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Newspaper
Aiken Tribune
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1873
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR lists religious services with places Dunbarton Hammond Creenland Mervit's Bridge Leaville Mount Wbal and times 3 o'clock on Sundays and 5 o'clock on Tuesdays. Names and locations are partially garbled but indicate regular worship slots.
The notice lists train arrivals at Aiken and connections to Augusta and Columbia with multiple daily times. It describes routes via Branchville Columbia, Charleston, Graniteville with connections to the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta line, and an accommodation train leaving Aiken for Augusta daily except Sundays at 4:00 a.m. and returning at 9:30 p.m.
The supplement this date contains Governor Moses’ message to the Legislature from Columbia. The editors admit not fully reviewing it yet but praise its candid, detailed exposition of major topics. They publish an extra daily mail edition to share the message with all readers, at significant expense, as part of keeping the paper at high local standards.
An editorial style critique condemns local business leaders for clinging to outdated notions and urging reform. It argues Aiken must modernize to maintain health tourism, survive competition, and avoid becoming merely a travel stop on the southern route. The piece calls for energizing policy and better seas onage to attract patrons.
The Courier des Blais Unis weighed party strength as the French Assembly nears. It lists three groups on the right and three on the left, estimating numbers and possible monarchist or republican outcomes. Also noted are a national day of thanksgiving proclaimed by the President and humdrum New York business and cotton crop conditions, with reports of recovery and varied regional prospects.
Middling cotton prices and railway schedule notes frame a page of local life. Dr Wistar s Balsam of Wild Cherry touted as a cure with a dollar bottle. Rev Charles N Mattoon arrives to preach, with diving service planned. Arthur Ashley injures left arm after a fall at Professor Crossani s Academy. limb reset and he returns to the streets. Local visitors Bailey and Brown seen at North summering, eyes on a busy winter. Advertisements praise manufacturers Hall Co and Schmidt Moseley, with new ventures and a billiard challenge teased for Christmas. Police and court items include a jail breakout at Orangeburg, a fatal cart accident in Bingstre, and sentences in Beaufort.◦
The legislature opens with a sermon on duty and education. Speaker S J Tee urges cutting roots of evil and expanding free schools in every hamlet and county, praising the Republican cause, equality, and the state’s growth. He emphasizes literacy, virtue, and liberty as the state’s three graces guiding progress. He notes railway links and South Carolina’s growing industry and trade.
The text urges building an iron line to connect South Carolina with the western country, arguing rail transport boosts wealth and prosperity. It calls for prompt legislative action to support railroad enterprises, expand manufactures, and strengthen the state's finances and credit. The governor is urged to give serious attention and aid to this praiseworthy scheme.
New York markets show flour and dust demand at 6.20 to 6.06 for Southern buyers with wheat lower and corn in fair request. Pork quiet, lard dull, Tennessee and Augusta market rates listed for bacon and shoulders with varying price ranges. Cotton prices mixed by region with sales near 1,126 to 6,000 across New Orleans, Charleston and Savannah.
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