Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-03-01
GAMpL1Sc.-The mania for gambling in

I GAMBLING.-Ihe mania Tor ganlDhnS III
our city, at the present time, is frightlul
Everybody appears to be desirous of getting
money without giving amy fair and proper
e1ui, a,ent therefore. TO say nothing of the
immense number of lottery policy shops
which are scattered under the disguise .ol
brokers' officers all over the city, and where
the hard earned pittances Of the poor are
daily and Weekly squandered, we have a
new race of spectators in the fancy market
of chance gift enterprise-a disguise to catch
the unwary 1t is a fact not generally
known to our ftllow.ci!izeus, thai females
have been very large; and IN. some cases,
tue largest purchasers Of tickets at the.coun-
tiers of there new fashioned establishments.
The poor sewing girl, as she returns from
the shop with few dollars in her purse, sees
one of the flaming advertisements OF Jewelry
and pianos to he given to purchasers OF
tickets, and in n moment magnificent visions
of wealth dance before her imagination.
She canno, resist the temptation: it is only
dollar and how splendid it would be to
furnish her little parlor with Il piano, or deck
her self in jewelry, and be SO much superior
to her associates She resolves, and it is
done. Hundreds and hundreds Of dollars
have gone trom the poor and needy in the
same way Some of the persons who sold
tickets Of this kind it is said, cannot now be
found; and the shareholders are anxiously
inqniring the whereabout OF these interesting
Spectators, but without the least prospect
of success in finding them. We perceive
that a:.Lll has. been introduced in the legisla.
ture to meet t6erequirements Of this new
dodge" in fnancerilg; ahd. %ehope to see 1t
pass as projection 10 the week minded and
those easily impQscdypon.-N: f.Dny Book
How TO CHOOSE. "A DoMEsrIc:-flouse-
keeping is not SO, full .ok sunshine and rose
colored bliss as mary imagine. 1t is hardly
possible to get along without cooks, scul-
lions, and chambermqids; land what with
their waste, whites and impudence, says
Aunt Sally, they are plagued drawbacks on
domestic peace aud comfort. Old Pepper.
grass was the customer f5r. discriminating
between the useful and the careless. Pep.
pergrass sent to the register office that he
wantcda good girl for general housework.
About the time he expected an applicant he
laid a broom down in the yard, near the
path. Presently girl comes up to the gate,
opens it, aud s,rols up to the house, the
broom being Immediately in the path, Miss
Betsy strides over it. The old man was on
the watch, and the first salute the girl g got
wa was, don't want you" The girl sloped,
and suddenly bullet-headed Nancy appears.
Seeing the broom in her way, she gave it
kick, and waddlcs up to the house. " You
won't suit me, that's certain, Miss Mopsy"
bawls out peppergrass. She disappeared III
hurry; aud finally, a third appears; open
ing the gate, aud coming into the yard, she
carefully closes the gate behind her, and
walks up-the broom is still III her path;
this she picks up and carries along to the
house, where she deposits it along side OF
the woodshed Before the girl could explain
her business there, Peppergrass bawls out,
"Yes, yes, come in, youW suit me-" Aud
she did; for that girl lived with Peppergrass
seven years, and only Quilted him to go to
housekeeping on her own hook, aud capi.
tai wife she made. Peppergrass was rig ht.