Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-23
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--In the palace of St. Cloud is the
wooden bench which. Louis Napoleon made
with. his Own hands at Ham, and which was
his fagorite seat on the summit of the ram
parts. He keeps it as sort of talisman to
prevent fortune from turning his head.
Gen. Hood was feted at Richmond,
Texas, In speech at that place "he en-.
dorsed perfect submission and digni6ed
endurance of all wrongs" He advised peo-
pie to build school houses, churches and
railroads. s,,.,e ,i,i, ,sr 7....-., =. ......-'.
The following copy of written no
tiee sppears in . Western paper: "Lost or
strade from the subscriber, a sheep all over
white, one leg was black and half his body.
All persons shall reseyes FIVE dolls to bring
him. He was she goat. 81, a... 49,.
The negroes of San Francisco have
been testing their right to sit among white
folks at the theatre. The judge held that
proprietor hasa right to enforce such reg
ulations as would be most conducive to the
prosperity of his business r...
- Major General Miles, in command at
Forsress Monroe, reports that there is no
material change in the health of JEFF Davis.
He DOW has liberty to walk at will within
the limits of the fort, but exhibits less incli.
nation to do 80 than when his liberty was
more restricted.
- Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, who
Was in the cabinet of Harrison and Taylor,
sent letter to the johnson Convention at
Columbus, Tuesday, taking the ground that
the courts will declare the acts passed over
President Johnson's veto to be null and
void, because of the exclusion of the South.
ern members. ....
- 1t is reported on good authority that
General Howard, Commissioner of Freed
mems Bureau, intends issuing an order
within few days, suspendipg the distri
button of Government rations to the desti.
tats OF, the South, thus throwing the burden
of supporting the INDECENT of both races
on the local authorities. 1.-
Jenny Lind, who was formerly the
idol Of the public; Jenny Lind, who for
years gathered flowers and bank notes on
her way, may be said to have assisted at her
own own funeral, as an artsste, in having
unfortunately again come before the public
long after her voice was no more. She was
Kissed by great part of the audience. So
says q Paris letter.
The Siamese Twins passed through
Lynchburg the other day bound northward ;
whereoD newspaper men grow funny One
says that atbeing practical unicnist it is sup.
posed they were making their way to the
Philadelphia Convention. Another states
they came by the same train. And another,
that they seemed as much attached to each
other as ever
- Messrs. Henry & Harris, of Canada,
have manufactured cheese at the Ingersoll
Factory that weighs three and half TONS
1t measures six feet and eight inches in
breadth, and three feet il thickness. The
milk used in the manufacture weighed IS
tons, and was furnished by 80 COWS. This
King of Cheeses will be placed on exhibi-
ton at the Provincial Fair to be held next
month at Toronto.
- The tobacco crop of Virginia and N
Carolina for the present year is estimated at
$4,000 hogsheads, but it will be no matter
for surprise if it should largely overrun this
estimate, and approximate more nearly to
the aute-war crops of s0,O 900 hogsheads.-
From every quarter Of the tobacco, growing
portions of the State, come the most fatter-
ing accounts, both of the amount planted
and the condition of the crop.
- a. H. Stuart wisely remarks, in his
recent address before the University of
Virginia: All this must now pass away
Large estates must be sub-divided and sold.
A hardy race of yeomanry will then till the
soil with their own strong arms, and will sup
plant the large landed proprietors. Land
will be improved in productiveness and val
ue, and the wealth of the country will be
augmented. Thrift and economy will be
substituted for the lavish expenditure and
wasteful profusion of the ancient proprie-
tors
- In reply to numerous inquiries on
the subject, the following important decsi-
ion relative to certain auction sales was
rendered recently by the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue: "Prior to the date of
the late act of July IS, 1866, it was held
that sales made by auction for judicial or
executive officers, or for executors or admin
istrators, were liable to tax in the same man.
ner as sales made for other persons. The
law has been amended, and it is now held
that the sales of autioneers made for, or on
account of persons or officers above speci.
fed, are not liable to tax since August l,
the time when the above act takes effect.
Over the non de plume of "Debtor,"
we find the following in the Edgefeld Aa.
uertiser: "Mr. Thomas Lewis, living on
Mountain Greek, in Edge6eld District, held
note upon myself for eighteen hundred
dollars. went to him and told him that
my property if it could be sold for former
prices, would pay my entire indebtedness !;
but if pressed into market now BY the Sber.
if, might not pay fifty cents in the dollar.
Mr.. Lewis took the note and endorsed up
on it "the within note may be discharged
by paying one'third part of the principal
and interest,-one. half of that to be paid