Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-03-31
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he would train up bis child in. =
The Columbus, Ca, Sun, mention'
the receipt of basket Of beats, cabbages ano
green peas of this years growth
Susan was. desirous of purchasing 4
watch. The maker showed hera a beautiful
one, remarking that it went thirty-siS hours
"In one day." asked poor Susan,
A frightened visitor at Troy during
the recent land slide, left by the next morn
ing train, declaring that you eouldn't max
him live in city where*be bills were run
ming after folks. =
"That's fine strain" said one genasmai
to another, alluding to the tones Of SINCE
at a concert, the other evening. "Yes,
said couptrymau who sat near, "but it ht
strains much more he'll bust" -. -. -.
"A correspondence the Philadelphia
Bulletin says: Mr.. sickles has employed ar
experienced corps of photographic writers
to report his trial verbatum for publication
in pamphlet form. Is,will comprise q history
of the lives of Key and Sickles.
THE word Yankee, says the Leo9e'
historian of the "Colony of New Plymouth, .
comes from yam, which means eye, and see
which means tooth, in the Massachusetts
vernacular. The eolouists drove sharp bar
saius-had cut their eye teeth-hence the
Indians called them Yankee.
Regent Intelligence from California,
by the way of Great Salt Lake City, etab,
states that, on the 2lst January, a resolution
was introduced to the State Senate, by Mr.
Holden, requesting Mr.. Brodsrick to resign
his seat in the United States Senate, and
that it passed by a vote oftwenty-thfee yeas,
nine nays.
"A theatrical company was playing in
one of the interior towns of the West, shak
speare's Othslio. and Otheilo demanded oi
Desdsmona .tbe handkerchief! the handker,
chiefe green 'un called out ippatiently
Never mind the handkerchief, don't wait
for that; blow your nose! with your fingers,
and gaahead' -.."
Within the last few days, slandsaf old
6elds) in considerable quantities, situated in
thessuburbs of Chester, have been sold at
private sale, at from forty to sixty dollars
per acre. Real estate about hereis'loesing
up; times are improving aud money is get
ting to be regarded as the veriest 'strash"
cheaper than dirt.-Chester Standard r
There is an anecdote Of an editor out
West, who, when he was short Of matter, Or
grudged the labor or type requisite to put it
in print, used to send out his paper with one
side or page entirely blank, merely drawing
his subscribers attention to the fact by note
"This space willsbe very useful for the chill
dren to write upon" .
- The Eco de Italia, of March. 18th,
learns from good authority, which it rs not
allowed to name, that the Hungarian patriot
Kossuth passed through France, with the
consent and connivance of the French Gov
ernmeut, and arrived hcogatto at Genoa
1t is supposed that he will place himself at
the head of Hungarian soldiers now in Lom-
hardy. 1t is well-known fact that during
the last ten years Kossutb has been study
ing military science.
when we ride, ne sit upon the. skin
c. t.he pig; when We walk, we tread npon
the skin of the bullock We wear the skin OF
the kid upon our hands, and the fleece OF
the sheep upon our backs. Morethan- hall
the world are humaa heingsin Sleeps cio'
thing. We eat the flesh of some creatures,
of some We drink the milk, upon others we
are dependent for Il cultivation of the soil;
and if it isa pain for as to suffer hunger and
cold, we should sOrupulously avoid inaictiug
wanton misery upon the animals by which
we are warmed and fed. =.
The Lancaster Ledger says: GA good
deal of interest seems to be felt IN our COM
munity upon the subject of the late Hon.
William McKenua's will, whose death was
announced in our paper of last week. This
arises from the fact ofthe very considerable
property left by the testator;,. the large a
mount of real estate he owned in this town
and the sympathy felt for his kindred resi-
ding in this place, whom, it is said, he is
cut off with the merest pittance, leaving the
bulk of his property to the Roman Catholic
Churchp The property is estimated at
100000.
The Edgefe1d Adcertiser publishes
letter taken from the 0swego (N. York;
Times, and says: ':It was written by lady
in Aiken to her brother at the North, and
sent by him to the said Times newspaper for
publication A resident Of Aiken aceidently
saw it. Upon his making it known to the
citizens generally, considerable excitement
prevailed A certain lady was Suspected
A committee consisting of ". P. Finley,
General J. r. Weaver and DR.. S. Langley,
waited on her Immediately. She confessed
the authorship of the letter, and was forth
with requested to leave the place within for
ty-eight hours. She left the next day for
the North"
II gave hera rose and gave her ring,
and 1 asked her to marry me then; but she
sent them all back, insensible thing, and
said she'd no notion of men. told her I'D
oceans of money and goods, tried to frighten
her with a growl; but she answered she
wasn't brought up in the woods, to be scar
ed by the screech Of an owl. 1 called her
b,ooaoe and everything bad; slighted hel