Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-02-29
Around and About Town,


The weather is 80 fine that all the talk
is about garden seeds, and manure, and
wheelbarrows; and such like things
Sore is the perplexity except with the
everlasting knowing ones) as regards the
best kind of Irish potatoes, and exhaus-
tive is the weighing of the comparative
merits of different species of snap beans.
We bought our garden seeds yesterday,
and the proceeding cost us fearful pangs.
But how much more fearful will be the
pangs inflicted upon us by the colored
man, or men, who shall work the garden.
There are no more unfeeling tyrants in
these bitter days than the men who make
your garden for: you-who come to; you
at 9 in the morning, and, resting SIX
hours at noon, leave you at 4 in the after
noon, and tell you all the time t.iat you
know nothing about the matter, and that
they cannot do il right if their system
is interfered with. God alone knows
what cross these colored garden-n1a-
kers are to us! Andas to wheelbarrows,
Mr.. Sans has lovely ones, andsells more
than he can order.
Court will assemble on Monday next,
and the term bids fair to be long one.
There is a press of business on hand,
for it must be remembered we have had
no grand jury since March 1871, and
even then number of cases were con-
tinued on accountof absence ofwitness-
es. If we mistake not there are rs many
as eight or ten criminal cases to come
before the Court. There are the six men
indicted for the shooting of the negro
girl at Graniteville-the girl who shot
Mr.. Brewers baby. And there is the
Blair case. And the case of the negro
woman who poisoned her husband. And
the case of the old negro woman who
wrung her grandchild's neck. And the
Flint and Sharpton case. And-but 1T
doesn't matter to mention any more. AS
regards the Jury for the coming Term,
it is all arranged according to law. We
have seen the lists and the names upon
each are good ones. Upon the Grand
Jury there are 13 white and colored
men. Of the So Petit Jurors 20 are white
and 16 colorcd. It is most earnestly to
be hoped that the citizens drawn upon
these Jurics will be prompt in their at
tendance. 1t is duty all men owe the
country-and especially now when the
course of justice has been clogged and
delayed for whole year. Judge Melton
will preside rs usual.
We have no internal improvements in
our town to note, save the rehabilitation
of the old Frazier store, which is to he
occupied, on one side,. ly Mr.. W. II.
Brunson, and on the other, by nr SIN
ders. The latter is already moving into
it. Our merchants will soon be off for
spring goods. Mr.. J. II. Chcathan de-
parts for New York in a day or two.
Messrs. Bryan, Brunson, Markcrt Il
Clisby, and o. F. Cheatham all leave
next nextweek, we hear. Get ready your
greenbacks, ladies
DR.. Minis opens the Male Academy ON
Monday next.
Miss Dobey's school is nourishing, pop
ular and smooth-going
The new floor has been laid in the
Episcopal Church.
Socially, Edgefeld has of late been
very commendable. Little tea parties,
happenings-in, surprises, &c, are of al
most nightly occurrence. After all, our
people are by no means the duhest in the
world. We eat, and drink, and dance,
and flirt, and stick cuckle-burs on our
neighbors' tails about as merrily as the
merriest. And all these things are r''-'
pleasant too, if not carried to excess.
Miss Mary Ann Buie, the Confederate
Soldiers Friend, who is now a citizen OF
Augusta, writes US and says "my nom
sense ended with 1871. and I am now
hard at work establishing in this city a
gigantic female institution to be called
the stonewall Jackson Female College,
How happya thing 1t must be TO ieei
able to announce that ones nonsense
is ended! God help us all to emulate