Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-01-31
LOC.AL.ITENGS-
Churches.

| Will preach al MI. vernon IN Inc forenoon,
and at Mt. Carmel in the afternoon. The
Rev. ]. S. Jordan will preach at Bold
Spring The Rev. ]. K. FAINT will preach
at Bethany. The Rev. ]. P. Mealing will
preach at Ebenezer in the forenoon, and
at Horns Greek in the afternoon. The
Rev. G. w. Bussey will preach at Parks
vile in the forenoon, and at Plum Branch
in the afternoon.
The Helmets.
Hussars, meet at the Pavilion on Sat-
urday next.
To Supreme Court.
A number of our lawyers are off to Co.
lumbia this week, in attendance upon the
Supreme Court.
Notary Public.
DR.. w. E. Prescott. Of the Antioch Sec
tion. has been appointed Notary Public
by Governor Thompson.
Two Papers.
We will send the ADVERTISER and the
Detroit Free Press both one year for
three dollars The Free Press is the
great funny paper Of the United States.
Bishop Howe.
The Right Reverend W. B. w. Howe
will preach in the Church of Our Savior
at Trenton on Sunday morning next. In
the evening he will preach in Trinity
Church, Edge6eld.
To Yorkville.
Our young friend, Mr.. Bruneon Hol-
lingswortt, the only son of John Il. Hol-
lingsworth, Esq. will depart from among
us in few days for Yorkville, there to
enter Col. Cowards military SCHOOL.
The Advertiser Horse Book.
All our subscribers now ask for our
horse book which is given when the sub
acription is paid for the paper. This book
tells you what is the matter with your
sick horse and what to give him to effect
e cure.
Thanks.
Mr.. E. L. Roche, the very efficient Supt.
of the State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society will accept our thanks for COM
plimentary ticket to the exhibition, which
began in Charleston on the 29th instant
and will end on the 23d CT February.
Governors Proclamation.
The gin house of Mrs. Susan Walker,
in Aiken County, was destroyed by fire
on the 10th of last November, and the
barn of DR.. Fl. A. Shaw of Edge6eld, was
destroyed by fire on the 23d OF Novem-
Der. A reward of $50 is offered for the
arrest of the barn burner in each of these
cases.
Board Of Health.
A new duty for our Town Council will
be the appointment Of Board of Health.
Said Board is to consist of not less
than three members, one Of whom must
be graduate of medicine in good stand
ing. Should cur municipal authorities
fail to appoint such local Board, the
State Board must do so.
Pretty Badly Gored.
Edmunds got pretty badly gored by
Butler in the Senate spat over the con-
frmation of Speer. The South Carolina
Senator disposed Of the bloody froth of
the Vermont vituperator about as effect
uallv as he dispelled the empty vapor-
ings" of Conkling on similar OCCASION
augusta Chronicle
Gypsies.
A band of so-called Gypsies camped in
our town for three or four days last week.
The band consisted of two white women
three or four half naked little children, a
h,lf-naked negro man, half naked negro
girl, six ecraggy horses, one scraggy mule,
several scraggy dogs, and three wagona.
One of the women told fortunes. And
the band shared the honors Of pablic at
tentlon with the Wizard Oil Troupe.
Gov. Hagood's Stock Farm.
Gov. Hagoods Saluda stock farm has
been condueted on business principles and
is pronounced success. Five hundred
head of stock are kept all the year round
and in seven years only two have been
killed by dogs and none have been stolen.
A shepherd and his we'll trained dog bring
up all the animals at night and zen them
in secure and com mfortable quarters Pal
metto Yeoman
Capt C. b. Lake.
Senator NJ. G. Buffers resolution to al
low each Senator clerk at Sc day, was
agreed to ON Thursday of last week, and
he Immediately appointed Capt. George
B. Lake as his owr clerk. Col. Jas. R
Randall, Of the Augusta Chronicle and
Constitationalist, was appointed as clerk
to Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia. Two
or three days before this, Capt. Lake had
been turned out Of the position he had
previously occupied, on account of being
Democrat.
The Delinquent Lands.
With reference to those persons who's;
names appear on the Delinquent land list
for Pckens and Wise Townships, two are
not published at all, two have paid their
taxes and have shown US their receipts,
and all the others have rendered their
taxes and the Treasurer's clerk declined to
receive them. These are the facts as to
the Townships named. 1t will be remem-
bered that the ADVERTISER declined to
publish the Delinquent list last year, te
cause Of divers illegalities. This year there
were so many mere Of such illegalities that
the list was. Rot even offered to US.
The Wizard Oil Troupe.
From Tuesday night until Saturday
night of last week. the Wizard Oil Troupe