Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-02
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p Ofthe as Senators who took their
seats in the eighteenth Congress, in 1923,
but two survive, viz: Martin Van Buren,,
of New York, and John Branch of North Car.
,-An editor in Iowa is said to have be-
come SO hollow from depending upon the
printing business alone for bread, that be
proposes to sell ,himselffor stove pipe at three
eents foot. =
On Monday last in Moorefeld, Hardy
county, Va, D. R. McNeill sold for cash
four slave men, at s1,l00 each; VIM. s.
Cunningham one at 81 ,050, David Vanmeter
one man and one woman, 81 ,806 each,
- A French writer has said that .to
dream, gloriously. You must act gIoriously
while yeq are awake; and to bring angels
down to converse with you in your sleep, you
mus. labcr iu the eausesef virtue during the
day.. ..s~s. rs =. =: .,,.~,.
vA letter from New. York has thefol-
lowing item: "a Company Of Swiss is now
being made up in this city to form acoieoy
in. Western Virginia They have been offer
ed, 10000 acres, at 81 rs per acre, and in'
tend sending. a commissioner out to make an.
exanination of that tract" $50. -
s--The questions has been asked, would
apin thefrst week and doubled every week
fss.a year, load .be Leviathan. as Allowing
thirty pins tothe ounce it would load two
hundred and thaseen thousand two hundred
and thirty-eight pessslsoarrying $4,000 tons
each, which is thestonnage of the LeVia-'
than Rss
The Alexandra Gazette, referring to
Harper's Magazine for September, being
issued on the 18th of August, thinks it
possible that the October number will be
published on the lst Of September, and that
after awhile, we shall have the numbers
year in advance. This is q fast age.
-Eveybody must have altered very much
in short time; only a few years since, Gen.
jackson, being seated between two ladies,
said he felt Ikea thorn surrounded BY roses.
v. s. NJ. saysEa few days ago, while riding
in an omnibus, and being seated between
two ladies, he felt like stave in hogshead
ofmolasses, surrounded BY hoops. ,-
ii SAY, Jones, how is. it that your
wife dresses SO magni6cently, and you al
ways appear out at the elbow? Jones Gm-
pressively :. and sigui6capty@-'You .see,
Thompson, my wife dresses according to the
Gazette of Fashion, and I dress according to
my ledger Thempsonsmells at rat, and Finn
mediately tIes TO- get his little account settled
-and don't sucoe@.
49, Captain Travis; Of Louisville, has ao-
quired great reputation as good shot, but
his feat performed emily a few days ago
is psshaps the best shot on record. 1t is re-
latedthat be put cork on top of bottle,
and on the cork bullet, and then putting
.shetarget thirty-four feet from him, welded
together the bullet he shot and the one he
shot ut. .....
We learn that sut Miller, the hero of
the Lovengood papers, died suddenly, in the
neighborhood Of Ducktown, week or two
since. Poor sut After having innumerable
encounters and conflicts with man and beast
been shot several times, and consumed
"bust, ,head"n enough to run an over-s6ot mill
for forty days aud nights, died ingnobly at
last from blow inflicted with the fist of
fellow-man.-Athens { (Tennessee) Banner.
The name of Cyrus W. Field promises
to become quite as renowned as that of Cyrus,
King of Persia. He is now certainly float
ing on the popular wave. Among the inter-
minable honors proposed to be heaped upon
him, is that of the Governership of New
York. A Northern paper flies his name at
its mast head for President in 1860. The
popular gentlemen's friends seem determined
to take the Field sufficiently early.
- The Utah correspondent of the N. Y:
Times writes: There is a rumor abroad
that it is probable another exodus of the Lat
ter Day Saints may yet take place. An
agent has been here from Colonel Kinney,
profering the sale of land in Nicaragua to
Brigham Young, for the future location of
the Mormon people. 1t scarefully circulated,
likewise, that Brigham has declined the
purchase. But careful observers will gen.
orally conclude, here, when project is very
earnestly denied, that there is some truth in
it.
The violin which Ole Bull uses in his
concerts is of very considerable value. 1t
was made in 1862 by Gaspard de Salo, by
order of Cardinal Aldobrandi, (afterward
Clement Will and is ornamented with
chasings by Benvenuto Cellini. The Cardi-
nal gave the instrument to the Treasury
of Inspruck, but in 1909 it fell into the
possession of French soldier, who sold it to
DR.. Paganini, brother of the celebrated viol-
mist, and he bequeathed it on his death-bed
to Ole Bull.
Chicago papers are filed with
reports Of the speeches of Senator Douglas
and his opponent, Mr.. Lincoln, at the great
meeting at Ottawa, on the 21st ultimo. By
an arrangement previously made, these rep
resentatiyes of their respective parties had
agreed to hold seven public discussions
this being the first 1t is estimated that not
less than twelve thousand persons were pre-.
sent; and we are told that "Ottawa was de-