Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-27
MERE.NIENTION.

heat. the excitement of removal and long conhne-
ment Both were highly priced animals. ''''''''
The humanizing md restraining influence OF the
marriage relation is suggested by a fact reported
in the London Times on the authority Of the chap
lain of the Surry JAIL OF 2,357 prisoners, only
$40 were married men. '.''''''A large omnibus
depot and stables were burned in New Orleans on
the night of the 18th. Seventy mules and four
teen omnibuses were destroyed, besides large
amount Of feed Loss, $4,000. ...''"The Mat
toon (Inois) Gazette, edited by Mr.. VAS DoREN,
formerly Wing, opposes the Black Republican
doctrine of negro equality, political and social,
and advocates the re-establishment Of slavery in
that State instead of such equality. .'.'"A nerv-
GUS grocer at Newark, n j., had S640 in bills,
and fearful of robbers, placed it in measure of
oats for safe keeping. His horse ate it by way of
dessert with his next meal. '''''"An ex Senator of
the Massachusetts, legislature has been sent to the
House of Correction for drunkenness. In 1852
he was one of the warmest advocates Of the Maine
liquor law '......"A murderess named CHARLoTrE,
JONES is now in the prison Mt Pittsburg, Pa, o.
waiting public execution. few days ago her
sister wrote to her to send her some money to pur
chase new dress, that she might 60 to see her
hung! Cousoling, truly. .'..'...Six thousand cot
ton looms, it is stated have been stopped in New
England, in consequence of the high price of cot
ton. ........ Hon. CHAs. McBETH and F. D. RICH
ARpsoY of Charleston, are put in nomination for
the Mayoralty of Charleston ''''""It is said the
estate of the late Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island, amounts to six millions Of dollars. ''''''''
WIZ. B. AsroR, of New York, pays tax of $685.
600; NICHOLAS LoSGwoRTH, Of Cincinnati, pays
$1,000
In 1861, man was prosecuted in London for
selling coffee, which was just then introduced, as
n nuisance and prejudice to the neighborhood.
......The flies arc so bad at York, Pa, that they
tormentcda COW to death, few days since. ''''''"
The Artesian well, at theSt. Louis Sugar Refinery,
has attained the depth of 2200 feet 1t is still
progressing at the rate of three to six inches per
day. ....''"The city authorities Of Keokuk, Iowa,
search the hotel registers, and when they find
stranger has passed thirty days there they charge
him two dollars for street improvements. '''''..'
The workmen engaged in boring an artesian well
in Stryker, village about 90 miles from Toledo,
Ohio found pure diamond last week, at depth
of about 100 feet. The diamond is Of the size OF
an 0fulhary marble, and worth at least 81 ,OUO.
sermon by saying, "Benevolence is sentiment
common to human nature. neverse sees in dis
tress without wishing to relieve him. ".........The
Branch Railroad from Little Rock to Memphis,
has secured $4,000 acres of land, under the act
of Congress, and the Cairo and Fulton road,
total of l,l25 900 acres. The main trunk ira.
verses Arkansas from southwest to northwest, di-
agonally. and is 301 miles long in Arkansas and
ia miles in Tennessee ........The Charlotte Whig
learns that few days ago the people Of the coun-
| ty of Rutherford refused to sanction q subscrip-
ton of 500, ,O00 to the Wilmington, Charlotte and
Rutherford Railroad. The vote was for SUBJ
scription, 562: against subscription, G74-major-
ity against it 112.. ."''."A man in the quiet city
of Boston keeps drinking shop anda coffin ware
house in the same building, and the customers of
the different establishments are frequently seen
leaving the building together .....".The girls of
Northampton have been sending bachelor editor
bouquet of tanzy and wormwood. The wretch
ed individual says he don't care it's sweeter than
matrimony, anyhow. .'.'''...The actual number Of
men conveyed to Nicarr ua from the State of
California to the flag of General WALKER during
the last two years, as shown by the books Of the
old Accessory Transit Company of CHARLES Nor
GAN & SoNs, were no less than 1000 men shipped
up the San Juan river, and $500 received from
California. Mr.. BosTwIoK, late Secretary of
State to Gen. WALKER, says that he can prove by
documentary evidence that no less than 500 fl
libusters have found their graves in Nicaragua.
....."The Carolinian learns that President BUcH-
ANAN will make no more foreign appointments till
Congress convenes. The same paper says that
the friends of Hon. JOHN s. PRESTON have urged
his claims for the mission to Russia '.''.....The
ffty-sixth sgner of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence died just ffty-si1 years after signing it.
.'..'"The receipts of wheat at Wilmington, over
the North Carolina and Wilmington Railroad, had
reached, on Saturday of last week, 90, 600 BUSH
els, since the new crop began to come in.
The New Bedford Mercury says there we're g.
000, 900 pounds of whalebone in the United States
when the hoop fashion came in vogue, and this
was selling at about 60 cents per pound. Since
January 1s, 1867, the imports of this article reach
1900 0C0 pounds; vet there is now little or no !
stock in the market. What remained in the sea-
board cities has been nearly oil bought up at
81 90 per pound. "'''..'The Carohnian says that
the Columbia Mills have advanced the price of
osnaburgs to 13 cents, and of yarns to % cents
per pound. The high price of cotton has rendered
this necessary. .''''""The amount realized from
the sale of tickets in Portland, Me-. of Mr.. EVER
ETT's Grafton on the Character Of Washington,
was 1881. At Brunswick, the sum received was
about $3.50. .'''".'..The first bale of new Cotton
was received at Savannah on Wednesday last. 1t
was from the plantation of Mr.. ALLEN GIBSON, of
Marion County, Fla. The first bale Bas received
at Savannah, last year, on the lst of August ''."
The editor Of the Selma Sentinel has been shown
silver shekel, which was struck in q mint of Ju-
dea 1850 years ago. The coin which is the pro.
perty of an Israelite living in Selma, in whose
family it has been 500 years, is about the size of
half dollar, but the silver is so impure that its
intrinsic value is but fifteen cents. '.'".BENNErT
says the efforts made in the Knoxville Convention
to exclude the reporters of the Northern press,