The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 29, 1897, Image 3
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M MINES Of nillE.
Old Stories Revived by Recent Enterprises.
^ FAIR WAY TO BE RE-OPENED.1
/ Gold, Silver and Lead Mines Known '
to the Indians Before the White Men j
Discovered America.
From rumors adoat it seems that the '
gold interests around Troy, Abbeville I
county, are to be developed. Parties
have been prospecting, and assays
made range from $10 to $100. There is !
so doubt about the gold being there, ;
p and many people believe that there are
fortunes for those who will dig. An old I
m miner writing in the Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle, says: I
' 'The Dorn mine was the richest vein
ever discovered in this country, and
the Belknap-Smith mine is toaay one
t of the best paying in the South, and ia !
my opinion there is no reason why
there should not be a thousand just as
good." |
The Dorn mine is at McCormick. !
about live miles from this place. The
first vein was discovered somewhere in
the 50's, and Mr, William Dorn, the
owner, with a few hands and crude
machinery often got out over $1,000
worth of gold in a day. In a few years
the mine yielded more than a million
dollars. Post of the gold was taken
^ from pockets, the last of which was ex- ,
hausted soon after the war. Mr. uorn, i
who had spent his fortune in philan- !
thropic ways and in negro investments,
was then forced to discontinue work, '
and soon died in poverty. The mine is
now owned by Mrs. Cyrus McConniok,
of Chicago. Mr. L. W. Jordan, of
Seneca, ana others,. who so far have
taken no steps towards reopening it j
Experienced miners have said that i
there is still more gold in the mine
than has ever been taken out, and ,
after a heavy rain nuggets of gold ore
I often found in the vicinity.
A man living near McCormick has
supported his family for years by washing
surface ore. Traces of gold have
been found from Little Mountain, six
miles south of Abbeville, to the D<ra
mine, a distance of twenty miles. Sev-1
eral shafts have been sunk near Trov,
and last summer a nuggett which sold
I for $10 was ploughed up on the out- '
skirts of the town. There are several
valuable mines on the Bradley estate
near here, which will be opened at an
early date.
A "Pennsylvania company is now in
possession of the mine at Little Moun- :
tain, where they have placed $20,000 !
worth of machinery.
Tbe Reynolds mine, three miles from
here, which was discontinued on ao- !
count of sulphurets, will soon be re- !
opened. This mine has assayed $100 j
t to the ton.
One of the most valuable veins so far ;
discovered is on the land of Prof. Wil- j
liam McCaslan, of Clinton. The vein
is about two miles this side of Little
Mountain. The ore has assayed very
high, and nuggets as large as grains of
corn have been picked up. With a
crude rocker the ore has yeilded as high
as from $12 to $17 i>er day. Prof. McCaslan's
father refused $20,000 for the
place. Years ago, in an account of his
journey through this section, Prof. La
Borde, of the South Carolina College,
foretold that the mineral spring of
Meriwether county, Georgia, would
I ' claim the attention they now hold, and
at the same time he predicted that the
gold fields of Abbeville county, South
tv An Id cnm a dev vield im
menee fortunes. Experienced miners
say that the gold is here, and all that
is needed i3 capital tc develop it.
Mineral deposits were discovered in
this part of the State by the Spaniards
over three hundred years ago. In 1540
DeSoto, in his search for gold, reached
the capital of the famous territory of
Cofachique, where he found a people
who made their hatchets from an alloy
of gold and copper. The Spanish Governor
was treated with great hospitality
by Xu&lla, the beautiful Indian Queen,
until he had desecrated some of her
sacred moulds.
Ihe Indians refusing to tell where
the gold was obtained, the Spaniards
turned from the land they had so long
sought and proceeded towards the Dahlonega
mines of Georgia. Xualla's capital
was situated at the junction of the I
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.Broad and sav&nnan rivers, aooui niteen
miles from hei e.
All of the early historians of South
' Carolina emphasize the fact that there
are valuable mineral resources iu this
part of the State. Adair tells of a silver
mine which was operated by a gang
of counterfeiters. Logan adds that all
traces of this mine, like many others in
1 the same region, have been lost. Lawson
states that from time i nmemorial
the Indians were acquainted with valuable
mines of gold and silver in upper
Carolina, but they concealed the fact
for fear their lands would be settled by
the whites. Cox tells of a quick silver
mine used by the Indians, the site of
which cannot now be found. Mills
says that as late as 1815 the Indians
were working a very rich silver mine,
the location of which they carefully
concealed from the whites. It is a well
known fact that the Indians mined
their lead son.e^fc're in this region,
and traces of other minerals are frequently
found.
Logan's History of Upper South Carolina,
written in 1859, tells of an ancient
silver mine, which was once
worked, near the site of old Bock
Church, on Coronaka Creek in this
county. Tradition says that it was discovered
by a band who had probably deserted
from De Soto's camp on the Savannah
river. The entire party, except
?nooconf?a/1 Kr tlio fn^innt
who "threw the entire mass of the ao
cursed metal they had raised and melt- 1
ed back into the mine and so restored 1
the spot to its primitive aspect that no
vigilance or skill of civilized men lias
since availed to recover the lost treasure.
The precious secret doubtless
passed away forever with the red
men."
In 1761 when an army under James
Grant, Governor of East Florida, was
brought tip from Charleston it encamped
for a few days in this vicinity. The
surrounding settlers learned from some
of the old soldiers that "the Pointing
Pock, which stood close on the side of
a
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the old Keowee trail, had been noted 1
by the escaped .Spaniards as a landmark '
by which their treasure might once
moro be found. It lay just two miles
east of that rock." *
Logan says that the story of the lost
mine exerted a wonderful influence
upon the eons of the old men of the Coronaka
settlement, who had served in
Governor Grant'6 army, and who can
scarcely be charged with being inordi-1
nately sentimental or romantic.
Early in the present century a com- {
pany, composed of some of the most
practical men in the neighborhood, most
of whom had been Revolutionary sol-1
diers, was organized to search for the ;
lost mine, and since then several other
attempts were made to find it. Logan
concludes:
"lfce oia spa"i8Q mine is yei unais- j
covered. It may be, however, that
when all is forgotten ? when the tradition
itself has aited from the memory
of man, and tho last witness of its influence
upon the minds and imaginations
of our grandfathers is no more?some
fortunate farmer, while enlarging with
enlightened judgment the operations of
his agricultural improvements, deepening
his furrows and lengthening his
ditches, will one day unex|>ecte<ily lay
open the lost mine and treasures of the
Spaniards.
When capital is brought here to develop
the gold mines already discovered
some wonderful revelations may
be made in regard to the mineral resources
of the surrounding country.
HOW TO RAISE SUGAR BEETS.
Some Interesting Facts for Those
Who Will Cultivate the Crop in
South Carolina.
The sugar beet will be tried in South
Carolina this year. There will be a
number of experimental acres in different
parts of the State. There is no
doubt as to the adaptability of our soil
and climate to this crop and some surprising
results will be obtained. The
following from a report of C. W. Chan
cellor, United States consul at Havre,
France, made last July, will be interesting
and instructive to those who will
experiment with the new crop this year:
I "A large acreage of beets is sown annually
in France, and this is not to be
wondered at, seeing that even in unfavorable
seasons the crop pays the farmer
better than wheat or any other agricultural
product. In 1894 more than
1,709.000 acres of land were planted in
beets, giving a total production of 18,400,000
tons of the root, or an average
of nearly 11 tons per acre, worth about
$4 per ton for forage a id the manufacture
of beet sugar. F rom 50 to 60 per
cent, of the beet root raised in France
is manufactured into sugar, the yield
being from 7 to 9 ner cent, of the gross
weight of the root. As to the expense
of manufacturing the best sugar that,
[ of course varies, but it may be computed
at 10 to 12 francs per 100 kilo
prams, 90 cents to $1.15 per 100 pounds.
"The experience of French growers
shows that the expence of cultivating
one acre of beets is as follows: Preparing
the land S3; 5 pounds of seed 50
cents; hand weeding and thinning
$1.25; first working and transplanting
I $1.25; second working $1; gathering
and piling beets jnd tops $3; total $10.
! "There is absolutely ho waste of the
product of beet; every part of the
vegetable is utilized aL ^ rendered valuable.
"The pulp after the juice has been
expressed for sugar is devoured by cattle
and is extremly nourishing. The
leaves and stalks are utilized as food
for cattle and especially when fresh,
not only increase the auimal's fat, but
largely increase the yield of milk in
the cow. The dry leaves and stalks
wnen mixed wua straw auoru exceneut
and -w holesome food during tho -winter
for cattle and sheep.
"Experience in France shows that
all land suitable for wheat may be employed
for the cultivation of beets. It
is necessary to avoid a soil too compact
or containing too much clay. A soil
composed of sand and clay will serve
well for the cultivation of the beet. A
soil too damp is not suitable, because
in this case the rootgains quantity, but
loses in quality. A soil moderately
humid and exposed to th? midday sun
should be preferred.
"Land intended for the cultivation of
the beet should have a soil that can be
ploughed from 9 to 12 inches deep in order
tnat the growing root may easily
penetrate it. It is necessary above all
to avoid land that is shaded by trees
and over which the air cannot circulate
freely.
"In France cow yard manure is
greatly preferred over that of the horse.
A field heavily manured will produce
more beets, but tbe quality or tnesugar
will be in inverse ratio to tlie excess of
manure. Good ground, well manured,
which has been cultivated one or two
years in other crops forms the third
vear an excellent preparation for the
beet, without additional manure. Vegetable
manure is to be preferred for the
reason that an exoess of it will not diminish
the sugar as animal and chemical
manures are likely to do. Ashes,
lime and marl are much used in France.
The seed shdftld be planted the middle
of April, or not later than the end of
that month.
"They should be sown in furrows |
and covered with a harrow or with the
hand to the depth of half an inch or
three-quarters of an inch. When the
weather is warm and favorable, the
ground sufficiently wet and the seed
good and fresh they will sprout in
about eight days; otherwise they may
not germinate for fifteen or twenty
days. The increase of the beet is very
rapid after the first working. Wheu
the plant has about six leaves or more
all plants that are within 8 or 9 inches
should be drawn up and spaces of more
than 15 inches filled with them."
"The crop should be gathered in
September, at which time tne beet has
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"When the ground is soft enough
the root mar be drawn by the stalks
and leaves, but if the ground is hard an
iron instrument is used. After the
beet is drawn it is left on the ground
for a day to dry, then the stalks and
leaves are cut off and the beet put in a
secure, dry place. They may thus be
kept several months if kept dry and
warm, and free from frost"
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Short Palmetto Stories Put Into
Paragraphs for the Fireside.
MYER'S SENTENCE COMMUTED.
Beer Privileges?New Liquor Commissioner
Takes Churge--Failed to
Get It?Murderers Caught.
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Wednesday of last week Governor EIlerbe
beard all the parties interested in
the case of Frank Myers, the negro who
was under sentence to pay the death
penalty for incendiarism in Gergetown.
Solicitor Wilson, who has been working
in Myers' behalf, and the owner of the
Durneu property, aiong wun sererni
others, who wished to see the negro
hanged, made statements before the
Governor. At the hearing it wits developed
that the chief confession which
the negro is said to have made, was
wrung from him while his captors had
a rope around his neck to intimidate
him. When Governor Ellerbe announced
some time ago that he would
not interfere nothing was known of this.
He is convinced now that had this fact
been presented to the jury at the trial,
a verdict with recommendation to
mercy would have been rendered.
Taking this view of the case he promptly
commuted the unfortunate negro's
sentence to life imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
Superintendent of Education May- .
field and Col. J. W. Floyd, who went
? \'ew YnrV Viava a rnnf*retipe with I
the trustees of the Slater fund iu the effort
to seoure for the oolored State College
that portion of the fund which is
given to the colored people in this State,
failed in the object of their visit They
say the Slater trustees do not feel disposed
to take away from private institutions
any funds now allowed them
until they get upon a self-sustaining
basis. \v hen Claflin gets on suoh a basis
it is very likely that the fund will
be applied to the State college. The
Slater trustees do not usually receive
delegations in regard to such matters,
bnt the courtesy of a hearing was accorded
to Messrs. May field and Floyd
owing to the fact that they represented
ed the State. The members asked a
great many questions about the condition
of educational affairs in this State
and expressed much surprise at lhe I
statement that the college had begun
its first session with 1,100 students enrolled.
The State says though Gen. Hugh
Farley is sick, he dees not propose to
let the work which he has undertaken,
that of completing the Confederate rolls
suffer. His brother, Mr. L. E. Farley,
is in Columbia to push to a finish the
general's work. He intends to do so
vigorously and for that purpose will
have an office in the State House.
There he can be found by anyone interested
in the rolls. To expeaiate matters
he desires that the rolls outstanding
in the possesion of gentlemen who
are revising them be returned to him
immediately. He already has a number
of these valuable documents about
completed and if the others are returned
as he desires, he will soon finish all
of them.
Mr. Vance, the new Strte liquor commissioner,
taken charge of the State
dispensary last week. His bond was a
very strong personal one and not the
usual surety company paper, which was
signed and approved by the Governor.
\l. Tnkn T float. tk a a at
liU WW VUU A. VIOOIVU? IUU AOVUAUK ?Vfcing
commissioner, was presented with
an exceedingly handsome gold-headed,
ebony walking cane by the employes of
the dispensary, and in return he responded
in a neat speeoh. Mr. Gaston
will remain in Columbia and go into
the insuranoe business temporarily
with Mr. B. B. Evans.
A special from Fayetteville, N. C..
says:' 'The three negroes who murderea
two Italian pedlers near Kingstree.
were arrested here by Chief of "Police
Flowers and are being held for the
sheriff of Williamsburg county. Their
names are John Hayes, Cary Hicks and
Ham Owen, and they claim to know
nothing of the murder."
Tuesday of last week W. P. T. Bowlev.
of Greenville, who some months
ago was tried and convicted of manslaughter
for the killing of Gus Tanner,
while under the influence of liquoy, entered
the State penitentiary to bqgin a
term of two years. He says that after
serving the term he will start life over
anew.
The State board of examiners will
hold Another important meeting soon.
It has been called for May 7. There
will be several questions bearing upon
the recent teachers'examination for adjudication,
and the matter of the scholarships
in the State eduouti~nal institutions
will be dealt with.
The secretary of State has granted a
charter to the R. P. Searson Drug
company of Allendale, Barnwell
county. The directors and officers are
R. P. Searson, president and treasurer;
J. D. Ellis, A. S. Abial, J. B. Searson
and J. E. Searson, secretary.
The question of granting beer privileges
by the State Board of Control,
which has been agitated so much
recently, promises to oe settled finally
one way or the other at the next meeting
of the State Board, which will be
held the first Tuesday (4th) of May.
Corn is said to be getting scarce
around Pickens. One of the merchants
put the price up to CO oents, but there
has not yet been a rush of the commodity
to the market.
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A military company, composed of thirty-four
young man, has been formed at
Abbeville, and is known as the "Abbe
ville Volunteers.
Mr. N. O. Pyles has been ap]x>inted
night clerk at the postofflce in Columbia,
to succeed young Black recently
discharged for defalcations.
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The Malouey Directory Company at
Atlanta, Cia., are at work getting up a
new city directory of Columbia.
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WEEKLY CHOP BULLETIN
Of the South Carolina Climate and
Crop fervice.
The weekly Climate and Crop Service
Bulletin for the week ending April
11th, as issued 1?v Observer Bauer, is
as follows:
The rainfall during the week was
light over the entire State, and fell in
scattered showers. At quite a number
of places no rain fell during the week.
The heaviest weekly rainfall reported
was 0.(59 at Greenvi le. Twenty-two
places reported some rain, the average
amount being 0.10, and the normal for
the week is approximately 0.82 ?of an
inch. Ifain is needed to briar up
freshly planted cotton and for gardens,
also to soften the crust on heavy lauds
thut were, until recently, too wet to
cultivate and which baked in drying.
| The light rains did not interfere with
faim work, which was uninter|
ruptod during the entire week.
i There was more sunshine than
during auy previous week of the
season.
The nights were too cool for the best
i growth of crops, especially cotton and
. corn, which in consequence are reported
sickly in places but generally are
growing nicely.
| Corn planting made rapid progress
i during the week and is nearing completion
in the more easterly counties,
aud central portions of the btate, where
the early planted is coming up to good
stands; but stands are damaged in the
southeastern counties by cut and bud
worms and by birds, which are reportl
o<l von? (rnnhlpsnmo riAcessi^jitinir con
siderable replanting. In the western
counties corn planting is well under
way, and early planted i9 coming up.
Cotton planting is now general over
the entire t.tnte, and about two-thirds
finished in the eastern jwrtions.
Jn the tobacco districts plants are
fine and plentiful and setting out tobacco
is in advance of last year.
Wheat, cats and rye are growing rapidly
and looking very promising, but
need rain in places. Kye is heading
over the eastern and central counties.
Sweet potatoes coming up in beds.
Irish potatoes doing well but need rain.
Potato bugs have appeared in Charleston
County, but are not as numerous as
at this time last year.
Reports concerning peaches are mora
favorable generally than last week, and
unless injured hereafter promise a fair
crop. Aisles and pears still in bloom
and apparently unharmed.
Gardens growing slowly but are
yielding early vegetables over the
greater portion of the .State. Trucking
interests need rain and warm weather
ior best growth.
Favorable rei>orts were received conI
nil fKo nvinnr Arnnc nrnollv Mil.
tivated at this season of the year. The
feeling of discouragement has disappeared
and farmers .ire pushng their
work with energy.
HELD FOR FORGERY.
Got. Ellerbe Ha* a Charleston
Lawyer Arrested.
Gov EJlerbe, after making considerable
effort, has succeeded in having W.
E. Klein, an attorney practicing at the
Charleston bar, arrested on the serious
! charge of forgery. So far the governor
says something over lfl,800 in forgeries
I have been traced np and laid at the
door of Mr. Klein. It appears that he
is charged with forging the signature of
the master of Chiirleston county to certain
certificates to direct tax claims
sent here during the administration
of Gov. Evans. Upon the forged
certificates the money was ordered
paid to him. Tk e affidavit is made by
Mr. W. Gibbes Whaley, master of
Charleston county, (iovernor JUieroe
was informed that Klein had gone to
Birmingham and he had wired there
asking the authorities to arrest and hold
him.
Wednesday he received a dispatch
from Magistrate R, C. Gilchrist, of
Charleston stating that Klein was in
his custody, but that he had not
committed him as he was getting bondsmen.
Governor Ellerbe found the case open
when he came into the offioe.
The matter has been talked over
during Governor Evan's admistration,
but nothing was done aside
from efforts being made to compromise
it.
It seems that as stated above, the
master has to sign certain certificates
in the matter of these direct tax claims
whio had to be sent on to' the governor
befo. e the money was paid
out to anyone. The certificates,
which were shown to Master Whaley,
and pronounced to be forgeries
so far as his signature was concerned,
were carefully examined and are being
held as evidence. A short time
ago Gov. Ellerbe sent for Mr. Whaley
and about ten days ago he made the
proper affidavit and the warrant for
Klein's arrest was issued. Gov. Ellerbe
last night stated that he had traced
up already forgeries amounting to $1,
800 and he didn't know how much more
he would iind.
The Governor, in speaking of this
particular case to a representative of the
State, said that he proposed to push it
to the end. He also took occasion to
say that all State or county officials
who fall short in their aocounts under
his administration, Ct who may have
already been short, may as well understand
now and at once that thev cannot
expect any mercy from him. He stated
emphatically that he proposed to have
every such case that was brought to
light prosecuted to the full extent of
the law, and no compromise must be
expected by anyone.?The State, April
22nd.
The figures of tlie losses by fire, month
by month, during the years 1804, 1S95
and 1S!XJ are published, those of December
last alone being estimated. The agereent,?
i In Hue ISflri were ?1?S
r? ,,v,v
24U.400: during 1?>4. S129.S3U.700. and
$115,29.">.riOO during ISflO. The. losses
the past year from June to December
show a large falling off compared with
the same months during the previous
years, but the estimates for December
are in excess of the losses of that month
during the two preceding years. The
loss by lire during these years is about
equal to the receipts of the treasury for
customs, and more than one-third of
the receipts of all the railroads in the
country after paying operating expenses.
This is a large amount of money
to charge off mainly to carelessness
and recklessness. i
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Representative McLaurvi's Recent
Speech Attracts Attention.
FIGURES THAT MAKE FRIENDS.
The Strong Showing Astonishes the
North ond Greatly Gratifies the
South.
The Xew York Sun, of a recent date,
tays:
The lil e *1 opportunities for general
lebatc allowed at the present session
if CongTess, have been improved by
Kepre tentative John L. McLaurin, of
I South Carolina, with some interestnsr
emarks about the part of the country
!rom which he comes.
Dr. Depew h?.s described the South
is a region of vast, untouched forests
ind coal and iron veins, favored by
health conditions unparalled and "the
best c imate in the world." Mr. McLaurin,
coming to particulars, finds
183,000,000 acres of unbroken forests in
the South, with pine, walnut, oak,
chei:-y, cypress, hickory and other
woods; enormous stores of granite,
marble and sandstone; phosphate rock
in wonderful abundance; and in some
places, as he learns, coal, iron, ore and
limestone close together in the same
range, "a coidition that exists nowhere
else in the world."
Lust year's cotton crop of the South
was 9,837.1)00 bales, or 82 per cent, of
the whole world's production, and
"brought more money from abroad
than all other agricultural products
combined." The total cotton production
since 1790, at its price in gold each
year, is reckoned at 31-*?,000,000,000?
in exacter figures, $14,908,588,480. The
exports alone for a century, or since
1785, have brought us $10,400,000,000.
Lastyear the South produced 729,892,501
pounds of sugar, 87,617,076 gallons
of molasses, and 168.665.440 pounds of
rice, although of each of these articles
far more was imported.
Manufactures are growing enormously
at the South. According to
Gon. Longstreet, their products doubled
ia value between 1880 and 1890,
while the wages of factory hai.ds nearly
trippled, as aid also the capital invested
in cotton manufacturing. But, what
is very remarkable, that capita', according
tc the general, has already nearly
doubled since 1800, being about $120,300,000
now to $61,100,000 then. In
1880 the cottonseed oil capital was
?3,500,000, and now it is over $30,000,300;
in 1880 the South made 397,000 tons
of pig iron, and in 1895 it made 1,702,880
tons; in 1890 its coal output was
t>,000,000 tons. Low cost of labor,
freedom from strikes, nearness to the
cotton fields; and low taxes all favor
th9 mills of the Sonth.
Congressman Lovering, of Massachusetts,
himself a manufacturer, with large
interests in the South, gave like testimony
in his recent speech on the tariff!
Within two years the South's addition
of spindles, he said, had been 882,746,
1 C nnl.. UTt OOQ
auu <.icw i^u^iauu o uuij \j i i j iw?U) vuo
form T being an increase of 89 per cent,
and tie latter of G$. "If I were asked
where in all our con?try was to be
found, the best planned, best ordered,
and test equipped mill running in low
numters, and at the best profit, L would
point to South Carolina."
Then the people of the South, says
Mr. McLaurin, "are religiously inclined,
and churches are found everywhere.
" Their educational facilities
. will appear to visitors from other parts
1 of the country "not disappointing, and
their standard cf morals fully up to the
average." The land titles are perfect
and the taxes enviably low.
Bnl; of the favored State of South
Carolina Mr. McLaurin particularly
speaks. In 1890 Mr. Z. J. Drake,' of
Marlboro county won a prize of $1,000
offered for the largest yield by gathering
2o5^ bushels of corn from one acre,
the amount looks large, but he did it
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uy geiung iwu crops, piauung me utb*
bo that by the time it matured he had a
s cond ready to cultivate between the
rows. "I have myself," says Mr. McLaurin,
1 'made a crop of oats, cut them
offthalstof June, planted corn and
peas, and thus harvested three crops
the same season from the same land. I
have also made a fair crop of cotton after
wheat and rye." On another prize .
stimnlus, year before last, Mr. J. C.
Fletcher, from 100 acres; produced at
mark Bt prices, $3,726.45 worth of farm .
prodtiots, ranging from forty-eight
bales of cotton to 400 dozen eggs.
In 1893 South Carolina raised 80,388,805
pounds of rice, or about one- 1
fourth of the whole country's product, !
29,261,422 bushels of corn, 4.707,821 of !
oats, 1,732,824 of wheat, 747,471 bales '
of cotton, 222,298 pounds of tobacco, j
besides rye, potatoes and so on. Apricots,
chefries, olives pomegranates and 1
many other fruits are raised in abund- J
ance. There are 10,000,000 acres of '
yellow pine alone, and the turpentine J
stills turn out an annual product of $3,- '
000,000. The gum, magnolia, syca- '
more, ash and other trees are well \
known. Beautitul building stones and '
tine clays and ochres are also among '
South Carolina's treasures, while her !
bone fertilizers, in deposits sometimes
a foot thick, and with 500 to 1,000 tons
to the acre, are declared to be the rich- .
est on the continent. j
Of spine les there are more than a mil- j
lion at work in the State, their capital *
of $12,000,000 to $15,000,600 being drawn k
from the North and East. Of Colum- c
bio's four cotton mills, one, the Gran- )
by, was built in a cotton field, and inclosed
a natch from which cotton was
picked while the brick walls were going
up. That was minimizing the distance
between crop and mill.
Pointing his moral, Mr. McLaurin
says that the South asks a fair share of
consideration for her interests in the
current tariff bill, and also \4hnts
Northern thrift and capital to enlarge
material interests. "Are we not of the
same great national family, an integral
factor of the same great nation?" certainly
he has set forth with enthusiasm
what the South has accomplished thus
far. ,
Rugby?Our landlady Is one of the
most expert calculators In town. Wllkins?
Is she? Rugby?Yep. We had
beans for dinner to-day. and she asked
me how many I would have.?Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Report of the Proceedings from Day
to Day.
SENATE.
Monday.?The Senate passed the Indian
appropriation bill. It is substantially
the same as it passed the House.
Vest, of Missouri, returned to the question
which caused the recent tariff skirmish
and re-introduced his resolution
declaring illegal the recent order of the
Secretary of the Treasury, relative to
goods arriving after April 1 last. Vest
said he would call up the resolution
Tuesday. Morgan endeavored to take
up the Cuban resolution, but at 1:05 on
motion of Davis, the Senate went into
executive session on the arbitration
treaty, and at 2:13 adjourned as a mark
of respect to the late Representative
Milliken.
Tuesday.?Senator Morgan's resolution,
declaring that a state of war exist! \
in Cuba, was discussed briefly and then
went over for a week. The agriculture
bill was taken up and passed without
amendment.
Wednesday.?In the Senate, Mason,
the new Senator from Illinois, made
his maiden speech and sharply criticised
the Senate's way of doing business,
or rather of not doing it, but it
never amounted to anything. Chandler
(Rep.), of New Hampshire, offered
a concurrent resolution for an adjournment
of the Senate and House from.
April 26 to Mav 8, with a view of participating
in the Grant ceremonies at
New York, but by a resolution of Turpie
(Dem.), of Indiana, it went over.
The bankruptcy bill will be taken up
Thursday, but before, adjournment it
was agreed to omit corporations from
the bill. '
Thursday.?The session of the Senate
was one of the most eventful since
Congress assembled. It opened with a
proposition for an official expression of
svmpathy to the Greeks in their straggle
with Turkey. This soon merged
into a turbulent debate over the disorganized
state of the Senate, daring
which Senator Morgan characteizea
Speaker Reed as the "great white lllibusterer."
The Nelson bankruptcy
bill was passed by the decisive vote of
49 to 8. Allen, of Nebraska, offered
the resolution providing that the ohief
executive express the sympathy of
the American people to the government
of Greece. The resolution
was referred. The following
Senators were named as a committee
to participate in the Grant ceremonies:
Piatt, of New York; Murphy,
Foraker, Cullom, Cockrell, Prootor,
Walthall, Shoup, Sewell, Gray, Butler,
Warren Faulkner and Burrows. On
the announcement of the death of Represenative
Holman, the Senate adjourned
as a mark of respect, the adjournment
being until next Monday. <
HOUSE.
Wednesday. ?In the House Mr. Conden,
chaplain, offered thanks that this -f-._
nation is at peace with the others anff j
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prayea inai nigner ana nouer iqpuioaiv^
than war mignt prevail everrudfcere.*! , *
He also prayed for the friends of ^epre^r, _' t
sentative Milliken, of Maine, who died'
Sunday, after which SpeakexReed announced
the appointment of the committee
to attend the funeral.
Thursday.?The House adopted a ^
special order for the consideration ol X"'
the Senate amendment of the India*? '
appropriation bill. Bailey and his iol- i
lowers joined with the Republicans on
this proposition, after the specia order
had been modified so as fo! cover
the appropriation tyyps; Blaid, ol
Missouri, protested yigorcusly against
the course, but onlyshad a following ol
twenty-four, not enqugh to get a second
vote. The Senate amendments of minor
importance were concurred in except
the removing of the Indian supply depot
from Chicago to Omaha. The
amendment relative to the opening of
the Uncompaghre reservation was not
acted upon While it was being
debated, the d<3ath of Judge Holman
was announced The usual resolutions
were adopted sod * committee of ten
appointed to accompany the remains to
their final resting place. As a farther
mark of respect, the House adjourned.
Friday.?The House completed the
consideration of the Senate amendment ^
to the Indian appropriation bill and
sent the bill to conferenoe. A resolution
was adopted by which a committee
oi tweniy-nve, 01 wnicn we opeaaer,
by tho terms of the resolution, vm
chairman, was appointed to attend the
dedication of the Grant tomb in New
York on Tuesday, and the House agreed
to a program of three-day adjournments
for next week.
FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS
An Important Discussion Affecting
Some Prominent Lawyers.
The Supreme Court has just rendered
in important decision in reference to
contempt proceedings in this State.
Several months ago the Palmetto
Brewery, in Charleston, which has a
special permit under the dispensary
law, got into financial troubles and the
two opposing parties of stockholders
ind creditors applied to the United
States and State courts for a receivership.
.Judge Simouton, of the United
States court, appointed one receiver,
ind Judge Benet. of the State Court,
mother. Asa matter of fact tho United
States receiver was the first in posseslion
of the property, but Judge Benet
ippointed another. Several lawyers in
:erested went to the United States
Jourt and made legal motions to uplet
the -order of Judge Benet. Ths
udge then ruled them for contempt of
lis court, and fined and debarred them
onnnolml fn a
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supreme Court of the State, which desides
against Judge Benet,I^JJing that
he lawyers, in the exerjfl^of their
irofessional duties, had s fjBict Tight
o go to the United Statedflyurt, es>ecially
as some of their clIRts lnterssted
had been ruled to appear m that
sourt Some of the most promihent
awyers of Charleston and of the State
eere affected by the order of injunctior,
ind the decision of the court is considired
a great victory for the bar.
A war device which has been indorsed
>y the Austrian Government Is a flying
nachine, designed to carry destruction
nto the camp of the enemy. It will
lustain a weight of from forty to fifty
)ouuds at a distance of 1,500 feet above
he earth. Directly under the balloon
s the flying apparatus and beneath this
s a small torpedo. The latter also con- - '
ains an automatic arrangement which
vill explode the balloon at a given
into and send down a shower of dyunnlte.
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