Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-01-26
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......A member of the Massachusetts, Leg
islature is said to have just been detected
in forgery for $500.
......In Cincinnati paper we observe
case of amalgamation. Mr.. Brown married
Miss White.
...... The following is good advice to per-
sons visiting Offices and other business
places: Shut the door, and when you are
done talking serve your mouth the same
way.
...... We learn from the Houston (Texas)
Telegraph, that from fifty to sixty people
were frozen to death within the State OF
Texas during the late cold weather. There
was also many thousand hogs, cattle, and
sheep frozen.
...... Five hundred and thirty-six negroes,
owned by the estate of the late Jos. Bond,
were sold at Albany, Ga, on the 4th inst,
at an average of s1.025. They were sold
in families, and there are thirty to be dis
posed of. One boy brought $4,000, and a
woman, field hand, sold for $4,000.
...... The Wire Grass (Ga.) Reporter
learns that there was an encounter between
some of the citizens of Brooks County and
portion of Robinson & Lakes Circus Com
pany at Quitman, in which several persons
were shot, and one of the latter is expected
to die.
...... Jesse Wheeler, formerly surveyor of
GuiIford County, North Carolina, has been
arrested, charged with circulating sixty
copies of Helpers Impending Crisis. Sew
eral persons have been arrested in Ran
dolph County, North Carolina, on a similar
charge.
...... A little boy, residing in Union
county, KY, had his head blown off one
day last week. He bored hole in a log
and put powder in it, ramming the powder
down with stick. He then laid a coal
Of FIRE on the hole, and before he could get
away it exploded, the stick striking him
on the head, knocking the upper portion off
and killing him instantly.
...... The Presidents of the various Vir-
ginia railroad companies have issued call,
inviting all the Southern railroad companies
Ito meet them in consultation at Richmond,
on the 18th of February, to consider the
means by which they can best secure, either
by direct importation or Southern manufac-
ture, the equipments and supplies for the
use of Southern railroads.
...... The depot at Santuc, on the Spartan
burg and Union Railroad, was burnt about
8 o'clock on Sunday morning last. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary. Fortunately but few packages were
in the building, and the loss chiefly confined
to that. A number of bales of cotton were
piled up above the depot, which escaped
injury, as the wind blew in an opposite
direction-Spartan.
49," The Supreme Court of Appeals, in
Virginia, has affirmed the judgment of
the Circuit Court of Richmond, which de-
cided that inspectors of -four, spirits, cot
ton, and other articles of freight, have no
right to retain samples as perquisites of Of
fee. The decision was called out by suit
against -four inspector who, it appears,
had, in the course of few years, accumu
lated from draughts of -four taken from
barrels q quantity valued at several thous-
and dollars, including interest.
...." A man by the name of Bailey, we
are informed, came to the house of Mr. John
Mobley, last week and asked permission to
remain OYER the night, which was granted.
Sometime, however, during the night, he
entered Mr. Mobley's room, but on being
detected, acted asif he was crazy. Whether
he is indeed deranged or not seems to be
matter of doubt, but our Sheriff is inclined
to think that there is not much the matter
with his mind He was brought into town
and delivered to Mr. Pagan, our Sheriff, who
sent him to Jail, and has him still there in
safe keeping.-Chester Standard.
....- We learn from reliable source, that
Wheeler& Wilson, extensive manufacturers
of sewing machines, at Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, had lately enlarged their works
so as to double the amount of their business,
but the 'irrepressible conflict which broke
out at Harper's Ferry, has so diminished the
demand for their machines from the South,
that they have found it necessary to dis
charge one hundred of their hands. In ma
king this reduction, they were careful to Sc
lect the warmest abolitionists they could
find, who proved to be all, or near all, from
Massachusetts,.
...... We arc indebted to friend, for an
account of sales of the negroes of the estate
of the late ". W. Belcher, by Mr. F. P.
Robertson, the auctioueer, which took place
during the past week. About 100 negroes
were sold at an average of near 81 900 each
being higher price than has ever been
realized at any former sale in the District.
One negro Ben, brought s2,005 and others
sold at prices ranging from $1,000 to ST.
600. Of these negroes, rs brought an ag-
gregrate sum of s54, ,9S0-beingan average
of 81, ,145, each. Everything else sold at the
same high rates.-AbJeOiNe Press.
...... The Darlington Southerner says -
sWe notice that advertisements Of Southern
Houses located in Northern cities, are al
ready beginning to make their appearance.
We do sincerely hope that the Southern
people will refuse to countenance any such
concerns. They are too much like Northern
men with Southern principles Let South
ern capitalists establish business houses in
Southern cities; let their capital circulate
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