The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, September 16, 1885, Image 4

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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. J Iho Mouey lteeult* of Skilled Culture. Statistical research shows that a i i-ru iii- agiculturu is not ahuiiclaut in product, and that it is compelled to pay high interest ott borrowed money. A low grade ot' tanning is cursed with mortgages and mildews, with insoct> and ignorance. Uncertainty brood, over its harvests, and famine decimates its people. Famine is unknown In a country ot* advanced agriculture though a fourth of its people oaly may bc engaged in rural production. On tho contrary mil i ins la nish in India, while ino'd of its people arc lu agricul ture. lt Is said thal in 1270, in lang land, '**parents ate their children when wheat rose to 330 shillings a quarter at tho present value of money." Five hundred years ago, when nearly every Englishman lived by agriculture, tho product only sufficed for a homo sup ply ; now, with a population of 440 to thc square mile, of which only one in eight is au agricultural worker, ?ix tcnths of all tho food required lor con sumption is produced at home, though half tho island is occupied for resi dences, pleasure grounds, and hunting reserves. The Latin races of Southern Europe, slower than tf?c Anglo Saxon in utiliz uig in rural practice thc discoveries of modern science, are still milking sure progress towards a higher and more profitable agriculture, in Italy hinds ure inure productive, buildings more numerous and convenient, and tho peasant is better paid and belter lodged and clothed. An official commission has recogniz ed thc improvement as a measure of progress in scientific agriculture, and mado the future prosperity of Italy dependent upon schools and scientific experiment. This italian commission d?chires: Thc experience of all times ami of all places has demonstrated tho fact that purely agricultural countries arc never rich, even from an agricultural stand point, while in those countries where the arts, industries audcommorc nour ish private gain creates rural wealth. Spain is mainly agricultural, yet its entire value of rural production could bc purchased with tho vainc of the corn crop of the United States, lt is be cause the yield is small omi the price low. Russia, with labor employed principally in agriculture, yieds but li) bushels of cereals .per head, while Great Britain with seven-eighths of her people employed outside of agriculture last year produced 10 bushels of cereals for every inhabitant of the country. In Great Britain the yield per acre of wheat is 28 bushels; iii Russia scarcely more than a third as much. This high yield has been attained by science applied to agriculture. A single indi vidual Ins given bis life and fortune to experimental agriculture, and en dowed bis experimental tann with tho income in perpetuity from half a mil lion dollars. The average yield of a country is no indication of the natural fertility of tts Boil. The richest soils of tho world under thc rude methods of primitive agriculture, return low yields. Thc progress of skill and learning is indi cated by a country's average yield. Tho Statistical Commission of the in ternational Congress twelve years ago made, the average yield of wheat 12.0 bushels in Hungary, 13.2 in Portugal, 17.1 in France, 24.8 in Holland, and 29.9 in Great Britain. In tills country, where maize is a universal crop, thc richest districts do not necessarily produce the largest vichis per acre. New England, with a soil of sand and gravel, averaged in the hist live harvests 30.8 bushels per acre, with good culture ami ibo use of fertilizers. The Missouri Valley, fat with thc elements of maize growth, piclded at the rate of 29.8 bushels, and in thc Ohio Valley 26* bushels, while, the Middle Stales, with much aid from experimental science, came very near thc best western results willi JG.4 bushels. In seasons unfavorable tat)U'oductioii the money value of skill and science in agriculture is immensely enhanced. It is often remarked that farmers re ceive as much for a very small crop as a very large one. In 1881, 1,190,000, 000 bushels of corn was worth $700, 000,000; in 1884, 1,795,000,001) bushels were valued at 8^41,000,000; a small crop was worth G3.G cents per bushel, a larger one 35 7 cents. Nevertheless there is disaster in a small crop. Thc failure is uncquajiy distributed. Thc "'lew advanced farmers grow nearly full crops, and receive larger revenues than usual ; and many unskilled and careless sutler disastrous reduction of yield mid quality, and fail to make return for seed and labor, (liven un scientific agriculture, with au till? auspicious season, and the poor may grow poorer while tho scient i l?e larmer in the same year may grow richer. The contrasts in present production and profit of agriculture are sufficiently striking. But the present will soon bo past. We are confronted with n future full of possibilities as of dangers and difficulties. Experiment, skill, science applied to industry can only avert thc latter. Fifteen years ago 47 per cent, of our people were employed in agri culture; live years ago 44" per cent; to-day perhaps 42. Wo lind hi all nations in which more Hum half thc laborers are in agriculture arc compar atively poor, and their rural processes aro primitive, their implements rude, their rate of production low. Wc timi that in thc highest development of agricultura, 20 nor cent., or 25 at most, can furnish food for all. tn this coun try allowing for surplus production, 40 per cent., can readily meet thc demand of home consumption, and 33 per cent., will probably do it in thc not far distant future, leaving two thirrie to produce other forms ot wealth With increaso of permanent wealth there will como demands for luxuries of living which will add to thc profit of ' fho farmor. As tho facilities for pro duction increase, one danger from an unscientific, primitive, routine agri culture is great excess in certain crops that have been cultivated from tho earliest days with little labor. Already our wheat has encountered tho lowest markets in a century in Great Britain. Tho prosent price of wheat in Liver pool is to day lower than in tho thir teenth to fifteenth centuries. I have known a crop of cotton to sell for $40,000,000 Ices than tho preceding orop 1,000,000 bales smaller. Our agriculture is too much con trolled by accident or caprice. Freo prairie lands, improved reapers and railroad extension make a glut in wheat. The cotton gin, slavery and a foreign demand once moro made tho South poor in buying supplies for man and beast engaged In growing cotton. Thus unequal development reduces IuofltH. while one-third of tho wheat s exported, one-seventh of tho con t BBgPWW?! .1,. bunill..IBLL... Miiilpsid? of barlcv is imported; Wo lio not gi'owovon tlio cereals rcqdired. Wo boast of our exports of products o f agriculture. We foolishly talk of feeding tho nutionsofthc world. We do not Iced ourselves. In 1888 we paid $2 10,000,000 for food and drink I imported, and thc freights, commis- 1 sions, and custom duties in addition; 1 and our food exports, at prices on thc 1 farm and in tho packing houses, scarcely Sufficed to pay the bills of costs of such imports. A largo item of this was sugar. Thirty years ago half thc sugar used in tho United States was produced in Louisiana. It is possible that European agriculture can bc threatened with paralysis by American competition, and that thiscouutry can not produce sugar on account ot Euro? pean competition? Less than a cen tury ago it cost $1 a pound to produce it there; now 3 cents. While wo do not expect io manufacturo it from sorghum at a cost ofono cent per pound or Hood tho markets of the world with our surplus of production in live years, it is fair to presume that the great producing country of thc world will Ultimately obtain much of its sugar from sorghum. The cano regions of Louisiana, Florida and Texas, by tho aid of,some process which shall not allow ? waste ot 40 per cent., of unex pressed sugar, should aid materially in the home supply for thc wants of con sumption. Thc trouble with our farmers, with all their energy and dash, is a dislike for new methods, an adherence to routine, and impatience ill waiting for results. They will ex change sheep for hogs, or vice versa, in a twinkling, as prices veer, but will not experiment for thc ultimate success of new rural industries. Hut thc porspcrous farmer should cultivate a generous public spirit, as well as a laudable esprit dc corps, and take some risk in intelligent* experiment that premisos beneficent result to his class and advance ot* thc publie welfare. Report of Department of Agriculture. TUE GROWING CHOPS. Tho Monthly Itoport of the National l)c partmotit of Agriculture. Thc September cotton report of the Department of Agriculture shows a prevalence of hot" and dry weather during August, except in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. A shedding of bolls and dccroaso of vitality have resulted quito generally. Drought has been serious in Texas and Arkansas and quite general in western Tennes see, southern Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. The caterpillar bas caused much damage in southern Tex as, Arkansas and in central ami south ern Alnbninu. Its prevalence is noted throughout central and southern Geor gia With small effect as yet. The boll worm is causing much damage in the black belt of Alabama and in Arkan sas and Texas. Thc condition has declined ill every Stale. Thc average is 87 against 1G? in August. Last year it was 82 in September and 87 in Au gust. Thc present average is two points average above thc September average of 10 years. Thc ligures for thc several States arc as follows: Vir ginia 88, North Carolina 86, South Carolina 88, Georgia 91, Florida 00, Alabama 88, Mississippi 89, Louisiana 90, Tc::as 82, Arkansas S'i, TcilllOSSCO 87. Generally tho plants arc vigorous, and capable, with favorable autumn weather, of ample growth and boll development. In tho districts most infested with cotton worms thc loss is irreparable and sun threatening. The condition of spring wheal bas been impaired since the 1st of August in thc Northwest, tho district of prin cipal production. Heavy rains, were lollowcd by extreme heal between the 1st and middle of August, just before harvest, shriveling the grain and caus ing rust. Heavy wind storms pros? trated and injured large areas. In Nebraska (hero is some complaint ol smut and a little Dakota. Chinch bugs have done sonic damage in WillconsTll and Minnesota? Thc injury was great er in August than in July. Thc aver ages are: Wisconsin 77, a loss of 8 points: Minnesota 78, a loss of .r> points; Dakota 96, a loss of I points; Iowa S8, a loss of 7 points. Northern New Fugland, Co oratio and thc Ter ritories arc nearly or quite up to 100. Thc general average for all spring wheat is 86?, agaii st 95 in August. The crop of last wad 166,000,000 bush els. Returns of winter wheat are almost identical in results with those ol'July. There ls a slight advance in Michigan, Texas, Maryland and some other States and a point or two ol decrease in several. The general average is Go.8, against ('>?> in July. Except as thc result of threshing may change present expectations tho winter wheat area may bc placed at 217,000, 000 bushels and the remaining area about 184,000,000. If Hie injuries re ported ill the stock should provo to be greater than is at present apparent a few mi I lions ol' redaction might' still accrue. Thc condition of corn still edil ti ll ll 08 high, ranging from 90 to 100 in Slate averages. Tho general average is 9.'>, against 96 iii August. It was last year 94 in September. Frosts have wrought very little injury and will bo capable of little if deterred ton days. The prospect is still favorable for a crop slightly above an average. What Do th? iii H * ; : ; i . i . Say? They know what tho people call for, and they hear what, their patrons say as to whether thc medicines they buy work well or not. Martel! ?fe Johnson, Rush City, Minn., say, "Brown's Iron Hitters gives entire satisfaction to our customers." Klinkhamuicr ?& Co., Jordan, Minn., says, "Wc sell more Brown's I rou Hitlers than all others combined." L. E. Hnokley & Son, Winona, Minn., say, "All Otu' cus tomers speak highly of Brown's Iron Hitters." A. C. Whitman, Jackson, Minn., says, "Brown's Iron Hitters is giving good satisfaction to purchasers." These aro only a few. We have hun dreds moro just as good. * Cn v. Illni: of tho Ci ny Statue. The statuo of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was unveiled al New port, lt. L, last week, with unusual pomp and ceremony, in thc presence of a very distinguished gathering. Thc statue was unveiled by Mrs. La fargo ind Mrs. Pepper? granddaughters of Dommodoro Perry, and the flag came flown exposing thc monumental bronze to tho public gaze amid enthusiastic ipplnuso. Senator Hutlor, of South L/'nrolinn, made a speech nt thobuunuct rtddch followed the unveiling. -Senator rA. B. Vance has built a ino rosidcuco out among thc moon ains in Buncombo comity, which ho :all8 Gominton. Tho other day tho 'einnor went bear hunting and killed 1 very largo bear and lirotight tho lead animal home on bis horse. Tho lenator's reputation is now established H a bear hunter. mm m AM ?.LLL,..?.JJmmm AVMlUtiiliti ??ltlWDl). .Viii! Work of tho Winda In oi.<<. ;>. .truvtloii o? ri oui 11 \, Hilt! !...*?< of lilfo. CINCINNATI, September ?. - Tho Commercial Gazette hus telegraphic l?vicos from Washington Court House, Dhio, 1 lint a terrille cyclone passed Dvcr that neighborhood last night, lining groat damage to property. A number ot* lives were lost. A Bloom* ingburg special to the name paper mids that that town is in ruins. Owing to tho condition of tho telegraph wires details cannot bo given. A violent electrical disturbance was seen to thc north from Cincinnati last night, although the storm hero was not very heavy. Most alarming reports arc current regarding the loss ol'lifo and property in Washington C. II. Help was sent to dost i (tito families. At Plain City, eighteen miles from this city, a car riage factory and mill were demolished and other buildings unroofed. This place is on a direct lino to tho north of Washington C. H., and all along south to thc Ohio river the trail of destruction is reported in like manner. A special from Springfield says a terrible cyclone struck Washington at eight o'clock last eveningaud almost literally swept it from the earth, lt caine from tho northwest and broke upon the town very suddenly, carry ing everything before it. Thc tornado whirled up Court street, tho main business thoroughfare, and ruined almost every business block (?II it -nt least forty or fifty in all. Hardly a private residence in tlie town escaped, fully four hundred buildings in all going down. Thc Presbyterian ami Catholic churches sulfured a common fate. Tho Ohio Southern, Pan Handle, Narrow Gauge and Midland railroad depots were blown into smithereens, and every building in thc vicinity was carried away, making ingress or egress almost impossible, livery wiro Within a circuit of two miles is down. Kc ports received ot tho catastrophe are from a telegraph operator, who tapped the wire two miles west ol' tho town, and sat in a heavy rain storm and worked his instruments. Tho panic-stricken people wore taken completely unaware, and lied from thc tumbling buildings in every direction, through murky darkness. A mad frenzy seemed to seize them, and they hurried hither ami thither in their wild distraction, little knowing whith er they woro Hoeing. After the whirl wind, which histed about ten minutes, a heavy rain fall set in which continued unabated during thc night. As soon as tl few of thc cooler heads recovered their senses searching parties were or ganized and thc sad work of lookin? for the dead began. So far llftCOl! bodies have been recovered from thc debris of various ruined buildings, and thc dreary work is just beginning tc got under wav. lt is probable as many more will bc lound. Thc glim< mer ol' lanterns procured trom lani houses in the vicinity, and from tilt few houses left standing, was thc oil)) light they hail to work by. Two 01 Ihrce bodies were stumbled upon ii thc middle of the street, where thoj were stricken down by Hying bl'iukl or timbers. The cellars of houses and every sor! ?>f refuge were tilled with shivering people huddling logo thor in vain ofl'or to keep warm. One baby in the arm lias died from exposure. Kully three hundred persons wen hurt, and the losses in poperty ?xvii exceed a million dollars. deports from various parts ofOhii and Indiana show that thc storm willoi struck Washington C. II., was wide spread. A Bich Hill, Mo., special says thu high winds visited that place CSU si ll, several thousand dollars' ?lainage. Th tine brick residence ol' Mr. K lat/.chi was partly demolished, and his so aged fifteen crushed to death. II. M Booth's house was torn from its foul dations ami a number of others m roofed scattering death and dost ruc lion overywhoro. For eight lon minutes thed isastrous work went ot Music, hall was filled with pcopl attending tho Salvation Army niCOtitl and as a portion ol' the roof and ceilin fell in a disastrous panic and stamper was provontod with tho greatest dill cully. Among thc incidents of tl disaster was tho blowing ol'the hom of W. Sharp entirely to pieces and Ol of sight. Thrco occupants woro dro] ped across tho street, with only Mr Sharp severely bruised, others bavin lint slight hurls. Thc house cannot I found. MORE A HO UT TUB STORM. CHICAGO, September io.-A tel gram received this morning states th a vessel struck on tho hoi bor pier Two Livers, Mich., and went to piece lt is supposed that the crow ol'six nu were lost. DETROIT, September 10.-R'cpor received from tho southeastern part tho State give further particulars Tuesday's Btorin. Buildings wc wrecked, orchards laid waste, hu; swaths tiuulc in thc woods and'laina; done. On thc farm of George Sont lyin<i in thc course ol' thc storm, 1, head of stock aro missing. His rei dence was wrecked and its conten scattered to the winds. COLUMBUS, O., Sc pto m ber io.-(io lloadly luis issued a proclamation regard to the cyclone at Washings Court House. He says ho has made pomonal examination of the ruins ni that the citizens aro in dire distros He makes an earnest, appeal lo tl people of Ohio to oller what I'oliofthi .un. A IC I ?. lt I.culley. Tho General Attorney of thc Pu nan Sleeping Car Company says: Th lld Dr. Diggers could leave no beti iCgOCV than his SOUTHERN lt KM HOY 1' 10wei affections, and in all his travc io has novor found anything to cqu Du. BIGOBRS' SOUTHERN REMED? fi ho roliol of Diarrhoea, Dysentery ai ho restoration of the little ones who ivstcm ls *u dering such a drainai 'rom thc effects of teething ?'rico ? :cnt8. Ask your druggist for them. -Tho venerable, and by some sti 'oucratod Jefferson Davis, InoidenU y mentioned as ono of thc results of c6torcd Union, that ho oxpects to gi lino hundred bales of cotton from li iississippl plantation this year, ai; nforms an interviewer that ho has n csiro to talk about tho war- probabl referring to lcftvo that auciont idstoi 5 John Sherman. A Ooo tor'? Woes. CHAWKOHDVIM.K, GA., Juno ll, 188 For ten years I have boon suffering wll i oscular Rheumatism. Patent mcthcini ml physicians proscriptions failed to gb illof. Lnst Hammer I commenced to m . B. B.i and experienced partial relief b .ro using one bottle. I continued its in id gladly confess that it ls tho best nu ilekest medicine for Uboumatlsm I ha> 'er tried and I cheerfully recommend the public * J. W. RHODES, A. M., M. D. HUI.ID..'...i immmmmmmmm Ul IO Niki's Q# i H K STATU. 1 ?_ Sohio of (Itu Littest Bay I UK? ?uU liding? in HuOth CarolliiH. - II".". cholera prevails lo u con siderable extent in Marion county. -Cowpeiis Imo llirco brides, aged respectively 18, 14 und 16 years. - Henry Berry, a colored prenchor, lost bis baud in a cotton gin at Kock Hill. -Marshal Hamilton, colored, was suffocated by foul air ina well in York COttllty last week. - Work is progressing on Ibo foun dation ot (be Calhoun monument in Marion Square, Charleston. - Mr. H.N. Emlyn, of tho Daily Record, has been ditly installed as an alderman ol' Columbia. - M. P. Mayes, Jr., has been up pointed postmaster at Mayesvilio, Sum ter county. -Thus far about ono hundred hales ol'cotton have boen shipped from tho Marion depot. -A public meeting in thc causo of of education was held at Lancaster Courthouse on Monday night. -Thc Abbeville High school opened on Monday with the promise ol'a sue. CCSsftll session. -.1?re. Williams,colored, fell out ol ti boat in Kdisto Uiver, near Orange burg, last week and was drowned. -Mr. Jul a i A. Sallv of Orange burg, with his double-barrel, downed two bucks (hut attempted lo pass him ?-All agricultural society lias beci organized in Wultorboro of whiel Col. lt. S. Bodou was elected pres! dent. -The 100th anniversary of Pinn Brauch Church, EdgctlCld county, WU bc eelcbrateil on Tuesday, Octobei Kith. - At llic close of the fiscal year, thcr Will bc a surplus in the treasury ol'Ur State lunatic asylum. There are GO inmutes. -Mr. li. IL Lowry, of York, lias ; double-headed king snake, which li killed in tho road before discovorillj its singularity. -Mr. W. A. Carnes, of Lancaster recently had about sixty feet square o a patch of cotton completely killed b lightning, -Charleston, Columbia and Green ville ?ro tho only places in South Cai olino, which come nuder the ten cen immediate letter delivery system. -The subscribers to tho tolophon exchange in Columbia are indignan at a threatened increase of rates fron $50 to $90 a year. - From 22? to 275 hands have bee working on tho Columbia (.'anal fo thc last month. The work is rep ule as progressing satisfactorily? - Mr. lt. S. Galloway h:\s one of th larges! brick kilns ever burnt ill Allix ville county. There arc 120,000brick in it, and it bas sixteen eyes. -Thc board of councilmen of New berry have passed an ordinance rt quiring (bat all births and deaths du occur in that (own shall bc regislerci -The earnings of thc Chcraw nu Chester liai I road for Hie month of Jul 1885,'amount to r>l8 08. au inurcat of ?l?ti 'M) over the receipts for ll .same month last year. - There Isa young lady III Orang* burg who runs a farm and maki from Illil i y to forty huies of cotton year, beside sother crops. She docsn want to marry, however. - A party of young men paid I) Gantt .*!<> for the privilege of cn 11 ii thc dam of one ol' his tish ponds ne Aiken and caught only nineteen sac ors. This is a Hue Ash story. -Mr. Henry George, who resid near Carter's Postoflico, Colinton cou ty, picked a peach I'romono ofilia tn measuring ten inches in circumfcrou and tour inches in diameter. -The telephone company has glv notice to their subscribers in Nowbor that ibo ex? bango in thal town will closed on tho 24th of October, as t business fails to pay expenses. - Capt. K. ii. Billings, of Lnucnsti sat down on a snake supposing it lo stump, got up hurriedly and MCI tracks homeward, when lie straddle! yellow-jacket's nest, but got aw without serious injury. -Joseph A. McFachoru has ci; acres (a mill pond) of thc lincst r ever seen in Marion county. It v avorago six feel high, is well licadi and good judges estimate that it v yield from 80 to 100 bushels per ac - A young man named B. P. Bo; employed as a train hand on a frcij train on the South Carolina Kallw fell between the cns near Bratichv lust Tuesday morning and was t over and instantly killed. - Judge Kersh. .?, in his charge Hie grand jury in ?dgcflold, dircc attention to thc custom among ti justices of compromising cases of I cony. Such action is unlawful f unwise in policy. -A meeting of tho citizens ofc bonn, Bordeaux and Magnolia toi ships, was held on Saturday at Mo Carmel, Abbeville county, for purpose of asking the buyers of si cotton to desist from their business. - Mr. C. IL Sanders, of Kcrshi killed a strange bird among a llocl doves, and found it to bc a cari pigeon turned loose in Peiisact Florida, and bound for 78 Courtlu street, New York. -Doputy Sherill' Hughes, of Ed field, and a constable went to arrci negro named Holmes near Trent when tho latter tired on them fron field. Thc office rs returned tlic I Wounding Holmes slightly in the ii and side, when he quietly submitter -John Miller, of Lancaster, has exhibition an egg which mensures inches in circumference ono way i C inches tho oilier. The egg weij SJ ounclics, willoh is just nuc-twe. as much as (ho hen ss ci;- li that I it. -The Oconoo County Agricultn and Mechanical Society have doch to hold a fair at Walhalla on Th?rs? tho 29th, and Friday tho 80th, of Ot ber. In consequence of tito loton of tho season, no premiums will offered, but diplomas will be aware for those making tho bcRt exhibits. -On Sunday night, tho 30th ult., Carmichael Township, Marion conn Jeff Floyd and Haynes McK negroes, quarroled at tho IIOUBO of tormor over tho breaking of a koy tn accord?on which McKay had 1 /> Floyd. M i ls av cursed Floyd, wi ho latter wont for his pistol. Iletii ng he fired at McKay twice, tho fi ihot striking him in tho arm. Mch lien arose to apologize to Floyd, 1 wforo ho could do so Floyd fired aga his time strikeing McKay in tim ab non, which shot produced doath ho following day. The murdo souped into North Carolina. mmmmmmmmmimgmm, O KN ft lt A ti NftWfl If CHS. Kui I rt oUntetCHl, < J nt Ile i ? .1 tro. M Vin I ?lin Uiinrtera. -Tho difficulty hot ween Germany and Spain is not yet adjusted. . -Tho small-pox in Montreal con tinues with little nlmtcmont. -A Philadelphia man has invented aepi'iag motor to run Howhig-inachinos. . Alfred Tennvson will soon publish n new book ot* poems, "(?ive us o rest." - Tho international yacht race in Nev York Day was iii progress lust week. -Gladstone is Battering from lum bago, which has couliucd him to his house. --Thc Parliamentary elections in England have been llxcd for tho 14th day ol' November next. -Thc Republicans of Mississippi have concluded not to make any iioini nationa for State officers. -Secretary Bayard has been in* formed by cable t hat cholera is preva lent ai Shaughn!, ellina. - A school-slate factory at Hunger, Penn., was burned last week. Loss $10,000; insurance $12,000. - Thc Boston board of health has ordered quarantine against all vessels] from Canada and Newfoundland. - A Dublin dispatch says that thc Irish athletic; (canis have sailed for America via Londonderry. -Col. J. B. Walton, tho well known commander of thc Washington Artil lery ol' New Orleans, is dead. -A local option election in MUaUl county, Lexus, resulted in favor of prohibition. -Heavy ruins inst week did great damage to crops in some parts of Mis sissippi, especially in Yu/oo county. - During a slceple-ehnsc at Coney Island lust week Revenge fell mid broke his neck, crushing his rider to death. , -The Massachusetts Prohibition State Convention nominated by accla mation Thomas J. Lathrop, of Taun ton, for Governor. - In thc Franco-Chinese war, Franco lost 15.000 men and spent ?43,000,000 ; wliilc China lost lOO.OOO men und spout ?38,000,000. -Thc cholera in Spain sectus to bc diminishing--thc number of deaths per day being less than six hundred, and tlie number of new cases less than .fifteen hundred. - When official intelligence was re ceived ut Lima ol' General (inuit's death, the Hags on thc Government buildings were placed at half mast. --Detectives spirited ox-Bank Presi dent L. Urn!nerd away from Winno (>cg, Man., and lauded him sale ?11 thc Jutted States. Ile is wanted at St. j Albans. I -Thc schooner Erie Wave capsized oft' Long Point, Ont., during the gale on Tuesday night and Mrs. McPherson, from l'orjl Bnrwell, and Edward Strong, a passenger, were drowned. -Official and unofficial rel urns from the third district of Arkansas give McRue, Democrat, for Congre ss about live thousand majority, double the majority given thc Democratic candi date last November. -Col. Lamont says that thc Presi dent will not make any appointments tor (lie present. Ho wi'l firs! straight en up all matters which have accumu lated during his absence, and will then proceed to make ull necessury appoint ments in a systematic manner. - A special from Canton, Miss., says that ou wednesday nt u'colored church Leon Cockrcll, a negro school teacher, shot Aaron War/., u colored deacon, while the latter was kneeling with the congregation at prayer. Officers have gone lo nrrost thc murderer. -The United States sicamor Sinti' ara loft New Orleans on Saturday. She bason board $10,400,000ill silver, doubtless the moi;* valuable cargo ever taken from this port. At thc quaran tine station she transferred $2,000,000 to tho Yantic. - Win. Burga.*, anti his wife Lizzie, aged nineteen yea rs, und I heir nineteen months old daughter, were in u row boat 011 Darby (?reek just outside Phil? udelphiu on Thursday afternoon, when the boat capsized and Mrs. Burgurd and tho child were drowned. A iTvTi~K_,ro*M7?n ncFs. Mus. WINSLOW'S SOOTHINII Svnrr should nl ways too used for condron teething. ii soothes nw child, softens tu<- gums, allays all pain, cures wind collo, mu? ts tho in'st rcmcujr tor (tlarrhooa. Twentjr.nve cents a bottle. JqtjrMLtyl DEAF AND BLIND. How an Atlanta Woman was Made to Sec mid Hear. AN INTERESTING STORY. Miss Minnie Wallace resides with Mrs. George Ficklund, -ll McAfee street. At lanta, (ia., amt from her own lips a Cotttti tatton rep?rter learned thc following ftp. palling story: Several months ago she became almost totally Hliml ami deaf, ami could not taste anything except ?ult. Her bones hcc.nno the seat of intense pulu, her joints were swollen nml painful, Alld eventually her whole hinly ami limbs bec.nae covered with Splotches and small .sores. Her appetite failed, ami she gradually lost (lesli ami Strength, Sad hail hut little use of herself, AS ber limbs amt muscles were paralyzed, She, as welt as her friends ami those With whom she lived, despaired of her recovery. Her sufferings, combined with loss ot hear ing amt taste, and blindness, were truly heit) trending. All treatment from physicians and thc uso of medicines seemed powerless. Her disease was blond poison and rheumatism. As she now seemed well amt hearty thc reporter asked what wrought such a won derful change. "I used a medicine recommended by a friend," she replied, '-and before one bottle bul been takvn I began to sec amt hear. The m,nd bottle relieved all rheumatic pains ftml Improved my appetite. Whoa 1 had completed the use of six bottles my eyesight nml hearing were fully restored, sense of ta.sb- returned, all splotches disap peared, SOfOS all Healed, anti ifty strength and (lesli restored I now feel as well as I over did, amt my friends, as woll as my self, ure a -.1 oil in le? I " .'What WAS tho med lei ne."1 Asked tho re porter "botanic bio:.?I Hahn-D. ll. B.-was the groat remedy that neted so powerfully on my disease und cured me. I never expe rienced any unpleasant symptoms from lt? us??, and its* action is so quick that lt sur prises all." The reporter H en sought a physician who know tko enso, whereupon ho minded us thc following lines: "I examined thc above case of flood olson and rheumatism, before nml after oleg cured, and certify to tho facts os above stated, and must acknowledge that the B. B. B. effected a most wonderful cure In this well-known ease. [feigned] "J. Pd IMUTMUnoi.K, M. IV blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ha., will mail ft^J-jnige hook free, (Hied with magical Sold'hy all Druggists. Septa DYSPEPSIA M ireU as dialling complaint Ii Impairing nutrition, ?nd (lo la a dancorooa aa w?" ? ?3$ t?te? tho M| lor Kapi?! Declina. - THC BEST TONIC Silekly and completely DMNM.P'?tasiS!?tiT? Fond, Ac. It onriohoa and mallum HM PWOIl.J"Ouiu fctoa tba apetito, and aide {ho mvumi latlo ?oilnod Kr.v J T ROintn he honored Pjator ol tho First lle'formod Church. Bait ?moro. |M.tS?jrSI , "llaring uaod Druwn'B^rou Bit tura for Dynpepeia and Indication. I Uko groat pleaaur* in recom mit dinkTtliWihly. A lao con-l.l.;r ita aplondl.1 tonio andin?iiorator,andvenratr.<nKthonlnK. ." Ooniiino ku aimvo trado mai L ai . 1 .-roaaod red lin<\1 onmmt Take np ?Hlicr. MjjMCtJ^bT n?WM ?ll IM tV\l. CO.. HA H I IMOltK, Mil. Uri rn' HAND Boon-uaoful and attractive, con taining Hat nf prUea for recipoK, information about oolna. otc., friron away hy all iloalnra in medicino, or mailed to any addrosa on rocolpl of 2o. stamp. ^CKLEBER^ CORDIAL. TOR THE BOWELS AND CHILDREN TEETHE 1>*. Blfffrore' IHicklobcrry Cor dial IK tho KI*;'1 8outliorn remedy torrin IHR lliurrliu-a, DynOltfory, OrniWP" < <>ii< mid ali liowoln flections,mut restoring tho Milo ono sufferingsnell n drainage upon tho system from Hie effects of vi i.HUNO. I OIMIIC by nil ili-iiixttist?* "? o0c? n bottle. Send 20. stamp to Walter A. Taylor, Alfmitn, t?-i.. for Hiddle nook._ Taylor's tiicrnlwn ltciiterty of Sweet Ullin ami Ht ut lc I lt will rino Coughs, Croup and Consumption. Prloo,2Sc. nml 81 a bottle. TUTTIS 26 YEARS IN USE. The Qreatc8t?'Mcdicsl Triumph of tho Ago! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. I.OSSOf appetite. UoWels C.TBllvc, Pula ll the bend, with u dull eenantlon I? th? hack uart, l'nln ander the shoulder, bindo, Fullness after nut lau. ? Uh a (lia Inclination to exertion of bodjr ormlud, limitability oTtemper, bow spirits, with a feeling Ol having aculen rd soino duty. Weariness, Dlzxlnosi., Flattering: nt the Heart. Dots heforothe eye*, Headache over tho right eye. lteatleaaness. with nt tal iit-ea HOI. Highly colored L'rloo, and CONSTIPATION. TUTT'el PILI.? aro especially vlaptotl to snob esses, ono IIOBO effects ouch a chango offcul lng ns to astonish tho Bufferer. They Inrrcaio tit? Appetite,and cauae tho body to Takn ou FlesUitnUS tho ayaU-m ls Nourished, amt by their Tonic Action on tho i? Iterativo Or Raus, Kesitlar BUOOIH nro lir.-.In.-.-iI. l'rli o'Ji.r. -14 Blurray M..IX.Y. TUTT'S EXTRACT SARSAPARILLA Itenovatos tho body, makes healthy ir ii, stronjrthcns tho weall, repairs tho wastes of Hie ayalein w?Ui puro 1.1- -1 and li.ml muscio; tonos tho norvOUl BTStoln, luvlRoraleH tho system, inviici brain, anil Imparts tho Vigor of manhood firugK' O I? VIC IS 44 rilli $ I . Kohl by upi itriuctilalH. array St., Now York. MOTHER! ARK vor VUl il 1 l> I lt1 \\ With any disease pe-i 1 LvVM riiiini to youl oolitic ; sex'.' ll HO, to von wc hiiii^s tiding ; ol' com fort and lurent Joy. Von eau BKCURED und restored lo perfect health lij usino Bradfield's Female Regulator ! lt ls a special remedy fol' aM .lisi ase. pertaining to tho womb, ami nny intelli gent woman en i) niuo herself hy following tue dlrot Mons. Il lu cftpcoliilly oulcucioutt in eases of Rtippremed oi' painful menstrua tion, In whiten it nd partial pTolllpHtla. It attoids iniiiitKllnte relief and permanently li:.tores the inn,-tl nial I linet ion, ,\s a remedy to In; Used (IUl ilia that critical n i iod known as' ( II\NOI. ol Lin;," tills nvulunblo preparation lina ho ri viii. tt.tvi:i> in:BI 14'FJd! |tlDOR, MCINTOSH ( '?>., (f A. DH. J. llRADPiHi.rt~.Donr sir: i have taken gcvcrnl hotUoH of your Pe?nale I loga* lalor for fulling of tho womit nml other illseii'sofl combined, o* sixteen standing, mid 1 really believe. I nm cured entirely, for willoh pira.? accept my heartf?Mt. thanks ami most profound gratitude, I know your medici tip >v.,d my uf?, MI you KOO I euiinol Hpfiik t?M? liiglily in lu favor. I Im ve recommended ii Lo several of my friends who uro Kiilforing iw I wa%. Vouis very re ipcctiuliy, Mil! . \\. K. ST K BDI NS. Our Treatise on the "JIoAltll mi l Unnp|. nes> ol' Woman" mailed free. DI'ADFIKLD REOULATORCO., Atlanta, (?a. BepiafxLly CHAD I.OTT 15 Female Institute. SKSWION IJF/11NK SKPTKMI1KK 2nd, 1H8?, el ?sen June 2nd, lHRd, UiiHiiipassed in tho thoioaKhnc*<i and High rttandnrd of lt? Lltern.y, Music and Art Depart inputs. For (.'atulognes npply to KKV. W. Jt. A TKINSON, " ? " ( luirlotte. N. 61 s.-l'crsmiHireeolvliig eatnlouues will luke ont iee tlmt the session b?nins a week WKincr than announced in tho catalogue. Jnlygi.lm * ! 1*. -''*SJE is only a part o5 beauty ; but it is a part. Every lady may have it ; at least, what looks like it. Magnolia Balm both freshens and beautifies. NKXV APVKAtTlSKM ENTS. ir()SQi'i'r()iis.??T3 ?"?iMOSQUITO Hill-. CURR, gives' Instant roller, and drives Hiern away. Address HAL LA UK & CO., ? Bast 18th 81.. New York. BURNHAM'S oinievi:? HTA Xl? A KO TUBBINS is Un- 11R8T constructed oort nuls') ?1 Tlirblno In HIM WOI'M it gives bettor ix o outr '?i ?villi lMoi or mil Kntoj nnd ls villi for LK8S MON RY per (torso Power than aitj outer turbine. Pemphlot FltKK by BURNHAM WtOS., YOKK, I A. Julyssutw |S8tubll8ho<t FAY'S 18??. Manilla Roofing! Resembles uno leather, For Honrs, Oiitsldp Wails, nn.i inside tn place or Platter. \ery st nuiir and nunnie, carpi ts Olid Ruga or saiuo material. catalogue with testimonials ana samples PUER. W. II. KAY A CO., ()*til den, ?. J. AtlgfOMW THE Columbia Music House WILL SAYK YOU TU RN'l Y-Fl VE l'K?CKNT. Il Y BUY INO Pianos and Organs OF Tin:M. EVEUY INSTRUMENT WARRANTED DELIVEIIED AT ANY DKPQT OU STEAMBOAT LANDING IN THE STATE, o-o WHITE IOU TERMS ASM) I'hTCFS o-o SPECIAL TERMS FOHS?IOKT TI M E SALES. ftespcclfullyi COLUMBIA MU 8 IC HOUSE, N. W. THUMP, Malinger, 12d MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. THE CHURCHMAN. I'OIt l \ -Tl HST Y CAK, The Religious Weekly or (ho i*i <?t?'..t ant Kplficopal Church. A mngaxine of Rcelcsiastloal ixitelllgoni <\ ?tc . voilonal ami cone ra I retitling, nnd the Urges t nnd wost Influential weekly in Hie Piotestunt Episcopal Church. Ill the XOIVH l>o|tiirl nient Hie energy of Tim CllUHCIlMAN ls well known, ?nil ll.-; organic tallon I-? v?ry complete tor procuring news which I' ipvoa wini remarkable prompt noss. 'iii.' Mnffitsliic l>ei>nrtnieul nloue con? laius in a x i .ir sunn i, m reining matter to make inure than live 12trio bookit ol uno pages oneil. Hs lloolv Hr views are a prominent fea. tine. Literary, Arl uni Mclenlltte %'ntonar? carefully prepared ><v specialists. Hs Huronean CorrcMpondontw ure pur sons of ...Hinom iibltll v. ,'llie t hililien'M lleourl ment ls lillis. troted nn.i spoolnMi edltoil lortln children. .J?.50 a y oar In advance, post paid. Tiiroo dellars io Ulcrgvmcn. Single copies toft cents. M. II. MALLORY A CO., 47 l.aru.velle I'lnee.\ew York. Apnuun PEACE INSTITUTE FOR vor.Nt; LADIES, HALEIGH, NORTH < AKUL1NA. rp HE PALL T E KM COMM R N t ! KS ( >.\ L the Hist Wednesday of September, IS8?, und doses correspomlbig I Imo In Jane following. Advantages lor instriie BOII hi all tho branches usually taucht lp (tist-olusa Seminarios for Young Ladies, lurpassed. Building heated by steam, Mid hi ever) way as to equipment, ijfc?,. filial to any in the South. A full corps of I >t ClassTcaoliora ongagad for session taiimoncltig in September forms as rea-. * i.ihle as any other Institution offering s? be advantages. Correspondence solicit? od Kor catalogue, cotitaitilng full particu lar- as to terms, &e.. add res - ?KV. ll. KL KW KKK .V SUN, .I lyj'.M.'-'in Principals, Haleigh, N. c. ESTABLISHED IN 1793 BINGHAM'S IsJl.iniv school for Hoys in tho Knuth wlih ?A?f.ujiir, a llrst-eluss GYMNASIUM, and .i "?1 law HATH riot/SB. sl li.il (erins tn v..MI.ir men .>( fem ill menus. \> I' -:;r.i vesslon begliifl August Min. i"\S laiogue nddn , J Hui. lt. BINGHAM, .'I'l I itu HINOHAM MCIKIOL. N 0. *** ?rt?*. Aetrtalnonrw. Not Axpttulr*. ThrM S?l?l ?'reatrnent tn on? puok?ige. OO<K1 for Cold v rXSJ?f^i H**d*eti?. Iriulnr.M, liny Pever, Ave. Ki wama, ra. I ??4 WHISKY II A IllTM .1,1.4 Ml homo xx Him,it pal II. HOOK "f o.i ri l< o lin.? H. ni I un t; ,B. ti. WOOLLXr, W. D ,AtUnU,0?. n| mS? .!."r fitf ai?? ld aaoo p+* !?Jl".. v?,*M*"iji|i iiin oniiiil :>..?, If i?ior.r. f i?'"AIiin.l lln l.l.r llitlllrwol 11.. '.Voi ld Wrlu- w*.c. Slctilrtly Jt Co., 1J..I.U. t|.i,U,J'*. you Sup pose .^lstang Liniment only good tot h,Acs? It is (or inflamma tion olli flesh.