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

h9" A poem in an agricultural paper call
ed I" Song of the Farmer Boy" very appro-
priately commences with Ho, brothers, 10"
nP An old negro man named Maypey
Edwards was beaten to death by colorcd
woman in Clinton, Tenn, few days since.
He had promised :, marry her, but was too
poor to buy the i..cessary documents, and
She made up her mind to take his broken
faith out Of his skin.
s@r As old Van Chroomps was giving his
youngest, who was inclined to be lazy, good
cowhiding, the boy cried out: Oh fadder,
it makes me smart' "Dat's slloost vat l
wants" said the old man, as he whackcd
away with renewed vigor.
s9s Columbus was desperately excited.
Saturday, over four mule wagon load of
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.
gsr. 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.
s6P The following stanza is said to have
been copied from the tombstone of husband
and wife:
"Within this grave do lie,
Back to back, my wife and L;
When the last trump the air shall fill,
If she gets up, I'll just liz STILL"
@~ 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"
s| The ladie gives as reason for mar
rying for money, that they now seldom find
anything else in man worth having.
sar There is man living in the noun
tains of North Carolina, not more than forty
miles from Greenviile S. c., says the Tar
boro Carolina, who has reached the extraor-
hnary age of l43 years. At the time of
Braddock's defeat he was twenty years old,
and had wife and three children A gen.
tlenian at Greenvllle states that this man,
who has come down to US from former gen.
Grafton, has always been in moderate cir
cumstances; lived-upon coarse vegetable
diet; that he has never drunk any liquid but
spring water, and bids fair TO live many
years longer He enjoys perfect health pos
sssses all OF manhood's attributes, and wishes
to marry. He has survived seven wives, and
having lost his last one aoout sixty years
ago. he now begins to iccl quite lonely
la The great joiner-Thc lawyer lie
can replace i ;euant, enpannel jury, box
witness, before the court, c.sel his client,
auger the gains floor a wtncss, cut his
board, nail the case, hammer she desk, file
his bill, and gurgc the whole community.
g8 Allen Mclean, young Kentuckian,
residing in Campbell County, had been
quite dissipated, but got religion" ct q
Methodist revival, and regarding himself as
better prepared to die than he ever would be
again, he went to the Licking River, and,
after singing want to be an Angel, leap
ed into the stream and drowned himself.
MA disconsolate citizen of New Oh
leans put the following question to one Of the
papers published there: lIr. Edytur-
That wish to ask you is whether strychnine,
what the police give to dogs. Volt t pizen lne
human being after sassengels aa, been fried
Please put IN the paper how Ii IS, for if fried
strychnlne is pizen, go ag~n sassengers.
Yours, till pizened."