Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-08-12

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...."".A new stove has been invented for the com
fort of travellers it is to be put-under the feet
with q mustard plaster on the head, which draws
the heat through the whole system. .'''"Nebras
ka is our largest Territory. 1t will make about
eighty States as large as New Hampshire, and is
about one-sixth the size of Europe. ":''''"The
number of Irish emigrants who left Belfast, for
America, during the past year was only one thous'
and, while in the preceding year the number was
seven thousand. ''..'.".what arerthe chief ends
Of man ?" asked a school teacher Of his pupils.
.Head and feet was the reply.-"..'" One Of our
exchanges deliberately charges that there has
been considerable "wire-pulling" lately between
Great Britain and the, United States. '.They
hang people in public, in Virginia, and Judge
Thompson, of Wheeling, has ordered Burns, the
murderer of his mistress, to be hung on a hill,
where about one hundred thousand people could
get a good view."""'The diguitaries of the COL
Ored church at Rlkton, Nd, have resolved to turn
out Of their congregation "aIl ladies guilty Of the
immoral practice of wearing hoops" "'"-.A lady
asked anoted doctor if be did not think the small
bonnets the ladies wore had tendency to eonges.
ton of the brain. oh, nc, replied he, .fadies
who have brains won'twear them. horoscopes q
A Cincinnati paper states that Hon. Thomas
Corwin will take the stump This fall in opposition
ML~ecomptonism. It is also Said that he is will
ling to accept a Congressional nomination, should
the Convention confer it upon him with tolerable
unanimity. ....".'They have such tnll corn in Nor
folk, Virginia, that recently a man six feet high
was lost in a corn6eld. ...:""The Kansas City
Journal says that five thousand letters were re-
ceiyed at the post office in that city in one day.
....".The cornerstone Of the Military Institute
Buildings, to be erected.at Charlotte, N. c., was
laid on The 29th Of July with Masonic ceremonies,
and addresses by FL. Gov. Graham and Victor c.
Bsrriuger. ....".""It is . curious fact" says come
etymoiogist, ssthat it is only the female mosquito
that tornents u.s." Abachelor says it is notatalf
s~tourious." ......"The Arabs have this laconic ar
gumsnt against daslIing, which they consider a
silly custom /: iIf a man insult you, say they,
"kif him on the spot but do, not give him the
opportunity to kill as we'll as to insult you.".""'
The Cleveland Plan Dealer says: 'Gens Cass is
in a~.critisal state of health. Heis suffering from
diarrhea, and has both age and season against
him. .~.....Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, was
among the recent. distinguished" visitors in Bos-
ton. ,""."A fellow who got drunk, on election
day, said it was owing to his efforts to put down
"party spirit. n".".""An Old Nulliier" in, the
Charleston Courier, nominates Hon. James L.
Retigru for the United States Senate. -..."".'The
yellow fever is very malignant OF New Orleans
On The 4th- instant there were seventy-hve cases
in the hospital, and thenumbcr increasing. 1000
Adviees from Utah state that order and quiet had
been restored throughout the Territory, and the
Mormons we're highly pteased-with thenew officers.
The Peace Commissioners are en- route h%omewsrd.
...""..A young man steppedinto a bookstore, and
said he wanted to get 4 young Mans Compan:
ion." "Well, sir" said the bookseller, ''here's
my daughter. ""..'."..0b. Mr.. Hill" said one Of
the Rev. Rowland's hearers, show is il you say,
SO many out of the way things in your serlaons?"
Because" said the eccentric divine, you are
such out of the way sinners !"'..'""'Nearly all
tie drinking houses in St. Louis are furnished
with straws for sucking Juleps, by one man, who
sells them for one and a half to two dollars a
thousand from about two acres of land, on which
he grows rye annually, esells about twenty-four
hundred dollars worth of straws. They are packed
in barrels containing 1000 straws, and shipped
to New Orleans, St. Paul, and intermediate places,
and the demand is increasing.