Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Edge?eld'?dvertiser rUOS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1893 The South Car >lina railroad will be sold Ayril 11th._ Spartanburg and Greenville will soon be connected by telephone. The railroad cases will come np in the Supreme Court of the United States nest Monday. It is not believed now that the N World's Fair will be ready for opening on May 1st. A negro was sold in Missouri the other day for twenty dollars. Cheaper than they used to be. The Grand Lodge Knights of Honor of South Carolina, will meet in Orangeburg April 19th. Senator George, of Mississippi, says that cotton will never again be high enough to rely upon 'o buy bread and moat. Massachusetts is moving in the matter of having a dispensary law similar to that recently passed by our legislature. The State Medical Association will meet in Sumter the third Wednesday in April, and prepara tions are already in progress to give the visitors a royal time. Mr. Cleveland has sent ex-Con gressman Blount, of Georgia, over to the Hawaii Islands to look into matters over there and see if it will be desirable to annex those Islands to the United States. South Carolina will be entitled to one-third class mission and two consulates. It is said that Calwell of Newberry, will get the missior and Gonzales, editor of the Colum bia State, will get a consulate. There's a big boom in *he phos phate business in South Carolina For the month of February $44, 607^8 has been received in royal ties by the state-$9000 more thai was received for the same monti last year. President Cleveland has d?cid?e tag^ydlBi ^?^Tor^ur? fita session, being to repeal the Mc Kinley tariff, bill, lt is not prob able, however, that Congress wil confine itself to this repeal, bu will doubtless consider and adop other important measures. Gov. Tillman has closed a con tract with a firm in Augusta t< make bottles and flasks for th< dispensaries. Thc jugs will b< obtained from a firm near Trentor in this county. It is suggestec that animts 02yibu$qite 2>arati bi blown into one side of the flaske and dum spiro spero, on the other. The Kansas legislature has de clared all contracts void that re quire gold in payment. This is ac far to one extreme as the legal ten der decision of the Supreme Court of the United States was to the other. This decision required gold payment for United States bonds that were originally payable in gold or silver. The true rule would seem to be that all obligations should be redeemed in gold, silver, or paper currency at the option, of the obligor. The New York Sun, which for weeks past has been devoting its undoubted powers of ridicule to the Georgia office-seeker, whose name is legion, devotes a poetic tribute under the title "Mr. Stand Hope Potsdam Sams" to Mr. Stan hope Sams, an applicant for min ister to Persia, of which the fol lowing is the opening verse : Quoth the Shah at Teheran, Laying down his "KJmbla Khan ;" ''Great GcewhiJlkins, what's that? Do I know where I am at? Can it be we'll entertain, As the crowning of our reign, This most distinguished of hizams, Mr. Stand Hope.Potsdam Stuns!" Charleslbn Sum. The British Government of India offers large rewards for the produc tion of designs and models best adapted for mule carts for trans port and use of the British army in India, and the competition is open to all nations. The first prize is 750 pounds sterling, or about $3,720. The second prize is 500 pounds sterl ing, or about $2,000. The third prize is 375 pounds sterling, or about $1.875. The fourth prize is 250 pounds sterling, or about $1,250. The fifth prize is 125 pounds sterling, or about $625. The premiums will bo awarded by the quartermaster general of the army in India, and five other officers and experts selected by the Gov ernment. S juld any one in South Carolina desire to compete, they will be fur nished with full information and sp?cifications by Mr. James Sprunt, British Vice Consul at Wilming ton, N. C. Women now vote for minor elec tive offices in twenty States and three Territories. Secretary Carlisle is the only member of the new cabinet who is not a college-bred man. Col. J. P. Thomas's history of the Citadel is being bound, and will soon be ready for delivery. It is estimated that there are 15,000 office-seekers in Washing ton, and the rush is still going on. It looks as if Col. Wm. Wallace will be appointed postmaster at Columbia. Congressman Shell is for him._ The defalcations of Redwine, the gav cashier of the Gate City Bank,"Atlanta, foot up $100,000. He is still in jail. The State Sunday School con vention meets in Abbeville on the 4th to 6th of April. Distinguished speakers will be present. The average Washington office seeker's experience might be sum med up as follows : "I came, I saw -and the next day it snowed." Converse College at Spartanburg will be dedicated on April 21st. Senator Gordon of Georgia will deliver the address of the day. The Columbia Journal rises to remark that, the sea-cow must be gentle for no one has ever heard of her kicking over the milking pail. _ The Wilmington Messenger's Washington dispatches state that the consulship to Rio Janeiro has been virtually givm to Editor N. G. Gonzales. The South Carolina College has secured the services of Professor Rayhill, the noted elocutionist, who will begin soon a regular course of instruction on elocution. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell is chopping off Republican heads in great Bhape. He has so far removed seventy-one fourth-class postmasters. Let the good work progress, advance, go on. The statement is made tbat there j_ GXLm a-u--i. eolds of greater or leis severity re sulting from exposure during the inauguration ceremonies and at tendant festivities. "From all sections of the South ern cottonbelt," says the Philadel phia Record, come reports of a largely increased cotton acreage j and it looks as if the farmers were determined to hr.ve five cent cot ton again, even if they should be the only sufferers by it. Mean while these farmers, who have failed to profit by experience, are exchanging two pounds of cotton for one pound of Western meat, aud are even buying large quanti ties of Northern and Western hay. I What fools these particular mor tals be! This is an outside view of the situation it is true, but it fits without a winkle." The New York Sun has the fol lowing to say of the controlling in fluence of the South in Congress and it is the vote of this section, beyond any question that made Cleveland President : "Of the 45 Democratic United States Senators, 30are from South ern States and 15 from the Eastern, Western, N?w England, Pacific and Northwestern St ates. There is not a Republican Senator from any one of the fifteen States of the South. If there were a Southern Republican in the Senate the Democracy would now be without a working majority in that body; if there were two Republican or Populist Senators from the South the Democrats would be in a minority. The new Senate is com posed of 45 Democrats, 39 Repub Heans, and 4 Populists, all of the atter being chosen fr-jm the West ern States. "The new House of Representa tives, when organized, will consist of 213 DQnocrats, 131 Republicans, and 12 Populists, the latter all hailing from Western States. At the late election 126 Congressmen were chosen in Southern States. Of these 120 were Democrats and 6 Republicans. Excluding the States of the South from the com putation, the next House of Rep resentatives would consist of 126 Republicans, 103 Democrats, and 12 Populists. "The decisive influence of the votes of the Southern States in the determination of the Presidency is already well known. Mr. Cleve land received 277 electoral votes, of which the South contributed 153. Outside of that section Mr. Harrison's electoral vote was 145, Mr. Cleveland's 124, and Gen. Weaver's 12. Nor can we examine the popular vote without arriving at the same conclusion, namely, that the solidity of the Democratic South was a determining force in deciding the election ; for, exclu sive of the Southern States, Mr. Henson's majority over Mr. Cleveland was 447,000." If there was one "original Cle and editor" in South Carol: ?vho we thought had turned Face as flint against the seeking in office, that editor was N. Gonzales, of the State, but ?ewe from Wafhington says wants a consulate, and now we ?itting in the midst of another [>ur shattered idols - The Oran burg Times. CHUNKS OF SENSE. The Sparta, Ga., Ishmael: whose hand is against everjr farD who buys his meat and bread Btead of making it at homo-1 the following chunks of ho sense in his last issue on the si ject of cotton : The cotton acreage in forei countries increases evury year. Egypt, Central Africa, Ind China, and Turkestan, under t fostering care of the British a Russian governments, the mt strenous efforts are being made Eupplant the product of the cott fields of the United States a every year witnesses a nearer ? proach to the consummation that end. In considering the qui tion of supply and demand as refers to cotton, the probable yie of the foreigu fields will hem forth continue to be a very i: portant factor. First, that there will be but litt if any, iccrease in the demand 1 cotton. Second, that there will be, frc the different sources mentioned large increase in the supply. And what will all teat mean to the price? It will mean a pri under the average cost of produ tion in the Cotton States east the Mississippi river. That is t way in which it looks to The Is maelite. It means that disast impends over every farmer in thc States, to whom the cotton crop sole source of living profit. T refusal to admit the truth of t teaching will not tend, in I slightest degree, to mitigate t severity of the coming resulte. WILL THEY FIGHT HIM? A Senator Declares That I Will Sot Be Confirmed, if Appointed. The Columbia Journal. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24. Yos, sir. You eau state wi emphasis that Mr. N. G. Gonzal will not be confirmed if appoint to a consulate. If I am correct informed, and I have no reasi to question the source of the i uigamicu. jL/einocracy lu ii J cr cn.a and for this reason a number Senators will fight his appoii ment and oppose his confirmatii if appointed over our protest." This was the remarkable stal ment made to-day by a well knov Senator from the Northwest. F political reasons, his name is, his own request, withheld, uni the matter comes up. So it seer an organized fight is in store f Mr. Gonzales. I saw Senator Irby,and inquin if he knew anything concernir the affair, but he refused to 1 interviewed, and only said: international relations were estai ?8hed between tne Uuited Statt and h-I I would warmly endors the application of Gonzales ? envoy extraordinary and minizte plenipotentiary to that place, bu I am opposed to his holding an other position." Irby's face looked calm, but i was the clam that always precede a storm. Your correspondent is in posses sion of information that makes i safe and certain to say that thi Tillmanite8 will receive their jus proportion of the Federal patron age. This statement may bi challenged, but it is none the lesi absolutely true. Senator Butler called on the President to-day and presented Captain Alston and both were wei] received. Gen. W. W. Humphreys, ol Anderson, arrived this morning tc take a hand in the fight for Marshal. An exchange tells the story of a boy who went to market with a sack of rabbits and lingered around town all day, When asked by his mother why he had not sold his rabbits he sud no one had asked him what was in his sack. How many merchents are like this little boy? They have plenty of goods for sale, but fail to tell the people what is in the Back. If you expect to sell goods in this day and age of the world you must open your sack aud keep shouting the merits of your ?tock in trade.-Seguin Enterprise. "And now, my good woman." said the learned man who was ipplying for board, "will you be pleased to inform me for[the benefit )f myself and family, what the gastronomic possiblities of your table are that there may be ho future misunderstanding on that point? What do you have upon four board three times a day in ;he shape of sustenance for tho n nerman?" Then the landlady, rising to her reet and putting her arms akimbo, .oared out in a strictly coramn; Jal voicer "Vitteles. HAVOC ?F A CYCLONE. it Strikes in Three States, and Causes Enormous Damage. Thc Columbia Journal. MEMPHIS. Tenn., March 24. The path of the cyclone which entered Tennessee yesterday after noon in a southwesterly direction from Mississipi, appears to have been about twenty miles in width. The wires are down in ali direc tions. There is no telegaphic communication with Nashville and intervening points, and little news i8 obtainable from the places visited by the cyclone. This city barely escaped. 0 A heavy rain fell and a high wind blew at the time the cyclone' raged. It became as dark as night for thirty minutes. Heavy damage was dotie to trees and small outbuildings. A train from Birmingham, Ala., which arrived late last night, re ports much damage between here and Byhalia, twenty mile* east, At 2: 30 o'clock this morning the wire at Kelly was tapped. The details telegraphed show that the early reports are no? exaggerted. Not a honse escaped thc storm's fury and only a few are left stand ing and they are badly damaged. The house of Roland Cox was lifted bodily and blown away, not a piece of timber being left. The house of Robert Stevens was levelled into a heap of ruins. The residence of D. N.^ Harris, a wealthy planter, was wrecked, and the house of four ot his tenants wer?1 bloww away. Throe houses belonging to S. Hudnell were blown down. The wind indulged, in a queer freak willi the dwelling House of W. C, Coggs. It formerly faced north. It ?till stands in a damage condition, but no iv facas south VICKSBURG, Mis*-., Mardi 24. Additional cyclone new?, received from passengers on tho mid nigh 1 train from Memphis, savslhal thc storm spoilt its force botweon Tunica and Shaw stations, which are about seventy miles apart anc on the railroad. At Shaw some stores were blowi down and a few citizens wen wounded. At Tunica court hous< it seriously damaged church auc other buildings were destroy. A .^/.lvriWi KmrfiA-Jrill nf uesxo-Childrei were hurt but none killed. It wil de a day ar two before the ful extent of the dreadful disaster i known. Bowling Green, Ky.-A'terri bh cyclone passed over this city las night at 7:45 oclock. Great damagi was done. The Louisville & Nash ville round house was totalh wrecked. About fifteen engines ol the Louisville & Nashville Com pany were badly damaged, N< lives are thought to have beet lost. William Ford's new building one of the handsomest buildings in the city, was unroofed, as wen many others. MEMPHIS, Tenn.-A severe storir. swept across tho Mississippi Delta yesterday morning,doing consider able damage to the early crops anc1 creating much excitement. The news from the various points indi cate that while the storm wa? cyclonic, the early rumors of thc damage done were exaggerated. One man is said to havo been killed at Kelly's and another injured by falling buildings. The damage elsewhere was to property only. The report that Wattervalley had been wiped out and the inhabitants killed, cannot be authenticated, and is considered a canard. No special trains have gone out from Memphis. NASHVILLE. Tenn.-A severe wind and rain strorm swept over Nashville last night, doing much damage in the northern part of the city. In South Nashville a store filed with people was blown down and a number injured. One boy was killed and another will die. There was a great Roman who avered that he would rather be first in a little Iberian village than sec ond in Rome, and how comes a Georgia editor who says he would rather be a ''fiddler on the coast of Tybee than a player of the mandolin at the millenium."-N. Y. Wo. ld. The Rock Hill Herald says that Hall White, body servant of Dr. W. J. White during and before tho war, writes to the Doctor from Liberia that he is prospering in that far-off country. He has a coffee farm of 3,000 trees and two sons have adjacent farms of 1,000 trees each. He has been there six years and is satisfied, except that thc natives are constantly engaged in warfare. g&T' 95 cents on the dollar will be paid for school checks at the A uv KUTI.s UK ollice, provided you aroa subscriber to the paper, or become a subscriber when you bring in the check. Remember that the glory of life is in its combats, not in the prizes we may win. New Orleans was the first city in the United States to have street railways. "HP who makes up his mind that he came into this world to do something, and then goes to work to do it, will be of service to man kind." It is all right for Baby Ruth to pull the tail of the White House cat, but wnat the Georgia editors want is to 6eo her pa yank the republican elephant by the snout until there is not a smell of him left in thc public barn. It is stated that under the new prorating of consular pay South Carolina is entitled to place? . irawing $19,500 in salaries. Geor gia to $30,000, Florida to $5,000 and Alabama to $20,000. The division, it seems, is to be made on the b?f?is of population;-The State. ? I have just opened a stock of beautiful Spring and Summer Millinery at the old stand, Mr. W. H. Turner's store, wbere I wiil be pleased to see my friends and the public. My stock consists of all kinds of Millinery goods, Pattern Hats and Novelties. The most eauiful tami) pats, IDA co VAR. Fresh Meats. Bsef, Pori Saisie, Mon, Always on hand at my market, n<-;ir the d'pot-?Kl Culgan house. W. A. LIVINGSTON. Information Wanted. IF there, is any person now living in the county or Stale who was present and witnessed the tnarriagp of Lewis Cu!breath and Rebecca Maguire on the ?th day of November, 181*2, by .raines F. Patterson, near Richardsonville, or lias any knowledge of said marriage he or (?he will confer a favor by ad dressing the widow. REBECCA CULBREATH, Peachtree Park, Fulton county, Ga. Work the Roads. ALL road-overseers aro hareby di rected to order out liieir hands and put 1 heir respective roads in good con dition, ns prescribed by law, before 1-Ariril.i?th next. I on rcaus v^xir-pv vu vi?\v~?i(...,^, authorities. J. A. WHITE, D. W. PA DGETT, J. W. BANKS, C. C. E. C. H. C. PKR1CI.V9, T. A. HAUSER, President. Manager. Saw Mill Machinery, Engines, Boiler, Mils ni ill Supplies Founders & Machinists. ms, AUGUSTA, GA. Correspondence Solicited. GEO, B, LAKE RE^L ESTATE - AXD - INSURANeEAGT, Office over Bank o? Meli School Examination. OX Friday and Saturday, the 21st and 22nd of April, proximo, t he Board of School Examiners for Edgelleld county will meet at Edgefleld C. IL, for the purpose of examining: appli cants to teach in the public schools of the county. Friday will bi? devoted to the whiles and Saturday to the colored applicants. M. ?. DAVENPORT, S. C. K. C. Padgett Pays the Freight ! A In KM iHnstraJ.-il Catalogue show ing hundreds ..fdesluns of Furniture. Stows nuil Uiby Carriages will be mulled free. If you mention this paper. I will sell you KCRKITCRK, ? eli-.. Just as cheap ;IH you eau buy g them In Innre eiti-s. and pay the ? freight to your depoL .-> r, Ht-rc aro a few Humpies: - B A No 7llat fopCook?ngSlovewltn | 20 cooking utensils, delivered to any E depot-, ror*l2 0? " I A i-liol" Cooking Range with 20 E cooking utAitHllM, delivered to any g depot, lor flSiMk A lame linc of Sloven In propor tion, special usent for Charter Oak Stoves. . . . ... A nico Parlor - ult. upholstered In .'O.KI plush, frail tonalli" colors, de ll vi-rvct ?ny where for 180.00. A large line of I'arlor Suits tu select from. A Beti room suit, large glass, big bedstead, enclosed washstand, full E snit 0 piece?; chair- have cane seats, delivered anywhere forttiDO. Other suits both cheaper and more expansive. "" fi yds. of yd.-wlde Carpet for |7 50. I pair Nottingham Lace Curtains, pole, 2 chains, 2 hooks, 10 pins, all ??*nlco Window Shade, 7 ft. long, 8 ft. wide.on spring rollers.wlth fringe tor 50 cents. . " No freight paid on Shades and Cur tains unless ordered in connection with other goods. C% Sond for Catalogue. Address jj. E\ PADGETT, 805 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. THE GREAT CHILL and FEVER The River Swamp IS A CERTAINlCURE FOR Price 50 cents awi $1.00 Per Bottle. Dumb Chills, hills and Fever, Chronic Chills, Also a PREVENTIVE of all the troubles. The remedy is simple and harmless contains no arsenic or poison ous drug. In all cases of debility and loss of appetite from malarial poison ing the use of this wonderful remedy works wonders. Ask for the River Swamp Chill and Fever Cure and take no other. Sold by all country stores. LA. GA?DELLE, DriPt Proprietor & Manuf r, 1 8 9 3! . Headquarters . Gli6Wi]i? & Smoking Tobacco, CIGARS. ETC. JAS. M. COBB ia tho manufac turer's agent for the best and cheap est line of TOBACCO on the market. Examino his. prices. Special prices given by 1 he box in 10, 20 and 40 lb. lot?. * J. M. Cobb. Alliance Notice. HpHE Edgerleld Comity Alliance 1 is hereby notified u hold their next quarterly meeting at Edgerleld un Wednesday, 121 li day ni April prox. ? This change of time for meeting is made at the request of District Lee- - hirer Gaston, who, with il.y State Lec turer, will be present an;l address the meeting. A full attendance is desired. \v. ii. T: KR MAX, 1res. E. C. A. Subscribe to tho Edgefield AD VERTISER. -THE Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, Incorporated. 1848. Its Policies are the Most Liberal Now Offered to the Public. Is Ihe only existing Company whose policies are,o; can be subject to.the MAINE NON-FORFEITURE LAW. WHAT IT IS. The Maine Non-Forfeiture law protects policies from forfeiture by reason of default of payment of premiums. It provides that, after three years' premiums"have been paid, failure to pay any subsequent premiums shall not forfeit a policy, but it shall continue in force for its full amount until the reserve (less a ?mail surrender charge) upon the policy is exhausted. The reserve is a sum made up of portions of each arid every pre mium paid upon a policy in anticipation of its maturity. Beginning with a small portion of the first premium, it is increased each year by the addition of each subsequent premium, and grows larger year by year, until, at maturity, it irxactly equals the face of the policv. When a policy is discontinued therefore, there is in the hands of tho Com pany a* D-serve, greater or less, according to the character and age of the policy. Instead of permitting the Company, upon non-payment of premium, to confiscate this reserve, the Maine Non-Forfeiture Lav/ requires th* Company to continue the policy in force until the policy holder receives an equivalent for it in extended insurance. How IT WORKS. If a person, aged 35, pays three years' premiums upon a twenty pavment Life policv and then discontinues payment, the policy will be'eontinued 4 years and 257 days longer; if he pays five premiums, and then discontinues, the insurance will continue 7 xears au<* 357 days longer. If the policy is a twenty year endowment, same age, three years payments will give an extension of 8 years and 150days; five years' payment 13 years, 300 days. If the policy is a 15 Year Endowment, ?SLQOO) same age, three years' payments will secure insurance to the ena OL tile^uuw?mijo ptuwi TIO.OO ?.. VWL ?? ;.?0V?^-U livo till that time, and in like manner ten years' payments secures insurance for the full 15 years and $592.17 in cash. These extensions vary with the age of the insured, the class of policy, and the number of payments made; they are stated in each policy, in years and days, for each number of payments, so that the policy-holder knows ata glance exactly what he is entitled to if he discontinues his payments at any time. What St Bas Done. The Company Has Paid over Two Hundred Death Claims, in con sequence of this law, aggregating in sum3 insured more than Four Hundred Thousand Dollars. In every case there had been a default in 'he payment of pre mium, and, except for this law, the policies would have been of little or no value. Instead of this, the insurance in each case was extended to the time of death, and the Company was required to pay to the beneficiaries under the policies the sum of $418,335.77. T?8 Un o? lie Ia Elisions as Couped WITH: ZP^HD-TJIP VALUES. It is the custom of many companies to provide in their policies that, upon discontinuance of payment of Premium, paid-up policies will be given, without the option of extension. This was the practice of the Union Mutual before the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law was en acted, but it now substitutes for paid-up values the more advantage ous plan of extended insurance. The objection to the paid-up system is that the amount of paid-up insurance which is given upon the dis continuance of payments upo., a policy, unless it has been in force a great many years, is insignificant, and -of little or no value as protec tion ; and it leaves the insured who ceases payment without adequate insurance at the very time he needs it the most. The great advantage of the extended insurance afforded by the Maine Law over the most liberal paid-up system is strikingly shown by the following comparison, and it will be observed that the paid-up value is insignificant in comparison with the amount actually paid by the Union Mutual. The result of two hundred and twelve policies was this : If the insured had received paid-up policies instead of ex tended insurance, the Company would have had to pay in settlement of the claims only. $98,197.50 Whereas, in fact, it did pay under the Maine Law, $418,344.77 Making a difference in favor of the beneficiaries under Two Hundred and Twelve policiei of $320,147.28 The policies are free from restrictions, and incontestible after ONE YEAR. A grace of ono month is given in the payment of premiums. For further information call on, or address, B. B. EVANS, . Manager for South Carolina, Office, No. 1, Advertiser Building, EDGEFIELD, S. O.