Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-04-13
Brevities. and Leyitiss.

hSA poem in an agricultural paper, call
| ed F" Song of the Farmer Boy" very appro-
priately commences with Ho, brothers, no"
hI~ An old negro man named Maypey
Edwards was beaten to death by colorcd
woman in Clinton, Tenn, few days since.
He had promised to marry her, but was too
poor to buy the necessary documents, and
She made UP her mind to take his broken
faith out Of his skin.
p@rA As old Van Chroomps was giving his
youngest, who was inclined to be lazy, good
cowhiding, the boy cried out: Oh fadaer,
it makes me smartp' "Dat's shoost vat l
wants" said the old man, as he whackcd
away with renewed vigor.
s@- Columbus was desperately excited,
corn in the ear that was brought in to sell
by an Alabama planter Several persons
asked for an ear or two to preserve as curl
osities.
ga. The wind blows with such force in
Colorado that when man loses his hat he
has to telegraph to the next station to have
some one to stop it.
s6S The following stanza is said to have
been copied from the tombstone of a husband
and wife:
"Within this grave do lie,
Back to back, my wife and /;
When the last trump the air shall fill,
|. If she gets up, I'll just lie STILL"
/. Ba~ Don Piatt now says: "The late Re-
publican party is. the deadest dead thing
above ground, and if the surviving friends
.wish to retain for it any feelings Of respect
they will hasten its funeral"
rT The ladie gives as reason for mar
rying for money, that they now seldom find
anything else in a man worth having.
EE There is q man living in the noun
tains Of North Carolina, not more than forty
miles from Gieenviile, S. c., says the Tar
boro' Carolina, VINO has reached the extraor-
binary age of l43 years. At the time Of
Braddocks defeat he was twenty years old,
and had wife and three children. A gen.
tleman at Greenville states that this man,
who has come down to US from a former gen.
Grafton, has always been in moderate cir
cumstances; livedupon a coarse vegetable
diet; that be has never drunk any liquid but
spring water and bids fair to live many
years longer. He enjoys perfect health pos
sesses all of manhood attributes, and wishes
to marry. He has survived seven wives, and
having lost his last one about sixty years
ago. he now begins to feel quite lonely.
s3- The great joiner-Thc lawyer. He
can replace tenant, empannel jury. box
a witness, before the court ch;sel MS client,
augcr the gains floor a witness, cut his
board, nail the case, hammer the desk, file
his bill, and gurge the whole community.
gB Allen Mclean. young Kentuclsian,
residing in Campbell County, had been
quite dissipated, but "got religion" at q
Methodist revival, and regarding himself as
better prepared to die than he ever would be
again, he went tc the Licking River, and,
after singing | want to be an Angel," leap
ed into the stream and drowned himself.
s@A disconsolate citizen of New Oh.
leans put the following question to one Of the
papers published there: "Ir Edytur-
That l wish to ask you is whether stlychnine,
what the police give to dogs, WORT pizen the
human being after. sassengels ia; been fried.
Please put in the paper how Ii s, for if fried
strychnlne is pizen, | go ag~ln sassengers.
Yours, till pizened."