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VOLUME VIII. nod unit Our rvut.lv*> I.iumI, CAM DUN, S. C., FltlDAV, AUGUST l.t, 18117. no. ;si. A Committee Says That It's Safe for Students, THE UTMOST ECONOMY WANTED Well AMonaod Willi Farmers* Instl tulcs, and Itecoimuend (ho Goutiaii ? --,?H??br (ho Sam o. . The following report of the condition of Clomson (Jollego ftB investigated by u committee of tho board of visitors has boon made. CliEMHON OOfjIjEOB, B. C'.? Aug. 4, '07. To (ho .ffoHorablo Jioard of Trustees, Clem&on Collcye , S. (J. : 1 "Wo, tho board of visitors, appointed by yonr honorablo ? bodyj mot August 4th 18l?7, at Oloraeon, Collego, Present/ W. It. Brown, J. B. Watson and B. F. Millor. Wo regrot that wo did not havo a full attendance of tho board. TIjobo of us who wore proHont,howovor,mado a* fujl and as thorough an investigation of tho condition and managemout of the insti tution and everything appertaining thoroto aa limited time and oiroum stauoos would permit. Wo would havo proforrod to have visited the oollego at a timo when in full operation, bo as to havo enablod us to form a more intelli gout opinion of the effioienoy of. the work boing dono in all of the detri ments. Wo find all of tho buildiiflpiu iirst-olass condition and thooquipmonts fully adequate for tho present. Wo find that tho grounds and fmrroundings of tho col'ego havo boon much improved and boantitled, and for cloanliness is Unsurpassed. Whatever may have been tho local cause that producod tho late epidemic of fovor, it has disappeared. i Wo commend tho authorities in their efforts to discover and romovo the cause of tho recent sickness among tho Btu dontB and to provent tho rocurronco of tho saino. ' And now -wo congratulate tho trustees and tho frionds of tho col lege upon tho fact that entire good health provails in the college commu nity, and no ono thoreforo need hosi <, tato about Bonding their boys back at ^Hhe oponing of tho next session ? Sep tember Nt h. _ ? Wo Visited the farm and found a fine crop growing and, if thero is no disas ter, a lino yield may be expected from tho lowland. Wo also visited the truck and horticultural farm and found an abundance of vegetables and fruits growing on the samo, some of whioh was tlio finest that wo havo over Been, Wo rocommond that all that can bo utilized bo canned and stored awav for tho use of tho collego. Binco you hav6 adopted a r vacation of two months or moro in Biimmur instead of a winter vacation, wo can see no necessity Cor ' tho cultivation of so mat^ Vegetables and fruits, and therefore reoorpm^nd that a part of tho farm now being de- ' voted to the growing of vegetables and fruits bo devoted to a nursery and to the raising of all varieties of eoods suit able for our soil and climate, to bo dis tributed to tho farmers of the Htate, in order that our poople may bo proteotod from bogus vendors of iruit trees and seeds. Wo suggest to tho Professor of Horti culture tho proprioty of dividing a por tion of tho contents of his conserva tory with tho Winthrop Normal and Industrial Collego. Wo would empha sizo the importance and necessity of giving more attention to the experi mental farm, as we do think that this very important department has been nogloctod. Wo- find that the tendency is to cultivato too mubh land. We would rocommond that the intensive rather than tho extousivo system be adopted, shoeing how much a few acres can be ijatodc to produce and not how many ctin bo cultivated. Wo aro pleased . with tho results of holding farmers' institutes in different parts of tho Stato and recommend a continuance of tho saino. Tho attendance upon these institutes and tho results havo been highly satis-, fkctory. Wo would further recommend thatat least one instituto, of two weeks^ during tho summor vacation, bo lield^ at tho college, and that suitable ar rangements bo made to board those at tending said institutes at aotual cost and that tho lowost rates of transporta tion bo secured. Wo would further recommend that tho original idea in tho establishment of ('lemson college bo not lost sight of, to-wit: that the ag ricultural, mechanical, and industrial features bo at all times kept prominent. Wo find that tho college is well stored ' with a hord of fino cattle which sup plies an abundance of good milk and butter for tho uso of the same, and a sufllciont number of hogs to con sumo all the refuse and waste from tho collego, and also to sup ply /tho fttudonts with all tho b* <*rnand lard nocossary. The dairy is well kopt. Wo find about 1,800 pounds of fine butter stored away for future use and a daily inoreaseof about 27 pounds. Wo aro gratified to know that the enroll ment of studonts for the past year has, been 440, that being a considerable in crease ovor last year. ^Ye would reodth mend that ndt mdre-.tljwj two boys be allowed to ocjouny one room in the dor mitory, and further that the board make provision, for tho olection. of a chaplain for the institution, to conduct the open ing and dosing exercises in the ohapel and to super in tend Lib* Bundayachools, prayer meetings ana the Y. M. G. A. association and' to visit and care for jthe sick. We. would respectfully call tffiftritention of the board of trustees to the demand, on the fwrt of <ftir people, 'for the utmost economy in the manage ment of the aftsirs of all the higher in ? Btituttotaor learningintheBEk We ackuowledgs i he cp?l?*i*s extended to us by President Uraighead and other xjollha^ollege, and commend the ! Doaroof trustees for the seal and vigil- | aoos tbatthey have always manifested for the best interests of tbo institution, -~~?HMMr#e*i>r*ae tlw lege nay continue to grofr in useful- | nees and efficiency under ; levari lift- j onNKRAtj IMPROVf&MKNT Noted in Different Crftpe Throughout } The State, Direotor Bauer's report for week oud ing Aug. 8, says tJ^pj-o appoars to have been a general improvement in crop conditions in South Carolina during the past weok and staple aa well an tho minor orops are exceedingly lino over tho western, the north central, and thy northeastern count ies, and over tho ftroater portion of tho remainder of the' State. The exooptiona are that over portions of Oooriee, Pickens, Laurens, Union and Spartanburg counties moro rain id noeded. while in portions <?f lMbhland, Bamoorg, Kershaw, Sum tor, Darlington, Orangeburg and Borkoly thoro has boen an oxooss of rain to tho injury of crops ospeoially corn and cot ton. Laying by of the prinoipal field orops is noaring completion, ami was favored by tho hot dry weather that provailod during tho ^roalor part of tho week. Old corn is maturing rapidly over tho oastorn portions of tho State, whore fodder-pulling is now quilo general. This portion of tho porn orop varies in condition with tho locality and tho soil and is not likoly to bo a full crop. Lato corn continues promising but needs several moro good "season s" to keep it hf^.to prosont conditions and to insuro tho heavy yield that now sooms likoly. Corny, is "firing" on sandy lands in KorslShw, Berkeley and Aiken. Some bottom-land corn injured early in tho woek by high winds, and over flowed streams in tho central counties, however, comparatively small areas wore all'ected. Cotton continues to fruit well and to shed comparatively littlo. A numbor of correspondents report this orop un usually lino and moro heavily fruited than is usual at this season. Thoro were fewer reports this weok than last, of rust, oxoessi^o shedding and "honpy* dew," although those damaging condi tions are stilTWidoly. prevalent, espo oially in > soctious where there has ljgcn an excess of rain. Much grass was killed, and lay ing by made' rapid advanco. Tlioro aro reports of tho plant being small but woll fruited, and others of tho plant growing too much to ".weed" at tho ex ponse of taking on fruit. Bolls aro opening rapidly, over the southoastorn counties. Kxcossivo rains injured cotton in portions of Berkeley and Darlington, whilo in Spartanburg and limited arena olsewhore more raiu is needed, in placos the plant haVturn ed yellow and stopped growing. Sea Island cotton continues to put on fruit and was greatly beuefit?d by the abun dant sunshine of tho latter portion of the weok. Tho first bale of now cotton for this season, was shipped from Allendale, Barnwell county, on August 2nd. In 185 6. ft bales wore marketed on July 28-?Juth, in 180ft the first on August 20th, in 1804 the first on Aug'ustlft. Tobacco ouriug progroasiiig and nearing com pletion, quality good. Curing up fine in Florence. Bice heading and with tho exception of limitod localities wliero damaged by caterpillars, is in extra flno condition. Karly rioo will soon rij>en. Peas aro growing luxuriantly with good stand. Large- orop of poa-vine hny assured. IHtKIircit DIOA IjS dkatii. Slays His Wife aixl .John Cain, Hoi1, Panrinour. A epeoial toTheStato from Lowiedilo, of tho Oth, says last night at 0:510 p. m. our town was arousod to considorablo oxciteniont by soN'oral gun and pistol allots, and'agood deal of moaning in llio northern portion of town, among the colored population. Pat Dreher, a negro who has been living hero for yearn, came to his houso at tho hour stated abovo, and found his wife with John Cain on tho front sido of .the houHe. Pat Jlred on Cain with a shot gun "loaded for dear," tho load striking Cain in tho small part of tho body, inflicting a very dangerous if not fatal wound, Pat's wifo ran from tho house into tho cornfiold, whoreupon I'at^ rauu overtaking her, shot hor in tho* breast with a pistol and thon cut hor throat, killing her almost instantly. jkJohn Cain and/l)rohor's wile have ^een on very in tii/ato. terms for years. Dreher has had very (frequent friction with Cain, and has repeatedly warnod Cain to cease his rolations with -Mamie, his wifo, but to no avail. Homo time during last winter Dreher found ('aii; ami Mamie togothor, whei'eu|ion several shots were oxchanyod, but nono took eft'oct. Pat Drohor is an inoffensivo kind of a negro, arid has been much abused. Tho verdict of a majority of tho poo plo is, "Pat waited too long to do this work. " v Dreher is supposed to be making tracks to parts unknown. No attompt has yet boon niado towards his arrest. .Later run^or has it that Pat said last night that ho wns not satisfied, and wan going to kill others and then end his own career. -.?N-. , .V 7'., ,v- ?: T ' 1 ' ..iW'j-'. - IN T11K PHOSPHATE FIBLDB. What State Inspector Jones Snjrs of the Operations Thereto. While in Colombia en route back to the coast after a brief visit to hia homo In Abborille, State Phc&pljate Inspec tor Jones talked interestingly to a titato reporter of the condition of the mining Industry in the . phosphate territory of thisSUte. ? Mr. Jones says that the markot still remain* very dull, and there has been practically no change in the sitnatipH" in this State in the last tfro monttis. The Farmers' Mining Company hue now shipped awey frfMMit 16.000 tona of rtfdk H had on hand at the ti^er the re* deletion in the 'royalty was made;- this of ooiiree, had to pay 50 cents per ton royalty,- Cooeaw oou?paoyy- which went ont of business becaasa.the State board would not grant the refaction so j to tbetock on. hand, has &g& T^eaaw Empire <rmpaay hasbeftin vJmtn?to. 1 OLD Slllt OIL ' 'nu-?Li"-V- m Big Cotton Mill and Eloctric Plant to Be Built There, THE DEED HAS BEEN SIGNED, The Stnt DlapoHod of 1 1 h Interest, for $l,pOO TI?o Property Will 11? Val uable When Developed. It looks as if tho old Stato Canal, be gun at. Catawba Falls in 1 8R0, is soon to bo dovolopod, and that Hock Mill, Chester ami Winiusboro will begetting an abundanoo oijoloctrio power by t Ho transmission process from that source. Tho matter 1ms boon boforo tho Stato Sinking fund Commission for noma tiino, and tho commission, at its moot ing hud wook, agrood to sign a dood which stipulates that on or boforo tho [hi day of Jauuarv, 1 OtHt, tho canal must bo complotcyl ana $150,000 invested in tho oreotion o'f a factory for tho manu facture of ootjton goods or other com ' moditios a^ul in a plant for the genera tion and dovoljopmont of electric power, to be therefrom dolivorod to neighbor ing towns au<tj cities. It was originally contomplatod that a railroad lino should bo built out to this property from either Chester or Wtiinsboro, and it is not un likely that this will bo done if tho development contemplated is carried through. Tho old can^il proporty is at Catawba Falls, at., 'the intersection of, the coun ties of Fairfield, Chostor and Lancas ter. It is about twouty miles from each of the towns of Winnsboro and Kock Hill aud Chester, and tho devel opment of electrical power from the magnificent water power thero will moan much to thoso throe growing towns. It seems Abet Mrs. Susan A. lioyles ton, of Winjnsboro, owns all tho prop erty surrounding tho canal property, tho title of which is vested in tho State of South Carolina. Somo time ago somo capitalists mado a proposition to her that tho'y would take tho property and comploto the canal, provided sho would secure the transfer, of tho titlo'of (]{* Stato to lior on the condition that by a certain dato $150,000 would bo in vostod in a manufacturing enterprise ami an eloctrical developing plant. The property as it stands is absolutely worthless to tho State. She mad^ tho proposition to tho Stato sink ing fund commission, and that body rooeivod it favorably. Tho Attorney (general was asked to draw up a deed, and lie bus drawu a deed, in which tho Stato is thoroughly protoc tod. Tho dood transfers the tit lo to Mrs. Boyleston, her heirs and assigns, " | on the condition that on or before Jan uary <\ IMS}, as much as $160,000 shall bo invostocl as indicated above, the fac tory to bo .in operation by tho dato named, and mjon a further considera tion of tho ?inn of'81,000 to be paid to tho sinking"' fund commission. Tho proporty will bp valuable when devel oped, but as it stands a groat amount of water power is lying m)e. It is known everywhere tliatane water pow er at tho falls is one of the bent in tho State. Tho dood agreed to by tho State sink ing fund commission transferring tho canal ri?ht of .way -to Mt*?. Boyleston upon the condition that the power bo developed has boon duly signed by all the proper officials an'<t forwardod to tho property tribunal foir record. 1/ 'ON THE SOL.AItrr,KXUS. f> / Candidate Mayflclrt Gets 'n Knockout JJItnv. Senatorial Cnndidate^MayjpId's "ox pose of the duplicity of the (governor in the matter of tho Charleston^ metro^ politan police is gonttrally admitted iir1 political and private circles to h/ivo boon a very weak affair, and simply a rehash ?f old political rumors which have been * current over Bince laBt winter. Thero was absolutely noth ing in the charge which .Mr. May field had bo loudly |her abled., and an expeoted political sensation was knock: od into a cooked hat. Tho Governor, on Sunday, said in reforenco to tho ox pose: ^ ' ' Wittrout th,e slkrhtost provocation on my part, Mr. Mayiield has preferred charges against mo without being ablo to prove thorn. Ills Btatomonts aro false. A gentleman is at a disadvantage whon lie engogos in a controvorsoy with such a man.- I cannot afford to "notice him furthor. " This gets Mr. Mayiield whoro Fitz simmons ?oc Oorbot, right on tho flolar plexus. ? The/Hogister. Hi COIjOKKO <?!)!> FRLIiOWS. > i 1'licy Have Completed Their Work ? - - Aim! Adjourned* The calorod Htato grand lodgo of Odd Follows which Iiwh been in senflion in Columbia for some days has completed itH work nnd adjoijrnod sino die. Tho following grand officers wero elocted artd installed at tho Bethel M. JO. church: - ~A Orand Master ? F. W. Williarps, (Co lumbia. : Deputy Grand Master ?J. II. Wade, Winnsboro, Orand Secretary? W. II. Rutherford, Columbia. Orand Treasurer ? W. P. Cole, Charleston. Chaud Director!--.!. J. Kin ard, X'ickuey; - * ~ Ptrdou hhiI ( ommul?tlon, A commutation of sentence has been granted Uy the Governor to Jack Riley, who was convicted of manslaughter in July, 1##*, in Barnwell bounty, and was sentenced by Judge PJreeeley to ten years' imprisonment ia the jieniten tiarr. The eentance la oommnted to An*. 1. Tlis hr bee? done becaaye of 'ble J (rrente4afnH .. Metidsa to February leet ia Lenrene ?eoantyof UWaM was eenteaeed by JmdseWatta to twe jraara Mirtieeoa the INTO COUHf AGAIN. Another I'usshk?> nt Aciiik In the Agri cultural llnll Case, Mr. Wesley, tho winner in the famous agricultural hull case, Inst week wrote to tho United States marshal for tho district of South Carolina demanding that ho oolne to Columbia and put him in possession of tho building and prom* isofl. It appears that the marshal, upon receipt of tho deittand, notified tho State's attorneys iu the case. They at onoo began to take stops to prevent in terferenoo with the property until tho determination of tho case. It is mud that on Tuesday night guards were kept at the building nil night with instruc tions to rofust any attempt upon the part of anyone to take possession of tho building* with force if necessary. Tint or tho nttornoy general's ollico had the following notice served upon tho United Statos marshal and upon Mr. Ijylos, thus putting a stop to further J proceedings until tho dnte namod at oast; by agroomont the hour named in the notice hns beeuohnngod until ft p. m. Hero is tho li'otico: * j United Statos of Americn, District of South Carolina, Fourth Circuit. In ro Edward 1). Wesley, plaintiff, vs. ,t. E. Tindnl and J. it. Boylos, defendants. Ex parte Samuel w. Vance, peti tioner. To \V. H. Lylos, nttornoy for Edward B. Wosley and .1. T. Hunter, II. S. Marshal for tho district of South Carolina: You will horoby tako notioo that tho undersigned, as attornoys for Samuel W. Vanoo, petitioner in the above stated oaso, and upon whoa ?petition a writ of orror hns been allowod to tho United States Circuit Court of appeals for tho fourth oirouit, and a ouporcodas bond approved by J ndgo C. H. Simon ton, oirouit iudge, will make a motion before his honor, C. II. Simonton, United States oirouit judge, nt Oruon villo, S. (3., on Tuesday, 'the 10th dny of August, A. !>., 18!<7, at 1 1 o'clock a. w. , or aft soon thereafter as counsol can bo hoard, to stay tho oxeoution in the case of E. B. Weslej\ plaintill', vs. J. 10. Tindal and J. K. Boylos, de fendants, pendiijg the said appeal to tho oirouit oojjrt of appeals, tlio snid motion 4o be hoard on tho petition for writr"of error, bond and all other papers in the case. S. W. Mki,ton, Attorney for S. W. Vance, petitioner. Wm. A. Bauvkk, Of Counsel. CAROLINA cullinos. . Tlio Standard Oil Company lia? pur chased tho Laurens canning factory ami will utilize it as a store room for thoir oil stocks. Work is progressing finely with the new artesian well at Marion, ami the contractor, Mr< Mace, hopes soon to liavo a good, flow. ?'JUhe Seoretary of State has granted a charter under tho general incorpora tion aot to" tho town of Ijandrum in Spartanburg couuty. It is considered vory likoly that tho investigation which tho Govornor had 'Utade of the recent: > aots of the con stables in tho raid of the Windsor Hotel in Spartanburg will amount to nothing after all. ? Tho State. It. It..Stntt8,- the disponsor at Kings ton, has boon remo\%d and A. O. Moil zon appointed instead. No ohamos were preferred against him, except thai ho hud in his employment a bo.y, 10 years old, as clork. Tho 20th annual session of the South Carolina Sunday School convention is ip bo held iu C'amdon the 24th to 2<itli lAsts, The indications are that the at tendance-Will be'unuBually large. The music is to bo under tho direction of tho tocal'choir, assisted by Mr. l'\ F. Whildou, of Charleston, and tho Kov. Waltor J. I 1 orbort, of Floronco. Two nogroes, Willie Gibbes and Tom-' mie Trimble, one hailing from Staun ton, Va. , and tho other from II arts ^ville, Darlington county, wero found upon' the track of tho Northwestern Jtnilro&d, about threo milos from Kingstree,on the 0th, horribly mangled. The coroner was at onoe notitlod ami hold an inquest and found that tho men came to their death "by thoir own 6aro lessnoss in going to Bloep on the rail road traok. i >i<; i?*A 1 1 i/ri wu i>i.s r n .s k it CoiivlHcd, Hut In Ijet 'Ijooae on ISnll In <irocnvllle; At Greenville last week tho first case against u dispenser for defalcation tried in tho courts in this State, whioh re sulted in a conviction, was closed for tho time by tho sontonco of K. F. G. llolt/claw, tho Wost Fnd disponsor, to servo ii i up months at hard labor in tho penitent iar/ or pay a fine of #-100. A motion was made by Holt/claw's at torneys for u new trial, but after hear ing the argument JuduCTWatta declined to hoar tho argument <^f SolVitor Ansel and rofu.sed the motiony \ Sentence was then passed Ion fioltz claw to Hervo nine months it the peni tentiary or pay a tine ot^JOtK Thoat torneys for iioltzclaw sijrvod hotioo of appeal to the Supreme Court, Pending the appeal Iloltzolaw was rolijyised on a bail bond of $j500. The Cliarpos ai/ainst IfoltzJlaw wore, first, a shortage of #1,600; aetfond, over drawing his snlary $!30; thfr I, drawing a check- for-## as dispenser to pay elqo- ' t ion managers, He was cov victed on tho second and third counts. JJook keepet-TSeruKga testified thai the $l,flOfr lm<l gono, but ho could not account for the disappearance. - iiS ? : ? Goes to e Reformatory School. In the United States court at Okeen- I ?i1Ie, Coey Jordan, tk white iHp, 10 years old, from a prominent family of tjjg State. bM been eehtenced to two iii tike reformatory at Wash ing to ? la company with a negro man, Thomae Robinaoto, he broke into the poetoffioe at Marietta and atole 61 cent#. The negro waa given one year at hard labor inthepenltentiarj at Colnmbus, Ohio. An ^ietment to pending in the 4 Jordan and Robin* Into the ] stone where the " poetofloe ia kept, and m ?tui? tertHiirh by the. ~.'.r - -a- -? The Stato is Askod to Mako an Ex position Exhibit, ? r **.-? (iEN.WAOH HAMPTON'S HEALTH. /\ <'(>IuihI)Im'h t'nlon l>C|>ot Mftltpr -Ne^Vj Hnachfllt Ycll?l>on't Wnnl t<? l*??y l'nu,Ui>ttt> OIIht Palmetto \u(oh. Otnahu, Nohruakn, in to hftvo u big intornntionnl exposition next your ami the State hat* boon otllohilly invited to pnrtioipato. While it iH hardly likelv that h State exhibit will be made, nevertheless l iovonxov Fdlerbe will doubtless oh 1 1 the attention of the Log islat mo to the matter. Ho litis re coived t ho following from (lovernor I lolcoinb Aooiikt b, I >107 . Sin: I take pleasure In extending to you, and through ?ou to tins people of your State, a cordial Invitation to partiolpato in (1m Trans- Ml**ifsb<pl a??l International Kxpoul tion, to bo lit Id In th? city of Omaha, No braska, beginning Juno 1 ami ending No vember I, 181'S, This enterprise had lis In ceptlou In llio actfon of tin* Trtuis-MlHslrtttlitpl CoiiKr<vsK of 18M, attended I >y accredited delegates from tho twenty-four States and Territories of the groat West. fully appreciating t ho responsibility, as well as tho high hmto', con for rod I *y tlio Trans- Mississippi Congress In naming Omaha as the place for holding thin great exposition of the products and reHouroos, the man t^Act tires, arts and industries of tli? Trnns-Mlvdsslppl e<>untry, tlio oitt/.oiia of Nebraska ? and muro partieUlatly id her magnificent metropolis ? have done evor.v tliiiiK uoediui to make tlio great enterprise a sueeo-s. Tho Trans- Mississippi and Inter national Exposition Association, a corpora tion organl/.cd fur Hint purpose, has tho work in oharge. Mora than $200,000 In cash of the capital stock has already boon paid in, and the Htato appropriation' of $20,000 Is In tho hands of a board of directors appointed by the Governor. It Ik our oiirnoHt wlnli that your groat com monwealth may participate. In this great ex position 011 Nobtaska soil and In a manner be fitting tho Importance of tho onturprUe and tho greatness of your State, to tho end that friendly tics and. idoaur commercial relations may bo. promoted between your States and territories ol tho trans-Mississippi country. I trust thai you may llnd It not inconveni ent or Inconsistent with your oWotal duty to bring this important subject to tho attention of yoi\r people at. un early date, and. If It ac cords \Vjtli your ylevvs, ur^o the commercial and other organizations, municipalities and your legislature to make sucb provisions as will Insure a proper exhibit of tho resources of your State at thin exposition. Youth vory truly, . 'Hii.as A. I Ioi.com it, Governor. Tho people of Columbia and tin; traveling public firo still taking about tlio propoHocl new union doptjt for Columbia, says Tlio Statu, which ban been needed for ho ~lo^g a lima. Tho momborn of tho commission any thai ait el i things eannol be bo socured in a abort time. The railroad moil must be given due time to consult' one another and endeavor to agree upon aome plan for establishing a depot. They any it too,k a year'a work to oeeuro tho depot ?at Denmark. They have by no meana forgotten the (Columbia depot, and tho railf'oada are now trying to agree upon rioino plan. A member of tho commis sion aaid yesterday that ha thought lie could safely aaatu'q all that tho new Union depot hero would be in itae bo fore ftwother ai.v inontha have rolled Hocretary lfollowuy writes that in ad dition to tun increased premiums over those -offered last year by tho State fair society, tho citizens of Columbia have ofl'orod "speoial premiums" amounting to about $<100. Tho premi ums ofiorod for tho bale of best cotton. 8100 for first and $rt() for tho second best, in all 81/50, will he the means ol bringing tho largest shbw. of ootton in yoars. ity i> ffiresuined that the otter in-, cludoe upland and not Allon "or nn^' of tho long staple variety. The promi um lists are going forward rapidly to past exhibitors;, life members, to others making applieAtion for them. Governor Eilorbo says that tho coin mitt oo of tho trustees of Clemaon, which has tlio selection of a prosidont for tho institution, hove not many ap plicants but that ho presumes tho cqui mitt oo will bo roady to report, at the regular meeting of tho hoard in .Sep tember. If the committee Is not roady with the report thou Prof. Hardin of tho chomioal chair will sot as president until one is selected. ~ ? ' Govornor Ellorbo has commntod tho I sontonco of Alox Bichardson, who was convicted in June 181X1, of manslaughter, and sontonced to a term often years im prisonment in tho State penitentiary. Tho commutation roducotf the soutonco to two yearn' imprisonment from the date of Ik ih arrival at tho penitentiary. Tho ton years' sentence was passed by .fudgo Town eond. , . . r . Charloston truck farmers are protest ing against Philadelphia merchants charging cartaKe fees, which is done nowhere clso in eastern market u. Tho Truckers' Association has agreed that if Philadelphia merchants will not sell Charleston truck free of cartage, tho growers in the vicinity of Charleston will put n man in the Quaker City to handle ail their goods, ? ? ? One of Kingstreo's base ball teams have adopted tho following nn-to-datd yell: "JIurrah! hurrah! zazzlo, ise o! Blind tiger liquor and a Palmetto treo! Wo are tho boys from old Kingstree! Play ball!" . , N". B. Cooper, a leading citizen of. Mull fas, ~\farion "county, and a former representative in the Legislature from Hory county, is d?M. ... A Special frow Pi?V<?ja to the News and Courier, says: "The county eom> mtMioners have unanimously request ed tbe State Board of Control to abolish the liquor alion# at Piokena. The board seema to think it is an unprofitable business. " '? Got. Ellerfee has offered a reward of $100 for- the apprehension of Bew K, Britten, It appears that Brittoh first JIo tin?V*iw"* ? ?*T an tea m limtM bumjkL WOOD SAWYICltS t\'vilia F1NUKU A KcmarUnble C'nae Krom )MuewoO<t The >1 ii it Suffered . \ n <> 1 1 . A ftpooial to Tho Statu, from Sumter, PfttV? n negro m iv it named NYush Ihunnf., ! who liven near Pinowood, and who wot 1;h for Conductor .jf. C, Modelling htim 011 tho log train which plion be tween that place ami Pinowood, lias boon sulVoriug intense agony for about nix weeka with what Roomed to I ?*? a bono felon. He consulted a physician, who said it whh neither a felon not rising, hut seemed to ho a mash or poasiblv a splinter had boon run into the ilugor iini told Purant to put a poultice on tho Anger, which he did, hut fontnl no re lief. On Tuesday mornine Dnrant's linger pained him unusually, and noon tailing tho poultice olVlte whh horrillcd to hoO tiio hoftd of a worm Rticking out of hia Anger. Ho took his knife and pulled the worm out and carried it to ('apt, MoCloninghftin. It looked e\ rii't I y like a wood aawyer and about tho ri/.e of tho average worm of that kind. Puiant pulled another worm of tho same kind from his linger and since then liis linger lias not pained him near so muck, and to all appeaiaucus ingot ting well. ? Intrant is very much worried about iiis hand and thinks lie has beer, "hoodooed." lie has lost about > pounds of tlesh and lias not worked for mx week a. TIH'K.MOM) WAS At yt'l ITHIJ. State l'l-Oaeeiitor in ICdu clicM Kotiiiil No! Ouilty .Murder, All Kdgollold jury, aftor thirty nun utea deliberation, found Solicitor ,f. \Y. Thurmond, State practitioner for tho Fifth Circuit, not guilty of tho mur der of W. (?. llaiiiM, Jr., last March, llarria writ a young man, belonged to an old family ami traveled for a drug houso in Columbia Tho c.auao of tho trouble grow out of politic*. Thurmond had recently booh elected solicitor, while Hums' father was de feated for a county ollice. Young Harris, meeting Thurmond, charged him with undermining his father and called him a Tillmaiiite. Thurmond withdiew into his ofllcoand stood at tho door When llarria eamo by more wofda wuro exchanged, when, Thurmond savs, 1 1 (I'll is advanced on hi in with a knife 111 his hand and ho lucked him down tho step. 1 1 arris camc at him again, he swore, with a knife in his Iclt hand and hit) right on his hip, \\ lion he shot hint dead, fhero were no witnesses to this. 1 1 arris' k uifo was found ehised in Iiih right pocket and no thov weapon waa on his peraoii. 8TATK IH Vs WIIISK ICY. Dispensary lluar<l Ijuys In Supply <?t <3, OriiiUs, Ktc. The Slato Hoard of Control of 1 ho dispensary wan in *ossiun in Columbia last week. In his report, Commissioner Vhmcc, among oilier things says: "Our stock of I iquoi'H and supplies amounts to about $1 AO, 000 hero in tbo Htato dis pensary and the rLffi'Ai on hand in tlio local dispeiisarios!^vill amount, in round numbors, to $200,. 000, and we have money onouuh on band to. pay for all your honorable board may see fit to buy thiH month. Thin I consider a good showing for Die financial standing ol tho dispensary, notwithstanding the chargos of corruption nmdn by tlio en omios of tlio dispensary. The board devotod a good deal of its tiuuo to purchasing liquors. All the boor coincH from (Stjorgia this nionth. , 200 barrels being ordered from 'thfl Audio Growing Company, of Macon, ami 100 barrels from the Atlanta Jir,ow ifyf Company. Fifty barrels of coiTK wore ordered from tlio Kohn- diatillery, Montgomery, Ala. Mallimoro and I'hilndfelphin lionsos got ordera for up ward of 400 barrels. TI1IC COM)KICI> COIiIjKMK. President >1 i 1 1 cr Tallin of tlio SKiia Presidont Thomas 10. Miller of the eolorcd industrial col logo at OfArtg^j- j burg, was in Columbia last week on hia tv?y to Washington. In speaking of tlifc col lego and it h prospccts to a Keg- , lster representative, bo said: "Though Iho col logo really hasp commodations for only fiOO students, had 1,100 students at tho last netjhion and the prospects aro that tho next ses sion, which will begin i>n <Soptiunber UH, will start with an cnaollmont V 2, - 000 ^Indents, of?whoin -10 per cont./will be female. The accommodation^/ ftnd income of the college are wholly i/iade ?piate to accommodate the slitdonts. There would be J, 000 enrolled if tho ?ollego could accommodate them. " Clinrleston*H IClovutor. The officials of tha South Carolina & Georgia Railroad bavo given asKiiranco that the new elevator at Charleston will bo ready for business by Hoptembor I. The Btorago enpaoity of tbo olovator is 200,000 bushels, receiving capacity r>,000 bunhols an hour, discharging capacity 5,000 bushels an hour, loading and lin .loadingeapacity 10,000 bushols an hour, cooling and cleaning capacity, with im proved blowers, 4t 000 buahals au hour. The facilities for loading vessola direct from the olevator are of the latest up-to date method*. - Iu addition. to a large spout convoyor, a new belt conveyor is now being constructed the entire length pf tho pier, with a number of spouts along its entire length, which will on able the grain to be loaded into all of the various holds of a vessel at the same time. ? Manufacturer*' Bsoorf- - . .ii i tiers mriKc rrogrcisliig. The coal mnie strikers arc continually receiving accessions; little work is be ing done at nny of the I>e Armit minee.. [At West Newton, Pa*, a large, stored 1 ho??4e. has been opened *> ?0*>tr?mi*sar7 and ntribntionSN in J*rg* qnaatitiee have men made by merchants end farm ors; the strikers will organize a maroh ? ou the -Fayette eoanty none*, ? ? Hon. n is mki mm But Cotton Has Not Fared So Woll, FNcopt In a Fuw States. - ? ? ? GOVERNMENT CROP BULLETIN. Tohaoco 1m Ofinernlly i>otng Kxeept In New Knyliiiui, AVhOl'O 'I'll ere Mum Hiumi Too Muvll Ituln. * Tho United fttatoa wookly crop bullo-* tin of tho Woathor Ibircau isauodon tho 10th flftya ; In tho States of tho central valleys and in tho Atlantio coast and east Culf districts tho week \lian been gonorady favorable for crops. portions of Mis Houri, western Tonnoaseo, Missistdppi ami Kentucky Inivo, howovor, autteiod from drought audyoxcos>dvnhoat during tho Ural wook, which proved injuriiMJs ovor portions of IhoCulf K(aU><. In Ui?t wo at (lull States tho wook hna been vory unfavorable, being oxcoaaivoly warm a od dry. ( >n tho Paoillc coast tho eon ditions havo boon vory. favorablo, til though oxtremoly warm in Washington and Orogon. Corn lias continued to make favorablo progress in tho prin oipal corn States, and whilo recent rains have proved houolfoial in No hruska and Kansas, the reports indicate that tho crops lmve boon permanently injured in portionu of thoao Stated. it. in oatiuiatod that tho bulk of tho corn crop will bo safe from injury by frost, by Soptembor 1Mb, a^ffi that (lie lato planted will bo safe by October 1st. . I'.xcopt over portions of North Caro lina, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, where cottojrv has mailo fair progress, the 1 ast.wook has not boon favorable to thin staple. Thoro are o^hipiaintn of shedding geu erally ovor the southern portion of tho bolt, whilo woriua ami ruot aro reported from somo sections. In Texan, Louis iana and Arkansas cotton on up lands is sniVoring seriously from drought. Picking is becoming general ovor tho central and southern portions of .tho cotton region, and tho Hist bales wore marketed during tho wook in Ala bama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Flor ida. Spring wheat in tho Oakoltas and Minnesota is well advanced, but had boon delayed by tho rains to some ex tent in Month 'Dakota, whoro a part- of the orop which was overripe Iuih uns tained injury. Very favorablo reports continue from Oregon and Washing ton, although tho recent hot winds havo caused some injury in the last named State. Tobacco is generally do ing well, except in New England, whoro thoro has boon. too much raili. CONDITION Ol' COTTON, Al'U. iHT. Tho returns for cotton to tho iJcpart inont of Agriculture imlieato an avorago condition of 80.1) on August 1, as com pared with HO. 0 on July I, all increase of 0-10 of one point. The average con dition, August 1, 1800vwfts 80. I and tho avorago condition on August 1, for the last 10 yearn is 80. 1. There lias been a decided improve- - mont in (leorgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, whoro tho conditions havo advanced ten,, sovon and. six points respectively. In tho lower Mis-V sissippi Valley uio, improvement is much less markod and in Texas thoro is a declino of ten points. The averages of tho States are as follows: Virginia, 70; North 'Carolina, 07; .South - Carolina, ? 08}---0eorgi^,-~0&j? Florida, 88; Alabama, 88; Mississippi, 85; Louisiana, 00; Texan, U8; Arkansas, . 1)0; Tonuoasoe. 84; Missouri, 85: Indian Territory, 04; Oklahoma, 80: ? KOlJ.NI> BALK OF.vC.OTTON. L New Syif|eni Promises to Work a Itcv. ??, olutlon. : ' "T1jA? new system of pressing cotton into bales of Cylindrical Bhapo iB, I think, golnj^to bo a groat success," nnitl ( }. M. J'aoe, of Mississippi^ at tho Italoigh, in Washington, to a roproson tative of the Nashville (Tenn.) Ameri can. "The Hat forijrof halo that lias' boon in vogue,ao~tOng makes the cotton very unwioldly and bulky, and freight oars on this account are not ablo to . load np to their fill 1 capacity. With r the cotton pressod into tho moro deair ablo shape it will be far inoro easy to handle and a great Having of labor will bo efiected. "A nnmbor of tho now comproBsoa will bo built in tho Houth thin season, and if they provo to bo a .success, many more will be constructed in time for tho next crop. The company which has boon formod to push tho cylindrical process ot bailing has a capital of St), - O<H),O0<h and Mr. Hoarlos, of Hifrfftr Trust fame, is its president. The com pany will not only k'" and coinproHB tho plauter'a cotton, but will enter tlio market its buyors ami ^purchase hi# crop as Well. Til IC IIATFltCL,I>3 BREAK. LOOSE, ? They Are Kntr<*nrlii% in a JHgli Mountain I'ums Ulld Defy Pursuit. A spocial from Williamson, W. Va.,? says wild stories aro being circulated about tho officers who are trying to capture Captain Hatfiald, the desperado who escaped from jail. T|ie. Hatfield# ,r Are said to be strongly ehHconced in a' mountain pass aU(I to h'SVO rtoijully*' killed Deputy Sheriff Johnson and four bther deputies but noa* of- ttette ~ reports are confirmed. The officers are t. fh hot pursuit and Judge Doolittle in HiHtH on ib#?h?riff capturing Hatfield at a&jr caii or. xiak.it isbatta t .. "have been encounters, bul nothing def inite ca&^>+ jyM Jed. ' Win be NatUhN'fTluMrtotte " WheU Capi. Kopteenr asked the board of aldermen of Charlotte to make an ap - propriation for the car -North Carolina IWlling Expo*Uu>n