Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-02-16

stndying caps, asthe time for Their
is nigh at hand.
Aiiutant and inspector General
Farley has given notice that he
viii inspect the lsdgefeld military
companies at this place OF March
11th.
a gentleman Of thia. town who
had been off on!a trip made the
to his wife for not writing
Sto her during his absence that ne
couldn't find time to lick the big
Columbus stamps.
ri sis rumored that Evangelist
Fife will soon return to Edgefeld
TO conduct a series Of meetings.
We would advise him to wait un.
til the weather improves, even II
some Of us have slipped back.
Rev. j. N. Booth, the pastor Q.
onr Baptist Church, has recently
lost his mother, who had lived be-
:yond the allotted three score years
and ten. Mr.. Booth has the sym
nathy of his church here, indeed,
Of our entire community, in this
deep affection.
Rev. T. s. Rook, who preached
at Stevens Creek Baptist Church
last year, has been called by the
church at Pelham, and he will
probably accept Pelham is ON
the Enoree river, about fourteen
miles from Greenville.
A strange epidemic has made ita
q epearanee at Jamaica, Rhode
81 1d-the sneezing disease. The
y :ne keeps up despite the skill
ID tians and the patients
Sbe, exhausted and die. Heaven,
fore. .sfrom such continuous
q sAs,ezantias ssss5'3:s =
me: letter on our out side anens
:z..ha Jlis.,esssse hs pe
'ss'1of EIr Iaoyej tI,ia ethodist
preacher, 81 d. B., living gin thens;
Ga, and was originally written for
the Southern Christian Advocate
at the instance of the editor OF
that paper. Living where the ex-
periment was first tried and is still
IN successful operation, this gem
tleman fayors the Dispensary law,
and every fair-minded man must
agree with him. i
ST: t:ya1entine's Day.
To-day, Tuesday, is St. Valen-
tines day, the day on which fancy
gardeners are wontto plant beans,
beats, in fact any and all garden
truck but who in this bailiwick will
perpetrate such folly to-day?
Small Grain Promising.
Mr.. A. A. Werts, of the Big
Creek section, thinks the small
grain has been hurt by the cold
weather, and that the yield will be
fine one unless there be yet ahead
sof us some remarkably cold
weather. He says the SHOWS and
freezes have broken up the land al
least eight inches in depth which
& IS of great advantage to the soil.
Good People slandered.
The sensational reportpublishet
in the Columbia Register, that tht
Rev. A. Mcswain Attaway ant
wife who were sent to the lunatit
ASYLUM from this county last week
had been made insane for want Q,
food. we believe to be utterly false
and absurd. Mr.. n. c. White,
& most estimable citizen and a mem
Der Of one Of Mr.. AttaWay'l
churches, told us all about thes
affair, and ascribed the insanity O
both husband and wife to religioui
frenzyon the subject of sanctifi
cation. He satllp with the afflicted
9, couple for several nights, and as
sisted in getting them to Columbia
and not a word did he breathe t
MS of restitution or suffering TO
the want Of food. We know tn
people living in the vicinity Q
M. Attaway's churches, and tina
they never would have permitted
him and his family even to suffe
Il fer food. We pronounce this stor..
q vile fabrication.
fine stock.
Mr.. John R. Tompkins, son Q
s the late Col. John w. Tompkinf
and who lives a: his fathers oil,
place four miles from Edge6eld
drives the fattest mules and horse
that come TO this town. Seem
him town last week We sske
how he managed to keep his stocl
as fat. and sleek, supposing he gay
them a great deal Of. corn an
fodder. He replied 81 give ther
seven ears Of corn ata feed and
S. plenty Of shucks. / believe tha
shucks p und for pound, have thre
times the nutriment in;them tha
fodder has. AT first they wouldn
eat shucks, but now they do 8
greedily, andwill even pickup th
dirty shucks in the lot and stabl'
AS an experiment. some times
give them d bundle of fodde
Sonoo s,r,f them Ewnr,t touch II. an