Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-07-18
GATHERINGS.

innate, $50 100000. punches or boxes of
tuatches must have been used is this country
uring the year, or Eve bunches-equal to
| Eve hundred matches-for every man, wo-;
raan and child
* Sidney Smith once said, 81 remem-
7er entering room, with glasses all round,
t the French embassy, and saw myself re-
Elected on every side. I took it for meet.
ng of the clergy, and was delighted, of
coursen
rg Addressing the children of "a Sabbath
School in New York, French clergyman in-
roked the Divine blessing upon the little
nuttons, meaning the lambs.
IL A Washington paper, in noticing a
lumber of patents just granted, says:-" Dan
Tucker, whose namesake.has been so often
eferred to in connection with an arrival be.
lind the time for supper, has received pa
ent for a gimblet.",
e Captain Hudson, who has built a
small ship 26 feet in length, intends to leave
New York the latter part OF this month, to
cross the Atlantic and visit London and Paris,
irst exhibiting his craft in vacant lot in
Thirteenth street, between Broadway and
Fourth Avenue. Captain Hudson, according
~ this, intends to repeat the folly OF the brig
Vision, which so far as we know was never
heard from, and is likely to have the same
luck.
BaS The surest way to prevail on young
couple to get married is to oppose them.
Tell them that you would rather see them
in their graves, and twelve months will not
lapse before their baby will pass you twice q
day in willow wagon.
BSr There is a desire manifested to under
rate The powers of Austria. Six hundred
thousand men is the number assigned TO her,
out the perusal of the minute details in the
Prussian papers-certainlY not likely to err
IN the side of the excess-shows that Aus
tria can really put nine hundred thousand
men in the field. In comparison with France
or Prussia, she has q very warlille population,
ready to fight and easily raised.
E4aAugusta papers are laughing
,ver a suit brought bya colored girl against
d negro swain for breach of promise of mar
riage. Such prosecution has never before
been known in Georgia Court.
e An editor in Iowa says he has be-
come so hollow from depending on the print
ing business for bread, that he proposes to
sell himself for stovepipe.
s6% A man in Cincinnati recently cut his
hroat, because he lived next door to an am.
.teur trombone player. The coroner held
an inquest and returned a verdict Of "justiG-
able homicide"
Il Remember-,it is not what people
eat but what they digest, that makes them
strong. 1t is not what they gain but what
they save that makes them rich. It is not
what they read but wha:they remember, that
makes them learned. 1t is not what they
profess but what they practice, that makes
chem good.
IL An Armenian prince and his wife
were taken prisoners by Cyrus, who asked
aim if he desired his liberty, his kingdom or
mis- queen to be restored to him.: He replied,
.:As lor my liberty and kingdom, value
.nem not; but if my blood would ransom
ny wife, would cheerfully give it, Cyrus
.estored them oil. The prince asked his
queen what she thought Of Cyrus She re.
lied, II know not; my mind was so ;aken
up with The mau who offered his life as my
ransom, thatI could yhink OF no otner."
IL 1t has been thought that the Freed
mpu's Bureau was new thing-but if Byron
is good authority, it is an old affair. TIE
ooet, in the Sd stanza of his "Vision Of Judg-
.nent," says:
The guardian seraphs had retired Oh high,
Finding their charges past all care below;
Terrestrial business fil'd nsught in tie sslT
Save the recording angels black bureau"
Es$ If your sister, while engaged with
uer sweetheart, asks you to bling glass OF
Sater from an adjoining room, start Oil TIE
rrand, but you need not return. You viii
rot be missed, Don't forget this, little b9.E5
~ a White mans Bureau, it is rum5.eI,
oas been thought Of BY some Of the "Copp2T'
heads" in Congress; but Thaddeus Steycn7
thinks that It would cost too much, aui hea-
eft very unworthy class of persons That
>ettles the question.
E@ A life Of duty is the only cheerful
Iife-tor all JOY springs from the affection (;
and it is the great law Of nature, thct without
good deeds, all good affection dies, aud the
1eart becomes utterly desolate. The eXter
uol world then loses all its beauty, poetry fades
away from the earth; for what is poetry but
the reflection of all pure and sweet, all high
aad holy thoughts
pSP DR.. Nelaton, the physician who ex-
tracted ths ball from Garibaldi's foot has de-
clared that be has great doubts of Garibaldi's
fitness for going through campaign, Or in
deed, undergoing any great fatigue.
nSP" What do you know of the defendant,
Mr.. Thompson? Do you consider him good
musician 2n "On that point wish to swear
with great care. l do not wish to inslntutae
that Mr. Van Slopes is not a good musician.
Not ct all. But I could not help observing
(people will observe queer things at tlnes)
that after he commenced playing on the elar
ionet, saw-filer, who live next door, left
home, and has never since been heard Of"
+" Well, that will do; you may 60 down, Mr..
Thompson. Crier, call the next witness be-
fore the court"
M. The wheat crop of North Carolina is
said to be an average one. Corn and pota-
toes promise o large yield.
In his remarks at the Womun's
RIGHTS Convention, in New York the other
aay. Henry Ward Beecher declared that
woman who is content to wash stockings and
lake Johnny cakes and bring up her boys. is
an nnaergrcwn woman, and when she comes
to. Heaven ahe will spend the first thousand
,oor. ~ ~ IN letting to that state to which she
ouobt to have attained before she died,
re The Maine Farmer tells story Of
man whom it calls Neverbeas Somebody
ha I n;ng boasted of the speed of his hvrse.
Meverbeat reioined: ".Why, the other day
was " up to S., l6 miles distant. Just as I
started for home shower came sweeping
on. The rain struck in the hack part Of the
wagon, and the moment it struck, | hit old