Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1882-08-31
For the Advertiser.
An Aesthetic Edgefeld MerchaY
InvadeS the Northern MarfN
and Tells a Very Grace 4
full Story. K

the trip, and our progressive age n
railroad matters has shortened tsh
ride eight hours Who knows Yu
we may see in this nineteenth ceyn
tury New York and Baltimore on 3ly
- hours ride from home? 4
On reaching Washington City. tA'
temptation to spend few houSr
seized me, and was but mom@
in slipping the distance from whea r.
James A. Garfield fell to where y
had go lately taken in his hands tH'
affairs Of this great nation-t4 n
Capitol. l almost imagined | couSt
hear our Butler, Hampton and Tiis
! man laundering forth such eloquelS
indications as OILY South Carolinag
sons can do when her honor is call4t
in question. After admiring ie5'
oil representations of the days
177G, which hung around the RotundY
soon found myself in world y
beauty and wished for you to be WIZ
me. The Botanical Gardens, wheA
saw inexpressibly lovely Cole&
plants, ferns, Cacti ard rare shruf'
from every cline, entirely too bea k
tilul for an amateur pen. | said T
myself as looked on fine sped
men Of The might blooming CsreusH <
if you will show anything to,nigE
half SO lovely as that saw onlyg
week since on the Bacon piazza 4
home, l will rest right here and walf
A few moments at the SmitboniaF
Institute, looking at the rare collea
tions fr m the vegetable, mineral an
animlLkinsdons Of the HnEl4 A; l. -a'l 81:
then to the Patent Office, whefS
Mrs. Martha Washington's silk BEG
spread, wrought full Of quaint dd
signs bJ her own hands, stands yer
prominent. Benjamin Franklin's fs5
printing press was close at hand,
I wondered if onr friend John D.
Durisoe could make anything out {
it now. Next Ihied me to the War an
Navy Building, not yet quite finished
and to my idea decidedly the Gnei
in the city. Lastly, but by no near
an unimportant place, to the I. &
Treasury Department and the Wbit
House. "Mr. Presidents mansic
is. rather. tame looking. | wonder /
finer one is not wanted; however, til
tax is quite high enough just now.
Everything in this region is bu
tie! hustle! bustle As l step lro
the train in Baltimore, to take a hacI
for the Eutaw House, hotel drum
mers catch hold Of my coattail
sleeves, and even pants! Some a
most throttle me, and l beg off on pr
tence Of looking after lay valis'
However, quietly st'p out at sid
way, and run aeetly until l am mo-
comfortably Gagged in the mammot
dry goods house of Johnson, Suite
& Co., where I meet one Of the be-
fellows in tie whole land-Phi l
Tabb. We rnn hurriedly throug
this immense house, which does
business OF several millions year. E
I wish I could lay ali these bea
tiful fabrics before our ladies
Edge6eld, and | am almost temple
to go very recklessly into satin E
brocades, plushes, laces, at Sc ar
$40 per yard; for I remember | ID
behind me finest growing crop sind
the war. And besides, nowhere
there a higher appreciation Of fir
goods, and a better display of-go4
taste, than that of our own EdgE
field ladies.
For a few days 1 shall look aft
the adornment of the pedal extrem
ties, and my experience tells me tn
Baltimore is the place to make pret
feet. I am quite happy when tai
M seat eiore the sample Gaze of
Baltimore shoe factory. There are &
great many very beautiful things
buy here. After 1 have made tl
rounds, I shall stop one day in Phi
adelphia to buy Will Lynch al
Gov. Sheppard some shirts, and 81
what can be had for some of OF
young representatives, and handson
young men generally And then
day or two in harly-bcrly, gay al
festive New York City will finish N s.
course.
How | wish George Lake was
Washington as | return; ne conld te
all l have not. ] 60 to bed now
dream of old Edgefeld--and tt
picnics-and the candidates, and Il
primary election. D. NJ. U.
Yonng man, you need somethirS
more substantial than cigars, lig
kids, and switch cane upon whid
to commence housekeeping.
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