Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-21
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- The first sugar cane imported into
louisiana was brought from St. Domingo.
- Madame Otto Goldsmith, Jenny. Lind,
gave birth on the 31st of March, at Dres-
den, to daughter.
Our principles are the springs of our
actions; and our actions are the springs OF
our happiness or misery.
Ten thousand Norwegians will prob
ably settle in the West during the coming
summer.
- The story of the discovery of the
ruins of the tower of Babel is confirmed by
the Journal de Constantinople.
-pr. H. Reynolds, of Indiana, was ex-
pelle4 from the National Medical Associa-
ton, which recently met in Nashville, Ten
nessee, for recommendinga patent medicine
- Havana news says brisk trade is
noted in the article of coolies, four cargoes
having arrived since previous advices, say
1922 "in bulk" in:.addition to 45O spoiled
on the passage.
- Fashionably dressed women have now
in Paris diameter precisely twelve feet
Geometricians can calculate the circumter-
ence. They hold on the arms Of the caVali-
ersb by means of handkerchiefs slipped through
the same and are helped to boquets and re-
fresbments attached to the end of long
stick.
Dates from Galveston to the 18th ult.,
at New Orleans state that there was almost
famine for breadstuffs in the counties a.
bove Bastrop, and s2.62 was demanded for
bushel of corn. A meeting Of the citizens
of Bastrop was to..be held to procure aid for
the sufferers.
"A married lady who was in the habit
of spending most of her time in the society
of her neighbors, happened one day to be
taken i'll, and sent her husbandin in great haste
for physician. The husband ran short
distance and then returned, exclaiming,
sMy dear, where shall find you when | get
backw
MIR. Nathaniel Willis, father Of. N. P.
Willis and of "Fanny Fern" who has been
in the editorial harness for the long period
of Sd years, has recently sold his paper,
nThe Youths Companion" and is now an
associate editor instead of sole conductor of
that journal.
- 1T is stated that Buneos Ayres hides
the best quality in market-now sell in
New York for "a IL cents per pound, while
last June the price was % cents. This is a
rise of fully 60 per cent. in eight months,
though the present supply is not less than
usual at this season of the year.
- The editor of French paper, in men
tioning the cause Of its discontinuance, says:
"Our journal has had but one solitary SUBJ
scriber-a dealer in groceries-who paid in
articles out of the store. For two weeks the
two editors of the paper lived exclusively on
salt fish and champagne"
- Hon. Robert j. Walker, Governor of
Kansas, was to have left Washington for that
territory on Monday of last week. Thus far,
his appointment seems to have given general
satisfaction to the settlers, excepting, of
course, the disciples of Horace Greeley,
whose dearest project is to bring about civil
War.
- The business of the Bank of England
is conducted by about eight hundred clerks,
whose salaries amount to about $3.50, ,OO0
The bank in the year 1850, had about twenty
millions of bank notes in circulation. In the
same year there were about FIVE millions de-
posted in the savings banks of the metropo-
lis.
- The Persian Ambassador at Paris,
Ferouck Khan, has just presented to Louis
Napoleon four Arab horses of the purest
blood, from his master, the Shah. The pecu-
liarities are two-that they arc larger than
any blood horses hitherto seen, and that
they have no names. Paris was very much
delighted with the beauty of these animals.
John Dean, who recently kicked up
great hub-bub by marrying Miss Boxer is
rusticating in the pleasant little village of
Franklinville, few miles east of Riverhead
N. Y. He is boarding in the family of Mr..
John N. Sayer, aud is being tutored and
polished by the Rev. Mr.. Reed, Congre-
gational clergyman, preparatory to his debut
among the fashionables in Fifth avenue, New
York city.
Mr.. Bancroft is said to have realized
fifty thousand dollars by his "History of the
United States" Mr.. Prescott, the celebra-
ted historian, derives large revenue from
his literary efforts The recent work of DR..
Kane on "The Arctic Regions" has likewise
been signally successful. We mention these
facts with pleasure. They show that Amer
lean genius is fully appreciated. We are
emphatically reading people.
- The Galveston (Texas) Neps of the
7th instant gives highly favorable accounts
of the growing crops in that State-quite
different from the last advices. A week or
two ago, the people in the western counties
were reported to be almoststarving, but now
the prospects of good crops are encouraging.
The Palestine Advocate learns that ten inches
of snow fell in Hopkins county, on the 1lth
ultimo.
Two hundred and ninety-four shares
of Newberry Bank Stock, belonging to the
estate of Joel R. Smith, deceased, were re-
Gently sold at an average of nearly $50 per