Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-11-02
BREVI7lES.

LOCAh BREVIlES.
Next Mondey the State Fair
opens IN Columbia.
Our State Legislature meets on
the last Tuesday in November.
1t is predicted that the grip will
be prevalent again this winter.
The Hon. w. II. Zimmerman
was in town on Tuesday of this
week.
1t will be the part of wisdom to
pay your taxes as soon as you get
tho money.
The Baptist State Convention
will meet in Anderson, Wednesday,
November 20.
If the county owes you anything
you must file your bill withs the
board this week.
Judge Bond, of the United
States Circuit Court. died in Balti-
more on Tuesday morning last.
To-day, Wednesday, the first
day of Novem Der, parties so in
clined can lawfully hunt part
ridges.
Cotton is off again. The pros
pective repeal of the Sherman bill
is not having the desired or pre-
dicted effect.
Andrew Gardner, of Choty, made
this year. thirty-flve bushels of
sweet potatoes on quarter OF an
acre of land.
Col. r. B. Watson, of Ridge
Spring. has entered 145 fancy fowls
for exhibition at the State Fair in
Columbia next week.
The Edgefeld County Alliance
will meet on Friday, the 10th of
November, at II a. m. See official
notice elsewhere.
There is less drinking in Edge
field than ever before in the history
o. our town. This fact is so patent
that no one denies it.
The returns of property in the
State are little over two millions
more than last year. In Edgefeld
county the returns are about $780,
900 in excess of last year.
On Tuesday morning, Oct. 31st,
the first killing frost of the season
lay white over the fields. There
was Ice, too, thick enough to re-
ouire some force to break it.
Little Willie, the ten-year-old
son of Mr.. Andrew Gardner, has
thrown away his gourd fiddle, the
one be used in the last campaign,
and now has a sure-enough fiddle,
and one that he proposes to play at
President Tillman's Inauguration.
Cold enough for frost on Sunday
and Monday mornings of this
week; but there was none in this
vicinity. In the region of Meridian,
Miss, there was a killing frost on
Sunday morning.
President T.. P. Harling of the
Confederate Survivors Association
has called meeting for the first
Monday in November. On this
day the Rev. J. P. Mealing, chap
lain, will deliver sermon to the
old veterans.
Capt. Geo. B. Lake killed a 200
pound shote on Tuesday of this
week, and so did everybody else
who had one to kill; and this re-
minds US that there will ba more
hogs killed this winter in Edgefeld
county than for many years.
The success of the dispensary
law depends on the enforcement Of
it's reform features. Let it be so
enforced. So far as Edgefeld is
concerned, we believe John B.
Davis is fully alive to this fact,
and the results to date show it to
be wise measure; not perfect of
course, no sane person expects
that of any human law.
If you have chickens with "sore
head or "roup," as some call it,
paint the spots with iodine daily,
and bathe the eyes, If affected,
with worry weak solution Of sugar
of lead. Chopped onion is good
for them mixed in their food. One
who has learned from experience
the efficacy of this treatment re-
commends it.
A Good Official.
White and colored applicants to