Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-03-02
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GATHERINGS,

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GATHERINGS.
ES"WnEN are you going to commence
the pork business 2" asked one person Of another
who had sty in his eye.
"Explain yourself, sir" said the afflicted one.
"Why, I see you have your sty quite ready"
"True," was the reply, "and l've one hog
in my eye now"
IL a girl Of Irish descent, bnt raj ed in
| Vermont, was rebuked by the lady with whom
she was living, for her nterminable propensity
to ask questions. Closing the reGuIc, tho lady
remarked: "You beat the Jews to ask ques-
tions," when, true to nature, the girl replied
Do the Jews ask many questions ?"
G@ A FAIR ExcHANcE.-An Irish school,
mistress honesty declared :-"It's little they
pays me, an sure it's mighty little taches
'em."
Be jabers z" says Patrick, sthe divil
show has the man who waits till he is kilt be-
fore be acts upon the deinsive.''
ES IT is q Chinese maxim, that " for every
man who does not work, and every woman who
is idle, somebody must suffer cold or hunger"
All loafers please notice.
EE A country editor perpetrates the fol-
lowing upon the marriage of Mr.. Husband to
the lady Of Of his choice:
This case is the strongest have known in our life
The husbands hu,Laud nnd 50 is tho wife"
IE Lady Mary Wortley Montague says.
that the only thing which reconciles her to be-
Ing woman is, that she will never be obliged
to marry onc.
BS5A At tue WORCESTERSHIRE session, in one
case the jury returned the following verdict: -
"Guilty, with some little doubt as to whether he
is the man."
d The black %arbcr at Lawrence, Kansas,
Ven; mass g65efnoF;
don't mean no rz dspect, but den, all de goJ-
ernors oh dis territory don't stay here but SO
short, an dey run away so fasS am I'se not
sure dat you be here mont; an, so, you see,
doa't know ma sa."
s The Oldest piece Of furniture is the
multiplication table. 1t wns constructed more
than two thousand years ago and is yet as good
as new
A country editor, describing dance,
at a village ball. said The gorgeous strings Of
glass beads iglistencd on the leaving bosuns of
the village belles like polished rubies resting
on the delicate surface Of warm apple dnnl.
plngs."
EI True: And where man cannot find
money to pay the printer, he can always find it
TO buy whisky, however mean and riile-killing
said whisky may be- We would like for some
metaphysician to explain this wonderful state
Of general affections now prevalent throughout
the land.
- 4 good deacon, at conference meet
ing in the town of D., about thirty miles
north of Boston, addressed his auditors one Sab
bath evening as follows: my friends, there is
a new doctrine going about now a-days We
are told that all mankind are going to Heaven.
But, my brethren and sisters, we hope for bet
ter things"
IL LIZZIE HOLLAND, colorcd girl, of
Waverly, Tioga county, New York, has taken
the platform against Abolition speakers
Eg THE SLAYER bark 1sla de Cuba, was
sold by the United States Marshal in Boston,
on the 18th inst, for three thousand three hun
dred and fifty dollars.
ES IL one Of his "Alount Vernon Papers,"
Mr. Everett takes occasion to say. "For my
self, I am no aristocrat. do not own quad
ruped larger than cat, and she is IN Indifferent
mouser; nor any vehicle, with the exception,
possibly, of q wtcelbarrow."
IL THE Mayor of Richmond has decided
twice, recently, that a dog is not subject of
larceny in Virginia.
E@ Mr.. RAREY, the horse tanner, is now
in Russia, on special invitation from the En-
peror and the Imperial Court.
Il If the cyelids are glued together on
waking up do not f5l&bly open them, but ap-
ply the saliva with the fnger-it is the speedi-
est dlutent in the world-then wash your eyes
and face in warm water.-Hall's journal Of
Health.
EfrscTs or NrGao EaasrllarIDS,-The
New York Courier aihl EnluJcFer says thu, at
the TIME Of the lE,lrrec.iua In lIayt, thefc was
exported afnl,ay from the islaitd % 5II3GGG
OF susafj II ,N0, ,0G0 pound. Of e5Aee and 7,O00,l
GG1 pounds uf cotton. In 1901 there was cx-
ported l8; 500 600 pounds Of sugar, 43,430,.7O
ionnIs OF collrc, and 22,i4S0, $40 of cn,ior. Id
1926 the sugar crop had fallen to 32, ,864 pounds,
cotIee 10 32, lS9 7S4 and cotton to G2O, 072. Ih
1919 the export Of coffee was 30,708,3 ,343, and
cotton 544, ,12G.
Sugar it will thus BID sccn has disappeared
from the articles of export, the fact being what
sugar is used on the island is imported from
Jamaica and the United States. The total
value of the exports in 1889 was 205, 100000
francs, and forty years later it was but $500 OO0
Similar results have attended British West
India emancipation. 1t is in accordance with
all past experience, that if slavery would be
abolished in Cuba and the United States, the
world would have to do without sugar and
cutton.-Mo. ADV.
NUMBERING AN OLD NEGRO TO GET HIM OUT
OF THE wAY.-An infirm old negro named
Boyd, was found at Cleveland, Ohio, on the
l4th, roasting over blazing lime-kiln. Cir
cumstances indicate that party of negroes
among whom he lived murdered him to get
him out of the way. The Plaindealer SAYS
these people had become sick Of him, as he had
m rnonav ond ,rac too ;nfSryn fo ctao1 -,r,l -.