The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 22, 1885, Image 4

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Jast after the war doted and cotton was setting all the way up m high as 40 cents per pound, when everything was in an abnoraml condition, when the com merce, the finances, and the agricul ture of the whole country was on a boom, tbe.basis of which was sn in flated cnrrency, when money flowed like water, we ooald afiord high stock fbed, bat in a few years when every thing settled down to a normal condi tion, the fkrmer began to look about for cheap food for the mules that worked the cotton crop and the result wm a general introduction fkmous red rust proof oat. Some claimed that it wm a Ood-send to this country, the only hope of the cotton planter, while I have always been undecided whether it wm a bless ing or a curse, for this reason, if the cotton planter had been nnable to get this oat some twelve or fourteen years ago, be wonld have been forced to adopt a different system of agricul ture and be would have been nnable to raise cotton at the low price he re ceived for it, without this cheap stock food, consequently he wonld have S ven more of his time and attention prodoction of food crops, the rear ing of cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, etc., together with sowing the various grasses and making fine pastures. Again be would never have known and snffered the evils of that vampire, the lien law, which, while it is grad ually sucking his life blood, cools him with tbe flap of its wing in the form of hope. The red oat, liie whlske good in its place, but is and bM harmful m a basis for a cotton crop. As a leader there Is no better crop fur our fkrmers, and we sboald give to It that Intelligent study that it disserves; there is one serious draw-back, how ever, to our oat crop and only one which I have carefully studied to rem edy so fkr u my own crop It concern ed and that Is the frees!hg out process which has proven to dlsastroas of isle yean. Last season I planted one hundred acres in oats, and planted in several ways to satisfy myself which wm tbe sorest wny to get a good stand, and tbs safest way of protection from freeses The first aafe-gaord is early sewing always, m late sowing is seventy-five per cent, more liable to free scout than early vowing. I towed my crop In various ways to find ont tbe beet mothod of patting In a crop. Tbe largest part, I prepared It nicely, cotton seeded It well, then sowed the seed and harrowed la the whole thine, and snob a stand I never saw on ground. I next plowed in some very shallow and then harrowed tbe grouad. get ting as fine a stand si tbe first. Next, I plowed in some at deep m mules ooald pall the plows, (I mean one- horse plows), and harrowed the grouitd, also got s fine stand. All of this done in dne season, not later than 20th October. I then sowed some in latter part of November and Decem ber, all of which I plowed in about an average depth. Some I harrowed and somel left rough in order to find ont it harrowing the grouitd bed any effect on tbe stand, but being sowed late, and the freeses commencing, not more than three per cent, of them ever came np at ail, being killed In tbe process of gemination. Ninety acres out of the bn ad red were killed ont, while tbe remaining ten acres were far from having a ftm stand. Now the beet stand of the ten acres were those that I plowed in deepest, and the next beat wire these that I plowed in shal low, while the poorest stand were those I harrowed in. I also took occasion to notice the . dlSferen't etylee of sowing adopted by nearest neighbors, and found about tbe seme results with them m In my own fields. 1 claim if wo will plow in the oats deep and then harrow the ground over that tbe freezes will not effect the stand more than ten per cent., which is a reasonable aUowaroo for bad seed and weakly plants, where if we put them in shallow, the stand will be Itgared fUlly fifty percent, give m my reasons the following: My actnsl experiment for that purpose. It is potent te all that mkere bats have been sown on cotton Mod, row cut stand and trace the original water fUrrows between tbe old cotton beda, by the regular stand of oats looking m If they had been sown in drills. Agirn l can tell where the tape of two lam'* is by tbe oats being more regular along this ridge, because in plowing along this lap tbe oat seed get twice m much dirt thrown over them, by reason of tbe lapping process, m any other part of the land. Yet again, I can trace ont every water fUrrow between the feuds where the oat crop simply been harrowed in and am un able to aceonnt for it in any other way than by more of tbe soil being drag- tbis fUrrow by (be harrow, on why I believe deep i of ante will save tbe stand * .. mat the eomson _In the oat of to ranch trouble with bad elands. Of course these mu other causes, but 1 regard borrowing la Is the chief oonse. There Is one more theory upon which 1 am undsoUfed, simply because I have not bad an opportunity of testing it. I believe It nas some bearing, but don't know to wbat extent, and that theory Is, that our oats having become dimat- feed, they have become more tender from tbe effects of to much warm drawing dirt I fotinal following With baud lirt to the | -'VW' weather in tbe fell and spring, striking the young plant first »na then coming again on them nearer maturity. If l lien cotninj maturity. some fkrroer wlll proenre seed from a eolder latitude and publish his expe rience, be will confer a great fovor ou the generally. No one need fear put ting the oat seed too deep in the ground, M I have fully tested that and find I can get a good (stand at eight inches deep. I wonld like to Ihear from some of the older bends on this subject, men who have been long la the business, and who have made it a study. All we need in this country to make onr agricultural interests n success, is to give it Its does in tbe way of brain- work. get out of tbe old channels, stop planting cotton only m a surplus and making ersry plantation seli-sustain- ing, and last but not least, stop the negro from killing mules by starvation and other equally m barbarous meth ods. If we could and would devote all our time and attention to our forming interests, it would bring About that grand agricultural revolution which I claim mast come ere we will have any substantial progress or solid improvement in this country; then and not nntil then, will we have that "New South” they are writing so much about. Let us not leave the whole rgricul- turnl department in the the hands of the old men, hot let car yonng men lay hold and make it an honorable muling Instead of a disgrace as many of ua consider It now. s R. h. god in i Another plowing In fe, that our thou two inches deep, and if the of the oat is down deep in the warm north below whore the cold penetrates, It oertoiulv grIU live although the top any bo bOteo off by sold. All vege tation has a tendency to come oat is taken off from but tbe red o«t __ jUy jg ihfe tteu, nr tmttuAto this hoi fear aa notoe food m the Mat, yet Caltar*. The following interesting letter, re ceivcd Irom Commissioner Butler, will also appear in the regort of the State agricultural department ou the l.Mh instant: Lanimford Chester Co., S. C., September 21, 1885. Col. A. I*. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture, Colombia, S. C.—Dear Sir: Realizing, after eight years’ ex perience, both in planting and renting out fend for the cultivation of cotton in this section, the neoestiity of finding another or rather additional money crop, I began two years ago to inves tigate and study the cultivation and ouring of tobacco. 1 soon became convinced that a portion of my land wm adapted to the growth of “bright yellow” tobacco, the production of which hM done so much of late years to enrich certain sections of North Carolina and Virginia. Whether our climate would prove equally suitable could be proven only by actual exper iment. This experiment 1 decided to make. In November last I employed in Vance county, N. C., a young man versed in tobacco culture and curing, aud on tbe first day of January, 1885, began work to prepare for mv first crop. Desirous of giving it a fair trial I cleared out and prepared for culti vation seven seres ot original forest laud of good quality and of the proper kind for tht growth of bright tobacco, Vis., o< gray sandy top soil with po rous yellow sandy subsoil. I also selected about ten acres in ditlurcut Iota of old lands, part in small pines of se«x>nd growth, part in broom sedge, and about two acres In a flue state of cultivation, all ot same character as new ground already described. All of this, by repeated plowingsand harrow ing, I reduced to the finest tilth during tbe mouths of March, April aud May,' and In the latter month prepared them all for tbe reception of my plants—first manuring them—the new ground with 200 ponuds of blood aminouiated sup erphosphates, (manufactured by the •♦Domestic Fertilizer Company ot Co- lambfe,”) and (ht old land with a com post of stable manure, cotton seed, kainit and acid phosphate at the I plKMpbate at tbe rate of a little more than 1,000 pounds per tcre. both applied in the drill and bed ded in as for cotton, and afterwards “billed” by checking with a straight shovel and drawing no with hand boos aud “patting” to retain the moisture and indicate tbe place for setting the plant- All of this work I sound ease, and by the 10th of May bad all my tobacco land ready with two horses aud three extra hoe hands—two of them boys under 15 years. In addi tion I had planted twelve acres in cot ton, about tbe same in corn, besides garden and patches. My plant beds were prepared in January and Febru ary, port ou upland and part on branch bottoms, the object being to provide for the extrema of wet or dry, and with tha bops Of securing plants for early setting from tbe warm nplund bads. Tbs seed, all of best varieties from vsllow tobacco virgins of North Carolina, came well and proved very hardy, some even standing the severe tMt of three or four inches of snow without hurt in the middle of March. From (his date (March 17) to about the 10th of June, feiwever, we had positively no rain, not even a shower in April, proberbial for her smiles aud tears. In tha latter part of May we had two small showers, but not enough to wet tbs ground halt an inch, so my upland bads did practically no good, tbs dry cold did practically no good, the dry cold wind “blowing tbe plants off tbs bad,” m tbs Mying goes, and tbs “flea beetle” and “fly” literally eating np what remainded. My bot tom beds, however, did their foil duty and ftirnisbsd ms all the plants I need ed or had time and season to set. The first shower in May (about the 20th) I set 15.000 plants, of which, peifcaps 10,000 lived. The second ■bower, about tbe 28th, I set 24,000, saving not more than 12.000, the hot son and dry ground killing tbe halt. I then set about 10,000 with water, (a alow, tedious and costly process;) two-thirds ot these lived and did well. About the middie of June I eooeoeded fend' ones set, and 40,000 plants then living, ‘ dry hot weather im- ' killed 10 or 12,- 000 at them, ^nd it wm wot until tbe 4th Of July that we hud a seaeou suM- aoori ids mtaais Hi getting all my MThapchad 40,01 bwt the terrible d plant each time, tbe eultivarfew very easy; rap idly done; and well suited ' labor. Up to the 20th July trouble with the born worm, that time they appeared in vast and increasing quantities, and before I ooald get my raw negro hands “edu cated” np to the point of catching wll of them, blf and little m they wfoM^ the ones left behind, and growing rap* Idly to 'oiiormotts size, bad 4M0) me great injury. As soon m tha, warms appeard I also tookmeamnrea to rednse their namben by pefeoning tha moth, whose egg laid on the uuder aid# of the tobacco leaf, prodnoes tbe worm. To this end, in the cultivation of the crop, I had instructed my hoe hands to spare til plants of the Jlmpson (Jamestown) weed found growing i.i the tobacco hills, the seed going to the field with the compost, I suppose, and the consequence was that In each lot I had a few very flourishing stalks of Jlmpson Just coming into bloom. Within these blooms, which are the favorite food of the “hawk moth,” and which are open at night and closed in daylight, or, at least, sunlight, I each evening injected a few drops of swett ened water, pretty well colored with cobalt, nsing a small machine oil can with spring bottom as an injector soon began to find the dead moths, and in less than a week’s lime had the satisfaction to note, first a decrease in the egg* and young worms, and in two weeks’ time a total disappearance of all except th ; old worms neglected in previous worming; nor have I been bothered with them since, except once, when my Jimpson weeds being neorl killed by the continued doses of oobai I discontinued the use of it a few days, when I found the worms again ap pearing and young moths growing un morous in the fields. A few, tiro or three, docs a week has kept them nnder ever since; and right here I will say that I believe if I had commenced the use of the cobalt as soon as the first Jimpson bloom appeared l shoult have escaped the worms almost alto gether. My tobacco showing seed-buds first about 15th July—the first planting—I topbed enough for one barn about July 20. This tobacco was cut and put in barn August 25; cured out August 29, and the specimens I sene you are from it. After the rain, 29th August, it all grew rapidly, and for tbe first time gave me some trouble with the suck ers, which have been or should be re moved each week until ready for tbe kuife. I find the additional difficulty resulting from tbe rain of-that date that all my bottom leaves on the older tobacco arc ripe and all the tips or top leaves are green and growing. As however, I must gel through by frost curing two barns a week, and having barely time to do that, I am compelled to cut, and tbe result is that while have a fair show of bright tobacco suitable for wrappers, I have a ven unreasonable amount ot green tip which no skill and care will make any thing else of. For this the season responsible. If we had had rains even an average amount of it in the spring and summer, all the tobacco would have been ripe to the top and reaily for the knife by this time. I built mo two curing barns of most approved style: litied them with don ble return fiucs, costing barns com pietc, about f95 each, and find them to act perfectly. I have already cut and cured eight barns of from 400 to 50b pounds weight of cured leaf, and expect to cure six or, perhaps, seven more. 1 have also built a most sub staniial packing bouse, 40 by 20, two floors, gM”? me capacity for atoring about 85 boxes, besides room for stri 1 *- ping and handling. I will prepare my tobacco for market during tbe warm wet spells in the winter mouths; will pack it in hogsheads and ship to some market in North Carolina or Virginia and when I get returns will tell you more about it at a money crop. Thus far 1 have demonstrated to ruy own satisfaction: 1st. That our soil and climatB are best adapted to the production of fine yellow tobacco. 2d. That the kind aud abundance of labor we have is (with good manage mout, a good stock of patience, due ul lowanoe for ignorance and consequent inefficiency, until taught,) peculiarly favsrablc to ila production as an auxil iary crop. 8d. That 1 shall enlarge my facilities for curing and storing, aud next year shall extend the production on my own place by inducement* held out to my tenants to plant two to four acres the family, to be worked by them, (in which operation women and children can be most profitably employed dur ing the idle season of August and 15th September,) andaftewards, when ready to cure, to be sold on hill or cured on shaies, as agreed upon 4tk That you have not heard the last of tobacco growiug as an industry In this section. I send you a few hands of “bright, running from first grade leaf to bright “lug,” which you can place with other South Carolina products in Agricu lural Hall, remembering that brig yellow tobacco will stand neither n» handling nor light, (excessive) and ditug that it should not be subjected to the extremes of wet and dry. Those spec imens have never yet been bulked, am are not at their best, but may at least rank as cariosities, coining, as they do from the Jlrst barn of Jlue cured tobacco ever cured in the State (August 29, 1885,) so far as I know and certainly the tiraf cured iu what will one dav be the celebrated yellow tobacco region of Chester county. I am very respectfully, vours command, W. it. Davih. CouDtarfoitlng a Valuable Article. The publisher of the Madison County Review writes from Huntsville, Ark., M to the effect of Brown’s iron Bitters ou his wife. Mr. Daugherty says l “My wife hM been using the Bitten for some months; the effeot in her case is remarkable”. He also writes that owing to counterfeits and imitations, it wm difficult to get the genuine arti cle. That difficnlty is now remedied: imitators bane been exposed and pat Is flight. There, M elsewhere Brown’s Iron Bitters eau be bad of all^lie re spectable druggists at a dollar a bottle.* ht —James B. Cfery, who lives seven miles from Newberry, while in a fit of dellrinm tremens imagined that he wm heingat tacked by n crowd of negroes. enemies, one his making n very serious wound* At this time it is the Uttfe feBow will recover. netng attsexeu oy n crowd In firing at hia imaginary et of the balls from his pistol tiUto son, aged six, maki *DVICR to MOTHXRS. BBcreros Btssf atom* Vtoia •riafevcw, omfer** NtoB. tfnaatorA y The trial at FerdlnaiM menced on lintofef —BaMon i» the ifed nevte ted 4&U04 daring —New York city is to for Mtor Wire Wfie —“liberty K*i tightening; the Wants $40,000 mors for -chains anchors to keep her steodfeat. —The Porte has issued a circular (to tbe Powers statlag that tbe an of Greece ore a menaoo to peace, —JmrUoold’ti family have on income yf 11,408,800 a year from their | ment in MksoBii Psdfic Railroad -The Democrats of Dakota determined to take no part in the ion for a Uonitltatlon tor South kota. —It is mideratyod that the sentence of destli of tbe leader if the hall-breed rebellion in Canada will be coamnited to life-long reryitnde. —The Archbishop of Canterbury has drawn up special prayers for aseln bis diocese with reference to the approach ing general election in Knglatm. —Capitalists from Dunlap, Iowa, have formed a company with #150.000 paid np capital for a private savings bank at Cliattanooga. —The Swedish bark Zaeharias, Copt. Endreaen, which left Wilming ton, N. O., ou April 21, for Hull, Is miss ing, and it is feared that she is lost. —Tbe President has npi>ointed C. Meyer Ztilick, of Arizona, to be Gov ernor of Arizona, vice Frederick A. Tritle, resigned. — A. W. Shaw, bolter known as “Josh Billings,” died at Monterey, Cal, on the 14tb Inst., of apoplexy. The body was embalmed and sent East. —Hanlan ami Lee won the Pleasure Island boat race near Albany, N. Y . bv three lengths in 18 minutes and 244 seconds, defeating Conley and Court ney. — In St. Louis all the street car lines are running nearly if not quite u full complement of cars without molesta tion, ami the police guard has been reduced one-half. —The marine hospital bureau is in formed that cholera is inc.easing in fatality in Palermo, and that yellow fever’ is ou the Increase in Guawna?, Mexico. —The Court of Alabama Claims has refused to reinstate J. F. Manning, the attorney whose denunciation of the Court led to the recent official investi gation of its expenses. —There arc at least twenty cases of smallpox in Marinette, Wis , the dis ease having been brolight there by a Montreal citizen. Four deaths have already occurred. — Thirtv counties in Kansas have nominated Prohibition tickets, and it is expected that at least an equal num ber ot Prohibition tickets will be chosen in additional counties. — There were forty-one deaths from smallpox in Montreal on Tuesday, eight iu St. Cuuegoude, five in St. Henri, five in St. Jean Baptiste, one in St. Gabriel aud two in Hachelaga. —George E. Gill, aged seventy-five, who recently removed to Chattanooga from Wilmington, Del., was killed by a freight train at the outskirts of the city la-t week while taking a walk. —The Harvard College annex, so- called, opened its seventh vear on Monday with sixty-five voting women enrolled. It now, for the first time, has a house of its own, ami its endow ment amounts to $85,000. — Bids were opened at the Treasury Department last week tor tin.' brick and stone work on the now Federal build ing at Lynchburg, Va. A. M. Me Gowan, of Washington, was the low est bidder at 826,700. —The laud office at Washington has received a communication stating that Dr. Powers, who was a Government witness iu the nrosccution of a fraudu lent find case tif California, has l>een slain by J. F. Pruitt, one of the de fendants. —The Georgia Legislature adjourned on Thursday, after a summer session of one hundred dav$. The most im portant bill passed was the general local option law, under which many temperance elections will be held in various counties. —The Wai ne county, Mich , Court, last week, decreed that the law pro hibiting the manufacture and sale of alcholic liquor is unconstitutional for technical reasons, and because it pre vented men from engaging in legiti mate business —Hamer A Uolicrts, coal operators, sf Pittsburg, Pa., have decided to start their Elizabeth mine at the three-ccnt rate. This is one of the largest mines on the river, and the concession of the rate demanded is an important victory for the strikers. — An effort is soon to be made to in duce the State department to take some action in the matter of the consul- general at Paris. This is one of the most sought of the consulates, and there are said to be four hundred ap plicants upon file for it. —The New York gubernatorial cam paign brings on a renewal of silly attention to matters that have nothin; to do with the issues. Tho war rccon of Governor Hill’s brothers is one of the outside points which has caused discussion. —A great sensation has been caused iu Quincy, III., bv the publication of the details of the defalcation of Henry R. Conley, secretary and treasurer of the Quincy Gaslight and Coke Com pany. His peculations covered a period oi eleven veara and amounted fo from $22,000 to $30,000. —President Liucoln went to tbe theater often to forget his cares. Great not so frequently. Hayes seldom. Arthur went everv time there was anything worth seeing. He was very hospitable to actors and actresses, too. President Cleveland does not care very much for the theater, but he goea oc casionally. —Letters from Bienville Parish, La., last week give particaiars of tbe reign of terror which hM existed in tht parish for some time. Tbe origin of the trouble wm b neighborhood feud. Members of several families hove been token from their homos and whipped and otherwise ami treated. Two ties were shot and, it is wounded. Governor' A vtr*i*ta rsrsUv %mm a? ■ t—s i Wm. M. Drown, a prominent dtfeen 'iiaunton, Va.. wm ohot and killed he rutuiMto of the fair grounds on irsdav, by Stuart Kerner.’ The order inn cnu-cd iulcnso although bdued cxcitsmciit. TIkj killing is riled m dastardly. There has t an u)d grudge between ilto two Kertu r luul declared (list he cd to k!tt1)ri>wn ini sight. They th the crowded lotunda at the fair nds, Brown’s wife having bold of uO arm and their little child the other hand. Scarcely u word oassed when Corner placed ids pistol almost against rowu’s body and fired, the ball en- ring two inches below the heart, ern jr was at once arrested and hur ried to jail. Brown was taken into the open air where he died In twonty- five minutes. The news flew like Wildfire through the large Crowd, and in twenty minutes (he fceli ig found vent In threats of lynching The mayor ordered a military guard aronnd the jail. Brown was au energetic and prosperous young farmer and was gen erally liked. Kerner is a member of a prominent and wealthy family. When at college some years ago he killed a fellow-student in a quarrel. After a long trial he was acquitted. HU friends claim that his mind is unbal anced, and insanity will be the plea of Ids defence. and" her hair beauty os ^ Ion the *kis Balm, THE WOULD OF LABOR. Uoardlng-tlna**) of Non Union Union arl(« Men* At an early hour on Thursday large force of the Laborers’ Union of Marinette, WU., estimated to he nearly a thou s and strong, marched iu a solid body across the river to Menominee aud surrounded one of the Kirby Car pouter Company's boarding-houses before the men hud been to breakfast, not .allowing u man to go to work This act is the outcome of the meeting held there by the meuilicrs of the union at which it was staled that the Kirby Carpenter Company was employing non-union men in their mills and had refused to sign the contract which the other mill companies had signed, allowing their men eleven hours as day’s work, with one hour for dinner, the balance of the season. The Union claims that the Kirby Carpenter Com pany was quietly hiring and importing men in tlicir barges from Chicago to work at the old standard time as be fore the last lockout, waiving all claims and rights to themselves and to the ten-hour law of Michigan as now in force; that the mill has its complement of men and could be run in full force from this on. Up to a late hour on Thursday night no settlement had been made or arrangement on which the mills will again start up. The coin- >any is determined that the mills shall >c run on the old system, while the .- 1 — APVMMTIftKingTS. ^reintroduce 'err Is I — SSVZlZSTSSi, The A BIG OFFKB* „ „ i want obs Mad s* yosr nans, P. O. and Migio Innot EitetowSor m4 mOOQVITO Bin COMM. . 'tr mue thsusad dollars Mr Us isl. Seto for etresura. _ Valla ue a co., • tost w* ol, Nsw Tor*. D& 28 YEAHS IW Tfl Ito OrootMt MeSoal Trlatpk of tto Aft SYMPTOMS OP A TORPID LIVER. L«m mt appetite, Dowela coat It*. Tala la tto kea*, with a Sail aeaaatlaa la tto fcaek part. Fain an*er Ike stoaUler- blade, Fullaeaa after eating, wltk adln- lacllaatlea te cnertlea ef tody er aria** Irritability of temper. Lew eplrlta, wlsk. afeellagotbavtag neglected eome dnty, Wearinese, Dixalaeea, Flatter!»g as tto Heart, Data to fa re tke eyea, Headaeke aver tke rlgkt ere, Beetlneeaeee. wltk Stfttl dreawc, Higkly eelered I'rlae, aad COM STIPATION. . , . TIITT'B PILLS are especially adapted to each eases, one dose effoets euoh a chance of foellng as to astonish the sufferer. * *, and by tbulr Towle . “ Treated tor sett tke day wltk a I la tkree moo Iks, an* outers by same process. A Mocewfut tome treetmeat. _ FAUX, US Kaat MU UL, Bew T< FABKTTL'S TOSSXO. K yos westing away Bs* Nta I or any disease or weakness and r slant lake PARKERS TONIC at Invigorate and toll* yon np from tto I bat will never Intoxicate. 1* ktt m -m, « a"* u nSSoKco. »«■ W ANTID-Agentg tx every eectlon of tk country to Mil Hem. 8. H. IeltolMt!"niBQt rated vrttk Steel 1 flu now reedy A«*nU are making »ieU>IM a day Write to tke publishers tor tans*, dm. taitunc.wseklngttanc. will 8TODDART A CO., union is equally man riiall go to arrangement. < let ci mined work under tiiat no such an Railroad CousinIseloas. The Supreme Court of the United Stales on Tnemlay began hearing argu ments upon the “Mississippi railroad commissioners’ cases.” Tlx se are three in number, having points of difiercnce, but similar in their main features, and they were argued together. They in volve a decision upon the right of a Statu to fix tariff rates, prescribe local ities for <le|>oU, ami make other regu- lutious for railroads which are built and operated under charters of other .State* of the United States. In 1884, the Mississippi legislature passed a railroad commission bill providing for the appointment ol a board of commis sioners authorized and required to fix tariff rates for railrouis lying in and passing through the State, and to exer cise certain other functions iu the man agement of lines, and empowered the commission to demand under penalties for non-compliance such informatiou from the roads as might be fonod desirable in the performance of iU duties. The commissioners took btcos to carry out the law, giving the roods notice of the fact, whereupon the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, trustees of the Mobile aud Ohio Rood, the Illinois Central and tbe New Or leans and Northeastern each attacked the law in the Federal Courts, hold! it to be unconstitutional, and seen 4n injunction restraining the commis sioners from carrying the State law into effect. Tho question comes before the Supreme Court upon appeal from the Court below. ling i red Lea’s Election Assured. The State Democratic comtnittoe, the Hon. John S. Barbour, chairman, met at Richmond, Va., on Tbursday^and was in session for several hearing re ports from difforcut sections of the Slate. The news was generally very encouraging. From statements made the committeemen feel justified in asserting that the election of Gen. Fitz. Lee for Goveror is assured and that they will have a mojority in both branches of the General Assembly. Representatives from a number of doubtful counties were preset to ask the committee for help, and were promised all the assistance that the committee could afford. —The Baptists are trying to build church at Clintonward, Edgefield countv. Capt. Ward, though himself a Methodist, has offered to double the largest individual Baptist subscription in the county. Gxat Hair or Whiskers ekonfod to a Glomt Black by a slnyte applleatlon of this Dvr. It Imports a natural color, acts Instantaneously. Sold by Dragglm, or sent by express on receipt of f 1. Vffos, 44 Murray St.. Maw York. THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. How tke 1 asaapeetlnc are CiaUe4. UEWSPAPER ADYEBTISiyPy* DAUCHT A CO, IBT ParkMoee New Make knreat rvtM oa aU I U. 8. and Caaada. totakL— ... . To those wtoM purpett oiay to eceoaptotoB by a short sdrerUermenl, or by a trantoat a*. verUsrment, and u> whom prompt In Berrien a Important, we recommend oar POPULAR LOCAL LISTS: 1.1 BO Dally and Weekly newspaper*, divided Into sect ions. All home-print papers—aj oo-operatives In cluded These papers tore a howtrlt eUCRlnttoa ci over ELEVEN MILLION COPIES! Send tor new (. autocue Just oat. Partlaa con- templaUng a line of aorertMni are requested to send for Please name this paper, octtluw ‘XiZr. l*rr* or will, ot CAPITAL VERSUS MERIT. It is ;>owible that money dipped into a bounteous supply ef printer’s ink, is to be used to teach false ideas. Why is it that such persistent anathemas should all at once be buried against the use of “Potash and Potash Mixtures?” Those who insist that Potash is a poison do so because that is the way they have of fighting 11. 11. B., as the latter contain* potash properly combined. Opium, morphine, strychnine, aconite, whiskey, etc, are all deadly poisons, and are daily destroying the fives of people, and wli, do not these men cry out against them? It is because tlitre is no money in sight to do so. Potash is not regarded as a poison, and vesy seldom harms any one; out 11 lose who abuse It are using a vegeta ble poison ten times as vWent. Iodide of Potash, In proper combination, is regarded by tl»e medical profession as the quickest, grandest and most powerful blood remedy ever known to man. Those who believe in revealed combi nations aud Indian foolish ness are surely in a condition to become rather "cranky’’ in their ideas at any time. We assert umferstandingly that Potash, as used iu the manufacture of B. H. U , is not a poison, and the public need «<A place any confidence in assertions to the contrary. Why is it that iu one thousand 'letter* which wc receive we never Imar a word against its use? The truth Is; B. B. B. ka working such wonders in the core of all blood poisons, scn fula, rheumatism, ca tarrh, etc., that otliers are trembling In their hoots, and cry aloud, “poison,’’ “fraud,’’ because they fear its triumphant march. Let any man or wuman ask any respectable doctor or druggist If we are not right. LR> not he deceived, bat go right along and call for B. U. B., and be cured. It U making five times more cures in Atlanta than all other blood remedies combined. W« don’t say that other* are poisons or fra ad a; we are not that easily alarmed, hut we say ours is the best, and we have the proof. Send for our 32-p*ge book, free, and be convinced, bold by ail druggists. BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Go. lason & Hamlin Ft* SOS: H«w auto •> Swiacto- D* ■attcqvIraaaB- U nek tmtaRM iwm os to »f OTktllS* OMARI; Hlrkoot Hoo •notoUGrou World - * F klllooi ORGAN JIKDPIAKOCO. IMTieawalOt B.T. f Way fbr Afaat*. S>*S to SSto war >to—lltog awr«l>a»*» itowiiMq^r. tamai aaS tottaSvs Itottleaof itoWorM Frttc tu J. ft MeCmrotx dfc Cto MnUu.-^na, to ISpsiP THE Columbia Mnsii Bout WILL SAVE YQJJ TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. BT BUY INU Pianos anil Organs OFTHEM. EVERY INSTRUMENT WARRANTED DELIVERED AT ANY DEPOT OR STEAMBOAT LANDING IN . THE BTATK. WRITE FOR TERMS AND PRICES SPECIAL TERMS FOR SHORT TIME SALES. Respectfully, COLUMBIA MUSIC N. W. THUMP, HOUSE, 198 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, ft C. WOMAN! B *: B V Grace «mu in all her te her eye, In eeer^getturs dignity and UmT So a; m* with the exercise at •nd proper treatment enormous number of female plaints are directly caused b turbanoe or rape So appeared Mother Eve, and so ay shine her fair descendants, iu the exercise at nnitow ***** An dia- the turbanoe or suppression olf Menstrual Fenetton. la mere ouch cose that sterling and •peclfic, BiiADFULD’a FuaTs Regulator, will effect relief aad cure. It is from the recipe at distinguished posed of sit ents, whose e»t materials. It been the for constancy of strength, tv of effect, elegance of prepare- taiUwhralUitytSr 1 f IT l * e ‘P e 04 4 fo 01 * fi family, Cartarsville, Go. This will certify that two l>ers of my immediate having suffered for from menstrual into having been treated wlthwA brnm. saasaariS* 15 Utruiy woudurfui, aud w taerefaj>dy be railed “ r Yours ■ftumfe $3k *^U [O' 0 *******"“Health BuAftFIRLO ItodfcA