Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1880-12-23
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STATE NEWS.
Mr.. George J. Lesesne killed bear
in Santee Swamp on the 29th NIL
that weighed SOC pounds.

The tonnage over the Camden
branch OF the South Carolina Rail-
road for last month was about half
million in excess OF what it was du-
ring the same month last year.
A young bear was killed two weeks
ago, near Herdersonville, Colleton
County, by little son of DR.. H. W.
Moore.
A reward of $500 has been offered
by the wife of the murdered man for
the apprehension, with proof 10 cor
Wet, OF the Maddox murderers.
Up to Tuesday night last there he'd
been received at the depot in Ander-
son i5,474 balesot cotton, about $500
more than to the same date last year.
Greenwood has Castle of Knights
of the Golden Rule. forty strong, and
. is threatened witt. Radical news
paper.
A large number Of negroes arsl
leaving Abbeville county to wor1
the phosphate mines on the coass
There is less than a mile and No..
Of grading to be done on the Atlantly'
and French Broad Valley Railroad
between pickens Court House ard
Easley.
Four families Of immigrants direct
from Germany, numbering l6 persons
in ali, arrived at Anderson on Thurs
day. Three Of the families will go
to plantations Of Messrs. B. F. Cray
ton & Sons and the other to Maj, J
W. Provost.
Mr.. T. n. DIllis and Mr.. Searlse,
OF Mapleton, in Aboeville county.
nave purchased Clement attach
ment and will soon have it in opera
ton. 1t will be located on Little
River, and will be only the beginning
of,a number Of improvements in that
section.
The Hampton Guardian says: The
people are becoming c!amorous for g,
law to stop the traffic in seed cotton.
The man who buys seed cotton mr.
lawfully is worse than the mar that
steals it, and il nuisa1ce in any
neighborhood. Hegenerally pays for
it unlawfully in mean whiskey or
"chips and whetstones," while he en-
courages rogues to rob his neighbors.
We learn from the Gseenville .Neac&
th..t fifty.eisns persons left one Sec
ton Of Anderson county week or
ten dayshgo for Texas.
The incorporators 2f the G.eenville
ana Laurens Railroad recently held a
meeting at Greerville. That these
two places should be connected by
rail there is not doubt.
A number of divers and wreckers,
while operating in Town Creek, in
tire vicinity Of Charleston, recently
brought to the surface two cannon
which had evidently been used in the
Revolutionary War. They are ten
feet in length and six inch bore.
W. C. Howard, cf Grahamville,
Beaufort county, exhibited at the late
Charleston Fair, rice cleaner which
will clean and polish rice as good and
better than the old process of pound.
iGg. A one-horse power machine,
worth SlQ0, will clean fifty bushels
day. The upland rice planters can
now get their own machine and clean
thoir rice at home.
a special Washington dispatch to
the New York Tribune says that Con.
gresham O'Connor, of South Carroll.
"a, speaks rather ',espondently Of the
political outlook in the South. He
says that the solidty OF that section
is passing away, and that il the pres.
ent condition Of affairs continues, he
viii never again be candidate for
Congress from that District.
On Sunday night last while the
family of DR.. Holmes. OF BAtnwe)l,
were holding prayer in one Of the
rooms Of the dwelling, four miles lron
the village, negro robber pnt his
land through broken pane Of one
of the side lights at the front door.
turned the key, walked deliberately
into another room and commenced
pilla ing. Some OF the family heard
The noise and called the doctors at.
,ention thereto. The villain was found
secreted under lounge, the covering
Of which did not quite reach the floor.
As soon es the fellow realized his po.
sitiou, lie slipped ronnd DR.. Holmes,
who was after lin. and got out into
the passage or hallway, ran down to
7he back door, unlocked it and es.
capped.
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