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t * I THE AIKEN RBEORDER. Terms of Subscription.—One espy one year, $1.50; One copy six months, 75 Cents. Advertising Ratos.—One Square, first insertion, $1.00; Each subsequent in sertion, ooiCents. Special Rates by con tract for three months or more. AIKEN, 8. C , MARCH 21, 1880. Profit in a First-Class Hotel. our The difficulty that those of people who have appreciated the need of another first-class hotel in Aiken have bad to contend with, has been the fear that the investment Would not in itself be directly profitable to the stockholders. The result of the first year’s experience of the Bon Air Hotel on the Sand Hills will give us some information-ou this subject. At the annual meeting of the stock holders held last week President Al fred Baker read the annual report, showing that the grounds, building, furniture, etc., cost the sum total of 1198,000. The showing the hotel makes is a good one for its first season—a re markable one, when the lateness and remarkable warmth of the season are considered. Manager Linsley says be could easily fill fifty or seventy-five more desirable rooms, and he has been obliged to decline several large parties because he had no more of the elegant suites of rooms that were de sired. The hotel is now receiving nearly $700 a day, and Is making good money, a remarkable first year’s showing. It has been found that the present accommodations are inade- quato to supply the demand for rooms, guests being turned away every day. It is believed from the experience up to date that the hotel will pay at least 10 per cent, a year on the $200,000 invested. It was decided to issue $125,000 of 6 per cent, twenty years first mortgage bonds on the property for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness of the company and for providing additions to the hotel. The owners of the $125,000 of bonds will own the $200,000 property, as this issue of bonds will take up all out standing indebtedness and be the first mortgage bonds. The stockholders will of course see it to their interest to take these bonds and will, of course, do so. Nearly half of the Is sue were subscribed for at the meeting. It will be seen by the proceedings at this meeting that the people of Au gusta have full confidence in the stock and bonds of a first-class hotel as profitable investments. And what they have done over on the Sand Hills we can do more profitably in Aiken. Our own people «re quite able to raise enough money to give the enterprise of a new hotel a start, so that outsiders would be induced to come to our assistance. What Savannah News. It is thought that the construction company to build the South Bound Railroad will be fully organized early in April—probably the first week in the month—and if so an engineering force will be put on at once to locate the line, it being the general desire to complete the road, if possible, In time to move the large cotton crop tribu tary to the road. The question was asked Col. Mike Brown, if the road can be finished in time for the fall traffic, and he re plied that he could see uo reason why, with prompt action, the road cannot be in operation by that time. Col. Brown has had considerable experi ence in railroad building and railroad ing, and knows what it means to hus tle, something which will be neces sary in order to get the road in opera tion next fall. The grading is said to be light be tween Savannah and Barnwell, as far as the line will be built at present, and the only heavy bridging is across to corretruct^tlUsIbridge^wlJ we will look beyond the immediate pres ent to future results. If anything is to be done the people of Aiken must put their own shoulders to the wheel. The Tare on Cotton. The Southern Manufacturers’ Asso ciation in a recent meeting in Augus> ta, decided to withdraw its offer to pay bonus of 10 cents on every 100 a pounds of cotton its mills received from producers wrapped in cotton bagging. This bonus these mills have been paying during this season, aud it has operated more as a moral support to the farmers than an actual aid of im portance in the use of cotton bagging, as really only u small minority of the farmers of the South sold their cotton directly to the mills. The main bulk of the crop was sold to the exporters, and not to the mills, and every bale so sold covered in cotton bagging brought a loss to the producer. It is stated now that next Season the farm ers will demand that cotton shall be sold by net weight, and tare will be allowed only in proportion to the weight of the covering used. If is adjusted it is evident that the covering of native growth for farmers to use will be that which is the strongest and most durable, and also the cheapest; and we do not think it possible for cotton bagging to fulfill these requirements. It is stated that the head men of the Alliances are now in correspondence with the Cotton Exchanges in Liverpool, Havre and Bremen, with the view to have the tare on cotton adjusted to the actual weight of the covering used. There is justice in this, and if it is done the cotton bagging may he used at less loss than it was last season; but with the lowest grade of cotton worth 10 cents per lb., it is difficult to see how -strong cotton bagging of 44 inches width can be manufactured and sold at less than 13 or 14 cents per yard this best the Yet none know* better than our own people, wno have lavished attentions upon them, that they occupy their high positions not by reason of ex ceptional talent, but because of the possession of exceptional wealth, which was used *to bribe voters and buy their positious. Yet these people, standing to-day as monuments to successful bribery and corruption, are the recipients of the social attentions of Democrats wboyn they have out raged aud are now outraging by every means in their power. It was quite right for the govern ment and municipal officials to pay these people proper attention. This was in the line of their duty. It would also have been quite appropri ate for the Republicans and negroes to have tendered them the most lav ish social attentions; but for Demo cratic private citizens to obtrude their courtesies where there can be no pos sible sympathy, indicates a change in the spirit of our people that we are sorry to see. _ Col. William Elliott has rather a slim chance of retaining his seat in Congress. The House Committee on Elections have Miller’s claim to the f.eat from the Seventh District now under consideration, and if they allow themselves to be governed by the facta as presented Col. Elliott will retain his seat; but should the Republicans conclude that their majority in the House needs &u increase they will not regard the testimony* The Chester Bulletin of the 14th nominated the Hon. William A. Courtenay, of Charleston for Gover nor. It is doubtful whether Mr. Courtenay will enter into politics again, and even if he does it is not probable that he could get the nomi nation. There have been several other men suggested whom we think more available. The South Bound to be Ready for Next Season's Traffic. be nec essary first to get a special act of con gress authorizing the company to bridge the river, b.ut uo difficulty is apprehended in securing such legisla tion promptly, and the matter has al ready been given preliminary atten tion. It is understood that when the ques tion of actual construction reaches the culminating point where work begins it will be suggested that not less than two constrction corps be put to work, one at Barnwell atd-the other at Sa vannah, and, if found practicable, a third corps at the point where the road will cross the Port Royal and Augusta road, and it is argued that few lines of railway can be divided up into sections and hurried through in construction as can the South Bound, as, if necessary, it is practica ble to work south from Barnwell, north aud south from the crossing of the Port Royal and Augusta, north aud south from the Savannah River, and northward from Savannah. Fertilizing Corn. Toadyism. “They somehow conveyed to ns that they were all toadies and humbugs.’’— Dickens. We have been surprised at the toad yism that has been manifested in sev eral of our Southern cities of late, over persons possessing only wealth or some possible political influence that may be utilized by flattery. This is all very different from the self- respect and spirit of independence that used to characterize our people. On the occasions of the visit of any man conspicuous for his wealth, and very often for wealth acquired by un questionably unprincipled means, he is followed, toadied and flattered as if he was a superior being; well, proba bly he is superior to the toadies,—a very inferior character can be that. And when our cities are visited by politicians supposed to be able to be of political service, they are wined and dined, as if in themselves they were worthy ef the highest respect. From The Southern Cultivator. It is yet an unsettled question whether corn requires the application of a uitrogetious fertilizer. The re sults of carefully conducted experi ments at several experiment stations seem to indicate that this plant has the power to gather its requisite sup ply of nitrogen from the soil, or from the atmosphere, or both. That it must have nitrogen is proven by the fact that the matured plant, in all its parts, and especially the grain, con tains nitrogen. The indications of these experiments would seem to he in the very teeth of the experience of all farmers, that cotton seed and cot ton seed meal—whose principal ele ment of plant food is nitrogen—rarely fail to produce a good yield when ap plied to corn. If corn were a new plant just introduced into cultivation, we would conclude by reasoning from analogy, that it would respond to ni trogenous fertilizers, because it be longs to the same botanical order, or family of plants that includes wheat, oats, rye, barley, the various grasses, etc., to all of which we have long been accustomed to apply highly ni trogenous manure with sup; osed profitable results. If these experi ments are conclusive, or are to become so, then we will have to admit that millions have heretofore been wasted in manuring corn with stable manure, cotton seed and cotton seed meal, Peruvian guano, etc., because the chief value of all of those is due to the fact that they contain more or less nitrogen. We are not inclined to re verse our opinion ou this point, all at once, but will leave the question open and judgment suspended, until more light is afforded from the most exact experiments. In passing, however, we will say that in our own experi ence we have uniformly got better re sults from the use of rotten cotton seed, even when rotted without any precaution against loss of nitrogen, than from green cotton seed, when applied to corn, which would appear to favor the view that corn does not require a nitrogenous fertilizer. If but a small amount of fertilizer is to be applied to corn, say less than ten bushels of cotton seed meal or its equivalent, it is probably best to make but oue application, and that a' the time of planting, tailing care to some what scatter the manure around the seed, instead of dropping it in a lump in one spot. But if liberal manuring is contemplated w# advise two or more applications, This advice is not based on the theory that the plant will take up the mi|nnre before jl is needed, and that the supply will be exhausted before earing time. On the contrary it is quite probable that the plant cannot and will not appro priate all the applied plant food until needed. Even if the idea were correct that the plant will exhaust the ma nure during the early stages of its growth, it is also true that the roots, stem and blades are a safer repository than the soil itself. Whatever of plant food is taken into the plant system will inevitably go into the grain when the latter requires it. It will not be exhaled into the air and lost. Plants exhale very little, if any,..ni trogen, and not a particle of the min eral elements. It is true, however, that a large stalk requires more to form its tissues" and will therefore withhold a larger proportion of the plant food taken up from the soil than a smaller atalk; and it is cer tainly true that a liberal, all at once, dose of manure, at planting, or short ly after, tends to produce a large stalk. There is something, also, in the idea that repeated applications gives suc cessive stimulations to the plant aud induces successive re-actions on the inert plant food in the soil. Actual experiment, however, is the crucial test; and experience seems to confirm the view we have suggested. 89. b tate of Ohio,City of Toledo, \ Lucas County, j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, .County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL- Lars for each and every case of Ca tarrh that cannot be cured bp the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of De cember, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken intern ally and acts directly upon the blood mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimouiais, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. t7~Sold by Druggists, 75 ceuts. Frank Iieslie’s Popular Monthly for) April, 1890. The current (April; number of| Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly con tains fully a dozen elaborately illus-1 trated articles, any one of which is worth buying the magazine for. “The Senate and its Leaders” is discussed in bright, gossipy style by Frederick Daniel, and nearly a score of potraits and views accompany the text. Wm. Hosea Ballou describes the Tennessee) Blue-grass region and its thorough bred horses, together with the historic) homes of President Polk and Andrew Jackson. The wonders of Edison’s perfected phonograph and grapho- phone are brilliantly set forth in Ar thur V. Abbott’s paper entitled “A Voice from the Past,” with the best pictures that have ever been publish ed in connection with this subject. The short stories and poems of the) number are by favorite magazine wri ters, including Lucy Hooper, Ella I Wheeler Wilcox, Charles Henry Webb, Frances B. Currie, aud others. An Antiquarian Book Store. The killing of Deputy Marshal) Saunders in Gadsden County, Florida, had no connection whatever, it ap pears, with politics. It was an ordi nary murder that was iuvested by the) pestilent Senator from New Hamp shire with a political character mere ly because Saunders happened to be a) Federal officer. Who committed the crime is not yet known. The motive is not known. It was not a transac-) tion in which the people of Gadsden County iiad any part. The officers ofl the county and State are doing all [ they can to find out who was the mur-1 derer. The Cause of Pain. An ache or pain is not of itself al disease, it is but a symptom, aud warns the sufferer that there is some thing the matter with his physical organization. Weak kidneys, bad blood, and nervousness are frequently the source or cause of the many mys terious aching sensations that afflict the body You cau remove the cause) of such distress by using B B B (Bo tanic Blood Balm). C. H. Robetts, Atlanta, Ga.. writes: “My kidneys were disordered and I gave me excruciating pain. A single bottle «>f B B B helped me wonder-) fully.” Win. N. Nelson, McDonough. Ga. writes: “B B Ji has benefited my I daughter very much. She was afflict ed with severe nervousness. 1 thiuk) it the best family medicine.” W. R. Ellis, Brunswick, Ga.,| writes: ‘T have tried B BB and it a great tiling for the blood. It also) cured me of rheumatic pains. ti Patronize Southern industries—call for the Augusta Brewing Company’s) Beer. _ “Why doesn’t lie take Hood’s Sar-I saparilla?” is the general inquiry of| friends when a person suffers from any disease of the blood. PADtrETT --W] PAY- THE FREIGHT. SEEDS, SEEDS, SEEDI To our friends who have not already received it, we are ready to mail our new catalogue of HIGH CLASS SEEDS For 1890. Containing all the Novelties of the Season, both in Vegetable and Flower Seeds. J. M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John St., New York. DO YOU KNOI Can buy at FURNI i ’ Cookin] Carpets, Mat THAT YOU I article of Itoves, ings. Win dow Shades,! Lace Cur tains, Cornicl Poles, BABY CAERIAGES, Clocks, Mirrols, Pictures Dinner SetsATea Sets, Mattress- Blankets, and one *d in a >d at your ime price them in Chamber Set es, Comforts, and a thousa articles nee house, delive depot at the that you bu Augusta? I CARRY EVERYTHING You need, and you prices tha; will sat isfy you that l|am giving a dollar value dollar paid. for every On a late visit to Augusta, Ga.. II stepped in to see our friend. Geo. A. Oates, long known in that city. He) ia now located at Eighth tercet,J near Broad, upstairs, having three | nice rooms, one of which he has fitted up as a parlor, hung around with fine oil paintings, to which he invites his country friends to make a stopping place during their visits to the city, where they can have their parcels sent, Ac. They .will find him cour-| teous and glad to see them. He has on hand a large collection of fine oil paintings, old etchings, and rare old engravings, also modern; many scarce books, aud other things not to be found in a’regular hook store; also music of all kinds. We found him repairing pianos and violins,of the lat ter of which be has a rare collection of old ones, the largest in the South— among them several Uremonas. It would be impossible in one visit to see half of what he has. One rare book we must mention is a register that was kept at Lord Byron’s grave, at Hucknall Church, near Newstead Abbey, for twenty-five years. It is very interesting. Mr. Oates is going to send it in a few days to the North of England, so we would advise our | friends to go and look at it as soon as possible. I mention grave, for it was! not until ofter 1847 that he ever had a slab put over him. A visitor from Ox-1 ford writes at that date: The Hucknall bells are now ringing a peal, | My friends are now taking their grog; I cannot express how indignant I feel, That Lord Byron fares worse than his dog I Some day his remains will be honored, 11 trust, And a far nobler shrine be selected; Time soon will render more precious h; dust. And be like our Shakespeare respected. J. J. Faulkner. Special Offer]No. 1, To introduce my^kmginess in every neighborhood in the quickest possi ble manner, I will ship you one Bed-room Suite c miplete, consist ing of One Bedsteid, full size and high head. One B reau. with glass, Oue Wash-stand, ( jne Center Table, Four cane seat cha rs, one rocker to match, well worth $20, but to intro duce my goods id-your neighbor hood at once I willMeliver the above suite at your railroad depot, all charges paid, When the cash comes with the or der. BESIDES this Suite, I have a great many other Suites in Walnut, Oak, Poplar, and all the popular woods, running in price from the cheapest up to hundreds of dollars for a Suite. THE PALMETTO BREWING CO. Kappieman’s New Charleston Beer! Just Out! Sales Increase 50 per cent, in one week!! ABSOLUTELY PURE! FINEST GERMAN HOPS • AND CHOICEST MALT USED. N O GLUCOSE! NO JLAVORING! NO DOCTORING! You may Bud its equal, but there is none superior. Ask for, order and drink only New Charleston Beer. The Palmetto Brewing*Co., Steam Soda Water and Bottling Works, Charleston, S. C. IMPORTANT Farmers. )ELL YOUR COTTON AT GRANITEYILLE, where you can get Augusta Prices, and buy your goods of Quinby^A Cook, the LARGEST DEALERS in General Mechrandise in the County. QUINBY&COOK, GRANITEVILLE, S. C. L. JOHNSON, President. W. H. WILLIAMS. Superintendent. T. McAULIFFE, Sec. A Treas. -AND- GENERAL BUILDING MATJ Factory and Lumber Yard&: Jackson, Adams, Streets. Correspondence solicited. 8^“P. O. Box 156 - - - Campbell and D’Antignac AUGUSTA, GA. Special Bargain No. 2. Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven pieces, walnut frames, upholstered iu plush in popular colors, crimson, olive, blue, old gold, either In band ed or in comb.nation colors. This suite is sold for $40.00. I bought a large number of them al a bank rupt sale in Chicago, hence I will deliver this fine pin*!! suit, all charges paid by me, to your nearest railroad depot, for $33. Besides these suites I have a great many other suites in all the latest shapes and styles, aud c»n guarantee to please you. THE PARK HOTEL A a. Bargains No. 3. Isa Walnut Hpring Seat Lounge, teduced from $9 to $7. All freight paid. . Special Bargains No. 4, Open from November to June. Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove, trimmed up complete for $11.50, all* charges paid to your depot; or a 5-hole range with trimmings for $15. Besides these I have the larg est stock ot cooking stoves in the city, including the gauze door stoves and ranges, and the CHAR TER OAK STOVES with patent wire gauze doors. I am delivering these stoves everywhere, all freight charges paid at the' price of an or- | dinary stove, while they are far su perior to any other stoves made. Full particulars by mail. 100 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the roll, $5.50 per roll. 1,000 Cor nice Poles, 25 cents each; 1,000 Window.Shades, 3x7 feet on spring roller and fringed, at 37>£ cts each. Yon must pay your own freight on Cornice Poles, Window Shades and Clocks. Now, see here, I cannot quote you everything I have got in a store containing 22,600 feet of floor room, besides its annexes and factory in another part of the town. shall be pleased ’ to send you anything above mentioned, or will send my catalogue free if you will say you saw this advertisement in The Aiken Recorder, published at Aiken, S. C. £3^“No goods sent C. O. D. f or on consignment. I refer you to the ed itor aud publisher of tliis paper or to any hanking concern iu Augusta, or to the Southern Express Co., ail whom know me personally. Yours, &c, HE POPULAR WINTER RESORT, ou the summit of the Piney Sand Hill Region of South Carolina., Hotel Grounds include Park, con tain i ng 200 acres of Pi ne Forest. DR YES T CLIMA TE IN THE UNITED STA TES, except points of great altitude in the Rocky Mountains. For descriptive pamphlet and terms, address— B. P. CHATFIELD, Proprietor and Manager. JOHN J. BREDENBERG Wholesale aud Retail Dealer in Groceries, Hay, Grain and Liquors, 510 & 512 Broad and 509 Bills Streets, Augusta. Georgia. Machinist Work. INSURANCE. J. W. Ashhnrst. Successor to litsoi & Company. LIVERPOOL, LONDON A GLOBE, ROYAL, of Liverpool, PHENIX, of Brooklyn, HOCHESTER-GERMAN, ANGLO-NEVADA, WESTERN ASSURANCE CO., BUT MUTUAL, STANDARD ACCIDENT INS CO- SOUTHERN INSURANCE CO. ASSETS OF OVER $ 150,000,000.00. Office in Aiken Co Loan A Savings B’k THE COSMOPOLITAN, The Cheapest Dlastrated Monthly in the World. Enlarged Oct, 1889, to 128 Paget, The Cosmopolitan Is literally what The New York Times calls It, “At its price, the brightest, most varied and best edited of Magazines.” An Unusual Opportunity. The Aiken Recorder, per year . $1.50 The Cosmopolitan, “ 2.40 The price of the two papers $8.90 We will furnish both for only. .$ 2.70 QTThis offer is only to new subscri bers to “The Cosmopolitan,” and only for one year. {^“It has more articles In each number that are readable, and fewer uninteresting pages, than any of ttb * contemporaries. —-Boston Journal. GW*Send $2.70 to this office, and se cure both “The Cosmopolitan” and “The Aiken Recorder.” JESSUP BROS , \ 7 Cheapest Stove and Grate House in the South! • O UR Improved Portable Grates give perfect satisfaction; thous ands in daily use. Send for circular. JESSUP BROS. AUGUSTA LUMBER COMPANY, MANUFCTURER8 AND DEALERS IN-^—/ • • - / Doors, Sash, Blinds, Roogh and Dressed Yellow Pile Lomher, Manufacturers of Sheet Steel Bake She< Pans, Smoke Stacks, ventilators, Ac. Write for prices. / JESSUP BROS. Factory. 831 tillls St. | Salesroom, j 832 Broad St.; AUGUSTA. GA. For Rent and Sale. |L. F. PADGETT, 1110-1112 Broad Street. [Augusta - - Ga. [Proprietor Padgott’s Furniture. Stove and Carpet Stores. Factory Harrisop St. Either in or out of Shop, with good tools and Men. Boiler, Tank, Stack and Tube and Sheet Iron Work, Blacksmith Work, Iron and Brass Foundry Work, Gin Work, Material and Repairs for above. All Orders promptly attended to. GEO. R. LOMRARD & CO., New Shops Above Passenger Depot. FOR RENT. 4- Room Cottage with kitchen attached, 1 year.... $100 00 5- Rocm Cottij*', fhrj^^ed, per 6- Room Cottag^, fhiffilshed, per month 50 00 7- Room Dwelling, furfii$hed, per month /tv.. 90 00 8- Room Dwelling, furnished^ per month 100 00 6- Room Cottage, unfurnished, per month 15 00 FOR SALE. 8-Room Dwelling and 4 acre lot. $8,500 7- Room Dwelling and acre lot.. 1,850 6-Room Dwelling, % acre lot... 2,150 8- Room Dwelling and 2 acre lot. 8,500 1 Building L*>t. 100x150 feet 400 623 Acres, the Atwood Hatchway Land on Shaw’s Creek, will be sold in small farms to suit purchasers. 1,800 Acres, finest land in Rocky Grove Township, will be sold low for cash. Dwellings rented, bought and sold. Rents collected for property holders and taxes ,>aid. Insurance ou Dwellings, Barns and Stores solicited. I represent four first- class companies. J. C. HUTSON’S Insurance and Real Estate Agency, Aiken, S. C. tsfOfflce under Henderson Bros.’ law office. 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The New York Ledger, per year $2.00 The Aiken Recorder, “ . 1.50 Price of both papers $ 8.50 We will furnish both for only. .$ 8.00 BP~Thls offer applies to both old and new subscribers to The Recor der. LUMBER IS ADYANCM Saw Mills, Steam Engines, Shiaile MOli, lay Preset ttc. If you w*ant a First-Class Saw Mill, send for Catalogue to A. B. FARQUHAR CO., (Ltd.,) York, Fa, .