Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-01-27
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"A young lady from Albermale, Viz
ginia, was baptised recently in the River
Jordan by DR.. James 7. Barclay, missionary
in Jerusalem.
Two brothers in Maine by the name
of Rich have been lately married to two SIS
ters by the name of Wings, and have re-
moved to Illinois Thus "riches have taken
to themselves wings"
- The New York Herald says of Sena-
tor Sumner: eff his suferings are half as
acute as they have been represented, he
ought to have learned the virtue of reSigna-
tion by this time"
"A census of the population of Rome
has just been completed, from which it ap-
pears that the total number of theinhabitants
is 1S0,S57,-a figure at which this stereo-
typed city has remained for the last ESQ
years.
The Erie Canal contains more water
and floats more vessels than any cansl IN
Europe, and has 5,56S vessels on its register,
Of which 1446 are larger than the one In
which Columbus discovered America.
Rev. Theo. Parker, the we'll known
infdel Abolition clergyman of Boston, has
gone South for his health, as the physicians
say he needs a warmer climate. 1t is we'll
for him to get accustomed to hot places.-N'
York Day Book.
- Private letters from Havana state that
some excitement had been caused at Havana
by the publication of a statement that Brig
adler General Renan, (?J of the U. States,
had offered the Captain General sl5, 1000, QUO
to declare the island free, and that General
= Concha should be the first President of it.
- The Louisville Journal estimates the
hog crop this year at 2, $50, 900 hogs, against
2,43O, 600 last year. The quality is vastly
inferior, there being falling off in weight
Of eight to twenty per cent, which will make
the real supply equal to about l,S75,oeo, as
compared with last year.
- The message of Gov. Banks, of Mas
sachusetts, delivered to the Legislature Of
that State, on Friday, is a direct, practical,
business:like paper, confined solely to the
affairs of the Commonwealth. 1t avoids,
throughout, any allusiou to national politics,
or the question of slavery.
At the close of the sitting of the House
of Representatives at Springfield, Illinois,
last week, the clerk read the following: -
uI am requested to announce that the Rev.
DR.. Mcfarland will deliver lecture this
evening in this Hall, on the Education of
Idiots Members of the Legislature are In
vited to attend"
"A prize fight for 1900 a side came
of on the 25th ultimo, on the Point Island,
Texas, between an American and Spaniard.
They fought 81 rounds in two hours and ten
minutes, when the Spaniard succumbed to
the superior proves of the American. This
is a cheerful proof of the rapid progress of
the Lone Star State in the fine arts.
"A bet was made at Albany, n. York,
on Wednesday last that Of large crowd of
applicants for relief, at the office Of the over
seer of the poor, at least half a dozen had
money in the Savings Bank and to test the
matter, report was circulated that the Com
mercial Savings Bank had failed. In an in
slant thirteen of the beggars were rushing
madly for the Bank, in order to save their
money from the wreck.
"A correspondent of the Eastern (Pa,)
Daily Times, and who signs himself "1nven-
tor" proposes to keep the Pacific Rail Road
o ont of the way of Indians, buffalos, and 9TH
er Inconvenience, by suspeudingit from bal
looms, and holding it in its place by large
magnets buried in the earth at regular inter,
walls. A telegraphic wire could, he thinks,
pass over the tops of the gas-bags, and the
expense of the whole would be less than the
common plan by about s4OO, 100000.
"A singular coincidentit was, by which
J. Hamden Brooks, one of our present rep
resentatives in the State Legislature, number
ed last fall precisely the same vote which his
elder brother, the late Preston S. Brooks,
received in his last election to Congress
An examination of the record of the polls
will show that each Of them received 2159
votes. And this, by the bye, was the largest
vote eyer polled in the District for men,
ber of the State Legislature. .-Edygield Ad-
eertiser.
We saw few days since some tobacco,
raised by gentleman in Fairfield District
which he sold in this market for twelve cents.
The gentleman is so we'll pleased with the
result, that he has determined to venture
still further in his experiment, and try three
or four acres for the present year Tobacco
requires more care than most crops, but pays
we'll for it. On good land it will yield
thousand pounds to the acre. At twelve
cents, this would be one hundred and twen-
ty dollars to the Columbia CaroIs-
ni0n.
The sale Of the Estate of the late
Thos. Cureton, seven miles above this place,
commenced on Monday and will probably be
continued to day. We attended yesterday
and witnessed the sale of portion Of the
negroes. The prices paid were exhorbitant
higher than any previous sales in this Dis
trict. Ordinary boys and girls ranged from
about 81 100 to 81, ,45O. Other property we
understand sold in proportion. A lot of cot
ton sold on Monday, about 40 bales, brought
s11.s5 per hundred. Fifteen hundred a
cres of land brought near $4,000. We may
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