Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-12-17

JEncsT G.y.5Ha sall. o
s,r. IIY:Yn i.s very ua!n-ai;Y di.ec.eG st.pp.
| tion to the members OF tho Uu!e1 S:a... SER.
ate, and to the point of seniority Mr.. Critten.
den, of Kentucky, is now the Father" of that
distinguished body, having entered it on the 4th
of March, 1917.
w LANARTrHE's GRAPE CRop.-There is
good news for the friends of NJ. Lamarine.-
The grape crop of the iustrious poet is this
year magnificent. Around his vineyards the
hail had injured the vines; his alone was pre-
served. 1t is estimated that,his crop will reach
two thousand FIVE hundred hogsheads of wine.
The journal which furnishes this piece of intel
| ligence adds that NJ. Lamartine is retained at
Macon by return of the painful rheumatism
to which he is so often subject.
w SUPPLY FOR READING PEopLE.-The
aggregate Of the catalogues of the fall sales Of
books in New York and Philadelphia, reaches
the sum of one million two hundred thousand
dollars
W AS IT SHOULD BE.-Hereofore lights
have been displayed on vessels at sea to tell
their whereabouts; but Captain West, of the
new steamer Adriatic, has reversed the old.fash-
ioned method by The introduction of powerful
Calcium light, which is to be placed in the top
Of the forward wheel-house, so that he can see
in every direction at a distance of ten miles.
Instead Of depending upon othors 10 see him, to
avoid collision at sea he intends to keep
sharp look out himself-New York Mirror.
w DANIEL DANCER, when he had f3,OOO
year, used to beg pinch of snuff from ell his
friends, and when his box was full, bartered its
contents for taow candle. But his parsimon.
ious ingenuity appears contemplate in compari-
son with that of the Russian miser, who learned
to bark that he might avoid the expense of keep
ing a dog.
W PERSONAL REFLEcTToNs-Sterneh holds
that there is no such thing as an impartial rep
resentation. A looking glass, he says, one
might be apt to imagine, is an exception to this
rule; and yet we never see our faces justly in
one. 1t gives US nothing, after all, but the
translations Of them. A mirrior, in point Of
fact reverses our features, and presents ,our
left hand for our right. This was adduced by our
author as fit emblem Of all personal reflections.
There is much true philosophy in the illustra.
ton.
o. THE actions of man tell of what kind
he is, rs do the fruit of q tree.
W BucHANAH's majority in Kentucky, all
the counties being heard from, is given in the
Louisville Courier at 1876.
w A PALPABLE H1T.-The following item
is taken from the Memphis Christian Advocate,
and is emphatically a good hit:
An invalid once sent for physician, and
after OBTAINING him for some time with de-
scriptop of his pains, aches, &C., he thus sum-
med up:
"Now, doctor, you have humbugged me too
long with your good-for-nothing pills and worth.
less syrups; they don't touch the real difficulty.
wish you TO strike the cause of my ailments,
II 1t Is in your power to reach it."
at shall be done," said the doctor, at the
same time lifting his cane and demolishipg
decanter of gin that stood on the side.board.
fB Western cotemporary says, "lf our.
subscribers and Others want US to keep up
lively editorial department., they must pay u.s.
II is sorry sight 10 see printer in situation
OF the Starved dog that leaned egrinst the Post to
daTT%s" There is sound philosophy, aswal rs
Wit and good humor, in the suggestion.
A distinguished writer says: aThc,e is but
one passage IN the Bible where the girls are
communicate hiss the men land that IL the
golden ruh, "Whatsoever. ye would that men
would'do unto you, do ye SO unto them
ASYLUM FOR IKEBRrATEs.-A movement Is
being setts to secure by: petition to The next
General Sourt, nm appropriation which shall Sc
cure the successful estabishnent Of an asytun
for inebriatea. -; $:5Sy. y ~