Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-08-12

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for Nicaragua about the LIST Of September
-There are some unfortunate men ii
this world. Christopher Columbus cannot
attach his nam to his discovery Guillotis
eanpot .detach his name from bis inven'
- The two bales of new cotton received
at New Orleans, from Texas, on. the 25th
ult,, were, sold immediately for Is cents pei
pound. The first arrival of the new crop
last year was on the 18th of August.
-Bishop Early has the Methodist
Episcopal supervision of Kansas for the cur.
rent year. The Richmond Advocate says
that he wishesa good many young preachers
to. 70 out into the t~erritory and preach the
Gospel, letting freedom alone. : -
"A the recent annual session ofthe On
tario Association of Universalists, Mrs. Lydia
A.Jenkins received a etteroffellowshipa as a
9preacher Of the gospel. Her husband is also
aminister. This is supposed obe the first
female who ever received alsttsr of fellow
ship from-any ecclesiastical body.
- The ship Cadmus, which brought La.
fayette over to this country, in 1924, and the
deck house Of which is. used az a sort Of bal'
eony to a cottage in the neighberhood Of New
York, has justbeen broken up, IN San Fran,
cisco, and its remains used in repairing a
street.
Col. Sam Pike has bought the Hills.
boro CO., Gazette, q long established demo.
cratic paper, and will soon take charge OF
it as editor. and proprietor. This makes the
tbirty-ffth paper Col. Pike has been connect
ed with, and about the fftieth change he has
made. 49,.
-- In replyto Mrs. Julia Branch'sreselu-
ton in the Vermont Free Convention, that
othe matrimonial contract deprives woman OF
her labor" the Nashville Banner y~ickedlyre.
torts, "This is slight mistake; it is onlyby
marrying that women come to legitimate Ia
6oy:D .s3s1ls - -. 7 =
Fifty fat men Of Mansfield, Ohio, had
a parade on the 9Th. The lightest in the
company weighed 200 pounds the captain
was estimated at 25s pounds, the heaviest
man in the crowd weighed s35, and the
next 290 pounds.
Bad Luck is. simply q man with big
hands in his breeches' pockets and his pipe
in his mouth, looking on to see how it will
come out. Good Luck is a man Of pluck to
meet difficulties, his sleeves rolled up, work.
ing to makeit come right
-I'sfhe little troubles that wear. the
heart ont. It is easier to throwa ~bumbshsll
mile than a festher-eysn NTH artillery.
Forty little debts of 0 dollar will cause you
more trouble and dunning than a big one OF
athousand. Moral-if you get in debt at
all, go deep.
IN a tavern in a small town, sat a
farmer who was plagued and bantered by ~
bout a dozen guests who were present -
"Well said the farmer, at last I've got the
best of all Of you" aHow so?" asked all.
In me you have only got one fool while IN
you I've got abovea dozen.
"a newly arrived John Chinaman, in
Shasta, California, purchased some ice re.
Gently, and finding it very wet, laid it out to
dry IN the sun. On going to look for IT a.
gain be found that it had disappeared, and
forthwith accused the whole Chinese neigh.
borhood with larceny. A general riot was
the consequence.
- We clip the following from the South
Side Democrat, at Petersburg Virginia: We
amused ourselves yesterday, during the mid
die of the day, by roasting eggs in the back
window of our sanctum. 1t was . decided
improvement on the old way. The thermom.
eter, in the meantime, standing FIVE feet
high"
-AKinderhook shoemaker once promis'
ed to have pair of boots finished on a speci'
fed day for ex-President Van Buren,, but fail.
ed to have them done whom called for. In the
mean time the ex-P President started for Europe
and was gone for three years. Upon his
return he called for his boots, and was told
they were finished " Nth The exception o.
freeing out"
a Southern editor thus discoursett
to the %delinquents: "Wagons cannot rur
without Wheels boats without steam, bull
frogs jump without legs, or newspapers b.
carried on everlastingly without money, nj
more than a dog can wag his tail which hf
amt got none. Our subscribers are all good
but what good does a mans goodness d.
when it don't. do any good? We have nj
doubt every one thinks that all have paie
except him, and as we are a clever fellow
and his a little matter, it will make no diff
fernce."
IN his charge to the jury yesterday
Judge Mcclure spoke of a statistical saua'
down East who had carefully noted down tn
the number of persons struck by lightning il
one year, and compared it with those VIII
had drawn prizes in lotteries for the sam
period, arriving at the conclusion that thre
persons were struck by lightning to one VIII
had drawn . prize. Rather encouraginI
that, to lottery adventures. -PiHsbury JON
mol.
- Poverty runs strongly to fun. A ma
is never so full of jokes as when he is redu
ced to one shirt and two potatoes. Wealt
is t~aciturn and fretful. Stockholders Woul
no soonerindulge in a hearty laugh than the