Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-05-09
BREVIT1ES

Mr.. H. @. Talbert, of Longmires
gays that grain IS not as badly
damaged as was thought.
Dean Swift said: It is useless
TO attempt to argue man out of a
thing he was never reasoned into.
The prohibitionists are begin
ming to move. The meeting is cal
led for the 4th of June at New
berry.
Dispenser Davis has received or
ders from the State board Of Con-
troll to sleep Oh tn" dispensary
premises.
"Overcomc evil with good" as
the gentleman said when, he
knocked down burglar with the
family Bible.
The Rev. Calvin Montgomery
will preach in the Edge6eld Pres
byterian Church on Sunday, May
18th, at 4 P. M.
The difference between per-
severence and obstinacy is that
one often comes from strong
will and the other from strong
won't.
Miss Lula Prater, daughter of
MI. D. A. Prater, of Langley, S. c.,
IS spending sometime with Misses
Mamie and Annie Covar in our
town.
Aiken has three bar-rooms.
Edgefeld is said to have four, but
they are not on the main street.
They are knocking round loose
most any where.
A young stockbroker having
married stout old widow, with
100000 pounds, said tLat it wasn't
80 much her face that attracted
him as it was the figure.
The Edgefeld Hussars will go
to Charleston on the Edgefeld
Rifles excursion on the 10Th inst.
We hear also that the Light Dra-
goons will probably go, too.
Columbia has passed a license
ordinace which is said to be
stringent. It is modelled on the
dispensary system, requires saloons
to open late and close early
etc.
We are in receipt of an invita-
ton to attend the laying of the
corner stone of the Winthrop Nor
NAL and Industrial College of
South Carolina, to take place Nav
18th inst.
A new game for evening parties
is as follows: All the young ladies
bring photographs of themselves
taken when young and the young
man VINO can identify the greatest
number, receives e prize.
addi:ie5ste the many other
noteworthy features of the excur-
sion trip from Edgefeld to Charles
ton on the 10th, goodly number
of married ladies will attend as
chaperons, several in each coach.
There will be an Alliance picnic
at McKendlees on Saturday, May
18th. The surrounding Alliances
and the public generally are re-
quested to contribute to basket
dinner, and the general public is
invited to attend, The crowd will
be entertained by speaking.
Do you wish scholarship in
the Peabody Normalat NashvllleY
If so, write w. D. Mayield, State
Superintendent Education Colum-
hia, S. c., and tell him, 30 that
preparation will be made for you.
The examination will be held at Co.
lumbia. about the goth of July.
Daniel Webster once said:"I well
remember marked difference be-
tween those of my schoolmates who
had and had not access to papers.
Other things being equal, the first
were always superior to the lat
ter in debate composition and
general intelligence. Que trachers
do a graet work in circulatingithe
printed pages among their patrons.
Mr.. Purvis J. Boatwright,
of Darlington. was in town last
week. He is an Edgefold man by
birth, and is now travelling in this
county to introduce a patent gin
rib, a most wonderful invention
which almost does away with the
danger of fire, and as consequence
will rednce fire insurance to a
minimum cost.
The Aiken Times says: If it
were mol for stepping over five
drunk men, crawling through the
legs of seventeen colored gentle
men, knocking down thirteen bot
tle-suckers to get a chance at the
bar, smelling the breath of so
MANY fellow citizens in the same
.le.n nnd haarin the delicate eY-