Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-06-29
Items of State News.

l. OCiiis VOuh (hs ffoSOEOAt sAO
guished German citizen of Charleston
who has long labored manfully for tn
good of his adopted State, has been an
nounced by his friends as candidate fo
Mayor of that city, We hope he will b.
Eelected. The election is to take place il
August. -.
For week past. grand doings have
been going on in walhalla. Examina
tionof students, preaching of distinguish
ed Divines, Commencement exercises
imposing ceremonies of laying the Cor
ner Stone of the Lutheran College by the
Masonic fraternity and a brilliant ball, al
following each other IN rapid succession
On one day last week, fifty odd colored
laborers left Greenvillec in a body, te
work on the Alabama and Branswick
Railroad-tempted by the offer of dol.
lar and half day.
Next week is to be gala week in Lau-
rensville, on account of the Commence
ment exercises of the popular Female
COlleSe OF CnaC.C
In Laurens, Judge Moses has decided
that the Jury was Illegally drawn, in con-
sequence of which no Sessions business
can be attended tc until next February.
More Radical blundering, or chicanery,
or both. The idea of the wheels, of JUS
tice being elogged for eight or ten months
.Shadrach Webster, negro murderer,
is to be hung in Anderson, on Friday
21st July. \
Tremendous. Masonic celebration in
Anderson on. Saturday last. IN. u,
Efforts are being made to establish q
National Bank in Union. .;ig.-.
The Union Times giyea hopeful words
of the corn and cotton prospects in that
County, but says the Wheat crop has
turned out very poorly, not half crop
having been made. :,
The Catalogues Of the two Due West
Colleges, lately issued from the Office Of
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian, of
Due West, are beautiful specimens both
of printing and Of tasteful getting-up.
That popular gentlemen, Maj. Chris.
suber, has left Newberry on summons
to attend the Ku Ktux investigating COM
mittee in Washington. Hehas taken his
Ku Klux stick with him, and we hope to
hear of his tapping certain members of
the committee gently over the head with
it. ~.
A devil in the Ne,cbcr4y- Herald office,
on account of "getting thick with the
girls,' has drawn out the "puekering
string of the Editors ccrap-book, thore
by creating great confusion. Those pleas
ant Grenekers
The June Term Of Court is in session
in Abbeville, Judge Orr Presiding. The
docket is said to be an unusual
ly heavy one. Those elevated Radical
gentlemen, the three Guflins and AL
bert Hamblin, are to be tried orgrand
larceny upon the Country Treasury.
Some forty witnesses for the State and
the defence have been bound over, and
array of distinguished coun-
sci is toappear on either side. n
a Convention of all the Sabbath Schools
If all denominations, in Kershaw. Dis
rict, is to be held at Camden early in
August. =; jtir
The Camden Journal of the 22nd inst,
contains the following. Up to to-day
about one third Of the
ands advertised to be sold. for taxes in
his District, have been disposed of, the
State being the principal purchaser. The
ale is still progressing. -. ,35...
AT the Convention held in Charleston
n the 10th inst, to form a Grand Divi-
ion of Sons of Temperance for South
,arolina, Edgefeld was not represented.
ought to have'been; although there is
ess hard hahitual drinking IN our town
t present than we have ever known.
The Sumter Neys peels the hide off of
Ion. Jas. L. Orr in the most thorough
nd pitiless manner. The Ne,cs begins
s onslaught thus IF Judas, not con-
mt with betraying his master, had join
l the prosecutors and murderers in
looking and reviiing him. hc would t
ave been a more tit exemplar of James b(
. Orr" n.
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