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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14

the longest and most ramihed ever
brought to a Probate Court in Con-
necticut. It fills ninety-six pages
Of closely written legal cap, and con-
tains no less than eleven codicils
added since 1872, when the body OF
the will was executed. There are
no public bequests except to the
American Missionary Association,
which, as stated, will receive in trust
for the colored race, directly or by
reversion, about 100000 in addition
to the larger sum given several years
ago. Mr.. Hand lost his wife and
several children long snce, and as
remote relatives died of, the codicils
show that the aim of educating the
colored people at the South took
wider and wider proportions in bis
mind, until now, at last, it has mate
rialized in total sum larger than
the Slater fund or the princely gift
to the Southern freedmen of George
Peabody. c. D.
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Let Us Talk About Tobacco.
TEE PRODUCTION OF THE WEED IN
THIS COUNTRY IN 1889.

WASHINGTON, December 31.-The
Census Office to-day issued a bulle-
tin giving the statistics of the tobacco
prediction in the United States dur
ing the year 1889. The bulletin
states that tobacco is produced to a
greater or lesser extent in forty-two
States and Territories, the only non
producing States being Idaho,
Nevada, Rhode Island and Wyom-
ing; the non-producing Territories
Oklahoma and Utah. The entire
crop of the country amounted in
1889 to 4ss.255,sSe pounds; the
number of planters being 205,s62,
and the area devoted TO tobacco cul-
ture, exclusive Of counties cultivat-
ing less than one acre, 692,990 acres,
or 1,0s2.s0 square miles. The area
in cultivation was, however, very un-
equally distributed, Kentucky having
1852 per cent of the total acreage
and producing 45.44 per cent of the
entire crop, and the six States next
in rank of production 50.16 per cent
of the acreage and 42.4e per cent of
the crop; while the twenty States
and Territories having the smallest
production had less than 900 acres in
tobacco and yielded an aggregate Of
451,o52 pounds, OF less than one
tenth of one per cent. of the entire
crop.
The average production per acre
of the entire country was 7O5 pounds,
ranging among the seed-leaf States,
producing 100000 pounds or
upwards, from S54 pounds per acre
in Ohio to 1902 pounds per acre in
Connecticut, and the more import
ant of the States in which the manu-
featuring and export varieties pre-
dominate, from 375 pounds per acre
in North Carolina to $50 pounds per
acre in Missouri.
The total value of the crop to the
producers, estimated on the basis of
actual sales, was s34,S44,449, an
average of IL cents per pound.
The leading tobacco producing
county of the entire country is Ian
caster county, Pa, which yielded in
1889 19,217,s0o pounds, worth
s1,349,O9o to the producers. Chris
tian and Henderson counties, Ken
lucky, each produce over 100000
pounds, as also does Dane county,
Wisconsin, and Pittsylvania county,
Virginia. Seventeen other counties,
nine Of which are in Kentucky, pro-
duced between 5,000,00 and 10000
600 pounds each
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ODDS AND ENDS.
a cushion car wheel IS new.

a cushion car wheel Is new.
New Mexico claims meerscharln
deposits.
The moon is said to mo7es.sas feet
per second.
November was the ninth month of
the year at one time.
The emperor of Japan lately en-
tered on his fortieth year.
1t is an error to think that any
poor creature can have fine
heart
A lump of coal weighing ton was
recently mined in Wyoming and sent
to Denver.
A new herring bank 100 miles long
has been discovered off the west coast
of Newfoundland
The queens granddaughters out
number her majesty's grandsons b
almost three to one.
At the bureau Of engraving 1,40o
people are employed all the time il
making paper money.
The interstate commerce commits
sion requires 1925 900 and the fedora
courts about 81, 000;CoO for year.
Il is on house cleaning days, not on
washing DAYS, that washing prepara
tons Of all kinds are especially valu
able.
Some souls are like cofins; their
confines are too cramped and narrow
to hold anything but cold and rigid
creeds.
The Burmese natives delight in
huge, loosely rolled cheroots, vary
ing from SIX to eighteen inches in
length
A new and powerful machine for
clearing wrecks on railroads has been
invented and tried by a citizen of
Michigan.
By a new system compound sheets
of platinum and gold are used to
make crucibles for use III industrial
chemistry.
A Delaware farmer claims to be
able. to preserve watermelons for
winter use by coating the rind thickly
with varrish.
About half the railroad which is to
connect Jaffa with Jerusalem has
been completed. The remainder will
be finished within year.
All who care for the individual and
the home must desire that in every
land there be one day of the week
free from the exactions of toll.
An Augusta man has recovered a
verdict of $1,000 against bank
which refused to honor his CHECK
althou.-h h he had money there on de
posit.
Before he came to America Mr.
Willard. the English actor. thought
that his was rather rare name, but
on one occasion at Boston he was en
tertainel Il; dinner at which every
guest was Willard.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14

Congressman George Johnstone
spent few hours in the city y1ster-
day on his way to Washington. lie
was seen by reporter for the Neees
and Courier, while at the Charleston
Hotel, and conversed upon State and
national politics. Mr.. Johnstone has
never talked much for the newspa-
pers, and even now does not care to
have very much to say for publica-
lion.
Being asked what he thought OF
the present national situation, he
replied that he did not have any time
to express himself in other than the
most general. terms. He regards the
issues of the Presidential election as
dependent almost entirely upon the
action of the present National House
of Representatives; with wise action
on their part, in spite of some appear
ances to the contrary, he regarded
the election as easily within the grasp
Of the Democracy, and the Demo
cratic prospects as brighter than they
had been at any time since Clere-
lands election.
The present discomfort that is
everywhere apparent throughout the
North, and especially the Northwest,
could be turned to the benefit Of the
Democracy, and any action of the
House of Representatives should be
taken with that end continually IN
view. Several Of the Western States
can now be fairly classed as doubt
full, and added to the States of New
York, Connecticut and New Jersey,
the election would no longer be a
disputable question.
Being asked as to who would be
the nominee OF the Republicans, he
answered promptly: Harrison. That
Blaine was already defeated candi-
date and Harrison successful one.
and the Republicans would never
exchange defeated for a successful
car 'idate.-News and Courier, 4th.
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By THOMPSON, SMITH 8 JAYNEs.

only issue left IS whether or not the
Governor can get around before the
Kolb men call the different County
Conventions. So the fight is for and
against time. The bitterness which
has characterized the campaign, and
has had no parallel, perhaps, in the
political annals of Alabama, is mostly
confined to The newspapers and
politicians. Neither Jones abuses
Kolb nor Kolh Jones. There are as
yet no charges whatever of slap
derous and yil,ifying nature against
the Governor, but all the undesirable
appellations ard denunciations that
can be imagined are heaped upon the
Alliance candidate, Captain Kolb.
And it is thought that it will, If
anything, help him among the far
mers of the State, who are abused
almost equally with him by some of
the newspapers. To Illustrate the
ferocity of politics in some parts OF
the State, I am informed that In
Bibb, a kolb and Alliance county,
and where President Adams, of the
State Alliance, lives, there is a dis
position on, ~ort of Jones men to
disregar6. y4s ent constituted
party organization entirely, by refus-
ing to act with them in the coming
meetings. A new organization will
be the result, and whatever factor
dominates the State Convention,
their delegates Will be seated. The
Jefferson delegation may also furnish
contest with like result. 1t is
rumored that, should Madison go for
Governor Jones, it would virtually
end the campaign. However, if
Kolb wins with a walkover, it will
sswhoop" up his lire of battle. 1t is
my humble opinion that if Captain
Kolb receives the nomination for
Governor in the coming Convention
there will be split in the party.
The faction known as the old guards,
or non-Alliance Democrats, will not
give him their support.
j. C. MANNING.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14
TEN YEARS WITH TOBACCO.
Results of the Experience of Prac.
tical Planter.
NUMBER THREE.
ELLISON S. KEITT

Editor Neus md Coeuier:: As
already stated, the tobacco crop is a
jealous one, and crop which requires
the closest attention. The tobacco
planter can either make the largest
returns or the most ignoble failure.
To make success the crop must
have every attention and everything
it wants, or goodbye to your golden
dreams of profit. And in no par
ticular is there to be more care than
in fertilizing. Unless you fertilize
right the big figures at the end OF
the year will be on the wrong side
of the page.
In fertilizing the tobacco crop
greater care is required to adopt the
right elements to the soil than in any
other crop. As a rule, the coarse
and slnrotted domestic manures used
on SSa cotton and corn fields will
not do well on tobacco. If these
are used a. all they should be well
rotted in the compost heap before
placed on the land. There are now
a number of brands of commercial
fertilizers which meet the demands
of every grade of leaf produced and
which every planter who expects to
make a success should use unstint-
ingly.
In choosing a fertilizer consult the
character of your soil and decide
upon the type of tobacco to be grown.
Soluble phosphor;c acid, nitrogen
and potash are the elements which a
standard tobacco fertilizer should
possess. This will give the planter
| basis upon which be can make his
own selection. I. is difficult to lay
down absolute rules on this score,
but the writer has secured from an
eminent chemist and tobacco expert,
Major R. L. Ragland, OF Virginia,
the following valuable data:
First. The phosphoric acid most
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14
A New York minister's Boy.

There is a certain UP town minister
whose little sou. having proited by
his fathers teachings. has a most
complete faith in God The little
fellow spent some weeks in the coun
Try. and became much interested II
a yoke of oxen which belonged on
the place on which ne was staying.
One day. desirous Of stirring the
creatures up a little, he polled them
with a stick, but they didn't mind
that. Then he scratched them with
hoe Which lay handy, but still
they stood dtowsy. almost liteless.
Finally the boy stuck a wisp of hay
up each ox's nose. That did the
business. The oxen stopped chewing
their cuds and began to look eX
tcemely frisky.
Take care, Harry, shouted tie
hired man, them beasts might cut
and run.
Couldn't you stop EN- if they
did, asked Harry.
We'll. perhaps I could, and then
ag'in perhaps l couldn't. OXG2 Is
powerful ugly sometimes.
Harry was silent for moment
and then he said, Il know who could
stop 'em if you couldn't. ="
Who" asked the man.
God" was the answer.
"How could God stop o:,a y
HE could say 'Gee-haw at EN-,
was the triumphant answer. New
York Times.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14
summer. don't recollect all l said" :"
Blowers never inspire confidence in

anybody.
When the Legislature, realizing
the scarcity of money and the straits
to which the people are reduced,
extended the time for the payment
of taxes to the Goth day of February,
| Tillman refused to approve it. He
is in a soft pla .. He has feathered
his nest and cares not silver now
for the people, only for their votes.
He saw very differently when he
had no gloves.
In the campaign of 1890 Tillman
denounced all who received free
passes on the railroads as bribe tax
ers and said they were Sstamed." !"
He must have been ablowing." 1t
is alleged that he rode on free pass
No. l and the railroads and express
companies carried everything free
for him and he has not denied it..
BY his silence he PLEADS guilty. The
Legislature fixed him on the free
pass business. He has to pay now
like other people when he rides on
the cars; hence his abuse of the
members of the Legislature in his
speech a few nights ago at Laurens.
He is mad. He calls for Legisla-
ture of henchmen to execute his
orders. As the Executive, if he-can,
he will seize all the powers of the
other departments of the Govern
ment and use them for his own bene-
fit. His ambition has crazed him.
He aspires to be Palatine.
Popular government with such
men in Office cannot long survive. In
his specci at Laurens, opening his
campaign for this year in villifcation
and abuse, he surpassed even what
he said in 1890 when be swung round
the circle. Then he was plain B. R.
Tillman; now he is Chief Magistrate
of the State.
Farmers of the State, what do you
think of our Governor whom we
elected? I own I am ashamed I
voted for him and will never do it
again. He has deceived US inten-
tionally and badly and has proven
himself to be fraud.
Tillman, realizing he has not made
good single pledge he gave us dur
ing the campaign of 1890; that he
brought great pecuniary loss upon
! the State; that his administration
has been a failure and the people
feel and know it, is now trying to
fasten the blame on the Legislature.
Farmers, merchants, business men,
citizens, all, let us come together.
Let all of our efforts be for the COM
mon good and general welfare. Our
once prond old State sorely needs
s;.o sss.-;;>;;ses of every good and loya!
citizen if our Christian civilization
and homes redeemed and saved
from the vile Let every one do his
duty to God ard his country. Ban
ish all personal preferences. Let
every community be closely scanned
and men, clean, capable and loyal to
principle alone, be selected and
elected to office. Elect them whe-
ther they want the office or not, and
tell them they must serve. If this is
done all will be well-tbe State will
be redeemed and saved, tie people
again united and happy and Tillman
quietly laid away with eight follow
ing his political corpse to its last
resting place-six pail bearers and
two moarners-Irby and Shell.
Respectfully,
ELLISON S. KEITr.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14

Frederick Douglass recently Sc
cured a place as clerk in the agricui..
tural department. for the daughter OF
his old master in the days of slavery.
The lady was brought up in extreme
luxury, but has for ten years expe-
rienced great priyations; and when
the case was presented to Secretary
Rusk he appreciated its pathetic
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14
4 Joke of the Kaiser.

A story which reaches me from
Potsdam is of harmless character.
The German emperor appeared few
days ago before the barracks OF the
Guard Hussars. He dismounted and
gave the corporal of the guard orders
to march his men away silently into
the officers mess close by. Then he
caused the alarm to be sounded by
the trrunpeter Of the guard, WON he
kept by his side. The officer OF the
guard. who had noticed nothing Of
the event. came rushing out, but the
guard was gone. Where is your
guard, SIR said the emperor; to
which the unfortunate man could Of
course give no answer. His majesty
was nightly pleased at the result of
this practical joke.-Vanity Fair.
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Whereas, the Constitution of South
Carolina, Article II, Section +,
requires that representation in the
General Assembly shall the appor-
tiored among the several counties OF
the State in the course OF every tenth
year after 1875; and, whereas, the
said Section of the Constitution was
duly amended in 1886, authorizing
the General Assembly at any time in
its discretion to adopt the immedi-
a;ely preceding United States CEN
sus as true and correct enumera-
ton OF the inhabitants OF the several
counties, and make the apportion-
ment and assignment among the
several counties according to said
enumeration; and, whereas, there
has been no enumeration OF the
inhabitants of the several counties by
the State since 1878:
Section |. Belt enacted, ETC., That
the United States census for the year
1880 be, and the same is hereby,
adopted as true and correct emu
meration of the inhabitants o: the
several counties Of this State, and
that the apportionmenc and assign
ment OF Representatives among the
several counties be made according
to said enumeration.
Section2. That the several counties
shall, at the session OF the General
Assembly next following the first gen
eral election alter the passage Of the
Act, ndtherefore until the same shall
be repealed, be entitled to represen-
tation as follows: Abbeville 3, Aiken
3, Anderson 5, Barnwell 5, Beaufort
4, Berkeley 5, Charleston I, Chester
3, Chesterfield ., Clarendon3 3, Colleton
4, Darlington 3, Edgefeld 5, Fairfield
3, Florence 3, Georgetown ., Green
vile 5, Hampton ,, Horny ,, ker-
shaw ?, Lancaster ., Laurens :, Lex
ington ?, Marion 8, Marlboro 3, New
berry 3, Oeonee ,, Orangebure
Pickens ,, Richland 4, spartaiburg
6. Sumter 5, Union 5, Williamsburg
8, York 4.
Section 8. All Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with this Act be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
|
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Irish Wit,

An Irish peasant brought litter
of kittens to Protestant vicar in a
certain town in County Wicklow. re
questing him to purchase them. The
vicar declined. Your rivrerce. they
are good Protestant kittens, urged
Paddy, but his reverence remained
obdurate. a few days after the Ro
man Catholic priest who had mean
while been informed Of the offer to
his brother clergyman was ap
preached, and on h refusing to
make a purchase the would be seller
urged sale, Sure. father, dear
they are good Catholic kittens.
But how Is this, my man.: replied
the priest. you said a day or two
ago they were good Protestant kit
tens" And so they We're, said the
peasant. but their eyes weren t
oDened London Spectator.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14

New HAVEN, COM, December ~,
lS91.-In the year 1901 there was
born il,:.o the family Of Daniel Hand.
q farmer magistrate living in the
town Of Madison, Conn, son who
took by baptism the Christian name
of his father. 1t was family Of
rlcn blood, whose ancestral 5
reached back to one of the first
patentees Of East Hampton, Long
Island, and had since, during a cen
tury and half, streamed through
the veins of the most hardy and
God-fearing yeomen OF the shore
towns of Connecticut, as well as OF
the earliest settlers Of the ''New
Connecticut" IN Ohio. The son
grew up in the usual environment of
a Yankee farm community. He
drew his lettering from the 'little
red school house." toiled on the farm,
and absorbed into his character, at
its formative and plastic stage, the
pious habitudes so universal in the
theocratic epoch OF New England.
But, like most Yankee striplings, he
migrated at the age of 16 to the
South, where an uncle, who was a
merchant at Augusta, Ga, received
him as clerk in his store. In due
time the mel hey succeeded to his
uncle's business. The firm prospered
by the Yankee acuteness and thrift
of its head, and fifteen years before
the outbreak of the Civil War had
so expanded its trade that Mr.. Hand
took partner, tried clerk, George
w. Williams, who not long after
went to Charleston, S. c., to found
and manage br| ach of the Augusta
house. This sci. of the firm soon
outgrew the parent stem, and ere
long there was transferred to it the
larger part OF Mr.. Hands mercantile
capital.
The onset of the war, disastrous to
many Northern enterprise, menaced
the Charleston house with double
danger. The firm faced not merely
the ruinous conditions of Southern
trade, but the hostilities of the Con-
federate authorities, who were aware
of the anti-slayery principles Of its
head. Mr.. Hand himself, while at
New Orleans, was arrested as an
alleged spy and placed under parole;
and few days later, at Augusta was
only rescued from a mob by the
interference of personal friends. In
the Charleston Courts attempts made
to sequestrate his property were hap
PLY thwarted by the efforts of Mr..
Williams, whose lively sympathy
with the Confederate cause gave him
a strong vantage in the legal contest.
Meanwhile Mr.. Hand went to live
during the four years of the war at
Asheville, N. c., under kind of
normal parole, and also to be ready,
in case of emergency, to lend aid to
his firms affairs at Charleston. Dut
the emergency did not come, and
during the trying four years Mr..
Williams controlled the business of
the house with an ability and alert
ness that increased its fortunes.
After the war Mr.. Hand, already
an old man, came North to live
quietly at (tuilford, Conn.,, on funds
which had not been embarked in his
mercantile ventures. The years
went on. There were almost nc
communications with his old partner,
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Two ways of pronouncins Missouri

There is discussion among the
Missouri newspapers Of che proper
pronunciation of the name Of their
State. It seems to be understood
that the plain people call it ''Mizzou
rec" and the patrician folk ''Mizzou
rah." Arkansas wisely settled q
similar dispute some years ago by
statute which. made the correct pro
nunciation "Arkansaw, with the &c.
cent on the first syllable. ble.-Philadel
phia Ledger.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-01-14
THE GREAT HAND CHARITY.

OF ITS DoNoR-nls
HABITS AND TRAITs-uow a
SOUTHERN BANKERS HONESTY LED
TO THE G1FT-PRovIsIoNs OF MR..
HANDS WILL.
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Johnstone on the Situation.
WINSTON, N. C.

THE CONGRESSMAN FROM THE THIRD
DISTRICT IS INTERVIEWED IN
CHARLESTON-WHA HE SAYS.
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The Law of Apportionment.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ApP0R-
TIoNMENT OF THE REPRESENTA-
TIvEs IN TIE HOUSE OF REPRE-
sENTAT1yEs OF THE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA, FROM THE sEvE-
RAJ COUNTIES IN THIS STATE,
ACCORDING TO TIE ENUMERATION
OF THE UNITED STATES CENSUS
FOR TIE YEAR 1890.
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The above should give the planter

i
a fair idea of what is needed in the
way of fertilizer for his tobacco
crop. 1t will be seen that the allow
ance for each acre is rather large
compared with the amount used on
cotton and other crops, but the
planter must bear in mind that the
yield of tobacco, if properly managed,
is correspondingly large. Under the
old regime of tobacco growing GOO 60
100 pounds of leaf per acre was con-
>;dered a big yield, but things have
changed wonderfully along this line
within the past few years, The
tobacco planters in the Florence sec
ton now grow from 1,ooo to 1850
pounds of tobacco per acre.
1t is true that high topping has
much to do with this, but not all.
These planters have followed the
policy that in tobacco growing you
must take your best land and make
it yield all which generous fertillzlns
will do and this policy has paid them
we'll. 1t costs no more to cultivate
well fertilized acre of tobacco than
any other kind and but little more to
cure it. Hence it is best to make it
Weld its full share, and the only way
to get it is by generous use OF COM
mercial fertilizers.
When as much as $50 pounds or
800 pounds of fertilizer is applied
per acre it is best to broadcast one
half and apply the balance in the
drill. This method of application
gives the roots something to feed on
during its entire growing season and
makes uniform plant.
II. Z. HAEMAN.
WINSTON, n. C.