Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-03-25
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%" No EAR FOR MUs1c.-"Do YOU hear
that music-that heavenly music ?" said an en-.
thusactic fox hunter to rather green compan.
ion, who rode beside him, as the pack opened in
full cry.
"No, hear nothing" said verdaut, iuclining
his ear, i cannot hear anything, for the Gus.
sed noise made by those dogs"
1t may be readily supposed that after this Old
Sport and Young Sport soon parted company.
-Portcr's Spirit.
RSp HEAVY TAxAT1oN.-The taxes paid on
each one thousand dollars by property holder
in Nashville is as follows For Corporation pur
poses, eight dollars for City Schools, two dol.
lars; for Railroads, five dollars and twenty cents;
for County purposes, one dollar and thirty cents
for new Court House, one dollar and fifty cents
for State purposes, one dollar; for State Public
Schools twenty-five cents; for Lunatic Asylum,
fifteen cents-in all, nineteen dollars and forty
cents! Don't this rather beat Memphis-whose
people so often complain Of their taxes MEM
phis Eagle, March IA.
ET"M MOTHER, mayn't have the big Bible
in your room?"
:" Yes my son, am glad to see you desirous
of perusing that Book. What do you most
want to see in it?" us -; 81;
(. only want to see whether Lean SMASH fHiss:
ia itliks. ssith
RB- A WEALTHY DARKEY.-There is negro
in Memphis who is said to possess an estate
worth $4,000. This negro. belongs to his wife,
free colored woman, in whose name the pro-
perty is held.-Exchange.
There are a good many wealthy whites in
these parts whose property is held in the same
way-Daily Democrat.
GS5n The CABISET.-It is noticeable fact
that five of the seven members of Mr.. Buchan.
ans Cabinet have been honorcd with the position
Of Governor, viz
General Cass, Ex-Governor of Northwestern
Territory; Mr.. Floyd, Ex-Governor of Virginia;
Mr.. Brown, Ex-Governor of Tennessee; Mr..
Toucey, Ex-Governor of Connecticut; and Nj.
Cobb, Ex-Governor of Georgia.
BSS" PUNISHMENT OF SLAyES-Thc Mississip.
pi Legislature has just passed bill prohibiting
any owner of slaves from furnishing them with
more than "ninc and thirty lashes' ut any one
time or for any offence, under penalty Of fine
and Imprisonment. AL other unnecessary cruelty
to slaves is also made indictable and punishable
by fine and Imprisonment.
Beg~ Hocrs Pocus.-How to get fine white
house out of an empty whiskey barrel. Put the
barrel in secure place, near spring of GOOD
water, on the road to the grog-shop. When you
want dram take the price of it in your hand
and start to the grogshop-go as far as the
droy, l,,Sr rlo1n
take a good drink of water and return home.
Repeat this operation till the barrel is FULL knock
out the head, and you have the price of splen-
did brick building. Fact.
G2r MADAME OcgASA, the largestlimbed wo-
man in the world, is i'll the museum at New
Orleans. She weighs 5l5 pounds, is feet two
inches i'll circumference, measures % inches
around her arm and 3S around the calf of her
leg, and wears No. l3 shoes. She halls from
Kentucky
GSJ" CoLoEED PERSONS IN PESNsYLYASA.-
The citizens of Philadelphia and Bucks counties,
to the number of one hundred and twenty, re.
Gently sent to the Legislature petition praying
for law to prevent colored persons from other
States acquiring residence in Pennsylvania.
H9" A FAIR ISFEREScE.-An old lady, observ.
ing sign over a tailoring establishment, bear.
ing the inscription "Fountain of Fashion, ex-
claimed, "Ah! that must be the place where
the sqmins come from
Esas" MANKIND have great aversion to intel.
lectnal labor; but even snpposing knowledge to
be easily attainable, more people would be con.
tent to be ignorant than would take even little
trouble to acquire it.-Johnson.
R~ CoSscIEycEr said Mrs. Hopkins in.
dignantly, "do You suppose that nobody has
got any conscience but yourself? My consc-
ence is as good as yonrs-ay, and better, too;
for it has never been used il the course of my
life, while yours must be nearly worn out +
p~ "LADlEs and gentlemen" said m auc.
tioneer, "these articles are no sham-they are
genuine tapestry carpets, made by Mr.. Tapestry
himself"
Bao THE Turks have very simple method of
making pantaloons. They fasten two coffee
bags to a vest, and the thing is done. The bags
answer for legs, and the vest for the Wristbands.
BT Rich ScESEs.-The closing scenes of the
Nebraska Legislature were exciting. The Gov
ernor vetoed six bank charters because it was
alleged that they were corruptly passed. A
crowd of the indignant people pursued the mem.
bcrs charged with corruption, into the Office of
the Territorial Secretary, to inAict personal chas
tiscment A member pulled Out his revolver,
and the Secretary drove the whole crowd into
the street. when the members made their escape.
OREGON TO BE A SLAVE STArE.-The New
York Tribune of the 4th instant says: ave have
number of letters from Oregon, by the last
mail, containing the startling information that
this Territory, hitherto set down as certain for
Freedom, will, in all probability, present herself
to the next Congress for admission into the
Union with Constitution legalizing Slavery: =