Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-04-21
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as a nominee for President in 1860.
"A French dentist in Valencia, Spain,
is drawing teeth by means of electricity, with
lightning rapidity, and without causing pain,
-Gen. Foote, Ex-Governor of Mississip-
pi,. is candidate for Congress in the Fourth
Mississippi District. His opponent is the
Hon. o. R. Singleton.
- During the quarter which closed on the
31st of March last, the openers of dead let,l
ters in the General Post Office. found 2,ls6
which contained an aggregate Of fslO, 292 SO.
"A Russian merchant announces the
sale in his warehouses at Odessa, and. Sebas-
topoI, of 7 1851 tons of iron and cast, iron
projeotiles, picked up intheC Crimea after. the
war.
- Fifty Editors in Maine, recently went
on an excursion; they. made common purse
and bought box Of sardines for dinner
In consequence Of that lessextravagance
forty.nine of them have since taken the
benefit of the bankrupt act.
a man was indicted at Columbus,
Ohio, for stealing ''two oxen and a cow"
The proof was that he stole two steers and
a cow. Hence he was found guilty of petit
larceny as to the cow, and semitic Jail for
fifteen days.. - -.
Billy Gray, the rich merchant Of Bos-
ton, once reproved carpentersfor not doing
his work we'll. The carpenter told Billy he
knew him when he was nothing but a drum.
mer. "Well," said, Mr.. Gray, "didn'tI
drum well, eh? Didn't I drum wellP' -.
> - Yesterday afternoon, Bill, the proper,
ty of Mr.. r. G. Anderson, being under the
Influence of liquor, put up hisleft hand as
target, and discharged a pistol, charged
with shot, into the palm. Ii is believed the
wound will necessarily require the use Of
the Surgeons knife.-Coesmbfa Bulletin
1t isaeported that Mr. Kimball, eld-
est son of Heber c., and Joseph Young, son
of Brigham, has aposta9ised and about leav-
ing for the States with their first wives, and
leaving their "spirituals" behind. AT least
five thousand apostate Mormous will leave
Utah for California earlyin the spring
We learn from the Asheville Ne@s
that the magistrates of Henderson County
have unanimously passed an order to submit
q proposition to its citizens to subscribe
100000 to the French Broad Road. Those
of ofBuncombe County have also submitted one
for S125,000. The Neacs has no doubt that
their action will be endorsed.
"A Paris dancing master keeps a.large
quantity of young gentlemen, all curled,
dressed, gloved, well-mannered, &C., aged
between 20 and 2S, for hire to baH-givers
who, having an unexpected.dearth of guests,
desire to crowd their rooms. They cost
Napoleon apiece, and are warranted to dance,
to be animated, discreet and lmoral--aecord-
ing to an absurd letter, writer. 80 |
"A few weeks since, ia the Northern
part of Texas, Ford's Rangers, consisting of
forty seven men, were surprized and surround
ed by eight hundred Indians, who demanded
their surrender. The Rangers refused;
when a desperate battle ensued. Ford with
four others, cut their way through aud es.
capped. The event has produced the great
est excitement among the frontiersmen.
-Fhe Columbus Corner Stone suggests
to the ladies the importance of bearingin
mind and of teaching their daughters, that
if their clothes take fire, the safest and su-
rest means of stopping the Aamea,l is to lie
down at once. Rushing in fright from room
to room only aggravates the fire. He ought
to caution them not to 60 within ten feet of
a fire with their present style of dress.
-Advices from Tampico. to the 1st in
slant, state that revolution had broken out
there and was raging violently. The strife
was so desperate among the parties that pas
sengers for that city dared not 60 on shore,
but went to Havana. 1t is stated the origi,
nal intention of Miramon, in, case he sue
ceeded in taking Vera Cruz, was. to burn and
sack the city, but he had been positively as
surred by the allied naval forces in that har-
Dor that nothing of the kind would be allow
ed.
According to the Vienna correspon-
dent ofthe London Times, although Austria
is willing to be a participator in the Euro
pean Congress, she hasplainly stated to the
representatives of the mediating powers, that
there are certain matters which do not ad-
NIT of discussion. These matters are the
treaties of 1915, which she will not consent
to modify, and which Louis Napoleon is de-
termined to overthrow. Both combatants
continue arming, and Austria has 250, 900
men in Italy. The French troops are al
ready mastering on the borders ofthat coun-
try.
"A N. Orleans paper says there is
little child in that city, which lost its mother
by Yellow Fever, last fall. The father left
all alone with his baby, wondered a good
while what he should do for it, when the
thought struck him that it could be nursed
by nanny-goat. So, sure enough, he gets
a goat and makes the trial. How do you
think it succeeded? Why just so: the baby
sucks the goat in fine style, and the goat
seems to like it first rate. Whenever the
child cries, the goat comes running, even
though she may be picking grass some dis
tance from the house. There is an old story
abont two little boys, named Romulus and