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NEWERR .: C., HRDY UUT487 E S T A B L I S H IE D I N 1 8 6 5 .N E W B E R R Y , S . C T H U R S D A Y , AGUST1 VERDURE-CLAD NEWBERRY. A PROSPEROUS AND PROGRES SIVE TOWN. Charming the Visitor-Railway Feed-. ers-The Cotton Factzry-Banks The Colleges and Churches-A Hard Place to Leave-The People Wide Awake. Staff Correspondent News and Courier. NEWBERRY, July 20.-There has been nothing phenomenal in the growth of this city. It has gone on steadily and constantly on the lines and in the channels of improvement, and has now reached that stage from which the future appears bright with the promises of hope. The city, during its embryonic period, had not the :3cal advantages that have made other cities rise to eminence in a abort period of time. Until - quite recent years a boom was an unknown factor in its progress, but in the meantime the city kept on growing, developing itself on its own merits, until it has now become a justly proud competitor of the many rising cities in northern South Carolina. With but one railroad, the Colum bia and Greenville, up to the present time, it will be admitted that New berry may not be charged with com ing to the front by slow or uncertain steps. Like most of the cities of the State, the period of prosperity and progress began only ten years ago. Since then, Newberry, with its af fairs in its own hands, has moved along in many respects at equal paces with its generous rivals,'and in many others has outstripped them on the road to success along all the lines. Nature has been bountiful in her 'gifts to the coantry of which New berry is the distributing centre of trade. The place around and about the metropolis of the county is fertile, and as a consequence it is populous. For miles and mil-es around there is an endless succession of farms and plantations. Cotton, of course, is the crop of the farming community, and never has there been a time when the harvest promises to be more abundant than at present. The good fortune of the farmer has naturally brightened the skies of his neighbor in the city, and there are everywhere, "in town" the signs of good times, past, present and future. PLEASANT TO VISIT. A visit to Newberry under such -circumstances and conditions must necessarily be a pleasant one, and one of which to print the- record is almost irresistible. Very little, per. haps, need be said of the city itself in the way of a description of its streets and buildings. These are familiar to all good South Caroli nians. It is a charming place to go to, a charming place to stay at, and most especially a difficult place to leave. Its streets are something unique, however, co~mpared with those of modern cities which have been laid out with the .engineer's chain and transit. .They are not as wide as tbe avenues of the city of Magnificent Distances, nor are they as narrow as the alleged streets of Cairo or Aavana. They are, most of them, merely Iurrow enough to be somewhat remarkable. But with their long lines of shade trees, the general neatness of the private resi dences, and the cleanliness of the pavements and roadways, there is nothing in the State to compare with these delightfully cool, albeit narrow, streets of Newberry. The city itself is, as it were, verdure clad, and at a distance looks like some sequestered town nestled among hills and forests, with here and there a prominent fea ture of its architecture rising above the tree tops and speaking of an ac tive, bustling city below. Approach ing the city either way along the rail. road, two prominent buildings loom up that are especially suggestive of the present spirit of Newberry. One, its cotton factory, the other its beau tiful opera bouse-or industrial ac tivity and social education in its most pleasant phase. THTE RA;LwAYs. As in all the cities of the State. the cotton market of Newberry is the mainstay of its commercial life. The feeders of this market are the Colum bia and Greenville Railroad and the Laurens Road. Byv these it is esti mated that at least two-thirds of the cotton product of the county finds its way to the coun,ty seat. The terri tory covered by the Laurens Road is, however, very shtort, it being only about fifteen miles to the- line of Lau rens County, with the town of Lau rens as a formidable competitor. The cot:on brought to Yewberry by these roads in 1885-86 was about 16,200 bales, and for 1886-87 (to September) the estimate is about the same number or bales. With the present prospect it is expected that the yield for the season of 1887-88 wil1 be in the neighborhood of 25,000 bales. It is very much in the nature of commercial things that Newberry should have turned its attention, with much enthusiasm, in the direc tion of more railroads. For this rea son the city and country are now largely interested in the building of the Columbia, Newberry and Lau rens Railroad, which will cross the county line near thriving Prosperity, and thence to Newberry. Nineteen miles of this road have already been graded in the direction of Prosperity. When this line is completed the northeastern section of Newberr~y County will be within rapid connec tion with the county seat. The ulti mate design is to extend the road to Spartanburg. The people of New berry generally are building great hopes also on the branch of the Three C's Road, which, it is expected, will run from a point between Black's and Yorkville to Newberry, and thence to Edgefield and Augusta. The part of this "branch," from New berry to Augusta has already been graded for a narrow gauge, with the exception of about seven miles. It is understood that this part of the branch-"Mitchell's old road"-has already been relieved of its indebted ness and consolidated with the Three C's. The hope at least is entertained that the Newberry and Augusta di vision.will be in running order dur ing the next season. The comple tion of this line will add about twenty-six miles of country, hitherto untraversed by a railroad, to the market of the city. When these ad ditional highways of travel and freight traffic are built it will be only a question of time-and a very short time-for the county seat to assume larger proportions and importance. The county seat with these new com munications will be the natural ob. jective point for the farmers of the county, either as buyers or sellers. THE COTTON FACTORY. Newberry's cotton factory is an eminent characteristic feature of the enterprise of the city. It is a fine imposing building overlooking the town on the4 west of the Colunbia and Greenville Railroad, and began operations in the fall of 1884. Since then its career has been exceedingly prosperous. The original 6,000 spin. dles were increased to 10,000 only a few months ago, and the looms to 320, the mill being now run to its full capacity. It gives employment to 250 oparatives, wiiose pay roll amounts to about $50,000 a year, of which the merchant community of Newberry receive almost total bene fit. The officers are: President, R. L. McCaughrin; superintendent, C. W. Holbrook; treasurer and manager, Henry C. Robertson, formerly of Charleston, and secretary, George S. Mower. Mr. Robertson, on the visit of the correspondant to the factory, took evident pleasure in going over the mill and exhibiting the work that had been and was being done. Trhe operatives are comfortably quartered in .fifty-six houses, to which "aggregaf,ion" the name of McCaugh. rinville has beesn given. The mill has now on hand plenty of material to support its wants until October next, and the product finds ready sale, through its excellent quality, in the Northern markets. It was stated on good authority that since the erection of the mill one dollar had been added to the value, to the producer, of every bale of cotton brought to Newberry. The factory consumes about five thousand bales annually. The facilities for hand. ling material to and from the miil] are excellent, owing to its nearness to the depots of the city. The paid in capital stock of the factory is 243,000. The only other important manufac turing enterprise is the sash and blLd factory of W. T. Davis & Co. the supplies of yellow pine for whici are obtained both from Newberry and Lexington Counties. TIHE IIANKS. The cotton mill of itself is, how ever, indicative of push and progress But there are other institutions whicl point in the same direction. Amnong these is the National Bank with capit.al stock of $150,000, surplu fund of $30.000, undivided profit! $108,500 and deposits $I68,000 The officers of the bank are: Presi dent. Rt. L. McCaughrin; cashier, T S. D)uncan; assistant cashier, T. J McCrary. There is also a building and loan association which has al ready paid in twenty-two assessment! on its 1,000 shares of $100 each The affairs of the concern are expect ed to be wound up in about one hun dred months. COLLEGEs AND cHURCHIES. that may be noted are its colleges academies, opera house and churches When it is considered that the popu lation is only 3,125, it will be con ceded that the record of the city it these respects is satisfactory and gratifying in the extreme. The cen sus was taken carefully three months ago, and shows an increase of 57t within the past three years. The in crease is largely due to the establish ment of the cotton factory. Of the literary institutions th Newberry College, under the direc tion of the Lutheran Synod], stand, easily first. It is under. the presi dency of the Rev. George W. Ilol land, who is assisted by five profes sors. Last session there were in at tendance sixty students with be tween forty and fifty in the prepara tory department. Attached to the institution is the Lutheran Theologi cal Seminary. Of the merits of th< institution, which are widely known it is scarcely necessary to speak at this time. The Newberry Female Academy is another flourishing institution, the attendance at which last session num, bered one hundred. The principal of the Academy is Prof. A. P. Pifer under whom are three assistants The atten'ance at the Academy i perhaps the fact that speaks its besi encomium. There is besides these institutions a male academy, which is taught by Mr. James P. Kinard, a graduatE from the Citadel Academy in 1886 The condition of-the academy is high ly encouraging, the attendance lasi session having been forty students The poorer classes are also well pro vided with the means of education it the free commGn schools, of whicl there are a number in the city. The churches are the Lutheran under the pastorate of the Rev. H F. Shealey; the Baptist Church, pas tor C. P. Scott; the Associate Re formed Presbyterian, pastor 'E. P McClintock; the Episcopal, the Rev Mr. Ilanckel; the Methodist, the Rev J. L. Stokes, and the Presbyterian the Rev. J. S. Cosby. There ar< c>lored churches of all the denomi nations just mentioned. The opera house is a handsomE building which cost $30,000, and was completed in 1881. it is under the management of the city council, bu as a theatre has not been a financia success. The lower part of the build ing is occupied by two stores, guar rooms, the mayors office and the cit.) council chamber. :Near the opera house, which fronts on the publit square, is a well kept 'and well filled city market, which furnishes to thE city an annual revenue of $600. CITY GOVERN31ENT. The~government of the city is con trolled by the Mayor Geo. B. Cromner and A dermen B. H1. Cline, Geo McWhirter, Eduard Scholtz and B F. Goggans. All of these, it it worthy of remark, are young men wh< are now serving their second term o: office. The taxable property o: Newberry, real and personal, amounts to about $1,300,000, on which ther< is levied a tax (general) of tw< mills; one mill to pay interest oi OperaHouse bonds; and one mill at a fire department tax. Besides this revenue, the seven barrooms of th< city pay an aggregate tax of $2,800 The volunteer fire department il equipped with a steam engine, hanm engine and a hook and ladder com pany, the outfit costing $10,000. Thi department is thoroughly organize< and efficient. The police department is compose< of Chief John H1. Chappell and fou privates, a number quite sufHlcient t< preserve the order of the-municipal iy. The chief receives a salary o $50 per month and the privates $4' each per month. The street department is unde the charge of Mr. W. T. Jackson whose salary is $45 a month. Tb work of this department is evidenti very thorough. According to the re port of the board of health the an nual death rate for the year end in, November. 1886, was .as follows White and colored per 1,000, 18.1 White population (1,700) per 1,00C 14.4; colored population (1.500) pe 1,000, 20. The health of the cityi very largely due to its topography there being nothing necessary bu surface drainage, which finds a nat ural and easy outlet in a wate course on two sides of the city. Ther is in charge of the police sanitatio: of the city board of health, of whic: Dr. James McIntosh is the chail man. The business houses of Newbsrr are of a very superior character, an especially those on the pnblic squar and Caldwell arid Adams street! These are invariably of brick, an are as attractive and showy as sim larger amount of business is done, The aggreg-ate of this business will doubtless reach this year about $S00," 000 or $900,000. The city is well lighted with oil lamps. TIE PRESS. A light of quite another kind i, furnished by Newberry's two pro gressive journals, the HERALD ANE NEWS, edited by Messrs. E. 11. Aull and W. P. Houseal, and the Observer the proprietors of which are Messrs. W. H. Wallace and J. H. M. Kinard. The editors of both of these livE newspapers told the correspondent confidentially that their papers were good investments and in other word, that they were paying institutions. If they are not, they should be, if for no other reason than the characteris, tic courtesy of the gentlemen of the Newberry press. A visit to Newberry would scarcely be complete without a call at the In. nisfallen Dairy Farm in the suburbs The establishment is being run undei lease by Mr. I.'W. Walter, a formex Charlestonian. The dairy has beer in :)istence only about two years, and has not yet become self-support. ing from. the dairy farm products. This is expected to be achieved, however, during the next season The revenue of the dairy is almost exclusively derived from the sale of milk to the citizens of Newberry the butter feature being yet undevel oped. The proprietor will ever during the present season go far to wards maintaining his stock fron ensi-lage, having just completed hi, silos for the standing crop. Mr Walter's enterprise is one which i, being regarded with much interest by the neighboring farming com munity. The hotels of Newberry are botl numerous and excellent. The "New . berry Hotel," under the managemen of Mr. Jones, is now one of the favorite:stopping places for transieni travelers. This is the result of the splendid appointments of the hotel its good table and the unvaryinr courtesies and attention of its proprie tor. As already stated, Newberry is f difficult place to leave. Going away from the city, however, it it almost impossible, with a'knowledgE of what it contains of material and l energy, to escape the conviction thai -it has received of late years an im pulse that it will end only in th< achievement of greater and bette. things. The people are wide awaki to the emergencies of the hour; thi field of action is wide enough and broad enough to permit of the mos1 golden prophecies, and with the as surance of a speedy verification. -! .F. T. The Oldest Episcopal Rector Dies. Baltimore American, July 25. The Rev. Dr. Robert Piggot, th< oldest Protestant Episcopal ministe) in the United States, died at his res idence, at Sykesville, on Saturda' night at 11.15 o'clock. He was borr -in New York, May 20, 1795, and wa: at the time of his death in his ninety third year. He was ordained hb Bishop White, November 30th, 1-23 He bad several charges in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was called t< Sykesville in 1869 as rector of Hola Trinity Church, which einbraces parts of Baltimore, Howard and Carrol Counties. lHe attended to the du ties of their district up to within foul years of his death. He retained t< a wonderful degree all his faculties IHe was an artist and engaver of n< mean ability, and some of his engrav 'ings have been ,nuch admired. C The Obstinate Juror. San Francisco Bulletin. r A Tacoma (Washington Territory ,jury failed to agree upon a case o a deadly assault, and eleven member rsigned a paper stating that "thi - eleven do not consider the one obsti -nate a qualified juror. That hei Sessentially lacking in certain quali :fications necessary to constitute: .good juror. We would, thereforn , ask that in making up the jury list i r tuture for this county his name b s left off." Selling a Wife in Indiana. VINcENNES, IND., July 29.-A p( r culiar case came up in the Mayor e Court yesterday. Charles Bohn hai 2 J. II, Bunch arrested for taking aWa a Bohn's wife and living with lie Bunch is a blind pensioner and ha quite a sum of money. Mrs. Boh 7* had a strong liking for the blind ma Sand she left her husband, but it no e appears that Bohn really sold hi - wife to Bunch for $300 and hel & Bunch's note therefor. The sale ws Leffected, but the note was never pail A SUBJECT OF INTEREST. The Facts about Mississippi Agricul tural College Put In a Nutshell. Re. .Dr. Grier, in A. R. Presbyterian. My visit had to do mainly with this institution. It is attracting an unusual amount of attention just now in South Carolina and other South ern States. This and all other agri cultural colleges in the South are the creation of the general government, not directly, but indirectly. The proceeds of certain governnent lands were ap)ropriated to the endowment of colleges in the respective States, in which institutions agriculture should be mainly taught. It has been a serious question in the minds of many thoughtful persons, whether an institution devoted to this one in terest of agriculture could succeed. All the experiments of a union of the literary and the agricultural have proven comparative failures, and many were ready to say that an ag ricultural school is a humbug. It was in the face of such doubts that the college at Starkville was estab lisld. The first step was to sepa rate it entirely from the State Uni versity, at Oxford-having a different faculty, a different board of trustees and a different location. The col lege has now been in operation for seven years. The attendance has steadily grown, until, for the past two years, the faculty have been com pelled to reject a large number of ap, plicants, the rejections amounting last year to 215. The patrons of the college are the farmers of the State. It has cost the State, all told, about $379,000. - This covers the cost of the farm, buildings, and the annual appropriations. The farm consists of 2,200 acree. . When it was pur chased niuch of it was regarded as poor land. Now, the entire place is in excellent condition. We were shown a field which had been thrown out, at the time of the purchase, as worthless. Some parts of that field will produce this year, it is thought, fifty bushels of corn to the acre. This restoration has been without the use of commercial fertilizers. The buildings are large, tasteful, and substantially built of brick. Nearly all the students board in the college buildings at a cost of $7.70 per month. The maximum expenditure for each student is put at $100. This includes everything. The work ol the farm is done by the students. They are required to work three hours a day. If they work longer than that they are paid extra for it. In this way many of the students pay, in part, their expenses. The -president stated that the actual cost to some of the young men the past year was not more than $50, because of extra labor j.erformned. The crops grown on the farm are corn, peas, oats and grasses. There is no cotton planted, if we remember correctly. Much attentton is paid to the grasses and dairying. The herd of cattle numbers 276, most of them Holsteins. The butter product of so large a herd is quite remunerative. The creamery of the college is the first ever built in the Gulf States and has worked a revolution in dairy husbandry. There are now, we think, six creameries in the State of ofssissipi, all of them the offispring ofteagricultural college. Gen. S. D. Lee, the president, is the ruling spirit of the institution-a fine Christian gentleman. His whole heart is in his work and he is justl'y proud of the success of the college. So far as we could judge, and we were careful to inquire into the work ings of the college, it is doing just what it proposes to do-to give a thorough and practical training in agriculture. 3MONEY IN 3MELONS. BFifty Thousand Dollars a Year Put In the Pockets of Farmers Around BlackvPle by their WVatermelons. Special to Newes and Cou>ier. BLACKVILL, July 23.-A few years ago the man who would have ventured to suggest to the farmers along the railroads in this county that more money, per acre, could be made planting watermelons than could be realized from the old staple would have been regarded as a -crank. Many of them would have looked upon it as almost desecration to utilize the fine cotton lands that border the South Carolina Railway -on both sides, from Midway to White tPond, for melon-growing. To one like myself. who has been deeply in nterested in the development of the wmagnificent agricultural resources of S this county, and talked it and written d of it on all proper occasions, and as .5 certained in tha't way how deeply , the one idea of cotton-growing was fixed in the minds of our planters, it is almost incomprehensible to note the change that has come upon them in the section mentioned. It is, however, as refreshing and grat ifying as it is hard to understand. What an interest now is mani fested in melon-growing. What an industry it has become. What life and animation it throws into busi ness circles at this otherwise dull season of the year. For the last three weeks this town and those above us and below on the railroad have exhibited a scene of life and activity that is not equalled, in some respects, in the busy cotton months. Buyers and soli-citors for commission houses from all parts of the North, East and Northwest have filled up our towns and go from place to place by every train, and actively compete with each other in their en deavors to secure as many carloads as possible. The telegraph operator is kept busy sending and receiving dispatches as to the state of the market from all points. The South Carolina Railway is kept busy mov ing the crop. Buying and selling is active every afternoon when the cars, which have been loaded all along the line, have been massed here. The farmers, merchants and buyers from abroad are all alike filled with the desire of big profits and a fragment of the spirit of Wall street seems to have been turned loose here. The result this season has been greatly beneficial to our section. The planters have realized good prices, and all who have handled the crop are satisfied with the profits realized. The crop is easily made, rapidly marketed, and the universal verdict is that the profits far exceed, per acre the best cotton crop. But the beauty of it is that it does not interfere with the cotton crop in any way. It is so easily made that the cotton crop need not be decreased to any great extent. It is marketed at a time when pla:,ters have little else to do, and brings cash into cir, culation at a time money is greatly needed.. Some of the small farmers tell me that they have already in pocket as much money~as thei. cotton crop will realize, at one fiftt of the cost, and at the same time ex. pect to make as much cotton as they usually make. It is safe to say tha the water-melon industry has passed the exprimental stage in this section It did not prove near so remunera tive at first, owning to the tact thai the movement was new and oum planters 1nexperienced and did nol understand how to market the croi to the best advanta'ge, and conse quently glutted some markets whil4 others went unsupplied. The ar rangements for freights had not beer systematized and in many instances consigners were swindled by un scrupulous parties, who sold meloni in many of the markets. But these matters have all been overcome and this season's crop has . been we] handled and prices have been ver: satisfactory all the time. It is esti mated that the orop of this season which has now been mostly mar keted, will put at least fifty thousan< dollars in the pockets of our peopli in this section of our county. But while the money realized fron melon-growing is very gratifying il itself, yet the result of the experi ment is much more far-reaching. Th most encouraging feature connecte with it is that our farmers hav made a break from exclusive dotto: planting as a money crop. Othe agricultural experiments are nos sure to be ma.de which will lead to development of the wonderful an untold agricultural resources of ou State. With soil, climate and ever; natural advantage for successful as riculture there is absolutely no res son why our State should not be th garden spot of our great country Break our people away from the err< neous idea that cotton is the onl msney crop we have, and the wor will be fairly be begun. Whby may nc the watermelon culture in Barnwe County prove the turning point Equally as great results nave ha their origin in a smaller cause. A Fatal Duel Between Two Colore Men. CmIcaOo, J'uly 27.-A special froi New Orleans says: "A fatal duel was fought yesterda evening on the banks of the Yazc River, opposite Greenwood, Miss between George Evans and Bud Ea: ris, both well-known colored me: The men selected double-barrelle shotguns loaded with buckshot. On] two paces apart they stood, the mu: zies of the gury almost touching When the word was given to fire bot responded almost ab the same m< ment. Evans fell dead, his breat torn to pieces, and Harris was fatal] wounded." THE POOR BOY'S CHANCE. to th He Makes It Himself-The Gates of Success Wide Open in this Country. th Atlanta Constitution. fo Commenting on President Cleve- m land's recent visit to Clinton, the b Springfield Republican says: "An American president rambling tr among the scenes of his boyhood is 8 always significant of one tremendous fact in our national life-and that is ri the essential democracy of our insti- Ci tutions and the practical eqrality of all men in this country in their po litical capacity. Dr. McGlynn and di Henry George and Mr. Powderly and as all other agitators may talk about the slavery of the American working- nt man, and the vast difference between the poor laborer and Jay Gould-but a after all the fact is and cannot be ai denied that the poor man's son is p more likely to rise to the highest seat of power in the nation than the son of any man of wealth. Nor does u this favor rise from any demagogic s< hostility to the son favored by p: wealth." There is a great deal of truth in these words. They state the situa- o tion fairly. In no country on earth w has a poor boy so much to hope for n and to aspire to as he has in the cc United States. Not only in politics st but in every profession and every p, business the gate is wide open for tt him on the road that leads to the ei highest honors. b The humble origin of nearly all w the presidents of the United States gi is familiar to all. It is a remarkable ls fact that the. strongest characters 2 among them, were those whose boy- b hood and youth were passed in pov- s erty and hardship. a The poor boy has been'as pre-emi- o nent in business as in politics. A big majority of the millionaires in p the United States to-day were born b either in poverty or in moderate cir- m cumstances. The foundations of b the greatest fortunes in this country w were laid by poor men of this or the S past generation. Most of our boast ed "old families' are poor. The fI learned professions tell the same old u story. Most of their leaders are men I. who fought their way up from the i: common level of American citizen- w ship, men who did not have the ad- tc vantage of an honored family name, o or the aid of powerful family eon- t nections. There are people in the United is States who boast of their ancestry, S and we sometimes hear of "the aris- a tocracy." This sort of talk is the ii source of comfort and pleasure to those who indulge in it, and, as it does nobody any harm, there is no reason for objecting to it. But the fact remains and grows clearer every day, that the common people rule . this country. They control its poli tics and direct its thoug-ht. In~their' humble homes, in their unpretentious lives, in their hard brawn and their brave, simple hearts lie the hopes of the republic and the genius of its fu I ture greatness. I We s>metimes hear people say, S"Give a poor boy a chance." That is a good sentiment, but it is the ,glory of our history that in every - generation there have been found i poor boys who made chances for a themselves, who became great and I good men and left names which their country holds in honored memory. WONDERFUL WICHITA. SRemarkable Growth of a Kansas IC.Town-An ExampTe of Blowing Your own Horn. r Atlanta Constitution. rBefore you cook your rabbit you must catch him. A town that ex Spects to prosper in this'country must so spread its nets as to catch live men-energetic men, progressive men. A town with any natural ad vantages at all will succeed if its citizens are energ-etic and enterpris in.Fra community of live men will not sit down and whittle white pine and allow the town and its in terests to stand still. A town may thave natural commercial advantages 1 in the world, and yet not prosper if .its citizens are so constituted as to be willing to look after only their own individual affairs. Wichita, a Kansas town, is an ex Sample of what can be accomplished by the energy, the enterprise and the united public sprit of its citizens. Wichita has grownn in a year or two from a comparatively insignificant y little town to a gre at trade and rail o road center. There has been an in ., crease of over one thousand per cent -in the value of real estate, and an i. increase of over 20,000 in population. d Lots in the town sell for more than y $2,000 'a front foot. What is the 5- secret of this wonderful progress ? E- Let a business man of Wichita tell h the story: "We organized. We held almost y nightly meetings, and among the first things we areed upon was to hang gether and stay by each other rough thick and thin. "We advertised by hundreds (f ousands of circulars. We set rth all our advantages in such a anner that strangers who were led r our circulars to give us a call ere not deceived, but, on the con ary, agreed that we had not put it strong as we might. "Every town in the east of noto sty was not only servep with our4 rculars, but our newspapers. And e. newspaper advertising did double ity. Our people made it a rule to -:: k all their friends to advertise. "We then subscribed for a large imber of copies, loaded with local vertising and great advantages; d we found by eonversing- with Lrties who finally came here pros ,cting that the full advertising col nns of our papers which they had en did more than all else to im ess them with the growth and iM r >rtance of the place. "We found then we could, not' rerdo this thing-that the moe' e paid out or these purposes the ore were our profits. Every new-. >mer was a customer to most ofour - ores, and while their advertising Z' Lid to them rich returns, it served - te double purpose to impress the.Y Lstern man who .had an eye to:" siness with the fact that Wicht as a rising town, and thus we. have >ne on until we have added popu a tion since f came here of over=.: ),000, and property has increased isiness places more than a thoua:. ind fold, and in the country roQnid . )out us the appreciation has beei er 400 per cent. "I know as well as you can know inter's ink is the best capital to )om a town. Had we not usedit asparingly Wichita would not have f aen larger than Carthage. As is is e will soon outrank any town: . tate." This is characteristic; there is - imiliar twang about it that reminds 3 of a home, sweet home, as it we 1 other words, the Wichita: lks like an Atlanta man, and the : onderful growth of the Kanss t; >wn is paralleled by the - eztra rdinary growth of Atlanta during le past fifteen years. The moral of this is obvious. Thre not a town in Georgia, nor in the outh, that cannot achieve a reason- . ble degree of prosperity by blowing s own horn. MUSTNT WEAR BUSTIsES. L Lively Row Developing Neai Clarksville Over the Xatter. CLARKSVILLE, (iA., July 27-Th que woollen mill has forbidden ny of their female employees to rear. bustles while at work in the actory, for the reason that there is anger of their dresses beiig caiit a the looms. On yesterday-morn oga young girl went to her work rith a bustle on. Her boss scolded4 mer, and it is said, spoke very rough y to her and put her out of the ouse. While passing the house of he girl's father, the boss was hailed iy her brother and another man. He efused to talk to them about the ase, and they knocked him down wice, <ne with a rock, and as he was etting up he was maocked back with stick. The men left at once and ave not been heard from. 'RE FATE OF A NEBRASA' TOWN. )avld City Crushed by a Cycloute LIXcots, NEB., July 29.-Meagre * >articulars have been received of a lisastrous tornado that passed over he town of David City at 6 o'clock his evening-. One mian was killed and over half he buildings in town demolished,J ncluding the Union Pacific and the 3urlington and Missouri depots. A arge brick school.house, the Metho- ' list and Congregational chur'ches and several stores and many dwelling iouses wrecked. The damage is es imated at $200,000. Coereing a County. LOUIsVILLE, Kr., July 29.-i-United tates Marshal Gross returned from -~ Laylor County to-night, where he went ith a mandate from the Federal lourt to collect the railroad tax. The marshal, although boycotted 5 y the people of that county, sne eeded in making several hundred Levies, He reports it as tough work. Th citizens put every obstacle in bhe way and refused to pay. One man, who was about to pay' bis taxes, it was rumored, was lynched . and others have been threatened. rhe oods have not been sold yet, . and doubtless will have to be shipped :ut of the county before purchasers 'an e found.