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eld Advertiser THOS. J. AD AMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1895. Bob Ingersoll will lecture in Co lumbia at an early day. The State tax next year will be 4? mills. This is quite a reduc tion. Swine and sorghum must be the battle cry in Edgefi>ld for the year 1895. The State has long since paid the interest on its bonds, although not due until the 1st of January. ? The question is not if you can afford to take the Edgefield AD. YERTISER, but if you can afford to do without it. The damage to the orange crop in Florida by the late freeze is es timated at two millions of dol lars. It is said the Liverpool cotton brokers are now offering to sell cotton for delivery after the 1S95 crop is made for 3 cents a pound. Darwin declared that insanity is not peculiar to human beings. He asserted that animals often become insane. Good tillage ?viii usually produce a fair crop on a pretty poor soil, but ' unless there is plant food available | the crop can not perfect itself. Taxes in Edgefield. County this year, 1895, will be about a mill and a half lower than last year. This much is due to our members of the legislature. It is said that the fate of the substitute currency bill in the House depends on Republican votes. If so we are already in the soup. Adjutant General Watts has de cided to reduce the number of Militia companies in South Caroli na from 207 to 100, three compa nies to be aUowed to each county, on an average. Gov. Evans says he intends to cut the force of constables in two, as the expence of enforcing the law takes up too much of the profits. He intends to retain the best men on the force, and then see thai they do their duty. The New York World says : The news that President Cleveland is iW conaition" to dance around ? Christmas tree is good new3. By and by he may feel stroDgenouh to dance a war-dance over the law-de fying trusts, the defaulting Pacific railroads, the blow-hole armor-plate contractors and other offenders who need stamping on by the Presiden tial foot. Trial Justices. Adjourned. Tho Legislature adjourned Mon day, Dec. 24th, at 1:40 oclock p. m., and the few remaining mem bers returned to their respective homes. About 300 bills were passed and ratified, the most important of which are as follows: The act extending the time of paying back taxes to March 1. The act regulating the foreclo sure of mortgages-being aimed at the Scotish mortgage system. The new dispensary law. Providing for the proving of past due school claims, thereby saving a quantity of special legis lation. Punishing intoxication and the use of indecenl language. A new militia law. Providing for the establishment of joint stock distilleries. To authorize the purchase by Columbia and Lexington County of the Broad river and Congaree bridges. The act authorizing the estab lishment of a metropolitan police. The act providing for a Consti tutional Convention. To amend Section 6th of an Act entitled uAn Act to amend au Act entitled "An act to provide for the rehef of certain soldiers and wid ows of soldiers and sailors of the late war betwseu the States." To require cotton buyers to num ber each bale of cotton bought with same number that is put upon colton bills and books. . To authorize transcipts of judg ments and decrees of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States within this State to be filed and docketed in the office of the clerks of the Courts of Common Pleas of the several counties of this State. To amend the Revised Statutes relatiugto the preparation of lists of inhabitants to serve as jurors. To repeal Section 263 of the Genernl Statutes of 1892 requir ing county treasurers to attend at convenient places to collect, tax?e. CORRESPONDENCE "Our Boys" in the Legislature. COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 22, '94. EDITOR ADVERTISER: Thinking that you and the people of Edge field would like to know what their representatives did her? this ses sion, I have taken time lo joi clown for you a few of the things they have done and enacted into law. Pion. Thos. IT. Rainsford intro duced and secured the passage of a bill reducing the salary of the State Dispenser from $3,000 to $2.000 ; also in the same act the salary of the Edgefield Dispenser and his clerk was reduced to $1, 000. Mr. Rainsford is a worker and aided very materially in ?e ducing other saleries and large ap propriations for the various col leges. Hon. L. J. Williaair^^a mem elections, and the salar, reduction bill having been referred to his committee he worked hard for a favorable report and from th* committee fought hard for it hr' the House. Mr. Williams did some good work for highway legislation. He ifs a determined and uncom promising fighter from start to finish. lie is the father of the bill to abolish the South Carolina Military Citadel Academy, p'hich was continued till next session. Hon. J. H. Edwards secured the passage of a bill through the House to require Insurance Com pauies tjp pay t] and enlargement of the common schools and against so much mon ey for the education of the classes in the colleges. His splendid ef fort in behalf of the full common schools in the country will result in much good in the near future. He has never missed a session of the Senate and is always to be found in his place. Mr. Watson has favored all reductions of sala ries and reduction of large appro priations of the peoples money. Hon. W. H. Timmerman, the new Lieu/enaut Governor and President of the Senate, presides with much grace and dignity. The doctors genial disposition and uUucle Sam" resemblance capti vates every one. The Senate Cham ber is a favorite resort for the la dies and I am sure they do uot ?:o there to look at the members of the Senate for none is ever elected to the Senate until they get old and ugly Last but not least, is the Hon. Thomas Whittle, the door-keeper| of the Senate, by the appointment of the Lieutenant Governor. Hi, hearty and indescribable laugh aid resounding stamp of the foot is is musical'as ever. Hon. W. H. Yeldell, a fomer member from Edgefield, is her; in the engrossing department ard in the interest of the new Green.vood County bill. The bill waf laid aside uutil next session wren it will come up ?gain. It is uv ob servation that the House if much more radical in reduction >f pala ries and cutting down appropria tions than the Senate. I am iuformed that <he State Dispensary shipped :hif\veek up to last night 1,760 cases, of whis key which will average four and oue half gallons to each case. Of this amount Edgefied received her share. DAGNELL. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CON VENTION. "Semphronicus'' -Hits a Few Nails on the Head and Drive? Them Home. DEAR OLD ADVERTISER : A few thoughts on 4he Constitutional Convention might not be amiss at th?8 time. I db not give my opin ion to stir up' strife, but to try rn disabuse th?) minds of the people ol' several e/rors and fond expec tations tha' seem to have crept in through thj public prints. The people have al l?6t the long coveted, fong desired, and long prayed Kr opportunity ot mending their coGstitution. Confronted in three successive elections with threats of negro interf?rence, thny will itnieed be wise if they forever put such a contingency beyond the range of human possibility. To p;it the negro vote out of the waV^s their first, and imperative d??tj. Put the negro beyond the ie*e'h of low, unscrupulous dema gogues, or "White Niggers" as Un ci? George Tillman would call tljem, who, in the lust for the e,u*olumeuts of office, so for for f^Vc?aa&?&!?*^"ao to jeopar': . \-?v; race, their families, and even their own existence by truckling to an ignorant, debauched, dissatisfied, mercenary negro suffrage. A ?rent howl is going up all over the land about eetac&ug v^triotic, poor-white-man loving men to rep resent us in the convention, Dis gruntled reformers, extreme con servatives raise their yelps to swell the general chorus. Men who fought the convention to the last ditch are now prating boji patriotic, unselfish devonia our old State (id nans rews com inis wise: fey are wise and Fill honor the con Their presence, but the Ian will be hard to find." od there is no naed for an editor to speak thus. Ired hills abound in as en as they who formed ?ention of which Hamil Madison were the lumi Id over which Washing led. No! old Edgefield, of heroes and states still find them ready to Iall. Perhaps Mr. Aull, mistake not used to live feld, painfully feels the etween bis old and new [e nae our sympathy. (wever, like a true Edge ade himself felt, in the Newberry County, and decidedly. So mueh by ressiou. Lld Bend no man who convention before the man opposing it, if fill only be a clog, and Iery objects for which tiou was called. All eed by the "outs" and i is balderdash ; it is the |au, but the voice ol' Bing to see how men will talk of patriot (en, being unable to de onvention otherwise, is to slip in as sheep rt the}' are ravening [y intend thus to get once tney lind them slab qualified suffrage kit white supremacy, Ii that most of those ie convention are an on account of tho jattaohed. This may jople. The trill h ot on the contrary, this as a subter ?lhei reasons which ventilate before ?rnpie, I will tain little ^opposing a ion on ac dated at tho por house, and' vet opposed to pending the same amount for stengthening our fun damental la? and erecting bul warks and sfe-guards around < ur sacred li br ty ! Patriotism and State lov(! his 1 All fhis,a!k about laying aside factional eeling and strife is an idle dreas. The dominant party in the cojvention is going to leave its stamj and impress upon the in-itruneut which they draw up. Any change in the organic law of the St.te is goiug to accentuate partyfeeling, and factional lines will !e more sharply defined than ever. Each side will be afraid to riskthe other, and it will be the san? old fitory over, again. Iee every lover of a white man's lue ascertain whether a man is unreservedly, unqualifiedly, and uncompromisingly in favor of Qualified suffrage before he gets i's support for a seat in the con vention. This is the great, the vi tal issue. May their labors event uate in lasting good to our insti tutions, our laws, our people, and our grand old State. SEMPHRONICUS. Jo Brown, one of the Georgia Senators, used to be the best shot with a squirrel rifle in the south. His father would give him twelve bullets and tell him to bring in twelve squirrels. "And mind ye," the old man would add. " let the boles be through their 'tarnal beads.'' Once Robert Tombs chal lenged Brovni to fight a duel, ai"4 besought the lat er to . ? - iveapons. "S~ Brown to the {. . . massage. N beard from Tot Master STATE OF SOU' KDGEFIELP Court Corni .mas. -tv R. J. PRICE, Ptah, against W. I). JENNINGS, <?t al. PURSUANT to the dporein thisoaiise I will offer tor sale al public outcry, before the cnn ri-boose, town of Edge field, State of South Carolina, on th?1 first Monday in January, 18B5, fhpi;>? tlie 7t 1) clay ol' said month ) between the legal hours of sale, the following de scribed rea'ty, to wit: .All that tract of land, lying, situate, and being in Abbeville county and S'.ale ol' South Carolina, containing one hundred and eighty-four and one half (i84J<5/ acres, more or less, bound ed ny lands ol' William Thornton, W. li. Dorn, and others, known as the ''Patterson tract." All that tract of land, lying, situate, and being in Abbeville and Kdgelield counties, South Carolina, containing one hundred and sixty-two and one half (1C2}?) acres, more or less, and bounded by lands (d' W. Smith, W. II. Dorn, Francis Oweusly, and known as the '-Bracknell tract." TKRMS OF SALK : One-half cash, bal ance on a credit of one year, with in terest from the day of sale. Purchaser to give bond and mortgage of the item ises to secure the credit portion or nil cash at the purchaser^ optior "<= to_biLiiamplied wrlT. "7~ZMi^?jr'y"a.. rangements made or land to be resold Lu one hour. Purchaser to pay for papers. W. P. ROATH, Master E. C. Master's Sale STATE OF SOVTU CAJIO. EDGEFIELO Cotrary: Court ?ssimon Pleas ETHEREDGE, ? against LIZZIE JONES, to the decree in this ci use, I will offer for sale at public jut cry before the Court House, town of Edgefieid, and State of South Caro lina, on the first Monday in January, 1895, (being the 7th day of said month) between the legal hours of sale, the following described realty, to wit: All that tract of land in the county of Edgefield and State of South Caro lina, containing one hundred and forty seven (147) acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of L. P. Street, Pay ton Herrin, T. I). Crooker, H. E. Gar rett, Mrs. P. Ables, R. P.Jones, and others, and on the waters of Red Bank Creek, being known as the Ben Jones or Crooker tract of land. TERMS OF SALF. : One-half cash, and the balance on a credit of one year, with interest on the credit por tion from the day of sale. Purchaser to give bond and mortgage of the premises to secure the credit portion, or all cash at the purchaser's opthrt. Terms to be complied with or land to be resold in two hours. Purchaser to pay for papers. W. F. ROATH, Master E. C. Master's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, EDGEFIELD COUNTY. Court of Common Pleas. LOU E. COLEMAN, against WM. STEWART. Pl'RSU WT to the judgment of fore closure in this cause, I will otter for sale at public outcry before the court-bouse, town of Edgefield and State of South Carolina, on the llrst Monday in January, 1895, (being the 7th day ol' said month) between the legal hours of sale, the following de scribed realty, to wit : All that lot, piece, and paroel of land, situate, lying, and being in the county of Kdgelield and State of South Carolina, containing two hundred and forty-seven and one-half (247.1..) acres, more or less, hounded on the mu th by lands of T. .1. Dyson and A, W, Clark: on the east, by lands of .1. A. W, Clark and Wm. Stewart; south,by lands of Leonard Beams, dee.'d, and Milledge Deloaoh; and west, by lands of Jack Cor ley and Mrs. Artemesia Still. THUMS OF SALK : Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. W. F. BOAT II, Master K. C, ' LAND SURVEYOR. AND SURVEYING carefully accurately clone hy Keep Ont the Cold FELT WEATHER STRIPS, SOLD BY LEWIS F. MILLICAN, T MA TELS, TILI 6, GRATES, Al IRON FENCING. CALL AUSJ ID SEE STOCK. 937 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA., above Planters Hotel. 3D TT XS. E3?S 5,10 AND 15 CENT STORE, 516 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga, ( Is the place to get bargains in Crockery, Lamps, Glassware, Tinware, Iron Age Ware, Wooden Willow Ware, Hardware, ?fee. Toys, and Jewelry a specialty. MBDINQI ? - > ; 618 Broad SW, AUGUSTA, GA. This is headquarters for fl ?HE FIE LD TRADE, and is THE BEST GROCERY^W^HL IN TOWN. Always get MURPHEY'S PrHj.-'rmhctorp you buy. They S'il CM: Kor Cash. Is still with us and is always ??hul^Hk any of his Edgefield friends CLOT X I IN" Gr , Gents' .Furnish. jg Goods. We desire to say, D the public that our stock in every department is now quite complete and tfcidy for inspection. We areoll'eringgoods at very much reduced prices. Yo*r lave hut to inspect our stock and get prices, to be con vinced that same vak / goods are sold for less than they were last season. J>fc_. ..j OLOTHHSTOF; --. We are offering (nany bargains in i hi, department. Can sell a suit that will tit a lB-yearnjldboy for 75?' ?Ve call your attention especially to our line of il0.00.?iJits-(^P??i,.\r3?art'same value as we suhl last season for $12.50 and *.U'.0(7.~ We have a Livestock of cheaper suits which we are offering tor les? j money than same value goods were formerly sold. ena: OE si SHOES! This stock is complete is every linc. Our shoes are bought directly front manufactories, and are sold as close as fresh first-class goods can possibly toe <old, and are not to be compared with old and shoddy goods that are often lound on the market. We are agents for the well known Bay State Shoes. HATS! .GC ATSI Our line of Hats is complete, consistingof some of the latest novelties at remarkably low prices. ' Our stock of latest styles in Neckwear, Collars, Hosiery, etc., is now in ind we are selling it at very low prices. We make a specialty of Clothing, Shoes, Ha.s, and Gents' Furnishing Goods, and of course carry a much larger stock than those who keep a general stick, therefore catt give a better variety to select from. m B. HART & CO., Edgefield, S. C , Oct. 10,1894. " " --... A N GEANITEVILLE, - \&. C. -CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE BETWEEN AUGUSTA AND COLUMBIA. Dry Goois, Notions, Cloli, Hats, Sloes, Mire, AIDsTIU CROCKERY, Were purchased hy us personally in the marke-te of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore after the turi ff reduction -went into effect, consequently prices are lower than ever before. We earoy a large Btock o? Groceries and Plantation Supplies at bottom pricss. You can GET MORE MONEY FOR YOUR COTTON andmore goods for your money al Granite ville, than any where else. So come to see us. QUINSY & CO., Gl?ANITEVILLE, S. C. HJSJNT?Y IO. 0@SOTtlS:. MAXUKAC ITU ll : VI) ?KALKR IX HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, Etc. Repairing a Specialty. aiS (6Ji) Wasliing < n ??t., AUGUSTA, OA. SA3? ZD-MALE G-OO-DS. Everything in our line at LOWEST PRICES. Before buyinj elsewhere call and see for yourselves. 31 taree Steen oj Eignes, Cijeap ano" Cons. ? AR/?DAD? \ IRON WORKS AND LUIVI?ArvU I SUPPLY COMPANY, AUGUSTA. GA. Machinery and Supplies. Repairs, ute, Qrjddy Made? T. BUTLER MALLARD, Manager. V. B. M <3"; .."Mallard & Mell - Wholesale Dealers in - Salt Water Fish of We have opened up a branch of our Tampa,' hous-e, in Augusta, Ga., where we will have in'?ea RC water fish of all kinds, such as LARGE SOOTH bead, Trout, BURS, Pompano, Spanish Mackeral,Bb| Muliot is our specialty. i> At our Fishery in Tampa, we have every fac'^r and of getting ihem through to Augusta in the qMPIfst. possible timej Our Fish Fleet in the Gulf, is composed of six larg? vessels, ant a number of smaller ones, with fifty of the beet fishermen on the coast to catch the fish. Prices furnished on application. Terms C. O. D., or cash with order. Give us a trial and we will endeavor to please you. Mallard & Mcllvaine, 555 Broadway, - AUGUSTA, GA Carpet .-. Department. .-. ELROD & RHOADES, | Are the selling agents of John & James Dobson's several Carpet Mills. They manufacture a special line of goods for their large retail places on 14th Street, New York, and 809 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. We can save you 25 per cent, and lay them on your floors; Hotels and Churches a specialty. At these prices terms are strictly cash. Mattings, Rugs, Shades, Poles, Lace and Porter Curtains. Beautiful stock of pic tures at a low price. WALL PAPER-We are the recognized leaders for better work at lower prices than anyone else. We refer to the best homes in Augusta. ELROD & RHOADES' WAL1-PAPER8TO"E S"*' 629 BROADWAY. YOUR ATTENTION I ;IP YOU JSEEIDE Cook Steves, Stove ^Pais, Stove Pipe, Tinware, Well Bite, FARCIT GROCERIES, Loaded Shells, Canned Goods, Confectionaries. Evaporators Repaired or made to Order. LARGEST COOK STOVE FOR THE MONEY. Coffee Pots, Milk Buckets, and Covered Buckets made from the best of Tin in the market. Repairs for Cook Stoves I sell, kept in stock. Call on or address CHAS. A. AUSTIN, JOUIfcTSTOIISr, s. o. ? :.r I 3 That there isa place in Augusta where you can getsoi?r??hing nice and tempt ing to eat in the FANCY GROCERY Line? DOSCHER & CO., carry a full line o? the latest Home and Foreign Delica-? cies, . When you visit Augusta come) and see us. Prices will please yo#. . r eoe BROADWAY, $18.000 . $18,000 E?ghTeen Thousand lullars Worth of Dry Gool, Cloting, Sloes, Hi CMS, ail Unflerwear, CONSIGNE!,. rAO I>. Q Flynn's Action House, j TO BE SOLD AT 7?C. O. THE DOLLAR. -WE HAVE 5c. Calico, for.3}^c. 5c. Ginghams for. 7c. Bleaching for.5c. 30 yards Fine Shirting.$1.00 Good Check Homespun.3)?c Children's Suits for.<>5e. up. Young Men's Suits. $2.50 up. Gentlemen's Snits.$2.50 up. Men's $15.00 Suits for.$9 75 Men's $17.? Men's $20.00 Men's, Boyj Trunks, and want. Children' Women's Men's Shoes We have avery line assortment' Dress Goods and Ladies' at prices you have never heard of All Wool Red Flannel at 70c. We have everything you can find in a lirst-ch jng store, and we can save you at least 25c. on evt Flynn's Auctio: 954. Broad Street, - Mr. G. R. BARTON is with us and wifl friends and treat them right. ALWAYS IN TH /. C. LEVY TAILOR. FI J CLO AUGUSTA. Have now in store their entire FALL AND WINTER Tire largest stock ever shown in Angin not only intrinsically good, but wt gratify ?cultivated and discrimin?t!] make our prices so low the close-" Polite attention to all. A call wil i. c. L: TA 1L.OR-FIT CL<