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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-01-23
State e < of South Carolina

ObhGVtOt NSSAoA VOL SAAhSA
EDGEFIELD COUNTY.
., p !, IN PROBATE COURT. y
BENZ. F. Ridgell,
tjs,;nsr ,Es K,b,sr .na EPartition
'others, Defendants. 'isst
DYvirtpe of an Order from the Hon.
ID D T. Turner, Judge of Probate fol-
Edgeteld County, in the above stated
case, will sell at Edgefeld Court House,
on Sale-day in February next, at public
outcry, the following real estate l!o1
tDANTEL RIDGELL, dec d., wiz;
ONE TRACT OF LAND situate in
Edgefield CouAty, 3, O., on Clouds
Creek, adjoining lands Of pr. Padgett
JOHN Crouch, Sophia Whlttle and others
TERMS CAsH-Purchaser to pay fol
papers, .-i.i
Jan 13 f 90 Ate 80. 4.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-01-23
Let Us Have a Hook and Ladder Com


Let Us Have Hook and Ladder COM :
'.-' pihy. Il,
Day by day, almost hour ny hour, and
rom all parts Yof opr COUNTRY, cprnc tol
tsappaliing ascguats of the destruction
: f life and property by fre.s Nothing
ke it was everknowli or heard before.
seems to BE- an epidemic, doom, an
eyitsble fate; And under the bircum-
ei .nces 1e should We not he ready f. com.
"a. as best We may, the devollriitg eIe-
Int-we right here in, this defencelesss
o town Of Edssfeldy oar r,hlipai buildings
amainly of wood, and most iofi them
+. qe old.s Our public sqnarer would
rev seem to be designed for q grand
hoaust. Look at AbbeviIle, and tren,-
bleThink Of Chester, and be up and
doi,S NIdCII d
Bvhat is best to be done: Careful
and akingmenauaong us are of the
opin4Eat iesconfd make 3 Hook and
Ladd0tipany more effective than al
Styttlt1ttt,f~Sz1Au y = 2 1Auy, ,tZDaSAuSiAh NV
difict III casSof f2c, to ntilize ouf
watssB i th lii5on is no doubt a
wissS D i,i
4nd6S wqhld yah find better uaar
terisl A,ch D Gowpahy? Our young
men arpng ID nphniiers-hale, hearty,
brave, 6erate, high-toned. Regular.
ly orghd-to say nothing of being
drilledey would lie ready, apd Will
=. ing at call. And 5se wager their
strongls,and brave spirits woald 30
erninentvico in time of peril. And
2 in othepects, such ati organization
would great advantage to our toYp.
Lesristtlie Siosss ofSSy of our citis
zens ils;ed enough to speak. And
YOU, ytung mcnAand, old..make
O Sseaay taish ssfsics IhhH loaasesai
flumhnid public Wealsh,
snpDR 5ahg negro man.
Mailing fsouEh CaroHiia, and giving
his naincnsoh Bslsil, ,irrived in The
81 city and and vkest iii On Saturday. He
was taken OF by a-eolore,l man in
atAs lsS, ll9wGr f q t1he aTty until early
Saturday eg AdaRhs died At.a
o. 'elsfs ua1 a1ora.ipg.y ustiee snytlie
~ hela ei, s'9 the jnry, from tbe evil
dence& &sysl ret.,rnipg q. verdict OF
death from q. .se into. nne,,u,on III s. .
t'.rtaso1A nel, 2lst.
81 - y ~. .ftfN IL
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-01-23
Columbia Female College.

.fHIs well known Institution was re-
opened on the LIST day of january, with a
fiiil Corps OF Teachers. niid Ia large mum
Der Of B6artling pupils, There still is
room fpr fifty more -
Send S6r a Circular to Rev. 8. b. Jones,
"a q 'lla.n J.ftW. KELLY,
% sa@iPres't Board of Trustees.
|. tbfYJ,t f.i1fIft's =. - - If
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-01-23
PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY's
q IcAr1rAL sl,ooo,ooO
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUAN0 (!

THIs GUANO Is now so we'll known
i. in all the Southern States for its re-
rnarkable effects as an agency for in
creasing the products of labor, as not to
require special recommendation from US.
Its use for seven years past has estab-
lished its character for reliable excellence.
The large fixed capital invested by the
Company in this trade affords the surest
guarantee of the continued excellence of
this Guano.
The supplies put into market. this
season are, as heretofore, prepared under
the personal superintendent of DR.. st.
Julian Ravenel, Chemist of the Company,
at Charleston, S. c., hence planters may
rest assured that its quality and compo-
sition is precisely the same as that here
tofore sold. 4l -
jim. ROBSON,
1s Selling Agent, Charleston s. G.
s JNO. 8. REESE 81 CO.,
General Agents, iBaltimore: =
TERMs-$4S cash; S53 time, withou
interest.
To accommodate planters they can or
der now and have until the LIST Of April
to decide as to whether they will take at
time or cash price. When delivered
from the Factory by the carload no dray-
age will be charged.
Nov. q Sm 49
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-14
FOR SALE OR RENT.

A FINE TWO STORY HOUSE ON
y North Main street, containing ten
fine rooms up stairs anu Two store r Oms
down stairs. Terms reasonable. Apply at
spS 1HUS. MUkPHY6 Rooe Store.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-14

gularity and according to a sys.
tematiZed time table. She makes
daily trip from Hot Springs to
Iahoe City and thence to Glen
brook, whence she runs to Lake
Valley, Emerald Bay and Tahoe.
She runs so as to make close con.
nectlons with the T.. p. and Carson
stages. BeltOn's stage, Hank
Monk driver, connects daily with
1t. On Sundays this boat makes
excursion trips.
UNIVERSITY LAND.-We learn
from the state i and Office that,
np to Iune eth, inclusive a,,plica-
tions have heen filed for 36 1891 C9
scres of the grant of 46,OS0 acres
made to the State of Nevada t,y
the General Government for Uni.
versity purposes.
From the Virginia Chronicle, June ILL.,
FIRE. AT 5:l5 this morning a
fire iirOke out in Il house (2l3 South
I street, belonging to Mrs.
Clarity and occupied 10y China.
men as a wa-n-hOuse. Three
steamers and one hand engine
were promptly brought into ac-
tIon, and u frame building adjoin-
ing the one burned, owned by tn
same lady and ocl upied 10y Mrs.
Gould as u lodging mouse, was
saved as il 10y miracle, the side
next to- the fire being considerably
charrei.
MURDER TRIAL.-rhe case of
the state VS.. John Spencer, in
dicted for the murder of his wife,
occupi,d q the attention of the Dis
trict Court for three hours to-day.
Nine jurors were accepted out of
a venIre Of forty-seven, and a
venire was issued for forty more,
returnable at 10 o'clock tO-mOr-
row. The nine unfortunates were
placed in charge OF Deputy Sheriff
Sanders, who was ordered to board
them at the Rntisserie and lock
tnem up at night.
BING WILLIAMS, the priZe-
fighter, arrived this morning from
North Bloomfield, Nevad. county,
California, to attend the fight he
tween JAS. Trevlllian and Patsey
logan next Saturday.
In consequence of the breaking
Of the large spur wheel at the
hosting works of the Crown
Point mine, the Mexican mill has
been co PEELED to shut down for
few days.
RISING.-The Carson river is
rising rapidly in consequence of
the late warm weather, and is
higher TO-DAY than it has been
since the coming on of Spring.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-14
! l:urcka 9cntinfl
<,,s,-d every morning. Mondays
excepted. by
nno. ". CASSIDY.

,vpus OF SUBSCRIPTION:
nm, wear, by mail..........-$l5 W.
,p S civ months, by MALL. 5 w
,ps' ,hrre months. by mail: OO
pa, piasners forwarded until paid for.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-14
:. "'n 'he larson Appeal Of Juneu,

As ."h ~. navigation of Like Tahoe
[on, srm sar undertaken, at last. i,
I,w hs'' hnn'' The sheet of water
Eiove,,"a''s steamboat the
b ueth;mr h"r Stanford which il
|wo dlns dao,ns worth while. She has
|tylaa aecks' in Regular .sound hn % e."
Fsm the =, c,kes nakes her trips to and
bruiam nv no. orlenhrnok and the Cali.
~ ports On the lake with re-.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
DEATH OF GEORGE EDGAR GRESHAM.


With sincere sorrow, we this morning
announce the death of Col. George Edgar
Grsham, editor and proprietor of the
Jonesboro Union Fldg, which occurred at
Jonesboro' yesterday at IL o'clock, NJ.
When the fearful scourge of cholera visited
that quiet town few days ago, the inhab
itants fled by the hundred to escape its
ravages. Some could not go and it was
necessary that they should be cared for.
Col Grisham foresaw that it would require
the entire available force of the town to
nurse and relieve the sick and bury the
dead. Kind-hearted, generous, always SYM
pathizing with suffering or oppressed hui
mainly, he determined to remain at hispost
and discharge his duty. He was constant
in his attentions to the sick, the dying and
the dead, and warm friends silently wish
ed and prayed that he might escape. But
on Friday, it was reported that be had been
violently attacked. His incessant labors
had told upon his physical system, and at
once, the worst was predicted. But on
Friday evening he wrote to the CHBoNI-
Gle, although still confined to his bed, an
said % am better and hope to be out to-
morrow" He did get out we believe on
Saturday, but soon relapsed and rapidly
grew worse. His symptoms were of the
most alarming character, and it was at
once understood that he was beyond the
reach of medical skill. He fingered until
II o'clock yesterday, when he breathed his
last.
Col. Grisham was born in Washington
county, near Buffalo Ridge, six miles from
Jonesboro. He learned his trade Ia printer
in Jonesboro' with Jas. L. Sparks. At
the close of his apprenticeship he went to
Richmond, Virginia, where he remained
until the latter part Of the year 1861. In
1868 he entered the Federal service, after
Burnside's advent into East Tennessee, and
received a commission as Captain of Com
pany 1, Sth Tenn. Cavalry, commanded by
Col. S. K. n. Patton. He served with dis
tinction, occupying responsible positions
credit. AS q soldier he was bold, impetu-
Gus, always ready for duty.
At the close of the war he returned to
Jonesboro' and commenced the publica-
ton of the Union Flag, with which he
has ever since been connected. AS a
friend he was whole-souled, true, constant,
immovable. AS an adversary he was open
and bold. He will be missed from Ten
nessee journalism. We always expected
something fresh and original frem Col.
Grisham's pen. We heartily mourn his
loss. He leaves a host of friends who will
mourn his untimely departure.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS.

BY all means should the teachers of our
public schools instruct their pupils in Voc
cal, music though the school law does not
make the teaching of this branch obligato-
ry. And when we say vocal music should
be taught, we do not mean to include all
the technicalties and intricacies of the sci
ence. Indeed but little of these perhaps
should be attempted. Children learn to
sing rapidly by imitation. 1t is necessary,
therefore that the teacher know the science
and sing correctly for the pupils will copy
all his errors as readily as the correct mus
sic. Two or three little songs adapted to
the tastes and capacities of children will
work wonders in relieving the monotony
of school room duties if sung once each in
the fore and after parts of the day. Besides
this and the great good in cultivating the
musical talents of the child singing in o
school is one of the surest means of obtain
ing the good opinion of visitors. Never
were we more agreeably impressed with
the workings of school than in
this very manner-class after class
in spelling, reading, geography and alge-
bra had been called and recited creditably,
when, in a momentary lull after the last
class in algebra, little girl away over in a
distant corner of the large school room
started up Beautiful River" In mo-
ment it caught from one to the other all
over the house like wild-fire, and finer
effect than that produced by these young
voices is hard to conceive.
BY all means, let the children learn to
sing in the schools. Teachers will find the
ten or twenty minutes per day devoted to
this exercise well spent. 1t will secure
better order and more interest in the
school, The labors of government will be
much lessened, and, above all, it will Sc
cure the cultivation of highly important
though much neglected branch of educa-
ton.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

IT is generally understood that most of
the male sex find it hard enough to under
90 the vexation and humiliation of d-
vorce suit prosecuted by one wife. The
exposure of family secrets, the revelations
of domestic life, the thousand and one
suggestions for idle and eager gossipers
furnished by one divorce suit are sufficient
to try the stoutest heart.
What, then, must be the present condi--
ton OF the mind of Brigham Young
whose seventeenth wife has instituted %
suit for divorce and asks the modes sum
of twenty thousand dollars for counsel
fees and the trifle of 100000 alimony2
What hope is there for his future happi-
ness? If his forty odd wives should follow
the example of this seventeenth angel of
his bosom and fall upon him with forty
divorce suits and make the light demand
of IS, OOO,O 600 for alimony, what happy
life they would lead him. What field
for gossippers that would be? The secrets
of forty families to be handed over to the
newspapers and eager old women for. in
vestigation, surely such prospect was
never before heard of. Lawyers, Clerks of
Courts and bailifis should all emigrate to
Salt Lake. Eight hundred thousand dollars
counsel fees in forty cases would make
right comfortable divide for hundred
lawyers
The allegations of the bills of the COM
plainants would be rich reading. The
jealousies, strifes, ordinations and re-
examinations of forty wives and would fill
volumes and afford interesting reading for
those who revel in such literature. We do
not wish Brigham any bad luck, and
therefore we trust that his seventeenth
wife may be permitted to fight out her bat
tie before the others begin.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

MR.. FULTON, in one of his letters to the
Baltimore american described the condi-.
ton of the laboring classes of Austria and
particularly of the women, whom he de-
scribed as doing the drudgery of.the city.
Women carrying brick and mortar to the
top stories of new buildings and eating
their morsel on the streets, he says, is
sight that may be seen any day in Vienna,
the gay and handsome capital of the great
empire. That is one side of the picture of
life in Austria. Here is the other
side. The extent and value of an
Austrian noblemans estate may be
be seen from the following extract of a let
ter to a New York journal. In speaking
of the Schwarzenburg estates, the cores
pondent says:
"As to the estate of this Prince 1 am al
most afraid to speak, lest it may appear to
exageration. He has castles and lands in
Bavaria, himself in someway a Bavarian
lord, In Syria, in Upper and Lower
Austria, in Hungary and in Bohemia his
possessions may be found-farms, lands,
breweries, forests, iron mines, iron found
dries, bakeries flour mills, brandy distil-
leries, FORCES, fisheries-on his lands alone,
dependent in some measure upon him, a
population of over two hundred and fifty
thousand souls. In rough calculation [
should say these estates are seventy or
eighty miles in extent, and may be divided
into hundreds of farms"
OF course as long as such immense
landed estates are held by the nobility the
men and women of the poorer classes
must work and live as Mr.. Fulton de
scribes. Austria.is alone in this peculiar
condition of the working classes. 1t is so
in other states of Europe and it will be so
whenever the soil is held in fee in such
large tracts by the capitalists.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

THE new Slate Convention at Jackson
was SHINY attended. There were but three
counties of Tennessee fully represented.
A committee was appointed to canvass the
whole subject and to memorabilia the sew
eral State Legislatures and Congress to per-
NIT the new State to organize. As we said
in a former issue all this talk and labor is
foolishly spent. The Congress of the
United States will not consent to the for
nation of any more new States. Our
neighbors in West Tennessee might as
well stop their agitation and go to working
their cotton. The new State will not now
be established.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

ABOUT the best joke of the season is the
invitation of the Graphic to Ben Butler to
a chair in the mammoth balloon in the
proposed trip acros the Atlantic The idea
that the bugbear of the MASSACHUSETTS edi-
tors and politicians would just now risk
his neck in balloon excursion to Europe
is funny enough. Not for Benjamin, He
has but one eye and he has that set on the
Governors mansion of the Old Bay State.
No balloon voyage for him just now.
Not even the idea of getting beyond
the reach of the mail, the telegraph and
the newspapers" is a sufficient tempta-
ton to the willy old fox. The elevation
though 'higher than any to which even
the suffrage OF free people can carry"him
does not allure him.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

THE ravages of cholera in the South
during the present season, and especially
in portions Of our own State, have set the
people to thinking upon sanitary measures,
as they, perhaps, never thought before.
The. scourge has broken out at various
places, with the greatest malignity, claim
ing its victims greedily, and by the score,
where it seemed very difficult to find a
cause for the fatal effect, Greeneville and
Jonesboro' furnish cases in point In
these towns which have always before
been proverbially healthy, the scourge has
been most unaccountable at least to the
unprofessional mind,
All these things are awakening in the
minds of the people inquiries as to the
causes Of disease. A large number of
eminent gentlemen of the medical profes-
sion have been investigating questions
growing out of and bro pht up by the ap-
pearance of cholera, which if they sue
coed in clear solution, will be OF
vast benefit to the world. One thing
seems to be fully developed now, and that
is that every State ought to have 6
thoroughly organized Board of Health
composed IF competent physicians. Sucl
q Board sh Ould be clothed with full pow
ers, to do whatever might be thought nee
essary for the public welfare, and SHOULD
be constituted Of men who have the nerv,
to exercise in judicious way, whateve
power is conferred upon them. While w
are being scourged, we should make tn
prevailing disease the instrument 70
teaching us o lesson for the future.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

THE New York Post publishes some
statistics that disclose fearful rate of NOR
tality among the children of the poorer
classes in that city. 1t says:
During the week ending last Saturday,
July 26, there were $50 deaths in this city,
of which 492 occurred among children I'M
der two years of age, and 567 among chill
dren under five years of age. The great
est number of deaths on any one day oc-
Cured on the 18th of July, the total num-
Der being 49, of which I'D We're of children
under five years of age. The death rate
last week was equal to an annual rate in
every one thousand inhabitants of 44.72
the rate for the week before being 47.6S.
Nearly one-third of these deaths were
caused by diarrh9tic diseases and of those
who died from these causes lost week, %
only were adults, whose average age, how
ever, exceeded sixty years.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

WE have heard of the party lash, and to
hear moralizing speakers one would think
it peculiar to America. But it seems they
have "whip" in the English Parlia-
ment and that it is a State institution.
We are told that each party in Parliament
has its whip He is a distinct officer,
recognized permanent and responsible.
He is, in effect the adjutant, He does
nothing of any importance without in
struction from the leader, nor would the
government do anything without consult
ing him. The rank and file of the party
are obedient to the whip" IfMr. Snod-
grass is making a speech, it matters not
what his subject, the whip" asks the
leader of the party, Gladstone or Disraeli,
as the case may be, who he wants to have
speak in reply. The "whipn at once no.
titles the person designated, and when
Snodgrass sits down no one presumes to.
rise in reply unless he has been ''whipped."
He is paid a regular salary from fund
contributed by the Ministers and leading
clubs of the parties-Carlton and Reform.
The position is regarded an honorable and
| important one,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

THE amount of endurance the human
system can sustain under pressure is Won
derful. A young man by the name of Zir-
hut, some twenty-three years ofage, recent
IL rowed frow Pittsburgh to Cincinnati
four hundred and eighty-fve miles III six
days. He Wagered $500 that he could do
it and won it, having about thirty minutes
to spare. The boat used by him was pa
per shell, twenty-eight feet long, twelve
inches in width, and weighing twenty
eight pounds. Zirhut is a member of a
boating club, and was in full training for
this undertaking. He met with very many
hindrances, the wind being against him so
much that on two or three occasions he
was compelled to lie idle q number of
hours. The latter part Of his trip it is said
was very trying.
During the journey from Maysville,
most of which was in the night, he was so
exhausted and sleepy that he could only
keep himself awake by dashing water in
his face. The physical endurance neces-
sary to sustain this man through six days
of hard labor, seated as he was in narrow
boat little more than two inches above
water, is hard to be appreciated, and we
will only add that it surpasses everything
recorded or held in tradition among boat
ing men.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

WHILE the poor inhabitants of Persia
live in their mud novels, die like dogs on
their barren deserts, or starve to death
from pure neglect, their Shah makes tour
of Europe, showering his costly gifts right
and left On leaving England he made pre-
SCENTS as follows: ITO the Queen he gave
a number of rare jewels; to the Prince of
Wales his photograph set in diamonds; to
the Duke of Cambridge a saber, with the
happy remark, that he now placed the
sword of Persia in the hand of England"
Lady Rawlinson received a tiara of dia-
monds; the Duchess of Sutherland
bracelet, and Lord Morley diamond snuff
box
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

progress of knowledge and is not assumed,
as many suppose, for the sole purpose of
impressing the common people with their
vast amount of knowledge, or TO shroud
their subject with fascinating mystery.
That it is thus used by an Insignificant
few we admit, but as a rule il cannot be
applied to the large majority of intelligent
progressive hard workers of any of the
professions or sciences.