Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-07-17
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sJohn P. Brady gave me black walnut
box of quite small size"
Gen. L. NJ. Aver, Of Barnwell, is
raising company of young men for Kansas,
who will shortly leave for the disputed ter
ritory.
The population of the United States
is now over 25,O00,000, making nearly
5000, 900 families; of these, it is believed
more than 100000, are without the b.
BILE.
IF you desire to be certain that your
eggs are good and fresh, put them in water,
and if the butts turn up they are not fresh.
This is an infallble rule to distinguish a
good egg from bad one.
The Wisconsin Farmer says that 1t
will insure your life for sixpence against a
rattlesnake's bite, if you will stir in salt
with the yolk of good egg, until it is thick
enough to spread plaster, and apply it to
the wound.
-A new locomotive, built at Baltimore,
is said to be the largest in the world. 1t
has II wheels, Al inches in diameter, y
inch stroke, II feet fire box, and weighs
33 tons.
The lOttoman. Cabinet prrsues p y the
policy Of reform. Five 'Tnhdels s"-that Is
to say, four Christians and Jew have been
appointed members of the council of the
Empire.
So Galveston dates, received by the
steamship Charles Morgan, to the 10th inst,
say that the Rio Grande has overhowed
higher than has been known for twenty years,
and that much damage has been. the result
Upwards of thirty steamboats, have
been destroyed by fire, fifteen demolished by
the ice, and twelve rendered useless by boil
er explosions thus far during the prsent year,
on the western rivers. Sixteen have been
burnt at Algiers, La, and St. Louis, Mo.
Henry Clay said in 1850: "Of all
the bitterest enemies of the unfortunate
negro, there are none to compare with the
abolitionists, their pretended friends; who
like the centuar of old, mount not the back
of the horse, but of the negro, to ride them
selves into power"
--T The Boston (Mass.) Times has the
following Louis NJ. Montague, promi-
sing young man, has suddenly disappeared
from his home in Charlestoyn, and it is sup
posed he has committed suicide by drowning.
He received letter by the steamship At
lantic. to the effect that he was an heir to
fortune of 10000, by deceased relative
in France.
The editor of the Galveston, Texas,
.Neaos, has received letter from an eminent
chemist in the North, enclosing him sam
pie of paper manufactured from the hull Of
the cotton seed that he sent to the North,
showing that the finest quality of paper can
be made. from the seed. A charter is now
pending in the Texas Legislature to manu-
facture it.
Col. Henry Moore, Of Vicksburg,
Miss, died at sea, On his return home, on
the 18th of May last. He was native of
Newport, Rhode Island, and died at the ad-
vanced age of Sc years. 1t is said that he
has taken by the hand every President from
Washington to Pierce He partook of the
last Christmas dinner in Vicksburg at the
table of his grand daughter, Mrs. L. R.
Coleman, and had the happiness to see
around him four generations.
The biggest gun in the world is in
Bajapoor, India, and weighs forty tons. A
seat in the interior accommodates FIVE per-
sons, without much crowding. 1t is form
ed of mixed metal, of which there is said to
be some portions of gold and considerable
quantity of silver. Upon being fired off as
a salute on one occasion, though not charg-
ed with more than half the weight of pow
:. der which its chamber could contain, the
conclusion was awful.
- The ex-Bishop of North Carolina,
Professor J.. Silliman Ives, was knocked
down and brutally assaulted Tuesday morn
ing, at the office of the N. Y. Hudson river
depot, by baggage master there ; the only
offence of the Rev. gentleman being re-
quest to deliver over a valise and trunk, for
which he had check from the conductor.
The offender was arrested, taken before a JUS
tice and sentenced to deliver the baggage,
pay heavy fine and to give bonds for his
future good behaviur.
The Philadelphia Ledger mentions a
rumor that it is the intention of the friends
Of, Mr.. Fillmore in Pennsylvania, and the
friends of Mr. Fremont, each to have an
electoral ticket, but that the same names
will be upon both tickets, and will be so ar
ranged by transposition that the tickets cast
by the respective friends of the two caudi-
dates will be known one from the other.
Then, which ever ticket has the most votes,
the candidate for whom it is cast will receive
the II efec,uruf vote of the whole: ffhis; it is
expected, will unite the opposition to Mr..
Buchanan without dividing the vote.
"A gentleman was going out in his
carriage to make some calls with his wife,
when, discovering that he had left his
visiting cards, he ordered his footman, re-
Gently come into service, to 60 to the man
tel.piece in his sitting room and bring the
cards that he should see there. The ser
want did as he was directed, and off started
the gentleman, sending in his footman with
cards wherever the "not at home" occurred.
As those were numerous, he turned to the