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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. ALL ABOUT TUB BAPTIST: UKMIIKKSHU' OK ?UK OIIUUCII IN WIK SOUTHKUN STAT KS. Tho Session In Loiilsvlllo of Itoprosenta fives or iii? Iiuinonse Moml?crslil|i--Iiu portllllt Feature* <?f tho Convent lon - Sight-Seeing un?] Itusluess Neotlngs. (Lotter to tho Augusta Chronlolo.) According to tho latest returns, which havo been recently mado up from oillcinl SOuroes, tlioronro in tho fourteen South ern State? and tho Indian Territory 2,050,085 Baptists. Of these 1,005,171 aro white, and aro in accord with tho body known as tho Southern Baptist Convention. This is the body whoso ses sions have boen hold in tho beautiful brown stone edilice of tho Broadway Church. Tho building is of ornate de sign and modern architecture, and ranks with tho ohurohos of which hrs. Hemp bill and W'illitts aro pastors, as muong tho finest and most costly religious edi fices of tho South. Through three daily sessions tho spacious auditorium has boon filled with representatives from every South of tho Pennsylvania lino and tho Ohio river. From Ooorgin there wero fifty-five delegates, and Georgia furnishes the president and secretary. This makes tho fifteenth session over which Dr, Mell, Chancellor of tho Uni versity, has presided, and tho seventh at which the secretary has served at the long table. Tho reports of the two Hoards of the convention, which control tho operations respectively of homo and foreign mi sions demonstrate n year of great pros perity, indeed, i hear from all sidos gmtulations from almost every body of Christians. The year has boen ono of largo increase in numbers and greater elliciency that! for many years post. There have been contributed, as report ed to this convention, for foreign mis sions $87,880.53. and for homo missions $122,007.20. The foreign stations ol the convention aro established in Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Africa nial China. Th?? number of missionaries is ll*;, and of churches and stations for preaching 65. There are '20 rehools, with ?S7 pupils. Among tho mniiy interesting features of this work abroad was tho erection in the dense population of tho oily of Shanghai of a chapel, entirely ut the expense of a native Christian, and consequently at no cost to the convention. Tho whole of China has been thrown open to Chris tian missions by imperial edict. In the department of homo missions there had been '251 missionaries sus tained who hud supplied pulpits at Mi'i points in tho South and tho island of Cuba. This loree of Christian workers had gathered together 110 churches, and hud built 02 now houses of worship at a oost of ovor $00,000. Tho number of persons added to tho churches was 0,212, The most wonderful advance in Christian missions, considering tho timo and moans expended, bas been that in the neighboring island vii' Cuba, and it lias been described as never bavin;; In on surpassed in tho history of modern mis sions. Ju December, IHN"?, a missionary, named Diuz, was ordained at Key West, aud in tho lo" ?wing month ii church WHS constitu? i Havana, which, at the last report, ai one year's operation, Contains over taree hundred members, and two other churches have been estab lished. An attempt is to bomiude in the immediate future for tho erection of a Baptist home ot worship Ul Havana. Ono of tho most important works ac complished by the Hoard has been that of Ollordiug doctrinal and practical in struction to colored ministers and church officers. A number of very learned and ublc men have been cmployod in gather ing these leaders of tho negro population together for tho purpose of instruction. In this work Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Maryland and Mississippi reap tho bene fits. There are also twenty preacher" of this race employed in tho State of Texas. About these times there leak out cer tain little instances of heroism and sacri fice which could not bo known, perhaps, otherwise tinin through the dry details of annual reports. Ono of these con cern? the Citadel Square Church in Charleston, lt so happened that just before thc terrible earthquake which not only shattered their chu rob, but which also destroyed ninny of their homes, the process of collecting the reg ular contribution for missions was tn progress. Although dismayed at the vast proportions of tho calamity upon them, Uli? church finished their collec tion for missions, while without a sanct uary in which h. nu et, and while they had' nothing but the green swnrd light ened hy tho smile of (Sod's bun where tiley could bc gathered together. Some might i-uoer at this enthusiasm and term it fanaticism, but to mo it looks like common old-fashioned honesty. They ?lid not own tho money that had boon giveu toe a sp?cifie purpose, and no right could possibly oxist for diverting it from the parp?se for w hich lt was given. But it was grand, neve iclcss. Tho speaking in this convention is al way? of tllO highest order of merit, lt hikes a tremendous uniount of gull in an ordinary man to seek to address and in terest 700 laen drawn from tho best and most advanced and t' lughtful men of tho South. So that when arguments are to bo made thc") is a gonorul depend once upon tho moro ablo i ud eloquent men. One 0? the Northen, visitors in his address quoted tho remark of a pris oner who hail boen captured by Homo, and after his releaso and return to bis home, described his captura a? a "nation of Senators." That might bo a little ovordrawu, hat still it is a serious thing to toko tho fioor before Mich a body. If tho calibre is small and tho aniniunition weak, tho poor fellow soon discovers it -not by any discourtesy of tho auditors, but by sonio inexplicable intuition that his silence would be golden, and lus "farowcll" bo hotter than bis "howdy. Tho sermon preacbod boforo tho con vention thia y oar was by Dr. George Coopor, of Bichmoud. lt waa a glowing fervid th'sqtiisitiou upon "tho Expecting Christ" ascending < high, and now seated upon His tluono, "from hence forth oxpeoting" until His causo should triumph and tho prinoipleo of kingdom prevail. Thus far strong addresses of ??ore than average ability havo been mudo by Dr. Edward .Judson, of Now York, tho son of tho veteran missionary, Adoniram Judson, by Dr. Qoorgo ('. Lorimer, of Ohiongo, Hov. Mr. Dixon, of Baltimore, Dr. (5. 0. Bitting, of tho Publication Society, and Dr. J. P, Qreeno, of St. Louis. Dr. Judson's ad dress on Saturday night moved n vast concourse ns 1 have soon few assomblages moved, and following it carno tho rat tling und disconnected remnrka of a minister of Augusta who rightly com pared himself to u small boy following uihnoro's bund who wes Bot to tho work of raising sonn; 82,000 for the future Opomtions of tho Leard of Foreign Mis sion.'-, whioh was done under tho abiding influence of tho speech td tho great .son of tho greatest missionary. A i AT ni. \CK nor ri.i:. l ilied lo UlO Cork With l ive Dollill' Tres lo y NotOH. There carno to light in Macon yester day n New Year's story that would litly adorn u tempor?neo lecture. A bright little girl gavo away what was regarded us n pleasing secret, lt happened in this way: Tho Telegraph niau .stumbled into a millinery store yes terday and while waiting to get tho at tention of the Indy who makes tho female population pretty, idly listened to a con versation between a customer evidently tho wife of a mechanic-a ul tho millin er. Tho lady was looking at a very pretty hat for her little girl who stootl ut her sitie with hungry eyes. The hat was purchased, and tho Telegraph mun mentally thought it looked like extrava gance for a mcchanio's family to throw away four dollars und a half tm a little girl's hut. As this was the only purchase in which thc child seemed interested, she sided up to whore tho Telegruph man wos standing and artlessly said: "Wo dot lots er money now." Tho reporter hore mentally cursed himself for forgetting to buy 0 ticket for the lust lottery draw ing. "Where did you get it, sis?'' "Papa broke th' bottlo?" 'Broke the bottle?" "Essur; th' bottle was jus' as fuller money as it tood be, an' wo's 'ich now." No true reporter can be idle when such an item HS this is in speaking distance, and it was not moro than u few minutes before the child's motlier wits per suaded into telling the following story, and vet she never drenuied that every word of it was being jotted down bj* tho shorthand linger ot memory upon the thumb worn pago of a mental note book: "? have passed through the ordeal of :i drunkard's wile, and 1 am too happy now to go over what and how much I Butlered. My husband drank heavily ? and ofton hali of his wages went for di ink. Ho kept a largo black bottle of whiskey all tho time in tho house, in addition to what he drank in town. Un Christmas Eve night live years ugo ht) caine homo drunk, and us something had gone wrong with him, ho was in the worst kind of u humor. Our oldest boy was in tlu: crib very sick with tho fever, and there was not u cent of money in tho house to buy him the cheapest toy. My husband had been away from homo all day ?iud being drunk hud forgotten all about his Christmas. 1 put my husband to bed and returned to tho bed sido of my dying hov b> watch and weep, lt was nearly daybreak when I saw my precious son sinking fast. Hushing out of the house I called in u lady friend, und then moused my husband, The sleep hud somewhat sobered him, and as he loved his boy devotedly, ho was soon bending over tho lit* lo fellow, beg ging him to buy something to him. "Tho little fellow slowly turned his Oyes toward bis father and Bald; I'm going to die, pupa, for I seo the ane?is beckoning mo to como. This is Christ mas morning, papa; please let mo see what Sunui Claus put in my stookillg. My husband went to the mantle ami took down tho little stocking. It wus empty! Ho stood still and stared ut it for a minuto, and God only knows tho ugony of his heurt in that short time, lie turned to say, but our boy would not huvu heard him hud tito poor man's breaking heart allowed to speak. Dur lmy wus dead ! "Tho day before Now Year's my hus band culled for tho bottle. Mny Dod forgive my feelings nt that minute, for I wished ho, too, was dead. I obeyed him mechanically. To my surprise, ho took the bottle in his hands und, pouring the whisky on thc ground, said; 'I will think no more; und tho mom y I would spend lor whiskey we will put in this bottle, and all enjoy tho contents.' You can imagine how happy 1 was. He hud sworn oil'ninny times before, but 1 knew ho was in earnest this time. Wo muden calculation, and estimated that whiskey cost him, tnkiug tho past year us a basis, on an average of livo dollars u week. You SCO n good deni of his money went to pay court thies for drunkenness. Well it was decided to put live dollnra u week in the bottle for nvo years, como what would. The time was out last Now Your's tiny, and tho big black bottlo was broken. Now ligure up how many live dollars that bottlo contained!" "Two hundred and sixty.' 1'Yes, or $1,000 dollars, But this was not all. We sa\ed enough in that time outside of thu bottle to buy a little home." "But are you not afraid in breaking tho bottlo your husband will break his resolution?" "No; becauso wo havo started another bottle bank," said the lady with a happy smile. Tho husband is a Macon mechanic, well know and enjoys tho respect and esteem of ?ll. Ho says he never knew how ?linell genuine pleasure thero was at homo with his lovett ones until hu got sober enough to appreciate it, and to lill iubteud of empty tho fut blnck bottlo. "0*?-r Bini Over Atfnln." Repetition ls sometimes the only way to Impress a truth upon tho mind. Accord Ingly lako notice that Dr. Bierce's "Pleas ant Purgative Pellets," (tho original Little bivi i Bills) continue to Ins wonderfully effective In coses of sick and nervous head ache, constipation, indigestion, rush of blood to the head, cold extremities, anti all ailments arising from obstruction of thc bodily functions. Their action ia thorough yet gentle, and the ingredients liebig entirely vegetable, they can betaken with Impunity hilo tho most delicate slomnch. All drug gist. _ _. Tii'-re ls more ambition without energy than energy without ambition. WILD LIVE ON Til IO ItOKDKlt. Tinco RIexloaiiH Wlto Tried to ttobu Sheri IT ?mil What Happened. (Prom tho Philadelphia North American.) A tull, sparo man, with glittering blaok oyes that stared you unflinchingly in tho face, lounged oarolossly around tho Continental Hotel Inst night.. It wu? .James Hart, who wa? at one time sherill'of a little town in tho .south western part of Texas. The town nt tho timo of Hart's election was fairly overrun by lnwle.su people. "I reckon 1 seen some putty oxcitin' times on the frontier," ho said to a North Amorlcan reporter. "Pooplo out my way uso ter say 1 could lite. Well, mehbo 1 kin and mobbo 1 can't. "I romombor ouct-that was just after 1 was elected - -that it became known I had some dust hid in my bedroom. "Ono uight when wo war asleep three denied grousers kern in and tried to steal it." "Did they got away with it?" asked tho reporter. "Stranger," said tho ex-sheriff delib erately, "eonsiderin' that there air three graves jes on the other side of my house with the bodies of throe greasers in 'em, it is putty safe to say they didn't git tho dust." "Thar kein to our tov U one day," con tinued tho ex-sherilV, "a young feller from the east. His name whar Hob Chambers, en ho whar as bright and as hansome n youngster ns 1 ever laid eyes on. All tho gals iu town and on the neighboring muches got dead stuck on him. "At thot timo Tom Parker kept the 'Quiokstop Concert Saloon.' "His daughter Nollie sang on tho stage, and durued purty gurl she whar. "Slie had a way of lookin' at yo with them big black eyes of horn that would make you feel Uko jumpin' up andkissin' her. "Tho miuit Chambers seen her he fell head over heels in love with her. "Night after night he'd he seen at tho 'Quieksten' listening to thet gal sing, not thet she bed sech a good voice, but on account of her purty face. "Dick Sanders, thc son of a rich randier, was also in love with tho gal. She didn't seem tor take to 'im, en' she told him so ono night. "He didn't say nothin', but turned on his heel and wont out. lt was nearly fi month afore ho turned up again. "Ono bright morniug a vanqucro found the dead body of Hob Chambers lying by the roadside, near an old bacal. A bullet hole iu his head showed how ho was killed. "In his baud ho clinched tightly a gray coat hutton. "When Nelly heard of Hob's death she nearly went crn/.y. "One day she disappeared, and was Ia never afterward of. "lt was lato on Saturday m^'ht. "The. saloon was full of mon drinkhV, smokin' and pinyin' kyards "Sanders kein in on a ( c and btarted a ; 1 small game. ' c "I noticed ono (d' the buttins of his * coat was missin'. 1 "Se/. 1 to myself, 'Dick, me boy, ye, air tho ono who gavo Chambors his set-i^ tier. 1 'll 'rest you.' x "I slid up to him, and placing my * shooter agin his head, said quietly: " 'Dick, 1 recoil yo air wanted to oc cupy a ceil down at Laredo jail.' " 'Wat far?' ho said up iu au instant, und layin' his hands on his weapons. "'None of that! hands up over your head.' " 'Ve air wanted for killin' Hob Cham bers.' "'It's a lie,' he yelled; 'yo ain't got no proof.' " 'Mobbo not, but d'ye over seo that afore?' says 1, tossing the gray button OU tho table. "Sanders turned tho color of chilli;, and then said: "Well, J suppose I might as well g'long un' 'provo my innorconco in court.' "Yes; yor boss and mino, already sad dled, stand aforo the door." "Didn't ho show any light?" asked the reporter. "Naw," was tho response; "it wouldn't do fur him to show light in thet place. Chambers was worry popular, and tho hull darned town would a lit to kill his murderer if riled. Sanders knowed this. "As laredo was too far away 1 couldn't biko him down thar thot night, BO 1 shirted for Jako Hohorts's place, about ton miles from town. "Tho darkliest) waa so dense that you could have cut it with a boarding IIOUMO knife. " 'Hont the only thing you could hear above tho clatter of the horses' hoofs war tho chirpings of the. night insect? ami birds in tho trees. "We stopped at a ranch, got a drink en' then puslied on. "1 noticed Sanders keep eyein' tho thick underbrush that lay like a shadow 'long tho dark road. "1 thought ho wanted to escape, and so I says: 'Tho fust move yo make, San ders, I ping yo with lead.' '.Ho (Udnt say nothin', but looked strate afore him after that. "Just as wo got to a portion of tho road that skirts a lonely lake Sanders imitated tho screech of a night owl. "1 know what that meant, though. "Ouick ns lightning I slid oller my boss to tho ground. "I was just in time. "A dozen rillet) belched forth their content?. "My horse dropped dead. "Sanders put spurs to bis horse, but not soon enough. "Up went my gun. "Crack! "Sauden) foll over his animal dead as a door nail. "As soon as 1 fired I changed my po sition. It wur well, fur another volley whistled thro' tho air. "I jumped into tho lake, swam across] and u i ado my way back to tho town. ' ' 1 got a posse of mon and wont after them as tried to rescuo Sandon?. "They wore bis father, brother and a | ! half-dozen ranchers. j "Tho father and brotbor escaped, but| tho others danced a jig in tho air. "Tliet's tho way wo livo down in 1 j Texas," continued tho ex . bet ill', as ho ?-I cpl nd into the eic sat or. "Comodown ! Homo time." "Tho New York market is extensively supplied with foreign eggs." Wc thought our lathers cast on tho foreign yolk for j good moro tbau a hundred years ago. CONDITION OF THE CHOPS. rh?' ?iiis lto|tort ol Hi? National Dopart III' ni of Agrloulturo. Tho report of tho United Ktotcs De partment of Agriculture for May relates to tho condition of winter grain, the progress of spring plowing end tho pro portion of tho proposed cotton area thready planted. It indicates a decline in tho condition of wheat of two points unco April 1st, tho general average for tho whole country hoing HC?, against 1)5 it tho saino dato in 1880, 70 in 1885, and )4 in ISSI. Tho changea in condition liave not been uniform throughout the winter win a! rogion, .some Slates show ing an inoreaso, O majority a slight do .line, and a few a heavy falling off. Ky o hus Bllllbrcd from tho hame con iitions which bavo injuriously affected wheat, but on account of its hardier Hil aire tho general average is considerably dglier, standing at 90.8, against 92.8 on Ypril 1st and bo.7. at the same dato iu IS8(>. Tho condition is bardy below tho iverago, being K7.N, against '.Ml. 7 in May, 1836, and 82 ni 1885. The season has been more generally idvanced in all parts of tho country than lSUal, spring plowing being seriously leliind only on tho Atlantic coast South o Pennsylvania, and on tho Pacido llopo. In these sections it has been de ayed by cold and excess of moisture. .Msc whore the work is ahead of tho uver IgC year, the season, especially during Vpril, having been genurnlly favorable, villi temperatura above normal and rain nil ut minimum. The proportion ul .eady on May 1st is estimated ut HU per SOUt. of tho whole, while tho amount isually completed nt that dato is about '*> per cent. Tho proportion of cotton already dnnted amounts to moro than four-fifths >f tho proposed urea, und is slightly fronter thiui nt tho sumo dato in nny irecoding live years, but is little less han tho proportion returned by corre pondonts an tho average planting at hat date. Tho proportions by States HO as follows: North, Carolina 70, South Carolina 80, teorgia 84, Florida 06, Alabama SS, dississippi 84, Louisiana 88, Texas 82, Lr kan SOS HO, Tennessee 80. There is onie complaint of slow germination and loor stands on account ot drought ut ho time of planting in some sections, mt with favorable weather replanting is apidly Idling all the gaps. AN INC1DKNT Ol' Till; WAK. How THO Acton .Mut by Chunco. (Prom tho Chicago News.) (Ins Mortimer, thc manager of Louis nines, who is lately from New Orleans, ays that tho Southern people ure in eusoly disgusted with tho recent utter nee? of Joff Davis. Beauregard wus nd is still a great favorito with the iouthornors, und they resent nny slight ipon him. Mortimer who wus in the 'on f cdc rute army and in Beauregard's tom maud, says that he was the most lopulur rebel officer, idthough ho was un ixtra strict disciplinarian. During the hst winter of tho war Beauregard cum minded tho annies ot Virginia, and tho vcathor wus intensely cold, Tho men vere volunteers of course, and entirely mused to thc hardships of war, and they ell sick in grout numbers, und, what vus worse, became dull and dispirited, 'rofl ting by tho oxamplo of tho lirst Napoleon, Beauregard hit upon the plan if establishing a theatre in tho camp for he amusemont of tho troops. Mortimer ms selected to organizo the company .nd the work of erecting tho theatre wus lOgun. Tho mun who wus entrusted pith tho funds necessary to engage tho oinpuny skipp 1 South and deserted vith the money, and tho movement of he Fedora! anny broke up nil the plans. Juring tho war, Mortimer says, tho heatrcs in tho South coined money. L'ho horrors of the siege were mitigated nd sometimes udded toby drnmutie per ormonccs, and when un army entered u own tho first thing it did was to erg?n ze n con: puny und play in tho theatre. Jonie of too armies contained enough oldior-actoi.i for n very fair sized com ittny, and in borne cases plays were re cursed ahead, but oftener still tho com >auy wus non-military and belonged to ho theatre or traveled about seeking to day in some town occupied by troops. L'ho prices charged wei ; 50 cents tor ?rivatos und 81 for ollnors aud the louses woro universally pocked. The aidionces were enthusiastic and general y in tho very best of hmm r. so much so is to make it rather difficult to piny. Mortimer wus paroled, and played oil'nu >n for a your or two with nil sorts of licked up companies half piofcssionol, Hilt' amateur, and all sorts of sectional sm und politics. Once nt Corinth bo ilayed "Riobard 111." in a huon duster; .ut the audience didn't seem to mind .ho discrepancy a bit, and insisted on j lis coming forward in the tent scene und tinging tho "Shir Spangled Bonnor"and! .In tho Prison Coll I Sit." On tho] light of tho second day's buttle of thc vYildcriicss Mortimer was on picket hity. Ho hud not eaten a morsel for jver thirty-six hours, and he wus nearly lead with hunger, und very hunt, having nit recently come from thc hospitnl. lt mid been tho wont of the soldiers to sup ply tho pince of food with copious chews if plug tobacco, and Mortimer's pockets ?vere full of tho weed, but tho doctor hud forbidden him using it. Hu was shimi ng by o tree, faint and despairing, and ii tho agony of his situation exclaimed iloud : "I'd givo thc biggist plug of tobacco n tho world for a piece of hard-tack." "I'll biko you ot your word, Johnny lieb," exclaimed a hourly voice, und be fore Mortimer could bring his gun to his ihoulder a form sprang out of thc dusk ind a stalwart zouave stood beforo him. "I've been watching you for somo Lime," continued tho Northern man, "and I thought you saw nie and was get Ling rendy to pot mo till I heard you jpeak." Tho zouave had unslung his knapsack and displayed lu-forc the fam ished rebel what seemed to him a ban quet. "And now, young follow," be nail!, "if you'll givo moo plug of tobacco you can havo all tho liard-tack your jaws can crack. Fork ovor." Stioh excliaugcs were common, and Mortimor clutched tho food ond passed over a plug of Vir ginia tobacco, which was as eogorly re ceived by tho zouovo. They talked a moment or two, and thon, realizing their ilanger, prepared to part. Mortimor in cidentally told his companion Iiis nomo and calling. Tho other vus surprised and ~oid he was an actor, too. " -n are?" asked Mortimer, delight ed. "You uro ft brick. When thc war in ovor I'll como Nortb and join you. What's your uftinoV" "Louis JIUUCH," sftid tho zouave, us he rosluug his knapsack, picked up bin gnu und disappeared iu the woods. For th? l'an mo-. Koon tho scarecrow und stretched wires will be seen in tho holds us pro tection against crows, but it is a diputcd question as to whether tho crow in the cornfield is tm enemy or a friend. Though ho be sorai times destructive to tho corn, yet ho destroys many insects and grubs. Largo trees can bo moved and trans? planted, thus taking advantage of several years growth, provided all tho roots and some of the adhering earth bo carried with thom. Tho place in whiob they are to bc deposited should also be (specially prepared for their reception. A prominent nurseryman says that nursery practices in peach propagation and culturo havo weakened tho vital powor of tho tree, which is unable to re sist aa depressing influences as formerly, when thc trees from Beetling grew well and lived to an old ago. A fresh egg will sink when placed in water, and when boiled tho skin will m>t peel off like that of an orango, as in tho caso with those not strictly fresh. Stale eggs arc glassy and very smooth, while fresh eggs bavo ft peculiar roughness. Where the ground hun been well har rowed and runde even und smooth tho labor of harvesting will be lessened, as tho ground will bc bettor lit for thc work of tho harvesting machine. Remove all stones nial clods that may interfere. Tho furnier who gets behind in his work at this season will not very easily catch up. It requires moro effort to succeed when there is no regular system than otherwise, and this is the month whou thc most enreful work should he done. Thc French, who export pears, cover tho insido of tho boxes willi spongy paper or dry moss, which absorbs the moisture. Tho pears can bo thus kept n month or more. They nro closely packed, but do not touch each other. Tho 58th ftiiuual exhibition of thc Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will ho held September 27 to 80 inclusive. Thc premium list amounts to 8700. Thc; chrysanthemum show is to occur Novem ber S to 11 inclusive. Thero arc over tiffy poultry associa tions in tho United States, that annually give exhibitions. They liave been in strumental in greatly advancing thc poultry interests. Use no stable manure on your peach trees. A mixture of some kind of min eral fertilizers is better. Experiments have shown marl to be excellent for peach trees. Wiro notting, 2-inch mesh, is now cheaper than boards for fencing poultry, and eau bc moro easily arranged and with less labor. Laying a front yard with turf will nearly always result in a stand of grass, even after repeated seedings have been tried without success. Evon on tho best regulated farms stock may lu; injured. Henee old wells, half hidden ditches and such like should be covered or lilied up. The ditches along the sides of the road .should bo opened now, in expectation of a busy season aud thc provolonco of spring rains. In idling vacancies in blackberry patches put tho rooks down us deep in the ground ns possible, as thc season IS rather lute. The season has been very favorable to the growth of young strawberry plants, thc lo?s in some sections hoing very small. Evergrcou hedges may bo trimmed and put iii shapo as late as this month, but it is best not to cut back too much. The. small size broilers will now begin to give way to those weighing throe to four pounds per pair. Maiiiifaetnrlng in South Carolina, The Chronicle is pleased to note the enterprise and BUCO CBS of South Caroli na, and points to tho State's statistics in manufacturing enterprises with pleasure. The State has suffered little if any from labor troubles, and shows her manufoo toros .lourishing almost uniformly. Tho statement is made that in 18110 she hud 1,280 factories arid $7,000,000 used as Capital. In 1880, 2,078 factories were running, $11,250,000 capital was in use, and the product was $10,700,000. Last year these ligures hud grown to 3,248 factories, $21,250,000 capital, and $30, 000,001) of products. 'Tho Columbus (Ca.) Enquirer-Bun gives tho ahovo ligures, and says that uuring tho last six years there hus been a gain of over eighty per ?ont., and adds: "Isn't there something to be proud of in that?" Exemption of many indus trial enterprises from taxation bus tend ed to givo big help to growth. Under such policy the cotton mills have grown till now they employ $5,000,000 of capi tal, us compared with $800,000 in I860, while the annual product has become $5,000,000 against $700,000 at tho war's outbreak. Trade in lumber has devel oped as handsomely. In 1H0O $1.140, OOO was employed us capital in timber production, and the market value of tho output then was $1,124,000. Last year $3,250,1 MK) was the capital in use, und tho product brought $0,2.'K>,000. Rosin and turpentino making bavo kept puce; in 1880 $1,000,000 was tho value of thut product; Inst year it grew to $2,000,OOO. -Charlotte Cbroniclo. TOT RETORT ov niK BUREAU OP STA TISTICS just received shows that the im ports for tho month of March amount $02,020,2-12, hoing an increaso over tho same month of lost year of $2,8011.000. The largest incrooso in articlo was in cottee and tin plato. Dutiable goods only inoroasod but littlo over $1,000,000. The importe for tho niuo months ending March ill amounted to $508,875,387, an increase of $1)8,000,000 over the samo period of lost year. Of this inoroaso nearly $27,000,000 was in dutiable and tho remainder in froo goods. At tho average rate of duty, this shows an in oroaso in customs over last y oar of about $12,000,000. Tho import? of sugar foll off about $3,000,000, which indicates ( it In r t hat more wau produced or that I less is being used, TUE ix DI: AND nu: I1UAU. Kill Ny? Again HOIIHOM Up Un- Intoratnto COIIIIHIN -Minci s. (From tho Now York World.) Under the Interstate Oommorco Law u dog eunnot rido on thoolovated rond, but this doOS not apply to other wild or domestic animals. That is tho reason that a dudo yester day, accompanied by a young bear, weighing about forty pounds, success fully evaded the tieket-tuke-.- and rode down town on one ticket. Tia; dude wort; one of thoSO sllOl't 1 waisted and aawed-oi?ulsters, commonly called Norfolk jackets, hut tho cub wore nothing but an air of defiance. The two sat down near each other, but tho bear was rest loss. Finally he jumped up on thc seat near a lady, who was riding down town, ami she went into another oar. There was u good deal of room then near the dude, but nobody i wanted any of those seats. There ought to be some, ruling on this question of bear transportation, lt is a matter that interests all of ns. Can wild beasts and reptiles bo classed as people, while dogs aro ruled out? Can a man, accompanied by a small dog, bo barred out, while tho owner of un elephant or an activo hornet's nest may take bis property with him on his journey? Here was a clear case of wild bt u 1 whoso youth alone prevented his eating people, for he hungry enough to eat the hind leg ; of a railroad frog. Tho question to bo submitted to the Interstate Commission is, whether tho railways by thus leaving down tho burs aro not, 08 common carriers, to admit a gentleman accompanied by a hyono, a pct goat, an alligator or a rhinoooros. Unjust discriminations cannot bo made to tho prejudice of any one. It is to be hoped, however, that furth er complications may bc avoided by leaving the bears at home, and if the owners can tear themselves away from their bears during business hours and h ave them nt homo, it will do much to restore travel to its normal condition. BILL NM:. Tho Col ton .U<>\ emoiit. Thc New York Financial Chronicle, in its wcokly cotton review, says that for the week ending Friday evening, the (Uh inst., tho total receipts have reached 18, (?77 bales, against 1">, I ll bahs last week, 14,222 bales tho previous week, ami 21, 027 bahs three weeks since; making tito total receipts since thc 1st of September, I?S.SU, 5, lo-V- 'l bales, against 5,078,348 hales for tho .-ame poriod bf 1885 Si!, showing au inoroaso si:.ce September 1, INS.;, ut' 5(1,8811 bales. Tho imports into continental ports for tho same poriod huvo been 00,000 bales. There was an increase in the cot ton in sight, Friday night, of 01,001 1 bales as compared with tho s ime date of 1880, an increase ol i 10,031 baie.-, ns com-, pored with tho corresponding date of 1880, Kial a decrease bf 270,183 bahs nt compare ,1 with 1881. The old interior stocks have decreased during the week 10,020 bales, and wore Friday night h!."), 171 bah s h ss than at tho san;e period lost year. Tue receipts ot the sumo iowas havo been 12, '02 bales le s than the same week lust year, and since {September 1 tho receipts nt all tho towns me (1,030 bides moro thou for tho same time in 1885 SO. The total receipt.; ." .om thc plantations since September I, 1880, aro 5,173,077 bab's; in 1885- s0 wore 5,283,025 bales; in 188-1 5woro4,7-12,203bales. Although the receipts at the out ports tho past week were 13,(?77 bales, the actual movement from plantations was only 'J,('i(>2 bales, tho balance being taken from the stocks at the interior towns. Last year tho re ceipts from the plantations for tho saino week WOrO 18,101 bides, and lor 1885 they were 2,228 bales. The dccrC080 in amount in sight, friday night, as com pared with last year, is ll),202 bah s, the l?crense as compared with 1881 85 is 01)5,405 bales and tho increase over issi si is 083,005 bales. The Chronicle, in its monthly review, gi ves some interesting ligures. Thogri II movement during April oxhibits a de cline from tho ligures for tho correspond ing month of tho two preceding years, the month's total being 50,515 bales, against 80,401 bales last year and 51,082 bales in 1885; tortiie eight months the aggregate is I, I'.?7,?l?8 bales, against 1,071.817 hales and 804,700 bales, re spectively, for tho sumo poriod ot the two preceding seasons. The m t move ment for the month is also below that for April of 1880, but exhibits an in crease over the same mont h in 1885 of 7,SC.s bales. The totals are 30,30-1 bales this year, against 50,408 bales in ISM"., and 22,530 bales in lss?. Notwithstand ing the smaller month's movement, tho aggregate net for the season to date con tinues in excess of that for nay similar peric il in our record. The Chronicle nOJS that, in common with tho overland, recoipts ai the ports during April record a decline from a year ago. In fact, the net arrivals have been le^s than half wind they were in I April, 1880, reaching 80,180 balts, against 202,800 bides, and in comparison with 1885 there, is a loss of 14,180 huies, thc total thon being 108,375 bales. For the eight months, however, tho aggre gate is in excess ot'that im either 1885 80 or Issi 85, Tho exports to foreign ports have fallen off very considerably during tho month, tho number ol bales shipp.il aggregating 105,118, against :V22,1 1!? a vein- ago. and 180,802 in 1885. Contrasted with hist year, the tobd b> May 1 records an excess of 550,874 bales, and the gain over ISSI S5 is 588,401 bales. Port btoeks are now 200,055 bah s less thun on May I, last year, and tho decline from a year ugo in tho stocks at interior towns is 140,000 hales. The. amount of cotton marketed since. September 1 in 1886 7 is thus seen to bo 140,477 bah s moro than in 1886 0, And 722,781 boles moro than in 1884 5, The total takings by spinners since Sept? lo ber 1, ISSI;, are 1,760,101 bales. Of this amount, Southern spiunors have taken 881,000 bales. Northern spinners had up to May 1 taken 1,488,101 bales, a de Crease from tho corresponding poriod in 1885 0 of 146,625 bales, and an in?rense ovor tho samo timo in 188-1-5 of 201,508 bales. iii ilili MnrlcH. A bright oyo, clear akin, glowing fea tures, animated expression, ami a quick, firm stop. Those aro all securod by using Dr. Darter's Iron Tonio. - - . WAK AND JOURNALISM. How Uonerul Washlugton Would lint? Appreciated a Uood Reporter. Mo nen rn ?. Conway rocently road ir New York a paper on "The General and tho Journalist in time of War" bofore tho Military Service Institution at Gov ernor's Island, Now York. Mr. Conway related his experiences as a war correspondent during tho Franoo Prussitin war. lio contrasted tho treat . mont ho and Murat Halstead rocoivod at tho hand? of tho Frcnoh, who turned, them out of Metz, with tho attention subsequently shown thom hy order of Bismarck when they followed tho general army, "(louerais como and go, but tho rcpt uters and interviewers aro always with us," ho said, "and tho warriors of our timo have got to como to somo terms with them." Referring to an eminent English military authority, whom ho did not name, Mr. Conway romorkod: "I ueod not say that I do not moan Lord Wolseley, for ho is ac eminent English humbug." It was tho testimony of Germany, ho declared that it was a do qjdod advantage to have correspondents with an army, and ho never heard of a military authority or General who had expressed regret or found fault that courtesies wore extended to the corre spondents. In tho discussion which followed Capt. F. V. Creen, who rocontly re signed from tho United States engineers, and was tho United States military attache with tho Russian army during the war with Turkey, told of tho surveil lance exercised by the Russians ovor correspondents and their reports. Capt. Groen poid a very high compliment to MoGarraghan, whom he rated fis ono of tho greatest war correspondents. Major .). 1$. ( J round told of the exactions of English military officials while ho waa with the army in Egypt. Col. W. C. Church pave a few experiences diuing tho civil war. Gen. J. R. Fry, iu closing, read this letter concerning cox respondents, written by Washington; CAMC or TOE GLOVE, July 10, 17i7. To the Committee of Congress on a Visit to the Camp: A small travoliug press to follow headquarters would bo productivo ol many eminent advantages. It would enable us to give speedily ex act information of any military transac tions that take place, with proper com ments upon them, and thereby frustrate the pernicious tendency of falsehood and misrepresentation, which, in my opinion, of what complexion they bo, arc iu the main detrimental to our cause, ti tho people had a channol of intelli gence that from its usual authenticity t hey could look up to with confidence, they might bo preserved from that despondency they are apt to fait into from tho exaggerated picturo our ene mies and their emissaries among us com monly draw of any misfortune wo moot with. An ingonius man to accompany this press and bo employed wholly in writing for it would render it singularly bonofloial, GEO. WASHINGTON, A ll ITT KU HARANGUE. The Very Wild Talh of U Very Foolish Negro. (From tiic Ilaltlmoro Suu.) A meeting of colored citizens was held in this city last night. Tho chairman stated that it was called to advocate a judicious emigration from those parts of tho South where the colored pcoplo aro subjected to unjust treatment to such parts of tho United States whore they enjoy tho rights and privileges accorded to every citizen of tho United States. That there arc many places in tho South where the colored people enjoy proper civil protection is an admitted fact. Our policy will be to encourage them to ro main there, for the reason their position, to say the least, is fair. Rut we shall ncvor cease our labors in the interest of those who arc not so well off, B. ll. Sutton (colored) an ex-member ot thc North Carolina Legislature, was introduced. He said: "In tho matter of voting all kinds of device are practiced to def mud thc colored peoplo out of their votes. Throughout the Solid South laws have boen made that no do vice, such as a picturo of any kind, or even a dot, should bo placed on a ballot, that would enable tho voters who arc tmahle to read to discriminate between tho Democratic and Republican tickots. Whenever such a ballot is found in tho ballot box it is thrown out, and if found tn tho hands of a colored voter he is sent to prison for violating tho election laws. In many counties the lcadors among tho colored pcoplo aro arrostod and sont to tho penitentiary or murdered to intimi date their followers. Hy tho landlord and tenant laws, if a colored man plants a crop and gathers it boforo tho landlord makes a division of it according to Iiis claims upon tho tenant, tho tenant is convicted of fraud aud sentenced to tho penitentiary. By what is known as tho 'justified law' of North Carolina, colored mon aro provontod from going socurity for each othor by a law requiring such sureties to swear that they aro worth $1,500 in real estate, which must bo un encumbered by mortgage and tho party entirely out. of debt. The whites will sell colored people all the land they want, but tin y must agree to givo the grantor a mortgage on tho land, and work it in partnership until paid for. Ono may work on such terms for twenty years and at its expiration will be in debt, owning nothing. Provisions aro sold to tenants at extortionate prices pork at ID cents por pound, common flour at f) cents, brown sugar at 10 cents, otc. Women aro hired at oighty-two por month. Tho schools in many coun ties are kept open only two and a half months. If you undortako to kcop an account of your work and wagos and hold tho employor to it, you aro ac counted a baa 'nigger,' and must bo got ten rid of, or you will spoil all othor 'niggers.' You must either escape for your lifo or bo put in prison on some pretext or murdorod." TUB STOUT, OK IKKLANO is best told by some ligures furnished by Mulhall, one of tho most reliable statisticians of his day. Ho says that during Victoria's roige thoro nave diod of starvation in Ireland 1,265,000 people; thoro have boon oviotod for non-paymont of rent 8,866,000; and there have emigrated 4.1H5.000. This is fifty years' record of the reign of a good Queen 1 It needs no comment. When everything else ?fails, Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy euroa.