Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-10-20
Sfraps 4 fafts.
. The cholera is killing the bufaloes on


Esq.,iof Sharpsburg, Maryland, hung him
self on an apple tree, on Tuesday. Caus
-unrequited love.
Another installment of ten thousant
dollars has been paid to Mr.. Washington
within a few dayspast, towards the purchas'
Of Mount, Vernon.
The telegraph announces the deatf
of Hon. J. Y. Mason, late minister to France
The Charleston Courier says be was native
ofVirginia, q grandson of George Mason ane
a cousin of Senator Mason. .ra.,..
-Chickensof Of a new breed called 'Eclip
ten deau,' are being introduced into thil
country from aboard. Instead of feathers
they are covered with fine hair like that O.
lap dogs, very white, soft and beautiful, ane
have curious red ornaments on their heads.
The Literary Association of Prince
ton, N. j., has offered Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett s10O for a lecture He refuses.
saying that the time is worth s., 900 to him,
and that lecturing is the business of none
but literary loafers.
-aWhy, Bridget" said her mistress,
who wished to rally the girl for the amuse'
ment of the company, upon the fantastic orna.
menting of pie, "did you do that? You're
quiet an artist. How did you do it?" "1n'
deed, mum, it was myself that did it," re-
piled Bridget. "Isn't it pretty? I did it
with your false teeth, mum !"
a young married lady ofour acquain'
tance, whose union has not been prolific Of
slittle darlings," has suspended on the wall,
in her bed room, directly over the head ofthe
bed, a neat little picture, underneath which
is the following quotation from Scripture
"Suffer little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom
of Heaven"
The "Occasionap Washington cor.
respondent of the Philadelphia Press writes :
1t seems to be a generally conceded that the
National Democratic Committee, which is
to meet at Washington on the 7th Of Decem'
Der, for the purpose Of fixing the time when
the Charleston Convention shall be held,
will agree upon period between the first Of
April and the first Of May, 1860.
- In the newly published Autobiogra-
ply of Col. Crockett, that eccentric person
age records his remarking in stump speech,
that he sswas willing to 60 with Gen. Jack
son in everything that believed was honest
and right, but, further than this I wouldn't
90 for him, or any other man in the whole
creation ; that Iwould sooner be honestly or
politically id than hypocritically i'm
mortalized."
-Arrangements have been made at
Portland, Me-, to signal the steamship Great
Eastern thirty miles out at sea. On her ap-
pearance, the flags of the United States,
England and France will be displayed from
the City Hall and Observatory, signal guns
will be fred, and the fre-alarm bells ruug.
As she approaches the harbor salutes will be
fred from Fort Preble and other points; and
the bells of the city will peal forth merry
welcome. . ....
The Lord Mayor of London has an
allowance of s7900; it is generally cited at
$4,000, but is barely that much. 1t is varia-
BILE, even to the extent of $1,000, a year
more or less, owing to portion of it being
derived from dues on fruit. His household
at the Mansion House consists of % gentle
men, and he has good retinue Of servants.
He has to provide his own horses, and has
to find carriage and horses for the Lady
Mayoress. The expenses of the mayoralty
usually exceed the, allowance by $4,000.
- Massachusetts, is the only State in the
Union which, by a constitutional provision,
grants the title of "Excellency" to its Cover
nor. Newspapers sometimes speak of the
President of the United States as "His Ex.
celleucy, the President" but there is no le-
gal sanction for this, the founders of the
government having decided, after discussion,
to bestow no title upon the President. A
committee of the Senate reported in favor
Of the style ellis Highness," but the House
opposed any other title of Office than those
expressed in the constitution. So says the
New American Cyclopedia.
80 - The Cincinnati Price Current of the
18th inst. has the following concerning the
Western hog market: In the early part of
che week about $500 head hogs sold at Sc
net, to be delivered the first ten days of No.
,v7ember. A portion ofthem were taken to fill
contracts. The last day or two the offerings
at this rate were quite large, and 1000 head,
to average 225 lbs. and to be delivered be-
tween the 10th and 18th November, were
on the market at Sc, without finding a pur-
chaser. 1900 head, we understand, were
contracted to be delivered before the 10th Of
November at S5.75; but for all November,
$3.50 is the outside rate offered.
JOIN II. Middleton, overseer for Ma
ior Jno. P Kinard, six miles North of New
berry, writes to the Rising Sun, and says:
had 8 hands, that picked out the following
weights, on Thursday last, the 9th: George
All lbs, Wiott $40, Harriet 334. The next
day the same hands picked the following
weights George SOL lbs, Wiott 4OS, Har-
riet 4O3. The cotton was picked between
daylight and dark on each day. The days
the picking was done cotton was very dry,
as we have had no rain for two weeks. be,
lieye I could select twelve hands out of the
Majors gang of negroes, that could beat any