Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-04-16
miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous 1LeuS,
r<se THE English and nearly every other people,
have given up all hope for the safety Of the steamer
Pacific.
s<.5e TIE business of breeding rats is said TO os
carried on in New York-kii gloves are made ont Of
their skins.
Ng The bill 10 extend the right Of suffrage to
colored citizens has been lost in the Wisconsin Senate
by a vote Of l3 TO 6.
~ SrAMpEDE.-The following paragraph is from
an English paper:
"Tw.nty.one husbands have ahsconded from Sun.
deranJ, and the paruchal authorities have Offered
reward Of G2l for The hole LOT, or FL rer head"
scy TEN or fifteen corn dealers in Edinburg,
Scotland, have lately failed. Aggregate liabilities
abnn, TWO million dollars.
ey Juus w. ARGYLE, an old and greatly respect.
ed citizen Of Tallahassee, Fla, died at his residence
in that city, on the 30h u
sR Why is The letter like pigs tail Because
/, is The end of pork.
aY THERE is young man in Cincinnati so mod
est that he wllI not " embrace all opportunity"
sY THE peuple of Scotland are said to be almost
| UNANIMOUSLY Oppossu W any'ni"6 Hne "o' oo'
] the United States and Englanl
sv THE receipts by the American Colonization
Society from the 2OIh February 10 the goth March,
amounted TO 81 ,sl3,s9.
t% person looking at some skeletons the other
day, asked young doctor present where he goi Them
p I---.-.-i -i-.l-i'------
~" THE Camden Journal says that the De Kalb
Factory property was sold at auction on Monday
last, to Capt. II. Long, for $1,000.
Gy THE New York Bible Society is mediiating
the plan Of publishing the Bible in newspaper form
for more general circulation.
" late Illinois paper contains the announce
ment OF the marriage of R. W. Wolf to Mary L.
Lamb. "The wolf and The lamb shall lie down to.
gether, and little child shall lead tlem"-after a
| while.
ES THREE hundred and sixty thousand dollars
hav. ALREADY been subscribed to the University to he
located al Greensboro Ala, and its friends say they
will start it with 100000.
EY THREE hundred tons Of sugar passed over the
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, last week, 10
Chicago, destined for one house in that city.
ey letter from the Indian agent at Apache, in
notorious Indian thieves who have been committing
depredalions in that counry-amongs, them Califor-
mia Jo, famous robber. Things look more favorable
there.
~ THE Kentucky American says "the whIskey
CROP will be greater the coming season than it has
been for years in Kentucky If this true, there will
be on increased demand for the other Kentucky crop
hemp.
a~ Frenchman has recently laid claim to five
million of dollars worth Of properly in The centre Of
San Francisco His claim has been cunfrmed which
occasions all immence excitement amcng ;he Citizens
ES~ ArpoINrMENT.-The President has appointed
VIM. E. Burns, Surveyor of the Customs at Jackson
Vile, Fla. r,ce Edward W. Ward, removed.
n.y. FIREs.-There were 80 fires in The United
States last month"; NO far as known, where the loss in
cash was $4,000; Is We're manufactures The total
loss sO2l 900. The losses by fire for The lhreo
months Of tile year were S3,0s4,OOo.
~ new pos,oiice has been established at Tenn.
pleman's Mills, in Spartanburg District, and David
Collins appointed postmaster
t. AT THE STAKE.-The negro who murdered
Mr. Capsheari an orerseer, at Mt Meigs, Ala, on
lle ISL "oS oui oy VII HcAt
day and burned to death. lie acknowledged his guilt
while at the stake.
80" NEW Post Office. Table Mountain, Pickens
district, South Carolina S. d. Keith, postmaster.
HUSBAND AND WIFE-The Legislature of
Georgia has passed IN act to define the liabilities
of the husband for the debts Of the wife. and to
define the liabilities OF property received through
The wife for The debts OF The husband existing
ut the time of The marriage. II provides that
hereafter, when persons intermarry, the hus.
hand shall not be liable for the debts of the
wife further than the property received through
the wife will satisfy, and that the property re-
ceived by The husband through the wife shall in
no ease be liable for the debts, defaults, con-
tracts of The husband existing Mt the time Of The
marriage" Several other States have looked
into and secured women's rights in this impor-