Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-09-08
lgefield Advertiser
beer is almost here.

hs in town on Sunday.
Miss Matte Hill Wardlaw returns
her home in Columbia to-day.
A number of villagers attended SER
ice at Berea church on last Sunday
Mr.. w. G. Townes, of the Aiken
Times, was in Edgefeld on Sum
Hay.
The sweet potato crop was never
better in Edgefeld county than this
year.
No negroes in Edgefeld county
voted ut the last election, so far as We
know.
Miss Carrie Sheppard, of Kirkseys,
is the guest of her unce,sMr- Orlando
sheppard.
Prof. o. p. Lee, who taught school
here year before last, paid our town
! visit last week.
We don't believe there ever was
fairer election held in South Carolina
than the one just over
Miss Ada Lou Mobley, charming
little blonde from Mime Creek, is vis-
Lifting Miss Effie Sheppard.
Mrs. Norris, of Aiken, and her son,
Percival Norris, are visiting at the
home of Mr.. A. j. Norris.
Cotton has opened in this market at
b, but majority of the Gotten men
ay it is obliged to go higher.
A bushel of wheat for every citizen
q the United States is the product
his year in Kansas. This ought to
hake -four cheap.
Mr.. P. B.Plumb, who left this town
abont two years ago for Smithville,
Ga. has returned and taken up his
rest in Edgefield again.
Mr., Eugene Murphy returned
this week to his home in Augusta,
having paid a weeks visit to the
family of Mr.. J. L.. Addison.
Misses Florence and Lula Mcdonald
left on Monday for their home in
Philadelphia. Their absence will be
regretted by a host of friends.
Mr.. J. j. Bell the con-
tractor who left Edgefeld, about
a month ago, to build house, for
Mr.. Stamford Bland near Rocky
Creek, was in Edgeheld on Sunday
last
On last Sunday afternoon at john
ston Mr.. Charley Cheatham was mar
ried to Miss Louisa QUITS, the winsome
daughter of Sheriff ouzts, the Rev. I.
G. Herbert officiating. ~ q
An exchange says: "The man who
gets mad at what the newspapers say
about him should return thanks three
timesa day for what the newspapers
know about him but don't say.
We commend the patriotism of the
casey Journal, an anti paper; it says:
.aIet there be no sulking now. Let US
take our medicine like men. We have
said we woslu and let us all do it,"
The largest apple orchard in the
world is in cne of the Sandwich Islands.
This orchard stretches over country
from five to ten miles wide by twenty
miles long, and many of the larger
trees bear fifty barrels each.
Cattle in the upper portion Of this
State are afflicted with the fatal
disease, bloody murrain, and from
some cases in the Elmwood section we
suspect it exists in this county. The
disease IS infectious and almost always
fatal, and fat cattle are more subject
to it than lean.
Up to a few years ago the use Of
Indian meal was comparatively un-
known in Europe, but the famine on
the Continent this year and last, has
given a wonderful impetus to the eat
ing of corn bread. Recently thirteen
immense mills have been put in opera
tion In Germany for grinding corn;
they run day and night and can't
supply the demand.
Bill Nye says that an amusing
amusement during these summer even
ings is to feed toad frogs on lightning
bugs. The process does not kill sthe
insect swallowed, and as the toad is
transparent he lights uplike Chinese
lantern. Before the FREELY is smoth-
cred the sight on dark evening is one
long to be remembered. You can read
the toad's inmost thoughts.
Two New Bales.
Mr.. R. Cantelou brought in the
first new cotton to this market,
two bales, which he sold toE. ].
Norris.
knights of Honor, Attention!
State Electures Bacon will
deliver lecture to the Edgefeld
Knights on Thursday, the 18th of
September, Every Knight is
urgently requested to be present.
Cotton Late.
Cotton is two weeks later this
season than last. At this time last
season about 500 bales of cotton
had been ginned at the Oil Mill,
this season only % have been gin