Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
NIERE-MENTION,

NAOMI, daughter of ENocH, was five hundred
and eighty years of age when she married. Take
courage young ladies. "''Sixty thousand dol.
lars worth of palm leaf hats are annually manu-
featured at Nashua, New Hampshire. ""...'There
is only one objection to people who "mean WELL"
and that's they never can spare time to carry out
their meaning. ....".The New Orleans, Jackson
and Grent Northern Railroad has been completed
to Canton, Mississippi, q distance of 2O6 miles.
........The prospect for the grain and fruit crops
in Western Texas is reported as remarkably good.
."".."There was a slight fall of snow in Atlanta,
Ca. on the 18th inst. "..".The Gainesville, Co.,
Express dominates Hon. HOWELL COBB, Secretary
of the Treasury, as n candidate forthe Presidency
in 1s6O."..".The Hon. JOHN J CRITTESDEN is
named by the Independent Republican of Glars
vile, Ohio, as its candidate for the nextPresidency,
subject to the decision of the National American
Convention.
The gross receipts of Mr.. EvERETT's "WAsH-
1NaroS Grafton in Charleston. amounted to ST.
9O4; in Columbia, 1914; in Augusta, 5000 in
Savannah, 81, GOA. "'..'"An Eastern editor heads
his list of Births, Marriages and Deaths, thus {:
Hatched, Matched and Dispatched. "'''""A Bill
has been introduced into the Louisiana Legislature,
providing that all free negroes in the State, in con-
travention of existing lows, after January next,
shall be sold into slavery. "'.""'The General Con-
ference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
will meet ut Nashville on Saturday, the first day
of May. By n vote of the Legislature, the State
Capitol has been rendered to the Conference for
their use on the occasion. "'"""M. A. SHELTON,
was on Saturday last, elected n member of the
CITY Council of Columbia. ."".."A letter from
Barbados states that sugar making is proceeding
rapidly. The crop is estimated at $4,000 hogs
heads, the largest ever raised on the island. '''''''''
A citizen of Boston has invented n dovetailingm ma.
chine, by which a hundred drawers can be dove
tailed in an hour, cutting the mortice with a pres
sure thnt insures perfection in every joint. 1t
may seem strange, but it is q fact that men gen.
erally arc much more afraid of women than women
of men, and fearing to ''break the ice' is a fruit
full cause of old bachelorism. .''...The New York
Tribune states, on the authority of private letters
from Europe, that Lord NAPIER the British Min
lister to this country, will be recalled, and that his
successor has already been named. '.'..'..It is said
that ivy will not cling to o poisonous tree or other
substance. What q pity that the tendrils of a
woman's heart have not the same wholesome and
~salutary instinct. .'...'"The chairs of the new Hall
of Representatives, at Washington, cost SO each,
and the desks $50 each.
The Georgia Citizen states that the first class
locomotive w. W. Gordon, left Macon for Savan-
nah, on Wednesday last, with thirty-hve freight
cars attached-the largest train, by ten cars, ever
taken down the Central Railroad. ......'The oldest
married couple alive arc supposed to be a Mr..
SNYDER and his wife, who reside in Burnside, Pa.
He is III and she is 107 years old, and they have
been married about ninety-three years. '''"''Sun-
day is the golden clasp that binds together the
volume Of the week. ..".."GEoRaE P. MORRIS, the
poet, is spoken of for U. s. consul to London.
....".Mr. SAMUEL WRIGHT, a farmer, who re-
SlutS III washington SVuh'yj i"s H"S
III grand children, and ia great grand children.
His wife, too, is still living.'"'The Augusta
D;spatch saws that the President of the South Car
DINA Railroad, has rendered Hon. EDWARD EVER
EFT the freedom of the Road for twelve months.
.......A bill is before the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture requiring the discharge of all persons en-
ployed in running trains who may be convicted Of
drunkenness" '."..The Virginia Penitentiary is
crowded with prisoners-301 are in it-ninety-
seven of whom are free negroes. the
marriage of q Miss WHEAT, of Virginia, an editor
hoped her path might be fowery, and that she
might never be thrashed by her husband. '''''''lt
is thought Congress will create the office of q
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. '''Thou
canst not joke nm enemy into q friend. but thou
mayst o friend into an enemy.'''"'''Show me a
land that has mountains without valleys, and
will show you a man who has joys without sor-
rows."....A verdant Yankee expectant for office
was advised, the other day, to apply for the con-
sulship of the Lobos Island rice guano remoUsd.-
He had his letter written before he discovered the
joke.
THE SoRGHo MoLAssEs.-Gen. Daniel Wallace