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% >*■' Tw£> Weekly Ledger. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., FEJ5RUARY 1(3, 1804. ^1.50 A YEAR. {ROW. [horseman Prison. [Year, However, Is Commuted [Story of te. t*i« Rogister.] [<ly of the pit porn H. Morrow, (iov- lU-nljiy commuted I gruy-J»alred horse- tlie penitentiary. Morzow is well imMie. Tin re Inis in the State whieh lerest. In August, r»w was arrested in brought here on the ^g the death of t’olie in October, 1S!I2, l»e- ?laee, and after a long hearing was convicted ,m abortion, lie was l( years in tin* pcnitcn- /s af/l"ey. who had so ably him. appealed to tin* Su- |urt, TheA-.’Sv being in tin* >urt for over a year before succeeded in arranging I Un. When bond was given, ined here for about three | then went to Washington. ^Supreme Court refused to new trial and the news of ism was communicated to \\\ shington by wire lie took trin and returned here, stir- fig Imself to Sheriff Cat heart tKresult of theetfortsof his o ojain a pardon for him. [nor Tillman was strongly I’aion Morrow. Numerous •half. ^ one. I ashigton came a long peti- :ginglemeney, The petition that 'o|, Morrow was well and pmilar there; that lie have «ie reputation of a dis- I*hat tli\ was the first trouble iMiinan was srroi * 1‘aton Morrow. Ninner s wo- recM'veil in his !h*1i •veryody iliere signing < ■fA'erJim in; that lie was a honest man. gener- nd that his trouble *ss and not deprav- io this petition were inent politicians in ■ appealing for their Hg "them being one ■wart, of Nevada. at^l Solicitor Nelson itie old man’s pardon, li^n^d a petition ask- |t^ee. Bin s chief reason for ^i^rdnn was that he 'mony of the pris- dication of “deep- uidi he con hi not »rf ers telcf\)>oned rrow the decision t he declined to receives the in- Thc Columbia Journal Changes Editors. The Columbia Journal has a new Editor. The change took place last week. We may expect a bright, inter esting. evening paper henceforth in Columbia. A special from the Columbia corres pondent to the Atlanta Constitution thus speaks of the change. “The Journal, Columbia’s after noon newspaper, has undergone an other change. .Mr. W. \V. Hall of Laurens, lias taken charge of it. and under the influence of his vigorous and sparkling pen its editorial eolums can he depended upon to scintill ate. “Mr. Ball has for several years been proprietor of the Laurens Advertiser, and also (he correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution. He is known as one of the brightest writers in this State, and it is believed that the Jour nal will materially revive under his management.” • -*•*- • Tin Fever at King’s Mountain. At Dallas Monday we were in con versation with a prominent King's Mountain man who has money in the tin enterprise of his place. He says the town has the tin fever. This met al has been discovered already in large quantities and prospecting is still go ing on. Northern capitalists stand ready with big money to take hold of the buisiness as soon as t in enough is discovered to justify working the mines. But if the metal is found in sufficient quantities it is hardly likely that the King’s Mountain people,who know a good thing when they see it. will allow much of the stock to be sold away from home. Some of the ores turn out about 7~t percent of tin whiU the general percentage is about three times higher iban that of the ancient and still famous Cornwall mines of England. . .?..*• — ^ tir - " Talmage Will Travel. Nkw York Feb. f>.—Dr. T. |)e Witt Talmage will deliver ins farewell dis course in the Tabernacle on the tirst Sunday in March and will start on a tour in the far cast with his wife and two daughter about April !. An over land journey will be made to San Francisco after whieh llonoluln. New Zealand, Australia, India aand the Fiji Island will he taken in. He will return by way of the continent of Euro|M* and expects to reach Brooklyn again about October 1. —« — • — •- - Joan of Arc Beautified. Romk, Febrr • 12.—The Moniteur de Rome.puhlisijcsa decree announc ing the beautification of Joan of Arc The pope will tomorrow issue docu ments showing that the beautification is in accord with the private records of successive pontificates. - — -«•*- *— • —— HERE AND THERE. BUTLER'S PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. He Will Not Throw Mud and Will Al low None to be thrown at Him. Cou’miua, S. C.. Feb. 12.—Senator M. C. Butler, speaking xrf ids race for reflection says: “As for my part the campaign before the people will he a discussion of national issues, not mud throwing and personalities, and 1 do not propose to submit to it from my opponents, whoever they may be, of which I will serve notice at the proper time. 1 have devoted thabest years of my life to the ser vice of my state, and whatever ambi tion I may have hail has been fully satisfied, as I have been in the sen ate for a number of years. Liider ordinary circumstances I might never have been a candidate for re- election. hut i do not propose to he made the victim of bossism or any clique or ring. I have a duty to per form to the people of my state, and I am going to do it. I shall go it fearlessly, hut respectfully, am not losing any sleep over my political fate will be. As ambition I might have had is tied, that is a matter of small inent.” BUFFETED BY A BLIZZARD. THE WEST IN THE STORM KING S ICY GRASP. The Worst Blizzard Known in Twenty- three Years. People Injured by Being Blown Against Buildings. about and I what what satis- nm- MASSEY GIVES BAIL. Be- On Habeas Corpus Proceedings fore Justice Pope. NKWitKKjtV, Feb. 10.—ConstahleT. G. Massey, who killed Hallow at Wol ford last Sunday morning, came here today in company wit h Chief Consta ble Fant, who is acting deputy for SherilT Dean, of Spartanburg, and through his attorney, Thos. S. Sense, appeared before Justice Y. Pope in halvas corpus proceedings. He was granted hail in the sum of.*J«l.(KiO. Capt. Gus Diekert, a Tillman spy, made two raids on supposed blind figees hero today. They proved un successful as no whiskey was found. Several spies are hero and more raids will likely he made. MR. CHILD’S NAME GONE. It No Longer Stands at the Masthead of the Philadelphia Ledger. Piiii.ADKi.riu\. February 12. The Public Ledgei appears this morning with the nam • of George W. Childs Drexel at the head of its editorial eoluin as editor and published in place of that of George W. Childs. Ciik aoo, FkbI’ARY 12.—The worst blizzard that ever struck this city, so far as the weather bureau records show, for twentw-three years, is rag ing here. Street traffic is greatly impeded, and walking is accompanied with great danger to life and limb. Many persons have already been injured by being blown to the ground, against walls and posts by the wind. The velocity is sixty miles an hour, the highest ever recorded for this city, and almost double, the velocity of the wind blowing a blizzard In the west ern states. » TKN* IN'CIIKS AT ST. LOl'IS. St. Louis. Mo., Febuary 12.—The The snow began falling last night and continues. Ten inches have al ready fallen. Reports received this morning show that the storm is gene ral throughout Missouri and the sur rounding states. OLD MISSISSIPPI RISING. I anyt l^ u • '"at ion ttici Since riurii “ W Imh, ip '">* not h<4 tre Jh'T in h : vi ptkfn to tjil, likely thg,l v itve him son. low him mor RRe V* prisoner, *m Washington •ounty jail, hut a regular pris- ad every confi- ill probably 1m* ,iry today. It 0 officials will ■•k and will al- hui the uver- 1N A CONVICT Col. Morrow Take* to and Placed tn the B’ol. Mormw was ta Iitiary yesterday niorni’ pon stripes were at o: _ i. It was a severe b [v 'rte left the county jail. »s been since tin* decision ?'ina Court, accompanied 1 •lefnan, and walked to the l«o^, taking his own eoaun 1 i'j'n- He gave the conriit piTftf ofti''« r.s, who ordprefl M. A. Connor at Boiling Springs lost his barn hist 1 Uesday morning about ture<- o'clock by tire. He save<l animals hut lost his pro- v-oUer. Thursday night the gin house of Josephus Smith, near Fair* mount was burned. He has cnu -« the arrest of a colored man I* naim* mir'ifichpu A Good Place Well Filled. Wasiiinuton, Jan. til.—Among the nominations sent to the senate today was that of George I). Bryan to 1 collector of t he port of Charh Mr. Bryan's name was present the President in the early hotiJ’ , ^ f the present administration, aVrlends resentative Brawley and thnn who of Mr. Bryan, of (’b^. President, have the conhdenet^ ,. ITorts i lis liave never relaxe*' behalf. I he sclci^^ surprise, because it gene The Danger Line Almost Reached at Memphis Already. Cincxco, February 12. 12.—A spe cial to tbe Herald from Memphis, Tcnn.,says: From present indictions the floods in the lower Mississippi last year will be repeated this spring. The big river has been rising rapidly during the last three days, the water on the gauge last night registering 21 feet <i inches, a rise of nearly three feet since Friday night. This is. higher tban ever before known at this sea son of the year. The danger line a,* Memphis is thirty-two feet, b the upper rivers arc all fill! a_» " tin* .lav"* ~*nnessec, St. ^ The 1 ^^kmisSfcfiiii Francj^puio..^agc. The lowland _ Wn •ams have been flooded , on inhabitants driven to the alon* »'■' _ What One Woman Has Done. [Correspondent of the Spartan.] Recently and incidentally has come to my notice the record of an opera tive of the mill here that deserves publicity especially at this time. Before the tirst mill here began operation, about ten years ago. Mrs. Eubanks, formerly Miss Molley Mays, with her parents and two sisters, came here from the Glenn Springs neighborhood and ran some of the first looms started in the old mill. Four looms were given her at first; before long six. and when she left the old mill a few days ago to take work in the new mill here, she had been running eight looms for three years and seven months, never having changed her looms except to take ad ditional ones. In other words, four of these eight looms were the ones on whieh she began work ten years ago. She had operated these looms so long and so faithfully that she dial 4sd very much to give them up. On doing so, she said to a friend, “It was all I could do to keep from crying, for I felt like I was parting with old friends.” Mill the reader observe the significance of this remark? For the first six and a half years she received from her employers ♦L71(»; for the subsequent thr and half years, the time in wide., she has run eight looms, the amount of her wages has been #1,175. You will observe that during these ten years she has received for her faithful ser vices the snug sum of #2,892, or an average of #289.20 per year. Her average yearly wages for the last three and a half years was #:{:{(). Mr. Editor, will you not ioin me in pronouncing this a good record^ W here is the girl or young we' 1 The Tariff and Wages. [From the Atlanta Journal.] One of the great contentions of pro tectionists is that a high tariff makes high wages. They consider their case proved when they show that wages are higher in the United State than they are in free trade England. They ignore the fact that wages are lower in every coutry of continental Europe that they are in England and that they are lowest in those countries whieh have the highest tariffs. If the protectionist’s argument were sound, wages would be higher in Spain that they are in the United State. One of the most interesting inci dents of the present tariff debate in the House of Representatves was the discussion between Mr. Reed and Mr. Coekran on this point. Mr. Reed said: “Now. let us come for a moment to this question of wages. The gentle man says that it depends upon supply and demand. I say that is an utterly exploded doctrine. Wages depend up on the amount of the market, and al so upon the nature of the workingman himself. I anticipate what the gentle man is going to say in response to the suggestions of other gentlemen on his side, that what they need is a more extensive market ; that what they ^ need is to go forth to the rest of universe and obtain U market*. il . A FARMER’S ADVICE TO FARMERS.! WHAT HE HAS DONE OTHERS CAN DO. He Rightly Thinks this God’s Favored Section and Believes We Should Raise Our Pork Pork and Beef. tan the method they propose is *'. ° >,1J . in a market somewhere , "7 giving up the We have here. But ^"^‘ believe in enlarging t* * Uirkt ' a t "l* fashion. TVr ? to the ends of ^ carth , , 8tru "» ,e with the c , ' a P or *. ,e "'hole world Yi«at we o wa ! 1 fo ( (° to elevate the market ' l country by higl't* wa » e “ tv> the ' ' ■Techy constituting giving who can show a better? But 4 * ,,oar Oroad as our product some one «nving, “Oh, she on '- v /n< ”” ’ of the faitnL.1 few.” I" n “Pb’,i , y ex ask who proposes to wriest man cept the faithful, r? whip unfaithful can expect go** 1 P 11 ’’ work? - nas been faithful Yes, Miss M record of whieh she and has n> proud. She has proved may w- r fidelity to duty will ao- also-^njeven in cotton mill work. /liter ing down enormous volunj* it will be but a fe\v,d tigur will he reach a ted frqjyi General Curios Stolhrand in the revenue service her* to 1880, died last week and ied in Columbia. He was in General Sherman’s army and helped to m;* 1 the famous march through and this State. who was in 1878 was bur- * vorma General tiordoii lias been invited to deliver his famous leetur.i. “The Last Days of the Confederacy,” in Columbia. It would he worth going there to hear the great orator speak on these trying times. For the last twenty years South Carolina has not passed through a crisis when the gospel of peace and good will was more in demand than at the present time. It should he preached and practiced by every one. The Board of Trustees of Cl'cmson College have appointed a Board of Visitors. This hoard will visit the college in AMgust of each year and will examine the buildings and work ings of the institutions. The hoard of visitors consists of the following: First Congressional district. T. 1). Jervey; Second. R. B. Watson ; Third. A i,,h '"-“'''‘'"I*:* 1 *"'' I' ll-operation vi,!Mv *•""">• K - «• riiitx 11 L/v.. ..I. i . « i . ude.rgo the Isannj exhudntttioll It her prisoners. The name. nge.\( Jero recorded jn the prison book i was turned id the pri "»tlies he [It. Th leold man, although he tried hard * retam liis composure. He wns as-! r - Tindal. Secretary of Stall tn mirk in the loom ^ said, will be elected to the pro- [icre the clothing for the othcAnn- ' ^iprship in Cleinson College made ’ts is made. " i,rf put to work “H't by the invited ‘resignation of aiming to sew on a sewing machKne. | ^(fesor Newman. Mr. Tindal has p* mu 7 no ^ ^ ^ ( ‘Pt permanently\at bi^jnentiom-d olten as u vandidate Uhl muy tto aasnmed Ve! (utWtt'ernhr. hitt this will nrohahlv it is [(tctrwotk:' '’he prison i.y had yet »n I^aur MorroJ of him. and make Luces hotter, somebody |iigh the reconciliation of the William and Prince ^wasjiie main event of the quite u diversion was Also the Khedive of Egypt. itlie’L^j ptian troops he ofTensi \ <• :vn**a l. s in that ‘>>f Mr. Bryan wi'li , .. not ' "''"gt-nendly conceded that he ,iis > Winner from the start. H;s ,'>efi|>etitors. Messrs. A. C. Kaufman, of the Vanderbilt Asso«*iat ion. A. Sydney Smith and W. \V. Womlsey. wen* well endorsed forth** pb**e, but Mr. Bryan had the stendf*'* sl i , PI K ' rt of Representative B-o«ley ami also of Senator Butl— Th ‘‘ la “'* r ' ,,<1 not exert to a,, ; v r rt ‘ at ‘ , 1 x - t»*nt any of the cundi- A.tes. as it wic stippos***! from the outside that Kepresentative Brawley would 1m* all**we«l t<* name the eolle**- tor ami none of tlu* ini*iiilM*rsof the delegation dispute*! his right todoso. Mr. Brawley will r**im<l out his Congressiomil career during the pres ent week, and the nomination of Mr. Bryan is a fitting elimax to his ex ceedingly successful experience in the National Legislature. His suc cessor will not have to bother about the appropriation for tin* improve ment of Charleston harbor. Through Mr. Brawley's effort that work has been provided for under the contract system, and an annual appropriation is made for it in thy. sundry civil ap propriation hill. That in itself is enough to endear Mr. Brawley to the people of Charleston for all time to come. -% —— No Palmetto Trade Mark for Dispen sary Whiskey. Washington, Feb. 5.—The Circuit Court of Appeals today handed down an opinion reversing the decision of Just ice Bradley* in the District .Su preme Court in the ease of Governor Tillman against the Commissioner of Patents to compel tho latter to reg ister the palmetto whiskey trade mark. In th** Circuit Court of Ap peals the right of the commissioner to refuse the registration was upheld. The W,orld as w.e T-ake it, 1 “The world is even as we take it. And life, dear child, is what we make it.” Thus spoke a. grandma, bent with care. To little Mabel, flushed and fair. But Mahle took no heed that day Of what she heard her grandma, say. Years after, when, no more a child. Her path in life seemed dark and wild, Back to her heart the uu qiory came : Of thivt quaint utteranee’of the dame: ‘jTHe world is even as we take it, j*l life dear child, is what we make »» I ftftfed her hr.ov, and smiling, ^ht, ps dear grandma taught! ^wocs thus quickly cured, may !>** endured.” FAILURE AT ROCK HILL. A Prominent Merchant Closed by the Sheriff. Rock Him.. 8. C., February9.—Our people were greatly surprised when Sheriff Crawford came down from Yorkxilh* Wednesday and levied on the stock of hardware of John Gilzer hut they were more so when he re turned the next day and took posses sion of the keys and put an extra liwk on the frontdoor. This action was due to an attachment issued by the clerk of the court in the interest of Tabb, Jenkins A Co., of Baltimore. The amount claimed by Hit* tirm is about #t»00. After the attachment had Im*cii made Mr. Gelzer at once made an as signment to W. B. Wilson. Jr., of this city for the benefit of all his credi tors. Liabilities and assets not known. Mr. Gelzer came here from Charles ton about eighteen months ago and had a sph ndid run of trade. Ho lias the sympathy of the entire commu nity. His stock of goods Is estimated to he worth between #S.(KNi and #!<>.- INN). The Widow and Orphan. Com’Mmia, S, C. Feb. I—Governor Tillman yesterday morning received n letter from a holy on Kdisto Island which ought to receive the attention of every charitably* disposed person. The name of the lady is withheld for good reason, but Governor Tillman assures thos** who wish to semi him any money for her that he knows it to Im* a ease deserving of charity. She writes: “Dear Sir: Excuse the liberty I take in tresspassing on your valuable time, but I’ll be as brief as possible, hoping you will hear me through to the end. ’ ’ Five months have elapsed since t he disastrous cyclone of the 27th of August. I am \\i<V»\ with three children, an4'\< nuiy saved the clothes we had on, 1 am entirely* dependent upon my needle for a livelihood. We took refuge in the house of Mr. , who kindly allowed me to stay hero ever since, put hi* is expecting to soon need the rooms I now occupy. I have lK*en patiently hoping tho Red Cross would do something for me. 1 have twice written Miss Barton about it. She promised to give me some lumber; that was two, uiou.tflis ago I again wrote to, VVC S wo . ago, re- utimUng her of her promise. a,ud have no repljy as yet. “My object in writing to you Is that of begging you to take up* a sub scription among your many friends and acquaintance to aid me in rebuilding my heu/o, for which it will ♦ake nh*Mit #<i0 or #75. 1 know you have already been very generous to the sea fiaitmd sufferers and as long as the relief com mittee had charge of things I wits sup plied with groceries, hut slne^^ery- im: has been turned^jm^^^^Red Of Rear Admiral Benham's Career .„r?, , r,| AJmiral V B - K ’- B< ‘ nl '»ni en. r "' '''o " ;lv .v m 1847. In-in,. P<)mted from the State of New York His earliest service was in the Fast Indies. He returned and was gradu- the Naval Aeadetny* In 185;i L i'U war hr,ike out. served In the I’aeifie on" b'wodSsf sur vey and in the Baraguarart expedition. He hi***ame lieutenant, and in 18(io was attached to tlie Crusader of the home squadron. He took part in the battle of 1’ort Royal, and in 18fi2 was made lieutenant-commander. He next served with the West Gulf block-' a,ling squadron. After the war he was detailed to the Susquehanna. In 18i;:i he was promoted to the rank of commander, and, after duty at the Brooklyn navy* yard and as lighthouse inspector, was ordered to the command of the monitor Canon ic us and afterwards to the monitor Saugus. In 1875 he became captain, and was placed in command of the Richmond on the Asiatic station, and when his cruise was over he was as signed to duty at the Portsmouth navy* yard, and later to the command of the lighthouse district of New York. In 188.> he was made commo dore and put in command of the Mare Island navy yard. Upon his promotion to the rank of rear admiral he was assigned to the command of the South American sta tion, hut the pecial duty of towing the Columbus caravels from Spain to Havana prevented him from reaching his station, ami Admiral Staunton had charge in South American waters until he made the mistake of soluting Admiral Mello’s flag. Admiral Ben- ham, then in command of tin* North Atlantic squadron, was sent to take command. Admiral Bi-nham will re- tin* next April, and Admiral Stanton will then resume the command of tho South American station. He has a son who is an ensign in the navy. His wife and daughter are said to he trav eling in Europe. ion. laborers, and a market as position George W. Truitt, of Troup County, Ga.. says that lie nas raised 100 bush els of oats to one acre, 128 bushels of corn on one acre, 4 bales of cotton, averngidg 450 pounds to the bale on one acre. From a pamphlet recently written by him we take the following address to farmers: “Fellow-farmers, we inhabit most God-favored land ef arl nations in the world. 1° clii soil and rainfall, w*” t ’ s peciaJhp^1iose of us east of ^1 issiapMppi river, hax*e the 'I only re- inains-*'* 1,3 While there 1 H , scarcity of money*, there is not shch a scarcity of food for man and beast, which we used to have to buy*, hence, our next crop can he made with less money. To a very* large extent, in us farmers is vested the hope of the future prosperity and «nis is the protectionist rLu "tkC’ forcibi >- «vi*«; > put. Dus IS the way in which Mr; Coekran answered Mr. Reed* Dimv „Y h ,l" IOry "I the Democratic party on this economic queston i.* by legislation Jou make production expensive you limit its amount, and I do not think any gen- ivouBmittf ^ oor bas disputed that ou Bmit Ik H ftm ° Unt production you limit the opportunity of labor to hnd employment. The gentleman from Maine (Mr. Reed) has said with !><*rfect truth that there is no such thing as charity in commerce. I a<*ree w. h h,, ,. Th, contpst of comin ^ is the contest for i r . " w "■■* a,»f ^ •- r V t • e sur*' domination dl the cheapest, and that being so, we believe that because we can produce the chief staples and nec essaries of life in this country cheaper than anyweare else, ns the great re public of antiquity accomplished tho military conquest of the world, the providence of God has ordered that this cuntry shall complete the econ omical and industiial conquest of the world. happiness of nearly* all the people of this great South-land. Much is ex pected of us and we must get together and do our duty for ourselves and country. “W ho saves his country, saves all things, and all things saved, will bless him. Who lets his country die lets all things die, and all things dying, curse him. ” The South needs a large addition to her Anglo-Saxon population, and if I read tlu signs of the times aright, she will ' have i?r- Big plantation days are numbered. Small farm owned by thrifty white men in the South an* being predict^ by the wisest men of the day. God speed the change, and is doing his part, let Lets pnn*e to the wori raise all the hoga horses, wheat and nearly now, besid we will alw Coming South. ]From the Atlanta Journal.] The superior advantage of the South for the manufacture of cotton are- be ing recognized in a very practical way. Some of the largo cotton mills of New England an* looking to the South as the host Held for the extension of their blisin* *ss. A year ago the Massachusetts legis lature granted permission to the Lowell Cotton Mills to increase its capital stock for the purpose of estab lishing a branch mill in th** South. A few days ago a hill was reported in the Massachusetts Senate to allow tin* Dwight Mamifacturite; company to add fGOB.OOH t** »t-s. capital stock. It is announced that this new capital is to, he, p.ut into a cotton mitl in the South. A #7 , N).iN)tt cotton mill built by* northern capital has recently been completed at West Point, Ga., and tin* same parties will build another mill of the same capacity alongside this on**. The New Orleans Picayune says: “The saving in the cost of manu facture in the South gives this sec tion a great advantage over the east ern miiis, and jhe latter, moreover, realize that if they transferred the manufacture of their eoaser makes id cloth to the Sort h**;**! branch'.*, they Would he a 1 '! • ‘ • coir | ii »». more sue cessfully in tlx* inretgn rr«*h).” JR Of depression uthern cotton “But in making that conquest the widest facilities must be given to pro- duet inn, and believing, as we do, and as you concede that to cheapen pro- duction is to enlarge it, we think an abundant production furnish a better field for the trades unions to claim for labor a larger reward than a nar row production. We beleive that if we can increase the productive ca pacity of this eounry #5O0,OU0,(X)0 a year, there is no law of God or man that will prevent the laborer getting his share of that increase. We be lieve, on the other hand, that if you restrict production, you may keep th profits of the manufacturer as hi r K° as they are now. but you must necess arily* reduce the profits of the labor ers.” It does seem to us that any fair- minded man must admit that is a complete refutation of the argument that protection increases wages. In the entire discussion Mr. Corkran had decidedly* the advantage **f ins keen witted antagonist. What a pity* it is that New York hag not a Coekran in th«* senate. —— —• ^ Deaths in the Catrledge Family. The Columbia Register of the 23 in st says; “The peopld of Columbia have read with sorrow the news at different times of the deaths in the Cart ledge* family, of Edgefield eoun- ty. The mortality in the family has continued, as the following in the Edgefield correspondence of the News and Courejr of yesterday will show. “Eight persons have died of the grip in the Cart ledge family in four or five weeks. Messrs. Jerry and Sam Cartledge and their wives, Dr. Cart- ledge, Mr. B“n Ouzts, father of Mrs. Jerry* Cartledge, and Mrs. May, a cousin, who assisted in nursing the sick, and at last accounts Mrs. Ouzts lies dangerously ill, if she should die only a little five-year-old girl would be left of this once happy family*. The Stoddard Portfolios. Those who desire hack numbers of the Stoddard Portfolios of Photogra phs to complete their sets, can obtain them at the Atlanta Journal office for ten cents each. A handsome, ornamental cloth co ver to contain the complete set can be had f**r »*4 cents; by mail, BY Mrs. M. P. A. fKOZIEK. If any little word of mine May make a life brighter. If any little song of mine 'May make the heart the lighter, i/od help me speak the little w* no- Aa< take in** Mt of sin-iu- And drop It i» To set the j dispose of one cotton bxo^ as it takes to make another. Then you would never hear of overproduction. “That our country*—the cotton belt—is growing gradually, hut surely, let me here quote some high authority—the immortal Grady, our most steadfast friend and most elo quent advocate. I quote from his famous Dallas. Texas, speech, as far back as 1887: “While the producer of everything nearly* we eat or wear in every land, is fighting through glutted markets for bare existence, what of the Southern farmer? In his indudfrial. as well as his political problem, he is set apart, not in doubt*' but in assured independence. Cot ton makes him king.” “Not the fleeces that Jason sought can rival the richness of this plant as it unfurls its banner in our fields. It is gold from the instant it puts f'»rth its tiny shoot. The shower i-at whispers to it is heard around ;*• world. The trespass of a worm • •a its green leaf means more to Eng land than the advance of the Rus sians on her Asiatic outposts. When its fibre, current in every bank, is marketed, it renders back to the South #850,000,000 every year. Its seed will yield #00,000,000 worth of oil to the press and #40,000.000 in food to soil and beast, making the stupendous total of #450,000,000 an nual income from the crop. And now, under the Tompkins patent from its stalk news paper is to be made at two cents per pound.” Edward Atkinson once said: “Il NewEngland could grow the cotton plant without lint it would make her richest crop; if she held monopoly, of cotton lint seed, she would control the commerce of the world.” Is our monopoly - thn. rAetrPiI from Egypt. India and Brazil, sure and permanent? Let the record answer: * In 1882, the America*! supply of# cotton was 3,241,000 bales. Foreign/ supply, 8,036,000 bales. We led ou^j^ rivals by less than 200,000 baleg This year the American supply 8,000.000 ball s; from foreii 2,0001*00 expressed 400 1 pounds each. In spit|^^^ie w ,. niH elsewhere, of fulli*^Rpo r i on( . 0i 0 f better transportat^^and unlimited money spent in Jkperiment. the sup ply of foreign jfotton has decreased since 1872. 4 nearly 1,000,1)00 bales while that of the Bout}} lias Increased nearly 5,000,000. Not alone in cotton, but in iron does the South excel. An Englishman of the highest character prcdiioed that the Atlantic would be whitened within our lives with sails carrying American iron and coal to England. In cotton, a monopoly; in iron and coal, establishing swift mastery; In granite and marble, developing equal advantage and resource; in yellow pine and hard woods, the world’s treasury. So, piy brothers, be of good cheer— better nm* s k every abie-b* in the South _>wn living