Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-04

W. II. Stallworth for the Legls-
lature, P. N. Lott. for School Com
missioner, and John G. Strother
for County Supervisor, are the new
announcements this week.
The Gold Medal.
Miss Jennie Reese, the 14-year-
old daughter of Mr.. l.. W. Reese,
won the gold medal for general ex-
cellence at Saint Mary's Academy,
Augusta, Ga. She also delivered
the salutatory for the class.
At Home Again.
Mr.. B. B. Evans, who has been
absent for some weeks in the in
te-est of his insurance agency,
which embraces the whole State,
is at home again and may be now
found in his Office by his troops of
friends.
Honors Won at S. G. College.
Among the horror winners at the
South Carolina College we note
The name of J. G. Hughes, of Edge
field, a member of the freshman
class, as highly distinguished in
French, distinguished in English
and German, and proficient in
Latin and mathematics. Mr..
Hughes is evidently youth of
versatile talent.
A Cloud-Burst.
On last Saturday afternoon
about six o'clock there was a gen.
uine cloud-burst in our town and
its environs. The cloud came up
quite suddenly with a wind that
was almost a cyclone and then
burst. Torrents of water FELL de-
luging crops and fields and filling
our branches until they flowed
over bridges and attained the tenn
porary size and dignity of rivers.
The 18th Annual.
The eighteenth annual picnic
and barbecue of the Edgeield
Hussars will take place as hereto
fore announced OF the 18th day of
July inst. The public and the
candidates are invited. Ladies
will please make contributions of
baskets, ETC., as they have so
kindly done in the past. The Hus-
sars propose this year to eclipse
any previous effort and to give all
who attend a day of unstinted
pleasure.
County Campaign Meetings.
At the meeting of the County
Executive Committee on Monday
of this week the following county
campaign meetings were arranged:
Holley's Ferry, Saturday, July 21st.
Mt. Willing, Tuesday, July Oath.
Ridge Spring, Thursday, July 26th.
Red Hill, Friday, Aug. 3rd.
Mountain Creek, Tuesday, Aug. 9TH
Sister Springs, (Haltiwanger's)
Saturday, Aug. l1th.
It is we'll to remember that the
first meeting (at Holley's Ferry, is
also State campaign meeting day.
A Wrong Sentiment.
The sentiment which seems to
exist in Edgefeld county that a
candidates chances for election
will be lessened by announcing bis
name in any other paper than the
Edgefeld ADVERTISER, is not Of
our creation. On the contrary it
is onr judgment, after twenty
years experience in the business of
attending to the wants of candi-
dates-seeing them pitch headleng
into the soup to-day and to-mor-
row scale the ladder of fame to the
very topmost round, that the very
widest publicity possible should
be given to their desire for office
and this advice is given in the in
terest of the candidates and the
public.
A Blind Tiger.
The following local of "blind
tiger" and his doings at Clinton
ward in this county, we clip from
the Columbia State of Tuesday:
"There was general free fight
and shooting scrape here to-day
Sunday among a lot of drinking
and gambling negroes. Nine shots
or more were fired, all caused by
that vicious beast, the "blind
tiger" Thornton Davis was shot
in the right side by Ed Martin,
while Martin, who ran off, was shot
in the hip by Cape Thomas, who
had already killed another negro
this year. They are all colored,
except the "blind tiger" and all
bad. None were shot as severely
as they deserved. Ladies on their
way to church, which is close to
this lair of the "blind tiger" are
lnsulted and treated with contempt
by the profanity and shooting near
them, while the oaths of the rowdies
can be heard in the church near
by
Baptist S. S. Convention.
The Edgefeld Baptist Sunday
school Convention of Edgefeld
comfy will meet at Plum Branch