Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-10

sent us from his present crop
leaf of green tobacco thirty inche
long and eighteen inches wide.
Price of Oats.
Red rust-proof oats are sellinl
/ in this markell at 35 cents bushel
lower than for a number of years
There Will certainly be no excus
for not sowing oats this sfalE
at Barrss Chapel.
A protracted meeting will begil
at Bars Chapel on Sunday next
the 18th, conducted by Rev. B. O
Berry and assisted by Rev. E. w
Mason, Of Donalds Circuit.
Church Closed.
During the month of Angus
there will be no, service in our vii
|lage Methodist Church, owing tt
the fact that Mr.. Watson, the pas
tor, will be absent conducting frs
a tent meeting OIL Log Creek, anc
then a protracted meeting a;
McKendree.
Candidates for Auditor.
In another column the following
gentlemen present their names tc
the people Of Edgefeld county tt
be voted for in the coming primary
for the office of Auditor, to wit
James D. Fraser, Benz. WE Rush,
ton, James B. Adams, Walter S
Padgett, Albert w. Rushton.
A Famous Site.
The place on Log Creek where
Mr.. Watson and Mr.. Kinard are
conducting their meetings is the
very spot where eighty years age
stood the Blocker Academy, a two.
story building, in those days 9
rather famous institution of learn.
ing, and spoken of in Mills's his.
tory of South Carolina.
Entertainment.
The Ladies' Aid Society of oul
village Methodist Church will give
an entertainment on Friday night
of this week at the residence Of
Mrs. Evans. There will be fine
singing by a male. quartette, vocal
and instrumental duets, reading
ETC., with delicious refreshments
Admission 10 cents. Those who
wish cream and cake can get il
from 5 o'clock until s o'clock.
The Edgefield Institute.
Our village school, the Edgefeld
Institute, will open on September
4th, under the charge of DR.. L. R,
Gwaltney and an able corps of as
sistants. Girls and boys, young
ladies and young men will be re-
ceived as pupils To persons
throughout the county who desire
to patronize the Institute we will
gladly furnish the names of resi-
dents of our town who are willing
to board students, their terms, etc.
Edgefeld countyis able to support
a frst-class school, aud with a gen.
erous patronage from the country
the Edgefe d Institute will attain
the same prestige it won in days
that are gone under DR.. GWaltney.
Weather for July.
Weather o observer G. a. Long, of
Trenton, send us the following
data Of the weather for the month
just ended
Monthly mean temperature 1874.
Maximum temperature, 81, date
18th.
Minimum temperature 70. date
1st.
Total rainfall for the month
6.75 inches.
Greatest daily rainfall 2.09
inches, date 26th.
Prevailing direction of wind,
south.
Number of clear days 9, cloudy
days none, fair days %.
Number of rainy days, IL.
Two Hog Tales.
Seeing Sam Roper, Jerry Card
ner, and Doc King talking on the
street on Monday we went up to
get an item for the ADVERTISER,
and here is whatwe got: Doc King
says that 20. Cogburn told him
that Will Logue told him that
Press Hamilton had an old SOW
that stood on her hind legs and eat
up two.horse wagon body full of
watermelons that he had loaded up
to bring to the village" Doc says
he tells the tale as it was told to
him, but could not vouch for it as
he had it secondhand, but the
following is a tale he can vouch, as
he had some of it himself: "Dur-
ing the war, while on the raid into
Pennsylvania" Doc says 81 was
captured and imprisoned. After a
while I was released and exchanged
along with 999 other Confederate
prisoners. The day of the ex-
change the Yankees issued to us
i, 900 Confeds three days rations
of hog tails, nothing but hog-tails,
not even a hard tack" This was
Docs tale, upon the truth Of
which Sam Roper begs us to say
that "there are not now and never
have been enough hog-tails in all
creation to feed one thousand hun.
CRY Confederates for three days,and
therefore he begs to be put dowr