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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. SILVER BLOCK, I207 BROADWAY, Auensm 0A. We offer to the Farming and Country People a special line of goods, honest, strictly solid leather Shoes, which cannot be excelled for stvle and durability, ut the lowest possible prices. SILVER SHOE CO. brand Shoes acknowledged the best in the city. Our Goods are especially made for us, and we sell nothing but we can guarantee, and at Rock Bottom Prices. A trial will make you our friends and customers. Remember, Silver Shoe & Hat Co. Leaders in Good Honest Goods, at BOTTOM PRICES. WM. F. SAMPLES, Formerly with E. T. Murphy & Co., now with Arrington Brothers & Co., Groceries and Plantation Supplies, 621 BROAD STREET, - - AUGUSTA, GA. (North side street, half block above Railroad Crossing.) He cordially invites and would be glad to wait on all his friends smd acquaintances. IE 1ITED STATES TOOTH-SAM ASSOCIATION, One of the Largest Organizations Devoted to High Class Cental Practice in the United States. Pledged to the Promotion of Scientific Dentistry at Moderate Prices. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES. 7 v? Almalgam Fillings. ode. up Platina Fillings.-. 75c. up GoldFillings.$1 ?0 up Best Set of Teeth (either upper or lower set,). S 00 A Good Set of Teeth for. 5 50 Extracting Teeth. 50c. .;. ri - _ Crowns and. Teeth Witbouj;.Plates ac Same Rates. PERFECT FITTING ARTIFICIAL TEETH and Best Workmanship Guaranteed or Money cheerfuily refunded. Only the Best Material Used. 8io Broad Street [Over Mullarky & Harty.] Augusta, Ga. -WHOLES A I.K AXD KKTAIL Grocers and Commission Merchants, - AST) DKAI.KP.S IN - JFLOJJR, CORN, SUGAR, TEAS, MEAL, OATS, COFFEE, RICE, LARD, HAY, MOLASSES, SPICES, MEAT, BRAN, SYRUPS, CAN GOODS, Etc? AND EVERYTHING IN THE GROCERY LINE. We have NEW BAGGING, PIECE BAGGING, and SUGAR BAG CLOTH, NEW ARROW TIES, whole re-bundled TIES, and piece TUES. We make a specialty of these goods and sell them at VERY LOW PRICES. Call to see us when you come io augusta. We want th? TRADE of EDGEFIELD COUNTY and will make it to your in terest to give it to us. Mr. HILLMAN THOMPSON is with us and will be glad to meet his friends. 843 Broad Street, - AUGUSTA, GA. sud v^iiisil^ ^ ^WS??W Address ^SfcraM^fegpg gpr Dr. W. D. OUZTS, ? - Elmwood, S. C. KE Y & C St sot es ville, - DISTILLERS ANDjJOBBERS IN^-1 Pore, 1 Maned 1 C. Haiti Made Cora and Rye Was., Apple and Peach Brandies, We make a specialty of pure goods for private use and medicinal pur poses. Our brands are all recognized as standard, and we sell nothing but high grade goods. Weare sole proprietors of the celebrated Key brand of old-fashioned hand made Corn Whiskey and Apple Brandy, packed in cases of one dozen bottles. We quote as follows, in lots 1 to IO gallons: N. C. "Poplar Log" Corn Whiskey, $1.25 to $3.00, accordingjto age Rye Whiskey, $2.00 to $3.00, according to age. Apple Brandy, $2.00 Peach Brandy, $2.75. Extra charge for jugs. We can Burnish Corn Whiskey in cases of 1,2. 4, G, and S dozen Dottles to ?ase, in pints, half pints, and quarts, ready for use, at low prices. Can make special prices on barrel shipments. We have the largest stock in the country of old corn whiskey,- rjpenefj and mellowed hy age, and espe cially recommend it for private usn. There are twenty-three feet of water on Charleston bar. Twenty tons of grapes were ship ped from the neighborhood of Kingstree last year and fifteen tons this year. There are twenty-seven cotton seed oil mills in the State with an annual product of eight hundred thousand dollars. Fifty thousand pounds of tobac co were sold at Florence last week. Forty-nine cents was the highest end eight cents the lowest price paid. Dr. Sampson Pope announces himself, again, as candidate for Governor; this time as an anti dispensary candidate, and i *avor of true Democracy. A gang of counterfeiters, with a full supply of moulds, have been arrested at Manning. Their coun terfeit money has been circulating at Manning for six mouthe. A report from St. Petersburg an nounces the serious illness of the Czar of all the Russians. He is said to be suffering from a serious kid ney trouble. A physician is kept in constant attendance. A Washington lady stopped a runaway the other day, by rushing into the middle of the street and shaking the skirts of her dress at the frightened animal. She then seized the horse by the bridle and held on until some men came to her assistance. There was a wo man and two babies in the runaway team. A dispatch from Augusta of Sep tember 3rd say s: Henry G. Ra worth, the oldest locomotive en gineer in America, died here last night, aged 83. Raworth was born in Charleston in, 1811. He was the first engineer on the South Caro lina Railway, and ran as engineer the "Best Friend," the pioneer en gine, built J.? Arjaerica. t .^^^ ^ The regulations of tho British postofnce require that ever}7 un sound tooth shall be taken out of a man's head before he can be em ployed. An unfortunate girl who recently was examined for promo tion had fourteen teeth taken out at one sitting by order of the offi cial ?entist, who explained that "we can't have girls laid up with toothache." When Mr. Moody was preaching in Washington last spring he as serted one day that if Jesus Christ should return to this world in per son and appear in that city He would not be welcomed, and that the people would not consent to be governed by Him. He asked the audience if they would receive him, and, to emphasize his asser tion, he appealed to an aged color ed man sitting near the pulpit: "Would you vote for Him?" The reply came promptly : "Twouldn't do DO good. They wouldn't count my vote.'' Mr. Moody at once changed the subject. The annual review of the News and Courier shows that during the past year more hay was sold in Charleston than in any year, save one, in the last twenty years; more corn, by 50,000 bushels, than in twenty years, and more oats than in any year but one, in twenty years. It is true that more bacon was raised in the State last year than in any year since the war; but the fact remains that 1,040 carloads or 41,000,000 pounds of bacon were brought from the West and sold in Charleston during the last twelve months. The hay was brought from the North and tho corn and bacon from the West. None of it was made in South Carolina and a great deal of it was sold to South Carolina farmers. Baron Hirsch has sent some three or four thousand Russian Jews to the Argentine Republio, and he hopes to have a Jewish community thoro of 100,000 within ten years. He sends them out in companies of fifty families, each provided with a rabbi and a doctor, and he expects them to settle in villages, giving a special tract for each company. He declares that they do well as farmers. Nor have we much immediate hope for the improvement of the Jews that are now going in such numbers to Palestine. Within the last few years, 100,000 Jews have entered the Holy Land, and that number will be greatly increased in the next ten years. AS TO WHITE SUPREMACY. Senator Butler "Writes a Caustic Letter to Snow Where He is At. Gen. M. C. Butler has written the following letter to the editor of the Columbia Register. He uses vigorous language and hints at charges of a very grave nature against public officials : To the Register : Judging from the tenor of your correspondence and your own comments there are quite a number of "anxious pa triots" who appear deeply interest ed in my welfare, and concerned about my future action. I drop this line to reassure all "enquiring friends" that I am not after re election to the United State Sen ate, but am after the corrupt ring now disgracing the politics of the State. You dwell with some em phasis on the importance of "white supremacy." You do not exagger ate its importance, but "white su premacy" does not mean ring rule and the disfranchisement of white tax*paying voters ! the destruction, under the forms of law, of their rights and liberties and property; These wrongs do cot acquire fianc-, tity because the perpetrators of; them have white skins. I did more in one day to estab lish "white supremacy" in South Carolina, than this entire gang of corrupt ringsters in thoir whole lives, and would do more now to; preserve it, but this ring has pre pared the way to destroy "white supremacy." It has severed the re lations of the white people, and will not permit of a reunion because when the people get together again and look into their affairs dispas sionately, some of these ringsters will gc the penitentiary. Hence they vilify and slander every man who exposes their villainies and corruption. "White supremacy" is a very precious thing in this country, and I would lament the day when it is lost, if it ever should be, but if we are to; bo robbed..ancLplundered as we now are, I do not know that the color of the skin of the robber makes it more bearable or palliates the offence. So "you can say to your people," I am not after the United States Senate, but the ring and its vil lainies and that I am in for the war. M. C. BUTLER. The Arah Horse-His Treatment. Major General Tweedie. In the desert the mares and foals and stallions stand day and night before their master. There-are no grooms in our sense. Black slaves keep the ground clean, and the wives and daughters of the tent folk wait upon the mares, and ro mance becomes reality when a drooping mare or a motherless foal is taken into the best part of the tent to bp nursed. In villages the mares' shed is close to the habita tion in which the family life pro ceeds. The result isthat food and fellowship are among the first ideas which are associated in the minds of Arab horses with the human figure. The mares turn as kindly to those around them as Gustavus did to Dugald Dalgetty. The youngling takes its cue from the dam, and is not afraid of that with which they are all familiar. The colt, which is handled by everyone from the first, and ridden as 60on as he is strong enough, is sure to prove docile and obedient. Even when full allowance is made for the advantages of early tuition, Arab men deserve some credit for the fine temper of Arab horses. The most patient colt may have to resist its rider if either his anger be excited or too much of his own way be given to him. A little incident which we lately witnessed in a crowded thorough fare in Bagdad may here be worth introducing. An awkward groom had tumbled off the back of a playful filly, and loft her free to oareer hither and thither. Among the spectatois there was nobody who blamed tho filly. A red-beard ed Persian, whose bookstall was kioked into the Tigris, had the senses to curse the biped and not the quadruped. When she was caught, aud the end of her halter rope was put into the groom's hand by a by stander, the man merely jumped on her back and rode quietly away. Thc Fauits of English Cavalry. Blackwoods Magazine. The tradition still clings to the British cavalry of undisciplined and headlong recklessness in the field-of fruits the most ruinous. Wellington considered his cavalry in the Peninsula so inferior to that of the French, from want of order, that he was reluctant to use it un less when in superior strength ; and he said, speaking of Waterloo: "Napoleon had his cavalry in order, mine would gallop, but could not preserve their order." It was this gallant but undis ciplined propensity to get out of hand which in the battle of Water loo, as the issue cf a single charge, reduced Lord Uxbridge'6 splendid | division of heavy cavalry to a sin gle squadron. The wild gallop of the "Third Light" through the heart of Khalsa camp in the even ing dusk of Ferozesbah, like the charge of the Light Brigade down the north valley of Balaclava, "was magnificent, but it was not war." Kinglake innocently expresses his admiration of the prolongation of .front in Scarlett's heavy cavalry, occasioned by the circumstances that "the two ranks which had be gun the advance were converted by degrees into one.'* What a Preacher Thinks of lt. Greenville Mountaineer. . The following remarks W. T. Hundley were givef lude to his sermon on moaning, 2nd inst., with] to the discharge of M. from the job office of News: "We have fallen upoj times. Here in the city j ville, which boasts of number of churches, hei her culture, and her refin^ find an anomaly in the young Christian man, a, zen of our commonweals cotted by his employee? he did what he believed td (and what WAS right) inj an offender against the' was helping to ruin the sc young brother, and bringi| den of sorrow on the heaj aged mother. ' "What are we, God's pej iLrg^J.0 do in the midst T?m^r*Shair^??db'rso "tl keeper in his unholy traffij we comdemn the young upholds the law of his li tries to save his brother, from the clutches of vice ai No, a thousand times, no. "Men talk about personal lt Yes, personal liberty for the si^on keeper and his patrons, but per sonal slavery for the poor, drunken boy and his loved ones. "It's all right to cry out against the thief and house burner, but it is all wrong to say a word against the man who steals away the hap piness of your home and burns out j the moral life of your own flesh and blood. "We are not pleading for the dis pensary, but we are pleading for] the upholding of the law and the enforcing of the punishment against those who break it, and he is the ideal citizen, who if he knows that the law is being violated, has the moral courage to rise up and report the offender although it shall cost him his situation. "Th9 right must win. Some day a reaction will set in, and he who is now persecuted and boycotted because he did what was right, will be honored of God and the people. No man ever loses anything by do ing what is right." "Thc Girl I Left Behind Me." Isle of Wight Expr?s?. Although the song "The Girl I Left Behind Me" is so well known, its authorship is obscure. No one can tell who wrote either the words or the music. In this respect it is like a good many songs, notably the old ballad of "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington." Tho song "The Girl I Left Behind Me" has been the soldiers' and sailors' loth to-leave for nearly a century, and it has been so long played on men of-war as they weigh anchor, and by the hands of regiments as they quit towns where they have been quartered, that its omission would be regarded as a slight upon the fair sex. The song is doubtless of Irish origin. Chappell, however,puts in an English claim to the air, al though he admits it may be Irish. This authority thinks that it was probably written about 1758, when there were encampments along the coast, where many tunes of this sort originated. Bunting supports the Irish theory. He says the air was taken down from an Irish harper, named O'Neil, in 1800, the author and date being unknown. The Bong has been found in a manuscript dated 1770, bu,t its true origin is veiled }n obscurity. A METAL-EATING PLANT. Philadelphia Times. Prof. Schelwisch, the well-known naturalist of Bavaria, while trav elling with the Stanley expedition in the heart of Africa for the pur posa of studying the flora and fauna of the Dark Continent, was the first white man to discover this strange plant. One day while rest ing at a small village near the foot of Mount Milosis, in the TJmbopo region, Prof. Schelwisch noticed a plant with a peculiar steel-colored foliage, and on examination it was found that the shrub, although growing like other plants from the soil, was practically composed of iron. The leaves, though very thin, were bent with great difficulty, and the twigs and branches resisted pressure with a force about equal to the same amount of iron, and to secure a leaf it was found to be necessary to separate it from the bush with a file. While Prof. Schelwisch was digging at the base ?f this plant for the purpose of making an examination of its] roots^ite^natives crowded around esticulating e party were pre paring to continue the march,/the professor was curious to know if the coins had remained undisturb ed during the night by the super ?titious natives, and on approach ing the mutai plant was astonished to find it had changed its color ;ompletely. Instead of being beautiful steel color, the stem, leaves, and what was exposed of the roots presented the appearance )f newly coined copper coins and glittered in the morning sunlight like polished gold. Upon exam ination it was ascertained that dur ing the night the strange plant had ibsorbed nearly all the copper 3oins, with the result of completely changing its color. What was left rf the coins in the hole showed that they were more than half ?aten away or absorbed by the roots of the metal plant. Not only was the color changed, but the tex ture of the plant had undergone a similar transformation. It was found that the thin ivy-shaped leaves were now easily bent around ;he fingers, would retain any shape liven them and could be readily jut with an ordinary pair of SC?R sors. Prof. Schelwisch succeeded n surreptitiously securing several tranches of this wonderful metal ?ating plant, and was also success :ul in obtaining a Rood photograph )f it. No further trace of the ex stence of the metal plant was bund until the expedition reached he Uniamesi country, when at the jase of the Nkomabakosi moun ains a perfect forest of this curious )lant waB found. This being an minhabited region no difficulty vas encountered in securing speci nens to take back to England. While in this locality ample op lortunity was afforded the mem iers of the expedition to make an xhaustive study of the habits and leculiarities of this most remark .ble of all species of the vegetable ;ingdom. By a series of carefully ouducted experiments it was ound that this plant would feed n any kind of metal placed at its oots and in a few days take on the haracteristiics of that metal, and a the case of the softer metals f ten but a few hours were requ,ir,edi o effect a complete. meijaraprpho is of its fibpr, a,a,?l c?jor, $eing uriou^ to, know how fibre would ffect a growing plant of this spe ies, preparations were made for the test. Large quantities of sea soned wood were procured and piled in a long row covering about thirty of the metal plants and a fire kindled at the windward end. Stanley and his entire party watch ed the experiment, and had the satisfaction of demonstrating that, beyond the blackening of the foliage by smoke, the intense heat to which the metal plant had been subjected had done no harm to the plant itself. At the expiration of a week it was found that the rain had removed nearly all traces of the fire and the plants were ap parently as healthy as ever. The roots present peculiarities not found in other plants. They branch out from the trunk on all Bides like a vine and are usually from six to eight inches beneath the surface of the soil. Regularly at every seven or eight inches the root branches and at this juncture ^rows a peculiar pair of round, slightly concaved discs, hinged together like the shells of a clam it the point of juncture with the root. These discs leave their con vex sides outward and usually re main above half open until they encounter metal or metal ore, when they gradually close, and a process rapposed to be similar to electro plating goes on, the metal being rapidly absorbed by the plant. Cheap Beef and Cheap Horses. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 30. [t is claimed by the cattle men of Southwest Texas that the new tariff bill will result in serious injury to e cattle of this section. This re uces the duty from $10 per head 20 per cent, ad valorem, and now at the grass is good on this side is expected that at least 100,000 tie will be brought into Texas Mexico within $he next sixty s, and after being fattened keted in this country, thus ?ngdown the prices. Thousands ad of cows and stock cattle also be brought into Texas ?Mexico.,. ..There will also be exportations of cneapnorses dexico to this country. water torture is in use in penitentiaries. It consists ning the prisoner in a closet all for him to stir. While 'stands, water, one drop at [a. ;ime, is allowed to fall from a ?aucet on his head. It is said that :ew persons can endure this pun shment for more than an hour. Dr. Westbrook Farrer, of Bidde :ord, Me., is said to be a physician n active practice, though 98 years >ld, and, still more remarkable, to De in the habit of visiting his parents regularly on a bicycle. He ittributes his exceptional vigor at ;his advanced age to the use of vintergreen tea, of which he is laid to be an ardent advocate. At Anthony, Fla., a few days igo, William Stranathan, aged 12 fears, was killed by a stroke of ightning just as he was entering ;he door of his home. The bolt itruck the boy just above the right jar, and ran down his right side md leg, passing out at the foot and .earing a hole in the floor. From ;he boy's right ear to the little toe )f the right foot there was a deep jlue streak. His clothing on the ?lght side was slit as though cut vith a sharp knife, and his right ihoe was torn to pieces. The Manufacturer's Record of ast week says: Throughout the intire South there is a better feei ng in business circles than has )een seen for the last two or three rearB, and reports from all over the :ouutry show that the increasing >rosperity of the South is attract ug wide attention from capitalists, nanufacturers and farmers. The ehabilitation of Southern rail oads is making good progress, and vitia earnings steadily increasing here is a tendency towards large xpenditures for the improvement if roadbeds, an increase in rolling tock and for the building of new ines, and especially short feeders ,nd branch roads. The Chinese-Japanese troubles re likely to be complicated by ?uropean interference unless Jhina is prompt in doing justice nd controls her people. France 8 likely to take up arms unless ull reparation is instantly made or the murder of the French Cus oms collector at Tonquin. Of ourse, both England and Russia 'ould have a voice in the matteo eith,e$ nation wishing to see 'ra^pe. make any further inroads uto, China than it has made in its sceadanc-y over Tonquin. But t*e French blood is beginning to jaoh the boiling point. It is .ithin the bounds of possibility aat the great battle for European iipremacy may be fought in Asia? RUMORS OF A NEW ROAD From Knoxville to Anderson George Vanderbilt "In lt." SAVANNAH, Sept. ll.-A special to the Morning News from Augusta says : It is runiored here to-day in railroad circles that George Van derbilt, who owns so many thous ands of acres of land in North Carolina, is about to enter the field of railroad building as a means of getting some of his timber to market. v The line which it is said he will build, is from Knoxville to Ander son, S. C., via Walhalla. A large part of the line is already graded and 3hould Vanderbilt build the road, it will decrease the distance between Cincinnati and the South Atlantic Coast over 100 miles. The road, together with the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Cincinnati railroad and the Port Royal and Western Carolina will give an air line from Cincinnati to "Augusta. Union Meetings. The Union Meeting of the First Division of the Edgefield Associa tion will meet with Berea Church, at 10 A. M., Saturday before the fifth Sunday in September. Introductory sermon by Rev. J. P. Mealing. Alternate, Rev. P. f. Blalock. Missionary sermon by Rev. J. S. Jordan. QUERIES. 1st. As the word of God is only rule of faith and preac" what knowledge of the Bible sbr churches require of their memV and how can we best impait t knowledge? Speakers, Rev. J. Mealing, Rev. J. L. Ouzts, and J M. Rambo. 2nd. How can we convince our members of the necessity and, Scriptural grounds for disciplining our members for non-payment of church and Gospel dues? Speak ers. W. H. Yeldell, J. W. Aiton, and J.H. Self. ~$r?v What-mission- hay the' strongest claim on our contribu tions in our present condition? Speakers, S. A. Brunson and W. H. Har! in g. The following persons were ap pointed to write essays of their own selection : Mrs. Lela Williams, Mrs. D. Timmerman, S. A. Brun son, and Whit Barling. Committee to canvass divisions in the interest of a high school : Rev. J. L. Ouzts of Mountain Creek, Henry Green of Borea, J. H. Miller of Bold Spring, W. H. Yel dell of Bethany, F. J. Rankin of Dornsville, S. A. Brunson of Gilgal, W. T. Walton of Stevens Creek. J. T. WHITE, Mod'r. M. B. BYRD, JR., Clerk. The Union Meeting of the Third Division of the Edgefield Baptist Association will be held with the Antioch Church on Saturday be fore the fifth Sunday in the pres ent month. The programme is as follows : Introductory sermon by Rev. J. P. Mealing. Missionary sermon by Rev. L. R.. Gwaltney. SUBJECTS. 1st. "Personal Work." Speakers:, T. B. Lanham and J. D. Timmer man. 2nd. "What should be done in the case of those who habitually absent themselves from the ser vices of the church?" Speakers,. D. E. Lanham and A. S. Tompkins.. As the last Union Meeting gavo tvay for the Sunday School Con vention, and as the ono before was not well attended, owing to a mis understanding as to the place, a full attendance at this September meeting at Antioch is desired. S. B. MAYS, Clerk. Subscribe t? the Edgefield AD VERTISER. Wall Paper in all shades, very ;heap, at Ramsey & Blands. Farm bells for sale by Ramsey fe Bland. We are prepared to supply you leith either a New Buckeye or McCormick Mower, at $45. Hay [lakes at $20, at Ramsey & Bland s. Our line of Bed-room Suits are he nobbiest you ever saw, and at Drices to suit the times, at Ramsey fe Blandes. The cheapest parlor suit of fur liture ever brought to Edgefield,. "or sale by Ramsey & Bland. Car load of Old Hickory wagon?,, rom a one-horse to a six-horse,, ust received by Ramsey & Bland. A big lot of Straw Matting from \Q.f to 40/ per yard, at Ramsey &. ilaad/B..