Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-08-30


Observation-Disclosures llIlIilllIlIIlIlIllll.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL. E
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The rains came, and, we'll make peas
aud taters, belovedl
Turn out Edgefeld Hussars! See
order of Capt. Evans herewith,
Is your rye coming up? Haven't
sown any!!! Well it is time you were
at it.
Peas and sweet potatoes are grow
ing so fast it is hard to keep them in
the ground.
o. Sheppard Esq, is at Glenn Springs
for little much needed rest and Sec
.reration.
The Edgefeld cotton factory is not
buying cotton this week up to this
writing.
The Advertiser and Home and Farm,
both, one year $l.50.
A reputable New York cotton firm
predicts s cents for cotton between
this date and 1900.
Money to Loan on attractive terms.
EDGEFIELp BUILDING AND LOAN AssO.
CATION, j. II. ALLEN, Treas.
E. Mr.J. J. Bell proposes to erect a nice
cottage on the site of his old building
which he has already torn down.
Mr.. J. w. Peak, of the New York
Racket, has returned from New York.
Mr.. Hart still hngers in the metrop-
oils.
See Gov. McSweeney's proclamation
in this issue of the Advertiser. Re.
ward of one hundred dollars for cap
ture and conviction.
Three wagons with four bales each
in front of Will Adams's store on Mon
day of this weak beats the record for
August deliveries of cotton.
The Edgefield Building and Loan
Association has money to lend on very
easy and attractive terms. See j. 81.
Allen at the Bank of Edgefield for par
ticulars.
Richard Penn, colored, of our town,
has applied to the President to be sp.
pointed 3 captain in the negro regi-
ment to be raised in.the South for the
Philippine en- ieavor.
Prof. Bailey received by mail one
day Of last week seven applications for
entrance into the s. T.. G. I. at the next
session. There will be a much larger
attendance from all indications than.
last year.
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We have had continuous bnt gentle
rain since Sunday night up to this
writing, Tuesday P. n, and the COM
planning farmer is already talking of
cotton rotting and sprouting in the
bolls, etc.
Neill stills to the twelve million
bale prediction for this years cotton
crop, and old uncle Mike O'Dowd Of
Augusta says he's "a bloody liar" We
thought uncle Mike Was dead twenty
years ago until he used these very
words to us lSsJ week.
The rain of lsst Sunday and again
the next day was delightful change
from the sultry weather of, we might
say, the previous siI months. The
thermometer in few hours fell to 30
and the atmosphere was almoust noun
tainous in its temperature.
The Advertiser and Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Weekly, both, one year for
$500.
Col. W.. "A. Neal, superintendent of
the State penitentiary, has been ar
rested for some of the things he has
done. Now Neil of New Orleans, who
predicts twelve million bale crop of
cotton this year, isas blg.a rascal as
our Neal, even if he does spell his
name differently. Why let him escape?
There will be more thieving this fall
and winter than for many years past.
Hard years and hard times make the
,bsd citizen worse and the indifferent
citizen bad, while the good citizen
shines with moreefulgent far reach
ing light, ir other words, he gets
goodes and gooder like the old darkey's
gobblers.
The corps of surveyors from the AM
derson end Of the Black Diamond
Is reached Duntonsville on last Saturday,
at this writing they are somewhere be-
tween Edgefield and Johnston. They
say they will leave Edgefield about
four miles to the right and Johnston to
The left about the same distance. From
Duntonsville the line runs by the Reel
Spring, and it is proposed to have a
fine depot at that place, and an oil de.
pository with pipe lines extending to