Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-08-27
Eagehela Court Mouse, S. G., august 27, tsAo

less valuable than erctolorc.-Nlc's Register,
Ipri 10, 1919.
II is estimated that there are $4,000 persons
daily seeking work in Philadclphia: in New
York, 10000 able bodied men arc said to be
wandering about the streets, looking for It, and,
if we add to them the women who desire some
thing to do the amount cannot be less than 2U,-
600: Baltimore. there may he about III, 900 per.
sons in unsteady employment. or actually sui
icring BECAUSE they cannot get into business:
We know several decent men, lately good
livrrs, who now subsist OH such villlals as, two
years ago, they would not have given their
servants in the kitchen. n."-NHc'S Register, Au-
gusf7, 1919
"Never" says the Fronkfort. (Ky) Argus,
"wirhn The recollection oil our Oldest citizens,
has the aspect nftlc times, as it respects pro-
pcrty aud money, been so alarming. Already
has property been sacrificed in considerable
quantities, in this and the neighboring c0,in-
ties, for less than half its value. We have but
little money in circulation, and that little IS
daily diminishing by the universal calls OF the
banks. Neither lands, negroes, nor any other
article, can be sold for half their value in cash,
while executions to the amount OF many hun
dreds Of thousands Of dollars are hanging over
the heads of our citizens. What can be done!
In u few months, no debt can be paid, no mo-
ncy will be in circulation to answer the ordinary
purposes OF human life. NVarrrnts, suits and
executions will be more abundant than bank
Notes. and the country will present scene ol
! suffering, for the poor remnants Of individual
fortunes. which the world has not Witnessed
Mics Register, jane Z, 1919.
Ii has become n serious affair 10 the aborinG
man to purchase himself Il nrw garment-hls
wages, OIL an average, do hot purchase him
halt rs much us they did, and lr is continually
uncertain as to obtainiug even that. Many oi
the mechanical professions have equally de-
clinrd: though our population is one half grea.
ter than it was ten years n@0, it is certainly a
fact, printing of books is not now half so ex.
tensive rs it was then. The desire TO read is
not lessened; but the means of purchasing are
denicd-lhe most common school books are
Il drug IIatiers, Shoemakers, and Tailors.
and even blacksmiihs, whose work seemed to
be indispensable, have lost in general much OF
their former business-fom forth to onc.half.
This is the result of necessity; aud those WIN
might purchase. abstain. in looking IL fear.
tul future. .'-Nitc'S Register. AprH u. 1921.
"A gentleman in Western Virginia directs The
Register TO be stopped, because lie used 10 pay
three will moi do it now. Another. miller in
Ohio, IN paying his advance tony agent. oh,
served that he had sold four barrels of -four tc
obtain the note of s. which was reunited. -
Niles Hegistcr, September 10, 1S2l.
Corn in Cincinnati 10 cents 4 bfslel whoa
in Harrison county. Ohio, fns fnllcn to 2s cent.
Il bl.sIlcl. and in some instances 10 12I cents
4 letter from Greenfield Ohio, dated Nav 3
states that wheat was sold at l2t cents b,,ShcI
and whiSkcy was dull ut Is cclts per gallon
United States Ga=cttc, (Philadeiphia,) May
23, and Jane %, 1921.
"a late PiIt<bnrg (Penn.) Mercury says:
Flour barrel 81; whiskey II cents Il gallon
goo'I mrrchantablc pine boards 20 cents hun
dred feet; sheep and calves 81 head. For
eign goods al the old pricrs. One bIlsllel and
Il haforwheat will hny pound rcoiler;a bar
rel oiilonr will buy one pound OF ten; twelve
and Il half barrels will bny one yard of srr.
perline oalcloalh.-NAc's Register DIay H.
1871.