Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-24
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different objects. Some it thardens like mud
whilst others it softens like wax.
- The revenue derived from passengers
on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, fol
the month of August just passed, is Sol, ,74O
For the corresponding month last year, the
receipts were S20,3O2.O3.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Lentinel states that
the steam -four mill at that place turns out
daily two hundred and eighty barrels Of -four.
Until within few years, Georgia was large
importer of -four, and now she is large ex'
ported.
DR.. G. C. Puckett, formerly editor and
proprietor of the Independent Press, pub
lished at Abbeville, C. H., and who but a
month ago was licensed to practice medicine
by one of the medicinal schools in Philadel-
phia, departed this life at his residence in
Abbeville on Friday night last.
1t gives US much pleasure to state that
Hon. Thos. H. Benton, who has been con.
fined to his house in this city for several days
by an attack of illness, which at times threat
ened to terminate fatally, isnow pronounced
by his physicians to be out of all immediate
danger Washington Untoon. =.
a correspondent of the Boston Post,
noticing the contemplated closing of the facto-
ries at Lowell, Massachusetts,, says that du-
ring the last month more than seven hun
dred of the Irish population have purchased
return tickets to Liverpool, attracted by the
improved and improving state of agricultural
interests in the Emerald Isle.
Little girl-"Pa, didn't you whip me
for biting Tommy" Papa.-"Yes, my
child, you hurt him very much!' Little girl.
"Well, then, pa, you ought to whip mammals
music teacher, too, for he bit mamma right
in the mouth yesterday, and l know it hurt
her, because she put her arms round his neck,
and tried to choke him p
Bob, negro man, belonging to our
townsman, John w. Walker, was found
dead in his house in Town, on Sabbath NOR
ming. DR.. John Knox held q Coroner's In
quest on the body, but no facts were elected,
except that he apparently came to natural
and sudden death on the evening previous.
Chester Standard.
- The Post Office Department rules that
it is illegal to carry letters not enclosed in
stamped envelope over rail road transport
ing the mails, unless it relates exclusively to
the business of the said road. It is the duty
of Postmasters, if they obtain sufficient evi-
dence to sustain prosecution, to report any
and all such cases to the U. S. District At
torney.
- The news of the telegraph disaster ap-
pears to have been received at Newfoundland
with less astonishment than disappointment
1t is stated that Mr.. Osborne expected the
accident to occur. He at once telegraphed to
Peter Cooper esq, president of the company,
stating that if appointed chief engineer, with
full powers, be would stake reputation, time,
and 1000, if he did not succeed in laying
down the cable at the rate of not less than
eight nautical miles per hour.
- Mr.. Philip Clarke, formerly of Iowa
city, returned to that place day or two since
from California, after an absence of eight
wears. He left wife and children, and a
valuable farm, when he went to California.
He finds on his return, that his wife has
long since married, having first secured
divorce and decree giving the farm for her
support. The farm has been sold and is now
in other hands, and his former wife is in some
other part of the country.-Albamy States
nan.
- The decline in the value of sugars in
the United States, already probably amounts
to several millions of dollars, and is likely to
be much larger before the end is reached
The sugar spectators were correct in their
calculations of the deficiency of supply at
the beginning of the season, but they did not
take into consideration the great falling off
in consumption consequent upon high prices.
1t is stated that considerable portion of the
stock in the United States is owned by Span
ish houses in Cuba.
- The N. York Times has the following
notice of Mr.. jackson, whose relationship to
the General is considerably inquired about:
uHe is son of Mr.. James Donelson, who
was brother of the wife of General Jack
son. Another brother, Mr.. VIM. Donelson,
now living in Philadelphia, was born at the
same time-that is to say, VIM. Donelson
and the so called 'Andrew jackson, jr., are
twins. When the twins We're two days old,
as Gen. jackson and his wife had no child
rem, they took one of them and adopted it as
their own child, naming it Andrew jackson,
jr.' The sAndrew Jackson, jr., grew up as
the child of the General and his wife. He
has often been confused witw Andrew Jack
son Donelson. The latter is his cousin"
- The New York Correspondent of the
Charleston News, states, that Andrew Jack
son, Jr., who is now staying at the Metropoli-
tan Hotel, is out in letter declining to
present the gold snuff box left by his vener-
ated father to be given to that patriot "most
valiant il defence of his country and his
country's rights, to be adjudged by his coun-
trymen," owing to the conflict of opinions
existing as to who that patriot really is. So
the snuff box will return to the Hermitage
there to remain until such times as the peo-
ple of New York State shall concentrate up
on some honored son, distinguished above all
others to receive the precious token, Gin