Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

~ The Editor Of the Augusta Chronicle d Sen
tiael has received watermelon from Mr.. Gen. w.
Evans, which weighed forty pounds. 1t was of the
"Cstes" variety. Who can beat TINT mulon?
Gyp FIX President Pierce and wife were to leaVo
! Madeira on the first Of June for Lisbon; thence,
avoiding tho larger European cities, for Fovay, in
Switzerland, whcro he will spend the summer. Mr..
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mr.. John Howard March
will be with him in Switzerland.
Ue The Charleston Mercury learns that the cot
ton and rice crops all through the Sea Island region
of that State, are very promising and in excellent
condition.
T distinguished French writer, says: "Never
speak or write when. you are angry or in passion
for it is always dangerous to put to soa during q
storm." Good advice that.
ty Tho Ohio Statesman has accounts from all
parts Of that State and the prairie States, which show
that the crops aro in fine condition, and promise to
be plentiful. Tho wheat especially looks splendidy
p The Rochester Union says there will bc very
few peaches in that section this year. The trees are
affected by kind of blight.
1S- Brigham Young says: "If our enemies were
to here in proper spirit, they would, in one
month, embrace our religion" Moro likely youi
wives, cd fellow.
~ During her visit to Birmingham, Queen Vic
toria listened TO hymn sung by $4,000 Sunday
school children.
s late Dublin paper contains the following
advertisement: "To Let-The upper part of eel
ar-to small family, rent low. 2. S. Privilege OF
the sidewalk for pig"
E When Sheridan was asked what kind Of wint
he liked best, he answered, Other pcOplos" There
arc great many Sh6rdsns nowadays.
ms- The Taunton Gazette says there nre four sis
tiers in that town weighing nine hundred and thirty
fvo pounds. The shortest, being nbou six feet high
weighs two hundred and ffty-six.
&D~ The now court for tho trial Of divorce cases
in London is attracting grent deal of attention
Over two hundred cases are already on the list. Tht
applicants for dissolution Of the marriage tic art
said to be principally females.
gG- The French Gazette Medicale suites that, by
accident charcoal has been discovered to be curs
for burns. By laying piece Of cold charcoal upor
the burn, the pain subsidies Immediately By leaving
the charcoal on ono hour, the wound IL healed.
G5- Oregon must be o very moist country. let
tor from there says "it rans twenysix hours in the
day for seventeen months in the year. shower
commenced on the Sd of last November and contn
ued until the 10th of March, when It set in for long
! storm, which is not ended yot"
Gs>A special messenger was despatched from
Washington on the 18th inst, TO Mexico, bearing
dispatches to our Minister Mr.. Forsyth, approving
his course, and ordering tho legation TO return home
GD- At 1Iornsburg,, Vt on the 23i ult, there mel
seven men, MI first settlers Of that noighborhood
whose united ages isI,6unted to FIVE hundred and
6fy-eight yssgs, their average age being seventy
nine years andt6vo months. The Oldest was ninety.
two. With single exception, they were all in good
| health, and are said to have hud "high old timo.'
~ According to the statement Of q reliable gen
tlcman who has recently been North (snys the Vir.
gipia Hcrald) tho noted Anthony Burns, fugitive
obtained in Boston at the poiut of the bayonet and
who was afterwards purchased and set free, is now
in the pontentiary of Massachusetts for the crime OF
robbery.
Jss- The following is simple and, it is said, nm
! elTectual remedy for the diarrhGa:
"Tuke large tablespoonful of -four and mix il
thoroughly with little Ices than half tumbler ol
water. Drink it, und if the disease is not checked
in half or reo quarters Of an hour, repeat it until
it is. II will arrest the most obstinate vase, and
cannot do any harm."
5cS- Tho learned Reynolds says: Simplicity is an
exact medium between too much and too little; Grace
is tho medium Of motion; beauty is tho medium oi
form, and gcntcencss is tho medium Of fashion.
sg Said woman to an old maid, "My husband
is not gooa husband he should he, hut he IL
powerful sight better than none"
1s- Tho name of Col w. A. Owens is spoken OF
for the yticc OF United States Senator by cores
pondcnt Of the Mercury.