Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-24
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- The several hrmS OF DeROthSchlld nave
capital, or sum, at their instantaneous COM
mand, amounting to 00,O090OO.> t,
The Mayor of Richmond has decided
twice, recently, that dog is not a subject
of larceny, in Virginia.
James Parton, the author of the life
of Aaron Burr, is now at Nashville, Tenn,
forthe purpose procuring material for his
Forthcoming biegraphYofJackson.
Red Jacket an Indian Chief of the
Six Nations, once said to man who remark
ed in his hearing that he had not time
enough: We'll 1 suppose you -havet all
there is. =.
- A married lady out west nearly broke
her neck few days since while learning to
skate. Since that period there has been an
extraordinary demand for skates by married
men. -
- The Legislature of Indiana have inti-
ted the Legislature of Ohio to visit them at
indianapolis during the present session, and
it is understood the invitation will be accep-
ted and the compliment returned.
A young lawyer of Philadelphia wrote
to an old limb, near. Chicago, thus: is
there an opening in your part of the country
that can get into?' Answer: There is
an opening in my back yard, about thirty
feet deep, no curb around it,
- The Savannah Neus is authorized by
responsible party to say that he will pay
$3.50 piece, for every negro brought to this
country by the Wanderer, the purchaser as
suming the responsibility of all prosecution
that may be brought against him.
1t is rumored that Chief Justice Ia
ney and Judge Mclean intend rssigning
their seats on the bench Of the Supreme
Court Both are very aged and in in6rm
health, the Chief Justice being over eighty
years of age, and Judge Mclean over seven
ty-six.
The New Orleans Delta mentions un-
der the head of sRich Freight the arrival
of a.steamboat from Red River with several
passengers, among them eight widows, whose
aggregate wealth amounted to S5,OeO,o9o.
One of the ladies is the owner of~600 slaves
and the others made crop of $780, ,0eO bales
of cotton.
NO single women are allowed IN ia
pan. Every man is allowed-one legal wife
and as many second wives as lis means will
allow him to support. The second wives
aresselected By law from the poorer classes
of society; whose relatives are unable to
maintain them and the cbildrenare all adop.
ted by the legal wife, who is the only ac-
knowledged mother.
The American flag with thirty-three
stars was thrown to the breeze for the first
time IN the United States on yesterday from
the top of the Senate Chamber. 1t had been
prepared in the anticipation by Mr.. G. S.
Jones, Door-keeper of the Senate, and it
was hoisted simultaneously with the an
nouncement of the signing of the Oregon
bill by the President Washington Star,
18th INST.
-The first copy Of Robert Burns Poems
issued from the press, was presented BY the
bard himself, to Hugh Morton, who was his
fellow-ploughman on the farm of Lochlie.
Burns handed the book to Morton when
standing at the publishers door in Kilmar-
mock, on the morning when the poems were
ready to be issued. This interesting copy
of the poets work is now in the possession
of Mr.. John Morton, Ricarton, son of the
above named Hugh Morton.-Ayr Adrer-
tiSer.
= Mr.. 7. Barnard, of the Associated
Press Agency, has sent US circular, calling
the attention of Southern editors to the fact,
that, on and after February lst there will
be an entire change in the quotations for all
kinds of breadstuffs in the Liverpool market.
The GENITAL, of one hundred pounds standard,
vii! be adopted, and everything will be
quoted at so much per GENITAL or one hundred
pounds. The steamer Tiyo or the City Of
Baltimore, of February I'd, will probably
bring the first market report under the new
regulation Charleston Mercury.
THE earth being round Ikea bali, it
follows that, at certain distance, even
though our vision can reach much further,
its form will prevent US from seeing objects,
even if its surface were perfectly smooth
= 1t has been calculated that at six, hundred
yards an object one inch high cannot be seen
in straight line; at nine hundred yards,
two inches at fourteen hundred yards, five
inches; at one mile, eight inches; three
miles, six feet-so at that distance man
would be invisible. Inlevelling, it is usual
to allow the tenth of an inch in every two
hundred yards, or eight inches in mile, for
convexity.
The Ohio Culticator relates the ex-
perience of w. A. Gill, of Columbus, Ohio,
in clearing a field of stumps by gunpowder,
which really appears to be most powerful
stump EXTRACTOR He cleared stumpy
field of twenty acres cheaply and expeditions
ly, the following plan being pursued for each
stump: Select solid place in large root,
near the ground, and with an inch and a
quarter auger, bore in, slanting downward,
to as near the heart of the base of the tap
root as you can Judge; then put in charge
of one or two ounces of powder, with safe
ty fuse, and stamp in dry clay or ordinary
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