The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, August 01, 1889, Image 1

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r . 4 I -. N---EWB ERRY9 . C. TIIURSDAY. AUGSLr ~. EABIHD1865~ _ THE FARMERS XN PHALANX. A Solid Front Presented by the State Atli ane. Thv tan Proposed for an Alliance Exchange. ' [ rews -and Courier.] COLUMIIA, July 15.-The Alliance reas:mbled in the Agricultural Ha3ll this norniu. at 9 o'clock. President Stackhoiee- presided. "The Ba_ I. Douglass, the chaplain, led the Alliance t in prayer.: -Vice President Sojourner prsided'during the greater part of the day. The entire morning session was devoted to the consideration of the plan for an Alliance Exchange. To showthe disposition of the house on this question amotion was made and passed allowing each county the privilege of two speeches of fifteen minutes each. There was considerable opposition to roposed by the executive mittee which was, however, sub staitilly aopted. A number of the delegates were opposed to the idea of the establishm ent of an exchange. The opposition was led by Messrs Dargan and Norris. Mr. Dargan thought thatproduction anri not distribution was the scope of the far mer, and he thought suitable arrange ' ments could otherwise be made. He advised postponing action until another time, as the Alliance-t prssent should notutudertake too heavy a load. But he as perfectly willing to abide by the, decisi1 of the body and do hec CO to car g out its-purposees. The Hon. JeremiahrSaizth thought that,the- Allia=e menibers had sent theia= e the State Alliance to adopt some such . mes ure, and should they not adopt such a measure the "Subs" would be disappointed. LMtirer Talbert, of Texas, thought that South Carolina should take her stand with the- sister States, and was anxious to see this State adopt a plan for an.exchange. The-Hon M. L. Donaldson, of Green ville,thought that the exchange should be adopted. Col. D. K. Norris thought the plan too ceiriplicated, and that the Alliance was not -yet ready to undertake .the move; though, if adopted, he would pport it. The plan adopted is identical with atof Te.xas and Georgia. The question e Alliance Exchange has undoubt been the-great issue of the present ention. :b .--tily the - OR AN ALlA NCE EXCHAxGE. 1. The name of the corpora be the "Farmers' Alliance t ge of South Carolina, limited," that name it shall have power rity to exist and enjoy sue for the full term of ninety-nine .j j f .. The dojicitof the corpora in..any cityT or town nf -roinza the beardergorau: 's shai&beserved-upon the tf said- corporation, or in.case bsence or ii.ability to act, .upon 1ce president, and in case of the ce of both, upon the secretary. a, e 1hcjrposes forg}6 J iis'yga e Ae are tgcoudu a eneral mercantile businees1 tud to set as agentt for thepurch*ege saleMo al inds of farm supplies ad.product, -anltadlo all that appetains ?ohkent mailEeng f aidproics nd-the purchiee f Uppies; to' ere~ct-na *and operate ware houses, stock yards,s grain elevats and packing establishig ments; to mnanufacture guano or other fertilizers, and all other such enterpri ses as may be found necessary or advis able to4heir profit and* betterment. -. A rtieleA T.e. capital stock of thus corpoatiOni is hereby' fixed at the sum of $ 00;tOC, divided 1ito 4L,000~ shares of $50 each, with liberty to begin business whenever $5,*M00 of the capital stock -shall haVe beeni subscribed. No stock .0mer.shall ever be held liable or re w.-'aponsible for the conitracts or faults of this corporation, in any further sum than the unpaid, balance due on the shares of stock, held by him, nor shall any mere informiality in organization have the efrectof rendering this charter null, or of e.xposing a stockholder to any liability beyond.the amount o)f his stock. Article 6. Subscription to shares of' capital stock shall be made by Sub-Alli ances and not by individuals. Applica tions for shares of stock must be aecom - panied by 2&per cent in cash of tile amount of.stock subscribed, the balance to b paMi. when called for; w~heni eer titicate of stocki shall be issued as soon1 as the full amount subscribed for shall be paid for. Article 7. It is hereby understood and agreed, that each Sub-Alliance adopt ing this exe/~>.y5ytem and thereby ratifying this plan, -is firmly bound to subscribe for and make settlement on stock, as above speeilned, to the numiber of shares. ue from it, under the follow ing schedule of ability, i. e., those hav ing less than thirty-five mnembers shall be apportioned one share; thirty-five to sixty-five members two shares; sixty . ive~ to ninety-tiv.e members three shares; all over ninety-tive members, four shares: Provided, this shall not prevent any Alliance from taking as. many shares as it chooses. Article S. Each .Sub-Alliance taking stoek in this ('0:-poat ion shall be en titled to) one trumsteeC stockhioldier, who shall be elected annually at the time of the regular election of oflicers. The first trustee stockholders shall be eleet ed by each Sub-Allianice when it de cides to subscribe for stock, and shall serve till the next annual election. He shall represent his Alliance in the meetings of trustee stockholders from and fmonl the Sub--A11ians in that county, andshall beentitled to as many voteashe represents shares of stock. The County Convention of trustee stoekholders shall, at a regular. annual meeting, to.e. held after 0i county meeting in July.and before the State meeting, elect from. their number one delegate, who shalbe known as State truste'e'st&>choi, an'd'whi~shal b9 autliprized to represent the stock held in that county in-State meetings of the trustee stockholder of the corporation, and slali be entitled toas many votes as he represents shares of stock. Each trustee stockholder shall be the repre sentative of the exchange in his Alli ance, and shall give bond in :the sum of $500 for the faithful performance of his duty. Article 9. The State trustee. stock holders shall hold an annual meeting at the same time and place as the Far mers' State Alliance.of South Carolina: Provided, that the board of directors shall have the power to eall a meeting whenever in their judgment it is neces sary. Article 10. Each County Ailiance shall elect -a comity business agedi Provided. 'that' no delegates t County Alliance shall be .allowed vote on his election unles. the Sib-, liance which they represent hats stock in this cororation. The trustee stock hole in each) cut shia atth regurar anriaM nfetng Yea boar of aireotproefpetupre thari v- n fco, their fi bezSserve for ee ehal dyerIs'sthe work of the ioun agent, fix theSot ofpayt i to reeeive and of the bond he is to fur nish for the proper discharge of hi duty. Article 11. The State trustee stock bolders.shall elect.an.ually. nine, from their number as a board of directors, five of whom shalrconstitute a qourum for the transaction of business. The State board of directors shall elect from their number :a - president, vice presi dent and secretary 'ax &treasurer. They may employ and dischsrge such assistants as they deem neeessary, fixing the amounts of their remun eration and of their tionds; tiy .shall enact such by-laws and regulations as they deem requisite for. the proper management of the business of the cor poration, subject ,to approval' by the next meeting of the stockholders: Provided, all such by-laws and regula tions shall have, full. :force of ly said nieeting. be appi nt,' to pay iin operating expenses; second, to pay 8 per cent per annum of the amount of the paid up capital stock; the balance of profits, if. any, shall be distributed among the Sub-Alliances holdig stock, .their trus tees in this corporation, in proportion to the amount of their purchases and sales. Article 13. This Act of incorporation [nay be mo.dified, changed or altered, or said corporation may be dissolved with the consent of three-fourths of the stock represented, .and a nudority of .the. anaount thereof issued, at auuy general meeting of the stockholders of said corporatiorr, conv:ened for such purpose, after thirty days' notice of such meet irig shall have been given in two. daily papers published in the State and in State official organ. Article.14. Whenever this.corpora tion may be dissolved, either by limi-. tation or its charter or from any other cause, its affairs shalr be liquidated by tllree commissioners, to be elected by. the stockholders at a general meeting called for the purpose. Said commis sioners shall remain in office until the affairs of said corporation shall have been fully liquidated, and in ease of the death of one or more of said Icom nmissi.mers the said survivors shall oon tinue to act. Mr. ;Talbert offered a resolution in substance as follows: Resolved, that we. the members of the State Alliance, in convention niow assembled, do earnestly appeal to every Sub-Alliance in the State to make every effort to secure the use of cotton bagging, and that they use only cotton; or if a sufficient quantity cannot be 01b tained, then they use any gother substi tute from straw or even common home spun, or anything hut jute. Strong resolutions were adopted com mending the Cotton Plant newspaper, of G.reenvelle, and recommending it to the members in this State. The con stitution for the consolidat-ion of the Joint Alliance and Wheel was adopted by a vote of 23 to 12. The ratificstion of this caused considerable discussion. The action of the several counties in reference to the cotton bagging was heartily endorsed. Their action second ed the Alliance's fight against jute. The judicial comumitte was appointed fr the next year, as follows: M. L. Don aldson, J. Stoney Porcher and W. ID. Evans. M. IL. Donaldson was elected business manager andl will have charge of the Alliance store. Delegates to the National Convention were elected to the mueeting to be held at St. Louis. The representatives are: W. J. Talbert, 1). K. Norris, T. P. Mitchell, and J. E. Jarmigan and A. P. Butler alternates. Resolutions of thanks were offered to Mr. Terrell for his interest in the Alliance. The next annual Conventio will be held in Gieenville -during the next Thme Alliance seema determnined to push their jute light, and .passed reso lutions, to wit: Resolved, That we recommnend to our County Alliances the passage of a reso lut ion to use no fertilizers not put up C2ot. Butler introduced this resolution. which was lpessed: Resolved, That 1we memoralize Ithe Legislature tO pass an :anti-trust. law similar to. Such laws, passed by Kan 3as, Missouri and. other States. Tei$tate, (onvention..enlorsed the action, of the ationl cotton baggig committee ani,promised to do all they eouyd to carry. out its purposes. C. MPTITEON OF RACES. The Negro lot, eing. SuppHanted in The Last by Whttes. [New York Suu.] According' to their spokesman at Chickeriig'HaM; the colored people are a:ferng prattieally from the disciimi ation against their race which now is nade in New York. Hesaystthat, under all circumstan ces, they do therr best to put on the ppearanee'of prosperity, but that, in fact, they are steadily falling behind in the. competition with the white race. "Fashion;isglOing:. away'wi;.h the col red coachman, the colored barber has isappe-redfroi New *York, the Eng shiman Wears .the waiter's apron im the hotel dining rooms, the Irishman has-seized the whitewash brush, and the almond-eyed Mongolian peeps Qver the washtub where once the 1arky7faue'was seen.' t Thisis undoubtedly true. In the days when Dickens and Thackeray visited the United States they were struck by the novelty of erx ountering everywhere iegro servants. In all hotels an: res taurants the waiters were colored men, and.the few coachmen employed by private families were of that race. ' NoW the negro waiter is the excep tion, and negro coachmen are nd longer ooamon. The colored whitewasher mrs ives almostwholly in: the imagina tion ofnegromiustrelsy, and thecolored barber:is becoming rapidly an historic functionary in' New York. Their places have been taken by Irishmen, English men, Swiss, Germans, and. Italians, while theChinamen have secured what is a substaritial ndibpoly of the laun gry busiiiess, few. as they are in iuni ers actually and comparatively to the negroes. - But the change cannot have been brought about by capricious fashion, as the colored preacher at Chickering Hall:supposes.' It must mean that the negro hasbeen beaten in the coinpeti ; with.the white man; that he does not d:gQgood.work. Under slavery he was proteIcefrom competition with others not his raeebut under freedom he must take his chaes with the rest; and the rest have becomevery many in this country since the daysWhen he held a substattial monopoly of the employments spoken of. The colored people must devote themselves with redoubled efforts to their own improve met if they would keep up in the con test.. In the old slave days some of the most admirable servants possible were eolored, azd osibly, 'for a time those who maintairmed their prestige in the North were elies/' direct or indimet of that;bygone tme. Now that those old traditions.leveWorn out,,.the negro of today muststart afresh ad equip him sxelf withy the tearning and qualities ilich are required of others if he wants to succeed. Skill, and trustworthiness u'e the two indespensable qualifications for occupation of all sorts, and those must be attained and cultivated in the firt degree if he would stand the competion that is constantly being made keener and brought to a higher standard of required excellence. Brer'.Gardkner for 159e., (Detroit Free Press.] "I hold heah in my hand," said Brother Cardner, as the meeting opened in due form, "a letter from the oftice of dle Mayor of Cincinnati, axIng me if I will be a candydate fur President in 1892, an' addinT dat I am called by 3,00,00 cnll'd people. DUe seekretary of d1is ko4ge will write- him a letter in reply. He will write de word "Chest uts" sign my .name below, an' direct it to dis anxious inquirer. Dat word exactly expresses my feelin's. "In the fust place, I ar' no mo' fit to Le President of dis United States dan' 'possom ar' to teach (Greek. In de next place, I hav l'arned from sad ex perience dat sich honeyed word.. con seal an object. Eight y'ars ago a man in Chicago announced dat I was dle hoice of twenty States fur President. F{e cum on yere ten days arterwards an' xrrowed $20 of me, an' I hey nebber ieen him since. Fo' y'ars ago a pusson n Bufalo predicted dat I would be iominated on boaf tickets, and a week ater lie showed up heah an' boarded n me two weeks, an' skipped out wid ny best suit. It was suggested last y'ar lat I be nominated fur Guv'nor of* dis tate. Dat suggestioni cost me $l5. Dis yere individual in C'incinnati will e sloshing around dis way next week, f he doan' git dat letter, calkerlatin' to mit me tor $10 an' a week's board. "De man who thinks lie got a politi 'al call has made a mistake. What he :akes fur deC voice of de nashuun am imply de voice of de fool killer." Brother Stepback Smith wanted to nqire if Brother G4ardner would nuot ~hange his mind in case his nominam ion was spontaneous. "No, sah!" was the vigorous rely. "Dar am no sich thing to begin with. )e people of dis kentry doan' git up an' howl fur any particular man. Dar's too much good timber. Whar' any owlin' is dun, it is paid fur at so much pe honl Sot down, Bruadr Smith. A LOST SECIWT The Manager of the Alutninumi Conpatny Dies Without Revealing theo Secret of Manufacture. t [Fronm the Philadelphia Ledger.) FIuIt.Av, OHN1, July 15.-The ma nager of the American Aluminum .Company, Fred J. Seymour, died in -this city last Friday, and the secret of making aluminum died with hin. He was the inventor of processes by which thigvaluable metal could be profitably extracted from common clay, and had a put his inventions into practical use. About four years ago, as the result of years of experiments, F. J. Seymour, then a citizen of Detroit, secured pa tents covering proceesses for the mitanu facture of aluminum. ' He had little difficulty in inducing capital to take h6ld of the enterprise, and the Anieri can Aluminum Company was orgamz ed, with Gen. Russell A. Alger as president and Senator Palmer, of Michigan. as vice president. The dis eovery. of natural gas in this city caused the lo'ationl of the laboratories here. Expensive retorts -and valuable machi nery were constructed, and the mann facture wvas begun on a large scale and t proved so successful that large quanti ties of the metal were pbowed upon the j market at a large profit. The process, s although patented in nearly all of its points, has been kept a religious secret, and no one has ever been permitted to penetrate the mysteries surrounding it. A fifteen-foot picket fence surrounds the buildings, with* its gates doubly padlocked. Front remarks made by the chemists and other employees at difter ent times it is gathered that the day after being ground in water and treated with various chemicals, it ia heated to 1,500 degrees in large retorts until it has i become thoroughly fused. When'it has reached the crowning temperature, the precious metal is separated from the mass by the addition ofa certain chemi l cal in specific quantities, but the name and riature of this chemical is not dis - closed in the letters patent, nor has any one employed about the works ever t1 discovered it. It is this secret that has gone down into the grave with F. J. Seymour. It. had been his invariable custom to await the critical - moment when the fluid mass had reached the right stage, and then all the'employees were excluded t from the room, the doors were locked, L and, all alone, he went through the mysterious process of the laboratory: tl adding a chemical that no one knows o the name of, has never seen, and in quantities that cannot even be guessed b at. His death came as the result"of a paralytie stroke, from which he never recovered consciousness, so that on his deathbed he had no opportunity of-re- i vealing the all-important secret. The s stockholders of the company are un- t determined what to do under the pecu liar circumstan-ces in which they are piaced, but'-will pr'obably give some of their eheinxists full scope to endeavor to t recover the lost secret.. p THERE'LL BE MUSIC IN THE AlIt. yy -- 0 What Geon. Catchilngs says of the Conike t. Congern. -WASuIM&Tox, July 2>.-General a: Thomias Ciendening Catphings, who qI represents the Vickscurg. Miss., dis- s trict in the House of Representatives, t~ haes been in the city for a few days en route' for a cooler climate than can be o found nearer his own vine and tig tree. r In discussing the question of the pro- p posed extra session of! Congress, Glen. Catchings said that the Republicans ii were doubtless very anxious to organ- ~ ie the House and get matters in work ing ordler befobre winter fairly sets in, ' "but notice will be served upon the PJ majority," continued the General, who a is a member of the next Congress, that n~ no high-handed usurpation of authori ty will be tolerated in regardl to seating j contestants for D)emocratie seats in the a 51st Congress. Our People have profited W' by the leson taught them in the Fel ton case, when the minority obstructed t4 business and declared their intention to pursue such tacties until thie 4th of o March if it was necessary. Let the Re- 1 publicans go ahead and organize the' e House of Representatives if they can, n but at the first appearance of fraud or b coercion we may be able. to illustrate' that what is sauce for the goose is ti auce for the gander, and busi- a ness may not be expedited as somle anxious Riepub)licans are hopeful for. It will not do for the Democrats to sit j with their hands folded and patiently submit to the unseating of men who 0 have been fairly elected merely to ~ gratify the caprice or iustruction of I some leader of the dominant p)arty, and s there is going to be music in the air P~ while the51lst Congress is in. session. I t have no doubt that the President will call the extra session about the middle I of Octob.er, and in this .course lie will merely be following the wishe' and~ dictates of bis advisers." ti D)uring the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth ~ Congresses Glen. Catchings occupied a a prominent position as a dlebator and( tl law-maker ami h is ides are a fair re-' fi ex of the sentiments of a majority oft Southern (Congressmien. What it Means. h. To the imn or woyman who has P never been ill, the word "ht'.!th"' is at meaningless. But to the one who hast sufered and despaired, health appears as a priceless boon. To 'the thousands of unfortunate women who are suffer-g ig from some of the many forms of si weaknesses or irregularities peculiar to tl their sex, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- t scription holds forth the promise of a speedy restorationi of this "priceless bmo. o0 The Public Sehoob. Since the first of January last I il:v isited the public schools in nearl very portion of the county. Owing t he short term, which coimeneed or th of November lst, I was unable t< ee all the schools. It was onll very few, however, that I did no -isit. - The school -term this year was no c) long as the preceding one, due t< he fact that many townships ran thei ehools longer in 1887-88 than th mount of funds on hand warranted During the past year niniety-thirei >ublic schools have been in operation lfty-one white and forty-two colored n increase of four over th preeedinp 'ear. The school tsrin varkd from two t< ire months. I n some towniships i ras larger than in others. The -average pay of first grade teach rs has been abotrt $25 per month. In visiting the schools I find tha he school houses in too imany instance re very poor, entirely unlit Yr>r use lie school term extends through th rinter months and on this account th eiaol roomus should be carefully at tnded to. Every- building should b eli heated and made comfortable s< hat the work of the scho)l may bi atisfactory. Teachers and children ,annot d< heir duty when shivering from cold. The tcwnship boards of trustees hes ate to use the school funds for build rig and furnishing school rooms, fron; lie fact that it would * matdriall3 horten the term which is too shor lready.' But unless the patrotis ir >ne localities go to work and provid< 1ore comfortable houses for teacher: nl ohildren, it would be well foi iwnship trustees to use part of th< ublic funds for this purpose. I refel linly to colored schools as -the-ma >rity of white schools have passahhi uildings. Some of the latter, how ver, are' infe.rior and should be im roved before the wint"r term begins. In many schools the supply of furni are is very poor. Desks. blackboards harts, &c., are sadly in want. I am glad to say, however, that con .derable improvement has tbeen mad( i this direction during the past year Every towrdhip in the ounty, witi: ne exception, has placed in its lchoof vo large flaps--one State and onf niited States map. I think that. the money given fot lese naps was well spent a.the wor f the future will doubtless show. - -The attendance during the year har een.very gratifying. The monthly re orts of teachers show that pupils are unctual in attendance. Only a fews :hools have made complaints about the 'regular atten'lance of pupils. Parents iould see to it that their children at md school every day when possible. As to the instruction given in the :hools, I think it can be oonsidered tir, and would compare favorably with iat of any other-county. Of course there is great room for imn rovements, but we must not expect toe iuoh of those teachers who receive nly $2.5 per month for four nionths in ie year. 'The great majrity of our teachers are idies -and as a rule they are comipetentl ad enthusiastic. They are no better ualitied than the men, iln some in ances not so well, bu-t thefare cer inly as much alive to theii- work. I can truly say that the teachers of ur counlty are- deserving, anidshould ceive the hearty support of our peo le. Not onily white, but colored teaeheru <well, are conselentious and~ doing -elI the work required of thiemn. For the benefit of the techers1' rnthly assoiaZtionls, begun by my redecessor, Mr. (. (G. Sale, are breki tNewberry anid Prosperity alter ateiv. I have observedl that those teachers ho1 attend these mieetinmgs regubirly re mnuch better prepared ~for their ork than those who do not. Boards of trustees should insist that schers attend the associationl. Durinlg the year I1888 the State Board mExamniners passed a resolution muak ig tihe use of a certain list of books in ich county 'compllulsory. A greatr tny of the schools are nmow using the >oks adopted ini Newberry County. Tlhose schools that have not yet used tse books should remend>er that they y'e required to do 'so after the first of 'ovember next. A special act was p)assedi by the last gislature creating two nie wV school isriets in the eastern piortionl of the >unt y. Over these udistricts the S:hol olmissionier has no j jarisdiion ol. I ope that the e:per;rnent, and it i ih -mayv prove a sucess. That :he eople in this sectio)n are interested iln 1o cause of comimon educationi i mnwn fromi the fact that they were illing to lbe taxedl three mills extra r its support. When we rightly cunidi,er every hig. bearinig upon0 thl eflommon hools, we mlust ,:onclude that they -e inl a to)lerably fair conditioni. Yet ere is great roomh for impro)nvemet.t w' teachlers sh ouhli be paid larger sala es in many schzools :tihe pay c:erti!i tes should lhe cashed at the end o. Lh month. and1( the term should be nger. We expeict, howvever, these im m'veme'nt., to be moad" graduamlly. niot I tilhnk thait oppos~itionl to, the pulbIic hool! system is fast fading away. The eat majority realize that unliver 1 education is what is wanted, ntot e education of the few at the co,st of ne masses. I have great faith in the willingness the people to do wh at is right, and jhen th:ey know better the public --.ol ysieu, when they learn its true mi'sion, it will receive their hiarty and lib"eeril support. School Coumissioner. July i , 1S4. t Which Wn]II Piy UeAt ? t I Manufacturer's Record.] People having money they would r like to put into some kind of busi ness other than agriculture, and who br.ve had. no experience to guide tien are continually applying to the ~ Manufacturers' Record for advice. Their letters. generally mention a number of things they have in mind, and then, with few exceptions, they conclude by saying, ~Please tell us t which you think will pay best?" Of course these indications of contidence in our knowledge and judgment are very pleasant to receive, and were it t possible, we should be happy to re i pond to all such apnlieations. but the numerous duties and incessant work of the entire editorial and busi ness force of the Manufacturers' Re cord leave but little time for detailed answers to such requests. The question, "Which will pay best T' taken in its broadest sense, admits of satisfactory answer, which is that those th'ings which are quickly cons(ined. and for which -there is an - unlimited demand and that require - but .a smuall capital to undertake are the -afest for inexperienced people. Jus as oottoin, wheat, rice, earn and t other staples of agriculture are always saleable at some price, so also are shoes, brooms, hoop>s, soap, -pickles, preserves, dried and evaporated fruits; pure cider vinegar, blackberry wine, cheap wrapping paper, twine and [scores of other things, few of which require much money at the start, but all of which can be conmenced in a small way, and by industry and econ owy can be increased into large aid profitable enterprises. Our compiliation of new undertak ilgs for the second quarter of this year. published June 29th, shows that in the fourteen Southern States named, there were quite a nuniberof beginnings made in enterprises of the kind recommended, and the reports of like periods for the past five years. show about the same proportion. : This ist includes T pickle, 1 preserve, 2bung, ~- shoe, 11 broom. "2 hoop, 1 shoestring and 2 soap factories. There are reported also many canning establishments, 3 tanneries, 1 paper mill, and 1 axe fac tory, but the first are increasing quite fast enough, and the last three require more capital and experience than the nsjority of our applicants for advice can coirnand. Take the eight that repiire little cnpital to start, as illus trations of many others that might be nae,and see what can be said to rce(ommend them. -There .i&always a market. for pickles and tom!ato catsup, for preseves, for jams and jellies, for fruit vinegar, and for.blackberry wine, and there are few localities in the South where, afterthe first flush of market prices has passed; the fruits and vegetables needed can not be had in any quantity required at niuch less money than Northern man ufacturer.s are compelled to) pay. WagesT hiso are much in favor of the Southern producer, as are also the cost of lumber for boxes and for buildings and for living expenses. These items2 will much more than offsiet any that are in favor of Northern competitors. Bung and hoop tactories will never glut the market with their products. Tjhe machinery required for either in dustrv can be obtained with the builH lngs and power requtired tor a few thousand dollars. The'y must be 1o eated where there is abundance of ma terial andl water or raLil transportation close at hand. In tiheso t wo industries there i.s no waste of stoc.k and no2 changes of fashion. While the world endures buing.< and hooks will be wan tedl in annually increasing quanti ties. iBroomx factories can only tlourish Iwherebroomi corn does. 'Ini nearly ever:. p!ace where they have. keen started in the United States, ,the farmiers had to ibe induced to raise tha. crop by a pledge from mnanufac tuirers that they would pay a stated Iprice, for the entire product. After one or two seasons the farmers needed no urging, and-abundant sup)plies were assured. The plant for a broom factory requires but little money ; capital is needed principaIiy to pay for -stock and labor. W\e havye efteni wondered why~ soap making ha:s not been made an impo)rtaunt Sout herui iudustry. Noth inig is used more generally or con smiue'i more rapidly. In slavery days when there was a leachery on every p)lanitation, laundry soap~ was a domes tic prodiuctioni. Now large stocks are ob tained from Chicago, New York and other Northern cities. The South, scedas a rule- by wasteful negro laundresses, is paying a heavy tribute to Northern mxanufacturers, while fur nishing them resin aind cotton seed oil oft whbich they miake large use. , We hamve seen boxes of cheap soap contain nga large' percentago of rosin heaped u ~p in whiolesale stoeres in thne Southern commiiercial centers, when we could not find a single bar miade below the Ohio andic Potomiac rivers. Soap making, b iothi for th~e laundry and the toilet can be antd ought to be a groat Southern in dustry. 'While in; (hierago sevrandl yeaLrs- ago. we were vi-itinig ani exteni sive job prinitinug house. There we I saw two dray loads of labeLs sent to a k-'cal soap maker. On inqjuiry we learned that the average monthly bill for labels paid that printing house by this one concern exceeded $I,5N%. This led to a visit to the soap factory, where we found that they consumed from 12,00 to 15,000 barrels of rosin an nually. Thus North Carolina and Geirgia turpentine distillers are sup plying, at an infinitesimal profit to themselves, a niterial that. after hav ing added to it commissions, wharfages and freights to Chicago, comes back in soap, to which the maker's profits are added, and Soiithern consumers pay all these unnecessary bills. .Surely soap factories. will pay, and yet in fourteen States. in the last three months, but' two new ones have been started. Where is all the starch used in South ern laundries made? .Go where you will and you will fiid none but North ern- makers' names on the packages in the gro()ery stores. And yet, if chem its tell the truth, the sweet potato will yield as large a percentage of starch as torn, and the yield of Carolina and Georgia fields often average several hundred bushels to the acre. We might eoutinue these illustrations indefinitely. The South abounds in ma terials for the establishment of profit table industries that require but little capital to commence, but that can be worked up into immense concerns by aconomic, diligent and persevering work. Our advice to inquirers is to look into these things and to engage in tome such enterprise as we have sug rested. THE FIGHT OF TIE FARMERS. What is Said about the Work of the Aili g nee in Alabama. iFroin the New York Times.] MONTO.MEKY, ALA., July 2.-The light between the Farmers'- Alliance ind the Jute Bagging Trust is rapidly issuniing warlike proportions in the sottoni-growing states. The Alliance meon have resolved to use no jute bag iug for wrapping the present crop, but to use cotton bagging instead. It is rgued on the one side that the farmers cannot hold out in the fight, that the :otton wrapped in ootton bagging will aot be received at the compresses and by foreign buyers, and as the cotton .rop is shipped abroad the farmers will be forced to give1n hi oiisi to get their -ot ton on the market in merchantable shape; also that many farmers who bare given mortgageson their crops to idvancing merchants cannot hold their I 3otton back, biit~*11T 'b fir6ed to put t on the market in merchantable shape md sell to pay their debts. On the other hand, the Alliance men tre determined to fight the trust to the nd. It is war to the knife. They have esolved to beat the trust if they have o hold the entire cotton crop from the market until the combine' is;broken. 'hey propose to work in unison and )resent a solid front against the trust. [t is generally understood also that the >ther farmer organizations of the coun :ry are ready to fight hand in hand vith the Alliance men. The Alliance s 85,000 strong in Alabama, and will ;et heavy recruits from the.Wheel and Rtangers. At the- meeting of the Na ional Alliance held .in Birmingham -ecently it was, uesolved. to use cotton) iagging exclusively and give jute the ~o-by,fand the farmers seem determined o> carry it out on that line if it takes dll the summer and fall. The Farmers' Alliance of Alabama iaa just purchased a site .for acotton saggng factory -at'i Florence, and pro yoses to be making 500 yards of cotton Jagging per day by the first of Septem Jer. The threatened war will be made ~ven more interesting by the fact that lie cotton crop promises to be the leaviest yield in ten or fifteen years. Skiled Labor Comning South. NE~w HavEN, Cox. July 2.5. lorty ex-employees, of the Branford Lock Works, left here this morning for Florence, Ala, whither they have been nduced to go by Charles Foster, agent if a manufacturing concern in Trenton, S. J. The men are guaranteed work br -three years at wager ranging from 1l 75 to $3 per day. Foster sende the nen to their destination on special ears, giving them tickets, the amxount >f which is to be deducted from their vages. Several of the men were accom >anied by their families. Among the nen are several of those who went- out >n the recent strike at the lock works. ['here are- many veterans among them,.. >nce being 69~ years old and having yeen with the lock works for thirtyI A Wet Victory in Harrisonburg. ]1ARR1ISoN ', VA., July 2'.- - Lhe municipal election resulted in the ~leetion of Woodson, the license candi late for miayor.- by 134 majority. Of ourteen ofilcers elected- all exeept two tre in favor of license. More than usual nterest is attached to the election fronm he fact that the city judge and council iadl refused to grant any licenses after lhe people had voted in favor of grant ng them. It is raining hard. Bobby Bui'ns Understood It. "Many and sharp the numierous ills iwoveni ini our frame, More pointed still we make ourselves Regret, remnose and shame." Among the most dangerous as well~ s vexing of ills "inwoven with our ramre," are Consumption, Asthma, Ironichitis, colds and lung troubles )r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery akes away their fearful consequence. 'ut which neglected. leaves "regret, emorse and shame." But you need not ic ashamed to ask for the "Discovery," .s it has become a- standard remedy, ound at all the drug stores, where housands call for it every day, and ihere it is recognized as the leading nedicine for all lung and throat affee ions.1 LOWILY MEANS BU1NE$S. Railroul Men Arrested for Helping on the Prize Fight. NEW ORLEANS, July- 25.-Captain J. Langley, special agent for the State" of Mississippi, came here yesterday' from -Baton Rouge, having an order from Governor Nicholls on a requisi tion from Governor-Lowry' of Miss .issippi, for the arrests and delivery or R. Carroll and'-Edward L. Tfler to the authorities of Misissippi. When the officer appeared before General Tyler at his office at New Orleans-and North eastern lines depot, it was agreed that he would start to Jackson by the Ili nois Central yesterday afternoon, which he did. General Tyler will be taken before Governor Lowry to-day, and will then leave to-morrow via the Meridian for Purvis, the county seat of Marion County, where he will be ar raigned. Governor Lowry has or- ,a dered a special term of court to be held on the 5th of August for the trial' of these cases, and Captain Langley is of opinion that Sullivan and Kilrain and the rest of the party will be on hand. A Southern Exploring Expedition. The Manufacturer's Record of Balti more, which is ever working for the advancement of the South, has under taken one of the greatest enterprises of the day. With a view "to making known to the world the vast wealth of the unexplored mineral and timber regions of the South, which railroads have not yet opened up to public inves tigations, that progressive journal has organized a fully equipped exploring party under the management of Major Goldsmith Bernard West, of Birming ham, a noted expert in the exploration of mineral regions. In making this an nouncement in its last issue, the Manufacturers' Record says "we have arranged to place at once in the field an expedition, scientific and practical, whose duty it shall be to visit, investi gate and report upon all the mineral' districts of the Southern States. This expedition has been organized solely by the Manufacturers' Record and the re ports of its work will appear only in tsis journal. It is estimated that the mission will last six or eight months. Major West will be assisted by a scientific staff of his own selection, and will remain in the field for the next six montbs. Outside of the several districts with which Major West has been intimately connected, he will carry with him a regular force, and proceeding on horse back, camp by the way. Generally, will have the assistance of an engineer sid geologist, a timber expert, .a secretary and necessary servants. 'The idea of the expedition is not to jump from place to place by rail, but to go through the country in a leisurely way, study its climate, conditions, resources ~ ad opportunities, and to give the pub lic an unprejuniced and intelligent re port.'" This is undoubtedly' one of'the most remarkable instances of enterpirise which any paper in this couintry has ever undertaken, and is far ahead of anything of the kind 'ever before pro jected by any weekly journal in Amer ica. The Manufacturers' Record has' done.a great work for the South in the. past, and to that it now adds this brilliant scheme, to ' accomplish still~ nore for this section.. They 'heavy expense of 'this exploring expedition will be borne solely by that journal. FataJ iEault of a stupid Joke. [Special to News_and Courier.] Augusta, July 2.-Judson Rountree, the fourteen-year-old sori of Col. M. A. Rountree, of Augusta, -went over to J3uck Island about a month ago tovisit iis uncle, Mr. Frank Dunbar. Of. late Mr. Dunbar's watermelon patch has been frequently robbed by negroes. Young Judson said he would like to get' -. shot at the thieves, and his young emipanions resolved to play a joke on iim. One night last week the boys loaded an old gun with blank car Lrdges, and one of them went into, the atch with Judson to watch* for the hieves. The boys toldiJudson that 'the negroes were desperate and dangerous, and if they were not killed instantly, >r disabled, they would rush upon anid revenge themselves on anybody shoot ing at them. In the meantime several" ,f the other boys blacked their faces and went into the melon patch, in' ight and in range of the young sen inels. As soon as Judson saw the boys with black faces he fired at them, but a the cartridges' were blank, of course they took no effect. Judson saw the uipposed robbers quickly advancing Uponl him, and rememb5ering what the >oys had told him about the negroes ' being so desperate and revengeful, and ' eeing that his companion had run away, he was badly frightened and run to the house. The terrible fright rought on a delerious fever from vhich he died on Friday night last. -|I100 ieward.i 8100. The rea"ders of the Herald and News will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded digease that eience has been able to cure in all its 4ages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's s'tarrh, Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. atarrh being a constitutional disease, equires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrah Cure is taken internally ating directly upon the blood and nuucu- surfaces of the system, thereby testroying the foundation ofthe disease, ard giving the patient strength, b ,uIding up the constitution sand assist oig nature in doing its :work. The >roprietors have so much -.faith in its ~urative pwers, that they offer One hundred lIJars for any case that. i sils to cure. Send for list of testimo ials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo;O0 Sold by Druggists; 75c. T.