Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-06-28
Straps 4 fafts.

have Indicted late Postmaster Fowler TO
defrauding the Government.
...." Ripe peaches, grown near Aiken
s. c., have been received at the Office o
the Charleston Courier. ..
...... MIR. J. R. Bouknight, of EdgeGeld
has shown us large and healthy cottor
blooms and bolls-specimens gathered up
on his plantations.-Neaoberry Sun.
...... The mere cost of land on which Brit
ish railways are constructed, has averaged
$4,000 per mile-as much as the average
cost Of making railway in the United
States.
'...." In most of the counties of North ani
Central Mississippi, we learn, from our ex
changes, that seasonable rains have fallen
The crops in consequence are much improv
ed.
$500. The Singapore Free Press mentions
the astounding fact that since 1859, 1900
Chinese have been carried off BY tigers IN
Johore, the end Of the Malacia Peninsula.
This is much worse than in Singapore. The
tigers show more than their usual cunning,
and regularly feed on human flesh.
...... An old man in an English almshouse,
who confessed that he had spent sixpence
q day for beer during period of sixty
years, was surprised when told that the ag-
gregate at compound interest would have
amounted to sS.225, 19s, Sd. He at once
said thatsif he could live his life over again,
he would not drink drop.
...... The following is taken from the re-
port of the proceedings of the Connecticut
Legislature: Bill to tax geese and bachelors
taken up. Mr.. Harrison was opposed to
the provision taxing bachelors. There was
tax already laid upon a goose, and any
man who had lived twenty-five years with.
out being married, could be taxed under
that section. The bill was postponed.
....a. Some idle genius has classified the
United States Senate as follows. A Senator
of metal-Bell A shining Senator
Bright. 4 verdant Senator-Green. A
greasy Senator-Chandler. A debilious
Senator-Wigfall. A lazy Senator-Doo-
little, Ahealthy Senator-Hale. A grave
Senator-Toombs. Aroyal Senator-King
A muddy Senator-Clay.
...... The Insurance Companies of Massa-
chusetts state that the mortuary expert
ence of fourteen companies, which had
reported to the State for the past year, rep
resenting about fifty thousand years of life,
proved that life in this country, at ages be-
tween thirtyop and forty-6ve, was not SUBJ
ject to as high rate of mortality as simi-
lar returns proved it to be in Great Britain
and Germany.
...... Archbishop Hughes declines to COM
ply with the New York law of 1858, which
requires every clergyman to report to the
City Inspector the names of persons married
by him. He simply gave as reason that
Catholic priests are often called upon to
remedy privately the evils caused by the cor
ruption of morals; that these are cases of
conscience, and that he would suffer on
the scafold or rot in prison rather than be-
tray the confidence reposed in him.
...... The indomitable Parson Brownlow,
of the Knoxville Wig, is down rather
hard upon the Black Republican candidate
for the Vice-Presidency. Hamlin, it is
said, attributes the dark complexion of his
skin to the fact of his being Of Portuguese l
descent. The Parson says this is all mis- (
take. and that not only in the color of
his hide, but in his carriage, walk, man
5ners, conversation, and instincts, he exhibits
unmistakeable evidence of ssfree negro"
Ifthis be so, "Ham" is very suitable
candidate of the party which nominated
him.
...... The Chutfeld (Minnesota) Demo-
crat of the I'd inst, says that two white
women are living at the Agencies with 10. ,
dian husbands. One of them, Mrs Ren-
vile, came from Illinois about eighteen
months ago, aud after vigorous court =
ship, won the consent of her dusky mate,
andtmarried him, that she might elevate
the race She is now teaching the Indian t
girls to bake and do household labor gene G
rally, and her husband is said to be quite ,
proud of her. The other, Mrs. Otherday, t
became euamored of one of the braves at j
Washington, where he had gone with others ,,
of his tribe to complete treaty, and she a
followed him to his home on the prairie t
...... The census-takers occasionally find r
some strange events and items. The Frank i
lin Rerie0 says one of the Deputy Mar r
shals for Williamson county made the &C. Z
quaintance of lady IS years old, who q
built 800 yards of rock fence within the
last year with her own hands aud what is
more, she gathered and carried iu her arms
all the materials of which the fence is built. !,
This looks like hard yarn, but its truth
is attested by numerous witnesses who saw '
the old lady at her work and who have seen
it since completed. We doubt if parallel .
case will be found in any other State or =
county in the Union Georgia paper.
...... Lincoln is known throughout Illi- b
nois by the soubriquet of "Spot Lincoln" t
on account of long and foolish set of reso- S
lutions which he introduced into Congress .
when he first took his seat, calling upon the \
President for certain information relative q
to the ssspot" of land on which the first s
blood was shed in the Mexican war. They p
were so ridiculous that they never came to C
a vote at all, even where his own party was n
in the majority Since then he has been il
sspotted" by the people of Illinois when P
aver he has asked for Office. which has been r