Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06


preside. The civil docket is prett
good one but the criminal bushes
will be light.
DIR. w. II. Timmerman's residenc
near Johnston's was destroyed by fir
on Wednesday night last. The los
was total one and there was no in
surance. DIR. Zimmerman was in Co
lumbia in attendance on the conyen
ton at the time of the fire. The hous'
| was large one, two stories In height
containing eleven rooms and wa
built in 1883.
The Cumberland Gap R. R. was sold
at Aiken last Tuesday, as announced
1t was bought by j. D. Reynolds o.
New York, for the bond holders fol
s67. 900. 1t is surmised that the bond
holders are negotiating with some
trunk line which will build the roat
on.
This is s-the day of anti-lhis, and an.
ti-that, but what people need most
nowadays is the anti-bilious medicine
Simmons Liver Regulator, the King
of Lives Medicines, and Better than
Pills. "I have used no other anti.
bilious remedy for six years and know
from experience that for ladies of 8
constipated habit nothing equals it,
Laura V. Craig, Ellenbusy, Pla.
A telegram was received here yes.
terday to the effect that Mr.. j. Fl. Ay-
cock, a very extensive farmer OF
EWedgefeld, Sumter county, died at
Ashville N. c.. on Sunday night last
Mr.. Aycock was an uncle of the Misses
Aycock, popular milliners of our town
Prof. Edwin F. Hall of New York
will lecture in our Opera House on
Thursday night of this week en- "How
to get mad and how 10 get glad" a
thousand laughs in ten minutes. II
you could laugh when cotton was five
cents how much more should We re-
ioice when it is eight? Let us laugh
Mr.. J.D. Reynolds, who bid in the
Cumberland Gap road at the sale in
Aiken recently, passed through oul
town on Saturday last en- route te
Greenwood. He says the road will bt
built to that point or at least the pros
poets for such extension of our little
road are every bright" With rail roat
men, however, no prospects are les
bright than very bright.
When Socrates was asked whether
it was best for man to marry or re
main single, he answered: "Let hin
take which course he will, he will re-
pent of it,"
Old Soc was about three-third
right, no doubt, although no one maj
has had experience in both lines, IL
both marrying aud not marrying. Fo
the comfort of the fair sex we will sa.
that Socrates had an unusually har'
and unhappy experience.
We clip the following from the Au
gusta Chronicle as it will be read witt
interest by the numerous Edgefiel'
friends of the prospective groom
| Col. rillman joins the party in Au
gusta today and they all go in specia
car over Georgia rail road to Spart
Thursday morning. ga wedding o
much interest to Augusta friends i
that of Miss Hattie Clare Muilall
to Mr.. Herbert Rountree to tax
place next Thursday evening a
the Methodist Church in Sparta
The attendants are Miss Nina Mul
lally, Miss Rountree, Augusta, Geor
gia, Miss Lane, Macon, Miss Hill
Macon, Miss Tinsley, Macon, Mis-
Mangham, Miss Baxter, Sparta, Mis-
Scofeld, Miss Edwards, Miss Mutually
MIR. Henry G. Hammond, Mr.. Jane
Hammond Tillman, Mr.. Milledge Lock
hart, Mr.. Martin Dunbar, MIR. Barrett
Mr.. Shewmake, Mr.. Hopkins, Mr.. Co
hen, MIR. j. II. Willis and Mr.. La
Mutually.
Photographs.
Have you good Photograph of eac
one of your children. Delay it no long
, err. R. H. Minis.
We Surrender.
The anonymous writer who threat
ems US that unless we "puhlish hi
piece" he will have his name "takene
off our books" has got in what 20
might call the argumentum ad homi
nem which, translated, means he Wi
take away our hominy if we do nc
r comply with his wish. OF course W
r succumb, and "his piece" will appea
5 next week.
Pastel Portraits.
One Ol MISS EiiLd miIhS oo1'
portraits will cost but little compare
with the satisfaction it Will affor'
Y Attend to it at once.
Wanted.
A copy of Campbell's Poems contain
J. ing his "Last Man."
| had vision in my sleep,
{ That gave my spirit strength to swee
Adown the gulf of time,
For such copy liberal price will
paid at the ADVERTISER Office.
e old Scout 20
: My name is Gray, of Co., A,
r l sold my land my tax to pay,
If I had failed to make the sale,