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(Pur jTomilti Stovu. How Nellie Lost a Lover. It was noticed among' the friends of t.eorgo f.sine that, for some cause unknown to them, a sober hue hud fallen oil his thoughts. The reason was interred. and eorroetly. Arrows from a pair of bright ?yes had wounded hinl,? and the pain found no abatement right nor day. Cicorgo Lane was no blind lover, ready to risk all consoquencos in pursuit of an objoet; but a sensible young man who counted the cost. And now ho was counting up the cost. This was the reason of his trouble. An intimate friend, holding him by the hand one day, said : " (Joorge, my dear follow, what has come over you V Are von in love ?" ' Yes," was the frank reply. " You are a strange lover to look so woebegone. Where rests the trouble V" " There is much beyond love,'' said I .line. " Yes." .uurnuge ana mo cost oi Living." 44 Truo. But you liuvo ft good salary, llns tlio young ltuly nothingV" 44She has a father who is doing an excellent business: but the family live at an expense which must cover all, if not more than all the profits." 44 Who is the young lady'/ I will not. t>otrav your confidence." " The youngest daughter of Abraham West." 44 Hardware merchant '/" " The same." ' 1 know her, and a sweet girl siro is. Nelly West. Why, George, she's the very one for you. 1 congratulate you." 44 You needn't then, for I am not witless enough to hare my neck to the lialtor of inatriomony, if the act is to bind me to a perpetual serfdom." 44 What do vou mean '/" 44 Simply, tliat the manner in which Mr. West has raised his daughter, unfit them for the position of wives to young men of my condition. They have the education, the tastes and the accomplishments wo desire, and must have: but their habits and expectations are fatal dowries for iin5" poor young man to accept. They have no fortune to bring their husbands, and yet must bo supported in comparative elegance. The idea of useful employment does not seem to have eYitored their minds. Work, in their view, involves something of degradation. Ah, well ! 1 must dismiss a fond illusion that was sweet while it lasted." 44 Nonsense, George," replied the friend. 44 If the young lady really loves you, she will adapt herself to vour circumstances. Nolly Is a charming girl. Press your suit, and after quilling her consent talk over life's sober realities with her. She has sense and right feeling, anil will readily comprehend how much of hanpinesa is involod in your prudential ideas. A woman who loves a man well enough to marry him, will cheerfully accommodate herself to his circumstances." " Accommodate !" said the young man, curling his lip. " I don't like the word. It hurts my pride." " Pride is never a good counsellor, tioorgo." " My manhood, then. It hurts my manhood, A young woman, without a dollar in the world, accommodate herself to the circumstances of a young man whose inenmn is t.u'dvn lunwl, ..<! a year ! You can't reconcile me to the ease under that plea." "While I think," answered the friend, " that George Lane is a little too high-strung for the case under consideration, I know Nelly very well, and think her a sensible girl. True, the way in which her parents have conducted her home education is not favorable to just views in life. But love is clear-sighted and stronghearted. Take horr out of he present false relation to society, and she will make you, 1 am sure, a good wife in every respect." "No. Kvon as I talk with you, and listen to what you say, 1 grow more resolute in my purposo to recede from a dangerous position. If Nelly was alone in the world, 1 might act differently. But look at the case as it stands, and soe what risas are involved. There aro two older sisters, both married; and their husband's noses, to use a homely phrase, are well down upon the grindstone, and likely to remain there. Already both have gone through the ordeal of a failure in business ; and no wonder, for, not being able, as clerks, to maintain the domestic establishments they were foolish enough to set up in imitation of other people as silly as themselves, they must have stores of their own, from the incomes of which to draw more liberal supplies. Both aro clerks again ; but how thoy manage to keep up appearances as thoy do, passes tny comprehension. I have mot their wives a few times at Mr. West's, and they hold their heads high. I am nobody in their estimation ! Why, the Jewelry, laces, and other showy things they Haunt in people's eyes so shamlcssly?cost more than my year's salary." M But you have nothing to do with ^&iS8c ladies," interposed the friend. "True, and 1 don't mean to have anything to do with tliom. But the case woild have another bearing were I a brother-in-law. I would have their bad influence operating on my wife. She must have as lino a house' to live in. as tine furniture, to display to her friends ; and my nose must come down to the grindstone, like the noses of their unfortunate husbands. I've gone over the matter twenty times, or more, and cannot see it differently. It won't do, and there is no use trying to ha inonizo things that arc utterly incongruous." " I seo how it is," answered the /riend. " You have large caution." " A in I not right ?" ' Perhaps so. But lovors, whose hearts are so much interested as yours seems to he, are not apt to throw prudeniial reasons of this character in the way of their happiness. They are usually inclined to take counsel of Jove alone." " I have seen pictures of Lovo blindfold ; but I think blind Love a false god." u As you will," said the friend. " But this I know : If my heart was interested in Nelly, I would never abandon her on the plea you have udvuneed ; at least, not before I was well assured that the falso life, which, by a kind of domestic necessity she has thus far led, Jiad so fostered pride and vanity as to deprave her understanding. Be well assured, George, that in tltis you sin not against your own heart, but the maiden's." '' 1 spent an evening with her last week," was replied. " I went with my mind more than half made up to let my lips betray my feelings. It so happened that she was not alono. A young lady was hor guest; a sprightly, outspoken, critical, rather sharpleagued girl of eighteen or twenty? smart enough for twenty, and thought loss enough for sixteen. People things wore talked about with a flippancy and freedom neither charitable nor delicate. Among other subjects. the marriage of a friend was discussed, and the well or ill of the case settled in a manner that made my checks burn. 44 M never thought Amy the simpleton to gel married in that mean kind of way, remarked the young lady. 4 She must have wanted a husband ! .If a man can't do better by mo than that. I'd advise htm to give my door a w ide.i'^'th,' 44 Nelly 'tlhS^hed at her friend, and returned a feV-riescnting words that stung me to the qt.v., niuThe present of a ring by the young m. ? 1 .. J 4 remarked upon. Nelly said it was an* emerald, but her friend pronounced it green glass, adding, that nothing but a diamond would have suited her ideas. 1 waited in uncomfortable suspense, for Nolly's response. It came, in these words: 4 4 4 Nothing but diamonds, for me.''' 44 Thoughtlessly said, George ! Only t hoilL'ht lessl v MJiid Vim lutn ti?? ! riously tho light speeches of girls who often talk without thinking, just to hour theiusolvoH talk." "If it was josting," answered Lane, "the subject was unfortunate at the time. Hut, this was not all. Nelly said mifhy other things connected with the subject of their young friend's marriage to a poor young man who could not afford her a 'respectable place in society,' that it would be folly til me to forget. When I left her house that evening, 1 drew a veil over her image in my heart, and have tried not to lift that veil since. No word or intimation of what was in my heart have 1 passed to the young lady, so that I can turn from her without dishonor. Heaven send her a happy lot in life!" Tho voice of George Lano faltered a little on the closing sentence. He was fully in earnest. Slooro deeply than ho had imagined was the heart of Nolly interested, as her pale face, dreamy eyes, and quioty manner long afterwards witnessed. Hut he did not return. Two years afterward sho married, beginning life with a young husband just in business, who drew from his light capital two thousand dollars to furnish his house in a style suited to the social grade in which sho had been moving. In three years, extravagant living had consumed more than all he was worth, and under the pressure of a " tight money market,'' lie failed and was sold out. Nolly being forced to go back, with her children, to her father's house. Tho husband, in a lit of desperation, went oir to California, and died from sick ness Him exposure. In tlio meantime, George Lane, who could never ohliterate Nelly's imago from his heart, continued to live a single life. lie was now in business, and grudnully accumulating property. The death of Nelly's husband, and in a few months afterwards the death of her father, awakened anew his interest. L'ity and sympathy began to drop fuel on the smouldering lire of love. He knew that she was poor and dependent; and learned, incidentally, with pain, that since her father's death she was living with her children in the house of a haother-in-law, who was not able to support his own family. That one still dear to him should be thus dependent, and, as lie felt, humiliated, hurt the young man. lie could not bear the thought, and begun turning over in his mind one suggestion of means after another, looking to her relief. Hut all considerations of delicacy and propriety were in his way. lie felt that he could do nothing. One morning he met her in the street. lie was walking, with his eyes on the pavement, when, looking up suddenly, he saw hor approaching. She was poorly clad, and had a handle on her arm, which Lane recognized at a glance, as work from a store. Their eyes met, and rested on each other. Lane made a motion as is 1 e were about to speak ; hut Nelly moved on with quicker steps. 10re the veil fell, he saw an expression in her eyes, and in hor changed and wasted countenance, that lilled his heart with the tendorest and saddest feelings. What a history of sulTcring was revealed ! Was this the Nelly of a few years past? It was: but Nolly chastonod, roll nod, subdued, and sweetened for a purer and truer life. The rest need not he told. If Nelly lost her lover when skies were bright, she found him when rain was falling into the dark days of hor life, and when painful experiences had made her vision clear. ? 1<X Y1?'T IAN < < >TT< >N. The Shipments to the I'nlted States Surprisingly Large. ;->ome mots that will doubtless surprise persons interested in uottoif growing and spinning are contained in a report to the State Department by United States Consul i'entield at Cairo. He says tho shipping of cotton from Egypt to the united States, casually considered, seems as anomalous and superfluous as tho "sending of coals to Newcastle," but the records show that Egypt is aggressively competing in a small way with us, not only in Europe hut at home, in supplying raw cotton, and the consumption of Egyptian cotton by New England spindles has grown from nothing, 10 years ago, to more than 40,000 large hales, equivalent to 00,000 American hales, and valued at $3,000,000. The Egyptian cotton area, which was about 803,552 acres in 1*112, now equals 1,072,541 acres?an astonishing advance. It is asserted that the use of Egyptian cotton in the United States is in no sense inimical to our cotton Interest, for it is used mixed with our own cotton in ways that would not he possible for an unmixed product. Tho Egyptian cotton plants this year are strong and well rooted, and the crop bids fair to exceed 1,000,000 American bales. Consul l'onfield says that should the projected schemo for perennial irrigation, long considered and now almost assured, he authorized ami carried out, tho amount of arable soil in Egypt can bo doubled. With Egypt's cotton crop thus augmented, Southern Itussia entering the Hold of competition, overproduction in India imminent, and the market ruling lower year by year, cotton economists and theorists in the United States have material for serious reflection. l'AT'8 CKKTIKICATK.?" i hop?, Hor, you will assist a p<x>r man whose house and everything-that was in It, including me family, sor, was burned up two months ago hist Thursday sor." The merchant to whom this appoal was addressed, while vory philanthrojiic, is also very cautious, so he asked : " llavo you any papers or certiilcatc to show that you lost anvthing by the lire V" " I did have a certificate, sor, signed before a notary public, to that effect, but it was burned up, sor, in the house with me family and the rest of me effects." I TIIK Ft'TURR OF TIIK SOUTH. | Hon. <'Iiuiiiiccy 1'. Black Hujh Our (iiotttoht NVimI In Population?Muterial Progress t In* Domiiiaiit Factor In Huntliorn Idle. H:iItImoru Dally News. The Hon. Chuuncoy F. Black, exLleutonant-Govornor of Pennsylvania, was in Haiti more yesterday completing his arrangements to assume personal charge as president of the Southern! Immigration, Land and Title Company , lately chartered under the laws of Virginia, with its hoadtjuafl.e? -if? Multlinoro. The duties,cfv?IA' position will keep Mr. Hluck almost constantly?in Baltimore, bringing him into close identity * itll tlie elty's business aud vliVanclal interests, and practical ly making the distinguished Pennsylvania!) a citizen of Huttimorc. Mr. Hlack has been working over a year in uniting a number of important and wealthy Interests to carry out a carefully-planned movement designed for the greater development of the Southern States. His efforts have resulted in the formation of the Southern Immigration, Lund aud Title Company for the purpose of locating colonies of the better class of immigrants from the North and Northwest, as well as from ICuropo, in tho South, and the securing of capital for Southern manufacturing enterprises and for handling large Southern properties. Mr. Hlack I.... : > I-'-- 1 : - Iiiin In-1'UIIIO twnvuiy IIIKjrUHlUU III Southern development, and looks on the existing southward tendency of iin migration as a shifting of population toward that section that will heroine one of the most astonishing features of the country's growth. Speaking of the South to a News reporter, Mr. Lilack said : "Through iny political duties, which have been national in their scope, I have been led to watch and study Southern conditions. A superficial attention at lirst. determined mo to a closer investigation, and my experience, added to being constantly thrown in contact with Southern men of affairs, enabled me to estimate properly the opportunities and possibilities of the Southland. I was brought to realize the tremendous strides being made in that phase of the Smith's advancement its material progress. This busovorshadowed all other considerations, political or social, and is now the dominant factor in Southern life. Kvcry class and every section is permeated and penetrated with this spirit of progress. Day by day more attention is being devoted to material things, and business principles arc shelving old and picturesque customs which, however pleasant and attractive in themselves, are out of place in this busy cycle of the world's growth. " The South is not alone in this movement toward industrial and material development. Other sections and other countries are in the race of progress. Nature has lavishly gifted the South with a marvelous diversity of resources, placing it superior to any other like area in the world in natural III. 1.-4.112 * I ! 1 1 ? | vtiuil/ll. I IIK'I I IL'l'lll, I 1 IX' I'll I HIH1 ('(III! tinuous action is, however, nccossary to provo this to tho world. Cotton, i iron, timber, coal and all other cssou* ; tial resources for a country's life and growth the South has in supcr-abnn(luuco. Such is its wealth. Its poverty lies in its lack of population. It wants and must have more people. To operate its factories, open its coal mines, and equally, if not more important, to | till its lands it has need for and can assimilate all the sober, industrious immigrants it receives. The more conI sinners thus added the more indepenj dent will become its factories and i farmers and the more solid will grow i its business interests. "Tho present is the ripest time for i immigration to the South, Baltimore i should share in every stop foi ward the South makes and I am glad to see that the citizens have under way a project to hold a grand Southern exposition in Baltimore in 1 Si>7. Such an exposition will attract the attention of men and money both at home and abroad and will he a groat help to the South and a wonderful stimulus to Baltimore." Mr. Black added that lie and his associates would contribute all in their power to add to the success of the exposition. With Mr. BIuck in this enterprise are associated Mr. Julian S. I Carr, the millionaire tobacco mnnu1 facturer of Durham, N. C.: Mr. M. Krskino Miller, the largesteoul land owner in the Virginias; Mi1. C. B. Oreutt, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Company; Mr. John Skelton Williams, banker, ltieh mond, Vu.; the lion. John It. i'roetor, ox-Slivto geologist of Kentucky and president of the United States Civil- i Sorvieo Commission; Mr. Ilonry VV. Fuller, general passenger agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio It.vilroad Company; Mr. W. A. Turk, general passenger agent of the Llichmond and Danvillo Kail road Company ; Mr. Hdwin Fitzgerald, trallie manager of the Fast Tennossee, Virginia and Georgia 1 tail road Com puny ; Mr. Frank Hammond, president of the I'copies' Bank at Greenville, S. C.; Mr. .lames U. .lackson, banker, Augusta. Ga.; Mr. | Alexander A. Arthur; Mr. William A. Clark, the New York millionaire copper-mine owner, and others. Mr. Black will devote his time to the active management, of this company, which promises to become an important factor in Southern development. A dvicr, toGiui.S.-?A woman doctor, says the Washington Star, said the other day : " Oh, thfcse girls ! They are always coming to me pitoously complaining that their skin has no color, and that it is not even clear white, but pastry and gray. I have given them advice and advico, but it seems to do no good. They will not follow direction. I will toll you what they ought to do ; maybe you can impress it. on their minds. Now, seo that sallow-faced girl eating candy ! Her face will be pastry just, as long as she thinks sweets are better than roast heel, cake moredoiieious than potatoes and preserves to be given the preference to healthy soup, ttho upsets her stomach, and then wonders that her face, which is the thermometer of her stomach should change as it does. To get a clear skin she must eat properly, exercise well and keep her temper in good order. A clear white skin may bo perfectly healthy, but a pasty one is not; There Ih not a bit of sense in recommend in a a wn?l? ..n,.,.. r, .. vw viv ui mi: skin, for tho trouble lies below. Yrisit your doctor and follow bis instructions to the letter, for ho knows your wouk points. Live properly, take plenty of exeroiso, sleep in a cool, well-aired room and dross comfortably. My word for it, you will bo a different being insido of a month, unless your ancestors arc to blame for inherited ills.'' ?" Your editor deserves a great deal of credit for his efforts in behalf of youreity." " May bo he does?but there ain't! a inorehant in town will givo it to him." Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. Druggists} recommand Johnson's Magnetic Oil, tho great family pain-kiler, internal and external. * a i?ki mam:nt kxposition. T|h> National Capital to llnvo IVinuiiipiH I In i !?l i a n * t<> |-,\hili|t tfio l*i o, ?l lifts and ItcKOiirccH of t lie Count r\. { Senator L'utrlok Walsh, of Georgia. I believes there should bo a portnancnt ; national exposition in the city of Wash- 1 ington, and lie has introduced a bill, which was referred to the Committee on the >r>triot liL Columbia, malting ' proi^jffiiiary provisions for such an es- 1 lablisbment. The bill declares that ''a permanent exposition be established at the Natioi ill Capital, in which the produets and resources of the several States and Territories of the I'niou may be fitly and properly displayed." It provides for the appointment of a com ml 8* don, consisting of t he Postmaster Genoral, the Secretary of the Interior and the Score ary of Agricultural, *o report to Congress a plan for the establishment and maintenance of such an exposition, and of a suitable building. The commission is to advertise for competitive plans for the building, and is to appoint a secretary. An appropriation of $7,500 is made for the expenses of tbo commission. Senator Walsh is very enthusiastic upon the subject of this project, lie if. a firm believer, to begin with, iu the future of tbo South, and one of tbo most earnest advocates for tbo sirup ing of improvements. Tho bill which ho introduced to-day is tho result of observations made by him during the progress of the Southern Immigration Congress hold in Augusta, Ga., from which he has just returned. "This bill," he said to-day to a Star reporter, " is intended to supply a need, and give tho people of the country an opportunity of examiningelassitted exhibits of the products and resources of the various Stat< s. Washington is rapidly becoming a central point, in which all the States are interested. " As a contribution from each commonwealth would he necessary for the I establishment and maintenance of such an exposition. Washington isi the only place where the enterprise could he suitably located. I am satisfied tlie best way to induce settlement in the South is simply to give strangers an opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted with the great advantages of tlie section so blessed by nature in every way. It is unfortunate that the railroads convoying tourists to the South pas t hrough someof the poorest land we 1 ave, and the impression is thus given that the soil is unproductive and the country unattractive. As a matter ( f fact in many sections a man can sit on his porch every day in the year, and took can graze in tiic field. We have tho most reliable labor in the world, and it is fast becoming the most expert. During the linaucial stringency, wh eh has caused so much (lis iii i .-?n in iiiu mil ill, iviiii illllHI lilic greui clamor from labor for larger rewards, wo have bad but littlo trouble in tho South. You will find no Southern laborers among tho followers of Gen. Coxoy. "lump ad thiCt tho Southern Immigration Congress had an opportunity to observe for themselves tho natural advantages of a country which I love and deligl t. to honor. Tho South extends a cordial invitation to capital and labor onid in the development of its womlci ful resources of Held, forest, mine and factory. There is no proscription i n account of race, color, religion or | <>1 itics. Good citizens and thinking men can find recognition there as well as elsewhere. "I am deeply interested in tho project of est; blishing a permanent exposition at the National Capital, and I want peop e from various parts of the Union, as they come to examine the bounties and attractions of this magnificent city, to become inspired with broader and grander ideas as to the wonderful resources of the Union in which they live and with a patriotic pride thai will lead them to make stronger exertions to work out a mighty future for a country that enjoys the blessings of liberty regulated by law. " This if undoubtedly the place for such a building. There is, indeed, no other place for it. Tho exposition should be housed in a great building, an imposing structure under the care of the Government. There can he nothing th it would confer so much lasting benefit upon the people of the Union as this great interchange of i ideas and exhibits. It would bo u constant object lesson, touching the people of the United States, as well as of the entire world visiting this country, as to the munificent and unrivalled resources of America. There is not a thing that grows in the forest or is produced from the soil, the mino, or the factory, or the mill, that would not bo appropriately represented in this groat national building which would present in compact spaco and in the most ample way the enormous resources of our country."?Washington I Star. Wokk or the Red Ckoss.?Miss Clara Harton and the Red Cross staff have closed the field of relief at Beuufort, S. C. The sea islands with their population of do,000, after nine months of hard work, arc loft in a condition to support themselves. The cyclone of August, 1destroyed over 2,000 lives, devested 15,000 acres of land and ruined 0,000 cabins. The people have been fed. the 0,000 cabins rebuilt, over 100 miles of ditches for drainage have been dug and roads and bridges have been cons ructed. At least 15,000 acres men of land have been planted this year than over planted before of the famous sea island cotton, which has heretofore been about the only product, ui d which left the small land owners and laborers in debt and practically in t ?e power of the merchants. Under M ss Barton's management, nearly 28,OK) acres of food crops have been plant* d, and, as a result, the population of t he islands can depend on their own food crops and are independent. < hit ideof the (doth ing and other supplies, a great part of which was contributed, the amount of money expended by i lie society has been about $52,000. Miss Barton at present is in ( ' I im clt'st < in ... :i 11 <>ri in t train ovtioiiallAn A TltlBI'TK FROM THK NORTH. The Womb rl'ul Orowtli mul I'roKrpwt of I lie South n?t Di'iilctrd hy a New IIiikIuiuI Senator. Washington, I), Juno 14.?In the port ion of his speech devoted to the schedule of cotton manufactures, Senator Chandler said: I f tho bin Imjcoiucs a law, t ime will toll whotheror not the manufacture of tho highest tirade of cotton goods can survive tho reductions of duties made by the pond-1 ing bill. I shall wait tho result, but with many apprehensions. Any roduction in existing rates is unncccs-> sary and uncalled for by any hound public consideration. There are many reasons of wise public policy for the J protection and development of the manufacture of cotton cloths in the Southern States. The South needs diversified industries to promote that growth to which her material resources entitle her to attain. The condition of that section at the close of the war was indeed lamentable. All values had been destroyed, and nearly all : the property itself had been destroyed. I pi... : ? i " ? 1 i in- ii-i ii iiiiuiiu uiiiiiH neeessarii\ remained. but they wore unfeneed, nilfertile, uncultivated, and of little or no money value. Kow buildings wore in existence except dwelling' houses, and those were dilapidated. Horses and cattle were scarce and tangible personal property hud almost disappeared. The railroads were nearly all distressed. with bridges gone, rails worn out and ties rotting, stock shabby and insullieient. Millions of slaves who had been rated and valued us property, had become free. Whatever values there may have been in these slaves? and it was nominally a vast amount? had been lost by their owners. The hanks and corporations had become insolvent. The value of all the credits which survived the war was insigniti cant. The paper money of the whole South was good for nothing, and of gold and silver they had none. Surely never was a bravo race, after a devastating and unsuccessful war, which brought myriads of the strongest and most stalwart men to bloody death, and forced grief and despondency into every household, left in a more pitiable condition than wore the people of the South at the close of the war of tho rebellion in 1 Mho. Hut the recuperation of the Southern States during the twenty-nine years since they found themselves in such a sorrowful ease has on the whole boon rapid. The growth of the cotton and its sale at tho North and in Muropobas brought much money to that section. Tho former slaves have labored intelligently and with assiduity and have accumulated property for themselves and their cmnlovnru In mlilirinn " prosperous agriculture the vast mineral resources are boing developed. Above all, manufacturing, which in 18(>1 was inconsiderable lias become an industry of vast importance. The New South so graphically described bv the accomplished scholar and veteran editor t he junior Senator from (ieorgiu, (Mr. Walsh) has become a hopeful reality. Newer, higher and better prosperity lias come to the land oneo depressed by the existence of slavery and all the concomitant evils which surround it and follow in its course. In this new South the development of the coal and iron industries is perhaps the most marvellous, but the erection of cotton mills giving profitable manufucturesof cotton is a striking evidence of the many changes which the war has brought to the Southern country. During a recent trip to Ashovill*.?, N. C., I passed through one section of that State which was nearly filled with cotton mills all in busy motion. Mr. ("handler quoted from the bulletin of the seventh census relating to cotton manufactures to show tlio wonderful growth of the South, particularly in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, iii'the manufacture of cotton in the decade from 1880 to 1800. lvdativoly the growth in the South was much greater than in any other section of the country in capital. The total increase for the country was 70 per cent. Now Kngland, which had much the largest part of the capital, only increased 55 per cent. The .Middle States, which stood next in capital, increased 71 per cent. The Western States advanced 71 percent., hut the Southern States advanced 200 per cent. Now Hampshire increased its capital only 34 per cent., while Georgia increased her's 170, North Carolina 277, and South Carolina 301. In the number of operatives the inerenso in New Hampshire was I*<.20, in Georgia (ill.l, in North Carolina 101.50, and in South Carolina 200 per cent. The ratio of increaso was even greater in the South than elsewhere resulting fi om overwork. Slits will rn main there for live or six weeks. ?The prohibitionists of Havershill, Massuchusi tis, have a new schemo to attempt to prohibit. They propose to run a saloon on their own aeeount, and charge the minimum cost, whiskey five cents a glass and heor two cents a glass. Th< y will operate until the saloons gi\o up business then they will close up and only resume when the saloons reopen. This open and shut, busin ss to continue until the saloon men give up the light. E. Nulty of St. I'uul, Minn., writes: " Was eon 11 nod to bed for weeks, doetors could do mo no good ; Japanese Pile Pure entirely cured me." Sold by Carpent- r Hros., Greenville 8. C. Carpenter llros., Greenville, K. C., Druggists, eeommond JohnsonOriental Soap for all skin and sculp diseases. Try it. 1 Li vuv IIIOIUB <M amnion OI UOHOn Used, amount paid for cotton, value of total product, value of product per capita, ami total amount paid in wages. In the item of average wages per capita the inercaso in the South was less than in any other section. Comparing the statistics of cotton manufacturing in Manchester, 'N. H., his own city, and Augusta, Ga., Mr. ('handler showed that the percentage of profit was much greater in Augusta than in Manchester. lie then procoodod : In this connection I will read a short extract from the Washington i'ost of Juno 11, 1804, credited to the Atlanta Constitution. It is as follows: "All through the dull seasons of the present financial depression the Southern cotton mills have been running on full time and yielding greater dividends than those of their Northern competitors. The 1). A. Thompkins company mill at Charlotte which was mentioned as an example in these columns a few days ago is so crowded with orders for its lino numbers that it has tp run night and day. The cotton mill is destined to ho the most powerful faetoi of Southern prosperity in the future. When we manufacture our leading staple and sell the product of our mills to homo and foreign markets this will be the richest region on the globe." Tho Senators who represent States wherein these prosperous manufactures are situated should remember that thoro are other sections where the mills are silent, the workmen idle, their families destitute and gloom and sadness prevails. mam -? - Sain Alston alias Dullie. an psenni-fl penitentiary convict, was captured Inst week in Lancaster County. Tin arrest was made by Cliief Morgan, of Chester, who went over to the negro's home where lie had boon living unmolested for eighteen years, and after arresting him the negro ran for his gun when tho chief opened firo. The ball entered his back and struck a rib. Though blooding profusely he soon got medical aid and was in line traveling condition in a few days Alston was convicted of rape in '7b and was in tho penitentiary only a feu months when lie made his escape, lit win carried back to Columbia. ?The .lames I). Nance camp of Confederate Veterans in Newberry hatone hundred and ninety members. CLRVFJi VNI)'S SICKNESS. Ills Physician Advises llim to Keep t^iiict 11 Few l>n.\s. Washington, Juno 12. 1'resident Cleveland ha* sutlered more or lets Srom dysentery during tho past throe work-s and the excessively li??t weather that has prevailed during the past two days has aggravated his trouble, so that to-day, by the udvieo of Surgeon K. M. o'Kielly, of the army, who has been in attendance, the 1'resident denied himself to ali visitors, except the members of his cabinet, tvho held their regular bi-weekly meeting in his oftice from 11 to I o'clock. Mr. Cleveland expected to go down the river on Friday afternoon for another cruise on a iight.hou.-e tender with Captain Kobloy Kvans. The doctor advised him not to pi until the disorder was entirely cheeked and since that lin e, though the I'resident's health lias grown no worse, the prevailing hig ii teniperutur' has been very debilitatiug and the doctor has now insisted upon the teninorarv alv.ndnn incut of too enormous am ?unt of tedious detail work with whim Mr. Cleveland is always busied, and until ho is poifectly well, till- patient, under tho doctor's orders, must deny himself to 1110 numerous visitors who absorb a [ largo part of his time. Unless tho , I'resident is much improved in tho | noxt few days, it is very likely that ho will go away from Washington on a brief visit to Gray Gables in order to recuperate, and it is thought in such an event that he will make use of tho dispatch boat Dolphin, which now lies at the navy yard ready to sail at a few hours notice. Washington, ! I. Hy advice of his physicians, Pros'butt Cleveland has about decided to take a short outing down the Chesapeake Day. The attack of summer complaint that has kept Mr. Cleveland closely eon lined to his rooms during tho tho last few days has yielded to treatment, and wit.lt the exception of slight weak less ho is quite himself again. His physicians. however, thought that a four or live days' trip down to salt water would entirely restore his usual vigor, and so today the President consulted with Captain < l Uu light bouse board, who will accompany liiin, as to tho availability of a trip on the lighthouse tenders. It has not yet been deiinitoly decided us to when they will leavo hero but a decision will be reached tonight. An Ankcdotk ok wk.slky. ?A farmer wont to hear John Wesley preach, llo was a man who cared little about religion : on tho other hand he was not what wo call a had man. I lis attention was soon excited and inverted. Wesley said ho would take up mruu topics 01 tnongm ; ne was tulKing chiolly about money. His lirst was, 44 Got all you can."' The farmer nudged his neighbor, and said, ''This is strange preaching : I never heard the like before; this is very good. That man has not, things in him : it is admirable proaohing." John Wesley discoursed on 4* industry," " activity," 44 living to purpose," and reached his second division, "Save all you en*;." The farmer became quite excited. 4' Was there ever anything likothis !', lie said. Wesley denounced thriftlessness and waste, he satri/.ed the wilful wickedness which lavished in luxury; and the farmer rubbed his hands as he thought. 44 All this I have been taught from my youth up." And what with getting, and what, with hoarding, it seemed to him that 44 salvation " had come to his house. But Wesley auvanccd to his third head, which was, 44 Give all you can." 44 Ah, dear ! ah dear," said the farmer, "lie has gono and spoiled it all !" Mahrikd a Nkgro.?Jennie Mayo, of Middlesex, Vt., was married to Thomas Strong, of Castleton, Vt., last Wednesday. Tho bride is a wellknown young society woman of Middlesex. and tho groom is a negro porter at the American house in Saratoga. The marriago coromony was performed by the pastor of tho African Methodist Kpiscopal church, and was witnessed by half a dozen people. Lust summer Miss Mayo and her mother went to Saratoga and registered at Congress Hall. Miss Mayo, who is about twentyfour veai'S old. became iicrninintrwl wil l, Strong mid soon tho utTcction between thorn ripened into love. About a month ago Strong returned to Saratoga for the season. Miss Mayo had been kept , apprised of his movements. Tho two t met in Saratoga and were married. Four years ago Strong's sister ran away with a white man and married him. Mrs. Mary Stolt/fus, who died nine years ago at Nashville, Tenn.. weighed about 12f> pounds, and when her body was recently disinterred it weighed over <100 pounds. 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Peculiar in the way they're sold, too, for they're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or money is returned. A RETIRED BUSINESS WOMAN. A Page From Her History. The lin|M>r(unt experiences of others are Interesting. The following it no exception: "I had been troubled \>ith heart disease 'if years, much of that tlmo very seriously. K<?r live years 1 was treated by one physician continuously. I was In business, but obliged to retire on account of my health. A physician told mv friends that I could not live n month. My feet and limbs were badly swollen, and 1 was Indeed in a serious condition when a gentleman directed my attention to 111- Mil...;' V..W II......1 ! ."i - I i - . ... 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It is positively free from all opiates or dangerous drugs. Sold by Carpenter Bros.. Druggist. AN AIJOMINAltlilC FAKH. The Falsehoods Concocted by Disappointed Curiosity Seekers. The Washington corrcspoudsnt of tho Atlanta Journal exposes the merciless falsehoods in circulation about little Ruth Cleveland, and shows there is*" not the slightest foundation for tho alleged rumors: Tho stories recently circulated in tho papers about Baby Ruth atTord a rather interesting study ol human nature. It seems hard to realize that U~.l .. f -.. il. uuyouuy iur mo inure purposo ol yratifying spite would bo capable of assailing a child?even though it were the olTspring of thoPresident of the United States. Vet it is true that certain persons. because they were not permitted to see the littlo girl, for the object of 44 writing her up.*' have deliberately procured the publication of statements to the elleet that Baby Kuth was deaf and dumb and an idiot. The stories have expressed an artfully simulated sympathy for tho mothei, who is alleged to have secluded the child in order to conceal her infirmity. Now, the writer is able to state from his own personal knowledge that these tales are fabrications as baseless as they arc base. There is not even a germ of truth in them. They are made up out of tho whole elotli to gratify personal malice of the vilest description. The truth is that Baity Kuth is bright, quick, alert, and in all respects ahead of most children of her age. She will be three years old next October. Site is a great chatter, healthy, merry and the pride of her parents. A dirty lie of this sort can rarely bo traced to its source, because the person who starts it carefully covers up tho beginning of it. It, is easy to set coiner stories about people in public places. However incredible in the nature, they arc eagerly snapped up and circulated. Henry Cabot Lodgo has taken tho trouble to trace the yarns which arc current about George Washington, attributing immorality to the Father of His Country, lie has found that nono of them date back farther than thirty years. About that time one man, who was a pioneer in that line of business, invented a few such tales about the immortal Georgo and circulated them for his own amusement. Thus it appears that even the benefactor of a nation, who has boon dead for nearly a century, is not safe from wanton traducers. The Darlington Affair.?-Tho presentment of tho grand jury last week at Darlington dealt with various complications that aroso from the recent tragedy in that town. The correspondent of tho News and Courier makes the following statement: Assistant Attorney General Harbor was here to havs the ease of tho State against certain citizens for firing into tlie Charleston, Sumter and Northern train on tho day of tho tragedy rfiroporly presented. After hearing tfie evidence against seventeen of our citizens in thiscaso tho jury presented true bills against " Capt. .lohn C. Blackwoll and others" for this olTence. It will he renu inhered that at tho time of tho tragedy Me London, who was wounded, was carried to jail by Sheriff Sea uurwuKii, no nuving neon dolivored to the sheriff by tho Darlington Guards, J who had been in charge. On the day after the killing unknown parties wore allowed cntrnnut to tho jail and McI l.endon was spirited away. Full particulars concerning liis es1 capo were published at the time, and all details wore given, even as to how his" mustache was trimmed and bow the change of his upparol was otl'ectod. This matter was brought to the attention of the grand jury and they gave it most careful consideration. As tho result Sheriff Scabourgh and his deputy were presented for allowing McLonnbn to mnKo such an oxit from durance as lie did when charged with the <?rav?> crime <>f homicide, and W. .1. W. 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