Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-07-06

GRANITEvILLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
The Charleston Courier says: 1t viii be seen,
by reference to our advertising columns, that
this 1ourshing establishment has declared 4
half yearly dividend of FIVE per cent, being at
the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. Every pa
trolr citizen, whether interested in this or other
similar institutions, or nor cannot but rejoice
in the knowledge that prosperity. attends their
labars
We subjoin an extract from the report made
10 The Company by their intelligent and indcfai-
gable President:
:" II affords me great pleasure to be able to
present you so favorable report Of our opera
lions for the past year.
q" 1t ought to afford conclusive Evidence, that
Granitevle is destined to afford ample rcmun-
Grafton TO its founders, and thus infuse a.spirit
of progress in this species of enterprise, much
needed in Soulh-Carolina. Half of our over
secrs ami all of the operatives are Carolinians,
well organized, industrious, happy and conten.
ted such working force rs any New England
establishment would be proud of; for productive
capacity, not surpassed by similar number of
workers in any country With these facts be-
fore us, can we entertain u doubt Of the pcrma-
nent thrift and prosperity of GranitcviIIe, or
that of any similarly organized establishment in
Tie State! Bcfure offering you the Treasurer's
Report: permit HE to reiterate an earnest appeal
10 you and all of our absent Stockholders, TO
m he 1t n point to be present at our annual
mcelings-Weinesday after the second Monday
in March. 1t affords great encouragement and
pleasure to those who have fixed their destiny
ut Graniteville, TO see assembled, at lcnst once Il
year, the individual owners Of an establishment,
which gives remuncraiing employment, home
and comfort to themselves, and education and
religious instruction 10 their children.
SENATOR DOUGLAS handsome house, in the
neighborIIood of The Capitol, was struck by
lightning in half dozen places during the last
storm. The fluid tore the plaster from several
of the rooms, one of which it entered, broke
Sundry windows, chandeliers, and did. a good
deal Of mischief. Mr.. Douglas, with good humor,
says he has been burnt in elligy, hung in elligy,
denounced BY the clergy, and that he is now
struck by lightning. But he adds: Il wasn't 1T
home" And so he thinks, that, surviving ali
this Providence is on his side.
MELANCHOLY SUcIDE.-A correspondent of
the Portsmouth (Oho) Tribune, wiring from
Cirrlcville, under date OF June 9th, gives the
following graphic account Of the suicide of !.
young lady named Fute, who was living with
a MIR. Brown, in Darby lille, Pickaway county:
"A young lady, living with Mr. Brown, in
Darbyvillc drowned herself in Darby creek, yes
terday. ltseems young man had been paving
his addresses to her for some time; OF that day
he sent note to her by Mrs. Brown, advising
her that he did not intend to marry her, aud was
about to leave the place. She read, ard ex-
claimed: My God, what will become Of me-
She crossed the street, passed lhrongn house,
without noticing The family, rushed up stairs
where the false one was at work, and canght
him round The neck, kissed him, said she had
come to bid him long farewell. She then ran
across field, and plunged into water fifteen feet
deep. A man ,pIoughing near by, supposing
something WIS wrong, ran after her, but only
reached it in time to see tho bubble were shy
had sunk. She was taken out i'll about two
hours.
"The young man fled, 10 escape the indigna-
ton of deeply sympalhizing community. He
will no doubt realize that he cannot escape the
bitter recollection of the irrcparabe wrong done
his unsuspccting victim"