Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-24
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Usual Knapp, the last of Washington's
life-guard, died at Newburg, on the 10th in
slant, aged ninety-nine years.
In the Virginia Legislature bill has
been introduced providing for the voluntary
enslavement of the free negros Of that State.
Fashionable fans in Paris cost as high as
$4,000 A twenty or thirty dollar fan is con-
siderable the nearest trife.
a bill has been introduced into the
House of Representatives Of Alabama, to give
aid to Kansas.
The Academy of Medicine has announc-
ed sthe physical and moral degeneration of the
human race caused by vaccination, as sub
ject to be argued at their meetings.
Why, John, you have the most femi-
nine cast of countenance have ever seen.-
Yes, was the reply. I know the reason of
that, my mother was woman.
1t is scarcely possible to estimate the
quantity of ice on the Alps. 1t is said, how
ever, that, independent of the glaciers, there
are $500 square miles of ice in the Alpine
range, from 80 to 6UO feet thick.
- Mother, mother, here's Zske, fretting the
baby. Make him cs9agaiu, zakes hen moth
er will give him some sugar, and I'll take it
away from him-then he'll sQue,l, and mother
will give him some more, and You can take
that, and we'll both have some.
- The injury to the pine timber in Orange
burg District, from the late storm, is said to
be incalculable, and only to be estimated by
millions. The roads were rendered almost
impossible.
1t is stated in the Saugertiers IN. W
Telegraph that the Rev. L. L. Hill, of that
place, has at length perfected the discovery
for fixing the colors of the daguerreotype, and
he has been offered 1000 for his right in it.
a lad came running in great haste into
a drug store the other day, and half out of
breath, exclaimed Mother sent me down
to the shotecary pop to get a thimblesfull of
palllagollic; Bulbs as thick as dickenth, not
expected to live from one end to t'other.
We learn by private letter from Ash
vile, On. CO. that on Friday last, snow fell
in that place to the depth of nine inches, since
which it has been unusually cold. The Spec
tator saws: across the mountain, in Burke and
Mcdowell, snow fell to the depth; of II inches.
The Democratic State Convention of
Alabama assembled at Montgomery on Tues
day the Sth inst A resolution endorsing the
policy of President Pierce, and recommend
ing him TO the Cincinnati Convention as fit
candidate for reelection to the Presidential
Chair, was carried unanimously, and with great
applause.
"A substitute for butter at breakfast has
Just been discovered by some bright genius.
What an age of diskivery Well, it is. Now,
read Marry the incest girl you know
You will then have her to preside at your
breakfast table; and unless you are sad dog,
indeed, you will not have any but her! We
are progressing.
Our exchanges, North aid South, TEEN
with accounts of disasters by land and sea, the
effects of the storm and severe weather Many,
very many persons have been frozen to death,
and others have lost the use Of their limbs
Quite large number of vessels have been
wrecked, numerous accidents on railroads, and
other disasters by food and field.
The Philadelphia Ledger is of the opin-
ion that the Speaker to be chosen this Con-
xress, estimated by the cost of choosing him,
will be likely to prove the most valuable man
in the nation He has cost the United States
Treasury, thus far, about 100000, and how
much more time only can tell. What amount
of service can he perform that will repay this
expenditure