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


be discontinued on the 9Oth inst, for want
of funds to run them. In Edgefeld they
|.have been already discontinned-for the
reason Whatsbecomessof the.mon-
Fey ? spo earpet-baggers and: scal1awags
steal it dlt 81 81
Il South Carolina has.sent 7;U4s negroes.
Eto Louisiana, since the war. ;Wemight'
spare more. 80. Y
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. -. -.
The appointmentof 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. No.. 40 -
Federal troops, both infantry and cay
airy, continue to arrive in our State. In
the meantime the Ku Klux seem to be
subesiding. ~. .as' aa<A. .G-li "a
Court is now in session in Abbevile,
Judge Orr presiding. Also in Laurens,
Judge Moses presiding.
| VIM. F. Nance, ESQ.,, ofNewberry, is
General Agent for the Counties of New
berry, :Laurens, Greenville and Abbe-
| vile, for, the Land, and Immigration
scheme of Butlar, Chadwick, Gary Il 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 to
Greenville, by January next.
The Rev. John Stout has become pastor
Of the Baptist Church in Newberry.
The County County Commissioners OF
| Georgetown butcher and sell the Poor
I House oxen, .pocketiug the money. That
is mild! ,f I
An amateur Concert is to be given in
Camden this week, for the benefit of the
Cemetery.
Mr.. Bucheit, the German who SO sud-
denly disappeared from Charleston, has
been found. Instead of drowning him
self, he had ruin away on account OF
debt.
| A great. Methodist revival is going on
at Graham's Turnout, on the S. G. Rail-
road. A week ago 80 converts had been
admitted. ~ 49,.
In Aiken, the other day, in the Trial
Justice Court, the jury gave a verdict OF
Forty Five Dollars against George Fl.
Lounsberry for shooting dog of Dabney
Dickson The shipment of Peaches from
Aiken to the North has already begun.
Fruit for waste in Aiken!
The Sumter Watc1mlam gives the fol-
lowing war news: n
] Co. F., 7th U. S. Cavalry, of eighty
four men, commanded by Lieut.. D. Nc
Intosh, arrived at Sumter on Monday last,
and have gone into camp here. This
Company, with three others, ordered to
Nashville; Winnsboro, and Darlington G.
H. came from Fort Lyon, Colorado Ter
ritory, and were twelve days on the route
to Columbia.
Sumter, we learn, has now been made
post, and, with the Infantry, numbers
Jas men. IiVs 800. =
"John the Baptist IA negro boy) has
been caught breaking into a Store in
Sumter.
1 Prof John G.. Barnwell of the Univer-
sity of Georgia, gentleman of much
learning and research, Ia brother of Mrs.
Edward Walker of our town. asserts that
| by taking the average rainfall of the
past twenty years, he can predicate the
amount of rain that must fall this year.
He demonstrates that the present sum-
mer must be excessively wet, fifteen
inches being due.
! Ulysses S. Grant "a Chester White
Boar Lucy "a Chester White Sow and
Bill Arp Ia Chester White Pig) are to be
raffled in Chester by Capt. o. A. Wylie-
100 chances-S2 each. Another "Grand
Gift Enterprisev' What next? Why
don't the Holloway heirs put up the
Masonic Hall Building? -