Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-21
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 81, 1897.
LOCAL. BREVITIES.

Cotton is coming up in the Trenton
country and farmers are plowlns
corn.
There may be more help in loaf OF
bread than in hundred dollar SUBJ
scrlption.
For the first time since "recon-
structionn Beaufort county has white
county officers.
The Graniteville freight depot was
burned on last Thursday by a spark
from passing engine.
If you can't pay all you owe on your
subcription to the Advertiser shut
your eyes and pay some.
Senator Earle is so i'll that he has
been advised by mis- physician TO
leave Washington for the present.
Top dress your small grain with
Nitrate of Soda for big results, to De
had of w. w. Auans'
The State Supreme Court has de-
cided that no man can keep liquor in
his house without the proper stamps.
We hope none or our readers will
faint when we tell them that coffee is
going down every day and that trusts
are the cause..of it.
The Chairmen Of township pension
boards will call on Auditor HaltlWan-
ger for bank applications, but not yet,
not yet, for he hasn't got any.
The Sweetwater Light Dragons
Capt. J.. P. DeLaughter commanding;
were inspected on Monday OF this
week at Hamburg by Gen. Watts.
Miss Kate Tarver, beautiful young
lady of Augusta, had her leg broken
while riding her bicycle last week. the
result of a collision with g. vehicle.
Any of the standard school books
adopted for use in the schools OF TINS
county can be obtained at wholesale
cost at the office of County Superinten-
dent of Education.
In spite of the cool morning las;
Sunday. quite number of Easter
dresses and hats were seen in the
Episcopal church, the only church
where services were held.
A very entertaining and instructive
mission and Easter service was held
in the Methodist church last Sunday
evening, in which the children per-
formed the most important part.
According to Georgia expe riment
bulletin on cow, peas. it is stated that
for an all round, all over, all purpose
pea, the Unknown heads the list. The
clay, however, is close second.
1t is authoritively stated that
Colorodo woman was cured of the
ssuffrage craze" by reading that there
was ssbare quorum" IN the Legisla'-
ture. She does not think such a place
fit for decent woman.
Col. B. 81. league of Aiken has ap-
pointed Capt. Joe Brunson adjutant
of the Aiken Regiment U.C, v. with
the rank of Captain. Joe was we be-
lieve graduate OF the Citadel and
will make good adjutant.
Miss Cora Byrd of Timmonsville,
who will be remembered by many
of our towns people having been on
a recent visit to Mrs. Col. Jas FL. TIL
man, was happily married to Mr.. w.
H. Keith of Darlington on Wednes-
day last.
Ex-Judge Cooke of Greenville is
dead. He was Republican at one
time, indeed Republican Judge, hut
of late years had become a Democrat
and was reputed an honest man, which
cannot always be said with. truth even
of Democrat.
The children of the Baptist church
are anticipating Sunday school pic
mic some time soon. 1t has not yet
been decribed where this picnic will be
held. but trip to Aiken would do all
the children good, and last them till
another spring comes.
A Jewelry firm advertises silver
bracelets, each bracelet having sus-
pended from it the left hind foot of a
rabbit killed in a country graveyard
at midnight, during the dark OF the
moon, on Friday. the thirteenth of the
month, by a cross-eyed, left-handed,
red-headed, bow-legged negro, riding
a white horse.
Our people are delighted to see
former residents, Capt j. NJ. Jones,
Mrs. Jones and l.. B. Jones of Edge
field They are on visit to relatives
and friends, and the Captain, though
somewhat feeble from catarrah, is still
jovial and the pleasant companion of
"ye olden time."-Batesburg letter.
A Maryland doctor invited quite a
number of friends to barbecue.
When all had eaten, and greatly prais-
ed the meat, he informed them the
beef they had enjoyed was ten
months old colt, and he had taken this
method of convincing them by practi-
cal test of the palatableness of horse