Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1880-12-23

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The tonnage over the Camden
branch of the South Carolina Rail
/, road for last month was about a half
million in excess Of what it was du-
ring the same month last year.
A young besr was killed two weeks
ago, near Herdersonville, Colleton
County, by a little son of DR.. d. W.
Moore.
A reward of $500 has peen offered
by the wife of the murdered man for
the apprehension, with proof 10 cons
Wet, of the Maddox murderers.
Up to Tuesday night last therehad
been received at the depot in Ander-
son 1914 balesof cotton, about 2,300
more than to the same date last year.
Greenwood Las a Castle of knights
of the Golden Rule, forty strong, and
is threatened with a Radical news
paper.
A large number Of negroes are
leaving Abbeville county to works
the phosphate mines on the COAST
There is less than a mile and b
of grading to be done on the AtlantA
and French Broad Valley Railroad
between pickens Court House and
Easley.
-Four families Of Immigrants direct
from Germany, numbering l6 persons
in all, arrived at Anderson on Thurs.
day. Three of the families will 60
to plantations of Messrs. B. F. Cray
ton & Sons and the other to Maj. ]
W. Provost.
Mr.. T. N. DAllis and Mr.. Searlea,
OF Napoleon, in Abbeville county,
have purchased a 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 a,
law to stop the traffic in seed cotton.
The MAJ, who buys seed cotton me-
lawfully Is worse than the naa that
steals it, and is a NUISANCE in any
neighborhood. Hegenerally pays for
it unlawfully in mean whiskey or
chips aud whetstOnes," while he en-
courages rogues to rob his neighbors.
We learn from the Gteenville Meas
that fftyseight persons left one Sec
ton of Anderson county a week or
ten dayshgo for Texas.
The incorporators Of the G9eenyille
and Laurens Railroad recently held a
meeting at Greerville. That these
two places should be connected by
rail there is not a doubt.
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A number of divers and wreckers,
while operating in Town Creek, in.
the 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. G. Howard, CT Grahamville,
Beaufort county, exhibited at the late.
Charleston Fair, a rice cleaner which
will clean and polish rice as good and
better than the old process of pound.
Ing. A one-horse power machine,
worth $500, will clean fifty bushels
day. The upland rice planters c
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.
ca, speaks rather 'lespondently of the
political outlook in the South. He
says that the soliiity of that section
is passing away, and that if the pres.
ent condition Of affairs continues, he
will never again be a candidate for
Congress from thai District.
On Sunday night last while the
family of DR.. Holmes. OF Basnwell,
were holding prayer in one Of the
rooms of the dwelling, four miles fron
the village, a negro robber put his
nand through a broken pane OF one.
of the side lights at the front door.
turned the key, walked deliberately
into another room and commenced
pillazing. Some of the family heard
the noise and called the Doctors at.
s%ention thereto. The villain was found
secreted under a lounge. the covering
of which did not quitereach the loor.
As soon es the fellow realized his po.
s%ition, lie slipped ronnd Dr.. Holmes,
who was after him, and got out into
the passage or hallway, ran down to
the back door, unlocked it. and es.
capped.
In noticing the Clarendon lynchingA
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