Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-05-25
Edgefield Advertiser

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LOCAI2 BREVITIES.
Capt. Joe Brunson of Aiken was
in town on Tuesday.
Miss Annie Price, of Ocala, Fla,
is visiting Miss Gertie Strom.
Senator NJ. C. Butler is at home
for a few days from Washington,
D. G.
See notice of meeting of the
County Board of Control on Mon
day next.
The Florence Times thinks that
Gov. Tillman has clipped Jervey's
tail feathers.
Gov. Tillman has ordered 1850
barrels of liquor for the use OF the
Dispensaries.
John Lott has the finest bicycle
in town. 1t is a Columbia and
was catalogued at $3.50.
Mr.. Charlie Dobson, Of Beech
Island was up IN Sunday. Charlie
is rushing" new girl now.
Misses Ella and Flora Lott, of
Johnston, worshiped at our Pres
byterian Church on last Sunday.
The ADVERTISER Job Office does
all kinds of job printing. Send
us your orders. Satisfaction guar
anteed.
Solomon was the first trial JUS
tice who proposed to split the diff
ference, but he didn't split it all
the same.
The Charleston wholesale liquor
men are selling out their stock for
half price. They are getting ready
to stand from under.
Mr.. John II. Carpenter, of the
Old Wells section, and as good
Confederate as ever trod shoe
leather, was in town on Friday.
Capt. Jas. H. Tillman has an
important notice in this issue to
the Capers Light Infantry. And
SO has Capt. J. R. Blocker.
Mr.. John G. Caughman, a gal
liant one-legged Confederate soldier
from Caughmans OH the Saluda
side, was in town on Friday last.
A Camden correspondent of the
Columbia State chronicles the
marriage of Rev. j. B. Holley, of
Edgefeld County, to Miss jamie
Smith, of Camden, on May 18th.
Maj. John w. Alton, Hon. w.
II. Yeldell, B. w. Rushton, D. D.
Brunson, and others whose names
haven't reached us, committee
of Alliancemen, met here on Fri
day in the interest of the order.
There was regular cyclone of
hank failures out West last week,
and the tail end of it struck South
Carolina wrecking the Bank of the
Carolinas at Florence and several
minor banks under the same man.
agement in. this State.
The officers of the South Caro-
lima Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion will please accept our thanks
for Bulletins Nos. 9, 10, and IL.
The contents are experiments with
Irish potatoes, notes on varieties
of beans, and analyses of COM
mercial fertilizers.
Very few went from Edsefeld
to the Columbia Carnival. One of
our colored brass bands, however,
went over and paraded up and
down the streets playing one tune
all the time:
.'They took knife and cut him down,
In his bosom no life was found"
This tune was selected, it is sup
posed, in remembrance of the deep
damnation of the taking off of
John Peter Richardson.
Position Wanted.
A young lady graduate of The
Charleston Female Seminary,
qualified to teach Latin, French,
English, and music desires posi-
ton to teach. Address Miss J. E.
ADVERTISER Office and the letters
will be forwarded.
No Money in 1t.
Mcssrs. A. G. Penn, Trapp Nc
Manus, and Bill Mcclure, of the
Mountain Creek section, have not
gone into tobacco culture SO heav-
lily this year as last. They say
there's money in tobacco: no
doubt, but they couldn't find it,
and they don't propose to hunt for
it any more.
Greatest of the Three.
Several !, charitable persoIs of
our village, who are not in the
habit of letting their right hands
know what their left hands do in