Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-15
BREVITIES.

Owing to the dry weather few pota-
toes have been set out.
Col. S. B. Mays has been elected a
member of the Edgefeld Board of
Control.
A good rain fell on Sunday beyond
the Huiet X Roads, only few drops
in our town.
Mr.. Jas. f. Hart has returned from
Hillman's Well mnch recuperated IN
health and strength.
The Rev. Geo. P. White will preach
at Horns Creek church on next Sun
day morning at IL O'Clock.
There is no smallpox in Columbia.
The Board of Health announces that
the epidemic is at an end.
There will be an election for alder
man in our town on Monday, June ~.
See official notice elsewhere.
Mai. John Gary Evans has been as
signed to duty under Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee and will probably 60 to Porto
Rico.
Married, at the residence of and by
DR.. w. P. Zimmerman, May 2Sth, 1898,
Mr.. w. Franklin and Miss Willie ID.
Satcher.
A freshly printed lot of Chattel
Mortgages at the ADVERTISER ofhce
We print any kind of legal blanks you
may want, in fact we do job work Of
every description.
The drought has been so long con-
tinued that in some sections corn is
diving in the fields and will be plough
ed up and planted over.
If the island of Hawaii be annexed
to the United States, and this is more
than probable, it is said that Gen. M :.
G.. Butler will be Governor General.
Chaplain Bussey's letter from Chick
amauga Park will prove interesting
reading We hope, and our readers
will be delighted, to hear from him
often.
The South Carolina regiment is now
at Chickamauss Park. If you wish to
write, address your letters as follows: ::
Mr..
Chickamanga Park,
Co. S.C.V. Lytle T. o., GA.
The death of Dr.. LovicA Hill on last
Thursday removes an old landmark.
DR.. Hill died at the home OF his daugh-
ter Mrs. Jas. II. Minis, aud was minis
tered to with tenderness and loving
hands to the last.
DR.. w. B. Penn has returned from
Hillman, Ga. Mr.. Penn was and IS
charmed with the electric virtues OF
the shaft and the ppurtenances, ap-
pointments and CUISINE of the st.
Albert Hotel, j. Il. Hunter, proprietor.
The Sluggers and Speeders the
newly arrived machinery for the
Edgefield Cotton Factory, recently re-
ceived from England, have been put in
and are ready for the application OF
steam. Of course you all know what
the Sluggers and Speeders are. More
machinery is ON the road.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Clotworthy have
returned to Hillman, Ga, and are pre-
pared to take limited number of prl-
yate boarders at their cottage on hotei
grounds. An electric shaft in the
basement of house. OF
There are or were several cases OF
smallpox In Newberry, whereupon
the town council passed an ordinance
compelling every citizen to be vaccl-
mated. The fine for refusing to be
yaccinated is Sl00 or 80 days in jail,
and if, after paying the fine OR being
IN Jail the 80 days, the party is not
yaccinated within five days, they slap
it to him again.
At club meeting of married wo-
men in Atchison recently the subject
of first quarrels after marriage came
up. There were 10 women present,
and IS laid the blame of the first g ar
rel on their husbands. The nineteenth
woman admitted that it was her fault.
The nineteenth woman was q widow.
-Atchison Globe.
Well, Hollingsworth's, and Broad
waters, and McManus's threshers
passed through our town last week and
threshed the wheat and oats. We do
not know the net results, but one man
got 45 bushels:of wheat, another Ia, an
other 20, another Z, and so on. We
suppose 200 or 800 bushels of wheat
were grown in our town ana supuros
this season, last year, perhaps not
dozen bushels all told. OF course there
was a great deal more oats.
1t is reported that Major-Gen. NJ. G.
Butler, of South Carolina, who is to be
given a warhorse by his admirers, in
sists that the animal be not white, be-
cause he had three white horses shot
under him in the Confederacy, and Is
trlfle superstitious in consequence
1t might be well, as matter of fact, tt
prohibit white horses throughout the
service, since they must make an ex'
cellent target for Spanish bullets II
(,,h, on6 oIcou uhora-Mai1 and FIX.