Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-06-22
Items of State News.

be discontinued on the 30th inst, for want
of funds to run them. In Edgsfeld they
have been already discontinded-for the
treason, What becomes.of themon-
ley ? Spo cMpet-baggers and scallawags
steal it ave g. ~
i South Carolina has sent 7;O4s negroes
Fto Louisiana, sineethe war. Weimight
spare more.
A. M. Riser, mail-robher, and late
postmaster at Newberry, has been SEN
fenced in the United States Court, to ten
years imprisonment.
Newberry, spartanburg and Chester
have National Banks. a.r go
The appointment of r. M: Wallace, sen
of the scallawag member of Congress, as
successor. Of Louis E.. Johnson, as Mar
.shal of South Carolina, has been sus-
pended. Mr.. Johnson continues in the
functions of the Office. -. .e'.4
Federal troops, both infantry and cay
airy, continue to arrive in our State. In
the meantime the Ku Klux seem to be
subsiding. - $50. ys -
Court is now in session in Abbeville,
Judge Orr presiding. Also in Laurens,
Judge Moses presiding.
! VIM. F. Nance, Esq, of. Newberry, is
General Agent fes the Counties of New
berry, Laurens, Greenville and Abbe-
Vile, for the Land and immigration
scheme of Butlar, Chadwick, Gary d Co.
President Buford, of the Atlanta and
Richmond Air Line Railroad, says this
great work will be pushed forward with
certainty, and seems to think that the
Road will approach near, If not quite Ve
Greenvile, by January next.
The Rev. John Stout has become pastor
of the Baptist Church in Newberry.
The county County Commissioners o.
| Georgetown butcher and sell the Poor
House oxen, .pocketing the money. Thai
is mild
An amateur Concert is to be given II
Camden this week, for the benefit OF tht
Cemetery.
Mr.. Bucheit, the German who SO sud
denly disappeared from Charleston, has
been found. Instead of drowning him
self, he had run away on account O
debt.
A great Methodist revival is going OF
at Graham's Turnout, on the S. c. Rail
road. A week ago 80 converts had beer
admitted.
In Aiken, the other day, in the Tria
, Justice Court, the jury gave verdict o
Forty Five Dollars against George FL
Lounsberry for shooting a dog of Dabney
| Dickson. The shipment Of Peaches from
Aiken to the North has already begun
Fruit for waste in Aiken!
The Sumter Watchman gives the fol
lowing war news:
Co. F., 7th U. S. Cavalry, of eighty
four men, commanded by Lieut.. D. Nc
ntosh, arrived ut Sumter on Monday last
and have gone into camp here. Thi!
Company, with three others, ordered t
Nashville, Winnsboro, and Darlington c
H. came from Fort Lyon, Colorado Ter
| rltOrN, ana were lWeiNc uitS , Oll tiic loul'
to Columbia.
Sumter, we learn, has now been made
a post, and, with the Infantry, numbers
Us men.
"John the Baptist" "a negro boy) ha'
been caught breaking into a Store il
Sumter.
Prof. John G.. Barnwell of the Univer
|
sitv of Georgia, a gentleman of mucl
learning and research, "a brother of Mrs
Edward Walker of ourtown) asserts tha
by taking the average rainfall of thC
past twenty years, he can predicate th'
amount Of rain that must fail this year
He demonstrates that the present sum
mer must be excessively wet, Gjtcc'
inches dciHg o'ec
Ulysses 5. Grant "a Chester Whit,
Boar Lucy n Chester White Sow anC
Bill Arp q Chester White Pig are 10 be
ratified III Chester by Capt. %. y. Wyle-
100 chancps-S2 each. Another "eilant
Gift Enterprise What next? Why
don't the Holloway heirs put NJ tho
: Masonic Hall Building?