Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-14
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- Bayard Taylor was surprised as well
az deliehted to hear Yankee Doodle played
at his stopping place in Laplaud.
The late legislature Of Maine has re-
stored the old law requiring the publication
of intentions of marriage.
The Family Friend (Darlington) has
received the present of turnip eighteen
inches in circumference.
"A prime article of beef is selling In
the Wilmington IN. Co. market for 20 cents
per fb.
-" "Capital punishment" as the boy
said when the school-mistress seated him
with the girls.
The Rutherford Democrat says that
VIM. j. Wilson, of Haywood county, is out
for Congress in the Sth District IN opposi-
ton to Mr.. Clingman.
I'm New Orleans, a few nights since,
young man, twenty three years of age, lost
s47, 900 at roulette. He paid it next NOR
ming and left the city.
A recruiting Office has been opened
in Charleston, S. c., by the Governor OF
Florida, for volunteers to engage in the In
dian war in that State.
A dispatch from Washington says that
the orders of the late Administration, regard.
ing the protection of persons and property OF
citizens of the United States at Panama, re-
main in force and will be executed at all
hazards, even to the seizure Of the lsthmus
Judge Goodenow, the oldest member
of the Supreme bench of Maine, has given
an opinion in answer to the State Senate,
that colored persons are still voters in Maine,
in spite of the Dred Scott decisions OF the
United States Judges.
s-V1cKsBURG, Miss, May 6.-The sum
Of ninety six thousand dollars was subscribed
here Yesterday to purchase plantation to be
presented to Ex-President Franklin Pierce.
Only $4,000 is required to complete the pur-
chase.
A man named Aaron Bedbug, of
Montgomery county KY, intends petitioning
the legislature to change his name. He says
that his sweetheart, whose name is Olivia,
is unwilling that he should be called A.
Bedbug, she O. Bedbug, and the little ones
little Bedbugs.
The Cologne Gazette of the 9th April,
states it is very remarkable that, in this year
as may not happen for many years again, all
days and dates correspond exactly with those
of 1S49, as also all movable festivals, with
out exception, and even the quarter days, so
that the calendar of 1S49 may be of much
use for this year.
Comet panics are no novelty. During
one of these popular trepidations, the French
Academy of Science offered prize for the
solution of the problem What are the chan
ces of the earth being struck by the impend-
ing comet? The answer, if we recollect,
was one chance for; two millions against
The public agitation Immediately subsidized
Gen. Cass, it is said, exhibits surpri-
sing vigor, industry and endurance in his Of
fetal labors. He rises and commences work
atfve, and is continually engaged, with small
respite, till eight or nine at night His diet
is, however, very sparing, and he sticks
still to cold water. Now and then he indul-
ges in cup of coffee, the only exhilaratlng
beverage which he can use.
An old maid recently died at Newton
N. H., who left property to the value of
nearly $4,000. She was all her lifetime
getting ready to be married, and had stored
up 1872 sheets, 65 coverlets, so blankets, q
beds, with 112O pounds of feathers, 81 pill
lows, 43 handkerchiefs; while the whole
amount Of her wearing apparel did not ex. :,
ceed ten dollars in value.
The South Carolinian of Monday,
says: awe were shown yesterday, by Mr..
Lieber, State Geologist, very rich speci-
men of copper ore, from the South Carolina
Copper Mining Company, near the town
of Yorkyille. Mr.. Lieber Informed US that
it was expected that by July they would be
able to make the first shipment. The ORE
in state to be shipped will be worth from
S100 to Sl25 per ton"
-BosToN, May 2.-The amendments
to the constitution which were voted yester-
day were carried by large aggregate majori-
ties. They are lst, That every voter shall
be able to read the constitution in the Eng
lish language, and to write his own name
I'd. Limits the House of Representatives to
24O members, to be elected by districts.
Sd. Provides for the choice of forty Senators
in single districts instead of counties, as here
tofore.
The daily tippler who is just as "much
of temperance man as anybody" has gone
to spend week with the rumseller who is
afraid the professed friends of the cause
nwill ruin it." The professor who thinks
the business ought to be licensed so as to
furnish lique for "medicine," has taken
home fve.yallon prescription in keg, and
the candid gentleman who never believes in
"carrying things too far" only carries eight
drinks day from the bar to his throat
These individuals are about to form moral
suasion temperance society.
The students of the Howard College,
Alabama, have erected monument over the
grave of the slave Harry, who lost his life
while arousing the students from sleep upon
the occasion of the burning of the College