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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1889. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR
THE SPLENDID SOUTH.
An English Newspaper's Enthusiastic Re
view-Marvelons Progress Against Op
posing Circumstances.
[London Telegraph.1
This is the time of year when statis
tits find favor, and there are few ;quar
terq of the globe in which the prospects
of the future appear more favorable
than in those Southern states of Ameri
ca which once seemed so hopelessly
beaten in war and broken in resources.
"No such advance in wealth," writes
Mr. G. W. Curtis, the editor of Har
per's Magazine, "has ever been made
in any other part of the American
Union as that recorded by the South
ern states between 1880 and 1888." In
1880 the fifteen years which had inter
vened since 186.5, when the great rebel
ion under Mr. Jefferson Davis col
ed, had not sufficed to restore pros
rtt Yto one of the most richly en
countries on the face of'the globe.
in that year, however, that the
co tation of "Secessia" began, we
,'now perceive, in earnest, as is
t n by the remarkable fact that the
thern railroads covered about 17,000
des in 1880, and about 36,000 in 1888.
more notable has been the growth
manufactures in Alabama,
-toa Virginia, Tennessee and Ken
" buf and of their collective products
SWe i1880, in which year they turned
h:A 20,o tons of pig iron, against
?- %out smillion in 1888. Last year there
aasa decrease in the total yield of the
blast furnaces of the United States, but
that decrease was confined: to the
North, and did-iot extend totheSouth
of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. Ala
bama and Tennessee continued to ad
vance, while Pennsylvania fell back;
and the prosperity of those two iron
producing states of the South now is
wholly outstripping their Northern
sidiferous rivals. Moreover, the iron of
the "Warrior Fields" of Alabama is
edd to be not only the best but the
cheapesti.the world. Turai ig next.
to cott jhich prophets of woe
declared&';uld only b5e grown by slave;
labor,-cfind that riearly seven m-il
lion bales of that great staple were pro
dz:ed in-1888, against 5,500,000 in 1880.
The persevering Southerner has dis
covered, moreover, that it is more pro
iQe to turn his cotton into yarn, and
to expot it to Europe, than to send it
raw and packed in bales. The result
is that there are-now 390. cotton mills
in the Southern states against about
f thfn er in _.i880; and alreaad
thel&ms of Georgia, Ala ma, uth
Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia
are threatening the New .,England
states and lowering prices in Lawrence
and Lowell, Mass., and Providence, B.
I. Fourthly, the lumber trade estab
lishments of the South at present em
play about 100,000 hands, and turned
'out last year blanks and sawn timber
.worth nearly ?20,000,000 sterling. Fin
~ali:-, the value of Southern live stock
bhs increased to the extent of ?40,000,
z000) in the last eight years, while her
agriculture has made a corresponding
:advance.
- hese really astonishing figures, and
-mor3y more of the same kind, are sum
med up by a trans-Atlantic jotfrnal, the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, with thej
statement that in eight years the avail
.able capital of the Southern states has
inc.reased by ?50,000,000 and their
gross wealth by more than ?200,000,000
.st4:lng. All this has happened in a1
country one single state of which
Texas-possesses an area larger than
that of France and Spain combineai-a
ste which could, if as thickly popu-1
lated as Great Britain, support 70,000,
~00'. human beings. Bearing these fig-<
iur% in mind, we can easily estimatei
tthe magnificent prospects of the South- 1
eru states of the American Union when
lt is mentioned that on the 1st of July 1
*last there were fewer than 20,000,000
inhabitants'in the whole of Secessia,
three-fifths of whom were whites and]
*tw~ fths blacks. Moreover, the cli
ually delightful and salubri-<
* 3, espec ' to those who in July and
lugust-the only two inconveniently
hot months-cari\ afford to retire to I
-the mountains which overhang the
.states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
. Sonth and North Carolina, Virginiai
and Tennessee. Once, indeed, in
twenty years or so, the yellow fever
- appears at some little towvns where the]
laws of sanitation have been outrage
ousy neglected, and produces fright
altgether out of proportion to the
mortality which [it causes. Last sum
mer and autumn, for instance, a visita
~tion overtook Jacksonville, in Florida,
~and telegrams 'were scattered all over
zthe United States and cabled to Europe,
proclaiming the "ravages" of a pesti
lence which in five months put four
hundred persons to death-less than
the number of victims killed by con
sumption in this metropolis every two
mnonths. More than a quarter of a
century ago the still living Benjamin
F. Butler, of Massachusetts, showed
the inhabitants of New Orleans, whom
he ruled with a rod of iron as military
governor, that cleanliness and yellow
fever stand to each other in the rela
tion of alkali and acid. Last winter
-= the whole area of Northern states was
desolated with a worse scourge than
"yellow jack"-those "blizzards," in
-which hundreds of human beings per
ished, and becatombs of hogs were
frozen to death on their road from the
Wet to New York. For the greater
por ion of the year the elimate of the
* .ahern states is as soft as that of
Italy and as bracing as that of the
Tye>l. Wheni Mr. Cleveland and his
young wife made a brief Southern trip
af::r enduring the hardships of an un
usually severe winter in Washington
th:- Presidenit is aid to have expressed
astonishment that wealthy Americans
should think it necessary to cross the
Atlantic and take up their abode on
the shores of the Mediterranean when
their own country offers a fine climate
and the Gulf of Mexico more attraetive
scenery even than the Bay of Naples.
At this moment Mr. Jefferson Davis is
passing his mild decline in the ex
treme south of the state of Mississippi,
in a house called Beauvoir-bequeathed
to him in 1879 by Mrs. Dorsey, an en
tire stranger in blood-which looks out
upon the Gulf of Mexico, and is des
cribed by its fortunate occupant as.
"the most delightful spot on earth."
If any Englishman desires to have the
horoscope of the "New South" and of
its prospects drawn for him by a com
petent hand, he would do well to fol
low the example of Lord Roseberry,
and seek out the ex-President of the
Southern Confederacy in his Mississip
pi home.
Lord Dunraven is another traveled
authority who has declared, in a lec
ture "On the Making of America," de
livered lately at Walsall, that the fu
ture of the great republic depends chief
ly on those states which, between. 1861 1
and 1865, were in rebellion against the
Washington government. Nothing,
indeed, humanly speaking, can arrest
their progress, now that their inhabi- a
tants are released from the exhaustion '
of slavery-the costliest system of labor c
in the.world-and have found in free c
and fairly-paid toil the blessing that it 1
always brings. Little more than i
twenty years since the Southerners, t
with half their adult male population c
wiped out, with their slaves made c
their equals, and more than the equals i:
Df those who had formerly owned E
them, with corrupt "carpet-baggers"
rrom the North preying on their vitals v
nd without capital of their own, were t
in the lowest stage of despair. Strange, 1
indeed, is the transformation that two ii
)rief decades have brought about. Al- t:
mady the most enlightened and far- t:
>ighted manufacturers of New. Eng- b
and, Pennsylvania and New York tj
tate are begin iing -to. perceive that e
.labama, Georgia,:the Carolinas and
ennessee contain resources of coal, a;
ron, cotton, lumbe&, trupentine,. naval o
tores and a hundred -other products i
vhioh even the rich North cannot a
>arallel; and that the climate of the h
.Torth and Northwestein states can y
iesder possess. All that is now want- c<
ng-andit was clearly pointed out five t<
rears since by the late Mr. Benjamin, b
& C.-is a :good, deep-wattr port ti
end their rich products to sea in swift 01
nd large vessels, fuch as I1ply at pres
;nt between New York and Liverpool. v
- t(
Cotton Planters lh, Luck. c
s
So famous have the South Carolina o
otion planters become all over the tl
world that they are now in demand in y
~oreigh countries where cotton is 0:
>lanted. Sometime ago the well known o
irm of Norden & Co., of New York, f
vrote to Mr. C. E. Salinas, of the cot- 3
on house of A. J. Salinas & Son., of s
2harleston, on behalf of a firm in c
R~ussia, asking Mr. Salinas to make ar
-angements with a capable and intelli- cl
;ent cotton planter to, go to Russia to 'T
>lant cotton. Mr. Salinas made ar
-angements with Mr. John Scott, of
d.ars Bluff, in Marion County, who is
yell known as one of the most success- C
ul cotton planters in the State, and onb
he 10th of January Mr. Scott sailed 'T
rom New York for Moscow, Russia. ti
Nhen he reaches Russia Mr. Scott will -cI
~o to the district of Caucasus, one ofa
be southern provinces of Russia, rt
where he will en ner upon the discharge
>f his duties. His special business will - e
>e to superintend and instruct the na- d.
,ives in the cultivation of cotton, 3,
rhich is planted there in large quanti- E
ies. Mr. Scott is a reliable, capable la
nd intelligent planter, and he will ti
iave direct supervision of one of the r<
argest private cotton plantations in
Russia. Of course Mr. Scott will re -ci
~eive a very handsome salary. Cotton tI
>lanting is fostered by the Russian
~overnment, and Mr. Scott will there- h
>y have special advantages in this new t
ield. He will also be sent to Central al
asia to confer with planters and dealers a
n that section, where cotton is now r
>roduced in large quantities annually. b
Ct is estimated that tne annual cotton b
>roduction in Asia amounts to about b
sighty-four million pounds. si
"BABY BUNTING" ONCB MORE.
[he New York Supreme Court Decides He S.i
mnuss Pay Miss Campbell S45,000. n
NEW YORK, Jan 28.--Charles Al- t
>uckle, the coffee millionaire, who ap-t
:eared as "Baby Bunting" in the fa
nous breach of 1promise suit in which 0
'Bunnie," otherwise Miss Clara Camp
>ell, recovered $45,000 damages from 0
aim, is about to build the biggest flat in
Brooklyn at Columbia Heights and
)range street. It will cost $375,000.
r'he general term of the Supreme court t]
bas decided on appeal that Mr. Ar
auckle must pay up the $45,000 to M;ss a
Dampbell. Judge Macomber w-itesC
the opinion and Judge Brady concurs
Presiding Justice Van Brunt dissents. s
Judge Macomber maks some interesting
remarks. There is no doubt, he says,r
that the millionaire proposed and wasr
iwe.epted and the breach of contract is
0
satisfactorily proven. If he intended
:o marry her at all after June 4, 18S3,
Lt was incumbent on him to name the
:lay. It was right to let the jury de
eide whether Arbuckle's letter o
November 4, 1883, contained a dishon-1
arable proposal, or was a mere pie.ce of
vulgarity.
WILL YOU SUFFER with Dyspe Sia
and LvrComplaint? Shiloh's it
lize isguarnted tocur you jt
ATLANTA'S YOUNG NAPOLEON.
Wonderful Dealings of a Spartanburg Boy
Whose Bank has Just Failed with Sixty
Cents Assets.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.] k
"Who is Tolleson ?"
It is a question asked on all sides.
Mr. Tolleson has lived in Atlanta
for some years, but he is not well known
outside of business circles.
Mr. Tolleson was raised in Spartan
burg, S. C., where it is understood he
has wealthy relatives. He is now
30 years of age. -
As a young man Mr. Tolleson early t
developed a talent for business. When
Lbout 17 years of age he began bnsiness
Ls a merchandise broker and commis
ion man, and was remarkably success
ul. So successful was he that he soon
nade a reputation as a young Napo
eon of finance. Before he was 20 years
f age his business had grown to such
>roportions that it is said he handled 3
housands of dollars every day. He s
iad unlimited credit and'good backing
ad by the time he was 22 or 23 years
>f age he had accumulated considerable s
>roperty. s
It was in 1882 that he first came to
Ltlanta. He began business here in
anuary, 1883. He formed a partner- 1E
hip with Mr. Wallace McPherson & t
olleson. They started a ware house
n Alabama street, and did an extensive
ommission and brokerage business, i
iandling grain, flour, meats and pro- w
isions generally. The business that tc
hey soon had established branch cY
ffices in Charleston, Memphis, Sa
annah, Nashville, Macon-in short, N
1 all the principal points in the
outh. T
The concern took a high stand, was la
reU thought of by the trade generally, n
ad plenty of credit and was said to tb
ave ample backing. The business got T
ito some sort of a tangle, and while
ere was no failure it was closed under k
2e complications. The afi'aiis of the ar
rm created a good deal of talk at the sa
me and it is fair to add that no blame ti<
ter attached to Mr. McPherson.
After this Mr. Tolleson became local fa
rent of th'e Wing Milling Company, w
ae of the largest concerns in St. Louis. nE
[e was a remarkably successful agent,
ad developed a business that must tle
de paid him $5,000 an<a. upwards each i~
rar. ' He became so valuable to the ge
>ncern that 1884 he went to-Nashville in
> take charge of the entire Southerbn n
isiness -of the company, Nashville be
ien enjoying cdrtain rebilling privi- ju
gL~I CuI&Z W.a.t ..k, ii 'Uv
her Southern cities.
There were complications in Nash- M
lle-of just what nature it is difficult la<
say. Before Mr. Tolleson left the
>mpany was not considered very
rong financially, and shortly after,he
)ened his headquarters at Nashville
ie concern failed. It is said that the
Ting Company got on the wrong side Fr
the wheat market. There was talk a '
transactions of a more or less doubt. w2
1 chaiacter between the St. Louis and pr
ashville offices, and then Mr. Tolle- ly
n became engaged- in a newspaper pr
ntroversy with his principals, in th
hich, it is. said, some rather ugly fr
iarges were made on both sides. Mr. si1
alleson left Nashville and came back col
Atlanta. th
He came as the representative of a vi<
Louis concern-the Hiasman Flour pr
mpauy. which he had, it is believed, be
~en instrumental in foi mning. Mr. of
~leson was billed as vice president of hi
is~ concern, but the other oiticers in
aimed the title gave him no rights to to
cur liabilities; that he was simply the sa;
presentative of the concern, and was di<
en the title for business purposes. bu
be Atlanta end of the company soon fe4
.d more business than the home office.
>me complications brought President
:inman and Secretary Sherat to At
nta, and for ten days there were lively
mes about the Atlanta office. The
sult of it all was Mr. Tolleson's retire- th
ent from the concern. Like all such is
>ntroversies. there were two sides to he
e matter. . dr
Mr. Tolleson than began business on fo
s own account but not, however, al- m
gether under his own name. It was las
this time he got his first charter-that th
the Tolleson Commission Company. ar<
his was in the winter of 1885. His in
siness up to this time had always cri
en that of a grocer and merchandise to<
roker; but now he began the study of
ock. He became interested in theti
apital City Land and Improvement
opany, and in m,anipulating.this is or
Lid to have made some $5,000 in a fewE
tnths. Then he devoted more time to
stock and bond matters, and took a
-ip to New York, where he spent
>me time in looking into the methods
EWall street. His credit by this time
'as very good. He handled a good deal si
stock and bond business for some of in
ie leading business men of the city. TI
When the Georgia Improvement an
ompany was organized he took a big th
lock of the stock. He dealt largely in de
is stock, holding, it is said, as high on
3$40,000 of it at a time. He was sue- sh
ssful in his manipulations of this at ret
mes, making quite a reputation as a Ti
rewd financier, one day bearing the fo,
iarket, the next day on the other side. hi
ut he seems to have attempted to car- t
7 more of this stock than his capital in
arranted, and the calls for payment
f the too frequent instalments resulted
i his being pushed to the wall. Just
ow much he lost in this is not known,
ut it is believed to have been a con- de
[derable sum. h
t was some time in'188 that the At- t
nta Mercantile Company was or- b
auized, with Mr. Tolleson as presi
ent. This was organized, it is believed,
r the purpose of adding the collec-jth
ton feature to the biusiness. There was 1se
on Commission Company and the
.tlanta Mercantile Company until
ruly, 1887, when the Tolleson Commis
ion Company failed.
In the latter part of 1887 Mr. Tolleson
>ecame identified with the Atlanta
Palc and Soapstone Mining and Manu
acturiug Company, of which he was
.nd is secretary and treasurer. He
lrew a salary from this company and
5 believed to have practical control of
he stock. Shortly after he went in
he company its capital stock was in
reased-five for one, it is said-and the
ompany's product was widely adver
ised. The belief is general among busi
ess men that this tale property is
aluable.
Then, in November, as has been
tated in the Constitution, the Mercan
ile Banking Company was organized.
'he capital stock and surplus of this
Dmpany was, according to Mr. Tolle
mn's statement, paid up in bonds and
ocks.
A well-known banker, who is by the
ay a probable loser by Mr. Tolleson,
iid yesterday: "I regard Tolleson the
brewdest business man, and in any
ind of business, that I have ever met.
a all his transactions he has bad good
gal advice, and with the exception of
ts last break I doubt if there is any
iing upon which he could be caught."
"The business he did during the past
w weeks," said another, "was really
onderfully great. I have known him
get in one mail as much as $12,000 in
>llect'ons.land they came from all over
te country-from San Francisco to
ew York."'
There are afloat many stories of Mr.
1 leson's transactions-they are all
id at his door, thdugh done in the
ime of his. company-and most of
em are decidedly unfavorable to Mr.
)lleson.
All who have had business with him
1ow of his shrewd business capacity
Ld most of them have something to
y of his rather questionable reputa
m for strict honor in his dealings.
Mr. Tolleson has a young wife and
mily and lives on Rawson street. His
fe was a Miss Cox, whose home was
ar Marietta.
Of Mr. Richards, the cashier, but lit
is known here. He has been with
r. Tolleson since December, 1888. The
neral belief is that Mr. Richards is
nocent of any wrong-doing, or, if
t innocent, anything he has done has
en done at Mr. Toileson's instance,
a as Mr. Tolleson stated.. Mr. Rich
eks, his. bride being Miss sMamie
ayers, one of the most popular young
lies in Atlanta.
The Height of Adam and Eve.
LSt. Louis Republic.]
Mr. Henricon, a member of the
ench Academy of Science, published
ork in the year 1718, a large part of
lich was given up to the past and
esent conditions of the human fami
In the course of his arguments he
ayes, to his own satisfaction at least,
at wve have gradually degenerated
>m colossal specimens of flesh and
ew to almost microscopic specks in
rnparison. The dignified position of
e learned Henricon demands for his
swvs all due respect, but who of the
esent generation could be induced to
lieve that Adam, the first landlord
creation, was 123 feet and 9 inches
~h? Yet, in the course of his reason
, he proves this in a satisfactory way
himself and his colleagues. "Eve;"
y's this learned M. D., "was a splen
I helpmeet for her giant husband,
t was not nearly so tall, being but 118
~t, 8 inches and 9 lines."
Beauty of American Women's Feet.
[Paris Guide de la Mode.]
Aerican women have made Paris
eir second home for so long that there
little to be said about their demeanor
re. They are great favorites with
essmakers, and especially admired
-their little feet. The French shoe
kers say that they shave down the
~ts of even the Spanish wom.en to fit
e beautiful American foot. A well
3hed foot looks better in a boot than
a shoe, and it is said to see a foot
nnpled up in a tight slipper and a
> high heel, a perfect pi"e of Chi
se deformity. To do Americans jus
e, they do not have to squeeze their
t to make them look small, and the
ly advice to give them is to go to
3gland for their walking shoes and
learn to walk more.
O'Br'en Behind the Bars. .
DUBLIN, Feb. 1.-William O'Briei
pt under a plank bed without cloth
in his cell at Clonmel last night.
is morning he was more composed
d appeared to have recovered from
e effects of his struggle with the war
ns yesterday. The shutters are up
.most of the shops in Clonmel, the
opkeepers feauing that trouble may
sult from O'Brien's harsh treatment.
1e governor of Clonmel prison has in
rmed O'Brien that he will compel
mn to don the prison uniform, and
at if he refuses food it will be ad
inistered artificially.
Comptroller Trenholm's Successor.
WASHINGOo, Jan. 31-The Presi
ut to-day nominated Jesse ID. A bra
ms, of Virginia, to 5e comptroller of
e currency, vice William L. ~Tren
lm, resigned.
"It's raining in London !" That's:
e word when a New York dude isi
en going up Broadway with his
,a,.er r.o1led up in snnny wather,.
NEARLY THREE BALES TO THE ACRE.
How Captain Goodwin Raised Eleven
Hundred and Nineteen Pounds of
Lint Cotton to the Acre.
(From the Carolina Spartan. J
GREENVILLE, S. C., Jan. 21st, '89.
Mr. Charles Petty. Dear Sir:-In
reply to yours of the 9th of January,
asking as to the mode of preparation
and culture of my premium acre of cot
ton, I will give you full details of same.
I broke the land first time early in
January with what we call half shovels
and subsoiled in each furrow with two
horse subsoil plow. Broke the land
again before putting in guano with the
same kind of plow. I laid off my rows
41 feet apart, run in 400 -pounds Gossy
pium Guano and subsoiled in this fur
.row, thus mixing the guano, with the
soil. Put two furrows on the guano
with twister plows, subsoiling in each
of the furrows and then plowed out
middles and planted on the 18th of
April. I used a double footed plow the
first working with a very narrow plow
on front foot and plow just large
enough to fill up the furrow of the
front plow on the rear foot. Tried to
work as often as every ten days, using
small shovel plow-with heel sweeps,
using a little larger sweep every time.
The third time I worked my cotton I
run around the cotton first then put in
400 pounds more of the guano and
covered this by plowing out middles
thoroughly. I gave the crop five good
workings and laid by about the 9th of
July. -I used the Peterkin seed on this
acre, but I am free to confess that I am
partial to the Jones Improved seed. I
think it equally as productive or pro
lific. While the yield is not so great
from the seed t think it will make as
much cotton to the acre. I have no
seed for sale. I have been improving
my seed for six years, but I had my
seed destroyed by fire last fall. In con
neetion with this answer to inquiry, I
will just state some of my experience in
cotton raising. I never plant large
crops but my aim is always never to
plant an acre in cotton that I can't
realize a bale of cotton from same.
During the year 1887, I planted a one
horse crop, hired me two hands paid
hem $50.00 each to help me through
rop. These two boys made me 28
)ales cotton, 75 bushels of corn without
mny additional help. If any farmer in
ipper Carolina can beat this I would
ike to hear from them through your
rood. The Furman Formula is a splen
lid fertilizer for cotton. You will see
n the preparation of my acre I did a
,reat deal of subsoiling. The character
)f the land is such that I think it very
ssential. It is dark, red land with stiff
slay subsoil. The laud has been grow
ng clover, and is in a high state of culti
ration. If the farmers will enrich their
and and get it so they can grow clover,
;hey soon will have land that will bring
:hem a bale and a half or two bales to
the acre. Anything will grow after
:lover. If this statement is worth any
;hing to you or your paper you can use
t, but I will say I am not in the habit
>f writing for papers on farming, or
mything else. Yours very truly,
J. P. GooDwiN.
His Ship Came In.
[Charleston World.]
The Charleston public will, doubtless,
>y a stretch of the memory, recollect a
3ermian of pleasant face and manner,
vho was wont to peddle peanuts by
lay and hot sausages by night through
~he streets. His name was Oscar Red
ich, and he had a stand at the corner
>f King and Market streets. It appears
~rom the following item, clipped from
:he Anniston, Ala., Times, that he is
iuite in luck.
"A Times reporter, while standing at
,he counter of a prominent dry goods
store yesterday, was' surprised to hear
:he merchant request a Noble street
peanut vender to settle a small account
tue him, saying he was very much in
need of this money, whereupon the
meanut stand man asked the merchant
f he could cash a small check. He said
ze could. The peanut vender soon pro
luced from his pockets letters of credit
or 97,875 marks and some pfennig
ssued by the German government.
'his amount is a handsome little for
:uhe of $20,000, and was the pro rata
share of an estate now being settled up
.n Saxony. The paralyzed merchant
ongratulated the man upon his good
'ortune, and with many apologies
p-aciously bowed him out of the store
mnd asked him to call and settle at his
:onvenience.
Fifteen -mtnutes later, while the
appy man was parching peanuts at
ais roaster, he was approached by a
prominent real estate man who tried to
se him a house. The only satisfaction
:he real estate man could obtain from
~he happy Teuton was a cordial invita
ion to Charleston. his future home,
where he says he intends to do busi
aess, and can live comfortably under
bis vine and fig tree, drink his beer and
be happy.
The gentleman who has become so
iuddenly rich is Mr. Oscar Redlihh."
Redlich left Charleston about a year
igo. He had not been here a very long
ime, but it appears that he was well
pleased with what he saw. It is also
aid by some of his acquaintances that
be used to boast sometimes that he had
property in Germany, but it wa re
garded as merely an idle boast.
SOME OF HIS UPS AND DOWNS.
Mr. Oscar Redlich, who has recently
gained so great notoriety by the sudden
acquisition of a fortune, has returned to
Charlonn_ the city in which he snf
fered most from poverty and worked
hardest to keep his wife and baby from
starvation. Mr. Redlich arrived yes- A
terday, and at once sought his old
friends in the city, with whom he spent
an evening worthy of a reunion under
such pleasant circumstanees.
To a World reporter who met him he d
said that he preferred Charleston to any
of the cities he had lived in. He arrived 01
here in July, 1887, with his wife and
baby, and $240 in his pocket. He had >
been keeping a bar in Macon, Ga., and a
failed utterly. He came to this city
when business was dull, and everybody al
discouraged him, but he thought of his o1
family and determined to do some- 01
thing. He picked up a dodger on the a
street which announced the fact that a w
newspaper was to be started in this h
city. He went to the proprietor and F
told him that he felt competent to hold di
a position on the staff, but would only hi
apply for the position of carrier, and it ai
was given him. He had one of the hi
largest routes in the city, land when the w
paper was first started it had a very e
fair circulation. After delivering his ar
papers he sold sausages on the streets, t
and in one way and another kept the b
wolf from the door. st;
He left this city in December and sP
went direct to Europe, where he had at
"property in litigation. He knew that of
he would recover a large amount in a .
few years at least, and often spoke of it. ill
He had also, while in this city, a piece h
of property in Macon which he would o
not sell. His father was a very wealthy
man, and it is from him that the inheri
tance came.
Mr. Redlich is a gentleman of pleas- S
ant manners and converses well. The
fact that he is an educated man is quite [F
apparent. His wife and children are
sUll in Macon, but his household goods Te
have all been shipped to Charleston, be
and he will go into business here as nu
soon as he finds an opening. He has
at present something over $25,000 and th4
there is more to follow. he
Both Mr. Redlick and his wife are
fond of Charleston and anxious to get ed
settled down here. an
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FARM MORTGAGES IN ILLINOIS. Vi
col
How Much Corn is Needed to pay the An- Ri
nual Interest. of
sto
- [Chicago Herald.] Te:
The Sta e Bureau report of mortgages fro
in Illinois gives the amount of annual Te
interest on the farm loans as $9,8 8,426. 9
$10,000,000. At 25 cents per bushel, pal
which is near the average present ine
prices of corn at the railway stations tur
in the State, to pay this -amount of so
money will require 40,000,000 bushels. pal
A crib eight feet wide by ten feet high Soi
and thirty-two feet long is estimated Ge
to hold a scant thousand bushels of ear otl
corn. It is safe to assume that a crib int
one-half rod (eight and a quarter feet), Ra~
and two rods (thirty-three) feet long the
will hold 1,000 bushels. At this it will cor
take to hold this 40,000,000 bushels of ne<
corn an ordinary crib ten feet high-and vill
250 miles in length, quite a conspicu- fro:
ous and by no means trifling affair even am
if a fast mail train can spin by it in its
five hours. It is the distance from ]
Chicago to Alton. -Two hundred and rai
fifty miles in length by one-half rod in sto
width is 250 acres. The legal fence in of
Illinois is four and one-half feet high. poi
This pile of corn, therefore,, will cover mc
500 acres, or three quarter section farms lar
and an cut lot of twenty acres besides gu:
to a depth of its fences and a fence the
board more. Of loads of twenty-five Te:
bushels it will require 1,000,000. th(
The public mind just now is so much E
accustomed to the mention of millions the
of dollars that it has become inert t'o ros
their significance, and after the infor- us<
mation given by this report is acquired, for
it is still to be a task to . extract and the
fully comprehend all its meaning. It the
is plain, however, that interest on farm thi
mortgages must be paid with farm
produce, etc., else the farmers are not
meeting their obligations, and in the
ease of those in Illinois there can be no
fairer way of measuring the payment ]
than by corn in the crib, which is th<
cash. So measured its significance me
should be obvious to the dullest com- ne
piehension, and once it is compre- sel
hended the taisk imposed upon the th4
labor of the State comes in sight. na:
While realizing its magnitude it must
be held in mind that it is a contribu
ti6n which calls for nothing in return.
So far as it is owing outside of the State,
and in the nature of things the greater dei
part of it doubtless is, it brings nothing coi
back. It goes to square an account tb4
and helps to effect that "favorable bal- an
ance of trade," larger exports than im- P0
ports, which so delights our Republi- IDa
can brethren, like Mr. Allerton for in- of.
stance. Nevertheless Illinois is left it
pooer, not richer, by it all. tin
..., see
A FaiHure at Graham's. b
GRAiHA's T. 0., Barnwell County,
January S.-The store of F. Damish,
of this place, was closed to-day under a
mortgage given to J. B. White & Co.,
of Augusta. The goods will be sold at an'
auction, commencing February 18, and Nc
continuing from day to day until dis-.ci
posed of. The failure was a surprise to pa1
many. -ou~
Cotton Fire in Columbia.th
at
tal
COLUMBIA, S. C., February 1.-Co- mc
lumbia had an $1800 fire at 10.45 to
night. About fifty bales of the staple,
belonging to the Miller Bros., were
burned. They are insured for full .a
value in various companies. The Gr
origin of the fire is unknown, but it is ho
believed to be the work of an incendi- cot
A DEBTOR'S TRICK.
n Unmarried Man Marries in Order to
Claim a Homestead.
[Special to News and Courier.)
SPARTANBURG, Jan. 30.-A novel
iestion, and amusing in some of its
?tails, has been sprung here. Two of
ir lawyers had a claim against a cer
in unmarried defendant. Desiring to
ake their money they got judgment
id advertised his property for sale.
be defendant, began to skirmish
ound to see if there was not some way
saving himself. With the assistance
able counsel he concluded to marry,
id to take unto himself a family that
ould need the aid and comforts of a
)mestead. He left his attorney last
riday, and before Saturday night
rk the sheriff received notice from
m that he would claim homestead,
id he asked that he send out and
ve it laid off for him, inasmuch as he
as not willing to see his wife and
ildren placed in a condition of want
d suffering. It is tolerably evident
at he must have hitched on to a
xom widow who- had made a good
irt in the family business, as he
eaks of his children. The plaintiff's
torneys have given notice to the
her side that they will apply to the
urt to set aside the marriage as
?gal, having been contracted to
ider, delay and defraud the creditors
t of their just and lawful claims.
THE RICHMOND TERMINAL
leg the Great Syndicate to Make it Give ]
up its Charter.
rom ' the Philadelphia Telegraph.]
[he suit to compel the Richmond
rminal to relinquish its charter will
watched with peculiar interest by a
mber of Philadelphia capitalists.
amuel Dickson, who represents 2
se gentlemen, is very sanguine, and
declares that he will win the suit. '
e Richmond Terminal has threaten
to destroy the Norfolk and Western,
I the recent suit' of the minority
ckholders of the East Tennessee,
ginia and Georgia to prevent. the
apany from ratifying the lease to the
hmond Terminal was the outcome
the contention. The minority v
ekholders won, and the Richmond e
minal is now effectually enjoined i
m diverting the traffic of the East
inessee Road.
he ichml nd and WestPinLTer- 3
iy, which- may lose its charter, was
orporated by the Virginia Legisla- v
e in 1880, with authority to acquire a
ks and bonds of railroad com-.
ties in the States of Norih Carolina,
ith Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky,
yrgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
er States. It was organized in the
erest of the Richmond and Danville P
Iroad by capitalists concerned in
latter for the purpose of acquiring
trol of railroads not directly con
ted with the Richmond and Dan- 6
e, which was prevented by charter '
n1 acquiring any such. Subsequent
endmentsauthorized it to increase
capital stock indefinitely.
t at present controls 4,697 miles ofr
road and water lines; has a capital '
~k of $45,000,000 and a large amount
unded debt. Among the more im- .
tant lines controlled are the Rich
nd and Danville, the Virginia Mid
d, the Charlotte, Columbia and Au
sta, the Columbia and Greenville,
Western North Carolina, the East
mnessee, Virginia and Georgia, and
Georgia Pacific Railroads.
ince the brokers refused to purchase
bonds of the Georgia Central Rlail
d, the Richmond Terminal has
4 every effort to raise money to pay
the road. It is now rumored that
directors contemplate increasing ~
capital stock $10,000,000, and in
~t way paying for the property.
-s
The Latest Fad.
[Detroit Free Press.] t
n fashionable households, instead of (
parents sending out announce- ~
nts of the latest family addition, the I
v comner announces h'mself or her- c
by a tiny visiting card-the date of '
birth and the address following the I
ne.E
C
American Enterprise. -
~ames Gordon BennetE, like-Alexan
the Great, sighs for new worlds to
tquer. Not satisfied with having ~
best newspaper in the UnitedStaes
i a European edition of the same
alished in Paris, he is now about to r
-est half a million in the publication t
i daily newspaper in London,which, ~
s said, will be known by the dis
etive title of The American NYews'pa- I
.That it will be a success would ~
3
mn, judging from past experience, to
a foregone conclusion.
And aGood Dealof It.
[Cuthbert Liberal.]
You ought to write up this country
i send your paper all 'ver the (
rthwest every week," remarked a ]
zen to the editor of the Liberal, a
rdays ago. "And who is going to
r for this ?" we asked. "Oh, you
rht to do that much yourself, for the
d of your town and county." And
.t is about the way most people look
the newspaper business. But it
:es money to run a newspaper-cash
ney-and agood deal of it.
Great Cotton Fire at Granitevineb.
LUGUSTA,. Ga., Feb. 1.-Fire at c
m.iteville, S. C., destroyed the ware- T
ase of the Graniteville Manufactur- v
Company, containing 2,346 bales of ;
ton. Loss $100,000; insurance $90, d
The a.lvage cannot be estimated. E
SENATOR VANCE'S POEM.
His Protective Pastoral about the Girl with
One Stocking.
[Washington Cor. Chicago Herald.]
Senator Vance set colleagues and
spectators in a roar by reading in splen
did style the following pastoral, which
he said, was entitled, "The girl
with one stocking; a protective pasto
ral composed and arranged for the
spinning wheel, and respectfully dedi
cated to that devoted friend of pro
tected machinery and high taxes, the
senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Al
drich":
Our Mary had a little lamb,
And her-heart was most intent
To make its wool beyond its worth,
Bring 56per cent.
But a pauper girl across the sea
Had one small lamb also,
Whose wool for less than half that sum
She'd willingly let go.
Another girl, who had no sheep
Nor stockings-wool nor flax
But money just enough to buy
A pair-without the tax,
Went to the pauper -girl to get
Some wool to shield her feet,
k!nd make her stockizgs, not of flax
But both of wool complete.
When Mary saw the girl's design
She strait began to swear
The'd make her buy both wool and tax
Or let one leg go bare. -
5o she cried out: "Protect reform!
Let pauper sheep wool free?
f it will keep her legs both warm>
What will encourage me?'.'
io it was done, and people said
Where e'er that poor girl went,
)ne leg was warmed with wool and
one z
With 56 per cent.
Cow praise to Mary and her lamb,
Who did this scheme invent,
'o clothe one-halfa girl in wool
And one-half in per cent.
L11 honor, too, to Mary's friend,
And protective acts,
hat cheaply clothe. the rich in wool
And wrap the poor in tax.
The reading of this piece of-doggerel -.
ras received with shouts of laughter,
ven Republican Senators leaning back -=?
a their seats and giving unrestrained . r
ray to their mirth. As for the people
a the galleries, they screamed: and
elled frantically, and when' Senafor'
arious applause.urAIl the North
na orator gravely inclined his h
eknowledgement. . .
The Weather for February.
Mr. J. M. Grant, Jr,, of Hae.vile
lhester: County, has become a weathel
rophet of no small reputation. 'The
>llowing are his predictictions for s
'ebruary : 1, fair and cold: 2to 4,1o6k~
>r snow and very cold weather ; 5and
nearly fait and beautiful; raijiand
rind ; 8 fair off; 9 and 10, fair and
radyf; 11, changeable; 12 to 14,
loudy and rain ; 15, nearly doudy;16
iggy, 16 to 20, fair and beautiful -
in ; 25 cloudy ; 26, fair off adhg
inds'; 27, fair and very cold -28, litl
wo of 'the Six Negroes who Rifled
Abernathy Caught at Bock HliL.
RoCK HILL, January31
jolston, colored, Mi rete hs
omoring at this place charged with,
aurdering Mr. W. C. Abernatiey 'in@
tis store, at Catawba Junction,- on
'riday night last. He has confessed
eing one of the party who commnited
be deed and implicated six other.
ohn Feaster, colored, the rigleador -,7
~as been arrested. The others are stIR
t large. There is intense excifement.
,d talk cf lynching. The prisoners are ~
losely guarded.LYC
EVERAL AT] -.. .PTS MADE TOLYC
THE PRISONEBS. .
ROCK HILL, Feb. 1.-Several a 7
empts were made to-day to lynch~
Iharles Coiston and John Feaster, but
11 were unsuccessful. A . large crowd
as been in town all day, and the;e- 4
itement was intense. The crowd .
vould not allow the officers to take tbe-C'
arisoners to Yorkville -until late this
vening, when they were pacified by 5s
lder and wiser heads. Bill .Briggag ~
nother negro, who is suspected, was..
rrested to-day but released.
A man who has practiced medicie
:r forty years, ought to know salt from'--'
ugar; read what he says:'
TOLEDO, 0., Jan. 10, 1887. ,
Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.-Gentle
ien:-I have been in the general prsc
ice of medicine for most forty years
nd would say that in all my practice
.nd experience, have never seen -a re
>aration that I could prescribe withas~
auch confidence of success as Veanr~
lall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured b
'ou. Have prescribed it agra az
imes and its effect is. wondru,ad
ould say in conclusio,n that I havegeI
o find a case of Catarrh that it woul 7
iot cure, if they would take it accond
godiretions. Yuerl
L. L.GOBSUCH,. .D...
'Of fice, 215 SummitSL St
We will give $100 for any cse~
Jatarrh that cannot be cured wtN
Iall's Catarrh Cure. Taken mtrafi
F. J1. CHENEY & CO..Pos, k
Toledo,0
IWS.old by Drbggists, 75c.
Croup, whooping cough, sore trt
udden cold, and the lung tobe
eculiar to children, are easilcon '
rolled by promptly -adminitrg
yer's Cherry Pectoral. This rmd
Ssafe to take and certain in its atiion.s
"It js worth its weight in gold,5 a7'
ommon. epsion. But, whHe -'
alue of godis easily
rorth of Ayer' 's
urifier,. never depreciate*, t~l
.rad.ate serofnla. from tesytm h

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