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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

A NAIL IN THE HEART OF A HORSE
A correspondent of The Field mentions that
the Right Hon. Sir J. Trollope recently
sentan old hunter, which was incurably lame,
and incapable of further service, over to his
kennels to be killed for his hounds. When
he was out up the huntsman- took the heart
for some young hounds ill of distemper, and
in cutting it up his knife struck againstsome
hard substance, which he found to be black.
smiths shoeing nail, fully 23 inches long,
and imbedded in the heart, with the head of
the nail near the point, the sharp end up
ward. The nail had never been clinched,
but was nearly straight, the point slightly
turned, and it looked as if it had been re-
jeoted by smith on trying it in shoe
The horse has been for eight years in Sir
John Trollope's possession.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

WAsHINaToN's. ONLY M1sTAKE.-The
Paris correspondence the New York Times
relates the following:
The late Washington Ball atsthe Ameri-
can Legation in this city wasthe subject Of
a bon mot, which was dropped by the French
Minister of War, which ought to have pub
licity.
Marshal Vilfant demonstrated with Mr.
Mason previous to the ball on she inappro.
priateness of giving a tste during Lent, and
asked if it were not mistake?
Gfit is mistake, replied Mr.. Mason, sit
was Washington who made it, for that is
his birthday, and the ball is in honor Of the
event.
'Oh, that's it, replied the Marshal
'then its the only mistake he ever made in
his lifeP
The Marshal was one Of the first guests at
the ball, concession he made to the name Of
Washington, for he is strict observer Of
the requirements of Lent.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

WHAT A BARY Cosrs A. YEAR:-Whea
il is necessary to feed infants arti6ciatly and,
cows milk is used, it should be drstb boilsd,s
then skinned, then sweetened . little with
sugar, and next little salt added, mot %
nough to give It saltish taste; milk thds
prepared will not only prevent the indigess
tion and consequent aoidity, aatulepcs, ,cofic,.
.diarfhea, TO-, from which sucking children
sufer;se much, but win actually cure them 5
SO says Halls Journal Of Health,
A hearty infant viii swallow, during the
first year Of its1ife, fourteen hundred pounds
of milk, in which are twenty.one pouuds of
cseese, thirty pounds Of butter, aud g hun.
dred and twelve. pounds of sugar sAt Six
cents d'quart, with the necessary swestsnipg,
each "dear" little creature costs for food
alone, fifty dollars for the first ysaf.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

BAPTISM IN Hoops.-At Chicago last
week rather amusing scene took place du-
ring the baptism of a young lady by the pas
tor of the Tabernacle:
"The minister requested her to assume the
dress peculiar to- SUCH sn occasion, but she
declined te take off her hooped skirt; the
minister told her of the Inconvenience that
must necessarily result from her obstipacy,
but she persisted. When she came to de-
scend into the bath, the inflated skirt touch.
ed the water, and rose up around her like q
balloon. Her head was lost to the congrega.
tion, she was swallowed up in the swelling
skirt, the minister tried to force her down
into the. bath, but she was kept above the
surface by the foatingproperties of the erin.
oline, and was buoyed upsosuccessfully that
it was not until. after much difficulty and
many forcible attempts to submerge the lady,
that the minister succeeded in babtizing the
fair one. Finally it was effected to the re-
lief Of the minister and the seriously inclined
audience, who could not keep from laughing
in their pocket handkerchiefs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

C1RcUMsrANTIAL EvIDENcE.-A writer
in the South Caroztnian relates a pretty
strong case of COW stealing, supported by cir
cumstantial evidence alone, in which ninety.
nine juries out of hundred would. have
given verdict of guilty.
A small farmer had lost several head oi
cattle, and especially favorite COW called,
Cherry. Information was sent to him that
Cherry's hide was seen in neighboring
butchers lot. He and others who were fa'
miliar with the appearance Of the cow, re-
cognized the skin, ear marks and other indu.
bitablo proofs of the missing COW. At this
stage of proceedings the butcher was called
on, but stoutly asserted that the skin was not
that of cow but of steer.
A preliminary investigation was held be.
fore a. Magistrate, and the butcher stood q
fair chance of being cornered, when the
proceedings of the Court were interrupted
by the appearance of little negro, who
brought the welcome tidings that the butch
cred COW had turned up at home alive and
kicking.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

A CHEAP MENAGER1E SHow.-At old
'Ashtabula, in the State of Ohio, there once
lived queer old puritan ycleped Deacon
Daniel, B., worthy man and christian,
Gas the times went,) although his style of
preaching was peculiar to himself and unlike
anything laid down in the books.
At protracted meeting, the good people
where much scandalized to find that me.
nagerie had encamped in the same vicinity,
and was /" drawing big audiences" from a.
mong the worshippers, and among the delin-
quents, several members of the Deaeon's
family. Amid the general Lamentations the
Deacon arose and comforted them as fol.
lows:
Brethren, youmust have faith? There
is Abraham he had not faith-got knife to
kill his son Isaac with-but the Lord didn't
let him de,o it. And there is my namesake,
Daniel, 2ehad faith-lots Of faith, too. They
cast him into lions den, but lions never
touched him-and there he sot and sot all
night, and looked at the show for nothing
didn't cost him cent either"
The Deacon's voice became inaudible, and
he subsided.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

FAMrEY NAMEs.-The following facts are
from an interesting artieletonsthe fsmilylncs
meaclatufe ofsEnglaud aud w Waiss, Id The
sixteenth annual fepofsof ter.ge1erab6f
England: x ~. A&s s't.iS ~ ~
Ths inde1esosbisths;i s;imsrfiag ssnddsatis,
for seventeen and a halfysssee ecsatain moro
thaa 81, ,008, 900 names = .Kl le:eRts Smith
isshy. far the most comndh DSs YhilsiR
Wales the;nams of 1onespred6 N
During the period above named che = sbeds
of both England end Wales show. 2S5; ;087
persons named Smith, and 2S2, 600 named
Jones. Of the whole populationoof Eng
land and Wales in 1856, one person in,73
was named Smith; one in 7e was Jones;
one in lis Williams oueip. l4S Taylor;
one in 152 Davis and onein La = Broxn.
Over half a million of the whole pepulationl
were named Smith or Jones. 81 :. ~ {.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

A HALE OLD VETERAN.-Grant Thor
burn is sensible old man. On the 18th
inst, he wrote as follows from New Haven,
Conn.,
81 have lived another year in this falsely
so.called miserable world. I verify believe
it is the best world, terrestrial, that ever God
Almighty made. have never felt head,
heart nor toothache during the year just gone
by: and this day enter upon my eighty
fifth year. I walk without staff, and eat
my food without brandy or bitters. never
was drunk in my life, and never had rheu-
matte pain. Ivoted three years when Wash
ington was President. I lived twenty-five
years under George ILL.,. saw the whole
reign of George w., William VI, and Vic
toria thus far. Twas intimate with Hamil.
ton, Jay, Morris, old Governor Clinton and
other prominent actors in the revolution"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

The BEAUTY OF A BLUsH.-Goethe was
in company with mother and her daughter,
when the latter, being reproved for some
fault, blushed and burstinto tears. He said,
"How beautiful your reproach has made
your daughter. The crimson hue and those
silvery tears become her better than any or
nament of gold and pearls. Those may be
hung on the neck of wanton, but these are
never seen disconnected with moral purity.
A full grown rose, besprinkled with the
purest dew, is not so beautiful as this child
blushing beneath her parents displessure,
and shedding tears of sorrow for her fault.
A blush is the sign which nature hangs out
to show where chastity and honor dwell"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

ANOTHER D1IEMMA.-A severe maga,;
trate built gallows on bridge, askedsyery
passenger whittier he was going Hhean-
swered truly he passed uhharmed I; if falsely,
he was hanged on the galloas. : One day .
passenger being asked the usual question.
answered, s1' am going to be hanged % the
gallows." "Now," said the galloTs builder,
1ffI hang this man he will have answered
truly, and ought not to hsse been hanged j,
if T do not hang him, he, win have answered
falsely, and ought 70 have been hanged."
Tho justice; aud not the man was placed In
suspense, and whether heshas yet been re.
heved from it we cannot say. " - '' -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

ANEW DoDaE-PosrAaE STAMPs.-The
Boston Journal says:
An advertisement appeared in one of the
city papers, and has been editorially noticed,
inviting all persons who have cancelled post
age stamps to send them in to a poor boy,
who is to cover a chamber wall with them,
and thereby secure from some eccentric old
gentleman an ample fortune. Perhaps a
simpler solution to the question as to the use
to be made of the cancelled stamps may be
found in another process, viz: that Of ex-
tracing the oancelling mark Of the postmas-
ter, which may be done by the application
of the simplest chemicals, so as to leave the
stamp as good as new. Uncle Sam will have
to try his hand at some preventive process,
or bis stamps will go the rounds until worn
out.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

GETTING THE LAWYERS ALL on H1ss1p8

GETTING THE LAWYERS ALL ON H1s SIDE.
Oliver h. Smith gives this Incident ID
the history of Indiana. At the Rush Cir:
cult Court my friend Judge Perry bargsined
for pony for s25, to be delivered the next
day, on a credit Of six months. The man
came with the pony, but required security Of
the Judge for s25. The Judge drew the
note at The top OF a sheet Of foolscap, and
signed it: Isigned; James Baridan signed
itand handed it on, and invent from Ian,
yer to lawyer around Che bar, TIL some tven-
ty of us had signedit. Ithen handed itup.
to the court, and three Judges put their
names toit. Judge Perry presented u TO-
the-man he had bought the pony of, bnt he
promptly refused it. tDon,t sou think I
am fool to letsyeuget the oourtandali the
lawyers on your side3 I see you intend to-
cheat me ont of my pony uphe jumped,
mounted the pony and started for home ip
full gsllop. .., $50 =~s.i go. 4e.Iif IL
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

EDITORIAL L1FE.-But few ever think of
the labor devolvingupon an editor-one who
is faithful to his high calling-it is not so
much what is printed as what is not printed,
that makes paper valuable. Captain Ma
ryatt evinced proper appreciation of an ed
itorial life when he wrote the following re-
marks: 81 know how periodical will wear
down ones existence. In itself it appears
nothing; the labor is not manifest nor is
it the labor, it is the continual attention it
requires. Your life becomes, as it were, the
publication. One days paper is no sooner
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

1% A good story is told Of q noted Wall
street stock broker, who, was theFfnt after
the Ohio Life and Trust Go. torfaiE The
story runs thus: .-- ...,,-'E 49, '., f..
On the - day of August, 1867, be failed,
but not for the first time by several. He
ordered his confidential clerk to make
schedule which would pay fifty cents on
the dollar. The, clerk being somswhatstar-
tied, said: .r =. 81 - s.!' "ss'''%
why, Mr.. you can't do thatp' o.
'Weh," said he, thatis what Railways
have failed at, and if my assets are not sdfa-'
cient, I'll pay it out Of my own pocket -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

A TALE OF HoRRoRs.--An atrocious
crime has just been perpetrated in sziksza,
in Hungary. A hawker, who had long been
in the habit of travelling about the country
selling linen, stopped for the night at the
house of peasant. After taking his supper
quietly with his host, he retired to bed In
the middle of the night the wife awoke her
husband, and proposed to him to go and muir
der the hawker, in order to get possession Of
his property. The husband positively re-
fused, on which the woman, calling him a
coward, went and plunged large knife into
the heart Of the sleeping bawker.' The hus.
band then, by order of his wife, put the body
into sack and threw it into the river, while
she set about removing all the marks Of the
blood. In the morning her son, boy Of 8
years of age, asked his mother ior piece Of
bread, when she took knife to cut him a
slice. Seeing this the child cried out, "Do
not cut it with that knife, for you used it to
kill the hawker!" On this the woman, fear.
ing the crime wouldbe revealed, by the child,
seized hold of him and threw him into the
oven. 1t so happened that on the night Of
the murder, the house of another peasant
had been robbed Of quantity of meat and
bacon, and the owner had been prowling
about in search of the thief. In passing near
the house Of his neighbor, be smelt an ex.
traordinary odor of something burning, and
gave an alarm. When persons were enter.
ing the house to search for the cause of the
smell, the mother had pulled out the hall
consumed body of the child from the oven,
and was endeavoring to carry it away in hel
apron, but one of the feet was seen protru.
ding, and the whole affair was discovered.
The peasant and his wife were arrested, and
the woman made full confession. of her
guilt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

- e1vIhIrY A FoRruNE.-Civility is a for.
tune itself, q corteous man always succeeds
we'll in life, and that even, when persons OF
ability sometimes fail. The famous Duke
of Marlborough is case in point. 1t was
said of him by one contemporary, that his
agreeable manners often converted an enemy
into friend and by another, that it was
more pleasing to be denied favor by his
grace, than receive one from other men. The
gracious manner of Charles James Fox,
preserved him from personal dislike, even at
time when he was politically the most un'
popular man in the kingdom. The exper-
ience of every man furnishes, if we but
recall the past, frequent instances where
concilatory manners have made the fortunes
of physicians, lawyers, divines, politicians,
merchants, and indeed, individals of all pur-
suits. In being introduced to stranger,
his affability, or the reverse, creates instan'
taneously prepossession in his behalf, or
awakens, unconsciously, prejudice against
him. To men, oivilty is, in fact, what beau
ty is to woman it is general passport to
favor, a letter of recommendation, written
in language that every stranger understands.
The best of men have often injured them
selves by irritability and consequent rude
ness, as the greatest scoundrels have fire..
quently succeeded in their plans by plausi-
Bile manners. Of two men, equal in all 9th
or respects, the one has twice the chance for
fortune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

VACCINATION WITH MAaNETIsED NEE
DLEs.-Professor Roca states that since 1856,
hundreds of children have been vaccinated,
with scarcely any failures occurring. The
point of the needle is we'll saturated with
the magnetic fluid before practising the yac.i
cinations, which are then performed in the,
usual manner, single magnetizatiou serving
for many vaccinations. Its quite surpri-
sing to observe the rapidity with which the
vaccine virus is absorbed, when the needle
is thus prepared.-London Illustrated Neps.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

Cor WHAT HE WAS AFTER.-A young
gent is discovered surrounded BY his
friends, who are jestiug with him regarding
his attentions to certain young lady.
Young Gent.-"Boys, I'll tell you how
it is: You know I care nothing for the
girl-it is the old mans pocket book I am
after"
Chorus Of friends. ha !"
Scene second.-A parlor. Time II P.
M. Youuglady seated. Young gentleman
rises to depart, hesitates, as if bashful, and
then slowly remarks:
"Miss Matilda, excuse me, but'you must
be.aware that my frequent visits, my at.
tentions, cannot have. been without an OBJ
jeot." .-
Young lady.-"Ah, yes, so I've heard,
and shall be only two happy to grant what
you desire. Takes from the table a paper
parcel, and unfolding it displays alarge old
fashioned and empty morocco pocket-book.
This, I have been informed, is your object.
Permit me TO- present it, and congratulate
you that you will in future have no further
occasion to renew those visits and attentions" "
Young gent swoons. =. ..."... e..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06
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NEVER STOP TO RUB YOUR BRUISES.

EVER STOP TO RUB YOUR BRUISE
o. >. -, "a. By HINDA. -
> Lifeis wasting-time is flying,
Ali sands will soon be run;
Be ye up and be ye trying,
Cease not till your work is done.
Though no star its light difuses, :
And you stumble oft and fall,
Never stop to rub your bruises,
-Trayel on inspite Of all.
Onward | onward! and tomorrow
: What to you looks fearful how,
Will depart with every horror
/, That o'erhangs the mountain brow;
Though your labor oil amuses,
And save conflicts on you fall,
Never Stop to rub your bruises,
Travel on inspite Of all.
Though your friends may all .forsake you,
Il And thy every effort chill, o.. 49,.
Leaving them, perhaps will make you,
Some like serpents charm to kill;
Should the one affection chooses;
Often times will you enthrall,
Never stop to rub your bruises,
Travel on in spite Of all!
- Should old fortune hoard her treasures,
And on you no gold bestow,
Whist are they 55nt empty pleasures,
: Which can only iustre show?
Though your strength almost refuses
TO uphold meath fsmine's pail.
: Never stop to rub your bruises,
f.. Travel on inspite Of all.
-..,,. /. ..-s,.s-.. ly.~ y
Hoist the sail, although the ocean 80
: Seemsso peacefully at rest
~ Hoist the sail and wait the motion,
Winds are nesting in its breast; y
Weakening then new life infuses, --
Loud the battling breezes squall-
Then the barque with all her bruises,
Travels an in spite of aals - - - .
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

A BROKEN LEa.-Joseph A Wood, who
had his leg broken in Quebec 27 years ago,
the me.leg broken iusSouth Carolina ten
years ago, and in New Hampshire two years
ago, was descending the stairs of a hotel IN
Worcester, on the 10th inst, when he slip
ped and broke it for the fourth time. After
this he concluded to have it cut of.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

VoLTA1RE.-Nearly hundred years ago
Voltaire resided at Geneva. One day he
said to some friends, in boastful, sneering
tone, "Before the nineteenth century, Chris
tianity will have disappeared from the sarthp
Well, in that same house, in that same room
where these impious words were spoken,
what think you there is to-day? A large
deposit of Bibles! The sacred books flltha
house from the floor to the ceiling. So much
for Voltaire's prediction. ,-.l ri 4
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

CoTToN KILLED IN GEoRaIA.-Ac cores
pondent in Madison writes to the Augusta
Constitutionalist that q severe frost was no-
tioed in that locality on Saturday morning
last, and it is likely the wheat crop fisfins
jured. In Walton county, ,wslsarnltaasths
foet killed young cotton. -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

corrected and printed, than On comes anoth.
er. 1t is the stone Of Sisyphus, an endless
repetition Of toll, and constant weight upon
the mind, continual wearing upon the in.
tellect and spirits, demanding all the exer-
tions of your faculties, at the sametime that
you are compelled to. the severest drudgery.
To write for paper is very we'll, but to edit
one, is to condemn yourself to slavery"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06

To CURE WARTs.-Warts on the hand
may be cured by washing them several times
a day in strong soda water, and allowing them
to dry without wiping.
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