Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-05-22
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- Timber, when cut in the spring and
exposed to the weather with the bark on,
decays much sooner than If cut in the fall
49, They dress cosl out West. A young
lady being asked IL shs should wear that
bonnet to church, replied, she should not
ssear anything else,
"A partizan paper says, "1t is mis-
take that the opposing party plays upon
harp of thousand strings. The organ OF
that party is lyre."
- Some one has been giving John P.
Kennedy's novel-"Horse Shoe Robinson"
"a holiday dressing, having dramatized it
for the Holiday Street Theatre, Baltimore
When man goes three times day
to get dram, l wonder if he will not by
and by go four times. Can anybody an
swcr?
What is the difference between
butcher and gay young lady? The for
mer kills to dress, whilst the latter dresses to
kill.
The New York Herald publishes a
table of the population and wealth Of the
United States in 1855, which puts down the
total population at q, Iii, ,287, and the to-
tai wealth s9,625, ,093,172.
"Bob, that is fine horse you have
there-what is he worth ?" Three hundred
and fifty dollars" "As much as that ?"
Eyes every cent of it." care you sure 7"
"Yes, I'll swear to it." "All right.
"What are you so inquisitive for?" "Be-
cause I'm the Assessor, and want to know
the rate to fix the tax on him"
BosroN, May 13, l856.-Resolutions
in favor of the admission of Kansas under
the free State constitution, and declaring its
speedy admission as free State a measure
of the first importance to the welfare of the
Territory and the tranquility and honor of
the United States, were passed to third
reading in the Senate to-day by vote of
26 to 2.
WASHINGTON, May l5.-Yesterday
afternoon Secretary Marcy sent for Marco
letta, the representative of the late Nicara-
guam government, and as an act of courtesy,
informed him of the determination of the
administration to receive Padre Vigil as the
minister from Nicaragua. Marcoletta COM
planned of it as violation of the law of God
and the law of nations, entering his solemn
protest against the proceeding.
- There are no less than four Presiden-
tial Conventions yet to be held-one by the
Democrats, at Cincinnati-one by the Black
Republicans, at Philadelphia-one by the
Wings, at Louisville-and one by the seced-
ing Know Nothings, at New York. Should
each of these take up separate candidates,
there will be no less than FIVE tickets in the
field.
CAN Wright, when he keeps an ap-
pointment punctually, be likened to we'll
regulated clock because he is Wright to a
minute? Can watch fitted with second
hand be called secondhand watch ? Are
the minutes relating to an affair of honor al
ways drawn up by the seconds How does
pig-iron ballast affect ship when caught in
a violent Sou '-Wester ?-Pnch.
Do not venture into sick room if |
you are in a violent perspiration for the
moment your body becomes cold, it is in I
state likely to absorb the infection nor visit
the sick Cf the complaint be of a contagious
nature) with an empty stomach, nor swallow
your saliva. In attending a sick person,
place yourself where the air passes from the
door or window, to the bed of the invalid,
not between the invalid and the fire, as the
heat of the fire will draw the infectious va
por in that direction, and you would run
much danger from breathing in it.
- An account of the duel between DR..
Wilkins and J. Flanner, commission mer-
chant, of Wilmington, North Carolina, has
been given. The Baltimore Sun says: On
the first fire the ball of the latter cut off
part of the Doctors ear; the second fire put
his ball through the Doctors hat. Nothing
daunted, the latter cody remarked that his
hat was new one, and desired that 1t should |
not be aimed at The seconds here interposed |
and used their best endeavors to reconcile |
the difficulty but without success. The COM
bat was then resumed, when the ill-fated
Doctor was killed at the first fire.
- New YORK, May l6 The George
Law has arrived, bringing 900 passengers
and $780, 900 in gold. A severe accident
happened to the George Laws outward pas
sengers, on the Panama Railroad, by which
80 persons were killed and over so injured.
The citizens of Panama had formed a guard
for the protection of property, and the Gov
ernor had placed force at the disposal Of the
railway The correspondence between the
Governor and Lieut. Bailey, of the St.
Mary's, was sharp, the latter pronouncing
the formers explanation to be unsatisfacto-
ry, and promising himself to take measures
to avert further danger.
- The War i'll Oregon continues. A
body of regular troops had been defeated by
the Indians on Rogue River, with loss Of
% men killed A military station had been
captured by the Indians and burnt, and
several persons were massacred. 1t was
reported that 5000 Indians were approach
ing Dallas from the north. Several other
fights beside that of Rogue River had taken
place, in which the whites were generally
victorious Colonel Buchanan in q subse-