Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-08-21

| tlSE) IS SGiiie t!lIeS CauSeo iioin eat'iS
| water-li rl0n.
SIR. Bragg Jones has rented Mr. IL
| ton parker'S house in south Edgefield
and will with his fair bride r-move
thithtr in Il few GayS.
A cnlnr.d philosopher is reported TO
have said; Life my h"eddrrn am
mostly made up Of prayih' fur rain and
then wishing it would clear off,
Her many friends in Edgefeld VIII
be clad to know that Mrs. W. i. Dun
oyant has returned from visit to rel
atiyes at her old home in Spartanburg
County.
Mrs. A. G. Lanier, nee Miss Leg
gette. after short VISIT to her parents
at Pittsburg. has returned to her home
in the city by the sad sounding sea.
DR.. Bob Mayson, of the Gilgal Sec
tion says he has the best crop on his
place this year that he ever had. His
land hasn't been thoroughly wet, until
last week, since the earthquake year
which was in 1856. 1t has been near
ly nine years since the doctor had
good rain.
A negro preacher addressed his
flock with great earnestness on the
subject of "Miracles," as follows MY
beloved friends, de greatest of all mir
aclas was bout de loaves and fishes.
Dey was 5000 leaves and 2OOo fishes,
and de twelve 'postles had to eat 'em
all. De miracle is dey didn't bust"
An old darkey who was asked If IN
his experience prayer had ever been
answered replied: swell, sab, some
pra's ansud an some isn't-'pend on
wat yer ak fo'. Jist arter the wah wen
it wss nifty hard scratchin' TO- de cul-
lud breddren, obsarved dat w'eneoer
| pray'd the Lord to sem one o Marse
Peyton's fat turkeys fo' the ole man
dere was no notice took Of de petition;
but wen pray'd dat he would sen de
ole man fo' de turkey, de matter was
tended to befo sun up new mornin'
dead Sartinw
Franklin, IN. Co. Press, August
7th: Capt. w. j. Kirk, OF Abbeville'
and Mr.. A. Zimmerman, of Westmi n
ster, S. c., were in town last Thursday
and had conference with the cor
porators of our local railroad charter
with Aiew of trying to devise plan
by which the company cah be organ
lied and go to work with view to ac-
tive operations In the interest OF the
Black Diamond project, If satisfactory
arrangements can be made all along
the line. They made some preiimina-
ry propositions, not necessary TO pub
lish now, which will be further con-
sidered at a meeting to be held few
weeks hence in South Carolina at
which we will be fully represented.
Let it suffice to say that our prospects
for the road are very good.
Barbecue at Mt. Willing.
Mr.. u. ADAMS: Please be sure to
announce in this and next weeks is
sue of your paper that Senator B. r.
Tillman and Congressman McLaurin
will address the public at Mt. Willing
S. c., August 31st, '95 on the subject
of free silver. The public is cordially
invited to- attend and bring bas-
kets for a basket picnic.
B. L. CAUGHMAN & OTHERS,
Johnston, S. c.. April 20.
"T. j. Mackey.-Thomas j. Mackey'
late Captain of c. S. A., is writing for
The Peterson Magazine, a new life of
George Washington, the Citizen, the
the Soldier,the Statesman, the Patriot ,
The first instalment appeared in the
June number of Peterson. Judge
Mackey is admirably qualified for
such work. SO far the chapters are
written IN the highest style of the
literary art. This illustrations are pro-
fuse and elegant and the story grows
in interest with each successive install
ment. Peterson is a monthly of the
high standard, has corps of able con-
tributors and only costs one dollar q
year."
We bet Mackey doesn't know that
George Washington was ever in Edge
field, that he took dinner at the Pine
House, and fou ldered his horse be-
tween Wards and Ridge Spring. And
yet this is the record over Georges
own signature.
Two Edgefield Boys.
From recent issue of the Confed-
crate Veteran, Nashville, Tenn, we
copy the following, aud as it relates
to two Edgefield boys, boys at the
time, the one living and the other
dead, it will prove of interest to Edge
field people:
"During the night of the first days
fight at Trivlllians, Va, Whitfield
Brooks and John Green, privates of
Company B. 9Th Regiment Cavalry of
SC, went off from their Regiment;
but in the morning of the second day,
Sunday, 18th June 1864 rejoined their
command, having captured three Fed
erals a Lieutenant and two others.
Brooks had the squad and the Lieu
tenants sword in his possession. When
Genl. Nj. C. Butler was told of the cut
off of these two men, he replied "They