Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tue Only Feasible Plan. The New York Commen?ai Bulli discussing the three schemes whi it is alleged, the administration considering for the solution of financial problem, comes to the c elusion that the Stale bank, as far present indications go, is the o feasible one. These three scheu are, 1st, the restoration of the 1 status of silver by intematio agreement ; 2nd, remonetization the United States alone on some n ratio ; 3rd, an enlarged bank circu tion. The international agreement thinks dependent upon a change views by Mr. Gladstone who wedded to the rnonometal system, contingency which does not hold < much encouragement to those w hope for it. England will never agree to t double standard, because all ber tere8ts are the other way. She is bnyer of ?liver bullion, and while s has a market like India to dispose it and she can make aa much de profit by converting bullion at t market price into coin, and disposii of it at its coin value she is not goii to consent to any scheme the e-ffe of which would be to enhance t price of the white metal. She nc has it just where she wants it and s is going to keep it there if she ca As England will dominate the mor tary conferee, lt it is held, we ne? not look for anything from that. Italy is wrestling with financi tribulation and stagnant trade no for the want of 6ilver currency, whii is the principal money of that cou try. italy is not going to do an; thing to etihance the price of silv bullion. Germany has declined to send ar delegates to the conference, ai France, which is financially prospe otis and has more money per capita i circulation than any country in tl world, money actually in circniatioi too, not theoretically, is indiff?re! about it. What, then, may be expected fro the conference, if it sbonld be held Nothing It will end just where began, as the first conference did la year. The more pronounced of the frc coinage advocates v/ill not accej the suggested compromise of an ii creased ratio, but will make tli fight on the 16 to 1 If there Were bat those twoscherui presented and there was no othi hope for an increase of the volume < the currency than that offered b either one, tbe situation woald be very threatening one, for there i nothing to be expected from th former, and the Democratic party i very much divided on the lattei But there is fortunately a third piar and one that will, we think, commen itself to a majority of the peopl whether they be in favor of fre coinage or not It is practically substitute for free coinage,, and ? fiee from the objections that the anti free coinage men raise to that. I leaves the coinage question jua where it is and meets the demand o the people for more money indepen dent of more coinage. Referring ti this plan the Commercial Bullet!! says : ? "Enlarged banking facilities woul( meet the demand for more circulation and t! jy could be provided under ai entirely safe system. In 1892 it wa? necessary that the banks should lent the Government money, and a bauk ing system was devisedwhich accbm' plished that end. Now there is hfe?c of banks that will lend money lo the commercial classes, and such a sys tem can be provided. The coramer cial system of the country is now s< thoroughly unified that it would bc impossible for banks to keep /wild cat, and 'red-dog7 currency afloat ae some did sixty years ago The Sav annah News attributes the free silver sentiment of the South to the desire for more currency, and says, alluding to the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State bank circulation. 'If, how ever, a way were opened for increas? ing the arnonnt of the currency, the sentiment in favor of free silver coin age would lose whatever strength it h as 1 "The fact that some of the South em States have already passed bank? ing laws, in anticipation of the repeal of the 10 per cent tax, lends corro boration to the belief that the declara? tion of the Democratic National plat? form on this point expressed wide? spread sentrrrrerrt, ana" that the silver vote in the Llouse can be divided, and a bill repealing- th? Sherman Act and the 10 per cent, tax, with certain protective clauses7, might be passed. "Of the three schemes ?nder con? spiration tn Washington the last is far the most feasible, and at the pres? ent moment it appears to be the only one that is feasible." It would, perhaps be safe to say that nine tenths of the advocates of the State bank system |woa<id bc ad? vocates of ft e? coinage if trVere were no hope of establishing the banfc sys? tem. They might ?ot ail be in lavo: of the presen-? rapfio-, but the? would insist on coinage on some ratio, and they would take the present if they couldn't get coinage on ai?y other They are for free coinage, because they believe that it is the only way, ' without the banks, which promises j the increased circulation- which they ? deem essential to the businest pros- i perity of the country. From this standpoint, as a- master ,>f polities, :<side from mundary con ?ideratioi?8. it is gcf?d policy to favor the State bank scheme, and thus pla? cate and disarm a very strong ele? ment which would otherwise throw its weight and iufiuence with the fre# silver leaders, and make it, as Mr; Bland sometime ?go predicted, "a royal battle," With State banks popular interest in silver coinage will cease to be a factor of national importance and the agitation Will be practically couftnecf to the sliver States and to the peo? ple directly or indirectly interested in the production of silver. ?n tfie national arena while they might be loud they wottld make {mt a very, poor show when it came to a test of strength at the ballot box. The events ol the past few months during which the currency has been1 contracted many mi Hons, have dore much to strengthen the sentiment for State banks, with which in o. e ration there could be no such sudden and embarrassing- contractions of the currency, and consfquei t business* disasters.-Wilmington Star. Prohibition Prohibits iii Union. There is no dispensary in this townfj. and we have not heard a whisper of suspicion that there waa a blind riger" here. Sobriety and good order reign supreme in this beautiful town of Uoioo. A friend from tbe country l?st weeli told us that the good effect of clewing the barrooms in Union was very appar? ent in his neighborhood. He says there .9 no running to town every few days, by certain men, and g?>ing home ..f?ll,'' inside and out, and quarrelsome^ Instead of that th -ir crops are work ?cf better, and everything at nome atadf trouod them is moving a??ng quietly ind smoothly. It is practical prohibition here, and H s a very hippy state of affairs/ which we sincerely hope neither a dispensary tor ?'blind tigers" will interfere with - Union Times. Answering Important ?Sues* tions. A New York special to the Columbia* Journal nc the 8th says r The World interviewed near Iv all the members of Congress by telegraph onf the following questions: 1 Do vou, with your present in? formation, favor the repeal of the Sfrer man silver law ? \ 2. Do you favor an income tax ? 3. Do you favor the repeal of thtf State hank tax ? The World, iti reporting tfeeir ans? wers, says r Many of the answers de? viate so far from plain "yes" or "no," and involve so' many qualification's,' that no tabular statement would fairly represent the opinions they express. The important facts shown are that lo* the first question : "Do you, WitBf yoffr* present information, favor the repeal of th? Sherman silver lawf" there are* eighty-six representatives who say practically "yes,'' wbHe only eighteen4 say "no.* Ot the rest roany c^ia?if/ their answers so strongly that tue/ cannot fairly be placed' io tSe af&ma tive column, but show plainly that t?eif inclinations are in favor of a' repeat.' The sentiment of tfie lower' ?ouse on* that question seems to be o'verwS?lo/* ?og The World had already polled the* Senate on the silver bill, and oh 5?archr 6* h last printed" a table saWing rhjat the body stoodY For repeal, 3? J" against repeal, 28 ; non-committal, 16. It will be noticed that several who were non-committal then ard now i? favor of the repeal. There seems to be no doubt tftaf nearly two-thirds of tte1 Se J ate will vote that way. On the newer gestion of sm ioeooV .tax develops' an interesting' srttration. Many wbo speak freely as to the Sher-' man bill ev?'d? or ignore this question,* but forty-five say squarely t??y fatr?r ft." Forty-two say they do not. Southern and' Western Congressmen, are the most < ntftnerous advocates of .such a tax\ > On the State bWk fax" question the' opinion is almost as one-sided as in re? gard to the Sherman bill. Many dodge it entirely, bot si?ty say posi? tively against repealing the tax", While* only thirty favor a repeal. -**^?>-* ? ? . *f - feTectric Bitter*. Tb?s remedy" is becoming'so well knowa and* popular as to need no .special mentioTi. All who lui ve ?sed ET?ctrrc *iHiters\S$ng the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not ex? "?st nn&rE is' guaranteed to do all that is ?tai**i_ ed. EIec*rr? Sitters will cure all diseases of the liver and Eicfueys, will remove pimpte^y boils, jjwlt rfceum and other affections' caused hf ta?. : pure brood. Will df.yf WSriaria from the sys> tem and, prevent a? v*>eH si'.euro all malaria! fev vers For cure of h**d*che, constipation ana indigestion try Klottr*1? Bitters-^entire satis ?factieaguaranteed*! e-money refunded. Price 50 cents and $t per bottle at J. F. W. Ttos Lorine's drug store. S li S?ould'Be ** Every BLousey* i J. B. Wilson. 371 Ci:?yt St-, Sha psburg. Pa*/ saya he wi{i not be without Dr. King's New Dissever- f?>r Cons?impiU-n. Coughs and Colds, that it cured his wite who was threatened with:' PnewBowi?T after :vn a-ttaoV of "Ld Gripp?,** when VStrSmS other'remedies and several phy? sicians lind-' done, he?" no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport. I?a.,. cfoitns Dr.'KwigVNew Bte!, covery has done him m >re good than anything he ever used for Lung Tron?le. Nothing like it. Try it. Free Trial Buttles at B-eLurmeV Drug Storr*. Large bottles 50c and $1. 5 .-mm Iii" ~ For Over Fifty Yearsv MRS- WINSLOW'S SOOT?tas SYRCSP ?H9- beeV used for children teething. It 3?M?es tbe child, softens the gums, allays all pain, eurea wind colic, and is the best remedy for' Diar? rhea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. .- m am-'. FOR DYSPEPSIA, . v Indigesti?n, and Stomach, disorders, nae BROWN'S lRt>?r BITTERS. AU dealers keep it, SI per bottle. Genome ha** trade-mark and crossed red lines on wrapper? RHV>*?? TtiTKiilos rn re. hoarinrhe Highes? of all in- ?^eningTower.^Lat?st'IJ. S. Gov't Report1 ABSOLUTELY PURE LONG LIFE Is possible only when the blood is pure and vigorous. To expel Scrof? ula and other poisons from the cir? culation, the superior medicine is AYER'S Sarsaparilla. It imparts permanent strength and efficiency to every organ of the body. Restora? tion to perfect health and strength Results from Using AYER'S Sarsaparilla, Mary Schu? bert, Kansas City, Ks., writes: "I am convinced that after having been 3ick a whole year from liver com {daint, Ayer's Sarsaparilla saved my ife. The best physician. veing unable to help me, and having tried three other proprietary medicines without benefit, I at fast took Ayer's Sarsaparilla. The result was a complete cure. Since then I have recommended this medicine to others, and always with success " AYER'S Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, il ass. Cures others, will cure y ou Ripans Tabules are of great value. Office and Mills at Junction of J * BL ARR; Contractor and Builder, Sumter, S. C. DEALER IN Rough and Flared Lumber, Doors, Blinds, Sash, Laths, Cypress Shingles, Lime, Glass and General Building Supplies. IBU Work Of all kiBds made to order, such as MANTLES, DL'OR AND WINDOW FRAMES, STORE FRONTS, MOULDINGS AND TURNED WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. W. C. &. A.. and C. S. & N. R. R's. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK OP SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTEt?, S. C. Paid Bp Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 11,500 00 Transacts a Genera! Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annam. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, Joly and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President. Aug 7. Cashier. TU nus vinni SUMTER, a c. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business Also has A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1 00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annam, payable quarterly. W". F. B. HAYNSWORTH, W. F. RHAKI, President. x Cashier. H. A. HOYT, MAL* STREET. SUMTER, S. C. SOLO AND SILVER WATCHES, FINE DIAMONDS, Slocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, &c. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb. I A. WHITE & SON, ? Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED I860. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON * GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,?uO,O?O. Feb. 12 NOTICE. rpBE SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION 1 will be in his office on Salesday of each month, for the purpose of issuiag certificates of Registration to all persons who have be? come twenty-one years of age since the last General- election. Also transfers to those j who have changed place of residence. W. S. JAMES, Supervisor ol Registration. Dec. 7. "OLD RELIABLE* LINS. South Carolina Railway D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Rae**T?. Through service from saaebore to mountaiue. Passenger Department-Condensed vSchedule. In effect Ju\j 33, 1893. Lv. Cha: teston I 30 a m 5 45 p m Ar Columbia ii 15 a m 10 20 pm Lv Columbia $50 a m 4 20 pm Ar Charleston 1140 am 8 45 pm Pullman cars on trains to and from Ashe? ville, N. C., leaving Charleston 7 30 a m, and arriving at 8.45 p m. For folders, maps, etc., apply to E. P. WARING, Gen'l Pass. Agent. Charleston, S. C. Rip:ins Tabules : for liver trouble*. i GINS! i _ INSURE YOUR GINS -IN THE Plionix Assurance Company, OF LONDON; THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD That takes fire risks on Gins. For particulars, etc, apply to ALTAMONT MOSES, AGENT. P. S.-We do also a Gene? ral Fire Insurance Business, and represent the MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE of New York, the largest in the world. Aug. 17. Liberty Street Next to P. 0. SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Componodiog Prescriptions VALUABLE PREMIUMS -GIVEN AWAY. Ropp's Calculator, A valuable book for a Farmer and Business Man. A BEA?TIFTL COLUMBIAN SOUVENIR SPOON. Tie Weekly te' and Coiner. THE GRE AT* SOUTHERN FAMILY -N E W S P A P E R, Offers to every yearly subscriber EITHER of the above Premiums -ABSOLUTELY FR?.E ? Th? Weekly News and Cowier, 1 year (with Premium.) $1 00 The Weekly News and Courier, 6 months t without Premium. ) 50. -SK.tO you SAMPLE COPIES AMD CIRCULA SS, Address : Tie Weekly Neis ?! teer, CHARLESTON, S, C. OTTO F. WEITERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, A N D LIQUOR DEALER? OFFICE AND SALESROOM : 183 East Bay, Charleston, & C. Nov. 7-o G. W. DICE, D. D. S. Office over Levi Bros.' Store, ENTRANCE 0? MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S.C. Office Hours-9 to 1 ; 2,30,to 5 30. "Tlie Dispensary is a Fraud." The Rev. H. F Chrietzberg deliver? ed a lecture OD the liquor question and ! the dispensary at the Methodist Church Pacoiet. Spartan burg County, rece ut ly. He speke directly to the point, and handled liquor gelling, liquor sellers and the dispensar; without gloves. In the course of bis lecture he said : "If the Church of God was wholly true to itself the whiskey traffic would b3 wiped out from our land in two yeats from to-day. Can any consistent church member vote for a man to handle whiskey as a beverage ? I say not. Would you respect me as a min? ister if I waa running a bar room ? No, you would not. Would you respect a layman in your church who sold liquor ? Would you keep either in their places ? I say no. Why not ? Because it is wrong. Very well, if it is wrong for a Christian to sell liquor is it not equally wrong for a Christian to vote for licensing a man to do that which you confess that it is wrong for a God-fearing man to do ? Do you not see that by so doing you put this man on his way to committing a sin that you would not be guilty of doing ? Don't you know that Christ would not, if He was on earth, vote to put a man behind the counter to deal out death and destruction to his fellow man ? I tell you it is not consistent with Chris? tian life to aid or abet in any manner whatever the sale of intoxicants as a beverage. By saying you would have no confidence in a minister or a dea? con or a Christian who sold intoxica? ting liquor as a beverage, you say that a barkeeper has no right to be a Chris? tian. One cannot be both, and you to that extent, prevent the man from the saving of bis immortal soul. Can? not you see that you are more or less, responsible in this matter? i4How, in God's name, can you con? sistently vote to put a man in a place that will debar him from the doors of the Church? Hell is full of people to-day sent there by the members of the Church. If you see that right and nothing but right clusters around a thing it is your duty to stand by that thing and push it forward for all you are worth : it is, I say, not enough to say that you are a member cf the Church. You have a duty to your fellow man along this line and you neglect it at your peril. "We expressed ourselves at the ballot box. After hard fighting for many years we were at last allowed to test the matter at the ballot box. What was the result? We asked them for water, they gave us whis? key. This dispensary scheme is none of ours ; we do not want any such thing ; we want prohibition and no half-way measuse8. V.'e do not want to do any injustice to anyone. They say they did che best they could for us ; they may be conscientious, but they have, to say the least, sadly failed of their duty to the people, and I think they could have done more. "There are some good features con? nected with the law, such as closing up the bar rooms and dens of vice to entrap tbs feet of the young man, and this seems to satisfy a portion of the people, even avowed Prohibitionists, that it is a step in the right direction. But while t bis is good, and all right as far as it goes, it does not stop the evil of drink? ing. There is no prohibition in it. Just as much whiskey can be sold for beverage now as ever. We asked for prohibition, and we did not ask the State to take bold of the business aod give us dispensaries. We have beard that there are men in Charleston who have been going home to their wives and little ones and spending the evening with them since they oould not get whiskey who were heretofore " strangers to this sort of thing. Charleston is where I had my first fight on this question and where I swore e.ernal war and hatred against this thing. The dispensary is a. fraud. Whiskey is whiskey, no matter whether sold by a dispenser or the lowest grog shop. What does it matter to a man in bell whether he was sent there by the dispensary whiskey or the bar room whiskey ? South Carolina has always been dealing in whiskey by license ; now she takes the whole thing into her own hands through ber rulers, and tries to make a respectable business out of it. I did not vote for Tillman, but I viii say that I believe he is doing what he can to enforce the law ; so are the legislators, but [ can not stand any compromise. I will stand out for prohibition pure and simple if every member of the Church turns against me, and if I stand alone with no ODE to help me I will still fight for prohibition. I admire a man who is out and out for whiskey far more than any of these dilly-dallying kind of people who you do not know where they stand. When a man bas courage to express his con? victions he will make a good friend of the cause wheo he is converted over to the right side." mm II - "Cutting Down the Black Jacks.1' Wc have cut down one black jack sprout, Wade Hampton, aud filled his place with a magni&ceot oak, Jobo L M. Irby, and next fall we will cat down another black jack sprout, M. C. Butler, and fill his place with thc grca' est man South Carolina ever knew, 1>. ll. Tillman.'* These aro said to be the words used by B J. Johnston at the alliance educational meeting at Cedar Rock last week. It will be remembered that Mr. Johnston is trying to-ri do two parties-the democratic and tbinrd party. He was elected chairman of the- demo eratic party of this county last year and is trying to use his offioe to boo*t the third party. Wc don't think that he should pretend friendship to a thing that be really hates If be thinks tho democratic party is not for him to stay ia he should have courage and manhood eaough to relinquish his claims to tue chairmanship of that party in this county. If he thinks that a majority of the voters of the county think as he doe? and they want him for chairman let them goto the party they believe in and elect him.-PickenR Sentinel. California is just starting an immense beet sugar factory. ; Valuable to Farmers. Sulphur is the best known insecticide tn the world. It enters largely in all medicines which propose to kill germs Open a bottle of "King's Royal Germa-, teur" and the olfactories at ouce tell os that sulphur is the predominant element. Oar mother used to sul? phur us when we were youog aod Squires, of that school made famous by Dickens' humor, was not far wrong wheo he bad his boys take sulphur and treacle. My pear trees had commenced to blight. I took one peek of lime and six pounds of sulphur, mixed them weil, and then put the water on it. After slacking them I added a barrel of water and sprayed my trees, the leaves were covered with the sulphur and lime. Every time it rained I could smell the sulphur ; every close, cloudy day I could perceive it. Two applica? tions in May which consumed half a bushel of lime and twelve pounds of sulphur, stopped the ravages on twenty trees, and today I am shipping fruit of the best quality, which though unripe as yet (fop I am picking fruit to iighteo up the limbs) net me one dollar per bushel. I never saw trees do better, and though the blight looked at first as if ready to destroy fruit aud trees, I have it in check. ? think 1 have the plan. Less of the mixture would do The lime may not be of service, and cheap flour might do, as I attribute the virtue of the preparation to the sulphur, al through as I gather the fruit to day (the the 17th of July), the leaves and fruit are still spotted with the lime. It is a close day and the sulphur is plainly detected. It is the thing for all fruits aud vegetables that are hurt by insects. J. T. M. Peeples, July 17. The Big Columbia Mill. Very few people have any idea what a big thing the new Columbia Cotton Mill, is to be. It will perhaps be six or eight months before the mill begins operation, bot some idea of the capacity and extent of the project might he had from thc present work. To begin with, it is located on the upper side of the Canal near the Gervais street bridge. It is an L shape structure. The front is 412 feet, the main building is 104 feet wide. The wing nearest the Canal is 129 feet long and that fronting the east 139 feet which is to be extended to 387 feet. The main building is to be five stories high, and east wing three and four stories oo account of the slope in the ground. The company claim that the mill when'completed will be the largest mill in the State, and the largest duck? ing mill in tbe world. Work was started on the 16th of April, and the building is now beginning to look like something. It is the intention of the owners of the valuable property to spend at least $750,000. and in the purchase of machinery quality will be the first consideration. The machinery will be operated by motor power from the Columbia Canal, and quite an innovation in the shape of individual electric motors for every piece of I machinery will be introduced. Heat? ing and ventilating machinery will be used, and everything will be equipped with the very latest mechanism that can be had. Ducking and drills will be manufactured, and a specialty will be made of the heavy canvas. The capa? city of the mill will be the same as is expressed by about 45,000 cotton spindles. It is said that the mill will give employment to about 1,400 operatives, which means that about 5,000 people will be brought here by the new mill. It is the intention of the company to use as much native laboras possible. At the outset only a few experienced workmen will be brought here, and they will be expected to drill the native0 labor. Thc company has started the con? struction of 100 houses that are to be used by the operatives. The new town is being built in Lexington county, just across the river. Cotton Mills in the South. Editor Constitution-Pursuant to re? quest, I answer below your question : " Will the cotton manufacturing busi? ness be probably overdone by the building of so many new mills iu tbe South ?" Less than a year ago I was at Clemson College, in South Carolina, and was permitted to look over some o?d letters written by John C. Cal? houn, when in congress, to his brother, on a plantation in South Carolina Mr. Calhoun told his brother, in substance, that it would be necessary to find something else than cotton to plant, as the produc? tion of that staple would evidently be overdone at a very early date. Ile went oti to state that lie was con? firmed in bis opinion by the news he received from associates in congress that rn the year in which be wroie there would probably be the enor? mous production of 300,000 bales of colton. iln this day, when tho production reaches &,000,0()(> bales, h is plain that even Mr. Calhoun, in one in? stance at least failed to calculate correctly the increasing consumption of cotton goods. Besides thia yet increasing con? sumption, there are other reason ttaa-t, I to my mind, precludes thc possibility j ol overdoing the business of manu? facturing cotton in the Son-then* States. Previous to the es-fcaWisb- j ment of slavery in the South- on a-j basis that made it stilLe evervthiiis: ! else, the ?South prospered in manu? factures. In the Piedmont region of Virginia, the Carolinana ami Georgia the iron industry was in a prosperous condition in thc early part ol" this j century. The South Carolina railway wa?, when it v. :s built, one of the most important engineering achievements of its day. The first steam vessel1 that ever crossed the Atlantic oceaw! went out, of Savannah After slavery became a fixed instr tution it stifled all industrial growth, and as time went on in the daya of slavery the idea was put forward so much by Northern writers and rc peated so often without denial that came to be accepted as a fact th the Southern men were not inj?euioi or mechancial. But no sooner had slavery bec abolished and the political atmosphe ? become cleared than the Southei people again turned to manufacture and in Alabama and Georgia esta lished an iron industry that worri? Pennnsylvanian8 ; while in Nort and South Carolina,Georgiaand otb? States the manufacture of cotton bi attained an extent of developmei that worries the New Englanders i some lines. I can see no limit to the growth < cotton manufacturing in the So uti except when the end is reached < manufacturing the entire crop. Th Southern cotton factory has the advai tage of every other cotton lactory i the world. lu the days of slaven that institution was the one fatal di; advantage under which the Sout labored in anp effort at manufactn ing, and as matters stand I conside that the Southern man is just as cap; ble as his' Northern or English brotl er to take care of machinery, to ha: die labor and to attend to businesf He has the advantage over the Nort! erner and Englishman in the saving c bagging and ties, in the climate, i saving commissions, profits, freights waste, etc , on cotton sent to mill outside the South. The South ha cheaper fuel than the average of otl er manufacturing sections, cheape building materials, cheaper laboi practically unlimited water powei and the saving of cost of compresse cotton and of opening the compresse* cotton. These advantages are no matters of theory. Within a fe\ days a strike was ended in England in which fifteen millions of spindle stood idle more than four months, th milis and the labor being in a quarre about a 5 per cen?, raise or reductioi of wages. The men and the mill claimed alike that they could not liv? without the 5 per cent, in controver sy. If English mills have been reduce< to the necessity to follow up such J bitter fight for five per cent. whi!< the Southern mills have been running all during the strike and doing well it looks as if England would be drivel to the wall entirely before the South ern mills would be reduced to tin point of unprofitable operation. It ii not an existing Southern mill tba feels the competition of a nev Southern mill so much as English auc New England mills. Of course certain special lines o manufacture can be overdone by al the Southern mills being put on toe nearly the same class of goods. Tim has happened to a limited extent ir coarse plaids. Each new mill boil in the South should undertake to gel into some line of cotton goods noi much made in the South, particularly avoid doing exactly what other neigh boring mills are doing Years ago the New England papen said the Southern people could not successfully manufacture cotton When it had successfully done so tc an extent to put the fact past d -spute, they then said they could only make coarse goods. But as the years gc on the quality of goods made in thc South becomes finer and finer, and the success of the new factories con tinue8. It would seem to be only a question of time when the South will make as fine goods as any other man? ufacturing region in the country. In the process of development it would seem as if the apprehension of over? production was as groundless as was Mr- Calhoun's apprehension about the overproduction of cotton. In the manufacture of colton the South bas to ieiy, first, upon the con? stantly increasing consumption of cotton goods and, second, on the fact that she can produce cotton goods cheaper than Khgland or New Eng? land or any other country. The competition of the South with the South is the very thing to check the growth of cotton manufactures Certain lines may be temporarily over done from time to time, but in the general field the way is open to the South to go ahead for a long time to come. Think of fifteen million spindles standing idle in Manchester alone, when as yet in the three States ot North and South Carolina and Geor? gia there are about four and a half millions of spindles all told The South can start many a mill yet before its inimence ts very much felt and especially in lines of finer goods Even though the South is in position to survive in the competition with other sections, when it comes, that competition for existence is a fong way oft yet. D. A. THOMKIXS. Charlotte, N. C. -i i ? i mm In the last six months nine new cot? ton mills have been built in the South ontaiuing 100,000 spindles. Three things ruin a man. To know listleand talk tasen ; to have little and spend much ; aud to be worth little an? presume mach. Lo*doQR8 ?rea is larger than New York, Paris and Berlin put together, ara aroa which may be represented by a circle Ul) miles io diameter. A proposed reduction of 25' per cent LD the wages of coal miners m the midland district of Englaud?feas lcd to a str'rke of 050,000 mcD. The total internal revenise collec? tions for the past fiscal year were ???l, 002 000, an increase of ?7,145,000 over the year previous. Ot this increase nearly ?5.000,000 was paid by Ken? tucky. The Cotton Plant hints that Judge Hudson may have been bribed by thv ; Liquor Dealers' Association, This charge stamps thc accuser, not the ac? cused, with infamy.-Cowberry Ob? server. We have dispensaries run by the State to furnish Itqjuor and 5->w it. is proposed to- have depositories to furnish book? by the ??afe. Pretty soon bacon will be included ia the ono, newspapers in the other, and the remnant of liberty left in the land will be called in by the Governor -Spartan burg ii ci ali. Tue Only Feasible Plan. The New York Commen?ai Bulli discussing the three schemes whi it is alleged, the administration considering for the solution of financial problem, comes to the c elusion that the Stale bank, as far present indications go, is the o feasible one. These three scheu are, 1st, the restoration of the 1 status of silver by intematio agreement ; 2nd, remonetization the United States alone on some n ratio ; 3rd, an enlarged bank circu tion. The international agreement thinks dependent upon a change views by Mr. Gladstone who wedded to the rnonometal system, contingency which does not hold < much encouragement to those w hope for it. England will never agree to t double standard, because all ber tere8ts are the other way. She is bnyer of ?liver bullion, and while s has a market like India to dispose it and she can make aa much de profit by converting bullion at t market price into coin, and disposii of it at its coin value she is not goii to consent to any scheme the e-ffe of which would be to enhance t price of the white metal. She nc has it just where she wants it and s is going to keep it there if she ca As England will dominate the mor tary conferee, lt it is held, we ne? not look for anything from that. Italy is wrestling with financi tribulation and stagnant trade no for the want of 6ilver currency, whii is the principal money of that cou try. italy is not going to do an; thing to etihance the price of silv bullion. Germany has declined to send ar delegates to the conference, ai France, which is financially prospe otis and has more money per capita i circulation than any country in tl world, money actually in circniatioi too, not theoretically, is indiff?re! about it. What, then, may be expected fro the conference, if it sbonld be held Nothing It will end just where began, as the first conference did la year. The more pronounced of the frc coinage advocates v/ill not accej the suggested compromise of an ii creased ratio, but will make tli fight on the 16 to 1 If there Were bat those twoscherui presented and there was no othi hope for an increase of the volume < the currency than that offered b either one, tbe situation woald be very threatening one, for there i nothing to be expected from th former, and the Democratic party i very much divided on the lattei But there is fortunately a third piar and one that will, we think, commen itself to a majority of the peopl whether they be in favor of fre coinage or not It is practically substitute for free coinage,, and ? fiee from the objections that the anti free coinage men raise to that. I leaves the coinage question jua where it is and meets the demand o the people for more money indepen dent of more coinage. Referring ti this plan the Commercial Bullet!! says : ? "Enlarged banking facilities woul( meet the demand for more circulation and t! jy could be provided under ai entirely safe system. In 1892 it wa? necessary that the banks should lent the Government money, and a bauk ing system was devisedwhich accbm' plished that end. Now there is hfe?c of banks that will lend money lo the commercial classes, and such a sys tem can be provided. The coramer cial system of the country is now s< thoroughly unified that it would bc impossible for banks to keep /wild cat, and 'red-dog7 currency afloat ae some did sixty years ago The Sav annah News attributes the free silver sentiment of the South to the desire for more currency, and says, alluding to the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State bank circulation. 'If, how ever, a way were opened for increas? ing the arnonnt of the currency, the sentiment in favor of free silver coin age would lose whatever strength it h as 1 "The fact that some of the South em States have already passed bank? ing laws, in anticipation of the repeal of the 10 per cent tax, lends corro boration to the belief that the declara? tion of the Democratic National plat? form on this point expressed wide? spread sentrrrrerrt, ana" that the silver vote in the Llouse can be divided, and a bill repealing- th? Sherman Act and the 10 per cent, tax, with certain protective clauses7, might be passed. "Of the three schemes ?nder con? spiration tn Washington the last is far the most feasible, and at the pres? ent moment it appears to be the only one that is feasible." It would, perhaps be safe to say that nine tenths of the advocates of the State bank system |woa<id bc ad? vocates of ft e? coinage if trVere were no hope of establishing the banfc sys? tem. They might ?ot ail be in lavo: of the presen-? rapfio-, but the? would insist on coinage on some ratio, and they would take the present if they couldn't get coinage on ai?y other They are for free coinage, because they believe that it is the only way, ' without the banks, which promises j the increased circulation- which they ? deem essential to the businest pros- i perity of the country. From this standpoint, as a- master ,>f polities, :<side from mundary con Tue Only Feasible Plan. The New York Commen?ai Bulli discussing the three schemes whi it is alleged, the administration considering for the solution of financial problem, comes to the c elusion that the Stale bank, as far present indications go, is the o feasible one. These three scheu are, 1st, the restoration of the 1 status of silver by intematio agreement ; 2nd, remonetization the United States alone on some n ratio ; 3rd, an enlarged bank circu tion. The international agreement thinks dependent upon a change views by Mr. Gladstone who wedded to the rnonometal system, contingency which does not hold < much encouragement to those w hope for it. England will never agree to t double standard, because all ber tere8ts are the other way. She is bnyer of ?liver bullion, and while s has a market like India to dispose it and she can make aa much de profit by converting bullion at t market price into coin, and disposii of it at its coin value she is not goii to consent to any scheme the e-ffe of which would be to enhance t price of the white metal. She nc has it just where she wants it and s is going to keep it there if she ca As England will dominate the mor tary conferee, lt it is held, we ne? not look for anything from that. Italy is wrestling with financi tribulation and stagnant trade no for the want of 6ilver currency, whii is the principal money of that cou try. italy is not going to do an; thing to etihance the price of silv bullion. Germany has declined to send ar delegates to the conference, ai France, which is financially prospe otis and has more money per capita i circulation than any country in tl world, money actually in circniatioi too, not theoretically, is indiff?re! about it. What, then, may be expected fro the conference, if it sbonld be held Nothing It will end just where began, as the first conference did la year. The more pronounced of the frc coinage advocates v/ill not accej the suggested compromise of an ii creased ratio, but will make tli fight on the 16 to 1 If there Were bat those twoscherui presented and there was no othi hope for an increase of the volume < the currency than that offered b either one, tbe situation woald be very threatening one, for there i nothing to be expected from th former, and the Democratic party i very much divided on the lattei But there is fortunately a third piar and one that will, we think, commen itself to a majority of the peopl whether they be in favor of fre coinage or not It is practically substitute for free coinage,, and ? fiee from the objections that the anti free coinage men raise to that. I leaves the coinage question jua where it is and meets the demand o the people for more money indepen dent of more coinage. Referring ti this plan the Commercial Bullet!! says : ? "Enlarged banking facilities woul( meet the demand for more circulation and t! jy could be provided under ai entirely safe system. In 1892 it wa? necessary that the banks should lent the Government money, and a bauk ing system was devisedwhich accbm' plished that end. Now there is hfe?c of banks that will lend money lo the commercial classes, and such a sys tem can be provided. The coramer cial system of the country is now s< thoroughly unified that it would bc impossible for banks to keep /wild cat, and 'red-dog7 currency afloat ae some did sixty years ago The Sav annah News attributes the free silver sentiment of the South to the desire for more currency, and says, alluding to the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State bank circulation. 'If, how ever, a way were opened for increas? ing the arnonnt of the currency, the sentiment in favor of free silver coin age would lose whatever strength it h as 1 "The fact that some of the South em States have already passed bank? ing laws, in anticipation of the repeal of the 10 per cent tax, lends corro boration to the belief that the declara? tion of the Democratic National plat? form on this point expressed wide? spread sentrrrrerrt, ana" that the silver vote in the Llouse can be divided, and a bill repealing- th? Sherman Act and the 10 per cent, tax, with certain protective clauses7, might be passed. "Of the three schemes ?nder con? spiration tn Washington the last is far the most feasible, and at the pres? ent moment it appears to be the only one that is feasible." It would, perhaps be safe to say that nine tenths of the advocates of the State bank system |woa<id bc ad? vocates of ft e? coinage if trVere were no hope of establishing the banfc sys? tem. They might ?ot ail be in lavo: of the presen-? rapfio-, but the? would insist on coinage on some ratio, and they would take the present if they couldn't get coinage on ai?y other They are for free coinage, because they believe that it is the only way, ' without the banks, which promises j the increased circulation- which they ? deem essential to the businest pros- i perity of the country. From this standpoint, as a- master ,>f polities, :<side from mundary con Tue Only Feasible Plan. The New York Commen?ai Bulli discussing the three schemes whi it is alleged, the administration considering for the solution of financial problem, comes to the c elusion that the Stale bank, as far present indications go, is the o feasible one. These three scheu are, 1st, the restoration of the 1 status of silver by intematio agreement ; 2nd, remonetization the United States alone on some n ratio ; 3rd, an enlarged bank circu tion. The international agreement thinks dependent upon a change views by Mr. Gladstone who wedded to the rnonometal system, contingency which does not hold < much encouragement to those w hope for it. England will never agree to t double standard, because all ber tere8ts are the other way. She is bnyer of ?liver bullion, and while s has a market like India to dispose it and she can make aa much de profit by converting bullion at t market price into coin, and disposii of it at its coin value she is not goii to consent to any scheme the e-ffe of which would be to enhance t price of the white metal. She nc has it just where she wants it and s is going to keep it there if she ca As England will dominate the mor tary conferee, lt it is held, we ne? not look for anything from that. Italy is wrestling with financi tribulation and stagnant trade no for the want of 6ilver currency, whii is the principal money of that cou try. italy is not going to do an; thing to etihance the price of silv bullion. Germany has declined to send ar delegates to the conference, ai France, which is financially prospe otis and has more money per capita i circulation than any country in tl world, money actually in circniatioi too, not theoretically, is indiff?re! about it. What, then, may be expected fro the conference, if it sbonld be held Nothing It will end just where began, as the first conference did la year. The more pronounced of the frc coinage advocates v/ill not accej the suggested compromise of an ii creased ratio, but will make tli fight on the 16 to 1 If there Were bat those twoscherui presented and there was no othi hope for an increase of the volume < the currency than that offered b either one, tbe situation woald be very threatening one, for there i nothing to be expected from th former, and the Democratic party i very much divided on the lattei But there is fortunately a third piar and one that will, we think, commen itself to a majority of the peopl whether they be in favor of fre coinage or not It is practically substitute for free coinage,, and ? fiee from the objections that the anti free coinage men raise to that. I leaves the coinage question jua where it is and meets the demand o the people for more money indepen dent of more coinage. Referring ti this plan the Commercial Bullet!! says : ? "Enlarged banking facilities woul( meet the demand for more circulation and t! jy could be provided under ai entirely safe system. In 1892 it wa? necessary that the banks should lent the Government money, and a bauk ing system was devisedwhich accbm' plished that end. Now there is hfe?c of banks that will lend money lo the commercial classes, and such a sys tem can be provided. The coramer cial system of the country is now s< thoroughly unified that it would bc impossible for banks to keep /wild cat, and 'red-dog7 currency afloat ae some did sixty years ago The Sav annah News attributes the free silver sentiment of the South to the desire for more currency, and says, alluding to the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State bank circulation. 'If, how ever, a way were opened for increas? ing the arnonnt of the currency, the sentiment in favor of free silver coin age would lose whatever strength it h as 1 "The fact that some of the South em States have already passed bank? ing laws, in anticipation of the repeal of the 10 per cent tax, lends corro boration to the belief that the declara? tion of the Democratic National plat? form on this point expressed wide? spread sentrrrrerrt, ana" that the silver vote in the Llouse can be divided, and a bill repealing- th? Sherman Act and the 10 per cent, tax, with certain protective clauses7, might be passed. "Of the three schemes ?nder con? spiration tn Washington the last is far the most feasible, and at the pres? ent moment it appears to be the only one that is feasible." It would, perhaps be safe to say that nine tenths of the advocates of the State bank system |woa<id bc ad? vocates of ft e? coinage if trVere were no hope of establishing the banfc sys? tem. They might ?ot ail be in lavo: of the presen-? rapfio-, but the? would insist on coinage on some ratio, and they would take the present if they couldn't get coinage on ai?y other They are for free coinage, because they believe that it is the only way, ' without the banks, which promises j the increased circulation- which they ? deem essential to the businest pros- i perity of the country. From this standpoint, as a- master ,>f polities, :<side from mundary con