Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-10-21
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-"It is curious fact" say some ety.
mologists, " that it is only the female mos.
quito that torments u.s. A bachelor says it
not at all "curious."
"A New York paper says some wealthy
American gentlemen, in high state of "a
cling fever, have determined to challenge race
between English and American horses for
$780, O,000-four miles heats over the Fash
ion Course.
Two pair of shoes were lately made
by shoe manufacturer in Lynn, to fill an
order for southern plantation. They are
intended for slave, and it is stated measures
nineteen aud half inches, with CORES
ponding width.
The remaining Indians in Florida, it
appears, have determined to become citizens.
Fifteen visited Miami, Fla. on the first inst,
and announced their intention to settle, live
in peace and be governed and protected by
the laws. They are engaged in clearing land
near the town, for agricultural purposes
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"A few weeks since, says the New Or
leans Crescent, we mentioned as singular
circumstance the marriage ofa German wild
dow, in the third district, to her fifth hus-
band-not one of the previous four having
out-lived his wedding year. Well, few
days since, the fifth husband took the yellow
fever. He died, and on Friday he was buri-
ed.
The Charlotte Democrat speaking Of
the Agricultural Fair to be held in Charlotte,
on the 4th and 5th proximo, says: '1t is
expected that the Hon. Joseph A. Wood
ward and Col. E. G. Palmer, of South Caro-
lima, will deliver addresses. We hope to
see the citizens of this and adjoining coun-
ties present and participating in the exhibi-
ton. All will receive hearty welceme."
The Baltimore American says the
sum to be paid for Mount Vernon is $780,
600; $4,000 were paid at the signing ofthe
contract. The first instalment of $4,000,
due January l, 1859, is now ready to be
paid, and it is hoped to raise the entire pur-
chase sum during the present year, in order
to take possession on the coming 22d Of Feb
ruary.
The President of the Erie Railroad,
of New York, receives salary of 5000,
which surprises not only the New York ag-
ricultural and manufacturing community, but
even Wall street, accustomed to look at
things merely by the thousands. 1t is the
salary of the President of the United States,
about three times that of Foreign Minister
and of Members of the Cabinet The learned
Judges of the Supreme Court of the United
States are not paid half as much.
We were shown yesterday counter
felt Of the denomination of $40, on the Bank
of Hamburg, printed in red, which was Of
fered at thecounter of the Branch Bank, and
which we regard as one of the most perfect
counterfeits We have ever seen. The bill is
numbered 967, letter A. These letters are
not exactly in character with the geRuine, nor
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October, 1856, is we'll written. The sigma
lures are good. but too heavy when compared
with the genuine. Columbia Guardian.
-Our town and vicinity within the last
week have been visited by two or three
rather destructive fires. The gin house of
Mr.. Bggers Mobley, some three miles from
town, with its entire contents, including a.
bout thirty bales of cotton, was burnt on
last Saturday morning; the same evening,
the blacksmith shop of Mr. John Simpson,
of this place, shared the same fate; and on
Monday evening, Mr.. John. W. Killian lost
very considerable lot of lumber, near, the
depot, from the same cause. In every in
stance the fire was the result of accident, or
it may be in some measure carelessness.-
Chester Standard.
In the Circuit Court of Bedford
county, Virginia, last week, in the case of
Stepoe as. the Virginia, and Tennessee Rail-
road Company, where the plaintiff sued for
damages sustained by him from the trespass
of cattle on his wheat field, through the neg
lect of defendants to keep the cattle guards
on their road in repairs, the Judge decided
that the company was neither obliged to
construct cattle guards nor keep them in re-
pair. Notwithstanding the instructions of
the Court, the jury brought in a verdict for
the plaintiff for sl20, which vesdict was set
aside as contrary to the instruction from the
bench. Richmond Dispatch, 9th.
- The London Morning Chronicle be-
lieves that s'the attempt to establish electric
communications between the Old World and
the New, will be repeated under much more
favorable conditions, and in more than one
direction. For this conclusion, among others,
has been definitely reached, that the means
of instantaneous intercourse with America
must not be left dependent upon the chances
of single cable or particular route. We
must tie the Continents together by many
bonds of union, following different channels
and terminating at different points. No
casual accident, no local disturbance, and
not even any political perturbation, must be
allowed to interrupt the free and regular in
terchangc of intelligence when once establish
cd across the broad Atlantic
An attempt at suicide in the Fourth
District was attended with some of the drol-
lest incidents we ever heard of: A big, stout
German, named Anthony Behler, cotton
tier at one Of the uptown cotton presses,