Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-07
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shrink in.adversity.
The Broadway Tabernacle Society, OF
New York city, is about to erect a new
church on 9th Avenue and 34th street -
The land coast $4,000, and the church
which is to be of white marble, will cost
about s45,0 900 more.
One egg dealer in Philadelphia sends
100 barrels of eggs daily to the New York
market.
The Louisville Democrat says that j.
B. Stewart, Esq, lawyer Of that city, has
received 800, 900 for his services in securing
the Reedside claim from the government
The suit was compromised by government
paying $3.50, 900 of which Mr.. Stewart gets
one half.
- The most beautiful flowers are those
which are double, such as double pinks,
double roses, and double dahlias. What an
argument is this against the chilling deforn-
ity of single bedsteads! "Go marry is
written on everything beautiful that the
eye rests upon-beginning with birds OF
paradise and leaving off with apple blossoms.
"A Vermont editor gives the following
advice to the ladies: "When you have got
a man to the sticking point-that is, when
he proposes-don't turn away your head, or
affect blush or refer him to pa, or ask for
more time; all those tricks are understood
now; but just look him right in the face,
give him hearty "buss," and tell him to
20 and order-a cradle"
The Picayune understands that new
institution, to be called the Crescent City
Bank, is to be established in New Orleans
under the free banking law, the capital of
which is to be 100000, with the privi-
ledge of extending it to s5,OOO,000. The
arrangements are, we learn, in the hands of
some of the most prominent merchants, and
subscriptions are now being taken up in fur
therance of the objects.
A lady occupying room letter 3. at
hotel, wrote on the slate as follows: "Wake
letter B. at seven and if letter B. says, ''let
us be-" don't let us be, nor let letter B. be,
because if you let letter B. be, letter B. will
be unable to let her house to Mr.. B. who is
to be on hand at half past seven" The port
er, better boot black than orthographist,
after studying the above all night, did not
know whether to wake B. or "let her be-"
- The New York Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation numbers over $500 persons, and has
cash fund of 100000, which it is said,
will be expended in testing the constitution
ality of the license law recently passed by
the Legislature. A committee of nine has
been appointed to proceed to Albany and
obtain the opinion of the attorney general on
the question. 1t is stated that under this
law not one dealer, in FIVE hundred will be
able to obtain license.
- The annual Report of the President
of the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road
shows gradual increase of business. The
income of 1856 has been .S307 ,808.SO !;
while that of 1855, was s279, 9,012.56, show
ing an increase for 1856, of s2S, ,797.24.--
Expenditures for 1856, reached Sl95, ,970.50;
those for 1855, $1s1, 1850. Increase of
expenses in 1856, over 1856, Sid, ,234.9
Net increase of income for 1856, SD, ,651. .34
There is an item in the expense account of
$4,000, for interest on the debt of the
Company.
The Cleavland Herald, in noticing the
passage through that city, on their way
West, of Mr. Rasserd, aoith his acite and
fifteen children, says they were noted as
the finest and neatest looking specimens of
movers ever seen, They were from Elmira,
New York. The Herald adds "In appear
ance the family were rare instance of
health, intelligence and thrift. The oldest
child was seventeen years old, and the young
est was at the breast: and the mother had a
look of cheerfulness and bodily vigor that
many of our city danes of half her years
might envy.
According to Humbolt there is tree
in the South Sea Islands which produces
ready made shirts. The natives cut pieces
of the tree about two feet long, from which
they drew off the bark as of chesnut to
make whistles. Each man selects a tree
near his own diameter, so that the shirt may
be good fit. When the bark is off they
cut hole in each circle to admit their arms
The shirts do not require any washing,
starching, and a more convenient article for
loafors could not be imagined. The same
country produces bread fruit, so that fellow
may get his board and clothes gratis.
The ladies dresses are to undergo a
modification, says French journal-though
as yet only the sleeves and corsage have
been touched; the jupe and crinoline will
take their turns. 1t is reform that begins
at the top. The new sleeves called al a juive
are daily gaining ground, and they will soon
be seen traversiug the Boulevards. They are
spacious and flowing, allow part of the arm
to be seen, and descend perpendicularly to
the hem of the robe. Each of these sleeves
takes two yards and quarter of material.
Some twenty-five yards will now be small
pattern for a dress. Is it not time to ask,
what are We coming to
- The New York Herald says that
George Peabody, the American banker of
London, who has been travelling extensively