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The State's Condition. ;
Financially and fYorn a Dispensary j
Standpoint.
Governor Evans is now of the
opinion that the dispensary system
can be operated very near the actual
cost of purchasing, bottling and ship
* ping the liquor. He says it h %s been
the desire to furnish good liquor to'
the people as near the actual cost i
price as possible
The new schedule of prices, which
has been prepared, but has not yet I
been adopted by the State board of i
control, makes very, material reduc-i
tions in the prices. The price of SO j
per cent, whiskey for instance has j
been brought down to ll cents a half
pint.
Governor Evans says that the dis?
pensary now has the State's ?50,000
appropriation for the starting of the
dispensary in the ?tate treasury,
though it has not yet been placed to
the general account of the State. It !
is there, however, and it is only kept j
off the general account as a safe- j
guard It can be transferred to the
geueral accouut and be utilized at a
momenta notice.
He says that the State now has j
$85,000 in bank in cash on the gen- j
eral account, notwithstanding the
fact that the July interest has just!
been paid in full. He does not think
that the State will have to borrow j
any money this year with which to j
meet its obligations.
And thus it is that the Governor j
says the State board of control feels
that the time has come to make the
dispensary self sustaining, and, at j
the same time, furnish the people j
with liquor as near the actual cost as
possible.-The State.
TfiOS. HENRY HUXLEY, j
Thomas Henry Huxley was boro at j
Ealing, in Middlesex, England,. May
4, 1825, and died at Eastbourne on the j
29th ot Jane. To have lived seventy i
years was a comparatively long exist- j
ence for Huxley, for he bad been in ;
bad health ever since 1882 ; bet
physical distress never for a moment ,
impaired his mental vigor. I
Huxley's father was one of the mas- j
ters of Ealing school, aod the boy had ,
the advantages of a sound rudimentary
education. In after-life Huxley would ,
declare that he owed much to his ]
mother, and would expatiate on a trait
she possessed- that of rapid thinking, j
which faculty he prided himself on ,
exercising. In hits biographical notes, j
unfortunately too sparse. Huxley in?
sisted that his method of study had \
been desultory. What be liked be ,
studied, neglecting what was not to his (
taste. Probably Huxley was not a ,
good judge of his nascent po wer.?, for j,
he seems to have mastered when young ? ?
many topics, and besides that, when a (
lad, had acquired German and French. ?
To ask, after all, the main question,
"What did this man do?"-the ,
answer comes io part when his works (
are studied. His many volumes treat j
of physiology, biology, physiography, ! |
anatomy ; of science, general and spe- j (
cial Then there are his essays, many j ,
of which, and his best work, are not j
entirely scientific. It is in the role of j j
a.great teacher that Huxley's fame will ,
be perpetuated.
How much he agreed or did not agree ;
with Darwin is of the least importance.
?: was for his fine freedom of thought ,
that Huxley is above ail distinguish- ,
able. Hts was a constant combat with j
superstition. This superstition, he be- j
ieved, "blocked the way of progress." j (
His was, he insisted, "not a fight be- j ,
tween science and religion, but between j (
science and theology." Referring to j
his theological contentions, he wrote ? |
that "he doubted whether any cham- j |
pion could be found whose competency i
would be recognized beyond the coterie j '
to which it belonged." It is a griev j
ons blunder to insist that Huxley had j (
no reverence, for has he not written, ?
"Man follows his higher nature when j
he worships his Maker" ?
What Huxley particularly resented j j
were the clumsy attacks directed to- j j
wards him by slipshod personages, who
sometimes were peers, and oftener j ,
bishops. In such cases be showed de- j j
cided annoyance, and sometimes a mis- i ,
spent energy. His pen could be tren- j
chant, his irony cutting ; but when he j
met a worthy foe he was courteous.
There was an amusing passage-at-arms ?
between him and Lord Kelvin when
the latter deduced the age of the earth
from the retardation of the moon by
abstruse mathematical calculation. ' j
Mr. Huxley wrote that in mathematics
you had a compound mill of exquisite
workmanship, which ground your stuff
to any degree of fineness Put in your
mili peascods, and the yield never \5
would be wheat ?our. "So pages of ]
formulas will not get a definite result '
from loose data "-Harper's WeeJdy
Bicyclists who pay toll on country ? ,
roads have a right to demand that the (
pikes be kept in good condition. The
rule should work well both ways. The j i
cyclers do not. object to the toll if the j
roads are well kept, and the increase ; (
in the toll-gate receipts should furnish
funds for doing this work
n- -^tmmm -
Trouble is expected about the Mar- 1
quette. Michigan, coal mines. Three 1
thousand men are out and a body of ]
strikers is marching on Buffalo mines,
where miners have refuse to quit. j i
Weekly Weather Crop
Bulletin
For South Carolina.
COLUMBIA, S. C , July 16, 1895.
Very complete reports from every
county wer- received, covering the
past -.-eek. and they show rhu* the con?
dition of the various crops differs wide?
ly, not so much as between the dif?
ferent portions of the State as between
di&eieut sections of ?he same counties,
depending on whether che place has
been favored hy sufficient rain. The
rains far the past month cr more have
been in the form of showers and they
were very partial ; where the seasons
were favorable crops are in splendid
condition, and elsewhere they vary al?
most directly with the amount of rain
fail. The first condition includes two
thirds and possibiy more of the State.
Lice on cotton are still destructive
io Picken? and Greenville Counties,
where lice were never before known.
There was a severe wind st Tm,
accompanying a thunder storm, nc the
8th, (Monday) most severe over Ander?
don, Abbeville. Pickeos, and Aiken
Counties, where trees and fences were
blown down, crops leveled and much
green fruit blown off the trees. As the
coro was not in tassel it straightened
up again; there was a wind storm with
hail in Kershaw County on the 9ih
that damaged corn which had not. been
laid by as it cannot be ploughed again;
also a slightly destructive wind storm
in Orangeburg County on the 10th.
There was generally less than an
average amount of sunshioe over the
entire State, and this condition wa9
said to have been on the whole ben?
eficial, especially so where there was a
lack of raia as the clouds protected the
crops from the witheriog effects of the
hot. sun.
The time included within the past
week is ordinarily the period of greatest
heat in the State. During the remain?
der of the month and during August
there is a slow lowering of the normal
temperature, averaging less than a de?
gree a week until September when the
lowering becomes more rapid.
The daily mean temperature was
below the normal each day of the past
?reek io the interior, with departures
averaging about 2 degrees per day; on
the coast the temperature was more near?
ly normal with an average of less tbao
3ne below.
The highest temperature reported
iras 100 on the 9th at Beaufort; the
lowest 54 on the 10th at Spartanburg
The mean temperature of the week
for the State was about 82, and the nor?
mal for the same period is approx?
imately 83.
The rainfall for the week waa slight- |
ly defieieot, but very unevenly dis?
tributed. The showers on the 8th
[Monday) were quite general, and in
places very heavy over thc western and
central counties aod light along the cost.
They were very beneficial where suffi?
rent in amouot. There were showers
in the extreme eastern counties on the
12th, 13th and 14th, and ligbt partial
showers in the northwestern and north?
ern counties on the loth and 14th.
The heavy rains on the 15th will
be embodied in the next bulletin. In?
cluding with the week's rainfall that
which fell on the 8th. and excluding
thar of the 15th, there were eight
places that reported over 2 inches for
the week ; 19 with amounts between 1 i
ind 2 inches ; and 19 with less than an
Inch The average of 38 reports is
1.-58, and normal for the State for the
same period is approximately 1.36. !
greatest amount for the week 3.75 at j
McColl.
All reports indicate that cotton con- j
tinues small and is from two to three
weeks late; it is generally in healthy j
condition except in portions cf Pickens
ind Greenville Counties, where lice
bave appeared for the first time in the
bistory of cotton culture in that section,
ind in portions of Barnwell County,
where it is firing and turning yellow ;
rust bas also appeared in various scat-1
tered localities ; it is putting on
.quares, blooming and fruiting freely, :
but owing to the'smail weed the crop
cannot make more than a poor average,
lt is said. Sea Island cotton only half
its usual size at this time of the year.
It has been too dry in many places
"or early com,, which has about ali
been laid by ; it is in its earing stage,
md it depends on timely rain whether
lt will make a good or poor crop ;
aler corn is doing very wei! and looks
promising, especially on bottom lands ;
n a few localities grass is getting the
idvaatage.
A large acreage of peas has born
[)lanft'd. and the work ot sowing stab?
ile land continued ; a fairly good stand
)f* peas hus been obtainer! everywhere ;
iOme late planting germinating poorly.
Watermelons are ripening very fast
md being shipped : they are quire
plentiful, generally, and in localities
lhere is a poor market for them.
Tobacco harvesting and curing is
under way, and the crop so far gath?
ered is said to be of superior quality :
:he entire crop is a fine one
Rice on the Cooper and Ashley I
Pi?ver* is in fine growing condition, and
t looks promising in the Georgetown
district ; upland rice is dong well gene?
rally.
Gardens suffered very much for want
jf rain, more so than any other vegeta?
tion and in many localities they arc
practically ruined.
The acreage devoted to ?weet pota?
toes continues much less than on former
years, owing to scarcity ut seed io (he
firs: place, the scarcity of slips zv.d the
unfavorable weather for planting :be
slips; some report gr*:* improvement
in the growing vines.
Fruir, continues fairly piec?ifal :
blackerr?es a failure i:i Fairfield ; fruit
scarce near Florence, peaches ripening
slowly: promise of ;i fu.l orup -.'i
??rapes; apples plentiful, bu* small ano
of poor quality.
Turnip sowing begun : also ??ot?ing
for fall potato crop aod truck gene
rally.
Gathering of the State Al?
liance Delayed a
Month.
The following circular letter pospon
ing the annual meeting of the State
Alliance, scheduled to bo heh; in Co?
lumbia to-morrow week was yesterday
issued :
To the Alliance of South Carolina
! The delegates elected to the State A1H
I ance which meets OD the --ire inst.,
will please take notice that owing to
the fact that, the primary election for
the nomination of delegates to repre?
sent the Democratic party in the geuer
; al election on August 20, will take
place on July 30, aud a preliminary
campaigu will be going on the previ?
ous week, as well as the fact that the
; encampment at Tirzah, in York county,
will be io session on the 25th and 2Gth
' of July, I have decided to postpone the
State meeting until August 28th
W. D. EVANS,
Pres. S. C S. A.
Much interest attaches to the rumor
: which comes from London that the
; Princess of Wales and her daughters
j have been lately seen in gowns with
; small sleevs and narrow skirts. This
bit of intelligence does not necessarily
clinch the doom of the balloon sleeves
aud the letter A skirts, but it will tend
! to make prudent investors wary of lock?
ing up much capital in those varieties
Of course the balloon sleeves must go
presently. Wbeu fashionable mothers
began to put them on little boy?' ieg
yed night-gowns it became apparent
that the taste for them had come to be
; an extravagance, and could not last.
But it will be a shock to miss them
Doubtless we will find our frieods
changed when we get down to their
real selves again. Some who have
grown stout won't shrink as much as
we expet, and others who wore away
io the hard times perhaps will shrink
much more But let us have the facts
at any cost, especially as there must be
material enough in the present sleeves
and skirts to cut over into anything
conceivable, and have enough left over
to clothe a child.-Harper s WeeJdy.
Cotton Statistics.
LIVERPOOL, July 19 -The follow?
ing are the weekly cotton statistics :
Total sales for the week, 48,000 ;
American, 45.000 ; trade takings in?
cluding forwarded from shipside,
45,000 ; actual export, 9,000; total
import. 17,000 ; American, 13,000;
total stock, 1,481,000 ; American,
1,354,000. Total afloat, 52,000;
American, 30,000 : speculators took
200 : exporters took 2,100.
Mrs. Anna Gage, wife of Ex
Deputy U. S. Marsha!,
Columbus, Kan., says:
"I was delivered
of TWINS in
less than 20 min?
utes and wi t h
scarcely any pain
after using only
two bottles of
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