Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-11-13
Straps + fatts.

About 40 new Students entered Frs
kline College during the first three days OF
the Session.
- Thursday, the 20th instant, has been
appointed by Gov. Adams, as q day OF
Thanksgiving, humiliation and prayer.
Fernando Wood has been reelected
Mayor Of New York, with the whole minici-
pal council.
WHAT suspicious monster the man
who first invented lock but what q trust
ing creature the woman who first allowed
lateh-key!
The Hartford Comm Courant says
there is baby in that city, only five months
old, and weighing one hundred aud iifty-slx
pounds \ whopper!
- The Christiansburg (Montgomery,
county, Va. Star, states that q number of
families are daily passing through that town
emigrating to Kansas.
TO h7d out the number of children in
street commence beating brass drum
To find out the number Of idle men, start a
dog fight.
II Trinity Church spire, in New York,
is 264 feet; St. PauPs, 234. The Prcsby-
terian Church spire, in Cincinnati, 2l2 feet,
and old St. Peters Church, III Philadelphia,
is 233 feet; St. Peters at Rome $50 feet.
"A wrought iron cannon has been
manufactured y Liverpool, England, which
weight % ton, and sends a ball of three
hundred pounds weights distance OF four
miles.
- uRcadine makes full man." says
Bacon; and "Fashon makes full woman"
says P,ach for certainly woman, as she
is dressed according to the present fashion,
could not we'll be made much fuller.
"A German paper asserts that prussic
acid only causes suspension Of life at first,
and that one who takes it can be restored to
animation by the pouring Of actate of potash
and salt dissolved in water, on the head and
spine. Rabbits have been thus recovered.
a noted politician was recently caught
by friend in the act of pcrusing the scrip
lures. Upon asking him what particular por-
tion of the good book he had selected for ex-
animation, he replied, 81 am reading the
story about the leaves and fishes"
- Some years ago, when Queen Victor
ia returned from visit to her uncle Leopold
of Belgium, her baggage was searched, and
much smugled lace was found. One of her
maids of honor was suspected, although the
laugh was against the Queen for cheating
her own customhCusc.
- With the exception of few miles III
Virginia, there is now connected line of
railroad all the way from Bangor, on the
Penobscot, to Montgomery, on the Ala
bama ere long, the chain will be extended
to New Orleans, thence to be carried west
ward until it reaches the shores of the Paci-
fc.
Tho Oldest church in the United States
is said to be at bingham, Massachusetts,. 1t
is huge, square structure, the bclfry rising
out of The centre Of the roof Inside arc the
old square pcws, which bcara look of singu-
lar antiquity, 1t IS nearly two hundred years
old. In the adjoining hurying ground stones
may be seen dated as far back as 1919.
"A correspondent Of tic "Notes and
Queries" remarks on the sulall number Of
English words having the termination IL
The list given only includes twenty words:
viz peril, civil, council, evil, devil, corGicil,
pencil lcntil, until, cayil, STENCIL pistll, ten
drill, tumbrl, tranquil, vigil, basil, jonqui!,
nostril.
- An election for members Of the Ter
ritorial Legislature, and for local officers,
took place in Minnesota ca the llth ultlmo.
The St. Paul Democrat says that three Dem
ocrats- Chamblain, Murray and Costello,
and two Rcpublicans-Brauch and Ramsey,
were elected to the Legislature, and that the
Democrats elected nearly all the local Off
GERS.
- The Philadelphia Ledger cites the
exhibition in France of locomativc weigh
weighing sixty tons, with ten feet driving
wheels, and stated to be capable of attaining
speed Of $50 miles per hour. Its centre
of gravity is placed 50 low as to render it
safer then ordinary engines at the usual
speed, so far as getting off the track is con-
cerned.
James Revau from Polk County, n.
c., was killed on Sunday last, about four
miles from town. \ team of mules which
he was driving were frightened by the fall
ing of a box of goods from the wagon, and in
running lie was thrown from the saddle, and
the wheels running over him, produced death
in very few moments. He leaves wife
and several children GrccnciWc Enfer-
prise.
Louisville, Nov 1.-Packcrs around
the Falls have, up to this date, arranged for
about 100,0 900 hogs. No recent transactions
have transpircd. Feeders in the country
hold at St.25 per gross at their own pens.
We omit al specuiations about this imror-
taut market, until the season opens sufficicn-
tly to furnish reliable data upon which to
base our remarks, as few hasty words have
in past seasons caused difficulty aud often
times great loss.
At Ballinrobe, in Galway, ireland,
the wife of farmer, named McGrath, left