Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-03
IEdgeffield Adv ertiser
THURSDAY, AUG. 8, 1888.

THURSDAY, AUG. s, 1888.
LOCAh BREVrIlES
If you have turnip seed prepare
to SOW them now.
Delightful rains on last Sunday
afternoon and night.
Melon growers of this county
are not finding remuneratiye sales
for their crops.
Miss Lucy Arthur is visiting
relatives and friends in and
around Johnston. Is
The ADvERr1sER Job Office does
all kinds of Job printing. Send
us your ordere. Satisfaction guar
Z anteed.
The cotton crop ls aoouI TWO s
weeks late in this county and the
!, picking season, as q consequence,
will be behind time that much.
Miss Maggie Miller, of Beech
Island, who has been visiting the
family of Mr.. N. Z. Brunson, has
returned home.
Mr.. R. FABLES, a bright young
gentleman Of the Batesburg sec
tion, is reading law with the firm
of Sheppard Bros.
Cotton is coming out wonderfully
and with a favorable fall two-thirds
of a crop may be made in Edge
field county, but the plant is too
small to make a big crop.
s DR.. Manly Timmons will be
absent from his Office during the
whole of next week in attendance
on the State Dental Assertion,
which meets in Columbia,
# There issa woman whose pastor
recently asked after her health.
Herreply was: ST feel very we'll but
Ialways feel bad when ami well,
because I know ]. am going to feel
worse afterward."
Sensitive people can purchase
Humphreys' Specifics by simply
asking the druggists for the needed
number alone, without disclosing
or mentioning the disease for
which it is. a cure.
When you discover that the
people whom you regarded IS your
friends are in the habit of saying
unkind things about you, remem-
Der that you have possibly said
unkind things about them.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton
has decided to 60 out of the seed
distributing business, and will
turn over all the remaining stock
of seeds to Drs. w. E. Lynch and
s w. B. Penn: of Edgefeld, to be
burnt.
W. L. burst. President of the
Greenwood Cotton Mill, has just
returned from Providence, Boston
and Chicago and purchased the
necessary aaeh ehineryS to fil the
mill and in a few weeks it WIZ be
running to its full capacity.
writer in the Southern Guilt
s -vator says that, aif every bloom
and young boil was pulled from a
stalk of cotton on the 1stof July
it would increase the final yield of
the stalk, and that it would be
profitable to do this, if the labor
did not tcost too o,much."
Twelve or fifteen years ago R. B.
Carpenter was circuit judge in
this State. To-day he is the presi-
dent of the California State Senate,
legal adviser of various big rail-
road corporations, and receives
twenty-five thousand dollars a year
for his services. But where is John
McDevitt2
A Georgia exchange puts it
thus: '.The yellow-legged young
rooster fappeth his wings and tries
<his antrained voice in pride and
pomp as he feeleth himself wax
fat and strong, and seeth the
feathers of his tale assume length
and luster. But his days are short,
camp-meeting time aid the
Methodist preacher draweth nigh
Edgefeld Hussars.
The regular meeting of this
troop has been changed from the
5th to the 10Th of August, by
order of Capt. Mays.
9,1s9 Families.
According to the census of 1890,
which we have just received, there
are 9,1S9 families in Edge6eld
county with an average of 5.37
members to each family.
Peterkin's Cluster.
From all accounts the Peterkin's
Cluster cotton is ahead of all cot
ton in the county, and those who
have planted it, and haven't let