The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-11-01
News of the Week.

furniture. Some williams in their absence
having committed these robbcres with inn.
punity.
Mr.. a. S. Wellington Of the Char.
lesion Courier, was arrested in Now
York on Saturday last for libel, ut the in.
stance of Rufus w. Griswoid. The al.
legged libel was contained in letter from
New York touching Mr.. G.'s domestic af.
fairs.
We. learn says the Darlington Flag
that Wise and Johnson, convicted of the
murder of Shadrach johnson in this dis.
'rict, on The 2lst of August, 1853. have
been pardoned by the Governor on con.
dit;on OF their leaving the State.
The proprietors of the Chicago news.
papers held a meeting last week, and al.
vanced their advertising rates ~ per
cent. Their rates are now ono dollar psr
square for tie first insertion.
The plan Of building houses with mix.
ture of lime, stone, and gravel, is exciting
considerable attention, under the present
high price Of lumber and brick.
We perceive that tho Hon. R. +. w
AllstoE has been nominated in the Pee
Dee Times MS gentleman well qualified
to fill the gubernatorial chair.
r. Chapm Of Norwich, England, n
Miller, has obtained patent for applying
The ccntrifufiall ball governor to the hop.
per which supplies the grain to milstoncs,
III the same manner that it is applied 10
the throttle valve Of s.oam engine, so
that the valve is made to regulate the feed
of the grain.
1t has been discovered that for the gen
crali'y of flowers, and more especially TO-
geranums, and the most delicate snoci.
mems of the lily tribe, common glue, dilu-
ted will, sufficient portion o! water, forms
q richer manure than suano or any other
yet discovered.
Col. Orr has accepted an invitation to
deliver an address in Charleston on the
occasion of the great Southern Central
Agricultural Fair, to come off in that CITY
on ooh of November next.
The Charleston Courier says:
ave invite tho attention Of the mem
bcrs Of the Legislature Of this State to the
practice, now very common amongst US.
OF parties getting up bills. very similar in
appearance to those emanatin5 from banks,
for tie purpose of advertising thereon their
goods. We have now one before us, with
. in the corner, which was passed OIL a
negro i'll the market day or two ancc by
some white person, and for which 81 worth
OF eggs and ST in money were given. The
practice should at once DO discontinued
and the Legislature should declare /; IL
legal.
The Rev. Edwin II. Winklcr has accep,
ted the unanimous call Of the FIRST Bap.
list Church in Charleston &c become
its pastor.
Antoincttc Brown, the woman in brecch.
es, that used TO be the big gun of the
strons-m'ndcd female conventions at the
Broadway tabernacle was m,rried on
Thursday last, at Carmal, N. Y:,o a DR..
James II. Mcrrelt.
Lynch Law originated in what is now
known rs the Piedmont county of Vir.
gina, which was at The time, the western
frontier. Practically, the inhabitants of
the Piedmont country had no law and
were i"rced to be law unto themselves.
M'sdcmcanors and crimes of every sort
were OF frequent OCCURRENCE, and yet the
apprehension and delivery of criminal in
VOWED an arduous journey of hundreds
ol miles. mostly through wilderness,
which occupied months. Prominent n.
molis the inhabitants was man named
Lynch. well known for his justice, Judge.
mcnt and impartia!ity, and called through.
ont The country, Judge Lynch. In the
course OF time. criminals were brought be-
fore him, and he awarded such punish
ment as he thought was just and proper.
The American lady, Mrs. Putnam. a
Baptist, has perhaps no equal in the world
for critical knowledge Of languages, for
she convcrscs readily in French Italian,
German. Polish, Swedish, and Hungarian,
and is familiar with twenty modern dial
ects, besides Greek, Latin. Hebrew, Per
sian, and Arabic. The extent OF this lin.
eustlc requirement is paralIelad only by
Cardinal Mezzofan. EIihu Burritt, and
some hall dozen other great names Of
both worlds.
An Irish editor, in speaking Of the mise
ries of Ireland, says "IIer cup of misery
has been for ages overtlooing and is no.
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