Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-27
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..... Irish papers of recent date speak ia
vorably of the harvest prospects in Ireland
.... The population Of Spartanburg vii
lage, by the recent census, is 2l55.
$50. Twenty thousand copies of Worces
'ter's Quarto Dictionary have been sold il
six months.
......The Post Office at Beckhamville, II
Chester District, has been discontinued
Letters and papers intended for that otlce
will hereafter be directed to Rossville, 81
800. Professor Lowe, backed by hi
friends, has determined in a couple of weeks
to make another effort to ascend from Phila
delphia in his great air ship.
500. The number of English volunteers
Offering for Garibaldi was SO great thai
funds could not be raised fast enough tt
send them to Naples.
...... The steamship Thomas Swami, which
arrived at Charleston on Friday from Balti
more, brought as part of her cargo, 2,66z
bushels of wheat.
......While the census taker was collect
ing his statistics in Searsmont, Me-, he
found a girl thirteen years old, who was the
mother of a child of ten months.
60 The Charleston papers announce the
death of Mr.. William Calder, in that city,
on Saturday last, in the sixtieth year OF
hisage.
.....A New York letter to the Buffalo
Commercial says: "The lady, who was
the leading actress in the Key tragedy, is
again a mother"
...... Jews must be getting scarce in Ire.
land, for during the last fifteen years the
marriages of Jews in that country have bare
ly averaged one a year,
...... There are two grandsons of Benedict
Arnold still living, one named Benedict,
residing in En- gland, and the other, named
Geo. Washington, an inhabitant OF Canada.
....,. There are ffty.seven cities in the
world which contain from loo, 600 to 2OO,-
600 Inhabitants, twenty-three from 100000
to 500 900, and twelve which contain a
bove 500, 900.
......H H. Judge Moore, editor of the Ben
nettsville Son OF Temperance, will deliver
the dedication address of the new Temper
ance Hall at Montpelier, Richmond coun-
ty, N. c., on Wednesday, the 18th inst.
49,. At a late ball at San Francisco, one
hundred and eighty sets were on the floor
at the same time. Two thousand eight hun
dred and eighty people simultaneously, bob,
bin around!
...... 1t is said that ex.President Tyler,
now seventy-fve years old, and looking more
robust and younger than when he occupied
the White House, has an infant daughter
only two months old.
1.-The Bible has been translated into
two hundred and sixty languages and dia-
leots, and is ready for GOO, 600, 900 of the
inhabitants of the earth, but only 100000
900 have as yet received it.
...... The Unionville Press endorses the
nomination by one of its correspondents of
the Hon. w. P. Miles, for Governor and
the Walhalla Banner suggestes the Hon.
J. Duncan Allen for the same Office.
...... The Philadelphia Ledger thinks the
wheat harvest is going to bring the country
a hundred millions of dollars extra, and
wants to know what will be done with the
money.
So. The citizens of Leake county, Miss,
are holding corn meetings, to procure corn
for the pressing wants of those who have
made a total failure in their corn crops this
year
...... The Atlanta Locomotive, of the 18th
inst, learns at the last term of the Superior
Court of Taliaferro county, a man was fined
two. hundred dollars, and sentenced to thirty
days Imprisonment, for selling one drink
of liquor to a negro.
....:. T. D. Rice, (Jim Crow the origin
/ al deliueator of negro character, died yes
terday in this city, at an advanced age, Of
disease of the heart. He had been in de.
clining health for some time. His last en-
eagement was at the Art Union Concert
Saloon.-New York Day Book.
Id wish I was ip Dixie" is now the
S~popular yell and frenzy iu New Orleaus.-
siDixie" is an old time term expressive of
the negro idea of heaveu-that is, a place
where there is no work, plenty of possum,
pig meat, sweet potatoes, hog, hominy and
molasses, all ready for eating.
...... 1t is stated that a man in Williams
town, Mass, has a large lot of bull frogs.
all fattened fora foreign market. Some of
them have been highly fed for several years,
and are of enormous size, weighing forty
pounds! Although no premium is offered
on this stock, he intends to exhibit them at
the Roosac Valley Fair.
..... Philadelphia papers say water. gas
has been burnt SO successfully at the Girard
House in that city during the past three
months, that arrangements ale now on foot
for the erection of numerous works for the
manufacture of gas, according to the process
ofDr. Sanders, in New England, New York,
New Jersey, and several of the Western
States.
1900. At the railroad meeting on Thurs.
day last at Ridge Spring Church, Lexing.
ton, the Hon. Edward G. Palmer, of Fair
field, addressed the meeting in favor Of the
Columbia and Hamburg road. He was
followed by the Hon. NJ. L. Bonham and
Thos. G. Bacon, Esq, who both urged the
advantages of this railroad connection. A