Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-05-06

II AS an evidence of what white mus
Gle and industry can accomplish in the South,
when impclled by spirit of perseverance,,
the Cuthbert (Ga.) Appeal states that MIR.
jackson Bats, of Stewart County, assisted
by his son, a lad of twelve years, raised and
gathered the past season eight bales of cotton,
averaging FIVE hundred pounds each, one nun.
dred and fifty bushels Of corn, fifty bushels OF
potatoes, and about thirty-fve bushels OF
wheat in the bargain.
SA An Editor cut West, being poeti-
cally gifted, writes as follows to delinquent
subscribers;
Would you lift burden from us7
Would you drive spectre from us
Would you taste p pleasant slunbor!
Would you have quiet consciencet
Would you read PAPER PAID For?
Send us moncy-Send US money
'Scrd us moncy-Send US money
Send us money that you ow' ua
e Everybody has heard of the famou us
letters that passed between the adverse chiefs
of Sir Connell and Tyrone, the most aconic
correspondence in history
Pay me my tribute, or if you don't
"O'DoNNELI."
al owe you no tribute, and if l did ;,
"O'NEAL."
~ The Troy editor who published o
list Of "old maids" is in Jail for libel, and a
troop of the fair illuminated parade every
day before the; window of his cell, with smiles
and snecrs upon their faces
pg@ Robert Hall did not lose the power
of retort even in madness. A hypocrtlca!
condoer with his misfortunes once visited
him in the mad.house, and said in whining
tone, "What brought you here, MIR. Hall!'
| Hall significantly touched his brow with his
finger, and replied, "What'll never bring you
here, sir, too much brains"
MT "Three things" said the Rev. DR..
Henry, appeared to have been uninlured oy
the Fall the song of BIRDS the beauty OF How.
ers, and the smile of infancy, for it is difficult
to conceive how either of these could have
been more perfect had man remained holy {;
as if God would leave US something pure to
remind us of the Paradise we have lost, and
to point us to that which we shall regain"
E~A COW in Missouri recently died
from over-exertions in trying to digest pound
of nails.
Ag A Boston man has made 100000 the
past year by shipping rum to Liberia.
~ OF the two hundred New England
women who WENT to Washington Territory
two years ago, all but three have married.
E% The late DR.. Curtis once said, "The
lonaer.I live the better satisfied / am that
. tbe Rantists are the Lords people; they take
little care of their own interests, often WORK
against them, and if the Lord did not take
care of them, they would long ago have ruin
ed themselves
EA Pekin boasts of paper, which the
Chinese declare is over o thousand years
old. They had printing material there, they
say, before Adam discovered Paradise. &
sss Go to strangers for charity, acquaint
ances for advice, and relatives for nothing
, and you will always have supply.
ES The boy who was caught looking in
to the future has. been arrested for trying II
see the show without payment. !, -,
nS- An indignant individual, we are told
3 Yesterday presented himself to the Chief
, Police, with loud complaint Of certain boy
in the habit Of throwing stones into his house
g One, he said, had only last evening struc
Q his daughter on thebreast. "Was the youn
+. .lady badlyhurt2 2p inquired the Chief. Nc
not thurtherseifsi' replied the complainant, "bu
b 2the stone broke three fingers on the hand
a a young gentleman who is paying her partlt
ular attention"