Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1883-10-11
LOCAL ITEMS.
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Greek. Tie Rev. A. J. Cauthen viii
preach at Concord in the forenoon, and al
Providence in the eafternoon The Rev. J
Ware Brown will preach at PaIksville il
the forenoon, and at Plum Branch in ths
afternoon. The Rev. N. N. Burton vii
preach at Sardis The Rev. G. w. Bussey
will preach at Plum Branch. The Rev
W. P. Meadors will preach at Rehobott
in the forenoon, and at Bethel in the af
ternoon.
Grand Jury Report.
This document will be found in oul
columns to-day.
Out of Memory.
Rain does not come within the memory
Of the oldest inhabitant
Puck.
Puck and divers other comic and Illus
j trated papers always on hand at D. r.
Durisoe's. IS
Beecher In Augusta.
| On Tuesday night Of next week, Henry
Ward Beecher is 10 deliver. a lecture in
the Masonic Theatre in Augusta.
Cotton Market Firm.
Is The latest quotations from Augusta on
Monday afternoon represent the cotton
market firm; middling. 10; good mid
ding. los.
Only Two.
At this term Of Court, Edge6ela bad
no case Of homicide, and sends but two ne
groes to the Penitentiary Our virtue
and .peacefulness know no bounds
To Richmond.
Miss Ella Holson departed from her
home in our midst on Tuesday morning
last, to enter upon her third session in Il 9
Baptist Female College Of Richmond, Va.
Not the Whole Hand.
Our young friend, Whitman Hill, did
not lose whole hand by the cotton gin
accident, as we stated last week, but thrt 9
of his fingers have had to be amputated.
Little Cotton and Less Corn.
The estimates of the yield Of crops
throughout our county still vary from one
Ehalfto two thirds of crop of cotton.
The corn crop is very short in every Sec
ton.
A. Ridge Spring.
The Rev. G F. Williams, pastor of the
Baptist Church at Ridge Spring. has re-
Gently closed protracted meeting there.
Eleven additions to the church were the
result.
Callison at Rutherfordton.
Senator Callison was to have represented
Edgeield in the narrow gauge railroad
meeting at Rutherfordton, n. c., on niun-
day last. Next week we hope to be able
to chronicle cheering news from this
meeting.
A Premium 20 Pay.
Subscribers who pay up their subscrip-
tions between this and the lst January,
1854, will be presented with "Kendalps
Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases"
"a very valuable and useful book of nearly
100 pages.
Kaolip on Saluda.
We hear of the discovery Of very
valuable well of kaolin on the place OF
Mr.. G. w. Smith. near Germanyille in
our County. This Kaolin is said to be 80
beautiful as to be very easily mistaken for
fine, creamy -four.
MIR. Lebeschultz.
This gentleman has still few very val |
liable goods left, winch he is disposing Of
at immense bargains. And apropos OF
Mr.. Lebeschultz, he has not yet sold his
beautiful home which has been advertised |
IN our paper 60 long.
DIR. w. d. Jennings, Sr.
This popular and widely y-known citizen
o. our town has been quite i'll for some
three weeks past, but We are glad to say
that he is now up and out-with wit un-
holding the fort with his
usual cheerful grit and tenacity.
Robinson.Coleman
On this evening, Wednesday, Octot er
10th, in the Methodist Church OF New
berry, our fair friend and honored coun-
trywoman, Miss Adela Coleman, will be
married to MIR. John Robinson, of Wades
boro, n. C. Our kindest and heartiest
congratulations.
Orange Blossoms at Johnston.
The orange. blossom Joke ls certainly
stale one, but, like love, it song peo-
pie are never tired of hearing. Therefore
We make bold to state, that from all we
can gather, the town OF Johnston is trans
formed into one solid orange grove with all
the trees in fuilest hloom
Miss Covar's Millinery.
Miss Medora Covar is receiving her fall
and winter stock of Millinery Goods. Day
by day now she is in receipt of things so
novel, so stylish and so lovely as to beg
gar all description. Next week Miss Coz
var will speak for herself through the
columns of the ADVERTISER.
Property Abstract.
We find from Auditor YoIngblood's
abstre ct that Edgefe!d's real pro. Jrty this
year amounts to So SS6, ,260; personal,
81 ,O3S,l7 total, $3, ,923,490. Thlsis ex-
Elusive Of corporations-railroads, &c.
When these are summed up and counted
IN, we will make fuller report.
Meeting.
The annual meeting of the County
Commissioners will be held in our town on
the first Tuesday in November All par
ties holding elaine against the county for
the current fiscal year are required to file
the same, before said day, with Capt. W.
81. Brunson, Clerk Of the Board.
Portrait of Gary.
The handsome picture of Gen. Mart
Gary, painted by MIR. Guerry, can be seen
in O. II. P. Fant & Co. Is store. Mr. Evans
has had it placed there for the benefit Of
his Edgeield friends. That they might
look upon the life Likeness of one whose
is dear to every Carolinian-
NemS.
w-CT.
Edgefeld should have Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union. The ladies of
the Methodist Womans' Missionary So
ciety might we'll discuss this matter at
their next meeting. The field in which
they would work is hard and stony
one, God knows, but 30 much the more
call for brave determination and persistent
effort.
Illness of MIR. Holland.
We regret to hear that Mr.. Bennett Hol-
land, since the death of his wife, is lying
quite i'll of fever at the residence of his son
Mr.. James Holland, in the Stevens Greek
section. We also hear report-and we
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