Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-20
MERE.nlENTION.

We have received "Night Thoughts on the Dealt
of a Child" and "Dora." They will appear mex
week Notice the Advertisement of the sal
of the estate of George Ratchford, decd..."..Also
the announcement of Messrs. Broach, Mills & Co..
who arc receiving new goods at Rock Hill and o
Messrs. G. W. Broach & Co., who are doing thu
same public service at Fort Mill. The Stan
dard says that the line of the Columbia and Char
lotte Telegraph is in forward state Of repair
and those having it in charge hope to have it II
operation from Columbia as far as Chester before
Court week k....... Governor Adams will commence
his general reviews" at WATERFORD, on the l6tf
of April. An enthusiastic Kansas meeting
was held in Charleston on Friday evening last
dresses, and the necessary committees were mp
pointed to collect POUNDS. The work goes on ......
Judge O'Neal, in recent letter to the Greenyille
Enterprise, says: "More homici''s have taken
place this winter than at any period within my
recollection, They are all traceable to intoxicat'
ing drink. "........Two fires occurred in Camden
last week-one consuming the cotton-house of W.
D. McDowall, esq, with six thousand dollars
worth of cotton-the other burning the stable Of
Miss H. DeLeon. Says the Journal, cit is the
season now, that all hands must be on the look out
for fire. for at no other time is the danger half so
great this month has always been preeminent for
frequent and destructive fires, and 'the ides Of
of March" may well be regarded with fearful ap-
prehension." .........A magnificent bridge has been
erected in Charleston over Ashley River, at the
foot of Spring street. 1t was opened for general
travel on the 5th........A man by the name OF
Thomas Sparks was shot dead at Ladson's, on the
South Carolina Rail Road, on Monday evening
last, by his brother.in-law, Myer Bell. Bell, at
last accounts, had not been arrested........James
McCombs, who was convicted last week in Colum-
bia for the murder of VIM. T. Cross, has been sem
fenced to be hung, Friday the 25th April next.
......... The New York Herald is responsible for
these pitby sentences: "The coming contest for the
Presidency will be the great crisis for the Union
and the constitution. There is nothing but the
ngger question to fight about, and the war on that
subject may be, as an Ohio delegate to the Know
Nothing Convention said, q war "to the knife
The ball is opened. Who can predict the result!"
...... In the House Of Representatives Mr.. BorcE
moved that the committee on the Post Office in
quire into the expediency Of erecting public
building in the city of Columbia, for the use of
the Post Office and the Federal Courts. The
students of the College at Columbia celebrated
the anniversary of the birth of Calhoun, on Tues
day last. The address was made by Mr.. W. II.
WH1TyER, of Anderson. An anti-Hnow-Noth-
ing meeting was held in Shelby, last week. for the
purpose of appointing delegates to the Kno~-Noh-
ing Convention which willmeet in Raleigh the 10Th
of April What does that mean? A delegation
was also appointed to meet the Rutherford and
Polk delegation, ut Rutherford on the second Mon
day in April, to nominate Senatorial candidate.
President PIERCE and Governor BRAGG were both
loudly applauded.