Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-10-03


gy Chief Justice Chase announces himself
ready 10 call special session of the Court and
proceed with tho trial Of Mr. Davis. -:
nss- A woman named Korwan, committed sui
eide in New York tho other day, after making
buria, clothes for herself, mourning dresses for
her children aud binding hcr husbands hat with
Grape.
aa> A young lady now employed asa COM
positor on the Montgomery Advertiser had 800
bales of cotton burned during the war. Instead
of repining over her misfortune she now goes to
work Mt business most congenial to her incl
lcctual taste.
~ The King of Prussia pronounced the en-
tiuction of tho Guelph dynasty in Hanover, after
rulo Of a thousand years." in speech deliv-
cred to deputation from that country. His Ma
iesty was frm decided and feeling in his words.
and vesy statesmanlikc in his expression.
as- Mix ignorance with sudden wealth, and
we produce chucklohead whose insOlence will
be equal to hundred pounds to the square inch
We.eansimagine no greater nuisance than an Ill
bred man suddenly raised to the rank of mil
lionairo.
sy On Saturday last at Richmond, Va.' the
directors of the National Exp ress and Transpor-
tation Company, of which General Joseph i.
Johnston IS President, made an assignment to
Messrs Kelly Blair of AL lis property and
effects for the benefit of creditors and others.
|
ry One day during the hard winter of 1863,
Miss Arnold applied to General Milroy, thon in
command at Winchester, for permit to forage
for her COW, whose milk was the chief support OF
the fa,Aily. "Are you loyal" asked the General
eyes" she replied, lie began to write the per-
mit-"to the United states!" To the COnfed-
eracy, of course" "Thcn shall give you no
permit This infamous rebellion must be crushed
"wel," said she, if you can crush it by starv-
ing John Arnold's old cow, go it."
ns- The whole population of Liberia is cssi-
mated at 1000, of whom $4,000 are ranked as
civilized The whole number Of votes pollcd at
the last election was 1920. 1920 voters out oi
"A, ,OOO-one voter to sixty-ono souls. Is there
no civil rights bill to nterposc between the down.
trodden masses and their aristocratic oppressors
T A little girl Of three yoars, very fond OF
her boy playmate, was repeating her prayers
after her aunt When she came to the close she
exclaimed: "Auntic, don't say 'A-mcn," say
sA-boys1"
ny News from the cotton regions continues to
report the injury to the crop severe and wide
spread Only small district on the uplands OF
the Mississippi seems to be exempt Otherwise
the States of Louisiana and Mississippi are affected
with nearly total loss of the cotton crop, while
very little corn or othor breadstuffs has been
raised This is especially the case whore the ne
eroes have worked on shares which leaves them
now very reluctant to labor, and greatly dis
heartene1.
m-.The grass-hoppcrs have appeared in Kan
sas after the fashiOn,in Egypt. They fill the ar
like snow storm, obscuring the sun, derourlng
the vegetation, and stopping the trains on the
railroads by causing the wheels to slip.
w Gen. Beaurcgard arrived in New York
from Europe on the 27th.
w we learn from the greenville Enterprise
that that Town is to be garrsoned again, Com
pauy under command of Capt. Britton having
arrived there during last week.
Ng- An inquisitive genius wants to know
whether Brigham Young, on losing one Of his
wives, can be considered widower; and, if SO,
to what extent.
nSs- Two Mississippi horse thieves have re-
tired from business One was hung; the other
" died of strangulation from looking up rope.
mr The Washington Union newspaper charges
fraud upon Ex-Secretary Harlan Of the Interior
Department, in the matter Of 100000 acres of re-
served land in Kansas, belonging to the Cherokee
Indians, which were sold to Connecticut emf
grafton company for one dollarper acre, payable
in nine years, in instalpents. The Cherokces
paid half million dollars in gold for these lands
thirty -onc years ago, and tho Union says that
they are worth three or four millions now. The
sale was made by Harlan on the day before he re-
liuquished the control of the Interior Department.
ns- Gen. Mcclellan has writton d letter np-
proving tho proceedings of the Philadelphia Ma
tonal Convention!
rs The Mobile Register, of the 25th, says:
awe. learn by private letter tlnt very heavy
frost visited saltilo, on the line Of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, on Saturday morning, and the
weather was piercing cold. The crops on the line
of the railroad look very unpromising Picking
has commenced in some localities.
INFORMATION WANrED.-During the fight
and stampede of Wheeler's cavalry, at Shell
6yvile, Tenn, about the 22d of June, 1868,
nv oldest son, J. W. Musgrove, Lieuten'
-. Z. H. E:rsI Ranirnant Alabama On ualrV