Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-11-20
News and Miscellaneous Items.


News and Miscellaneous Items.
I A negro woman near Savannah re-
Gently gave birth to three chidren--two as
black as ebony, and one white as the purest
caucasian. How did that happen?
E As this is theseason when sore throat
is prevalent, we publish the following for the
benefit of sufferers: Dissolve small piece
of alum in sage tea; then mix little honey
One or two drachms Of oak bark, in six
ounces of boiling water, and use the liquid
after it becomes cold. -
GN@ A negro heir to some fifty acres Of
improved land in Danbury and Bethel, Ct,
has suddenly turned up, and property owrers
are excited.
Is In the printed instructions Of the
Overland Express Company to their agents
occurs the following passage: Wherever
you see the Ipdan, shoot him."
Ex= An old man in Southern Ohio was
eniombed while in a trance, kicked open his
coffin, and returned TO the upper world only
to be shot as ghost
a@ Young man! Thy mother is thy best
earthly friend. The wcrld may forget thee
thy mother never; the world may prose-
cute thee while living and when dead, plant
the ivy and nighshade CT SANDER upon thy
CRASHES grave, but thy mother will love and
cherish thee while living, and if she survive
.bee, will weep for thee when dead, such
tears as none but q mother knows how to
weep. Love thy mother
EsAs \ young Lady recently died at Elgin,
Illinois, and at her uncral, when her relatives
md friends were taking q last look at 'he
loved face, young man to whom she had
been engaged, and who had presented he.
with an engagement ring. but short irie
before her death, deliberately bent over the
corpse, and in the presence Of all in the
church, rem1ved the ring from her iiuger and
walked off with it.
So Judge BlatchGurd, of New York, AID
Judge Bird. the Register in Virginia, lsve
both held that property Inherited or acquired
~ the bankrupt, after lis application is filed
is not Liable for The debts Of tie party, arising
from baukrunicy.
gsFn In Texas tic Frecdmcn's Comrais
siouer is called the ''Buro man;" which is
explained when We are tod that "buro" is
The vcvnacuar for jacka:s.
nSy. a nurctual man is rarely poor man,
and never a man Of doubtful credit. His
small accounts arc Frequently settled and he
never meets with difficulty in raising money
10 rar large demands. Small debts neglected.
ruin credit, and, when man has lost that,
he will find himself at the bottom Of a hill
he cannot ascerd.
aSy- An anxious CT Guirer asks: "What
can be more dcsclaie sight than an old
maid sitting on an inverted half bushcl, in =
cold kitchan. with bcr feet on the rim o.! &
slop bucket, ra,,ng her corns with case
knife by the Eight OF Z aliow candle?"
ES,~ At bcst, life is rot very long. a few
more smiles, q few more tears, some pleasure,
much pain. sunshine and song, c'ouds and
darkness, hasty greetings, abrupt farewe!ls-
then our lie play will close, and injured and
irjurer will pass aEay, Is it worth while to
hate each other?
a1-I say, Tom, have you ever seen .
crawlish? No. Bill, but have read Gov.
Orr's letter TO Gen, Eickles.
E@ A Petersburg correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch states that, when Dh.
Beckwirh was in that city, about two weeks
ago. he made he statement that within sEJ
wards OF lis church in New Orleans, the ne
rroes lad heathen temple, in which the rites
of African worship were regularly performed
GNs Grcely owns mp to 1900 Demo
cratic majority in New York State Hooray
nssn Three thousand men have got up a
revolution in Venezuela, AID the Government
with four thousand, has thus far been beaten
nssy. Tie New Orleans Picayue says that
city is now fairly laughed for the business
season. with prospects Of & prosperous one
ga- Kansas seems TO have voted dom
botL the suffrage amendments. 1t is worthy
If notice ,iat the idea of extending the right
Of Suffrage to women was received with more
favour by the Kansas statesmen than the pro
position to cnfranchise the colored race.
q:azssr Tie cost of registration in Virginia
was Two hi:ndred and thirty-nine thousand
dollars: cost OF the military establishment IN
the State for the last ten laon.ih!s live million
dollars.
rs Gen. Wood says, in writing from
Brs ziI, that hc ladies On being introduced to
p stranger, insist upon beiog embraced
I" heart tbrcbbing agains, her heGrt.' do tol
Brazil.
R,5se- The New York Commercial Adcer'i
ser. TLurlow Weeds PAPER, throws up the
sponge. 1t says: Tie radical party is beat
en-. They have go;e on, from Year to year
cheapening, and dwa.ing, and corrupting
until their splendid political inheritance hai
been wholly squanderna, 2nd the Republican
party now gees into bankruptcs.H
nSr 1t is said that George W. Childs, pro
prietor of the Philadelphia Ledger, has oiler
cd James Gordon Bennett 81 100000 for the
Herald. Bennett has The matter under con
sideration.
! pLAyr WnEAr.-The farmers of Tennessee,
are sewing their cotton land in wheat th
fall having become thoroughly disgusted will
the the great Staple and its markets. The plan
tsrs G of Georgia will find it profitable to follow
The example of their Tennessee friends. Their
is more money 10 whest at So so per busbe
than in cotton at 16 cents pes pound, less 2
ner cent. tax, commissions, etc. which net
about l2 cents-out of which the planter ha