Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-08-19
CIRRANT ITEMS FROM ALLaUARTERS.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY

E-4a lOm lnumO uaS n Il'aA t'Hdiueu MaJoi
Littlefinfer in Boston. lie isSFepresented as
six years old, and weighs onlystwelve pounds.
~ Advertising is the oil witch wise trades
men put into their lamps, and That foolish ones
neglect to use.
- Never be dependent. Eat your crust
/ honestly earned. Look the world in the face
smile at its frowns and laugh atits malice. Use
energy. Strive and still striIej and if all is
lost, strive again. Never say die.
gH In various counties of England "Pro-
tcctivc Societies" have been formed of persons
who pledge themselves MT to purchase thim-
blerui of sugar until it has declined four cents
per pound.
Il. The Sheriff of Polk county n G. was
murdered last week, while attempting to levy an
execution upon some property. .e
Il Rev. J. P. Boyce, of Greenyille, South
Carolina, has been elected President of Mercer
(Ga.) University.
~ a correspondent of the Carolina Times
proposes the Hon. Daniel Wallace, Of Union,
for the next Governor Of the State.
f:Y Letters from Lecompton. say that five
of Capt Caldwelrs, four of Capt. Berry's, and
the whole of Col. Manners surveying party,
have been murdered by the Cheyennes.
SIA A little girl, on hearing her mother
say that she intended to 60 to ball, and have
her dress trimmed with bugles, innoccntly
inquired if the bugcs would all bloo
when she danced. "Oh, no." said the mother,
"your father will do all that when he discovers
have bought them."
An English paper gives an account Of
tea party Of sixty old women, who were the
mothers OF eight hundred and sixty-nine chill
drcn They must have had something to talk
about at that tea party, We should think.
E1s.@ The man who always 'drives good
bargain" has lately procured NOW whip.
e Why are potatoes and corn like GER
tain sinners of old? Because, having eyes they
see not, and having ears they hear not.
sgsE \ popular writer, speaking of the pro-
posed oceanic telegraph, wonders whether the
news transmitted through salt water would be
fresh.
ES5~ Mr.. Robert Epps Of Williamsburg, the
Star says, has raised pumpkin which weighs
one hundred and twenty-five pounds. 1t was
the product Of seeds obtained from the Patent
Office.
Mp"I say, Paddy, where did YOU raise
that loafer-like hat-must have belonged to
some scamp?" "Och, an it's there yc are;
troth an you're right, yer honor-it's an old
.,n NV yours that misSus gave me yesterday
when yer honor We're to toyn." Nuf ced.
The qucrist stole away like a mouse Just escap-
cd from the. .talons of a cat.
rzsn The dearer oats become the more horses
are licked. DobLs says shilling rawhide will
give as much power to his grey mare as twenty
five cents worth Of corn. Dobbsis is becoming o
philosopher.
m5 An honest Hibernian, in recommending
a COW, said she would give milk year after year,
without having calves; because" said he, " 1t
runs in the brade; for she came OF COW that
never had calE.'
go The Spartan mentions a bunch of six
ty-two stalks Of Mogul wheat which contains
about 1000 crains-the productof asingle grain.
1t was grown Oh the land Of MIR. W. Z. Miller:
on Tiger.
Asss. Tie Atlanta Eramiar; Of the 7th inst,
says: aOn Tuesday last, ono hundred and
twenty freight cars passed over the State road,
from Chattanooga to Atlanta, loaded with wheat.
The receipts for this freight, by the State ROAD,
on that day. amounted 10 S 800"
rsy~ Stranger to n little y-"Well, my
little son, amt you lost?" Little boy, step
ping back and cycling the strangcr-"L Look here,
mister don't be so familiar, if you please, | am
not unprotected" laying his hand on revolver;
"you must remember AIN gentleman"
EsgA An infant son of DR.. Bailey, OF Rockville,
Conn, during the doctors absence from home;
crcpt into a room where morphine had been
split on the carpet, and ate enough OF the pow
der to produce death.
nEs~To MAKE LAGER BEER.-Take barrel,
fill it with rain 'raier, put i'll one par of ofa
Joois head Of last fairs caJbags, t'eo short sizes,
a sprig Of arOrmwood. and little yeast.
Let it work,
And when clear,
You'll have excellent
Lager beer
na5 An Indian Chief being asked his opinion
of IL clsk of Madeira wine, presented to HIM byan
officer, said he thought the juice extracted from
womcns tongues and lions hearts Tor when he
drank bottle Of it, he could talk forever. and
fight the devil.
r=;ss" !l Elephant once nearly killed an Irish.
man for ;tu insult offered to his trunk The act
walls rash in the extreme but it was lmposSl-
bc." the Hibcrnan said, 10 resist nose you
could pull with both hands"
EGY~"IIow old are YOU, Bridget - said gen,
tleman to lis servant girl. About fifty. sir,
replied Bridget. "Iou are mistaken, Bridget,
you arc not "ycr twenty 'Icss, sir, this is it..
l'mabou twenty or fifty, somewhere along there
This answer indicates about the same degree OF
intelligence as that of an old gray.headed negro
in South Carolina: " How old are you, Pete 2
! said Il gentleman to him one day. i dunna
Mass, lells berry old 'spcct Tsc about five or
six hundred
EXTRAORDINARY IrrLD-Wc have been shown
bv our friend, William l.. Goggin, Esq, some
that VIC have ever seen. The product OF three
grains Of wheat was 1000 grains-a yield that,
we imagine, has never been cycelled, ii e1nacd.
! The product Of single grain from which there
Sprung u stalks, was 1850 grains, averaging do
Grains TO each stalk. The several grains pro-
luccd, respectively, u, 2l and 20 stalks. While
the entire crop of Mr.. Goggin has not thus been
prolific in its yield, this circumstance alone tends
to show the capacity of Bedford land Tor the
production of grain. What county IN the State
or Union, can beat this ?-Bcdlur1 Sentinel.
4 prisoner in Jail lately sent to his creditor;
the following proposal, which he believed would
! bc for their mutual benefit: g have been think
ing that it is very bad for me to lie here and put