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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1889. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR THE SPLENDID SOUTH. An English Newspaper's Enthusiastic Re view-Marvelons Progress Against Op posing Circumstances. [London Telegraph.1 This is the time of year when statis tits find favor, and there are few ;quar terq of the globe in which the prospects of the future appear more favorable than in those Southern states of Ameri ca which once seemed so hopelessly beaten in war and broken in resources. "No such advance in wealth," writes Mr. G. W. Curtis, the editor of Har per's Magazine, "has ever been made in any other part of the American Union as that recorded by the South ern states between 1880 and 1888." In 1880 the fifteen years which had inter vened since 186.5, when the great rebel ion under Mr. Jefferson Davis col ed, had not sufficed to restore pros rtt Yto one of the most richly en countries on the face of'the globe. in that year, however, that the co tation of "Secessia" began, we ,'now perceive, in earnest, as is t n by the remarkable fact that the thern railroads covered about 17,000 des in 1880, and about 36,000 in 1888. more notable has been the growth manufactures in Alabama, -toa Virginia, Tennessee and Ken " buf and of their collective products SWe i1880, in which year they turned h:A 20,o tons of pig iron, against ?- %out smillion in 1888. Last year there aasa decrease in the total yield of the blast furnaces of the United States, but that decrease was confined: to the North, and did-iot extend totheSouth of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. Ala bama and Tennessee continued to ad vance, while Pennsylvania fell back; and the prosperity of those two iron producing states of the South now is wholly outstripping their Northern sidiferous rivals. Moreover, the iron of the "Warrior Fields" of Alabama is edd to be not only the best but the cheapesti.the world. Turai ig next. to cott jhich prophets of woe declared&';uld only b5e grown by slave; labor,-cfind that riearly seven m-il lion bales of that great staple were pro dz:ed in-1888, against 5,500,000 in 1880. The persevering Southerner has dis covered, moreover, that it is more pro iQe to turn his cotton into yarn, and to expot it to Europe, than to send it raw and packed in bales. The result is that there are-now 390. cotton mills in the Southern states against about f thfn er in _.i880; and alreaad thel&ms of Georgia, Ala ma, uth Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia are threatening the New .,England states and lowering prices in Lawrence and Lowell, Mass., and Providence, B. I. Fourthly, the lumber trade estab lishments of the South at present em play about 100,000 hands, and turned 'out last year blanks and sawn timber .worth nearly ?20,000,000 sterling. Fin ~ali:-, the value of Southern live stock bhs increased to the extent of ?40,000, z000) in the last eight years, while her agriculture has made a corresponding :advance. - hese really astonishing figures, and -mor3y more of the same kind, are sum med up by a trans-Atlantic jotfrnal, the New Orleans Times-Democrat, with thej statement that in eight years the avail .able capital of the Southern states has inc.reased by ?50,000,000 and their gross wealth by more than ?200,000,000 .st4:lng. All this has happened in a1 country one single state of which Texas-possesses an area larger than that of France and Spain combineai-a ste which could, if as thickly popu-1 lated as Great Britain, support 70,000, ~00'. human beings. Bearing these fig-< iur% in mind, we can easily estimatei tthe magnificent prospects of the South- 1 eru states of the American Union when lt is mentioned that on the 1st of July 1 *last there were fewer than 20,000,000 inhabitants'in the whole of Secessia, three-fifths of whom were whites and] *tw~ fths blacks. Moreover, the cli ually delightful and salubri-< * 3, espec ' to those who in July and lugust-the only two inconveniently hot months-cari\ afford to retire to I -the mountains which overhang the .states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, . Sonth and North Carolina, Virginiai and Tennessee. Once, indeed, in twenty years or so, the yellow fever - appears at some little towvns where the] laws of sanitation have been outrage ousy neglected, and produces fright altgether out of proportion to the mortality which [it causes. Last sum mer and autumn, for instance, a visita ~tion overtook Jacksonville, in Florida, ~and telegrams 'were scattered all over zthe United States and cabled to Europe, proclaiming the "ravages" of a pesti lence which in five months put four hundred persons to death-less than the number of victims killed by con sumption in this metropolis every two mnonths. More than a quarter of a century ago the still living Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, showed the inhabitants of New Orleans, whom he ruled with a rod of iron as military governor, that cleanliness and yellow fever stand to each other in the rela tion of alkali and acid. Last winter -= the whole area of Northern states was desolated with a worse scourge than "yellow jack"-those "blizzards," in -which hundreds of human beings per ished, and becatombs of hogs were frozen to death on their road from the Wet to New York. For the greater por ion of the year the elimate of the * .ahern states is as soft as that of Italy and as bracing as that of the Tye>l. Wheni Mr. Cleveland and his young wife made a brief Southern trip af::r enduring the hardships of an un usually severe winter in Washington th:- Presidenit is aid to have expressed astonishment that wealthy Americans should think it necessary to cross the Atlantic and take up their abode on the shores of the Mediterranean when their own country offers a fine climate and the Gulf of Mexico more attraetive scenery even than the Bay of Naples. At this moment Mr. Jefferson Davis is passing his mild decline in the ex treme south of the state of Mississippi, in a house called Beauvoir-bequeathed to him in 1879 by Mrs. Dorsey, an en tire stranger in blood-which looks out upon the Gulf of Mexico, and is des cribed by its fortunate occupant as. "the most delightful spot on earth." If any Englishman desires to have the horoscope of the "New South" and of its prospects drawn for him by a com petent hand, he would do well to fol low the example of Lord Roseberry, and seek out the ex-President of the Southern Confederacy in his Mississip pi home. Lord Dunraven is another traveled authority who has declared, in a lec ture "On the Making of America," de livered lately at Walsall, that the fu ture of the great republic depends chief ly on those states which, between. 1861 1 and 1865, were in rebellion against the Washington government. Nothing, indeed, humanly speaking, can arrest their progress, now that their inhabi- a tants are released from the exhaustion ' of slavery-the costliest system of labor c in the.world-and have found in free c and fairly-paid toil the blessing that it 1 always brings. Little more than i twenty years since the Southerners, t with half their adult male population c wiped out, with their slaves made c their equals, and more than the equals i: Df those who had formerly owned E them, with corrupt "carpet-baggers" rrom the North preying on their vitals v nd without capital of their own, were t in the lowest stage of despair. Strange, 1 indeed, is the transformation that two ii )rief decades have brought about. Al- t: mady the most enlightened and far- t: >ighted manufacturers of New. Eng- b and, Pennsylvania and New York tj tate are begin iing -to. perceive that e .labama, Georgia,:the Carolinas and ennessee contain resources of coal, a; ron, cotton, lumbe&, trupentine,. naval o tores and a hundred -other products i vhioh even the rich North cannot a >arallel; and that the climate of the h .Torth and Northwestein states can y iesder possess. All that is now want- c< ng-andit was clearly pointed out five t< rears since by the late Mr. Benjamin, b & C.-is a :good, deep-wattr port ti end their rich products to sea in swift 01 nd large vessels, fuch as I1ply at pres ;nt between New York and Liverpool. v - t( Cotton Planters lh, Luck. c s So famous have the South Carolina o otion planters become all over the tl world that they are now in demand in y ~oreigh countries where cotton is 0: >lanted. Sometime ago the well known o irm of Norden & Co., of New York, f vrote to Mr. C. E. Salinas, of the cot- 3 on house of A. J. Salinas & Son., of s 2harleston, on behalf of a firm in c R~ussia, asking Mr. Salinas to make ar -angements with a capable and intelli- cl ;ent cotton planter to, go to Russia to 'T >lant cotton. Mr. Salinas made ar -angements with Mr. John Scott, of d.ars Bluff, in Marion County, who is yell known as one of the most success- C ul cotton planters in the State, and onb he 10th of January Mr. Scott sailed 'T rom New York for Moscow, Russia. ti Nhen he reaches Russia Mr. Scott will -cI ~o to the district of Caucasus, one ofa be southern provinces of Russia, rt where he will en ner upon the discharge >f his duties. His special business will - e >e to superintend and instruct the na- d. ,ives in the cultivation of cotton, 3, rhich is planted there in large quanti- E ies. Mr. Scott is a reliable, capable la nd intelligent planter, and he will ti iave direct supervision of one of the r< argest private cotton plantations in Russia. Of course Mr. Scott will re -ci ~eive a very handsome salary. Cotton tI >lanting is fostered by the Russian ~overnment, and Mr. Scott will there- h >y have special advantages in this new t ield. He will also be sent to Central al asia to confer with planters and dealers a n that section, where cotton is now r >roduced in large quantities annually. b Ct is estimated that tne annual cotton b >roduction in Asia amounts to about b sighty-four million pounds. si "BABY BUNTING" ONCB MORE. [he New York Supreme Court Decides He S.i mnuss Pay Miss Campbell S45,000. n NEW YORK, Jan 28.--Charles Al- t >uckle, the coffee millionaire, who ap-t :eared as "Baby Bunting" in the fa nous breach of 1promise suit in which 0 'Bunnie," otherwise Miss Clara Camp >ell, recovered $45,000 damages from 0 aim, is about to build the biggest flat in Brooklyn at Columbia Heights and )range street. It will cost $375,000. r'he general term of the Supreme court t] bas decided on appeal that Mr. Ar auckle must pay up the $45,000 to M;ss a Dampbell. Judge Macomber w-itesC the opinion and Judge Brady concurs Presiding Justice Van Brunt dissents. s Judge Macomber maks some interesting remarks. There is no doubt, he says,r that the millionaire proposed and wasr iwe.epted and the breach of contract is 0 satisfactorily proven. If he intended :o marry her at all after June 4, 18S3, Lt was incumbent on him to name the :lay. It was right to let the jury de eide whether Arbuckle's letter o November 4, 1883, contained a dishon-1 arable proposal, or was a mere pie.ce of vulgarity. WILL YOU SUFFER with Dyspe Sia and LvrComplaint? Shiloh's it lize isguarnted tocur you jt ATLANTA'S YOUNG NAPOLEON. Wonderful Dealings of a Spartanburg Boy Whose Bank has Just Failed with Sixty Cents Assets. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] k "Who is Tolleson ?" It is a question asked on all sides. Mr. Tolleson has lived in Atlanta for some years, but he is not well known outside of business circles. Mr. Tolleson was raised in Spartan burg, S. C., where it is understood he has wealthy relatives. He is now 30 years of age. - As a young man Mr. Tolleson early t developed a talent for business. When Lbout 17 years of age he began bnsiness Ls a merchandise broker and commis ion man, and was remarkably success ul. So successful was he that he soon nade a reputation as a young Napo eon of finance. Before he was 20 years f age his business had grown to such >roportions that it is said he handled 3 housands of dollars every day. He s iad unlimited credit and'good backing ad by the time he was 22 or 23 years >f age he had accumulated considerable s >roperty. s It was in 1882 that he first came to Ltlanta. He began business here in anuary, 1883. He formed a partner- 1E hip with Mr. Wallace McPherson & t olleson. They started a ware house n Alabama street, and did an extensive ommission and brokerage business, i iandling grain, flour, meats and pro- w isions generally. The business that tc hey soon had established branch cY ffices in Charleston, Memphis, Sa annah, Nashville, Macon-in short, N 1 all the principal points in the outh. T The concern took a high stand, was la reU thought of by the trade generally, n ad plenty of credit and was said to tb ave ample backing. The business got T ito some sort of a tangle, and while ere was no failure it was closed under k 2e complications. The afi'aiis of the ar rm created a good deal of talk at the sa me and it is fair to add that no blame ti< ter attached to Mr. McPherson. After this Mr. Tolleson became local fa rent of th'e Wing Milling Company, w ae of the largest concerns in St. Louis. nE [e was a remarkably successful agent, ad developed a business that must tle de paid him $5,000 an<a. upwards each i~ rar. ' He became so valuable to the ge >ncern that 1884 he went to-Nashville in > take charge of the entire Southerbn n isiness -of the company, Nashville be ien enjoying cdrtain rebilling privi- ju gL~I CuI&Z W.a.t ..k, ii 'Uv her Southern cities. There were complications in Nash- M lle-of just what nature it is difficult la< say. Before Mr. Tolleson left the >mpany was not considered very rong financially, and shortly after,he )ened his headquarters at Nashville ie concern failed. It is said that the Ting Company got on the wrong side Fr the wheat market. There was talk a ' transactions of a more or less doubt. w2 1 chaiacter between the St. Louis and pr ashville offices, and then Mr. Tolle- ly n became engaged- in a newspaper pr ntroversy with his principals, in th hich, it is. said, some rather ugly fr iarges were made on both sides. Mr. si1 alleson left Nashville and came back col Atlanta. th He came as the representative of a vi< Louis concern-the Hiasman Flour pr mpauy. which he had, it is believed, be ~en instrumental in foi mning. Mr. of ~leson was billed as vice president of hi is~ concern, but the other oiticers in aimed the title gave him no rights to to cur liabilities; that he was simply the sa; presentative of the concern, and was di< en the title for business purposes. bu be Atlanta end of the company soon fe4 .d more business than the home office. >me complications brought President :inman and Secretary Sherat to At nta, and for ten days there were lively mes about the Atlanta office. The sult of it all was Mr. Tolleson's retire- th ent from the concern. Like all such is >ntroversies. there were two sides to he e matter. . dr Mr. Tolleson than began business on fo s own account but not, however, al- m gether under his own name. It was las this time he got his first charter-that th the Tolleson Commission Company. ar< his was in the winter of 1885. His in siness up to this time had always cri en that of a grocer and merchandise to< roker; but now he began the study of ock. He became interested in theti apital City Land and Improvement opany, and in m,anipulating.this is or Lid to have made some $5,000 in a fewE tnths. Then he devoted more time to stock and bond matters, and took a -ip to New York, where he spent >me time in looking into the methods EWall street. His credit by this time 'as very good. He handled a good deal si stock and bond business for some of in ie leading business men of the city. TI When the Georgia Improvement an ompany was organized he took a big th lock of the stock. He dealt largely in de is stock, holding, it is said, as high on 3$40,000 of it at a time. He was sue- sh ssful in his manipulations of this at ret mes, making quite a reputation as a Ti rewd financier, one day bearing the fo, iarket, the next day on the other side. hi ut he seems to have attempted to car- t 7 more of this stock than his capital in arranted, and the calls for payment f the too frequent instalments resulted i his being pushed to the wall. Just ow much he lost in this is not known, ut it is believed to have been a con- de [derable sum. h t was some time in'188 that the At- t nta Mercantile Company was or- b auized, with Mr. Tolleson as presi ent. This was organized, it is believed, r the purpose of adding the collec-jth ton feature to the biusiness. There was 1se on Commission Company and the .tlanta Mercantile Company until ruly, 1887, when the Tolleson Commis ion Company failed. In the latter part of 1887 Mr. Tolleson >ecame identified with the Atlanta Palc and Soapstone Mining and Manu acturiug Company, of which he was .nd is secretary and treasurer. He lrew a salary from this company and 5 believed to have practical control of he stock. Shortly after he went in he company its capital stock was in reased-five for one, it is said-and the ompany's product was widely adver ised. The belief is general among busi ess men that this tale property is aluable. Then, in November, as has been tated in the Constitution, the Mercan ile Banking Company was organized. 'he capital stock and surplus of this Dmpany was, according to Mr. Tolle mn's statement, paid up in bonds and ocks. A well-known banker, who is by the ay a probable loser by Mr. Tolleson, iid yesterday: "I regard Tolleson the brewdest business man, and in any ind of business, that I have ever met. a all his transactions he has bad good gal advice, and with the exception of ts last break I doubt if there is any iing upon which he could be caught." "The business he did during the past w weeks," said another, "was really onderfully great. I have known him get in one mail as much as $12,000 in >llect'ons.land they came from all over te country-from San Francisco to ew York."' There are afloat many stories of Mr. 1 leson's transactions-they are all id at his door, thdugh done in the ime of his. company-and most of em are decidedly unfavorable to Mr. )lleson. All who have had business with him 1ow of his shrewd business capacity Ld most of them have something to y of his rather questionable reputa m for strict honor in his dealings. Mr. Tolleson has a young wife and mily and lives on Rawson street. His fe was a Miss Cox, whose home was ar Marietta. Of Mr. Richards, the cashier, but lit is known here. He has been with r. Tolleson since December, 1888. The neral belief is that Mr. Richards is nocent of any wrong-doing, or, if t innocent, anything he has done has en done at Mr. Toileson's instance, a as Mr. Tolleson stated.. Mr. Rich eks, his. bride being Miss sMamie ayers, one of the most popular young lies in Atlanta. The Height of Adam and Eve. LSt. Louis Republic.] Mr. Henricon, a member of the ench Academy of Science, published ork in the year 1718, a large part of lich was given up to the past and esent conditions of the human fami In the course of his arguments he ayes, to his own satisfaction at least, at wve have gradually degenerated >m colossal specimens of flesh and ew to almost microscopic specks in rnparison. The dignified position of e learned Henricon demands for his swvs all due respect, but who of the esent generation could be induced to lieve that Adam, the first landlord creation, was 123 feet and 9 inches ~h? Yet, in the course of his reason , he proves this in a satisfactory way himself and his colleagues. "Eve;" y's this learned M. D., "was a splen I helpmeet for her giant husband, t was not nearly so tall, being but 118 ~t, 8 inches and 9 lines." Beauty of American Women's Feet. [Paris Guide de la Mode.] Aerican women have made Paris eir second home for so long that there little to be said about their demeanor re. They are great favorites with essmakers, and especially admired -their little feet. The French shoe kers say that they shave down the ~ts of even the Spanish wom.en to fit e beautiful American foot. A well 3hed foot looks better in a boot than a shoe, and it is said to see a foot nnpled up in a tight slipper and a > high heel, a perfect pi"e of Chi se deformity. To do Americans jus e, they do not have to squeeze their t to make them look small, and the ly advice to give them is to go to 3gland for their walking shoes and learn to walk more. O'Br'en Behind the Bars. . DUBLIN, Feb. 1.-William O'Briei pt under a plank bed without cloth in his cell at Clonmel last night. is morning he was more composed d appeared to have recovered from e effects of his struggle with the war ns yesterday. The shutters are up .most of the shops in Clonmel, the opkeepers feauing that trouble may sult from O'Brien's harsh treatment. 1e governor of Clonmel prison has in rmed O'Brien that he will compel mn to don the prison uniform, and at if he refuses food it will be ad inistered artificially. Comptroller Trenholm's Successor. WASHINGOo, Jan. 31-The Presi ut to-day nominated Jesse ID. A bra ms, of Virginia, to 5e comptroller of e currency, vice William L. ~Tren lm, resigned. "It's raining in London !" That's: e word when a New York dude isi en going up Broadway with his ,a,.er r.o1led up in snnny wather,. NEARLY THREE BALES TO THE ACRE. How Captain Goodwin Raised Eleven Hundred and Nineteen Pounds of Lint Cotton to the Acre. (From the Carolina Spartan. J GREENVILLE, S. C., Jan. 21st, '89. Mr. Charles Petty. Dear Sir:-In reply to yours of the 9th of January, asking as to the mode of preparation and culture of my premium acre of cot ton, I will give you full details of same. I broke the land first time early in January with what we call half shovels and subsoiled in each furrow with two horse subsoil plow. Broke the land again before putting in guano with the same kind of plow. I laid off my rows 41 feet apart, run in 400 -pounds Gossy pium Guano and subsoiled in this fur .row, thus mixing the guano, with the soil. Put two furrows on the guano with twister plows, subsoiling in each of the furrows and then plowed out middles and planted on the 18th of April. I used a double footed plow the first working with a very narrow plow on front foot and plow just large enough to fill up the furrow of the front plow on the rear foot. Tried to work as often as every ten days, using small shovel plow-with heel sweeps, using a little larger sweep every time. The third time I worked my cotton I run around the cotton first then put in 400 pounds more of the guano and covered this by plowing out middles thoroughly. I gave the crop five good workings and laid by about the 9th of July. -I used the Peterkin seed on this acre, but I am free to confess that I am partial to the Jones Improved seed. I think it equally as productive or pro lific. While the yield is not so great from the seed t think it will make as much cotton to the acre. I have no seed for sale. I have been improving my seed for six years, but I had my seed destroyed by fire last fall. In con neetion with this answer to inquiry, I will just state some of my experience in cotton raising. I never plant large crops but my aim is always never to plant an acre in cotton that I can't realize a bale of cotton from same. During the year 1887, I planted a one horse crop, hired me two hands paid hem $50.00 each to help me through rop. These two boys made me 28 )ales cotton, 75 bushels of corn without mny additional help. If any farmer in ipper Carolina can beat this I would ike to hear from them through your rood. The Furman Formula is a splen lid fertilizer for cotton. You will see n the preparation of my acre I did a ,reat deal of subsoiling. The character )f the land is such that I think it very ssential. It is dark, red land with stiff slay subsoil. The laud has been grow ng clover, and is in a high state of culti ration. If the farmers will enrich their and and get it so they can grow clover, ;hey soon will have land that will bring :hem a bale and a half or two bales to the acre. Anything will grow after :lover. If this statement is worth any ;hing to you or your paper you can use t, but I will say I am not in the habit >f writing for papers on farming, or mything else. Yours very truly, J. P. GooDwiN. His Ship Came In. [Charleston World.] The Charleston public will, doubtless, >y a stretch of the memory, recollect a 3ermian of pleasant face and manner, vho was wont to peddle peanuts by lay and hot sausages by night through ~he streets. His name was Oscar Red ich, and he had a stand at the corner >f King and Market streets. It appears ~rom the following item, clipped from :he Anniston, Ala., Times, that he is iuite in luck. "A Times reporter, while standing at ,he counter of a prominent dry goods store yesterday, was' surprised to hear :he merchant request a Noble street peanut vender to settle a small account tue him, saying he was very much in need of this money, whereupon the meanut stand man asked the merchant f he could cash a small check. He said ze could. The peanut vender soon pro luced from his pockets letters of credit or 97,875 marks and some pfennig ssued by the German government. 'his amount is a handsome little for :uhe of $20,000, and was the pro rata share of an estate now being settled up .n Saxony. The paralyzed merchant ongratulated the man upon his good 'ortune, and with many apologies p-aciously bowed him out of the store mnd asked him to call and settle at his :onvenience. Fifteen -mtnutes later, while the appy man was parching peanuts at ais roaster, he was approached by a prominent real estate man who tried to se him a house. The only satisfaction :he real estate man could obtain from ~he happy Teuton was a cordial invita ion to Charleston. his future home, where he says he intends to do busi aess, and can live comfortably under bis vine and fig tree, drink his beer and be happy. The gentleman who has become so iuddenly rich is Mr. Oscar Redlihh." Redlich left Charleston about a year igo. He had not been here a very long ime, but it appears that he was well pleased with what he saw. It is also aid by some of his acquaintances that be used to boast sometimes that he had property in Germany, but it wa re garded as merely an idle boast. SOME OF HIS UPS AND DOWNS. Mr. Oscar Redlich, who has recently gained so great notoriety by the sudden acquisition of a fortune, has returned to Charlonn_ the city in which he snf fered most from poverty and worked hardest to keep his wife and baby from starvation. Mr. Redlich arrived yes- A terday, and at once sought his old friends in the city, with whom he spent an evening worthy of a reunion under such pleasant circumstanees. To a World reporter who met him he d said that he preferred Charleston to any of the cities he had lived in. He arrived 01 here in July, 1887, with his wife and baby, and $240 in his pocket. He had > been keeping a bar in Macon, Ga., and a failed utterly. He came to this city when business was dull, and everybody al discouraged him, but he thought of his o1 family and determined to do some- 01 thing. He picked up a dodger on the a street which announced the fact that a w newspaper was to be started in this h city. He went to the proprietor and F told him that he felt competent to hold di a position on the staff, but would only hi apply for the position of carrier, and it ai was given him. He had one of the hi largest routes in the city, land when the w paper was first started it had a very e fair circulation. After delivering his ar papers he sold sausages on the streets, t and in one way and another kept the b wolf from the door. st; He left this city in December and sP went direct to Europe, where he had at "property in litigation. He knew that of he would recover a large amount in a . few years at least, and often spoke of it. ill He had also, while in this city, a piece h of property in Macon which he would o not sell. His father was a very wealthy man, and it is from him that the inheri tance came. Mr. Redlich is a gentleman of pleas- S ant manners and converses well. The fact that he is an educated man is quite [F apparent. His wife and children are sUll in Macon, but his household goods Te have all been shipped to Charleston, be and he will go into business here as nu soon as he finds an opening. He has at present something over $25,000 and th4 there is more to follow. he Both Mr. Redlick and his wife are fond of Charleston and anxious to get ed settled down here. an stc FARM MORTGAGES IN ILLINOIS. Vi col How Much Corn is Needed to pay the An- Ri nual Interest. of sto - [Chicago Herald.] Te: The Sta e Bureau report of mortgages fro in Illinois gives the amount of annual Te interest on the farm loans as $9,8 8,426. 9 $10,000,000. At 25 cents per bushel, pal which is near the average present ine prices of corn at the railway stations tur in the State, to pay this -amount of so money will require 40,000,000 bushels. pal A crib eight feet wide by ten feet high Soi and thirty-two feet long is estimated Ge to hold a scant thousand bushels of ear otl corn. It is safe to assume that a crib int one-half rod (eight and a quarter feet), Ra~ and two rods (thirty-three) feet long the will hold 1,000 bushels. At this it will cor take to hold this 40,000,000 bushels of ne< corn an ordinary crib ten feet high-and vill 250 miles in length, quite a conspicu- fro: ous and by no means trifling affair even am if a fast mail train can spin by it in its five hours. It is the distance from ] Chicago to Alton. -Two hundred and rai fifty miles in length by one-half rod in sto width is 250 acres. The legal fence in of Illinois is four and one-half feet high. poi This pile of corn, therefore,, will cover mc 500 acres, or three quarter section farms lar and an cut lot of twenty acres besides gu: to a depth of its fences and a fence the board more. Of loads of twenty-five Te: bushels it will require 1,000,000. th( The public mind just now is so much E accustomed to the mention of millions the of dollars that it has become inert t'o ros their significance, and after the infor- us< mation given by this report is acquired, for it is still to be a task to . extract and the fully comprehend all its meaning. It the is plain, however, that interest on farm thi mortgages must be paid with farm produce, etc., else the farmers are not meeting their obligations, and in the ease of those in Illinois there can be no fairer way of measuring the payment ] than by corn in the crib, which is th< cash. So measured its significance me should be obvious to the dullest com- ne piehension, and once it is compre- sel hended the taisk imposed upon the th4 labor of the State comes in sight. na: While realizing its magnitude it must be held in mind that it is a contribu ti6n which calls for nothing in return. So far as it is owing outside of the State, and in the nature of things the greater dei part of it doubtless is, it brings nothing coi back. It goes to square an account tb4 and helps to effect that "favorable bal- an ance of trade," larger exports than im- P0 ports, which so delights our Republi- IDa can brethren, like Mr. Allerton for in- of. stance. Nevertheless Illinois is left it pooer, not richer, by it all. tin ..., see A FaiHure at Graham's. b GRAiHA's T. 0., Barnwell County, January S.-The store of F. Damish, of this place, was closed to-day under a mortgage given to J. B. White & Co., of Augusta. The goods will be sold at an' auction, commencing February 18, and Nc continuing from day to day until dis-.ci posed of. The failure was a surprise to pa1 many. -ou~ Cotton Fire in Columbia.th at tal COLUMBIA, S. C., February 1.-Co- mc lumbia had an $1800 fire at 10.45 to night. About fifty bales of the staple, belonging to the Miller Bros., were burned. They are insured for full .a value in various companies. The Gr origin of the fire is unknown, but it is ho believed to be the work of an incendi- cot A DEBTOR'S TRICK. n Unmarried Man Marries in Order to Claim a Homestead. [Special to News and Courier.) SPARTANBURG, Jan. 30.-A novel iestion, and amusing in some of its ?tails, has been sprung here. Two of ir lawyers had a claim against a cer in unmarried defendant. Desiring to ake their money they got judgment id advertised his property for sale. be defendant, began to skirmish ound to see if there was not some way saving himself. With the assistance able counsel he concluded to marry, id to take unto himself a family that ould need the aid and comforts of a )mestead. He left his attorney last riday, and before Saturday night rk the sheriff received notice from m that he would claim homestead, id he asked that he send out and ve it laid off for him, inasmuch as he as not willing to see his wife and ildren placed in a condition of want d suffering. It is tolerably evident at he must have hitched on to a xom widow who- had made a good irt in the family business, as he eaks of his children. The plaintiff's torneys have given notice to the her side that they will apply to the urt to set aside the marriage as ?gal, having been contracted to ider, delay and defraud the creditors t of their just and lawful claims. THE RICHMOND TERMINAL leg the Great Syndicate to Make it Give ] up its Charter. rom ' the Philadelphia Telegraph.] [he suit to compel the Richmond rminal to relinquish its charter will watched with peculiar interest by a mber of Philadelphia capitalists. amuel Dickson, who represents 2 se gentlemen, is very sanguine, and declares that he will win the suit. ' e Richmond Terminal has threaten to destroy the Norfolk and Western, I the recent suit' of the minority ckholders of the East Tennessee, ginia and Georgia to prevent. the apany from ratifying the lease to the hmond Terminal was the outcome the contention. The minority v ekholders won, and the Richmond e minal is now effectually enjoined i m diverting the traffic of the East inessee Road. he ichml nd and WestPinLTer- 3 iy, which- may lose its charter, was orporated by the Virginia Legisla- v e in 1880, with authority to acquire a ks and bonds of railroad com-. ties in the States of Norih Carolina, ith Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, yrgia, Alabama, Mississippi and er States. It was organized in the erest of the Richmond and Danville P Iroad by capitalists concerned in latter for the purpose of acquiring trol of railroads not directly con ted with the Richmond and Dan- 6 e, which was prevented by charter ' n1 acquiring any such. Subsequent endmentsauthorized it to increase capital stock indefinitely. t at present controls 4,697 miles ofr road and water lines; has a capital ' ~k of $45,000,000 and a large amount unded debt. Among the more im- . tant lines controlled are the Rich nd and Danville, the Virginia Mid d, the Charlotte, Columbia and Au sta, the Columbia and Greenville, Western North Carolina, the East mnessee, Virginia and Georgia, and Georgia Pacific Railroads. ince the brokers refused to purchase bonds of the Georgia Central Rlail d, the Richmond Terminal has 4 every effort to raise money to pay the road. It is now rumored that directors contemplate increasing ~ capital stock $10,000,000, and in ~t way paying for the property. -s The Latest Fad. [Detroit Free Press.] t n fashionable households, instead of ( parents sending out announce- ~ nts of the latest family addition, the I v comner announces h'mself or her- c by a tiny visiting card-the date of ' birth and the address following the I ne.E C American Enterprise. - ~ames Gordon BennetE, like-Alexan the Great, sighs for new worlds to tquer. Not satisfied with having ~ best newspaper in the UnitedStaes i a European edition of the same alished in Paris, he is now about to r -est half a million in the publication t i daily newspaper in London,which, ~ s said, will be known by the dis etive title of The American NYews'pa- I .That it will be a success would ~ 3 mn, judging from past experience, to a foregone conclusion. And aGood Dealof It. [Cuthbert Liberal.] You ought to write up this country i send your paper all 'ver the ( rthwest every week," remarked a ] zen to the editor of the Liberal, a rdays ago. "And who is going to r for this ?" we asked. "Oh, you rht to do that much yourself, for the d of your town and county." And .t is about the way most people look the newspaper business. But it :es money to run a newspaper-cash ney-and agood deal of it. Great Cotton Fire at Granitevineb. LUGUSTA,. Ga., Feb. 1.-Fire at c m.iteville, S. C., destroyed the ware- T ase of the Graniteville Manufactur- v Company, containing 2,346 bales of ; ton. Loss $100,000; insurance $90, d The a.lvage cannot be estimated. E SENATOR VANCE'S POEM. His Protective Pastoral about the Girl with One Stocking. [Washington Cor. Chicago Herald.] Senator Vance set colleagues and spectators in a roar by reading in splen did style the following pastoral, which he said, was entitled, "The girl with one stocking; a protective pasto ral composed and arranged for the spinning wheel, and respectfully dedi cated to that devoted friend of pro tected machinery and high taxes, the senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Al drich": Our Mary had a little lamb, And her-heart was most intent To make its wool beyond its worth, Bring 56per cent. But a pauper girl across the sea Had one small lamb also, Whose wool for less than half that sum She'd willingly let go. Another girl, who had no sheep Nor stockings-wool nor flax But money just enough to buy A pair-without the tax, Went to the pauper -girl to get Some wool to shield her feet, k!nd make her stockizgs, not of flax But both of wool complete. When Mary saw the girl's design She strait began to swear The'd make her buy both wool and tax Or let one leg go bare. - 5o she cried out: "Protect reform! Let pauper sheep wool free? f it will keep her legs both warm> What will encourage me?'.' io it was done, and people said Where e'er that poor girl went, )ne leg was warmed with wool and one z With 56 per cent. Cow praise to Mary and her lamb, Who did this scheme invent, 'o clothe one-halfa girl in wool And one-half in per cent. L11 honor, too, to Mary's friend, And protective acts, hat cheaply clothe. the rich in wool And wrap the poor in tax. The reading of this piece of-doggerel -. ras received with shouts of laughter, ven Republican Senators leaning back -=? a their seats and giving unrestrained . r ray to their mirth. As for the people a the galleries, they screamed: and elled frantically, and when' Senafor' arious applause.urAIl the North na orator gravely inclined his h eknowledgement. . . The Weather for February. Mr. J. M. Grant, Jr,, of Hae.vile lhester: County, has become a weathel rophet of no small reputation. 'The >llowing are his predictictions for s 'ebruary : 1, fair and cold: 2to 4,1o6k~ >r snow and very cold weather ; 5and nearly fait and beautiful; raijiand rind ; 8 fair off; 9 and 10, fair and radyf; 11, changeable; 12 to 14, loudy and rain ; 15, nearly doudy;16 iggy, 16 to 20, fair and beautiful - in ; 25 cloudy ; 26, fair off adhg inds'; 27, fair and very cold -28, litl wo of 'the Six Negroes who Rifled Abernathy Caught at Bock HliL. RoCK HILL, January31 jolston, colored, Mi rete hs omoring at this place charged with, aurdering Mr. W. C. Abernatiey 'in@ tis store, at Catawba Junction,- on 'riday night last. He has confessed eing one of the party who commnited be deed and implicated six other. ohn Feaster, colored, the rigleador -,7 ~as been arrested. The others are stIR t large. There is intense excifement. ,d talk cf lynching. The prisoners are ~ losely guarded.LYC EVERAL AT] -.. .PTS MADE TOLYC THE PRISONEBS. . ROCK HILL, Feb. 1.-Several a 7 empts were made to-day to lynch~ Iharles Coiston and John Feaster, but 11 were unsuccessful. A . large crowd as been in town all day, and the;e- 4 itement was intense. The crowd . vould not allow the officers to take tbe-C' arisoners to Yorkville -until late this vening, when they were pacified by 5s lder and wiser heads. Bill .Briggag ~ nother negro, who is suspected, was.. rrested to-day but released. A man who has practiced medicie :r forty years, ought to know salt from'--' ugar; read what he says:' TOLEDO, 0., Jan. 10, 1887. , Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.-Gentle ien:-I have been in the general prsc ice of medicine for most forty years nd would say that in all my practice .nd experience, have never seen -a re >aration that I could prescribe withas~ auch confidence of success as Veanr~ lall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured b 'ou. Have prescribed it agra az imes and its effect is. wondru,ad ould say in conclusio,n that I havegeI o find a case of Catarrh that it woul 7 iot cure, if they would take it accond godiretions. Yuerl L. L.GOBSUCH,. .D... 'Of fice, 215 SummitSL St We will give $100 for any cse~ Jatarrh that cannot be cured wtN Iall's Catarrh Cure. Taken mtrafi F. J1. CHENEY & CO..Pos, k Toledo,0 IWS.old by Drbggists, 75c. Croup, whooping cough, sore trt udden cold, and the lung tobe eculiar to children, are easilcon ' rolled by promptly -adminitrg yer's Cherry Pectoral. This rmd Ssafe to take and certain in its atiion.s "It js worth its weight in gold,5 a7' ommon. epsion. But, whHe -' alue of godis easily rorth of Ayer' 's urifier,. never depreciate*, t~l .rad.ate serofnla. from tesytm h