The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, November 11, 1891, Image 1

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"LET MhR LIGIT SH1.1 .UiI ~ ~ W i KEROSINE OILU10C N 9T R AT 13 CTSm --- PER GALLON S E A O & M N R Go and See their Wonderful F O Oyr'S O L D ST A N D .Fo ts O d t nd ESALS D160NEWBERRY. S. C., WEDNESDAY,_NOVE.MBE_181 __ ____ CHEAP SCHOOL BOOKS SECURED. Successful Finale of the State Board's Ef forts--Proceedings of the State Board of Education-Action on State School Histories. {The State, Nov. 1.] The State Board of education has succeeded in reducing the prices of school books very materially, and the fight for cheap books has been won. Yesterday the proceedings of the meet ing of the Board, held Friday, were given to the public. The most impor .tant features thereof follow: Mrs. S. S. Clarkson of Eastover, Miss .Anna M. Henry of Greenville, E. .Dreher of Lexington, Rev. R. R. Varn ,of Fairfield and S. C. Scott of Eastover %were granted teachers' State certifi teates. CHEAP BOOKS SECURED. Superintendent Mayfield made a re port of the result of his efforts to secure cheap books, the following being mere ly a synopsis: Gentlemen of the Board: At your meeting in April last you appointed me a committee of one to look into the school book question for this State, with a view to securing, if possible, a reduction in the prices of the books on the State list, and to make suggestions of plans whereby the books might be procured by the children of the State at the agreed prices. I immediately entered upon the work assigned me. .At our meeting in July last I was unable to make a satisfactory report, because of the fact that I had not been .able to hear fully from all of the book houses whose books were on our list, -and you asked me to continue the work, which I have done, and am now ready to report. This report would be too long were I to incorporate the re plies which I received to my letters. I content myself with making some short extracts from some of the letters and presenting the figures, which will show for themselves. From them it will be seen that a considerable reduction has been made from the original prices. I take up the American Book Com pany first, as it has mo., books on our State list than any other house. I give the present retail price and also the former retail prices, that the difference may be seen at a glance. "Mr.W.D.Mayfield,State Superintend ent of Education, Columbia, S. C. "DEAR SIR: We give you herewith, a list of the books published by us which have been adopted by the State Board of Education for use in the schools of South Carolina. Ap -pended to each book is our regular list price at which it should be retailed to .pupils throughout the State. Very truly yours, AMERICAN BOOK CO." .List of books published by the Ameri can Book Company, adopted for the use in the schools of South Carolina: PRESENT FOREER READERS. RETAII. RETAIL, PRICEs. PICEs. Aippleton's First Reader....1 .2-4 .A ppleton's Second Reader. .3) .38 -Appleton's Third Reader... .38 .49 ~Appleton's Fourth Reader .50 .65 Appleton's Fifth Reader....9 1.17 Earper's First Reader...... .24 .241 No change for others .. .. Swiston's Primer and First Reader.................... .23 .30 Swinton's Second Reader. .35 .40 Swinton's Third Reader.... 5 5 Swinton's Fourth Reader....6 .75 Swinton's Fifth Reader.. .90 1.05 Swinton's Sixth, or Classic English Reader....-... 1.06 1.25 The prices of all others the compara tive reduction being about the same per cent. as the above, are as follows: Supplementary readers-"Cats and Dogs, and Other Friends," 17 cents; "Friends in Feathers~ and Fur," 30 cents; "Neighbors with Wings and Fins," 40 cents; "Some curious Flyers, Creepers and Swimmers," 40 cents; "Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs," 54 cents; "Glimpses of the Animate World," *1; "Grandfather's Stories," 27 cents; "Stories of Heroic Deeds," 30 cents; "Stories of our Country," 40 -cents; "Stories of the Olden Time," 54 e ents; "Ten Eveuts in History," 54 *cents. Spellers-Swinton's Word Primer, 15 cents; Swinton's Word Book of En .glish Spelling, 18 cents. Dictionaries-Webster's Primary, 48 cents; Common School, 72; Hign School, 98; Academic, $1.50. Lieographies-Appleton's Standard 3Elemtary,55; Standard Higher, *1.25; Histories-Barnes' Primary United States, 60; Brief United States, $1; Gen eral History, $L.60; Eggleston's History pVof the United States, $1.05; Swinton's Primary of the United States, 48; Con *densed same, 90; Outlines of the World's .History,$1.44. Arithmetics-Robinson's Rudiments of Arithmetic, 32 cents; Progressive Practical, 68. Penmanship-Specimen copy, small (shorter course) dozen, 72 cents; do. common school 96 cents. The same uniform reduction runs through all this company's draNing books, grammars, physiologies, music books, charts and agricultural books. "We propose to furnish our publica tions to at least one responsible dealer in each county of the state at a dis count of 20 per cent from list prices, and at 60 days' time on condition that our books are retailed for cash at regu -lar list prices." Mr. Mayfield says in the report that the former discount was 161 per cent. on the former retail prices and only thirty days credit was given to the dealers. Mr. Mayfield continues: I next call y ':' attention to the re ductions of Efing earn, Maynard & Co., publishers, successo)rs to Clark & May nard, 771 Broadway and 67 and 60th Ninth street, Nw VY-r-. RETAIL. FORMER PRESENT PRICs. PRICES.. Reed & Kellogg's Graded Lessonsin English ............... 42 40 Reed & Kellogg's Higher Lessons in English ............. 70 65 Reed's Word Les sons..................... 4- 2.5 The first book formerly cost the dealer 36 cents; now it costs him 30 cents. The second book formerly cost the dealer 60 cents; now it costs him 50 cents. The third book formerly cost the dealer 25 cents; now it costs him 20 cents. You will see that dealers can afford to sell our books at the mailing prices, as there is an ample margin of profit, and that the mailing prices are cer tainly very reasonable. An extract from a letter from D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, Is given, stating that Hyde's Lessons in English will be sold for 24 and 40 cents respectively, and bound in cloth at 26 and 45 cents. Mr. Mayfield says: The former prices to retailers were 31 and 45 3-5 cents for the smaller and larger books respect ively. A very large extra discount is allowed. Formerly they received by 16i per cent. Allowing 25 per cent. profit, they should now retail at 29 and 50 cents respectively. Messrs. Ginn & Co., write that they are forced to give a discount of 16* per cent. to dealers, but are willing to make it 20 per cent., "thus enabling the dea lers to retail the bookq at wholesale prices." They say there is a demand for a paper back form, and if several coun ties desire this edition, a further dis count of 20 per cent. can be given. They intend to re-establish a depository "in some important centre in the South." Mr. Mayfield's report quotes a letter from the University Publishing Com pany, showing that his request was evidently misunderstood. Mr. May field's comment is: "This house has made no reductions. I have re,eived no reply to my last letter." The J. B. Lippincott Cornpany has made no reduction. Mr. W. J. Duffle, of Columbia, the publisher of David son's History of South Carolina, has placed that book at 50 cents. Mr. Mayfield's report continues thus: "As to the best means of securing to children of the State the books at retail prices proper, I suggest the propriety of preparing an official bulletin to be hung.up in a conspicuous place in each school in the State, giving a list of the books on the State list, with publisher's prices annexed, together with a state ment to the effect that if the books are not furnished at these prices by the local dealers of the State, they can be procured of the publishers, postage or expressage paid, on receipt of the cash. "It might be advisable for the county school commissioners to communicate with the local dealers and thereby get; the names o f those who will agree to sell the books at the fixed retail prices to the children of their respective coun ties." THE BOARD'S ACTION. Professor Johnson cubmitted and the board passed a resolution of thanks to Mr. Mayfield for his successful efforts to secure cheaper books. The resolution also says:1 That as this is a public matter of vital concern to the whole people, State Superintendent Mayfield be and is hereby requested to use every means in his power to spread this information1 through the State. Miss Ella Bell Shirly was examined as an r pplicant for a State teacher's cer tificate. STATE SCHOOL HISToRIES. In regard to the adaptation of the new State school histories, Professor Morrison offered the following resolu tion, which was adopted : Resolved, That the State board fully appreciates the importance ox the study of the South Carolina history and ob serves with pleasure the increasing in terest shown in this subject by different writers and the people generally. That while the board cannot, at this time, consistently with the law and pre cedent, add to tbe present State adop tion on this subject, yet the board urges teachers and school officers to re member that the first business of the1 State free schools is to make South Carolinians, and that the law requires South Carolina history to be taught in all public schools. "Mike" Kelly Dead. [Special to Register.] CAAELEsTON, November 5.-Michael Kelly, better known as "the O'Kelly," a well known politician, died here to day. He is said to have been the only politicia.n in Charleston who never wanted a public office. He was an all round politician, owing allegiance to no party, and used to write political squibs for the papers, cracking a head wherever he saw a chance. He was the proprietor of large iron works on East Bay. Shot Into the Ex-Preeldenit's Car. [Special to The State.3 Uiios, S. C., Nov.56.-Last night, as the passenger train bound for Colum bia neared Union, some miscreant shoe through the parlor coach, in which was seated ex-President Hayes, smashing a window pane. It is not supposed that the person who did the shooting knew of the ex-President's presencein the car, but every one is indignant that such an outrage should be perpetrated. The combination of ingredients found in Ayer's Pills renders them tonic and curative as well as cathartic. For this reason they are the best fnedicine for people of costive habit, as they restore the natural action of the bowels, with out debilitating. HISTORY OF THE WADSWORTH ESTATE. The Benefaction of a Forgotten Philanthro plat Now to be Realized In Laurens A Scattered Property of $300,000 -Serious Distress Likely to be Caused-Some Innocent Purchasers. [Greenville News.J The "Wadsworth poor school fund" and the Wadsworth estate have been he-ard of by many people in this State, but the story that surrounds them is not familiar. Inasmuch as the estate concerns many Greenville people and many others in nearly every county in the State, the story is repeated below: Thomas Wadsworth died in Charles ton about the year 1771. He came to America from England when a young man, first settling in Massachusetts and later in Laurens County, in this State, near Milton. He became im mtiely wealthy, owning thousands of acres of land and hundredsof slaves. After living in Laurens County many years he moved to Charleston and went into the mercantile business with a Mr. Turpin, the firm being Wadsworth & Turpin. When he died he owned lands from the mountains to the seaboard of South Carolina, principally in the counties of Laurens, Spartanburg, Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, Newberry, Lexing ton and Orangeburg. After abundant ly providing for his wife and mother, for he had no children, he left about 34,000 acres in various counties for a poor school fund. The property was not to be sold. Everything w.s left in the hands of a board of trustecs, com posed of five men. The trustees were t )e elected every two years by the white freeholders of Dunlap's battalion of Laurens County and the school to be supported was to be located in the battalion. In Mr. Wadsworth's days the coun ties were divided into battalions in stead of townships as now, an4 there were four battalions in Laurens Coun ty. There were also four in Greenville. Deeds for the lands were left in the hands of trustees and are now in the possession of the present trustees, elected last February by the white vo ters living in Dunlap's battalion. A school house was built in the battalion, now Hunter's township, and has been in use ever since, although the vast es tate has not until now, yielded enough to pay a teacher's salary. The trustees rented the lands for a while and finally leased them for terms ranging from fifty to ninety-nine years. The money received was loaned out and much of It was lost. Some of the leases were renewed by other trustees, but a num ber of them are begin ning to expire and i distressing state of affairs is in store .or numbers of people now in posses fion of the lands. R. G. Wallace and W. H. Workman, wo of the five trustees are in the city nd are looking up the part of the es ate located in this county for the pur pose of selling or settling in some man 2er. An act of the legislature a short ime ago empowered the trustees to sell bhe lands and re-invest in lands in Laurens township, near the Wads Lorth school. The trustees find by old records in he register of mesne conveyance's >ffice tha t there are about 1,400 acres elonging to the estate in this County. )ver 300 acres of it are located about wo-and-a-half miles from the city, and ~he worst part of the story is that about orty-seven persons own the property and that there are over twenty houses >n it. Persons to whom it was -leased and 'e-leased years ago sold it to unsuspect ng and careless persons, and there is iot much doubt but that many people vill have to suffer. Part of the land is n the possession of Capt. William Joldsmith. Much of the same land lies n the Sandy Flat section of this cv mn y. No property in the city is includ ~d in the estate and real estate owners sere will breathe easier. In one tract n Spartanburg County there are l,800 Lcres. It was said at one time that the town if Anderson was built on the property, >ut the courts freed the property there rom further trouble. A bout one hun Ired and twenty-five acres east of the own, belonged to the estate, and the >wners settled with the trustees some ime ago by paying a fair price to conm >romise. Wherever the present own ~rs have fought the matter in court aaey have lost. This would tend to righten all who have any interest in he property. One gentleman in this city lately in rested in some of this land east of here, ad he is now worried. All over the state, wherever there is any of the and, there will be uneasiness and not few may lose their all. The trustees of the fund now have Lbout $3,000 on hand. They propose o push matters to a settlement and in ~rease the fund. They have planned to >uild two more school houses in Dun ap's battalion, one at Cross Hill and me at Mountville. The Wadsworth ~state is now valued at between $200, K)0 and $300,000 at a low estimate. Would You Be Attractive ? You must be healthy. Would you e healthy, always keep within reach, eady for any emergency, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the perfection of pby ~ic ! Headachc, biliousness, constipa ion, a coated tongue, always indicate torpid liver. These magical Pellets mct directly upon the liver-the fount min-head of many ills-correcting all lisorders, driving out all impurities, timulating bealthy action. The best Liver Pills; mildly giving al the bene it and none of the discomfort of other )ilI. American Election Days. [New York Evening Post.] About ninety years ago William Bris bane, a cultivated and patriotic citizen of South Caroliua, while staying in London, witnessed in that city two elections for the members of Parlia ment, attended with the familiar scenes of violence, of bribery, and of coercion of voters which English w riters have described so picturesquely. In his journal of travel, part of which has been published, along with severe criti cisms of this British mob law at elec tions, Mr. Brisbane naively says: "Bow much more preferable is our method of electing members of the Legislature in South Carolina, where the electorsgive their votes by balloting, in doing which bribery is cut up root and branch." At that far-away time, when tbe whole population of the United States was but a few millions, we have no doubt that Mr. Brisbane's views were shared by intelligent Americans, North as well as South. The ballot was to them as an emblem of sanctity as well as secrecy. In, the soil tilling communities of the simple time, with every voter independent, a property qualification, and wealth and social rank very nearly equalized, bribery fell to its very lowest terms, and about the only election "trick" we find as passing a plot of laud by deed so as to qualify men for the suffrage; while election violence was all but impossible in a nation of stolid and law-luving farmers. At the end of almost a century since Mr. Brisbane's words were written, the changes in American temper and meth ods at elections, and in the "cam paigns" which precede them, are a most suggestive study. In that study nothing is more impressive and cheer ing than the persistency of the princi ple of "order" at our elections, in con trast with our mother land. For a number of decades after the opening of the present century, British mob rule and head-cracking at elections continued almost undiminished. Even now, at any general British election, reports of rioting are not uncommon, and on one of the Bradlaugh voting days in Northampton a few years ago, a large body of troops had to be trans ferred to the city to aid the local police against an anticipated outbreak. Con trast with this those quietudes of an American voting day which have never ceased to amaze the De Tocque villes and Bryces. It is true that for a while during the middle of our ceB tury, and In our large cities where they hod but few voting places, the inevita ble crowds at the polls led to serious disorders. But the simple mechanical invention of small election districts has made our election days in cities as quiet as a Sunday. So that, essentially, the long record of election-day peace has been unbroken throughout the country's whole history. Exactly why, with much the same Anglo Saxon tempers as our kin beyond sea, and besides with so many rough voting elements of other races to be restrained, we have so long and so successfully maintained peaceful elections, is per haps hard to say, but the creditable national fact remains. Even our Irish voters poll their ballots decently in the United States, while they break each other's heads~and fill the hospitals in Cork. The American election day, however, when we leave its quietudes and comi r'ard it with the same occasion in the ancestral time, becomes m.uch more sombre- Looking back to the early decades of the the century, we find un doubtedly defects enough. The Fed eralists and Democrats were obstinate in their partisanship, and often utterly blind. Politics cut deeply into their social life, and the Yankee Federalist inn-iKeeper who put out the sign "No Democrats entertained here," an ex ception to the rule of partisan bitterness. The political literature of the time, and especially the party raewpaper, was savage and truculent enough to make the organ of to-day seem gentle. But more than offsetting all these, there were none of the sinister forces which now converge so powerfully on one of our election days. There is, in truth, a sort of evil grandeur when we view the magnitude to which these forces have grown, as our national constitution has, during half a century become big and diversified. There are the party machines in nation, State, town, city and wards; hundreds of assistant or ganizations, not formerly within the parties, but co-workers with one or the other of them; literary bureaus often] sowing lies, and political clubs number less, all focusing their energies and trickeries upon the polls. What used to be a very simple and essentially honest voting act of our communities l?as now become an enormously com plex thing, against whose elements of bribery rad terrorism and falsehood the contest for a pure ballot has gone on like the battle of the big guns against plate armor. Strangely enough, too, with all quick A merican aptitudes, we have followed our mother country but slowly in purifying our elections by secret ballot laws and corrupt-prac tice acts. The great wave of ballot re form which, in three years, has swept over thirty of our commonwealths did not come until an Australiad ballot had been tested many years in England, and until corruption of our own ballot had run to a towering height. There is no more fruitful source of disease than vitiated blood. It in volves every organ and function of the body, and if not immediately cor rected by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla.] sooner or .h.ter leads to fatal results, Be warned in time.o REVIEWING RESULTS. Democrats Just Miss Control of the New York Legislature-Decsive Alliance De feat in Kansas-Nearly a Clean Sweep - lowa-Repubicans Aave the Massachusetts Legislature. NEW YORK, -Nov. 5.-Associated Press returns on the legislature gives the following results: To the senate the republicans have elected seventeen of their candidates and the democrats fourteen, and in the thirty-second dis trict Dr. James T. Edwards, indepen dent republican, nominated by repub licans opposed to Senator Vedder and endorsed by the democrats, is elected. To the assembly sixty five democrats, sixty-one republicans and two inde pendent democrats are elected, the latter being county democrats who had been endorsed by the republicans in the twenty-second and twenty-fourth New York city districts respectively. KANSAS. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 5.-Returns from 99 of 106 counties in this State show the defeat of the people' party in 75 counties. In the judicial districts in which elections were held seven repub licans, two democrats and one alliance man were elected, There were combi nations between democrats and repub licans in three judicial districts, all of which were successful. Jerry Simpson was the only alliance congressman who succeeded in pulling his county ticket through. The republicans and demo crats are congratulating each other and old time republicans predict that the campaign of 1892 will be between the old parties. REPUBLICANS SAVE THE HOUSE IN IOWA. DES MoINES, Ia., Nov. 5.-The prob able plurality for Boles is over 8,000. The rest of Boies' ticket will probably carry the State by 4,000 plurality. The senate will be democratic by 26 to 24; the house will probably be repub lican by 56 to 51. WORSE AND WORSE IN OHIO. COLUMBUS, 0.- The latest figures on Tuesday's election with nine counties estimated and a few others unofficial, made by the State republican commit tee, place McKinley's majority at 20, 186. The republicans now claim from 18 to 50 majority on joint ballot in the legislature. DEMOCRAT WOOD WASN'T IN IT. MADISON, S. D., Nov. 5.-Jolley, re publican, is probably elected to con gress over Smith, independent, by 8,000. Less_than :.000 -votes.were-cast.in the State. Wood, democrat, cut no figure. REPUCLICANS CONTROL THE MASSA CHUSETTS LEGISLATURE. BOSTON, Nov. 5.--Complete returns make the next legislature stand; Se nate, republicans, 23; democrats, 17; bouse, republi3ans, 150; democrats, 87; prohibitionists 1. Congratulations have poured in upon Governor Rassell from all over the ::ountry. Ex-President Cleveland was ne of the first to extend his "most cor :lal congratulations." Other messages were received from Governor Abbett, of New Jersey; Gen. F. J. Underwood, the Atlanta, Ga., Journal; ex-Secretary f State Bayard; Governor-elect Flower, t New York, and many others. SRERMAN ON THE OHIO ELECTION. MANSFIELD, 0., Nov. 5.-Senator Sherman was seen at his home to-day Ind ash'ed his views on the election. Re said : "I am induced to believe that we bave won a great victory. In many respects it is but an indorsement or echo f the fight of 1875 upon the financial luestion. President Hayes and my telf then mnade an issue for the honest lollar, and this election in our com rnonwealth only shows how the peo ;>le of this State are true to the best elements of all life. I do not mean to say, however, that the tariff has not alayed an important part in the game. So far as the Republican party is con ~erned, this result in Ohio fixes the ilver question as one of the issues of he next Presiden tial contost, and de ides it, so far as this State is con ~erned. "I am convinced that a free coinage ill will be passed by the Congress wvhich meets in December. I also be ieve that such a bill as will be framed ,vill be vetoed by President Harrison. C'hat will naturally make free silver he feature of the next presidential ight. In fact, it will be the leading ssue, upon which there are vast iifferences :>f opinion in both parties. doubt very much whether the De nocracy in national convention will roclaim for free coinage. If they hould, thbere will be no other issue of ignificance in the next campaign. "I am not at all disturbed as to the esult in New York. In my mind, it imply indicates the fact that Mr. Platt's power lies in the great city, md that the country districts are get ing a little tired of thbe intrigues of the netropolis and wanted to make that 'act manifest. I don't think it will iave' any bcaring whatever upon the iext presidential contest." M'KIN LEY'S MISJCDG;M ENT. CANTON, 0., Nov. 5.--Maj. McKin ey said to-day, in speaking of the )hio election : "I am convinced that he judgment of our citizens does not tpprove of the constant agitation of the ariff issue, in the face of the fact that t can accomplish nothing. It must urely be apparent to all alike that the onditions without which effective egislation is impossible do not exist. he Republican Senate and the Re >albllcan President are bulwarks gainst W' sh free trade forces dash owerless ; and with no immediate >rospect of a change in these condi ions, the only result of the continued agitation is to disturb business and re tard enterprises which the new law designs to encourage. In spite of all, the law is working its way, and from being on the defensive, as a year ago, we are now on the aggressive. When business is already good our people will not long tolerate movements which disturb it in the face of the con ditions I have named, and you will find the Republicans and Democrats alike will call a halt on the men whose stock in trade is not fair, square argu ment, but juggling misrepresentation of the same. Ohio has gone Republi can, and 1 accept the result as indi cating that this State stands by the Republican party with full faith in its protective principle as embodied in the tariff law; and, more than this, Ohio stands, as she always has, in favor of a full dollar and a sound currency." ENGLISH OPINION OF 3'KINLEY. LoNDoN, Nov. 5.-English views of the American elections seem almost confined to the result in Ohio. The success of McKinley is looked upon as a distinct grievance in the manufac turing districts, and especially in Brad ford and Sheffield, which places have been disastrously affected by the Mc Kinley act. The defeat of McKinley would have been hailed with delight in Great Britain, and he would have pro bably figured in some of the Guy Fawkes cremations, which are tradi tional to-day throughout England. In the average English opinion, McKin ley is an ogre, actuated by relentless hatred of Great Britain rather than desire to benefit the United States, and tie Londoners would not be surprised to find his counterfeit among the waxen collection of wicked people that is famous on both continents. SOME PRESS COMENTS. (New York Herald.] They argue, and very naturally, that if Tammany has acquired influence enough to-travel from New York to Albany and shows a determination to exteL-d its journey to Washington, something must be done to check its great power and patronage. The same battle cry which has been raised in this canvass will become the cry of the future-"Down with Tammany2' It would be a grave calamity, therefore, to be compelled, next year, to throw the national issues aside in order to fight a defensive battle with Tammany as our handicap. New York Times: New York will be in the Democratic column next year, and it will supply the candidate. It must be a very blind politician that can't see that. New York Sun: The appearance of John I. Davenport yesterday in his old role serves to remind the Democrats of New York of the debt of gratitude they owe to Arthur Pue Gorman. Davenpert was the real author of the measure known variously as the Lodge bill, the Hoar bill, and the force bill. He planned the extensive scheme- of Federal interference at the polls, which would have been the law of the land to-day but for the inestimable service rendered by the Senator from Mary land. Senator Gormaa is a Democrat and a great Democratic leader. New York World: The services of Grover Cleveland to the Democratic cause in the campaign in this State was very great. Putting aside all false notions of the dignity that is supposed to hedge about ex-Presidents, he presided and spoke at great gatherings of Democrats with the earnestness of a thoroughgoing party man. Wherever he appeared he evoked much enthusiasm, showing the strong hold which he has upon the popular confidence. The ex-President's warm endorse ment of Mr. Flower as a man "who will administer the great office to which he will be called independently, fear lessly and -for the good of all the peo ple" no doubt gave him many votes. The Atlanta Constitution: The Democrats are to be congratulated on the result of Tuesday's elec tions. They have not only increased their normal majorities in States that are conceded to them, but have held their ground in States which they e"p tured last year. They hold Massachu setts and Iowa, and this is in the na ture of a decided victory. If the Re publicans h,wi recaptured these States, the result would have been regarded only as the natural reaction from the tremendous upheaval oftlastyear. That the Democrats have succeeded in hold ing them shows that the principles of the party have taken a strong hold on the minds of men who have heretofore opposed them. This is more than en couraging. It gives rise to new hopes of success in 186:, and ougbt to strengthen the Democratic party in all that pertains to harmony and unity. New Orleans Times-Democrat: The Democrats have good cause to congrat ulate themselves over the result of the elections, for iL shows that the tidal wave of last year has not exhausted it self, and that many former Republican States must be placed in future in the doubtful list. St. Louis Republic: In its bearing on national issues the result of yesterday's election is significant and well defined. It means that next year's Presidential contest will be fought squarely on the issue of protection on the one side and tariff reform on the other. And this is 1 a consummation most devoutly to be wished by Demiocrat.. Memphis Appeal' The nail driven by the people in November, 1890, has been clinched in November, 1891. We may regret the failure of the gallant Camp bell in Ohio to win himself, and we ( may wonder that public antiment has been sol diebasedri * Pennsyvania that 4 the party of Quay and Bardsley shouk again succeed. But so much has beer g.ined and made fast that the day i one for thanksgiving and praise, and for vows of greater zeal, in order that a year hence the harvest may fulfill the glorious promise. Atlanta Journal. The results of yes terday's election prove some things very clearly. It is evident that the united Democ racy can elect its national ticket next year if it will do two things: 1. Nominate men who command the confidence and respect of the country. 2. Make the tariff the main issue. With a good ticket and a sound plat form, the heart and center of which shall be a low tariff plank, we can not cnly carry New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, which have hitherto been sufficient to insure Dem ocratic victory, but we can hold Massa chusetts, Rhode Island and Iowa, and make Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon sin very doubtful. If Democrats take heed of yesterday's lesson they will win a great victory next year; if they shut their eyes to it they will have to endure defeat as the penalty of unpardonable stupidity. JERRY SIMPSON IN NEW ORLEANS. NEW ORLBANS, Nov. 5.-Jerry8Simp son, the "sockless statesmen" of Kan sas arrived in the city to-day and will lecture to-night in the interest of the third party movement in this State. Mr. Simpson made a score of speeches in Ohio during the recent campaign, and is surprised that Campbell was de feated. He is disappointed at the small vote cast for the third party candidates for governor. In his own State, he says, the fusion of the Democrats and the Republicans injured the Alliance party, while rainy weather kept many farmers at home. A FLESH-EATING LANT. Remarkable Narrative that an English Naturalist Has Taken Home. A curious story is told in the Review )f Reviews about an alleged flesh-eat ing plant that has been discovered in Yicaragua. The story is quite circum ,tantial, and, if it is really true, speci mens of this remarkable plant should )e brought to New York, for they would certainly prove an immense ittraction. Mr. Dunstan, an English naturalist, who has recently returned from Cen ;ral America, where he passed two yeare in studying the flora and fauna f the country, is responsible for the itory. Dunstan says he was exploring >ne of the swamps which surround Lake Nicaragua for botanical and ntomological specimens when he heard ais dog cry out, asif in agony. Dunstan ran to the spot and found that a fnue, rope-like tissue of roots and fibres had enveloped the poor animal, that was yelping as if in great pain. The plant r vine which had made him a prisoner seemed to be composed entirely of bare, interlacing stems, resembling the branches of the weeping willow denuded if its foliage. The stems were nearly black and were covered with a thick viscid gum that exuded from the pores. Mr. Dunstan drew his knife and ried to cut the poor beast free. He had great difficulty in severing the museu lar fibres of the plant. When he had rmally extricated the dog he saw to his istonishment that the animal's body was blood stained, "while the skin appeared to have been actually sucked yr puckered in spo.ts." The animal staggered as if completely exhausted. While he was cutting the vine the wigs curled around Mr. Dunstan's band, and it required considerable orce to free his hand from the clinging ~rasp of these twiggs. His flesh, where :he twiggs had touched it, was red and listered. The gum which exuded from bhe vine had a disagreeable odor. D)unstan says the natives hold the >lant in the greatest horror, and call it ;he "devil's snare." They told the maturalist many stories of its death iealing powers. He was able to dis >over very litdIe about the nature of ;he plant, owing to the difficulty of mandling it, for its grasp can only be ihaken ofif with the loss of skin and hven of flesh. He believes that its >ower of suction is contained in a num >ner of little suckers which, ordinarily ~losed, open for the reception of food. f the substance coming within reach >f the plant is animal, the blood is brawn off;, and the carcass or refuse is hen dropped. "A lump of raw meat >eing thrown to it, in the short space >f five minutes the blood will be thor >ughly drank offand the mass thrown Lside. Its voracity is almost beyond elief." This is a very curious story. There tre a good many Americans now at vork on the Nicaragua Canal, and Mr. )uustan's graphic narrative should be ubmitted to them for verification. .Water Bseing Sold. CoLCMEUs, Ind., Nov. 6.-There is io more prospect of rain than there vas two months ago and everybody riews the situation with alarm. Wells, treams and ponds are completely diy n this entire section, and since the fif ies nothing like this has been known. n many inland towns, like Charles own, water is being sold. WATER FAMINE TH REATENED. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Not fo- years as the supply of drinking water for his city been so low, nor has the dan ~er of a genuine water famine been ;reater than at present. Commissioner iilroy says that if there is no heavy ainfall soon, the water would only last irteen or twenty days more. SEVENTEEN AND A HALF X.LTJONS. Tha Increase in Assessments of Ta=able Propety This Year. (The State.] Yesterday the final reports of the re turns and assessments of real and perso nal property in theState for thepastyear were received by the Comptroller Gen eraL. The official figures for most of the counties have already been given. The figures as now completed foot up 168,262669 as the total assessment for the year 1891. Last year the total was $150,603,451. The total increase over last year therefore is $17,660,218. A good portion of the increase Is due to the raise in the assesments of railroad property and on corporations. A Civil Sevice Tes. A North Carolina farmer prop ands the searching questions beldw to hisW brother farmers in the "Tar Heel State." They will be found applicable to all sections of the country. The questions get right down to the milk in the cocoa nut. Do you know that the farmers of North Carolina spent over $3,000,000 this year for fertilizers for cotton and tobacco? Do you suppose they will be able to get enough extra for the crops to pay the bill? Do you know that wore than $3,000, 000 worth of fertilizing material 'has been washed away this rainy season from your barnyards because of neg lect in looking after your home-made fertilizers? Do you suppose that the land of North Carolina is a dollar's worth better off because of the$,000,000 spent for fertilizers for sale crops? "Don't you know that field you are "resting," as you suppose, by allowing it to grow up in weeds, is ripening a lot of seeds and making more nut gram roots to bother you next year? Don't you know that if you had sown that field in peas you would now have a great crop of peavine hay to cut and feed this winter? Don't you know that the feeding of that hay would bring you your money back in the animals fed, and leave you a lot of manure that will pay you bet ter than the bought mixtures? Don't you know that crimson clover seed scattered on this pea stubble will give you a growth fo turn under next spring that would give you morecorZ, cotton and tobacco than five times its cost spent for fertlizers? Don't you know that the constant culture of the soil in cotton, Year after year, with a little fertilizer to make a crop, is making your land poorer at the time? Don't you know that whatever makes your land poorer, makes you poorer also? Did you ever hear of afarmer who got rich by buying fertilizers nierely to raise cotton~ with? Did you ever know a farmer who made his land rich' by an intelllgert course of cultivation who did not get - "well ofif" as fast as his farm did? Did you ever know cow-peas or c.c ver to bring a man in debt to a comn mission merchant? Did you ever know home-made ma nure to fail '. improve your land? Do you know of a farmer who has too much of iL? Did you ever know a cow, injured by a comfortable stable and plenty of hay? Did you ever know a man to get rich in any business who did not study It, and have faith in It, and give his whole time and energy to it?I Don't you know that the biggest ta? 'the farmers of North Carolina pay to day is the fertilizer bill, the waste of home-made manure, a.nd the washing away of fertilizers from fields kept bare of clover or grass? Don't you suppose that somebody, somewhere, makes a profit In raising the pork you send money to Chicago for, out of your cotton crop?p s Don't you suppose somebody, some where, makes a living and perhap grows rich, growing the wheat your flour is madeof, which you buy out of your cotton crop? - Don't you suppose that somebody, somewhere, makes money by raising the beeves which the butchers in North Carolina towns have to send to Rich mond to buy? Don't you know that you could raise all these things here, and, in raising them, raise more cotton on a few acres than you now do on many?4 Do you see how high prices are going to benefit the farmer who. has bread, meat and manure to buy and only one thing to sell? With cotton low down and wheat high, how is the man helped who raises no wheat? 2 What if butter is awfully high-priced in our towns, while our farmers have no cows, or nothing to feed them on If they have, while somebody, some where c.se, makes money by feeding cows and shipping butter South? If you know all these things, don't you see that bad farming has more to do with farmers' troubles than any thing else he has to endure, and there is no doubt that he has much to carry aside from this? According to the latest statistics there are 840,625 miles of raiway on the earth, of which 338,750 miles, or 44~ per cent., are in the United States. Germany, the leading railway countr in Europe, has 24,343 miles; Ffrane 21 393; Great Britan and Ireland, 19,811; Russia, 17,823, and Austria, -15,542 miles. - Artists fine Tube Oil Paintaforsalest te Salter'e Photograph Gallery.