Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-08-21
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- The first bale of new cotton was re-
ceived yesterday, from this State, by Z. ii.
Rogers & Co., from the plantation of George
Norris, Esq, of Orangeburg District, S. c.
Charleston Standard
At hop at Newport, R., l., few
evenings since, lady from New Orleans,
La, wore bouquet of diamond, pearls and
precious stones, said to be worth $4,000
An agent of the American Bible So
ciety in Kansas writes that he finds no diff
fcuity in distributing bibles there, and that
he has organized several Bible Societies in
the territory.
~ When George III was told that Wolf
was quite unfit to command, and was, in
fact madman, the monarch replied, "Mad
--mad-mad Wolf mad !! Wish he'd bite
some of the other Generals /"
- The Edge6eld Advertiser says that
Mr.. VIM. Gregg, of Kalmia, Edgefeld Dis
trict, has realized this year very nearly four
thousand dollars from sales in the New York
market, of peaches raised upon the hills Of
that District
To ascertain the length Of day or
night, any time of the year, double the time
of the suns rising, which gives the length
of the night, and double the time ofsetting,
which gives the length of the day. This is
a little method of "doing the thing" which
few of our readers have been aware of.
"Six years ago." says the Norfolk
s(Va.) Argus, Ga gentleman with capital
of 81, 500, bought farm in this county at
$4,000. In four years he paid for the farm,
with hired help, and bought $1,000 worth
ofland besides. lie has recently sold out
at O,OOO, and the property is now worth
s35,000"
Senator Jones, of Tennessee, declar-
ed his intention on Saturday, in his seat in
the Senate, to support Mr.. Buchanan for
the Presidency. 1t is also authoritatvely
stated that the National Mte''igencer, the
time-honored organ of Clay and Webster,
and the. Old Line Whig party, will do the
same thing.
- .---- = It is stated that the value of the slave
property at the South is not less than two
thousand millions of dollars, a sum equal to
one fourth the value of all the other proper
ty in the United States, as shown by the
last census. Do the abolitionists expect to
annihilate this amount of property without
resistance. Mar5cStoa s Saadard
Last Monday, "Tom Thumb" being
examined as witness in court at Cincinna-
ii, Ohio, declared under oath, that he is now
nineteen years of age Many years ago the
show bills announces him as being twenty
one, 70 that, unlike the generality of NOR
tails, the "General' is constantly growing
younger
- The purchase of stock hogs for fatten-
ing purposes has commenced quite brisk.
We have heard of purchases at from s4.25
TO So gross, though both buyer and seller
are at loss as to price. Until corn pros
poets are better settled some one will be
rlcnt;faI
usual, and unless corn falls, must rate lower
than last season, the price being governed
by the ratio of demand to supply Wheel
mg htelHyeaccr.
- We saw yesterday very BEAUTIFUL flag
painted by our fellow towusman Mr.. Ladd,
for the 34th Regiment of Militia under the
command of Col. McCorkle, of York
Worked on the flag by the ladies of York,
was beautiful palmetto tree. Over this
was painted an appropriate and handsome
national design by Mr.. Ladd On the whole
it is really a flag around which the 34th
should be proud to rally ITmnsJoro Reg
ister.
Col. w. D. Wilkes left our State last
week with about sixty men and 100000,
the fruits of his late mission as agent for the
pro-slavery party in Kansas. This is indeed
gratifying success, and places Col. Wilkes
in the foremost rank of Southern defenders
He deserves much for his zeal, patriotism
and self-sacrifcing labors in this cause, aud
we trust that-a grateful people will reward
him in manner commensurate with his SER
Yices.-EdgcfeW M!tormcr.
There is an old, gray pussy cat in
Newark, who has recently had an addition
to her family of six kittens, all of which are
joined together near the hind legs. In lift
ing one up, you raise the whole, like bunch
of bananas. This interesting group of felin-
ity seems to live very harmonious y together,
with the exception that neither one can tell
which is its own tail These latter appen-
dages are so twisted and intertwincd that
even the grave and staid mother cat herself
cannot unrarel the mystery and hence the
kittens quarrel occasionally.
Calvin Edison, and all the fat women,
dwarfs and giants, are eclipsed BY man
now on exhibition at Havana, who was born
without either legs or arms, but who having
tenaciously set himself to work to conquer
the inconveniences naturally consequent up
IN such deprivation, has made himself a
wonder by the variety of his feats. Among
other things, he announces that he is able
10 spin top with such perfection that it
will hit any spot named, to spin dollar over
table, to throw sling, to take sixpence
from table and put it in his left ear and
take it out again, to make knot with hal
ter, to thread needle, to ascend and de-
scend ladder, to uncork bottle with a
cork screw, to load a fowling piece and kill
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