Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-15
News and miscellaneous items.

ES The appointment Of negro cadets to
the West Point Military Academy is the next
move of the Radicals.
Es Mark Grayson, the pedestrian left
Richmond, to walk to Omapa. making sixty
Democratic speeches on the way. The trip
is to consume forty. seven days. He carries
flag marked Democracy, ON the Ilh, large
crowd followed him to the suburbs.
-. A curious method of killing rats is
RECOMMENDED in German Journal as ve.y
efficient. a piece of new Or unused sponge
is cut into small pieces, which arc smcared
with butter, and placed within reach Of the
rats, next to dish of water. The rats eat
the sponge, and becoming thirsty, drink the
water. which swells thespoDge, and in a short
time kills the animals which arc found lying
dead all around.
gSSr 1t has been computed by some roliti.
ca! ari'hmetician t!.at if every man and wo
man would worl. for four hours each day on
something useful, labor would produce suii
ciant to procure all the nccessarics ard COM
for:s Of life, want aud misery would be ban
ished ont Of the world, and the rest OF the
twenty-fou hours might he leisure and plea.
sure.
L. The exact phraseology Of The law
repeating the cotton tax having become &
matter OF ,ispute. a certified copy OF the acs
has been procured from Washington by thu
Journal OF Commerce. Tile law reads, ali.
cotton GROWN in the United States after the
year 1867 shall be exempt, from internal ;aX,
and cotton imported from foreign countries
on and after November lst, 1868, shall be
exempt from duty.
IAg One cattle rancho in Texas is so
miles ill extcnt-thc number Of head is 100
600, and 10000 arc sent to market every
year, enough to supply the New York market
six weeks.
E@ Rufus Ludwig, who killed his wife
after being married TO her only eleven days.
was hanged in Salisbury, n. g., on the Oct.
Of June. He went to the scafio'd smoking
cigar; but when the officers offered to pa,
the noosc around his neck he resisted vIo-
lanlly, and desperate struggle ensued, te:
OF the deputies attempting to overpower li:n.
The moose was finally placed around his necS:
and lie was swung off With muitered Curse
for parting word.
E- One of Grants shoulder strapped in
ions has snrp:esseda Democratic newspaacr;n
Selma, Alabama. Such is the "peace' ti'st
the American parody OF Napoleoa wcn'd
"let US have"
ksy- Ex Governor Isham c. Harris is p,ac.
ticing law in Memphis. The indic,mentagalist
him for treason in the United States Ci.cHi:
Court ct Nashville has just been dismissed
Essy~ The sale Of town lots at the location
for the new courthouse for Pickens COUNTY,
on Thursday last, some twenty-five los ere
sold at an average of 500 per lot. These lsts,
we believe, contain from one half to two
acres. 4 number of lots yet remain uns IL
SO those who may want to buy will yet haze
chance. The court house and Jail bulldogs
are to b.. removed from old Pickens, AID pat
up atthe new town for SIS 900.
tag- General Joseph L. Johnston, late Of
tue Confederate service, has received fa!!
pardon from the President, through the iil.
ence Of Mr.. Seward. This is the first pardon
yet granted TO full general in the Conlcie.
rate service.
hgA In Hamburg they have formed stock
company with capital Of S25000 70. start
ing German colony in Florida. 1t Is ex-
pected that 10000 North Germans can be
directed in course of two Years, which wcud
make the speculation an exceedingly success
ful one.
E Fig trees can easily be grown fr0m
the cuttings or root shoots, end il is certainly
strange that they are not planted in every lot
in town, and farm in the country. The Eg
is universally esteemed as the best Of fruit,
and the tree is long living and ornamental.
n0- A Texan murderer, who had fallen
into the hands Of Judge Lynch, offered 10
save trouble by performing his own execu-
ton. lie thereupon climbed a tree, made q
very edifyips aud moral speech to the crowd,
warning them to profit by his exampe. put
the poose about his neck, tied the end Of tho
rope to stout limb and jumped.
pa@ The rich Jap who IS coming 70 Paris
in search of a pretty and virtucus wife, is eS-
pected shortly at Marsciles, in a steamship
that lie has had built expressly for the trip.
He intends to settle in Paris, and wants 10
buy the whole right bank of the Seine for
palace. His income Is $30,000,000 o year.
What blessing if we could only get him
here-and tax him.
The grasshopper plague is devasting Wes-
tern Iowa in fearful manner. A friend who
has Just come In from Sioux City informs US
that Of about one hundred and fifty miles
wide, extending from Southwestern Dakota,
chiefly between the Des Moinc and Missouri
rivers. to the Southwestern boundary of Iowa,
there will be scarcely wheat field. left ex-
empt from total destruction by these vermn.
They Fill the air aud cover the ground, max
ing constant sound like that CT heavy
shower. They sometimes gather over night
in such myriads upon the track of the rail-
road as to stop the train BY lubricating the
track when crushed by tie wheels. They
danon. u.hoat S-et and afterwards take To