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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO S. C., JULY 9- 1895. EST ON ITS OWN MERITS THE REGISTRATION CASE. To Be Heard by the Supreme Court in November. Mr. Charles A. Douglass, who has been the leading counsel in the re gistration case, was in the Columbia this week. He was seen at Wright's Hotel with reference to the progress of the litigation. He said that the ap p a papers bad been prepared and will be ready for docketing during the preseut week. The case, however, could hardly come up before the No ve!mber term of the Court. He would not n:Lke a'n effort to prevent the holding of the Constitutional Con vettiu and be did not think that the heldiug could be prevented. When asked .0hether Judge Goff had attempted to prevent the holding of the Constitutional Convention, he repeI emphatically he did not. Upon th-e contrary the effect of Judge Goff's order was not to prevent the holding of'the Convention, but was basedupon the g h-:-lty of the electiona and removed beegi;tration law so tbat all quali lied elcetors could participate in the l-ection of delegates. The present action was to give the 'Court the opportniity of deciding the Ci U its merits. He said that the Cout intisht confine itself to the nar row htuits adopted by the Court of Apy,-als, but he wonld pesent the case s- that all of the issues included in the imerits might be clearlv before it, and for it to decide. Pe was asked what the effect would be on the work of the Convention if Judedir vie'ws were sustained by the Sureie Court. He said that he did not know what the effect wouldbe. It might invalidate the work of the convention or it might not be held to e so f!r reoching. Upon a question so grave as this he did not care to ven ture an opinuion at this time. As to the resulti of a victory by the com phwiatuts in the case, "We can have nothing~ to do." We are.he said, "dis charging here a professional duty purely and are following the instruc tions of our clients in making the ap peal. and if the results of the litigation zhai! in anyway or to any extent affect the vaslidity of the Convention we shall :iot hold ourselves at all responsible, <>r i it bringsanv other result we shall feel ibe smue wa. The issues on the me its in this case caucet be forever dodgd. sometime or o her they will have to be decided and I have allalong thought that it woui llav e t ttn sholni..1 ve been fairly met an'd dIs!,eE indvaince of the ele tiont of delegatene the holding of the, Convent~in. lorever, this is a politi cal matter w w;hicha we have nothing to do. 11e xa. a d .h Iher Gen Hampton or e.Uterh.:d anything to do " i, .hc rpl "'They had noth:::g more to do with the case than thel1orie. T hey have not employ e n.-- iu any. way th ihis case and haN e THE WElATiIER AND CROPS. T'here has Been a Marked !mprove ment During the Week. Director Bauer has issued his weely stattemeont of the crop conditions. After a summarv of the week's weather he savs: "As a result of the generally favor able coudijtions there continues to be a mariked impl'tremfent in all crops and farmt'rs are weil up v.ith their work, their fields being with a few exceptions cleain amr. well cultivated. 'The staple e'rops, c:>tton and corn. are smna!. but growing well. The former -beinog notgas the sma~lest for manny year's at this season. It is vigor ician has a good color and .s put ting on squares freely. First blooms woegenmerally reported during the b-s: -.r ek of June. which is consider v~ l:.ter than usual. In Andeison nuni some other of the western grorp o':,osties its growth hashitherto been greatly re tarded by the dry weather, 1-ut nowv looks promising Sea islar d cotton is growing fairly well. Old corn is being laid by all over the State. as the weather permits. It is~ iu the silk and tassel, and although its 'stalk is short, yet its color is goo'd on- promising generally. Bottom lard co: a is said to be in excellent condi ticu everywhere and making rapid gio-rth; some corn being planted .e oats stubble, but peas are receiving the preference m many places for phlatiug stubble. Wheat , .rashinmg is nearing comple tionu with g~eneiratlly- satisfactory yieldsm, but nuothimg extraordinary. Late oats are a good crop in Sainter, Fairfield and Horry counies, and possibly gen erally so. The tobacco crop was greatly im pr-:ved by the rains of the past week. Ini Williamsburg County some has al ready been cut, and it will soon be fit to cut in portions of Florence and Darlington counties. Peas are growing well lately, and a larg ierop is being planted on oats stubble The showers have enabled N ~ peas to yorminate qniekly. Alabama Mines Opening Up. During the last ten days 162 negrces han (bit Jacksonvil'eto work in themniies arcund . irminghamn. Ala. :Tihe offers that induced thenm to go, n cre for from $1 to 81.25 per day wages, or pie"? work that would pay more. A Birmingham man said to a reporter that ihere was no strike, and that the negroes 'were not wanted to fill strikers' places, but were needed to operate now mines, and old mines in Which work some time ago ceased. When the old mines elosed down. hundreds of the workmen sought new fields of labor. N~ow that the boom is on again, laborers are needed to fill the places of those who tient away. The same inducements offered ilacksonville are offered in other Southern ieities. from which the same quiet movement armds PBirmingham has been made. AIKEN IS FOR PEACE. An Equal Division is Now Assured In - That County. At a meeting of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committee of Aiken County held on Saturday the following resolu tions were adopted: Whereas, it is the earnest desire of the Democratic executive committee of Aiken County that unity of action may be hadbyall of the Democratic voters of the county in the approaching election for delegates to the Constitu tional Convention, and that peace and harmony may prevail among the white people of our county; and to that end we. as such committee, do hereby prescribe the following rules to gov ern and control said election for dele gates to said Convention. Therefore, be it Resolved, 1st. That all candidates to be voted for in the primary election shall conform to the rules governing their candidacy as prescribed by the State Democratic executive committee, and shall, in filing their pledge as re quired by said rules, state therein to which faction of the Democratic party they belong. 2. That there shall be an equal di vision of the delegates bet ween the Re formers and Conservatives in making up the ticket to be voted for in the general election, and which said can didates to be voted for in the general election shall be chosen in the follow ingmanner, to wit: The two Reform ers receiving the greatest number of votes in said primary, and the two Conservatives receiving the greatest number of votes in such primary, shall be declared as the nominees of the Democratic party for Aiken County for delegates to the Constitutional Con ventior. The following were also unanimously adopted, which are on the same line as the above, but not as explicit: Whereas, it is of paramount impor tance that peace and unity in our Dem ocratic fold be established on a firm foundation: Resolved, That it is the unqualified sense of the executive committee of the Democratic party of Aiken County, in meeting assembled, that an equal division of Conservatives and Reform membership shall pres ail in the Con stitutional Convention from Aiken County, and we call upon all voters to lay aside all factional prejuadices and vote for two Conservative and two Re form candidates in the primaries to nominate candidates to represent Aiken County and work for this benefice-t result as a solution of the problem, and we firmly reco'mmend this plan as will work for its accomplishment. It was then moved that the Conser vatives be given equal division on the board of election managers. This was adopted unanimously. THAT AKEN MUDDLE. The Statement of the Comptroller Genera!. Comptroller General Norton has re turned from Aiken where he has re ctiy been to make his annual sLttle ent with the county officials, and to e.oine the condition of affairs in that county. The result of this examina tion has been awaited with interest, in view of the recent presentment of the grand jury of the county. Mr. Norton says that he found that there are irregularitics in the office of the county commissioners, such as let ting contr acts for roads, bridges, etc. He does not. however, think that there has been any benefit accruing to the individual members of the board. He says that it is also true that the ex penses of the county show an increase f $7,000 or 38,000 over the expenses of last year and pirevious years. While this is true, he says, the couinty com missoners are not entirely responsible for it. and a comparison of the cx penses for the years previous to this ear shows that the county commis ioners bad spent no money for the co~struction of roads -and bridges. This part of their duty had been neg lected and finally it became a public necessity this year to begin the work. This required'an expenditure which seems to indicate that the present com missioners have spent more than they ought to have done. The main increase in the expenditures is to be found in the court expenses, owing to the in rease of the number of ciriial eases, and the money that had to be paid witnesses and jurors. It was some thing that could not be helped. In regard to the charge of the grand jury that Supervisor Sawyer had used public funds to pay his private debts, Mr. Norton says that Sawyer did pay some private debts on a claim be bad against the county for money owed him. As to the charge of forgery against Sawyer, Mr. Norton says Sawyer did sign the name of Major Champion. the clerk of the board to a certificate while Champion was sick and needed the money, but he did it in the presence of the boardl,and with the board's con sent. The Comptroller states further that, so far as his investigation went, there as no politics in the report of the grand jury. It was composed of twelve Reformers and five Conservatives, and the special committee which investi gated all these things was complosed of three PReformers and two Conserva tives. While the irregularities are appar ent, Mr. Norton says he believes that there has been no diefaleation, and the irregularities have resulted from a lack of knowledge of the law more than any thing else. Foreign. At Huntersquay, Scotland, Lord Duns raven's new cup challenger. Val!:yrie III. was fairly bea'en en Wednesday over the ifymile course of -.he Mudhood Yacht Club jv the Prince of Wvales's cutterfBritannia and . Barclay WYalkers Arlsa. The Britannia QUITS PUBLIC LIFE, WILLIAM EWAIRT GLADSTONE. Annoinnces His Retirement from the WorId. The Passing of a Great Man. TP. Chite-:' pomised letter t. his '.di co:titwts in connection with Lis rra'n' froan politieal life was pub Ih W.' e-I*lay.' at London. Alter bidding lo h who have suppurted him -a!th- poli for mauy years past and ex p hii- gratitude for their adhesion t l rip!:s h- advocted, the ex-prerciet ft I's.bfond ruestion that the century now xi r in ha exhibited since the cl.e of it. fir-.' c!I'mttera period of unexampled ac 1a 'T. tie' hn-es of whieb, taken in the ma:-. hav'e ~ben in the direction of true and bi-netleial progress. An overwhelming pro portion of the reforms within this period have bte'i affected within the direct action of the lieral partv or by direct aetion of such states men as Peel and Canning, who were evet reay to meet odium or to forfeit power for the public ioed. In all of the fifteen nar. /N liaments in which I have served, the people of Scotland have decisively expressed theJr convictions in favor of this wise and temper ate policy and I trust that the electors of Midlothian will continue to lead the people of Scotland in the future as they have in the past." ROSEBEBRY ON BIS DEFEAT. Lord Roseberry has written a letter to the secretary of the Midlothian Liberal Associa tion in which he says: "The late government was overthrown by a vote of censure which was petty, but fatal. It is for Scotland, Ireland, Wales. and the north of England to consider whether they will allow their interests to remain in perma nnt subjection to a hereditary and irrespon sita, chamber. With the echoes of Mr. Glad stone's eloquent and venerable voice still ringing through the lowlands, I cannot doubt their response." RAILROAD STOCK SOLD. le Southern the Purchaser at $1, 500,000. The Southern Railroad was the purchaser of fiftecamillion dollars worth of stock in the Alabama great Southern Company at public outcry in Knoxville, Tenn.. Monday. pursoant to a decree of the United States Cireuit Court. Special Master John W. Childress, of Nashvilje. conducted the sale. there beinp only one bidder, President Sam'l Spencer. of the Southern. After the reading of the order to foreclose. which was made by the Central Trust Com pany. o! New York. through their agent, Mr. Calhoun. President Spencer bid in the bonds for 31.500.000. This is the stock formerly owned by the old East Tenne'ssee. Virginia and Georgia. and by acquiring control of the same, it is said, the Southerno R ailway has the Queen and Crescent system under its thumb. There were three batches of stock. 5,001 of Queen and Crescent stock; 78.301 shares of ordinary Alabanma Great Southern. and 34,000 shares of preferred Alabama Great Southern, and 3-4.000 shares of second preferred Alabama Great Southern stock. The sale wai: closert ior 10 per cent. cash. TH E SOUTH ERN STILL SCOOPING. Will It Gobble Up the Seaboard Air Line? The New York Morning Journal says. "Reports from Baltimore yesterday had it that the Southern Railway has laid its plans for the absorption of the Seabo.:J Air Line. The reports in this city were met with a state ment from Charles H. Caster, chairman of the Richmond Terminal re-organization com mittee, to the effect that he knew nothing of them. Generally, the report is not believed. Such . a move on the part of the Southern Railway just now would give it pra..tically a monopoly of the Southeastern trada. espe cially the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. where the Seaboard Air Line is at present its only dangerous competitor. The laws of Georgia would b~e, perhaps, the greatest stumbling-block in the way of such a move, as once before when the Southern, then known as the Richmond Terminal, scooped every road in the State, It was compelled to release one, the Western & Atlantic. to allow the competition provided for by statute." SILVER SWEEPING MISSISSIPPI. Stone Is Fishing for Gold but the Counties Act for Silver. Govarnor Stone, candidate for the United S'tate5 senate to succeed George, fired his ca m paig a gun Wednesday at Natchez, Miss. The governor, the only goldbug candidate for the senat o, has been sick for a month or more, and is unable to enter the canvass, while his ir::. silvet opponents, ex-Governor Lowery, (o"rssmen Hooker, Allen and Money, hav, kindlled their camps on the hills. Every U"nt v tha't has held a convention (thus far -sv h ha. uamiunted delegates favorable to S -na or 3La arin for governor and adopted carneslver resolutions. The last county to .t was Pontotoe, and in addition to de 'I laring for 16 to 1. delegates pledged to I1-L- rI' for Governor and W. D. Holder Ifor aior wer echosen. No other candi -!ae: were indorsed. Want Cheaper Rates on Fruit. The railroads decline to make any re duction irn thbe rates on peaches shipped in refrigerator tars and the Fruit Growers' Assoc-iation of Georgia announces that it-will appeal to the inter-State commerce commis sion. The fruit growers made a case before the Georgia railroad commission, and the usae was argued before that body. It. how ever, had no authority to enforce a ruling on inter-State business, and all it could do was to make a recommendation that the rates oe reduced. The railroad men said that they could not afford to give the fast and careful service to fruit demanded by the shippers for any less rates than they were charging. The vm'ae of Thal De'k. nine miles east ol Dwight. Ill., 'v. .'arly wiped out by fire Thursday artirnoox L-.ss, 560.000. Thq insuranoa wi.! eove~ about one-quarter oh TOBACCO CULTURE. Messrs. L. and P. Alexander Tell how It Should be Douc. Messrs. L. and P. Alexander, of 9 gew Liberty, Ky., in a letter to the Home and Farm, give the following interesting hints on the subject of "Tobacco Culture": '-For the first tim-s in sevetal years the farmers in this county are having trouble in getting out their crops. The cut worms de stroyed the plants in many of the beds. while those left were retarded in their growth f by the late cold spring, so that but few were ready for the usual May planting. Here we are now past tha middle of June and the dO sun ranging in the nineties. and not more than one-half the crop in the field. And above all not enough plants to finish the planting under favorable conditions. Besides this the cut-worm. -wireworm and grass- j hopper togetk.er with the heat of the sun is to bo encountered and overcome before suc- P cess is assured. The %vireworm is an insid eous enemv. attacking the plant at the sur- Q face, bores down the stalk to the root. The plant's death is not sudden. but nevertheless sure. There is no remedy but to put out a new plant. His color is dingy white with reddish head, and is very difflult to find and destroy. We have not noticed them so plen- 11 tiful for years. G Those who grew the weed before canvas I was thought o! understood the difficulties in., the way. Under the old plan of growing plants it was a rare chance that planting was si done before the first of June. We can call to cc mind that in the year 1866 we planted an cc acre or more on the 24th of May and thought it remarkably early. So advice from those who have usually succeeded under these dif flculties will not be amiss. Late in the sea- 1 son the work of planting out should be care fully done. Boys as a rule are not a success, tb nor are lazy or incompetent hands of any a kind. We made it a point to put out every plant, so we thought It-would live. If the sun was hot or the season light the plants were put deep in the ground and a chip a stone or a sod was placed on the Sout side of the plant-not to protectits a leaves but to preserve moisture and keep the s rout of the plant cool. A well grown plant it with rather a long shank is best for this kind ti of work. It is wonderful sometimes under n what difficulties a plant will live and thrive T and at other tixiies they will show but little cc resistance to the direct rays of the sun. d Usually one of the following reasons is the cause: First-The want of care in taking from the bed. Secondly. the lack of care in putting it out. Third. the sun has dried the soil below the root. Perhaps the greatest difficulty of all is a short, poor plant. with but few fibrous roots, as such have a poor chance. re To make a se'ason is a tedious and tiresome undrtaking. biut it can be successfully done y by those having the nerve and backbone. If 3 the water is no! convenient make arrange ments to bring it to the field in sufficient quantity. The ground should be freshly worked or hills riade. Each setter is accom panied by a water carrier with a dipper. The hi is opened, the plant put in and half pint of water is pourvrd iuto the cavity and the soil drawn over#, with a gentle pressure tue operation is completed. This work is best done in the evenng. When the plants are put out and com mencing to griw they should show them selves slightly a'ove the plane of the field. This enables cle e cultivation; not only take At-- the. weed d grass, but to break the crust formed by-thteeenttreso.- Mmrot the young plants are now struggling for an existen-e and the slightest help at this jun c ture is veryimportant. If the conditions are such that fresh soil 1 cannot be thrown about the plant with a fL plow it should be done witn a hoe. If the 1 weatner is dry and warm as now great care t should be taken not to disturb the plants In in the least. The tramping of the team on or near is generally fatal. In plowing at the end of the rows push the horse well out into a -he open ground. so as not to turn over the end of the rows. b Renlauting should be done with good s'ocky a plants on freshly made hills. An effort to ti make the crop of even growth should never be lost sight of. To do this it should be a' tended to at the earliest practical moment. as when the first planting begins to occupyd the land the latter ones have a poor chance. When this cannot be attended, in due si'ne we advise that it be omitted entirely. t] Fertilizing is again beginning to occupy the p attention of the farmers in this section. The s' sucess was quite satisrfuctory last year. r though used to a limited .xtent. We believe. r: however, that wvhenever a perfect plat food ti for tobacco can he found it will go into gen- b eal i:e. The old fields of this country on which many crops hava been grown are c making poor returns, for the constant labor o required for this crop. se something must be F done to increasr the yield and quality. We .tI ar mrakinig p: cparat ions to give it a trial s this ycar. and. of course will report snee sri or failure to~the Home and Farm.e n CONDITION OF CROPS. North Carolina Wheat Shows an Im' provemenit Over .May. As to Cotton A dispatch from Washiagton sySv: The a sttisties for Jumne showvs that there was a gain of seven peinte to the condition of North Carolin~a winter wheat since the May a report. This is three points less than Geor- J gia and six more than Virginia. The North k Carolina per centage of cotton is 81: South Carolina. 84. The average condition of this arop on June 1st for North Carolina was 61: for South Carolina. 72; Georgia, 82. The d general average for the country was 81, f< against 88.3 last year a ad 85.6 in 1893. In North Carolina fifteen counties report i no change in the aereage this year. These y are Cabarrus. Cald well. Catawba. Davie, Durham. Harnett, Iredell. Jones. New Han- p over. Pender. Randolph. Richmond. Rock- a ingham, Samnpson.and Washington. Chowan, a Currituk. Meeklenbuirg and Northampton report a decrease of 10 per cent. David son, Fran~kliu. Hartford. Lincoln. Montgom-P ery, Onslow. Orange. Robesou. Rown. Stain ley. Union anud Wayne recordl a decrease of fr~om 11 to 20 per cent. Beaufort. Bertie,g Bladen, Cleveland. Chbath am. Cumberland. Duplin, Gaston. Gates. Granville. Greene. Halifax. Johnston. Lenoir. Martin. Nas t Perquimans. Rtuthe-rfordl. Wake. Warren an~ Wilson note a deur-rasc of from 20 to 30 per cent. Camdenm. Catrteret. Columbus. Craven. Edgeombe. Ihyde. Moore. Pamlico. Pasquo tank, Pitt. Polk-. Tyrrell and Vance report a decrease of -over ';j pe cnt.s n THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED- C Si Hundred Peopl Precipitated in St. Joseph's River. . a A terrible accident occurred at Bristol.1.L 1.. r on the afternoon of the Fourth. During 'xed progress of a boat race on the St. Joseph -iver six hund red people were jammed on a three-span iron bridge. During the finish of a an exciting race, and while the crowd was s cheering tremendously, the bridge gave way.a he mass of humanity was precipitated into the water forty feet below. Thirty-eight persons received serious injuries and it is teared that many of them will die. Luckily the water was only five feet deep or many would have undoubtedly been drowned. Those believed to be fatally injured are: Dr. Chas. Dethrow. concussion of the spine. Mak Little. leg broken and injured internal ly. Mrs. Mack Little, injured about the head and shoulders. Six-year-old son of Mack Little. arms and one leg broken. Daughter f Mack Little. leg broken. Jonas Reprogle, arm an" legs broken. Melville Carmien, ess brokon. -- --- The natives of Northern Alaska and Siberia have no knowledge of money,j' and tourists to that country have to 'HE LATEST NEWS, LEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. nportant Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. The First Cotton Bloom. W. J. Duggan, Fairburn. Ga., comes to th. )nt with the first cotton bloom. He brought Le stalk of cotton to town last Thursday at had two blooms on it that opened the Ly before. Newsy Southern Notes. The eitizens of Talbotton. Ga., have organ ,d a stock company for the erection of au i mill there. At Maryville. Miss.. on Wednesday. Bob irvis. Griff Hubbard and Grant Wilson !re hanged on the same gallows. These ree negroes last March murdered and bbed D. B. King, a flatboatman, who sold )ods from his boat to river people. Pressley Gross, a farmer of Troup county, L.,whipped a negro boy Tuesday.and short afterwards the mother of the boy attacked ross' son and attempted to shoot him. hereupon young Gross shot her, killing her stantly. A fire at Centre. Ala.. Tuesday night. de royed the court house and all books of re ,rd, including those of the sheriff ihd tax >lector. The loss is about $20.000. Mortuary. Speaker John Myers of the Illinois Hous& Representatives. died WednesdafatFiee rt, Ill., from nervous prostration. It is tought that Speaker Myers' death will have 1 importrnt bearing on the extra session the Legislature, which convenes on the h inst. 400 The Turf. Bright Phoebus won the Realization Stakes Sheepshead Bay on Thursday. He was tcond favorite, Keenan, the odds-on favor e. was the only horse that gave him any ouble. This pair fought out the issue for 3arly the full length of the home stretch. he course was a veritable quagngire. It md not possibly have been in worse con -, tion. The Silver Movement. A call was published in The Standard of ,dartown.Ga.,for a free coinage mass meet g in Cedirtown July 13th to select delegates the Griffin convention. It is signed by ominent citizens of every calling -without gard to profession or politics. A full dele Ltion from Polk county will go to Griffin to vell the tide of free silver sentiment in eorgia. Crime. Ben Cagle, thirty-eight years of age, white, ho cultivates a small farm on an islapd in Le Tennessee river opposite Chattanooga, enn., was shot and killed Thursday by his ife in a domestic quarrel. August Fields. formerly editor of the Polo ost, in Caldwell county, Mo., murdered his ife and child Thursday morning and com itted suicide at Wheeling. Mo.. where he as visiting his mother-in-law, Mrs. Thomp . He cut the throats of his wife and child Ad tbn ont his own throat. No reason can i assigned for tbeoact. At Clinton, Ia., Tuesday, a highwayman eld up and robbed Mrs. Augusta Ware. ?ughter of Chauncy Lamb, the millionaire imberman. It occurrured on one of the shionable residence streets of the town, id was witnessed by several people. He k her purse and escaped. 40b Washington. Professor Mark W. Harrington. chief of the eather bureau. -has been removed by Pres lent Cleveland. There has been friction tween Professor Harrington. who is a hold ver of the department, and Secretary Mdr n, his official chief. for sometime. The appointment of Willis L. Moore, of linois, to be chief of the Weather Bureau, as announced from the White House Fri The internal revenue service is now under e civil service and applicants who desire ositions in the revenue department must and their examinations under. the niow law cently passed. Heretofore the internal ~venue service has been separate and dis net from the oneration ol the civil service, at a change wa's made some months ago. By a general order issued by Gen. Albert rdway. commander of the National Guard the~District of Columbia. the National ecibles. a crack military organization, and e winner of several valuable prizes in Inter :ate militia drills, has been disbanded. The ~ason assigned for this action is that the ympany has fallen below the mark upon spection, and during the recent encamp ent the numeri -al strength of the cormp-any as below the standard. Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities. At Minneapolis. Minn., Egbert Mayer. fed 18 years. while celebrating the Fourth, as fatally injured by the bursting of a toy tnnon. Five were killed and thirty-three injured the record of incidents on the Fourth of lv. at Chicago. The fire department was sp~t busy. Eight were hit by stray bulletg. Labor. The American Wire Company's 300 wire rawers went on strike at Cleveland. Ohio, ra 10 per cent. increase in wages. At Middlesboro. Ky., tihe Watts Steel and on syndicate voluntarily increased its -aes ten per cenft. The Boise Steel Car Wheel Works.,Scranton. a employing 200 men have advanced ages 10 per cent. The works are c'owded ith orders. The furnace men of the South Chicago [ant of the Illinois Steel Company have been ranted an increase of 15 per eut. over the per cent. increase in wages which was yen them voluntarily by the company July it. The increase affects the wages of over 10 men. The men claimed that the volun trv increase invalidated their contract with e' company and being insufficient they sked for more. Miscellaneous. Atchison. Kansas. is now a dry town, all iloons having been ordered closed perma ently by Governor Morril!. The entire business portion of Wellington, .and many residences were destroyed by re on Thursday. Loss about $200.000. The supreme court of Minnesota has journed for the summer without touching ie appeal of Hayward, the convicted mur erer. This gives Hayward another lease of Bob. Fitzsimmnons.the welliknown pugilist, ho has been on trial at Syracuse. N. Y., for week past on the charge of being respon ble for the death of his late sparring part er. "Con" Riordan, was found not guilt3 nd is nowv free. WORTHY OF IMITATION. rhe Manner in Which Mexlco Deals with T~rain Robbers and Highway men. A special te i:De Chronie'e from Nogales, trizona, says Four of five men who held up be paymaster o' the Nacasari Copper ompany on June 18 hav'e been captured by he aathorities of the State of Sonota. Mes., .nd on Sunday they were taken to tbe scene if their crime and shot to death under the Lew law providing for the punishmeet o! rain and stage robbers in MIexico. LITTLE BROWN EYES. Dright little Brown eyes from Babyland Is winking and blinking a' me, I feel the toudh of a dimpled hand, As he clambers upon my knee; The tiny fingers tug at my heart, And I fold him in my embrace, The sweetest picture in all the world Is my Brown Eyes' dear little f ace. Litt'e Brown Eyes, I am all your own Cling fondly to me, baby boy Yvur mother's lap is your kingly throne, Your subject's heart is fu!1 of joy. Take all the treasures of life away, I ask not wealth or station grand, But leave, 0 heaven, I humbly pray, Little Brown Eyes from Babyland. -JoHn T. BURKE, in Boston Traveler. A DOLL'S FESTIVAL. . The little girls of Japan celebrate a dolls' festival on the third day of the third month in each year. This festi val is a most important affair, and is kept up for three days. All the dolls are brought out and dressed in &eir best. In Mr. Hearn's delightful book on Japan he tells us about this festival. He says these dolls often represent gods and goddesses-the the Seven Gods of Good Luck, the God who Loves Laughter and the God of Beautiful Writing. Mr Hearn asked one little girl, when he discov ered that some of the little girls be lieved their dolls could live." "Why, if you love it well enough it will live. How can a doll live?" and she an swered, "Why, if you love it well enough it will live." It is this love for their dolls that makes the little Jara nese girls take such good care of them; and it is auite i common thing to find a little girl playing with a doll that had been used by her mother, grand mother and her great grandmother. In the gardens Qf the homes of the poor people in Japan are- trees which they worship. When a doll is brok en (for even in Japan little girls some times break dolls), they - do not bury them nor throw them away, but they carry them out to these sacred trees, and pipt them up in the limbs or at the foot of the tree, or in the shrin4; so that even when they are useless as playthings, they are'still ojects of care to the little Japanese girls, and Mr. Hearn tells. us that sometimes you will see a new doll, or a doll in per fect condition, in one of these shrines or trees, and then you know that the little girl is dead, and that her moth er has put it there. -New York Re corder. TOYMAKERS OF THE TYROL. Vontinuing her story of the toy makers of the Tyrol, the late Miss Amelia B. Edwards in her "Untrod den Peaks" mentions many an inter esting visit to the homes of the work ing people of St. Ulricb, where so many toys are made. In one house, runs the account, we found an old, old woman at work, Mag dalena Pauldauf by name. She carved cats, dogs, wolves, sheep, goats and elephants. She has made these six animals her whole life long, and she has no idea how to cut anything else. She makes them in two sizes and she turns out as nearly as possible a thou sand of them a year. See has no model or drawing of any kind to work by, but goes on steadily, unerring, us ing gonges of different sizes, and shap. ing her cat.4, dogs,wolves, sheep,goats and elephants with an ease and an amount of truth to nature that would be clever if it were not utterly me chanicaL. Magdalena Paldauf learne'd from her mother how to carve these six animals, and her mother had learned, in like manner from her grandmother. Magdalena has now taught the art to her own grand daughter, and so it will go on being transmitted for generations. In anothe:r house Miss Edwards found the whole family carving skulls and crossbones for fixing at the bases of crucifixes, for the wood carving of Grodner Thal is religious in its nature as well as amusing. In other housei there were families that carved rock ing horses or dolls or other toys, and in still other houses there were fami lies of painters.. "In one house," says the gifted au thoress, "we found about a dozen girls painting gray horses with black points. In another house they painted only red horses with white points. It is a separate branch of the trade to paint saddles and headgear. A good hand will paint about twelve dozen horses a day, each horse being one foot in length, and for these she is piid 55 soldi, or about fifty-six cente." UTnle Sam's Cotton Seed Oil The United States exported two and a quarter million gallons of cotton seed oil to Germany last year. Six million gallons went to -Holland. Germany has put a duty of $2.50 on each 200 pounds of the oil.--Chicago Tire Herald i SALTY SENTENCE. W. J.Bowen, of Charleston,Sentened To the Penitentiary by Judge Buchanan. A special to the News and Courier from Sumter, "says: When Judge Ba-i chanan was holding Court in Charles-. ton he signed injunctions against a number of men who were charged' with selling liquor in violation of the dispensary law. Among the number were John Wyndham and W. . Bow en. The injunctions were served on June 10. Since that date a member of the Charleston police force, one L. Meyers, has made affidavits charging that they have continued selling liquor in defiance of the injunction and in contempt of the Court. Judge Bu chanan, acting upon these affidavits, issued an order for Wyndhym and Bowen to show cause before him in Chambers, on Monday, why they should:not be ruled forcontempt. The cases were heard Monday by Judge Buchanan. Assistant Attorney Gen eral Townsend was present to repre sent the State and Mr. George S. Le gare, of Charleston, appeared in be halt of Wyndham. Bowen was not rep resented :nor w( e either of the prin cipals present. The case of Bowen its taken up first, and after the affida its were read by Mr. Townsend in pupport of the charge that Bowon had iolated the injunction and was, there fore, guilty of contempt, he was ad judged guilty of contempt, and Judge Buchanan issued an order sentencing Bowen to pay the sum of two hundred dollars, and be imprisonedin the State Penitontiary at Columbia for the term Df four months. The case of Wyndham was then taken up. , A general 4denial was put in by Mr. Legare, who brought with him a number of affidavits from repu table citizens who take mealsatWynd ham's restaurant, in Meeting street, in rebuttal of the charge that liquor was sold on his premises. These parties 'wear that not only had no liquor been ,old there since the injuncgon.was is ued, but that none had ever been sold here to their knowledge; that on sev-. pral occasions they had asked Wynd ham to sell them beer and liquor, but 4e refused every time. In view of these affidavits JuAge N suchanan reserved his decision in this case until he had sufficient time to ex amine all the papers. 'I'ie is'ii-abundant' fruit crop pnion this year and peaches are al ready selling at 50 cents a bushel. H. P. 9larke, son-in-law of the'late P. T. Barnum, the famous circus man, Iwas married at Fairfield, S. C., Tues day morning to Miss Barry Macfie. During . the past week splendid rains have fallen throughout Abbeville iounty. At no time have the crops been more thoroughly cultivated and a less expense than those of the pres ent season. It is reported that Detective Holland of the South Carolina and Georgia rail road, who was detailed to ferret out the wreckers of th'e locomptive near Edgefield, has run down and captured Sfellow supposed to be the rightparty. The first carload of South Carolina melons for this season was shipped by Mr. C. B. 1)unbar from Allendale, (luesday morning. The car contained - ,200 melons, weighing 3,100 pounds, and was consigned to P. 3. Zeigler, Spartanburg. The Timmonsville Publishing Coin pany has been organized with a capi tal atock of $1,000. G. W. Hancock, W. H. Kent, D. McKenzie s.nd J. W. Ragadale are the organizers and stock holders. They propose to issue a weekly paper under the title of the Timmonsville Enterprise. Mr. Mc Kenzie has been elected presideht and Mr. Ragsdale editor. A correspondent of the Columbia State from Society Hill says: Crops are looking fine. Cotton is beginning to grow after so long a-time and corn is generally good. Our farmers plant ed more of a variety this season, than' or years past. A -good deal of atten tion is being paid to the raising of home products. Rice, sug'ar cane and potatoes are being grown by nearly every one. Tobacco is also taking the place of cotton on a good many farms and seems to flourish in soils. about ~here, as well as through the county. The Union Cotton Mill has declared. a dividend to the stockholders. The: mill is in fine.yworking order and is in. ~the management of men of plenty ~of push and pluck. This mill, though small, is a credit to the State. It was bilt with 20 per cent less capital than any other mill of its size and kind in the State. The company has issued more stock and bought sixty or eighty acres of land, and another building for the extension -of the mill-is to be erected. This will contain 40,000 spindles and be four times as large as this one.' She Had a Solar Theory. "Waal," said the old lady. "if the arth is reound and goes reound,, what holds it up?" "Oh, these learned men say it goes round the sun, and -that the sun holds it up by 'virtue of attrac tion," he replied. The old lady low ered her specs and, by way or climax, responde~d: "Waal, if these high larnt men sez the sun holds up the airth, I should like to know what holds up the airth when the sun goes down. That's what's the matter. "-Amusing Jour nal _______ T'he sea cucumber is :n'thing bnt a thin skin and a very capacious t .xn ech. An offieial report on the Clima wreck, off the coaist of Mexico, gives 165 as the number