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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06

Thomas D. Prentiss, son of the Rev
Mr.. Prentiss of this State, has mar
ried Mrs. Butt, widow 80 year
old, at Ocala, Fla. She is worll
$25O.00C. He is "a years old.
Al the recent municipal election
in Ratesburg, Lexington county, tb'
following ticket was chosen: E. Jones
Intendant; J. w. Jones, M. @. Norris
s. G. Blanton, Rev. N. G. Cooner
Wardens.
Mr.. W. G. Reynolds of Tinmons
vile Township, Darlington, on Spar
row Swamp, has field Of corn which
has teen Judged will make fifty
bushels per acre. 1t was planted the
middle of May 4x5 feet, and each
stalk has two to three ears.
The biggest corn heard Of this sea
son is reported from Abbeville coun-
ty. near Due West, by citizen OIL
Greenville who recently visited there.
1t was stalk with eleven fully de-
veloped, good sized ears.
The Rev. Charles A. stakely, Of
Charleston, has been called TO the
pastorate OF the Marcy Avenue Bap-
tist church, Of Brooklyn, and has ac-
cepted. The salary ia $1,000 year.
Niles G. Parker is now probate
Judge Of Walworth county, Kansas,
and editor of an offensive radical
newspaper. The democrats have sent
on to Columbia for his record in this
State. 1t will be sent to them.
The work of securing subscriptions
to the capital stock Of a bank at Alb
beville progresses. The amount ae-
tually subscribed ID $32. 900, with
about $4,000 which is partially prom
ised.
There will be reunion Of the sur
yivols of Company H, Nineteenth
South Carolina Volunteers, at Troy,
Abbeville county, on August 25.
The first shipment Of cloth, five
bales of $50 yards each, from the
Darlington Factory, was made on
Saturday last. The machinery for
finishing, folding and baling the cloth
is now in perfect running order and
in short time there will be $4,000
to 10000 yards ready for the market.
The fret shipment waa made TO New
York.
The Easley Messenger asks who is
to be the next Governor of Sontll
Carolina. IL seems to be botherinH the
brains of many Of the editors of The
State. Plenty of time yet gentle
men ust hold mp, and Fed ii "the
office wont seek the man. Please
don't put mp, 1t says. some old, broken
down political hack, who needs The
pay OF the Office to keep him out Of
the poor house. How would it do, it
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
The Dead Man.

Th, Sparta Ishn.aeSte in comment
ing on the death of General Grant
says: "Grant is dead. No one want
ed him to die, but the honest hearted
people of this section were as indifer.
ent 10 the news of his death as they
wonld have been to that of promi.
nent Jersey bull. lie had never done
anything to entitle him to their graft.
tudc or respect, and in truth he had
neither. The columns of our .ex'
changes are filled with false and full
some praises Of the deceased, but
that same sense Of self respect which
deferred US from acting towards him
with the humility of a spaniel while
he lived will prevent our indulging in
any laudatory resolutions about his
open grave.
1t is always right and proper to
speak the truth. The sentiment oI
hepagan philosopher "speak nothing
Of the dead but good" is as appro
pirate now as when penned, but in no
respect violated by truthful chroni-
Gle of the character and record OF
the dead. To speak only the truth
is to speak good. If Southern
man will point to single instance
when Grant manifested the slightest
degree Of charity or jnstice in deal
ing with our people during, at the
close, or since the war which was not
neceasitated by the integrity of his
60 de or the rules of The civil
izsd warfare, let it be recorded.
We have expressed our views Of
this man in these columns time and
again, and it is unnecessary 10 repeat
them. They have undergone no
change by reason Of the accident Of
his death. They were true then, are
true now, will always be true. 1t is
indicative Of a wretehed state Of
public morals that any man Of his
official and commercial character and
associations can maintain the good
opinion and respect Of the people of
the North even though he had been
so successful in maintaining the au-
premacy of their arms on the field Of
battle.
May the time soon come when v'r-
tue and integrity will be the only
to public honor and private
respect.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
The following resolution was adopted:

| Ahe iohoNipS 'oooiu9'oa " no sNNo PNSN'
Resolvcd, That the Corporators Of
the Augusta and Edgeiield Railroad
Company do adopt as the line OF said
Road the most practicable route from
the city of Augusta, State Of Georgia,
by Edgefeld 6. H., to Newberry G..
H., by the most practicable survey in
the opinion of the Directors OF said
Road.
A resolution was also adopted that
Chairman Mitchell, at his leisure, ap.
point Committee of three for each
Township along the line, to open
books Of subscription to capital stock
of said Company.
The heading to the Subscription
List runs thus: "We the undersigned
hereby agree to subscribe to the capi
tai stock of the Augusta and Edge
field Railroad Company, the number
of shares set opposite our respective
names, and bind ourselves. severally,
to pay the same in instalments Of lot
more than 20 per cent. per mouth.
And we further agree, severally, to
give and deed the right Of way to
said Company in the even. the line
of survey adopted shall pass through
any of our lands, provided said right
of way shall not exceed one hundred
feet in width.
And thus doea the railroad pros.
pect of Edge6eld again brighten for
mark wba! We say-nlthough gh it is
contrary to the opinion of many
gloomy aud rarhaps wiae people,
that if this narrow gauge be tuilt, it
will hasten up and make certain the
building of the Carolina, Cumberland
Gap and Chicago Road. God grant
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
Notice.
OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
EDGEFIELD COUNTY,
q A iooE

OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF J
EDGETIELD COUNTY,
EDGEFIELD c. H., S. c., Aug. A, 1885.
NOTICE is hereby given that an cleo
IN ton will he held in Shaw Township,
in the County of Edgefiold, OH the 10Th
day of August, 1855, to determine the
question of subscription or no subscrip-
ton to the capital stock of the Carolina,
Cumberland Gap and Chicago Rail Road,
by said Township. Said election is to he
held at the time and place, and by the
managers, and III the manner designated
in the resolution OF the Board Of County
Commissioners for Edgefield County,
which is hereto annexed. When the
Polls arc closed, the managers will i'm
mediately count the votes, make out a
certified return of the result, and then
send in sealed box, by ono OF their
number, the certified statement, the bal
lots and the poll list, to the office Of the
County Commissioners for Jtdgelield
County, on or before tho first Tuesday in
September ntXt.
H. b. GALLMAN,
Chairman Board Ce. Com.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06

The Worlds Exposition plant build
ings and machinery in New Orlear
were scld at auction lately for $l75
600. They were bid in by MIR. New
man, but were probably purchase
for the new Exposition Company
President McCol mich, Of the ne,
ExpositieHa- Company, says the pul
chase Of the Worlds Exposition plar
closed the last loop hole of doubt {
the reopening Of the Exposition, a
it establishes a new company on
definite basis and enables it to vigol
onsly lush forward the enterprise.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06

that our prediction may not fail. And
| now let broad.gauge be the watch
word from Montmorenci to the noun.
tsins, and narrow gauge be the slogan
from Augusta to Chester. Mitchell,
We look to you for great things CAL
lison, we know and trust your vim
and patriotism | People, hold up the
hands of these two men. with an eye
single to your own and your country s
good
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
9 Saluda into fair and fer

.6 meeunR OF the OctpuTaeoIs
this proposed road was held in th'
ADVERTISER ofice on Monday lat
and, as we have said above, it was tie
most practical and promising railroad
meeting We have ever knownin Edge
field.
The charter, which, in the begin
mag of the proceedings, was read bv
Senator Callison, who may emphatic
ally be called the godfather Of this
enterprise, and accepted by the Cor
porators. According to this charter
the title of the company is "the Au'
gusta aud Edge6eld Railroad Com.
pany." Just 30 soon as it can be Of
6cially done, the title will be changed
to Augusta. E1gefeld and New.
berry"
OF the twenty one Corporators, the
following were present: R. NJ. Mitch
ell, James Callison, D. R. Durisoe,
Lewis Jones, o. F. Cheatham, Ernest
Gary, Orlando Sheppard, A. J. Nor,
ris, James De Wore, J. L. Addison, O..
L. Dobson, W. S. Allen, A. S. Tomp-
kins, Alvin Hart and F. Fl. Wardlaw.
Col. R. M. Mitchell, tie frat Cor
porator named, is the now famous and
widely known President-author and
6nisher-of the successful narrow.
gauge road which leads from Angus
ia, westwards towards Sandersville,
Ga, its objective point. The entire
length of this road, if we mistake
not, will be sixty miles, of which some
twenty. 6veare already completed and
in highly remunerative operation. Its
5otal completion is only matter OF 8
very short time. The Augusta, Edge
field and Newberry, will be virtually
a continuation of the Augusta, Elber.
ton and Sandersville. Col. Mitchell
is now the narrow gauge king aid
authority of the South. Two years
ago, when he was just beginning the
Augusta, Elberton and Sandersville
road, we travelled with him from Edge
field to Trenton. Every foot of tie
way he talked marrow gauge" like a
quarter horse; insomuch that when
we parted from him, we regarded him
az the fullest. blown enthusiast We had
ever met. Time, however, has proved
that We were the fool, and Col. Mitch
ell tie wise man. In the light Of
present circumstances We are proud
to acknowledge the corn"
The charter provides that so soon
az the sum of fifty thousand dollars
is subscribed, the corporators afore'
said, or majority of them, shall, by
advertisement once a week ttr four
weeks in one or both the papera pub
lished at Edgefeld Court House, call
a meeting Of the stockholders, to be
held at some place on the proposed
line Of said railroad, one month after
the date of said notice. for the pur-
pose of organizing said company, and
said stockholders shall then and there
after have power to organize The Said
company by electing from among their
number eleven (ll). Directors, who
shall Immediately attsf their election
choose one Of their number for Pres
dent Of said company; and the term
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06

adds, to make some energetieE
awake, talented, high toned
the next Governor, for we rs
make farmers Governors and I
were hone better.
The uneaaincss of the lGw col
farmers concerning the cotton
is unabated. The State depart
of agricullurs has reports sho
their appearances in four cou
The commissioner hae taken p
steps TO have the farmers sup
with machines and poisons j
spread OF the Insects ahall re-
their use.
The Ncavs o,a ;oaa'icr has a
from Senator Butler OF the s
problem. Senator Butler review
business situation. He thinks
there wonl,l be commercial re
if we could get rid Of financial
boos. He aIso thinks the impor
Of the silver question liz exaggr,
and that it could 'e settled by
national acti"n.
The Seneca City Free Press
From every section of Lhe CT
there comes The good news of
rank corn and cotton, which BIZ
to make an abundant yield.
farmers are in fine spirits and
have good reason to be. Mo
them have lived on lesa and W.
harder this year than for many
before
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
ATLANTA, GA, Feb. 20. 1884.

ATLANTA, GA, Feb. 20. 1884.
DE +. BRApFIELD: Dear Sir-Some
iiluE sn years ago ] examined tho recipe
OF YEelnale Regulator, and carefully
slud Ed authorities in regard to its com
l,oneiiRL RLs, and then (aS woll as now pro-
il To be tho most scientific and
skillfiR II combination of the really relia-
ble remedial vegetable agents known TO
sciena Ia, To act directly on the womb and
nteri 30 organs, and the organs and paris
sym 2athiziing directly with these; and,
ther} }Gforo, providing specific remedy for
all dHiseases. of tho womb, anil OF the ad-
)nceiEt organs and parts.
Yours truly,
JESSE BORING, NJ. D., ID. d.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
Ths Narrow Gauge from Augusta,
via Edgefeld, tU Newberry.
The Most Practical and Promising
Railroad Meeting We Have Ever
known IN EdgeieId.

If we mistake not the signs Of the
times, narrow. gauge railroad will
soon be shedding life and light and
money throughout Meriwether Town
ship, AMI Wise, and Collier, and Col
Inns, and Pickens, and Pine Grove,
ard Mobley, and Cooper, and Cole
man, and Huiet-and thence acrt SO
Z }s4szzsbaetor;e Saluda into fair and fer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
9gp''reneuI.

MARRIED, July 23rd, 1856, by Rev. j.
W. Dickson, Mr. w. Z. CLARKE and
Miss MAMIE +. HOLLOWAY, all OF
Edgofiold County, S. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
M CAUTION. -fSN

Th b country is flooded with quack nos
trun l., containing IRON and other iniu-
rious Ingredients, which claim To cure
everfthing-even Female Complaints.
Wo by To you, if you value your life,
Rev hra of all Such!
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
9TH Reg't. Reunion.

Office is hereby given that there
IN will be meeting of the survivors
of the 7th 8. G.. V. on Friday. the 2lst
proximo. at Ninety Six, Abbeviile Co.,
8. G. All survivors are urged tn attend,
as it is proposed to organize permanent
association. Generals l[ershaw and Bon
ham have promised 10 be present.
L J. GOGG ANS,
J. III. BROOKS.
JAS MITCH ELL,
A. 2. BOUKNTGHT,
j. G. III. RAUCH,
Aug. s, 'S5.l j. q. VII LIAMS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
Dissolution.

MoDoc, EDaEFIELD Co., 8. G.,
July 18th. 1886. J
/, He Copartnership between Luther
10. Jackson and J. Madison Holson,
: or the style of JACKSON d HOL-
~ dealers in general merchandise, at
Bdoc, in this County and State, Is this
s5y dissolved by mutual consent. Either
MS will sign the name of the firm in
Llement of claims due the late firm.
4 L. Il. JACKSON,
J. M. HOLSON.
I will continue business al the same
tand, and respectfully invite my friends
nd tho public generally, to call and see
Ife. ]. M. HOLSON.
July 60, 1885 -4tss
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
|nFIRST-CLASS LUMBER.

4 lAVING recently set up Lumber
tn Mill on finely timbered tract
bout two miles Southwark of Johnston,
3id one mile from C. q. g. A. r. r., we
Ybw offer to the public the best OF pine
llmber in all classes. We guarantee our
|lmber and will set our prices to suit
be times. J. P. & J. W. HARDY.
Nav 27, 1885.-6-25
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
Land for Sale.
Lumber Notice.

DARTIES wanting Lumber will do
Il we'll to sne me beinro purchasing, rs
have II lot of dry OH hand. that WAS cut
and stackod during Tho Spring months,
anil is now in fine condition for hauling
aud building.
Aug 4,-4C35l w. +. ELAN, JR.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
GREENVLLLE
FEMALE COLLEGE

(Founded by the Baptist Stats~<seu'
ycHlion OF S0u,h-Casolinasfi 1851
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
II. =. GALLM A n,
Chairman Board Ce. Com.
Stale of South Carolina.

h,DG'L'fYELD COUNTY,.
OFFICE or COUNTY COMMISSIONERS !
OF EiMEFi ELD COUNTY,
AllrIISt lSSh
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-08-06
Stale News.

Thomas D. Prentiss, son Of the Rev.
Mr.. Prentiss of this State, has mar.
ried Mrs. Butt, a widow 80 yeara
old, at Ocela, Fla. She is worth
S25OOQC. lie ia 81 wears old.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
A Little Matter from Maine.

A farmer of this town, after the
pasturage became poor, turned his
flock of sheep into the orchard, where
the grass was heavy and the trees
laden with apples. One old sheep,
with a lamb, regularly selected trees,
and IN ways best known to herself
managed to mount upon her hind feet
and to knock off apples, which she and
the lamb ate with great gusto. The
farmer hobbled the forefeet, but the
animal did just as well as before in
knocking off apples; the hind feet
were hobbled, but with no better sue
cess, and the last resort was to hobble
one hind and one fore foot, and then
the game was up. She was watched,
and this was seen: The lamb mounted
upon her back, the sheep marched
under the apple tree, and the lamb
knocked off the apples. Brunswick
Telegraph.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
Senator Vests Doc.

81 have a dog" said Senator Vest,
who had just heard a p%recocious crow
story, "who is very %sagacious. One
morning he watched intently while a
negro boy BACKED my shoes. The fol-
lowing morning he came to where |
was sitting with a blacking brush in
his mouth. You may not believe it.,
but that dog got down on his launches,
spit on my shoes, took the brush in his
teeth and rubbed away like a house on
fire. But | must admit that he did not
get up much of a polish. One Sunday,
while l was living at Scdalia, this dog
followed me to church. | noticed that
he watched every movement of the
preacher. That afternoon | heard a
terrible bowling of dogs in my back
yard. l went out to see what was the
matter My dog was in the woodshed,
standing on his hind legs in an old
box. He held down a torn
almanac with one fore paw and gesti-
culated wildly with the other, while he
swayed his head and howled to an
audience of four other dogs, even more
sadly than the preacher | had heard
that morning. The narrator of the
crow story ''threw up the sponge."-
Memphis appeal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
Victor HugO's Daily Life.

In spite of his years he is still hale
and hearty; he eats well and drinks
well, and his only infirmity is deaf
ness. On Thursdays and Sundays,
which are reception days, the poet
goes to bed about 10 o'clock; on other
days he retires at 9 or $50, and in the
morning he works in bed ana rises
about 10. He breakfasts lightly,
walks, and, in spite of the supplica-
tions of his family, he occasionally in
dulges IN his old distraction of riding
on the knifeboard of a bus. What
ever the weather, Victor Hugo still OBJ
stinately refuses to wear an o~vercoat,
and, old as he is, he persists in abund-
ant cold water ablutions; but he no
longer takes his club" as he used to
during the siege of Paris, when he used
to break the Ice with his heel on cold
mornings. Victor Hugo still works,
but of course not very much; he has
his bolster and pillow placed at the
foot of the bed, SO as to receive the
light directly from the window, and,
pencil in hand, passes an hour or two
every morning in classifying and cor
recting his unpublished works in proze
and verse. He has in manuscript half
a dozen plays, several volumes of
philosophy, which will be published
his death. And so the old poet
lives, surrounded by his family, by his
grandchildren-Jeanne and Georges,
the latter a big boy of seventeen, who
is going to be a painter-and by his
old friends Paul Meurice and
Vacqserie, who tell the old
nan on days when he is weary and
linking of the end, that he must try
% live until 1889, so that the opening
# the Universal Exhibition and the
centenary of the Great Revolution may
'e presided yer by lie vieux Hugo
'arfs Letter to London World.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
Swallowed His Teeth

Employed on a branch of the New
York and New England Railroad is a
man of 80 or 80 years of mortal exper-
fence, who a to-day testify that
none of those years have brought to
him such unprecedented surprises, both
painful and pleasureable, as the last.
In consequence of the absence of five
prominent teeth, he had made for him
a rubber plate with five artificial teeth
attached, and which worked quite to
his satisfaction. On retiring late one
night in November he forgot TO remove
them from his mouth, as was his habit
and upon Weakening in the morning he
felt that dawning consciousness that
comes upon one so gradually as one
rouses from slumber, that the rubber
plate containing five teeth was not il
its should-be receptacle, the tnmbler
of water, neither was it clinging firm
ly 10 his upper jaw. At the same anX-
ious moment he experienced something
of a discomfort i'll the region of his
throat, and, calling his wife, asked her
to examine the locality, which she did,
and, to her surprise, beheld the retreat
ing form of that self-same plate, which
had vainly tried to fit itself to the cav
ity of the throat, but in so doing had
lodged just too low for her grasp. He
proceeded at once to his physician, and
underwent a series of attempts to ex-
tract it, which were unsuccessful. He
was then taken to the Massachusetts
General Hospital, where ali efforts to
the teeth proved also of no
avail. Meanwhile, the plate worked
down toward the stomach. The
was confined to his house about
ten days, and soon recovered his u.s.
ual strength and spirits and went his
way without experiencing further
trouble from the accident. Various
we're the opinions of the medical world
IN regard to what would be the final
of the matter: One doctor
said: ''You can not live with that in
your stomach blood poisoning must
Another said: "1he rubber
will digest; the teeth thus set free you
will rid yourself of, and all may be
VEIL" But, to say the least, the pa
tents state of mind was but little
ased by any diagnosis pronounced
pom the case by men who thought
hey knew all about it. However. af-
er three months, the teeth finally /,
merged IN as perfect condition as on
day they left the dentists hands. I
Boston Herald. }
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
He Was PreDared.

Young man, are you prepared to
goP" asked the r~evivalist of a young
nan in the back row after the meet
ing was e
Eyes, sir, perfectly"
"Do you think every night as YOU
20 to bed that you may be called be-
fore morning?"
IFS always on my mind slr.'
That's right. And you are always
ready to go whenever the angel
comes, without warning and unan-
nounced?n
Eyes, sir. l always sleep with my
clothes all on and my overcoat and
an extra paper collar on the chair 1t
the side of my bed. I'm always
ready
"But, my dear young man, you
must mistake me-"
"Not all, sir. I'm q handsome
coachman, and | know my business.
Whenever the angel of the household
calls I'm ready to take the first
train. Chicago Tribune.