Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-16
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rank and hle, and average display OF COCK
ed hats and fancy feathers. The day was
excessively warm-the evolutions few and
simple-the speaking brief and the crowd
dismissed in short Chester Stand.
"'..A woman disguised in mans clothes
gained aduittance to the Sons of Malta
lodge room in Hartford, the other evening,
and passed all the several degrees of initia-
ton successfully until the worshipful COM
mander came to apply the emblem. Then
the trick was discovered, the candidate be-
ing unworthy to receive it. The affair has
caused considerable excitement.
...'A correspondent of the Lynn Bay
State, writing from East Saugus, states that
a lady of that village assures him that dur
ing a courtship of a year, and a welded life
of forty years, (includingthe honeymoon,)
she was never kissed byher husband! This
couple have half.a-dozen children, not one Of
whom was ever kissed by the husband and
father! He is a kind, pleasant man, and
never was known to strike one of his chill
dren. Send him to Barnum.
1.-THE Newport correspondent of the
Courier DIES Etas Unis, writes that there is
a rumor in that famous watering place, that
the proprietor of the Ocean House has hum
bly, requested Mr.. Jno. G.. Heenan, of pugi-
listic renown, to honor some other estab.
lishment with his presence, adding that he
(the proprietary wouldn't show the least
sign of jealousy if some of his colleagues
should be so happy as to count the 'cham-
pion" among his household gods.
The grain statistics of Chicago, just
made up, of the receipts of -four and grain
since January lst, compared with the re-
ceipts during the same period of last year,
1859, show an increase of $4,000 bbls.
-four, $4,000 bushels wheat, ~7,55O,0O0
bushels corn. Increase in shipments, the
same time, 60, 900 bbls. -four, $50, 900 bush.
els wheat, $500, 900 bushels corn. In
store there are at the present time, 200
bbls. -four, 6,4OO bushels wheat, 1900, 900
bushels corn.
$500. A letter from San Antonio, Texas,
dated July 21sr, says: "The weather con-
tinues perfectly dry, and besides the failure
Of the crops. is causing great Inconvenience
by hinderiug transportation between the
coast and San Antonio. Freights have risen
so much that -four, within a week or two,
has gone up from $40 to $50 per barrel,
and corn is now selling here for So per
bushel. Water, brought from the Missis-
sippi River, is selling at Indiauola and La
vacca for twenty-five cents per gallon"
r....A scientific correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger says, that the week
beginning the 10th, and ending the 23d of
July, was favorable to the production of
electrical phenomena, and on the 10Th and
10th, the Aurora was beautiful, quite un.
usual for July; the meteor of the 10th was
magnificent. Conditions will be again ia,
vorable during the week from the 18th to
the 23d Of August, and from the 18th to
the 10Th of September, and those who have
the leisure will, in all probability, be high
" entertained should they look hesvenward
on the nights of those days, particularly
10th, 17th and 18th of August, the 18th,
18th and 10th of September.
.":"The Atlantic Telegraph Company
announce that the efforts made at New
fouudland to restore the Atlantic Cable
have failed. Mr.. Varley, the electrician,
in his report, says by hard hauling, pieces
of the cable were recoveredin small lengths,
amounting in all to seven miles, but the
cable invariably broke at short distances,
and it was necessary at last to abandon the
attempt. The report says the iron wires
often appeared sound, but on minute inspec-
ton, they we're found eaten away and rot,
ten. The gutta percha and copper wire
were as good as when laid down. Portions
which were wrapped with tarred yarn were
sound, the tar and hemp having preserved
the iron wires bright and free from rust.
..... The Cincinnati Commercial con-
fesses that its pride has been taken down
no little by the census takers, who have
reduced the reputed population of the city,
s250, 600, to a fixed fact of about 10000.
1t seems that other great western cities un-
dergo a similar razeeing in the hands of
the United States Marshals. Chicago,
which was said to have from 100000 to
100000, is likely, judging from the return
SO far in, to show a population of less than
100000. Milwaukee, instead Of $4,000, as
claimed, will have less than $4,000. St.
Louis has about 100000, though she has
been rated as high as 100000. Indiauop-
oils, boasting of a population of about 80,
600, has been raced to good deal under
10000. Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton
have been shaved down from 20 to 10 per
cent, on their calculations, respectively
......Iti is too common to hear the people
of the Palmetto State summarily set down
as the embodiment of all that is uureasou-
able and hotbeaded. The following para
graph, which We find going the rounds of
the Northern papers, throws some light on
this subject: The benevolent Miss Dix,
whose philanthropic labors in behalf of the
insane reflect much credit on her humanity,
and have been attended with wonderful
success, states, in one of her publications,
that.in the New England States the pro-
portion of the insane to the whole popula-
ton is about one in 600; in the Middle
States, one in 700: and in the Western
States, one in 1900. The most unfortunate
is Rhode Island, where there is one to eve.
ry SOB; and the State less affected than all
others with this calamity is South Carolina,
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