Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-03-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
e@~The bill admitting Kansas under the Lccomp-
ton Constitution, with amendments WAS parsed in
tho Senate on tho 23d instant, by majority Of eight
votes.
At recent railway festival in Ohio, the fol-
lowing striking sentiment WAS given: "0ur mothers
the only faithful tenders, who never misplaced q
suitch."
~By late sdvices from Rio Janeiro, we learn
that coffee had considerably advanced. Tho supply
had almost censed.
D"Thers, now!" cried little girl while rum
maging drawer in bureau, "tbere, now; Grandpa
has gone to heaven without his speetacles Wbat'll
he dol"
IT, farmer was asked why he did not subscribe
for newspaper. "Because," aaia he, ''when father
died he left Inc q good many, and I have not read
them through yet"
@A biography of Robespierre, published in q
late Irish paper concludes with the following remark
able sentence "This extraordinary man left no chill
dren behind him, except his brother, who was killed
at the Sumo time"
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that he would, on certain day, shoot on wager,
orange from the head of boy, at Louisville, tho
Mayor Of that city has forbidden tho experiment and
ordered the police to arrest the parties.
@- Later accounts from Ruatan, Honduras, bring
report that two hundred and fifty Of the inhabitants
had been massacred by Indians.
HAdvces from Fort Leavenworth state that
four companies of troops left that place the 18th
instant, for Utah.
I Thirty-fve years ago, Hon. Edward Everett
was member of tho United States House of Repre-
scntatYes, and now of the three hundred men in
Congress with him, only one occupies seat at the
capitol-General Houston, then Representative from
Tennessee, now Senator from Texas.
The steamer Empire City was sold in New
York, on the 25th instant for si1tyseren thousand
dollars.
Ns-Horace Greeley, Of the New York Tribune,
and Edwin Forrest, the tragsdian, announced aa
among the late converts by the religious rerivals.
| We see by the German papers, that in Berlin,
the opera dancers havo been ordered by the police to
elongate their skirts by four inches.
T The Common Council of New York wore so
uncommonly polite as to treat their Turkish guest to
east at which two of the principal ingredients were
pork and winc-both denominations to genuine Mus
sulman.
D The printing Of the two Inst Congresses hos
cost the country about S5,OO0,0OO.
tS Tho Arkadephia (Arkansas) Traveller learns
from correspondent in Arkansas county, that the
cotton crop region has fallen very fur short of the
calculation, and far below the usual yield
D- By the Enquirer we learn that Temperance
Associations are still on the increase in York.
@B The Charleston Courier has dond bright
summer costume, handsome in appearance and COM
Portable in effect We wish our able and interesting
cotemporary cool and agreeable season.
M8- The Keowee Courier remarks, that Msasrs.
Ashmore Jones and Vernon, candidates to fill Col
Orr's place in Congress, have entered actively upon
the canvass addressing the people in different parts
of the Congressional District and feeling the pulse Of
the "sovroign public"
&s- Green Martin who WAS tried at Sandersvills,
Georgia. last week for the murder Of his little negro
boy, was found guilty and sentenced to be hung on
Friday tho 7th May next. His counsel however will
carry the case to the Supreme Court
@s- Gen. NJ. B. Lamar has been received as the
accredited Minister from this country by the Govern
ment Of Nicaragua twas believed that the Yrissar
treaty would be reopened at Washington.
D- The Barnwsll rs. C.) Sentinel says:-Mr. II.
D. Weathersbec, Of this District has discovered gold
mine on his place, at Greenland, and is advertising
for some ono who understands mining, to assist him
in procuring it. We congratulate our friend on his
recent discovery, and trust he may be successful.
N- Late advices from Texas state that several
citizens of Webb County, had been seized and i'm,
prisoned by the Mexcsns. A meeting Of the citzsrs
Of the County had been holden, which denounced the
outrage. Webb County is in the Southern part oi
Texas and borders on the Rio del Noro River, which
provo the boundary line between Texas and Mexico
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