Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-01-07
miscellaneous Items.

~ The Medical Department Of the Unl-
rer>ily of Kentucky at Louisville, including the
Librnry, Laboratory and Museum, was burnt on
the 3lst ult The loss is estimated at $lOOO00.
w- THE New York forger, Huntington, was
convicted Wednesday last, and has been sen-
fenced to four years and ten months in the
State prison.
eg- The Syracuse Standard says: Justice
Hurst performed IL marriage ceremony on Sat.
urday evening lust. The bridegroom was red
headed white man. the bride was good locking
suuaw, and the bridesmaid was 4 genuine Afri.
can wcnch.
sSr.p poerER's SPIRIT" of November 22d.
saws: The fastest mile ever made by . running
horse, was made by Henry Perri:, in 425 The
fastest mile ever made by n parer, was Poca.
hontas, in 2l7b; and the tastes. mile ever made
in ,ro,ling, was made by Flora Temple, in har-
ness, in l.241.
Leg The number Of hogs killed at Chatta-
nooga to the Goth amounted 10 5000. one 'ot
of 1900 averaged in weight 400 lbs each, many
of them going Us high as 600 pounds. IL Is
thought that prices will recedc, as supplies are
coming in plentifny
tw TEN out of eleven applicants for admis-
sion to the bar in New York have been rejected
by the examiner. This severity of examination
is something quite new.
tSy. SENATOR Sumner hopes, "wilh, the
sanction OF his physicians" to be in Washing
ton early in January.
~" The Selma (Ala) Sentinel states that
Col. VIM. NJ. Branlley: OF that place, has re-
ceivcd the appointment of Colonel in The Near
aguan army, and is now engaged in making up
accompany Of two hundred young men, to emil
crate to Nicaragua
w Two resurrectionists, Patrick Lillls and
Wm. Cunnineham-the former an lrlshman and
the latter an Am erican-have been arrested and
| held 10 bail in Cincinnati for procuring SUBJ
jects," for the doctors.
tY. THE Ohio Farmer estimates the profit:
on sheep in that State lust year ut $4,000, 900
and the whole capital invested al 500 0OoU,ooO
The number of sheep is, probably, FIVE millions
and the wool clip last year reached lO,l36,0ol
lbs; one fifth Of the entire wool clip OF the
Union. q
w- OK Christmas night. at Springyille, II
Darlington District, (says the Pee Dee Herald
a man named Henry Moore was almost instant
" killed, by knife in the hands of woman
named Martha Kennedy. We understand tina
the femoral artery was severed, and that Moor
bled TO death in few minutes.
w The old adage-" You should not coun
chickens before they are hatched p has oo
tained new reading thus" The producers. o
poultry should postpone the census of The ~
vene fowls till the period of incubation IS full
accomplished.
sW- NEWSPAPER READERS TURN OUT WELL
We know respectable gentleman in Monro
county, who many years ago sawed cilora 2
wood TO pay, in advance, his first years sIe
scriplion for n newspaper He is now, IN nj
ripe and vigorous old agc, worth quarter OF
million of dollars.
sY WE admire the ladies', because of the
beauty, respect them because of their virtue
e adore them because of their intelligence, an
love them because we can't help it!
~. WHEN we record our angry feelings, Il
: it be OIL the snow, that the first beam of su'
, shire may oblterate them forever.
:. w LATE arrivals from Havana state th'