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Edenfield Advertiser IT OS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, MAR. 6, 1895. Court. Judge Earle aud Solicitor Nel son arrived on time Monday morn ing and court was promptly open ed at 10 o'clock. Judge Earle seems to be per fecta at home on the bench and presides with equal dignity, grace, and courtesy. His charge to the Grand Jury was one of the best ever delivered in an Edgefield court. This body-the grand in quest of the county-its judicial eyes and ears, so to speak, is an unusually intelligent one and the selection of Capt. Henry B. Gall man as foreman a very judicious choice, his integrity and intelli gence eminently fitting him for this responsible position. Only one case was heard on tho first day of conrl, that of tho State against John Henry Washington for breaking in Dan Branson's house. John Henry plead guilty. To-day, Tuer day, the Modoc still case will come up and will proba bly be tried. Has Senator Irby degenerated into a bug eater at last. A thousand Salvation Army members bade farewell to Gen eral Booth when ho sailed from New York. The town of Aiken has given up all idea of testing the dispensary law in the United States supreme court. ^ Clemson College opened on / Wednesday, February 27th and by Friday night over 300 students had been enrolled and a large number came in Saturday and Sunday. Hereafter dispensary bottles will have a stopper label, instead of scaling wax. The new device is a gummed paper, and with the coat of arm, name and state, and ini tials of Mixon. Our beloved co-worker in the vineyard, the News and Courier, erstwhile so chary of its compli ments, now pours out the milk of human kindness on al] Tillmar. ites and conservatives, gold bugs and sil v?rit?s. Is this the begin ning or the political millenium iv South Carolina? The Edgefield Dispensary took . in on Monday of this week $233, and not a drunken man on th? streets ! When in the history of Edgefifld could this last assertion have been made of any other Salesday in March, when under the barroom regime? And yet why should so much money have been spent for whis key when the erv of hard times prevails throughout the land, and some even in cur own county are suffering for bread? Good roads and cotton mills -"have worked wonders for Char lotte, N. C., in the past two years. Here is the record as presented by the Observer. For 1893: "Four cotton faccories; 1 compress (85,000 bales;) 1 oil mill; popula tion 11,557;" "Eight cotton fac tories; 2 compresses (143,000 bales) 2 oil mills (one of them the largest in the South;) 3 planing mills; 1 furniture factory; 1 bag ging and tie factory ; 1 sash, door and blind facto y ; new City Hall, cost $65,000; population Charlotte and suburbs 20,000; 650 new houses; macadamized county roads, 10 miles streets macade mized and paved; 8new churches; paid fire department; 2 hotels; Observer building," This town, it should be noted, 13 the head quarters of factories built on "the instalment plan." "Last year alone, as already shown in the Manufacturers' Re cord, the new mills being built in the South footed up about 250,000 spindles. Mills already planned to be built this year will increase the South's spindles by 200,000. This is an extremely conservative estimate, and is under rather than over what results will prove. What the gains in the South's spindles during the year will be is difficult to figure out ; Indications promise at least 500,000, but it would not be surprising to see the figures go higher. The four lead ing cotton manufacturing States of the South, according to Dock ham's table, increased their spin dles during the two years as fol lows: Alabama, 31,688; Georgia, 48 998; North Carolina, 146,200; South Carolina, 118,479. Outside of Massachuselts but a little over 50,000 new spindles were put in operation in the other New Eng land States. Rhode Island shows a decrease of over 9,000 spindles." Subscribe t? the Edgefield AD VERTISES. Intelligent Farming. Ivir. A. H. White, of Rock Hili, in a letter to the News aud Cou rier, gives a statement of his meth od of raising twenty-one bales of cotton on twelve acres of land and his expense account which is as follows: Manuring, $ 50 00 Preparation, 15 00 Planting, . 2 00 Seed, 6 00 Hoeing, 7 00 Ploughiug, 6 00 Picking, 85 00 Ginning, 20 00 Bagging and ties, S 00 Total, $199 00 CROP. 21-bales, 457 pounds each, 4.80c. ' $454 GO 525 bushels of cotton seed, 50c per bushel, 262 50 $717 10 Deducting expenses, -199 00 Balance, $51810 This shows without doubt that cotton raising can be made to pay when done in an intelligent scien tific manner. Mr. White says: The twelve acres of land from which I gathered the twenty-one bales of cotton, averaging four hundred and fifty one pounds, last year, is a part of a tract of land formerly consisting of thirty-two acres. When I commenced farm ing on it several years ago I sup posed it wculdgrow not more than six hundred pounds of seed cot ton per acre. I divided it into tracts of sixteen acres each, and at once I commenced a rotation of crops, viz., first cotton, followed by oats, then peas, then cotton again, always and only manuring the cotton crop with a compost consisting of stable manure, cot ton seed, acid and kainit, until I had worked it up to producing very easily with ordinary seasons a bale per acre. Of this land I only had the twelve acres cultiva ted iu cotton. CORRESPONDENCE Pedagogue Writes Again. MR. EDITOR: YOU have recently had two articles on the school question from two educators, and we suppose it was their intention to provoke discussion. Theories are nice when formula ted in the study, but when applied in practice are often very disap pointing. We have long been an advocate of special districts aud educational centres, but our opin ion in the last few years has been somewhat changed as we witness their practical application. Our school system, with its special dis tricts, may be suitable for a very thickly settled country, but ju our thinly settled country it is a mis erable failure. Competition is necessary to the success of any thing ?nd all pursuits, without it, degenerate into a mere routine without life or success. A district is laid off, trustees elected, and applications are sent in by teachers with as many dif ferent prices. The trustees may have a favorite, esp9cially a rela tive, and he will be employed. Sometimes it is left to a vote of the patrons, and they will certain ly elect the cheapest teachers-all without regard to merit. What then is the consequence? Those who have a just cause to be dissat isfied cannot have a school, be cause the trustees will only allow one school in the district. They either keep their children at home or send them off, being generally men of property. The ignorant of the district do not realize their loss. If I had my wav I would de stroy every school district in the State and throw the system into the Atlantic. The people, not the system, though, may be to blame, but it is more merciful to destroy the system than the people. We were glad to learn that the Professor has gone from an hum ble home to opulence and distinc tion ; but when he has taught as loug as I have he will do like me, go from a home of opulence to one that is very humble. We endorse Prof. Crouch's sug gestion with regard to a library. We were never more impressed with this than the other day when a class in Tarbell's primer had to write a short biography of Clay, Webster, Cosar, and Capt. John Smith. It was a puzzled class I can tell you. They thought they had heard of Clay and Webster, but of Cosar they had never beard. They wrote a fair sketch of Capt. John Smith, we suppose because his life was so romantic, and-men tion of him is made so often in school readers. If every school had a good Encyclopaedia, it would be a wonderful help in our coun try schools, if we could get no other books of reference. Prof. Crouch will have to join us in pleading for good school buildings. We cannot Lave a good library un less we have somewhere to keep the books. Some one goes into our school buildings now, and steals the children's books, and we would not have any bookR in our libraries very long unless we had a secure building in which to keep them. There is another evil affecting or at least threatening our schools besides the want of system or li braries, and that is, sectarian prejudices. It has divided the schools of our towns, and is grad ually spreading in the country. It will not only break up our schools, but it will undermine social order and destroy good government, through this spirits showing it self in every form of our society. The Roman Catholics claim that Protestants are incapable of pre serving social order, or insuring permanency to forms of societv. It. is p 'oposed to be carried into the State's high institutions of learning. lu a recent issue of the Cotton Plant it advocated that ; Baptist be made president of th Female College at Rock Hill. N one would object to a Baptist ii itself, but ir demanded it becaus of the existence of a. ifectariai spirit. It would he better if th heads of all our institutions o learning should not belong to au j church rather than an intolerau spirit should invade their eacrei precincts. We think the perioi has arrived for some great mai; like Luther, or Wesley to rise u and restore true re'igion, aud som stateman, like Roger Williams, t separate religion and politics. I is right and proper that an ir structor should be a moral mai and in all respects shold have faultless character. The churc and around the firesides, is th place to give religious instruc tions and the inculcation of secta rian views and prejudices and nc our schools, for in them we fin children of all persuasions. Mor upon same subject. PEDAGOGUE. A CARD. To the People of Edgefield : I have heard that it has bee circulated in Edgefield County b some blackhearted scoundrel, tba I am here acting as an Evans cou stable. I want to say right here the mau that started this false re port is an infamous liar. I worked for the State before came here as Assistant Dispense at Edgefield. I resigned my posi tion there, and am now doing bu siness at NOB. 1261 and 126 Broad Street. Augusta, Ga. I ar responsible for every word I say. Respectful h', HENRY M. KEAKSEY. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 27. Answer to Pedagogue. WTe would say there is an nnex pended balance 'o the credit o the public schools of the countv This balance accumulates by th School Commissioner allowing; ?certain per cent, for nulla bon; au I n<.n-est taxes. If theJTreae mer is able to collect more thai ^he per cent, allowed the bal a nc gO"s to the credit of the genera school fund, which up to dat? amounts to over six thousand dc?l lars; and from the best- authorilj we have we regret that we canuo apportion ''aid balance wi thou spacial legislation. .Air. A." E. Padgett, cashier of tr i Farmers Bank, ii,formed us that h does not keen the Treasurer' school a econ it and as thc amoun is not deposited for any delimit per.nd-it. ia impassible to use i 'or speculation. The law forbid the School Commissioner handliiij any money belonging to schoo funds, and is not even allowod ti discount teachers pay warrante We eau find no record of an; money being paid lo School Com missioners, or County Board, b; the Sta*e Board. WTe hope thi above is satisfactory. P. N. LOTT, S C E C Edgefie'd, March 4, '95.' ?lie Review Continued-Luthe Jackson's Bakery on a Boom, &c. We are glad that our article o last week ha^ given the Edgefieh Bakery of Mr. L. E. skson sucl a boom. A word spoke.: in season &c. THE CLERK'S OFFICE. John B. Hill makes a good clerk a very good one, but it is said tba the office pays so much that other are likely to be in the field ii 1896, in fact they are already a it. As the little boy said abou the preserves "it is too good to le alone." The good people, the dea people, will decide who shall havi it. Esquire John Kennerly, and i jolly old soul is he, would make ai excellent Clerk of the Court, am his friends will push him for tbj office. Next comes our friend am neighbor Cant. Sam Mays, whi has never yet been beaten ii) any thing he ever undertook, either ii peace or war. He has never sough political office. But we will no declare the election until the vote are counted. - It would not be wise to ignon Capt. Jas. C. Williams in th< race for this office should he de termine lo make the race, as hi has already served one term anc acceptably to the people. THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. As for Sheriff Ouzts, the office is his. He makes a noble Sherif and he has out-sneezed the bosf sneezer. Somebody else will be Sheriff, but only when man hai another eye in the back of the oc cipital bone, and that will nnvei be; for when God finished hi? work he pronounced it good and rested on tho seventh day. In conclusion : As for myself J will not be a candidate for office until after thc constitutional con vention, which may decide that J am not a citizen and not entitled to vote much less hold office. Bul the year 1896-the year for oui next State and general election will in my judgment go down the railway of time as the most excit ing io all our records. There will be a grand round up of all the voters of the nation, on all kind: of issues, from the barren shores of rock-ribbed Maine to the alliga tors of the Everglades, and fron Cape Hatteras to the Golden Gate Once upon a time, during lix old days of Rome, while a grea' multitude of citizens, gathered ii the comitiat were listening to tin fervid oratory of Tiberius or Cairn Gracchus, so great a shout wen up from the assembled hosts tba a crow Hying overhead fell dead ii their midst. In 189G we look fo dead crows to fall at our feet, ii every gathering on political mat ters, whenever any shalt bo ven turesome enough to fly over on; a heads. Q ' Fronde, tho eminent English 0 writi-r, says that "the inequalities El of life and that the}-, are so pa e tiently endured ,-are the marvel of n humau society." These inequali e ties will exist and provoke discus f sion, turmoil, and revolutions "till y the last syllable cf recorded time." t DARK CORNER. 1 March 1, '95. ? -_ i, News at and Around Cleora. P - 0 The region round about C!e.,ra, 0 or old Duntonsville, is getting to .* be one of the best farming s?c tions in the State. The most of *> tbe people here live at homo and a board at the same pla. e, making D their own meat and bread. e Mr. J. H. Heel has already be ;* gun to haul out his compost and L" Mr. W. C. Jackson is doing like 'J wise. d Mr. Sam Cheatham is breaking e up the ground getting ready for planting corn. We all work up here from day light till dark except when Eb. Reynolds comes by going to the village with a load of cat% when everybody stops work and goes out n to the road to h- ar his big tales. v It is said that there is a great jL deal of the new miueral "Mono , zite" in the sands of the creek and 1 branch bottoms in this sectiou 2 which will soon be mined out and shipped lo New York. A gentle j mau was here from that city and ,. <;says it is O K. ? Mr.tl. W. Cartledge bas discov [m cred a new process for-tanning g bides and has a large number nice Q ly dressed and on hand for sale at reasonable figures. He has in mind to put up a steam tannery this fall. He has also a fine liddle that ho wishes to swan for biddy. If 'any gentleman wishes a good vi I lin this is his opportunity. JOHN BUGLEHORN. " Hill Snoolces Writes Pleasantly 1 of a Pleasant Gathering. i The young people of the Butler i community have always been - famed, far and near, for their un i paralleled social inclinations. For > the past month they ha vc been ! given the opportunity of attend .> iug musicals, ludd from place to . pluCH, vi h ??re they, not oulyenjoy*. . ut) pleasant social inir-rcourse, bul t where a partial knowledge of mu t sic was made available to al!. Gi! tho evening of the first in e si an ?, the doors of the. most hos r> pi ta bio home of Mr. M. P. Walton were thrown wide open for the in gathering of these merry makers. Though this night was not equal r to the one depicted by "Lost Buy'1 sometime ago, for the wind biew ami tue vain descended in torrents, yet the people went in still great er toi rents. The young people went, the bab es went, the-old peu ple went. Some went in carriages, some went in buggies, Eome went in carts, some went on horse-back, some went on mule-back, some went walking, some weut,?n ou? horse wagon.*, some we ni" i n two horse wagons, some went in three horse wagons, some went who stay ed at home, in fact they kept go ing and coming until the house was filled to its utmost capacity, and everyone ?.retent seemed to T?T doing their best. Thc order of the evening con sisted in anything and everything that struck the fancy of those present. Thc majority. of the }oung people amused themselves by playing harmless games, while there were some aspiring archers present practising very promiscu ously with Cupid's darts. Music was furnished for the occasion by Messrs. Griffith and Pitts, which was enjoyed by all alike. About 10 o'clock, when all had arrived and exchanged greetings, and even the most bashful boys had begun to peep in at the doors, supper was announced by Mr. Walton. All were now ushered into the din ing hall, where an excellent and most bountiful supper was served. No comment is needed to make known the success of this pait of the programme to those who know Mrs. Walton, and to strangers it suffices to say, that the many good things that were served were pre pared in a most tempting way. and were equally welcome to all. Though the crowd was unusually large, yet there was a gracious plenty for all. After all had. eaten until they could eat no more, ful ly another hour was spent in play ing and talking, and the merry peals of laughter told that the hearls of all were free from care. Indeed words are inadequate to express the pleasant success of this gathering, but then how could it have been otherwise when it was at Mr. and Mrs. Walton's house, and Dr. Kirksey was in his jolliest mood? BILL SNOOKES. Butter Making. The vessel for saving cream in should be either tin er earth ware, well glazed; should always be kept clean and sweet., and should be kept where the surrounding tem perature is 40 degrees if possible, thus not allowing the ripening to go on until a sufficient quantity of cream has been saved for churn ing. Then 'place the creamcan in a temperature of from GO to G5 de grees in the summer seasun and from 05 te. 70 in winter, stirring often, uutil the cream thickens a little aud acquires a pleasant or slightly acid taste, miugled with th" natural r.weefne5Sof the cream, being careful not to allow the tem perature to rise or Hie acid to form sufficiently to Jappe; or curdle the casein of the milk in the cream. When il has arrived al the above condition, which can soon be as certained by a lillie care and ex perience, it is ready for churning, .vliich should be done at aa low a temperature a? the butter will f. rm at. Sometimes thu Inn t'-r-ir.n.kr.rs cannot conveniently control the temperature of the cream while being saved. In such case ir. ?:J necessary to thoroughly si ir sui! mixt be cream together three 01 four times a d;?y until a sufficient quantity is sa\ed, being careful tc keep the temperature low and not to add any sweet cream within thc last twenty-four hours of the timi of churning. In the winter season, when cows have, been fed largely on dry feed lacking in sugar, especially if tb.py have been milking for a numbei of months, the milk produced is also liable to lack in sugar, that important element in bringing about the ripening of the cream, in which case it is recommended to add a little "starter" to the cream a few hours before churn ing. The starter is made by sour ing skim milk to quite au acid condition, renewing it from time to time and keeping it on hand in a cool place for the above purpose. -Montreal Herald. COLUMBIA DISTRICT WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCJEXY.-The a?nual meeting of the W. F. M. S. of the Columbia District will bo held in Washington Strevt Church, Co lumbia, 19-21 April. Miss Laura Haygood has very kindly.consent ed to be with us. Let each Aux iliary, adult and juvenile, electa delegate at their regular meeting in March, and send the name at once to Miss E. E. Gibson, Arsenal Hill, Columbia. MRS. P. L. WRIGHT, Johnston, S. C. Dist. Sec. TAMERLANE. Til is Celebrated Stallion can be lound at my bouse, for the present, three miles; south of Edgefield. Terms : Insure foal, $3.0C Insure cult to stand und suck, $1U.0(J Will make stands at diff?rent places in the county, for S marcs. ?. li. M AYS, Mardi ">, '95. Edgefield, t?. C. COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. XllK Members of the County Board of Commissioners will meet ut Edge? lield on Tuesday next, the I21I1 Mureil, The purpose of such meeting is rc make arrangements to borrow money to pay court expenses. M. A. WHITTLE, .Supervisor. J. 1). FRASER, Cl'k. B'rd. COTTON WANTED.-The Langley Manufacturing Com pany will pay Augusta prices for Cotton delivered' at their Factory at Langley S. C., until further notice. Lions for rent sud advances; Bill of sale of personal property; Land deeds and Mortgages, for sale at the ADVK urisKR I3iiiee. Cottoi Tests made by the Ala1 , elsewhere prove ?orjcj Kaimt cotton blight. Planters can j annually by this disease. Send They are sent free. It will cost you r dollars. GERMA] JOHNSTON an DEAL: Vehicles of all Kinds, FURNITURE and COFFIN Jan. 29-1895. O JOINTE J Pratt ai Alista Cc LeryS S?OCM G[i Eg! AUGUS Machinery and Supplies. I Get our Prices before yoi WM. SeHWE ^JE WE -HAS FOR TnK HOLIDAY Diamonds, Wa and Silver Ever displayed in the city. When visi our stock and get prices. RELIABLE C COR. Bli 0AD and 7 TH 8 TTE! PUBLIC SCHOOL APPORTION I\'o. 1. Blocker, 2 North Coleman, 3 South Coleman, j 4 Collins, 5 Collier, G West Cooper, 7 East Cooper, S East Dean, ?J West Dean, JO E G ruy, ll W Gray, 12NHib!er, 13 S Hitler, 14 \V Huiet, 15 E Huiet, 16 Johnston, 17 N Meriwether, 18 S Meriwether, 19 N Mobley, 20 S Mobley, 21 N Norris, 22 S Norris, 23 Pickens, 24 Ryan, 25 Germanville, 26 Shaw, 27 Tolbert. 28 N Washington, 29 S Washington, 30 Wards, 31 Wise, 32 Moss, 33 Harmony, 34 Fork, 35 Edgefield, 36 Butler, 37 Ceutennial, 38 Holley, 39 Parksville, 40 Ridge Spring, 41 Trenton, 42 Cleveland, 43 Z-.ar. 144 Union, j45 Higgin-?, 146 G regg, ! j 47 Kirksej', i ! 48 Eureka, 49 Union Grove, 50 Fair Fax, $ 508 56 12037 96 24 535 2S 512 43 4r,0S4 46761 4S9 82 450 ll 2S1 19 394 31 380 42 360 32 310 81 421 87 517 91 328 37 428 17 559 97 4(51 68 SCO 90 416 70 213 75 303 26 401 75 281 55 4??5 00 2^9 48 349 59 529 31 4-7 20 4?? 56 48176 23t? 79 4S;i 92 276 97 309 79 251 20 301 03 332 10 287 04 2?(S 37 24 i 87 29 J 25 286 87 201 37 9.?S 75 313 00 151 89 102 02 Districts number 51 and 52 iver? laid oi? after th? lax return- of last ve^r were nia-le, and for that reason a just apportionment tor above district cuuld not be mad?.'. Pay wan ants, sigm-d by the Trus : lofa of the a! ove districts, will j have Ki be c-harjred to the school fund <>f the Townships or School Districts in vvlii :h they wer-- orig inal)} location. WH uou'd a,;:i'?i insist on the Trustees taking mor;' interest in the sch- ols under their respective charg" We bear s ane complaint on this line and a hick of int .-rest shown, except lo Bign pay wariantp. If lhere nr?: tboso who have 60 much i other business that they cannot j look after this all-important duty, ? then th-.'ir resignation is in ord~r. P. N. LOTT. Soho J Commissioner. ti Blight bama Experiment Station and yjhaj. m* . 'm r-. Prevents 2 Drevent the immense loss caused for our pamphlets. ?othing to read them, and they will save you M KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York. d EDGEFIELD, ERS IN - Fine Harness, Saddles, S, - - HARDWARE. Bes,. Chapaos Oe ci. IRON WORKS AND SUPPLY COMPANY. 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AUSTIN j-OHinsrsTonsr, s. c. - That there isa place in Augusta where you can get something nice and tempt ing to eat in the FANCY GROCERY Line ? DOSCHER & CO., carry a full line of the latest Home and Foreign Delica cies, When you visit Augusta come and see us. Prices will please you. DOSCHKR & CO. GOG EROADWAY, ,-FOR-' FIRE, ACCIDENT, TORNADO, and Ginhouse Insurance, Come to W. J. McKERALL, Agt. EDGEFIELD, S. C. LEA TAIZ OB-FIJ CL O THIESS, 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 wbic 1 are not only intrinsically good, but which also, in pattern,'style, and finish gratify a cultivated and discriminating taste, and at the same lime we ann\o make our prices so low the closest buyers will be our steadiest 'customer* Polite attention to all. A call will b?> appreciated. I. C. LEVY & CO. TAILOR-FIT CLOTHIERS, AUGUSTA, GA