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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
Franklin, S. c.
Abner Perrin Camp.

Proceedings of the Edgefeld
County Confederate Survivors AS
sociation, held October 2ud, 1898:
There was a meeting Of the Con-
federate Survivors Association in
the courthouse on Monday last at
10 o'clock "A. M. The following
officers were elected:
L. P. Harling, President.
J. Monroe Wise, 1st Vice-Pres't.
w: H. QUITS, End .Vice-Pres't.
w. L. Stevens, 3rd Vice-Pres't.
John E. Colgan, Secretary.
John Kennerly, Asst Sec'ty.
S. L. Ready, Treasurer.
w. S. Covar, Sergeant-at-Arms.
The same Executive Committee
and the same Lieutenants that
served last year were re-appointed
by the President.
On motion, Capt. Geo. B. Lake
made an address, giving the his
| tory and object of the Abner Per-
rim Camp of Confederate Survi-
.vors.
On motion of Capt. w. S. Allen,
the President was instructed to
issue call for the Association to
meet on the LIST Monday in Novem-
ber next at II o'clock, at which
time the Chaplain of the Associa-
tion, the Rev. ]. P. Mealing, will
deliver a sermon before the body.
At this meeting arrangements will
be perfected for the Association to
attend the reunion of the Confed-
crate veterans of the South to be
held in the city of Augusta, Ca,
during the Exposition.
Capt. Geo. B. Lake was author
lied to have a banner made for the
Association.
A resolution was also passed in
structing the Lieutenants of each
township to furnish the Associa-
tion with the names of all the sol.
diers in their territory that lost a
limb during the way.
Resolved, That all the members
be requested TO come prepared to
pay their annual dues of % cents
each at the next meeting.
Resolved, That all the county
papers be requested to publish tho
proceedings of this meeting.
JOHN E. CoLGAN, sec'ty.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05

The visit of Ben Terrell to
South Carolina has been the sub
ject of much speculation. He is
credited with coming to confer
with Reform leaders in regard to
launching a Third party movement
in this State. Senator Irby is
accused of having left Washington
for the purpose of being present at
the conference. We do not know
what Terrell's mission to this
State is, but we are firm in the
belief that the attitude of the
present administration towards
this State in the matter Of patronage
and towards the repeal of the
Sherman Act, has not strengthened
the Democratic party here, but, OF
the contrary, has caused the sus-
picion that the administration, as
representative of the national
party, has neither the wish or
desire to deal fairly with it. This
feeling has become 80 strong that
if the Populists of South Carolina
were well organized and under
efficient leadership, it is doubtful
if the Democrats could hold the
State. There is enough latent
power of this kind in the Piedmont
section of the State to carry all the
counties along the base of the
Blue Ridge like a whirlwind, York
included. This section was once
solidly and staunchly Democratic,
but it is no longer so.-Yorkville
Yeoman.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
GIN AND Mill.

My Gin and Grist Mill are now
ul in operation. For ginning,
my charges are 25 cents a hundred:
Will furnish bagging and ties, full
weights, at go cents per bale.
Will GRIND CORN any day OF
the week, except Sunday.
Bring along your cotton and
your corn. Plant, at forks of Tren.
ton and Colu mbia streets.
G. G.. LEWIS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
Executors S Sale.

WE will sell at the town of Plum
wv Branch on the 9th day of October
next, plantation known as the James
Jennings place, containing 1900 acres,
more or less, said farm being on Byrd
Creek. Will sell the whole or divide
it into four different tracts to suitpur-
chasers. Said lan6is bounded as fol-
lows: North, bys.lands of Thomas
ONION, White, and Deal; East, by lands
of Hon. w. Talbert, and Mrs. N. P.
b 4artledge; West, by lands of Mrs.
Pm Morgan and A. Talbert.
HERMs: Onexonrth the purchase
motley in cash, fhe balance in one and
two years.
,:W. d. JENNINGS, Sr,
sAJaH. JENNINGS,
- Executors.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
Miners Entombed and Drowned

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 29.-The
Mansfield mine at Crystal Fall.
Mich, has caved in. cntombing
forty-fve miners.
The main shaft of the mine ex-
tends under the Michigan river
and the subsiding of the ground
turned the stream into the mine,
foodingit almost instantly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05

The new postal money-orders,
soon to come in to use, promise to
be very convenient in cases where
checks are unobtainable or un-
desirable. They will be issued in
sums from one cent to three dollars
and will be payable on endorse
ment, as is check, or a draft.
They promise to be a decided i'm
provement on the postal note, and
the money order now in use The
note affords no protecting against
use by unauthorized parties, and
the order is too cumbersome for
business purposes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05

OF ever ls TO be pl-metallsG were
and are sadly mistaken.
"ExEcUT1vE MANSION, l
"WAsH1NGToN. D. c., Sept 25, ,'93.
"The Hon, w. j. Northen:
aMy dear sir-I hardly know
how to reply to your letter of the
18th instant. 1t seems to me that
I am quite plainly on record con-
cerning the financial question. My
letter accepting the nomination to
the presidency, when read in con-
nection with the message lately
semitic congress in extraordinary
session, appears to me be very
explicit. I wants currency that
is stable and safe in the hands of
our people. I will not knowingly
be implicated in a condition that
justly makes me in the least de-
gree answerable to any laborer or
farmer in the United States for a
shrinkage in the purchasing power
of a dollar received for a full dol
lars worth of work or good dol
lars worth of product of his land.
| not only want our currency to be
of such a character that all kinds of
dollars will be of equal purchasing
power at home but 1 want it to be
of such character as will de-
monstrate a broader wisdom of
good faith thus placing upon a
firm foundation our credit among
the nations of the earth. I want.
our financial conditions and the
laws relating to our currency 80
safe and reassuring that those
who have money will spend and
invest it in business and new en-
terprises instead of boarding it.
You can not cure fright by calling
it foolish and unreasonable and
you can not prevent the frightened
man from boarding his money. I
want good sound and stable
money and condition of conf
dence that will keep it in use. With
in the limits of what I have written
I am a friend of silver but I believe
its proper place in our currency
can only be fixed by REIMBURSEMENT
of our currency legislation and
the Inauguration of consistent
and comprehensive financial
scheme. I think such a thing can
only be entered upon pro6tably
and hopefully after the repeal of
the law which is charged with all
our financial woes. In the present
state Of the public, this law can
not be built upon, nor patched in
such a way as to relieve the situa-
tion. I am therefore opposed to
the free and unlimited coinage of
silver by this country alone and
Independently, and lam in favor
of the immediate and uncondi-
tional repeal of the purchasing
clause of the so-called Sherman
law. I confess I am astonished by
the opposition in the senate to
such prompt action as would re-
lieve the present unfortunate
situation. My daily prayer is
that the delay occasioned by such
oposition may not be the cause
of plunging the county into deeper
depression than it has yet known
and that the democratic party may
not be justly held responsible for
such a catastrophe. Yours very
truly,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
Board Of Examiners

THE County Board of Examiners
i will meet in the courthouse, on
Friday and Saturday, the 9th and 2sth
of October, for the purpose OF exam
lining applicants to teach in the punAc
schools of this county. Friday
devoted to white applicants, and saturss
dayto c0lored.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05

There has been no illogical reason
advanced to show why Senators
Stewart, Vance, and Daniel, are
not as honest, patriotic, and loyal
as president Cleveland and his
satellites. Few will doubt Cleye-
lands sincerity, but neither Cleve-
land or any one else has right to
assume that everybody else is
wrong and he is absolutely and
infallibly right. Those in the
senate who have fought and are
still fighting brave fight against
the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman Act are doubtless as in
telligent end respectable as Mr..
Cleveland and have as much Of our
vereration as that, gentleman has.
The president should remember
that he is no oracle and that the
senate is not a schoolroom, nor he
the master. A truly judicial mind
never arrogates the right of others
or presumes personal infallibllity
-Yorkvi11e Yeonan
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
Five on One Gallows.

ATLANTA, Sept. 29.-At Mount
Vernon, in Montgomery county, to-
day at noon, five negroes were
hanged at one time Oh the same
scaffold, all for murder. A thousand
people were present.
Three of them murdered Alexan-
der Peterson, rich merchant, last
July, the fourth killered a negro
companion. 1t wes the first hang
ing in Montgomery county since
the war.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
announced to members Of Congress
that the Congressional division of
his department. so-called will be
abolished now that each member
is allowed private secetary of his
own, The custom has been fol
many members to send their lists OF
names to whom they wanted seeds
mailed to this division, and the
dozen or fifteen clerks had it would
stamp the little frank slips and
~
put them on, saving the member
from all that trouble. Now each
member has been allowed q
secretary at 500 a month, and Mr.
Morton thinks it no more than
fair that they should do this work,
The Congressional division So
called had been separate hitherto
from the seed division proper
Doing away with it causea a saving
of from $4,000 to $4,000 annually
thought it does not necessarily
follow that the dozen or fifteen
people who have formerly done
the work will be dismissed, fol-
some of them will be put at other
work which it will pay better to
have done.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
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AL AND WIN + IF,
-GooDS@

GOODS
There way money to save it in buyine
impossible to sell goods right unless they have bought
goods provided he the place goods
that we have bought stock goods keeping with the recent
it. We are selling staple goods that
Gamers Prints beautiful patterns 5 yd Sold elsewhere
GINGHAA1s,
at remarkably low prices
DRESS GOODS.
shown We given great to this department
of stock We know that bought them very reasonable
every lady from going Augusta for handsome large as
c1 p Of all R the T desirable grades the most delicate
yrtes Browns .ec in Henrietas serg Hopsackngs Storm
etc. 70 is useless to h Try the Of Dress
ha T that a stock far beyond before
low.
BLACK DRESS GOODS
are IN offer the largest and best assortment Of
bargains.
Bleaching.
oue F IT @ g m
Pilow-Casngs ~ 0''1' 49,
Canton F'lannels.
the best grade sold for this
elsewhere for 1917 Elegant line Of Grey Canton Fannela
RED FL ANTEIS
A full Stock and prices very low.
wHTTE FIANN ELS
The largest and best stock these goods Edgeed
BLANKETS.
Our stock of BLANKETS is huge and that
bought them ow and give aca
that we are selling them extremely low.
Hamburg Edgings and Insertions.
Beautiful patterns 5 oc 5e and 25 sold
15 2 and 4o These great bargains and do fail
La G eS.
"A fine assortment of LACEs everything that desirable at
remarkably low prices.
w HITE GOODS.
Checked Musins from 6e up Lawns Tuckngs and all
the desirable goods in this line at reasonable prices
TOWELS.
We call special attention large TOWE 3
15e 20e and 25f sold from 25 80 per higher
Table Linens, Doilies
We are showing largevariety of these goods
Bed dSpreaG
DED SPREADS at 1884, worth 81 co. and al:
equally low prices Comforts at 75e.
Blazers. Jackets, an >Ea.e.a@
in Black Navy Tan, and Grey from very cheap
some at awfully low prices
HOSIERY
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
HERE I STAND.
President Cleveland. Gives His
Position on the Silver Question.

The following letter writt.n by
President Cleveland to Gov.
Northen of Georgia, appeared in
Atlanta Constitution of the 2Sth
of September.
It means that the President is
unalterably opposed to silver free
or otherwise; and that those U. S.
Senator'S who have declared in the
halls of congress that-he ever was
or ever is to be a bi-metalist were
and are sadly mistaken.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
Yorkville has contracted fc
SIG, 900 system of water-works.

The Edgefeld dsspensary sold
something over a thousand dollars
worth of whiskey during the
month Of August.
United States revenue agents
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.
County Alliance.
Secretary S. B. Mays requests us
to state that the County Alliance
will meet in the court house on
Friday, Oct. 18th.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
somebody Was Dead.

Thought Somebody Was Dead.
Our old friend Frank Cooper
gives a graphic picture of his first
visit to Edgefeld after the dispen-
sary law went into operation. He
says when he came to Edgefvld on
salesday in July last, everything
was SO quiet and ORDERLY that he
thought some great man was dead,
mcybe Cleveland: but he soon
found that it was the absence of
the barrooms that made the town
40 quiet.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
Macedonia Baptist Church,

Twenty-Five converts united
with the Macedonia (colored Bap-
tist Church during the recent re-
vival, and were baptised last Sun
day afternoon by Rev. G. A. Nor
gan, pastor in charge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05

When you sell your cotton the
ADVERTISER people will be glad to
have you come up and shake hands
and let them paw out that $1.50
you owe for the paper.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05
.lORFSS GooDS

All OF the most lovely patterns that made and eleg
at remarkably low prices.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05

We desire to inform our friends
and the public generally that we
are running q general Wheel-right,
Blacksmith, and Repair shop at
the shop formerly run by Mr.. G. B.
Courtney. We guarantee to all our
patrons frst-c!ass work. All work
done at short notice, and satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Give us a trial.
sAll work strictly cash.
s. POWELL e. ARTHUR.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-05

We call the attention of our
readers. to the advertisement in
this issue of Miss G. o. Martins
school for young ladies, SO Broad
street, Charleston, S. G.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-07-20
TuE Arr OF


the Modern H~ousek-eper.
Darning seems almost in danger Of
becoming . lost art. With the cheap
price of clothing to-day many people
find it eaxter to buy the new than to
mend the old. While such a spirit of
wsstefulness is certainly TO be depre-
Gated. IL Is true that in olden days a
great deal of time which modern house
keeper, can ill-afford with their many
duties was spent in m~ending rents. For
in spite of all the improvements in
modern life, labor-saving machines
have not kept pace with the added du-
ties of the modern h~ousekeeper.
While il is true hat the modern
housekceper is a much happier and
wiser woman than her grandmother,
she is not apt to be so skillful in purely
manual tasks II is a matter of regret
that children are not taught mending
and the art of needlework as carefully
As they were in the olden time. II is a
rare thing for a young girl to be able
TO make a neat darn in cloth. She
should use the rawlings Of the goods
wherever II Is possible to do so or a
sewing silk exactly matching the cloth.
Where the cloth is very thick and
heavy IL will not be necessary to put a
second piece Of cloth under II, but the
edges of the cloth can be woven to-
gether. and when pressed the darncd
spot will he practically invisible.
Where the cloth is thinner. n piece of
cloth exactly matching il or a piece OF
the cloth itself should he placed under
it to strengthen the stitches
In the mending Of kid gloves a piece
Of silk exactly matching the gloves
should be placed under the seam where
they split and the glove drawn To-
gather ~ this silk. hat il may serve
as a stay to tn. seam. This will make
a neat - well as strong seam. for the
silk remains invisible The daruiug of
thin muslin or tissue is one of the most
delicate matters For the fine muslin.
= thread about the same size as the
thread of the goods should be chosen
and the darn should BE- woven together
80 Es To match the weave of the goods.
This must be done very firmly and
thoroughly, rs no stay al be put un-
der Il.
The daruing Of stockings is an art in
which every girl should be taught from
her childhood. as there is no mechanical
means by which il may he performed.
and IL is the most important part of
the mending OF every family. 4 mat
ter of great Importance in this partic-
ular is often overlooked The darning
wool or darning cotton should be
chosen in the same quality a. the
stocking. IL is not an uncommon
thing to see a coarse, heavy quality of
cotton used, because this fills mp the
darn more rapidly. This is n mistake.
II makes the work clumsy and ugly
and shows a ~slovenly manner-N. Y.
Tribune.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-07-20

h army post she is bereft of society,
except in a most limited sense. More
than half the time keep my wife east
among her girlhood friends. / prefer
to suffer the loneliness of camp life by
myself to having her suffer il also. all
the time. Moreover. when she returns
to spend n few months with me, she is
full of renewed life and gossip. and il
does me good to near her chatter and
tell of the good times she has had:
dancing. for instance, with fellows
who tried to be her lovers before I
married her"
How long is your company likely to
remain at that post?'
II said forever, and meant IL. The
war department has forgotten hat VIC
are there. II is a 'onc company post,
and one Of the least desirable in the
country. You probably do not realize
what a 'one company post is. Well, il
means that there are only three Off
GERS there. and they are their own
sole entertainers Could you imagine
anything likely to drive men
TO suicide or madness, than to COM
pei three men to live together with
u other associates year in and year
out2 There is nothing new under the
sun There are no new stories. no new
anecdotes OF personal adventure, no
new deeds of daring DINE hy either of
the three. Our individual histories are
minutely known by each other. inside
of WI months Then there is nothing
20 say but good morning or good
evening" for there is nothing 20 talk
about am here in Washington for
three weeks on detached duty, and you
may well believe that I am happy while
this duty lasts. But when I think of
returning TO that post | understand
something of the feelings which per-
meate the minds of the unfortunate
fellows who desert By the way, you
have undoubtedly read of u great num-
Der of desertions from the ranks of the
army. And you have heard the cause
of such assertions attributed, of
course, TO the cruelty of army officers
That is not true. The men desert be-
cause they cannot endure the solitary
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-07-20

life which they lead. There Is nothing
Of a highly patriotic character to hold
the men. There is no war. no pros
pect Of war, not even an indication Of
Indian troubles, and the common
soldiers aso and argue to themselves
that il is no disgrace to desert.
"Of course, you know that the COM
mon soldiers in time Of peace are not
the best educated men in the land. and
they rcason in n small intellectual cir
Gle, reaching conclusions which you
and know 10 be wrong. They con
clude that there is nothing in the army
for them, no prospect Of promotion. no
likelihood Of SEXUAL Geld service; they
conclude that. il they had known be-
forehand what soldering is. they
would not have enlisted: next, they
reach the conclusion that il is no harm
and no disgrace To desert in time Of
peace, and away they go of ourss,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-07-20
MISCELLANY.

THE growth of girls Is greatest In
their fifteenth year. and that of boys
In the seventeenth.
THH bones and body of the human
body arc capable of over one thousand
different movements.
VS. have sixty divisions on the dials
Of our clocks and watches because the
old Greek astronomer. Hipparchus.
who lived In the second century before
Christ. used the Babylonian system of
dividing time. aud that system being
sexsgssimal.
ProF. f. r. BARNARD. the discoverer
Of Jupiter's fifth satellite. hes received
the degree of doctor Of sciences from
Vanderbilt university. He was stu
dent in hat institution before going to
the Lick observatory. but did not com
plete his course.
Tus two most widely accepted ex-
plantations of the maintenance of solar
heat are On that II is due to the en-
ergy developed by neteoric matter
falling Pm the sun. and (2l that IL is
produced and kept up by slow contrae-
tiops of the suns bulk
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-07-20

Ticket Ageni-"we have the half
fare tickets on sale now and" Uncle
Grasstuft-"None of them fur me: I'll
see the whole fair IL il takes every head
Of cattle on the place
The Trouble.-~Are You gong 10
the fair?" IF I can afford to. / doubt
II I can." why. Your wife said she
was going" Yes. but / paw her ex-
renses. haven't anybody to pay mine.
Judge.
Too Short-sWhat are those tiuv
chunks of dough doing in that dish Of
Strawberries he inquired suspicious
ly. 'Toh, Henry" cried the young
wife. Il made them-they're short
cakes-"]udge.
-Emma-"What's that noise, T,
sounds as though they were pounding
beefsteak." Jane-You guessed right:
but we always speak OF the perform
nee here as rendering a banquet
Boston Transcript.
In a Higher Sphere.-Uncle Jack
Are you still working as q drug clerk
for Boracks'" Tom ouynine (proudIvl
-"No, sir; I've been greatly advanced,
both in salary and position: | now at.
tend to the soda-water Fountain