Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-09
aOGAI2 BREVI7IES.

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OGA2 BREVITIES.
Horses and males are cheaper ti.an
.ver before known.
81 Senator-e!ect 'rillman was in town
cn Monday last, so we have heard.
Photographs-are lower than ever in
3 = x. II. MINIS.
4 Have you pruned your grape vines,
sr.sharry bushes and fruit trees? This
Is the month for it.
Let whiskey alone this year and
you'll be better off. physically, moral
ly, aad financially.
Some ofthe appointments made by
Gov. Evans in this county are not em'
inently satisfactory, if what we hear
be true.
Phosphates will be less in demand
in 1895 than ever before. Try the plan
OF saving ontthe farm so as to avoid
,nceding commercial fertilizers.
Auditor lIaliiwsngcr is on the
rounds n,,kins assessments. Give HIN
hearty welcome, for taxes will be
lighter this year than last.
.rin 3i:,!am has lost another mule.
Jim Gays lie got out CT the stable and
|. broke into his pea field, and when he
found him she had done split"
THE big hng that Chris. Williams
Killed, Of which we made mention last
week, weighed 1911! pounds gross, and
6Fl pounds net.
The Johnston people are moving in
the matter Of getting dispensa-y for
that town, aud an election has been
ordered by the town council.
BY request of Secretary S. 3. Mays,
we announce thatthe Edgelield Coun-
ty Alliance will meet at Edgeiield on
3 Friday next.
Mr.. Oscar Burnett, of our suburbs,
has fine sow and pigs for sale. We
are advertising pigs for sale free this
year, as we did last. Send in your pig
advertisements.
scz ''December fogs make January shows
is one of the weather sayings. If it IS
correct, we have four or five SHOWS to
follow, for the first half of December
was very foggy.
Mr.. o. o. Barr has joined the band
OF those who cater TO this beef-loying
community and has opened a beef
market in the store room next to Nor
man YounSblood.
Our members of the Legislature are
offered the use of these columns to ex-
plain why certain promised reforms
were not given the people, and why
the SALARY reduction did not mate
rialiZe.
A negro living few miles from Sa-
luda Old Town in this county was out
hunting on Christmas day ana went to
shoot at rabbit when the gun eNplo-
.ded killing him instantly.
we are requested to anncuce that
the County Beard of Commissioners OF
issttsstiel,i ( tss,4ssssy7 ,s,4sss ~ Will meet ss Edge
ts--I-se--2Gtk anuarg,
instant forth pcrpose Of oFganiza-
lion.
The Eigeieid members Of the Gen
seral assembly are requested to meet 1T
Edsefe:d on next Monday. the l4Eh
instant, for the purpose Of hiling va
cancies in County Board of Commits
sioners.
We heard one Of our merchants COM
planning the other day that he chad
eleven pounds of pork sausage that he
could not sell, and that every man in
town seemed to have two or three hogs
OF his own, and of course sausage
meat tell he couldn't rcst.'
Mr.. Mark Shealy, of the SalGda side
of the county, killed hog recently
that weighed six hundred and three
(603) pounds. He got the pig that did
this thing from Scratch" Whittle, and
Scratch" is of course entitled TO the
three pounds.
The CONSERVATION produced in the
hearts and minds of the fair sex by the
aDparation of mouse is prcverbial,
but the record has been broken. A la
dy IN Edgefell caught q mouse last
Sunday rs he was attempting to elude
her pursuit. and although she scream
ed IN al intensely feminine manner
she brarely held him fast.
The late freeze did great damage to
the truck farms near Charleston, and
in Florida the injury to oranges, early
vegetables, and small fruits runs up
into the millions. We believe this old
Edgetield of ours is the best place yet,
although few Of cur collards were
frost bitten when the Thermometer got
down to 8 above zero; but they'll put
; out in the srrlng--we mean the COL
iards.
Col John f. Hobbs, late q contribu-
tor TO these columns, now in Missis-
sippi, will leave in March for South
America tc look into the question of
sheep and wool growing and the MAX