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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-23

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET Aug 22.-Cat-
tlc-markct was steady prices for natives So
a5.30, medium S4a425, Texans 81. 1Oa2. So,
stockers S1.50a3.30, native cows $1a3.SO
per 100 lbs Representation of the market
5a10c lower; rough and common hogs $3.50
al 80, packers aud mixed S5a5.3O, prime
heavy and butchers weights S5.405.45, light
50. S0a5.S SO per 100 lbs Sheep-market
steady natives 33.50ai50, Westerns 81 Goa
3.25 Texans 50. 15a3.25 per 100 lbs. Lambs
81. 50a5. 40 per 100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-23

The new cholera cases at Antwerp
average two daily.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-23
DRY GOODS.

DRY GOODS.
v God ward & Lothrop.
10Th, 18th and F StS,, n. ".
s- Until September 1 re close at p. m.
Saturdays at p. m.
~
Two Extraordinary Bargains in
Lace Curtains.
sc pairs st. Gall Irish Point Lace Curtains,
$500 Pair.
Regular Price, $3.50.
24 pairs St. Gall Irish Point Lace Curtains,
81 yards Long,
$50 Pair.
Regular Price, $1,000.
Fourth foor..."............1lth -st. bullding.)
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SHOE DEPARTMENT.
Broken lines of seasonable goods at re-
duced prices.
Ladies' White Canvas oxfords.
Were SITS. Now $150.-
Ladies Black Oxfords.
Were 50. Now S1.5O.-
Boys and Youths Russell Goat Oxfords.
We're So Now 81 3d.
All our Children's Black and Tan Goat Ok
fords We're 81, S1.25 and $50.
Now 75c,-
first hoor",,...,.............." second anneXl
SUMNER GLOVES.
Ladies' -button-length Mousquetaire
Channels Gloves, white and natural color.
-75c a pair
Ladies ight-button-length Mousquetaire
Chamois Gloves,
81 pair
First aoor. annex.
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T INEN DEPARTMENT.
400 dozen Fringed Crepe Towels at
12l2c each
Second floor, ................1 1th-st. building
3d.
UNITED UNDERWEAR DEPART9I'T.
Ladies Medium weight Vests and Pants for
the cool weather that will soon be here.
Fine White or Ecru Swiss Ribbed Cotton
Vests, high neck, short sleeves; Ankle-length
Pants to match.
SOC garment.
First hocr. "..Second annex
CLoAK DEPARTMENT.
We have n superb line of goods. and II
prices that are greatly reduced. Some choice
wraps at nominal prices.
CThird floor. st. building)
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RoYs DEPARTMENT.
Neat Rolling brim Cloth Hats.
SOC to S1.50.-
All-wool Shirt Waists and Blouses.
SLIP, S1.25 and S1.50.-
Linen Pants-tough and serviceable.
SOC -
Galatea Wash Suits. Size 4 to 10 years.
Were So, 80, 1915, $4, and S475.
Now S275.-
1t will pay you to buy for next season if
your boy is supplied for this.
Third floor. lOth-st. bnildingQ
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l9- GOODS DELIVERED IN ALEU-
ANDRIA.
Woodward & Lothrop,
10th, nth & F SITS, n. W.,
WASHINGTON. d. c.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-23

BALTIMORE. Aug, 23.-Flour dull and un.
changed Wheat steady; No. red spot and
Aug 657sa66; Sept G6isa663s Oct 6Slaa
6S;i, Dec 73a73hs steamer No . red 63ti
milling wheat by sample G5a6G. Corn easy
mixed spot 46a461s; Aug 46a46A; Sept
46asa46ts white corn by sample so yellow
do 49a50. Oats steady No . white Western
33a34; No mixed do 30a31. Rye nominal
No . 3d. Hay lower and dull good to choice
timothy SIC 00 to SIC 80. Provisions steady
and unchant cd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-23

The markets are healthier III tone, Dnt
prices are without material change. Flour is
quiet. Wheat was fraction lower for both
futures and spot yesterday to-day figures are
iirmer; sales GO to 63, latter for prime mill
ing mixed and choice longberry, damaged and
common wheats bring from 90 to 50. White
Corn 81 to SO, yellow so to 81, mixed IS to
90 Rye As to As, Oats 81 to 80, latter for
white. There are no changes to report in
Produce, Provisions, Hay or Milfeed. Wheat
and Rye Straw are dull
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-23
CONE TO LEEsBURG

S1.75 round trip, including admission to
the Fair. Begins August 29th and continues
on the Both and 31st. Six races each day.
They have all been filled.
Tickets good from August 2Sth TO Septem-
Der 2nd inclusive.
Grand balloon ascension and parachute de-
scent by Miss RANDALL.
II. G. SELLMAN,
auGo3 At Secretary.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
Alcohol in the Tropics.

Mrs. Mary Clement Leavit, who
has large experience in travelling
in hot climantes, says of the use OF
alcohol in.the tropics:
.At So years of age, having pass
ed most of my life in.New England
up to that date and having been a
total abstainer all my life, I first
entered tropical lands. Thence to
the present time, seven years, |
have been the greater part of the
time in tropical climates. India.
Birmah, Madagascar, west coast
of Africa, from the Congo TO Sierra
Leone, Brazil, are among the coun-
tries I haze visited and in which
4 have remained some months each,
It has always been safe not to
touch anything alcoholic. ] have
never taken a drep even as medi-
cine. Alcoholic drinks are especially
deadly in hot climates. Every
where I have found total abstainers
less liable to fevers, bowel COM
plants, rheumatism and other
diseases than those who use
alcoholics even in moderation. /
one town in India, I remember, an
English couple were the only white
persons exempt from malarial
fevers during a three years resi-
denco, and they were the only
abstainers in the place. Alcohol is
a poison and acts quicker within
the tropics than elsewhere"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
1FIYoU WANT INFORMATION ABOUT
p E N S | q 2 S
ADDRESS LETTER OR POSTAL CARD TO
THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY.
JOHN WEDDERBURN, Managing Attorney
p. O. Box 20, WASHINGTON, ID. G.

Honorable discharged soldiers and sailors ninety days.
the late entitled if partially wholly dabed
ordinary manual labor whether disability caused by
and regardless of their pecuniary circumstances
Widows such soldiers and sailors entitled mared
whether soldiers death service dependent
upon their labor for support Widows dependent their
labor entitled if the soldiers death due to
Children entitled M under sixteen in almost all cases where
there widow she has since died remarked.
Parents entitled soldier left neither widow
soldier died SERVICE from eco and they de-
pendent upon their labor for support makes difference
soldier served died in late regular
Soldiers the pensoned under law apply for
higher rates under other laws without losing any rights
Thousands soldiers drawing from So to $40 per month under
the old law are entitled higher under law, not only
account disabilities for which pensioned hut also Others
whether due to service or not
Soldiers and sailors disabled in time duty regular army
navy since also entitled whether discharged for disability
o not
Survivors widows of the Black Hawk Creek Cherokee
and For Indian Wars of 1882 to S2 entitled
der recent act.
Mexican soldiers and their widows also entitled if sxtwo
years of age disabled or dependent
Old claims completed and settlement obtained whether pension
has been granted under later laws or not.
Rejected claims reopened and settlement secured, if rejection
improper or illegal
Certificates service and discharge obtained for soldiers and
sailors late who have lost their original papers,
Send information No charge advice. No fee
less successful. Address,
THE PRESS CLAIMS CO.,
JOHN TKEDDERBU.RN Managing attorney.
p O. Box 46S., WAsHINGTON,sD. @.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.

This is competition of rather an
unusual nature. 1t is common to offer
prizes for the best story, or picture, or
architectural plan, all the competitors
risking the loss of their labor and the
successful one merely selling his for
the amount of the prize. But the Press
Claims Company's offer is something
entirely different. Each person is
asked merely to help himself, and the
one who helps himself to the best ad-
vantage is to be rewarded for doing it.
The prize is only a stimulus to do
something that would be we'll worth
doing without it. The architect whose
competitive plan fora club house
on a certain corner is not accepted has
spent his labor on something of very
little use to him. But the person who
patents n simple and useful device in
the Press Claims Company's competi-
ton need not worry If he fail to secure
the prize. He has substantial result
to show for his work-one that will
command its value in the market at
any time.
1he plain man who uses any article
in his daily work ought to know bet
ter how to improve 1t than the
mechanical expert who studies it only
from the theoretical point of view.
Get rid of the idea that an improve
ment can be too simple to he worth
patenting. The simpler the better. The
person who best succeeds in combining
simplicity and popularity, will get the
~ ,,.o
hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this company
may be judged from the fact that its
stock is neld by about three hundred
of the leading newspapers Of the
United States.
Address the Press Claims Company,
John Wedderburn, managa attorney,
91S F street, N. W. Washington, ID. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
"A Passenger Train Telescoped in
a Tunnel and Many Killed.

LONDON, Sept. ia frightful
accident occurred to day. The
Great Western Railway was the
scene Of the. disaster in a tunnel
near Bath, f3 miles southeast of
Bristol.
An express train from Bristol to
London, while running at q high
rate of speed through the tunnel,
was derailed and as the doors of
English railway coaches are al
ways locked it was impossible for
the passengers tojump.
They we're panic stricken and
semi darkness added to their
terror. Suddenly, above the noise
made by the engine Of the derailed
train and grating and grinding OF
coaches, the sound of an approach
ing train was heard. 1t was the
passenger train bound for Bristol
and running very fast: It's engineer
saw the obstruction, but before he
could act his train dashed into the
derailed coaches, breaking them
up as if they were made of card
board.
The scene that ensued almost
defes description. The hiss and
roar of escaping steam mingled
with shrieks of the injured and
groans of the dying. AS the train
lights were extinguished the tunnel
was as dark as midnight and it
was impossible to see any distance.
Some Of the bodies were mangled
beyond recognition.
Many passengers were thrown
against the side of the tunnel,
where the bodies were literally
crushed into jelly by the tremend-
GUS weight. Many when reached by
the rescuers begged the doctors
piteously to kill them. Many wo-
men and children are among the
dead.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
DRUNK D AND DISORDERLY. Y
Senator Irby, While Filled With
Liquor, Creates a senation.

COLUMBIA, Sept. 19-senator
Irby arriued here by the Atlantic
Coast Line at Z o'clock this morn
ing. and had to be- assisted from
the sleeper by the porter. He
marched out through the ladies'
waiting room witha pistol in his
hand hourishing it about like a
madman, and as he emerged from
the waiting-room, the muzzle of a
pistol was pointed SO directly alta
negro hackman thatit frightened
him nearly out Of his wits. He
left his hack and ran for his life
seeking shelter behind the corner,
of the dining-haIl. Another hack
man, atwhom he pointed his pis-
tol after the first had taken flight,
helped him into the hack of the
first one, and he alleges that the
Senator had another pistol in his
hip pocket.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
Silent Forces.

Silence is an evidence of power.
All great forces work silently. 1t is
only the energy of little things
which expends itself in noise and
violence. Thepower which carries
millions of worlds through millions
of miles of spece is as noiseless as
the drifting of a bit of thistledown /;
whereas the engine which crushes
fragment of rock ina cornor of
the universe sends its vibration in
sound waves through the in
estimable expanse of ether.
So it is with human lives. 1t is
weakness and smallness that make
most of the clamor in the world.
True power runs deeply and
silently.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get $500 Dollars
for Nothing.
The Winner Has Clear Gift of
q Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may Bring
Them In Still more.

Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may
see way to do it,
The Press CLANS Company devotes
much attention to patents. 1t has
handled thousands of applications for
inventions, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty of
inventive talent at large in this coun
try, needing nothing but encourage
ment to produce pratical results. That
encouragement the Press Claims
Company proposes to give.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

The Newberry Observer believes
in this sort of a stay law:
GA mighty good stay law would
be if great many people would stay
at home more and attend more
closely to their business. This
applies to all trades and profess
sions."-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
Whiskey Seized.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 20
United States revenue agents to-
day seized eight barrels of whiskey
in the State dispensary for having
on it stamps that had been. used
twice. The whiskey was shipped
from North Carolina.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

All loyal citizens will subscribe
to the following from the Sumter
Free man:
"obey all laws, whether they
emanate from State or Federal
authority, from Tillmau or Simon
oton-are pro-dispensary or anti
dispensary. When laws are objec-
tionable amend or repeal them;
but disobey them never"
Darwin should be alive hear to
of DR. Macgowan's discovery that
the Monchoorian monkeys of
China store up wine in earthen
vessels for use in ,v1ater when the
snow and ice make ealittle stimu-
liant advisable for The stomach's
sake. DR.. Mcgowan says that this
wine is OF two kinds. one PINK ana
the other green. and is made from
mountain berries. Other Chinese
monkeys Of whom the Doctor
heard strange stories are reputed
to make palatable wine by
pounding up fruit in stone mortars.
If DR.. Garner, in his investigations
into monkey dialect, can learn the
Simian word for wine he ought to
be able to make rapid progress i'll
evolving the vocabulary of our
hairy forefathers.-New York
World.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
1892.

aI submit the within described in
vention in competition for the
hundred Dollar Prize
offered by the Press Claims Company.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

To eracibate the poisons which
produce fever and agut,take Ayers
Ague Cure. 1t cures without leaving
any injurious effect upon the sys-
tenn, and is the only medicine in
existence which may be considered
an absolute antidote for malaria.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
THE EDGEFIELlD
and Female
INS'TITUTE-
THE Trustees announce to the pub-
lie that this school will open on
Monday, Sept. 4, 1893,

and continne ten months, forty weeks,
with a recess of one week at Christ
mas. There will be three departments,
each carefully graded:
The Primary, embracing 2 years.
The intermediate. embracing 4 years.
The Academic, embracing 4 years. ;,
Provision is also made for Music and
Art Departments, under competenG
teachers. Arrangements for studies
higher than the Academic will be made
hereafter, if it be deemed best to 40 So.
The rates of tuition will be as follows
Tn the Primary Department, first -
and second years, per month..$ l.OO
In the intermediate Department,
7st and End years, per month. 2.OO
In the intermediate Department oo
3rd and 4th years, per month. o.oo
Tn the Academic Department., lst aoo
and End years, per month..... 3.oo
1nthe Academic Department, 5rd =
and 4th years, per month ...... 4.Oo
Tn the Music Department, per ~
month ..-.'......' 9.oo
Tn the Art Department, per go
month. ................. o.oo
From these CnaFSeS WIN ue -
ed the pro rata amount allowed 1or
each pupil from the public school fund.
The trustees have committed thls
school to the managementof OF
DR.. L. R. GWALTNEY.
He will be aided in each department.
by competent teachers. 1t will be seen
That the basis of financial support
which has been in operation for sew
eral wears has been abandoned, the
trustees having fully decided that II
is better to have fixed rates of tuition
for all pupils. If the citizens OF Edge
field will heartily stand by "The In,
stitute," they will have good school
in which they may take a commenda-
bic pride. The Principal is we'll known.
He returns to Edgetield to become the
pastor of the Baptist Church, and TO
give his matured experience to the
work of educating our boys and girls,
Good board can be had for rs TO SiO
per month.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco. Etc.

Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Etc.
The liquor, morphine, and chloral
habits absolutely cured under guaran-
tee. Particulars given by letter or in
person at my Office, which is open all
hours of the day.
There is no use to 60 away from
home and spend hundreds of dollars
for treatment, when you can be cured
at home for much smaller amount.
j. GLOVER TOMPKINS, NJ. D.
Edgefeld, G. H., S. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.

A patent strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
is that an inventor must be natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; that he
must devote years to delving in
complicated mechanical problems and
that he must spend a fortune on
delicate experiments before he can
get new device to patentabl9 de-
gree of perfection. This delusion the
company desires to dispel. 1t desires to
get into the head, of the public clear
comprehension of the fact that st is
not the great, complex, and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple,
and cheap ones-the things that seem
so absurdly trivial that the average
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed
of bringing them to the attention of
the Patent. Office.
Edison says that the profits he has
received from the patents on all his
marvellous inventions have rot been
sufficient to pay the cost OF his eX-
periments But the man who conceived
the idea of fastening bit OF rubber
cord to d clliid.s ball, so that it would
come back to the hand when thrown
made fortune out of his scheme. The
modern sewing machine is miracle
of ingenuity-the product of the toll
of hundreds of busy brains through a
hundred and fifty years, but the whole
brilliant result rests upon the simple
device OF putting the eye of the needle
at the point instead OF at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
Comparatively 1ew people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck, sat one
time or another, with ideas that seemed
calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such are ideas
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make its car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backs?" exclaims the
traveller. "If were running the road
would make them in such way"
what was the man that made this
saucepan thinking off" grumbles the
cook. "He never had to work over a
stove, or he would have known how it
ought to have been fixed"
"Hang such collar buttoni" growls
the man who is late for breakfast eff l
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break of, or
gouge out the back of my neck"
And then the various sufferers for
get about their grfeyancfr sffu oegfI
to think of something else. If they
would sit down at the next convenient
opportunity, put their ideas about car
windows, aucepans,and,collar buttons
into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves
as Independently wealthy as the man,
who invented the iron umbrella ring
or the one who. patented ;. the. fifteen
puzzle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

Ia TEMPTING OFFER.
10 induce people to keep track of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
Two Camden Men Fight About a
Woman.

CAMDEN, S. c., Sept. II. Mr.. J.
G. Man shot and painfully wound
ed Mr.. Fl. A. Wittkowsky in a per-
sonal encounter this afternoon in
the stors of Mr.. H. S. Watkins.
The cause Of the difficulty cannot
be ascertained fully at this hour,
but enough is known to show that
it originated about a woman. Three
shots were fired, two by Man and
and by Wittkowsky, the latter
being shot in the right hip, which
is not considered fatal. Mr.. J. c.
Man is one of Camden's moet sue
cessful businessmen. Mr.. Witkosky
is an Isrte,ite and a matchmaker by
trade.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

Poverty and shame shall be t
him that refuseth instruction.
Solomon.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

pateHt.
1t will also ..advertise1the invention
free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions ss:s''
Every competitor must obtain a
patcnt for his invention through the
Company. He must first apply for a
preliminary search, the cost Of which
will be five dollars. Should this searel
show his invention to be unpatentab!t
he can withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take
out patent in the regular way. The
total expense, including Government
and Bureau fees, will be seventy dollars.
For this, whether he secures the prize
or not, the inventor will have patent
that ought to be valuable property
to him. The prize will be awarded by
jury consisting of three reputable
patent attorneys of Washington. In
tending competitors should fill out the
following blank, and forward it with
their application:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
OFFERS CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSES.
Now in the 54th Year Of. its Existence.

Total Expenses for Board and raition, s'so.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

their bright ideas and see what there
is in them, the Press. Claims Company
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

As general rule, it is best not
to correct costiveness by the use of
saline or drastic medicines. Whel.
a purgative, is needed. the most
prompt, effective, and beneficial i.
Ayers Pills. Their tendency is tt
restore, and not weaken. the normal
action of the bowels.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

the company will give twenty-five
hundred dollars IN cash, addition to
refunding the fees for securing the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

Subscribe to the Edgefeld AD
VERTIsER.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

Opens first Monday in October next.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
ion, from commercial point of view,

simplest and most promising inven'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28

has resolved to offer prize.
To the person wins submits to 1t the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
ABLE.

THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
lRJF