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aas finally decided make a contest in the .oventh District, hut will let Mur ray go ia without opposition. C2> ^rtiser EDITOR. .892 If the State is to be xe-districted let each of the seven districts in the State have a small alice of the present seventh district. This is Governor Tillman's idea and it is a good one. Jay Gould is dead ; and it is sad to say, but true, that his death gives general satisfaction, The old . Latin maxim, "Say nothing but good of the dead," has no place here. lt is meant for . men in pri vate life-not for historic charac ters. The man of many millions! vis as poor to-day as the poorest| man on earth. Outside his im mediate family, nobody regrets his death. In all the newspapers we . have seen not a single word of I praise of Jay Gould, There's none so poor to do him reverei.ce;-New berry Obsever. If our esteemed contemporary | had known that Jay Gould gave $250,000 to the Cleveland campiagn fund, that he gave $10,000last year to missions, that he gave his daughter $2,000 to be. approper ated to the same work, that he kissed his sons every night before retiring even though they have long since grown to man's estate, perhaps he would not have said these harsh things. COTTON SEEl>FOR HORSES. A writer in the Southern farm has experimented with cotton seed hulls as a food for horses, and gives the following as his experien ces and purposes : Having found them such an. ex cellent food for cattle and knowing that cotton seed meal is being fed to some extent to horses, I reasoned th-Bt hulls ought also to be good for horses. So I procured some corn meal, and by mixing only a very small quantity of cotton seed meal,-succeeded in making them eat it. The quantity of hulls and meal was iucrased gradually until each animal consumed about three pounds of meal and considerable hulls. The oil mills have started up again and I will commence right away to feed hulls and 'meal to my horse stock. I never succeeded in getting them to ,eat hulls and meal without mixing with other food, and do not know whether a well fed animal can be made to do so or not. I will feed it as largely asl can. It will very much lessen the expense of horse feeding. Eight cents a day in hulls and meal will keep a thousand pound work-ox fat. We find horses and oxen in their natural state eating the same kinds of food. What difference can oxist between the digestive .-organs of the two animals, that one can thrive on a food unsuited to the other? I am sure that the horses and mules that work the cotton fields of the South will eventually be fed largely on cotton seed. COTTON CROP AND PRICES. _i Alford ShepperBon, the noted cotton statistician, estimates the cotton crop of 1S92 at 8,500,000 bales-this he considers the maximum, and says these figures may be reduced considerably. Of the prices he speaks as follows : "For two seasons very low prices | have ruled, lower than most meuj have ever seen. They were caused by the pr?sure of the enormous] stocks in the world,' resulting from our two immense crops of 1890-91 and 1891-2. On Sept. 1 middling upland cotton was worth here 71-8 c. On the 24th of September it advanced to 7 5-8c" and continued to advance until 10 cents was reached November 25. There has since been a recession of 1-4 cent which was due largely to the pur chases of futures by merchant and capitalists as fair speculation. They saw the price of the great staple was lower than for a generation, and probably below the cost of production. They realized that the growing crop would be a short one, for the very air was full of such indications, and bought futures freely. Spot cotton followed the advance iu futures. Spiners contributed very little to the advance. Our mills hold large stocks of cotton, having bought during the two previous season considrable more cotton than they consumed. They were generally, therefore, in condition to keep out of an advancing | market, and did so. To date they have taken from the crop 330,000 bales less than for the corresponding time last season. Neither have European spinners helped in creating the ad vance. Speculations always anti cipates results. The conditions affecting values of staples are discounted long in the advance. Several months ago I had said in a letter which got into print that the crop would bo a short one and when the public reached the conclusion that it might not exceed 8,000,000 bales they would ?>ot wait for the last bale to be counted, but would put prices up at once. Exactly this thing has happened, American spinner and European spinner who have to buy ere long and purchases would bxs a great support to the market." REFUNDING THE DEBT. The most1 important measure that has been introduced during the present session of the Legisla ture is the hill for the refunding of the State debt. This hill was sent in by Gov. Tillman himself, accompanied by a message, on last Friday. The following ?B the message : The refunding of the Brown Consuls which fall due next July is the most important question with which the State government has to deal at this time. As you know, our predecessors in office provided for the issue of 4 per cent bonds tobe exchanged for 6 per cents., but up to the end of the fiscal year, October 31st, only $33, 726 of the fours have been issued under this act, and our efforts to place the new bonds in New York at a satisfactory price failed. It is not hard to give the reasons for this and show what acts of the State government in the past, and what men and intertests at this time, are in combination to pre vent the State placing her bonds at that rate of interest. Suffice it to say that it cannot be done and we must meet the emergency that has arisen by such action as will maintain our credit and build it up till South Carolina can borrow money at as low rate of interest as any of her sister States. The State could have placed the 4 per cent, bonds at par in spite of the errors of the past had her own capitalists lent their aid. We can place 4? without their help if the General Assembly will provide a singing fund with "which to begin the gradual annual payment of the debt and mortgage the phosphate beds as collateral. . After a careful consideration of the matteG???iv?qon8ultat?Qn with the State lV&a$ur?r- and the chair man of the finance committee of both houses, a bill has been pre pared, which I submit herewith, that will enablo us to meet our ob ligations at maturity, and sb build up our credit as to refund the debt in twonty years at as low rate as any State can obtain. The practical result of this scheme will be : First. That the interest charges to. be met annually will be, say $80,000 less, but this sum will not go to the reduction of taxes, but nearly all of it to the payment and reduction of the debt itself. Second. That this will, in my judgment, enable us in twenty years to float a three or three and a half bond, so that in the long run the total amount saved will be more than if we now placed a forty-five year 4 per cent. bond. As the bill itself will explain the whole in detail, and the reasons must appear to any intelligent mind, I submit it to you without further argument or comment, and urge its passage as soon as possi ble. The first section of this bill provides that the State Treasurer shall cause to be prepared a suffi ciency of bonds and certificates of the denominations of $500 and $1,000, bearing 4? per cent..inter est per annum, to take up the pres ent outstanding bonds which bear 6 per cent. Section second provides that these bonds and certificates "hall become payable at the end of forty years, but the State reserves the right to call them in at the end of twenty years. Section third provides for the cancellation of the old bonds when surrendered. Section fourth provides that the coupons on the 4? per cent, issues shall be receivable for taxes. Section five provides that the revenue of the State arising from royalty on the phosphate beds to the amount of $37,500 shall semi annually be set apart as a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds and certificates. Section six provides for the sell ing by the government of the issue of bonds herein provided for. Section seven provides for can cellation. Section eight provides for the exchange of the new for the old bonds. These bonds are all free from taxation. This bill, of which we only give a synopsis here, has been reported upon favorably by the committee on finance. A Good Election Story. The Philadelphia Times says. One of the tersest and best of the election stories is related by Chairman Carter, of the national committee. "It was getting rather late in the evening of election day, he said, and we were anxious to hear something def?nate from one of the most important districts of Indiana, which had not reported for several days. I telegraphed over my own signature to the leader of the district: "I have had no news from you. Please let me hear at once and report fully. Send me 100 lines or so on tho actual state of affairs." In about an hoar 1 got his reply. It read; "We have all gone to h?~l out here, and it don'i take any hun dred lines to tell it, either." Omaha Herald, Posthumous Words From A Pet rified man. It was diseovered on Wedneday that the right hand of the petrified man lately found at Chadron gras ! ped a small iron box, which was removed by means of cold chisel and pried open. In it was^found a stange manuscript, apparently faded, and it was was decipheared only by long and patient effort. It was writen in the old English style. The following extract, reduced to modern English, is but a small portion of the document but it gives an insight to the canses leading to the death of the man : 'Only a few years I was considered a sound and healthy man, and believed myself to be one. But one evil day my wife wrapped my lunch in an old newspaper which we had brought with us from England, and at noon, while eating I commenced reading an adver tisement which stated that when j one experenced ringing in the ears, that tired feeling, dizziness, distress after eating, shootinig pains in the left lung, dimness of vision, and palpitation of the jlarnyx, it was a sign that the subtle shafts of diseas had attacked him, and that his only hope of avoiding -an early grave was by taking Dr. Hankum's Cold Handled Pills according to the directions on the box. Imagine my grief and consternation I I had experienced all those symptoms and the crushing fact came home to me that I would soon" be a pallid corpse unless I secured some of Dr. Hankum's Pills. "But how was I to get them? I was a poor man ; but my wife had a few trinkets, heirlooms they were, and so I rushed homo and explained matters to her. She would't believe that I was seriously ill, but at last consented tc sell the trinkets, and with the proceeds I bough^ the pile. Of course I ceased work : a sick man cannot toil and we grew poorer and poorer, until there was nothing to eat in the house. I sold the house to buy more pills and some of the doctor's Extract of Red Elm, but I kept growing worse, and my wife left me and went to her parents, and I finally became a physical wreck with a craving for pills which nothing oould appease. Now thst I can purchase no more pills I am about lo commit suicide, for life without them is unedurable. "Ah, mel Had I never read that advertisment I might now be well and strong with my loving friends about me. Reader (if this ever finds a reader), if there ie a ringing in your ears, let her ring 1 If you have shooting pams in yonr ! lungs, let 'em shoot ! Worry not over that tired feeling or distress after eating ! And beware of Dr. Hankum's Extract of Red Elm!" The Wild cats are Coming. From the days of Judea it has beeen the policy of the money changers to favor the circulation of various sorts of money used for different purposes, and varying monetary values. The Jewish shekels were good for taxes and tribute; the Roman money was not. One was legal tender for religous purposes in Jerusalem ; the other was good for payments to Caesar. Each in its turn was scarce or plentiful valuable or less valuable, as the quality and urgency of the de mands varied. These variations gave to the money changers their opportunities. On the approach of the Jewish tax-paying time the money changers promply and providently bought-up the Jewish shekels, and afterwards placed them in the Temple for sale to the taxpayers at a premiun. It was this wicked scheme which so enraged the "Man of Peace." The "Man of tears and acquainted with grief." The Man who was more han man, whose great heart melted at sight of wrong and in human suffering. The man who on no other occasionMwas ever known to exhibit jj legion of anger. When ?x^^^e in human wretr oney changers -y. on shekels and a co, and oxen and doves, t. jul of the Savior of men wa. od with anger, and with ,'a cat-o'-nine tails," or words to that effect with a fashion sf scourge used only on slaves-He drovo the money changers-the hyenas of finance from the Temple, saying : "It is written, My house is'the house of prayer ; but ye have made it a den of theives!" On no other occasion did the Son of God on earth become angry and inflict phyiscal violence on bis enemies. This proves most conclusively that on no other occasion did He meet with so great and so merciless a crime as is the robbery of the worthy poor though the schemes of thc pirates of finance when gambling in money and other necessities of the people in the hour of their nee?.^-Joh n Davis M. C. jOW-Necks Or Sallow-Tails. TOPEKA, KAN, December 6.-It had been proposed by ,the people here to have'an inaugural ball when Governor-elect Lewelling was placed in office, but the Gov ernor opposed it, and a mass meeting oj Populists called to decide upon the inaugural ceremmoni^s adopted "these resolu tions last night, : Resolved. That the recent political victory was won by, the plain people of Kansas and ' was a victory against mammon worship in all its forms; was, in truth, but one battle in the irrepressible conflict between the people and all that greed which finds its most luring exponent in society, with its ostentatious display of power to spend money for trifles while those who have earned it starve: inaugural ceremonies carried on by the fashionable society and under its ostentation of dress and expense would be exceedingly inappropriate and highly distasteful to- all friends of genuine social and' political reform ; and, further. Resolved That the people of Kansas, who elected the new State officers, cannot look but with anxiety upon any indication that the officers have submitted to the allurements of that fashionable society which represents all the enemies of the common people and based upon wealth gained by monopoly constitute a dangerous lobby about the officials it may secure in its meshes ; therefore. Resolved. That we'are opposed lo any ball as a part of the cere monies of inauguration. Frank Herald,a Populist legis lator, said he had just come from an interview-with Mrs Lease, and that she favored a countay danced but was "dead set" against any low-neck and swallow-tail affair. This announcement was applau ded. Travel In tho East. How wonderful ami over present is the contrast in eastern travel to ail life and movemeut at home. No heavy carts and lumbering wagons jolt to and fro betweeu the farmyard and the fields. No light vehicles and swift equipages dash past ou macadamized roads. Alas! there are no roads-and if no roads, how much less any vehicles or wagons. Thatched roofs and tiled cottages, lanes and hedgerows and trim fields, rivers coursing between full banks, beyond all the roar and sudden Bmoky rush of the train-these might not exist in the world at all, and do not exist in the world of the Persian, straitened and stunted, but inexpressibly tranquil in his existence. Here all is movement and bustle, flux and speed; there everything is imper turbable, immemorial, immutable, slow. -"Persia and the Persian Question. " ? --JL- w A Boy Prima Donna. First Boy-You ought to come to the concert our music teacher is goin to give. Second Boy-You goin to be in? "Yep. Tm one of the primmer don nas. We're goin to give a cantata*." "Wot's that?" "Oh, it's all about sunshine and storms and picnics and harvesters and all sorts of country things. It's great. " "Do you sing all that?" "N-o. Tm only in the first scene, .Early Mornin on th' Farm.' " "Wot do you do?" "I crow."-Good News. The glowworm lays eggs which, it is said, are themselves luminous. How ever, the young hatched from them are not possessed of those peculiar proper ties until after the first transformation. Elk hunters in western Washington are so insatiate in their greed for antlers and skins that the extermination of the elk in the forests of that section of the state is greatly feared. Six brothers of the Frost family at Kansas City own the following odd lot of nameB: Jack Frost, Winter Frost, White Frost, Cold Frost, Early Frost I and Snow Frost. ^.t Dundenong, Australia, there is a blue gum tree which has an estimated height of 4?0 feet. It is behoved to be the tallest tree in the world. General Philip Kearny left an arm in Mexico, ard was known among his A NEW WHEEL! l^ijoV^THE DIAMOND ^C^RAMBLER No. 3 FITTED WITH THE CELEBRATED G & J PNEUMATIC TIRES. THE FA?TEST WHEEL 80LD. 7 Speed, Comfort and Beaury All Combined. ^ >. 8end for IUuetrated Catalogue, V S GORMULLY & JEFFERY MF'Q CO., 2 fr WASHINGTON, 1). O. ? Notice of Final Discharge and Settlement. NOTICE is hereby given that the un dersigned will make a final settle ! ment in the Probate Office for Edge I field county on the estate of Robert Jennings, deceased, on the 4th and 6th days of January, A. D. 1893, and will, on said day, apply for a final discharge from said estate. W. D. JENNINGS, Sr., and J. H. JENNINGS, Executors of Robt Jennings, dee'd. BEEF MARKET From and after this date I will be prepared to .supply the public with all kinds of fresh meat, such as : Beef, Pork, ]VE litton, Sausage, Etc. Stall in rear of L. E. Jackson's store W. L. LEWIS. Don't fail to bay your bill of Shoes from J. M. Cobb while at tending Court. Edgefield's Head quarters for Good Shoes. Brown Cotton Gins L Tin Toilet Sets, ol w. I GEO. W. Cotton Commie A ? 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Thccxqul eite reproduction.? of tills great oit painting of Ida Waugh <tiio mo t celebrated of modern painters of baby lire uro to bc giren to those who :-u!^oribc to Du'iurcct's Family Maga zine for 1301. Thc reproductions cannot be told from tho origin::', which cost StOO, and are thc same siz.i tlTx?2 inches). Tho baby is ? life size, and absolutely lifelike We have ! also in preparation, to present to our sub- ? Bcribers dining ISM, other gi cat pictures by I such artiste ns Percy Moran, Maud Humphrey, Louis Deschamps, end others of world-wide renown. Tako only t-.*o examples of what we did during tho past year, "A Yard of Pan sies," and "A White House Orchid" by the wife of President Harrison, and you will seo what our promises mean. 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HARPER'S MAGAZINE for 1893 will continue to maintain the ivalled standard of excellence whici 1 char acterized it from the beginning, Among the notable features of the year there will be new novels by A. Conan Doyle, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and William Black. Short stories will be contributed by the most popular writers of the day, including Mary E. Wilkins, Kichard Harding Davis, Margaret Deland, Brander Matthews, and many others. The illus trated descriptive papers will embrace articles by Julian Ralph on new South ern and Western subjects; by Theo dore Child on India; by Poultney Bigelow on Russia and Germany; by Richard Harding Davis on a London Season ; by Col. T. A. Dodge on East ern Riders; etc. Edwin A. Abner's illustrations of Shakespeare's Come dies will be continued. Literary arti cles will be contributed by Charles Elliot Norton, Mrs James T. Fields, William Dean Howells, Brander Matthews, and others. HAEPEE'S PEEIODICALS. PER YEAR : HARPER'S MAGAZINE.$4 00 HARPER'S WEEKLY. 4 00 HARPER'S BAZAR. 4 00 HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.; 2 00 Postage free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The volumes of the MAGAZINE begin with the numbers for June and Decem ber of each year. When no time is mentioned, subscriptions will begin with the number current at the time of receipt of order. Bound volumes of HARPER'S MAGAZINE for three, years back, in neat cloth binding, will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of $3 00 per volume. Cloth cases, for bind ing, 50 cents each-by mail, post-paid Remittances should be made by Post office Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance of loss. Newspapers are not to copy this ad vertisement without the express order of Harper ?fc Brothers. Address: HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. W. L DOUGLAS S3 SHOE CENTLEWIEN And other specialties for Gentlemen, Ladles, Boys and Misses oro the Best ir; the World. Seo jriptlvo ftdvertl** mr ' Ach will appear In f> per. .0 no Substitute, 'it insist on having W. L. DOUGLAS' SHOES, with nome and prlco stomped oa bottom. Sold by COBB, EDG-EFIELD, S. C. Notice of Application for Homestead. "M"0TICE is hereby given to all concerned, that Lucy Adams, the widow of William Adams, has filed her petition in this Court praying that Homstead may be as signed to her as prescribed bylaw. I will pass on the same on the 30th day of December, 1892. W. F. ROATH, Master E. C. ' i Har: I Cultiv ! Pie ? Sho^ I F1 O 2 Selling the above cheap to make F . S T R CRANE, sion Merchant, rA, GA. I would beg to offer my services for r commission will be 60? per bale. This time storage will be charged 15? per giving satisfaction, with fair weights Close storage. I remain yours truly, 3-BQ. W. QKiAJ?IE. Save Money by purchasing your trees and plants from us. 250 Acres in Fruit Nursery. 1 Acre under Glass. EVERYTHING for the Orchard and Garden. Largest stock in the South. We make a specialty of growing .; trees, plants, etc., especially adapted to the South ern States. Catalogue mailed free. Address, P.J. BERCKMANS, Fruitland Nurseries, Established in 1856. A.TJ"(3-TJST-A.7 - <3\A.. vc: - TO GO TO - Miss SARAH ZINN'S - FOR ALT. KINDS OF - - AND - Christmas Goods Candies, and all things Attractive. Stamping and Pinking done at short notice. 539 Broad Street, - AUGUSTA, GA. GEO. R LAKE, RE^L ESTATE - AND - ; INSURANCE A6T, Old overeat Di Melt House Painting; Paper Hanging, Kalsoming, * .?ne in first-class Style, by M. M. PAUL, EDGEFIELD, S. C. Sole Agent for the Celebrated "[Ik" Band Hats, MTd by C.\E. Gardner ?fe Co., Philadelphia. We can give you the latest styles and best quality in these goods realizing the importance of selling a Good Hat we ?will hereafter devote especial attention to this department. Call on us. J. M. COBB . 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A full stock of Tanti B^JSTAJLSTJLS, COCOA3STTTTS, Figs, Dates, Prunes, Mince Meat, And other nice things too numerous to mention. I) O S CHER .& CO FANCY OR o CE: RS - 606 Broad Street,-.Augusta, G-a - DEALERS IN - VEHICLES of all Kinds. HARNESS AND SADDLES iTKM'n KK. COFFINS. -AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED WORLD RENOWNED MO WERS AND REAPERS Ramsey cfc Bland, EDGEFIELD and JOHNSTON. ing Co. HAMBURG, S. C. This company has just organized and commenced business. "We offer Brick at Augusta Prices. As good and as cheap as can be found in the country anywhere Carter & Jackson. V. A. HEMSTR E T & BRO., g Goods of Every Highest Grade of Fishing Tackle. 5sl Broad. Street, Augusta, ? G- a. ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. /. C. LEVY & CO., TAILOR-FIT CLOTHIERS, AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA Have now in store their entire FALL AND WINTER STOCK OF CLOTHING. The largest stock ever shown in Augusta. We aim to carry goods which are not only intrinsically good, but which also, in pattern, style, and finish, gratify a cultivated and discriminating taste, and at the same time, we aim to make our prices so low the closest buyers will be our steadiest customers Polite attention to all. A call will be appreciated. I. C. LEVY & CO., TAILOR-FIT CLOTHIERS, AUGUSTA, GA./ THE FARMERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BX?K; OF EDGEFIELD. ~ SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL, PAID UP^ " $62,500 42,276 DIRECTORS: A. J. NORRIS, W. H. TIMMERMAN, W. H. FOLK, J. H. EDWARDS, N. A. BATES, . W. R. PARKS, W.F. ROATH, . T. A. PITTS, A.E.PADGETT, OFFICERS: A. J. NORRIS, President. W. H. TIMMERMAN, vice-President, A. E. PADGETT, Cashier, FOLK & FOLK, Attorneys. TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. SAYIHGS DEPARTMENT: Interest allowed on deposits in the Savings Department at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum-when allowed to remain six months or longer-computed July and January. Any amounts received on de posit in the Savings Department, from 10 cents upwards. aprl