Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-11-04
Sfraps 4 fatts.

taxes precedence, producing "f,o'o'ooo
worth of grog each year.
- The Port Gibson ReveiNe speaks of a
stalk of cotton, fully matured, as having been |
found in that vicinity some days ago, the lint
and seed ofwhich are both entirely green.
- Popkins says, a few days ago, while
riding in an omnibus, and being seated be-
tween two ladies, he felt like stave in a
hogshead Of molasses, surrounded by hoops.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald says that the Hon. John
E. Ward, Of Savannah, will probably be Of
fered the mission to China, which is now va
cant.
"A home withouta girl in it, is only
half blest it is an orchard without blossoms,
and spring without song. A house full
of SONS is lik its cedars; but daughters by
the 6reside are like the roses in Sharon.
"A lady in Mississippi recently sued
young man for breach of marriage, laying
her damages at $1,000 but the jury, being
married men, returned verdict for only
$40.
-"In Egypt I saw Cleopatra's needle"
said young lady to her friends on her re-
turn from her school in England to her home
in India, "but I thought very little oft, l
assure you, after having seen the sewing
machine in London"
- The heaviest blow the Militia system
of Virginia has yet received is recorded by
a country newspaper, which states that
traveller going through the town mlstook
the militia, drawn up in line, for the chain
gang. ..
The New York Express seems to b;
of opinion, that the only difference between
slavery in the two sections is, that in the
South the master own the bodies of the ne.
groes, and in the North politicians own the
voters, body and soul both.
An exquisite young lady wriggled in
to linen diapers, and with the most eI.
oruciating drawl she could affect, inquired
if they had any 'subdued mouse-colored
silk" "No," replied the draper, with
subded and impressive twill ofthe yard-stick,
"but we have some enraged rat-color."
II In village school recently, when the
scholars were parsing, the word 'co!f occur
red in the sentence. The youngster who
was up-a bright.eyed little fellow-puzzled
over the word for few minutes, and then, as
a bright idea struck him, he burst out with,
~ can conjugate it-positive waif, compare
tive wafer, superlative sealing wax"
- The numerous friends, ut home and
abroad, of DR.. Palmer, the pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, ofthis city, will
learn with pleasure that he is now GONZALES
cent, and will soon be able to enter again
upon the discharge, of his pastoral duties
His family have nearly all passed the ordeal
of the fever in safety.-Neao Orleans Pica-
yune.
g. Those seeking Office within the gift of
Legislature can obtain access to the Edge
field Delegation, through the mail, by ad-
dressing them as follows Col. j. P. Carol,
Senator, and W. W. Adams Esq, at Edge
field G. H.; Coils. J. Hamden Brooks and
John Quattlebum at Dorn's Mills; Maj. A.
L. Dearing, at Oakland A. Jones at Lees
vile, and Col. James Tompkins, at Parks
Store. .-EagefeM Advertiser.
III. Allen, of Albany, New York,
met with singular and painful accident on
Friday. He wears, or rather did wear,
most luxuriant pair of whiskers, foot or less
in length. While running sugar mill,
which was worked by steam, the whiskers on
and under the left side of his face and neck,
was caughtin the machinery and every hair
of them torn out by the roots, it leaving the
skin as bare as the hand
"A Mrs. Mott, of Rutland, Vermont,
has just obtained divorce from her husband,
the Rev. Mr.. H, of that city. Among
the vices of the clerical gentleman the fol-
lowing are enumerated: "He kept bad
school, edited reckless paper, stole money,
and charged the theft upon the servant girl;
got the Office of deputy inspector. and got
drunk on smuggled liquor; took one shirt,
another mans wife, bundle of manuscript
sermons, and ran away from his own wife,
his paper, and crowd of creditors"
The last solitary banquet of 'slast
mans" club, took place in Cincinnati, last
week. In the cholera season of 1882, seven
gentlemen agreed to meet annually and dine
once together as long as they lived, bottle
of wine to be sealed and drunk in memorium,
By the last survivor. The first reunion, was
held on the 9th October, 1882, and on the
9th October, 1858, Dr. Waiter, sole survivor
Of the seven, drank from the bottle and
pledged the six dead friends, whose empty
chairs and empty plates We're his only society
1t the last melancholy feast.
Col. Rudler, one of the staff Of Gen.
Walker in his first expedition in Central A.
nerica, left our city on yesterday, to join an
party, which is to sail from Mo-
bile in few days for Nicaragua. Welearn
that the company will 60 out with all the
facilities necessary for the peaceful colopiza-
ton of that country. We trust that no in
commodores will intercept their
progress, and that they will succeed in set
ting up the standard Of civilization and good
Government in that rude and misruled coun-
try.-Augusta Dispatch.
MIR. Gurely, Republican, elected to