Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-03
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"A Quaker's admonition to a man who
was pouring forth a volley of,ill language to
him was: "Hage a care, friend, thou mayest
run thy face against my fist"
before marriage, the man is very much
struck with the woman and afterwards the
woman is very much struck by the man. IT
is striking business throughout.
At a marriage ceremony, which is Of
the most value, the bride or the bridegroom?
The bridegroom ; for the bride is given a.
way, and thebridegroom is sold.
-Writs your name by kindness, love
and mercy on the. hearts of the people you
come in contact with, year by year, and you
will never be forgotten.
- An article in an exchange paper, an
nouncing the decease of a person, says: His
remains were committed to that bourne
whence no traveller returns, accompanied by
his friends"
- Goethe said that "man was the only
object that properly interests man." We
guess the old fellow was mistaken. Woman is
a much more interesting object than man,
anyhow.
A lady is now living in Guilford, New
Haven County, Conn, who during her life
time, has seen her great.grandfather and her
greatrgrandchild, with all of the successive
generations between, being eight genera
tions.
-A Doctor at ~Scattycook, Me-, says that
" Fssiic' is generally caused by item, some
times By catar. Occasionally it is accompani-
ed by kiekupsor direa. Singing sans and
Biin,s, are o wholesome exercise for it, and
eatingpanhiin pies good food.
- Mrs. Gage, in a speech at the recent
feminine convention, told the story of a wo-
man who, having secured a second spouse
that 6 nursed the baby" &c., very accom-
modatingly ayerad that ga husband wasthe
next best thingabouta house to the cooking
stove" /
- The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune gives tabular statement o the num-
Der of speeches printed and distributed by
the United States Senators at their iudividu-
al expense; those from the free States have
thus put in circulation 100000 copies of
speeches, and the Senators from the slave
States 100000.
Few persons have any idea of the ex-
tent of business in the Dead Letter Office
During a single year, in addition to $780, 600
in money returned to, its lawful owners, there
have been found inthe letters and restored,
drafts, checks,and some other valuable pa.
pers amounting to three and a half millions
of dollars
Tile American Tract Society of Bos-
Con, while hestitating to cat loose from the
New York Society, a. question which they
referred 70 the Executive Committee, passed
resolutions by one hundred majority, after
an exciting debate, which assert it to be the
duty Of the Society to discuss slavery in its
moral aspects.
- The Philadelphia papers are discus.
sing the project ola 'temporary home for in
ebriates." The "homes' of inebriates are
generally .mtemporary'-but this is much
better philanthropy than stealing negroes to
starve them. The Richmond Enquirer we'll
says, attend to your drunken men, and the
South will take care of the negroes, and bear
the immortality Of it.
The editorof the Kingstree Star has
been shown stalk of cotton from the plan
tation of Nh. j. R.EMcLaw, Of Sumter Dis
trict, measuring over a foot in length, and
containing several forms. The cotton crop
in Sumter is said to be very promising, and
a gentleman who has lately travelled over
the district, says that he saw large fields Of
cotton where the weed was from six to eight
inches high.
"A writer in a late number of the
Winnsboro' Register, over the signature of
/" Civis," dominates Elk Governor James
81. Adams for a seat in the United States
Senate, to ELL thevancancy occasioned by the
death of Judge Evans. The writer says we
need a man of position and influence at
home, and reputation abroad, and concludes
that no man could represent the sentiments
and interests of the State at this time with
truer fidelity or more distinguished ability.
1t is stated that the paying out appa-
ratus constructed by Mr.. Everett, of our ma
Wy, is pronounced by the English engineers
to be just the machinery required, and that
MI. Hughes ouringenious inventor and cleo
t~rician, has succeeded in transmitting cur
rents of electricity through t~wenty-six hun
dred miles of the cable without difficulty,
thereby solving satisfactorily a problem that
had bafaed the science of the company's cleo
~tricians.
- The New York Evening Post publish
es a letter which the Hon. Charles Sumner
has addressed to his constituents on the eve
of his departure for Europe, Gin search of
health" The honorable gentleman indul-
ges a touching a%llusion to his chastisement,
and laments his inability to discharge the
duties of his Office. But he generously for
bears to tender bis resignation. Wonderful
self-sacrifce for so long as he visits the
Senate chamber the spectre of the lamented
Brooks will haunt his imagination and para
I'VE his energies. If he would have health,
be must separate himself from associations
which Cypress and overpower his feeble ma
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