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

NF The Medical Department of the UNI
rersily of Kentucky at Louisville, including The
Library, Laboratory and Museum, was burnt on
the 3lst ult. The luss is estimated at 100000.
t9y- THE New York forger, Huntington, was
convicted Wednesday last, and has been SEN
tenced TO four years and ten months in the
State prison.
pY- The Syracuse Standard says Justice
Hurst performed II marriage ceremony on Sat
urday evening LOST. The bridegroom was red
headed white man. The bride was good locking
squaw, and the bridesmaid was gr:'ulne Afrl-
can wrnch.
;w "PoRTER's SPIRIT" Of November 22d,
saws: The tastes, mile ever mace by u running
horse, was made by Henry Perri:, in ! 421 The
fastest mile ever made by PAGER, was Poca.
hontas, in LII and the tastes. mile ever made
in ,rolling, was made by Flora Temple, in har-
ness in l.241.
Leg THE number Of hogs killed at Chatta-
nonra to the Goth amounted 10 5000. One iot
of 1900 averaged in weight 400 lbs each, many
of them going as high as 600 pounds. II is
thought that prizes will recedc, as supplies are
coming in plentifuy
tW Ten out of eleven applicants for admis:
sion 10 the bar in New York have been rejected
bv the examiner. This severity Of examination
is something quite new.
tB' SENATOR Sumner hopes, "wilh the
sanction of his physicians" to be in Washing,
ton early in January.
sw' The Selma (Ala) Sentinel states that
Col. VIM. M. BrantIey: of that place, has re.
reivcd the appointment of Colonel in the Nlcar-
aguan army, and is now engaged in making up
company Of two hundred young men, 10 emil
CRATE to Nicaragua.
w- Two resurrectionisls, Patrick lIillIs and
WIN. Cunninpham-t former an lrishman and
the latter an Am erican-have been arrested and
held to bail in Cincinnati for procuring SUBJ
| jects," for the doctors.
t- THE Ohio Farmer estimates the profit:
on sheep in that State last year at S6IOoO,o0o
and the whole capital invested al 6O,OoO,OOO
The number of sheep is, probnbly, FIVE millions
and the wool clip last year reached l0,l36,0ot
lbs; one fifth of the entire wool clip OF the
Union.
w- OK Christmas night, at Springyille, il
Darlington UlStrlct (SayS VIC i CO Aeo .Ae'S'~
man named Henry Moore was almost instant
ly killed, by knife in the hands of woman
named Martha Kennedy. We understand tina
the femoral artery was severed, and that Moof'
bled 10 death in few minutes
~ The old adage-" You should not coun
chickens before they are hatched y has ob
taned new reading thus" The producers Q
poultry should postpone the census OF The ~
venile fowls till the period Of incubation Is full
accomplished.
W NEWSPAPER READERS TURN OUT WELL
We know respectable gentleman in Monro
county, who many years ago sawed chora .
wood to pay, in advance, his first years su!
scrpion for newspaper. He is now, in HI
ripe and vigorous old age, worth quarter OF
million of dollars.
eY- WE admire the ladies', because of The
beauty, respect them because of heir virtue
, adore them because Of their intelligence, an
love them because we can't help Il!
w" WHEN we record our angry feelings, Ii
= it be Oh the snow, that the first beam OF sui
shire may obliterate them forever.
w LATE arrivals from Havana state tn:
, another cargo of Chinese coolies, numberln
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