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LO0W eral *ur :E-.,egant jI)OiVL D5 Dress Goods Deparlp, Fanicy Novelties. yd. wide 3S in wide asht eres ar w~orth 25c. 3G in. Trico. FlanneP - - 7re Ey 16 NEWERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTBER 81 194. PRICE $1.5 A YEAR BilkHeurie"-iTjITq F D 18~650it J1iU iX U, V J~ L J~, ~ ~ aL,'~- J ** ____ -_11TON IN EIGHT DU~CADIF-1. How the Revenue and Financial Systems effect the Price. ior the Atlabta Constitution.1 Persons unacquainted with the his tory of t he prices of.cotton will be ex cused for saying, present prices are wita out precedent. Those so unacquainted might include the expert in Lne price and quantity of cottoti, for if one does *not search for the history he will likely not know it. Therefore, I think it important that this should be known. In this, as in nearly everything, we cannot understand the present and predict the probabilities of the future, unless we knQw the past. The marra tive I shall make will no doubt astonish the overwhelming majority of the present generation-even -of intelligent men. In March, 1886, short staple cotton was worth 17 cents per pound. It sud denly took a decline until in a short while it got down to 6 cents per pound. The lower grades touched four cents and-there were trinsactions at 3 and a fraction. That cotton should ever have been as high as 17 cents per pound will surprise many, and it will be more bur prising whet% I say I found among the papers in a law-suit where an ex eetor bad charged himself with 20 cents a poudd. so'd in 1819. Sad to say from 1837 to the summer of 1849 cotton sold at 6. cents. It was only occasionally it would jump up to 7 and perhaps to 8 cents, and just as quickly recede. It will be perceived that for twelve long years cotton ruled at prices that it cost to make it and even less. In plantation and slavery times.it was the estimate of the cotton planters that it cost 6 cents to make cotton, and this where the planter owned his labor and his land. Henee, unlss cotton brought 8 cents there was no piofit in growing it. The peiiod I speak of was one of awful financial dis tress. It was during the presidential campaign of 1840, and defeated Martin Van Buren for his second term, for the people could. not help thinking it was the fault of his administraton. The times would have defeated any party in power. Georgia, although generally --Demoerstic Stat,, went against Van Buren by 8,000 majority, but at the e -y next election elected the Demo cra;ie candidate for governor, Charles I. McDonald, by more than four thous and. All things considered, the times now aremot near as hard as they were dur ing the years mentioned. It is now felt aliost entirely by the laboring classes, or those who have to depend upon their personal exertions for a liv ing. Then everybody felt it, and none as much as the property owner. Dur ing the "fiush times" large indebted ness was contracted. Judgments for large amounts were rendered against a very large per cent of the population, the banks failed in every direction and lurge_properties, both real and personal, were sacrificed under the sheriff's ham mer. Aevertheless, wheat, corn and bacon commanded good prices. Now the man wao-getsx only low wages can buy near ly everything he needs at lower prices t n ever before. Wheat is even cheap er than corn and sugar is to be had at twice as much for a dollar than the price ii bore at the time I write of. Wearing apparel ano the fabrics neces sary to mane them are lower than ever. Then property shrank in value much more than -ow. A man slave worth $1,000 would se!! at sheriff's sale-at from $200 to $3u0. and lands and plan tations in proportion. To escape the Impending calamity some of our rich planters abandoned their lands and ran away with their slaves and live stock to Texas. Texas was then the inde pendent Lone Star State. Persons to -escape the penalties of crime, also ran away to Texas, and the State was large ly popalated by those who had run away from the States for debt or crime. These were so numerous that that ele ment was a factor in politics. It did not hurt a man if he went to Texas to keep from paying his debts. One run away planter I can recall was made governor of the State, and a run-away lawyer was made United States Sena tor, and a grand man he p oved him self to be. Before he held office he remitted back to the States the amount of his indebtedness. Now, what was the cause of this stringency, and as connected with it the low price of cotton? Liverpool con trolled the price of cotton then, as now -that is, if it is true that Liverpool is the only factor in the price of cotton. But then, as now, there was trouble in the United States growing out of the tariff and our financial system. As to tariff, we were living under the comn '--- promise of 1832, whbich was a high tar 1ffcompared with that of 1840, under which cotton went as high 12 cents per * pound and hardly ever fell belo* 10 cents. We were all feeling the effects of our change from the United States bank to what was called the "national bank system" by President Jackson, * and the establishment of what was called the "independent treasury sys tem," in 1837, under Van Buren's ad ministration. It seems from this that the tariff and the financial systems are imp'ortant fac tors in the price of cotton. It also seems that the price of cotton is an important . factor in the prosperity of the people. How it is I do not know. I only state facts. The present low price of cotton comes wi en the McKinley tariff has been in force, and when silver has been demonetized, and when that demone tization has been intensified by the re 'peal of the obligation to coin so much silver every month under what is called the Sherman law. It is not possible that the two have run cotton down, although "Liverpool controls the price?" If cotton was run down, when the tariff and currency were as they were before, may not that begabfm portant factor in the low.gueeof cotton ~although Lwrpool controls the _- tur9Eere~l, 'what I have written is more for:the encouragement of our peo pie than to discuss the questions. We Shave seen that although cotton ruled * from 4 to 7 cents-mostly 6-for twelve * years, afterwards it ruled from 10 to 12 eents. It surely will advance again unless the supply should continuously largely exceed the demand. This is improbable, because cotton is constant ly extending itself to other foreign nations and is being more and more used as a substitute for wool, silk and flax. It will be perceived that chronologi cally the increase in the price of cotton in 1849 was after the tariff of 1848 had had time to have its effect, and after the independent treasury system had had time to show its effects. Since then we had the long war, and since the war the tinkering on both the tariff and currency by congress. I will close by relating an interest ing episode of the rise of cotton in 1849 within my own knowledge. WVhen thbe news came in July or Augusit t.hat * ntenn had gne up to 9 cents, where it had not been In twelve years, I was at the Indian Spring. Also was there Governor Troup. He was a resident of Laurens County and a large cotton planter, having several plantations. There would be quite a company sur round the ex-governor at intervals in what we then called the piazza, now the veranda, to hear him talk. He was a very interesting talker, and knew the inside history of many important events that had taken place at Wash ington city which he would relate. The glorious news of the rise in cotton c-me during one of those conventions. 'Well," says the governor, "it comes at a C od time for me. I have two crops on hand, besides the one grow ing." General Hartwell H. Tarver was present, who was a larger planter than the governor, his plantations, being in Twiggs and Baker, but the general was always a reacher out for more lands and slaves, and did not hold his cotton. He sprang up from his chair as sudden as could be, and said: "By the eternals, I always said you were the wisest man in Georgia." There is no doubt we have fallen upon "hard times," and the future looks dark, but in this, as in other things, I take consolation from the good :Id wife who had a disconso late husiand who could see nothing but disaster in the future. She would console him by sayiog: "Never miad, old man; somehow we will get along." I have conldence that "somehow we will get along." RICHABD H. CLARK. Atlanta, Ga., October 20, 1894. HARD TIMES FIFTY YEARS AGO. The reminiscent'article from the pen of Judge Richard H. Clark, which we print in another place, has a two-fold interest. It not only recalls the memo ries of the past, but has a tendency to encourage those who are disposed to take a disconsolate and hopeless view of the hard times that are now upon us. The moral of it lies in this-that no matter how hard the times are peo ple will get along somehow. In their entirety-in their large results-events coutinue to be shaped, as in the days of the prophets, by a hand that is mightier than any human force, by a ruler that is wiser than presidents and Congresses; and in some way or other, and in good time, that mighty hand will lead this people out of the troubles and difficulties that are so burdensome now. There is immense consolation in this for those who are inclined to take a rational view of human affairs. When all is said and done we come at last to the truth that lies at the bottom of the well of bitter waters: Man pro poses but God disposes; and all troubles and hardships shape themselves to his inevitable purposes in the end. Historically, Judge Clark's article is as interesting and as timely as any thing we have ever printed. He re calls the financial troubles and tariff agitation of fifty years ago, and to those factors ascribes the low .rices and hard times that prevailed. In 1837, cotton, which had been selling for 17 cents and even 20 cents a pound, began suddenly to decline and for more than ten years ruled at 6 cents--sometimes falling to 4 and less aud sometimes. going a little above. What was the cause? If any imnar tial student will examine the fi.a. ial history of those years, he will be struck by the fact that the same cause that produced low prices and hard times from 1837 to 1849 is active in producing then now-namely, the contraction of the money supply. This contraction was due partly to natural causes and partly to artificial causes. The natu ral causes were the gradual exhaustion of the gold and silver mines of the world, and the relatively small addi tions that were made~ to the stock of gold and silver-the money of final payment. The artificial causes con sisted in the efforts of the United States bank and its branches to embarrass Andrew Jackson, who, with the people of the country behind him, was en deavoring to abolish the institution. The bank finally fell, but it had man aged to obtain so much influence that it. was able to contract the circulating medium of thbe country, and thus injure the best interests of the people. We present here a little table show ing the highest and lowest prices of cotton in New York city from 1837 to 1850, inclusive. The figures are official: Highest Lowest. 1837....................7 7 1838..................22 9 1839................. 16 1 1840................-. 1841.................. 1842............... 9 1843....................... 1844..............-... 1845...................~ 1846............ ............ 1847.................. 188........ 8 5 1849..................11 6 It will be observed that tbe tendency of the price of cotton -was steadily downward until it reached 5 cents in New York, talling to 4cents and below in the Southern markets. During the fourteen years covered by the table the country, ab we have said, was suffering from the efforts of the United States bank to embarrass the Jackson admin istration, and the results of these ef forts, owing to the derangement of our currency system, lapped over into other administrations. Tjariff agitation was at a higher pitch than it has since been. Legislation on both the finances and the tariff, was in an ex perimental shape, and there was great confusion and doubt among business men, to whbich may be added the clamor of extreme partisanship fanned by the friends and enemies of Jackson. This was another cause of currency contraction that hel ped the hard times along. In 1834 the ratio between the two money. metils was changed from 5 ei to 16 to 1 by reducing the mount of gold in the coins of that metal. Silver was thus undervalued, and even our legal tender silver was exported to France where the owner could command a profit of half an ounce in sixteen. This denuded the country of its small currency. But in *1848 the gold discoveries in California were made, and by 1850 the immense deposits there found had largely added to our stock of money and prices rose in response to the much needed expansion. Our readers will thank Judge Clark for his timely and interesting' letter. Relief is sure to come somehow and from somewhere, and we ought to be thankful that the hard times are no worse. We ought to be especially thank ful that the people of Georgia and the South are in a much better condition to stand the wear and tear and strain of financial depression than those of other sections. Whbile it is true that we have no vast accumulations of wealth here, it is equally true that we have no serious aggregations of poverty. The experi ences that bard times accustom the people to will enable them to resist some of the evils that accompany large prosprity. IRBY'S DEFIANC. OF TRUTH. An Unscrupolous Falsification of the Atti tude of the Democratic Party in this State in Regard to the Constitutional Convention. [Special to News and Courier.1 COLUMBIA. October 23.-Chairman Irby owns up to the corn about the Constitutional Convention tickets to night, as his correspondence with Chairman Seignious shows. The cor respondence is self-explanatory. Chair man Seignious wrote: . CHARLESTO1 October22, 1894. Hon. J. L. M. Irby, Chairman State Democratic Executive Committee, Co lumbia, S. C.-Dear Sir: The tickets sent us for the general election, upon being examined here I find, show none printed for Constitutional Convention. "No."' Kindly inform me if such is an oversight., or an intentional doing by your instructions, as I wish to know so that I can determine my course of ac tion. Yours respectfully, JAMES M. SEIGNIOUS. Chairman County Democratic Exe cutive Committee. And Chairman Irby replied: COLUMBIA, October 23, 1894. To Hon. Jas. M. Seignious, Cbair man County Democratic Executive Committee, Charleston, S. C -Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of the 22nd instant in reference to the fact that you have no tickets printed "Constitu tional Convention, No," I beg to say that Mr. Calvo, who has charge of printing the tickets for tile Demociatic party of this State, acted under my orders, and I alone am responsible for the absence of tickets against the Con stitutional Convention. The State Convention of the Demo cratic party unanimously adopted a platform urging the Democrats of the State to vote for the calling of a Consti tutional Convention and thereby com mitted the party to it. I as the Chair man of the Executive Committee of the party am only carrying out the will of that Covention by providing for its success in the coming general election. I have no right to expend the money of the party for printing tickets other than with the names of its candidates and with "Constitutional Convention, Yes." This Constitutional Convention is being opposed by Republicans and Independents, enemies of the Demo cratic organization, led by three promi nent daily papers, '1 be News and Courier, The State and The Greenville News, w ho have abundant facilities for preparing and furnishing tickets. Our tickets were sent out aeveral days ago, and no effort at concealment-bas been made of our position in this matter. Abundant time has been given these dailies to print their own tickets. Very respectfully, Your obedientservant, J. L. M. IRjy, State Chairman. This is what has been known for some time. A. K. Drowning of T. C. Gower, a Prominent Citizen of Greenville. [Special to News and Courier.] GREENVILLE, S. C., October 23.-A telegram received here to-day from Capt. 0. P. Mills, of this city, dated at Brevard, N. C., brought the news that T. C. Gower, of this city, was drowned this morning while bathing in the French Broad River. Mr. Gower was. 73 years old, but a man of remarkable vigor of body and mind. He owned a beautiful place in tbe French Broad Valley. His horne ran down to the river and be was pas sionately devoted to swimming, having often remarked that the water could never get too cold for him. He went from here to his summer place last Monday, accompadied by (Capt. Mills. Probably he left Capt. Mills at the house and went to the river for a final plunge, as he was to have returned bere to-morrow. It is known he went alone and the theory was that 'he was taken.with cramp. The body was re covered. A. G. Gower, a son of the deceased, sarted from her over the mountains this afternoon carrying a casket and an undertaker. The -deceased was one of the most prominent men of this city. Greenville is filled with monuments of his public spirit and energy, and he probably did more to build and develop the city than any other one man. He was a native of Maine bbtt came here fifty odd years ago. He was a leader in establhshing the Greenville coach factory, built the Main street bridge over Reedy River, established the street car line and city ware house, and purchased land for Springwood cemetery, was a leader in building the beautiful Washingtou Presbyterian church and creating the system of graded sohools. In fact there is hardly an improvement or enterprise in the city indvbich he did not have a prmiinent ahd active part. He was a volunteer in the Confeder ate army and remained in service throughout the war. He was aide on the staft of Gen. S. S. Crittenden, of the United Confederate Veterans. At the time of his death he was a member of three firms actively in business here, besides being president of the Green ville Street Railway and Ware House Company, activevy interested In lime works at Gafi ney City and having other enterprises in operation. He owned and rented out more than one hundred houses in this city. His estate will probably realize from $50,000 to S75,000, and he is thougrht to have carried a large life insurance. Two policies, al ready known, amount to $15,000. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. His widow and seven chil dren survive him. Superintendent Crosswell, of the Southern Express Company, and Capt. 0. P. Mills, presi dent of the Greenville Fertilizer Works, married his daughters,and Frank Ham mond, president of the People's Bank, of this city, is his nephew. The body will be brought over the mountains by private conveyance and buried here. News of the accidentI caused a profound sensation and un.iver sal sorrow here. Mrs. Gower is a cousin of Governor Tillman. South Carolina's Needs. An infallible head-a .Pope. A cure for Tillmania--Dr. Ebpe. A strong man to smash the rings Sampson Pope. Vox Pop. When Others Fail Hood's Sarsaparilla build up the shatd. tered system bying vigorous action to the digestive organs, creating an ap-' petite and purifying the blood. It s* prepared by modern methods, possesses the greatest curative powers, and has the most wonderful record of actual cures of any medicine in existence. Take only Hood's. Hood's Pills are pirely vegetable, and do not purge, pain or gripe. 25c. A COMBINE IN COTON. The Matter Proposed to the Southern Farm ere-John T. Roddey, of New York, Mover in the Scheme. COLUMBIA, S. C., October 24.-The State will print to-morrow the follow ing from John T. Roddey, member of the New York Cotton Exchange, and a son of a wealthy South Carolinian. He has for some time been advocating some concerted action by Southern farmers. To the Tbinking Farmers of the South:-For the past two years I have made cotton commissions my business, and daily have I witnessed the down ward tendency of your product. If you will think for a moment you will realize that, though you are the producers of this country, and should be the most independent, yet you are the most de pendent people of America. Whv? Because they are combinations on near ly every article you use. The manufac turers of the North combine on every thing, and say what it shall bring, while you,sell your products for what ever they ire willing to pay you. Why cannot you protect your cotton in the same way. I should like,. if it meets your approval, to organize a trust )m 1any called the Southern Farmers' T'rust Company, for the purpose of protecting your products from the de pressing induence of speculators, spin ners and capitalists, and provide a means by which you can name the price for your products, instead of having the price dictated to you, as is now the cere. I feel satisfied this can be done by forming a trust which would be able to handle most of the cotton you grow. Let the capital stock be -50.000,003 to $100,000,000, subscribed entirely by the farmera of the South, and divided into as- many shapes as may be necessary, and small enough for every cotton planter to subscribe. Let each farmer take stock to his ut most capacity, and support the Trust in every possible way. In case you re ceive 10 cents for your cotton, instesed of 5 cents, which you are now receiv ing, y-u save on a crop of 8,000,000 bales about $2.000 000, at least twice as much as the capital stock of the Trust Com pany. In case speculators should be come frightened, even at the mention of a trust, and advance the price of cot to, so much the better for you, but very likely they would attempt to bluff you. I think it is now time to act. What benefits the farmer or laborer unquestionably benefits all classes. If such a plan should meet your approval I would be more than glad to meet a representative cotton grower from each State or Alliance, either in New York or in some Southern city, to see if something cannot be done to bring about some benefit to the South,. Some thing must be done, or your lands will not be worth cultivating. (Signed) JOHN T. RODDEY. A MEETING CALLED TO DISCUSS THE CAUSE THAT LED TO THE DEPRES SION. [Special to Atlanta Constitution.] HUNTSVILLE, Alabama October 23. Hector D.- Lane, commissioner of agri culture of Alabama, issued a call to-day for a meeting of Southern cotton grow ers, to convene at Montgomery. Ala., November 13th, to discuss the causes leading to the present depressed condi tion of the cotton market. The call be gins as follows: "To the Cotton Growers: It is a mat ter of the utmost importauce to the far mers of the South that the reports now being sent out by cotton manipulators should be refuted. That the present low pr ices are based upon fictitious re ports no intelligent man doubts; that the 'private estimate' sent, out from New Orleans to the effect that the pre sent cotton crop would exceed 10,000,000 bales has had a depressing tendency is generally admitted, although not sup ported by any previous statistics or predicate to go upon, but an unpreced ented delivery up to date, whieb argu ment can he answered with the undeni able fact that we have the most propi tious season ever known for gathering the staple throughout the entire cotton belt. I vouchsafe the prediction that if th4 same weather continues two weeks longer that every bale of cotton grown in Alaama can be gathered. "Mfy calculations are bassed upon personal observations, having traveled tbrough North Alabama by private conveyance for the la-st ten days, and value is enhanced by the well-known fact that cotton raised in that section is about the last to mature." He then urges the farmers to bold as much of their cotton as possible with out detriment to their creditors, and holds that it will be advantageous to all concerned ultimately. He concedes that the resolutions without action are valueless, but cites the farmers' can gress held at Memphis, January, 1892, which decreased the acreage that year, and consequently gave the farmers good prices for their cotton. His prin cipal fight will be upon false estimates snt out by the cotton exchanges and cities and thbe 10,000,000-bale estimate recently sent from New Orleans, marked "private." The cottoa interests of the South, be holds, can only be pro tected by concerted action. The call closed with the following pointed remarks: "Now, in view of the meeting named and the imperative demand upon the Southern farmer t.o undertake protec tive measures along these lines, I in voke the assistance of the press of the South in calling a meeting of the cot ton aisers at Montgomery, Ala., Tues day, November 13, 1894. By that time I will have gathered the, official sta tistics through the agricultiral bureaus tat they may be presented publicly, not privately, for the benefit of those interested. I hope all farmers who are able to do so without doing an injustice to creditors, will hold their cotton un til after the meeting, where we can deliberate over the situation and de vise some means to give 'a fight to the finis.' inviting the hearty co-opera tion o)f the press and asking that the farmers will give this important mat ter a consideration and send intelligent representatives at the time and place named." Coin Annnclatior. [ New York Weekly.] Inventor-I'v'e hit a money-miak ing thing at last. The preachers will go crazy over it, and it will sell like bot, cakes. It's a church contribution SFriend-What good, Etha?* s.Inventor-It's a triumph. The coins fllttrough slots of differentsizes, and alfdolars, halves, quarters, and dimes land on velvet but the nickles and pennies d1rop onto a Chinese gong. While thorough in action kyer's Pills strengthen rather thanistitaulate tbe excretory organs. Leading ph cians recommend them because t GOOD FOR "BUNCH" McBEE. He is Made General Superintendent of Transportation of the Seaboard Air Line System-Abilty and True Worth Flat teringly Recognized-A Popular Railroad Man' rspecial to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA. October 2-5.-Genial and popular "Bunch" McBee, wbo has a reputation as a railroad m%n that. is universally recognized by the ablest railroad managers of this country, bas just been appointed to the best position I 7ne has ever beld, which, in view of the notable places he has so ably filled, is saying a great deal. He was appointed 1 to the position of general superinten- I dent of transportation of the entire Sea board Air Line system, one of the most important systems of railroads in this i section of country, extending from i Portsmouth, Va., to Atlanta, Ga., and I what is more the position is a new one just created. The Seaboard Air Line people were I evidently anxious to secure the services I of so able a railroad manager as Col. McBee and the position was no doubt created in order to get him. Col. Mc Bee has been in Florida for several < days. He was notified by wire .of his appointment and was summoned to Atlanta. Col. McB , will leave to- E morrow morning for that city. The circular announcing the creation of the office and Col. McBee's appointment has not yet been issued, and to-night Col. McBee himself does I not even know when he is to take I charge of the system. He will doubt- i less proceed to inspect the roads of the I system at once and organize his de partment. Col. McBee will be next in authority I to the general manager. One of the I principal roads of the system over I which Col. McBee will assume control f is the Georgia, Carolina and Northern, t which has a total mileage of 274.3 miles, I of .which 136.52 is in this State. This t road being a portion of the main line touching many points in this State, and c having every port facility at Ports- I mouth and Norfolk, is already largely t used by our people. Col. McBee, being I so popular personally throughout South and North Carolina, will doubtless greatly increase the freight business of the system f-om competitive points. When Col. McBee, upon the Rich mond and Danville linesgoing into the Southern system, resigned his position as general superintendent of the roads of that system in North and South Carolina the prediction was made that it would not be long before his ability as a railroad man would be recognized in a substantial way by some other leading road. Consequently while his scores of friends will congratulate him on his appointment, none will be sur prised. Col.' McBee will make his bead- t quarters in Atlanta. klis many friends in the State, and particularly in Colum bia, will regret that he will have to leave his native State. He has been identified more completely perhaps than any other man with the old Rich- 1 mond and Danville lines (now the Southern) in South Carolir'a, and it is I a little strange to see him with a com peting system. He came here first as supeiintendent. after having been in charge of the North Carolina roads in 1884. Then he went for a while to take charge of the Central of Georgia. Then he earne back to the Western North Carolina, and some years ago returned here as general siperintendent of the North and bouth Carolina roads of the Ricb moud and Danville systern. THUOsE JUNE BUGS ONCE MORE. It is the New County Government that is Wrong Now.] [Special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, October 23.-They say that the county government bill, about whbich so much has been said, will have to undergo a series of repairs before it can be used to advantage. The more, the bill is studied and the nearer the I time for the law to .go into effect the more ragged is the bill found to be. A county commissioner who has been identithed with such work for a num-] b,er of years, says that the new system is much more cumbersome and costly than that now in use. He says that there is good ground work in the pro posed system, but that it is excessively crude and will have to be materially changed before it can be used to ad vantage. Under the present system for this county, by way of illustration, the three commissioners are paid a sal ary of $900 and nileage. Under the new law the one supervisor will receive that salary, and the chairmen of the I township boards have to be paid in ad dition. In the first instance he says that the boards of assessors, who are paid nothing, do not now do the workt that is expected of them and that there is no more reason why the boards pro- < vided for in the new law should do any work for the glory of it. In some coun ties there are few townships and that1 makes the chairman of the board have a large territory to cover, and he will not. be likely to do that amount of work for the small salary he will re- I ceive, and in the counties where there I are a great many townships there will be considerable ext'a 'ost, as each of thbe chairmen receive per diem. The first thing to be done, the commis sioner said, was to provide for a con tract system of working the roads. He insists that the present system, as well as anything like it, is wrong. Gover nor Tillman will very probably take up the new county bill-in his next message] to the Legislatare. DARLINGTON DEMOCRATS. 4 A Strong Ticket in Opposition to the Re form Primary N(ominations. [Special to The State.]i -DARLINGToN, October 22~ -A meet-] ing of the Democrats of our county was called about two weeks ago to nominate a full county ticket in oppo sition to the "Reform" primary nom inations. The meeting was held on< time to-day, and was well attended. Delegates from every township in the< county were present. The personr'el of of the convention wa's a great su 'prise to one acquainted with the delegates,J and a glance around the hall showed thatl something like a revolution had] recently taken place. The body was< most emphatically a strong one and they most emphatically meant busi-i ness. There were strong and represen tative men from every section of our county. A full county ticket was nominalted. Not Hitting. LFrom the Cincinnati Tribune.] "I hear that you were missing all sday Saturday." "Missing? I was out hunting." "Yes, thatMs what I heard." IRBY BACKED DOWN. Would'nt Bet Anything on His Boast Says Pope-The Doctor Confident and Happy and Talking Big Figures. [The State.] Dr. Sampson Pope, the independent D,emocratic candidate for Governor, re turned to the city yesterday. Doctor Pope is more hopeful than ever of suc aess in the coming election. He talked most hopefully last evening. The doc ,or's manner -indicates that what he ays is not bragging, but that there is real foundations for his hopes. When Doctor Pope was-asked last 3ignt if he had seen in The State what Senator Irby had said about hise candi lacy and strength he said: "Yes, and I was amused. The colo sel is a politician right; he believes in inderrating his adversary's strength; .hat card will not win this time. The people have caught on to his ticket. Some days ago, if I have been correct y informed, a friend of mine offered to )et him a suit of clothes (the colonel )ets hats and clothes sometimes) that [ would get nearly four times what 7otes he gives me, and backed him town. Telling me about it, I told him ie ought have offered to bet on 60,000. [t would be much better if he would ay how many votes the ring candidate will get. "'The people are aroused all over the 5tate. The trick of not furnishing no' convention tickets, after saying hat he would do so, has lost him .0,000 votes in the State. . I have fur iished them, and they will be voted, md the convention will be defeated." "What are your chances of success?" "They are growing brighter and righter every day, and I will beat the ing from ten to twenty thousand otes in the State. There need be no ear about a fair count, this is an elec ion between white man and white nan, and my friends are posted and letermined to have a fair election. kny tampering with the voters will ertainly get people into trouble. We ,now our rights and dare to 'defend hem at any cost." )R. POPE COMPLETES THE DISTRIBU TION OF HIS TICKETS. [The State, 25th.] Dr. Sampson Pope is still here at his eadquarters. He has been hard at vork for the past ten days distributing is own and "no convention" tickets u every county in the State. He has iow, he says, about completed this rork, and has odly a few thousand nore tickets to send out to thoroughly 'plaster" the State. There was talk on the streets last ight of a probable scheme which! hose who opposed the proposed onstitutional convention will have o carefully guard against in the lection. It is not unlikely that all hese tickets against a convention and or Dr. 'Pope many never reach the tands of those who wish them, even fter they have once been placed at the olls. Attention is called to an old rick of having men ou hand when the >olls. first open, who will go up one fter another, take big handfuls of the ickets desired to be lacking, walk away vith them and destroy them, mak-ing way with practically all of them by be time the voter who wishes them nmes to vote. No one has said that his trick will be worked, but it will be rell to guard against it. Edg# field ChroDicIes. LIFrom the Chronicle.[ L.N HONORED VISITOR. Our fair young friend, Miss Agnes iridin, of Perry, G. orgia, formerly >f Edgefield, is visiting her aunt, drs. Orlando Sheppard. We envy 7eorgia this lovely character-this are treasure, for abe is indeed a 'bright and particular star." iOTON IN 1848. Mr. Eppes Norris has sent us a cen ios old bill, where Bradley & Good yn, cotton buyers of Columbia, >ought of Nathan Norris, November, 846, five halea of cotton, weighing 339 ~39, 3.59, 346, 304, .346-1679 lbs.-at 4.90 -total cash, paid in full, $81.94. Mr. Rathan Norris was Mr.. Eppes Norris' ~reat uncle. Cotton, therefore, reacheed lower figure in 1848 than it has ever -eached since. ~AS'NT BOUeHT. IL has been reported, indeed -pub ished, that Gov. Tillman has bought a mome on the Ridge. So far as we know, his is not yet true. Gov. Tillman, we iear, wishes very much to buy a home n that beautiful country, as he will iever again, probably, live on the old lace near Roper's Store. )EATH OF MISS SAVANNAH SALTER. This very estimable Christian lady, 1 well known and so universally es memed, departed this life 'mnder the oo of her relative Mr. Dock Crouch, >n Saturday last, and was buried on he day following at Johnston-laid eside the aged mother whom she atched and nursed so faithfully rough so many long and weary years. rhis fact, even apart from the general enor of her useful life, stamped Miss 3avannah Salter as a noble woman. She has now found rest and peace. MAYBIN-KIRELAND. Iarriage of Popular Young People in Co lambia-The Groom a Newberrian. [Register, 25th.] The nuptials of Miss Lizzie C. Kirk and, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. J. M. Krkland, of this city, and J. A. May un, of Maybinton, Newberry County, were solemnized at 2.30 o'clock yester ay afternoon at the home of the ride's parents, corner of Sumter and ['aylor streets. A large number of friends of the con mting parties were present and wit essed the pretty ceremony, performed n the beautifully decorated parlor by Rev. John A. Porter. There were no groomsmen, but the ~ollowing young ladies acted as brides aids: Miss Lillie Maybin, of New erry; Miss Fannie Chappell, of this xonty; Miss Lula McGrorey, of Fair ield, and Miss Sallie Hayne McMeekin, >f Fairfield. The bride was attired In a handsome ;raveling costume of blue fabric de Pae, tailor finish. A large number of usefal and costly resents were received by the young ouple from friends. A fter the ceremony the guests were nvited to partake of an eltganely pre pared din ner in honor of the event. A t 4 20 o'clock in the afternoon Mr. nd Mrs. Maybin left on the Atlantic coast Line train for a.trip to Florence d other places. They carried with them the best wishes of a legion of warm friends and admirers. The groom is one of the most pros perous young farmers of Newberry County, and the bride is a yonng lady who has been a favorite in a large cir ele of friends and popular with all who CATARRHAL DYSPEPSIA. A Discouraged Invalid Restored to Health and Happiness. Catarrh of the stomach causes a con dition known ss dyspepsia or indiges tion. It usally results from catarrh in the throat, but sometimes occurs in people who have never had catarrh elsewhere. Thle symptoms of dyspep sia are: liver complaint, biliousness, sour stomach, water-brash, bloating after eating, constipation, piles, and, in mauy eases, low spirits, dizzy-head, sympathetic heait palpitation, pain, indig. stion, and looseness of the bow els. Pe-ru-na and Maq-a-lin, taken according to directions on the bottle, will cure every one. The following is a specimen of the letters received from patients: 0. S. M. McQuillan, Spring Hill; Iowa, writes: "Four years ago last fall my stomach, without any previous warning, refused to perform its func tions, and I soon lost strength. During this time food was forced through my stomach by using cathartics. With flesh wasted away, strength exhausted so that it took away all my energy to even get into a bath tub, hopes all gone, I began to take Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin, following free advice wbich Dr. Hartman gave me. In a short time I could eat nourishing food, and the piles, kidney trouble and consti pation disappeared. Flesh, strength, and a splendid appetite returned I went work." For treatise on catarrh, eoughs, colds, consumption, and l climatic diseases Df winter, send for Family Physician No. 2. Address The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. A BIG RAID. ne Thousand Dollars' Worth of Liquor Captured in Columbia. [Columbia Journal, 24th.] Thirteen barrels of whiskey and orty dozen botcles of beer were seized by ConstableFant this morning and bauled to the county jil. Twenty cents a gallon reward offered by Governor Tillman for information is to where the liquor was stored proved too much for somebody, who told the place of the storage of the whiskey,-is the opinion of everybody. The 'liquor was found in a little ware ouse in the rear of M. L. Kinard*s Imporium. Of course it cannot be said to whoi the liquor belongs as no one has laid ,laim to it. On the end of one barrel was "E. C. Grieshaber," and on seve ral of the others was the letter "G." The total amount was about 499 allons of whiskey. One person present this morning at the time of the seizure offered two dollars a allon for the whiskey and thirteen ollars a barrel for the beer. This would make the value of the seizure to be about $1,050. A POPULAR ROUTE TO FLORIDA. rhe Excellent Vestibuled Through Fast Trains of the F. C. & P. It will not be long now, it can be ;tated on excellent authority, before rwe the finest through vest ibuled trains that ever ran through any section of this country will be flying via Colum bia every day all the way from Jersey City to Jacksonville, Fla. The winter travel from North to South will soon begin in dead earnest, and the Southern Railway, Florida, Central and Peninsular combination intend to handle the business as they have never attempted to do before. The intention of the combination is to put on two magnificent yes ibuted trains running out of Washington, one coming just ahead of the other and going via Atlanta to News Orleans. The other is the one in which this part of the country is concerned. It will come straight through to Columbia where the Florda, Central and Penin sular will takeit and rush iton through to Jacksonville. The trains will be exactly alike. They will be vestibuled all the way through. They will be composed of Pullman par lor scars, sleeping cars, dining cars, smoking cars and last of all, observa tion cars. This flyer will be a limited train and will run on the fastest schedule ever attempted on the roads named. It is expected that they will be put on some time before December!1. The fiyer will pass Columbia about 11 a. m. A change of schedule on these roads, preliminary to the putting on of these trains, will probably be made about the first of November. Hall's .Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re newer has restored gray hair to its original color and prevented baldness in thousands of cases. It will do so to you. _________ DEATH OF A NEGRO WONDER. John Saily, the Black Boy Who Enew History by Heart. [Special to News and Courier.1 BAMBERG, S. C., October 19.-A remarkable negro boy named Joh.1 Sally died here last Thursdag. He knew history, both ancient and modern, by heart. It seemed almost impossible to "stump" him on any question. He seemed to retain every,~ thing he read. He has had offers from Northerners to travel for exhibition, and it ts said that one Northerner offered to educate him, but he declined all offers. Sally went to school only a few months. He possessed a wonder ful memory and his marvellous ac quirements were gained by home study. He was also an excellent math ematician. Office of J. F. GR CER, CorN~TY JUDGE. GREEN CovE SPRINGs. (L.&Y Co., FLA., May 23d, 1891. G;entlem.en: Twentythree years ago I was attacked with lilamatory rheumatism. I was at ended by the most eminent physicians in the land. I visited the great Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and the noted Bot springs of Arkan sas. and many other watering nlaces, and always consulting with 'the local physician for directions. final'y came to Florida ten bout two years ago I had a severe attack of rheumatism, was coniled to my r. om for twelve weeks and during the time I was in. duced to try P. P. P., (Prickly Ash, Poke oot.and Potassium). knowing that each in gredent was gcod for Impurities of the blood, after usinrh two small bottles I wa relieved; at four different times since ? have had slight attacks and 1 have each ti.ae taken two small botte-: of P. P. P., and been re lieved, and I1 consider it the best medicine of its kind. Respectfull , GREER. R HEUMATISM. Is emphatically a blood disorder caused by inability of the kidneys to throw off certain poisons which accumulate in the tissues about the joints and muscles. P. P. P., very simple, quickly and surely cures this disease ne trahzing impurities ini the blood. Experience and science both en dorse P. P. P., as the only infallible blood purifer known. 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