Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-15
Fsom the clexsland eohio) Leader.
ereslsg as O. Domsssic Disturher'

We doubt il the hagnors Of the
present political campaign will ever
be brought more directly home, Of
result in in sadder case Of domestic
iafelicity thaa that which we record
below. Most of our citizens: have
seen the campaign Greeley fans with
which the city IS flooded, and since
their introduction every boot-black
and ,newsboy in the city as well as
older persons are familiar with the
rnddy features Of the. axe-singer OF
Chappaqua, as they appear surround
ed with halo of white wool, and
affixed to strike for wind propelling
purposes. As correct Likeness Of
The most assuring aspirant for the
Presidential chair that ever lived
they are a success, land if onn readers
have any desire to-. make the pic
ture more vivid, let them follow the
instructions of an eastern poet who
says:
Would yonsss she :fce of a.. G. arighta
Take your study-famp and put out the
staha aRa6' 81 against It the: Greeley fan !:
Add d White felt hat, and behold the
mani !.
Baltic our story. Reading upon
one of our prettiest thoreughfares is
a man named Stringer, who has from
the very msment when the result OF
the Cincinnati Convention became
known allowed all the spare wind
that escaped from his political bel
lowstto shape itself into shouts for
Greeley. His wife. who is young
and. pretty, naturally partakes Of his
viaws in q political sense and know
ing of his intense admiration of the
Graham bread phlosop er purchased
one Of the new Greeley fans the 9th
er day while out shopping, and took
it home to surprise her husband. Ow-
ingto convi7al meeting tha: ven
ing where confusion to the Admlnis-
tration was drank in sparkling bum
pers Of champagne by Strihger and
lew boon companions, the former did
not return TO his happy home nntil
about midnight His wife, who had
retired 20 bed at the usual hour, after
tanning herself for an hour or two
With her purchase of the afternoon,
tiuslly Land it over on her spoase's
pillow and dropped off % sleep.
Striuger entered his house without
uaking any noise, took off his boots.
softly assembled the stairs to his wifes
apartment, entered. and was about to
diarobe fer the night, when oh hor-
rors, what a eight met his slightly in
-briated gaze I There, reclining upon
his pillow, he saw the featurers of a
bald headed, gray-hlred man. whose
flushed features betokened guilt and
DO, r liquor St.inger smelled a rat
i4rger than an elephant, he SEW it all
:; !; glance. He had entered so still
nat he h,d surprised the scoundrel
wsie s7,1r5d a Psaeeihff 'h + -shhofee aH4lidd aH4idd
aat angerea him still more, and with
out stopping to think whether he was
sufficiently insane or not the :, wrong
ed and miserable Stringer pulled out
his pistol and fired two shots through
the head of the aged rascal. The
noise awakened Mrs. Stringer, who
shrieked, the gas was turned up, and
with his thirst for blood still un-
ouenched, Stringer saw he had made
an i ass of himself. He tried to make
his wife believe it was joke, that
he lust wanted to have some fun
that he knew it was Greeley when he
first came into the room, and was
willing to stand anything to beat
Grant !" but his wife said that story
did not possess the requisite thickness,
and told Reighbors wife, who at
tended sewing society the next day,
and 80 it got out.