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THE DA?GAN - BHOW?? SATE. Dargan Emphsizss Ls Oppc to Disfranchising the lieg Denounces Tillman a Irby---1'Deliberate Trai tors and Frauds." The discussion of the Coostitotioofi venticn issue by Col. Jobn J. Darg! 3Jr. L. V, Brown was heard bj about sixty persons, who took sufficient int the matter to go out to the Court through a cold rata and sleet and ov covered sidewalks. Col. Dargan, who had invited the to Be present and hear bim speak, call meeting to order. He said that he was a seif-acnouncei didate 'or a seat ic the Constitutional vention, but that nothing could bare bim to take the sten: but a conviction i wa9adutj to use his utmost exertic prevent the great blunder of going int primary called bj the so-called Demc Committee A general participation it primarj would be the supremest folly. .'The Constitutional Convention in we are now interested is of more impci and*will have more ?'ar-re?cbing effects either the Nullification Convention oi Secession Convention. Why? Becaus avowed ooj-ct cf that Coriventior- is n corporate in the constitution a provision franchising the negro. Second, becai provisoo will also be incorporated it constitution denrivii-f; the negro the means ot education We b?ve means of ascertaining 'he object of convention, but there is some ulterior sinister object, we maj rest assured. What xs the matter with the present co tution ? Why change it? It is almost id cal, in all important particulars, with constitutions of other States. We are told, however, bj these ring r that it must be altered so that the negro i sot ruo over the white man. Altered to awaj the negro's vote, lt must be altere prevent the education of the negro bj white man. This is the object. Tbej defraud the negro of his vote and take his chance of education. Col. Dargan digressed to speak of his dividual record in '76 and the part he t in overthrowing the negro and radical i Se paid he did not recede one inch from w be dil th?n Bui he never did, nor ne will do anything to deprive any tn white or black, of" the right of obtaining education. "We are told again that a provision * be adopted fixing the poll tax at S3, to fo the negro and poor white man to eduo their own children, while the rich mai ; prope-tj is relieved from taxation. This ihe scheme. "When I look over the history of t negro I could laugh at it as a comedy, if were not such a tragedy. Just look history. Why did we bring the negro ben To educate bim? To civilize him? '. christianize him ? No ! To work him. Tb is why the negro wa3 brought from Africa. All through history ;roin 1739 to tl present, there is this cry of "the nigger, "the nigger." What was the negro doin io I860; was he bothering us? No ! Th? were working along peacefully and quietlj The white people caused all the trouble thea aelvfcs, and tbev freed the negro tbemselve Now you are raising a great fuss about th negro voling. Has the negro been bothering us ? No. Bi sonie of the white people are creating th i agitation about the negro voting. Now, tell jon that jou are going to vote tb negro. Yes, you are going to vote him jus HS you freed him in '60 and '65. And yoi are going to educate bim too. Here in this city of Sumter the negri school house is a dirty old affair, a disgrao to any town, but just around the corner on i big square there is a great big, costly affair foi the white people. This is characteristic ol the preseat. But this movement will both rote and educate the negro, whom the r':u<? would defraud of both these priv?ege?. These are unpopular truths I am telling aod not ihe sort to win vo'es, but I don't WHnt your votes, I am fighting f<?r rimt-l? right and yistice. You may tek* nay life, but you cannot and shill not take the educa? tion from this humble race ! The ring would keep the n*?r<< io ignor? ance and with the';r feet on thew ne<:k.=i. Out? rageous! Disgraceful ! ! Abhorrent '.>> every idea of liberty ! ! ! This countrj is aow pajina f >r tue evils and wrong3 of other days. In 1876 the white people rc?? to throw off a government of oppression, misrule and ignorant- it k was started ?s an bonr?: fight, and |K ;he voices of many ot Carolina's best and truest wert raised ?n protest Hf^^ against the fraud. Tbej warned the people: fl ^kf~ the consequences. There was no fraud ia j fl Sumter, be it said to her honor. I do not : that there was a .-ingie fraudulent ! fl lit or counted ia 1376. But Edgefield j B Mkens-b?ar in mind the names of f J Edgefield and Laurens JL .LJL XJ V T 'med a system of fraud, a::d Hampton accept? ed the resulta of the fraud. Now lie would jay, ["Would io God I had bad nor.c- of it." Tillman from Edgefield ard Irby from Laurens. The spawn of fraud they are. Tillman and Irby ! Grout God what men ! They tive me a cold shiver. They were produced by fraud, they live in fraud und flourish by it. Now they would put fraud in the Constitution. Would I could meet them on any stand and expose them to public gaze. Tillman and Irby, with their ring, are working on the prejudices of the poor white people. They know how to get them to vote. It ?3 the cry of keep the negro down. It was the same cry that carried the poor white men ioto the war and made them fight like tigers. This cry will be all right until the ring gets the constitution into its grip. This ring is awfully partisular about fraud, when a straigbtout Congressman was con cerned. So particular, forsooth, that they j gave the seat to a negro, The ring is awfully particular about the negro vote, so particu lar that they used the negro vote against tbe ; majority of the white people in Beaufort. The j ring is particular to use the negro when it is j to its advantage to do so, but now it cries j aloud and appeals to the white people to put j the negro down. { Tillmau, I regard as a providential occur- ] renee. He was norn to create irritation and discord. Without reference to bis physical : misfortune, I declare bim to be one-eyed j morally and politically. Talk about fraud ! Just look at the last 1 election How the cry went up from one- ? end uf the Stute to the other. Pope was : defraisded. Vet when he v.ent before thc > Legislature, that ring-ridden body refused to investigate the charges. The ring was afraid to force the proofs. The declaration is made that the negro j must be eliminated. This is a declaration of fraud. They will commit fraud for they have eo resolved, but it will not be only the poor negro defrauded, but the whites as well. They will cheat all who do cot vote and j think as they do. The negro they declare'must be defrauded. Yet the same men passed a law forbidding the negroes to leave the State. Men who would carry them away are fined and im? prisoned if they come to South Carolina. I favor giving the negro simple justice. Give him the same rights as the white men and disregard him as a political factor. This appeal to the poor white man. What does it mean? Consider the condition of ? the poor wbite'man before the war and now. j Is be not vastly better off? What would j have been bis condition bad the war sue- I i ceeded ? He would have been worse off j than the cat in Hell without claws teat you j have all heard about. The poor white men want justice just as much as the negro, and j they need education just as much as the negro, and they will be defrauded and j oppressed by the ring just as much as the | negro. I propose to canvass the county, and the j State, if 1 have the opportunity. I challenge j Tillman or Irby or both to meet me on any : stump. I charge them with being deliberate j and guilty traitors to the State. They are steeped in fraud and would incorporate fraud and prejary in the Constitution. I dare ; them to meet me on any stump at an? time. ! That John L. M. Irby; ?hat spawn of cor- ? ruction, a friend of the poor man ! Great God, what a travesty ! Did you ever hear how be had a drunken row with a poor white man 1 Do you know that he would not 1 deign to touch the "poor white trash ?" But what did he do? He went home, got his pistol aud his uegro arrant : bunted up the i poor buckra and held his pistol over him j while the negro horsewhipped him. Now 1 this Irby has set himself ny as a friend of ; the poor whi?*-man. HHS he not arisen to gveu.1 heights is * lri<-:<d of poor white trash? lam >i friend of ail classes, white nnri black, poor ar ri rich, and ie-?:?! o? a!.' -?hall i I ever raise my band against the negro We must trust God >tn?i do right. TUM the j true solution of the problem. Mr. L V. Brown then took the stand to j reply to Coi. Dargan. He said : Fellow citizens, a strange face has arise:, before you to-night. I on.y consented U; I ?peak after several requests and the urc<*nt : invitation cf Coi Dargan himself. The State bas before tt one of the grave?: , problems of civilization ?nd it should b>- m?: in a w&y to enif 'h? people. Tbe people har?- ?*t<i. by a-i almost over : whelming majority, give us a new Constitu? tion. And they rau6t have ii. in 1867 that old Constitution WHS forced upon '<j? by negro rotea and carpet baggens, scalawags and bayonets. We bsd no voice in making it ?nd the people d'Taip i a Constitu? tion of their own making. Col Dargan comes here and talks ?bout a great fraud that will t-;- <io::e. Where di l be get wi; this s?totn Art there K.-.j sample ! copies floating around : MT eye? hav- not seen it, luve ray ears brard the quivering sound cf a voice declaring it. Coi. Dargan ha? imagined all these things. Mr. Browu then took ar,? rheS.'-? poll tax. ? It would be, he said, a tax applicable to both 1 i - Jk. V-" -?. ?> ?^MIMI T - ~ white nod negree;, and would build op school system, enabling ? great many son? to obtain education. It would aw>iy with the it'jusiice of t.-ixim: on?- ;n property for another m^n's benefit. S< poll tax will miike. e^ry man pay tort ealing his ow? children, and it' he does pay his tax lie cannot vote. There can be no question of the right ti the ??oil tax at S3, said l*r. Brow for if tax cati be made Si, it ' ? i at S: any ether figure. Fixing th?- . .. .it S3 wi! MD incentive to all classes TO ge- u-i edi tioo. ' The Hon. Col. Dargan," said the *[?<-.?! "is very much worked up over disfranchis the negro." "The negro ought to be < franchised tn a great extent." "'Asa r they are utterly incapable of self gove ment and this being true the white peopb the State should protect, themselves agai the influence of negro vote? and negro rub If South Carolina ever needed statesmen needs them DOW. She needs statesmen to ti hold of (bis matter and frame wise laws. The State needs a quaii?e: suffrage to ?ii the action of the negro, arid th" Constitute al Convention will give it to tr.e State. I der the pre?ent law the white people pay greater part of the money f?r the uefj schools. The negroes do not nay even I Si poll lax. while the whit? people have co it 01 work on the mad. Are: besides n: perty is if?xed the rate of two mills to vid?schools for negroes and whites a:il This is not justice, for the rich man shou receive the benefit from his property. A qu;:??5ed S'J2Y>:L'C may disfranchise 501 wh i te nie."., but everyone disfranchised w lift op his head and say, thank God for i We are out of the hands of the negro ai carpetbagger! And wheo we have the ? pell tax, the white people will learn to re: the Constitution and will not be disfranchise In 1876 I saw Col. Dargan. He was t most active of the leaders in putting dov the negroes and carpet baggers. He does o dare deny his part. How bas he changpd much ? Col. Dargan came here to discuss the Co: 8titutional Convention. Why did be n stick to that. He has gone back on the pre ent administration and be ought not to ha' done it. If the negro is gives the right of unqual Bed suffrage, he wili turn it over to a crow of carpet baggers aod scalawags. The uegi loves them aod will vote with them ever time against the people of the country. Ho' any one can plead for the negro to be give the power to turn the country over to the cai pet baggers and radicals I canuot see. Mr. Brown bere concluded after tbankiu bis bearers for their kind attention. Coi. Dargan took the floor and asked th following questions : Col Dargan : "Do you oppose a tax 0 property ?" Mr. Brown : "I do." Co . Dargan : "Are you opposed io th free school system?" Mr. Brown: "I am, as it now stands." Col. Dargan: "I want to ask whether 0 not Tillmr.u has s.aid, 'Trust mc, and I wil see that thc poor white man shall vois'?" Mr. Brown: UI have nothing to do wit! w hat Tillman said." Gol. Dargan : "Do you believe that th', same rule shouid tie applied to the negro a? to the white nun ? * Mr. Brown : "I do not.': Co!. Dargan : "Do you think I should have seen a copy ol'the new Constitution before I spoke to the question ?*' Mr. Brown : "I do, before you assarted sci m uch. Col. Dargan : "If the $3 poll tax is not paid, what would you have done with thc man?" Mr. Brown : "Make him work The road and put them in good condition."' Col. Dargan: "Work whi:-.- ?uni .?-:;n> together ?" Mr. Brown : "Yes." Col. Dargan made a few remarks o? thanks to the audience, aod Mr. Brown announced that fie was or?: * candidate and would 00? be. MA Y HE LIVE A BETTER LI F li Given a Chance to Mako JSomethiticc of Himself. Lawrence Edwards, with whose persever? ance in crime everybody is familiar, was yesterday released ?rom custody by Trhil .T i?tice Tradewe??, acting on instruction* ?'ro?ii Solicitor Nelson, upon his own recog? nizance to ftppf.tr *or trial nt the court ot sessions iu March '.t i? understood, how? ever, that the reccgoiz f-ci was purely * for? mal matter, Edwards having been released upon ?heexpress eonduioo that h- !e?v th State <-. >>OI?I!. Carolin* aT once, nftvei to rrr:i.-:. upon pain Ol !--irg :t-arrr.-T*d. !!.. informed the Trini justice thai he expected to leave at 4 o'clock thi? morning. He v. as in jail 00 the o'larg* of forgery, his latest offense being to u?* (ha nama o' the kev. Mr. Kirton on a check for without ?be cen- ; #ent of that gentleman. Edwards bas onlj recently gotten out of th^ penitentiary upon j a pardon of Governor Tillman.- Thc Stale. ! i Til fl ' Ti"" j fl i ce ouow m l lie Soui An Unprecedented S? Continues Unabated. - ATLANTA, Feb l.r>.-The furious snow storu ever seen began early this morning and at night is still raging The groat now covered to a depth of inches, seven inches representing day's Street car lines snsp ed ti ..trie early this afternoon. Consolidated road will be closed rain or sun melts the snow An incident of this uni weather here is the inability ol trade to supply the demand for ber shoes and boots, the stoc every house in the city being hausted. Many broken legs havt suited from coasting Specials to the Const it at ion : Thumasville. Brunswick, Sarai and other South and East Geo points, state that the snow is deepest ever known Alban} sleighing to-day, for the fir^t timi its history lu tho mountains snow is six feet deep and a spe from Murphy, X C , says that from ten to twelve feet deep in mountains of VYWtern North C lina Tlie signal office here says that storm will continue until to-mor forenoon. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 15 - snow, which fell steadily yester for eighteen hours, measured exai eight inches, according to the ref given out by Capt. ICetkam, c of the weather bureau herc, 1 p. m., an appreciable amount is ag falling and it would not be surp ing if there were severa! m inches added to New Orlear greatest snow by to-morrow mc ing. THROUGHOUT ALABAMA. MONTGOMERY, ALA., Feb. 15. lias been snowing here all day, bu has melted almost as fast as it f Several sleighs were out for mer making. BIRMINGHAM ALA., Feb. 15.-1 severe weather has culminated ii severe snow storm. It has be falling since daylight, and five incl on the leve, and it is still corni down. COLUMBUS, GA , Feb. 15 --Coln bus had the heaviest snow storm over half a century before daybre this morning The city is clothed a mantle of white and was an ur snal sight that greeted eaily rise A heavy sleet fell throughout t morning and suow balling was i dulged in by old and young. SAVANNAH, Feb. 15.- 'wo inches snow fell last night and -his rnornin It is the second snow storm expe enced here in marty .fars and tl city gave itself up to hilarity. Bm ness was practically suspended du ing the forenoon and business me spent the day snow-balling. GENERAL IN WEST FLORIDA. JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 15 -Snow wj general in West Florida last nigh At Pensacola, Lake City, Tall, hassee, River Junction and oth< points thc people were snow ballin all day. At Welborn, the snow w? the fi rp* that had fallen since 1852. IN SOUTH CAROLINA. UNION, Feb. 15.-Snow bega failino- a<rain tin's afternoon at o'clock and has fallon continuous! since lt is now three and a hal inches deep on top of the othet which had melted very little Thi is thc worst snuw storm experiencei hore in many year" AT ANDERSON. ANDERSON, Feb. 15 -A violen snow storm prevails here this after noon, and there has boen the heavies fall of the season It is now abeu three inches and still falling von fast. GREENVILLE, Feb 15.-A lieav) snow storm bogan this afternoon a 8 o'clock and snow in still falling At ?) o'clock it measured five inches and ir' thc storm continues througl the night we may expect eighl inches in thc morning. Congressmen ar,- just beginning tc fin,i oat that the franking privilege ?af revived ?hen the priming bili passed iast session, and they aru beginning to avail themselves of the new law with a vengeance, says th?1 New York timi's Washington correspondent. The only r- striciion put upon this is (hu ?otters sent free of potage should pertain to the congressional busioess and be iiipir >d ?a one ounce. Wim. the law na. under discussion if~ opp men ts said (har as letters could not t,<> opened to see whether they cur,'1 wirhm the law. con? gressmen would fr*oii everything, and this is just what ibej ar? doing Post office officials, however bare too much r. fm fin ir official ??oslps to prowling about to timi eonfjresMueu violating tho law M> nc prosecutions i-.iv>' be? n or ur. :J;-I :< b mad? . One frrouenl violation of th? la? h?> already "come to light lt is ff>;jt one of the most prominent representatives from New Kngland, who franked a strictly 'perenal note not io any way relating* to congressional matters. A political opponent knows tbe facts und may use them in tho next congressional campaign in Massachusetts. T?e Appoiatmenis on Gov. irons' 9^iF "'? Wrt/?a Fije following general order was yesterday issued by the Adjutant and Inspector General, making; the long delayed announcement of the ap? pointees on the staff of Governor Ev? ans. General Order No 2 The persons named below, having ' been appointed on the military staff of the Governor are assigned to duty and will be obeyed and respected ac cord ingdv: Colonel \V. \V. Bruce, Assistant ; Adjutant and Inspector Genera!, Co? lumbia. Colonel M. B. McSweeny, Quarter? master General. Hampton. Colonel George S. McCravy, Com? missary General, Laurens Colonel I). \V. McLaurin, Engi? neer-in-Chief, Marion. Colonel J. A. Mood, Surgeon Gen? eral, Sumter. Colonel II. T. Miller, Paymaster ; General, Charleston. Colonel A. Howard Patterson, Judge Advocate General. Barnwell. Colonel J. W Floyd, Chief of Oid nance, Kershaw. Aides to the Commander-in-Chief: ; Lieutenant Colonel Dan II. Beine, j Walterboro; Lieutenant Colonel T C * Robinson, Picketts: Lieutenant Col? onel W R. Bullock, Abbeville: Lieu? tenant Colonel Oscar R. Lowman, Or? angeburg; Lieutenant Colonel W. J Rawlinson, Yorkville: Lieutenant Col one! Thomas Martin, Beaufort; Lieu? tenant Colonel L. Brad ?veil, Aiken By order of the Governer. J GARY WATTS., Adjutant and Inspector General. Southern Cotton Manufac? turing. The distressing cotton situation in j the South is forcibly described in the statement that cotton is now sell ins: below the absolute cost of production, and another crop of the same as this last one would bring the staple to a price where it would not pay to hire the labor necessary to pick it from the fields In the distant future the cotton States may indeed, be called upon to produce not a yearly' crop of 9.500,000 bales, but one of over 15, 000,000 bales : but the present over? production must be radically reform? ed until new market conditions arise. The South may reap from her ap? parent distress of to day an unex? pected boon on the morrow The South has neglected the diversified agriculture of the North, and yet during the decade from 13S0 to 1890 her total farm assets increased 37 per cent, and her tann products gained 16 per cent In other words the Southern farmer reaped a gross reve? nue of 24 1 per cent, upon his capi? tal, while the rest of the farmers of the country were only rewarded with 13.1 per cent. To one dollar that the Northern agriculturist has earned, his Southern brother has received almost two dollars. "Furthermore the South has not reaped the real profits upon its cotton crops. England sold to Japan in a single year ?14.000,000 worth of cot? ton goods. Almost every pound of this material came from the Southern States, but England received as much for each yard of four-ounce goods as she paid the cotton growers for each pound. The erection of extensive cotton mills in Georgia and other Southern States during the past few months by New England cottcm spin net s is a most important feature. Secretary Hoke Smith of the interior lias already emphasized lite fact that the manufacture in the South of its own cotton would change the vaiue of the crop annually from ?o00,0')0, 000 to about $1.000,000,000.-Phila? delphia Record. The Tax Situation. Some Matters of Interest to Stat9 Taxpayers-The Exten^on. Vhf failere of so many taxptyers to i)h\ tip their taxe* in accordance with the extension until March 1 is now De? corums quittj a serious matter. In this county the people have never been so far behind They dimply seem to be unable ro pay. Although thc time was extended to March 1, there is une'mat ter which delinquents would do wc!i tu consider. lt has bean generally thought thar au extension of thc ' me carriod with it an extension ;>f the time for the issuing of executions lot the cti-!r,:tiary fifteen days. Comptroller Norton, however, says there i- t> < clear law vu rite point, and he is now con? sidering whether he shall order execu ti?Di* to issue forthwith a^in>t delin? quents ou March 2 or allow thc custo? mary fifteen days time. He has not yet. rcaeh'-d a oecisou. Spoaking of tin- danger of falling MI. rt in funds by the failure to collect, Comptroller Norton yesrerday -aid that whatevci -bortage there wa- would probably bc made up, as fin: Southern Kii!way system during the mooth of December bad piid its raser- tlm-ugh oij: the Mate, aggregating ?time $S9t 000 'i'li i.- I.? a very unusual thing for railroads to do.- The Statt ? ll ? . ... ? If thy debts thar aro hanging uvci this country could be pata oft ar. the rate ..! fifty cents on the dollar tri" S utii would be in a position to prosper more than ever before in its history, it is the debt contracted on the basis of .jighf and ten cents cotton that is weigh? ing the country down and par^zes the efforts cf ad lines of business Strikers Surrender. BROOKLYN, X. Y.. Feb. FL-Des? pite the vote of the delegates of dis trict Assembly No. 75. Knights of Labor, to continue the strike, ti;Cie was almost a stampede of strikers this morning to get back to work. Some of the men who applied al; the o fri ce of the Brooklyn city railway said the vote of the delegates was sim? ply a bluff, but that a secret order was for the men to get back to work as best they could. At S o'clock over 100 of the men who went ont on strike had applied for work at; the Ridgewood stables. Supt Goodwin gave them slips, showing the order of their applications, and sent them to President Lewis' office. The same course was pursued at the othe" de? pots President Lewis did not have time to consider the applications to? day, but he put them on fde. The men who are taken back will be hired under individual contracts and put to work beside the non-union men Later in the day it developed that the return of many of the strike s to : seek work was the result of a big split in the ranks of district assembly Xo. 75, At the meeting last night it is said, there was a great row. Some of the master workmen of the local assemblies insisted that the strike should be declared off. say? ing that their assemblies had so vot? ed. The majority of the delegates however voted to continue the strike. When tho result was announced the master workmen, who wanted the strike ended, arose and said they would not abide by the vote. This accounts for the rush for woik despite the vote of assembly. ; ALBANY, N. Y , Feb li -In the matter of the application to tie at? torney general to commence an ac? tion to vacate the charter of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Attorney General Hancock, in a long opinion, concludes : "I ara satisfied from a consideration ol' the I facts presented by the petitioners i that they are not sufficient to justify i the bringing of an action to annul the charter of the corporation." In the matter of the application to ; commence actions to remove the pre i sident of the Atlantic Avenue Rail i i road Company, and the president of - the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Com? pany for alleged violation of the ten ! hour law, the attorney general fays : "The papers before me allege in general terms a violation of the law, i but the allegation mast be proved by ; legal evidence, which, so far as the president are Concerned, has not been yet presented to me If it shall appear from the investigations now or hereafter to be made, that it can be established by competent proof that the presidents of the companies have broken the law by i exacting excessive hours of abor from their employes, the cases will receive further consideration." Saturday morning a gentleman com? ing to Lancaster noticed a little bird : fluttering by the roadside. He went to ' it and found that its feet were froz3n to the ground He took bis pocket knife and cut the ice from around them and ir flew away. The mud in which it was ' standing must have frozen very sudden - Iv. jr ^# V j JUS If ig? /L6\k Mrs. A. Bernard. Kice Lake. Wisconsin. Solid Comfort Results from Taking Heed's Sarsaparilla | That T-rcd Feeiinr;- Less of Appe? tit? Weak end Faint, j "C. I. ?Lti'.i ? Co.. Low:-:'. }!::s<.: ' ..(. :..*.:. .-..: a:- About t' ree months ago f was f...?<.. : y ?tat Hred feeling. Felt dull and tir-, L:H: L:.v\ I eiutrht a very bad cold, in !::.:::'. which- aus -il rac much pain.and es? pecian? about t: riph! eye. 1 seemed lo los? thc .-.?-.I tv t.- ?or throe weeks, :>xdm> s*??' ?.. T,rir?:v gort?j. 1 became so wv.-: ::iiJ '*?*:;! i v v.: : ?hw to be My httSb.ii; : . :: ? ?,:.;, c t>c:tli se? BoOtt'sSar ? ?-.. i.* iv.-: t. x. , . tr.. i'-.;:>. I took ''v. ? < : " ;">v. ?;vv-a-.: Do my i . n* <. <?eep . ' ... C :???e::'<h.:rsa f,v?. Wir th." ii l'y" :' - ... \ :.- - . -. '..?.-';.'.:? A t?;.; .. ..?...-.Cet..<?. : ?be i:.-': j *... u. HkV I'S t? PURCHASED THE PLANT of t!i- Atlantic Phosphate Company, to^eine-i -w-.i!: the .-.-.?.r. stock, brunos and good-will, we take this method of thanking tho friends ;ir.?i ; . -i t r : ^ t;?; of T ho Ch ??ora Fertilizer Company for their cordial support in?? p^trotiajt?1 in th?- nnst. no.; now solicit the patronage of th? Atlantic Phosphate Company, weil a? the Chtcor? brands, guaranteeing inxr. r.'>.J,t>r the roanag??nieoJ ot ihe Chicora, 0 - reputation earned hy the Atlantic brands will be folly sustained. CHICORA FERTILIZER COMPANY. GB ARLESTON. S C . GEO. A. WA GEN ER, Genera! Manager. Dec. 12