Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-01-30
Local Paragraphs from Johnston's

Local Paragraphs from Johnston's
q Y Depot.
Activity and enterprise are the watch.
words at, Johnston's Depot-and the
whole surrounding country entertain the
brightest hopes of seeing o fourishing
inland town there ina year.or two at
farthest. 49,
About 10000 bales of cotton will be
shipped from that point this season.
Messrs. T. Jones & Son have already
bought and shipped this season near
2,sOO bales-they paying Augusta prices,
less transportation.
There will soon be nine stores-with
heavy stocks of goods-in full blast.
And merchants from other points are
visiting there daily with view of going
into business.
Mr.. o. F. Cheatham, of this town, has
bought one of T. Jones & Sons Store
Houses, and will open splendid stock
of Dry Goods, &C., in the next few weeks.
Messrs. Carwile & Sans, also Of this
town, have bought the Store House re-
Gently erected by Maj. Sam. Watson, and
will be on hand about the first of March
with a tremendous stock Of Goods.
Messrs. T. Jones & Son are going to
build forthwith mammoth Store House,
which they will fill, on the lst March,
from floor to shingles, with first class
Groceries and Plantation Supplies. This
Firm sold in eight months last year
over ninety thousand dollars worth OF
goods, aud this year they are making ar
rangements to double their last years
sales-and they'll do it. l..,....1.-
Store House lots are selling at the rate
ofSl2OO per acre, with an upward ten
dency daily. - q 30 as q
Beautiful sites for Dwellings can be
fhad atsth rate of. $50 to 500 per acre.
Parties wishing to buy had better do so
at once, for those Johnston people have
the land mania bad.
Messrs. Holland & Mobley's store is
crowded with customers from morning
till highland who trade there go away
delighted more spiritually happy
than others. Messrs. II. & ID. are popu-
lar young gentlemen, and if they don't
succeed it will be because straight-for-
ward dealing, and business tact and vim,
are not duly appreciated in that vicinity.
Capt. Nat. Butler has just refused $S5
per acre for his farm-the Billy Mer-
chant place-lying within half mile OF
the Depot. Not saying anything to dis
parage Capt. BIS. farm, (for 1t is really q
valuable plantation we would however
remark that better places, in this Coun-
ty, twenty miles from the Railroad, can
be had for less than S. per acre. Rail-
roads are great institutions.
Mr.. Geo. j. Toney is improving his
Store House, and contemplates adding
largely ts his stock of general merchan-
disc this spring. He is doing a hand
some business, and we are glad of it.
DIR. T. ]. league, the popular Physi-
clan for that part Of the world, has just
opened a Drug Establishment, and isgo
ing to make it "a thing of beau:y,"-and
a repository for every variety and kind
Of goods in the Drsg line,,, And Of course
this house will be success, inasmuch
as evorybody isthe " fatdoctors', friend,
and will lend him their influence and
patronage.
The Academy and Lodge Hall is going
up rapidly, and will be completed in the
early spring. And then efforts will be
made to erect large Hotel
In conclusion for this week, We would
say that we like Johnston's-and love
the people there-but are sorry to report
that the buildings they arc having erect
ed-or rather. botched up-are void Of
mechanical skill and finish-built with
out the slightest regard to any of the
rules or orders of architecture,-anda are
not ut all commensurate with the up
ward and onward prosperity of the place.
Let those engaged i'll building up" this
town, forthwith make a change for the
better in this particular. and in after
years they will not regret it.