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ESTABLISHED 1865.INEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY18192_______
EATING THE RAILROADS.
The State Board of Equalization Announce
Assessments which, in Many Cases.
_ Appear to have been Made
with a Special View to
Forcing Appeals.
LSpecial to News and Courier.]
COLUMBIA, May 11.-The all-impor
tant State railroad board of equaliza
tion met to-day and practically main
tained the final basis of the last assess
ments of railroad property. In a few
instances there were reductions, and in
several cases the returns as made by
the railroad authorities were accepted.
The larger roads had their figures ma
terially increased, and the Richmond
and Danville Road seemed to be par
ticularly unfortunate. The present
figures are by no means the ones on
which the State will collect the taxes,
as reductions are very likely to be
made when the board meets on the
14th of June to hear any appeals.
There were present at to-day's ses
sion of the board Secretary of State
Tindal, Attorney General McLaurin
and Comptroller General Ellerbe. In
the absence of Treasurer Bates Mr.
Tindal was made chairman. The
board had returns from all of the rail
roads, with two exceptions. Judge
Cothran, general counsel, and Vice
President A. B. Andrews appeared be
fore the board to show that the Rich
mond and Danville roads ought not to
be assessed as high as last year, and
why the returns of the roads as made
were correct and equitable.
The board heard the argument, but
did not, from their prea::inary action,
'E much heed of it. The arguments
were on the same line as those hereto
fore advanced.
In the tabulated statement below I
give the mileage of the roads, as given
by the companies, the rate of assess
ment as fixed by the board of equali
zation to-day, and the value of the road
per mile as reported by the officers of
the roads. The figures, which will be
an Interesting study for many, are:
Value
New reported
Assess. by com
Miles ment. pany
Asheville * Sparb'g... 23.5 8,000 3 4,0000
Atlanta A Charlotte... 12% 18,00 8,5000u
Bishopvil le........-.- 23 1'w) l 1,O0300
Cumborland Gap........, 241 8.003 4,00000
Carolina Midland...... 5.L75 5,(00 5,00000
Car. K'ville & West'n 15 1,000 3,00000
Central of S.C............ 40 12,000 5,00000
Three C's..................... 107.2 10000 4,40000
Chas'n't Savannah..... 85.25 13,000 6,00000
Chas. Sum. & North'n 1.18.7 8.0 Noret'rn
Chari'te, Col & Aug..... 17&9 14,000 8,00000
Cheraw & Chester...... 28.6 4,9 2,500
Cheraw A Salisbury... 11 5ti000 5,00000
Chestera Lenotr......... 37 4,003 2,50000
Col's a Greenville...... 165 10,500 3,0000
Florence... .... 24.47 10,000 5,00000
Georget'n& Western. 37 3,000 3.00000
Georgia, Carolina A
Northern, frst......... 30 10,000 10,00000
-Georgia, Carolina & .
Ngrtbern, remain'g 106-09
I.s ens'............. 2i9 9 .000 2,500 004
31anch'r A Augusta..... 19 5,000 3.500 00
Northeastern............... 12 17,000 9,78451
Palmetto..................... 22 40)0 1,00000
Pt.Royal& Augusta . 108.75 10,000 7,50000
Pt. Royal & W estern
Carolina, arst.......... 51 10,000 7.00000
Pt. Royal A Western
C s.................... 159.9 10,000 6,00000
South-Bound.............. 104.38 8,0 0 8,00000
South Carolina... 42 1.,01. 3000 00
Spar. Union & Col...68 500 350
WiI. Chad & Conway 25.25 ,0 2200
Wil. Col & Augusta..... 114 4CO ,00)
Wilson & Swnmerton 19 1,9 1,80
Blue Ridge........... S ,00 4000
Ashley River..........4 14001,00
Sea Island Branch
(C. & S.). ........42..........00.25
Hart viDle............... 10 2,0 2000
Col. New A Laurens... 63.5 5005.00
So. Ca. Paciic. ............'r
Brachvllea BW'D 10 2,000 1 ,000 00
wHAT AS DO,0LAS Y,5A0R.
The bard oequaizato last00ea
ad a relminry ssese,00 w,000c0
was sbsequntly onsidrabl reduced.
In thefolloingtale0ar given the
Asheille& Sartbg 4,000$ 8,000
Atlata Chalote 2,000 1,0030
Bishpvlle Rilrad ,C 2,00
Car C.Gap& Cicao 80,00 8.00
Car, 'vileWes'n 10,000 1,00
Cenra o S Croin 1,000 1200
Cha. C: &Chiago 10,000 10,000
Ct~al'n Savnna 18,000 1,00000
Char Sum.k orthn 58000 ,000
Obar Co. & uguta 5,000 1400 0
Cherw an Cheter ,000 ,s005
Cher an Salsbur 800 1,000
Che,te an Leolr.. ,000 4,00 0
Col.and reevill...10,0 .000 1,00
Col.Nb'y& Luren 1. ,000 ,000
Florene Rairoad. 008,000 1,00
Georget'n& Western 3,000 ,00
Geo.Caro & orthn 1,000 1,00 0
Haravile airoa .. 25,00 2,0.00
Laurns....... 14,00 ,000
Manc'r Augsta.. ,000 ,000
Norteastrn Iailrd12,000 1,000
Palmtto ailrad.... ,000 1,000
Pt.B'yl&~. Caro'a 2,000 1,000
S. nio an Coum. 5,000 5,000
Wil.Chab'n& Cu'y 6,00 No,rt'r
Brnil.Cle & Augus.. 15,000 1,000
BTahe oar of eAlization0 7astyea
The subsequentey conieralya eded
thatte wllown mable aaemgien theal
side-trakage figcue, soin the acs
tinn of rhoad aftreer thearingtargn
Iw OrigialRied
Ashevillerna theryg 8,00 gov8,000n
Albety to tharlotteua,00 and 8,00ull
Bishossible Riroec io 50 60hi 0ad i
Croe, 'ise&Wtn 10,00 10,000oan
tCendty of g. Carolna 1200 2,0
Csevin;& w hic ag o 1000 10bsrv,
ohrP c psatina 18,00 theus 000o
Char. ouf properth'ne 8,00 notd 000t
equalr.aon, reAguate 15,00 prie,000l
Ceraw eand thesterpe5,000o to ,000ai
foChe use ofallsbury 800 ,0
Ceer tandeami..5,0 400
Cot.as Greeviltle...er in-0 0,0
dol Nre by & othrn. me,000 5,000a
tergetunal T&e Wsere a,0 prte000 us
tieo. BrwrCedar.&thnd 1B,000 against
Ntheatrn oRal'd 20,00me in,000
Chicago warehouse cases and now re
affirmed in the New York grain ele
vator cases that a State has the power
to regulate the conduct and fix the
prices of any business "affected with a
public interest."
When this thoory of constitutional
law was first announced by Chief Jus
tice Waite, its far reaching consequen
ces, its dangerous tendencies and possi
ble abuses were widely recognized and
commented upon.
I the expression "business affected
with a public interest" had been de
fined so as to limit its meaning to mat
ters that were in reality of a public
nature, the stand taken by the Court
would have been tenable and harmless.
It would have even been salutary.
Thus railway traffic is clearly public
in character. No railway can be built
or operated without the express con
sent of the people. Every road must
first get a franchise from the State.
This secures to it valuable privileges.
By virtue of it any private property
may be taken without the consent of
the owner by payment of its appraised
value. The road is a creature of the
State. Obligations and duties to the
public are imposed upon it. Its busi
ness and its changes are subject to leg
islative regulation. The same is true
)f telegraph, telephone and express
ompanies. It is true of ferries.
Bu: elevating grain is not a putc
business of that kind. The owner re
eeivee no franchise or special privilege
from the State. He cannot take pri
vate property without the consent of
the owner. Like the merchant and
the manufacturer, he buys his land as
best be csn and carries on his business
without governmental aid.
The majority of the Supreme Court
ays of it, "the public has an interest
in the business," and therefore it is sub
ject to legislative control. But, as Jus
tice Brewer pertinently asks, What
business is there in which the public
bas not an interest? The public is
interested in the village store and in
the city mercantile establishment.
Every branch of trade and industry
ippeals to the community for patron
ige. Every branch is for the accom
modation of the community.
It the Legislature may dictate how
the business of elevating grain may be
earried on and fix the charges that
may be made it may exercise the same
arbitrary power in the case of any'busi
ness. It may limit profits and control
markets generally. It may determine
the compensation any man may receive
ror the use of his property or for his
personal services.
A power so sweeping cannot be con
3eded to a Legislature without denying
;o the individual an inherent and es
;ential right of freedom. Its exercise
would be liable to the gravest abuses
td wrongs. Letus hope-with Justices
Brewer, Field and Brown, that the
time is not distant when the evils of
his doctrine "will become so apparent
that the courts will hasten to declare
bhat goverr-uent can prescribe comn
pensation only when it grants a special
privilege, as in the creation of a corpo
ration or when the service which is
rendered is a public service or the prop
rty is in fact devoted to a public use."
'I Pray You Kick Me, 'Tis a Sure Way to
Honor."
[The News and Courier.]
Is it to be an established rule that
when anyone says anything unkind or
sarcastic about one of Tillman's special
ollowers straightway that follower is
to receive special honors?
The question is suggested by the cir
iumstance that the Hon. Robert Al
rich who is still sore from Col. Orr's
aliusion to his alleged coat tail hang
ing propensities, has been appointed by
G~ov. Tillman to sit on the supreme
bench, the resignation of that appoint
ment by Speaker Ira B. Jones having
been accepted.
The cases in which he is to sit are E.
. Reeder, respondent, vs. Thomas R.
Workman, assignee, and E. P. Chal
mers, administrator, vs. C. WV. Kinard,
et al.
Candidaey for congressional honors
will hardly vitiate the new appoint
ment. Judge Aldrich might without
any impropriety have been selected.
Eampaign Poetry.
There is a man of Adam's race,
And Edgefield is his dwelling place;
And we are told by "Enoree plantation"
That he wants to rule all creation.
He had his cows all well fed
And assessed them at ten per head,
But when he sold he showed his folly
By selling them for nearly forty.
He went around blowing his horn,
That there was room for much reform;
But when he got into the good stall,
Bedarned it he didn't forget it all.
His all absorbing campaign song
Was he'd right every wrong,
But why he failed no one can tell,
Unless be meant to lie like hell.
There is one thing we like first rate,
And that is this old gallant State;
But all his talk about free pass
Sounds like the jackass.
Hurrah, three cheers for John C. Shep
pa rd,
He holds his colors like the leopard,
And will not lie or change a spot
Like the would-be tyrant despot.
The Sheppard will take care of the
sheep,
And make no promise he will not keep;
And as to being the farmers' friend,
On him they all cau well depend.
And now we bring this to a close,
It's neither poetry or prose;
But it's simply an old man's honest
v-iews,
So let it pass as other news.
Children Cry for Piter's Cataria
National and State Banking System vs.
The Sub-Treasury.
To The Editor of The Herald and
News : The financial problem is the
most difficult of solution in the science
of government.
A full and accurate knowledge of
figures and facts are absolutely neces
sary to arrive at correct conclusions.
Tbe report of the Comptroller of the
Currency shows that on the 25th of Sep
tember, 1891, there were 3,677 National
banks. The aggregate capital stock of
these banks was $677,426,876.25. Their
circulation a as $131,323,301.50. To
secure their circulation they deposited
with the Treasurer $150,035,600 in re
gistered bonds of the United States
government.
The deposits by individuals 'ere $1,
588,318,681.37. Their loans and discounts
were $2,,468,~0.93.
The above figures and facts show that
the bills alone of these banks are se
cured by bonds of the government.
Creditors are not secured.
These banks like all others established
since the founding of the Bank of En
gland in 1694 are based on credit, con
fidence and chance-more on chance
than anything else.
Since the establishment of the pre
sent National banking system 29 years
ago, 164 National banks have failed
with a clear loss to creditors of $15,459,
980.
Twenty-five National banks failed
last year having a capital stock of $3,
662,000.
On the 31st of August, 1865, the in
terest bearing obligations of the govern
ment were $2,383,033,315.
On the 31st of October, 1891, it was
reduced to $649,650,232.
With the cancellation of the reg
istered bonds of the government the
present National banking system will
expire. The last of them are due in
1907.
Under the system of the State banks
in 1841 the total bank capital was $317,
642,692. During the year 1841 fifty-five
banks failed with an aggregated capital
of $67,036,265 and circulation of $23,577,
752.
In nearly every instance the entire
capital of the banks that failed was
lost, yet men advocate going back to
that system. Under the National
banking system the bills of the banks
are secured and we have a National
currency. In these respects the system
of National banks is superior to the
system of State banks.
Both, however, are seriously deftc
tive and should be displaced by a better
system.
A system of State treasuries can be
worked ap to perfection. They can be
made perfectly safe and a blessing
to the whole people. From 2 to 3 per
cent. is all that can in the aggregate be
annually made, and no higher interest
should be charged. This the wealth of
nations clearly demonstrates. The duty
rests on Congress under our constitu
tion of government to provide a uni
form NatIonal currency for the whole
people. It should be issued and ad
vanced on property properly restricted
and secured at a low rate of interest or
without interest.
If South Carolina should through
her legislature ask Congress to order
40,000,000 dollars in legal tenders
printed for her and take them out by
a deposit of her bond with the United
States Treasurer and pay off her State
debt and advance the balance to her
citizens on their property properly re
stricted and secured these notes would
be based on $168,000,000 of property
and endorsed by the United States,
whose wealth is incr easing at the rate
of $150,000,000 a month. The security
would be perfect. We would then have
our distinctive money, which every na
tion should have. In that event we'
would not suffer from any diaster that
might befall any other nation.
It is estimated that the shrinkage in
values in the United States caused by
the suspension of Baring Brothers
was $2,600,000,000.
This is one of the results of the pre
sent financial system.
We are too closely allied in our fin
ances with England. To illustrate, sup
pose there were two mill ponds run
ning parallei without communication.
If a log was thrown into one of them
it would displace the water where it
falls in and every atom of water in that
pound would be displaced one atom
by another. The water in the other
pond would not be disturbed. It
would remain placid.
The State treasuries in addition to
furnishing all the money needed for
business at a low rate of interest would
be safe depositories for the General
Government.
The deposits would not be loaned out
as is now done by the banks. They
would be held until called for; hence
there would be no hazard. All gold and
silver would be put into bars and used
as commodities, the holders paying all
costs. The products of the fields and
mills should be on the same footing
with the products of the mines. There
should be no difference.
In 1842 James H. Hammond, a plan
ter of vast erudition was elected Gov
ernor of the State. Cotton was selling
at 4 cents per pound. In a speech to
the people he said, "We are making
more cotton than the world wants."
Hammond was mistaken. We were
not making more cotton than the world
needed.~We were making more than the
mills then in existence could convert in
to goods. That is our condition at the
present time. Twenty millions of bales
would not supply the wants of thbe peo
ple if there were mills enough to
convert them into goods.
The great need is money in ample
volume to build the mills and oil the
spindles.
A system of State treasuries, as out
lined by the writer will furnish it at
such rates of interest as will give us
booming times.
When our raw material Is converted
into goods and what we don't need is
exported we will be the wealthiest and
most powerful, as we are the freest na
tion in the world.
For a system of State treasuries to be
established and the country filled with
joy and plenty the people must be all
aglow and take hold by States. The
request must go up to Congress from
each State. Congress cannot refuse if
the matter is properly presented com
ing from a State.
If adopted it will prove the safest and
most equitable system of finance ever
devised. - Respeetfag, -
ELLISON S. KEITT.
Enoree Plantation, S. C., April 27th.
1892.
That Free Coinage Does.
[Hon. Michael D. Harter, of Ohio, in
the May Forum.]
By causing the withdrawal of gold
from general citculation "free coinage"
would contract the currency about 33J
per cent., and be followed, of course,
ry the cessation of many kinds of busi
ness employing labor, and curtailing
all industrial enterprises, through
which very many men and women
would lose their customary employ
ment.
The result of the increased compe
tition for work would reduce the wages
paid to those who were fortunate
enough to retain employment.
The reduced wages would be paid in
money worth (market value) but sev
enty cents, instead of, as now, 100
ents.
The accumulated savings of the work
ing people, usually invested in savings
banks, building associations, life in
murance policies and in small loans,
would be cut down nearly one-third.
'hese evils open up a long vista of in
iustice and of suffering for the worthy
ind comparatively helpless masses
which may well stagger the honest and
enthusiastic but mistaken advocate of
'res coinage.
Now, who would be the real suffer
ers?
1. The 4,258,893 who own the $1,524,
344,506 of deposits in savings ;banks
Free coinage would cost them $457,
153,351.
2. The principal creditors next and
)f the government, too, are the 800,000
pensioners, whose $157,000,000 of pen
sions would be cut down $47,000,000 in
>ne year, or $470,000,000 in ten years.
3. Then comethegreatarmy of 5,000,
)00 policy holders in life insurance com
panies, whose $7,500,000,000 in policies
would be cut down to $2,250,000,000.
4. After these the 500,000 men and
women who have invested in building
md loan associations.
6. Then come the millions of clergy
nien, clerks, men in the army and
navy and civil service, and others who
work for salaries or fixed incomes, all of
whom, while nominally getting 100
eents, would actually get but 70 cents.
Free coinage would cost these classes
$ 76,000,000 a'year.
6. Last, but certainly not least, the
vast army of 10,085,966 working men,
women and. children (in 1880), all of
whom would, to start with, suffer a
large reduction in wages, and then,
after getting lower nominal wages,
would find their dollar purchase but 70
ents' worth of goods, causing them a
loss amounting to the stupendous an
nual sum of $1,210,614,720.
EX-SECRETARY VILAS SAYS IT THREAT
ENS TH E L AND WITH FINANCIA L
DISASTER.
[The May Forum.1
The production and trade of our peo
ple extend to very many different arti
les and objects, to nearly every form,
indeed, whicn man's labor yields; the
volume of all is vast, exceeding accu
rate statistical account, and the cur
rents of business are intertwined and
commingled beyond possibility of clear
,nd satisfactory tracing of their mutual
relations, so that analysis and just,ap
portionment of effects to each several
cause of all the causes that enter for
good or ill into the common resultant
are unattainable.
The shadow of apprehension is with
us now, though that event never be
fall. For while its exact influence and
injury may not be computed, it is cer
tain that the calamity of a currency
revolution has been during some
months brought so imminently to im
pend over the country that the menace
has started fear, alarmed business men
and more or less changed their conduct
in many transactions; setting them to
guard their property by unusual de
vices and lessening their readiness
freely to invest money in any form,
either in loans or enterprises of busi
ness. The haze in our atmosphere is
not, however, due altogether to the
prospect of free coinage. The coinage
law as it stands already is alone suffi
cient to gather portentous clouds in the
financial sky. How long will it re
quire under present methods to secure
the volume and force of silver adequate
o displace gold?
That portentous event has already~
made its debut, arid in repetition of
history.
The following are the famous lines of
John Wesley, giving his idea of how
to make a truly successful life:
Do all the good you ,an,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As loIng as eer you cn.n
The Sonthern Baptist Convention.
[Correspondence Herald and News.]
ATLANTA, GA., May 5.-The conven
tion was called to order at 10 a. m. (11
o'clock by our time) by the former
President, Judge Harralson, of Ala.
bama, and was opened with devotional
exercises led by Rev. W. R. Gwalt
ney, of North Carolina.
He read the 65th Psalm, and asked
the audience to rise and sing the Coro
nation hymn. This they did right
heartily, led by Professor D. B. Townes.
Dr. Gwaltney then prayed.
The States were then called and the
delegates enrolled. Whereupon were
found to be present 948 delegates, rep
resenting the 1,300,000 white Baptists
of the South.
Judge Harralson was again elected
President, by acclamation, and Joshua
Levering, of Baltimore, Governor W.
J. Northen of Georgia, Governor J. P.
Eagle of Arkansas and Hon. L. L. Fos
ter, of Texas, were elected Vice-Presi
dents. Drs. Lansing Burrows, of Geor
gia, and O. F. Gregor". of Baltimore,
were re-elected Secretaries.
Governor Northen delivered the ad.
dress of welcome, which was replete
with eloquent thought. He said that
while there is no union of Church and
State with us, yet it is ours to give
the State good citizenship and good
rulers.
Dr. W. E. Hatcher, of Richmond,
responded. Contrary to expectation
for we were anticipating something in
his usual vein of humor-his remarks
were pathetic and affecting in the ex
treme. We saw nany wet eyes, and
heard this speech pronounced the best
he ever made.
The courtesies of the floor were ex
tended to the press and the people of
Atlanta and Georgia.
Ip the afternoon a letter was read by
the secretary from Dr. Brown, of the
city, stating that a delegate, Rev. Geo.
Bushyhead, an Indian preacher, had
died that mnrniig, and asking for in
structions as to what to do with the
body. A committee was appointed to
attend to the matter.
The reports of the three boards of the
convention,Home,Foreign andSunday
school, were read and referred to proper
committee.
In the evening Le convention ser
mon was preached by Dr. Gambrell, of
Mississippi. His text was the text Cary
preached his immortal sermon from,
one hundred years ago. Isaiah 54: 2.
His was a very practical and soul-stirr
ing sermon in which he gave some
happy and timely hits. He wanted a
religion with God in it. He deplored
the advancement of materialism and
the decline of spirituality in the
churches. He prayed that God would
spare the old time country preacher a
little while longer.
On Saturday morning,after prayer by
Rev. J. L. Rollins and the reading of
the minutes, several committees were
appointed.
Dr. J. L. Carrol, of North Carolina,
offered a resolution looking to the re
duction of the delegation, as it, he said,
had become unwieldy. Dr. Burrows
thought otherwise, and we were threat
ened with an interrminable discussion.
Whereupon, Dr. T. T. Eaton, of Ken
tucky, called for the special order,
which was at once taken up. It being
a meeting in the interest of the centen
nial movement.
Dr. J. W. Carter spoke on the subject
"Moral Basis of Missions." He showed
to us that the moral basis of missions is
God's eternal law, that we are to love
our God with all our hearts and our
neighbors as ourselves. This law is the
basis of all mission work. His thoughts
were fresh, clearcut and well put.
Just here occurred a very touching
episode, there were six men who were
present at the first session of this con
vention. which met in Augusta, 184.5,
viz.: Dr. S. G. Hillyer, Rev. A. W.
Mahoney, of S. C.. Dr. C. M. Irwin, T.
P. Smith, of S. C., and Dr. 3. T. S.
Park. These brethren took their places
on the stand, and were presented to the
convention; weak,- tremulous, white
headed, with staffs in hand, they stood
beside the president. The audience stood
and sang, "How firm a foundatoin,"
as one man, and when we came to the
verse, "even down to old age, etc.," the
tear drops trembled on many an eye.
Dr. 3. P. Green, of St. Louis, next
addressed us on the subject, "The hea
then lost without the Gospel." He
showed us from God's word this is true.
He was attentively heard.
Dr. 3. A. Broadus, of the Seminary,
next spoke to us in his simple way on
the subj'ect of, "How best to utilize the
centennial of missions." He thought
we could help the cause by holding
special meetings like the politicians,
circulating missionary biographies,leaf
lets and other literature, by writing ar
ticles in newspapers, putting illustra
tions in every sermon drawn from mis
sionary work, by use of maps, corre
spondence with missionaries and con
versation, talk missions to everyone
you come int contact with. He deplored,
in the cours~e of his remarks, the lack
of good preaching. He said he heard
better when he was fifteen years of age
in the country churches. Turning to
ward Dr. Eaton, his pastor, and said,
PIl say thiE in the presence of my pas
tor. Whereupon Dr. Eaton observed
that Dr. Broadus attended services
away from home often. After the con
clusion of ])r. Broadus' speech, Prof.
and Mrs. Townes sang, "Redeemed."
Dr. Brittian, from the committee on
preaching, made the announcements
for Sunday-about one hundred and
fifty of' them I understood. May the
Lord be with each man of them_and
may the word be with power.
In the afternoon Dr. Mabie, the Cor
Union of New York, was introduced
and gave us a genuine vi- of the mis
sion field of Japan, China and India.
His speech was a revelation to us. We
have never been brought so close to the
field before, nor have we ever ..een it so
clearly as we beheld it through the eyes
of Dr. Mabie.
When Dr. Mabie was through Joshua
Levering, of Batimore, made some re
marks, and then pledged $5,000 for the
centennial fund of $250,000, and then
again $5,000 for his twin brother Eu
gene. Drs. Tupper, Eaton, Jones, Gib
son, Eubank, missionary to Africa,
Miller pledged one-tenth of their gross
incomes, many others made pledges
amounting in the aggregate, $16,518. It
.being late the collection was not fin
ished, and douttless will be resumed
again.
On Saturday evening the centennial
committees of th? various States made
brief reports of the work already done,
after which Dr. B. H. Carroll, of Tex
as,made an addre.s on "Home Missions
in America." He enumerated six fac
tors in the missicn work: Persecution
was one, divisions within the ranks of
the apostles, and seeing seizing provi
dential openings, unsent and unpaid
laborers, organization, distribution of
work into different departments, as
Peter was the Apostle of the Circum
cision, while Paul was sent to the
Gentiles. His was a masterly effort,
and was appreciated apparently by
the audience.
On Sunday morning the writer went
to the First Baptist church to hear Dr.
Broadus. I went three quarters of an
hour before time. I never saw a house
more closely packei with people. I
edged my way to tie pulpit and found
a lowly seat on the pulpit step between
the knees of Dr. W. D. Powell, our mis
sionary to Mexico. Before preaching
the congregation sang and prayed, and
listened to an address by Dr. W. D.
Powell, of Mexico. Among many other
things he told us how God was calling
the rich into his kingdom in Mexico,
one of whom had consecrated himself
to the work of the ministry. But the
hour for preaching has come. Dr.
Broadus comes upon the pulpit and
now we have a display of musical tal
ent on organ, horn, fiddle and what
not. We were compelled to listen to
an "hanthem" before and after the ser
mon,.notwithstanding we were packed
like sardines in a warm room.
Oh! that we may be deliversd from
the tyranny of church choirs. I think
we will be in heaven. I think the pre
centor of heaven's choir will let us all
sing according to the wish of the Psalm
ist, "Let the people praise thee, 0 Lord;
let all the people praise thee." But in
-spite of adverse circumstances on hand,
a soul stirring sermon from Judges 1: 20.
"The sword of the Lord and Gideon."
The convention is not half through
with its work and will not adjourn be
fore Tuesday evening. L.
Short and Sweet.
IFrom Texas Siftings.]
The man who keepsi his mouth shut
never has to eat any crow.
A dollar in your pocket is worth five
invested in a lottery ticket..
The size of a man has'nothing to do
with the size of a lie he can tell.
What is done cannot be undone,
especially if it is a hard-boiled egg.
A friend in need is a friend who
generally strikes you for a quarter.
When a sick man refuses to send for
a doctor that is a sign he still clings to
life.
Miodern society overlooks a soiled re
putation much more readily than it
does soiled gloves.
The telephone is an arrangement by
which two re can lie to each other
without becoming con fused.
Childhood is the nursery rhyme,
youth the love ballad, middle age the
prose, and old age the blank verse in
man's book of life..
Those whom we have compelled to
concede our natural advantages are the
ones who are best acquainted with our
failings.
The girl who runs away with the
hired man is held up in ridicule, but
she frequently does better than the one
who marries a poet.
The only sensible tir:2e to bo happy
is the present moment. Most people
put it off until week after week and
then forget all about it.
Negroes Endorse Senator Butler's Bill.
BIraiNGHx, May 8.-About 10,000
negroes attended a mast meeting here
yesterday. They organized an emigra
tion society to plant colonies in Africa,
passed resolutions endorsing Senator
Butler's bill, that whites and blacks
cannot live together, and asking the
press of the country to urge Congress
to pass the law.
Why They Are Poor.
[From the Jefferson County (Mon.)
Sentinel.]
Country editors always remain poor,
but that is because they are not mean
enough to get rich. In crder to get rich
it is necessary to trust nobody, to be
friend none, to get every thmng and save
all you get; to stint ourse:ves and every
body belonging to us; to be friend to no
man and have no man ferour friend; to
heap interest upon interest, ceat upon
cent; to be mean and miserly and de-.
spised for some thirty years, and riches
will come as sure as disease and disap
pointment. And when pretty near
enough wealth is collecte d by a disre
gard of the human heart at the el
pense of every enjoymen:: save that of
swallowing in filthy meanness, death
comes to finish the work. Country edi
tors prefer to remain poor, live happy
nd die happy.
WHERE IS YOUR WARE HOUSE?
The Government never Built One, and
Never Should.
WASHINGToN, May 9.-Some of the
Farmers' Alliance men in the Soutl
and West who are advocating the war(
house system for adoption by the Gov
ernment have been met with the argu
ment that it is not the province of the
Government to build ware houses foi
any class of producers, to which the
advocates of the ware house system
have replied that if the Government
can build ware houses in which to storE
whiskey, there ought to be no reason
able objection to the construction of
ware houses for grain and other pro
ducts of farmers. Senator Cockrell,whe
believed that this notion was an errone
ous one, sent an inquiry to the internal
revenue commissioner, Mr. Mason, and
has received the following reply:
OFFICE CoM'R INTERNAL REVENUE.1
WASHINGTON, May 7, 1892, J
The Hon. F. M. Cockrell, United
States Senate-Sir: I am in receipt of
your letter asking whether the United
States Government, out of the Govern
ment funds, has built any ware houses
for the storage of liquors or distilled
spirits, and if so, the number of such
ware houses, when built, the cost there
of, and under what authority of law
they were constructed. If not, to ex
plain who builds the bonded ware
houses for distillers, how they are
bonded, and upon what terms spirits
are stored therein and the revenue col
lected thereon.
In reply I would say that the United
States does not now, and has never,
built any ware houses for distillers for
the storage of theirliquora and distilled
spirits. There is no law authorizing
the expenditure of public money for
this purpose. All distilled spirits, with
the exception of brandy distilled from
apples, peaches and grapes, are depo
sited in ware houses provided by the
distiller himself. Section 3,271 of Revi
sed Statutes provides that: "every dis
tiller shall provide, at his own expense,
a ware house to be situated on and to
constitute part of his distillery premises,
and to be used only for the storage of
distilled spirits of his own manufacture
until the tax thereon shall have been
paid."
Distillers of brandy from apples,
peaches and grapes, exclusively, are
exempt from the provisions of this
~tatute. These distillers either pay the
tax upon the spirits as soon as produ
ced or the spirits are deposited in a
bonded ware house erected by a private
individual and stored there until the
tax becomes due, but in no case is the
Government liable for any expenses
incurred in storing -distilled spirits of
any kind. Before a distiller commerces
to operate his distillery he executes a
bond, the condition of which, among
other things, is for the payment of tax
upon spirits produced by him. When
spirits are placed in a ware house,
which he is required to provide, an ad
ditional bond, known as a "ware hous
ing bond,'' is executed for the payment
of the tax upon said spirits.
In addition to this distillers' premises
and apparatus are liable for the tax,
and the Government has first lien
upon the spirits themselves for the tax
due thereon. Until this tax is paid the
Government has custody of the spirits
by its officers in these bonded ware
houses. At the expiration of three
years, or sooner, if the owner desires
possessionland use of the spirits, the
internal revenue tax of niaety cents a
gallon must be paid.
Very respectfully,
JOHN WV. MASON, Commissioner.
A Good Ticket.
This is a year when all sorts of presi
dential tickets will be suggested on all
kinds of platforms. The Southern Cul
tivator proposes the following:
For President:
INDtUSTRY.
For Vice President:
Economy.
Electoral Ticket:
1. Hog, hominy and hay.
2. GJrain and grasses.
3. Cotton and the cereals.
4. Home raised products.
5. Improved labor-saving machin
ery.
6. Intensive culture.
7. Fields terraced and tilled.
8. Improved stock raised at home.
9. Improved public highways.
10. Smaller farms and more thorough
tillage.
11. Homes made more attractive.
Interesting to Ladles.
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A NOTED MAN'S DEATH.
Col. George W, Bushyhead Breathes His
Last.
[Atlanta Journal.1
Col. George W. Bushyhead, a dele
gate to the Baptist convention being
held here, breathed his last at the Pro
vidence Infirmary Tuesday morning.
Col. Bushyhead, as be delighted in
styling himself, was an ex-chief of the
Cherokee Indians of the North Caro
lina reservation. He was a cousin of
the famous Busbyhead, chief of the
Cherokees of the reservation in the In
dian Territory. Col. Busbyhead, after
resigning the position of chief of his
tribe, began preaching and shortly
afterwards was ordained a Baptisr,
minister.
He came to Atlanta three weeks ago
intending to remain here and attend
the Baptist convention. He was stop
ping at a boarding house near the cen
tre of the city. Several days ago he
contracted a severe cold which deve
loped into pneumonia.
Monday afternoon he was removed
to the Providence Infirmary. There
every attention possible was paid him,
but he sank gradually until Tuesday
morning, when he died.
This morning the body of the ex
chief, although with white blood in his
veins, was laid to rest in Southview
cemetery, a colored burial ground south
of the city. No word has been sent to
Bushyhead's relatives of his death.
As he was one of the most prominent
ministers in southwestern North Caro
lina, it is very probable that relatives
will have the body exhumed and
buried decently.
Col. Bushyhead gained his title in
the Confederate army, it is said. When
the-late war began he raised a troop of
infantry, which fought gallantly under
his leadership until the end of that
eventful struggle.
Those who know Col. Bushyhead are
very indignant over the manner in
which his body was used by the city
warden and his burial in a colored
cemetery.
The Eise and Fall of Parties.
[Spartanburg Herald.]
1. The Clinton Democracy, born 1812
and died the same year.
2. The anti-masonic party, born 1826
and though such men as Seward, Fil
more, Woed, Clay and Wilt were iden
tified with it, its existence ceased in
1832.
3. The Liberty party, born in 1840,
died in 1844.
4. The Free Soil or Abolition party,
born in 1848, died in 1852.
5. The Southern State's Rights party,
born in 1852, died the same year.
6. The American or Know Nothing
party, born in 1856, died in 1860.
7. The Liberal Republican party, born
in 1872, died the same year.
8. The Temperance party's birth and
death occurred in 1872.
9. The Labor Reform party came
into and went out of existence in
1872.
10. The American National party was
born in 1875 and died in 1876.
11. The Greenback party was born in
1875 and died in 1980.
12. The Prohibition party as a na
tional party, was born in 1876 and has
been dying a slow death ever since.
13. The national party was born in
1878 and died the same year.
14. The National Liberty party
breathed its first and last breath in
1876.
15. The Greenback Labor party was
born in 1382 and died so quietly that
the exact time of its demise is not
known.
Since the Greenbackers, we have had
an epidemic of new parties. They have
come with promises and promises, rep.
resenting every sentiment and passion
the mind can conceive, but no one has
left its impression upon the body poli
tic, and the T)emocratic party as it
came from the. .ands of its illustrious
founder, Thomas Jefferson, has alone
withstood onslaught of foes, and the
evil designs and treachery of supposed
friends.
That party which is founded on prin
ciples that are undying and dear to the
liberty loving patriots of all climes and
ages, has survived and will survive. It
will dance at the funeral of the so-called
People's party.
CENTRAL's NEW MANAGER.
Capt. "Bunch" McBee Succeeded by George
D. Wadley.
SAVANNA It, May 11.-Capt. V. E.
McBee has been relieved of the posi
tion of general manager of t be Central
Railroad system and succeeded by
George D. Wadley. Capt. McB3ee, it is
understood, will go to the Vanberbilt
roads in New York. Wadley is a son
ot the former president of the Central
road, and has been genra.l manager of
the South Bound road. He is thirty
five years old, and will have charge of
2,000 miles of road.
sate All Around.
[From Puck.)
Teacher-Tommy, you know what I
told you yesterday-that if you didn't
run right home and tell your mother
you had played truant last week I
would give you a good whipping.
Tom my-Yes'm an' I told her.
Teacher-What did she say?
Tommy-She said if I hadn't told
hei-she would have licked me, too.
Large lpumbers of Russian He
brews are settling in New England
towns.