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Edsrefield Advertiser Tl??S. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. ll, 1895. JDO. Gary Evans will be, is, president of the Constitutional Convention, CongreBtman Talbert having withdrawn in his favor. The following is Talbert's card of withdrawal : ' A great many of my friends have urged, and are now urging me to make the race for pr?si dent of the Constitutional con tention, which assembles today, .hut since investigating the matter .carefully I find it to be an estab lished precedent that the Gover nor, by virtue of hiaoffice, should! De the presiding officer when a| member of the convention. After I thanking my friends kindly for! their continued confidence in me, | and wishing harmony to prevail throughout the session of^the con vention; I earnestly entreat my friends not to use my name as a candidate and most respectfully beg them individually and col lectively to support his excellency, John Gary Evaus, for president of this convention, whose eminent ability, particularly qualifies him for the arduous duties of 6aid po sition. / State elections will be held in twelve States in November. These ave: Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nebraska, Mississippi Massachusetts, Maryland, Ken tucky, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, an New York. After these elections are over a chorus of "I told you sos" will be heard through tot t the land. The Columbia State is very :nucb in favo; of new counties. Having failed in every other plan to dis integrate the army of reformers this paper bas now adop'ed this scheme to break up their strong holds, territorially speaking. \T9ry shrewd. But we will see if reform ers aro to be bamboozled. Spartan burg, Uuion, and Edge field seem to be the special butt of the new county workers, and the antis have taken hold of this county making business and '? likely to swamp the whole They are entirely too eager. There is no renp.o . con vention should rer longer than thro ttle members vt>t larger per diem than . atios. Why this general J?B of opinion unless there cert o' r> ?A f _ ground was broken on Saturday /; for th ? arection of an iron ndry in Darlington. It will have a blast furnace of 2,000 pounds. The Woman suffragists have "camp3d" in the Capitol against the gatbering^f the delegates for the State Conyentiou. There are, six negroes 'in the consti !utiona? convention which is nov- in session. The Time Will Come. ; A printer, if he will fasten or fix little things in his memory will seldom fail, sooner or later, to get even with those who befriend him, or go out of their way to do him an unkindness. It required twenty years to af ford tho opportunity to return the kindness which General Mani gault had shown to me as a sol dier, but it came, andi tried to re pay the kindly speech and the .substantial favor of years ago. When he came to Abbeville I did not hunt him up, or make honied professions. When I met him iu Columbia I never referred to his kindness to me in the war, nor of ray support of him in his candidacy, but I was trae to him ?ll the same. All that a printer hap to do is to bide his time, aud if he is dis creet he will have an opportunity to strike effective blows t at foes who may be worthy of this notice, or give the kindly boost to his de serving friends. ? goou memory and a little patience will afford the opportunity.-Abbeville Press and Banuer. A Postal Card. Is^ill that it will cost you to get a specimen eopy of The Columbia Daily Register or The Columbia Weekly Register. The Daily is $6 a year and the Weekly fl a year. In the Weekly you obtain twelve pages of real live news, a handsomely printed paper and good large type that any one may read, in the Daily you get the best telegraphic news service extant, that of the Associated Press, whose leased wire runs into the Register office, sup plying 15.000 words of the latest news every night. The constitutional convention is near at hand, and The Register will contain a good report of its proceed ings. Xow is the time to subscribe if you wish to get the continuous news of the convention. Address Charles A. Calvo, Jr., Columbia, S. C., for spec imen copies of the Register, and in subscribing remit by P. O. order, reg istered letter, Exn.reas draft or per 30XU? check. >l CORRESPONDENCE A DEE1} DARK AND DAM ' NABLE SCHEME. REFORM COUNTIES TO BE DISMEMBERED AND CON SERVATIVE COUNTIES ANI) A CONSERVATIVE LEGISLATURE TO BE BUILT UP ON THEIR RUINS. REFORMERS, AWAKE, ARISE OR BE FOREVER FALLEN. ?The Milk in the Cocoanut." , MR. EDITOR: Fr?m the many new County schemes now agita ting the public mind, it would seem that our grand old County glorioufi old Edgefield, with its proud cud glowing memories all along the years past and gone, and the enviable position she to day occupies among her sister Counties of the State-is to be cut and sla shed into mincemeat and almost wiped from the face of the earth. And why? Are all the ef forts now being made towards the establishment of the new Coun ties to be known as Troy and Mc Cormick and (ire m wood and Nine ty-Six and Batesburg, put forth at this time solely in the interest of the penile, the poor farmer who p< rbaps is occasionally somewhat discommoded by living at au in convenient distance ir^m the Court H Juso? Cr rather, Mr. Editor, io it not io a great extent for the pur pose cf gratifying th? ambition aud contributing to the ageirau dizement of the denizens of the respective little towns to be con verted into Court House centres; and above all, with the hope increasing and strengthen'' political potter? Yes, votive political pm itor, don't you i nm*. . "The milk in the cocoanut- i all? We fear that that is the tru, animas and PIT cf " the .JO** I Coria orfcUivg fe! cosi' \. ' }ev.*df:.i'!y pre e.-?- .' , ?ian .?. -i " -un-. ^^dSt8 Of ..-i? for new those sections of - ?ere tLe most Con i..4DOff reside into small i$?-and ere long some four el and gyr beloved old county-the ackcowfedged banner County of the i3ta':e for Reform and Good Government-the home of Till man and Tillmanism-will be shorn of her strength and influ ence, and become the laughing stock of the said new Counties, through whose ill-will and hate and evil-minded machinations Edgefield's dismemberment and ruin will have been consummated. I am no pessimist or alarmist, Mr. Editor, but beyond a doubt thin will be the outcome of the present designs of the small Coun ty uchemers, if they are successful in having their pet projects es tablished by Legislative enact ment. And not only are the Con ter sratives of the above mentioned towns working like beavers on this line, but recently the entire Con servative press of the State 6eem to have seen the "new light." and are. now daily and weekly indict ing long editorials on the great importance aud great necessity of more and smaller Counties, the better to promote theintorests and convenience of the dear people. It is strange-very strange--that they should all so suddenly be come so solicitions and so united in urging the establishment of these new Counties, never having discovered a reason therefor until at this particular juncture. See, M.r. Editor, how clearly it has the semblance of a new hatched scheme to overthrow Reformism-a last hope, a dernier resort as. it were, to build up Conservatism and re store the "Old Ring Rule'* party to power again. Leastwise, it looks that way to me-and that the "scheme" has been passed up and down the line-and is now being layed for all it is worth. And further, Mr. Editor, if the four or five Counties already men tioned are cut off from Edgefield, ?.nd then old Saluda-the only ection pf Edgefield justly entitled to a new Couuty, and should have lad one long ago,-is likewise cut )ff, with her fifteen hundred solid Reform voters, then verily, poor old Edgefield, (?ie remnant,) will indeed be in a sorry plight. And worse still, with the three or four ittle Conservative towns yet re maining in the old County, very probably Reform rule will be a thing of the past even in proud old Reform Edgefield. We hope our Reform Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and our members to fhe Legisla ture, will weigh well and investi gate thoroughly ail tho new Coun ty schemes ana go exceedingly slow in coming to a conclusion jp the premises. Writh an exception as to Sal li da's petition for a new County, because the people of that section are eminently ?ntitled to better Court House facilities, I am ut terly opposed to any further sub divisions of our pouuty at this time. The little bowns herein named, apparently so anxious ?for Court Houses, are ali in a pros perous and prospering condition, and will do well, for the present at least, to gb Oil building cotton factories, oil mills, &c, and erect their Court Houses when the people actually need them. And now in conclusion, Brother Reformers of Edgefield, we urge you to awake-throw off your lethargy-and make all proper ef forts to thwart the deep laid plans of those who are striving with might and main to place us under domination of the "Old Ring Rule" power once more. And Brother Reformers throughout the State-you see our coming trou bles and woeful plight-we beg, we implore you to come to our succor and to our rescue from the trap laid for us. Do we ask help of you in vain? We trow not. EDGEFIELD REFORMER. P. S.-Since writing the above my paper, the Piedmout Headlight, basc?me to hand, and I clip there from the annexed extract from an editorial on "The New County Ag itation :" "We have conversed with hun dreds of farmers from> every sec tion of our county, and are yet to find the first man but bitterly op poses any scheme to reduce the present area of counties in South Carolina. We never knew our people so united on any subject as this. They see that this new county movement is nothing but the plot of a few ambitions towns to become county sites for the es pecial behoof and benefit of a few anti property-owners, and of de signing politicians to thus divide and spit up the power of our far mers and increase their strength. Let us cut up Spartanburg Coun ty, for instance, to give Gaffuey and Woodruff court-houses, and the reformers had as well bend their necks to accept the rule of the towns sgain, for such will surely be the outcome." Col. Gantt bits the nail square ly on the head-and has our un bounded thanks. E. R. Friend Pedagogue is c- ? dy a wonderful man. TT i owe him some gr- ".? . not be overburdened ? , butl've got tr ouch t mad Ht a v. .' When I was ! ' H lise, I mot the be Johnstone, a good : old darkey ano 'h'1 mg lawyer who did tin. writing and who carrie's one of the strong est brains in fU^ eel ii ?? '' ? ..ried iring an .> ' hows a \\>ak ". s I am a political . i am not thrusting my .ate opinions on the public, ,vish to state facts. I will say that for awhile I was not a supporter of Mr. Tillman In all is views. All along I agreed with him on State issues. * * * * But to return ; Pedagogue said not four months ago that he wished e?ery school district were at the bottom of the ^^^^^^^Y^^a^^^a?^^^h^r^d districts. I can prove this by three or four substantial citizens. One of my friends told me not long since in an authoritative to let Pedagogue alone; for said he, "He's crazy," I honestly believe it ; for he makes the wildest, the most uncalled for statements imagina ble. He went out of his way to attack the preachers ; he brough' in the Catholic church-both of which were entirely irrelevant. I was trained in a denominational college and am in a position to know more about their workings than a man trained in a military school. "Diogenes was a patriot," he was a calamity howling patriot. You say our school interests suffered by your not being elected commis sioner, maybe they did, but as "un cle George Johnstone" would say, "It am takin de peepel a monstus long time ter diskibber dat fae." They may find it by the time of the Millenium, if its long enough off. "You will always find me on my platform." Yes I saw you ou a platform once, sawing the air with a long right hand, screaming and piping most piteously. Yes I would vote for you to "Fly o'er the backside of the world far off, into a limbo large and broad, since called Th? paradise of fool 8. But you tell me "good-bye" I thought you were in it "for the summer," I took you at your word and let loose but your "naughty things" would'nt come at )'our bidding and you had to flunk. The George Johnstone that I have been having a few words with is a white man, but even if he were a ' nig ger," that would'nt be much worse than writing against a wiy off man which ? am doing now. Ped agogue had better make another map of Saluda county. He made such a fine one before, I merely wish to state to friend Dido that my^ailing to reply was because I thought the publie, wag sick of the subject. She brings up Solomen to prove that W. S. has been' a succ?s in Wyoming She ovorlooks the fact that some times securing authority is proved fro-u partial or cor rupt sources. Does'nt everybody know that politicians will testify to the good or bad effects in anything under heaven, just as it suits them. It the women are a controlling tac tor in anv election does she sup pose that a Governor is going to say anything against their fitness to vote. Not a bit of it. He wantfc those women to vote for him and wouldn't hurt their feelings for the world. That legislature which passed those commendatory reso lutions, wae, without a doubt, com posed largely of women and men who didn't care about exciting the ire of their female constituents, and was intended more to ph as the "wimmen voters" than t<? edi fy the outside world. Oin of Dido's authorities speaks nf there not be ing a poor house i:i all Wyoming. That looks like carelessness and cruelly inore 1 han propped ami kindneap. "Thu poor ye have al ways with you," the beggar ???jA helpless are found io every latid ?md not to ha ve poor houses looks like criminal neglect. Wyoming you say has a woman's suffrage for 25 years. Are her representan ves in congress abler than those ?of any other State, (as they onghA t.? be'if the women are so much bet ter judges of candidates than men.) I'll bet Jas Talbert's got more brains than the whole "bi len" of them. Is liquor, the hydra beaded monster, choked in that land? If Wyoming is such a par adise why don't other Staten mod el after her? In respect of testi monies, how would anyone like to have the people of distant states form their opinions of the euccess of the leform movement, by the testimony of Gens. Butler, Hamp ton, uditor Hemphill, Judges Si monton and Brawley. Yet they are among the best known men our State has afforded, and are gentlemen whom no man dares call, dishonest. If Dido proves to me that one third of the white ladies in Edge field wish to vote, I promise to say no more, but will favor woman's suffrage myself bad as I'm oppos ed to it. Will you make the same proposition ppr contra? Ain't pris fair? The majority of ladies want things to stay as they are,-.vita no desire to mix in politics. SEMPHRONICUJ. Good Work of the Teachenrtln stitute. EDITOR ADVERTISER: Se viral have asked me about the Teaclprs Institute held in Edgetield {hi.* summer, and for the information of those who did not attend 'thIP Institute 1 think it right to report through your paper something about it We were at Edg? field. foritwo waeks. end we never enjoypfnour work more ar any place. Tl? at tendance there was not so ijrge, hut the most nf those who atten ded wer" teachers. Theyflpvere very attentive thronghoii whole lime. Ahout 30 tn; attended at EdgefieJd, and about 25 vis Jurs. We ?hil work don?? wi!I do great goa After spending two w<; Edenfield it was I hough I I us to hold ;i week's I uni I .johnston. We wer?' m?t hp good crowd of teachers r.ii tors. Parents took a gr^a est in the work. Ahout 41 ers were in attendance an itors. The Institut^ wajfflj cess, never did we see a m est crowd of teachers. It is needless to say it School Commissioner and. er members of the board unbounded praise is due Institute and its great sur; j would be hard To find a is more awake to his who rth.au isi Mr. Loi L^ We hopo at heart, and he ha^ a good idea of what a good teacher phould he. We pray that. God will bless our work und next year we hope every teacher in the county will attend the Teachers Institute, Truly, J. H. LEWIS. $49,000 in Boots, Shoes, Hats *ind Trunks to-be" sold by order of Manager of The Great Eastern Shoe Company, at prices that no one will at tempt to complete with. Don't fail to see them before buying your Shoes and Hats. You will find them at 907 Broadway Augusta, Ga. Master's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,] EDGEFIELD COUNTY. Court Common Pleas. Zed Crouch and Lizzie McCarty, vs. Mrs. 8. L. Jay et. al. PURSUANT to the judgment of foreclosure in this Cause, 1 will offer for sale at public outcry before the Court House, town of Edgetteld, and State of South Carolina, on the first Monday in October 1895, being the 7th day of said month, between the legal hours of sale the following de scribed mortgaged realty to wit: All that tract of land, lying situate and being in the County of EdgeKleld and State of South Carolina, contain - ingtwo hundred and sixteen (216) acres more or less, and bounded by lands of Phillip- Rotten, Plersant Postier, Aaron Graham and Joe Banks, Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. W. F. ROATH, Master E. C. Sept. 11th '95-it CITATION. By J.D.'Allon, Esq., Probate Judge. ,X rn ERE AS, T. P. Henderson hath VY made suit to me, to grant him Letters of Administration of the es tate and effects of J. S. Henderson, deceased. THK-K AUK TIIKUKPOBE, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said J. S. Henderson deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Kdgelleld P. H., on the 'iufli day of September, next, after publication hereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, wjjy the' sa/id Ail ministratjbn should not ht4 aFnaVtttiu. Given under my hand, this the 6th _ day of Sept. Anno ty s / Domini 1895. Published on t S~ > tne 111,1 of Sept. in the Edgeiield AnvEaxisKn. J. D. ALLEN, Probate Judge. Flat to bc Built. TlIK Township board \y!l| be at. bhaws and Mackies Mill on Steven's Creek on Sntuaday September 14th at ID o'clock, a. m., for the purpose of let ting the Hat t<> be built there, reserving the right to reject any and nil bids. M.A. WHITTLE, Sup. P. B. LANHAM, J. F. ATKINS. Angr. 19-tr. Cooking Stove CALL OUST Chas. B. Allen, 831 BROAD STREET, - AUGUSTA, GA., Sheppards Excelsior Cook. Southern Queen Range. Heating and Cooking Stoves, all Styles and prices. Grates, Mantles and Tile, Tin ware of ali kinds. Tin Roofing and Galvanized Iron Works. Sept. 10-ly. _ " MOSES C. Mur?H?Y, GEO. S. M?RPHEY, Murphey&Co., AT 618 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. You will find the above live and wide awake firm. They have been in the GROCERY Business long enough to understand it in every detail, they are always down with the market, and when you ar? in Augusta for the purpose of Buying Groceries you had better ge their prices Mr. WILL MOBLEY the Edgefield County boy is still with them, and will be glad to welcome all of hts friends. Sept. 10-4m. _ CUT RATES ! ! SACRIFICE SALE ! ! 952 BROADWAY, - AUGUSTA, GA. GO TO THE NEW YORK AUCTION HOUSE FOR DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, NOTIONS, HOS IE KY, ?ic. Ladies1 and Gents' Furnishing Gooda s Specialty. HJ?f* You will save from 25 to 50 u?*r cent. hy eal ling on us I before you buy Good? ?Inowhere. D. EDELSTEIN, S?-pt. 10-?in. THE SO Cl il AND NOHTH AMERICAN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO LLOYDS. M. A. SMITH, General Co. Ag't for Edge ; field. THE LLOYDS system, established in 1G88. (over two centuries jigo) l>v Edward Lloyd, is made now more thorough ?iuM perfect through regular business progrese on. A LLOYDS COMPANY HAS NEVER FAILED. MANY PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN ARE IN IT, because, as business people, they are bound to accept the sav ing feature of the Lloyd?, couplod with rqual, if not greater reliabili ty than is offeied by any other insurance in existence. The Lloyds offer a uniform cut of fifteen per cent, on the old line prices, and in case of excessive rates having been made, they give even greater relief than this. Among our policy holders in Edgefield we name a few: Jones & Son. E. J. Norris, Alvin Hart. W. B. Penn, Mrs A. E. Lewis, Mrs. S. A. Dozier, Jas. A. Bennet, R. P. Holloway, R. L. Fox. The most prominent Northern corporations and conserns, well known in Crawford \: Simpson, Postal Cable & Telegraph CV,''~oT New Y^r^ Jordan, March & Co., Edison Electric Light Co. of Boston, Sprecklee Sugar Refining Co., J. B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia, P. Lorri lard <fe Co., of Jersey City, Armstrong, Cat or & Co.. Burnell <fe Co, Henry Swiiibom & Co., Daniel Miller & Co, of Baltimore. IN SOUTH CAROLINA the largest concerns are in lt. Applications for Insu rance received at The ADVERTISER Office. May 1, 1895. Ramsey ? Bland. JOHNSTON and EDGEFIELD, DEALERS IN Vehicles of.all Kinds, - - Fine Harness, Saddles, FURNITURE and COFFINS, - - HARDWARE, Jan. 29-1895. Large StocK oil Engines, Oljeap ai)B Goos. I OMDADH 5 IRON WORKS AND L-UIVlDAriU I SUPPLY COMPANY. AUGUSTA, G-A.. Machinery and Supplies. Repairs, etc, Quickly Made. Get our Prices before you buy. WM. SeHWEieERT & 0o., -RELIABLE JEWELERS Hag all the Newest Goods of the Season in Diamonds, Watches,' Jewelry, LADIES SHIRT WAIST SETS in Gold and Silver. LADIES FINE SILVER BELT BUCKLES with fine Silk Ribbon. STERLING SILVER SPOONS and FORKS lower than ever before. Watch and Clock Repairing Promptly Attended to by Competent Workmen, C OE. DH O AD ami 7 TU S TTEET, - A UO US TA, GA WHAT DO YOU THINK! LEWIS F. MILI6AR. 937 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA., IS SELLING AN OAK MANTEL FOR $3.00, AND ONE WITH A 15x24 GLASS, A TILE HEARTH, A TILE FACING, AND A BRONZE FACING FOR JUST $17.00. Palmetto Business College, WlLLISTON, S. C., Next Session Begins Sept. 26. 1895. Que of thp inOft complet* Commercial College.? in the So,u?h. Tuition rates reasonable First class hoard $8.00 per mouin. We have large and comfortable Dormitories tfcat will accommodate one hundred and fifty boarding students. Military regulation*, perfect satisfaction guaranteed For further particulars^ address. J. R, A. Whitlock, July lfWf. PKKIUTCXT, SILVER BLOCK, I207 BROADWAY, AyeusTvi GA. We offer to tIii- Palming : ml Country P< opl<* a sj* cia I I np of ?ri r's honest, etricl ly *- ? ? 1 ? < J leather Si.neg, which cannot le . Xt ei led foi hi \ le and durability: ni the luwect possible prie s. SILVER SHOE CO. I rund Shoes; are acknowledged th<? I ot in the city. Our (louds arti especially luade for us, and wes? ll noshing but we can guaraiifif, rnd ?1 Rot k Bottom Prices. A trial nili make you our friends and elision ?MR Remember, Silver Shoe & Hat Co. Leaders in Good Honest Goods, Ik Do You Know That there is a place in Augusta where you can get something nice and tempt ing to e?t in the FANCY GROCERY Line? lt ls S DOSCHER & CO., carry a full line of the latest Home and Foreign Delica cies, When you visit Augusta come and sec us. Prices will please you. GOG BRQADWAT, Augusta. ? ? CSrgt GIN HOUSE And Country Property INSURED. Apply to W. J, McKERALL. A'GT,, EDGEFIELD, S. C., fi THE LEAD /. C. LEI/Y & CO., TAIL0R-FI7 CLOTHIERS, AUGUSTA, ' GEORGIA Have now in store their entire FALL AND WINTER STOCK OF CLOTHING The largest stook ever shown in Augusta. We aim to oarry goods whic.i are not only Intrinsically good, but which also, in pattern, style, and finish, gratify a cul tivated and discriminating taste, and at the same time, we aim to make our prices so low the closest buyers will be our steadiest^customers Polite atten lion to all. A call will be appreciated. I. C. LEVY & CO. TAILOR-FIT CLOTHIERS, AUGUSTA. GA YOUR ATTENTION ? ?IF ITOTJ JSEIEID^^EE Coot Steves, Stove Pans, Stove Pipe, Tinware, WE!! Bnctets, B\AJSTQ*y G-ROCERIEB, Loaded Shells, Harmed Goods, Confectionaries. Evaporators Repaired or made to Order. LARGEST COOK STOVE FOR THE MONEY. Coffee Pots, Milk Bunkers, and Covered Buckets made from the best of Tin in the market,. Repairs for Cook Stoves I sell, kept in steck. Call On or address OHAS. A. AUSTIN, JOHETSTOIN", S. C.