Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-13
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1894.

WEDNESDAY, UNE lo, lo94.
LOCAL2 BREW1lES.
And in these latter days, public
office is sugar "trust."
1t is so dry in this vicinity that
the grass is actually dying.
Four thousand Sioux Indians are
said to be church attendants.
Every club in Spartanburg
county has endorsed John Gary
Evans.
The onion, according to ancient
heraldry, was symbol of sin and
obscurity.
Judas Iscariot was silver man.
Gold bugs have this to quote
against their adversaries.
Senator Butler will deliver an
address at Little Mountain New
berry county on July 4th."
Mr.. C. A. Long, of Trenton, has
a few bushels of Unknown peas
for sale at $1.O0 per bushel.
Mrs. Shafer's concert at Mr..
Bacon's has been postponed until
Monday night of next week.
The cotton crop Of 1898 is al
ready up in the seven millions by
actual count, and still a-hooking.
The air is full of rumors that
the Cumberland Gap road is to be
built from Edgefeld to Abbeville.
Some one who believes that
brevity is the soul of wit, writes,
Don't eat stale Q-cumbers; ;
they'll w up.
Personal attacks on candidates
will not be permitted in the.
columns of the ADVERTISER during
this campaign.
Hon. John G.. Sheppard will de-
liver the commencement address
before the Parksville High School
on Monday, June 25th.
The whole Southern country is
suffering for lack of rain, while at
the North the floods caused by ex-
cessive rains have been disastrous.
Married, at the residence of the
brides father, Mr.. w. B. Younce,
by Lieut., Gov. Zimmerman: Mr..
Benz. Thomas and Miss Jeannett
Younce.
No rain yet, and yet it is won-
derful how the cotton and corn
hold the fort. Gardens, however,
flower and vegetable are suffer
: ing badly.
Mr.. Whit w. Watson, son of
Rev. A. B. Watson, SO we'll known
and kindly remembered in our
town, graduates at Woford College
next month.
MISS Mamie Norris, the talented
and beautiful daughter of Mr.. A.
j; Norris; Aezztis-iisa rs at home for the sum-.
merfrom the College for Women
in Columbia. -, :,
Complaints have been made OF
the non-action of our town board
of health during the current year.
4 little cleaning up now may pre-
vent much sickness later on.
"Three Weeks in Politics" is the
title of q little volume by John
Kendrick Bangs, author of "Coffee
and Repa,tee," to be published
this month in 'Harper's Black and
White Series" -.
We said last week that it was
supposed that the burning of the
house belonging to Mrs. Caroline
Abney was incendiary, but this
a mistake. The fire was entirely
accidental. -:
We hear of blind tigers all over
the county. The last one estab-
lished is near Richardsonville.
There are also peril ilatetic blind
tigers going about seeking whom
they may devour.
We notice in some of, our ex-
changes that the Supervisors of
Registration are to make the race
before the county primaries as do
the other county officers. How is
it to be in Edgefeld?
Trial Justices will Mt run in
the primaries this year. 1t has
been found, from the experience of
1892, that such primaries ratified
the people awfully, more so than
anything else except an earth
quake.
We call attention to the fire in
surance agency of Mr.. w. j. Nc
Kerall, Of our town. Mr.. McKerall
writes the most approved policies,
accident, fire, employers liability,
public office, cyclone, etc.. This