Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1875-09-30

was the daughter Of poor farmer,
and bad received very primitive
education. She had gipsy-lookins
black eyes, aquiline nose, brilliant
white teeth, and small hands; but
there were two moles on her upper
lip, from which coarse, black hairs
constantly sprung. Many of her ad-
mirers affected to see no end of beau
ty in these moles, but spiteful girls
spoke of Sallie Booths moustache,
and the irritated beauty tried all
sorts of quack depilatories to eradi-
cate what ahe thought facial blem-
ishes. Meanwhile Miss Booth cap
tured
AN ARIsTocRATIC LOVER.
He was the son of Captain Whar-
ton, of Shelton Castle, and had ac-
quired an unenviable reputation at
Harrow public school for irregulari-
ties of a dissolute type. Farmer
Booth held.his farm under Captain
Wharton, and the licentious young
man therefore had easy access to the
girl. While the girls of the place
grew green with envy when they
saw Sallie Booth walking forth with
the gentleman lover" older people
predicted that no good would come
out of it. Captain Wharton unavail.
ingly demonstrated with his son, and
then warned Farmer Booth Of The
unscrupulous character of his sons
advances to Sallie. But, the father
was as proud Of the connection as his
daughter. and openly boasted Of his
future son-in-law in the alehouses OF
the place. Before long the intimacy
between the pair exceeded proper
limits, and Sallie importuned Harry
to marry her. The request did not
educe the expected enthusiasm; yet
he languidly said that he had no OBJ
lection to marry her if
"TuosE HoRR1D MeLEs"
were removed from her lip. In the
spring, in the hey-day of their ac-
quaintance, he had pronounced them
pretty; now their removal was a SINE
qua non to matrimony.
Five-and-twenty miles from Loft
house, ata small village called Seamer,
there resided an old woman reputed
to possess supernatural powers-al-
ways Areraisad hewa#er COR henss5..
cent ends. To old Nanny &uhnter
Miss Booth proceeded and submitted
her case. After retiring for prayer
and meditation" the sibyl informed
her that there was but one way to OBJ
literate the moles, and that was by
touching them with
A DEAD MANS HAND.
at midnight in dark room-the
hand to be held in contact with the
lips until it grew warm 1t was a
crucial operation, yet, revolving as it
was, Sallie resolved to go through
1t" the first opportunity.
1t was some weeks before dead
man turned up to be experimental
on by Miss Booth. But on&the last
night of June the body of a seaman
was washed ashore off the alum works
and the corpse was conveyed to the
stable of a neighboring public house
and locked up until the inquest. Sal
lie at once proceeded to the inn, and
acquainted the old ostler with the
story of her moles and the Seamer
wise woman's prescriptions, Offering
him half sovereign to aid and abet
her in applying the swollen, Aabby
hands of the unknown corpse to
her face when midnight came. /" She
was a,
BOLD AS A SHE-LIoN,'
said Bob Suggett, the ostler, in tell
ing the story afterwards; "she went
SSht into the deep darkness of the
Vble, and heard her rustling
( <o&ong the straw as she groped for
ths dead mans hand, while I stood,
feeling queer-like, outside the door.
It might have been five, or it might
have been ten minutes, when she
quy such screech as might ha' wax
ened the dead. Then she yell, yell,
yelled like locomotive whistle, and
[ TUX to my heels and ran.
Landlord Coulson and his patrons
listened with awe ard amazement to
the ostler's story, and proceeded to
the stable with a lantern. The corpse
sat bolt upright, white and ielly-like
as a new-scalded pig, and Salhe
Booth held on to it's shoulders, gig
Cling and grinning and laughing.
The spectators wereS
PIERCED WITH HORROR?
But as they stood motionless and ST.
lent, and saw the girl embrace the
clammy corpse and cry: {" Kiss me,
Harry, darling, the moles are gone"
they became satisfied that they saw
before them gigantic misfortune
that had merged into madness. When
the landlord approached to take per
away she dropped down with a pi, :
ing shrek, and swooned away. She
was carried home by four men on the
stable door, and almost as soon as
she reached her fathers house the.
pangs of premature labor superven-
ed. The waif was never conscious
of existence, and the poor mother
was removed during the latter part
OF August last to York Asylum hope
lessly insane. Yet nothing has been
done toward Furnishing the seamer
sibyl, Or the ignorant accompice, Bob
Suggett.
Alfred A. Clisby. Esq, Edgefeld's
most energetic, enterprlsing and spirited
merchant was united -cn Thursday eve
ming of last week-in the bonds of matri-
rnonv to Miss Fannie Glover Of thar pfaee
The Young lady is the oldest daughter Of
Arthur. s. Gl6vL ESQ., and confessedlyy
one Of The most beautiful and accomplish!
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