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Ndtices in local column 129c. per line for each insertion for one month, longer at inch rates, w:th 25 per cent added. A reasonable reduction made for ad vertisements by the three, six, or twelve onths. EDIT IALS FROM THE STATE PRESS On the eve ofthe Convention-A Col lege for the Farmers. As the impression has been made upon the minds of many people in the State that the plan of combining the State College proper with an ag ricultural college, if not peculiar to South Carolina, has be-en rarely adopted elsewhere; and, as the sub ject of the connection of these col leges in South Carolina is likely to receive some attentio from the Farmers' Convention 6ch assem in Columbia to-morrow, it is be-' lieved that a statement'of the facts relating to similar joint colleges es tablished and now being conducted in other States will be of interest and value. In the year 1861 Congress passed I an Act providing for the endowment of a college of agriculture and me ihanic arts in each State. of the UVnion, by making a large grant of TUblic lands for that purpose. The .uaitity apportioned to each State al to 30,000 acres for each enator an a nCon. gress, to which such State was re spectively entitled by the apportion ment under the census of 1860. The Act provided that the whole of the money received from the sale of these lands should be invested in safe securities, and the interest only used for the maintenance of the sev eral institutions. 'rie States were required to furnish the necessary land for the colleges, and no portion Sof the fund could be spent in the pur *chase, erection or repair of any *building or buildings. These must be supplied by the State or by the iberality of the town and cities near hich the institutions were to be oated. Tile University of California ob ined the agricultural land grant on udition that special departments the teaching of agriculture and the hanic arts should be established maintained there. The annual me from the proceeds of agricuit Acollege lands is $39,226, a large rtion of which is devoted to cultural teaching and experimen ork. Lectures, combined with ical instruction, are given ricu pr, ihorticulture, botany, a chemical laboratory is ydevoted to agricultural pur Connecticut, the Sheffield Scien $Kl which is one of the de enot Yale College, received agricultr-iand grant on condi of providing competent instruc in agriculture and the mechlanic The fund from land sales ts to $135,000. The institu s situated in' New Haven. Delaware, the agricultural de ent of the Dela%ware College is d at Newark. Its endowment :is 883,000, and its total income -The college does not own a 'but courses of lectures are in the principles and practice riculture and kindred sciences. Georgia State College of Ag re and Arts is a branch of the LnivrSi> ad is located at s. Its endowmfenit fund is $Q42, nd its annual revenue about 0, of which amount the college ereceives $3,00, the re equally divided among r agricultural col U ieent parts of tile State. T O sl utruction inl agricu Ssubjects ] r - ~~_ 3pound ~ rosperiy 5 cents, at obodl s the nicest sroUilu1 abu There ar.ms rave,to whom a one foot in the gruld domoe o Parker's TOf o nd mdicne 87~oo the doctorsan dineteyb used. $60.000 to .70,0( per annum ofI which the teaching staff receives about SS,000. The School of Agriculture in In diana is one of the departmients of Purdue Universitv, located near La fayette. The endowment fund from lan( grants is about $345,000. The course of study is very practical, and associated with two hours Work 4 each dav either on the farm or in F the workshops. The farm is so man aged that the revtne more than covers the exnenditure. The Iowa State Agricultural Col lege is somewhat peet!i:r in t"e re spect that students are not obLe(d to take an agricultural course. but are at libertv to choose between a general course, including m,ost of the tm portant branches of learniinig. or one of several special courses. among which is agriculture. A curious fact is that at this agricultural college, of a great ag-ricultural State. the larger proportion of students take the gen eral educational course, and of a total number of about 300, only 80 are reported as taking the agricultu ral course. The State University and Agricul tural and Mechanical College of Louisiana is situated at Baton Rouge, and is the result of a com- ( bination of the old State University, formerly at Alexandria, with the Ag rcultural and( echanical College. The annual income derived from the eudownment fund is *14,500 to which is added an annual State approprHa tion of about $10,000, making S 500. The College of Agriculture and t Mechanics Arts in Minnesota is a department of the State UniversitV. and a full course of instruction is iven, embracing both thecretical and practical agriculture. The stu dents have here, as in other States t where the colleges are united, the t full benefit of the library and appara- t tus of the university. The Agricultural p.nd 'Mechanical College of M1issouri has been or anized as a department of the Uni- r versity of the State, located at Col umbia. The college farm comprises r S -The interest from the C endowment fund is about r0) which is supplementeu by State ap propriations. The Agricultural Coil-ge of Ne- r braska is a branch of the University a f that State, and is situated at Lin i- t oln. The institution is sustained y annual appjropriationls from tihe e tate, as most of the agricultural b. ands app)ropriated for this purposee are vet unsold. The Agricultural College of Neva dv has not yet beeni organized, buta s proposed to be established in con ection with the State Univer-sity. The New Ilau;pshire College of griculture and 3lechanic Arts is b ssociated with l)artmouth College. he revenue derived from the end~ow- C nent fund is $6.000, to which thie e State adds S:-.000. t The New York State Coliege of r griculture and MIechanic Arts is associated with Cornell Unive-rsity. L special course in agriculture ise provided, under an ale staff of pro- I fessors. Students are rcquired to Ff' spend three hours a day on two days t in each week in farm work. d The State University of North C arolina received the agricultural land grant, and gives instruction in a the brauches of learnong related toIt griculture and the mechanic arts. t 'he interest on the endowment fund s s $7,500. State appropriations and other revenue adding nearly SI12.000 o more. The expenses of thec teach ing st-' fr are e lI.n0 The Agricultural College is asso elated1 with the st.ate University of ohio. A cou1rse of forty lectures isa iveu each year for farmers, the timne o cupied by the course being two weeks. The ir -omel from the eni- 1 dowment fund 1s $:32.700. certain t fees and State al 1propriations adding t but $2:3,000O. The procceeds '.i the land grant for C Oregon have bet a given to Corvallis College. The :. anunal i ncome- is) SG,00. Th'ie land gr:e.t for Rhiode Islanda a bestowed uij fn 1;rownl Universi ,and a dlear: meut of agriculture nd mechanie :. ts has been organ- f ized.i Te Univers:; of Tennessee re eived the en lowment of publi t lands. A cours. oflectures is give n agricutltural - sbjects. and a fe'rm f 60 acres is devoted to expe'r-t mental p)urpo;ses The State U :iversity and Agrri :ulturai College ofi Vermo~nt are comn-( id. Agrieu:ttre is taught in a I ~ourse of lectn:.es. There is no ex-t pnrimental far::: connected wvith the - ollege. I Tbco West Y :::inia Universityvre ceie the la -rant. The annual incone is $6.500. to which the State ais about $16,000 more. The ag ricultural course consists of a series f lectures. covering two years. The West Virginia University re ,eived the land grant. The annual ncome is $6,500, to which th.- State ds about $16,000 more. Tle ag icuiltural course consists of a series )i lectures. covering two years. The Agricultural College of Wis onsin is a department of the Uni -ersity of Wisconsin. The interest i the land grant fund. $11,500, is livided equally between the Agri uitural Col:ee and Claffin Univer It is shown by this list that, so far rom South Carolina standing alone, )r nearly alone, in respect of coni ining its University and Agricultn al College, it has followed the plan Ldopted by twenty-two of the thirty ight States in the Union, including oie of the wealthiest and most dvanced of the whole number tates in which the greatest attention ias been given to both general and pecial education, and in which the nost satisfactory progress has been nade in agricultural development. THE FAIMER': CONVENTION. The proceedings of the Farmers' ,onvention which is to meet in Co umbia next week will be watched vith great interest by the people of he State. What good will it accomplish? nuch. every way, if it devotes its at e(ntiol to the proper subjects. Withli reference to legislation, the hriers of tile State have had a con roliing majority in the Legislature inc 187G. What more can they ;ant in that direction? Nodiuing ure!y. If the laws enacted have not been uch as were needed by the farmers, hey can certainly blame no one but hemselves. Perhaps the reason of his is because they were not united. If the Convention will result in niting the farmers on some definite ian of action it will accomplish s uch. But after all, the Convention must ot look too much to the enacting f laws to accomplish what is most eede(d by the farmers. The improvement of the condition f the farming interests of tile State inst be accomplished on the farms, u(I not on the floor of the Legisla Lre. The practical questions that con ernis the farmers of the State must e solved upon the farms, in tihe ex rise of sound judgment and well irectedI effort. No Statute "in such cases made nd provided" can correct tile present insane system" of farming. Good seasons, big crops, high rices, full barns and full smoke ouses cannot be had by legislation. As citizens of the State, the farm rs have the unquestionable right to onsider and present to the people of .e State any measure of govern 1ental reform that they may think ill be for the good of the State. As farmers, they have the right to ome together, unite, considler and ropose such legislation as will be >r the advancement ot the agricul aral interests of the State, with a uie regard to the rights and interests f others. If' the farmers of the State have niy grievances, or have any legisla v-e needs, they have a perfect right > p)resent them, and no man dare ay nay. Blut a general arrangement of the meials of the State, charging them ith --corruption," "robbery." &c., ithout proof will do more harm than l assertions, as to the misman emeint of thle governmental affairs f theO State, not fully sustained by acts, will go for nothing. Any wasures that the farmers Conven on may inaugurate, that will tend athe improvement of their condition ill be hailed with dlelighit by every lass of our citizens. Such measures will redound to tihe eneit of the whole people. To array one class of our people gainst all other classes, will do in nilte harm. For the past several years. the arers of the State have trod a reary road, with the sharp rocks of dversity and misfortune cuttingz heir feet at every step; and if their wakening and coming together to osult for their own good will help hem (as we believe it will) we bid hem God speed. The indications now are that the :onvention will be very largely at ended. as it should be, and we trust hat every delegate elected, will go. so county should be without her rep eSenltatives. As far as we have been able to iern from the reports of the press all over the State. n-arly every pri mary assemblage of the farmers has been characterized bv a wholesome conservatisin. This means that the Convention il will be composed. in thle main, of level-headed. conservative men. In such a Convention, manufactu rers of facts. fanatics with one idea, I cranks and demaogues. will have to take back seats. da) We feel deeply interest-d in the Convention and trust great good will cO flow from it to our whole people. ne May it be so.-Y /lr . April 24th. 5o - of01 An Important Deeision by the Si;ipe:e al C:otrt. bre U The defendants. Rawls & Wilhalf, fro made the notes p-aya1le, to the plain- til tiff. Januarv 24. 1883. lefore deliv erv thev were endorsed by the other sq defendants. one of whom, Mrs. Ag- ne new, was then aad is now a married w woman. The notes were gven in lai n Aen in discharge of a lien held by the plain- Ap tiff on tle stock of goods belonging wal to Rawls & Wilhalf. Mrs. A(-new T I the had no interest in the stock of goods and received no consideration for her dal ekdorsement. She was. practically. Ho a mere surety for the debt of another. The sole question raised by the ap- in peal is, whether she, being a married hor woman, was capable of making such i.d a contract. n : The Supreme Court deciies as fol- r lows At common law she had no such capacity. The Act of 1870, in corporated in Chapter C of the Gen- era eral Statutes of 1872, p. 482, Section by 3, conferred upon inarried womien [ " the power to make any contraet " which a fj-e soll could make, even to the extent of becoming surety for her husband. See Pelzer, lo(1gers & Co. vs. Campbell. 15 S. C., 581, o Clinkscales vs. Iall, i5 S. C., 602. 1 alo But at the next session of the Legis- as - jPrP lature the law was altered so as to ' limit the power of a married woman the to contract. By tie law as it for- ent 4 merly stood it was declared that "a wi married woman shall have tile rigit As to contract and ()r be contracted with in the same man- on ner as if she were unmarried," but ri by the law as it stood at the date of of t the alleged contract in this case. and M still stands, it is declared. that "a me married woman shall have the right tr to contract anl As; be contracted with (s to her wpurldt M properl/y in the same manner as if i Co she were unmarried." tile five words italicized having been inserted as an amendlment to the law as it formerly Br~ stood. So that, now, the contract ee which a married man is authorized to lo make is as to her sep)arate p)rop)erty, M and must concern her separate propi- gia erty. Thie Legislature intended. to " limit the p)o~ie of a married woman s ais to the kind of contracts wihichl she the was p)ermitted to make, viz: to thos~e the in relation to her separate property. d Before a married woman can be tur' made liable for the breach of a con- sol< tract alleged to have been made b,y roll br, it must be nmadle to appear, either lad from the inherent nature of tile conl-e ract, or otherwise, that the contract was made in relation to or concerned Wit er separate proplerty. Even if she p eclares, in express terms, her inten I of ion to bind her sep)arate estate, that alone will not be s:afliciert to render erc the contract valid; for the question tan is as to her power which is to be die- *o ermined by tihe nature,of the (on- qu tract itself, and not to her intenton the to bind her separate p)rop)erty. p Judgment below allirmed. O)pin- si ion by' M'cIvecr, A. J. McGowan. A. .J.. is of the op)inion wa that the insertion of tIme words. '"as to her separate estate," was not in g tended to defeat a married womn's G pcwers, but to limit the power to SOi such contracts as exprenss an inten. cee ioni to bindl the separate p)ropertyv, ag~ suCh as are made with express refer.-GI ence to her separate p::operty. Filed March 25, 1886. be Messrs. Sloan. Lyles and Ilaynes- I lE worth, for appellant. Mr. Ban.skett i"' for respondent wal Spare the B3irds.o The February number of Science aw asserts and demonstrates that in thme onl frihtful destruction of our birds the chief object is to Supply the (demand ing for decorative purp)oscs. and then says: "Of all the means to be de vised for checking tihe present bird the slaughter, the awakening of a p)rop)er sCe public sentiment cannot fail of being b)r tile most powerful. Without thlis. all th otler mneans would prove-to a great atc degree-ineffectual. Laws, however thl good, cannot bec enforced unless it backed by publ.lic opinion." to - __-.~.. pr "T. B. Aldrich, editor of the At- tre latic, lives near a grave yard. IIe onl says he has excellent neihbors; thiey an never send in any mannscript. IC "OUTHE IN S114) (~W E 31ONUMENAL CEIE3lONHES AT 3ONi (0rEoA. e Corner-Stone of the Confederate lonument Laid by the Y.x-Prcsi (lent on the Spot Where the New Nation Began Its Short Life. doNT-,ie:ty, A,., April '.. 3 Capitol grounds at 11 o'clock to - presented an animaied scene. L- whole hill top and premises were ered with people gathered to wit s the laying of the corner stone of Confederate Monument. or. as ic expressed it, --the of'lei1 burial the Confederacy Tie skics ve were clouIless, and pleasn!m ezes wafted the breath of lowers n the city. The loundation ofr monument only was ready. pre ting a surface of thirty-five fet are. Near at hand stood the cor -stone, on which in raised letters the inscription -Corner-stone i by ex-President Jefferson Davis, ril 29th, 188G." Opposite this a large platform for the speakers. procession formed in front of Exchange Hotel. "Mr. Davis. his zhiter, ex-Goveruor Watts, and n. II. L. Tompkins, Chlairian of Committee of Arrangements. were t carriage drawn by four white ses. each led by a negro in livery. next carria!e contained General Mrs. Goerdon, his daughter. and Clement C. Clay, and was sun nded by the survivors of the sixth Jbama and other Confederate vet as. The procession was prec,e a cavalry and artillery escort and further made u) of other local itarv,I the unifornieJ rank of the Ights of Pythia,. the Grand Com dery of Knights of Teiplar and sonic lodges from different parts the State. The demonstrations g the route were as enthusiastic they were yesterday. The ex sident was, as is usual whenever people catch sight of him. cheered husiastically. He took his seat the Committee of the Mlemorial ociation behind him, 3irs. Gor and Misses Davis and Gordon his left, General Gordon on his it. Ex-Governor Watts, officers he sixth Alabama and others were the platform. The Sixth ReIgi it was present also. as were the Atees of the Sohtoiers' Monument sociation. Colonel V. L. Brag.rg. yor Reese. General W. W. Allen. one! W. W. Screws and Governor eal. ~efore the ser-vices begzan Colonel pgIresented Mr. D)avis with an ant basket of flowers from 3lnjor ing Hall. who lives near- the city. jor Iall is a descendant of Geor s Lyman Hall. iIe was a noted onemnt to secession, but hiad eighit s in the war, seven of w homn gave r lives to the Cor.federacy, and eighth carries lead in him as evi ce of his devotion. A pretty pic Swas witnessed when some old lie brought forward muster of the Sixth Alabama. andl two es, Misses Gordon and D)avis, mined it with his assistance. ol ;eteran standing near swelled . gratification and pardonable x-Governor Watts, the presiding er of me occasion, opened the ex ses with reference to the impor ce of calling down the benediction ieaven on the occasion andl re sted Rev. Mr. Andrew, p)astor of Methodist Episcopal Church. to y. The prayer was earnest and x-Governor Scott then spoke and followed by Mr'. D)avis. 'he scene as Mr. Davis arose and sped the hand of his old Attorney -eral was very affecting. .it was e moments before he could pro d. as the cheers were again and n repeated. When there was icient quiet Mr. D)avis said: It is deeply gratifying to me to presented to you by one on wvhomi aned for advice when advice was ~ted-whoese sterling qualities al s made me sure that the judgment as drawing was from the bottom s heart. When you called him ty the place was missing which he" e filled, and I have alway's desired ay my hand on him again. [D)o so. Applause.] T1hus it was a we met the other night. af'er*i Lrs of separation, some pecop)le ini room gave a sardonic smlile to two old weather-beaten men em c. but our hearts wer'e young, ugh our heads were old. Associ d here with so many' memnories illing and tender, I have felt that vere dangerous for mec to attempt speak to you as my heart wool 1 >pt me; not that I amn always asuring up bitterness against any , but I am overflowing with love I admiration for our b;eloved ipro rLong applause- To avoid, therefore. nvthing which ihi!t be p Irmpt i bY the full n ess of my heart, for I bes'eI :e case-h.4r,lened in that4)" lidtono on-cItizeniship whiebJ lave, very lit;le to fear [p11). as for 1he purpose of guarding oters rattier thani mayself. I have pir'eparu.il n.tes that I might read whmc- ould nt emnfin any tive or hurtGul. [ oices 'Go on; ,iwa vou iYase. -You are in te I(tue of1 y olur f*riends.') Mv Iria is. part ners in joy and in sorrow, , m rini. I have come to i y vim in ti.e i,,urfor-mance of' a sa:red task -- to Ziv the foindation of, a moma::t at the cradle of the * lerate Go' vermntient whieb shall 1a galant soils of Alabaa whito dictd for their country. Who gave their lives a free will offer ig io i: feuse of the rights of their s1res won i the war of the Revolu til 1111 the state sovereignty. free dom aid independence which was le,t us as an inheritance to their pGs tcritv forever. These rights, the com paet of union. was formed not to de stroy. int better to ireserve and per pet ute. Whoso denies this cannot have attentively read tli articles of C1! federation or the Constitution of the United States. The latter was 'ormed and designed better to effect the purpose of the first. It is not my purpose to dwell on the events of the war. They were laid before you yes terdav by t!d great soldier in so able a ianner as to rkquire no supplemeint from m . They were !aid before you vv one who. like A,neas. 'Cal,eta 9Jo rf 1ii Ptall i.f(,1P ;'rs ra.' Gene ral .-oh-n Al. o was a soldier who when our times seemed darkest at Peter.burg was selected by his chieftain Lee as the bcst man to lead the charge to repel the besieging armv. to make the sortie and attack in flank and rear. to double up Grant's ar.mIy and. if I mav say so in his presence here, lie failed. but his fail ure was duc to the failure of' his guides to carry him where he pro posed to go. Again. that man and gallant guict was the one person wlom Lee called at Appo-enattox when he wanted to know whether it were i:Sible to break the line that obstruct d his rctreat towards the motintain.s of VirgIinia. Ile answered that it was impossible; that after four years of imardI fighting his di visin was W;.r (.owi to a ragment. It being then impossible to break the linie th at ob st rue teli his mrchre to the mounat ains. Lee. li ke Washmington. wit hout knowing perh aps that WXash ingtoni ever used the expression. said f IL could reach the mountains of airina he could continue the war for twenty years. But when lie foun.1 the I ue whichi obstructed his rtrat. coulI hot lbe broken he said the~re wais i noting to do b ut suir rndjer. Bie it remiemnberedu. however. tat Lee waLs not a main who contemn plamted surrenider as5 long as he had theC power to fight or retreat, and when he camne to the inst moinent of surrender he said1 to General Grant -ihave comec to treat with you for the purpose of surrender; but, Gen eral Grant. understand I will surren der. noting!L th:at refleets upon theC honor of my army.' Grant. like a man. said lie wanted nothing that woubll have that effect, and Lee mighlt draw up the papers himself. It is not myI pur'pos either to discuss pol.tical qunestions, on whichl my views have elsewhlere andl in other tmes been freely expressed, or re view the plast except in vindication of the ebharacter andt conduct of those to whom :Ihproaposed to do honor on this o;Ca in. That we mal:y not he~ misunaItrston- by vuch as are not w illfu!!y~ bil,i it nay be proper to state in the :oregr-ouxnd that we have no desire to feed the fires of sectional hate, while we lo not seek to avoid whatever responsibility attaches to a helief in the righteousness of our cause or the virtue of those who risked their lives to> def. nd it. [Long aldause a nd cheers.] --Revenge is not the sentiment of a chvalrous peole, and the apothegm tat forgivene.aS is more easy to the injurLd th'n to those who inflict an injulry has never hadt a more powerful iustration than in tihe present atti tule ofthe two sections towards one anothecr. Polcy, in the absence o maignan imity. would have indicated that in a restoredi 'nion of the States thereshold hliave ibee a afull restora tion oft me (riaality. piiee n bene:s a the hadpre-existed. Thoug thishas ot been the case, yet' yo hv '*-ithfuly kept your re si ie . iaton as ci itizens, and in your~ impo'verishment have borne eqalbrdn w 'Iot cqual benefits. I'' am proud of you, my country men, .:irthi- 01dd'itional proof ofvour fidel ity. and pray God to gfive von grace Ito .:uffer an?d be strong.~ When your children's childr.-n s!all ask what means this monument. there will be the enduring answer: -It copimicm orates the deeds of Alabama's sons who died that you and your desceid ants should he what you and your fat; ers in the War of Independence left you. Alabama asserted the right proclained in the D(e-caration of In dependence as belonging to every people. She4 "ound tht the compact of union had been broken on one side and was therefore annulled;that the government ( thie Lnit(d States (lid not answer the ends for which it was int endedi. :m. with others of like mind procee(ied to form a new conflederation. organizing its powcrs, in the lang"ug:e-C of the Dlc'-aration of Independence. in such form as seemed to them lo(th likelv to (f1ect their safety and happiness. This w:as not revolution, because the State govern ment. having charge of all domes tic affairs, Ioh of person an(d of property, rcmained 11ChLLed. To call it revolution is a tross solecis:!i. [applause] as sovereigrns never rehel and as only sovereigns can form a national leaue. If the State had not been sovereign, there could not have been a compact of union. [Applause.] That the South did not anticipate, much less desire. the war, is shown by the absence of preparation for it, as well as by the efforts made to se cure a peaceful separation. A suc cssful party always holds the defeat ed responsible for the war, but when passion shall have subsided and rea son shall have resumed her dominion. it must bc decided that the general governnent had no constitutional power to coerce a State and that a State had the right to repel invision. it. was a national and constitutional right. [Applause] From the early part of the century there had been prophecies and threats of the dis solution of the Union. These began at the North on the question of pre serving the balance of power and cul ruinated during the - war of 1812 on the decline of their trade, though the war was waged for the protection of sailors' rights. In the course of years the balance of power passed to the North. and that powcr was so used that the South. despairing of the peaceful enjoyment of their con stitutional riglts in the Union, de cided to withdraw from it-th:s with out injury to thei*r late associates. The ri-uribt to withdraw was denied. and the North made ready for war. The distant muttermg~s of the storm were readly understood by the people of Alabama. Grav haired sires and and beardless boys. all unprepared as the-v were. went forth to meet the storum ere it burst LIPon their homes or their abtars. It reqjuiredl no D)emnosthienes to arouse them~ to the duty of resisting the in vaders; no Patrick H enry to.p)rep)are them for the altern;ativ- of liberty or deCathl. It was the peopile. not the leaders, who resolved and acted. One sentiment inspired all classes. Yet I believe there were very few who did r.ot regret the necessity which heft thetm no alternative between fighting for their State or agzainst it. :Mothers, wives and daughters, cho;k ing back their sobcs, cheered them on the path of honmor and duty. With tearless tread thse patriots, untrained to war, advanced on many battle fields to look death in the face. rhough Alabama, like Niohe, must mourn her children in death. vet is woe temperedl by the'glorious halo which surrounds their memory. For more than a ce-ntury after his dleath it was saidl that Philip D)evolognes' name v:as born on the roll of G rena diers to whom~ he belonged. and when his name was called it was an swered from the rank1s -mor/ - er chcemp' d'honnenr.' Long very. long, would be tile list which would con tain the names of Alabamas sons whose valor and fidelity would usti fy the same response. To name a few would be unjust to many. They are all therefore left where they securely repose-in the hearts of a grateful people. This mon umnent will rest upon the land for whlich thydid and p)oint up~ward to the Father who knows thel motives as well as the deeds of his children, and and at last restinmg in a land where the justice many be ren.iered which may have been denied themlf here. In conclusion. permit me to say-, Ithough the memuorv 01 our gforioums p)ast must be ever dlear to us. (luty poin)ts to the present and the future. Alabama. hlaving resue her-plce Iin the Union, be it yours to fulfill all the obligations devolving upon all good citizens seeking to restore the g eneral government to its pristine p)urity, and, as best yon may. topr mote the welfare and happiness ol your common country. [Lnga plause.] Citiser.s of Alabama aid laics-_facin the ladi.e on ih stand)-for to whatever side you may belong it is your sex that has been true always in war and deso !ation. We hear of valor and virtues and the enduring naines of Spartan inoters, but tell me where in all the history of nations was ever such a spectacle seen as was witnessed in the valley of the Shenandoah ? How the tide of war ebbed and flowed Soinetimes the Confederates retreat ed and sometimes they pursued. Those people who claimed to be our brethren had burned everything ex cept the fences." [Ex-Governor Watts interrup:ing. and they would have hurned them had they not been stone.] Mr. Davis turned and smilingly. continued "And why do you suppose they did not burn the fences-because they were stone. [Loud applause.] And yet there never was a time when a Confederate body of troops marched down that valley that the ladies did not hang out little Confederate flags from their windows and give bread to the hungry soldiers. [Tremen dous applause.] I have promised that I would not speak extempora neously, and I will not do it. God bless you, one and all. I love you all from the bottom of my heart, and give thanks now for your kindness." [Tremendous long continued ap plause and cheers.] Hints to the Farmers. The convention of the farmers, which will be held on the 29th inst., continues to attract wide spread at tention. It has boen suggested to the Disphtch that there are some specially important matters that should excite debate. Thoughtful citizens are of the opinmion that the farmers should resist the system of swindling, called protection by the North, and demand a broad and de cided reduction of the tariff taxes, as the farming interests are those on which that system most laPgely feeds. They should also insist on the pri mary plan of nominations in each county, as the one only available by the people, and the farmers particu larly. in order that the proper con trol may be exerted over political af fairs. As the farmers claim that they are shut out from the advant ages of credit, through the existing baitking system. the legislature should provide for a State Bank for their. use. And again, that the farmers should earnestly interest themselves inI internal imiprovemdents. and see to it that they are obtained. The above' are a few hints that have been suggested as matters of esp)ecial importance to agriculturists, and also to citizens generally. They are the views of a thoughtful writer and thinker, and may be discussed with profit by the convention.-Char lenton Suaday Di.spatch. April 25th. A Georgia Farmer Who Loans Money M'r. John W. Busby, who lives on the Lincolnton road, ownes one hun- - dred acres of common ridge land. lie paid two dollars an acre for it, and he pays taxes on it at this rate. iIe made in 1885 eight bales of cot ton, 120 bushels of wheat, 300 bash els of oats, 125 bushels of corn, be sides peas, potatoes, &c. He did all the plowing and hoeing himself with the exception of twenty-five dollars paid out for extra labor, most of which was for saving grain. He cedared two hundred doilars above expenses and has loaned out the mo ney. He says that in 1882 he cleared one thousand dollars on this place, and never fails any year to clear as much or more as lie did last year. IWhen he bought the place some of the old farmers, with an ominous shake of the head, said he would soon have to quit such a poor place or else starve. The secret of jiS success is that lie makes all of his supp)lies at home. The value to a country of such farmers is inestima ble.- WasMngton Gazette. Progress of the Statue of Liberty. The pedestal for Bartholdi's great statue has now been completed. The last p)iece of stone has been put in place, and the last of the large iron girders to which the statue will be fastened is ready for duty. When completed, the statue will look even grander at night than in the daytime, as its electric illumination will give the figure greater prominence. It is. proposed to place four large lights at the base of the statue, one at each corner of the pedestal, and a power ful shaft light on the torch, so ar ranged that its beams will shoot high into the heavens. The lights at the base will be so placed as to illumi nate the statue and bring the figure -- into bolti relief on the darkest night. The light of the torch will be 300 feet above water, and should be visible n r about twenty-five miles at sea.