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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-06
FOR the Advertiser.
The Oazts Chronicles.
EneEFrE1.n. S c., Dec. 25, 1880.

EpeEF1ELn, S c., Dec. %, 1880.
MEssEs. EDITORS: Enclosed yoa will
find q Christmas Present. which You will
please accept with the same feeling o.
kindness which prompts the gift. 1t 10 a
remarkable record ot q remarkable Edge
field family; and such a one as deserves
to. be preserved among tbe archives oil our
much loved county. 1t is as follows:
PETER AND ELIZABETH OuzTs.
The former was born in l767, and emf
grated early in life to E1gef=ld District,
S. G., and settled on Sleepy Greek. The
maiden name of his wife, Elizabeth, was
Harlan, and she WAS bon IN l7W BY
whom, and when, the marriage ceremony
was performed, this depoaenL saith not
The results are, however, generally and
widely known. Thirteen sons ana two
daughters were the product OF this happy
marriage. Twelve sons and one daughter
lived 10 matare age, and were married;
the daughter 20 a Mr.. Mcdowell. TIE
names of these sons, and The number oil
children born to each one, are given IN
"
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For the Advertiser.
we .,re Requested to Give Three
Cheers for Cooper and Gray.
C. l. G. RAILROAD, S. c.,
lice 9S,h 1850.

G.. l. G. RAILROAD, S. C.,
Dec. 2Slh, 1880. J
Editors EtlqefeM Adrerhiscr:: Christ
mas will be loo near over before this reach
IS your SANCTION TO wish you n "bappy
Christmas" but ] venture to take time
by the forelock, and wish you a happy
New Year." and ask that you and the
readers of the Adrertiser JOIN in three
cheers for the wide awake citizens OF Coop.
err and-sray townships-only those parts
however, that have secured for themselves
that priceless boon, the Fencr Law Up
to this writing, l am uniformed as to
how our Edgetield delegates stand upon
the record, they having pledged themselves
to Jet the Stock Law severely alone.
Our "Stoncwall," l hear, was eick when
the bill passed. He is we'll now, and l
hope will not think hard Of me for saying
that ! am glad, as he had 10 be sick, that
it happened just at that time.
Some have raised the cry that there are
those within the bounds OF the dividing
fence that must perish, as their only means
Of subsistence consists Of q few COWS. II
their cream jars ale as near empty as
mine is tonight, and has been for some
time, the grim monster is near, very near
their door. A word Of consolation TO those
poor people perhaps would not be amiss
Not a single death from starvation has
occurred in any OF the Counties where the
Stock Law is in operation. The Poor
Houses have no more inmates to-day than
before The law passed. There was heard
that same cry Of starvation in Anderson,
Abbeville, Greenvllle, and all the Counties
that have the. Stock Law. The result is
as above stated; and l know whereof !
affirm"
have read every article pro and con
about the Stock Law that has been pub
lished in The Adrcrtiser, land all other pa
pers l ready and every article against it
has beer deficient 20 me- in force Of ar
gument, Now, Messrs. Editors, ! want
you to get the most bitter opponent ofthe
Stock Law you can find, and bring him up
to this no-ience country next summer, and
if be can't sec enough here 10 convince
him hat it's a good thing, turn him over
to mo. and l will take him into Abbeville,
and if that won't do, to Anderson, and
back through Greeuvlllc, Laurers and
Nevberry. And then if he ia not convert
ed, l will pay his passage across Saluda,
and tell him to go home, sandpaper his
eyce. and come again one year hence.
Yours: respectfully,
EX-ABDEyILlIAS.
-S-
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ComptroIler-Genera Bra,ton.

South Carolina has not q purer or more
devoted snn then plain John Bfatton, Of
Fairfield, who was elected Comptroller
General on Wednesday.
The State, in wal times. had not a hard
Ell fighter, for he fought his way, inch by
inch, to the command Of a brigade. Since
1865 no has been farming quietly in Fair
field, emerging from his retirement only
when be could be OF service to the Com
monwealth. Under his leadership Fair
field was won BY the Democracy, and he
was Chairman Of fhe State Executive
Committee in the campaign of 1880:
But Gen! Bratton is something more
than a soldier and successful political lead.
81. He is a man of business, methodical,
painstaking and accurate. Withal he is,
unaffected il manner and straightf rgard
ia his dealings-Msacs md Courier.
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Immigrants for South Carolina.

The Greenvillc Nsm$ of the 18th inst,
says that Mai. Houston, of the Atlanta
apd Charlotte Railway COMPANY, has
gone to New York to receive sixty immi-
grants from Switzerland, who have been
carefully selected by Mr.. and Mrs. Biedc-
man, Of Walhalla, to settle in some par
OF the great Piedmont Belt. Here, liter
ally, as we'll as metaphorically, isa 0
in the right direction. In this exception
ally i~avorite section Of South Carolina,
Immigrants will find in climate, richness
in soil AID abundant natural resources,
everything to conduce tc a prosperous
settlement. Were the enterprise of this
energetic RsilwaY Company rightly az
pr,ciated and generally initiated, but a
few years would c!epse before Greerville
city would become The great emporium Of
one Of the most prosperous sections OF the
United States.
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For the Advertiser.
Let 3nstice BE Done to the Dark

Corner.
MEssl.s. ED1ToRs: Your kindly notice
Of complaints from this side, and your
sympathetic words 10 our behalf, prompt
Us to ask other favors at your hands. Can
you, who live,at the fountain Of informa-
ton for Edgefeld people, tell US: Shall
The Dark Corner ever be Stunned and psss-
ed by with scorn and neglect by all men,
for ..TaaFapf practicable modes Of egress
and ingress TO this portion of the County,
Must ne ever be excluded from the con-
slderation of all County officials save and
except The tax-gatherer? Because we are
called 1.-THE Dark Corner are we to re-
main so in fact? Is it, do you think, a
Part of the official duty of the County
Commissioners to help on our unenlight-
ened condition, and to -make that darkness
visible by the course pursued towards us ?
You will remember that early in the
year, The public spirit Of these officials
was magnanimons enough, in appearance,
to take in the whole County, including
Dark Corner. Bridges were advertised
for two points on Stevens Greek, and were
actually let to the lowest bidder; and one
of these bridges was built. But the other,
and perhaps the most important, does not
appear, or is it ever heard Of. The letting
seems to have been a contract, bona fde,
and a bridge was 10 have been completed
by October last. Now, friends of the id
%pertiser, and of the people, including "The
Dark Corner, can you, will you, tell US
why this is so? And if it is to be so al
ways?
Now that we have almost o new Board,
made broader and more solid by the con-
%tinuance of cold Reliable" may We moi
venture to- hope for something generous,
or ask for something just, towards the
Dark CornerH' Something that will aid in
making Dark Corner a mlsnomer and CIV
log us at least the let bridge, and with IL
free and easy access to Edgefield over our
own highways.
Thea with the completion OF our rail
road TO Augusta, you may no longer call
us the dcnizeDs OF Dark Corner, but dis
t!nguish US from the remainder OF Edge
fed and the rest Of the world, as citizens
OF "Lcugonis." We are not hoastful,
w. are not proud,-that is, very proud
and we try not to b. qnerulous but arc
10 maM q bridge.
DAEK CORNER.
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Judse Hughes on the Failure of the
Piedmont Arlington.

Ia the. United States Circuit Court in
Richmond, on the 23rd Of December,
Judge Hughes delivered an opinion in the
case OF the insolvent Piedmont & Airing
ton Life Insurance Company in the mat
te: ii appointing a receiver as prayed for
bg II nrmter of policy-holders. Upon the
gu st;oa whether or not the Court would
allow the c mpany TO appoint It's own re-
ceiyer, Judge Hughes saws: l think that
the mere feet OF the failure Of a life insu-
facce company is prima taeie proof that
its operations have been conducted in q
fraudulent manner, and il The failure is not
explained by some great casualty, suchas
a widespread pestilence Or sudden finan-
clal convalsion or physical calamity, /
think 1t Is per Sc proofof fraud. l will
not! pretend to say that it creatcs prcsump-
ton Of moral turpitude in the managers
of the company, but it certainly does of
constructive fraud. that is to say, OF that
financial lmbecility or recSlessness or ex-
.trava 5ance. or that gross negligence, which
Is equivalent in lis Consequences to fraud.
aud which the Court is bound to regard as
constructive fraud. Would the Court be
justified in allowing a trustee appointed
by such 3 company in the very deed in
which it admitted its insolvency, to remain
IN custody Of the effects and 20 admins
Ter? Could the Court eyrcct to attract
and retain the confidence of the public
and o: its suitors if it should sanction such
an action? think not. The insolvency
and a~bnegation of the company left its eff
fects in the legal and rightful custody OF
10 one. and The Court must at once pro.
vide for the emergency by appointing a
receiver. The Judge then announced the
appointment of A. l.. Boulware, of Rich
mond, cs the receiver Of the company.
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And now, Messrs. Editors. if any Of
your correspondents can produce, such n
record rs the above, be ahallbe entitled to
the privilege OF presenting to the writer Of
this paper--e fine ne,e soft hat!
The above account is authentic, being
derived from members Of the family still!
.living
Anersy Christmas, and Il happy new
year, to all the Editorial Fraternity, and
the Editors of the Edgefield d~dreydserin
particular.
Yours Truly,
SAMUEL LEARD,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-06
The Magnificent Wh,skey Opportunt-
ties Of Chester.

ties Of Chester.
A correspondent Of the Columbia Reg
ister. writing from Chester under date Of
2Sth Dec. 1880, gives this fearful account
Wh:skey, the alarming and increasing
evil of the town, WAS drank hereon Christ
mas day as freely as water, being given
gratis to all who woul partake, and long
[eiore night-fall by far from q fear of-the
inhabitants had fallen victims to the
ground under the dsmning influence OIL
the poisoning fluid. 50 horrible and dis
graceful was the scene everywhere pre-
santed on the. public streets that the most
temperate clement of the town have aris-
on ia one solid phalanx ard are deter
minedFtosmake a struggle desperate as it
NAV be;to amtRl the morals Of the town
apd p0t an eternal check to oar rooms
and promiscuous whisky drinking The
plan that they intend working ls TO nomi.
nate and run for lntendant and Wardens
at the next municipal election, which
comes off on the 18th of January, 1881,
what will DE styled and known as the
dry ticket. SO encouraged are they since
commencing this ~laudable work that they
are sanguine Of success. .
Just think, there Gro nineteen hundred
inhabitants in this town and eighteen
places where whiskey is obtainable, twelve
Of which are bar rooms Now, starting
from the public square, the centre of the
town, one can scarcely walk a hundred
PAGES in any direction without passing a
bar room and hearing profanity in the
highest degree issuing forth from its de-
grading walls in shouts of bacchanalian
rsyelry. ~ .l2
Such scenes and morals can only be
amended by the success Of this noble
moyeMent against whiskey.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-06
Notice.

TIME office Of Butler s. Woodward, At;
j torneys at law, will no closed until
the 10Th instant, Senator Butler being al,
sent in. Washington and Mr.. Woodward
in Columbia, attending the Supreme
Court. Communications 4" the firm un-
til that date should be addressed to Co.
lumbia, s. c.
JAM s, 1881. 3i6
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OF the other original eleven brothers
We have no record, abayondf their i'm medi-
ate descendants, as given above. If they
were all blessed in the SAM degree as our
venerable and much respected friend,
Martu QUITS, and his wife Mary, then
there should be dead and alivel about
tuelre Hundred and eighty four (l2S4l
descendants Of the original pair, PErER
AND EL1ztfsrE OURS;
1t is not pretended, however, that there
are, or ever have been,,'so many as That.
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Total

Average Of seven for each. 1t Is not
asserted! that oil these arc still living.
The daughter. Elizabeth, vas married
to a Nj. William Mcdowell. and the fruits
of this marriage are to be- found IN eleven
children, ffty.six grand children, AMI for.
~ great grand children, summing up TIE
neat little aggregate Of one hundred and
nine persons, including the original pair.
We have authentic and foil information
concerning two or three only Of the origi-
nal twelve sons; and OF these we will
present only one, us the representative OF
the whole. viz;
MARTIN Ouzrs AND HIS WIFE MARY.
She was originally a Crtft, and is still
living, as is also her husband. now about
eighty-four years old. Oh their eleven
children, Eve are sons. and six daughters,
all Of whom have been married, and some
have died. Their record runs thus, viz:
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c%oKEsBpnY DISTRICT.

C. H. Pritchard, Presiding Elder.
Cukesoury Station-Wllliam Thomas.
Cokestury Cnc1it..J. ". Kelly, one
supernumerarv.
Atbevillo S.ation--.A Fl Lester.
Abbeviiic Circuit-W. W. Jonea.
South .Abbevilie-T. 3 Boyd.
Lowndesvillc Station-R p Franks.
Tumbling Shoals-M i Banks.
Greenwood Circuit-W. G. Power.
North Eigcfeld Circuit-W. 7. Mea
ders.
Newtcrry Slation-J. B. Campbell.
Newbeiry Circuit-A- j. Stokes, I. Al.
White, J. G. Counts, surcynumcrary.
North Newberrv cjrcnit-A. e. I.n
Gette.
Solala Circuit. i. T'rsywick.
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The Reassembilns Of Congress.

Congress, after sitting three weeks. adj
J1urned on the 22nd December for the hol-
lays. and reassembles to-day, Wednesday
The 9Th January. And the country may
ss we'll be prepared fof four years Of ger.
zine Radical administration, for the Re
nablicans are going to have u~ndisputed
control OF the governmental Teins when
The next Congress meets. There can mo
longer be any doubt as to their having a
Clear majority in the, House Of Repressn-
fstives. and they will elect a speaker and
grange all The committees to suit them
seHrss eAersrhieh they~car easily decide
enough contests in their own favor 10 Sc
cure a . 4 working majority, with VII ID
they can pass all the partisan measures
that the most venomoSs leaders Of Re-
tabicanisn may devise. In the Senate
TIE Democrats will lose nearly all
tf their members from the Northeln
esates. including Thurman, OF OHIO, Nc
Donald, Of Indiana, Raedolph, Of New
J-reey, Herman. Of New York. Eaton, OF
connecticut, and Wallace, Of Pennsylva-
sis; and with snch men rs these out of
tie way, the Republicans viii bnlldoze
{heir way through, even though they may
not have an actual majority. Such douot
Jul members as Davis, of Illinois, Malone.
of Virginia, and Fair, OF Nevada, cannot
lee depended upon by the Democrats; and
'aathout..them the Republicans will have
81! control Of both Houses Of Congress.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-06
COLUMBIA DISTRICT.

COLUMBIA DISTRICT.
A. NJ. Chnetzberg, Presiding Elder.
Columbia-Washington Street, r. n
Wells; Marion Street, J.L Stokes; City
Mission, L. NJ. Li..le.
Colombia C'rcait-W. A Clarke.
Ridgewsy circuit-G. W. Gstl!n
Winnsboro' and Blackstocks- VIM
Martin.
Fairfield Clrcuit-A J. Cauthen.
Chester Station-A. J.. Stafford.
Chester Circuit. a. Johnson.
East Chestec Circuit, ]. Clyde, j.
NJ. Barber, s~upernumerary
Rock Hill Circuit. NJ Boyd.
Fu.' Mllls-W. w. Williams.
Yorkville Standardization Gargan:
Lexington Fork Circnit-H. W. Whit
akcr. Il
Lexington Circuit. J Workman.
.Edselie!d Circuit and Mission-J. A
Mood.
Johnston Circuit-W. a. Rogers.
BapSbury Circuii-P. F. kistier.
Gilbert Hollow. E. Wataon.
Richland Fork Circnit.-E & Prcs.
Columbia Female College--l. ". Dick
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Notice.
Notice.

EwHOSE who have incurred in the Pied
Il mont d Arlington Life Insurance
Company. will, I think, get something
out of their Policies. If they will bring
all papers-I moan letters, policies de-
&c.-to me. -
Jan. s, 1881. tf6
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WHITE, liver The Leader,
72A BROAD STREET, & 727 ELLIS STREET, AUGUST
T. Markwalter's
Marble Works

Bread St. Near Lower MARKET, Augusta, Ga.
MONUMENTS, ToNBsToNEs, and MARBLE WORK generally 81
ways on hand or made to order. \ large section ready for lettering and
delivery at shortest notice. Several hundreds OF new designs Of the most
modern styles Of Monuments, furnished at a lower price than ever. before
in this market. and of the best workmanship, similar TO that of the new
Confederate Monument, recently erected by me in this city.
HazEjss. III EsESSyA
AUGUSTA, GA, Nov. %, 1879. 1y5l
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observation-disclosures
Manstonoas Grinding of h Outrage
Rill.
"a our first page this week We publish
the notes of Smalls to the. Hon. George
D Tillman Of his intention TO contest the
aAtter's seat in Congressqan and his reasons
satretor. We publish this notice not only
That Democrats may know tine baReless
les that are uttered against them by
H.nalls, bar also tina. they may immedi-
%tely furnish Mr.. Tillman the names and
l,aEt Offices OF witnesses to d%isprove these
c 4ts-s. InAeel we hope Mr. Tilir6an's
constituents will give.Ihim all the intor-
saasion they can upon which To base coan-
ter charges of fraud and intimida ton
pas.iesi by Radicals at, before, and sin ce
shs election-towards colorel Democrats
il particular. Of this latter work we
Rao1 there has been n great deal in our
own County.
The frauds OF which Smalis pretends to
give instances in every county in the Con
gressiona! District, IRE intimidation and
vio,erce, Justification Of returns BY the
commissioners OF election refusing 10
eouat precincts that ought to have been
counted; stufing the ballot-boxes with
Democratic votes, and then drawing out
Republican votes TO make the number OF
ballots correspond with The names on the
pol list not holding polls whica should
have been held inserting fictitious names
on The poll lists illegal voting: refusing
the votes OF qualified voters obstrncting
the DISQUALIFICATION officers; managers OF
elections all Democrats and active in the
interest Of the Democratic candidate.
Aad these chargesare repeated over and
over again, until tine ceases TO read lurth-
or, ~.iisgusted with the combined weakness
and falsehood OF the whole affair.
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Law Notice.

@ Now Is the time to pay for your
ADVERTISER.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-06

Methodist Conference Appointments
for 1881.
Out Of the nine Methodist Districts in
oar State, We pick the two following, as
those in which our readers are most in
3arocfod
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The Negro Sam Lee Opens the Con-
facf

Washington correspondence Baltimore
Sun: "The papers of Lee, contestant ior
a seat seat in Congress from the first dis
trict of South Carolina, have arrived, and
have been served upon Mr.. Richardson
the present Bourbon incumbent, who will,
get the certificate. Lee alleges that he
can prove that, among other things, in the
largest Republican precincts the election
officers refused to count the votes at all.
Lee was probate Judge Of Sumter County,
and ran as an Independent Republican
against Rainy in 1874, but was defeated.
He ran on the regu!a ticket'thi time"
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Not All the Languages ofAll the Com
%fInenfs

What shall we say about the weather-
this bringing down Of Vermont into
South Carolina-when all. the languages
of nil tho continents wouldf fail to dojuse
tice oSthe subject? Our Oldest inhabi-
tants-Mrs. Milly Carpenter and Mr.
| Ras. Youngblood, ST., at the head Of
them-say unequivoca,ly that they can
| remember nc cold N severe, no snow so
long-enduring, no ice so stubborn, no
winds so chilling, no skies so leaden,
! Seven days Of unmoved ice and snow!
And two days with the mercury as low
| at davbreak, as 4 and 5 degrees above
| Zero! Everything frozen stiff! Things
that have not froze in fifty years before,
an. will not freeze again in fifty yearsto
| come, And almost every green thing
killed. Every greenhouse, every flow
er pit, a scene of woe and blackness.
Not q g~eranium, nor a he%liotrope, nor a
fuchsia, left in the land of Edgefield.
And the hardest outdoor shrubs:
euonymus; pittisporum, olive, magnolia
so injured as to be ugly and worthless.
| Of human suffering, however, there has
been but little. and when we read,
from all quarters of The world, OF the
wants and woes, and %hungering horrors,
and squalid shiverings, aud icy deaths;
entailed by this pitiiess weather, we
humbly thank God that Edge6eld has
been blessed among the most blessed.
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The Grand Lodge Of Ancient Fee Ma.
sons, in session at Charleston lately, elect.
ed the following officers for the current
year: NJ. w. Bro. James. F..Iziar, M. ".
G.. Master: II. w. Bro. John D Kennedy,
Dcppty G. Master; r. w. Bro. w. w,
Homphries, Sr. Grand Warden: +. W.
Bro. ]. Adger Smyth, Junior Grand War.
den; L. w Bro: John H. Honour, Grand
Treasurer;Tls Il. W. Bro. Charles Inglesby,
Grand Secretary; r. w, Bro. OF Greg
.orv, Grand Chaplain.
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Such scenes and morals can only be
amended by the success Of this noble
meyement against whiskey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-22
THE MANHATTAN DIVIDENDS.

The argument on the motions i'll the Weller
and Lespnasse suits for injunction restraining the
Manhattan Railway Company from paying the July
rental dividends to the Metropolitan and NcwYOrk Com
panies, adjourned yesterday until Wednesday
Lawrence. as counsel for MI. Weller admitted that
the Manhattan Company having passed into the hands
OF receivers could not pay ont dispose Of any of its
property funds and therefore he withdrew this part
Of his motion Mr. BangS tHe attorney for the Metro
potan Company, thereupOn suggested that the whole
disposed Of aud declared it to be ridiculous
TO ask for order restraining the Metropolitan Com
pany from receiving what the Manhattan Company con-
tesscay could not pay. To ask his be
strained by Injunction from receiving the crown of
Russia Mi Lawrence said that part Of the relief de-
manded was To prevent Metropolitan Company from
ing out any OF the moneys ii already had received
and that tDer fore the case by disposed
OF ny the Withdrawal which ne had made. The arglI
ment on the motion in the suit of the New York
against the Manhattan Company TO have the tripartite
lease Of 1879 declared forfeited adjourned until
IuekdaY