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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. Blood Diseases such os Scrofula and Anaemia, Skin Eruptions and Pale or Sallow Complexions, are speedily cured by . Scott's Emulsion ^???????f 1.1 Jjl^l..-^,??^ jgMOll-HW- lilli Ml ? ??Ul the Cream of Cod-liver Oil. No other rem edy so quickly and effectively enriches and purifies the blood and gives nourishment to the whole system. It ia pleasant to take and easy on the stomach. Thin, Emaciated Persons and all suffering from Wasting Diseases 8X9 re stored to health by Scott's Emulsion. Be sure you get the bottle with our trade-mark on it. Refuse cheap substitutes! Sendfor pamphlet on Scott's Emulsion, FREE. Scott & Bowne, N. Y. All druggists. 50 cents and $1. SILVER BLOCK, I207 BROADWAY, AUGUSTS BA. We offer to the Farming and Country People a special line of goods, honest, strictly solid leather Shoes, which cannot be excelled for style and durability, at 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 ?fe Co., now wita Arrington Brothers & Co., Groceries and Plantation Simplies, 621 BROAD STREET, - - AUGUSTA, GA. (Xorth side street, half block above Railroad Crossing.) He cordially invites and would be glad to wait on all his friends and acquaintances. m 1 IUI STATES TOOTH-SAVIN 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. Almalgam Fillings. 50c. up Platina Fillings.""*. 75c. up Gold Fillings.fl 00 up Rest Set of Teeth (either upper or lower set,). S 00 A Good Set of Teeth for. 5 50 Extracting Teeth.?.* 50c. Crowns and Teeth Without Plates at Same Rates. PERFECT FITTING ARTIFICIAL TEETH and Best Workmanship Guaranteed or Money cheerfully refunded. Only the Best Material Used. 8io Broad Street. [Over Mullarky & Harty.] Augusta, Ga. 3FLE33V4CSE!Kr db TUTT, - WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocers and Commission Merchants, - AND DEALERS IN - FLOUR, 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 TIES. We make a specialty of these goods and sell them at VERY LOW PRICES. Call to see us when you come to Augusta. We want the 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 bis friends. 843 Broad Street, - AUGUSTA, GA. KEY & CO St atesville, - DISTILLERS AND JOBBERS IN - Pire Mrittl C. Hand Made Corn ii Rye Whiskies 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. We are sole proprietors of the celebrated Key brand of j old-fashioned hand made Corn Whiskey and Apple Rrandy, packed in cases ! o? one dozen bottles. We quote as follows, in lots 1 to 10 gallons : N. C. "Poplar Log" Corn Whiskey, $1.25 to $3.00?according to age? Rye Whiskey, $2.00 to $3.00, according to age. Apple Brandy, $2.00 Peach Brandy, $2.75. Extra chirire for jugs. We can surnish Corn Whiskey in cases of 1, 2. 4, (i, and S dozenj Dottles to ] case, in pints, half pints, and quarts, ready for use, at low prices. (jan make special prices oil barrel shipments. We have the largest stock In the country of old corn whiskey, ripened and mellowed by age, and espe cially recommend it for private use._ WM. SCHWEIGERT Tlie Je ^v%reller% Corner Broad and McIntosh Streets. Augusta, - - Oa IRON JOHN. * ELIZABETH CHEERY HAIRS. [Iron John, or Ferjeau, was a character of Macinac Island, so called from his powers as a "run ner" upon ice, which covers the straits from November until April.] O? sturdy race, With dark and tranquil face, Thou dreamest on, Iron John ! No need hast thou to show Powers, while skies do glow With summer hues. Useless they lie, Thy skates, thy wide snow shoes. Calmly, thou Bittest still In silent wait. Thy time, thy day will come When skies grow cold and wan, Iron John ! The Island children play After the August butterflies That have BO brief a day. Thou watchest them With eyes serene; Summer must come between The battles fierce, with snow Colder than deat.i In icy ways. Dost dream of moaning winds and storms at dawn Iron John! What secrets hast "thou learned Of thy strange guests? What thoughts thy guests, What truths in thy soul burned? Methinks I see the pallid sky. Hear bitter blasts arise and die, Wailing against thy strength In ghostly cry 1 Methinks I bear the pines Thrumming a solemn note, As if vast harps Were touched by spirit hands, Urging thee on to the chase Betwixt the lakes and lands. Again and again the clang Of thy steel comes, cutting and keen ; The sweep and rush of thy strength. As thou fleest until unseen, Fleeing ever and on, Iron John I Ah, there will be a chase 'Twixt the dark and the dawn, Iron John! A wind more shrill and more keen , Than ever thou dreamed upon, Iron John ! Do not thine eyes serene Whose gaze is ever away, Know of an island beyond Wbere summer ever holds sway ; | Dost dream of blossoming shores Where winds are tender and fond, ? Beyond skies pallid and wan? "Troniobn! ' I CLEVELAND IS DISTURBED Over the Election, His Hopes Di verting the P ubi io Mind from the Recent Disaster. Cincinnati Enquirer. WASHINGTON, NOV. 15.-The class who imagine the President is not sore over the recent elections have false bearings. He is more than mortified. The deep gulf into which a so recent victorious party has been hurled affects him, true not visibly, but deep-seated all the same. The President now hopes by some change of base, which is to b? as original as sensational, to divert the pablic mind from the recent disaster. He is satisfied that his radical free trade attitude is a mistake, and that it was re pudiated at the polls. His game is now for something new to absorb public attention, and which will for the nonce silence the clamor for free silver and dim to the mem ory his own crusade for free coal and iron. Something it is known is going to drop. The President admits this much in the machine inter view he caused to be promulgated to excuse the indignity he heaped upon Secretary Carlisle. He is going to reform the currency, and on this feature his message to Congress will be couspicnous. Just what he intends to do is as yet vague. The general principle, however, of his new effort to raform is to have the government go out of the banking business, and to have all the paper money issued by the national banks. This would be, of course, State banking done in the States, but by corporations chartered by Congress. The de tails of such a plan are too multi farious to anticipate, but the work is going on and the more conspicu ous bankers of New York city are furnishing the suggestions which the President, it seems, is too ea^er to adopt. It is becoming almost a byword in Washington that the i seat of power over the finances ib not in the stone edifice known as the treasury building, but near Wall street in New York city, and that Sub-treasurer Jordon is the herald Mecury who bears direct to the President the desires of the bank-, ing class and studiously avoids Secretary Carlisle, * Special Committee Report. The following is the report of the special committee appointed by the foreman of the Grand Jury, on the condition of the jail : I hereby appoint Messrs. Jas. M. Cobb, S. B. Mays, D. R. Durisoe, and A. R. Nicholson as special committee from the Grand Jrry to examine the jail and report to his Honor W. C. Benet daring this week, this 15th Nov.. A. D. 1894. W. S.' ALLEN, Forem?n. Tonis Honor Judge Benet, presid ing. We, Jthe special committee, ap pointed by the Grand Ju fy as in structed by your Honor to further inspect the sanitary condition of the jail, and diet of the prisoners. Respectfully report : On yesterday, Fi iday, the 16th, and also this morning, Saturday, tho 17th, we visited the jail- and premises, and on each occasion found the entire premises in a 'sat isfactory condition. The rooms, cells and hall ways are all clean and entirely free from stench or j offensive odor. Lime being used freely throughout. On the 2nd floor where there is a stovp, there seems to be no Com plaint from cold or insufficiency of | wood when necessary for comfort. On the 3rd flood in the absence of any heating apparatus whatever -there must of necessity be suf fering in severe weather-and this floor, should at once, be provided with means for fire before cold weather. We examined carefully the food, which we found cooked and nady to serve, and are satisfied, from what we witnessed, that it is ample in quantity, Vholesome, well cook ed and cleanly served. The blankets which constitute the bedding are of necessity, in the absence of cots piled ou the floor. The iron cots recommended by the Grand Jury, if furnished, will add greatly to comfort and cleanliness The suDply of water is mucP Mr. Yancey Onzts, the jailer, ad mits that the slop room was in a bad condition on the morning of the first inspection by the Grand Jury, but that he was engaged in bueiuess connected with the court j aud was thereby detained from giving this matter attention as early as is his custom or desire and that such neglect had notoccuired before nor should it occur agaii. The prisoners say they are kbd ly treated and their looks show hat they are well fed. We are gratiied J to report the absence of any appa rent neglect, or lack of any Und treatment whatever to the prion- ^ ers, on the part of the sheriff, "ho assures your committee that he will give all due diligence to on tinue the proper maintenance of such management as will admiis ter to the proper welfare of he prisoners, aB far as the means od necessities furnished him will pr ank Respectfully submitted, JAS. M. COBB, S. B. MAYS, A. R. NICHOLSON IP.1 D. R. DURISOE, Special Commie tl M SPECIAL REPORT ON POOR HOUS. Your committee beg leave; make the following report : We have examined the premis at the Poor House and find eve thing in good condition, the hous and bedding are all kept neat d clean. We find that there are thirty-fr inmates in the Poor Blouse Whites about twenty, colored abt fourteen. They are all well i and clothed, and seem to be c tented and happy. We find about 300 bushels; corn on the place, also pleuty: fodder and hay, shucks and p and potatoes to supply the place We also find two good mules i one good horse; also three g< milch cows, fifteen head of ho seven up fattening. The out bu: ings and the lots are in excell condition. We find alBO a neat little chu for the benefit of the paupi which has been dedicated to worship of Almighty God, We have known the place many yeais, but we never h found things in as good a coi tion as we now find. Capt. Abe Williams has pro himself to be a very efficient st ard, and we believe that he i j and does save money for the cou g00 and your committee recommei]ar that he be kept there as long fr0I possible. S. M. SMITH, J Chairman Commitlhav li b( re ea Fi fi? sa as pc in ea wi ga Ju mc bei an cei ug< inf 1 wh ing sto for 1 WOJ sey g the Joh \ Ru? Bia COTTONTOTS CONFERENCE. THEY MF.ET IN ATLANTA AT BROKER RODDEY'S CALL. MP. Roddey's Plan Adopted . Committee on Convention Ap pointed-The Scheme as Proposed. ATLANTA, GA., NOV. 21.-AD im portant meeting of cotton growers representing several StateB occur red in Atlanta to-day. They were called here to con sider a plan recently suggested by J. T. Roddey, a cotton broker of New York, for controlling the price of cotton. The meeting was presided over by Hector D. Laue, commissioner of agriculture of Alabama. After some discussion, the plan as announced by Mr. Roddey was, on motion, recommended. Chair man Lane and one or two others dissenting. A committee was ap pointed consisting of J. T. Rnddey, H. S. Lipscomb, of South Carolina, and J. E. Nunnally, of Georgia, to oall county and State conventions for the election of delegates to an interstate convention to be held at a time and place to be agreed upon by the committee. Mr. Roddey's plan as explained by him, is to form a combination of the cotton growers with a capi tal of $50,000,000 or $100,000,000. Each cotton producer is to contrib ute one bale out of every five made to the trust. Estimating the crop at 8,000,000 bales, this plan would stock the trust with 1,600,000 bales, the withdrawal of which form the market, it is urged will appreciate the price 25 per cent. One general office is proposed with branch offices and warehouses at all cotto receiving points. The gins every county are to be listed aud possible, controlled so as to know the exact production and to regu In regard to the management o the company, it is to have one gen eral or head office, say in New York Dr New Orleans, with two genera directors from each cotton grow ing State ; have one office in each State with one director from each county in that State and have sub jffices in all the principal cities iud towns in the different States ;o control the local cotton, all to be ?outrolled by the general or head >ffice; have either a special in urance company organized, or the >reseut companies brought to a ow rate ; let company warehouse eceipts be issued with insurance olicies aud if the farmer needs loney, let the company advance im five-eighths or two-thirds of tie value of his warehouse re aipts. HOME-BAISED COFFEE. .Great Thing for the Farmers. arion Farmer. Mr. P. H. Martin, of Madden, aureus Co., S. C., is the agent for ie seed of a little plant which romises to save our farmers mil ouB of dollars. It produces a $rry, that is very similar in all spects to coffee and can be eily raised in this climate. The irmer has received a sample om Mr. Martin, and it has the me aromatic odor, and produces delicious a beverage as the i m - irted article. The seed is put up 25 and 30 cents packages, and ch seed produces a plant from lich a pint to a quart of coffee is thered. It can be planted until ne 20th. and matures in four >nths. Over 60 bushels have sn produced from a single acre, d it can be raised for less than a it per pound. The 50 cent pack ?s will plant 200 hills. By plant ; early two crops eau be raised. Do not be fooled by anybody o offers you something for noth ;. J. W. Marsh cfc Co., of John n, will give you the bebt goods the least money. .00 Rugs, all the latest patterns, rth75/, no duplicate, at Rani & Bland's. hi bc ha in n ge fin su de pe; as pri Ph (tl of iee the very best $1 50 shoe in world at j. W, Marsh ? Co.'s, tnston. Vindow Shades from 25/ up. gs from 25/ up, at Ramsey &, nd's. )on't be fooled by anyone, buy ds at the cheapest place, a dol saved is a dollar made, buy ii Ramsey & Bland. W. Marsh & Co., Johnston, e the best $UQ shoe on earth, e; rov the tba tili kef by rot th i wei moi fan to t at fan and pho ero] can ing bo ? rule a RU cori frou the twel AGRICULTURAL. Do Cow Peas Planted Among Corn Decrease the Yield? G. H. Turner in Practical Farmer. We were very much interested in reading the experience of Mr. A. L. Driggs, of Walker, Mo.; also Prof. Massey's comments thereon. We have raised cow peas for the past twenty-four years. In one in stance our corn was seriously dam aged and the. yield sensibly de creased by peas, but this decrease in the yield, though plainly attrib utable to the peas, was altogether owing to the improper way in which said peas were planted. In that instance corn and peas were planted alternately in the same drill (rows four feet apart, corn three feet, single stalks in drill, with a hill of peas between each two hills of corn) ; the peas grew luxuriantly and made a fine yield, but they so sapped the corn that it was almost a failure. We will now state a little experience we gained in 1875. A neighbor of ours planted a piece of rich creek bottom laud m corn (checked four) feet apart each way). After the coru came up the laud was laid off between the rows of corn and peas (black peas) were planted at each intersection of the rows. Both corn and peas throve finely until earing time; at that time (July) the corn was in heavy roasting ear, the j.eas of normal growth and blooming. It com menced raining, and rained oft' and on for a week ; at the end of that time it finished off with a wind which, owing to the ground being saturated with water, and the corn being extra heavy and fine, leveled the corn until it looked as if a roller had passed over it. The corn made a futile effort to straighten itself up again, but the peas just spread themselves until the com,well, it simply "wasn't) nowhere ;" one could not have told that corn had ever been planted there that year. Not a single blade 3orn was gathered where the pros pects had been good for thirty bushels to the acre. We have often seen the final i field of corn seriously abridged bv j 3lanting peas among (more espe- t sially in the drill with) the corn, j Another popular plan of sowing ^ Deas, but a plan we cannot too c trongly condemn, is that of strew ng them in the middles and cover- f ug them by the plow at layiug-by ^ ime. This plan may not iujure s he corn, but it is death to the j eas. p While the soil possessed its vir- ?? in freshness peas would mature a a ne crop planted this way, but the 8 me for slighting them in any such C( manner is past; slipshod meth is must now be abandoned. We ave tried raising peas by all the ^ irious methods in vogue, and out- ? de of devoting ground exclusively * them, giying them the same cul- -. cation as auy other hoed crop, L ive found the following plan for ^ ?th corn and peas the best: Plant corn in rows four and a j ilf or five feet apart. Plant peas ? center between the rows of corn ; " cultivating the corn the peas t one good working, which we id actually essential to best re- * Its. Here (in latitude 32 or 33 grees) we make it a rule to plant - as each week in May As long the land is planted to corn we ictice this sort of rotation: , anting corn on the old pea row iis to give the corn the benefit ^ the nitrogen stored up by the , is), and peas on the old corn net v. iVe are actually so enthused on j1 i "Pea as a Fertilizer" question, .? it we honestly believe the fer- . ty of land may be indefinitely )t up (if not actually increased) a rigid adherence to this short ^ot are ation. Be that as it may, of one ^ ng we are assured, viz. : That ori -e this practice kept up, the K 3t costly element of fertility the mer has to buy would not have * )e purchased, would be raised c^a home, and would enable the auc ner to the more easily purchase ve^ I pay cash for the potash and 0WI sphates removed by each corn arn i. "All praise the bridge that yon .ies them safely o'er," such be- tow the case, we have no desire to ^an in exception to such a general or i j we have found the above plan ?* ^ ire plan, sure for both peas and I. Even at this distance apart . ? the corn the peas easily reach jj-jj top of the corn stalks (ten to qUe] ve and even fifteen feet high), I you though not enough to make the corn blow down. We have thought, and are still of the same opinion} that the peas (planted according I to latter plan) instead of being det rimental to the corn were, on the contrary, an actual benefit to same (owing to the shade of the vines retarding evaporation), said evap oration in our opinion would use up the soil moisture much faster and more completely than the pea vines would. They not only retain the mois ture in the ground for their own use^ but for that of the corn also. We "would rather have peas plant ed between th? rows of all our) corn than to let the middles lie naked, even if we never gathered a | single pea. Our usual yield, plant ed in this way, is forty bushels of corn and ten bushels of peas per acre. Planted in this manner, we have never seen the^'ield of corn decreased by, or on account of the peas being planted among it; on the contrary, we believe them to be actually beneficial to the corn, and that, let it be ever so droughty, the yield will be larger with them than without. Lafayette County, Miss. Sleeping With Baby. Exchange. The free-from-care and easy taking old bachelor, who in his momentary lapse of wisdom, thinks of matrimony should at the same time think of the remote but con tingent possibility of his having to sometimes sleep wiiu a baby, should he marry. Years of experi ence of martyrdom of this kind, says a writer, makes me feel it to be my duty to set forth the misery arising from a contingency of this kind. The baby, if he happens to be a lusty little fellow of eight or ten months, will decline to stay cover ed, and will also decline to allow you to keep yourself covered. He indicates his wishpo ? * tion by keepi . ing jill night ?u*iC=C2! y O Ut He will ii wise, endwise, Cat-a-VUXUO. . I Dr in any position but that which ?rill give a few inches of room and i few minutes' sleep. His infinite leeds will b^gin to manifest them selves about 1 o'clock in the mora ng, at which watching hour you viii go blundering away in the lark for a drink of water. He will howl steadily andcheer ully from 2 to 3 o'clock, and will :ick you furiously between the houlder blades with every howl, t will not be of any use to you to ?at him tenderly and sing out: There-there !" He is right there nd knows it, and intends that you hould kuow it. It is no use to say oaxingly : ? "What does papa's baby want?" Papa's baby doesn't want any ling but to howl, and he is grati nug that amiable desire to the tmost. Il is no use to add to your tdgmeut-day list of enormities / swearing. And if your wife is been calamly passive through all she will develop an amusing ?gree of spirit if you dare to lay ^ e weight of your finger on that V loor, dear, innocent, darling -eetneBS." He will squirm all 88 ght as though he was first cousin a an angle worm. He will journey *n ound all over the bed, both un- T hf] r and on top of the coverings. . You are no sooner asleep than S1( e of his moist little heels is ^e inted firmly on your nose or in ; ur mouth, and later on, with W1 ildhood's scorn of decency and sorurn, he will sit astride your ck and grow green and purple r^ th rage when gently made to sit rm ewhere. Should he fall out of a c ! bed and yell loud enough to be 8 ird all over your yard, your wife 1 say 6he firmly believes that vei i pushed him out, and that you rei not fit to be a father anyhow. at animated dialogue of a purely vate and personal nature will r low this remark. XT ' Ne Jut when the roystering little CD? ip finally "snuggles up" to you, we( 1 goes to sleep with one of his yie vety little cheeks c^se to your 0j? i, and one of his warm, soft rj is around your neck, you find r heart growing soft and tender eve ard him, and you would, single- yea ded, wage a war against a host ^] ay down your life for the love jV] lim. *Vo '- Hei le carry a larger stock of Bug- OWE than all the houses in Edge- Woi I county combined, conse- ordi illy we are in a position f?o save money. Ramsey & Blaset. ? Df DYES FOR COTTON. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES THAT LIGHTEN LABOR. Beautiful and Brilliant Colors That Do Not Fade-Carpets Where the Color Stays as Bright ?s When New. Within the last few years science has been at work in the matter of dyeing, and the results are the fast diamond dyes for cotton-turkey red, pink, purple, orange, olive green, brown, etc. These dyes make colors so fast that even wash ing in strong soap-suds will not start them. If a woman is sure to get the fast diamond dyes for cot ion when she wants to dye cotton, she will be able to dye absolutely fast, non-fading colors that will stay until the goods are worn out. A practical dyer, writing to The Weavers' Herald, says : "I used to dye with roots and barks, but after all my work, (and it was a tedious job,) I was not satisfied, for the colors were homely and often faded. At last I commenced to use dia mond dyes, and the process is so simple and easy that the work is a pleasure. I have used carpets made of rags dyed with diamond dyes three years, and the co'ors are still as when new." Many of the diamond dye fast cotton colors are so superior to other dye-stuffs that they are used by dyers everywhere, even in the big mills and the large dye houses. Imitators of these reliable dyes may claim that their cotton dyes are "just as good," but practical tests prove the diamond is the on ly kind that makes colors which soap will not wash out or sunlight fade. The diamond dves * The number of the dead near Bassano was considerable. Curi ous to ascertain the loss of the memv, Bonaparte in the evening rode over the field with his staff, vhen their notice was attracted by ;he bowlings of a dog, that seem id to increase in proportion as hey approached the spot whence hey proceeded. "In the deep lilence of a beautiful moonlight light," said the Emperor, "a dog eaped suddenly from beneath the lothes of his dead master, rushed ipon us, and then immediately re urned to his hiding-place, howling 30st piteously. He alternately icked his master's hand, and ran Dwarda us, as if at once soliciting id and seeking revenge. Whether, wing to my own particular turn of lind at that moment, the time, the lace, or the actiou itself I knew ot, but certainly no incident on ay field of battle ever produced ) deep an impression on me. I [voluntarily stopped to contem .ate the scene. This man, thought has friends in the camp, or in s companj', and here he lies for ,ken by all except his dog. What lesson nature presents here, rough the medium of an animal ! hat a strange being is mau ! and m mysterious are his impres ts ! I had without emotion 01 red battles which were to decide e fate of the arm : I had beheld th tearless eyes the execution of Dse operations by which num rsof my countrymen were sac iced; and here my feelings were ised by the mournful howling of log! Certainly at*that moment hould have been easily moved a suppliant enemy. I could ?y well imagine Achilles sur idering up the body of Hector the sight of Priam's tears." Almost a New York Daily. That Democratic wonder, The w York Weekly World, has just mged its weekly into a twice-a ?k paper, and you can now get ? two papers a week for the same price-$1.00 a year, 'hink of it! The news from ,v York right at your door fresh ry three days-104 papers a r. ^e have made arrangements by ch we can furnish this paper . the twice-a-week New York rid all for only $2.25 a year, e is the opportunity to get your i local paper and Trie New York rid twice every week at extra' narily low rates. ?^BE ADVERTISER, \ Edgefield, S. CV V