Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1875-09-30
STATE NEWS.

Columbians are oganizing fourth
company in their city.
= Fourteen marriages are reported to-
take place shortly in Ncwberry county.
One hundred bales ofcottou sold at
Columbia On Tuesday at l24 and los.
In Georgetown county last week, a
party of hunters killed sixteen deer.
-Messrs T. Tupper and Sons, corn
merchants OF Charleston, have suspend
ed.
"A large bear, weighing four hundred
pounds, was killed by party of hunters
in Horry county, on the 18th instant
Col. PealSo has received orders to
push the work of rebuilding the Lau
rens road 20 completion.
Tho Thornwcll orphanage at Clinton,
near Newberry, will be opened October
lst for the reception of children.
The grangers of Lexington county
contemplate erecting cotton factory and
reviving the Agricultural Association.
"A large buck was killed near jack
sonboro, Colleton county, one day last
week by Ben Ford. His weight was 2l7
pounds; he was very fat, and his head was
adorned with magnificent pair Of ant
lers.
The Reedy River Association of
Baptists have decided to ask the Baptists
OF South Carolina during the present
Convention year to contribute. seven
thousand dollars for the benefit of those
within the bounus of their State who
have not the means of maintaining the
regular services of religion.
The Nf,s&s, dad Courier positively
denies the J1Etff of rumor in circula-
ton in the up-country that yellow fever
exists in Charleston, and says: "There
is not in Charleston, nor has there been
this year, asinglc case of yellow fever,
mild or severe, nor has there beei. any
case of fever which by any ingenuity
could be tortured into yellow fever"
The Union League meets tonight.
We learn that the membership is being
increased, but that the door is not opened
to all who knock. When the national
Democracy gets control of the govern
ment, which is rapidly coming around,
there will be no nse for secret political
associations.-Cot Register.
At a meeting of the bar of Aiken,
held few days ago, resolutions exceed
ingly complimentary to Judge Maher
and requesting the legislature TO re elect
him were unanimously passed.
The Barnwell Sentinel says: "A
fearful storm swept over the ncighbor-
hood of Healing Springs on Saturday
night last, exceeding in violence any
thing that has occurred for years. Trees,
fences, dc, were prostrated, and cOnsid
cradle damage done the corn and cotton
crops. A fodder stack was torn to pieces
on Mr.. Odom's place, and not blade re-
maine1 to be seen, being carried hun.
dred yards or more distant; and We
learn that acrec of corn were carried off,
shucked by the wind, and Il portion of it
shcllod really for milling purposes. a
house on Lahdy Walkers place was lev
elled to the ground, and his dwelling
alone remains. So severe was the storm
that some yC ing men were found cling
| ing to saplings to escape being blown
| away, and one gentleman we heard of,
! was carried at least fifty yards and
thrown on his fence by the wind"
superintendent j. X. Jillson has
opened correspondence with the agent
Of the Peabody fund in the United States
with view to securing some Of its bene-
fits for the public schools located in the
various counties of this State. The fund
is istributed with The greatest care, and
its bcquests are always directly proper
toned 10 the amount contributed in any
given locality for educational pur-
poses, the prccaution having been
found necessary to prevent lis waste and
misapplication. Owing to some mis-
management, South Carolina has up to
this time derived little or Eo benefit from
the generous gift of the lamented Pea
body, willie Georgia and many other
states have secured their full respective
quotas.