Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-11-23
LOCAL BREVI71ES.

w. D. Ramey, Esq, has been ap-
pointed notary public by Gov. Till
man.
Jas. B. Bledsoe has again been
re-elected principal of Hickory
Grove, Edge6eld.
Miss Hattie Rushton goes back
to her old school in Darlington for
the second or third time.
One hundred and fifty thousand
Odd Fellows have died since the
organization of the order in 1880.
The latest story about Senator
Butler is that be is to run for Gov
ernor of this State and not for re-
election to the Senate.
The Augusta papers claim that
there were fifty thousand people
:. present at the opening of the Ex-
: position on last Tuesday.
A. w. Lynch is principal of the
Johnston Institute. Mrs. T. R.
: Denny is assisting him. Ms. S.
Sloan Cobb teaches music.
The National Farmers Congress
T: convenes in Savannah, Dec. 18th.
: Gov. Tillman has appointed Col.
) R. B. Watson a delegate to the con-
vention from~this county.
/: Among visiting attorneys i'll at
tendance upon our court last week
! we noticed Allen J.. Green, Esq.
Of Columbia, John Gary Evans
and Geo. w. Croft, of Aiken.
"Spondulix," as a slang name
for money, had its origin in the
Greek word spondulos, shell;
shells of that specie being once
used as no ,ney both in Greece and
Egypt.
1t is getting fashionable for Ia
dies to 60 'possum hunting in
:. some counties. A party of young
ladies caught one in Greenville
county the other nigh. weighing
seventeen pounds.
: Speaking of the effect of the
dispensary at st. Matthews, a cor
:, respondent of the News and Cou-
rier states that there is no doubt
the drinking of whiskey has been
immensely curtailed.
The Beech Island Farmers
Club has invited President Cleve-
land and Secretary Morton to at
tend the monthly dinner, which
will be given this month on such
these distinguished guests.
We regret to chronicle the death
of Mr.. J. S. Smyiy at Capt. w. L.
Stevens's one day of last week.
Mr.. Smyly was genial and whole
souled gentleman, and had many
warm friends. Our sympathies are
rendered to the bereaved ones.
From "a sowing of six bushels
and one peck of wheat Mr.. Chas.
G. Jaynes, of Anderson county,
has harvested one hundred and
five bushels and three pecks. The
manure used was ten !two-horse
wagon loads of stable manure,
nothing else.
The oldest man in Georgia, and
even in the United States lives in
Enamel County. He is 14O years
old. and has lived for over 100
years with the Youngblood family
of that county. He was brought
from Africa in slave ship and
was purchased by tae Youngbloods.
He was called Marsh. After the
war be adopted the name of his
owners. This was the only diff
ference the:civil war made with
the old man, for ever since free
dom he has lived with his former
masters. Marsh is a hale and
hearty old negro. whose kiuky
hair and beard is now snow white.
limo bother way, however, does he
show the signs of his extreme age.
He does as much work as any of
the young bucks in the neighbor-
hood.
From the Keowee Courier we
clip the following. The Mr.. Haiti
.wanger mentioned is the brother
of Mr.. Haltiwanger of our town:
''Mr. Robert L. Haltiwanger, whose
illness we mentioned last week,
died on Thursday, 9th instant at
6 p. m, at Chappells. He WAS
.:l9 years old, and a son of the late
= Wm. Haltiwanger, of Edgefeld.
His sisters, Mrs. w. L. Werner and
Miss Addie Haltiwanger, end Mr..
". L. Werner attended his funeral.
He was a steady, industrious young
man, and gave promise of a long
life of usefulness. But in the
early morning he was cut down,
and his handsome face faded from
the sight of mortal eye. His sis
ters and relatives have the SYM
patby of many friends"