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lutY IJGIT MKR" Go sl AT 1O3 CT Go andGSee tnr Wonder-od alr ndas NWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY,.OEBR1,981 RC $.0AYA ESTABLISHED 1865.NE CHEAP SCHOOL BOOKS SECURED. Successful Finale of the State Board's Er forts-Proceedings of the State Board of Education-Action on State School BletorIes. [The State, Nov. 1.] The State Board of education has succeeded in reducing the prices of school books very materially. and the fight for cheap books has been won. Yesterday the proceedings of the meet ing of the Board, held Friday, were given to the public. The most impor tant features thereof follow: Mrs. S. S. Clarkson of Eastover, Miss Anna M. Henry of Greenville, E. Dreher of Lexington, Rev. R. R. Varn of Fairfield and S. C. Scott of Eastover were granted teachers' State certifi cates. ClipAP BOOKS SECURED. Superintendent Mayfield made;a re, port of the result of his efforts ituN6ro ,::--Alb5jO wing being mere synopsis: .Gentlemen of the Board: At your m'eeting In April last you appointed me a committee of one to look into the school book question for this State, with a view to securing, if possible, a reduction in the pri.es of the books on the State list, and to make suggestions of plans whereby the books might be procured by the children of the State at the agreed prices. I immediately entered upon the work assigned me. At our meeting in July last I was unable to make a satisfactory report, because of the fact that I had not been able to hear fully from all of the book houses whose books were on our list, and you asked me to continue the work, which I have done, and am now ready to report. This report would be too long were I to incororate the re plies which I received to my letters. I content myself with making some short extracts from some of the letters and presenting the figures, which will show for themselves. From them it will be seen that a considerable reduction has been made from the original prices. I take up the American Book Com pany first, as it has more books on our State list than any other house. I give the present retail price and also the former retail prices, that the difference may be seen at a glance. "Mr.W.D.Mayfield,State Superintend ent of Education, Columbia, S. C. "DEAR SIR: We give you herewith, a list of the books publibshed by us have been adopted by the State B .uacation for use in the. schools uth Carolina. Ap pended to each book is our regular list price at which it should be retailed to pupils throughout the State. Very truly yours, AMERICAN BOOK Co." List of books published by the Ameri can Book Company, adopted for the use in the schools of South Carolina: PREsENT FORMER READERS. RETAIL RETAIL PRICES. PRiCES.1 .Appletonl's First Reader.. .18 .24 Appleton's SeconldReader. .30 - .38 Appleton's Third Reader... .38 .49 Appleton's Fourth Reader .50 .65 Appleton's Fifth Reader.. .90 1.17 Harper's First Reader...... .24 .24 No change for others .. .. Swintoni's PriIner and First Reader.................. .2 .30 Swinton's Second Reader. .35 .40 Swinton's Third Reader.... 50 .56 Swintona's Fourth Reader. .65 .75 Swinton's Fifth Reader.. .90 1.05 Swinton's Sixth, or Classic4 English Reader......... 1.05 1.25 The prices of all others the compara tive reduction being about the same per cent. as the above, are as follows: Supplementary readers-"Cats and Dags, and Other Friends," 17 cents; riends in Feathers and Fur," 30 t.s; "Neighbors with Wings and a," 40 cents; "Some curious Flyers, - rs and Swimmers," 40 cents; Coin'WaWjs and Hoofs," 54 quickly and surdIy-i1s. udian Co'rn Paint. ra"1i~~nd ft''s Stories," , 1;. Hroic ijeed~. app te!atries of our Country," 40 of Stries o the Olden Time," 54 seer "Ten E'vets in yiSoI, r4tl willrS' nton's Word Primer, 15 o elenton'S Word Book of En- c 18cnts . tir p'ellng, Webster's Primary, 48 pictionare--Sho 72 igb Ct ts; A cadhemic, .0 ry, a Standarde iher op, $1.2l; (istoresr Uitedoe,2 ctates,; eo ~ra His o 6 cents itns Unifomtedctats, runs triar of this copn' thWrld'sl densedpsame,l9o;iestlineic Pracucalt,?68.bsmall (shortr cour e dozen our cents; - the iM1 theior copany'fs dalern F. JChenv &Co., doite at a dis th iyof'~Toledo, Coudost prices, afoesid,an t tHNDRE jon that oeahand every ct regu terht acanot beC cure by of al'sCaa RANJ. C HEN tha obefore me and subscenl pwrencethis 6th day of Deni ber A.D- 8. .W.GLEASON,. ~ota3ry Publi F sAL hals Catarrh Cure is taken il na yancous surfacs ofn th yst< ondF Jr tH~ &io ., -Toledo, . odby Druggists, 75c. RETAIL. FORMER PRESENT PRICES. PRICES. Reed & Kellogg's Graded Lessons in English...... .... 42 40 Reed & Kellogg's Higher Lessons in English ............. 70 65 Reed's Word Les sons..................... 40 25 The first book formerly cost the dealer 36 cents; now it costs him 30 cents. The second book formerly cost the dealer 60 cents; now it costs him 50 cents. The third book formerly cost the dealer 25 cents; now It costs him 20 cents. You will see that dealers can afford to sell our books at the mailing prices, as there is an ample margin of profit, and that the mailing prices are cer tanly very reasonable. -A-extract, from a letter from D. C. Na Co. Bosend~glena stating hat Hi. . e'-eMWNglieh will >e sold for 24 and 40 cents respective.j, Lnd bound in cloth at 26 and 45 cents. qr. Mayfield says: The former prices o retailers were 31j and 45 3-5 cents for he smaller and larger books respect vely. A very large extra discount is llowed. Formerly they received by 6i per cent. Allowing 25 per cent. >rofit, they should now retail at 29 and iO cents respectively. Messrs. Ginn , Co., write that they re forced to give a discount of 161 per ent. to dealers, but are willing to make t 20 per cent., "thus enabling the dea ers to retail the bookq at wholesale >rices." They say there is a demand for & paper back form, and if several coun es desire this edition, a further dis .ount of 20 per cent. can be given. 'hey intend to re-establish a depository 'in some important centre in the outh." Mr. Mayfield's report quotes a letter Yrom the University Publishing Com >any, showing that his request was idently misunderstood. Mr. May leld's comment is: "This house has nade no reductions. I have received io reply to my last letter." The J. B. Lippincott Company has nade no reduction. Mr. W. J. Duffie, )f Columbia, the publisher of David on's History of South Carolina, has ,aced that book at 50 cents. Mr. Mayfield's report continues thus: 'As to the best means of securing to ,bildren of the State the books at retail >rices proper, I suggest the propriety of )reparing an official bulletin to be lng up in a conspicuous place in each chool in the State, giving'kis tbe )ooks on the Sta. list, with publisher'e )ries annexed, together with a iftate nent to the effect that if the books are iot furnished at these prices by the ocal dealers of the State, they can be )rocured of the publishers, postage or pressage paid, on receipt of the cash. "It might be advisable for the county chool commissioners to communicate withthe local dealers and thereby get he names o fthose who will -agree to ell the books at the fixed retail prices to be children .of their respective cbun THE BOARI/S ACTION. Professor Johnson submitted and the sard passed a resolution of thanks to dvr. Mayfield for his successful efforts o secure cheaper books. The resolution mlso says: That as this is a public matter of vital onern to the whole people, State superintendent Mayfield be and is 3ereby requested to use every means n his power to spread this Information bhrough the State.. Miss Ella Bell Shirly wasexamhined ms an applicant for a State teacher's cer ificate. STATE SCHOOL HISTORIES. In regard to the adaptation of the iew State school histories, Professor diorrison offered the following resoln M. which was adopted : o8 154 That the St.ate board fully help us. Y016-portance of thestudy ,a history and ob esl ut you a..increasing in reciates te 1 ty you wi.different be South CaroLz That es with pie are th furnish . st shownl hi suec benerlly. trs and the peopl oet,ea tist'%. ile the board cant, lat this pre-. sistently with t lat andpe Lent, add to the present State bad n on this sbe to ofhier boare es teahesandsctbuins of the tefre sthool the to make South te fre schoo an tht the law requires uth Carolina historytobtagti p ublic schools. 'Special to Register.1 NAR~' ovember 5.-.M4ichael CAALES, bteknw as"the O'Kelly, wellyt known itcans di ed here to wlay now ait hav b een the only ay. tia in Charleston 'who never wantician public office. Ke was an al round politician, wi wriegliet no party, and usdtcrcie aeaic sqibs for the papers, chance.g hewa wherever he saw a ch orce sHe w the proprietor of large iron wrs0 East Bay. sht Iato the Ri-PSreents ca. jSpecial to The State.]gh 8 S C. Nov. 5.-Last ngt Uthoe pa-e r train bounld for Col t s eardUnion, some miscreant s1 hogh the palrnab,i hc wse owpae.It is not supposed ti window psnwho did'the shooting kn ofbePdetspreci te Y' outrage should be perpetrated. The combinationl ofingredid.fo1 1Ar's Pills renders them tomn c itive as well as citharie. For' ebnthey: are the tb-st medicL:n )of costive habt,asthy D '.rat action-of thijbowels, - 14ting. HISTORY OF THE WADSWORTH ESTATE. The Benefaction of xorgotten Philanthro plat Now to be Realfzed in Laurens - A Scattered Property of $300,000 -Serious Distress Likely to be Caused-Some Innocent Purchasers. [Greenville News.j The "Wadsworth poor school fund' and the Wadsworth estate have beeu heard of by many people in this State but the story that surrounds them i not familiar. Inasmuch as the estate concernr many Greenville people and many 'others in nearly every county in tht State, the story is repeated below: Thomas Wadsworth died in Charles, ton about the year 1771. He came t< America from England when a younj man, first settling in Massachusett and later in Laurens County, in thih State, near Milton. He became im jnenely wealthy, owning thousand, 'o-acre of and'and.hundreds of slaves After living in L&d%e1inounty man3 years he moved to CharlestiA, _"d weni into the mercantile' business with e Mr. Turpin, the firm being Wadsworth & Turpin. When he died he owned lands frow the mountains to the seaboard of South Carolina, principally in the counties ol Laurens, Spartanburg, Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, Newberry, Lexing ton and Orangeburg. After abundant ly providing for his wife and mother, for he had no children, he left aboul 34,000 acres in various counties for a poor school fund. The property was not to be sold. Everything was left io the hands of a board of trustees, com posed of five men. The trustees wer( to be elected every two years by the white freeholders of Dunlap's battalioo of Laurens County and the school tc be supported was to be located in th( battalion. In Mr. Wadsworth's days the coun ties were divided into battalions in stead of townships as now, and ther4 were four battalions in Laurens Coun ty. There were also fo#,r 4a Cereenviile Deeds for the lands were left in the hands of trustees and are now in tbe possession of the present trusteem eleeted last February by the white vo ters living in Dunlap's battalion. A school house was built in the battalion now Hunter's township, and has beer in use ever since, although the vast es tate has not until now, yielded enougt to pay a teacher's salary. The trustee. rented the lands for a while and finall3 leased -them*for terms ranging frn fifty to ninety-nine years. The mone3 received was loaned out and much ol it was lost. Some of the leases wer( renewed by other trustees, but a num ber of them are beginning to expire and a distressing state of affairs is in storc for numbers of people now in posses sion of the lands. R. G. Wallace and WV. H. Workman two of the five trustees are in the city and are looking up the part of the es tate located in this county for the pur pose of selling or. settling in some man ner. An act of the legislature a short time ago empowered the trustees to sell the lands and re-invest in lands ii Laurens township, near the Wads. worth school. The trustees find by old records ii the register of mesne conveyance': office that there are about 1,400 acrei belonging to the estate in this County, Over 300 acres of it are located about two-and-a-half miles from the city, and the worst part of the story is that about forty-seven persons own the property and that there are over twenty house: on it. Persons to whom it was leased and re-leased years ago sold it to unsuspect ing and careless persons, and there i: not much doubt hut that many peopki will have to suffer. Part of the land iF in the possession of Capt. Willian Goldsmith. Much of the same land lies in the Sandy Flat section of this coun ty. No property in the city is includ ed in the estate and real estate owner: here will breathe easier. In one trael in Spartanburg County there are 1,8( I'h.was said at one time that the towr and Aon *was built on the property A fZ Oder, eefreed the property ther bt the con1W"0- -i1e- About one hun frm further trou&e " acres east of tbh dred and twenty-fie g c1gtate, and th< town, belonged to the a stees som< owners settled with the tr - ed comn time ago by paying a fair pric wn prm.Wherever the present ta proshe fought the matter in cour hes have lost. This would tend to frighten all who have any interest in th t property. -ti iyltl n One gentleman inthis nd ate ofier vested in some of tilad Ast overe and he is now worried -- l oe th' State, wherever there is anyofh ' lad1heewl be uneasins and nc a few may lose their all.un o a The trustees of thefn o a hut3,00 oni hand. They propol ao pus mtters to a settlement and ir creasethe fund. They have plannedi bul two more school houses in Unr lap's battalionl, one at Crass Hill a! eat Mountville. The Wadswor etate is now valued at between $204 000 and $300,000 at a low estimate. Would 'You Be Attractie ? a You must be healthy. .Would y be healthy, always keep wihf rna o laan Pellt,mh perfection of p1 a i!Headache, biliousness, constil in a r.tdtnuea*Y ni f timulating~ healty ai The be ) oe ierPel iillYgfoial heb it-I i ndnoneof the ofrO American Election Days. [New York Evening Post.] About ninety years ago William Bris bane, a cultivated and patriotic citizen of South Carolina, while staying in London, witnessed in that city two elections for the members of Parlia ment, attended with the familiar scenes of violence, of bribery, and of coercion of voters which English u riters have J described so picturesquely. In his journal of travel, part of which has been published, along with severe criti cisms of this British mob law at elec tions, Mr. Brisbane naively says: "How much more preferable is our method of electing members of the Legislature in South Carolina, where the electors give their votes by balloting, in doing which bribery is cut up root and branch." At that far-away time, when the whole population of the United States was but a few millions, we have no doubt that Mr. Brisbaue's views were shared by intelligent Armericans, North as well as South. The ballot was to them as an emblem of sanctity as well as secrecy. In the soil tilling tcn-munities of the simple time, with every voter. independent, a property qualification, and wealth and social rank very nearly equalized, bribery fell to its very lowest ternis, and about the only election "trick" we find as passing a plot of land by deed so as to qualify men for the suffrage; while election violence was all but impossible in a nation of stolid and law-loving farmers. At the end of almost a century since Mr. Brisbane's words were written, the changes in American temper and meth ods at elections, and in the "cam paigns" which precede them, are a most suggestive study. In that study nothing is more impressive and cheer ing than the persistency of the princi ple of "order" at our elections, in con trast with our mother land. For a number of decades after the opening of the present century, British mob rule and head-cracking at elections covtinued almost undiminished. Even now, at any general British election, reports of rioting are not uncommon, and on one of the Bradlaugh voting days in Northampton a few years ago, a large body of troops had to be trans ferred to the city to aid the local police against an anticipated outbreak. Con trast with this those quietudes of an American voting day which have never ceased to amaze the De Tocque villes and Bryces. It is'true that for a while -during, the. middle.of our .cen tury, and in our large cities where they hod but few voting places, the inevita ble crowds at the polls led to serious disorders. But the simple mechanical invention of small election districts has made our election days in cities as quiet as a Sunday. So that, essentially, the long record of election-day peace has been unbroken throughout the country's whole history. Exactly why, with much the same Anglo Saxon tempers as our kin beyond sea, and besides with so many rough voting elements of other races to be restrained, we have so long and so successfully maintained peaceful elections, is per haps hard to say, but the creditable national fact remains. Even our Irish voters poll their ballots decently in the United States, while they break each other's heads and fill the hospitals in Cork. The American election day, however, when we leave its quietudes and com pard it with the same occasion in the ancestral time, becomes much more sombre. Looking back to the early decades of the the century, we find un doubtedly defects enough. The Fed eralists and Democrats were obstinate in their partisanship, and often utterly blind. Politics cut deeply into their social life, and the Yankee Federalist inn-1eeper who put out the sign "No Democrats entertained here," an ex ception to the rule of partisan bitterness. The political literature of the time, and especially the party newpaper, was savage and truculent enough to make the organ of to-day seem gentle. But more than offsetting all these, there were none of the sinister forces which now converge so powerfully on one of our election days. There is, in truth, a sort of evil grandeur when we view the magnitude to which these forces have grown, as our national constitution -has, during half a century become big and diversified. There are the party machines in nation, State, town, city and wards; hundreds of assistant or 'anizations, not formerly within the pa..ies, but co-workers with one or the oheK~ them; literary bureaus often owing 'and political clubs number iess, all focu'g their energies and trickeries upongth1e polls. What used to be a very sYknple and essentially honest voting act of' our communities has now become an enormously comn eplex thing, against whose elements of bribery rod terrorism and falsehood the contest for a pure ballot has gone on like the battle of the big guns .0against plate armor. Strangely enough, - too, with all quick American aptitudes, lwe have followed our mother country Sbut slowly in purifying our elections - by secret ballot laws and corrupt-prac tice acts. The great wave of ballot re form which, in three years, has swept over thirty of our commonwealths did ~unot come until an Australian ballot ha l,been tested many years in England s and until corruption of our cwn ballol ~'had run to a towering height. tsThere i.' no more fruitful source o disease than vitiatd bloo Ithin s -oy and if not imnmediately coi retdby the ueof Ayer' sSpSlr erBe warned in time. REVIE WING RESULTS. Democrats Just Miss Control of the New York Legislature-Decisive Alliance Do feat in Kansas-Nearly a Clean Sweep in lowa-Republlcans Have the Massachusetts Legislature. NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Associated Press returns on the legislature gives the following results: To the senate the republicans have elected seventeen of their candidates and the democrats fourteen, and in the thirty-second dis trict Dr. James T. Edwards, indepen dent republican, nominated by repub licans opposed to Senator Vedder and endorsed by the democrats, is elected. To the assembly sixty five democrats, sixty-one republicans and two inde pendent democrats are elected, the latter being county democrats who had been endorsed by the republicans in the twenty-second and twenty-fourth New York city districts respectively. KANSAS. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 5.-Returns from 99 of 106 counties in this State show the defeat- of the people' party in 7.5 counties. In the judicial districts in which elections were held seven repub licans, two democrats and one alliance man were elected. There were combi nations between democrats and repub licans in three judicial districts, all of which were successful. Jerry Simpson was the only alliance congressman who succeeded in pulling his county ticket through. The republicans and demo crats are congratulating each othera A old time republicans predict that the campaign of 1892. will be between the old parties. REPUBLICANS SAVE THE HOUSE IN IOWA. DES MoINES, Ia., Nov. 5.-The prob able plurality for Boies is over 8,000. The rest of Boies' ticket will probably carry the State by 4,000 plurality. The senate will be democratic by 26 to 24; the house will probably be repub lican by 56 to 51. WORSE AND WORSE IN OHIO. COLUMBUS, 0.- The latest figures on Tuesday's election with nine counties estimated and a few others unofficial, made by the State republican commit tee, place McKinley's majority at 20, 486. The republicans now claim from 48 to 50 majority on joint ballot in the legislature. DEMOCRAT WOOD WASN'T IN IT. MADISOX, S. D., Nov. 5.-Jolley, re publican, is probably elected to con gress over Smith, independent, by8,000. Less than 40,000 votes were cast in the State. Wood, democrat, cut no figure. REPUCLICANS CONTROL THE MASSA CHUSETTS LEGISLATURE. BOSTON, Nov. 5.-Complete returns make the next legislature stand; Se nate, republicans, 23; democrats, 17; house, republi3ans, 150; democrats, 87; probhibitionists 1. Congratulations have poured in upon Governor Russell from all over the country. Ex-President Cleveland was one of the first to extend his "most cor dial congratulatfs." Other messages were received frar.i Governor Abbett, of New Jersey; Gen. F. J. Underwood, the Atlanta, Ga., Journal; ex-Secretary of State Bayard; Governor-elect Flower, of New York, and many others. SRERMAN ON THE OHIO ELECTION. MANSFIELD, 0., Nov. 5.-Senator Sherman was seen at his home to-day and asked his views on the election. He said : "I am induced to believe that we have won a great victory. In many respects it is but an indorsement or echo of the fight of 1875 upon the financial question. President Hayes and my self then made an issue for the honest dollar, and this election in our com monwealth only shows how the peo ple of this State are true to the best elements of all life. I do not mean to. say, however, that the tariff has not played an important part in the game. So far as the Republican party is con cerned, this result in -Ohio fixes the silver question as one of the issues of the next Presidential contest, and de cides it, so far as this State is con cerned. "I am convinced that a free coinage bill will be passed by the Congress which meets in December. I also be lieve that such a bill as will be framed will be vetoed by President Harrison. That will naturally make free silver the feature of the next presidential fight. In fact, it will be the leading issue, upon which there are vast differences :>f opinion in both parties. I doubt very much whether the De mocracy in national convention will proclaim for free coinage. If they should, there will be no other issue of significance in the next campaign. "I am not at all disturbed as to the result in New York. In my mind, it simply indicates the fact that Mr. Platt's power lies in the great city, and that the country districts are get ting a little tired of the intrigues of the metropolis and wanted to make that fact manifest. I don't think it will have: any bearing whatever upon the next presidential contest." M' KINLEY'S MISJUDGMENT. CANTON, 0., Nov. 5.-Maj. McKin ley said to-day, in speaking of the Ohio election : "I am convinced that the judgment of our citizens does not approve of the constant agitation of the tariff issue, in the face of the fact that it can accomplish nothing. It must surely be ap'parent to all alike that the conditions without which effective legislation is impossible do not exist. !The Republican Senate and the Re - publican President are bulwarks Sagainst which free trade forces dash powerless; aud with no immediate prospect of a change in these condi +in, the only result of the continued agitation is to disturb business and re tard enterprises which the new law designs to encourage. In spite of all, the law is working its way, and from being on the defensive, as a year ago, we are now on the aggressive. When business is already good our people will not long tolerate movements which disturb it in the face of the con ditions I have named, and you will find the Republicans and Democrats alike will call a halt on the men whose stock in trade is not fair, square argu ment, but juggling misrepresentation of the same. Ohio has gone Republi cab, and I accept the result as indi cating that this State stands by the Republican party with full faith in its protective principle as embodied in the tariff law; and, more than this, Ohio stands, as she always bas, in favor of a rull dollar and a sound currency." ENGLISH OPINION OF M'KINLEY. LONDON, Nov. 5.-English views of the American elections seem almost confined to the result in Ohio. The success of McKinley is looked upon as a distinct grievance in the manufac Luring districts, and especially in Brad ford and Sheffield, which places have been disastrously affected by the Mc Kinley act. The defeat of McKinley would have been hailed with delight in Great Britain, and he would have pro bably figured in some of the Guy Fawkes cremations, which are tradi tional to-day throughout England. In the average English opinion, McKin 16y is an ogre, actuated by relentless hatred of Great Britain rather than desire to benefit the United States, and the Londoners would not be surprised to find his counterfeit among the waxen collection of wicked people that is famous on both continents. SOME PRESS COMENTS. [New York Herald.] They argue, and very naturally, that if Tammany has acquired influence enough to travel from New York to Albany and shows a determination to exteLd its journey to Washington, something muqt be done to check its great power and patronage. The same battle cry which has been raised in this canvass will become the cry of the future-"Down with Tammany." It would be a grave calamity, therefore, to be compelled, next year, to throw the national issues aside in order to fight a defensive battle w .th Tammany as our handicap. New York Times: New York will be in the Democratic column next year, and it will supply the candidate. It must be a very blind politician that can't see that. New York Sun: The appearance of John I. Davenport yesterday in his old role serves to remind the Democrats of New York of the debt of gratitude they owe to Arthur Pue Gorman. Davenpert was the real author of the measure known variously as the Lodge bill, the Hoar bill, and the force bill. He planned the extensive scheme of Federal interference at the polls, which would have been the law of the land to-day but for the inestimable service rendered by the Senator from Mary land. Senator Gorman is a Democrat and a great Democratic leader. New York World: The services of Grover Cleveland to the Democratic cause in the campaign in this State was very great. Putting aside all false notions of the dignity that is supposed to hedge about ex-Presidents, he presided and spoke at great gatherings of Democrats with the earnestness of a thoroughgoing party man. Wherever he appeared he evoked much enthusiasm, showing the strong hold 'which he has upon the popular confidence. The ex-President's warm endorse ment of Mr. Flower as a man "who will administer the great office to which he will be called independently, fear lessly and for the gc.od of all the peo ple" no d abt gave him many votes. The Atlanta Constitution: The Democrats are to be congratulated on the resnlt of Tuesday's elec tions. They have not only increased their normal majorities in States that are conceded to them, but have held their ground in States which they cap tured last year. They honld Massachu setts and Iowa, and this is in the na ture of a decided victory. If the Re publicans had recaptured these States, the result would have been regarded only as the natural reaction from. the tremendous upheaval of last year. That the Democrats have succeeded in hold ing them shows that the principles of the party have taken a strong hold on the minds of men who have heretofore opposed them. This is more than en couraging. It gives rise to new hopes of success in .1802, and ought to strengthen the Democratic party in all that pertains to harmony and unity. New Orleans Times-Democrat: The Democrats have good cause to congrat ulate themselves over the result of the elections, for ir, shows that the tidal wave of last year has not exhausted it self, and that many former Republican States must be placed in future in the doubtful list. St. Louis Republic: In its bearing on national issues the result of yesterday's election is significant and well defined. It means that next year's Presidential contest will be fought squarely on the issue of protection on the one side and tariff reform on the other. And this is a consummation most devoutly to be wished by Democrats. Memphis Appeal: The nail driven by the people in November, 1890, has been clinched in November, 1891. We may regret the failure of the gallant Camp bell in Ohio to win himself, and we may wonder that public ssntiment has been so debased In Pennsyvania thALt the party of Quay and Bardsley should again succeed. But so much has been gained and made fast that the day Is one for thanksgiving and praise, and for vows of greater zeal, in order that a year hence the harvest may fulfill the glorious promise. Atlanta Journal. The results of yes terday's election prove some things very clearly. It is evident that the united Democ racy can elect its national ticket next year if it will do two things: 1. Nominate men who command t'ie confidence and respect of the country. 2. Make the tariff the main issue. With a good ticket and a sound plat form, the heart and center of which shall be a low tariff plank, we can not only carry New York, New Jersey, Connectizut and Indiana, which have hitherto been sufficient to insure Dem ocratic victory, but we can hold Masa chusetts, Rhode Island and Iowa, and make Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon sin very doubtful. If Democrats take heed of yesterday's lesson they will win a great victory next year; if they shut their eyes to it they will have to endure dafeat as the penalty of unpardonable stupidity. JERRY SIMPSON IN NEW ORLEANS. NEW ORLBANs, Nov. 5.-Jerry Simp son, the "sockless statesmen" of Kan sas arrived in the city to-day and will lecture to-night in the interest of the third party movement in this State. Mr. Simpson made a score of speeches in Ohio during the recent campaign, and is surprised that Campbell was de feated. He is disappointed at the small vote cast for the third party candidates for governor. In his own State, he says, the fusion of the Democrats and the Republicans injured the Alliance party, while rainy weather kept many farmers at home. A FLESH-EATING PLANT. Remarkable Narrative that an EngLUsh Naturalst Has Taken Home. A curious story is told in the Review of Reviews about an alleged flesh-eat ing plant that has been discovered in Nicaragua. The story is quite circum stantial, and, if it is really true, speci mens of this remarkable plant should be brought to New York, for they would certainly prove an immense attraction. Mr. Dunstan, an English naturalist, who has recently returned from Cen tral America, where he passed two years in studying-the .flora and 1auza of the country, is responsible for the story. Dunstan says he was exploring one of the swamps which surround Lake Nicaragua for botanical and entomological specimens when he heard his dog cry out, asif in agony. Dunstan ran to the spot and found that a fine, rope-like tissue of roots and fibres had enveloped the poor animal, that was yelping as if in great pain. The plant or vine which had made him a prisoner seemed to be composed entirely of bare, interlacing stems, resembling the branches of the weeping willow denuded of its foliage. The stems were nearly black and were covered with a thick viscid gum that exuded from the pores. Mr. Dunstan drew his knife and tried to cut the poor beast free. He had great difficulty in severing the muscu lar fibres of the plant. When he had finally extricated the dog he saw to his astonishment that the animal's body was blood stained, "while the skin appeared to he.ve been actually sucked r puckered in .spots." The animal staggered as if completely exhausted. While he was cutting the vine the twigs curled around Mr. Dunstan's hand, and it'Trequired considerable force to free his hand from the clinging grasp of these twiggs. His flesh, where the twiggs had touched it, was red and blistered. The gum which exuded from the vine had a disagreeable odor. Dunstan says the natives hold the plant in the greatest horror, and call it the "devil's snare." They told the naturalist many stories of its death dealing powers. -He was able to dis cover very little about the nature of the plant, owing to the difficulty of handling it, for its grasp can only be shaken off with the loss of skin and even of flesh. He belieyes that its power of suction is contained in a num ber of little suckers which jerdinarily closed, open for the reception of food. If the substance coming within reach of the plant is animal, the blood is drawn off, and the carcass or refuse is then dropped. "A lump of raw meat being thrown tp,it, In the short space of five minu . he blood will be thor oughly drank offand the mass thrown aside. Its voracity is almost beyond belief." This is a very curious story. There are a good many Americans now at work on the Nicaragua Canal, and Mr. Dunstan's graphic narrative should be submitted to them for verification. Water Being Sold. COLtcMRts, Ind., Nov. 6.-There is no more prospect of rain than there was two months ago and everybody views the situation with alarm. Wells, streams and ponds are completely ds y in this entire section, and since the fif ties nothing like this has been known. In many inland towns, like Charles town. water is being sold. WATER FAMINE THREATENED. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Not for years as the supply of drinking water for this city been so low, nor has the dan ger of a genuine water famine been greater than at present. Commissioner Giroy says that if there is no heavy rainfall soon, the water would only Ii& fifteen or twenty days more.. SEvENTEEN AND A HL MJLUNS. The Increase in Assessments of Taxable Property This Year. [The State.] Yesterday the final reports of the re-, turns and assessments of real and perso-. nal property in theState for thepastyear f were received by the Comptroller Gen eral. The offcial figures for mostof the counties have already been given; The figures as now completed foot up $168,262669 as the total asasment for the year 1891. Last year the total was $150,603,451. The total increase over last year therefore is $17,660, - A good portion of the Increase Isdoe the raise in the assesments-of railroad property and on corporations. A c" Service TeG. A North Carolina farmer propounds the searching questions below to his brother farmers in the "Tar. Heel State." They will be found appUcable to all sections of the country. The questions get right down to the milk in the cocoa nut. Do you know that the farmers of North Carolina spent over $3,000,000 this year for fertilizers for cotton.and' tobacco? Do you suppose they will be able to get enough extra for the crops to pay the bill? Do you know that wore than $3,000, 000 worth of fertilizing material has been washed away this rainy season from your barnyards because of neg lect in looking after your home-made fertilizers? Do you suppose that the- land, of North Carolina Is a dollar's worth better off because of the$8,000,000 spent for fertilizers for sale crops? "Don't you know that field you are "resting," as you suppose, by allowing it to grow up in weeds, is ripening alot of seeds and making more nut grass roots to bother you next year? Don't you know that if you had.sown that field In peas you would now have a great crop of pesvine hay to cut and feed this winter? Don't you know that-the feeding of.. that hay would bring you your money * back In the animals fed, and leave you a lot of manure that will pay you bet. ter than the bought mixtures? Don't you know that crimson clover seed scattered on this pea stubble willU' give you a growth fo tura under next spring that wouldgive you moreeoM,-. cotton and tobacco than five .tmes its cost spent for fertilizers Don't you know that |the constant culture of the soil in cotton, yeatWrr year, with a little fertilizer to makea crop, is making your land: poorer-alU the time? Don't you know that whatever makes your land pcarer, makrs you poorer also?, Did you ever hear of a farmer who got rich by buying ferilisers merely?O raise cotton with? Did you ever know .a farmer who < made his land rich by an intelllgent~ course of cultivation who did not.get "well of" asfastas hisfarm dd? Did you ever know cow-peas or ek yer to bring a man in debt to.acom mission'merchant? Did you ever know home-made ma nure to fail to improve your land? Do you know of a farmer who baas too much of It? Did you ever-know a coi injured by a comfortable stable and plenty of(hay? 4 Did you ever know aman to get rch in any business who did not study it,~ and have faith in it, and give his whole time and energy to it? Don't you know that the biggest tas the farmers of North OCaolna pay to day is the fertilizer bill, the waste of home-made manure, and the washing away of fertilizers from fields kept bare of clover or grass? Don't you suppose that somebody, somewhere, makes a profit in raising the pork you send money to Chicago for, out of your cotton crop? -- Don't you suppoe somebody, some where, makes a living and perhaps grows rich, growing the wheat your our is made of, which you buy out of your cotton crop?-I Don't you suppose that somebod5y somewhere, makes money by raising the beeves which the butchers in Nort - Carolina towns have to send to Rich mond to buy? Don't you kaow that you could raise all these things here, and, in raisngr them, raise more cotton on a few acres than you now do on many? - - Do you see how high prices are going to benefit the farmer who has. fresd, ; meat and manure to buy and only one tiing to sell? With cotton low down and wheat -4 high, how is the man helped who raises no wheat? What if butter isawfully high-priced in our towns, while our farmers hav no cows, or nothing to feed them on if they have, while somebodye some where else, makes money by feeding cows and shipping butter South? It -'u know all these things, don't you se that bad farming has more to di with farmers' troubles than any ting else he has to endure, and there is no doubt that he has muhto cary aside from this? According to the latest sttst there are 340,625 miles of railway on the earth, oftwhich 130750 miles or44 - per .cent., -are In the.Unted Stam. Germany, the leading railway country - in Europe, has24,343 m~rne 93; Great Britan and I1 St ;~~ Russia, 17,82, and miles. Artists8m Ti?eh OiI Pisfo~ tr. SatdEoorp