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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-03-10
SENATOR j. L. M. IRBY.
He Does Not Feel That He Should
Have Been Asked for Advice.

To the Editor of the News and
Courier: 1 have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your let
ter dated Feb. 16, 1892, which
would have been answered before
this but for my absence in New
York.
My reply must necessarily be
brief: The political situation" in
South Carolina is not now seri' s,
Notwithstanding thatitmight-
appeared SO month ago, for ,ue
conservative people of this State
are always to be relied upon to do
the right thing at the right time.
According to all political rules
for the governmentof parties, mi
norities are expected to show their
allegiance to their party by sub
maJositt = )
but 1t seems that this rule mustbe
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-03-10
others like you who have labored

others like you who have labored
in season and out of season to de-
stroy the party for the last two
years, because you could no longer
dictate it's policy and command its
leadership, would in good faith &C.
cept the Democratic doctrine that
in party affairs the majority must
rule, and be willing to give and
take gracefully, then all would be
we'll. But to 60 into Democratic
primary and bind yourselves as
honorable men to abide.th the result
and then to lead an Independent
ticket and vote for Republican
for Congress against the Demo-
cratic nominee, as Judge A. c..
Haskell did, and for him and his
sympathizers, among whom 1
count the News and Courier, to be
solieitous about the unity of the
party, is certainly to me- very
strange state Of affairs.
1t looks to me like the proper
course for all such, who are now
SO solicitous far the welfare of the
party, to pursue would be to ac-
knowledge their error and put
themselves as quickly as possible
right before the true Democracy,
the people of South Carolina, by
doing less talking and indulging
in less abuse of the representa-
tives of the party and prove them
selves entitled to consideration in
in the party by voting the party
ticket at the next general election.
In my opinion the best and only
way to unite the party is for the
opposition to Governor Tillman to
accept the inevitable and bow
gracefully to his denomination,
which is settled fact, provided,
however, he does not in any serioda
way antagonize his Alliance breth-
rem. Yours,
w. D. EVANS.
Bennettsville, Feb. 18.
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Y g - Z '.s.f !
violated in South Carol sina when
of the people repre-
sented in convention dominated
Tillman as Governor. 5As.I take
it, the way to secure andS maintain
unity and harmony in slny party
Carolina or elsewhere is
for all factions to submit their
claims to the primaries and then
like men abide by the result. I
presume that it will be generally
admitted that if q majority Of the
Democratic electors want Governor
Tillman to be chief magistrate of
the State, the minority has no
right to complain, but should give
him full credit for all that he says
and does. Itis sheer nensense, as
long as we pretend to haYe a Dem
ocratic party, for q disappointed
minority, stung by defeat, to bring
about discomfort and then demand
that the majority must submit to
avoid a permanent breach OF the
party.
1t seems strange to me that you,
who have kept up constant fusi-
lade against Governor Tillman
since his inauguration, should now
call upon me to advise what course
the conservative people of the
State should pursue to bring about
the unity and harmony of the
party" 1 do not mean Is convey
the idea-here that Governor Till
man is the Democratic party; but
he, as. the Governor under the
Democratic Administration, is it's
exponent and will be held respon-
sible for it's failures.
I might well, on the other hand,
infer from your course, as the lead
ing editor of the State, that the
peace, and harmony, ana unity of
the party can only be obtained by
the defeat of Governor Tillman.
This unity and harmony of the
party (if it has never been broken
under and by the leadership of
yourse!f, Williams and tGonzales)
and if your paper, the Greenville
News and other Democratic papers
of the State had deal as fairly
and as justly by the Democratic
Administration of Gov'rnor Till
man as they had by otter Admin
istrations since 1876, the party
would now be united aid harmo-
nious. When the RinEwas NOM
mating and the people slecting, it
would have been gret political
crime for the majoriy to have
shown their discontentby abusing
the Governor, who is TIE exponent
of the Democratic part in South
Carolina.
Very truly yours y
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Very truly yours Y
JOHN L. M IRBY.
Washington, d. c., Eel 19, '92.

A convention Of the republican
party of South Carolina ias been
called to meet IN Columbia on
April 10Th to elect delegates to
their National Conve which
iiibo HI 4 { Y
June 7th. vs. s5ss 4!
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-03-10
! zzn HlaTs.
Utilize all wastes as manure.
Make your corn crib rat proof.
Too rich a soil grows too much

y
Too rich a soil grows too much
wood.
Insects are as often scavengers
as pests.
Sell stock only when in good
condition.
Fit the collar to the horse and
Y see that it fits.
Pure-bred animals are uniform
in their color.
Regular feeding makes animals
more content.
Use such fertilizers as the crops
demand.
Broad tires are at a disadvant-
age on a rough road.
Keep your watering troughs
scrupulously clean.
Decaying organic matter in the
soil gives warmth.
Fertilizers for wheat or oats
should be kept near the surface.
Mellow soil is more .penetrable
to air, rain or sun heat.
Land too steep for cultivation
I may be made good pasture.
There is not enough attention
paid to the selection of seed.
A cow was not made to trot.
The COW gait is a walking one.
Lime is generally abundant,
but some soils are deficient in it.
One of the greatest wastes on a
l farm is that of fertilizing mate
rial.
The manure of a well-kept ami
NAL goes far towards paying for
winter keep.
Do not look for better year for
the farming community than that
! of:1s91.
Cotton seed may be safely fed
more heartily in winter than in
milder weather.
Study your farm. No one else
ought to know its needs and ca
pacity as we'll as you.
Bone meal decomposes slowly,
and therefore it's application is
felt for some time.
Some crops clear the soil OF
weeds. This should be considered
in system of rotation.
All waste matter should be ap-
piled to the furface as mulch or
worked into the soil as compost.
The value of commercial fertil-
,izers depend on their containing
the elements which the soil needs.
A foul watering trough is an
abomination.
The dog under the wagon Gees
no harm.
Farmers should live on the fat
Of the earth.
aks your soil the better be. = Tor r
every crop it grows.
THE stingy man breeds from
poor stock and underfeeds.
Have you considered the shrink
age of corn in the crib?
If you have no silo, take good
care Of your corn fodder.
Concentrated foods should al
ways be fed with those more
bulky.
Just enough feed to sustain life
is a loss of growth or other pro-
duet.
The droppings of mature ami
NAL are worth more than those of
ayoung one.
Haveeverything ready for work
as soon as the frost is out of the
ground in the spring.
There is no profit in making
one hand wash the other-one
crop make up the loss on another.
Putting all your money into
some new enterprise is like stalking
it all OF single throw of the
dice.
A man shows his mental and
moral status as much by what he
condemns as by what he accepts.
Liberal feeding returns two
profts-one in the increased pro-
duct-and the other in the manure.
1t is more profitable to buy
linseed or cotton seed meal than
corn; but NO butter ration should
be without corn.
A heap of manure ia blessing
when spread on the sol, ,Ibut a curse
when rotting against the side of
the barn.
A farmer in Missouri grated a
tomato vine into a potato vine and
got two crops, one from tie top
and the other from the roots.
M ,,,o. H. ,oonrro +ha lass
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
WHAT Il LEGAL JEOPARDY?

Under recent decision of the supreme
court OF pennsylvania, based UPON the
provision of the United States constitution
that PERSONS life cannot be placed in
jeopardy more than once, a man cannot no
tried again for murder when the iurv in
MS case has disagreed and been discharged
by the judge. In Philadelpl ia last week n
young robber named CAsCApEN was CHARGED
with the murder of policeman. The iurv
had been out some time celebrating upon
their verdict, standing nine for conviction
IN the hrst degree and three against, when
the foreman took sick. The case was 80
serious that a doctor declared the man
would die if not removed to some MAGE
where be could be treated. whereunon tho
court, after administering a severe rebp 20
Ior the failure to convict, discharged the
jury, not on account of their DISAGREEMENT
out the sickness of the foreman. If is CON.
tended that here the constitutional nrincinle
does not apply, for the reason that this WINS
not trial within the meaning of the law.
The Pennsylvania decision referred to
has not come under TIE HERALD's notice
except the bare fact above noticed. The
court may have held that disbursement
was equivalent to an acquittaI, in that it
invests the case with a sufficient amount
o. re 'sonaole doubt even though this
doubt was not shared by majority of the
Jury. Or that defendant must not be re-
CURED second time to have witnesses
present to rebut an attack on the pre-
sumption of innocence. after having once
undergone the test required by law. What
ever the reasoning, the decision is bound
TO have tremendous effect on the admins
tration of criminal law throughout the coun-
try, where there have been numerous mis-
trials on indictments for murder Such
an instance happened only few weeks
ago at Provo, in this territory where there
was hung jury in the case of CAss H1TE.
Indeed, instances of this nature are far
from being uncommon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
UTAH AT THE FAIR.

The Worlds fair commissioners have
begun work in earnest, and with their
well-known ability, energy and determine.
ton, II may be said with safety that the
project is "go," and Utah will be fairly
represented at the great exhibition, not
Wlthstanding the gloomy outlook when the
legislature adjourned. The late Assembly
having voted $4,000 for the purpose. that
sum having been agreed upon after a
pretty thorough canvass of the larger tax
payers, and after reasonable inquiry SIS
TO the probable cost of making such an ex
hibt as would be fairly representative of
the territory's resources, the commission
ers assume that the next legislature will
be equally generous and appropriate
the same amount. We think this
presumption Is well enough founded, and
are certain that the money will be freely
voted by the legislature of 1894. The prop
osltion advanced by the commission is that
the banks shall advance this money as a
loan to the territory, certain citizens guar
anteeing payment OF course the plan will
be success, inasmuch as the only risk
taken by anybody Will be by the men who
guarantee the loan, and that risk will be
slight indeed in the light of the fact the
taxpayers, without regard to politics. an
proved the $50, 600 appropriation and want
the territory to appear to good advantage
at the fair.
AS soon as the money shall be secured
the Commission will formulate plan of
operations, by which the work can be as
slgnedjn detail and the machinery put into
motion. There Will be just year in which
to do the work, and that will be plenty of
time provided the labor stall be properlv
apportioned. Everybody is personally in
terested, and of course all will do what
they can to collect display which will
fairly represent the territory and attract
attention to the vast resources of Utah
Everybody will also feel a sense of pride
IN having Utah lead in her exhibit.
The HERALD expects to be able within a
very few days TO say that committees and
boards have been appointed and the real
work Of preparing for the fair has begun
in earnest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
SILVER.

The wires bring the information that the
owners and managers of the mines at
Aspen, Colo, have concluded to not stop
work. We expected just such an announce.
ment, Notwithstanding the positive asser-
tlon the other day that orders had been
given for closing these very mines. We
also look for "bracing up'' all along the
line, and certainly do not ex pect to hear of
the shutting down of any productive mine
OF prominence. The decline in the price of
silver is deplorable, but the situation is
not nearly so bad as some would make
it appear. We would not like 10
think that the mighty Industry
of silver mining rested upon such slender
foundation that few spectators in the
product could destroy it, aud in a few DAYS
paralyze the great west. 1t would be ter
rible if handful of men in Wall street
could make 1t necessary to close the mines
OF Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana,
throwing thousands OF men out of employ
ment, and bring irreparable disaster upon
some OF the most prosperous most ener-
getic and best communities in the country.
10 suggest such thing is to confess
weakness as to mining which will not be
conceded by the enterprising, progressive
men engaged in the business.
It's gratifying to note further increase
In the price Of silver, showing that the grip
OF the spectators has been loosened. We
may confidently expect that within few
days the price will have reached the figure
which has prevailed so long, and matters
VIII be moving along in the old way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
AN EXHIBITION OF GALL.

1t was an exhibition of gall seldom seen
When certain gentlemen appeared at the
meeting OF the Democratic central COM
mlttee yesterday and demanded recogni-
ton as members of the committee These
men are VIGOROUSLY fighting the Democ-
racy. In season and out of it they are
making war upon the organization. Upon
the stump and through the press they are
denouncing Democrats as BENEDICT Arm
oLDs, and doing their utmost to defeat the
party. At elections they put up anti
democratic tickets, in their campaign plat
forms they insert anti-Democratic planks,
on the stump they hurl anathemas at the
heads of Democrats, and at the polls
they openly vote for Republicans and
pronounced enemies to Democracy. They
are out OF the party Voluntarily, and
because they prefer other associations
other parties and other principles than
those OF the Democracy. Then, for them
to appear and demand voice in the coun-
ellis OF the Democracy is little short of i'm
pudence. Colonel MERRITT, Judge HENpER-
SON, Judge JUDD, Mr. RAwLINs, Mr.. Will
LIAMs and other equally prominent Demo
Gratis would have as good right to go into
Republican committee meeting and ask
to be heard as to the course and policy of
the party, as did some of the gentlemen
who went into the Democratic Central
committees meeting on Saturday, claiming
to be Democrats and members of the com
mittee. 1t would be queer kind of
party whose leading men were the heads
OF opposition organizations.
But what makes this intrusion the more
impudent is the fact the intruders them
selves and those for whom they appeared
had been superseded nearly year ago, by
a regularly called party convention, the call
having been issued by the central com.
mittee of which they were then members.
Ii the gentlemen had not by their own acts
themselves from the Democracy
by working with an antagonistic organize
tion, they could have had no place in yes
terday's meeting, for they were without
semblance Of right or authority to appear
in the committee.
However, the Incident cuts no figure. ex-
cept in so far as it illustrates how far gall
will sometimes carry individuals
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
OUR QUERY BOX.

A subscriber at Coalville asks: ''Was
Jefferson ever a Republican in name or
otherwise? Some here say he was very
good Republican"
indeed he was very good Republican,
and the founder of the real and genuine
Republican party of this country. He was
the author of the best Republican docu-
ment that was ever put into print-the
Declaration Of independence. He exerted
a greater influence over the destinles of
the United States than any other American
citizen except George Washington. OF
course the Republican party he beIong ed
to was not the party of that name of tbs
present day. which was organized only
th1rtJ-six years ago, in 1856, when John c.
Fremont was nominated for the presidency,
whereas Jefferson died twenty years be-
FORE The Republican party of Jefferson's
time Is the Democratic party of to-day.
which will, next week, throughout the
Union, celebrate his birthday, April Is.
1743.
PuZzle-The Gordian knot was an intricate
Knot made by Gordtus, King of Phrygia in the
cora winch bound the pole of his chariot to the
YOKE An oracle having declared that whoso-
ever should unite the knot should reign over
Asia, Alexander the Great cut the knot with
MS sword and applied the oracle to himself
ReddeT' Federal law forbids the immigration
to this country of convets, paupers, Iunatics
and other aliens liable to become a charge upon
the community Cripples or deformed persons
are not necessarily prohibited from landing.
d. FL The rule of the celibaoy of the Catho-
lie priests was passed by one of the early coun-
ellis, but was never strictly observed until the
time of Gregory VII, the famous Cardinal
Hildebrand. He was the first to strictly en-
force the rule, and to disfrock all monks who
violated it.
Z. L. The disabled child of a deceased PEN
sioner can draw a pension under the present
law, provided he be under sixteen years of age.
Population: The center of population in the
United States is 90 miles east of Columbus, In
diana. In 1870 it was % miles east of Balti,
more, Maryland.
Tourist: American jewelry can be brought
into this country without paying duty
VAL All the fast ocean trips are made com.
Ing this way.
Drama: There is no cure for stage fright but
confidence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03

contribution to the iunatlc asylams
than the superior race. 1t is
Interesting also to know that the negroes
are indicating their claims to progress and
intellectual improvement by going crazy
faster than they used to do When they were
slaves, an insane negro was rarely seen.
Ihere were SO few of them that no provis-
Ion Tor them was needed, the infrmity be.
ing nearly always in the form of harmless
ldiocy. But now reports from the south
are to the effect that the increase of insan-
lty among the negro population is such that
special provisions for their accommodation
are needed in the county poor houses. Yet
the whites furnish ten out of thirteen of
the insane, while the negroes, who are a
third OF the population, furnish only three
"a conclusive evidence perhaps, that the
black man is still far behind the white man
In all things that go to make up high ciYili-
cation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
SUNDAY SAYINGS.

Texas Siftings: With many religion never gets
above the knees.
Picayune: 1t does not follow that an arpu-
ment is logical because it is theological
Somerville Journal: Some people seem to
think that talking in moral way is leading >
religious life.
Jud3e: do they sing a occasional at your
churchF mo; we used to, but we don't now.
The occasional is gong out Think
Rams Horn: The less religion there is in a
church the more oysters and ice. cream it takes
to run it.
Atchison Globe: Somehow 1t comes natural
to the humblest man to say they" when
speaking of wicked people, and we" when he
talks of the faithful and good.
New York Herald: What is meant bv high
church?" oh congregation SO way up that
woman rich enough to rent pew feels in the
seventh heaven"
New York E0snipq Sun: Brown-.Wbere did
Johnnie hide the pumpkin pie he stole?n Mrs.
Brown-"In the box where he keeps the merit
cards he gets at Sunday school"
Boston Post: The difference between n mar
son and broker is that the latter deals in fut-
ures for six days and the parson tells him
about them on the seventh.
Lowell Courier: A church in Lancaster. Pa.
offered medal to every person who did not
miss church or Sunday school service during
the year. Que medal was awarded, and the
janitor got it.
New York Press: THE choir has struck Won
say and won't sing. What is the troublee',
We'll. there is quarrel among the members
of the congregation, AMI the choir SAYS this is
u8urpation of its prerogativc."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
TIE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The Democratic Central committee met
yesterday and issued call for q territorial
convention, to be held at Ogden on May IA.
The committee also apportioned the repre-
sentation in the convention, the whole
number of delegates to be 500, coming from,
the respective counties, as designated in
the call printed elsewhere in this paper.
The convention will be the largest and
most formidable political gathering ever
held in Utah, and it will mark the
beginning of the appearance of
the new Democracy Of the terri
tory in the councils of the national
party. Two delegates with two alternates
to the national convention to be held in
Chicago on June q, will be chosen, and
from this time the Utah Democracy will
be part and parcel of the great party of
the nation.
The HERALD calls attention 10 the i'm
portance of full representation in Ogden,
and urges upon the Democrats of the re-
spective counties that they send delegates
instead of proxies to the convention. Rail
road facilities are such that it is an easy
matter to reach the convention city from
any part of the territory, and the aim
should be in every instance to name for
delegates good Democrats, who can and
will come to the great gathering.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
CoL0KEU INSANITY.

IL the statistics of insanity are to be re-
iied on, that mental infrmity is increasing
at greater rate among Americans than
europeans. 1t has been found that the
number Of insane persons under Official
cognlzance increases with the provisions
made for taking care of them. The more
comfortable the asylums we build to put
them In, the more there are to put in them
sui, good authorities estimate that the
actual increase in this country is not less
imam per cent. year, which is double the
rate In England, and third greater than
IN Scotland, and, what is particularly sig
nihcant, 90 per cent greater than the an
nual increase of population.
IL Is interesting to know that the oolored
population is much more nearly exempt
from mental disease than the white,
ana that it furnishes a smaller
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03

SUPERSTITIoUs PEOPLE have found q
great deal lately in the celestial signs to
convince them that the world is at the
threshold of extraordinary changes. The
auroral displays five or six weeks ago
have been followed by numerous exhibit
tons at Bloomington ana Springfield, Ill. +:
Geneva, N. Y; Fort Dodge, Iowa. and
other places, of rainbows, cross-bars.
halos and suudogs, steamers of white
light, etc. In Massachusetts and else
where the Second Adventists have been
holding revivals and preparing for the end
or the world. They say the universe is
now at It's lowest ebb, and they refer to
TIMOTHY ii, chapters and 4; MATTHEW
chapter q, and other parts of the New
Testament as predicting the present state
OF Christendom. The conditions they
aver, are like the antideluvian times and
those before the destruction of Souom.
1t is true things are somewhat discourag.
ing, with so many cyclones, earthquakes
and atmospheric phenomena, but let us
hope that with the election of the Demo
cratic presidential ticket next November.
matters will take turn in the direction of
Improvement.