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"Wie A OH THE MONTH. -.---jxAiiLK 8i'uoU8TiOi>fei ritual J. C. G A UL nam AUTHORITY. LAITRJt Work tlu- Uood Farmen Hhould Do lu --(lu- 'Mon,li ul llniniivr \n l'iiri. I 111 Arti cle From an in.. I.\\ riler. (W. Jones in the Deco ml vi "OultlT?tor.") Last month attention was called to thc importance ot' supplying animals, ht winter, with wann water and warm food, lt was suggested that water he brought iront springs, in underground pipes, directly into the stalls, when? ever this was practicable. Mut ns this cannot be done on many binns, we suggest (mother arrangement, which is practicable on every tann. A lon e pump may be placed In (bc bani or stable with pipe running (Vom it to n well near by. With such arrange ment, tito larmer without exposure, und without taking bis animals front their stalls, could supply them with frosh, warm waler, by pipes running front the pump to drinking vessels in each stall. 'Ibo pipe, loading lo tho well, should bc sunk deep enough in tho ground to escape frocking in tho coldest weather. How quickly, bow easily, bow pleasantly could stock bo supplied with fresh, warm water in winter, and cool, fresh water in sum mer. The first outlay would bo soon returned in the .saving ol' limo und labor in taking- animals in and out of their stalls. Irregularity in feeding and water ing lays die foundation for much ol' tho sickness of Stock. Ar runge \ diing, thorcforc, about barn an ;t: bio with reforoneo to great est con ni ncc and dispatch. The cusiera ig can be done, tho more certainty ot tts being done. Rainy weather Usually sets in this month :ind continues during tho win ter. If stock ffas been allowed thc run ol' tho fields up i<> this time, stop it at once. There is no practico in our tanning more short-sighted Iban allow - ing stock lo tramp tho wei Ileitis il ti ring winier. Pretty much o\ irything ol' value ns food Ig'.s been gleaned ul ready; ll,,;, stock will gel little or ..IVOthing, but they will damage tito land greatly. Thc lund la entitle?! to all the debris of ibo crop. Don't bo so short sighted us to try to ge! everything'out ol it nt once Ilcuicnibcr tho story of thc goose Illili laid (ho golden egg. Moreover, ii j- true economy, ns well as kindness to stock, to keep thom out td" tho cold rains. The little gleaning they gel will not produce moro animal beal than thal which OXpostll'O io cold rains will lake Iront their bodies. In other words, tho animals will gain nothing, Ibo Holds will lose their vege table mattel-and the soil ?is friability. In all thc more thickly settled portions of thc country wo have passed beyond the mixed pastora! and farming tr?ate, and linvo rein!.ed the lanning' state proper. Our policy now is lo provide special pastilles and raise food for till the stock kept on the larm. This must become, a> much as any other, au or ganized, woll-dcvoloped part of our lunn economy. Seo how readily and quickly it assumes lids shape on tho stock farms scntlcrcd over the coun try. Owners o? Jerseys-who attach value to theil'stock-very soon have good pastures and unlimited supplies of forage I' only requires that one should make up blsmiltdlo have them. With ilermudu grass, red, white and burr clovers, lueorn and Spanish > hi ver, orchard, herds and bine grassOS, barley, rye, Gorman millet, sorghum, pea vinos aird drilled corn ; why should ono over bo at a lo.-s in providing for bis stock? With so many available crops, sup plcmculcd by un unlimited supply ol cotton sied and a mild, genial climate supcradded. why should no! Southern farmers raiso more stock ? Why should a mule or ii horse ever bo brought from (bc northside o? tho Ohio rivoi'? Why should hundreds ol' tons of butter und oleomargarine I rom tho North be .sold in tho South, everv year? Why work ourselves lo death lo raise colton to buy horses, mules, bacon, Hour, lard, meal, glucose Ol' starch syrup when i very ene of these, except tho glucose, which can bo sup planted by sorghum syrup, can bo raised at home without Ibo slightest diflloultyl Why play into tho bands of middlemen, railroads, banks, spec ulators, cb:., to say nothing of thc de pendence upon the unsteady, unreliable laborers in our midst? You say cotton is always .salable, alway- brings cash. ?So ?loos first-class butler, so does bacon, SO dues lard, SO docs a good Hillie or horse. ,Jersey butter linds ready sale simply because il is good butter. The owners of such stock make butter ?n n blisiucss-llko way; they have good milk-houses and "proper arrangements for cooling and keeping milk ; water power or some other mechanical device for churning. They do liol lose patience in cool weath er and pour hoi water i II the ch' : rn ; they know that slow churning makes the most and the best buller. They know that large bods of cotton -ced spoil butter, and they Iced something else. Il all of our fanners bandied their milk and butler in like manner, Nor!beru buller would soon bc driven but of thc inark(;l. in the olden lime, the lillie surplus butter on our tarins was regarded as a trille, und little attention given il. Heme, wo have billen into careless ways and methods -let us chango them. Let every ?'ariiicr arrange to make -onie butter tor market-handle ii properly, mak< its quality good and its appearance attractive and be will always lind ready sale at good prices. In this connection attention maj bc called to thc importance of improving * our native stock. This can bo most quickly dono by crossing tvlth soino of tho improved breed-. Jersey bulls can now bo purchased ul very reason able pri'-es, Excepting I lioso from most, noted strains, bull calves can be bought from fifteen to fifty dollars, ll ft*largo, weli-l'onned native cow, willi good udder and large lents, bo crossed with a Jersey bull, tho roaninna grade Will bo valuable (tor meal, milk and buller, lt is remarkable how mitch both the quantity and quality of the butter is Improved by such a cross. For general purposes on a farm, -ueh A Jersey grade ls, if anything, proffer able to a full-blooded Jersey, n is hardier, hus longer teats and ls, I boro lore, more easily milked, and when old, makes more meat, lu short, il Is a good combination animal. Ono near a largo tnurkel, who proffers selling milk to butter, might, cross with a llolstcin bull. Tho Holstein is a large breed at)d perhaps the deepest milkers wo have. They require good pastures mid abundant Ibm I. A cow is sometimes defiued ns n machine for converting food into milk; to got milk, therefore, Ibero Iflits! bo foot!. A cow cannot make something out of nothing- thal is an attribute of omnipotence only. Hut thc Ibods ^ivou to animais ?<ro quite variable in ?m ? M !? ll lill I I .III ll 1.1.? .1 -- ??ll ? - - ^ -- their composition, und ono might uni urtdly infer thal a food willi a certain composition might bo more easily and OOliVplotoly converted into milk than some other of different character; an other might be more readily converted Into tlcsli and fat. In a general way this has been recognized und accepted 18 a facti Corn, Tor instance, is con-j bldorcd a fattening food; cow-peas as a inllk-produolug one. Dut experi ments have been made lo test these mai tors more in detail and more (lott* nitcly, and tho best rations for special purposes have boen llxod with o (logreo of certainty sufficient for practical purposes. Food may be regarded as made up of (bree groups ol' sub stances: nitrogenous compounds (which for brevity may be called pro tein), starch, gum and sugar com pounds (called hydro-carbons) and tats. Now, foi' A cow weighing 1,000 pounds, experiments show that its dally rations should contain _',! pound'; ol protein, 12? pounds of hydro-car* hons and fourteenths ol n pound of fat. This does not mean that the food if analyzed should contain Hie above quantities of those substances, but I lint tnoso quantities must bo prosonl In digestible lorin so tho animal eau digest and appropriate them. The amounts present and Hie amounts digestible arc quite unequal especial ly in long forage, as hay, fodder, straw, otc. Tims of nay about 00 per cent, ol'ils protein is digestible; about the samo of its hydro-carbon, and from 20 to '10 per ceiit. of its fut. Ol' straw/ al? .a! 1?0 per cent, ol' ?ls protein, ' 10 per cont, of 'as hydro-carbon ijrhd .">o per cont, of its fat is digostllAo. Ot corn (grain), nearly 80 per eeait. ol its protein, {?0 per cent, of ita hydro-car bon and ii" per cent, of it's fat is digest ible. Of oats (grain), 87 por cont, of it protein, 77 of its hydro-carbon anti Ts percent, ol'it? fal is digestible. In making- up a ration, therefore, atten tion m ut bo had, i ot only lo (he composition ol stuff (as shown by an alysts)", but also to its digestibility. Ta bios ol' composition and digestibility of i be more common kinds ol' food and l'orage are given in a little book called "Farmer's Animal Handbook," published by 1 ). Appleton & Co., ttl" New York, which every : faur WOllld lind USOflll and convenient to have. (This is gratui tous advertising, given without tho knowledge ol said publishers), lu making up the ration for ail animal, tho proper proportion ol Ibo three in gvodionts mentioned above caa bc secured only by mixing two or nene foods in certain proportions. No sin gle tooti contain- them exactly lu proper proportions, though some ap proximate il nearer than oilier-, li tiny ono of Ibo three bo prosont In t rall?n in excess ol tho union nt cal let fur, ii will liol bc appropriated le UK animal, and will, therefore, bo practi etti ly lost. A question ol' economy U therefore, largely involved. Our oh jed now is to call attention lo it to ii? our readers lo think about tho maller Ad somo future limo wo hope lo glv< several ration.;: properly proportioned and Uli?do lip Of lllO (odds and Image generally found on Southern farms. Tho work of tho year is about lin ?shod. Would it liol be wei! lo bal ance accounts and 600 w hether WO liav made Ol' lost ? We hope all w ill lim lllO balance on tho right side Ol' iii lodger, ir any are so unfortunate a to be in debt, wc hope they will lin themselves nearer out Iban they wer a year ago; and, inspired with fros hope, will enjoy tho happy reunions u thc approaching Christmas. To on and all tho writer sends his warnie greetings. \l iii!? Til ra is Life Thor? ii Hopo. Many of Hie discasos of this Bcasq of (ho year can bc averted by a sma amount of care and at bric cost, I; tho timely use of EWIJANK'S TOP.I CINCHONA CORDIAL. lt, eures Diarrhoen, Dysentery, Clio era Morbus and like complaints. 2V (rucclcr should be without a bottle, : it will prevent any disenso that woul HO doubt arise from tho ? bange t water, food and climate, without ii uso. Thc most valuable medicine i tho world, contains nil tho bosl an most curative properties ol' all ot ht Tonics, Hitlers, etc., cte, being til greatest blood Purifier, Liver Keguli tor mid Lite mid llealth-ltostoriu Agent in existence. For Mal ark Tiver and Ague, ('nias :.:i<l Fcvc Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sick Heat nelie, Nervous Headache, Caroni UhenmaUsm, etc., etc., it is truly lb rouleau liemody. It gives new Iii and vigor to the aged. For ladies i dclicalo health, weak and sickly chi dieu, nursing mothers. ?Seo circulai wrapped with bottle. CIIARI.KSTON, S. C., Sept. 1, 1885, li. 15. EWBANK, ESQ., Presiden! < Tho Topaz. Cinchona Cordial Co Spartaiibnrg, S. C, : Dear Sir-I Ino ii-c<| a case of your Topaz Cordial i my family, and as ri Tonic, and Appi ii /.or I can cheerfully recommend i*. ? all who are MI ncr i ug from Dobilil und lack ol' appetite My childroi (.specially, havebcon much bonciiltc by its use. Respectfully, DUTSON LKK. Ask your druggist for EWBANK TOPA2 CINCHONA COUDIAL and tal no other. TICK TOPAZ CINCHONA CORDIAL CO., Spnrtanburg, s. (;., u. s. / A SI orv ul ( 'Oil l( I Ilia. Senator lliloy, of Now York, said ll other evening, while speaking of ll famous Broadway investigation by tl .sp?cial committee of tho Legislature: ' never was so impressed with a man as was with Roscoe Conkliug while v wore holding that investigation. Aft WO bad concluded taking the tchtimon; tho counsel for tho defense gave nota that they wished to .submit argumenta ; Albany. Of 00111*80 wt! wanted M Conkhug to go along as the represent t i ve td the committee? When the prop sitien was made to him in secret sessk he said that be would pieter to have h partner, Mr. Howard, assume that sbai i of tho work, because thoro were ccrtai memories about Albany which woul make it very distasteful to him in cai bo should have to visit there. Bowal llatly declined to go, and in tho coin.' of this discussion one of tia! members < the committee said that there wer. tv, ?Senators who bad particularly retpte.sk his proHonco. They wore men who vote against Oonkllng in the famous Som toiiid contest of 1881. A? their nunn wen; mentioned, Conkliug drow bimse lip to his full height and said: "Conti nu ii, 3 shall merely scud these persons ix.'ito note of regret.' After a great doab persuasion, howovor, ho consouted I ?e.-'Washington Letter to tho Jiostc i weller. i io formation of Mother Eve's tomb < thc outskirts of Djoddah shows ber to hal been a woman over thirty feet high. \\ have alway." hud a suspicion that ralbi Atioiit, when he nie that quince, was a vi tim of domestic coercion. WHAT CUSI KI.AND MU8T DO. Views Of Well KUOWII DOUlOAmllO I'Mitors anti al?-<> of Clltll'lvtl A . DiMIII. The Boston Globo prints lottors from some of tho best known editors of thc country in an; wer to the query: "What should President Clevelitud do during tho next two years iu order that Demo? eratic success may bo assured bl I SSS?" Colono! Alexander "McClure of the Philadelphia 'l imes writes: "if Cleve land keeps straight along he will bo ids own successor." Charles A. Danu ol tho New York Sun antagonizes tho above with tho follow ing: "Ile should in most rcspcots ?lo differently from what ho has done during tho last two years." Bainre! Bow les of tho Springfield Bc publican says: "Ho should steadfastly live up lo Hu- principles CUUUOialcd in his letter accepting tito nomination for Hie Presidency and in his lotter of Dc oombor ~">, 1881, to George William Curiis." F. W. Dawson of tho Charleston News and Courier writes: "Del him go on to thoond in thc. way lie hus been going from tho beginning." M. M. Gillam of tho Philadelphia Keeord says that ho should lill tho oflic< S with wide-awako, representative Demo crats as speedily as possible, under tiber? olly interpreted civii service rules, and allow the men so appointed to work for tho party. Melville li. Stone of tho Chicago New s nays: "Ile should bc abie to go boforo the country with coutldouco U))OU his record. If, however, it bo true thal tho ma jority of tho American people do not approve of his policy, do not regard 'a public o il ice as a public trust,' rather than a partisan reward; it' it be true that tho general sentiment of tho country moy be arrayed against an honest, faith ful and intelligent administration of tho Presidential olliee, then tho attention of thoughtful minds may be v.? ll turned to tt weightier question than the welfare ol' of the President or his party." Btillson Hutchins writes that Clove land bas strengthened ids parly outside its natural linos, Ho should now con solidate anil energize it. Ile has no doubt of Democratic sucres in Is-ss with or without Cleveland, but think- it would bo just like Cleveland to positively decline a renomination. George W. Abell of Ibo BaltimoreSnn commends Cleveland for keeping his ph dges and chides the party for love ol' Spoils. \N ivyW ON DUI Mi, Drink makes a man a fool. Take tho wisest imin and make bim drunk, and ?ie is as big a fool as the most illiterate and silly is in tho sanu- condition. In lac!, tho wiser tho niau tho bigger tho fool tormore reasons than one. Men, ill Ibo ?lush of their young manhood, who would not stoop to anything bein nth the dignity of gentlemen when sober, have laen known to borrow moKcy when drinking, in order to got nu re of tho very stun that was even then making th li lose their solf-l'cspecl and forget lb? ir manhood, with all 'dbi' true, thc beautiful and tho good," mid bcoouio troublesome to their friends and thc community and liable, to violate thc law und bo punisho'J for He ir recklessness, While slightly under ilia iulhtCUCO of liquor, and not onough to bo detected by others, acts have been committed and words uttered, unconsciously through th>; effects ol Hie stimulant, which would naiko any sober, sensible person think tho ''guilty" man must bo either tight or .'a natural born-fool." All owing lo thu mean liquor shoved uti on him. A nam who takes but one drink de serves no more credit than he who lukes two. The principio is thc same ail the way through; the CUIISQ and elicit the sumo in tho one caso us in th olhor. if one thin!, satisllcs one man and it lake, moro for another, both should bo hold equally guilty, on tho principle that if ono drink did not satisfy tho former ho W< uld ;ake as much os Ibo lotter. ft isa weakness lo di ink. in the sense that it is a weakness to gamble, etc. ft is o habit, a passion, Wo uro nil weak creatures of habit and pus- icu. Ono hus a fondness for one tll'.Ug, and one for another. What suits one, d u s not al ways suits another. Hi ninny cases thc gambler does not drink ; in ninny easer, tho midnight thief does not drink. Their nil ino1 passion is not tho cup Unit in toxicates; they arti intoxicated with tho love and excitement of Un ir avocations. Often the man who drinks bas no other fault-his fault is moro hurtful to him self than to others. Free from the oli'cots of drink, he attends to bis busi ness and minds his own nbairs; but un der its influence, ho neglects his busi ness and speaks and acts as he would not be guilty of doing when sober. A man whose relined nature and cultivated taste would shrink from tlie very thought of Ovil, losses his betb r soil when under tho control of drink, u-ml li?' del.herab ly commits those very ?ins from w hich he recoils in his soberness. Ho gets into bad company and becomes involved in ugly scrapes. lt is easy enough for tho free man to say he could quit drinking. Lot him contract the habit and ho v.ill ?ind then that if he abandon it be w ill dosorve mure credit than if ho had never begun Un habit. Tin grandest exhibition of human w ill that can be, is recorded when a slave breaks his bonds and stands linn. Why don't you bike one drink and quit? Yes, yielding to tho temptation to take one drink and quit bas been the prime cause ol the los. of ninny 0 mighty and magnificent mind Hud could Bavo made its future as grund and glorious as its wast had been infamous and inglo.i ons. Edgar Allen Poo once thought he was strong enough to take one drink and quit. But in the brilliancy ol his intel lect, bright in the circle ol totters OS tho evening star in Ibo circle above bim, found to his cost Uni! be could not take one drink and quit. Prentiss, the matchless Mississippian, under the pow er of whose gigantic mind a concen trated Congress sw uv cl for consecutive days; once thought he could take ono drink and quit. But in the pride of his intellectual strength, in the glory of Iris towering mind, be too lound to his cost that ho could not bike one drink and quit.-Newberry Observer. fcoiiit lliliiu Almut t-mitrt ? Inn?. Santa Claus AVft* 011C Of Ilia oldest ideas Of Ibo Celtic Wet in Pagan limes, US Jig was of Hie Pagan Kasl before. In Christian Kines ho was still regarded with religious reverence, silting, as he had sat for agi m Hgypt and elsewhere, in tho innis of his mother. Simla Claus was, in fact, thc child Jesus in the middle ages, ami through out that period the festive creed of Ocr ninny and nil Celtic Ku rope was thal he visited all family dwellings of good Christ ians on thc eve of his anniversary, anti brought with him gifls and blessings for the children. This beautiful tradition le still to Ixi found lingering in Germany, I hough Santa Claus docs not seem lo tn specially connecte?1, with it by name. Thc truth of this original belief is plainly enough Indicated, by the word "claus," which In tho Ootuk: or ancient Gorman mean? ' child?' aud "son." St.nln Claus formerly meant tho Holy Ch i in. II.?nm-n ' i ur SKNATOlt JONKS'8 HANK. I V Pell I'iiluiv ol th?' Ith lu st Ilolrc*n lil til? Wont. Jiy tho death of Pnmois Point?, ono of tho oldest and best known oitizous of Detroit, tho entire estate which ho had accumulated descends to two children, a son and daughter. Thc exact value of thia estate, nays n writer in tho Philadel phia Times, it is impossible to tlx with certainty, bnt it is behoved that it will not fail bolow $10,000,000 at tho lowest. Much <>f it consists in great land tracta in Michigan and Wisconsin, covorcd by tlic towering forests for which that region is famous, and the value of which is morally certain to increase as tiinbor tor building and other purposes becomes moro scarce. Added to this aro bonds and securities lo tho amount of an nl most fabulous sum, and real estate in n number of western cities. Always au economic and thrifty man, Mr. Pulmo j Minde h w blunders in tho investment of ids capital, thc entire sum of which ho hardly know himself at thc time of his death from general debility. But little is known of the sou, who will probably share jointly with tho daughter in tho distribution of this vast estate, and who is an olVspring ol' Mr. Puhns's first mar riage, tho daughter being tho fruit of a second union. Unfortunately, the same cannot bo said for Miss Palms, however, thanks to tho conduct of a Senator of tho United States. A few years ago Miss Palms visited Washington for the lirst time, and was given a cordial welcome by tito wives of politicians whom her father had helped to make. Personally accomplished and beautiful, she won a high place in many hearts, and, as sub sequent events proved, completely con quered tho susceptible Senator Jones, hiiring her visit to tho capital tho atten tions of thc Florida statesman becamo so frequent and annoying that when Miss Palms tinnily left thc city it was said she lind done so only to escape her elderly suitor's persecutions. In this, it will bc remembered, she was not successful, ns Senator .Jones followed her to her home in Detroit, refusing to accept an un qualified no from thc indy in answer to his oiler of marriage. Physical forco finally succeeded in closing tho door of Hie I'alms mansion against him, but it has not served to prevent him from re maining in tho Michigan metropolis nor from sending constant reminders in tho shape of fruits and Howers to a lady who as constantly returned them without re ply. As photographed by tho gossips, Miss Palms is tall and stately, like tho lui whose plural name she bears. A calth of dark and lustrous hair crowns an unusually shapely head, which itself i-i poised upon a graceful figure of the mature dovolopmont of some thirty odd 'i .-ni II. i lilli )' in thu Hume. ii is from ( iglit to sixteen thal boys begin lo brink away from parental con trol and tho r< strain of Mic fireside, lt is (hen thal thoy seem to feel that Uley know more than they who boro them; it ii Ihctl that they begin to assert the liberty of the street, and taste its do lo i ms, its vices, and its crimes. Said mi English jurist of great distinction: "A largo majority of all tho criminals who aro brought before mo have boen made what they arc by hoing allowed to be away from home evenings between tho ngos of eight and sixteen." What a testimony is this, dour mothers and sis tors! Surely ono of thc. must practical . lies iii tlii tempor?neo work is how to koop tho young away from kmptn lion, ami pleasantly and profitably occu py the evenings, (?third your own doors, i hore is one sort of drinking-housc that no State enactment cnn touch, and that is n private house with a decanter in its cu) il KUI rd. Qood friends, guard your ov I] doors with teetotalism. A foolish rici) man who died lately disinherited Iii drunken sun. In that '.tine will ho bcqueulhcd his "wino collar" to certain In ira. 'j lu latin i most insanely t mptod his own son to drink, and then on his dying bed gavo tho boy a last kick into 0| II disgvaei ! Thc most effectual of all homo protection is to guard our own homo. From such temperance homes ivill i ..nie the powor to close up Hie pub? lie oil inking dens.-Cuy 1er. Itrglllatlllg Ihi' ItnilromN. WASUINUTON, December 0.-Tho con ui ?3 (ii tho interstate commerce hill finished their labors t li iv morning and will H port their bill ns soon ns il can bo printed. On Hu (ptestlou of enforcing thc act, thc i oniinissioa feature of Ibo Senate i>i!l is ne copied by tho House conferees, while the Si into conferees accepts tho system pro I din Ibo Ucagftll bill, under which a H!lipper i^ entitled tosuo for damages lo tho L'nitcd Man s Court in ins own behalf, fl ives shippers thc option of making complaints to the commission on instituting gaits in tlic Federal courts. Railroads are prohibited from charging more for a short (han for n longer distance inion their own lines in '.in sa ne direction, thc shorter being ?ni hided within thc longer distance and thc circumstances and conditions teing tho same; bul the commission is authorized, upon thc application of the railroad, and liter un investigation of Ibo facts, lo relieve ibo roads from the operation of thc general mle in Bpcclnl cases. Tlic Senate conferees H i o to thc absolute prohibition of pooling contained in the Househill. These were the main features of differ once. ' >ii thc question of thc publicity of rates, the provisions of tho two hills have been merged sor..-, lo require each railroad to make public tho rates between points upon Its own road, as proposed in thc f louee bill, and, in addition, the commission is re quired tu seeuic publicity of through rates in so tar as il may IK: found necessury. A Wail ol Dhu1 re tl, M wm.s TON, December "..-Thc people in this seel ion ol' the State ure in a sad con dillon. Tho terrible freeze of last January eulin ly destroyed tho oat crop und seriously il ibo wheat. A few spring oats and about Ibo ixtli of a wheat crop wns gat h ri. I. I' was very soon consumed. The Hoods mid hud Btorm8, from thc vim h of May to the middle of Jilly, dcslroyed the p on thc bottom lands, The. little corn made on thc uplands is atout out now. Tho cotton . rop hus boen gathered, mid is iiboui sold, lt will not exceed forty per ...i of last year's crop. There is nota fanner who has made expenses. All are behind, with scarcely any wheat or ont seed lo sow, and everything man or beast cot? I li i, io buy, except bay. Thc outlook is didi. Tho condition of thc white people is bud enough, tut lhat of tho blacks is sorrowful. A? least one half of them will have to leave Hi county. They have nothing to buy shoos or clothes with, und they have scarce ly anything to oat, and the wliiu; people arc powerli M to nld them. Tho pcoplc'uro on thc edge of distress, und it lias not been from any fault of theirs. They could not fight the ?l?ments. There mimi bu a great it al of suffering this winter.- Neu? and Co Ul'?O'. ? ?.. ..???,?? Bietet I.'.uisc, the lieut and founder of '?ii houses of thc ( )rdcr of-J^otre Dame In this country, wita their 700 sinter? and 2:i, 000 girl pupils, died Er id ay. afternoon in Cincinnati. Six houses of Nolro l)nmo on the Pacific slope also lose la her ono of their principal founders lb illiunt society fcalurc?r-8ome people's noses. COTTON UANIMTH l\ YOHIl. l-'orly ttegroea tiwror to KUI any One Calchlo* Hiern ?li...: Colton -A Whit? Uoy or 13 Yearn their I'lr ?I Vlrllni. YOUK, December H.-The Aar* amt ?PU> n'er lins already published in a dispatch from Chester tho fact that a young white boy wu s found near Iiis home, in York county, so badly beaten and mangled titat he soon died. The following arc Hie facts as far as can he learned: About sundown on the evening of thc UOtlt ult. lories of distress were bearii ia tho Held of Wm. K. Good, who lives near Broad Diver, in tho western pail of tills county. A negro hoy in tho lot hastened in the direction of the rn followed by Mrs. Cond and her little daughter. Pro ceeding they found the sou of Mr. Good, a lad 13 yean old. named John Lee, lying in a water furrow in a senseless condition, his skull crushed, his mouth knocked In and lits body bruised. Ile was carried lo lin house and died at !. o'clock, never recover ing consciousness. Trial Justice lilah, in thc lioigldjorhood, was untitled and on Wednesday, acting ns coroner, Ito sum moued a jury and proceeded willi the bi lpa st. After examining a largo number <?i witnesses the inquest was adjourned anti met again on Friday, when, after taking much testimony, none of a conclusivo Character, the jury again adjourned lill nevt Friday. In tho meantime circumstances pointed to Mose Lipscomb, Dali Uoberts, Hailey Dowdle and Print Thompson, till colored, as the guilty parties, and they were com milted to jail. The theory of tho Investi cation WHS that some ot theso negroes hail been detected by tho murdered boy in tho net of stealing a basket of colton fruin hi< father's Held, and to picvent detection they killed him, intending to throw bis body into Broad river, only two hundred "yards dis taut ; hut they were thwarted in thistly thc approach of tho people from the house. Thc theory proved correct, for this morn ing Print and Dan made acoufession to tho above effect, and also Implicated Mose and Dailey as accessories. They olso say that ibero is it combination of about forty ne groes in that neighborhood pledget) that If cither ono is caught in the act of stealing they are to kill the person so detecting them. This admission may lead to a large number of arrests. There is much excite nu nt In [thc Broad river section, and now that a confession has been made, your cor respondent does not pretend lo know what univ happen next, though al this time all is quiet. Attempting ,u Slake blntea Lindie tu Hmo, hy their own Clttaeua. HAI.KUUI, N.C., Dcccmbcrl). -Thc case of Temple against (ho State of North < toro linn and Uoberts, auditor, involving tho right of holders of gpo ?ni tax bonds lo en foreo the collect Inn of special laxes levied by Ihcjsamc Acts ni' Assembly under whii h tho bonds were nuthori/.ed, was heard vi lerdayin tho United Stau- Court, beton Judges Mond ami Seymour, on n motion ? i thc State to dismiss the bill. A nov. ! quos lion arises as to the right of a citizen of a State tn sue it, when his Federal lights!:; ,, been invaded by alleged unconstitutional legislation. Edward L. Andrews, of New Voik, and F.\ Solicitor General S. L. !\ Phillips. In elaborate argument, upheld the jurisdiction of tho court, while 1!. P. Hal ile and John W. Graham, for the Stale, op posed it with ability and n free citation ol authorities. The same Judges are to day engaged lu hearing thc ( asL-of Mo: lon, Uli - A Co. vs. Itohorls, auditor, which is it p<-|ji? >n I I mandamus lo < ump; 1 tin auditor lo include In tho tax list a requisition foi Ute collei lion of special luxe-;. The sana' < ounscl ap pear in this caso. Thc dei ??ion of the Cou rt is awaited ?llb much lu ter cst. A Oucer Judicial Or etalon. Thc laws of Ohio require all property I bc listed for taxation "ut its true value in money." National bank stock is. as a lille, worth in the upen market nmre than IOU cents on the dollar, lt \s:?s assessed la l year al <l"> cents on the dollar, mid ti' banks, admitting it was worth mr? li nu ie than (ho assessment, .sought to enjoin >. collection on so large a valuation. Tiley founded their righi to a reduction on li' ( 1.>im thal other propel ly was n it valued . . highly in proporllon lo Its actual value, This amounted to a claim thal perjury, being general, should lie stamped with Ino approval of lite courts and made universal. To I he amazement of honest folk not ac quainted w ith tin lore nf the law books, tlc COllt'l decided in favor ol' Stcinil absurd claim. Thc lawns lt now stands is therefore that tho banks shall have (bel I right to violate law because others aro n .! conscientious in listing properly for laxa lion, Il is such deep imtl mysterton decisions"ns the one rendered in Cl vcland last wi ck that furnish ammunition to jaw smiths and wild-eyed reformers.- Yomt? loten (Oki") Telegram, Never Too OM IO Wed. That the fires of love sometime: burn brightly oven in the breasts ot those who havo passed ila alloted lindi of life ia proven by a marriage which was solemn ized in Middletown, N. Y.. recently. Thc united ages of the contracting parties arc lil years, thc groom bel?g ?oycan old and the bride fourycnrs his senior. The groom was Sampson Townsend, a w'oll-to do i< tired fanner of Light Sin.!, Columbia county. Pa., and tia- bri le Mis. Julia Oil lespio of Middletown. Tho wedding look place nt the residence of the bride':, daugh ter. When (ho hour for (he ceremony had ar rived the venerable but smiling and appa rently very happy couple wcroescortcd lo their station under a llornl boll by thc six year-old grandson and three year old ?{real granddaughter of die bride'. The ceremony was performed by tho bride's pastor, Kev, C. M. Winchester, and it was noticed that the contracting couple were ns nervous anil asawkawrdas if this was their first oxpori euee in matrimony. About thirty guest.-, were present, nearly al! of them being de scendants of the britle, li Is Intimated that the couple will not lie very warmly wei coined by the groom's family, two grown up sons. - - ..??.?>. \ *rni Tragedy. Last Saturday evening two sons of Mrs. Booth, Ashby and Gcorgo, with a [son ol' Mr. Sam Brown named ErvIn, wore play lng willi an unloaded pistol, in 11 room in Mrs. Booth's. There was a loaded pistol on thc mantlepicco, and in some way Ervin got hold of il, thinking it was unloaded, and snapped it at Ashby, sending tho bullet into Ids brain. Tho ball struck Asbby'f head just hack of Hie car, and passing up wards and forwards penetrated thc skull near thc top of the head, lie lived, though Unconscious, until the next afternoon. An investigation hy the Coi oner brought to light thc above facts. Mrs. Iloolli ls al? most crazed with grief and is lu aver} < iii ital condition.-Snmler Watchman, Progrra? or Pri.hlMtloii. Mo.vrooMKuv, Ai,A., December 8.-Tho House of Representativos of the General Assembly, now in session, has passed u bill making the retail liqtim lin ti-.c whii h ll equivalent lo more than doubling lt. A proposition to make it >}?.V)0 was voted dow n by a small majority. The Assembly has passed prohibition bills outright for two of the largos* black counties, upon petit inn from nearly all tho whii.' inhabitants. Loi al prohibition bills aro prised almost wi) ho ii objection from any member, The senate lats pawed a general local option Jaw for all tho crmtules. ' ^ Thc difference between g matrimonial tic mid a neektlo ls that thc latter will wear out and the formor won't. Hilled by lie?T. MONTIII??L, December 8.-A terrible Story cornea from I .orignal tothofcffccttbntl a man named Alfred Lav?lo and hf? son j Adela rd, ii hoy of 18, went hunting on 1 Monday ladt. As they did not return, tho neighbors shirted luto tho woods tn search and found (hoir demi bodies lu a' terribly mangled . ondltion. Dear tracks were found in all directions, hut ii U still uncertain j whether tl,;' men were attacked and lolled Willie a9lee|) or if they had lust tired upon ! tho Btivago animal? mal had been alter ward overpowered. Tho bodies were fi uud about three feet apart. -. ?n? - Plrea ul il:e Mouth. Tho Now York Vatty ComiiicPbial litil-\ tctin of this morn i og estimates jhe Novem- ' her Uro lois in the united States aud Cann via ni $10,000,000, an iucrcuco < t one third ti pou tho November averago tiueo tho Hos ton Oro of IBM. There wore 100 lires re corded whose reported loss was $10,000 mid over. Thu largo Ores, cr from $100,000 up to $000,000, numbered 10, and caused ii loss in the aggregate ?r $'1,000,000, or 40 per ( out. of tho onllro loss of the month. According lo tho liultciin there has been ill destruction by fin or $105,000,000 for the 11 mouths of issn, with December yet lo bo heard front, ?--. .*?%?< ? -. \ Uail .1 .!? ?>i llcigitlnlors. S r. Lotus, December 8. --A ?special froia Sli pa rd, TON is, say it negro named .lohn Conners, who lived on Big Creek, near Shepard, and v. ho was inspected of being hu plicated in n nutil robbi ry, recently, waa culled to his doer Motidoj night by it party < I eight or ten nan. who d hom howled Conners and left him for dead. Ile was found yesterday morning still li- hu? and ible to give tin- names nf tho men who hud butchered him and the sherill* immediately rmilzed n pi - ? : nd ur rest cd sovoval ol (he licensed parties. The others escaped. Thc friends ot those under arrest nie des perate mid tho Shel lit ls a man ot nerve, and biti'i! 11 rouble Knuth Ipntcd, Conners cannot live. . . ,q ?. -- Not for many years has there been so much marrying and giving in marriage us Ibero hus been thus far this winter. May December, 188?, seo all tho couples who are now stepping into the matrimonial linet ? ns happy as they are lo day. W&naGordial C V ?t E S DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, WEAKNESS, CHILLS AND FEVERS, MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT, KIDNEY TROUBLES, "NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM. TT is Jnvi?orot - r.nd Dc ltf;htful to take, end of erect value BS a Medicine i^r Weak r.nd Ailin;; Women und Chm Orri). 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