Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-20

He who loves testing and railery brings
himself into many troubles. s-...: -
i He who has too good an opinion OF him
self drives all others away from him.
- By doing good to those who have evil
intentions against you you thereby shut their
mouths. -. ! s.. 80 500 +fsfT
- He who considers consequences with too
much attention, is ordinarily, a man of no
courage.
The policeman of Washington city have
arrested a man named Cash for an assault
on another named Penny. ~
Whisky is the key by which many
gain an entrance in our prisons and aims
houses.
Partial knowledge is better than total ig.
norance ; if you cannot get what you wish,
get what you can.
- It is said that the North Carolina banks
will resume specie payments on the 24th
inst. p >...... T.. .- '
- 1t is a serious question with us, whether
every fisherman, however honest he may
think himself, ought not to be indicted for
hooking fish.
- There are, at the present time, upward
of 10000 women in New York who sew
for their living, and they get along only So
so at that. 20. ~ $50
- 1t is estimated that upwards of thirty
thousand children have, within the past ff-
teen years, been ehristened George Wash:
ingtou!
- A person having asked how many ftdog
days" there were in a year, received for his
answer, that it was impossible to number
them, as "every dog had his own day." ;
- Watch your friends; except those of
whom you are certain ; but know that none
can be a true friend but he who has the fear
Of God. ~.
- You cannot fathom your mind. There
is a well of thought there which has no bot
tom. The more you may draw from it the
more clear and plentiful it will be. (
1t is about as hopeless a task to get a
rich woman to live a life of common sense, as
it is to get a rich nal into the kingdom Of
Heaven. ~ ~.
The world is the hell Of the good and
the heaven of the wicked; i. e. it is all the
evil the former shall meet With and all the
good the latter shall enjoy. ws
Hon. Humphrey Marshall intends to
introduce a resolution for the Organization
of a camel battalion on the principle of the
camel batteries employed in the East.
Mrs. Rugg, a widow, having taken Sir
Charles Price for a second husband, and be.
ing asked by a friend how she liked that
replied oh, 1 have got rid of my old Rugg
for a good Price ..
An Irishman on being told to grease the
wagon, returned in about an hour afterwards
and said, "T've creased every part of the
Wagon but them STICKS ~here the mheeIs
hang on"
1t was a maxim of General Jackson's
-"Take time to deliberate but when the
hour of action arrives, stop thinking, and 60
in" Better said by David Crockett, "be sure
you're right, then 60 ahead
An infdel remarked, within the hearing
of a little girl Of thirteen, that allthings came
by chance, and that the world, like a mus
room, sprang upin the night. Il should like
to know SIR she asked, where the seed came
FROM
Somebody says that the deuil is a mean
word any way you can fix it. You cant
make a respectable word Of it any how. Re-
move the d and it is evil, remove the c and
and it's vile, remove the q and it is just as
i'll.
- Bishop Otley of Tennessee, says :
"Thirty years ago I came to Tennessee, with
my wife, my fiddle, my horse and sulky.-
Ny horse and sulky are long since gone,
but my wife and fiddle remain as good as
new"
- Howadji Curtis has declared himself in
favor of women voting. He thinks it no
more unwomanly for a woman to drop a bal
lot in a box, than whirl in a polka in the
arms of q man she never saw before, and
have her cheek famed by his tipsy breath.
-A'lawyer in one of the Western Courts,
lately threw a cane at another's head, The
Court required him to apologize for it. He
did so, and replied,-'While I am about
it, I might as well apologize before hand for
throwing another cane at him the first chance
I get
One of the best reasons yet heard for dis
union, is related by a fellow who went TO call
on the President. He said he waited four
hours, and could not get to see him, and 81
concluded" said he, "that if he was so ours
ed busy as all that, one President was not
enough to attend to the affairs of this repub-
lie and we had better have another"
On Monday, the Sd instant, the river
Delaware was discovered to be on fire. The
Philadelphia Ledger says: "About6 o'clock,
the whole surface ofthe river opposite Ches-
nut.street was covered with the densest vol
umes of smoke. The fremen, with their u
sual alacrity, were out, and there is no know
ing what they might have done towards ex-
tinguishing the Delaware, by pouringstreams
from the Schuylkill into it, had it not been
that the experiment of burning the river was