Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-03
EXPERIMENTATION

Amovement hos been made in Mississippi! to
request the resignation Of Gov. MCWILLrE. The
people of the State are very indignant at the last
exercise of Executive elem 'ncy, which has turned
loose JAMES DYSON. MOSES SHERIN, of Gran
vile County, N. c., was burned to death a rev
| DAYS ago, leaving o family destitute. Rum %
The State Bible Convention ofSouth Carolina will
be held in Abbcville on the last Wednesday in July
next. ."..."From n statement in the New YORK
| Times, we learn that the American feet carries
40 guns, while the British feet carries SOL
Suchis the relative strength of the two fleets now
in the Gulf. ....".:Intelligencs from the Utah expe-
dition has been received at Leavenworth. There
was no abatement in preparation for thcmarch TO
Salt Lake, Notwithstanding the recent pacific In
telligence. .""..tI declare, mother said q petted
little girl in q pettish little way, 'tis too bad
mother! you always send me to bed when l am
not sleepy, and you always make me get up when
T am sleepy.'"""..An ordinance has been passed
in Norfolk, levying O capitation tax Of Sc on every
free white male inhabitant over.21 years DID,
The New Hampshire papers are ~agitating the ques-
ton of a United States Senator to succeed J. T.
HALE. "....".In boring an artesian we'll ct Louis
Vile, q depth of ], ZOO feet has been reached, and
O let of salt water now rises fifty feet into the air
above the earth's surface. "..,".rMamma, man.
ma! herei is o hair in the bread. Hush, no it
amt, nv child; it is nothing but a corn silk i
like thatp Who the mischief ever seen nits on q
corn silk before"
The Newburyport (Nfass.) Herald says that
among those trees whose ages have been ascertain
ed, the elm has been known to live more than $50
years; the chestnut 600; the cedar 800; the oak
from 1900 to ] 500; and some of the woods Of the
tropics 5000, 1000, and 5000 years !"'''"'At
the paper mill Of. WILLIAM CLARK Co., Northamp.
ton, Mass, a bale of rags was recently opened,
which came from the Crimea. Pillow. cases, sheets,
shirts, bandages, surgical aprons, remnants, and
parts of clothing stained with blood, told an elo-
ouent tale of suHerings and sorrow. "''.'."1t is
stated that Kansas has already cost the Govern
ment, at the very lowest estimate, fifty millions of
money.".'".On Saturday, the first Of May, CAR
D1NAI W1sEMAN performed the solemn blessings
of four ships at Deptford, England. These ships
are to be employed against the slave trade. 1t is
the first blessing ola ship in England since the
Reformation .'."'..''The shipping of vegetables
and fruit to the northern market from Norfolk.
Va, has commenced. Six hundred barrels of
peas, &c., were taken on board the jamestown on
Wednesday last for New York. .''Mrs. SOPHIA
BoNuAM, the mother of the Hon:M. L. BoNHAM,
died at Edgefeld, s. C., on the 18th. ultimo in the
18th year of her age.."...Lord NAPIER is said to
emphatica,ly disclaim having had any knowledge
whatever of the. obnoxious proceedings of the
British cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico, and to ex-
press the belief that the ministry were equally
ignorant of the movements which have created so
much sensation over the country. "''"''One argu-
ment in the British Parliament in favor of letting
men marry their deceased wives sisters was
that by doing so a man had only one mother-in-law
instead of two.".'':. G.. A. TRENHOLM, Esq, was
unanimously elected on the 25th, by the Directors
Of the: South Carolina Railroad Company to fill
the vacancy existing in their Board. "'"'A man
was stabbed in Boston a day or two since, and
singular enough, the Knife passed exactly between
the heart and liver without touching either, or
any vital artery. .."..!"They mean to raise tall
students in Wisconsin. Its Board Of Education
has resolved to erect a building large enough to
accommodate five hundred students three stories
high,