Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-05
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reward of 81 900 for a cure of the hog
cholera now pr ,vailing in that State.
...... The ' idow of Ossawatomie Brown
has received $50, 1000 from her colored SYM
pathisers in Hayti.
....'. At a recent administrators sale IN
Blount county, Ala, corn sold for s2.SO
per bushel.
...... Ichabod says he always knows when
they get new hired girl at his house by
the color of the hair in the pudding.
...... The Sumter Watchman says that the
proposed railroad from Lancaster to Gour-
din's Turn Out, via Bishopville, Sumpter
and Manning, is Frightening in prospect.
...'.. Mile. Mires, who has just been mar
ried to the Prince Polignac, in Paris, re-
ceived bouquet from some unknown party,
containing three thousand roses.
.....There are four volunteer military
companies in Spartanburg. The Spartan
says that the Morgan Rifles are making a
movement to establish a brass hand in that
place.
...... Kansas believes in easy divorces
A mere application will secure it, even
without notice to appropriate PARTIES
A great many husbands will doubtless soon
be going to the Territory with their wives.
......Joshua R. Giddings, the notorious
Abolitionist of John Brown notoriety, has
quit public life and gone to raising hemp
in Ohio. We think that it would be more
in accordance with the ''6tness of things
if the hemp would raise him.
...... We learn from the Asheville IN. c.
Advocate, that vote was taken on the
7th inst, on the license question. The re-
suit was-for license, 6; against license
7S. 1t is indictable to bring liquor into
the town from the country.
...'" Subscriptions amounting to ovel
$4,000 have been raised for the Preston
Monument The work will not be com
menced till $4,000 are obtained. Persons
desirous of contributing in aid of this no
Bile tribute, may remit to F. W. McMas
ter, Columbia, Secretary and Treasurer O.
the association.
...... There are now no less than five
Presidential tickets in the field, as follows
Black Republican, Abraham Lincoln, of II
lnois; Northern Democracy, Stephen A
Douglas, of Illinois Constitutional Democ
racy, j. C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky
National Union, John Bell, of Tennessee
John Brown abolition, Gerrit Smith, O.
New York.
...... The scales of iron that accumulate
around the anvil Of blacksmith's shoI
are more valuable than manure for peacf
trees. A shovel full put around a healthy
peach tree will be very likely to keep it il
good condition; and it is said that trees al
ready diseased have recovered by the ap
plication of these scales Iron in any form
will answer q good purpose.
49," We have been promised by Willie
Lightheart, short story, entitled "Fred
and I, or Friendship and Love" 1t would
be 'carrying coal to New Castle" for US tc
commend this story to our readers-the au'
thor's name and the character of his pro-
ductions are familiar to all of US. His wri
tings are heightened and all of his stories
teach moral, worthy of being deeply i'm
pressed on every bosom om.-Rock Hill Chron'
Gle.
A correspondent of an exchange pa.
per says he has tried the receipt for horse
radish to the face for neuralgia as we'll as
tooth-ache. As the neuralgia and the
tooth. ache are both nervous diseases, he
thought the remedy for the one would be
likely to give relief to the other; so he
made the application of horse radish,
bruised, applied to the side Of the body
where the disease was seated, and it gave
almost instant relief to the severe attack Of
neuralgia. Since then he has applied it
several times, and with the same crafty
ing result
...... At collation. given in Boston on
the occasion of the trial of the pioneer of a
line of steamships between Charleston and
the former city, it was stated that the
first 100 miles of railroad built in the
world, were builtin South Carolina that the
South Carolina Railroad Company was the
frstin the United States to run successful
ly locomotive engine on railroad, and
the first to carry the i. S. Mail and that
Charleston was the first port in the Union
to build an ocean steamer, to establish
Port Society, to establish Sailors Home
or Temperance Boarding House, and to
establish Marine School for boys.
...... 1t is our melancholy duty to an,
nounce the death of highly esteemed and
urseful citizen. We learn that John Roddy,
Esq, after painful and protracted illness,
departed this life on the evening of the 26th
inst. He had just past the prime of years
As a man he was upright and honest; as q
friend, true and devoted, as parent; kind
and iudulgent; as an officer of the law
fearless and impartial in his decisions; and
as citizen, he always had the good of his
country in view and was ready to discharge
faithfully and to the best of his ability every
duty imposed upon him. He lived an un'
blemished life and died, lamented by q
large circle of friends. He leaves a wife
and large family to mourn his loss, but 9th.
ers than they will bedew his grave with
tears. Another sphere of existence has
been assigned him, and we have reason to
believe that he is reaping the reward Of
the just.-Rock Hill Chronicle.
......I 1t is curious and interesting fact,
though few, perhaps, are aware of it, that
the tastes of different countries in regard
to the style of jewelry are so decidedly diff