Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-01-12


Express Delivery.
The Southern Express Company
snow delivers all express matter
sent for delivery In our town. The
vehicle in which carriage is made
il a two-wheeled go-cart with q
one-horse Niger attached.
SO Gonxicts.
Fifty conyicts have been sent
from the penitentiarY to the Edge
field rock quarries, and are now at
work there under the direction of
Contractor Coleman, late of the
great and only Three C's.
residential p. o.
Such and so great have been the
receipts at the Edgefeld post Office
for the,four quarters last ending
that it has been made q presi-
dental post office, which means
that the President will make the
next appointment.
How Cold!
Last Friday and Saturday we're
the coldest days ne have expert
enced in this town in several years.
A thermometer which registered
go degrees in Mr.. Fox's jewelry
establishment on Friday was car
RED outside and hung on theshow
window. The quic silver immedi-
ately run down to 40, and it didn't
stop sthere. John Bates re-
ports: thatit droppe d to the bottom
Sof the globe, burstsiit, ran out on:
a Sths gr0undi; tuok the mTiddte the
road aud ran down to the depot
TO ask Node Taylor how cold it
was there.
"a Mother in Israel.
Mrs. Martha Swearingen, aged
about 80 years, died at the home
sof Capt. S. B. Ryan, near Horns
Greek, on last Wednesday. The
funeral aad burial services were
held at Horns Greek church on
the following day, Rev. j. N. Booth
officiating. OF this church de-
ceased had been q member for
nearly forty years. of her long and
well-spent life and died in the
faith. Deceased left the follow
children: Mrs. B. L. Jones, and
Mrs. S. B. Ryan, and A. S. Swear
ingen, ]. G. swearingeL, and ]. T.
Swearilgen.
A Test Of Merit.
Individual deposits in the
Farmers Loan and Savings>Bank
of this place at tthe close of busi-
ness on the 10th of January were
s56, 6,423,42. There is no safer,
surer, nor better test of the merit
of q banking institution than the
amount of.its individual deposits,
and when we consider that there
are four banks in Edgefeld within
a radius often miles, and that it
/ is only twenty-five miles to Au-
gusta, a money centre, and further
more, that the Farmers Bank is
the baby bank, this isa remark
able showing, and evinces the
great confidence which the people
have III its management.
Billy Wood and the Turnip.
During the Christmas holidays,
Billy Wood, who lives over in
Buncnnbe, had a raw turnip in
his pocket. Htt also had o box Of
matches iii; the same pocket. Billy
got wet, wringing wet, the matches
got wet. the box busted" the
matches rat out, they mixed with
that turnip. B lily ate the turnip,
internal spontaneous combustion
followed, Billy got sick, doctor
was sent for, and for a whole day
and night they didn't know but
what Billy had met his match"
and would have to aturnip" his
toes to the daisies. Billy We are
gladto state, got we'll and now ad,
yises the young to beware of q
mixed diet,
something to Beast OF.
Edgefeld his something to boast
of that no osher town in South
Carolina has, yet we are a modest
hide your-light under-a- bushel-
people and dislike to anorate" it,
but Tor once the bushel must be
lifted Edgefeld has colored
barber, and g very polite and gentle
manly one, too, By the name, OF
Samuel H. Shellman, who oace
had the honor and supreme felicity
of shaving Russell Sage at New
port After .the operation was
over Russell pulled out an old
much worn, and greasy looking
pocket book and paid the cash, but
hot q gent more than poor folks
are Sin the habit Of paying for q
shave. In fact he told shel1man d
conf fdentially that while ssB rag
and Biggoty y'Were pretty good dogs,
sgoid Hold =Eastn was isgaod
enough fog him