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Edenfield Advertiser V< OS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1896. It is said tbat Tillman and Irbj have made friends and also Mc Lau ri n. The ?afe of the county treasurer of Horry county was opened and robbed of about $2,500, on Janua ry 13th. The thief evidently know the combination to the safe. There is no clue to the robbery. A factory erected by enterpris ing men at Scnoia, Ga., known as the Couch-Banks Manufacturing company, for the making of the Langford horse collar, has begun operation, equipped with improved machinery. Kansas wants a dispensary law patterned after the South Carolina law. If the United States Su preme Court does not declare the dispensar}7 law unconstitutional a number of other States will adopt the system. Tho war in Cuba cannot last much longer. The Spanish gener als have given tho ''rebels" eight days in which to lay down their' aims, or expect no quarter but be butchered like cattle. Spain, or the Cuban patriots, must win with in a brief period. 'On last Friday the General As sembly elected V. J. Pope to suc ceed himself on the Supreme Bench. Ira B. Jones was elected Associate Justicp, making the fourth Justice, os provided for by the Constitu tion. Judge Jones was nominated by Hon. J. Wm, Thurmond, of Edgt-field in a happy little speech. This body now consists of Mciver, Chief Justice-Gary, Pope and Jones; and Jones stands next to head in all that goes to made up a judge just and learned in the law. Honor "Where Honor is Due. In another column we publish cu account of a cane presentation to J. Wm. Thurmond Esq., of our town. This account explains .it self, and it is needless for us to say that to this gentleman is due the credit,. almost entirely, of de feating in the House a resolution which passed the Senate by almost a unanimous vote to pay Samuel Lord, Receiver of the defunct State Bank, the sum of oue hundred and six thousand dollars. The vote in the House of Representatives was 76 to 24 against the resolution passed by the Senate. The task of defeating the Senate resolution was no easy matter for the claimant had selected members from the up country and the low country frjrn the eastern and western portions of the State to speak in favor of the payment and they were able and persistent advoc ites. But the right and Thurmond were both on the saraes'des and that settled it the right prevailed. There is one mistake, we think that prohibitionists make. They are always hoping for and working for future legislation and do not assist in the work of enforcing pro hibitory features of existing laws. Now here are some prohibitory) features of the dispensary law: For instance, liquor must not be sold after night ; must not be sold on Sunday ; it must not be sold to minors; nor upon written order, nor to persons intoxicated-and yet the law is being violated in these particulars every day. We claim that the dispensary law is not having a fair trial in this State as a temperance law and so far as its reform features are con cerned. In the first place, the State administration wants to make all the money possib e out of the sales of liquors, bas letdown all the prohibitory bars in th? law? has winked the other eye, so to '.peak, to tho local dispensers-and ?^he minors, the habitual drinkers, he Sunday drinkers, and the night drinkers, and all the balance of us are going in-going in. And what ar?; the prohibitionists doing meanwhile? They are sitting !>ack saying, "It's a poor law-a had law?" Grand juries are exain mg the accounts of dispenser?, their system of book-k< epiug, etd neglecting the weighter matters of how they are carrying out tbo law, what their private instructions are, I to whom they sell, and when, and now. Judges on the bench (with one notable exception) aro charg ing the Grand Iuqnests in the ra vi ous counties to inquire into this, hat, or the other evil, bul say nothing about the violations, open, notorious, of the dispensar^ law. Now, what will be i he oouse ^uenseof all this? it does'nt re ?ir? any very wonderful presci ence to see that in a shoit while" he revenue from the sales of li.1"1 ' ,-nors in this State-^the ?rofits to ? he State, the count'i s, ai d the towns-will be gb great ns in r ol duce taxation. Then wi.a! follows.? , The majority of taxpayers will be caught by the idea that this liquor selling by the dispensaries is to do away with all taxes, and when such a conclusion has been reached the prohibitionists will have a harder fight to make than they ever had against open bar-rooms. Therefore, we call upon this con scientious body cf citizens to help io enforce the dispensary law as it is; and, when we have ex tracted all the goodfroin it we cai:, and built up a healthier moral ?entiment, which is necessary to friipport all law, we may make a step ping stone of a dead dispensary to higher things. Pro or Con ? Gov. Evani has imposed the Metropolitan police bill upon Char leston, whereupon the "Post" of that city throws the following two Evants like sentences into the arena : "Whether the Governor was mov ed to take a hand as a mere politi cal exigency, as charged, and was or was not impelled to his course by the considerations affecting the dispensary, cannot, with justice, be made the postulate of positive assertion in the absence of a pub lic and general knowledge of facts and circumstances which do not appear on the surface und a dis cussion of which our already ex hausted edi'orial space will not permit of our indulging it. It must be said for him that he str}Ted bis hand and held silence to the last practical minute, with n. view, doubtless, to according the interview asked of him by the mu nicipal administiation, but circum stances peculiarly opportune for tho latter administration occurred to defer the date of the proposed co ?ference to a print beyond the occurrence of an event which would have added materially to the dif ficulty and embarrassment of the State Administration in making the proposed change, had it seen fi1, after the conference, 'o hold to its purpose of making : t." TILLMAN'S SPEECH His Maulen Effort in the United States Senate. WASHINGTON, I). C., Jan. 29. Senator Ben Tillman, of Soul h C?-rolina, made his first speech in the Senate to-day. At 2 o'clock he took the floor on the pending silver bond bill. The galleries filled quickly and tho Senator was ac corded olose attention. Ile moved down the front aisle from his rear seat to one in the front row imme diately in front of the presiding officer.' Although provided with manuscript at first, he spoke ex tern poran-iously : "Air. President,", the Senator be ga, i "it is not saying t?b much and I feel warranted iu charging that the derangement in our finances and all tuiscrv about sound money and maintaining the honor and credit of tho United States are all part and parcel of a daruuable scheme of robbery, which had for its object, first, the utter destruc tion of silver asa money metal; second, the increase of the public debt, the issue of bonds payable in gold and third, the surrender to corporations of the power to issue all paper money and give them a monopoly of that fund iou." Senator Tillman referred to the Sherman Silver law of 1890, and in this connection said : "Tho silver republicans of the west who had deseited the silver 'democrats of the south and accept ed the compromiso o?Teied by Sen ator Sherman, may take warning as to what faith or trust they can put in the utterances or actions of the Senator from Ohio as to legis lation m regard to our finances. The time for another presidential election approaches. They must understand that the election of any man to the presidency who would veto a free coinage bill means de feat. It means more ; it means continued disaster to our industries and increased poverty ':o the masses of our people." "Under the Sherm J n law," he contiuued, "there waEi a dimuni tion of the amount of free gold in a gradually decreasing scale, but not enough to cause any alarm. Du ring the entire year of 1891 and the entire year of 1892, tnere wa3 approximately as much gold as there was during 1884 and 1885. "If the secret history of the year 1892 shall ever be written it will disclose the fact which can not be proveu now, but of which I have not the slightest doubt, that the gold ring of New York, vhich em braces nearly all the banker? in thc ea?ti in and middle States and the stock gamblers of Wall street, coi - trollcd the presidential nomina tions of both the democratic and republican parties had an under standing with the managers or with both the candidates themselves in regard to what policy should be pursued toward our finances. They contributed money f >r the boom ing ol' .Mr. Cleveland as the only available democratic candidate and they abused and ridiculed every other demo 'ratio aspirant. "There was plain evidence to show tba* 'he president himself ba i w akened on the. question of tariff reform and the financial plank was cunningly drafted. * * * * ? * "Wit!) relent ness purpose he has ig nored his oath of ollice, to uphold and obey ti e Jaw, and has paid out gold instead cf coin and issued bonds to buy more gold, by both actions overriding the law, and givii g no heed to the interests of liny but moneyed friends-I might say his own partners. "While to thi.? besotted tyrant coin has come to mean gold alone, he cati not by iii? mere 'ipse dixit'i .mauge tho law ol' this land and' pervert the plain meaning of English language. Tho repeal of Ihe Sherman, it was assorted, which was the point of attack, of this 'unholy iiance,'was accomplished thro the aid and in conjunction wi majority of the republican s< tors. "This 'democratic' presiden I cornplished what was not poss for any republican executive der thc circumstances to 1. brought about. A change of party in power had left a !; number of offices in his gift v which to buy votes." In discussing the "honest mc inti" party of gold and silvei Sherman law, he said : "The object was to have them 8isteach other, to hold silver up holding gold down, ?nd an hoi [Secretary of the treasury ' should have resigned his ol rather than submit to the di? tion of a besotted chief, wo have paid out silver to protect treasury from the gold gamb and bond gam Liers as the law : his oath of office required. No w der the Senator from Massae setts feels wdrranted in twitting with the decay of southern sta manship and charging us with i honesty. He charges, however anoiher connection andas aid and abetting this Judas from K tucky, who after a brilliant cai of twenty years and more, an le er and champion of the sil forces, has in his old age come this pitiful pass. "And then to think tha' the dictment thus brought agains whole section-shouid have so mi color of truth and of fact to bj it up in the apos'acy from th principles of the two other secrc ries from the South in tbs cabi of a president who has so disgrai the name of democracy. "The South bows ita head shume at this exhibition of me cowardice and despises the re gades." The Senator contended that there has been one idea mor-' ? sistently and prominently preso ed io the American people by Pr ?dent Cleveland than any othei had been the iniquities of the tai and the demand for its revisi In season and out of Beason w "d. rauab.'e iteration" he had se. hi? siren song in the ears of I farmers. In this connection I Senator quoted from massages the president of 1887awl 1888, a said he did it for "the purpose pointing out the evolution of a I rant and showing ihe transit i from a conscientious, Jaw-abidi chief magistrate toan arrogan" r obstinate ruler who ignores the 1; and issues the bonds at will, ai issues them under a statute 'hat 'subject lo the suspicion that was intended io be temporary ai limited in ils application inste; of conferring a discretionary a thority.' Ho not only issue? tho but does il secretly, with hi? la partner as a witness to the contrac and has created the suspicion the minds of millions of nis cou; trymen that a president of the Un ted States can use his higu o (Tn for private gain. "He differs with the rep?blica party only in the one particular i the tariff, and on that he lu blown hot and cold, and will ? down in history as the most g ?gai tic failure of any man who ever o cupied the whitehouse, all becaui of his vanity and obstinacy." To make good "this charge Mr. Tillman argued that, whe President Cleveland came to powc in March, 1893, and could hav called the senate and house (bot democrats) for the first time sine the war, to carry out his policy, h did not call an extra session to giv tariff reform to the people, but ii stead called congiess together t slop the coinage of silver. Discussing the repeal of the pm chasing clausa of the Sherman hu which followed,he said: "Democrats and republicans viei with each other in the furtheranc of tho policy which had been for mulated and steadily pursued \r the Senator from Ohio. When th senate met there waa an acknowl edged majority of men open anc outspoken in their determinatioi to stand b}' the white metal ape who were elected on that issue. Bu the process of debauchery begai and slowly the senate yielded. IL ninety days the deed was done anc! the chains were riveted on thc wrist of the toiling millions. Did the raid on the treasury stop?" Discussing then the tariff bill which passed in thc regular session following, he said : "It is true he (the president) did not sign it and allowed it to be come a law without approval, i?ut here again we have a spectacle ot charlautry and hypocritical as sumption of superiority io his par ty which has always marked his career. The tariff law which he repudiated as unworthy involving 'party perfidy and party dishones ty, is t lie sheet anchor to which !)<? clings." And again referring to the pres ident, "if he was honest at the sturt (and I am willing to grant that much) Iiis association with Wal! street and his connection with wealthy men had debauched his conscience ami destroyed all syra pathywilh thc musses." Further on, in discussing the gold question, he said : Rothschild and his American agents graciously condescend to come to tho help of the Unitftd States treasury in maintaining the gold standard which has brought.! the ruin and only charges a small j commission of (en millions or so. Great dod ! That this proud gov ernment, the richest, most power ful on the giibe, should hav-' b ; ii brought to solow a pass Sha ?i Loudon Jew should have been ap pointed its receiver and presumes! to patronize u?. "The responsibility of providing : revenue and looking after, ihe sol-! vencyofthe Ireasury which rests j with congress, has boen usurped by! the pr?sident. Why is he not ?m This great remedy is indorsed by physicians, and prescribed by them all over the world. Positively guaranteed to cure the most stubborn cases. Theformul is published plainly on every bottle. As a tonic it is .uperior TO ALL For Female Complaints and building up run-down sys tems it acts like magic. Try a bottle and be convinced. J [CATARRH MALARIA KIDNEY TROUBLES PIA?PLE3 BLOTCHES. &OLD SORES LOOD = OISONINC T EXTRACT PROM BOOK OF TESTIMONIALS. "Wasa rheumatic sufferer for 18 mouthe. Derived nob^neGt from physicians, treatment at Mineral Wells, Tex., or I?or. Sprincs, Ark. My doctordeclared my condition hoptle.-1?, bu: ns u laut resort ndvi<ed P. P. P., Lipnraan'a Great Ramo .y. 'Ihroueh iia use I am to-day a well ruar..'' W. F. TIMMINS, t> _ of Tl 21 mt os & nines, Leading; Grocers, Vi axahsxhie, Tex. Indorsed by B. W. FKAKEMS, Druggist. " P. P. P.. Lippman's Great Remedy, cured me of difficult breath inp and palpitation of tho heart. Had not slept on either side for ROFULA&CJ ? 1 two 7ear3: iiow 1 sleep souudly in any position." A. M. RAJ' ' " Sworn to and subscribed before me, A. M. RAMSAY, De Leon, Tex. J. M. LAMMMgj Notary Public. "Suffered for years with a disacrecable eruption on my face. Various remcdins failed to remove it- Three bottles of P. P. P., Lipp niun's Uraat Remedy, completely cured me " APT. J. D. JOHNSON, Savannah, Ga. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS LIPFMAN BRffS.jtoPRlETORS UPFM?N'S BLOCK^AVAN HAH. C S E N D FO R ^\\ BOOKLET. <??s:i For Sale by G. L. PENN & SON. peached? '.The encroachments of the Fed eral judiciary, and the supineness and venality-corruption I may 8ay-of the representative branches of tha government are causes of deep concern to all thinking and ipalriotic men. We are fast drift? ing intu government by injonction in the-intercsts of moi.opolies ::\K\ corporations, and the supreme court, Ly ono corrupt vote, annuls an net of congress looking to the taxation of the rieb. The struggle from 1861 to 1885 which drenched this fair-land in blood was to eman cipate four million black slaves. I We are fast approaching a condi tion which will place the coliar of industrial bondage around the necks of ten times that many white slaven. A day of reckoning will come unless there is no longer a just God in Heaven, and when it docs como, woe be unto those who have boen among ? oppressors of tho people. The present struggle is unfortunately too lik? that which preceded the late civil war, inas much as it is seel ional. The cred itor and the mai ufacturing States of ino North and East, those which have grown inordinately wealthy al the oxpeuse of iho producing classes of the South and West are urging Hie policy with 'he besotted blindness of Belshazzar." [twaseaf-y to seo, the Senator said in conclusion, that the strug gle for tho new emancipation had begun. There were millions now on the march and they tramp, tramp, tramp; tramp the sidewalks hunt ing work and tho highways beg ging broad, and unless relief comes they will some day ta<e a notion toc?me to Washington with rifles in their band to regain the liber ties stolen from liv m. Ooolcins: Stove CALL 03ST Chas. B. Allen, AUGUSTA, GA., 831 BROAD STREET, - Sheppards Excelsior Cook. Southern Queen Range. Heating and Cooking Stoves, ali Styles and prices. Grates, Mantles and Tile, Tin ware of all kinds. Tin Roofing ami Galvanized Iron Works. Sept. 10-ly ill Ansia Coil Gins uri Fri Lame Stoci! nf Engines, Cfjeep ago Goos. I OMRADH J IRON WORKS AND L-WIV!DMrt!J I SUPPLY COMPANY. A.U&TJST.A., GA. Machinery and Supplies. Repairs, etc., Quickly Made. Get our Prices before 3'ou buy. Land for Sale. 98A Acres of Land, all open ex cept 12 or 15 acres, located in Nor ris Township four miles and one half southwest of Batesburg. Applv to * EMANUEL PADGETT. Jan. 1-1896. . ^Tlie ADVERTISER and Southern Cul tivator for one year for $2. A CARD. -(o) DR. SOPHIA C. DAVIS, daughter of Allison DeLoache, late of Edge field County is now located at 823 Broad St., Augusta, Ga., She treats all diseases of Women and Chil dren. Dec. 10 -'95. African-American Gold Mining and Trading Company, IOO BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. OUR COUNTRY NEEDS IT-GOLD! Tho principal objects of this company are to buy, sell and operate gold mines. Perhaps you cannot afford to buy an entire gold mine, but you can have an interest in several valu able ones through us. Enormous fortunes have been made in gold min ing, but never wt i o the opportunities greater than they aro to-day. Tho ownership of a few shares of our stock may mako you rich. Somo of tho wealthiest men of to-day became so through mining. Tho cry of tho whole world is for Gold ( and its valuo and necessity is being moro fully appreciated each day. All precious mineral discoveries are practically gifts to tho people. Each person is entiUed to what ho can fairly get. Why not try for yourself through us now f Splendid opportunies for securing great bargains in mines come to us constantly. Our agents are re porting f rom the gold fields of this continent and from Africa. Tho company owns two promising properties in Cripplo Creek, ^fe propose to develop ono of tho most remarkably, well-proven placer mines in tho world. lt hos already produced about $2,000,000 by crudo surface jnrorking, and is eaU matedto contain over 325,000,300 in gold. Now is the tune to invest *jith us. Do not wait until every man, woman andjchUd is eager to buy tod prices have advanced enormously. I In 1SS7 the first shipments of gold, amounting to less than $000,000, wero made from South Africa. In 1894 the production was nearly 340,000,000. It is estimated that works under way and contemplated will prrduce 8100,000,000 per year. Less than five years ago Cripple Creek was un known as a mining camp. In 1892 it produced $000,000. It is now producing $4,000,000 per month. Two old men, tired out and almost hopeless, not many years since clung desperately to a small hole ii) the ground which showed some traces of gold. That hole hos since yielded over 82,000,000. The Idaho Mino has paid nearly $6,000,000 in dividends, the Crown Point nearly $12,000,000, the Belcher over $15,000,000. We know of no other prominent industry paying such largo dividends on capital invested as fully developed producing gold mines. The rate of 26 per cent, per annum is quite common, while phenom enal returns are made in many instances. We offer for sale 50,000 shares of our capital stock at the par value- % $10 PER SHARE. Payable $2 per share on application and $1 fort* nightly, beginning Feb. 1, 1896. However, those desiring to pay in full can secure certificates of fuK paid block at once. Remit by check or post-office or express order or registered letter to AUSTIN GALLAGHER, Seer? tary, 100 Broadway, New York, W M. SeHWEISERT & 00., -H K L ? A li h E J B W E I> K ll S -. Thc Celebrated J a i{ u c s LeCOULTRE R A Z OR, Fully Wai ranted, Requires Sharpening only once in io years. One Lilade $2.00, Two Blade $3.00. For Sale Only by. Wm. SCHWE?GERT& CO., JEWELERS, 702 BROAD ST , AUGUSTA, GA., SI'IKJ For Om- Catalogue. MONEY ! MONEY ! ! FOX, the Jeweller, wili for the next thirty days make a big discount on his Goods, 33} per cent ol?". For Instance Articles that he has been Selling for $1.00 will go at ?yets. Three dollar Goods at $2.00, and so on to the very end of the chapter. CABINET SHOP. We Build from a Cradle to a Coffin. We r-?pair old Furniture that is brokil up and mako?4t look-new again. We run an Undertaking Department in which we .have a nice line of Coffins. Prices low when you need Anything in our line. Give us a call. Shop in J. L. Addison's old Law Office. W. S. COVAR & SON. ' * _ Edgefield, S. C. Palmet+o Business Co'lege, j S, Oty Next Session Begins Sent. 26, 18 c :. One of the m oft complete Commercial College* in (he Sou* li. tuition rates reasonable. First class board ??8.00 per momo. We have large and comfortable Dormitories ! hal will accommodate one hundred and fifty boarding students. Military regulation*. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed For further particulars, address. J. R. A. Whitlock, Julv 10- tf. PRESIDENT. amsey JOHNSTON and EDGEFIELD, DEALERS IN Vehicles of all Kinds, - - Fine Ha; ness, Saddles, FURNITURE and COFFINS, - - HARDWARE. Jan. 29-1895. ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. I 3 f? j 9 /. C. LEM Y ? TA ll u;:-]? 17 ( /. 0 rum:.'-; AUGUSTA. - GEORGIA) Have ?ow in store their entire FALL AND WINTER STOCK .OF CLOTING rite largest stock ever shown in Augusta, We aim to carry goods whtc.t are not only intrinsically good, but which also, in pattern, style, and Knish, gratify ? cultivated and discriminating; taste, and at the same time, we ann to make our prices so tow the closest buyers will be our,sicadicsl?.custcmers r<?lit?; attention Co ail. A call will be appreciated. I. C. LEVY & CO. TAILOR-FIT CLOTHIERS, AUGUSTA, GA YOUR ATTENTION / -IF YOU" JSJEE2D=^_ Cooi Stives, Stove Pass, Stove Pipe, Tinware, Td'BiAH PAHCY GROCERIES, Loaded Shells, Harmed Goods, Confeetionaries. Evaporators Repaired or made to Order. LARGEST COOK STOY? FOR THE MONEY. Ootfee I'ols; Milk Buckets,and Covered Buckets made from the best of Tin in ilte marker. Repairs for Cook*3tovcs I sell, kept in stock. Call on or address CHAP.A. AU STUN", J"OT-I3STST03SI", S. C.