Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-07-07
NO. "a,

Violent Thunder Storm. THREE Persons
Killed Jy Lightning.-This city was visi.
ted soon after midnigh, Tuesday morning
with thunder storm Of unusual violence:
Several of the shocks were so heavy as to
shake the houses like an earthquake. One
bolt descended with fatal etfect upon The;
The houses Of Mr.. VIM. Mathews, % Viii
der. street, killing three persons: Mathews;
his wife aud daugh,et. The night being
unusually warm, they Had removed their
bed 10 the floor, at right angles with a
stove which stood near the chimney. The
fluid descended The chimney. passed dowd
the stove.pipe, through the opening in the
slove-door, and thence directly across the
bed and through the other end oelhe house.:
As it passed over the bed il struck the
three persons sleeping In it, and set the
clothes on fire. Mr.. Mathews aud bis
wife were killed Instantly! Tie daughter;
a girl ten years of age, lived two hours:
Both parents were burned ON their arms:
but upon the child there are no outward
injuries! She vohhed a quantity Of blood
belore expiring.
Two young men, sons Of Mr.. M. were
sleeping in the next room. The fluid
turned them upside down. As soon as
they extricated tfemselves; they extin-
guished the flames in the bed Of their par
enis, hut all efforts 10 restore them TO life
proved unavailing. The chimney was
broken I'M pieces and about len feet Of the
gable eud Of the house torn out. This is
truly an awful occurrence, and should
operate as a. caution against sleeping i1
looms containing articles that attract The
electric fluid. Mr.. Mathews was about As
years of age. He calne from England
about five years since, and had lived IN The
house where the calamity Happened about
three years. He is represented as having
been an honest and industrious man ia
ndigent rcumstances.-Rochestcr Dend.
crat Of Wednesday.
ReHeftor TootRacKe.-Some years since
/ found the following recipe 10 highly po-
pular dental work, and having usedit
with the most gratifying success from that.
time to the present, in common cases of
tooihache. il strikes me may be inslru-
mental ID relieving some suffering, by
making it public.
Take sulphuric Ether o.
Pulvsrizsd Gum Camphot 9 drachms:
~. Do. !. do Alum do.SFi 81 q
Mix and keep tightly cofksd. Weta
little cotton or lint with the mixture, and
apply 10 the seat Of pain. The above
quantity can ne procured of any druggist
for IG or 12 cents.
This preparation having been simply
the result of scientific investigation, and
having been obtained either from the In
dians or Arabs, il is recommended to cure
toolhache arising from local inflammation,
(in about three cases our of four. in lesS
than five minutes,) bu, so far as the writer
oflhis article is aware, has not been
known tocure Neuralgia Face!-eonsum-
ptiou-to SET bones, or. ''shut the cellar
door and rock the baby"
H. PRESTON, Dentist.
Anii.lnfammable Cotton.-It is curious
in science, as in other matters, how one
discoyery is made when, we are striving
after something else. The following is a
curious case in point OF finding the very
reverse of what was sought :
A physician iu Georgia, in recently at
tempting to prepare gun cotton by receipt
sent him by brother physician, he was
unsuccessful. and found, 10 bis asionish:-
meut, that his cotton would neither ex-
explode nor igniie,, being anti-in6amma-
ble.' On Investigation, to find out the
cause he found thai he had not used the
righ, acid mutialic acid we, SUPPOSE. He
repeated the process, and lhe result was
the same; so that he claims to have dis
covered method Of rendering cotton in
combustible..' He says'that this totloh can
be prepared with little expsnse, as he has.
tested the matter sufficient TO Know thatit
can he manufactured into CLOTH the lint
and texture of The tot,oh not being ia the
least injured, but capable Of being made
inio clolhing with as much ease as from
The common material.
TAs Hst1a:ptsek.d,-A diend Of our. on
Fourth street had sprightly male Cana
ry bird which he mated shbrttims since
and Mrs. Canary soon built her nesi in the,
cage. laid the right number Of eggs and
commenced sitting on them. Ii would
seem from what followed, that she now
thought herself entitled to exemption from,
all other labor, even tha. of providing food
for herself, and tha, Mr.. Canary was neg.
leclful Of her wants. On'Suhdayi last she
came off her nest and went at him, drove
him about the cage and after picking him
severely, returned to- her seat on the nest.
The result Of the thrashing was soon ap:
parent; Mr.. Canary has ever since beeh.
careful 10 keep her we'll supplied with,
food. bringing the seed TO her and Pdtlihg
it in her mouth in the kihdes, manher, the
logging having opera,edlo charm,
. Tr6yTsE
sno,o in June!-The wilmington, (Del.)
Journal says, a'severe snow storm visited