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THE LAW OF THE PARTY. ?? DKMOCR ATIC CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED IN COLUMBIA. Candldatfs for United States Senator Still to be Chosen by Primary. Each Club to Have a Separate Voting Place lu Primaries. Tho new constitution of tho party ns adopted is of groat importance to tho Democrats of the State. It is as follows : Constitution of tho Democratic party of South Carolina as adopted in State Convention at Columbia, S. C., May 20, 181)6: Article I. There shall bo ono or more Democratic clubs organized in each towuship or ward, each of which clubs ahall have a distinct title, "Tho Democratic Club," aud shall elect a president, one or more vice presidents, recording nud a corresponding secretary and a treasurer, and shall have the followiug working committees of not less than three members each, vie.: A committee on registration, an executive committee and Biich other committees as to each club may seem expedient. Article II. The meetings of the club shall bo frequent after the opening of the canvass, and some member of the club or invited speaker deliver an address at each meeting, if practicable. Tho clubs shall meet on the fourth Bft'jurday in April and tho county convention on the 11 rat Monday in May, respectively, of each eleotiou year: Provided, that the county executive committee may name auy other day withiu the week for such club meeting by giving at least two weeks' notice by advertisement in county papers. Kash county shall be entitled to double tho number of delegates in the State Convention as it has members iu Ihe Geuerul Assembly. Article III. The president or fivo members shull have power to call an extra meeting of the club, and at such extra meeting one-fourth of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Article IV. Tho clubs in each county l.oll ?... ?.41 ? _ ? ruun uu uviu nuu upui UiO IILIder tho coutrol of a couuty executive committee, which shall consist of one ineinhcr from each club, to ho elected by the respective clubs. The executive committee, when elected, shall appoint its own oflicers (except the chairman, who shall bo elected by the couuty convention), who shull not necessarily be members of said coinmietee, but a vacancy in the membership of the committee shall be tiled by tho club, through the loss of whoso member by death, resignation or otherwise the vacancy occurs: Provided, that any oflirer so elected who is not a member of the committee shall not be entitled to a voto on any question except the chairman, and then only in ease of a tio vote. Tho tenure of otlico of tho executive committee shall be until the first Monday in May of Bach election year, at which time tho couuty conventions shall l?o called together to re-orgatii/.o the party. Every Presidential election year county conventions shall be called by the couuty executive committee to meet on the tirst Monday iu May, which shall elect delegates to a Statu convention called for the purpose of electing delegates to the National Democratic Convention and to elect tho member of the national Democratic executive committee from this State. The State convention aball bo called by the State executive <Mjmmittee to meet every Presidential election year 011 the third Wednesday in May, and every State election year and State conventions shall meet on the first Monday in Mav ami the third "Wednesday in May respectively. Articlo V. County Democratic Contentious shall be composed of delegates elected by tho several local clubs, one delegate for every twenty-live voters, as shown by the poll list made at tho preceding lirst primary election in an election year, aud one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, with tho right to each county convention to enlargo or diminish the representation according to circumstances. Tho county conventions shall bo called together by the chairmen of tho respective executive committees under such rule, not inconsistent with the constitution nor with the rules adopted by the State Democratic executive committee, as each county may adopt, and win ti assembled shall be called to order by the ehaiiiminof the executive committee, and the convention shall proceed to nominate and elect fr.uii among its members a president, one or ; more vice presidents, a secretary and a treasurer. Any county convention may permit or reeogni/.e the formation ?>f a liew club or clubs by a majority of j its members. In all cities with a pop- ' illation of .1,000 and over there may bo j two clubs in each ward, they shall bo j organized in obedience to this cousti- > tution, as arc the clubs elsewhere in this State, ami iu organizing said clubs they shall have representation in the j Bounty conventions respectively as said conventions shall declare in accordance with tho provisions of this constitution. Articlo VI. For tho purposo of nominating candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and all other State otlicers, including solicitors iu the respective circuits, and Congressmen in their respective districts ami United States Senators aud all county pflicers, except magistrates and musters and supervisors of registration, a direct primary election shall be held on Ahe lust Tuesday in August of inch election year, and a second and third primary each two weeks successively thereafter. At this election only Democratic white voters who have been resideuts of the State twelve months and tho county sixty days preceding the next general election, and such Negroes as voted the Demooratie ticket in lt>7G, and as have voted the Democratic ticket continuously since, to bo shown by the certiticate of ten white Democratic voters, who will pledge themselves to support the nominees of such elections, may vote, provided that no person shall be allowed to vote except his name be enrolled on the particular club liBt ut which he offers to voto at least tivo days before the day of the first electiou. Kach club shuli have a separate polling place for primary elections. The club rolls of the party shall constitute the registry list and shall be open to inspection by any member of the party, uud the electiou under this clause shall be held and regulated under the Act of tho Genoral Assembly ol tins otate, approved Jiecember 18<SH. nnd any subsequent Acts of the Legislature of this Stato. The State executive committee shall meet on the Friday after each primary, or such oiher time as may be designated by the chairman, to canvass the vote and declare the result as to all State oflicers. Congressmen and United States Senators, All contests for all nominations at primary elections shall be heard first by the couuty executive committco of the county iu which such irregularities may have occurred, end may be reviewed by the State executive committee, whose action sholl bo final; provided that no vote shall bo eouuted for auy candidate who does not file with the chairman of tho StHte executive committee, or with the respective chairman of the conuty executive committees, a pledge iu writing thatliewill abide the result of such primary aud support tho nominees thereof, that he is not, nor will he become the candidate of any faction, either privately or publicly suggested, other than the regular Democratic nomination; provided further that no candidate Bhall be declared nominated unless he receives i\ nminritv of thn votes cast for thu ofllce for which he is a candidate : Provided that the pledge of audi candidate shall be tiled on or bofore the day of the first campaign meeting of the county or State respectively. Articlo VII. The officers of the Stato Convention shall be president, one vice-president from each Congressiual district, two secretaries and a treasurer. Article VIII. The Stato Executivo committee shall be composed of one member from each county,to be elected by tho county conventions on the first Monday in May of each election year. When elected said executive committee shall choose its own otlicers, not necessarily members thereof prior to said election : Provided, that any ollicer so elected who is not a member of the committee shall not be entitled to a vote on any question, except the chairman, and then only in a case of a tie vote. Tho State executivo committee shall meet at the call of the chairmau or any five members, and at such tiuio and place as ho or they may appoint. Tho member of the national Democratic executive committee from South Carolina shall bo elected by the May State Convention in lSOfi, and every four years thereafter, and when elected shall be ex-olficio a member of tho State executive committee. Vacancies on said executive committee l>y death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by tho respective county executive committees. Tho State executive committee is charged with tho execution aud direction of tho policy of the party iu this State, subject to this constitution, tho principles declared in the platform of principles aud such instruction, by resolution or otherwise, as a Mate convention may from time to time adopt, not inconsistent with this constitution, nml shall continue in office for two years from the time of election, or until their successors lmvo been elected. Tho committee shull nominate Presidential electors, and if any vacancy occur in the State ticket or of electors, or of members of tho national executive committee, by death, resignation or other cause, the committee shall have the power to till tho vacancy all by a majority of the whole committee. Article IX. Tho vote in tho respective counties for ail of the State officers, Congressmen, I'nited States Senators shall be transmitted by tho chair men of tho respective county executive committees to tho chairman of the Stuto executive committee as early as practicable after each primary, who shall ing tho dates of tho meetings, and also invilinn !,.? f..~ ?' I ?uv vituMiuuiun twi viui^rt'iss, United States Senate and for solicitors, in their respective districts and circuits, to lie present and address the people. At such meetings only the candidates above set forth should be allowed to speak. Articlo XII. It shall l>o the duty of each county executive committee to appoint meetings in their respective counties to bo addressed by the candidates for the General Assembly and for the different county olllces, all of whom except magistrates and supervisors of registration shall be elected by primaries on the last Tuesday in August of each election year under the satno rules and regulations hereinbefore provided. Article XIII. Macli county delegation to a State ('oilvantion shall have power ti> till any vacancy thereon. Article XIV. This constitution may be amended <>r altered at the regular May ( invention of the State or at any convention called specifically for that ] urposc, the call for w hi L shall specify the ihr t i be i:.u le. zmtwm r .wi , Article XV. Any ooantj failing or refusing to organize nnder the pro* visions of this constitution shall not bnvo representation in the State Democratic Convention. STATE NEWS NOTES. THK MKIiON ACRRAGE. Farmer* Have Mo Desire to Repeat Their Experience. It is not long now before the watermelon season will open, and the outlook for the crop is not a very bright oue. A railroad man whose business it is too look after such things in the interest of the traffic of bis lino has said that ho is convinced that theCaroliua aoreago this season would be less than half of w hat it was last year. The experience of melon farmers last season had not been pleasant, and he did not think that they were going to run the risk of duplicating it this year. They thought thoy had evory right - to expect a fair profit from their fields, aud yet very fow of them there were who did not come out behind the game. "The Carolina melon season is very brief at best. It is wedged in, so to speak, between the Qeorgia and the more northornly seasons. Last year our crop camo aftor the Georgia crop had beeu virtually disposed of, that is the best part of it. When our crop was ready for sale the Georgia people began to dump their "culls" on the market. The market responded promptly by tumbliug down to almost nothing. The Georgian had made their profits on their real crop and they could alTord to take pretty much anything over transportation expenses for the "culls," while the Carolina farmers on tho contrary was forced to accept rock bottom prices for the very .Galr ,.f ikai. G .1 Aka 1~ A ~ t |Mua ui iLiu11 uciun, iuu uiuiuuo uut ui which they had been hoping to make their profits. Under these circumstances it was not long before melons were a drag on every market in the North. Then the railroads began to demand that freights should be guaranteed. The commission men would only guarantee so many cars at a time from each locality, and the farmers found themselves unable to market the crop half as fast as it ripened. A man might have six carloads ready for shipment and the man at the other end of the liue would say that ho would not guarantee freight on but two carloads. There was nothing for it but to allow the other four carloads wait, a process which resulted in thousands of as fine melons as were ever grown in Carolina rotting in the fields. "The larmers got enough of this kind of thing last season, and they are not going to take nuy more such chances. Every man that I have Been is cutting down the acreage." ? ?> PUZZLING POLITICIANS. State Hoard Insists That Dispensers Cannot ISecome Candidates. The following circular, issued to the county dispensers of the State, shows that the board is determined in its intention to keep its employes out of politics as long us they are euiuloyes: Coh'mbia, May 2i>. To Count// Di-*pinner#: Information has been received at this otlice that in Home of tbe counties of this State dispensers have announced themselves as candidate's for different otlices to be tilled next fall. The Stato board of control has ordered that when a dispenser announces himself as a candidato for otlico he must at ouce resign as dispenser. This is to warn and notify all dispensers who violate this imperative order of the Statu board of control. In connection with this, we take occasion to state that the Stato board of control demands that the dispensers carry out the dispensary law strictly and to the lotter, and that no violation will bo permitted uudcr penalty of instant removal. It is the firm intontiou of the board that the business of tho dispensary shall be conducted ou strict business principles, and that politics have no purt in its management. Willie Jones, Chairman Stato Board of Control. S. W. Scruoos, Clerk Stato Board of Control. It eg tine ii tut Kiicampinents. Somo time age Adjutant Genernl Watts sent out to tho active militia colonels in the State a circular letter requesting information as to tho possibility of holding rcgimentul encampments this summer. lteplies havo l....... r......J v-.-..I 4I...4 .... i **?? ??*? m uiwii iiihuiivi; iijiiv u?" J cry out; o{ tho regiments will hold such encaiii ufits during tho month of 1 duly nod August in their respective districts. General Watts says tho encampments will ho held at those places which otter the best inducements. Mnj. Gen. Walker has appointed, as sponsor to represent the State at Richmond, Vu., during the Confederate re-tinion, Miss Lottie Capers, of Columbia. ? <? Tho Oreenvillo Guards havo disbanded, leaving that city without a military organization. The Canal Limn Savings Bank, of Columbia, has changed its numo to "The Canal Bank." Kim I otitic Itillurd Tourney, Tin* hill,-ml tournament eame to an end Baturdny at Chicago, III, Ives winning second money l y (iartiier defeating Heha? fer in the Ural game. 'I 'lie standing of tic* pin vers ! wus as follows (.arni'-r w?n 3. lost 1; Ives ' tres 2. iv.-t S ha< f- r n>:i 1. lo.-t 3. POPE OPENS THE BALL. ANNOUNCKS HIS CANDIDACY, AS A REPUBLICAN. ? # He Appologiscs Kor Ills Connection With the Reform Party and Promises to Make Amends. # ?To the Republicans of South Carolina, anil all other persons who ilesire an honorable government as the result of on honest ballot and a fair count: We havo reached a crista in the affairs of State, anarchy, brutality aud fraud reigns, where formerly the opposite condition of affair prevailed. Believing that in 1890 that a chango was needed, aud not dreamiug that behind the promises of leaders, other things were intended, I assisted in the overthrow of tho then government. As soon as the cloveufoot was shown? the true intent; tho satisfaction of an individual ambition, coupled, with hate aud revenge, I left the gang. For tho part that 1 took in this crusade agaiunt decency, I beg pardon of tho peoplo of this State, aud promise iu tho future to do everything honorable in my power to undo what has been done. Senator Tillman announced as one | of his reus< us for desiring a Constitutional convention, the desire to make it possible for two parties to exist among the white people iu this State. In order that it might not appear heroafter that the convention was called and the Constitution made by Reformers alone, he invited certain leading white men of tho Conservatives to become "paliceps criminis." Poor, unsuRpectiug creatures, they swallowed tho bait and assisted him ic disfranchising one hundred and twenty-ttvo thousand colored voters and possibly ten thousand whites. He fooled them simply to prevent tho Negroes from assisting the Conservatives to throw off his yoke. Now, that he has accomplished his purpose, he throws off his mask and is trying to destroy the national Democratic party, hut says it must bepreoerved in State affairs. "Consistency thou art a jowol." And to presere his power iu the State, he talks loudly about "people goiug to the Negroes." This is adding insult to injury, lie has disfranchised the Negro to gratify hisowu mean ambition and he knows it, aud yet talks as if he thought that the Negroes had not been disfranchised. I wonder if he tells his largo audiences that he says he has had in other States, of his fraudulent couuting in of the call for a convention in this Stute in 189-4? I had hoped that these men who were delegates to the lato Democratic convention, who were true Democrats, would bolt it when a resolution to abido the action of the national convention was voted down, come out, call a new convention and fight Tillmanism, which is populism aud anarchy, but the one who could have done so did not have the moral courage to do it. He could speak of "poor old I'ope," who needs none of his sympathy, aud who, thank God, has the moral courage to do anything that he thinks is right, whether it bo popular or unpopular. Ah, ho feels the thru6tof the knife of the man for whom he instructed his henchmen to stab. "The mills of the gods grind I slowly, but surely." Hut for all this and other tuings of i iiygone (inyH i iorgivo Him and couid 1 , help Lim to overcome his puny advernary I would cheerfully do so. | , Hut I am digressing. There is work ! to be done. The opposition forces of | this Stute must come together and act as one man. The Reformers are no , longer a unit, although the henchmen ; howl as loud as ever in convention, the i rank and file are disconcerted. Promises of reform have not been kept; | offices have increased?kinsmen of the j powers that be have been given the ; fattest of them. Taxes have increased, although the debt has been changed from a G per cent, to a 4} per cent, i Tho dispensary has been foisted upon ! tho people, w hen by a vote of 1:1,000 [ majority, tho sale of liquor was to be | stopped. Spies have been put over the people, protected, too, from suit for injury to person or property The ; people of Charleston liavo been 1 selected as victims to liavo tho metropolitan police put over them, thus destroying tho great privilege of local self-government. These are a purt of the iniquities thnt have been heaped upon a free people. Will you fold your aruiH and submit to it without a trial to overcome it at tho polls? Remember that 10,000 votes of the Reformers added t<> the Conservative strength will overcome them, and remember, too, that there are Id,000 white Republicans who have not here tsif'.r.i nn.l 1 I I MMM .. .4 *w?vrav* ?|/^?|, uuu IW,?M?W uv^iucn liut disfranchised, who will vote for good men for tbo legislature and other ofliccH if they will consent to run. To save the civilization oi the State it ia your duty to respond to the call. The Reformers say that the State is prospering; that during their administration the cotton spindles or tlio Stato have been more than doubled. Yes, but not with their money; not one dollar in one hundred has been subscribed by them. The auspicious time had come and the mills could not wait. | The Hood tide was on in Georgia, North | Carolina and South Carolina. It was I not due to Tilltnanism. When South J Carolina is represented nt the exposition in Chicago, Iho Reformers will do the shouting and the Conservatives will put up the money necessary to represent this State. 1 shall be u candidate for Governor THE STATE'S | PHOSPHATE. | 80MK FACTS ABOUT THK CONDITION OF TIIK INDUSTRY. i The Brotherhood Company Ceases to Ml no?How the Algerian Product Has Driven Down the Price. Tho following concerning tho Stato's phosphate industry is from the pen of State Phosphate Inspector Jones: lie says that although tho Brotherhood company?tho Carolina Mining ^ Company?has closed, leaving only three lurge companies now at work, he i expects that the, amount of the bond S'nM-u't or. I will s(. ind upon the Republican platform which bhtiil be put forth by tha St. Loom convention. In State mutters I shall tight for honest elections. I shall tight tho dispensary. the metropolitan police bill, for lower taxes, for fewor oflices ami for justice before tho law for every citizen. I shall call for a full investigation of tho Port Royal Railroad matter, what committee visited Columbia from Augusta; whether or not that committee was interested in Port Royal luuds and everything connected with it. 1 shall call for light upon tho fundiug of the State debt, including tho law case on the constitutionality <H the funding act, the lawyers engaged, who paid them, tho employment of Mr. Rhind, and what wus paid him and others, aud who tho others wero, both in Augusta and Columbia. "Pub* lie oflice is a public trust." Respectfully. Sampson Pore. Newberry, S. 0-.? May 20, 1800. BALKS, TIKS AND BAGGING. Improvement!* Recommended lu Covering Cotton. For many years there has been general complaint from all European markets of the bad condition in which American cotton arrived, owing to tho inferior quality of bagging and ties generally in uso. Last August the Liverpool Cotton Association passed resolutions imposing a penalty of five pounds deduction in weight on each bale appearing in that market nftor September 1, 1800, covered in light baggiug and bound with inferior ties. They also recommended a uniform size of bale, 28 inches wide by 58 inches long. New Orloans and Galveston endorsed this action. MenOphis protested ngaiust tho penalty imposed, but strongly recommended the reform. Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Charlotte aud Athens held a couferenca on April 10, in Augusta, and udoptod tho following resolutions: Whoreas, experience teaches that in most instances the quulity of the baggiug used is inferior, aud tho manner of eovoriniT tli? Imln inanlltAiunt in thoroughly protect tho cotton from damage during its transit from the plantation to the spiunor, aud Whereas, a uniform size bale will facilitate tho handling and transportation of cotton aud inure to the inutuul benefit of both producer aud consumer, be it resolved that: We recommend to all ginncrs tho adoption of a press box 28 inches iu width by f<8 inches in length. That we recommend to the producer, ginner and packer the use of bugging weighing not Ichs than two (2) pounds and not more than two and one-quarter (2J) pounds to tho yard, and that buflieieut bagging be used to cover tho bale without lapping, the bagging to be woven aud calendered so as to allots for clear and distinct marking. That six tires to tho bale be used, made of tho best material, weighing not less than forty-five (4T?) nor more than fifty (">U) pounds to the bundle of thirty (SO) tires, of eleven (11) to eleven and a half (111) feet iu length. That we urge upon farmers the necessity of the reforms set forth and request tho manufacturers of bagging, ties and cotton presses to conform to these recommendations. As to the resolution of the Liverpool Cottou Association that they will enforce a penalty of five pounds per halo after the first of September, wo recommend that the secretary communi'-ate with the Liverpool Cotton Association and inform them that we are anxious to assist in any movement looking to an improvement in wrapping cotton. I and endorse tins letter of the Now Orleans Cotton Kxcliange, umler date of April (5, iK'.lo, on this subject. A reform in the methods now in vogue enn only be brought about by action of tho various cotton exchanges in bringing this matter to tho attention of the producers and public ginuers, and showing them that such practice insures to tho Iohs of the producers themselves in lowering tho value of tho staple. To attempt to enforce such an arbitrary rulo will only retard every movement looking to a correction of this evil, and, wo hopo the Liverpool Cotton Association will see its way clear to rescind its action. Those reforms aro strongly recommended to the planters, ginners and packers of cotton in this section, as proper baling and covering cotton in , o hieing weight losses results to tho benefit of the producer, and tho use of heavier material as covering is counted in tho weight of tho bale. r.OKDON ISM'KS OKDKIiS. Calls Attention to the t'nvelling of a Confederate Monument at Winelicstnr. <i?'ncrnl .ionit 15. Cordon, commanding United Confederate Veteran*, in a general order referring to tin. approaching reunion, says: Many of tlio veterans who attend the reunion at ilielnnond will visit the historic luittlelleld in Virginia, numners of whieli they enriehed with their own prelims blood and" eontributed by their valor to make memorial for nil time. In addition to the laying of the cornerstone of the Jefferson Davis monument, whieh will take place during the reunion, the general commanding deems it proper to call special nttention of all veterans t > an incident of great importance which will occur at Winchester, Vn.,on July 4. the date having been ehanged from Juno 21. The Louisiana veterans will tnkeadvantago of the tune and occasion to unveil ti e monument whieh they have erected in the beautiful Stonewall cemetery, in the historic town of Winchester, totlie memory of tle-ir beloved comrades,tin- Confederate dead of Louisiana. The reunion will close July 2. and the unveiling of this monument to the Louisiana heroes will occur July 4. It will he an event of unusual interest; the "maimed hero, ' (ieneral ITancis T. Nhdiolls, will be th>? orator of the nay, d the good people of Winchester extend .. hearty welcome to nil. guarantee money will be raised by tho jr royulty. Fast yoar the mines turned | out 147,030 tons, against 219,300 tons F the year which terminated with the jj great hurricane. IIo sees no reason I now, he says, why the present companies at work cauuot run the total to I 180,000 tous by tho close of the present phosphate your. The companies now at work in the < territory uro the Coosaw, the Beaufort | and tho Farmer's Mining companies. ' Tho Brotherhood bns suspended for good, aud has advertised its machinery for sale. There has been no improve- ' mont at all iu tho prico of tho rock recently, tho prices remaining very low. The prico obtainad for tho rock shipped abroad is about S'2.25 a ton. Very little rock is now being shipped. Tho South Caroliua rock, while it docs not analyze as high as some of the Florida products, is preferred by foreign.buyers, owing to its uniformity. Its percentage *of available material never varies, while the Florida stuff varies very greatly. Mr. Jones does not think that Florida miners can successfully competo with tho South Carolina miners at present prices, because of the fact that k the Floridiaus have to pay rail freights to got tboir product to port, whereas, our miners are right at the ports. Tho only thing that tho South Carolina industry has to fear iH a combination between tho Tennessee minors with some railroad liuo which would result in L putting tho Tennessee product on the docks ready for shipmeut as cheap a? our product. Two-thirds of the mines in Florida havo already ceased work, owing to the heavy fall in prices. Tho Tennessee production has had a tendency to lower the prices of tho rock, but otherwiso it has not yet hurt J the South Carolina mines. The South Carolina mines during tho month of April reported 11,085 tons mined and ll,0t(> tons shipped. An F.nglish authority says that this has been 0110 of the worst years kuown for tho phosphate industry. This authority says: "Tho prices of 5d per unit for Curoliua river phosphate and 6d per unit for Florida high grade rock, which had to bo accepted to effect sales, are record prices never kuown before, and it seems evident that they do not cover the cost of tho phosphate. A largo number of miners, therefore, preferred to stop work rulher than con j tiuuo nt u Iohh, and consequently prices have improved from 1 2 il to 1 <1 per unit. The primary cutiso of thin unprecedented full in prices 1ms no doubt been u shrinkage in the consumption of phosphate manures, in couMcqucuco of the distressed state of ugriculturo in Kuropc us well us in America. Hut other causes have also contributed to the depression of prices, namely, increased shipments of phosphate from Algeria and the reckless speculation in Florida high grade phosphate." The shipment of phosphate rock, from Algeria has grown at ail enormous rate, and that seems to be the real trouble. Kxtra charges, it is understood, are to bo put on for mining in Algeria, which will likely restore tho prico. Tho mines in this country aro now producing over 1,000,000 tons annually. Algeria has shipped this year 130.000 tons, us aguiust 0,150 tons iu 1893. TIIK SOtJTll'S KKVIVAb. .Material Kvlilciice that She Is Taking trie IjcuiI. Hpecinl reports to the Manufacturer's Record, covering the business interests of tho South for tho week, show a considerably larger number of important matters than for tho preeeuing week. Tim Watts Iron arid Steel plant built several years ago at a cost of about sU.000,000 to roll ingots into slabs nnd billets. This eon puny has had one of its furnaces in operation for live or six months musing pig iron, ami the starting up of this large :->tplant promises to hiivo n very innh-rliil effert upon the question of steel making iii the Soull . Sumo font rift!' ii ro being lot for the equipment of the steel plant, to be built at I'irminghcm by tlio iSirmingimm Rolling Mill company. Cotton mill enterprises include n ?100.00(1 company at lln-sory drove, S. a i? 10.000 spindle mill at Clinton, tin- increase of capital stork of v7r..(IOO at Chester for the purpose of adding 11,009 spindles: anil a subscription of >-59,000 for buildiiig a mill at Jiiaeksburg. S. i . Poiinsylvania pooplo have nurehnsod 2H,000 acres of timber latul in Altbamafor itntnciliiito ilcvclopmcnt. , The Freight Combine. A convention of the Southern State? Freight Association, presided over by Col. II. S. Haines, commissioner, of Atlanta, cloned a week's session in Fort Monroe, Va., Saturday. About seventy-flvo delegates, repre senting the leading Southern lines, were | present and a large amount of routine business was transacted, Tliey expert to meet | again for it ten days' session early in June. Observing the Itruins itntl Lungs. The General I'.leetrical Society, of IJcrlln, Ctcrinany, announces that an improvement has been made in the Roentgen process that enables the interior of the head, the larynx, ami the maion of the luncs and heart to he observed on a (lucres"cut s Teen.