Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-27
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player, is now playing ten games, blind-fold-
ed, against ten Of the crack players of Chicago.
- Judge Baily, of Meekienburg county,
North Carolina, recently fined a gentleman
s25 for forming and expressing an opinion
after he had been summoned as q juror. The
fne was afterwards RENTED. :
"A correspondent Of the Fayetteville
(Teunessee) Observer, writing from Ross
station, jackson county, Ala, under date
Of the 9th instant, says: ga large sorrel
mare foaled two mare colts a short time since
mule and the other a horse colt"
-"May I be married, ma? ;" said a lit
tie beauty to her mother. "Why do you
want to be married." returned the mother.
aWhy, ma, you know that the children have
never seen anybody married, and 1 thought
ismght please them"
-A young man in New York last week
advertised for a wife. In less than two hours,
We are, told, 10 married men sent in word
that he might have theirs. Connubial bliss
10 New York must be at a discount, we
think. g.
-Rey. Henry Wood, a chaplain in the
United States Navy, writing from st. Helena,
saws that in the room where Napoleon died
there is now q threshiug machine in operation,
and stalls for the horses that move it, In bis
bed-chamber.'
-.The Jacksonvsille (Ala.) Republican OF
the 18th instant, regrets to learn that recent
II, in several localities; serious injury has
been done to young cotton, by a small species
Of grasshopper. In one instance, where there
was q good stand, a large field has to be re-
planted.
1t is stated in an Athens journal, that
amanuscript copy on parchment, of the Cos
pels in Greek, and bearing the date $50, has
recently been found in the garnet of a house,
IN that city. It is said to be in good pre-
servation, and has been deposited in the pub
lie library of Athens.
- Newspaper subscribers are infallible
indications Of mans moral honesty. They
will sooner or later discover the man. 1.-The
is dishonest, he will cheat the printer in
some way,-say he has paid when he has
not, or sent the money and it was lost in the
mail, or, take the paper for years without
paving, and then move off and leave it COM
ing to the Office he left.
- The Savannah Neps says truly that
at is safe to conclude that a mai who ad-
v~ertises literally will always sell good bar
gains-why? Because he sells more goods,
aud can consequently afford to sell for
smaller profits. Itslke travelling in a stage
coach rather than IN the cars. Some merch-
antsmaksendnsy without advertising, and
sddo stage coaches reach the end of their
Journey after a whis,-but what a jolly
lot Of time has been wasted"
- Parson Brownlow has found an antag-
onist in Cipcinnati-the Rev. Abram Pryne
who challenges the Parson to a discussion
on slavery. Brownlow inquiries what church
Pryne is connected with, and second, wheth-
erhe is q white man or q gentleman or color.
Pryne replies that he is a minister Of what
are called Union Churches, or Independent
Congregational, and that his father is a Hol-
lander, and his mothers father was a Scotch.
man, and though not a very white man, there
is not a drop of African blood in his veins.
From an intelligent planter in South
western Georgia, says the Columbus Times,
we learn that the crops in that section are
exceedingly prosperous, and in advance of
crops of last year at this season. The effects
of the late frosts are scarcely visible, and the
prospects are favorable for a large and abun-
dant yield. Corn is from kneeto breast high,
and the cotton has been chopped over once.
There is little wheat planted worthy of men,
ton. The farmers arc in high spirits, in an
~ticipation of large and flowing crop.
Billy Bowlegs, the great Seminole
chief, who with his followers, arrived on Fri.
day, en- route for their new home in Arkan-
sas, was visited by large numbers of citizens
on Saturday at the Barracks. The curiosity
to see and speak to the man who has battled
so long and successfully, with a handful of
followers, against the military power Of the
United States government, is perfectly natu-
raj, and all agreed that Billy was found pos
sessed ofall the attributes ofsuch a hero. The
General and his staff, with a number of the
less distinguished of the band, promenaded
our principal th~oroughfares on Saturday,
making purchases of different kinds, and
while gratifying their own curiosity, seemed
to furnish the greater excitement Of the day
to crowd after crowd Of pale faces."-New
Orleans Bee.
- The correspondent of the South Side
(Va.) Democrat, writing from the General
Conference of the Methodist E. Church,
South, says: "There are a number Of very
able men present ; men of great ability as
teachers, and poWerfnlin debate. And there
are SOM who are giants in physical stature.
For example, there are four members Of the
Conference whose aggregate length is 26 feet
namely, the Rev. Mr.. Young, of Missou-
ri, who stands full 6 feetS inches in slip
pers the Rev. Mr.. Kelly, of South Carolina,
who stands full 6 feet 6 inches : the Rev.
Mr.. Alexander, of Texas, 6 feet 6 inches,
plus and the Rev. DR.. Mitchell, ofAlabama,
6 feet 4 inches and a half. Three Of these
reverend gentlemen are as finely proportion
ed men as you would meet in a days walk
about town !; nor are they men Of ordinary