Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-05-13
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MG- JUDGE MASON, our minister in Paris, will, 1t
is sad remain there year longer, as lie has impor-
tant negotiations pending.
l:J- 1t is understood says the Philadelphia In
quirer, that Mr. Dallas will not be recalled, but be
permitted to remain abroad as long rs he may feel
disposed
4sS- LADY FRANKLIN has determined to fit out
another Arctic expedition. The London Times sug-
gcsts that she should be presented by the English
public with the Rcsoue, for the execution OF the
enterprise.
W THE st. Louis Republican of late date, says
"Uness some killing frost should hereafter be made
manifest we arc to have any quantity of peaches
Neither the snow nor the slect, nor tho ice has Us
yet injured them in this region"
GS- BENNETT PowBry tho lefaultlng Tax Collector
of Emanuel county, Ca, has been arrested in Texas,
and brought home, by bis security, Swain Former,
and the money duo the State paid into the Treasury
nsS- A writer in St. Louis paper prctends that he
has made astronomical calculations showing that the
comet will strike the earth the 10Th of noxt June,
ut twenty minutes past 10 o'clock, somewhere in the
vicinity of Vide puche, or Cnrondcct, Missouri Ac-
cordng to this Missouri is doomed State.
G WALKER, at last accounts, was ON the point
Of surrcndcrng at discretion to Gen. MoRA-that is,
according to Gen. MORA'S own statement Of matters.
Ras" THE Wilmington papers say that Beef is SELL
ing there at % cts pounds better be it is with US,
not selling at all.
NV. nr JI Ioc,S of Grprnwood Abbcyille
District writing Revolutionary History, or rather
sketches Of the lives of the actors in that history
who lived in Abbeve. lie socits information from
ull quarters to that end This is highly commcndabe.
We would willingly undertake work Of the sort ior
EdyeGeld if We were furnished with the means of SO
doing.
~" THE last copy of the Anderson Ga.ettc d.
.idrorate was well printed. We can "run and read
it.-That We addressed the clitor in our complaint,
does not prove that we io not "read his editorials
We always address publishers through the editor.
Isn't that correct?
II;" WANTED to know, how much the Ret'red
ClergyDlaa who advcrtises his nostrum through tue
Day Book and other pnpers,,as realized in postage
stamps since he commenced his speculation.
tS THE Lancaster Lrdycr is informed that Ham
burg Domestics weigh orer . lbs per yard if not
quite two and half What We said was all merri-
mcnt and no sutrc-sorry the Lr1y'r did not so un-
derstand it.
ryo Tnr May Exhibitions of the South Carolina
College have bcen crowned with their usual success.
Gy President BUCHANAN has occasional returns
of the National Hotel malady. The attacks seem to
be periodical but grow less violent each time.
E| Coon bricks may now be had at certain
brickyard 81 miles out on tho Columbia roaa, Cash
price ST. take them they come. No credit price
whatever.
w The girls in Grcenvillc have had great time
of it with their Nlay-day celebration. large part
of one page of the Patriot is filled with their happy
doings and sayings.
s al short ,ray to get rich" is.often advertised
in the Northern papers, the information in regard
thereto being at the price of somo ten or twenty cents
a friend of ours concluded in an idle moment to
write for tho information. lle received this recipe
in reply: Every time you spend one dollar earn
twQ:"
p DR.. JAMES NJ. DAY is Commissioner Of Emil
grafton for the Republic of Nicaragua, and may be
applied to at Augusta, Ga According to recent av-
ces 1t will require but "er days" moro to end this
chapter of experiments.
w SPRING has donned her green garb very rapid
ly since May came in Sho is nearly full-fedged ut
this writing.
LIZ WatermiVions should bc cultivated largely
and carefully this season there will be scarcely any
other kind of fruit to be had. Yes, thcre will bo
Blackberries and Grapes md Ground-peas and Chin
auepns-oh! we'll not be so bad of in the fruit line
after all.
E One of the boys tells of n scare-crow made
by Uncle Ben. 1t not only scared of every crow
that saw it, but one crow was frightened that he
brought back the corn be stole three days before.
ET THERE aro 645 students in the University Oh
Virgnia for tho current year, 50 of whom are from
South Carolina; and fire of these are from Edgeheld
District
D AN Albany Editor thinks his property in that
city would havo been carried away by tho lato Hood
had it not been for the heavy mortgages on it