Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-27

up April planted corn, anu the drouln
catches May planted corn.
A lady tells the Christian Advocate
that she heard c0lOred preacher say:
"De fo' part of de house will please sit
down, fo' de hind part cannot see the
fo' part if de fo' part persist in stand
in befo' de hind part, to de utter OBJ
sculusion Oh de hind part by de fo
part.
There is colored girl in Augusta
who writes her name as follows: "Miss
Lizzie Lee Flower-of-the country
Pink-of-the-Fo -Mile-Post Fl or
Elizabeth Laura Jones Mary Lou
Ashley Bush Viney George Smith,"
And she is in good health and spirits!
The Keowee Courier says that a par
ty of civil engineers are now survey
ing route through Oconee County
for Col. Boone's new railroad from
Knoxville to tiGewater. They are run
ming the road five miles west OF wal
halla and will come down by west
minister and Townville to Anderson.
i his is the old Blue Ridge railroad
route and will come through Edge
field, if 1T comes through anything.
Cotton has advanced one cent a
pound within the past ten days, but
we hope no farmer in Edgefield Coun-
ty will be fooled thereby into the .Le-
lief that it is "gwine ter go to ten
cents" Don't forget that you have
been saying for the last fifty years
that, they run cotton up in the spring
to make US plant more of it, and down
in the fall so that we will get nothing
for it," And in all your gettings get
wisdom.
can Augusta man says he recently
stopped in village where the hotel
had two large rooms, one for the men
and one for the ladies. Half of each
room was made into beds. He says
there was sign hung out on the porch
which read, "PerSons wishing ~ take
a bath will please notify Mr.. Smith
half hour beforehand, SO that he can
have sile creek damned up"
The other night st. Louis police
men arrested 4 SomnambuliSt who was
wandering about the streets in his
nishtdress. When the s0mnambuliSt
awoke he exclaimed: Surely you are
not going to arrest me; am not re-
sponsible, as 1 am somnambulist."
81 don't care what church you are
member Of" said the officer. "You
can't walk the streets Of st. Louis in
your shirttail If you belong to all the
churches in the CITY,"
The man who gets the fewest letters
complains the most of the manage
ment of the postotfice, the man who
complains the most of the preacher
pays the preacher the least, the man
who complains the most Of his neigh
Dor is the meanest neighbor, and the
man whu has the least sense is the
most conceited. And it may also be
added that the man who bOrrows his
neighbor's newspaper has the most
fault to find with the way it is rum
Exchange.
Rev. S. L. Morris, a former pastor of
our Presbyterian church, and who is
now making tour of the East, has
written the following letter to a
friend:
SUMMIT OF PYRAMIDS,
February 27, 1895.
DEAE FRIEND: This is written from
from the highest rock on top of Cheops.
We have visited Bermudas. Gibraltar,
Malaga, Alhambra in Granada, AL
giers, Alexandria and Cairo. rode a
camel from the largest Pyramid to the
Sphinx and back. Algiers and Alex
andria are as line in places as anything
[ ever saw in America. Cairo is Orl-
entail and abounds in extremes. saw
old Pharaoh, Rameses Ii, in museum.
Yours truly,
5. l.. NORRIS.
The Result of atrial.
CANNELToN, IND.-"I have used Sim
mo2s Liver Regulator, manufactured
by j. Ii. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia,
and found that for Indigo stion and
Liver Complaint it is the best medi-
cine ever used.-E. E. Clark. Your
druggist sells it in powder or liquid;
the powder to be taken dry, or made
into tea.
All Hail ParkSyIlle.
\ party of gentlemen left Augusta
OH Tuesday morning Of this week over
the P. R. & w. G. Railway to Inspect
the water powers at and near Parks
Vile, this county. The party consist
ed of the following: w. B. Young, D.
B. Dyer, j. II. Alexander, Charles
Estes, Albert Anderson, IL. G. Middle
ton, and others:
"Mr. George +. Ladshaw, hydraulic
engineer, MIR. j. L. Baton, a photo
grapher, who will be taken along in
their professional capacities, will make
views and descriptions of each of the
magnificent manufacturing sites, to
be published in pamphlet which the
road will issue. Pine Log Shoals, the
especial point of interest in this trip,
is three miles from the line of rail-
road, and seventeen miles from Angus
ia. 1t furnises unrivalled water. If a
manufactory could be induced to To-
cate there the road will run spur
over to it, furnishing ample transport
tatlon facilities. In the pamphlet to
be gotten out by the 2. K. & w. G.
Railway, a full description of the
hmm "A rods f,f vitac similar to this one