Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-01-20
Sfraps T. fafts.

evils of intemperance?" Keep your elbow
straight.
"There is divinity that shapes our
ends" as pig remarked when he was con-
contemplating the kiuk in his tail.
- The telegraph line to Cuba is progress
ing. The poles are being planted in Savan-
nah and the line is extending through south
western Georgia to Feruaudina, Florida, and
will soon be pushed through.
-M Mr.. Barnum had made his first ap-
pearance in London as lecturer, at ST.
James Hall. The hall was crowded to ex-
cess, and the newspapers generally, speak
quite fatteringly of Mr.. Barnum's essay
His theme was "uouey making"
Some idea of the state of the female
labor market in the metropolis, may be COL
lected from the fact that an advertisement in
London weekly paper for fifty dress-ma-
kers, brought seven hundred applicants,
many of them from long distances, to the
establishment of the advertiser.
1t is stated in the AJetle Medtcale
that the seed of the pompion is sure reme-
dy against tape-worm. About an ounce OF
these seeds, pounded in mortar with suf-
ficient quantity of sugar, is administered at
a time, and repeated for two or three days,
which is generally sufficient to effect CON-
plets cure.
Asheriff's officer in Connecticut, made
the following return, lately: "Then and
there, by virtue, etc., I arrested the body of
the within named Quiulau, forty feet high
ON a uaite OAK tree, in said Norwich )" and
o of the items of fees, as allowed by the
court we find reads: "Paid assistance to
climb tree and bring prisoner down." etc.
Amos McNeely, of Elm Grove Missis-
sippi, writes that he has a grandson four
years old, who has six living grapdmothers,
all of whom are Old School Presbyterians.
He proposes if any one has more remark
able boy, as to his family connections, than
his, that he will send him copy of the
Louisville Presbyterian Herald free of charge.
Don't all speak at once.
- There never was any party, faction,
sect, or cabel whatsoever, in which the most
ignorant were not the most violent; for
bee is not buster animal than blockhead.
However, such instruments are necessary to
politicians; and perhaps it MAY be with
States as with clocks, which must have some
dead weight hanging at them to help and
regulate the motion of the finer and more
useful parts.-S,cit.
"A young white girl, eighteen years
old, whose father is rich man, and strong
advocate of abolition and amlagamtion, eloped
last week from her fathers house, near Pom
tiac, Mich, with negro employed on her
fathers farm. The lovers proceeded to
Winsor, in Canada, where they were mar
ried. The girls brother followed them, and
besought the girl to return home. This she
declined to do, alledgiug her entire happiness
in the ebony lord whom she had chosen.
Rev. Milo P Jewett, who had charge
of female school in Marion, Ala, for some
years, now has charge of one in Poughkeep-
sic, New York. A correspondent of the Mis-
sissippi Baptist, who recently visited that
place, says: "Professor Jewett has three
slaves whom he brought with him from the
South, and who, to all appearances, sustain
to him the same relation that Southern slaves
do to their masters; nor can the wiles of the
abolitionists entice them away"
The tax Of New York for 1859 has
Just been submitted to the Common Council,
and the sum total reaches the astounding
aggregate of nearly eight millions of dollars.
Of this amount, in round numbers, million
is devoted to the police, million for water,
eight hundred thousand for the poor, mih>
lion and quarter for schools, and million
and half for streets, and six hundred thous-
and for salaries. The expenditures of the
State of New York are much less than those
Of the city, being only about FIVE millions.
- The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald states that movements
going on quietly to organize an opposition to
the Charleston Convention on the part of
leading Democrats from the North So far,
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Illinois are the only States mention
ed as likely to take hold Of this movement,
but the promoters ofitare in hopes ofspread,
ing it all over the Notheru States. 1t is Of
course another step towards disorgauizng
the party, and if successful must lead to
scrub race for the Presidency. Douglas
friends are believed to be at the bottom of it.
We were one of a small social reunion,
recently, at which the high honor was a
warded US of suppiug off table-cloth cap
tured from the tent of Cot. Ferguson at the
battle of Kings Mountain. 1t is in the pos
session of the venerable Mrs. Chinoe II.
Smith, of this city, and was presented to her
on her wedding.day sixty years ago, by her
brother.in-law, COL Isaac Shelby, one Of the
heroic victors in that glorious republican
triumph over royal valor. The cloth is of
finely tsxtured linen, and in that wonderful
state of preservation which speaks the reli-
gious veneration with which it has been trea-
sured by daughter Of the stalwart men
who dug out and laid the foundations of the
Republic. Bulletin, sh.
-On Saturday last Mr.. NJ. Foot caused