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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30

Mr.. EDITOR: In your items from
Callison last week ] notice your
correspondent Of that section says
that the Troy boys wish the CALI
son boys to stay at home. Now we
do not wonder-at all atsthis, as we
know it frightened the Troyites,
boys, girls and all, to gee such
wild cats az those three Callison
boys appear on their streets, not
being accustomed to seeing such
giants as those which come from
Cuffeetown swamps. Do you blame
the Troy boys, Mr.. Editor?
Let the three Callison boys stay
in their swamps and not go to, or
disturb the peace, quiet and re-
pose of the Troy boys again.
FRIEND.
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Notice.

ONE or more County Commissioners
u will be at the Railroad bridge, near
Dysons OIL Saluda River, on Thursday,
the 14th day of July, at 10 o'clock a. M,
for the purpose of letting the contract
to the lowest bidder the building OF an
abutment to the wagon bridge, reserv-
ing the right to reject any or all bids.
j. A. WHITE,
G.. e. Dorm,
&C. E. G..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30

used no other water never die, but
when they. got old enough to die
have to move off to die, and if not?
Why not2
The public road from here, one
mile beyond Cochran's bridge
across Turkey Creek, is in fine Or
der, but from there to the Moss
place, the distance of five miles,
what can I say2 Not a ditch ON
either side of the road and only
one bridge and that is across
Smallpox gulley farther on, and it
is a continuous mnd-hole, the bot
tom of which has never been
reached.
Old Benjamin Davis, q smart
and knowing man was he, said
that if there was anything that
God did not know it was the power
|of a county commissioner and the
verdict of a petit jury.
In my wandering and solitary
life I have thought that this is
1.-The time when we as free people
lshould act and vote for ourselves
for. the following reason: to keeI
dowll strife and promote our mu'
f|tual interest. The time is not fal
1 distant when some model member
Of our Legislature will introduce {
! .Ibill entitled an act to let every
!, man now in Office remain there
. during his natural life, with gooe
J behavior, and if any great mai
should spring up far ahead o
those in Office, then we can consti
tute and create an Office and Civ
it to him, as We did the railroa'
! commissioner. If not why not?
III. S. B.
DoloLo+b n
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30

The Mason cotton harvester, q
South Carolina invention, has
been manufactured in considerable
numbers and will be ready for
shipment BY the first of July.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30
An Interview With Gov. Tillman
in The Columbia State.

!
In talking of the Third party
danger in this State connection
with the national situation,
Governor Tillman said that he
foresaw before he left here that
there was almost a certainty of
an electoral ticket of the Third
party being placed in the field in
this State. Continuing, he said:
"But whether we can keep it off or
not l cannot attempt to say. 1
Can't say what is going to be done,
but I fear that we are going to
have Third party attempt. l
will fight it because I believe it
means unlimited trouble and
disaster to the people of,the State. e
He called attention to the edi-
torial appearing in the Cotton
Planta few days ago which was
Third partyism all over, and
remarked that "Stokes is pledged
to support the ticket, as all the
rest of us are"
When aaked if he thought the
Sept famher convention woald
endorse the nomination of Cleve-
land, he said: "Of course it
will-that is, that's the way it
looks to me now. However it is
entirely too early for nae to give
any opinion other than my own,
which is, that I will support the
ticket. I can't say anything else
now, but let me attend this weeks
campaign meetings, and feel the
public pnlse, although the section
of the State to which we are going
this week is not go much
impregnated with Third partyism
as the other portions, I can better
be able to review the situation"
In regard to his stand against
Cleveland, Governor Tiilman said {:
~ fought Cleveland's nomination
because l thought his policy was
wrong; because he prejudiced
several Southern State, and
because I believed that he could
not carry New York. But now /
give up my opposition as he is the
nominee, and will fight for his
success"
In regard to the Third party, he
requests that the statement be made
that he reiterated all that he has
ever said concerning the dangers
involved in snch a movement in
this State.
Goveanor Tillman said that he
did MT believe Cleveland't
nomination would have any efect
upon South Carolina State politics
When asked whether, in his
opinion, Clevelaad would be elected
or not. he said there were too
many contingencies ahead fol
him at this time to feel warranted
in giving an opinion. 1t wonld bt
depend on the treatment tha
would be accorded the New Yorl
Democracy bv Cleveland.
! When asked how the delegation
had been treated in Chicago
Governor Tillman said: awe
were treated with as mucl
consideration and courtesy as WE
: could have expected"
AND TALBEBTI is STRONGER STILL.
4 WI. Talbart has also returned
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FLOATING BREEzEs.
Commencement at Red Hill
y Academy.

: Mr.. ED1raR: On Friday night,
the Oath inst, I found myself at
Miss Willie Hudson's school at
Red Hill, the capital of historic
Choty,
Now. Mr.. Editor. did YOU ever
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30
Notice.

.ONE or more of the county commits
" sioners will be at Horse Pen Creek
on the new cut road, near Kirkseys, on
the 10Th of July, to let the building OF
a bridge at that place; hereby reserv-
ing the right to reject any or all bids.
GEO. E. Dorm,
J. A. WHITE.
G. C. E. C.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30

When a man fails on the farm,
or in the store. or in professional
life, and turns to politics as q
business, you may expect the
most unscrupulous and knavlsh
conduct.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30
Three Million Confederates.

Thes tereotyed report of over
whelming and overpowering num-
bers which came up from lost
battlefelds called out from Mr..
Lincoln one of his best anecdotes.
An old Illinois friend ofMr. Lincoln
who had two sons in the army of
the Potomac called to see him at
the White House in the summer
of 1892, and feeling a parental
solicitutde about the safety of his
sons aud their chances of success,
asked Mr.. Lincoln how many men
he thought Jeff Davis had in the
the field. Lincoln responded that
Jeff Davis had 100000 men in
the field. This startled the old
man. After regaining his
composure he asked Mr.. Lincoln
how he knew this fact. he replied
"I have 100000 men i'll the field
and whenever one of my generals
get whipped down in Virginia he
always says that the rebels had
three men to one. Yes, sir, | nave
! 100000 in tho field and JEFF
Davis has 100000. New York
w ,r1d
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ear how that section Of th,

country received its name? When
the Indians left this county there
was among them an old man who
refused to go. For a long time he
lived in a log hut on the hill just
this side of Key bridge, and
although he has long been in the
happy hunting grounds of his an
cestors, his name still lives. The
name of that section was origi-
nally called Choty's.
1 commenced, however, to write
about Miss Hudson's school. When
I-arrived there I was given q seat
on the stage where l could see and
hear all the acting and recitations.
The large house was packed to
overAowing, in fact a good many
failed to get even standing room.
and looking around me I noticed
what interest was displayed by
everyone.
Uncle Ben Glanton pulled the
same sweet bow across his violin
while Levi, acted as second: Mr..
Reese came in on time with the
cornet, while Mrs. Tom Mathis,
nee Adams, whose name. at the
time I could not recall, played an
accompaniment on the piano re- e
markably we'll.
Z The drill in which the word
calisthenic was spelled by move move
ment of the class, and inthel same
connection, the dumb-bell exer-
cises, we're all well done, but Why Why
should one emphasize acting or
recitatlons. The appearances o3ff OF
the audience showed me that ] was wSas
correct in my judgment Of well swell
DONE" 1t certainly spoke well for S''
the teacher. Keep her by gil
means patrons, for think it will
be a sad day for Red Hill when when
you letMiss Willie go.
Another bright feature OF the
evening was piano playing by
Miss Fitzpatrick, the music teacher, +
during the drills. In this feature l'
special attention was given to tn the
change from the march to the
quickstep movement, this being
done instantaneouely, and at attic the
same time very smoothly said ;l'
her name was Fitzpatrick, but from o.n
her bright, pretty, and happy fase IS
and from what / have heard, an
very much of the opinion that. &
is Kill-Joe, Kill-sam, Kill-Johht
and Kill-Jim certain and sure, ale
I know not how many hers if y9l
let her slip from you. In defensF
of your young men you will 5ha'YHe
to employ her again, unless some somrle
of the boys persuade her to prlns
happiness and sunshine into! thell
sad and stricken souls. 4: Il
The Parksville brass band Wa
another ,>leasant d;-crrsicT5, zTl3
l,se>44d W !, aspt@1o ut The ais
..oogsa d! sweet sounds Go ai.ss.,
gentlemen. your Annie L.ss'His:
i::::fc ..l::ir.g :sif5.. an4 osshs-
itarriaf,5n h&es to ne .ima @itel
II mas d puy anu tell 1n.l1ue ps.lil' =
/ the brass band, longing to be- be
man with big brass horn.
After the exercises were over,
hied myself to the hospitabl
home of Mr.. Wyatt seigler, an
spent an hour or two in sleep an,
a very pleasant time with hl
family until the time came for tmn q
to strike out for Edgefeld. /.
1 regretted not being able to hea ha
Col. Jones, who spoke atthe picni
: during the day. I met him tha
night and found him q very GU;
: tured pleasant gentleman. Com
again Colonel and we will do on
!, best to make it pleasant for yo1
:, You know Edgefield never doe
. things by halves. J..B. d.
RelOboth Items. 5
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thou good and faithful servants

Some Of them filled our legislative
halls with much honor to them
selves and their constituents. In
that good old time the Office sought
the man not the man the office.
What a glorious time we had then,
andif not, why not? I am proud
to state that most of these gentle
men have offspring here ready to
do the same duties that their fore
fathers did, but our political
status and love of office will not
admit of it.
Crops of every description are
fine in this country.
In my first communication I
mentioned Fuller's oats which /
still stick to.
In 1S49 there was a North Caro-
lima wagon passed through this
country selling Rochelle black
berry roots and had some of the
berries with him. 1 bought some
and they would grow as large as a
guinea egg when cultured.
I saw persons to-day gathering
blackberries apparently as large as
the Rochelle berries. So the peo-
pie IN this country are healthy,
and will have plenty as long as
-blackbarries last. Suffice it to say
that they are well-to-do people
and do live we'll without the ber-
:ries.
Those men above mentioned were
generally large men, except
Spencer, and rode fine fat horses.
aud / will here tell you a little
Joke on one of them. Senator
Hibler when returning home on
lone occasion, Cuffe stown Creek-b be-
ing up and no bridge, asked Mr..
Spencer, who was small active
man, to jump up behind him and
ride across::..th creek. No sooner
said than done. He then said to
Hibler; Hurry your horse across
the creek for l was once bitten by
a mad dog and when looking at
water it frequently throws me into
a fit.
AS soon as said the fit came on
him, and he commenced biting
IHibler on the neck and the ear.
The horse became frightened, Hib-
! 1ler fell off, the horse ran to
Spencer's, a short distance, andhls
wife sent the horse back to Hib,
Her. No one hurt and no hard feel.
ings. Why cannot it be SO now
and if not why not?
I have been stopping here IRE
|hoboth) for several days for my
health, examining and drinking
Ethewaters at and noar Rehohoth
4 Church. A free stone spring o.
! wateris number one, both palata
4 l:ble, cooling. and pleasant.to the
!. saste. t.ag asil w5t.. ls Stea';g;.l J
ogested u i..~ The 'a.a
] ii snrirs >ut:i. rrs s9e' sas
5, ,,fe..a:e ]1..@see'1'.r@,' 81
..,.,; magaasa. 'E,Ae cd peoisi
ern tel 80 s'eat ..'2a 'vi'1
f,,eod ,,oNofhor water npJyar die hi
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30

emphatically for Cleveland
now than the Governor, SC. those
that have talked with him say,
and says that the Alliance will
have to stand to the nomination.
He regards the convention as
having granted much more of the
Alliance demands than couldhave
been expected.
In regard to the Third Party he
is also much more pronounced in
his utterances.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30
To Rent.

EoUR Room House, piazza front and
L rear, good well Of water-in Bum
combe portion of Edgefeld-$S per
month. Apply ut the ADVERTISER Z
Office.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30

AND TALBEBTIs STRONGER STILL.
WI. Talbart has also returned
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30
The Callison VS.. The Troy Boys.

Rehoboth, S, G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30
Edgeffiield fi Adv rtiser

Hu1IA Ab1SAA AoAk3 AeSS-S
!, ing had built.
Oyercoat Found.
During the sessions of'the Teachers
Institute last week, some one left an
oyercoat in the Academy that has
been sent to the ADyETIsER Office for
Identification. The owner can get
his osercoat by proving property and
paying charges.
"A wise Paper.
Next week we shall probably
Law before our readers Mr. Booths
4 address at the commencement
exercises of the Batesburg High
School. II is needless for us to say
that this address is full of wise
j, Thought, and eminently utilitarlan
ia itsteachings.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-09-23

Signora Aurelia Cimmino Tolliero de
Luna has had notable success in estab-
fishing rural school for girls in
northern Italy.
Miss Dora Miller. teacher in New
Orleans, has patented blackboard
eraser, for the right of which she has
had an offer of s.. 900.
Lady Henry Somerset's eloquent
presidential address is published in the
annual report of the British Women's
Temperance association.
Two gold medals given in the Ma
tional competition of schools of art in
England for life studies of the un-
draped model were both awarded to
women.
Lady Wilfreda Biddulph. at a recent
meeting of the Children's Happy
Evening association. made an eloquent
appeal for bringing the joys of gold
en- childhood into the lives Of the
poor.
Nine Christine Wilson's hobby is
the collection Of fans. She possesses
many curious and beautif II ones. Some
Of these fans belonged to ladies IA
nous in history and in the world of
art.
Cambridge, Eng. has six colleges
founded by women for men. yet when
women ask to participate in the educa-
tional benefits of the university they
have difficulty in gaining even made
quate concessions. and share not at all
in the honor Of its degrees.
Miss Mary Eddy daughter Of the
well-known Syrian missionary, has
decided to return to Syria and to dc
vote herself to the little children of
the country to save their eyes from the
diseases brought about by the climate.
In preparation She is studying mcdi-
enc, and fitting herself to be an eye
and ear specialist.
The home of the Roumanian Queen,
Carmen sylvia, situated in the heart of
a forest at the foot Of the Caramian
mountains, IS beautifully decorated.
according to the Queens own designs,
the feature of the house being a music
room fitted up with a beautifully
painted glass ceiling. and walls frcs-
coed with a cycle of fairy tales of her
arrangement
It is said that Rose Terry Cooke.
with all her ability and recognition as
a writer, was not able to make much
more than her pin money out of her
literary work. And Louisa NJ Alcotts
fertile pen, too, was not able TO earn
enough money to pay the expenses of
her sister last illness until the sweet
hearted Beth, beloved of all readers
of Little Women" had been dead a
score of years.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-09-23
A. WEIRD WESTERN TALE.
s. 1irits of Murdered Men watching Over
Riches In an Old Mine.

"a m OAo
The Ozark mountains OF Missouri
present field for the lovers OF the
curious which is not to be found this
side OF old Mexico. Tho whole coun-
tss was at one time under the domi-
milton of the Spanish when they first
eS'lored this part OF the continent
aHS their relics are to be found all
oTer the hills IN the shape OF excava.
tions and old mines and in many in
stances their very tools are TO be
found just where thcy left them over
hundred or two hundred years ago
says the New York Herald.
About eighteen miles southwest of
Galena is an old Spanish mine which
is reputed to be rich with gold and
silver as well as with Lead. yet no man
has ever had the temerity to work the
mine on account of the story which is
attached TO it and the certain uncanny
feeling which is SAID to overcome any
one who dares to profane the place
with his presence.
The story is that in this miro great
riches were found by seven men. who
were so overcome by their good for
tune that they could not agree as 10
the division of the find, but each was
eager TO have the whole for himself.
and the result was that one by one
they were killed by their companions
until but one was left and then it is
related that during the night nc was
ser upon by the whole ghostly band
and was choked to death by the spirits
of the men whom he had helped TO
murder. This is the story which has
been told. and in addition. there are
many who swear that they have also
seea the ghostly band of murdered
men VINO are keeping watch over the
riches hidden away IN this mountain
mine.
The natives will tell you with batod
breath how a certain man (he was a
Nermonter named Johnsou) had said
that he would find the treasure in
spite OF the devil and all his imps and
how he went TO the place and worked |
alone because he could get none OF
the people in the neighborhood to
assist him.
lie worked there one day and made
arrangements to take his meals at a
certain farm house nea by but when
night came he did not return and next |
day the people went to the place and
found his body lying at the mouth Of
the shaft with strange marks about
his th;oat as if made by the bony
hand OF skeleton.
This was twenty-nino years age,
but there are those still living in this J
vicinity who will tell you that they
say the body with the marks OF thy
ghosts fingers on his neck. Sincr
that day the place is Stunned.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-09-23
TIL GET SQUARED"
The Story of Parrot with Red Tai
and Bad Eve.

The Story of Parrot with Red Tai
and Bad Eye.
3 Henry Stimper a Brooklyn grocer
owns parrot that has a red tail and
bad eye.
The bird talks and talks fuently.
He can converse in low Dutch and
swear in several languages. Bur
sometimes he strikes spell OF reti
cence, and then dynamite can not
blow words out of his beak. He has
taken such u fit when Shippers bro.h.
er George came from New York.
StimPer wanted the bird to say I'M
cle' 70 his brother but the bird de-
clined 70 admit the relationship. He
simply cooked his bad eye at the New
Yorker aud maintained a chilly ST.
lence Finally Stimper got mad and
shouted IN fix you If you don't
say uncle"
~ get square croaked the par
ro' N Ieturn.
Nv syilL viii you?n rerlied the
nov thoroughly-aroused grocer.
we'll we Il see about that"
Throwing a cloth over the bird
that snapped at him viciously. Stimp-
er took it into the back yard. The
grocer is a bit OF a chicken fancier.
and has a couple OF big coops which
contain twenty-six choice fowls. a
couple OF game ROSTERS being among
the number.
In you go said Stimper as he
threw the parrot among the fowls
and l hope you'll get good hid
ing"
IN get square. 'snarled the parrot
once more.
Sumper turned away with con-
tempiuous smile. He forgot all about
the bird until the mcknight Then he
thought he would visit the humiliated
Polly He found sixteen OF his fowls
stone Gead, with their brains pecked
out On the highest perch in sight
was What remained of the surviving
rooster. By his side were the few
chickens left
- i'll get square. " chuckled the par
rot Is 1t wiped its bloody beak on the
corpIe Of its last victim.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-09-23

1t is said that Princess Bismarck is
in a great measure responsible for the
open attitude of hostility recently as
sumed by the ex-Chanecllor toward the
Emperor. At the Princes official fare
well reception just before his retire
ment from public life there were pres
ent several members of the cabinet,
the whole staff of the foreign Office
and large number of dignitarics of
state.
Bismarck was unusually silent and
apparently in mood of grief rather
than resentment. The Princess, on
the other hand, was almost beside her
self with rage She exclaimed in a
loud voice: 1T was l who advised my
husband to bear no longer with the
Emperor's petty interference in mat
tiers which he does not understand.
But to accept my husbands resigna-
ton was an act of infamy which the
llnave shall repent to me lie shall
recall my husband on his knees To
dare to treat Germany's greatest man
like that Woe upon him.
There was a moment of awful silence,
and then followed n stampede led by
the ministers, who rushed ont OF the
palace as if pestilence were upon
them, and in an incredibly short time
the Bismarck family found themselves
alone in the brilliantly lighted saloons.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-09-23
A TRIFLE OFF colon. J

A resident of Asheville,N. c. cli,ims
to be a descendant from julius Cesar.
A Boston paper has for its motto
with mission and without 4 muz-
zle."
At "a Paris fair prize was awarded
to the man with the most nmonstrous
nasal affair.
A famous Vienna actress. who re-
Gently went bankrupt, had a bill for
dress making alone amountinls to 7O0,
900 flofins.
A medical man in Vienna asserts
that diphtheris is thrice as prevalent
among smokers rs those who deny
themselves the weed.
A man while fishing at Itap7val creek,
Idaho, booked rattlesnal1e three and
one-halt feet long, that was swim
ming across the creek
More than 1 5, 900 letters are put in
the postofices of the United States
every day, that, through misdirection
or miscarriage of some kind, bring up
in the dead letter Office.
A viii recently probated in the Sur
rogates court at Albany contains this
clause: To my son Simeon I give the
sum of fifty cents for the trouble he
has taken to i'll treat me"
The authorities of Ems. the German
watering place. have decreed that no
pianoforte shall be played unless the
windows in the apartment in which
the instrument is located are closed
A London burglar who was recently
arrested in the act of carrying off
some valuable jewels was found to be
the lessee of a safe at u safe deposit
company's, where he stored the fruits
of his toll.
Two Cinnamon lately tried the hold
ing up process on a bank messenger
near Hong Kong and robbed him of zoo
taels-about s3OO-but they were
caught and decapitated within forty
eight hours.
An English health officer recently
received the following note from one
of the residents Of his district: Dear
sir: l beg to tell you that my child
aged eighi months IS suffering OF
measles Us required by Act of Parlia-
ment"
The LATEST man existing within the
border of the Empire state lives along
the shores of Third lake, Fulton
Chain. and spends his time fishing.
He reclincs on the bank in the shade,
ties the pole to the dogs tail, and
when he sees the bobber disappear he
kicks the dog and the animal lands
the fish.