Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-17
INSTRUMENTATION

The Greensboro Patriot comes to Us this week
in an enlarged form, neatly printed on new type by
means of . power-press. Among other things
the Patriot says one of its subscribers has paid
five wears in advance" ...."The suspended Banks
of Charleston, and the Hamburg Bank, resumed
specie payment on the 9th instant. The Mercury
SAWS "there was little or no demand for specie be-
yond what was wanted in the way Of convenient
change. One of the banks paid out only five dol
lars. """....All a man has to do in these days to
pass for a genius, is: to button his cont behind,
and wear his hat wrong side out.""'"''The first
printing press in North Carolina was established
at Newborn in 1854, by James Davis, who in l77S
printed an edition of the laws of North Carolina.
....."'sBlessed are they who do not advertise, for
they will be rarely troubled with customers" ''''''
The prohibitory liquor law passed by the Legisla-
ture of Maine, was ratified by the votes of the
people on the 9TH instant, very few votes being
cast for the opposition or license law. The vote
in Portland for prohibition was 1887, and for Ii
cense % !"...""On the 9th instant, the Legisla-
ture of New Hampshire reelected j. ?. HALE,
United States Senator. ""...The Virginians re-
sident in New York, have made preparations to re-
move the remains of ex.President MONROE, from
that city to Richmond. ".'"".Why is a hen sitting
on a fence like q cent? Because she has a head
on one side, and a tail on the other.
Col. W. H. GIsT of Union, is nominated in the
Lancaster Ledger, for Governor. '''''"'.Thc Missou-
ri Telegraph says that Governor STEWART, of that
State, while pretty drunk, got into a quarrel with
q Mr.. VAND1vER, about the pardon of the st.
Louis murderer, O'BLENSIs, which ended in q fight,
the Governor getting a very satisfactory thrashing.
STEWARDS friends say it was not fair, as he was
too drunk to fght. ..''"'!A Yankee baker has in
vented a new kind of yeast. 1t makes bread so
light that a pound of it weighs only four ounces.
."..."Gen SCOTT was seventy-two years old on
the 18th instant. He has been in the Army half
a century. """""The Richmond South understands
upon undoubted authority, 'that Mr.. BoYcE is
resolved to remain in his present position rs long
rs it shall be the will of his constituents. "..''.....
4 marriage epidemic is prevailing in Lexington,
KY, which is sweeping off numerous victims. On
one day last week there were no less than seven
weddings and three runaway matches. ''''''Lo.
Gusts bave made their appearance in the lower
counties of Mississippi. 1.-THE cost of lighting
New York city by gas during the past year, was
$500, 000. '...."The fourth of July falling on
Sunday this year, the Darlington Flag says it has
loon ro,o1roJ 80 oolobrot a e IN tbot n1ooo bv n - a
ligious meeting. "....".The oldest military compa.
ny in the State is the German F~usiliers, Of Char
lesion, having been commissioned in the year IT'S.
The Fairfield Artillery was chartered in 1856. ..".'
Withina year, South Carolina and Texas have each
lost two United States Senators by death-the
former, BUTLER and EVANS the latter, RUsK and
HENDERsoS.""'."A drunken Dutchulan, by the
name of CAIN, staggering through the streets one
day, was asked if he was the man that slew his
brother. "No," said he, II was the one that got
slowed ".'."""The Weekly Level says there are
more churches, more gambling hells, more grog-
shops, and more prostitutes in Memphis, at the
present time, than in any other city in the Union
containing the same amount of population. ''''''''
Col. ANDREW P. CALHOUN has been proposed by
the Camden Journal for the next Governor of this
State....". The hog cholera has again made its
appearance in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee and
Arkansas; and animals are dying by hundreds
The Selma (Ala.) Era says cottonis looking re
m~arkably we'll, and the stand is generally good
The farmers have just harvested the most abun
dant crop of wheat ever raised in this scction.''''
The total national wealth of the United States, a.
an estate, is stated tobe twenty-five billion dollars
"'.""Hon. WN. L.. YANcEY, Of Alabama, ha
been spoken of in connection with the next Presi
dency, by some of the Southern press. ''''Th
!, 261lth anniversary of the founding of Rome wa
3 celebrated by the Archaeological Institute, in Rome
, on the Oath ult ..'"''Thc Napoleon, Ark, Plan
ter, says its last issue was ''wOrked off, by tn