Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-10
nIERE.MENTION.

MERE-M ENTION.
The editor of the orangeburg ScWhron says he
has already noticed in and about the village,
quite n number of full blown peach blossoms.
The editor of the CGrolinian says that some of
the peach trees in Fairfield are in bloom
Many of the planters of Alabama begin to raise
their own pork In Cherokee County, lot OF
nine was killed, a few days since, which averaged
410 pounds each. The leaf fat taken from one
weighed 10 pounds. .'.''."'The Guardian, OF Mon
day, announces the arrival in Columbia, of His
Excelency Governor GIsT on his way to Char
lesion, where he commences the review Of the
State Militia. ..:..."A bill has. been introduced
into the Louisiana Senate authorizing gambling
houses in New Orleans and fixing the tax or license
at S18 900 Der annum. ..'.:.".Seventyt white
females were married to negroes in the State OF
Massachusetts, last year. ''''''Tf you love others
they will love you: If you speak kindly to them'
they will speak kindly to you. Love is repaid
with love, and hatred with hatred. Would you
hear sweet and pleasing echo, speak sweet and
pleasantly yourself. ''''''''The Cincinnati Price
Current publishes the annual statement OF pork
pscking in the wes., showing an increase IN NUM-
Der of 228, 900 he's, hut decrease in weight o.
Gl per cent IThe decrease in lard is d per cent,
ard the net incrcs.e in the crop, compared with
lost year, is $4,000 hogs, or 81 per cents'''''lt
is said that roasted onion bound upon the wrist,
on the pulse will stop the most inveterate tooth
aehc in very few minutes. '''''''A drove OF o.
OOe reese fer the New York market, were put OF
the cars at Winchester, Ohio, Lost week. The
calculation of the owner was that the feathers
would pay him for his outlay in raising them and
getting them to market, and that the proceeds for
the carcasses would be clear profit. '''''''A woman
in Cincinnati has made application for DIVORCE
on the ground that her husband was contdunded
fool. .......Mr. WM. GEE, formerly of Darlington
District, but now resident of Texas, contends
that he has succeeded in squariug the circle. Inc
Darlington Fzag says, year ago he sent his man
uscript to gentlemen of that place, by whom they
were submitted to the Professors of the South
CAROLINA College.
A bale of cotton was sold in Montgomery, Ala
few days since, which weighed 1865 pounds.
.......NIr r. P. WARISo, of Charlotte, n. T.,
formerly editor of the Democrdf, has been tender
ed the position of Consul to the Island OF st.
Thomas Danish possession in the West Indies.
The compensation is $4,000 per annum, and tie
yellow fever thrown in as perquisite. ''''.''The
Hon. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS of Georgia, has
written letters to friends in his District, in which
Ire positively declines n reelection to Congress.
The Augusta Gonstitutionalis very truly says:
"The South can i'll afford to lose the services of 80
able and eloquent man, and the public councils 81
the country will feel the loss of such statesman
.....".A Texas paper says that the earth is so
kind in that State, that Just tickle her with
hoe, and she will laugh with n harvest. "''''''''
N;ss .BnEuER's new work, Fathers and Daugl-
ter" has been published by T. D. PETERSON
BROTHERS, of Philadelphia. 1t was set in type,
stercotyped, printed ard bound in forty-eight
hours from the time the advanced sheets reached
the publishers. ......."Thc Advertiser says that
small fire occurred in EdgeGeld last week, by
which Rev. Mr. PICKETT, lost his. smoke-house
and its contents. The consumed meat, &C., was
speedily replaced by Mr.. P's congregation. ''''''''
The Catholics of Boston have contributed two
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars in
mid of the American College in Rome '''''''"The
Fredericksburg (Va.) Recorder predicts that 'if
Southcrner should receive the Democratic nomi-
nation for President by the Charleston Conven-
tiun, Senator HUNTER will be the man."
Parlors have been fitted up in the basement of
Rev. Dr.. AIKEys Church at Cleveland, Ohio, with
piano, sofas, &c., and social gatherings nre held
in them for the promotion Of a better acquaintance
and more intimate sympathy among the members
of the Church and congregation. ''.'''"1t is re-
ported that two cargoes of slaves, from Africa,
are off the coast of Georgia. endeavoring to effect
landing The question of the annexation
of West Florida to Georgia by IN act of the Leg
islaurc of both States is referred to the State of
Florida at the ballot box. '..'.....Among other
items from Washington, we observe that Mr.. ST.
WARD has presented memorial from the Legis,
lature of New York. nstructing the representatives
from that State, to oppose any increase of the
rates of postage