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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
The Ruts Of Life.

Get out of them if you wish t.
live long. Men and women must
have recreation, must have amnse-
ment, must have diversion. II is
wholesome for the mind to break
away from its daily vocation or EN-
ployment every night. The man who
goes from his counting-house or his
workshop at the close Of the day, and
does not leave it behind him, but sits
at the family table in mcodiness,
brooding overpast occurrences, weigh
ing probabilities, casting conjectures,
laying plans, and when the meal is
over sits thinking, thinking, by the
hour, and goes to bed to toss and
tumble and worry, cannot live long,
the brain or the heart must give " ay.
In the Island of Cuba, the wagon
roads lead over hills made Of lime
stone; the wheels have run ia the
same track for generations and have
so worn into the solid stone that the
hubs scrape the surface, and there is
no getting out Of the rut until the
bottom of the hill is reached. Sd n
the lives of many, the mind, under
the influence of worldly care, gets ts
run in a particular track in Of hef
cases, the occupations are OF suciiE E,e
same:,c<s from ore yeia
end to another .thabits Workings BE-
mechanical, and cut Of th Is.
lines they cannot work at all ; henc'
the stupidity Of such q large port Jon
Of the farming population OF ali
the peasants of Eng
and Ireland, France and Germa ny
and Russia as well.
And our wives, in large towns and
cities, sweep and dust and arrange
and wash and sew and provide, in
one incessant round, summer and
winter. No wonder they grow thin
ind care-worn, and weak and nerv
JUS. Get out of the rutss all of you |
pay a neighborly visit three nights in |
! week, or for two afternoons let there
De a "let up"
Get out Of the rut, reader, two or
hree hours week. and there will be |
10 time lost by it in the long run /;
or it gives activity to the moral ma
;ure; it cultivates the affections !; it |
wakes up observation it exercises |
comparison; it gives breadth Of view |
IN all subjects; it makes a man more |
manly it makes woman more wo-
Journal of Health.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

The CARpET-BAeeER.-The ad-
vance in intelligence made by the
negro voice at the South has its most
notable illustration in their growing
appreciation of the PATRIOTISM and
other meritorions qualities of the
carpet-baggers. A colored Senator
in the Texas Legislature, said to have
formerly been slave of Governor
Gaines, is among the latest to testify
concerning these gentry. In Ian
guage of truly Oriental imagery,
though hardly parliamentary, we
have taken them up" said he, "bob-
tailed coat, tight pants, little gold
headed cane and all, and we have
fed them long enough out of our
own chicken-pie." From this it ap-
pears that the carpet-baggers have
also offended against the demands Of
fashionable costume. But the Sena-
tor goes on to heap up contumely
upon the interlopers whose appetite
for metaphorical chicken-pie is SO
Unsuitable. "These little fellows" he
adds, are too small to plough, and
too weak to breed" Unfortunately,
they do not increase by propagation,
but by immigration, and the case Of
the dispensers of chicken-pie is all
the worse for these facts. But aside
from the light which this throws
upon the estimation of the character
Of carpet-baggers at home, it is, as
we have said, highly complimentary
to the growing perspicacity Of the
blacks, who may in time have to de-
wise some measure fer ridding them
selves of the nuisance.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

SHOCKING DEATa OF A CHILD
On Tuesday last a post mutema exam
ination was had on |he body Of a child
at Ashley, Luzerne county, Pa, two
years of age, which|had died in great
agony. It was taksn suddenly and
violently i'll, and iothing could be
administered that ,eemed to afford
relief. Its body syelled to nearly
twice its natural sizs, and it died vom-
iting blood. On tie opening of the
stomach Of the chila, the cause of the
singular illness AMI death was dis
covered. In the eating of the stom-
ach. with its huge horns firmly en-
bedded, was an enormous stag beetle.
The only explanation that could be
given as to the manner of the insect
E getting into the aomach was that
given by the child mother, who sta
ted that the night Iho child was ta-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
VOLUME XxxV.-Eo. 81.

and saw the trained horses and the
fierce: beasts of prey, the linnet and
the hawk, the sparrow and the eagle,
the sheep and the horse, each occu-
pyinga relative sphere.
In the sea were the molluse and
the whale, the dolphin and the shark,
the timid and the fierce, each proper
ly organized and doing it's proper "a
Dor, but saw no equality.
Lastly, l entered the gate of Heav-
en-, and on a great throne sat the
Judge Of the Universe; cherubin and
seraphim fell before him, angels Of
lesser degree did his bidding. |
found seven heavens rising above each
other. but no equality there. / gazed
on the stars, and found lone star diff
ferent from another star in glory
but there was no equality. So you
see that there is no equality in all
God S vast kingdom.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

WHERE SHALL REST Be FOUND p
Between Mr.. Horace Greely and the
terrible Ku Klux, the poor carpet
bagger is in pitable plight. One
of the wre ched creatures writes a
piteous letter to the Tribune, from
somewhere way down South inDiyie,
imploring Mr.. Greeley not to be SO
hard on people like him for fear OF
giving the Klan an excuse to "out-
rage" them. At last these mischiev-
Gus interlopers are beginning to get
their deserts. They are between the
upper and neither milestone. Be
hind them CLEANS the brandished
sword of resributive justice, from
which, ii they escape, it is only to
become objects Of universal scorn,
contempt and execration.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

A CHINESE VILLA Chinaman
died, leaving hisproperty to his three
sons, as follows: To Fum-Hum, his
eldest, one-half thereof; Nu-Pin, his
second son, one-third; and to Ding
Bat, his youngest, one-ninth thereof.
When the property was inventoried,
it was found to consist of nothing
more nor less than seventeen .ele-i
phants, and it puzzled these three
heirs to decide how to divide the
property according to the terms of
the will without chopping up the sew
enteen elephants, and thereby seri-
ously impair.ng their value. Final
ly they applied to wise neighbor,
Sum-Punk, for advice. Sum-Punk
had an elephant of his own. He
drove it into the yard with the sew
enteen and said, "Now we will sup
pose that your father has left these
eighteen elephants. Fum-Hum take
your half and depart. SoFum-Hum
took his nine elephants and went his
way. /" Now, Nu-Pin," said the wise
man, take your third and git" So
Nu-Pin took his elephants and tray
eled. Nov, Ding-Bat," said the
wise man, "take your ninth and be-
gone" So Ding-Bat took two ele-,
phats and absquatulated. Then Sum
Punk took his own elephant and drove
home again. Query Was the prop
erty divided according to the will?
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
Terrible Outrage.

The Arkansas papers report the
following terrible outrage:
"On Monday of last week a most
brutal outrage was committed on the
person Of little girl. aged thirteen
years, near Wittsburg, Cross county,
named Sanders. The father was ab-
sent in the wood splitting rails. At
noon, Mrs. Sanders, with her two
sons, took the dinner Of her husband
to him, leaving the little girl at home.
After taking the dinner, Mrs. San
ders remained at the house of q neigh
Dor during the afternoon, sending one
of the boysb back home to remain with
his sister and leaving the other with
his father. On arriving at home, the
little boy missed his sister, but, sup
posing she had gone to a neighbor's
house near by, he thought 20 more
about:it. When the parents return
ed in the evening they became alarm
ed for their daughters safety, and
sent to the neighbors in search of her,
but could hear nothing concerning
her Whereabouts. Runners were sent
out, and numerous neighbors joined
in the search during the night. At
daylight the next morning the body
of the child was found about two
hundred yards from the house of her
parents, with her throat cut and her
person outraged, and the knife was
still sticking in her throat.s After
searching for the fend, a negro man
named Harris was arrested, who was
charged with having committed the
deed. A temporary court was or
ganized, with twelve jurors, who, at
ter hearing the evidence, decided to
hang the negro. Better counsel pre-.
vailed, however, and it was agreed
that he should have a fair trial. The
next day he was taken before mag
istrate, and the proof of his guilt was
overwhelming About FIVE o'clock
in the evening the court adjourned, 's !,
over to the next day, and the sheriff
started to jail with his prisoner. AS
he did so, crowd of about two hun
dred persons, both white and black,
rushed forward and took the negro
from the officers and carried him to
the spot where the deed was commit
ted, and there hung him to a tree.
The people generally regret the ne
cessity for the act, but all join IN
agreeing that it was Just.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07


SAVAGE FIGHT WITH a PANTHER.
"A correspondent at Blackford, West
Virginia, sends to the Baltimore Sun
the following accountof an adventure
which he says befell a young man
named Lexington, resident of Bal
timore, in that neighborhood, a few
days ago:
On the Both of July a young man
by the name of Lexington, from Bal
timore, accompanied by an old hun
ter named Loughry, took his rifle and
started out to hunt bears, which in
fest the neighborhood. When about
three miles from home they heard
terrible screams. which were the cries
of a panther about to attack. In an
other moment the beast pounced upon
young Lexington from his perch upon
the upper limb of tree, and both
fell to the ground. Loughry, when
he saw them down, hit the panther
with the but end Of his giae !, on the
head, which knocked him off. Lev
ington Immediately rose, when the
beast again attacked him, and Lough;;
ry coming to his assistance received
a blow watch felled him to The earth,
and he remained insensible for the
remainder Of the conflict between
Lexington and the wild beast. They
closed together, each seeking. the
death of the other, Lexington plying
him with bowie-knife, and he try
ing tStear up his courageous antago-
mist. Finally, by a tremendous EFF
fort, Lexington succeeded in Olsen
gaeing himself from the clutches Of
t The Wild beast, and Immediately
snatches up his gun and shot the
panther through the heart. The pan,
ther made spring at Lexington, and
when in mid-air fell dead to the earth.
Lexington received but few scratches
and contusions. The panther measug-
ed nine feet and four inches from the
nose to the end Of the tail, and was
as large specimen as has been seen
in tha country for many years.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
Gin Repairing.

NHE Subscriber, with the benefit OF, a
Il practical experience for the last
twenty-five years, offers his services TO TO
Planters OF Edgeficld wishing their GINS
REPAIRED, SAWSSHARPENED, &c,
&c., and will attend promptly and faith
fully to all orders. Terms reasonable
Letters addressed to him at Edgetield,
s. c., care of Mr.. D. r. Durisoe, will re-
ceive early attention.
July5 I'm 2s
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
COTTON STATES
Life Insurance Company,
Principal Office, Macon, Ga.
Principal Office, Macon, Ga.

He business this STRICTLY SOUTHERN ana HUME ooAf a.
Nv conSne5 bv law to legitimate Insurance alone
Policies issued on all approved Mutual plans also issues fo!es
under the mutual Ie u ooS '
ito otr 10 on the Stock pan that plan being expensive In
the long 9EeS.s ,.,r -, Ill ,uo,oc, obo,+
known that good Mutual Company Will average aoou5
e at the South and West where investments bring
Of profits Mutual business divided annually amongst
all The Mutua Policy Holders without exception
Ope Loan Premiums when desired interest cnargo only
upon first loan. ;, , le +onnn. +bo+ 10 nav
ont and have so per added their faces which more
than the original SUM insured , =, a 4.s
Ample provision against of Policies the expressed terms OF
the contract -: r.l o,,o
Company will always purchase Policies their Cash value
We offer the people Of the same financial security Northern
Companies the ACCOMPLISHING Of the insured ana IN odlon
thereto a Capital commencing with $780, OOo
dollars have annually hitherto been o 10 n c'e
on of the South payment Of In Northern IN
benefits made by these companies IN
then sustain our Enterprise and thus keep our money and the
profits too at home.
Officers at Macon, Ga:
VIM B. JOHNSTON President.
VIM S. HOLT, Vice President
GEO S. OBEAR, Secretary.
Ne JOHN W BURKE General Agent
Fl. McCAY Actuary.
w J. MAGIII, Superintendent OF Agencies
sJASI MERCER GREEN, Medical Examiner
~ Cotton States Company Georgia and South Carolina enter
nse is good Company fully identified with the interests OF
our people ably represented In the general management
: '0psl e@i'''4S -SNSS',' LAVAL & ABNEY,
General Agents for North and South Carolina
VIM + LAVAL Esq., Office Columbia, S. G.,
M W. ABNEY, M. D., Edgeheld, sc .s oA
June7
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

PLAIN TALK ABOUT RoyAarY IN
ENeLAND.-The London Daily Nea0s
has this frank declaration in its edi-
torial column:
It is not of the cost of Royalty
that people complain, but Of the cost
of Royalty in retreat. 1t is not that
the people do not want Roy ,lty, but
that they miss it and regret it.. They
want to see more of it, to feel its
presence as the presiding genius and
influence over society, as the visible
embodiment and supreme expression
of all that is grand and gracious, and
hospitable and majestic in the history
and traditions of the State. They
want to see Imperial and Royal visi-
tors to this country received as guests
in the Palace, not lodged as strangers
in an hotel. There would never have
arisen any question as to further de-
mands upon the country in respect Of
provision for members of the Royal
Family by additional taxation, if the
country were persuaded that the
Civil List for many years past had
been spent in fulfilling the ordinary
obligations of a Royal household and
establishment. The English people
are not so me n as to pour into the
public treasury the proceeds of the.
hereditary domain of the Monarchy,
and then to expect provision to be
made for the Royal Family out of an
annual allowance granted to the Sow
ereign for life, and just sufficient for
maintaining the dignity of the Grown.
Perhaps the question of providing
for an unknown quantity of future
Princes and Princesses may require
some day or other to be dealt with in
comprehensive and permanent man
ner, especially in the event Of re-
peated marriages out Of the Royal
line But that time has not yet ar
-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
BreVitieS and LeyitieS.

bdT a lady teacher at Des MONIES
called boy up and made him show how
he kissed the big girls in the woodshed.
After he showed her, she punished him by
making him stay after school. He says
he don't want to graduate for two years
yet
Ea That man," said wag, came
to this city forty years ago, purchased
basket, and commenced gathering rags.
How much do you suppose he is worth
now" We gave i: up. Nothing" he
continued, after pause, "and he ow wes
for the basket" .5
l. nR A young female Fifteenth Amend
ment was recently expelled from the VII
lage school at Oshkosh, because she would
not allow the pupils to use her face for a
blackboard.
19~ A Western contemporary longs
to become fash of lightning, in order
that it may utterly annihilate people who
speak OF cable dispatch as "cable-
gram.
s&ap. A" reliable gentleman" tells how
he picked up two dead water snakes
which had partially swallowed each other.
Each snake had commenced swallowing
the others tail, and they continued the
operation until their heads met.
s@ Don't it beat all how children will
sometimes ask questions which even the
wisest is puzzled to answer. Mama,
exclaimed Charley How big was L
when you was little girl"
kssy~ Rochester is full OF guilty people.
One day last week one of the city papers
made some charges against an individual
without giving hisnamc or residence. The
Office of the paper has been full of men
since then, asking il anything was III
sinuated asainst :hcm.
sa~ A recent comfortable wr3;er sag7 .
We resemble The sci. :alIacent o.
squire in the family pew, <!'eken of b
Washington Irving, wilo chucSIed az see
ing the eyes of his poorer parlshloners di-
rected toward him whenever the parson
spoke of the difficulty OF rich mai
entering the Kingdom of Heaven.
w" What are you about, my DEAR
said his grandmother to little BOY, VIII"
was idling about the room, and casting
furtive glances at a gentleman who wss
paying visit. ~ am trying, grandma,
to steal papa's hat out of the room with
out letting, the gentleman see it, for papa
wants him to think he's out."
s6T An unreasonable and somewhat
misanthropic acquaintance remarks that
be has often heard the proverb, A friend
in need is friend indeed" but he says he
can't see where the laugh comes in. He
has friend in need who is always bor-
rowing money of him.
No." You have considerable floating
population in this village, haven't your
asked stranger of ore of the citizens Of
village on the Mississippi "Well, yes
rather" was the reply; about half the
year the water is up to the second story
window"
nS Indianapolis has a merchant who
has benin business over fifty years and
never advertised line. His profits ave-
rage about fifty cents day.
@A Nashua gentleman said to an
old lady who had brought up family Of
children near the river, "I should think
YOU would have lived in constant fear
that some of them would have got drown
ed" "Oh, no." responded the old lady,
we only lost three or four that way"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

nS The rising generation "age" rap
idly. A mature specimen, eight years
old, was hunting around the police sta
ton for stray father the other night.
I" You see," he remarked, with flial exul-
tation, "the guv'ner's little wild yet,
but he'll grow out Of it !"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

EauAL1rY.-An old Scotch minis
ter on being asked to preach a SER
m"r in favor Of equality, at a time Of
!, sat excitement on that subject, said
at the close of sermon, in substance
as follows iss
You asked me to preach sermon
on equality. Since that time have
ranged in vision through the vegeta--
bic world; saw flowers OF unequal
lustre and perfume, trees Of unequal
height and value, but there was no
equality there.
I passed to the animal kingdom,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
SALUDA HOUSE.

MRS. R. B. BoULwARE respectful
lv announces to the Edgefield public that
she has opened the SALUDA HOUSE,
and will use every exertion to please all
who may favor her with their patronage.
She solieits the encouragement of her
friends.
@-Board by the Day, Week or Month
at as low figures as can possibly be al
forded. 10 90
Edgefeld, May 80 II 70
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

ken sick, and a few moments before
the first symptoms, it had asked for
water. The mother gave the child
a drink from a cup containing water,
and sitting on a chair beside the bed.
There is nordoubt that one Of these
horned-beetles had fallen into the
cup while flying about the room, and
the child drank it with the water.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

Ea Two Misssippians recently fool
ishly tried to persuade mule in the ~ay
be should 60. One leaves q large family.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

pa A very sharp chap thinks that
Columbus is not entitled to much credit
for discovering America, as the country is
so large he could not well have missed it.
E& A young gentleman of Chicago
fell in love with hotel waiter girl, but
love fled from that once fond heart when
he found the "sweet little thing cutting
her toe nails with butter knife in the
kitchen. a.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
BOOTS AND SHOES !
MADE TO ORDER OR REPA1RE

All work well done at reasonable pri
ces. out of the best Leather, and by com
pe.ent workmen.
Give me trial, and I Will give you
good fit. ,r,Ncrn
Terms Cash. >. ID. MANuEa;;
June I IL Sh 4 ~
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07

Violin and Guitar Strings.
IF you wish iloe VIOLIN and GUT
i TAR STRINGS, go to
g. L. PENN'a Drug Store.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-17
Outrage in Kentucky.

We copy the following from the Louisville
COarier-Journal:
FRANKFORT, March l3.-About two o'clock
Sunday morning a party of four men went
to the house OF a man named Ballew, who
keeps a store near Bailey's Mill. on Flat
creek, in Franklin county, and demanded
admittance on the plea of wanting to pur
chase grave clothes for person who they
said had just died in the neighborhOod.
Ballew inquired who the deceased was, and
on their giving name he had never heard
before, told them the times were dangerous
and he could not admit them at so unsea-
sonable an hour. Thereupon they declared
their intention to force their way, and pro-
curing fence rail struck the door heavily.
Ballew seized an Enfield rifle and told them
ii they persisted hell would be their por-
ton. The attack on the door was renewed,
when he discharged the rife, lodging four
balls in the abdomen Of the foremost,
man named Rucker. The others then re-
tired, and, going to the residence of Il Mr..
Bailey, ordered him to remove and care for
their wounded comrade. Accordingly he
was taken to Mr.. Bailey's house, where he
died yesterday. Rucker was well known III
the neigbborhood and has relatives there.
The Sheriff went to the ncighhorhood this
evening and may succeed in alresting the
ether men.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-17
Whisky.
Whisky.
The following, from the Lexington Press,

The following, from the Lexington Press,
possesses some Importance:
A change has been effected in the manu-
facture OF Bourbon whisky which promises
TO revOlutiOnize the market, as it has here
tofore been conducted. A distinguished
physician and chemist, now resident in this
city, has discovered a process by which the
fussi oil in the liquor can be SO changed in
its eompopents, 5y producing oxide OF amyl,
~ completely to neutralizc its evi! effects,
and the whisky rendered perfectly pure and
free from all disagreeable taste or oaor, even
when new. After the liquor has been sub
mitted to the process in question. it at once
improves rapidly, and in a few months at
tains that excellence which formerly re-
auired several years. James H. Shropshire
l. Co., Of this city, have opened a house for
the publication Of liquors under this pro
cess, and the specimens we have tested as
sure us of the inestimable value of their
mode of handling. One of the greatest re-
suits attained is the removal from the
whisky OF all matter which can either
sickcn the taste or produce headache, even
after liberal indulgence. Chemists who
have submitted the WHISTLES of this firm to
the severest tests certify that they are per
fectly pure and possess all the elements re-
CURED in the best and Oldest liquors.