Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-08
Miscellaneous Items.

Ms- IT is said that the Rosthchilds have lost
seventy-five millions francs by the great Viennes
house that has just failed but this Is probably an
sxasgsration.
. HS- A grand dinner was given to Paul MOrphy,
at the Revere House, in Boston, on the 31st ult.
It Is represented as brilliant aafair.
- The Southern Baptist, states that Rev. j.
P Tustin, late editor of that paper and now travel
ing in Europe, has rcnOunccd his religious views,
and applied to Right Rev. Bishop Clarke for
orders in the Episcopal Church.
@UdARRrAGs, like addling, depends a great
deal upon the beau-ing.
s% "To point moral or adorn a tale" the
DRS. LEAGUE have the best quality of writing ink
that is now made. It is indeed what Thaddou,
Davids, the manufacturer claims forit- -"Elcelsor.
Bottle after bottle Of It have we used, and alway.
With pleasure, even when dunning delinquent sub
,cribers Try It, aspiring "Young America" il
you are desirous Of making I'm indellible mark In
the world. This writing fluid never fades.
l{- The best definition we ever heard Of "bear.
ing false witness agaiust your neighbor," was givsr
by little girl iu school. She said 1t was wher
nobody did nothing, and somebody went AND
told of it.
G1- Armies travel rapidly nowadays. In five
days from the time Austria sent her ultimaum tc
the Sandman government nearly 100000 Fronct
soldiers were thrown ito Italy, at distance O.
800 miles from Paris.
@B Telegraphc dispatches from the Virgins
elections, from one hundred seven counties, make
LErcHER's majority four thousand six hundred
uud ninoty.six. It will probably reach SIX thou
sand. LErcREa is the Democratic candidate fo'
Governor of that State.
@- A lot of seventy bushels primo whit
wheat, (says the Charleston iMercury) raised OF
the plantation of ]. F. Matthews, Esqy ut POI
Pom, St. Bartholomews Parish, and consigned Il
Messrs. O'Hear, Roper and stoncy, Of this city
was sold by them on Tuesday the 3lst ult., t.
Messrs. J. A. Estes & Co., for tho Ashley Steam
Flour Mills, at Sl,75 per bushel.
NJ The western slope Of the Blue Ridge, il
Virginia, is now covered with millions of locusts
They appeared arst nenr the top of the mountain
about two weeks ago, and seem to be moving in {
westerly direction.
~ BONNER, of the n. Y. Ledger, has secured
the world.renowncd Paul Morphy as Chess Edito
of that paper.
MS- TuE Independent Press says: "Wc learr
that the boy George, belonging to Maj. W. W. Bel
cher, who, in recent afray, received knife Hount
from Peter Show, free negro, has since died o
his wound. Peter, the froo boy, has been lodgct
In jail"
@- A Typographical Union was organised in
Augusta last week, and the following officers
elected J. T. King, President; J. 0. Walters
Vice President; j.. W. Taylor, Recording secreta
ry; W. J. Mccall, Corresponding Secretary and
Treasurer; B. F. Kappell Doorkceper,
R- A French bonnet-maker told custome,
who complained of the price demanded for a new
bonnet" Consider, madam, it cost me three
sle.plcss nights merely to imagine it /"
sy A gentleman writing from Louisville Ky.
says: "Among those places of interest that
have visited is the Artcsian we'll, which is 20OU
feet deep. and throws ZIP jet of one hundred feet
in height From the taste and smell Of the water,
I should judge that in boring they had tapped the
main sewer of his Satanic Majesty's dominions."
- The Post Office in Union District, South
Carolina, called Pea Ridge; has been discontinued
sy Tho late food of the Mississippiun und Yuzou
rivers has been almost une1ampled in the damage
it has done to the cotton planters. Many thou.
sands of acres of the best cotton lands are over
flowed md rendered unproductive during the
present season, including the famous Deer Greek
Bottoms. noted for their fertility. The fine plan
tation of Senator Douglas, near the bayou, is
wholly inundated.
~ The Augusta Dispatch, says: The bill Of
the officers for shooting dogs up to yesterday, ma,
si0-making the number killed to that date one
hundred and sixty. Sausages and cat fish ought
to be cheaper.
Y IT is reported in New York that Gen.
Scott hos made bot Of FIVE hundred bottles of
champagne that Louis Napoleon will never return
to Paris.