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Weekly Crop Bulletin. COLUMBIA, 8. C., June 9. 189b' This bulletin covers the weather and crop condition for the week ending Sat? urday, Jnoe 6, and io its preparation i were used reports from on* or more j correspondents io each county of the State. WEATHER. The past week was the secood one for the current crop season that had a mean temperature below the normal, the deficiency having averaged one degree per day, and it averaged five degrees per day lower than during the preceding week, doe to lower day and night temperatures, but more particu arly the former, cloudy weather hav? ing kept the maxima generally below 90 aod oo tbe Sd below SO The average of 37 mean temperature reports was 74 degrees, ranging from 70 at Greenville and Trial to 77 at seven different stations The normal for the week is 75. The maximum temperature for the week was 101 oo the 1st at Gillisonville, aod the minimum was 58 on the 2d and 5th at Looper's and Greenwood, respectively. There were light scattered showers on Sunday aod Monday, and on Tues? day a genera] rain set in thar continued throughout Wednesday, ending with showers on Thursday. Tbe rain was weil distributed aod io places excessive. lt effectually relieved the droogbt over the entire State, in a number of coun? ties laods were badly washed, and local? ly small areas of bottom lands were flooded. The following places reported excessive raios : Bates burg 4.10 ; Greenwood 3 42: St. George (two re? ports) 4.63 aod 6 00; Elloreee 4.20; Beaufort 3.15; Poverty Hill 4.25 ; Trial 3.44 ; twelve other places reported amounts between two and i three inches ; twenty-five places | amounts betweeu one and two inches j and* two less than one inch. The aver age of 47 reports is 2 18, and the nor? mal for the week is 1 12, the past week having been the first one during this crop season that had an excess of rain? fall. Damaging hail fell io Edgefield and Lexington. The prevailing winds were northeasterly during the rainy period. There was only about half the usual amount Of sunshine for the week, the percentage of possible sunshine ranged from 18 to 70. and averaged about 36 per ceot. There was most cloudiness over Florence and Darlington, and least in the western counties. CBOPS. As growiog crops stood io need of raio duriog previous weeks, it follows that with the copious showers there was a marked and general improvement in their conditioo during the past week. The rains, however, interfered with the j wheat and oats harvest, much of whioh was cut aod shocked, and it is thought I may be damaged. The rains also inter? fered with plowing, but little having j been done. Most fields were well culti? vated and clean, but grass is springing I op ^rapidly and the present need is for j shine "and dry weather for killing grass. Early corn is io silks and tassels, and ! is being "laid by" in excellent condi- | tion generally. June corn is being ? planted and is coming up to good stands. The corn crop looks very j promising. -Complaint of lice cn cotton is very | general, and in places the plant seems j to have been injured. Cotton is "limb? ing" well, and io some places is in bloom with squares forming freely. Same reports indicate a sappy condi? tion aod a tendency to grow too much too weed. On the whole, the plant is io good conditioo brit needs shunshine. Grass threatens some fields. Sea-Island cotton io poor conditioo. Peas are being extensively sown oo stubble laods and with corn. This work being considerably io advance of the usual time for doing it. Tobacco is reported small aod sickly in Florence, aod the best reports oo its conditioo indicate that it is doing ooly "fairly well." Rice is still being sown aod the crops is growing well generally, except upland, in which a marked improve? ment is expected oo account of the raios. Irish potatoes en the coast were oot materially helped by the raios, but elsewhere seem to have started a new ^growth. Sweet potatoes slips extensively set out under very favorable conditions. Mealons have . made excellent ad? vance, as also has cane, both of which are very promising. Peaches, plums aod apples cootioue to drop freely, and the outlook is for a small fruit ' op of rather poor quality. Blackberries and huckleberries im? proved and continue plentiful. Gardens have started growing again, and the supply of vegetables has 'materially increased and the quality has improved. Pastures whioh have been poor up to this time are growing weil and are beginning to afford excellent grazing. The crop outlook is at this time very encouraging, being reported the best ?or many years by a number of cor? respondents, particularly in the north? eastern counties. J. W. BAUER, Section Directer. With the blood foll of hamers, tbe heated erm is all tbe more oppressive. Give the sjstema thorough deposing wuh Ayer's sar? saparilla and a dose of Ajefs Pills, and you will eujoy Summer as never before in your j life. Just tay this qace, and you'll not repeat it. Touched With the Torch. Persistent Efforts Made at Incendiarism. Mrs. E H. Moore, a widow, who lives at No .1517 Sumter street, had a trying experience Sunday night with fire, which she thinks was the work of an incendiary. When seen by a representative ot The State Mrs. Moore was stiil nervous I aod not feeling altogether .safe. The j story as told by her shows the utmost persistence on the part of someone to ; burn tbe house down. She said that 1 Sunday uight about 9 o'clock when all her bo irden* had left except one lady, she passed through the hall and as she did 6o there was a fearful odor of what seemed to be burning turpentine and ktrosine. She hasteoed up stairs and found one of the front rooms filled with smoke, while on tbe floor was a broken lamp, the oil having run over the mat? ting and caught on fire. This was quickly extinguished without help, and thinking that the lamp had been left burning by the young man in whose room it was, and that perhaps the wind had blown it to the floor, ehe went down stairs The lady boarder, wbo was feeling unwell, had retired, but on hearing of the fire, went to the room and looked to see that the last spark bad been put out. Mrs. Moore, feeling somewhat de i pressed, did not '<ish to sit alone, so ' went to her next-door neighbor's for ! perhaps an hour and then came home [-and went to bed herself. She had just fallen asleep when she was awakened by some gentlemen rushing in the house and up the steps They had seen a blaze through the window and had run in to put the fire out. It was j a quilt burning on the floor The quilt I had been lyiog across the foot of the J bed. The boarders returning soon after- j wards, she again retired, but feeling j nervous, decided to go into the adjoining j room which was occupied by a lady | Before going she went to the closet in her room to get some article, and on opening the door, was greeted with the smell of smoke. This time it was | some soiled clothes io a basket. They were badly bumed and cannot be used again. Mrs. Moore was thoroughly alarmed by this time and decided that someooe was benton burning the house in spite of everybody and everything, so she set to wort to get some of her things together for immediate evacuation, if the worst came to the worst. In making preparations it was neces? sary to go to a closet under the stair? case and for a fourth time, fire was dis covered. In this closet were a feather- j bed. some wiodow shades, pillows and 1 quilts. She now was satisfied that someone \ was attempting to burn the house, but when the men searched the premises, no one was fonnd The last fire was discovered about 2 o'clock. Mrs. More thinks while 9he was up j stairs, that the incendiary, if there was one-and she is frure there was-slipped down and set fire to the thiogs io the two closets, and the doors being fas tened tight, no smoke betrayed it. It was a trying experieoce and one that she does not care to have again. Columbia State, June 9. Gov. Evans Returns. Gov. Evans yesterday returned from Augusta, where he has been sioce Sat? urday as the guest of Major Gary. When Governor -Evans was shown the special to The State mentioning that he and Senator Tillman were in Augusta, which city is the home of Major Gary and Mr. Rhiod, four of those mixed up in the bond matter being in the same city at the same time apparently, he said that he did not know Senator Till? man was in Augusta Sunday, aud did not sea him. Senator Tillman knew he was there, however. The senator did not stop at an hotel, but was the guest of a friend. Gov. Evans also says that Mr. Rhind was not in Augusta while he was lhere. He admitted thaat he ?ought Mr. Rhind* The governor says that he is now getting up the statement referred to, but it will not be made pub? lic until the attack is made upon him j in regard to the bond matter by some I responsible party. He will make use of the matter now being gotton up in the campaign, probably at the opening meeting at Manning. The announce? ment was made on Saturday last that it would be ready for publication and given to the public Wednesday. The State's special merely stated that Gov. Evans aod Senator Tillman were in Augusta,* the home of Gary and Rhind. According to Gov. Evans, it "just happened that way." The "coin? cidence'" was nevertheless very striking. -State. Brigandage in Turkey, j _____ ( CONSTAS'TIN'OPLE, June S.-A start- I j ling case of brigandage occured . j yesterday almost within the precincts ; 1 of the Capital of the Turkish Empire, j Two carriages, one containing Mme Brezeau, a wealthy French lady, and ; the other bearing Mine Paragamian and her daughter, the wife and child of a rich American residing in this city, were attached Ly brigands at Yalove, twenty miles from the city, j and the occupants of the vehicles I carried off. To-day their captors j caused to be conveyed to Constan- j tinople information that the ladies ! will be held until the demand of the j brigands for ?200 ransom is complied j with. Tne Silver Craze Dying Out. j According ('? oar estimable gold . standard friends "the silver ctaze is : dying out " They say the "craze*'j is quite dead because they would j have it so Bnt the people who have ? had, and are to day haying, a bitter j experience under the single gold policy, are firmly resolved that the restoration of silver to coinage privi- j leges shall be a live issue until the j battle now being waged in that be- I half shall have been triumphantly | won v Look at? Old Kentucky, notwith- j standing Secretary Carlisle's visit and speeches in favor of the single gold standard. No man stood higher with the people of Kentucky a few years ago than Secretary Carlisle no man wielded greater influence in the Democratic party than he The j people of Kentucky, well informed j upon the currency question-know? ing by a dread experience the im? poverishing influence of the single gold standard, have spoken in unmis? takable language in favor of the free coinage of silver, electing to the Democratic State Convention five hundred and fifty-one delegates in favor of bimetalism, against one hun dred and forty-four in favor of gold oppression. Gentlemen are flattering them? selves that Georgia may be carried for gold. They are reckoning with? out their host. Ali the power and all the patronage of the administration cannot bring about so disastrous a result in Georgia. N | Richmond county itself is very far from being a gold county. The man who thinks the people have no thought on this subject would be astonished beyond measure if he should go among them. They are overwhelmingly in favor of the res? toration of silver to the right it had up to 1873. They know that the i issue is that silver shall have at the mints of the United States the same rights that gold now has. Let the people turn out when this great question is to be decided, and give expression to their honest con? victions. Neither Georgia nor South Caro? lina make a specialty of ? growing wheat, but they do grow some Let us see ho cv the demonetization of silver affected the farmers of these two States as to their wheat crop : In 1880, Georgia farmers made 2.933,000 bushels of wheat. It was worth at that time ?125 a bushel, and aggregated the SUT: of $3,666. 250. In 1891 Oreorgia farmers made 2,323,0(K ' ishels of wheat. It was worth thai year 85 cents per bushel -a decline, you observe,of40 cents a bushel-and aggregated $1,974,550, a IOPS of orre million six hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred dollars Mind you, the effort to raise the crop of 1891 was equal to that put forth to make the crop of 1880. In 1880, South Carolina farmers raised 998,000 bushels of wheat, worth ?1.25 per bushel, and amount? ing to ?1,235,000. In 1891 these same farmers made 992,000 bushels of wheat worth 85c. per bushel, and amounting to ?843,200 only-a clear loss of three hundred and ninety-one thousand eight hundred dollars. Who wi'" say " that the farmers of Georgia and South Carolina who toi I - ?d to make these crops of wheat were not seriously crippled by the demonetization of silver in 1873 I Give the people the facts ; they will do the voting.-Augusta Chron? icle. Degenerate Ben. (From The Buffalo Enquirer } Ben Tillman is not the hayseed in appearance that tnaoy suppose. Per? haps down in South Carolina r.e goes around looking like a farmer, but wbeo he gets to the National Capital or to the metropolis he fixes up like stylish folks The New York Tribuoe remarks : "If Senator Tillman, of Sooth Carolina, were to go campaigning through the rural districts of bis State in the garb in which he appeared at the Fifth Ave? nue Hotel Sunday be would be boy? cotted as a bloated bondholder and a goldbug. The Senator from South Carolina is a tall, arhletic man. The loss of ao eye detracts somewhat from his appearance, but he is nevertheless a strikiog person. His utterances ia tbe SeDate have gained for him the title of 'Pitchfork Tillman,' and the usual conception of him is a farmer ic blue jeans, expectorating tobacco juice and emitting lurid threats. His wild cry against tbe gold men and his threats to bolt the Chicago Convention are well known. The contrast was all the more remarkable then when, on Sunday, he appeared in a handsome frock coat, im? maculate Moen, a tie that was dainty, the neatest kind of a watoh chain and guard thrown across his vest and wear? ing light English trousers, patent leath? er shoes and a talT silk hat. He made an excellent looking fashion plate, and it took a great deal of reassuring to make some of those who know him only by fame believe that he was in reality thc hurricane from South Caro lina. A man who has known Tillman for years remarked sadly : 'BSD ain't the same. His spirit's broke. He was countin' on goin' up there to Chi? cago and fightin' them goldbug?, bur DOW it's a hundred ro GOP shot as how the silver men is goto' to win, and B:m can't bolt. And the blow ig breaking h?s spirit j TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. June S. Gen Raphael de Quesada, one of the prominent Cuban leaders died io New York oo Saturday. He had come to this country to organize an expedition. ? Senator Blackburn is said to favor j Boies for President, and Kentucky will probably vote for him Tbe silver Democrats will control the j Minnesota Convention and name the ! delegates to Chicago. This State has j heretofore been counted in the gold j column. A di?patch from Akasbeh, Soudan, j states that 1,000 Dervishes were killed ' in the fighting around Feriket. The Southern Black Hills county of j Arkansas was visited by the wcrsc flood j ic its history on Saturday. A cloud burst deluged the valley of the Loup river Kansas, and a vast amount of property has been swept away already. An aoarobist riot occurred in Barce? lona, Spain yesterday, and it is feared that another reign of terror will be inau? gurated. Sis persons were killed and 24 wounded by the explosion of a bomb. The celebration of tte 1,000th anni? versary of the founding of the Hun? garian Kingdom is being celebrated in Buda-Pest. More than 600,000 peo? ple ?ere iu the crowd yesterday. It is reported from Washington that Congress will adjourn this week. What Boies Thinks. DES MOINES, Ia., June 7-The del? egation that will represent Iowa at'tbe ? natiooal Democratic convehtion met j here yesterday- for organization and I conference. S. B. Evans of Ottumwa, I was made secretary of the delegation, j Ex-Governor Horace Boies, candidate j for President, made a brief address to ? the conference, in which he expressed ' confidence that if the Democracy would make fioance the overshadowing issue i this year and a brief platform unequivo i cally d3maudiog free silver coinage it ! would carry all the south and west and Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Tbe reports received by Mr. Walsh, who has been the leader and organizer of the silver forces in this State, from all over the country lead him to confidently beleive that Boies is almost as far in the lead for the Democratic nomination as McKinley is in the Republican. He was confident of Boies nomination. - ?- II - nu - The Commodore Released, i j CHARLESTON, June 8.-The little j filibustering steamer Commodore was I released from custody by the United j States authorities here to-day upon j the attorney of Messrs. .J. D. Hart & Co. putting up ?4,500 for appearence when wanted. The boat was arrested by the United States officials upon her recent return from an alleged trip to Cuba. Information was given I against ber by one of her seamen aud she had been tied up at the custom house dock ever since. The boat ! will probably be placed on the ways to have her bottom cleaned, after which it is stated that she will go to Philadelphia. A crew of eight men I have arrived in the city for ber. A Light Without Heat. ! A special to'the Boston Transcript from New York, says : The new white light with which Thomas A. ?diston has been experimenting, has almost reached perfection, so the inventor said The new light, or "fluorescent lamp," as Edison has named it, is somewhat similar to the incandescent lamp now used every? where. There is a glass globe, from which a part of the air inside has been extracted. There is not so per ? feet a vacuum as in ihe incandescent I lamp. Unlike the electric lamp, the I whole globe glows with a pure white light. The light comes from a metal? lic crystal known as "tungstate." Thc illuminating property is due to a peculiar attribute of the tungstate crystal itself. I "1 was 8U8prised," said Mr. Edi- j ; son, "to find that with the intense ! i white light given off by the tungstate j there was no heat. The incandescent j lamp transforms 95 per cent of the ! electrical force into heat and only 5 j per cent is turned into light. This ! is a tremendous loss, from a com I mercial point of view. With my new lamp I absolutely can discover no heat. I do not attempt to explain it : I only accept it as a fact. This means an astounding cheapness in j lighting and a consequent j commercial gain The new j lamp will last as long as the globe ! lasts. There are no expensive filmes j to consider. I get besides a much I better light. It is a singular fact that a j I two-handle new light lamp gives out ? ! to the eye almost twice the ! j illumination effect that a twu-candle j : incandescent lamp does." 1 Col. L GT??'Kissick Dead. ! UNION, Juno 8.-Col. I. G McKis- j ! sick died here to day after a lingering j illness, aged 70 years and siz months. He was lieutenant colonel of the Sev- j enth cavalry during the war and was I gallant and heroic throughout the strug- | gie. Since the war he has served his . Siate well and as a true son. both in ; the legislature and elsewhere. He was : elected to congress in 1S70, but was counted out, by the Republicans He represented this county 12 years io thc legislature. LOCAL BRIEFS. i Mr. J. W. Ti'.linghrtst i? arrnngirig to gi?e | ? concert during the stay ot' tbs Citadel CH-: de;s ia this city. A site for the cotton seed o;! trill bas net | yet been selected, but severa! suitable lots are under consideration. The tobacco warehouse is goiDg up with a rash now, and will be completed within the I contract time. The commencement season in this citr will j be long drawn out this year. This week the I giris and boys of the Graded School will make their bows to the publij. In going to get a drink stop and tkink what bargains in Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines are to be had at the Sumter Music House, in tbe Masonic Temple building. The reel squad boys have lest somewhat of the ardor in worshiping the horses and are rubbing and polishing the old band reels. They are gettiDg ready for the race. Maj. H. F. Wilsoo's residence on the corner of Washington and Calboun Streets is near? ing completion. It is a very neat cottage and quite an ornament to that section o? the city. Mr. T. B. Fraser, Jr's., residence on upper Main Street is also nearing completion. The brick is beiog hauled, and work wile begio this week on the foundation for the Lutheran Church, to be built on the corner of Washington and Republican streets. Th. work will be superintended by Mr. J. A. Renno, a member of the building committee George W. Murray, congressman from the First District, was in town Saturday, having arrived from Washington tbat morning. He is in luck for he received his salary for the full term, in addition to the U9ual amount allowed for the expenses of the contest. The State Convention of the Epworth League meets in this city this week, the day of assembly being to-day. Delegates from every League in the State are expected to be in attendance, insuring the presence of a large and interesting body of Christian workers. The convention will be in session for several days. The candidates for county offices are run niog along in a bunch just at present, and there is no excitement, unless it is of the in? ward sort that irritates only the individual. They all want the offices and are not hesitat? ing to say so. When the primary -^raws a little nearer there will be more excitement and the interest will be greater for the spec? tators. The subscribers of the Watchman and Southron, who are in the city attending court, can obtain The Daily Item each day. free of charge, by calling at the office after 5.30 o'clock. We shall be glad to see our friends at any time while they are in the city, aod they are invited to make themselves at home in our office. Rev. J. W. Daniel,delivered Sunday evening the first of a series of lectures on the history of South Carolina. The lecture was both interesting and instructive, and was heard by a large congregation Mr. Daniel has made a thorough and painstaking etudy of our State's history, and is better fitted to deliver a series of lectures on this subject than any other mao in this community. The Piedmont Tobacco Works of Rock Hill have been enlarged and the amount of capital increased. The factory manufactures both plug and smoking tobacco, and is doing a large and growing business that has proven profitable to the proprietors of the factory. Rock Hill is a progressive town and knows what enterrises are worth. Sumter had an opportunity of securing a tobacco factory, but disregarded'it. Mr W. J. Norris, who leases theNeedwood place of Mrs. James Reyuolds, in *3tateburg township, ha3 a ten acre field of cotton that is regarded by the best farmers as unusually fine for ibis season. The cotton averages from two to three feet in height all over the field ard is filled with forms. A specimen stalk, which was brought to this office Monday morning, is two feet seven inches io height, and bas two dozen weil developed forms on it. The coiton is in fine condition, is grow? ing vigorously, and with fair seasons a large crop will be mude. Mr. R. H. Baker returned Thursday morning from a fishing trip on the Pee Dee river. He went with a party from Darlington, and they spent two weeks at the mouth of the Little Pee Dee where fish of all kinds do most con? gregate, and the expedition wa3 mo3ta pleas? ant aud successful one. The only unpleasant incident was a fifteen mile tramp across the country to get back into civilization, the river being two low to permit the boat to run up to the Pee Dee bridge. Speaking of the county offices and the nu? merous candidates already in the field and the others who are ready to enter the rac?, a question that bas been often asked recently, occurs : "Who will be 'he candidate for Legislative honors?"" This is not readily answered, as no ooe is actively a candidate as yet. lt is reported on very good authority that 3everal of the present delegation will be willing to accept a re-election at the bands of their constituents, and the report is doubtles true. Those of the incumbents wbowill ac? cept another term will probably be returned without serious opposition, as the entire dele? gation has been faithful in the discharge of the duties devolving upon them, and if the discharge of a duty calls for a reward, then the a3pirant3 for another terra in the Legis? lature should be rewarded, and the reward should be re-election. It goes withot saying that those; who aspire to a 3eat in tbe South Carolina Legislature desire honor, not money, for the present per diem is not large enough to excite the cupidity of any one. -^ POSTAL INFORMATION. Hours of Opening and Closing the Mails. Mails for Colombia, point3 above Colum? bia, for the North, and West, Hamlet and Pregnals South of Sumter, Ramsey, Pine? wood, Rimini, Elloree, Vance, Eutawville and Pregnal, close at 9.10 a. m. Mails for St. Paul and points between there ] and Sumter opens and closes-at 1.10 p. m. Mails for Florence and the North, for Charleston, Savannah. Florida, Hamlet, Ben oettsville, Darlington and Bisbopvilie-close at 5 o'clock p. ra. Mails for Columbia and the North and West, and for Wilmington, all close st S o'clock p. m. Charleston mail is also sent j by this route. j For Providence and Smithville on Tues j days, Thursdays md Saturday? arrive at 12 j m.. close at 2 p. m. For Mannvil'.e, Mechanicsv?le and Bossard j on the same days, close at 1 o'clock p. m. j arrive at 12 o'clock m. Cut this out and post it up where you can get at it and you will not want to find so much fault with the Post Office. Tobacco House Thermometers, cheap at 1 China's Drsg House. Get pri:j-= before buy- | ing. June 4-IwJ , Tobacco House Thermometers, cheap a: j China:3 Drug Boase. Get prices before boy ing. > Jase 4-1 The Doff That Got the Ducks. A good story is told cf hunters from Washington who went TO the coast of North Carolina r<; shoot ducks. There were six men in the party, and they had three dogs with tin'in. They hunted in couples, each two hav? ing ii dog. Shooting was good, and from each of the six couples the sound o? guns hoing fired notified *heir friends of their success, for They WOK1 only a short distance apart. Each couple was somewhat indig? nant, because whenever a duck fell theil own dog failed to get ir. eur dog seem? ing to secure almost every one of thc wild fowl. At luncheon time they all came to? gether. "Well, what luck?" was the genera] greeting:. "Elegant, but your dog got oui ducks," was the universal response. Then they looked at each other, while from out the little bay glided, a skiff loaded with ducks, in the forward end of which sat the dog which had gathered them in.-Washington Star. Wanted Peace and Qniet. "You didn't take that middle flat which you liked so well?" "No." "Rent too high?" "Oh, no! I found that the woman up stairs kept some Angora eats and that the man iu the lower fiat was raising pug dogs. 'r-Chicago Record. Sewing Machines and Organs cleaned and repaired at the Sumter Music House. Official League balls for sale by H. G Osteen & Co. Nervous Prostration Cured by Dr. Miles' Nervine. Prolonged derangement of the nervous system not only affects the brain and men? tal powers, but develops disease in some o? the vital organs. The most dangerous of these indirect results is when the heart is affected. This was the case of the Rev. N. F. Surface, Fawn River, Alien., who writes under date of Feb. 14,2?'J5: "Fourteen years ago I had a slight stroke of paralysis. Overwork brought on nervous prostration. I was exceedingly nervous and thc exertion of public speaking caused heart palpitation that threatened my life. I used two bottles of Dr. Miles' New l?ear* Cure for my heart, trouble, and two of Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine for my nervous? ness and feel better than I ever expected to feel again. I can speak for hours without tiring or having my heart flutter as it for? merly did, and I have you to thank that ? am alive today." On sale by all druggists. Dr. Miles' Book cn Heart and Nervous Disorders FREE by mail. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Br, Miles' Remedies Restore Health, Are You Planting Tobacco? If you are, you need informa? tion connected with growing, curing, grading and selling your crop. If you are not experienced in handling to? bacco, you stand in particular need of advice and instruc? tion. This you can obtain by reading The South Carolina Tobacconist. It is a weekly journal devoted exclusiveiy to tobacco culture in South Carolina, and gives the exact information requ;~ed by beginners, as well as tno'se who have some experience. Do You Expect toPlant Tobacco Next Year I Then prepare yourself to make a success of it by studying the best methods. To do this read The South Carolina To? bacconist, subscription $2.<K* per annum. The South Carolina Tobacco? nist and The Watchman and Southron sent one year to any addresser ?3. Oath must in variably accompany orner. Address N. G. OSTEEN, Sumter. S