Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-12-12
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12, 1894.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. -, 1894.
LOGAL3 BREVI7IES.
Christmas two weeks from to-day,
Tuesday.
The collection of taxes continues
to 60 slow.
Some people say that cotton will
be 6 cents in the spring.
Mr.. Lawrence Rutland, of Ridge
Spring, died suddenly on Friday OF
last week.
To-day, Tuesday, the General
Assembly will elect Gov. Tillman
United States Senator.
The postofice in this county
heretofore known as Caughmans
has been changed to Delmar.
The editor of the Prosperity Re-
porter is mad because somebody
called his paper "that thing"
There's a New York man who
has a Jaw made of gold, closely re-
lated to President Cleveland, by
the way.
Rev. J. Walter Dickson, presid-
ing elder of this district, will
preach in our village Methodist
Church next Sunday.
Bygoing to the New York Racket
Store to buy your shoes, you will
get them at the right price and
help to pay no mans bad debts.
The largesta of Christ
mas goods at w. b. Penn's, and
cheaper than ever before.
Of the seventy-seven thousand
dollars to be collected in Edgefeld
county Treasurer Stevens has, up
to date, only collected about
fifteen thousand.
Last year Barnwell county sent
twenty-seven boys to Clemson COL
lege and twenty-six convicts to the
penitentiary.. This is one time
Barnwell beat Edgefeld.
Mr.. U. X. Gunter, of Aiken, has
been appointed private secretary
to Gov. Evans, and Mr.. John I.
Castor, of the same place, is after
Traxler's place as State dispenser.
Everything to please the little
ones for Christmas at Penn's
Drug Store. Go and see!
A great many good people would
like to hear Uncle George Tillman
talk through the press in public
affairs. They are weary of his
silence. So says the Barnwell
People.
Ladies, if you have not been to
the New York Racket Store, be GER
tain to 60 the next time you are in
town and see the large and beauti-
full lines of dress goods, notions,
hats, ribbons, and novelties.
The response of a certain French
man to a handsome woman who
complained that she had discover
ed three gray hairs in her head was }
paradoxical, but pretty. "Madam,"
he replied, $50 long as they can +"
counted they don't count!"
Hicks says rain, sleet. and snow
may be expected Dec. 9Th to 7th.
Freezing weather may be expected
18th to 18th, followed by regular
storm. Cold will prevail the last
week of the month. Heavy gales
may be expected from the 18th to
25th.
Beauregard Timmonsn never re-
fuses to show you what he has
for Christmas and to smile when
you call at Penn's.
The representative of Pitts
burg bottling concern was in Co.
lumbia last week trying to sell to
the dispensary people new
tangled bottle which having been
once emptied could not be reflled.
Oh, for 4 bottle that being once
full never could be emptied!
Gov. Evans's first appointment
in this county was that of Mr..
Luther G. Bell, Of our town, to the
position of Trial Justice. We be-
lieve Mr.. Bell will be very eff
cient officer and acceptable to our
people. We ought to know, for
we have known him ever since he
was knee-high to hopper-grasa.
Mary Mose'y, colored woman
about thirty years of age, living
in the Iickskillet section, was ac-
cidentally poisoned one .ay last
week by taking strychnine in place
of quinine. She died in few
minutes in great agony. DR.. Walter
Nicholson, who was sent for, said
there was enough strychnine in the
vial to kill five Thousand people.