Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-09-22

OF wheat. Shlps run up along
side of this elevator to load with
wheat, which runs through hues
from the elevator into the ship,
which bears it away to foreign
countries. A little more than one
million bales of cotton are ex-
ported from this place to Liver
pool, England, and other distant
| ports.
/, with others, went out one day
ION the Marietta, nice sail boat, to
fish and see the jetties the United
States government is building in
the bay to deepen the channel, go
that very large vessels can ruiz up
to the wharfs to unload and reload.
These jetties are seven miles long,
and the government has appro-
priated six million dollars to pay
for them. There is no justice, I
think, in the United States gov
ernment taxing the people of South
Carolina to deepe the channel of
Galveston for the benefit of the
people of that city
The bay is the prettiest sheet of
water my eyes ever beheld, but
our party had poor luck, indeed,
fishing, only caught about a half
dozen small fish. We saw a great
many other boats with fishermen
fishing, but did not ascertain what
luck they had.
The United States government
has quarantine station here with
the stars and stripes floating to the
breeze, and a squad OF United
States officers holding forth, draw
ing big pay, doing nothing gener-
ally, and having a good time. Un-
Gle Sam robs the people and gets
his money easy; his officers rob
him, and so his money does him
very little good at last.
The beach hotel is on the out
skirts of Galveston, on the coast
of Mexico, it is a fine hotel, four
stories high, built upon the latest
style with all modern improve
ments, elegantly finished and fur
nished in the interior, nice marble
floors in different colors through
out the building, there are three
verandas running all around the
building, except the rear side,
making veranda for each story
for three stories high, these We
randas are delightful for ladies
and gentlemen to promenade, are
there are a great many visitors here
from different States of the Union,
who come here seeking pleasure. 1t
looks like some of the young peo-
pie find pleasure here by the way
they seem to be enjoying them
selves promenading these long
verandas I suspect many men have
won many young ladies hearts
here and led them to hymens altar
and the two made. one.
In front of this hotel is a grand
stand lighted up at night by fine
chandeliers whore band of music
plays every night. All around in
front of the stand and hotel there
is a beautiful lawn covered with
nice grass kept evenly moved
down which is very pretty, nice
walks in different directions run
ming through this lawn which is
filled with chairs and benches that
will seat about one thousand peo-
pie. The lawn and hotel verandas
are crowded nearly every night
while the band plays. In front of
the hotel, on the edge of the water,
is a long bath house, where they
will hire you q bathing suit for
twenty-five cents. You can then
go in and bathe as long as you
wish. One night I saw hundred
or more in bathing, a small per
cent of whom were ladies wearing
black suits. 1t surprised me to
see these ladies swim. / saw one
swimming on her back, and there
was such a fuss, talking, laughing,
and halloing. 1t was anovel sight
to me. I thought about our Edge
field girls, and that there was too
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much timidlty about them to take
part in such antics.
Since leaving Edgefeld I have
visited Mr.. Dobbs's familyin Car
tersville, Ga; he married an Edge
field lady, Miss QUITS, before the
war, and has raised a nice family
of children, who are all doing
we'll. 1 also visited Mr.. Lem
Brooks in Gainesville, Ga; he mar
ried Miss Mary QUITS. They were
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