Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-10-19
GJapsiae Gathetiilgs.
chicago has eighty five hotels.

- Chicago has eighty five hotels.
The University Of Virginia opens with
over hundred students.
Since the first of January, there have
arrived in this country $4,000 emigrapt
women. s5
The receipts from Internal Revenue are
said to be averaging one and a quarter
millions Of dollars day.
.-Ex. Governor Brown, of Georgia, has
been pardoned by President johnson, and
will-hereafter reside at Atlanta. -.
A great revival of religion is now pro-
crossing in the colored churches in Rich.
mond.
Gov. Sharkey of Mississippi has given
the opinion that unpardoned Legislators will
not be able to take their seats: s E
General William Malone has been ap.
pointed General Superintendent of the
Norfolk and Petersburg and Southside
Railroads. ~.
= A naval oficeris said to have been cow
hided at Charleston, s. Carolina, recently,
by q respectable and wealthy colored man,
whose daughter he had seduoed.
Twenty Eve planters are said to be
under arrest at Vicksburg, all charged With
either msltresting or killing their former
slaves
AT the Illinois State Fair, at Chicago,
representives of two rival arti6cial,leg estab.
lishments had walking match. The vic.
tor made his milein nineteen minutes.
The Boston Post says: Charles Sumner
would have the Erie Canal filled up if he
were told that negro children were liable to
be drowned init.
"A thief broke out of Jail the other day.
Being recaptured, he told the constable be
might have escaped, but had conscientious
scruples about travelling on the Sabbath:
-"What foolH said Miss Prim, when
she heard of the capture of JEFF. Davis; (;
ssof course the men would all run after him
if be was dressed as woman; and he was
sure to be caught"
At banquet given in honor of Horace
Greeley by some of his colored brethren,
the following toast was proposed: "Massa
Greeley; his face is white, but he habs a
black heart -
Some one was repeating to Sheridan
the we'll known maxim, sHe who pays bis
debts enriches himself" stNonsense !"
said Sheridan, "tbat's a false report circuls-
ted by the note shayers to ruin their custo.
mers"
! Women are said TO have stronger at
tachmsnts than men. It is not 80. A man
is often attached to an old hat, bat did you
ever know Of woman having an attach
ment for an old bonnet7 Echo answers
never. -,
1t is odd enough that while in this coun.
try we are discussing the policy of allowing
negro suffrage, in Hayti the negro revolu-
tionists are demanding that all white resi-
dents shall be denied any governmental
privileges. .ssre~- -
| -ssA lady promised her little daugh.
ter new doll baby. As the lady passed
out of the door the daughter ran after her,
crying, sMs, oh ma r I don't want a doll
baby; Pm tired Of doll babies; bring me
little tiny sure enough baby re-"
-"Sam, wat fish in de salt water weighs
de least?" "Why, Julius, wat iguoramus
questions ye ak yer colored bredren. Min
inns weigh de least, of course" "No, no,
sah--dat's wrong, now it am de porpus,
sab i; de pofpus weighs noting-.eos Wy, he
got no scales"
A Brooklyn physioisn has little
daughter now in her fourth year. Her fa-
tber is in the habit of using the word in.
stanter. One day last week he asked her
what imstanter meant. After thinking q
moment, she replied, "Hurry up the
cakes t'
The Raleigh Standard thinks there
never was a war entered on so suddenly,
without thought and reAection--never a
war that was conducted with more determi-
nation, yalor and desparaion--neyer war
that collapsed so suddenly and thoroughly
as the great rebellion just closed.
An honest German in Philadelphia,
listening to an account of a married woman 9
elopement with "snother man." the other
day, got greatly excited over it, and splut-
tered forth with the greatest vehemence:-
off my wife runs away NIT anoaer mans
wife, will shake him out of her preeches,
if she be mine own fader, mine Gotp'
"A Confederate soldier who had fought
fairly and squarely throughout the late war,
when he was startled with the intelligence
of the surrender of the three armies of Lee,
Johnston and Taylor, woke up to the esrea.
lizing sense" of the stupendiousness of the
failure. His surprise broke forth in the re.
mark: at didn't even flicker, but went
right out"
"A most extraordinary case has just
been brought to light at Coly, in Somerset
shire. An eccentric character has actually
in his possession at this moment the unbur.
led corpse of his mother, who died FIVE years
ago. When she died he had leaden cof.
fin made, with glass plate set 10 80 40 TO
show her face. This coffin he deposited
in shed, and from time to time goes there
Tn look nnon the face of his mother The