Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-04-20
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
lEs- The Brunswick (Gs,) Herald commenced
its fourth volume on the 18th inst, with nsN
head and other evidences of prosperity. G6od
luck to it.
N9- Prominent government officials at Wash
ington as,sr, that thore will be no attempt to in
tcrfere with Gen. Henningssn's Arizona expedition
so long az tho expedition cunhuo their limo Of
march and scene Of operations to the territory Of
the United States.
GS- John Postsll, tho United States deputy
Collector for port of Savannah, died on the night
of tho 10th inst.
Jray~ The parties who ~ere married in Cincin-
natl recently, after four hours acquaintance in a
railroad car, had hnrc up while going to st.
Louis, on the steam Murtha Putnah. The lady
returned to Ohio on the same boat
I5t- At the Roman Catholic church 1.-THE 10th
iust 42d xtrest, Now iurk, the curtain covering
portion of the altar took hre from candle du-
ring tho celebration Of masa. The church Was
crowded, and fearful sceDe Of excitement cnsued.
In the rush fur the door, upward Of thirty persons,
mostly women and children. were tramped upon
aud bndy injured, having arms and legs broken.
Two children are considered fatally injured.
~ Five Of the persons who arrested tho Wan
derer's Africans in Worth eounty last March, wore
themselves arrested in Savannah Friday last, on
charge Of larceny, preferred by Mr.. c. A. L.
LAMAR, and bound over in the sum of 81 900 each
to appear at the October term of Worth Superior
Court.
v An "organ grinder" was killed on tho
track of the Wilmington and Weldon hoad, OH
Monday Of last week, who had s225,sl on his per-
son, chiefly in gold
sS- The celebrated Seminole chief Billy Bow
logs died at the Indian reservation on tho 11th Of
March.
D A goose, a few days since, attempted TO Ay
over the barn of Roscrt Pollock, Of Perry town.
ship, Clarion county, Pa, when tho wind drove it
upon the lightning rod which penetrated its neck
and killed it instantly.
Ey We regret to learn (snys tho Augusta Con.
,.itn,onaii.'. Of Frilay.) that Mrs. Toomb., wife
Of Hon. Robert Toombs, was thrown from buggy
yesterday morning. on the Sand Hills, and aerere-
ly injured. 1t is stated talt one of hor limbs is
fractured.
B- A subscrbcr residing in Marion county
Florida, has sent to tho Editor Of tho Savannah
Republican number of squares, hlooms, and
young bolls taken from stalk of Cotton that has
lived and Aourished in that county Throughout.
tho winter. They are tho product Of the present
year, and the plant from which they wcro takon,
together with Il number Of others oil the saino
plantation, (Mr JAS. 4. Wigsins) is now six or
eight furt in height. They afford evidence Of the
extreme ndness Of tho lu;o winter in that latitude
gis~ Som. Of tho Foreign Correspondents doubt
the efficacy Vi the Poace Congress in aYertiug war
fer any lungth of time. France Is supposed to
favor the Congress in order the mure perfectly to
her forces for quick work when The
ball is opened.
Z3- Nows from Washington encourages the
bolrf that revolution is shout to break out in
Cuba. Our government will. in that event. uSo
its cndeavors to prevent fllibuscring expeditions.
The revolutionary movement will proceed, il IL
thought, upon deep laid shcmc Which has been
for solne tilno past Considering the
vigilance and jealousy Of Spanish power in Cuba,
nr. not these suriniscs worry doubtful?
~ TIE Editor of the Barnwell Sentinel has
been eassing on Irish potatoes of this growth
sent to bim by Mr.. C. HollingsWorth.
Ea- Intelligence has been received that IN ex-
.snsivs 6re had occurred in the western portion Of
tho Island of Cuba, and that twenty thousand
boxes of sugar, and much othor property, had been
~ The Saturday EreHina Port, pub'i5beaa at
Philadelphia, by DEAcos d Psrsasps, at 81 per
.npum, is, in our opinion, good literary paper
Is can be found North of Mason and Dixous line.
Send for it, if you want + Northern paper that
iOss pOt !!2tSSrsre with politics and our peculiar
nstitutiou."
rSr The contest between aicaaOi Ehe?!an aand
+. Seereiter, for the championship in billiards. was
concluded in Detroit, on tho 18th inst. Phelan
WON the match, aud lod his opponent 96 points
sss. The Postmaster GunOral decides that
rem oY psrri mark, made for the sole purposes Of
attracting the oys particular article or portion
# printed matter, docs not subject mstpr to letter
postage, as insisted on by some postnasters.
~ The Massachusetts, Legislature has before
bill making a single caso of drunkenness
,rime to Ca sEpished with Imprisonment. Tho
iquor low docs not stop fattenmFPsrancc for We zee
hat eight thousand persons were arff0sSs IL Bo'-
ON last ycar for drunkenness.
@- In tho Federal Court hold in Savannah, on
5th Inst, tho Grand Jury returned true bills
against Cbarles Lamar, r. +. Aiken, John F.
Fucker and others, for hsldpg sffican' imported
~ tho Handcrtr
ay- Paris letter gives IS tho last fnshion=-
be shoulder -pieco of roirse dross-that transpa'
,nt bit of muslin that stood allcgorically betwcen
locsncy and blush, has disappeared, and drosses
,avs been seen in public places cut horizontally
rom arm-p pit to arm-pit, leaving the entire arm
md shoulders absolutely free. Pretty and con-
reaient.