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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY MARCH 17, 1892. VOL. LVn. NO. IO. WHEN" BILL WAS A BOY He Stood Upon The Piazza And haw The Stars Fall. Shakespeare says "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our 'philosopy." The fall of meteors on Wednesday night was quite a wonder to the generation and mado the young people serious and solemn. Tornadoes and earth quakes and comets and meteors are alwayB alarming for they bring home to us our utter helplessness under the mighty hand of God. From 8 o'clock until near midnight we watched these meteors. Part ot- the time we were, standing out in the freezing air but most of the >Vimlr~~we looked through the uncurtained w&dows, and there was hardly a morn^V4bat~-feey was not seen somewhere in the heavens. I hoped for another visitation like that of 1833, which I distinctly remember, for my father awaked me and dressed me hurriedly and we all etood in the piazza and watched and wondered for an hour or moie. They seemed sure enough like falling stars and came down in myriade as gently as snowflakos.They nearly touched the earth before they went out and I remember hunting around in the potato pat oh next morning for some sign of them, but found none, If there was any heat in their glittering light there was no sign of it in the tree tops among the leaves. I remember that Aunt Minty, our good old cook, prayed and exhorted long and loud and a white woman across the street screamed out: "?ome, Lord Jesus : | take me, Lord Jerus. God, save us; God, forgive us/' and she was kneeling on the door with her hands stretched up towards heaven. I remember that Mrs. Lestes, the widowed mother of our late attorney general, lived very near us and came over to our house, stooping as she came for fear the stars would touch her. I remmeber that my f athar was clam and serene and gave us all assurance that there was no danger, for he was a well read man and knew that-epoh; phenomenaJhad^?^^^^gmjjB jttmesf.?lA.? itft ? ^r~t^* . narffh.' 4 Several' "times" within rfhe past century there had been a fall of meteors on the same date, the 13th of November, but none brillant or that cam? so near thu earth. It was in August 1854 that we were awakened about 2o'clock one night by the crowing of the cocks for daybreak and our negroes got up and fed the stock and prepared to go to the field when our atten tion waB attracted to the clock and on going out to see what was the matter we found it as bright as day and the aurora borealis was flashing a brillant light that illuminated the heavenR and tho earth. Such thingB are always alarming to the timid and the ignorant, I heard Profesor Proctor, the great astronomer, deliver three lectures at Lake Weir a few years ago and iifted me up on thought among the starry heavens and made us realize our own insignifi cance as he approached the very confines of eternity and told us oi things we ,had never dreamed of, He was a great and good man and I loved him as much for hip humility as his learning. One night he lectured on the birth and growth and maturity and decay of a world, and he proved by the most convincing argument thal this world had long since pass?e ita maturity aud was in the d?clin? and that the scriptures would b< fulfilled and this earth be burnee up and pass out of existence. Hi said that worlds had passed awa; and that the worlds had cam into exieience since the Christaii era and that comets had appears that had no record in the past thatcreation was not finished bu was changing and this littlewod of ours was but a speck in th universe. He ?aid that if a straigl: line from the eye was drawn an extended in any direction would sooner or later be stoppe by a heavenly body.* We can enjoy this and 1 amused but when a cyclone com< along or an earthquake begins 1 rock tho little world about, thej is no philospy that can make i calm and serene. We don't unde stand these systems of nature n< can we fortify against them, never saw a man or woman but wi was superstitious about ghos and it is because of the mys'te: that hangs around the dead where are the spirits? Where bj Sammuel been when the witch Endor called his spirit up-' kind of virture was in the b of Elijah that brought to life dead man who was buried in tomb? What kind of spirits ' roving about distressing good pie until they were sent into swine and the swine into the i If we knew where we were g we would be less troubled matter how terrible our fate. '. the mystery that hangs aro that undiscovered country f which no traveler returns. I t that we all had the faith of little boy that I know wi mother asked him where he thoi heaven was and he replied prom] "why, its over at gran'"ma'shouf "Ah ! no," she said, "heaven i the*w-at all.- What made you th tliat?" "Well, it isn't more than" ab a mile from there," he si Grandma was enough heav?u him. This seems to be an off y anyhow. A year of surprises, i a few wteks ago and everyth looked lovely for the republic; and distressing to the farmers Mr. Cleveland beat out the ministration and all its patron to the surprise of even the m sanguine democrats. Right on t of this cotton jumped from 7 t< cents the New; England manuf hirers raised wages of operative per cent The republican party tr before the election to make country believe that wages I already been raised under t McKinley bill, but theseoperati' knew it was a lie. Mr. develan* election or something hae rai' them and the capitalists seem have received new confidence tne stability of monetary affai Stocks have advanced and eve: thing looks lovely. And now con shooting stars and the aurc borealis and a comet and I reek Governor Northen will get up appropriation for the world's fi and th? legislature will buy i the Soldiers' Home and we w soon be building more railways J over the south and our fol^s ha busted the people's ? T^SS^F '^?^?i^^^^^^^^?^ Lea ^and'everything looks lovely ar the goose hang high. So mote it be. BILL ARP. The Port Royal Tramway. The most interesting paper th has yet issued from the pen i Gov. Tillman is his messa, concerning the Port Royal ai Augusta Rail Road. This messa; particular interest to us, as tl road in question runs through fertile portion of Barnwe County. The Governor very proper calls attention to the fact th this road has been gobbled up 1 the Central, and that the Centi has used its power to freeze o the minority stockholders, ai depreciate the property of Pi Royal. The Governor recommends th the Attorney General be authoriz . to institute legal proceedin aud compel the Central to live i I to the obligations of its chart ( We hope that this will be doi Everyone who has ever h ad t i misfortune to be jolted up ai down the ram shackly road bed j the Port Poyal R. R. joins in t L hope. Give Port Royal a iii j chance and it will become t 3 natural outlet of Western gra 3 trade. j We blame the ChieseJ for cruel - cramping tne feet of their infan It is equally wrong to cramp Pc e Royal. Don't yovL think so Bi j Rodgers?-Bamberg Herald. Thc Governor's Message. tt Governor Tillman Mas ful d sustained his reputation aa e writer of abl State papers, in h tt recent Mesasge to the Legislatu d at the opening of session. It is it loug document, but thrpugho d it bears the stamp of the Governo: concise way of putting things ai )e as a whole, is conservative ai iB dignified in tone. He devotes i large space to education, whi< L? although devoid of politics is o te of the most important quest io is being agitated in the State to-di r- and he reviews the condition JT the various institutions oflearni -r controlled by the State-Journ and Review. io ts Buckinghams Dye for t ry Whiskers is the best, handiei safest, surest, cleanest, m< economical and satisfactory d 1C* ever invented. It is the gsntlomei of favorite. SAM JOH ES' FINE LECTURE. Humor and Wisdom to a Large Audience. Rev. Sam Jones lectured at the Grand Opera House last night. Maj Black, in introducing the great preacher, started the ball rolling in a humorous way by re calling an incident in the life of John Randolph of Roanoke when he was confronted with a man introducing another. "Who introduced you?" asked John Randolph of the man who was doing the introducing. Maj. Black said he felt the humorous side of introducing Sam Jones. When the preacher began he paid Maj. Black back by saying that though the Major had refered to him as being a mau of some notoriety, he begged the citizens of Augusta to remember that the Major was somewhat extinguished hinself. The subject which the lecturer took was "Manhood and Money," and from this argument was drawn the conclusion that manhood and womanhood, with all their strength of virtue and will, were greater than all the money in the world. The lecture was good and plea sed a large audience of nearly 500 It abounded in humor and philoso phy, laughable illustrations and homely truths "went right home," after the manner of Mr. Jones' ex pression, each time. A snug sum was deriven by the proceeds of the lecture for the benefit of St. Luke's Methodist Church, Mr. Timmons pastor. The lecture began at 9:20, Mr. Jones arriving on the Georgia fast train at 9:15. He left for home on the midnight Georgia train. He came directly here from Galveston Tex., where he says he held one of the most succesnful meetings of his life. He therefore had not been to his home although re turned to the State. HUMOROUS EPIGRAMS. . I used to sing "I want to be an angel, and withjhe angels stand,' Now I have begu&i?jsrss^^ ??*?--luju vuwvKeJl?dies stand." . I met a grand man once. The longer I stood with him the smaller I got, and the bigger he got. After a while I had to get up and go to have anything to go with. I have met some little fellows whose eyes were so close together that they could see through a keyhole with both at once. I do not believe in evolution, of course I don't. I do not believe we sprang from monkeys. But when I see a great many people I be lieve they are headed that way and that lhey will get there il they don't stop, I have a great deal more reaped for Nancy Hanks than I have foi Sullivan and Corbett. Nancy is a daisy-She can go in 2:40. Goc made her to go but two old flop eared mules can stand up in a loi and do as much as Sullivan am Corbett, knocking the filling ou of one another. I never go to horse races-no because I do not like to see then but because of the scrubby set th a is always there. Some rich men say when you g to them for money for a goo causo : Wait until I get fixed ! Fixed 1 Fixed when you are dead fixed for the fire ; fixed into a back log for the devil's sitting room ! "Country facts" are a scriptun animal and you need not be a: raid of it. There was an old farmer i North Georgia who said one da) "I am going to save ; I am goin ro lay up ; I am not going to 1 poor whon I get old and can work." And he did save $150,00 One day a neighbor went to s< him and said : "Brother, how a you off for moat?" I have got e: ough iu my smokehouse for th year, and until hog killing ne: year." he said, "and enough ho to kill then, and enough pigs kill the next year, but what I w do after that the Lord only know! Then he left the old foll< starving on three years' rations. A dude is a kind of wart on t devil's nose. You may sow corn and re corn, but sew dudes and dudir and you will reap only half thimble full of calf-foot jelly. Maj. Black says "money \ capita," but its "per pockota." I am afraid that wo preach( are affected by money. Of cou we don't work for money, but y stop our salaries, and we will qi Ah, ha! I believe in decision. You w sc ii pi ai P? se P> G H i I r< these fellows who think they^ill and think won't, but rather think they won't-10 cents a d?>zefc ?iike eggs in warm weather, and?of^the same reason. . i -' There was a darkey who haxl a mule, and he said he had io~|hicch him by tying him to a tree by his tail to keep him from going through his collar. You get after a great many ?peo pie and they lay it all on^dam Poor old Adaml Adam is too far off. Yon1; put two drops of water in the Atlantic ocean, and the poison gets mighty thin when it gets to tho other side. Adam is too far. It is our ?own devilment that is kicking ; up thunder. When the devil got Job's ?wife on his side begot a trump.card.. A mule kicked a negro 'o?; the head, and couldn't put his foot down. # . I have got a government job, keeping Sam Jones straight*. ' There are a lot of people* who like to say other people &T?BO{? headed when they are doi?g~jjgi They got the impressionism; their own heads. F I go into some churches ;her? tho preacher looks like, tom big monument and the people wat ike head stones and I go djm among them and I say "Sam Jf?s, you are among the dead." US PHILOSOPHIC. Men and money are two antaor> stic forces in this country. ? / Men and money are each sG* ng for the mastery with the cjcfs largely in favor of money. *. There is nothing sublimer t?!n man. There is nothing mre hurtful, more dwindling to mi hood than the misuse of money. David said to Solomon his si, L "Be thou strong and acquit tjjpr^ self a man." . j ?* Nine tenths of the people of he country are after money, and other tenth are after a g?od ti I would not give one grand $ for all the cotton that tyaPS isal)ig job to raise a Ban in this country. You say, "Every man has lis price." I don't believe that. Selfishness is the meanest thing on earth. Selfishness is the fist born of Avarice. There is not a good iastitution or enterprise born of God to-day but what is going begging from door to door. Cussin' is a very low-down type of a rascal. Sin is in the blood like a cancer. A man may stop cussin' 3n his tongue, but it will break Jut on his hand, and he will ge t tc steal ing. He who can eliminate selfihness and avarice from himself, is enabled to stand on top of ?very thing that ever ruined a man The grandest manhood and wo manhood is that which has for gotten self and is consecrated to the service of others. There is the stature of a wanan in New Orleans. She has her hair combed in the sweet, good old vay, down over her temples and she is holding out baskets of fruit and children are crowding around uer. She lived working for and helping the poor of New Orleans and when she died the bankers and the brok ers and the capitalists all came out in front of their offices and stood in the sun with their hats off while the funeral procession of her who was one of the grandest women in America went by. Convince a man in the church that he will reap two for one and he will plank clown. This country is running on th< dollar, and just as certain as Rom? fell because of a too greatly cen tralized military powtr, so certaii will the United States run into dts truction on silver dollars as wheele unless the course is changed. It is not how much money hav you, but how did you get it? am then which is most important, wha are you doing with it? A reckless fellow always want to fight. But a brave man wants ; victorv. There is a great deal c dii?. e between the two, An dog co ,et a fight. I can say dispassionstely thc my brother Tom Watson in thi district seemed at every point t say. "I want to fight." But m brother Blackr with noble courag seemed to say, "I want a victory And he got it. There isn't but one way to do thing and that is to do it. I like to see a man map out h course md stick to it and go it like tte train on the Georgia railroai, which goes on the course mapped out and sticks to it, and has net been to any other town but tbse on the rout since the road las been a road. ,Tie only absolutely unselfish ma; was Jesus Christ. Of all the sers of land in the world he did noistake off one acre, and say "tHs is mino." I Vhen a fellow mak?s up his mud lie never gets left. ifou may talk about a man beng intelligent. I have seen &uh men failures. '? But whenever y*i find him with a will he Bueeds. 'he will of man is that which is incommand of a man. - always did have contempt for D? of those fellows who is waiting fe environ to get hot. But I have rspect for the fellow who pounds 0 the iron until it ii hot. I al lays did have a conlempt for the dlow who is always waiting for >methmg to turn up, but,! have the rofoundest respect and amiration )r himwho tuns it up and dla it towhere he wants it. Get in a hurry, The obstacles ill get out of your way. 1 like a mau who believes in ossiblities. I believe in a Hard head and a >ft heart.-Augusta Chronicle. Rigrbt In Gov. Tillman's message we nd the following sentence: "A ;ople who do not respect their icestors cannot hope to be res eted by their posterity, and intiment at last is the mother of itroiotism." You are right, overnor. Tho editor of The! .'erald and News in ? -r0^11 al1 :t. TaborV the past summer, took' inch the~Tszwue position. Among ther things .we'said then? and ;peat now-: - "What we ?-ne?d" is ?ore. seritigiont ; ,more - of r^that felmfei^hiC?h^ gives.growth and ^^^fVho^^nd meerai heir services and their lives to heir country. The sum and sub ance of our politics now may be iftod down to but two sentiments -'somebody forever, and blast iverybodyj' "There can be nothing but langer to this country whee statesmanship is nothing but t ;raffic for office and the spoils oj )ffice," ect. We are glad that Gov. Tillmar agrees with us and is on the righ line in this sentiment.-Newberry Herald and News. A Monster Serpent. The largest serpent of which ac curate measurements have bee: tak>. n and noted was an anacond which Dr. Gardner found dead an suspended to a fork of a tree du: ing his travels in Mexico. It WJ dragged out into the open by tw honsos, and was found to measu: thirty-seven feet in length. Insk of it were found the bones ar flesh of a horse in a half-digeste state, and there was no doubt th it had swallowed the animal who] Dr. Gardner and other travelers si that anacondas, pythons and bo attain a length of over forty fei but there is no recorded instar, of one having been encounter longer than that which has be mentioned, though many perso have seen serpents alive whi they estimated to be of conside: bly larger size. South Carolina Sends a Negro Congress. The State Board of Canvass have declared Murray, neg elected to Congress over Geno Moise, white, from the Sevci District. As we understand, it \ not denied that the negro recer a majority of the votes. The c test was made against the ne and in favor of the white man, cause seme of the ballots y. three-sixteenths of an inch 1 than the size prescribed by 1 Otherwise, as we understand it, ballot was correct in every parti lar. The board did right in lending itself to such tricks would oust a political oppon upon the merest pretext, or cuse.-Press and Banner. No bettes- preparation for hair has ever been invented t Ayer's Hair Vigor. It restores ?rginal to faded and gray t imparts that natural gloss freshness, everyone so m admires. Its reputation ts w wide. THE DIVISION OF TEXAS. | A Good Opportunity to Secure) More Demo er tic Senator. The time has come when the people of Texas should favorably consider the division of the State into a number of commonwealth in accordance with the purpose entertained at the time of annexa tion. It was clearly seen at that time that the area of Texas was much [too great for a single State, that with increasing population, filling up regions widely separated and differing in climate, soil and pro ductions, a diversity of interests must arise inconsistent with that homogeneity of sentiment and policy which is supposed to under I lie State hood. Accordingly the joint resolution of March 1st, 1845, consenting to annexation, stipulated that "new States of convenient size, not ex ceeding four in number Jin addi tion to the said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereaftsr, by the consent of said 6tate, bs formed out of the I tetritory thereof." In brief, it was the intention in admitting Texas to make five States of it. The divison could not be made then because the territoiy was not yet sufficiently populated. Now that it is so the original purpose ought to be carried out. The area of Texas is 275,7#0 square miles. That of New York is 49,180. Texas could be divided into five States each ot which would be larger than New York by nearly four thousand square miles, or about the size of New York and Connecticut combined. And the f ofu^a^ eacl1 a population greater thrn that of any of the recently admitted States. Division ?B desirable for many Teasons. This great empire in area is entitled *Q, a larger voice than^n? State . is. allowed in .the i ^^^sllne nasiom It is verci ?,._J!J.'_----j xwpmwuwu-Wj~~uWO 1 Senators. With its rapidly in creasing population, the several parts have varying needs to state law and State policy which can be completely met only by the institution of several State govern ments. The creation of compacter States would .faciliate every wise project of improvement. The '.best interest of all concerned would be i .promoted, without question, by t division now. Every consideration that underlies our Federal system every reason that justifies the separate Statehood of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, is an argument in favor]of the division of Texas n into several States, a This desirable end cannot be accomplished without the consent of Texas, but there is no sound reason either of interest or senti ment why that consent should be whithheld. It will be the proudest day in the history of the State when it makes to the Union the magnificent present of four ney commonwealhs, represented in the Senate by eight new Senators while remaining itself a grea State of incalculable possibilitie in the matter of population wealtl and influence-New York World ir is 'O re le id id at [e. iy as at, ce od en ns ch ra to ors ;ro, ral Uh vas red on gro be ere ?ess aw. the cu not as :ent ex the han the lair, and uch orld Animal Failings. "Some animals exhibit a quee lack of sense," says a man who ha observed them. "Put a buzzard i a pen about six feet square an open at the top, and it is as muc a prisoner as though, it was shu up in a box. This is becauf buzzards always begin thei flight by taking a short run, au they either cannot or will n< attempt to fly unless they can <3 so. Again, take a common bun ble bee, and put it in a goble It will remain a prisoner for hou trying to escape throngh the side without ever thinking of escaph from the top. So also a bat cann rise from a'perfectly level surfac Although it is remarkable nimb in its flight when once on t] wing, and can fly for mai hours at a time without taki] the least rest, if placed on t floor or flat ground it is absolute unable to USG its wingrf. The on thing it can do is to shui helplessly and painfully alo until it reaches some trifli elevation, from which it can thn itself into the air, when at ouoe is off like a flash. The official voto for Gov. Ti man in the recent State electi was 56,673. A TALK ABOUT SNAKES. How Rattlers and Other Poi sonous Reptiles-Attack People My only rattlesnake was caugh alive by a young girl who ha< that summer killed eleven on he: farm in California. This snak< has five rattles, which, if w< believe they denote the age, wil show that he is five years old Drawin believed that the rattle besides being used as a warning tc keep off the makes' enemies sometimes is employed to cal] their mates. The heads of most of i the venomous snakes, including .the "rattlers," bulge just beyond the aeck. Without exception they have fangs, either always erect 01 raised and laid back at will. These fangs are long, sharp pointed teeth srith a hollow groove running theil mtire length. At the root of each fang is a little bag of poison. WheE the snake bites the motion press?e the poison sac and its contents low down through the hollow in ;he tooth into the puncture or found. The harmless little forked ?ngue is eften spoken of by the minformed as the snake's stinger." tfow, there is no propriety in the mme, as the poisonous snakes do mt sting, but bite, their victims. There is no creature, even if Drought from foreign countries vhere "rattlers" do not exist, but viii halt and tremble at the first varning sound of the rattle. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, with others ias boen making experiments with he venom of different serpents. 3e has found that, aside from its )oisonous qualities, it contains iving germs, which have j the TO lu DO J UU ou^y li "WM .?**- ????'?! "1 ritten, those tiny bits of life* intering with the poison, cause aarmful action to begin almost at once, Dr. Mitchell has found that the nervous center controlling the act of striking seems to be ir the spinal cord, for if he cut off i anny's headband., then pinchec ruB^rttir, nie" atump O? ita lic^i turned back, and would have strucl his hand had he been bold enpugl to hold it still. , When a snake has bitten severs times, the poison is quite exhaustei for the time being, rendering th animal comparatively harmless. 1 is said to be this fact whic .nahlea the Indian snaks.charmei to handle their charges witfcor dsngsr. They tease them int anger, when they will readily bil stick or bundle of rags, and f exhaust their venom. There are 4909 Johnsons in Ch ago and only 4200 Smiths. No man is pure in his heart wi is not pure in his politics. The saloons of London if set sh by side would reach a distance 75 miles. Married couples in Norway a privileged to ride on railroads a fare and a half. There are four States, Wiscone Nevada, Minnesota and Californ in which a majority of the voti are foreign born. Tommy.-Pa, may I ask you question? Pa-Certainly, my chi Tomm -Well, where is the wi when it doesn't blow? Trouble and kin and cats about the only things a man ( have that other people don't to get away from him. 3fi ir d 5t lo 1 lt. rs lg ot !6, Je be iy og he ly Iv fie ng ng 3n it on No other remedy is so reliai in cases of sudden colds, or cau? or for any and all derangemti of the throat and lungs, as Ay Cherry Pectoral. This wondeJ medicine affords great rebel consumption, even in the advan stages of that dieases. Maj. Ernest Gary, who has b elected Judge, is a young man, a lawyer of sixteen years' pract and we believe will fill the p' with credit to himself and State. The Herald and N extends its congratulations.-IS berry Herald and Nows. This is a great State. A *\ bear was killed in Spartanl County last week, an eagle mea ing 6 feet 5 inches from tij. Laurens County and a pel measuring 6 feet 3 inches fron to tip in Greenville County. 5,000 lbs. Bacon sides and si Bacon strips 7?c by hundre 600 lbs. Kingan Hams, at E. J. NORRIS Remember we don't claim 1 it all, but we know that our p and our quality in goods can' matched in this market. J. M. Coi TO EXPEL SCROFULA from the system, take MERS Sarsaparilla the standard blood-purifier and tonic. It Cures Others will eyre you. Fair Notice. FORBID any person hunting or otherwise trespassing on my lands. Any such trespassers WJII be dealt with according to law. t LUKE CULBBEATH. Notice. County Shaw' and McKie?s'rrifl 1 f'or'the"pur pose of letting the .contract to keep the ferry at that place. Contractor required to give justified bond of $300, for the faithful performance of his duty. Commissioners reserve the ri?-ht to reject any dr all bids. J. & WHITE. GEO. E. DOBX, M. A. WHITTLE, Commissioners. Crayon, IMA aiid Oil PORTRAITS made at prices to suit the times. j Childrens' Photographs a specialty. ?0 The Photographs now made I WILL NOT TURN YELLOW. _ R. H. MIMS. ?4* ? fe v ll Edgefield, S. C. : Six Creal Leaders ! i_ i[$2.00, "$'2.50, $3.00 CENTS SHOE. $1.50, $2.00, $2,50 it LADIES SHOES. Every Pi Warr Of 24 dozen pairs of these goods eold last season-only 2 pairs have ,0 been returned for repairs. This record cannot be beaten by any shoe dealer in the State. When you want a GOOD Shoe go to ? J, M. COBB, ? doM, ' S?OBS, * Hats, ?-AND- ; re at in ia, 3rs . a ld. nd are ;an try is'* ? ble, [hs, nts er's rful fin ced Our Clothing Establishment is full and com plete with all gradef, from a very cheap ?uh t<> the very best custom made (roods. It has been our desire to establish a Kirst-Chtss Clothing House in Edjrcfield. and we are doinir it. Our goods have been selected with eure and vre can make prices to suit the times. We make Cloth ing, Shoes, Hats, and Gents' Furnishing Goods specialties, and therefore we can do better for you than one who sells everything. We buy our goods from the very largest manufacturen! and in large quantities, and pav cash for them, thus we are enabled to sell goods cheaper than else where. We can show you a line of fine good? that you can get only in" large cities. Men's suits that we sold last season for $12.5". we now sell for $10. Suits that are worth $?$, we are selling at $15. Children's double-breasted suits for S1.25, worth $2, and full line of all the better grades. A lar^e stock of Rubber goods <>f the vciy best quality, to be sold cheap. Gr DC IS OT S 9 * HATS ' A full and complete stock of Hats for boys and men. All the latest styles at very low price*. een but ;ice, lace the ews 1OW frila )urg sur > in ican 1 tip :nps >d, '8. JO do rices t be 3B. SHOES. We have the largest shoe stock ever shown in Edgefield. We look specially after this depart ment of our business, and know that \yc can .-.at i.f T any on? an to ?trie and price. We can nell you a Ladies' Dress'Shoe, nicely made, buttoned or laced, for %U Shoes ar? thc only goods we have for ladies, and wc are always triad to have the ladies call and look at our shoes, as wc feel confident that weean please them in our immense shoe department. All grade- of shoes for children, misses, ladies, and men, very cheap. ISKLXR/TS! SHIRTS I In lauadried and unlaundried, in all sixes and perfect lits. A first-class unlaundried .birt, re enforced back and front, good linen bosom,and made of real good homespun, for 50c. An im menie stock ot Negligee shirts, from very cheap ones to th? verr best quality. Large quantity of Harris wire buckle Suspend ers, the best that are made, very cheap. Gents' Undervests. Kuli assortment-very reasonable. A complete assortment of beautiful handker ! chiefs. Kuli stock of Hosiery and Gloves. C :R,-?L V.A.TS. We carry a line of these goods that you do not find in HUI Al 1 towns. They are made up for us in all the latest shades and styles. Can show you the prettiest line of these goods ever brought to this town. A very largestockof Trunks,Satchels, Valises aad Umbrellas at low prices. It is impossible to give much idea of our stock in aa advertisement, but when you^ need any thing in onr line, come to see us. We can show a large, first-class stock, from which to make your selections, and there is no reason whv we can't sell you cheaper than Anjrusta, and we will do it. D3L 33. &c CO. Edgefield, S. C., Sept. 27, 1S0J. 25 bushels Seed Wheat, 20 bushels Seed Barley, 15 bushels Seed Rye, at E. J. NORRIE'S. 1 car V ra. Salt, 65c por sack, at E. J. Nonius's.