Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1880-05-13

VII ouaudJ
Mr.. Leard will preach in the Methodist
Church. The Episcopal Church will be
closed. The Rev. Mr.. Hundley will
preach in the Baptist Church if he should
have returned from Kentucky.
Quarterly Meeting.
The second Quarterly Meeting OF the
Edgeield Circuit was held liz Jones
Chapel, Tlenton, on Saturday and Sur
day last. And the occasion is said to
have been a very interesting one Pre-
siding Elder Chreitzbsrg preached on
Sunday morning.
Judge Hudson.
Judge Hudson iof Bennettsville, MARI
boro County, of the 4th Circuit, will pre-
side at our June term.
Far On Through Ages!
On Monday last. the customary memo
rial ceremonies, in part. were performed
in our village cemetery. There was no
address, andno ostentation, butthe Edge
field Rifles, assisted by the ladies OF the
community generally, visited the gra-es
of the Confederate dead and adorned
them with flowers. The men who fill
these fiower-decked graves died for their
country, and thereby entitled them
selves to everlasting remembrance
and eternal honor. And great will be
the shame if this annual floral tribute is
neglected while even one survives OF the
generation that saw these heroes give up
home and go cheerfully to death. Let
this beautiful and appropriate custom
live far on through everlasting ages!
The Most Beautiful.
The two graves most beautifully dec
Grated on Monday last, were those oftwo
OF the finest fellows that ever breathed
the breath of mortal life-or died to IL
lustrate true nobility-Liuet. Lamar
Wardlaw and Lieut.. Edmund Penn. The
first was layishly and artistically adorn-
ed with magnificent flowers Of all kinds
and colors, while the latter was almost
covered beneath crosses and circlets OF
the purest white roses, without even a
ileck of coloring.
A Noble Feature.
The Augusta Euenim1 Ne'cs Of Monday
last had a very large and we'll executed
engraving of the new Confederate monu-
ment in Columbus, Ca, which must be
very handsome. We enjoyed both pic
.ure and sketch very much.
NO truth is lost
For which the true are weeping,
Nor dead for which they died"
a Dead and Darling Child.
On Sunday afternoon next-though we
know not exactly at what point-the Rev.
Mr.. Leard will go up into the old Block
err section to preach a funeral sermon in
m of little Emmie Chiles, thedead
and darling grandchild of DIR. and Mrs.
John Lake.
DR.. Bland.
AS regards DE-. BANDS condition. we
a only say that it is not worse than ii
was a week ago, when we last wrote con
corning him, but, sad to say, it is no bet
ter. He lives from day to day in very
much the same state, and always with
high fever. This morning his spirits are
better than for two days past. We had
earnestly hoped and prayed that we
might. this wesk, be able to say some
thing more cheering n regardt to his case,
but what we now chr nicle we have just
received from a member of his family.
Census Enumerators.
Next week probably we shall be able
to announce the Census Enumerators
throughout our County. We would be
obliged to persons thus appointed, ifthey
would notify IS of the fact.
Lost Their Names.
On Monday a~fternoon-the dsy Of the
County Convention-two gentlemen sub.
-scrihsaS:. The Adaeetise-,--EE.st ns
paper to be sent to them at Dorn's Mill
We took down their names on the mar.
gin ofsa newspaper, which newspaper, IN
the excitement Of the day, we lost. Nol
have we been able to recall the names
We hope these gentlemen will write and
instruct us anew; and pardon us for OF
seeming indifference.
The Escaped Negroes.
No news yet of Watson and Brooks
the two negros who lately escaped from
onr Jail.
Treasurer and Auditor.
Announcements of candidates fol
Treasurer are Auditor and now in order
We hear of several aspirants for these
Offices before the primaries.
Mr. Glover.
Mr.. Glover is now doing we'll. though
it is said that his recovery will DO very
slow and that he will be confined to hi!
house for several months. On Thurs
day of last week, DR.. DeSaussure Ford
of Augusta, came 10 see him and probet
a large abscess which had formed in tn
region Of the wound. Upon this being
done, he was Immediately relieved, ant
has been getting along we'll up to thi
time.
Reelected.
Mrs. John Z. Bacon has been miami
mously reelected President of the Co
lumbia Memorial Association.
Kershaw's Brigade.
at the reunion of Kershaw's Brigad
in Columbia, during the Fair week c
next November, Gov. NJ. L. Bonhan
the first commander of the brigade, is t
deliver the address.
Unconstitutional.
On our first page will be found an m
nouncement OF Judge Pressley's late dc
cision that imprisonment for non pay
ment of poll tax is unconstitutional.
An Edgefeld.L Lexington Boy.
Col. John f. Hobbies, who has bee