Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-08-28
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"A Republican. electoral ticket is talk,

A Republican. electoral ticket is talk
ed Of in Tennessee.
- The story of an extraordinary occur
renee at the Blue Ridge Tunnel, describing
the bursting ola great water cavern in the
mountains, is hoax.
Sixteen acres on the Elk Island es
tate of Julien Harrison, of Goochland, Va,
produced the large amount Of six hundred
and forty bushels of wheat averaging fifty
three and three quarter bushels Of wheat
Z per acre.
Amherst College, awakened to an ap-
precation of Mr.. Summers merits by the
I. drubbing administered to him by Mr.. Brooks,
has conferred upon the Massachusetts SEN
ator the title of LII. D. This means, we
: suppose, Lammed Like the D-l.-Rich-
mona Despatch.
:-- The following recipe is said, by the
New York Chronicle, to be a sure and easy
cure for coins; Tie piece of raw cotton
Z to the corn, and wet it several times day
with spirits oft.npentine this will in three
days cure the corn without the least appar-
; ent pain.
There is young daughter of q titled
English aristocrat living in Albany, N. Y.
She was brought up in luxury, fell in love
with and married her fathers groom, was
turned out of house and home, and obliged
to fly from her country to avoid her fathers
vengeance She passed through many trials
which rend the heart, in her career from
wealth to poverty. She is now seam
j stress. -
a country exchange calls attention to
the fact that the vote of South Carolina in
) the next Presidential election is in the hands
of one man. t.If Gov. Adams should fail
to call the Legislature together at the time
:, of election, either because he thought the
State ought not to vote, or that, that could
: not be an extraordinary occasion which hap
pened regularly every four years, the vote
!, of the State would be lost"
s. The favorite parlor instrument, now
considered an almost indispensable article
in every family that can purchase it, was in
rented by J. c. Schroeder, of Dresden, in
Hi; the square piano was made by FIRE.
aerica, an organ builder of Saxony, about
.kl75S. Piano fortes were made in London
: by NJ. Zumpie, German, in l766. The
manufacture of this instrument was CON-
raenced in this country since the opening of
the present century.
- The Augusta Constitmtonaha re-
: cords the recent sale, in that city, of four
pounds of butter, at four dollars per pound.
/. 1t is to be paid for, however, only after the
election of Mr.. Fillmore to the Presidency,
aud the purchase may, therefore, be consid-
cred very good bargain. The Constif"-
~tioaqHist says that the purchaser offered the
same butter for sale, payable when Buchan
an is elected, and the highest price he could
get offered was thirty cents. That being
par, or cash value for the commodity, no
sale was effected.
- Albert and Victoria receive one mil
alion of dollars annually. By strict economy
they are able to support life on this small
amount. 1t is proposed to settle three hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars on the Prin-
cess Royal of the England, as her annuity
after her marriage with the Prussian Prince.
Having been trained to frugal habits, it is
hoped that the young house-keepers will
avoid all unnecessary expenses, and thus be
enabled to make the two ends next year
meet.
3 ALI the sword blades made for the
English army are the work. it is stated, of
four men, three of whom are brothers. There
Is a secret in the mode of manufacture
known only by these four men, and which
they jealously guard. They select their own
assistants, and have the right to discharge
them at pleasure, when they do not like
them. One of the brothers at Enfield makes
eighteen blades per day, for which he re-
: eeives 2s. Sd. His average earnings weekly
amount to fifty dollars.
: - The New York Tribune announces on
the authority of a private note, that the Hon.
8 Charles Sumner "is, at last, convalescent,
the mountain air having had beneficial ef-
feet" and half intimates that he will before
long be engaged in public speaking. The
date of the 'private note' is not mentioned.
Perhaps it was written yesterday, and it is
to be hoped that as special session of Con-
gress has been called, Mr.. Sumner will be
able to appear upon the floor of the Senate
Chamber, and take part in the proceedings
of that body.
TIA singular wager" says the Salut
Public, of Lyons, ''has just been decided
here One of the swimmers of the city made
a bet that he would cross the Rhone on his
back, carrying on his stomach small ta-
bic, on which should be placed two bottles
full of wine, six eggs on plate and four
glasses. The fall of any one of these OBJ
jects would involve the loss Of the wager.
The swimmer, however, crossed the river
without displacing one of the articles, and
won the bet"
:, - Among the new things of the age is
the manufacture of shoes by cementing to-
sether the pieces of leather of which they
are composed. A shoe is thus made with
ont peg or stitch, which it is said will
never rip and cannot be torn apart in the
--,,,,,s- booouca tho leothar will tear first