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? ? ;? PALMETTO po*m INTKRKSTfNO OCCirHRKNCKH ALL OVKR THK STATK. v . First Since the War. For the first time since the days of *6l-G5 there was a parade in tho streets ?I Charleston a few dare ago of en- ' listed troops. The PWOgaaieed Fourth brigade was inspected andmnetered in bf the adjatant general of the State. and this function was followed by a j parade and review. There were nearly 1,000 men of all arms in line. This included the oorps of oadets of the State military academy, 150 strong; the corps of oadets of the Porter mili- | tary academy, ISO strong; throe bat- ' talions, nine companies of infantry; one battalion of naval militia; one bat- J ' talion of artillery, a squadron of cavalry, three bands of music and a ! drum oorps. Under the reorganization j which recently took plaee, as a result , of the dispensary riot iu March, of 1804, those man are all enlisted re- ' gularly in the service of the State. ' Only one company of the brigade de- ' * dined to re-enlist, the Charleston Light Dragoons. The adjutant general of the State, and the oommaudant of the Fourth brigade cure both graduates of the State military academy since its reorganization in 1880. The military ! display was a very creditably affair. Work for Everybody. A good report comes from Columbia in regard to the work in Richland County for the purpose of the State exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Tbe county is moving, the wheels have been started and strong and active forces are behind them. Some of the best men in the community are in- | terested, the women have given the J promise of their oo-operation, and i things from now on are going to hum along. The county that wants to get ahead of Richland will have to be alert. It is announced that the State Agricultural Society has decided to hold a floral fair tbe fourth week in May. ^ The Florence Eleetrio Light and Fower Company has received a 120horse power engiue with which it expect to run its dynamos. The election for a mayor of Rock Hill to serve the unexpired portion of the term for which the late Dr. Fowell was elected resulted in the success of W. C. Hutchison. I The plant of the new Cheraw Knitting Mills Co., will work a night and day force, producing about 80,000 dozen hose per annum. About sixty or seventy hands will be employed. ^Charleston wanhy an electric railway built between that oity and the suburban summer and health resort of Hummerrille, S. C. The distance is abont twenty-two miles, through a beautiful moss covered forest. The country is level and the line could therefore be built at a minimum cost sti would pay a large revenue JL gentleman from Connecticut, who is visiting different sections of tho d/vn4k ?n aoarah <if a oni#dliln Iaoa^i on I JVIUU IU P^aivu f* nuiipuir iv/vnuiviu for a hotel of one hundred rooms, which he proposer ?> build at some place that will furnish suitable facilities for hunting, recently visited Calhojiu Falls, and aa a 'result of his invibii^atiou viAs v?ry fnVGrsbls impressed with that place. A charter has been issued to the Edgeiield Oil Co., of Edgefield. The oapital stock of the company is $50,000, with the right to increase it to $100,000. The oftnera of the company are Charles H. Fisher, president; R. . M. Miller, Jr., secretary, and C. H. | Fisher, treasurer. The company haa ' already built a cottonseed mill. Tom Dpcon tn a Wreck. A special to the News and Courier j from .Florence, ?. u., nays: Train -to, 1 the southbound fast mail on the North- j eastern Railroad, which left here at 8:10 o'clock Wednesday dooming for Charleston, ran into a washout at | Howe's Crossing, four miles below | this city and was completely wrecked. The engine passed over the washout, ' but the tender, mail, baggage, first- J class car and three sleepers we at j down. There were few passengers on > the train, none of whom were killed. The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., the noted New York preacher and orntor, and Robert Petteway, the baggage master, of Wilmington, N. C., received the worst injuries, neither sorious. The train was in charge of Engineer Meadors and Conductor ThomasOglesby, neither of whom was hurt. To add to the horror, the two rear sleepers look tiro from gas lumps and were burned. Sugar Refineries Resumed Work. The Sprockles Bugar Refinery of Philadelphia, Pa. which baa been closed for two week by order of the Bugar Trust, by which it is controlled, has started to run again. The resumption of work is looked npon as a steady one. The plant is running on nearly full time, but with a reducod force. Another refinery in Williamsburg, N. Y., which was closed by tie trust at the same time Spreokles was shut down ha* also resumed work / ^ AMAOHUSKTTS MILL MBIT. N Tk?jr Don't Qlvo n Good Thing Aw my, but Sine Upon It. Talking about the Maaaachuaetta mill committee,a successful cotton mill man who has most of his money invested in Southern enterprises, put the situation in a very terse and forcible manner. Said'he: "So far, ! as we Southern ootton manufacturers | are concerned it wuulil be better for , us and our pocketbooks if the New , England 'manufacturers would keep BVAT fl>Am fKn Qrvntk Q^ 4U. I w? vftw vuv ik^vu?u* *?u iiki an vumr liking this section.is concerned there 1 csn be no qaestion, end it is simply s | question as to which is in a position i to get here first. It would be poor ; .business polioy for anyone to find a good thing, as these people hays, and then go and trumpet it about to all their'business rivals. These people are going to quietly fold their tints and invest thoir money in the South, and get just as long a start before the other fellow as is possible. The longer the better, and the earlier they get here the more pie they will be able to eat. These people understand the mill business so thoroughly that they have not taken long to see the advantages of cotton mills in the Southern field." ; A COTTON MILL MAT. The D. A. Tompkins Company, of Charlotte. N. C., has gotten out an interesting map in connection with the matter of successful cotton mills. It is called "A map showing the territory of the most success? ul toxtile manufa?t;ir. s in the United States." The successful territory is marked off iu red. First' comes the New England territory; then a slice taking in Trenton, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The largest division is the Piedmont belt. It commences at Lynchburg, in Southern Virginia, and runs South as far as Eufaula, Alabama. On the North the belt skirts the Blue Ridge Mountain range and on the South the boundary ismarked Tarboro, N.. C., Florence, Orangeburg and Barnwell, in South Carolina, and Dawson and Millen, in Georgia. Very little of Alabama is included in the "most successful territory" and none of Texas, Florida, Mississippi or other Southern States come in the rod lines Two-thirds of South Carolina is included in the most successful territory. All of the Piedmont section proper is embraced as well as Columbia, Barnwell, Sumter, Chester, Lancaster, Darlington, Orangeburg, Edgctield, Ahhnvillo Ailran oml 1 ' v ?? wu\? a/in\;nvilir dUU the territory adjoining. Mr. Tompkins does not undertake to explain why the map w?? drawn in this way, but simply explains that it is after a study of the successful cotton mills. <vrn. Li. Wilson In Richmond. Hon. William L. Wilson, Postmaster General, arrived in Richmond, Va., Wednesday afternoon on the 2:45 train from Washington. He was met at Ashland by a committee of the local alumni of the University of Virginia, and on reaching here was tendered a lunch at the residence of Mr. Wyndham R. Meredith, and later a reception in his honor was hold at the executive nansinn Tkn * uinuoiuu. X lit uuypi UUK w nrj UnMHlt'U in receiving by his staff, who were in uniform, and the affair vm very brilliant. A delegation of white postofflce employes attended the reception in a body and at the door of the manlion were joined by a colored letter carrier. The latter wan stopped by the Governor's butler and waited in the hall until Mr. Wilson came out of the parlor and shook hands with him. At night Mr. Wilson, at the banquet of the Richmond Chapter of the University of Virginia Alumni, responded to the toast. "The Scholar in? Politics." Mr. Wilson said that high political education w as the foundation of Democratic institutions. If there ever was a time when it was necessary for every man to do his duty j ft? a citizen, as a patriot, as a politician, it was this time. The politics of the country had undergone a change since the days of Thomas Jefferson. The function of the scholar in politics was the function of enlightening the people. POSTAL. HOLIDAYS. The Postmaster Oeneral Amends the Regulations Regarding Them. The Postmaster General amended the postal laws and regulations regarding holidays. The amendment stales that postmasters may observe as holidays January 1st, February 2'2nd, May 30th, July 4th, the first Monday in September, known as Labor Day, December 25th, and such other days as the President of the United States or the Governors in their respective States may designate as fast or thanksgiving days, or proclaim specially as holidays. On other occasions their offices can be closed only after permission is obtained therefor from the Departtueut. to - ? ? * I.'- A- k be applied lor tnrougu iuc xirsi am- i sistant Postmaster General. Upon ] holidays postofHces must be opened suflicicntly to meet fairly the public convenience. Mails must be up and distributed as on other days. When a legal holiday tails upon a Sunday the following Monday rnnv be obserrdv, unless otherwise specially provided for l?v State authority. Although Alsuoe wus under French j control for nearly two centuries, the people continue to speak German. Industrial Conditions South. The indutrial conditions of the South are improving. Iron ia strong and the demsnd is heavj. The lumber market shows strength. The dcmand for machinery from all parts of the South is much heavier than for months past and there is a greater number of new projects than ordinarAmong the fifty-three- new industries reported as established or incorpoeated are two canning factories at Thomson, Ga., an electric light plant at Paaa Christian, Miss., and $20,000 electrio plants at Pulaski, Jeun., and Taylor Texas; flouring mills at Berryville, Ark.; Rocky Face, Ga.; Jasper and Kinsport, Tenn.; Pinkerton, Va,; and Brandy wine, W. Va. Ice factories afe to l>e established at Raleigh, N. C.; Cleveland, Tenn,; aud Han Antonio, Texas. A land company with a capital of $78,000 has been organiz i'u at Atlanta, it*.; ana one at ftlaroo, $50,000.? Coal mines will he developed at Jhfsper, Ala.; and a $75,000 cotton setd oil mill erected at Fort Worth, Tex. A $40,000 cotton mill i? reported from Central, 8. C.. and one to cost $500,000 is proposed at Columbia, S. C. At Cullman, Ala., a $50, 000 cotton mill will be erected ami at Hogansville, Ga., one to coat $125,000 and another at Spartanburg. S C., with a coital of $200,000. Woodworking plants will be established at Talladega. Ala,, Tampa, Fla., Atlanta and Waycross, Ga., New Orleans, La., Wilmington. N. (' , Beaumont, and Lynchburg, Va. Among the enlargements reported is a flouring inillat Mill Bridge, N. C., Wytheville, Va., aud Maaontown, W. Va., aniLanachine works at Atlanta, Ga. Among new buildings a $16,000 church at Birmingham, Ala., a $30,000 court house at Zeimlon, Ga., and hotela to be enlarged at Atlanta, Ga. Several new residences will be erected at Louisville, Kv., and Wheeling, W. and a warehouse at Tim* monsville, S. C. WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADES. Cotton, OH and Wheat Climbing-The Rl^eintlie Pi Ire of Beef. R. G. Dunn & Co.'s weekly review of trade for the past week, earn: In every speculative department business is growing, but this in really the least satisfactory feature of the situation. Cotton, oil and wheat climbed above the export price, so that the marketing of products abroad must be checked and money is absorbed which ought to be employed in productive lndustrv and iu distribution of products to consumers. There is uo evidence that cotton is in lar ger dflLsud than it was when the price was swit lower, but prices have been so low Tor months that au upward movement was easy without much reason. though stocks here and abroad are 300,000 bales larger than they were at the same date after the greatest. crop ever produced heretofore and spinners here and abroad have taken about 1.GOO.000 bales mure th?n Lave consumed, 'lbe rise tends to prevent the decrease of acreage, which ia its one reasonable excuse. Outside of the speculative markets the most important feature is the rise in the price of beef, but which is largely due to the control of source? of supply by a few strong corporations. The aotual decrease in receipts of cattle at the four ebief Western markets has been 200,000 head during the first quarter of 1H93, aud the quantity killed has been only 80,000 head less than last year?about 10 per cent. General trade conditions at theSouth are no better, and in some respects less satisfactory. Improvement) ia demand is not announced at any point. In IVxns high winds and lack of rain have hurt crop prospects, and farmers in some localities have not planted yet. Soiiu- large textile mills have advanced wages at Fall River about 10 per cent, restoring the rater, paid ufter the reduction iu September, 1803. Labor troubles are comparatively less ; . - ll.L -1, J 4.1.- 4. 1 .5 BeiK'uf tint* wren, niiu luc itfuueiiCV lt? toward larger returns for labor, which will increase the consuming power for other product*. The cotton mills are euoouruged by improving prices and are fairly busy. Failures during the past week have been 241 in the Cuited States, against 2111 last year, and 26 iu Canada,agaiust 45 last year. Deputy Comptroller of the Treasury Mansur Dead. Charles H. Mansur, of Missouri, Deputy Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury, died shortly before 7 o'clock Tuesday morning after an illness of several weeks, during which his death has been daily expected. Early iutha night the physicians abandoned the faint ray of hope that lingered, and discontinued administering medicine. Tlic Visible Sii|?|>l\ . Official reports from New York indicate that the total visible supph of cotton for the world is 4,27~,<i;?l hah a, of which 3,945,451 hales are American, against 5,05r>,2?4 hales and OKI hales respectively last year. The receipts <?f cotton last w -ek at all the interior towns were 41,055 hales; receipts from the plantations 45,451 hales. Crop in sight iV*li!.20t? hales. PITHY NEWS ITEMS. . # 4 .. r k *> , j . , ?? . Charles Knox, tbe founder of the hat manufacturing company which bears his name, died of pneumonia, aged 77 years. J. A. White of Columbus,Ga. announces bia intention of becoming a candidate for President of tbe United States, as silver man. labor man. and southerner. He wants to unite the west and south. White is a shoemaker. According to the report of the gorerment geological survey the production of marble from Oeorgia in 1894 was 481,029 cubic feet, valued at $716,385, as compared' with 8261,666, the valuq in 1898, an increase of 174 per cent. Oeorgia ranks second among tbe marble-producing States, Vsrmont being first. All the marble comes from Pickens county. The annnal report of tbe American tnliannn pnmmiaM/in ahnnra a anvntn. ^' $4,013/227, after allowing for the income tax and preferred stock dividend. The surplus after common stock ?lividend is $1,805/227. Total surplus, $7,198,290, on December 13, 1894. Fifteen thousand dozen eggs woro shipped from Huutsville, Ala., to New York last Saturday and on Tuesday several hundred oases were shipped to Now Orleans. George Cowan, of Oborlit^. O., aged 21, while playing baseball, was struck . by a pitched ball behind the ear and lustautly killed. j Rev. E. V. Evans has resigned the ! rectorship of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church at St. Augustine, Fla., to go to England, where he has fallen heir to the property aud title of his uncle, the late Lord Carberry. The Quinnebog Company of Dsnielsville and Nicholsouville, Conn., together with the Fall River and New ; tied to ret (Mans.) Manufacturers' Associations, have all advanced the operatives, wages ranging from (5$ to 124 per cent., taking effect on the 22(1 inst. John Quarler and David Hutler, the two Murray County (Oa) Wbitecappera convicted of participating in the recant hanging of Henry Worley, were sentenced by the Atlanta Federal Court to tivo Tears each in the penitentiary at Columbus, O., with a tine of $500 each additional. The ease will be carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. The manufacturers' convention to bo held in Atlanta Pfaj 7th and 8th will be one of the most important .-.i.:.. .. i it I _ a , :A . I Uicruu^n OVOI UC11I IU tuot tIM . AUO I state association of manufacturers that the convention is to organize will be the first association of its character ever organized in the south. This fact alone will attract gteat attention to Georgia's progress and prosperity, i More than 300 delegates are , PIEDMONT MINERAL COMPANY. Englishmen with $200,000 to Look for Caol<l and Moun/.lte. i Win. E. Hidden, of Newark. N. J., who returned from London on tho Lucania recently, went abroad on March t?th to complete contracts in I North Carolina. 1 These interests were capitalized while Mr. Hidden was iu London for ( $200,000 ?ud a company was formed, I called the Piedmont Mineral Company, I limited. Mr. Hidden was made a i director of the company and was ap- \ pointed the American manager to have full charge of the company's property j and interests in this country. Mr. Hidden said that the new coin - 1 panj owns 2.500 acres of valuable min- 1 eral lands in the mountains of North i Carolina and also owns all the mineral rights in another tract of 1,000 acres. ' The principal mineral to be mined ia 1 gold, rich deposits of which exist on one tract sixty miles east of Asheville. Another valuable mineral is mouuzite, which contains thorium, a material iiHeil m producing the incandescent gas light now being introduced iu Newark. Tliia mineral exists in largo quantities ou the company's property WAMHINUlOM NOTK.S. i H. H. Sims, of Durham, ha* been transferred from the Pension Office to ' the Interior Department proper. I All recently published estimates of the income tax returns are too low. ' They will very largely exceed ten mil- j lion dollars. The returns for the Oar- 1 olinas and the South are generally ' small. Some of our capital is listed North and taxes paid here, although [ some of the industries are located in the South I Reports from an authoritative source have reached the Agri Miltural Depa-itment that an unknown insect . j has attacked the waterraelom plants of | MOUthorn Oiinroriu nnij nr.w ' to destroy flint product. The Depart- < mrnt at once despatched Assistant En- i tomologist D. W. Ooquillett to the spot i to make a thorough investigation. Patterson and Sound Money. Representative Josiah Patterson, of < Memphia, Tenn., is in Washington in I the interest of a sound money conven- 1 tion to ho held in Memphis May 23. i Patterson between now and the date ' of the convention will make addresses in nearly all the large cities---of the Mouth on the subject of iinanco and tho importance of the coming convention . In the Western District the Week Ha< Been Favorable for Furm Work. * The following is the lastcrbp report: Eastkrn District.?Tho v^ry heavy rainfall on Monday of last w*ek,which caused some damage to crops especially in the North, and flooded lowlands everywhere, made land so wet that ploughing and planting word delayed half the week. This week was dry, except light showers on the 13th and 14th, but too oool and windy. The exceM of sunshine was quite favorable. Warmr dry weather in needed to enable farmers to push ahead with work, which is much behind. Farmers are being foroed to prepare soil too hastily. Corn planting is progressing as rapidly as circumstances permit,and is about half finished on nplsuds. Home corn is up. Strawberries are looking medium. Shipments will not begin for ton days or two weeks. Truck crops continue promising, radishes, early cabbages, etc., being marketed. No damage is reported from frost Ckntrau District.?The rain of last week was remarkably heavy, especially in a line from Vance county down to Anson; land was washed considerably, stroams overflowed, bridges washed away, plant beds ruined and plowed land packed so that it wiil have to bs broken over again. Plowing ro-coramonced actively on Thursday. Light fronts occurred mornings of 12th and 15th, which, as one correspondent remarks, had beneficial rather than injurious effects, by thinning out fruit on overburdened peach trees. The coo! woather continues to retard program* of vegetation,but forests are beginning to look green. Apples and cherries are now in bloom. Increased acreage to fruit is reported. Oardoning made some progresH during th<* week. Wheat and rje small but looking well,average stand; oats poor. Irish potatoes and corn coming up. Corn planting is progressing, and a few farmers have begun to plant eotton. Much more attention than usual will be paid to tobacco in this district. Western District. ?Notwithstanding cool weather and some frosts the past week lias boon favorable for farm work, though vegetation makes slow progress. There was a large percentage of sunshiue and very little raiq^^. The heavy rains of the preceding week also delayed {'lowing and planting for two days in this district, but the ground is now in excellent condition, and two weeks of fair weather would euauie farmers to oatrh n*? ?ith - - - ?' " VUV1& work. Farmers have beon rapidly preparing land, planting corn and gardens, and getting ready for cotton. Tobacco plants are coming up nicely. Small grains have improved,especially wheat and rye, and spring oats are starting off well. .Traps ?ce budding slqprly in ths west and peaches and cherries are in bloom, and strawberries and apples in the South. Light frosts occurred with * little damage, but conditions still indicate a largo fruit crop. Beats Cotton or Tobacco. Another valuable plaut, the cansigre, has been discovered and brought into cultivation for commercial purposes, which may possibly be added sooner or later to the regular crops in the Bouth. An interesting aocount of itia published by the Financier, City of Mexico, which states that it is becoming'an important crop in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, and adds that in one region of Texas, the Pecos Valley, the farmers are abandoning cotton and growing cauaigre with decided profit. A nn^Viow 11 1 I - * njvvuvi uutuvi i i j nny n lUHl (UO word belongs to the Mexican dialect and means 4ia sour or acid stalk or pane," and that the plant belongs to the buckwheat family and in related a to rhubarb, dock sorrel, etc., all of which grow in the Southern States. Cultivation, it in stated, increases the^^B product to thirty tons of green per acre, which shrink to about eight^^H tons when dried. The value of tb^B^f plant is owing to its tunning pmper^^^B ties, as the roots yield from 2d to per cent, of tannic acid ; white oak and hemlock bark yield only from 8 to 10 per cent. Prices of the dried root range from $25 to $30 per ton in the rough. In Europe from $50 to $80 per ton is paid and the demand fur exceeds the supply. The crop per acre is said to be wor*ft from $175 to $225, while the cost of planting and cultivating is about the same as that of the sweet potato crop. The taunio acid from canaigrc- is said to Ije exceptionally valuable for tanning uppers, fine saddlery and fancy leathers. It is used also an a dyestuflr. This in eDougb to commend the plant to the attention of farmers in the South who are disposed to seek substitutes for cotton; and if the ]<lant will grow here, and respond to cultivation, it |is certainly well worth cultivating. A crop that can be planted and cultivated "the name a* the sweet potato crop" and pays from $175 to B'225 per acre, with the demand exceeding the supply, should not require much urging beyond the statement of its merits. Further information regarding it, and useful suggestions ah to its cultivation, can be obtained by applying to the Agricultural Department at Washington. Under the laws of Now Jorsoy flogging is prohibited iu public auhoola. .