Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

EDGEFIELD, S. C., ffURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1888 I VOL. XL vin--NO. u. Hu CnAnnonilrkP. AT THE BAR? " Who speaks for this man?" From the great white throne, Veiled in its roseate doods, the voice came forth. Before it stood a parted soul alone, And, rolling East and West, and South and North, 'The mighty accents summoned quick and dead : " Who speaks for this man ere his doom be said?" Shivering he listened, for his earthly life He passed in doll, unnoted calm away ; He brought no glory to its daily strife, No wreath of fame, or genius' fiery ray; Weak, lone, unsifted, quiet and obscure, Born in the shadow, dying 'mid the poor. Lo, from the solemn concourse, hushed and dim, The widow's prayer, the orphan's bless ing rose ; The struggler told of troubl? shared by him, The lonely, of cheered hoars and soften ed woes, And like a chorus spoke tbe crushed and . sad: Ho gave us all he could and what he had." And little words' of loving kindness said, And tender thoughts and help in time of need Sprang np, like leaves by Boft spring showers fed Jn some waste corners sown by chance flung seed. In grateful wonder heard the modest soul Such trifles gathered to so blessa whole. Oh ye ! by circumstance's fetters bound, The store so little and the hand so frail, Do but the best ye can for all around ; Let sympathy be true, nor courage fail Winning among.yonr neighbors, poor and weak, Some witness at your trial hour to speak. -All the Tear Itoinid. A New Bridge. The South Carolina Railroad Begin ning an Important Work-Driving Piles for Stone Piers-Plans tor the Structure. The South Carolina Kiilroad, now one of tue best and smoothest man aged in the South, have just com menced a moet extensive and impor tant work, the construction of a new bridge aereas the Savannah river. , . The first bridge over the river at this point, when the Augusta and Hamburg Railroad was extended to this city, was built in 1853 ; the sec ond bridge was conetructed in 1860, with a draw, to allow steamboats to pass up to the wharf which was then above itp present position. This bridge was substantially the esme fashion-and in identically the Fame position as at present ; although it has been so gereraiiy and continu ously repaired that it can hardly be paid to be the same bridge ss at Ye^re^^^??ern^oa^he. Chronicle went across the river and witnessed the nork cn tte n?-y bridge. It will be in the same position as now, be'ng built up and over the track without disturbing the running of the trains. The new bridge will be put up as the old one is being torn away, and the growth will be complete bot imper ceptible. Hands are now at work in the river putting pine pilings in place for the firet pier. TheBe bard pine log3 are driven into position by a heavy two thousand pound pile ' driver, and are sawed off at about two feet above the river bed. The spaces between them is then filled 1 with stone or rip rapped with? rock 1 from the Edgefield County quarry, 1 and upon this foundation stone piers ' are to be erected which will support the bridge. Each pier will take ' about seventy five of these piles for its foundation, and the piles are eighteen feet long. There will be needed for the bridge, which is 900 feet long, four piers and two abut ments, and as advantage is being 1 taken of low water for this work, it is believed that the piers and abut men ts will be finished by early fall. The wcik cf putting up theee piers 1 is in charge of Mr. C. Mayhew, a veteran and experienced stone con tractor and bridge builder of Colum bia. He has already put in some fine work for the South Carolina Railroad of this description. The upper part of the bridge will be built alter the piers are finiehed, and will probably be wood with covered Howe Truss. The new Carolina Kail road bridge will be very nearly like the Charlotte, Columbia and Angosta Railroad bridge at this point, and will be finished, it is said, in a year. It will coat about $50,000. Whit Afflicts the Irish. It is thought strange by some that the Irish, who are natural born fight ers should never have been able to achieve their own independence, says the Tex HS Siftings. Some of the most distinguished generals in history have either been Irish, or Irish descent. As soldiers, the Irish are very difficult to boat. Wellington, Woolsely, and half a dozen other distinguished military men were Irish, but the Euglish were shrewd enough to en gage their services, and could have UEcd them at any time to suppress an Irish rebellion, if one had been start ed. The Irish have never been able to achieve their independence for the reason that their bosses were Irieh. The E?glish utilize the Irish to keep the Irish down. The Royal Irien Constabulary are more than a match for their discontented countrymen. The position of the Irish is some what similar to that of the Scotch man who wa? employed as business manager of a factory, but had accu? mulated no money. He gave as an explanation of his poverty, that his employer was aleo a Scotchman, and watched him too closely. TUG ??AtHINEIN MIINE. " -- ProhibtiODists and Monopolisis United in Work Fer Blaine. The Highly Moral State-flow Easy i !. to Get a .Drink There-Thc Ease With Which Voters are Bribed -Mr. Blaine'? Peculiar Methods. Special Cor. of the Neu; York World. AUGUSTA, Joly 26.-I mentionee the fact in my letter of yesterda; that I saw a very drunken man ii Portland, which is the commercia metropolis of Maine, and Maine, yoi know, is the great State of teetotal ism. I had heard before that 2 drunken mah is now and then seei in Maine, notwithstanding all th< eloquent prohibition writing of Mr Blaine, followed by the repeated enact ment of the most sumptuary lt vs 01: the subject ever passed by a Legisla tors in the Federal Union. I had heard that prohibition does not al ways prohibit, and that even Mr Blaine has wine on his table when hf happens to be living as far South ac Washington and that he himseli sometimes touches it lightly. How ever that may be, I know that it is not a fiction that prohibition does not always prohibit, for with the ordinary coriosty of any man coming into a State that makes the selling of a glass sf beer a crime I made it a point to Und out if there ia anybody in this Commonwealth who really has the hardihood to either sell a glass cf beer or to drink it, and I found men who do both. Finding a Saloon In Maine. There are not-any gilded, palatial ialoons in Fortland or elsewhere in :he State that I have been where a man may go and take a drink in genteel security-where you can lean ip against a rosewood counter and 00k at paintings that cost $10,000 ipiece or scan statuary in bronze nnd atrble fit to grace the residence of a ling, but there are places not far from the top of the ground and easy ?nough of access where one may go md without telling any lies or with jut asking for cold tea whan he means whiskey, drink a whole keg of beer ;f he is so disposed. " I believe you have no saloons at tached to the hotels in Maine?" I ?aid to the agreeable clerk of my iiotel in Portland. " That is just where you are artt>nffj"he?a^ ^ffiflo^rTBpeeTTjTTB^jj " JU einlas with hie_b u i 1 ,?H^^^^ffDTr ny board bill. And then he asked me if I would like to go down. He evidently mis took me for a commercial traveller, for he said " all the boys" who came :hat way know " here the bar is. ' I lid want to see a real whiskey bar in the teetotal State of Maine and I did ' go down," and I did see the bar, with its tender of the red face, the waxed moustache and the greased lair. Andi was asked, justas I would be at a hotel bar in Boston or New York or Philadelphia or even Chicago what I would have. I sup pose nobody would be alarmed if I should say I drank Apollinaris. I bad seen the bar, I had been asked what I would have ; I could have anything from a whiskey smash to a bottle of plain soda, and I ha? addi tional evidence that prohibition does not prohibit. True, the bar was a little secluded, one flight of stairs down, and the stairs were somewhat tortuous and the light was dim, but there was no mistake about the bar being there. Half an hour later, while standing on the sidewalk in front of hotel, meditating on the apparent impossi bility of having everything in life ex actly right, an old acquaintance slapped me on the shoulder and asked me what was the matter. " I have discovered," said I, " that they really do take drinks in Maine as they do everywhere else, and that my hotel has a bar jost as the hotels in New York do-even as the Delavan House in Albany does, notwithstand ing the fact that they keep a copy of the Bible in every room. Prohibition doee not always prohibit, does it?" Too Mainerons to Mentiou. And then he told me that the bar at his hotel was much nicer than the bar at my hotel and that there were more places to drink in Port land than bookstores and churches, as there are in eveiy other American city of at.y magnitude. Then came along the Urunken man I a^oke of in my other letter. That settled it-pro hibition does not always prohibit. I only give these otherwise trifling and insignificant details to afford you some correct conception of tbs failure, after all, of a prohibitory law that has been in force almost continuously for over a quarter of a century. I hope I have not written myself into an advocate of bard drink. The pendulum swings both ways. I am only telling about the effect of one of the extremer Tha?t, with all its fol lowing evils, is most strikingly ex emplified in the State of Maine. There is a law of prohibition, it is true. It is written all over all the statute books that have been made since 1851, but it isa law that is void, and ever has been held in contempt. It begets deceit, and deceit begets hy? ???????????L?--? pocrisy, and hypocrisy begets abt dant ills in the body politic. Jlr. Blaiue Takes lo the Situation When Mr. Blaine came to Mai an ambitious young man, with brilliant intellect and a taste for pc tics, he found prohibition allied the infant Republican party. In e bracing the one- he embraced t other, and however mach his priva life may belie his conscientious bel in the doctrine of prohibition, he h held to it as a policy from first to la He has looked to it as well as to 1 political creed to carry him tkrouj and make one State a firm basis frc which to act on the whole conntr How well he has planted himself easily seen on every hand. If the: are any Demoorats outside of th State who have any sort of faith : Maine's going for Cleveland this fa! they are hagging a delusion. M Blaine has spent his best efforts j organizing his party here, and, whi the members of it do not as a genere thing evince much enthusiasm fe him, they are certain, with ? fe' scattering exceptions, to vote for hin If ever a man carried the vote of State in his breeches pocket he doe Not that many of them would nc like to revolt and Bee him defeated but they are afraid to incur the ill will of him and his lieutenants. Facts About Maine Politics. To commence with, the State ha been strongly Republican from th Btart and strongly in favor o? prohibi tion. In 1S68 when the question wa submitted to the people whether the' would have prohibition or license they gave 36,000 votes for prohibi tion and 0,000 votes for license. Fre mont, the first Republican candi dat* for President, got 07,000 votes ii 1856, while Buchanan and Fillmon together got only 6.0C0. Lincoln gol 62.0C0 in I860 and Douglass got 26, OOO, but Breckenridge received but ? handful. Tilden made an inroad ir 1S80 when he got 50,000 votes, bul Hayes was given 16,000 more. In 1880 Plaisted the Fusion candidate for Governor, who has since been re organized as a Democrat, was elected by a little less than two hundred, the Fusion vote being 73,786, and the Republican vote being 73,596, but Plaisted had himself been a pioneer Republican and carried many of his old -friends and' supporters of the samefaitn. Two years later things fallback towards the old ruts, Piaist MBHQHHK'?fai ?~> receiving1:;3,S52 ^^ff^fliTejjiobiej his. Republican opponent received 72,724. You Bee there are 10,000 votes missing, the Republicans having about the same they had in 1880, but the Democrats were short, showing that the 10,000 missing votes were from the Demo cratic side. While this is true, and while it ia true that all the opposition elements in Maine are now about equal to the regular Republicansl it is not true that the opposition is or ganized and effective, but it is true that the Republican organization is under the most perfect discipline. After the election of Plaisted in 1880 Mr. Blaine got scared and went to work to secure by organization what he had before had from simple " bru tal" majority. He got an expert manipulator appointed Collector of the Port at Portland, and through him prepared the way for the Repub lican triumph of 1882, when the Democrats came out with 10,000 votes missing. Tlic Efficient Collector of Portland. This Portland Collector, whose name for tho time has escaped my memory, made an exact enumeration of all the votes of the State by town ships and counties, and the day be fore the election in 1882 he and Mr. Blaine knew almost how the ballot would etand for Roble. Thsy have kept the compact organization in hand till to-day. They know now just what to depend upon and what can't be done by threats of proscrip tion will be do^e by dollars and cents. In Maine it is a good deal S6 Mr. Elkius says : " It ie in Indiana 'large ly a queetion of finance.'" If you have to buy the votes of men, there is a great adventago in knowing where to go to find the men who have the votes to sell. There are multitudes of such men in Maine. I have not been in any community where the purchase of voters was so freely talked of as right here in the little city of Augusta, the home of Mr. Blaiue. The following recipe for doing up shirts will le found of use by many housewives : Take two ounces of fine white gum-arabic powder, put it in a pitcher and pour on it a pint or more of water, and then, having covered it let it Btand all night. In the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle and cork it, and keep it for use. A talle-spoonf ul of gum water Btirred in a pint of starch made in the usual manner will give to lawns, either white or printed, a look of newness when nothing else can restore them after they have been washed. A tusk four feet long and three teeth weighing two pounds each have been dug up in the phosphate works near Port Royal. They are sup posed to be the ^remaina of a Beau fort muequito. A GAMBLER'S WILD CAREER, le William ti. Beit s's Si range ly [ Checkered Life. g Huw a Southern Gentleman Fell From - ms High Position and Became a Murderer and au Outlaw* WEST POINT, GA., July 20.-"Poor j Betts," Baid an old citizen this morn-j| ing, as he read the brief telegram r from Washington announcing the death of William H. .Betts in that j city. M Poor Bette ! He is better off now, and he waa a mighty go:d shot1 in his days." And thereby hangs a . tale of a strangely checkered career, i full of incidents of wild adventure, ! and showing how bad company and - unrestrained indulgence can blight a life which otherwise might have been full of honor, told by a citizen who had known Betts long and well. William H. Betts was a member pf 3ne of the most respected families of Alabama. He was imbued with all the sentiments of chivalry prevalent ?tmong Southern youth previous to the war, ready to resent an insult al? moBt before it was given, and at the same time ready to lay down his Iiis for a friend, or to suffer martyrdom for a sentiment. In those days gamb ling was a polite accomplishment, in which nearly everybody indulged, ret to have called these gentlemen by such a rude name as gambler would have been quickly resented, lotwitbstanding the partition which livided the gentlemanly gambler rom the professional was very thin Among the fast young men who flourished in Columbus and Mont gomery none was faster than the brilliant Betts, and the allurements of the game soon led him across the i ne, until the professionals had their jocks firmly fastened into him, and hus led him along 'in the coarse vhich proved to be one of ever down yard grade. When the war called the young nen of the country to the defense of the State it found William H. Betts u his place as colonel of an Alabama regiment. It was while stationed at Pensacola, Fla., that his first act of violence of which record exists was committed. Colonel Betts had his wife with him, and one evening the lady complained to her husband of .he manner of one of the men in ?ampA'Col. Betts aeted his wife to )romepade around the camp /with l?a. ,WL lim djt,'' said he ter husband's "determination, "pres !Dtly*fcihe said : " There he is." Al nost instantly a bullet went whizzing r*om the revolver ot the husband, vho coolly continued his promenade. ls the killing was done in defense of lis wife's honor no trouble followed ,o him, and in the events of life on he field the artair was soon forgotten ixcept among those most intimately ioncerned in it. When the war closed Betts found limself without money, cast among he reckless men in Columbus, and he loon became recognized as a profes ional gambler. He had rooms which vere elegantly fitted up, considering ;he times, and it was his wont to en ;ice therein unsuspecting countrymen vho had jost disposed of their cotton. When he had won the victim's money ind wanted to get rid of him he would ask him if he ever saw a . hoodoo." Of course the victim had i<^L Drawing aside a curtain which lia'a closet in the room, there stood \ full sized manikin, with a candle limly burning inside the skull, which ;hus gave light to the eyes. The itranger would be only too willing to leave so horrible s place. Two of Betts intimate friends at this time were Milt Malone, who had murdered three men, for the last of which he was convicted and sentenced to death, and Penn Bedell, who had killed Policeman Rasberry in Atlanta. Ma lone committed suicide the day on which he was to have been hanged, and thue gained a nominal victory over the law. Bedell was shot dead. It may readily be imagined that where thrse such men thrived they bad things pretty much their own way. It was the period just previous to reconstruction. There was no law, and an officer who attempted to make criminals think there was was not long in discovering his mistake. One day one of the bullies of the town was imposing on a little boy, which so angered Betts that he let him have a lively fusilade, only wounding him, however. As Columbus was growing warm for Betts, he next made his appear ance in this city, where, with a choice lot of spiiitB, he carried on his gamb ling operations with bolduess and dash. So open did they become that the authorites determined to wind them np. Th3 officers surrounded the rendezvous of the gamblers and found the doors closed. The marshal attempted to force the door, when he met with a ready bullet from Betts, killing him. Betts wa6 subsequently tried and acquitted of the charge ot murder. One of the peculiarities of the trial was the dedication of an oiiginal poem, of about a column in length, by the prisoner to Judge 0. A. Bull, who tried the case. When Gov. Mead iesued his order requiring the registry of voters, so that they might take the oath of allegiance, tta again brought himself into eminence in a peculiar way. GoiDg the oflice of the registrar, an icer stood ready to take the gentle in's name. Betts gave the name his black and tan dog, which he ld .up in hi-J arms, as being one as ill qualified to vote as a negro. The icer refuged. Betts was about to y bia old argument on him, when dp prevented further trouble. Some time passed away, wheu ?tts was again heard from, this time Albany, Ga. An alarm of burglary )8 given there one night. The SUR* jeted spot was surrounded by a lot men. Presently the brgular aerged and making a bold dash, cut xough. the crowd and escaped. The ?it morning the matter was being Iked over, when Betts quietly re cked, "IfI had been there he %ul? not have escaped so easily." fM Perhaps you were the burglar," iterposed a bystander named Am ions. Owing to a flash from Betts re viver Amnions knew no more of the lbflequent proceedings. So notorious id Betti characted become by this ime .that a reward of $1,000 was Bexed by Governor Bullock for his (rest. ' In the summer of 1870 he kde his appearance boldly in At Jbta, consorting exclusively with hn of his class. It was ascertained te night that he was in the room of ~?ud Delasco, a well known variety ?ress ofthat day, which was situ?t ei in the Muhlenbrink building. A Umber of police surrounded the Luse, while a well known Atlanta dtective entered and secured his prisoner "after a desperate struggle. m was taken to Albany, tried for killing of Ammons and acquitted. About this time Colonel Betts, who fcjd been a rampant Democrat, began ^-weaken in his allegiance to that nrfcy, and, like Col. Jack Brown be ttine alive to the fact that there was biUd and butter in the Republican j^rty. When an appropriation was iiade, in 1872, for the oveiilowed teople of Mississippi and Alabama a Congressional election was pending, y is notorious that thousands of poonda of this overflowed bacon was S(bt to sections which did not know it an oveiilow was. Col. Betts inounced himself as the Republican ndidate for the Opelika (Ala.) dia Lfrttd had 20,000 pounds of bacon ' ,_Siat town to his order. Three 5n, Upenua wai Pgro?tfJrom all of er tb ?. county, who lit bonfires in the open spaces and fried fat meat while wait ing for the chance to vote for Col. Betts. The scenes of these three days are described by the natives ae having been a pandemonium. The consequences were such that Col. Betts decided that he had better go North, where he has spent the last ten years of bis life. He was heard from in New York through having brought into court an old friend on the charge of stealing his coat, where he quietly cloaed up his evidence by acknowl edging that he had killed only three men. A Lie; German tolouy. GT?EBKVIIXE, July 21.-Franz Bivs sebanm, of Hamburg, Germany, the representative of a syndicate of capi talists, of which he is a member, hae just completed the purchase of a bodj of land comprising 101,000 acre?, stretching from the Greenville line in Pickens County across Pickene and taking in a considerable belt ol Ojonee County. The purpose in 7iew is the plantiug of a large colony o! German immigrants, who will engage in the cultivation of grain and grasses. Mr. Buesebaum will make his head quarters in Greenville, and will at once begin arrangements for the im portation and reception of settlers The body of land purchased by him is th?Tincluded in an old grant made during the administration of Gover nor Moultrie, and heretofore owned by Mr. Brown, of Charleston. Upor it are a number of settler-1 whose ti ties have been frequently called inte question. These are to be given war rantee titles to the homestead the j occupy, and the remainder of th? immense body of tortile lands will be settled up by immigrants who ar< thrifty and industrious people, and who will doubtless bring about grea improvements in the fertile bu sparsely inhabited country to whicl they come. It H as Accident! "The woild owes ila greates' achievements to accidents," reinarkec Col. Swiille to his wife, as they sa on the back gallery enjoying a coo breeze. 'Nearly all great discoverie were purely accidental, and Mr? Swiflle,' added the colonel, 'it was b; mere chadee that we met." " Yes,' the lady replied, 'it wa an accident that caused our mai riage." The colonel didn't very much lik j-this reply, and, with elevated eye brows, rejoined : "Accident! Why, my dear, hardly understand you. What d you mean?" "Oh! I mean that if Tom Beuso had not accidentally shot himself, wonld never have married yon. Yo would like for me to think that yo Harried me by accident, bnt don't .vant to think that it was accident hat caused me to marry you. Wish ?rou'd draw a bucket of r:esh water." -Arlovsavj Traveler. The Electoral College. Many inquiries are made about the electoral vote, under the new appor tionment. We publiai) it for public information : Electoral States. Vote. Alabama. 10 Arkansas. 7 California. 8 Colorado. 3 Connecticut. 6 Telaware. 3 Florida. 4 Georgia. Illinois. 22 Indiana. 10 Iowa. 13 Kansas. 9 Kentucky. 13 Louisiana. 8 Maine. 6 Maryland. 8 Massachusetts. l'l Michigan. 13 Minnesota. . ? Mississippi. 9 Missouri. 19 Nebraska. ;"> Nevada. 3 New Hampshire. New Jersey. 9 New York. 3G North Carolina. ll Ohio. . 23 Oregon. 3 Pennsylvania. 30 Rhode Island. 4 South Carolina. _ ?) Tenneesee 12 Texas. 13 Vermont. -1 Virginia. 1 West Virginia. C Wisconsin. ll Total. 401 The successful Presidential candi date must get at least 201 votes The following provisions of the Con stitution, condensed by Mr. Jamea M Swank, are timely and may be im portant: "If any candidate for lh< Presidency fails to receive a inajoritj ?f the whole number of electora vot?e, ' then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted fo: as President, the House of Repre sentatives shall choose immediately by ballot, the President. Bat ii choosing the President the vote shall be taken by States, the repre sentalion from each State baviug on Trnfp . a nuoium for .this purpose ebal _ . . ...?rTTTT^^Hi^E^M consist of a member from of the States, a majority of all th States shall be necessary to a choice.' " If any candidate for Vice Preei dent fails to receive a majority of tb whole number of electoral votes, thei the Senate shall choose the Vice President from the two highest candi dates voted for in the electoral col lege; a quorum of the Senate lo ?his purpose shall consist of twe thirds of the whole number of Senat ors, and a majority of the whole num ber shall be necessary to a choice." The Collision OAT Corunna. LONDON, July 2S.-Survivors c the Britieh steamshipLaxham, whic collided last Monday night with th Spanish steamer Gijon not far fror Corunna, rpported that on the morr ing of the collision there was a thiel fog. The Laxham was going slot and both steamers were soundin their whistles. The Gijon struck th Laxham amidshps and the latter wa nearly cut asunder. The funnel fe] and the steam pipe burst The chi? engineer in reversing the engine wa horribly scalded. Most of the Lax ham's crew boarded the Gijon. Cap? Lathian tied his wife and child t himself and all three ..vere thus haul ed aboard the Gijon by a rope. Th Laxhrmrs&Qk twenty minutes afte the colisi?n occurred. It was notion before, the Gijon began 'to sett! Terrible confueion prevailed on boan The captain stood with revolver i hand, but he was nuable to keep OJ der. The passengers and crew wer fighting for their lives. The boa! were lowered and filled to the gut wale*, but they could not accommc date half the people. '?hoae wh were so fortunate as to secure place in them were obliged to keep 0 others with knives. The Gijon san bow first. The quarter deck wc crowded with men and women, th captaing and officers standin on tb bridge. It ia estimated that 130 pe: sons perished. The Gastonia Gazelle says : " "W are informed that there is a colore man living in the town of Newtc who baa been turniug white f< twelve year?. Our informant stat that thia colored man, whose name Adolphus Setzer, voted the Dem eratic ticket, and from that vei time he began to turn white, and h. gradually been turning white ev since." A Dutchman who mar.ied his se ond wife after the funeral of his fin I was visited with a two hours' sei nade in token of disapproval. I expostulated, pathetically, thus: say, you ought to be ashamed yourself to be making all dish noi: ven dere vas a funeral here so boor For the handsomest and most .styli Ladies and Misses .Slipper?, go to hei i|iiarters. COBB'S Juue 31--R4. A T E. B. Smythe, Jr., 712 BROAD St., AUGUSTA, GA. Fowler's Patent Fly Fans, The Champion FJy Trap, The Farmers "Rapid" Cream Freezer, Water Filters and Coolers, Wire Dish Covers, (Round and Oval), Mason's Improved Fruit Jars, Jelly Tumblers. _ _ IMMENSE LINE OF CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, and HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, AU at Guaranteed Lowest Prices. Augusta. Ga., Apr. 23, 1383 -mo_ Insurance Company OP NEW YORK, Cash Capital, Surplus over all Liabilities, ?3,000,000.00. $1,667,230.07. insures azaiust Storms and Cyclones ai low rates. One-half Premiums payable cash, balance rm a creditor 12 months. Insures Cotton Gins, Oin Houses and all other property on tho most reasonable CHAS. % CREIGHTON, ^ May 20. 1884. _ T. W. COSKKRV, President. J. T. NEWBERY, Cashier. PlantersLoan i Sayings Bank ; ^XJGrXJST-A?, G--A.. CA PIT AX. all paid III? - - . $100,000. Collections Carefully Attended to and Promptly Remitted for. Drafts on all Parts of the World lor Sale, Emigrant Tickets from England, Ireland or Scotland, to Augusta;' for $30. interest Allowed or. Deposits in the Savings Department. DIRECTORS. T. Vi. COSKERY, ?IJHT; VOLO Kit, J. A. A. W. CLANK, z Mi-conn, P. Cocine, w. u. HOWARO, D. R. WIHO HT, H. B. Kl??, W. M. JOBDAK, Oct. 3, 1883.-tf 48 JOHN T. MILLLR, H. ROWLEY. KIN ARD BROS, MT GOODS & SO' CHOICE GROCERIES. HATS & CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES ?Ind General .Merchandise, ETHEREDGE'S, - - - - S. C. Nov. 7, 188?. 702 ?road Street, Cor. McIntosh. DIAMONDS. WATCHES. JEWELRY. STERLING SILVERWARE REED Sc BARTOIST'S Celebrated TRIPLE-PLATED WARE. CLOCKS, BRONZES] & FINE FANCY GOODS ArrousTA, OAm Nov. 27, IS8S. ly?l MMOa------ J i laCTBBMMBCMBMMBBMMWBMB-1 iss JILLIE PURCELL, Under Central Hotel, Augusta, Ga., Has ,1ns! Opened the Most Magnificent Stool: of SPRING MILLINERY GOODS, Hais, Bonnets, Velvets, Satins, Ribbons, Laces, Feathers, Flowers, Jewelry, and Novelties of Everything in her Line, Ever Shown in Augusta. .SST- The ladies of Edgelleld County are cordially invited to call and see for them selves, when in the city. SS- HATS and BONNETS TRIMMED TO ORDER, and in the latest style. April 8, 1S84.-18 ION'S \ HAS heen removed to the corner late ly occupied by the Post Office, where ho will be slad to see his friends and customers. His stock of -AND FA?Cf GROCERIES will as uMial bo kept FULL and FRESH and ?ll tho DELICACIES in the GROCERY LIN'"! will be found in hia establishment. Also PLANTATION TOOLS at tho lowest market prlco. Gouulue Virginia Leaf CHEWING TOBACCO-till grades. SEAL OB' X. O. SMOKING TOBACCO pronounced by smokers the best in nae. THE ROYAL CIGAR excels all Five Centers in the murket. A nice assortment of PATENT BOTTOMED TINWARE, CROCKERY and GLASSWARE, STATIONERY, ETC, just openod. One Spoon and Royal Bakiug Pow ders, Kerosene Oil anil CANNED Goods in variety always In stock. COMETO THE CORNER. IV. H. BRIMSON, Vgl. Feb 19; 1SR4.- 4? ? J. it. AS?i?RSON. ft P. LOVL- FOXLER Successors to J. AI. Anderson, COTTON FACTORS COMMISSIOIN'MERCHANTS, -AT TUK Old Stand of R. A. Fleming, 903 R KY SOLUS' ST., AUGUSTA, GA We ik'.iiro lo call the aUeutiou ol'the farmers of Edgeiield County to the fact that we aro fully prepared to sell OATS, WHEAT, WOOL au.l 1TIDKS on Com unimlou: Wc have ample storage room ; can fur uish Sacks and Advance on consign ments in store. From present prospects it seems like very lavorable prn-os may bo realized. Write to us for terms, dec; we will cheerfully rescind, and furnish quota tions when desired. Soliciting your Consignments, we are, Yours truly, ANDERSON & FILLER. June 3,1484. Nurseiy Powder! SUPERIOR For sale bv SUPERIO June 10. D. R. DUBISOE.