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AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, J FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1891.
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HISTORY OF
Attorneys-at-Law, Aiken, S. C.
D. S. Hendkkson. E. P. Henderson.
Henderson Brothers,
Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C
Will practice in the State and
United States Courts for South Caro
lina. Prompt attention given to col
lections.
John Gary Evans,
Attorney-at-Law.
Will practice in the Counties of
Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell.
0. C. JORDAN,
ATTORN EY-AT-I.AW.
AIKEN, S. C.
Andrew T. Woodward,
Attornky-at-Law,
Barnwell Court House, S. 0.
Will practice iu the Courts of Aiken
and Barnwell Counties.
Walter Ashley,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, S.C.
(Successor to Aldrich & Ashley.)
Practices in all the Courts. Special
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A Town That Was
Man and Was Kill
prising Citizens.'
From 'I he Atlanfli
•‘The dead towns
been the subject of a
interest and unusual
far as is known “the
South Carolina” have
ed upon. -t
Mr. William C. Si
the Sibley mills qf A<
citizen that the Electri
as one of its most
lauta Thursday night,
remiiiisctnt strain,
facts about the h
the desolate citv
from one hundred
fifty lazy vagrant 1
the river from A
He knew it when Jfew
of commerce for four
hundreds upon handredl
each day, from upper an
Carolina, North Cacoli
nessee, would roil into i
ed down with articles of
Along iu the early tliirf
had au old German cit
name of Schultz. The
that time a trading cen
dreds of miles of the
country. Schultz was
wealthiest citizens. He
owned three brick buildi
north side of Broad Street
the monument, which a
until this day.
They were known as tl
Bank Buildings, because,
biy, there was a bau
which was run by old
and McKinney. Schultz al
the bridge that spanned the 8
and connected Georgia an
Carolina.
The bank failed, and as it h
money to Augusta, through s<
suit the city managed to get
sion of the bridge.
This angered Schultz, and
of pique he vowed that he wt u
Augusta’s trade and build up
burg. He went before the Soul
olina Legislature, and ont
of his representatioi
of establishing
Hamburg, Gen
000.
This was in ^
night where,
ing wil
lUItC.
by a Piqued
Its Unenter-
>urual.
rgla M have
ork of great
erlt. but as
ad towns of
; been touch
ft
president of
ta, and a
City prizes
was In At
e was in a
Id me some
Hamburg,
pulated by
undred aud
ust across
the centre
ates, when
of wagons
ower South
aud Teu-
treet^ lead-
in merce.
s Augusta
on by the
ty was at
for bun-
r rounding
ne of its
reeled aud
gs on the
just below
standing
Bridge
resuma-
there
•Schultz
owned
annah
South
owed
e law
osses-
river because coming down the canal
took away the great danger of shoot
ing the rapids. Hamburg gradually
grew from bad t<> worse, and finally
about the time of the war its sole
population was composed of negroes.
“Now it is nothing but almost a
howling wilderness. Where once the
busy merchant sold his wares, a lazy
negro skulks; where the residences
that beautiful Southern women graced
once stood, now negro ramshackles,
with dirty pickaninnies playing on
the porch, are to be seen. The well
kept streets are a mass oi weeds, and
Schultz’s beautiful park, under whose
trees many a beautiful tale of love
has been told, is now the resort of ne
gro picnickers.
The town has been through riots
aud fires, and uo house that burns up
or is blown down has ever been re
placed.
Hamburg is surely au evidence of
what narrow minded illiberal citizens
can do. It now serves but one pur
pose—it is the battle-ground for game
cocks and bull dogs. A
Heducing the Acreage in Cotton—A
Novel Scheme.
From the News and Courier.
To the Editor of The News aud
Courier: Iu your issue for to-day you
say that the agitation by the Farmers’
Alliance to unite cotton-growers on a
scheme for reducing the amount of
cotton produced “is foredoomed to
failure.” You may be right. If so,
it is greatly to be regreted. Cotton-
growers as a class are not prosperous.
A single fact, the’ low price of cotton
lauds, is ample proof of this. They
are not prosperous because the busi
ness is overdone. The eight mil
lion bale crops bring actually less
money than the four-million bale
crops did, although the cost of each
item of production is almost substan
tially the same.
The oldest farmers who have taken
deepest root in the cotton fields bare
ly hold their own. Annually hosts of
new farmers, farmers of a single sea
son, farmers without experience or
sufficient financial equipment, raid
the cotton lands. The wreck of their
sleuder means is gathered in at har
vest time by their factors, and natur
ally in their own ruin they are obli
vious to the injury their misdirected
competition has inflicted on oth
and the publi
shows that
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
Baking
Powder
ABson/mar pure
DEVASTATION BY FL.OOD,
A Tour in the Indian Territory—In
undated by a Cloud-Burst.
Arkansas City, Kan., June 14.—
A gentleman who has just arrived
here from Greer County, in the ex
treme southwest part of the Indian
Territory, reports that the Red river
and its noith fork have been out of
their banks for over a week, com
pletely hemming the people in and
cutting off all communication with
the outside world. The rainfall there
has been simply terrible, and the
people are surffering everywhere.
Over half the wheat crop has been en
tirely ruined and corn and oats are
nearly killed.
A cloud-burst inuudated the little
town of Fraser, ruiniug every mer
chant’s stock of goods and compelling
the people to flee for their lives. Two
persons were drowned in the town
and three iu the country. Along
Turkey creek and Salt fork a dozen or
more houses were washed away.
A Mr. Phillips and daughter-in-law
floated a mile on a portion of their
house, and were finally washed
ashore. Mrs. Phillips and her little
daughter grasped the limbs of a tree
aud hung there until morning, when
they were rescued with a raft, the
water being twenty feet deep under
the tree.
The foundations of many houses
being washed away wrecked them and
the dugouts everywhere caved in;
hundreds of people are living out of
doors on high land, praying for the
floods to recede. The damage done in
that county alone will exceed $500,000.
The Penalty of Overwork.
Savannah News.
The farmer who.
poses upon them. Though they
are to be pitied rather than envied,
those who fill the ranks of what are
called the toiling masses cannot he
made to think so.
Outlook for a Bi^ Crop.
The New York Commercial and
Financial Chronicle says:
“We demonstrated last June, and
have made even a fuller demonstratiou
in our acreage reviews of several pre
vious occasions, that the Southern
States had not secured a full yield on
the land planted any season since
1882. It will be remembered that in
1882 the crop raised was 6,992,234
bales, from 16,590,000 acres planted, or
about 194 pounds to the acre. In the
summer of 1887, 1888 and 1889 the pro
duct in number of bales marketed was*
about the same each year as iu 1882,
that is about 7,000,090 bales, although
the acreage had at the close of that
period of seven years increased over
20 per cent. We da not wonder that
some who never follow the weather
conditions closely were inclined (in
view of this stationary character of
the crop measured in bales) to lose
faith iu acreage results. But tiiose
who have taken the trouble to study
carefully the reports each Jnne have
known why it was that a full crop
was uot reached, and have known
also that if one should be reached how
very much larger the yield would
prove to be than it had been any year
of our record.
“It is so important as a basis for
future crop estimates that this fact
should be clearly disclosed and recog
nized, that it is not needful to present
the data respecting the years since
1882 in detail. And first it is desirablj
to state more.