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S Kntkbed at the Post Office at Aiken. 8. C. as second class matter. AIKEN. S. C.. SEPT. 11. 1891. liOCAli BREVITIES. Judge James Aldrich is iu Camden holding Court. Miss Maria W. Edgerton returned from the north on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Morgan, have returned from the mountains. Misses Wardlaw Stansel and Marie Moore are in Aiken visiting frieds. Mrs. M. C. Porcher and Mr. Percy Porcher of Berkeley, are at Miss Hav eners The King’s Sous will meet at Mrs. H. H. Hall’s house on next Monday evening. Old newspapers for putting under carpets may be had at The Recorder office at 20 cents per 100. Mrs. Thomas Legare and Mrs. John Ancrum, of Charleston, are in Aiken, the guests of Mrs. Carroll. Mrs. M. H. Gammell of Summer ville, has rented the Hutson house on Pendleton St. for the season. Miss Janie Holmes, who has been in Aiken Visiting her relatives re turned to Chicago on Saturday. Rev. J. D. Timmons, of Edgefield will preach at the Baptist Church on next Sunday rporning and evening. Mr. Samuel Ellison has given up his farm and returned to his former position in Mr. C. K. Henderson’s store. It is Mr. C. W. Anness who has rented the Coffin house, and not Mr. Cbas. Anness, as stated iu our last issue. We regret to learn of the serious illness of Mrs. S. P. T. Fields, who has been suffering greatly for some time. Mrs. Jno. A. Neese, of the Sally neighborhood, paid The Recorder office an appreciated visit on Wed nesday. The Rey. Jno. R. Dow will conduct divine services next Sunday at 11 a. ra. at Langley, and at 8 p. m. at Beech Island. Miss Betty Mathews, of VVilliston, and Miss Annie Ranibo, of Ridge Spring, are visiting Miss Annie Zeigler. Miss Florence Boatwright, daugh ter of Dr. U, M. Boatwright, is spend ing a few days with her sister, Mrs. J. T. Shuler. The Court of General Sessions will convene in Aiken on Monday the 28th Inst, with Judge W, H. Wallace on the Bench. Frank Danforth, the neuro, was hanged in Augusta on last Friday for the murder of his wife on the 28th of last June. It is stated that Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hitchcock, Jr., with others of the Eustis family, will come to Aiken e'-.rly this winter and spend the sea son here. Mr. Lewis Bradwell has had a new coat of paint put on the front of his clothing store, which has made the outside as handsome and attractive as the inside. Captain Whatley has rented Mrs. Ellison’s house iu eastern Aiken and will shortly move to town for the pur- of sending his children to the AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. Progress in I he Manufacture ol Brick by the Aiken Fire and Ornamental Brick Company. Comparatively few persons in Ai ken appreciate the magnitude of the industry established on the old Bar ton tract south of the pond, by the Messrs. Anness and Livingood, for the manufacture of brick. These gentlemen having purchased 500 acres ol land, with an inexhausti ble supply of clay, organized the Ai ken Fire and Ornamental Brick Com pany and set to work establishing their plant. During the few months since the purchase of the land great changes have been made iu the appearance of tiie place and its surroundings. Sev eral large buildings have been erect ed, together with a number of smaller ones. The first one in the series used in tlie manufacture of bricks is the engine house and the house where the clay is received, mixed, passed automatically through Use grinder and through the moulding machine that contains tiie dies for the differ ent kinds of bricks made. From this house the mot Ided bricks are taken on trucks to the racks, of which there are sixteen, each 80 feet long and ca pable of containing 100,000 bricks, or about four days’ output. On these racks the bricks are allowed to remain for three or four days, when they be come dry enough to puck in a kiln and burn. The burning takes place in a great house 60 feet wide by 125 feet long and about 80 feet high, tiie roof of which is movable, so that it can be opened whenever the fire is made iu tiie kilns. This house will accommo date three kilns at a time, each con taining about 250,000 bricks. Directly alongside of this house will run the railway 7 , so that tiie bricks can be loaded immediately into the cars. The railway connection with the South Carolina Rail way has not yet been completed, but is graded and most of the cross-ties are on the ground; but the iron, which is to be furnished by the S. C, Railway Co., has not yet been received, so it is thought that it will not be finished for two or three weeks. The company intends to make not only ordinary building bricks, but or namental bricks for house fronts, and fire bricks for grates and stoves; and in the course of time drainage and floor tiles also. They will also make bricks of different colors to fill par ticular orders. One small kiln of bricks has been already burned, with a most successful result, and in a short time the company will be pre pared to go regularly to work. But until the iron for the railway track is received and the connection made with tiie main line, there appears to be no object in commencing work regularly. All this will now soon be accom- plished, and the Aiken Fire and Or namental Brick Company will be furnishing bricks of the best quality at the rate of 25,000 per day, and the people of Aiken County will have cause to congratulate themselves on the establishment of such an impor tant industry among them. The Sanitarium. As an evidence of the need of a Sanitarium in Aiken, and that the parties who conceived the design for such an institution struck the right chord we call attention to the follow ing communication; Don’t Forget That you can get good New 7 Orleans Molasses, 25 cents per gallon, at H. Busch & Co’s. H. Busch & Co. are selling the best creamery butter at 30 cents per tt>. When you need Dry Goods and Shoes, H. Busch &Co. will supply you at satisfactory prices. Call and see their special figures and jobs. What Does It Mean? As we intend to close out all of our Summer Goods, we will offer for tiie next thirty days great inducements to purchasers. Onera Slippers at 50 cents; former price $1. Sliupers at 75 cents; former price *l.o0.‘ Men’s Shoes at 75 cents and $1. Beautiful Silk Mitts at 20 to 25 cts. Beautiful Gingham and Toil Der Nords at 8 and 10 cents. Splendid effects in China Silks at 10 cents per yard. A large line of white goods that will be sold at prices that will surpriseyou. Prints at 3, 4 and 5 cents per yard. All straw 7 goods at prices that will convince you that we mean business. Come to the Augusta Store, Park Avenue, and see f or yourselves. Don’t storm the system as you would a fort. If held by the enemy, constipation, gently persuade it to surrender with De Witt’s Little Ear ly Risers. These little pills are won derful convincers. Sold by W. J. Platt. Yesterday the Pullman sleeping cars that have heretofore come from Atlanta on the fast train to Augusta and carried through to Charleston by the night trains on the South Carolina Railway, were taken off. Now these Pullman cars are brought to Augusta in the morning trom Atlanta on the Georgia night train and carried through to Charlest«n on the South South Carolina road’s morning pas senger train. Returning, the sleep ing cars are carried to Augusta by the evening train, leaving Charleston at 6 o.clock P. M. People with impure blood may be said to exist, not live. Life is robbed of half its joys when the blood is load ed with impurities and disease. Correct this condition with De Witt’s Sarsaparilla, it is reliable. Sold by W. J. Platt’s. Messrs. J. U. Rives & Co. have built an ample shed in the rear of their dry goods store for the conve nience of their customers from the country. It is designed to protect their animals and vehicles from the weather, and doubtless w 7 ill be put into constant use. They are also fill ing up the low places under the shed with fresh earth and clay, so that wa ter will not remain, as it has hereto fore done. De Witt’s Sarsaparilla cleanses the blood, increases the appetite and tones up tire system. It has benefited many people who have suffered from blood disorders. It will help you Sold by W. J. Platt. The assessed value of real and p sonal property in the southern sta in 1890, according to the census, is^ 284,312, 886, an increase over 18! $1,316,780,152, or 44.3 per cent, gain for the rest of country wa^ per cent, showing iJ^it the nj growth is now gtt^^^^n the You never Earl The Carolina, Cuml Chic Captain George Po Carolina, Cumberlai cago railroad, arrive Friday last from Nc' 1 lias been making extend the road fro^ wood. Captain everything was in] would be pushed a short time, andl be in operation.]^ Greenwood, and of town some til have been gradel Three C’s Augij used to get tbroil two miles of lig’J Gap will be finia laid the road cail —Charleston wrf The North Amj Mr. H. M. Olj North Americs Aiken off and davs, laying scheme to get t| American and the town. He Columbia and these cities wal nionstrating tf magazine as aif ana as a life raj made by 7 him prietors of thl every twenty-, year each, tin be given for! Certainly the! five persons if the excellent and also the 'accrue to the in it. PrJ Stanmore tery with ini Alfred Boyj larceny. Adam Johj Ed McKinf with intent t| Starling ll battery with] Geo. Van tent to rape- Frank D^ tract. Allen Si of a high Bully WalteJ Edw; Johl larceii Epj with Jt Ji