Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27
QQapsi0e GatRertngs,

"A stock raiser in Western Texas has
his brand on thirty thousand head of cattle.
- An asylum for colored lunatics is about
to be erected in Tennessee. 1t will cost
twenty seven thousand dollars.
New Orleans is said to be the only city
that paid more income tax in 1866 than
1865.
The first of line of steamers for Bra
zil, sailed from Mobile last week, with 81
passengers.
In Berlin military hospital they per-
form anputation with circular saws run by
steam. They work neatly and quickly.
The wardrobe of Madame Ristori, the
great Italian actress, who has recently ar
rived in this country, fills forty trunks.
~ well, my boy said scboolmaster
to a pupil, 'can you tell me what syntax is?
Eyes, SIT; it's the duty on spirits?
- The New York Daily Nevs nominates
Henry Ward Beecher as candidate for
Congress in the Brooklyn district.
Joseph E. Davis, brother of Jeffer-
son Davis, has been pardoned by the Presi.
dent.
The French Government is shipping
convict females to Cayenne, as wives for the
well-behaved convicts there.
Cholera has appeared at Atlanta and
Augusta 10 both instances, it is traceable
to the fresh arrival of United States troops.
"A woman was burnt to death in Man
chester England, by smoking her pipe in
bed. Peace to her ashes, says the Home
Journal
- The Prussians lost in the war 2,473
killed, 5,341 severely wounded, 1866
slightly wounded, and 1850 missing, ma
king total of l9,259.
- The annual consumption of intoxica.
ting liquors in England amounts to $780,
100000 This consumption produces nine
teDths of the crimes.
- While on his late tour, Col. Grant, ia
ther of Gen. Grant, paid his respects to the
President and informed him that he sup
ported his policy.
There is much suffering among the
freedmen of Alabama, in consequence of
the failure of the corn and cotton crops in
that State.
1t is supposed that by the lst of Octo-
Der accommodations for two hundred cadets
will be ready at the Virginia Military In
stitute.
- There are $4,000 idle negroes in the
city of Washington, who have neither
means Dor disposition to obtain an honest
living The Tribune asks Northern farm
ers to give them employment
- 1t is stated that Messrs. Cauldwell &
Whitney, proprietors of the Sunday Mercas-
ry, who have purchased the New York
News, intend to change its name to that of
"The Daily lHercury,
Hon. Thomas J. Foster, member of
Congress elect from Alabama, says that
President johnson is in the highest spirits
touching the result of the political welfare
of the whole country.
Gen. A. R Lawton, of Albany, Ca,
who was Quartermaster-G General of the
Confederate States, boasts that he will raise
the best crops of cotton and corn ever
known in his neck Of woods.
France has had sixty.seVen Queens
Eleven we're divorced; two executed ; nine
died young; seven we're widowed early;
three cruelty treated three exiled; the rest
were either poisoned or broken-hearted.
Il four dogs with sixteen legs, can
catch twenty. nine rabbits, with eighty.seven
legs, in forty.four minutes, how many legs
must the same rabbits have to get away
from eight dogs with tbirty-two legs, in 1T
minutes.
A lady in New York has presented a
claim to an insurance company for damages
in the destruction of her wardrobe, which
was insured. The schedule of articles COM
prises column and a half in the Herald,
and foots up S21, 900 in value.
General Grant has not only given arms
to the cadets of the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, but has also restored to them the old
"Cadet Battery" He remarked in doing
so, that "the rising generation must be ed.
ucated, and the means for that purpose must
not be withheld"
- In Western Arkansas silver mine has
been struck, which, for several days, yield
ed eighty pounds daily, and then became
exhausted. The owners are trying to find
a continuance of the vein, when it is be-
lieved the metal can be found in fabulous
quantities.
"A coarse, ill-natured fellow died one
day, and his friends assembled at his fune-
raj, but no one had a good word to say
about the deceased. Even at the grave all
were silent. At length good.natured
German, as he turned to 90 home, said:
"Vell, he was good schmoker."
The Cleveland Herald announces that
Mr. G. G Hinsdale, after experimenting
for many years, has discovered the process
of making sheet iron, which has so long
been secret, and says that company is
to be organized 10 that city for the purpose
of manufacturing it.
DR.. Craven, author of the "Prison Life
of Jefferson Davis" has already received
from Carleton, of New York, the sum Of