Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-09-12

the glory of your; birth the pride Of your
heart.--Valley Pioneer. .... :. ,,'''.@''. ..',
ITEMS FOR THE MULTITUDE. - :,
~ NEWSPAPER SUsPENsIoN.-A Mis-.
souri, editor announces that the publication
of bis paper will be suspended for six weeks,
in order that be may visit st. Louis with q
load of bear skins, hoop poles, shingles, oak
bark and picked catfish, which he had taken
for subscription. 49,. 49,. .s:...so
GA CoNTENrED .WIrE-N is lessed
thing for poor man to have a contented,
loving wife: one who will not wish 10 live
in style beyond her husbands income, just
because her next door neighbor does: one
who can be happy in the love of her hus-
band, her home, and its beautiful duties;
without asking the world for its smiles or
its favors.
" In contest among men, the party
doing the most wrong is commonly harder
to be reconced than he who has suffered
most wrong The reason is, he has quar-.
rel with himself, which makes him doubfy
irritable. -
OT AMONG the calculations with regard
to Sebastopol is one in the London Morning
Post, which says that the termination OF the
siege is no longer matter. Of doubt but
may be exactly estimated. The calculation
of that journal is that the place will be taken
year after next.
WELL, Sambo, what's yer up to
noW.a:days!"
"Oh, I'se carp'nter and iiner."
"He! guess yer is! What department
do yer perform, Sambos"
- What Department. does de circular
work" =
!" What's dats
"Why, turns de grindstone." :,
"G'way."
o. AN APT S1MILE.-A Roman Catholic
Priest some time since, in Germany, on en-.
teriug the pulpit took walnut into-it. lie
told the congregation that the shell was
tasteless and valueless-that was Clavin's
church; the skin was nauseous, disagrcea.
Bile and worthless--that was the Lutheran
church. He then said he would show them
the holy Roman Apostolic Churef,-he
cracked it and found it rotten. :,
O. A BEAUTIFUL thought this which we.
find in an exchange: "If there is man
who can eat his bread in peace with God
and man, it is the man who has brought that
bread out Of the earth. 1t is cankered by
no fraud, i. is wet by no tears, it is stained
by no blood"
o. DoS'T READ Tnls.--lt- has been
ascertained, says contemporary. that the
people who pay the printer are seldom struck
by lightning. If this be boaa.fde fact,
we have in our minds eye few who ought
to procure lightning rods instanter!
G MEN are like bugles' the more brass
they contain, the further you can hear theui,
Women are like tulips: the more modest
and retiring they appear, the better you love.
them.
F"Now, papa, tell me what is hum
bug?' 1T is" replied papa, when mamma
pretends to be very fond Of me, and puts no
buttons on my shirt till reminded of it
dozen times" Queer definition, thats stn
there's some truth in it. "a
WHAT'S whiskcy bringing" inqpir-
ed dealer in tina. article. Bringing men
to the galows," was the reply. 1:s
GA Yankee has invented a drilling
machine which not only drills wood, rocks.
and iron, but is useful in drilling military
companies.
OT ExAMpLE.-WouM YOU have youe
children to be temperatea be temperate
yourself. Would you teach them to abhor
all vulgar habits let them have no domin.
ion over you. Your wife might talk from
May to January upon the evil influence Of
tobacco. Your boy may see you but once,
use it with relish, and his first penny will
go for quid, such as an intelligent beast
would eschew.
G- HAVE the courage to prefer comfort
and propriety to fashion in all things.
E-A client once burst into food Of
tears after he had heard the statement of his
counsel, exclaining, 81 did not think / had
suffered half so much" = r:
w fRESERVE lew secrets lroH thy WIS,
for if she discover them, she will grieve, not
that thou has kept from her thy secrets, but
thy confidence. ~
@ THERE is a man in Olney, Illinois, so
dirty, that the assessor puts him down as
"real estate" -, .rsaa
o. The following notice was affixed To-
shop in Leeds: "This Ouse 2 Lett
Hinquir Necks Doar." .5...-,s ,.,t i 49,,
~ The corportears have Been aaopthg
the practice Of patent medicine men, ana
now print sorptaal injapcsioas on walls aaa
fences. A gentleman was lately atastedsg
reading upon fence, "Take Hobeasaeks
Liver Pills." and directly beneath it,*e feg
pare to meet thy GodP q. - ta,. ...'.:l -, ~
6F New READ1NG.-"A "A laundering big
lie" is now rendered alnnatingsenlargae
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