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rrPRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 12, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844. CON VETION PROCEEDINGS. A "REFLECTIONAL" DEEATE. Barker. of Charleston,and Tillman, of Fdgetield. Make the Fur Fly and then shake Hands Amid Ap plaisse--The Removal (huse Goes Through. The c.--nvention spent the entire day of the 1ist session on Thursday, over the imp1'rtant measure to allow the State" t obti4 calgtes of venue in civil nd c'riminal cases, with a view of hin:riri' the disei'nsary 1tw enforced more riidly. The convention at first r:" k out the clause. Then it turned ,":n1- an-l adopted a clause to allow the I . i:bituire to pass laws allowing ch:m in ases5 it would select. Now an trrrt is being made to qualify this tiit a grand jury must recomme::d thlu ehitlge. There have been some livl.pssages. At he night session there was quite a sensation. Mr. Barker, of Char lesto), who had ju.t started to speak when the hour for recess came and cut him o 1. took the floor when the con ventioil re-assembled and severely lan died the dispensary law from Alpha to Omega. relating ma ny incidents in its enforceieut which he re:arded as out - reous aii' tujust.i6itib!e. en:etor Tillbnan took the floor in re ly, a:1i. anuoncing that his adminis tr".tio,n of the dispensary law had been .:itick :, he went for Mr. Barker with ?f The rwhole lispensarv ;ist ,r v:a re-oounted an' the Darling t-,; wr w,a fought all over vgain. Untparl;:imertar lang uage was used ::1t: re tlectionll debate ensued. Things we;"re e:t.remeliy lively for about two Ionrs.t be runuiilg debate between Sen ator Tillman and MIr. Barker being dratiite at times. The debate heated as it was finally ended by Tillman and Mr. Jirker shaking hands. the former drnnati-ally declaring that henceforth Ilgeeldt and Charleston would be counties of the same State. This took ph:ix: amid a storm of applause and roar 01f lmtl;iltsr that the President c(nl1l not :luell for live minuies. Then the :vention by a close voteadopted Mr. enderson's measure to require a i-ne hill to be found by a grand jury bore a transfer could be made to an other ColnutV. and that no case should be tralnsf"'rre' to a county not in the same ilstrict as the county in which it o:giu-ite. . Mr. Patton at a late hour offered a new se:tion to the removal provision as a povi0ion private against crime. T.i is after another feature of the dis neInarv law. one that has caused a man to be impris-ued in the penitentiary ?ithont a trial by jury. Mr. Patton mde a p:owerftl speech on the sub j'. The convention voted down his m.rsre.A motion to reconsider this was petling when the convention ad j,urned. A motion to table the mo tion to reconsider was lost on an aye and n' vote just before the adjourn ment. T"!M \'A GET$ LEFT' ONCE. IIe Wam t he 3linority Party to HTave I -presenta&t'in at the Polling Pre ein,c ts, itut the Convention Totes liimi Downa. Th1~e onv.entioni occupied all of Fri (1a5's session' (the 42d day) in a lively die enll ry (dbaite. the issue being Mr. :is pro'positioni to prevent the i?ss:iing' of ' injnctions byv judges to pree' the comissioni of a crime. The' di 'e?ary liw p)ermlits a judge up.m amdav4'it to pt a man under ii perpi'tua'l injunction niot to sell liquor. Tematter wa-is m(ost exhaustively wIit" ofthe convention takn hoo. Mr. George D). Tillmaan scath -ngly recounted the deeds done under this rrovision of the dispensary law. .Senafor Tillman defended the dispen sary law in his most pronounced style. The- advocates of Mr. Patton's mteas ur- argued for the preservation of the estab'lishled priueiple of the right of triail bly jury for a crime. The ineas utre wits tiually killed by a vote of :37 to !35. A t the night session the suffrage ar t tele w.as calle~d up for a third reading, andl the most remarkable session since the conventionl con'vention censued. A fter several insigniticant amendments h:ad beeni made, Senator Tillman of fered tis amenment to section 1: "'.ach of the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at 'thepecedinzg election shall have rep resentation on the board of managers of elcetioni at each polling precinet iind on the board of county canvassers in eachi count." As soonI as he ptt this in he called the previous <question on the whole article. This was the measure that had b)een stricken out before after a big fight. Tillmnan made the miost rew:rkable speech he esver ma-de in his life. He said: "Mr-. President: I (do not desire to unmke a speech. I merely wish to make a statemnt. The convention will re maeuber that the article as reportedz by the comnmnittee had this identicail pro visiou iuq a dtYerent place. The other even iio thle mot1in, I believe. of mite. the s.-tjin w.as. itrickeni out. The' commi?'tt' imert-esterday ane~r non and after~- the careful considera rion 'of the eutjire~ .bjc not in coui -- nectionl only wi-th South Carolina. buit in oncton. wit the matter- fromn a naioli s-tan1poia. de (cided that this cohn'.tio.n eaunot aMord to put itself on recrd the rticle having been r .ought in here with thia provision in . hrit it wil! not keep it there. and ~he committee are unanimous in this that it should be an integral part of the constitution. But it is not only in d efereuce to publlic opinion, but for un ~own self-respect and protection - +.., tacr to nnt it back there. Such a provision is im almost every constitution of the United States north I of Mason and Dixon's line. Every man who has been reading the North erri papers must realize that we are be ing watched from one end of this coun try to another. We are already twit 'ed with proposing to perpetrate trick ecrv and fraud and to strike down free inerican voters by our machinatious ttud machinery. We have openly hvowed our purpose to do certain things. but ? e cannot openly avow this urpose. Wve ask von not to stultify his body to put it <:n record that we rpote to perpetuate the conditions hat have existel in the past aad we biuk yoll ought to give t, some Con tideration. You inFitc attack from Congress, from the Supreme Conrt of lhe United States and from all ihe enemie? of South Carolina and all the enemies of the South and all the friends of the negroes. Bit there is another considleratioti. We have been labor ing so long under the ncuhus of ne gro domination that in our eforts here to reelifv our co!,:aitution an- 1i brow a safegard aronttal our suffr:ge and the elections of this country, we have Iteen oiivious to the fact that we are snaking a constitution that is unaltern le and we would leave it to the hanas of every party in South Carolina that might in the future get possession of if the macrhinerv to cheat white men m-t;tr eq ntis an:l our fellow eitiz.ns. -. believe it is atlmnot inevitable, seeing that men are born different, that they look at things through ditl'r cat spectacles, that we will have divis ion among the w:hites in this State, as there is even here. Elsewhere there is freedom. and in the future we will have it-- white nman against white man --and the qaestion is, are we going to putt it in the power of one set of white ien to see that their votes are put in the proper boxes and that they are hotestlt counted? "\c are here with 30,000 odd on the one side and 55,000 on the other and nothing but the patriotism of the one side has kept it from appealing to those corrupt votes to overthrow us. G=od forbid that we should so far di vile as to bring in this vote as a hal antce of power. but if weshould divide, we should not put it in the power of the party in oflice. We have all the comuissioners an, mlaunagers: you may put the votes in there. but we will count them. "Don't. let us who are now in power forget that the wheels of fortune are always turuing; that polities is the most uncertain ground that a man eau walk upon. See the changes in the North. Only threryears ago the Dem ocratic puty ept the country with an overwh in::;ia" majority and now they are co-."red with defeat and dis grace. We Ruformers should put this clause here for own protection. for tll day may come when our own vote may be jeopardized if we do not provide for representation on the board of super visors and maarnagers. A good many of his political friends jumped on him. and despite a power ful speech he made later on, the c"ou vention refused to do what he asked liv a vote of 51 to 77. Then the whole article was finally adoptaud anid sent beyond the convetn tion's reach by a vote of 78 to 4.. Timhs it is seen thai; it was by mecars the huanimoius vote of the conventio't that a:h.pted the scheme. (ver 3) i'ersons K ied in the !)etrolit Th- w rkm of- r ;-tin-; h ib i t h .itim s~: (f W* ln.i . - Ies pheleni thev '' Jornal r 'l.rtotinto ni1 re ht ::e1.-: t rv 1:f' the bijlers wa;s uh.' caus-e of the dliast,-r. The' bmlins or the fotlowing were re.,-vered to tay: Adiolp FSch reiber. -r.. boiokbini,-r in Ev-nin; .Jeurnah: Kitti'- L(Inard. IWsa 3ior gat. Johnd i Br-iten Iseh'ar. Jentil" N-ih:tur. 16 y.ears old. empiltoyed in Hl ilb:r's bidry: ]::rthia W'-idtis"b. 1:9 y-ears old: Ernest Par kins. a5,.:.tt maiing (-erk Journab: Emat Lit-oenb"rg, emidrAye of Hiller's bld,ory: lI..i Utm remarins frightfully biurnad ad ind Cnnp;any: Annaii Weidhuseh. employe' Hlier's hind-ry.: .b n F. Dterby. -arp:-nter: Jest-pth Bradley. .-arpe-nte-r: George 1. Hi) ]ers.~ pr)pritor Itillr-s hindr. Six Persons Burned to Death. Six members of one family perished by fire in their home on the top floor of the four-story tenement house at 311 Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, N. Y., at 1 o'clock Friday -morning. The names of the dead aire: Chais. Bvan, his wife. Ellen. and their daughters, Johanna. 20 years old: Sarah, 17: 3Iaggie. 14. and Lizze, 12. The fire started from a gas jet in a hall cen the ground floor. The Cotton Mov-ement. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange state ment gives the semi-wemekly movement at thirteen leading interior towns as follows: For 1895. receipts 75,553 bales: shipments 53,660- stock 297.111. For 1894. receipts 149.968 bales: shipments 120.506: stock 269. 419. For 1893. receipts 102.467 b.ales: ship ments 92.670: stock 242.505. An attracthve hat for a yong lady is ma-se of plat.ings of very fine cloth. These plaitmgs are indt fail enough to make a rufe~ around the edge, andi there are three oi them. one above the other. The trimming is of velvd roses, velvet loops and wings. A stylish hat is cf black leghorn. It has a l.ther wide brim, and is rolled closely up to the crown at the back. It-is trimmed with butterfly bows and loops of iridescent ribbos, and has a large cluster of full-blown roses exact iy over the middle of the front. Emperor Franz .Joseph, of Austria, has granltedl amnesty to all political THE SOLDIERS OF TIH'E 6TA'1'l'-. Nimber of ('omtpanics Redu ed One Half and One -i'hird. The ainual report of the Adjutant' and Inspector General's office is in the State ' printer's, hands. Gen. Watts's assistant, Col. Bruce, had some notes left, and the following interesting facts were derived from the notes Last year there were on the lists 207 comu panies. This was largely due to the spurt incident to the racket about the '"Darlington rebellion." The present status of the militia a3 shown by ihe oflieial record is : Active militia com paMies, 9.5, reserve militia companies, 16: totall, !ill. Tltn distinction between tv active :mI1l. r."serve forces is that the tietive contingent. is Itaid by the State. (nc condition precedent to being classedin the active militia is that the command mu.t have been enlistel for twelve months preceding the 31:"t October of Ithe -ear in which the record is inade. The following are the commands that are put. diown as being in the active militia : Cavalry-Troops A, B, C, D, E. F. G. If. J, Hagood Guards, Allendale (aids. Elgefieldl Light Drago ons, )ibl'le Light )rngoons. Simpson Ilagers, Sweet Water Light lragoons. (:orlon l ight Dragoons, Santee ('av :ilrv. 1Jaric,n's Men of Winiah, Was s:utasaw Cavalry, Iorry Hussrs. LCke City Dragoons. Hampton Itape rial Giarls. Haskell Mointain Rifie men, Edisto liountec liiilemen, (4.'r marn Hlussars. Troop>s A, B, C. Fifth Regiment of Infantry--Green I ville GInards. Butler Guards, Mauinii iliiiles, l'iekens Guar:-Is, Afrietta (iti'-as. Pickens .+1iil". First Battalion of Infantry- Ger ma in Fu11sili'rs, frish VoInnuteers, Mont goen'ry (iiurlrs. Secon<d Battillitn of [infantry- --Srn ter Gtarasi, Carolina i ihi':, Palm ttto Guaarel. W. L. T. Battalion-Cominuy B. Moultrie Guards. First Regiment of Iofalntrv--Edge ield Ititles, Palmetto itle, Bctmberg (uhards, Edisto Guards. Gary Evans ~olaunteers, Richardson Guards, Sally Riliks. Sautee Rifles, Capers Light T.iu fautry, Tillmnan Volunteers, Edisto Pities. Seconrl Regiment- -Ii"hl,nd1 Volun teers, Lee Light Infantry, Fairiel:1 Rifle Gutrds, 1idgew-ay Rilles, Greeni brer Rii-les, York County Volunteers. 1A:'zehevood Rifles, Peak Guards, Pa miarit itiHes, Fort Motte Guards. First lRegiment Infta1Ctry--La:r,'ns Gnards. A bbeville Ritfe. Ga<-v W,ttt Guar,", Morgan l ifles, Mxwell G7urls. Pea Ridge Riifles, Johuson il s. Fourth Regiment - Darlingt.on ( nartis, Georgetown Rifle Guards, Manning Guards, Elene Guards, ('bCestrfield Rifles, Liberty Hill Rifles. "B. 1. T." Guards: Last year there were 1,66 7 members in th. m iiitia., while this year's returns show 3,13:,, all of whom are enlisted. The State has appropriated $10,000 for the support of the militia. Of that anount $300 is used for general p'urpo~ses, leaving a lit-tle over $3 for each man enlisted in the service. ln addition to the regular cavalry awl infantry service there are: Naval Reserves--Lafayette Artillery, (Chicera Rifles, Beau fort Volun it ee.r Ri ties. German Artillery. National Gu'ard, (Colored)---Caroli na Light Infantry, Douglass Light In iantry, Hunter Volunteers, Mi shaw Rifle Gnardls, South Carolina Volun teecr', Garrison Light Infantry, Bean fort Light infantry. Sumner liftle Guards, Capital City Guards, Carolina Guards, Governor's Rifle Guards. NEW SOUTTHE~RN ENTERPRISES. Thme Manufacturers' Record Reports a Week's Industrial Dev'elopmuents in the South. A Disr,att"h to the Manufa"turers' Record ro.rts the organizatio:n of a construotion ompainy in Charleston. S. C.. with $200.000 sbserihed capital,. to secure th'e building of a railroad from Charleston to) Knoxv'ille, or somle pointwhr ree't onnletionls ecntld T ra"tion Compary has pla'ced $500.000 or b"onds and will press the construction of its el"ctrie line in Jic'hmond. A dlispateh fromt Fo1-rt Payne. Ala .. states that the two furnas at that pla'e anzd the stee-l mill. c'onstrueted aa large' "ost several years a.go. but which haur' sin'e been idle. w~ill be started up sortly. A new company has prrchased an lIe platnt in Birmingham and will mianutaet or bolts atnd nuts. .\mon'g other ente'rprises reported wi're a 50.000-latushel grain elevator -projected. neid -:'tmers in contnectio)n with a fertilizerI p.t, 'and an electrie plant in Alabama: a '00.000 c'otton mill company at Atlanta: at '0,000 mill company proposed al Rome: a kitting mill, fertilizer f e'tory, etc.. in other art" in that State: a $100.000 sugar refinery to hadl 1.000 tons of sugar a day.: ait0. (O0) water "omipany and a rice mill in Lois ina: a $600,000 eetton mill, a $I03.000 'goldt m!ning 'om pany, railroad sliops and aS 5000-I sinal' rotton mill in North Ca;robutn: a 30. NtO hutsh"l' grain elevator. a $M00.000 rope tmau'fnetaring companty. coal mining ainti m::trrint '.ompanie's in Texas: large glass wo rks', a $ 100.000 oil companiliy and a' c nant in We"t Virginia. SI'FFiRAG;E DISCUSSJ0N ENDED. 1 The Whole 3Iatter Now Goe's to Its Th'lird( Readling. 'The' South fa:r''linat C onstittiolnaI C'on v;ntoni in s"-'iont at C obytnhin los at lait -apinted th" lis.-uts,iru ''f the' sufrag'' :ar til" an'd th. whole thing htas now' been s"nt to the" third readig.g. A igiorous oftert was malh- to p'reve,nt the po Nltf fraud in thc" laniin of the registr-'ion a ':libt a' nr"vision i ''king" to ti' -ta kill'd. AfIter n es:tendedi debate the ordna'"e proxi-lin for an is-ut" of stat" bonds to e'nu"le the Mer "iral- anis f the statett.do busine -'nl a ThI "'"'nny-ti" t'ok up the se'ction 'f th at.! - -: j 'ritr"eu.e allo win.g tie': tet h-.m-ri'ht a-' is aIllow-:d' th- .:n-f':Jd" ut-. T""- r-''miming af tbe prp.ii- is that th- 't'a"i.-5 to try *j' n -.arged with v i.itin of ' the dispen'rsary lawi in "ouintws'' nibdba... All tIhe lawy''rs w~ere tu rned 1 ')'.- 'n th v iitat iiustioni anud a livelyi de LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. (;LEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Brie'ly 'od. Newsy Soutnerrn Notes. Mrs. W. W. B. Mitchell was thrown from a buggy at Montgomery, Ala.. on Thursday and instantly killed. Louis Hanvey, the wife murderer, was convicted at Atlanta Thursday and recommended to the mercy of the T- means a life sentence in At Baltimore, St. Tames' IIall, owned and used by the societies of St. James' Catholic Parish, was h,irncd. The damage is estimated at Slr,flUU, but the building will be entirely torn 'own und rebuilt. It was fully insur ed. The cause is not known. At Richmond. Va., Gentry was ig nomiiously beaten by Joe I'atcben en Thursdav last. Patchen won the first two beats easily in 2:15 1-2 and 2:15. Gentry was distanced in the secotni heat and withdrawn. Patcbeu paced the third heat against a running mute in 2:11. The track was slow. ('apt. Frederick Lange and wife were found dead in bed at their hoi; in Gardenville, a suburb of Baltimore, on Tuesday morning. Their skulls had been crushed and the house rau sicked. It is supposed that robbery was the in".entive for the doulc mur ier. Tohn Colleres and John Melvin were instantly killed and Frank and Harry Jones frightfully injured Wed nesday morning by a car at Manor coal works jumping o1' the incline and plunging into the Potamac river near Shaw, W. Va. William Stevenson, white, a well known farmer, 35 years of age, at Cas ten, Somerset County, Md., was shot through the head, at the polls while trying to vote, by Samuel Dickert on, colored. Stevenson is not expected to live. Dickerson made his escape. Highwaymen entered the city ticket oflice of the Texas & Pacific Railroad Monday night at Dallas, Texas, with drawn pistols and robbed T. P. Turner, the ticket agent, of the day's sales of tickets. The robbers escaped. The amount of money taken is unknown. Five Seventh Day Adventists, on trial at Dayton, Tenn., for Sabbath violation, were acquitted without the jurors leaving their seats. This is con strued to mean a decided revulsion in sentiment towards these people by the citizens of lRhea Couuty, where they have a thriving settleme nt at Grays ville. Washington. Bear Admiral Slufeldt died at his residence in Washington Thursday. By direction of the Attorney Gener al, the celebrated cases against Eugene V. Debis, the olhcrs of the A. Rl. U. and p)romlinenlt members of the order in Milwaukee have beeni dropped. A warrant was issued at the~ Treas ury Department at Washington on Tuesda.y for the refund of the income tax to Rev. Dr. Talmage, the famns preacher, who recently moved to that city from Brooklyn. The only sur prise is as to the sum paid anid tihus re funded, namely, $42.12. It was thought his income last y-ear was the rise of $30,000. The Virginia House of D)elegates so far stands: Decmocrats 07: R~epuli cans and other oppositionists 24. Complete and semi- oflicimil retumrins from every county in Maryland give Lownes, (Republican) for Gloverin or, 12,018; Hurst, (Democrat) 105,905. The vote for Governor in I1.1 was Vanuart, (Rt publican) 78,8; Brown, (Democrat) 108,5839. A -n Mor (~uneenIrred Thors !dayv last thronghout the Black River Fallk s-ee. tion of Wiami d, and abiou't f. e a half iucihes fell. heinz the. tirist .jww storm of the season. Thne fortst firos are eim ph-tely q1uenchled, beingm i ri. .1 under fouvr inchesof dumpih snow. Noerr ly am foot of heavy, wet snow f-ll at Winonm, Iinnr. , ou Thursday. It i the lie4t of the season. M iselbIIneouis. Three more dead( bodies were inken from the wrceked builing in Detroit on Frimy. The death list will not exceed 37. The Lemidville, Col., Sav-ings and Deposit Bank has closed its doors. ns signing for the benetit of its depositors and credlitors. The much-talked-of wedding of diism: Consuelo Vanderbilt and the D)uke of M1arlborough took place in St. Thomn s' church, New York, on Wednesday at. high noon. The church was t rouged with the representatives of New Yo rk's smnartest society, gathered to wittness the ceremony. TIhe .ebure~h ws go'rgeously deorated for the oe casiofi. the floral display beCing with tut doubt the most lavish that New York~ bas ever known. A Negro Elected as a D)emocrat. James C'. Matthews. 'nlord. fornrrly re corder of deed at Wvashimgton. f). 1'.. ne has bcean eleted .id of th . 1---.-. Court. of Albany. N. Y.. wh itn fia 'ari with it the powers ofaSurm e uidge'. His mnajority is ovecr :200. He, wa nominated and ele"ted '1n the regla Dem erati' ticket. It is the nhhet .iidi"ial *ffiO .vr held by a man of i ra ie in h .Tohn L . Sullivan says tihe reason the brisers did not fight is that somebody was afraid. NEW TAS -.i THEY ARE RAPID, FANTASTIC ANi) CHARMING. Skirts Are Immensely Wide-Sleeves as Voluminous as Ever Styles in Cuffs aud Collars, S ALIENT alterations in shapes and outlines do not take phic in the middle of a season, and at present changes are chietiy seen in matters of detail. People of ood taste who wish to be nicely iressed and exercise a iittlc economy ould do well to occupy their time in renovating their dre:-ses of last ye,r to make the:u smart enough for every iay wear at home, or ont of doors in 'he morning. Even&ug toilets, says the Sevou, should also pass review, and may be Ereshened up in the muost charing styles, now that fashions arc so rapid snd fantastic. Sleeves appear as voluminous as ever, and are still set out with horse LADIES' bair and other stiff stuff-, yet do not| snswer the skirt or even the bodice of the dress, but are made of another stuff and color. The sleeve is sewn to an underblouse of a perfectly difier nt hue, or blouse shape draped in various ways, or a round or ficha col ar is put on. The latter form will probably take a prominent place in the fashions for winter, either as a :ape with long scarf ends, wideuing the shoulders considerably or fittiug :lose to the same, so that the puff of, the sleeve is slipped nearer to th) el bow in the Mnrie Antoinette style. A new style of bodice has appeared for the evening. This is a slashed blouse worn over another blouse of a ight thin material and in a ditierent color. Some of these elegant blouses are trimmed round the slashings with tiny buttons, beaded bordering, or passemeterie, and thie.chifn, lawn o: lace of the undierblouse puffs oat~ through the opening;. Dark woolen dresses are made up in the same way, only that the founda tion bodice must be of light colored silk, and the slashes trimmedl with black or dark braid set on plain, a-s also in a small fancy design; indeed, the idea is excellbut for remodeling corsages of all kinds to be worn with plain skir te. Eton jackets have made way for the half-wide-open jacket with smadl pockets, and close-fitting backs fin ished off with a very short circular basque, the top of the shoulder bemg~ eut out in a long or rather epaule. A dainty model of this kind has the back and epaulets made entirely of one piece stretched across. Another plainer jacket is embroid dakclo en ni clerwso nented etoth aswerv with ordrf a Grecque. The ~ashionable skirts which are cut so immensely wide are.beginndar to lose their plain appe:.rance, tn" hem-is stitched out two or three tiunez with silk in a contrasting color, or a border answering the triu? m?ug o:n the bodice is worked in ehxda atid fancy stitches halfway up to. tue jinee. Tile skirts of hand5some wai:ug ,- c.su~e also trimed to mnatch th ir'.v i pointed epamiets and Iowei tight-fitin part of th0e sleeve. A pretty co',tume for young married Indics to be worn in the country is m:ade of dark cloth, and has the shirt and loose, double-breasted jacket ornamented with appliques of light cloth of the same color. Young girls may adopt the same style by choosing a tigt.fitting jacket with sailor coll:r instead of the sacque coat. - r"nsat"aNs i:. AN: .-. C LLAR3. Among the many things so small A yet so signiticant which help to m^-'"3 a plain toilet a very ottractive one are thbe white collars and cuffs which at present are in such high favor. They are worn all the year round? So;neti:nes there is only the narrow edge of the cutf showing from under the sleeve, but the wide ones; tarned back over the seieve are worn the mast. They are nude of the plain w hite linen~ or the yellow, and some are edged with different colors, and others are in stripes or figured. Daintier ones are of linen and edged with embroidery and rows of insertion, and others are of the finest cambric l1"1 - T,.E VES and the most costly lace. With all of these they have collars to match, and all of them are turned over. We have not yet come to the plain little stand up collar, which shows just the edge above the neck of the dress. No, they are wide and deep. The sailor collars are very popular and are maae in a dozen different ways. There are square ones in the back and front, square ones in the back and pointed in the front, and those that reach clear to the belt, and some formin 1 wide revers, and then some -etit -i points all around and cut square in the back and front, and with points on the shoulders and extending over the sleeves. Some of them have ruf lies around the edge and some have lace. and embroidery and insertion, and some are scalloped and button hole stitched. Then there are others which are entirely of lace, varying romi verypretty but quite cheap ones to tho :e of Irish point and Duchesse lace, costing a fabulous amount and only to be looked at by the little wo ran with an unlimited amount of pin HATS OF' ELT OR vELvEr. Hafs of felt or velvet are to be at most exclusively worn this winter. The shapes are large or else quite amall toques. Picture hats of black velvet are profusely trimmed with os trich feathers- Black cocks' plumes are ve'r; fashionable. They are pret t. too, with their shimmering gleamns o'f dark green, besides being suitable in all weather.. A charming blaek velvet hat for the a tumn is raised at one side with a bandeau of steel studded with emer WAfsT. aid cabochons, while knots of black satin ribbon rest apon the hair. NEW CAPES. A new cape is made in three sections, asan extremely high collar, extend u, in 'fact, almost to the top of the ears. Tihis turns back from a plain inner collar that fits around the throat. This cape is made of cloth, and the three sections are cut in scallops and bound with wide braid stitched on and pressed flat; the lin iug is of tartan silk and is bound in GOOD ADVYCE TO FARERSr AN O'EN LETTER TOTHECOTTON PLANTERS OF THE SOUTH. Messrr. Middleton and Ravenel Ad dress an Interesting Circular to their Correspondents. Messrs. Middleton & Rave^el, the well-known cotton brokers, of Cisrles ton, have issued a very interesting cir cular on the cotton situation. The open letter. says the News and Courier will be sent to all of their correspond ents throughout the South. It con tains many striking facts and igures, and it wili be read with keen interest by the cotton planters and cotton nen in this and other States. The write:s say in substance that the great danger which menaces the countiy is that an enormous crop of cottn will be plant ed next season. They predict that if this is done that prices will not only go lower than they now are, but that cotton next season will be a practical drug on the market. The circular, however, explains itself more fully than it cai be explained. It is as follows: To the Cotton Planter: The condi tion of cotton at the present moment is one that should give cause for deep thought on the part of the planter, and he should pause before he enters into any arrangement for planting an other crop. To-day we see every in dication of a small crop; receipts are light and decreasing every day. The great stand-by of the English spinnerc (Mr. Neill) predicts a small outturn of the present crop. All reports from the aotton sections ;-how the crop is shorter than it has been for years. and the Government report conrms these other reports. The business .in dry goods is good, ad the demand is in creasing, and everything on its face shows that at least for this year the cotton planter is to be rewarded for histoil by getting a fair living price for his cotton, but what are the facts? We see cotton declining every day, January contracts having been forced down 3-4 of a cent, or Q3.75 ,per bale within two weeks. Of course, this was only the natural result of an overload ed speculative market, and if it had not affected the actual cotton would have passed by comparatively unnoticed, but the foreign spinners from that mo ment seemed to have dropped com pletely out of the market, evidently waiting for such another move to force the spot cotton still lower and enable them to buy cotton at their own sweet pleasure and pric:. - Thus we see that the speculators in New York are playing directly into the hands of the natural enemies of cot ton. The situation seems now to be narrowed down to a battle between the cotton planter on one side and the foreign spinner on the other, backed up by the speculators and geld powers of the North. It seems that either gold or cotton must be exported to avoid th~e issue of bonds, and as an other bond isue might imperil the chances of the Demnocratic party, the cottou planter must be sacriticed and the price of cotton beat down until he is compelled to sell. This is all wrong and can be avoided by a little judg ment and common sense. One of the greatest clouds hanging over the cotton market is the talk of a treendn.ous crop next year. Some preditions have already been made that the~ next crop will be 11,000,000 bales. the enemies of cotton forgetting that the cotton planter has learned a lesson or two in the last five years. If it was known and understood that the cottonl planter had been fooled into planting a tremienhdous crop for the last time and that the crop for nlext year would be only a nmoderate2 one, ctton sp.inners would enter into the market: we would see better prices for the present crop and better prices for the next crop. A large crop next year means low prices for what cotton is not already sold this year and lower prices next year. Let the plantor plant his crop on the ae basia of this year's crop; plant plenty of provisions and keep down he cotton aere:ge. The balance of this vear's cotton and next y':ar's cropl andc e xi.sting circumndanes .should :eil att 9 cents, at least, att the ports. Keepl downa the cotton acreage and Isave.yourselves from a repetition of 53 eents cotton and dji-:ster. Yours truly. Mmou-:-Erox & R Aviex'. Miniattura Painting an Exacting Art. Those who knowv only tha finishelI niniatre, andl have no aCquaintHnce with the methols of its proiluction, canot conceive of the labor that it represents. Eania of these tiny mas terpieces - these ornaments with huan identification -these concen trated expressions of pictorial art staa'ds for more toi, of a peculiarly exating~ sort, than the largest can vas. The brushes, some of them con taining scarcely half a dozen hairs, mtako strokes so tine that most of t.he pating ruust be done under a mag nifying -giss. And thec touceae on the rail bit of ivory miust be as. unerring as they arc light, for the snmatlest mis take may destroy the charaicteristiO translucence that constittes5 the mim jature's greattest charm.--Ladies ome Journal.. There are in a'ec. about 910,280 Welsh speakers and about 230,00: oumai'-a the princiraity,.