Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1882-06-29
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Mad Dogs In Edgefield.

Mad Dogs In Edge6eld.
Considerable excitement was occasioned
by q mad dog at Coleman's Gross Roads,
Elgefeld County, last Thursday. Mr..
Jack Coleman owned pack Of eight or
ten fox hounds; one Of them went mad
and bit the others, and also fine mule
worth $3.50. Mr. Coleman had his hounds
killed, and he has the mule penned up
awaiting results.-NeVJery ObSerrer.
The Desk Entertainment.
Do not forget the Hop at the Academy
on Friday evening Of this week, in behalf
of the desk fund. 1t will be charming
affair. Lovely girls-radiant, tender, amia-
BILE! Seductive and bewildering music !
Moonlight, music, love and flowers! And
ices and lemonade for the taking. Price
of admission, 80 cents. BY all means let
the last cent upon the new desks be paid
before the school closes for the summer.
GreenYiiie reception.
We have 10 thank our beloved little
friend and neighbor, Miss Mamie Addison,
daughter of John L. Addison, Esq, for an
invitation to attend a Reception by the
Presidents Of the Greenville Female Col
lege and Furman University in honor Of
the Graduating Glasses. This reception is
TO be held at the residence of The Presi-
dent of Furman University, on Tuesday
evening, June 10th, from $50 to 1880.
The Misses Lewis.
Miss Helen Morris Lewis and Miss Sal
lie Lewis-to the delight Of our whole
community-are spending the month Of
June in our town. In Edgefeld homes
and hearts, "Sallie Lewis" has long been
a beloved household word Miss Helen
Morris Lewis is one of the most brilliantly
endowed women Of the present day. or Of
any land. And apart from her rare intel
lectual gifts, she has beauty, grace and ir-
magnetism.
The Johnston Commencement.
The exercises Of the Johnston High
School, perhaps the most prominent inst-
tuition Of learning in our County. will
close on Wednesday and Thursday, Jure
18th and 18Th. There will be speeches by
the boys, recitations by the girls, compost
tions by the young ladies. and music and
by the whole school. On
Thursday at II o'clock A. M Col Cow
ard. State Superintendent of Education,
and others, will deliver addresses on edu-
cational subjects. This occasion promises
TO be one Of very great interest, and we
are much obliged to Prof. Brown for an
invitation to be present.
Coleman Academy.
An Edgefeld school, of whose manage
ment and prosperity We often hear pleas
ant accounts, is Coleman Academy, near
Higgins Ferry, presided over by Miss
Annie M. Floyd, young lady who, aside
rom her accomplishments and experience,
has an unusual gift in arousing and sus-
.aining the ambition of her pupils. The
exercises Of Coleman Academy will close
n July, with an exhibition, at which we
nope to be present
Ridge Spring and Johnston.
Bro. G. +. Williams writes u.s. says the
Baptist Courier, that there ig an outcrop.
ping of considerable interest in his con-,
,regation at Ridge Spring, and then he
ellis us about the great work of grace at
Johnston: "Bro w. T. Hundley is hav-
ng the finest revival ever witnessed in
Johnston. He baptized fourteen yester-
lay, among them mature men and women,
md people of much influence in society.
Bro, T. NJ. Galphin, of Orangeburg, has