Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-05-04

| Nhi' CLCl IloMCf tllC pun man
friend, a resident of Lexington county,
aged 90 years, visited Charleston last
week. The account of his visit states, lie
walked from the depot to the hotel, a dis
tance of over mile, carrying Il heavy
valise, without fatigue.
The Winnsboro Ners contains IN
account of u meeting of the merchants ct
that town last week, to ascertain who
among thenumber was guilty of sending
to New York for IL box supposed to con-
tain counterfeit money. After the evi-
dence was adduced in the case, Mr.. J. o.
Boag was waited upon, acknowledged
the act before the meeting, and chance
given him to exonerate the merchants by
publishing card; falling to do which
the proceeding of the meeting to be pub
lished.
Out in Kansas Il pcddler insulted a
lady, and her ten-year-old boy filled him
with small shot.
"A drunken party playing cards i'll a
carpenters shop, caused the burning last
week of half the town of Pennington on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
They are practicing rhetoric out
West. y Chicago paper, noticinga =" back
down" OH the part of one of its contenl-
poraries upon some local issue, gets at
the point in this way: 1T was rcduc-
ton. at single step, from the portentous
dignity of seeming pcstilence to the
simplcnastinesso of Il confessed nuisance. "
I'm Missouri a husband has sued IN:
other man for $40, 900 damages "for wick
edly contriving and wrongfully depriv-
ing him of tho comfort Of the society OF
his wife, and alternating her affections for
the space Of G23 days" This makes the
value of his wife's society little over
S32 per day.
| An old woman of Lancaster said i'll
recent testimony i'll regard to the l>u
Klux, that she saw one hundred and fifty
of them como out of her well. She de-
clares she will never drink water from
the well again. Well!
-Nlodesty in Il woman is like color i'll
her chcek-dccidedly becoming, if not
put on.
"A New York journal, wishing to say
something severe i'll connection with Il
statement made by Il Philadelphia CO.
temporary, asks: "What do they cali Il
strong solution Of wood ashes III Phila-
delphia?'
"A writer in the Golden dgc says that
Miss Kellogg sings "Sweet Home" as il
she lived i'll Il hotel.
= The following remedies are said to
be valuable and intallible: For corns
easy shoes; for bile, exercises for rhc''-
matism, new flannel and patience; tor
gout, toast and water; for toothaclc a
dentist; for debt, industry; and lor
love, matrimony.
:" Pupmatic' is suggested as new
word admirably adaptedto describe those
individuals to whom the application OF
"dogmatic" would be too digniiied.
"A man excused himself for marry
ing, by saying that his friends declared
he drank too much for single man.
IA devoted Radical, who wanted
Grant to be as much like the father OF
his country rs possible, prayed that the
"mantcl-p piece of Washington might illl
upon him." Amen!
Tho oldest printer in the United
States lives i'll Tennessee. The Nashville
papers have been making up their State
and local news from this fact for the last
ten years.
-"Why don't you give us alittlc Greek
and Latin occlsionally?" asked q coun-
try deacon of new minister. "Why,
do you understand those languages -
was asked. "No, but we pay for the
bost and ought to have it,"
An exchange says: "We are i'll re-
ceipt of two poems, one on a Throbbing
Brain and the other on Beating
Heart Wewill wait until we receive
one on the Stomach Ache and publish
the three together
"THE WIZARD OF THE SADDLE"
GEN. FoRREsT.-The Selma Times
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