Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-02
Seraps + faets,

......R Rev. DR.. Waddill, of La Grange
College, Tennessee, has accepted the presi'
dency Of Davidson College, NC.
..". Al meeting was held lately in the
Northern part of Rankin county, Alabama,
to pray for rrain. =
...... Seventy-two white females were mar
ried to negroes in the State Of Massachu'
setts, last year.
COCOA deeply interesting revival has
been in progress in Little River, Baptist
Church, near Due West, for the last week
Asthe result, about forty converts have been
baptized, and received into the Church
Due West Telescope. ....-
...... An old man in Sodus, New Jersey,
who is owing physician a bill Of thirty
iol,rs, and unable to pay it, has decided
to the doctor his body for dissection after
ais demise. The deed has been accepted
and receipt given by the physician.
...... ssPa," said little boy, pointing to
a lot of hoop skirts, ''is them white things,
hanging at the store windows, coon traps
or bird cages" "Well, son, they might
very well be called bird cages, though
many poor coon has been caughtby them" "
......Upward of fifty convicts escaped from
the Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, on
the 23d, by bursting open the prison gate.
In thesmelee, Deputy Warden Ritchie was
slightly injured. Three convicts were killed
and seven seriously wounded. All the
prisoners we're recaptured excepting seven.
......A piece of granite, weighing 49,
7S0 pounds, about tfty-one and two-thirds
tons, was deliveredin the State House yard,
on Saturday, from the quarry. 1twas haul
edup on therailroad by sixteen mules. tits,
probably, the largest mass of rock ever quar-
ried in single piece in Southern State
Soatth CaroZinian.
...... After dry spell of five weeks and
more. our town and vicinity were blessed
on Wednesday night last with good rain.
There is now promise of more. No section
of country needs more rain than this. The
corn crop has been cut very short by the
drouth, and cotton smartly ipjured.-Roch
Hill Chronicle.
A considerable religious interest has
been manifested at Sardis, Methodist E.
piscopal Church, 4 miles South of our vii.
lage. A meeting was carried on there for
7days by the ministers of this circuit. The
congregations were large. attentive and Sc
rious: Twenty whites and one colored were
added to the church. LnionvtUe Times.
>:....'"Why," said Prince John Van Bu-
rem, the other day, to correspondent who
reports the conversation to the Tribune,
sswhy is President Buchanan like tallow-
chandler? Of course our correspondent
could not tell, and then, with a more seri-
rious face, the Prince said "Because all
his works are aoiched, and all his wicked
works are brought to light"
49,. A Washington correspondent no.
tices, as worthy of remark, that Mrs. Susan
Decatur, the widow of the gallant Com
modore. who lost his life in a duel with
Com sIodore Barron, died the very same
day that Mr.. Gales closed his earthly ca
reer. An ardent friendship existed be-
tween the Commodore and Mr., Gales, and
after herlbereagement Mrs. Decatur found
in Mr.. Gales warm friend and counsellor.
...." Gen. Lane is spending few days at
and near-Raleigh, visiting the home of his
ancestors and his numerous relatives. The
Governor, Judges of the Supreme Court,
and other Officials, aud the citizens gener-
ally, honor him with hearty welcome as
distinguished son of North Carolina-aud
the more especially, as the site of the city
of Raleigh was the old Lane estate, donated
by the Generals grandfather for the capt.
tal.
..... We understand that arrangements
are on the tapis with the directors of the
Great Eastern to take her to Norfolk, Va,
previous to her return to England, and there
load. her with thirty thousand bales of cot
ton for the British market 1t is not sta.
ted where this cotton is to cone from. The
freightson cotton being farthing, British
money, per pound, or about half cent,
this cargo would amount to little more
than sixty thousand dollars freight money.
.:.... A son of Mr.. Thomas Wood, of our
place, accidentally drowned himself, on
Wednesday afternoon last 1t was infer
red that while in the act of dipping water
pfromsa gum spring, he los. his balance and
fell in head foremost When discovered
he was beyond the reach of medical aid
He was aged two years aud was promis-
ing lad-much loved by the family, The
sympathes of the community are with the af,
flicted family y.-Rock Hill Chronicle
...... The Cincinnati Commercial (Repub-
lican) speaking of the Bell and Everett
procession in that city, says: They came
an army with bells, all sorts of bells, all
kinds of bells, every variety of bells, big
bells and little bells, house bells and hall
bells, dinner bells and cow bells, bells mis-,
celaneous, sheep bells and supper bells,
auctioneers' bells aud bells for lost chill
dreu (to ring in the truauts,) plantation
bells and church bells, sleigh bells, and
breakfast bells, together with all sorts, sizes
and kinds of bells. Such an intoerable din
never split the ears Of humanity before. 1t
was worse than forty-sx iron foundries all
going at once"
...... The Benicia Boy, it is stated has
arranged to give few sparriug exhibitions
In the citins nf New York Philadelnhia and