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&j)t l?atoijMit at? j^ntjjroit WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895. THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE. To wear j hearts, to mou ruing homes, God's meekest aogel gently comes; No power has be to banish pain, Or give us back our lost again ; And jet in tenderest love our dear And heavenly Father sends him here. Tbere'r quiet io that Angel's glance, There's rest in bis still countenance ! He mocks no grief with idle cheer, Nor wounds with words the mourner's ear; But ills and woes be may not cure > He kindly trains us to endure. "Angel of Patience sent to calm Oar feverish brow with cooling palm ; To lay the storms of hope and fear ; And reconcile life's smile and tear ; The throbs of wounded pride to still, And make our own oar Father's will ! 0, thou who mourne8t on thy way, With longing for the close of day ! He walks with thee, that angel kind, And gently whispers, {iBe resigned : Bear up, bear on : the end shall tell The dear Lord ordereth all things well !" JOHK GBBSNLEAF WHITTIEU. Only Half of a Crop. The Cotton Which has Been .Planted in this State. The following weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and the crops throughout the State during the past week, will be read by all classes with the greatest degree of interest The report which was issued by j Director J. W. Bauer yesterday, j shows that up to date only half of a cotton crop has been planted : COLUMBIA.. S. C., April 23, '95. The week was not entirely a favor? able one for growing crops, or farm? ing operations. It was too cool to be good growing weather,, the minimum temperature having fallen below the active growing temperature ou four nights of the week over a large por tiou of the State. ?n the western, northern and northeastern counties field work was interrupted by rain for several days, as the ground was too wet for cultivation, and some bot tom lands already planted were flood- j ed. The latter part of the we?k was j more favorable. Wind following the heavy rains, baked and crusted the ground, making it hard for sprouted seed to come up. The first portion of the week too, aud including Friday, was much cold? er than normal, the daily departure averaged 8 degrees below for five days; during the last two days the temperature was slightly in excess of the normal. Early in the week the nights were quite cold with threaten? ed frosts, but other conditions were not favorable for frost formation until the 19th, by which time it had be? come somewhat warmer, yet on that ' morning places reported a light frost and some a heavy one, with no ap? parent damage resulting. The high est temperature reported during the week was 92 degrees recorded at j Cheraw on the 21>t; the lowest 34 at Greenville on the 16th The weekly ! mean for the State was about 60 de- j grees, while the normal for the same j dates ?R approximately 64 2 degrees ; There was rain on the first two ! days of the week which was quite genera! over the State, but varied largely in amount in different locali? ties, being heaviest in the northern and central counties where the rain? fall amounted to from 125 to 2.75 inches; in the southern and south? eastern counties the rainfall ranged from 0 50 to 1 30 inches In places the storm was accompanied by heavy hail and high winds. There was a Bevere tornado in Newberry that did considerable damage to buildings and trees, but crops were not far enough advanced to be injured. Where the j rains were heaviest it did much dam- ? age by washing newly plowed hill- j sides; bottom lauds were also render dered too wet for cultivation. After the first two days, the sky j was practically cloudless the rest of I the week, giving somewhat more i than an average of sunshine. Cotton planting has been active- j 1}' pushed over the entire State as the weather permitted, but as yet scarcely more than half of the crop ! has been put in the ground, consider- ! ing the entire Slate. In the eastern portion it is nearly completed, while | just fairly begun in the western por? tion Germination slow owing to cool weather. Some planted in March not yet up The general opinion seems to be that there will be less planted this year than last year, Corn planting is nearly completed on the uplands and the stand of that that is up is good in places, fairly good generally, and not poor any? where. Some replanting necessary owing to washed lands, birds, and . possibly poor seed used. Birds are very troublesome in Orangeburg county. The weather has been too cool for this crop, which is fully two weeks late. Germination has been slow. Grains are improving very much. Wheat is doing very well and prom? ises to be better than thought at the first of the season. Spring oats look very promising; their condition seems to be uniform throughout the : State Fall sown oats are a com? plete failure Sugar cane is being planted very | largely this year. In places it is be-1 ing planted to supplement the oats for forage, and for that porpo-e it is j said to be most excellent Some I I sugar cane damaged, owing, it is thought, to the manner in which it was packed last fall, allowing the cane to become heated and killing the 'eyes." Tobacco plants, in bede, are Iook I ing very fine. But little, if any, has j bee? transplanted into fields yet. I The acreage will this year be largely increased, as many farmers will culti? vate experimental fields of from three to five acres. This report comes from Darlington County, and is doubtless true of much of the Pee Dee section. Peanuts will also receive more at- ! tendon than has been the case here- ? tofore. Truck matured rapidly and heavy | shipments continue to the Northern markets from the coast region. The i interior truck farms are very late. Irish potatoes have not attained a satisfactory stand, but will improve under the influence of warm weather Sweet potatoes for seed continue scarce Gardent?, although late, are in good ; condition. Fruit and berries will be | abundand crops. It is rarely the j case that a frost occurs in this State ? after the 20th of April, except pos- j sibly in the extreme western portion, ! 60 that danger from that source has j passed, leaving the crops practically i assured. Cherry and apple trees are in full bloom in Oconee, Pickens and Greenville counties. ?? The Cuban Insurrection. I ? - The Uprising at Baracoa did j not Materialize. Staff Cor. United Press. BARACOA. April 15, via TAMPA, ; .FLA., April 25.-The special corres? pondent of the United Press, upon ar? rival here, learned that the news of the landing of Maceo three miles west of here on April 1, gave the authorities : here a bad scare. The master of the port took his family on board the Span? ish man-of-war Neuva Espa?a and an ucunced that the town would be bom? barded. The United States consul went oa board an American ship which hap? pened to be at anchor io port, taking his family with him. The Neuva Es pania cleared her decks for action, but no shots were fired. It was thought that there would be a j general uprising of Cubans and negroes. Instead of that only about a dozen mu? lattoes and town vagabonds went out to join Maceo. A detachment of soldiers was sent from the fort here to attack Maoeo's band. One Spanish soldier was killed and seven others wouoded. Three of Maceo's men were made prisoners. One mulatto who belonged in Baracoa was killed, and most of the arms and ammunition landed from the schooner was captured. Two sailors who were on the schooner which landed ; Maceo, and whose captain was murder ed. were found to have over $200 in i gold on their persons. It is believed I here that they, and not the insurgents, killed thc captain. They were taken ; by the Coode del Veoadito to Santiago, j wher?> they are now in prison. The schooner, which was a small British smack from Fortune Island,is a wreck. It is said chat Maceo was greatly disappointed ! upon landing to find only a few negroes ! to join his band. At this writing Flor j Cromhet, one of his chief lieutenants, j bas been killed, eight of his followers made prisoners and the remainder of j the band driven into the mountains buck of Guantanamo, where they are supposed to be surrounded, and have i only to chose between faciog the I muskets of the Spanish regulars or death by starvation. There are now 1,000 troops stationed j at the two antiquated forts. Guards with fixed bayonets patrol the streets : day and night and were there an indi nation toward au uprising it would not ; have a ghost of a chance. Asa matter! of fact, the intelligent residents here do not favor the insurrection io any way. They declare that freedom under such i leaders as head the insurgent bauds would be worse than Spanish rule. They say that from two-thirds to three fourths of the insurgents are negroes or mulattos and that the whole movement is akin to an anarchist uprising of the worst element io Cuba's population against the more prosperous. This is the opinion of all the better class of residents, whether natives or not. No , defense is made of the oppressive and unjust methods of Spanish rule and the day is looked forward to when the island will have home rule with a Span- ; ish protectorate or absolute freedom, but the time is no: ripe for revolt. (Signed) J. FRANK CLARK. ; A Captain for Clemson, j WASHINGTON, April 19.-Secretary Lamont to-day detailed Captain Ezra B. Fuller, Seventh cava'ry, as professe of military science and tactics at Clem? son Agricultural College, Oconee couuty South Carolina, vice Lieutenant T. (J. Donaldson, Jr , Eighth cavalry, reliev- i ed. Lieutenant Donaldson will join bis company. Agreeably Surprised. "I h*d a very severe cold on ray lungs thitctused much soreness und gave me con? siderable uneasiness in regard to the result." says Mr. T. E. Smith, of Hillerica, Mass. '"A local druggist called my attention tj Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and on his recommeiidatioD I gave the remedy a careful trial. The result surprised me; I recovered j j entirely tu tbreeday9." 25 and 50 cent bot j ties for salt by Dr. A. J. China, Druggist, j A Last Word on Cotton. Prom Atwood, Violett & Co's Cir? cular-A Critical Time. The Southern States have for so many years been producing cotton for the benefit of the spinner it is cer? tainly in order that a change should be realized. There is absolutely but one way to be independent of the world's cotton spinners. In Europe they are consuming 90 bales of American out of every 100, against 65 j to 70, until this season, and yet, with j a lessening of the world's supplies of other kinds, they look to America to provide them with such a quantity j of it at their own price as will enable j them to turn their backs on the East Indian crop, which is the only kind used to any extent other than Americau On March 28th the stock of East Indian at Liverpool was only 6,998 bales, and relatively no larger on the continent in proportion {fi their stocks of American. What consummate folly it is for an i agricultural people to be playing into j the hands of the manufacturers as are j the Southern planters when they pro duce or try to produce crops in ex? cess of 7,000,0U0 bales. The cotton producer in this country has an op? portunity seldom presented. The whole world is using a larger piopor tion of American cotton than ever be? fore, but Liverpool, as the leading market and representing more large? ly spinners' interests than any other, is confidently relying upon the usual promises of reduced acreage with a ! non-fulfiilmeut in the encl What j possible excuse can there be for a cotton planter tc furnish a weapon lo break his own head ? Cotton farm? ing, at prices that have ruled during the past seVeu months, or even now, means wear and tear of body and mind and a constant depreciation in the value of land, which after all is so very largely the basis of Southern prosperity ? The buying power of the world is increasing and is pre pared to pay more for cotton manu? factured products. Eastern spinners I are increasing wages because they are making money, but Europe, to whom our cotton is absolutely indis? pensable, fights eyery effort to put American cotton to a living price to the producer of it 1 Think of it I Ten States in this country are relied upon to furnish 90 per cent, of the world's consumption of cottou, but so large have been the supplies brought over into each new cotton year from the previous season there is only one way to obtain the full benefit of American crops-that is to produce less of it, reduce the acreage 25 per cent, and be au independent farming people instead of being every morn? ing on the anxious bench until it is known what Liverpool has decided | to pay that day for what it is impos? sible for European-American mills to do without. As we said a few days ago it can be the most legitimate monopoly of the age. ATWOOD, VIOLETT & Co. mw -*- ? - The Postmaster at Elliott Arrested. Postoffice Inspector Peer yesterday arrested J. S. Brown, postmaster at El? liott, S. C., for defrauding the Uuited States by purshasing goods and paying his debts with postage stamps. Elliott is a small place, but Brown bas been doing a land office business in postage stamps, f?e was bouud over to thc grand jury, which meets in Charleston S C , May 6th. The above aecouot of the arrest does Mr. Brown au injustice, as it does not give the circumstances of the arrest. Mr Brown who is postmaster at Elliott, sent stamps to pay a small bill which bo owed in this city, but took money out of bis pocket and paid for them, just a? if he were not postmaster. This was technically against the law. hut he was not guilty of any criminal act or wrong. The many friends of Mr. Brown in his own neighborhood and in this city are confident that the case will be dropped when the facts are brought before the Grand Jury. 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