Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06
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says that the london Times has a correspond
dent on the way to Kansas, in the person Of
a Mr.. Rutherfold, a S%cotchman, who has
started provided with every necessary of a
camp life.
MI. Hill, of California has given no,
tice of . bill to prohibit repentant Know
Noshings from becoming candidates for Con-
gress until they they have been faithful mem
bers Of the Democratic party twenty-one
years.
- a leading member of the Presbyterian
Church at New Brighton, Pa, commenced
a prayer at a revival meeting, the other day,
in these words !: 90 Lord we would not
assume to dictate to thee, but would only offer
a few suggestions"
--I It is stated very positively in Wash
ington letters that not only Sonora, but Chi
huahua and Lower California will be offered
to our government at a far valuation, and
, that an accredited agent is to com to Wash
ington with full power to aot.
An exchange contains an advertise
ment by an Express Company of GENERALIZATION
goods. By an accident the letter had drop
ped from the word " lawful" and it now
reads ; "Persons to whom these p~ackagesare
directed are requested to come toward and
pay the aautal charges on the same" =
49, We had an opportunity Of examining,
on Monday, q double-headed living terrapin,
which has been sent to Prof. Holmes, for the
College Museum, by J. W. La Bruce, Esq,
Of Waccamaw. Both heads seem perfect and
lively, and the body and she'll seem natural
and perfect. - Charleston Courier.
s. The population Of some Of the princi;
bal cites of Ohio is as follows Cincinnati
200, 900; Cleveland $4,000; Columbus U.s.
900 Dayton 16, 900; Toledo 1900 zanes-
Vile 1900; S~teubenville 10000 ; Chilli
cothe 10000; Sandusky 10000; Springfield
5000. No other city has more that 5000.
- The body of a man who died II months
since, was recently disinterred at Glen's
Falls, New York, on accounto ola superstition
that if there was any blood in the heart and
it was burned, a brother of the deceased, who
was dying of consumption, would recover.
The blood not being found, the experiment
was not tried. ..
In boring an Artesiau we'll in Stock
ton, California, the borer struck a red wood
stump $50 feet below the surface Of the
ground, and more than two hundred and hf-
tyfeet below the level ofthe Pacific ocean.
The earth above and below was Of strati6ed
clay and sand, which apparently not been
disturbed sinceitssosiginal deposition.
-Thafollowing extract which we make
fromstheG Connecticut Gorrant, of Septem-
her l9abs74, will show our readers the man.
merlin which business was conducted iu aye
ofden time" "The1 vessel advertised to sail
from Middletown for Mississippi the first of
September will not sail till the tenth of o.
tober, as som of the passengers are not
ready"
It is stated that within the last twen-
ty-two years the Baptists in the United States
have madea clear gain of 6 1865 churches,
1924 ministers, and 59S, 500 members, be.
ing an annual increase of 1886 churches, 1872
ministers, and 26,529 members. The in
crease for the lastten years has been much
greater in the Southern than in the Northern
states-tbe greatest increase having been in
Virginia, Alabama and Missouri.
- Among the delegates to the Democrat
10 State Convention of Illinois, was Peter
Cartright, the old pioneer, a few years since.
He put up at one Of the large hotels, and at
night was shown his room, which happened
to be quite high up in the building, and
accessible by a long, winding staircase. At
ter reaching the room, be hallooed Gland
lord, I say, landlord, bring me a Ratchet"
Upon the landlord making his appearance,
and inquiring what he wanted with the
Ratchet, he replied: 81 want to blaze the
way, so that I may find my way down"
M. Gavarni, a French maohlnist, has
perfected his aerial ship at a cost of 100000.
francs, and made q voyage to Algiers, Afri-
ca, and back with it-a distance of fifteen
hundred miles from his starting point. The
average speed was almost one hundred miles
an hour, the voyage out occupying eighteen
hours, and the return sixteen hours. NJ.
Gavarni is to make the attempt from Havre
to the city of New York as soon as he has
further tested the character of his invention
by a few short trips over the Mediterranean
and its neighboring provinces.
- The retired physician whose sands
of life have nearly run out" so extensively
advertised throughoutthe whole country, and
whose advertisement has frequently appear
ed in our paper, is discovered to be animposi-
ton, there being no such person as "Old
Doctor James," Samuel Wescot, Esq. May
or Of Jersey City, in reply to a letter from
the interior of New York, which is publised
in the Tribune, says: " am in receipt of
your favor, and in reply would say, there is
no such person as Old Doctor James resid-
ing in our city, but an old man is employed
to personate him. The whole matter is we'll
understood here to be an imposition.
At Mount Sterling, Illinois, Thomas
Downie, a Scotchman, was recently arrested
for burglary, committed under the influence
of liquor. After he had been committed to
Jail, he cut himself in various places with a
razor, with the avowed intention of bleeding
himself To death SLOWLY, Having armed him.