Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-01
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own faults than ten of your neighbor's.
In Hunt county, Texas, corn sells for
twenty-five cents bushel.
There are 32O brick stores in course Of
construction at Atlanta, Georgia.
| The population of Texas is rapidly In
creasing by immigration.
-Ex. Congressman Oldham, is in Cordo.
va, Mexico, taking photographs fora living.
The Legislatures of Texas and Missis-
sippi have made appropriations to purchase
artificial limbs for their disabled soldiers
- The centenary of Methodism in Amer
lea was celebrated throughout Canada on
the 21st of October.
- In the window of shop kept by lady
in New York, is card with the words,
"No reasonable offer refused"
- Be charitable to personal deformity.
The most beautiful flowers spring from the
most unsightly dust.
Official returns from all but three couu-
ties of Ohio show Republican majority of
over 43, 900.
- Man passes his life in reasoning en- the
past, in complaining of the present, and in
trembling for the future.
- 1t was very miserly old woman, who,
with her last breath, blew out an inch of
candle, saying as she did so, 81 can see to
die in the dark"
- Kinder is the looking glass than the
wine-glass; for the former reveals our de-
fects to ourselves ouly-the latter to our
friends.
Gen. Forrest, who it will be remem-
bered, killed negro man some months
since, who was in the act of killing his wife,
has been acquitted.
In North Carolina the strength of the
Presbyterian Church is about: Ministers,
liz; churches 1911; communicants, about
1900.
"A bridge, twenty-five miles long and
two bundled and fourteen feet wide, to cost
eight millions of dollars, is talked of in
Dover, England.
"Paddy, where's the whiskey gave
you to clean the windows with" "Och,
master, l just drank it, and l thought if |
breathed on the glass it would be the same"
In one of the handsomest and bealthi-
est parts of London eight.room houses do
not rent higher than $500 per anuum.-
Yorkville can beat that
Punch tells of city man who never
got up till twelve at noon, because, he said,
it was only fair, as day broke in the morn
ing, to give it chance of redeeming its
position before beginning business with it.
- The Court of Appeals of Kentucky,
the highest tribunal iu the State, has de-
cded that the laws enacted by the Leglsla-
ture, expatrlating so.caled rebels, is IN.
constitutional.
The new Gernanic Confederation, over
which Prussia enjoys military and political
supremacy, can raise an effective military
force of l,116,OOO Of these 650,00O be-
long to the regular armies, and 466, 900 to
the ssLandwher," or reserves.
- An insane man in Fairfield, Conuecti-
cut, lately chopped off his right hand with
an axe. When asked why he did it he said
that the "Bble says that IF thy right hand
offend thee, cut it off and cast it from
thee"
- The daily demands for pins in Eng
land is said to be 49, 100000, and to manu-.
facture them, 2:727 pounds of brass wire
are consumed. One firm in Birmingham
consumes in the manufacture of pins, $780,
600 pounds Of brass wire year.
- Mrs. Ford, of Monroe County KY,
gave birth, on the 10th ult., to three chill
dren, all boys, weighing seven and a half
pounds each. All are living and healthy.
Namcs--G. D. Prentice, Gen. Lee and
Jefferson Davis
-Squabbles, an old bachelor, shows his
stockings, which he has just darDed, to a
maiden lady, who contcmptously remarks !:
"Pretty good for mau.darner;" whereup-
on Squabbles rejoius, "Good enough for
woman, darn her."
The Boston Commonwealth states that
oracont .hara fonr ooloroJ ,nrunop
serving in the various courts of that city
one in he superior court for criminal bust
ness, one in the first session of the superior
court for civil business, and two in the
second session
- The New York World says, jocu-
larly, that an arrangement has been made
with MIR. Raymond to speak for each of the
two parties, on alternate days, till election.
We dare say he will deceive them by being
Democratic on the Radical days, and vice
UerSa.
- Babies resemble wheat in may respects.
Firstly, neither are good for much till they
arrive at maturity; secondly, both are bred
in the house, and are also the Jao,cer of the
family; thirdly, both have to be cradled L:
fourthly, both have to be hrashed before
they are done with.
- 1t will be most gratifying to our read
ers to know that an eminent mathematician
has demolished various theories of solar
heat, and demonstrated that for 80, ,000,O 900