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The Cotton Problem. A Plan for the Cotton Grow ers' Consideration. NEW ORLEANS, Dec 27 -The fol? lowing open letter to Governor Stone cf Mississippi, who is president of the Cotton Growers' Association, will appear Friday morning in a number of newspapers in the cotton belt. It is a practical letter from one of Natchez's | most prominent, practical and success fal business men. NATCHEZ. Miss , Dec. 26, 1894, Hon. John M. Stone, Jackson, Miss.: j My Dear Sir : I learn through the ' public press that there will be a meet- ! ing of the Cotton Growers' Association, of which you are the honored president, j at Jackson, Mies., oo January 9. I also learn that the object of the conven- j lion is to promote the welfare of the agricultural class, particularly the cot- i too farmers, and to devise some way by which bia product may be enhanced in value and made remunerative. Some weeks ago, a convention of this j kiod met at Montgomery, Ala., passed j resolutions and adjourned without mak- j inp any progress towards the desired i end. If the convention to be held January 9th is for the purpose of listen- i ing to windy speeches of advice to the j armers, telling them what each and j everv one alreadv knows and to pa*s resolutions, it might as well not be held. What the fanner wants if not advice, but some plan presented by which the price of his product will be increased by the time his next cropjis ready for market. Nothing cao be done so far as the crop is coocerned ; it is so large as to have become unwieldy, and even if there could be, it would be of little benefit, as it has almost passed oat of the farmer's haods, or will have by the time the convention could take action With middling cotton selling to-day io New Orleans at five cents per poaod, the farmer at many interior points does not net more than four or four and one quarter cents, and aoless a material re? daction in acreage is brought about, this price will largely shrink before another year rolls around, bringing with it inevitable bankruptcy to the planters, merchants and all others con? cerned, if dependent opon ?be crop to pay their debts. While many of as last spring talked j of five ceo ts cotton this fall and winter, still very few really believed it. bat we find thc staple nearly one cent per poaod lower at many interior points and with a declining tendency, and no one knowing how mach lower it will go. . Many of our conservative merchants think th?- cotton acreage of the coming year will be as great as the past. Far? mers have the land and the mulet? and say that cotton is the only staple crop and the only one opon which they can get advances. This may be all true, bat if it is true and we should happen j to have as favorable a season as the ; past one, the Sooth will certainly be in j a wretched condition. Cotton sold on oar streets several different years before the war at three i aod-xi hilf cents p?r pocid. and I J know of eotire crops that only uetted : ?14 per bale. Now there is a remedy and it can be j worked out by your convention, pro- j vided they will undertake the actual work and not reply upon resolutions. I ; wouid suggest that the convention ap- ! point a committee to draw up a charter ! for the organization of an association ; throughout all the cotton States, also the bv-laws for the government of clubs to be formed in every county through? out the ctton belt, making eligible not only farmers, but merchants and bankers. Let the cardinal principle be a reduction of cotton acreage to the ex ten: of one-third of last year's acreage, i Let the by-laws provide that thc 1 planter or farmer shall piedge himself by oath that he wiil make this reduction, that the merchant will only advance money to those who will agree to this j basis, and that the banker will only ad? vance to plauters and merchants who will carry out this obligation in good faith. Let supervisors be apDoioted by the various county clubs, say one for each polic? district, to see that the obligations of each are carried out, or bring the offender before the grand jury for per? jury. It will be necessary for a bureau to be established at once to organize these club* in the various counties, and as mouey will be necessary, I will guar? antee this county to pay at least ?500 to carry cn this work. .Some people may Hay that thc under? taking i* too great, but it is no greater than was thc organizing of the White Camelia and Knights of the Black Cross, to which the Southern people Soeked by the thousands in a few mo tbs after the war. if this be done, we may hope to get; fix c?ats per pound for our next crop. Your* very truly, j JAMES N CARPENTER. The great wealth,?either of the Mor- j mon church or of the individuals st it? ' head, has been again demonstrated by the recent investment of $10,000,000 by the "First Presidency" io a new corporation, called the/Utah Company. This new cjmpau/' is to operate coal mines, a railroad,/ bathing beach and pleasure resort /t the great Salt Lake and build, equy and operate telegraph ;;riii telephone does. This is purely a ; church scheur'e. in which Gentiles have j no part, tad is, like the Zion Co-opc- j oat i ve Company, to/re managed to add tr Mic wealth of t#e church. | Mr. M'Lauiiirs Seat. A Lively Contest by His Re publican Competitor. The papers in the contest for Con gressman for the Sixth district were served OD Mr. McLauriu, who holds the certificate of election, . iast Monday by Joshua E Wilson, his Republican competitor. Wilson has engaged Thom? as E. Miller as hi? attorney, and the fight for the seat promises to be a lively oue. The notice of contest is a lengthy document, and in it Wilson claims thar the majority of the legal votes cast in the Sixth district were cast for him, and that ont less than 12,000 duly qualified voters of said district were prevented from voting by the friends and partisans of McLaurin and by acts of violence and intimidation run from the polls by said friends and supporters He furthermore charges that at the said election his votes were drawn from the box and destroyed by the officers of I eleotion, who were friends of McLauriu, and that at the close of the polls there were, at some of the precincts, more votes in the ballot boxes than there were names on the poll lists, which ex? cess was fraudulently created in order to count him out. That in the town of Darlington the time was illegally con? sumed bv the managers so as to obstruct the voting of Wilson's friends and that hy >aid illegal delay 800 legal voters of said county were oreven?ed from voting j for him, and that at variojs other pre- j ?.?nets in Darlington, Marlboro, Claren-j don and Korry, by the use of the same i tactics, he was illegally deprived of ! many hundreds of votes He charges further that at the pre- ? cioct of Lamar, in Dar?Dgtou County, the partisans of McLaurin, with force aod violence, with the use of firearms, prevented 450 of his votors from cast? ing their ballots for him, some of them having received gunshot wounds there? at while endeavoring to vote. These are the principal grounds of Wilson's contest, and if he can only prove one-half of them to the satisfac? tion of the Republican majority in Con? gress, Mr. McLaurin's seat will be in considerable jeopardy. It is a matter of considerable interest to the people of the Sixth Congressional district and in? cidentally to all of the people of the State, bat the time for its decision by Congress is yet far off, and the contest, after all, may not amount to anything. -State. Improving Poor Land A North Corolioa farmer writes : "I j bave a field which, in its presen con- J ditioo. will not make more than ten bushels of corn per acre. How much j and what kind of fertilizer must I use to get twenty bushels per acre ?" The writer gets many legers of similar purport to this one. They show how deep a hold the practice of "fertilizer gambling" for a sale crop has on thc j men who are cultivating the soil in the j South, and how the "planting/' idea ; has taken the place of real farming Now any mau who would try to answer j the question in this shape would be a mere quack. I cannot pretend to an? swer it. I am a strong advocate for the proper aud intelligent use of oom mercial fertilizers, but this sort of betting on fertilizers against the chan? ces of a crop bas been the agricultural ruin of the South Then our corres? pondent sets so low an ideal for himself Any mau worthy of the name of a j farmer, living where this inquirer does, i should be ashamed of a crop of corn of twenty bushels per acre, to say nothing of bis ten bushels. The Census statistics show that the average corn ? crop of North Carolina is even less than this aajount per acre. Now any of the red clay uplands of North Caro? lina, if properly farmed, can be made to produce in a favorable season, fifty bushels per acre. I know this because j it has beea done right here, on land i that was at. first as poor and thin as any red clay upland in the State. It was ! done, not simply by piling on a lot of ; fertilizer, but by good farmiDg, in i which good plowing aud clean culture aided proper fertilization. Our corres pondent can in the same way make his : land produce not only twenty, but j fifty bushels per acre. But he cannot ! do it in one year, or by piling on a lot I of fertilizers. Such results are brought j about by the gradual building up of the ! fertility of the land by means of a sys- j tematic rotation of crops, in which peas j and clover are grown between the sale crops, and vegetable matter added to the soil. A liberal use of the cheaper forms of plant food, sich as potash and j phospberic acid, to give a good growth of peas or clover to plow under, or j feed to cattle and return the manure, | will more readily enable you to increase ' the corn production of your ?and than any dose of complete fertilizer I could prescribe Tho crying need of thc South is good farming, with intelligent ase of the valuable recuperating crop of peas and clover aided by au equally intelligent yet liberal usc of potash and acid phosphate andan utter abandon? ment of fertilize.- gambling, such as our friend proposes. Then too, we nee l an abandonment -.if the onc-tnulc plow, ?nd the substitution of efficient plow*, drawn by a good team. When this i* done many of our farmers will be surprised to find that they have been for many years scratching over a poor farm while all the while a fertile one jay just below their plow poiut. The key note of the future should be, for our red clay-deep plowing, peas and clover, with a liberal, even lavish usc ? of acid phosphate aud potash to get a heavy growth of these recuperative eroos, which will give us food for stock and fertility to produce our sal crops. Then with fewer acres in cor? t?n and more cotton p?r acre, we will he able to grow it. at the medium cost, and if the price should again get. better, we will have learned a lesson of profit, and will in the meantime have become independent of the cotton crop as a sole dependence. W. F. MASSEY The Last of a Great Fortune. The whirligig of time brings some of us to some strauge landings. Kvery body knows how rich a man, W. T. Blackwell, of Durham-'-Buck " Blackwell-used to be. He broke some years ago. Yesterday be was sold out, lock, stock and barrel. The last of his belongings went, in the Durham Sun of Friday he had a com? munication, and these are some of the thiugs he said : "I helped to lay off the first streets and build them before the town had the money to do it. I for a long time built more houses than all the rest of the j people of the town put together. I was i one of the first builders of the churches i we now have. I was the one tba! j started the first tobacco market in ?he ?tate. I have built nearly all of the warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco that are here now and those that have j been lest by fire. * * * 1 helped everybody that moved to Durham that was worthy aud needed help, and up to five years ugo I was one of the first to ; take hold of every enterprise that was ; started that would benefit Durham or her people. * * * I have worked the above number of years in common fur the town of Durham aud her people, j and next Saturday the last of my pro- j perty is to be sold and divided out among the good people I have imported 1 from all over this broad land to this ; great city ***?.[ Want to invite one and J ail to attend this sale, and I hope you will come with as good grace and a? | much earnestness as you did when I begged you to come and settle among j us and live with us and help build up j the city. * * * While it makes j no difference to me whether you come i or noe all the twenty-four years' work and all the money I have is here in j improvements to be enjoyed by some | one, and has passed out of my hands forever, and I am left without a dollar, ? oo financial standing and no friends to j brag of, aud those I have, if any, have no financial standing to aid me as I | have aided hundreds io the twenty j years past, and if you ever expect to j get any aid out of me or anything that ? have done io the way of business and working for and assisting, come next I Saturday to the sale and help yourself, j for everything that I possess is up and I you can never expect any more help or ! aid from your old friend. This is a j complete round up, and I am at the end j of my row and oan't go one way or j another." So this is the end of it-the eod of j the row for a man who once "counted j his money by legions, as men do j devils " There is something inex- j pressibly touching about it. And yet j it is a manly letter-there is not a whioe io it.- Wilmington Messenger. j The Legislature has passed a ?aw j making profanity, obscene languie j and drunkenness in public places j misdemeanors in 1819 to 1820, in j rbis State, men were punished for pro- j fane oaths. Such a law as that will be I hard on Governor Tillman -Carolina j Sparta n. Next year will be a record breaker as i to eclipses. There will bc three of the . sun and two of thc moon. Bosh i eclipses of the moon, March 10, aod September o and 4, will be visible in ? the United States The eclipses of the j sun will all be invisible in this country. ? They will take place March 26, August : 20, and September 18. The metropolitan police law means this: The town and city people are to ? have partisan police officers placed over | them, their salaries to bc paid out of! the taxes on their property, the govern - I ment of whom thc town people will ; have nothing to do. Who would have i thought that a South Carolina Legisla- ? ture composed of white people would ! ever pass such a tyrannical law.-New- \ berry Observer. We are to have only ten days ic which to register for the election of. delegates to the Constitutional Conven? tion. We made application to our ' supervisor on the first Monday in De? cember for a renewal of our registra- ' tion ticket and filed with him the proper affidavit and he promised to give us the ticket, but as yet we have received none. If he treats other people in the same way, only those that he desires to have tieket> will get them. We .sup? pose he will find time to give us 1 our ticket some time io the twen? tieth century. He promised to attend to it promptly lt will be difficult to dn much registering in ten days.-jbcirhcrry Herald-and Actrs A mutt.o?-head in thc Legislature, whose brains are about of the consis? tency of thc contcutsofa host summer's squash-one Hurto?, of Darlington, has introduced a bill in thc House making it a crime to "cuss" a refractory mule on thc public road, punishable at so much fine per d - m. This bill make it a penal offence to di ink too much dis? pensary. lt is patriotism to buy it; but a crime to drink it. This brilliant lawmaker ought to iutroducc a bill giv? ing the State a monopoly of tobacco, and then make it penal for a man to take "a chaw"' on thc highway -Marion Sf>tr . A Tragedy in Union. .Yhisk'y the Cause of it. UNION. Dec. 25.-Once more the angel of death has cast his shadow nvcr this little town. The citizens were startled last, night bv ten or tweiv pistol shots in rapid succession and another life is cut if without a mo? ment's preparation. The particulars as far ?- I can learn, are about as follows: L*.-r evening. Mr. Kay Greggory and Mr Jaek Crawford had been imbibing a little too freely, and became boisterous, driving around overtowu. They swore they would not be arrested, but they were both ar? rested and put. in jail. They were re? leased shortly on bail, when they came up town appare'.tly looking for some one, as they looked in several stores. It seems that, thev came through an alley near the postoffice, and as they did so they met Chief of Police T. B. Culp on Main street and at once upeued fire upon him. Three other policemen were just across the street and they went at once to the assistance of the j chief and opened fire on Gregory and Crawford There was a general fusilade of shots, which sounded like a j pack of fire crackers exploding. Greg gory fell to thepaveineut and Crawford ran off It was found that Greggory was mortally wounded and that be was dying Mr. Culp was found to have a wound in his leg and was taken to th?* drug store anti the* wound dressed by : Dr. John Larson. The bail passed j through the thick pirt of the thigh an i struck the other leg. breaking the skin. It wa9 some time before the doctor got to Greggory ; his pistol was found lying near him and the coroner took charged of it. He was picked up and j carried into the postoffice. When the j doctors arrived they found that he had i two shots in the back just above the i waist, both balls entering the same bole, one between the shoulder blades and two in the bead one of which was a i glancing shot. Mr. Crawford ran on to Dr M T I Smith's residence, who took charge | of him. Crawford bad received a ball j in his back, which weot through and j came out io front, ooe ball glanced hi? i bead and another went into his leg. Policeman Vinton said one of the | balls grazed his hat and Policeman ! Evans said one ball passed so close to his head that he felt the wini of it. Mr. Greggory lives near Santuc ; j bis people were notified last night by a messenger and they came to town about j 12 o'clock. It is a very sad and unfor tuuate affair and is regretted by all There was more drunkenness on the street last evening than bas been seen j in Union in many a day. The dispeu- ' sary sold $400 worth of whiskey. Populists in St. Louis. They Cannot Decide Whether to Hold Open or Secret Session. ST. LOUIS, December 28-The conference of the leadens of the Popu? list party began at ll o'clock this morning, and for nearly two hours there was a red-hot exchange of opi :ons between the delegates. N .y all the wrangling was due to a motion made by a delegate from I Kansas that the session should be ; executive, and that all information be j kept from the press until such time as j it suited the conference. Chairman i Taubeneck finally despaired of reach- j ing a decision in regard to the matter, aud declared a recess until 2 p. m A committee was appointed on ad ! dresses, which was instructed to take ' nothing from nor add anything to the Omaha platform. Governor Evans Paid no Attention to the Senate's Refusal to Confirm Certain Appointments. The refusal of the Senate to confirm the nomination of Dr. Hopkins as Coucty Auditor has cou fused a good many people as to what the outcome would bc The fact is that Dr. Hop kins is Auditor if he w-.ots the place. His commission was forwarded bim thc day he was appointed and the same day the Senate refused to confirm him. Governor Evans paid no attention to the action of the Senate. it is understood that the Executive also paid uo attention to the refusual of the Senate to confirm appointments as Trial Justices in different parts of the State, but had the commisioos made out and forwarded to the appointees -6V. Register - --- A dispatch from Morehead. Ky , states that Henry Tyre and William Cole went to the house of Jacob Whit? taker while drunk and told him to leave or they would kill them, drawing their knives at the same time Whittaker seized a polo axe and defended him? self He killed Trye aud mortally wounded Colo Th.-re is yet a plaits and easy method to .have thc work* of the convention sub? mitted to the people for ratification, lt i- rn vere for delegates pledged to vote for no constitution which will not br submitted te the people. - (rreenvilh A" irs The Reformers in the House and Senate defeated every ameudment to the bill ordering an election for dele? gate- to the constitutional convention, looking to an open, fair and square election-with a challenger from each faction at the box from the opening to tin- close, What docs this mean? - .Ve"'Ot mt ( Hmervi Ice-Bound From the Atlan? tic to the Mississippi. The storm whi'-h prevailed! Wednes <iay night pr.wed ihe most extensive und severest of the season. The etui try from the Atlantic tn tuc Mississippi is icc bound and a large portion "f i' is under a blanket of <now In Washington the cold is thp mo*t severe for vears. A fall of snow was followed by rain and a freeze and rfie streets have been ahno-t impassable since. In Baltimore snntv, >ieet and rain succeeded each other and rho streets are filled with half frozen slush At St Louis the mercury fell to 8 degress above zero, and a heavy fal! of : snow accompanied the drop of the mer I cury. The country around Chicago w*s al? most burieo under the snow. The i trains on some of ihe roads were block? aded. Nearly all the roads in North-eastern. Pa., are blockaded. In that section jr is pronounced the worst storm for seven years. ! I More than a foot of snow fell in Pittsburg, Pa. Street railways are ! tieo up. ! At Sioux City, Ia., the temperature fell I'l degrees wi'hin twelve hours. 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