Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-04-11
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TzsP SEVERE SToRM-A storm of great violence
was experienced in the neighborhood Of Albanyon Sun
day. Buildings were unroofed, chimneys blown down,
houses and barns prostrated church spires were tws-
ted off, and great amount of damage was sustained
f4sF TWELVE HUNDRED BALES OF CoTToN BURN-
Ep.-A dispatch from Somerville, Tennessee, to the
Memphis Whig, states that NIessrs. Nixon g. Walchs
cotton shed, at Brownsville landing, on atchc river,
containing 1900 bales Of cotton, was consumed by fire
on Saturday night, 24th ult.
sSF A BREACH Loading Cannon was tried al the
Charesown (NIass.) Navy Yard on the 29Ih ult.. III
tho presence of some United States officers. Discharges
We're made repeatedly often as six times mlnute'
hut i, is claimed that having every thing perfect from
Il to lS discharges can easily be made in that time.
This is pronounced formidable weapon for naval
warfare.
srT PEN1TENrIARY BuENr.-The Stale Peniten-
,ary at Nashville, Tenn, was totally destroyed by
fire on the morning of The Goth ult. None OF the prl-
soners escaped from the prison. though one was smoi'
cred to death by the smoke Loss estimated slOO,O ,OOO.
- THE Winnsboro' Register says: Con hum
ting expedition last Monday MIR. d. Johnston, OF this
place, killed very large grey eagle, measuring six
feet and four inches from tip to tip.
szY WHEAT CRor IN GEopGIA.-A writer, from
Calhoun, Georgia, under date Of March 27h says the
wheat crop was never more promising. Being yet
unioned it has sustained no injury from the aie cold
weather.
m A MILE OF PIcEoSs.-The Terre Haute
Qndanal American says that the country thereaoou's
is literally swarming with wild pigeons. On the
evening of the 9th, about five O'clock flock near
mile in LENGTH by about sixty feet deep, passed direct
ly over the city, making noise audible nj great
distance.
~ In Hartford, laiely at the door of citizen,
very little boy begged pleously for something to eat
and in mournful tone Of voice said, "his parents
were dead and his father couldn't get any work, and
lis mother very sick, indeed"
nY NOTHING begets confidence sooner than pune
ualily Nothing so we'll becomes true feminine
beauty as simplicity.
aa5S He who knows the world will not be too bash.
full and he who knows himself will never be mpudent.
THERE are about seven million pores in the
body of man of ordinary size If these were joined
lencthwise, tube would be formed twcniy.eighty
miles long
g5Ty THE Planters Bank of Fairfield has declared
dividend of eight per cent. for the last six months
sEs7 TIE owners Of property in the immediate vi
cinily of the New York Crystal Palace express de-
cided opposition to the project of converting that
building into market, on the ground that 1t would
very materially deprecate the value of their property
G In Virginia the wheat crop is reported as look
ing remarkable well, having sustained no damage
from fross.
aS ABOUT sixty-fve thousand bales Of cotton
valued at over three millions of dollars, have been
destroyed by fire in this country during the last three
months.
ny THE Herald says there are three factions OF
X. N's. in New York, and two each in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and New Jersey.