Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ns5> Professor ROBERT W. BARSwELL, Of So. ca.
College, declines accepting the Presidency Of William
and Mary College, Va. lie will not rcnquish what
he regards his post of duty to his own State.
ls- A new Temperance Organ is to he established
at Bennctsye in this State, and Mr. II. JUDGE MOORE
is to DO its editor.
~" The health of the City of Charleston is said
never to have been better at this season Of the year.
than ut present Not case of yellow fever, even at
quarantine.
NS- It is proposed to erect monument at James
town, to Capt. John Smith, the Founder of Virginia,
and who married Pocahuutas.
D It is not what wo earn, but what VIC save, that
makes us rich. 1t is not what NO eat, but what we
digest that makes US t 1t is not what we read, but
whut wo remember, that makes us learned. AL this
is very simple, but it is worth remembering.
&s- BY taking revenge a man is but even with
his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior
@S- Longfcgow, in his beautiful story of Kew
anngh" calls Sunday the golden-clasp which binds
together the volume of the week" A pretty idea.
t$ An entire Chinese regiment hns been senten-
ced to wear womens clothes for five years, for aban-
doning an untenabls fort during the recent attack
upon Canton by the French and English forces.
Most cruel punisbment wo imagine.
&S- Spurgeon says of prayer, that tits the rope
of the belfry; pull it, and it rings the bell up in
Heaven. Keep pulling it! and though the bell is
up so high you cannot hear it ring, depend upon it,
it can be heard in the tower of Heaven, and is ring
ing before the throne Of God who will give you an
swers of pence according to your faith"
~ Our Gimp" says: A young lady of more
beauty than sensc-more accomplishment than learn
ing-more charms Of person than grnces Of mind
more admirers than friends-morc fools than wise
men for attcndants-is coquette.
&B- An editor out West, in speaking of his do,
mcstic increase, vents his great and overwhelming
joy, in the following poetic strain:
"Sound the stage horn, blast the trumpet,
That the wailing world may know!
Publish it through oil the borders,
Even unto Mexico
Seize your pen, oh, dreaming poet
And in numbers smooth Us may be,
Spread afar the joyful tidings,
Detse's got another baby"
u lady at her marriage, requested the clergy
man to give out to DO sung by the choir tho hymn
commencing:
"This is the way long have sought,
And mourned because found it not"
~ love-sick swain, in describing kiss, says
it is draught that passes through the system like
bucket of water through basket Of eggs. Won.
derful
fy Horace Walpole tells q story Of the Lord
Mayor of London in his time, who having heard that
friend had tho smallpox twice and died of it, in.
quired whether he died the frst time or the second.
&B- It is said that the Inst words of the late VIM.
T. Porter, editor Of the Spirit of The Times, were,
"I want to go home" lie had no family, and in the
delrium which preceded dissolution, was probably
thinking of his boyhood's home.
ns- In our North Carolina exchanges We find the
following:
"Marred, in - county, North Carolina, by Rev.
-, Capt Graves to Miss Nancy Graves.
The graves, It's snid,
Will yield their dead
When the last trump shakes the skies,
But if God please,
From Graves like these
A dozen little folks may rise"