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Edgefie?d Advertiser : THURSDAY, APRIL 21,1892. THO S. J. ADAMS,. 3DITOR Th? Greenville Democrat- says that there were twenty " Goats to one Sheep at the Greenville meet ing. --==--= ^The ?eluinbia State admits that "TiBmanrB strength at Greenville was five to three, and half of the audience was from towns and vil lages. A. B. Williams could not stand the music, and left'the meeting ' immediately af ter Gov. Tillman commenced his speech. A sicker looking crowd never participated in a political meetings . The Abbeville Medium says: -"The., claim of the malcontents that they are for peace and unity reminds us of the fellow who said - he was- hell-bent on getting to -heaven. ' > Th8 Atlanta Constitution, an imparti paper in another State /says?here were 5,000 people at the Greenville meeting, and of this .number at least 3,500 were Till man.. And bear in mind that this was at Col. Orr's home. .iv',-' ."" Independent Haskell, in one of Club ni??tings in Columbia last 'Saturday said : "I don't. care 'a snap of roy finger for the new constitution." This' utterance is ; id keeping with the "rule or rum" 'spirit of the man, pointed out by *mV'Greenville News some time "?go: .SOWED GOATS. Whatsoever you sow that shall you reap. The Democratic voters s of South Carolina sowed goats on ^ the-9th of April in all the coun ties of the State, except three, and do you. think they will reap sheep at the September harvest? REMEMBER .THE 23RD. The assemblage at Edgefield on next Saturday bids fair to be the largest gathering since the days' of amberlain?~ ^The place of meet ing^tfiil be ihe. Academy grove, we anders?fiipd-^^e historic spot wlmMMMjpany wordy battles have t. Let every Democrat 1? Ejjgifield county come who can, ear Gov. ..Tillman give an ac count of his stewardship. RABI CAX T??KET. James. L. Qrr^cd^d^oTihe Rad ical Judge "Willard against Judge] . .?Sam McGowan. Remember this! is the living James L. Orr, not the d$?fiif*on?.' Tillman charged Orr .-with this ; at Greenville, and he opened not his mouth. He didi not dare to deny the charge. .yijOWr Gov; Sheppard, in justice I t? his-Edgefield lineage, consort| with such cattle? Tillman also, charged this man Orr with voting to keep a Repub lican mulatto in office over maimed Confederate soldier. Orri did not deny, this charge on the stand, nor has he done it since. What does Edgefield county say to j this? ; " Sheppardifes, can you swallow | such an Orr-full dose as that? BETWEEN THE EYES. x v After their crushing defeat in Greenville on last Saturday, the 4antis went gallivantin round the town to see if they couldn't get a little comfort from some other quarter. They serenaded the Green ville News,- Col. Jas. A.' Hoyt, and others.. _ At last ,they struck Gen. j. H. Earle and called on him for a speech. That gentleman asked tb be excused from speaking, but at their repeated solicitation spoke briefly, to .the same effect as his recent letter in the News and Cou rier, that the present administra tion while not faultless,. was so well grounded among the people that it was useless tb oppose it. This speech {put them on the mourners' bench and they all with on? .accord began to sing, "Oh where can rect be found?" Tlte Pe opie Wa nt Principle, not L Men. To any man who thinks the reform element of South Caro lin*; ?ie mahrworsliipers, or that their Rattles ar? for the success of any manaor set of men, we desire at ones to disabuse his mind of this l^.T^rinciples they want, not men."- They have forever thrown off the^^falUng yoke of hereditary bosses and the candidates they have supported have been simply representatives of these principles. They '.believe certain reforms should come, and these reforms .must - be acknowledged and enthroned before the political battle will cease. Should Governor Tillman-and so far he has done nothing to deceive the) people who elected him-to morrow desert their cause or his life Be taken another man would take his place and the battle for right continues in all it fury, without abatement or impairment, ? We repeat : It is principles the people are fighting for, not men. Greenville Democrat. ' SHEARING SHEEP. ? Gu ot ie Goats and Sheep at OLD BEN BUTTS THE^ OFF THE BRIDGE. PIEDMONT SHANGHAI WF*iiPpED 0N HIS OWN BUNILL [ Ba ! Ba! Black ?jieep, Have You | Any "Wool? Come Bown to Ben's House and Get a Bag: Full. The State campaign in South) Carolina opened at Greenville on last Saturday, and according to the dispatches the whole thing was de cided then and there. According to the Columbia Regis ter the Sheep had tried in every way to avoid the meeting and a joint discussion, hut the demand for it was so great that they were compelled to accede, and the meet ing has resulted in their defeat, j horse, foot and dragoons. The result of the meeting was a < I revelation even to the friends of Governor Tillman, for in meeting Colonel Orr in his own territory ^ it was expected that the opposition element would he out in force. If it was, the opposition is smaller j than was expected. During all of the previous day j people had been gathering, and [when the crowd assembled in ! front of the speakers there were I present between five tho'Ssand and six thousand people. The speakers with their friends j t and prominent gentlemen were c taken to the stand in carriages preceded by a band. In the pro- ^ cession which followed was a \ prominent banner ornamented 1 8 C ) t with a picture of Governor Till man and the inscription, "Tiger lilie Club, 450 for Tillman." At 10:55 a. m. the meeting was called to order by Gen. J. Walter Gray and prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Pate. n 'tl [ Iv f< Ex-Governor Sheppard's Speech. Mr. Sheppard said : Fellow Citizens : I am grateful at a call to address the people of a County that from the inception a of the farmers' movement has been ? thoroughly devoted to it. While not v. the originator of the farmers' [ movement, I can prove by the peo- t " " loi my O'onfiiy and OT^-sounr Carolina that I have been a friend of the movement since it started until this day. I am as deeply devoted to it las any farmer in this State, j and my friend told the truth when he said that the March convention swallowed the farmers' movement all except him. [Here the crowd interrupted j e to Buch an extent that Governor I o Tillman asked them to give Shep pard a hearing saying that "we wanted fair play, that this was a family quarrel to be decided inside the party, and that every decent white man must abide the result."] Mr. Sheppard proceeded : So far e! as I am concerned, his reference ci to this movement being an offshoot tl of Haskellism he knows to be false. s< I supported Tillman after his nomination, on the stump, against Haskell. If he gets more votes in the primary this year, no man will support him with any more vigor than I. The man never lived in South Carolina more deeplydevoted to the interests of the Democratic party than I, or who can say that by word, aot or thought I have proved unfaithful to the white people, jet I desire that the purposes of the I c< Farmers' Movement shall succeed. I oppose Gov. Tillman because he has not carried out the purposes for which he was elected. The charge Tillman made against former governments was that they h ad been extravagant. He promised economy, meaning a reduction of taxes. His charge was not proven, his promises not kept, and your taxes are increased. [A voice "Did you vote for Tillman ?"] I did, m on the honor of a gentleman. [Gov. tl Tillman endorsed his statement.] H Governor Sheppard then went on tl to oppose Tillman. & Before he had proceeded far the cc crowd raised such confusion that bc the speaker was not audible for "J Beveral minutes During the ^ confusion General Earle came in d< and took a seat on the stage, where vc were already seated the speakers, n( Attorney General Mclaurin, W. J. w Talbert, L. W. Youmans, W. L. re Mauldin and other prominent h( gentlemen. vi Sheppard then read from the "fe Shell manifesto, regarding taxes 1D and useless and high salaried DC offices and undertook to prove that h' the State administration had failed to carry out what its leaders had demanded in this respect. He made a comparison between appropri ations under former adminis trations and the present. He then branched off on the Coosaw and bank cases and claimed that as a bank president he had been the salvation of many farmers of Edgefield, although admitting that I ar they had paid 10 per cent, interest | wi at his bank. He asserted that he bad always believed in the right af the State to resume control of the COOSBW territory and only criticised tue administration for ;he manner in which it conducted he case, incidentally mentioning | foi lis business abilities. He also ?ailed attent ion to the fact that I tw P tl a I h n d tl ai tl tl ai h( w Y hi d< |m ai SI ?H nc I wi m dc th Ipi de fa [lo leo en pa th nore lawyerB had been empk >y this administration than ill former administrations ai .876. Sheppard was * followed, lieutenant .Governor.- G??' J poke most admirably for * oi nu te s, and he >?- V or ' allowed by Jwaw % nrr^L or Lierai** ^Ar^r0ID lente ' ^sepntlemen to .dir speeches to the ea 1 ivj*Zj,Tj at tnis-hourririd they Ie ?iven as fully as possible A _ay morning. -Governor Tillman-then spol follows in reply : Go vernor Tillman's Speed In the last campaign a g deal was said about Peter's w mother. [Laughter.] Some ' you don't know what that me but I'll tell you, [and here ' man told the story of the innoi abroad in New York who hea sermon three times on the sub of Peter's wife's mother and inferred that; the ringing of bells was in honor of the old 1 ai funeral]. Applying the story Governor said : Now, I have last discovered the ancestors Peter's wife's mother on paternal side. Here is what Easkellite organ in Cohuna said of the speeches of Cole Orr in Laurens and other place i speech that had been prinl but which he would not speak l?v. [The speaker here read editorial from The State, the pc if which was that its edi claimed the credit for suggest : he points made by Colonel ? n his speeches.] Now, here 3 see, gentlemen, that Colonel < vas only the mouthpiece of N. Ronzales. [Applause and lau| :er.] At this point in the Govern*. ; peech a great howl was raised :he left of the stand which v ong continued, and as soon as t jrovernor could be heard ho sai ??ow,my friends, you-all und stand what that means, and tl ." cannot get along with' tl )oisterous crowd over . there, t t is a small crowd-scarcely mc han fifty. Now I propose to tea hem something. My friends, ? ?fyou who are going to vote 'M ne hold up your hands. [T ?rowd obeyed, fully ninetenths hose'present holding up th( lands and cheering for Tillmai fuming to the boisterous fifty . aid: "Now you young gentlem ian either hush and so deda 'ourselves to bo gentlemen or co? inueto be rowdyish. [Cheerir ind applause.] "Now, those of y< rho are going to vote for Sheppai mid up your hands." [? ve] nfinitely small portion of tl ?rowd obeyed.] "Now," said tl Jovemor," if you have any decen< it all I suppose you will hus now The noise continuing, Orr endear ?red to secure silence but faile md Tillman , continuing said iupposo that is what you peop m der st and by peace and harmon; Laughter and applause.] But ell you that I came here to speal tirct-?-am'goingt?~speax "intrtakt ill to-morrow. I tell you, youn oen, that you will have to vote fe oe or appeal to the nigger just s laskell did. [Applause, jeers an heers. You may outholler mi ?ut you can't out-vote that gran rmy out there. Sheppard has al ded to the farmers' movemen nd said that every feeling, ever motion, of his heart was loyal t ur agricultural people. He gre1* 0 eloquent that he almost mad? ie belive that he had discovered be movement instead of coy self Laughter and aplause. [ Well, I tell you in 1886 in con ention I voted for Shepparc >r Governor and . tried tc lee t him. Why? First be wise at the time, I knew none oi ie public men of the State, and ?cond because we had been school ?ates and were then and are now ersonal friends. There were then iree candidates in the field-Sen tor Coker, of Darlington, John eter Richardson; and Shepprrd, ho had received the office at the ands of Hugh S. Thompson. The lovement then had two principal emands-the reorganization of ie agricultural bureau and the ?tablishment of an agricultural jllege. I wrote to Coker and ?ked him if he would support lese demands. He wrote me back lat he would not, and I had Rich ?dson approached and found that a was the ring candidate. [Voice : Tell us about that free pass."]. es, I'll tell you about it if you'll ash, because I am not here to jdge anything? [Cheers for Till ian.] I then went to Sheppard, id we had a conference. He told ie he was in favor of everything ie farmers' association had de luded except the abolition of ie Citadel Academy-the dude ?tory. I was then left in this mdition with Sheppard, who had ?en my school fellow. [A voice : Vnd Judge Wallace's son-in-law." 7eli, yes, but that had nothing to > with it ; and why shouldn't I >te for him, and especially after ) came over and joined us? But hat was the result? Col. Law nce Orr and W. L. Mauldin mded the delegation from Green lh, went to Columbia and were sponsible for Sheppard's defeat 11886. John C. Sheppard had >aten Orr for Speaker and he ites him for it to this day. Tillman-In 1888 I again asked leppard to oppose Richardson. < e said "I will go to Columbia . ?xtweek and see about it." It EIS two or three days before the eeting at Hodges. He went 1 >wn there and was converted to < e other side, and Lawrence Orr ( esided over the convention that 1 ifeated Earle in favor of Rich- c dson. Now, these are the men 10 say "we are in favor of the J rrners' movement. Ohl we do t ve you farmers so well that we t uld take you in our arms and n ibrace you." [Laughter and ap- n use.] But now let us see what J ey have done with our pl?t rai. The speaker here compared the 0 platforms and made points h ^at the Thirteen had omitted demands for railroad control a constitutional convention, then denied the charges of extr; gance, alluding t o the huildin the inauguration platform, wi he said was suggested by the c mittees of the House and Sei He then acknowledged that h? alluded to some of the legisla as driftwood, and showed that failure to carry out economies ndfrdtie to his w'anlrof Buggest but the blocking of legislado: the Legislature. He quoted from' his inaug*1 and from his speeches to show he had been consistently in fi of reform. He denied that he acted as a dictator. He quot* letter of Haskell to The St which he said explained how members of the Legislature been bamboozled and also 1 that newspaper had twittod legislators with being under control and causing them to i otherwise than had been expec He admitted that a good dea time had been spent .in the e tion of a United States Sena! that nothing was being done, i that he therefore called upon Solicitors to assist in what adm istration measures embodied views of the farmers' platfo He then went on to show 1 these measures were defeated, contended that he had carried his pledges and that Legielat had failed to carry, out theirs. As a part of the argument h he quoted extensively from party platform, stating in wi respect he had endeavored to ca: out his declarations. He also i tered into an elaborate discuss: of the causes which led to the i feat of several of his .measui and especially the railroad b the'sheriff bill, and others. '. then replied to some of the sta ments that he lost ground-in 1 State and continued thus : Sb pard has claimed that he w carry my township as sure as fa Well, Gen. M. C. Butler, who 1 had. a finger ih! this pie, has har. heap lo do with -?tirring up tl township, and so has A. P. But! who was sent home by the Legis' ture, and who lives on the edge the township. They have be distributing The State free grat I have been at home but seldo because I have stayed in Columl attending to your business ; bul will say that I will go home, ma three speeches, and if I can't be him in the primaries I will wit draw from the race. Govern Sheppard, will you say as mucl I have gone, my friends, throng h-1 to get this office, and I ha been told that no other man cou have led the movement to succej Since my election I have di charged my duty as faithfully as knew, and I am now asking th people whether they think I ha1 done it or not. I made a livir before I got into the Governor office, and whenever the majoril of the people say "we don?? wai you, any Tonger" I will r?frre"wit] out a murmur. The Governor recurred to h position as defined in his inai gural on the $3 poll tax, giving h: reasons for the recoin men datioi Speaking of the Judge Wallac incident he said : One of the unpai donable sins, the unwashable sii which it is charged I have core mitted, is that in my message took issue with Judge Wallac because he had decided that th Governor had no right to remov Cantwell, the Supervisor of Regis tration, while the Senate was no in session. I have shown the la? under which I acted, and no law yer has yet answered it. The] don't dare to take issue with tha law, although I am no lawyer Now, what were my motives? Th< people of Charleston were unde: ring rule. They had the most outrageous tyranny practiced upor them, and Cantwell was one ol the instruments which the ring used to keep itself in power by issuing bogus tickets and allowing them to be voted. The reform movement there begged that true man be removed. I looked at the law and I had the right to suspend him until the Senate met. I sim ply desired to remove the shackles from the hands of your friends in the City by the Sea, and Judge Wallace by his decision had them locked again. Now, what is this scheme of our goverment? It has three departments-the legislative, the executive and the judicial md they are considered co-equal. Now, it looks to me that if it is proper to criticise the Governor, especially as I have been criticised -I mean criticism of my office ind if my office is not enough to nsure being criticised decently, n God's name where is the impro metyin my criticising another jranch of the goverment? And )eBides, are these judges always in all i ble? Let me show you : Here s a list from the Supreme Court .ecorde. I am in the citadel now, 'ou see, and I can get the records. ! am not obliged, as I used to be, o have to chunk around for hings, as before I was elected, ["his list shows that during the last ive years, or from 1885 to 1890, here were 657 appeals taken rom decisions of the Circuit rudges, and that over 250 of them rere overruled or modified. That s, that over one-third of these ?pinions delivered by these Judges -the Sanhedrim, the priesthood f the inner templo-men too holy o be criticised by the Governor rero overruled by the Supreme Jourt. And as to this Supreme Jourt, haven't vou many a time eard the lawyers curse and aron it as being a set of jackasses. Great laughter and applause.] rou will understand, of course, bat this is not my language. In '. bis issue the Senate has sustained 1 ie and the Supreme Court has ot decided the point raised by udge Wallace, and i will do so gain r,a,nd if any other Superivsor ball act in the way "that Cantwell id I would^not hesitate . to take hn by the* throat and . put Jiim ? out to-morrow. [Laughter.] I an told that my time is about out Colonel Orr has harried your soul by charging that I in an interviei declared that the farmers move ment could whip the Alliance, i deny absolutely that I eve thought such a thing, wrote sud a thing or said such a thing. Cai you believe that I would see th' reform movement split in hal and taking each other by th? throat? ?nd'I?ke * two dogs qu?r reling over a bone, destroy thei combined power? Do you suppos 'that I would ev?r by " this mean let that gang of sheep over ther seize this government again' [Applause and cheers.] M; friends, I would have been not onl; a political idiot but a double dye< traitor had I announced such i sentiment. [Applause an< cheers.] Last year I said that I believec that the sub-treasury bill wai unwise. I went to Spartanburj and in a meeting of the State Alliance gave my reasons for say ing that I opposed it. I say U you to day that at that time I wai fighting what I supposed was i third party movement and no the Alliance. [Applause am cheers.] I was opposed to it, and ] believe that all of you are oppos?e to it now, because it has beei withdrawn by the Alliance itself I say to you here now as a loy a Democrat, as a loyal Ailiancemau as a loyal farmers' movementfman that I am bound by the rule o: the majority and that if a maj or ih of the people want these demands I shall not attempt to dictate tc you. [Prolonged cheering anc applause.] I have been accused of trying t* dictate to the Alliance, but I have given you my reasons for m\ opinion and my position. I am or record as opposed to the sub-treas ury, and I am opposed to it now but the rule in the Alliance and of the Democracy is to abide thc will of the majority, and I am not going to fight my brethren. [Cheere and applause.] Just before the Spartanburg meeting, don't you remember how sweet and smiling the newspapers were to me? They, actually slobbered over me. The Greenvilie News [voices : ''Oh loh"] and the News and Courier [voices : "Oh, yes, old 'primary or split'] and that catamount in Columbia (The State) . [derisive laughter and cheers] were trying to seduce me. They wanted to get me away, and if I had chosen to go with them I would have been a king among the Sheep, but a traitor to the Goats. [Appluse and cheers.] I want to say to you that we have but one party in South Caro lina, the Democratic party, and we will have peace and unity if these gentlemen will let us. If we are beaten in this fight we will not do as the Haskellites did, get out of the party and bolt. We have control of the Democratic party. We-can enunciate any platform that we please, and on that plat forrrrwe mllmakeour fight* The majority must rule in this State and I would prefer to follow you to. h-ll than to go with these men to heaven. [Tumultuous cheering] Of course I mean this as merely typical lahgugne, a simile without intending to be irreverent, but it does mean that I am now with the farmers of South Carolina, and with them I expect to die. [Ap pluse.] In 1890 I did not run on the Alliance platform, or a sub treasury platform. I tried my best to make the fight and that the Alliance should not go in as an Alliance. I objected to that at Ridgeway. I have not betrayed a single pledge I ever made. ,1 have never failed to keep a promise, and I defy any man to prove it. I made charges Of corruption, and I found that one officer of the govern ment had embezzled $5,000 within a month after I. came into my office; that three County Treas urers have taken some thousands more, and that there were shortages (and that is an euphonious word) of about $20.000, Your endorsement, my friends, shows me that you realize the objects of these men who are trying to put me off the platform which I founded, who are trying to ride in on the palace car. But don't you know that there is a sign on the dooi of this car that you must not ride on the platform. [Ap- . plause and cheers.] These fellows are trying to ride on it, but I know you will switch them off in Sep tember, and in the election I will ; vouch for it that Orr and Sheppard j will vote the straight Domocratic , ticket. [Appause.] The speaker next took up the ' Coos aw case and explained the litigation and how it was begun by the company. He said there had been a lot of talk about the people having to pay the fees of the assistant counsel but he be- ? lieved that Coosaw would eventually have them to pay. He said that if he had not made the fight the newspapers would have j charged him with neglect of official c duty. He then took up the pri mary business and gave his views thereon substantially as in his interview recently published in \ the Register. j On the subject of having an a organ he said ; They say I have an organ. Well, Mr. Perry established " a paper up here. That is his busi- ? cess. The Register is making t gome people very sick right about o now, and I think you mighc take o those two papers. I only have I jne organ and that is between my a teeth, and if they can prove that P [ have ever falsified a pledge I 0 im perfectly williugto admit it md go home. h Governor Tillman then went into the railroad and bank itigation and recited the cause ;hat led to it and its present status, ol speaking on the free pass matter oi ie said: They say I made a mifi- tl ake. Well, our humble Saviour, Si he lowly Narazene, when some hing of this sort was said repeated, B 'Let him who is without sin imoug you cast the first stone." If James L. Orr had never ridden on a free pass or if he was not presi dent of a factory that is working poor men and women thirteen hours a day - with only forty-five minutes for dinner-[Colonel Orr, interrupting: "That is not] true."] Tillman : Well I am glad, but | let me say that we have no antagonism to capital nor do we want to oppress it. It is not our purpose to "liave one "law for a" corporation and another for the people. We want equal rights for all and special privileges for | none. He charged the railroads with going into the Federal courts with J the object of embarrassing the finances of his administration.] 01 what a howl they raisedjwhen it was said that County Treasurers had been instructed to refuse the tender of payment. It was taken up and repeated and Colonel Orr stated it.? Col. Orr-"I did not make that statement." Tillman-"Truth can never overtake a lie." Col. Orr-"Well, it has over taken one now. . After some further parley Gov ernor Tillman took np Orr's speeches at Laurens and elsewhere and read his statements concerning I him, the Governor, on his refusal | to extend the time for the pay ment of taxes, etc. Referring to Orr's statement that the people were in as bad a condition now as they were in '76, he said : '"Great | God, has it come to this, that the masses of honest yeomanry shall havo their present misfortunes compared to those in Radical days under Chamberlain !" Concluding this branch of the discussion he said: "I do say that when this man said that I am unfit to unlatch the shoes of Judge Wallace he went beyond the limit of human endurance. He used the language of John the Baptist about the Saviour. Now I have it from respectable au thority that Colonel Orr voted for Radical Willard against McGowan. I have it also that an old negro named Joseph Johnson was' appointed Jury Commissioner when Hampton was Governor at tho instance, I suppose, of J Senator Cothran, and James L. Orr helped to put that infamous Radical scoundrel into office over a gallant Confederate soldier named Williams. Referring to a charge that his administration had injured the credit of the State, he said: I have been informed that Pied-i mont stock has gone from 140 to 110 since James L. Orr became president. Now, if, in one short year, he wrecked that property and carried stock from 140 to 110, in God's name, where would he carry the State bonds if he were elected Governor? [Laughter | and applause.] I am told, too, that he has reduced wages there 10 per cent. About this time the cheering for Tillman became very loud and continued. The crowd surged upon the stand, taking his hand, congratulating him on his speech and giving him their pledges for j continued support. Further 6peech making was impossible. The crowd lifted him bodily from the stage and conducted him to his carriage, in which he was driven on rapidly up the street with Shep pard. The crowd dispersed and ropidly followed the procession to the hotel, and so ended Tillman's Austerlitz in the Piedmont. The News and Courier says that | at all points heard from Tillman is ahead but it is hopeful of regaining j strength in September. ANNOUNCEMENTS CONGRESS. The friends of Col. W. J. TALBERT, .ecognizing bis ability and fitness, his Christian virtue, and the deep interest nanlfested by him in the welfare of ;be whole people-his known opposi ;ion to monopolies-his advocacy of I i better system for circulating the cur- j ency of this great country-his ?n erest in the general welfare of the >eople and especially of the farmers, lereby announce him as a candidate or election, under the Democratic ule. to the House of Representatives >f the United States from the Second Congressional District of South Caro ina. MANY CITIZENS. FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. The friends of tbe Rev. P. P. BLALOCK .no wi ri? him to be an enthusiast'oa education, j nd fully competent to perform the duties of chool Commissioner, respectfully announce ?rn a candidate for tiiat office, and pledge him 9 abide the result of the Democratic primaries, j nd to support the nominees of the party. ?TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 11 EXECUTIVE CHAMBER WHEREAS, Information has been eceived at this Department that n the night of the 27th day of larch, A. D. 1992, the Dwelling louse and Barn of J. W. Shaffer, a the county of Edgefield, was urned, and there being reason to elieve that the burning was an ct of incendiarism, Now, THEREFORE, I, B. R. Till ?an, Governor of the State of outh Carolina, m order that jus ice may be done and the majesty f the law vindicated, do hereby ffer a reward of ONE HUNDRED ?OLLARS for the apprehension ud conviction of the person or ersons who committed said act I incendiarism. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have ereunto set my hand and caused j the Great Seal of the L. s. I State to be affixed, at -* Columbia, this 18th day ' April, A. D. 1892, and in the ie hundred and sixteenth year of ie Independence of the United tates of America. B. R. TILLMAN, y the Governor : J. E. TINDAL, Secretary of State. U J. H. PAUL, AGENT 3STo. 2 Park Row, -IMPORTERS OF FINE Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars . . Stone Mountain Corn Wbistey a Specialty. Will move to bur new quarters in about thirty days in the HUFFMAN NEW BUILDING. _ . WM. SCHWEIGERT, The Je-wellei% 732 Broad. (Under Central Hotel,) Street, Augusta, - - Ga. E. p Schneid?r, IMPORTEES OP PIN1 Wines, Liquors and Cigars, AND DKAI.KH8 IN Bourbon Rye and Corn Whiskey. 6oi?|and So3 Broad Street:. McHugh Bro?., Edgefield, S. C., We have now removed to our new quarters on the corner next to the Farmers' Loan and Savings Bank, where we shall be pleased to see and entertain our friends and the balance of mankind, right royally. That we are prepared to do this, a baw inspection of our inner adornings will establish. Our Liquors, Wines, Cigars, Etc., Bte., are of the latest, best, and most approved^brands. Give us one call and you will need no further invitation. Respectfully, McHugh Bros B. B. EVANS, Life anil Fiie Insurance Wt, EDGEFIELD, S. C. -REPRESENTS The UNION MUTUAL LIFE, of Portland Maine. Its pol: are the most liberal now offered to the public.. -ALSO The PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,. of Philadelphia. It will be to the interest of parties contemplating insurance to ex amine their contracts before insuring elsewhere. Ashley Phosphate Comp| Charleston, C. SOLUBLE GUANO highly ammoniated; COTTON SEED MEAL; DISSOLVED BONL, highest goods ; NOVA SCOTIA LAND PLASTER; ACID PROSPHATE, for composition; SOUTH CAROLINA MEAL; Ash Element, for Cotton, Wheat, Peas, &c; GROUND RAW BONE; COTTON AND CORN COMPOUND; GROUND DRIED BLOOD; SMALL GRAIN SPECIFIC; GROUND DRIED FISH; GENUINE LEOPOLDSHALL KAINIT; GENUINE FLOATS, of highest grade, product of the Due Atomizer. [Si ABOVE FERTILIZER ARE OF VERY HIGH GRADE AND OF UNIFORM QUALITY. They are rich in Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash, and are oom pounded with a special view to the wants of our Staple Crops, and to the per naneut improvement of the soil. Special Formulas made to order of best materials. Special inducements are offered for cash orders by the car load. For terms, Hand Books, Agricultural Primers and good articles on Ash Clement, Peas, &c, address .Ashley Phosphate Company, CHARLESTON, - S. C. Edgefield and Johnston. ide are ii ftje ling for 1892 Vith a full line of VEHICLES, WAGONS, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES IOAD CARTS and HARNESS ' ALSO louse Furnishing Goods, such as STOVES, ':EDS, BEDSTEADS 1ATTRESSES, Cotton and Spring, CHAIRS, SOFAS, ?fee, &c. Give us a call and be convinced that we are in earnest in offering ood goods and fair prices to tho people of Edgefield county. Ramsey db Bland, EDGEFIELD -and JOHNSTON. Sigh Prices for Cotton IS MADE POSSIBLE BY INVESTING WHERE YOU CAN OBTAIN JEST VALUES FOR LEAST CASH. ( LOWEST PRICES, A GOOD TEAM ] I BEST GOODS. Weare headquarters for BLANKETS, CLOAKS, DRESS GOODS NDERWEAR, and everything in Dry Goods, Come and see us when you come to the city. MULLARKY & HARTY, 5 IO Broad St., Augusta, G-a,