Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06
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the want of the usual editorial matter. ''-
RE-MENTION.
The telegraph operator ut Oswego has been
counting the freight cars passing that station
east and west, during two weeks, and finds the
total to be 3,398.'..".The American Baptist
says: 'The aggregate of conversions reported
in connection with Baptist churches alone, during
the month of March, is over seventeen thousand.
.......Benton's Thirty Years View is said to have
already attained the sale of seventy thousand
volumes !......"At one of the churches in Girard
Ala, on Sunday morning last, notices of two in
tended marriges we're read from the pulpit by the
officiating minister. "...".HoN. TAos. F. MAR
SHALL, of Kentucky, says he has not joined
| any church, and as he reads the Bible, he
thinks there is no need of his joining. ".'..'The
press, the pulpit and the petticoat-The first
spreads the news the second religion, and the
last spreads-aH over the pavement.
DR.. griffin of Columbia, says the Guardian,
has a soda fountain in his drugstore (which is
equal to any of the wonderful wine bottles of our
modern necromancers. Out of the some jet comes
any syrup you may desire, and Immediately there
after the charged er."."."r"Rev. F. AsBURY
Moop has consented to deliver a course of lectures
on European scenes and impressions, in Charlotte,
N. c., beginning on the 18th inst, the proceeds
to be applied to the new Methodist Church of that
town. ..."....A panorama of New York ia being .e1-
hibited in a congregational church in Detroit
HORACE GREELEY and JAMES GORDON BENNETT
are represented as walking down. Broadway arm
in the Medical College of this State, has resigned.
"..."The Banks Of Augusta, Ga, resumed spe-
Gle payment on Friday last.
EDWIN FOREST, denies having been converted. $500
The Darlington Family Friend is hereafter to becall-
ed the Darlington Flag. Agoodc change, NEIL."''''
An Irish paper, describing a late duel, says that
one of the cambatants was shot through the feshy
part of the thigh bone. ."'"'They are talking upa
monument to Col. BENTON, at st. Louis. "''A
descent was made upon the lottery dealers Of Pitts
burg on Thursday last, and the members Of siI
different firms were arrested. .....".The popula-
ton of 'all the world" is estimted at eight hum
dred and seventy-eight millions. "..".The month
of December last was warmer then any December
we have had for thirty-nine years. ..'.'English
papers report the discovery of another plot in
France to assassinate LOUIS NAPOLEON.
The State Treasurer of Wisconsin makes public
announcement that the Treasury is empty, with
$780, 900 to be paid. The State is in a bad way.
....."The superfuous blossoms on a fruit tree are
meant to symbolic the large way in which God
loves to do pleasant things..".."."A coffin" says
an Irishman, sis a house a man lives in when
he is dead."...."In England the average of life ex-
ceeds that of France by eleven years, notwithstand-
ing the superior French climate. "....In Minneso-
to, they have SIBLEY ''declared" Governor;
RAMsE elected" Governor; MEDARY "appointed"
Governor and CHASE 'tacting" Governor.'""'
Messrs. EVERETT, BELL, CRIrTENDEN, FILLMORE,
FREMONT, and DOUGLAS, have all been named in
different directions, by the opposition, for the
Presidency in 1860. ''""'The prospectus Of the
Globe newspaper informs US that the average num-
Der of words spoken by Congress sin a long ses-
sion is 9, 290, 772."..."..The fellow who put the
thing in a nutshell, found it cracked a day or two
afterwards. ....".The seth Anniversary of the in
PRODUCTION of the I. O. o. F. into the United States,
was celebrated at Baltimore, on Monday, 26th
ultimo.
EDWARD EVERETT will resume his Southern
tour by q Lecture at Lynchburg, Va, on the 9th
inst. ."..."A Captain, recently from SEQ, reports
having spoken FIVE vessels, each of which had dali
ly prayer meetings. ....."'To the counting lovers
exclamation 'Our couch shall be roses all span.
gled with dew o sensible girl replied" "Twould
give me the Rheumatics, and so itwould you" ''''.
Mr.. CHAMPoMIER, in his statement of the sugar
crop of Louisiana for 1878, gives the total as
279, 697 hogsheads, estimated to weigh 907, $685.
700 pounds. .."".The newspapers have a tele-
graghic report from Washington that Mr.. FoRsYTH
is to be recalled from his mission to Mexico. -.
Red cheeks are only oxygin in another shape. Girls
anxious to wear a pair will find them where the
roses do-out Of doors......"The celebrated BEN.
JAMIN WEST related that his mother once kissed
him eagerly when he showed her a likeness he
had sketched ofhis baby sister; and he adds, ''That
kiss made me a painter. "".""".BIsHop Carroll,
of Kentucky, conferred the rights of confirmation
upon some $50 persons, at Wheeling, Va, Sun
day last. ..."".The number of vehicles of all kinds
in Paris is calculated to amount to $4,000 with
0 1000 horses.