Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
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- We sleep, but the loom OF lite never
stops; and the pattern which was weaving
when the sun went down is weaving when it
comes up tomorrow.
"a young widow who edits a paper in
a neighboring State, says: awe do not
look so well to-day as usual, on account OF
the non-arrival ofthe mails"
The authorities of Tuscaloosa have
determined, by a vote of four to three, not
to license a bar for the retail of spirituous
liquors in that city, as We learn from the
Montgomery Advertiser.
The passenger train on the Central
Railroad for Staunton, Virginia, ran through
the Blue Ridge Tunnel, Monday, and here
after the trains on the road will run through
it regularly.
The Baltimore Patriot mentions the
fact that an insurance company in that city
now takes risks on rents. Owners ofpro-
perty, therefore, in addition to the facilities
of insurance against loss by fire and food,
can insure against a want of tenantry.
-Impudent little boy Ito very fat old
gentleman, who is trying to get along as fast
as he can but with very Indifferent success:)
I" I say, old fellow, you would get on a jolly
site quicker if you would lie down on the
pavement and let me roll you along"
- At a public sale Of books the auction
eer put up " Drews Essay on Souls" which
was knocked down to,a shoemaker, who to the
great amusement Of the crowded room asked
the auctioneer if he had any more works
on shoemaking to sell 2"
- An attorney before a bench of magis-
trates, a short time ago, told the bench, with
great gravity. That he had two witnesses
in court in behalfof his client, and they would
be sure to speak the truth, for he had no op-
%portunity to communicate with them"
- The Chattanooga advertiser of the
18th inst, says: owe learn by an endorse
ment on the Little Rock, Arkansas, letter
package, received here yesterday morning,
that the own of Napoleon is fifteen feet un-
der water.
-A An Irishman being asked, on a late
trial, for a certificate of his marriage, barred
his head, and exhibited a huge scar, which
looked as though it might have been made
with a fire shovel. The evidence was salts
factory.
- Many men want wealth-not a compe-
tence alone, but a fre-story competence
Everything subserves this and religion they
would want as a sort of lightning rod to
their houses, to ward off, by and by, the
bolts of divine wrath.
The people of St. Paul Minnesota, have
recently voted to raise a loan of S100,O00 to
complete the bridge now in purse of con-
struction across the Mississippi at that place.
The estimated cost is $4,000 and the
structure is to be completed during the COM
ing summer.
"A young mar was lately arrested in
Pennsylvania for stealing a horse, and con-
fessed the crime, stating that he knew of no
other way to get rid of woman who was
constantly importuning him to marry her.
Between a wife and a prison he chose, as he
believed, the lesser of two evils.
- The Comptroller Of Tennessee an
nounces that the following free Banks in that
State have gone into liquidation, and that
their circulation will be redeemed out of the
trust funds in his hands, viz Bank Of Par
is, Bank of Commerce, Bank of Jefferson,
Bank of Trenton, and Bank of Tazewell.
An old, rough clergyman once took
for his text that passage of the Psalms, Il
said in my haste all men are liars. Looking
up, apparently as if he saw the Psalmist stand
Immediately before him, he said You
said in your haste, David, did you! Well,
ifyou had been here, you might have said it
after mature reflection
- The Richmond, Va. South says that
a negro child has recently been born in the
n~eighborhood of Ring-gold in that county,
with twenty-six fingers and toes. 1t has six
toes on each foot, and seven 6rgers on each
hand. There are two full sized thumbs on
each hand and two '%little,' fingers. All these
limbs are said to be perfect.
- lady residingi in the vicinity of New
York, the wife of a distinguished citizen and
well know in the fashionable world, has
testified her interestin the revival movement
by converting the elegant billiard room at
tached to her house, into a place for prayer
meetings, in which her ~neighbors participate
daily.
~ Many of the Washington correspon-
dents agree in saying that the President
will veto any bill which may be passed ad-
hitting Kansas, that does not substantially
recognise the Lecompton Constitution. Such
declarations, if true, will tend to strengthen
the Anti Lecompton party, for they will con-
strue it into design to interfere with their
freedom.
- Col. Benton's will, it is stated, places
his estate in the hands of Mr.. Jones, Mr..
Jacob and Col. Fremont, (sons-in-law,) Mr..
Montgomery Blair and Capt. Lee, as trust
tees. The house in Washington, where he
passed the last portion of his life, is bequeath-
ed to Mrs. Jones, his library to her husband.
The remainder of the estate is equally divi-
ded.
BRIGHAM Young threatens, ifthe Pre-