Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-05-21
Miscellaneous Items.

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Consul q. Havana, has been appointed Commission
er TO proceed to Panama. take testimony relative TO
The recent massacres and robberies at the lslhmus
sw Tuos CUNNINGHAM Esq, formerly member
of the Legislature from Anderson, died at his residence
in that district, on the 9th INST
WASHINGTON, May 12-Mr. Herbert has been
released from custody, having given 600 bail to ap
pear at the June term of the Criminal Court, to plead
to an indictment, for manslaughtsr
w THE plate and other decorations OF the table,
now owned by the city of Pars said to be worth
from eight to ten millions OF francs.
rw A comet, !. is annouuesk a! Wilmington, N.
c. is visible in northeastery direction. NJ On eleva'
tion of so degrees lisno, OF great magnitude, moi
very bright
s~ Five thousand slaves III The city of Charleston
S. c., is stated, have contributed the last year to
benevolent objects $4,000.
sTAn honest Dutch farmer thus writes to the Sec
re,ary Of the Massachusetts, Agricultural Society,"
"Gcntlemen you will have the goodness to enter me
ON your list of cattle for bull."'
VIZ man in Florida, who swallowed an orange
seed last fall, has breath so fragrant of orange bios
sons this spring that he says the ladies are constant
" leazing him for kisses. Poor fellow!
wy A Minnesota writor brags that a neishbor o.
his raised one squash which weighed 22lt pounds
measured seven feet and four inches in crc
Another raised fat turnip which weighed twent!
one pounds.
ezS TIE Cleveland (Ohio) Lealer OF the Stll inst
SAYS: A train of sixteen passenger dbagaGe car'
went out Yesterday OIL the Toledo road There were
six hundred Mormons along, all the way from Enganu
and bound for the promised land Of Utah.
sSS Salt was selling aL Turks Island on the "a ul
limo ut 20 and % cents bushel, and tending down
szS IT is said mechanics, especially carpenters, are
in such demand at Chicago that they are sending Las
for them.
s1p Can't do without the women. Hoosier In
Kansas has been making his fortune out oil woman
dress. There being no women there the. squatter:
give him duar sight, and pre'etnplion claim tc
put pillow in it and give it a Squeeze
~ HEphysicans of Allegheny Michigan pleds'
ed themselves not TO attend patient unless the phys
clan previously in attendance shall have been regu
larry discnarGeu, ailu soHsiaeto'"'
his attendance.
sGse WHEN man goes three times a day to get
drain, wonder if he will not by and by go four times
Can anybudy answer!
ne Just one century ago, 10 August 1885, the flfs'
printing press was introduced into New Hampshire
the first newspaper printed in October and the hf'
book in November of the same year.
@' On the 18th ullimo, at Galveston, cIe1as) the
Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coke was unanimously elected
bishop of Texas, by the Convention OF the Protestant
Episcopal church of that diocese.
szF" BALTIMORE, May ga party OF l3o men eis
here to-day, said 10 be destined for Nicaragua pei
steamer Orizaba. They were organized into TWO COM
panies, and mostly from the interior OF tile sta.e'
GH Hon. Mr.. Herbert, of California, who kfied
the Irish waiter at Wiards Hotel, Washington lass
week, is native of South Carolina.
sYe The smallest bank in The United States is The
Bank of Cayuga Lake, at Painted Post, N. ~ win
$4,000 capital.
sy THE Madison (Wis.) Journal learns that Inc
Norwegian population of Dane county amounts to o.
62s persons They constitute the majority oil the IN
ha0ItantS IN seEeral OF lno lOWns3 oilu oiS Ai1NN
and good citizens.
cY THE London Times suggests that Lord 'ohn
Russell should be made Peer, as lie is no longer oi
any practical use in the House of Commons.
~ Louis Napoleon is 43 years old, and the En-
press 80.
w IipMason county, Va, the value OF hogs an
nuully packed for expectation is S335Oo, and the lat
cattle driven to the East 600. The wheat crop
slOO ,UOO and the corn crop $4,000 All the above
are exported and yet leaves enough for plentiful living
w PHILIP casters has been sentenced to jail
in King and Queen county, Va, for Six monIlls ano
fnsd $50, for disturbing Methodist meeting.
- The Hon. M. H. McAlister, Judge OF the Uni
ted States Court California is al present on visit 10
his old home in Savannah.
~ THERE are eight hundred idiots in the Stale
of Connecticut fourth OF whom are under fourteen
years of age.
nw THE Massachusetts Legislature has resolved
not TO elect United States Senator this session. NO
one will cry If they never do.