Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-12
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'-----zIn CASTOR county, at the late Super
!. ior Court, Jacob Rudicill, tried for the muir
der Of Michael Mendenhall, was convicted o.
man-slaughter; and sentenced to II month:
Imprisonment and pay a fine of 81 900.
& The Supreme Court of Tennessee, in
session at Knoxville, decided, the other
day, that betting on an election held out Of
the State, is not indictable in Tennessee
! Betting on the result ofan election in Ken
tncky, for instance, is not an offence against
: the laws of Tennessee.
Mississippi is to be added to the list
of States which have prohibited the circula'
ton of bank notes ofa less denomination than
FIVE dollars. q, law to this affect went into
operation the first day of November. This
applies to the foreign bank notes, as there is
no bank,of issue in Mississippi
ss,-T The Alexandria (Virginia) Sentinel
learns by gentleman from the neighbor,
hood of Dumfries, in Prince William coun.
ty, that large numbers of hogs are dying
there of the Hog Cholera. One farmer had
lost thirty-four, and two others twelve each.
The vomitings, purgings and cramps which
mark the disease are such as at once to sug-
gest theJname by which it is known.
ss- .Ion", of the Baltimore Sun, says
that in case Brigham Young avowed an in
tention to resist the United States authori-
ties, it is believed that half his Mormon fol-
lowers would desert him, as they already
suffer from his tyranny. This Mormon ques-
ton has assumed really serious aspect, al
though the Administration does not seem to
regard it as of much importance.
- The products of the California miners
the last six years are put down at S444 ,O9l, )
600 ; those of Australia, since their discov-
cry, at $296, ,904, 900 in allan increase Of
about one third, according to the best statis-
tictal writers, on the value of precious met
ais known in 1850. The total value of gold
and silver in the world at the present time,
then, is upwards of s2,OOO,OOO,OOO.
- Major McCulloch, United States Mar
shal, has returned to Galveston, from his
Northern and Western tour. The Civilian
says he denies the soft impeachment of be-
ing afflicted with the Nicaragua fever. A
colony of fssixty it is said, would 60 to Mica
ragua from Fort Bend and adjoining coun-
tries, with implements of husbaudry as we'll
as of warfare, intending to become perma-
nent settlers and cultivators of the soil.
a letter to the St. Louis Leader, da-
ted Fort Laramie, September IA, gives a
most favorable report of the health of the
United States army for Utah Itsays: owe
have scarcely any unfit for duty, and have
not lost man by disease on the route" "
The progress of the army has been at the
rate Of seventeen and three-fourths miles per
day. twenty-five miles have been accom-
plished without difficulty.
- The city of ofWashington is very nearly
rivalipg Baltimore in scenes of riot and dis
order. Hardly day passes that some out
rage is not committed, and the offenders are
seldom brought tojustice. On Saturday hight
last and Sunday following, the city was COM
pletely under the sway Of rowdies-the po-
lice having not the slightest authority. Arm
ed bands of rufians patrolled the streets,
assaultipg peaceable citizens, firing pistols,
and defying all municipal power.
"A proposition has been made so to
amend the marriage law of Illinois, as to
requirethat the prospective husband and wife,
on any given day, enter in the Office of any
officer legally empowered to do such duty,
a written declaration to become man and
wife. From that day, for one year, let them
associate as lovers, or break the engagement
ifthe choose then, at the end Of the year,
if they again express their determination to
become husband and wife, let the contract
be sealed.
-' The Southern Recorder learns from
a gentleman of Crawford county, that a, Mrs.
Nancy Eubanks, formerly Miss Dickson Of
Hancock, was terribly gored in the stomach
by a bull on the 9Th Oct. ult., ripping ii
open from side to side, letting out her entire
intestines She gathered them in her apron
and climbed three fences in that awful con-
dition; she would have been killed before
she could have escaped, had it not have been
for a fee dog she had along with her at the
time who kept the bull at bay. Mrs. z. is
in the list year Of her age, and was alive
on the Goth ult., though not considered ou
of danger.
Among other innovations which the
mammoth steamer Great Eastern is about tc
inaugurate, will be republication of a dali.
paper on board for the benefit of the travel
ing public-the regular ''public" of travel
ers-whom she may be bearing across th'
I. ocean. But this startling features is antici
pated Oh the western waters of the New
World for the New Orleans and St. Loui
packet steamer James E. Woodruff nov
sails equipped with the force and materia
for the publication of regular daily pape
on board during he's trips up and down tn
river, with job Office attached for the print
ing of bills of fare and other work.
The vintage has been progressing il
the State of Missouri for some week and i
now about ended. The yield it is said i
unprecedentedly large-the winners ar
reapipg larger crop than they had provided
for; and in consequence there is scarcit
of barrels and cellar-room. The Louis Wes
tiche Posi- says the grapes are UNUSUAL.