Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-11-30
Such a marriage is considered doubly
sanctifed, owing to the solemn sur
rounaings.
Breyities and Levitfes.

rounoings. q
Breyities and LeYities.
i rs Whiskey distilled from Canada
thistles is said to produce q penetrating
and exhilarating effect, the sensation be-
ing the same as if ajewsharp in full tune
was attached to every nerve. q,
@ Mrs. Gubbins says her husband
is like tallow candle, because he always
will smoke when he is going out.
| @e A noble red man drank. ire-water
to excess. planted hia wigwam on Min
nesota railroad, and soon departed to the
happy hunting grounds.
ns- There are thirteen thousand dem
lists in the United States. By making
"a long pull, an6a strong pull, and a
pull altogether" they ought to be able
to extract g the corroding tooth of time"
ns- At Indianapolis, man was tried,
convicted and sentenced toeleven years
in the penitentiary. His counsel appli-
ed for new trial, and it has just been
granted !; but, unfortunately, the priso-
ner has been dead month";
@- That was consistelt old gentle
man who said, atthe YoungMen's Chris
tian Association meeting the other even
ing, that he had lived in Cincinnati thir-
ty years, and had never bought nor Sead
Sunday newspaper, norridden in the
street cars on the Sabbath. And he ap-
peared to be happy.
@- Pound parties" are fashionable
in Western New York. Persons who
are invited and attend, carry with them
a pound of something nice.
ms- Why is a lawyer like sawyer?
Because which ever way he turns, down
must come the dust.
ns- Henry Wolfe, a Kentuckian, re-
Gently completed his one hundred and
eighth year withouthaving known sick
day and then, not to mar SO clean bill
of health, cut his throat.
gs- The other night weneard that the
String Band" would give us a call, We
waited long and patiently, at last we
thought the time was near, we crept on
our knees to the door, and listened
sweetly musing: -
"The night is here, the wind is down,
And lights in distant windows glow,
There comes to us across the town
A breath of music soft and low.
To find the cause we softlywent,
With eyes by music made more sharp,
And found little niger sittin' on the
fence,
Performing ON an old jewsharp."
re- A Colorado saloon keeper said of
rough crowd:-''I couldn't get their
whiskey strong enough for them, so,
after trying every way, lat last made
mixture of poison oak and butternut.
That fetched them, called it the she
herder's delight, and twas a popular
drink. The first Pike tried it on yelled
with delight; the next one took two
drinks and turned a double somersault
in the road before the house. A peddler
came along, and after hehtook several
driul=s of .rss, ,ieepshe; delight he
went off and stole his OWL pack and hid
it in the woods"
G5- A young lady with very pretty
foot, but rather large ankle, went into
San Francisco shoe store to be measured.
The admiring clerk, who was of Gallo
extraction, complimented her in the fol-
lowing queer way: MAJ IN, you have
one beautiful foot, but re legs commence
too Immediately"
gss- An old lady in Orange county who
processes to work out her own salvation
has named all her furniture after the
Scripture and the Apostles. Whenever
she wants to sit in her easy chair she
tells her servant to bring up the Apos-
tie Paul and put it near the fire."
~ Before hanginga man in Louisi-
ana they letfrom fifteen to forty reporters
for the newspapers interview" him
for three weeks. The poor fellow is then
not only willing but anxious to be hung.
r Some extreme young gentlemen
arc now wearing pumps and colorcd
silk stockings for full dress. What next?
a clergyman was asked whether
the members of his church were united.
He replied that they were perfectly uni
ted-frozen together.
MS- A bachelor is politely described
as man who has neglected his opportu-
nity of making some poor woman mise
rable.
@- A Western editor informs a cor
respondent that the words "no cards"
accompanying marriage notice signify
that the welded pair don't play poker.
@- A young married man was re-
marking to some ladies that it was al
ways the women who ran after the men,
when his wife Indignantly said, "You
know, my dear, I never ran after you"
"That may be-" he replied, but you
took mighty good care not to get out OF
the way"
rs A Washington dispatch says :
"Since the Republican victories in the
fall elections some Of the leading men,
i bers of the party whohave visited Wash
inston state that growing feeling is evil
dent that the party can elect most any
one for President, and that the necessity
of renominating Grant is no longer dis
cussed. The advocates of the oneterm
principle have taken fresh courage from
these facts, and the friends of Secretary
Boutwell, intend to make his name more
prominent, so that it will at least go be-
fore the convention. Within day or
two some of the "passive Democrats"
announce that movement is on foot by
the Conservative Republicans to nomi-
nate Charles Francis Adams or Senator
Trumb i as candidate for President" I"