Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Carolina should have reproduced them.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
~"sALupA" is received and will appear nex'
week.
Ev GRAY l. TURLEY present an attractive array
of Spring Goods. They arc very capable dealers and
possess uncommon facilities. All tho ladies will sure
" call at their beautiful store when visiting Augusta
Mg- An agricultural address by Col ANDREW
CALHOUN is received. It was delivered before the
State Agricultural Society at its meeting in Novem'
ber last, and is 4 good production.
49," The Mountain Echo" is the namo of neat
little paper published at spartanburg village anu
managed by Mr.. CHARLES TAYLOR, Of the Spartan.
burg Female Institute 1t proposes to be the recep
tacle Of literary articles by the teachers and pupils
the Institute The first number comes il cheerful
and tasteful fashion, and gladly enter it upon oul
exchange list.
GS- Our merchants are all off after Spring Good:
and will soon return. Look out for their advertise
ments at an early day.
eg Our Ridge and Cambridge planters are re-
ported having nearly flushed putting in their corr
crops.
~ sister of Hon. Edward Everett is Lady
Superior in tho St. Joseph's Seminary at Richmond
yirginis.
E "Bnd Tom" has been playing the piano fol
the Coumbians, as VIC soc stated in the Crr"tinian
and is spoken of by that paper in commendatory
terms. lie did not suit Edgefeld taste at ALL al
al His idiocy, poor creature! was far moro revolt
ing than his music was bearable.
As- The sales of cotton Mt Winnsboro, S. c.,
ranging from to III cents.
TT Tho representative of the people of Arizona,
ut Washington, enters point-blank negatur to the
statement, not lang since made by correspondent Of
the Charleston Mercury, that the Gadsdcn purchase
is barren and worthless The representative AYERS
sources and say, be will prove it by Gen. Joseph
Lane COL Jack Hays and others
&s- "gentlcman from Africa contributes th:
sum: " Can you take one hundred dollars and buy
one hundred head of stock animals, giving ten dol
lars for cows three dollars for hogs, and fifty dollar:
for Shrep?"
m:s,- Upon our outside this week worry pleasant
variety may be found.
III lady skater on Jamaica Pond, near Boston,
recently offered kiss to any who would beat her
in race. A young darkey was tho winner, anu re-
ccived his reward. Bah!
MS- We have often seen u COW part with her milk
in the most patient manner, and then turn round and
upset the pail. 1t reminds US always Of generous
action gracclessly done.
Mly- Good wives, like flbers, will remain good 70,
long time. 1t all depends upon the care you take
of them, and how you husband them.
gs.- The GreensborOugh IN. CO.. Timer is most
interesting literary paper, directed with much ability
truly Southern in sentiment and far ahead of many
of the Northern Hnshy weeklcs u its high moral t"ne
and refined intellectual readings. Subscribe to it.
Terms only 81 per year.
sg Seven hundred balcs of Cotton were destroyed
by fire in Charleston on the l4th inst, all Of which il
is, understood was covered by insurance. 1t is moi
known how the fire originated.
R Our readers will please notice in the rates Of
tuition Of the Curryton Academies that the charge
for lessons in French per Session, has been reduced
from $40 to $40.
EB- Miss Murray, in her book on America, pre-.
sents to tho abelitionists the following poser:
ais there any part Of Africn, the West Indies, or
South America, where three millions of negroes arc
to be found as comfortable intelligent and religious
ur as happy, rs in the Southern States"
- The same lady says in another place:
Gas to the separation Of families, see that great
pains taken to avoid that evil. believe that it
hardly frequently than in England, from
other causes"
Sg- And she thus announces her opinion Of our
southern pronunciation Of the mother tongue:
"Boh the tone Of voice and the choice Of words
and pronunciation are much more like Old England,
us one proceeds further South.