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rHOS. J. ADAMS, ----- EDITOR THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1893. m COURT PROCEEDINGS. At thh writing, Tuesday p. m., the court has barely got under good headway. Judge Witherspoon presides; i and Solicitor Nelson and Sten ographer McFeat are in their places. W. D. Turner has been appoint ed foreman of the grand jury. A number of negroes have plead guilty of the .crimes with which they were charged, and will be , sentenced later on. Up to this time no cases of consequence have been heard. Court will probably last but little more than two weeks. It is reported that Senator But ler has been offered a twelve thous and dollar consulship. The State Sunday School Con vention will meet in Abbeville on the 4th, 5th, and 6th o' April. Wichita Kansas has ft baby that weighs only one pound, It belongs to the Third party. es* t* ": Among trees the elm reaches an age of 335 years, ivy 450, chestnut 1600, olive 700, cedar 800, oak 1500 yew 2800. Th6 Newberry Observer thinks that the Hawaiian princess may be of the blackberry blonde type of beauty. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, professor of mathematics in the university at Sewanee, Tenn., is the only tull Confederate general now living. A Baptist deacon atHustonville, Ky., has been excommunicated for passing the emblems to a Presby terian elder at communion service *^Mr. *R. C. Mabin, of Newberry, has secured the signature of a ma jority of the free-holders' of that town to a petition for a Dispensary at that place, and Mr. Mabin will be the dispenser. ? Gen. Beauregard in his will left his fortune, amounting to two million dollars, to his two sons. His sword, presented to him by the-ladies of New Orleans m honor of'his capture of Fort Sumter, he - left to the city of Charleston., in UL. mm^Tm^~rm~mm~~ ^t?^-President .Harrison" has &t-{ ^9>jnuM a VfOXtJSopTimTpTir LXFJ Janel Straford University in Call fora ia, and will deliver at that in stitution a series of lectures on constitutional law beginning next October. THE STATE SUPREME. Sometime ago two liquor deal ers in Charleston filed a petition in Judge Simonton's court asking that Gov. Tillman be restrained from appointing Dispensary o*fli cers and carrying into effect the Dispensary law. Upon argument of counsel, on March 1st, Judge Simon ton decided that he could not interfere, and that "the State, is suprems-in:'"the exercise of its police regulations." The Railroad Cases. We clip the following from The | State, Tuesday, in regrad to the railroad cases : WASHINGTON, March 6.-The great railrod war was recommenced this ' ^morining in . the United States Supreme Court. The court room wns jammed with visitors. The full bench was present, save Chief Justice Fuller, Justice Field presiding. Govenor Tillman, with Senator Irby, John Gary Evans, Dr. Pope and Cole L. Blea^e, sat withinlhe bar, on the right side, J. C. Hempbill and a few other | . South Carolinaians were present. Attorney General Townsend, Mr. .Tucder arid Ira Jones sat immedia-1 tely in front of the Chief Justice Superintendent "Bunch" McBee was in the room. It was 2 o'clock before the matter was reached. The proceeding was entirely ex parte. Attorney General Townsend rose and presented the application for habeas corpus, reading the several applications as | already published. Justices Gray and Field asked some questions j about the nature of the case, which were answered by Mr. Tucker, and the court took the matter under advisement. The decision is ex pected to be rendered to-morrow "'morning, such being the custom of court. "Whether it would be better to live^with a slovenly, good-natured . wife or a tidy, scolding wife," was the question debated in a Wash ington county lyceum. The ques tion was carried in favor of the slack woman.You seethe debaters were all married men and they knew what they were talking about GROVER IS IN. Inauguration Bay-Georgia South Carolina. Governor Benjamin R. Till of South Carolina, sitting np: as an Indian led the picture Palmetto Guards whose orga ti on has a record extending to the Mexican war. The Governor's guards of lum bia, passed the capitol columns of fours. Their handi close Utting uniform of Con f edi gray is cheered whereever see is the only company from S Carolina and and the only < maud in line wearing the i color. On top of the flagpole is fast? a huge palmetto fan. Just as passed by the fifth Maryland i ment a gust of wind hit full green standard which opens y to the breeze. As the L palmetto tree is recogniz e< Maryland shout goes up wi causes ten thousand admi: eyes to rest upon the colon Georgia's sister state. Cap Bateman tilts his sword in knowledgement and the color s gent lowers his flag in pr saluted. In a moment they an and the sound of their kettle di is drowned by the sweet mm} of the Baltimore band wi strikes up "Maryland my Mi land" and then "Dixie" wb brings forth loud huzzas. A delegation from the Geoi Huzzars called upon Mrs. Ck land this morning and presen her with a huge hamper of red i white camelias. She returned grateful acknowledgement for chivalrous sentiment evinced the gallant Georgians. Gen. Pierce M. B. Young it command of the second divis and his chief bf staff, Capt Jar H. Tillman, rides at his 1 Then comes the remainder of staff in three lines, sixteen abrei He presents a fine appearance. Gov. Tillman marches at t head of perhaps the finest look i staff in the parade. He rides large sorrel and wears a bli Mackintosh and slouch hat. Gen. Farley is on his left, th come the following staff, dressed in gray : Col. John Ga Watts, as sistant adjxitant a inspector general,, Colon? John Gary Evans. W. A. Neal, N. Nixt?n. A. B. Watson. T. Berry, and J. H. Brennan. Af! Governor Tillman's stiff cai Brigadier General R. N. Sichbui of the second South Carolina B: gade, with the following sti pflfcerj^ Majors Charles Newba: JU.' OCUJSIU wu, -r;?v vx/. . ivenua ?5. M; Rucker, J. Wilson Gibb? Silas J. Duffie-and E. Calvo, ai then th?f Governor's guards. Washington, D. C., March 4. Governor Northen, dreeaed handsome Price Albert and loi mackintosh, mounts a snow-whi Arabian horse and starts towa: the navy yard to assume Georgie position in the lines. On eith side ride Gen. Kell and Lie' Satterlee, and immediately behii them, eight abreast, come Col John Chandler A. J. West. Liei Cols. Thoa. Lyon. B. C. De Leo W. A. Broughton, S^Nril, A. \ Walton, J. D. Boy^ J. D. HerreJ J.~H. Estiilrjr Colton Lines. T. 1 Swest, E.P. Spear. Geo. H/Wa ing. Geo. M. Traylor and Cap John Miller of the Governor Horse Guards, who carries th Georgia colors. Rain and wind, sleet and sno maj dampen the ardor of som military organizations, but mad no impression on the soldiers c Georgia and Caroliia, At 9 o'cloc sharp Adt. Gen. Nell headed hi staff and marched straight to th Oxford to await** the pleasure c Governor Northen. While the joli; escort to his excellency were pae sing the line with merry anecdote the Georgia Hussars, handsome!; mounted, passed en route to Capi toi Hill where they were to joh the third division to which the; were assigned. A .loud shut wen up from the enthusiastic Georgia!, as they recognized the Georgii colors and familiar face of Capt Gordon in command. Governor Northen stood upoi the sesond-story balcony, hat ii hand, and reviewed the handsome troop which will certainly carrj off the honors of the day. Maj Geo. Adams, U. S. A., enthusiasti cally shouted that Georgia ought to be proud of the Hussars, foi they will surely be the prettiest uniformed and best equipped troop in the whole procession. The vast crowd along the sidewalks shout their praises as they march to their destination. The Georgia Hussars are cheered to the echo as they pass up Penn sylvania avenue. Their beautiful blue uniforms slashed with silver, glittering helmets and yellow plumes are greatly admired. They share with Fitzhugh Lee the en thusiasm of the day. WASHINGTON. March 4.-The fif teen thousand souls more or less, that patiently awaited the ap proach of tho Presidential p to the reviewing stand jn grounds of the White House probably never forget the periences of the day. Full ] was afforded the northwest; v in the open space between treasury and the army andr buildings, and it tore around about, roaring down the avei whistling through the ti picking up the snow and carr] it into the eyes and ears i nostrils, forming a semi-eircl white flakes stripping the bun that decorated the stands fron place and causing the timber creak until more than once advance occupants of the Pre ?ic tial stand were inclined to aban their advantageous posts. Two of the big branches of stately elm that towered v dignity to the right of the sp enclosed for the Presidential p? broke off with a snap. With ev succeeding blast of wind temperature grew cdder. A bea cheer greeted President Clevelar appearance on the reviewing st; and the shouts redoubled as took his place in the conspicu projection of the structure, wh he stood during the parade. He was soon followed by IV! Gie velan d and Mrs. Stevens Mrs. Lamount and the other lad who had been with the Preside lal party all day. They came a moment when the crowd was terested in the passing troops, a their presence was unnoticed. As the President appeared I fore the multitude, and while# 1 cheers were yet sounding in 1 honor au aide of the gra marshal, .stationed opposite t reviewing stand, galloped at fi speed down Pennsylvania aven and gave the signal for ,the mar to be resumed. The bugles sound forward march, the -office repeated the command and t line of march was again taken i from the point where the head the column had halted, opposi the treasury department. The great crowds about tl White House were enthusiast from the beginning and kept tin with feet and hands to the mus of tho band in an endeavor to ke< warm and get rid of surplus h laxity. As General Martin ' McMahon the Grand Marshal < the parade. passed Mr. Clevelan and saluted, he was greeted wit cheer after cheer and the Ne York Business Men's Clevelan and Stevenson clubs which ha formed the President's escort t and from the Capitol, came in fe their share of ^applause. _j 7_lV^^^Xl?ve^and7o^pvrwl hrs ow precedent in sal?t?% .only tb national flag when it passed bin He also occasionally bowed t personal and political friends i the parade. He stood on the stan in the face of the howling win< impassive and dignified, not seen ing to mind the cold and th waves of drifted snow that wei carried in his face. His overees was butoned tightly about hi throat. During the whole tim the parade.was passing Mr. Cleve land stood in hil position an carefully " scauned the lineB o marching men. The enthusiasm of the multitud in the vicinity of the reviewinj stand was not half vented unti General Fitzhugh Lee made hi appearance at the head of th third division. The ovation tba had been given him all along th< route of the parade apparentlj reached its highest point as h< saluted the new president. Cheei followed cheer and those on the grand stand with the president joined in the demonstration witt as much spirit as did those along the curbstones. The shouts were taken up with renewed vigor when the president returned General Lee's^aluiation, and long aftei the ex-governor had passed, the echo of cheers in his honor came to those of the presidential party, The picturesque figure of Gov ernor Tillman of South Carolina with broad brim slouch hat on big head mounted on a handsome bay came in for a large share of the enthusiastic feeling that had "<e gun to animate the crowd. COTTON SEED CRAZY. Views of a Georgian Who Prob ably Has Seed to Sell. A correspondent of the Savannah News, who is probbaly holding his cotton seed for higher prices, writes thus extravagantly to that paper : CARROLLTON, Ga., Feb. 23. Much excitement exists among the farmers of Carroll county and all Western Georgia over the price of cotton seed. They are selling in Carrollton to-day for 35 cents per bushel, and the seed buyers and others who are posted say the price will go to 60 cents before May 10, or before this season's cotton crop has been planted. Never in the history of this country has cotton seed sold at such a big price, unless jt was the year after the war, wfcew a few bushels sold as high as $1 for planting pur poses. At every -town in Western. Georgia there are one or more seed* buyers who represent the cotton ' seed oil mills, and the price has gone from 1.5 cents to 35 cents this season, and will go to 50 cents, and maybe to 75 or $1. It has taken as many cars to ship cotton seed from this point this season nearly as it has for cotton. Farmers are casting about fora kind of cotton seed that will raise nothing but seed, for they say raising seed beats raising cotton. The present price of seed adds nearly 2? cents a pound to the: mills going up in Westorn Georgia, and the prices of seed are expec ted'to be higher nex? fall than this, and this expectation, with the late rise in cotton, will cause a big acreage {to be planted. The farmers are wondering when the cotton seed will stop going up. CYCLONE LN MISSIPPL Great Destruction of Property and Terrible Loss of Life. MERIDIAN, Miss., March 4.-A terrific cyclone in this section wrought incalculable loss of life and property last night. Where once stood happy homes, now nothing remains save perhaps a few stray pieces of timber. The cyclone stuck Marion at about 5 p. m,travelliug from the southwest to northeast. It was described by an eye witness as a whirling ball of fi ru, a d travelled in a zig-zag course. The main track was 300 yards wide, and everything in that track was swept away, wreckage of houses being scattered for miles' akng its course. At Marion only two fatalities are reported-Mrs. Burton Madow, aged seventy, and her daughter Myra, aged forty. Both instantly killed MI the wreck of their demo lished house. A dozen persons were injured more or less seriously. The cyclone passed from Marion to the swamp, uprooting tinib? r, crossed the Mobile au^ Ohio Rail road a mile above town, destroying a half a mile of telegraph wires and blocking the road. After des troying Mariod, the cyclone cut a ?wath through the swamp, until reaching Good Hope Church, two miles east, which it wrecked also destroying four settlements of negro cabins. But three persons were fatally hurt. When thc tornado neared Poomsuba, Miss., a small station on the Alabama and Great Sou th em Railroad, Jiwelve miles from here and nine miles east of Majnon nine "/ctw?K-inge- -and: ewx^-'^wo; blown down and carried away and their contenta scattered to the four winds of heaven. The ap proach to the town is strewn with debris and carcasses. A mile west of Toomsuba, the old Keetou place, densely settled with negro cabins, was almost completely demolished, but no one was killed. MERIDIAN, Miss,, March 4. News reached here tonight that the cyclone struen Barnett, a station on the Queen and Crescent railroad, wrecking every building in the place,., and killing twelve people and injuring twenty others. The family of Daniel Barnett, eight in number, were instantly killed. Barnett is not a telegraph station, and the news got here by passengers of the incoming train. A relief party hag gone to tho scene. Western Georgia was also vissted by the same cyclone. The town of Greenville was almost swept off the face of the earth, and many people were killed and injured. Nu Advance, Old Prices for Cash. Ladies, you are respectfully invited toan inspection of my beautiful stock of prints @ 5c; Zephyrs at 6)?; Zepb eretts @ 7c; Ginghams @ 8 and 10; Scotch Ginghams, Pecales, Normandy Zephyrs @ 8,10 and 12; beautiful and new effects. Dress Flannels, Batiste, .Tunkin Cloths, Irish Lawns, Beiges, Cream and fancy cold Nuns veiling, Bourette Cloths. Our 10c line of DRESS GOODS are the prettiest we have ever brought out. J. M. COBB. 2m. School Examination. ON Friday and Saturday, the 21st and 22nd of April, proximo, the Board of School Examiners for Edgefleld county will meet at Edgefleld C. IL, for the purpose of examining appli cants to teach in the public schools of the county. Friday will be devoted to the whites and Saturday to the colored applicants. M. B. DAVENPORT, S. C. E. C. Carrol & Bonham, General Agents for Tlie Manliattan Liie Insnr. Co., Of New York. Headquarters Augusta, Ga. "W. P. Butler, LOCAL AO-EnSTT, Office, P. B. Mason's office. ?)kW Bring your school checks it the ADVERTISER office, if you sv-uit 95 per cent, of their face Pixing H Watch. Customer-My watch won't go. Jeweler (examining it)-My! Myl \ Have yon boen in a railway collision? 3 Customer (surprised )- Why. no. ' Jeweler (solemnly)- When you un dress you should not throw your vest down c :i the floor when your watch is in the pocket. * ? Customer (thoughtfully)-I never do. I have been exceedingly careful with that watch. Don't know how it got hurt. How long will it take to mend it? Jeweler (after another examination) You'd better leave it. here at least a week, but if you can get along without it, I would advise two weeks. Customer-Very well. Do it up right Good day. Jeweler (to assistant)-James, blow that speck of dust off this wheel and charge-up five shillings for repairs. ~ London Tit-Bits. The Heart Bests Eight Hours Every Day. That wonderful piece of mechanism, the heart, appears to work continually day and night, from birth to death, but in reality there are short pauses or rests between each' beat, which, though mi nute in themselves, mount up in the ag gregate to eight hours out of every twen ty-four. These short pauses enable the heart to repair the waste which constant work entails and without which rests it would break down.-Brooklyn Eagle. Wliy the Wren Is Klug. Tho wren is chased every St Stephen's Day on account of it betraying the Sav iour by chattering in a clump of furze where he was hiding, -ft is called the "king of all birds." because it concealed itself beneath the wing of the eagle when that lordly bird claimed supremacy by soaring highest "Here 1 am," said the wren, mounting above the eagle's head when the latter could go no higher. Irish Times. Tito ?unless Huntsman. ' The feet of Thomas Roberts, the arm less huntsman once in the employ of Sir George Barlow, were made to serve in place of hands. Roberts manufactured most of the instruments which he used while on the chase, and could shoot or throw with as much precision as the average hunter in possession of both arms and hands.-St. Louis Republic. TJnumuutcnt:i1 Publie Functionaries. 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Best N. 0. Syrup, per gal., 'ale Oliver Soap, per box, Granulated Sugar, lbs. to dollar. {Rice, -, -. and -per pound. Buckwea t, -. Oat Meal, -. Coffee,-to-. Malaga Grapes, Oranges, Apples, Nuts, Bananas, Cocoanuts, Cran berries, Mince Meat, Condensed Milk, 3 lb. can Tomatoes $1.10por I dozen, Canned Peaches, Cherries, Pears, Pine Apple, Corned Beef Roast Beef, Dried Beef, Gelatine, Pudding, Hog-head Cheese, (souse), Sausage,eic. E. J. NORRIS, Edgefield, S. C. AM for ?1,50 WeeklvConBtitution,Atlanta,$1.00 Soul hern Farm, u 1.00 Useful books, c. 25, 1.50 All for $1.50. Worth, $3.50 R. H. M IMS, Agt. Also agent for Southerh Culti vator. Call on me at my Photo. Studio.. -TSE Jin.Mutual Life Insurance Company, OIE1 "PO^TIiAJSrr), M?HTE. Incorporated, 1848. Its Policies are the Most Liberal Now Offered to the Public. Is the only existing Company whose policies are, o: can be subject to the MAINE NON-FORFEIT URE LAW. WHAT, IT IS. The Maine Non-Forfeiture law protects policies from forfeiture by reason of default of payment of premiums. It provides that, after three years' premiums have been paid, failure to pay any subsequent premiums shall not forfeit a policy, but it shall continue in force for its full amount until the reserve (less a small surrender charge) upon the policv is exhausted. The .reserve is a sum made up of portions of each and every pre mium paid upon a policy in anticipation of its maturity. Beginning with a small portion of the first premium, it is increased each year by the addition of each subsequent premium, and grows larger year by year, until, at maturity, it exactly equals the face of the policv. When a policy is discontinued therefore, there is in the hands of th? Com pany a reserve, greater or less, according to the character and age of the policy. Instead of permitting the Company, upon non-payment of premium, to confiscate this reserve, the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law requires the Company to continue the policy in force until the policy holder receives an equivalent for it in extended insurance. How IT WORKS. If a person, aged 35, paye three years' premiums upon a . twenty payment Life policy and then discontinues payment, the policy will be continued 4 years and 257daj's longer; if bc pays five premiums, and then discontinues, the insurance will continue 7 years and 357 days longer. If the policy is a twenty year endowment, same age, three years' payments will give an extension of 8 years and 150days; five years' payment 13 years, 300 days. If the policy is a 15 Year Endowment, ($1,000) same age, three years' payments will secure insurance to the end of the endowment period and $13.68 in cash if insured lives till that time, and in like manner ten years' payments secures insurance for'the full 15 vears and $592.17 in cash. These extensions "vary with the age of the insured, the class of policy, and the number of payments made ; they are stated in each policy, in years and days, for each number of payments, so that the policy-holder knowe at a glance exactly what he is entitled to if he I disentitles his pavmentsai-aav time_?_:_,,? - - <3 What it Has Done. The Company Has Paid over Two Hundred Death Claims, in con sequence of this law, aggregating in sum3 insured more than Four Hundred Thousand Dollars. In every ca6e there had been a default in ?he payment of pre mium, and, except for this law, the policies would have been of little or no value. Instead of this, the insurance in each case was extended to the time of death, and the Company was required to pay to the beneficiaries under the policies the sum of $418,335.77. Tie Vie ol ffiie Law Eltens as Compared 'WITH IFAUD-Tjre VALUES. It is the custom of many companies to provide in their policies that, upon discontinuance of payment of Premium, paid-up policies will be given, without the option of extension. This was the practice of the Union Mutual before the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law was en acted, but it now substitutes for paid-up values the more advantage ous plan of extended insurance. The objection to the paid-up system is that the amount of paid-up insurance which is given upon the dis continuance of payments upon a policy, unless it has been in force a great many years, ?B insignificant, and of little or no value as protec tion ; and it leaves the insured who ceases payment without adequate insurance at the very time he needs it the most. The great advantage of the extended insurance afforded by the Maine Law over the most liberal paid-up system is strikingly shown by the following comparison, and it will be observed that the paid-up value is insignificant in comparison with the amount actually paid by the Union Mutual. The result of two hundred aud twelve policies was this: If the insured had received paid-up policies instead of ex tended insurance, the Company would have had to pay in settlement of the claims only. $98,197.50 Whereas, in fact, it did pay under the Maine Law, $418,344.77 Making a difference in favor of the beneficiaries under Two Hundred and Twelve policiei of $320,147.28 The policies are free from all restrictions, and incontestible after ONE YEAR. A grace of one month is given in the payment of premiums. For further information call on, or address, B, B. EVANS, . Manager for South Carolina, Office, No. 1, Advertiser Building,