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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-06
COTTON STATES
life Insurance Company.
Principal Office, Macon, Ga.

The business oethssIRIoFbY SOUTHERN and HOME ooMPA
Nv s confined by TO legitimate Life Insurance alone
Policies issued on all approved Mutual plans issues fonc
per under the mutual rate DUH uoeS ho ao
ito to insure on the Stock pan that plan being very expensive
the long ,1,o1 1orr,r, will ovorooe ahon
e necav at the South and West where investments bring
Of profits on Mutual business divided annually amongst
al the Mutual Policy Holders without exception
Onhrd Premiums when desired Interest charged only
uPVa S Cash IS paid Policies viii become that
m ma have SCI p cent added to their faces which onthlrd more
than the original sum insured :, , 4 i
Ample provision against forfeiture of Policies the expressed terms
the contract.
The Company will always purchase its Policies their Cash value
We offer the people the financial security fohern
Companies the accumuang premiums of the insured and IN addon
thereto Capital commencing with $500 600! -,
Millions Of dollars have annually hitherto been lost to the acuVe Tcu
o o the Sob payment Northern Companies In
benefits derived from made by these Companies IN Nohern
then sustain our own Enterprise and thus keep money and the
profits at home.
Officers ut Macon, Ga:
VIM B. JOHNSTON President.
VIM S. HOLT, Vice-Predent
GEO S. OBEAR, Secretary.
JOHN W. BURKE, General Agent
G.. F. McCAY Actuary.
j. MAGILIL Superintendent OF Agencies
JASsMBRCER GREEN, Medical Examiner
~ Cotton States Company Georgia and South Carolina enter
n good Company and fully identified with the interests OF
our people ay represented in the general management Y
. '0ul 0''''''N LAVAL & ABNEY,
General Agents for North and South Carolina
WN + LAVAL ESQ., Office Columbia, S. C,
M ". ABNEY M. D., Edgeheld, s. T. o4
June
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-06
rested in St. Johns as though it was

rested in St. Johns as though it was
the most natural resting place it could
find.
Rose was as modestyns lovely.
81 don't see hows you came to
choose me, Paul, whenssurrounded by
so many stylish and brilliant women.
"Who could so gladly do. their
best to dissipate my fine fortune, p"
returned st. John, laughing.
He then told Rose. the little scene
he had witnessed in the store Of Low
ering & Brothers, and he had resolv-
ed then and there, to do his best to
win her, who when tempted to expen-
ditures beyond her means had the
strength of mind to says "ICANNoT
AFFORD IT," ~
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-06

+. IN Hooker used to say, "If had no
other motive for being religious, ! would
most earnestly strive to be SO for the sake
Of, my mother: that I might requite her
care Of me, and cause her Widows heart
to sing for JOY"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-06

All the cares Of the day ought to be
laid aside with onr clothes, None Of
them must be carried t9 70 bed with US;
and in this respect, rulssttoM & nlaY obtain
very great power over the thoughts. It
lisa destructive practice to study in bed,
and read till one fails asleep. ..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-06

gs- A small shop in the upper part Of
Raleigh, N. g., has the following !potice
posted on the door: "This year shop is
klosed to give tho boss chance to be
sick.n
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-06

Beneath the hill you may see the mill
Of wasting wood and crumbling stone ;
The wheel is dripping and Gathering still,
But Jerry, the miller, is dead and gone.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-06
Patent Medicines.

TUSr Received large and fresh as
C sortment of PATENT MEDICINES
of all kinds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
Chicago.
(From the New York Tribune

Chicago may be taken as fair
type Of American material energy
We are proud to claim her az a rep
resentative city, SO far as vigor, bold
ness, self-poise, industry, and far
reaching enterprise are the charac-
teristics of the American Republic.
the destruction Of three hundred
millions of substantial property is
lamentable disaster and we shudder
at, the statement that hundreds of hu-
man lives went out with agony i'll the
midst of the fiery furnace but the
indomitable energy of the great COM
munity still survives As Chicago
was a representative city in the ma
ton, so it shares in all the recupera-
tive qualities of the Republic. The
city which has been laid waste was
not alone that Of the three hundred
thousand people who inhabited 1t; il
was the city of many mighty States
whose messages of cheer and trains
Of relief have been speeding to it
from every quarter Of the Republic
A nation that has survived great
rebellion aud has grown stronger and
mightier IN the work of replacing
the wreck of four-yeGrs war has an
interest in rebuilding Chicago aud
making it stronger, nobler and more
admirable than before.
Though this is great calamity to
the City of Chicago and the whole
country, we shall doubtless be sur
prised TO see how soon both city and
country will recover from it. The
elasticity Of community which built
city by the Lake within the limits
OF brief lifetime, raised its founda>
lions again and again from the mo-
rass, drove tunnel under Lake Mich
igan, and turned the course of a riv-
err against it's natural flow, will be
equal 10 even the present emergency
There will be no panic, but the au-
dacious and CHEEKY confidence of the
people-not of Chicago alone, but of
The United States-w,ll sustain tho
enormous burden; and mutual for
bearance, help, and cooperation will
tide over the disaster Already there
are comfortable indications that the
Insurance Companies will weather
the sudden storm, and that the hun
dred millions of dollars which are rep
resented in the risks in Chicago may
DO forthcoming when the recovering
city shall demand this prudent pro-
vision. For time, of course, trade
will suffer, and the multitudinous in
terssts inwrought with the prosperi-
ty OF Chicago will languish. Rival
cities will divide among themselves
much of the business which Chicago
has heretofore absorbed. Milwaukee
aud Toledo especially will leap for
ward with the electric vigor of the
Chicago of 1850 But the represent
alive energies of the great North
West still hover among the crum
bling ruins Of what but yesterday
was Chicago and as busy hands are
already effacing the scars which now
disfigure the site, so surely will they
make for this noblest exponent of
the free. elastic growth Of the North
West Future more brilliant than
her Past
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
Railway Remarks by M. M. Strong.

The Mineral Point Tribune publish
es a letter from Moses NJ Strong of
that town, who is urgently in favor
Of pushing the NJ. p. r. r. TO the
Wisconsin River uia Dodgeville.-
Knowing that the business and i'm
portance of Mineral Point would go
the way of the woodbine in case the
road were built along the other con-
templated route-that is by the
way of Mifl1in and Blue River, and
on toward Tomah-Mr. Strong thus
ably pleads the cause of his town:
ut is unnecessary to depict the
disastrous results which the extern
sion of the railroad from that route
would bring upon our city. 1t would
become the main line, and the BUSH
ness on so long through route
would demand several trains daily /;
while Mineral Point would be only
the terminus of short spur six miles
long, so short that it is doubtful
whether the business Of this single
station would pay the operating ex-
penses attending it. and we should
have only occasional trains, and it is
not improbable that the road would
DO abandoned altogether. 1t is, at
any rate, certain that the machine
and repair shops would be removed
to some point on the main line, that
would be more convenient for its bus
mess. We should lose all the BUSH
ness from Mifflin to Linden, and all
the territory West and North of those
places, and for few miles East and
South, while the business that we
now get from Dodgeville and it's vi
entity would be liable TO be diverted
to the Cross Plains station, which
is only about nine or ten miles west
from DOdgeville, over level ridge
road T; even if not to the Milwaukee
4 Pr. du Chen r. r. by an independ-
ent narrow guage railway which is
already in contemplation. Little bus
mess would be left us from outside
the town limits, and the effects upon
the business and prosperity of Miner
al Point may be imagined, but can
not be adequately described"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
The Celebrated "Comanche Bill
Visits the Chicago Tribune
Office.

A Singular parsonage came into
the Office of the Tribune one evening
last week. He wore tanned buck
skin extensions and a huge, rough
coat Of the skin of the Mexican lion,
He wore bat about two feet across
from which his hair streamed to his
shoulders. His face was rather
youthful, pleasant and intelligent.
lie was introduced to the boys as
"Comanche Bill, man whose name
has been mentioned over and over
agian in the newspapers. He was
born in 1874. and is, consequently,
about q years of age. His whole
family was murdered in Minnesota,
in the massacre of August Is 1862,
with the exception of little sister
aged at that time only 8 years, who
was captured and carried off by the
Sioux on that bloody OCCASION
Since then be has been engaged in
pursuing his sister, of whom, from
time to time, he hears little news.
H. followed her until she had been
transferred from the Sioux TO the
Cheyennes, whom he lost track of her
for several years, but found out at-
terward that she was with the hated
Comanches. The persistence with
which he has fought these savage
braves has gained for him his name
an alias of William Porter-more
descriptive if less civilized. On one
occasion he caught sight of his sister,
now about II years of age, but, failed
to capture her. He is a going out
to Apache Pass this winter, and
thinks he will be able at last TO end
his chase and restore his abducted
relative to civilization.
Notwithstanding his nomadic life,
be is something ola wag. When ask
ed if he had slain any red men, he said,
with great simplicity, that he had
not, bat his gun had a way Of going
off when red skins were around
which amounted to the same thing.
He thinks Chicago is "an almighty
fine city" and admires every thing
but the beds. He cannot sleep on
one, but prefers the floor. His neck
is very large and indicative of con-
siderable strength, and the width of
his shoulders confirms the Impress
ion. His heigh is about the medium,
and Endurance and agility would be
expected in him rather than mass
i've strength. The most singular
part of his structure is his arm-or
both of them. They are double
jointed at the elbow, just as if Prov
idence had cut him out to defy a
sprain 10 that region.
He has supreme contempt for the
manner in which the United States
troops ende avored TO fight the In
dams, and thinks their brilliant
achievements in this direction may
safely be located in horn.
As an Indian fighter he has al
ready achieved a national reputation,
and is without doubt one of the bit
terest enemies the treacherous red
men has. He has "wiped out" a
number Of them, and will pr obably
run his score up few more points
before he finds his sister. - Chicago
Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, TUESDAY OCTOBER a. 1871

As usual, his great bone was the Ku-
hlux bill his great terror, federal
usurpation.
wAsHBURN REJoINDER.
Mr.. Washburn followed Mr.. Doc
little for half hour, plucking him,
from comb to toe nails, cleaner than a
dressed goose. The evil that Mr..
Doolittle has pointed out and which
predicted would follow, was traced
out and shown to be the prints of
the Johnson-Doolittle policy, that
undertook to reconstruct the state Of
the South, and hold them by leaving
them to the mercy Of the rebels,
without a vote or power of protec-
ton.
Mr.. Doolittle spoke at Black River
Falls to fifty hearers yesterday after
noon, and TO two hundred in the even
ing. Theee-fourth were Republicans.
The Sixth district is undoubtedly not
good missionary ground. There are
too many of the "Heathen Chinese"
among the lumbermen. F. a. NJ.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24

EG-Tho Now York Tribune s as
tonlshed to notice the inconsequent
conclusions which some people draw
from stated premises. Thus a cer>
tain spiritual newspaper says -
There's large amount of lalk going
on in St. Louis about lectures, circles,
mediums, and Spiritualism generally,
indicating activity of thought on the
subject" There could MT be a great
er mistake than to suppose that chat
tering, surmising, prattling, gable,
gossip, tittle-tattle-in brief, mere
talk in any of its numerous forms
indicates "thought." The fact is
quite the contrary-it is rant OF
thought, with supply unlimited of
guesses and false deductions, which
the wise will assume from all this col
loquial excess. ln spite of our at
tempts to give dignity to nonsense,
thoughts are thoughts and notions
are notions. and so will be to the end.
The shallow stream making a great
noise affords a convenient albeit q
rather hackneyed illustration. Gar.
rulous children give us another =
Old ladies over their tea third. Ma.
ture, if she had seen fit to make all
fools dumb, would have simplified
matters very much.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24

WELL PUT.-The Milwaukee Senti-
mel makes the following forcible and
just comparison Federal troops
now occupy Chicago, and martial
law has been proclaimed by General
Sheridan. The City government
was utterly pOwerless in the presence
of the great calamity to protect itself
against the horde of robbers who were
coming like vultures to feed upon a
defenceless people. So the General
Government extends it's shield over
the city. 1t was right to do so-it
was duty. But it is no less duty
of the National Government to guard
its citizens against murder and out.
RACES wherever the local authorities
are unable to perform that duty
Chicago is not an exception. The
debris of the great rebellion was, and
is yet, as blood-thirsty as the Chica-
go thugs. They have shed the blood
ofan innocent people. They have or
ganiZed their ruffianism and defed
the law, far more than the thieves of
Chicago, while the local authorities
we're just IS powerless, or, what is
worse in some instances, they have
leagued themselves with the violation
of tho laws, or shut their eyes to out
RACES that they might have preven>
ted. If it is right to proclaim mar
tial law in Chicago, it is right in
North Carol ina under similar circum-
stances. Tit is Imperialism to shield
the detenceless aud the down trod-
den, give US imperialism. We would
rather have it than that pusillani,
msus Democracy which is so excess
lively afraid OF a personal government
that it would tie the hands of the
President and then swear him 10 ex,
eeute the laws fully and faithfully.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24

In making up this list some minor
appropriations may have been over
looked, but the figures are in the
main correct. The large appropri-
alton for the present year is due TO
the fire which consumed the shops
and machinery, early last year
The Prison buildings are worth at
least six hundred thousand dollars,
so that during the twenty-one years,
tho current expenses above the avais
of the labor of the convicts, has not
been over So, 900 per year. We do
not think any prison 10 the United
States can make better showing
Wdupun Leader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24

A Man DIES OF CHAMBERS. The
Hagers town special TO the Baltimore
Sun says: A farmer whose name |
have forgotten, residing near Viewer
ton on the Potomac, died to-day from
having been poisoned III consequences
of getting the virus Of glandered
horse into small sore on bis finger.
He survived only six or seven days,
breaking out in the meantime all over
with putrid sores, suffering intense
agony until modification supervened
HIS attending physician has NO doubt
of the malady being contracted as
above stated SO offensive, fearful
and repulsive was the corpse that
with great difficulty could any one be
induced to go near it to aid in it's in
terment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24

AMERICA TaE HOME OF EURoPE's
PooR.-Senstor Wilson recently gave
graphic account to his neighbors
and friends in Natick Mass, Of his Wis
it to Eruope and told them that, after
all his enjoyment, the happiest day
of sill mis- life was when he came in
sight of Long Island He said at
seemed as though | mad been absent
year. | was very homesiek, and
many times would have preferred to
see our little Common than all Eu-
rops. | am very glad | went abroad
for | was treated with kindness and
courtesy wherever | visited, and
found one thing-that is a patent of
nobility to be in an American and |
also come TO the conclusion that
America is the future home of all En-
ropes poor, that they will continue
coming IS they have opportunity"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
Secrets Of Masonry.

Old Zachary Wheeler was quite a
character in his time, being a clever,
easy-going, confding man, who
managed TO let every body cheat
him out of his inherited estates.-
Just as the farm was about to slip
out of his hands, he succeeded in
raising the money to lift the mort
gage. Aaron Reemer, prominent
Mason, accompanied him to the
town. AS they went riding along
on horseback, lack says to Aaron
in confding tone.
"Now, Aaron, as we are all alone
] want you to tell me the secrets of
Masonry"
81 can't lack, they would,kiIl me. 4"
"Why they won't know, they will
never find it out"
Eyes they will, you'll speak of it,"
No | swear [ won't"
"Well if you'll ride close along
side of me and put your hand on my
thigh, and take the oath, III tell
you the secrets of Masonry.
lack was not slow to comply
and a most powerful iron clad oath
was administered and taken.
"Well," said Aaron, with much
solemnity and secrecy, "in the first
place, we Masons combine together
to cheat everybody we can. This is
the first grand secret"
THE second is like unto it. When
we can't find any body else to cheat,
we cheat each other, but as little as
we can"
well" exclaimed lack, with evil
dent surprise, IL swear III join. /
wish | had done it twenty years ago.
| might have been a rich man afore
now"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
nara letter states that for year,

baT A letter states that for years
past Queen Victoria has believed
that the soul of Prince Albert is in
variable present with her, and that
she can hold communion with him.
SO impressed is she with this pathe-
tic belief that she will frequently, 1t
is said. order knife and fork to be
laid for him at her table, and cause
the attendant footmen to place every
course before the empty chair as if
their master still occupied is. Every
morning pair of boots are cleaned
and set down at the door of the room
formerly tenanted by Prince Albert,
and by innumerable other signs the
widowed Queen testifes to her faith
in her dead husbands actual presence
on earth. Prince Albert, it is we'll
known, was free thinker, and there
is little doubt that the Queen was
during his lifetime made well acquint-
ed with many of the bold and ingeni-
ons, but somewhat mystical theories
of certain German philosophers in
relation to the future state of the
soul.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
-. American cheese i, rapidlv an,


planting English cheese in the Eng>
lish market itself. During the four
weeks ending September 1868 600
boxes of it were imported into Eng
land, amounting in weight 10 some
thing over s 900 tons. 1t sells there
at about SID per pound for the fine
qualities, which is I'D less than Eng
lish chaese can be sold for; while it
10 said to be quite equal to English
cheese in quality, flavor. and condi-
ton. Even the famous Dutch cheeses
suffer by the American competition.
Six years ago the difference was the
other way, and the change is owing
entirely to the skill and pains of
American dairymen in improving the
management Of their diaries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
40 No wonder that fashion

sG-No wonder that fashion felt the
blow when France was under cloud.
A correspondent of the London Tel
egrdph says that there were recently
shipped to single New York firm
from Paris, at one time, 600 ball
dresses, worth 500 francs each 800
al 600 francs each 600 at 500 francs
each, and 2 600 at 200 francs EACH
Over 5000 costumes, gauzy and
worthless, but costly, to adorn very
small section of the whole fashionable
circumference of single city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
Qualities of a Good Collector.

Il on time to q minute when the
debtor says 'come tomorrow NJ 8
O'Clock"
Sits on the steps and waits for his
return when be says, II am just go
ing to dinner"
assists on stepping out to make
change VIII n the man "has nothing
less than twenty"
Will go to an ''old stager" every
day for a month with cheerful
countenance about that little ac-
count"
Doesn't mind edging into a crowd
to ask fellow.
Will take dollar in part if he
can't get ten in whole, and credit it"
with thankful alacrity.
Always has that account ION top"
so the man can make no excuse for
putting him off.
Don't mind asking for it imme-
diately after being "treated"-or
pleasantly entertained.
Is never in a hurry, "can wait til
you get through"
Cuts off the retreat of the dodger
by crossing over to meet him, or
follows him into store where he
goes TO hide
Can cough or salute when the
"hard case" wants to pass without
seeing him.
In tine-is patient as post, cheer
full as duck, sociable as flea, bold
as lion, weather-proof as a rubber,
cunning as fox, aud watchful as a
sparrow-hawk.- Columbus Inde.r.
A New RESDERING OF AN OLD
TExT-Spending winter as inva-
lids at Aiken, South Carolina, the
Hon. Thurlow Weed and Mr. Thorn
C. Acton whiled away one Sabbath
afternoon by attending negro
church, and were accompanied by
Mr., John A. Kennedy. When they
entered the primitive temple the me-
gro preacher was graphing with all
the fervor of his race with the old.
old subject of the fall of man Sketch
ing that day 10 the garden with its
terrible results, be excoriated Mr.
Adam in this fine fashion:
"Now, brederen, when the Lord
calls Adam 10 count did be stan up
like 8 man, confess his sins, and ask
forgiveness? He didn't do muffin of
de sort, brederen, but he say:
"Jord, de woman dat Dou gubest
me Cub me for to eat
Paus:ng a moment he repeated:
"'De woman dat D0u gubest me
Cub me for to eat
Then again:
"De woman dat DoU gubest me
CUB me for to eat
"Dsr. brederen, you see dat mean,
skulkin' Adam was tryin' to sneak
out of ii by frowin' all de blame on
de Lord bisselfw
This new idea of an old question
was too much for the distinguished
"white trash" who-bad fortunately
taken seats near the door, and they
retired into the fields to indulge in
irrevcrent laughter.-GaIary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
Prison Appropriations.

Since the organization of the WIS
consin State Prison, there has been
appropriated for current expenses
and building the following sums.