Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-03-07
BREVI7IES,

LOCALl BREV7lES.
There are now, sixty-four dis
pensaries in this State and all do
ing we'll.
Fortv-six dispcnsary cases will
he tried in Charleston this week
b"f,r Judge Tow. send.
Shad are being caught i'll the
Savannah river but as yet none
has reached this people.
st. Matthews oil mill, Orange
burg county, has declared a div
ident of IS per cent, so said.
The county board of assessors
appointed by Auditor Halti~anger
are in session to-day, Tuesday.
Senator Butler will address the
people of Barnwell county. some
time during the month of April.
Mr.. Richard Timmons has rel t..
ed and moved to one of the houses
of Mrs. Holston in North Bun
combe.
Mr.. A. R. Waits has rented one
of the Woodson mansions in Bun
combe, and Mr.. J.J. Bell has rem
ted the other.
March came in like a sheep-dem-
ocrat. She will probably 60 out
like a ring-tailed ramracker, rip
ping and roaring.
A correspondent of The Barn
we'll Sentinel nominates Hon. Geo.
D. Tillman for governor in very
flattering terms.
Col. R. A. Bowen, former presi-
dent of the Cumberland Gap rail-
road, has been appointed postmasH
ter at Pickens, this State.
Rev. w. States Jacobs, of our
village Presbyterian church has an
able article in the Clinton Journal
entitled Christian Education.
Mrs. Kate Stevens. formerly a
resident of Edgefeld' County. died
in Atlanta last week. She was the
widow of the late VIM. Stevens, of
Monetta.
If carpets be sprinkled with salt
before sweeping, it will be found
that not so much dust will arise
and that the carpets are wonder
fully frightened.
A breed of chickens with fur in
place of feathers is said to be the
result of a japanese scientists
efforts to cross the guinea with the.
common barnyard fowl.
Rev. Iri Hicks p edicts a very
stormy March, but he doesn't know
anything about it, beloved, and If
you have paid up for your paper
you needn't be at all alarmed.
The ladies of tho Cabinet at
Washington are wearing their hair
parted in the middle and crushed
straight back without any crimps.
At receptions they receive without
gloves.
In another column, DR.. R. H.
McKie, of Golfers, advertises the
vineless-yam potato for sale. We
have number of this variety of To-
tato in our office where they can be
seen by persons desiring to exam
Inc them.
The Marlboro Democrat says:
Senator McLaurin, recently elected
to the United States Senate from
Mississippi. is cousin of Con-
greIsmal John l.. McLaurin, of
this district. The Senator is a
South Carolinian, and was born in
Marlboro county.
A short time ago a citizen of
Petersburg, Abbeville County, was
robbed of all his fowls except one.
The one fowl left was an aged
drake, around whose neck was
found tied a note reading: Eat
ten this d ID old duck; we will
call for HIM later"
President Cleveland has gone to
the Dismal Swamp, North Carroll
ma, to hunt ducks. The editor Of
The ADVERTISER vas stationed
there at one time during the war,
and his experience in duel, hunt
ing was in being the duck and the
Yankees the hunters.
The State board has decided
that, under the South Carolina
pension law, any soldier, other
wi Sc entitled to a pension, is not
disbarred because be served in a
regiment from another State du-
ring the late war, provided he be
now a resident of South Carolina.