Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-29
| OCAL2 BREVI7IES

Cotton lice have done considerable
damage in some parts of the State.
Mr.. E. J. Minis was elected Warden
on Monday, vice E. B. Hart, deceased.
A big excursion of colored people
from Aiken reached our town on Mon
day.
Nothing makes woman so mad as
having something to say and no one
to listen.
Mr.. and Mrs Mabry, of Abbeville,
are visiting friends and relatives in
our town.
Both banks will be closed on next
Monday, the 4th July, that being le-
gal holiday.
We regret to hear of the sickness Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Broadwater at their
home near our town.
The colonel of Texas regiment OF
volunteers is named Garlic. The Span
iards Will snuff him from afar.
The fact that you are coarse and rude
in your speech does not prove that you
are sincere, but it does prove that you
ill-5red.
Place two cent stamp on your bank
checks after July lst and cancel the
stamp by writing your initials across
the face thereof.
There will be gathering at Meri-
wether Hall on Thursday of this week.
The candidates Will be out in full
force and fine feather.
Col. Frank Satan, of Tennessee, it is
announced, is off for Cuba, and the
Cincinnati Tribune suggests that he is
probably 'immune" to the china e
there.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee will meet at Edgefield on
next Monday. See Chairman Denny's
notice in another column. A full at
tendance is desired.
A wife and mother suggests this
motto as an excellent one for the din
ing room wall: at is a good horse
that never stumbles and good hus-
band that never grumbles."
An Irish gentleman lately said to
another, "I called to see your family,
but they were not at home; and sup
pose they had gone to ride in a carriage
which was standing at the door"
a. S. Tompkins, Esq, says the Edge
field Cotton Factory will begin work
in about two weeks. His brother, D.
A., is in town to see after the mills, he
being one of the largest stockholders.
The following candidates worship
ped at Antioch church on last Sunday
P. B. Mayson ard NJ. P. Wells, Esqs,
for the legislature, and JAS. t. Minis
and D. D. Padgett for county super
visor.
John Bell Griffin, colored, was knock
ed in the head with rock on Satur-
day evening last by John Cromer, col
ored, and his skull fractured. Cromer
rests in durance vile at this writing
all Of Edgefeld.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Clotworthy have
returned to Hillman, Ga, and are pre-
pared to take limited number of pri-
vate boarders at their cottage on hotei
grounds. An electric shaft in the
basement of house. OF
See the advertisement of the South
Carolina Co-Educational Institute in
this issue of the ADVERTISER. The
Institute will open on Wednesday,
Sept. IA; seven teachers have already
been engaged.
The annual banquet in honor of the
South Carolina State Dental Associa
tion will be had at Harris Lithia
Springs, S. C,~on Thursday evening,
July II. We acknowledge the receipt
of an invitation to be present.
On Wednesday night last some one
broke into the E. B. Hart clothing
store and toek therefrom clothing to
the amount of fifty dollars, more or
less. The entrance was made through |
the rear windows.
This is precisely the way in whichs
little six-year-old on Second avenue
disposed of his devotions the other
night:
"Now 1 lay me down to sleep,
/ pray the Lord my soul to keep;
And about this war with Spain.
Please, o Lord, remeIl lber the
Maine" Detroit Free Press.
We predict for Edgefield consider
able boom this fall. What with the
factory starting up, the coming of the
South Carolina Co-Educational Insti-
tute, and the long lease of our railroad
by the Southern Railway, new life and
energy will be impaired into the old
burg and the people thereof, and the
waste places will bud and bloom again.
IT. il obliged to he So