Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-30
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less than $50. 600 clear.
MFRS. Betsey Adams, a young damseI
Of 10S years, attended church at New Lon
don, Conn, on Saturday last, and also the
evening service, and spoke in the meeting
On the following morning she walked hall
a mile before breakfast.
800. The Boston Courier says: We
publish this day a remarkable story-strauge
indeed, and we are assured true. touching
a young man who is bound up in two wills
his father demanding that he should marry
no person whose feet exceeded a certain
size, and his mother enjoining him with
equal severity, that the maiden's hair should
be of a certain color"
At Peterson, N. j., on Wednesday,
a young man named Teneck died of con
sumption. 1t is stated that during the six
months previous he had grown fourteen
inches in height, by actual measurment.-
he went to the Rogers Locomotive Works
as an apprentice, early in the year, when
he lacked something of five feet. At the
timeof his decease, he measured over six
feet.
...... After protracted illness-mental as
we'll as physioal-running through a period
of five or six years, death relieved Mr.. Jun
ius W Thomson of his suferings on Mon
day morning, the Goth inst. His remains,
at his own request, were deposited in the
grave with Masonic ceremonies, on Tuesday
afternoon, where he lies surrounded by those
of his family who had gone before. Peace
to his ashes.-Spartan6urg Spartan.
..... A private despatch from Camden,
on Tuesday evening, announced the death
of Gen. J. W. Cantey. The General was
sick, we learn, for about a week, of a very
painful disease, which terminated his life
about three o'clock on Tuesday. General
Cantey was a warm-hearted and generous
Carolina gentleman, and for a long time fill
ed the position of Adjutant.G General of the
State. He was a highly accomplished Off
Ger, and had a large number of friends in
every section of the State.-Guardian,
24h inst.
.:. No art, excepting that of ~photogra-
ply, has progressed and improved so rapid.
ly as that of dentistry. Forty. years ago it
was not a distinct profession for all doc
torsSthen oficiatcd as tooth-pullers, with
turkey levers of the most rude description;
and as for supplying the place of old teeth
with new ones, it was never done at ALL
In 1920 there were only thirty practising
dentists in the United States in 1850 there
were 1928 ; at present there are about FIVE
thousand. The invention of artificial teeth
has given a wonderful impetus to this most,
useful aud beneficial art.
go. A we'll known divine and philanthro.
pist was walking recently in a crowded
street iu London at night, in order to dis
tribute tracts to promising subjects. A
young woman was walking up and down,
and he a%ccosted her. He pointed out to
her the errors.of her way, implored her to
reform, and rendered her a tract, with fer
vent entreaties to 60 home aod read it. The
girl stared at, him for a moment or two,
Acknowledgement; at last it dawned
on her what he meant, and for what he took
her, and looking up, with simple amuse-
ment, in his face, she exclaimed; "Lord
bless you, sir, I amt a social evil I'm
waiting for the omnibus"
The new Cotton year, will COM
mence ~insten, days and great anxiety is felt
with regard to the Cotton crop, which is
known to have been much injured by the
drought in Texas, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi. The extent of the damage is
of course matter of conjecture. In some To-
c~alities, they write that the plant is destroy
edbeyond salvation; in others, it iSsaid that
the rains which have fallen copiously within
the. past few days have revived it, and the
crop will be an average after all. Cotton can
good deal of drought, as is known,
especially in the low lands. Within the
past day or two we have seen estimates of
1900, 900 bales for the crop of 1860, and
others which donot allow more than 1885,
600. The crop expected by the planters
at the commencement of the season was
5000, 900 Sales.--future Exchange.
IA letter has been received in Bos.
ton, from Jerusalem, from Simeon Murad,
the acting American Consul, who says that
considerable anxiety is felt by the Christian
European residents. The Arabs without
theswalls, to say nothing of those within,
are evidently under unusual excitemeut.-
Those of Djbel Kuds and Djbel Mablous
have already destroyed the surrounding
crops. Bread is beginning to be very dear,
so that a loaf which ordinarily cost five paras
now brings twenty, and scarce at that
The poor are suffering, and apprehensious
of a fearful outbreak are Anticipated
There is no calculating the amount of mis-,
cry that would follow, should the f%anatical
spirit of the Mohammedans break forth as
it has on former occasions at Jerusalem,
which has in past ages passed through more
extraordinary scenes of blood, slaughter and
than any other place on the whole
globe.
49,. Acase of great: importancet to Ameri-
lean citizens of foreign birth from the con-
tinent ofEurope, and particularly France,
has just been decided by the French tribu.
nails. A native of the department of the
Lower Rhine, named Michael Zeiter, emf
grated while yet a boy to the United States,
where he became a naturalized citizen at
the proper time and in due form of law. In
France his name had been enrolled for con-