Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-06-04
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As great body is not without like
shadow, neither is any eminent virtue with
out eminent detraction.
Never 60 to bed at ten, leaving your
wife up till two with sick baby; and look
pitchforks at her at the breakfast table, be-
cause that meal is half an hour too late.
The gubernatorial candidates in Ten
nessee have taken the ''stump" and have
designated over fifty places where they pur-
pose making speeches between this and the
third of August. They will unquestionably
have warm time of it.
-S So perfect were the Egyptians in the
manufacture of perfumes, than some of their
ancient ointment, preserved in an alabaster
vase in the museum at Alnwick, still retains
a very powerful odor, though it must be be-
tween 1000 and 3,001 years old.
Accounts from the middle section of
North Carolina, tell of great scarcity of corn,
amounting in some cases to fear of famine
and the actual death of stock for want Of
food. The Salem Press says that at sale
in Stokes county, on the 18th inst, corn
sold for s205 per bushel-cash.
-The Milton IN. CO. Chronicle, says that
the following high prices were paid at Yam
cyville, last Saturday, for negroes sold on
the block. They belonged to the estate of
the late Nathaniel Lea :-"Milly, 40 years
old and bed-ridden, $1,000; Maria and two
children, 1866; Mary and two small chill
dren, s2,402. Sold on a credit of six months.
- Professor Emmons in his recent re-
port to the Legislature of North Carolina,
mentions the discovery in the sedimentary
rocks of Montgomery county, in that State,
of fossils, of an age anterior to any previous
discoveries of traces of animal life. Profes-
sor Emmons contends, therefore, that, so far
as Investigations have resulted in discoveries,
that part of the country was the scene of the
first manifestation of that Great principle.
Some lively moralist once prettily re-
marked that the press is the artillery of
thought. Yet as many tropes and SMILES
might be cited against as in favor of the
mighty and popular, dreaded and adored en-
CINE. That the liberty of the press is the
glory of popular governments is, indeed, a
truism; and the assertion of Lemontey that,
since the discovery of printing, not single
government has perished which had not pre-
viously enslaved the press, is as near truth
as general assertions can well be.
- The Louisville Journal says the lar
gest sale of corn that was ever made in Louis
vile, took place on the 10th instant, at auc-
ton, under decree of the Chancery Court.
The lot comprised 1896 sacks, or about l6,-
900 bushels. 1t was offered in parcels of 90
sacks, the buyer having tho privilege of ta-
king 1000 sacks. The whole was taken for
home consumption, and the extreme prices
were 90 1-2 cents to Sl.O2 IL per bushel,
averaging 96 cents per bushel. The terms
were four months credit interest added.
Tho oitiaonr of Huntsville. Ala pro-
pose to call a meeting of the people of Han
cock county to provide means for the relief
of the destitute and suffering people of her
sister counties. In Hancock and other sparse
ly populated counties the desttution is such
that many cattle and hogs have died from
starvation, and the farmers have in some in
stances deserted their homes and gone to
where they could obtain the necessaries of
life, leaving their fields and their houses to
take core of themselves
- A steam plow has just been brought
into use in France, and is in possession of
company with a capital of a million of francs.
1t was constructed by two brothers named
Barrat, and is called Ia piocheuse ('the pick
axer')-a machine which, from the descrip-
ton, may be supposed to do its duty with
series of revolving or descending mattocks.
The machine is locomotive, which carries
itself over the soil, and digs it up to the
depth of from Is to 20 centimetres. 1t has
no resemblance to plow, and the French
journals say that it does its work better than
any plow heretofore constructed.
- Brigham Young the great Mormon,
has no fancy for marrying rich wives. He
says: "Some want to marry woman be-
cause she has got property, some want a rich
wife; but never saw the day when would
not rather have poor woman. l never saw
the day that l wanted to be hen-pecked to
death, as I should have been, if married
rich wife I asked one of my family, when
in conversation upon this very point, what
did you bring when you came to me? ~
brought shirt, and a dress, and a pair of
slippers, and sun bonnet" and she is as
high prize as ever got in my life, and a
great deal higher than many would have been
with cart loads of silver and gold"
If people eoiU make chimneys of their
noses, the best way is to furnish cheap fuel.
We are therefore pleased to 6rd, on page
2O7, vol. 2, of the Patent Office Report for
1855, preparation of maize leaf as SUBJ
stitute for tobacco; patented February 20,
1855. To soak maize leaf in diluted e1-
tract of quassia and capsicum, in the pro-
portion of one pound of maize leaf to four
ounces of quassia and half an ounce of ca
piscum, will produce, it is said good sub.
stitute for tobacco, in the manufacture of
cigars. Now better substitute exists with
out any patent, in the sunhower leaf, gath
cred and cured in the same manner as to-
bacco. 1t is finer in favor, burns equally
well, and is not so nasty. We are not sure
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