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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
OUR OLD FRIEND JUTE.
Cotton BaGGing Allowable but Likely
to Take Back Seat.

ATLANTA, GA, April 1.-The Far
mers' Alliance and the jute bagging
trust have made peace.
The proposition of the Cordage Bag
ging company to supply bagging at g.
CENTS per yard Of u pounds, 6a cents
for II, Il cents for = and = cents for q
has been accepted.
These are maximum prices and COM
petition may reduce them. 1t is
thought that this means the sale in
advance Of bagging for at least half
the cotton crop.
Heretofore farmers have obeyed the
Alliance, although it caused them to
buy bagging at over dollar per bale
extra cost. Now that the price of jute
bagging is reduced, Alliance men viii
adopt it.
The cordage company represents all
but one of the jute bagging factories in
the trust two years ago.
The factory left out is said to be loca-
ted at Charleston.
The action of the Alliance leaves the
farmers free to buy cotton bagging if
they prefer but jute is cheaper. Few
Of them, it is believed, will buy cotton
bagging.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
Cheap Money.

The people who would be benefited at
first by change to cheap money are
farmers and others who have property
which is heavily mortgaged, and who
would be thus relieved of a portion of
their debt. The case of the farmer who
has been forced to mortgage his farm
is peculiarly hard one. His condition
has been growing worse and worse
yearly, for many reasons, but chiefly
because most Of the things he has had
to buy have been taxed, while the chief
products of his farm have not. He has
been forced to buy at the higher prices
Of a restricted home market, and to sell
at the prices set in the unrestricted
market of the world. A change to a
cheaper form of money would give him
relief, provided he were able to pay of
his debts at once, but otherwise his
gain would be only in his ability to pay
his interest money in a cheaper cur
rency. He would suffer, in common
with all others of the hard working
class, from the inevitable evils attend
ant upon cheap money, with the dear
goods which such money always brings
in its train. Then, too, he would dis
cover, in case be wished to procure fur
ther loans, that he must obtain them
on gold bases, for the mere hint OF the
coming of cheaper currency is sufi-
cient always to force capitalists into the
defensive position of loaning large
amounts on that basis alone. In the
end the farmer would find that his last
condition was worse than his first, and
that his very effort to gain relief
through legislation which promises to
make money plenty 'SrhaAd-the same
result namely ~, IT,,
lessly in the po
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09

AWAY Away There is danger here
A terrible phantom is bending near
With no human look, with no human
breath,
He stands beside thee-the haunter
Death ~
If there is one disease more
than another that comes like the
unbidden guest at banquet, it is
Gatarrh. Insidjously it steals upon
you, with no hnman breathn it grad
ually, like the octopus, winds its coils
about you and crushes you. But there
is medicine, called 'r. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, that can tear you away from
the monster and turn the sythes' point
of the reaper. The makers of this won-
derful remedy offer, in good faith, a
standing reward of $500 tor an incura-
BILE case of Catarrh in the Head.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
TIE ASYLUM INVESTIGATION.
The Legislative Committee of Inquiry
Blamed the Officers and the Board OF
Visitors for Innumerabie Sho-t-
conlings.

The investigating committee of in
quiry into the affairs of the Lunatic
Asylum has made Il report of its work
in general terms to Governor Tiliman,
of which the following is copy:
COLUMBIA, March 81, 1891.
To His Excelleucy B. r. Tillman,
Governor:
AT the last SESSION of the Legislature
committee, of which the undersigned
are members, was appointed by con-
current resolution with power and in-
structions to make inquiry into and re-
port to the Legislature the condition of
the Lunatic Asylum. This committee.
has performed its duties so far as practi-
cable at this time and we deem it botha
courtesy and duty to transmit here
with to your Excellency an outline OF.
the manner in which the work assigned
has been done, together with the results.
in general form.
l. We invite the Governor of the
State to attend the sessions of the com.
mittee, recogiZing in him the highest
constitutional authority in all matters
affecting the well-being, direction and
control of this institution.
2. AS the time in which the inquiry
was to be made was limited, we asked
his Excellency to employ stenogra-
pher, having in view also the further
consideration that our findings or rec
concentrations should be based upon a
full hearing, which has been obtained
and which is now matter of record
with the committee. p
8. It was the desire of the COMMITTEES
that its investigation should in no sense.
be open to the construction of an ex
parte proceeding, this fact being i'm
pressed at and during the examina-s
tions. We therefore examined, under
oath, all those concerned in the man
agement of the institution and those
whose duties are directed by such man
agement with an eye at all times to
their official and personal responsibility
to the wards of the State.
4. The scope of our Investigation in
cludes. in general terms:
First. The duties Of the superior off,
GERS and the manner in which these
duties were discharged, basing our con-
cluslons on the rules and regulations
governing such officers, their own evil
dence and the evidence of attendants
and employees, present aud past, at
the Asylum. .ss
Second. AS to the internal economy
of the institution and all its auxiliaries
intended to contribute to its mainten-
ance.
Third. The relations of the number
OF officers and attendants to the results
accomplished, with special reference to
the equitable distribution Of work and
compensation.
Fourth The expenses of the various
departments as obtained from the cur
rent accounts and from oral testimony.
Fifth. The efficiency and value to the
State Of the methods now praeticed al
'--ee Asylum as compared with a man
oeciaI tOigid eccoannu- and re1asdz
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
Frank Leslie's! Popular Monthly for April

Frank Leslie's! Popular Monthly for April
The American Museum of Natural
History in the Central Park, New
York city, occupies a noble pile of
buildings, he recent additions to which
are just approaching completion. 1t is
an Institution in which every American
ought to take pride. The most COM
plete description of its treasures, and
the educational work it is doing, is
given, with abundant pictorial illustra-
tions, by Mary Titcomb, in the April
number of Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly. Another seasonable article
is Carrie Stevens Walters account of a
visit to Senator Stanford's famous Palo
Alto stock farm. "Some Western Texas
Types" are synpathetically drawn by
Belle Hunt Shortridge, the poetess of
the Lone Star State. j. E. Roessle de-
scribes historic Lafayette Park in
Washington, D. c., and Colonel Nico-
las Pike contributes thrilling paper
upon the dreaded Octopus, or Devil.
fish. Other eIaborately illustrated arti-
cles are "Olives"; In the Mountain
Paths Of Savoy; Dickens Bleak
House,; "Some Memorials of Edgar
Allan Poe''; SHERMAN aud Porter,n
etc. There are short stories by Cecil
Charles, David Ker, William Wallace
Cook, Bulkeley Booth, and others; and
poems by Douglas Sladen, Adelia Beard,
and William +. Burbank.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
What Shall the Harvest Be I?

Why What can it be, but suffering
and sorrow, disease and death, if you
neglect the symptoms of a disordered
liver? Take DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery. 1t out-sells all other
remedies. Sold under condition that
it must either benefit or cure the pa
tent, or the money paid for it will be
promptly returned. 1t cures all dis
eases arising from deranged liver, or
from impure blood, as biliousness,
oliver complaint;" all skin and scalp
diseases, salt-rhehm, letter, scrofulous
sores and swellings. fever-sores, hip
joint disease anTkindred ailments.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
DO YOU PAY POLL TAX
If Not, the Auditor Wants. Your Name-A
List of Names of Those Who Are
Now on the Books.

Auditor Cromer, in accordance with
instructions from the Comptroller
General, has made out list of those
who pay poll tax, said list to be fur
nished to the school trustees of each
township for revision. This is done to
see if there are any persons who are
liable to pay a poll tax whose names
are not now on the tax books, and if the
trustees find any such they are to re.
port the same TO the Auditor. All
male persons between the ages OF z
and 50 years are liable to poll tax, un-
less exempt by law. .
The Herald and News, in order to
assist in this work, has determined to
publish the lists by townships. These
lists are made up from the relu urns OF
this year and last years tax books.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
Maid Of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart.

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Give, oh give me back my heart.
David read and reread what he had
copied; and at length sprang to his feet
and wrung his hands with delight.
"Well, we'll, WE'LL" he exclaimed,
"this does beat the hollyhocks ! Wy,
it's as easy to do as to fall asleep when
a feller's got a god cawnshunce. Now,
les to think: here's Mr.. William Hou-
zeal, who larnt me and sister yeener to
read and write, and me to cipher, he
now and then borrows books from his
kinpeople, the Summerses, and not long
ago he fotcht home book wat is called
the 'Dishearten'd VILLAGE writ by a
Mister Oliver Goldsmith. Mr.. Houzeal
says, it took this man niue years to
write it, and half the time be was at
the pint Of starvation; and l don't
wonder at it, for it to take man nine
years to write three hundred lines. Mr..
Houzeal, he told me, it was in his
opinion the poortiest po'try he ever
come across, and be advised me to read
it. Well, sur" "apostrophising his invisl-
ible friend, II undertook to do so, and OF
all the trashy nonsense that l ever did
see never met up with its equality.
No, surn-with emphatic action that
shook the house,-"I never did. Now
here in about a quarter of a Jour l has
wrote twenty-four lines of about as nice
po'try as you kin find eunywheres.
It's burstin' full of love;-and po'try is
| fit for nothin' else but for love and re-
lijia',-for songs and hymes. Eff l
hadn't broke our slate I could now
make a cackelation,-but I kin get
poorly close to the truth of the thing
| by tetchin' the pints of my fingers.
Now, twenty-four lines in fifteen minits
would be about one hundred lines in a
! Jour, and wat would a day bring forth?
The expeerimint has turned out about
as expected, and now shall buy up
all the sugar kisses wat Gelthart has
on hand, and gather together all the
kiss-verses foatir' about in the neigh
borhood;- and putin 'em together like
as I has jes done, I think that in two
days at most I shall be able to show a
piece of po'try of the length of two
thousand lines or more as will throw
midnight over the 'Dishearten'd Will
hge.'
Thus soliloquising David hastily un-
dressed, and launched himself into the
world Of dreams.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
Left Out Entirely.

From the Clothier and Furnisher.
Dashaway-l stood on the corner for
five minutes debating whether should
buy bunch Of roses for Miss Peterkin
ora necktie for myself, when Travers
came along and said ne had bought her
the roses.
Cleverto So you got the neeksie2
DashaEay No, had to lend the:
money to i.rayers.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
ADEATHBED CONFESSION.
Miller, OF Leaphart LyncllinS Fame. Tells
About Rosa Caunon's Letters.

Especial to Augusta Chronicle.l
COLUMBIA, S. c., March 28.-As
predicted in connection with the death
of w. J. Miller, Of the Leaphart afida-
Wit fame, second "deatbbed confes-
sion'' came to light to-day. This re-
markable document was made to Mil
ler's attorney, John Bauskett, and, if
true, goes far towards justifying Cover
nor Richardson's reprieve of Willie
Leaphart. In this confession Miller
says that, being employed as amanueu-
sis for Patrick Cannon, father of Rosa
Cannon, Leaphart's alleged victim, he
heard of and read her letters declaring
the boys innocence. He acknowledges
making the affidavit upon which Judge
Wallace acted, and to having after
warcs surreptitiously obtained Rosa's
letters and carried them to the COVER
nor.
This confession, If believed, would
clear Judge Graham from the charge of
forgery and conspiracy to secure Leap
hart's reprieve.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
Drinkers Can't Be Jurors.

BANGOR, March 22.-The Temper
ance Committee of the Maine Legisla-
ture has reported a bill amending the
law relating to jurors, by which per-
sous who are dealers in Intoxicating
liquors and persons ofintemperate hab-
its shall not be eligible to serve as jur-
ors. The bill will probably becomes a
law. -.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
~. tAn rights reserved.l
lhE EAsTER Fees
II.-POETRY.
sssEssg 81. or. ovr ao-.
BY DR.. 0. 3. MAYER, SR.

"And it shall be in poetry, too," he
continued the next day. This last was
rather a hardy resolution; for up to the
eventful Sunday, when Bekky Bright's
foot caused such perturbation in his
head, David Hartman's ideas of poetry
had been quite vague. The specimens
of versi6cation which he had studied
did not extend beyond what was con-
tanned in the Lutheran Hymn Book,
and those insidious little scraps of
printed paper found upon sugar kisses;
but he always used the word hynaes for
the former and KISS verses for the latter.
Behind the word poetry he thought
something beautiful must be hidden, if
he only could see through it. He was,
however, at last overcoming some Of
the obstacles that withheld him from
wanderings beyond the limits of matter
of fact life. Often did ne feel inclined
to shake off the influence of his sister
Christina, or Teener, as he called her,
an irretrievable old maid, as bitter as
her own weight in aloes. She had for
bidden him to seek the company of the
girls, ';Who," said she, lies catches
young feller as a boy catches June
bug, and they ties string to him for
him to buzz around 'em ontel he can't
buzz emmy longer, and then they lets
him go with the string hangin' to
him for everlastin' hobble through
life. Then they catches another one
and sarves him the same way, and so
on. Keep out'n their clutches, Dave.
Eff one of 'em squizzes your hand don't
you squiz back, or there'll be no help
for YOU" He was beginning to doubt
the soundness of his fathers advice,
who, having been occasionally van
pushed by his mother, often whispered
to him: "David, my son, beware of
wimmiDg."
Bekky Bright had long been setting
her cap," as the saying is, to catch
David Hartman, not as June bug, but
as bona fde husband. He was hand
some and industrious; and Bekky, who
was worthy member of the church,
had no recollection of having heard
him use profane language. How far
she had succeeded has already been
made known. 1t only remains to be
mentioned, that in spite of the bitter
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
WON'T HAVE A PLEASANT TIME

New HAVEN, March 31.-The Rev.
Charles Hartwell, for thirty-eight years
missionary of the American Board at
Pekin and Foochow, China, is now in
this city .recuperating after his long
service IN the Flowery Kingdom. Mr..
Hartwell said to-day that Minister
Blair, in bis opinion, would have a
very unpleasant time in China. The
Chinese, be said, are very proud and
sensitive. They keep track of the news
OF OF the world, and are fully cognizant of
Senator Blair's attitude on the Chinese
question.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09

! CoUELlQ. Inc tnlnS IS SeLCiQ' mon
SOUS fashionable in these times. There
Conrad Felsgruber layin' hissel
liable to Suky Hosenstricker, and the,
say that Martin Sawyer is settin' ~
to Bekky Bright, like sick kitten t.
hot smoovenin' iron"
Had the hand of a corpse plunged
an icicle into his heart, his soul coulc
not have been more frozen than it wa!
by this announcement. Pocketing hi:
kisses he remounted his horse, and lef
as precipitately as be had arrived
That evening he sat silently in the
piazza of his fathers house, more miser
able than if he had been condemned tc
die.
"Come to supper, David" said his
mother to him, in a kind tone.
II don't want to eat, NANNY" NUT.
tered the love-sick youth.
"Wel, David" commenced his sis
ter, "youjes oughter lie ashamed ofyour-
self to let Bekky Bright get the upper
hand of sou in that sort of a way. And
look here, Dave, Bek's got to do a days
sowiu' for US for breakln' our slate"
wy sister Teener, she didn't break
! the slate. I broke it myself" remon-
strated her brother
EYES," continued Christina, "butshe
was the occasionment of your breakin'
it. It oughter have bin broke over
your head, you saft-hearted nix noots,
your
ooh, don't be too hard on Dave"
pleaded his mother. "Poor boy, he is
not well. Go to bed, David"
He rose from the bench on which he
was seated in the piazza, and passed
through the house without saying
word; but before be entered his little
room his father tapped him upon the
shoulder and whispered to him:
David, my son, I have often said
to Eyou, and say it agin, beware
of the winning"
When be had entered his room and
carefully shut the door, he lighted his
candle, took from his trunk his writing
materials, and then placed the sugar
kisses before him on the table. He
then carefully removed the little verse
lets folded, and attached to them. His
next step was to arrange them in a
column, and then fixing them by
placing ten cent piece upon each one,
to prevent the wind from disturbing
their order, he copied them off as they
stood,-obtaining a sum total as here
Dear maid, no mortal tongue can tell
How much love you and how we'll.
Oh tell nee now, fair maiden, will you marry? !
If so, Just name the day-dont let us tarry.
Cupid's sent his dart
Right through my heart.
What is the use to be SO cruel?
am sure that will. Miss, if you will.
Ny soul is dark:--in words of measured myth |
and slow
I from my heart do heave heavy load Of
woe.
Charmer of my life
Will you be my wife?
Know then this truth. enough for man to
know,
Virtue alone is happiness below.
expect, before a week is passed, that you
will
occasion, or wedding, or a duel.
some people say, Ito love is weak, ay. wick
ed"
Bat they are those who We loved and have
been kicked,
wish was humble be,
And you a rose upon tree.
)h, name the day! or would you rather
I'd ask your mother or your ia here
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09

"Wben the spring-time comes," We
usually find ourselves drowsy anG
exhausted, owing to the impure and
sluggish state of the blood. To remedy
this trouble, take Ayers Sarsaparilla,
the most powerful, yet safe and eco:
nomical, blood-purifier in existence.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
THE THIRD PARTY.
Awaiting the National Conference at Gin
cinnati in May.
THE New York Sun. |

Ht we" OIh Cuu.
The political boomers of the Farmers
Alliance are now turning their ener-
g!es to the work of preparing for the
National Conference that is to be held
III Cincinnati on the 18th of May with
the object of organizing the new polit-
ical party that is to sweep the country.
Their desire is to cooperate with the
Citizens Alliance, the Nationalists, the
Industrial Alliance, and all other bod
les that can be drawn int he ranks,
and which are to be induced to send
delegates to the Cincinnati Conference.
Various committees are trying to
construct platform upon which the
Alliance can stand with these other
bodies. The Farmers Alliance would
not accept the platform Of the Nation
alists, who, in turn, would not be salts
fed with the Alliance platform, nor
even with the st. Louis platform,
upon which all factions are asked to
unite.
The preparations for the Cincinnati
Conference includes the holding OF
propagandist meetings all over the
country. Stump speakers are already
in the field in several States. They
are especially active in this, Iowa, and
adjacent States, and they are hardly
less active in the States of the Pacific
coast. In this State they have begun
operations and the New York State
Farmers Alliance is to be organized by
President Polk on the 22nd Of April.
The renowned Congressman Simpson
himself is to speak in this city next
Monday under the auspices of a branch
of the Citizens Alliance. The New
| England States are not to be neglected
and the South is to be thoroughly can
vassed.
In Ohio the Alliance boomers are
boasting of their successful work. In
the southern part of the State weekly
meetings are held in the schoolhouses
and candidates are to be put up at the
township elections next month, with
the view of ascertaining the propects of
success for Legislative candidates at a
later period.
In Iowa the leaders of the State Alli-
ance are anxious to take hold ofpolitics.
When President Polk addressed its
Convention at Creston last week be
spoke on the subject in language that
could not be misunderstood.
The Legislature of Nebraska, both
branches of which are in the hands OF
the Alliance, has adjourned without
adopting any Of the radical measures
that had been introduced.
In California, Oregon, and Washing
ton the business of organization and
speechmaking is in progress.
The Alliance members of the Kansas
Legislature have issued a manifesto, in
which they claim credit for not passing
sundry bills that were defeated by the
Republican Senate, and in which they
assail the Senate for its obstructive
policy. Senator PETER speaks very
loudlyabout the political prospects Of
the alliance, and has drawn up for it a
programme of action to be laid before
the Cincinnati Cnnference in MAJ,
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09
Mr.. Blair Will Go to China.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Ex-Sena-
tor Blair has accepted the Chinese Mis-
sion, and has arranged to sail from San
Francisco for the "Flowery Kingdom"
on the lst of May. He has already re-
ceived his instructions from the Secre-
tary of State.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09

Sweet Gum and Mullen is natures
great remedy for Coughs, Colds, Group,
Consumption and all throat and lung
troubles.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-09

lore the merrier. The eolored peopleI-
There is no way of ascertaining the
actual voting strength of the Alliance
at this time. The mem bership includes
large body of non-voting women, and
large proportion of the male members
in the North, as well as in the South,
are opposed to the formation of new
political party.
ARRANGING FOR THE CONVENTION.
CINCINNATI, March 31.-Capt. Power.
the national organizer OF what's known
as the Citizens Industrial Alliance, is
here to arrange for the national con-
vention to be held in this city May l9,
to organize a new political party, With
the Farmers Alliance as the basis. He
said last night that at least 10000 dele
gates will be present, representing
thirty or more States. The convention
has not the endorsement of the great
Alliance bodies, but individual mem
bers are taking an interest in it.