Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-13
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The sieve through which the man
strained every nerve, is for sale at less than
first cost.
Why is sympathy like blind-man's-
buff? 1t is a fellow-feeling for a fellow
creature.
Never con6de in young man; new
pals leak. Never tell your secret to the a.
ged; old doors seldom shut closely.
The snow in some parts Of Virginia is
deeper than it has been at any period with
in the last sixty years.
The Abbeville Banner mentions that
Mr.. G. Lythgoe, the Engineer of the Blue
Ridge Rail Road, has resigned.
A now Post Office has been establish
ed at Kinard's Turn Out, Newberry, Dis
trict, South Carolina; Thomas F. Harmon,
Postmaster.
"A late Illinois paper contains an an
nouncement of the marriage of R. W. Wolf
to Mary Louisa Lamb. A ful6lment of the
scriptures.
! - In the United States there are six
thousand brokers and six thousand BARRIERS,
but the census does not tell which class does
the most shaving.
~ Mathew Lansing used to say, If you
wish to have shoe made of durable materi-
al, you should make the upper leather of the
mouth of an old topper, for that never lets IN
water
- Joshua r. Giddings the great Aboli-
tion fanatic of Ohio, has declined re-elec-
ton to Congress. A free Soil Speaker hav-
ing been elected-Giddings says the sum-
NIT of his ambition has been attained.
The best protection against the rigors
of winter, says somebody, is matrimony. A
bachelor acquaintance adds the query: What
is the best protection against the rigors of
matrimony?
- The love of cross woman, they say,
is stronger than the love of any other female
individual you can start. Like vinegar, the
affections of a high-strung woman never spoil.
It's the sweet wines that become acidulated,
not the sour ones.
R. w. Pease, medical practitioner
of Syracuse, states that lard is complete
antidote to that deadly poison, strychnine.-
Heinstances several experiments to the point,
one of which, tried by himself upon cat,
was perfectly successful.
Meetings have been held, and resolu-
tions passed to promote the Kansas move
meut, in Laurensville, Abbeville and George
town. Gen. A. c. Jones, of Laurens, pro-
poses to head company there. Maj. Her
bert's company, at Winnsboro, is preparing
to start.
-sGoin' to Georgetown |? shouted fel-
low to an omnibus driver, as be was dashing
down the evenue yesterday. 'Yes,' replied
the driver, refining up his horses. wal, so
I thought" responded the gasOkey, and pass
ed quietly on.
When Edward Everett was entertain
ed at public dinner before leaving Boston,
Judge Story gave as sentiment-"Genius
is sure to be rewarded where Everett goes"
Everett responded" Law, equity and juris-
prudence; no efforts can raise them above
one Story"
- Mrs. Margaret Browning, died in
jackson county Georgia, on the 22d ult., aged
, l13 years. She was born in Maryland, and
removed to Georgia when she was aboutffty-
five years old. She had many recollections
of the Revolutionary struggle, being grown
at the time Her mind was unimpaired at
the time of her death, but she had not walk
ed any for FIVE years.
Santa Anna is residing at Turbaco,
four leagues from Carthageuia. He express
ses bitter hatred towards the United States.
He is said to be stimulating the industry Of
the people of Turbaco, and loaning them
small sums of money to buy stock, to under
take new plantations, and to improve their
present ones.
- Louis Kossuth thus interprcts the
Central American Treaty: "Two travellers
had but one. horse one Of them proposed
an agreement on these terms the first half
hour you shall walk and 1 will ride, and the
second half hour will ride and you shall
walk. Just such would be the Central A
merican treaty, according to the English in
depreciation"
1t is stated, that after all that has
been said about Barnum's bankruptcy, the
"Prince of Showmen," has over one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars secured in such
manner that none of his creditors can touch
a copper of it. Who knows but that his
Bankruptcy is merely his last speculation,
and very successful one at that.
THE following extract from the Hon.
Miss Murray's book will be news to many
people; "Savannah seems large town, with
many pleasant squares, in one of which this
(Pulaski) hotel is situated. 1t is called in
memory of o fine steamer of that name, which,
before her boilers were well regulated blew up
and engulphed members of almost all the
principal families in this place.
Owing to the extreme coldness of the
weather, the wolves in Iowa have become
dangerous to the inhabitant. A few weeks
since man, accompanied by his two daugh-
ters, was returning from prayer meeting,
all riding on the same horse, when they were
suddinly attacked by pack Of timber wolves.
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