Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-01-13
MERE.MENTION.

Bya notice in the Chester Standard, We observe
that the Union meeting Of the Ministers and Dea-
cons of New Bethel, will be held at New Bethel
Church, on the Friday before the fifth Sabbath in
January, inst The meeting will embrace the Sab
bath. ........MAnspEs soARIErT. (printer) died in
Raleigh, N. c., on the 9th ultimo. '''''''' Hon ..
A. DOUGLASS has been elected Senator from Hi
nois by majority Of eight votes. .''''''"Two men
in Cincinnati have made match to eat mush and
milk for $40, 'and the championship The one
who bursts first, loses .......In the Chicago post
office, mails are daily received from about twenty
arriving trains Thirty.fve hundred mails ore
made up each day. Over five millions OF letters
and 81. millions Of papers were handled during
the last quarter The best line to lead
woman with is masculine. The best line to lead
q man with is crinoline. ..'.'."Several Of our ex-
changes say that President BUCHANAN has deter
mined to make tour through North Carolina
next SUNNI er, and to attend the commencement at
Chapel Hill College. ...'....Juries, like guns, are
often ''cbarged," and sometimes with very poor
ammunition. .....""Egypt, Lower Illinois, beats
the world. A woman in Galoncs, in Pope county,
recently presented her husband with eight chill
dren at one birth .....Putarch says, IN bis life
of ALEXANDER, that the Babylonians used, during
the dog days, to sleep on skins filed with water
A Boston paper says, TINT in these days men sleep
in skins filled with bad whiskey. .'.''..JoHs HAM
~ II ha
tionary patriot, died in Boston on the Sd instant
sgod eighty-fve. "''".W. B. JOHNSTON, Esq, is
no LONGER connected with the Guardian. His in
terest in that Journal ceased on the Sd inst. .''
The Roman Catholics Of Cincinnati have adop-
ted q regulation that but six carriages shsll be
permitted ut funerals. Railroads were clear
ly prophesied in the scriptures. In the writings
of Nahum, Cd chapter and 4th verse, we have
distinct type of the locomotives and cars Of the
present day. "The chariots shall rage in the
streets, they shall seem like torches, they shall
run like the lightnings. "'"'''"'From the lst Of
January to the 9th December, 1853, forty
murders have been committed in the City OF New
York, and seventy-nine persons have committed
suicide. The number Of murderers hanged du-
ring the same period, amounted to ope! !'''''''"A
correspondent of German paper afirnls the
discovery Of several tribes of White men in
Africa, south of Abyssinia.
1t is said that colored students are now atten-
ding the exercises of Yale Medical School. ''..'..
An earthquake is termed "tall specimen ofague"
in California. .......WM. H. RAREY, the oldest Of
the horse tanning brotherhood, declares that his
system is equally efficacious in subduing women
and children as horses. Being widower, with
ten olive branches, he has had ample opportunity
to test the truth Of his theory. .-"'''Parch half
pint of rice until it is perfectly brown; then boil
it down OIL rice is usually done; eat it slowly, ond
it will stop the most alarming diarrhcea in few
hours. ...."Iu twenty-five States, negroes are
allowed NJ, political privileges whatever that place
them on an equality with the white race. Eleven
of these twenty-fou States are free. New York
practically excludes them by freehold quahca-
ton and long residence before voting. Two
more States-Maine and Rhode Island exclude
them by requiring all voters to be citizens of the
United States Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire are about the only States that make no
distinction of color or race. .'''''"''Hon. JOHN
LrrcHER has been nominated by the Democratic
Convention of Virginia for Governor Of that State,