Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-12-08
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GATHERINGS.

'' IS a DocTER up town gave the following
i prescription for u sick lady few days ago
IL ga new bonnet, cashmere shawl, and pair
of gaitcr bootsm The lady recovered immedi-
e ately.
e GS IT seems to be so easy to be good-na-
l. tured that it is wonder anybody takes the
: trouble to be anything else.
c EI A FRIEND of ours thus eulogises his
+ musical attainments: ~ know two tunes. The
:, one is {" Auld Lang Syne," and the other isn't.
G G I always sing the latter"
ES WHY is IN overloaded gun like an
!: ofice-holder? Because it kicks nightly when
: discharged.
E The Louisville Journal says: "a New
! York paper is discussing the effects of the Ocean
Telegraph. We think it died without leaving
f any,"
E When success makes man better
) than he was before, he must be a good man in
deed.
81 Quite recently, says the Marietta Pa
trlot, several families have returned from tho
far West to old Cobb again, after an absence of
some two years spent in search of more favcra-
bic land.
kI The editor of an eastern paper speak
ing OF drink he once had occasion to indulge
in, says he couldn't tell whether it was brandy
or torch-light procession going down his
throat.
EI Our Devil" like ourselves, is in want
OF the "needful," and thus laments his unfor-
tunate situation:
The Circus is coming,
/ And know not what to do
For to raise quarter dollar,
To take me to the show"
* A speaker at stump meeting out
West, declared that he knew no North, no
South, no East, no West. Then, said a by
stander, you ought to so to school and learn
your geography"
= MARRIAGE OF KINpRED-A bill has
passed the House of Representatives of Georgia,
by a vote of fifty-siX to fifty-two, prohibiting
the intermarriage of first cousins, under severe
penalty, and cutting off the Inheritance of ISSUE
Ihe preaaalla "a s1l sisat feanx de-
marrying with each other. ---,---.: ~.
Es" Jonathan, where were you going yes
tcrday, when saw you going to the mill 2'
"Why, was going to the MILL to be sure,"
"Wcll, wish I'd seen you, I'd got you to car
ry grist for me-" "Why, you did see me,
didn't you?" ayes, but not until you had
got clean out Of sight"
EE Keep out of bad company, for the
chance is that when the devil fires into flock
he will hit somebody.
IL If your sister, while tenderly engaged
in tender conversation with her sweetheart,
asks you to bring glass of water from an adj
joining room, you can start on the errand, but
YOU need not return. You will not be missed,
that's certain-we've seen it tried. Don't for.
get this little boys.
EE.A lady returned from visit to the
| Natural Bridge in Virginia, on being asked how
she was pleased with this stupendous specimen
of Natures handiwork, replied "that it would
be very nice bridge when it was done-but it
wasn't quite finished when she was there"
Il. The costume of the Spanish ladies has
not changed for two hundred years. They ac-
tually wear the same style Of dress as their
great grand mothers did.
ES"I tell you wot, Julius, I had a mon
dc cotton patch" "Wa, wa, wat you 'sputc
atout?" '"Why, you see, Julius, massa he
come down da whar was holm, and massa he
say squash grow best on sandy ground, an
say so too; and dare we 'sputc about it for
morn one hour z"
GR. The great chain of railroad between
Philadelphia and Chicago is completed. The
entire length Of this road is eight hundred and
twenty -four miles. The cars began their regu-
lar passage over this continuous track on tho
20th ultimo.
IA-"A Miss Josephine" said thick, cherry
looking Tipped negro to one Of Africs daugh-
ters @NIiss Josephine, will you do dis niger
de anticipation OBJ dancin' Wergina reel wild
i'm 2" IL doesn't assent to dance wulgaraeous
dances oh dat sort, Mr.. Casus," said Miss Jose
phina, turning up still higher her well-rounded
lip 81 dances only de porker"
nSy 1t was done when it was begun it was
done when it was half done and yet wasn't done
when it was finished. Now what was 1t? limo
thy johnson courted Susannah Dunn. 1t was
done when it was begun, it was done when it
wa, half done, and yet it wasn't Dunn when I'm.
ished-for it was johnson.
ASP Thomas Govern and Thomas Campbell
are sentenced to chung at Pickens Court House,
S. c. OH the 3lst of December.
BS" When you are wbistling in printing.
Office. and they say louder" don't you do it,.
Terrible pressure in the money Market
as the mouse said, when the keg of specie rolled
over him.
Da5%AT debating society, in Schenectady,
the other day, the subject was: (Which is the
most beautiful production, a girl or a strawber-
: ry?" after continuing the argument for two
nights the meeting finally adjourned without
coming to conclusion-the old ones going for
! the strawberries, and the young ones for the
: girls.
R2AS Irishman called into store, and
priced pair of gloves. He was told they came
, to ten shillings. "Och, by my soul, thin," says
; he, "ld sooner my hands'd 60 barefoot, than
, pay that price for 'em."
: w Fontecelle, when describing the differ
: ence in the mental constitution Of the sexes,
: SAYS "Woman has cell less in the brain, and
fibre moro in the heart, than man."
ray The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in q re.
> cent speech, declared that he would rather q
: daughter of his should work as o domestic, in 9
yirtuous family, than to accept situation In q
manuiaetory or store. 49,. ~
pay Said southey: aMy notions about Life
aro much the same as they are about travelling;
there is good deal of amusement on the road,
i, but, after all, one wants to be at rest"