Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-09-29
VOL. xXIII..-NO 3S.
GATHERINGS.

iron."
"You misunderstood me, my friend want
to know whether he attacked him with an evil
intent"
"0h, no, sr-it was outside of the tent.''
"No, no, wish you to tell me whether the
attack was at all preconcerted AFFAIR.""
"No, sir, it was not free concert affair-it
was circus"
O. THAT P1c.-As many seem to have
doubted that there was Pig in the District
with two heads, two bodies, eight legs and two
tails, Mr.. j. G. Jones, of Bamberg brought it
up on sale day last and exhibited it to the crowd.
1t is now at this office, where it may Le seen
by all who are disposed to doubt. The mother,
of this wonderful curiosity, is tile property of
Mr.. Joshua Rentz, and the pig was the last of q
litter Of l3. We defy tue world to procure any
thing to beat it.-BGrn,ceH Sentinel
ga PARDoN.-It is announced in the
English papers that Queen Victoria has granted
q free pardon to young man named William
Craft, who was sentenced to six years itnpris-
onment'at hard labor, for an assault in kissing a
young lady against her will.
GS Tie Lee Cleaner says that the girls in
the High School have caught the contagion Of
Frenchifying their names by the substitution of
ie for y, and asks
"Whatie is in namie?'
E A rogue down south stole lot of news
paper accounts, and upon being discovered was
sentenced to eat all which could not be collected
as desperate debts. Guess he would have full
stomach for once.
E We were sorry to learn, on our recent
trip tu Elberton Court House, that young man,
hailing from the Abbevile or Edgefield side Of
our State, was arrested tur stealing horse and
a watch. He, however, made his escal,e from
those who had him in charge, and is still ut ,
large. lie gave bis name to be Pinckney Davis.
lie is represented as being fine looking, about
IL or 20 years Of age, and has light sandy hair.
.PenltetoM Messenger.
u VERY CAuTIouS.-A young lady, on
putting on her veil to 60 to market, remarked
{" must veil my beauty"
To which waggish Frank loosely replied
"You had better, or you may be taken up for
SHOOTING HER SEDUcER.-At Boston,
on Wednesday evening last, young woman
named Mary A. Douley, shot one Patrick Can
ney, u grocer, whom she alleged had seduced
her under promise of marriage. The weapon
used was pistol loaded with two balls, each of
which produced wound, neither of them how
ever are likely, to.prove fatal sg,i
E A Western Baptist paper has received
m article advocating tue duty of washing feet,
Is all ordinance of the church. The writer says
-"If they need washing, they certainly ought,
to be washed"
E SHOCKING MuRDER.-Last Wednesday
evening, Mr.. Wade, OH returning to his home at
rat's Greek, Madison county, KY, found VIM.
B. Margrave, whom he Had reason to suspect of
too much intimacy with bis wife, closeted with
that lady. He ordered Marglave to quit, which
the latter refused to do, when tusSel cnsued,
Ind Marerave, aided by Mrs. Wade, beat the
husband with barrel slaves to death. The gull
" couple then fed, and had not been arrested
1t last accounts.
il. The Indians are now doing smashing
business in manufacturing hoops for ladies'
lresses out of baskct-stuif The red ladies have
llso adopted the fashion in its gleatest amplitude.
E3s The RIGHT USE OF THE EYEsxAn
Italian bishop, who had endured much persecu-
ion with calm, unrutfled temper, was asked
low he attained such mastery over himself.
By making right use Of my eyes," said he.
L first look to heaven, as the place where am
lie earth, and consider how small space of it :
yill soon be all that can occupy or want. I
hen look around me, and think how many are
ar more wretched than am"
- A celebrated divine, wishing largo
affection at the conclusion of n charity sermon,
liscoursed in the following style upon the bcau-s
y and efficacy of that chartys@hich works si-
emily and llnheralded to the world
81 have often remarked, as the contribution
: being taken up, that the silver pieces tumble
nto tue box with great noise, while the paper
money drops i'll silently as the falling Of snow
lake"
81 A man, travelling with his wife, saved
himself in a railroad collision, but she was
killed. When he reached home, he missed his :.
umbrella, and applied to the directors for it;
,ut it was not comcatabe-none Of them had
cen it. And now, in speaking of the accident,
le always says
eyes, on that day lost bran new umbrel-
a and my wife"
GE Let not thy will roar, when thy power
'an but whisper.
- When day breaks, what becomes of the
fragments?
E" you wish to make shoe Of durable
said tue 1acetous Lanesburg, "you
should take the upper part Of the mouth of
iard drinker, for that never lets in water"
- A Yankee who lately removed to Wis
,onsin, writes to bis brother in Massachusetts,
hat the section where he resides is in highly
condition. He says but one failure
,ver occurred in his county, and in that case tho
nan paid one hundred and twenty-five cents on
;he dollar!
ES Always prepare your table neatly,
whether you have company or not.
e A farmer sowing his ground, one or
TWO dandies came riding along that way, when
,ne of them called to him with an insolent air
,f triumph
"Well, honest fellow, it is your business to
SOW, but We reap the fruits Of your labor.p 10
which the countryman replied, -
Z" 1t is very likely you may, for I am sowing.
hamp!''
Exit dandics each with hand upon neck. GA
hempen crayat" as Baltic Jarvie would say.
EL. One Of ou1 exchanges gets slightly
excited, and piles on the "highfautin" in this
wise:
"A grain of carmine will tinge gallon Of
water, so that in every drop the color will be
and grain of musk will scent o
room twenty years. Just so if a man cheat the
stain will be forever visible on the
min,,ta atoms nc hia mimic soul and will leave.
q scent Of rascality about an individual strong
enough to make an honest man turn up his
nose in disgust, and kick him outof his presence