Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-28
Rock Hill has invited the
Citadel Cadets to camp there next


week cone prepared 10 pay your
dues to the ADVERTISER!
An Irishman we'll described the
grip "as a disease that keeps you
sick three weeks after you gel
we'll"
The War Department has ship
ped several hundred guns to
Clemson College for the use of the
cadets.
The Japenese say man takes
drink, then the drink takes q
drink, and the next drink takes
the man." Evidently the Japanse
have been there.
The Legislature at it's recent
session prohibited the killing or
capturing and selling of partridges
and quail for five years. The
penalty is $40 for each bird sold.
The depth of the snow and sleet
which fell on Saturday and Sun
day varies, according to the mental
and moral diathesis of the parties
on it, from six inches to s.
foot.
We are informed that the pas
tors of the Graniteville Methodist
and Baptist churches have freely
expressed themselves .as pleased
with the Dispensary as a moral
agent.
A car driver in Sheboygan
Mich, has been discharged be-
cause it was discovered that she
was woman. The gender of q
Sheboygander is, naturally, a little
perplexing.
A doctor in Penrith announces
as the latest remedy for toothache,
that the mouth must be filled with
cream; then the head is to BIZ
bumped against the wall till the
cream turns to butter.
The Abbeville papers say that
the matter of building the Cum
berland Gap from Edgefeld to that
town is being agitated again. The
Press and Banner favors the build
ing of the road but under an en-
tireiy new scheme from the ancient
one.
Bills of sale, liens for rent and
advances, mortgages, titles, a new
lot, for sale at this Office. We
have lien in stock the verbiage
Of which, dictated by a distin-
yuished lawyer of the Edgefeld
bar, is guaranteed to hold niger,
q mule, or an eel.
"Did the snow storm of Saturday
and Sunday destroy the fruit crop?
Will it injure the small grain?"
These are the questions of ques-
tons just DIV. The daily papers
oi this morning, Monday, say that
peaches have been killed, and also
figs and pears, all over the country,
Easter Sunday this year will be
he 25th of March, asit was in
1893, and only three Easter Sun
lays in the nineteeth century have
oeen at so early a date: March %,
IN 1918, and March %, in 1845 and
1856. The latest date of any
Easter Sunday in this century was
April 25, 1885.
The district conference of the
Missionary Society, NJ. E.
Church, will be held at Ridge
Spring on Friday, March 10Th.
Mrs. NJ. D. Wightman will preside
,ver this meeting. Mrs. J. w.
Landcr,a missionary to Brazil, will
oe present, and on Sunday follow
ng Rev. J. C. Kilgo will preach
These facts ought to induce large
See Miss Lou P. Gary's
1otice elsewhere in this paper.
There are persons in Edgefeld
county that object to the dispen-
'ary law because under it's opera
ion they can buy whiskey but once
day. They say it abridges in
hat respect the liberty and in
llienable right handed down to
hem from old Father Noah. But
What a tribute this objection is to
he law itself, and we have no
loubt the bar-room men make the
same objection, for it abridges
heir right, as they can't sell even
'nce day.
That was good answer our
:rlend Sam Smith recently gave to
IN anti who objected to the dispen-
'ary law because his house could
De searched for contraband liquor.
WELL" said Sam, "they may
search your house, because you are
! suspicious character and will
Dear watching, but they'll never
search mine, and every ninety-nine
citizens out of a hundred need
have no fear, because no reputable
person would make affidavit that
they had contraband liquors"
We heard prominent member