Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-02-16
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being the fruit of q tour in the Northwest.
.-.... A man that marries awidow is bound
TO give up smoking and chewing. If she
gives up her weeds for him, he should give
up the weed for her.
,ss.... The Virginia House of Delegates
has passed bill giving s35O,OO0 -te-sidin aid n
the construction 9. the extension into North
CasaIaa. Of me sae Danville Railroad.
...... The infant recently presented to her
loyal subjects by the Queen of Spain has
been christened, and received no less than
sixty one names.
...... A man named Curtis, who had ex-
posed the secrets of the Sons of Malta, has
mysteriously disappeared from GAINESVILLE,
Ohio. His disappearance is regarded by
the citizens as another Morgan affair
....... The Jacksonville (Fla.) Republican
announces the receipt of fine lot of Irish
potatoes, growth of 1860, from the garden
Of Col. L. a. Hardee, leading horticul-
turlSt OF tnat Sectlon.
...... VIM. Gilmore Simms, the South
Carolina novelist, has written a patriotic let
ter, declining, on account of ill-health, to
address the populace on the inauguration
of Clark Mills equestrian statute of Wash
ington. @-...
...... The North Carolina Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, have COM
menced the manufacture of corn brooms,
in opposition to the Yankee makers, and
are getting up an article sufficiently good
for all purposes.
''...... Accounts from Tennessee and upper
Georgia represent the growing wheat as
having been seriously injured by the severe
freezes of the past season. In many por-
tions of the country the planters represent
that half crop will not be made this year.
...... It is stated that Governor Stewart,
of Missouri, has refused to sign the bill
passed by the Legislature, for the exclusion
Of the free colored population from that
State. It is also said that Governor Perry, of
Florida, has declined signing bill of SINH
larprovisions.
$500. One branch of the Kentucky Legis-
lature has passed bill appropriating slO,-
600 to complete the monument at Lexiug.
ton in honor of Henry Clay. The statue
for the monuments to be inaugurated on
the 18th of April, the anniversary Of the
birth of the deceased statesman.
= ......The emigration to Texas this sea-
son has exceeded that of any other hereto
fore known, and the frontier counties of
the State are rapidly filling up. In one
week 1,030 negroes arrived at Galveston
fromthe States Of Mississippi and Alabama,
for the western portion of the State, end
lands are accordingly increasing in value.
Advices from Buenos Ayres to the
18th December, state that England was
pursuing her difficulties with Paraguay, and
one of her naval officers had actually seiz-
ed the Paraguayan war steamer Tacuari, as
sort of reprisal for the esinkiug of the Brit
ish merchant vessel Little Polly, in the
Parans, in 1858. The war steamer was a.
gain released, however.
......A correspondent of the New York
Herald says that Governor Hicks, of Mary
land, despatched his Secretary of State to
Washington to congratulate Speaker Pen
nington upon his election. If the people
of Maryland approve Of this act of their
Governor, and the late course of one of their
Representatives, the South will no longer
call her sister. Such. We yet believe, is
not the case. The next election in that
State will indicate her position.
...."A large quantity of the North Car
olina cashmere, manufactured at Salem,
was shipped from this point, on Monday, to
the order of merchants of different places
in Louisiana. This is as it should be. En-
courage Southern manufactures and South
ern mechanics, and you do more to estab-
lish Southern independence than has been
done by all the champague-drinking South
ern Conventions ever held.-H;gh Point
Reporter. ~
...... The Richmond Dispatch says that
the late raid of old John Brown has so far
assisted Virginia enterprise, that the fol-
lowing factories will soon be in operation :
For making oil cloth; boots and shoes;
hats and caps; ready made clothing; straw
bonnets; sewing machines; cedar ware !;
furniture; brass castings; iron castings;
Steam.6re engines umbrellas and parasolS,
and other articles less costly, but equally as
necessary for general comfort.
...... At recent meeting of the Masonic
Lodge in Due West, they resolved to give
Five Hundred Dollars towards the erection
of the necessary buildings for the Due West
Female College. The donation was unso-
licited and is on this account the more ac-
ceptable. The Lodge is composed of our
citizens, nearly all of whom have subscribed
as individuals Now the Masons come up
in their associated capacity and subscribe
thus literally. These things show that Our
whole community is in earnest, and having
put their hands to the plough they are not
going to look back.-Telescope.
1.-The Vicksburg Sun says: The veri-
table sword which Ethan Allen carried
through the perils of many well-fougbt
fields, is now in the possession of one of
his female defendants in Holmes county,
Miss. 1t is the same stauuch blade that
he waved aloft when, sin the name of Je-
hovah and the Continental Congress-" he