Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-16
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- Dr.-5ynta4 Is vi opiutou tua1 III Ouo"
the heat of the weather must be greatly
modified after the introduction of so many
Coolies.
"A gentleman once asked company
. of little boys what they were good for?' One
little fellow very promptly answered: 'We
are good to make men Of
- A lady, having written letter, con-
eluded it as follows: "Give everybody's love
to everybody, so that nobody may be ag,
grisved by anybody being forgotten by some-
body"
"A ukase has been promulgated pro-
hibiting the teaching of the Latin tongue in
all the colleges of the Russian Empire. The
hours hitherto devoted to that study will be
devoted to the positive sciences
- Ifyou love others, they will love you.
If you speak kindly to them, they will
speak kindly to you. Love is repaid in love,
andhatred with hatred. Would you hear
sweet and pleasing echo, speak sweetly and
pleasantly yourself.
"A man greatly in debt, on his death
bed, said: 81 only wish to live till pay
my debts" His friends commended the
motive of his prayer, and the sick man, in
low tone, proceeded: "And if heaven would
grant me this prayer, I know my life would
be very long indeed"
Al law of Ohio, requires commissioners
to count, quartely, every dollar in the Ham
ilton county treasury. The work was per-
formed last Tuesday, when the commission
ers had $205, 900 in cash to manipulate, in
cluding SIG, 900 in gold dollars, and $4,000
pennies of the new coinage. As each coin
was handled separately, the work was not
slight.
The Virginia Baptist is a new paper,
distinguished by advocating temperance or
total abstinence as condition of Church
membership. The editor appears to have
some original notions, historical as we'll as
moral. The motto Of his flag reads thus -
s'The Virginia Baptist like John the Bap:
tist, the great founder of the sect, comes,
sneither drinking wine nor strong drink."'
- A writer in the N. Y. Tribune sug-
gests railroad from America to Europe
He proposes to cut down the hills and noun
tains of Scotland and New England, and to
tumble them into the sea. The tractis to be
q mile wide and sixty feet above the level of
the sea the rails are to be on a new plan,
the cars two stories high. The running time
is to be twelve hours, with reasonable stop
for dinner. The fare is not stated, but it
will no doubt be before the road is finished.
M. Garvani, a French maehinist, has,
it is said, perfected his asrial ship, at cost
of 100000 francs, and made avoyage to
to Algiers, Africa, udback with it-a dis
tance Of fifteen hundred miles from the start
Ing, point. The average speed was almost
one hundred miles an hour, the voyage oe-
cupying eighteen hours. NJ. Garvani is to
make the attempt from Harve to the city of
New York as soon as be has further tested
the character of his ship by few short trips
over the Mediterranean and its neighboring;
provinces.
-On last week we received call from
the aged and well known (amoDg the typos)
S. T. Singletary. We had not seen the old
professor for number Of years, and did not
recognize him at first, although his quick
perception and discriminating powers enabled
him to call us by name at sight The old
veteran has been very unfortunate in losing
one of his eyes, by sickness. After nights
rest, on Saturday morning he checked his
baggage for Edgefeld and left.-Lerington
Flag.
"A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Charleston, about the
captured Africans, says: The negores are
much rejoiced at their arrival. They are
singing songs, dancing, and testifyiDg in
every conceivable manner their attainment
of increased happiness. One of them, a
daughter of chief, and tatooed from her
neck to her launches, has through an inter-
prefer, negro, positively refused..to 60 back,
and says her followers will not 60 either. In
fact, so near as can be learned they are unan-
imous]y in favor of coming on shore, and
most positively and Enthusiastically refuse to
60 to sea again. Their music, rude as it is,
is gleeful and hearty.
Whoever originated the following, de-
serves to have his name handed down to
posterity: eff a despatch from England to
America gain on the sun so as to reach here
~ hours by the clock before it left England,
at what time would it arrive at the point of
departure, were cable carried around the
world? Would it not arrive the day before
it left, less only the time exhausted in ma
king the circuit? If so, then, with con-
tinuous line of telegraph around the world,
why not send despatch around and around
until it reached back to Adam, and let him
know what his children are about these ''lat-
ter days."
1t is stated that Louis Napoleon has
Just made present of FIVE thousand francs to
a private in the line, who asserts that he has
discovered solution for the great problem
in ;eronautics-the art of flying. He has
invented kind of air ship, consisting Of a
platform of silk stretched over whalebone, to
be propelled by two gigantic wings of the
same material placed on each side. The
serial navigator is to be suspended at dis
tance of about four feet from the platform,
&c