Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15
Ed geffield Advertiser
5LOCALl BREV'IlTlES.

Were Cne acme Oh al UliSo
And he found a guilelcss maiden
Whe agreed with him in this;
But when the twain were welded,
And he heard the baby scream,
He found domestic happiness
An iridesccnt dream.
Grass seems to be on top.
A hyprocrite is one-third thief
and two-thirds liar.
Up to date, June takes the cake
for wet, as April and May did for
dry.
One ungrateful man does an in.
jury to all who stand in aid OF
need
Mr.. Sam Nicholson, our bright
young friend, is at home fr'm
Woford.
Miss Muriel Timmons left on
Saturday to visit friends and rela-
tives in Union and Asheville.
Provision reports from the West
sshnw decided declines in the prices
of wheat, -four, bacon, and lard.
The County Commissioners adj
vertise in this issue the letting of
q bridge over Little saluda river.
The richest people are those who
have the fewest wants, provided
they are able to crafty those few.
Miss Mamie Carwile, who has
been at college in Raleigh, N. c.,
is at home spending the vacation.
Mr.. Wallace G.. Addison, only
son of Col. and Mrs. Henry Addi-
son, of Edgefeld, will be married
on the 18th inst. to Miss Albertina
Brenner, of Augusta.
Little Press Wood is the cham
pion mink killer of Edgefeld. On
last Sunday, after sunday-school
hours, Press went out and killed
two minks with hoe.
In published list of honors
won by the fair students of the
I South Carolina College for Women,
in Columbia, Miss Mamie Norris,
Of our town, averaged for the past
year 95 out of a possible 1OO-a
fine record. s
Lancaster county has black
Sam Jones. His name and trim
ings are, the Rev. A. McLeese, s.
E. D. His last lecture in that.
county was from this text, aGoiti
while you're young--when you're
old you can't.
Mrs. Anna SwsariHgen, of Edge
field, who is asister of Uncle Geo.
Tillman, has been in the city for
several days visiting relatives and
friends. Mrs. Swearingen is a lady
of the old school, and her many
friends enjoyed greatly her visit
Augusta Evening News.
A correspondent of the British
Bee Journal relates an incident of
a man being cured Of rheumatism
by being stung by bees. If any
subscriber of the ADVERTISER has
rheumatism and wishes to test
this cure we will furnish the bees,
although we know we'll lose 'em,
because it kills bee to use his
stinger OH a human being.
On the 10th of July an excur-
sion train will be run from this
place to Savannah Ga. The rates
will be So for the round trip. The
schedule will be as follows: Train
will Leave Edge6eld at 8 p. m.
July 10th, leave Savannah at 5 p.
m. July 18th. Next week we will
give further information in regard
to this excursion, where tickets
can be purchased, etc.
= There is little boy in this town
only four and a half years old,
who does great deal of thinking
and philosophizing on his own ac-
count. Yesterday morning his
father beheld him in an adjoining
room, repeating some Bible verses
he had learned. Presently he re-
peated, aThe Lord is my shepherd |;
I shall not want,' and then an
idea seemed to strike him, and this
is how he soliloquized: "rhe Lord
is my shepherd Sheppard -shep-
pard7 No, the Lord is my Till
nan. I,m q Tillmanite. not q