Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-08-07
At r3arr's Chapel.

present year, for%Edgefeld Circuit, wi
= taEe,place. at Bars Chapel on the lot
; and llh Of this month.
!. T4els,s. 13S
And now the successful candidates ar
having their tickets printed at THE AID
vERTIssR Office, for the smellsum of 500
per Me-. O. D.
At Rocky Creek.
The Rev. N. G. Cooner pastor, is hold
ing q protracted meeting at Rocky Greek
this week, The Rev. ]. X. Pace, of Bates.
burg, was assisting him on Monday and
Tuesday.
Happy without Alloy!
After three months absence, cruising,
yachting, NARROWING and "vagarying" in
the low country, Miss Sallie Lewis has re-
turned to Edgefeld. Edgefeld's happi-
ness is now without shade or shadow of
alloy
Prescott Homestead.
The old home Of that noble and long
departed citizen of Edgefeld, Capt. Vim.
+. Prescott, in which his wldov, lately
deceased, had a life estate, was sold on
Monday last-650 acres. DR.. W. E.
Prescott boughtsit for $4,2l5
Z" Took Hit Up"
The following notice is posted on Mr..
Jacobs Store at Higgins Ferry: "Here
BY Will notife any and Ever one Whom
may look on this that i have taking up a
famale full; ;grone Size Hog Who So ever
the Hog Belong to come and get Hit.
Dave Abney.
J. H. .-Durst u Co.
'Messrs. j. Il. burst & Co., of Kirksey's,
will open business in Greenwood in Sep
tember. MIR. John X. burst has bought
valuable property in that beautiful rail-
road town, and will live there, conducting
The Greenwood branch of the house, while
Mr.. W. i. Durst-thank God will re-
main in old Edgefeld and keep up the
ime-honored mercantile establishment at
Airksey's.
After Twenty-Five Years.
Under the roof of her brother, the Hon.
linton Ward, of Clintonward, now rests
lady much beloved and widely popular
mong us in the sunny days before the
'ar-Mrs. Emmeline Goldman, of Mis-.
issippi, the second daughter of the late
apt. Richard Ward Since her removal ..
eastward, Mrs. Goldman has not been
mong us. She returns now on a visit,
idowed, and with but few of her cotem- !
oraries living, or within reach. Startling y
ranges will greet her eye and heart on 4
'ery side, but still we hope her sojoufn a
i'll be one ofheartfelt happiness. il
reat was the Fall. I
On Friday aftarnoon last, weakened by b
e high winds that were prevailing, the u
lge, cheap, ungainly negro store, on our b
lex street, fell to the earth with fearful - y
I'd far,reverberatipg crash. The upper y
Dry, the so.called Hall" had long leaned Z =
one side in manner at once threaten 6,
g and ludicrous. The building, If we 81
lstake not, belonged to The estate Of n,
Iwronce Cain. The fall Of this large but T
'se structure is typical Of the perishing al
many fatal vagaries that have beset 10
E negro mind within the last two de- m
les. di
of. Cuthbert Shecut. ea
Of Prof. Cuthbert Shecut, of Augusta, II
%, with his family, Is now in our town nl
visit to his sister, Mrs. S. S. Tomp. a. a.
IS, the Augusta Erensing NIe,es spoke "; ";
ely as follows: +.
The unanimous reelection by acclama. mn
/ OF the Principal and Assistant teach ap
of the Houghton Institute by the un
ssssa assss seen; and wfescus y
'aing applessiogae freRa atbASaetenAruv lfi1 dlft
ering care of the city authorities. is an tor
or to the city and the medium OF great see
d to the growing generation. The mi
,ncil did we'll in endorsing Professor 49,
cut and his accomplished assistants, 'nt W.
,se good work is seen in the school OIL
~ and in the records of former pupils Its
he institution. AS for the gifted Prln, an
j and those who and him in the great Th
k of education, the Euening Ne'eS has it
hing but praise, and this sentiment #
been so often repeated that it may be on
sidered matter of our local history. a. a.
congratulate the Fathers on the re- In'
,tion of such devoted and capable an
chers. an