Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-23

word sigDifying beautiful.
- In Sweden, man who is seen four
times drunk is deprived of a vote at elections.
The Legislature of Georgia has ap-
pointed a liquor inspector, whose duty It is
to smell out ssrychnine and other poisonous
drugs usedi its manufacture. >
"A despatch from Camden, in the
Guardian, states that John r. Joy, Esq,
Ordinary Of Kershaw District, died on the
18th inst. of. consumption, ',''ss
-A oounuyman, who witnessed q
lady lifting up her dress, exclaimed, upon
beholding the numerous tiers Of hoops that
sacireled her petticoat in the shape of erino-
line, "Well, may be DANCED, if she arnt
got 8 Eve barred gate wropped round her,"
Mr.. Nolan, Secretary Of the Ameri-
can Colonization Society, last week purchased
in New York provisions to the amount Of
5000; clothing, $1,000; agricultural imple-
usuts, $1,000; oil of which were shipped on
board the Niagara to Charleston, for the use
Of the captured Africans.
In a country m central Mississippi a
party of nine men contributed to purchase
q barrel Of whiskey for their use during the
term of the court In three weeks eight OF
the nine were dead, while the ninth made a
narrow escape. No wonder that hogs have
the cholera after feeding on distillery swiH
The State of North Carolina disbursed
from its literary fund, for the support Of
schools and for the. education Of deaf and
dumb children, during the year 1856 and
1856, the sum of three. hundred and ninety
six thousand six hundred and sixty-6ve dol
lars. 49,.
- French papers report that an extraor-
din2,y case is DOW pending before the Civil
Tribunal of Castelsarraziu, near Toulous. A
lady Of that town who had married 80 far
baek as lS45, has brought an action against
her husband, to have the marriage declared
mill and void, on the ground that be is not
man but woman.
-A IIauover paper tells the world that
the s'silly prejudice against horse flesh has
sltogether vanished in Denmark and Northern
Germany, aud that in the city of Hanover
alone, 10 the course of Whitsunweek, about
two thousand pounds Of horse flesh were
consumed. The number of horses slaughter.
ed for eating in that city is between two and
three hundred ayear?
The Merchants Magazine says that
thore are in operation l07, $50 miles Of tele-
graphic lines, Of which America has nearly
as much as the rest of the whole world com.
bined, viz 45, 600 miles. # is estimated that
4,00O,0 900 messages pass ever the American
lines annually, yielding, probably, net
revenue ofs6, ,0090oo. There are $50 miles
of submarine telegraph cable now in use, ex-
elusive of tie Atlantic cable.
Mfr. George Cunningham has shown
the,GreenviUc Patriot a specimen of sugar
manufactured from the Chinese sugar cane.
1t is we'll grauulated, and tastes we'll Hav-
ing no mill on his premises, he resorted to
the boiling processfor the purpose of extract
ing the syrup from the cane, and was sur
prised shortly afterwards by finding that
deposit of sugar had been formed from the
syrup.
The discussion between Parson Brown
low, of Tennessee, and Parson Pryne, Of New
York, on the slaveay question, terminated on
Saturday evening, at the National Guards
Hall, Philadelphia, in the presence of very
intelligentaudience. Numerous ladies we're
in attendance, and they seemed to share in
the close interest with which the remarks
ofthe different speakers were received. There
was no vote taken upon the question under
discussion.
- The Sixty-ninth New York Regiment,
under command of Col. Ryan, propose to
visit Ireland by one of the new Galway line
of steamers. Col. Ryan has been in COM
muuication with Lord Napier on the subject,
and the latter has written 20 his government
to know whether there would be any objec-
ton to the boys of the Sixty-uiuth paying a
visit to the country of their ancestors. Over
one hundred names are enrolled as among
those willing to 90 on the excursion.
We learn that the Presbyterian Board
of Missions, in New York, has kindly con-
seuted to take charge of, and educate, in their
missionary schools in Liberia, eight of the
children Of the company of recaptured Afri.
cans about to be conveyed, in the frigats Mia
CARA, from Charleston to Liberia, there to be
delivered to the agent of the American Colo
nization Society. Probably the Boards Of
tho Methodist, Episcopal, and Baptist
Churches, all of which have schools and
teachers in Liberia, may each adopt an equal
or larger number of these young Africans,
and prepare them to become instructors and
beusfactors to their couutrymsn.
Que of the courts of the Stste of In
diana recently made decision which is Of
interest to all newspaper proprietors through
out the Union. A controversy existed re-
la.ive to charge for advertising between the
Commissioners of Hamilton county and the
Patriot newspaper. 1t was held by the Judge
that "the published terms of newspapers
constitute contract. If work is given to
newspaper publishers, without a special
contract contravening, the publisher can
charge and receive according to the terms so
published. 1t is not necessary to prove what
the work cost or was worth the publishers
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