Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-27
Edgefield Advertiser
LOCAL BREVITIEs.
The Industrial School for Women
has been awarded to Rock Hill.

The Industrial School for Women
has been awarded to Rock Hill.
Seven cents is the top of the
market for cotton at this writing.
Hamden,> Conn, has offered a.
! bounty of 81 for each mad dog
killed.
Mai. w. L. Coleman and wife
worshipped al our Baptist Church
last Sunday.
The first hoopskirt was worn by
New York lady in 1740. She
was arrested by the police.
The Floral Fair in Charleston
takes place May End and 3rd. No
doubt many from Edgefeld will
go down.
The earliest library was that of
Nebuchadnezzar. Every book was
a brick engraved with cuneiform
characters.
The organs of. smell in the tur-
key and buzzaId are $50 sensitive
that they can smell their food at
distance of forty miles.
Mr.. John Johnson, who has
!, been travelling through the State
in the interest of the Texas
Compound, has returned home.
The remains of race of lilli-
putians, believed to be the ances-
tors of the Mexican Aztecs, have
been unearthed in eastern Tennes-
I see.
Mrs. w. L. burst died on last
Friday at her home in Greenwood
after long and painful illness.
Mrs. burst was a daughter of the
late Elbert DeVore, Esq.
From this date until the Both of
June the ADVERTISER will advertise
pigs for sale, free. We want to
encourage the people to raise their
own meat.
We have had several light frosts
within a week, and high winds
very damaging to vegetation.
Beans, okra, cotton, etc., not killed,
however, only chilled and growth
retarded.
CO. 95 cents on the dollar will
be paid for school checks at the
ADVERTISER Office, provided you
are a subscriber to the paper, or
become subscriber when you
bring in your check.
Mr.. j. C. Hamlin, of Anderson,
has breed of pigs that have feet
like mules. They grow very large
in twelve months time and can
ont run niger, and squeal louder
than Cal Caughman.
Medical journals now say that
lightning bugs are rank poison. A !
great many children play with
them under the impression that
they are harmless, but they ought
to be warned against the practice.
DR.. Price Zimmerman attended
the annual meeting of the South
Carolina Medical Society which
met in Sumter last week. DR..
Zimmerman was the only Edge
field physician in attendance, we
believe.
The South Carolina federal
appointments still hangs fire.
President Cleveland is reported
as saying that he will begin on
them next week after he returns
from the opening ceremonies of
the Columbian Exposition.
''There is one thing like about
the religion that this here Sam
Jones dishes up" said the man
with red clay on his boots and hay
seed in his beard. "It don't inter-
iere none with the language feller
uses when he is a-drivin' mules" "
Under the old Blue Laws of Con-
necticut ':any one who shall stand
by and see two dogs fight and not
try to separate them shall be DEEM
ed guilty of a breach of the peace,
and shall lie in jail the length of
seven days and nights"
Mai. w. L. Coleman had the mis-
fortune to lose his fine residence
near Johnston by fire last Thurs
day. Maj. and Mrs. Coleman were
in Edgefeld at the time. We un-
derstand that nothing was saved
except a piano, and there was no
insurance.
An Arkansas editor puts it thus:
''You may hive all the stars in a
nail keg, hang the ocean on a rail
to dry, put the SKY to soak, un-
buckle the belly-ban of eternity,
and let out the sun and moon, but
never delude yourself with the
idea that you can escape the hot
place on che other side of purga-
tory unless you pay the printer"