Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-08-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


~ DR.. BLAND has left a beautiful specimen of
his Gale Wheat at this office. Call and aok at it.
Ms- Look out next week for another cnpitul story
from the graceful pen of esteemed correspondent
"RrrH"
sss- Cincinnati is now the larscst horse market in
the United States and during Que week lately ioooo
dollars worth Of horses were sold at the various sta
blcs.
IT. Many citizens Of Butler county, Ala, have
| agreed to erect monument to the memory of Capt
WIN. Butler, for whom that county was named! lie
fell in conflict with the Indians, in February, 1873
w Tho original and genuine Dred Scott was mt
the Burnct House, Cincinnati, last week. lie made
his appearance Us the servant Of Mr. A. Christie of
| St. Louis
as- Two men of West Haven, Conn.,, have raircd
this season 1000 quarts Of Strawberries upon.sn acre
and quarter of ground.
~ new Postofhce has boon established about
seven miles north of Andersen, S. G., called "Bu-
chauan." and Gen. W. Guyton appointed Post
master.
M5- Ex-President Tyler lie in Norfolk Va; c1-
President yan Buren, remains at his homo in Kinder
hook; ex-Presilent Fillmore is at Niagara Falls and
ex President Pierce is in Europe.
His- The two bales Of new cotton received at New
Orleans from Texas, on the 25th inst were sold i'm
meatey for IL cents per pound The first arrival Of
the new crop last year was the 18th of August.
Ms- The Minnesota Assembly have passed Inv
| &c M n IN
mum in money. 1t Is thought the Senate will stick
for eighteen per cent
&s- When Lady Wallace sent polite note to MIR.
IIarriss, of Covent Garden, offering him comedy
for nothing, he observed that her ladyshp knew the
exact value of il.
Nis- The agricultural editor of the New York 7ri-
bunc says in reference to the treatment of poultry
that oil hens should have "wallowing box we'll sup
piled with dry wood ashes, renewed by little addI-
ton every day or two also feed sulphur occasionally
in the rood and keep constant supply Of lime for
the hens and keep them fat" This is very good
advice, we take it, and when followed will not only
keep the poultry in good condition, hut will materially
aid in their increase.
tY Tie Baptist State Convention held its annual
session Mt Greenve c. H. S. e., last week. The fol.
lowing delegates from the Edgcfed Association, were
in attendance:-J. NJ. Chilea, W. P. Hill, Zed Wat
kins, W. N. Moore, W. Smith, T. Lake, j. P Shaw,
s. B. Brooks.
Messrs. W. Brookor and Z. W. Horne were in at
tendance as delegates from Edisto Association.
p saIt Lake, in Utah, is salter than the sea-
Two quarts Of its water will make pint of salt
Rock salt EXISTS in large quantities in the neighbour
ing hills.
Ea- It wns rumored In Savannah, on the 31st July
and perhaps only rumor, that the bark E. A. Raw.
lins has landed $50 Africans somewhere the ceas
eS The Washington correspondent of the ST.
Louis Republican speaks of Senator Wilson as hav-
ing "daly smuggled into the Senate Chamber a
loaded rfc," and to have "kept it concealed near
his person.
~ PLrAr, Coon, SIZED GruLs.-Thc Taunton
Gazette snys that therearp four sisters in that town
shortest being about six feet high, weighing two hun
drod and 6fty-aix.