The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-02-14

| OlCG LIZ TGSulG 4uS SlS6G OduSCl 10
from peritonitis. Mr.. MeetZe was rest
ing pretty easy at 10 o'clock last night.
Mr.. Miller was only slightly scratched
by one of Mr.. MeetZe's bullets. 1t en-
tered his coat sleeve near the wrist,
glanced along his arm and came out
near the shoulder.-State.
A FARMER TO FARMERS.
Some Excellent Advice from Mr. G. ". Tru-
lit, OF GeerSts.
George W. Truitt, of Troup County,
Ca, says that he has raised 100 bushels
of cats to one acre, 128 bushels of corn
Oh one acre, bales Of cotton, averaging
$50 pounds each on one acre. From
pamphlet recently written by him we
take the following address to farmers:
"FelloW-farmers, we inhabit the most
God-favored land of all the nations in
all the world. In climate, soil and rain
fall, we, especially those Of us east of
the Mississippi river, have the adVal-
tage, and it only remains for US to use
it. While there is scarcity Of money,
there is not near such ascarcity of food
for man and beast, which we used to
have to buy; hence, our next crop can
be made with less money. To avery
large extent, in US farmers Is vested the
hope Of the future prosperity and hap
piness of nearly all the people of this
great Southland. Much is expected of
Us and we must get together and do
our duty for ourselves and country.
"Who saves his country, saves all
things, and all things, saved, will bless
him. Who lets his country die, lets all
things die, and all things, dying curse
him" The South needs large addi-
ton to her Apglo.Saxon population,
and, if l read the siens of the times
Alright, she will have it. Big plantation
days are numbere 1. Small farms owned
by thrifty white men In the South are
being predicted by the wisest men of
the day. May God speed the change.
and while He is doing his part, let US
do ours. Lets prove to the World that
we can raise all the hogs, cattles, mules
horses, wheat, oats and corn we need,
and nearly as much cotton as we do
now, besides. Succeed in that, and we
will always get fair price for our COT
ton. Let's get matters in shape where
we can have as long to dispose Of one
cotton crop as it takes to make another
Then you would never hear of oVerpro-
duction.
THAT our country-the cotton belt
! is growing gradually, but surely, let
me here quote some high authority
the immortal Grady, our most stead
fast friend and most eloquent advocate.
I quote from his frmous Dallas, Texas,
speech, as far back as 1887: "Whiie the
producer of everything nearly we eat
or wear, in every land, is fighting
through glutted markets for bare ex-
istence, what Of the Southern farmer?
In his industrial, as in his political
problem, he is set apart, not in doubt,
but in assured independence. Cotton
makes him king.
"Not the feeces that Jason sought
can rival the richness of this plant, as
| It unfurls it's banners il our fields. II
| is gold from the instant it puts forthit
tiny shoot. The shower that whispers
to it is heard around the world. The
trespass of worm on It's green leaf
means more to England than the ad-
vance of the Russians on her Asiatic
outposts. When its fibre, current in
every bank, is marketed, itrenders back
to the South $3.50, ,OOO 600 every year. Its
seed will yield S60,OOO.OOO worth of oil
to the press and S40,OO0,000 in food for
soil and beast, making the stupendous
total of S450,000,00O annual income
from the crop. And now, under the
Tompkins patent, from its stalk news.
paper is to be made at two cents per
pound"
Edward Atkinson once said: eff
New England could grow the cotton
plant without lint it would make her
richest crop; if she held monopoly OF
cotton lint and seed, she would control
the commerce of the world" But is
our monopoly, threatened from Egypt,
India and Brazil, sure and permanent?
Let the record answer: Ia 1882, the
American supply of cotton was 3,24l,
600 bales. Foreign supply, .3O36,OOo
bales. We led our rivals by less
than 100000 bales. This year, the
American supply is 100000 bales;
from foreign sources 2 100000 expressed
in bales of 400 pounds each. In spite
of new eras elsewhere, of fuller exDe.
rience, of better transportation, and
unlimited money spent IN experiment,
the supply of foreign cotton has de-
creased. since 1872, nearly 200, 900 bales
while that of the South has increased
nearly 5,000Oo0.
Not alone III cotton, but in iron does
the South excel. An Englishman OF
the the highest character predicted that
Atlantic would be whitened within our
lives with sails carrying American IRON
and coal to England. In cotton, a mo-
nopoly; in iron and ceal, establishing
swift mastery; in granite and marble,
developing equal advantage and re-
source; in yellow pine and hard woods,
the worlds treasury.
So, my brothers, be of good cteer--
better times are bound to cone. If ev-
cry able-bodied man and woman in the
South would pitch in and make their
own living for one year, We would hear
no more of "hard times. This is the
road to prosperity. Ills the way to
manliness and sturdiresS Of charac-
ter" Wheu every farmer in the South
shall eat bread from his own fields and
meat from his own pastures, and, dis.
turbed by no creditor, ensla.ved by no
deb, shall sit amid his teeming gardens
and orchards, vineyards, and dalrles,
making cotton his clear surplus, then
shall be breaking the fullness of our
day.
Mills Blown Up.
SPARTANBURG, Feb, 6.-At 6.20 this
morning, the large driving wheel of the
Spartan Cotton Mill went to pieces sud-
denly, and falling on some Of the large
pipes, broke them and caused terrific
explosion. Both cylinders were torn to
pieces. F. A. Lewis, engineer, was in