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boil Ml and dryott no September, oar apring ' >- S/-, $ / Daring laat Auguil m ‘ oalraa that alwava ha<re tbo ran oi oar cultivated land*, kept in fipe order upon our tooond crop of torglium. The)* deemed to preier it to anything elee. We have grazed sorghum with calves for two or three years, and arc very much pleased wlth’thc results. E M. HOT FOR HIGGINS. Him, Soma Marylandar* Getting Altar. Other* Radaralog Him. Baltiuobk, March 26.—The Wash ington correspondent of the Baltimore American says: The only appoint ment thus far made by the odminUtro- tion that has boen severely criticised was that of the appointment clerk of the Treasury Department, for which Mr. Manning, and not Mr. Cleveland, seems to have been responsible. The President 1ms given his Cabinet officers to understand that they could fill vacancies In (heir departments to suit themselves. Had It not been for this fact, it is generally conceded now that Mr. Higgins would not have got his place: or, if he did get it, that ho would have been removed as soon us the President learned what sort of an appointment he had made. The Prcsi dent told a friend yesterday lie had no doubt Mr. Higgins would make an efficient official, although it might be an open question ns to whether lie did or did not get his position as a reward for party service. But, aside from this one case, Mr. Cleveland lias ccr tainly made an excellent record as an appointing power, and if rid mistakes are imminent, he may rest assured that he will have the hearty suppor^ due him, not as a Democratic Presi dent, but as the President of the pco-j pie. THK FEDERAL OFFICES. •if ou EM 1 very and I vl, ■ i;’| r •li: Thera Mean to b® quite an interaet among the subscribers to your excel lent paper in the culthrmtiou of the ahw grasses, and more especially the Johnson grass. 1 think that grass Is the main Hay In agriculture and the bunk in which the farmers should de posit wore of their surplus fbnds if they wflM sure returns With a good profit. In the epHtUi of 1883, I produced tome ated from the Plant Seed Co., and planted (hem just like I would have done oats on a small plot of ground. I got a poor stand on about » third of the patch, and the oilier two- thirds being a failure. The part that came up was thin at first, but it seemed to spread some from the stalks above the ground. Borne of the stalks at tained to a height of six feet and matured some seed. When winter set in I paid no more attention to it. The following spring I examined it and thought it a failure—could take hold of the stalks and pull It up by the roots, as I then thought, but upon closer examination I found tiiat it broke off just below the freeze. By digging down I found all that was below that point was all right ami some of it went as mncli as two feet below, so I waited for the results that warm weather would produce. On the Art day of Mav, 1884,1 noticed it running through the ground from the cane like roots which, unnoticed by me, had spread in every direction, some running out two feet from the original stalk. By these roots spread ing in this way it become thick enough on the ground. After the weather got warm, and it got well to growing, I took the measurements of growth for thirty days, the stalks tiiat I measur ed made an average of two inches every twenty-four hours’ time. On the first day of September, 1884, I mowed it close to the ground, the seed then being ripe and some of the staHcs eight feet high. I then thought it done for this year but happening to pass by It in a few days, to my utter astonishment, it was s foot or more high, and looking more like young corn than grass. X had now become more than ever interested in it. I watched its grdwth from day to day until the 10th of October, 1884. when 1 cut some of it to take to the fair at Mt. Vernon which commenced on the 11th of October. It was then five feet high and headed out but made no seed. The frost coming in a few days killed it down to the ground. I made some hay ont of some of the last crop. My stock of all kinds would cat it before thev would good hav made from clover and timothy. If I had a meadow of it like the patch I have, I could get a good crop of hay which would all be grown from the root after the first day of Beptember, after the army worm had taken the other meadows, and the chinch bug eaten all the corn. It would make plenty of hay to carry the fkrmer through the winter and be a boon to many drouth districts after the other crops have failed.—J. K. Cum mings in Journal of Agriculture. Chant*. K<L So. Liv+Ntock Journal: For the past year or two there has been a great deal written about tbo chufas as a crop for hogs. Some of the artlclqa that 1 have read on the subject regarding the enormous yield, I thoaght very extravsgant, some writers claiming tiiat they would, on land suitable for their growth, yield from 180 to 300 bushels per acre, and that they were worth, bushel for bushel, as much for hog (bed as corn, and that tba hogs wonfd harvest the crop themselves. I have had hut one years experience with this crop and that on a small scale. Last apiiNg I planted about three quarts of idea on a poor piece of sandy land. Iqdairtcd nbotrt one-half acre; row# three feet apart, dropping the seed one in a place every IS or 18 inches in the drill. Many of the seed were evidently unsound as not more than one-fourtn came up. 1 kept the land well cultivated, aini as fast as the plants that did'come up, would tiller out, I would draw from them and set Out the missing places until there was not a missing Id 11 in the whole halt acre. About the 4th of July 1 had finished setting out the patch,* and by the middle of August ni&uy of tlie bunches had met across the middle of the rows. I gathered a small plat in the beat of the patch and made a cal culation to see what they would make per acre, and they were making at the rate of 128 bushels per acre. This was on hmd that could not, with the most favorable seasons and go ext culti vation, make more than ten bnshoh of corn per acre. I am satisfied that, on .good sandv land and an early stand three hundred bushels per acre would not be extravagant figures. There is no doubt in my mind but tiiat the otrafa is one of the best, if not the best crop we cau raise for hogs poultry. Have them planted con venient and nil kinds of poultry will feed oh them. They are not more trouble to cultivate than corn. The question will very naturally be asked if they are so productive, why is it that thg seed are so high? There are two reasons; 1st, but few persons have paid any attention to the cultivation of the crop: 2d, they are the most tedious crop to gather of which I have any knowledge, and but few over gather more than they need tor their own seed. The seed must remain high until some machinerv is discovered tor harvesting and preparing them for market. With oats, peas, sweet potatoes and chufas, the meat problem is easily solved in the Sonth. Reapactfully, John K. Mosby. Lauderdale, Miss. TlkS Swahnn* Crop* Several articles from time to thu^ have been published in tills paper upon the subject of sorghum for csttle taken from western papers. It seems that in Kansas this is decldedlv the cheapest and best and most reliable corea forage that can be grown. The plan generally adopted is to sow* one bushel of seed per acre, broadcast, and out with a mower- In that dry lati tude it seems the curing process is easily affected. we do not believe that sorghum in tbiiseeOoa is the (net rough forage t e*n produce when an attempt is mode to cure it ss we do hay. But run, nut me tramp nreu, Killing We Me satisfied that for ensilage pur- instantly. Shortly after it was discov- ered that the supposed negro was a white man, who had blackened himself and invaded the house. Ue was re- zed as a near neighbor of the THE WEALTH OF CATtOLIlTA. AW ADMIRABLY ARHANOKD EXHIBIT AT NEW ORLEANS. mm I-' What Senator Uutler Hay* of the Action ** the Delegation. [Special to the Nem and Courier. ] Washington, March 25.—I am in formed tiiat some gentlemen whose names do not appear on the slate made up at the conference of the Soutli Car olina delegation have entered the con test ns applicants for certain Federal offices in the State. Some persons imagine tltat the heads of the various departments have placed the patron age "of certain States in the hands of Congressional delations, and that whoever they recommend must ccr^ tainly be appointed. Senator Butler says there are persons in hiiuiHatc who appear to be laboring imd^r that impression. He says he, bpxgf'y sorry tiiat such an idea was ever entertained for one moment. AH the Federal, offices, lie says, arc open to competi tion, and tliose persons who succeed in making the best impression upon the appointing power will undoubt edly eqrtiro the appointments. He does not wish to discourage any appli cant who thinks he can make the fight lor himself. Indeed, it seems that those who tiave the least political in fluence behind them are meeting with the most success at the hands of the President. Senator Butler called at the post- office department yesterday and placed on flic the application of Mr. Benja min F. Huger for postmaster at Charleston. Mr. Hugoi; is endorsed by the best citizens of Charleston, and he will probably be selected as the successor of Postmaster Taft. Taking I’are of the Iludy. The Christion Index, the lending organ of the Baptist Church in the South, published in Atlanta, tia., in its issue of Dee. 4, 1881, lias the fol lowing editorial: Too many people seem to think tiiat a religious newspaper should he con fined to the discussion of moral and religious subjects onlv, forgetting tiiat religion has to do bolii witli the bodies and souls of men. “Prove all tilings, hold fast tiiat which is good,” lias as much to.,,do with the practical side of life as it has with the moral side. Our readers will bear testimony that in all questions discussed in the Index, W\v> practical has been duly set forth. In this paragraph, therefore, we only seek to present an article worthy of commendation. After subjecting it to the above test we have tried Swift’s Specific and found it good—good as w blood purifier7"gb4HTKivA health tonic. In this opinion we are sustained by some of the best men in the church. Rev. Jesse H. (’amjibeli, the Nestor of the Baptist denomination in Ucorgin, says:.“It is my deliberate judgment that Swift's Specific is the grandest blood purifier ever discovered. Its effects are wonderful, and 1 consider them almost miraculous. There is no The Cotloe Display- 1*1 and Staple-Cotton MMhlnorr-FhAe- pfc-te—Fralu—Mlnemls— Wood* — Other Product*. New Orleans, March 21.—In cele brating the centennial of cotton, it should be remembered tiiat no State in the Pouth has a history so inter woven with the great industry as that of .Soutli Carolina. From Charleston one hundred years ago was exported the first bale of Southern snow, and from that date to this cotton has been a chief element in the wealth of the State which lias dolio more than any other to foster the growth of its power. Before Whitney reaped the benefit of another’s invention one of tier citizens invented the cotton gin, wiiich virtu ally raised the staple to its throne, and very lately another lias patented an invention, which an official committee here, after careful investigation, pro nounces to be the only improvement ever made upon l lie saw-gin, one which will soon su|>ersede all other gins. The cotton harvester, which an other South Carolinian has nearly brought to pertection, and which, greatly to the disappointment of the cotton w orld, is not exhibited here, for fear of infringement of it#improve- ments in its unfinished state, will com plete the list of claims which South Carolinians advance as their titles to be considered tiic body guard of King Cotton. Their State exhibit shows a beautiful collection of cotton, culled from the sea isiands to the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains, which form the northern ooumlary of the State. The staple of the sea island cotton of South Carolina is said to be tlie finest in the world. One of the South Carolina planters raises sea island for Lanely, the great French spinner, and receives an average price of $1 per pound for his crop, when other sea island cottons are only bringing thirty-five to forty cents per pound. Two bales of this cotton arc on exhibition, and have been entered for competition. SOUTH CAROLINA PRODUCTS. Sea islainj cotton is used to manu facture ffie.tjestrgrades of spool cotton and ffiio laces, its long staple having a capacity to be spun into a thread so tine as to he almost iuvisiblc. It is jjhown hero in bales, and framed under glass are samples of the pretty, silken stuff, just as it falls from tlie pod, looking in its dainty, airs lightness more like the spider’s work than (he product of a field crop. A very fine oil painting, tlie work of Miss Helen Murdoch, of Charleston, shows a growing plant of sea island cotton full of blooms, red, white and blue, and the fully developed bolls from wiiich hang the snowy fleece in its perfection. The upland cotton is also well repre sented. A splendid variety, raised wear the capital of the State, seems to an untrained eye to rival the tar-famed soa island cotton in beauty of texture. Corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, millo- maize, sugar cane and sorghum cane arc all to be seen in their various forms, and they all, with the many other agricultural productions of the State, are used to decorate the roof and slender pillars of a beautiful tem ple which forms one of the attractions of the South Carolina exhibit—a veri table temple of agricultural industry— its outer courts being studded wRli glass vases containing shelled g£jn8 of the different cereals whose sheaves thatch the roof, and the inner court has COO jars of preserved fruits and samples of wine from the vinevards of the I’ieclinont section, which bids fair to rival France in the production of fine wines. The fruits of tliis State arc shown in most tempting fashion. One sees here peaches, pears, quinces, figs, plums, cherries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, whortleber ries, haws, grapes, jetties, jams and preserves of the good old-fashioned kinds, which look as though they were good to cat, and which give the eye a rest after viewing the iinmeiise quan tities of fruit in this building put in white, tasteless fashion anl already covered with mold. RICE IN THE GOOD OLD STYLE. Dr. known medicine comparable to it.’ H. C. Dornady, one of the best ministers in our church,says: ‘Swift’s Specific is one of the best* blood puri fiers in existence^” These brethren speak advisedly IVut few preparations can bring for ward such endorsements. The Index desms only to endorse these state ments. Wo have witnessed the bene ficial effects of tins medicinCj not only in our own households, but in several other cases where seemingly all other remedies had failed. It is purely a vegetable compound, scientifically prepared, and perfectly harmless in its composition. It renews the blood and builds up broken down systems—gives tone and vigor to (lie constitution, as well as restores the bloom of health to the suffering. Therefore, we do not deem it inconsistent with the dnties of a religious journal to say this much in its behalf. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Sukcikic Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. it into fertiliser*. There are also bap of prepared fertilizers. As every commodity is estimated upon a gold basis, It is interesting to compare the yield of tiic phosphate of South Carolina mines with tiiat of the gold minds of the Southern States. The gold mines of Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia pro- ducedjn 1884, $266,828.77. The production of gold in the South ern States last year being about the annual production of these States since the establishment of mints in the United States, and tlie pro duction of phosphates in South Carolina for * tlie last year being $2,500,000, giving that State, as a mining district, including her gold, ten times the advantage of the other Southern States. Should tiie rate of iroduction-of phosphates continue as t has in the fourteen years of its dis covery, in the same length of time which* ha^elapsed since the United States muds have recorded the pro duction of gold, the value would reach the enormous sum of $200,000,- 000; and there is reason to think that it will far exceed this amount, as the demand increases every year and the supply is believed to be inexhaustible. 'MINERAL DEPOSITS. South CWolina is said to have very few mineral deposits of much value, buttho samples shown here seem to refute the opinion of geologists, and the 'researches which are constantly making among the once almost un known monntuius of the “Up-country” as tiic northern part of the State is called, may bring to light wealth that is not now known. Wc sec here that the State ^possesses fine qualities of gold, silver, copper, lead and iron ores and sparkling among them the stars of the mine—mines, emeralds, topaz, amethysts, garnets mid other gems. Thera ar®' some very fine building stones, soapstone and marble, witlrV granite, from tiic quarries around Columbia which arc now doing a paying business. Tlie most interest ingofnll things shown in this section general news items. I I ■fil l A —Win. A. JuhAii A Co., dry goods merchants, Macon, Ga., hare Hailed. —General Fitzhogh Lee has resigned as commander of the Virginia State troops. —At latest accounts, the threatened. ... w- u .j • . irar between England Russia seemed | cited tbe most interest was rather probable. —The salary of the Minister to Tur key, formerly $7,600, was raised by Congress last session to $10,000. —The Southern rosin packers deny that their shipments are false] v labelled. The fruit, they sar« lies in New York. —At last accounts the great zereba of office-seekers in Washington had not been broken. The underbrush was still full of place hunters. —The Senate committees arc pre- from malarial fever. One oithe num ber, Henry Banes, of New York, died on tbe passage. When the vessel ar rived at New Orleans twenty Of the men, who were still under medical treatment, were sent to the hospital. —A Washington telegram says: The nomiflation in to-day’s list which cx- tfiat for postmaster at Indianapolis, lud. A rather active contest over the right man for this place has been going on for sometime between Representative- elect Bynum and Vice-President Hen dricks. Tbe former supported, it is said, by ex-Senator McDonald, urged Frank Cruimau, while the latter in sisted upon the nomination of a friend, Acquiila Jones. Hendricks was final ly successful. Many a is beautiful, all but her skin; and nobody has ever told her how easy it is to put beauty on the skin. Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm. quest, . mqM excellent crop. We eat (hat tba crop bo fenced an practicable, so that tbe i fora can graze the second excellent pastures soil it is A Romance In a Paragraph Charlotte, N. C., March 26. Wadcsboro, N. (J.. on Tucsi ning a tramp called at the hoi pien by tno ladies and lodgiug. They at first refused *t, out finally agreed to whore he warn to reimftn aft About 12 o’clock the ladles were by a negro who threatened to kill them if they made an outcry, and demanded money, which one of the ladies said she would get. She then went to the closet and unlocked the door, when ‘jbe tramp, who had heard the whole conversation, sprang out, pistol in hand. The negro started to run, but the tramp fired, killing him le aatoset 30 night- A in waked b —Bismarck lias a blrthdav. follow ing close upon Emperor William's, The great German Chancellor Is seven- ty-one yean old. After tiic agricultural temple lias been admired the visitor to the South Carottna exhibit is attracted to the pretty display of rice. Supported by pillars, which are glass tubes fillet with rice, is a small roof thatched with sheaf rice, which justly claims to be the best in the world. Grouped around this centre piece are barrels, whoso ghus tops reveal the rice ami its vari ous products, and grades of clean rice chafi, rough rice and tlie flour and bran which this grain yields. As oommercial display this is perfect, hut to do fill I justice to the South Carolina rice tti,e Charleston merchants sliouk have sent along one of the old-time “inaumas,” as the colored women uset to be called Charleston, provided with a small cooking stove, who might have shown to many visitfors how rice was intended to be eaten. Cooked by these old inaumas tlie rice is delicious. Each grain is separate and swollen to twice its usual size, and does not at all re setnble tiic sticky sfufi served on so many tables. . • Bales of hay, seven different varie ties, including Bermuda, from cx- Govcrnor Hagood’s farm, and John son grass from the Childs farm near Columbia, bring before tiic attention of ttic student of Southern industry a branch which, since the passage of a stock law in South Carolina, has re ceived the attention of some of the most cncccssfnl farmers-of tlie State. Blooded cattle are fast taking the place of tlie herds of worthless scrub stock whicli once roamed uncarcd for over the free pastures of cadi neighbor hood, and h number of farmers now find a profitable occupation in raisin; fine oattle and bar. One bund varieties of grass, from the two hun dred found in South Carolina, are on £xhibitiou^horc. Many of those are used for forage. TUOSPHATK ROCK. I The most prominent and original feature of the South Carolina exhibit is an immense pyramid of phosphate rock, thirty feet in height, made of thirty tons of tlie land and river rook. Set into tbe four sides of tbe pyramid are large shield-shaped plates which beer the following inscriptions: ~ “Annual shipment of phosphate rock, 400,000 tons. “Fertilizers manufactured, $3,000,- 000. “Annual product of miaes* $2,500,. Meet > - OOfet ^ “Annual shipment of fertilizers, $155,000 tow.” Is the collect ion of fossils from the quarries rf. the phosphate deposit on the South (.Carolina coast. The immense jawbones and teeth of (he old fossils make one 4eel thankful that the ani mals they represent ai*^, now extinct, or have grwwn so beautifully smaller as to have lost their former terrific appearance. NATURAL HISTORY OF' THE STATE. The natural history of Sonth Caro lina is superbly illustrated here by a collection Of stuffed animals from tlie Charleston Musueni. Tlie beautiful birds of this Shite make a bright glint of color among tbe dark animals and ghastly skeletons, they arc placed beside. Over two hundred specimens of the fish of tlie State are shown in this collection, but they l>cloiig to the State fish commission which lias in tiic last few years done a great deal to in crease the supply of good fish in South Carolina. Those exhibited here are preserved in plaster and painted and varnished until they present a very life-like appearance. Lord Cornwallis said, a great many years ago, tiiat Carolina was worth conquering, if only for tlta bream in her streams, and a great mouy will agree with tho old gentleman when they examine tlie specimens exhibited hero. MANUFAeTURINU INDUSTRIES. Tlie people of South Carolina real* i/.e aiinuaHf $33,000,000 from tiie pro ducts of the different manufactures existing in tiic State, and a space pro portionate to their Importance has been accorded to tlie manufacturers in the State exhibit wherein to display their work. Ten of tlie cotton mills of tiic State, the Columbia hosiery mill and a wagon factory in Greenville, have availed themselves of this fine opportunity to advertise their busi ness and reflect credit upon their State at the same time. Eleven companies engaged in mining phosphates and the manufacture of commercial fertilizers unite in making one of (he most inter estin'' and instructive of the many wonacrfuLand important things to be seen at this Industrial Exposition. They show, by samples of their pro ductions and photographs of- their mines and work*, the whole process of mining and manufacturing tlie South Carolina phosphates which have done so much for the State. Not only lias the royalty paid by them to the State lessened taxation, but tiic sale of fer tilizere has enrichened tiic owners, and at the same time tiic application of them to tlie wornout lands of the State has cnabfrd the farmers-to increase the amount of produce per acre, until comparison of tho crop raised in 1884 witli that of 1860, tlie most prosperous year of ante-bcllnin times, is simply astonishing. The annual product of the lumber and naval stores business the value of the products of (be cotton mills in South Carolina, and exceeds in value over 200,000 bales of cotton_at-$4Q per bale.. Bale brandies of this forestry trade are- well represented in tho ex hibit of the Slate. The lumber exhibit is said by lumber men who have ex amined it to be tlie best selection made by any State. The 140 varieties of wood shewn have a portion of the surface of each piece polished to the extent of the wood polisher’s art. The work was done in the|workshop of tiic South Carolina Railroad in Charles ton, W'hotto artisaus are accustomed to using the beautiful native woods in the interior decorations of their cars. Tire Atlanta4'OBMtUntion, In a lone article relating to the B. B. B. of that city, says: The Blood Balm Company started one year ago with f 162.(X>, but torday the bits! ness cannot bo bought for $50,000.00. The demand and the satisfaction given is said to be without a naralllel, as its ac tion is pronounced wonderful We are glad to announce tiiat our drug gists have already secured a supply, and we hope tmr renders will supply tnems at once. It is said to be tlie manent blood ing entire satisfaction bottle bos been used. For. Blood Dis- Iney Troubles, Scrofula, Catarrh, Fiemselves be tlie only speedy and per- poison remedy offered, giv- dsfaction in all cases before old tie UloenraiM Skin Diseases, try one bot- —Great suffering prevails ng _ rtions of West Virginia. in So some great s the suffering of the people in droath afflicted district the authorities and people of Kanawha county have been appealed to, and quantities of provis- ious have been ordered sent by the County CouBybr the relief of the dis tressed. Taleffof the suffering of men, women and children, and of beasts, come from portions of Jackson, Gil- Calboun Roane counties. paring for grand junketing tours from Alaska to Florida. The country will be generally investigated. —Russia and England are both try ing to form alliances with Turkey. Tho Sultan will not act until Minister Cox is beard from. —Thirty bouses were destroyed by an incendiary fire at Oakland City, Indiana, on Saturday morning. Los-es $100,000; insurance $40,000. —William Neal, the last of tlie Ash land murderers, was hanged at Grav- son, Ky, on Friday afternoon. He irotcsted his innocence to the last. —It is thought the theatre of war in the East will not bo confined to the Afghan frontier, bnt will extend ns far down as the Black Sen. —Jt docs not seem tiiat France’s empty guns make much headway against the Chinese fire-cracker. The French were out of ammunition at last reports. —Tlie Duke of Connauglit lias ob tained leave to remain in India in the event of the failure of tiic Anglo-Rus- sian negotiations couccriiiiig Afghanis tan . ■The Michigan Carbon Works at liougcvillc, Michigan, were partially destroyed by fire on Friday morning. Loss about $e50,000; insured for $85,- 000. —Tiie Secretary of tiic Treasury has notified revenue collectors to dispense with assistants in the service as far as possible. Tho Democratic spear this season is a pruning hook. —The horses and carriages belong ing to tbo Interior Department wi sold at auction last week and fair prices were obtained. Those bclonguig to tiic Department of Justice were sold also. , —William Hayne was killed by Bishop Scott at Muncie, Ind., on Tues day night, while stealing chickens from tlie iatter’s lien house. Hayne intend ed to play a practical joke, and was shot In* the owner of the premises. —Quiet lias l>ceii restored among the moonshiners at Highlands, Macon county, N. C., but further trouble is apprehended, aftd a reign of terror exists among the people. Tlie lawless element consists mainly of citizens of Rabun county, Ga. —Messrs. Pendleton and McLanc, tlie newly, appointed United States Ministers to Germany and France, respectively, qualified at tlie State Department on Saturday. The date of their departure from this country has not been decided upon. -Col. Fred Grant looked quite en couraged last week. He said: Father rested quite well last night. He did not sleep very much but he looks ouite refreshed to-day. He ate well and lias no pain or uneasiness, if lie is not better lie is certainly much easier. Dr. Douglass says Grant rode out with Senor Romeo and is doing fairly. —Dispatches from Moscow show tiiat a commercial crisis exists in that city. Within tlie past thirty days five of.the largest tea and sugar importing firms have failed. Their liabilities aggregate 16,000,000 roubles-over $10,000,000. Government and private bankers are concerting measures to avert a spreading of the failures and a panic. -Ex-President Arthur left Wash ington on Saturday afternoon for Fort ress Monroe via tlie Baltimore and Bay Line of steamers. He, will be accompanied by Senator Don Cameron and Marshal McMichacl. Mr. Arthur will remain at Fortress Monroe about ten ila> s and then proceed to New York to attend a complimentary din ner tendered him by the citizens of that city. „ —Tlie Oklahoma boomers have re ceived a telegram from their represen tative at Washington to the effect that a commission be appointed at once to investigate the legal statns of the Oklahoma lands. General Hatch, who rcturued from Caldwell, states that he has information tiiat the men who compose the commission arc Senators Ingalls, Dayrcs and Morgan. —In Stewartsyille, Ind., on Tuesday afternoon two farmers named Flerch- inan and Sclmrmlial, between whom a feud existed, men in the road, and Flcrchman cracked Scliarudral’s skull witii a plow point. Scharndial, though I injured to death, made an onslaugut j witli a paring knife and literally cut Flcrcliinan to pieces. Both men were prosperous farmers. Scharndial leaves a wife and one child. —It is understood on high authority (hat General Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia, is tube United States Com missioner of Railroad* amt Norman J. Coleman, of Missouri, to be Commis sioner of Agriculture. Mr. Coleman ia. a resident of St. Louis. He is about sixty years of age and was for many yean editor of tbe Agricultural Home, an agricultural paper published in St. Lonis. —A fire occurred Thursday night at Nos. 66 and 68 Duane street, New York. ’The following arc tho losses: Hood Si Graff, 'lithographers, low $25,000 insurance $12,000; John F. Dremer, document envelopes, loss $12,000, insurance $9,000; National Bank Note Company, loss $20,000, covered by insurance; W-H. Parsons Si Co., loss $40,000, fully insured. Tim building was damaged to tbe extent of $20,000 and was fully insored. —The commission appointed tomake an examination of the Treasury De partment with 8|>ecial reference to the simplification and improvement of tlie methods of doiug business, ami to the redaction and rearrangements of the officers and clerical force, met on Fri day mprdin^to decide on a general plan of procedure. It is not believed that the commission can complete tiie duty assigned it in less than ten or twelve weeks’ time. CoatmarcUl Failmre* for » Week. New York, March 27.—The busi ness failure* occurring throughout the country during the lost seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun Si Co., number for the United States 248 and for Can^ ada 29—total 277, against 278 last week, and 282 the week previous. Tlie failures in tho Western States are lighter tlian for some lime past; tlie Southern and Middle States show an inorcase. Very few assignments are reported in New York city. NOT DEAD YET. MOTHER! ARE YOU TLH1TTUI l?!"! With any disease pe- 1IV U U nljrj IJ ouliar to your gentle sex? ) If so, to you we brings tidings of com fort and great joy. Yon can BECURED and restored to ]>erfeet liealth by using Bradfield’s Atlanta papers are giving the public some curious and wonderful cases that are quite interesting. It seems that a young lady of Atlanta hail bfeu reported as dead, but it came to the ears of tlie Atlanta Journal that she was still alive, and being on the alert for news, the reporter was sent to the residence to learn all tlie i acts. Mtss Belle Dunaway, who had been pro nounced dead, met him at tlie door, stoutly denying tiiat she was dead. She said: “For four years, rheumatism and neu ralgia have resisted physicians and all other treatment. My muscles seemed to dry up, my flesh shrank away, my joints were swollen, painful and large, lost my appetite, was reduced to flu pounds in weight ami for months was expected to dfe. 1 commenced tlie use of B. B. B. and the action of one-half a hottte convinced my friends jliat it would cure me. Us effect was like magic. It gave me an appe tite—gave me strength, relieved all pains and aches, added flesh to my bones, Audi when five bottles had been used I hadi gained 80 pounds in flesh, and 1 am to-day seund and well.” Female - Regulator! ■M IT A LIE ? Some one said that Potash was a poison: Who makes the assertion except those who desire to mislead and • bumhug you? ffe who denounces other remedies as frauds, is quietly offering a vile compound of his own—beware of all such. Ask your physician or your druggist if Potash produces all tlie horrors claimed for it by tliose who are compelled to traduce ottier preparations in order to appear re spectable themselves. We claim that Potasli properly combined with other remedies makes the grandest blood remedy ever known to man, and we claim tiiat B. B. II Is that remedy. If afflicted witli any form 'of blood poison, Scrofula, Rheumatism, Catarrh, Old Ulcers and Sores, Kidney Complaints. Female Diseases, etc., tlie 11. B. B. will cure you at once. Send to BI<xh1 Balm Co., Atlanta, Us., for a copy of their twok kkke. ■* Marlsi.ly • It is a special remedy^ for all diseases pertaining to the womb, and any intelli gent woman can cure herself by following the directions. It is especially eflipneious in cases of suppressed or painful menstrua tion, in whites and partial prolapsus. It affords immediate relief and permanently restores the menstrual function. Ad a remedy to bo used during that critical period known as “Change of Life," this invaluable preparation has no rival. MATED HEBt LIVE! Riixjk, McIntosh Co., (1a. Pk. J. Bradfield—Dear Sin 1 tiave taken several bottles of your Female Regu lator for falling of the womb and other diseases combined, of sixteen standing, and 1 really believe I am cured eutirely... for 'wtilefr please accept my heartfelt thairk* and most profound gratitude. I know your medicine saved my life; so you sec I cannot speak too highly in its favor. I have recommended it to Several of my friends who are suffering as I was. Yours very respectfully, MR.S \V. E. STKUBIXS.. Vlur Treatise on tiie “Health and lies*of W oman” mailed free. BRADFIKLPKKUULATOR <\h. Atlanta, (in Scpntxi.ly N ■ W A l> V E RT1SI: M ENTS. Wanted. PILLS SB YBAIIt IN USE, Tfcs Or**U*1 Triumph «f ths Age! SYMPTOMS OP A TORPID LIVER. BswaUcsatlv*. Pal* la tba bM*. with a 4*11 MaaaUea !■ the beck pert. Pale aeOer tbe ebeeMer- kleOe, Falla*— after aatlei, with adie- laellaatlea te exertlea ef bedr er —led. Irritability—te—rer. Lew eylrlte, with a feellec ef barter eerlected eeete datr, Weartee—frPlaalaeee, Flatterlar at the Heart. Dete before the eyed. Headaebe ever tbe rlrht eye. Reetleeeaeee, with fltfhl droaaM,*Hiehty colored Urtae. aed CONSTIPATION., TUTT'Z PILLS are especially adapted to racb eaeee, one dose effect* such a change offeelinr as to astonish the sufferer. . i-iar—hed.and by tMrTeale Action on TUTT'S UTRICT SlRSiPlRILLl Renovate* the body, make* healthy fleeh. — I Julies and gcutlemeii to take light, pteasant? employment ft! their own homes (distance no objection), work sent by milt, t‘ to $1 a du-y van lie quiet I v made, no canrmviur. Please address at once (iutaa Mm. t'o., .Boston, Mass, Bax, -.aw. CONSUMPTION l bavo a positive rernody for tbe shore (IIzsaso; by u« vzo th'>u*an..z «» f cartra of tko worst kind and of long • laedin-j have Deen rurod. Indeed, tottronf !z mr fat U In its *CItfaey,llnal I wl J eend TWO BOTTLES FREE, L'^etber w tn • V A I.U ABLE TRE ATISE on title dumom to any Bttffvrcr. Giro r xprvaz mitl >* O uddr as. Dll. T. A. SLOCUM, 111 IVarlSL, A«.w York. A l^edlenLeedeePhy. ■irlaa Kj.litbliahc.na OlBce ia New York. From Am. Journal of M«d. “Dr Ah. M*wrol* wh» m.ki-x . .imci.ltj i fKpiirp,. luu without doubt treated «nd oorwd wt. cue. th.j. Hi* rarccu* hu .(•: ■ of o v^Jai-. bwo wtomuhin*; wc have herd of jKiruat.tiittnc cured by him. Heri.rautowr JJ." Inr*. bottle and Truitke .cut fro*. Ci.u I* *uJ J jpTW-u.drtriw-to - * Dr. AB. MLSKUOLS. No. 9S JolinSt-.X-w York, vj - a.wh , bod/, ■ ■ ■ ■■ . “ .j ■treogtheo* the weak, repair* the waste* of the system with pure blood and hard muscle; too— the nerrou* srstem, invigorates the brain, and imparts the vigor of manhood. • 1. Sold by dnjmrliit#. _ . OFFICES 44 idnrraySt., New York. Men Think i they know all about Mustang Lin iment Few do. Not to know is. not to have. \ . ; 4- I. cv arr et ■elf th. Cm*. Ootluu t*« hulMlu* CAR .nd RCCS of urn., doubt. l*« wmt UlNUhu r £ ~ W.H. FAY I CO.CUUr s.'sj" pabkrr’s tonic. -mu'nnnd bts.liy dWirderi oy unxloty, cure and Sfwvi v<Mt ' Tlu surprise und rnarfit) .* T’ WJffc an essence of urlnaer. i)e- llctotw to lb'.* pa-i, * a ,. antidote to tbe liquor tb0 ;ued ^ mscox & CO., ltt$ n illlwm Street, Xew York. Aphiuw THE CHURCHMAN. h'OK.TY,MR*T YK.VIt.—INNS. Thu ItolisiouM Weekly of the Pro tent- nnt t.pfscopnl Chnrrh. A magazine cT Ecclesiastical inte'.llgencc, de votional and gcnrfM reading, and the largest anamost Influential weeWr In the Protestant Episcopal Church. Jar* are ranged aronnd tbe face of the pyramid containing ground rock sod Lagredienta used in matmfreturing wMr or scad, and os the season for planting 1* near tbimrs look decidedly serious. Kanawba county con take care of her Own needy, but help ia requested for i tbe other eoauties. I the Acwm Depart incut (he energy of Thk t iickch.mav Is wdl kiown, and its organi- Zailon Is very complete for procurtlur new*, which Ir gives with remarkable promptness T he x»a*a«liic IKepnrtnirnt alone con tains in a year stilYiclent reading matter to make more than five iiruo books of one page* , celebrated Peterkin per bushel. It will ca re f ull.v prepared by specialists. ...t .... I’ 1 * F-uroprnn CorrespondentM are uer-- hom of eminent ability. „ ^ The (ihlldren’a Department l.i fUim- and specially edited for t he cWMren. M.W a jcur in advance, poftt-pukl. Three dollars fni'l'jrg.vmea- _Sintrie copies ten eentt.- M. II. MALLORY, **’©. ApWLtm 7 , af * l > York. ATTEYTIO.Y, 1 IF -Ate IRr Si IR, S I, W E offer you Cotton Seed at $1’ give forty per cent, of lint, and equal the ytelti in seed cotton of any other variety. We are agents for the Decring Binders, Reapers and Mowers, the Thomas Bake, I Corbin and Acme Harrows, Farquhnr Cot ton Plan tty.s, Iron Age Cultivators, Saw i Mills, Engines, (Jins, Presses, Plows, Etc. Repairs for Champion and Buckeye Ma-' chines and for Watt Plows. Write to us. , McMASTEU Jfc G1BBES, Mar4L6m ^ Columbia, S. C, litnssits Territory DR, Kory given, .•COTT, fDoa wartkra* arrived at New Orleani from Livingston and Port Barries, Central America. She brought borne a number of oiek and destitute railroad laborers. She took on board seventy- eighi men, all saftdug more or lea Mila Kisic ,843 Brondvyny St.,N.Y. BRANCH OF LUDDEN & BATES’ MUSIC HOUSE. ’ SOUTHERN. -PIANOS AND ORGANS SOLD ON EASY INSTALMENTS SMALL INSTRUMENTS AND SHEET MUSIC CONSTANTLY IN STOCK TWENTY PER CENT. SAVED BY BUYING FROM US PIANOS AND ORGANS DELIVERED AT ANY DEPOT IN THE STATIC i _^ be _^^^frekofcharge. AGENTS WANTED ON LIBERAL TERMS. .* OT Write for Terms end Catalogues to* * rpbUM N. W. TRUMP, Manager, , m main|st., uounoiu, g. a r ■tr it