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PALMETTO POINTERS; SIMNDLES OF SPARTANBURO. '-JI Cotton Factories, .'JiiO.tt.StbSp! miles, 8,})()8 Looms ami ll.'t,700 Bales Consumeil Annually. ? This is the title of a little publica- ( tion just, issued which makes a most ) attractive souvouir of Spartanburg. In ! a beautifully embossed cover piett. es j of the cotton mills of the county are \ given, with a short statement as to each ( covering such points as Where it is lo- j cated, when built, capital stock, tiuin- j ber of spindles and looms, number of j nnnrniiioku .???.! I ?* null IIII1UII1JI ?M ll'liwu I sumed. This information bus been | carefully compiled, and is, 111 fact, the ' 1 first complete publication iu conveni- j 1 out form ready lor reference. A copy of this little book ought to be placed in ' ' the hands of every man who has ever * thought about coming to Spartanburg | ' to make his home. There is nothing 1 iutlie publication except a short sketch 1 of the first mill, and picture* and sbi- j ' tisties relative to the other miils These apeak eloquently etiouirl). J When tliis little pamphlets falls into j the hands of a strange! he wil' be im- ' pressed with the fact that Spartanburg j ' County has tweiity-oiieeottou factories, counting the tour in process ot con- ; ' atriK'tiou. He will note that these factories represent an invested capital ' of if 1,581,000; that they have 3'2O,0X0 ^ npindlea and X.DOX looms. He will i' take note also of the fact that these * factories consume 113,700 bales of eot ; ton aunually. He will find siguiti- ! cunce in the fact that 0.3to operatives ' are employed, and. coiiutitig five to 1 the family, which is a reasonable esti mute, ueurly halt the population ot 1 Spartanburg County are dependent on ' the eotton null busiuess, are paid in ; cash for their services the yeur round 1 and depend upon the local markets for the necessities of life. j < This little pamphlet shows that one i million, onp hundred and t wenty-seven i 1 thousand nine liumlred dollars arc paid to operatives, the average amount of ! i each operative being more than SI75. i -* *- ? i ' HOW SOKOHIM I'AYS. Splendid Yield from Three Small i Patches uear Privateer. 1 A special from Privateer. Rays: The ; following sorghum statistics of this immediate section of the township will j be interesting. All the yields men- j tinned were for luHt year. J P. Osteon planted a quarter of an acre which ' turned out titty-five gallons and this I < year he has increased his patch to an t acre ami a half He says the seed make an excorlout 'sne.l for hogs. Last season Mr. Osteen and his father boil- j 1 ed 1,1)8!) gallons at their cane mill. ' 1 Mr. Spurgeou Kolb planted a fraction i over a quarter of an ace of sorghum ! ^ ami made forty two gallons. He was i ( so much pleased with his success thst i this year he has about one ac?-planted. ' < np cousitiers caae about the cheapest ; crop lie coulii ]>l?.nt. He says the ( sorghum recjuiros very little work and f turns out well. Probably one of the ! best yields of sorghum in the State last year was that of Mr. John Alshrook, ^ who, on one-?]uarter of an acre of good land, made the astonishing yield of ' . S-l J gallons, Mr. Alshrook has also j increased his cane patch and endorses what Mr. Kolb rays in regard to so-- J ghum as a crop. ? Novel Fishing. Some Spartanburg fishermen have ' fallen on a novel plan for catching i ' certain kinds of iish. They take a ' barrel, with both heads in, or a box closed all round. They then bore a 1 number of uuger holes, beginning at the bottom and going nearly to the top. ( About the centre of the top they cut a * hole four to six inches in diameter. * They put stones enough iu the hox or ' barrel to eause it to sink. They use ' bread as a bait. The upper surface of the box ? r barrel is two to tivo feet under water, according to depth. The fish get a taste of the bait through the ' anger hole. They eirelo around until they get to the top of the barrel, when thov make a dive through the opening. ' Once in they do not seem so be able to 1 get out again The fisherman hauls ' up his barrel, the water escaping f through the auger holes, and then he scoops iu the tlsli. Carp and suckers are generally caught in this manner. Lightning Kills a Colored Man. j At Sumter on Friday afternoon dsn i in^a heavy thunder storm lighting i struck a burn on the farm of Mr. IVrry < Moses, near this city, and hilled Win. < Bullock, a colored iiiuu. instantly. | The truck farmers around Charleston say that their strawberry plants are not berrying as they shoulo do at this time of the year. . Mono/.ite continues to attract at j tention about GatTuey and on the head waters of Thickety. Men come from [ various States to prospect, and sotnn j of them lease branches and goto work, j ( At Orangeburg, in the case against j . the White Cap cotton pickers, the jury < found u verdict of guilty as to Calvin | Olivor, Frank Ravcnel. Hansom Kav- ] enel and Capers Glover, not guilty as ] to tho others. 1 Melbourne, Australia, has eighteen oabia ] toad swtwai. \ Interesting SpshIodk of the Kpwortli lieague. The Kpwortli League was in seamou it Charleston Friday and .Saturday, i'he League is doing a good work for lie Methodist Church. There art o\v thirty seven leaguesiu active operitiou and they are doing much to iuerost the younger folks in the work >!' the church, is well as iu general iterary matters. The Kpworth League is very much to the Methodist hurch what the Y. M. C. A. is to tht general public. At Saturday's session he tirst matter taken up ami eousid red at considerable length was how to get the most good out of the organiza ion. When the reports of the various cugucH were called for it was developm! that there were thirty-seven iu the State and they were doing a tine work. V resolution was introduced and uuitumously adopted relating to the prolosed orphanage. Lt is "Resolved, That we, the Kpworth League State Conference of the South 'aroliua Methodist church, expresH inr highest appreciation of the effort* hat are being made for the establishlieut and maintenance of an orplianige to be called the Kpworth Orphan ige of the South Carolina Conference, Methodist Kpiscopal Church, South." During the morning the following iffieers were elected : President, Prof. II N. Slivdi-r; first v !( ?>. l.-nt l)r I. 1). S. Fairey. of Orangeburg; sec>ml vice-president, W. Humpton Lines, of Charleston; tbird vice presilent, C. M. Hurst, Jr., of Sumter; secretary, George Watkins, of Coin tuna; treasurer. Miss Ellen Stanley, of Columbia. Executive committee: J. H. Carlisle lr., Spartanburg; Miss Katie lintherrord, of Newberry; ami Mr. J. Frank Fooshc, of Bamberg. During the ?lay several interesting >apers were reail, the programme givng their titles as follows: "The League ami its Mission," Dr. iV. It. Lambuth. "Literary Work of League," J. H. Carlisle, Jr. (Question Box, conducted by Prof. FI. N. Suyder. "The Mode! League," Dr. J. Thornis Pate. "The League's Social Feature," Thomas S. Moorman. The papers were discussed, and the delegates derived much benefit from he talks. No Recent Dispensary Seizures. A dispatch lrom Charleston Hays: While the liquor shipmentsare steudily ?oing out of the dispensary and plenty >f liquor is coming iu there is out diitig that, is sadly deficient, and that is the absence of "seized stuff." That :ilways made a considerable item with the dispensary,and after it was bottled ip and put on the market as "contraband" it brought a right snug little imount into the dispensary coffers. \11 of this looks as if it is at an end. Sot a single package came to the dispensary today as having been seized, iiul the curiosity shop of the dispensary, with the boxes of bacon,the cans >f supposed tomatoes, the fake barreh >f vestal oil, will have no more curios to be in their company. The dispensary authorities are say ng nothing and "sawing wood." They >oheve that the system will continue provided the only competition that ha;?> be met will be from those who art ible to bring liquor into the State for their own use,* and the order of Judge iimoitton is not taken advantage oi iml used as a blind for the "speak asies" to get their liquor into the state. ii.ini> -rioRits to nr. ei.osr.nv watciikd. (>ne of the members of the board of ontrol said that it was hisopinion that those who wanted to bring liquor into he State for their own use ought to be illowed to do so. But, said he, "the SIIU.O ? ?11 I n IK Spfllll UlOllHUIlltS (>I tlO|urs it it, is necessary to send several "blind tiger" managers to tin- I'ententiary," ami that would, lie thought, tiave tile effect of keeping off tht "blind tiger" ejiiileinic that threatens. It is plain that the State will from now >n devote its attentions very largely o the '"timers" ami changes of venue, njuiU'tioiiH, contempt proceedings ami such actions are to he expected. IMSI'HNSAHV I'll I e KS MAY 1$K REHtUKI). It is also likely that the prices on ionic of the better grades of liquors will he reduced. The cheaper gradei it is held are being sold about as low is can be allbrded, and then there art not very many who use the Hit "stuff' ivho will want to make a preliminary ash outlay before getting the liquor. It i . very much a ease of wantiug tin liquor before it is bought. Kmi'jrr.it i?s witli tl?i? I 'nwlt At Siiviuitnili the detectives arc look ing for \V. Musters, agent of the fu tcruat ioiial M igrat ion Society. ll? rot away with $100 belonging to tht oinpanv, this 1 icing what he hail col leeted from negroes on their passugi money to Liberia. Several negroes ogive Jiitn power of attorney to sel what little prcpertv they possessed, am the Superior Court records show when lie disposed of about $2,500 worth ol property in this way, ami the unfor tunate uegroeB know nothing of whal lias boon done with their money uulesi Masters has made away with all of it I ENLARGING A MILL.1 i1 ? * | . TKN THOUSAND MOKK KIMNDCKS. > Itesolt of the Annual .Meeting of the ! Stockholders and Direetors of ; ! the Columbia Mills Co. [j Of all the enterprise!* started iu the ; ; South iu recent years perhaps none i 1 have been more eminent than the Col- j 1 umhia mills, the 3700,000 enterprise j iu the canal, established with eastern \ capital; the big mill which is manu" | factoring whut is conceded to be the ; 1 | finest grade of duck in the United ! States; the mill which is the only one \ of its kind in the country using elec| trical power. The auuual meeting of the stoekliol- | ders of the company was held in Col- . umbia last week. The old board of j 1 directors were re-elected. The pre -1 I hpii! ..II ? ?A- 1 1 I ?-? .....win >.*.. mi ic'cirutru eil'l'JIl 1 ' | that Mr. A. F. Sortwell was elected to 11 succeed liis father, who died during i the past year, as vice president. The stockholders found that the mill had met with great success financially, and that it was putting on the market | the highest grades of duck of any mill 1 in the country. It was decided to place the maehin- j ery for the operation of 10,000 more j spindles in the mill as fast as possible. I This additional machinery is being manufactured with fast rapidity. It is hoped that by the fall the i0,000 new spindles can be running. At present the mill is running twenty-four | hours a day, employing a night ami i day force. When the new machinery is added Mr. Oliver says the mill will I be employing between 500 and G00 j operatives. . | ?? PROBABLY A TKST CASK. : A Dispensary Constable Ruled for Contempt In Violating .fudge Simonton's Order. In the United "tales Circuit Court , ! at Charleston an affidavit was filed by ' I L. J. Bird that Constable Beach had i . 1 seized two gallons of w hiskey from him ' which be had just received via the j 1 ; Southern Express Company for his own : use, as he was taking the same from the ( Jiixpress ollice to liiw bouse. L ] Judge Simontou thereupon issued an i order to Beach requiring him to show j cause why he should not he attached j j for contempt. Beach tiled a return denying the jurisdiction of the Court j and claiming the right to seize under ' | the Dispensary Act. Whereupon Judge ' ' Simontou sent him to jail and fined , $300. Beach is in custody of the ! marshal and therefore "constructively" ' i in jail, although really not so. < j It iaV-nderstood, inasmuch as Assisti ant Attorney General Townsend is in [ i the city and appeared for Beach, that ' the object of this proceeding is to i make it a habeas corpus case and so take the matter before the Supreme Court with a view of having a decision from that body on the constitutionality of the dispensary law. A HAMPTON STOCK YAKI). I j . Mr. John liiiwton's Successful Kxpcr. j imcnt wltli Dehorned Cattle. Your correspondent visited Mr. ' Mikell's stock and was surprised to tiud that each animal was dehorned. . | They looked so much bettor and i | younger. The instrument to dehorn . is two knives, one immovable and the other pressed up b a lever. The i operation is painless. The cattle had ? improved wonderfully. A butcher said they would average 5)00 pounds >1 each ami several would goto 1,47"> 1 pounds. Mr. Mikell has been feeding 1 them three months and this manure will overpay all expenses. The feed ( I per day is 1,400 pounds of hulls at , ; $150 delivered and '.*00 pounds of meal . at MO ccntn per huudrod. Thirty of . the cattle are very tine and would rank iu Richmond or New York with any | stock. Mr. Mikell has planted twenty acres of cotton, seventy-eight acres of corn, and the usual quantity of cane, . potatoes, sorghum, chufasand groundnuts. No commercial manure. An experienced buyer of cattle says that he , never saw such a lot of cattle and such arrangements for feed outside of a | city. ? Hampton Guardian. - ?-? . >. Kailrou<l Tax Assessment, i The State board of railroad equaliza< tion has finished its work. In the vast t majority of instances the present assessments were left alone. The only changes for the present are: Manchester and Augusta, increased from $4.(100 to ' $0,000; South Carolina and Georgia, increased from $15,500 to $10,000; ? ( 'licruw iiml ('Imviio' ilniTi'imi'il triitn $t,(><><> to S'J,.*)(>(?. The hoard aiihounees that all parties : who want to he heard as to changes in I the present assessment ean do so on : the 'J'dth of the month. it is expected J that a number of the roads will try , J and have the present assessment ! reduced. The JlOtli of the month has , ' been set aside for the hearing of the i arguments in the matter of the Three I j C'h assessment. The railroad people I ; and the county ollieials will be heard 4 I at that time. f No More Dime Novels. I Id the Florida House oi Representatives, Mr. Sullivan introduced a bill to prevent the publication or sale of any book that purports to be the llle or history of aa outlaw. Highest of all in Leavening Power, Royal lv?SS The Press Association Meeting. The executive committee oftheState I'ress Association iH working vigorously to have a pleasant and profitable meeting of the Association in Sumter this year. The date is Wednesday, May 25). Tho indications now are that they will be successful. Quite a number of the <jtiill drivers have expressed their intention to be present at the meeting,and an interesting programme has been arranged. The Northern trip has been definitely deeided, and promises to bo a most enjoyable one. The committee earnestly desires that every paper in the State will be represented at the annual meeting, and it is also desired that as many will go on tlio ovciireiMU no on ti nuitl <1/i un Tlio people of Sumter are making elaborate arrangements to entertain the editors in royal fashion, and thoHO who attend will never regret it. One of the features of the meeting will be the annual address to the Association by the Hon. Clark Howell, editor of tho Atlanta Constitution. A meeting of the executive committee was held last evening at Wright's Hotel. There were present President E. H Aull, Secretary C. C. Langston and N. G. Gonzales, H. G. Osteen and G. 1'. Browne. It was decided that the excnrsion part v would leave Sumter on the evening of May 31, aud go to Richmond and stop over there, and from there to Washington, and returning come by Norfolk. President Aull will give further information in regard to this matter in a few days, and in the meantime hopes to hear from everyone who desires to take this trip as soon us possible. LAST SPEECH TO A JURY. Kx-Prssldent Harrison Deliver* a Farewell Address at Richmond. Ind. Benjamin Harrison, ex-President of tho TTnited RtatAu haa tnat rrtad*. nfr RI^Kmrtnil Ind,, probably the last address he will eter deliver before a jury. It was lu the famous Morrison will case. The trial has been going on tor five months. Three months ago the exPresident was seized with an Illness ben.iamim HAnaxnoN. that awakenod the gravest apprehensions for his life. An intimate friend said that the former President hoped to live to practice law for many years, but he did not expect ever again to conduct a jury trial. Before the Court House was opened for the day nearly one thousand persons were gathered under the shnde of the trees in the Court House yard. Soon the people living in the city began to flock towards the Court House, and when the doors wero opened, an hour later, 10,000 were waiting to secure places in the big hall. The Court House was packed with people duriug the entire day, and hundreds could not get in. General Harrison was in splendid condition, wueu he made this, the Inst speech that he ever expects to make to a jury. He has practically retired from his long career before the bar. Was lfcr Own Dentist. At Baltimore Mrs. Mary Ann Arenz, died from lockjaw. The woman suffered greatly with toothache, and last week she took a pair of scissors and removed the troublesome molar. In doing so she injured the gum. Lockjaw symptoms developed, and the woman died on Thursday in terrible agony. CONSUI can, without doubt, be curt battle from the start, butwi properly used it can be ove vanquished. Hope, coun power, and the regular and nourishing looci-ineaicine 1 | Scott's I ?the wasting can be arre cough cured, bodily energi powers made to assert th< that are beginning to fir This renowned preparatio hundreds of thousands of i tion, is simply Cod-liver palatable and easy of assii Hypophosphites, the great Scott & Bowne, New York. i J t .? Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder :KV pure GOLD IN THE SOUTH. Report to the Geological Survey Upon It* Production and Location. The report of George P. Booker of the j Geological Survey, who has beeu iuvestigatl iug the gold-producing districts of tho south* 1 ern Appalachian region, has been completed. Mr. Becker was put on this work last August and spent the three following mouths In ' prosecuting it. The greater part of the timo he was in the Carolines and in Georgia J whore the gold region is best defined. Theoe i districts have been producing gold for nearly i h full century. Gold has boon found inoea^v I ly all tho other Southern States, but not in I very considerable quantities. The entire South lias produced ubout $45,000,000 worth of gold since 1790, $5,000,000 of which came from Georgia aud the Caro] linns. Of the $43,000,000 South Carolina p.o; duced about $4,000,000, Georgia $10,000,000. and North Carolina ?23,000,000. Cahari us j county, iu the southwestern part of Norlu i Carolina, is the richest of them all, and is f,\I mous for the nuggets that have been found j there. Iu the early part of the eeutuiy, the i largest nugget on record in the Uuited Stales was discovered there. Just a mouth ugoono , weighing over eight pounds was discovered. The formution iu which tl;e gold is found j is so peculiar that Mr. Becker lias found it i beet to disregard the old expression of vein I or ledge, and adopt the new one of "stringer belt." Most of the stringers of gold hearing j quartz are extremely thin. As u rule, they I run through a slate formation which has 1 been split apart by thousands of longitudinal | cracks in which the gold-bearing veins run. ! He has counted as many as twenty of theso ! stringers each hearing gold in the breadth of I one-inch. The widest of these stringers is I not more than four inches. Asa rule, too,, the stringers are short, but are usually con-' nected at the ends by almost imperceptible or transverse or partially transverse cracks, j A. long reef of the slate (tiled with these stria* | gers constitutes what Mr. Becker calls tLo i itriuger belt. The Injunction Dissolved. At Huntington, W. Va., the injunction pro* cceding against Mayor Neal to enjoin him j from closing up all the stores and business , places on Sunday, came up on its merits Friday, and ut noon the Court dissolved the injunction, aud the case will ba carried to the Supreme Court. fTiiAT LT7MP in a man's stomach which makes him irritable and miserable and unfit for business or pleasure is caused by indigestion. Indigestion, like cbarity. covers a multitude of sin9. The trouble fliay be in stomach, liver, bowels. Wherever it is, it is caused by the presence of poisonous. refuse matter which Nature has been unable to rid herself of, unaided. In such cases, wise people send down a little health officer, personified by one of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, to search out the trouble and remove its cause. WALTER BAKER & CO. - Th? T n# GJk PURE, HIOH CRADC 1 2yL COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES r> C)n ihli Con ha tot, htft racal.ad JEdF9 HIGHEST AWARDS from tha fraal I He Industrial and Food B expositions , ffl Wi la Europe and America. Hi pMllJ Onllkt Ikt Dutch Pnatu, no ilki^KSte ur othar Chaml.al. or Dy*. are uirrt in any of thalr prt parationa. Th.ir aalleloua BREAK FAST COCOA ( abaolutaly pur* and aolukla, and co.tr liu Man nu cent a cup. OLD BV OROCHR5 EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER* MTDORCHESTEB.MASS. WHANE all ilk tails. til El But Cougb Syrup. Testes Good. Use fl6^^B^^5V9ISin^Y3EiSl59^^^E3ft MPTION ?d in its earl}'' stages. Tt is a ith the right kind of weapons ircnmp nr?H tV?*? i nci rl i r?ii <i T r?f> ige, proper exercise, willI continuous use of the best n existence? Emulsion isted, the lungs healed, the es renewed and the physical emselves and kill the germs id lodgment in the lungs, n, that has no doubt cured incipient cases of ComsumpOil emulsified and made milation, combined with the bone, brain and nerve tonic. All Druggists. 50c. and II.