Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-31
Napside Gathetiuos.

- What length ought lady's crlnollne 10
be? A little above two feet.
- Mrs Robert Toombs has returned from
Havana to her home in Georgia.
- The man who "couldn't stand it any
longer" has taken a seat, and now feels
quite comfortable
ALL the bridges on the Georgia State
Road between Chattanooga and Dalton
were washed away by the recent heavy rains.
"A paper skirt ii. e. pettiooa) has been
invented to replace crinoine.. 1t is Van.
kee idea, and is said to be light and cheap.
"How does that look ?" said Mr.. Cramp,
holding out his brawny hand "That inter-
posed Amos, looks as if you we're out of
SOAP"
- Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Fortress Mon
roe, and Gen. j. G. Breckinridge, of Cana.
da, are among the honorary managers of the
Chapel Hill Ball, on the evening of June T.
The Boston Post says that "Santa Anna
hasn't come here for any political purpose,
but to get his wooden leg that Barnuu has
been showing"
Henry Ward Beecher says that be
would as soon 60 courting with his fathers
old love-letters as to 60 to Church and car
ry book to pray out of
1t is thought Texas will produce the
largest cotton crop the coming season of any
of the cotton growing States, and South Ca
roina the smallest.
"A pert little girl boasted to one of her
little friends, that her "father kept a car.
rage" "Ah, butt" was the triumphant
reply, "my father drives an omnibus"
Cows that Craze should be MIXED early
in the morning and turned out to feed upon
the dewy grass. Two hours of such feed
is worth all the rest of the day as regards
getting good flow of milk.
The farmers in Upper Georgia and
North Alabama are blowing up the cotton
crops and planting corn instead. Not more
than fourth of the crop can be counted
on in those regions
The President has approved the Bill
to authorize the coinage of five cent pieces,
composed of copper and nickel. The coin
is to be legal tender in any payment to
the amount of one dollar.
- "Thank God that l have got my hat
back from this congregation J" said disap.
pointed clergyman, turning it upside down,
when it was returned empty to him at the
close of contribution
- The Philadelphia Inquirer speaks of
the ilustrious "Stonewalp' Jackson as q
ndead traitor" 1t would be much more
correct to say that he is dead lion, whose
remains are subjected to indignity from
living ass Cincinnati Inquirer 16h.
- General Longstreet, late Of the Con.
federate army, was recently in San Antonia,
Texas. The most remarkable circumstance
connected with his visit, was a serenade
rendered to him by the band of the Fourth
United States Cavalry.
- There is woman living in Lancaster,
Erie comfy, New York, in whose stomach
snake has taken up its abpde-so the physi.
clans have decided. Two years ago
snake, one yard long, was removed from the
stomach of a New York volunteer soldier,
while stationed in Southern State.
- Newspaper accounts from Texas, Ala.
bama. Georgia, Florida, South and North
Carolina, represent the growing crop of
cotton as seriously injured by the recent
cold weather and heavy rains and overflow
of the cotton lands, and bad and defective
seed, which in great measure failed, 10 many
casea, to germinate.
1t is understood that the Secretary of
War, upon Gen. Grants recommendation,
will issue in few days an order mastering
out all the remaining white and colored or
CARNATIONS iD service. All officers of the
volunteer medical corps, except those on
duty with the Freedmen's Bureau, will also
be bonorably mustered out on the LIST prox
A new city slaughter house has been
erected at Bridgeport, near Chicago, in.
tended for the entire slaughter work of the
latter city 1t is two hundred and seventy
feet long, one hundred and seventy FIVE feet
wide, and three stories high. 1t has daily
capacity for working of twelve hundred
head of cattle, two thousand hogs, aud one
thousand sheep
No less than seven different Conmis
sions are now, or soon will be, engaged in
investigating the facts relative to the recent
riots in Memphis. In addition to the Con-
gressional Commission, and that created by
General Stoneman's order, on which Gen.
Marcus j. Wright was placed, the white
citizens have organized one, the negroes an.
other, the City Council another, and Gen.
Fisk, of the Freedmen's Bureau, and Gen
Howard, have each ordered one.
The Northern papers even admit the
terrible mortality 1f the negroes in the late
war The New York Journal OF Com,
mercc says: alt isa remarkable truth, illus
tra.ing the peculiar characteristics of the
race, at least in their present condition, that
the mortality of the negro regiments, organ.
lied during the war, far surpassed anything
known in military history. Reports are on
file in the War Department, showing that