Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-08-07
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n The New York Day Book has holsted
the name of Hon. Fernando Wood, Mayor
of the city, for Governor ofNew York.
Hon. P. S. Brooks returned to Wash
ington on Tuesday from the Fauquier White
Sulphur Springs.
One nightlast week two or three stores
of Chester were broken into by some parties
unknown, and goods of considerable value
abstracted.
- Mr.. Howes, journeyman printer in
Montgomery, Alabama, recently came into
possession of ST, 5,000 The fattest take he
ever had.
On the lst inst in the U. S. House of
Representatives, Resolution declaring that
Mr.. Whitfield was not entitled to a seat was
adopted by q vote of ITO to 90.
Ole Bull has given $500 towards es-
tablishinga new German Fremont paper in
Wisconsin. He is to take the stump for
Fremont through the State.
49, From all the indications that come
under our notice, the emigration to Kansas
from the South, at present, seems to be
greater than what goes from the North.
-I 1t is considered a fact worth mention
ing in the newspapers that General Houston
has just completed letter to his constituents
defining his political position and declaring
for Fillmore and Donelson.
1t is rumored in diplomatic circles at
Washington that Great Britain will ere long
send out minister to supply the place of
!. Mr.. Champion. Lord Howden, formerly
ambassador at Madrid, is mentioned.
3. - The Charleston Courier of the 29th
inst, says A meeting took place yesterday
afternoon near this city, between Col. John
Cunningham and j. L. Hatch, Esq, and af-
ter an exchange of shots, without injury to
either party, the difficulty was honorably ad-
justed.
I The number of hogs in the State of
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Kentucky,
at this, time is estimated by the editor of the
Ohio Farmer at 10, ,943, 1884, which at So
head, a fair average value of stock, amounts
to ss2, ,S3O, so. IF fat sold they would av
s.yerage $40 head-Sl03, 1888, $40.
We have been reliably infromed that
the army Worm has made its appearance in
different portions of our district, and they
ARE rapidly extending and sweeping every
thing before them. We fear that utter deS
truction may ensue to the crops and vegeta-
sttions of all kinds.-C Chester STANDARD.
:, COLUMBIA, July 31.-Col. Brooks
received 1900 votes and $500 were contrib
uted towards the payment of his fine and
expenses in the Sumner affair. The vote for
Col. Keitt was also large. The Governor
sent the certificates of their reelection to
Washington in advance.
- The Marion (S Co. Star, says that q
Religious Revival is progressing in the
Methodist Church at Little Rock, and that
the excitement among the people has never
been surpassed by any thing Of the kind ever
known before in that section of the district
EEe#ards of one hundred persons have con-
nected themselves with the Church.
Rev. Mr. Conway, Unitarian minister
at Washington City, who has been indiscreet
enough to turn his pulpit into a political
rostrum to illuminate Black Republican Abo-
litionism from, has been respectfully invited
to vacate the position he desecrates. 1t is
good example, and one which We earnestly
hope may be universally initiated.
An individual, known as Mickey
Free, on Saturday night concluded great
feat of walking one hundred and six hours,
without rest or sleep, at Newark, n. j. He
began his walk on Tuesday afternoon previ-
GUS at 2 o'clock. On Wednesday morning
he evinced signs of fatigue, but recovered
during the day, and in the evening appeared
as fresh as ever. During the hours allotted
he was sponged with salt and spirits four
times each day He changed his clothing
every morning and evening, and also carried
in his hat during the hottest part of the day,
q sponge saturated with whiskey and water.
: The main wager was 5000, in addition to
which he made 800 by other wagers.
- The celebrated DR.. Casper, of Berlin,
estimates the mortality among bachelors, be-
tween the ages of thirty and forty-fve, at
twenty-seven per cent, while the mortality
among married men between the same ages
is only eighteen per cent. AS life advances
fhe difference becomes even more striking;
where forty-one bachelors attain the age of
40, there are seventy-eight married men,
difference of nearl ly two to one in favor of
the latter. At the age of go there are forty
eight married men to twenty-five bachelors;
at 70, eleven bachelors to twenty-seven mar
ried men and at 30, nine married men to
three bachelors. No bachelor, it is said,
ever lived to be hundred.
-RA1N.-The earth is parched and
cracked and dry, and quivering Ger with
heat. Ladies forsake the promenade and
all desert the street. The richest goods in
vain display their many colored charms
the clerks are leaning all the day "upon
their ears" or arms. The horses hang their
heads, molases casks perspire, and through
the chinks when daylight breaks, we think
the worlds on fire The cats all hide be-
meath the house, they dare not fy-they
would be signed and drop to death, with
one ray from on high. The cutters stick
their bottoms up, so dry, so dusty-hot;
the sewers cape their thirsty mouths, and
think that rain is not. Shell fish are dead