Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-04-18
April17th, '66.

las- A snake twenty-five feet and thrco inches
in length wns killed last Saturday, on Grand Is
land in Niagara River.
aS. A new material for soling shoes has made
ito appearance. 1t is substance Of which India
rubber is the bnsis, but II, is heavier and whilst
as solid Us iron is flexible and elastic il is aaid
that ono pair of shoes soled with this article will
out wear four pairs solod with the best English
leather
Ep OF tha nino JUSTICES of the United States
| Supreme Court, but ore, Judge Wayne. of Geor-
gia, is from tho Southern States. ThcEe is one
vacancy.
az" Roy. Dr. Osgool, of the Church of TIE
Messiah, in New York, was on Sunday last pres
enied basket of flowers in which was conceded
check for 81 $50.
EY a five etory brick block was raisel in
Chicago the other day to grade of several feet.
The entire time taken to do this job vas day
and half, and cost 81, 500.
Ee- Tho Mexican 7imes, OF March 10, men
tions the arrival at that port of quito number
of emigrants from TIE United States. Most Of
them are settling in the colony of Cordova. Du-
ring the month Of February the omigrants num-
berel 7l2, Of whom $40 were Americans.
MY- A Washingtou report 'ays tha. Resident
Johnson ha, granted Mrs. Davis aud hei brother,
Con. Dick Taylor, permission to visit Mr. Jefer-
son Davis ut Fortress Monroe Tho Washington
Star; of tho 7th, says Mrs. Davis had not arrived
in that city up to that time.
GD- The Charleston Courier says 1900 freed
men have cmigrated to New England in three
months, on contracts to YORK at $50 per month,
and thtt moro will follow.
Gay- Tho Texas s@ts Convention has closed
its session and sont fvs members TO convey the
results of their deliberations to Washington.
Gs9- One hundred ond fifty negroes attempted
revolution ut Panama, March 81. They wore
sgrroanGed by troops and shot down like Sheep
Twenty-Five or thirty were killed, and 100 made
prisoners.
EW Tho death of Mormon bishop is thus
announced: lie was thirty seven years old, aid
leaves an interesting family Of eleven wives and
forty-,cven small chdi IN to mourn his death.
Zsy- Nashville letter tells Of poor white
eoldi9r boy Starving on the pavement Of that
city. No Frccdmen!s Burc.u rur him.
sT' 1t will no intcresting to the ladies to know
that the Empress Euscnio will be forty years old
on the fifth Of May next Queen Victoria is in
her fOrty-.ightli year.
gS- Jas. T. Gardner WAS elected Mayor Of
Augusta, on the 9th, by 173 majority over Blod-
gett.
I'D The Nowbern (N.c) Times, 22d, gives
the following frat rate press notice, whch shows
its animus; Tho New Nation is the name of a
miseegcnatiou sba.t started in Richmond, Va,
and received bore yesterday, with request to
exchange. It purports to bo edited by ]. ".
Aunpicut, a native of'south Oarolina. We do
not believe hc ever SOW South Carolina. If he
did, ho ahould not havo boon permitted to stay
there long. Eo beg loave to decline au exchange
with his dirty sheet, nnd with all others of his
Radical, ruinous GLASS"
&5- Tho death Of. Major Alfsed NJ. Barbour,
formerly Chief 9uarter.aaster undor General
Joseph j. Johnston, is announced in The Peters,
barg E.pre.s Of the 9th. Major Barbour was
naive of vifglsifa; md wss powerful advocate
sor Judge D5agfas,in t6o Presidential can, paisn
Of ISfD 'i :. y 80 ;7I-