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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WlNNSBOROS. C.,R1 ESTA BLISH E D 1844. CUST,R1'S ERx0Ei, aOW THE PLACE WHE1FE TH1EY. FELL LOOKS TO-DAY. Sitc of the Little BI- Hforr. Battle tield Turned into a Nationa! Cemetery-262 JAtle White labs. UT in Southweztern 1ontana, about sixty miles from Bill ings and ten miles from Fort I Custer, is a National ceme terv. This death's acre is the site of the most tragic and desperate battle in our military history-the battle of the Little Big Horn. Here Custer, with the gallant Seventh Cavalry, two hundred and sixty-two strong, met the Indians on June 25, 1876, and not one of those brave men wasleft to tell the story; only 262 little white slabs clustering about the cr:_.s that marks where Caster fell give mute evidence 9f the heroism and bravery so vainly displayed at that terribly fatal battle. That the battle was fought cannot be doubted. Custer wos leading an at tack and had located the Indian village in the valley of the Little B- 'Horn and was making a -forced march in the night to fall up )a them before they discovered his presence. The Indians, however, discovered this plan and when Custer realized this he attacked them for fear they might escape. The battle took place n i1be brow of a high hill, which commiands a view of the whole valley of the Little Big Horn It was not a massacre or ambush, for this field stands out the most conspicu ous in the whole valley, without trees, shrubs, grass or weeds to conceal an enemy, When the mutiliated bodies CU$TER'*S BATTLEFIELI -for all were mutiliated except -that! of General Custer-were buried a lit tVe pile of emptyv cartridge shells was found by the side off each body. This 'issiptable evidence that they died fighting, and- when you look at the alignment of the marb ble slabs you will note that they are in line of battle the General on thie highest point, with his brother, Colonel Tom Custer, just behind him, . Lienrenant Reilly. on his left, and Captain Yatesl on his right. Other officers were! grupd bot h comndr an tetoopr weealitefrterdw th ili rn,stece u nln ther ll are tlated bearing that amsof erlostnr-user banid At Beendb the sidooungc borady Tepbew of the Gevienerwh atccmpaniedh fighdtin and~ we inutheoranksthe thlders. ofTe a be ing youwil note ofLiunat thW.ei lin ook bistl then General on Cther andes apit,l wth ths brther Clnel ofe Cusead onhisn leot man cd Cformi atoe onecise ighe Ofbtler toancers hese groued aote etes mne, gasen ndh the tplace were a6 bratle amer fow ofe Cstte to hafdenb Standnb oteronumen advfaceg thewainth Wiest like whihkirmseTon the gton tuhin tide tof sldas earietooe whemo Borsto listter and Arsity-r one,eto the leftg brother qadtepof eipeiti ande didroupeak ofmabeen tihesles. Theseemat bearin h amon ie of anther. par Cof ishe front and thatn o Cur,an ah centre tof the battle whe aea rcould te thse. aroun the could formch marks whreCster ofebattl than ere sctteed out inutie jstines, gsenmig bewh wrightitenoo aganst plaed, oddsand trying Cterai tet. oftanin hbll wuhing tie faIirhaded cmef stood whelm hi~Ls liter bn ix Back to the letother qvnearteeast milte il another groups of arblen tineleslabs, sem stondin mclsngo geodth ie sodersf anothrngr ofbows; thme bateach adragglin arongh therils. Thenae oths soab cobetas thoe nareon the caloan wapticn marks wher Cster thell name are seuteant ouCirittne.us ahse mighte all oo ho rersn oytrying to ganlimbo o the', hilmong hisl rondi teomaner Bn-Cin They othe rave in u at off thbhl anohrde ohe savageryf tat marblt slas,rougmte saning clod btee ther like Csolers Tohig ere, asomte deadand fthreitn, alo-g gther Thsiere One oftew slabs ard the aay fo the glanuCpstoaindieh ad anytre to eame by ane indi dualteneff. The mbes l oh to hl dedtogetheroand the manber offmbykanther peofii savand tat swpheroughetnesttl the rainomieten hemratinho CustersThe died. hre ho litley plane thirt fught he gthbter. Thear fewdslarks tered eerawy fao, thegroup hetouh indt here heffort. Theren fouht noe bttler ied togethrs and the marble wher markin theing positions ato hoer ad setindesido el the granite howumeheyonlannedowanf the hillhan se batle. hisel mark abs scat ver about wuthere the five toopnd te feventh likevhisry he folwed mouen on thes botl ofoght andl dieli ln of battle. forgetting!| neither military tactics nor duty in fghting a horde. There is one slab to which is at fached a pathetic little story. it is the one which matka the resting place of the body of Lieutenant John J. Crittenden, the only officer buried on th- field. All others have been re- I moved-Custer and his brother to West Point, the other officers to their homes or to other military cemeteries, aud the privates are buried on the top of the hill around the granite monu ment. But Lieutenant Critteuden les where he fell. His father. Gen eral Crittenden, telegraphed that a zoldier's grave should0 be on the field where he gave his li'e to duty, and t the boy was buried where he fell an-l a monument placed over it by his friends. No more fitting tribute than this silent batallion of white slabs ar ranged in line of battle could bo paid to the gallant iroupeks of the Seventh Cavalry who died on Custer's Hill, where they showed such heroic sacri fice; no thought of self, but duty,and that was to brinb i- the hostile In ians who were with Sitting Bull. This-battlefield has made the name of uster and his cavalry immortal; the ;labs have stamped it on the face of time.-New York Advertiser. A Flyin- Dormouse. e Iti Among the animals in the last col- s lection sent from Cameroons by the tl explorer George Zenker was a mam- a: mal of an entirely new species, a flying tI dormouse, to which the name Idiurns a Zenkeri has been given. ffe publish n herewith an engraving of this little a animal, for which we are indebted to a the Illustrirte Zeitung, and which Is shows plainly the membrane that ex- t( fc - pn b a F AS-IT LOOK", TO-DAY.I tends around its body and enables it i, to fly or jump from branch to branch. c( Such membranes are well known s1 inong animals of certain species, but ir it is distinguished by the peculiarities p] [f its very long tail from all other ir .manmals. In the cut the tail is shown al 'lghtly curvei, so that the under side G -an be seen. At the root of the tail oj there is the fold of skin, behind which L ire fifteen obique rows of little horny st 0( a; - H] i p KHE FLYING DOEMOUSE FBoM CAMEROoNS. in cales, three or four in each row, short ristles protruding from amcng the t ceales.. On the under side of the tail, long the middle and the sides, are -omb-]ike hairs, and from the short, ~oft fur on the upper side-from the root of the tail to the brush-like tip- a projecting long upright hairs. No one a no ws for what purpose this singularly t( haped apparatus is intended, for as yet nothing is known of the life of the h little creature. Nor is anything known ~ af its origin; it has been called "fy - ing dormiouse," because it resembles p his sluggard in the shape of its body, bi ts skull and its teeth; but its mem- O .rane and the horny scales are similar g :o dose of certain species of squirrels 6, Lnd its skeleton shows peculiarities pl >ossessed only by the jerboai. Prob- ai bly the dormouse, the species of quirrels referred to, and the jerboa B re the last of a very large extinct as amily. -Scientific American. p, ai A New Product,.t It is now stated that by subjecting >ure cellulose to the action of caustic p oda and afterward treating the Eame n with carbon bisulphide, which has t) >een practiced in England, a product ossessing remarkable industrial value i. s the result. Dissolved in water an noluble coagulum is produced, which ihen washed and removed from the ater, becomes hard and compact, in which conditio~n it is found available or tool handles, buttons and other ar iles ; or, if the material while still in olution has alcohol added9o it, there s obtained a mass which may be tamped into a variety of objects, may e used as a medium for pigments in ~rinting cotton goods, applied to loth as a facing, or used as a substi ute for leather. It is also stated tt loth having a coating of this solution s flexible in washing, but stiffens hen ironed, so that shirt bosome, :ollars, cuffs and table linen may be ade from it advantageously.--Phila lelnmi Leder.j ?ALYETTO PENCILLINGS. )CCURRENCES WORTH NOTING FRO}1 ALL OVER THE STATE. State Press Changes Its Plai, The executive committee of the State 'ress Association held a meeting Mon Lay night at Columbia and decided to hange the date of going to the Atlanta .xposition from October 31 to Octo er 16. The cummittee also decided o accept for the Association an invita ion from the Tennessee Centennial xposition Company to visit Nash ille. The visit will probably be made *n the 39th and 20th, and returning rom Nashville the Assoeiation will pend several more days in Atlanta. , member of the Association will re eive a circular lett-r from the presi ent and secretary giving full instruc ions and all required information. 3OLL WORM1 IN BLACKVILLE. 'ew Enemy to Cotton Which Threat ens to Further Shorten the Crop. A Blackville special to the News nd Courier says: While everywhere Ise is crying "short cotton crop," 2e bottom and uiddle erop in this !ction has appeared but little below ie average of the past five years, if nv. it is ten to fifteen days later ian usual, general picking being just bout started. The top crop is very ncertain; not only the contingency of a early frost, but that the pla-it, over imulated by the excessive rains of Let mcnth. has succumbed to the in ,nse and arid heat since, dying out in tany places and shedding young fruit enerally. But a more serious enemy as appeared. affecting bottom, mid [e and top crop alike-a new sort of All. worm. To the casual observer te number of bolls shrivelled seemed ccessive, but it might be accounted >r by the seasons, A close observa on discovered the intruder. Several rmers on Monday took a round for iles in this section and found the st at work on every place visited. he percentage of damage already >ne wo.s estimated on different fieldis 10 to 33 per cent. FLAMES AT ABBEVILLE. Ifteen Thousand Dollars Worth oil Property Destroyed. Abbeville had the worst fire Sunday orning that it has had since 1873, is supposed to have started from a nnery that was located near the pub c square. The flames were beyond mntrol when first discovered and )read rapidly to the adjoining build igs. Hill's livery stables were com letely destroyed, as was also a dwell Ig house occupied by R. L. Mabry 2d the elegant residence of Dr. S. . Thompson. By the hardest kind work the dwelling houses of Dr. . T. Hill and Ellis G. Graydon were ved. The loss will reach fully $15, )0. with probably eight or ten thous id dollars insurance. Death of M~r. Clarkson. Mr. John H. Clarkson, keeper of e State House, died at his residence Columbia Monday morning after a ng illn ess. Mr. Clarkson was in his th year. He was a brother-in-law Ex-Governor Hugh S. Thompson. r. Clarkson was a veteran of the Con 'derate wvar, having served through it a member of the Columbia Grays. is funeral services were held on Fri Ly at the First Presbyterian Church olumibia. Throughout Sumter county and par eularly in some sections there is the nest corn crop that has been in years, indeed, it has ever been equalled. he cotton crop is about two-thirds an -erage, but the promise of better rices compensates for the falling off Syield. There is besides a decrease acreage from last year of about 2.5 er cent. which area was devoted to bacco and corn. The receip)ts of cotton at Newberry r the year ending September 1 were i,100 bales. The cotton mills con imed 7,.534 bales of these receipts, id this year it will take about 14,700 run the mills with their enlarged ipacity. The mills now employ 700 rnds, with a pay-rol of $11,000 a ionth. Orangeburg is becoming quite a mpular cotton market. Considerable ry and forage has been made in rangeI>urg county this year. One entleman stated that he made about 000 pounds of hay on a two-acre atch, and this, too, a second crop ~ter oats. The Supreme Court has appointed on. C. M!. Efird of Lexington county SSupreme Court reporter, the ap ointment to date froma the 10th inst., which time Mr. Shand's resignatiou ok effect. South Carolina will take a good lace at the Atlanta Exposition. Com-. iissioner Ro~che is doing fine work for be Expostion exhibit. The cotton crop of Newberry Conn-i y- is a great deal shorter than was esti. iated a month ago. The Columbia hotels are all doing a ood businiess on account oft the Con ention rush. rrenIh So0Miera Die in MadIagascar. O'ur 3000 French sold3iers have died in b'"e:atear since~ the French expedition be opertcie azainst the Hovas. The l.-rate als-2y it is not likely that An anu *ve h Hova capital, will be occu *el by tre Frezeh before spring. A Mys,terious Murder. Aui Beekman was murdered ena road wcar sonr.'rvilIe. N. .J.. and her body hidden Lfl':': bih-:. Majrks of a fierce struggle CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION NOW IN SESSION AT THE STATE CAPITAL. Mariy Important Measures introduced. The Proceedings from Day tj Day. / ~-jr resient of the Conrentiov. The fAnal vote re.ulted as follows on the 'question of strikig out Butler and insert ing Saluda: Yeas-John Gary Evans, Alexander.Atstin, Barton. Bebre. Beliuger, Bobo, Bowman, Mradham, Dreazeale. Buist, Byrd. Cantey, Carver, Clayton. Cooper, Cunningham, De Ray. Denais, Dent. Douglass, Dudley, Edrd, Estridge. Evans, W. D., Field, Floyd. Gam ble, Garris. Gary, Glenn, J. P. Gooding, Graham. Gunter. Hamel, Harris, Harrison, Hemphill. Henderson. Win.; Henry, Hiers, Rodges. Houser. Johnson, T. E.; Keitt, Low man, McCown. McKagen. McMakin, Me. White. Matthews. Morrison. Murray, Nieh olson.Ohver. Ott . Parrott. Patterson,Prince, Redfearn. RUssel. Shuler.'Singletary. Smith, W. C.; Smoak, Sprott. Stackhouse. Stokesz. Stribling, Talbert. Taylor, Tillman. B. R. Timmerman. VatZon, Whipper, Wiggins, Winkler. Woodward.-80. f t..' t Vice President Talbert. Nays-Aldrich, Anderson, Atkinson, Barry, Bates, Berry. Briee. J. S.; Brice, T. W.;Burn. Derham, Doyle. Ellerbe. Farrow, Frazier, Gage. J. J. Glenn. Gray, Howell, Irby, Johinstone, George; Jones. 1.'B.; Jones, Wilie; Kennedy, E. J.; Kennedy.' J.' W.; Lee, Mc Caslan, McGowan. Mearas, Miller, Moore, Mower, Nash, Parler, Patton. Peak, Bags dale, Reed. John: Rogers, Rosborough.Row land. Sheppa:-d, J. U.; Sloan, Sonlls, Smith. R. F.; Sulilin. Tillman. G. D.: Waters, Wharton. White. A. U ., White, S. E.; Wg,t Smith. A. ,T.; Jeremiah, Wilson, Stanyarne;I Wilson, W. B3. ---. Mr. Burn asked to be exeused from votin, but when the hoei dle:liu-d' to ex:cuse him he voted agaiust "Siludi. A slight amendlment, offe:-ed by Dr. Tim--* merman. I T.nard to the comporlsitIon of the new county n)ommission was agreed to. The whole matter was tben ad..pted as amended. A communiention w-:- read from Charles A. Calvo acceptiupe theC termns upon which the convention printing had been given him. The president then anunounced the follow-- - ing appointments: Head clerk engrossing department. W. H. Telcdelb: lill elerk, T. H. Witherspoon. Mr Smoak offered the following: "Par dons in eases of murder, arson, burglary. rape. assault with attem pt to commit rape. bribery and larceny shall not relieve from civil and political disability: but the person so pardoned may at the expiration of flve years. be restored t,o his forfeited privileges by a t'wo-thairds vote of the General Assembly. Provided, he prove conelusively that his lfe and conduft has been exemp!:bIry dnoing tha't Tice Prt'ident JoneOs. Mr. Gamble offered a newvsurrrage schemie, andi Mr. J. W. Bowman submitted a plan re organizing the judi.2iary. Mr. D. H. Russel. ogeredl the following: "The Governor s.hall be elected by the electors duly qualified to vote for members of the House of Representatives and shall hold his office for tour years and shall be in eligible for re-election. "There shall be elcted in eaeb county by the electors thereof one clerk for the Court of Common llas, who shall hold his ofiee for four years and until his successor shall be electe ri and qualiti.-d, and he shall not be eliSibl- to r--e.-:ti'!n beyond his served time. But h,> mua be eligible after omitting one term .1n ihe sam rule asto the length of t--1m of omeC and as to r- eliobility ::ball a.pply tc all other countyV omelers~ igJher pro videld for in ti Constitution er u der laws enacted in pursuance ofit Mr. Buit offered the following: "That al lands belooging to, or under the control of the 'sat'-. iiall nvr b' donated- directly or indireeth- to 'rivat :0 .rprtions or to rail-. road- .:..' :or iai li uh lands be Sloan, on Miscellany. ess price man EnaT ror whi-e t is euUlect t6 I ale to individuals. "Thi. however. shall not prevent the ;eneral Assembly f rum granting a right of 1 -ay not exceeding 100 fevt in width as a nere e:sement to railroads afross State ands. and the General Assembly shall never lispose of the land covered by said right of vay so long as such easement exists." Mr. Bui-st also offered the following: "That he General Assembly shall never grant extra ompensadon fee or allowance to any public fleer, agent. servant, or contractor after ervices rendered or contract made. nor au horize payment or part payment of any laim under any contract not authorized by tw. but appropriations may be made for ox enditures in repelling invasion, preventing r suppressing insurrections." Mr. Buist offered the following: "That the eneral Assembly shall not authorize pay oent to any person of the salary of a de eased offlepr beyond the date of his death." Mr. Timmerman offered a plan disqualify ng gambling oficials from holding office. Dr. Timmerman offered a plan to pension eterans. Mr. R. F. Smith offered a resolution for ecording marriages, births and marriage iceases. Mr. Tavlor offered the following: "No erson who denies the being of God, or a ature state of reward and puuisbment shall old any office in the civil department of his State." Mr. Taylor offered the following: "The atermarriage of white persons withnegroep, aulattoes. or persons of mixed blood do ' ended from a negro is prohibited in tol tate. The Legislature shall enforce this ection by appropriate legislation." Mr. Estridge offered the followingi "That o attorney for any corporation shall be ligible Eo a seat in the Legislature. If aVy erson after his election become attorney ir ny corporation he shall vacate his seat." Mr. Wilson offered a reolution that the me for the introduction of resolutions aad rdinances be limited; that after the 28d ast. no such papers be received. He asked or its immediate consideration and this was greed to. The resolution wai adopted. Mr. Parler offered the following on the uffrage: 1. All elections by the people shall be by allot. 2. Every male inhabitant of the State of outh Carolina, of the age of twenty-o.e ears and upwards. shall be enti' ed to the ight to vote. 3. Every female inhabitant of the age of wenty-one years and upwards, who ow in heir ..;vn right. property to the value of bree hundred dollars. and who are posses d of sufficient education so as to read the onstitution of South Carolina as a whole,or c part. and can write their names, shall be ossessed of the right of registration and of eleting an agent with written authority to ast their ballot at all elections held by the eeoph-. Mr. 1)idley offered the folowing: -That the Supreme Court shall consist pt ne ebief justice. and three associate justices, . . lected by the General Assembly, "That the members of the said court shall ok1d their otlies for the term of eight years om' the date of election and qualificatien. --That the opinion of the circuit judge who as tried the ease ap peal shall in case of an' egny division of the~Supreme court, deter aiue the decision of the court. "At the expiration of eight years of service b' memblers of said court shta.1 be eligib4M c cou-t for life. "No Supreme Court jadge shall exereje he fun'dions of his office after he attains th'e .e of 75 years. "The General Assembly may provid4o ~ension for such retired member If in $ed% ot to exc'eed one-fourth the yearly pai 6f no activ'e member of said court. (ren. Ilob't. Smnalls, the "GullahStatesman" iT.red an interesting suffrage plan. A t 4:30 p. mn.. the Convention adjoWEed or the day. Fraser oni Order. Style and Revisiesie The seventh day s se.ssion of the Conven ion was as serene and plie1d as the surfa' f a lake on a sultry day. There was not -en an cho of the previous day's battle oi ords. The convention was in secsion only about alf an hour owing to the fa:t that none of :he commnittees were ready to replort. A ood of new ordinanes and resolutionas yere tecived "nd then the cnvention took a recezs Ei~ S r-. en fndflh o- Coldfie@ Aldrich, to liwr:.-b= fr-rn all advocates of the cause f Ann's vffrnge who wished to address the cvention. ColWnel Aldricb stated that they had tle right that any citi zen had to be heard and to present theit grievanees. The conution agreed to it without trouble. During the day ctveral important ordi- I nances were introile-d. Among them were v ordinaines to regulte the suffrage in varl ous ways: to engraft the dispensary law's main features in the constitution: to make e education com1pnIory; to prevent favoritism e ia awardinig cijtraets for public printing, etc. Gen. Roubert Smalls. the negro who was a member of the re-constructionconvention. t introduced an ordinanle containing the a article on the suffrage in the present con- d stitution. I. R. Read. colored, introduced an anti l*nching ordinance. providing for the sum- n mary dismissal of any officer of the law who e allows a prisounr to suffer any bodily harm d while in his custody. In the evening the galleries were packed to their ute, st capacity with spectators, s mostly ladies, to hear the speeches of the advocates of women'z suffrage. It was one 11 of the largest audiew:es ever seen in the helL t] Addresses were made by Miss Laura . Clay, of Kcntukv, the noted advocate of the cauge. Mr. Virunia D. Young, president of n a tA /em 'ncpoa *on. S SO tS q ; aa C - I p nii. on (',jrrn1 ior.s.i the State I~L(p!jilit-nts .'~o!llf.and Mrs. Vil eiloqet. the vi-ce-president of the atso CiW- 'OD. The~y were rnoz t attentively listened ~ to: d seemed well pleased with the atten tio, hown them by the convention. The c 6p< -es were vnsually strong. The rep.- c so- or womans siffrage were presented in a a cible manner. ,.overnor Evan in introducing Miss Clay b took occas"ion to say that it was supposed 0 tWt thev were ,be sovereign power. but that b was not so; the woman was there to speak n for herself. He paid a high tribute to the d 2na great Kentucky statosmar, Henry Clay, I introducing his relative. and said, "Who t knows but that this relative of the famed P compromiser may be here now to cause his- t tory to repeat itself so far as our State is c concerned." -AR V5 Bell n ier. on Jurisprudence. The Convention's First Week. The work of the first week of the, Cnstitutional convention seems to indicate that the following matters in one shape or another~ are' pretty cer tain to be contained in the Constitu tion: 1. An ordinance providing for general re duction of the area of counties, with a ma.x imum of not more than 500 square miles. -2. An ordinance providing for biennial] sessions of the Legislature. . 3. An ordinance providing for election of all State and county officers every fourth in stead of every second year. 4. An ordiance in one shape or another providing for the establishments of county courts, presided over by county judges. 5. An ordinance regulating the payment of the school tax, so that the taxpayer shall have the right to designate to which of the public schools it shall be applied. 6. Such a regulation of the liquor traffic ad manufacture as has been providing by Mr. EIrd. 7. A general provision for the chartering of cerporations. 3. A prevision for the establishments of a tate board of pardons. 9. That judges of all State and county courts be elected by the people 10. The establishment of a State bureau of labor statistics and a State labor commission er These are the things that will, it seemsg, be nearly certain to go through wthout encountering very much op position or exciting very great.discus son except as to details. / I. Shepp.ard. for the Comiuntte on Rule' TXhe Aroerican Manufacturer notes that latest reports on the movement ol iron ore from the Lake Superior region state that up to close of June the shipments aggregated 3,14'2,75'7 tons, an increase of 637,345 tons over hoce of the firs aixr months in 1894. BUTLER SCORCHES TLL31A Luother Hot Day in Convention. The Whipping Post to be Re-Estab 11shed. The Eighth Day. There was another incipient sensation on ie floor of the constitutional convention on rednesnay, despite the fact that the session ras as short as that of the previous day. be matter had its origin in the sensational esion Monday and this time, the "State's" 1itorial expression of opinion as to the first ote taken on the Butler county matter was ie cause. Mr. A. H. Patterson, of Barnwell, fter requesting that one of the vice presi ents take the chair. brough. up a resolution enouncipg the editorial. asking for its im ediate consideration. Ten members, head I by Senator Irby, objected to the imme iate consideration of the resolution and it 'as made the special older for the next ses ton. When Mr. Patterson brought up his reso, ition, Vice President Talbert was called to ie chair. The editorial declared that the gares of the tellers were falsified by the resident in stating them to the convention, taking a tie vote instead of permitting a re ss. The resolution declaresthat this state Lent was not borne out by the re-vote taken, d had no foundation and further that the :atement was "a malicious falsehood." The ansideration of the matter will doubtless use a lively debate. . Aside from this matter the session was ery uneventful, although two vitally impor nt articles of the new constitution were ktroduced.by members of the committee hav ig them in charge, and a flood of new or nances providing for the establishment of court of errors; providing for the keep Lg of separate records of the taxes paid by Le whites and the negroes; providing for the ;tablishment of a State reformatory for the mnAement of youthful criminals; providing >r the re-establishment of the whipping st system of punishment for certainoffenses troduced by ex-Congressman George D. ilman; providing for the prevention of rize 11ghts within the borders of the State; ad providing for a plural system -7f voting. Mr. Mower, of the committee on dedlara on of rights, presented the article of - the )nstitution on that subject, which the co.V tittee has practically decided to recommend. bere is an important section: "Excessive ail shall not be required. nor excessive Anes aposed, nor cruel and unusual punish Lents inflicted nor shall witnesses be unrea ynably detaisL4 Corporal punishment allnot be inflicted. The p-wer to punish >r contempt shall not in any case extend to prsonment in the State penitentiaty." Mr. Stokes, chairman of the committee on: >rporations, submitted the full article on )rporatious, which has been practically greed to in committee. It provides against ie acceptance of free passes by office-' olders; against the consolidation of parallel r competing lines of railroads: that it shall e unlawful for any corporation doing busi ess in this State to combine. directly or in frectly. or for their trustees, assigns or gents to combine to fix the Drice or regulate ie prohibition or the consumption of the roducts of the soil. or of the mines, or of ie factories of this State; that social and vil rights of employes shall not be inter ared with. etc. During the day the convention received d adopted the report of the committee on affrage in the matter of the contest from illiamsburg county, dismissing the contest resented by the negro delolzation ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. Veekly Bulletin of the State Weathr Service. The following encouraging weekly mlletin of the condition of the weather d the crops was issued by State Veather Observer y. W. Bauer: Cotton picking is general, and in the ower portion of the State well ad anced. In the western counties only airly begun. In the lower and east rn portions the plant is dying rapidly ith scarcely any but open bolls on he stalk, most of the top crop having een shed. It is said a killing frost ould not materially hurt the crop. ~fany half grown boils are openmng. kst is apparently present- in every eld and accounts for.the poor condi ion of the top crop. Even in the estern counties where the plant is till green, the top crop is shedding ~adly. The weather was generally fa ~orable for picking, except along the ~oast, where numerous showers inter ered, and in the north central coun ies where the general cloudiness pre rented rapid opening of the boils. In Barnwell county the bulk of the crop vill be gathered in the first picking. Bol worms have been notiged in arnwel county, making the third ounty (the others being Aiken and )rangeburg) where boll worms heve ajured the crop. Quantities of fodder was stripped ~rom late corn in the upper counties uring the week, and this work is . ractically finished. Some corn being oused in the lower portions of the state, but it has not yet become gen sral. Late bottom corn is a very fine ,rop. During the first of the week fine luent showers interfered with rice arvet., but during the latter portion he work progressed rapidly. The hot eather and late rains improved up :nd rice very much. Sorghum mills in portions of the itate are runniug day and night, and arge quantities of molasses are being ade in all portions of the State. Pease are fruiting very well, and ;omne being gathered. The late rains wre highly benenciial to this crop, md in a fey l laces more rain is 2eeded. Much pea-vine hay, as well as other iav, was gathered the past week,.and he dry weather was favorable for cur ug it. Turnips, pindars and sweet potatoes ire generally doing well, but the lat er crop will be a short one, owing to he unseasonable weather during the ldanting season. Ground being prepared for rye and all oats. It is said that oats sown rom this time to the middle of Octo ber will stand the most severe winter weather. Late fruit is plentiful in portions of he State: pears and grapes in the north and northwestern counties and apples in the western counties. The excessive rainfall on the coast was not sufficient to injure winter truck; vegetables and berries are grow ing nicely and cabbage and bean planting still being done. On the whole the week was favorable for maturing and gathering crops, as well as for farm work in general. The ta contaiselan110 Swedes.