Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-10-19

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"A sword has been manufactured by
Messers. Kraft, Goldsmith & Kraft, Of Co
lumbia, s. G., at the order Of Gen. Hamp.
ton, for his own use.
A snow, 8 inches deep, fell at Wyth.
vile, Va, on the night of the 9th inst
That tells US where the cool breath of winter
came from that we had week ago.
= 1t is remarkable fact that in Ireland,
during the past dry season, the potato dis.
ease has nowhere made its appearance, and
the esculent was never known to be more
healthy. .'....
The Kaolin Works, situated in Edge.
field District, S. c., about six miles from
Augusta, were destroyed by fire last night,
18th inst. The loss is estimated at $780,.
600; insured for $4,000. The fire was
supposed to be accidental. j
Around. the nations sacrifcial alter en-.
twine fresh wreaths of evergreen, and awake
in melancholy numbers send anthems for
the brave-the brave that are no more.
The Theological Seminary of the Dio-
cese of North Carolina is to be located at
Ashville. 49, Church Lntelzigencer.
The salary of the Governor. General Of
India, which is the highest in the gift of the
English crown, is thirty thousand pounds
sterling year, exclusive of all allowances,
which may be estimated at ten thousand
pounds-in all two hundred thousands dol.
lars year. - -'-''' .'...
President Davis is said to have tele.
grphed Forrest that he should expect him to
check railroad communication South of
Nashville. Forrest is said to have replied
that no more trains should run in that di.
reotion unless the President desired it.
1t is stated that the vast immigration
heretofore going on from Ireland to the u
nited States has almost entirely ceased.
- The election for President takes place in
all the States under Lincoln on the Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, which
this year is on the 9th.
dts very solemn thing to get mar
ried." said aunt Bethany eyes, but it's q
great deal more solemn not to be-" replied
her niece.
Marry not woman who apes the lady
by an exhibition Of pride, because it shows
a,want of sense. and she will have but few
friends. !; .z-.s. "a, ~. -. --.,.a-.
- Hannah Moore thought it duty to be
always cheerful, and there is no cosmetic
half SO servicable to the looks.
"A very pretty lady was one day asked if
she would wear wig when her hair turned
gray. "Oh!" said she, 81 could not end
dure it at all !! I would dye first"
- Mr.. johnson, of Marango County, Ala
has manufactured some fifty barrels Of
caster oil the present season. The Hon.
Kenneth Rayner had some twenty acres
in the castor bean last season, near this
city, but we have not neard the result of
Mr. Rayner's experiment.
Women are said to have stronger at
tachment than men. It is not so. A man
is often attached to an old hat; but did you
ever know of woman having an attach
ment to an old bonnet! Echo answers
:sneverl"
The Charlottesville Chronicle says that
Mr.. John N. Hendren, of Staunton, has
received the appointment Of Treasury Of the
Confederate States, vice Rlm@e resigned.
- George B. Mcclellan, the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, has resigned
his position as Major General in the United
States Army.
r. lis known certainly that Grant is re
oieving reinforcements daily, but it is the
opinion of knowing ones that his reinforce
ments do not exceed his losses. A large
number whose terms of service have expired
are going home, and many sick are return
ing to the hospitals.
The army worm destroyed all the cotton
erop7on the river from Vicksburg to New
Orleans. .---. -" 80
bS The subjoinsd advertisement is ex
traetsd from an Irish newspaper: .':.--.
sMissing from Killarney, Jane O'Forgar
ty, she had in her arma two babies and
| Gnornaeu cov. a black. with red hair and