ? other? was the best weaver and could ako ion yards of plain cloth a day or six yards of jeans. Becky was the brau spinuor and my wife was taught, to spin and weave by theso family ne groes, NSr they all loved her and were good 'to lier and sho was good to them. Bho used to spin ftwhilo and *ellV6 awhile and thon practice awhile on tho piano and it was a ploaaant mature of music all round, and sho looked mighty pretty in her home-made Hi/ Sey dreeses ? she did? that's a fact.-* Biiib Ahp in Atlanta Constitution# DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A Compromise of the Dispute Over tlie Salaries of the District At torney an<l Marshal. The conference committee of the two 4lou*?? at -Washington on -the lfgia> lative. executive aud judicial bill have *ome to an agreement on tho matter of tho judioial districts in this Htafce. -following is the language whioh war] adopted: "For tho Dfctriet Attornoy of the Eastert aifd Western Districts of Houth Carolina, $4,500, $2,500 of whioh shall bo for the perfoitnanco of tho duties of the Distriot Attorney for the Westortl District," and the same provision was made as to tbfl Marshau Congressman Elliott says it makes w chango whatever in the present law,- as that uses the same language, Eastern and Western District of the District of Houth Carolina," plainly showing that thero is but ono district iu tho Htate, consisting of two divis ions As to the supposed division of the salary it amounts to nothing, be ? cause it can have nd effect until a law^j is passed providing for the appoint ment of another District Attornew and Marshal, and tho fact*/>f the. appor tionment of tho salar^ affords no ar gument in favor of such a law, because tho present law provides that the Dis trict Attornoy and Marshal of tho East ern, shall perform the duties of their ofllco for the Western Distriot. tub industrial south. The Manufacturers* Record XReport^ Developments Within the Mas^Weeli/ The Manufacturers' lleeord's weektV sum- . mary of Southern ^ndustrlsl news reportyj that notwithstanding the efforts of cotton milt companies to curtail production on ac count of the market conditions, the organisa tion of new mills gees on without abatement During th? week new mill enterprises hav? t>e??n proJ?ct^d at Cartersvllle, Oa., with 000 capital stock; a ?150,000 Vompany at I I? xiglasvllle, Oa. : ft fl2ft,000 company at f Austin, Tex. ; * #20,000 company to mtabllsh ' a thread mill at Atlanta; a #200,000 company * at Monroe, La. j the proposed enlargement ol | a Charleston mill at an eipendlture of about #100,000 and an addition of 8, fiOO spindles to a mill at Foreat City, N. C. Among o*her important enterprises r?" ?ported for the w*ek b%ve been the origina tion of an English company with a capital ol #600,000 to purchase large iron works at Middleboroug^r Ky., and put them In tpfly operation; a projected Weycle Janta haamaterlalbsed by the Inconwiatlon of a company with #100,000. which will ee taMXthe Drat bleycfe works south Of Mary U^fs aVompanv to manufacture, lire brick and ball ding brick has been started at Blacks beco; a #10.000 water works eompanjr at Blehaood, T?m asitfssasr LATEST NEWS ]N BRIEF. tif/fOANINGS FIlCJI MANY POINTS r. ? . Important Happenings, Home and FOrMgtt, UUiy T0&. Southern News Notes. ; Much damago dono to property by a oyqloue in Virginia Tuesday. A groat- nephew of Jefferson Davis wax *hot and killed in Kontuoky Tuea^ day. i At Chattanooga, Tenn., Wednesday# the ?ixth annual session of the South ern Hardware Jobbers' Association met. ' J Tiro national assooiation of police ohiefo which mot in Atlanta Wednes day decided to hold thoir next meeting in Pittsburg. J The Bupteito Court of Georgia has rovoraed the finding of the lover court by wldoh Hoventh-day Adventista were lined tar working on Sunday. t Ernest A. ]^lan, of Florida, his bekn Hj 'pointed eonsul to Borgon, Norway,* and Robf. Hansom, of North Carolina, secretary of legation at Mexico* A company of Khoxville capitalist? haw boon formed to work tne gold mines rocently discovered at Eco, in Monroe county, Tenn. | At Vickab'urg, MioS. . Tuesday,' efoteO persons wore killed and six in jured* with two others missing, by t^e exploftloh of ? tow -bout on the Missis sippi river. ( v Texas and Kubrnaka wa? visited by a ey clone and heavy, rain Tuesday. At " Naeona, Toxas, thrty poraon^ were in jurod, and at LincoJiVlffilM'many per sons were injured also, but no lives lost. N? j The strike which has existed at the yards of the Nowport News Shipbuild ing and Dry Dock Company, ended Tuesday, the men returning to work on the oompany's tonus. They agree to givo the "clerk" Mine system a trial of thirty days. Tho famous Montvalt 3pr\ngj Hotei at Montvalo Springs, Blount county, Tennessee, *hs destroyed by fire Tues day. Tho proporty was owned by Bobort Bonner, of -New York, and other Eastern capitalists and was val ued at $00,000, with $15,000 iueur auco. f - Northern New? Items. Twenty buildings were destroyed by a cyclouo at Worthiogtou,,-. Minn., Tuesday. / " Eugene 'Akors, a confectioner of New York/ had $20,00p worth of dia monds stolen Wednesday. ? A Boston jury gave a man a verdict^ ' against a street railway for $85,000 damages for thevloss of a leg. < A company has been organized at Chicago, 111, to exhibit tho X rays in the important cities^f the country. The fa-e at L'Anse, Bfich., Tuesday,' destroy?3>#750,000 worth of property and renrtored 800 person* homeless." The Bp^pisli oaravals which oame over during the WorldV Fair, have been given the Field mhseum, and will hereafter float A federation of six orders pf railway, employes, including firemen, trainmen, Engineers, switchmen, conductors and y telegraphers, h^t been formed at St.1/ Louis. A proposition to admit the American llail way Union was voted down. -v- ' - I Washington. A b-rr/.v ctstne to Gen. vHenooek was ufiveilo'.i Washington Wednes day. ! Tho convention of the Supreme Council of the A. P. A. met in Wash" ington, D. Q, Tuesday. 1 Tho action of the President in sum moning Hon. Alexsnder W. Terrell* United States minister to Turkey.' from his Texas home to Washington,' was not based on any new or serious developments in tho Turkish situationO* Thc Senato finance oommittee appointed Harris, of Tennessee *' of Missouri, and Waltham, of sippi, Democrats, Piatt, of C cut, Republican, and Jonee? of M Populist, as a sub committee to tigatc the bond issues. Harris will be chairman. , \ Foreign. . Tho German Reichstag has died the export bounty on sugiar at 5) marks per hundred kilos. Dr. Balmon, the oldest Freemason in tho world* died in Iwndon Tuesday.' He waa 106 years old. It is officially denied that Gen. Wey-r ler has resigned or been dismissed 4m Captain-General of Cuba. Rassia has tsken possession of ter> ritory st Chefoo, China, to whieh Bag* land lays claim, and trouble is antiei patecL Thb signing of a protocol between tho governments of Argentina and Chile has removed a threatening sft uation and exchange has risen to 17|. Berlin advioes frosa Pretoria that the death eenteneee of Jet* Hammond and the reformer e tors there have been comm five years imprisonment. Japaa's Ta Japan's new Impo power has Ibcwm< cent., the amount td be raJasd xwacblag |liO|ftW,OOft. ? But aiHl| fdatkm of 45.000,000 11 fifth la tbla reapact. tMaeni? Iret JmM