Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-06-01
BreYities and Leyities.

~ The Jail, poor-house and town hall
of Fayetteville, N. c., have been sold fol
debt.
@ A gentleman refused to join the
Century Club" because he was not q
hundred years old.
sY Laws, like sausages, cease to in
spire respect in proportion as we know
how they are made,
NG- A current maxim in arabian
literature says that Paradise is as much
for him who has rightly used the pen, as
for him who has fallen by the sword"
~ An old NIichigander, who has
always lived in wretched poverty, died
the other day, and box he left contained
$4,000 in gold and silver. His son is
glad the old man didn't take twith him.
~ Said a pompous husband, whose
wife had stolen up behind him and given
him kiss, Madame, consider such an
act indecorous!" !" Excuse me-" said his
wife, didn't know it was YOU
@5- The Radical Ku Klux arc opera
ling in Pickens County. a colored
Democrat, named Andy Gwin, had his
house burned recently, and two other
colored Democrats were badly beaten at
the same time. The Radical Deputy
Sheriff of the County was the leader OF
the Ku Kluxes,.
as- On single small island in the
Genesee River, 5aO0O fish were found
dead the other day, killed by the chemi-
cal poison contributed by the paper
mills.
Go- 4 Western sophomore says: sit
is no time to be writing Latin essays
when billiards arc only ten cents
game"
G A jury m Indiana, few days
since, awarded q damsel only nineteen
cents damages for breach of promise,
although she claimed $4,000.
G9~ Advertising is the oil which wise
merchants put in their lamps.
5zs- The Chicago t1sion hits the nail
on the heal IN sententious, if not very
elegant phrase, when itspeaks of the Ku-
Klux bill as burning down the house
to get rid of few possible bedbugs.''
G@ Perhaps it was carrying good
principle little too far when a poor man,
with large ts.sily, was fined Ss3 in
q Massachusetts town the other day be.
cause he drove a lame horse six miles in
search of employment, that he might
clothe and feed his children.
@ A Michigan doctor, who was ar
rested because his patient died, has been
acquitted, ON the grounds that he did
the best he could, giving all the medi
cines he knew the names OF. He put in
the plea that he never insured a case
when he took it.
10 Another instance of the purchase
and sale of wife has been revealed in
England. The woman, who applied TO
the stipendiary magistrate for relief,
stated that her purchaser, who had re-
Gently deserted her, bought her of her
husband twenty-five years ago, ratifyins-
the transaction by standing in that gen
tleman's shoes for few moments.
GS- They have new style of temper
ance society in North Georgia. The
members may drink anything they pay
for, but pledge themselves not to invite
any one else to drink, nor accept an invi-
tation from any one else to drink. The
society has regular officers, and is con-
Quoted in many respects like the Good
Templars.
@ "Does the train start this evening
atthirty,dve minutes past six, as usual?"
asked an elderly lady of railroad en-
ployee. "No; it leaves at twenty-five
minutes to seven," was the reply. "Dear
me; how they do. change these trainsr'
An Illinois man who had his watch
stolen from his pocket, and advertised
that the thief must return it if he would
avoid trouble, received before II o'clock
on the same day three watches, and let
ter promising fourth if he would send
S25 and ask no questions.
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