The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 07, 1894, Image 8
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, 1894.
THE COUNTRY ON BED BOCK.
The .further decline in wheat last
week again broke all records and
elicited the wails of agriculturist OD
Hungarian plains and Western prai?
ries, and farmers io the valley of
- the Thames stood aghast as they com?
puted the loss on every acre they had
planted with the cereal.
Of course the price of a commodity
cannot permanently remain below the
cost of production, and the world's
yield of the cereal is certain to be
sharply reduced next year. On Fri?
day and Saturday prices advanced
smartly, and a large amount was bought
here for export, giving rise to a hope
that the turn has come at last.
Oar other great exportable staple,
cotton, however, continued to fall, and
' on Saturday sold at the almost incre?
dible price of less than 5J cents a
pound. At this rate the planters of
the South may begin to clamor for
lower rates from the railways, just as
the wheat growers of the West did a
few years ago when the price of grain
began to fall.
The reduced demand for our great
staples in the world's market and their
lower prices must have -far reaching
consequence. Ten years ago the cot?
ton we exported paid for all our coffee
and sugar and left a handsome surplus
to our credit. At present our exports
of both cottoo and wheat just about pay
for the coffee and sugar we import.
Moreover, the demand for the greatest
of all oar exportable commodities
securities-has ceased altogether.
For years we had the use of too much
foreign capital and our pace was too
fast. From the billion dollar Congress
down to the salaried clerk there was too
mach extravagance, and in the manage?
ment of corporate properties too mach
ballooning and downright fraud and
theft. And now Europe needs less cf
oar breads taffs, and will take our cotton
only at unprecedented prices and won't
take oar railroad securities at all. The
billion has collapsed, and we are down
OD terra firma. The travelling is a bit
rough for the time being, bat we have
solid ground ander foot and already have
pat behind as the worst bit of road.
Poring the greater part of last week
th? lack of export demand for bread
staffs, with attendant scarcity of com?
mercial bills and consequent necessity
for exporting gold, exerted a depressing
influence ?poa trade and sp?cul?t?ve
circles. Only $1,000,000 of the pre?
ci?os metal was sent abroad, and if
purchases of wheat should continue we
may be able to avert a farther efflux.
The dalne8S of trade and the continued
accumulation of silver and paper money
at this centre exert a continuous pres?
sure to drive gold oat of the coan try.
City banks, as shown by Saturday's
statement, now hold more than $62,
500,000 in excess of their required
reserve.-N. Y. Herald. -
THANKSGIVING TO GOD.
The President Sets Apart Nov. 29
as Thanksgiving Day.
Washington. Oct. 31.-The Presi?
dent today issued the following :
By the President of the United States
of America-A Proclamation.
The American people should grate?
fully render thanksgiving and praise
to the Supreme Ruler of the universe,
who bas watched over them with kind?
ness and fostering care during the year
that has passed ; they should also with
humility and faith supplicate the Father
of all mercies for continued blessings, j
according to their needs, and they
should, by deeds of charity, seek the
favor of. the giver of every good and
perfect gift.
Therefore I. Grover Cleveland, Presi?
dent of the United States, do hereby
up poi ot and set apart Thursday, the
29th day of November inst., as a day
of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept
and observed by all the people of the
land. On that day let our ordinary
work and business be suspended, and
let us meet at our accustomed places
of worship and give thanks to Almighty ;
God for our preservation as a nation, j
for our immunity from disease and j
pestilence, for the harvests that have
rewarded onr husbandry, for a renewal j
of national prosperity, and for every \
advance io virtue and intelligence that
have marked our growth as a people.
.And with our thaoksgiviog, let us ;
pray that these blessings may be mul- \
tiplicd unto us, that our uatiooal coo
science may be quickened to a better !
r?cognition of the power and goodness |
of God, and that io our national life j
we may clearer see and closer follow the j
path of righteousness.
And in our places of worship aod
praise, as well as io the happy reunions j
of ki?dred and frieods OD that day, let
08 invoke Divine approval by generous- i
ly remembering the poor aod needy.
Surely He who has given us comfort
and plenty will look upon our relief of
the destitute aod our ministrations of
charity as the work of hearts truly
grateful, aod as proofs of the siocerity of
our thaoksgiviog.
Witoess my hand aod seal of the
United States, which I have caused to
be hereto affixed. Done in the city of
Washington on the first day of Novem?
ber, in the year of our Lord eighteen !
hundred and ninety-four, and of the
independence of the United States the
one hundred and nineteenth.
(Signed) GROVSR CLEVELAND. ?
By the President : j
W. O. Gresham, Secretary of State, i
HAZED AND HANGED.
HYATTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 1.-Edwio
Gott, jr., sou of the Secretary of State,
is dangerously ill from the effects of haz?
ing and a number of students at tbe
Maryland State Agricultural College
are very much worried over his con?
dition. One evening last week the stu?
dents organized a moot court, tried j
and convicted Gott of a heinous crime, j
and proceeded to execute the sentence
of hanging. A rope was placed around
his chest, thrown over a transom and
the victim was hauled up and left
hanging for some hours. Gott was very
much frightened but offered no resist?
ance. He appeared at breakfast on the
following morning apparently unin?
jured, but later io the day become vio?
lently ill. He has bad several spasms
and becomes weaker after each attack.
It is supposed that the fright has shat?
tered his nervous system, and the fac?
ulty have grave fears of his recovery.
Half a dozen of the students are kept
in close confinement awaiting the re?
sult of Gott's injuries.
C J. .Stillwell, a private detective
of San Francisco, Cal , has made a
motion for the arrest of six thousand,
who he claims, have registered illegally.
Four robbers went through a box
car at Clintoo, Ia., last week in which
sixteeu tramps were beating their way.
The robbers, strange to say, obtained
$400 and two watches.
Wheo the McKinley tariff tax was
enacted, the promise and plea of justi?
tiellen by the Rads were that it was
for the benefit of the toilers, the opera?
tives, to give them higher wages. But
the promise was not kept, fell to the
ground. Wages were not increased.
Mark it. In 1891 and 1892. soon
after the law passed, there were actually
some 1,200 strikes.
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