Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-01-20
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designate.
Gen. Hoke's brigade Of North Carroll
mans, says the Fayetteville, Observer, has
had a shoe and soap. factory long attached
to it, to the great comfort and convenience
of the men. = -.
- Week before last, two men went into
the house of ". D, Byram, Of Union coun'
ty, N. G., and srobbea him:of 81, 200 in
Confederate money and $40 in gold.
The ehalesson Courier is right in say.
ing nour own want Of self.denial is the
cause of much.of the .extortion SO rife in
sheland.a If the people. would only reflect
and practice economy inthe purchasing Of
articles they do not need, the prices Of ma.
ny things would rapidly decline" {, :.
l-Gousideriug the high prices asked fol
the hire of negroes, the Charlotte Democrat
thinks il would be q good plan for people
to refuse to hire and work more themselves.
- The best rule for Conscriptioh that we
have, seen. is the following {" Every man
| 10 the right place, and where he can do the
most good, and not where his uncle, e,or
Ibrother.in-law, or o member Of Congress,
wishes to put him, ont Of danger, and only
in, the way of ease and money" ~ e.
-The people of Montgomery, Ala, were
busy on the 4th inst, gathering ice an inch
and half thick from the: neighboriDg
ponds. =. :.
- The city of Petersburg recently had
forty dog skins tanned, and relied on them
81, 900, or S25 each. If the $500 worth
less dogs in this. District aud village were
killed and their hides tanned, we SHOULD
hear less complaints Of the scarcity of leath:
er, and the bread, &e,z saved would fatten
hogs enough by next Christmas to make a
considerable addition to the "spare. RIBS
and sausages" Of the community; and
the saving of sheep, would go far towards
furnishing a blanket for each. soldier from
the District. z2ss% 81 -
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I IA merchant of Savannah, Ga, who
was exempted by substitution, offered the
City Marshal ten thousand dollars for a
place as city watchman.
The Charlotte Democrat says that law
yers who ought to have been in the army
fighting for their country, have been too
ready, for large fee, to get men released
from military service.
- Of the slaves who have fallen into the
hands of the enemy during the present war,
not less than one.half have .perished by
want, disease, and violence. -
'-Twenty-four Yankee prisoners, captur-
ed near St. Augustine, Fla, were brought
to Charleston on the 9th inst, and lodged
in prison.
The ladies of Mobile, in keeping with
the fertility of resources and industry that
has immortalized their sex during this war,
are making socks from carpet ravelliugs.
They are little heterogeneous in color,
but not whit the less warm for that.
- A fire occurred in New Orleans on the
11th ult., which destroyed buildings and
merchandise valued at S500,000.
The dwelling house and furniture Of
Mr.. James Stevens, near Statesville, N. G.,
were destroyed by fire on new years day.
- Two hundred and fifty bales of cottor
stored on a plantation in Green county
Ala, were sold at auction in Petersburg
on the Sth inst, at 422 cents per pound.
- In the list of Confederate officers i'm
prisoned on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie
we find the names of TIVE members of th'
press from New Orleans, viz: Major Geo
Mcknight, formerly attached to the edito
rial corps of the New Orleans Delta, bu
more widely known as /" Asa Hartz;" ant
1t. Col. J. o. Nixon, formerly editor ant
proprietor of the New Orleans Crescent.
A letter, received at Boston, datet
Madras, Oct. 27, says: & Shaw & Co. hav'
received orders from Cape Town to advance
10000 rupees to the Alabama, and the!
have large number of letters awaiting bel
arrival, now daily expected.
"A Yankee gunboat got aground a
Lockwood's Folly Beach, near Wilmington
on the 11th inst, and being unable to &c
off, they burned her. s.
- Archbishop Hughes, of New York, il
dead. His funeral took place on the It'll
instant.