Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-12-15
GATHERINGS.

ESs In the middle ages Of France, person
convicted of being calumnator was condemned
to place himself on oil fours, and bark like a
dog, for a quarter of an hour. IF this custom
were adopted at the present day, there would
be considerable bnw-wowing.
70. The Natcilez Free Trader places the
name of Hon. Albert Galatin Brown, of Missis.
sippi, at the head Of its columns as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Presidency in 1860.
E@ Mrs. PARrrScrox lately remarked to
a legal fricnd, eff Eowes man debt, and
makes him the lawlcss tenant of blank bill,
and he infuses to ncept it, but swears out an
execration, and levels it upon my body, if |
wouldn't make a p0llowog OF him, drown ME
in the nuxwine sesn
E%"JANE, what letter in the alphabet do
you like the be:ti2aa +" Well, don't like to
say, Mr.. Snooks." tsPooh, nonsense tell right
out, Jane which doyou like best 2" Well,
(blushing and droPping her, eyes,) like you
6the 'best: --"-re..-..:
ES A beautiful thought this, that we find
in ono of cur exchanges: I" If there is man
who can cat his bread in peace with God and
man. it is the luall who has brought that bread
out of the earth. 1t is cankered by no fraud,
it is wet by no tears it is stained with no
blood"
- WIZ are chickens nccks like door
bells? Because they arc often rung for company.
70 4 letter was put into the box, tie ap-
pealance of which denoted that the writer was
nnaccuStomcd 10 tile use Of stamps, and had
failed to make one stick at all. lie had tried
and vainly tried; but the inveteratc portrait of
Washington would curlur. AT last, in despair,
he pinned it to the envelope, and wrote under
it. paid, prorhliag The pin doe@'t conie ott!'
E9 Why is 4 retired carpenter like lee
turer? Because he is an ex-plancr.
IE A Quaker and 4 Baptist travelling to-
gcthcr in stage coach, the latter took every
opportunity Of ridiculing the former On account
of his religious profession. At length they
came to q heath, where the body of a macac-
tor, lately executed, was hanging in chains upon
the gibbct. =" | wonder now,' salt, the Baptist,
"wllat religion he was of" "Perhap<," re-
piled the Quaker coolly "hc was Baptist and
they hung him up to try"
EN a woman out West. in describing her
runaway husband, says: " Daniel may be known
by scar OH the nose-whcre scratched him. D
ES CARO- said, .Thc best way 10 keep
good acts in memory, is TO refresh them with
new"
- PRENTICE wishes that the individual
who invented what was called the "1mying oHt
machinery" for the Niagara and dgamcnlnon.
would get up little machine Of the sort to bc
used in tile case of every newspaper subscriber
e. CouLDS'r HELP IT.-After marriage
ceremony had been performed in one of the
churches in Adrian, Michigan, the bride, when
receiving the congratulations of her friends
shed tears, according to the established ridicu-
lous custom; at the sight of which tho groom
followed suit with copious flow Of the briny
fluid. After his friends succeeded in calming
him, he said he couldn't help it, for he felt a;
bad about it as she did.
ES THE PROPER WAY TO MANAGE THOSE
THINGs.-Persons in England who leave rail.
road cars while trains are in motion, are subject
to legal penalties. A lady vas fined S.. and s.
costs, few weeks ago, for having stepped oul
of a train on the Crystal Palace line before ths
cars had stopped.
DJo In Indiana the crickets have in some in
stances destroyed whole fields of lately sowr
wheat, and the farmers have been compelled t
re-plow and SOW over again.
nSn To MAKE BLUE INK.-Dissolve a small
quantity of indigo in little oil of virol and adj
a sufficient quantity of water, in which is dis
solved some gum arabic.
NEWSPAPER BoRRow1SG.-This is very prcra
lent failing, which in some people, amounts to ;
positive vice. Ofthe large multitude of people
who never buy papers, because they read then
freein the coffeehouses and barber.shops, we hav'
nothing to say, for the coifeehouse keepers anC
BARRIERS take the papers expressly for the accom-
modation of their customers. But of grea
many, who, on the strength of their familia
acquaintance with those who do take and pa.
for the paper, make regular habit of going ate
or sending after the papers, we feel constan
complaint, five do not often expressit. Economy
of course is commendabe thing, but that econ
omy which leads men to sponge-no, piier i
the word-tler commercial and other importan
daily intelligence from their friends, who are N
better able to pay for q paper than themselves,
beneath economy; it is downright meanness
species of small meanncss which is so very sma
that liberal people, though they have proper
secret contempt for it. (orbear noticing it openly
1t is this feeling of the liberal which has PEI
mitted the small meanness of newspaper bol
rowing to spread so largcly.-M o. Creseen