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% 'the union times. 1 UNION, 8. C. ~~ FINER FERTILIZERS. Fewer Samples Found Deficient This Year Than la Any Year Previous. Below is given the annual roport of Secretary J. P. Smith of tho State board of fertilizer control, contained in tbe eighth annual report of the South Carolina experimental station, which shows very fully the improvements made in the grades of fertilizers furnished daring the past year, and shows the income derived by the State from ilia fertilizer tax: LNSJPJtCTIOTf or PXBTTIiTZERS. Owing to the great depression in the fertilizer trade the past year the shipping season did not open as early as usnal, consequently our inspectors were not started to work till about Feb. 1, and therefore had only about two months in which to work. However, they made a thorough canvass of the State and visited most of the shipping points several times during the season. Three hundred aud forty samples of fertilisers, representing 206 brands of goods, were collected. All of these, except the duplicate samples, were analyzed and reported in buliotin No. 20 of the South Carolina experimental station, 10,000 copies of which wero distributed throughout the State. Comparatively few cases of irregularities were discovered. Thegroatest difficulty we have to conteud with in carrying out tho law of the State is the collection of the privilego tax on cotton seed meal. This continues to givo us trouble. Under tho law, as construed by this department, we tux tho meal when it is sold as a fertilizer, and we regard it all as a fertilizer unless it is bruuded as stock food, but in many cases it is bought by farmers and dealers in carload lots, frequently from mills in Atlier Stat* s, without stating, and perhaps not knowing for whut purpose it is to be used, and is shipped aud distributed free of tho tax, when doubtless a largo portion of it is used as u fertilizer. As the law now stands, persons who are disposed to disregard at can easily do so aud have a loophole of escape from its penalties. In view of the difficulty of enforcing tho present law. and since cotton seed meal hus <!omo into such generul use as a commercial fertilizer, I would recommend that the legislature bo asked to place it on the same footing us other commercial fertilizers and make it liable to tho privilege tax in all cases. Tho Stuto of Georgia has had such a law iu operation for several years, and I feel confident that it would be to tho interest of the farmers to have tho law so uineuded aud that tho manufacturers themselves would not object to it. I think it but just to state in this connection tknt I believe most mills iu the State try to comply with the law as it is, und sumo of them even pay the tax ou all meal they sell now rather than run the risk of violating the State laws. oo ah ante eh. It is gratifying to report that fewer samples have been found below the manufacturers' guarantees, than in any year siuce the organizacion of this dopartment. Under the Act of 181)4, which allows a limit of 3 per cent, below commercial values, only two brands of goods wero found delicieut. farmers' samples. A greater number of furiuers' samples have been received this year than last, and all of those collected aecordiug to the prescribed rules of the department have been analyzed and reported to the persons sending them. Instructions for collecting and j fowarding these samples are always I furnished ou application to the fer- ' tilizer department and it is important ! that farmers comply Htrictly with these i rules, as they have been udopled solely for their benefit. The following table shows the work of the department this season, also for comparison the corresponding figures of 1894 are given: Privilege tax collected, 1895, $30,077.93; 1891, $ 13,4*99.0I>. Amount of I'ertdizers sold in the State, (tons) 1893, 120,311; 1891, 173,990. Nuni Dor 01 simples collected ny inspectors, 4895, 310; 1894,500. Number of sumpies analyzed, 1805, 200; 1894, 234. Number of samples below guarantee, 1805. *23; 1894, 14. Per cent, of samples below guarantee, 1805, 11; 1894, 18. "Umler the present law, which requires that the commercial value bused upon th - actual analysis shall not fall ' ) per cent, below the commercial value laiscil .a| on guarantees. only two brant's were .oiin.l >i.-indent. The following statement shows the total e\pt'i.se of the department lor the past year: Ivilari'-s of chemists atni -retury $2.1:21 !>7 ('li)'iiu al supplies a1111 fuel Jiij aU Postage, stationary, etc . 0:5.72 freight an t expenses. .... frj.51 . Printing tax tags OOU.OO 1 Kervlecs of veteriaurp surgeon.. .'51.70 Salaries ami railrw.nl fare of inspectors 740.84 Total .. $4,5170.40 Col. Ijuiiihoii Kcailiug Clerk. '.Yd. 1". I?. 1.unison. '-n Lieutenant Gov. trier of ohi.>, ami for a term Speaker in tin* thai f Kepresentat i ws. ami a n?etnl?er '?( State Senate uml president pro tempore ?.f that Lody. has Leen appoint' >1 read i nip elerk of tin' 1,'nvrr House o| The position pay s c;{,t;ot) per annum. Silver ljrn?iic in N'rlirnska. ,\i Lincoln, N'cL.. Saturday ahout tlfty men of all parties Irom various parties of tlm Slate inat ami orfpani/ed the NeLrasku silver , league. \ II executive eoltllllltL'e . o|)sist inu , 1 I oivernof S a > V II dcoinn. Populist, ex | i oap'n sin-in j!rvaii, l>enn)erat. ex- | i o.'i'fressaiai ? i | ..v. |; pul'lean. an I j V-. 11. Hard I . ni.st, \va appointed. A I* n: " > i !; r> ; ft it (' instant'*' >i?1e, I'urkey, 'ii i cionvIi ^ into Catania ami biciiy. THE NEW " CONSTITUTION THE LAW TIIK PEOPLE MUST NOW LIVE UNDER. A lOCUKEST WELL WOETH SEEPING. # ?_ The Full Text of South Carolina's New Organic Law as Adopted. Space will not permit us to publish tho entiro document at one time, but we will give it iu iustullmouts of about threo columns a week until the entire rinMlltntiA. U.o ? ; _?_ J it wuo*(vu?vu uuo UCCU jlliuiuu 1U lUt'Of cc,Mmns. Wo present the first two articles this rock : Wo, tho people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, grateful to (rod for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Coostitn tion for the preservation uud perpetuation of tho same. ARTICLE I. DECLARATION OF RIOHTS. Section 1. All political powei is vested in and derived from the people ' only, therefore they have tho right at nil times to modify their form of government. Sec. '2. Representation in tho houso of representatives shall be apportioned according to population. Sec. 3. Tho general assembly ought frequently to assemble for the redress of grievances uud for making uewlaws, as tho common good in ay reqniro. Sec. 4. The general usRembly shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting tho free exercise thereof, or abridgiug the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of tho people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government or any department thereof for a redress of grievances. Sec. ?r>. The privileges and immunities of citizens of this State and of tho United States under this Constitution shall not bo abridged, ner shall any person be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor shall any person bo denied the equal protection of the laws. Sec, 0. All property subject to taxation shall be taxed in proportion to its vulue. Sec. 7. No tax, subsidy, charge, impost tax or duties shall be established. tixed, laid or levied, uuder any pretext whatsoever, without the conscut of the people or their representatives lawfully assembled. Sec. 8. No bill of attainder, o? post facto law, law impairing the obligation of coutracts, nor law granting any title of nobility or hereditary emolument, shall be passed, and no conviction shall work coriuption of blood or forfeiture of estate. St-c. 9. The right of suffrage, as regulated in this Constitution, shall be protected by law regulating elections and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, ull undue influences from power, bribery, tumult or improper conduct. Sec. 10. All elections shall be free and open, and every inhabitant of this State possessing the qualifications provided for in thiH Constitution shall have an equal right to elect oilicers and be elected to till public office. See. 11. No nronertv oualitication. uuless prescribed iu this Constitution, shall be necessary for uu election to or the holding of uuy oflice. No person bhall be elected or nppoiuted to otlice in this State for life ordering good behavior, but the terms of all officers shall be for some specified period, ex eept notaries public ajnl officers iu tho militia. After the adoption of this Constitution any person who shall tight a duel or send or accept a challenge for that purpose, or be an aider or abetter in tiglitiug a duel, shall be deprived of holding any oflice of honor or trust in this State, and shall be oth -rwi.?e punished as the law shall prescribe. Sec. 12. Temporary absence from tho State shall not forfeit a residence once obtained. Sec. Id. The power of suspending the laws or the oxcentioii of tin- Iuum shall only be exercised l>y the general assembly or by its authority in particular eases expressly provided for by it. See. 11. In the government of this State the legislative, ? xeeutivo and judicial powers of the government shall be forever separate and distiuct from ouch other, and no person or persons exercising the functions of one of said departments shall assume or diseh.irgo the duties of any other. See. I.". All courts shall be public, ami every person shall have speedy remedy therein for wrongs sustained. See. 111. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable i-arehes atid seizures sha!I io>t be vioited, and no warrant si. i.l issue but tip< ! probable cause, si pportcd by oatli >r 10I1 mint ion, and particularly d< -ci'il>i: g the place to be searched and the per so i or tluilg to be seized. S? e. 1. No per.-oli -ball be held to Mtswer f..r ui.y eriu * here the punish ellt e\Cl fuds a ! S 11K) or 1 III pi iMUtn.i :.t lor Lib du\.-, with or with out hard labor, unless on a presentment or indietment of a grand jury of the county where the crime shall have been committed, exceptincases arising in the land or naval forceo or in the militia when in aotual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or liberty, uor shall be compelled in any oriininal case to be a witness against himsolf. Private property shall not be taken for private ubo without the con sent of the owner, nor for pubuo one i without just compensation )>eiug first made therefor. i .0. iu all criminal prosecu- t tions the accused shall enjoy the right j to n speedy and public trial by an im- ^ partial jury, and to be fully informed ? of the nature and cause of the acousa- t tiou; to be confronted with the wit- j nesses against him, to have compulso- t ry process for obtaining witnesses in ? his favor, and to be fully heard in his defense by himself or by his counsel r or by both. H Sec. 19. Excesaivo bail shall not v be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punish- H ments inflictod, nor shall witnesses be unreasonably detained. Corporal pun- c istiment shall not be inflicted. The power to punish for contempt shall not & in any case extend to imprisonment in a tho State ponitentiary. Sec. 20. All persons shall, before v conviction, be bailable by sufficient e sureties, except for capital offenses 8 when the proof is evident or the pre- ? sumption great. " Sec. 21. Iu all indictments or prosecutions for libel, the truth of the al- 0 leged libel may be given in evidence, * and the jury shall be the judges of the V law and the facts. Sec. 22. Treason against tho State * shall consist alone iu levying war or in . rzivimr aid and comfort to enemies 1 against the State. No person shall be 8 held guilty of treason, except upon f testimony of at least two witnesses to j the same overt act or upon confession * in open court. 8 Sec. 23. The privileges of the writ * of habeas corpus shall not bo suspend- 0 ed unless when, in case of insurrection, v rebelliou or invasion, the public safe- e ty may require it. Sec. 24. No person shall bo im- " prisoned for dobt except in cases of v fraud. Sec. 25. The right of trial by jury Bhall be preserved inviolate. u Sec. 26. A well regulated militia r boing necessary to the security of a v free State, the right of the people to ? keep and bear arms shall not be in- . fringed. As in times of peace armies a;e dangerous to liberty, they shall not be maintained without the consent ^ of the general assembly. The military power of the State shall always be held in subordination to the civil authority and be governed by it. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the * owner, nor in time of war but in the r manner to be prescribed by law. Sec. 27. No person shall in any case ^ be subject to martial law or to any pains or penalties by virtue of that i law, except those employed in the army and navy of tho United States, ^ and except the militia in actual service, but by tho authority of the general as- j sembly. Sec. 28. All navigable waters shall forever remain public highways, free * to the citizens of the States and the United States without tax, impost or toll imposed; and no tux, toll, impost or wharfage shall be irajiosed, demand- ^ ed or received from the owners of any ^ merchandise or commodity for tho use ^ of tho shores or any wharf erected on ( tho shores or in or over tho waters of f auy navigable stream unless the same be authorized by the general assembly. Hoc. 2'J. The provisions of the Constitutiou shall be taken, deemed and t construed to bo mandatory and prohib- ^ itory, and not merely directory, ox copt where expressly made directory j or permissory by its own terms. ARTICLE II. t RIOIIT OP SUFFKAOR. t Section 1. All elections by the peo- 1 plo shall bo by ballot and elections G shall never bo held or tho ballots counted in secret. Sec. '2. Every qualified eleetor 1 shall bo eligible to any office to bo vot- c ed for, unless disqualified by age as H prescribed in this Constitution. But c no person shall hold two oilices of lion- t or or profit at the same time, except * that auy person holding another ofliee ? ....... *1... ......... ?i ..... 1... .... ..(l!/,r.l> in r innj iili iiif niiuv unit i>u <tu i/iuvvi iu the militia and n notary public. Sec. II. Everv male citizen of this State and of tin United States'21 years of age and upwards, not laboring under the disabilities named in this Constitution and possessing the qualiticalious reipiired by it, shall be an elector. Hec. 4. The qualifications for suffrage shall bo as follows: (a) Residence in the State for two years, in the county one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector otters to vote four months, and the payment six months before any election of any poll tax then due aud payable; provided, however, that ministers in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months residence in the State, if otherwise qualified. (! ) Registration, which shall provide for the enrollment of every elector once in ten years and also an enrollment during each and every year of every elector not previously registered under the provisions of this article. (c) Up to January 1, lS'.lH, all male persons of voting nge applying for registration who can read any section in this Constitution submitted to them by the r< .strslion oflieer, or miderstaiul and < \j lain it w hen i t ad to them i?v tiie rt g'-1 ration oflieer shall been titled to ic, ;ster and become electors. A separate record of all persons regis- t tered before January 1, 1898, sworn to by the registration officer shell be filed, one eopj with the clerk of court and one in the office of the secretary of state, on or before February 1, 1898, and snob persons shall remain during life qualified electors unless disqualified by the other provisions of this article. The certificate of the clerk of court (or secretary of state shall be sufficient evidence to establish the right of said citizens to any subsequent registration and the franchise under tho limitations herein imposed. (b) Auy per sou who shall apply for registration after January 1st, 1898, if otherwise qualified, shall be registered; provided, that he can both read and vrite any section of this Constitution mbmitted to him by tho registration julcer, or can suow mai no owns ami las paid all taxes collectible daring he previous year on property in this State assessed at $300 or more. (e) Managers of elections shall re[uire of every elector offering to vote it any election, before allowing him to ote, proof of the payment of all axes, iucludiug poll tax, assessed kgaiost him and collectible during the irevious year. The production of a ertificate or of the receipt of the fhce rauthorized to collect such tax*a hall oe conclusive proof of Uie paylent thereof. (f). The general assembly shall proido for issiling to each duly registered lector a certificate of registration and hall provide for tho renewal of ouch ertificate when lost., mutilated or lestroyed, if the applicant is still a [iialilied elector under the provisions if this Constitution, or if ho has been ogistered as provided in subsection c). Sec. 5. Any person denied registraion shall have the right to appeal to he court of common pleas or any udgo thereof, and thenco to tho upreme court, to detormino liis right o vote UDder the limitation imposed n this article, and on snch appeal the tearing skull be de novo and the ;enernl assembly shall provide by law or such appeal and for the correction if illegal and fradulent registration, othig and all other crimes against tho I lection laws. Sec. 6. Tho following persons are lisqualifiod from being registered or oting: First. Persons convicted of burgnry, arson, obtaining goods or money i inder false pretenses,perjury, forgery, obbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy, nfe-beating, housebreaking, receiving j tolen goods, breach of trust with raudulent intent, fornication,sodomy, ucest, assault with iutent to ravish, aisccgenation, larceny or crimes gainst tho election laws; provided, hat the pardon of tho governor shall < euiove such disqualification. Second. Persons who are idiots, inane, paupers supported at tho public " ixpense, and persons confined in any j mblic prison. Sec. 7. For the purpose of voting, { 10 poison shall bo deemed to have gained or lost u residence by reason of J lis presence or absence while employ sd in the servioe of the Unitod States, j lor while engaged in the navigation ( >f the waters of this State, or of the ^ Jnited States, or the high seas, nor ^ vhile a student of any institution of . earning. Sec. 8. The general assembly shall irovide by law for the registration of ill qualified electors and shall preicribe the manner of holding electione * ind of ascertaining the results of the iame; provided, at the first registraion under this Constitution, and until 1 he 1st of January, 1898, the registra- 1 ion shall be conducted by a board >f three disreeet persons in each j :ounty, to be appointed by the gov- ] srnor, by aud with tho advice and ] sonsent of the senate. For the first egistratiou to be provided for under .his Constitution, the registration looks shall be kept open for at least i >ix consecutive weeks, and thereafter rom time to time at least one week in sacb month, up to 30 days next pre- ' leding the lirst election to be held uni ii * n iii Ti... ( ler vuis fuxiHuiuviuu. ?uu ^muuion bookt shall be public records | >pen to tbo inspection of any citizen it all times. Sec. 9. The general assembly shall irovide for the establishment of poling precincts in the several counties >f the State and those now existing hall so continue until abolished or :hanged. Kach elector shall be required o vote at his own precinct, but provision shall be made for his transfer to mother precinct upon his change of esidence. Sec. 10. The general assembly shall irovide I13' law for the regulation of I xirty primary elections and punishing , mud at the same. ( Sec. 11. The registration books shall lose at least 111) days before ail elecion, during which time transfers and *egistration shall not be legal; prodded, persons who will become of age j luring that period shall be entitled to vgist ration before the books are ;iohuu. See. 12. Electors in municipal eloc 1 iotiR shall possess the qualifications iiid be subject to the disqualifications ' lerein prescribed. The production 1 >f n certificate of registration from the i egistratiou officers of the county as an 1 doctor at a precinct included in the ncorporated city or town in which j the voter desires to vote is declared a i condition prerequisite to his obtaining 1 i certificate of registration for municipal elections, and in addition ho j mist have been a resident within the corporate limits at least four months before the election and have paid all taxes due and collect!bio for the preceding fiscal year. The general assembly shall provide for the registration of all voters before each ( lection in municipalities; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any municipal elections which may be held i prior to the general election of the year 1 .s. Sec. 1:5, Tn authorizing a special election in uuy incorporated city or Y; ^ % i : " : town in this Stale for the purpose ^ bonding the same, the general aasena bly\shall prescribe as a condition pro cedent to the holding of said electiot a petition from a majority of the free> holders of Baid eity or town as shown by its tax books, aud at such elections all electors of such city or town who are duly qualified for voting under section 12 of this article, and who have paid all taxes. State, county and municipal, for the previous year, shall be allowed to vote, and the vote of a majority of those voting in said elections shall be necessary to authorize the issno of said bouds. Sec. 14. Electors shall in all oases except treason, felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest on the days of election during tlieir attendance at tho polls and going and returning therefrom. Sec. 15. No power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of sufr frage in this State. [CONTINUED NBX-f WEEK.] A Man's Right to Boll Down his Nnme. Thore are a great many curious thinsrs that come to the attention of the State authorities and some puzzling questions are often uBked of the officials, and this is es]>eoially the case with the Attorney General's office. Thero came the other day a request for a decision as to whether a man who had too many initials could dispose of several of them. The.youug man, for he evidently had been named after the war, had several Confederate generals' names given him, and he thought two of these would be sufficient for his uses. Ho asked whether it would be illegal for him to do so, and whether it would interfere with his legal rights. Assistant Attorney General Townsond took the matter up, and in a friendly way wrote him that so far as ho could find there was no law against tho dropping of some of the initials. He conld not ot his own accord change his surname or his given name. In a word, ho thought that he could drop tho ,4P" from his own initials if he so wibhed, but that he had to keep tho names Charles and Towusend. The young man in question had three long givon names and ho wishes to abridge it by leaving out one.of the initials. THE JPIXiK TO OE PAID. \n Interesting and Important. (Question Decided In Craig. The Circuit Court of Craig county ius just decided a question of rare ocjurrenco against the Board of Supervisors of that county. TSomo months igo the board deducted from the salary uf the county judge, Anderson, tho imount it had paid another county judge, Simmons, for holding a court iu his stead. It founded its action on precedents. A former county judge, Jones, had pad Judges Simmou for holding a court in his stead, and mother former county judge, Lymnn I , Dhalkley, bad bad the amount paid I Tudge Simmons deducted from bis, Lhalkley's salary. The present county judge, Anderson, however, appealed from tbe action of tbe supervisors to ( tbe Circuit Court of Craig, and that ourt decided that Judge Anderson must bo paid bis salary in full and ' .vitbout any deduction. TRLKUKAPHIC TICKS. Capt. Harry Jackson, of Atlauta, la., died at bis borne in that city on Friday. Tbe National Civil Service Reform League's fifteenth annual meeting was leld in Washington City. The ollicinl call for tbe National Republican Convention lias been made, [t will meet on June lti, 18fH>, at St. Louis, Mo. Judge tbomas L. Nugent, one of tho most prominent lawyers and politicians n Tovas, died at bis homo in Fort Worth Saturday. ' The funeral services over the rename of Judge Allen G. Thurman were tield at his residence in Columbus, rJhio, ou Saturday morniug. Diphtheria is rngiug in New York, 282 cases being officially reported, and the death rate is 22 a week. Tbe use it nnti-toxine lias been attended with favorable result. Six section men in the employ of the Virginia Coal and Iron Company met their death near Big Stone Gap, Ky., 1 '? ? ' aV * ituiiiutiv. iney were caimg inei?- i lunch on an overhanging cliff, when it , ;nve way and fell on them. The delegates from the hi-metalllc I leagues of Great Britain, France and j llerinany, now in conference at 1'aris, j my they are agreed on a programme | which they assert wiP transfer the location of international l?i-metalli..m from the Held of discussion to that of ictual practice. The state paid the expenses of the troops in the .lames City riot at New lierue two years ago and wanted ('raven county to refund the money. The decision of court is in favor of Craven county. Much interest is manifested by business men in this state in the southern exposition at Chicago, and assurances lire given that North Carolina will be well represented. President Spencer, of the Southern railroad, has leased eight thousand acres of land in Guilford county for tin* purpose of tpiail shooting. Judge T. Fuller, of lialcigh, N. C.,! lias been renominated for private lands claim court by President Cleveland, j New Orleans t'otton Kxc linage Statement. The semi-week ly movement in 13 lending interior towns: For 1805 receipts, 81,087 bales; shipments, lie,,020 hales; stock, 422,855 bales. For 1801 receipts, 123,001 hales; shipments, 100,1)11 I ale.-; stock 308.550 bales. For 1803 ipts, 102.273 bales; shipments, ! 3,530 bales; stock. 340,331 hales. Herring wore never so plentif: 1 off tho Massachusetts coast ns this season, and th? catch so lar lias bocu phonomonally large. PALMETTO \ POINTERS. INTERESTING ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. The Ijuuruda Guilty of uo Offense on the High Sous. Judge W. H. Brawley, of the United States District Court, has handed down his deoisiou in the ease against Capt. Samuel Hughes, the master of the steamship Laurada, which was charged with violating the neutrality laws of the United States. Judge Brawley holds that while there is no proof of an expedition begun within the territory of the United States, there is sufficient proof of an offenso committed on the high seas to justify further investigation. He, therefore, issued au order holding Capt. Hughes under bond for trial at the approabhing January term of the court for the eastern district of South Carolina. Beaufort Taxpayers In a Fix. Beaufort County ie undergoing particularly hard times, owing not only to tho closing down of the phospate mines and throwing out ot employment numbers of employees and laborers, but this year the people arc culled upon to pay two taxes. The tnxos that were due for the fiscal year 1803 and 1894, tho collection of which was suspended iu consequence of the August cyclone, uud thoso for 1894 and 1895 are both due, and a very small proportion of either has as yet been paid in, and tho people have not got the money to meet thoir taxes. As a consequence tho creditors of the county are in a bad fix, pnd liave but twenty odd days more to meet tho tax-gatherer with little prospect of ruisiug money and no possibility of a postponement of the time, as tbe Legislature will not convene until after the time expires and tho penalty will uttuch. The Co-Operative Mill. The stockholders of the Carolina Mills Compauy of Columbia, had a special meeting Friday evening tovote on uu increase of capital stock. This is the corporation that was chartered several mouths ago with a capitul stock of 8100,000, this amount to be raised ou the co-operative plan. At tbe meoting tho ofiicers reported that the initial amonnt had becnovorsubscribed and that the directors unanimously advised uu increase to $50,000, which was accordingly done. As soon as tho cold weather is ovor the active work of constructing the mill will begin, and tho Carolina Mills Company will Bpin pari uuav j vai a vv/bbUUt From Charleston to fjaurens. It is understood that President Childs, of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurons Railroad has obtainccd the right from Receiver A. C. Haskell to run trains over the trauk of the Newberry and Laurens Railroad between Clinton and Laurens. It is expected that through trains between Charleston, Columbia and Laurens will bo run. The effect of this will be to put Laurens in touch with the Seaboard Air Line and Coast Line system, and give competitive rates as against the Pert Royal and Western Carolina system. The Colportuge Work. At the recent meeting of the Methodist Conference of Sorth Carolina, at Rock Hill, Rev. T. J. Gattis, of Durham, N. C., was elected superintendent of the colportago work for this State. The Conference asked the privilege of uniting its colportage work with the two Conferences of North Car- * olina and by a unanimous vote ho was elected. The same Conference last year asked Mr, Gattis to take charge of the work in this State but he refused. Ho will accept tho offer and enter upon his work ut once. The Charleston Klectlon. Tho complete but unofficial returns from the municipal election in Chari ?? ?i. .1 tj ii. icmwij, 0uw? tuiii ?)ui y hi, iiic i/riiiuurHtic candidate, was elected mayor of Charleston for the uext four years by a majority of 278 votes. The regular Democrats elected twelve out of 24 aldermen, the other twelve being chosen by the A. 1'. A. Mr. Smyth will havo the casting vote. Knglnecr Curler Killed. Thursday a fatal collision occurred on the Air Iiinc. The freight train rutitijiig as third 42, ran into another freight, second 42, at Thickety, S. C., killing Engineer I). M. Curlee, of Charlotte, and nearly demolisng tho engine and 11 ears. Tho crew of second 42 claim that proper signals woro out for protection of their train. ? The Globe Phosphate company, of Columbia, have leased their entire plant to a party of Richmond (Va.) fertilizer manufacturers, who will soon take charge of the property and operate it. The lease it is understood is for five yearH and the terms on which it was consummated will prove very advantageous to all those holding stock in the company. Senator Tillman baa introduced a bill to provide a district attorney and marshal for the weatern district of South Carolina. Every district in the United States except that has its own district attorney and marahal. Tho status of the matter, according to the Revised Statutes, accompanies tho bill. # The Easley bridge, between Pickens and (Ireenville, fell through Tuesday, killing one mule, severely crippling another and breaking up a wagon. The driver, a young negro boy, was severely but not fatally hurt. Tho p bridge was made new about iivo years ago.