Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-18
Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 1884.
BRE,VI7IES.

Plant rutabaga turnips now, and
plant again and again until you
get a good stand.
On the outside of our paper
"Saluda" nominates Col. ". II.
Folk for the State Senate.
The Greenwood people are rush
ing their new county scheme. They
are working night and day.
The best way to manage church
quarrel, or any other kind of a
quarrel, is to stop quarrelling.
tits being stated in advance that
cotton seed will be lower in price
this year than usual. A boycott !e
in order.
Come to the meeting at Edge
field on Thursday and hear Till
man and Butler "bust" the welkin
wide open.
Everybody is fool about some
thing, but all of us should not be
fools about the same thing, hypno-
tism, for instance.
There will be meeting of the
Tanglefoot Democratic club on
July 2Oth, at 12, midnight. A full
attendance is requested.
One inhabitant in every 1S0 in
this country owns bicycle, and
has lots of fun keeping the other
179 lodging for dear life.
The stand for the campaign
speaking of tomorrow, Thursday,
has been erected in the Academy
grove, the old-time place.
There will be all Alliance mass
meeting at Blease's X Roads, July
9th inst. The public is invited
to attend and bring refreshments.
Col. R. B. Watson declines to
make the race for the House of
Representatives. If there should
be a vacancy he will probably run
for the Senate.
The first bale Of cotton of the
season of 1894 was received at
Houston on June 26th. 1t was the
earliest on record. 1t brought 80
cents pound.
A New England dictionary offers
the following definitions: "Bicy-
Gle; Pleasures treadmill. Ink; a
black fluid often used to make
black seem white"
Rev. 7. R. Hicks gives notice in
July Word and Works that he will
hereafter prosecute all newspapers
publishing his weather predictions,
which are copyrighted.
The State Reform Executive
Committee met in Columbia on the
10Th inst, and decided to- stick to
the plan of of holdings conyen-
fIc2 to suggest the nominees : Il; t t
Now is the time to plant your
second crop of Irish potatoes. We
have been telling you this for the
last twenty years, although we
have never male second crop
ourselves.
Furman University will offer a
scholarship to one student in each
county who passes the best exam
ination on questions which will be
furnished. Particulars will soon
be made public.
There was lovely "nose" party
at DR.. Manly Timmons's last
Thursday evening. Mr.. Ransom
Padgett took the prize-two bottles
of cologne-for guessing the great
est number of noses.
Old farmers tell US that the cold
days of last week helped the cot
ton by checking it's too rapid
growth. 1t had been getting the
big leaf, which is simply super
abundance of vigor that rushes the
plant into luxuriant foliage rather
than fruit.
The Aiken Journal and Review
says popular young man of that
city who is the possessor of very
large feet, has been offered seventy
five dollars week for two years
by New York museum to put
himself OH exhibition, and he has
accepted the offer.
We clip this wisdom-in-a-nut-
shell paragraph from an exchange:
"If a man has got smoke-house
full of meat, a supply of grain and
feed stuff, a barrel or two of good
home made syrup, bank of good
potatoes and owns his farm, he has
got a better government than any
political party ever made"
He came home from his daily
grind at the office, and falling into
a chair, said, "What have you got
to read2 I'm just in the mood to