Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-01-07
W. D. PORTER,
President OF the Senate.
al I . d CDfIVI1t
Speaker of tie Ilou of Representatives.

GETTING ELuoD oUr UF.A .TURNlP.-On
Tuesday, two soldiers, doub'less up to
sharp TRANSACTION, presented themselves at the
store of Leonoid Rose, Jew shopkeeper on
Bread street. one of them having iii his pos
srsscn common looking ear trumpet. The
pns,cssor OF Tie trumpet purchased about
three dollars worth uf goods, and asked to
leave tic trumpet and the goods in the keep.
ing Of the surckerper for few minutes, UNI
i'll he could make an errand down the street,
ald the two soldiers left. They had scarce
" gone, before twu other soldiers, accomp!i.
ces Of the former entered the store, aud the
eyes OF one 81 .lem lighting upon ts;es 4ea4i--
lii;ll trumpet" as he called il, he seemed
anxious 10 tuy, and offered Rose fifty dol
lars, and finally one hundred dollars tor il,
Rose said the trumpet did not belong to Lini,
but lie WI ul,l see the man who left it with
him, ard try what bargain he could strike
with him FOR it, The two soldiers departed,
aai soon the owner Of the trumpet called, ex.
pressed soiciIude, &C., for his trumpet, when
Rose, with an eye TO his own interest, offered
to buy it, frs: Offering twenty dollars and Of:
t,rwar,ls fifty doll ,rs fer the trumpet and the
goods thaehs customer had. previously pur-
chased. The man demurrei for eooa vhile,
said the trumpet was imported from the ut
rcrmrst parts Of the earth" MSS relic of
past ayes, and an exceedingly valuable our,
lie at Ia co"sri.ted u part with it, received
fifty dollars and departed. We learn that
the entrrprising shop dealer is still On The
lJuk.cllt l;.r his promised lone hundred dol
lar;' c,s.uner for the trumpet, but be had not
ca!;e' d: last accounts. The trumpet in ques-
ton is wcrtE about twenty Eve cents.
4 blast from the trumpet ur Gabriel would
hardy have startled the party sold" more
than the denouement Of the above transaction
has done.-Richmond Examiner.
Barney Dugan you swear positivelyi that
vou saw the prisoner stab the woman in tho
fracas q
"Sar?'
"You swear ycu saw the prisoner stab the
woman in the fracas?' repeated the alder
man.
"No sur; didn't say that at all, yer
honor"
"Why, you moment ago not only. saii
it, Lut swore it. Will you repeat how
what you did see ?"
Yes sur, will saw Tim, there, stab
he ould woman ~id carvin'. knife in the
stumick, but dvI the bit dId see him stab
her in The rraoas, Yer honor!'
In tic army in Arkansas are some l4,G00
,Iissonrians who have left their Stale in small
parties 10 i.in the Confederate standard. They
constitute 4 corps of desperate iighters--not
one Of them but has his personal wrongs 10
avenge upon The Lincolnites, in the shape Of
a father. brother, son, mother, wife or sister,
murdered, robbed or insulted by these devils
in human form. One regiment Of 1850 men
~as recruited Ia Ills nH.irs county By Gil
Clarke, son Of Governor Clarke, member o.
the Confederate Congress, shilu it was Occa'
pied by Federal army. The Colonel We.
obliged to conceal himself by day and worI
Mt night. After Filing up his corps, he swan
the whole 1850 men across the Missouri river
mile and a. quarter wide, aud at the time
full of drift ice, Two Of them persisted from
the cold in crossing.
The high price of printing paper is causing
some of our cotemporaries to rum up tbet
prices of subscription to figures that mus
:, look rather tall to those who know nothin
about the enormous expense attending tn
publication Of newspaper. Fer instauc'
the price of tue Memphis Appeal, row pull
iisEri at Jackson, is two dollars and fit
u veuts psr ,non.h. That Of the slissi>sippia
is the same.