Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-15
ALL soRTs

ALL SORTS.
aMiss Borden burned a light blue
Dress" will be set to music.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche
says the mint julep Of South Caro-.
lima has sought some deep seclud-
ed glen, far from the naaddening
crowds ignoble strife.
Aman may own the whole world,
but when dogs growl at his shadow,
widows shudder at his coming, and
men curse and point the finger of
scorn at him, what does his wealth
profit him ?
Messrs. J. R. Allen and John G.
Reeves, Of Allendale are record
breakers this year. On the 18th
each plucked cotton bloom.
several days ahead of other years
and out of sight of the rest of the
state.-Barnwell People.
The Alliance Tidings says that
there is more danger from the fools
in the reform ranks than there is
from the rascals. That the rascals
could do but little damage If it.
were not for the fools who persist
in following them.
The London Times says that in
face of all that may be said to the.
contrary we have the undonbted
fact that the consumption of drink
in Sweden and Norway has fallen
off enormously since the Gotthen-
burg system was introduced.
Ratio and parity be blowedi
Quit throwing dust in the eyes of
the people. Put the government
stamp on tin, as is done on nickel,
and it ought to be as valuable for
currency as the paper money issned
by the government.-Augusta
Chronicle.
The Barnwell cotton see.l oil.
mill property was bought.at private
sale on Monday for $4,000 by
Van Wrinkle, of Atlanta Ga, re-
presenting a syndicate. The new
owners, will, we are told, nave the
mill put in frst-class condition
for the fall trade of ginning and
oil making.
While Sam Jones was in Dallas
a reporter quoted him as saying
that no one could send himtany-
thing which he would appreciate
more than buttermilk, and the
next day every good old sister in
town sent in from quart to a
gallon until he thought the whole.
of human kindness had turned to
buttermilk.
General John B. Gordon, the
distinguished Georgia statesman.
and soldier, has consented tosde-
liver an address to the survivors Of
the Sixth South Carolina cavalry.
A reunion of the survivors Of this
regiment will be held at Green
wood on the Fourth Of July and
the survivors poopose to gather
from all parts of the state There
will be a big barbecue. Every old
veteran that can should attend.
The Augusta Chronicle under
the caption, 4What is Money"
says:
Money, then, is whatever the
government adopts as a full legal
tender in payment of all debts
within it's jurisdiction.
This is true of the past but if
the government should "adopt" all
the old tin cans and safdine boxes
in the country as money, the theory
of our contemporary wouldn't hold
water any more than would the
cans.
Mrs. Frank Leslie says the
greatest trouble about he. divorced
husband was his voice. at was
loud enough ordinarily" she says,
"but when he had been imbibing
too freely it rose to roar, and he
made me ashamed and everybody
else tired at his vociferation. He
used to abuse me for my damned
Americanisms'in in a voice that could
be heard block away, and people
wondered that I never answered
him. They gave me credit for too
much meekness of spirit, for I
always answered him with the