Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-01-13
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Morals is at present eugaged..in in endeavoring
to persuade catterpillars not to eat cabbages.
- The Winter Iron Works, Montgomery,
Ala, were sold in that city on Monday last,
for thirty thousand and fifty dollars.
80 The Brig Echo, with her tackle, ap-
parel, &c., was sold in Charleston on Thurs
day morning BY the United States Marshal,
Ell. Hamilton, Esq, for twenty-three hun
dsed dollars, cash. .>2.-
"A Doctor up town gave the following
prescription for q sick lady few days ago:
"A new bonnet, cashmere shawl, and
pair of gaiter boots = The lady recovered i'm
lnediately. .-r--
- The newspapers of the Cape are full
of paragraphs giving accounts of whaling at
home Here instances of that practice don't
get reported in the papers, but the boys can
tellalf about it.
--"I WISH" said beautiful wife to her
ssudious husband, ~ wish was book"
81 wish you were-an almanac" replied
her lord, "and then I would get a new one
every year." Just then the silk rustled.
Some 220 negroes of the estate of
James G.. Dolby, were sold at public outcry
yesterday, and averaged.72l dollars EACH
Among these were some very old, besides
lame, blind, and infants in the arms.-Can-
den Journal 5th inst. 49,. .,.-.. =,
- The Orangeburg Southron Oft the 2Sth
uls., states. that Mr.. John Reese, of that Dis
trict,, was found deadin the road few days
since, and supposed to havecome to his death
from intoxication. How terrible the truth
that so many destroy soul and body by this
fatal indulgence. -.
Henry says: "Woman was
made of rib out of the side of Adam ; not
made oat of his head to top him--nor out
Of his feet to be trampled upon by bim-but
ont of the side, to be equal with him-under
his arm toSs protected, and near his heart
to beloved"
Twocenturies ago not one in one hum
ired wore stockings. Fifty years ago not one
boy in a thousand was allowed to run at large
at night Fifty years ago not one girl in a
thousand made waiting maid Of her mother.
Wonderful Improvement in this wonderful
age.
Speaking of the Minnie rife, Mr..
Kendall writes to the New Orleans Picaynne
from Texas that, in one of Lindsay's recent
scouts against the Navajos, one Of the latter
was killed at the distance of four hundred
yards, and another wounded, with ashot
from one of the famous Minnie rifles. -.
-W VIM. A Choice, who recently murder
ed man in Atlanta, Ga, by the name of
Webb, was tried few days since before q
Magistrates Court, and fully committed for
trial. The Augusta Dispatch says that
Choice desired it to be stated at the funeral
Of Webb that intoxicating drinks and ga
ming had brought him to his present state of
misery and woe. $3.50. -.
There are in Massachusetts two hun
dred and ninety-four factories, With capital
Of thirty-two million of dollars, and one and
o. half million ofspiudles; which, putintothe
market, manufactures worth thirty.four
millions of dollars yearly. More than half
ofthe cotton factories in this hemisphere are
within the limits of this State, and more
than wo-thirds Of the invested capital belongs
to it. -. ,...--.9
- Several OF our merchants were fmpe-
sed upon, on Tuesday last, by spurious coin
in the shape of halfdollars, by man rep
ressnting himself as returning drover, but
who, with party of companions, took the
road towards Union, for further operationsiu
the same line. The public below had better be
on their guard. The counterfeits are remark
ably we'll executed, and any one, without
close examination, might be imposed upon.
They bear date 1884, and have even gen.
uine "ring," as well as the advantage of be-
ing good-looking They are all deficient in
the milled edge" A little attention to this
portion of the finish will detect the spurious
ness of this coin.-SpartdnJurg Spartan.
At Cincinnati, day or two ago, man
died, who had been for some months an in-
mate of one of the hospitals, and whose dis
ease had exhibited such peculiar and uu-
known symptoms as to battle the greatest
skill of the best physicians. Under the cir
cumstances it was deemed advisable to make
q post mortem examination, when it was
found that in the diaphragm was large
hole, and the intestines had been forced up
and had pressed the heart from its natural
position, over to the right side of his body,
where it had performed its functions for sew
eral years; the man himself having been
prevented from his daily labor only for the
last few months.
Mis-. Rebecca Outright died in Up
shur county, Va, on the 9th inst, at the
extraordinary age of one hundred and six
years. An obituary of her says: She was
the first white woman who settled in the
valley of the Buchannon river, coming to
Western Virginia when quite young, and
living with her husband in hollow tree, at
the mouth of Turkey run, in what is now Up
shur county. The deceased retained all her
faculties in vigor until the close of her long
and eventful life, and on the morning Of her
sdecease was caressiug one of her great-grand
children, when, feeling weary, she requested
the child "to be quiet, while granny would