Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-02-20
News and miscellaneous Items.

News and Miscellaneous items. 49,
RS~ ALwhite man Of the age of fifty was
married to anegro woman of Gourtlandt, Ala,
a few days,a ago.. He was ducked ina pond
and sent off by railroad By somc ,personar
persons unknown. ,-s-'.e. -,
eg, Charley Flood, the well known editor,
was selected to speak to the toast = w oman,
at the Franklin festival in Columbus, butrhc
refused. lie says woman is able 10 speak for
herself, and. any man who undertakes to do
it for her will get. into trouble.
R, The Arkansas Legislature have pass
ed resolutions approprating money to replace
the funds of the General Government, seiz-
ed by that Convention. at, the time OF seces-,
sion.
.g9- A.choked horse,in, New Haven was
relieved by inserting street hose in his
mouth and the water turned on. -.
By AtSt. Paul, Minnesota, four old'peo.
pie, whose united age was about three hum
dred years, danced quadFille.
Mr Aswoman in Chicago, on visiting her
husband s. eficc, discovering long hairs in his
hair brush, has sued for divorce.
sp A4Washington correspondent says:
alt is dreadful to sit in either of the galleries
Mt the Capitol. The colored population. -cf
bnth sexes are sandwicbed 10 between white
folks, and there is.a streak of. lean and q
streak of fat all around, with an odor about,
equal to that of a slaughter house" -. =.
: pa5- Is,seems that people will continue to-
start newspapers these hard times. The la.
testi q New England journal, called the
Woodpecker," the publisher of which Is
candcd enough to tell an admirng public that
it is started for the purpose of making
money"
&The Senate of Pennsylvania has
passed a bill forbidding railroads 10 make
any distinction between passengers Oh ac.
couat ofrace or color.
ESAIrs. Roxana Dwight was lately fin
ed one cent and costs, at providence, for strik-
ing Ellen CARTS in the face, because she put
hersrms around Mr. Dwiglt's neck, and
asked him to 60 to tue Theatre with her.
EA In Philadelphia, a man slipped on an
orange p, cling and fell. lie swor. terribly.
A Quaker standing by looked On and waited
for Linn to stop. After cur.ing himself out
of breath, he paused for more words and wind.
The Quaker said, " Go on friend swear away
till thee gets all that bad stuff out of thee"
IGEys A negro on. trial before the Mayor of
Lynchburg, for striking another negro, gave
as an excuse the fact that the negro he struck
belonged to the sold ISSUE" (free before the
wary and therefore tried 10 impose on him.
nay- 1t is reported in New. York, and gen.
orally believed, that distinguished military
CHIEF ain, who did not win bis laurcls at Pc.
tersburg and Richmond, has signiti.d his IN
tcn,ion ofloadinl several ships with gold and
ailver trophies for exhibition at The great
Paris Exposition. lis said that the collec
ton ciibraces-the private property Of numer-'
GUS residents Of the Site of Louisiana.
ne Steps have been taken in Nashville.
to erect u magnificent monument to the metn-
ory OF the lalDentcd General Pat. Cleburne.
"a" An exchange states tha in Chicago
and Cincinnati, the dali lseason is the very
carnival of advertising. The people are sharp
enough to perceive that advertising makes
business brisl; and the man who does it most
largely and jjuaiciuusly, knows the least
about 9 dull times"
E& a negro in Virginia who farmed son
his own hook" last year netted thirty cents
ON his tobacco crop.
SS a singular lawsuit is now on trial
at Albany. Two young men, each married
but few weeks, got sick of their wives and
proposed to "swop," am. very singuiar J the
womc, consented Bat the husband CT the
homsiest promised to pay $3U "to boot
and Us he has neglected to haud over: the su!t.
was brought to recover the money. = - e.
E@ Madame Rs;ori states. that tie re.
.cc;pis at her performance Tuesday evening:
1T the Chicago Opera House, were'the larg-
est since her first appearance OIL the stage,
amountng to S4.S00. Moscow ranks second.
and Brooklyn third. OF the 81. 500 her per-
sonal share is $4,000. Her own personal re,
ceipts since her arrival in this country, in
September last, have been Sl36,OO0. -. =
TRs. An artist painted dog so natural
that the animal had the hydrophobia during
the hot weather. He's the same man, Gays
the Herald, who painted copy Of beer
hottie with such skill that tie cork flew out
lust as he was finishing it. And after he was
married, he painted n apicture of his tirst'ba-
by so life like that it cried, and his wife
spanked it before she discovered her mistake.
Ms r. j. Moses, Esq, OF Columbus, pro:
poses to import Scotch labor orSouthwesIern
Georgia. He urges that the reason some om=
.igration schemes have not worked we'll has 4
been that the laborers have beena obtained
through unreliable agents, who picked up un.
reliable loafers in New York, would not, Of
course, try to get thrifty and reliable. class
of people who will make good citizens.
.gas RurIER.-Rrick Pomery Publishes
the following for the ediGcation Of his readers
at would like to be General,
To search those wealthy rooms,
.. And like old General Butler
Stcnl Southern peoples spoons!
I would like to be General,
Covered Ger with brilliant blue, 49,.
To insult these Southern women,
As Butler used TO do"
TIE GENITAL SYsrEM.=The Cincinnati
Chamber Of Commerce. has passed very em-
phatc resolutions endorsing the cental-system,
which has been adopted by the principal cities
Of the North, and is to 60 into operation on
the 1st Of March next. This is a long step
toward the much needed decimal system of