Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-13
Items of State News.


Mr.. Joseph Whitmire, an old and hon
ored citizen of Greenville is dead.
j. NJ. Runion, the Radical County Au
iditorsof Greensille, has been removed
by Gov. Scott, and A. McBea appointed
in his stead. Mr.. Runion demonstrates
with Gov. Scott, through the papers, in
an exceedingly affecting manner. =
The Greenville negroes celebrated the
4th July in very sensible way. They
had a large pay picnic, the proceeds OF
which (quite handsome sum) were
given in aid of the colored Baptist Church.
Said building is already in progress.
e The growth ana-prevalence of insanity
in all parts of the United States is fear.
full. Within six months past, seven per-
sons have been sent to the Lunatic iAsyI
.lum from Anderson County alone.
Grand State Baptist Sunday School
Convention in Sumter on Thursday, the
goth inst. Rev. Luther Broaddus, our
Baptist pastor, is going to it.
During the Commencement exercises
of Newberry College (Lutheran) at Wal
halla last week, considerable money was
raised to complete the College building
The statement of the Laurensville
Herald relative to the sale of the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad to the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad, is denied by
the officials of the first-named Road.
They say they feel fully competent to
.srun the machine" ....y
The Union Times gives flattering ac-
count of the successful growing OF clover
in that County.
The Cokesbury District Methodist Con-
ference will convene at Greenwood on
the 2Ist inst. Bishop Wightman is to
preside.
Abbeyille sends number of law
breakers to the Penitentiary. These are
times for the gallows and the whipping
post instead OF, the Penitentiary.
The Newberry Herald crows over
Newberry clover. It seems that clover
is getting to be big thing in all the up
per Districts. 49,
Major Chris. sSuber, Of Newberry, has
returned from his visitto the Ku Klux
| Investigating Conmitteeih Washington.
He thinks the whole affait d useless, ex-
pensive, and nasty piece Of business:
= Dr.! WIN. Reynolds the old and distin-
guished Dentist of Columbia, is dead.
Our DR.. Parker, the best Dentist in the
world, is, however, still living and hard
at work. '.''''i 49,
Crops in Marion reported to be more
than promising. ii2,a
Ladies in Aiken lose their false curls
in the street, in consequence Of (which
the editor Of the Journal advises them
to use Spalding's Prepared Glue in their
toilet preparations. Horrid man!
= The Highland Park. House, is all
elegant and popular hotel in Aiken, kept
by DR.. Rockwell.
At Langley (Kalmia Mills there was
a complimentary entertainment lately to
Mrs. Foster, wife of the popular Super
intendant of the Cotton Mills. The enter
tainment consisted of tableaux, charades
and music. NfrssFoster was on the eve
of departure for the North. :, = =.
The Chester Reporter says: "+rhe-sInail
circumstance Of some fifty disguised men
having gone into Rutherfordton about
ten days ago, or rather nights ago, and
having gone through aRepublican print
ing Office, putting it in sucl, a condition
that another paper would not soon issue
from it's press, and at the same time took
out Mr.. Justice; an ex member of the
Legislature, and gave him pretty severe
thrashing, was tic occasion Of the caval-
ry, stationed at Chester, being ordered
to Rutherfordton, n. c."
Two negro women; in store in Beau
fort, the other dhy, fought ferociously
with razors They cut and slashed until
the crimson gore flowed like whiskcy.
An old negro man, seeing they were
about to Kill each other, rushed in and
felled them both to the earth with a huge
club, thus putting a stop to the carnage.
Jealousy was the cause. The adored and
disputed object, a strapping young negro
fellow, was present and witnessed the
battle, but did not offer to interfere. How
foolish in two women, black, white or
red to fight over man-when menare
so notoriously like honey-bees, flying
from flower to fower!-;
Our old and honored friend Miss NJ. a.
Buie, the Soldiers Friend" writes to
us that she has taken Queen Elizabeth as
her pattern-that she will not marry, but
will devote herself to building up her
country. Noble resolve!
Mr.. Lyman c. Draper of Madison,
Wisconsin, and Secretary Of the Wiscon-
sin Historical Society, isnow in our State
gathering materials and information for
biography of Genl. Thos. Sumter, the
"Game Cock" of South Carolina. Mr..
Draper commenced this work thirty
years ago. Such book will be of great
interest to South Carolinians.
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Rs" Daniel Neal, & negro, in the en-
plov of a contractor on the Air Line Rail-
road near Harmony. in York County,