Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-30
MERE-MENTION.

A writer in the Charleston Mercury nominates
Gen. JAMES HAMILTON, as the proper man to fill
Senator BUTLERs place ...'.""The great confag-
ration in New Orleans on the 9th destroyed pro-
perty valued at quarter of q million Of dollars.
'''''""RIcHARn BoYLsToN, one of the oldest news
paper editors in New Hampshire, died at his resi-
dence in Amherst, on Sunday, aged IS years. '''''
catfish has been caught in the Kansas river,
which weighed Ill pounds. '..''.'"Over 400 stu
dents have already made engagements for the
next session at the University of Virginia, and the
number, it is supposed will reach 800. ''.'''1t
has been decided in the Kentucky Court of ap-
peals, that man may marry his mothcr-in-law-
if she'll let him. .....A writer in BlackWood says
that every man who is not q monster mathemati-
clan or mad philosopher, Is the slave Of some
woman or other:...". .".Charleston papers announce
the death of Mrs. ELIZABETH B. EowNDEs, Wife
of tile Hon. WM LowNDEs and daughter of Gov.
THOMAS PINcKNEY, in the 10Th year of her age.
......~Gen. Houston and H. R. RUNNELs are can
didates for the Governorship of Texas. .'.'"A
School teacher who was married Mt Upton, 1ndi-
ann, on the 7th inst, was arrested the same even
ing at Kokomo, on charge of bigamy. Heis
said to have eight wives ....""France has navy
of 527 vessels, of which 209 are steamers. They
are armed with 14,077 guns. 1.-THE meeting
of the State Temperance Society of 8. c., met at
Chester on the 2lst., and and continued its deli-
L A. 1I,o
was held on Tuesday night which was eloquently
addressed by Rev. J. R. PICKET and ]. H. HuD-
SON, ESQ.,, of Bennettsville On Wednesday the
the Society was addressed by Hon. JSo. B. o.
NEALL.
Twenty children were recently poisoned in Gin
cinnati, by eating lozenges composed of arsenic,
-four and sugar, which were scattered through the
street. Two of the children have died and others
are not expected to live. ."...'.."JAMEs r. THoMP-
SON, bar:keeper at the Exchange Hotel, Mont
gomery, Ala, was killed few days since in a rem
counter with man by the name of FOSTER. ''''''''
The price of leather is advancing still higher, so
Northern papers state:....'".A correspondent Of
the Carolina Spartan nominates Ex-Gov. JAMES
| Fl. ADAMS for U S. Senate ..."...The THibodeauz
Minerra, of the 4th inst, says: People hereabouts
complain much from a want Of sleep, caused by
the rapid growth of the cane and corn crops, keep
ing I'D such noise and confusion rs to render
the closing of the eyes the next thing to mpossi'
bility. The health of the country is distressing
to doctors. ....."Colonel L. B. LueKiE, editor Of
the Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Enterprise, was killed
on the 9th inst, in personal rencounter. ..''''
Prof. GEORGE W. GREENE, grand son Of General
GREENE. of the Revolution, is about to publish
the Generals "Papers. "..'.'."The students Of 8.
C. College have erected tablet, in the cemetery
of Trinity Church, Columbia, to the memory Of
Prof ROBERT HENRY, D. .'.'..""There is now,
in the Minnesota mine at Lake Superior, mass
of pure metallic copper, forty five feet in length
and nine feet thick. 1t must contain about FIVE
hundred tons, and is worth $150,00O as it lies.
......"The Herald announces the death of MIR.
RICHARD DENTON, of Laurensville, which occur
red on Wednesday last. 1.-THE Nicaraguar
war. schooner Granada, which was delivered to
the Costa Ricans by Captain Davis, after taking
it from Gen. Walker, sunk in the harbor of Sar
Juan del Sur with all the arms and ammunition
which were in her belonging to the Nicaraguans
and some additional arms which were put on hel
afterwards. .....A late statitian says if oil oul
old maids should marry, the manufacturers of sin
gle bedsteads would be utterly ruined.