Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-11-16
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The capacity of the mill is 5000
gallons per month. On this there
has to be paid 80 cents revenue
tax gallon. 1t expected that the
business will increase until all the
surplus molasaes is turned into
alcohol.
The Columbia Journal says that
Governor Tillman has received
several letters from widows of
South Carolina Confederates who
now live in other States, asking if
they can get a pension. lis answer
has been, of course, that the Legis-
lature provides for none but South
Carolina pensioners.
A Good Man Gone-Rev. w.
H. Lawton, D. D. died at Foreston
last Friday. He was seventy
three years of age and had been a
member of the Methodist Con-
ference for nearly half a century.
Mr.. Lawton was long a resident of
Ninety Six and two of his daugh-
ters, Mrs. J. H. Rice and Mrs. J. P.
Phillips still live there.
Mr.. Lawton was a faithful minis
ter of the Gospel, a man of eminent
piety, remarkable for his amiability
aud generosity and the news of his
death will be received with genuine
sorrow throughout Abbeville
county and in fact wherever he
was known Ex.
Greenwood wants TO form new
County with that place as the
County site, out of such parts of
Abbeville, Laurens and Edgefeld
Counties that she can get, but
Laurena is too small already,
compared with most of the other
Counties, to take any territory
from her Besides. Greenwood,
it seems to US, is not the proper
place for the County site of the
proposed new county. 1t is 100
close to Abbeville! At any rate,
we need all the territory we've got.
-Laurensville Herald.
eyes, suh," said the Majah,
talking to a Chicago reporter" it
is true that we 90 hang a worthless
niggah down ouah way once in
while. But you Nawthun folks
seem to overlook completely the
great numbah of them that we
puhmit to liye until they die of
ol6age or sickness.
Tt'enty-seven T:liion people
visited the Worlds Fair.
The Legislature of Geogia is
solid on the line of reform. The
House has voted down a PROPOSE
tion to increase the pay of Judges
of the Superior Court from $4,000
to $500: Both Houses have
adopted a joint resolution sub
mitting to the people proposition
to adj two more members to the
Supreme Court of that State. The
Court is now composed of three
member of, whom the distin-
guised lawyer, Logan E. Bleckley,
is Chief Justice. The present
court is over-worked.
Clemson College is not only a
success, but q necessity as well.
The Board of Trustees at their
recent meeting, to gather material
to make their report to the
Legislature, find more than 400 STU
dents in the College. There are
applications on file for next year
numbering considerably over 500.
What to do with over 900 boys
next is a question. The present
quaiters will accommodate 600 boys
propably. Additional dormitory
room will no doubt be provided by
the Trustees, and this, too, without
additional cost to the State, Verify,
nothing succeeds like success
Keowee Courier.
The extra session Of Congress
has adjourned sine die. The regular
session will commence on the first
Monday in December. The coun-
try will then demand that the
Chicago platform shall be carried
out in the letter and spirit of that
document.
Ex-senator Ingalls,, when asked
by a reporter, the other day, what
was the cause of the present hard
times, replied: