Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-08-16
BRIEF news NOTES
FOR the BDsY MAN.
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLDS NEWS EPIT0MIZED
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.

Galveston, Texas, shipping interests
are preparing to handle record-break-
ing early shipments of cotton to for
eign ports. There are now booksd9to
arrived there during the remainder of
August sorty-two%steamsAjps to take
EcottonN earoges to Liverpools Mancnes-
> tar,Belfast, HaTre, Bremen, Hamburg,
Antwerp, Genoa, Naples, Christiana
and other foreign ports. Receipts of
new cotton to date are 24f664 bales
against 5,O07 this date last year.
The problem of the high cost of liv-
ing is being solved, at least so far as
farm products are concerned, for the
farmers are getting lower prices for
their products this year than they re-
ceived year ago. According to Of
fetal figures issued by the department
OF agriculture, potatoes were the nota-
BILE exception, their price having more
than doubled. Potatoes averaged 1895
per cent. higher and nay 29.9 per cent.
higher.
With wind at 80 miles an hour &C.
companied by a terrific downpour Of
rain, Pensacola, Fla, experienced the
worst storm since the West Indian hur-
ricane of September, 1906 A number
of berges were blown ashore and num-
erous bessels suffered severely. The
heaviest loss will be to the timber in
terests, immense quantities of export
timber having been strewn along the
shore for miles. The city lighting
plant was damaged slightly.
A special delegation of citizens will
leave Memphis, Tenn, shortly for
Rochester, n. Y, armed with an invi-
tation from the South for the surviv-
ing soldiers of the Grand Army of
the Republic to visit Memphis on the
occasion of the first national reunion
of the "Blue and Gray" to be held
in Memphis, September 27.
George w. Gordon, soldier, lawyer
and statesman, died at his home in
Memphis, Tenn, Tenn. Worn by an
illness dating from his last political
campaign, when he was reelected to
the national house of representatives,
the last general of the Confederacy
to serve in that body, answered the
summons to join the invisible major
ity. George Washington Gordon was
born in Giles county, Tennessee, Oc-
tober 5, 1886.
The Mississippi Democratic state ex-
ecutive committee met, canvassed the
returns and declared results of the
contest for state officers in the pri-
mary on August 1. James K. Varda-
mans majority for the United States
senate over Leroy Percy and c. H.
Alexander is 26,37S. Theodore G. Bill
bo defeated both opponents for lieu
tenant governor by a majority of "a
455. A second primary for railroad
commissioner was ordered for the
Northern district.
Prof. Henry j. Cox, the weather
forecaster in Chicago, returned from
a survey of the North Carolina fruit
belt. He brought word of a new
scheme promulgated by the weather
bureau to help settle the North Car
olina mountain slopes. The main pur-
pose of the survey made by Profes-
sor Cox was to designate sites for the
location of weather forecasring sta
tions to warn fruit growers of the
mountainous section of the periodic
froStS unich occur there.