Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-10-24
Items for the Multitude.


/, growing the best of Java coffee on his ground.
He sowed the dry berry in drills, having first
soaked them in ashes and water for an hour.
When the plants were an inch above the surface
he stuck row of oak scrags for them to climb
on. Favored by alternate heat and rnins they
have come on finely, and the berries are nearly
ready to >bc gathered.
WESTERN PoRK.-The st. Louis Democrat,
Eof Wednesday last, reports the follwing contract
for hogs for early delivery: 5000 head ut S5
1000 at S5 so; and 500 head at $5 60-corn
fed, and to average 200 pounds. -
TURNING THE TABLEs.-lt: is stated in the
Znnesrille Courier, that the attorney OF the
Central Ohio Railroad Company has, in accor-
dance with the instructions Of the company,
commenced suit against the owners OF the eat
tie by which train was thrown from the track
with considerable damage, sometime ago, with a
view of recovering damages for the same. The
company is also determined to prosecute the
owners of all cattle that may be found upon the
track hereafter, by which injury is done to the
property of the company.
Iowa As AN AGRICULTURAL STATE.-Bishop
Lee, of Iowa, says that such is the great deptn
and extraordinary fertility OF the soil, and such
its ready proximity to market, that Iowa cannot
fail off, being one of the leading agricultural
States in the Union. Already it is giving homes
to emigrants vt the rate Of about 100000 q
year. >-,r~r..,.-,- -, .e--.'
SpAN.-Recent letters from Spain seem to
indicate that prosperity is revving in that country
despite the late troubles. The good effects of
the mortmain and church property procedure
have already manifested themselves. The re-.
cent forced loan was, says Madrid letter Of
the 10th September, nearly all taken BY volun-
tary subscription. At the sale of the church
property the real estate, &C., brought from three
to four times the price which have been antici-
pated. =, :.
In New York hundreds Of acres are appor-
toned to the cultivation or broom corn. Broom
corn never was stouter, nor n better crop than
during the present year. It will soon be cut,
and busy hands will soon be employed in maxi
ing up that article so indispensable to every
housekeeper.
The next house of Representatives in Maine
will contain but one man who voted for the in
tensifed liquor law of the last session.
THE laws of Holland, Norway, and Denmark,
impose it US duty upon captains to celebrate
Divine service on board their ships. The cap
tain, therefore, becomes in some sort 4 minister,
who must preach every Sunday, or he will be
fined.
"A VENERABLE CoUrLE.-Mr. John Burrows,
of North Billerica Massachusetts, is ninety.eight
years old, and his wife Bridget one hundred
They have lived together seventy-nine years.
They are natives of Ireland, and reside with
their son, Valentine Burrows, at North Billerica:
It is dou6rTut whether There ls another couple in
America who have been married so long.
PorAro CRor.-The Columbia (Pa.) Spy, in
noticing accounts from some portions OF the
county, stating that potatoes taken up lately
have been nearly destroyed by the rot, says that
tile cropis large, and the extent of the disease
too limited to justify expectations of any great
change in prizes.
LIES CHANGEs.-The Lowell News says
that there are now in that city two young ladies
who were born in New Orleans in opulence, but,
in consequence of death and reverses of fortune,
were left not only orphans but penniless. Rath-
er than to remain in indigence at home, they
made their way to Lowell and entered the mills
as operatives, and are now numbered among the
many beautiful, exemplary and intelligent ladies'
of the city who labor in the mills.
Mr.. MACE, living near Plover, Michigan be-
iup Jealous of his young wife, shot her with his
rifle, and then shot himself dead within few
rods of his house. She was but slightly woun-
ded in the shoulder"
MORE F1L1BUsTERNG.-Th New York Mirror
professess to have received information that m
extensive fillbustering expedition is now on foot
from the United States, to subvert the existing
government of Republic South of us. 1t is
stated that an ex-Secretary Of State, OF that Re-
public, now or recently in this country, is at the
head Of this expedition, the present Chief of
that Republic having dismissed him for pecunia-
ry speculation.
ADVANCE IN SALT.-The Liverpool Times, of
September 22d, says: San important article
of export from this port, Salt, has recently as
sumed remarkable feature, inasmuch as there
is not only most serious advance, arising from
demand over and above tho usual supply; but in
consequence of diminution of brine at the
works, the advance is likely to experience ma
terial increase. The rise is now fully so per
cent. from the prices current two months since
and to all appearance, the supply will be very
inadequate to meet our future wants.
The following pungent editorial appears in
late western paper:
aThe undersigned retires from the editorial
chair with the complete conviction that all is
vanity. From the hour he started his paper to
the present time, he has been solicited to lie up.
on every given subject, and can't remember hav-
ING told wholesome truth without diminishing
his subscription list or making an enemy. Un-
der these circumstances of trial, and having q
thorough contempt for himself, he retircs in Or
der to recruit his moral constitution"
FEVER AND AGUE AND PHYsIc.-We' learn
from our exchanges that the supply of quinine is
exhausted in three Of the principal towns on the
Wabash in Indiana. Terre Haute run short
first, and then made run on Vincennes and ex-
hausted the stock there. Vucennes drew on
Evansville and cleaned that city out The edi-
tor oft Evansville Journal, in speaking Of the
demand for qunine, says:
Our qunine market was pretty dry yesterday
Vincennes had made a demand for the article
which ceansed out the drug establishments
here. We will be all right to day, and in the
meantime the public can have free shake
Shaking is fashionable this season some per.
son have become 80 skillful at it by practice
that they can shake ",Hai Columbia" and
yankee Doodle."-Louisville.
SueGEsT1vE.-There is nothing equal to q
pocket full of doubloons, says the Albany Pc.
lice Gazette, for starting up wicked thoughts
Jones was one of the most steudy going fellows
in the world, till his uncle Bimelech died, leav.
ing him an eight hundred dollar deposit in the
a0r Molu Bank" Jones received his "portion'
q week ago last Friday. The next day be lef
town with another. mans wife. Under ordinary
circumstances, Jones would have died spotless
citizen, and gone to Paradise. The probability