Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-13
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- Hon. Joshua r. Giddings writes that
there has been in the present Congress less
intoxication and pr~edisposition to vice than
with any Congress with which he has been
associated.
-nLife is sweet, and death is bitter"
said Sir Anthony Kingston to Bishop Hoop
er, at the stake. sTrue, FRIEND" replied
Hooper, 'butthe life to come is more sweet,
and.the death to come more bitter
An Irishman who lives with a vege-
tartan writes to a friend that if he wants to
know what Elegant living is he must come to
his house, where the breakfast consists OF
nothing, and the supper, of what was left at
breakfast.
Stock raising is not always profitable
in California. A calf ate q miners shirt the
other day at Colona, with STA in gold,
which was in q pocket Of the shirt. The mi.
ner gives up his shirt as "done gone" but
hopes to reco7er his gold. &C."
--In one of the scenes of a new opera
entitled ssThe Magician" lately performed
ut Paris, the stage is suddenly transformed
into an immense chess-board, while the
corps du ballet, dressed as kings, queens,
bishops &c., dance the moves.
An old suit commenced nearly twenty
eight years ago by the United States, against
Gen. Harrison, upon an official bond which
be had signed for public officer, was recent.
" ordered to be struck from the docket Of
the United States Circuit Court of Cincin:
,7sa$ SO 5sfs' - @-N
Thsn Jose Tribune estimates the
8 sion California at $4,000. The
S. 10 Is based upon the returns of the 10
cal assessors. OF this population 332,25O
are Americans, $500 Chinese, $4,000
French, $4,000 Mesicans, 10000 Irish, 1000
English, and about 1000 colored persons.
- DR.. J. H. Logan, of Greenwood, Alb.
neville District, is travelling through the up
per districts Of this State, engaged in collect
ing information for his forthcoming work on
the Revolutionary history Of that section Of
the State, which he expects to have ready for
the press BY the early part of the fall.
The Anderson Gosetteof Wednesday,
speaking Of sale day, says: A large number
Of persons were in attendance on Monday
The sales for the most part were unimport-
ant. Two bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad
for 81, 600 we're sold for $500 each; one
hundred shares of stock in the same Com
pany for $500 per share, the shares being
500.
A correspondent of the Missouri Re-
publican, writing from. Leayenworth City.
the 29th, ult. ssys: g The rush of lawyers to
this. spot.is BY no means a fact to be over
koked. I yesterday examined the "Test"
Ssook, and found that already the bar Eum-
hers enc hundred and one members. Prob.
ably one.half of them have settled in this
city,"
A few evenings since one Of the Bap-
fist meeting houses in Cincinnati was crowd
ed to hear a Cherokee Indian, named Mon
dicier, who related his religious experience,
and told Of the saving power Of the Gospel
of Christ among the people Of bis nation,
$50 Of whom had been converted and bap-
tised since January.
Which is the deepest, the longest, the
broadcast, and the smallest grave in this
chureh.yard? ?" said a pedestrian to his COIN
panien, while meditating among the tombs
at Eshsr!s "Why," replied he, Nit is that
in which Miles BUTTON is buried; for it is
miles below the sod, miles in length, miles in
breadth, and yet, after all, it is but a But
ton-hole."
- In the sewing-machine cases in the
United States Circuit Court at New Haven,
Conn, verdicts have been rendered in six
cases, sustaining the claims of the Wheeler
and Wilson manufacturing company, and
Grover and Baker sewing machine company,
to the rough surface and spring pressure feed.
Damages assessed at s25 for each machine
made in violation.
"A Quakeress, jealous of her husband,
watched his movements, and actually one
morning discovered the truant kissing and
the servant girl. Broadbrim was
not long in discovering the face of his wife,
as she peeped through the half-open door,
and rising with all the GOODNESS of a general,
thus addressed her: "Betsy, thee had better
omit peeping,. or else thee will cause a dis
turbance in the family"
The Governor of Wisconsin now gets
a yearly income of $1,000. A proposition
having been recently introduced into the Lee
gislature to increase the salary to $4,000,
Gov. Randell notified the members Of that
body that, if adopted, he would veto the
measure, whereupon the proposition was
dropped. This is ell very fine, but it results
probably from the fact that Wisconsin has
not o cent in her treasury, and the Governor
is afraid if his salary is increased, he won't
get it all.
We learn from the Spartanburg Erpress
that Mr.. Simpson Wingo, a man living in
the upper part of that district, was arrested
and lodged in Jail, on Sunday last, on the
charge of attempting the life Of his younger
brother, Ransom Wingo. Itappears that the
unfortunate prisoners mind has been effect
ed for some time, and that he has long labor
ed under the impression that his brother in
tended to take his life. Arrangements are