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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?. SOUTlIKlfl INDICATION. Tili; PKni.l?l ss Ol <H lt l'KOI'l K IN l ins V 1,1.-1 M COUTANT .M in i ?. A Careful Unvlou >. r thu Condition <?i School* UM 1.1 .u ne.i hv Interviews W illi l.viutlitK t'ou|ilo lo Mils Section. I Prom tin- Dnlllmoru sun.) Tito Hov, William F. Slocum, e.' Hu; First Cougrogatiounl Church, returned on Saturday night from un extended ti ip of BOW ml weeks' duration into tho Southern States, where lio was cu ti] cd in investigating tit ! conditions of c luca tiou, particularly colored schools. Among tho places visited wore ('ii; rles ton, Savannah, Jacksonville, flo., New Orleans, .hickson, Miss., and Talladega, Alu. besides visiting tho publioschools from lowest to highest gru ie, ami tho various colleges, an interview was had with tho Govoruor o? Mississippi, va ions eity authorities, Btato education com missioners and others. Mr. Slocum said: "I found every when u strong fool ing that tho Colored pcoplo must !. . ed ucated. Tho Now South baa no di iibh on this question. ?umosl cases primary education of colored people iseoudui lcd by tho State, Georgia und Mississippi particularly granting largo sums; bill higher instruction in tho ordinary ling lish branches is usually afforded liv tho church schools supported by philan thropic contributions. Tho wotk of these schools is of greatest importance for training colored t; achers ..? |j?g|j character, lt ia a striking fact that re ligion, us taught hy tho ordinary <.,.' red preacher in tun South, is not clova ting the mond tone of tl," col red race. <>i course there aro striking exceptions, ?.iii the improved moral tono of tho race conn s through tho training in tiloso highorchurch schools und colleger, li found a prevailing . ?nthm nt uv< i.\ v . rt that industrial education must lie p.-li ed. This amounts lo a decided m >vo mont and some of thc colleges do lirst rate wink. Another sinking fact that shows improved moral conditions is Unit the color lino is growing more di itiliot; that is, there are more black ob i I ?roil and fewer mulattoes, which indicidi .: healthier separation of whiti sand blacks. No one who has not blood luce to lace with tho trouicudous problem in the South can rightly appreciate it- n my diflloultics, and yet there uri eloi eui ol hope, strung hope, and tho oulloi I; is not wholly discouraging, "Ju Ch ul. ?ton tin Moni i .school is thc bist for colored children, and contains about 1,300 pond.-. T's principal, Mr. A. Doty, an ?1 mt Southern gentleman, was on olllcov iii tho South Carolina anny. It is iv sig niticant fact that it was bo who !.. led the first gnu lind lire I upon tho . hip advancing to tho .'.?'I ot Port Slim h . in 1861' Tho school is preluded with the spirit of military iii >i| Lue, und Ibo utmost uoidness <>I .lr...- is required, There are 'J I b ach, rs, bill Olllj prill! >r hranohi a ?ir . tau "lu Savannah colored tcacheu lire employed in tho col? r< I ?clio usually tho caso throughout tho S except in Charleston, lore, an ovtry where else, tho SOU ti mi nt thal thc colored people must bocduciltod privai:-;. "Ju Florida not s>> much has ben done as elsowhoro. Tho colored popula tion is not so grcal there as in some of thc other St.itt s. lt is aiguiilcant that tho new college for whites, tho Winter Park College, at Winter Park, I i.*., though only tun years old, has take:, a Very high bland anion;. Southern educa tional institutions, .Mn New Orlcaus tic* educational movement for both mee . is strong, and it is spreading' hito tho counties of the State in an oxcolli ut system ii county freo Schools, Tho Straight I ' uiver, it} , in Now ( li li a.is, is tho best institution for the training of colored students m the moro advanced branches, it has . Hil iii attcudanco, ami supplies numerous teachers to the country schools through out tho South. Eighty por cout. of tho graduates become teachers. The univer sity has whito teachers, and includes a lawanda theological department. Its' funds conic largely from tho Amorican Missionary Association, and it is doing work of grub vahe'. Homo of tho no? groes about Now Orlcana arc becoming quito wealthy os plantation owners, ami Ono owns o largo interest iu one oi tho railroads that runs into tho cit v. "Mississippi appropriates $1,000,000 annually for educational purposes, and tho amount is divided per capita among tho white u 1 thc black schools. Tho Governor i . tho stub is a man of ad mirable shrewdness, who bcliovcs thor oughly that thc safety of tho country dependa upon tho education of the col ored people. *\Ve fool very kindly h - irard tho colored people,' Baitl tho Gov? ornor, and added rntln r significantly, 'I beliovo that tho capacities of tho oolotcd race bavo hcou underrated.' Thc h i school for tho education of colored atu? dents in Mississippi is at l?ougnloo, near Jackson, lt is upon a largo plantation of 6?0 acre?, has ?100 student?, '.ml is upon tho industrial i Inn. it hus tho active support of tho State, from which it receives $8,00<1 a year, All of thc boys work ou tho tann for one houreacb day, which has two valuable results: Pirat, it teach oi them how to caro for stock, Ac., and hccond, how to improve wornout lands, a necessary process in tho agricultural development of thc South. Blacksmithing, carpentry and tinning aro taught. A student, if lie chooses, may become a regular appren tice, A mont interesting exp- riment is being tried by tho president of tho col lego at Tongnloo. lb purchased a tract of 2,000 acres of lam?, which he div.dui into tracts of ?I ? and 80 acres, and ia si li ing to colored bundies, lt is found (hut loo landholder immediately booom< Boon, nor vat ive and moro strenuous for highor oil neath m. This school is doing a DlOSt important work, and every cent receivod from contributions Is well expended, "Another school of similar excellence is that ?t Talladega, la Alabama, it I? upon tim industrial plan, ls supported by tho American Missionary Association, and receives help from tim Slater fund, so wisely administered hy I'r. llaygood, formerly of Oxford, Go, Hew ing and cooking aro among tho brauche?? taught to girls. "An oxoellont feat oro is that a amil) i tuition foo everywhere is paid. In day schools il 's novel' loss 11 tu ti :M per I montli, nud m boavdiug .schools $ 12 pei j mouth, ll has boon found disastrous to ! give an education to any ono free ol' . charge, for it in not appreciated. Many of tho colored people luako great Mien Hoes to keep their children at school, i The spirit of devotion milong tho teach ers ill tho college, who are usually per sons of thorough training at tho North, land who usually receive very meagre Salaries, is OHO Ot the hopeful signs of Otu* timi Indeed, the whole prohlein, though sad, is mit without hope. Dr. Oliver Woudell Holmes has saul: 'Any pationl ona bo cured if emly Ibo doctor 113 culled in time, hut the. trouble is in many cases that Ibo doctor should havo lie? ti culled two or three hundred yeera boforo tito patient was born.' There, ia u strong sentiment in the South that tho colored people must go onto tho soil. There is something in this. They seem md Ulliitted for il, and may become a i kind of strong conservativo yeomanry in the South. Util 'heir occupations need I not. bo limited to this sphere, and many I other occupations. Colored Inwyora practice in the couutry districts and ? in certain cases oolorod physicians havo boon Called i:i consultation with white ' physicians. Tho fact must bo kept in mimi that this is a ipiestiOu of elevating a race, and not merely ol' raising a fow individuals in this generation. Tho oburcb schools aro having a strong cud elevating moral inlbieucc. The spirit of genuine religious devotion is often prof? nod. l?aoh college needs to bc specially endowed BO US to carry oil! an indi pendent policy adapted to tho com munity in which it is placed. These schools uro necessary because they make Ibo chi.n ids of moral and religious character, and this character can bo biought into tho race only by the special training of individuals who shall bec.une intelligent and upright leaders. Tho same may bo said of tue pupils iu these schools as Dr. Thomas Arnold said of tho boys of England, 'Wo must ucck to rui.-e up gn at leaders.' " \ lt I.I NI) INN KN TO H. < nu -i lint i n,; a AlllKa/illO ( nu 1111*1 oilier I lllllga Vt, lihou! I ho \l?l nf Sight. (Kngllsll J.. Uer ti oin Violin?.J I have had tho opportunity of mootiug thc inventor of a new ritle, Ht rr Franz Portclka, a former lieutenant in tho Austrian army, who, during the first campaign in Unsinn, received a shot in his rigid eye, which destroyed tho optic nerve, and, indirectly, so nllected flu loft oyo that tho poor olllcor, now only '2s youri <:??, has bcon for tho lust niuo yen rs totally Mind. Hut without tho use of bia i yi si| ht tbi I ingenious man has invented during theso years not only a how io ign/.ino gun, but also two ma chines for tin anti-oxidation of iron, itt el and other metals ut a cost which must be calli ?1 Iidicilloitsly Slliull', t'llltll er, nil apparatus for automatical nap ping, a new micrometer, a new sort of gunpowder, not to speak of smaller in I volitions which foiiud theil way into tho lesser industrial cstablishmi nts of Vienna and saved tue inventor from starvation, as his great discoveries, far from bring nig b in lilOUOy as yt t, llt'CCSfcitAti: an outlay whieb he cati ullord only by ex tn i ie personal privations, "My ride," I complained th" unfortunate ?ll void or, "would have long been in ?he hands of tho British govern men I bad tho advanced money which I had obtained from ti private pi ison in London bi en moro than L-l?, which did not sullioo for the wages of one workman, who assists nie, and the necessary mat -rial. "Now at hist it is finished, and though I ina; fall lido the fault of all inventors, I out.sith r it tim best ritloexisting, being without tho disadvantages of other ma chine rille t, und with many advantages over tiui.i. 1 can provo by my Austrian nud Clerman patents of som - llvo years ago that thc straight pull system which distinguishes every modern r tlc, and in itself, without tho machine, secures thc double effect, has been my invention. Upon this and upon other appropria tions tn the line by different sueoes.d'iil inventors I do not lay any?stress. There is my new rille, which, in short, has Hit! following advantages' lt can bo used as a single loader OVOU willi au attached magazine; cartridges ure not thrown into the magazine in a loose form, hut he one above tm- tither, without the possibility of placing thom wrongly; tho magazine can be attached or not at will; all parts are solid, no spiral spring exists in tho idle; the price of my weapon with roy alfy mid tvorythiug cbc will bo ni; . r CJ. Kvory old system, with tho excep tion of Werdl's, can be used for trans formation into my rille at a cost of 8 or IO shillings--loss in tim caso o? (iras, Mauser, Bordan or Beaumont, aud something more in the case of Henry Martini." "Ami how canyon make any inven tion, especially suob a complicated nm os a Hilo, without, unfortunately, being nblo to 800 tho Separate parts, and how are J'( ur th vices carried out by the work men .'" "I seo with my lingers. Ami not in one singlo COSO have tin y deceived lin', lt's rcttllj curious that when great and minuto mensural lonts an- m question, tliosi who sec (vitb their oyes aro wrong, anti I, willi ti-.e usa of my lingers, am light. Tho models for my machines again, t oxidation of mel?is were entirely made b myself from carved wood, with tin- help of u string, wire nud bread crumbs. 1 am now devising a very com plient, d electric apparatus? ?Iolin Hlierint?n'N BOOOIHI Choice. it now seems more thin probable that Senator Mawb y had a double purpose in attending the Loyal Legion reunion and ban quot. Ho wns, ol' course, do lighb- 1 to nu et w ith blfl old comrades, and, besides that, it wits n good chance to giv i tho people a chanco to boom Hawley for Pr?sident, Vice-president or something of that kind. Thursday, after tin; barn pict, ho was escorted to the Line?lo Club, where he mot soveral of the most prominent llopuhlienns in tho city, all, by tho way, friends of Senator Shorn ian. A gentleman in tho party taitl to the Enquirer: "Tho ticket to win is Sherman and Hawley, ami, mind what l tell you, that's what it's going to be. if by uuy mifchanco Sherman cannot make it, then bo will want Hawley for dist place and FOI?O livo Western man, like Major MoKlnley, of Canton, or Ito liortson, of Indiana, for Vico-Presidont.' -Cincinnati Enquirer. w o M KN AT TU K I'OI.I.S, How tlt<-Fuir OUCH of WIIKII I linton Terri tory Cns! Their Hal lot M. W W.I.A-WAI.I.A, May 24,-Although a toudoi'faot and acquainted with fow in our vicinity, 1 was appointed a judgo of oicetion in Mica precinct, A struggle was in prrgress betwixt rival towns No llie county sent, and runners had boou through the pr?cim ts urging everybody to bring out the voles of tho ladies. In this chivalrous region our WOlUCll have equal prorogatives with mon, although they view thu ballot willi an i nd i 111) ri nee agonizing to nil advocates of suffrage. I wont early to tho polls, a small, log school house in lin- hills, shadowed by i lofty pun s. A rough wagon road ran by the bohool hoUSO, whoroill deer tracks I were quito as conuuou us hoof-prints of horses. The ladies were not early at tho polls. A little beforo noon came a f; mily party, a mun wife and three children. Soon alter, from every direction, as if by preconcerted arrangement, wagons drove np containing similar households, .Not only were all the little ones brought I along, lint enormous jugs of milk and i baskets of lunch. Tho bachelors scat I torcd timidly and the ladies swarmed in Upon us, moved the beuches n roll lld the lll'O, blockaded tho doorway, and l iol, j entire possession of tho promises. They were farmers' wives, buxom, sensible and energetic. Amore domestic scone ono seldom secs. Here a mother Ultrsiug ' her baby, there a fond father troliug Iiis I infant daughter, yonder a knot of women j exchanging recipes for mixed pickles, and again an cager group setting out hinch and passing pic and sliced pork to their friends. I could not at lirst understand this in vasion, until I learned that tho school house was tho one public resort foi' I sooinl purposes. Dances, parties, sing ling schools, preaching und political I meetings all were held hero. A gather ing at tho school house was tho signal j for u gencrtU assomblagc of friends, and the wonui\ had evidently given mort j thought, to this bud than to the original motivo of the occasion. Still tbt"y came. Hy noon tho build I big was fairly packed, ami the picnic appearance iuorcased with ovory arrival. "if you iron giugbumu and calicoes ou I the wrong side they look" ..His vory best cow. The suow wai deep, ami all tho poor thing got to cal was moss"' "They say her vitlials taste of pim ! gum half tim lime Drops from Hu > pitch r.db r i" "I pulled tho pool' child's tooth my self, so" "Who ahull you voit: for, Bile?" '.Me? 1 don't know. Jack ain't hen j yet." ..Mamma, give mo homo pie, too." j "On, Fli/.a, ut the polls utter all?" '.Yes. Didn't want to come a bit. lill lis Republican and 1 told him I'd vol? Domooratie suro if ho made mo como ! Uut ho said no matter, so long ns wo botl vote for spokane Falls." "I'ooh! I gtlCSS V?ore( very bit asslliir] as the men folks." "Don't volo for Spicer. They say b tn ats his wife pt rh elly awful." ! "I hil you, limc.i has ohuugt di" com I indited a man MI blouf .o ami overall leaning against n pine. "When i tvn.*( boy, to homo in ludianuy, l recoll?e henrin' maw ami paw talk this votil business over, 'I toll ye,' says tile ot man to her, 'I wouldn't have yo go t I tho polia nohow. You'd have to wal up to tho box through a crowd of loni el's, nil smokiii' pipes and starin' at \ i ami you'tl sink through tho door.' li ' orto ho hore uow." Hut at last, after lunch was eaten Oil put away, ami tho babies hail hail the] naps and the Indies had exhausted all th gossip, a general movement was mad toward dopartitre, it waf a long wa honie, ami thc COWS to milk, and watt to thaw, ami supper to get, ami th breakfast dishes lt? wash at the heels i , all. Aller such a festival one might siq pose tho ludios would vote cheerily, bi this WOS not the case. IL bad been pos poned as long us possible and now tin it must actually be done they went at spitefully. Here was a husband banding riv . tickets to bis wife, anti saying ft . thc public ear, 14You can vote whicuov you like," at tho same time gripping h own ballot with u resolute air ami a ja ot .-nell Otttlino ns made one hope h spouse WOUld Vote 0S he did, ill the l tt rests of domestic peace, '1 here a dan was imperatively thrusting oil hi r bil band the prohibition ticket. These prohibition ladies wore carne and intelligent. They advanced firm to tho polls ami gave m their hallo with an air of . ttisfaction. Beyond thc fow who had a doti nile personal purl"' the voting was perfunctory and titi with manifest dislike. Tho huhes tuv handed their ballot to tho inspector ho 1 bitingly, watched curiously aw ho put in the box ami turned uwu\ with a b of thc head, " There! lt's the first time I e\ vote 1, and it'll bo the last!" "1 liOpO Spokane. Fulls gets tho cou ty s. it si .\i t in stay home next tum i "Voting nun must bo growing wen [minded when you drag nu old linly li me md lt? M te, I 'm Tt) years old, l enough to know better!" And with contempt nous air the dan retinal to tho wagons. Alas' Thc pi versify ol nature' While many ol' tn sisters in tho east sigh for BUffrngO tin who have it hold it in disdain. Now caine young Tyndall and his w on horseback, ami there was quito a s among the ladies who still m the wag*, und tho. "baches" around tho tic Tyndall had purchased tho oldest a largest ranch m the precinct ami 1 brought a brillo from Sm Finnoii several mont lis before. Few had st lier, for she was very retired ami uris codie. A young woman, with peachy girl face, a wealth of blo.tdo bair anti rom bright bbio eyes, attired in au (dog; riding habit of dark green velvet, wit long plume on her dainty cap. "Slio looks very yoting!" said tho spector as tho couple drew near. " you think she's old enough to vote?" "No, I don,t," replied ono of judges. "Then sho ought not to bc ullowe "You'll have to ask her age," s another of tho judges. Tho burly inspector looked conc?n ' i and nervous. Alore nervous yet os I brido carno in, glanced about and blus! to lind herself tho only woman present. Tyndall, Whose dr088 and hearing showed cady cuitare, nodded to thu I ollicinls, took his wife's arm and escorted I her forward, tfo pinked out his tickets ! from tho tahle, folded oneand handed to her, fold? il the other and held it between I his lingers. Mrs. Tyndall presented j herself boforu the ballot box and rained I hor ticket, uncertain wind came next. ' lier innocent blue eyes rested on tho in spector with a pretty look of wonder and inquiry. Tito inspootor dropped her ballot into tho box. No doubt a barb rankles in hifi conseil nco lo thi.-; day. Mi -. Tyt i'll stood looking on au in stant, without moving. "ls that nil?" she oricd at last, aston* isled. "That's all. ?otl'vo voted, Stella," said her hushund, offering his vote in turn, and tho brido laughed merrily. She took her husband's arm and peeped all alitait hor with greal amusement, and wont oh" io high spirits, li had beena very funny episode for ber. Woouni IT (J I. A KKK, < ? UKI:NT I-MIOI TOPICS. ifoeliif*, Corn. (lt. J. ii" Mm ; ia :outliern Cultivator > < lorn, properly planted on well pre pared land, fhould rarely med the : hoe in Ino early stages if the plowing bo skill fully dono. While our . personal oxpi iii UOO does not approve the general practice of planting in thc water furrow (as advocated by Dr. Jones), we have found it vory helpful iu thc way of I subsequent cultivation to plant in very wide deep f urows and covering very shallow. BO that the plants will be below j the general surface. Tho first plowing , should iie dono with nu implomont that thrown but lillie dirt lo tho corn, yet enough to cover well fee step between the hills or plants. Tin thinning 'if needed) bhould ho done ahead ol' thc plowing, lind tho lattor should be done only by COUROioutiotlsIy I ?) Careful labor er.-. Tho plowman should be required to Btop and uncover plants, or cover or pul! out wei' s or grass with foot or lund as he goes. Ile should bc im pressed with tho idch that the work of j cleaning tho young plants must be done by tho work of his plow, or his hands and feet no hoe to follow, lt is nol a bad idea to tarnish each plowman with a small short-haudlod, one-hand hoe, to'oe carried with his plow and used os oceit sion may require, lt will be found that bc will be much moro carotid t<> do good work with lin pl w u iu- is givi o to un derstand that ctuolow work will no! bu . Ui lu red and lilt for the hoes to reniciy. < M CoursO it will often occur that the Un i is fiiilliciently smooth to admit of thorough work by the plow, except aron.id trees and slumps; but it w ill not pay to go o vor a Held, row by row, in order to clean around such obstacles. ; Bettor malton job ot it, early in the cul tivation, peing from ono to another with out regard to t in- intervening rows. lt KometimoH pays well to go over tho corn crop willi Ibo ho? s about laying !iy I time, each hand taking two ur moro rows at a time, and destroy scattering bunches o? groas .md eli 1 .. round at umps and trees. This will depend upon whothot tho h inds cm bo spared from the ntort j exacting cotton crop. .I hopping" l otion, (lij lilt! t'lUltO Wi Uer The characteristic work on a cotton farm during tho month of May is cot ton-chopping. Among tia- many na chiius that have been invented to dc lins work none hus yet boen very favor ' ably received or generally adopted bj farmers. Thc operation is ono-bk? COtton-piokillg that hit-ins to dem..?ii I nu over-changing motion ard thc oxer eise of an ever-acting judgment whiol j canuot be materialized into a machine Such a Machine, hoWOVCtj is probably within tin- possibilities of human inven lion. Tho cotton harvester is an undis puted necessity; but it is not so eleni that a machine for chopping, or mer. !\ "blocking oui" cotton reducing tlx continuous row of plants to bunohos ii exactly what is needed. Why sow Un BCCd BO ns to secure a continuous row o ' plants, and then at the first operatiot proceed to destroy thc Continuity? ( M poor, unfertilized laud, which require that tho planta should stand vory dosi i in order to make a maximum crop, sud a continuous row is perhaps necessary but it sectus mi unnecessary waste o Bced and labor on land w hich viii ben tin- stalks ?H inches t?> two or dirco fee Inpart. Why not plaid tho seed un niel laud in hills or stops already chopped The writer planted his entire crop tw successive years in lulls 8x'2j feed w it the most satisfactory results. Hut it i . too late now to disouss tho policy of bil or step-planting. The crop in nearly pl planted and nindi of d will soon b ready lol the first operation. If the soil has been impacted from th effect of ono or moro rains after plant mg, it ia of Ila' tl rat importance to luci I tho Crust mid lot in the light and HM ; The condition of tho land in this respect ami tho necessities of thc corn cjop, wi deteimino whethor it will lu- bettor t chop before or after., ' 'wing. Who m.- ground is in good, .neboiv conditio) and coin] :.ntt:vi ly lice from grass, M hove often found it bettor tu put tl hoes to work in advance ol' plowing an iws soon os tlio seed-leaf of tho plant lally d vi loped. If this plan is adopt? thc work of chopping out should an muy be very rapidly dune, tho aim bi mg to get over the crop in a week or t? days or less, lt does not pay tu coi sume the time that would be required t thin out lu a given number of plants, ( to IcftVC each hunch in il perfect Cond tlOD. Il tho Crop has been well an Mimo!lily planted and thc ground is nu low und free from obstructions, such i clod and st .m s, a band should gu in I kind ot half walk, rarely giving mo ' I hali il stroke fur each bunch of plan loft. We have seen expert hoe-hamh f OVOr ?Q tin? way tWO OOroS per hand p day, ?md CM n more. Kc m ember, th tin's plan-hoeing, ur 'd.locking ou ahead of the plows, requires and assn m that tho cotton should bo plowed with ti few days. ( h nerully thc cuttou cn needs tu bo "guno over" with plows hoes as rapidly as it was planted. sometimes occam that thc whole crt Comes up together, hOWOVOf planted. . such a janet ire it is mure import mt got OVO! quickly than to du tho wo thoo-work) perfectly. Tho aim shoo be to make every stroko of the hoe do : utmost, rarely striking 'Mwice in t Hame place," thus getting over tho or uui'r.'Mft^'i. .mr. rapidly mid quickly ou tho BIIUIO prin ciple tlmt would govern a rescuing purty in rolioving tho huugor and thirst ol u famishing ship s crow or ii starving gai rison. Tho plows ?lioukl follow thia hoeing as quickly RB possible and go a rapidly. Tho sec.md hoeing should commence in a f<w dava after the inter vening plowing, and should bo done with moro care, tho planta now li. in put to a final stand, willoh <a;i la dom : with comparative safety, li tin ? i I mid tin- consequent plowings bu '. ..; I fully dono lhere will bo little, ii any, I more m od of tho boca. Moro dep I on the agu and pby lical strength . : who ladds thc plow than is lu . I Btipposcd. AB a rulo boya uud gir'h j not stn ng en-aigh or cur? tul cn? u ?1 guido tho plow properly iu cu tivj ? . i colton in thc earlier stages; ii should only be intrusted to older and itroilgcr and steadier hands. nue i H.II i r-, i ion . \ -l ion i. How Hie CliancuH dir Oeiiiot-ralii' Vielorj Look In Ont' Observer. Thc New York World thinks Hint tho talk of Democrats from tho South und tho West who have recently > itcd W ashington does not bear out . s Secre tary Manning's theory that those inn, or lan! section would force Mr. Cl< . laud's renomination upon tho New ?ork Nomocracy whether the latter should like it or not. Many of .Mr. Cleveland .s strongest friends from those sections un said to have stated frankly that his re nomination would depend upon his abil ity to got tho support of his own State delegation. They aro said to have ex pressed their satisfaction, in advaucc,with that candidate w ho should prove to bo tho choice of New York. Tin y lay thal tho battle-ground is to I?- New York, just as it was in 1881, and that it would be oxtromcly foolish to II iminate any candidat, who should not have the bat li ing of tho majority of tho New Voili I lemocracy. Mr. Cleveland is believed lo have bi e making a high bid for Mnssachust li un several of the Now langland States, but it is not thought that ho expects to bi renominated or r. -elected without Hie vote of Iiis own State. '?Mr. Cleveland,'- said a Ni w Yorker the other day, "may get thc New York delegates in tho National Convention, bul unless be has a maj irity (two-tbirdi of them :d his back Iiis boom win fall. Tho whole foundation of tho Gloved boom in the South and West is duo ti the claim made by the I 'n shh ut's : rit in in Ibo liant ol lils great popularity iu ; own State; Hud bo is Ibo only man who can carry New York, \o. '1 ho inonu ' Mr. Cleveland fails to demonstrate I popularity at homo, his Western u I mirors will drop bim ?mun di b ly. Si .. York will decide tho candidate for the Democracy and tho election." There are said to bo Bovorn! weak points iu Cleveland's hold upon tho Western ami tiie Southern Democracy. I lliio mon declare that il is by no meal. certain that the delegation from Hint State will throw up tia ir hats for CloV< land. Men of the Thurman typo and members of the old-time Democracy - y that they have been overlooked hythe President until they arc in ho mood f become bis enthusiastic follower . I . Michigan thora aro .f cir) r Democrats,! . Congressmen, who charge their retire mont to tho Administration Maybury of Detroit, Carleton of Port Huron, Comstock of ( I rand Uapids, ami LOldridgo of Adrian, lt is said that thorn will bc trouble in delivering the delegation OVi r to Mr. Cleveland. indiana is said to be in open revolt. Voorbcos and McDonald arc known to be unfriendly to Mr. Cleveland s renomi nation, and the old friends of tho into Yico-Prosidont Hendricks are declared tO ba in sympathy with them. St linter VoC rllCOs's Son, O dele;;.ne lo Coilgl'CSS from Wyoming Torritory, recently made u violent attack upon Mr. Cleveland, which was published, it is .-aid, with thc Senator's knowledge mid with his entire approval. In Virginia and Louisiana, it is said, many leading J>? nu crabs mc openly opposed to Mr. Cleveland. Tin endorsomouL*Cu< thc Administration by thc Stato Dom OC ratio Convention ot Kentucky is not Volit-idcred to have bien especially strong either in Us language or its spirit. "lt is highly improbable, 'said a West oruolHcial recently, "that the 1 lomocracy of tho country will attempt to force un," candidate down thc throats of tho v vv York Democrats agiliust their will. I do not believe Mr. Cleveland would nc cept a renomination coming m (hut way, as lt would mean almost Certain defeat. ( l.-x ? boni mill 1,00. lt is probable that instead of spending tho month of dune at Led Top, tie President and Mrs. Cleveland, will goto Fauquier Whito Sulphur Spring'.-., Va. Colonel Maddux, the lending hotel man at this place, has extended un invitation ttl them iiml hus prepared n cottage ex pressly tor thom. He is now in' Wash ington, ami arrangements have been mode for tho Prosidont and Mrs. Clovo hind to go to tin- springs about tho llrst week in dune for ft day, as a sort of trial trip, lt every thing is satisfactory tho invitation will bc accepted. Colonel Maddux was iu Baltimore a few day ago getting up a party of Baltinioreans to accompany the President and his wife and to make oUlOl necessary arrange ment.*. Among those who will accom pany them arc General Sheridan and Colonel Kellogg, of his shill'; Senator.\. P. Gorman ami a number of Haiti moroona and Goueral Fitzbugb Lee. They will leave here in the private cai of the president of tho Virginia Midland railroad. Colonel Maddux has been in Washington several days anti has recom mended tho water to tho Prosidont as being tho finest ni the world for over worked brains, which will, no doubt, induce him to give ita trial, lt i.-. opined, too, that Hm little trip may not be With out certain political slgnilloanoo. Tho fact that Governor Leo is to bo in the party is regarded hero as another ovi dence that Virginian ! arc determined, if possible, to tack him on to the tail of the next Presidential kite with Cleve land. -Baltimore American. Young or middle aged men BU (Toting from nervous debility, hiss of incinoty. prematuro Old tige, ns thc result of had habits, should send 10 cents in stamps lor blush dod b>ok offering sure moans ot euro, Address World's Dispensary Medical Asso elation, Buffalo, N. V. rM'<|.-.n i;:.:.?.vir,: M.v.- EM .*:?w?. KM DI I Wi HUH IMKM?HKiSS IN l ill: Soi Til. , s; .< i; i. i v \ LAMA lt I'KAlts ,\ I.I. rn K | UK poHTS A ut-; :M> i rm r. Til? Appareil) {Vu .!?? i il > In lu- Po tl 11 ll Oiilj in ll.i- Cilles-Thu Siici'otury ls in VIIIUMI to ThlnU Thal Much ol lt iHSpeen latlvu. (Inlcrvlov in ti;, m.-. ti-.ni. Cona.i Thoo-*) 1 found Secretary Lamar iii his place li) tin- department ila other doy, Iiis tah! well e ?vi ritl with papers, transact lng th mtim business as methodically I lough ho iliid bee;, an executive billi i 'all lito, hui ii sou-mod to he n roli : t<. him to turn from them for a little while, milk with me into his pri vate room anil talk oil other SUhjcols. : Our conversation was about journalism, its wonderful growth, its ohaugo of character mid it. future, and upon other . topics, hilt I shall not now repeat whet I ho had to nay, except on one subject thu industrial condition of the South - "Tho apparent prospt ri ty of thc t j South," said Secretary L?mar, "is lo be found in tho Cities, hud not all of tljom I .-hare e. Atlanta, Ghivtlnnoogn, Nash-1 j ville, Knoxville, Birmingham Und other I cities that uro tho centres of mineral de i volopmout alreudy made or anticip?t d aro growing rapidly in population and I apparently in wealth. Towns, also, pen aro situated upon tho now railroads Uiul ! hove beeu built during thc past few | , years aro largor and moro ti riviug limn they were, but their growth has b?chl I largely al tho expenso of loss fortuuati . town - that Itavt cilia r stood still or huv* ' actually deteriorated; 'lins cireuni-l stance, I think, is likely to give oh erroneous impression t.? thc strange! passing through thc South on the rail-j way Ile fa;t>s th? town? nt tho various btatioi) ipimrchliy thriving, thc centres of new commercial enterprises, and ho naturally conbludeH that thc South is making very rapid progress; hill h< dot ii kn i M that tin man who lias opened :i now : loro al o ti ? bf thesC places j bas probably removed there from sou.o ! Sibly u i o i. agetl in inc living i aix tho ci nti'i >o intitititry ?o thii miner* ! . . I Stimulated . ;. timi tn Xiii itv tb ol' ill ; ter. st lu i:, is, ttl ?. gr .t > \> iii, specu lative---bas( I in omu measure, td least, j upon uiitieipatcil .... ipiiK.nl,*' rather I Hain I course/ 1 know ll?? . .I deal ol citpi i . . ! i Which I liiive been : pt akin,". Thc 'boom* has como iiie< ! haVo been there j to remain lm.-r at a time, and my opin ions are formed from svhal I have read ni the in \\: p.o'i r.-! a ml lear I from per-; I wnis who hilve beoh LIi ire. I think yon i ' will Illili, too, l i ?at snell ci a s ?is t ari - - , ton, Savanuah, Mobile and Now Oilcans) : arc not Buowiiig ovid -neos Of pr o ..perih . Iii t du see, ' mid he, hiking down a oom ' it twe. I in population in that .1. ca-.i- i '-. -, < r at the ride of about ? l-"> per cent.; Sa vannah gained l, t7:1, <-r ii bout per ?cent.; Mobile iictuolh lost; 2, IN t? in pop ulation, uiul Nevi Orleans guim il :!l,t>72, or about i-i percent, lt' you remember that tho average iucreaso of population throughout tlio whole country during | the same t. .i years averaged !H) nor cont., voil will see timi Ilion is nothing en couraging in these ligures*" ..'J low do you account for tim nippiir i ont stagnation in what were formerly tin great commercial centres of tho South?1 , 1 asked. "by tho depression oi tho planting in* i tores!, Of winch I have already spoken,''i j was tho leply. " flu y ?uv dependent upon agriculture bf the cou ut ry foi ? their trade." ''Haven't tho crops been good?" ..Yes, that ??t last yenr was the largoi I evor made with one or two exceptions. | But tho Crop to-day is not proportionally an great an it ..vus befon tho war. lt must l?" roinembered that thc - opus, lion ol'tlc* Sou-", increased nearly liff^ I lier e.-rt. between ISdO and I gm). A agriculture is nlmoM our onlj industry, and a.- cotton Ls our i ? incipal product, ii we univ held our nw ii wo ought, i:? I s-*u, to have marketed lilt) per cul. mort ' Itoii I tin truth ist ?nt the largo crop ot Inst year was only tw u ty di Vii per cont, greater than that of I dt). In othei words, our population increased during that twenty j ' nra ju ?I about twice as fast . os i ur ability to feed and clothe it. Yon wouldn't lool i >r ? rospority under snob circumstance , inti you wih not think it strange that the cit ns w hieb are dopOIld ont upon agriculture for thoir tradi should languish." "I have nut bboU Hoiltll m severn! years," 1 said; "uro thoro ontward signi in the country of this depression Ol Which you speak? .'Y*Sj especially when ono goos away1 from tho railroads. Improve monts ur? not kept lip and there is a general an ol poverty, want of thrift and tho allowing of things tO go to d' eay." "To w hat came d. i you attribute it V "l don'l kno w. Probably it ls duo to a variety of causes, if [did not know how little Influonco legislation actually has QpOD industry I should say that tin tariff was thc Ohio! cause; but I don't know that it is." "Tho price of colton averaged veiw low last your," 1 said; "has that had anything to do with it?" "Of course, that cuts down tho income from the crop for last year, but tho do Ipression i speak of dla not begin recent ly and tho price of cotton lia? been good as a rulo." "One oauso is probably tho wearing tl ol our lauds. Von know that all agricultura] lauds produce less and loss except tlioy are constantly renewed by fertilizers, sud our people aro too poor to buy those. Thc increased aggregate crop is due to increased acreage, but wo have not been able to increase the former in tho same proportion that we havo in oreased tho latter and the amount of labor expended. Wo work over moro ground and more hands arc employed, but it costs more to mako a bale of cot ton iow thau it formerly did. Another reason, I thick, why wo do not ralbo . ii,;, li colton to au acre as WO formerly did is that wo don't gi t what w.- cull as good a 'stand' a? wo used to. The importance of this is not likely to be appreoiotcd by one who han Dover lived where cotton is raised. If there are many long, vacant spaces in tlie row:, of cotton plants, they may grow v. ry thrifty, and the field, as ono looks over it, may appear to bear a great crop, um! yet, when thc cotton comes to be pick it will turn out light. Now, in ooh r to secure a good 'stand,' that is, to have the ground all occupied, the closest are and attention are necessary at a ccr lain critical period. tn former times, when thc planter bad complete control ? : the labor, lie c.mid enforce this caro iud ttl utii i. au ho cannot do now. Tho cotton lands ot the South arc now mostly r ute I to the negroes, and if tho owner r< tains un interest in the crop he has no voice in the manner in which it shall bc worked. If he .should inti riere the no grocs would resent it. There is a great deal of careless farming in the South." Tho Col ton ?>! i>\ einen!. Tili Ni w York Financial Chronicle, in its weekly cotton review, says that for thew, ek ending 1'riday evening, tho 20th ?ll ' . the total receipts have reached 10, lh . against l2,0Go bales last week, bl,077 bal.- tho previous week, and 15, ! : I ! ide thu o w< oks since; making the ti ceipts since tho 1st of September, 1880, 5,158,523 bah- ., against 5,142,540 bales tor tho .ame period of 18*5-0, showing an increase since September 1, issi;, 0f 15,07-J bales. Tile exports for the weeli ending tho sanio time reach a total of 21,227 bales, of which 18,035 were to Cl real britain, to France, and 8,102 to thc rest of the continent. Thc total visible supply of cotton, as mad? up by cable and telegraph, for the week was a.- follows: Total of Great britain stock 001,000, total of continental ?tocks 112,500- makin;: H total of ?U >oks ..)' 1,408,500. Tlie total visible supply tor thc world is 2,206,770 hales; ol this number 1,525,270 are American and 711,501) ISust Indian, etc. Tho imports into continental ports tor the .-ame period have been 00,000 bales. Thor was a decroaso iu tho cotton in sight, Friday night, of .">,t">'.!'.? bales ila comp ired w ith the same dato of 188?'?, an increase ol :>tl,:'.s'.) bales as com pared with the corresponding date of [ss:,. The receipts at interior towns for tho week have been 0,080 halos. Old inte rior .-tocks decreased 7,581 bales, and Wi re i I0,0'.)7 less than at the same period . Tho actual movement from tho planta in us, n -t including the overland receipts Southern consumption, but simply thc receipts that roach tho market through tuc oittports, since September I, 1880, w. re ?, 17?,:;:'.I bales, in 18H5 li wore 5,301,11)5 bah s, and in 188-1 5 wero 1,741,407 bales. Although the receipts at the OUtports the past week wi re 10,020 bali -, tho actual movomcnt from planta tions was only 2,081 bales, tho balance being taken from tho stock.-, at the into rior towns. Lost year tho receipts from tin' plan hit io us for thc samo wcok were .cc-, and for 1885 they were I-illy -lillie l?J ii Centipede. i , KC county comos to the iront with the horrible death of a young man named diaries Allison. Several years ago ids brother William went to Texas lo engage in thc cattle-r.using business. Ho came back last week on a visit. Last Sunday morning tho two brothers wcro preparing to go to church, when Charleo put on a coal which his brother had brought from Texas with him. in a few minutes bo experienced a burning sensa tion on tho arm, Ile took off tho coat and toro open tho sleeve, vhen a deadly ntipodo from tho plains t Texas was seen crawling siowly up his arm, stinging t> it went. .Medical assi-.hinco was hiue tdy summoned, but when the doctors arrived his arm had swollen to twice its natural size and in a few hours burst along tho poisoned track of tho insect. 1'ho young man died in most horrible agony about nightfall and was buried tho next day. Nashville American. IM,-rn v \ earn in a Caiinl-lioal Cullin, "Sic that woman,'' said a man, point ing to a canal-beat moving along thu bm . A hoad hidden in a cheeked calico sun-bonnet protruded from tlie cabin hatchway. "That woman, sir, hasn't boon out of that cabin in twenty years. ? act. Bo stout B?10 can't got notion'but her head out. Last time she come up OU deck was w in n Grant was inaugurat ed. Tho captain and tho mate and the two ? uli -drivors holpod, Hud an awful time. Thon they got her buck aguin and she hasn't been out s?lice. hast fall a dunc museum man came down hore and .. h ied her lug pay to exhibit her self, but when he learned that he'd have to take the canal-boat and all ho refused to sign a contract."-Albany Express? "The Slough ?a Itmpondeney." lu which you ure wallowing, on a? count ol sonic ol thosq diseases peculiar to you, madlin. !, and which have robbed you Of ile i, i y hue ol' health, ami made life a bur don to you, you can Casi IJ gol OUt of. Dr. l'i ti - "Favorite PreSCrlpltot" will lice you rrorO all such troubles, and soon recall [bc rosy tint of hen Uh lo yum cheek and lite elasl Icily lo your step, lt ls a most per feet specific for nil tho weaknesses atti Irregularities peculiar to your sex It cures ulceration, displacemopUi, "Internal fever,'' licnring down SOnSUlions, removes tho ten ilencj 1 i cancerous affections and corrects .?ll unnatural discharges. Hy druggists. "Vi ., slr," ?aid thc entomologist, "I can l ime ?in s io that when I whistle they will iconic und alight on my band." "Pshaw!'' said tho baldnoaded mao, "that's nothing. 1 i h. v come and alight on my head without my whistling " Thc entomologist sat down.