Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-17
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In the United States there. are six
thousand brokers and six thousand BARRIERS
and what lots Of shaving they both do.
- The Legislature of Florida has passed
law requiring the bank agencies in that
State to redeem their bills in specie. This
is blow in the right direction againstundue
speculations.
- Mother-"Here Tommy is some nice
castor oil, with orange in It." Doctor
"New, remember, don't give it alto Tommy !;
leave some for me-" Tommy--(who has
been there)-"Doctor's a nice man, ma;
give it all to the Doctor" :.
The St. Louis Democrat mentions the
explosion Of an Old Dominion coffee pot, in
that city, on the 25th ult., whilst standing
by the FIRE with coffee boiling in it + No harm
was done, except the loss of the coffee and
the pot. . -. ., -
"A Frsnchman,. soliciting. relief, said,
very grayelg to his fair bearer "Ma'mselle,
I never beg, but dat-I. have Won wife wild
several small family. dat is growing very
large, and Messing to make dier bread out
of,'but the perspiration on my Prov" :
-0n Wednesday morning last, $4,000
had been raised at Williamsburg Virginia;
r,the re.erection Of William and Mary Col
lege. TheProfessors had contributed hber
ally. President Ewell had engaged work
men who were employed in cleaning mp the
ruins. -. - e.. -
- Nearly all the suicides in this coun-
try are by 8ereigners.,' Yankees rarely if
ever, make away with themselves; for near
ly;every one thinks he has a chance of be-
coming President, and at any rate, his Gu
riosity- prompts him to live on, Just to see
what he will come to.
The Atlanta TnteHigencer, of the lst
inst, says: ellis Excellency, Gov. Brown,
carried down from the State Road Treasury,
yesterday morning, Thirty-one Thousand
Dollars, to be deposited in the Treasury Of
the State, being the nett earnings Of the
Road for the month of January. One thou
sand dollars day is pretty good business.
- "Jennsy," said -landlady to her
servant, "was there any fire in the kitchen
last night while you. were sitting up?"-
"Yes, marm," said Jenny, sfhere was a,
spark there when I went down, and I soon
famed it into fame" The. landlady look
ed suspicious at Jenny, but the innocent
girl went on scrubbing, and humping "Ka-
ty'Darling."
The common fuency of speech in
many men and women is owing (says. .Swift)
to a scarcity Of words; for whoeveris master
of language, and hath mind full Of ideas,
will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the
choice of both; whereas common speakers
have only one set of ideas, and one set of
words to clothe them in, and these are al
ways ready; SO people come faster out, of
church when it is nearly empty than when
crowd is at the door. -.
Very interesting and solemn services
were held m the Fourth Street Baptist
Church, Portsmouth, Virginia, on Sunday
morning last, with reference to the loss of the
Rev. Thomas Curtis, D. D., by the burning
of the steamer North Carolina. The pastor,
Rev. Thomas Hume, says the Transcript,
delivered highly appropriate discourse, in
which he paid an eloquent tribute to the
memory of the departed, and made an af-
fecting improvement of the sad event. There
was large congregation in attendance.
"A challenge to scate was given by
Miss - of Salem, a Di Vernon young
lady, who saucily gave out that if any of
the male gender could catch her, she would
forfeit kiss. The Boston Herald says that
an athletic negro hearing of the challenge,
gave chase, and soon his arm encircled her
waist Her brother, however, averted the
impending smack by presenting the fellow
with five dollar bill, telling him to 'slide." I"
The African started on "bender" with the
funds, remarking audibly "that he wouldn't
give FIVE dollars to kiss any white gal libin." +"
Some fun-loving fellows in New Cas-
tie, Pa, recently started a society, there
which purported to be a lodge of the Sons of
Malta. One of the initiated, however, ,,ex-
posed the whole concern. He states that
after being initiated, he signed what was
represented to be the Constitution of the
Order, but which turned out to be nothing
more or less than an order for keg of beer
upon one of the town brewers. The Club had
been indulging in lager at the expense ofthe
new members for several weeks, but since
the "blow," they have fallen through.
MIR. Dewitt Fields informs the OAR
lington Flag, that ia disease has appeared
among his hogs which proves very fatal
The presence of the malady is indicated by
the swelling of the mouth and tongue, the
latter protrudirg from the mouth and crack
ing. The disease makes its appearance very
suddenly, and the hogs dies in a very short
space of time. On account of its resem-
blance in some respects, to the black tongue,
he has tried the remedies which proved most
successful in checking that disease, but they
have all failed. The hogs which have been
attacked so far, are those which have been
in the range"
"A gas-illuminated car come through
from New York by the midnight train last
night, over the Worcester route. During
the nine hours occupied in the trip, only ten