Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-02-08
THE ADVERTISER.
Terms, ss, 90 per Annum.
saie-lay Jottings-.Andl Other Sorts.

4, Terms, 90, 90 per Annum.
sale-lay Jottings-..Andi Other Sorts.
..sIalesday was like light and airy
bridge spanning a fearful abyss. We
mean as regards the weather. Itwas as
bright, balmys ysend sunshiny day as one
could well wish to see. While the Sum
day before it-in fact the whole month
was implacably fierce, cold and leaden.
And, to- the utter surprise and horror of
everybody, to-day Tuesday is again alb
solutelyr fearful cold, dark, and the rain
pouring down in such torrents as we
have seldom beheld-with thunder and
lightning that would beft August. What
is to become of us? Some Of us were
going to HE away to the happy land of
Augusta this afternoon, to attend the
grand masquerade ball and the splendid
Theodore Thomas concert, but as matters
now stand it would be. worth ones life TO.
attempt to get three miles from town
either by land or by water. We are in a
peck of trouble in consequence, for we,
have been painting for this Concert las
the hart for the water brooks.
But back to sale day! The warm sun
and blue sky brought out large crowd
OF our fellow-citizens from the country.
Everybody felt thawed, friendly and ge-
nial. Itwasa lively day. Thesunshine set
people to- chatting about planting about
cotton, corn, ,guano, and all that. Evi
IDENTIFY the design on all sides is to plant
very largely. Of cotton. Look sharp,
friends, or the present price of the staple
will delude you into folly.
The Sheriff sold some well-timbered
land in the neighborhood of Graniteville
for a'mere song. For instance, tract of
2O5 acres, for $465; another of 104 acres.
for s65; and still another at even lower
figures. And then Capt. B. NJ. Talbert
sold notes belonging TO some estate, the.
purchasers buying fortunes for only
few cents. But this was not the only
speculation Of the day. There was the
great g
IMPARTIAL INDICATOR OR WHIRLIGIG
nZ3.J MAN.
Hisnanle is DIR. Powell, one.of the origi-
nal ..F. F. w fellows, and he is right
pleasant Bohemian-one who pays his
printing bills, and puts his modns oper-
andi fairly and squarely before the eyes
Of the public. His speciality is Soap!
In the centre of circular table is fixed
asteel Indicator" turning upon pivot.
Around hemargin of thetable, thick and
carefully numbered, lie the prizes. They
range from half dime, through rings,
an6 spoons and knives, and trinkets and
silver. cups, up to gold watches. The
Soop lies in neat cakes here, there, and
all around. The Soap works stupendous
miracles both upon the outer and inner
man. You buy cake of Soap, for which
you nay always 81, and this entities you
to. e turn of the Indicator" and the
possession of the prize to which 1t points
when it ceases to turn. You mast 'cfa
something. Sometimes you win gold
watch, but oftener you get back only 10
or 25 cts. upon your dollar. Neverthe-
less your chance Is as fair as any mans.
"You pays your money and you taxes
your choice" And then the Doctor is
witty and sonorous His tongue wags
unanimously all the time, and screams
OF laughter reward his sallies. Or Mon
day last he did good business in Edge
field. Our colored friends venerate him.
They follow him fanatically, and their
eyes pop out of their heads by dozens
when the Indicator" stops at an impor-
tant prize. And after dinner, when gen.
erous wine had made many OF US feel
loose and fellowish, we white people also
took to following after Soap. Who shall
ever forget the deafening shrieks when
our friend, Jerry Gardner, won the gold
watch? We will not say that DR.. Pow
ell is a Just man made perfect, although
we take him to be clever gentleman
but If people viii be improvident with
their money it is certainly not his look
out. Vive la bdgatelle!!
And more e1hilarating even Ito ns)
than Dr.. Powelrs lottery scheme, was
the honor done on this day to the -dduer-
tiser. Just imagine our getting, besides
a number of individual subscriptions,
two. clubs of subscribers, each number
ing twenty members! We have every
right to feel proud -and to be q little
talky. And aprepos of this club plan,
&c an admirable one-lucrative, to US,
and cheaper .for: subscribers. -
a langhable. incident of the day was
the arrival Of Chancellor Carroll and
Judge JohnE- Bacon on the public square
seated on aplank across an open wagon
bodyTSsssen lhugging carpet-bag-the
whole concern drawn by two mules.
Before the war, these two elegant and
pnncaIions legal gentlemen scarcely
imagined thatthey would ever travel in
this primitive style.
And our old friend, DIR. Clint. Tomp-
kins, grown big and burly with ease.
prosperity and good living, was also here
and he told us there was to be big we'd
ding on Stevens Creek soon, and that ne
would certainly have us up to it-a prom
ise which we design keeping green in his
memory.
Miss Dobey opened her School on sale
day with most fiattering success, having
already, on the second day, thirty pupils.
BY allmeans support your home schools.
Cut a Caper and Down He Went!
Or rather off he went. A cheedter
Tindastric (Frcnch for swindler) has
been among us. Heisawell-built, stout
ish man.. about5 feet 10 in height, hair
cut short and quite gray, moustache ana
long full beard, about forty years OF age,
gives himself ont for 80, a joint gone OIL
of one finger of left hand, we'll dressed'
wears black suit, velvet vest, silk hat
souare-toed boots, quite neat and gentle
manly III appearance. Represents HIM
self asa Royal Arch Mason, has taken
s3d degree in Scottish rite. Gives him
self out IS wealthy Virginia widower,
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