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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15
OUR RICHEST NEGRO.

Death of Amanda Toomer, Who
Inherited Old David Dick
sons Money.
Augusta Evening News.
Mrs. Amanda Dickson of Au-
gusta, who less than year ago
married Nathan Toomer, colored
lawyerof Perry, Ga, aid who bore
the national distinction of being
the wealthiest colored woman in
Georgia, if not in The country, died
quite suddenly at her handsome
home, 452 Telfair street, at 5
o'clock yesterday morning.
She only returned to the city
last Friday from Baltimore, wnero
she had been for a month for her
health.
She has been a patient sufferer
from rheumatism for some time
and only recently received per-
manent relief from acute pains,
but of late she has endured an at
tack Of nervous prostration which
superinduced her death.
On her return from Baltimore
she secured accommodations in
the Pullman car for Augusta, but
at Columbia, the sleeper was side
tracked and she had to remain in
the city on the Ccngaree a day and
the delay made her more nervous
and her condition grew worse, and
she was brought home from there
under the care of DR.. Kendall,
who accompanied her to Augusta.
Mrs. Teomer was 43 years old,
and she leaves two sons, Julian
Dickson, who married George Wal
toms daughter, and Charlie Dick
son, who married Bishop Holsey's
daughter.
Her mother, Julia F. Dickson,
survives her also.
Amanda Dickson Toomer ac-
quired her wealth from her father,
Mr.. David Dickson, who was one
of the wealthiest farmers of Han
cock county, and who left his
estate to Amanda, his natural
daughter.
There was a big fight over the
will, brought by the relatives of
Mr.. Dickson, but after a legal con-
test the case was decided in favor
of Amanda, who received $4S7 900.
Amanda died intestate, but ac-
cording to the will by which she
received her fortune, at her death
each of her sons are to receive
100000 each, and the remainder
she had the right to dispose of as
she chose.
AS she died without making a
will, her sons will come in for a
greater share of their mothe's es-
tate, and it is believed her hus-
bandswill come in for part Of the
estate, which is now estimated to
be worth half a million dollars.
Amanda, though in the posses
sion of such riches, made no gaudy
display, but lived a quiet, easy, and
unpretending life. She was kind
hearted, generous, and charitable,
and her benevolent work was in
deed extensive.
She was member of the Trinity
colored Methodist church and will
be buried from her late residence
at four o'clock this afternoon by
her pastor, Rev. Williams.
The body will be inferred in the
handsomest casket that has ever
been brought to Augusta, and it is
lined with mouse-colored silk and
plush.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The gold dollar is a dishonest
dollar, because the material from
which it is made is 80 limited that
it can easily be "cornered." Aud
SO long as men are dishonest and
we are big enough fools to retain
it as the standard Of values, men
will corner it and it will continue
to be dishonest Trib.
une.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15
1893.
Harper S Bazar.
ILLUSTRATED.
1893

Harper's Bazaar is a journal for the
home. 1t gives the fullest and latest
information about Fashions, and its
numerous. illustrations, Paris designs,
and pattern-sheet supplements are
indispensable alike to the home dress
maker and the professional modiste.
No expense is spared to make its
artistic attractivness of the highest
order. Its bright stories, amusing
comedies, and thoughtful essays satisfy
all tastes, and its last page is famous
as a budget of wit and humor. In its
weekly issues everything is included
which is of interest to woman. The
serials for 1898 will be written by
Walter Besant and Edna Lyall.
Christine Terhunr Herrick will fur
nish practical series, entitled "At
the Toilet" Grace King. Olive Thorne
Miller, and Candack Wheeler will be
frequent contributors, The Work Of
women in the Columbia Exposition
will be fully represented with many
illustrations. Il. w. Higginson, in
"Women and Men," will please culti-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

While on visit to Pendleton
and Fort Hill week before last we
visited the old stone church which
has perhaps the largest grave yard
in the up country. Here we saw
for the first time the grave of a
lady who was buried on top of the
earth. Some brick had been laid
on the ground and cemented and
the coffin set OH it and an arch Of
brick built over it. Here too we
saw the first tombstone to a live
mans grave. In other words q
man who is now living has his
tomb stone sitting up at the place
where he intends to be buried. His
name, age, and an inscription is
cut on the stcne, and d blank place
left for his death. 1t is said that
others who are now buried there
had their tombs put there before
they died.-Pickens Sentinel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15
CITATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLYN
County OF EDGEF1ELD.

J. D. ALLEN, Esq, Probate Judge.
WHEREAS, Jno. B. Hill, Clerk of
w Court, hath made suit to me, to
grant him Letters of Administration
of the estate and effects of Elizabeth
Walker.
THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and
admonlsh all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said Elizabeth
Walker, deceased, that they be and ap-
pear before me, in the Court of Pro-
bate, to be held at Edgefeld G. H., on
the 18th July next, after publication
hereof, at IL o'clock in the forenoon,
to show cause, if any they have, why
the said administration should not be
granted.
Given under my hand and seal this,
the 5th day of June, A. D.
1898. Published on the Sth L. S.
day of June 1893, in the ~ y
Edgefeld ADvRTIsR.
). d. ALLEN, J. P. E. p.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The head cook of Hotel Waldorf,
in New York, receives $4,000 a
year. He has staff of thirty
three male understudies aud an
army Of female assistants and
other attendants that bring his
retinue up to one hundred persons.
He is expected to be able to turn
out four thousand meals a day.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Newberry is now in the throes
of a primary election to fill the
vacancy in the State Senate made
by the resignation of Rev. j. A.
Sigh. DR.. G. T. Wyche, of Pros
perity, is the candidate Of the re-
formers and Geo. S. Mower, of the
Newberry bar, of the Conserva-
tives.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The Greenville News thinks that
President Cleveland and Senator
Butler are mighty close to the
Grcenville News idea expressed
some months ago-a direct divi-
sion of the Federal Offices for this
State between the factions SO as to
restore good will and unity te the
party.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Merchant (to applicant)-aDo
you think you know enough to as.
sist ME in the Officer" Boy-"Know
enough. Why, / leftmy last place
because the boss said | knew more
than he did,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The trustees of Clemson College
had meeting on last Thursday
for the purpose of electing presi-
dent, but failed to agree upon a
suitable person. There were a half
dozen applicants. Prof. stonowall
Tompkins, of Virginia, was elected
assistant professor of the me-
chanical department. Mr.. ]. F.
Moncreath, of Abbevil1e, tutor of
mathematics. The board will fur
nish a prospectus to any one apply
ing for same. This prospectus
giveseall the facts as to courses OF
study, cost, etc.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The News and Courier's criti-
cisms of the Ocalaites for not sus-
tanning the Democratic platform
will not have proper influence as
long as that paper repudiates the
plank recommending the repeal Of
the tax on State bank notes. Ex-
ample is a darned sight better than
precept. THE State.
There is no possible objection to
abusing the News and Courier as
she deserves, but please don't cuss
! her
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Last week Judge Kershay held
his last court at Camden, having
resigned the position on the bench
he filled SO ably. Judge Gary, on
whom his mantle falls, has already
received many enconiums from
the press for the dignity and
ability he displays as presiding
officer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The superstitiously inclined
might as we'll drop that idea about
Friday being all unlucky day. 1t
is now, discovered that Columbus
started on his world finding voyage
on Friday and actually sighted
land Oh Friday. Certainly Friday
was not an unlucky day for Chris
topher.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Aiken county was seriously dam
aged by the recent rains. The
Times says Tin aome instances
every vestige of the growing crops
has been washed from the ground.
Farmers report the outlook, espe-
cially for cotton, very unpromis-
ing, and worse than for many
years past.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Hoke Smiths ruling by which
fifteen millions per annum will be
saved the government in pensions,
places him high up on the list of
practical statesmen, and there is
nothing strained in the construc-
tion of the law either. The ruling
seems to be perfectly legitimate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Gen. John B. Gordon has, at the
solicitation of many prominent
men in that.city, consented to de
liver lecture in New York,
founded on the closing days Of
Tia Gonfe denaey and his personal
estimate of the two greatc aptaina,
Grant and Lee. =
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

II is said that when Benjamin
Franklin proposed to start a news
paper his mother tried to dissuade
him from it, because she said-there
we're already two papers in Amer
lea and there was no room for an
other.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The Volumes of the Bazaar begin
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advertisement without the express
of Harper & Brothers.
Address: HARPER 4 BROTHERS.
New York.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Judge Nitherspoon has decided
a case ofssiimpor ortance in Columbia:
He hot dis that al though q woman
may be divorced ID from her husband
by the laws of another State, that
it is necessary for her to sign the
dover in sale Of real estate in this
State belonging to the husband
from whom she is divorced.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Edwin Booth, the great TRACE :
dian, died In New York on June
7th, aged sixty. He was the
younger brother of the actor John
Wilkes Booth, who shot President
Lincoln n;'65.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Some men who were digging a
we'll at Live Oak, Florida, found
about ten feet below the surface of
the ground a tree that was petrifed
only on the outside. The trunk
was split open and the inside was
found to be filed with honey which
had been shut up in the tree for
many years.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The whiskey men OF CheraW
and Darlington want to swap liquor
for cotton seed.
-
Chief Justice Fuller has decided
that the Worlds Fair shall be
kept open on Sundays.
The board bill of the Duke OF
Veragna and party at Chicago fo1
six weeks amounted to over $4,000
Banks continue to b-eak all
over country, and some wise fnan-
ciers predict q crash this fall that
will shake the nation.
What difference does it make if
silver dollar is worth only 81
cents since it will buy 100 cents
worth of meat, or flour, or sugar.
The government has decided te
send the West Point cadets to the
Worlds Fair, to be on the
grounds from about the middle ol
August to the first of September
The Pope has announced the
beatifcation of Jeanne D. Arc
known as the Maid of Orleans
Canonization, the final decree, by
which the name of a deceased per.
SOL is placed in the catalogue Of
SAINTS. is expected to follow soon
The Columbia board of trade
has passed resolutions advocating
the repeal of the Sherman Silver
law, and a repeal of the tax OF
State banks. We infer also from
the spirit and phraseology of these
resolutions, that the board of trade
is opposed to the free coinage Of
silver.
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15
sharifafa Tpler. of Aiken, died on

Sheriff Tyler, of Aiken, died on
Monday, 9TH inst.
I.aurens is to have hundred
Thousand dollar cotton mill.
Florence has street cars. They
made their first run last week.
The State Dispensary will be
ready TO fill the bill by the LIST OF
July.
1t will take powerful long pole
to bring down the income tax per-
simmon.
Hartsville, a little bit of a town
in Darlington county, has mat
4 ! y
tress manufacturing company and
a paper factory.
Clemson College will open on
the 9th of July, The trustees have
notsyet decided upon a president
for the institution.
Two car loads of melons were
shipped from South Georgia on
Monday, the first Of the year; one
averaging 20 pounds sold for $3.50
on the track.
The dreaded cholera has again
made its appearance in Europe;
in fact, ithas never entirely dis
appeared, but has claimed victims
in the far East until its recent
move Westward.
Edwin Booth, the great TRACE :
dian, died in New York on June
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

The London Times says that in
face of all that may be said to the.
contrary we have the undonbted
fact that the consumption of drink
in Sweden and Norway has fallen
off enormously since the Gotthen-
burg system was introduced.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Clemson College will open on
the 9Th of July. The trustees have
not yet decided upon a president
for the institution.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

Hartsville, a Little bit OF a town
in Darlington county, has q mat
tress manufacturing company and
a paper factory.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

1t requires no gift of clairvoy-
ance to see that at least one men,
Der of President Cleveland's cabi-
netis working to secure the demo-
cratic nomination in 1895. That
man is Secretary Carlisle. In the
first place it was not to be expected
thata man like Carlisle would
leave the senate unless the place
was made peculiarly attractive.
Even politicians of Carlisle's tenn
perament are not actuated by q
sense of duty SO far as to give up q
congenial place in the senate for
the trying requirements of cabi-
net office under Cleveland, who
maintains the authority ola master
1t has been surmised, and the sur
mise was probably true, that Car.
Isle was induced to take cabinet
place by an arrangement in which
President Cleveland promised him
the support of the administration
in the contest for the next nomina-
tion for the presidency. Having
ambitions for the presidency and
having the chance to secure the
retiring administration's support,
it is not SO strange that Carl isle
consented to leave the senate
Hartford Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15
I.aurens is to have a hundred
Thousand dollar cotton mill.

Florence has street cars. Ihey
made their first run last week.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15

- IL VIII lake l}o@eIluA iouS poio
to bring down the income tax per-
ssimmon.
The morning call., 1893-09-10

and the sonora herself still lowered at
deaths door. The doctors daily reports
were gloomy indeed, and she had so fully
made up her mind that Ma'm'selle's death
was inevitable that she could not bring
herself TO think otherwise.
1t was not that she hated Mann sele,
whom she had loved so faithfully through
the long years. for whom she had toiled
and shaved aud even hungered, at times.
when the days had gone hard with them
before they had settled down in Valleci-
tos. Hate Nam selle? Mon Dieu, she
had worked her fingers to the hard bone
for her, and now she deserved a reward.
The bed was hers, hers: no one else had
such claim: she Manon, was strong and
hearty, good for many years yet; with
such bed TO rest in at night, who could
say how long she might live, what good
she might not do, and here Ma'm'selle
cunt ered the earth, and kept her from
her own. Oh the shame, the wickedness,
the cruelty of 1t, that she must submit.
Suddenly the doctors words flashed
through her mind: ANY excitement or
eXertion now would prove fatal" Her
heart stood still for an instant and then
began to beat violently. The whole
world seemed TO be whirling around with
her. SIZE closed her eyes and gripped the
onion stalks so savagely that the pungent
aliaceOus odOr filed the air. Her brain
reeled with the excitement Of her own
thoughts. and the very air grew thick and
hot about her. Well might she trembe and
gasp for breath, for Satan was fighting a
fierce battle for her soul
ANY excitement or exertion"-Ma'm-
'selle was so old, so feeble, so friend
less-but for Manon she had long
since starved or gone upon the town-she
De Chartrandl ANY excitement or ex-
ertion"-Ma'm'selle did but cumber the
ground-What release would 1t be to the
old soul.
ANY excitement or exertion"-and the
bad would be hers.
Was she suffocating? What was this
awful hand at her throat? Pshaw! Was
she growing hysterical-she. Manon, at her
age?
Suddenly she gave quick glance along
the road. Not a soul was in sight. In
these stricken times few travellers went
about. Her wedding hook dropped TO the
ground; she stood for an instant as If in a
trance. and then. springing forward, ran
with the speed of deer toward the house.
Straight In through the kitchen she rushed.
The morning call., 1893-09-10
THE OLD MA'M'SELLE'S BED.
Sketch From Life in Southern California

They seemed an odd pair, even to meet
with in little village in Southern Califor-
MIA, almost cosmopolitan as TO population
though such villages are apt 10 be. Val
lecitos had accepted them, however, with
q truly Spanish shrug of the shoulders.
and the philosophical uncouceIn that
comes to be so easy after a few years So
iournipg beneath the cerulean sky and in
the mellowing warmth Of the sun-kissed
southland.
They had been living in Vallecitos for
nearly five years, occupying a tiny adobe
cottage in the outskirts of the village.
where Ma'm'seIe Valerie kept up a sho W
of dainty state and tine old ladyhood,
waited upon by Manon, the sturdy, elderly
servant who had come with her from
sunny France on her years-long quest of
wandering brother. whom Ma'm'selle
had finally traced TO Southern California,
only to lose when speedy meeting seemed
a thing of certainty in the neignborhoOd
OF Vallecitos.
1t was then that sort of despair seized
upon the loving old heart. She would
search no longer, Ma'm'seIle decided, but
would settle down and await PauPs return.
Ii he were in the land of the living she
was sure he would one day come again 10
fair Vallecitos, but she feared be was no
longer on earth, for not even his old neigh
Dols and companions had heard from h M
In years.
She bad rented the little adobe cottage
and an acre of ground from its owner, a
retired sea captain, who occupied another
cottage not far distant He was Old and
decrepit, deaf as post and almost blind,
and lie lived absolutely alone in his little
hut, which he had fitted UP in fair SEM
bance Of a ships cabin. but to Ma 'sele's
ultra feminine mind his distant presence
conveyed all the comfort and tangible
sense OF protection that accrues 10 her type
of woman from the consciousness of HAY
ing man within call.
Old Manon now was worth a dozen Of
the captain, had Nam selle but realized
The morning call., 1893-09-10
The Last Resort.
CbicagoT rIhnna

Jacobs" said the editor-in-chief Of the
Daily Shorter, this is no time for selfish
considerations. Ii we don't have rain The
crops will be ruined. Write an article for
tomorrow morning about the weather"
Mr.. Jacobs. assistant editor of the Daily
Shorter, wrote half-column article on
1.-THE Present Unprecedented Drought"
and ordered it placed in a consp icuous
position on the editorial mage. When the
paper went TO press at 2:30 A. NJ. there was
not cloud in the sky.
For the first time in the history of the
Shorter this failed to bring rain. Day
after day passed, and the skys were AS
brass, and the vegetation dried I'D, and
live stock died for want OF water.
Then the bicyclsts of that region got up
a relay race.
And it rained for four straight weeks.
The morning call., 1893-09-10
She Came Back.
CIothier and Furnisher.

Briggs-That was a terrible thing that
happened to Bigrulle, wasn't it? You
know he is at the head Of one of the largest
houses in the trade. Well, the other day a
buyer came on from the West and eloped
with his daughter.
Griggs-Dear me. wasn't he sorry to lose
her?
Briggs-Oh. he didn't lose her. The
buyer returned her inside of week.
The morning call., 1893-09-10
Hit Hard.

Gus Snoberly-I hear Miss Daisy Dimple
is engaged again. Is it fact?
Billy Goidbng-Yes, | know it is so.
Snoberlv-Well, they say practice makes
perfect. She has been engaged at one
time or another to almost every blank fool
in Harlem Who Is her last victim?
al m."-Texas Siftings.
The morning call., 1893-09-10
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