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.~ +~ ~ vg dl oss $p %p1a as oae it se - -e is nd plaut which has awider 1.to range thntobacco. On this nti et t grows wlherever planted from* nada to Patagonia, but with variationsr of typed due to soil, climate and expqsure. In the United States we have almnost endless varieties of the same, distiiet plant. Ohio tobacce resembles Maryland, but the one is easily distinguished from the other, and both have their chief sale in Eu rope. The dark tobaccos of Virginia are different from those of Kentucky, and the tobacco of Tennessee differs fgom both. Even in the yellow tobac co of Virginia and North Carolina dis tinct varieties with distiut namoa exist, and in western North Carolina the tobacco varies in different couties, although originally grown from the same seed. It is Impossible, therefore, to predict what the 8outh Carolina tobacco of the fhture will be, and In what material respects variation from the parent typo will be produced in the different localities of the State. Like all plant other life on our globe, tobacco, oven in its assisted struggle for existence, will, in its evolution to the most at tainable perfect species, accommodate itself to the influence of the soil upon which it iheds and the air which it feeds, and it can only survive as a per manout type of the plant family to which it belongs, subject to these con tibns. Thus the tobacco of the Wins ton district of North Carolina Is rich in flavor and substance and of an orange and somewhat reddish color, while that of Western North Caroline is thinner and a brighter yellow, and lacks the excellence of flavor of the fbrmer. Perhaps the tobacco of the Piedmont of South Carolina will more nearly resemble the former than the latter. I trust sincerely that your commis aloners of agriculture will place at the disposal of the farmers carefully pre ared instructions as to the sorts ot to bacco best adapted to the several divis ions of soil which characterise the State from the sea to the mountains. It were a loss of precious time and of money for your people to embark in blind experiments with seed and con ditions unsuitable to their several lacal ities. Given suitable soil and climate the acquisition of the highest attaina ble type of tobacco may be greatly hastend and assisted at the start by a judicious selection of seed grown on similar soil elsewhere. With the same care after this in the selection of seed from your home grown plant as was exercised by your island planters In the progressive creation of sea island cotton, a type of tobacco will be devel oped better suited to the soils and cli mates of South Carolina than one grown from continuous importation of seed from Virginia and elsewhere. Tobacco now-a-days, if we except the sun-cured wrappers of Virginia north of the James, and the cigar leaf of other States, must be cured in barns, heated by smoke-tight flues. This In volves a large expenditure of fuel, the supply of which is a consideration o1 prime economy and importance. It is an error generally received thal thq soil of any part of South Caroline resemi:e that of the celebrated Vuelta Abijfo of Cuba, of the Valley of th< Connecticut, or of Lancaster county, Pa. The Cuban, the Connecticut amk the Pennsylvania soils are similar th< formation being triassic, and of wlc formation I can discover no trace any where in South Cavolina. Doibtlesi the terraces of your river lands wil produce good cigar tobacco frn Havana seed. Certainly, if it can be ascertained that these- soils resemnbk th cigar leaf soils of Gadsden county Florid a, which in the past prodluce( cigar leaf almost in excellence to tha of Havana, The census of 1880 gives the profit per acre from tobacco growi on Florida soi['as the largest in thi United States. There is far less differ ence between the climates of Souti between the climates of South Caro ina and of Florida than there is be tweeni Connecticut and Cuba. As in everything else, so is It ii agriculture dangerous to generaliz fom isolated results. Individ ua farmers in North Carolina growinj yellow tobacco have realized $200 ant more per acre, yet the average pr-ie for which the crop of this State sold i the season just closed was not mnor than thirteen and a half cents a pound At these figures an average of fly hundred pounds to the acre for tb whole State to be about $22.50 neot. It is not to discourage the farmers o -South Carolina that I give these de ductions from facts. It is better fo them to start their experimental cro p of tobacco on the basis of moderatel, estimated profits than upon greatly cx aggerated expectations der-ived fron exceptional and rare instrnces of enor mous returns. It is given only to; few very skilled anid painstaking farm ars to achieve such remunerative re suits as are quoted by newspape writers as if they were the genera rule. The great majority of those wh till the soil with us in the South ar but indifferent cultivators, or else thei efforts are cripp)led by inadequate call ital. However, if the men who tak hold of tobacco in South Carolina cat with the altered conditions of labor, d for this plant what their forefathers di for rice and sea island cotton, then at suredly will South Carolina become great tobacco State, but they hay everything to learn, and the flrst Aiep towards success must be taken in spirit of patient investIgation. Scienc cannot altogether supply the place ( experience. It can, at best, only indi cate tile short cuts by which this richl dowered daughter of time and experi ment is to be wooed and won. Th botanical chemist, as a rule, has lel tobacco severely alone, Hie has anal yzod the ashes of the dead leaf, bii there has been no vivisection of th live plant, no analysis of its sap, whic] is tho blood whereby it grows. 2 natural bornm alchicimn st at a rough hewn log barn discovered in a momen of inspiration the temperature (recordl ed by a twenty-five cent thermometer at which the golden yellow of trans formation was to be caught and fixei in the leaf as an enduring color. TI whole enltivation and coring of to bacco is thus more or less a tradition In it, as in much else, we to-day onl: stand upon the threshold of future pos sibilities. Onthe 28d of this month the West ern North Carolina Agricultural Fali will open at Asheville, Unusuall) laree lme will be offered for ex hibit. t'%a and an admirabli * pert .it, aftbrded to an1 0.One OWmVSinterested in the oulti tobeo toaw bw q~ i. i w.-. ler are ,n oftboc a . f I ba ~ m a,I O f wrioh; ideibly time. In conclusion, t Ahne9i t s the Piedmont of South Oa ht h< this year for the first time tried grow lng tobacco must not be disheartent' if their leaf does not come out en fbrmerly yellow. This difficulty hai been common, more or less to thi whole bright tobacco belt. Inven it this mountain region, where everl condition for making a crop of excel lent color prevailed, the same persist eut reddening exists to some exten this season. J. 1t. HAMILTON. Asheville, N. C., October 10, 1885. Pine Straw Manure. (From the Augusta Chronicle.) In the Chronicle of September 2 the following appears: "Mr. P. J. Berckmans says that pine straw renders manure almost value less. Southern farmers should knov this and be wise accordingly." At the August meeting of the Rich mond Ccunty Agricultural Society the subject for discussion being th< "Management of Cattle," the questioi of material for bedding purposes wa; broached, and in my comments upoi the very able paper of Mr. Staples who was the essayist for that month, stated "that pine straw as beddin1 material was undesirable, as it ren dered the manure almost valueless and, if used in large proportions, 'I often proved an injury to the land." Your reporter gave the correc words, but by publishing them ha placed you under the necessity of re ceiving the explanation of the reason up on which I base my assertions, aml I you see proper to publish these, will thus be enabled to reply to severa inquiries which have lately been mad upon the subject. In an essay upon "Manures," reat in 1870 before the Richmond Count) Agricultural Society, when referrinc to animal manures, I said: "Although this term, strictly speak ing, means only such as are produce( either from the excrements of animal; or from their flesh, blood or bones, I Is usually applied to manures pro duced from the excrements of animalt and the admixture of straw, leaves, o1 other vegetable matter used as litter this being commonly termed stabb manure. The quality depends muct upon the food given to cattle, as wel. as upon the nature of the litter used The richer the food, the richer will bt the manure produced. Wheat and on straw, oak leaves, hay, crass, con stalks, and similar vegetaI le matter should be freely used for litter. Avoic pine straw, pine sawdust, or pini shavings, all being injurious to lant from the resinous principles the con tain." This assertion gave rise at the tim to considerable discussion and a repl3 to many arguments against It wa published in the Chronicle. I canno better answer the queries lately re ceived than to refer to my reply. "Pine straw as a mulch Is good. Ai a disintegrating medium for very stil clay soils, impermeable to air, It cai be beneficial, but only for that pur pose. The leaf of the pine is com posed of silicate (a hard mineral sub stance) vegetable fibre and rosin. Botl silicate and vegetable base are insolu ble, !ince not available as plant food The ashes of pine straw, submitted t< analysis, give less potash as a resul than the ashes of any other vegetable the proportion being 0.45 in 1,00 parts. Wheat straw, after the graini formed, gives 3.90 of potash in 1,00 p)arts, and beforo the heads are forme yields 4.70 parts of potash; corn stalk contain 17.5 parts; cow peas from 20. to 25.0 in 1,000 parts; oak leaves 1.53 willow leaves 2.35; clmi and map)] leaves 3.90 parts of potash lin 1,00 p)arts. Potato vines are also rich potash. Potash being one of the mai constituents of the p)lants we usuall grow as agricultural crops, It is ev (lent that a soil deficient ini It cannt be productive and pine straw cannt give what is required, because it cai not undergo a transformation whic would make it soluble and thus be al -sorbed by plants. "Referring to the analysis of sol of different countrics, it Is shown th< resinous matter is contained in somi sterile soils, anid In such rust attacli wheat, rye or oats. "This is so well known in portior in Europe wvhere pine woodls abouni and where the inhabitants are concede to be the best agriculturists in til world, and as careful of p)roducin' and saving manures as are the Chines< that no tiller of the soil however shoe of raw material to bed his cow or pig will allow any pine straw to be use Sfor that pur1pose (this article is use~ . for fuel only by the poorer classes) r* they well know that rust would be tli a result if used in the manures. Onme< our tenants covered a part of a flel . with pine straw, and for several yeai afterwards could not raise either whie or clover on It, notwithstandig heav manuring afterwards. - "Five years ago I p)lanted Iri . potatoes and gave thoem a heavy mulci r ing of pine straw, the ground hei i well manured previous to planting tI a potatoes. The straw was p)lowed e (hiring winter amid tihe ground lante r in corn the following sprinig, and thi . portion prevlously mulched product e stalks two feet smaller than the oth< portion ot the field which had, hov ever, never been manured before. TI Ssecond year the field was sown in oat and the difference in the yield beir less than haJf upon the mulched po tion. S "The same result has been notic< SIn the vegetable garden, where sever classes of vegetables, especially pea jcould not be grown successfully wh< using manure made with pine straw when manure made with eIther o -straw or oak leaves was used the yie was always better. t "I could say more, but deem the remarks sufficient to sustain my op)i t mon, which is the result of person a experience, although it may confli a with that of others.'' L Since this was written many yeal -have passed anid nothing has occur., t to change my opinion as regards e - lack of value of pine straw for mann1 ) material. Pine straw which has bec -subjected to the drIppings of cattle h I donbtless shown good results in son i soils, and in some especially moist sei -sons, and upon certain crops, but th .is due solely to the fertilizing prope:O r ties which were taken from the stab: in combination with the straw ati despite the presence of the latter - the soil, The writer caused the hau ' ig from the city, for severt.1 years 'succession, of from three to four hmi dred heavy loads of livery stab1 m ianure and had to discontinue tt practice, owing to the barren resull -obtained. The average material use for' bedding being pine straw and pit awhich In many instance; deie njury to the soih, m the subsequent inferk 4J.1A ' rF.y"'4 OW -, p d y or i . an otay of an k ave.ge of a year, for at east ten a yars, bebi es the cost of hauling -)heavy~ loads'- distance of five qpiies i from the livery stables to the farm i - believe that I am entitled to the opin 3 ion expressed at the heading of this 3 article; and if a careful comparison is a made with using manure made with r pine straw upon a given portion of a - ield, and with manure made with - wheat or oat straw, corn stalks, oak t leaves or pea vines, using equal pro portions of each, the result will speak for itself. Yours repectfully, J. P. BERCKMANS. Fruitland, near Augusta, September 30, 1885. THE MINISTER TO SPAIN. 3 What Doctor Ourry Says of the Recent Ob jections to His Appointment. The Rev. Dr. Curry, the newly ap - pointed Minister to Spain, spent a day last week at the State Department, s where he consulted with the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, with s his predecessor, and with Mr. Wil I liams, United States Consul-General to Cuba. To a reporter of the Associated Press, Dr. Curry said he expected to y leave for his post on the 5th Novem - ber. "It is said, sir," remarked the reporter, "that you were once in com t mand at Andersonville, and were in part responsible for the cruelty prac t ticed toward the Federal prisoners." s "I never was in Andersonville in my - life," replied Dr. Curry, "and I never s had command of Federal prisoners in I my life, except such as I captured my [ self and those I turned over at, once. I I cannot imagine how such a story got 3 its start. I shall be glad if you will make my denial broad and emphatic." I "The critics of your appointment," continued the reporter, "question the propriety of sending Baptist clergy near a court so strongly Catholic." - "The criticism is unjust," was the I reply. "It would be a strange thing s if the strongest denomination in the t country-you know we are the strong est-were to be disqualified for diplo ; matic offices on religious grounds. A e man's religion, I hold, is a thing be tween his God and himself, and one with which the Government has noth 1 ing to do. I am a little surprised at I the criticism too. The hardest strug gle I have had when in politics was as a candidate for the Legislature in Ala t bama during the "Know-Nothing" ex 1 citement. The issues, you remember, , were two-one a proposition to deny I to foreigners the priviiege of natualiza 3 tion after six years residence, and the t other proposition to disqualify Roman - ists from holding office. My county was a pivotal one, and my competitor 3 the ablest man on that side of the r State. My success was very ,ratify i ing." "Were you an anti-Know-Nothing!" - "Yes; I was a champion, I can't say of the Catholics, but of the principle of Americanism, which is embodied in F the Constitution, of equal rights and 1 privileges for all." - "Of course you anticipate no objec - tion from the Spaniards to your recep tion?" "Certainly not. The Spanish Gov - ernment knows my mission has nothing to do with religion." "I am very much gratified by two t things, I may say three things," con , tinued Dr. Curry. "WVhen I was ob 0 jected to on the ground of beinig un s known, so strong a Republican paper 0 as the Providence Journal vouched for LI me and said I wvas all right. Again, a Mr. Washburn's card was exceedingly D0 gratifying, comning from a Republicaln ;-leader, hi mselt having been eight years e a Foreign Minister. But the expres 0 sions of apprioval from the colored p)eo n ple of the South have beena exceedingly ni hearty and pleasing. My long connec tion with the Peabody fumnd has made i- me widely known among them and it they have taken pains to exp)ress tlair >t approval of my appointment." m- "Shall you renewv negotiations for a h treaty with Spain?" ,. "I can say nothing on that enbject." s . The Duty on Rice. it A delegation of Southern men, e among whom were Senators Ransom, :s llaris and Gibson and Congre8ssman King, of Louisiana, was heard last is week by Secretary Manning and As (1 sistant Secretary Falirchild in behalf of d the rice planters. They seek to have e rescinded or amended an order issued g duiring Secretary Folger's administr'a , tion under whic~h they say food rice is et admitted in large quantities at the rate ,ot 20 per cent., ad valorum instead of dl paying the specific rate fixed by law. d The order referred to relates to granu ;lated rice, an article imported largely e for brewers. The claim is made by >f planters that importations under this di ordelr are doing great injury to the .s market for food rice. The Secretary ~t has the miatter under advisemont. y Do You Know a Man hI Whose wife is troubled with debility, ~. nervousress, liver comp)laint or rheu Smatism? Just tell him it is a pity to let the lady suffer that way, when ,a Brown's Iron Bitters will relieve her. d Mrs. L. B. Edgerly, Dexter, Me., says, it "Brown's iron Bitters cured me of d debility and palp)itation of the heart." r1 Mrs. H. S. McLaughlIn, of Scarbor o. ughi, Me., says the bitters cured her e of debility. Mirs. Harding, of Wind ham Centre, in the same State, says it cured her of dizziness in the head. So r-. It has cured thousands of other ladies.* Terrific Explosion of (Gas, lA terrific explosion of gas took p)lace iin No. 2 slope of the Delaware and ~'Hudson Coal Company at Plymouth, SPa., on Wednesday morning, caused Sby a minor, who entered an abandon,ed Id p)ortion of the slope, which was marked dangerous, with a naked lamp on his head. One man, Dennis Tilus, is se dead, and fourteen are fatally burned. ni al Burned to Death, and Restored to Life. ct I know of a man necar Maxey's, Ga., whoc for ten oir twelve years was almost a solid sore from headl to foot. '5For three years, 1h1s appearance being so 3t horribly repulsIve, he refused tQ let any if' one see him. The disease after eating his re flesh, commenced on lis skull h,ones. He n tried all doctors and nmedilcines without ,benefit and no one thought lhe could psassi bl eor. At last he began the use of m...,and after using six bottles, hIs -sores were all healed an d lhe was a sound is man. r- He looks just lIke a man who had been Ie burned to death and1( then restored te life. dThe best men of the county know at thb ncase, and several doctors and smerchants nhlave saoken of it as a most wonderful esse. -HNCRAWFORD, Druggist, a * -Athens, Ga. le ADVIoB TO MOTIBts. e Mas, wSeLow'S sooTN SYaUPi should al wasb sed for children teething. It soothes s cuhes whid softens the gums, allay, all pala, dcswidcllo, and Is hebeet remned for 1e diraa wnyfv centa a bottle. as -War Is now almost certain be ir tween Engiand and Bnrinah. Izt.nuatang $t*teane whiah are made is Behialt;t4he Agmsed. (8eeoat to the Heto and Courrar.) AUGUSTA, GA., October 22.--This beautiful city is so near to Edgefleld and Is so intimately connected with the county that no day passes that several Edgefield men are not seen on the umbrageous streets. It is easy, therefore, to obtain the gossip con cerning the Edgefield atairs which rarely finds its ,way I ito print. The all-absorbing topic in Edgefleld at this time is the lynching of Culbreath, and it mnst be admitted that the state nents which are made in Augusta upon the subject change materially the aspect of the deplorable affair. It is asserted that Mr. Culbreath treated his wife with the utmost bru tality after her father's death, and that his conduct was so offensive to the people that it is surprising that lie was not lynched at an earlier day. Among his other offences, it is said that ini a drunken fit lie lashed his wife severe ly with a buggy whi p, and when re monstrated with by her mother lashed that lady in the same way. As a con sequence of his behavior, a separation took place. Mr. Culbreath, however, continued a surveillance over his wife's actions, and without any reason what ever was furiously jealous. As is known, Mr. Hammond was assassinated In the yard of Mrs. Culbreath's house where he had gone at the request of her son to remain for the night. One of my informants says that he knows it to be a fact that Mr. Culbreath caused Hammond to be assassinated, and that he was as much the assassin as though he.had actually pulled the trigger. This, at all cvcnsa, was be lieved in the county and was the imoe diate cause of the lynching, The peo ple of the county felt that such con duct should be tolerated no longer, and they unwisely took the law into their own hands. Au Edgofieldl man whom I talked with said, with great emphasis, that he held that lynching was never justiflable, but if ever it was to be justifiable it was so in Cuibreath's case. There are now in Edgefield jail more than thirty persons who are accused of participation in the lynching. The accommodations are altogether insuf ilcient, and the prisoners arc threaten ed with disease by reason of the condi tion of the buildings in which they are confined. They did not apply for bail, but have suflered severely al ready, and their suflering is not in their confinement alone. The accused form the bulk of the adult male popu lation of two or more townships in Edgefield county. They are taken from their plantations at a busy season of the year, and in their absence it is impracticable to control the colored laborers, who are filching the cotton from the fields right and left. It is asserted in all seriousness that many families will be deprived of bread awl meat by the arrest of the accused, all of whom, it is said, are ready to give bail to any amount that may be requir ed. I give thece statements in order that the public lnay know what is said by those who are acquainted with the lynchers, and who feel that the act was so nearly justifiable that there is no reason to keep the accused in ,jail, and who maintain, furthe', tha.t the fas to be developed before the grand jury or ini open Court will satisfy the puLlic mind that no great wrong~ has been done. Whenm it is ulrg2d that the Courts should hmave been resorted to, it is shiownt that the 4riginnel offences of' Culbreath could not hiave beeni made the subject of a judicial investigation without a public scandal. As regards the assassinat'on of 11am mond1( there is ai feeling, i a m sorryv to say, that wvhatever the evidence, Culi breath wvould ntot have been1 convictedl, and that lynich law was the only law that would meet his ease. Thle accusMed are saidl to be highly respectable, ini dustrious and well-behaved citizens, who would ncver', save as a last resort, be guil"y of an act of' violence of any kind. All this is given to the readers of the .Newvs aml CJourijer, without comment, and in ordler that they mayv know wvhat is the Opinion held by t hose whlo clam to be familiar wvith thle facts of the case. Moro Lynchers Com,IIittedi to Jall. EEmto1, October 22.-Sherifl' Ouzts brought to jail last, night Morgan Dorni, Elbert Dorna, Richard I lanm monad and W.. II. IIamamond1, charutged wvith beintg accessories to thle Culb'rath lynchitng. iIe had wvarrants for two( other paruties, but couldl not find them. The sheriff was arrested to-day by Coronier Johnson under a wa'rranmt charging him w ithi official mniscond(uct inm pertmittinig and allowimti purisonters to 3scap)e. The sherifl' gave bond for his appearatnce at Ccurt. Two prisoni cr's, Collier Ilammtotnd and Reuben Johnasdna, were granated permuissiona last night to go to their respective homes uder chaurge of a constable, the party to return to-night. For this offe.nce another wvarrantt was issued against the sheriff, charging him with amaliciotisly permitting p)risoncerA to escape. le was again trrested and( again pr'ompttly gave bail. The Salvation Army. Th'le good peop)le of the South will learni with regret and with feeliumss of dread and dlisguast that the so-called ''Salvation Army" are accmulatitng what they call a "'Southern fumnd,"' for the purpose of sending a deltachmtett here for the purpose of making con verts. They will' come with all their silly parnde, br'ass bands, banners, gaudy uniforms and p)erniiciouas pt'tc tices, with which they falsely aflirm they are dloing God seirvice andi( promot itng (lhe cause of Chr'ist.ianity. They have becotne a public nuisatnce itn all lands, have been pelted and abused by mobs anid driven poll mcil out of cities and( countries. Now thecy propose to invade South Carolina and1( other Southaetn Stautes, to prove to us throutgh eye anid car that they are a despicale, unmitigated p)ublic nuisatnce, anid that the treatment they have received by the populace ini Euirope andl Ametrien is ini many resp)ects well dleser'ved1. WVhat has the South donae that we should be p)unishied thus?- CJolumina Record. She Did It Herself. On 'Wednesday night Mrs.' Cates, wife of John Gates, sheriff of Mas. field counity, OhuIo, armed herself' withi a rawhide, and with her brother started ini pursuit of Robert Rlitchio, a young man who was formerly deputy sheriff. Meeting the object of his search, Mrs. Gates's brother' dt'ew a revolver and ordered him to stand till lis sister concluded the c h rstisemenut. When ashoexhausted herseht Mrs. Gates permitted Ritchho to depart. The cause of the trouble was slanderous remaers mnaAn ahnutd M'.. n ate. GR4$l Ml ~Ang 34O $O An Improbable St of the Early Period of B.o.ti rotin. Chauncoy M. Depow has written to Col. F. D. Grant, giving particulars of a conversation with Gen. Grant four years ago at a dinner. Mr. Depew says that after President Lincoln was killed and President Johnson iangu rated, the latter wanted to reject the terms given by Grant to the Confed eracv, and wanted all the officers who had left the regular army to take sides with the Confederacy summarily dealt with by court-martial. President Johnson also wanted to take extreme measures with all the leaders of the Confederacy. Grant determined tha: the terms of the agreement should be adhered to, and If there were to be any courts-martial, Gen. Grant would be the first tried, as he intended to stand by the parole. Johnson after wards changed his views. Grant as cribed Johnson's course to his hatred of the slaveholders, and when the war started, believing in the power of the government, he saw his opportunity to defeat his enemies, confiscate their property, and humiliate their pride. ohtnson's absorbinm ambition had beeu to be received by the slave-holding oligarchy as one of them, as he had not been able to break down the class barrier. While Johnson was looking for means to break the agreement of Grant, the leaders of the oligarchy called on hit, and acknowledged that as President of the United States he beca.me, regardless of birth, not only one of them, but their leader. After this Johnson became as anxious to save as lie had been to destroy. Presi dent Johnson even wanted Grant to sustain him ini a scheme to allow all the States recently in rebellion theii full quota of Senators and Itepresenta tives, but Grant threatened to drivc such a Coigre&s out of the Capitol at the point of the havonet. Johnson nfterwards tried to get (rant to go ori a mission to Mexico, to get hiln oul of the way, but Grant refused and the matte" was dropped. The Ohio Election. COLUMBUS, October 22.-Tlhe head quarters of both parties have practical lv closed 'nd the Democrats conced< the Legislature to the Republicans b3 a majority of three on joint ballot. A! the Democracy have control of thl Senate the Itepublicans will be pre vented from passing any party incas ures 01, reorganization laws. Thl criminal manipulation of the clectiot returns in this city continues to be tli absorbing topic of conversaiui, bu the excitement has abated since thl final action of the Board of Canvasseri has become known. An additiona re,vard has been ofl'ered for the arres and conviction of the ruilty parties It is believed the complete olicial coun will stand: Republicans, 58, an Democrats, 52, in the I louse; and 1 Repulicans and 20 Democrats in th Senate. The official count of Hiamilton conn ty as declared shows the election of th entire Democratic Legislative ticket E4fi'rts are being mtade to have th Courts change the results as announcel on the ground of fraud. A Big Fire in Darlington. At Darlington last Wednesday nigh fire wvas dliscovered in the restauran of Iloustoni & WVoodhami, and beforei couldi be checked, causced a loss of $50, 000, distributed amnong the following named business men: J1. A. Pearce .J. C. White, A. Nachmnatn, S. Mare< rnd M. Il inley. Th,ei r loss is cin stoek 'lIcy ward & Josev' and I ioustin & Woodhaim lost builiigs and stock. BROW[JN'S IRON. BITTERS WILL CURE H EADACHE INDIGESTION 1BILIOUSNESS . DYSPEPSIA -- NERVOUS PROSTRATION MALARIA CHILLS AND FEVERS TIRED FEELING GENERAL DEBILITY PAIN IN THE BACK & SIDES IMPURE BLOOD CONSTIPATION FEMALE INFIRMITIES RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS The Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed Red Lincs on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER. THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. Jlow the Unsuuspectinag are Oilel Gulledl. CAPfAL VEltdUTS \i ElIIT. b ounItOous s11 pply of priniter's inik, is to 1. Why', is it that such peristenlt. hem1 1011 slh'id all at omnce he hu trled againlst h le us of "P'otasht andi IPotash1~' Mite.es''" Th'lose whIo insist that. P otash is a ptoiso do0 5o becauise that is the wvay they have< iiting II. 11. Bi., as the fatter contain ptotaish propierly combined10(. Opitun, mtorphii ne, stryehin n, aconiti whliiske y, e'tc., are alI deadl y poisons, an and whly do( not these mn cry out agalmn them'? It is because18 theire is no( mlonleyi sight to dto so. P otashl is not regalrded as5 poison, iand( very sch(om1 hiatrms anty 011 but( those who abuse it are usIng a veogeti ble poisoni tent times as vSiolenit. 1odide c Po'(tash, ini prop~er conal h iatin, is tegarde1 bly the 11ue1dCinI profess5ionl as thet <julickes grand(est, andi miost polwerfu bltiioodh remed0 ever known to man. Thlose who blie lve I 1revealed0 comblIinaftionsH and(1 Inian foolish 11ess are surely in a conitiitioin to becomi ratheri "'erankIy"' in theoi r ideas at any t iin' \Ve assert unde(Irstandtingly that . P'otal aI poisonl, amnd the publick 1need not place0 a.' conf1idlence in assertions1 to) thel cotrari Why is It that ini one thousand lotte which we receiv Owa. neover hear a wor against Its use'? Thhi truthI. is; II. 11. II. wvorking such wondetrs in the enr 111 aI b)lood( poisons1, scrofula, rhuumatismn, er tarrht, etc., that othiers are trembhhling i their hoots, and cry aloud, "pjoloio, "'fraud,'' because they fear its triumphar march. Let any man or wonman as m an re)spectab)le doctor or druggist if we at not right. D)o not be (deceived, but g right along and call for 11. II. 15., am-4 b curedl. It is making five times meo curc In Atlanta thlan all other bh>od remcdic combined. We don't say thtat others at poisons or frauds; we are not thtat easil alarmed, bumt we say ours is the best, ani we have the piroof. tBend for ouri 32-pag book, free, and be coinvinced. sold b)y all dru - ist.. BLOOD BLM[ CO., Atlata, Ga. ~V@?O ~35AND OROUP { M& T Ern3 T NT rhe se sumaw gathered ft atif" of the same name, growing alon / e. sma tam .i the Southern States, onasastmutatins expectormnt principle that looens the phletm rodofas the early morning cough and stiu las h hl othro, eluR the tale m,ewbrnue In oroep aod whoopingooa h. Wh a combined with the healin aui latlnons o In I a mullei nplant of the old il e e Set nTroa'sCao=aa RtisDY o. BSwasr Ouw AND NnItt.x the finest known remedy for cough$,Creap, Whoop-u Cough and Consumptien; and me palaae any child ia tseed to take It. As your dr is r It. lrtle 6lo. and . WALTERA AYL.O, A ta,1s. Use DR. B100ERB' HUCKL19BRRtRY CORDIAL tor has.nDysetery and Children "eethns. lot ale l TUTT'S PILLS 25' YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Triumph of the Agol SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss of appetito, Iowela costive, Pain in the head, with a dull 1ensation in the back part, Pnin under tho shoulder-' blade, Ftilln'sn after eating, with a dis inclination to excrtion of body or mind, Irritability oftemper, I.w spirits, with a feeling of having neglected somo duty, Woariness, Dizziness, Fluttering at the Iieart, Dots before the eyes, Headache over the right eye, Rostlessnese, with fitful dreams, Highly colored Urine, and CONSTIPATION. TUTT'S PILLS are especially adapted to such cases, one tloso effects such a chango offeeling asto astonish the sufforer. They Increase the Apetit,nned cause tho body to 'rake on Flesh tusn the system is nourished. and by their " onic Action on theoDigestiveoOrwinus,Iieattlar StoolsreO produced. sPrico 1Se. 44 MMurray at..N.Y. TUTT'8 HAIR DYE. GIAT HAIR or VnIKsIt8 changed to a GLOssY BLACK by a single application of this DYR. It inparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or t sent by express on receipt of $1. fftice, 44 Murray St., New York. 7 Men Think they know all about Mustang Lin jinent. Few do. Not to know is not to have. t. M\OTHERS' FIENDf. NO M~ore Terror! This-invaivlei pireI utnph)1 of scientific No More Pain ! sk! I""no 'eh iln evter bestowved on the No More 'Danger! : "$8 it itut only shorteins thet timue of 'o Ilabor aint lesst'ns thet inittensityV of pain, but, het ter' than atll, it ra;tly dhini1111lshes thet Mother' or Child linger tto lifte of both miothIer antI chii antd --- leavtes I n it moter in a The Dead oiconit ionl Iihily fat The l)rndo voale fto spteedy re Icovtery, atti far less lialeu to flooding, cot. M other hood ru'lsitns,an ote Transa'orotdet H t0l Pg ' 111V El ieident to lingering Tianaforine ant palliflrt labor. Its~ triuly w~'oder'futl emela ty iin this re'sp1ect enl H ~~ ~ fitle's the ONOT'IEns' Fm In to lbe rantlkedt ~~ as tote of the life-say ing appuline''' given to the woril 'y the science. J"ioini thet littlure of ihe t'ase' it will of X/colrse het underOstOood , hat we c'annott publl J(ii~~eerinig this it E:us)y without I' wo odn- h Safety and( Eatse dlelay oif the writers. I et we have hunitdreds of such testimonoiarlson 3 ---TO--- whoit hasd.)nICe uised it wvillI evet atgftinu be Suffermng Woman o truii 'i a A promtinenu'ltll~ ;t,'pyihnhtly rieatked to thet prlolrietor, thait if it wer'e iusile Sto makte puit ie let tiers we reeivte, the "'Mothers' Friend"' woiub touttsell anything on thei tuarklet. Senid for our Tn1 'lt't s' on ''1leal thI and1 H lappine'ss of WVom "ina' lhiled free. Atlata, GIa. SEa tase Aertainre. o eepesve. The b- in the Head, Headache, DIzzIness, Ha y Fever, &c. f\3'ifty cents. By1 JOHNSON" I- ~U ITN. ihtheia Osu. Astlu *ni Harsenes. nl.e s .unCcg ,....... 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