Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-20
Edgefield Advertiser
LOCAL BREVI7lEs.
Miss Julia Holstein. of Monetta,
is visiting friends in town.

ready to grind y )ur corn the latleI
part of this week.
Satan would rather have one
beautiful woman work for him
than 10000 men.
We regret to hear of the serious
illness of Mr.. B. F. Sharpton, our
late efficient town marshal.
Miss Annie Bee, who has been
spending the winter near McLel-
lanville has returned home.
If you promise to meet man
or to do certain thing at certain
moment, honor your engagement.
Never believe all you may hear;
for he who believes all that he
hears often tells more than he
hears.
Man spends his life in reasoning
on the past, in complaining of the
present, and in trembling respect
ing the future.
The art of living easily with re-
gard to money is to pitch your
scale of living at least one degree
below your means.
The best government is not that
which renders man the happiest,
but that which renders the greatest
number happy.
Envy pursues its victims
throughout life. 1t ceases to
gnaw only when the grave-worm
its brother reptile, begins. >
Mr.. w. j. Lanham, former clerk
of Alvin Hart & Co., now with j.
B. White g. Co., of Augusta, was
in Edgefeld on Sunday last.
1t is reported, at this writing,
that Gov. Tillman has chung" the
Supreme Court of the United
States on the railroad tax cases.
The meeting of the County
Alliance on last Friday was the
largest held in two years or more
and seemed to be quite enthu-
siastic.
In all negotiations of difficulty
man may not look to SOW and
reap at once, but must prepare
business, and SO ripen it by de-
grees.
Rev. L. R. Gwaltney will preach
in the Baptist Church tonight,
Tuesday, and will continue ser
vices for an indefinite period, per-
haps week or more.
Mr.. L. L. Bedenbaugh, a schol-
arly young gentleman of.the Clouds
Creek section, was in town last
week as delegate to the quarterly
meeting of the County Alliance.
Prof. S. J. Derrick, of Ethe-
ridge, has teturned home from
trip to Texas. He hasn't anything
to say against Texas, but is of the
opinion that there is no place
like South Carolina.
The Fifth Circuit, embracing
the counties of Kershaw, Richland,
Lexington and Edgefeld, will be
called in Supreme Court May 10,
Four days have been assigned to
hearing cases from this Circuit.
A man who gave his name as
Horne, but who answers the des-
cription of Anthony Carter, who
killed Mr.. James Long in Edge
field Co. in 1891, has been
captured in Marion Co., Florida.
Pastors of churches and dele
gates who expect to attend the
Edgefeld County Interdenomina-
tional S. S. Convention are request
ed to send their names to B. ".
Rushton, Johnston, S. c., at once.
M. G. Butler, Jr., son of Senator
Butler, now second lieutenant in
the Fifth Cavalry stationed at Fort
Supply, Indian Territory, has been
detailed to West Point as assistant
instructor in the military academy.
Il has been discovered that SUBJ
cutaneol,s injections Of distilled
water will render the part SO treat
ed insensible to pain, making the
use of ether, morphine, ETC., un-
necessary in performing painful
surgical operations.
sulphide of carbon is said to be
all unfailing destroyer of vermin
in poultry and pigeon houses.
Small vials are filled with it and
hung about the house. When it
has partially evaporated and be-
comes yellow it must be shaken up.
We publish the programme of
the Interdencminational Sunday
School Convention of Edgefeld
county on our outside. Give it a
perusal, reader, and see if you are
not down TO do something: or at
least if it isn't your duty to be
there when the general roll is