Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-11-03
GATHERINGS.

E"WHAr has brought you here?" said
n lone woman who was quite frustrated" the
other morning, by an early call from a bachelor
neighbor who lived opposite, and who she re-
garded with peculiar favor. 81 came to borrow
matches" "Matches !" that's likely story
Why don't you make match YOURSELF I
know what you come for, cried the exasperated
old virgin, as she backed the bachelor into a
corner, "you came here to kiss me almost to
death But you shan't, without you are the
strongest, and the Lord knows You are!"
e ANOTHER CHALLENGE-The pugilist,
Heenan, has published challenge to Morrisscy,
to fight for $4,000. He asserts that at the last
battle he was out of conditionA Afrom sickness.
E@ SLANDER.-Let no one suppose that by
acting good part throug b life, he will escape
SANDER. There will be those who hate them
for tke very qualities that ought to procure es-
TEEN. There arc some folks in the world who
are not willing that others should be better
than themselves.
e Tic more a man accomplishes, the
more he may. An active tool never grows
rusty. You always find those men the most
forward to do good, or to improve the times and
manners, always busy.
e" Caesar" said planter to his negro,
"climb up that tree and thin out the branches" :"
The negro showed no disposition to comply, and
upon being pressed for reason, answered,
DWELL, look hcah, massa, if | go up dar an fall
down and broke my neck, dat'll be tousand
dollars out O you pocket. Now, why don't
you hire an Irislman to 60 up, and den if
lie falls and kills heself, dar won't be no loss to
nobody"
E<A TRAVELLER, a resident Of England,
once, whilst exploring an African province, came
across greasy, flat nosed, long heeled negro
living under palm tree. A hut stood in the
distance, and his accoutrements consisted OF a
breech cloth and poisoned arrows. Who are
YOU 7' said the traveller. 81 am de king OF
dis province" said the colored person, pointing
to his hut and weapons. "Do they talk much
about me in England ~
GE CUBA IN TIE NoRTH-At a recent
Congressional Convention in Albany, New York,
a resolution was adopted in favor Of the peaceful
acquisition of Cuba on the ground that tho
slave trade would bc thereby eflecLually stopped,
The border sl,re Ssafcs n,ac fire. States, and last,
but not least, a more extended market opened
for the wheat, corn, pork and other products OF
the North and West, in exchange for cheap
sugar.
"a IIERoIHE.-TheD Danvllc Republican
tells Of lady named Butler, in Caswell Co.,
n. c.. whose Child recently fell into n well sixty
feet deep. She seized hold Of the rope attached
to the water bucket, went to the bottom OF the
well, took the child in her arms and then as
cended the rope, bringing the child along with
her-an unparalleled feat. ::..,4-S+.re,,~s-s;a
F;G.e The New York Express seems to be Of
opinion that tile only difference between slavery
in the two sections is, that in the South, the
masters own the bodies Of the negroes, and III
the North, politicians own the voters, both body
and soul.
EsA GAY LurIIARIo.-They lave under
arrest in New York one Samuel Morris, who
has obtained livelihood for some time by
"boarling round," and marrying some female
boarder in the house he happened to be patron
izlng, and after cohabting with her few weeks,
disappearing with such articles rs happened to
be living around loose. lie is under arrest for
bigamy, as well as for swapping up unconsldered
trihes.
- An UxsYMpATHlzINC JURY.-A lady
in Mississippi recently sued young man Tor
breach of promise of marriage, laying her DANA
ger at $4,000, but the jury, being married
men, returned verdict for only $50.
EEIt is estimated that each of the princi-
nal hotels in Saratoga has this season realized
net profit of $4,000.
- \ Frcnchman being about to remove
bis shop, his landlord inquired the reason, sta
ting, at the same time, that it was considered a
very good stand for business. The Frcnchman
replied with shrug Of The shoulder, so, yes,
he's very good stand for dc business; me stand
all day, for nobody come to make me move"
ESSCorTox IN ENGLAND.-The consumption
Of raw cotton in England has increased, in the last
lightweight years to the remarkable extent Of
three hundred fold Even in the fifty years OF
the present century, it has increased more than
sixteen fold, and since the re. e.toration of peace
in Europe, in the year 1915, more than eleven
fold.
- PtccoLoMISI-Thc "Princess" has
sung in New York, and the papers have discov-
cred that while she is q first rate actress in
comedy and the higher drama, she is not good
singer. The only vocalization she excels in, is
what tie French calls tears in the voice." and
in this is very touching. The Londonpapres, when
she left there, announced that she was played
out" and the New York papers call her u "httle
imposter."
EE CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH Rail
RoAD.-The Charleston Courier OF Tuesday
SAYS: "There is now every assurance that tnls
road will be opened for passengers as far as the
Edisto Rivera distance OF thirty rnlleS-on
or before the 10th November. We learn from
competent authority that arrangements are con,
templated for connection at the temporary
terminus by Blount & Simpsons line OF stages
which will take passengers to GrahamTlile, OF
perhaps to Savannah. An official announce
ment will inform our readers in good time."
EE A clcrgymen was lately depicting, be-
fore deeply interested audience, the alarming
increase of intemperance, when he astonlshec
his hearers by eXclaiming ga young woman
in my neighborhood died very suddenly last
Sabbath, while was preaching the Gospel il
the state of beastly intoxication
IL" Why don't you wash the bottoms o
your feet, Johnny?n asked q grandmother Of &
boy, when he was performing the operation be-
fore retiring for tho night, to which he gravely
repliod- "Why, granny, yon dosen't thing II
goin' to stand up in bed does ye 2"
~ It was Goblet who said-and he told
the truth, too-that woman is never so amia
ble as when she is useful and as for beauty
though man may fall in love with girls at play
there is nothing to make them stand in thei
love like seeing them work, engaged in the use
full Offices of the homo and family.
r~uCome here. Master Tommy Do yol