Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-12

died on the Sd instant at his fathers residence.
........At the commencement of the Patapsco
Female Institute, near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland,
we gee that the first honor was awarded to Miss
FANNIE BoYcE, daughter of the Hon. W. W.
BoYcE. ......."Mrs. LUCINDA 8. STANDIPoRD, now
about thirty-two years Of age, wife of JARVIS
T. srAND1roRD, residing in Tolesborough, Lewis
County, Kentucky, has full suit Of beard, about
five inches in length, grown upon her face since
the 1st of September, 1859. .'"...'"Madame EN-.
LINE ZUIAvsKr KossurH died on Friday morning,
at her residence in Brooklyn, aged forty three
years. Madame ZuLAvsKY was sister of Lou
IS KossuTH, and had been in this country since
the memorable visit of the distinguished Hun
earian exile .....".A woman named Jolly, who
had fallen into state Of lethargy, at Angou-
leme, France, has died after an uninterrupted
sleep of two hundred and forty y.si1 and half
hours Her death was calm, and appeared like
the continuation of the slumber which had pre-.
ceded it. t......... Lieut.. HENRY A. WISE, known
as "Harry Gringross," sails in the Niagara with
the Japanese. He ranks as Master of Ord
nance, and is charged to present valuable pres
ents from the United States Government to the
Government of Japan. He will also give the
Tycoon and his officers the latest mysteries in
gunnery .........A movement is on foot by the
respective friends of DOUGLAS and BRECKENRIDGE,
among whom are several men in high position,
to get them both to withdraw from the field,
with the view of putting some une1ceptionable
man in the ring against LINCOLN. DOUGLAS
and his friends positively decline any such ar
rangement. The "Little Giant" says he has en-
listed for the war, and will not leave the field.
Mr.. L. o. CoLvEN, of CiDcinnatus, N. Y,
has invented a milking machine. 1t milks any
cow in three minutes. and the COWS like to be
MIXED by it..........In late English papers we
find report that funeral had been appointed
in Berwick to take place at half past two o.
clock on Thursday afternoon and the clergyman
appointed, received request from the funeral
party to the effect that they hoped ne would
make the funeral an hour earlier than that pro-
posed, as they wished to 60 to the circus in the
afternoon! .......Mr. Howe, whose patent for
the sewing machine was granted September 10,
ls46, is asking for an extension for seven years.
The Boston papers are strongly opposed to the
extension, and say the inventor has become in
dependently rich from his invention, and is
daily in receipt of a princely income from it.
......... One Mrs Rebecca Neshng native of
Germany, 80 years old, who was married nine
wears since, and because her husband was Gun
pleasant" refused to live with him, after hav-
ing visited Europe and California as nurse to
invalid tourists, was three months ago lied
to her husband, and recently drowned herself in
New York, because her husband chews tobacco
Think of that, ye rnashers of the weed .........
The New York Herald has had nineteen columns,
the Times sixteen, the Tribune ten, and the
World seven, descriptive of the voyage Of the
Great Eastern.
The Winnsboro Register announces the death
of Capt. W. D. Gailard, one Of the principals of
the Hillsboro Military Academy. y......."A Paris
mentions report that the Empe-
ror Louis Napoleon is about to publish history
of Julius Caesar, in two vo. Volumes work
upon which he has been engaged for many years.
AT the Railroad Convention held at Sum-
tervlle on the 4th inst, it was determined to
run the proposed road from Charlotte, N. c.,
via Lancaster C. H., Bishopville, Sumterville,
and Manning to Gourdin's Turn Out. 100000
of actual bona .tfde stock was taken in it, and
goo prospect of two or three hundred thous-
and more in o short time. The road is to be
called the South Carolina Central Railroad; and
the N. E. r. company is forthwith to begin the
survey of the route.
A Union electoral ticket, composed of four
Douglas and three Breckenridge men, is recon-
mended in New Jersey, who, if elected, are to
cast their vote for either candidate if that vote
will elect him. ........W Within the last sixteen
months, eighteen cotton laden vessels, valued at
S2,452, 200, were destroyed by fire in the ports
of the United States. It is supposed by the In.
surance companies that large portion Of the
fires is intentional ..No rain has fallen in
New Mexico, during the year, and the crops are
almost entirely destroyed. There never was
such scarcity of provisions and forage. Corn
is selling at almost any price that is asked....
The Anderson Gazette contains call upon JAS
L. Orr to become candidate for the next Leg
islature, signed by sixteen of his fellow-citi-
zens, who say they "simply represent the uni
versally expressed wish of the District"