Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-22
Miscellaneous Items.

~ A writer in the New York Daily Ne,cs al.
vocates the GLAZING Of Horny a. Wiso for the next
Presidency.
ES- An Ohio editor asks "Wbat can be more
captivating than to see beautiful woman, say
about four feet eleven inches high, eleven feet
four in diameter, and thirty-four feet in circum.
ference, passing along the sle just as divine wor.
ship commonces" ,.,o,
..l TTS Ss fugitive aung at Brantfonl, Canada
tvs mail Instant, for robbing Her Males.
stealing, at the fshsS as,sur, co,,;...a
ia, was sentenced TO ten years In thclcnreurnaiy
Gs- A bright boy Of nino years was delivered
in Lancsboro', Mass, few days since, for the
purpose Of attending school, having been forwar.
dod by Adams Express from Houston, Toxas.
The freight" had been four woeks on de road.
5e1- According to tho Milwaukee Ncws, they
have new military company In Chicago. They
drill six times week, and have now got 60 that
they can form straight lnc--by leaning sgainst
fence.
In Mobile, Ala, last week, rs Mrs. Kelley
was striking match ON whiskcy barrel, it isni-
ted mud the barrel exploded. The head blew out.
knocking her down and covering her clothing
with the burning spirits. She died few hours
afterwards in great agony.
5ci7- Good nature is the very air Of good
mind. the sign of large and generous soul, and
the peculiar soil in which virtue prospcrs.
ESs- special dispatch from Independence to
tlie st. Louis Republican, says that party Of u
s soldiers surprised about eighty lodges of Cam
anchcs, near Pawnee Rock, and killed 25 men
and 20 women.
a.5- Tho National LateNige"cer, speaking Of
the approaching Fourth Of July, suggests that it
would he beautiful and appropriate idea for tho
school childron of MI orr cities and towns in tho
United States, to assemble on the morning Of the
Fourth of July, to hail the day by songs Of thanks
giving and patriotism.
CV Didcrot, the French philosopher, used to
say that to describe women, the pen should be
dipped in the humid colors Of tho rainbow, and
the paper dried with the dust guthored from the
wings Of a butterfly.
~ There is man out West who gets his
living by committing suicide lie take, lsuda-
mum (uut too much) on account Of his poverty,
the people pity him, make up purse, and he de-
pnrts, to perform the same trick elsewhere.
NS- A letter writer from Pixies Peak says,
worry coolly; "In Arrapahoo county there are
from eight to twelve hundred poor devils like my.
self, hunting gold, but not finding any. At pres
ent, wc are preparing to skin the spring emigra.
tion, which is to be done by dispo,ing of town
sites and bad whisky"
I'D What poor world this would be without
women and newspapers. How would the estab.
ment get along?
~ The Mobile Register, of Thursday, says
there seons to be but little doubt thai 400 African
slaves were landed recently Oh the Florida Coast,
not remote from Mobile.
sya A western exchange publishes o piece Of
poetry called Pepper and Salt" and heads it ia
seasonable poeu."
&s- 1t is said that there arc several young
nHSitSaue III Dogs-Huo SPCuu Si"V
u day in fast living.
&3- We notice in the Portsmouth (ya.) Tran
script an advertisement by the Collector propo-
sing to sell, on the 18th inst, thirty-six free ne
groea, men and boys, md seventy women and
girls, under provision Of tho city charter direct
ing tho sale Of all free negroes who foil to pay
their taxes.
10 The United States Government has recor-
cred claim of $4,000 from tho estate of tho late
DR.. Gardner, the forgcr of Mexican claims. Tho
money has boon paid over.
Mss> An arrival ut New York reports that tho
bark Orion, bound to Congo river, has been seized
On suspicion of being connected with the slave
trade. Cupt. IIanna died from grief caused by
tho seizure of his vessel.
Gy- The Cuthbert (Ga.) Reporter, edited and
published by Mr.. T. II. Bird, comes to us this
noek enlarged and much improved.
~ We hsve received the Prospectus of new
paper to be published at Greenwood, in Abbevllle
District, by Mr.. PATRICK N. WILSON, to bo called
tho Greenwood 7ines. Next xeck xs viii pub
li,h sas R1upuosus.