Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-01-27
Minor State Items.

The hearing before the railroad
commission on the merchants peti.
tion asking for {. reduction of inter.
State freight rates was concluded in
the council chamber wednesday
night-that is; concluded SO far as the
evidence is concerned. But it is a
long call between petition for re.
ducticn and actual reduction. 1t will
be fully so days before the commits.
sion renders decision, for it has an
almost inteTminable mass Of evidence
to review, and won't be in possession
of this and all the arguments under
so days. And then if the decision fs
against the railroad there is no sub.
stantial hope that an appeal will not
be taken. and the matter indefinitely
tied up in the courts.
A telegram from Mr.. Lewis W. Par.
ker, president of the Olympia, CRANKY
and Richland cotton mills, Of Columbia,
was received there last week and con.
veyed the satisfactory intelligence
that the reorganization Of these mills
along lines on which Mr.. Parker has
been working, was about to be effect.
ed.
Senator A. c. Latimer has returned
to Washington very much gratified at
the reception which has been given
his bill to secure Federal aid for
building good roads. He said that a
great many people had not understood
his bill at first, but now that they do
they admit that it is not in violation of
he constitution, nor is it out of har.
mony with Democratic principles.
Calhoun, Jackson, Gallatin, Clay and
others Of the old school of statesmen
favored such appropriations for good
roads.
The Hampton monument commission
reports that there is. on hand from vol
untary contributions about $500, and
it is expected that in few days this
will reach nearly $4,000. A bill has
been introduced in the House to sup
ply the deficiency, so that a 900
monument can be erected at once, and
those who have talked with the Rep
resentatives state that the bill Will
probably pass.
The DeKalk Cotton Mills, at Cam
den, which recently passed into the
hands of a receiver, are now running
out the raw material stocked in the
machinery. It is estimated that the
value of this material is about s6,000
The mill will continue in operation fo1
about six weeks and then will close
down indefinitely, perhaps until the
next cotton crop.
Darlington county stands at the head
of the honor roll in the matter Of con-
tributions to the Hampton monument
fund. Although on basis of property
assessment Darlington's pro rata would
have been but 5000, the county Of
sterling men and loyal women has con-
tributed $1,000 to the erection of 6
proper memorial.
A petition has beer fled with the
United States district court, Judge
Brawley presiding, to declare as bank
rupt the Farmers and Mechanics
Mercantile and Manufacturing Co.
Capt. ]. l.. Argus, of Chester, died
there Wednesday morning at ten
o'clock. He was in the SOth year oi
his age. For more than thirty years
he was in active bushes there as q
Leading merchant. He retired in 1885
after amassing quite large estate
In early life he spent five years IN
California, being one of the forty
nil nrs." He was an officer In the
Cs 'ioun Guards, Sixth regiment, the
frs year of the war, then quarter
m. .e.- of Bratton's brigade. He
se; eG. several terms as mayor ol
CT ester. and was always interest I'd
in the welfare Of the town.