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

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not lay in wait, but roam the streets
and hunt you down.
To earn s25,O0o,09O it is only
necessary to sell the sea at one
cent for every 10000 gallons.
No fewer than 1,700 ancient
manuscript copies of the News
Testament in whole or part exist.
The barking of a dog on earth
can be distinctly heard by bal
loonists at an elevation of four
miles.
Every water, save that of springs
contains animal life; tut it is not
necessarily injurious to health on
that accout.
Charleston, Columbia, and Cam
den have passed ordinances to IL
cense the sale o. wine, cider, and
malt liquors.
Evangelist w. P. B. Kinard, of
Edgefeldis in Newberry this week
preaching. Mr.. Charles D. Tillman
does the singing:
The commencement exercises of
the Parksville High School will
take place OF the Oath and 25th
inst. Programme next week.
Cotton grew amazingly on last
Sunday, the first hot day since
March. 1t seems to know that it is
high time to be humping itself.
What dis country wants. said
Uncle Randall, "is some sort of a
contraption whar a man kin drap
a nickel in a slot crack and sit re-
ligion."
We are in receipt of an invita-
ton from Mr.. J. M. Rushton to
attend the commencement eXer-
cises of Wofford College, June
1912.
There is one thing sure: If l.. J.
Williams does not rul for the
House Of Representatives the peo-
pie are going to run HIM noIens
r0!ens.
Catherine de Medici, Queen of
Franco, wore the longest train on
record. It was her bridal robe.
The train was borne by 20 pages.
and was As yards long.
Every blind tiger has number
of little tigers to SO out in the
streets in the highways and by
ways to cajole and entice small
game into the den for the old one.
In one of The towns of an upper
county in this State a body of citi-
zens waited on a blind tiger and
informed him quietly but firmly
that it was their wish that he hunt
another lair. He did so.
The farmers certainly could not
complain o. last Sunday as being
too cool for the cotton, and by the
way, all that dead cotton has come
to life and though small it looks
as if it intends to hold the fort.
London Culver is responsible
for this unlikely story: "People Of
the free-thinking class often dis
pute the story of Jonah and the
whale, not so much on account of
its improbabilltY, as because it is
in the Bible. They declare that
the whale never lived that could
swallow man, but such persons
should remember that the word,
whale" as used in holy writ re-
ferred to any large species of fish.
Not long since shark and a sailor
in the Mediterranean sea re-
enacted the part of Jonah and the
whale to perfection. The mall fell
overheard and instantly disap-
peared in the mouth of a monster
shark. The captain fired gun
at the beast from the deck and as
the shot plowed through its back,
it cast the man out again and he
was rescued perfectly unhurt, but
so badly frightened that he was
sick for several days.
The Damage Done.
Considerable difference of opin-
ion exists as to the damage done
by the late cold snap. We
hear of farmers who are ready to
give up their cotton, plow it all up
and plant corn: and of some negro
tenants who have actually aban-
doned their cotton. Others, how
ever, and the more practical, main
tain that the damage to cotton is
slight, that it has only received a
set back from fifteen to twenty
days.
Railroad Taxes Paid.
Last week Capt. Anderson, audi
tor, or something else, of the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad, came
% Edgefeld and paid to Treasurer
WI. Stevens $?,777.T and seven
mills. This was in full of the
taxes of this road, penalties, costs,
and all for the last two years, over
which and about which they had
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