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' Hffl 9??g? Vtewhh * l*ubllnhvU Kvory '1" ?r??<l?y BY Tt)e Ifevald Conway, S. O : ? SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS. The increase in the number of Cotton Mills in the South within the last decade is really wonderful. The South seems destined to manufacture her own special product. TUo I vuaioui iiiui iua air nuw JlirgeiY manufactured by the Southern mills | and the question now agitating the owners of these mills is the divcrsi- ! ticatiou in grade and style of go?ds manufactured. Those familiar with the production of those higher grades of goods say the change from the coarser to the liner grades can be easily and advantageously accomplished. The Hi-cord, of Baltimore, for August 10th, has comtlilod n vorv inafrimfi vn lic? 1 x ? J -v. ..wv. > v, ( of all the mills in the South. The L number of mills has increased from , 161 in 1880 to 855 luly 3lst, 1880; , the number of spindles from 007,- j 853 in 1880 to 2,035,208 in 1880 , and the number of looms from I t,- | 323 in 1880 to 45,001 in 1889. |( These numbers do not include the ( spindles and Jooms of new mills] now under construction and others upon which work will shortly begin. Georgia leads in the number of spindles, having 455,098, and 10,246 looms, while South Carolina!, has 118,730 spindles and 10,687 looms. The llecovd says: "South Caroli ! na is probably making not only ' more rapid progress in the development of this industry than any oth or Southern State, but its advance ' in that line seems to be more evenly rounded out, and on a broader basis looking to the future. Its mills are very large, and most of them have grown to their present size from small beginnings, through wise management. They have paid good dividends for years, and steadily increased their surplus, investing it in new machinery and new mills. They have, moreover, apparently given closer attention to the possibility of diversity and of the making of liner goods. One South Carolina mill is making gooils that are largely imitated on account of their excellence by New England mills. A new mill of 14,000 spindles and 300 looms is now under construction in that State for making line ginghams, cheviots, &c.M North Carolina has mills with 380 837 spindles and 7.851 looms. The cotton mills in this State are mostly small, very few having as many as 10. 000 spindles. UK UXI OX. There will bo $ grand reunion of i native North Carolinians now resi- j dent in oilier states at the state capital ( Raleigh, October 14-10, at tho South- j orn Industrial Display and Annual State Fair. The lowest possible rates have been furnished by the Railways, and there will bo no obstacle in tho way of those who wish to revisit tho old scenes and renew tho tender associations of past years At the state fair thousands of our people will be assembled ami it will be the oppor- \ tunitv of a life-time to soo the irreat-1 y n est number of friends. Excursions i will run from Raleigh to all parts of the Stato. \Ve want the 12297 North Carolinians now living in the State of South Carolina to rovisit the ol<1 North Stato. Remember your opportunity, October 14-19, and writethe Secretary and Treasurer for particulars. P. M. WII.SON. Sect., and Troas. HE UNION. Lake City Weekly. Pursuant to the call of Lieut. W. I). Fitch on Tuesday last twelve ot Company II, 10th S. C. Regiment and son of a deceased member, making thirteen in all, met atScranton. The meeting was called on request of Col. C. 1. Walker of Charleston, member of Walker, Evans & Coggswell Co., to lay before the survivors the matter of a reunion of the 10th Regiment at Camp Marion in November next, and to ascertain how many could be present. The meeting of these old battle ^scarred vcterans was hearty. They resolved to attend the reunion at Camp. Marion a body as a company. Mr. J. .). ^HBBQ^VcAlister will be unable to attend. 4he rest, with A. M. Lee reprelK h'8 father, Capt. W. .! M. Vill go. (sincerely hope the reunion at * I Marion will be a grand success, things should be encouraged. ^ jj* ' ? jt them meet, see each other once ' V again, recount the battles thoy have f?l,f?ht, tell of their joys and sorrows I ami revive the memory of their brave comrades who sleep upon many battle Holds, where their life blood was poured out for God Truth and Dixie. TWTLUiUT 11 Y MX. The authrir of this hymn was Phoebe Hinsdale Hrown. She was horn at Canaan N. V. in 1783 and died at Henry* 111, in 1801. Her parents died when she was young leaving her poor and she was placed in a family whore she had to undergo groat hardship and drudgory. Sho had no education until she was 18 and as soon as she could write she begun to compose versos. &o. She married Thomas II. Hrown a house-painter of Kllington, Conn, but did not improve her fortune. She was a member of the Congregational church. Few hymns have a more interesting history. 1 hiving no place or opportunity for retirement and meditation I she used to rotiro to a grove near by where she could enjoy uninterrupted communion with God. A neighbor imputed immoral motives to her visits. The spirit of this neighbor is not yet extinct ami we publish the following from the Annotated cdi'ion of the Methodist Hymn Hook ( by W. K. Ti 1 lot to show that the poam was written to refute this very ( calumny. AN APOLOGY FOR MY TWILIGHT It A MULES. Add rtxned to a huly. {(Ellington, August, 1818.) Yes, when the toilsome day is gone, I And night with banners gray, Steals silently the glade along In twilight's soft array, ] 1 love to steal awhile away 1 From little ones and care. And spend the hours of setting day In gratitude and prayer. I 1 I love to feast on Nature's scenes When falls the evening dew, , And dwell upon hersilent themes, Forever rich and new. 1 I love in solitude to shed The penitential tear And all Clod's promises to plead Where none can see or hear. I love to think on mercies past, And future ones implore, i And all my cares and sjrrows cast i On him whom 1 adore. ? I love to meditate on death! When shall his message come, With friendly smiles to steal my breath, And take and exile home? i love by faith to take a view Of blissful scenes in Heaven; The sight doth all my strength renew, While here by storms I'm driven. 1 love this silent twilight hour Far better than the rest; It is, of all the twenty-four, The happiest and the best. This, when life's toilsome day is o'er, May its departing ray Ho calm as this impressive hour, And lead to endless day. The following is Mrs. Brown's own account of the origin of this beautiful ami popular hymn: "It was in Ellington that 1 wrote the Twilight llyiun. My baby daughter was iu my arms when I wrote it. It had been out on a visit to Dr. Hyde's and several were present. After tea one of my neighbors, who 1 had ever fell was my superior in every way, came and sat down near me, chatting with another lady, without noticing me. Just as 1 was rising to go home, she turned suddenly upon me and said: "Mrs. Brown, why do you come up at evening so near our house, and then go back without coming in? If you want anything, why don't you come in and ask for it? I could not think who it was, and sent iny girl down to see; and she said it was you?that you came to the fence, but, seeing her, turned quickly away, muttering something to yourself?. There was something in her manner more than her words, that grieved me. I went home, and that evening was left alone. Aftor my children were all in bed, except my baby, I sat down in the kitchen, with my child in my arms, when the grief of my heart burst forth in a llood of tears. I took pen and paper, and gave vent to mv onoressed heart in what. I called 'My Apology for my Twilight Rambles, addressed to a Lady.' It will be found in its original form in an old manuscript among my papers. In preparing it (some years after) for Nettleton's Village Hymns (1824,) some three or four verses suppressed and a few expressions altered. In the original tile first stanza was: 'I love to steal awhile away From little ones and care.' This was strictly true. I had four little children; a small unfinished house; a sick sister in the only finished room; and there was not a place above or below, where I could retire for devotion, without a liability to be interrupted. There was no retired room, rock, or grove ' where I could go as in former days; but there was no dwelling between our house and the one where that lady lived. Her garden extended down a good way below her house, which stood on a beautiful eminence. The garden was highly cultivated, with f 1*11 its and flowers. I loved to I could not 8oe them), W&ftY I could do so without nelooting duty; and I used to steal away from all within doors, aud, going out of our gato, stroll along under the elms that were planted for sliado on each side of the road. And as there was seldom any one passing that way after dark, 1 felt quite retired and alone with God. I often walked quite up to that beautiful garden, and snuffed the fragrance of the peach, the grape, and the ripening apple, if not the flowers. I never saw any one in the garden, and felt that I could have the privilege of that willk Hllll f.linan fnvi' Iiuimniito "" V..VUV ?V!1 UIVMII1.il lO VI till* interrupted communion with God without encroaching upon any one; but, after once knowing that my steps were watched and made the subject of rewark and censure, I never could enjoy it as I had done. 1 have often thought Satan had tried his best to prevent nic from prayer, by depriving me of a place to pray." For this hymn her son wrote the tune culled "Monson," and Win. 11. Bradbury the tune called "Brown." One of those "little ones" became Hey. S. It* Brown, 1). I) , the first Christian missionary from America to Japan. WA 8 HI N a TON L K TTKU. | From our Regular Correspondent.} What becomes of all the defeated politicians of high rank? Where go ill the men who march out of the political arena to the gay music of triumph that installs the successors? j Bight here in Washington scores of j them remain. Some of them fall in love with the wide avenues, the i cleanliness and the elegance of the j city. Others find that they havo , been so long away from the places they once called "home," that old associates and interests are severed. You can hardly go a block on the avenue on any sunshiny day in the season without seeing a half dozen people intimately associated with the ofliciui life of yesterday They aro for the most part a prosperous, happy sot, fond of good dinners inclined to doze over ho wine, and worried no more by their constituents. The gout has now more terrors for them than the "doostrect committee" ever had. There is General Belknap, whose wife has recently returned from Paris i.,.- .1 ? ?w niviuuuuu not unuuuior mvu society lioro. His erect, slow moving liguro and long white heard seem always on the street in the evening, lie smokes slowly solemnly, after the manner of his old chief, then President Grant. The shadow of the hig scandals that distinguished his administration as a cabinet officer seem to have died out of his mind, even as the recollection of the insane extravagance of his wife that forced the good-natured weak man into the toils, has been softened. Gen. Helknap is now a lobbyist. The iron gray hair and brown oyes of Grants Secretary of the Treasury, now "Lawyer Boutwell, are familiar to all olub men. He looks upon the time when he did not call Washington "home" as being lost, and thought makes him sombre. His successor in the cabinet, William A Richardson, is now Justice of the Court of Claims, and livos in a magniliciont house in the Northwest. His residence is near that of Ex-Postmaster General Crosswell, still another of Grant's advisers, and now tho busy president of the Citizen's National Hank. Hon. George Bancroft, waiting, old and full of honors for the coming of tho given messenger, is a figure of the long past. He vros Secretary of tho Navy under President Polk, and had a brilliant careor in tho diplomatic service although his political roputation was long since swallowed up in his tame us a historian, no abandoned horse back riding last season and oven sold his saddle horses, and is now seldom seen beyond the flower beds of his own homo. Kx-Secrotary McCulloch, has a constitution of iron and is as hale and hearty as when he was Socretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln, an office that he has twice had the honor of holding. Ex-Secretary Robert C. Schenck has been for several years an invalid, and the famous orator of Gen Harrison's hard cidor campaign of 187(] speaks no more in publio. He simply sits and waits for death. Ex-Attorney General Garland *ill probably never return to Arkansas He has been appointed tho legal representative at Washington of the Northern Pacifio Railway Company at a salary of $30,000 ami >? gl*d t< remain here. , who l eat member of Preeitlent Amur's u cabinet, ia now making money aa one of the proprietor of the Washington Post. Mr. Hat ton's partner is Berial i Wilkins, formerly n Representative from Ohio. He is only one of a thousand ex-members of the House in Washington. You meet them everywhere and in all classes of society. Many aro well to do or even wealthy and some, alas, are financial and moral ba.ikrunlK. A f?w 1 1 -- moil bat-room loafers, with dirty alleged law offices of dim hack stairs which they never visit save when some former constituent, who has given one of them a case in the mistaken notion that he is still a man of importance, turns up to look after his own affair. The families of public men who have passed to judgement, do not prosper so easily. Men in political life are not paid according to their merit. A blundering incompetent may get 1,800 per annum, and a saddle-headed coxcomb of a second lieutenant the same, buFthe big brained men, who really amount to something, are paid salaries altogether inadequate to support themselves in the style thoir positions I demand. There is the family of < Chief Justice Waite, the daughter and the aged widow, reduced to ' keeping boarders. There are dozens < of such instances, lamentable but un* I ! heeded warnings against taking no t I thought of the morrow. I Mrs. John A. Logon, is bnck in < Washington preparing for hard work, I which assumes for her the shapo of- 1 editorial management of the "Home t Magazine," which sometime ngo ho- 11 gan to show some touches of her r direction in the publication of the \ contributions of a few of her intimate I personal friends. For great obvious reasons, it is not to bo expected that i the "Home Magazine will be a perm- I anent success, though if it is its sue- j cess will he duo entirely to women, j as no men are to he employed in any i importances. THE FARMEHS <)E FAIRFIELD. i The following extracts are from j the address of Hen Terrel National i Lecturer of the Farmers' Alliance delivered at Winnsboro last woek: This battle which we have to fight, fellow-citizens, is a battle of issue to issue, in which the farmor the merchant, the lawyor, the doctor and the |iicauuui aim moil (M OVCrjf UVUOiillOll must engage. HOW WII.I. WK DO IT?, 1 olaiin by organization and organization alone. I say them is no other hope or any other chance wlioroby wo can liberate ourselves from the present conditions. Neither will I regard its offeot upon people i* other avocations. Why do we not all kr.ow and does net the merchant well know that unloss he has your patronage his business will in a short while go under. What fooling does the railroad have for the smaller farmer who has heavy taxes to pay? Do they not make extravagant charges for freight and in turn does not the merchant have to put large profits upon his goods to proteot himself? And who does the burden fall upon? Why my dear friends, I tell you it all falls upon the poor farmer. Such a state of affairs reminds me of the old mil1 I lur, who, wnen asltetl how to toll a certain customer, asked if he was from the fertile lands on the river, wealthy and in good circumstances or from the sand hills, and the reply oaine that he was a poor fellow from the sand hills. The miller replied, "Toll him double; while he is poor keep him poor." I am not here to dissuss the interests of any one class of people. I cannot discuss the interests of individuals, but I am hero to discuss the interests of the people and to lay bo. fore them the alarming state of affairs , ?l.nt vianv nun u AIOVO* UOW WILL \VK (JIIECK IT1 By forming sub* Alliances; taking in not more than six miles square, , And we want every farmer to go in* i to that Alliance, and if there is one ' among the number whom we believe ; to be false or in any way liable to i betray the Alli&noo we have the power to keep him out of the organize* ; tiom , Then you will select a true and honest citizen that you know will do, I who is a man of intelligence^ a fit representative to represent you as State Agont. When eaoh county t has done likewise, I tell you geotla. men, ycu will have one of th?u?oafc I intelligent bodies of farmers that: eao ) be gathered together, And they-wili' , be men who will stand side by side ) and face the enemy abreast. Now iomo men say, will watpb that thing, and if it works all right 11 will go Into it." Yes, they want to come into it alter the flight is all over. Well, gentleman, we don't want those sort of men. They put ine in mind of a tale that 1 heard once. There was an old man living in the Meat, and one day a bear came into the house, and the old man skinned up the corner of the house. The old lady grabbed the axe and in a short time killed the bear. Then the old man climbed down and said, uNancy are'nt we horses?" WHAT AKK WK TltYlNU TO I?0? We are trying to whip the juto bagging. What are you trying to whip jute bagging for? says some man. Because juto bagging is trying to whip us out. Gentlemen, we are trying to break the trust?the inonojjoly that is controlling, and controlling with a ruinous hand, the fanning interests. We are trying to kill out jute bagging and put cotton bagging in its place, ai.d gentlemen I will say right here that this matter demands our immediate attention. We want you to do this, gentlemen, say that you will buy no juto bagging or trade with any man that handles it. This may seem hard to the merchant, but it will in the end be a benefit to him, for as you well know, and as I have said bcforo, what benefits the farmer will in the and benefit the merchant. Cotton lagging may at first cost you a little more than the jute, but I tell you, Tontlemeiij in the long run it will be cheaper. We, no doubt, at first will lave to saciitice our interests, but as j I said before, we will reap our liar 1 /est in tho end, Some of you huvo 10 doubt heard of the circulars sent jut by Mr. Wagoner, stating that it j tvill cost so much money to brerk the >ngging trust, etc. Now that is Mr. Wngener's privelego. But, gentlenoil, wo also have a privilege, and this is to sit right down on jute bugring, ami say that wo will buy no juto bagging from Mr. Wagener or mybody else. (Applause.) TKXAM A I.I.I A NCK. We maiiago the Alliance in Toxa in this manner. All of the new crop is gathered and placed in one pile. aiiu eoiioti is then classed, the good grade put togcthorund the stains to thomselvo*. We stdoct our own public weigher and pay hint for it. When any one of the Alliance wishes to soil his cotton he tries the market and if the price don't suit him he lets it lie there, and when wo do sell we get an ad vane?, of one cent per pound over the market price; that is the way we work them there. We order everything in carload lots. If a man in tho Alliance buys a wagon he gots it at a reduction of 19.50 below the regular price. Now somebody may say, "Well, what good does all this Alliance do?" Why, I tell you, gentlemen, right here it enables tho poor farmer to buy his Hour in tun barrel lots, hence at a great reduction. lie gets his bacon by tho thousands pounds that is what it does. 1 tell you gentlemen, we will show you in five years that the buyers of our products must come to our prices, and not we go to their prices. We will show that they cannot force us to sell a hale of cotton when they want to knock off fifteen pounds of water. Nor will we stop there. We will live in ease and comfort and enjoy, if we chose, the luxuries of this life. Our daughters will ho dressed better and educated to a high standard, and our sons will move forward, hut not in the ruts that their fathors traveled in. (Applause.) RAILROADS AND AI.I.IANCKS. In Georgia the railroads go to the headquarters of the Alliance and say I want to talk *ith you; w? want, to discuss this matter with you, and sir, two years ago, the railroads did not know farmers were inJJJGeorgia. And, gentlemen, I hope to soon see the day when South Carolina and her sister States will arise from their slumbers, and join the thronging proces* sion that is now on its march to prosperity. PAY YOUK DK11TS. Every one in your Alliance, when your crop is gathered and sold, pay your debt. Strive to do this. This is one thing that some of us are too careless about, but 1 say, gentlemen, pay your debts, for if you don't the other farmers will have to. Be economical for a year or two until you get money enough ahead to run you and then you can, with an independent air, say: (<I owe not a man, and pay cash for what 1 buy." Be friendly among your neighbors- When one of your neighbors gets siok and his crop gets in the grass, lend hitn la helping hand; send him a mule or two and a hand or two to help him out. Stand squarely together for the old South and bring her ba6k to i old days, when each man's word I his bond, and make her the grandest nation upon the face of the earth. I (Applause.) f^ilbort $obtov (3?.> COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 1 IN l?osin, Spirits T'Lirpentine end Gotten. oonsrsxo-xras^EEiasrTS solicited. , 164 F-11 O N T S T R E E T> NEW YORK. eb 2 31 ly JAMES MEANS' S3 & S4 SHOES (rr=-^iyJAMES MEANS' JAMES MEANS'f fluch ban been the recent protpoaaln our branch of Industry thatwearo *ow nblo to affirm that the James Means' itfihoels lu every respect cquul t- t li?? shoes which only a few yearn apo ?vw retailed at eight or ten dollars. If you vlH try on apalryou will l>o convinced that wo cfo not exonerate. Ours are tne original $3 and A4 shoes, and those who Imitate our system c-f Ino-lness nre iiuahlo to compete with ua In quality of factory products. Ia our Hues we mo tl.c largest manufacture) s In the United Statea. Ithaca treaa ?ur rrlcbrntrd lariarr arc aoU by wide-awake retailers In all parte at the country. We will place them easily within your roach la any State or Territory If you win Invest one cent In apostal cord and write to us. 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NOT AFFECTED BY HOT WATER! HAS APPEARANCE OF POLISHED MAHOGANY. PAILS, TUBS, BASINS, PANS, KEELERS, SPITTOONS, SLOP-JARS, WATER-COOLERS, REFRIGERATORS, Ac., Ac. LARGE VARIETY OF GOODS. CORDLEY & HAYES, New York, Sole Agents. Factories: Portland, Mo., Poterboro, N. H., Watertown, Mass., Oswego. N. Y., Lockport, N. Y., Cleveland, Ohio, Winona, Minn. } FOR^SALE BY ALL HOUSE-FURNISHING, HARDWARE. GROCERY ANO CROCKERY DEALERS. FULL. PRICE-LIST AND CATALOGUE FREE OH APPLICATION. April 18th Om NOTICE. I I wish to oall tlui l|QA 1 AHA I?nl>lio9m ^Ltten- UlllSMWiw lion to the fact FIFTH ANNUAL tUwt a", i,,ur tUo CLEARANCE SALE next 30 days I JUIIB I tO Aug. I, 1889. will olfer my on- $25,000 Worth of 1'ikBoi ?ud Orguii I from beat makers to be cloMd> ti re Stock of dry ootregardlessofcost or valne. Stock too lar^e. Must convert Into cask or lustallnaeutaseets. .. i- ,?-wl iv? Home, entirely iNKW IN8TIIUJ^OO(lS at' nilCl. lie- IMKNTH net awd a day, Hone, Nearly New?used a few months onl*. _ low <*(>Nt I 8?bi?, IU41 jtnr ?r * I mk4 t?r? u Urce yrui. Home, flse Meeond Hand*? takes In exchaane, and made aew la oiirrcpulr Vactory. Re.polished J. A. BUBBAGE, S3S?*?= v# hi 1/vxia/i.lvaj^ bahoains. kveky one. EASY TERMS. Year OWN TKRMH almost. _ ^ry light Monthly Payments, or Minall Cash Payment and bsU ce wbea yon set ready. BEEF! GASH BUYS CHEAP. I am prepared to furnish the people i hat'spSVCAs'tTwil?sare'yoH of Conway with choice beef every Wed- money, try I'h on. We will nesday and Saturday at reasonable prices. nicel TO" e*ery * JUNE NEWTON. PIANOS E. A. CASQUE, $50, $75, $100, $150. [?Ty- ORGANS V Cocaine, and all the latest aneshetlcs $24, $35, $50, $75. used. Office fitted up In first-class style All the latest Improved instruments used I WRITE FOR BARGAIN SHEET. over Marion Bank, 0Bc'" CLEARANCE SALE ; I_ SUMMER 1889. < "Easi."r I Core, Pin, Mao, WoMss, I?? _ . IwrA crHjokaayCekOtCoraBrood,Short ASJj'.*ok.*! ..' Dirin SHT:? TONnimarb axs^S&LST'* I L "^Jdww MsssAOwtsi Co., I bajutimork, Md." 11