Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-29
Sfraps 4 fatts.
49," A fire at Sacramento, on the 18th
ult., destroyed 500, 900 worth of property.


sister, recently wrote to another bachelor
equally fortunate, ''please exchange"
s......An Extra Court will be held at Lam
caster Court House, in July, for the pur-
pose Of deciding the. McKenna will case.
.....sSome forty colored residents Of
Springfield, Illinois, have arranged to leave
for Liberia the coming summer.
"a. ...... It is said that gang Of profession
al pickpockets is organizing in New York
to visit Charleston during the holding of
the Democratic National Convention.
...," Last week, seventy-one grass wild
ows,' residing around Elkhart, Indiana,
gave ball and invited their male friends
8 Noladies who were not "grass widows" were
admitted ~
Halls Journal of Health says many
annoying headaches will be prevented if the
feet are kept clean. We never knew be-
fore why so many people complain of dis
tressing headaches !!
......A surly old bachelor remarks that
= the ladies' fashions, for the ensuing season,
show persistent determination in the dear
creatures to crawl out of their dresses through
the upper part .-.-- -...a- 3.
..... The Legislature of Massachusetts,
has passed law exempting from attach.
,ment one Sewing Machine worth not over
one hundred dollars, in actual use by the
debtor or his family.
...... The English papers say that num-
Der Of Roman and other coins have lately
been dug up near Corfe Castle. Among
them isone representing Romulus and Re.
mus with the wolf.
The Alabama Legislature has passed
law compelling Northern Insurance Com
panies to pay $500, to each town in the
State in which they effect insurance. 1t a.
mounts to prohibition-an effect of anti
slavery war upon the South.
$3.50. Chief Justice Taney was sighty.three
years of age on Saturday, the 18th, having
been born in Calvert county, Maryland, on
the St. Patrick's day Of 1777. Fora man
of his years, he is in the enjoyment of COM
paratiYely good health.
@3......The Massachusetts shoemaker stri-
kers have already spent as much money in
their public demonstrations for music, ban.
ners, collations, meetings, &c., as the in
creased wages demanded would amount to
in a whole year. %.
@~...... A bill was introduced on the 18th
inst, in the Missouri Legislature, providing
that the person convicted Of enticing away
slaves, or stealing horses, shall have his
ears cropped and be branded. On Sec
ond conviction for thesame offence the pen.
atty shall be death.
...... The Bangor Whig, under the obitu-
ary head, announces the death of Mrs. Mary
Fulton Ellis, of Topsham, at the ripe age
of9l, and who had read the Bible through
no less than eighty times, averaging once
every year for four-ffths Of a century.
= ......A A rapid and emphatic recital of the
following is said by provincial paper to
be sn iDhallible cure for lisping: Hobbs
meets Suobbs and Nobs; Hobbs bobs to
.Snobbs and Hobbs; Nobbs nobs with
Snobbs and robs Hobbs fobs. That is,
says Nobbs, the worst of Hobbs jobs and
Snobbs sobs. -.. -..
...... The Savannah Republican says
The New York Herald is making terrible
to do over the enormous expense of living
at Charleston during the Democratic Con-
zvention, The Herald need not trouble it.
sell, for it will hardly suffer serious loss
from the expense of its attaches. Wepaid
]; the hotel bill of its reporter to the Southern
Commercial Convention, four years ago, and
that is the last of it.
r....'A bill to license gambling is before
the Legislature of Louisiana. The New Or
leans papers censure it very strongly, Tie
Picayune says: "The admissions made by
1.-The friends of the bill to legalize by licens-
ing gambling.houses in this city, should be
fatal to the measure Whenever the State
|. provides by law for the legal existence of
amy practice or business, it elevates them
into legitimate and honorable employ
sments."
800. The people of Ohio are kicking up
shindy because the Legislature appropri-
ated $4,000 to pay for that treat to the travel
ing wisdom of Tennessee and Kentucky on
their late jaunt into.the Buckeye region
The next time our folks start off in that d.
rection, we hope they will see the propriety
of adbering to the old custom of every man
paying for his own liquor. The ax-payers
Of Ohio say it is about as much as they can
stand to furnish grog for their own Legisla-
tors athens Tsnn.) Post.
...... A Jury in Texas lately acquitted
man brought up on the charge of horse.steal-
ing, although the crime was clearly proven
against him, simply because he stole the
horse to elope with his sweetheart, who was
present in the Court during the trial, and
waiting to marry him, if acquitted. The
Jurors had prabably all been in love them
selves at one period or another of their
lives, and there was not one perhaps of
them but what would have done the same
thing, in their younger days, if they could
not have got their wives without doing so.
....'. The corn-growers of the District,
who wish to try for a purse, can have
chance to sweepstakes, by consulting our
friends, Capt. D. ]. Rice and L. H. Mas
sey, Esq, who propose to deposit in the
hands of a stakeholder, FIVE dollars, each,
towards making up pretty little sum to
be pocketed by the man who gathers the