Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
sge Attention is directed to the advertisements of
W. R. T. s. Hudson. They, like most every one
ese are in want of "he necdful," and have marked
their Goods Mt very low prices in order to raise the
wherewitb to buy their Spring Stock. Give them II
call-They have also on hand quantity Of superior
country cured Lard which they offering at small
| per cent above cost.
ey' The jewclry store Of John Veal, of Columbia,
was robbed on Saturday night Of jewcry and other
articles, to the value Of about $1,000.
~ Among the documents in regard to Central
American affairs sent to the House on the 18th inst,
by the President, was one from the NicaraGuan min
istcr thanking the government for Com. Pauldings
conduct in taking away Walker and his followers.
If;- Il is stated that there ten times rs many
newspapers printed in the German Language in the
United States there arc in Germany.
~ Tie French government is said to be about
concluding treaty which places the Sandwich Is
lands under Prutectornte of that nation
KY An inlcpcndant man. says knowing cotem-
porary is one who backs his own bouts and shoes,
who cnn live without w,iskcy and tobacco and shave
himself with his own soap and cold water, without q
| mirror.
t=Ss' We are pleased to notice that Mr.. T. W. Din
kins has become associated with the editorial depart
| ment of the Sumter Hufch,naa. Mr.. D. graduated
| in the last class Of the South Carolina College.
lzs- young gentleman who has just married Il
little beauty snys she would have been taller, but she
is made OF such precious materials tha nature couldn't
aiordi it.
Gsis" A word Of kindness is seldom spoken in vain.
1t is seed wkich when dropped by chance springs
up flower.
asj- brutal wretch, actuaed, it is supposed, by
revenge, went few nights since into the field Of Mr.
Shipley, in Howard county, Nd. and cut the tongue
entirely out Of valuable horse belonging TO him.
u.s. correspondent in the Albany Patriot, says
at sale of Col. Chrislies property, Of South Carroll
na ut his plantation in Baker county, Ga, on 2lst
DECEMBER, he sold public outcry 90 negroes, at an
average Of ,O%7.50 pcre-9 mules at an average
Of $9lLGG IL months credit with approved security
and interest from datc-equal to n cash sale.
a-Y rising "poc' witnessed pugilistic en-
counter, which lie thus imnortalizcs:
And Issac pitched into hymn,
And hymn pitched into he;
The way they iytte it was IL sin,
Aud hurrybcl TO see.
l.E" Abraham L. RenEock, Jr., of ilaverfor,l, Pa
reports that he has raised farm OF acre, three
rods and thirty eight pcrches, 2GO bushels Of hard
and 80 bushels Of sult corn, making an average OF
10 bushels per acre. The ground was very heavily
muuured.
5ES- Each member of the Massachusetts, House of
Representatives is to Lc supplied with three ncwsla-
pcrs.
lij- The Abbcville Independent Press, says:
"We have been almost deugcd with rain during
the past lew days, and we learn TINT the streams in
E.F9' The 81. Louis Democrat has Intelligence from
Kansas that the Free State ticket has succeeded by
average majority Of 1S5 votes.
trr john Black, Of lIabcrSllam county (says The
Augusta Chronicle Il Scntinc) convicted of murder,
WAS executed On Friday last. Several thousand per-
sons assembled to witness the execution among whom,
our informant says, Were upwards Of thousand
women.
lcp- Mr. John Thornton, who died in st. Louis II
few days ago, after bequeathng property to his rela
tiveS, anu SlI5GUO to various churches unl nstitu
tions bcucathed the balance Of hS property, about
5000 900, to Bishop kendrick, tile Catholic Bishop Of
that city, in the belief that he would apply it for thu
benefit of the INDECENT and to advance tho cnusc of
religion.
~ The Alabama Methodist Protestant Annual |
Conference has adopted the following resolution
:" That any parents guardians belonging to our
Church, who shall patrunise that school Of sin, the
dancing school, by sending their children or wards
shall be subject to trial and reproo, suspension or
expulsion, as the ensc may demand"
ae17 Thomas w. Fleming has been confirmed by
the u. S. Senate as Collector Of the Port Of Delivery
at Augusta, Ga.
lsL- The recent rains in this section have extended
over large portion Of the United States. On Mon
day last it raining from New York City to Mont
gomery, Ala
Gs Senator Douglas has sold his estate in Missis-
sppi.
GS- The King Of Prussia holds million of the
Eric bonds of 'G2.
10" An exchange recommends the following as an
iniaablc cure for beast!y intoxcatiun:
"Whcnevcr person is in stupid and inscnsibc
state from the abuse Of intoxicating drinks, lay him
on his right side, elevate his left ar and pour cold
water down it slowly. Before common pitcher full
can be emptied, the will walk perfectly SOBER"
~ II is stated in the New Orleans Crescent that
the sugar crop Of Louisiana for 1857 will DC from
225,nO0 10 $4,000 hhds against about $4,000 hhds.
in 1876. Prices are Of course, much lower ,hnn last
year; but nevertheless, planters will realize about
S2,OOO,O0a more from tho crop Of this scason than
from that of 1856, while consumers will also gain
largely
A VETERAN RACER DEAD.-Thc Northern pa.
pers chronicle the death of Bonnets o'blue the
champion of the American turf, nearly thirty
years ago. and the dam of Fashion Mariner.
She was the property of VIM. r. johnson, of
Va, the Napoleon of the turf" when young,
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