Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-07-14
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lea were e2pOrttu iFom oVSVon aoA On''ii'o
ton during June, 1859. :
The Cinncinnati Commercial tells of
ratslesnake being lately killed at place
called Ramsay, twenty miles, west Of Tere
Haute, which was over twenty-one feet long,
and had one hundred and eleven rattles,
showing it to be 1Os years old.
- There is a negro woman in Franklin
County, Va, that is grandmother at 26
years old. She gave birth to female child
at the age Of A., The child has improved
upon the example of the mother, and given
birth to child at IL years ofage. --,
AT a marriage ceremony in New
Bedford, Massachusetts,, on Saturday last,
the bride stated that her age, was about
twelve years, and the bridegroom twenty
FIVE. The parties are of Portuguese eztrae-
ton, and the girl married not from any wish
of her own, but at the solicitation of her
mother. This is progressive age.
The Marks Lane Express, reviewing
the breadstuffs market, says there is prom
ise of large crops in Spain in Holland, also,
the prospects are very good; in England
and France there was every indication of
fine harvest; and at Berlin, Prussia, wheat,
barley and peas were offering cheaper, in
consequence of the promising looks Of the
growing crops.
;-- The Philadelphia journals announce
the continued success of the Medical Col
leges inethat city and elsewhere for female
students. The young doctresses are regular
" educated, take the degree of NJ. D., and
are said to succeed well in their professions.
Their practice is principally confined to their
own sex and to children, and being good
nurses as we'll as physicians, they are said to
be quite popular.
"A young scholar has recently discov-
cred in Madrid the MS of letter written
BY the Spanish ambassador in Paris, on the
very day preceding the massacre of St. Bar
tholomew of a letter written by Philip II.
to Charles TX. to congratulate him on the
successful perpetration of that massacre of
Pescairies' narrative of the battle Of Pavia;
letter ou the death of Henry ~. written
by Madrid Jesuit to Jesuit in Paris; of
curious letters of Charles V. and Francis
L, etc.
Liberty township boasts of the lagest
baby in Washington county, and Washing.
ton county challenges the State. The child's
name is Isabella Thompson. She will~be
six years old in September next, is three
feet ten inches high, and weighs considera-
bly, over 200 pounds. Her arm between the
elbow and shoulder, measures III inches in
eireumferepce. She is a woman in appear
ance, and as intelligent. as ordinary children
of her age, has good ear for music, aud is
healthy. Where is Barnum ?-Narietta
Ohio JouraGl.
Two years ago, says the Chicago
Press, the place where the Church Of the
Holy Trinity stands in Chicago, was part
of the open prairie. Within three months
after opening, it was found necessary, from
the crowds that attended, to add two wings,
and now the parish has just rooted church
which for size and beauty of design is said
to have no superior in the Western States;
and the Western Banner has no hesitation
10 saying that in five years time every ward
in the city will have its Catholic Church
In another part of the same paperit is claim
ed that the Catholics are one.third of the en-
tire population.
As Marshal McMahon entered Milan,
alittle girl of FIVE years of age, dressed in
white, presented him with boquet of flow
ers nearly as big as herself. He raised her
up, and placed her standing before him on
the saddle. ssThe child," says a letter,
"threw her little arm around the suu-burnt
head Of the copqueror of Magenta, and kiss
ed him repeatedly, amidst the londest cheers
ever heard. The Marshal seemed delight
ed with the child, and foudled her most ten
derly, looking frequently at her pretty fea-
lures. And so they both entered Milan a.
midst shower of bouquets and Applause. I
saw many persons affected even to tears"
- The best authorities agree that the
modern word "hoax" is derived from hocus
Mr.. Smart, the editor of ssWalker Remod-
elled," gives the following account of the
origin of word which some writers have
traced to learned roots The words qui=, to
quiz, quizzing, which are only in colloqual
use, originated in joke. DAILY, the mana
ger of Dublin playhouse, wagered that a
word of no meaning should be the common
talk and puzzle of the city in twenty-four
hours, and in the course Of that time the let
tiers q, u, i, z, were chalked or posted on all
the walls of Dublin, with an effect that won
the wager.
- The London Times says that the long
pending question as to the probability of
telegraphic communication being established
between Europe and America seems in
fair way of being settled. The British Tran
satlautic Company propose, within this year
if possible, to lay their cable from the Lands
End in Cornwall, to Blanc Sabon, an ISL
and in the Straits of Belle Isle, at one of
the entrances of the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
and little to the North of Newfoundland.
A short wire, to be laid by separate CON-
pany, takes the cable in from Blanc Sablon
to the island of Anticosti, where it meets
lines already open, communicating with
Quebec, Montreal, and, indeed, all parts
of Canada Another short line from Anti