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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-09-19

STATE SOUTH CAROLINA In the
Colleton County. Court,
Er Rdte-LGWrcRcc H. IjHscH,
In the matter Of the last will and tcsta-
meut and Codicil Of Mary Witsell:
deceased.
On motion Of Henderson & Dehre,
attorneys pro petitioners,
II acas ordered, That all persons hav-
ing or claiming any interest under the
last will and testament and codicil OF
Mary Wltsell, deceased, arc hereby
summoned to be and appear before me
at my office in Walterboro, ninety (90)
days after the publication Of this no
tice, to shew cause if any they have;
why the contents of said will and codi
icil should not be set up according to
the law for such cases made and pro
Yided.
G.. III. FARMER,
Probate Judge.
Aug. o. a-m-f- f-3-m.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-09-19

To the defendants ADORE named md each
of them:
You are hereby summoned to appear
at the Court Of Probate to be holden at
the Court House in Beaufort, in the
county of Beaufort. on the llth day of
November, A. d. 1872. at 10 O'Clock,
a. NJ. to show cause if any you can,
why the survey and partition of the
real estate situated OH st. Helena
island. in the county aforesaid. bound
ed and described as follows, TO wit:
Northerly, by plantations formerly
known as Oakland" and "lndian
IIill;, easterIy, by the 'Indian Hill"
plantation and by the pine Barren
so called, and by the roads leading
northeasterly from the Episcopal
Church; southarly, by lands sold by
Edward S. Philbrick to Hastings Gannt
and by the marsh at The head Of wal
lace Creek,n so called; and westerly,
by the road leading northcrlY from the
Brick Church up to said creek. thence
westerly by lands now or late OF said
Phi blick, formerly known as the
Robert Fuller Place." and contain
inc two hundred and ninety-two
acres more or less, b ing a por
tion Of the tract formerly known
as the Capt. JOHN Fripp Corner
Farm" and originally granted by
George Frost, TO the parties petitioner
and respondents, purchasers, in differ
ent undivided shares; aud said survey
and partition made at the instance
and with the hnowicdGc aud consent OF
said Respondents, purchasers; should
not be confirmed in manner and form
according TO said survey and partition
and for such other and further relief as
to this Honorable court shall seemjust.
Given under my hand and seal
this-day Of November y. d. 1871.
\. 5. HITCHCOCK,
WM J. NERDIrE,
Attorneys pro pet.
Il. HOWELL GLEAVES,
Probate Judge.
E>.IF" Y Ou will please take notice that
the petition in the above entitled ac-
ton was filed in the Office Of the Court
Of Probate, for the County Of Beaufort,
Oh thc---day Of November, 1871.
A. $. UTCHCOCK,
w. j. NERDIER,
Attorneys.
Aug. 29-Gt.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-09-19

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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-09-19
CAMPAIGN GOODS FOR 1872,

Agents wanted for our Campaign goods. Sell at sight
Paw 100 I.G. cent. profit Now is the TINE. send al
once for Descriptive Circulars and Price Lists OF our
Fine Stecls EngravingS of all the Candidates, Lam-
raign Biographies, Charts, psot2grahS, G%0Sr rms
Flags aud ever, thing suited 10 th tiIa,s Ten d"'-
lars per day easily made. Full saia?i'S sent ior y
Address MOORE &GoODSPEED, 81 Park Row ~"
York
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-09-19
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A SURE CURE for this distressing complaint is
now made known in Treatise (Of 4S octave pages
on Foreign aud Native Herbal Preparations, pub
liShed by DR.. PHELPS BROWN. The prescription
was discovered by him in such provid"utEd manner
that he cannot cOnscientiously pefuse 10 m&&c 1t
known, rs it have cured everybody who has ever
used it for Fits never having failed in >n' e case
The ingredients may be obtained from any druggist.
copy sent free 10 all applicants by mail, Address
Pr q. PHELPS BROwS, 81 Grand ST, jersey City,
y. j.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
An Affecting Scene.

In the United States District Ku Klux
Court, now sitting in Montgomery, Ala
bama, the case of Pylant. Smith and Bose
man, resulted in the acquittal OF Boseman,
and mistrial as to Pylant and Smith
the Jury standing nine for acquittal and
three for conviction There were three
negroes on the jury.
In the case of the Youngs and Harkins,
verdict Of guilty was returned, and Neil
Harkins, R. g. Young and John D. Young
were sentenced 70 ten years confinement
in the Albany Penitentiary and $4,000
fine. Ringold Young was sentenced to
sever wears and $1,000 fine The Adver
tisel gives the following affecting incident
connected with the trial
There was. an affecting scene i'll the
United States Court when the defendants
III the case of the United States vs. Young
ct al, were called up ior sentence The
verdict had been rendered hardly fifteen
minutes when the Court inquired if the de-
PENDANTS had anything to say why sentence
should not be awarded against them. The
old man Young, in calm and. manly
manner, free from braggadocio, protested
his innocence of the charge, but as he re-
ferred to his wife and four daughters de-
pendent upon him, now 65 years OF age,
his voice was broken, and there was not
in the court room a manly heart but what
was wrung with sorrow as the picture
arose before them OF this aged man in a
far off penitentiary, and his now widowed
wife and helpless daughters shelterless and
;riendless, driven from their little home,
which the $1,000 fine will cause to be
sold, as well as the little scanty pittance
which was all this old man vas enabled,
after a life of toll, to save from the wreck
OF the war.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27

The Rock Hill Lantern gives a detailed
account of the search of DR.. Averys
house by body of UnitedSStates troops,
acting under the orders Of the Deputy
County Marshal: Il seems that areport
reached the military headquarters at
Yorkville that DR.. Avery was at his
home on ayisit to hislwife and children.
Therefore q sergeant with squad Of
soldiers was dispatched to make the cap
ture of DIR. Avery. They reached the
house between II o'clock and daylight,
surrounded the premises, reused Mrs.
Avery, demanded admittance and thor
oughly searched the whole house inclu-
ding the bed-chamber of the lady of the
house. They also searched the premises
but all to no purpose. The squad re
NAMED until an hour or more after sun
rise, when the troops returned to head
quarters. The Lantern makes Indignant
comment upon the proceedings, which
comment we will publish in full in oul
next. .3t
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
THE ADVERTISER.
.EdgefieId, Sc, June Fl, 1872.
puina r. ERv Ejdeefield.

From the annexed extract from, the
constitutionalist twill be seen that:t is
in contemplation to shorten the Charlotte,
Columbia & Augusta Railroad some ten
miles by changing tho road bed at some
point North of Pine House and running
thence direct to Augusta. If the Directors
really intend to make this change, re-
gardless Of the pecuniary wrong wrong and IN,
convenience they would impose upon
the people who have settled around ana
built stores and dwellings at Pine House
Denot we think it incumbent upon the
citizens of our town to take steps forth
with to induce the Directors to run the
new road as near this place as possible.
indeed. we think the Road could De
brought right through the town wlInou.
prejudice to the interest of the Company
Yea. on the contrary, decidedly to the
advantage Of the Company. For Dy
running the Road by this town wouia =
add greatly to the transportation anu
| freight lists of the Road, inasmuch as
hundreds of farmers North and west OF
this. instead Of hauling their cotton TO-
and supplies from Augusta, as they now
do would ship by rail from this place.
And we Edgefeld people should and
doubtless would subscribe liberally to-
wards paying the expenses that would
be incurred in .effecting the proposed
change in the route of the road. Let all
concerned arouse to the importance o.
the contemplated move, and let us with,
out delay consult the directory of the
road, and see what can be done. The
Constitutionatst says:
We have been informed that the man.
aeement of the Charlotte, Columbia anc
Augusta Railroad has under advisemen
the prospect of shortening the road ter
miles. This project looks to the buildipf
of q line as nearly direct as possible from
the neighborhood Of the Pine House t.
| Augusta. the road to cross the Savannah
River at the upper portion of the city
This, of course, will necessitate the con
struction of anew bridge, and In case
| is definitely decided to carry out tn
project, an effort, which will probabl!
be successful, will be made to sell tn
bridge now used to the South Carolin
Railroad Company. The building OF tn
new line to the poirt mentioned will no
only shorten the route, ten miles, bu
result in greatly lsssening the expense
of the road. The annual expenditur
required for keeping in operation eac!
mile of railway is said to be about So ,OOt
4 Besides this, every seven or eight year
new iron has to be laid at cost OF abou
$4,000 per mile. By shortening the lin
ten miles, therefore, $4,000 per annun
will be saved in running expenses, an
about $4,000 at intervals of seven O.
eight years for relaying of track. In
present line makes detour from thl
place to Pine House, while the reut
proposed will be almost direct.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
Treaty Correspondence.

WAsu1SeroS. June 23-The Depart
ment of State has furnished for publlca
ton the correspondence in relation TO tht
Treaty of Washington, but as the :*uend
ed article has been rendered OF no effec-.
by The recent decision of the Geneva tri.
bunal, ruling out the claims for indirect
damages, the documents now possess nc
particular interest except as reco. ! o.
diplomatic proceedings showing the ankle.
ty CT each Government to preserve its
own status in the premises. 1t may be
said, however, concerning the article as
amended by the Senate, that the British
Government could not clearly understand.
In their opinion it was vague, and ii it
should be negotiated in its present form,
treaty would have 10 be made hereafter
to determine what it meant Our Gov
ernment was not disposed to alter the
amended article, considering chat Great
Britain hesitated at mere pkraseology and
that her objection was more technical than
real. During the correspondence, Secreta-
". Fish said Great Britain acted as if her
determination was 10 rule the proceedings.
Our Government did not object to Great
Britain moving an adjournment Of the
Geneva tribunal, but insisted that she
first put in her Government, as demanded
by the treaty The correspondence is
elaborate. on this point, and has bcen
brought to close BY the decision Of the
tribunal ruling out the claims for Indirect
damages The object of Great Britain III
desiring an adjournment was i'll the re-
cess to further negotiate. about the at0re
said article The correspondence ends in
genial way, Mr. Fish expressing the
hope, on the 4th instant, that Great Bri-
tain will now proceed with the business
in accordance with the spirit Of tho
treaty.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
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For the Advertiser.

Mr.. EDITOR: In reply to the request
in your issue Of the 18th inst, as to my
mode of culture of the Red Rust Proof
Oats, beg leave to say that in the first
place I applied from $50 to It's lbs. OF
Etiwan Guano No. 2, per'acre, on twenty
acres for cotton. At the last ploughing
of my cotton, which was done early in
August, eoved rDusnel of Red Rust
Proof Oats to the acre, and run three fur
rows TO the row, with large sweep.
Before Christmas my Oats had COM
.-ed 10 head OUT, iand were killed
menv "a cold weather, which [ do
down by ia .hn,r in the least, as
not think damage Il, :,'toscd from
the cold.
The crop was harvested the last Of May,
and from the twenty acres ] gathered
l44O dozen bundles, 'or - dozen to the
ere. which have no doubt will yield
from forty-fve to fifty bushels to the
acre. as they were very large bundles.
consider the Oat crop one of the most
important crops that the farmer can raise
in this country, and my honest belief Isl
that.if the cotton planter will alternate
with cotton and oats, the demand for
Western corn and meat will be very ma
terially reduced
Yours, very truly,
+. DEVORE.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
For the Advertiser.

Mr.. ED1roR:-If you have not already
been overwhelmed with notices of the
chaste and elegant little entertainment
which took place at the Ridge on the
night of the 18th, the following remarks
may not be unwelcome.
It was conducted by the ladies for the
benefit of the Ridge Spring Baptist
Church. Music, Tableaux and refresh
ments were beautifully and wisely blend
ed. The instrumental solos were exceed
ingly we'll executed, and the variety OF
the music would have satisfied the most
fastidious. The chorus song, "When you
and I were young, Maggie" was par
ticularly admired the two Bass Solos
by Mr.. James A. NJ, were exquisitely
rendered, and we're indeed choice NOR
sells. "The Old Sexton" (that universal
favorite) was one, and Mr.. M. did it ful
Justice. The temperance song by the
gentlemen wasia "happy hit" and wa' wa
heavily applauded by all of the blu'
tee-totallers of the Ridge.
The ladies were fortunate in securing
the assistance of Mr.. VIM. M, who's
musical abilities render him an acquisl
ton on all such occasions.
During an intermission of severa
minutes, the audience was regaled witt
ice-cream and cake, dealt out lavishly.
The Tableaux ,oere ell beautiful, and tn
dressing in every one very appropriate
the parting scene between Dolly Vardel
| and Joe Willet, and the May Queen
deserve more than passing notice.
A hot supper concluded the festivitie
of the evening, at which the gentlemel
| seemed to be immensely at home.
The audience did credit to the SUI
rounding country; the ladies heiightene
the beauty of the scene by appearing il
evening costume, and were as dress
and tasteful as possible, whilst the gen
tlemen were dressed in the latest Pari
fashions.
Let us hope that this will not be tn
last entertainment of the kind we shal
| have. The ladies should feel encourage
by their recent success, and the mex
time undertake something in the dra
matte line instead of tableaux.
Such gatherings tend to heighten an
refine the tone of community. and ar
perfect oases in the dull, monotonou:
hum-drum life that we Southern countr
people lead.
% sHADY-BRANCH.
| June I9, 372.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
For the Advertiser.

Mn. EDIToR:-While you rejoice in
genial showers that gladden. the heart OF
the husbandman, we are still in the land
of great drought. Nine weeks have roll
ed their ceaseless wheels, since we have
had anything like good rain. The
fields look arid, water ponds dried up,
bad stands of corn and cotton, garden
vegetation blighted, withered and crisped
like forest leaves in the fall, and "win-
ter's desolation" reigns supreme in all
this section of North Western Edgefield.
Farmers hang their heads and look won
drous blue at ti,e present prospect for a
crop.
Between seven and eight o'clock on
Sunday, the 10th inst, our good people
were startled from their dreams Of rain
bv loud murmuring noise, like that of
distant thunder, though not cloud was
to be seen from the horizon to the zenith
All sorts of strange tales are told about
it; some say they saw large ball of fire
roll through the atmosphere, aslarge as
O. flour barrel, and that it exploded near
your village. Did any body get hurt, or
has the village been struck by a frag-
ment of the coming comet9 Or does it
presage the election ofhonest old Horace,
and liberal reform movement in South
Carolina that will dethrone Radical plum
derers and peculation-what is it?
SHATTERFIELD.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
GRANTS Boston Ratification Meeting

BosroN, Mass, June 23.-The Grant
Central Champaign Club held ratitica-
ton meeting. Alexander Rice presided.
General Butler was seated on the rostrum.
Judge Hoar was the first person lntroduc-
ed. and lauded the candidates for their
well-earned distinction in the lines OF war
and politics. In his allnsion to Sumner,
the audience was disposed to hiss, but was
checked by the speaker before his sentence
was completed His expression was only,
one of regret of the course his friend mad
taken, and that he would soon realize his
false position. :;
Gen. Butler followed. He said this was
only continuation of the campaign be-
gun the 10th Of April, 1851; the old Dem
ocratic party was done and dead; Greeley :
success depended upon his nomination at
Baltimore, which he would not obtain
the angel Gabriel could not be elected on
such ticket; the Republican party was
united and unbroken; honest Southern
Democrats were not prepared to support
such leaders as was.presented at Clncln-
natl; Summers speech so disgusted the
people that they insisted upon nominating
his colleague COR Vice-President; the Re,
publican party deserved to die if it could
not beat the party that had experienced
two battles; he believed in victory, but
he considered the civil service reform
humbug; he believed in turning officers
inside out every four years, and didn't ia
vor an aristocracy of ofice-holders; the
Republican party, which had worked it
self up honestly from small beginning
was not be killed by nomination of weak
elements of defunct party with a few
disgruntled Republicans.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27

SnocK1Ne RApE.-A hcrrid crime was
committed in Pulaski County, Georgia,
last Thursday morning, on the person OF
Mrs Charlton Lovett, by negro man
about twenty -one years old, formerly
owned by Mr.. Joe Philips, residing ten
miles below HaMkiasville. On Thursday
morning, this villain vent to the house Of
Mr.. Lovett, and finding Mrs l.. there
alone, her husband being on distant part
of the plantation, produced huge knife
which he had just sharpened tor the pur-
posi-, and seizing Mrs. L. with great vlo,
fencs swore he would cut her throat II
She made the least noise or resistance.
Having accomplished his purpose, he lied,
but the alarm being given, ne was Pur-
sned by some thirty men during the day,
and m captured and lodged in Pulaski Coun-
~ iail There was great excitement over
u iSe 'N affair throughout the oOunty,the
victim being of a highly esteemed and In
auential family.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27

@r J. A. Moroso, of the Charleston
Courier, was among the successful shoot.
lists at the Savannah Schutzenfest, having
scored 81 centre shots, and carrying off 6
lady's Satin Opera cloak.
m- Rev. Al. Thompson, Methodist
Minister in Cincinnati, was struck three
blows on the head with hatchet, by a
man named Bond and fatally wounded,
last Monday. He had kissed cne Mrs.
Shouledecker, widow who had buried
two husbands, and rejected the suit of
Bond, who was raised to fury by the kiss.
The preacher is dangerously hurt, and
his assailaus is in Jail.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
sacrifice of City Bonds.

The sale, or rather the sacrifice, Of the
bonds Of the city of Columbia, S. G.. on
Wednesday last, if nothing else, exhibits
how utterly reckless of the financial inter
ests of the city the Radical ring control-
ing municipal affairs have become. The
purchase Of the Mayor, whose private for
vate fortune is limited, seems to point out
that functionary as the catspaw Of ring
of greedy Radical plunderers, With whom
to wreck the credit of the State and its
municipal corporations, tofll their indl.
vidual pockets, has been and continues te
be the chief object of all legislation which
a corruption fuad controls against all the
| better interests of the people at large: O
SlOO 900 bonds offered, Mayor John al,
exander took $4,000, and Clark WaFinng
ESQ. SlO0OO-the prices paid being 70
65i and IS. The auctioneer stated tha
| the bids of the Mayor were private bids
| The Union says of this forced sale Of city
! securities, that the bonds are well worth
| 90 cents, if worth anything, aud furthe
| remarks
The whole transaction is curious one
The business and moneyed men of tn
city property thus to be sacrificed. ~
city will realize $4,000 and little owe
for which it will have eventually 70 pay
| 500 600, besides the interest at the rat
of seven per cent. per year till the bond
mature. There is $4,000 dead loss t
the city to begin with by which loss th t
city is made to pay o premium on tn
amount realized, which as enormous, an
interest on the amount realized at lnearl,
twelve per cent. besides. Is this a basl
ness like and honest transaction? 1T !
wrong from beginning to end. At tn
| price for bonds, the new City Hall no, nOt
building will cost the city over $loOoO(
Does ihe city need that improvement en
enough to pay a premium OF from S4U,oo
to $4,000 to secure it? We say mos
emphatically, mol
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-27
SCHOOL NOTICE.
OFFICE COUNTY SCHooL,CoMNIIS
SIONER, EDGEFIEI.D COUNTY,
EDGEFIETD 6 C. June Is 1879

OFFICE COUNTY SCHOOL 'CONlNiIS.
SIONER, EDGEFIEL.D COUNTY,
EDGEFIELD, S. c., june is, 1872.
THE attention of School Trustees is
Il hereby directed to Sec. ~ and 81 of
An Act to amend all Act entitled an
Act to establish and maintain a System
OF Free Common Schools for the State of
South Carolina approved March 9th,
1871.
The aforementioned Sections. Of the
said Act provides that An annual meet.
ing Of each School District shall be held
on the last Saturday Of June, OF each
year, at II O'Clock NJ. notice Of tho time
,!nd place being given by the Clerk of
the Board Of Trustees, by posting writ
ten or printed notices in three public
places OF tile District at least ten day be-
fore the meeting" 1t is further provided
in the same Sections that the inhabi-
tants qualified to vote at a School meet
ing lawfully assembled" shall have
power "to appoint Chairman to preside
over said meeting" "to adjourn from
time to time," "to authorize the Board
Of Trustees to build School houses, or
erect the same," DC.
Tho attention of the Trustees is par
ticularly directed to the fo:rlll clause
of Section 81, wherein the inhabitants of
the School District. 50 assembled, shall
have power "to raise by tax, i'll addition
to the amount apportioncd by the State
to their use, such further sums of money
as they may deem properfor the support
of Public Schools .
The Boards of School Trustees, through
their several Clerks will give due notice
OF an annual meeting TO be held i'll the
School District under their supervision,
on Saturday, the 18th day of june, 1872,
and to have the came adjourned from
time to. time Until they will be able to
have fair representation of the citizens
of their respective School Districts, and
that they make O Report OF the final pro-
ceedings TO this Office. Ton or before the
3lst July next.
1 deem it of great Importance to the
success of. our Free Common School
System, that these meetings be held in
every School District, and that each Dis
trict raise liberal Local School lax for
thesupport of its Schools, Tor the reasons:
1st, The State appropriation made for
Free Common School purposes, for the
current fiscal year, Is insufficient to sup
ply the educational wants OF Cne people.
I'd, The amount of Poll Tax collected,
is, of itself, insignificant.
Sd, The Local School Tax is paid into
the County Treasury, and is directly sub,
ject to the order of the Board OF School
Trustees.
This Special Tax, which will be assess
cd at the District School meetings. will
be collected with the next general Tax.
If in any case the Clerks of the Boards
of Trustees of any School District shall
not have sufficient time within the pub
lication of this notice and the 29th June
inst, to give due notice for the annual
School meeting, they will extend the
time of said annual meeting so that the
Of said School Districts shall
have ten days notice.
Respectfully,
JOHN b. McDEVIIT, S.C.E.C.
june 90 2ta 2S