The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-06-21
Railroad Accident
NEw YoRk La lss.

mostly IRISH, were killed.
RlcH MsS.-George Peabody, esq.
the American banker in London. il
| said to be worth about FIVE millions
of dollars. He WAS born in Danyers, : s
Mass, in l195, and in 1927 went. to-
Europe to reside, previous to which he
carried on the mercantile business in
Baltimore. In 1884 he commenced
his present business in London. He
toomerly resided ct Gcorretown, D. !.
e., also engaged FIRST rs clerk in the
dry goods business With his uncle.
DlahoP CApLRs.-The Southern
(C:mrl"ston) Christian Advocate of.
3rd inst. says: ,$
BISHOP CArEns spent last Sunday
in this city. preaching morning, after i
noon. an1 night with a vigour of mind
as.1 body little inferior to that of.
twenty years ago. He is surely re-
ncwing his youth. - '>s
The slip G,,.dar- was totally DESTROYED
by tre in Charleston last week, togetl. .er.
with abou; 400 ...ies Of cotton, and 375,s
bbls Rosin. all OF viii, II was insured.
.B~ Tic tri-cnnial Convention Of
the whole Protestant Episcopal. Church
in this country will meet in, New York.
in October next 1a
ss3@ The Ancient City, published
at San Augustine. says that on the
lith OF May, q son OF Nc. Fitch, while
picking wliurt'lel,erries, was struck
by q large rattlesnake--wfenl, he ,ta,,.-
cd tutun, bat found. the snake had it's
tangs., 81 t'ssleneG osiiis pantaloof.s,leg =
nd'in stumbling &idi scuftiingj TO geL !;
loose, the snake struck him, six or sew.
IN times. The lhd'was about fburteens
or fifteen years of'nge.. r.. survived
but few. hours. la
| lea. A.CuIruRE.-Ihe Rochester Amer.
lcan says that Il gentleman who has
carried on both The cultivation of the
tree and.the manufacture ofitea from
their leaves for years. aadisome Of tho !
time employed Two hundred. men ati
the work, has left that place, after an.
extensive examination of:the soil and.
climate ofthc South, for China and the.
East Indies, expressly to- import Is.
stock Of young plants. superior in ev-S
cry respect to those cultivated. by the
late DIR. Junius Smith, at Greenville,,
South Carolina. ..sz-.s,.5 s.
| The CErsrA. PALAcE-Tie New
qor" Herald says Of the Exhihitionp that il
bids far to make great show Tie. SD SSass
Per!n;endcnts, Captain Dupont and Captain,t
DAVIS, are at their work. ailD,ting soace.
aud assigning locations. We noticed yes~
terdiy in the building Professor Bache, O..
ihe Coast Survey, III consutation witht the
Hupcrintcn. as 10 the situation to be
| gwen to the NICE instrumental and bea uti-
fui maps of that ralnatle branch of the
service. fS',s+it
We ieara that the English Commission.
ers are not at all chagrncd by the delay OF
the opening, particularly as gives them
the finest month in the year fi,r travelling.
| Mr. Wilson is off with Col, johnson for
the agricultural regions. MIR. Wallis is
gnirg I" the manufacturing districts, and
| loru t,IlesmeEe 10 about making trip 10
canada 20 as to enable them all to ses.
something of the country before they re-
tusn here to the opening, on The 18th 1uly.
SINGULAR AND PAINFUL CAsE.-Tho
Gettysburg l'a.) Sentinel states that near.
| MIlle'stown, recently, DR.. S. f.. Hall 'ex.
:Iacted from the right car of Mr. Joseph
Gelbach two hundred live rnaspots. I.
seems that fly or bug entered the dEvm
OF hs ear, WHEN he Immediately started IL,
the physician; but before he reached him
to insect had left its tenement. This oc.
CURED two days previous 10 the extraction.
IN which time the patent suffered intense
pain. II is supposed by the physician that
tie insect had deposited its eggs during
the short time 1t was in the ear. @Ses
~" there ever vas q natural
flower garden, says the Californian, it z
is the Sacranento Valley. Walk :p
any place you please outside the city,
and wherever the ploughshare afthe
husbandman has not heeD, there will
You find bed ofbcantifnl wild flow
ers OF every hue and description -
Travellers, by the way side, at this
season of the years, arc indeed "tread-
Ing in a paradise Of beauty" " ''ss
Mrs. Sophia Dodge, Of Lafayette,
Indiana, thus cautions the public Ia,
yainst her taithless spouse: "He. IS B
villain having stolen near two hun;
dred dollars from me when he left lie
is brute, having been repeatedly
proved untaithful Ito his Wife. $Iss
is too lazy to work, too vulgar to DO
decent, too much addicted to stealing
to be hoaest. Said Dodge, was. ael5
last accounts, 10 Indianapolis, and
expected soon ttoleavefsf Cincinnati,
where he will attempt 70 Tlassss As! { /,
gentleman 80 long a. tie S5snH Hney: itsa q