Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-05-08
Eageheld Court House, s.; May g, As44:

r s.orekeeper, looking into his money
: drawer, ''I have NOT. FIVE shiIlings here
u and your bill is five dollars and min,
.Epence.'
+ The poor woman thought other invalid
child and rlng her hands. E.it. sa55s 3. ~
d "A sailor was here while ago aud Sc!
lected fill five dollars worth of articles
! here on the counter, and went away gel
!, his wages 10 pay for theii; ;'but I7qdesiior
d r.if he comes back. lfhe does and paysfoI
Them, YOU shall have your money mad.
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At this sinsrant Jack made his appear
Z ance in the door -z .,..... - ~.
well, ship zmate,' he cried, ia zone
much more elevated than when. He! was
discovered speaking with The captain;
well my hearty, hand over, my frsisht.
I've col the document. SO give. us posses:
sion!' and displaying his five dollar piece,
he laid hold Of Tho purchases: a,S. = ~
| The store-keeper, examining and seeing
thai The money was good, ,bade him take
them, with him, aid then signing as he
took another aud last look at the eipiece,.he
handed it TO The poor w,who, will. a
IjnyfUl smile, received il from him, and
hastened from ifc store. ,,.., ...,5 "a;
In low and very humble tenement,
near the WATERWAYS a family OF poor chill
dren, whose appearance exhibited The ut
fmosl deslitulion. On a cot bed near lay
n poor woman, ill and cmaciated. The
door opened and a. man in coarse patched
garments entered with wood saw and
cross, and laid them down by the door
side and approached the bed. ::
Are you any better dear p he asked in
a rough voice, but III the kindest tones.
.No-Rave you found work !? If you
could gel me a little nourishinS food, J
could regain my strength
The man sazed upon her pale face a
momehi, and again taking up bis; Saw aud
Cross, went out. lIehad mol gone far be-,
fore woman met him aud. said, she
wished him 10 follow, her md saw some
wood for her. His heart bounded with
hope and gratitude, aud lie went after her
to her dwelling, an abode little hetler than
his own for poverty :yet wearing an air OF
comfort. He sawed The wood, split and
piled it, and received six shillings. with
which he hastened to a store for necessa-
ries for his sick Ssife, and then hurried
home to gladden. her heart with the deli
cacies he hadproyided. Till now he had
GO work for four days, and his family had
been starving. aud from this day his wife
got better and MAS III length restored TO
her family aud 10. health, from a state OF
weakness Of which another days continu-
ance would probably have proved fatal.
Thess six shillinss which did SO much
good, was paid him by the poor woman
iron, the FIVE dollars she had receive from
the store-keeper, and which the sailor had
paid him. The poor woman's daughter
also was revived, aud ultimately restored
to health; and was lately married 10 a
young man who had been three years alb
sen, and returned true to his roth. But
for the five dollars which had been. so in
slrumental in her recovery, he might have
returned TO be told that she whose memory
had so long been the polar star Of his heart
had perished. :,
So much good did tho fivo dollar piece
do which Peter Chancery, Esq. SO reluc-.
tantly paid to Mr.. Lasts apprentice boy,
though In lie credit is due 10 ,hia legal gen-
lleman lorthc results that followed. Ii is
thus that Providence often makes bad men
instruments. of good to others. Let this
| little story hose who think small bill
can stand because it is a small bill re-
member how much good a FIVE dollar bill
has done in one single day-aud that in
paying of Que bill they may he paying a
series of twenty bills, aud dispensing good
10 hundreds around them.
Death ora Soldier Of the Reuolution.-----
The Kaskaskiu (Ohio) Republican notices
death in that vicinity Of Mr.. J. Stufflebean
aged ll9 years. He was born on the banks
of the Hudson river, twelve miles from
Albany in the State of New York, Febrn-s
/ arg f5lh 1885. There he married his shrst
wiic,. whom he left with two children,
when he enlisted as private 10 lhe reyo-i
lutionary army in which he served almost
10 the close oflIc.war, when he was taken
caprive Inv the indians, who disposed oil
him to llo Brilisi, for a haHelofrum. Ilav-
ing remained a prisoner at Detroit a lew
months. while cmpIoyedin choPpng wood
he and five of his fellow prisoners effected
their escape. Or account oflhe difficulty
experienced in procuring subsistence, these
fueiives separated into two oparlies, and
took separate routes to the Ohio river.
The subjec, ofihis notice and his two com:
panions guided by the sun in fair weather,
and lying by when it was cloudy, aiming
for some point high up on the river, made
the best of their way through the desolate
forestlheninhabited by hostile Indians, but but.
nowisth territory constituting the STATES l.es
4 of Ohio, Indianna and Michigan. Three
long months we're spentiu conceaiImesn1t en- az ana .
wandering about in the performance, Of
a this lonesome and hazardous journey, be-
/ sci, as it was, on all sides, by the lnsldlous
!, foes, then The sole tenants OF those 'st savage
wilds; in perils aud dangers daily; and at
!. times nearly reduced to- starvation. ~ Al