Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17
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OF England could legally marry himself
The latest and perhaps the fairest esti
mate, of the population of the world, makes il
eleven hundred and fifty millions.
- boy with horns is living in Louisiana,
and the London Times gives an account of an
other, born with tail several inches long.
Maj. T. s. Garnett, of Salisbury, N. c.,
has been appointed superintendent ofthe North
Carolina Rail Road
So During the present session Of the Ala
bama Legislature, there have been about one
hundred cases of divorce granted.
s- The Times estimates that not less than
{ 100000 human beings have been slain, struck
down by disease or wounded in the attack OF
defence of Sebastopol.
" Never jest with the sorrows and frail.
ties of men. Frailties are misfortunes, and
the most sacred thing on earth to each heart,
is its own sorrow. -.
- To catch mice, place sweetmeatsin your
mouth on going to-bed, and keep your mouth
wide open. When you feel the whiskers Of
the mouse, bite
60 The young lady who walked all over the
) city in the vain pursuit of pint of the milk
sof human kindness, has been more successful
Z in getting little jam out of the jar Of door.
ssShe got the jam on her fingers.
!. -W We were at colored meeting on the
;other day, when one of the audience becoming
excited, cried out, as is not uncommon in negro
meetings, Gloryp Ditto, brother, cried an
earnest voice from the other side of the house.
Twice during last week Mr.. Banks OBJ
tanned just enough votes to elect him Speaker
Of the House, but on each occasion, just before
the result was announced, gentleman or two
on the other side came in and had their names
recorded for another candidate, and the scale
. was turned. -
1t is understood from the most reliable
information from Mexico that movement is
on foot there to call Gen. Almonte to the head
I. of affairs, and instead of his proceeding at
once to England it is expected he will shortly
leave for Mexico, to place himself at the dis
posal of his friends in that republic.
- Leap year has come again, when, by
long established custom, ladies are privileged
TO pop the question Crusty old bachelors
60 aboutin terror, giving wide berth to every
pretty girl they meet, and blessing heaven for
the invention of hoops, which prevents the fair
creatures seizing them vi ct armis-PAslaaeL
phta Ledger.
go 1t is alleged that, during the three late
difficulties in Kansas, large number of Shaw
nee and Delaware Indians expressed their will
ingness to join in the fight under the banner
of the Free State men. The Lawrence cor
respondent of the New York Times, writing
under date of December I'd, said their head
-nAn- and hraHa. had arrived In that town sWith
the blood of war yet running in their veins"
Only turkeys and geese should be bled
to death the flesh of chickens becomes dry and
insipid from the loss Of blood The best plan,
says the Poultry Journal, is to take blunt
stick, such as child's bat or wooden sword,
and strike the bird sharp blow on the back
of the neck, about the third join from the
head. Death follows in moment.
- Please cut this out and paste it up. A
sensible man says: my confidence in the pow
: er of advertising is such, that were I engaged
in the wood trade, I would advertise the supe-
riority of my kindling wood over that of any
other. If you have an article to sell, let the
people know it and you will find customer.
The Jacksonville (Ala) Republican
states that in some parts of Benton county and
the counties south of it, there is considerable
destruction of the gathered corn, by white
worm, which eats out all the inside of the
grain, leaving mere she'll. 1t attributes the
appearance of the worm to the too early gath
Lering of the corp, on account of the scarcity
prevailing last summer. Corn put up in the
shuck appears to be the most injured.
- There were found in the United States,
lin 1850, 1855 persons over 100 years Of age.
This shows that one person in 5000 will be
likely to live to that age. The French Gen.
Esus of 1851 shows only 102 persons over 100
years old, though their population was larger,
by more than one-third, than the population of
this country. Old age is, therefore, attained
lamong us much more frequently than IN france.
- At New York, on the 26th ult., DR..
Kane addressed meeting of the members of
the American Geographical Society, in the
chapel of the University, upon his voyage to
the Arctic regions. The doctor says he dis
covered at the highest latitucde he reached an
open sea of thousands of miles in extent, a
bounding with ANIMAL life, such as fish and
fowl, and this sea was iceless. He was of O.
pipion that this sea might be reached with
boats, with proper organization. aud he doubt
I'D not it would some day be reached, and nav
fgated and explored
1t is reported, says the National lntelli-
Eencer, that there is now heior" the Senate,
for its advice and consent, treaty with Mica
tsgus, recently negotiated, by the United States
Charge d. Affaircs to that Republic, which
k,tipulates for the recognition OF Nicaragua to
Ehe extent of all her cl#;a2d territory inclu'!-
|ng Mosquito, and regardless Of the British
brotectorate. It also stipulates Tor the protcc-
ion and fosteria- .; tE2c capital and '"'"rpr'S"
Bf American citizens in Nicaragua, covering,
(f course, any railroad Or canal which may be