Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-06

Be sure to register, and when you
get your registration ticket paste your
last tax receipt on the back, hard ard
strong, for you must exhibit both in
order TO vote.
The report of crops all over the
county is very encouraging. The re-
cent rains have brought out the oats
and wheat and brought up the cotton
and beiated corn.
The foundation of the Edgefield fac
tory is almost complete, the wall show
ing above the surface of the ground,
and with this the work of brick laying
will be half done, there being so many
windows in cotton factory.
Our village Baptist church has sent
during the past three months to the
various mission boards, $S7.35, divided
as follows: Foreign Missions, $1,000;
Home Missions, $500, and to the min
isterial students at Fnrman UNIVERSE
ty, $l2.3o.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor, of Ten
nessee. who, by the w.y, will be elec-
ted again this fall, says he is in favor
of "gold, silver, greenbacks, state bank
bills and little more counterfeit
Lilies of the valley in France are
called virgins .ears" and are said to
have sprdng up on. the road between
Calvary and Jerusalem during the
night following the crucifixion.
Hicks says that May will be the wet
test month of the spriag-thas TOO
much water will fall in that month
for many lowlands, and enough to
thoroughly mOisten nearly all sec
tlOns of the country.
Col. r.. w. Youmahs has over six
hundred acres of cotton hoed and
pIowed over, besides three hundred
acre "path" not yet up. But he also
makes oceans OF corn, peas, hay ana
potatoes for all farm purposes and ba-
con ample for family use.-Barnwell
People.
Mr.. w. N. Burnett spent day in
Greenwood last week. Mr.. Burnett
says Greenwood is growing bustling
city, but Edgefeld is also on the move
upward. He thinks the Greenwood
cotton factory did more for that city
than any other one thing to build 1t
up to its present fair proportions.
Hon. j. VIM. Thurmond, of Edge
field. is announced as candidate for
Solicitor of the fifth judicial district.
Mr. Tburmond is self-made man of
marked ability. His valiant services
for the Reform faction have given him
a wide reputation, especially IN the
Samuel Lord bond case. If elected,
he will discharge the duties of his po-
sition with credit, ability, and impair
tiality.-Orangeburg Patriot.
In the article of last week signed
@yan Star" several typographical er-
rors occurred. The one specially griey-
Gus was this: "Medieal men are past
coming TO The conclusion that alcohol
is useless as nedIcina; the WORD
mast shonld have been rendered fast
By the way we would be glad and So
would many of our readers, if our cor.
respondent would substantiate his as.
sertion by the records, the opinions OF
eminent medical practitioners. Sup.
pose Van Star interview those OF
Nashville and the Professors of the
Nashville University, of which be is
student, upon, this mooted subject.
When you need bottle Of Pure Rye
Whiskey for Medicinal purposes, ask
at your Dispenssry for the genuine
and original Bakers Pure Bye Whis'
key, Z. Walters d Co. propritors.
BY and by yon will want another
Buggy. BY buying whatever you have
to buy st Ramsey G. Bland's you save
enough to buy something else.
The best is always the cheapest pro
vided you get the best cheap enough
TO make it so. You can do this OF
groceries and drugs always and all the
time at W. E. Lynch's.