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.> . -, 'i, il- t THOS. J. ADAMS, PROP'R. ) EDGEFIELD, S. C., l?URSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1884 1 VOL. XL1X.-NO. ,42. rmnn rif?lll' IflTtllITII ii'T t conni imUiM BEFORE ?AlU.NG. Lean closer, darling, let thy tender heart Beat against mine that aches with heavy woe, Drop thy quick woman's tears to sooth thy smart, Ah me 1 that I could ease my sorrow so ! Bat men must work, sweetheart, and wo men weep So says the song, so runs the world's beheat ; Yet time will pass and tender comfort \ creep f With hope m company unto thy breast. Kow ere we. part, while yet on lip and cheek "r- (Mose kisses Unger, clinging passionate, There is aiarewell word love fain would speak, A tender thought love labors to trans -mryji^iiw>i" i ">f In earnest words, whose memory through the years . Shall calm Jthy soo) and dry thy dropping tears, . If in thy garden when the roses blow, Or by the shelter of thine evening fire, la any winter gloom or -ummer glow, t * Thy'aontiioats sea-vard with a fond de sire (Fonder and stronger than thy tender use,) Think thou, " One longs for me acroes tLe foam ;" And if, sweet falling like the evening dewB, A special peace enfolds thine heart and home, Then say thou, dear, with softly bated breath, " In some lone wilderness beyond the sea, Whether in light of life, or gloom of death( My lover's spirit speaks to God for me !" Kiss me, beloved, without doubt or dread, We are not sundered, though farewell be said. , Toe A., 6' audS. Croesties are being rapidly hewed ont for the Augusta and S*ndersville Railroad in Barks and Jefferson counties and along the Georgia Rail way. A large force of experienced hands are engaged at Doable Branches 'in 0?? county under Mesera. Ramsey and Whitaker, and to day President Mitchel! advertises for bids for 20,000 additional ties upon which to lay the track near Augusta. So preparations for .tracklaymg are steadily progress ing, and as there has been no halt in the past in the progress of this im portant enterprise so there will be DO delay-in the future. It will be posh ed right through. Its friends are etaanch, ita stockholders are payiDg installments .jnore promptly ^than^ trains shall not ran by January 1. Vevdery and Abbeville. duress and Banner: Capt. Pearson has completed the survey and meas urement of the proposed new road Hijiii iStTDcVi?I? ta Veulwr; Tko dis tance ia a fraction less than ten miles . and the ronte is a practical one. He . estimates the grading at $1,500 a zuile, or $15,000 for the whole dis tance. Greenwood is anxious to make the connection with this place, and Greenwood is a live business place. The friends of the Yerdery route will have to watch their interests A branch road that will connect with the Augusta and Knoxville road is a neceeeity. COL. JOHNSTON AND THE BLOODY SHIET.-William Johnston, the man in whose honor oar town was named, his long since fallen 'rom Democratic grace, and it would appear from a .recent utterance of his that he is pos 8essed of very little grace of any kind. He has been appointed one of the committee to arrange the Re publican campaign in North Carolina, trad the remark referred to is as fol lows-: " I will be damned to hell fire that if we send to the North dis patches in proper shape of the dis fear ba nee at Rntherfordton, we will carry Ohio and every doubtful State at the North." The purpose is to .'fire the Northern heart."-Monitor. A writer in the Washington, D. C., Gazette says : The electoral vote of the conceded Democratic States, together with the electoral vote of New York and Indi ana, shows a total of 183 votes for Cleveland. The electoral vote of the conceded Republican States, together with California, Connecticut and New Jersey, shows a total of 184 for Blaine. - I regard Florida, Michigan, North Carolina and West Virginia as doubt fal States. Should the electoral votes of Florida, North Carolina and West Virgina choose Democratic electors, then Cleveland will have a total of 204, which will elect him. Should the electoral vote of Michigan and , Florida be.secured by the Republi cans, then Blaine will have 201, all that are necessary. Large quantities of dog tongue are being gathered in the immediate vi cinity'of Wilmington and baled ready -for shipment.; The weed abounds in sections within a few miles of the city, and, as its importance as an ar ticle of commerce has been demon strated, a great many persons-es pecially children^-are gathering it and taking it Wilmington for a market. ST A stroke of lightning split open a hollow tree, at Shasta, Cal., revealing a skeleton and clearing up a murder mystery. TRUTHS FOR THE PEOPLE. JL Forcible Speech bj Governor il eon" ri. ks at Toledo. TOLEDO, 0., September ll-Gov ernor Hendricks arrived in this city yesterday morning as the guest of the Tri-State Fair Association. In the afternoon be spoke on tbe Fair grounds to a large audience estimated at four or five thousand. His speech on that occasion was entirely non political and a eulogiuci of the im portance of the agricultural and me chanical arts, of the improvements of the century in them in this coun try, and of those elementa of citizen ship which go to make up good gov ernment. In the evening he Bpoke to a Democratic mass meeting in tue Fifth ward, to an audience ot fully 30,000. In the course of his remarks he eaid : Ought there to be a change in national affairs? or, in other words, ought we, as a nation, to go on from year to year, as we have been going oa in the past ? I submit to yon that there are certain changes we ought to feel important and proper: First, there should be reform is the revenue system. I shall not undertake to diBcnes this at length. I say there ought to be a change, a modification of the revenue system of the country. What did the President of the United Slates say to Congress two years ago ? He Baid that the taxation of the people was beyond the demands of the Gov ernment economically administered, and he urged upon Congress that im mediate reform in that important particular Bhould take place. He told Congress that annually there was being collected a hundred mil lions more from the pockets of the people than a fair and honest admin istration of the Government required. He told them that next year it would 'be $145,000,000. At the next session of Congress, after the Republicans hid somewhat amended the revenue laws, the secretary of the treasury called the attention of Congres again to the subject of revenue re form. He said that under the law as modified the excess collected from the people would be $85.000,000, $S5, 000.000 collected from the people of this country every year beyond the demands of an economical adminis tralion of the Government. My fel low citizens, the candidate for Gov ernor of the State of Indiana ia, a . aneech not l^^uj&SSK^?^msted of jibe it ctXB?t&sk? power found au empty ^tti^tsury, but that it now has an ex cess there of $400,000,000. This state ment is true, that when this speech was made there was $400,000,000 ly ing idle and unemployed in the treas ury. At tbe end of the year lhere will be added to that -in the new vaults another $100,000,000, and it will stand at $500.000,000 wrung from the people beyond the demands of the Government. Have you stop ped to think how much thnt is? It's more than half the paper currency ot the United States, and when it comes to be $500.000,000,. as it will at the cloee of the year, and before Congress can act, if the population of the country is properly estimated at 50,000,000, there will be locked up in the treaeury vaults ten dollars fer every man, woman and child in the country. What for? The Democrats say in their plat form at Chicago that the revenue must be reduced to the requirements of the Government economically ad ministered. What do you say to that my fellow citizens? Are you Demo crats, are you Republicans, are you Grangers, or Independents ? What ever may be your party relations, what do you say to that proposition of the Chicago Convention that the revf nue shall be reduced to the needs of the Government economically ad ministered? [Applause.] If you do not like that don't vote with the Democracy, for when the Democracy comes into power I undertake to say t*?at the machinery will be turned backward for a while. Backward did I say ? No, forward in favor of re form, in favor of reducing taxation to the wants of the Government eco nomically administered. What are you going to collect any more for ? [Voice: "Stealing."] Have you atop ped to think that the money which is now locked np is a part of our cur rency, that it has an office to perform, and that if the Government does not need it the people do? [Applause ] Whatever the Government does not need belongs to the people. If you owe it to the Government pay it. If you don't owe it to the Government for the purpose of carrying on ita af fairs economically administered don't pay it. Just stop to think how much $400,000,000 or $500,000,000 would do for you and yours. I don't know how mu h it would do. I know that in Indiana, with a soil of wonderful richness, with many of the institu tions that make wealth for the people, manufacturing establishments, I know that there are many men that cannot find employment. There is many a family that is hard pressed because enterprise has stopped, be cause there is no employment for la bor. Ought that to be with $400,000, 000 locked up in the treasury ? The Democracry say reduce taxation un til the amount shall be just what th Government needs. The war close nineteen years ago,. and in ninetee years this country should have b e administered upon principie? that g on in times of peace. Why shoul we have extraordinary taxatio twenty years after we have passet away irom the connexions of th war? Why shall it be? When w reduce taxation upon these principles until there shall be no more collectei than the Government needs, wbn will be the effect? That mone; which is now locked up in the treas ury will commence to flow outward It will come back once mora into tb pockets of the people and into thi channels of trade, where COJI merce and trade cow stagnate an languish. There will be proeperit and activity again. Where there i now no employment for labor it wil be found everywhere. The Republican party, under th leadership of the chieftains who ar at its head, have now abandoned sub Btantially their old friend?, the Ger manB, and they are laying hold o my Irish friends with a zeal that i absolutely beautiful. [Cheers.] Wha has the German done that he shouli be -abandoned by the Republicai party thus? How is it that no ad drees to him and his patriotic devo tion is made, and it is only made ti my Irish friends? Why is this? Th? only fault I know of the German ii that he says when he lived in German] beside the R-^ine he thought he ba( a right to decide for himself what ht would eat and drink and wherewitha he should be clothed. The Republi canfl say that will not do, and it ii only day before yesterday in the Stab of Maine that they would not trust this question any longer to legislation but placed it in the irrevocable pro visions of their Constitution thal henceforth and forever uo man shouki drink his beer in the State o Maine, and their candidate for the Pr^si dtncy of the United State.3 did tbint that it was a proper thing for him tc sty that he did not vote on that ques' tiou at all. What say you, my Ger nus friends, is Prohibition light oi wrong? [Voice: " Wrong."] Wrong wrong of courst-. It is wrong, as th? Democracy io every platform hal declared. In the State Irom wbicl I have come today our Dtraocracy have fought thia battle well out upoc the idea that whether a man shall take a drink ^T~?er or. if yoo pipase, a urina or- whisffeyporrougti"t'.r7iri? self; and if you choose to take drink I could not advise you to drin a-iything *to disturb the composure < your judgment at anytime, but you choose to take a drink, ehall yo come to me to ask my permission, c in other werd? shall I aeck to in e: pese to prevent you from indulgi?, io a habit that you think is not hurt fol to you ? Governor Hendricks then recite* at length'tbe Kofzta case in the ad ministration of President Pierce ii 1854 and theMcSweeney casein 188! when James G. Blaine was sec retary of State, as tending to ehov which party^ was the true friend o foreign born citizens. Concerning the latter, he said : Ic the month c; June, 1881, shortly before Garfield received his deadly wound, Mc sweeney, an Irishman by birtb, hav ing six or seven American born cbil dren, however, and hiving lived in San Francisco in the pursuit oflegiti mue trade for twenty one years, having been completely naturalized and bearing all the honors upon his person of American citizenship, thought he would return for bin health to Ireland. Ile did eo and in the month of June he was arrested in Ireland by British constables and landed in a British jail. No charge was preferred against him; no viola tion of law was assigned. A free man until then, without fault, with out crime, without any violation cf English law whatever, ho was seized and thrown into a hideous dungeon. His wife wrote a letter to the State department at Washington infoiming the secretary of State that her hus band was then under arreet and im prisonment without fault, without crime, without charge. The lefter was received at the State department in Washington on the Kl h day of August. Jaimes G. Blaine, who was then secretary of State was also act ing as Presideut of the Uuited SU'.es. Garfield was then languishing upon his bcd of pain. That letter was un opened so far as we know, at least it was unanswered. It never was an swered so long as Blaine continued in the State department, and he re mained in that department until the month of December, that letter being received in the August before. For four months he neglected an appeal made bye, woman in a distant land ippealing to him for the honor of his ! country, for justice, for the dignity ' )f her citizenship, that her husband : ae released. It was not a question of, lentiment, it was a que.?>tion of e:t press written law. The statutes of :he country then io force made it tho luty of the President whenever any serson from thia county should be leid in unlawful imprisonment that i ie sLould demand the cause of the : mprisonment, he thould demand the i ?eleane of the man. That wa" the law, and yet James G. Blaine ps " dashing" as they say, [laughterlnc? applause,] " American" as they Jay,1 not a bit Irish I eay. . [Lau'ghf r-] He neglected to answer it, anddijiog j the whole of the four months tifa Ee held high office and controlledlhe seal of our country no answejfl?9 made and no instructions were - spt to our minister at London, and'jc Sweeney did not come out ol jailbn til the spring following, under an other administration of the StateBe partment. I am not speaking on (his subject to InshmeD, I am speaking to my fellow citizens, to every man fho feels prouder and stronger when 'b e flag of his country floats over hm. To all auch I say : Will you endorse tue conduct of Biaine, or will you rally under the banner which ?lar? under Pierce's administration, (fla] erect over us all ? ) Governor Hendricke closed wt h an allusion to the manner of bis nomination and a strong appeal to .he Democrats to cany Ohio in O^tobjh^ as that would decide the contest in November. Tlie Sow ! li is Sale. - ' The reports of the Democratic Sah Committee of the South Atlanta States of North Carolina, Georg: Alabama and Florida, detailed : our issue of yesterday, are highly e couraging. There wa3 some don' recently expressed as to the po?it1 L of North Carolina and Florida in ie Presidential election, but the ass r anees now given by members of ti e sub committee from those States a .< of such a character as to put aside <jk apprehension of their leaviugv4k? Democratic mooringa. They will,?! the contrary, increase their majorill ii ail around, and continue to keep st? p with the solid and certain Souther o Commonwealthp. i Let New York Democrats harmw ize and all will be well for ClevelA and Hendricks The South is si There are always croppiag out ney uses for cotton. A Boston pbysicia i advises all pereon6 who take col easily, who are subject to sore throa! and susceptible to consumption, J put away flannel underclothing an wear htout cottou goode ne\f; to th skin instead. ?Ile had given this ac vice to so many patients that it said the pale of one grade of Wamsutl ta cottons has materially advance! of iate in Boston. _Thia J>hysie?fl ly for indoor life, and that it is bet ter, especially in winter, toreduc( the amount of clothing won while in the house, and to wrap rt care fully when going out. "He ya thJ cotton rfbirt worn next tbv'ekiaho.uJdi bc very Iocs?, "nd the oorc skin should* be given full ? ppbrtaniti to perform their natur-1 function. Unclean Pilgrims on die Banks o the Ganges. Tbe terrible ravages of cholera ii Naples furnish another example o the suffering which one halt of thi world must undergo becauee the othei half will not obey tue simplest law/ of health. This same epidemic which is now terr?n'//ng a large part o. Euiope also attests the influence wnich the habits of men on one side of the globe exert npo?* the wellbe ing o? their fellows on the othf A host of unclean pilgrims |r sl ,e banks of the Ganges breed a j? which spreads like a curse oj?J?8 earth, raging the fiercest wher ? finds the most uncleanliness*10, these days no part of the won, affird to let any other part dis>r??ca? the conditions upon which healtra, pends. Ther ? ia a chane? for . sionaries of the gospel of cleanl.m10 to do good work. But before IT688 York and the other greatcities of j^ civilizad world eend out any sucf missionaries they should accomplisL something at home. The recent ip/ fpections cf some quarters of t \ town by health officers have brouf ^ to light facts which must make eve man nj lice that cholera has i 5 reached our shores.-Nao York St THE COTTON PICKER.-Mr. Jap. s Blalock, ot Goldvjle, went down t( Sumter last week to see the Ma? Cotton-Picker. He had been, li ^ most others, skeptical about it, 1 lU, he saw it in operation and was th ' oughly convinced that it will do Iv that, is claimed for it. It picks f. hundred pounds per hour, picks clean as hands can, takes nothing I )U the cotton, and doe3 not injure I ^( unopened bolls or the utalks. 1 L inventor expects soon to have : u( machine perfected, but they will ,0 be for sale in time for the pres 3_ crop.-Newberry Observer, The Constitution says : The autt ^ nal wave has 6truck the mercan ?j circles cf Atlanta. A city wh ? j does eighty millions of business year ought to be careful about pro sitions of extension, but Atlanta P proposing to do the greatest trad< , j her history this fall. The merchi | have ordered the largest stock ' goods ever seen here, and after ^ lull of the summer months ther a. perceptible brightening in li )C( business circles. The Chinese city of Foo C made interesting by French capt is surrounded by a will thirty B|e( high and twelve wide at the HQ The streets are narrow and filthyjp^ rrom a distance, in consequenc trees and hills, the place is pi 3sq.ue. The inhabitants excel in manufacture of ornamentsfrom n joapstone. The climate is hot innervating. t An Alleged Lost Faculty. When any" marvel is met with in humanity, baffling the ordinary gauge of material science, it is nsually at tributed to epilepsy or "psychic force." We know what epilepsy is, ? but what psychic force happens to be j no man seems to fully comprehend. There have been epileptics who were commonplace enough. They had the grimace and contortion but not the inspiration of the sibyl. Others, like Mohammed, had pretended viBionsof the invisible world, or thought they had, and performed some prodigies beyond the explanation of circum stantial logic. Men like Dr. W. A. Hammond profes3 to make short work with all preternatural phenomena, ; but there are wonders that are not ^explicable by the smart casuistry and fsteptical cleverness of the ueuiolo H gist who starts out with the assnmp j tion that "the age of miracles is past." We feel assured that such au agc never passes and that it will not vanish while time esists and is sub j f ct ttl the laws of eternity. We are s&?sfi?d that much juggle ry or imposture has been palmed c-if on human credulity, and that the de tection of such vulgar prodigies has thrown much doubt upon what is real aDd genuine; but enough of the preternatural remains to excite cu riosity and court inquiry, not to say {make what we presume to be exact j science despair of a eolation by ordi I nary methods. ? ! There are manifestations of ?n : amazing character constantly occur ring. Not long ago Mrs. Wimpy in u this State was said to have been cured I of a disability of many years, by prayer. Our friend, Jules Rival, who was at Lourdes, the other day, saw many hundreds of diecarded crutches at the shrine of the Blessed Virgin there, which had been hung up as mementoes of instantaneous cures by faith and the use of the wa ter of the miraculous fountain die covered by Beruadette Soubirous. Ao there are two supernatural in fluences, good und evil, there are two j kinds of prodigies. While the Evil j Principle is dextrous in imitation j there is a limit to its power, as the Scriptures *how when tue contest took place between Aaron, the High Priest, and the Egyptian sorcerer By the fruits we .know whether the marvel comes from God or from P Ft for phenomena other minable is that the vast of mankind may have lost sense which was known to i be fraT-man ?nd to some favored mortals lin the earlier ages. The recurrence lef this faculty or ita restoration,- by fgift, prayer or discipline, is supposed i to account for individual illustrations -r wonder-working, j? The sixth sense ia said to be the discernment of that which ia unseen j by the ordinary corporeal eye. In i i be books on the ghost world and in ? the lives of the saints, and in the ' Bible, to say nothing of coaterapo " raneous annals, there are m?ny wall f authorized records of the possession > of this faculty, by whatever name we ? choose to call it. I If it be true that this remarkable I sense was once common to humanity. I how has it been lost? A recent writer : answers that its suffocation has been ?caused by gluttony, intemperacce, ; passion, sins of all kinds-violent departure from the rules regulating the body and the soul. If this be correct, recovery must be by fasting, player, sobriety, virtue, self-denial and an uplifting of the whole hu manity to a spiritual plane, which comprehends a genuine communion of saints, and makes the body indeed a part of that heaven to which the pure epirit has an inextinguishable gravitation. We do not know that this ingeni ous theory is any more tenable than the numerous other ideas of the philosophers and chemists. Tne pos session of a sixth seDoe is not desira ble for all persons, and liable to per lt version by its owner tiniest fortified by the supernatural grace of the Al mighty. The practical view is that we should take care of our known five senses and make them blessings and not curses. Doubtless if they were consecrated to the noblest ends and tor the purpose of seeking the Kiog dom of God, all things, including the sixth sense, when i#t is beneficial, would be added unto ue. Mrs. Hoyt is th? name of the lady who will probably preside at the White House after the 1th ol' uext March. She is a Bister of Grovet Cleveland. The Govercor ought tc get married when he becomes Presi dent. Mr. Buchanan was the onlj bachelor President, and the lasl Democratic President. During hil administration the White House wa gracefully presided over by his niece Miss Harriet Lane. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, ol Dela ware, has written a letter to the demo eratic national committee anuouueiu his readiness to engage in campaig work actively, and placing himself a the service of the committee. He i annouueed to speak at- a democrati ratification meeting ia Brooklyn, ? Y., Wednesday eveuing next. Bfsbop Huntington on rio ra is, Why He peelers (?rover Cleveland to James CV. Blaine-Points for Voters. I Xorthampton heller to~fiprhipficld Ile pnliUemt ) Among the prominent mon of the couutry who apend their summers in the delightful old county of H-imp shire is Bishop Huntington, of Syra cuse, N Y., who resides for the eum mer in an old fashioned farm house, pomewhat modern1'/?d, ia tt?e quaint j and historical old town o? Hadley. Your reporter hada plenaon! chat; the other day with this well known j theologian on the political aspects of i the day. While the Bishop's !<s ; and woik do not lead bini into politics, j he is a keen oosorvn- of what is going j ou in the political world, ;iud h'.? de- J ductiono are made aftsr mature re? I flection and careful investigation. A9 to his own position the Bishop said : j " I ciaas myaelf with the Independ ents, for I am in the habit of voting according to the character of the men placed in nomination." In re- i ply to a query as to his opioion of j Mr. Blaine he said : " Well, I have j no desire to publish my opinions to the world; nor do I care to hold them back. I have never been in favor of Blaine, whom I recognized as a trat' ticker in official influence, and I am very much pained to eee so many of my New England friends yielding up the high standard of morals so re quiaite ta the Presidential candidate in the pail. Nothing has been said in this miserable ..attempt which can bring him into the uociety of the pure etatesmen of the past. It would in deed be deplorable if the young men of thia nation should be informo! by thia election that the people of the United States condone the offences proven against James G. Blaine. The moral effect would be very depress ing should they be told by his elec tion that they can lie, deiran lr be come demagogues, bribe givers and takers and still not forfeit the public confidence. It is a humiliating spec tacle to see so many man like Hoar, Dawec and.oiheio twisting his dis honored, record in auch a way as t ? become a deliberate attempt to make his conduct reputable. To me th? action of those who sneer at. th? a*, tempt to purify the politi^-tl .-utans phere is contemptible. Aa tfce Bishop apemls raodt, of his time in Rentrai New York his opinion o? ClevAiPid has weight. In answer to h reviews ol Cleveland he re in irk ]|: " His public life has been trustwoVty, upright and manly. He ie a man of honor and there is mnch in his public career to admire." Touching upon the scandal concern ing Governor Cleveland.'" private life Bishop 'Huntington said with em phisis : " Bilieving as I do that thia is a thing of the past and no pur: of his present character, I shall certain ly vote for him. Until I came in'o this State I never heard aught abou t this scandal. He does aol look wish com placency on the past, and ia not liv ing as a dissolute nnu. According to the Caristianiiy which I teach, we are lo forgive, and aa I understand that he is living an honorable life in the present, I see uo reason why I should not cast my vote for the Re foi m Governor, Grover Cleveland." The Sandwich Islands boast of two natural wonders-thc largent active extinct and the largest active volcano in the world. The former ie located on the leland of Maul, the summit beiog nearly 11,000 feet above the level of the sea, and a carter over forty eight milea in circumference. Oue can look down into the crater 2,000 feet, the ?ides now terraced and covered wi^hscandal wood giant ferns, and a wonderful profusion of tropical flowers and shrubs. The active vol cano is situated in the Island o! Hawai. The crater is situated ou a spur of Manna loa, 4,000 feet above sea level. Tue crater is not a cone, but a great pit ou a level bench, niue miles in curcumference. You go down over this almost perpendicular wall 800 feet, and stand on the floor of the crater. Thia is the place of eternal burnings, the house of ever lasting fire ol Hawaian mythology. The area at the bottom of the crater is not a liquid mass, but for milea and miles all around there apreid.s a scene of unearthly grandeur. Five or six lake9 of fire lie to the left and right; the floor beneath iaso hot thal one scarcely can walk over it ; lava oozes up through the fissures. Huge cones twenty or thirty feet high, made by the bubbles of lava, rise through the seams, and are cooled by the air, A farmer carried three bales 0 cotton to Selma the other day, ant had aet his price at ll cents. Fail iug to find a buyer who would givi hie price, he hauled the cotton bael home. If every farmer would d' that way the price of cotton woult not be made by English factors. An electiic railway company, wit a capital of one million dollar*-:, ba j recently been organizad in New Yor! I It proposes to build and equip electii ! railways in the United States am ; Cauada. These kinda ol railway ' are peculiarly adapted lo undei ground lines in citied. I'M U\M\ mim im- mumum OF VIRGINIA. Home Office, Staunton, Va.: Branch Office, Colombia, 1O OFFICERS HON-. ALEX. H. H. STUART, Prea't. CH ARLES L. COOKE, Secretary. E. L. EDMONDSON, General Agent. HON. M". HANGER, Vlce-Presc P. il. TROUT, Treasurer. Du. CARTER|BERKLEY, Med. Exam EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: A. H. E. STUART, M. HANGER, CHAS. L COOKE, P. H. TROUT. FINANCE COMMITTEE :-A. H. H. 8TUART, M. HANGER, ISAAC WITZ, G. G. COOCH, GEO. P. BAKER. -A.IDMISSI03ST FEE r AU Agen i Ju- Sume. For ?3,000.$24 00 ** 2,000. JO 00 " 1,000. soo ANNUAL DUES: For tiie first three years, beginning one voar from date ot' policy j-For jsJ.COO, 815.00; for 82."K)0, ?iu.00; for 81,000, 85.00. Thereafter, and during US*:-Vor 83,000. $6.00; for *2,n0O, $1.00; for 81,000, fS,00. ITS DKATH CLAI;IS, to tho ainonnt of over TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, haves been promptly paid iu full. Tra Por.ic iKu AUK GTTABAXTKKJ) for their'Fl:j.n bACJj VAU?}-the payment of which ie secured by a constantly increasing RESERVE r?ND7 ?rtatta from thes. annual dnes of five dollar? a year on wu one thousand dollar? o? Insurance for 3 years, beginning one year from date of policy, _ _SO ALE OF ASSESSMENTS. IS Age j 5 if is Ix ; 5 21 ll 381 92' 22 ?1 41 j 04; n ?i 44? no 24 1 47 9Sl 25 1 5011 OOl 20 il 58 I 02. 27 I ?fiil 04i 2S |l 50!l 00? 20 ?1 tii\l OSl 1 80|l 20 1 8311 22? 1 89?L 261 1 95?l 30! 2 01>l 34! 2 07!I 88 Ac? I ! I il s 5 ; o 3ti .17 :w 3!) 40 .lt 42 43 44 4r> 40 47 43 40 60 2 131 42 2 19 I 40 ?2 2K 1 52 2 :J7.:1 58 2 4011 ?4 li 55 1 70 2 04,1 76 2 73?1 82 2 S?ll yo? ??I 0012 U?J|? H I5i? '.O'I 05 ?3 30;2 20|1 10 18 48 2 32|l IO *! 0G?2 -4-1! I 22 !3 75 2 50!l 25 Aso . .t ?. t e 51 j 4 14?2 7(>!l :A 52 ; 4 44?2 96 I 48 51 i 4 74,3 Mil 58 54 5 04-3 3?!l 68 55 5 sra 58 1 7? 5? 5 7??* FD I 90 57 (! 0614 04C 02 58 0 44 4 28:2 14 5!) 6 81 4 54 2 27 00 7 35 4 90 [a 4.-. GI 7 ?l5?5 30;2 ? 02 8 55 5 70?2 85 03 j 9 15:0 10i3 05 04 ?J 75H5 503 25 <>5 |t0 50?7 00(3 40 THE FIRST FIVE YEAHS. The following ha.s been tho actual average cost per annum for au insurance of $1,000, during tho five years, ending Sept, 1st, 1SS3. The rates for the same Insurance in nn Old Line Company are also given. Valley Mutual Hates. APE. 21 , 25 . 39 . 35 . 40 . 45 . 50 I?) 31,000 9 7 07 7 90 800 900 9 75 10 60 12 90 1538 19 21 2? ll) Old Linc Rates. AOK. 2? 25 30 ?5 40 -15 50 55 U0< , 65 . 11,000 . $19 8!) 1989 , 2270 . 2(138 3130 3797 "4710 59 Ot 77 03 *7 17 S. EL MILLER, . State Affent, 102 Main St., Next Door to Carolina Nat'I. Bank COLUMBIA, S. C. R. A. SCOTT, Johnston. Ag't for Edgefield Co. June 25, I8f\ -Billilli.?ll^gMnMWBMWWWWMWWWWWWMMBBMMMMMBMM F9 Aa iH?HEe 702 Broad Street, Cor. McIntosh. ^ ? mm STERLING SILVERWARE REED Sc BABTON'S Celebrated TRIPLE-PLATED WARE, >f . ....... . - ? CLOCKS, BRONZES & PINE FANCY GOODS: AronsTA, OA., NOV. 27, 1883. - lyal Planters All Pronounce Tke Hall Crin ike B Especially for a Public Gin, as it cleans the seed he Uer than5 any other and thereby gives 15 to 20 lbs. of cotton more to each bale, and then it will gin wet cotton. Try It! Use it for one month, and if it does not give entire Pati? fitction, send it back free of expense to you. CUXTOXWARP, S. C., May 29th, 1883. Mr. ./. H'. Wallace. . ? Dear Sir: In reference to the Hall Gin, I muet say I am well pleased with it. It gives perfect satisfaction, and a netter turnout in lint I have never bad than the I lal I Gin gives. I dined ??st season five hundred balee, and every one waa satis heil with the turnout uf their cotton, as it over thirded itself considerably ; and another tiling about it, you can gin the cotton wet and it will gin it clean from the seed. This is a great tliing for a gin to do-that is. ginning lor the public. ?_ On the 70-saw Gin 1 bought of you, I have ginned from twelve to thirteen bales in on? day. Yours most respectfully, J. H. LAGRONE. BAT?SHUBO, S. C. Messrs. Warren, Wallace iC Co., Augusta, Ca. Dear Sirs : The Hall Gin and Feeder purchased of you throe years ago, bas giv en entire satisfaction, running each day during the three Seasons, ginning over fifteen hundred (1,500) bales cotton, with very little repairs until the present, \ We have experiment? d r inferably with Gins, and regard the Hall the best Gin made. Respectfully yours, [Signed] T. S. <& N. A. BATES. Prices and Terms Reasonable. " Send fer .Circulars. WALLACE & WALLACE. Cotton Factors and (?cu l. Ag'ts, Augusta, Cia. Capt. F. F. JEFFERSON ? author'hod to canvass for ?/S. July 22, 1S84.-33 T. W. COSKERY, President. J. T. NEWBERY, Cashier. PlantersLoans Sayings Bank, CAPITAL, all paid up - *100,000. Collections Carefully Attended to and Promptly Hemmed for. Drafts on all Parts of the World for Sale. Emigrant Tickets from England, Ireland or Scotland, to Augusta, for $30. Interest Allowed or. Deposits in the Savings Department. T. W. COSKRBY, 1 Z M cfo mr.. I i>. R. WRIGHT, Oct. 3, 13S3.-tl'4:i ZD 1 RECTORS. Ot nT. Vntorcn, J. A. A. W. CLARX, F. Coo ix, W.H. HOWARD, H. R. Kixo, W. M. JonDAX, JOHX T. Mll-LVK, rl. ROWLKV. MRS. N. BRUM CLARK, CUIIH Yonr AtOutlon t'? ?n Kies???? Line of SPRING AND SUMMER MILLINERY Shebas spared no pains in her endeavor to please her patrons ia SHAPE, QUALITY and PRICK. You will be certain to lind thc BEST GOODS, for the LEAST MONEY at SIO Broad Street, (the Old Stand,) Angula, Ga? Never before have we had so large a variety of MISSES' HATS. Tho "JUM BO" is the ShadeoHat o? the season. BEAUTIFUL LACES just, arrvvfd, ?nd e new line of FANCY GOODS, FANS, GLOVES, Etc. Apr. ?9] ^39 ESroud 'M., Augusta, Cia. BRICK FOR SALE ! 200,000 BRIOKfor made side. J. L. ADDISON. Kdgi.fleld, H. C., Au?. 13, 'M.-3m Genuine Moccaboy Snaff, IN Five and Ten Cent Boxes, at LT RISOE'S, under Advertiser offiot. Fob. 20, 1884.-11