Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-07-31
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There were FIVE hundred and thirty.
one deaths in New York last week.


times that of England.
- The first barrel of Whisky ever dis
titled in Louisiana was received in New Or
leans on the lst inst.
- 1t is now thought that Senator Sum-
ner will not resume his seat in the United
States Senate this session.
- A DR.. Kinahan, who has recently re-
turned from Peru, attempts to prove that
guano is produced from fetid seals, which
die on the island, and not from the dropping
of birds.
w. S. Wood, Esq, NJ. W. Grand
Master of the R. W. Grand Lodge of South
! Carolina l. o. o. F., has appointed Ed.
Mitchell, of Charleston, Grand Secretary,
vice John A Gyles deceased.
The Louisville, (Kentucky) Courier
says the wife of we'll known drayman in
.Covington died one day last week. The
next day the bereaved man married new
wife, and took her with him to the dead
wife's funeral.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-Letters
have been received here, stating that chal-
lenge has passed between Messrs. Burlin-
game and Bocock The latter was not in
seat yesterday, and he is said to have left
Washington, accompanied by General Lane.
g. The Albany Times states that pis-
tol has been invented in that city which will
fire ninety times per minute, carrying ball
forty yards farther than any pistol now in
use, and that it is also much lighter and in
every respect superior to Colts celebrated
pistol.
a California paper states that during
a. performance of Lee & Marshal's Circus,
in tie Southern Mines, company of bandit
ii stole ten of their trained horses from
: shed adjoining their tent. On discovering
the fact the actors mounted the remaining
horses, went in pursuit, routed the bandits,
and recovered all their animals
50 = The Batavia On. Y. Times, of the
ss20th inst, says: We have just learned of
the death of Jenny johnson, head Chief
and warrior of the Tonawanday, and who
was the successor of the celebrated orator
Red Jacket. i. He had reached a very ad-
vanced age, and was one of the best known
and most esteemed of his tribe.
:. WASHINGTON, July 25.-Mr. Bur-
I lingame in answer to warrant; appeared
before Justice Holingshead this morning in
company with Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio, and
: the two entered joint bond for $4,000,
that Mr. Burlingame shall not engage in any
duel, in the District of Columbia or learn it
for that purpose
We regret to record the fact that the
Army Worm has made its appearance in the
neighborhood of Columbia, and is doing
much injury. Yesterday morning the ground
In front of the Guard House was literally
covered with them. They were busily at
work destroying every blade of grass with
which they came in contact Carolina
Times
-. c. Tucker, Esq, recently appoint
ed American Consul to Honduras, return
ed to Havana, 18th instant, on his way to the
United States, the President of that State
having refused to recognize him, unless
he furnished proofs as to the Seal of the
United States and the signature of his COM
mission-a new diplomatic feature.
Washington Irving, in his beautiful
Affections of the Dead, says: "Go to the
grave of buried love, and mediate. There
settle the account with thy conscience for
every past benefit unrequited, every past
endearment unregarded. Console thyself if
thou canst by this time unavailing sorrow
for the dead, and henceforward be more
faithful and affectionate in the discharge of
thy duties to the living
- The political character of Mr. Speaker
Banks has been faithfully sketched by the
Boston Pilot. 1t says: "Banks was forty
years ofage last month. He has had varied
life. He has been factory boy, carpenter,
machinist, dancing master, an actor, an
editor, lawyer national Democrat,
coalitionist, an ardent lover, of the Irish,
champion of religious liberty, Know Moth
ing, and is now KNOWN Nothing Freesoiler
This is a chequered life"
- In Auburn, a short time ago, an Irish
man walking along the street, saw a ther-
mometer hanging on the side of door on
the front of a house. Stopping a moment,
he looked at it; then approaching it, he
raised his shillalah, and exclaimed-"An'
faith an you're the little craythur that keeps
the weather so warm, are ye?" and with ter
rife blow, accompanied with the usual Irish
oath, brought it in thousand pieces to the
ground.
- shooting match recently came of
near Paris, between Captain Wellington
Guernsey, lately returned from Turkey, and
Lieut.. Arnauld, for purse of FIVE hundred
francs, to be decided by the shooting of twen-
ty-6ve pigeons, with single bullets, at dis
tance of one hundred and fifty yards
Lieutenant Arnaud used one of Minnie's i'm
proved rifles, and killed eighteen birds out
of the twenty-five; Captain Guernsey used
one of the Englise military rifles, which are
now used in the British army, and killed
twenty-four out of the twenty-five, only mis-
sing the last shot. .
w. D. Porter, ip the Now York Her
aid, points out a new way to discover muir
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