The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, September 16, 1885, Image 4
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.
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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.
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Ul IO Niki's Q# i H K STATU. 1
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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.
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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
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SALES.
ftespcclfullyi
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N. W. THUMP, Malinger,
12d MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C.
THE CHURCHMAN.
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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.
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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.
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Ml homo xx Him,it pal II. HOOK
"f o.i ri l< o lin.? H. ni I un t;
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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.