Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-05-02

now is to drink it, and there are
better things to do.
Genial and handsome DR.. R. J.
Talbert, of Mccormick, was in our
town last week on business.
It is said that Collector Townes
is busy issuing internal revenue
license for the fale of whiskey.
This looks as if we will have, e,liquor
in abundance instead of prohlbl-
ton.
A correspondent to the Charlotte
IN. c.. Democrat says that this is
"locust year." and that they will
be up between the 18th of April
and the 1st of May. They come up
to spawn aud will subsist on air
and dew and will remain about
fortv-two days. They split the
limbs of trees and deposit their
eggs, which hatch in twenty-one
days. They then return to the
earth and stay until 1907. Locusts
and free liquor all in the same
year is too much for mortals to
stand.
The Anderson Intelligence says:
"Rev. R. w. Seymour, pastor of
the Walhalla Baptist Church, died
suddenly in that town last Friday
from heart failure. He was on the
street at 7 o'clock, and after get
ting his mail walked home. The
attack came on just as be was en-
tering his house, and in fifteen
minutes he breathed his last. He
was a faithful pastor and an able
preacher, and his death is deeply
regretted by his friends" This
gentleman resided in our county
for a number of years and married
daughter of the late DR.. f. J.
Andrews, who still survives.
DR.. Zimmerman Declines.
Hon. w. H. Zimmerman declines
to have his name used as a guber-
material aspirant. See his card in
another column. DR.. Zimmerman
has been and is one of the most
steadfast Reformers in the State
and his declination to enter the
lists for the position named will be
regretted by many who admire his
conservative yet manly course on
all political and economic ques-
tions that have arisen within the
past ten years, indeed since his
entrance into the arena of politics.
e. B. Hart & Co.
This firm displays very neat
and catchy" advertisement in an
other column of this paper. Always
up to the times, jam up to the front,
in the matter of buying the latest
and best of everything in their
line, and in the largest markets of
the country. they are equally as
considcrate of the pockets of their
customers and patrons and, while
they do not protestant never
bave-to sell "below COST" that
old chestnut devised to catch the
unwary, they do guarantee your
moneys worth for your money.
Hail Storm.
Friday afternoon last q heavy |
hail storm prevailed near Green
wood, and to within a few miles of
Augusta, thought it was not con-
tinuous the whole distance. In
the New Market section there was
considerable damage done, but it
was severest near the Georgia line.
Besides the hail there were
terrific drown-pours of rain reach
ing to the much dreaded cloud |
bursts in several places. Our re-
porter says that on Col. A. P.
Buffers place the water was three
feet on a level in the road. The
rain fall here was very heavy
Greenwood Leader.
De Facto Liquor.
For several days days indeed
almost ever since the dehorning
Of the dispensary law, liquor has
been coming into town over the
railroad, from Augusta and other
points. 1t has been coming in
jugs, bottles, demijohns, and kegs,
good, bad, and so-so-and in quan.
titles to please the most exacting
stickler for the ''inalienable right"
of man to drink it and sell it.
Well this de facto liquor has borne
fruit. On Saturday night last
George Norris, colored, gave hot
supper at his house in the suburbs
of our .own. At this jamboree a
colored gentleman full of de facto
pulled his weapon on George and
shot him in the leg. This is the
first hot supper under the decision,
but it will not be the last.
How To Kill Liquor.
The New York Advertiser says:
"After a number of experiments
1t is said, Colonel Julian K. Lark
has demonstrated beyond a doubt
that parsley, if eaten before or
Immediately after drinking wine,
will kill or completely neutrallze
the effects, making intoxication an
impossibility. He discovered this