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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
AN INTERESTING CASE.
A Deserter WEEDS the Niece of
Secretary of War Alger.

The New York World prints the
following dispatches:
"St. Louis, May 91.-A story
will be printed here tomorrow about
a remarkable wartime wooing and
wedding. Private Robert L. Mooney
of Company II. Fourth Missouri
Volunteers, returned to Chillicothe
today, and the fact became known.
it Is said, that while his regiment
was stationed at Falls Church,
", Mooney fell in love with and
married Miss Anna Campbell, a
niece of Secretary of War Alger.
residing at Falls Church.
During the campaign
Mooney was sent from Camp
Wetherhill, S. c., to st. Francis
barracks, at st. Augustine: Fla,
for desertion, where he renamed
until pardoned recently by Presid-
ent Mckinley, He was pardoned
throught the influence of his dis
tinguished uncle.
Washington, May 31.-secretary
Alger's private secretary rays that
there is no truth in the story
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

q good business for the hard times
and if the farmers get rains, as is
predicted, and we make fair crops
we will have a lively little town
this fall, for the country folks can
buy anything they want from a
sett of jewseharp strings to a steam
engine.
By the way, your humble COR
respondent has BEEN preambulat-
ing around, interviewing a few of
the most influential of both white
and colored. Meeting Squar Price,
an American gentleman of African
extract, we questioned him as to
Prof. H's plans in the Black Dia-
mond R. R. I thought as he rents
the professors lower plantation
that he knew something of his
plans. I will try to state as near
as I can his reply: "Wall, boss, 1
noes dat he 'spects de rode ter run
dis hear way, an dat he beget de
watur tank 'stablisht at de mill
an dat he shure will git de job ter
tend ter hit an I 'spects
.hit'll be er good job" What about
the hay farm? "Wall, boss, I tink
dat I will sta der whar l is an
run de place, but done tink dat
will pay, for dar amt no mon Is
acres dat'll make much grass, de
res' of de place won't hardly make
.brum eege. Oh, one nudder Ting ]
like ter furgit, be doan't tend ter
let Plum Branch tap de rode on
his place fur hit'll fere in his fish
pom bisines, fur he 'spects to run
dat fur de benyfit of Macarmic.
One other interview and ] am
through. Prof. H. in a short talk
with a friend stated he did not
know "Don Carlos" the author of
the piece in the Advertiser of the
18th ult.. but DR.. Talbert or some
one said the writer was nom de
plume, and if it was 30 he knew
him we'll aid he was travelling
man, and he did not know why he
did not know why be did not stop
and see him in passing, that he
was On old army friend and nice
fellow.
If you can give this time and
space in next weeks issue we will
try to do better in the future.
DON CARLOS. |
Plum Branch, June 8.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
In Praise of an Old Friend.

EDITOR ADVERTISER: The many
Grovetown friends Of Capt. James
Carroll Brooks were shocked to
hear of his death. He was high
type of the Southern gentleman of
the sold school," a cultured, re-
fned, Christian man, whom none
knew but to love and respect. He
had many warm friends in this
place who mourn his loss. Capt.
Brooks was the father of the tai
ented correspondent of the Au-
gusta Chronlcl J, Mrs. F. F. Mosley,
who has many friends here, as
well as in Edgefeld, who sympa-
thise with her.
With meny good wishes for the
success of the Advertiser, I am
Respectfully,
w. w. HAMILTON.
Groyetown, Ga.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
Jim Miner on a Cold Trail.

Grain crops around Longmifes
are better than people thought
they would be month ago. After
a seven months drouth.
I was always a farmers move
ment man, I try always to move
my own little farm, but I am any
thing else but a farmers movement
man now.
I went down to my friend Boat
Strom's a few days since and took
dinner at his house. In the p. m.
I went down to Mr.. Tobe Cothrsn's
to look at his dairy farm, and to
see his fine COWS, 1t would do you
good to gee his establish ment.
I heard the other day it would
soon be election year again, but ]
haven't been up to see yet. / don't
want folks 10 listen at those clar-
ionet horns, to blow themselves.
They have fooled a good deal of
my friends. I want them to listen
at the old fashion conk horns to
blow. 1t never fool a man. Like
my old friend Sheriff QUITS, he
blows the same horn all the time.
He never fool the people. Some
of 'em when they get up on the
stump tell 30 and 30, and when
they get down there to Columbia
they drink good loggerhead beel
and spike it with no x and il
makes them so fat they ean'r but.
ton the top button of their brseches
I met my friend W. A. strom the
other day, he was 80 fat I didn't
know him, and he couldn't 5ntto.
the TOP button.
I went down to Charleston to set
the buffalo. A man who went long
with me said he heard Sheriff
QUITS latin, but we couldn't fine
him. Mr.. JAS White went with
me : ID aa'oston and went
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
DOTS FROM PLUM BRANCH.

DEAR EDITOR: We had q light
shower yesterday, which put the
land where it had been well broke
in good plowing order, revived the
! crops aud ouc dropping spirits
alsn, aid everything. man, beast,
bird, appear to have taken Oh new
| life this mornIng: natural thotlt
should be 81, as it the first Ina: we
lbave had since the 5rd OF April.
AS report mad it 5" it turned ont.
! Mr. Henry Freeman took unto
| himself wife on the 23th uif.
He brought her out 70 the Meth
odist church last Sunday and be
looked as though he did not care
| if corn was selling for five dollars
per bushel, and as for sugar and
honey, he did not want any. Well,
Henry is a good 10y and indus
trious, while his lovely compan-
ion possesses that grace and ele-
gance that naturally belong, to
her sex and especially her family
of French huguenot lineage. We
bid them God speed and a long
and happy life.
Our M. E. sunday-school is look
ing forward to the day of all days,
"Children's Day. the little ones
to the good time, and papa and
mama looking forward equally as
anxious for their part of the pleas
nre.
We have two good churches,
M. E. church and Baptist, each
have a good sunday-school and
have good preachers, Rev. MIR.
Brown, Baptist, breaches once a
month. and Rev. j. c. Holley
breaches the first and third Sun
days in each month i'll the M. E.
church.
Our live merchant has petthat
he would like very much to get rid
of, his man Bob calls it q carbun-
kle, on his arm, otherwise he is do
ing we'll selling goods and buying
any and everything that the farm
ers bring in, COWS, pigs, chickens
and eggs, paying Is ceLts for
chickens almost nude, minus
feathers. He finds ready sale for
all and even more than be cali
buy. He had a serious mishap
sometime ago, he, was running to
make connection with the train as
it was moving off, holding aloft a
paper bag with a few dozsn eggs,
when his toe came in contact with
something and down went Tom,
eggs and all, and I guess, dear
reader, you can guess the result in
the egg question, but the arm that
was bruised, like the general in
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
ROMANCE BEGUN in AIKEN.
One of the Spanish War Heroes
to Wed Miss Havemeyer.


The story Of romance that was
begun IN Aiken, the South Carolina
resort, is thus given in the Chicago
Times-Herald: !.
Miss Dora Havemeyer, whose
engagement to Lieut.. Cameron
McB. Winslow, hero of the cable
cutting incient off Cienfuegos, has
just been announced, is one Of
the heirs to the Havemeyer mill
ions and likewise one of the pret-
ties. girls in America. This young
woman, who will soon become the
wife of the brave naval officer, is
the daughter of the late sugar
king, Theodore Hayemeyer. Her
good, hard sense she got from her
father, and her brilliant beauty
came from her mother, who. was
one of the lovely De Loosely girls.
Miss Hayemeyer is an accom-
plished musician and linguist.
Sheis strong, athletic and loves out
of door sports. Lieut.. Winslo oW
has the satisfaction of knowing
that Miss Havemeyer has never
been in society. She has yet to
make her debut. An interesting
feature of the Winslow- -Havemeyer
courtship is the fact that the
gallant officer has known his fance
ever since she was little girl.
When the lieutenant visited his
brother at Aiken, S. c., he
frequently met the little Miss and
romped with her on many sunny
day. Although he is twenty-five
years Miss Havemeyer's senior
and poor, and although the young
lady could make any match upon
which she had set her heart, she
chose her hero sailor as her own
true love. Lieut.. WinsIow came
of the first class Scotch. He Was
graduated from Annapolis an
ensign in 1875 and served in var
ious capacities in the navy until
the Spanish war. Who has not
heard how he cut cable off Cien-
fuegos, Cuba, in the mist of rain
of Mauser bullets and in the face
of exploding Spanish shells?
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
O. Sheppard, Jr.

relative to the secretary's marriage.
He says the secretary has no niece
named Anna Campbell and never
heard of Robert L. Mooney before d
The facts of Mooney's desertiop
and sentence were published IN
The State at the time and ths
prisoner was brought through here
on his way to St. Augustine from
Greenvllle, were his regiment was
stationed, but it was not then
known that he was in any way
connected with the secretary of war
In view of the fact that Gen. Alger
was himself accused of desertion..in
the civil war the case is more than
ever of interst.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
The Appetite .Of a Goat.

Is envled by all poor dyspeptics
whose Stomach and Liver are out
of order. All such should know
that DR.. Kings New Life Pills, the
wonderful Stomach and Liver
Remedy, gives spleadid appetite,
sound digestion and regular
bodily habit that insures perfect
health and great energy. Only
25c. all drug store.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
Plum Branch, June 8.
He Fooled The Surgeons.

All doctors told Renick Hamil-
ton, of West Jefferson, O., after
suffering Is months from Rectal
Fistula, he would die unless a
costly operation was performed;
he cured himself with five boxes of
Bucklen's Arnica Sa. ve, the surest
Pile cure ON Earth, and The best
best Save in the World. 25 cents
q box. Sold by all Druggist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

--.-4.ooV Vauio no go 80 - ---.-
they said they could feed fifteen
hundred people on it.
Is Albert a theosophist or is he
not?
JIM MINER. !,
Longmires, S. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

Close connections at Greenwood for
all points on S. A. L., and c. and G.
Railway, and at Spartanburg with
Southern Railway.
For information relative to tickets
rates, schedules, ETC., address
WI. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. AgH
Augusta, Ga.
Il. NJ. EMERSON,
Traffic Manager,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

Wedding Invitations, Visiting
Cards, Bill Heads, Letter Heads,
Note Heads, Envelopes, etc., ct
Lowest Prices at this office.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

Delivering schedules and II A. NJ.
and P. M. Parties ordering Ice must
order to be delivered on either of these
schedules or send TO Warehouse for 1T.
Tickets can be secured at my office or
from Jim Boyd, driver. Soliciting a
liberal patronage, am
Very truly, NJ. A. TAYLOR.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

We are unQer ODllSaLlouS W -u'o'
Efie Sheppard, eldest daughter of 0
Sheppard, Esq, for an invitation tc
the commencement exercises of the
Gresnvllle Female College, which
take place on Thursday, June 10th
inst, Miss Effie will graduate with the
degree of B. E. There are twenty
graduates in all at this commence.
ment.
Our old friend W. E. Dobey has had
some experience with wild onions. He
saws they are worse than nut grass.
He says that "you may pull up wild
onion, stick it up in the forks of tree,
leave it there one year, and it will
come up and flourish and thrive" The
only way he has found to get rid of
them is to lay them on one flat rock
and mash 'em with another. And yet
from these very wild onions we get the
succulent and toothsolne onion for our
tables.
Sow pease and a plenty of 'em. There
are many ways of planting pease. The
following is good way: Next to the
last blowing of your corn put row of
pease down the middles, and then at
the last blowing sow broadcast or drop
on each side of the corn row. The field
in September will be covered and make
the most beautiful sight in the way of
crop the eye of man ever rested upon.
Remember that no crop responds to
intelligent fertillzing like the cow
pea, and the fertilizer to be used is
acid phosphate. Don't use ammoniated
goods on this crop. 1t will be money
thrown away.
And when the Black Diamand peo-
pie went after the money clear across
the big water, to get the twenty-six
millions of dollars out of the English
bank, it wasn't there. Somebody broke
out one of the windows of the bank the
night before and stole it sll.
Twas ever thus from childhood's hour
We've seen our fondest hopes decay,
We never loved tree or flower
But twas the first to fade away.
We never loved dear gaZelle,
TO glad US with her soft black eye
But when she came to know us we'll,
And love us-she was sure to die.
We never had railroad fine,
Bnilt-double tracks-eXact air line,
But when we came to pull the string
to tOot her
She wouldn't toot nary time! No
nary time!
Johnston Institute.
The commencement exercises of
the Johnston Institute will be held
from the 18th to the 14th of June.
The following is the program:
SUNDAY, JUNE THE 11TH.
II A. M. Commencement Ser
mon by Rev. H. R. Moseley, D. D.
MONDAY. THE 18th.
II A. NJ. Address by Mr.. D. A.
Tom2kins.
$50 P. NJ. Exercises of Inter-
mediate and Primary Depart
menSs.
TUESDAY, THE 18TH.
IL A. M. Address by Hon. M. c.
Butler.
$50 P. NJ. Exercises of High
School Department.
WEDNESDAY, THE 14th.
$50 P. NJ. Graduating Exer-
cisess; Awarding of Medals; De-
livery of Diplomas.
The whole of Johnston is busily
Engaged in preparing for COM
mencement, and if the faculty
make the degree of success of it
that they have made of the work
this year no one who attends will
be disappointed.
Met Cormick Mowers and Rakes,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.

cLEEFING CAR SERVICE.
Excellent daily passenger service between
Florida and New York
Nos. 80 and 84-New York and Florida E1-
press. Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between
Augusta and New York.
Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between
Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Washington
and New York.
Pullman Sleeping Cars between Charlotte
and Richmond.
Nos e5 and 3S-U. S. Fast Mail. Through
Pullman drawing room buffet sleeping cars bo-
tween Jacksonville and New York and Pull
man sleeping cars between Augusta and Char.
lotte. Dining cars serve all meals enroute
Pullman sleeping cars between Jacksonville
and Columbia. enroute daily between jackson.
vile and Cincinnati, via Asheville.
FRANK s. CANNON, ]. NJ. CULP,
Third V-P. G. Gen. Mgr. T. NJ. Washington.
W. A. TURK, s. q. HARDWICK,
G. P. A. Washington. Il. Z. a.. Atlanta.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

ed,-that Electric .Bltters is the
best / i purifier known. It's
the supreme remedy for eczema,
tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and
running sores. 1t stimulates liver,
kidneys and bowels, expels poisons,
helps digestiong builds up the
strength. Only so cents. Sold
by all Druggist. Guaranteed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
Mccormick Mowers and Rakes
ReaperS and Binders.

/ am agent for these goods, McCor-
mick Mower, one-half, $3.50. payable
November, 1899, balance, $22.50, paya-
BILE November, 1900. Mccormick Reap
er and Binder, latest and lightest three
horse, payable one-third, $40, Novem-
Ter, 1899; one-third, $40, November,
1900; one-third, $40, November, 1901.
If you are large planter of grain,
say sixty acres, you will pay out cash
$45 for cutting and binding your grain
this season, on the other hand you
should take in this cutting for other
people. Also sell Threshers and Sepa-
rators. +. j. NORRIS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
Glorious News.

Comes from D n r. Cargile,
of Washita, I nv
hnttlea of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

j. w, DeVore, Esq, has just returned
from Columbia, where he went to argue
before the Supreme Court motion for
a new trial in the case of Mrs. Laura
M. Swearingen VS.. The Hartford Fire
Insurance Co. and Mrs. Laura s. Hardy.
Mr.. DeVore represented the appel
lants, and in his oral argument spell
bound the Supreme judges for more
than half an hour with his massive
logic and captivating rhetoric, to say
nothing of the sockdolager law he
gave 'em. (Some people think thus
word sockdolager obsolete bad Eng
lish. Not so. Worcester defines it to
mean "that which finishes matter !;
hence, that from which there is no
escape" and Webster says it is derived
from Doxology.)
The Columbia State of Monday
brings the sad intelligence of the death
of Mrs. John w. Dunovant, of Chester.
Mrs. Dunovant was Miss Helen Mob.
ley, the beautiful dsughter of DR.. S. G
Mobley. of Johnston. The State IN 8
special from Chester, dated June 4th
says: HMrs. John w. Dunovant died
to-day at4.I5 o'clock. She had been
sick only ten days. In her death Ches.
ger loses one of her most lovable wo.
men. a deep gloom hoyers over the
city tonight, and the entire commu.
nifty sympathizes deeply with her be.
reayed husband and two little children
Mrs. Dunovant's father, DR.. s. G. Mob
ley, of Johnston, and two brothers, DIR
John W. Mobley, of Milledgeville, Ga.
and Mr.. Will Mobley, of Augusta, Ga.
were with her at the end. The funeral
will be held tomorrow afternoon from
the Presbyterian church, of which the
deceased wac devoted member, The
remains will be inferred in Evergreen
cemetery"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

We are under obligations to Miss
Effie Sheppard, eldest daughter of 0.
Sheppard, Esq, for an invitation to
the commencement exercises of the
Greanvllle Female College, which
take place on Thursday, June 18th
inst, Miss Effie will graduate with the
degree of B. E. There are twenty
graduates in all at this commence.
ment.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07

Mr.. D. B. Hollingsworth's steam
thresher is now resdy for the seasons
work. If you wish him to come to your
house see him or drop him postal.
The times., 1899-07-21
FOR INSANE INDIANS.
Work Is Soon Ia Begin ON the
Asylum in South Dakota.

Work will soon begin on the asylum for
insane Indians at Canton, S. D.. for which
Congress made an appropriation of S42 .OCO
with an additional $4,000 for the purchase
Of grounds. 1t is interesting to know that
out of a total OF 80, 600 Indians in the
United States there are only ffty-eight
who are insane one doubtful six IDIOTS
and two partly idiots. This is a wonderful,
showing. and. according TO statistics, is
not equaled by any race of people on
earth, civilized or uncivilized. These un-
balanced Indians are distributed as fellows:
South Dakota-Sisseton agency. 8; Chey-
enne agency. .. Utah-Unitah and Ouray
agency, .. Kansas-Pottawatom agency,
3 California-Mission agency. :. Okla
homa-Ponse agency. l. Wyoming-Sho-
shone agency 3. Minnesota-White Earth
agency. s. New Mexico-Mescaler agency.
l. South Dakota-I'ine Ridge agency, 1:
Rosebud agency. .. North Dakota-Stand-
ing Rock agency. l. Montana-Crow
agency, c. BlaCkfeet agency, 4. Indian
Territory-Quapaw agency. 6. Wisconsin
La Poiute agency, 5. lowa-Sac and Fox
agency. 2 Oregon-Siletz agency. 1;
Warm Springs agency, l. Montana
Flathead agency. s.
Seven of the insane Indians are being
cared for at retreats created for the GUS
tody of irresponsible and mentally dis
eased patients, leaving less than a half
hundred under no provision for their care
and treatment The asylum will be ar
ranged with every convenience for their
care, comfort, and well treatment. and Will
be pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible
The times., 1899-07-21
ILLICIT FILIPINO TRAFFIC.
The Gunboat AIbay Is Expected To
Brenk Up Coast Gangs.

The Navy Department has received no
tice from Commander C. S. Sperry, OF the
gunboat Yorktown. under date lire of
Iloilo. June l, that he had detailed Ensign
W. H. Standley to command the gunbozt
Albay, one OF the thirteen Spanish yess eIs
purchased by Major General Otis and
turned over to the Navy. Five picked men
of the Army were transferred 10 the Al
bay. In his report Commander Sperry
says:
General Smith has returned from Ne
gIos. and he certainly agrees with me that
the service of the Albay viii be of the
greatest possible value in breaking up the
Illicit traffic between Cebu, Panay and Ne
gros, and in breaking up the gangs OF in
surgent marauders who are infestiug the
coast. My intention is to send the Albay
out tomorrow for a cruise OF a week
more or less according to the way her coal
holds out. Ensign Standley has been sup
piled with map from Army headquar-
ters. and the general commanding has di-
racted that all clearances 10 Negros shall
be stopped, except for certain specified
ports actually in our military possession.
This action simplifes the situation and
enables harmonious and energetic meas
ures to be taken"
In forwarding the report of Commander
Sperry TO the Navy Department. CAPT A.
S. Barker, then in command OF the Asiatic
station. wrote this endorsement:
Il am pleased to note the cordial CO.
operation of Army and Navy"
Ensign Standley is the young officer who
was sent ashore with Lieutenant Gilmore
of the Yorktown, at Baler, 10 make obser-
Yations preliminary TO an attempt to re-
lieve the Spanish garrison there Gilmore
and fourteen men of the Yorktown were
captured, and Standley escaped 10 his ship
The times., 1899-07-21
TO HOLD A MASS MEETING.
The Antitrust League Will Protest
A.ninst the Idaho 0utrages.

special meeting of the national execu-
tive committee Of the American Antitrust
League was held at the headquarters of
the organization, 1929 Pennsylvania Ave
nue. northwest. yesterday afternoon The
question of holding mass meeting in
this city early in next week TO protest
against the outrages practiced under mar
tial law in the Coeur d'Alene region in
Idaho was considered.
It was decided to hold the meeting on
some night early in the coming week and
several representative men frcm Idaho have
consented to address the meeting. num-
ber of local men will also speak. Hon.
NJ. l.. Lockwood. President OF the Anti
Trust League will preside. and is expected
to arrive in this city today.
Good reports were read. showing that
the League is rapidly growing and it is
claimed that nearly 1000 new applications
for membership have been received since
The times., 1899-07-21
NEW VOLUNTEER OFFICERS.
Another List of Captains and Lieu
tenants Announced.

The following appointments OF Army Of
hcers were made at the War Department
yesterday:
To be captains-James S. Butler. former
ly captain Second Mississippi Volunteers
Edward c. Carey, formerly lieutenant Six
teenth Infantry; Williams F. Meeks. for
meriy captain Seyenty-first New York Vol
unteers; Charles A Reynolds. formerly
captain Company l, Tenth Ohio Volunteers:
Frank G. Russell, formerly major First
Territorial Regiment
To be first lieutenants-F. 0. Den.more;
Percy H Hawkins, formerly captain First
Ohio Volunteers: Virden c. Peckenpaugh
formerly lieutenant Fifth Illinois Volun-
teers: Carroll Powers, formerly OF the Sec
ond Kentucky Volunteers; James R. Rash
formerly lieutenant Third Kentucky Volun-
teers.
To be second observation-disclosures d. Dan
ner. formerly Of the Eighth Pennsylvania
Volunteers; H. j. Mckinney. formerly
private Fifth Volunteer Signal Corps.