Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-20

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'' A. A. Stltt, superintendent or the
Southern Methodist Book Concern at Nash.
vile, Tenn, died on the I'd inst.
cocoa man died lately at Norfolk, Va,
and his physicians ascribes his disease to
the habit of wearing tight boots.
..... Letters from Paris announce the
death of Mrs. Harvey, wife Of Gen. Harvey,
United States Army.
ut cost last year 1916 per night to
light the streets of Boston, the total for the
year being sl37,321.
$500. Cholera is prevailing to a serious
extent in Spain. At Malaga, 600 persons
were attacked in one day, and so of them
died.
..'.. The Vincennes Qndiana) Western
Sun says: The hog crop will be good,
much better than for several years, with a.
bundance of corn to feed them.
...... The number of acres of new lands
introduced to market By proclamation Of
the President, during the past year, is lot
millions.
...... The Bureau of Napoleon I, recently
advertised for sale, was sold, in Paris on the
18th, for 10000, to NJ. Bineau, a furniture
dealer.
$500. Frank Hughes, of New Haven, only
twelve years of age, has been sent to tn,
pocr-house, on application of his father, to1
being a common drunkard.
49,. The Dubuque Herald says that some
ofthe ministers who have arrived at Dubu,
que to attend the Methodist Conference,
walked in-some as far as one hundred and
Wy males,
1880. Jose Solano has absconded from
Havana with a million and a half Of dollars
of private funds entrusted to him in his
capacity of Havana agent of the Creditor
Espanol Of Madrid.
$500. Rats and mice speedily disappear by
mixing equal quantities Of strong cheese
and powdered squills. They devour this
mixture with greediness, while it is inro'
cent to man.
......A writer in the Southern Planter,
describing the different varieties of swine;
says that he never knew black hogs to have
the mango; while white ones are very sub
ject to it, aud sometimes die of it. Is this
a fact?
1.-THE Cincinnati express train on the
New York Central Railroad, being half an
hour behind time recently, ran eighty-oue
miles in one hundred minutes. Two stops
were made, at which wood and water were
taken, occupying about fifteen minutes, the
average rate of speed being a trile less than
a mile a minute.
......An Imperial French decree limits
the price of French. Havana, or Manila
cigars to ten cents each. No higher price
can be charged by tobacconists. The price
of the small Havana cigars called "Duuas,"
is fixed at two cents each. What a com.
fort it must be to live under a Government
that won't allow the lovers of the weed to
be imposed upon.
.....It is said that in a recent speech at
Richmond, Mr.. o. Jennings Wise stated,
uponth he authority of a Virginia delegate
who remained in the Douglas Convention
at Baltimore, that VIM. L. Iancey was
rendered the nomination for the Vice Presi-
dency on the Douglas ticket, but he re-
fused to accept, stating that oil and water
could not intermix.
800. The Executive Committee of the
Lynchburg (Va.) Agricultural Society have
determined to offer a premium of 500 for
the best drilled military company" and
have selected a number of gentlemen, thor
ughly conversant with military tactics, to
decide upon the merits Of the various corps
which may choose to enter the lists for the
prize.
1.-The proprietors of the Darlington
.Southerner offer a prize of $50 for the best
romance, S25 for the second best. The edi-
tor of the Southerner also offers S25 for the
best agricultural essay. Competitors are
requested to send in their productions by
the first of December. A sealed envelop,
containing the name of the the writer, must
accompany each, which will not be opened
until the award has been made.
GA poor woman in the county of San
ia Barbara, California, has but one grape
vine. This bore, in 1857, five thousand
punches of grapes-each bunch weighing
over a pound-yieldiug her the handsome
sum of four thousand dollars. When a
. girl, on leaving Monterey for her present
home, she picked up a vine cutting to
drive her mule. This cutting she planted
on her arrival, and after the lapse of seven
years such is the result.
""..The bell for the new Episcopal
Church, at this place, has been supplied
from the we'll Known foundry of Jro. Alex.
ander & Co., Columbia. 1t weighs FIVE
hundred pounds. We are Informed that
this establishment does an extensive bust
ness in this class of casting, and that their
work gives general satisfaction. Their rule
is, if parties are not pleased, that the work
maybe returned at their expense.-AJbe-
uiMe Banner.
Congress passed an act in 1915, "to
establish a uniform time for holding cleo.
tions for electors of President and Vice
President in all the States Of the Union"
This act fixes the time of election on the
"Tuesday next after the first Monday il
the month of November'-wbich this year
is on the sixth day of the month. All the
electors must be chosen or appointed OF
that day. except in the Electoral College