Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-26
Advertiser
THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1898.
LOCAL. BREVI71ES.

Cotton is little off to-day,
Tuesday, and is selling in this
market, the best, for 7s.
Mr.. J.JJ. Bell is the happiest and
1 best feeling man in our whole
1community-it's great big girl.
Who wouldn't be a ramracker
and fardels bear, when David
and "Goliath' are both on his side?
Capt. J. w. Bunch, of the South
Carolina penitentiary farm, was in
town on Monday, where his many
Edgefeld friends were delighted to
see him.
Mr.. Robert Schley, of Augusta,
former resident of our town, was
stricken with paralysis on Sunday
last, and remains in a precarious
condition at his home in the first
named city.
Gov. Tillman offers reward for
the capture of the party or parties
who burned Mrs. Sophrcnia
Hardy's barn and stables in this
county on the night of Oct. 18th.
See proclamation.
The proceedings of the South
Carolina Press Association are on
our table. The pamphlet contains
fifty-six pages. and bears the i'm
print, Hugh Wilson, Printer. This
is sufficient to show the character
of the work done. Congratulations
to our contemporary.
The coming State ball in Colum-
bip will be held in the big new
mill on the canal, and arrange
ments are being made to have it
lighted with electricity. There are
10000 feet of floor. on which the
dancers will whirl, and it will
take a number of lights.
Gov. J. G. Sheppard is being
spoken of for the United States
Senate by many of his friends. A
writer in the Columbia Journal
also mentions his name in this COL
nection, but goes on to say that
"it is said that he has given Butler
his promise to support him." This
last statement we do not believe.
Why should Gov. Sheppard make
such promise?
Valuable Lands.
Mrs. C. A. Cheatham will sell
800 acres of valuable land at pub
lie outcry on salesday in Novem-
Der, at Edgefeld C. H..
Bow-Legs VS.. Knock-Knees.
Mr.. Mat Bigham, of the Frank
lin section, tells us of Il remarka-
bic transmogrification. He says
ne knows man who has been an
anti for two years or more and
who is quite bow-legged. Recently
he is changing his politics and
getting to be a ramracker, and his
legs are Strengthening accordingly.
N Nat SAYS if he'll read Tillman's
st. Louis speech his legs will get
SO straight he will be as knock
kneed az Nebuchadnezzar.
Rearin', Pitchin', and Cussin'.
Mr.. J. Thos. CAN'T, editor of the
Aiken Times, son of Larry CAN'T
the head-devil Of all the amracker
editors of South Carolina, has
been appointed by Senator Butler
to $1,000 position in govern
ment printing Office at Washington.
AS consequence of this appoint
ment, the ants in Aiken are giving
Senator Butler ''hail Columbia"
The news came up on the Cumber-
land Gap train Oh Saturday night
that they were rearin', pitchin',
and snortip', and if "damn" is
cussil'. they were cussin'. 1t Is
so sulphurous down there that the
Yankees already arrived say that
it is as hot in Aiken as it is in
Florida.
"The Red Hill Silver Bug"
Messrs. H. w. Quarles and
Wyatt Seigler, two truthful gentle
men of the Red Hill section,
brought US the news on Saturday
last that there is to be q new paper
established in their neighborhood
to be called 1.-THE Red Hill Silver
Bug" AS its name indicates it
will be devoted to free silver and
all other free things that are in
the Ocala platform, or any other
platform, and it will be the special
organ of all Choty. Its editors,
according to Messrs. Quarles and
Seigler, are Messrs. Free Thomas,
A. V. Morgan, and w. It. Brown.
The ADVERTISER extends in ad-
vance the right hand and the left
hand of fellowship to our coming
contemporary.