Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-10-20
GATHERINGS,

| ieasol oHe WaHlS CapaClty. wen, yO
know | don't regard expense: purchase one di
rectly.n
E:..E Some precious poet defines beautiful
extract to be helping young lady out of
mud puddle. This is almost as bad as the wi
of Hartley Coleridge, who once being asked
which Of WordswortL's productions he consid
cred the prettiest, very promptly replied, Hi
daughter Dora"
S The boy upon foot cannot bear to SCI
the boy who is riding. And so it is with envy
Of larger growth. We are always crying out
/" Whip behnd!" in the miserable hope OF see
ing some hanger.onmore fortunate than ourselves
knocked from his perch.
EA Jas Boon, aged eighty-five years, ar
inmate of the poor-house at Kingston, Lenoil
county, North Carolina, with his family, consist.
Ing Of a wife and three children, it is said, has
inherited handsome estate amounting to S So
900, and no mistake.
IS Jonas Frazer, q soldier of the Revolu.
ton, died at Miamitown, Hamilton county, Co.,
October Ith aged ninety-nine years and two
months. lie was buried with military honors.
IS Tie New York Sun says that few
days since the sheriff sold out the effects of o
merchant who has been ruined by the purchase
of lottery tickets. He bought Cor years, but
never gained prize until few weeks ago, anil
the lottery men refused to pay the only hit be
made.
q We learn, says the Benton (Ala.) Her.
aid, from gentleman who is m experienced
and sklfnl planter, residing noar Benton, that
he hRS already got out moro cotton than bis
Whole crop, either Of last year, or tue year Le..
faro, amounted to and that his provision crop
will be abundant. We have heard no complaints
from farmers in this section and there is no feaI
Of starvation here next year.
- y medical writer Asserts that the in
PRODUCTION OF the tomato upon the table has
reduced the seyority Of certain types of summer
diseases to Il noticeable extent. There is no
doubt Of their healthfulness as food, nor Of their
excellence as a luxury.
SMa LOOK ro YouE IARNEss.-No farmer
iS's good economist who ncslccts his harness.
\ horse feels as much better in clean pliaGle
harness. as man does i'll clean linen, and he is
proud of it too. :
~. young lady at ball was asked by a
lover Of serious poetry whether she had seen
" Crabbe's Tales Z"
"Why, no." she answered, 81 didn't know
that crabs had taisn .ss.
nave 3od rcan i alas U ''s''a '-'z
"And assure you, sir, didn't know that
rcd crabs, or any other crabs, bad tails"
s,=Ss" a rail road conductor having insulcd
a lady passenger, she sad, Indignantly, that the
company which owned that road should not see
another cent of her money.
elbow so2n said the conductor, how can
you manage it ="
Hereafter" replied the lady, "instcad o!
buying ticket at the Office, shall pay my fare
toyou!!"
LS The potato crop is said to be so plenty
in East Hartford, Conn.,, rs to sell for seventeen
cents per bushcl.
I.E- \ gentleman, wishing to he considered
a perfect plraseologist and gallant had occasion
to ask lady one evening TO hand him the SNUFF
iers, and thus addressed her;
"Will your ladyship by an unmerited and
undeserved condeScenson Of your infinite good
ness, please extend to your most obsequious,
devoted and very humble servant, that pair Of
ieuopot exasperators, in order that the refugent
brightness of that nocturnal luminaIy may daz-
zle tue vision of our ocular optics more potenty.
- The best way to treat slander is to let
it alone and say nothing about it. 1t soon dies
when fed on silent contempt.
I~ When the world has once got hold of a
lie it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out
of the world You beat it about the head, till
it seems to have given up the ghost; and 10! the
noyt day If is as healthy as ever.
80 4 ASpENDTHRIFT.--AtLim Limerick, Ireland,
Young man, who came Of ago two years ago,
has been obliged to leave the country In conse-
oucnce of pccuniary embarrassment. lie began
With S2a0,0O0 in hank, which he soon got rid
Of and has since accumulated debts TO the
amount Of $1,000 ,000-all in two years!
20 Ex-Presidcnt AIilliard Fillmore, in a
letter to tue kentucky State Fair says he has
withdrawn entirely fr"m all political strife.
ErA New ISSUE IX THE Canvass IN In
piANA-TLe Lafayette (Indiana) Courier ady-
SEES tie electors to "vote for no man for Repre-
sentative in either branch Of the State Legisla-
ture who is not in favor VI the immediate repeal
of the scanlalols divorce laws which have con-
yerted our fair State into an asylum for all the
married prostitutes Of the Union, See to it,
that the candidates are sound OF this question. "
.G4: An lrislman, who had lain sick for a
long time, was one day met by the parish priest,
when tue following conversation took place
"Well, Patrick, am glad you have recovered
Int were you not afraid to meet your Godl"
81 Och, no, yolr riyerince, it was tic ineetln' oi
the old DiYil, that was afeared uv," replied Pat.
Ga. The Rose prayed to Jupiter for a gift,
so he gave it thorns. At this, the rose wept
until it saw all antelope eating lilies
70 A negro driver Of coach in Texas
stopping to get some water for the young ladies
in the carriage, being asked what he stopped fer
replied s" | am watering my flowers" Amore
delicate compliment could not have been paid
e9~ Do right though you have enemies. You
cannot escape them by doing wrong; and it is
little gain tu l,aiter away your honor and integ
rity, aud diveSt yourself Of moral courage, to gar
what? Nothing. Better abide by the truth
frown down all opposition, and rejoice in the feel
ing which must inspire free and Independent
man.
sDp' The Havana correspondent otthe Charles
ton Courier says that o concession has beer
granted to several parties in that city, authorizing
them to introduce eighty thousand more "Asiati
cos" free colonists.
E@"You see, grandma, we perforate al
aperture in the apex, and corresponding aper
trre in the base and by applying the egg t
the lps. and forcibly inhaling the breath, tn
she'll IS entirely discharged Of its contents
6 Rless nv soul" cried the old lady, "wha
wonderful improvements they do make! Now il