The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, December 15, 1887, Image 1

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ESTE I 1U R 1, 18 ESTABLISHED I\' 1865. 1rEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBR1,I87IRIE]5OAYA EXTRACTS FROM PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. A Tariff for Revenue, With Incidental Protection. To the Congress of the. U nited States: You are confronted t.t the threshold of your legislative duties with a con dition of the National finances, which imperatively demands immediate and careful consideration. The amount of money annually exacted through the operation of the present laws from the industries and necessities. of the people, largely exceeds the sum necessary to meet the expenses of the Government. When we con sider that the theory of our own in stitutions guarantee to every citizen the full enjoyment of all the fruit of his industry and enterprise, with only such deductions as may be his share towards the careful and eco nomical maintenance of the Govern ment which protects him, it is plain that the exaction of more than this is indefencible extortion and a cul pahle betrayal of American fairness and justice. This wrong inflicted upon those who bear the burden of national taxation, like other wrongs, multiplies a brook of evil conse qnences. The public treasury which should only exist as a conduit conveying the poople's tribute to its legitimate object -of expenditure becomes a hoarding place for money needlessly-withdrawn from trade and the people's use, thus crippling our national energies, suspending our country's development, preventing investment in productive enterprises. threatening financial disturbance and inviting schemes of-public plunder. This condition of our treasury is not altogether new, and it. has more .than once of late been submitted -to the peoples Representatives in Congress who alone can apply a remedy, and yet the situation still continues with aggravated incidents more than ever, presaging financial convulsion and widespread disaster. It will not do to neglect this situation. because its dangers are not now palpably im minent and apparent. They exist none the less certainly, and await the unforeseen and unexpected oc casion when suddenly they will be precipitated upon us. GIVING TIIE FIGURES. On the 30th day of June, 1885, the excess of revenues over public ex penditures after complying with the annual requirement of' the sinking land eess was $17,859,735.84. during the year ended June 80, 1886, such excess amounted to $49,455, 545.20,- and during the year ended June 30, 1887, it reached the sum of $55,567,849.54. The annual contributions to the sinking funds during the three years above specified, amounting in the aggregate to $138,058,320.94 and deduceed from the surplus as stated, were made .by calling in for that purpose outst:anding three per . cent bonda~ of the Government. During the six .mnontbs prior to June 30; 1887, the surplus revenue had grown so large by repeated accumulations that it was feared the.:withdrawal o this great sum of money needed by .the people would so effect the busi ness of the country that th~e som of [79,864400 of such surplus was ap plied to the payment of the principal and interest of the three per cent bonds still outstanding, and which were then pay-able at the option of~ Government. ThIe precarious con dition of gnaggia1 affairs aglong the people still needing relief immedi ately after the 30th day of . June, 1887, the remainder of-the three per cent bonds then outstanding, amount ing with principal and interest, to the sum of 81&,977,500 were called in and applied to the sinking fund cons tribution for the curient fiscal year. Notwithstanding these operations of the Treasury Department, the repre sentations of distress in business circles not only continued, but in creased, and absolute peril seemed at hand. In these circumstances the contribution to the sinking fu*nd for the eqrrent fisca,l year was at once pgmrpleted by the expenditure. of $27,584,283 55 in the purchase of Government bonds, not yet due, bearing four and fogr and a half per gent interest, the premingi paid thereon averaging about 24 per cent for the former and $ per cent~ for the n in addition tQ this the interest ac cruing during the cqrrent year upon * the outstanding bonded indebtedness of' the goyernnaent was to some ex tent anticipated and banks selected as depositories of public money were permitted to somewhat increase their deposits. While tbc expedients thus em ployed to release to the people the money lying idle in the treasury served to avert immediate dangers, our surplus revenues have continued to accumulate, thie excess for- the present year amounting on the 1st day of December to $55,257.70L19 and estimated to reach the sum of $113,000,000 on the 30th of June next, at which date it is expected that this sum. added to prior accu mulations, will swell the surplus in the Trreasury to $140,000,004. There seem~s to be no asagrance that, witla such a withdrawal from qse of the people's circulating medium, our business community may not in ..ie near future be subjected to the same djistress whion was quite lately pro. duced from tbe same cause; and while the fluctuations of our national treasury should be few and simpie, and while its best condition would be reached, I believe, by its entire dis connection wit.h private business in terests, yet when it idly holds money nels of trade, there seems to be reason for the claim that some legitimate means should he devised by the Government to restore in an emer gency without waste or extravagance such money to its place among the people. THE TARIFF. Our scheme of taxation, by the means of which this needless surplus is taken from the people and put into the public treasury, consists of a tariff or duty levied upon importa tions from abroad and internal reve nue taxes levied upon the consumma tion of tobacco and spirituous and malt liquors. It must be conceded 'that none of the things subjected to internal rev. enue taxation are, strictly speaking, necessaries. There appears to be no just complaint of this taxation by the consumers of these articles and there seems to be nothing so well able to bear the burden without hardship to any portion of the peo ple. But our present tariff laws-the vicious, inequitable and illogical source of unnecessary taxation ought to be at once revised and amended. These laws have the primary and plain effect of raising the price to consumers of all articles imported and subject to duty by precisely the sum paid for such duties. Thus the amount of the duty measures the tax paid by those who purchase for use these imported articles. Many of these things, however, are raised or manufactured in our own country, and the duties now levied upon foreign goods and products are called protection to these home man ufacturers, because they render it possible for those of our people who are manufacturers to make these taxed articles and sell them for a price equal to that demanded for the imported goods that have paid cus toms duty. So it happens that while, comparatively, a few use the imported articles, millions of our people who never use and never saw any of the foreign products, purchase and use things of the same kind made in this country and pay therefor nearly or quite the same enhanced price which the duty adds to the imported ar ticles. Those who' buy imports pay the duty charged thereon into the public treasury, but the grand major. ity of our citizens who buy domestic articles of the some class pay a sum at least approximately equal to this duty to the home manufacturer. This reference to the operation of our tariff laws is not made by way of instructions, but in order that we may be constantly reminded of the man ner in which they impose a burden upon those who consume domestic products as well as those who con sume imported articles, and thus create a tax upon all our people. It is not proposed to entirely re lieve the country of this taxation. It must be extensively continued as the source. of the Government's iracome, and in a readjustment of our tariff the interest of American labor en gaged in manufacture should be carefully considered, as well as the preservation of our manufactures. It may be called protection, or by any other name, but relief from tbe hard ships and -dangers of our present tariff laws should be devised, with special precaution, imperilling the existence of our manufacturing inter ests. But this existence should not mean ~a condition which, without regard to the public welfare or a national-exigency, must always in sure the realization of immense profits instead of [moderately profit able returns. As the volume and diversity of our national activities increase new recruits are adde' ' o these who de sire a continuatioL. J the advantag~es which they conceive the present system^ of tariff taxation directly affords them. So stubbornly have all efforts to reform the present condition been resisted by those of our fellow-citizens thus engaged that they can hardly complain of the suspicion entertained to a certaln extent that there exists an organized combination all along the line to maintain their advantage. Is PRtOTECION NEEDED ? WVe are in the midst of centennial celebratinos, and with becoming pride we rejoice in American skill and ingenuity, in American energy and enterprise, and in the wonderful natural adyantages and resources developed by a century's National growth. Yet when an attempt is made to justify a scheme which per mits a tax to be laid iapon every con summer in the land for the benefit of our manufacturers, quite beyond a reasonable demand for governmental regard, it suits the purposes of ad vocacy to call our manufactories in. fant industries, and -ask a greater de gree of favor and fortering care than can be wrung from Federal legisla tion. It is also said that the increase in Line price of domestic manfacturers, resulting from the present tariff, is necessary in order that higher wages may be paid to our workingmen em ployed in ma&ufactories than as paid for what is called the pauper labor of Europe, Ali will acknowledge the force of an argument which involves the wel fare and liberal compensation of our laboring people. Our labor is hon orable in the eyes of every American citizen, and as it lies at the founda tion of our development and pro gress, it is entitled, without affecta tion or hypocrisy, to the utmost re 'gard. The standard of our laborer should 1not be measured by that of any other country less favored, and they are entitled to their full share of nll our advantas. By the last census it is made to a, pear that of the 17,392,099 of our population engaged in all kinds of industries, 7,670,493 are employed in agriculture, 4,074,::38 in professional and personal service (2,934.876 of whom are domestic servants and la borers), while 1,810,256, are employed in manufacturing and mining. For present purposes, however, the last number given should be con siderably reduced. Without attempt ing to enumerate all, it will be con ceded that there should be deducted from those which it includes 375,145 carpenters and joiners, 285,756 milli ners, dress makers and seamstresses, 172,726 blacksmiths, 133,756 tailors and tailoresses. 102,473 masons, 76,. 241 butchers, 41,309 bakers, 22,083 plasterers and 4,891 engaged in man ufacturing agricultural implements, aggregating 1,214,023, leaving 2,623, 089 persons employed in such manu facturing industries as are claimed to benefited by a high tariff. To these the appeal is made to save their employment and maintain their wages by resisting a change. Where should be no disposition to answer such suggestions by the alle gation that they are in a minority among those who labor and therefore should forego an advantage in the interest of low prices for the majori ty. Their compensation as it may be affecled by the operation of the tariff laws should at all times be scrupulously kept in view and yet with slight reflection they will not overlook the fact that they are con sumers with the rest;'that they too, have their own wants and those of their families to supply from their earnings, and that the prices of the necessaries of life, as well as the amount of their wages, will regulate the measure of their welfare and com fort; but the reduction of taxation demanded should be so measured as not to necessitate or justify either the loss of employment by the work ingman nor the lessenig of his wages, and the profits still remaining to the manufacturer, after a necessary read justment, should furnish no excuse for the sacrifice of the interests of his employes, either in their oppor tunity to work or in the diminution of their compensation. Nor can the workers in manufactorieg fail to un derstand that while a high tariff is claimed to be neecssary to allow the payment of remunerative wages, it certainly results in a very large in crease in the price of nearly all sorts of manufactures, which in almost countless forms. he needs for the use of himself and his family. He receives at the desk of his employer his wages, and perhaps before he reaches his home is obliged, in a purchase for family use of au article which- embraces his own labor, to re tarn, in the payment of the increase in price which the ; ariff permits, the hard earned compensation of many days of toil. -The Three O's Railroad Special to the News and Courier. AIGUJsTA, GA., December 7.-Col. Johnson, general manager of the Three C's Road, and Major Hart, attorney for the same, have been in the city since last night. They came for the purpose of completing the cornsolidation of the Georgia and Carolina -Midland Road with the Three C's. They have been in con sultation with President Mitchell and Attorney Gary, of the Georgia and Carolina Midland. all day, and the consolidation wiltprobably be closed to-morrow. The agreement of con solidation was made on June 1 last, at a meeting in Columbia, provided the Three C's paid all the debts of the Georgia and Carolina within sixty days. These debts, to the amount of $76,000, have not yet been paid, and President Mitchell called a meeting of the Georgia and Caro olia Midland at Hamburg for the next Tuesday. That is what brought tbc officials of the Three C's here. President Mitchell .stated to your correspondent to night that there was no complication on the part of the Georgia and Carolina Midland, and that the only complication was the failure of the Three C's to pay the $I6,000. He further said that the matter would be settled to morrow, and that the road would be rapidly constructed; that is, the line to Augusta would bc completed in twelve months. The entire line ex tends to Ashland, Ky., a distance of 800 miles. Tne line to Augusta is only from Newberry via Edgefleld here. T1'he entire road wil be rushed to completion. Anu Augusta Negro Charged with In. cndiarismn in Two Plaes. Augjusta Chronicle, 10th. The general store and bar of M1r. B. H air, at Elko, S, C., was burned yesterday morning before day. The tire was the work of an incendiary, having tneen kindled at two corners of the wooden store building which was the prop)erty of Mr. C. II. Mathews. The loss is about $2500, with $400 insurance on the building and $1000 one the stoclk of goods. Shortly after the Are a negro man, haiIing from Augusta, was arrested at Williston, six miles from Elko. on suspicion, and it was found that he wore an oveFcoat, the property of a Mr Hendeson of Aiken, aiso a pistol that had been missed since the de struction of the latter's store, which was burned in the big fire of a week ago. The impression generally ob tains that the man is the incendiary who fired Mr. Hair's store and that the Aiken fire can be traced to him. If this is so he will have a strong case against him, as circumstances are being accumulated that point to k DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT. Is fi 1Iississippi's Experience With Her "Pet lI Humbug." Chickasau- (Miss.) Xeseenyer. b South Carolina is now being agi R bated from mountains to the sea. ver the proposition to' establish an Agricultural and Mechanital College, :opied after our own pet humbug. The farmers of the State are told 'hat the institution is for their ben- er fit and their sons will be taught m scientific agriculture, whereby they d >an outstrip their fathers in the ?reservation or reclamation of their P Lands in the production of crops, and ^ heir -class prejudices are being 0 iroused to secure their active sup C Dort of the scheme, which, if adopted, will redound to the interest of the k Drofessional classes, the swell plant. srs and tl.e educated gentry, who a secure employment at the college. a Mississippi has traveled the road t south Carolina is now importuned to ;ry, and it is a pity our Palmetto w brethren do not seem sutliciently fr Dosted to profit by our experience. o Almost daily we receive letters from ifferent portions of the State asking .or information concerning the work-'s ngs of our Agricultural and Mechan cal College, and we have, when we n ould, furnished our correspondents d with a short biography of the Mis- d -issipi "Tombstone Industry," which i n six years' operations and after !xpending $335,000. .turns out two icientific farmers having faith enough h .n their theoretical education to ttempt to put it in practical utility. w Our school has now entered its h ighth year; has supported in ele- S ;ance, luxury and ease since its b )pening, a small army of well dressed i mnd highly cultured people (most of whom never tried farming as a a >usiness, and none of whom ever e nade a success as a farmer) has ex- s )ended of the people's money about P 400,000, and we defy its officers to ame ten of its graduates who are n o-day engaged in practical agricul ;ure. rh Ten rich counties in the State a urnish more than half the .attend- st ince; twenty-one counties have no s epresentative at all at the colleg_, in tnd the assessment rolls of Oktib- p eha County shows that the property valuation as a whole has not in- A reased in the imniediate vicinity of be Agricultural and Mechanical as it a as in other -portions of the State. d We assert, and defy successful con. radiction, that the tax rolls show er bat the land of 'a member of the e Board of Trustees, lying adjacent to ,he collegs farm, has depreciated .n value 25 per cent. since the es ;ablishmentof the college in sight of ' 2s home. - We have had some rich experience, i ilso, with our munificently paid h aculty, who devote a good portion h >f their time traveling, around over t ~he State, holding farmers' insti utes (?) and keeping the people im- i ressed with the wonderful work they ~ tre doing and the great necessity for - ~urther and bigger appropriations, nd this, too, while their places are rE illed with subs, generally under-d ~raduates of the colleges, who are it ilso paid out of the State Treasury. To illustrate : Our Professor of K A.griculture, whose last report shows 0 2e expends $12,000 in ' farm opera- A ,ions and gets back $7,000 worth of0 jroducts, straddles the hobby: "Our 0 vorn out lands and how to reclaim them," and he gravely.- tells our ~armers to "sow cow peas and turnb ;hem under in the fall. Continue ,his process, rotate and diversify ' ~rops, and our lands," lie says, "will loomu and blossom as the rose." And for this kind of advice our producers are expected to pay himp 32,000 per annum and furnish him a a: uice house to live in, and at the same g ime pay his assistants $600 or $800 ci o attend to the duties (of his depart- y nent in the lecture room and on the r< ~ollege farm. Bali! l The advice and experience of one h iuch farmer as Dixon, of Georgia, is a f more value to agriculture than allp ~he college faculties in America, un- a Less others are endowed with morep practibility than ours have ever dis played. Ours are wonderful theorists, a but practical in nothing except in e lobbying big appropriations out of t.he treasury It is amusing to us to observe in b the discussion of the question in , South Carolina, that the friends of i, the college insist that they can es tablish one and run it without ad- b ditional taxation. We thought so, tl too, at the outset, and we, with other members of the original Board of Trustees, argued with our legislators that if they would appropriate $100, 000 to purchase the lands and erect t the necessary buildings, and then give us the insignificant sum ofc $20,000 per annum for three years. we would make the institution self sustaining thereafter. But was it so? Let the $500,000 in State bonds is sued two years ago to defray the I expenses of our too numerous Statea institutions; the additional~ levy of one mill ad v(dorem tax and the enormou~s increase in privilege taxes answer. We want to say to our South Car olina friends another thing in this connection and we are done. Should they determuine to burden themselves with an Agricultural and Mechanical College they will find it will only he a beginning, and 'ere five years roll V around, there will be a demand for ~ another State institution or two. The elephant, must have a mate, Hie can forage more successfully, it is a great deal easier to secure satisfactory t appropriations when there is a num- a her of pampered institutions to make r common cause, than when one is y compelled to go it alone. t - Snoh has heen Mississippi's f xnentable experience, from the dirE Il effects of which our next Legi: ture will, we trust, make a manl: fort to extricate the toiling, ovei irdened taxpayers. esignation of Comptroller Genera Stoney. Regi. ter, 9th. It became known more or less gen ally about the city yesterdal orning that Captain Wm. E. Stoney omptroller General since 1882, hat termined to resign his office an< epared his letter of resignation orhaps the rarity of a resignatio1 a lucrative public office was thl Lase of the rapid speading of thi ws, but certain it is by noon it wa oown to most people about town as the chief topic of conversation id the names of possible candidate id their chances of securing an elec on were freely canvassed. A representative of the Registe aited upon Captain Stoney an< om him obtained full confirmatioi . the report, with the additional in rmation that he should present hi tter of his resignation to Governo ichardson to-day, ai.d that h iould make the date when his resi2 tion to Governor Richardson'to xy, and that he should make th, ite when his resignation shoul ke effect either Decomber 22nd of 3d, at any rate belore the adjourn ent of the Legislature. He said hi d proposed to have it take effec nuary 1st, as that was the tim hen he was to assume the duties o ,s new position as Auditor of thi Duth Carolina Railway Company it as it was a question if the Leg lature could legally fill a vacanc: at would not exist until after thei journment, he had decided on ai Lrlier date that the choice of hi iccessor might be made by the pec e's representatives. When asked his reasons for resig tion, Captain Stoney frankli ated that for some time he had full; termined to leave public eervici d get into private business, if i iitable opportunity offered. O >me accounts he should feel regre severing the associations of hi ,esent office, but on others thouah was doing what was most wisi id to his advantage and happiness Captain Stoney's first appearanci official life was when, on the firs y of May, 1877, he entered thi lice of the then Comptroller Gen al, Captain Leaphart, as bookeep After five years' faithful servici that capacity he was in 188: ected Comptroller General, anc Le best evidence of the satisfactor anner in which he filled the offic found in his successive re-election 1884 and 1886, and whoever i ected to fill the vacancy made by s resignition will serve out tha rm. While the names of a number o mntlemen have been already name< connection with election to the lce to be made vacant, yet so far at known few if any of them havy 'ally announced themselves as can dates, or indeed given any author y for the use of their names. Among those most prominentlj entioned are James S. Verner, Esq. Oconee, Hon. J. WV. Daniels, o nderson, Colonel John P. Thomas Columbia, General St. J. Sinkler Berkeley, Hon. WV. C. Coker, o arlington, J. Knox Livingstone, o [arlboro, and Colonel Johin TF. Sloar r., Clerk of the House. at the Kind but the Number of Then Greenville Kews. While Judge Hudson, and a goo< >rtion of the lawyers, legislator id journalists of the State are en aged in a laudable attempt to re >nstruct the. criminal law, Judgo orton is turning his attention t< constructing the wardrobes of the gal fraternity. . He insists tha wyers discard the ephemeral pomn' ad display of tho ready made ~pper and salt business suit an< pear be(ore him in severe and sin: e black. It is a revival or rather re-enforce ent of an old rule, whose use, ifi rer had any, has long since disap eared. There are much more rea uses to which attention needs t< a directed. The lawyers can ver: ell be trusted to clothe themnselve order. After all, lawyers are not judge< y the kind of suits they have bu ie number of them. Cowhided by a Girl. ST. Lours, Mo., Dec. 6, 1887.-I ie late school election Archibali raham was one of the successfu Indidates on a citizens' tickel ledged to reform the sehool systen1 'his morning he went home druni atered the room of a saleswomani is bakery and at empted a crimine ssault. The girl foiled him escaped froi 2e house. Secnring a cowhide she r4 2rned and thrashed him soundly lien she had him arrested and h 'as released on bail. The affair causes a great sensatior Most Almost in the Penitentiary. NEW ToRK, Dec. 8 -Herr Moi 'as this morning denied a new tria nd was sentenced to one year's in riscn'nent withiost a fine. Most Released on Bail. NEW YoRK, Dec. 9.-Johann MIos be Anarchist, who was yesterda entenced to one year's imprisor 2ent and who was granted a stayc roceedings, was released on $5,00 all to-day, Mrs. Ida Hoffman, h' rmer bondsman, oing his aseurit1 PROTECTIONISTS PROTEST y Against the Tariff Sentiments of th -- President. WIAIsIrTo\, Dec. 7-The con - ference of wool growers and dealer called by the President of the Ns tional Association of Wool Growers now in session here, adopted to-da; the following: The wool dealers and wool grow ers of the United States, represent I ing a capital of over $50(,000,00 I and a constituency of 1,000,00 . wool growers and wool dealers, as sembled in conference in the city o 3 Washington, the 6th day of Decem a ber, 1u87, having read the annus s message of the President to the Fil tieth Congress, declare that the sen timents of the message are a direc s attack upon their industry-one o the most important of the country and in positive violation of the Ns r tional Democratic platform of 1884 i as inter.preted by party leaders ani 2 accepted by the rank and file. of tn party; that the argument made b: s the enemies of. oar industrial prc r gress, and . effectively answered i1 e nearly every school district of ou industrial progress, and effectivel: answered in nearly every school dis e trict of our land, and so thoroughl: I disproved by the logic of facts ani history as to need no answer fron us. We acknowledge thatour"smal e holdings," our scattered and unol t ganized condition, make us an eas; e prey of the free traders, but we ha; f the right to expect something diffei e ent from the Chief Executive of , nation at once the most happy, pros perous and contented of any of th r world, made so by a policy of pre r tection and development which h now seeks to destroy. We had th s right to expect that our Presiden would favor the wool growers of th United States, and confess ou , deep disappointment that instead h r favored the interests ot our foreigi r competitors. 3 Justly alarmed at his position. w i make an appeal from his recommen i dations to all the people-to sevei t and ti ree-fourths millions of ou s fellow-citizens engaged in agricul t ture; to the millions engaged in man ufacturing; to the army of wage earn .s, whose - wages are maintained bi the protective system; to the trades t man and the merchant, whose pros a perity depends upon ours-confiden that their judgment and decision wil be based upon justice and patriotism e and therefore for the maintenance o the American policy of protection I to which the country is indebted fo its unexampled development an< a prosperity. 3 To demonstrte the injustice of th< President's policy and the fallaci of the remedy he proposes for thi t reduction of the surplus, we point t< the fact that if the whole amount o f revenue derived from wool wsa I abolished, it would reduce the sur a plus about five millions, or less thai 3 ten cents per capita of the popula a tion, which is paid by foreigners -while the old war taxes he recom -mends to be retained yield aver oni hundred and nineteen millions, an< r is a direct tax per capita of two dol ,lars each, and is what makes up the f great bulk of the surplus of one bun ,dred and forty millions, and whici , fosters a most dangerous monopoly f We wo'uld further add the follow f ing statistics in regard to the woo ,industry. The annual revenue de rived from imparts of wool under th tariff 1867 was less than. $1,700.000 .under tho reduced tariff of 188& th revenue last year was over $5,000 000. The number of sheep in th countr y in 1884 was 50,625,626, is 11887, 44,759,314-a decrease of near a ly 6,000,000 and a diminution of the 'annual wool product of aver 2,5,000, ~ 000; thus showing that reducing the a tariff by the Act of 1883 has in ' creased the revenue from lmporte< "wools and diminished the number o t sheep in the United States about 12 per cen't. and the annual productloi in the same proportion. The President's policy woul< -bring about the detruction~ of this ir dustry, and the same policy of reduc tion or abolition of the tariff woul< t end in disaster to all the othe industrial productive euterprises o Ithe country. F FOREIGN LANDS AND LOAN COM 5 PANIES. I Anx Important Decision by the Geor t giaSupremne court Auigusts. Chronicle. The Supreme Court of Georgia ha just decided an important case arising out of the mortgage loans b land companies, now so common 1 One Merck borrowed some mane: from an English money-lending con pany, and gave notes therefor, car taining the usual stipulation that,i collected by legal process, he woul< 1pay ten per cent. on the amount ri covered to the lender's attorney a his fee. It was further a part of th agreement whereby Merck obtaine, the money that he was to pay th ecommissioos of the agent who n< gotiated teloan. Merck made default in paymen and was sued. He plead that th contract was usurious, or, in othe .words, that the agreement to pa commissionrs to the lender's agen for negotiating the loan and to pa the lender's attorney his fees for co Slection were mere shifts and device for obtaining a greater rate for th use of the money than that allowei t, by law. Judge Welborn, who trie y the case in Hall Superior Court, rule, i- that the transaction was not usurion if and the Supreme Court sustains hi 0 view. We think the decision correc1 s Usuryis iwhere the man who lend r . the mney gets moe fre its use tha the rate prescribed by law. In Merck's case it was not complained e. that the London company itself re- I ceived more than the legal rate, but it was claimed that the agent's com missions and the attorney's fees were a part of the general agreement r . by which the money was loaned, and 1 that these amounts much exceeded I the legal rate, and made the whole t transaction illegal. As the court looks at it, the London company only f bargained for the legal rate of inter- J p est, which represented the value of 1 p the money it loaned. The agent c only bargained for the value of his I , services to the borrower in getting s him the money, on which services the x i law sets no fixed price, leaving par- I . ties to make their own contracts, and the stipulation as to attorney's fees i t is only that the borrower should bear E f the cost of his failure to fulfil his 3 . contract ins of throwing it on 2 . the lender The Corii Crop. e According to the government crop report for November, the corn crop of t the whole country will average a I r little less that twenty bushels an I acre for 75,000,000 acres. The 1 whole crop amounts to 1,453,000,000 bushels. This is 186,000,000 bush els below the yield of last year. Es timating this loss at forty cents a ; bushel, it is a loss or $74,400,000. The government report says that I c the country has raised but one good ; corn crop since 1880, and that was a the one of 1885, which amounted to 1 a 1,936,000,000 bushels. The crop of ; the present year, according to the eI figures of the department, is the smallest of this decade, except that e of 1881. During the past eight years e the yield has been as follows: Year. Bushels. 1........................1..1,000, r 1883..................................... .... 1, ,00,000 1... ........................... S1883................................ ..... 18.... ........................ 000,000 13 X85...................................... 1887................................................. , 0 The corn crop is the most impor- ] . tant of kl our crops. It is more val- I uable than the wheat crop, or the cot- I r ton crop, or the hay crop. All the t . corn we raise is-consumed at hcme, I . and there are some thousands of f bushels imported from Canada. I The St. Louis Republican, which t has analyzed the figures, says that ; some partsof the South the cor. crop t is the best raispd for years, an.. .I 1 is very fortxinate, indeed, 1or Ae 1 south has heretofore been buying h-e f corn from the West. Let us hope .e that this section will improve the E r record in this respect. Lamar as a Jouranat.C Pkiludelphia New. e It may be Lamar's admiration for 2 newspapers arises from the fact that f the only failure of his life was with s newspaper work. He-tells the story in a very laughable way. Shortly 2 after the war closed Sam Thompson, .the editor of the Oxford Falcont, went , to Lamar and asked him to furnish a -a leading editorial for his paper once e a week. Lamar thought the news i paper his sphere and agreed. He had .great ideas of reforming the press; e that the press was a power, and evi .dently thought that the Lamar edi a torial would turn the Mississippi .upside down, and that in its new position, it would be nothing else 1 but true, beautiful ana good. .He then commenced to grind B out his editorials by the yard, and he , says: B "At fiist Victor came himself after ;my manuscript. The second week or a so he sent a boy, and the third orI a fourth week I had to send my man -uscript down by messenger. In the B meantime it had been advertised all .over the country that the note d L. Q B C. Lamar would write editorials for f . the Oxford Falcon, and I watched the < I exchanges to see them copied. The 1 f papers did not seem to care for my 2 editorials, and they would take up 1 nasty little "squibs," which seemed ~ to me then to be insignificant, written 1 by Victor Thompson, and pass by i .my serious thoughts. I concluded .after a time that I was not fitted for I an editorial writer, and I rather think s r that Victor thought so too."f CHIGAGO SELECTED -As the Place of Meeting of the Republ1 can National Convention. WASHINGTON, December 8.-The Republican National Committee have selected Chicago as the place and s June 19 as the date of the Republican , National Convention. Only two ballots were taken. Chicago came within two of a majority on the first ballot. The second ballot decided it. A Demand for Nerve Tonic. f - Chicago Nems. - In prohibition Atlanta you calli s for "nerve tonic" when you want e whisky. d A gentleman who recently returned< e from that city tells us of a conver - sation he had with one of the lead-i ing physicians of that city a few. t days ago. e "Doctor," said he, "what seems to r you to be the noticeable result of the y enforcement of the prohibition law t here ?" y "Well, from what I have been able I- to observe," replied the doctor, "I s should say it had a terrible effect on e the nerves of the people." In the State House. d Our represeniatives under the heat of s discussion, on going out catches cold, Scont-acts a cough, boarseness and pain, in the chest and throat follow. Taylor's *Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and s Mullein, cures coughs, colds and con n upin A KENTUCKY VENDEITA. !hree Murders In One Week-Arrests by a Posse Resisted. Louisviu December 6.-A third nrder in the same series within a reek was committed 'to-day in the srush Creek neighborhood, fifteen iielss from Mount Vernon, Ky. Last Friday Wallace Laswell rom ambush shot and killed Granvil - dams. Adams was at ,the time - ralking with Laswell's wife and two Eaughters of James Townsend. He ad previously worked for Laswell ,s a farm band, and, as charged, oaintained improper relations with aswelrs wife. Laswell escaped. On Sunday Robert Sammons, rhile returning from Adams' funeral, aw his wife standing in a neighbor's ard talking to Garrett Hampton. ammons was one of the posse earching for Laswell, and was eavily armed.W hot Hampton dead. Adams and Iinpton were both unmarried. Yesterday James Townsend and wo friends-Lansworth and Har. ow-arrested for complicity with .answell in the assassination of Ldams, were tried and acquitted. ts Harlow rode home he was met by crowd of a dozen friends of Adams Sid riddled with bullets. He will Sheriff White and possee went lown to Brush Creek this morning. t is reported a strong force of Ldam's men drove them back, but_ Vhite will return with a stronger osse and make wholesale arrests. LNOTHER MURDER IN EDGE FIELD. acob Burta, an Old Negro, Kilied by His Wife and His Body Buried In a Potato Patch. TRENrON, Dec. 9.-Jacob Burts, ,n industrious and hard-working old-. egro, living with his wife, on P. B. )ay's place, about a mile and a half - rom town, has been missing since fonday last. A search was institn- = ed, and this afternoon his body was ound buried in a potato patch about fteen yards from his cabin, and not ore than an inch undergroud. The odyj bears marks of violence and is artially decayed. It is believed that the old man ras murdered Monday night by his rife, who left Tuesday morning for arts unknown. Before leaving she aithat her-hosband lad gone of In earch of a home for the coming year.: Ln inquest will be. held to-morrow acrning. The murder has created onsiderahie excitement among the.' egroes. A NWA1;'.LiE MURDER TRIAL. om W001fork Before the CoUrt 'an Maeon, Ga., en the Chrge of Kifling Rine Persons. MACoN, December 7.-Totr1 Wool olk who is charged with the murder ' ~f his -father and eight -other inem iers of his family, is now on trial ere. . Over one hundred witnesses rave been subpxenaed:and four have estified. The crime was committed ast August, and created a sensation iecause nine persons were killed, 6nd all with one axe. The witnesses re those with whom Woolfork con 'ersed before the crime, and those rho found the bodies next morning. tII the evidence is circumstantial and no damaging testimony has been elicited so far. The prisoner is rep esented by John C. Rutherford, of dacon, and Frank Walker, of At anta. Some Famous Kisses. Two kisses that bid fair to be amours in their resuits are the talk if the newspapers. One of them Lelped the democrats to lose Ohio. The Chicago Tribune says of it: General Gordon's osculatory ex loit in Ohio was as pathetic as an ~lla Wheeler poem. It was an un issed kiss." The unkissed kiss is not, however, altf as sad as the kiss kissed in the rrong place. Of this, the- second amous kiss the Boston Giobe says: Mrs. Langtry threatens to discharge er leading man because he kissed er shoe. The Lily should not be so articular. He couldn't hurt the hoe that way."~ It seems, indeed, that no man can e too particular what and how he isses. The conscientious kisser knows hat "There's many a slip 'Twixt the cup and the lip," And many a kiss Has-been printed amiss. The Judas kiss is famous, but it is i chesnut. Because men don't kiss bach other nowadays. And it would e impracticable in New York to at empt to introduce the practice. The Duchess of -Devonshire gave cisses for votes. Miss Nelly Cook, f Wayne county, has given her and to the man who worked bard, f unsuccesfully, to elect her to office. and a kiss, too, no donbt, to seal the muptial bargain. It Is Not LeprosY The report that one S. H. Cohen, a lative of Hampton county, and a iood chopper #,n the Georgia side of he river, has the leprosy has been :ontradicted by a Savannah doctor, vho after examining the sick -man >ronounced his disease as a bad case if blood poison. Goldin Our OM - Considering health be - L'hen must we consdraylor*Ohere - :ee Remedy of Sweet Gum andZlWa etter than gold, fo t wl'6iagh olds and eroup. - - .