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

in good English style, still retaining the nxu.
ries Of civilized life, and French maid. Her
), constant attendance upon Protestant worship,
when in town, gives travellers frequent oppor.
tunities Of seeing her; and, being q majestic
woman in appearance, and still retaining traces
Of wondrous beauty, she always e1cites atten.
ton and inquiry. hear that she has lately
had her marriage with the Sheikh legslized by
the Cadi Of Damascus, and recorded in the Brit
ish Consulate. Her lord and master-for in
this country husband is most emphatically q
'lord Of creation'-possesses nothing either in
face or figure to attract woman Of cultivated
taste. Small in stature, darker than q mulatto,
with small, piercing, black eyes, and walking
with the staggering gate Of the Bedouin, be
disappoints every one who sees him; for one
would naturally expect to sec something in the
appearance of the man which would account for
this singular freak of an English lady of rank
and fortune in choosing for herself q husband
| from among the rude sons of the desert Blu.
such expectations are far from being met at sight
Of this most inferior specimen Of the Bedouin
race. This interesting couple are now en- route
for Europe, where the wife hopes to educate and
civilize her tawny spouse.
TO our mind there is one or two import.
tant suggestions, embraced, inferentially or
otherwise, in the following sad romance Of
real life:"
"a few years ago young girl left her home
| and went to Rochester, there becoming the inmate
Of o school. When less than fifteen years old,
she felt schoolgirls fancy for boy two or
three years older than herself, who was 6ercely
in love with her, and the two were secretly mar.
ried, the wife returning to her school, the hus-
band to his, for he also was in the early stages
Of an education. When, in the course Of time,
the marriage was made public, there was great
outcry. The parties were sent from their schools,
and the indignation of the principals was hot
The boy took his wife to q house where rich
stepfather and the naughty mother divided the
rule. At first they were reconciled to the loving
pair, for they supposed the girl was an heiress,
and the money appeased the stepfather, while
the ides of the "gentility" which money brings,
soothed the mother. But when it was found
that the son had brought home penniless bride,
their indignant virtue burst Its prudent bonds.
The young wife was cast adrift, and the husband
was sent to kind Indiana to get divorce. She
returned to Rochester, the inhospitable parents
living in another county, and there found en-
ployment in shop. He could not obtain his di-
vorce-perhsps did not wish it. At any rate he
came also back to Rochester, and held clandes-
tine intercourse with his wife. Undoubtedly
reprehepsible as it was, no one can wonder that
he took to drink, being weak-minded and disap-
pointed. His Incorporate habits destroyed the
little manliness originally in him, and he be-
came a burden to himself and source Of shame to
his friends. The wife, dishesr.ened by the treat
ment she had received for contracting legal
marriage and trying to support herself, and be-
ing unused to labor and being in danger Of break.
ing down under it, forsook virtuous life and
sold herself. 1t was not long, however, before
the disgrace attaching to her position made life
insupportable, and she determined to end it.
Accordingly she attempted suicide twice, but
was each time kept from dying, by the timely
ed before she has arrived at the summer Of her
twentieth year."
THE annexed paragraph contains some
interesting and rather remarkable facts on the Gu
rious subject of SomnambuIism, or walking in
sleep:
"Henry Ludford, ferryman, of Troy, New
York, hearing man call "over," arose from his
bed, passed down stairs, out of doors, and down
the long stairway to his skif, got in, crossed the
river, brought the passenger over who was call.
ing, took the passenger over in the Mohawk ba-
sin boat, and recrossed back again to his station
on the Island, passed up stairs in the toll house,
where the ferrymen sleep, took the lighted lamp
in his hsnd passed to his bed and then back
again to the batchway, where be stepped off and
fell to the floor below, makinga great racket aud
waking up all the rest Of the hands, who hasten.
ed TO see what was the matter, and on inquiry
found that Ludford had been sound asleep all
this time. Curiously enough he received but o
few slight bruises by his fall He remembered
nothing of what had occurred. and was bewilder-
ed when found lying on the floor, and anxious to
know how he came there, and ready to swear
that he had not been over with a passenger
since On early hour in the evening. The change
made by him was taken from table on which
the quarter lay. The midnight passenger called
attention to the queer conduct Of the ferryman,
and said he never saw so dumb chap before.
- Our readers who are hearing so much
just now about Sicily and the revolution there.
may be interested in this outline of the history
of the island taken from the New York Courier
"Scily is the largest island in the Mediter.
ranean, about one hundred and sixty miles long.
and one hundred and thirty wide, separated
from the southwest extremity ofItsly by the mar
row strait Of Messina. with the volcano of Etns
rising from the midst Of its fertile fields and
which are celebrated now as in the
classic days Of old, for their wheat and corn,
their oil and wine. Sicily was supposed by the
ancients to be the same as the HOmerick island
Thricinia, said to be derived from the triangu-
lar form of the island. When the Scui, driven
from Italy crossed the strait and took possession
of the island, the name was changed into Sicilia
Conquered at first succ ccessively by Carthagenisns,
Romans and Goths, in the ninth century the
Saracens became its masters, which rule made
way for that Of the Normans, which in 1894 was
superseded by the Swabisn Dynasty, which in
turn made way for the rule of the French under
Charles l., Duke of Anjou, whose tyranny was
termi mated by the massacre known as the Sicili-
IN Vespers. Princes of Aragon now became its
oossessors then the sovereigns of Spain until
nsurrection gave it to Austria, who in her turn,
vas driven out by Spain. In 1886, the Infant
Don Carlos came into possession, and united the
sland with the Kingdom Of Naples, under the
name of the Kingdom Of the two Sicilies. Spain
,e1t ceded the island to the Pope in 1889, and in
1918 Napoleon made it French station. After
he battle of Waterloo, it reverted to the Nea-
,olitan sway, under which government it remain
ID until the outbreak of lS4S, ~hen, after q
title breathing spell, it came under the cruel
way of the treacherous and Infamous Bomba,
whose history is too we'll known to need recapit
llation."
- The editor of the Cheraw Gazette, in
unning but graphic account of q recent trip to
Florida, speaks as follows of the celebrated Sill.
Ter Spring:
s'Silver Spring is one of the greatest natural
uriosities in the State. But who can describe
t? Many we know have tried and failed, and
We fear we cannot do more. This famous
Spring is situated in Marion County, six miles
ast Of Ocala. The country, for miles around,
8 pine fiat, bearing the finest growth of that
imber we saw in the State. Within one hun
red yards of the Spring, the hammock COM
nences, and as you approach, no indications of
7ater are visible, until in moment the Spring
;toc hrao tu tho viciop nd