Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-30
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ter staying In the clouds all nlSnt, ailShleo
on the 9Th near Wilmington, Delaware, lett
his assistant, and then ascended again with
one passenger, since which time, rumor saith,
he has not been heard from.
The Evansville (Md.) Journal says
the wheat crop of Indiana, last year, was
estimated at 5000, 900 bushels. A farmer,
who processes to be we'll acquainted with the
principal wheat districts in the State, says
this years crop will exceed 100000 bush
els &c.. ..t
-In Wesley, Arkansas, fourteen year
old boy, who had gone to drive the COWS
from pasture, taking with him a gun loaded
for partridges, discovered three wolves among
the herd, and secreting himself behind
stump, killed the largest one, and scared on
the other two The wolf killed measured O.
yer six feet in length.
New York editors have a penchant
for European life. Mr.. Bryant, of the
Evening Post, is abroad with his family
Mr.. Raymond, of the Times, has gone to
place his wife and children in Paris for a
wear or two. The wife of Mr.. Bennett, Of
the Herald, resides permanently in Paris,
and, report says, spends one-quarter of the
great income of that establishment. VIM.
Henry Herbert is now the leading editorial
writer of the New York Times.
Cardinal Wiseman says, in one of his
sermons, that the Roman Catholic Church
has ever held that, religious duties duly per-
formed, the Christian Sunday is to be re-
garded and used by all, and especially by
the great bulk of the people, as day of In
nocent amusement and recreation, and that
such should be afforded to them by the State
BY every means in its power. This, he
thought it right to declare publicly, was, and
is, the mind of the Church of Christ CRo-
man Catholic on the subject :
Notwithstanding the fears of almost all
of us that the wheat crop would be cut short,
if not entirely ruined, by the late frosts of
the Spring, we are happy to be in receipt of
intelligence from almost every portion of the
State, that there is not only in cultivation
greater number of acres of wheat than any
previous year, but that the actual yield per
acre will be greater than ever was produced
before. Arkansas will, ere long, be one Of
the best wheat States in the Union.
Little Rock Gazette.
- George Peabody, Esq, proposes to
make Newburyport, Mass, present of slO-
900 when they shall designate some appro-
pirate object for which it shall be given. 1t
is stated by those well qualified to jud ge,
that Notwithstanding, the princely, or rather
republican, muni6cence of Mr.. Peabody,
which has amounted since he has been in
this country to over half million of dollars,
such is the extraordinary amount of business
done by his banking house, he is worth
more now than on the day he left England.
1t is a noticeable fact that boys under
twenty constitute majority of all ordinarily
engaged in broils and riots. This results
from the neglect and bad influence Of care
less and criminal parents, and from the inef-
fcient provision made for their education
and care of "street children" One juvenile
workhouse or asylum is worth ten jails or
State prisons, as "an ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure" And one engine
house where boys are allowed to congregate
is worse than ten grog-shops.
"A late number of the Fredericksburg
Herald, says gentleman who seemed to be
conversant with the facts, informed US the
other day, that Richard Baylor, Esq, would
make, on his Sandy Point estate, lying along
James river, twenty thousand bushels of
wheat this season! And that Mr.. Allen,
whose estate or estates border on the same
river, would make thirty thousand bushels.
Mr.. Allen is represented to have made twen-
ty-fve thousand bushels heretofore. We
presume he is one of the largest wheat grow
ers in the State Mr.. Baylor has also large
estate on the Rappanhannock, some 5000
acres, if our memory serves us correctly, and
in all probability grows more wheat and corn
than any other man in Virginia.
- Amongst other appliances which have
been sought to augment the musical effects
at the approaching Handel Festival is a
monster drum. The tone is full and resound-
ing and more resembles that of bourbon
organ pipe, both in quality and continuance,
than that generally obtained from an instru-
ment of percussion. The vibration contin-
ues after the drum has been struck for near
ly minute, and for longer period its pull
sations are distinctly perceptible at short
distance. The diameter is between six and
seven feet. The frame is said to contain
nearly three hundred pieces of mahogany,
adroitly joined in manner best adapted to
secure its freedom from warping.
The following singular fact is record
ed by the Paris correspondents of the Jour-
nal of Commerce: "Looking just now at a
list of joint stock companies, I was struck
with the title of the General Company of Fic-
titious or Counterfeit Wines, formerly sane
toned by the Prefect of Police. 1t is stated
in the advertisement that no grape juice nor
alcohol is used; but the ingredients are not
specified. The capital of the company is
two million of francs; the shares are twenty
thousand in number; the product is sold at
from four to eight cents the quart, and has
the taste, the appearance, and 'all the hygi-
enic qualities of the good and natural wines
The company has been quite successful; the