Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-17
NIERE.MENTION.

The article on our fourth page headed "faWK,
you may go now !" was copied from the Darling
ton Family Friend We inadvertently omitted to
give credit. ......,A letter from New York states
that the hotels are perfectly overrun with mer-
chants from the South and West, and business is
said to be exceedingly brisk. ..'."The Methodists
are about building College, to cost S2O OcO, at
jamestown, Gulford county, North Carolina '''''
Hon. Ed. EVERETT has accepted the invitation TO
deliver his lecture on Washington at the Alabama
State Fair. Wheat is selling in Salem n. e.,
at 95c. per bushel ......"It is stated that the
stock of sugar now on hand in Philadelphia
amounts to IL ,l57 hhds., against 1901 hhds., at
the same time last year. ..''."An impertinent
fellow wants to know If you ever sat down to tea
where skinned milk was on the table. without
being asked, "do you take cream '''''''''rhe ed
itor of an Ohio paper publishes the names of his
subscribers who pay up promptly under the head
of s.Ieoion of Honor. ".......Hon. Senator BAY
ARD, it is said, will, in the next Congress- intro
duce his bill for the organization Of n national
printing office. '.'.'""Three Free Mason Lodges
in New York were broken into and robbed of all
their regaa on Monday night of last week. '''''''
The Gaena 1ll.) Courior says "Potatoes are now
selling in that city for twenty cents per bushel.
........The Smith family is well represented on
the democratic ticket in Sacramento, Cal. They
have HORACE SMITH for county judge. ]. G.. SMITH
for public administrator, and j. W. SMITH for
Justice of the peace. ''.""To carry Collins
steamer from New York to Liverpoolrequires 500
tons of coal-enough to keep an ordinary family
40 years. ......".The Atlantic cable was 1l-l6 Of
an inch in diameter-about the size of n dime
The outside composed of 18 strands of small
wire; next 6 strands of yarn; next three coats
of gutta. percha; inside of all copper wires for
telegraphing. 1t weighed 1900 lbs. to the mile.
The Columbia papers announce the death Of MIR.
N. A. Hox1E, for many years merchant in that
city. ......"Col. LocKRIDGE announces through
the New Orleans papers that he has no further
connection with the Nicaraguan cause. Gen.
WALKER is in New Orleans The necessity of at
tention to private business is the cause assigned
for the Colonels withdrawal. ''.'.."A slight frost
was observed at Windsor, Ct, on Sunday of last
week. ......."Accounts from Louisiana state that
the cold season is much retarding the maturity OF
the spring sugar cane. ....."".The New Orleans
Crescent says 'a National Democrat is Democra,
who puts the success of the party above every
other consideration and don't care what becomes
of the South so long as his party can be kept in
strikes US as the best and truest definition of O
National Democrat that we have ever seem
.......Canada is becoming sick of the free negro
population. Petitions ore being forwarded te
England, to send them all off to some of the Eng
lish tropical islands, ......." Bookseller TOWNSEND
in Columbia 10 to issue a new Southern Almanac
......."The Secretary of War has ordered severa
additional companies Of artillery to repair to Kan
sas Governor WALKER will have two thousand
one hundred and fifty United States soldiers at his
command in time for the October elections in tha
Territory. ......'...Lrdge TANEY was appointed It
the Supreme Bench by President JACKSON in 1896
He has held his great Office twenty-one years.
His predecessor, Chief Justice MARSHALL, was OF
the bench thirty FIVE years, being appointed by
President ADAMS in 1901. ....'...No less than 170(
coolies we're lately landed in Cuba from four ships
....."Upward Of $4,000 worth of blackberrie:
were shipped from Madison, Ind, this season
........The silk industry in France alone employ:
q greater number of people than all American
manufacturing establishments together. 1.-THE
first hogshead of new sugar was received at New
Orleans, Aug 81. '''''''The number of member:
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
States. is estimated at 1858 ,912. 1.-THE emf
grafton from Germany to America has taken ar
increased start this summer, 10000 ablebodiet
men, having departed from the duchy of Mecklen
burg-Schweern alone. .'.'.'..The cOlored ODD
Fellows, made an imposing display in Philadelphia
recently, on the occasion of laying the Corner
Stone of their new Hall.
The Cape May Ocean Ware says that large
whale passed within short distance Of Cape Is
land, going towards the lighthouse, on Sunday
Both ult. He was very large one, fifty or sixty
feet of him visible Mt time. .....'''The Philadel'
phia Evening Journal suggests thattwo American
/! cities which have obtained preemineuce in mora