Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-20
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- The Legislature of Oregon at its last

- The Legislature of Oregon at its last
session, divorced 60 couples.
"a bill has passed the Louisiana Leg
~islature declaring dogs to bespersonal pro-
perty.
- Billy Bowlegs and his whole tribe, ar
rived at New Orleans on the 10th inst, and
are quartered at the Barracks.
- According to the Massachusetts, Re-
oilstsr, there are in Massachusetts a little
rising of one, thousand lawyers.
"a Quaker being asked his opinion Of
chronology, replied Indignantly, Friends,
there, can be No good in a science that.com-
pels q man to take off his hat"
-Loernzo9D Dow -"stili lives. He is one
Of the three candidates ofthe Free State men
Of Kansas forJudges underline L~eavenworth
Constitution.
~ firm in Havana have obtained per
mission to lay down submarine telegraph
from Cuba to Key West, Florida. The work
will be speedily proceeded with,
An old Greenland seaman said he
could readily believe that crocodiles shed
tears, for he had often seen whales blub-
Der. %
An Indian seeing a belle dressed out
in full crinoline breadth of fashion pass him
in the street, was heard to exclaim, "much
heap wigwam, ughp ....
The old project for the formation of
a new State from portions of Tennessee, Viz
sinis, and North Carolina, has been reVl-
we'd. ~
- John Chapman has received 500
damages from John B. Hines, commissioner
Of, election in Washington city, for illegally
rejecting his vote.
sA4The unfinished monument to Mary,
Che motherofW Washington, fredericksburg,
Va, is said to be fast going to ruin, and is
badly Sdis6gured with bullet and shot marks,
being used by the boys as a target
The oldest clock in America is said
to be the one in the Philadelphia Library,
which is nearlytwo centuries old. 1t was
made in London, keeps good time and is said
to have been owned BY Oliver Cromwell.
49, An editor speaks of his party as the
6 heavy-handed democracy" They may be
heavy-handed, says Prentice, but when they
have been within arms length of the spoils,
they have shown themselves light fingered.
- lady named Temple, who is well
known in the fashionable regions Of Belgra-
via, has, discovered a remedy for suffering.
It is simply the act of reading in whisper,
and gradually augmenting the whisper to a
louder tone.
There are sixty seaports in Cuba, and
last year there were $3.50 coastwise arrivals
and 1869 clearances. This will give an idea
ofthe trade of this beautiful island, which
is notsmore than half cultivated under the
present regime.
. Henry Ward eecher, of rife memo
n, intends to spend . few weeks in Kansas
during the coming summer, for the purpose
Of ascertaining if it is true that hemp isreally
the staple production Of that Territory.
- Shoes, whether by wholesale or retail,
have got tobe rs per cent. dearer, through
out the country. The material has risena
bout Is per cent, and the labor Of manufac-
ture at the North nearly 100 per cent. BE
careful how you tread.
- An old settler near Bloomington, IL
linois, says the winter Of 1880 was remark
able for the scarcity of money, so much so that
one man, elected justice ofthe peace, could
not raise enough to pay an officer for swear
ing him in; so he stood up before a looking.
glass and qualified himself.
-Itis rumored, says the Boston Courier,
that Mr.. Rarey, the American horse tanner,
uses a file Of Congressional speeches to subdue
the refractory animals under his charge. At
ter reading about a quarter Of an hour, the
quadruped gives in, promises an entire a.
mendment of morals and manners, fhe will
only stop.
The Glens Falls paper tells Of a gen.
tleman of standing in that village who had an
inconvenient quantity of his own autographs
in circulation, and who played crazy about
the streets for a few days, and then mystic
riously disappeared. His creditors said "poor
fellow" and were glad to sell his notes for
TWENTY-FIVE cents on the dollar. In q few days
the sspoor fellow" suddenly appeared again,
and received a heap of cancelled paper from
his agent, who bought it up. Something
handsome was made by the operation, andhis
"standing' is just as good as ever.
We are pleased to learn from the
Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald, that Mr.. Boyce's committee, ap-
pointed t~oinquire into the expediency Of free
trade and direct taxation, are ready to re-
port. He proposes to abolish all duties on
imports, and to resort to direct taxation
The report is spoken of as one of great abili-
ty. We look forward to its publication with
great interest. Mr.. Boyce is cool and cal
culating in position. He does nothing vii
fully or recklessly for effect. We therefore
look for a statesmanly report.-Carohnaon.
Great apprehensions are felt in the
Southern States that the coming summer will
bel very sickly one, and the dreadful scourge
of yellow fever, from which the South
was so unusually exempt last season, will re-
A.,n +b;e uoar With ~oreater violence than