Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-08-17
Interesting Items.

Interesting Items.
e TREMENDOUS CoNFLAGRATIoN IN CALIFoK-
NIA-The steamship Star Of the West has arrived in
New York, and brings advices from San Francisco,
California to the 18th ut, from which We learn that
large amount Of property in the chief cities OF Cali
fornia has again fallen prey to fire. One hundred
and sixty buildings had been burned in San Francisco,
and tile loss was estimated at half a million OF
dollars.
Two hundred and sixty buildings were consumed in
Sacramento, involving loss of one million dollars
The town of Columbia had also been nearly Destroy
ed The loss in the latter place was set down at half
q million dollars.
The accounts from the mines were quite favorable.
sy TIE Murmons at San Bornandios and Los
Angeles have recently been great sufferers in conse-
quencc of losing 1000 acres of wheat by fire.
eY Benton DGFEATED-In the First Congress
sionnl District of Missouri, Hon. Tuos. H. BENTON
has been defeated for Congress by hundred ma
joriry.
ES REvoLTING BRUTALlTY-The New York
| Tribune of Wednesday last says: ''Ths morning
carlman, whose name we could not ascertain, while
passing through Fulton.sreet, became enraged athls
horse for some canse or o,her and pulled out the AMI
mails tongue The brute who committed this outrage
upon dumb animal was arrested and taken to the
Tombs for examination"
sET THE Houston (NIiss.) Argus announces that
seven waermelons were lately raised in that place
which weighed two hundred and eighty-one pounds
averaging little over forty pounds each. The largest
weighed forly-seven and the smallest lhrty-three
pounds. This rather beats our ElgeGeld melons,.
Don't it Col. s. NJ!
nS "THE dry rnt, )" says the NatcheZ Free Trader,
has made appearance among several cotton panta
lions in this vicinity, and threatens serious injury to
the crop"
frp WE have accounts of m1st violent and de-.
structive storm in the vicinity Of Fairmoun, Ya last
week 1t uproofed number of buildings and up
rooted trees and hurled them the railroad tracks,
prus!rated the growing crops, and did an immense
amount Of other damage.
s1ssP VINO CAN BEAT IT!--A young woman Of
Colc county (IlI) recently presented her husband with
four children at one birth! This her first effort
in the line, and there is noteng, therefore, what she
may be able to do hereafter. Great country this, and
bonnd TO prosper!
~ NORTH CAROLINA ELEcTIoSs.-Col. BRAGG,
Democratic Candidate for Governor, has heep elected
.
$500 Votes The Democrats it is thought willha
majority of l6 on joint ballot in the Legislature.
~ STARVING FUGITIVE SLAvEs.-A colored man
in Canada named Zce publishes an appeal to Arneri-
can abolitionss for assistance for The fug
tive slaves in that portion o Her Majesys dominons.
They are said to be in starving and depioable con-
tliiion. Henry Bibb fugitive slave of some noorie.
", died at Windsor Canada, on the lsi Instant fJr
the want Of bread!
ecT New PosT OFrrcE.-The Laurcnsvhle Her
aH says: "We are graliGed to know that by the ex-
erIions of onr Representative, Hon. T. s. BROOKS, q
Post Office has been established ut Mount Pleasant,
in this District and Mr.. Manoh Mcpherson appointed
postmaster"
fa@ FIRE IN New OnLEANs.-On Saturday last,
New Orleans was visited by very destructive fire.
It i. estimated that the loss in buildings is 100000,
and that the value of the merchandise destroyed is
not less than 81 O0O The fire broke out in Hart
e. Cos establishment, report says, by the bursting
Of vitro cask and the other by asmull furnace used
in melting sealing-wax.
~" TIE Empire City arrived in New York, on
the th nst from California, with 81 900 600 in gold
~ a MONSTER BILL-The post route bill which
was signed by the President about 10 o'clock on Thurs
day night required for its enrolment one thousand
sheets of parchment costing 5000 1t is recapitu-
latiun Of all the existing post routes in the United
States, TO which somesiI or seven hundred new ones
are added.
~ Mr.. Daniel E. Sickles, Secretary of Legation
to London, returned to New York on Saturday in the
Atlantic. He is said TO have been the bearer Of i'm
portant dispatches to Washington.
sS7' The official statement of the Treasury Regis
ter shows the receipts of the United States for the last
quarter to have been sl6,ss4 739, and the expendi
lures ,lO2.
f@sE' LIGHT SUMMER HATs.-'rhe ladies Of South
America, during the hot weather of July cab
bagc.leaves for bonnets trimmed with radishes What
horticultural idea
s2y REcIrE FOR TOMATO FIGs-Take as many
Tomatoes you desire TO put up, and simmer them
for Il short tme-hey then taken out and exposed
to the sun for few days. When they are sufficiently
dry, they are sprinkled with powdered white sugar
and packed up in boxes OF jars. Mrs. RUFF furnishes
this recipe TO the Newbery Sentinel and it is said to
b. an excellent one.
GsP HEALTH OF New ORLEANs.-The Picayuac,
says, The general health Of the city is undoubtedly
very good The physicians, too, complain Of lack Of
employment There are however, some few cases of
yellow fever among The shipping in the third distrct
but it is not of dangerous type and does not create
any excitement in that section.
E| TECHNICAL OBITUARY-An English paper
thus chronicles the death Of printer, named George
Woodcuc: " lie the of his profession, the type
of honesty the of oil, and although the ER of
death has put TO his existence, every o his Lie
was without u.
Ez9 DEATH OF TIE ScoTcn GIANT. w. Ram
dali Chadwick, he usually passed by the name of
Randall the Scotch Giant, died at Laporte, Ind, on
the 18th ult. His disease apoplexy. He was, we
believe, over seven feet high, and of magnificent
manly proportions. His home was in Kendall, La
Fayel,e Co., Wisconsin.
sSp WoMAN's RIGnTs DEFlNED-An exhange
thus defines this important questions GA good natured
husband, a dozen children and happy home, are
mans rights"
Ey% THE LAST DoDGE-The last species Of foul
play perpcrated upon the unsophstcated portion of :
Gotham, is that of gueing feathers upon the legs of
the common fowl, and selling them for Shanghais
G:.s7' /" BILL NEBRAsKA.'-Thc firs, white male
child born in Nebraska since the passage of the osan
zaton bill was born at Dr. Cark's Hospital, Nebraska
Centre, in June, and was christened B,H aHeordssa
Kinney. His father, tine Hon. J. F. Kinney, chief
Justice of Utah, has taken the lend in sustaining the
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