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

NJ The Medical Department Of the Uni
ver>ily Of Kentucky at Louisville, including The
Library, Laboratory and Museum, was burnt on
the Slst nit. The los, is estimated ut SlO0,000.
e9F TIE New York forger, Huntington, was
convicted Wednesday last and has been sen
fenced TO four years and Ten months in the
State prison.
e1s" The Syracuse Standard says: Justice
Hurst performed Il marriage ceremony on Sat
urday evening last. The bridegroom was red
headed white man. the bride WAS good locking
suuaw, and the bridesmaid WAS \ genuine Afri-
can wrnch
sw poRrER's SPIRIT" Of November 22d,
saws: The fastest mile ever MADE by i running
horse, was made by Henry Pcrrl;, in 425 The
tastes mile ever made by parcr, was Poca-
hontas. in III and the tastes. mile ever made
in ,rolling, was made by Flora Temple, III bar
ness, in l.245.
eEs- THE number If hogs killed al Chatta-
nonya to the Goth amounted to 5000. One lot
of 1900 averaged in weight 400 lbs. each, many
Of them going as high rs 600 pounds. 1t Is
thonght that pr, cs will recrdc, as supplies are
coming in penlitulIy.
~ Ten out Of eleven applicants for adms:
sion to the bar in New York have been rejected
by the examiner. This severity OF examination
is something quite new.
tg" SENATOR Sumner hopes, "wilh the
sanction of his physicians" TO be in Washing
ton early in January.
~ The Selma (Al,.) Sentinel states that
| A M prun Inv nf
reivcd the appointment of Colonel in The Nlrar'
aguan army, and is now engaged in making up
a company of two hundred young men, TO emi
Crate to Nicaragua.
r5- Two resurrectionsls, Patrick Lis anc
WIN. CuDnngham-the former an lrishman ant
the latter an Am erican-have been arrested ant
held TO bail in Cincinnati for procuring ~ SUB
jeets,' for the doctors.
t5sn THE Ohio Farmer estimates the profit
on sheep in that Slate last year mt S6'0oOrO rOOo
and the whule capital invested nj S6O,ooU.ooo
The number of sheep is, probably, five millions
and the wool clip last year reached lO,l96'oo
lbs; one fifth of the entire wool clip OF IN
Union.
ew- Ok Christmas night, at Sprngyie,, !
Darlington District, (says the Pee Dee Herald
man named Henry Moore was almost instant
ly killed. by knife in The hands of woma
named Martha Kennedy. We understand tina
The femoral artery was severed, and that Moor
bled 10 death in few minutes.
~ The old adage-" You should not couI
chickens before they are hatched !-has OF
aned i new reading thus" The producers
} poultry should postpone the census OF llle J,
yenile fowls till the period of incubation Is full
: accomplished
/. sgo NEWSPAPER READERS TURN OUT WEI
We know Il respectable gentleman in Nonr'
+ county, who many years ago sawed chord
wood to pay, in advance, his first years si
srrpion for newspaper. lie is now, III II
ripe aud vigorous old age, worth quarter OF
million of dollars.
s3y" WE admire the ladies, because OF llle
beauty, respect them because of their virtue
e adore them because of their intelligence, III
: love them because we can't help il!
nY" WHEN We record our angry feelings,
;. it be Oh the snow, that the first beam OF su
q shire may obliterate them forever.
r - LATE arrivals from Havana state IN
:, another carGo of Chinese coolies, numbcrlr
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