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it * THE AIKE BY FORD & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROL] 5,1890. *UN RlVAU-CCf "WOWLD RENOWNED? TIIjLiMAX'S 1’IjAIN TALiK. on SA 5W' SH 0 &°^ PURE the great American dietetic Preparation fdr Nursing Mothers.infants and FOR CONVALESCENT^AND THE AGED. THOUSANDS of unsolicited TESTIMONIALS and CONSTANTLY INCREASING SALCS.PROVE MERITED SUCCESS. WSS-wNaDCPo^ John Carle &SoNS-NEwYara# R. O. ZEIGLER, Coitractor, Architect & BnMer. H ANING made this a special bu siness for more than fifteen years, I nm prepared with both knowl edge and exderience, and I will use every effort to render some advice on the building question whenever called upon; and I will furnish plans and superintend buildings on the shortest notice. I am prepared to do repairs on buildings and painting on shortest notice. Also I have some very desi- lable Lots within the Town limits for sale cheap. D. G. ZEIGLER, Aiken, S. C. Front of H. Busch & Co., Park Ave HEW YORK LEDGER,) The Literary Weekly of America. SIXTEEN PAGES! FINE IL L US TEA TIONS! It would be impossible to enumer ate all the attractions of The New York Ledger. Send for sample copy. An Opportunity to Subscribers. The New York Ledger, per year.$2.00 The Aiken Recorder, “ . 1.50 Price of both papers • $ 3.50 We will furnish both for only. .$ 3.00 rg~This offer applies to both old and new subscribers to The Recor der. THE COSMOPOLITAN, The Edgefield Congressman Sub-Treasury Bill. Prom The Hampton Guardian. Tire following letter from the Hon George I). Tillman was written to a gentleman in this County, and, while not intended for publication, we take the liberty of placing it before the readers of tire Guardian: Washington, D. C.. August 10. Dear Sir: I cannot see how any Al- lianceman or otherwise can want more money issued ; besides free coin age of silver and abolition of uationa banks, with substitution of green backs in sufficient quantity to do the business of the country on a cash ba sis, uould require about $30 percapita in coin and paper, and we now have about $15 in coin, which would make it necessary to issue about $15 per capita, or $950,000,000 greenbacks, es timating tlie population at 65,000,000. As I am in favor of relieving the money famine to the above extent, besides being willing to lighten taxes on the poor and middle classes by levying an income tax on the rich to the extent of a bundled million dol lars or so, it occurs to me that there is no necessity for the sub-treasury bill to pa r is if lean get the other measur ■e through, and they are Alliance meas- nres—at least in Barnwell County. The sub-treasury bill is a humbug and a Republican Trajan horse also. The bill is unconstitutional because it provides for the manager of the ware house to be elected. Now the 2d section of Article 2 cf the Consti tution of the United States requires every officer and employee of the Federal Government to be “appoint ed.” This shows that whoever drafted the bill was an ignoramus, and the bill is undemocratic, unjust, crude and impracticable throughout. If the bill should become a law, the manager and all the other employees at a ware house would all be Republi cans—carpet-baggers, scalawags or negroes—when a Republican Presi dent should be in power. Besides the manager there would have to be a book-keeper, a clerk, a cashier, a tell er, a weigher, a sampler, a shipper, a watchman, and at least three laborers to handle the cotton—twelve employ ees at good wages, which would make every ware house virtually a little headquarters or fork to defend the in terests of the Republican party. What ecent cotton^jJauter wanra a pawn it for 80 per cent, and let it stay in the ware house for an artificial rise in price, when many would sell, of course, but perhaps half the owners of pawned products would never sell them at all, but having drawn 80 per cent, of their market price at an in flated value, when money advances were most plentiful, would simply al low the year to expire and force the Government to sell the paw ned pro ducts at apeiion for whatever it could get—at au enormous sacrifice of course. It is a wi II known fact in the histo ry of prices that in the ordinary rou tine of commercial business, connect ed with agricultural products, they fluctuate more than 20 per cent, every year—frequently as high as 40 or 50 percent., and sometimes more; and if fluctuation is so great in the nor mal course of trade, how much more extreme and ruinous will the fluctua tion be in price when many hundred millions of dollars shall be first issued and then destroyed every year! The unwisdom—yes, the stupidity—of up setting all prices and demoralizing all society by alternately expanding and contracting the currency every year, to the extent of six, eight or nine hundred millions of dollars, must be palpable. There arc at least a dozen other in superable objections to this sub-treas ury scheme, but the weather, is too hot to waste time pointing them out. What I have said above has been written with a galloping pen. Very truly, G. D. Tillman. The Result in the Third Dislricj, The returns Congressional Third District show that Mr. from the election for candidate from the on the 29th, ultimo, George Johnstone re ceived the nomination by a majority of 24 votes over Mr. D. K. Norris. On this subject The Greenville News says: The result of the Third District primary is far more important than the triumph of one man and the de feat of another. It means a great deal more than that of eleven thou sand white Democrats in the district majority of twenty-four voted for George Johnssone over D. K. Norris. The two men represented opposing principles, with the line sharply drawn. Colonel Norris represented the dic tate of a small number of representa tives of a secret organization formed a good and noble purposes “THE More Humoral Can; From Th^ Railroad rut Charleston as The atmosphej ed with them pass a broker ting a stright i ing. That mi Louisville and eye on the “Ok was stated, in a nephew of onl Nashville direcl There is now anl may or may no^ It is to the et mortgage bonhJ with Receiver C ment of the roai ing of buying it ing him the have grown out| ed in the New Yl icle on the 25} which it is sho\ has made more has been made past’ in fact the paid expenses bt past due interest There is one th berlaiu has'doue ble” which will erable to its earn| the West .Shore lauds all the grail ment quarry in next season he wi the immense trui drew’s, not a dol passed through t Reliable.” Another rumor )4 to the the Receiver has close relations ’jtH i the great East Shore Terminal,nn< I it is even rumor ed that these rela lions will become closer. All this it will be seen render the “Old Reliablet” in a measure in dependent of thja t Immense water front terminal on threatening the People the Emerald Isle. in conjunction with f off phate was used the cotton seed and stable manure '* 1 — fti no PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. Better Crops* vV. J. Northen in the Southern Cultivator. A very successful dairyman, during an address before a convention in the as thick around irop Kolb gems, ply impregnat- impossible to without get- for the ask- shed about the ile having an ^le” comes, as ided way from ^ouisyille and ies not given [mor out which a foundation it the second tre so pleased plain’s manage- [hey are think- ilves and mak- Int. This may larticle publish- inancial Chron- >wever, and in [at the receiver >f the road than tree or four years has not only rood deal of the From The New York Times. 1088 . , . . ,., . T J ..,1 nearly half of every acid phosphate Although the London papers still j g gu ]p{ ]a t e Q f Hme, which fixes the ““ discuss the subject In small type on ammon | a ag fagt as it is formed, if the West, was asked what breed of cattle jf”” m ^r 1 ‘ n U rf” b “ hou ‘‘ Utb « tto r “*> »««.r gle staff maa io inquire loio the exact I( no phosphate wan used there is replied by 1 ' re<l situation, the conviction that an Iri8h likely to be a serious loss of ammon- Jer8e * s - He was then asked by an- famine is impending is slowly assert- ia during the fermentation of the other party, if three years ago, he dM ing itself in the popular mind as the i turned over my compost last not say, in reply to a similar question, dominant topic of interest. r ^ e P r o- week ^ t h OU g h ,t smoked like a tar- that “all things considered, he gress of the idea may be slow, for the . amrnn „i A on nid he waruiug that a blight had set In came , lt ^ r by . m ell or by the ef- thoagbtjniae Jewess the bnl." from Bouthwest Cork as long ago as fect upon | ltmU8 p ap e r . answered by saying, “if I have lived the middle of May, and in July the utmus paper detected the presence three years and learned nothing more parish priests by scores had printed 0 f ac | d 5 U t no alkali. than I knew three years ago, I had, statements of the disaster hang ng j have ma kiug composts of possibly, better abandon my business over their people; yet it Is only a 8table manure, cotton seed and acid o _ fortnight since Mr Balfour spoke of h hatet annua l.y, since 1869, and 0 “ ™ having just learned that there was in no ca8e have i ever detected the es- mau * The idea that the some little trouble with the crops in c f ammonia and, as has been Newman. attempted to convey, is certain districts, and, as said, even now the London press only reprints summaries of the investiga tions reported by the Irish papers. The Potato Rot in Ireland. „„ . , * '' J -— . - , The telegraphic report that the po- Yet these are enough to show the ter- , .... „ rible nature of the outlook. UU> ““"•I”. P”* 10 rat ' *■“ n,ade Already the dread disease known Us appearance in Ireland, and is “famine fever”—words which call spreading so rapidly as to threaten up such sinister memories in all old the en tire crop, is well calculated to enough to remember 1847—has made crea t e a l ar m throughout Europe and ' ‘— - —rl '>ai]£A as what to lit- at Mr. Cham- the “Old Relia- Mess add consid- |s—;the building of iual. There he om the govern- gefleld, and here be able to handle crop of St. An of which has yet hands of the “Old effect that established very numerous prostrations veen Kinsale anu o&iu- i a re oi mo death has occurred and the potato rot made its appearance in lions have beea Europe, and also in this country, and caused by eating diseased potatoes. caU8e <] heavy losses to the farmers. Of the 8,000 people in this district j n Ireland, however, the effects of nearly one-half will be entirely with- ^ be were appalling. The po- out food by the middle of September, ^ crop wa8| and is> the ma i n re u and the gravest fears are entertained a Q Ce 0 f jtg a griculturists, and its de that before that date an epidemic of struction In that year was followed famine fever or English cholera will by a f amIne , the sufferings from become fastened upon the country. wb ich excited the sympathies of the The potatoes are so badly diseased civilized w’orld. The people of this that even the pigs are injured by eat- country sent ship loads of provisions round about and thousands of dollars to relieve the nanrtla. ing them. Youghal, Cooper River, whi to a syndicate. I| situation is inter now. Ensili From The Alfred Hi e banks of the is said to belong fact the railroad ingly lively just itter. In the district including the estate, the farmers IUU notorious distress of Ireland’s afflicted people are I It was that terrible visitation, fol of polit Ponsonby esuuc. ..... _ ploughing all the potato land up with j 0 wed as it was by a season oi poi.v- the intention of planting cabbages, in ic a i unrest, that gave a great impetus the hope of providing some sort of ^ Irj8h emigration, which has added food for the winter. These are only millions of citizens to this country. illustrations chosen at random from T b c imp: ovement in the condition of io.Ireland, and the great countryside. Thus far th e people of Ireland, the whole counirvotuc. ** I V/ f'W J- nothing has been done in England, re duction in her population, ■■ ” o.,K- I | oos will be ap - _ AAA ^ except languidly to discuee the Bub- doubtie*. lesee,, tile danger to few weeks- time will see preheDded a loM of the potIlt<) 1 —-vl .wVMCi ! ject. But a few weeKS’ uu.c —. p reueuuwi it occupy the principal place in ih® crop, but nevertheless its destruction public talk and thought. -- „ r ^ a t Buffering will be the cause, of great Star. Sout h Carolina Democrats. Charlotte PNronicle. among the Irish farmers. Various theories have been offered for the potato rol, one of them being ‘ ^ i eylanting from that it is tb*! ♦he dairyman the one to which'! now call the attention of farmers. He evidently sought to im press the importance of progress and advancement. As a rule we are too much incliued to be content with our attaiumeuts. Each succeeding yeui should be an improvement on has gone before. Life is lived tie purpose, if at the end of twelve months, the farmer knows nothing more to his advantage than he knew at the beginning. There are many means now in reach of all farmem for information about the best met bods for progress and improvements To advance the science of agriculture we have the help of experiment statiohs, together with discussions by intelligent farmers in all the States. There ia now a very commendable spirit of investigation and experiment by practical farmers crops, both as to chd^fiSnt and abun dance. To encourage progress and improvement, we have not only the stimulus of success, but the material benefit of money, offered for the lar gest and best yield of different crops. All these things are Intended as helps to improvements in crops and ad vance in agriculture. Col. Peek, a successful farmer of Georgia, has availed himself of/ these helps and produced the enormous yield of one hundred and thirty bushels of corn on one acre of ground. A farmer in South Carolina is reported, under the same stimulus, to have grown two hundred and fifty-five bushels. In the smaller crops, we have stated also, even more remarkable yields. Holding these results as the stan^j ard, may t ^ <:very farmer their approach ? To content' with —————