Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-16

the last sixteen years, has removed 10
Nashville, N. c.,
Our mail arrangements are execra-
BILE, just now. Our midday train brings
only the Charleston mail, not stopping
at Trenton long enough to get the Co
lumbia and Augusta mails. Somebody
is to blame for this business, and this
is intended as a kick.
Shad have already appeared in the
Augusta market, but none will ever
appear in this market. Our Wander
biltian days are over for paying 10
cents for one fish. Sausage meat,
and spare ribs, and backbone are
good enough for our people.
AS an efficient whiskey cure it is re-
ported that raw tomatoes and salt are
superior to the biclorlde of gold reme-
dy. It clearly has the merit of cheap
ness and is not hard to take.
The Greenwood people are working
to double the capacity of their cotton
mills. All the stock with the excep-
tion of about $5,OO0is owned by people
in the immediate vicinity.
Everybody in Edgefeld town knows
Alb. Clark, colored, but everybody
doesn't know whether he is fool, dry
so, or fool for the want of sense.
Well, here is what Alb. says for the
year 1895. He calls it an address to
the gentiles and niggers: cab. Clark
exires to recompense the gentiles and
niggers is a very substantious man.
1 have peted to you for insurmentions.
Will you recompense in very Ian
guage? I am no continuance right at
once is extance pint to inform you all
for spectator. Alb. Clark is goin' for
superpervider for information of the
State citizen"
On last Sunday morning we were
visited by another blizzard, the sec
ond of the season, and some say colder
than the first. The thermometer fell
to zero and maybe below, and milk,
water, vegetables, meat, noses, ears,
ETC., were all frozen solid. 1t came un-
heralded by the weather bureau, too,
and we are afraid the truck farmers
did not have sufficient notice to cover
their things-at any rate we did not
put shawls on our collards. and think
of suing the Bureau for damages.
The Cincinnati Enquirer tells this
story to prove that the instinct of self
preservation is stronger than reason:
ga man on Lake Auron steamer had
the only specimen Of black rattlesnake
1 have ever met with. 1t was about
the size of an ordinary garter snake
and as vicious as Satan. 1t was con-
fined in strong box covered with
thick plate glass. When any one
would touch the glass Nth his finger
the snake would strike the underside
opposite the finger as quickly as a
stroke of lightning. The experiment.
er would always jerk away as sudden
ly. There was not man on board,
however muscular and free from nerv-
business, who could keep his finger to
the glass when the snake would strike,
although knowing that it could not
possibly touch him. Strong men
would try it again and again, certain
to endure the test, but
with the same result"
An old-fashioned sea story full of
interest and adventure, with a strong
love motive, is begun by w. Clark Rus
sell in the January Cosmopolitan.
"Ouida" succeeds Froude, Goose, Lang,
and other distinguished writers with
an. instalment of the "Great Passions
of History" series, which has been ap-
pearing III The Cosmopolitan. A dis
cussion is aroused by Mr.. Edward
Bok's article on "The Young Man and
The Church." which will consume tons
of ink before it is settled. Just pre-
ceding the famous Charcot's death he
prepared an article for The Cosmo-
politan on Pasteur, to be published af-
ter Pasteur's death. But Charcot has
died first, and so with the consent of
Charcot's executors, the article is CIV
en- now. rne present "Theatrical Sea-
son in New York" is critically consid-
cred by James S. Metcalfe, editor of
Life, and there are stories by Tourgee,
Howells, and the famous French wri-
ter Francois Coppee.-The Edgefleld
ADVERTISER and The Cosmopolitan
will be sent, both one year, for $500;
address or call at The ADVERTISER Of
flee.
Mules and Horses.
I have just received carload of
Mules and Horses, we'll broke. that l
offer for sale at figures to suit the
times.
r. NJ. HAYS,
Jan. l6, Edgetield, S. c.
Put Off the Party.
The necktie party that was to have
been celebrated at Modoc in commem-
Grafton of the burning of Mr.. Nick
Browns house, has been postponed be-
cause of the fact that some of the ex-
pected guests have been slapped in"
jall while the others have vamoosed
the ranch.
The Bank of Edgefield.
We call attention to the annual state