Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

sSY Dogenss hping asked Of what beast The bite
was most dangerous, answered, &" or wild beasts that
of q rlanderer; Of tame, that of a fatterer."
ss5T The Town of Gloucester. Mass, with but nine.
thousand inhabitants, ha, appropriated $4,000 to
public schuus.
tgr Wounds in cattle are quickly cured by wash
ing several times day with mixture Of the yolk OF
eggs and spirits Of turpentine.
Ey John S. Ryan o, Charleston, recently sold
300 acres Of Sanee rice lands for 3OOoabout sllO
per acre.
Ev Snow SToRu-There was a ,light fall OF
snow in New Orleans on Saturday last, 7,h inst
EY Hon. S. w. HARRIS, Of Alabama, declines
reelection to Congress.
~ THE receipts OF cotton by the table in the
Chares,on Courier Of 18th inst, show decrease OF
l5653s bales compared with the same time last year
tg Never wash your silver with soap and water !;
rub with prepared chalk, otherwise i, will look like
pewter.
Ev JAS. A. Price, who murdered by the
name of HUGHES, about two years ago in Union Dis
lric convicted of murder in the first degree, and
sentenced for the offence las, week ut Union Court
w We learn from the Columbia Times, that the
Hon. Jas. L. Orr arrived in that city, on Tuesday
evening last, on hs return home, and was welcomed
with Feranade by the students Of South Carolina
College.
- THE Chester Standard says that the family
Of Geo. W. Curtis, Of Cheserville, were poisoned
last week, aud that one Of them, infant, lost ;ts
life in consequence. Some tea had been made OF
root supposed to be ssssaras, and Of this the family
partook but the root subsequently found 10 he
jrssanine. negro gave il 10 nephew Of Mr.. Cur
ts, but he Cannot be Identified.
rY A duel took place on Saturday last, at Mobile,
Alabama, between Mr. Nixon, OF Il 10 New Orleaas
Crescent, and Mr. Breckenridge, of the New Orleans
Courier At The second fire Mr.. Breckenridge
shot through both lhighs-,he left being broken. Mr.
Nixon was unhurt. Mr.. Breckenridge recently fought
duel in Canada with a gentleman from New York.
and wounded his antagonist. :
sV terrible Rail Road accident happened by
the Two Of the passenger train on the Great
Western Railroad running of the bridge near Hamil
ton, on the 18th inst On. Of i2O passengers, 60 or
80 were instantly killed. and the badly msngled
- An Irish servant girl was requested by lady
to go 10 "e Of our dry good stores and obtain he'd
comforter" for her About an hour afterwards she
turned with one Of the clerks. Il is needess to add,
perhaps, that the lady tainted.
EY Two routes for railroad from Brunswick tu
Macon have lately been surveyed by Mr.. Mcneil, The
highest grade on one Of them heng l5 feet to the
mile, and The other feet. The distance is lSO
miles.
- magniloquent darky thus expressed himself
The other day TO tater.dealer in The Washington
market. lie had been driving bargain with his up.
p'nent and .hu' enpha,icslly concluded it:
"A later, resumed George Edward Fi,z Augustus,
"s ine vilably bad unless is invariably good Dere
is no rnetleucra,y in de combination nf taier. De
exlerun may appear remarkably exemplary and beau.
tisome, willis de interior is Totally negative. But,
Sir, if you weuds de article on Your own rccommsn.
dation, knowing you 10 be a man ob probability in
your transaeIions !, "idout any furder circumlocu
iUnS takes busliel."
cr Here is one Of Tom Moore's epigrams TO a
lady:
I" Die when you WILL You need not wear
Al heavens court n form more fair
Than Beauty here on earth has given;
Keep but the lovely looks we SEQ,
The Voice we hear-and you will be
An angle ready-made for heaven"
ELIZA my child" said very prudsh old
maid to her pretty nece, who would curl her hair in
beautiful ringets, " if the Lord had intended yonr
hair to be cured, he would have done it himrelf."
So he did, Auniy, when WAS baby, but he
thinks am big enough now to curl it myself"
tg0 IL Cuba the tobacco plants in some portions
Of III. island have suffered greatly from drought.
Sweet potatoes, planla ns. and in fact ali kinds Of
have been nearly destroyed by the severe
cold Of the season.
GS We learn from the Athens Banner that two
.wes belonging to Mr.. Asa Beadwy-r, Of Madison
county, actually gave birth 10 sepen lambs-oDs
having four and the other three. Ono of the iriplet
mas died. but the quareste remains unbroksn and the
uix are doing as " well a. could bs eIpectsd.'' ]