Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-04
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What relation is the door mat to the
scraper? A step father-(farther.)
"A bill is before the Legislature of
Arkansas compelling free negroes to leave
the State.
Hoops are disappearing with the ap-
proach of winter. Good idea-keep of
hoopingcough.
Truth is an inexhaustable fountain,
from which nobody knows how much he
draws.
Promise little that you may perform
much but if you want to perform little you
cam promise as much as you like.
The official vote of Ohio for Pres
ident stands Fremont, 1877 ,497; Buchanan,
170,s74; Fillmore, 2s,125; Gerrit Smith,
155.
"A fool in an elevated position is like
man in balloou-everybody appears lit
tie to him, and he appears little to every
body.
a California jury, in suicide case
lately, found the following verdict: awe,
the jury, find that the deceased was fool"
Oliver Cromwell lately deserted form
Walkers Army in Nicaragua. Lorenzo
Dow is President of a Collegiate institute,
out West
The New York Tribune says that Mr..
Buchanan has rendered Gen. Cass a place
in the Cabinet as Secretary of State, and
that Gen. Cass has accepted.
The Board of Trustees of the South
Carolina College have accepted the resigna-
ton Of Prof. Lieber, of which notice was
given in December last.
The following question is now before
TiIlietudlem debating society: "Is it wrong
to cheat lawyer ?" 1t is expected that
the answer will be, "No; but impossible" ]"
. a lady in Oregon, writing to friend
in this city, says that cattle in that region
live to such great age, that owners have to
fasten long poles to the ends OF their horns
for the qrrinkles to r1tn out on.
"A Brennan journal contains the fol-
lowing advertisement: "a young gentle
man on the point of getting married, is de-
sirous of meeting man Of experience who
will dissuade him from such step. Ad-
Dress" &c.
"A farmer ir California states that he
has ploughed seyenty-fve acres, this year,
witha yoke of cows. He says they are fas-
ter walkers than oxens-that they give milk,
and save the expense of keeping another
team.
"A phsiologist of Cincinnati has dis
covered that wearing moustaches Strengthens
the eye-sight, and that the removal of these
hairy appendages has the effect of causing
several diseases of the eyes.
"A man carrying cradle was stopped
by an old woman and thus accosted: $50,
sir, you have got some of the fruits of mat
"Softly, old lady," said he, "you
mistake, this is merely the fruit basket
The New York Journal of Commerce
learns upon inquiry, Of the U. s. Deputy
Marshall, that the fitting out of slavers
from that port continues, and that the busi-
ness was never prosecuted with greater ener-
gy than at present.
A gentleman in Oporto has been
astonishing the natives by walking on the
river! lie attached to his feet two large
boat-fashioned shoes of tin, and thus prepar-
ed accomplished in safety ratherlopg 'tramp'
on the waters of the Douro.
"A crooked gentleman, on his arrival
at Bath, was asked by another, what place
he had travelled from? 81 came straight
from London" replied he. "Did you so?"
said the other, "then you have been terribly
,corped by the aoag.
- Over twenty Republican papers in
various sections of the country have already
nominated Col. Fremont for the Presidency
in 1860. If the Union should be dissolved
before that time, this early committal might
prove embarrassing.
There was an artless manner of an
ncuncing marriages in "the olden time"
which is quite refreshing to revert to occa-
Witness the following from the
Gazette of 177G: "On Sun
day evening last, Mr.. Beverly Dixon to Miss
Polly Saunders, a very agreeable young
lady,"
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-Advices
have been received in this city to the effect
that the Peruvian and Chilian governments
has agreed to contribute men and money, to
overthrow Walkers government in Nicara-
qua. Peru is to furnish a million of dollars,
and Chilian will furnish thousand men to
accomplish the object.
Typographical errors are sometimes
very amusing. We once read in an English
paper an account of a fashionable party, at
which one of the most distinguished persons
was the "Duke of Pork" A city
paper reports the Court Of Common Fleas,"
and Southern paper contains an account OF
an "atrocious bobbery"
In Peekskill, New York, little boy
named Charles Pichford accidently fell down
and ran a splinter in one of his eyes. The
spliuter could not be extracted on account
of the delicacy of the organ, and it will have
to remain in until thrown out in the grad
nal precess of healing.