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

NJ The Medical Department of the Uni
yer>ily of Kentucky at Louisville, including the
Library, Laboratory and Museum, was burnt on
the Slst ut. The luss is estimated at S 100, ,o0O
s@- THE New York forger, Huntington, was
convicted Wednesday last, and has been sen.
lenced 10 four years and ten months in the
State prison.
s9- The Syracuse Standard says: Justice
Hurst performed marriage ceremony on Sat
urday evening last. The bridegroom was red
headed white man, The bride WAS good locking
squaw, and the bridesmaid vas genuine Afrl-
can wcncll.
sSy PoRTER's SPIRIT" Of November 22d,
saws: The fastest mile ever made by L running
horse, was made by Henry Pcrr:, in 425 The
fastest mile ever made by PAGER was Poca-
hontas. in III; and The tastes. mile ever made
in lrolling, was made by Flora Temple, in har-
ness, in l.241
sY- THE number Of hogs killed al Chatta.
nonga to the Goth amounted 10 5000. One lot
of 1900 averaged in weight 400 lbs each, many
of them going as high as 900 pounds. IL Is
thought that prizes will recedc, as supplies are
coming in plenIitnlly.
s5y~ Ten out of eleven applicants for admls-
sion to the bar in New York have been rejected
bv the examiner This severity Of examination
is something quite new.
w- SENATOR Sumner hopes, "with the
sanction of his physicians" 10 be in Washing.
ton early in January.
~ The Selma (AL,) Sentinel states that
Col. VIM NJ. Braniley: 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, TO elnl.
CRATE to Nicaragua.
~ Two resurrectionists, Patrick Llllls and
WIN. Cunnineham-the former an lrishman and
the latter an Am erican-have been arrested and
held to bail in Cincinnati for procuring sub
jects," for the doctors.
tas- THE Ohio Farmer estimates the profit:
on sheep in that State last year at $6,OOO,OOo
and the whole capital invested nj S6o,O0O,O0o
The number of sheep is, probnbly, five millions
and the wool clip last year reached l0,l96'ool
lbs; one fifth of the entire wool clip OF thf
Union.
w- Ok Christmas night, at Springyille, IL
Darlington District, (says the Pee Dee Herald
man named Henry Moore was almost instant
ly killed, by knife in the hands OF woman
named Martha Kennedy. We understand tina
tile 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 Oh
lained new reading thus" The producers
poultry should postpone the census OF The ~
venile fowls till the period Of incubation is full
accomplished.
sag- NEWSPAPER READERS TURN oUT WELL
We know respectable gentleman in Monr'
county, who many years ago sawed chord Q
wood 10 pay, in advance, his first years SUI
scriplion for a newspaper. He is now, in HI
ripe and vigorous old ngc, worth quarter OF
million of dollars.
s4y- WE admire the ladies, because of the
beauty, respect them because of their virtue
E adore them because of their intelligence, IN
love them because we can't help it,!
w WHEN We record our angry feelings, IL
: it be OIL the snow, that the first beam of sui
q shine may ob,erats them forever.
;. Hg LATE arrivals from Havana state IN;
, ,nIb,r ,,rp, nf Ch;uosn couliss numbcrln