The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, March 17, 1887, Image 1
ESTABLISHEI) IN 1865. 1 NEWBERtRY. S. C.. THLURSI)AY, MARCH17,87.PIE150AYR
YOUNG ABBOTT'S $1.000 M1EAL.
The Government Will Not Restore th
Bond He Ate Up.
The case of Joseph Abbott, the
Chicagoan, who swallowed a $1,00C
bond and made application to the
government for the issue of a dupli
cate, presents some interesting feat
ures aside from the details given in
the Washington dispatches. It is s
matter of history that men have
swallowed articles of great value in
order to save them, but diamond;
and state dispatches were usually
the materials of the repast in
question. It is also told that
an old farmer, upon visiting the
city, put his "wad" of greenbacke
in his tobacco box for safe keeping,
and in a fit of abstraction masticated
a goodly roll of currency, remarking
at the time that it was "pretty durt
poor terbacker." A few years ag
a cash boy in Gossage's dry good:
store laid hands on a ten dollar bill
and to avoid detection chewed and
swallowed it. He afterwards con
fessed, and as the unusual diet made
him pretty sick the firm let him of
without further punishment. Young
bloods about town have been knowr
to light a cigar with a five dollar bill
but a $1,000 meal like Abbott's if
not in the ordinary run.
Moses J. Wentworth is Abbott':
attorney, and the. story he tells is
that Abbott is .about twenty-tw<
years of age, and up to August 26
1883, was the coat-room boy at the
Clifton house. le had been in the
employ of that house for twelve years
and had saved every cent of his wage,
until he had laid by $1,900. Thh
amount he bad invested in Lnitec
States bonds, and he kept them se
creted in the coat room of the hotel
where he worked days and slep
nights. The boy made his saving
the one idea of his life. and graduall3
worked himself into a state of min<
bordering on insanity, so great wero
his fears of being robbed. In fact
for some time before the date ii
question his employers noticed tha
he was somewhat "off," but as he at
tended faithfully to his duties bu
little attention was paid to his beha
vior. About midnight somebodj
wanted to get into the coat room anc
pounded on the door. Abbott wa;
awakened suddenly from a sounc
sleep, and supposing that burglar,
were after his treasures, went ravinz
crazy. Hie shrieked for help an<
made a gleat noise, but would allov
no one to enter the room. It became
necessary to call the police, and Ab
bot: was carried.off violently insane
lie was tried, pronounced insane
and~taken to the Kankakee asylum
Atter ten months he was pronounces
cured and discharged. Hie came t<
Chicago, and the $900 in bonds whici
had been found in the coat-roon
were restored to him. lHe then tolb
Mr. Woodcock, the proprietor, tha
he had swallowed a $1,000) bond thi
night in question in his paroxism o
fear, and showed him a tally on th<
wall where he kept a record of hi:
bonds. Other corroborative evidenci
convinced Mr. Woodcock that thi
boy's story was true, and he.shad s<
much confidence in his honesty an<
truthfulness that among the docu
ments sent on to Washington was ai
affidavit by Mr. Woodcock declarin
his belief in the truth of the state
ment, and offering to sign an indemn
nity bond to the government. Thle
government officials were seeminglj
convinced of the entire truth fulnes:
of the story, but construed the lav
to cover only accidental destructioi
of bonds, whereas in this case thi
destruction was i ntentional.-Chticag<
Tribunte.
The Sweep of the Syndicates.
The great game of railroad con
solidation meets on the threshold thi
inter-State commerce Act of Con
gress. It was exactly what was t<
be looked for, and it is quite possi
ble that every railroad of the coun
try will become a part of a grea
railroad league composed of suel
huge syste,as as that reported to havy
been inaugurated around the Sull
syndicate.
Such a railroad league com:pose<
of these mighty syndicates will tr'
to the last extent the character o
our federative system of govern
ment. The most powerful lobbie
ever known to American history wil
infest our legislative halls. Thb
Register has never deemed the inter
State commerce Act as either wis
or justified by any provision of th
Constitution. The inter-State cont
merce provision had no more to d
with the conduct and managemen
of the railroads than it had to d
with the opening and keeping of ou
thigh roads and the transportatio
thereupon from State toState. Iti
Consti'ut.ion to suit a case enutirel,
foreign to the scheme of our Federal
government. Whac will Congres
do with a railroad laegue which will
be the grandest combination known
to modern history ? As the Register
maintained, when the bill was on its
passage, the general government
must go to the full extent of an ac
tual despotism in this matter of rail
road control, or its enactments and
its commission will he circumvented
and disregarded as surely, as silent
ly and as unerringly as the seasons
come in their courses. The question
which this league will bring up at
so:ne time, sooner or later, will be
the lawfulness of such combinations,
and whether this imperium cum im
perio is compatible with the existence
of our established governments.
State or Federal. It is a question
not to be settled by lawyers and
courts, but must go directly to a po
litical solution. Is Congress pre
pared to declare these combinations
a penal offense and to forbid their
existence under any pretense what
ever ?
Having stepped into the arena,
this is what it .li surely leads up to,
sooner or later. We shall see. The
better policy, it has ever seemed to
us, would have been to have left each
State in charge of its own co-opera
tions, and to have made such corpo
rations subject to such freight and
other regulations as each State
would have seen fit to make for the
protection of its own people, going
to the extent of vacating the charters
of such corporations if necessary.
The greed of corporations in our day
is no new thing in the history of
I man, though it may now go to an ex
tent and disclose a power never be
fore witnessed. The true origin of
corporations is to be found in the
Middle Ages, where cities, towns.
fraternities of tradesnen and the like
obtained charters from feudal sov
ereigns of certain privileges and im
muuities, sometimes for the protec
i tion of personal liberty and some
times for the advantage of trade.
In England the prerogative of
creating corporations was in the
King, who granted a charter for the
purpose; but charters may be granted
by Parliament also, and this now is
the ordinary course. In this coun
try corporations are created by the
special charter of the Legislatures.
or formed by the voluntary associa
tion of members under a general
law.
Every corporation is under the
-supervision of some visitor who gen-.
erLlly in England is the King. In
this country thme Legislatures possess
in general this right of supervision.
This is the whole theory of these
corporations. They are the creatures
Iof sovereigns or commonwealths.
IBut it is a familliar ract of history
that these creatures have time and
again set at defiance their creators
and masters, so as to unsettle so
Sciety and at times to disintegrate
States, as occurred in the case of the
early Italian republics and in other
parts of Europe. Can we expect to
fare any better in this country with
such a comnbination as this. grand
American Railroad League would
-prove ? It is useless, and worse than
childish, to blame individual memn
bers of these combinations. They
-are only seeking what they esteem
-their rights of property and the con
trol thereof under their charters. If
we allow them to hold charters su
perior to the body of society from
which these charters are derived,
Iwhose fault is it ?
The question is one that must be
met, and we piredict that in less than
ten years it will be the greatest
question before the people of these
States.-C6olumnhia Register.
The 0.. NT. & L. I. It.
President Moseley, of the Colum
bia, Newberry andl Laurens r ailroad.
- arrived in the city last night to at
-tend a meeting of the Finance Comn
tmittee of his road. lie has assurances
that Columbia will v-ote the required
subscriptions. To use his words:
-Twelve townships. covering all the
iline from Spartanburg here. have
'voted already from $150,000 to $O00.
000t to the road- We com.e down to
fBroatd River with this matgnificent
Sbacking and iare knocking at the
d (oors of the C-apital of the State, only
asking her to bridge us over the
stream."
-The committee, at their meeting
this morning, let out five miles of
e rading to Messrs. Rice & Coleman,
-which will be paid for out of funds in
>hand. Further contracts for work
twill be let out as the work may de
rThe work of procuring signatures
to petition for the election in Colum
bia township w:rs reported as pro.
5 gressing v-ery satisf-coiy-ou
e; '9,,,.,,,., March 11.
TOBACCO (LTiUE.
Tiie .ystei of Toiaeco ('uit re A dopt
ed by ti:e Prize-Taker.
Tmii: NEws AND Coan:i; BuiJEA.
101 MAIN ST.. CixtB1a. JM:irch 10. J
It will doubtless interest the farm
ers of the State to know the methods
pursued by Mr. F. 31. Rogers, Jr., of
Florence, in raising the lot of tobac
co which recently took the prize
offered by the department of agricul
ture, and to this end the News and
Courier Bureau has secured access
to the reports which Mr. Rogers has
made to the department. His formal
report is as follows:
Variety of seed planted. yellow
Oronoko; date of seeding in plant
bed, .January 11; date of transplant
ing. May 13; area in cultivation, one
acre; character of soil, gray top soil
and yellow clay subsoil.
Mode of preparation : Broken
with one'horse plough twice, once in
January and once in April. Just be
fore planting bedding up with turn
ploughs. Planted in drills.
Kind of fertilizers used, Star brand,
commercial fertilizers. Quantity
used, &c., 400 pounds in the drill
when prepared for planting; fifty
bushels cotton seed per acre, also
compost made from stable manure.
Date applied, May 5. Cost of fertili
zer, $9 for fertilizers $9 for cotton
seed.
Cost of labor per acre, $36.54; kind
of labor, colored.
Ploughing and hoeing: Ploughed
and hoed three times each.
Average number of leaves left in
the topping process to each plant,
twelve. Date harvested, August 9.
How cured, with flues. Yield per
acre. 949 pounds.
Where sold and price per pound
Sold atIIenderson, N. C., for $175.45,
average 18. cents per pound.
Type and quality graded by buyer,
fine texture and good color.
Mr. Rogers submitted his account
sales to the department. The tobac
co was sold by Harris, Gooch & Co.,
Henderson, N. C. The prize lot was
in a measure sacrificed in order to
secure quick sales, and enable a re
port to be made in time. It wrs sold
at Hederson, December 10, when
the snow was ten ~inches on the
ground. The 949 pounds brought
$175.45. Deducting warehouse
charges $1.50, auction fees $2.45,
commissions $5.26, and freight and
drayage $10.58, the net returns were
$155.66. Thue consignees wrote:
"We think we could have done better
for you if we had waited until the
weather modecrated."
Another lot of 922 pounds, pre
vusyship)ped by Mr. Rogers, and
sold at Hlenderson, November 24,
bjrougrht $273.68. Deducting ware
Ihouse charges $1.20. auction fees
$2.40, commissions $8.21, and freignt
and drayage $4.47; the net return
was $257.40. The grades o1 the two
lots were substantially the same.
Mr. Rogers says: "As regards the
first lot I cannot say exactly the
amount of land it was taken from.
and therefore cannot conscientiously
enter it, but I send the bill for your
inspection, so that you can compare
it and draw your own conclusions as
to what the last should have brought."
IIe subsequently mentions (under
dat .~ December 11) that he has
marketed not quite one-seventh
of his crop. As well as can be
judged from Mr. Rogers's report the
cost of cultivating his experimental
acre was $54.54, and his return
$155.GG. Uf course the cost of curing,
Ihandling, &c., as well as the cost of
cultivating,; would have to be de
ducted in order to get a fair idea of
the profits of his venture.
Woman's Place.
The new departure of the National
Woman's Christian Tremperance
Union and the discussions incident
thereto naturally sugest a consid
eration of some other matters in con
nection with woman's place and
womnans worx(. all n ok
That^shie hasaplcanawok
and very important ones tco, in the
world's uplif!ing and salvation is ac
Iknowledged by all; that her p)lace
and work have been too much re
stricted heretofore will be admitted
by most; but that she has the same
spherCIe and eq1ual work anid responsi
b)ility w i the men will be claimed
by ery few.
It is. only within the recent past
that any attempt has been made to
utilize the influence and power of
woman in great moral reforms and
in efTorts for the evangelization of
the world. For ages the idea of
subordination has prevailed to sicb
a degree that practically womans
Iwork and woman's iinfluence has been
conziined exclusivelv to the home.
There is no qjuestion but tihat this is
Iat las the throne of her power. But
must her work and influence be con
fined to these narrow limits ? Of
late years this question has received Ti
a pretty unanimous and hearty re
ply in the negative. Consequently, ,i
various associations of women have
been organized and prosecuted with
remarkable vigor and success, looking Bt
to the betterment of mankind in da
morals and religion. Prominent th
among these are the Woman's Chris- m
tian Temvperauce Union and the er
Woman's Missionary'Societies of the in
various churches. sil
To these and all similar associa- pr
Lions the Acocale would now and J<
has always extended the right hand re
of fellowship. In their legitimate ri
sphere, and in so far as they are
confined to their legitimate work, er
they must win a God-speed from po
every philanthropist and Christian. dh
No nobler or more inspiring motto at
was ever adopted by any human or- th
ganization than those undcr which b3
these two associations labor-"For bi
"God, Home and Native Land," and Ti
Woman's Work for Woman." of
But in our approval and hearty to
endorsement and zealous co opera- ea
tion with our sisters in their laudable m
undertakings for God, the church $1
and humanity, we take it for granted oc
always .that their noble enterprises la
will be conducted in a womanly way.
Whenever they forget that they are I:
women and attempt to conduct their di
affairs after the fashion of men, they th
lose their hold on the public regard te
and lessen the probability of their oc
ultimate success. T
There may come a day when our p(
women shall share equally with our vi
men in all public privileges as well as p:
duties and responsibilities. ti
There may be a time when there tb
shall be no respect of sexes, as there th
is none of races, in all the require- pl
ments of the law. Women may go
to the polls and vote as men, and cc
that they may shoulder the musket al
and fight as men, when occasion re- sc
quires. Certainly, if the right of of
suffrage ever becomes theirs the oS
duties and responsibilities of citizen- o(
ship should be theirs also. But that ti
time is not yet, and will not likely s
be for many generations to come, if tr
ever. di
What, then, should be the restric- it
tions to woman's sphere and woman's t3
work? None whatever, except those bi
imposed by God himself in His n
Word, and in tihe very constitution ei
and environments of the sex These
restrictions are not hard to find. 11cr ei
kingdom is first of all in the home. ui
It is here that her influence is most n:
powerfully felt. But if time and cir- tI
cumstance permit, that influence may s:
and ought to be felt in other homes $
and in wider spheres. But how ? w
In the.p)ulpit, on the platform, on the n
stum~p ? Verily, no; for then she ci
loses the distinctive influence and ti
power of her sweet. womanly char- si
acter.
T[he Adt'ocate helieves in women l%
preachers, but only in those quiet yet n
powerful preachers of the Gospel k
who preach and teach in thle home, is
by the wayside, and by all thle sweet d
and gentle ministries thmat only a ti
woman knows how to employ._ But a
whenever a woman ascends the pul- s<
pit or platform, and stands in the tl
face of a curious and promiscuous t<
crowd of both sexes, and preaches 3
or lectures, she is at once shorn of fi
hler peculiar and heaven.endowed n
power. p
It is not enough to say that such 1k
women do good by their p)ublic min- 'n
istries. It may also be true that i:
they do harm. It is not enough to 1
say that souls are converted and 1
great reforms advanced under their 'J
public pleadings. Souls would be s
saved and reformations would take I
place, and perhaps all the more, u
were she to confine herself to the a
more private, but none the less pow. s
erful, ministries of woman's sphere. r
Let no one try to reverse the Di- I
vine order. Woman is now Queen, fi
queen of hearts and queen of homes. c
But whenever she steps down from 9
her high vantage ground and takes t
her place b)eside the sterner, yet C
ruder, sex, she may still be recogr- ~
nized as queen, but it will be a queen
shorn of her glory and her power-a y
queen without sub'jects andl without t
em pire.-S. C. kleocate.
A gentleman informed us laste
Monday that Northern capitalists t
were trying to buy up all the lands
in Sumter and Clarendon counties
along the line of the proposed Sum
ter, Orangeburg, and Augusta con
nection of the Coast Line. T his
looks like there may' be some truth
in the report that this road will soon
be built, notwithstanding the opinion
of some wiseacres that it is only a
bluff game that is being played.
IlHowever. we shall see wha~t we shall
see in a short time.-Oraniew 1rg
A BONANZA IN COTTON SEED. sE
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Le Plans of the New Southern OII K
Company.
of
IE NE%t S AND COURIER BUREAU,
l01 MAIN ST., COLUMB.A, March 11.) CI
Messrs. Fred Oliver and H. C. fiE
itcher will leave Columbia on Mon- gi
y for Houston, Texas, to locate c<
e site for one of the first of the oil c<
l1s to be established by the South- w
n Cotton Oil Company. Journey- fl(
g in this direction they will select ti
;es for the other mills which it is 01
oposed to put up this year. Mr. m
hn Oliver, in conversation with a ti
presentative of the iewes and Cou- ci
r to-night, said : si
"-The mills to be built by the South- of
n Company will each have a ca- ti
.city of 150 tons of cotton seed fi:
.ily, or 25,000 tons a year, the pro- it
et of 50,000 bales. The size of cl
ese projected mills may be judged it
the fact that the present Colum- ei
a mill, now controlled by the Oil bi
-ust monopoly, has a daily capacity g:
seventy-five tons, and yet is able tl
consume as much seed as any mill ci
st of the Mississippi. The eight E
ills to be built this year will cost
25,000 dollars each, making the
tlay of the company a million dol
rs in 1887. t!
"-As has already been stated the
ecial machinery required for ad
tional mills cannot he turned out
is year. Mr. Oliver gave some in
resting information as to the meth
I of organizing the I.ew company. 1
tie capital stock was fixed at $5,
10,000. Each of the half dozen indi
duals and firms organizing the corn
my subscribed for a certain quan
y of stock, upon the agreement q
at a proportion of one-half to two
irds thereof was to be appropriately n
aced by them. h
"-The amount of money actually
a
mntributed by the organizers will be
a
)Out $2,000,000. That sum repre
nts the present m' -num amount
cash capital. The organizers will r
Ter one-half or two-thirds of the $5,
)0,000 of stock subscribed for to
e planters and business men of the
>uth. so as to enable them to con
o the organization, if they wish to
> so. No stock will be issued until
is paid for. If the South does not
a
.ke this portion of the stock it will
sold to Northern parties who are
>w .pplying for it, and who will
iter the company in good faith.
"It is to be a legitimate business
iterprise, relying for its success t
?on its superior economy in the ~
anufactures and the good will of I
e Southern planters. Mr. Oliver t
ys that either raill should have I
100,000 working capital, which c
ould bring the investment in each c
to $2-25,000. Residents of each I
ty where a mill is located will Lave (
e option of taking a part of the I
ock in it, even a majority. Thist
ill give local interest and confidence. I
[r. Armour having affirmed and de- 3
ied in order to affect the stock mar- 1
et and make the money, which heC
believed to have made, has settledC
own now and wants to come into
ic company, but he is not wanted
ny more Hie showed his colors too
on. Anticipating as a result of
i competition higher prices for cot- 1
) seed and lower prices for oil. t
Ir..Oliver is nevertheless sure that I
-om 20 to 25 per cent. innual profit
'ill be made by the Southern corn- 1
any. Hie has it figured down close-i
. The public have but little idea 1
hat enormous profits the Oil Trust
making in the business. It is too
ig a bonanza for experienced mer.
ke the Olivers to be crowded out of.
'he ewcs acnn Courier representative
howed Mr. Oliver a letter from the
on. G. B. Lartigue, of Blackville,
rging the advantages of that town
s a site for one of the mills. lie1
tated that he was receiving gre at
umbers of such letters, but tha.t the
>cation of the mills -must be decided
rst by the transportation advantages
ffered, and second by the facilities
iven for compeCtition on superior
erms with the Oil Trust railroad
entres, where the Oil Trust mills
rere antiquated and inefficient,
~ould be selected first. Charleston
-as a good point, lie knew of no
etter site for a mill than Columbia,
ut the fact that the Oil Trust mill
ere was one of the newest and best
quipped in the country, would make
his city one of the last places to be
.ttacked by the Southern Company."
N. G. G.
Legal Status of the Chicken.
A novel case was tried in Pennsyl
ania at the last term of the Franklin
lounty court, the decision in which
ies the legal status of a man's gar
ten andl his neighbor's chickens, and
vil either make the use of the shot
;un more general i:i this State or the
.cis-r of th. poultry yard more
cure. Henry Klingensmith and
rank Wagoner are neighbors.
lingensmith had a field of winter T
heat, and Wagoner owned a flock
choice chickens. Wagoner's chick.
is went into Klingens,iith's wheat t
ld and worked on the sprouting. ti
-ain with the avidity of crows in a t4
>rn field. Klingensmith finally dis- b
>vered them, and went after them a
ith a shot gun, killing most of the s
)ck. He then sized up the damage a
e poultry had done, and sued Wag- 1
ier to recover. He claimed a judg- I
ent of $30. Wagoner, believing o
at the loss of a lot of valuable d
,ickens and the payment of $30 be- t,
des was an unwarranted straining e
'justice, began a criminal prosecu
on of Klingensmith under the statute s
ring penalties for killing and maim- t,
g domestic animals. The Judge d
iarged the jury in the case that a d
an had no legal right to raise chick- jp
is that either annoyed his neigh. a
>rs or fattened themselves in their t
rdens or on their crops, and that c
ic killing of them under such cir- y
imstances was justifiable in law. i
lingensmith was acquitted. s
Trial Justice Jurors.
A question of general interest to
ie public was decided by Judge l
orton at the last term of the Ker- e
iaw court. Mr. H. Baum way sum
oned as a juror by Trial Justice
inkler. He failed to attend, and
aid the fine of $2 provided by law.
1 a few days he was again sum
oned as a juror by the same Trial
ustice. He refused to serve upon
,e ground that no man can be re.
uired to sit as a juror before the
ime Trial Justice more than once in
ie same year; that having been sum
ioned by Trial Justice Winkler, and
aving paid the ine for non-attend
nee, this was equivalent to service
s a juror, and he could not be again
ummoned. The Trial Justice de
ided that he had not served as-a jn
)r, and was liable; therefore he would
npose the fine fixed by law. Mr.
!aum appealed, and Judge Norton
ecided that faiing to serve as a juror
nd paying the fine was not equiva
nt to service; that Mr. Baum
ras liable to be summoned again,
nd he therefore affirmed the judg
ient of the Trial Justice.
Capital Punishment.
Capital punishment is inflicted by
be State, because the safety of soci
ty demands it. The object is to i
rotect society, and this, first, by 1
utting the guilty person beyond the<
ower to repeat the crime; and sec. 1
nd that his fate be an example to<
eter others. Now we submit that
rivate executions destroy the effecti
f example to a great extent. yhe
ow value at which human life is es
imated-if we are to judge from the
umber of murder cases tried every
ear-justifies the opinion that men
ave come to believe that they can
ommit crime and escape the conse
~uences, by legal technicalities.
ome people seem to think there is
lways a way to save a man's neck.
nd to all such, the sight of a public
ecution would not be amiss. We
>elieve that nothing wouldi so impress
le sanctity of human life upon the
arge body of ignorant negroes, who
Ire continually quarreling and fight.
ng, as to witness an execution. It
s never a pleasing spectacle, but we
hink that all who desire to see it,
hould be allowed that privlege.
arens Adiertiser.
A MAN WITH THREE WIVES.
MACON, GA., March 11.-Yester
lay at Bainbridge the wife of J. HI.
Iawley died from the effects of mor
>hine administered by her husband
>y mistake, it is said, for quinine.
he was uuried to-day. When Hlaw
ey returned from the funeral he was
net by the Sheriff and arrested for
igamy. When shown the evidence
~gainst him, lie broke dlown and con
essed to having' a wife in South Caro
ina and another in Florida. lie is
now suspected of mnurder.
Heavy Failure in Fairfield.
Mr. John S. Swygert of Jenkins
ille has made an assignment of all
's property to .J. H. Yarborough for
he benefit of his creditors. Mr.
Swygert has been merchandizing in
he county for a number of years past.
Hie has always done a large business,
bis customers resiuding for the most
part on Broad River and its tributa
ries. The disastrous floods of tihe
past year made it impossible for
them to meet their obligations, and
this made it impossible for Mr. Swy
gert to meet his^own obligations and
continue business,' and hence the as.!
signment. His liabilities are stated
at $55,000; noininal as3ets, $11,000.
A 1 ,11:. VrA Ufi' kin I.UU .L.
he Appalling Dignity Surrounding
the Supreme Court.
The dignity which surrounds the
nited States supreme court is some
iing appalling. No one is permit
d to wear an overcoat within the
ar of the court. Note books are
iso prohibited, and the attorney or
)ectator who attempts to make .an
bstract of the proceedinge is quick
notified to desist. Benjamin F.
utler, of Massachusetts, was guilty
f an infraction of the rules the other
ay, which those who sat near enough
overhear the colioquy that ensued
njoyed immensely.
Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan.
,as speaking when Gen. Butler en
ered. The general immediately
ropped into the vacant chair. Then,
rawing a cigar from his pocket, he
roceeded to enjoy what is known as
"dry smoke." His action threw
2e vigilant court officials into a state
f terror, from which they have not
et recovered. Marshal Nicholay
nmediately rushed forward, and,.
eizing General Butler by the arm,
xclaimed :
"Remove your cigar at once, sir."
The general's eyes twinkled ma
ciously as he placed his hand to his
ar and said : "Speak louder 1"
"You cannot smoke here. It's
gaints the rules," replied Mr. Nicho
ay, emphatically.
"I'n not smoking," growled Gene
ai Butler, still holding the cigar in
is teeth.
"I know you are not smoking," was
be marshal's reply, "but you must
ot keep that cigar in your mouth."
General Butler replied that he had
bad cold, and that it always re
ieved him to take a dry smoke, but
he marshal insisted so vigorously
hat either the general or the cigar
nust go, that he finally submitted to
be inevitable, and threw his cigar
rom him with such force that it hit
ayer Storrow on the leg and broke
nto a . -.dnqzen pieces.-Kansas
'7ity Journal.
('HE CORN AND WHEAT SUPPLY.
Vhat is Left in the Country of Last
Year's Crop of the Two Great Cereals.
W4TASIIINGTON, March 10.-The
kiarch report of the department of
tgriculture of the distribution of
cbeat and corn shows that 36 per
ent. of the crop of corn is still in
'armers' hands, a smaller proportion
ban in March 1885-6, but larger
,han in 1884. The estimated re main
ler is 603,000,000 bushels. The es
imated proportion held for home
~onsumption is 337,000,000 bushels,
eaving 288,000,000 for transportation
aeyond the country lines. The pro.
ortion of the merchantable corn is
36 per cent., making the quality of
,he crop comparatively high, 80 being
:he average percentage of merchant
~ble corn.
Thue remainder of this year's
amount ot wheat on hand is 27 per
:ent. of the crop, or about 122,000,000
bushels, against 107,000,000 last year,
and 169,000,000 in March, 1885, the
the largest surplus of the largest crop
ever grown. It is .3,000,000 bushels
more than in March, 1884, and 24,
000,000 bushels more than in 1882,
after the shortest crop of recent
years. The proportion held for lo
cal consumption is 194,000,000 bush
els, and the proportion to be shipped
beyond country lines, 263,000,000
bushels. The quality of the crop is
unusually good in the principal wheat
growing sections, the ayerage weight
being 58.5 pounds per b>ushel.
"Let the Farmer Live at Home and
Prosperity Will Dawn."
Trhe Columbia Register of the 9th
gives its editorial columns to a com.
munication on the condition of the
farmer and the cause. It says that
cotton p)lanting is doomed and the
chief cause is the vast credit system
now used to make a crop. The writer
further says that the farmers should
plant a half crop of cotton and there.
by strengthen the market. The ar.
guments are very good. but experi.
ence has shown and will show again
that the reducing of the cotton crop
is impossible. Suppose that every
farmer. this year, was to only plant
half the land usually put in cotton
and next fall the price was to go up
to 15 or 16 cents a pound. The fol.
lowing year every acre that could be
planted would be put in cotton, ari)
the condition of the country woI
be equally as bad if not worse.4Il
is very easy to draw pictures on psier
and art is sometimes acknowredget
prettier th'an nature, but with the
farmers the only way to get them oni
of the financial sea of credit and
bankruptcy is the way of experienci
and education. Cotton will always
be the mneoromn nf this State ani
every oouy Knows it, oui wuere w.e
farmers lack education is learning to
live at home.
It has otten been demonstrated
that cotton caibe raised at a profit
at 9 cents a pound, but to do this
the farmer must raise his own sup;
plies and provisions. It is the vast
purchases of bacon, corn and forage
that is gradually but surely eating
away the farmer's all-his lanc -
Cotton at eight and nine cents a _
pound can not make profit enough to .i.
buy everything that is needed ofn a
farm. When farmers study theirbo
siness and calculate the same as
other professions they will be inde
pendent and prosperous.
We agree with the paragraph in
the communication that "the tariff
and State taxation have, in a sense,
nothing to do with the desperstemo
d ition of things.' In.a sense this-is
a fact, but we believe if the as
removed that regaining t
lost would be easier and more
Let the farmer live at.home and'
perity will dawn.-Greenv: .
Judge Cothran.
After spending two weeks very
pleasantly in Washington, Hon.J::S
Cothran returned from that city a
few days ago. He went to see Coe
gress in session before he takes.the
seat to which he has been eledted. --
He says that Speaker Carlisle-is a
wonderful man, and" he was dm
pressed not only with his.ability,bu-.
with his character as well. Duri.g
his stay in Washington Judge Coth
ran called on the President. HO,.
thinks well of the President, and be
lieves he is honest, capable and :R i
dependent. / ,
Judge Cothran says that his con
stituents should bear in mind the,
fact that he will have no seeds, post:
offices, public documents,, or.:other
favors to confer until next-Decem
ber. The seeds and public'.ode
ments for this Congress have been
assigned to his predecessor, Hon D.
W. Aiken.
Judge Cothran will fake his seat.,
in Congress ia December,iurless! -- ,
eitra ; session should 'be-.called _____
fore that day.-Abete Prea#d
Bauner.
Little Presidential Booms.
Varions little presidential booms
are now springing 4p: all .over.he -
country. Eved the far West Califor
nia has loomed up ,a c
the name of William T.
The chief point urged .in
Mr. Coleman's nomination isrfla s
and strange. It. is that he is hardly
known and has neverheld political .4
office. His abilitres are' rated -very
high by the &mi FranciscA4TfaRL
These little booms are preYious, nd3
many a candidate will come to grief
even before -ther convention.But
these little booms will on1gresult ia
making 'President>Cleveland more oC
a favorite- with the masses of thepse
pIe, for nothing but dissatisfaation'
with the present executiveis the sle,sin
and this dissatisfactioni ease
Cleveland has a mind of his own and:
acts as. he.thinks proper. I.et.them
boom ahead. Dissatisfaction, ithr
justice wi. never amount to uc.
-Greeille Netcs.
Victory for Drummers.
The power of a State -or mum
cipality to tax "drummere" frou
other States has aain been deniied
by the United States Supreme Conit
In this opinion the court-goestr -
ther in restrhting or denying:the
power than it has ever gone befoe
It has hitherto declared unconstitxa
tional laws imposing a.ax or license
on non resident travelipg salemen.
on the ground that sac egisltatr
was an unjust discriminaton against
the citizens of other jae.The
Tennessee law now seSs4ewas in
force in but one distr utitwa
applicable to drummers. c og into ~
that district from other psof Ten
nessee as well as from other States~
and for this reason three of the egt
justices dissentcfrom the ~ionof -
the court.
b iesss Failures, .
Naw YORK, MarcWh--Busies
failures, occurring throgo E
-country,. during t.he last week as.
ported to R. G. guan'n&Co:', mer
Scantile agency to-day,-number forti&
SUnited States 230, Canada 52; to
r 282, aainst 229 last week, and 2O9
the ~week previous. The increase.
over, last week is mainly attribue
Itdi Canada and the British Pow ,
where casulties are zepwa1
numerous. A considerablencr~
is also apparent iA the 6.cl 8 a :
and in the South.
SCity there was hat
portance the rs