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tbe immediate and unconditional rej
of the Shermau law. Why ? Beca
with the Sherman law ont of the w
the next step is to fix the gold stands
and the chief movers have good rea
to bel ?eve that they can force congi
to issue $300,000,000 of golds bondi
replenish the gold reserve.
It is a great programme, and if i
carried out it will stand in history
the most stupendous and extraordin;
scheme of robbery that has been und
taken in modern times. It will cai
more wide spread distress than war
famine, and ten thousand pantos cam
measure the suffering it will give rise
It will be a splendid victory for I
money power-for the national ban
But what are the people goiog- to
about it ?-Atlanta Constitution.
Prepare Your Rye Lands.
Now is th'1 time to sow your rye
green feed for next spring. If so?
now it will be ready to cut by the 21
of April. Rye is a first-class hay ere
and is the best crop for early green fo
for stock, for there is no danger frc
scours, and it is three weeks earlier tb
.any other crop you can grow for tl
purpose, so prepare your land and sow
least two acres, but do not make t
.cow mon mistake of sowing on poor lan
for you will not make an early crop Sc
your rye now, and manure it this wint
at the rate of forty loads of manure
the acre, and you can plant the land
corn after the rye is off. This syste
of intensive farming is far better th:
the old way by which a piece of lai
was idle half the time. Some farme
say you will exhauts your land, as it ca
not stand two crops in one year. Wh
is the difference between a crop of r
and weeds, and a crop of rye and corn
The weeds exhaust the vitality of tl
land as much as the corn, so hadn't y<
better grow a crop of rye and corn ai
keep down the weeds ? The rye can 1
used as a starting crop for clover i
grass, which can be sowed with it, ai
when the rye is cut the land can 1
given up to the grass crop.
The decision of Judge Simonton i
the U. S. Court at Greenville, S. C
Monday, is a big point scored by th
opponents of the State Dispensary la?
it is practicality a decision that tl
railroads running into that State ba?
the right to carry and deliver package
of liquor from any point outside of til
State at any point inside of it. Tb
court decided that the section of tb
Dispensary law under which proceeding
were instituted were in violation of th
State Constitution, which prohibits die
crimination between classes of citizens
and also in violation of the InterStat
Commerce act. The dispensary pro
habiting mandate assumes that the rail
road authorities and employes knen
what is in every package they ship o
deliver, which they may or may not
for if it is the purpose to evade the lav
articles may be >hipped under othe
names, but in this case the claim wa
broadly made by. the railroad whicl
brought the action that it had the -igh
under the Inter-State Commerce act ti
carry liquor, and deliver it to any ont
ordering it. This decision was ii
accordance with decisions rendered ii
the prohibition States of Kansas ant
Iowa, where the courts sustained th<
right of the railroads to deliver un
broken packages of liquor to purchaser!
who imported from other States, and t
it goes to the Supreme Court it will
sustain the Greenville Court.-Wil?
mington Star.
The McKinley law has played havoc
with our trade with Mexico Prior tc
its enactment 5G per cent, of Mexican
imports were from the Uoited States
But that law imposed heavy duties on
silver-lead ore which up to the time ol
its enactment had been shipped to the
United States to be smelted. The tax
was imposed at the demand of a group
of mine owners in Colorado who made
genereou3 contributions to the Harrison
campaign fund in 1888. Its effect has
been to create a heavy smeltiug indus?
try in Mexico ; to cause a transfer of
$10,000,000 of American capital to
(hat country ; to deprive the interna?
tional railroads of a valuable and
growing trafile, and to induce Mexico
to retaliate by increasing its tariff on
American goods, thus raising new
obstacles to prevent a free interchange
of products
We feel much relieved since we found
out how the crisis has been brought
about. Bill Nye makes the matter as
plain as the noonday sun. He says :
.'The engorgement of the channels of
trade with over-production of unearned
increment over the percentage of former
years, and making the bimetallic and
baser metals subservient to gold and the
reserve of gold and paper money the
general funeral currency and noticeable
hesitation of goods to go out during the
season of mourning, together with
shrinkage of values of things you have
got, while things that you want real
bad become suddenly of great value,
causes what you might call stagnation
of satisfaction anda general revival of
sadness in the realms of trade.
Gov. Tillman as the tail to the
j Augusta Kite at Chicago had a re?
ception and made a speech He assuru
ed the roll of seer and prophesied that
Chicago would be the biggest town on
earth. He spoke of having to travel a
thousand miles to "get thar" and ex?
pressed some surprise at the bigness of
thiscountty. He apologized for South
Carolina not being represented, but the
apology is not given If he had read
from "Shell's Manifesto" writteu by
himself all would have been plain.
To keep ice in the sickroom over
night set the pitcher in a newspaper,
gather up the ends, twist them tight
and snap on a rubber band
A Prophecy Fulfilled.
What Mr. Cleveland Said Eight Years
Ago and What Has Happened
Mr. Cleveland is too greata man
to come down to "I told you so,"
but it is a striking coincidence that
some of h is message contain the very
wording of that message which he
eent to congress in December eight
years ago, foretelling the very dis?
aster that has come to pass if the
country persisted in its silver course.
In that message eight years ago,
speaking of the monthly coinage of
two million dollars a month of silver,
he said.
"Continued long enough, this opera?
tion will result in the substitution
of silver for all the gold the govern?
ment now owns. The proportion of
silver in its certificates received by
the government (custom duties) will
probably increase as time goes on,
for the reason that the nearer the
period approaches when it will be
obliged to offer silver in payment of
its obligations, the greater induce?
ment there will be to hoard gold
against depreciation in the value of
silver, or for the purpose of specula?
ting. When the time comes that
gold has been withdrawn from circula?
tion, then will be apparent the differ?
ence between the real value of the
silver dollar and a dollar in gold, and
the two coins will part company."
Notwithstanding this warning, the
Sherman bill was passed in 1890 and
Republicans and silver Democrats
alike flouted the prophecy of Mr.
Cleveland, the realization of which
is now found in the terrible financial
strain accompanied by closed factor?
ies, unemployed workmen and all the
other attendants of a panic.
Since some of the Churches have
begun turning out their members for
selling whiskey wouldn't it be just as
well to apply the discipline to the mem?
bers who get drunk on whiskey ? Bot
the trouble there might be the drinking
members might be in the majority and
torn out the teetotalers and moderate
drinkers and have the preacher depend?
ent for bis salary OD the intemperate
communicants. That would be a rather
uncomfortable position, and, possibly,
it would be .just as well to let the whole
business alooe, because the drinking
members might take ii into teeir bead to
discipline their preacher.-Cheraw Re?
porter.
John M. Langston, colored, a poli?
tician of Virginia, in a speech in Chi?
cago the other day declared himself
in favor of an educational qualification
for colored men, a* a requisite to right
to vote. Re said no negro ought to
be allowed to vote who cannot read and
write. The Republican press didn't
skin bim, although they went red-eyed
for the Legislature of Mississippi when
it adopted an educational qualification
for white and back.
The report circulated some time ago
that Representative R C. Watts, of
Laurens, intended moving to the Cash
estate in Chesterfield county in order
that he might be eligible to succeed
Judge Hudson in the Fourth Circuit,
seems to have some truth in it. The
organ in Columbia bas lately given
publicity to the move and other papers
have mentioned it.
A close calculation shows the num?
ber of officials under the Dispensary law
to be five hundred at an average annual
salary of $500. A neat little army of
Knights of the Carolina Cocktail4. A
neat little sum of a quarter of a million !
"Make me clerk of the irons, let me
live upon the fruits of other mens
iodustry, and fatten upon the plunder
of the publie "-Laurens Advertiser.
The best evidence that the people
have not caused the stringency by hid?
ing away money in their socks is that
the people have noue to hide away, lt
is ooly the banks and moneyed class
who can hoard money; and they are
doing it, while the people sweat.
Augusta Chronicle.
We have but little hesitancy tn say?
ing that the man who would accuse
Judge Hudson of being bribed to ren?
der a decision will never be in want of
fried chicken for breakfast as long as
he can fiad one in his neighbor's coop.
-Union Times.
If money is too scarce as a circula?
ting medium and the government vaults
are overflowing with silver, why not
pay the pensioners in that metal. It
would be an effectual way of increas?
ing the circulation.
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come twenty-one years of :ige since tl**- last
General election. Also transfer? to those
who have changed place of residence.
W. S .JAMES,
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Dec 7.
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HORRORS OF THE STORM,
SIX HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Sereu Thousand People Totally Destitute.
Governor Tillman Issues his Proclama?
tion Appealing to thc Charitable.
Appalling Story of the Situation on
the Sea Islands.
AUGUSTA, Ga , August 31.-A spe?
cial to the Chronicle from Beaufort, S.
C., says : Over three hundred and
ninety dead bodies have been found on
thc islands about Beaufort and Port
Royal. Over two million dollars worth
of property has been wrecked Dear the
same points. Both of these are the
'irect result of the severe storm which
swept aloug the Atlantic coast Sunday
night. Every one of thc fifteen or
twenty islands lying around Port Royal
and Beaufort are steeped in sorrow.
OQ every door knob there is a bunch of
crepe and upou every hillside there arc
fresh made graves, some already filled,
while others are awaiting the bodies
that will be deposited in them just as
soon as some oue cati be found to per?
form the kind Christian act of shoveling
dirt upon the coffio.
The beaches, the undergrowth, (rees
and shrubbery, the marshes aud the in?
lets are turning up new bodies every
time aD investigation is made. Ot the
many disasters and devastations which
have visited this section of the country,
none have been half so horrible as those
which came Sunday. Already more
than 200 bodies have been found, and
those who are at all posted about the
country and the habits of the people in
the storm visited sections are confident
iu their prediction that the death roll
will run as high as 500 Some of the
people-aud they are among the best
people of this section of, the State-!
even place the loss at more than one !
thousand. j
There has not been an hour of any
day since the early hours of Monday
morning that a dead body has
has not becu found at some point
on one of the many islands.
s the waters recede aud the people
move deeper in the wreckage gathered
by the storm, thc ghastly pictures are
uncovered So frequent are the discov
eiies that the finding of a single body
attracts no attention at all. It takes
the discovery of at least a clomp of a
half dozen or more to induce the people
to show any feeling whatever.
It is around Beaufort and Port Royal
that the death rate was the graeatest,
but irf neither of the towns were many
lives lost. At Beaufort only coffins
were bought to supply the local demand,
while Port Royal got off even lighter.
Around the two towns there is a complete
chain oi islands, and it was upon these
that the black angel of death hovered
for hours Sunday night, leaving in his
path sorrow and desolation greater than
has ever visited the State before, even
in the bloody days of reconstruction.
STORY OF TUE STORM,
The storm was one of the most severe
the people of the coast have ever
known. This section of thc Atlantic
coast has been prolific in storms
storms that scattered death and destruc?
tion of property io their wake ; but the
weather- wise, th e oldest citizen, the
pilot, cannot retfall anything equaling
it. Wind, rain and hail and the ele?
ments seemed combined in their great?
est fury. The seas ran high and salt
water waves were driven by the heavy
winds as much as twenty miles inland.
Houses were blown away ; trees were
torn from thc earth, leaving holes big
enough to hide a freight irain. Vessels
were dashed against the breakers and
thrown upon the earth as much as five
miles from thc water edge. It was a
grand tableau, and those who passed
through it will never forget the expe?
rience of Sunday night
The storm began really Sunday morn?
ing. The day carno with heavy dark
clouds hanging over the ports. An
ugly wind started up about 10 o'clock
Sunday morning, blowing from the
northeast. It increased as the day
grew on, and about noon a cold, chilly
rain started. Long before dark the
people living aloug thc coast knew that
a storm was inevitable, but uone dream?
ed* of the great extent it assumed.
Late in the evening the wind took on
a great velocity, and as the night ad?
vanced the velocity of the wiud in?
creased until it attained a speed of 130
miles an hour at 3 o'clock, and this is
about thc time the City of Savannah
went ashore, it is believed by those
who have conversed with parties who
were aboard the vessel.
But it was not until the next morning
that the people knew of the great and
terrible danker through which they had
passed. The wind alone was a storm
which would have terrorized any com?
munity, but with the blinding rain and
vivid flashes nf lightning and deafening
peals of thunder, the hearts of the
stoutest wert; made to quail. No paint?
ing could give the faintest idea of the
night. Then is it any wonder that
among the three hundred or more who
lost their lives that night, one, a lady,
should have died from sheer fright?
All through the night husbands
guarded their wives and children, as if
protecting them from some deadly foe.
All up and down the coast, in the farm
houses, io boats, thc people walked to
and fro, each minute expecting death,
and all the time praying for deliverance
in many instances people left their
homes and lashed themselves to trees to
prevent being blown away. The vessels
on th" waters rode mad waves with
anchors dragging along as though the
auchors were tnr.de ot cork and not of
iron.
AFTER Tl IK STORM
With the dawti of .Monday the raitt
ceased and the winds began to subside.
The ?un caine ont, and the skies became
blue and '.! ar. There was nothing in
the morn n? io in?,;cate thc terrible
story of the night booro. But scatter?
ed through the streets of Beaufort, Port
Royal and th.- other towns along thc
coast atid along the hanks of the rivers
were evidences of the great fury of the
storm of Sunday night. IIOUSCP were
found whole and in pieces miles away
from their foundations ; steamships
wore resting upon dry land ; trees were
twisted, plaited, and scattered about
while at intervals dead bodies
found, and aver and anon the \
would cast up one or inore li
forms, distorted and bruised.
At first no one thought of givin
tention to anything or anybody ou
of his own needs, but as tho
bodies multiplied the Good Sama
feeling grew, and by noon every or
the chain of islands about this plac<
become a grave digger. It wa9
pick and the shovel alone which
in demand and the number of
prevented any unstained use of l
tools.
All during the day Monday
bodies began to multiply so raj
that the coroner was compelled to s
in a half dozen deputies-one for
of the islands where deaths were
ported. One of these deputies he]
inquest over seventy eight people,
while the inquest was being held se
ty-eight graves were being dug
seventy-eight dead bodies, swollen
fast decomposing, were waiting it
ment at the hands of their white
colored friends who escaped death
uarrowly.
A glance at the map will show
around this place are some tw<
islands. Some of these are very sn
with only one or two families In
thereon, while others are larger and
cummodate as many inhabitants
4,500. Some of these not beiog he
frota at all, while oo those which h
been "spoken" there was a single
which did not increase the dead r
On some of these thc death rate
large, but in many instances the nat
of the dead cannot be ascertained, rn;
of them being beyond recognition wi
found, while others were buried as
known because no one was present v
could ideutify them
A citizens meeting was held t
morniug, at which a committee was
pointed to hurry the work of cleani
up the town, and another committ
with Collector of Customs liol
S m ai ls as chairman, to issue a pul
appeal to the conutry. Coilector Sms
confirmed thc sad story of death a
devastation. He said : "This addr
embodies what I would say to you, a
if you will send it lo thc country
large, by meaos of the Associai
Press, you will greatly facilitate us
securing thc aid that is imperativ*
needed-" The address is as follows :
THE APPEAL OF ROBERT SMALLS.
BEAUFORT, S. C , Aug. Si, 1893.
lt becomes my painful duty to appe;
through you, to the friends of humaui
for aid for the sufferers from the cyclo
i which passed over this section ou Su
J day night. Every wharf and war
i house has been demolished, wiudo
j shattered, houses unroofed and ire
thrown down. While full accouu
have not yet come in, yet enough ha
come to say that the loss of life ai
property has been truly appal ii n
Within a radius of twenty miles, b
tween 400 and 500 lives have beeu loi
On the Island of St. Helena, proverbi
for thrift and enterprise, already ov
150 have been reported drowue
From everywhere comes news of nous
having been swept away and crops ti
tally destroyed. These sea islands ai
the homes chiefly of negroes, who, t
thrift and industry, have made thea
selves homes, with none to molest c
make them afraid. In one night a
have been swept away. They are no
i homeless and almost naked. Their bec
ding, furniture and clothes have bee
carried off by the angry waves. Whii
writing, in this town, thc rain is dc
stroying what has been snatched frot
the sea.
We earnestly ask for aid in feedin
and clothing thVhuogry and naked.
[Signed] ROBERT S?IALLS,
Collector and Chairman of the Citizens
Committee.
EQUAL TO DEVASTATION OF WAK.
The damage to the phosphate industry
to chipping, warehouses, commerce
merchandise, dwellings and crops aroum
Beaufort and Port lloyal will go to tw<
million dollars; add a million fo
Charleston, another for Savannah, ant
the damage to the railroad and steam
ship companies, and there is a grant
total of something like (ive millioi
dollars and six hundred dead bodies a:
the fruit of Sunday night's blow in :
stretch of a hundred miles on the Geor
j gia and South Carolina coast. It h
? equal to the devastation of war : ant
these are the figures given be conscr
vativc men.
Proclamation of the Governor.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 31, 1893.
Proclamation,
Having received the following tole
grant from J. H. Averill, receiver ol
the Port lloyal and Augusta Railroad
Company, conveying the startling intel?
ligence of an appalling loss of life and a
terrible state of destitution upon the
islands on the coast of this State result?
ing from the terrible hurricane which
thc Alminghty in His judgment has
visited upon the people of the South
Atlautic States, causing universal
suffering :
"YKMASSEK, S. C., Aug ol.
"To Hon. B. R. Tillman,
"Governor of South Carolina :
"The IOJJS of life by the recent cyclone
on the islands adjacent to Beaufort ami
Port Roya; will ti um ber not less t han 000
people There are 8,000 people on the
islands entirely destitute of provisions,
all they had being washed away aud
their crops entirely lost. Great destitu?
tion will prevail among them unless they
have speedy relief In am working
night ami day to open up communica?
tion, and hope to have trains into Beau?
fort, not. later than Monday next.
Please address any reply you have to
mc at Yemassee, from which point it
will be forwarded by railroad.
" J II. AVERILL."
Now, I, B R. Tillman, Governor of
the State of South Carolina, neting in
my official capacity, and for the bc* I in?
terests ot thc people of this common?
wealth, do issue this, proclamation, and
call upon the people throughout the
length and breadth of the State to come
to tho aid of their suffering
Mow-citizens.
The fact, that these are poor colored
farmers whose homes have been ruined
and crops destroyed, appeals with pecu?
liar force to every right-thinking person.
The general loss in Charleston and elese
whare is great, but other communities
can take care of themselves
Contributions can be made in money,
food, clothiog and other necessaries of
life sufficient to meet the present emer?
gency. Money contributions can besent
to the Bank of Beaufort, subject to the
draft of a general relief committee,
which I will appoint at the earliest pos?
sible moment with headquarters at Port
Royal.
I call upon all classes of people, both
white and colored, to come hastily to the
relief of these unfortunate people.
I would suggest that church, charita?
ble and philanthropic organizations col?
lect their contributions at the various
railway station?, to be shipped to Port
Royal as soon as the railroad is repaired.
Full directions? will be given through
thepress later on ; and remember, "He
gives twice who gives quickly, under
these circumstances.
B. R. TILLMAN,
Governor of South Carolina.
Gov. Tillman has telegraphed Mr.
Averill that prompt measures for the
relief of the sufferers will be taken and
asking him to suggest seven persons of
Beaufort and Port Royal, two at least of
whom shall bc negroes, whom he can ap?
point at once on the general relief com?
mittee.
Where the Panic Came From.
It has been discovered that the com?
pliments which the Wall street and
gold bug organs paid to the speech of
Senator Voothees were premature. The
compliments were based on the fact tele?
graphed abroad that the senator is in
favor of the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law. Mr. Voorhees has his own
reasons for taking that position, but
his whole speech from begiuning to end
-every fact given, and every argument
made-is in direct opposition to the de?
mand for unconditional repeal. For
this reason the organs of Wall street are
revising their first effusive endorse?
ments of the speech.
Nevertheless, The Constitution main?
tains that Senator Voorhees made a
good speech. If not a great effort, it
is a strong one It fairly bristles with
facts that te!! against the Wall street
and goldbug policy. Thc only difficulty
about it is that the senator's facts aud
arguments do not fit his association with
the democratic minority.
Senator Voorhees traces this'whole
panic and all the manufactured clamor
against (he Sherman law straight to
Wall street, where it began in an effort
on the part of a syndicate of national
banks to compel the government to issue
bonds. These Wall street bankers and
their agents. Senator Voorhees declares,
to use his own words
Startled the country and they flooded
the worfd with the cry that American
gold was running away from the silver
blasted country, chased out by silver
money, and that there was no way to
lure it back except to bait plentifully
with government bonds. The Sherman
act was made to do double duty and
charged with grave offenses in which it
had no part. The gold shipments were
to be accounted for as part of the plot
lo sack thc treasury, which was to. be
accomplished by a concerted outcry from
terror-stricken business circles and
from thc whole national banking
system that nothing could restore con?
fidence and credit save the issuance of
?800,000,000 of bonds.
The scheme was deeply laid and well
planned. It began during the last
months of Harrison's administration,
and had its origin in a remark made by
Secretary Charles Foster at a gathering
of Wall street bankers at Delmonico's.
Foster declared that the treasury notes
issued under the Sherman law would be
redeemed in gold on demand-that the
secretary would forfeit his discretion in
the matter and allow the holders of the
notes to interpret and administer the
law. This cue was uot lost on the bank?
ers, and it was not. many days before
they had formed a syndicate with a view
tu. draining the' free gold" out of thc
treasury io order to force the govern?
ment to issue 4 per cent bonds.
If this scheme had panned out, it
would have placed a pretty little plum
in the pockets of the syndicate. The
amount of bonds demanded and expected
was $50,000,000 These bonds taken
at par by the bauks could have been
resold at a premium of 14 per cent,
quite a suug little sum. Foster, who
is now a disgraced bankrupt, weut so
far as to set the engraver of the treas?
ury at work on the plates for the bonds,
but thc scheme of thc banks was ex?
posed by Treasurer Nebcker, and
President Harrison put his foot on it
with a violence that was as unexpected
as it was fortunate.
The bank syndicate relaxed its efforts
and practically surrendered. But it
had set the ball in motion The sur?
plus gold in the treasury was reduced
to the $100,000,000 reserve, which had
been regarded as thc danger point, and
lhere was au uneasy feeling in Wall
street. Thc bubble of thc Cordage
trust, so fearfully blown under the
auspices of the "respected business men
of the stock exchange"-"our Chris
taiu financiers," to employ the descrip?
tion of a metropolitan editor-suddenly
exploded, and thc shock of the concus?
sion burst other speculative bubbles,
and at once Wall street found itself
with a panie on its hands.
.Meanwhile another factor had ap?
peared on the scene England, Fiance,
Austria, Russia and Germany found it
necessary to replenish their stocks of
gold, and their eyer: were turned to
this country where the Wall street bank
syndicate was engaged in draining I he
gold out of the treasury Where the
syndicate left off, the agents of foreign
banks began operations Our readers
will remember how the telegrams told
of gold sent abroad by Lazzard Feres.
Iklehoimer & Whack em bau in, Hoe
henheimer & llickolsteiu and* the rest.
We may get the names wrong, but the
flavor in there.
The? the cry was set np that the
Sherman law was the cause of the gold
exports, and the organs began to
demand its repeal, lt was at (Ins point
that the Wall street bank syndicate
changed its ladies, lt ceased to draw
gold out of the treasury, but demanded
tbe immediate and unconditional rej
of the Shermau law. Why ? Beca
with the Sherman law ont of the w
the next step is to fix the gold stands
and the chief movers have good rea
to bel ?eve that they can force congi
to issue $300,000,000 of golds bondi
replenish the gold reserve.
It is a great programme, and if i
carried out it will stand in history
the most stupendous and extraordin;
scheme of robbery that has been und
taken in modern times. It will cai
more wide spread distress than war
famine, and ten thousand pantos cam
measure the suffering it will give rise
It will be a splendid victory for I
money power-for the national ban
But what are the people goiog- to
about it ?-Atlanta Constitution.
Prepare Your Rye Lands.
Now is th'1 time to sow your rye
green feed for next spring. If so?
now it will be ready to cut by the 21
of April. Rye is a first-class hay ere
and is the best crop for early green fo
for stock, for there is no danger frc
scours, and it is three weeks earlier tb
.any other crop you can grow for tl
purpose, so prepare your land and sow
least two acres, but do not make t
.cow mon mistake of sowing on poor lan
for you will not make an early crop Sc
your rye now, and manure it this wint
at the rate of forty loads of manure
the acre, and you can plant the land
corn after the rye is off. This syste
of intensive farming is far better th:
the old way by which a piece of lai
was idle half the time. Some farme
say you will exhauts your land, as it ca
not stand two crops in one year. Wh
is the difference between a crop of r
and weeds, and a crop of rye and corn
The weeds exhaust the vitality of tl
land as much as the corn, so hadn't y<
better grow a crop of rye and corn ai
keep down the weeds ? The rye can 1
used as a starting crop for clover i
grass, which can be sowed with it, ai
when the rye is cut the land can 1
given up to the grass crop.
The decision of Judge Simonton i
the U. S. Court at Greenville, S. C
Monday, is a big point scored by th
opponents of the State Dispensary la?
it is practicality a decision that tl
railroads running into that State ba?
the right to carry and deliver package
of liquor from any point outside of til
State at any point inside of it. Tb
court decided that the section of tb
Dispensary law under which proceeding
were instituted were in violation of th
State Constitution, which prohibits die
crimination between classes of citizens
and also in violation of the InterStat
Commerce act. The dispensary pro
habiting mandate assumes that the rail
road authorities and employes knen
what is in every package they ship o
deliver, which they may or may not
for if it is the purpose to evade the lav
articles may be >hipped under othe
names, but in this case the claim wa
broadly made by. the railroad whicl
brought the action that it had the -igh
under the Inter-State Commerce act ti
carry liquor, and deliver it to any ont
ordering it. This decision was ii
accordance with decisions rendered ii
the prohibition States of Kansas ant
Iowa, where the courts sustained th<
right of the railroads to deliver un
broken packages of liquor to purchaser!
who imported from other States, and t
it goes to the Supreme Court it will
sustain the Greenville Court.-Wil?
mington Star.
The McKinley law has played havoc
with our trade with Mexico Prior tc
its enactment 5G per cent, of Mexican
imports were from the Uoited States
But that law imposed heavy duties on
silver-lead ore which up to the time ol
its enactment had been shipped to the
United States to be smelted. The tax
was imposed at the demand of a group
of mine owners in Colorado who made
genereou3 contributions to the Harrison
campaign fund in 1888. Its effect has
been to create a heavy smeltiug indus?
try in Mexico ; to cause a transfer of
$10,000,000 of American capital to
(hat country ; to deprive the interna?
tional railroads of a valuable and
growing trafile, and to induce Mexico
to retaliate by increasing its tariff on
American goods, thus raising new
obstacles to prevent a free interchange
of products
We feel much relieved since we found
out how the crisis has been brought
about. Bill Nye makes the matter as
plain as the noonday sun. He says :
.'The engorgement of the channels of
trade with over-production of unearned
increment over the percentage of former
years, and making the bimetallic and
baser metals subservient to gold and the
reserve of gold and paper money the
general funeral currency and noticeable
hesitation of goods to go out during the
season of mourning, together with
shrinkage of values of things you have
got, while things that you want real
bad become suddenly of great value,
causes what you might call stagnation
of satisfaction anda general revival of
sadness in the realms of trade.
Gov. Tillman as the tail to the
j Augusta Kite at Chicago had a re?
ception and made a speech He assuru
ed the roll of seer and prophesied that
Chicago would be the biggest town on
earth. He spoke of having to travel a
thousand miles to "get thar" and ex?
pressed some surprise at the bigness of
thiscountty. He apologized for South
Carolina not being represented, but the
apology is not given If he had read
from "Shell's Manifesto" writteu by
himself all would have been plain.
To keep ice in the sickroom over
night set the pitcher in a newspaper,
gather up the ends, twist them tight
and snap on a rubber band
tbe immediate and unconditional rej
of the Shermau law. Why ? Beca
with the Sherman law ont of the w
the next step is to fix the gold stands
and the chief movers have good rea
to bel ?eve that they can force congi
to issue $300,000,000 of golds bondi
replenish the gold reserve.
It is a great programme, and if i
carried out it will stand in history
the most stupendous and extraordin;
scheme of robbery that has been und
taken in modern times. It will cai
more wide spread distress than war
famine, and ten thousand pantos cam
measure the suffering it will give rise
It will be a splendid victory for I
money power-for the national ban
But what are the people goiog- to
about it ?-Atlanta Constitution.
Prepare Your Rye Lands.
Now is th'1 time to sow your rye
green feed for next spring. If so?
now it will be ready to cut by the 21
of April. Rye is a first-class hay ere
and is the best crop for early green fo
for stock, for there is no danger frc
scours, and it is three weeks earlier tb
.any other crop you can grow for tl
purpose, so prepare your land and sow
least two acres, but do not make t
.cow mon mistake of sowing on poor lan
for you will not make an early crop Sc
your rye now, and manure it this wint
at the rate of forty loads of manure
the acre, and you can plant the land
corn after the rye is off. This syste
of intensive farming is far better th:
the old way by which a piece of lai
was idle half the time. Some farme
say you will exhauts your land, as it ca
not stand two crops in one year. Wh
is the difference between a crop of r
and weeds, and a crop of rye and corn
The weeds exhaust the vitality of tl
land as much as the corn, so hadn't y<
better grow a crop of rye and corn ai
keep down the weeds ? The rye can 1
used as a starting crop for clover i
grass, which can be sowed with it, ai
when the rye is cut the land can 1
given up to the grass crop.
The decision of Judge Simonton i
the U. S. Court at Greenville, S. C
Monday, is a big point scored by th
opponents of the State Dispensary la?
it is practicality a decision that tl
railroads running into that State ba?
the right to carry and deliver package
of liquor from any point outside of til
State at any point inside of it. Tb
court decided that the section of tb
Dispensary law under which proceeding
were instituted were in violation of th
State Constitution, which prohibits die
crimination between classes of citizens
and also in violation of the InterStat
Commerce act. The dispensary pro
habiting mandate assumes that the rail
road authorities and employes knen
what is in every package they ship o
deliver, which they may or may not
for if it is the purpose to evade the lav
articles may be >hipped under othe
names, but in this case the claim wa
broadly made by. the railroad whicl
brought the action that it had the -igh
under the Inter-State Commerce act ti
carry liquor, and deliver it to any ont
ordering it. This decision was ii
accordance with decisions rendered ii
the prohibition States of Kansas ant
Iowa, where the courts sustained th<
right of the railroads to deliver un
broken packages of liquor to purchaser!
who imported from other States, and t
it goes to the Supreme Court it will
sustain the Greenville Court.-Wil?
mington Star.
The McKinley law has played havoc
with our trade with Mexico Prior tc
its enactment 5G per cent, of Mexican
imports were from the Uoited States
But that law imposed heavy duties on
silver-lead ore which up to the time ol
its enactment had been shipped to the
United States to be smelted. The tax
was imposed at the demand of a group
of mine owners in Colorado who made
genereou3 contributions to the Harrison
campaign fund in 1888. Its effect has
been to create a heavy smeltiug indus?
try in Mexico ; to cause a transfer of
$10,000,000 of American capital to
(hat country ; to deprive the interna?
tional railroads of a valuable and
growing trafile, and to induce Mexico
to retaliate by increasing its tariff on
American goods, thus raising new
obstacles to prevent a free interchange
of products
We feel much relieved since we found
out how the crisis has been brought
about. Bill Nye makes the matter as
plain as the noonday sun. He says :
.'The engorgement of the channels of
trade with over-production of unearned
increment over the percentage of former
years, and making the bimetallic and
baser metals subservient to gold and the
reserve of gold and paper money the
general funeral currency and noticeable
hesitation of goods to go out during the
season of mourning, together with
shrinkage of values of things you have
got, while things that you want real
bad become suddenly of great value,
causes what you might call stagnation
of satisfaction anda general revival of
sadness in the realms of trade.
Gov. Tillman as the tail to the
j Augusta Kite at Chicago had a re?
ception and made a speech He assuru
ed the roll of seer and prophesied that
Chicago would be the biggest town on
earth. He spoke of having to travel a
thousand miles to "get thar" and ex?
pressed some surprise at the bigness of
thiscountty. He apologized for South
Carolina not being represented, but the
apology is not given If he had read
from "Shell's Manifesto" writteu by
himself all would have been plain.
To keep ice in the sickroom over
night set the pitcher in a newspaper,
gather up the ends, twist them tight
and snap on a rubber band
tbe immediate and unconditional rej
of the Shermau law. Why ? Beca
with the Sherman law ont of the w
the next step is to fix the gold stands
and the chief movers have good rea
to bel ?eve that they can force congi
to issue $300,000,000 of golds bondi
replenish the gold reserve.
It is a great programme, and if i
carried out it will stand in history
the most stupendous and extraordin;
scheme of robbery that has been und
taken in modern times. It will cai
more wide spread distress than war
famine, and ten thousand pantos cam
measure the suffering it will give rise
It will be a splendid victory for I
money power-for the national ban
But what are the people goiog- to
about it ?-Atlanta Constitution.
Prepare Your Rye Lands.
Now is th'1 time to sow your rye
green feed for next spring. If so?
now it will be ready to cut by the 21
of April. Rye is a first-class hay ere
and is the best crop for early green fo
for stock, for there is no danger frc
scours, and it is three weeks earlier tb
.any other crop you can grow for tl
purpose, so prepare your land and sow
least two acres, but do not make t
.cow mon mistake of sowing on poor lan
for you will not make an early crop Sc
your rye now, and manure it this wint
at the rate of forty loads of manure
the acre, and you can plant the land
corn after the rye is off. This syste
of intensive farming is far better th:
the old way by which a piece of lai
was idle half the time. Some farme
say you will exhauts your land, as it ca
not stand two crops in one year. Wh
is the difference between a crop of r
and weeds, and a crop of rye and corn
The weeds exhaust the vitality of tl
land as much as the corn, so hadn't y<
better grow a crop of rye and corn ai
keep down the weeds ? The rye can 1
used as a starting crop for clover i
grass, which can be sowed with it, ai
when the rye is cut the land can 1
given up to the grass crop.
The decision of Judge Simonton i
the U. S. Court at Greenville, S. C
Monday, is a big point scored by th
opponents of the State Dispensary la?
it is practicality a decision that tl
railroads running into that State ba?
the right to carry and deliver package
of liquor from any point outside of til
State at any point inside of it. Tb
court decided that the section of tb
Dispensary law under which proceeding
were instituted were in violation of th
State Constitution, which prohibits die
crimination between classes of citizens
and also in violation of the InterStat
Commerce act. The dispensary pro
habiting mandate assumes that the rail
road authorities and employes knen
what is in every package they ship o
deliver, which they may or may not
for if it is the purpose to evade the lav
articles may be >hipped under othe
names, but in this case the claim wa
broadly made by. the railroad whicl
brought the action that it had the -igh
under the Inter-State Commerce act ti
carry liquor, and deliver it to any ont
ordering it. This decision was ii
accordance with decisions rendered ii
the prohibition States of Kansas ant
Iowa, where the courts sustained th<
right of the railroads to deliver un
broken packages of liquor to purchaser!
who imported from other States, and t
it goes to the Supreme Court it will
sustain the Greenville Court.-Wil?
mington Star.
The McKinley law has played havoc
with our trade with Mexico Prior tc
its enactment 5G per cent, of Mexican
imports were from the Uoited States
But that law imposed heavy duties on
silver-lead ore which up to the time ol
its enactment had been shipped to the
United States to be smelted. The tax
was imposed at the demand of a group
of mine owners in Colorado who made
genereou3 contributions to the Harrison
campaign fund in 1888. Its effect has
been to create a heavy smeltiug indus?
try in Mexico ; to cause a transfer of
$10,000,000 of American capital to
(hat country ; to deprive the interna?
tional railroads of a valuable and
growing trafile, and to induce Mexico
to retaliate by increasing its tariff on
American goods, thus raising new
obstacles to prevent a free interchange
of products
We feel much relieved since we found
out how the crisis has been brought
about. Bill Nye makes the matter as
plain as the noonday sun. He says :
.'The engorgement of the channels of
trade with over-production of unearned
increment over the percentage of former
years, and making the bimetallic and
baser metals subservient to gold and the
reserve of gold and paper money the
general funeral currency and noticeable
hesitation of goods to go out during the
season of mourning, together with
shrinkage of values of things you have
got, while things that you want real
bad become suddenly of great value,
causes what you might call stagnation
of satisfaction anda general revival of
sadness in the realms of trade.
Gov. Tillman as the tail to the
j Augusta Kite at Chicago had a re?
ception and made a speech He assuru
ed the roll of seer and prophesied that
Chicago would be the biggest town on
earth. He spoke of having to travel a
thousand miles to "get thar" and ex?
pressed some surprise at the bigness of
thiscountty. He apologized for South
Carolina not being represented, but the
apology is not given If he had read
from "Shell's Manifesto" writteu by
himself all would have been plain.
To keep ice in the sickroom over
night set the pitcher in a newspaper,
gather up the ends, twist them tight
and snap on a rubber band