Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-08-18
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pants. The other ladies were shocked ! She
quietly remarked that if they would pull up
their dresses about the neck as they ought
tp be, their skirts would be as short as hers! |!
The present white population Of South
Garolips, excluding ST. Thomas, and St.
Dennis, and Prince William Parishes, from
which there are as yet no returns, is 304, :
la. Tn 1850, twas 274,62S. From this,
twill be seen that the tide Of emigration
Is on: the ane.-Soah Carolinian. :,
- The result of the Congressional cleo
tions in Kentucky, Tennessee and North
Carolina, leaves no doubt of the fact that
the Democratic party will be in minority
il. next House, of Representatives, The
Southern opposition will probably hold the
balance Of power, as the Republicans, as a
party, will also be unable to command a
maiority.-Baltsmore Sun.
The eye of Napoleon III is sharp
and it ranges over the wide world. Asplen-
did spanking pair Of night.black horses, late
ty owned by Mr. sanderson, Of somerville
NJ, have Just been. sold to his Imperial
Highness for 81 600, and left for the royal
stables last week. For the last ten years
these steeds have taken all the prizes for
carriage horses in the State - - ;.
THE COlumbas (ohio) Journal re-
ports row in that city: "A large African,
whose back might answer for blackboard
ma public school, was arrested, and boul-
Der, weighing about for pounds, was found
under his shirt bosom. On being question
ed as to how, it came into his possession, he
exclaimed, with alook Of blank astonishment,
sDat,s just what I'd like to know, how dat
Internal rock got inter my bozum. I'spect
some dam nigger must have frowedit dar.'
The Rev Mr.. Hickerson, Lutheran,
ofAbingdon, Va, on Sunday week, preach
ed sermon from the summit of White Top
mountain. White Top is 5000 feet above
the waves of the ocean, and being near the
spot where the State Of North Carolina, Ten.
nessee, and Virginia corner, and where the
counties Of Ashe, Johnston, Grayson, Symth
and Washington intersect - the audience
went up from three States and five counties,
and yet few went more than half dozen
miles from home.
The indianapolis Journal says: The
poor.house Of Monroe county, in this State,
had forone of its inmates number of years
a;sister Of Robert Fulton, the originator of
the steam boat. She was living several years
ago, but we cannot say whether or not she
is alive at present. It thus frequently hap.
pens that the greatest benefactors of the hu-
man, race, with their immediate friends, have
suffered for the, want Of peeuniary Means
Fulton himself, we believe, died poor man.
His sister in Monroe county was some years
his senior. q. - 49,. .@--
We are informed thaton Tuesday last,
On. Mackey, one of the Sovereign Inspec-
tors the supreme council of the Southern
jurisdiction of the ancient and accepted rite,
granted his dispensation for the opening of
aaSublime Lodge Of Perfection, in this city,
to be called Enoch Lodge-of which P. IS.
Jacobs was elected Master, Richard Wearn,
Senior Warden, and John A. Renno, Junior
Warden. The establishment of such body
is, we understand, anevidence of the sue
cessful progress of Masonry in this commu.
nifty, as they are only conferred after the
lower degrees have been for a long time eul-
tiyated. - South Caroliniam. - ..-~
This year will be as remarkable as was
1882 for the decease Of great number of
eminent men. Already in six months we
make the following record - Prof. -0lmsted,
astronomer; DR.. Abbott, antiquarian; Alex
ander Won Humboldt, philosopher; William
HssPrescott, historian; DR.. J. Nichols, di.
vins; DR. Abbot, do. !; Councillor Phillips,
orafor ;-Joseph Surge, philanthropist Hen
~ Hallam, historian; Robert Walsh, litera-
teur; Z. Harvey, poet; Dr.. Kendall, divine !;
Mrs. Jane E. Locke, poet; Lady Morgan,
litsrateur; Madame Bosio, singer; Charles
Leslie, painter; DR.. Bailey, editor; Prince
Metternich, statesman Sir Jamsetsee Jee-
jeebhoy, East India philanthropist; Rufus
ghoate, lawyer; Hon. Richard Rush.-M
Y. Evangelist.
The article called Catavba Brandy
is said by Pharmaceutists to be utterly unfit
for medicinal and pharmaceutical use. Gen
uine brandy is made by distil!ation from wine.
In France there are three grades of brandy,
viz: Eau de Vie, Eau de Vie de Marc, and
Eau de Lie. The first is made by distillation
from wine, the second by fermentation of
the. smarc' with sugar, and the third from
the lees of the wine. Marc is the mass of
grape skins, pulps, ect., remaining after the
wine has been pressed out. All the Cawtaba
brandy that can lay any claim to the name
of brandy is made from the 'marc,' and it is
so full of fousel oil that chemist writes in
the Druggist that the addition of water will
cause milky precipitate in nearly all the
specimens he has seen. A good deal that is
known as Catawba brandy is nothing more
than whisky doctored.- Cincinnati Gazette.
The quotation give them little more
grape, Capt. Bragg seems to have been in
vestigated, and turns out to be sentiment
not so quotable, though quite as strong. A
letter in the N. Y. Herald says: Years ago,
not very ongafterthe battle, the writer men,
toned to near relative of Col. Bragg the
preposterousness of the anecdote, and ex-