Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-20
BREVITlES

LOCAL BREVITIES
When the judgment is wea
prejudice is strong.
Not a single peach has bee
seen mp to date in this market.
Special prayer for rain was OF
fered in several churches in ou
county last Sunday.
DR.. w. D. QUITS, of Elmwood, j
shipping his fine eggs and chick
ems all over christendom.
We acknowledge an invitation
to the sixteenth commencement o
the Patrick Military institute.
The Mccormick Telegram say
the democratic party is dead "nev
er to ressurrect even IN the las
day."
It is about time that our towr
council was passing an ordinanc
against bicycle riding: on the side
walks.
Mrs. William Patrick Calhoun
4
Of Atlanta, is on six weeks visl'
to her grandmother, Mrs. Caroline
Abney.
A noted physician says: A mai
that smokes 100 cigarettes a day
inhal!ng them, takes 120 grains o.
opium"
We hear that the Hon. G. Dun
can Bellinger of Barnwell is the i,;
only opponent Mr.. Talbert Will
have fof Congress.
The Spelling Bee at Mrs: G. 5
Buffers was a pronounced sue,
cess. Cashier A. E. Padgett won
the cake as tho best apeller.
R. L. Fox; our popular jewelle1
will make special cut prices for the
next thirty days-25 per cent OIL
from his already low prices.
There will be meeting of the
Confederate Veterans Association
in the court house at Edgefeld on
the first Monday in July prox.
We iLfer from recent declara-
tions that the coming State Re
form Convention will not noml-
nate but Suggest" s. State ticket
Two new candidates to announce
This week. Honey. J. Taltert for
Congress and Se9NG Gowan Simkins
Esq, for the House OF Representa-
tlyes.
The new chapel at the foor
House was dedicated last Sunday
afternoon. Rev. T. G. Hel bert
Of Johnston, preaching the dedlca-
tory sermon.
aMister,n said the small boy to
Aha GROCER smother told me to ask
YOU if they's any such thing as a
sugar trust aWhy of course there
SIS ssW-Well,. mother va ants %
get trusted for two pounds.
A good old farmer advises US
that "cotton never does anything
much until it is so stunted that IT
gets runty." Itstrikes US that about
now he could find some OF that
kind of cotton in these digglngs.
Washing rains in the Red Hill
section on Sunday afternoon.
J. VIM. Thurmond Esq, who was
in it says it was regular down
nour In the immediate vicinity
of Edgefeld Village there was on
>ly a gentle shower.
A gentleman lately entered a
shop in which were books ana
various miscellaneous articles for
sale, and asked the shopman If ne
had Goldsmith's Greece.-"No''
said he, shut we have some splen-
did hair oil"
Old Judge Cooke, of Greenville,
one of the old RAIDS, announces
that he is a candidate for the legls-
lature from that county, and that
he will join the democratic party
eff he can find it," If he can find 1t,
this is pretty witty in the old judge.
An old lady up in the Adiron.
dacks, when asked if she heard
The earthquake, answered: Yes
7 heard IT, rather enjoyed 1t; for
tits the first thing that has hap
pened since I married Jeremiah
that he did not think l was to
blame for !"
Some wells are drying up and
the Savannah river is now lower
than it has been for years. 1t was
four weeks last Wednesday since
we had good season, and no ralr
vet. The hottest, day of the season
was last Tuesday when tht
Thermometer indicated So degrees
in the ADVERTISER office.