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' S? I ;? i ?a. -. ;> raSC WATCHMAN. ?v*t:tlt?:?hed ;? , IS)!?. ; Just and Fear not-Let al! the Ends thou Aims't at. eo thy Country's, thy God's and Trutr. SUMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, .JULY 27. 1887. :::: ;: ;?: s< \ ? ? * i V St?tktan m j?oii? jjrai ? 6 Jtblishe?. SYcry STe?nes&ay, E . OK OSTEEN, S. G. tskms : Two Dollars per an du tri?i a advance. advertisements. Oofc Square, first insertion.$1 00 ?fery subsequent insertion. 50 Oratatele tot three months, or longer wili i be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged fot. Absolutely Pure, This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinar.? kinds, and can ftot be sold in competition with the multitude Vf low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAK ING POWDER CO., 106 W:i!i->t.. N. F. ELY'S dream Baimi Gives Relief at once and Cure* COLD h ESAS, CATARRH, ^Not a Liquid \ Sriujf or Powder Fre?f iront Injuri out Drugs and of fart* odors. HAY-FEVER A p?f?c?e of the Balm is applied into each nostril, is agreeable to use and is quickly ab sorbed, effectually cleansing the nasal passa ges of catarrhal virus, causing healthy secre tions. . It allavs pain and inSammaticr.. protects toe membranal linings of the head from addi tional colds, completely heais the sores and restores the sense of taste and smeli. Bene ficial results are realized by a few app?canons. 4 A Thorough Treatment ???'? Car-:. Price 50 cents at draggisi ; by m ?i. regis tered, 6C? cents. Circulars sent ::ee. . . ELT BROTHERS. Druggists. Jan. 13 Oweso. . . A SPECIFIC . M ENSTRUATION or ONTELY SICKNESS. If taken during the C1IA3T0E OP LITE, great Bflgjneand danger win be avoided. JST'Sei? 'or jOOk ** SLxssags to Woau?," mailed free. 8A Eegtxatok Co., Atlanta, Ga. INSURANCE LICENSE. State of South Carolina. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, OmCB OP COMPTROLLER GENERAL, COLUMBIA, S. C Jane?, 1337. ICERTIFY THAT Messrs. E. C. GREEN *SON, of Sumter, Agents of the STAUNTON LIFE INSURANCE CO M PA KT, incorporated by the State of Virginia bes complied with the requisitions of the Act of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to regulate the Agencies of Insurance Companies not incorporated in the State of South Carolina," and I hereby license the said Messrs. E. C Green a Son, Ageors afore said, to take risks and transact all business of Insurance in this State, ia the Counties of Ciereodon and Sumter, for and ia behalf of Said Company. Expires March 31st, 1838. W. E. STONEY, June 15. Comptroller General. Messrs. J. N. SPANN and JOHN S. RICH ARDSON, Jr., will act as soliciting agents for Stan Eton Life Association for Surr.ter County. E. C. GREEN & SoN. SUMTER PALACE IGE DREAM SALOON!! Cake & Confectionery Establishment, j a the Monaghan building, opposite Dr. j DeLorme's Drug Stori-/ MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C. Choice Cream, S he Act, Cakes. Crack- ! ers. Biscuits, Candies, Bon Bons, and Other Good Things Alicays on Hand. -also. Seda Water, Sarsapan'u.a, Ginger Ale, Cakes* Candies, Biscuit*, <Lc, Received Fresh Weekly. ? patronage of the ladies and the public ? generally, is- respectfully solicited, also the j people of the surround ing townships, to whom j we extend a cordial invitatioo to visi: us j when they come to town. j Ho trouble to show goods : polite attention i paid-to all who call. Respectfully. } JuAROUSSEfJE R J2 &. CO. 1 Jone . ! BIBLES AND TEST?MEN i Vi FINE' ASSORTMENT OF BIB and Testaments, iu large print at Stn k Store, kept by W. G. KENNEDY. 2.Doors North of John Reid THIS PAPER rls^onlKeiuPl??ia??cltk??a '. ! a? the Xi-svspapi-r A?iv.-r ? _ ._ _Tls?mr Awn?-v of 3i.-ssr? ? 1 lUMf* AVER* SOM, our authorized asenta | n?r THE HAMMOCK. ?n the hammock idly swinging 'Neath the cool, umbrageous trees: Flitting wild birds round mesiugiug. Fanned by every passing breeze, I wcuid lie and dream away This long, golden summer day. O'er the bay proud ships are sailing. Drifting out towards the sea, Where the fierce, wild waves are wailing* And the billows bounding free! Swelling onward, evermore. To a distant, foreign shore I But as.I go swinging, swinging, Thro' the perfumed laden air, And the songs of birds are singing? Breezes blowiog thro' my hair? I care not for swelling waves, Xor for shores thai ocean laves. Here read, and dream, and tarry Tili the golden sun sinks low ; And the twilight, like a fairy. Flits where tangled daisies grow. Lighting up with pink and gold Placid bay and mountain bold. Faint the distani church bell ringeth, And its echo dies away Where the robin red-breast singeth His sweet song at the break of day I Still I linger till the iight Pales and vanishes in night ! E'en tiil Heaven's lamps are lighted, And tbe?ckle, round-faced moon Hath its beams with stars united la the gloom of twilight's swoon, ? would thus swing to ana fro, In the evening's Heaven-lit glow ! ?Evelyn Kimlall Johnson. The Inter-State Encamp ment. As the weather cleared up, the crowd increased iti size, so that oa the second day of the Encampment the estimated cumber present was over 6,000. North Carolina was well represented, there being preseut farmers from Folk, Henderson and Rutherford counties. Most of these are encamped out in the groves that surround the Farmers' City. They brought with them ail their do mestic impedimenta and prepared for a stay of indefinite length, if necessary. There was also a large increase in the attendance from ali parts of this State, and especially from Charleston and the low-country, there being prominent and representative planters from all the sea islands, Berkeley, Barnweil, Hampton and Colieton counties. There was a big crush under the pa vilion when the usual morning meeting was called to order. All the seats were occupied, and the crowd overflowed iu all directions beyond the limits of the building. The Hon. J. M. Walker presided over the exercises, which were opened with prayer by the Kev. J. M. Re?d. Among the distinguished guests at the encampment, other than those previously noted, were the Hon. J. J. Hemphill and Superintendent of Educa tion J. IT. Rice, who were invited to seats upon the stsge. ma s:'Ei?c::es. The Crst address as the morning ses sion was delivered by State Chemist PhilHn iu. Guazo? ou tue subject gener ally of the o?ieial inspection o? fertiliz ers?the principies which underlie it and the practica: ?ii??cu!?es which stand iu lue way of a recognition o: its value oy ine farmer. The second address was delivered by Col. A. P. Butler, State Connuissuer of Agriculture, who prefaced hi* re marks by congratulating the Grange upon the success of 'this great meet ing.' He said that it had probably surpassed in numbers and in work of practical value to planters any similar gathering that has ever been held in South Carolina- lie considered the present success of the Kucampment the mo>t convincing proof of its permanence as an institution. Col. Butler's ad dress was devoted to the discussion of the bars to the progress the farmer. He denied that the farmers of the State are being impoverished by anything emanting from the executive, legislative, or jadicU! branches of the State Gov ernment, and that if there was anv tbing that it could be promptly removed. Summing up. Col. Butler suggested a3 ? remedies for present difficulties the j diversity of crops, the practice of rigid economy, the improvement of the ten ant system, more independence of fac tors and merchants, intelligent use of commercial fertilizers, improved meth ods of agriculture, and the use of im proved implements. The next address was that of the Hon. D. F. Duncan, who regretted the absence of Col. Lipscotub, who was, as he said, the originator of and prime mover in the enterprise. President Duncan's speech was devoted princi pally to a discussion of the best meth ods of educating farmers and farmers' children. After the above address closed there wa3 a stock show, and the State agricul tural exhibit occupied the attention of the visitors until the afternoon session. , Governor Richardson attended the meeting and was of course called upon ; for a speech. He was introduced feli- \ citiously by Mr. N. F. Walker, upon | which Governor Richardson responded, ! congratulating the State Grange unon the splendid attendance and expressing the hope that with each returning Kn campmcnt its proportions would in- ? crease, and that the fanners, of whom he was proud to be one. would receive iu coming years the full benefits of the j enterprise. [Applause.] The Hon. J. J. Hemphill, in re sponse to a call, delivered a humorous and taking little speech, which was | repeatedly cheered and applauded. Secretary Ludwig, of the North Car olina State Grange, addressed the meet ing ou the subject of what the North Carolina State Grange was doing. OTHER FEATURES? The feature of the outdoor sports on Wednesday was the opening game of the base ball tournament between the Oraogeburgs and the Spartans. The game was witnessed by about four hun dred persons, all of whom were com fortably seated on the grami stand. J The following were batteries: Orange burg, Kittrel, pitcher : Light foot, catch- I or Spartan burg, Thompson and Smith, pitchers: Ilaminett, catcher: ! Kittrell struck out eight men. Smith ! f;ur. Thompson three. The game re- I suited in a victory for Ocacgeburg by i a score of 9 to 7. Official scorer,! ? . Umtire, Jennings. The result of the glass tall tourna- i ment was favor of the Xovhecry \ tram. The scores and the comr-cting ; ? O j s?ubs are as follows: Newberry, Z'? ; j Walterboro, 32; Glenn Springs, SO : ? j Spartan burg ?o. 1, 20; Spartanburg, No. 2, 29. The three prizes were: I Newberry, $50 ; Waiterboro, ?30 ; Glenn Springs, ?20. THE MILITARY PRILL. The first brigade drill was command- j ed by Gen. llichbourg, Capt. E. Bacon officer or the day. The following companies participated : Sumter Guards, Edisto Rifles, Fort I Motte Guards, Greenville Guards, But ler Guards, the Morgan Rifles and Newberry Rifles. The parade was witnessed by a very large concourse, and was performed in a manner creditable to the military of this State. An inspection of the Mor gan Rifles was held by Adjt Gen. Bon ham. Among the exhibits of machinery which were placed in position Wednes day were the Eagle Screw bailing press of F. W. Wagener & Co., Charleston, S. C. ; Wood's harvesting machinery, of Havsick Falls, N. Y.t and the exhi bit of the Fiedmont wagon factory, of Hickory, N. C. LADIES IN UNIFORM. A very interesting feature of the En campment was the kirmess and flag drill at the courthouse, given under the auspices of the Helen Chalmers Liter ary Association. The court room was a scene of brilliant decoration. The booths were presided over by young ladies a various national costumes. The attendance was particularly large, as the affair was given for the benefit of Spartanburg's favorites, the Morgan Rifles. The flag drill was executed by the following young ladies as sponsors J for the companies: Sumter Guards, Miss Ernestine Heintish ; Fort Motte Guards, Miss Reina Allen ; Morgan Rifles, Miss Nellie Elford ; Butler Guards, Miss Fannie Blake ; Greenville Guards, Miss H. Emerson ; Manning Guards, Miss Clarice Co?ton ; Edisto Rifles. Miss Mildred Thompson ; Lau rens Guards,. Miss Carrie McMakin ; Newberry Rifles, Miss Helen McMakin ; Richland Volunteers, Miss Bessie Means; North Carolina troops, Miss Sady Hardy ; South Carolina, Miss Helen Russell ; Georgia, Miss E. B. Chase. The flag company was under command of Capt. E. Bacon, the uniform being a blue skirt and body with white trimmings, and black felt hats with black plumes. The evolutions of their gallant military sisters were largely cheered by the various compauies pres ent. It is estimated with every show of reason that fully 10,000 people passed through the streets of the Farmers' City on Thursday. Certainly there appears to be no limit to the energy j displayed by the farming classes in the ! endeavor to at least visit the Eucamp I meat. There are instances of men. ! women and children who walked from i tn'eea to iwentv miles during the night j to reach the city. Taking ine Encamp-; ; ment ali in ali, is something novel i:> j j South Carolina- and some of the old j ! men say it has been the ?:st time in < ! this State that a succeda; effort has ! i been made to attract and held together ! iOrsuc:: a ieng?L: : time so many ::?;*u \ sanas o? tue raren n-g class. inore is, indeed, no lolling how long the multi j tudes will remain in camp, for they have come well provided for any emer gency. The woods around the city arc j alive with men, women and children, i some of them having found aceomrno j dations in the wagons and others sleep I ing out under the open sky, which for j the past two days has been particularly j favorable. THE LAST DAYS. I As to the character of the crowd it is. ; possibly the most most motley that has ever come together in South Carolina, j All classes are represented and the vis j itor can see almost everybody from the : Governor of the State to the bootblack j from, the neighboring rivai city. The plain country girl and the belles of Gaffney City, Laurens, Union, Spar tanburg, Greenville and other centres of fashion are to be found indiscrimi nately mised in the crush at the art gallery, or in the pavilion, or in the State building. rooms, or in the inter State booth of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, where iced waters and tracts are dispeused with equal lib erality. This booth, by the way, is one j of the prettiest structures on the j grounds and was erected under the di rection of Mrs. W. K. Blake, the pres ident of the local union. The morning session began at 10 o'clock, President Duncan iu the chair. This day had been devoted to the exer cises of the State Agricultural and Me chanical Society. The* president in vited all the farmers to visit the fair next fall. An instructive essay was read by Mr. John F. Townscnd, the well knowu stock raiser and cottou planter of Edisto Island, on the future of the sea islauds. A great many of the points made were ail of a revelation to the up-country farm j ers. The next address was by Mr. E. T. Stackhouse, of Marion, on experiments with the cottou plant. The deduction j being that the farmer who makes a liv i i?g at home, and makes cottou a sur plus crop, is generally solid and safe. ; Then came an interesting discussion of the (juestiou whether it pays the farta 1 er to substitute cotton seed meal for his I cotton seed as a fertilizer. Among the sneakers were Chancellor Johnson, of Marion, Messrs. M. h. Donaldson, of Greenville, Ilolleymau, of Orangeburg, and W. Jennings, of Berkeley, who maintaiued the negative of the (juestiou. The affirmative wae unsuccessfully ar gued by Mr. Petcrkin, of Orangeburg. This inauguration of general debate has been looked upou by ?hp- promo ters of the enterprise here as the begin in g of the practical school work and education of the farmer, and Will be de veloped with wonderful results at future encampments. Col: W. I). Kvans. of Marlboro, read a jva per on the dutv of f:;e farmer as a eitV-n a: i r.s a legislator. Mr. D, K. Norris, v: Anderen, discussed in a very able paper the necessitv of diversi fied agriculture, ^penmen: s with the corn plant, by Mr. B. {?'. L'erry, of : Greenville, coa tai ned maiiy ?.ugge^liye j points a:;;! brought about another ex- ' penen ce meeting, ine uoo'.uus Oeing Capt. ij. Petty, o? S parta burg, :?les.s?*?. I (,\ Dixoa and . McBee, of Greenville, ? C. Turner, of Spartanburg, and li. T. Hawley, of Darlington. The session closed with an excellent and humorous speech by Col. J. G. McKissick, of Union. Friday was "Governor's Day.'' The opening address being made by Govern or Richardson. Among the other auV dresses was one on the subject of signal service in its bearings on agriculture, by Capt. K. Graham, of the U. S. Sig nal Service. Camp was broken and the military companies returned home Saturday. ?9 I - Inaugural Address. Delivered by the B.on. D. P. Dun can at the Pariners' Encamp ment. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : I have the honor, in the name of all citizens of Spartanburg county, to bid you a warm welcome to this Encamp ment. We sincerely hope that the deliber ations and discussions which will oc cupy the days of your sojourn here may be marked by great good to all who participate and to all who wit ness your labors. May your gather ing be accompanied in its influence and practical results with the largest amount of intelligent information and exposition in the arts and work of that great science which you repre sent. Upon this all growth and pros perity rest. Always the largest contributor to the happiness of the people at home, agriculture has made this, the great est of republics, renowned abruad ior its contributions to the sustenance and comfort of the millions of other lands. If the pursuit of knowledge, the labors of the workshop, the whirl of the factory wheels, the busy industries and com mercial interests by land and sea, lag and languish, it is only because thn valleys are not covered over with corn, because Inore is no fatness ie the pastures, because the cattle do not rejoice upon the hills aud the earth fails to yield her increase. We are the more rejoiced on this occasion because of the evidence we have of the awakening and awakened interest in your avocation, which now seems to be taking in importance pre cedence of all other questions. How shall the largest intelligence and the most reliable experimental knowledge be invoked and enforced in behalf of tending this garden of earth, which was delivered to the first farmer of creation with the command to keep and dress it?a proposition not now, indeed older than ali others, and yet, strange to say, it has now less of in telligence, pressing and push than any if those things which com mand the time and talents of men. While it is true that the agriculture of tin's extensive country is conduct ed on a scale unknown in ancient ur in modern times, vet in these im por taut departments of'knowledge we are singularly deficient. other field holds ont a more inviting prospect to the dilige::! and the enterprising, a ! jile-woik which may iiil the noblest ; ambition. There is no closed door tu i the followers of this art. As illustra ted from the davs of George Wash ingtou down to the success of the the poor farmer's boy of the Valley of Virginia with his reaper, endowing seminaries, orphans'homes and uni-j versity professorships, there is no tempoial interest of humanity which exceeds in importance that of your : pursuit, and all others it has outlived. "It survives Turk and Time and Goth.5' Upon it the merchant a:id mechanic, the bench and bar aud the forum and camp depend. Indeed, as has been said : "The necessity of this art is evident, since this can live with out all others, and no one other with out this. The principles of it being the piiuciples of all nature, earth, wa ter, air and the. sun and the sea, it comprehends of philosophy more than any one profession, art or science in the world besides." Let me call your atteution to what an able essayist wrote two hundred years ago lie said : "Who is there among our gentry that does not enter tain a dancing-master for his children as soon as they are able to walk, but did ever any father provide a tutor for his sou to instruct him betimes in the nature and improvement of that land he intended to leave him ?" That is a superfluity and thus a great de fect in our manner of education, and therefore I could wish (but cannot in these times much hope to see it) that one college in eacli university were erected and appropriated to this study, as well as they are to medicine and the civil law. There would be no need of making a body of scholars and fellows with certain endowments. It would suOice, if after the manner of stalls in Oxford, there were onlv four professors constituted to teach these four parts : First. Motion and all things relating to it. Second, i'asturage. Third. Gardens, or chards, vineyards and woods. Fourth. All parts of rural economy, which would contain the govern ment of bees, swine, poultry, decoy birds, &c , together with the spelts ti the field and domestic conserva- ! Lion and uses of ai! that i-5 brought in by industry abroad. The busi ness of these professors should not be as is commonly practical in other arts, to resd pompous and su perficial lectures out of Virgil's Georgics, Pliny and Varo, out to in struct their pupils in the whole method aud course of this study, and the Continued accession of scholars upon a moderate taxation for their diet, 1 od ?riti s and learning would be a sn?ieieut constant revenue for the ! maintenance of the house and profes sors, who should be men not clever- J er lor the ostentation of critical liter-j ature, but for solid aud exper?meii- | tal knowledge of the things they I teach/' To these thoughts, two hundred ? ani tlii:' years ole. h tile ol val ie has be :i added on ?i.e part o! ?:.; se . wiii) have essiiVcd write and sj ? :?k ; much upon ?o?s :;!! important maib-r. ' Too wonder is ih :[ so much i.tin been conceived, so1 iit.iic has oecu achieved. ne inst a g neu? un a! society ::?- : coroorat'-d ?:; America was that; os-' tabiished in South Carolina in 17S' called "The Society for the Fremo tion of Agriculture/' stating that its \ obiccts included the institution of a i farm fur experiments in agriculture j and the importation and distribution j of foreign productions suited to the j climate of the State. lie who was first in the hearts of j his countrymen, in almost his iast ut- j tcranccs to them, with prophetic j earnestness urged upon the founders I and representatives of the young re public this great matter of agricultur al education as one of the foremost j demands of the times. The national interest and importance of his lan- ! ! guage is in proportion. As the n? ; tion advances in population and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent and renders the cultivation o? the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up supported by the public purse, and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety ? This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement by stimu lating enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre the results everywhere of individual skill and observations and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience hath shown that they are very cheap instruments of immense national benefit. A few years after wards the founder aud great apostle of the Democracy, in his distinguish ed inaugural, speaking of good gov ernment, placed in the circle of our felicities the encouragement of agri culture and commerce as its hand maid, a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace aud for the first moments of war* and we welcome them to-day as one of the Jeffersonian platform planks in recognition of the i?ct that the tillers of the soil are ready, as its defenders, when needed to become the heroes of the field and camp. I will not trespass farther upon your time, upon more interesting ex ercises. Allow me to repeat the cor dial salutations of the committee and people whom I represent. De siring to do all in their power to fill the days of your sojourn in our midst with the fullest enjoyment and profit, we feel sure that in the preparation of the second Encampment experience will eliminate very much of what we are conscie us are the imperfections and shortcomings of this, the first. Pine Leaf (Straw.) Fcltox, S. C, July 11, 1SST. . A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture, Co lumbia, S. C. In compliance with your request, and for the benefit of G<?cne of our fanners, I will give you my experi ence, and that of some of my neigh bors, but more particularly my own, as 1 can speak more definitely, of the use of pine straw as a manure. 1 have been using it for sixteen years, and for the most of this time i have been using ten cord* to the acre for cotton, and with that amount of straw and 100 lbs. acid phosphate, 100 lbs kainit,.and IS bushels of cot ton seed, I make an average of a bale of cotton to the acre, and some years 1 get a bale and a half, on what was said to be old worn'out land, but by the use of the above I now have my land in good heart. It is said by some farmers that straw wiil kill the cotton, but I have never had it to kill my cotton and would use double | the quantity that I do if it were so that I could get it to the land, as srettinsc it in the land is a small matter with us. _ We break tue old beds down with six furrows with a seven inch turn plough, then open with an eight inch double-winged straight hoc sixteen inches long ; thus it may be seen how I get in my ten cords to the acre without trouble. It is said by some that I claim too much for pine straw, but this is a mistake, as I only claim what the analysis, I believe, gives it, about 8 per cent, potash ; but to take it at much less, and still I am an advocate for its use, for I claim a good deal for its percolating influence in the land?the same that yeast has in our bread?for in this : it opens the soil and lets in the air and admits the gases from the rain, which, in a close clay soil, is very necessary, and as 1 think, in all Soils, whether it be clay or otherwise. There are many objec tions to the use of straw. One ad duced by men of intelligence is that straw, when rotted, becomes sand, which according to my experience, is both ialso and true, for 1 claim that the same soil that produces the growth, when rotted it will be the same, either sand or clay. I behove all the farmers know that cotton grown on clay land has a yellow tinge, produced by the clay : and if , our lint partakes of the soil, why not pine straw 1 , But to give you other than my own experience. In speaking to a well-to-do farmer on the subject, he ! said he would quit the farm if lie ? could not get pine straw, as lai is ( one that uses it largely. But it may be asked, how we are to get in such , quantities? I can only say how I do it. ? At this writing I have in tire woods ? fifteen hundred piles, lour feet high ' and four feet wide ; these have been raked when the weather was such ? that 1 could not do other farm work } and when we lay by our crop, which \ we usually do about the 12th of July, 1 then, between that aud the blade gathering, we get all we use in the < lot : and when we first get it in ; the lot it is ten or twelve feet ? deep away from the fence. II this is not dmio we could never get it from ; the woods in the Spring, and, having it Ir* the lot . it is tramped by the j i stock, and {hough noi et;; ?::>. ;,s this ! 1 cannot ho mi account of depth, ir i becomes compact, and, eneo wet. j i cl-.e:- not gei di-y until hauling er the j ? lime for ppjng ] may !?.' wrong, ! but 1 think tire re:: why tin-to i.= j ? no more siia'w \-.s<-A is because there is net enough put in ho lan?:. !???? i: ; lakes a brig e omii.tiiy, in bulk, t-i < rmike a little earth when rotteti ; and 1 ? will say lS?is : the ni n e one eses the <j more phuxpha!e lie may with paying j r results if he will only be sure and'o. get the straw well in the furrows. I have used forty-five large piles to the acre for sweet potatoes, and this alone, and made very fine potatoes ; but I put two mules to the plough, and got the straw well in the ground. There is one fact about straw that may not be generally known ; it is this : very .soon after it is put in the ground it goes through a sweat, and does not get dry any more until rot ted, at which time I have taken it up from the bottom of the plant fur* row and found that the decomposed straw was a network of fibre roots that have been feeding there through the season. But I must say, before ? close, that the first year in the use of straw it does not pay so largely, but each succeeding year will pay more and more, or this has been my experience, and Mr. K. M. Pitts, of Sumter County, gave me the same as his experience, and he has* used it broadcast with good results, which I have never done. Now, in conclu sion, let me say, while the cotton plant is made up of seven component parts, and pine straw will and does constitute one of those parts, a little push and pluck and we have that on hand in the barnyard at no great cost. Yours faithfully Sec. Louis II. Desciiamps. Annual Reunion of Company "E", 6th S. C. Infantry. The survivors of Company ?, 6th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, met at the residence of Capt. VV. J. McLeod on the 29th ult. To the great surprise and' pleasure of all, Col. J. D. Blanding of the 9th Regi ment was present, and took part in all of the business and pleasures of the day. The association of Col. Blanding with the members of Co. E. during nine mouths of the war, caus ed its members to feel as if only an other one of the boys was with them while he from appearances, having come out for the full purpose of en joyment, entertained them with rich and epicy jokes of the war. The business of the day was intro duced by a bountiful supply of fine watermelons, after which a general smoke was entered into ; each one, apparently, determined to enjoy all of the comforts and pleasures of a puff at the pipe of peace. After this all hands were called together for busi ness. The president being absent, Capt. W. J. McLeod was called to the chair, and the minutes of the last meeting were read aud adopted. The only unfinished business was the read ing and adoption of a portion of the history of the command, but owing to the absence of the President, who had it in his possession, the reading was postponed unti! the next meeting. A committee of three, consisting of E. W. Cannon, II. E. C. Fountain and J. J. Durant, was appointed to adopt a plan for the organization of a relief association of the old compa ny, fur the care of any member vrbo j may come to need or distress. Letters were read from Maj. J. L. Coker, E. W. Cannon, and J. A. and M. E. McDonald, expressing their re grets at their absence, and giving their reasons therefor. Two invita tions were received for the next re union, one from Major Coker of Harts ville, and the other from J. A. and M. E. McDonald of Marion, N. C. Ma jor Coker's invitation was accepted, and a vote of thanks, by the com rades, ex fended to both him and the Messrs. McDonald, for their kind and generous invitations. A vote o thanks was extended Col. J. D. Blanding for his presence and re marks, together with an invitation to him to meet with the command at the next re-union. Dinner being now ready, adjournment was in order, to which the old comrades responded promptly. There were no sick to re port at this time, but from the appearance of things while the dishes were being passed around, the deli cate and dyspeptic might have feared that in the end it might have become necessary to call in a doctor. After dinner the Colonel and some of the boys betook themselves apart and for the entertainment of the ladies, indulged in a feast of music and rem iniscences of a re union prior to the organization of Co. E, when We were b'tiyis, and when those little black eyes deceived us and caused us by a modest "no'' to resolve to join the army and be killed by the '?Yanks.'* ?Reported for the Darlington Kcics. "Not Guilty." Verdict of the Jury m the Edgefield LycehiDg Case. Eit.khkld, August 5.?The great Culbroath lynching case, perhaps the first of its kind ever brought to trial, uame to an end to-day at o o'clock. The whole of the morning session of t court up to 2 o'clock was taken up with [ t the able, eloquent and exhaustive argu- j'i ment of Attorney General Earle for tiie State and Geueral Butler for the de fense. Both covered the entire ground jf their respective skies, and each wound up with a most telling, retime. Judge Wallace's charge was, so to peak, a clearing up thunder shower jftcr the two day s of heated debate. The jury were not out quite an hour, ivhcu they brought iu a verdiet of not guilty. I h At the last term of the court there vas a severance, so that ou5y iwo of the vncbers, Parkman and Botara, were ni tria*, and upo? the announcement ;? the verdict as to them, the State's l?rcTuey entered a noi. pros, as to the e ma tiring thirty defendants. The largest crowd ever knows'to ?*iave issembled in kM?elieU? Court House aet'd the Attorney General this mor? lig when lie arose t?< a-u?tess the jury, j x" Meiere davli^ht men ><-r hordes and in , i; tu??gfe^ could be heard eomrng ?r?>m ail \ \ ive of the publie roads wh:?h lead into ! ?' he villane. Maryy were not able to j -s :- invi the courS room, and the public ; p Miare during the day was tilled with a j t' of sweltering humanity. j a Tiie ve id": et was not surprise to any j il :?. .?. as nobody expected a conviction. ; c Everything in connection with the case, h uritig the progress of the trial and the j 'J e edition of the verdict, passed or?! tt uiet.'y. ! S? Our State Contemporaries. Edgefield Advertiser. Miss Daisy Hampton, daughter of Senator "Wade Hampton, glories in pe destrian exercise. Recently she walk ed ali the way from her home to Charleston, a distance of 145 miles. One day she made a record of twenty five miles; Query. Abbeville Press and Banner. If Prohibitory laws do not prohibit the Bale of whiskey, why should the whiskey men be so much opposed to the law ? If such laws do not prohibit why is it that the distillers ahd wholesale dealers contribute eo freely of their money to defeat prohibitory laws in dis tant States? If the whiskey men' are willing to cooform to the will of the people, why are they opposed to an ex pression of opinion by the people t If prohibition doesn't prohibit why should a wholesale liquor dealer in Charleston boycott a prohibition newspaper in Ab beville. Let it be cnderelcod that the temper ance people of Abbeville county mean to get an expression by a vote of the people?as to whether the sale of whis key shall continue to be liensed. In case our representatives neglect or re fuse to put the necessary laws on the books, the voters mast seek a remedy for their wroog. ''Chicken-Hearted Men*" Timmonsville Farmers' Friend. It is reported that a negro was taken up and severely whipped by citizens in the Sardis neighborhood a few days ago for attempting an assault upon a young white lady. Ths fiend entered the lady's room after she bad retired at night. Her screams frightened him to flight. She recognized him, and a party pursued and caught him'. The young lady identified him as the guilty party, and he was whipped and ordered to leave the State. It is a shame that men areso chicken-heartedi Charleston. Laurensviih Eeraldi The general impression in the up country has been and is, that the City Government in Charleston was first class j that the very best elements of the business community io nativ? and adopted citizenship were in the Common Council ; that extensive improvements were visible od all hands ; that City securities werfc above par, and so far as administration was concerned the City by the Sea was well cared for and wisely looked after; For several weeks past, however, a systematic attack has been going on by a series of advertisements in the News and Courier, which cer tainly surprised us. One would bave supposed that a carpetbag government was in charge of the City, and not the very best people in it. An explosion took place not long since, and the mendacity and imperti nence of the advertiser was very thor oughly exposed at the meetteg of Council. There is one feature of this whole business, and that is, Capt. Dawson connived at all this abuse and denunci ation for a certain price per line?cash. That is to say, the proprietor of .said journal contracted to abuse the Mayor and City Council at so much per col umn?cash ! The Sunday Dispatch says: 'So long as the abuse was freely given to Mayor Courteaay and the Al dermen, all was smooth, but the adver tiser found fault with our great (Editor) Cmsar. when summarily the so-called contract was ended for the time.. This is ths point of inquiry we would make ?if the contract was such as to compel the printing of offensive matter," as against the Council, how came it not applicable to Capt. Dawson? Won't our Cassar explain this loop-hole in the contract?' The truth is the News and Courier, from its advantageous position as the only Charleston newspaper, can't keep from trying to boss everything in the State and the City Council too, and we ire very much of opinion that self-res pect has compelled the Council to refuse ihe dictation of the great Caesar on some recent matters, aud this is the punish ueut that Cassar imposes. Capt. Daw >on undertook to boss the last State ^ouveution and got 'left.' We j bought be had taken the biut, but it >ceais be has not. There is only one emcdy for this Editorial Caesar, and hat is a real Carolina Daily in Cbarles on, which would reflect the intelligence, maracter and manhood of the Stste. Jones the Triple Murderer, j, New complications have arisen at the )resent term of the Edgefield court in he Jones murder case. It will be re liera bered that Jones killed Edward I . .Jressley, Sr., Edward Pressley, Jr., [ md Charles Pressley. At the last j erm of the court he was convicted of| he murder of the elder Pressley. At [ I he close (if the term' his attorneys de- 11 eaudod an unconditional discharge iu be other two cas?is. The motion was l.j r<:uod before Judge Norton, who grant- ? ? d the order of discharge. Jones now la'Fms that he has been completely and I, lermanently discharged from these j 1 ases, iust as if he hnd been tried and 1 * ? * if euMiirted. The State denies this, but ? 1 'udgc Wallace sustains the prisoner's ?1 iews of the case. The further rjues- ^ ion arises whether or not the State can 5 aud cut new bills in the cases. immM ' ? - Blind Tom. 1 Baltimore, July SC.?Judge Bond, t ruing in the United States ?istrici , Inert today, decided that Thomas , Viggins, known all over the world as j Blind Tom" the pianist, shall be de- ?. vered on or before August 10 into R be custody of Mrs. Eliza Belluino, ! c rho represents Charity Wiggins, the j lot lier of '-Blind Tom,'* and that das. ; V\ Bethune, Who has had charge vi j t im, shall at the same time pay lo ? ?f 1rs. eli: une tito sum o? ?7,000 for j s ast services. The e ise h:is been in | io Cot?ris lor sever.nl >"r:ils> alio has: ttractcd considerable attention from ! , i" ?act ihai Tom has been held as a , . battei by the Bethunes ever since is musical genius made htm valuable. : lie suit was biought in the in- j * fresi of his mother to regain noc*ts- : /onofhinr. '?: A Debt that .follows a Man. In view of the Isrge number of our citizens insured in "Co-operative'* companies, the following from the In dianapolis Journal may not be without interest and value : 'Tiie '.vorst feature of this assess ment life insurance business/ said a' well-known law-%'cr the writer, 'is not that which stands out most prom inently. It is bad enough to agree with people you know nothing about to 'chip in' money whenever called upon to do so by ofHcers you know nothing about, and to have no means of knowing how much of the general Collection is turned over to the pur pose for which il is paid ; but a' graver feature , is that when a man gets into one of these assessment con cerns he is in for all time, no matter if.a bar is put up against possible ben efits that might accrue by failing to' respond to assessments, or if the con cern itself'busts up," for the courts" have decided that in joining an asso ciation of this kind 'the debt is then contracted, and not when the debt i? payable?at the death of a member.' Only the other day, in the. light of this common-seme decision, 500 mem bers of the defunct 'Order of Mutual Aid,' California, had judgments en tered up against them in a suit brought by the heirs of one of the de? ceased members, and in Minnesota at the present time a suit is pending ?gainst the members of another de funct assessment society which is cer tain to go the same way. This is ? peculiar feature, and not generally understood. To be able to contract a debt' that wilt follow a man beyond the grave (if he should be fortunate enough to possess anything) is some thing to be thought about in |he con templation of assessment or fraternal life insurance.7 A Chain of Cousins. In the Washington . Herald the Lounger on the Avenue' says : 'The number of 'cousins' any Vir ginia, South Carolina or Kentucky fam ily 'that was ever anybody' has and claims kin with, has always been a mat ter of great astonishment in the North, where this' charming 'cult' is not cher ished. And these cousins, 'down to the fortieth degree,* are to be found everywhere. ? charming lady, whom the writer has the pleasure of knowing, said to me ; the other day : 'Yon would scarcely, believe that Virginia and South Carolina families could be related by blood ties to so many people as they really are in England and Francs. Now here, holding up a late Parisian journal, is the announcement of the marriage of Princess Eugenie Marat, the great granddaughter of Marshal Murai, better known as the commander of the cavalry in the grande arm?e than as the king of Naples, which he nevertheless was, to Prince de Torelis, an Italian magnate. This bride, Princess Marat, has less than 100 Virginia and South Car olina cousins. Her grandmother was Miss Fraser of Charleston, whose broth er was the founder of the great commer cial house that, during the" war, was so famous as Fraser, Trenholm & Co. Both the sons of Marshal Murat married Southern worn*. The eldest, Achille, came to America. His wife was Miss Bettie Willis of Virginia, whose mother was the distant cousin of the Dand ridges, the Harrisons, the Pages, th? Ca reys and many others whose names are historic. His brother, th? second.son ?Marat's wife, you know, was Caro line, sister of the great Napoleon?mar ried Miss Fraser, as I just now told you. So her granddaughter, who though a princess, looks like any well bred and well nurtured Virginia girl, is the great grandniece of the first Napoleon. When John Y. Mason of Virginia, was our Minister to France, the ladies of the Murat household were his particular friends. I know he used to astonish' some of the old French gentiemen about the court of the second empire by grave ly explaining that these ladles were bis cousins. The Empress Eugenie heard of it and was much interested in the fact that the granddaughters of the es king of Naples, Napoleon's brother-in-law and greatest cavalry commander, were akin to a representative from the great republic. I think both the Carnngton and StoDC families of this city were con nected with the Willises, either by direct line or collaterally, and if I am right they, too, are akin to this young scion of kingly and imperial lineage on one side, and good eld Virginia blood on the other. I thought this might be in-, terestmg to you, and so I mentioned it.' ' "News iteras. 'King Salomon ;s Mines.' is to be put into dramatic form for James 0. Bar-' rows. Miss Belle Cole, the American cim atrice, has decided to remain in Eng aud until nest year. Patti Kosa will have two sew plays" 3est season?'Imp,' bv Fred Marsden ind ? . A'. T.' Mrs. Fannie Hayn e. rife of James ilayne, was gored and trampled to leath by a" maa bull at Tuscola, 111., he other day while attempting to drive be brute out of the front yard. She "ought the animal as long as her ?trength held our, but as no one came o her assistance she was killed before he eyes of her tittle children. The 5ody was shockingly mangled. Sarah Bernhardt has been coining nosey in London. Her receipts have ivorased over 0-2,500 for each rer'form tnce. The grand jury of Et?gcdel? county lave been examining the public if?ccs of that county. Ina special re lOrt made to tiie court now in session at hat place, they present S. S. Tompkins, he Master, as a defaulter for nearly '5.000". The ?epor? lias created a ?eu ation Mr. Tompkins is about seventy ears obi. Prohibition new prevails in 115 of 1)1 counties ?>: Georgia atrd is said o b? gaining strength rapidly, cs Mvia'.iy in Atlanta ? GreenvilleDaily Ve a. Titt? strawberry was introduced tito England Irouj Ffaad?fe in i' o?.