The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-08-03
EDITORIAL SUMMARY.

companion nau stole u DOttle OF liquor, as ne
supposed, which he handed them for n treat
They both drank of it in such haste that its
pungency and deadly power were not dis
covered until too late to avert the evil. 1t
turned out to be nitric acid, diluted in rain
water, said to have been procured for pur-
poses of galvanizing. But moment elapsed
before they fell to the earth, overwhelmed
with the most intense and excruciating pain.
They rolled and tumbled, and clawed their
faces and the earth with both hands, indica-
ting, by the contortions Of their bodies and
groaning, all that agony which would if they
had swallowed red.hot Goals. Death soon
cnsued.
sSy" A Boy named Williams, about sew
cntcep years of age, was murdered in Paris,
Kentucky, on Saturday last, by man named
Hastings. Hastings met the boy on the
street and told him that his father had charg-
ed him QIastngs) with stealing, to which
the boy replied that he was not aware that
his father had made such n charge. Hast
ings then called him liar, and the youth
then remarked that ifhc had stick he'd strike
him. Hastings handed him u stick, and at
the same time plunged n knife into him,
causing his death Immediately. The muir
derer was arrested and placed in jaiI.
sY" CHOLERA MoRBUs prevails extern
sively in the Northern cities, and among the
deaths are numbered several prominent in
| dividuals, of whom we notice Dr. Robert
Butler, State Treasurer of Virginia, at Rich
mond, and Col. ]. Price Wcthcrill, of phila-
| delphia, Mr.. OCorncr, the District Attorney
of New York, had narrow escape from the
same disease.
.-Ig" The Degree of Doctor of Divinity
l,t
Emory College, Oxford. Geo. upon the Rev.
Benjamin Jenkins of this city, missionary to
China from The Methodist Episcopal Church
South.--Nercury
,Ty" A writer in the Florida News de-
clarcs that he knows persons in South Car
otina and Georgia, .owning more than 8 ,
100000, whom the Indians deter from en-
tcring lorida. He therefore proposes that
the State Immediately and forcibly remove
them.
\ FORTUNATE PORTER.-Thc Paris cor
respondent of the New York Courier DIES
Etats Unis, says: The numerous passcrs
by Nucvc de- Rivoli street, stop near the
Hotel dc Willie, to admire new and most
magnificent mansion, which has cost more
tbHn half = million Of fran. =. and which has
hrcn built fer "a man who was formerly q
porter in the market.
~" JUICE Smyscr of Pennsylvania has
ruled that an attempt To sign will prevcn-
ted by death occurring, is sufficient to rem
der it valid In the case brought up, the
dccedcnt was only able to proceed so far
as 10 write i, the first letter in his name.
s-s3 \ TAX Of twenty-five cents an eve.
ry barrel ar cask of ardent spirits containing
over twenty gallons, sold in Wheeling has
been levied by the authorities.
s-Y- The New York papers state, that
of the one thousand men who formed the
New York Regiment in the Mexican War
only sixty are alive, and but forty of these
are able to "arn their living.
Sx9w AEGA 4S AIahfE i9sf Z
from the white mountains, report that or
llc 18th INST. in ascending the summit o.
mount washington, by new route, they
passed under or through natural archway
ot snow, twenty feet high, and one hundred
and sixty feet iong--thc crust Above thri,
head forty feet in thickness. The surfhc,
OF this mass of snow extends over srvera
acres, and has no signs of Ice or crystaiza.
ton.
PRESIDENT PIERCE AND GES. ScorT.-It
is said, in the Crystal Palace, last Thursday
The lith instant, when President Pierce mel
Icneral Scott lie shook him warmly by IN,
hand, and said "Ah, General, / never ex
peeled t" meet you on the same platform.
RLsIGNATIoN OF 4 LIEUTENANT CoLoNp,
rs THE ARMY.-Licutcnant Colonel Notbor
Boone. Of the ID Dragoons mas resigned
his resignation took effect on the the 5tE
instant lie is at Ash Grove, Missouri
where he has been confined by sickness fo,
some time. The condition of his health
caused his resignation.
s{S- project is on foot in Cincinnati tc
fnrnis h the poor with wood the cnsuiny fall
at nearly TIT per cent below present prices
The gentleman who have undertaken III.
matter, contemplate procuring large sup
ply OF wood, upon which they propose To
make an advance IL per cent. upon lis cost
TO those able TO pay. They then will sell
at cost to such persons as bring reprcsen.
tatlon from responsible citizens that they
belong TO the poorer or working classes
~ A discovery which may proye nj
some commercial importance appears To have
been made by a British resident in Russia
namely, that the seed of the tobacco plan,
contains about fifteen per cent of an oil pos.
scssing peculiar drying properties, calculated
to render it n superior medium, especially
for paints and varnishes.
RoBBERY AND LYNCH LAVA robbery
took place on board the steamboat Chan.
cellor, at Baton Rouge, La, on the Ith
instant. Several men, deck and cabin pas.
sengers, lost amounts varying from SI5 10
$50 IN cash, and drafts as high rs SI.4OO
Five OF the deck passengers, arrested ON
suspicion, Wore condemned by verdict Of
the passengers TO be severely whipped. and
the sentence was carried into effect. Two
of the five had their backs horribly lacerated
by former iloggings.
THE SHORTEST RoAD TO rHE LUNATrc
AsYLUM-Be an editor; let the devil be-
waiting for ctpy; sit down to write an arti-
Gle, and get n few sentences done. Then
let loafing acquaintance drop in, and begin
to tell you stories aud the gossip of The
town and let him sit, and sit, and sn, and
1 I,YI 10 4.