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New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1885-04-22

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llshoes. hats, etc. Main, cor bridge. ct.
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A Queer Scene in Court.

FeRT WORTH TEXAS, June 20.-A
fight occurred in the District Courtroom
last night which came near resulting
fatally. The trial of young Stephens,
charged with the murder of DR.. Wallace,
at Mansfield, in this county, had just
opened, the entire day having been spent
in impanelling jury. The attorneys
were tired and petulant. Henry Fur>
man, the leading counsel for the defence,
became embroiled in controversy with
County Attorney Bowlin, and they final.
ly came to blows. Every one expected
to see double tragedy. The Courtroom
was quickly emptied. Both men were
undoubtedly armed, and each only wait
ing for the other to draw. In the midst
of this confusion Judge Beckman leaped
from the bench into the arena. AS he
did so, Lawyer Weare, who is associated
with Bowlin in the prosecution, excited
ly struck the Judge very severe blow
under the ear. The Court was dazed for
an instant, but being a powerful man
instantly recovered his balance and let
fall a sledge-hammer blow that prostra-
ted Lawyer Weare. Turning his atten-
tion to the principal combatants, who
by this time had clinched and were com.
mitting mayhem upon one another's ears
and cheeks, the Judge commanded the
jury to arise and quell the riot. At the
same time the Court seized one of the
combatants and two jurymen another,
thus separating them. Furman and
Bowlin were fined $50 each for contempt,
after Which the Court Immediately
adjourned, as all the combatants were
bleeding profusely. The Court did not
fine Lawyer Weare. 1t is feared the
feeling engendered will yet result in a
tragedY.
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Kainit as a Manure.

DR.. Lucius, the the Prussian minister
of agricultural affairs, spoke as follows
at the sitting of the House of Deputies
on the 18th March, 1885;
Regarding the matters mentioned by
Deputy Schultz.1upitz, can only glad
ly state that all those agricultural meas.
ures, in the furthering of which the
ministry of agriculture is particularly
interested, are on his part also zealously
supported to the advantage of agriculture
at large. I can only acknowledge that
the application of artificial manures,
more especially of Kainite, for provinces
and districts with light sandy soils, is of
the highest importance, and it affords
me very great pleasure to see that Deputy
Schultz-Lupitz has such personal and
important practical results to bring be-
fore us, thereby rendering valued ser.
vices to agriculture. The results that
have been produced on light soils with
artificial manures, especially With Kainite,
are certainly in the highest degree sur
prising, and it is quite right, and will
we'll repay the trouble, to enuuerate
them here in order to call the attention
of that part of the population whom it
may concern to what may thus he at
tanned.
"Duripg last summer, in Nennhausen,
here in the Mark, I WAS personally able
to see what wonderful effects can be pro-
duced in a movable sandy soil with arti-
fetal manure; in considering which,
however, we must presume that, at the
proper time, rain does not completely
fail, as was the Gaze in this instance. l
have seen adjacent fields, one belonging
to peasant proprietor and the other to
wealthy landowner. Whilst on the
one hand there was perfect wood of
rye, standing to mans height, and upon
shifting sandy soil harvest was about
to be reaped which could be estimated at
not much less than 1916 centner pro
morgen, (equal to about $3.50 bushels
per acre. alongside of it, and merely
divided by shallow furrow, the, peasant
proprietor's field, whose soil had the
same properties, stood there in all its
miserable poverty, with crop Of at most
2-3 centner pro morgen, (equalto about
CLIO bushels per acre.
Son the occasion of my inspection, 1
remarked that the edge of the .ield be.
longing to the peasant proprietor showed
a greatly increased growth where, as a
few PAGES further on, the falling off was
very marked. inquired the reason of
this from the inspector who accompanied
me, and be informed me that this tract
of land was used for beating out the
sack of Kainite in distributing the dung,
and it is probably that the better condi.
tion of this part of the field was entirely
due to The Kainite which had fallen off
during the process of beating out the
sacks. have never seen such tangible
proof of what it is possible to attain in
this way"
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Judge Foraker, the Republican
nominee for governor of Ohio, received
a letter of congratulation from James g.
Blaine recently. in which was an offer
from that gen nan to stump Ohio for
Foraker this Fall.
The Grecnvile Nevs says: "Bv
tue way, what has become Of ]. Hendrix
McLane and the Greenback party in the
present crisis? They seem to have dis.
appeared from the very face of the earth
since the November cyclone, and even
their memory is becoming indistlnct."
= Spartanburg Herald: The six car.
rier pigeons, liberated on Monday, Sth
inst. at G o'clock y. m, by express agent
]. d. Steen, on the top of the Palmetto
House, reached Baltimore, Md, at p.
m. the same day, notwithstanding sta the
day was stormy and rainy. The distance,
air line, is about 500 miles, being an
average Of fifty miles an hour for the
birds,
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A fife and Baby for 500.

CLEVELAND, June 19.-Henry Sauer-
bier, wife and baby arrived here from
Logan, Ohio, and put up at the Empire
House. To-day burly Irishman, also
from Logan, put in appearance and had
a conference with Sauerbier. The result
of the meeting was the sale of Sauerbier's
wife and baby to Mcfarland for 500.
Sauerbier at first wanted more money,
but Mcfarland refused to raise his bid.
Last night Mcfarland, the woman and
the infant returned to Logan, while
Sauerbier took a train for Chicago. The
deal was genuine one, and is vouched
for by the landlord of the hotel, who
heard the trade talked over and saw the
written agreement.
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: 1t is said, on the best authority, tina

1t is said, on the best authority, that
President Cleveland and the Administra-
ton are entirely and absolutely opposed
to all acquisitions Of territory, whether
of Cuba or parts Of Mexico or elsewhere:
TIE President feels very strongly and
positively on this point: He believes
that we have now as much territory and
as LARGE mass of illiterate and incon-
gruous material in our population as we
Can G safely manage. He is totally oppos.
ed to an aggrandizing foreign policy and
believes that we have work enough to do
at home in reforming our home Admins
tration.
Thirty. six out Of the one hundred
and thirty.two applicants fer admission
to the West point academy have been
found deficient. Among the successful
ones is Andrews, colored applicant from
South Carolina.
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Cursing the Judge.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, June 19.--Frank
Whitney and Charles Daniels, convicted
burglars, were arraigned in the criminal
court yesterday. When Judge Norton
asked Whitney if he had anything TO
say why sentence should not be pro-
nouuced, the prisoner sprang to his feet,
abused the court with volley of
profanity, and then tearing away from
the bailiAf, hurled q pair of handouts at
the Judge. The missile passed over the
judges head, spattering the heavy plate
glass. Whitney turned 6ercely upon
the police, and had to be soundly beaten
before he was subducd. His friends in
the court room pressed into the prisoners
box, and the officers were finally COM
pelled to draw their revolvers. The two
men we're handcuffed and taken to Mich
igan City prison.
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Women to Oppose Foraker:

CLEVELAND, O., June 16.-The State
Convention of the Ohio Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union unanimously
agreed to oppose the Republican party,
and particularly Mr.. Foraker, rho won
their disapproval by running on the
liquor tax platform two years ago and
consenting to run on q similar platform
this year. Forty eight of the delegates,
although voting to oppose the Republi'
cans, were opposed to the resolution
committing the union to lend its aid to
the Prohibitionists. The Republicans
are very Indignant, and have dubbed the
union the Democratic Aid Society.
Several of the union delegates who were
opposed to going back on the Republi-
cans were actuated by the fear that it
would cut off much of the revenue which
the organization has heretofore obtained.
"We realize that such will be the fe::
suit" said Miss Pugh, the Secretary and
Treasurer, "but if we are to get anything
we must get it through votes. The rep
resentatives of the old parties who 60 to
the Legislature, be they ever so ardent
temperance men, will not dare go beyond
the platform of their parties, and hence
we have decided to do our utmost to
lend our aid to the Prohibiticnists and
to oppose the Republicans this fall. We
will prosecute an active campaign"
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CIRCULAR LETTER.
Joint Summer Meeting of the State AerI-
cultural and Mechanical Society and the
State Grange.

Arrangements have been perfected with
the Railroad authorities for free passage
for three delegates from each County
Agricultural Society or Climb to the joint
Summer meeting of this Society and of
the State Grange to be held at Bennetts.
vile, Marlboro County, on Wednesday,
the fifth of August next. Each County
Agricultural Society is invited and re.
quested to be represented at the meeting.
Where there is no such County Associa-
ton, farmers Club or Society it is de-
sired that steps for such organization be
taken at once; that meeting of citizens
be called say salesday in July to select
three delegates to the Summer meeting
and inform me at once of the names of
delegates so chosen 80 that the necessary
arrangements may be made for transpor.
tation, and homes assigned.
The name of each delegate with post.
Office address, should be plainly written.
These annual Summer meetings are
becoming more interesting, and are i'm.
portant factors, educationally and other.
wise, in connection with the Annual
State Fair in developing by experience
as we'll as observations the varied resour.
ces of our State. 1t is hoped, therefore,
that the meeting at Bennettsville will be
we'll attended by all interested in the
cause of Agriculture and thus give a
further impetus to the efforts of our peo.
pie in attaining the highest round in the
ladder of prosperity and happiness.
The Pee Dee section is little known to
our Piedmont people, and a visit to the
County of the State claiming, and no
doubt justly 80, the credit of being fore.
most in cotton culture; with her broad
level fields; thrifty population and un.
bounded hospitality Of her citizens will
insure to the Agriculturists Of our State
a pleasant recreation from their busy and
trying experiences at home and furnish
them q delightful impetus for the compile.
ton of their labors.
We have the assurance of full dele
CATION from our sister State Georgia,
whose presence and the benefit of their
counsel will add still more to the inter.
esting occasion.
By order of the President.
@ THos. w. HOLLOWAY,
e.. Secretary.
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- In speaking of cruelty to convicts,
the Abbeyille Press and Banner says ::
The air is full of reports as to cruelty OF
treatment In the management OF convicts
now at work on the Savannah Valley
Railroad, and the many deaths that have
occurred there Of late would seem to give
8 coloring of truth to these reports. One
instance Of cruelty was shown, when out
of a squad of eight returning from work
one escaped, and the next morning the
remaining seven were whipped so unmer-
cifully that one of them has been too
disabled to work since. If one half of
what has been said of the management
of these conyicts is true, it is a disgrace
to our civilization to allow continuance
of this barbaric treatment.
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Returned ta,i; from Louisiana.

Lucy Blackwell, colored, arrived in
town last Monday on, her return from
Louisiana. Her family aud. forty.three
other families, numbering oyera hundred
souls. left the city of Anderson, in
March, 1884, in; high hopes of finding
great prosperity and happiness on the
farms of Louisiana, but her recital Of
facts show how greatly they have been
disappointed.
On their arrival, in Louisiana, at the
point for distribution among the planters,
the following named persons went to
what she terms the Lyon farm, viz:
Edmund Blackwell, wife and four
children-Edmund Blackwell and two of
his children are dead
Edward Davis, wife, and eight chill,
dren-all dead.
June Sanders-dead.
Andrew Walsteine-dead.
Solomon Bowen and wife-both dead
died the same day.
Edmund Bowen dead.
b. B. Session-dead. he left wife
and family in Abbeville County.
Davis Jones, wife, and seven children
AL; dead. 81
Luck Blackwell reports that out of the
whole forty -four families, who left An.
derson in in, March, 1884, the following
named are all who are still alive, and
they have returned to their homes, or as
nearly so as their limited means would
allow:
Lucy Blackwell and two children
came to Abbeyille.
Josh Jones, wife and two children
went by Seneca City, on Air Line Road.
George Davis, wife and two children
stopped at Tocoa City for want of money
to pay passage for the remainder of the
way.
Lucy Blackwell spoke lightly of the
scenes of sickness and death through
which she had passed, and spoke enthu.
siasiically of the crops which she left
in that wonderful country, of which she
seemed to know so little. She could
give no idea ss to what part Of the State
she went to-, and could only describe the
location as the "Lyon Farm" She is q
ginger. cake colored woman, having two
children of darker hue. She wore a
white "Mother Hubbard" dress, and was
the observed of all observers, while she
took great pleasure in rcc;ting the facts
above stated.-Ab5eviNe Press and Ban
ner.
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The Lash.

The bastinado in the East is said to
be prepotent in the correction of indiyid-
ual crime. Even Mr.. Bergh admits that
no man punished that way once ever has
need of second dose for similar offence.
Delaware has found her whipping post
the best corrective of certain crimes, and
so has England. Men who did not grieye
at imprisonment or transportation were
cowed by personal chastisenent. The
very sight of cat O. nine. tails became
an incentive to virtue. Maryland has
revived corporal punishment for wife.
beating, and the law is enforced. The
first person punished was q negro. The
second is white man highly connected,
who brutally assailed bis wife when she
most required his tenderest affection.
He has been sentenced to one years in.
generation and twenty lashes we'll laid
on his bare back. It is said that fine and
Imprisonment had no terrors for him, but
he broke down at the whipping.
Not few of the papers, East and
West, that set up such howl over the
punishments of slave times in the South,
are beginning to recognize the efficacy of
the whipping post, especially in cases of
cruelty and outrage toward women. The
human brute stalks about multitudin0us-
ly East and West, and the best way to
subdue him and protect the female is
seen to be bodily castigation. There
would be fewer bestial crimes and fewer
lypchings if the law inflicted upon the
sensual villain irrespective of color, a
sound thrashing.
We would not be surprised if much of
the juvenile depravity of the day had
been caused by neglect of the good old
Bible precept of rod discipline; and 1t
seems to be stern and imperative neces'
sity to introduce the lash for punishment
of certain classes of hardened and mature
oAendes.-Augusta Chronicle.
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Loring and his Loot.

WASHINGTON, June 1S.-The Post
says that first, comptroller Durham has
officially requested DR.. Loriug, ex com:
missioner of agriculture, to make good
his accounts, so that the business of his
department may be closed. The same
paper states that DR.. Loring has recently
transferred property in this city to John
A. Loring, of Boston, consisting of the
house in which he resides and the lot on
X street. DR.. Loring is held response
bic for an item of about $30, 900, expend-
ed for seeds in excess of the seed appro.
priation. The money was taken from
other funds of the department.
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"A colored preacher, who had been
put on trial before a jury in DarieD, Ca,
for some offense. was brought in not
guilty the other day. The defendant
said "Read that again." "Not guilty."
was repeated. With spring be bounded
into the air, giving vent to religious ejac-
ulations. The colored women, who
crowded the court room, set up hallelu.
iah chorus, in which the preacher Joined,
and the judge had to sit still and let them
have it out.
The people of Pickens County be-
lieye in railroads, and are willing to pay
for their building. They are now paying
a tax of 81 mills on the dollar on account
of their subscription to the Air Line
road, and in several townships they have
recently voted to be taxed 5 per cent.
upon their property for the purpose of
completing the Carolina, Cumberland
Gap and Chicago road.
"A special from Dalton, Ga, says
that Lem Jones, disreputable citizen of
Spring Place, Murray County, Ga, who
has persisteutly refused to provide for his
family, was taken from his home OIL Sat-
urday night and terribly fogged by a
party of twenty masked men. He was
told that if he did not do better the dose
would be repeated.
1t is reported that General G. W. @.
Lee had resigned the Presidency Of the
Washington and Lee University at Lex.
ington, Va. 1t is stated tonight, upon
the highest authority, that General Lee
has rendered his resignation in conse.
quence of i'll health, but it is believed
that some arrangement will be made to
relieve him.
j Five hundred and forty-one Nor
mons sailed from Europe on Saturday,
bound for the United States. The ma
trimonial industry in this country can
never thrive so long as the monopolist
Saints are allowed to import pauper
wives free of duty. A prohibitory tariff
should be promptly enacted for the pro-
lection of the home market.
Agriculture must have been in
backwad state in the eighteenth century,
on the banks of the Potomac, since, it is
now stated that George Washington had
one hundred cows and yet was compelled
to buy butter. That reads more like a
Texas than a Maryland yarn.
George A. Flyers. of Baltimore, a
white man, has been convicted of beating
his wife while she was in delicate con.
dition of health. He was sentenced to
receive fifteen lashes, and to four months
in Jail. sHe is the second white man
sentenced TO the lash for wife beating.
1t is estimated that forty leading
hotels in New York entertained au aver.
age of 5000 transient guests daily. In.
cluding the lodging houses, it is believed
that not less than $4,000 transient guests
find resting place in New York every
night.
1t is said that 955 farms in Iowa are
owned by women, and that twenty dairy
farms are managed by women. There
are 125 women physicians and five women
attorneys .at-law in the State.
= BY actual count said to have been
made there recently, 22.9O8 vehicles
passed certain point on Broadway, New
York, between tho hours of Z a. m. and
6 p. m.
= Five colored school teachers have
been indicted at the present term of
court in Aiken for forgery.
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THE HALL sELF-FEEDING COTTON GIN,

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Remarkable Stalk of Cotton.

Mr.. G. X. Williams sent the Register
yesterday stalk of upland cotton taken
from thirty acre field near Gadsden,
some twenty miles below this city. The
stalk is a remarkable one for any season
in this vicinity. 1t is, by careful meas
urement, thirty-two inches in height, and
by close count has fifty forms and two
blooms The stalk appears to US to be
hybrid of the cluster and common varie.
ty. 1t has evidently made rapid gfowth
in the last fifteen days, as is shown by
the openness of its limbs. Such stalk
would reach over FIVE feet in height by
the 4th of July. A field of such cotton
should have FIVE feet between the rows
and nothing less than three feet between
the stalks. This would give about 5000
stalks to the acre. With 100 good
average pods gathered to the stalk this
would show 100000 pods gathered, and
with 100 pods to the pound of cotton in
the seed, just 900 pounds of lint, or two
good marketable bales of $50 pounds
each.
In crops of such growth distance is all
important and no crop of rank growth
can possibly make anything like full
yield without it. We recall here an
incident often told as an illustration of
courage in handling cotton crops Of
abnormal growth. The late Captain
Huguenin, of Upper St. Luke's, had a
field of cotton on Bear Island. Year
after year he had lost crops upon it owing
to overgrowth, though the plants prom.
ised an overwhelming yield One season,
when most promising, he made close
inspection of the field, accompanied BY
his experienced oyerseer and trusted
driver. He saw an immense growth and
at once ordered everySther stalk cut out
with sharp axe, 80 as not to disturb the
roots of the remaining plants. He
visited the field again shortly afterwards
and seeing still an enormous growth be
ordered, against the strenuous protesta-
tious of the overseer and driver, every
third row cut out. The result was an
enormous crop, and Bear Island proved
gold mine ever afterwards. Other
planters on the coast had the same ex.
perience, and it is well known that in
the Mississippi bottoms the distance
between the rows is six aud seven feet,
with full distance between plants on the
row. There can be no doubt about it,
the cotton plant must have sun and air,
and if it is crowded it will not often give
half the yield that it would with proper
space.
sOf course this matter requires judg.
ment and that common sense in the con.
duct of the crop, which is worth piles of
all other sense to any planter.
We would like to see two acres of this
thirty-acr field experimental on-one of
them given the usual distance and the
other stretched to the utmost distance
which judicious experience would
warrant Columbia Register.
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EssAy1srs AND SUBJECTS.

-: ESSAY loI5 AMI oOoJLCAo'
Col. Thomas j. Moore, Spartanburg
Tobacco, the kind to be grown on the
different soils of the State.
Fl. B. Buist, Esq, Greenville-Grape
Culture and wine manufacture.
E. L. Rivers, Esq, James Island
Best and most economical method of
Drainage and Irrigation. -.
Washington A. Clark, Esq, Columbia
Thoroughbred Cattle. @
DR.. P. E.. Chazal, State Chemist, Co.
lumbia-Fertilizers best suited to the
agricultural products on the different
soils of our State.
SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION.
The preparing and growing Winter
forage crops.
Secretary S. A. & M. S. and S. G.