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Edenfield Advertiser THUS. J.ADAMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15. President McKinley says the war will end Aug. 1st. England undertakes ?o attend to Europe if we will take care of this side of the water. The official war news of this and the past week is satisfactory so far as it goes, but il is all preliminary. Georgia's "cussified" colonel, Candler, was elected Governor of that State in last week's elections. John R. Tolbert, of Abbeville, has been appointed by President McKinley as Collector of Customs * at Charleston. The yellow fever has made its appearance in Mississippi. The department at Washington is mak ing strenuous efforts to prevent its spreading. It is said that Santiago de Cuba has been captured and that the United States flag floats from the "battlements of the battery" at this writing. Wo have captured another island from Spain. This last is Guahan, one of the Ladrone group, about 1,500 miles from Honolulu, more than half way from that point to the Philippines. It is to be used as a coaling station. The State campaign opens at Orangeburg on Thursday of this week, the 16th inst. We will not know absolutely who is in the race for Governor until that meeting. We know for certain, however, that Col. Bob is in it. Gen. Merritt, who has been ap pointed Governor General of the Philippines, is hurrying prepara tions for his departure for these far away islands. Provisions and ammunition are being rushed aboard the China, Colon, and Zea land. The transports Senator, City of Pueblo, and Queen will soon be ready for troops. The Southern Press is not as severe in its criticisms of Gen. Milss as some of the northern, newspapers. The Pittsburg Post gaye: "There are those who believe that the death knell of the war will be sounded just as soon as the prow of Gen. Miles' porclain iined bath tub is pointed Cuba ward. It is announced that the vaults of the clearing house in New Yourk contain $140,000,000 in gold be longing to the banks of that city., Now, if the people of the country had about that additional amount of good, crisp legal tenders to do business with, how much better things would work. Senator Tilliman had . an important amendment added to the postoffice appropriation bill. It prevent? star contractors from subletting their contracts. In order to gee their money they must he able to swear that they performed the service themselves. This will insure a better service and allow the contractors a better showing. It is the general understanding in official circles that Shafter's force of 27,000 men will be divided after taking Santiago, one part to remain there and the others going to Ponce and the east of Porto Rico. The positive daie of their departure will be determined by Coppinger's readiness to start to San Juan. Simultaneous attacks by land and sea on San Juan will be fol lowed by a junction with Shafter's expedition, which will travel the military road, seventy-five miles from Ponce to San Juan, dissect ing the island. It is believed the campaign at Porto Rico will dis hearten Spain and season the Americans for a decisive victory at Havana. In many quarters the President is being very severely criticised for appointing to high rank in the army "Nobodies, the Sons of Somebodies.'' It is charged that "a letter from father," if father is a Senator or a millionaire, is sufficient to procure a rank in the army that wovld take about fifteen or twenty years to obtain through the regular channel of promotion. Winnsboro Herald. - Koli ol' Honor j - . Edgefi2ld Institute for month ending May 27th, 1898: Ella Allen, Earline Allen, Wad Allen, Julia Anderson, Art Rruu son, Alfred Covar, Henry Davis, Ellen Dunovant, Dozier Lynch, Calhoun Mays. Madge Mays, Ar noldus Lewis, jamie Peak, James Sheppard, Maxcie Sheppard,Rhett Sheppard, Julia Tompkins, Marie Tompkins, Annabelle Morgan. FIERI Spanish Guei American WHO LOST FOU AND' Spaniards Eepulsed Another Battle E: forcement On Board the Associated Press Dispatch Boat Dauntless, off Guantanamo, Sunday, June 12, via Mole S. Nicolas, Hayti, June 12.-Lieutenant Colonel R. W. Huntington's battalion of marines, which landed from the transport Panther on Friday, and encamped ou the hill guarding the abandoned cable station, at the entrance to. the outher harbor of Guantanamo, has been engaged in beating off a J bush attack by Spanish guerillas I and regulars since 3 o'clock Satur day afternoon. The fighting was almost con tinuous for 13 hours,until G o'clcck this morning, when reinforcements were landed from the Marblehead. Four of our men were killed and one wounded. The advance pickets unde Lieutenants Neville and Shaw, are unaccounted for. Among the killed in Assistant Surgeon John Blair Gibbs, sou of Major Gibbs, of the regular army, who fell in the Custer massacre. His home was at Richmond, but he had been practicing in New York, and entered the service since the war begun. He was a popular o?'eer. The others killed are Sergenat Charles H. Smith, of Smallwood; Private William Cunphy, of Gloucester, Mass., and Private James McColgan, of Stoneham, Mass. Corporal Glass was accidentally wounded in tho head. The Spanish .loss is unknown, but it was probably considerable. The splashes of blood found at daylight at the position? the Spaniards occupied indicate fatalities, but their comrades carried off the killed and wounded. The engagement began with desultory firing at the pickets, 1,000 yards inland from the camp. Captain Spice's company was do ing guard duty, and was driven in, finally rallying on the camp and repulsiug the enemy at 5 o'clock. The bodies of Privates McColgan and Dunphy, were found, both shot in the head. The large cavities made by the bullets, which, inside a range of 500 yards, have a rotary motion indicate that the victims were killed at close rauge. Shortly after midnight came the main attack. The Spaniards made a gallant charge up the southwest slope, but were met by repeated volleys from the main body, and broke before they were one-third of the way up the hill, but they come so close that, at at points, there was almost a hand struggle. The officers used their their revolvers. Three Span iards got through the open formation to the edge of the camp. Col. Jose Campi?a, the Cuban guide, discharged his revolver, and they, turning and finding themselves without support, ran helter-skelter down the reverse side of the hill. It was during this assault that Assistant Surgeon Gibbs was killed. He was shot in the head in front of his own tent, the farthest point of attack. Ile fell into the arms of Private Sullivan and both dropped. A second bullet threw dust in their faces. Surgeon Gibbs lived 10 minutes, but did not regain consciouess. The surgeons cf the hospital corps then removed their quarters to the trenches about the old Spanish stockade, north of thc camp. The attacks were continued at intervals throughout the rest of the night, with firing from small squads in various directions. Toward morning the fire slack ened. Dawn is the favorite time for attack, aud, as the east paled, the marines, lying on their guns, were aroused. Some were actually asleep, as they had had no rest for IS hours," and tired nature could no longer stand the strain. But no attack came. Three new 12-pound field guns, which could not be used during the night for fear of hitting our own men, shelled several squads of Spaniards after daylight. They dove into the bushes like prairie dogs into burrows as the shellal broke over them in the gray dawn. J ? As the correspondent ol' th?'.'; Associated i'ress talk d with Major Cockrell, who was in charge of the outposts, word caine of the finding of the body of Sergeant Smith. He was reported as having been killed at 5 o'clock on the previous day, but it appears that he had been seen alive at 10 o'clock in the evening. When and how he was killed, no one knows at OURS' :E FIGHTING. Tillas Attack . Marines R KILLED ONE WOUNDED. With Heavy Loss tpected and Kenl is Landed. this writing. Neither had the men been mustered nor had the outposts of Lieutenant Neville and Shaw been relieved. Lieutenant Colonel Hunting ton and Major Cockrell gave high praise to the nerve and steadiness of the officers and mon, especially the young ones, as the engagement was a baptism of fire for a large majority. The men were in dark ness and in a strange land, but they stood to their posts with courage and fortitude and there was no symptom of panic. The marines, though exhausted, were eager for more fighting, prom ising to inflict heavy punishment. They complimensed the daring of the Spaniards with characteristic profanity. To-day the amplest precautions have been taken, and, as the Daunt less was leading, reinforcements were lauding from the Marblehead, A stormy time was expected. Estimates vary as to the attack ing force, some saying 200 and the figures run ashign as 1,000. Col. Camaina, the Cuban guide, said the Spaniards were mostly irregu lars, but the reports of the dis charge of Mauser rifles would in dicate that they were regulars, a? most of the guerrillas carry Rem ingtons. The Cuban guerrillas, as a rule, have more dash and cour age than the regulars. The new campaign uniforms prove satisfactory, and, are almost invisible at a distance of 200 yards. The Lee guns caused several acci dentsjn drawing cartridges. Cor poral Glass shattered his hand. Despite the loss of the men, who are keenly regretted, the marines rejoice that they have been engaged in their first fight on Cuban soil. They sailed from New York the day war was declared, and expected to land .vithin a week at Havana. Since then, until they landed on the shore of Guantanamo bay, they had boen cooped up on the Panther, and they had begun to fear that the troops would beat them after all. Suffering in Silence. Women are the real heroes of the world. Thousands of them endure the dragging torture of the ills peculiar to womanhood in the silence of the home. They suffer on and on-weeks, months, years. The stor}* of weakness and torture is written in the drawn features, in the sallow skin, in the listless eyes, in the lines of care and worry on the face. Inborn modesty seals these.wo men's lips. They prefer the pain to humiliation. Custom haB made them believe the only hope of re lief lies in the exposure of exam ination aud. "local treatment." But in nine cases of female weak nesses out of ten, local treatment is unnecessary. There is no good reason why modest, sensitive wo men should submit to it. McElree's Wine of Cardui which is attracting so much attention now, has brought about a revolu tion in the manner of treating this troublesome class of diseases. It is a pure vegetable wine that exerts a wonderfully healing, strengthen ing and soothing influence over the organs of womanhood. It in vigorates and stimulates the whole system. It is almost infallible in curing, the peculiar weaknesses, irreguhu ities and painful derange ments of women. It does this great work year after year-iu the privacy of homo-away from the eyes of everybody. Every drug gist sells Wine of Cardui. The price is $1.00 per bottle. The Hon. T. H. Rainsford, of Edgefield, who for four years made such a wise and prudennt legislator io the House of Representatives, has been announced by his friends in Edgefield as a candidate to fill the unexpired term of Senator J. M. Gaines. Among the many bright men of that county no ona is 'jotter qualified for Senatorial duties, and his election will confer a well-merited trust and honor upon a .man who by his learning Mid wisdom its eminently capable of representing a county traditionally endowed with the ability lo produce men of genius, patriotism, superb courago and legal acumen. Hampton Guardian, Maps of Edtiefield county, con taining bjth Saluda and Green wood, lor sah', ar. this oilice. THE WAYS OF GENERALS. A GOOD ARTICLE PROM BILL AKP. t Ho Revives Some Good Stories About Prominent Men of tho Past-He Has Found Out That Admiral Dewey is. a Presbyterian. When General Taylor . bad fought and won a great battle in Mexico he sent a report of it to the secretary of war and began it by saying: Sir-On yesterday noon as I wa3 taking a hasty plate of soup." The nation was electrified at the victory, but everybody smiled at the old man's style of reporting it and the importance he attached to soup. Nevertheless the Whigs nominated him for President over Gen. Scott and Daniel Webster. Scott was called "Old Fuss aud Feathers," but Taylor was dubbed "Old Rough and Ready," and that nom inated him. The Democratic papers made fun of him and called him "old soup plate" but he was elected. His fighting qualities put him through. . And Henry Watterson says we can put Admiral Dewey through for the same reason. Maybe we can. I am willing, of course, for he isa Democrat and a Presby terian, and being, one of the elect, ought to be elocted. We don't know that he is partial to soup, but certain it is that he is partial to his stomach, for he actually stopped fighting and siukiug ships long enough to eat breakfast. Was such a thing ever done in the midst of a terrific battle be fore? "Twenty minutes for break fast !" was the ring of the steward's bell on every vessel and the poor Spaniards had surcease of sorrow for a little while. Zachary Taylor said : "A little more grape, Captain Bragg," bot Dewiiy said: "B >ys, let us rest a while aud eat up somethiug-the rest of their ships j will keep. Dewey is a Green Mountain boy and I like that, for Vermont Democrats aro the best Democrats north ot the line. And just" to think of his bciug a Presbyteriao. I didn't know they had any in Vermont and would have set him down for a Unitarian or a Roman Catholic or a deep water Baptist. Grover Cleveland, they say, is a Presbyterian, but maybe he is one of Zeb Vance's kind. Zeb said : "The difference be tween me and " my brother Bob is that Bob is a Methodist and believes in falling from grace, but Bob never falls, I am a Presbyterian and don't believe in falling, but am falling all the time," When Zeb was ruDning against Holden for Governor he found, out that all the people io a little valley over the mountain were Baptists, and so he went over there just a few days before Holden was to speak there and told the boys that his good old mother was a Baptist and that Holden was a regular old-fashioned' shoutin Methodist and you could hear him a mile at a camp meeting. The result was that not a dozen men came out to hear Holden and Vance got every vote in the settlement. But that stopping for breakfast at Manila reminds me of the fight between Mr. Hall and Colonel Boyd, of our town, away back be fore the war. The}" were leading citizens and were continually at outs. They carried much ani mosity on tb .?ir tongues and much cor^orrosity in their abdominal regions, for each weighed about 250 pounds and had short arms and shorter legs and each had vowed to whip the other if he ever crossed his path. One day as Hall was from the post?nico slowly walking and reading his paper WEIREE'5 mom1 has demonstrated ten thousand tines that it ia almost infallible FOR WOMAN'S PECULIAR WEAKNESSES, Irregularities and derangements. It bas become tho leading remedy for this class of troubles. It exerts . wonderfully bealing, strength ening and soothing 1 uduence upon the menstrual organs. It caros "whites" and falling of tho womb. It a topa flooding and relieves sop* pressed aaa1 painful menstruation. For Chango ot Life it is the best medicine made. It is beneficial during pregnancy, and helps to bring children into home's barren for years, 'It invigorates, st i mu latos, strengthen!* th? wb?le sys? tom. This great remedy ls offered to all afflicted women. Why wi I) any woman suffer another minute with certain relief within reach? Wine of Or?rf)ni only cost? Jl.00 per bottlc at your aca$ ?*Qre. for advice, in oases requiring W??iir fUtfC^lioTfi. address, giving eymptorne. ?ha ." taaiot- ?jlvi??jy Department,*' Tho Chattanooga 'Medicine' Cu., Chair tanooga, Tenn. Rev. J. W. SMITH. Camden, 6.C., Myst ''My vs Ho used Wino of Cardul ai home for fairing of the wc ;nb and it entirely cureti h67." afcd he and Boyd met at the corner aid the fight began. Each was as bi; a coward as oki Falstaff, but dey had to fight and everybody ap'und was willing. lu a brief t?ne they got to the ground aud neither could get up or get on top and they blowed like popoises. Atter while the people took pity on them and helped them-up and then each, claimed the victoiy. "I sent ycu word I was going to whip you," said Boyd, "aud no?v I reckon you will quit, telling lies on me." "?hip who, yon old dirty, lying p?ppy. Why, 1 whipped you, sir, and never stopped reading my newspaper," and he held up the crumpled sheet that somehow or other he had never let go from his hand. The old doctor always swore that be n<iver stopped read ing his paper while fighting Boyd. .Tu?t so Taylor never forgot his soup and Dewey his breakfast. There is no record in all history matching Dewey's coolness under fire and over water, and if he should be nominated for cur next Presidentas patterson predicts, the shibboleth with be twenty minutes for break fast. Stonewall Jackson didn't 6eem to care very much about eating during a fight, but did care about praying for souls of his enemies. "The Blaehght elder know them well, Say he, 'That's Banks-he's fond of h shell Lord save his soul-now give him' well That's Stonewall Jackson's way. "Silence! ground arms! kneel all! caps off! Old Bluelight's going to pray. 'Say bare thine arm; stretch forth thy rod ; Amen !' That's Stonewalls way." But after all t'^at has been said or sung about our heroes, I don't believe that any good heart ed man takes pleasure in killing his fellow min whether in battle or in a quarrel. In the olden time when men fought duels and it was considerable to refuse a challenge, manya man overshot his adversary racher than have his blood on bis hands. It takes a hardhearted man to shoot another down iu cold blood and it is a shade of comfort to every true soldier to know that possibly every bullet he fired may have missed the mark. I saw two soldiers shot at sunrise one morning at Center ville in 1861. Twelve men fired the-fatal shots but no one knew whojcilled them fDr six of the guns had j\o balls in them. Such is the^kind consideration that even ai my rules have for the feelings of those who a're chosen for such reluctant work. That voice from heaven that Cain heard when he killed Abel still haunts us. "The The Fee is Five Dollars. Insurance, Ten Dollars. For Congress. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re election to Congress from the Second Congres, ?ional District, subject to the rules and regula tions of the democratic party. Respectfully, W. T. TALHERT. For State Senate. The Hon. T. H. Rainsford is hereby annouhc ed as a candidate cor thc unexpired term of J. M. Gaines in the State Senate. His record in the lower House for five years proves him to be a wisc and prudent legislator, capable of taking care of the interests of his constituents. We pledge him to abide the result of the primary election. FRIENDS. For House of Representatives. Dr. W. P. Timmerman is announced as a can didate for the House of Representatives, sub ject to the rules and regulations of the demo cratic party. REFORMERS. The friends of N. G. Evans, Esq,, respect fully announce him for the House of Represen tatives. He will abide results of the pri mary and support all its nominees. The many friends of P. B. Mayson, Esq., re spectfully present hi? name to the democratic voters of Edgcrleld county for a seat in thc House of Representatives, and respectfully so licit their support. Ho will abide tho result of the primary election and support thc nominees of the party. MANY FRIENDS. ' For County Treasurer. I am a candidate for re-election to the office of County Treasurer. I will abide ihe result of the primaries and support all t ic nominees of the party, T, C, MORGAN, For County Auditor. I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Auditor. I will abide the results of the primary and support thc nominees of the party, J. B. IlALTIWANGER. For County Supervisor. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for nomination tc the office of County Supervisor af the ensuing democratic primary election. The cordial support of my fellow citizens is respect ively solicited. JAMES T. M IMS. I announce myself a candidate for the office of Supervisor of Edgelield county, subject to thc action of the democrutic primaries. U. Ai COCHRAN, lama candidate for the office ot County Su. pervisor, will abide the result uf tho primary election and support the nominees of the party J. M. BELL, ]R. I am a candidate for County Supervisor. I will abide the result of thc primary election and support thc nominee. D. D. PADGETT. Por Judge ot Probate. J respectfully aii'iou?i(:e nijroeji a pandillaje for reelection po the Office of Jndgfi of Probate of Edgefield county, subject tu the rules and regu lations of the democratic primiiay election, plcc?K?i>K ,nysc'f tH abide by tbc result? and support the nominees of the party, J. D. ALLEN, For Superintendent ot Education. i hereby announce myself a candidate for County Superintendent of Education, and pledge myself lo abide results of the primary. p. N. LOTT. oice of my brother's blood cries into me from the ground." I have ften wondered how the spirits of [ead soldiers of opposing armies oeet each other on the other side. )o they shake hands and make rienda or how? Or do they say ike Nathaniel Hawthorne said, vhen asked if he was in favor of h? civil war. "Well, yes I suppose io, in fact, I am constrained to Lpprove it, but still I don't know vbat we have to fight about." But one thing is certain. We ire coraicg slow speed in feeding Carving Cubans and if our fleets lon't hurry up there won't be my body to feed. Lord help them for it looks like we cannot. BILL ARP. The Cost of War. It is impossible to estimate the cost of war. The expenditures of governments in carrying on wars ire enormous and may be ascer tained with some degree of ac curacy, but these do not constitute ihe total cost of a war or anything like it. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, United States treasurer, has, however, pre pare! a statement which shows bow vast a eum of money our gov ernment has expended in wars. Mr. Roberts estimates our expen diture? in the war of 1812 at ?102,993,153. War in those days was very far from beiDg as costly as it is now It was comparatively inexpensive when the conflict with Mexico came on. The cost to us bf that war, Mr. Roberts puts it at $125,447,483. When we reach the civil war we come to great figuiee. Mr. Roberta gives the following statement of the expenditures by the United Slates government for each of the four fiscal years ofthat struggle: 1862 - - $456,379,890.81 1863 - - 694,004,575.56 1864. . - 811,283,679.14 1865 - - 1,217,704,199.28 Total - $3,179,372,350.79 Euormou8 as this total is, it really represents but a small part ol' the entire cost of the civil war. It does not include the expendi tures of the Confederate States government, which were very large. More th au $2,500,000,000 has been paid by the government to pen sioners of the civil war, and this must go imo the account. When we include the value of property that was destroyed and the loss on "account bf suspended production we shall have to add several thousand millions more to the estimate of Mr. RobertB. The total cost of the civil war cannot be ejaculated, and if it could, the figures would be beyond our com prehension. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, ol Kansas, whose fame as a brilliant writer, aman of remarkable schol arship and literary attainments, is even greater than that of the distinguished senator, announces a new book on the subject of the Arnericau Spanish-Cuban War. It is entitled "America's War For Humanity in Picture and Story." It is published by the N. D, Thompson Pub. Co., of St. Louis, Mo., and is an exhaustiva discus sion of the cause of the war, and equally exhaustive history of its incidents, and a brilliant analysis of the famous characters conduc ting it. It promises to be the one great and popular woik called forth by this wonderfully interes ting national episode. Whatever Senator Ingalls toaches he adorns ; and this book shines and sparkles in the light of his genius. The present work is worthy of his genius, and will be a monument his fame. The subject now so ungrosses the popular mind as to forecast for this book a sale that will be universal. It will be sold by subscription only, and the canvassing samples are now ready for agents, We advertise it in another column. DRESSMAKING. MRS. T. E. WOODS.QX takes this means of thanking her friends for [mst: patronage and asks that they will continue to give ber sewing. She makes a specialty of line white sewing1 such as bridal trousseaux and infants layettes. She cuts and fits ladies and childrens' dresses hy the most ap* proved in.eth.Qd. Sewing room at her iwellingr AGENTS WANTED In Every County to Supply the Great Popular Demand for TOLD Ll PICTURE AND STORY. Compiled and Written by ??lalor Join J. lyalls, cl Km. 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