Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-02-13
z. A. BoLLgs,
Agent American Bible Society for S. c.
Columbia, S. c. Feb. l, 1887.


zs- Two inhuman wretches in Brooklyn, n.
Y, have been arrested for saturatins dog with
-rurpentine and then setting fire to him. The
poor animal ran around the streets urtil he
burned to death.
There are tie, which should mover DO
severed" u, the ill-u.ed wife said when she found
her brute of husband hanging in the hsy-ioiI
zr Tho population of Houston, Texas, is
.rid to be 80, 900. In 1860 it had but 5000 in
habitRnts.
Rr Two thousand people have signed tho
temperance pledge a, Poughksepais, n. Y, since
September.
tT- At Natchsz, Miss, the freedmen have
bought u church property for $4,000, paying
81, ,O9O down, and tho rest they agree to pay in
ten months.
no. At q land sale In Augusta on the 4th,
land, in Cherokee County sold from is to f5cts;
per aero, and in Appling county at !, 5 and cts.
per acre. Most any body, We think, can buy land
in Georgia.
sas- Hon. Lewis Harris editor Of \ paper in
s1li,bury, N. G, comes ou: for General Grant for
next Preaidcut.
ar Albright little girl, in playful anger caught
hold of an older sister saying, "Now III shake
the SAN dust out Of you," thinking the human
species WAS got up on TIE sano plan 50 her doll.
@- A son of Con. John C. Drsckinridgo il
clerk in Wholesale dry goods store on Broadway
Though quite young he gives eTidence of culture
and excellent natural abilities. His noble, chv-
arous sire is still an exile; bu: let us hop7 that
the President will listen to the appeal OF the
Kentucky Legislature, and restore him to his
homo.
as- imprisonment for debt is to be abolished
in France.
Ms- In Missouri the Ian, allow married MO-
men to make Wills Of their own. They have them
ready made here.
S In Washington woman shot man be-
cause he did not marry in Cincinnati another
shot ono because he did. What can bachelor
do t, save his baeonY
~ In the New South we SEQ a long advertise
ment of lots and "blocks" to be sold for taxes IN
the town of Beaufort. Over one hundred separate
lots or blocks are offered by the United States Tax
Commissioners.
w Captain Do Ia Mess, who lords it ovor the
people of Rome, has ordered tho keepers of tho
Star Saloon to take down their sign Of lone
star. He also ordered another saloon keeper to
remor. his sisn-the " Confederate Saloon" lilo
10 tho great man who has six young men of Rome
10 Jail il Atlanta for exhibiting Confederate
Flag in tablssu representing the soldiers grave
TO The Postmaster r-General has ordered the
d;,continuance of the mails By stclmer from
Savannah to Fernnndna, Jacksonville, and points
on the St. Johns River. The cause for this ac-
ton is unknown. Considerable excitement and
great inconvenience to the people are tho results
ng Governor Orr was in Charleston on the
sth IIo is hopeful of speedy restoration on the
basis of impartial suffrage, and will convene tho
Legislature in extra session rs soon as North
Carolina acts.
General Alcorn, United statc' Senator elect
from Mississippi, addressed both branches of tho
Mississippi Legislature, advising them to accept
tho constitutional amendment as the least OF Con-
pres,ional evils. A unanimous voto rejecting it
was tho response.