The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 03, 1890, Image 1

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?'? T TU 8UKTKR WATCHMAN* Ff blUhad April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone, ???g Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881*1 Cjjt Siafcjraiait w? Scat Jrra. PnhV.rted wwry Wsdaesday, N- <3r. OSTEEN, 9tjgfTK&? S. ?. . TKEM8: two DoSars per asoum?in advance. n? Square, first in3er tion..................$1 00 ? very su ^sequent insertion.. 50 Contracts for three mon the, or longer will ?e m?de at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private oterests will be charged for &s advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be harjred for. S & SONS' N?S AND BOILERS, RIST MILLS AND SAW MILLS tu^ow??dged to be the ?*er sold in this State. Whe? you buy one of them you a?e satisfied that you have made no mistake. Write 1er our prices. /Cotton Gins and Cotton Presses at bottom figures. I! can save you money. US 0. BADHAM, i l General Agent, Colombia S, C. i - Home Ofiice and Factory, ffichmond, Va. - June ?5. ^ -HEADQUARTERS Ml-lEBBlCtt, ENG?&M BOILERS. SAW, CANE AND ORtST MILLS HALL SMITH. * BROWN. WIN AND LU M MUS GINS. FEEDERS AND CONDENSERS Acme and Nance Cotton Press?e. Bestier** Seff-Packing Cotton Press. Tfeom*s*s Direct-feting Steam Press. eys, Shafting, Belting, Jfcoa, Pipe and Fittings. HANCOCK INSPIRATORS. " The above we offer at factory prices. Thiokoftt. $195,00 for a 60-Saw Gin, ' COMPLETE, DELIVERED. $130.00 for the Best Cotton Press ON TBR MARKET. Write to as before buying and save locnej. . June 25. COUNTERS. )HfC0L03S; a perfect Work or Art; SO Pages; lew ready. Books free, postage 15c. ? Aim mo pp. Cmtakm; for 188?. of Tyfer J>nHa, Typewriter BESg^Q^ St. LOUIS, 3I0l? TI.8.A MACHINE SHOP. V AH kinds of MACHINE WORK REPAIRS can be had>inSumter, at short notice, and in tbe very beer cias8 of work, at tbe shop re cently opened by ?be undersigned on Liberty Street, near tbe (? S. & N. Depot. Boilers "Patched, and and Gin _3for& a Specialty. - Prompt attention given to work in tbe e>ujotry, aod .first dass workmen sent to at tend to samel Call at the shop or address through Sum ter Post office ^ A?fcl3 EDGAR SKINNER. TfflE?lWXM H11WRAL BASH, ~ ' OF SUMTES. STATK, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI TORY, S?MTBR, S. O. Paid Tip Capital . . . . . $75,000 00 Sarpltw^ond ..... 7,500 00 Truosaris a G"nv;r;:! Banking Business. "Careful attention grv*?n to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposit? of $1 and upwards received. In terest allowed & tbe rate of 4 per ceut per aaaufi* . Parable qaarterly, on first days of J&aaary, April, Jnly and October. ;C . . B. X. WALLACE, Vice President. L. S. Caesok, Aap? . Gasbier. TMMf SIIT1, SUMTER, S C. CITY AND C0?JNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also brs A Savings Bank Department Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per ceut. per annum, payable quarterly. W. P. 8. HAYNSWORTH, A. Whtts, j&., President. Cashier. Aug 2f. _ 5,000 Accident Insurance, - - FOR 2 =? CENTS PER DAY, 5 days; $1.00; 15 days, $2 00; 30 days, $3 00; one year, $10 00. In ease of death, $5,000. For loss of both hands, $5.000. For ioS9 of both feet, $5.000. For loss of one band and one foot. $5.000. For lose of one hand or one foot, $2,500. $25 weekly indemnity. THOS. E. RICHARDSON, Age. t for ine Fidelity & Casual C<>, of New York jjay 28 Ca?h capital $250.000 Dr. T. W. B00KHAKT) DENTAL SURGEON. yjfficr ov?r B.uitinan A.Sro.'sShoe Store. BNTKANCK ON MAIN STKKET. ??MTER, S. C. t?H-r- Hours?9 to 1:30 ; 2.^0 to 5. ?yrii 17? o. I W. DICK, D. D. S. 'thee over Bogtn's New Store, firraaHCK on ha in stockt, StTMTSR, S. C. _?jtice Honrs.?9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept 8 - * NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS. The reason RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER is the most wonderful med icine, is because it has never failed in any in stance, no matter what the disease, from LEPRO SY to the simplest disease known to the human system. The scientific men of to-day claim and prove that every disease is CAUSED BY MICROBES, AND RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER Exterminates the Microbes and drives them ont of the system, And when that is done you cannot have an ache or pain. No matter what the disease, whether a simple case of Malaria) Fever or a combination of diseases, we cure them all at the same time, as we treat all diseases constitutionally. Asthma, Consomption. Catarrh, Bronchitis. Rheumatism, Kidney and Liver Disease, Chills and Fever, Fe male Troubles, in all its forms, and, in fact, every disease known to the human system. Beware of FraiiM Imitations ? See that our Trade-Mark (same as above) appears on each jug. Send for book "History of the Microbe Killer/' given away by Dr. A. J. China, Druggist, Sole Agent. Jan 22_ CATARRH IN jJ^g WftWBtflJ HEAP.fr M Try the Cure UJSJL Efy'&Cream Balm Cleanses theKasalPassages- Al lays Liflammaiicru Heals the Sores. Restores the Senses of Taste, Smell and Hearing. A particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable. Price 50c. at Drn^iat* or by nail. ELY BB0THERST5e Warren St JSew York. Malaria, Dumb Chills. Fever and Ague, Wind Colic, Bilious Attacks. They produce resrnlar, natural evac uation*, never gripe or interfere with daily basine**. Am a family medfeiuc, sney should be in every household. SOUP i? VISIS* WHEISJE. A. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & b LOBE. NORTH BRITISH s MERCANTILE. HOME, of New York. . UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented, $75,000,000. Feb.12_ ATTENTION! Citizens of Sninter and Vicinity ? J. M. WINGATE & CO. Have opened & BMii ai WMwrigM Slop. At the old stand of John i. Brunson, on Re publican Street, opposite Graham's Stables, guarantee to do first class work in every de partment of their business, and ask the pat ronage of tte citizens of Sumter and vicinity. Give us a trial. Come and get first class work at bottom prices. Feb. 12. A. B. STUCKEY. JOHN T. GREEN. STUCKEY & GREEN. Attorneys at Law, sumter, s. c. March 26 J. D. KENNEDY, Attorney at Law, CAMDEN, S. C. Will practice in Kerebaw and adja cent counties. Mch. 12. MONEY TO LOAN. ^1 TONE Y TO LOAN in sums over $300 lvJL on improved farming lands. Usual rate* of iuterest. Time?3 to 5 years. By arrangement with parties we represent costs and commissions have been greatly re duced and loans guaranteed within 30 days after application. INGRAM & MANNING, Attorneys at Law, Sumter, S. C. March 5 University of M Carolina, AT COLUMBIA, S. C. Graduate courses. Under-gradoate courses for degrees?3 literary and 6 scientific Also snorter and elective courses Professional courses in law, Pharmacy, Veterinary Science, and Pedagogics 9 well equipped laboratories ; 4 shops and model room ; new infirmary. Tuition fee, $40 per session ; other fees, $20 (including infirmary fee covering medical attendance, medicines, etc. Table hoard, $10 to $12 50 per month. Rooms rent free. Total expenses, including fuel, lights, wash ing, books, etc., about $180. Tuition fee remitted to students certifying their inability to pay it. Session opens first Tuesday in October. Entrance examinations held the preceding July 30-8 J. M. McBRYDE, President. Dissecting the Sub-Treasury Bill. The Hampton Guardian publishes the following letter from Hon. George D. Tillaj&n which was written to a gentle* man in that county : House of Representatives, Washington, D. C , Aug. 16. Dear Sir: I can not see how any Allianceman, or otherwise, can want more money is&upd besides free coinage of silver and abolition of national banks, with substitution of greenbacks in suffi cient auautity to do the business of the country on a cash basis, would require about $30 per capita in coin and paper, and we now have about $15 in coin, which would make it necessary to issue about $10 per capita, or $950,000,000 greenbacks, estimating the population at 65.000,000. As I am in favor of relieving the money famine to the above extent, besides being willing to lighten taxes on the poor and middle classes by levying an income tax on the rich to the extent of a hundred million dollars or so. it occurs to me that there is no necessity for the sub-treasury bill to pass, if I can get the other measures through ; and they are Alliance meas ures?at least in Barn well County. The sub-treasury bill is a humbug and a Republican Trojan horse also. Tne bill is unconstitutional because it provides for the manager of the ware house to be elected. Now, the second section of Article 2 of the constitution of the United States requires every officer and employee of the Federal gov ernment to be "appointed." This shows that whoever drafted the bill was an ignoramus, and the bill is undemo cratic, unjust, crude and impracticable throughout. If the bill should become a law, the manager and all the other employees at a warehouse would ail be Republicans? carpet-baggers, scallawags or negroes ?when a Republican President should be in power. Besides the manager there would have to be a book-keeper, a clerk, a cashier, a teller, a weigher, a sampler, a shipper, a watchman, and at least three laborers to handle the cotton ?twelve employees^ at good wages, which would make every warehouse virtually a little headquarters or fort to defend the interests of the Republican party. What decent cotton planter wants any such cattle either storing, sampling, grading, selling or shipping hi* cotton ? Again, every crime committed in the warehouse, and every contract relating to cotton in it, would have to be settled ? in ithe Federal courts?not State courts. How would our people like to be drag ged away from home to Charleston, Columbia or Greenville, as parties or witcesses for assault and battery, or for forgery, breach of contract, stealing, embezzlement, etc ? There would be plenty of these offences or civil suits growing out of the warehouse transac tions, amounting to $500,000 or more a year. Another absurd and unjust provision of the bill is that any **owner," not producer, of cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat or oats can store it, or rather pawn it, and draw 80 per cent, of its value, which sum he can keep for ono year at 1 per cent, interest. Now, everybody will store his cotton?mer chants and speculators more than plant ers, because they can get the use of money so cheap, aod second, because the more money put into circulation the higher the price of any article in the market?the price depending more upon the quantity of money than upon de mand and supply. The speculator will get the benefit of this inevitable rise in price, and not the producer. Another unanswerable objection to this sub-treasury nonsense is that it provides for issuing several hundred millions of greenbacks in the form of advances on only five agricultural pro ducts. Is there any justice in favoring or petting producers of cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat or oats, aod leaving out the producers of rice, sugar, grouodpeas, rye, barley, lumber, iron, cotton cloth at factories, etc. ? What becomes of the Alliance motto: "Equal rights to all; special favors to none!" How does this pretty maxim comport with taxing about two thousand small or poor counties in tbe Uoited States to build a $50.000 warehouse in about one thous and large or rich coud ties that yield over $500,000 worth of tbe five favord products ? Leaving out of view the above objec tions to the bill, there is yet another single objection which ought to cause every bouest man to discard it. Tbe bill provides for putting into circulation, as advances on five products, six or eight hundred millioD dollars in green backs in the first part of the crop year, and then calling it all in and destroy ing it the second part of the crop year. What tbe country wants is more mooey all tbe time. What possible permanent good or relief will it be for the farmer to have plenty of money one part of the year and no money another part of the year? If this sub-treasury bill should be enacted into law there is hardly any calculating how much the government would lose each year. Everybody who owned any produce would pawn it for 80 per cent, and let it stay io the warehouse for an artificial riss in price, when many would sell, of course, but perhaps half the owners of pawued products would never sell them at all, but having drawn 80 per cent of their maiket price at an inflated value, when money advances were most plentiful, would simply allow tbe year to expire aod force the government to sell the pawned products at auction for whatever it could get?at an enormous sacrifice, of course. It is a well known fact in the history of prices that in the ordinary routine of commercial business, connected with agricultural products, tbey fluctuate more than 20 per cent, almost every year?frequently as high as 40 or 50 per cent., and sometimes more ; and if fluctuation is so great io tbe normal course of trade, how much more extreme and ruinous will tbe fluctuation be in price when many hundred millions of dollars shall be first issued and then destroyed every year ! Tbe unwisdom?yes, the stupidity?of upsetting all prices and demoralizing all society by alternately expanding aud contracting the currenoy every year, to the extent of bix, eight or n\ne hundred millions of dollars, must be paipabie. There are at least a dazeo other in superable objections to this sub treasury scheme, but the weather is too hot to waste time pointing them out. What I have said above has been written with a galloping pen. Very truly, G D. Tills an. Bill Arp's Philosophy. Atlanta Constitution. The force bill is a big thing, and so is the boycott and the alliance, and tbe primary election, and tbe elephant, bot our cook has quit, and that's what's the matter at our house. She said she was tired, and I reckon she was, and I'm tired, too, paying ?10 a month and perquisites. A cook's month is four weeks exactly, and that is right, for they don't understand fractions, and so I pay her every Saturday night. I pay in silver and they like it, and I hope the free coinage will begin soon. I do want to handle some free money. The truth is, I wanted her to quit. She is a good cook and gets around lively, but we don't cook near so much when we have to do it ourselves, and things last longer. She will bave a rest and we will have a rest and then send for her again and renew the battle of life. I said I would cook breakfast, and my wife said she would cook dinner and the girls would cook supper and wash dishes all day and so I got up early and fired up tbe stove and filled up the tea Settle and pat on the hominy as usual. It had been a long time since I made biscuit, but I hadn't lost tbe lick, and had a family reputation for beating Delmonico on biscuit. I found the tin cans in their accustomed places?one with soda and tbe other with acid, as I thought, and I measured them both and mixed with the flour. Theo I got the lard and the milk and the salt and made up the dough. Well, of course, I didn't forget to wash my hands first of all, and if they were not clean they became so by the time the dough was made up. My wife she likes biscuit right hot from the oven, and so I dident put them in the oven until the family were all ready and the beefsteak was broiled and the coffee made. But those biscuit be haved very peculiar. Instead of rising upward they fell downward, and got flatter and thinner and uglier aa they baked and browned aur? so I tasted one to see what was the matter, and it was as sour vinegar. The family were all seated at the festive board awaiting the morning feast. I asked the blessing as usual, excepting on the biscuit and waited for remarks. Mrs. Arp looked at them with curiosity all over her contenance and as she split one open and raised it to her olfactories said : "Why, what upon earth did you put in the biscuit?" "You told me tb^c I would find the cans where they ured to be," said I. She went to the kitchen and when she returned said : "Well, you got hold of the wrong can?and you have put acid in the floor twice and no soda at all and made up tbe dough with sour milk besides. So she got some lightbread aod toasted it and we got along pretty well, anyhow. My failure was privately discussed and I heard somebody say: "Your pa is getting too old, anyhow, and his eyes are not good and you had better look round and hunt up another cook. If you can find one who can cook breakfast and milk the cow we can get along very well the rest of the day." I never said anything, but the next, morning I slipped out while they were all asleep and I got a breakfast that was a breakfast, and my Hors ford biscuit were just elegant. I was nearly ready to ring the bell when the cook came. I was about to discbarge her when I thought of the cow. '"You can milk the cow," said I, and 1 gave her the food and the bucket and as she went, forward she said, "does she kick ?" "No," said I, "she is very geutle." In a few minutes I looked that.way, and she was sitting on a box on the left side of the cow and pulling away at the milk for dear life, and she looked at me and said, "I can't milk dis here cow." Just then old Sukey raised her hind leg with a jerk and kicked her and the box clean over. "I koowed dat cow was gwine to kick," said'she. "Did you ever milk a cow," said I. "Used to milk sometimes when I was a chile," said she. "You have forgotten which side of tbe cow to milk from," said I, aod I gave her leave to depart these coasts with alacrity. The next one was a young woman, with a red striped silk handkerchief that she toted around in one hand at the table and didn't know what to do with the other. We had company for dinner. The girls had prepared it and had ice cream for dessert, and while the company was enjoying it inside the dining room, our new woman bad helped herself outside. She dined and left us without saying goodbye or offering her services as a dishwasher. Like the cowmilker, she was a town raised darkey, and of course, no account. If you want a working woman who can milk and churn and cut the wood if necessary, you have got to take an old woman, or else a country raised girl. Get one from the Alliance, and if she can't cook very fine, she is not afraid of work. The truth is, the towo raised negro men are much better than the women. Their wives and their daughters are lazy and proud, and have already got the idea that to work out for wages is unfashionable. "I ain't agwine to hire out to nobody," they say. A negro man fold me to-day that his wife's sister was a good nurse and could get ?8 a month, and he was gwine to make her hire out, or he would't feed her any longer. These ideas of gentility they get from the white people, for society says that a working youug man or young girl *'are not first class, and can't mix with our set." It is a great thing for a family to be independent. It is a good thing for the boys and girls to know how to do all j the family work, and to be willing to do it, aud we have tried to raise our j flock that way. The boys can hang a gate or a wiudow curtain, or put io a pane of glass or mend a chair or make a wagon for the baby, or cut the wood aud feed the stock, and the girls can paper a room as nicely as Mauck, aud they can cut aud fit and make their own garments, from calico to silk, and cnok as good a meal as anybody, but we don't waut tbem to do tbe&a things all tbe time, and they shall not as long as I can help it. There are some social j privileges and pleasures that are rea sonable and natural and innocent and we all like to enjoy them. If a friend come*? to see me, I wish to entertain him pleasantly and cordially, and not have to say, "I've got to cut some stovewood right now, and you will have to excuse me.'1 If ladies call to see my wife and daughters, it would not be pleasant or polite for them to say, "We don't keep a cook and are doing our own work, and you will have to excuse us this morniog." The poor should not envy the rich for enjoying these social pleasures?nor should the country people be envious of the town people. All would do tbe same thing if they could, and it is everybody's duty to bet ter their condition if they can. Nine farmers out of fen would move to town if they could afford to. They would do it for their children's sake?for better school and better preachers and better social advantages. But nine out often can't move and so it is their duty to build up tbe country schools and coun try churches, and raise the grade of both. If tbe Alliance does no other work in the legislature than to demand and euforce a tax that will establish a good ten months' school in every settle ment that can number fifty scholars be tween the ages of eight aod eighteen, it will have accomplished a great work. Give the country children a chance. If they had had it heretofore I would have been in the country farming until now, for there my children spent the happiest years of life. They talk about it yet with memories of delight. The springs and branches, and fish ponds, and tbe creek and mill not far away, the wa6h hole and springboard, the walks through shady, winding ways to tbe lime sink field, and tbe little spring beyond that was overhung with bawtrees, the dells and coves, and meadows, where the wild flowers grew, the hunt for huckleber ries, maypos and black haws, and scaiybarks and walnuts, the ripened grain, and the grass falling before the reapers blade, and their sweet dizzy rides on the top of tbe loaded hay. They still lovo to tell how they fished and seined, and bunted squirrels and rabbits and coons, and set traps for birds and killed tbe water moccasins that bung in the bushes that bordered the meadow branch. They talk about tbe colts they raised, and the narrow escapes they had from butting rams and vicious bulls and runaway teams, and they magnify all these accidents and in cidents the more aod more as time re cedes from those happy days. If they live to the allotted age of three score years and ten, they will still recall their farming life with fonder memories than any other. I wish that all tbe children of this blessed, bountiful land could be raised, at least, in part, in the country upon a well-watered, well-managed farm, Bill Arp. A Dramatic Scene in the Senate. Mr. John R. Morris, of Baltimore in a letter published in the Wilmington (N. C.) Messenger, thus describes a recent scene in the United States Senate during the discussion of the glass shedule : 'You know that Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, has charge of the tar iff bill. Tbe glass schedule bad been reached. Vance asked Aldrich, why common window glass, the glass of tbe poor man's bouse, was made dutiable at one hundred and fifteen per cent., while fine, polished plate glass, the glass of the rich man's mausion, was to sustain a duty of but fifteen per cent. Aldrich turned his eyes from Vance, g tu i 1 ed the smile of one disconcerted, and walekd in the direction of Quay's desk. Vance receiving no answer re hU'ued his seat. In galls had vacated the chair, and called Platt to preside. In a few moments Vance arose and stood awaiting recognition from Platt. While he stood he seeminly grew taller. Quickly raising his band be threw a great mass of iron grey hair from his forehead and exposed a brow red with the blood of emotion. He did not turn his eye toward the gallery?he seldom does. But all eyes in th? gallery and Senate were fixed on Vance." "The Senator from North Carolina,,? said Platt, as he lightly touched the desk with bis gravel and inclined his head deferentially toward the majestic figure of the great Southern statesman. "Mr. President," cried Vance, in a shrill, tremulous key of which I did not know his voice capable, "I waut it to go abroad to all the American people that I have asked the Senator from Rhode Island why the glass of the poor man is taxed 115 per cent, and the glass of the rich man but 15 perceut., and that I have received no answer." Raising his voice still higher be almost shrieked the refrain of his own words, "Yes, I want the American people to know that I have received no answer." Vance was unconsciously dramatic. The effect was to bring a deep hush over the Sen ate chamber. Tbe Republicans could not say anything without admitting too much. They had to refrain from ad mitting the truih that they were paying for Harrison's election, and owed much to the makers of common glass in in America, but nothing to the maker? of fine plate glass in France. The Republicans did not soon recover from the ouest ion and the terrible manner in which Vance had hurled it at Aldrich. John Sherman fingered his stubby bf'ard, Judge Edmunds, who affects indifference to everything and every body by apparent absorption in some book, peeped over the top of his con stant volume. Quay the stolid dude shook the lappel of his grayish flannel neglige coat. Allison rolled his eyes towards the frescoes, while Frank His cock, on whose shoulders rests Cookliu's mantle of vanity, with several additional breadths, looked helplessly toward his old colleague, poor old dried up Kvarts, who himself shrank farther into tiie \ pliyfical uothiugness of an uusexed witch." Fred Douglass wants Congress to ; ? pass the force bill to protect "his pen- j pie who cast their ballots a' the peril of their lives." "His people'' comes ( with a bad grace from a hait-breed who ignored the negro race by is aery in g a white woman. Death of Gen. Bonham. Haywood White Suliiiitr Springs, Wayxesville, N. C , Aug. 27. Ex Gov. M. L Bonhani was found dead in his room this morning at 6 30 o'clock. He left the parlor last night apparently very well, but at about 5 o'clock this morning he was seized with a violent hemorrage caused by the bursting of a blood vessel, and died before any one knew of it until the porter went to his room at 6 o'clock. The oight watchman went by his door at 4 o'clock and it was closed, but at 6 o'clock the body was found lying in it The Columbia Record, q? Aug. 27th, says : The news of Ex-Gov. Banham's death came as a shock to his friends and the public alike in Columbia. It was wholly unexpected. Universal were the expressions of profound sor row and universal were tbe expressions of the greatest respect for the illus trious deceased. A noble patriot and man, gentle, courteous aod brave, be was a true friend and a sincere lover of his country. We all knew his worth and mere words are idle. The following sketch of Ex-Gov. Bonbam's life was obtained from him by a friend a short time ago, and is, therefore, authentic. A Sketch of Gen. Bonham's Life. Millege Luke Bonham was born in Edgefield district. South Carolina, December 25th, 1813 He got his higher education at tbe South Carolina College, and graduated there with honor in 1834. He was brigade Major, Adjutaut General of the South Carolina brigade, Brigadier General Bull com manding, in the first campaign agaiost the Seminole Indiaos in Florida in 1836. In 1837 he was admitted to the practice of law, practicing at Edgefield Court House, when not in the military service of the country. Was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina from December 1840 to. December 1844. He was Lieutenant Colonel and then Colonel of the Twelfth United States Infantry in the Mexican war. Elected Solicitor of the Southern Circuit in December 1848, and served in that capacity until December 1857, when he took his seat in the Federal Congress of the then Fourth Congres sional district of South Carolina ; was re-elected in 1858 and I860, and re tired on the 20th of December, tbe day South Carolina passed the ordi nance of secession, having thus been elected to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses ; was appointed March 1861 Major General of the South Carolina "armed force," and on tbe 19th April, of that year, was commissioned Brigadier General in the provisional Army of the Confederate States. He commanded tbe centre of Beauregard's army at the first battle of Manassas, July 21st, 1861, at Mitchell's Ford on Bull Run. He re signed his commission on January 27'.h, 1862, and took a seat in the Confed erate Congress February, 18th, 1862. having been elected from the Fourth Congressional district the previous fall. Was elected Governor of South Caroli na, December 1864. He was reap pointed Brigadier General in the Con federate Army February 20th, 186), and was assigned to a command in, and surrendered with Johnston's army. He was a member of the South Caroli na House of Representatives in 1865 and 1866. From 1866 to 1878 he planted aod practiced law at Edgefield. In 1878 he was made sole Railroad Commissioner of South Carolina, and was at the time of bis death Chairman of the Board of Railroad Commis sioners. respecting the dead. As soon as the news of Gen. Bon ham's death became kown at the capi tol tbe flags were at once placed at half mast as a respect to tbe former Gover of South Carolina, and will no doubt remain so till the obsequies are over. Cotton Growing in Russia. There is no longer any doubt that Russia is gradually becoming a com petitor in the production of cotton Although the importation of raw cot ton into Russia from 1870 to 1S8S has increased from 40.000 tons annually to 106,000 in 1889, tbe quantity furnished by Asiatic Russia bas increased dur ing the same period in a much greater ratio. The rapid development of the cottan manufacturing industries has made this remarkable increase in her requirements, but up to within a very few years an almost insignificaut pro portion of the raw material consumed by her mills has bceu produced at home. Now, however, it would seem that the cotton which is being grown iu Central Asia is beginning to affect the amount of the supply which is drawn from abroad. Indeed, the im ports of cotton into Russia, according to a recent report of Vice-Consul Wertheim, at Moscow, to the Srate department, in 188S showed a decrease of nearly 50.000 tons, as compared with those of 1887, an? a decrease of 6,000 tons as compared with 1836, while in 1889 the amount of Asiastic cotton consumed in Russia aggregated 38,000 tons, an increase of 22 500 tons as compared with I88S. The largest proportion of this Asiatic supply of cotton is grown iu the province of Bokhara, 11.000 tons hav- j ing been sent to Russia iu 1889. more than doubling her supplies to that country in three years. Khiva sup plies Russia with six times the quan tity she did four years a?o, her ship ments to Russia in 1889 amounting to 10,500 tons The cotton cultivated in Turkestan is ail growu from American seed. Last year the province supplied Russia with 6,000 tons of cotton, and ihe cultivation of the plant there is increasing with marvelous rapidity, as both the climate and soil seems to I be adapted to its successful growth. I Russia also draws upon the Caucasus ind Persia for a p?rt of her cotton ?upply, deriving 8,100 tons irom these \ combined sources last. year. "My quondam friend," said the | irator. "Order ? Order 1" cried his hearer?. "Skip the p-zofaoity," whispered the Vloderitoc. Progress of the Three C's Railroad. At 10 o'clock on Wednesday, Aug. 20, the Three C's railroad reached the North Carolina State line through ?ui eoi county, Tenn., in this direction from Johnson City, which entitles the Con' 8truction company to $25,000 worth of bonds voted by Unicoi county, provided the road should be finished through the county to the North Carolina line by the 20th of August, 1890. The road is now finished to that point and two trains run daily from Johnson City to State Line, under the management of W. P Harris, superintendent and traf fic manager of the Ceutral division Ot the last days of the work in Unicoi county, a Johnson City dispatch says: Tbe work through Unicoi, especially the latter part of it, was attended with great difficulties. Evil disposed per sons threw obstacles in the way, eveu attempting to wreck the construction train, and succeeded in ditching several car loads of steel rails But with char acteristic energy Mr. William Kenefick declared that tbe road should be put through on time, and by putting on an army of hands and working night and day he kept his word. Wednesday, as the road neared the State line, the desperation of the people who were trying to keep the road from fulfilling the contract became more marked, and on Wednesday night an other desperate attempt was made to wreck the train. Through vigilance it was frustrated, however, and the final work was finished, guarded by shotguns in the hands of determined men. To do the people of Uuicoi justice, the majority of the citizens are heartily in favor of the road, and it is only a gang of lawless men, such as may al ways be found about the State line, that has caused the trouble. Of the work on other sections of the road, the Johnson City Comet of Satur day says : J. C. Sullivan has put a force of hands back to work on section No. 20, on the Three C's in Sullivan county. Contractor Peterson has also put a force on his work in Sullivan. All of the work between Johnson City aud Minne apolis will be completed now as fast as possible, and before Christmas it is hoped trains will be running through to Minneapolis, ninety miles. It is also understood that work will commence on the gap between Marion, N. C , and the State line io a short time. The road must be completed through Mitch ell county, N. C, by March, 1892, and work will have to be commenced shortly in order to get it completed in the spec ified time. Old Mules. Mr. Hirman McAbee, of our county, reports the death of his famous mule. Beck, last Saturday night. She was in her 39th, year, and he has been her only owner. She has never at bis house eaten an ear of bought corn. Mr. McAbee raises his own corn. His faithful mule trotted up from the pasture Saturday evening gaily as usual. She lay down and died that uight. It is not often that man and mule move along together for thirty nine years.?Spartanburg Herald. "Old Heb" bas "passed in his checks" and is no more, bis death having occurred on the plantation of his old "boss," Hon B. F. Crayton, two miles west of this city, last Thurs day afternoon. "Old lleb" was the name of an old mule, and. on account of the little history connected with him, was well known in this section. He served through tbe war in tbe Confeder ate Artillery, and on the uight before tbe surrender was brought to Appro mattox with the Artillery. Mr. S. M. Crayton, deceased, who was a member of Rutledge's llifles, Gray's Brigade, was also there. His horse had given out, and he was very much worried how he was going to get home. Re porting the fact to one of his superior officers. Mr. Crayton was instructed to take this mule from the Artillery, which he did. Next morning he sad dled the mule and started on his long journey home, but before going very far he noticed that the animal needed shoeing badly. Mr. Crayton cootiuued his journey, and every day made an effort to ro get his mule shod, but was not successful until he reached Wil liamston, in this County. Here he bad the hoofs of his faithful old friend put in a comfortable condition, and after a few hours' rest, started home, which he reached io due time. The journey from Virginia was a rough one, and "Old Beb," being very much like the Confederacy when Mr. Cray ton secured him, had not improved in appearance, his ribs showing very plainly. Two days after* Mr. Crayton reached home the Yankee raiders came through Anderson, stealing and carry ing off horses, mules and everything else of any value, but "Old Reo" was so poor and so near worn out they passed him by. At this time "Old R.;b*' was about twenty years of age. In a short time he was put to work, aud from that time up to a few months ago did his share of farm work. Although more thau forty-five years of age, he was abb to cat corn up to the day of his death. In his latter years "Old Reb" had become a great pet with Mr. Crayton and his family, and when lie begau to grow feeble he had all the attention possible. As soon as death claimed him, he was given a decent burial.?Anderson Intelligencer. It is of interest to note the comple tion of the New Croton water-works for New York City. The cost so far has been over ?23,000,000, aud the rime occupied in the work about five years. The aqueduct is 33^ miles long, of which 30^ miles is cut io the form of a. tunnel mostly through solid rock The delivering capacity is 310. - 000.000 gallons per day. What is there that cannot be doue when men determine to do it ? The Tillman legislative candidates of Laurens are not easy There are but three places to be filled and there arc four candidates?all Tillmanites. They are Col. Irby, Or. Fuller, Dr. I Coletnan and Col. Williams?two dec- ! tors, a lawyer and farmer. One of them will be left and lonesome. The , prespec?s at e that he will be the farmer. I South Carolina Democrats. Notwithstanding the fact that thtf Tillmanites iu the power of their niightr were guilty of transcending their au thority at the August Convention, the" regular Democrats, sooner than see any spiit in the party, have submitted. This cofcdoct is worthy of the high character and staunch fealty of the' Democrats who have opposed the Tiilman "plan of campaign," and "ft ought to teach the victorious a lesser in manners and ruerais ibat they wii-l not easily forget Having thus ones yielded to the unwarranted conduct of the Tillmanites, for the sake of party supremacy, is no sound reasou for' thinking the conservative Democrats have been cowed ;- and the Tillmanites will discover that their victory is due to the party magnanimity of the ok? time leaders of South Carolina l>em ojracy. Mr. Till man's greatest struggle wilF come in the hour of his completed vic tory ; when he sb2l} have been inaugu rated Governor of South Carolina, at that moment will tbe real burden of hi* position begin to be felt. He has found so much fault and promised so siuch reformation, that he is in real danger of being smashed by his own inconoclastio worshippers who will suffer no imper fections where only perfection of states manship and the highest moral grasdeur" have been promised. Mr. Till matt will hardly disappoint those who have op posed him ; his real danger lies within the camp of his own soldiers. Thoser soldiers are true advocates of reform, they were led to believe that there is? great need of reform, aud they'll have* reform or Mr. Till man's political scalp. Mr Tiilman has wrung a verdict from a biased if not a packed jury, that the present South Carolina government is corrupt ; and now be himself will sooty be on trial. In the meantime, the great Demo-* cratic party of Soutb Carolina, thank* to the nobie leaders of the old regime, is intact, and ready to meet the com' mon euemy in November.?Charlotte Chronicle. Cotton Stalk Bagging. A company has been formed at Au gusta, Ga.t to work tbe fibre of tbe cot' ton stalk into a wrap for cotton bales. The capital stock of tbe eompany will at the beginning be ?500,000, but the charter asks tbe privilege of increasing: this to $5,000,000. Tbe process wilt necessitate decorticating machines at points uear the fields where there is a supply of clear running water. Here? the stalk is quickly changed into bat ting, and can then be baled and ship ped to tbe factories, where it will be spun aud woven, after which it is ready to be rolled and sent to the market. Until beyond question it is settled that cotton stalk bagging is in every way acceptable and desirable as a covering: for the fleecy staple the operation of the process will be confined to Augusta. 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