Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-01

OBSERVER.
Elmwood, May %.
Mine Creek Dots.
Mr.. EDITOR: Notwithstanding
the dry weather, the grass is MAX
ingus
Turn about,
Wheel about,
Jump Jim Grow!
Chickens are getting ripe, and
the good ladies are taking course
in the science of division; not
merely theoretically, but they
just grab them up and take straight
practical lessons on them; but the
good time is when dining times
comes at which the men also par
ticipate.
Yes, the picnic at Emory Chapel
on last Tuesday was a decided sue
cess. The students demonstrated by
their exhibition that Prof. Busby
had done his duty. Miss Josephine
Little. of Clintonward, was hap
PLY present Oh the occasion with
her second best fellow, and Mr.. o.
D. Towles was made sad because
he did not succeed in carrying over
his old girl.
Mr.. Leonard Story is a farmer
pure and simple. Without doubt,
he is the best farmer in this COM
munity. He has plenty of his
year before last corn yet, after hav-
ing sold a lot of the same; and
when you go to look at his lot of
hogs, you don't find that kind that
would split a June bug open to
ride one bareback.
~ won't recognize him no more, "
was what she said the other day.
Mr.. Bunyan. when you passed on
by with that big load Of chickens
and didn't call on her. If she
were to gently walk out some day
with broom in hand and kindly
tap you off that wagon, I would
be compelled to hire two "niggers'
to laugh for me, or "bust." They
say the nearest way to girls heart
is down her throat, and am learn.
ing to believe that thing. I don''
know what effect chickens would
have, but 1 know bananas are an
infallible remedy.
Since Mr.. Charles Lewis's school
closed at Pine Grove. our dear old
friend Mr.. G. L. Temples seems tc
be destined to roam to and fro az
Homer in his Odyssey represents
the sad Ulysses while wandc ing
over many seas in search of his be.
loved Ithaca.
One of our citizens got drunk
the other day. What spectacle
and said, amidst his flock of little
children: "I am an infdel just
come from hell" If he pursues
thia course a while longer he can
change his proposition, and say :
81 am an infidel just come TO
HE'LL"
Prof. N. D. Bodie has returned
from Newberry College, where he
has been taking all ecclesiastical
course in the Seminary depart
ment, and set up work of re-
demption near Clintonward. He
is running fourishing school, re-
deeming the boys and girls from
the chains of illiteracy. We re-
gard this as being a greater work
than the tabled religious emanci-
patton of Mexico by DR.. Powell.
Now while politics is somewhat
quiet, I expect it would be a good
time to make my little announce
ment. am not fully decided yet,
but I expect I shall run for Gov
ernor next term-such is my con-
templation-and, fellow citizens,
I pledge myself to abide the re-
suit of your wills; I can't say
what faction or party I shall advo-
cate yet, as it is some time before
the election. There is one thing
sure, the biggest side always wins,
and that i'd the side Pm looking
for. You need not say much about
it fellow citizens; just be medi-
tating to vote for me when the time
arrives.
Here are some of the plans we
intend to execute: Consolidate the
Democracy of South Carolina;