Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-28
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themselves by the looking-glass, and young
men BY the drinking.glass.
Among tho curioaities at the Ohio
Fsir wss q printer with Ave dollar bill in
hb pocket Baruum has sent for him.
For everything you buy or sell, let or
hire, make an exact bargain at first and be
not put off to an hereafter by one that says
to you, I'VE shall not disagree about trifes.' :
Advices from Washington announce
that the House of Representative had elect
ed the Rev. Daniel Waldo, an old revolution.
ary soldier, for chaplain.
The lower branch of the Legislature
sof Nebraska has passed an act extending the
right of suffrage to women. ltpassed by four
majority, but We do not find that twas acted
on by the other branch.
DIR. johnson, when in the fullness Of
years and knowledge, said: 4 never take
up newspaper without finding something
/ would have deemed it loss not to have
seen; never without deriving from it instruc-
ton and amusement
The Lancet or some other equally ed
flying paper on the subject Of human food,
says that large quantities Of sausages are made
of horse flesh. A friend of onrs says he be-
lieves it, as he invariably has le nightmare
when he has eaten them for supper.
1t is asserted that Lake Michigan is
frozen completely over from one side to the
other. This, if fact, has never occurred
before in the memory of the oldest inhabi-
tant. With the best glasses, from either
side of the lake the clear water cannot be
seen.
- In calling for a letter at the post-oAce,
always ask: Anything for meP Don't
give your name, and when informed mo
don't believe it, but in surprise and wonder
ask the postmaster when he expects one for
you. Should he ask you from whence you
expect one, say, sfrom the West He will
then understand you.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times says, that the accouchment Of
the Empress will take place in about month
when the personel of the Tuilleries is to
undergo important notifications; there will
be perfect shower of new titles; some
changes are anticipated in the Senatus Con-
sultus; great fetes will be ordered at the ex-
pense of the State political amnesty will
be declared, Fand the joy Of the people will
be great
- The grand jury at Cincinnati have
found true bill for murder against Peggy,
as principal, and the rest Of the adult Ken
lucky fugitive slaves as accessories tothe nur-
der of the child. The writ was placed in
the hands of the sheriff, who, when the fugi-
tiyes were brought to the Jail by the mar
shall for safe keeping, turned the key upon
them, and they are now in his possession
The case grows more and more complicated.
No decision has yet been made as to the own
ership of the slaves.
We love upright men. Pull them
this way and the other, and they only bend;
they never break. Trip them down, and in
4 trice -tbex are On their feet as.aip- RuEX
Them IN the mud, and IN an hour they would
bs out and bright. You cannot keep them
down, you cannot destroy them. They are
the salt of the earth. Who but they start
any noble project? They build our cities,
whiten the ocean with sails, and blacken
the heavens with the smoke of their cars
Look to them, young men, and catch the
spark of their energy.
Washington Irving, it is said, is mucn
blamed by the members Of the Masonic fra
ternity for having omitted all notice of the
connection of General Washington with the
Mystic Tie,' while the records of lodges in
Virginia show that he was not only bright
Mason, but much attached to the fraternity.
The Potomac lodge still possesses the sgavep
used by Brother George Washington, when
he laid the corner stone of the Capitol on the
2lst day of September, 1893.
THE Kansas Freeman says that the
officers are rather puzzled how to apply
provision of the law, in that Territory, rela-
ting to the right of Indians to vote. The
law says that Indians who have adopted the
habits of white men shall vote, and the diff
fculty is to settle what shall be sufficient
proof of such adoption. The last one sug-
gested is that the 'aborigyne' shall be made
to drink pint of raw Kansas whiskey. If
he does it, he can go in ;if not, he must back
till he has acquired that valuable political
1t is not long''since that we. ..announc-
ed the discovery of mine of bluc mass in
FL Dorado county, Cal. By the last arrival
we see that in the upper part of Todd's Val
ley small spring or stream of oil (possess-
ing all the properties of castor oi7,) has been
discovered A facetious correspondent of
the Placer Press suggests to.the discoverer
that he would perhaps do well to make
proposition to the Ell Dorado people to pur-
chase his spring They might use it to ad-
vantage IN aoorhimg of heir blue mass!
- The Nicaragua correspondent of the
New York Herald is responsible for the fol-
lowing g:-'Did you know that Washington
has been placed in the calendar of saints?
There is church at Rivas ever the princi-
pal portal of which is very we'll executed
bust of the leader of the American Revolu-
ton, and on the inquiry Of a native of the
I NOS infnrmed thnt II uas u hnct of