Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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L ^ UNION, s. C. WEATHER-CROP BULiIrfSTIN Of the South Carolina Weather and | Crop Service. Observer Bauer issues the following for the week eudiug Monday, August W 12, 1895: r There is considerable improvement to note iu the condition of crops in general and corn in particular over the western and northern counties where the drought was partially relieved I everywhere and in some places entirely so, except that iu Abbeville and Anderson the showers were purtiul and at -best insufficient. There were general showers on the 6th over the upper portion of the State, the rainfall amounting to from ??? ti....... ...... VUU W IUV/UCO. J IICIH ITIW1 I ? ! 11 t LA some portion of the State every day of the week. The temperature was very even, having been slightly but steadily above the usual the entire week, the excess averaging 'J degrees per day. The highest temperature reported was 5)8 at Columbia on the 12th; the lowest (id at Sautuc on the 8th. The average temperature of the week, for the State, > deduced from thirty-one stations evenly distributed throughout, was S| degrees, and the normal for the same ' period is approximately 75) degrees. The sunshine ranged from 57 to 92 per cent, of the possible, with an aver- 1 age of about 7-1 percent, for the State, which is considerably in excess of the usual, and 114 places was damaging, where there was also excessive rain, causing a steam like vapor to rise, 1 which was injurious to crops. 'There were high local winds 0:1 the C>th in Pickens and Union Counties, and a sever*;cyclonic storm in the vicinity <>! Snntue, Union County, ou the 10th (Saturday) that broke down n great leal oi coru,tore Home up by the roots, unroofed houses, destroyed fruit, etc. The reports on cotton show that while in the main it has slightly improved during the week, yet in places , its condition has retrograded. Abbeville County reports rust, lice and shedding of forms and the plant turning yellow. Many other pluses I also report shedding. Comparing its present eonditiou with the same dates last year, the plant is from 10 days to [i weeks later, lacks uniformity of condition, and the acreage greatly reduced. A few sections only report as liue a crop as last year. The regular and some special re- > ports on corn coulirm the reports by counties of last week, except there is - ? .^tarifcsiderahlo improvement in th^ I' northern and western counties where the drought was greatly relieved, I which put latest planting in a promising condition. In Anderson aud Abbeville but little improvement noted; in Chesterfield, Chester, Lancaster and Laurens the improvement is most marked on bottom lauds, of late planting. Corn in those counties that was planted late in May and early in .Tune | is a failure. The average lino condi- j tion and large acreage promises a very large corn crop, much of which is already made. Fodder pulling will bo quite general this week; a great deal has already been gathered iu tine condition. I'accskivi) raiuiall in affecting corn injuriously in Horry County; too littli niiii in tlie Piedmont Mention gen- , emlly. Tohacco curing continues, and the reports all agree as to the tine quality ol this year's crop, duo to both the fitness of the soil for tobuceo and skill used in curing. Peas arc ripening and the crop is a fine one in most sections, especially so where the rains have been abundant. Turnip sowing continues bh the condition of the ground permits, and there will be a large crop planted. Sugar cane and sorghum are not doing very well. Molasses boiling has begun in the lower part of the State. j The general condition of sv/?et potatoes shows gains, but the crop is | late and, comparatively, a small one, . owing to scarcity of seed at first and afterwards poor condition of the grounds for planting slips until quite recently. lade peaches and fruit generally of inferior quality, except apples in Anderson county, which promise a full crop. fiardeti truck along the coast in fine condition; elsewhere about ruined. The condition of rice is reported to be uniformly excellent, To .lull for UocUing a Train. Two negroes were sent to tail at High I 'oint on Monday by Mayor Snow for rocking the southbound mail train at dainestown Sunday morning, ('apt. McC .loue.s was in charge of the train. When he arrived at Jamestown he dis coven u ion? negnM?s ihmuii# thru* way. Two ??f tin-Ill got oil 4111 i 4 -1 ] V hut two allowed I i 4 f 111. The h ii i it 114 - f one of the two, lit tin; instigation of (to- larger on*-, wlio lnt11 u rock also, threw ? rock lit ('apt. .loiics ami tin- portor unci kuockeil ii hole in the car. ('apt. .Jones caught. the larger negro and carried liiui to High Point. The smaller negro was captured Sunday. The assessors oi IS i ? rate i M, gin if Jfol 7,(:UG,;io'j PALMETTO PENCILLINGS. INTERESTING ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. Threatened With Metropolitan Police. Governor Evhuh says thut uulcss there in an immediate change in the conduct of the police force in Charles>ton he would have the metropolitan police ay stem, authorized by the last Legislature, iu case of necessity, established within (JO days. He concluded his statement by saving: "You may say this is no bluff." Chief Martin, of Charleston, hud un interview with the Governor. Jt is understood that the Governor is satisfied with the chief's efforts to suppress the sale of liquor, out Kays ttint the men on the force are not under his control to the extent, of reporting "blind tigers." Terminals at Charleston. The South Carolina anil Georgia Company is preparing to make use of the terminal property recently acquired. Some time ago Mr. L. A. Emerson, traftic manager, stated in a letter to the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record that the company would build warehouses and wharves on the prop ertv. Engineers have recently completed surveys along the water-front with this end in view. It is understood that the Cooper river section ot the harbor, where the South Carolina and Georgia has decided to have its terminus, w ill be dredged so that oceau steamships etui come directly to the whurves. (luril KoiiiN for South Carolina. The State of South Carolina is employing convict labor to good advantage in road improvement. The Ilichlaud county supervisor and the coin niissiouers undertook the work mure for uu experiment than anything else, 1 mt such has beeu the result that all roads lending to the city will be repaired and improved at least five miles out, and after that is iicrompliobed the work will be continued to every section of the county. A boss to <ireeiivil)c. Greenville has sustained a loss b\ the removal of the factory of the (bites Desk ami Seat tug Company from that city vo Johnson City, Teun., the company having moved into their new factory in the latter city in the last few weeka. The company found it necessary to get right iu the heart of ^hp lumber section and hence the removal. They have issued an attractive circular telling of the advantages obtained by the removal. - - - ?? One Cent a tlile Hate. At the meeting of the Southern Passenger Association held at Charleston on Tuesday the petition of the State fuir committee requesting special rates over various lines received careful and eonsiderate atteution. After a little discussion it was decided to grant the rates asked for by the committee, which, it was understood, are about two cents a mile for the round trip for a radius of 250 miles. Proserin inn Ttireutciicd ' Governor Evans says that it has been call to his attention several times recently that several factories in the Stale are (Igrautly violating the State law, which requires lhat no factory shall work its operatives over clever hours a day. Fie says he hastakeu tin matter up and is having investigations mndc, and he proposes to have the law rigidly entoreed against every factory that is violating the law. The Victor Manufacturing Co., ot Greer l)ej>ot, S. ('., has been organized by the election of Mr. W. W. Kurgis, president, secretary and treasurer; vice-president, .1. W. Kendrick. The directors are L. W. Parker, M. L. Marchant, L J. Green, O. P. Smith, I). ('. Deiison. and Simeon Hughes, Ovei S?">0,()00 of the stock has been subscribed. At Edgefield on Thursday morning Judge Towfseiid issued a rule against nearly r.M of ihe county officials to show cause whv an iudictnieut should not be preferred against them for various irregularities aad "ottenness. The city eoenci' of Spartanburg having received a proper pet'tiou from tax]>ayers, will o dc an election to vote on the question of issuing bonds to the anion lit of#f?0,()(MI for sewerage. A earefn! estimate shows that at least SI,oh",(itHI are now beingexjiemled in bus!ness enterprises and in pro\tuieuta m Spartaubi.S. C. There is ta'k of a corset 'aejory being started by a Northern mannfaturer to employ seve* al hundred bands at Oreenville, S. ( At Edgefield the jury in the JouesSwearingcn murder rase returned a verdict of "not guilty," and the Join si s go free. The corn, cotton and rice crops in Edgefield county never looked better. Kiee is a uew crap there, but promises well. Tlu Spartan Mill, of Spartanburg, S. ('.. is now making brick picparatory to building Mi!! No. 2. * \ THE STATUS OF THE FIGHT. Over the Registration Law in the U. 8. Courts. The following letter has been made public by ex-Congressman Geo. Washington Murray, the black representative of the black district of South Carolina in the last Congress. Tho letter i iB from the attorneys who have been prosecuting the registration law test cases in the United States Courts on behalf of the negroes of the State, and I it now gives very fully and comprehensively the present status of the legal tight. It tells the exact condition of affairs in regard to the cases, and explains the course tlint the attorneys intend to pursue. Here is the letter, however, to speak for itself: Washington, D. Aug. 7, 189.r>. j Hon. Geo. W. Murray, Rembert, S. C.: Dear Sir: Our Mr. Obear returned j l yesterday afternoon from Richmond, where he had been to argue the Gowdy case. Judge Goff limited the argument to the question as to the materiality of the differences between the two casef; aud after hearing full argument filed the opinion, which 1 presume you have, ere this, seen in the papers. He found that the Gowdy case has the same scope and cff< ct as the Mills case. ; and is governed by the decision of the ] Circuit Court of Appeals in the latter cause. It is manifest that it will be impossible to bring any suit in the Federal courts touching the registration laws which would not have the "same scope and effect" as the Mills case; ami the proper steps now arc to bend our energies toward getting, as speedily as possible, a decision upon j the questions involved from the Supreme Court of the United States; and we are in a better position to accomplish that end in the present condition uf things than Vt- would have been if ] Judge Goff had decided in our favor. Had he done so, the State would,prob ably, have adopted out) of two courses: either have disobeyed the injunction, . or have induced Mr. Chief Justict Ful'er to eall h special term of the C ircuit Court of Appeals, appeal the ease to that court, i.ud have the injunction j dissolved as before. If they had dis ; obeyed the iujuueiion we would have had the supervisor arrested, the State j ' authorities would have gotten a habeas j corpus, returnable before the Circuit ! Court of Appeals, induced the Chief Justice to sit again, and have had that court turn the supervsior loose. Had j this contingency happened we would i have "been at the "end of our row." ; | because there lies no appeal to the Su, premo Court from the Circuit Court | of Appeals in habeas corpus proceed- | j 'ngs. Hud the State authorities taken the other course we would have had to take our appeal froA*tl}e Circuit Com t ' of Appeals to the Supreme Couvt.aud, at beat, the uppeul from the Circuit i Court of Appeala ia hampered by many ! technical difficulties, which we need not go luto now?but which exist. But j as matters now stand, we will ourselves appeal the Gowdy decision di| reetly to the Supreme Court of the United States, and so get the whole case before them. The thing to do is i to get the appeal ready at once. The expense of getting it up will be comparatively very amull. It will take about 8f)() to print the record?not our argument?that we can attend to \ later, and then $2o more,the fee of th? clerk of the Supreme Court, for docket, iug. Have this much money raised for this purpose and send to us at once, i We herewith enclose you a blank ap- ' peal bond. Have it executed by Mr. lowdy and sureties as was done in the I Mills case, and send us as soon as signed. We ourselves expect to get to j work today upon the "assignments o! errors," rfud if you will push at your | end we will have this appeal perfected and docketed before this mouth has passed. We have received no money on ncI count of the balauce of our fee and i the expenses we have li? retofore incurred. From what you said in your last letter, we fully expected that by this time we would have had a remittance from Beaufort, and are disapdointed at neither receiving a remittance or hearing from you as to the I u<. I ... .... Htinj, 1T1 VOil Will now give this, and the other equally important in at tern mentioned in thia i letter, your speedy attention. Having embarked upon thia sea of registration litigation, let us not rest until we reach the haver of a full decision by the Supreme Court of tiie United States Yours Truly, Obear Ar Douglass. A <>reat Cow. Mr. Clayton Long, of Greenville. S. C., claims to have the most wonderful cow in existence. She weighs only H'JO pounds, but gives two gallons of milk daily. The milk is very rich and butter made from it is as yellow as gold. This eow is three-fourths Jersey and one-fourth Holstein. The American Agriculturist gives the prize cow on its list as weighing 400 pounds and giving two gallons of mils' a day, but as can lie seen, Mr. Long's ! cow beats that. i Sir F.dwiu Brad don, who is familiar . with lug game in India, thinks that the elephuut is a very much overrated animal. He says that it is a revenge- I la!, treacherous, and, with a few ei- ! ( options, an urraut coward. / TO TOBACCO | GROWERS. I WHY NOT TRY DARK TOCACCO? A Hint to the Fanners of tipper South Carolina. Mr. J. R. Hamilton, of Chester, S. C., -writes a very interesting letter to the Charleston News and Courier on this subject. He says: The tobacco cro]> iu this State shows in one or two counties a large, but apparently safe increase. The cultiva- j tiou so far is confiued to the production of the bright or yellow varieties. , The other tobaccos of commerce, with- | out reference to leaf for cigars, are the heavy dnrk grades of Virginia, Ken- ' tucky and Tennessee, mostly for foreign export, and the hurley of Ken- | tucky for home consumption. It is to these I would direct the ntteutiou of our farmer" whose laud? ?r? miited to the yeiiow sorts. The rich bottom and bench lands along our creeks and rivers, above tide wafer, should produce hue manufacturing Stock and leaf for export to i the Continent of Europe, while the i uplands similar to those of this county would bring suitable dark "stem- i niing" leaf for the English market. In one year previous to 177b the port of i Charleston exported to Bristol, England, 18,000 hogsheads of tobacco. These shipments must have competed favorably with similar tobacco from Virginia, ami in a market where that colony held the trade. For years after 1 the cultivation of tobacco was aban- i doned for that of cotton the "Old To bacco Inspection" remained a land- ( mark in Charleston, and just after the < colonial period a similar "Inspection" was established at Hamburg, ou the i Savauuuh River, doubtless to avail of 1 water carriage to the coast. In 17811 the Legislature passed laws regulating the inspection ami exportation of tobacco?all of which was probably of i the dark variety grown from peed sim- j? ilar to that of Virgiuia. The object of i ] the inspection was to keep up the ;] quality of the tobacco as represented i by the samples, to prevent the exports- ] tion of unsound and unmerchantable !] leaf, and to protect seller and shipper |< alike from unjust reclamations, and the buyer from careless or fraudulent i packing by holding the inspector re- ji sponsible for the integrity of the sam- ;j pies. A somewhat similar inspection j] is maintained iu Richmond, Va.,at < the jireseut (lay. ] Iu growiug duik tobacco it must, of \\ course, be from need that producee ' ,] that variety aud which has been found most suitable to similar soils in Virginia, for the type of tobacco depends j upon the soil producing it and differs I with the soil under precisely similar < climatic influences. The richer the soil the richer will be the tobacco in gum and body and the darker and < richer in color. The smooth black i leaf grown on the bottom lands of the < Ttoanoke, iu Virginia, I believe, usu- 1 ally brings the highest price for dark 1 varieties in the Richmond market, and i next in value is the tobacco of the i i Farroville district. The dark leaf is ; cured over open tires to drive out i quickly the water and sap. When this is accomplished air completes the dry- 1 ing. Sometimes flues are used in place of open fires, as safer aud leaving the j tobacco with a more natural and smokeless flavor. The drying is done ( by either system at comparatively a \ low, but uniform temperature from start to finish, the fires being chiefly 1 attended to iu the morning and at j nightfall. This method of flue eulriiig is being substituted in portions of Virginia for sun curing, which latter is done by hanging the tobacco in the sun ou scaffolds at the barns until it yellows, when i is housed and hung until it cures out a rich, reddish color, with flr.o flavor and bouquet and elasticity of leaf. The finest sun-cured in Virginia is produced 111 the conn- ' ties ot Caroline and Ijouisu, while < Henry eountv ranks next with its sun and tine-cured manufacturing stock. ( Orcen co..iilv in East Tennessee,where ( the cultivation of tobacco is of comparatively recent date, in producing equally an good, of a brighter and , richer dappled variety. In this portion of this State tobacco will ripen from a month to nix weeks ^ earlier than in Virgiuiu, and would probably in average years be cut and j housed in August, and il not crowded , in hanging should cure out to "safe ] shipping order" without the risk and , expense of fires or flues. If this should ; be the case there will be a correspond- j ing reduction 111 the expense of curing. ( The making of plant hods, setting f out and subsequent cultivation is the f same in all verities of tobacco. In the , dark and sun-cured varities I would not advise the cropping off the leaves j from the plant, as is done sometimes , , with the yellow varieties, in which j ' bright color is tttn chief desideratum, while in the darker kinds body and , gum, with size and smoothness,is wliat 1 is wanted. There is a deal of gum runs out of the Htalks into the leaf in . the process of the final drying out. It ' is said our South Carolina hrights lack gnm and body. This may be due to . the prevailing method of cutting, to- , ?-? t gether with the rapid and early tobaoco in the barn and the iixiug of tho color > ib more or lesa an artificial and scien* 1 tific application' of heat by methods | available on the farm, and requires care and frequently dearly bought experience. In fact, yellow tobacco is ;; far more often ruined in the curing ! than in the cultivation. Wbeie uni- * ' form color is tho ohief aim, when this ' color ie not present that variety becorncR almost worthless. It is just S here that the skilled ourer comes in. $ Apart from this fact land which pro- jj ; duces dark tobacco will not uroduoe that variety of the plant which bears a leaf that will euro yellow by any known process or after treatment. Autumn sjguals is calumniation with the changed leaf, aud the alchemy of the air fixes at least for a brief period the variegated coloring of tho weeds. Theso distinctive variations also exist at maturity in the leaf of the tobacco plant, and man, continuing naturo's uncompleted work, preserves theBO qualities aud colors in each variety to which each has been adapted by soil and climate. The seed that produced originally the yellow and mahogany tobaccos of Virginia ' iiS?^ the Orinoco ot {South America, ooil 1 i and climate, with possible chance hybridntions, have gouerally changed our leaf from the parent type. In this and adjacent counties are areas of black-jack lands, some of them with fertile soils, resting on a substratum of rotton lime stone. With the snmo correctives as applied for j cotton and corn it is possible these lands will produce a Southern variety of the Barley tobacco of Kentucky. Because it is safest, it will l?e best, ' that the tirst essays in planting dark ! tobacco should be purely tentative. 1 The markets of the world are loaded down with mean tobacco, but good tobacco is high in price, uud always in | demand. 1 u the absence in our State 1 of any department of agriculture,every farmer individually must make his ? own experiments, and 1 would advise that he do this in a small way the first year, until he hits on the right seed on ' the right soil, and that at first his efforts be directed to the purposes of experiment rather than a profit. Under the present United States revenue laws be can sell the tobacco unstemmed in bands without paying the tax or taking out a license, and thus retail it iu his neighborhood at a sufficient return to pay in part, at least, the cost of production and of the experiment. Tobacco, like cotton, is a cash crop, and if our lauds nud climate are suitable, as I believe they are, for growing dark tobacco, then with the moderate yield of 1000 pounds of cured leaf to the aero and an average price of five cents a pound, it will pay '* better than cotton even at ten cents a i i , x _ puiiLid, mm 111 least Herve Be u supplementary crop to tlio latter. *> NO "BREAK" IN ANDERSON, Conservatives SSay It Would He Inexpedient to Put Forward Candidates. A muss meeting wan bold in the court bouse at Anderson Monday to consider tlie expediency of nominating candidates for the election of dt legntes to tbe Constitutional Convention on the 20tb inst. Tbis meeting was well attended both by tbo Conservatives and by tbe Reformers. Col. J. I). Maxwell called tbe meeting to order, and on motion Col. It. F. Crayton was called to tbe cliuir. J. W. Quattlebaum was elected secretary. Col. Crayton aunouneed tbe meeting ready for business. J. K flood took tbo floor and alter some preliminary remarks introduced [be following resolution: Resolved, That wo believe that it would not be expedient at tbis time to put forward our candidates, and will therefore vote for such of tbe primary Dominoes as measured up, in oui judgment, to tbe lngb qualifications necessary in a man to represent Anderson county in tbe Constitutional Convention. This resolution was discussed by several gentlemen. The resolution was unended to read as follows: Resolved. That we believe that, it would not be ?xpedient at this time to put forward >ur candidates. Tbe resolution as intended was passed and tbe meeting idio-.iTnod AN (U'TRAdE IN BARNWELL. A WitorsR Iii n Murder Cose Kidnapped and Whipped. A special to the News and Conner from Blackville says: Cyrus Davis, a colored barber, was fooled into the country and given a severe flopping. A party went to his borne and told him ho was wanted to shave a dead man and ho started out n the vehicle, but it came very near jis being the dead man. A crocus sack was thrown over his head and a evere whipping administered. Ho ;nys he was told that the reason he was vhipped was because of his having jiven certain evidonco against a party recently charged with murder inn case vbicli attracted a great deal of interest. This evidence is alleged to have been riven at the second trial in connection vith the tragedy. The chief of police ..ad heard of the incident, but no olliiial report had been made to him and he whipping was done in the country. It might not be hard work for the ight persons to find out who commited this outrage aud have the law take t* proper courso.