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ri EI .RP ESTABLISHED 1865. NEAWBERRY9 S. C., WED-NESDAY9 --JU-NEiI 82 RCE$.0AYA HIT HOT AND HAND. Youmans Uses Tillman's Methods on Till xnan--Caustic and Cutting Remarks Which Stung jhe Governor to the Quick-The Campaign Peter ing Out at the Beginning. [Special to Greenville News.] HAmPTON, S. C., June 8.-It looks as if the campaign is petering out before it fairly starts. I countad 260 persons present, including men, women. and children, a few persons of color and candidates. There may have been 350 altogether when the meeting was the biggest. The platform had been handsomely decorated with evergreens and United States flags. The Rev. Mr. Dowling opened the proceedings with prayer. Maj. M. B. McSweeney, count. chair man, made a brief, strong and eloquent introductory address. Lieutenant Governor Gary was the first speaker. He was received in dead silence. He proceeded to discuss the farmer's movement platform of 1890. He maintained that the Governor had carried out as far as he could the pledges of that platform. He urged that the people constitutod thejury and had a right to hold the prosecutors of the present administration to the indict ment drawn in the March platform and not allow them to go off on side issues. He began to review the platform of the conservative convention. He charged that the conservatives were responsible for not helping to fund the State debt. He was intertupted by a question whether in 1890 the Tillman party had not published things to the discredit of the State. There was nothing especially telling in his reply but it evoked the first evidences of enthusiasm. Gary said parties in Asheville had offered the preceding administration to pay the State debt if given Coosaw's ex clusive rights. Governor Gary took up the conservative platform, plank by plank, analyzing each and ended in general charges of inconsistency against the conwervatives. There was not a ripple of applause during the speech though there was some laughter now and then, and at the end there was a brief round of applause. Colonel Orr was the next speaker. He was also received in silence. Before he had spoken long, however, a predic tion of conservative success elicited a warm cheer from one wing of the gathering. He discussed the manage ment of the Coosaw case and the Agri cultural Hall case and claimed that b-oM fIbstratrthe - fact that the trouble with this Administration is too much politics and too little business. (Cheers.) He also analyzed the bank cases and directed attention to the fact that Pope, formerly of this Administra tion, now on the supreme bench, supporled the position of the banks. Governor Gary having brought up the question of reapportionment of repre sentation, Colonel Orr laughingly said he had started to acknowledge it in Hampton County, which had lost representation but he had always favored reapportionmen3t. The palliat ing circumstance in that matter w23s that some legislators had objected to taking representation from white coun ties to give it to negro counties. A man in tbe crowd interrupted Colonel Orr with a number of questions as to his holding office under a republican Administration. The speaker replied that he held the office of private secre tary under his father and the Admin istration had nothing to do with it. He had been a democrat ever since he was born. (Cheers.) In reply to a question about voting for a negro, Colonel Orr said he did not remember doing it. His recollection was, he said, that he favored the reappointment of a negro jury commissioner in A nderson because the rn had helped the demo crats to carry the county for the first time in six or eight years. He was not ashamed of it and under the same circumstances would do the same thing* again. (Cheers.) He referred at some length to the war on the judges and legislature. He protested against the three dollar poll tax and said the result would be that scores of men in every county would be put in jails for tax payers- to support. Governor Tillman was next intro duced and was greeted with cheers, profonged but not especially hearty. A large proportion of the crowd evidently determined to give the Governor every possible encouragement. He called for all who intended to vote for Sheppard to hold up their hands. About twenty bands went up amid much laughter. One anti called out that some of that side were modest. The Governor said he never knew a man on that side to have any modesty. (Laughter and cheers.] He was askedi f he_hqd s'id he had his boys in his"%reeches pocket. The fellows on thbe other side were the ones he had in his breeeches pocket. SHe said he seemed in i890- to be the only mxan with pluck and nerve and brains to lead and did lead. He review ed with much sarcasm the call of the last Marc.h Convention. His victory, he said, had been a victory of the peo ple. Thirteen men of the old school who believed the people lacked the intelligence to rule had called that convention. He ridiculed the failure to demand a primary, and directed a good deal of sarcasm against Thbe Green ville News, The State and Orr and Sheppard. He said the March Convention was three-fourths Democratic and one fourth Haskellite. (A voice: "Was the March Convention of 1S90 all Demo cratic?") Tillman replied that there might have been one or two ring, streaked and striped Republicans. He believed there was a man among them nmed Russell; who was a kind of frce lance or crank. He made a heavy assault on the conservatives, claiming that they had the same spirit as the old ring, dir' .usting the intelligence and character of the people. He said the State expressed their feeling when it said its editor could be induced to vote fur Tillman only if a negro ran against him. He said the conservatives hated him because he was the embodi inent of popular government. They tried to work the Alliance against him, had tried to make dickers, had offered the governorship nomination to half a dQzen men of his side.(voice: "None of them wanted it.") Tillman: "No, they knew as soon as they made a trade with Haskell they would have to go off with the sheep." A personal question arose between Tillman and Sheppard the former claiming that the latter at Greenville had compared him with Scott, Chamberlain and Moses and by cousequence compared the people who supported him with negroes and radi cals. Sheppard denied it emphatically. Tillwan claimed that Sheppard refused to help him in 1888 and 1890 was for Earle against the farmers' movement and its candidate but in 189:2 climbed on the platform and asked for office on it. Orr was in 1886 against Sheppard, who then represented the Agricultural College and in 1SS8 was against Earle, who represented it. His actions belied his words. Tillman then proceeded to t review Orr's comments on him and the work of the March Convention. He ridiculed Orr and Sheppard and the proceedings of the Convention which nominated them. Here he was in his element and walked up and down, grImacing, changing his voice to ex press sarcasm and amusement, and t mimicing Colonel Orr. Orr, he said, I had not patriotism enough to run for t Governor but a-cepted the nomination I for Lieutenant Governor just to go around and make stump speeches. He went for Sheppard fiercely and said be occupied the pitiful' position of being the sixth man the anti's offered the nomination to. He said half the things eharged to him he was not responsible for because the other officers went ahead and did what they thought they should do without consulting him. So they had the right to do. He claimed as.to the Coosaw matter that the State had proposed to allow Coosaw to work t but urged that as a representative of . the people and the State he had no t right to barter and dicker and compro- t mise with corporations. The commis- t sion, in its action, had obeyed the let- s ter of the law. Orr had rebuked him for obeying the law in the Coosaw case and accused him of not obeying the f law in the Agricultural Hall case. He introduced a humorous statement about Youmans, who was to follow him, being about to "bust" with a speech. He claimed that the State's sixes had been run down by speculators, c who desired to profit by them. The four and a halfs were now at par due in twenty years. The State sixes were at ninety in March. (A voice: "Yout caused it t y starting the agitationt then.") Some confusion was caused by the persistent interruption of R T. Causey, an enthusiastic anti, who stood is ground, asked questions and inte~r jected comments. The Governor closed by a general ridicule of the coat tail swingers and asses in the legislature who had allowed themselves to be bamboozled and fooled by the news papers. Col. L. WV. You mans was the lasta speaker. He alluded to the governor's refusal to accept a glass of water and said water was not required to run a wind mill. He vigorously assailedc Gov. Tillman for his failure to enters the army. Tillman answered that was only a gag sprung on him by Haskell; that when the war closed he was flat of his back, a paralytic from an injury to his eye. You mans answered laconically and deliberately, with a deprecating bow, that it was very unfortunate,and pro eeded to ask by what commission this man who was flat on his back at the most critical and dangerous time in the life of the State, when many who were younger than he,were giving their lives in her cause, had relegated to the rear men who were at the front in that time of trial. He then proceeded to use Till man's methods against Tillman, only doing it more gracefully and effective ly. He arraigned Tillman first as a political leper, then as a political per jurer, trying him by his own standards and records. He was very cool, very esstic and very sarcasi.ic and soon had the crowd cheering and laughing at the governor's expense. He said her would deal very gently with the gov eror for fear he would claim that he bad been insulted, utter a whine and get up and leave as at Ridgeway. One one'JSoint tigy rose and said: f "If you want to discuss tbat I will ight you on it at Laurens." "To Laurens?" answered Youmans, deliberately. "No use to stop at Lau rens. I'll go over to North Carolina with you on it." (Cheers and laughter.)t Youmans repeatedly reassured the rowd that "the governor and I are not going to fight. Don't be scared. There's no danger. I'll keep strictly within thei li its.' But he did rub it in hot and hard. He was followed by Farley ini a warm speech in defence of Tillman and by\ Humbert in a brief practical talk to his fellow farmers in behalf of the conserv ative ticket. As usual both sides claim to be well pleased with the results of the meet ing. The conservatives came out of it in L.igh spirit and are quite confident in their claims that they will carry the I county. Governor Sheppard is suffering from a sore throat and did not speak to-day. He went to-night to address a meetinE at Brunson, where he was greeted a. be passed on the train this morning b3 a large assemblage, including man3 ladies and a number of handsome bou. quets. The Sheppard party are nearly smoth ered in flowers. The women seem tc be solid for them and as the women gr the State goes. The Greenville Newt has been honored both at Barnwell and here by several very beautiful and tiattering floral compliments. "Whither are we Drifting*" [Greenville News.] "It is needless for enthusiasts to tel ,he farmers that all this agitation and reform movement emanates from met whose desire is to work up the feeling o advar.ce their political chances, and hat this country of ours is all right. If uch was true, the exposure of such a 0igantic conspiracy would be easy; and ong ere this, such agitators would be -eceiving the condemnation they would iave well merited. Such charges are )ten made, and we suppose there arc few so blinded by pr(judice, and se ,redulous of the devilish machinations hat are stuffed into them by the State nd similar papers, that they really be ieve these stories. That this movement was born, nur ,ued and reared in the homes of the ommon people of the country, no nan who has studied it can deny. At irst, it was quiet and scarcely percepti )le, then gathered strength and a few ippies were seen, and not until the novement merged into a cyclone, weeping all before it, did the leaders ake their present places. In the sub odges of the Alliance, where the poli iciau neither suspected or feared op >osition and never entered, did it re eive its most bountiful nourishment. -The farmer had seen the mortgage nter his home and with sure but teady step gradually usurp a position rom which he could not dislodge it le kept his misfortune a secret from is neighbors, and the impression went broad the country was prosperous and tappy. When the grasp upon him ecame stronger, the farmer confided is trouble to his neighbors and asked id, but was met with the intelligence hat his neighbor "-as situated in just uch a position. An era of investiga ion set in, and it was found, that while hey thought the misfortune rested ipon themselves alone, a blight had truck the country, and it was all nortgaged! Then the storm gathered and its irst effective work was performed-the 'gitation was carried to the ballot >ox: He had rested his dependency on is crop of cotton, and found that with otton at 12 cents he could hold his wn. "But it dropped soon to ten cents, ndi he persevered. When it fell to eight and remained ere years, he found that it cost more o raise the staple than he could mar et it for, but with hopes that it would ach year agal go to its old price, he :ept on raising it-his only dependence -and was each year disappointed in mis receipts. The mortgage he had ~iven enlarged and became darker in ts import. But with this mortgage anging over him he must raise a nory crop. C .ton has at last fallen to six cents, ,nd -who can predict where it will nally rest? The reform movement is nothing mut the instrument by which the cause f this universal misfortune is being ought and corrected. Who can blame e farmer? He only wants relief, but 1e must have that. And until these are rectified vherever they may be situated-so ong will this agitation rage and be Its leaders may pass away and be orgotten, but, Freedom's battle once begun Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though oft deferred is ever w"n." rhe Bride Wouldn't Have It That Way. [New Haven Evening Register.1 A bashful and yo'uthful bridal couple romi the rural districts had a painful xperience at Danbury, circus day. [he young husband wrote his own ame and his wife's on separate lines mf the hotel register, and the purblind lerk assigned them to separate rooms. Each waited for the other to set the natter straight, but it was only after a errible lonesome hour that the bride >lucked up her courage and her mar 'iage certificate and descended to inter riew the clerk. She held out the doc iment mutely, and the situation at ast dawned upon him. The banished enedict was summoned from his se lusion, and the curtain fell amid pro use apologies. Happy Homes. Thousands of sad and desolate homes are been made happy by use of "Rose uds," which have proven an absolute ure for tbe following diseases and heir distressing symptoms. Ulceration, longestion and Falling of the Womb, )varian tumors, .Dropsy of the Womb, u ppressed Menstruation, Rupture at bildbirth, or any compl'.int originat ng in diseases of the reproductive or ans; whether from contagious diseases, eredity, tight-lacing, overwork, ex esses or miscarriages. One lady writes us that after suff'ering for ten years v'ith Leuchorrhea or Whites, that on'; pplication entirely cured her, and fur berore, she suffers no more pain luring the menstrual period. It is a conderfulregulator. " Rose Buds" are Ssimple, harmless preparation, but onderful in effect. The patient can upply it herself. No doctor's examnin tion necessary, to which all modest omen, especially young unmarried adies seriously object. From the first pplication you will feel like a new oman. Price $1.00 by mail, post-paid, ['he Leverette Specific Co., :339 V% ash The poor man cannot make a success ful tool unless he continues his comin up with a poor mouth holding on t the cry of hard times is here and wors is coming. Is not this true? Is ther no president in South Carolina whi started in life as sweeper in a cottoi mill? Art these men to be held up a opposing the poor? The president o this cotton mill would suffer himsell before he would see a people in his em ploy either oppressed or in a sufferin, condition. Tbere are less people in th poor house and penitentiary from cot ton mills than from any other soure in South Carolina. Then why dowi on a people who have done more fo the poor man and will do more for re form than any ring or rings in thi union? Our esteemed editor of the Newberr Observer truly said that poverty is ne cessary under the existing order o things. But the existing order o things is not necessary; and I beg t< differ with him a little, and say tha the existing order of things is ue2essarq under the existing order of the people but the existing order of the people i! not necessary. Poverty has always been in the past and the future we'll have the poo: among us. As I have already inti mated, if a man hasn't got anything it is surely because he does not want it I have heard men say, and men of ok age, that a nickel turned loose in thei; pockets almost burnt a bole in it Then some people without money ar happier than the millionaire with bi! millions. In this la.nd of liberty everl man has a chance to rise. It is truo that poverty is a hindrance in the be ginning, yet a safeguard for the future It is true tbat because some peopl are poor they have beer> wronged ou of their rights; and it is true that be cause some people are ri%;h they havo cheated the poor, bi:. when it come to a ring or a class of men reforming this state of things, they must firs sweep before their own doors. If Wal street and the millionaires of the worl to-day would "go and sell what thot hast and divide among the poor," it less than ten years there would be an other Wall street established, ten time greater than the Wall street of to-day under the existing order of the people And now, in a word, if we wouli have reform, let every laboring mat put up $50 at the end of the year, or a. much as he can for old hge, and ther we'll drain Wall street (if her million, and bring about such a reform as n< Government can produce. Yours for reform, M. G. BERRY. The Loves of Christopher Columbus. Among the earliest things learned a: school is that "in 1492 Columbus saile o'er the ocean blue" and discovere America; and every reminiscence of th4 event and of the great discoverer it being revived this quadri-centennia year. But with all we have heart comparatively little about Mrs. Chris topher Columbus, the faithful wife wh< inspired and encouraged Columbu through all his trials and disappoint ments, and helped him to his life'i great work. In Demorests FamilJ Magazine for July there is an especiall3 fine article, "The Loves of Christophe1 Columbus," which gives an interesting account of this phase of the life of thE great discoverer, the numerous illustra tions including copies of very rare old portraits, among them the most au thentic one of Columbus himself. Mrs Helen Campbell contributes one of hei realistic papers, "Child Life in thi lums of New York," which is embel lised with numerous characteristi< pictures. "How to Row without Teacher" is especially apropos; and with the plain directions, and about score of pictures to look at besides, one would not be very apt who could noi learn to manage a boat in a very shori time. Every lover of his country will be interested in the article on "ThE American Flag," which, besides th4 istoreal information about our "st.ar spangled banner," gives the fullest di. rection for making one at home, whiclh will reduce considerably ihe cost of it n addition, there are excellent storief y well-known writers. The numer us departments are particularly inter esting, and there are nearly 200 pic ures, including a full-page oil picture, -Luscious Fruits," which is a brilliani nd artistic picture of coloring. The subscription price to this magazine it nly $2 a year: single copies, 20 cents. Published by W. Jennings Demorest, 5 E. 14th st., New York City. Gov. Tillmnan in Repose. A. IB. Williams, in Greenville News.] The governor is provided, presum. ably for the campaign, with a helmet bat of yellowish brown adorned at the ummit with a knob, apparently in Lended for ventilation. It may be ~ooler than a wool hat, but it is not sc ~omfartable to travel in and less be oming. Nobody can repose on a car seat in a helmet and the governor ap pears to be fond of reposing while on bis travels. He had the appearance of being rather bored yesterday and reposed by bimself. It is not exactly, I judge, the repose that stamps the caste of Vere de Vere. It is difficult-and somewhat mproper-to imagine Lady Vere de Vere in public seated upon her spine and observing the fleeting landscape with her feet looking from the car windows. That was the governor's customary attitude as he journeyed and, presumably, gathered from his nemory and intellectual resources, new 4ores of rocks to be hurled against his m tmnists s-REFORM AD)MINUSTRATIO.N... "A Letter from a Cornnou Laborer of the Cotton Mils of Newberry." To the Editor of The State: Having never been interested in politics what ever, especially in the campaign of education, until two years ago; when we were told that we needed reform in our Government, when wE:e told that this Government was led by "ringters" of aristocracy who had bamboozled and defrauded the poor man out of his rights; and when we were told many other things with such firmness <, speech and audacity of manhood we were led to believe it must be true-we have seen the success of the reformers, and we have cume to the conclusion that it is an inevitable fact that there is a needed reform, and the cotton mill people of South Carolina will put forth an effort for the best men in the best place. What does reform administration mean? It has always been a truism that there is a calin after a storm. Then does a stormy campaign mean a reform administration? We remember well the storm of nearly two years ago; and yet, while this storm of bitterness, envy and strife has swept South Carolina from the mountains to the sea, it now seems that peace and unity would be our lot. But already the storm has begun. "Reform, Reform, Reform" not in the government, not in the pres ent administration; it must be in the campaign; for while the taxes of South Carolina have been increased, while the State house clerk is still wearing kid gloves, we do not hear no immense charges of "perjury" and "leprosy' in our government. But we do hear the same old song: Boys. you are working. hard. Ye sons of toil, you are still op pres ed ; your cotton mill people are working thirteen hours per day. What's the matter? You have got to give me the right men in the Legislature! Fellow-laborers of South Carolina, to this one point especially I ask your attention, for here lies the secret of reform, or rather non reform. What does right men in the Leisla lature mean-right men for Governor, or right men for the people? Right men for the Governor under the pres eut administration would mean a $3 poll tax imposed upon every laboring man in South Carolina; but is this a tax upon the people who are working thir teen hours a day? Is this a tax upon the "sons of toil" who are oppressed? 0, but some say this is a tax to reach the negro. Yes, it is a tax to edu cate his children, and it is a tax to make the white laboring class pay for it. Thou farmer, the reformers, of the present age; search South Carolina over and find a white laboring man who is not able to pay for his children's school ing ten months in the year would be able to send them free. In the pinch of the day the honest laboring man is compelled to keep his children at home in ceder to maintain his honesty in the future; but the negro will go to a free school if he has to live on crumbs from the rich man's table. Thus, it is very plainly seen who will get the benefit of a ten months free school. Then, so much for the $3 poll tax; so much for right men in the Legislature, and so much for reform. But why all this talk of reform, and rings, and banks, and corporations? Every man in South Carolina knows that Tillman was put forth and elected by the farmers movement. They well know that the order of this movement is down on "rings" and corporations and yet, while Tillman claims to be the best part of this movement, he has come forth and said openly and above board that two years ago he broke the so-called old ring to atoms and formed another ring. Then it now seems that there are two rings, and more offices estalished under the existing order of the day. But while Tillman has formed a ring he may be able to form a bank, and perhaps in the not far distant- fu ture he may form a cotton mill, and when he does that I want to be among the first to get a job, it will be a soft place for the poor laboring people. And now, why all this talk about poor :people being op)pressed? I am poor, yet it is of little fault but my own, and when a man or an office-seeker omes along and tells me. that I am poor, and that he sympathizes with my condition in life, and the only hope for me is to vote for him in the next elec tion, to help put him into office (anC relief will come) I have more sympathy for him than he has for me. What do those men mean that the poor people shall get better pay for their labor, or do they mean that the honest laboring man shall not work atall-that he shall be supported by the Government the balance of his days? In this prosperous land of ours there are men of education, men of ambition, who would have us believe these things; but when it comes to the test they would have us just as we are, only a little poorem, because we cast the vote on the election day. If, on the other hand, the bank presidents and the cotton mill presidents and the richer class of people wielded the vote, the song would be sung in a different tune. There would not be so much talk of poor people being oppressed. t would not matter so much about cotton mill people working thirteen hours a day. But as bank presidents nd cotton mill presidents poll but a few votes in South Carolina, under the ruling ring of reform, they are unhon ored and unsung. Then does not the present attitude of things prove that these men, who claim to be in sympathy with the poor an would not have him any richer? - COrTONATTHREEAND A HAL CENrS pe -- sp By Proper Cultivation It 'Can be Ralsed at a Prost at Those Figures. a ac [News and Courier.] In a recent interview in the Atlanta fo Constitution Mr. R. T. Nesbitt, the ol Georgia commissiotner of agriculture, o asserted that recent experiments had CO shown that "where land has been prop- av erly treated," a yield of one bale of of cotton can be made at a cost of 3 cents a pound. As authorities for the state- bi ment Commissioner Nesbitt named tb Col. R. J. Redding, director of the r Georgia Experimen t Station, and Col. ac Felix Corput, of Floyd County, "one of the most active aad successful farm- tic ers in the State, and a business man of be large experience." The statement of ea cost was challenged by Mr. S. M. In- m man, on account of its probable effect sic on the cotton market, and he suggested e that "some of the items of cost must n have been left out," and asked for the W1 figures so that they could be tested by qu the experience of others. rej Commissioner Nesbitt in replying G( first reminds his correspondent that, in in his original statement, he had said Cu that "it is only after years of prepara- sa tion of the land by other crops that Gs cotton can be produced at the low fig- ch ure of three or four cents," and then co gives Col. Corput's statement in detail, th which is substantially as follows: 4 c COST OF CULTIVAT[ON AND PROCEEDS ne FROM TWENTY-EIGHT ACRES ba IN COTTON. us Turning land, I man and 3 horses, 24 de days, at $3 per day$ 7200 Harrowing with disc,lman3horses, - 4days,at$3 per dsy 12 00 Laying off, 1 man, 1 horse, 4 days, at $1.25 per day..... Cr Distributing fertili zers,1 man,1 horse, las 5 days, at $1.25 per ba day .................... 6 .5 Listing on fertilizers I man, I horse, 8 tb days, at $1.25 per 1br day ..................... Bedding with ore horse turners, 1 I man, I horse, 9 days at $1.25 p1er th day ............. 11.l Running out mid- ha dles,1 man,lhorse, of 4 days, at $1.25 per day............. 0 11.0a Planting.fe Harrowing do0vn fi[ bed,1 man,lIhorse M( 5 days, $1.295 per day............... $ 6 25 Distributing fertili- tel zers,1 Ma5,1 horse, .5 days, at $1.25 per day ............. 625 Planting and cover- lla ing,1 manj1 ho--se, 5 days, at $1.,95 per 6 2 .5 25bushels-*z1er t*)ot Iton seed at 35cents 1 per bushel.......... 8 75 c 5 bushelsTruitt vari-ch ety cotton seed1 at Ge $1 er ushl 0 00 ae 1 tonof cttonredcT dal.............. 75 0-$20a Mixilganove g. 2 00 Handrtoiagsist wt an fetier, a, hors pln,5 days, ape 7.5 cents...e..........$- 11 3 " Disributingcfetini spro,m1 mars, 1b hos4days, 2 per da............. 500.. 5Plountings 2n fuvr i1 ors,1 ods, 25 days'hoeing,2atper t er busher.......... 7 v ecotton 4seeksa pate,atd $15.75 er p ond of cotton t dredl..........$232 Hauing baes of... cotond to assis ih 6fuerilies ad $1.45nter bdle.. 8at t Toll fr gi~ ingia 1-2th6.. 2503 $38 c r 30baesofcoto, 8v 75anc pounds 13380 pond,a 71cnt 75 w perpond . 1,00 m 7cents peroday... 12 75 $1 to1 " 15rrownsgo cotton n1 hose,da ys,~e 172t ) ton.5.pr.da..... Ttalougins,2 fur rostrow,1ares$118 9,a $1.o5 per dacr........5 The fys'egoing,sow athtec acr conts perda .. Foheopp tong helne aoto., ...4...w4eksth Folat9nay, atdig,frt75 cens e. ay..t..... .. For ultiatio abut....... 27 For he atheing giz~in, ba- te inget., bot.........1 70a The ntie cst o crp pr ace $2 t8 Thegros ernigs f ech cre$42 ve Thenetproit romeac ace $9 ye follows:an Itered thain antund ining. thee orssund ofubcotodn saefurw nh ath two hrens, r ba s fbu i r acre. In the following, or second ring, I planted it in corn and peas; thered something over twenty-seven d one-half bushels of corn to the re, and saved about one hundred and ty bushels of peas. That fall and lowing sping seeded it to wheat and ts, and sowed it in clover. No ac unt was kept of this year's crop, but m then until turned last fall has eraged a yearly cutting of two tons clover hay per acre. The field is w in wheat, and will be brought ck to clover the coming spring. In e last seven years have used about e loads of barnyard manure to the re. rhis statement places all the condi ns of making the 3.1 cents crop fully fore our agricultural readers, and will able them to form their own judg nt as to the significance of Commis ner Nesbitt's showing, which is re iving a great deal of attention just ,w in all parts of the country. Those io are interested in studying the estion will find further information ;arding it in Bulletin No. 16 of the orgia Experiment Station, and also the April number of the Southern iltivator. Commissioner Nesbitt-also Fs that Mr. Truitt, of Troup County, i., who, we believe, is one of the ronic prize-winners in all agricultural mpetitions in his State, claims at "his cotton never costs him over ents," and the commissioner has a ighbor "who last fyear "made eight les on four acres that have been grad Iy brought up to a high state of pro ctiveness," and who made a good al of money even with the low price cotton." [t should be carefully noted in all se instances that the yield of cotton r acre is very high. Col. Corput's )p on twenty-eight acres averaged re than a bale per acre and in the t instance cited the crop was two les per acre. Taking these facts into asideration with the well known fact At the average product per acre is out one-third of a bale, and there is ily no reason, we think, to fear that e publication of Col. Corput's ac ants will effect the price of cotton in e slightest degree. It would not itter much if he could raise cotton at If a cent a pound so long as the secret the process remained with him; and the secret of raising it at three or ir cents a pound appears to be con ed to him and two or three, at the >st, of fellow farmers, their success n only have a purely speculative in -est of the country at large. WHAT A CONTRAST. seorgia Rallroad and a Bale of Cotton Fifty-five Years Ago. LFlowery Brauch (Ga.) Journal.] ome fifty-five or sixty years ago a arter was granted to a company in -orgia called the Monroe Railroad d Banking Company. Iey started to build a railroad from icon in the direction of Atlanta. tey succeeded in graing the road to ere Griffin is now (there was not ch there then), and laying the track d running the train to Barnesville. Tnder the financial pressure of the rash" of 1337 the bank broke and erations on the road building were pended. The reason why I remem eit so distinctly, about all the money circulation in this section was on it bank, so you may imagine I felt it ry keenly, and have not forgot it riffin being a little trading point, d anxious for railroad facilities, pre iled on the company to lay down lden stringers and run a train to iffin for their accommodation. the tive power to drive or pull this train ing five stout mules. It was a novel ht, in those days, to see that mule in leave, loaded with round cotton some of you never saw a round bale cotton. Let me tell you how they re packed. There is a hole cut rough the gin house floor, the bag ig is sewed together at the edges and o yards long. One end is sewed up d a hoop sewed to the other end, then >pped through the hole in the floor, hoop just catching on the floor, the k suspended under the gin house. e darky would fill the sac ; with lint, d with crow bar in hand, would jump and pack it down with the crowbar, ating the operation until filled, aping the bagging wet on the out e so as to pack it tight. forgot to say that a hand ful of cot seed is tied up in each corner to ke luga to lift it by. When filled it s cut down, sewed up and was ready market. The usual weight wa ut three hundred pounds. A good ad would pack two bales a day. he mule train was run for several rs and was an important factor in first building up of Griffin. At gth the Monroe ra'ilroad was sold by sheriff' at Zebulon and bought by ompany who changed the name to Macon & Western, and completed road to Atlanta, as quick as money labor could do it. It Means Trouble for One. (Chicago Mail.] )id you ever hear a barber call out nakes!" instead of the old-fashioned ext?" If so, you probably imagined Lt it was an exhibition of good na ed hilarity on the part of the barber, nothing more. Well, you were staken then. "Snakes" means some ng to every barber who hears it. It sigLal by which the barber who it lets his fellow-workmen know t the man who is about to take the r. doe not bestow "tipr' or miani THE END OF THE WORLD. A Calculation as to How Long Before It Will Come. [Fortnightly Review.] There is a distinct limit to man's existence on the earth, dictated by the ultimate exhaustion of the sun. It is, of course, a question of much interest for us to speculate on the probab'e duration of thesun's beams in sufficient abundance for the continued mainte nance of life. Perbaps the most reliable determinations are those which have been made by Prof. Langley. They are based on his own experiments upon the intensity of solar radiation, con ducted under circumstances that give them special value. I shall endeavor to give a summary of the interesting re sults at which he has arrived. The utmost amount of heat that it would ever have been possible for the sun to have contained would supply its radiation for 1S,000,000 years at the present rate. Ofk course, this does not assert that the sun, as a radiant body, may not be much older than the period named. We have already seen that the rate at which the sunbeams are poured forth has gradually increased as the sun rose in temperature. In the early times the quantity of sunbeams dis pensed was much less per annum than at present, and it is therefore quite possible that the figures may be so en larged as to meet the requirements of any reasonable geological demand with regard to past duration of life on the earth. It seems that the sun has already dissipated about four-fifths of the ener gy with which it may have orig;nally been endowed. At all events, it seems that, radiating energy at its present rate, the sun may hold out for 4,000,000 years or for 5,000,000 years, but not for 10,000,000 years. Here, then, we discern in the remote future a limit to the dura tion of life on this globe. We have seen that it does not seem possible for any other source of heat to be available for replenishing the waning stcres of the luminary. It may be that the heat was originally imparted to the sun as the result of some great collision be tween two bodies which were both dark before the collison took place, so that, in fact, the two dark masses coalesced into a vast nebula from which the whole of our system has been en volved. Of course it is always conceiv- . able that the sun may be reinvigorated by a repetition of a similar starting pro cess. it is, however, hardly necessary to observe that so terrific a convulsion would be fatal to life in the solar sys tem. Neither from the heaveas above, nor from the earth beneath, does it seem possible to discover any rescue for the human race from the inevitable end. The race is as mortal as the in dividual, and so far as we know, its span cannot under any circumstances be run out.beyond a number of millions of years which can certainly be told on the fingers of both hands, and probably on the fingers of one. THEY WEAR SUsPENDERS. That la Now the Latest Fad In the sum mer Girl's Dress. [Richmond Times.! Have you seen the very latest fad inl the summer girl's dress? It is the sus pender decoration. The dear girls have been invading man's domain at an alarming pace. First it was regular picadilly collars, next came tue sailor hat; then the sailor waists, a turn down collar and four-in-hand tie. Now, heaven save the mark, suspenders! Where will it end! The suspender is already here, and may be seen, if you watch closely, nearly every day over the graceful shoulders (and some ungraceful) of a few of the belles who promenade the down town streets. Yesterday a young lady, well known here as a leader in society and fashions, appeared on Broad and Franklin streets wearing over her dress waist a beautiful pair of black suspenders, with belt attach ments. People stopped in their walk to look. Mfany could scarcely believe their own eyes, and their look grew into an open stare, and she strolled leisurely along, apparently enjoying to the fullest the sensation she knew she was creating. The uninitiated gasped fer b,reath, while others only smiled, for they saw ini that costume the beginning of the mid summer craze. The suspender, it seemis, was worn in London -md Paris by the belles last season, and has now found its way into the- American millinery shops. The "suspender costume" is now an estab lished one, and many will be seen at the seaside resorts during the coming season. In New York and Brooklyn several such costumes have been worn n the streets, and ibere they no longer give men nervous shocks, but con)serv ative Richmond has not yet taken them up to any great extent, and an ther season will probably roll around before she does. . Stopping a Customer En Route. From the Washington Evening Star.] Yesterday afterno,>n a Maryland far mer who was waiting for thle train to leave for New York was accosted by Detective McDevi:r, who finally Itarned that the gentleman from the rural districts was going to New York with $400) in his pocket to buy "green goods." The farmer said that the gent of thle gwen goods man would eet him at Summlerville. McDevitt sent the farmer back to his family, and saved him the loss of his money and the xpenses of his trip. He says that men may be seen at the depot9. every day n their way to deal in "green goods." Only One Solution. Brookly'n Life.] Briggs-Whait did Blankington get a divorce for? n,.;gg --His cok th reat e:' d to leave.